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/blah/ is illusions

The genins sweatdropped as they saw the four shinobis watching them not far over. They decided to let that pass and continue the fight.

Reika and Yamaru faced each other will cold stares. The silence was unbearable for the other genins, and the other shinobis were still interested in what may happen.

"Yamaru, get over it now, will you?" His teammate, Hiro said as she started to tap her foot.

Shinji sighed. "Hiro, I suggest you better shut up. You know that Yamaru doesn't like it when someone talks to him during a match."

Reika and Yamaru stayed where they are in silence without any movements whatsoever. It was Yamaru who broke the silence.

"Forfeit now, Reika."

Reika glared harder at her superior cousin.

"You do know that you cannot win against me, and I do not wish to fight you. You are still too weak for me." Yamaru said.

Reika glared at him in anger. No one insults her like that and gets away with it. Her byakugan activated and she changed her stance.

Yamaru sighed. "I really wish that it wouldn't come to this." His byakugan appeared too and he changed his stance as well.

"You do know that you can forfeit while we are not yet starting. Once this fight started, I won't hold back."

"Do me a favor and shut up Yamaru-niichan. I don't care if you're superior than me. I just want to fight and show that I'm no longer the weak crybaby that I once was. I've grown now. I'm now a genin together with my teammates. I know I'm strong and I won't back down."

"Sigh... be that way."

The two of them took a step forward and attacked at the same time. The two Hyuugas fought with insane speed that the genins watching were having a hard time seeing them.

Lan and Keiki activated their sharingan in order to watch the fight more clearly.

"Lan, don't watch them. I am your opponent. Don't turn your back on me." Tai said as he dashed towards Lan with faster speed.

Lan was shocked and managed to block a kick by his arm.

"Che. Sharingan!"

"Konoha Senpuu!"

Lan made mad dash towards Tai after managing to evade the attack and made a few handseals.

"Katon Housenka!"

Tai managed to evade every fire flower in a fast pace without even breaking a sweat. Lan inwardly growled.

Sasuke watched Lan's fight with interest. He knew that his son is the top rookie of the year and Ukino Tai's the top rookie last year. He knew that the relationship of the two rivals is almost the same as his and Neji's rivalry relationship before, only worse.

'If you want to beat him, you shouldn't attack him from a far range. Attacking from a far range gives him more time than he actually needs to evade. To attack him from a short range would make your attack quicker to reach the target, and thus, evading would force him to consume more energy than intended, automatically forcing him to use his chakra.' Sasuke thought as the two genins continued to fight.

'Drats! Tai's speed is natural for him. He doesn't need to use his chakra just to speed himself up. How will I be able to hit him?' Lan thought as he continued to block every punch or kick that Tai gives him.

"Uchiha Lan! Is that all you can do? You're wasting my time! I overestimated you." Tai said as he started to unwrap the bandages on him arms.

"You shall pay."

Naoki and Hikari gasped. "He shouldn't be doing that technique..." Hikari whispered.

Naoki nervously looked at Lee who was also wide-eyed at his student.

"Tai! Stop this fight this instant!" Lee exclaimed.

"No sensei! I won't allow you to stop me!" Tai exclaimed back.

Lee was about to go and stop the fight by force when Sasuke held his shoulder. "Sasuke, why? Lan may be hurt severely because of this!"

Sasuke shook his head wordlessly.

Naruto grinned. "What that bastard wants to say is that he's sure that Lan would be able to manage. He wouldn't be the number one rookie for nothing." Naruto said as he grinned at Sasuke.

"Ne, Sasuke-bastard?"

"Hn. Dobe."

"Konoha Renpuu!"

Tai managed to hit Lan's chin, but he didn't succeed in throwing Lan upwards. Lan saw the opening that he needed.

'There!'

Since Tai's hand was on the ground, one of his foot was up, one was down, and one of his arms were up, Tai has minimum protection against any attack.

Lan swiftly made some handseals and positioned himself ready.

"Katon Goukyaku(?) no jutsu!"

Tai managed to get out of the way before the fierce fire actually burned his body. But doing that really forced him to use a lot of chakra.

'Got it. I saw his weakness.'

'Why is Lan smirking?'

Lan continued on using the same strategy. He would use some of his chakra to fasten himself up and when he's close enough, he'll attack with fire.

The only problem was, the two of them were losing chakra fast.

=Keiki and Shinji's Place=

"Keiki, are you prepared?" Shinji asked.

Keiki nodded silently. "Yeah."

Shinji made a few handseals and narrowed his eyes. "Dark Illusion no Jutsu!"

"Sharingan."

Keiki easily deflected the genjutsu that his cousin used. Shinji was shocked. No one has ever escaped his genjutsu that easily. He can't believe it.

'Guess I need to rely on ninjutsu and taijutsu then.'

=Hyuugas Fight=

The fight between the two hyuugas was immense. Reika was totally sweating hard with a lot of bruises here and there.

Yamaru seems fine. He was just panting softly.

"Is that all you can do, Reika?"

"Yamaru-niichan... you are great. But I won't lose to you!"

Yamaru sighed and took out a bunch of shurikens from his pouch and threw them at Reika wordlessly.

"Kaiten!"

Reika kneeled on the ground after that attack. She was totally running out of chakra already.

Yamaru looked at his younger cousin and sighed. "I'll finish this now. Kage bunshin no jutsu."

Naruto's jaw almost hit the ground when he saw kage bunshins appear from Yamaru. "How did that kid know how to use the kage bunshin no jutsu?!"

"Dobe, not only you can use that technique." Sasuke said as he crossed his arms. He was paying more attention to the twin's fight as Neji was concentrating on Reika and Yamaru's fight.

"But Sasuke-bastard, the kage bunshin no jutsu is a jounin technique."

"..."

"Che. Be that way you bastard."

"Naruto, the kage bunshin may be a jounin level technique, but that doesn't mean that a genin cannot learn it. Anybody can learn it. It is just hard. I suspect that Hyuuga Yamaru trained hard just to get the kage bunshin no jutsu right." Lee explained.

Naruto huffed and nodded. "Fine thick eyebrows."

Reika panted hard. Her eyes narrowed as all of the kage bunshins did the jyuuken stance.

'This is not good. I don't have much chakra left. I can't use the chakra expel technique for I might hurt Yamaru-niichan and another, I don't have much chakra left to perform that attack. I just have to make a wild guess on which is the real Yamaru then. I only have enough chakra left to do one last technique. I have to use it now.'

"Are you ready to be defeated, Reika?" The 'Yamarus' asked as they all took a step forward.

Reika struggled to stand up and changed her stance.

"Don't move Yamaru-niichan. You are in the range of my divination." She said.

Everyone understood what that meant. She was going to perform the Rokujyuuyonshou no Hakkeshou to finish this match.

Neji closed his eyes.

'This move will determine the outcome of the fight. I'm afraid that I know what the result will be.'

Yamari sighed. "Stop wasting my time, Reika. Don't make me use that same technique."

"Do what you will, I am not giving up."

"Very well."

All of the clones, plus Yamaru changed their stances. "You are in the range of my divination."

=Lan and Tai's Fight=

The two kneeled down on the ground as they panted hard with rash amounts of sweat running down to their necks.

The two of them had very little supply of chakra left and so they need to rely on taijutsu. Problem was, Tai is more skilled with taijutsu.

Lan doesn't even have enough chakra left to leave the sharingan activated.

"So Lan, it seems that taijutsu is the only option we have left."

"Yeah. Come you think of it, your name is the first syllable of the word taijutsu. Coincidence huh?" Lan said as prepared his stance.

Tai smirked. "Yeah. Maybe that's why I'm skilled with taijutsu."

"Let the real game begin."

Lan started the attack by attempting to punch Tai on the gut but Tai blocked it with his hand and attempted to counter by kicking Lan on the cheek. Luckily, Lan managed to block the kick with his other hand.

There was just a slight problem.

Tai still had his other hand unused and thus he managed to punch Lan in the gut.

Lan bit his tongue hard to prevent himself from screaming. He tasted the ill taste of blood flowing from his tongue.

The Uchiha managed to jumped a few meters away from the taijutsuist, (a/n: Yey! I made a new word! Ahh... is that still a word?) Ukino.

'Hn. The real game starts here...'

=Keiki and Shinji's Fight=

Shinji continued to attack with a lot of ninjutsus but Keiki just countered with his own jutsus and attacks.

Shinji growled as he finally noticed that Keiki was not focused. He was absent in the presence of the mind.

The Haruno saw an opening and he knew that he would be able to injure the Uchiha badly if he attacked now, but when he noticed that the Uchiha's eyes were a dull and lifeless sharingan, he stopped.

Shinji stopped attacking and glared at Keiki.

"Uchiha Keiki."

That caught Keiki's attention. "Huh?"

"Why aren't you paying attention?" Shinji asked as he glared hard at his cousin.

Keiki looked down. "I don't know."

"You aren't fighting me seriously. No. You are absolutely not fighting me. Yes you may be here and countering my attacks, but you never made a move to attack me. You only blocked and dodged. Another one is you may be present here but your mind and fighting spirit is absent. Where is it? I want the fighting Keiki here." Shinji said as he crossed his arms.

"Shinji, you are going to waste our time. Just attack now."

Shinji shook his head. "No. I won't attack until I see the normal Keiki here before me. What I see is a silent guy. I want the noisy one."

Keiki shook his head. "Gomen nasai. I can't fight you."

Shinji took a step forward and glared at Keiki hard. "And why is that?!"

Keiki looked at Shinji with fear and sadness present in his eyes. "I can't! You remind me so much of mom! The same green eyes that looks at me... you have it!" Keiki exclaimed.

Shinji was shocked at what he heard.

"No! I can't fight you! I feel like I'm fighting my own mother!"

Shinji ran towards him and raised him by the collar of his shirt. "Listen here Keiki! Aunt Sakura is dead! I am not her! We have the same eyes but that doesn't make me her! Heck! I'm not even a girl for goodness sake!"

"But it's mother I'm seeing in you!"

"Shut up! Listen here! Knock some sense on yourself will you?! Your mother is dead! Aunt Sakura is dead! But you should move on!"

Keiki shook his head frantically. "No! I miss mom so much! I never even got the chance to talk to her! Mom will never see what Lan and I are now! There are a lot of things that I want to show mom, but now I can't!"

Smash!

Shinji punched Keiki on the cheek with all his might, sending him a few yards away. The other fighting genins stopped and looked at them.

"Stop talking nonsense you selfish brat! You are not the only one who got hurt because of Aunt Sakura's death! You're not the only one who suffered! All of the Haruno Family mourned! Your father! Your brother! Think about them! Look at them! They may have been sad and depressed but look! They have moved on! They are not like you who put on a cheery mask to hide the sadness they kept inside! Why don't you just release it?!" Shinji exclaimed as he managed to cool down.

"The past is the past and nobody can do anything about it." Shinji said in a whisper.

"B-but..."

"Keiki, do you want your mother to see you like that?" Shinji asked.

Keiki shook his head. Shinji smiled.

"Then move on."

Keiki looked on the ground. He closed his eyes and smiled slightly. "Maybe you're right, Shinji."

He stood up. "I don't want mother seeing me like this. I guess I do have to move on."

Shinji nodded and smiled. "I hope that you're back to your senses. Now let me ask you, is the real Keiki here now?"

"Yes!"

"Let's fight then! This time, I want a real battle!"

"Bring it on, Shinji!"

=Reika and Yamaru's fight=

Reika and Yamaru smiled slightly at the two. They faced each other and smirked.

"What now, Yamaru-niichan?"

"Hmm..." Yamaru's clones disappeared. Reika titled her head in confusion.

"Why?"

"I want a fair fight. My Rokujyuuyonshou no Hakkeshou versus yours." Yamaru said as he prepared his stance again.

"Okay." Reika did the same.

"NOW! Rokujyuuyonshou no Hakkeshou!"

Reika was about to hit Yamaru first on the chest but it seems that the older Hyuuga was faster. He managed to hit Reika first and this continued on.

The girl didn't have the time to react.

"Gomen nasai Reika-chan. Rokujyuuyonshou!"

Yamaru hit Reika on the chest as the girl crashed towards the tree.

Neji gasped.

"Reika!"

He was about to go to his daughter's side when Sasuke held his shoulder and shook his head. Neji glared at him. "What are you..."

"Look."

Neji saw Reika struggling to stand up on his feet. She was breathing hardly and she was clutching her side in pain.

'Reika... her eyes are the same...'

FLASHBACK:

(It's much easier this way.)

Hinata: I... won't give up... I gave my word...

=Different place and time (forest)=

Hiana (Neji's wife): (holding baby Reika and faces the black ninjas then looks at Neji who was near her) Neji, don't come nearer. I have sworn to protect Reika with my life and I won't give up nor turn back on my word. Reika is all we have and I am not about to give her up.

Reality:

'Reika...'

"I... w-w-won't... give up..." Reika whispered in pain. Her byakugan has deactivated and she was clutching her stomach in pain. She was kneeling down on the ground as blood came out of her mouth.

"Sigh... Reika, you are defeated. I do not wish to fight you more." Yamaru said as he stood up a few feet away from her.

Reika stood up though she swayed from time to time due to the pain. "I told you... I won't give up."

Reika then ran towards Yamaru with open palms. The older Hyuuga sighed and ran towards her as well.

Both of them did their attacks at the same time. The difference was, it was Yamaru who hit Reika first. The girl's hands fell down on her sides, as she barely stayed awake.

"You... won... Yamaru... niichan..."

The hyuuga girl fell unconscious on her cousin's arms. Yamaru held her steadily and gently layed her on the ground.

'Good fight... Hyuuga Reika.'

=Lan and Tai's Fight=

Lan and Tai were both exchanging their attacks. Both of them were filled with bruises here and there and they were both bleeding from several blows.

"I didn't know you were good at taijutsu as well, Lan." Tai praised.

"I have always expected you to be a taijutsu specialist like your sensei so I thought that I must be one as well. Konoha Renpuu!" Lan exclaimed.

With all of his remaining chakra, he boosted up his speed to the limit. He hit Tai on the chin and sent him upward.

'Drats! I forgot that the sharingan could copy moves. I'm impressed he managed to copy mine.'

Lan then disappeared and reappeared behind Tai in the air. Tai gasped.

"Kage Buyou..."

Naruto looked at Sasuke in confusion. "Sasuke, those moves... those are..."

Sasuke smirked. "Yes. I showed the twins that move with a dummy and told them to copy it with the sharingan. It seems that Lan had succeeded."

Lan then performed the same combo that his father had done during his fight with Yoroi. "You're finished, Tai!"

'Drats!'

"Shishi Rendan!"

SMASH!!!

Lan landed a couple of feet away from Tai as he breathed heavily due to exhaustion. 'Is he... finished...?'

Gasp.

'No way!'

Lee smiled in triumph as he made his cool-guy pose. "My student is not that easily defeated. I trained him hard and I know that he won't let himself lose. Go Tai! Show the strength of the youth!"

Tai managed to stand up and walk towards Lan. Lan gasped. 'I-Impossible... I... cannot move anymore... I don't have any energy left...'

Tai punched Lan in the gut with force. Lan wasn't able to block it for he doesn't have any more energy left.

The force was so great for the Uchiha that he tumbled a few feet away and was knocked unconscious.

Tai smiled weakly.

'Good one, Lan. You are the only one that I could consider worthy to be a rival...'

Tai smiled at his sensei before he lost conscious as well.

Lee sweatdropped. "And I thought that Tai won. It turned out to be a tie."

Naruto looked at the genins worriedly. So far, out of his three genins, Reika and Lan were both unconscious and only Keiki was awake. He just hoped that at least Keiki would win his fight.

=Keiki and Shinji's Fight=

Kunais and shurikens flew here and there. Rain of kunais and other equipment came upon each other. The two of them seemed to have no intention of losing.

Clank! Clank! Smash! Block! Clank!

"Huff, huff, you are even better than before Keiki."

"So are you, Shinji, huff, huff..."

Although this fight is not really that action filled for the other watching shinobis, for Keiki and Shinji, this fight is one of the best that they had in their lives.

Clank!

"You are very good, Keiki. No one has ever kept me in a fight this long." Shinji said. "But you will be defeated here! Darkness of Despair no jutsu!"

"What is this now?" Keiki asked.

"Hah! Feel the force of my strongest genjutsu! See the most despairing moment you had in your life!" Shinji said.

Keiki's sight suddenly darkened.

'W-where am I?'

/"S-Sasuke-kun..."

"Shh... Sakura, don't talk. Save your strength."/

'What is this? Sasuke-kun? Huh? Is that father? Sakura... that name... it's mom!'

/"Sasuke, take care of... our little Lan and... Keiki when I'm gone."/

'Gone? No way! T-t-this is... this is...'

/"Sakura-chan, please don't talk that way." Naruto said as a tear fell down his cheek. Sasuke held Sakura's hand as if to never let go./

'Naruto-sensei cried... he must be very close to mom.'

/Sakura smiled weakly. Even in the pit of death, she never lost her beauty and kindness.

"N-Naruto-kun, thank you for being a good friend. When Sasuke-kun needs you, please..."/

'No! This is... mom! Don't die!'

/"Shh... Sakura-chan, don't talk."

"...please do what you can to help him. Promise me that Naruto-kun."

"I promise, Sakura-chan."/

'NO! PLEASE! MOM!!!'

/Sakura then looked at Neji who was also there by the door looking down. He can't bear to look at her. He knew how it feels to lose a love one and he felt bad that he cannot do anything about it.

"Sasuke, my love, raise up our children well. I will be looking forward to see them grow up as I watch them from the skies."

Sasuke can't bear to hold his tears any longer. A tear fell down on his cheeks as he hugged Sakura tightly./

'MOTHER! DON'T DIE!'

/"Sasuke... Naruto... Neji... my sons... goodbye..."/

'MOTHER!!!!!!'

In reality, Keiki was screaming, trashing, and grasping the air. The others cannot bear to look at the screaming genin.

"MOTHER!!!!"

When Shinji felt that Keiki had enough, he released the genjutsu, causing Keiki to kneel down and breath heavily.

Shinji, Yamaru, and Hiro were shocked. They were surprised that Keiki still managed to stay conscious even after the scene that he saw.

Keiki looked at Shinji, and Shinji did not like what he saw.

Keiki's eyes were filled with combined emotions: Sadness, fright, hurt, and most of all, anger.

Keiki screamed as he charged towards Shinji. Shinji, still dumbstrucked to do anything to defend himself, was hit hard on the stomach with Keiki's right fist and was struck by a kunai on the left arm.

Shinji did the only thing he can do at the moment.

He screamed.

Keiki was totally enraged with what he saw that he didn't care anymore. The watching shinobis saw the danger and quickly went to restrain Keiki.

Sasuke held Keiki by both arms as Naruto and Neji stayed close. Lee quickly got the bleeding Shinji away from Keiki. Hiro offered Lee a helping hand in which Lee gratefully accepted.

"Keiki! This is just training! Don't kill someone! And especially don't kill your anyone from your family!" Naruto exclaimed.

Sasuke released Keiki from his hold seeing that Keiki has calmed down a bit.

"B-b-but Naruto-sensei..."

"Keiki," Sasuke kneeled down to face his son. "What did you see in the genjutsu?" He asked.

Keiki closed his eyes as tears fell down his cheeks. His lips formed two words which explains it all.

"Mother... dead..."

"That explains it. He must have seen Sakura's death through the genjutsu." Neji said. Naruto swore that he heard a tinge of sadness in Neji's voice, but he placed that aside.

Sasuke held his son in a comforting embrace. Keiki wrapped his arms around his father and sobbed.

Sasuke sighed inwardly since he doesn't really know the first thing to comfort a person, especially a kid, so he just did what he thinks would do best. He patted his son's back in a comforting manner.

"Thanks father. I think I'm alright now." Keiki said as the two broke the hug.

Sasuke nodded and walked near the unconscious Lan and the unconscious Tai. He carried Lan on his back.

Lee walked near and carried Tai in the same manner. He got Shinji as well.

Yamaru carried the unconscious Reika and handed her to her father. Neji carried Reika like a father would do to a baby.

Naruto did what he would actually do. He 'awed'.

"Hn. Shut up, dobe." Sasuke said. Naruto grinned at him and grinned at Neji. Neji's eye twitched.

"Naruto, we're going to the tower now to tend their wounds. You give the orders for the remaining genins here." Sasuke said before the three disappeared with a poof.

Naruto faced the remaining genins. "Okay then. You guys, do the rest of the training together and prevent any fights. You all still have fourteen hours for this training. See you!"

With a poof, Naruto was gone.

"Sigh... let's just do what Naruto-sensei said." Hikari said. Naoki nodded.

"I agree."

Yamaru, Hiro, Hikari, Naoki, and Keiki then jumped towards a tree at the same time to complete the training.

Somewhere past the boarders, a man with long black hair in a ponytail and red eyes made his way toward the cells.

He smirked as he saw Hyuuga Hinata bound up and looking helpless.

"Well, well, well, what do we have here? How are you doing there, Hyuuga Hinata?"

Hinata gasped as she saw the man. "Uchiha Itachi?!"

Itachi laughed in a mocking manner. "Yes you're right."

"You won't get away with this!" Hinata retorted bravely. Itachi laughed.

"Trying to be brave huh? Well... let me tell you something. Your 'friends' are coming to save you, but the question is, can they save you before they get killed before they even get the chance to do so?"

"They will win!"

"We'll see. If they succeeded in reaching my area, I will kill them myself." Itachi then laughed evilly.

"Ah the taste of blood. I can't wait!"

Hinata just closed her eyes as Itachi's cruel laughter ringed among the cells. Her mind bore one word...

'Naruto-kun...'

Author's notes: Whew! How is this?! Please no flames for this chapter. I worked my guts out in this part! How did this chapter go? I'm sorry if I made Itachi sound so Orochimaru-like. Well... I hope you like it! Personally, I liked this chapter. I hope you do too. I hope that I please you, dear readers. Tell me what you think, okay? Reviews please!