I know another long update, I have my reasons but I am sure you don't want to hear about those now do you?

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Konoha-Uchiha Compound-Training Grounds-July 1st-10:38 AM

All that was heard was the sound of nature flourishing, a nearby koi pond having its water flowing around, and leaves rustling. That was all heard by the Uchiha patriarch, he was currently meditating on the dream/possible memory experienced an hour ago. He had started doing this after the third time of going through this process, it helped Yami access even more of his dream/memories and so he made sure to meditate every time after the event. Sadly, this idea only worked two out of ten times and so he was not able to gain that much information about his experiences. Thankfully, he had achieved the desired effect this time and was placed into a deep sleep.

The bad news, however, was that this particular memory was a scarring one.

Yami's Memory

Yami was watching a scene of his past or of some insane dream but whatever it was, he was watching his older self face-off against five other people, all of them men. The problem was that his older self had changed a little bit compared to the last he had bore witness to him. The sclera in his eyes bloodshot red, there were red "veins" in his arms along with some black ones as well. One of the people had ear length light blue straight hair, possessed equally blue eyes and he wielded a spear that was prepared to pierce the man in his abdomen.

Another of them had short black shaggy hair, equally black eyes and only using his fists to battle the Yami-look alike. Assisting him was a man with short wavy crimson red hair with two kusarigama wielded in both of his palms, prepared to skewer themselves into the black-haired man before him. Another man had purple hair and violet eyes with two axes, and finally, there was a man with powerful silver eyes, with straight black hair that had white tips and he wielded two swords.

All of that had paled to what was before them, the man in front of them was holding a bastard sword (AN:Like Guts sword from Berserker, except it is a regular sword.)

He had his sword armed for combat against all five of his opponents, so when they eventually dashed towards him on different sides of himself, he was prepared. In one move, he was able to send each of them away by parrying their attacks in a way to cause them to go flying away from his position. With them separated, Yami sped towards the purple-haired man and clashed blades with him. He knocked away one of the axes with just one swing of his blade and made for a downward cut that had been blocked by the remaining ax. The impact, however, lead to a shockwave as well as a crater beneath the purple-haired man's feet.

Yami though had to block a punch aimed for his ribs and he kicked the ax-wielding man directly in his ribs, sending him away. Continuing his movement, Yami twisted the limb resulting in the offending arm to be twisted out of place and he turned quickly to kick him with his foot to the chin, only to block yet another attack by positioning his sword vertically. The large blade itself was blocking a pair of kusarigama, unfortunately Yami was not able to escape the spear that was embedded in his thigh and he looked behind him. Straight into the blue eyes that stared right back at him.

*Back To Reality*

Yami woke up from the experience with sweat dripping down his face, he looked around the field, only to notice that none of the girls were around him, so he decided that he would tell them another time. For now though, Yami stood up to his feet then sent one of his customized kunai to a nearby tree with a blur traveling away from the spot and right in front of him. Yami looked upon his teammate Kitsuke as he was frowning at him and not a moment later Sai and their respective teacher showed up to the Nagori's left and were all currently looked at him. The kunai that was thrown earlier flew right back into Yami's outstretched hand, where he then placed the kunai back in a scroll.

Kitsuke had an annoyed face and spoke first, "Hey, why'd you have to throw your kunai near my head? You could have killed me!"

Now smirking, Yami replied, "Well, you should learn quickly to dodge the kunai that I will be throwing at you in the future. Remember, I told you that your problem was that you needed to learn how to dodge right. If you do it wrong, well I'll show you."

Then out of nowhere clones that possessed the appearance of Kitsuke all dogpiled the original and soon enough, the sword wielder was buried under many clones of himself and he wasn't happy since they were crushing him under their combined weight.

Yami only shook his head and continued, "That is why you DODGE!"

Silence reigned for a bit and so Yamato spoke to take advantage, "I would like you to know that the Chunin Exams are starting five days from now, I have already put forward our team to participate since I figured that each of you could handle it." he looked at each of them to see if they were alright with that decision, and if Yami's smirk, Kitsuke's loud groan of pain and Sai's fake smile were any indications then he was sure that the three of them were eager to face the competition in the exams.

Yamato gave each of them a paper and continued, "The last thing for you each to do is to sign the application and go to Room 301 at the Academy at 9:30 AM, but you must do it as a team or else you will be disqualified before you even begin. That's it." he gave a nod before disappearing in a Body Flicker. The Uchiha looked behind himself with the Byakugan active and saw that the Hatake was currently knocking at his door, no doubt he was currently talking to his own genin team about the exams. Deactivating his dojutsu, Yami looked down at the mess that was his teammate and said one word that held so much authority, "Up." Kitsuke rose from the clones with each of them dispelling as he rose in an instant.

The Uchiha continued, "You both know that you two will have to train hard to be able to stay on top of the rest of the competitors right?"

Kitsuke replied to him, "Of course! After all, we can't let you take all the action away from us!"

"Yes, besides I wouldn't be able to win the whole exams by myself." Sai piped in.

Kitsuke turned his head to the pale teen and spoke, "By yourself? What about me?"

Sai looked at him with his 'smile' and answered, "You're useless."

Kitsuke growled in anger and spoke with fury, "Why you..!" He was interrupted by Yami hitting both of them in the head with his balled-up fists.

He then spoke with a monotone tone, "Enough. Both of you will train until each of you are on the level of Anbu." both of his teammates nodded, ready to train with their stronger teammate. So with that in mind, both of them got their weapons ready as Yami unsealed his sword Astral and got into a combative stance. After a few moments of staring at one another, the duo charged.

Takamagahara

After the Shinigami had contacted Kami about the Agent Of Darkness returning, the god of light had told the rest of the deities about the situation which had led to a meeting taking place to decide what on what to do. There were Gods that wanted the infamous traitor dead while there were others that would rather want nothing to do with him.

Amaterasu was none of the above, while she was fearful about the Ultimate Renegade being in their realm, she did not want to antagonize the being that had gone against the creator of reality. Besides, he could help her reclaim some of the items that she had lost in the Human World. The Sun goddess would have to plan carefully since this would be a huge gamble if the Renegade was antagonistic.

She would have continued her thoughts had a voice not surprised her, "What are you planning sister?"

She yelped but was able to calm herself easily and replied to her brother, "Oh, it is just you Susanoo. Why do you think I am planning something?" she finished with an innocent expression.

A deadpan came over the God of Storms and Seas' face and he continued, "You have the same face you had when you caught Ryujin peeping on you and you went to get revenge." the Sun Goddess gained a pink hue at one of the times she had lost control.

She debated on telling but eventually, she did, "I am thinking about approaching the Agent Of Darkness and giving him the proposition of retrieving the weapons that I had left in the Elemental Nations so long ago."

Susanoo was quick to respond, "What!? Do you not remember what he did the LAST time he was HERE!"

"Yes but that was Yami's (AN:The god Yami.) fault! You know he got so arrogant that he believed he was stronger than the Agent Of Darkness and look what that got him! He was consumed by the very darkness that he believed he commanded."

Both of them remembered that event, the day they lost one of the main gods was a blow to their standing in the Pantheon ranking. Only after the process of time, training and more followers were they able to get back to their previous rank but the fact remained that one of their gods was gone and would not be coming back.

The brother sighed at her reasoning, it was true that Yami was arrogant and he was also jealous of Umbra for being the true wielder of darkness by wielding Negative forces since that specific power ruled over any associations with negativity. "Will you at least promise me to be careful when you go speak to him?" he pleaded with his shoulders sagging.

Amaterasu looked her brother in the eyes and replied, "I promise brother."

Susanoo only sighed and then smiled, "That is all I ask, now if you will excuse me I should make sure that Kami knows you're going down there before she assumes the worst." he then exited her chambers.

Amaterasu looked up at the ceiling of her room where a miniature sun the size of a rubber ball was suspended and hoped that everything would go smoothly for she was not sure if she could take on the Agent Of Darkness alone.

Five Hours Later-Konoha-Hokage Mountain-3:15 PM

Yami was perched on the stone head of the Fourth, the best of the Hokages in his opinion. While the Fourth Hokage was definitely not the most powerful of the four Hokage, he was most definitely the second most powerful by creating the Rasengan and the Hiraishin, the latter which he used to end the Third Shinobi War singlehandedly. Not only that but he had also had a hand in bringing Naruko into the world so there was that too.

After he had gotten done sparring and training his two teammates, the Uchiha decided to relax for a bit and take some alone time and so he decided to sit on the stone head of his favorite Kage. He was happily watching birds fly, the sun beginning to fall from the center of the sky, and a ball of light floating down towards him. Wait what? He looked again to be sure and sure enough, there was a ball of light floating down to his location. He sighed and started muttering to himself, "Ugghh give me a break." he got up from his crossed leg position and summoned Astral into his palm and got into a combat stance.

The ball floated a few feet in front of him, then it started glowing before a feminine figure appeared in the place of the ball of light. The woman had white hair with red eyes, she had had white kimono with red accents with a red wolf design across the navel area of the kimono.

Yami kept his guard up but spoke up, "Identify yourself!"

The woman before him held up her hand to him while speaking, "I am Amaterasu, the Goddess of the Sun."

The Uchiha had a twitching eyebrow and he sighed again, muttering "Of course you are." but his stance had not changed and the sword was still pointed to her. Yami looked at the goddess again and narrowed his eyes with them glowing crimson quick and he continued on, "What are you doing here."

Amaterasu spoke quickly so as to not draw his ire, "I have a proposition for you."

An eyebrow rose and another question was revealed, "What proposition?"

"A few centuries ago I sent my weapons to worthy champions, but I have not acquired them yet. I need someone to get them for me and you are the easiest to approach considering who you are."

Yami was debating if he should say that he doesn't remember who he was but decided against it. Especially since he doesn't know if he did anything bad against certain people.

But he had a question on his mind, "Why didn't you take your weapons back earlier?"

The sun goddess looked a bit embarrassed with a red hue on her face and she answered him, "Well... I-uh...I forgot about them."

Yami just stared at the person in front of him, desperately trying to understand just how this being became a god and just shook his head while sealing up Astral again. He spoke up again, "Well do you know where they are?"

The deity shook her, even more embarrassed than before but she looked up and replied to him, "But I know of a way for you to find them. I myself cannot since I have been separated from them for so long. If you would hand me one of your weapons I can embue it with my flames, the flames within your weapon will be able to feel the connection to my Kusanagi and Yata Mirror. Will you do it for me?"

Yami thought about it, he would gain the ability to use Amaterasu's flames and all he would have to do is find her weapons. There was one gain and no loss besides having to find her items of power.

So he shrugged his shoulders and replied to the goddess, "Sure, I'll get them back for you."

Amaterasu nodded to him and held out her hands for the weapon that she would enchant, so in a flash of blue the Yamato appeared in his hands and he placed it in her palms.

Utilizing her power, her hands had black flames coming off of it and all of the flames moved to the katana and shrouded the entirety of Yamato before they started to fade into the weapon. She handed Yamato back to Yami, and once in his hands, he started spinning the katana around on his palm before strapping it to his left hip for later.

Before she left Amaterasu said one last thing, "I look forward to receiving my weapons in the near future. Farewell for now." her body began to glow before it disappeared and all that remained was the ball of light from before. This time though, it flew upwards towards the sky before it eventually disappeared from his sight, that was when he took Yamato out of the sheathe and studied the blade for a few seconds before he sheathed it again and looked back to the village. While the appearance of the goddess of the sun was unexpected, it was appreciated. After all, now he has a new ability in his arsenal, all he would have to do is train with it and incorporate it into his fighting styles, but with the view he has now...

He would train later, for now, he just wanted to enjoy the view.

An Hour Later-Konoha-4:23 PM-Forest Of Death

Naruko was currently holding her arm out while keeping palm open, slowly her chakra formed into the Rasengan. She was currently developing a new technique for herself, another variant of the incomplete Rasengan. The Uzumaki was channeling lightning chakra into the technique and watched as sparks began to fly about and it had started swirling faster. A disk of concentrated lightning began to form in the middle but suddenly it slowed down and began to lose shape. Naruko quickly threw the unstable technique away from her and watched as it exploded in the trees that she had blindly targeted.

She sighed, another failure. She's been trying to introduce the Rasengan to lightning chakra but it seems they just didn't like each other at the moment. She would need to ask Satsuki or Yami for some help with her lightning affinity. She heard a thump behind her and turned quickly but had let down her guard once she saw who it was.

Yami looked to the shredded trees that were the victims of Naruko's failed technique and he looked back to the blond again.

"What was that?" he inquired.

Naruko spoke innocently "Nothing~"

Yami had a blank expression while staring at her own face. "R-rrriiiiiiight."

Yami then spoke again "Well I came here to ask if you wanted to g-" he was interrupted when an Anbu landed on the trees next to them and gaining their attention.

"Yami Uchiha, Naruko Uzumaki. You both are being summoned to the Hokage's office for a mission."

Yami growled inwardly at this, he was just about to ask Naruko out but thanks to the Hokage that would be put on hold.

The Uchiha groaned out loud and stated, "Might as well get this over with."

Both of them then began to dash across trees until they were out of the forest and then they were jumping across the roofs that belonged to the houses around them. They made it to the Hokage's tower a few minutes later, the secretary to the Hokage let them in and they bore witness to the Hokage's empty room.

Both of their teams were in tbe room when they arrived at the office, their questions were answered by the Third himself, "Naruko, Yami. Welcome, you are here for an A-Rank mission with both of your squads."

The two aforementioned shinobi walked in and stood beside their respective teams waiting to hear what they will their mission parameters are.

The Hokage spoke, "The eight of you will be exterminating an Iwa camp that was found inside our borders, we do not know why they are here but we assume it can't be good since it is Iwa." he wasn't wrong to be saying that since the shinobi of Iwagakure had always hated those from Konoha ever since the Fourth Hokage decimated their forces in the Fourth Shinobi War.

"I want all of you to eliminate everyone there except the commanding officer and two others that of a high enough rank." the Sarutobi finished.

Kakashi spoke up for the whole team, "It will be done Lord Hokage."

The old man bid them one more word, "Dismissed." They all walked out the door and soon, out of the village.

It had taken them a half an hour to arrive at the location that the Hokage provided them and from what they were able to see, this was definately a scouting camp from Iwa. The first thing that was noticed was that each tent was of green color so it could camouflage against the surrounding flora, the Konoha shinobi had also noticed the standard Iwa shinobi uniform. There were six tents and many Iwa shinobi and kunoichi littered around the area, Yami had placed down a seal that hid their chakra away from any sensor-nin that was possibly in the camp. They then began to formulate a strategy for their mission.

Kakashi had everyone around him in a circle since he was the most experienced shinobi and therefore had taken command of the squad. Kakashi began to talk, "Since they have numbers on their side I think the best thing we should do is cut down the amount they have. Do any of you have area jutsus?" Both Yami, Naruko, and Satsuki nodded while Kitsuke gave his own answer, "I don't but I do have some paper bombs."

Kakashi nodded and continued on, "Good, find an area to release your jutsu after I give the signal."

They each nodded and spread out into the forest around them, taking positions around the camp. All was quiet until Kakashi jumped from the tree he was hiding in and executed a few handsigns before landing on the ground and around him, earth spikes formed sharp pillars which impaled six Iwa shinobi. He yelled out, "Earth Release: Rock Pillar Spears!" the others of the squad figured this was the signal and jumped out of their respective spots and began their own attacks.

Naruko charged up a Rasengan but once it was formed she channeled wind chakra to it and it began to grow and soon enough a disk started forming in the middle. She could hear it buzzing beside her and as she threw the technique at a concentrated area of the red wearing shinobi, all she could think about was the name of the technique she used. The Rasenshuriken, it makes contact with any surface it sprouts a vortex of wind in the immediate area. Within the vortex, countless microscopic wind blades are created, the wind blades damage anything within the vortex on a cellular level, attacking the chakra circulatory system to such a degree that no amount of medical ninjutsu can heal it. Unless the person had a powerful regeneration ability, there would be no possible way to heal from the damage.

That was what was currently going on right now and the devastating wind jutsu was tearing through the enemy ninja like a knife cutting through warm butter.

Yami gathered chakra between his palms and a black sphere was taking shape, Yami then yelled out as he threw the sphere of chakra, "Power Release: Eradication Dome!" Once the sphere made contact with the ground, a dome of black chakra formed, it was big enough to cover two squads of four. Once the dome dissipated, all that was left was a crater that was a few feet wide and went down a few feet.

Satsuki fired off an arrow made of lightning, it proceeded to make contact with an unfortunate Iwa group and it fried them upon contact. They had just turned the odds of eight against forty-eight to eight against twenty-one. Once Satsuki landed, she quickly unsheathed her chokuto and lobbed off an arm that had gotten too close for comfort, she then gave the man mercy by slicing right through his neck only to impale a kunoichi through her outstretched arm and into her abdomen. She proceeded to cut clean through her left side and kick her away into her comrade that caught by complete reflex. But they would not be spared since the female Uchiha had thrown her weapon while making it spin horizontally, the result was both the shinobi and kunoichi being cut in half with their body parts falling to the ground in a heap.

She did a few handseals while running to her blade while encountering a shinobi that hoped to catch her by surprise, sadly for him the moment the Uchiha was finished with her handseals, she shoved her hand into the enemy shinobis gut causing blood to gush onto her hand. Out of the man's back was a blue sharp point. She ripped her hand out to reveal her hand being shrouded with blue chakra with the fingers of the hand having a sharp point like a knife or arm blade.

It deactivated and she dashed towards her blade and used it to block the three katana's aiming for her.

Yami took out Yamato and cleaved through the volley of shuriken flying at him which resulted in sliced metal flying everywhere behind him, rendering a boulder into rocks. He slashed in front of him resulting in the group of shinobi feet away from him being bisected through each of their respective abdomens. The Uchiha then spun on his heel to impale the shinobi behind through his head, he then ripped it from the man's face and positioned Yamato horizontally in front of him. The reason why was because a war hammer came down upon the katana a moment after Yami put up his guard. The impact had created a trench beneath Yami and made the wielder of the hammer have his eyes wide open in shock, Yami only looked at the craftmanship of the hammer.

The head of the hammer was rectangular and had lion symbols etched to the sides. He loved the craftsmanship of it, but he put that thought aside in favor of kicking the man in front of him. He went flying before he had slammed the hammer into the ground, therefore, halting his movement and allowing him to land on the ground.

However, he wasn't able to react when a blue spectral sword ran through his head causing blood to spill down his neck. Yami batted away the two swords and grabbed an arm wielding a kunai, he grabbed placed the arm behind his back and broke the arm while at the same time cutting a man in half diagonally. He then released the man and shoved his elbow into his face knocking him out. The male Uchiha saw that the man was of higher rank given how he was discreetly giving orders out before Yami had gotten to him. After sealing away the unconscious man, he looked around only to see a great number of dead bodies and figured that the others had their hands full.

So he sheathed Yamato, walked forward, and grabbed the war hammer wedges into the ground and lifted it with ease. After studying the weapon for a few seconds, Yami activated his Rinne-Sharingan and Rinnegan in his right and left eye respectively and after that, the war hammer had a green aura covering the weapon completely.

Kakashi was currently facing three shinobi at the same once, he spun to the left and kicked one of them with the heel of his foot and used the speed of the spin to open another's stomach. It had caused the victim to clutched at her stomach to prevent her guts from spilling out but it proved to be fruitless when a kunai was shoved into her head. He pulled the weapon out and blocked a kunai heading for his jugular but he was stopped from further action when his opponent was pierced by a wooden stake. Hearing movement behind him, Kakashi threw the kunai behind him and after hearing the squelch of the kunai's surface contact, he relaxed slightly.

He heard a crash to his left and turned to his left and saw his two students fighting a man together and clearly he did not last long since he was quickly killed. Once all of the enemy nin were dealt with, both teams separated to search the camp for any useful items and once that was done, they got together to see what they had found.

Kakashi walked up to the rest of the team with an embarrassed look on his face, it soon became clear why once he began to speak, "Well, looks like I messed his mission up."

The others only raised their eyebrows at him and he explained, "I accidentally killed one of the leaders of this camp or for all, we know it could have been the only one that truly had known of their plans."

In Kumo a dark-skinned male with a lollipop in his mouth sneezed, causing the treat to fall to the ground and making the boy cry out in anguish at losing the last of his lollipops.*

Back to the two teams, Satsuki spoke up, "Well that would be bad...had I not found this." The female Uchiha held up an envelope that no doubt possessed valuable information. Yamato grabbed the white envelope from her hand and opened it. The man's eyes ran through the lines of sentences the document inside contained, they got wide a bit towards the end. Once finished, Yamato folded the document and placed it in the envelope and spoke with urgency in his voice, "We have to get to the Hokage Now."

Konoha-Hokage's Office

Hiruzen Sarutobi took a puff of his pipe and exhaled out the smoke, he was currently waiting to hear Kakashi recite a shortened version of the orders on the paper for him.

"Lord Hokage, the message described order for the scouts, they were there to scout for patrol schedules and defenses. It turns out that they have some of their shinobi to disguise themselves as bandits and would test the security of Konoha's border from a bandit camp in a raid. Once the rais would be over, they Iwa shinobi would return to their own Camp and relay any info they learned. This would eliminate any suspicion from Iwa, but thankfully we found their bandit camp. What shall we do Lord Hokage?"

The man in question closed his eyes in thought, this was serious. If Iwa was scouting for possible weaknesses in the village's defenses, it meant that they were preparing for a war with Konoha yet again, it seemed even more believable when he remembered that the Chunin Exams were in a few days. His mind began to race, 'Yes, this would be perfect. If Iwa wages war against Konoha, we can show the power that the village possesses to the other Three causing them to fear us and having no thoughts of war. This way, peace can be achieved and no other forces would dare fight against us.'

The old man answered, "Bring whatever prisoners you have to TI, then go home. I will increase security around the village, your payment will be administered to you within the day. Dismissed." They all filed out while Yami, Naruko, and Satsuki went to an area of their own.

Barbeque Restaurant-Three Hours Later-7:46 PM

Yami walked into the meat selling restaurant wearing a white shirt with three buttons with blue pants and white opened shoes. Right behind him were both Naruko and Satsuki wearing different clothing as well.

Naruko wore an orange shirt with black pants, while Satsuki wore a black shirt and blue pants, neither had any make-up on since they already looked better without it. The restaurant they were currently in had a decent amount of people but not enough to be fully packed, they walked to the front desk.

Yami looked to the hostess in the eyes and spoke, "We have a reservation for 7:50 PM." The woman took a few seconds to verify the claim and once she was finished she brought the three to a table that was aligned with rows of other tables. The trio sat down with Yami on one side, Naruko, and Satsuki on the other. They opened up the menu's provided for them and proceeded to browse through the wide selection of foods available for them to eat. It took each of them a few seconds before they had finally decided on each of their own meals.

"I've decided on having spiced lamb chops with rice with broccoli in it while having iced water on the side." Yami spoke up first. Feeling the stares directed at him Yami looked at the two, "What?"

"Rice with broccoli?" remarked Satsuki.

She was joined by Naruko a moment later, "Just not something we haven't seen anyone eat."

A blank expression appeared on his face but Naruko got off their current topic and returned to the previous. "Well, I ordered some of their ribs with some soy sauce while having some ."

"I am having some of their Barbeque Chicken with tomatoes on the side." finished the female Uchiha.

Snicker*

Satsuki looked to her left where Naruko resided snickering to herself, Satsuki gained a tick mark and replied with an annoyed tone, "What's so funny Loser?"

Naruko replied, "No matter where we go, you always want tomatoes in your food."

"The same could be said for you and your ramen obsession Naruko." stated Yami.

A blush formed on the aforementioned Uzumaki's cheeks, she said nothing and only pouted after hearing the snickers of the Uchiha's. They each ate in silence merely thinking to themselves until a voice broke the table wide silence.

"Hey, Yami!" spoke a familiar voice.

The Uchiha looked to Kitsuke walking to him with Sakura and Sai with Ino. A few months ago, he collaborated with Naruko and Satsuki to pair up the two girls with his teammates considering the two got along with the Haruno and Yamanaka pair.

It seemed like a triple date was in order, so with only a moment passing by, Yami replied to his teammate "Nice seeing you Kitsuke, obviously, you're on a date together so why don't we just move this to a larger table that could fit all of us."

A few minutes later and the group of seven were seated in a round table, each of the men seated close to their respective fiances/girlfriends. Their orders had already been taken and so they were just waiting to be served.

Seeing a great opportunity to start a conversation, Sakura spoke to her teammates, "Thank you for those Medical books Naruko, they really helped me master the Intermediate levels of Medical techniques."

The blond shook her head and replied jovially "It's no problem, we're teammates remember? Also, great job on mastering the Intermediate books"

Sakura smiled at the praise from her teammate. Yami looked at this display and had a little smile, it was happy to see Naruko have friends to talk to. Turning to Sai, Yami spoke to the pale teen, "How has your relationship been turning out Sai?"

The teen in question seemed as if he was reminiscing before he spoke a few seconds later, "I may not completely understand my feelings but I know that I care greatly for her, she has been teaching me on emotions. I have been learning a lot from her but I know that there is still much to learn."

Thinking about his own experiences, Yami nodded to the statement. He thought back to when he spent more time training than spending time with his girls, it was before meeting Nihila. He hadn't paid attention to the damage he was causing to the first two women in his life. It had taken a displeased Satsuki to tell him off and explained that neglecting his attention over them would cause only troubles to happen in the future which was something the Uchiha did not want. So the three of them had sat down and talked it out, after the impromptu family meeting, Yami made sure to spend equal time with the both Naruko and Satsuki and any other women that would possibly join the family they possessed.

Shaking his head out of memory lane, Yami saw that their respective meals were fast approaching them with a multitude of waiters to carry around the plates and trays of food. Once all of the food was placed unto the table, they each had begun to dig in, it was obvious to everyone that the meal was mouthwatering, evident by the slight gleam of saliva on his lips though it never made it off of them. With an hour passing by, food was eaten, conversations were brought up, and future plans were made. Before long, each of them started to leave the restaurant and once home the trio met up with Nihila, informed her of how their evening went and finally, went to bed with the thought of the Chunin Exams present on each of their minds.

Five Days Later-9:12 AM

With five days passing in the blink of an eye, both Teams awoke early in the morning and did their normal routines which were breakfast, training, cleaning up and out the door. The entire process took only an hour and a half, after receiving Nihila's best regards to win, the trio had met up with the others members of Team 7 and Team 11 and walked to the Academy together.

Here they were walking passed a tree on their right side with a fence directly on their left but before they could continue on their path, a yell caught their attention, "Hey! Can you tell us where the Academy is!?"

Both teams looked behind them and saw a guy probably a little older than them wearing a cat-suit with a girl with sandy blond hair that was tied into four consecutive ponytails, she also possessed a large fan attached to her back. However, there was no sight of their third and final teammate which was odd to the Konoha teams, but after a pulse of chakra from Naruko, she quickly located the missing member since he was merely hiding in the tree they were near.

That was not all she found out though, "He is a Jinchuuriki too?" inquired Naruko to her tenant.

She received a nod from the red vixen, "Yes but more specifically, the redhead holds the One Tail or Shukaku, my youngest sibling."

The Uzumaki kept her gaze on the red-haired jinchuriki that was currently standing upside down on the bottom of a branch before she looked towards the speaker and responded, "Yeah, just follow us and we'll take you there."

Sand rose from the dirt in the middle of the two until it solidified and formed into the red-haired jinchuuriki, "You..." started the young man, "You will prove my existence." he then was silent after sharing that sentence with them.

Yami only rose an eyebrow and before he turned to face forward he asked, "What do you mean by that?"

The unknown jinchuuriki answered him, "She noticed my presence faster than any of you had, she will prove to be a great challenge in the exams, a challenge that will prove my existence."

If anything that statement confused him even more since both teams had already felt his presence through Sai, Kitsuke and Sakura had sensed him enough to know his location but not exactly what his chakra felt like. He decided he would figure out that statement when the fighting begins, unbeknownst to him he was echoing the thoughts of his blond girlfriend. The groups had made their way forward together and after passing by a few areas, they had arrived at the front of the academy from a few months ago, with but a moment to reminisce, Team 7, Team 11 and the team from Suna all walked into the Academy, prepared for the trials ahead.

After walking up the stairs then turning around the corner, the group bore witness to what looked like two Genin guarding the entrance to what was Room 301 from the sign above. Yami's eyes gained an annoyed look, there was a genjutsu over the sign making it appear as 301 when in truth it was classroom 201. The group had only got up one flight of stairs so it should be obvious to anyone with a brain that you had to go up one extra floor. But with some of the contestants currently occupied, all three genin teams move up an extra floor leaving behind the four squads attempting to get inside the fake testing area.

After traversing the stairs, the combined group made their way to Room 301 and a few minutes later they had arrived. All of them had gotten inside the room and immediately, they were exposed to the killing intent flooding the room. Yami gained a bloodthirsty grin, then he let out a bit of his own Killing Intent. All of the other teams felt it quickly and within seconds almost all of the foreign squads fell to the ground either completely or on their knees. But there were some that stood their ground against it, resulting in them gaining his interest.

One of these people was a female with long, straight blonde hair that was bound with taut bandages, dark eyes and she wore red lipstick. She had on a short-sleeved black and purple blouse and black pants, both of which had a design similar to clouds on them, purple fingerless gloves and a chain of blue beads wrapped around her left hand. She wore the standard Kumogakure forehead protector and sandals, while also having kunai holster strapped to her right thigh. The woman wore bandages around her arms and legs as well as a red belt around her waist.

She was currently studying the male Uchiha with an intensive eye, she recognized power and this man-he could not be called a boy-had to have a lot of it if he could give this much killing intent, either that or he had a lot of hatred in him. Whichever it was, this man interested her, it wasn't every day that a shinobi would make the Two-Tailed Jincuuriki Yugito Nii sweat from the force of his intent.

"Not only that but that fine man isn't even a jinchuiriki like you so that is an even better find Kitten." announced the Two-Tailed Monster Cat which was better known for but her original name was Matatabi.

Yugito gained a healthy blush as her mind was filled with very suggestive postions with the raven haired shinobi, she then spoke to the cat bijuu in their shared Mindscape 'MATATABI! We don't even know him, keep your thoughts out of the gutter!' She kept her gaze on him even when he looked back at her, suddenly he smirked, with his eyes flashing red.

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Posted 12-19-19