A/N: All right! Here's chapter 109! This is last of double chapter! First was Chapter 108, in case if you did not read Chapter 108. If you didn't read chapter 108, please go to previous chapter to read that chapter in order to advance to this chapter.

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Done? Good! Now this chapter will be about Shikaku, Inoichi, and Choza... This isn't filler if you assume this is. This builds up the story for our important character too. Find out who it will be.

Disclaimer: I don't own Dragon Ball Franchise or Naruto Franchise! So please enjoy reading Chapter 109! Thank you so much! Be sure to read the below, so I can explain it to you all why I did not update story for long times. That also involves vertigo! :)

Chapter 109: Thadiusians

Age 763, December 1, Konohagakure, Land of Fire- With Shikaku, Inoichi, and Choza

Dreadful civilians were running and panicking around since Coola's reinforcement suddenly came and start attacking them, as if it were their pleasure. They were killing them right and left. There was no chance for them to survive once enemies' sight were set on them. One would attempt to run away, and the enemy would spot him, only to kill him right away.

There was a group who only wielded the sword and shield, including wear plate armor and helmets and all of them were apparently warrior-class types of alien. They had slain every single of civilians in sights, but none of them would go unpunished. Some were killed while being evacuated to the shelter. Some were killed when they unexpectedly ran into a warrior. Some were so unfortunate to be killed before they were aware of the situation around here.

Then there was a teenager boy who was running with his mom. He seemed like he'd give up his life to protect his mom. They thought they would make that far, but unfortunately, one of a warrior spotted them. The teenager boy and mom were aware of their presence, so they increased their speed in hoping of losing them.

But it was not going smooth as they thought it would be. Mom just tripped over a mere rock and fell to the ground. "Takeo!"

The boy called Takeo stopped, turning around in shock, and cried, "MOM!" He was going to help his mother, but then he realized that the enemy was casually strolling Mom. He was fear for his life. He was not that reckless who'd go that far to save his own Mother when the enemy could have killed him easily. Without a second thought, he chose to flee for his life.

"Takeo!" cried Mom. But her voice never reached her own son's ears. He would still flee with the tears from his eyes. She still stared in disbelief in her son. Her son abandoned her own mother, just like that.

A warrior, the one without the helmet and shield, wielding 5-foot long great sword with the width of 12 inches in shiny gold armors, stood behind her, with his shadow loomed over her, laughing at her. "Shameful, isn't it? I'd probably cry if my own child abandons me for the sake of their life. Sometimes, there's people who cares more about themselves than someone else. For instance, your son is one of them. Someone like him does exist in this universe, unfortunately."

This warrior stood for about 195,58 centimeters at height. He had a dark skin with dark red eyes and cornrows hair. He also had a big nose and big mouth, which had to do anything with being a warrior from his planet. It should be noted that most warriors were all black and so huge.

Mom watched, as her own son was still running away, but never once looked back. He was running for his life with a fear as hell. "Takeo…" But she was okay with that. As long as her son would live, then she did not mind dying. After all, she did not want him to die. Then she smiled with a mixed feeling between happy and sad. She was happy that he would be able to live, and she was sad that she would die right here.

"I usually introduce myself before I kill someone, so you can graciously know the name of person who had slain you, and so I can allow you to see your son in the afterlife." The helmless warrior heaved his huge blade up above his head. "Riley Harris, Captain of eighth division. That's my name. So remember the name of a person who killed you. Goodbye."

The sword swung down towards the stunned woman on her knees, and cleaved her down from her head to her legs, as her body split apart, spluttering bloods all over the place, even on his face. He would not dare to clean off her bloods. He savored the bloods. When a warrior had someone's blood on him or her, it would mean they had slain someone. That's the way of Warriors.

Riley laughed and strolled through the main street, watching Takeo still running away. He never paid any mind to civilians cowering in fear who were hugging the wall. They were going to die. They would. Because he knew his men would take care of them soon. These civilians were already seen by his men. While he was walking through the main street like a king, his men introduced the cowered civilians the door to an afterlife.

No mercy.

Even civilians begged warriors to spare their life, but warriors showed no mercy to these begging civilians.

Takeo ran as fast as he could for the sake of his own life. Tears would often come off his eyes, as he was running. "Sorry, Mom! I don't want to die!"

He coincidentally ran into and collided with someone else who ran across the street, seemingly attempted to run away from the savage warriors. "Ouch!"

"I am so sorry!" said the feminine voice. He looked up, and it was a girl, same as his age. "Are you okay?!"

Takeo was blushing at the appearance of that girl. It was very pretty blonde girl with bright blue eyes and wore light blue tight shirt with a sleeve that was only limit to her shoulders and exposing his belly skin to a public. Also she wore white skirt and wore kind of wrong footwear to wear, because she was wearing heels.

Takeo nodded, but he was shaking too much, indicating that he was so nervous and fear for his life, "I'm fine!" But then he realized that he had no time to soothe her, because his life was in dangerous (Noted that he never once thought of her life being in dangerous). "Shit! I have to go!"

Just when he turned around, the sinister voice joined in the conversation. "Hey, pal. Where are you going?"

Takeo's face paled quicker than he could wet his pants, as he gulped and slowly turned his head around to look up at Riley Harris who showed a sinister grin. Not only that he felt fear, but a pretty blonde girl felt fear as well. But Takeo's fear was much worse than her. Even though she feared Riley, she looked calm oddly. Takeo's fear was much different from her fear. His entire body was shaking like a hell. He even dripped with a sweat out of fear.

He could not handle the fear, and the fear had led him to push her towards Riley all of the sudden.

At that moment, Riley was distracted by the pretty blonde girl that stumbled towards him. He swung his huge sword down, cleaving her down across her body from her shoulders. She screamed intensely, as the half of her upper body split up from her lower body.

Riley returned his gaze, but there was nowhere for Takeo to be found. But eventually, he spotted Takeo who was running away down the street anyways. "Heh, that's something only a coward would do. Sacrificing your fellow species in exchange for your life? What in the world have this coming to? I swear this generation is stupider than all previous generations!"

With that, he continued to follow his next victim by just walking casually. He had no need to rush to kill his own victims. He would wait patiently, because when he saw the first opportunity, he would kill this coward brat immediately. First opportunity, take it, after all.

Takeo knew what he just did. He committed two huge mistakes: Abandoning his own Mother, and sacrificing the girl he just met so he could live on. 'Damn! I'm so coward! Why am I such a coward?!'

Even though he was running further and further away from his pursuer, he just happened to run into more warriors in the front, but he did not want to die, so he tried to go the other way. Again, a several warriors blocked his way, so he went to go the opposite way, but there were also more warriors that blocked his way.

'Shit!' He then realized that he was cornered right now! There were warriors on each side, even from the side where he was running from. He looked back and fear struck his heart. He could not form a word out of his mouth. He just stood there, quivering in fear before the mighty warrior.

"You…" Riley only mouthed one word to his inferior with a large sinister grin.

A mere word caused him to walk backward and tripped himself to his butt. He put his hand up to signal 'stop' at Riley. "Stop! Please! Please wait!" His sweating began to drop violently, and his heart just beat faster and faster lately. His hand in the air became so heavy, because it's shaking so much. He was in pinch right now. At that moment he knew he screwed up. "Please… Spare me… Please, have a mercy!"

Riley chuckled only a little. "This guy…" He stood up, as if he was way superior to him. He smiled, not because this guy was a coward, but also because he was more than damn happy to kill some damn cowards! "Did you heard that? This guy thought if he's begging me to spare his life, I'd spare his life."

All of warriors were laughing so hard at Takeo together, almost as if they were toying with Takeo's life right there. They took a mockery out of him, which he was depressed so hard. He really hit that one hard when he thought his plead could save his own life.

"We, Thadusians, never showered the mercy on everyone. If a Thaduisan were to show a mercy, they must be executed. A mercy is weak. Now you tell me… of all people… to spare your life because you have something to live for? Where is the decency in you? You abandoned your own mother and sacrificed the little girl you just met for the sake of your own life after all. You see, unlike you, we Thaduisans will never abandon each other to save our own life. We stick to each other's back. It is a crime if you abandon them. When you abandon them, you will get a death sentence without any chance of parole in a prison. It's instant execution. Do you know what they do with the execution?"

Takeo widened his eyes with a fear when Riley hefted his sword up. "P-P-Please…"

"We cut up each of their limbs, to ensure that they will have a slow and painful death." Riley said, striking a fear in Takeo for the worst.

Takeo feared the worst, but not because they were going to cut each of his limbs up, but also because the way how all Thadusians were laughing at him. It was very sinister and dark laughter. Were they all heartless? Have they no caring for others? Were they pleasure for taking the life out of their victims? How ruthless could they be? "MONSTERS!" That was all he could utter a word.

Riley's laughter suddenly became loud than before. "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! YOU GOT IT RIGHT! WE ARE MONSTERS! I HEARD YOU LIKE RUNNING, SO I AM GOING TO START WITH YOUR RIGHT LEG! HAHAHHAHA!" He swiftly swung his large sword towards the right leg.

Takeo realized if he watched Riley taking off his leg, he would be traumatized for the rest of his life, so his best choice was to shut his eyes down.

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'Huh? How come I feel nothing? Why am I not hurt? Why can't I feel everything? Wait… Maybe I am dead. Maybe he changed his mind and killed me instead.' Takeo thought. He decided to open his eyes slowly. As soon as his eyes were open, what he saw was that Riley, for some reason, halted his sword. He looked down. He gulped. He just realized that he still had his legs. If any inches closer, he would have lost his legs for sure. Then he saw the unusual shadow that attached to Riley's feet, which was not his at all. 'Huh?'

"Kagemane no Jutsu succession!" The new voice gloated.

Takeo just followed his eyes on the shadow to whoever performed that technique. It was a man who was down on one knee with his hand already weaved. "Nara Shikaku!"

Indeed, it was Nara Shikaku! He controlled the shadow to bind Riley, so the enemy could not move, as he was unable to cut off Takeo's limbs. Takeo was fortunate to keep his limbs intact for now.

Riley looked at Shikaku who was glaring back at him. "Huh? So that's your technique? Binding me with that shadow, huh?"

"Now, hurry up and go to evacuation shelter! Just do not stop there. Keep running and no look back! Now!" Shikaku ordered him. He was the Jounin Commander, so it was his duty to keep every civilian alive, but he knew there would be a lot of causalities. He did his best all he could to not let Takeo getting killed.

Takeo nodded nervously. But he did not gawk at his enemy, as he listened to the Jounin Commander and ran for his life on way to evacuation shelter.

Riley chuckled sarcastically. "Unfortunately, once Thadiusians set their sight on their victim, they won't be stopped until they killed their victim or they were killed."

Suddenly, Riley strained himself, as he struggled to break free of shadow, though, he moved his hand up a bit.

"What?!" shocked Skikaku. 'How can it be? How can he move, even though, I'm immobilizing him with my shadow technique?'

While Riley struggled to break free of shadow himself, other Thadiusians already took off on their own to chase their victim. They never leapt, but they were running on their feet towards Takeo. They were so fast. They charged towards him at tremendous speed, even with the heavy armors and swords.

But Takeo made a mistake. He failed to follow Shikaku's instruction, and that was: Don't look back. He did. He looked back, and that was his biggest mistake. Because that reduced his speed if he looked back. To make it worse, he panicked, when he learned that more Thadiusians were catching up with their tremendous speed. But he was scared more when he saw the large bloodthirsty grin on their face. They looked like they were going to run the truck through the wall with the thirst for the blood.

Overcame by the thirst for blood, they drew their sword from the waist holster, preparing their attack on the coward adolescent boy. Their laughter was so bloodthirsty and sinister. They laughed like that when they were about to slaughter their victims.

"Nikudan Sensha! (Human Bullet Tank)" New voice shouted.

Then large brown ball rolled through the alley to blindside attack Thadiusians. It just rammed them through the building, which it collapsed down onto them. Then the large brown ball turned around itself and found more Thadiusians that were stubbornly chasing Takeo without pay attention to the large ball.

But Thadiusians were completely aware of their surroundings, and also aware of large brown ball chasing them, trying to run into them. They knew if they would get hit by that large brown ball, they would be dead immediately. Well, depends… It was like getting hit by a large truck.

In order to avoid being hit by a large brown ball, they scattered up into the sky, dodging the large brown ball, as it rolled into the building, causing it to break down. It turned out that it was just a human that curled up into the ball-like.

That male was a tall, plump man with long, spiky red hair and purple markings on his cheeks—much like Choji, seemingly being a common trait in the Akimichi clan. He wore a samurai like outfit which entailed a black suit completed with armor that had the kanji for "food" on it. He also wore a rope belt, hand-guards, and instead of hitai-ate, a hachimaki tied around his head.

He may be harm a little, but he was tough. He looked up and realized that Thadiusians were floating in the sky, as they turned down in preparation for soaring with the intention to kill Takeo. With his speed like that, he knew he was unable to stop them from there.

Maybe a trio of Thadiusians were still on mid-air, but they took it after Takeo at high velocity speed pretty much.

Riley's strength had left Shikaku totally flabbergasted. No matter how much Shikaku had strengthened his shadows that currently binding the Thadiusians, his opponent somehow managed to move his hand at least two inches over. He even managed to move his foot forward, although struggling.

Due to his fear of Riley able to break free of his shadow binding technique, so he decided to add more to his shadow. "Kage—Kubishibari No Jutsu! (Shadow-Neck Binding Technique)"

Takeo ran, and ran, and ran… and ran the hell away as possible as he could. No matter how far he ran away, Thadiusians would still chase him. Other mistake he just made, he looked up, realizing that a trio of Thadiusians rocketed themselves down towards him, but the fear caused him to lose the balance and fell to the ground.

A trio of Thadiusians gave out their trademark laughter. Their sinister laughter even made Daisuke look like a cute baby boy in pale comparison to Thadiusians.

"Gatsuga!" New couple of voices shouted.

Several whirlwinds tunneled all over Thadiusians, creating a massive dust around the place. After tunneling around them for a while, at least 6 different whirlwind tunneled their targeted opponents into the building, killing them easily. However, another remaining Thadiusians were not killed, but instead, they were just knocked back.

Several whirlwinds stopped, and they appeared to be a couple of female along with four dogs. One of them would display a smirk, and other one retained her glare.

"Haha!" First female laughed. "Now they can't escape the presence of the Inuzuka! Right, Hana?!"

This woman named Tsume had an animalistic look similar to that of Kiba. She had long, spiky, untamed brown hair, vertical slit-like pupils, elongated canine teeth and nails. She also had the clan fang markings on her cheeks as well as markings over her eyes and a dark shade of purple lipstick. She wore the standard outfit of a Konoha shinobi consisting of flak jacket and a black suit underneath with the sleeves rolled up and bandages around her legs.

Her canine companion was an adult canine with a wolfish appearance. He had black fur with a white underside. He was missing his left ear, and wore an eyepatch over his right eye. He was called Kuromaru.

Other female was called Hana. She promptly ignored her own Mother, as she looked around, upon realizing something went missing. "Hey, where is the kid?"

Hana had long brown hair which she wore in a ponytail with two locks over her large, black eyes. She also wore a light shade of lipstick and had the traditional fang-like tattoos of the Inuzuka clan on both of her cheeks, in addition to a tattoo on her upper right arm that resembled a flower. She also wore a form-fitting variation of the Konoha flak jacket which did not have any chest pockets and she kept the front of her jacket unzipped, exposing her cleavage. She also wore a pair of form-fitting shorts cut just above the knee, bandages just below her tattoo and wrist-warmers. She had a soft appearance than the other members of her family, not having extended canines or slit-like eyes, and wild, untamed hair.

Her canine companions were triplet canines that all had the same grey fur with white undersides and short pointed ears and mostly resembled Huskies. They were called Three Haimaru Brothers.

Indeed, Takeo was gone already.

Tsume laughed, "Don't worry! He ran away. But as long as we keep them on leash, they can't beat the Inuzuka!"

"I doubt so." Kuromaru spoke. Out of all the Inuzuka ninken, Kuromaru was the only one that had the ability to speak. "They're not coming at us."

Kuromaru was right. Thadiusians were not coming at them. As soon as they landed on the ground, they immediately launched themselves after Takeo, cratering the ground. They knew where Takeo went. He snuck into the alley to avoid their sights of him.

"What?!" cried Tsume.

"Damn!" Hana cursed. "We must protect him at any cost!" Tsume silently agreed with her. Hana and she mounted their own canine companions, provided that they were being a large dog which was able to ride them and immediately chased after stubborn Thadiusians.

Some random Jounins and Chuunins intercepted in, and blocked Thadiusians' way. But they never draw his eyes away from the area where Takeo went into. But at least random Jounins and Chuunins were able to kill them on spot.

A shadow beneath Riley's legs had sprouted the shadowy hands that crawled from the bottom of his sole onto his neck. Both shadow hands were able to reach his neck, but it had not fully reach in.

Riley still displayed his sinister grin, which scared Shikaku a little bit. "Haha! What's the matter? Can't you kill me already? Or are you at your limit? It's been almost five minutes. It seems that your shadow had gotten weaker and weaker with each minutes passing. Very soon, I'm going to break it!"

As Riley moved his both arms down slowly, shadow hands slowly retracted down from the neck. Shikaku was surprised. Just how powerful was that Riley guy? Riley was able to break the shadow very slowly. Soon, he would break the whole shadow.

"Damn!" Shikaku silently cursed himself, as he strained further more to return his shadow hands upward to the neck slowly again.

"Ugh!" Riley sighed bitterly. He hated how he had to deal with someone that had gotten in his way. No matter what… he refused to be taken down by his opponents. He would like to kill that brat for once, then his next kill would be that shadow user bastard! "I'll kill you next!" He began to manifest the dark purple glow of energy into his own huge sword. While he's doing that, he managed to pull Shikaku's shadow hands down slowly again.

Takeo already retreated into the alley, in hoping of losing crazed Thadiusians. He had no clue why they were not distracted. All they did was to chase him, rather than fighting his opponents. But he was glad that he was able to sneak into the alley, so he could lose them. Or at least he thought he was.

Suddenly, from his left side of the building, it was destroyed in the half, and broke away into the alley, which became the dead end for Takeo. He looked to his left. Thadiusian warrior stood on the top of rubbles, looking down on him.

Takeo immediately turned around and ran, only to bounce off to his back, looking up and realizing that there was another Thadiusian stood in the way as well. He hurriedly crawled back, but only to back against the dead end. He realized he was in deep shit right now. Nonetheless, he grabbed one of rubble and threw it at the Thadiusian warrior in the front. But they did not get angry. They continued to laugh at him. Their sinister laughter frightened him. They looked like they were bloodthirsty right now.

A front Thadiusian took several step forward. "Look at you. I bet you wet your pants, didn't you? Oh, man, we're going to enjoy slicing up all of your limbs, to see you writhe in agony and crying for your mommy. Oh, that's right! You just lost your mother, didn't you?"

"Hey, pal." A side Thadiusian said. "You abandoned your mother. Have you lost your dignity? Do you want to know how your mother died? She—"

"WAIT!" A front Thadiusian interrupted. A side Thadiusian looked over at the front one with a puzzle look. "I want to be the one to say. Grant it to me."

"You want to say it? Fine! But you better not make me regret this! Make sure that your line is way cooler than mine!"

"YOU DAMN RIGHT! I am going to make my line million times better than your planned line!"

Takeo gulped with a fear. He looked at two Thadiusians back and forth. They were laughing. Their sinister laughter. What kind of people were that? They decided whoever would earn the right to say that.

"HEY, PAL!" A front Thadiusian shouted to get Takeo's attention. "Your mommy died in most gruesome way. There was a blood all over the place. Her death was not by off with her head. Her death was by splitting her entire body away. He cleaved her! That… look on her face. Last thing her face was… so... terrorized! The last thing she said was… your name. I heard that name clearly. Your name is Takeo. She shredded tears and called your name. 'Takeo-kun…' That occurred before her death. But then after the aftermath of her death, her eyes popped up. Too much blood leaking on the floor. Her corpse was the best corpse we ever had in our whole life! Her corpse is like a decoration. Oh, and there's liver, heart, lungs, kidney, brain, guts intestines, etc… All of them were on the floor. Imagine that! THAT'S SO GRUESOME! These stuff, including her head, will be Riley's decoration in his living room! In fact, I'm planning to have your corpse worse than your little bitch. THAT'S WHY YOU ARE GOING TO SUFFER FOR THIS, PAL! PLUS, ONLY THE THING YOU HAVE RIGHT NOW IS DEATH, AND YOU WILL BE MY PERSONAL DECORATION IN MY LIVING ROOM AFTERWARD! HAHAHAHAHA!"

"HAHAHAHAHA! YOU ARE RIGHT! THAT'S THE BEST SPEECH I'VE EVER HEARD!" A side Thadiusian laughed along with him. Their laughter was very sinister.

"HAHAHAHAHA!"

"HAHAHAHAHA!"

"HAHAHAHAHA!"

"HAHAHAHAHA!"

Both Thadiusians continued laughing back and forth, which annoyed Takeo very much. He had to cover his ears and closed his eyes. He curled his body into himself and started to cry. "Please… stop…" In his imagination, he felt like these Thadiusians were not only that was laughing at him. There was like a million Thadiusians, including Riley Harris, laughing at him. It was almost as if all Thadiusians were hurdle around him, laughing at him.

Suddenly, their laughter came to halt, and it became scream very quickly. He quickly opened his eyes. Once he opened his eyes, he widened his eyes. A group of insects already swarmed around both Thadiusians, and began effulged them until their body was no longer visible anymore. After attacking them for a while, they had finally croaked there.

"Go," said the monotony guy. Takeo looked up and it was a man with the sunglasses. His arm already spread out, which a swarm of insects were flying around him.

"Aburame…" stunned Takeo.

This insect-user man was called Aburame Shibi. He, like all members of his clan, most notably members of Aburame named Shino, had his eyes obscured by dark glasses which featured a single tassel hanging down from one-side. He had very spiky short black hair and a moustache. He typically wore a high collared outfit, while carrying a gourd on his back that was used for holding more kikaichu.

"Go," repeated Shibi in a stoic expression, as he put his hands in his pockets.

Takeo was relieved that someone was there to rescue him. Now he did not have to worry about dying right now. He turned around and ran away from the alley and took a turn to the open street. He was running for his life. But few seconds later, someone suddenly grabbed his arm and whipped him around… on the canine.

First thing he saw was other two canines running at the same speed with the canine he was currently riding on. Then he looked up, and that was next thing he saw. It was Inuzuka Hana.

"Huh?" Takeo looked surprised here.

"Don't worry!" Hana reassured him. "I will make sure to escort you to evacuation point. You will be harmed and very safe. I will see through that no matter what!"

Takeo smiled with a relief sigh. "Thank you." Just then, he quickly glanced over his shoulder, but unfortunately, there's still Thadiusians that were chasing after them, especially him on run behind them. But their speeds were as fast as their canine. At this rate, they may have caught up to them in no time.

Hana realized this too. "Damn!" She knew she could not stop there and fight them. Because if she did, they would have killed Takeo immediately.

"Gatsuga!" Once again, only two whirlwinds knocked several Thadiusians aside into a several buildings, killing them. Some survived and quickly got up and started running after Takeo again.

Tsume and Kuromaru quickly leapt in front of Thadiusians to prevent them from going any further after Takeo. Her pupil moved to the corner of her eyes at Hana who continued to run away together with Takeo on her canine. 'Good… Don't stop. Keep running and running until you get there. Make sure not to let him getting killed!'

At this moment, Thadiusians tried to run past them, but they both quickly stepped in their way. Finally, for the first time, Thadiusians were very frustrated with these people. These people kept getting in their way. No one should interfere with Thadiusians' job.

Tsume displayed his sharp teeth and grinned, cackling her fists, in preparation for the fight soon. "All right, you punks! You aren't going to escape me anymore! Shikyaku no Jutsu!"

Her chakra spiked up, as it enveloped her entire body in chakra and moving on all fours, just like a wild animal. Some changes were made in her. Changes had added even more to her feral-like appearances; her canine teeth, her finger and toenails grow to claw-like length, her eyes also became more wild with her pupils becoming slits.

Even when Tsume and Kuromaru were still in their way, despite all that, Thadiusians chose to remain stubbornness. They made an attempt to hop over them. But it was futile. Tsume and Kuromaru immediately knocked them away onto the street. Their bodies were thrown away, sliding through the street before they miraculously back flipped on their feet.

But as soon as they were set on their feet, they immediately took off to the roof and hopped from there to there. It appeared that they were still after Takeo after all.

Tsume growled, "Dammit!" No matter how many times they kept interfering them, they refused to be distracted by them. "Kudomaru!"

Kuromaru nodded, "Right!" He knew what exactly Tsume meant. It was time for them to stop these bloodthirsty species with that technique.

With that, Tsume and Kuromaru jumped into the air. "Gatsuga!" They spun at a ferocious speed and sped off, but not at the Thadiusians, but intended to collide against each other. In fact, they did not exactly collide. They spun around each other to merge together creating a giant blue whirlwind. "Tensoga! (Heaven Twin Fang)" It expanded enough to reach several Thadiusians who were after Takeo right now.

As they continued to tunnel far into the ground creating a large, deep hole. All Thadiusians who were in this range were ripped away and killed. It even managed to pierce through their armor, but that's how they were killed by that. Their armors were not invincible. Without their armors, they were just powerless.

Shikaku just figured them out. He realized all Thadiusians' sword, armor, and shield were the essence of their Ki powers. He also realized that this man he was facing right now should be the strongest of all Thadiusians here. 'In other words, his weapons and armors are probably forged by the best blacksmith on their planets. They're molded with certain amounts of Ki powers. That's why he's able to move barely, despite being bind by my shadow.'

He was being overwhelmed by Riley's Ki powers, but he refused to give up. He had to give in more powers to his shadow. He reinforced his own shadow by using his strategy. How to stop Riley? He figured he needed to find a way to distract Riley… to make him lose sight of Takeo or something. While he's doing that, his shadow hands creeped towards his opponent's neck. He was hoping to choke him to death if Riley could stop struggling.

Much to his annoyance, Riley struggled to raise his sword above his head, emitting the dark purple aura from his weapon into his entire body. "Ugh… Just when I'm about to free myself, you bounce back to restrain me too much. That's… annoying."

Suddenly, he powered up the purple aura around his body, as he pushed down Shikaku's shadow hands so fast, at least down to his calves.

"What?!" shocked Shikaku.

Meanwhile, Hana and Takeo were riding on one of her canine with other two canines in a chase by several Thadiusians. These canines were running faster, but…

Takeo glanced over his shoulder, but the fear struck him as soon as he learned that Thadiusians were catching up to him. It must mean they were running so fast. "Hey, hey… They're gaining on us!"

Hana scowled, "I know. Hold me tightly, kid!" Takeo was confused, but he hugged her tightly anyways. After double check that Takeo indeed held on to her well and secured, she ordered her canines to run at full speed.

At this moment, her canines increased their speed to their full potential. Takeo nearly fell because he did not hang on to her enough, but he learned his lesson. Because they were going too far, he wrapped his arm around Hana's waist and held her tightly to ensure that he would not fall at all.

He glanced behind him again. Indeed, they outran Thadiusians. He relieved his fear, as it turned into a mocking smirk. "Haha, take that! You slowpoke! Come and get me if you can!" He stuck his tongue out at Thadiusians, but they were still laughing for some reason. 'What's up with them? All they can do is to laugh all the times!'

Just as they were running far and far away from the Thadiusians, they had fallen into Thadiusians' trap. The opening way Hana thought it would be, but instead, there's other Thadiusians standing in their way. So Hana immediately turned to her left, but there was Thadiusians standing in that way, too. Turned right, but there was no lucky. More Thadiusians were in that way, too!

"We're cornered!" declared Hana, turning around. She did not know what to do, as she was cornered by every way. She could jump, but Thadiusians would probably jump too.

Takeo knew that it was a trap. He realized it just now. That had to be. That must be only reason why Thadiusians laughed. Thadiusians were laughing because they fell for it. They had lured into a trap.

Thadiusians laughed. Their laughter was sinister. Every time they laughed like that, it made Takeo cringed! Every time! He was disgusted by the way of Thadiusians. They laughed at Elementians because they were so weak.

Sinister laughter. Sinister. Sinister. Sinister… Their sinister laughter was most intimidating laughter he had ever heard in his life. He was scared… So scared of their sinister laughter.

Suddenly, Thadiusians began charging towards them.

"Damn! There's too many of them." Hana said, looking around. She grabbed the kunai from her pouch, and raised in front of his eyes, defending Takeo and herself. "Looks like they left me no choice. When I say 'Run', you run!"

Takeo shocked, "B-But—"

"No but!" Hana interrupted. "You run no matter what. Do not stop. NO MATTER WHAT! Do you understand?!"

Just as Takeo was about to respond, new voice engaged in the conversation. "No need for that."

Hana and Takeo looked up at the blonde man with a ponytail. "Inoichi!" greeted Hana.

"Shintenshin no Jutsu! (Mind Transfer Technique)" Inoichi weaved his hand signs and then pushed his arm forward with his both index and middle fingers connected together, leaving his ring and small fingers upward, at one of Thadiusians. Suddenly, right after he used that technique, he fell to the floor, unconscious.

As the Thadiusians were getting closer and closer to Hana and Takeo, one of them suddenly turned around, facing his fellow warriors, and suddenly swung his sword on a nearby Thadiusians, drawing blood and killing him easily. Afterward, he continued to kill one by one. Every time one of Thadiusians barely made it to Hana and Takeo, that traitor defended them, as he killed his fellow ones. Eventually, Thadiusians were enraged by this traitor, so instead of pay attention to Takeo, their attention had been altered to this traitor.

"What?! Why is he protecting us?" Takeo asked with a mixed of shocked and confused. "What's going on?"

"It's Inoichi!" Hana told him. "He transferred his mind into an enemy. Basically, he's controlling his mind. Never mind that, we have to run!"

Takeo hurried to hug her tightly. While Inoichi's distracting them, Hana made sure that no Thadiusians would set their sights on them before running off on way to drop off Takeo at evacuation point.

Inoichi—inside one of Thadiusians's mind—swung the sword right, disarming the Thadiusian's sword before shoving his sword through his first opponent's chest, fatal ending his life right away.

"YOU TRAITOR!" yelled the second Thadiusian. He jumped on him from the behind, as he raised his sword in attempt to cleave him down, but Inoichi raised his shield to block an upcoming cleave. Inoichi quickly retaliated by swinging his sword onto the second Thadiusian across the body. It broke the armor, which left him to wound up and died.

"WHY, YOU!" yelled the third Thaduiusian. Inoichi looked up, and it was two Thaduisian that came at him at once. In fact, from his both side. They were coming at him from both side. It was crucial situation.

Suddenly, Inoichi felt unusual powers through him, coming from his weapon and armor. 'What? Ki powers is surging through me. Are these Ki powers from the weapon and armor?' He saw the lightning that emitted through his sword. 'Lightning? I get it. These Thadiusian have lightning enchanted to their sword. I wonder if the ground will cooperate with the lightning if I do like this.'

Then he slammed his lightning-enchanted sword onto the ground. He thought it would not work, since it required to have a water on the ground.

But…

The ground suddenly filled with a lightning which spread the certain amount of radius around him. Two Thadiusian happened to be caught in this lightning area of effect. Once lightning traveled through their bodies, they took a huge amount of damage that dealt on them, but they were unable to survive it. They were electrified and passed away.

While Inoichi constantly were fighting Thadiusian who was enraged by this 'traitor', Shikaku and Riley both struggled against each other. They both battled against each other on this shadow hands.

As long as Riley held up his sword, his sword's energy had been feeding into his body recently. That's how he was able to hold off against Shikaku's shadows. Soon, he would be free of his opponent's shadows. It's getting weaker.

"Looks like you've failed to kill me, after all. What is your next move, you bastard?!" taunted Riley. He was getting there, but he already forced Shikaku's shadow hands down to his feet. Very soon… He would be able to move easily.

While binding Riley with his shadow, he was currently utilizing his strategy on how to defeat Riley. He anticipated next possible moves that could defeat Riley, but nothing worked yet. 'Damn it! There's nothing I can think of. What's the best move to defeat him? Taking his sword may be difficult. Only if…'

"All right!" A random chuunin male shouted after slaying one of Thadusians. He was about to grab a sword that was dropped by the Thadiusian he slayed. As soon as he grabbed the sword, he was electrified to death.

Shikaku noticed that. 'I see! Anyone that touches their swords but Thadiusians will trigger a lightning that will kill them. Only way is…' He finally smiled, but he did not care that Riley successfully broke his shadow. That's because he found a way to beat Riley, and also, he already utilized his strategy. All he needed is to call for Inoichi and Choza.

Inoichi was constantly swinging his sword around, killing many Thadiusians, while he also constantly parried, dodge, evade, and duck. Unfortunately, a several swords managed to pierce through the armor and bled him a bit. When he took a damage in that possession body, his real body also took a damage.

Riley began to smirk. He was stretching his arms and legs, as well as his head right after he broke away the shadow technique. "All right! Now…" He looked for his target for a while, and then he finally spotted Takeo that was riding on Hana's dog. "I found you! Now time to kill you…"

He crouched down to three-legged points to prepare to charge. With that, he already set his focus on every targets he was going to kill. Through his point of view, all he saw a white glow linked Konoha nin with other Konoha nin through Inoichi in Thadiusian's body, and Takeo should be last, but possibly along with Hana and all three dogs. "All right! It's all set!"

"Spring…!" He shouted, as he jumped suddenly forward with tremendous speed. "…CHARGE!"

As he charged through, suddenly, the wind breezed through the air. Eventually, the wind went too fast and too strong enough to push Thadiusians survivor back.

During that dash, his first opponent nervously brought his kunai up in attempt to defend himself, but only to have his body split up in half, erupting up with the blood, as it left on his face. Of course, he did not wipe off the blood, as he savored his first kill in Spring Charge technique. "One!"

Second opponent panicked, but instead of fleeing, he suddenly charged at Riley. "YOU BASTARD!" No weapon, no jutsu. Just hand-to-hand combat.

Riley scoffed at this guy's idiocy movement. What kind of idiot that charged blindly with no weapons or techniques? That idiot tried to punch him, but it was a miss. Riley merely titled his head, but he surprisingly went ahead of him. Or at least what the idiot thought Riley was letting him to live, but he was wrong. Because when Riley passed by him, that idiot noticed some kind of black sphere attached to his body. That idiot had no idea what it was. Then it began to move into his body. Suddenly, his body bellowed up, as he screamed with a fear and…

Boom!

The idiot exploded, with his all limbs scattered over the place.

"Two!"

Afterward, there was a three shinobi that stood in his way. Then they started weaving a hand sign, but Riley was too fast even for them. He just cut off all of their heads while passing through.

"Five!"

Ten more shinobi just stood there with their legs trembling in fear at Riley's sight. They knew there was no way they could have survived. They had seen what Riley did to first five shinobi. They were going to flee.

But before they had a chance to, Riley whirled around only once, knocking them away and splitting their blood out.

"Fifteen!"

Inoichi (still in Thadiusian's body) removed the sword from one of Thadiusian, killing him. He turned around and was going to kill more Thadiusians, but they, for some reason, scattered away. It did not take him to figure why, as he saw Riley charging towards him. He widened his eyes in shock.

"I don't appreciate the traitor among my ranks!" Riley growled. "BEGONE!"

"Wait! It's me, Boss—"

Riley swung his sword at the "traitor" several times and dismembered everything that was his body. His dismembered body scattered around, floating in the mid-air at that moment. But at that moment, even though he was already dead, there's small pieces of black sphere that implanted into each body parts.

Boom!

"Sixteen! I have no regards for the traitor within my ranks. When my sword collides with the traitor's sword, they shall be killed in most horrible way," said Riley. He continued to propel through towards his final target: Takeo! It would be his seventeen kill.

Takeo knew what was coming for him, so he glanced behind him, and began to sweat profusely. He thought he was going to die this time for sure. No matter how fast Hana's dogs could run, they were unable to outrun Riley Harris at this point.

"DIE!" Riley shouted, as he heaved his sword up before swinging down towards fearful Takeo. But all of the sudden, small-medium type of snake jumped in between Takeo and Riley's sword, as he took the sword onto his body, as the sword slammed him onto the ground, causing a small shockwave, knocking Takeo, Hana, and her dogs aside. "Damn! Seventeen!"

"YO! YOU BASTARDS HAVE A NERVE TO ATTACK THE VILLAGE LIKE THAT!" A loud woman from the roof shouted angrily at Riley. She stole a glance at Takeo who seemed to be relief. "And a child?! Don't you have even a bit of affectionate for the children?! Man, you pissed me off already!"

Her name was Mitarashi Anko. She had light brown, pupil-less eyes. Her violet hair was styled in a short, spiky, fanned-ponytail. She wore a fitted mesh body suit that stretched from her neck down to her thighs. Over this she typically wore a tan overcoat with a purple in-seam and a pocket on each side, a dark orange mini-skirt, a dark blue belt, and pale grey shin guards, in addition to the typical hitai-ate, she also wore a small pendant that looked like a snake fang and a wrist watch.

"You… That snake…" Riley muttered to himself. "I thought I've seen that type of technique somewhere before. Ah, never mind. They're not special anyways."

He sensed someone appeared behind him, but before that 'someone' could make a move on him, he simply kicked backward to the stomach, sending 'someone' towards the wall with an incredible speed.

"Ibiki!" Inoichi appeared behind him and caught him, but when Ibiki slammed onto Inoichi, he, too, was knocked towards the wall. It was not enough to slow knockback down. Inoichi knew he could not do anything to stop Ibiki and himself from a knockback. At this rate, they were going to smash into the wall that might inflicted greater harm on them.

"Baika no Jutsu! (Expansion Jutsu)" Choza landed behind them and suddenly expanded his body, almost as if he increased massive weight. Fortunately, Ibiki and Inoichi bounced away from Choza, thanks to his large belly that protected hem. But only the problem was that Ibiki and Inoichi's knockback velocity was too high, which increased their mass at that point to knock Choza back, bashing through single building, as it broke and collapsed away.

"Choza!" cried Inoichi. He worried that Choza might be in serious harm, instead of him. But much to his relief, Choza came out, and it turned out that he was fine after all, although a little harm inflicted to his body.

Shikaku knew Choza was going to be okay, but he ran there to check on him anyways. "Are you all right?"

Choza was hurt a little bit, but he stood up easily. He nodded. "Yes, I'm okay. I never thought that the force is strong enough to knock me back. I thought I stopped them, but it pushed me away."

"Ibiki..." Inoichi began to concern about his friend here. It looked like Ibiki was injured really badly.

Ibiki kneeled with his eye shut down and groaned, suffering a great injury that inflicted to his stomach. He simply clutched his stomach to relieve the pain, but it was going to long than he thought. "Be careful, guys! His kick is no ordinary! Avoid his attack at any cost. His attacks are not human! His attacks… He's monster! His strength is like…" He could not seem to finish the sentence, because he coughed a bit. When he finished covering his mouth, he saw a blood on his fist. That caught him by a surprise. That was not what he expected. 'Blood?'

"Blood?" Choza cried. It was almost as if he read Ibiki's mind. He was shocked at the sight of blood coming from Ibiki's mouth.

"Wait!" Shikaku realized. "His strength is of Tsunade's?"

Ibiki nodded. "Yeah…" For every second, he kept coughing and coughing. Eventually, his hacking cough had gotten worse, and even he had a hard time to breathe, which was why he was unable to speak on and off.

"Looks like he destroyed your internal organs. You need to go to hospital immediately," reassured Inoichi.

"N-No…" Ibiki coughed.

He cursed himself for encountering that problem. He was reminded of the sick jounin named Gekko Hayate. Hayate had that similar problem. When he was alive, he was sick, despite him continue to work as a ninja. But he did not fall to his ill, but he fell to his killer. Two years ago, Gekko Hayate overheard the conversation between a traitor Konohagakure shinobi named Kabuto, Orochimaru's right hand, and a jounin Sunagakure shinobi named Baki. However, Baki killed him. That occurred before Chuunin Exam Finals.

Only difference is that he was not sick, but his internal organs was damaged, which led him to cough violently and repeatedly.

"Ibiki! You're coughing really badly, and on top of that, you're coughing blood! Don't make this any worse than it is now already! If you will not go to hospital, you will—"

"I understand," interrupted Shikaku.

Choza and Inoichi stared in shock at him. What did he mean when he said he understood? Was he seriously considered to let Ibiki dying?

"Shikaku?! Are you going to let him die?!" Inoichi asked with dismay.

Shikaku did not like this anymore than Inoichi, but he knew if he was going to have someone else to carry Ibiki to hospital where medic-nin would heal all injured people, but that was worthless. It was worthless to heal them when they had high chance of dying right here. He suspected that Ibiki figured out as well. That's why Ibiki refused to go to hospital. He figured that Ibiki would like to help them until his time would come.

"I understand. We will bring you back to life with the Dragon Balls." Shikaku said. "But for the time beings, I will require your attention. Inoichi, use your technique on me to contact everyone in this area. I have a strategy that will win us the battle for sure."

Inoichi sighed. He did not like this a bit. He did not want Ibiki to die, but there was nothing he could do. He nodded, "Right." He placed his hand on Shikaku's head, and also shut his own eyes to begin the technique. "Shindenshin no Jutsu. (Mind Transmission Jutsu)"

"All right. Everyone, I require your attention!" Shikaku speak in his mind through everyone's mind, except the enemies, in this area.

Much to his relief, Takeo was glad that he did not die. Just as he rose to his knees, he noticed too many corpses around him. Mostly Konoha-nin. He was shaking. He could not believe what he was seeing. Too many deaths today. Now suddenly, realization dawned on him.

"It's my fault…" Takeo began to confess his wrongdoings.

"Huh?" Hana, who recently sat up, looked at Takeo in confusion.

"If I'm not such a coward…" Takeo shook his body with the guilty and regrets all over him. "If I'm not such a coward… Then they might… If I was so brave… They will… No… If I fight with very determination, they would…"He closed his eyes with the tears leaking out of his eyelids. "It's all of my fault!"

Flashback Began

Then there was a teenager boy who was running with his mom. He seemed like he'd give up his life to protect his mom. They thought they would make that far, but unfortunately, one of a warrior spotted them. The teenager boy and mom were aware of their presence, so they increased their speed in hoping of losing them.

But it was not going smooth as they thought it would be. Mom just tripped over a mere rock and fell to the ground. "Takeo!"

The boy called Takeo stopped, turning around in shock, and cried, "MOM!" He was going to help his mother, but then he realized that the enemy was casually strolling Mom. He was fear for his life. He was not that reckless who'd go that far to save his own Mother when the enemy could have killed him easily. Without a second thought, he chose to flee for his life.

"Takeo!" cried Mom. But her voice never reached her own son's ears. He would still flee with the tears from his eyes. She still stared in disbelief in her son. Her son abandoned her own mother, just like that.

Flashback Ended

"It's my fault! If I never fled, my Mom might…"

Flashback Began

Takeo nodded, but he was shaking too much, indicating that he was so nervous and fear for his life, "I'm fine!" But then he realized that he had no time to soothe her, because his life was in dangerous (Noted that he never once thought of her life being in dangerous). "Shit! I have to go!"

Just when he turned around, the sinister voice joined in the conversation. "Hey, pal. Where are you going?"

Takeo's face paled quicker than he could wet his pants, as he gulped and slowly turned his head around to look up at Riley Harris who showed a sinister grin. Not only that he felt fear, but a pretty blonde girl felt fear as well. But Takeo's fear was much worse than her. Even though she feared Riley, she looked calm oddly. Takeo's fear was much different from her fear. His entire body was shaking like a hell. He even dripped with a sweat out of fear.

He could not handle the fear, and the fear had led him to push her towards Riley all of the sudden.

At that moment, Riley was distracted by the pretty blonde girl that stumbled towards him. He swung his huge sword down, cleaving her down across her body from her shoulders. She screamed intensely, as the half of her upper body split up from her lower body.

Flashback Ended

"If I wasn't such a coward, none of that would have happened!" yelled Takeo.

"Hello, are you there, kid?!" shouted Hana.

Takeo startled. He looked up at Hana who just got up to her feet. He looked like he was traumatized enough to witness many deaths that burdened on his shoulders. "W…What?"

Hana picked him up and put him on his feet. "Did you pay attention?!"

"Huh? What're you talking about?"

"Now that you're back to reality, now I want you to listen to me carefully." Shikaku spoke through his mind.

"Y-Yes?" Takeo nervously replied back.

"Hana, the woman who helped you to flee with the dogs, will be staying here. She will be joining the fight against that Riley guy. I want you to take an opportunity to run away when we distract him completely. Rest assured, we won't let you die today. We all will make sure that you're evacuated and well secured."

"But you have seen how he does when to deal with his enemies. Until he killed his target, he won't be distracted no matter what."

"What's your name?"

"Huh? Takeo…"

"Takeo… That's good name. But listen, Takeo. You have to run. Do not stop there at any cost. At this point, if we keep bothering the enemy, he will think of us as bothersome guys and will attempt to get rid of us. When he does, he will forget about you. He will try to kills us first, then he will come after you. But by the time he kills us, you will be there at evacuation shelter by then."

"But is it the same thing? You're going to die! If you're going to die, what's the point of protecting me from that lunatic monster?" asked a worried teenager boy. Now he began to unsure if he should run away or not. Right now, seeing all the corpse before him, to think he was such a selfish, he would decide to become the brave. Should he run away or fight, regardless of Shikaku's order?

A civilian was supposed to run away while the military force was protecting them at any cost. But still, Takeo felt the guilty for every corpse at his feet. He felt like he was the responsible for their death, especially his Mother and the girl.

"It's… my fault." Takeo mumbled to himself. That was all he could do. He just stood gawking at Riley who still held his sword up towards the sky. It seemed like Riley was pondering right now. He seemed to make no move lately.

"No, it's not your fault." Apparently, Shikaku was able to hear his silent word, since every speech he spoke came from his mind in first place. "You did the right thing. You make a right choice. You're running away. You have every right to run away, simply because you're a civilian. But just don't stop. Keep running away. We will draw this guy's attention away." With that, Shikaku had disconnected from all across every guy's mind in this area.

Suddenly, a jounin male leapt down towards Riley from the side, coming from the roof with the large shuriken launcher in his hand. He had a short crop of brown hair and dark eyes, under which he sported red triangular markings. He also wore the standard Konohagakure attire completed with flak jacket, hitai-ate around his lower arms and wrists. Additionally, as stated above, he wielded a special shuriken launcher. His name was Togeito Tessen.

Tessen swung his shuriken launcher around, releasing a volley of shuriken in an instant. However, Riley did not make a move at all. He did not flinch at all. He still stood there in ponder.

Every shuriken had bombarded Riley, whom apparently was not afraid of them. He took every of them, yet he seemed harmless. No scratch. No blood. No damages or whatsoever. He looked like normal. He was perfectly fine.

"What?!" shocked Tessen, as he leapt back on the roof. "Raido, Iwashi, and Genma!"

Genma, Raido, and Iwashi emerged from the hiding and charged towards from each side. Left, Behind, and Right. "We got this!" yelled Genma.

Shiranui Genma had brown, shoulder-length hair which hung about his face and brown eyes. He wore his hitai-ate like a bandanna, and the standard Jounin outfit and always had his trademark senbon in his mouth.

Namiashi Raido had the weal-like scar on his face, running across the bridge of his nose and down across the left side of his face. He had brown spiky hair, dark eyes and wore the standard attire of the Konoha shinobi completed with a hitai-ate and the standard flak jacket. He also tended to wear small appendages on his hand ranging from black bandages to metal rings on his fingers.

Tatami Iwashi had dark eyes, brown hair and a small goatee. He wore the standard attire of the Konoha shinobi completed with flak jacket and hitai-ate which he wore like a bandanna.

Riley scoffed. "Is that the best you can do? I'd call that a pathetic. Useless move. You're not worthy of my time. Die."

With the sword already up in the sky, he brought his sword down and slammed the ground, causing the ground to break away, traveling big radius around him enough to knock trio back. Then he whirled around. "Whirlwind Bolt!"

Trio bolts hurled towards three of them. He intended to kill them with that trio, but he only killed one out of three. Unfortunately, Iwashi was the closest, so he did not have time to counter that technique with one of his technique, so the bolt went through his chest. Immediately after, he would fall.

Raido would defend himself with his unique sword called Kokuto. He was able to stay alive, but as consequence, he knocked further back, and bounced off away from the wall, fall on the floor, face-first.

Genma spat his own senbon which was used as projectile to split even a bolt into two. Bolts went on separate path, past between him. Even though he survived this, he was unfortunate to receive a part of bolt through his right arm, which gave a part of his skin on his right arm very badly burn. Other half of bolt steered away and into the building, as whole building crumbled.

However, even though senbon split the bolt, it went through towards the enemy, but instead, Riley put his sword up in attempt to block it. However, it was unexpected, as the senbon suddenly pierced through his sword, swooping past him, barely scratched his right cheek, through the log.

Riley was astounded. It was unbelievable. How could he let his guard down? He thought all Elementians were so easy preys, but he had underestimated them.

When Choza, in his "giant" form, landed in front of Riley, the ground shook so hard, barely caused Riley to stumble. He punched down, but Riley jumped to avoid getting caught in the fist, as his fist smashed the ground, causing rubbles to scatter.

"Damn!" cursed Riley. He looked up and widened his eyes. Another fist of Choza was coming at him. He was forced to raise his sword to protect himself from being harm badly. Choza's fist collided with the sword, knocking Thadiusian back.

But Riley had a plan. He knew how to stop knockback. But large twister-like was not what he expected that was flying towards him. "What?!"

Large twister-like clashed against him, knocking him away. His body spun and skipped across the ground a hundred feet before he managed to get a grip of himself and attempted to set his feet on the ground firmly, as he drifted away. Just as he was about to stop a huge knockback himself, he suddenly took another twister-like ramming against his stomach.

He groaned. His eyes almost bugled out with some saliva spewing out of his mouth. His armor began to creak before he was sent bouncing on the ground even more further away from his enemies. That was another hundred feet of knockback.

As he kept spinning and bouncing on the ground, he began to realize that he could not stop himself, not as long as these twister-like kept coming at him like this. He was very frustrated with that. They kept hitting him like that. He was pissed as hell! This time… This time, he would make them pay for it!

For the final time, these twister-like would ram him, sending him sprawling on the ground, but this time, he was thrown through several buildings, as they all were collapsed.

That was the last straw for him. How long these twister-like was going to keep knocking him away like that?

This was it! Enough is enough!

While being knock away, he stabbed his sword into the ground, which was enough to slow his knockback down. The sword ripped the ground as his feet drifted away on the ground in attempt to force stop his way.

Finally, he stopped knockback. He stood wobbly, panting heavily, as he rested his chin on his sword that stood on the ground, looking forward. Several parts of his armor had broken. His forehead was leaking blood. Apparently, he took a hit in the head too hard. Only intact thing was his sword. It was miracle that his sword managed to go through everything that just happened, yet there was no scratch on it, not even barely!

He was not mad. He was not even mad at all. He just smiled. He never had a tough opponent, except Fayre. He remembered when he was recruited. He thought Fayre to be weakling, until he proved him otherwise. Fayre and he fought hard. Fayre defeated him, and offered him a position in Coola's group. Of course, because Riley was defeated, he honored Fayre by joining Coola's group.

He laughed when he saw another twister-like flying towards him. "You know what they say about third time, don't you? Third time's a lucky charm! But…" He held his both hand and gripped the hilt of his sword, as he raised his sword above his head. "Fourth time's bad lucky charm! Naturally, lightning is weak against wind. However…"

Then electrify emitted from his sword that he just charged it up. He grinned, as these large twister-like continued to glide towards him. Once the size of lightning readily expanded that would match his desire, he lowered his electrified sword until his sword levelled at the large twister-like. He widened his grin with the small chuckle through his throat.

Hana just realized what Riley was going to do. He felt something was not right with that lightning technique. "Mom! That's no ordinary lightning! Move out of way!"

Takeo simply looked at Hana in confusion. He thought wind always beat lightning. He was clueless what Hana was thinking at that time. That girl showed her concern about her Mom.

"What?!" cried Shikaku. He was at disbelief. Inoichi was shocked. Choza was dreadful. Ibiki was suffering the pain that was life threatening, but at the same time, he was very concerned.

"TOO LATE!" Riley laughed sadistically. "STORM BOLT!" Then his sword shot the powerful, large bolt towards large twister-like, but not to mention that the ground was also a victim of storm bolt. It ripped away on way.

Suddenly, large twister-like split up into two, which it became smaller, as other one steered away into other direction. But it did not look like it was charging, but apparently, knocked back. However, instead of large twister-like, small twister-like took the storm bolt head-on, sending it across the ground few hundred feet away, kicking up the massive dust.

Hana cried, "MOM!" Unable to see what's behind that massive dust, she then immediately hurried on way over there.

"Wai—" Takeo desperately tried to yell and reached his hand for Hana, whom was running away, but he instead stopped and looked at Hana running with the guilty tripping over him. No matter how much Shikaku and Hana tried to reassure him that it was not his fault, he still thought it was his fault. Because of him, Hana's mom was going to die. He lowered his fists, clenching them both, and hung his head down, as tears dripped to the ground.

On the other side, Anko landed at the place where other small twister-like was sending to. Once she reached there, once the small smoke cleared, she was so surprised and then hurried over there. "Tsume!"

Indeed, Tsume was alive and well, but seriously harmed, because of hard knockback. But she was not happy. She looked super pissed off!

"Yo! Are you all right?!" Anko helped Tsume to get up. "But how…" She widened her eyes, as realization dawned on her face.

Now, back to Hana's side, she would stand over there with the shock on her face. "Kuro…maru…"

Indeed, it was Kuromaru that took the storm bolt instead. He was laying there with the worse condition. His fur was burned so badly. He was fried. He was barely alive, but he wouldn't last longer now. His legs were twitching badly. His eyepatch took off, but there was nowhere of it nearby. It would seem that it was destroyed. He had a scar running across his right eye.

She kneeled next to him and immediately attempted to heal the dog with all her best right now. "Hang on there. I'm healing you right now." Her hands glowed green on Kuromaru's injured body. But no matter how much she tried her best to heal him, he was not getting any better! "What?! Why?! Why can't I heal you?!"

"Ha! That's impossible." Riley chuckled at the death of this dog, and the despair of that woman. "No one can survive my Storm Bolt. Once it touches them, they're dead. That's it. However, my Storm Bolt consumes their victims' entire body. In other words, your dog is going to wrinkle… like a paper."

"No! I'm not going to let him die…" Hana said with very determination. "…Not like this!"

Riley scoffed. "Get over it. Can't you see? He's already dead."

Hana froze. Riley was right. Kuromaru was already dead. There was no heartbeat or whatsoever. There was no life remain in him right now. He was just a corpse right now. He had left the world of living now. There was no way Hana could revive him now.

She pulled her hands away from the dead Kuromaru, as she stared at her trembled hands with the blood on them. "No… That can't be!"

"That's how it is. That's why we, Thadiusians, are so dangerous. We do not shower a mercy on all our victims. Victims are meant to be killed…" He chuckled darkly, "…just like that weakling dog."

"You bastard!" A grumpy woman's voice called out to him.

He turned his head at the voice, which turned out to be furious Tsume, along with the snake user woman who daggered a glare at him. He merely laughed at her appearance. He could tell by her appearance that she took quite damage badly. She should have stayed laying down, but she got up. He was marvelous by the height of her stupidity.

"Kuromaru…" Tsume said weakly, but it was loud enough for Riley and everyone in this area to hear her. "That's my dog, the one you heartlessly killed him. How dare you?! Someone like you have no right to live like this, not after what you've done cruelty to us! Dogs, children, civilians, and even ninjas… You slay them to show that you're truly a monster! A monster that you are! That's my dog… My precious dog…"

"And I care why?" Riley replied nonchalantly. "You tell me a lot of things. I get it already. That's annoying. But that's Elementians's thing, isn't it? The one you called "emotions". You guys have that thing that we barely have. Like I said, that's how it is. That's life. I get to decide who lives or dies. Like your pet over there, I get to decide that he dies, no matter how much you see it. Cruelty, right? That's what we are. We kill all the times. We kill no matter who or what they are. Be there pets, elders, adults, children, or even babies. I'll kill them all, as I see fit. Life is cruelty. Monster? Now, that's my point. What kind of monster who doesn't kill people out of act of cruelty? Truly, I'm a monster!"

"Kuro…maru."

Her pet—no, her good friend… he was always her friend. She first received her first puppy when she was 6 years old. Her first canine companion. That was the traditional of Inuzuka's clan. Every Inuzuka at a certain age were given their own canine partner(s). As soon as Tsume enrolled into the academy, she immediately received her puppy by her Mother. She gave her puppy "Kuromaru". They had been partner since then. Now she's 36 years old. 30 years together with Kuromaru. Now her own canine companion protected her from the lethal technique, and he's dead, slaughtered by a heartless monster.

"Pet?" Tsume looked down, as her hair shadowed over her eyes, and growled. Her growl sounded like most dog would growl. "You think Kuromaru is my pet? No, He's not my pet. He's…" She held her head up and shot him a dagger glare. "MY FRIEND!"

Riley chuckled.

"What's so funny, you monster?!" roared Tsume. Suddenly, he felt the urge to charge and attack him blindly, but Anko held her back.

"No! Calm down!" Anko scowled. She did not like that monster. She had seen what he did. What she saw is he slaughtered every person like a monster. He laughed every time he slaughtered them. Even worse than any Biju out there, he was a true monster. Between Coola and Riley, Riley was probably the worst here. However, she was glad that Orochimaru was not that cruel person. She could imagine her former sensei would turn out to be the monster like Riley was right now.

"Because you're annoying." Riley slowly closed his eyes. "I don't know what you're babbling about. All I hear is that you're babbling all about your pet. That pet you claimed to be friend. Don't make me laugh! Dogs have short life. They're bound to die anytime soon. Some friend you are, huh?" He scoffed. He quickly opened his eyes, as he shouted on top of his lungs. "YOU ARE SO ANNOYING! Since you're annoying, I've decided that you will die first, you dog lover!"

"No, you don't." Suddenly, a swarm flew around behind him, as it changed into Shibi. He lunged at him with his single hand.

"What?!"

Riley quickly turned around and swung his sword around, apparently cutting him in half, as his upper body separated from his lower body. His mouth curled up into smirk, as he licked his mouth, but he quickly realized something wrong, He realized that there was no blood erupting from that body, which it usually should had. Then he finally came to the conclusion that this guy was, in fact, not real. Probably a clone or something.

But his conclusion was the correct. It was not clone, but it was the latter he assumed. 'Something' was a simple swarm of insects that had an ability to henge (transform technique) into Shibi-alike. What's more, they even had an ability to talk in Shibi's voice. But after a swarm of insects took a sword through the half of its body, they immediately changed back into the insects and began to engulf him as a cocoon.

"Damn it to hell!" That was what Riley said before it fell into silence for a while. It could not be seen how he was eaten, but there was a cocoon that kept him in bay. Probably eating him or something. It would be a while before his body would be finally gone.

On other side, Shikaku pulled a victory smile. "Succeed!" It would appear that his strategy went very well. He used Riley's weakness as his exploit to beat him. That is, if they broke his armor first, he would be in his weakening state. Inoichi, Choza, Ibiki, Anko, Tsume, Genma, Raido, Hana, and Tsume were relieved that Riley was defeated here.

However…

"NO, IT'S OVER UNTIL I SAY SO!" shouted a person inside that cocoon.

"What?!" shocked Shikaku.

The lightning zapped all insects, which electrified them to death. All of insects fell dead on the floor. He was able to escape the cocoon of swarm, because he still had a sword. As long as he had a sword, he would be able to survive much harsher than that. Even without the armor, the sword was still essential.

There was a sword that already impaled into the ground, he titled his head up, giving everyone a glare. "I'm not dead, right?"

Shikaku could not believe it. He just could not believe that there was a flaw in his strategy. He never had a strategy that would be a failure until now.

"What do we do now?" asked Choza, surprised. That was first time they had encountered someone that had defeated his strategy.

"I don't know. But I know only that he was the big problem for us when we face him now. I am surprised he is the one to defeat his strategy." Inoichi said, dripping with the sweat on his head, with a nervous. "Shikaku… Do you already have other strategy now?"

Shikaku nodded. "I already planned it, in case my strategy should fail. It seems his sword and armor is the essence of his powers. In my first strategy, we had successfully break his armor and had weakened him, so we could have Shibi to use his kikaichu to swarm him and eat him where he was at his weakening state. Despite him being in his weakening state, he is still the problem for us, as long as he still wields that sword. If we get rid of his sword, we can beat him."

Choza smiled. "You're amazing. You formed a strategy hundreds step ahead of you, and you already thought it up."

"I know, right. I'm amazed to have you on our team since day one, Shikaku!" said Inoichi proudly.

"It seems our Ino-Shika-Cho collaboration techniques are needed here." He said in a quiet tone. "I'll need you two guys to listen this one. This strategy will work against him if it's done correctly. And Ibiki… this strategy will only work if you're involved, too."

Still on his knees, Ibiki glanced over his shoulder at Ino-Shika-Cho team. He was confused, but still nodded anyways. "I'm not sure if I can be of any assistance to you, but I'll help you."

As the clouds hovered over them, it reflected the shadow on the ground from the cloud, as they were moving.

Shikaku smirked. "Good… But my strategy will only have a limit time, so we may not have a lot of time. Amount of time is approximate to 2 minutes. It means we only have two minutes to beat him. However, I already analyzed every aspect of his strength and weakness. So, in order to achieve strategy…"

Back to Riley's side, he pulled his sword out of the ground, laughing at Tsume. "Oh… You're still crying for your little pet? Don't worry! You will see him soon in hell."

Tsume and Anko glared at him. He continued to make fun of Tsume's dog. They felt like he had no souls, but they had no comment on that, because making a comment on that made no difference, since Riley would not listen to them. "Truly, I'm a monster!" They recalled that very quote that Riley made against them.

However, before Riley could make his next move, he found Raido and Genma charging at him between his sides. Raido tried to swing his unique sword, but Riley parried it and overpowered him to stab him in the chest, instantly killing him, before he pulled the sword out of the chest. He turned around, swinging his sword around wildly, but Genma barely dodged and jumped, but unfortunately, he did not dodge entirely. There was a small cut on Genma's stomach, which opened the wound and bleed.

Genma clutched his wounded stomach, but because he was concerned about his stomach a bit much, followed by that action, Riley immediately swung his sword through the air, releasing another storm bolt, but smaller than before, sufficient to kill Genma with it through his chest.

"The moral of the story: Do not let yourself be distracted from the battle," advised Riley. Now paid no mind to this dead guy, he returned his sights on Tsume and Anko who were still in angst of witnessing more ninjas to be slaughtered here in front of them.

On other side, Hana desperately tried her hardest to heal the fried Kuromaru, but to no avail. She knew he was dead, but she still chose to heal him anyways.

"Kuromaru! Please come back! I can't…" The tears started to run down her cheeks, as she shut her eyes, desperately shaking him back and forth in attempt to wake him up. "I can't… I can't let you die!" She knew he was dead, but she still healed him anyways. "Dammit, Kuromaru! WAKE UP! KUROMARU!"

"I… am…" Trembling voice startled her, as she quickly picked up the kunai, only to find Takeo standing before her, crying.

"Takeo?" Hana surprised. "Why have you not run away to evacuation shelter?"

"I AM SORRY!" Takeo yelled. Hana was astonished. What was he apologizing for? "IT'S ALL OF MY FAULT! IF I AM NOT SUCH A COWARD!"

"What're you doing?! Run away!" warned Hana with a concern towards him. He was a civilian, so he should not be doing these stuffs. He should be running away to get him safety instead, but he did not. How hard his head could be?! "He will kill you if you don't. GO!"

Takeo quickly wiped off tears his eyes, shaking his head. "No! I'm not going to run away anymore! So I won't be burden to you guys any longer!" Once he's done wiping tears off his eyes, he turned around to set his furious sights on his most fearsome opponent, raising his right fist and clenched. "I am going to fight him!"

Hana's face went from sorrow into fear really quick. "What?! Are you mad?! You can't go off on him like this, especially you're a civilian!" She had never seen a civilian that had a courage to fight a powerful enemy for someone like Riley. But she knew she had to prevent Takeo from fighting him at any cost.

"You—" Hana was going to open her mouth, but Takeo beat her to it.

"HEY, YOU BLACK ASS FREAKY!" Takeo shouted on top of his lung just to get Riley's attention, but it worked well. Not only Riley that got an attention, but everyone's attention as well. Everyone redirected their eyes faraway from there at the teenager civilian.

'You moron! You're meant to run away so we can distract him. But you totally ruin our plan!' thought Hana with the big sweating on her forehead, struck with fear. Now Takeo just made worse by reminding Riley that Takeo was still here. Even worse, they had to work their ass off to protect him again.

"What?!" Shikaku was baffled to see that Takeo never ran away, and on top of that, he successfully got Riley's attention. That moron! At this rate, he would have to change his strategy as soon as possible, since Takeo being here. But what was Riley planning to now?

Riley turned his head around at Takeo who seemed to be out of stamina after just yelling so hard. However, he was not happy. He looked like he was pissed off as hell. He hissed. "What did you say?! Did you call me something that you should not have done?!"

"I SAID YOU BLACK ASS FREAKY!" Takeo stood out with all of his strength to yell with some insulting remark at Riley. "I AM SICK OF BEING A COWARD! YOU WANT TO KILL ME, RIGHT?! SO KILL ME ALREADY, YOU BLACK ASS FREAKY!"

"YOU HAVE A NERVE TO CALL ME THAT!" Riley roared with a thunderous angry. He raised and pointed his sword up at the sky, as black clouds merged together, and whirled around in place, filling it with a lot of thunder and lightning. "Any insult words you can throw at me, I don't care, but if you throw that racist remark at me, let's say, it won't be good for you!"

'He still has a trick up his sleeves?!' astounded Shikaku, looking up at the black clouds that had gone together and gone in a vortex. 'Is he planning to kill all of us?'

"Damn, Takeo has done that again! Did he have to ruin our strategy every time?!" muttered Inoichi.

"That boy!" Choza stared at Takeo whom was filled with the determination from faraway. "Why hasn't he run away yet? He risked his life of exposing himself to the enemy!"

Shikaku chuckled. "No need to worry anymore. He just did us a favor. Having him here is good for us."

"What?" Inoichi and Choza looked at Shikaku in the middle between them, puzzled. Shikaku here was smirking, almost as if they had won or something.

"What do you mean?" asked Choza.

Inoichi realized what Shikaku was thinking here. "Wait… Don't tell me you'll use that kid as a bait."

Shikaku sighed. "Well, it may be as troublesome as it sounds, but he's the best chance we have to defeat him. At first, I never planned to use a civilian as bait in order to defeat him, but he bought it upon himself. He exposed himself to the enemy, so there's nothing we can do. Right now, he's the only chance we have right now."

"I understand, but do you have any other strategy in mind right now?"

"No, there's no reason in changing the strategy. Let's use the same strategy we just conversed now. However, a chance of people surviving during this strategy is low probability. One of us… even other than us here… may die here. But make sure we have to use everything in our power to stop Riley with this strategy. We will win. I can guarantee you on this strategy!"

Riley grinned darkly, but at the same time, he was very angry at Takeo for making a racist remark at him. "You're still here? I thought you ran away. But how could I forget about you? How could I be distracted from this such a trivial task. I should butcher you up like a fool you are the first time I see you! Thor, son of Odin!" His sword suddenly morphed into the large hammer, as lightning flashed down into the hammer, as it was possessed by intense electrify.

The black cloud started to become irritate. It increased the rapid of the storm and lightning inside that huge black clouds. Basically, clouds had gotten large and went all over Konohagakure.

Takeo's fear grew bigger and bigger, as he watched the storm covering pretty much of blue skies. He slowly stepped back for every second he watched the storm that moved slowly all over the place, while his entire body was trembling. He just realized that he should not make Riley really pissed off. Riley was insanely dangerous right now! Every time lightning flickered, it became stronger and stronger as the time passed by.

Takeo watched angered Riley with every bone in his body trembling. But no sooner than that, a single water suddenly dropped and landed on the bridge of his nose. "Huh? Water?" Then more water landed on his nose. Perplexed by the sudden water that fell down from the above, he looked up, upon realizing that it was a rain that began to fall. He had no clue as why there was a rain now. He thought it was clear weather with nice sunny, but now, it's suddenly rain. But it was not regular rain. It was not soft rain. There was several drop of rain, but later on, it started to become heavy. Black clouds poured too much rain fall upon them. It was like cat and dogs rain!

"Rain?" baffled Takeo. His hair became wet and damped, as his hair came down. It grew the pound bigger faster, as cat and dogs rain harder. Suddenly, realization dawned on his face, as he quickly looked around at pissed off Riley, who still pointed his sword upward at the dark clouds. Also, there was a column of blue lightning up into the dark clouds. Lightning rapidly flickered down so fast per second, but it was so powerful that it actually struck down the house, burning it down, which led to the large fire.

Takeo was so scared. He began to wonder why he stayed instead of running away like he always used to. He did not know why he stayed, but he considered running away. He slowly stepped back, but he remembered why he stayed, because he was tired of Riley killing people, so he decided to be brave and stepped forward, puffing up and stood up straight, staring bravely at his enemy.

Gohan and Kuririn vs Guure

Gohan and Kuririn, and Guure stared at each other. Paradox stood not too far behind Guure with his arms crossed, smirking. It's been 5 minutes since they stood on the ground, staring at each other. Their fights were not even started. But suddenly, hard rain fell on them.

Paradox watched closely at his arms, where more rain fall landed on them. 'Rain? I thought it is clear weather with a nice sunny. Unless…'

"I hate water." Guure grumbled. "How annoying."

Gohan and Kuririn were also confused by the sudden event of the weather. They knew it's impossible to have the change of weather so sudden.

Kuririn scratched his bald head with very confused. "Huh? What's going on? Why is there a rain now?"

"Kuririn, over there." Gohan pointed over the yonder where lightning became violent over that area.

"Huh?" Kuririn blinked several times. He also knew that it was not the weather by mother's nature. Something must have controlled the weather here right now. "Don't you think it's…" He did not know what to say, because he was not sure what's actually going on over there.

Gohan started to become concern more about the people in that area. It seemed that over there already became more dangerous than before. He narrowed his eyebrows, and lowered his arms, clenching his fists. "I can't let them die! Not anymore! I have to save them!"

He screamed, as his aura powered up before soaring through the sky. However, Paradox's speed was greater than Gohan's speed itself, so he was able to get in front of Gohan before the kid could continue to fly away. Gohan growled through his teeth and shot a glare right at Paradox's arrogant eyes.

"Whoa, where do you think you're going, kid?" asked Paradox, as he folded his arms, smirking down at Gohan. "Dude, how tall are you?"

Gohan's anger diminished so fast, as it turned into utterly confusion. "Huh?"

"My height is 191 cm. That frog bastard over there is 207cm." Paradox said, grinning at Gohan's sudden change of expression. "I know, right! I'm jealous of him, though! He's really taller, like really! I'll ask you how tall are you?"

Gohan's wet hair went down, hanging over his eyes, as he looked up at Paradox, giving a desperately sigh. He did not look gloomy, all right. He was just confused because the way how Paradox was talking. He suddenly changed the subject about how tall they were. "I'm 126 cm."

Paradox ruffled Gohan's wet hair to make a mess out of it, and grinned at him, giving the kid a start. The kid was puzzled right now. That smile looked friendly enough to warrant a nice-guy aura inside him. But Gohan knew looks could be deceived, he was on guard, taken as precautious for now.

"Have you drive Go Karts before?" asked Paradox. Gohan knitted his eyebrows in confusion. "No? All right. Do you know why?" Gohan shook his head. "The rule stated that you may only ride Go Kart if you're at least 102 cm, and at least 152 cm as a driver. The principle of the rule also applied to here. You must be at least 152 cm to get past me." He displayed one of his trademark grin. "Unfortunately, you're not enough to pass the height requirement. Sorry, kid."

Guure diverted his pupil to the corner of his eyes upward at Paradox and Gohan in the sky. 'Paradox… I could not careless about that brat over there. You could have let him go. One less guy to worry about, but I assume in your case, I reckoned I am required to engage with them for an hour. How delightful.' He thought, becoming unpleasant with Paradox's decision.

He hated to play around. That's why he wanted to get it done quickly. He was just kind of get-it-done guy. The longer he would fight, the more impatient he would have become. The thought of him becoming pure impatient just gave him goosebumps. He never wanted to go there ever again.

"I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE! KILL, MAIM, ANNIHILATE, DESTROY! HAHAHAHHAHA!" Green ugly monster laughed manically, suddenly lunging forward—

Guure forced that mini-flashback out, immediately shut his eyes down. He never wanted to recall that event again. Ever again! That was horrible flashback. 'However, there's way to exploit that one-hour. All I have to do is to stare at these guys, and do nothing. That should work for me. It's been five minutes. Therefore, it's 55 minutes left. Yes, I can cope with it.'

Gohan's patience had become thinner and thinner, as his little rage began to build up inside him. All he wanted was for Paradox to let him go, so he could save Elementians over there.

"Oh, no!" Paradox decided to screw a little around with Gohan, after seeing him getting angry right here and now. "Little Saiyan is getting angry. He's about to explode. What am I going to do?! I am going to dieeeeeee!" He bawled a lot like a baby would. Gohan's anger, once again, quickly diminished, as he knitted his eyebrows in confusion. What's Paradox's game? "I am sooooo scared! I don't want to die! Especially murdered by the Saiyan child! WAAAAAH!"

He continued to bawling, with his fists rubbing his eyes floating in the mid-air, while lightning kept flickering down rapidly. "I DON'T WANNNNA DIE!"

Kuririn witnessed the whole event that just happened, as he was sweat-dropping at Paradox. 'What's up with him? He's over-acting. C'mon, Gohan! He's just screwing around you!' He titled his head down and stared at Guure, who stood in silence. 'What's he doing? Is he supposed to fight us? How comes he's doing nothing?'

"OHH! I got an idea!" Paradox snapped his fingers, grinning at the new idea he had lately. "It's going to be brilliant idea! It's the best idea I ever have in my whole life! Watch me, brat!"

Paradox suddenly lunged his hand forward, which it was too fast for Gohan to react to his sudden movement, slapping the Saiyan hybrid downward, bashing him through several buildings for a few feet away.

"Gohan!" cried Kuririn. "Are you okay?"

Gohan got up, although a little harm coming to his face, and looked up to level his glare against his goofy enemy.

Paradox did not grin, but he was rather disappointed. "Well, that's not really brilliant idea, after all. I thought you could take my 'Slapping For Men' technique." He grinned, as he lifted his finger up, and wagged his finger. "Technically, I slapped you like a woman. Saiyan brat, I'm disappointed."

Destroyed Hokage's Mansion- Tsunade and Hirzuen vs Coola

Tsunade and Hirzuen stood, facing Coola, as they were on their guard, plus with the ANBU on their side. ANBU were there to place themselves around them as a formation to protect them from Coola. However, Coola did do nothing, as he smiled at them. He had no desire to fight them right now. But of course, there was a heavy rain all of the sudden. Tsunade and Hirzuen were taken aback by the sudden heavy rain.

Instead of being surprised, Coola simply turned his smile into a smirk after seeing Tsunade and Hirzuen surprised to see the heavy rain all of the sudden. They said something about the heavy rain that was not supposed to occur today, as there was no sign of dark clouds coming this way.

"Lightning God…" Coola spoke up, drawing duos attention to him. But they confused even further more. "No matter what planet you are from; you should have heard of this myth. At least in Norse mythology."

"What?" shocked Hirzuen. "Norse mythology does exist after all?"

Tsunade had heard of Norse mythology as well, but she was surprised that they actually came in existence of this universe! She thought they were just mythology! But then again, myth may be true or false.

"There are Six Norse Gods in the mythology." Coola smirked, spreading his fingers across. "Odin, Thor, Balder, Frey, Freya, and Loki. They were the most powerful Gods that possessed the transport to any universe they desired to. They may across our universe at any given time. One day, they traveled to few planets for their own purpose. To pursue their goals, they gave their duplicated weapon to six promising people from different planets each, that they would most certainly wield them very well, as long as they made a moral decision. Each of six Norse Gods spilt up and went to different planets on their own each. One of them went to planet Thadius. The one who received the duplicated weapon was Riley Harris, and the one who gave a duplicated weapon to Riley was Thor himself!"

"These people who wields the Norse Gods' duplicated weapon each are empowered by the unique powers, only with every moral decision, right?" Tsunade asked. "But what happens to these people who wields the Norse Gods's duplicated weapon makes immoral decision?"

Coola snickered. "That's good question. I wonder what happens to these people who makes immoral decision, then? Only way to find out…"

Near the Academy- Kakashi and Tenzo vs Zahoor and Raid

Kakashi dodged a loose sword that was thrown very hard at him. He somehow was really exhausted, as he finally broke a sweat by just working too much to dodge a single sword. He took a breath in and out with the sweat constantly running beneath his hair. 'First, it was rocket launcher that suddenly materialized from nowhere. Now it's bunch of swords that's floating around him? Somehow, I have to destroy his book.'

Zahoor was currently wielding the book in his right hand and unique pen in his left hand, sporting a smirk at him. Also, there was many various of swords that floated around him, pointing the edge of his swords right at Kakashi.

"You're sweating." Zahoor stated obviously. "'First, it was rocket launcher that suddenly materialized from nowhere. Now it's bunch of swords that's floating around him? Somehow, I have to destroy his book.'"

Kakashi widened his eyes in shock.

Zahoor was amused at Kakashi's sudden change of expression. "Heh, it's not that I can read your mind. It's the story I've wrote. You have to remember that I'm able to manipulate the story into reality. Everything that I've written so far turned into the reality. Your thought is what exactly I wrote on this very page. For instance, if I write that you kill your comrade, then you will do as it commands you to. As long as my book exists, it will turn into reality no matter what. Imagine if I write that you die of heart attack. I can even write 'The heart of Kakashi suddenly stopped beating, as he clenched his chest in pain and writhed in agony until he drew his final breath' if I want to. But I choose not to. Because if I did, it would be not good story, otherwise. Or I can write that you are erased out of your existence if I want to, but then again, it would not be good story. That's why you're going to help me to make this story excellent. The top best-selling book on my planet. It is unbreakable. Only me that decides the fate of my life and everyone else."

Zahoor looked down at his book, which contained a lot of words on the page. Then he flipped the paper over to next page. His eyes scanned every single words faster than normal human eyes could see. "You're going to be in for surprise. My current page tells me that Kakashi is going to die at next moment."

"You're talking too much!" Kakashi and Zahoor yelled simultaneously. "I am going to end this spouting nonsense of yours for once and all!"

Kakashi was taken aback by Zahoor's exact imitation of his dialogue. 'He… His line is exactly like mine! And his words synced with mine at exactly moment!'

"Next, you're going to weave the signs for your signature technique: Raikiri!" Zahoor said, as Kakashi weaved the signs, and then, he lowered his right arm down, and clenched his right wrist, emitting large lightning chakra into his right palm.

Kakashi glared at Zahoor. He tried to figure out how he had no knowledge of someone controlling him. He never felt someone that controlled him. He only knew that he was able to control him of his free will, yet Zahoor told right to his face that he's able to control him against his will.

"Now, you're thinking whether if I'm controlling you or not," said Zahoor with amusement. "And now you're beginning to wonder if I'm mocking you or not. I'm reassuring you I'm not mocking you. It's the fact. I'm controlling you right now, including your comrades, and even my own comrade. You guys just are not aware of it. You thought you still have free will, but you're wrong."

Finally, he had gotten tired of Zahoor's taunt, and his nonsense of being able to control someone's will without them aware, Kakashi rushed towards Zahoor along with his Raikiri with the intention to shove it through his chest.

"First of all, you're coming at me with your Raikiri, and then I will throw several of my swords at you." Zahoor described his plans to Kakashi. Several of his floating swords flew towards Kakashi at high speed.

Half-masked man did not flinch at all, as he continued to charge right into the swords. "Then you will reveal yourself as Kawarimi no Jutsu."

That movement just did exactly as Zahoor said. As the floating swords supposedly pierced through each body parts, he poofed out in a puff of smoke, revealing himself as Kawarimi no Jutsu.

"Next, you will emerge from the rubbles inside, and attempt to ambush me with your Raikiri." Zahoor narrated his story by just reading his current page. "However, I foresee your next movement, so I sent swords at you to end your life for once and all. Thus, it's the end of the chapter."

Just as Zahoor said once again, Kakashi emerged from the rubbles inside and ran on his feet towards his enemy, along with the Raikiri in his right hand.

Zahoor grinned sadistically. "Unfortunately, this is the end of your chapter. At this very moment, you will draw to your death. Looks like you're not the one who will stop me. Someone has to. Goodbye, Kakashi."

His floating swords turned their sharp pointy at Kakashi, who stubbornly charged towards him with the Raikiri at high speed.

"As I foresee, you will not attempt to get out of the way. You will dodge few of them, but you won't survive it. Because they are too fast for you." Zahoor told him. He commanded his floating swords to propel themselves towards him.

Kakashi ducked, evaded, side-stepped, and dodged few of them, thinking he could bypass all of them. But it was not what he expected. He failed to see one of sword that sneaked behind another sword in order to blindside attack him.

"Haha!" Zahoor laughed at Kakashi's actions. "Did you know that I also altered your personality by just writing your character in my book? Therefore, I've altered your personality to be an idiot."

'He's right. This is the proof of his ability. The proof that he has an ability to control me by just writing his story. Everything his story had turned into reality.' Kakashi thought, as all of swords came closer and closer to him. 'I'm sorry, Sakura, Sasuke… and Naruto.'

The imagine of them appeared in his mind, as they were smiling at him. 'Looks like this is it. I'm going to die. Maybe I'll be able to see Dad. Minato… Rin… Obito… and Fayre, too…"

He saw one of swords moved near his face at the inch. He knew there's nothing he could do. They were too fast for him to dodge it. He did not close his eyes even single time.

"DIE!" laughed Zahoor.

Suddenly, several rain fell down on the tip of his masked nose. 'Rain? Impossible. It should be clear weather. Why rain now all of the sudden?' thought Kakashi. But then he realized that all swords that recently went after him with the intention to kill him had disappeared out of thin airs!

"WHAT?!" cried Zahoor. He looked up at black clouds with a rain that began to fall down harder and harder. "Shit! There's rain today? Why rain all of the sudden?" Suddenly, he realized the reason behind that sudden change of weather. 'Damn! Riley Harris is the behind all of this heavy rain. That stupid barbarian! I specifically told him not to use his Thor, Son of Odin technique, so I can go with my plan smoothly. Thanks a lot, you're ruining everything, Thor!'

In his panic, Zahoor hurriedly ripped his recent page out of the book, and closed his book to protect it from the heavy rain. Then he retreated into the academy building, and hid there, so he could protect his book from the heavy rain.

With heavy sigh and frustration, he sat down on the chair, as he put the book on the desk, staring at it. 'Damn you, Riley Harris! Because of you, you have damaged my single page, which rendered it useless from on now. Now, because Kakashi is supposed to die on this chapter, it ruined everything. Now I don't know what Kakashi is going to do next. Next chapter is…'

Zahoor flipped his paper over to next page, as it revealed new chapter of the book. 'There's no Kakashi! Of course, he's supposed to die on last chapter. At the beginning of this chapter, it said that I get to fight Tenzo. Because I did not kill Kakashi, this chapter is useless now. In other words, what I created in that story will not happen in future from on now. I did not anticipate that the rain was going to happen right now. But at least I can create something out of nowhere by just writing them on a blank paper.'

Somewhere in the place over there, Tenzo and Raid were fighting hand-to-hand combat. As soon as the rain began, they jumped back off from each other, looking up at the sky in confusion.

"Oh, no!" Raid ran around in a place, panicking. For some reason, as soon as more water hit his fur, his fur began to disappear, retracting into his body somehow, only to reveal that he reverted to his human form, with green skins. He was revealed to be green-skin male with skinny body, looking weak. He had long green hair that only went down to his butt. However, his eyes still looked that of werewolf's eyes, as well as his teeth. "DAMN! I am in this shitty form!" He cursed loudly to himself.

Tenzo pulled his kunai up in his defensive, watching Raid carefully. 'This is his original form. Apparently, that rain can change his form. It does appear that he needs a rain to change his form back to werewolf.'

With Konoha Nine (Minus Hinata and Neji)

"Konoha Senpu! (Leaf Whirlwind)" Rock Lee jumped up before coming back down and delivered a roundhouse kick against one of Coola's men's jaws, knocking him out.

Tenten jumped back, as he unrolled the scroll and summoned as many Fuma Shuriken as possible, flying from the scroll, killing pretty much of Coola's men in her sight.

"Gatsuga!" Kiba and Akamaru spun at a ferocious speed and delivered many powerful beast-like attacks over each of remaining Coola's men. Even that technique was powerful enough to drill through stone. The crack on the ground was clearly evidence enough.

Shino pulled his hand up to aim forward at the enemy in his sight, as he released most kikaichu that resided inside him towards them and effulged them until they croaked.

"We will go with our new formation that we've been working on for a while!" Shikamaru grinned, kneeling down and start weaving hand signs. "Ino! Choji!"

Both Ino and Choji nodded, as they knew what Shikamaru wanted to do. Now what they were about to perform was Formation E. Ino went behind Shikamaru as she placed her hand on his back, while Choji stood behind Ino. Choji firstly increased his size, while Shikamaru connected their shadows.

Coola's men were surrounding them, as they began to charge towards them. However, Ino-Shika-Cho were very calm and focused on their new formation.

Ino closed her eyes and placed her index and middle fingers together up, sensing chakra—er—Ki around her. She somehow was able to sense their Ki, because she was taught by Sakura on how to sense their Ki. After all, it was useful when she's needed here. Normally, she was only able to sense their Chakra nearby around her.

"Fifty enemy signatures picked up and locked on!" said Ino. But what their silhouette looked what Shikamaru would control a yo-yo in his hand.

Choji turned himself into a human-sized ball, then he tucked in his limbs and used chakra to propel himself into a powerful roll, however controlled by Shikamaru whom was able to perfectly direct Choji's movement by manipulating the shadow, just like yo-yo.

"Nikudan Yoyo! (Human Bullet Yo-Yo)"

As Shikamaru was guiding Choji, every and each of them were smashing into the floor flat. However, some Coola's men attempted to leap from the behind to ambush Shikamaru, but Ino sensed them first. Luckily, as long as Ino connected her mind to his mind, he knew what was coming, so Shikamaru redirected Choji around behind them to knock the ambushers away. Shikamaru sent Choji around to his front, and ran their enemies through, before any of them could even reach Shikamaru.

There were many more enemies huddled and ran towards him from the behind together, in an attempt to ambush him and kill, but Ino sensed them, which led Shikamaru to turn Choji behind him once again, knocking them away.

Big bad news for them, remaining enemies levitated in the sky and started charging up their Ki balls, aiming at them. They would use up pretty much of their Ki in order to annihilate Ino-Shika-Cho.

However, their intention to kill Ino-Shika-Cho had failed. They were unexpectedly ambushed by Kiba and Akamaru's Gatsuga, smashing everyone else into the ground.

Kiba climbed on top of Akamaru's back, grinning like a wolf. "Too easy for me! I could wipe the floor with them! Be there a million of them, I'd beat them any days! Right, Akamaru?!" Akamaru barked excitedly in agreement with him.

Ino left her hand off Shikamaru's back, as she rolled her eyes over at Kiba's enthusiasm of beating their enemies. "Don't give yourself a credit too much. We're the one who put too much work in ourselves. Give the credit where the credit is due. Remember what Hinata said?"

Choji nodded and smiled, "Ino's right. They're pretty strong. We need to keep ourselves at minimum."

"I agree with Ino." Shino spoke up in gloomy way. "Don't be overconfident. The reason is—"

"I get it, already!" Kiba barked, typically interrupting Shino's sentence. Poor Shino, who never got to finish his sentence. "If I underestimate them, I might die, blah, blah, blah! I don't need you to go all Hinata on me… But c'mon, seriously… With Akamaru on my side, we will triumph over them!" Akamaru barked in agreement with him. Kiba pumped his fist up in the air, grinning like a dog.

"How troublesome…" Shikamaru sighed. But he changed the subject quickly. "Well, as long as I'm with you, I think it'll be all right. But Gohan and Kuririn may need our help. We're going to help them. The battle from there may be a lot tougher than what we've faced here. It's time to show everyone what Konoha Nine is made of."

"Hmm…" Tenten spoke up, pointing at the center of the storm where it recently gathered from which had spread all over the place. "Should we help them over there?"

Shikamaru smiled, shaking his head in response to Tenten. "No, Inoichi, Choza, and Dad are fighting them over there. They'll be all right. They already have all help they need. But the place we're heading to might have a tougher opponent than the one Dad's fighting over there right now."

All of the sudden, rain poured down harder, in which none of them were fazed by them. When there was a dark cloud gathering together, it would be most likely raining, so it should not be surprise for them. However, in next moment, it was not what they were expecting to be, it turned out that a violent lightning aggressively struck down over there a several times. Newest fires could be seen from there, as the water dissolved them, turning them into a smoke, which breezed away into the sky.

"Uh… Whatever is going on over there, it looks really bad," said Ino, as the lightning kept storming down every time, and it destroyed a bunch of houses across whole Konohagakure by every seconds. The group now realized that they're in danger from the sudden lightning here.

All of the sudden, the little girl was thrown out of the house, as it was struck by the lightning and burned into the ashes. That girl was shaking up with the fear in her every bones. The group hurried over to her side.

"Hey, what happened?" asked Shikamaru.

The little girl gulped nervously. "H-He… saved… me…" She suddenly sobbed, wiping her tears off. "Father…" Obviously, the man who saved her was her own father. He threw his own life out just for the sake of his daughter's life.

Shikamaru gritted his teeth with frustration. 'There's no safe place here, no matter where we are. That storm has a wide of area over entire Konohagakure that could kill every single person here in this village. If we're going on way to help Gohan and Kuririn, then the group that Father is in over there may be wiped. They need my help. Which group should I help? This is so troublesome.'

"I-I a-am s-so s-scared!" the little girl still cried with her arm keep rubbing her eyes.

"Sorry, I know you're scared." Shikamaru kneeled down to face the crying girl. "But the longer you linger here, the most likely you're going to die. We will not be able to protect you if you stay here. It's dangerous here. Follow your fellow civilians there. The shinobi will escort you along the way."

The tears continued to run down from her eyes, as she constantly tried to wipe her tears off for once and all. Her voice started to become a bit hoarse. "I… I…" She kept receiving multiple flashback of her Father saving her life by throwing him out of the house. She was unable to say anything, and she was about to bawl aloud.

'Damn! I don't know how to deal with this little girl. I begin to wonder if I ever get a kid, how can I manage it? How troublesome…' thought Shikamaru.

"DON'T WORRY!" A sudden outburst from Rock Lee, who rushed to little girl's side with the burst of tears from his eyes. "I KNOW HOW YOU FEEL! I SHALL DEFEAT THE SAME GUY WHO KILLED YOUR FATHER! I SHALL AVENGE YOUR FATHER! IF I CAN'T AVENGE YOUR FATHER, I SHALL CARRY YOU WITH MY ONE LEG HOP AROUND THE VILLAGE FOR 300 LAPS!" He pumped his fist with the flame in his eyes.

Everyone around him, besides the little girl who was gawking at Rock Lee's outburst, sweat-dropped at him for saying a ridiculous comment like that. Who'd carry a little girl with just one hop around the village for 300 laps? Of course, only Rock Lee and Maito Gai would do that.

However, Tenten was the less left exasperated at his antic out of them. She simply face-palmed. "That's it… One of these days… I swear it…"

"All right! Now or never! This will be the moment of my springtime of youth!" Rock Lee shouted, pumping his fist once again, as he suddenly hopped on roof on way to the center of the storm where it began gathering.

"Wait!" Tenten cried, taking off to follow him in desperate attempt to stop him.

With that, the remaining members in the group were left flabbergasted. They were like, what the hell was Rock Lee thinking? Going after someone who had an ability to control the weather like that? They probably thought he was really crazy or something. They could only hope that Tenten would stop Rock Lee before it's too late.

'Only good thing he has for him is his taijutsu. If you learn how to use Ki, even with your speed, you may be the key to beat the user,' thought Shikamaru.

Flashback Began

For some reason, Shikamaru was called to the meeting in Hokage's office all of the sudden. He thought it was troublesome meeting or something. But it turned out an interesting meeting. He saw Tsunade, the current Hokage, Godaime Hokage, sitting behind the desk, her assistant Shizune standing next to her, Sarutobi Hirzuen, the former Hokage, Sandaime Hokage, also stood on his right to the current Hokage, Hatake Kakashi, Team 7's leader, stood his back against the wall on her right, and finally Sakura stood in front of the desk along with Hyuuga Hinata, facing him. Not to mention Gohan and Kuririn stood by the wall on the right of Sakura and Hinata. And then there was Team 8, Team 10, and Team Gai (excluding Neji and Gai who died few days ago) stood in line, looking at Sakura. Team Gai just arrived just today.

He wondered what it was all about? Maybe it was about the strategy on how to defeat Coola or something?

"All of you are here. Good. Now Sakura's going to explain the most important thing to you, so please listen carefully." Tsunade said, as she looked at Sakura, who looked back, and nodded.

Sakura nodded back at her, as she returned her gaze at the listeners. "All right. I am sure all of you aware that Naruto, Sasuke, and I possess new energy source called Ki, which is the most powerful in the universe. Every species in the universe have it. However, I recently lost the Ki. Without me, without Naruto, and without Sasuke, you are going to be in dangerous. With Naruto and Sasuke in training session, and me losing my power, all of you are no match for them. You will die in a second if you don't have a power to defend the village. Naruto and Sasuke may be late. Bulma is working on the device that will get my power back, but she may be late, too. There's no expectation to them being on time. Without us, you've already lost. I'm sure you're aware of other villagers that were devastated by that powers alone.

"So I made a decision. I already took Hinata as my temporarily student, so I can teach her how to use Ki, and improve her power up in such a short of time. I've been training her for three days now. Even though she may not be on par with our level, she will be there to keep you in a check. She will be there to hold them off until I get my power, and Naruto and Sasuke return here. Only useful I have right now is my healing. Until I get my power back, I will be your healer. I will heal every injured shinobi I see. I will make sure that none of you will die as long as I am in the battlefield. Some of you guys may wonder why I took Hinata as my temporarily student, instead of you guys. That's because she's the highest battle power in your group, so I knew she has potential in her that I can teach Ki to her, and she can develop Ki faster. That's one of our trait, Elementian's trait." Sakura finished, as she stole a quick glance at Hinata, as in signal to her.

Hinata nodded, and began to spoke up. "In few days, hopefully, without the intervention, I probably will be as nearly powerful as Sakura was. When the invasions should ever have occurred," She slowly closed her eyes, raised her fist and clenched her fist on her chest near her heart. "…I will make sure to protect the Konoha with my life from these bastards! I will absolutely make sure to not let you die! Because that's my nindo! My ninja way!"

Kiba grinned. Akamaru barked excitedly. Shino never smiled, but remained silent, like creepy. Ino smiled. Choji smiled, eating a handful of chips. Hirzuen chuckled proudly. Shizune smiled gently, along with the pig oinked happily. Kakashi turned his eyes into upside down with a smile.

Shikamaru chuckled to himself. 'Ever since the Chuunin Exam, during the attack of Konoha, she saved the Konoha by defeating Gaara. Even with Team 7's returns, she continued to make a vow to protect the village from Coola and others. She never ceases to amaze me. Geez, how troublesome.'

"But…" Hinata opened her eyes and spoke again. "Sakura and I made an agreement that you have a right to learn the technique of Ki, so you can surprise them with that and defend yourselves from them. No teaching required."

Shikamaru cocked his right eyebrow. 'No teaching required? What does she mean?'

"Wait!" Kiba quickly yelled with very confusion on his face. He was not only one. Rests of Konoha Nine, Except Hinata. "What do you mean? No teaching required? How are we supposed to learn it if you don't teach us?"

Shikamaru quickly glanced around the room. He noticed that Tsunade, Hirzuen, Kakashi, and Shizune were not surprised at all. It must mean they knew about Ki as well.

"That's right." Sakura answered. "No teaching required for you when it comes to Ki. All you need is to learn and watch. Gohan…"

"To put it simply," Gohan put his palm upward and quickly gathered the Ki, as the energy of sphere appeared out of nowhere and hovered above the palm. "…you only need to look at this one that I am demonstrating right now, and then try it yourselves."

Hinata smiled. But it was not just a smile. It was happy smile. That was first time that Shikamaru had seen her really happy. "That's right. That is the gift of Elementian's trait."

Flashback Ended

'Next to Hinata, you have more potential than all of us to develop the Ki more, Rock Lee. Beat the user who summoned the storm,' thought Shikamaru.

The little girl watched, as Rock Lee and Tenten hopped on roof to roof on way to aid Shikamaru's father and others. She began to smile and said softly. "Thank you…" With that, she left on her own to follow all the runaways who were also escorted by a shinobi.

Shikamaru turned around, only to find himself in front of his group who were eager to listen to his next plan. He sighed, thinking it was troublesome to lead them. "We stick with the plan. We're going to help Gohan and Kuririn."

Kiba grinned on top of his large dog. "All right! We're going to kick whoever's ass! Right, Akamaru?! Let's go, Shino!"

Akamaru barked excitedly in agreement with his master.

"You're not the leader, Kiba. The reason is—" Poor Shino never got to finish his sentence, but Kiba interrupted him.

"LET'S GO!" Kiba roared, as he rode off on way to their destination.

"Geez, that guy…" Ino shook her head with a smile. With that, she took off to follow Kiba on way there.

Shikamaru sweat-dropped. "I never had a chance to discuss the strategy. They're so troublesome. Anyways, let's go, Choji." Choji nodded, as they took off to follow Kiba and Ino on way to aid Gohan and Kuririn against their powerful enemy.

Poor Shino was left to be alone again. However, he looked pretty miserable upset. "Everyone forgets about me…"

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"…again!"

Shikaku, Inoichi, and Choza vs Riley Harris

"Someone like you're pissing me off! NO ONE EVER CALL ME THAT WORD EVER AGAIN! THAT'S AN INSULT!" roared Riley Harris. The lightning traveled so fast through the air and strike down the house near by him, as it was destroyed and broke out into the flame. "NO ONE! DO YOU UNDERSTAND ME?!"

Takeo gulped harder than he had before in his whole life. He knew he was so stupid enough to be brave against someone who could easily killed him with no problem. He was just an ordinary civilian who was afraid of death. That guilt tripped him to give up his life, because he allowed two different people to die because of him. 'Yeah, I'm going to die. I deserved to die… I should've saved Mom and that girl… I'm going to stand here no matter what. I won't move out, even if someone yells at me to move out! I am going to die!'

Hana, still kneeled next to Tsume's dead canine, looked on shock at Tsume's foolish brave behavior. "You idiot! RUN AWAY! You're not worth to die for!"

Takeo smiled nervously. "No… No matter what… You can't tell me what to do from on now! This is my decision… Decision to die today! I decided to die, but that's because cowards don't deserve to live. They deserve to die. I'm the coward, so I deserve to die… Sorry, Hana. No matter what… I WILL NOT RUN AWAY, BECAUSE THAT'S COWARD WAY! That's my resolution!"

'What?! That idiot…' thought a panicked medical-nin.

A little far away from them, Tsume groaned, as she stood up, glaring at Takeo, who stood there like a completely idiot. Brave, but foolish. "What the hell is he doing?! Why hasn't he run away?!"

"That brat!" muttered Anko angrily.

"Tell us when to go," said Inoichi.

"Hurry before that kid dies…" concerned Choza.

"Very soon, but remember we have about two minutes left to beat him. Otherwise, it's over for all of us. On my go…" Shikaku reminded them all to use whatever best strategy they have right now against Riley Harris. Choza and Inoichi nodded, as they were prepared for him to make a call.

Back with Riley Harris, he still points his sword at the storm which continued to flicker lightning down the ground. "I WILL DESTROY YOU! RACISTS LIKE YOU DESERVE TO STRUCK BY A LIGHTNING AND TURN YOU INTO ASHES! I WILL ALSO MAKE SURE TO DESTROY YOUR SOUL! THAT'S WAY YOU WON'T BE ABLE TO SEE THE AFTERLIFE. THERE WILL BE NO REMAIN OF YOU HERE! DIEEEEEEE!"

Riley Harris screamed, as he released his entire sword's energy into the storm which rotated around at high rapid rate that allowed to gather more lightning inside the storm. Once it used up all of his sword's energy into the storm and gathered all together, he commanded to send whole lightning that very powerful to send it down towards the stunned Takeo.

"Takeo!" cried Hana.

Anko desperately tried to yell something, but it fell on all of their deaf ears.

"Shit!" cursed Tsume.

"GO!" commanded Shikaku.

Choza and Inoichi took off towards Riley Harris.

"HAHAHAHA!" Riley Harris laughed. "DIE, YOU LITTLE SHIT BRAT!"

Despite shaky with fear, he managed to stay brave and stood, watching as the lightning sent down towards him. 'Sorry, Mom… Sorry, girl, whoever you are. I should not be selfish. I should have saved you both. I am so coward! Sorry, but I'm going to see you in the afterlife and apologize to you. I hope you can for—'

Suddenly, a single hand shoved him back away further from the powerful lightning strike, which shocked him. "Whaa…?" He wondered who that was, so he looked up, but he could not see who that was. In his eyes, it was shadowy figure that took his place, thanks to too much light around him, as the powerful lightning was about to strike down…

To be continued…

A/N: WHAT?! Who is that shadowy figure that shoved Takeo away? Who will die in the place of Takeo? And what kind of strategy will Shikaku use? Will strategy succeeded? Find out next time on the chapter of Team Z!

Takeo is not major character. He's just a minor character, who happened to be caught in the middle of the battle. I know this whole chapter devoted to protect Takeo. But that's just their duty. Thaduisians are so stubborn who refused to be distracted and focused too much on their victims! So yeah... But knowing Takeo's character, I'm sure some of you already hate him, so don't worry. He's just a minor character :D

Now I'm sure you have await too long to hear my explanation. You've already waited about 40k words to hear out my explanation. :)

Why did I not post chapters for about 4 months? Well, that's long story. I was planning to update these chapters at that time, but vertigo interfered with my life. I was unable to do anything, but stayed on my couch, hoping for my vertigo to stop effect. Took some pills to stop the vertigo. So even after the vertigo, I had no motivation to write the story after constant vertigo. I was tired of vertigo that kept interfering with my life. After Chapter 107, it interfered with my action about 4-6 times. Remember I told you I had a vertigo before chapter 107? That's about 2-3 times.

So I avoided writing the story that would put a lot of stress into me. I believed that possibly caused the vertigo because of stress. I stressed myself to think what to do next with the story, and how I can write next. What they should say next. What to use the correct words. How to write grammar properly. Think of readers who were waiting to read my next chapter. Yes, I always think of you guys! I'm not like most people who are willing to abandon their chapter, because they have no motivation.

I had no motivation, because vertigo kept interfering with me. So after last vertigo (last month), I didn't write story, because I worried too much about next vertigo. So only I could do was playing video games, watching animes, watching MLB (I LOVE BASEBALL!), and Stanley Cup. Reading Manga, too. All easy stuffs for me without any stress. At least I hope I can go without vertigo for months and months go on. Maybe, maybe, I will have enough motivation to write longer chapters. But for now, until then, I will write 5k words on every chapter, so you can read my chapter every week or two faster.

However, I already mad a decision that I would end Team Z after Coola Saga, despite the vote which goes to Cell Saga. Sorry, Cell Saga voters, but I need a long break. 6 months, at best, until new sequel coming out. I hope you understand! Again, I'm so sorry!

Anyways, I will declare next three chapters, and what it will be about. Of course, without spoilers...

Chapter 110: Battle of Uchiha! Final Fayre vs Tobi...

Chapter 111: One Hour Battle! Some of Riley Harris fight... Completed Kakashi vs Zahoor... On what happened to Sakura and Hinata... On what happened to Bulma and Inari... Some of Guure vs Gohan and Kuririn...

Chapter 112: Dangerous Sniper! Completed Riley Harris fight... One of Coola's men will fight someone else, but technically, it won't be fight, but Sniper will chase these main characters away for most of chapter.

Please note that some of these may be changed or may be extended due to 5k words limit. Thank you so much! I hope you look forward to these next chapter!

Anyways, I hope you understand why I didn't write chapter for long times! Again, I apologize! I know I apologize too much! :D See you next chapter! Hopefully next week or two!