Declaimer: I own nothing in this fanfic, but my created characters they abilities and Jutsu and that is about all I own "Goes to corner and starts crying"

Writing: Italic: thought, Bold: Bijuu or summoning speaking.

"Pride without honor is arrogance, and the arrogant are easily beaten." by J. Hellscythe

"It's not a sense of justice. Protecting my friends, and finding my own path is how I live life. If you measured good and evil deeds by current laws, I would be responsible for many crimes. The same way you like to hone your skills and live your own lives, for me too it's simply prolonging something I enjoy doing. That's why I only fight those that pique my interest; it's not justice at all. And if it means being able to protect a friend or becoming stronger, I don't and will not play fair. I'm a dishonest, cheating human being who hates losing." - Unknown

Kakashi was trying hard to keep his attention on Itachi, but the fact that Mikoto had decided to enter the battle was keeping his attention diverted. For one Mikoto hadn't been in a real fight in years, and two she was fighting against her own son. For the most part it seemed that Mikoto was fighting evenly with the Uchiha genius, but Kakashi could see hesitation in Itachi's attacks. "Why is he hesitating," Kakashi pondered as he got his summoning jutsu ready. "Is he really trying not to hurt her or is there something else going on." Kakashi was knocked out of his thoughts when a fiery explosion rocked the area. Mikoto skidded next to Kakashi as Sasuke threw some lightning senbon at his brother. Itachi, pulling out a kunai, deflected the lightning away.

"Kuchiyose no Jutsu," Kakashi was about to slam his hand on the ground, but was stopped by Mikoto grabbing his wrist. "What are you doing?!"

"Itachi, you're hurting yourself," Mikoto stated softly as she took a step forward. "At any moment you could've beating me; even killed me, but instead you fought me on my own level. You don't want to hurt anyone; please just come back home." Itachi stared at the ground for a few seconds before responding.

"I can't," Itachi looked at his mother, but this time his Sharingan wasn't active. "You must understand, by fighting you, I'm also protecting you. You still serve a purpose and that is the only reason I let you live that night. "

"Yeah, right," Sasuke screamed as electricity surged around him. "You're just trying to weasel your way out of being punished for you're crimes! Why would you bother trying to protect us, when you destroyed our entire family! Mother told me, how she would've been killed if the ANBU didn't show up at that moment. Face it, you are just pussy, too scared to own up and pay your debt for what you did."

Itachi turned towards, Sasuke and only gave his younger brother a chuckle. "Your right about one thing, mother," Itachi started as his eyes activated once again. "I could beat you if I fought with everything, so maybe I should. Your defeat will be quick and painless and then I can go." Firing off another fireball, the battle commenced once again.

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Sasori's puppets were having a hard time trying to defend against a barrage of sand, gold, and his grandma's very own legendary puppet force. Sakin was sweating trying to keep his gold dust protecting, not only his son, but also Chiyo. They had managed to beat down half of the army, but Chiyo was down to her few and Sakin's chakra was dropping rapidly. Gaara, on the other hand, while Chiyo and Sakin defended against the puppets, he was taking them out. "This is getting tedious," Sasori stated dryly as he stared at his opponents. "Why don't you surrender, I promise you will live forever as part of my collection."

"So long as I can stand, I will never stop defending my son," Sakin yelled, but just then something caught his eye. Looking towards the glittering mass, Sakin saw the iron sand. "That is it." Sakin narrowed his eyes as he grinned. Allowing his gold dust to fall, Sakin charged towards Sasori with only a arm covered amount of gold dust with him.

"Father," Gaara was about to try and catch up with his dad, but was immediately attacked by ten puppets.

Sasori narrowed his eyes, as he sent a barrage of puppets towards the Kazekage, but before they could reach him, a wave of black appeared around them. Clenching a fist, Sakin made the iron sand slash through the puppets. Using the faster iron sand, Sakin carved a path straight towards the puppet master, while at the same time, used the gold dust around his arm to defend against attacks.

"Clever," Sasori thought as his back mounted blades began to spin. Creating a giant spear out of the iron sand, Sakin grabbed it and swung it at his opponent, just as Sasori swung his spinning blades towards him.

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Blood splashed across the ground as Suigetsu's blade slid across Kisame's chest. Touching his wound, Kisame's grin increased as he stared at the two. "This just became fun again," Kisame stated. "Her attacks are too range based and you are too predictable, but this is new and exciting."

Suigetsu looked at his frozen arm and grinned as Haku loosened the ice to allow him free movement. "It's time to finish this fight," Suigetsu stated pointing his giant sword at Kisame. In a shower of sparks the two collided, swords locked together. The ice on Suigetsu's arm branched out into a series of spikes that shot towards Kisame. Seeing this, Kisame shoved Suigetsu away and brought his sword around to block the spikes. The effect was almost instant, right before the spikes hit; they suddenly shot off into different directions. Grinning, Kisame tossed his sword into the sky, and slammed his hands on the ground. "Suiton: Suijinheki." Just before the spikes could connect, a wall of water encircled him.

"That won't protect you," Haku stated as the spikes slammed into the water, but quickly shattered. Suigetsu cursed as he remembered the one thing about Kisame that he should've kept in his mind; never let stand or be near water. Kisame emerged out of the water, holding onto one of the ice spikes. Haku narrowed her eyes and saw the spike slowly shrinking as the chakra was being absorbed.

"I guess it did protect me, because I'm still here."

Kisame caught his sword as it fell back to him and ran at Suigetsu.

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Naruto had barely moved as the bomb maker kept tossing his clay explosive at him, but using his cloak, he either deflected it or crushed it. "This would go much easier on you, if you just surrender," Naruto offered as he crushed another flock of clay birds.

"Do you really think I would surrender so easily," Gritting his teeth, Deidara pulled out a large piece of clay, before having his two mouth hands begin to devour it. After a few seconds, Deidara revealed his newest creation, a miniature dragon. Releasing the dragon, it suddenly expanded becoming the size of a building. "Behold, my Shi Tsu (C2)!" Sighing out loud, Naruto's eyes narrowed at the dragon. Just as the dragon opened its mouth, Naruto clamped its mouth shut firmly, before slamming it to the ground. Seeing his chance, Deidara forced the dragon to revert back to its clay state. Confused, Naruto didn't react as the clay suddenly stretched and wrapped around his entire being. "Now, die!" The clay suddenly began to glow as it was about to explode.

"Naruto," Hinata tried to get to where Naruto was, but was stopped by Sakura. The explosion pilled back a layer of earth as it expanded. Watching the fire from the explosion blazing across the ground, all was quiet.

"Punk got what he de-," Deidara never finished as Naruto's fist connected with his stomach. Blood gushed out of the explosive maker's mouth as he collapsed on his winged bird. Looking at Naruto through a shaking vision, Deidara found Naruto virtually untouched by the blast.

"You are finished," Naruto stated as he reeled his fist backwards. Glaring at his opponent, Deidara sunk into the clay bird before dropping out the bottom. Making his hand sign, the bird exploded causing the Jinchuriki to fly upwards.

"Fine if my Shi Tsu wasn't enough I'll just show him the ultimate art," Deidara's mind began to come up with a plan, but after looking at his clay supply, he realized one thing; he had enough for one more bomb. Sweat began to drip from his brow as he pulled the chunk out of his pouch. Landing on the ground, Deidara kept his back to Naruto as the boy appeared behind him. As Naruto's hand reached for Deidara, Naruto stopped has he saw black lines begin to outline his body. The scary thing was the fact his skin was becoming transparent. "I guess everyone here can taste my ultimate art." Deidara began to laugh as he looked at Naruto.

"What did you do," Naruto demanded.

"Shi O (C0)," Deidara stated silently. "A suicide jutsu with a range of ten kilometers, which will turn everyone here and me into true works of art, even if you kill me the jutsu will not stop." Naruto watched as the sphere in the man's chest began to crack and acted quickly. Reaching forward, Naruto grabbed Deidara, but almost soon regretted it. Deidara made one last hand sign, confused Naruto soon found clay wrap itself around him and the bomber. "Now choose, your life or their's." As the glowing continued, Naruto looked at everyone, but stopped on Hinata. Her Byakugan was active and she could plainly see the chakra building to the breaking point. Closing his eyes, Naruto let out a small chuckle. Before Deidara could ask what was so funny, Naruto expanded Kurama's cloak pushing the clay and Deidara away. Launching a chakra arm, Naruto grabbed the bomber and chucked him with every ounce of strength he possessed. Glaring at the flying figure, Naruto watched him explode.

"One down-," Naruto didn't finish as a strong sense of killing intent flared up behind him. Pushing off the ground, Naruto narrowly dodged Samehada as it soared right past his back. Twisting in the air, Naruto landed on all fours, before standing up. "That was clo-." That was when he realized who was standing in front of him. "What did you do to Haku and Suigetsu?!" Kisame just chuckled as he gestured to the unconscious figures lying next to each other.

"They put up a pretty good fight, but they can't compare too me," Kisame stated as he started to walk towards the Uzumaki. "But you on the other hand, well, let's just say; I'm eager to clash against the Jinchuriki of the Kyubi."

"Sorry, but I'm going to kill you before you can hurt anyone else," Naruto proclaimed.

Kisame just started laughing. "I'm not like Deidara," Kisame said. "He was a horrible match for you, but me on the other hand; well let's just say I've made a reputation for bringing Jinchuriki down alone." Naruto would've argued this, but considering he nearly had his Bijuu chakra eating about a second ago; he decided against this.

"Fine, I guess I'll just-," Just then, Kurama's chakra evaporated off of Naruto's body leaving him both confused and tired.

"I can't be at my limit already," Naruto questioned the giant fox.

"Sorry, but with this seal, I can only give you so much," Kurama stated. "But don't worry about that, if you keep your head, you can hold him off long enough for me to send more chakra to you." Nodding his head, Naruto was about to pull out two kunai, when a white bug landed on his hand. Not bothering to give it a thought, Naruto's thoughts were immediately brought to it when he heard it hissing.

"Oh, and Deidara has a tendency to fake his death," Kisame stated as he chuckled. Naruto eyes went wide as the clay bug exploded.

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"He has gotten a lot stronger," Mikoto thought as she ducked underneath a thrown kunai. Sasuke didn't seem to care about his brother's strength; the only thing he saw was his clan's murderer. After proclaiming he was going to beat them with his everything he had, Itachi had actually stopped using his jutsu and instead was using his Sharingan and Taijutsu. Deciding to close the gap, Kakashi charged with only his Sharingan eye open. Itachi accepted the challenge and clash kunai with the Jonin.

"You can't beat me by yourself," Itachi stated carefully. Just then he heard someone take a deep breath. Looking around, he saw Mikoto standing behind him with her hands in a tiger seal.

"Katon: Hibashira (Fire Release: Blazing Column),"Slamming her hands on the ground, Mikoto didn't bother looking at her son as columns of flames erupted around him.

"Do you really think a jutsu of this level will stop me," Itachi asked; pondering what his mother had planned.

"No," Mikoto stated solemnly. "But it works to keep you still for a second." Itachi's eyes narrowed, but then heard Sasuke shout something from behind him.

"Raiton: Senkouryuusei (Lightning Style: Flash Meteor)," Itachi stared up just as he saw a ball of lightning come crashing down on him. Smiling at his apparent hit, Sasuke drew his sword from his back.

"Don't get cocky," Kakashi warned. "There is no way he would be brought down so easily."

"There is no way he could still be able to-," Before the over confident Uchiha could continue a large ethereal hand erupted out of the smoke. Ducking under it, Sasuke's eyes widened as the smoke peeled back, revealing a completely untouched Itachi. Mikoto took one look at the ethereal giant and fear rose up inside of her.

"Susanoo," Mikoto stated quietly as she maneuvered herself towards the others.

"What is Susanoo," Kakashi asked?

"It is a rare ability gifted only to a select few," Mikoto's voice started to break as she continued. "At the cost of burning up one's life force, the user can summon a ethereal giant to shield them from any attack and cause massive amounts of damage."

"Correct," Itachi didn't bother looking at them. "I told you I wasn't going to hold back." Flames erupted around Itachi as Susanoo completed itself. It looked humanoid with the exception of three arms; the left one holding a giant shield, while one of its right hands was holding a sake bottle.

Looking at Mikoto, Kakashi realized she was almost done, physically and mentally. Sasuke on the other hand was itching to attack his brother, despite what his mom had just said. "Mikoto I want you to rest up," Kakashi stated as he walked forward. "We will handle it from here." Mikoto didn't bother answering just continued to stare at her oldest child. "Sasuke you are to follow my lead, understand."

"Whatever, as long as I can get the finally hit in, I don't care either way." Kakashi didn't respond as they got prepared to face the giant.

"Mikoto, what weaknesses does Susanoo posses," Kakashi asked.

"It has none that I know of," Mikoto stated, but quickly added. "But we don't need to know it. If you can keep dodging his attacks the stress on Itachi's body will become too much for him to keep the technique up."

"Got it," Kakashi confirmed as he returned his attention back to the Itachi.

"So you think you can dodge the Susanoo," Itachi questioned. "Well let's see how good you think you are."

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Jumping away from one another, Sasori and Sakin glared at the other. Sakin had clad himself in gold dust, while using the iron sand as his method of attacking. Sasori on the other hand, could feel his movements slowing. "Bastard is slowing putting Iron Sand in my joints," Sasori thought as he looked around. Most of his puppets were gone and soon Sakin's son and Chiyo would join him in fighting Sasori. Thinking over a plan, Sasori's lips turned into a grin. Directing one of the puppets back to him, Sasori had it go directly at Sakin. Hearing the puppet's joints clanking behind him, Sakin's gold armor shot spikes out of the back; impaling and stopping the puppet in its place. Releasing the magnetic chakra holding the spikes on his back, Sakin charged once more.

"You are going to have to do better then that to get me," Sakin yelled out. Sasori raised his arms to blast the Kazekage with jets of flame, but Sakin shot two spikes of iron into the holes just as the fire started to come out. Feeling the pressure build, Sasori gritted his teeth as his arms exploded into pieces. "That isn't going to work on me!" Stabbing the iron spear in his hand forward, Sasori was impaled in the gut. Lifting the puppet man up above his head, Sakin sent his magnetic chakra into the spear causing it to branch off and rip out of various parts of Sasori. Looking him in the eyes, Sakin smirked as he saw his eyes dim. Chucking him overhead, Sakin released his magnetic chakra as he watched the other puppets fall to the ground lifeless. Walking back towards his son, Sakin passed right by the puppet he had impaled and saw something that caught his attention. Looking closely, he saw the same compartment in its chest as Sasori did. The puppet's hand twitched symbolized one thing; Sakin had made a grave mistake. Grabbing a hold of the Kazekage's wrist, Sasori face met his on the way up.

"How about this," Raising the katana above his head. "Do you think this will work?!"

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Digging himself out of the ground, Deidara was cursing Kisame. "How could you make me use my ultimate art as a simple distraction," Deidara yelled out.

"Because he wouldn't have believed it otherwise," Kisame stated. "Besides you're alive aren't you?" Deidara just scoffed at the shark man.

The two were about to continue, but Naruto chose that moment to stumble out of the smoke. Falling to his knees, Naruto took a look at his right side and breathed a sigh of relief. "If I hadn't shoved that bug away with my chakra at the last second, I might've lost my arm right there," Naruto thought, but at the same time cursed himself for his own carelessness. He thought Deidara was dead, the thought that the suicide jutsu was used on a clone, had escaped Naruto completely; and now he was paying the price for it. "When did you clone yourself?"

"When my dragon exploded," Deidara stated. "You and your friends were too distracted by the blast that you didn't notice the switch." Groaning, Naruto attempted to stand, but that his strength had left his body. His breath was labored as the pain grew. Looking up, Naruto saw Kisame walking towards him.

"That blast took a lot out of me," Naruto thought as he tried to think of a way of his situation, but before he could; a strange sound began to feel the air. Stopping in mid-stride, Kisame listened as the noise continued to grow. Naruto shook his head, but the ringing continued. Thinking it was nothing, Kisame charged at Naruto; just as a cloaked figure appeared above Kisame.

"Neton: Bakuyaku Shougekiha (Sound Release: Explosive Shockwave)," From underneath the cloak, Naruto caught a glimpse of a metal gauntlet, right before an ear piercing screeched followed by an explosion covered his vision. After the dust slowly cleared up, Naruto saw the figure standing in front of him, but he only grinned as he already knew who it was.

"So, what have you been up too, Dosu." Removing his cloak, the mummy ninja from Oto stood in front of Naruto.

"Hello again, Naruto," Dosu stated softly as he gripped his gauntlet, waiting for Kisame's to attack. With the smoke finally clearing, Kisame's condition was finally revealed, but much to Dosu's surprise the man was healing at an alarming rate. The cuts and gashes on his torso had already completely closed. "Naruto, regain your strength, we will handle this."

"We," Naruto's confusion was soon elevated when two more figures jumped next too Dosu.

"So, three more ants enter the fray," Kisame joked as he pointed his blade at the three.

"That may be true," Dosu stated calmly as he got ready. "But with enough ants, even the mightiest beast will fall."

Okay, first things first; I'm sorry. I had to rewrite this thing so many time, because I was so unhappy with it, that it became stupid, so I took a break and wrote some on my other story I'm working on, but more on that later. Anyway I hope you guys like it and everything.