I'm super sorry that it took almost the entire summer to do my climax but if your still reading here it is...review if you read this chapter plz as it's rather late.

There it was...after years of marches through the cruel arabian sun, after battling waves of heathens with no end in sight the target they had came to the other side of the world for was in their sight. Jeruselem! It's sandstone towers awed the Crusader army as they pitched tents to fight off against the Muslims one last time. The great cross shined in it's gold casing as the regiments formed up.

In the furthest right hand corner stood the army of the Marshal Neji as the formed into a box of heavy knights. Most had finally lost their horses to the heat and so were forced to the ground and the dangerous job of scaling one of the towers. Hinata and the others were simply in awe at the structure of the Holy city and simply having the joy of seeing it while still alive. Suddenly riding on one of the few horse left in the army was Haku coming with a conserned face. He made his way toward Hinata who was easiest to spot due to her longer hair. Now in front of his only friend in the regiment Haku spoke with urgency as he said.

"Henri; a word with you..."

Some of the other soliders wondered what the two would be talking about; after all their leader still hadn't arrived and these two were the closest to Marshal Neji. Walking away from the army the two began making their way to one of the tents.

Walking inside the dark tent sat Neji with a shocked look on his face. He was still unable to deal with the death of Shikamaru, his confessor and favored friend. The two dismounted as they came up to Neji pleading that he broke out of his sadness.

"Please cousin; the final moment has arrived and your men need a leader..."

Neji did not even turn as he said. "Then you command them! War had tired me...and I can not comman like I used to."

The two came closer forcing their appearance at him as Haku said. "So you will let your remaining men be slaughtered by the tower archers? Let friends you knew since your training in France to die in such a dishonored way!"

Time was running out as the trumpet of the rest of the army was blown. Neji looked upon his attire to see the red cross that he promised to uphold. He knew that Shikamaru would of wanted him to finish the obligation, for the moment he visualized the Priest sleeping in the majesty of Heaven. Straightening his body Neji lifted up his sword and said. "I will lead the men; but once this city is captured I shall fight no more...forever!" With that the group broke back to the regiment and cheers could be heard from the knights waiting for their leader.

Now in front of the army Neji faced his men as he said. "My honorable knights let us offer prayer for being brought to the jewel of the Holy Land. Who will follow me to the wall and offer this gift?" Neji meaned to come up into archers range to give prayer; something the knights feared would get them peppered with an onslaught of arrows. Nevertheless Hinata and Haku came up toward the wall and following Neji's example came upon their knees. Soon the other knights followed as the Muslim army watched from their wall.

Gaara; commander of the forces saw what was happening. His master of the archers and brother Kankuro asked him. "Gaara; should I have the archers take out these men who dare stand against the wall?"

Inside Gaara was with mixed feelings on what to do. His demon inside urged him to take advantage of the knights who would do such a thing, it grew inside of him until the mark on his head began hurting. However Gaara shook this feeling and order. "No, let them offer one final prayer to their Polythestic God." And so the men against the wall half-heartedly did not fire in fear of their General who was rumored to be able to tear a man in half with sand.

A pray was made first, and then the priest in the army did a Extreme unction for the generals and then a quick one to the soliders who were in fear of dying today. The ritual had finished in around a hour and with everyone prepared to die they began the movement of the siege weapons. All forms of siege equipment were created, including a tower that was manned by Neji's forces. Archers fired thousands of arrows into the air making the scene seem as dark as armegedon itself.

The towers collided upon the walls, and the Crusaders with vigor and will brought down the connector and made their way toward the wall. Knights poured in from the wooden tower as the archers pulled back to make room for their Saracen knights. Neji had come from the front of the army and began the slaughter of the Saracen. His blade hacked through the chain mail and it seemed nothing would stop Neji from his goal. He planned to grab the attenion of Gaara himself and kill the leader in order to demoralize the enemy army. Slashing through the waves of archers and light soliders he finally arrived at a tower, Gaara stood on the other side.

Hinata had noticed that Neji had left the group of knights that had created a pocket in the wall. She knew that he'd be cut to pieces if he tried to do this alone and followed him, cutting at enemies that came in her way. By this time the wall's gate had broken and Hinata saw Haku riding upon his horse with the other surviving heavy calvary. Her pride of him was never greater as he broke a line of spearmen that held the front of the gate. However Hinata knew that the wall was her duty and so she continued to follow Neji to the nucleus of the Fatamid army.

Gaara had done everything he could to control his demon; with the running adreniline it was becoming harder each moment. His sand would crush any ladders that arrived in his position and it gave his section near invinciblity. A tower rammed into Gaara's area and even with Kankuro burning the base of the tower with Greek Fire the Knights within poured in, now with a quickened rush due to the fire raging beneath them. Soon the tower crashed down with about five knight who could not escape. Meanwhile Gaara supported his troops by crushing the knights around him with his sand; which would simply enter the armor and crush the person within.

Soon Gaara noticed that two knights had arrived from the defensive tower and they seemed eager to attack him. Not wanting to miss the challenge he ordered Kankuro to man the men as he dealt with these two.

The two held their swords upward, ready to slash upon Gaara. However two strings of sand grabbed their swords in mid air as the Arab pulled out his own weapon to slash them. The chainmail on Hinata's armor tore along with the Crusader insignia. Blood began staining the diry white cloth and soon it matched the red cross upon it.

Gaara enjoyed toying with them, that is until he noticed that one was not male. He knew the Europeans were barbaric but he didn't think they'd allow women in their armies. Expecting this to be the norm he smirked as he pushed the two back and said. "So the Franks let their womenfolk hold swords?" His voice became demented and serious as he shouted. "What a joke!" his sand came down like a lance but the two rolled away in the closest moment. Getting up Hinata and Neji attempted to attack again, only to be deflected by his floating sand.

The sand that broke off the slash whiped Hinata across the face knocking off the helmet she wore. A scar formed across her left eye from the sand and she was blinded from the floating sand that came across her face. Panting and stepping back she shouted in the noise of the battle around them. "No, I chose this on myself. But...I don't feel any less of you, or any man; not anymore."

Gaara smirked as his smirk seemed to become wiped off his face. Lifting the sand above him he said. "Then...live by the sword, and die by the sword!"

It seemed a common ground was found by the two enemies as Neji said " Matthew 10:34"

While Gaara said in response. " Yes your matthew...nevertheless!"

Suddenly another sand formed lance ran toward Neji but missed by only a few inches. By now Hinata had gotten to her knees to remove the sand and seeing that Gaara was distracted she ran her sword across his leg, cutting it and causing a mess of blood and sand to come out. The attacks against Neji stopped as he noticed the blood. This was something he had rarely if never seen which shocked the general. Suddenly the mark upon his face began to grow and sand formed around him as he let out a bloodcurling screech. His hand became a mass of sand as he crushed Neji within his grip. The chain broke off Neji's body and was added to the sand as Gaara quickly was transforming. Neji knew he could not escape and yelled as the pressure broke his ribs. "Hinata! Cut the sand!"

Not asking why or what his plan was Hinata pulled herself up and with her whole force she broke the sand arm that crushed Neji.

The sand disintegrated as they both saw Gaara fighting for control.

Gaara did not want to tranform into the monster in him, he knew Allah would not accept this victory of his if he let a evil Jin to win it for him. However he could do little and he knew now his enemies were closing in.

Neji was now in Hinata's grip as he struggled to breath. With his last breaths he said. "Hinata...I love you like a sister, and you must survive to continue the Hyuuga legacy!"

Hinata tried to keep him in her arms as she asked. "What do you mean Neji, pull back and you can survive, please cousin...brother!" Gaara's fight for control was drawing closer to the end as the Jin seemed to be gaining an advantage.

Neji smirked as he said. "No I told you I'm tired of war, and this will be my last gift to this world."

With that he shoved Hinata against the wall and using the last of his force he rushed Gaara attempting to knock them both off the wall. Gaara's defense reacted by creating hundreds of needles from the sand armor he wore. Neji was now punctured across his body but he pushed forward despite the unimaginable pain. Finally he was able to tip them both off of the ledge with Gaara holding with one hand against the wall. Neji Realized this but was too weak to do anything else. With his lost breath he made a call to his Lord as he said in his mind. "God; let this ledge fall so that I may feel complete in my jobs done on your earth." Almost in the instant he said that the area were Gaara held began to crumble from the weight.

Neji held on to the tranformed Gaara and simply fell unconsious as the fully awake Gaara fell to his doom from fifty feet in the air. The impact left Gaara freed from sand and lying with only a few breaths and broken bones. He turned to Neji who had already passed on and simply said. "A worthy foe..." Then Gaara fell as well.

Neji however reawoke to find himself out of his body. Beside him was Gaara in the same confusion and a toothy demon that howled in anger. Suddenly a bright light appeared and Neji then spoke in unison with Gaara as he said. "It is the Son!"

While Gaara spoke saying. "The Great prophet of the end!"

However both were incorrect as the spirit of Shikamaru appeared with a lazy grin on his face. Opening his arms out he said. "I see you guys are among the dead, that good I suppose."

"Why do you say that?" asked Gaara questioningly.

"Because their will be many lost souls on this battle today; see for yourself..."

With that the two turned to see the Crusaders pouring in and begin slaugthering the peasants and soliders that routed into the streets. The houses were being looted and blood ran down the pavment like a river.

Gaara was quiet as he watched this bloodshed calmly. Neji however was now sick to his spiritual body. While this occured the Demon Shukaku laughed crazily as he said. "So much like Humans!"

Shikamaru turned to the Demon and lifting his hand said. "Remove yourself Shukaku of the deasert! Go back to your endless sea of sand and bother Humans no more."

The demon smirked saying "I am free until the end of time, but I suppose here is boring anyways. Good bye lacky of the creator!" With that Shukaku returned to the dunes of Arabia waiting to cause trouble again another time.

Neji thought of Haku and Hinata and then on his knees said. "Please Father let me see my cousin and the other!"

Shikamaru pointed to the gate to see that Hinata was still making her way toward the city with sword in hand. Neji then saw Haku riding his horse and chasing a civilian. Neji winced as he said. "Shikamaru; please can't you stop this bloodshed?"

The old father nodded saying. "I'm afraid not; you see heh the thing is I'm still in purgatory...infact we all are. We must be purified to the point of perfection, only then can we enter the gates of St. Peter."

Shikamaru sighed saying. "Though some may recieve the judgement for their mortal sins." Shikamaru smirked as he said. "I wouldn't worry about your cousin or Haku though...look."

Turning again Neji saw that Haku had been dismounted and now laid in a small puddle of his blood from a wound to the head. It seemed a person from the second story of a house had dropped a tile upon his now helmet-less head. As for Hinata she had fallen over from exhaustion and now slept in the river of blood.

Shikamaru came over to Haku and said nodding his head again. "He'll live, come on let us leave this ghastly sight."

The two for the final time spoke in unison saying. "Ok..."

Hours later

Hinata awoke from her unconsious state seeing the dried blood in the pavement. She gasped at the sight and lifted herself. Everything was looted and burning as she noticed a priest place a cross on the top of the biggest mosque.

Soon she was reunited with Haku who had a bandage wrap around his face. He smiled saying. "It's finally ours Hinata, we've taken the city. I only wish I could of taken part of the raid."

Hinata almost gagged as she said. "Please do not say that Haku...look at this, is this Jerusalem!?"

Haku embraced Hinata seeing that she was unhappy about this victory. Still he wanted to get a certain topic done the moment the crusade was over. Pulling out a extravegant ruby ring (taken from the dead) he asked. "Now that our obligations are over...do you accept?"

Hinata felt mixed now as she knew where this ring had come from. Pushing it from his hand he said. "not at the cost of the innocent dead." Kissing Haku immediately afterward she then said. "But I accept."

For years the city of Jerusalem would be held by the Crusaders. Haku would be granted a fair share of land and from almost nowhere he'd have found a bride out of the last few of the Hyuuga. He waited until the first boats from Europe arrived so others would not ask questions. As for Henri he was reported to have lived the rest of his life as a deasert hermit; though only a few would know the truth. The manor they owned was never to commit to battle the muslims for the remaining years and both Haku and his Hyuuga bride taught their children to be pacifists and kept them away from the Knighthood. However eventually as the the first and second generation past even their family would return to fight in the blood stained sand.