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Chapter Four: Uchiha Reawakening

Sweat dripped off of Rock Lee's thick eyebrows as the sun had almost been completely enveloped by a tall mountain to the west of the battle. Soon, The sun would be engulfed, thus leading to darkness and coldness.

The earth golem tossed the fish man against the ground as if he were a bowling ball. He got up and prepared to leap into the air, just when Lee ran around him and high kicked him into the air.

The Akutsuki member flew six feet up but then reached a higher altitude after Lee had jumped up and repeatedly kicked him furiously over and over again.

As soon as Lee had himself and his opponent high enough he unwrapped his bandaged arms and encircled them around his enemy. After he had tightened his opponent up to the point where the Akutsuki member could not move, they both began their decent downwards to the cold stone floor.

" Initial Lotus!" Lee shouted as both bodies slammed into the ground. Lee got up and bandaged his arms up again. After the Dirt in the air had cleared, Lee's enemy was nowhere to be seen.

" Where did he go?" Asked Lee's new ally, Ayame.

" I'm not sure, but stay alert." Lee replied as his cautious eyes looked around. " By the way, I'm glad you came to help me, I almost fainted holding my breathe there for so long."

" No problem, it was the least I could do after you jumped in to save our village. I'm just glad that my jutsu was able to help. Maybe our enemy is gone.." Ayame said happily.

" No…he's hiding, I know it. But he could be behind any boulder within a mile radius by now. Darn!" Lee shouted as he stomped the cold floor with his left leg.

Suddenly, the sound of wind came their direction. It got louder by every second that ticked away. Lee and Ayame were able to pinpoint the noise. They ducked as The blue man's sword glided over there heads at an extreme speed.

The blue man was standing on a boulder when he caught the handle of the bandaged sword. His black and red cloak was tainted with dark blood around the location of his ribcage.

" Well, I see you've managed to injure me a bit. That was quite a move. I'm surprised that just a simple chunnin could conjure such strength. My name is Kisame. At least you are worthy of knowing my name. Well, I can see now that it was wrong to underestimate u. Well…no more playing around. Now…I'm serious."

" Kai!" Shouted Kisame as the bandage covering the seven-foot sword burned to ashes within seconds. It was purplish blue. It didn't have a blade after all, but sharp fish scales all around that that looked like it could tear you apart with a mere touch.

" It's OVER!" The Akutsuki member screamed as he charged at Lee, Ayame and her golem.

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Sasori looked to his right to find his new found enemy, Ichibi Kouga.

" Back away from her! I'm your opponent now. I must warn you, do not look elsewhere because if you do, then you will meet the same fate as your fellow crushed puppets." Snapped Kouga glaring at the Akutsuki member with intense hate.

" I've decided to fight you with some of your own medicine. Meet my best jutsu. KAGE NINGYO NO JUTSU!" Kouga shouted as one replica of himself appeared to his left. His clone however did not move at all…

" What jutsu is this? You can not defeat me with just one bunshin." Replied Sasori feeling angry.

" Oh this is no ordinary bunshin, it's a puppet. This is a puppet made of flesh and blood. However, it is ten times faster, stronger, and can hold ten times more chakra than I can. It can also release any jutsu I can. Now…" Kouga said with a smirk. He opened tightly clenched fist and small blue chakra strings were connected from the clone to each of Kouga's ten fingertips. " Let's get started shall we?"

" Genojuri Hotensai No Jutsu!" Kouga shouted as he made his puppet lift his hands up slowly, creating rocks all kinds of sizes from marbles to basket balls lift as well. Soon there were hundreds of rocks over Kouga's puppet. The puppet then swung his arms straight down.

The stones then were flung at a speed barely visible for the human eye. They went in the direction of Sasori and HIS puppet. Sasori and the Kazekage sped across the dry and rocky land but were no match to the speed of the rocks headed their way.

The stones of all sizes hit the targets they were flung at and shattered. The Kazekage then jumped up high into the air and formed a very long set of hand seals until he reached the ground. " Meet true power little boy." Sasori said lying on his side facing Kouga as he activated his Jutsu. " SKARODO RYU NO JUTSU!"

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As Sakura was coming up on the HUMONGOUS crater, she began to see many figures surrounding the perimeter. They were all wearing Akutsuki cloaks.

Sakura's POV

-Bunshins…I know how to handle this.-

Sakura pulled out a kunai and then said, " Kage Bunshin No Jutsu!"

-This should take care of it…-

Normal POV

Suddenly one of the 59 Kosuko's spotted ten figures emerging from a distance.

" We've got company." One said to the others so they all looked at Sakura's direction.

" Wait! Look there!" Shouted the Kosuko on the opposite side of the other one that had spoken. He pointed a finger at ten other Sakura's heading their way.

There were twenty Sakura's enclosing the circular shape of the crater. As soon as each Sakura got there, the massacre began.

Sakura used each kunai to swiftly slice open each Kosuko's stomach with one hand and rip out the intestines with the other.

Poof! That was the sound being made all over as each Sakura took down the Kosuko's one by one. After they were all exterminated, Sakura released her Jutsu to conserve Chakra. She looked down at the bottom of the crater and spotted a big glowing boulder. She dashed toward it fearing the worst, a death of a teammate.

Once she was feet away from the immense rock, she gathered a large amount of chakra and concentrated it to her right arm where she then took a large fist and smashed into the boulder creating it to turn into sand.

Sakura stuck her hand through the piled sand and grabbed an arm. She pulled out an almost unconscious Neji through the sand.

" Neji-san! Wake up! You need to wake up in order for us to defeat him!" Sakura shouted as she shook Neji. Neji opened his eyes and stood up. He then quickly clutched his stomach.

" What's wrong Neji-san? Ahh! You're bleeding…badly!" Sakura said in worry as Neji removed his upper clothing. The wound was large, covering most of Neji's stomach.

" Hold still!" Sakura said as she placed her hands two inches from the blood wound. Then she transferred some chakra through her hands and into Neji's wound. It was clearing up and the skin was starting to grow back. Neji sighed in relief after he was completely healed.

" Thank you Sakura-san…I am indeed grateful. Looks like the Hokage's training was useful after all. . Thank you." Just as Neji bowed slightly to Sakura, Kosuko jumped from under the ground in between them and inserted a kunai into their chests.

Sakura fell back as blood and saliva dripped slowly from the side of her mouth. She gradually lifted both her hands and took out the kunai and tossed it to the ground where she then lay unconscious.

Neji however only stumbled back a few steps and he then took the kunai out as well. He still hadn't put back on his upper clothing so small streams ran down his chest and then stained his white pants.

" Sakura-san, I won't let you down…BYAKUGAN!" Neji said as the veins at the side of his eyes popped out . " Hakke Genaroso No Jutsu!" Neji said as he extended his arms. Green chakra came out in the shape of a sword which he then held ready to attack.

" You remember this Jutsu don't you? I have used it on you once before. This time you won't get away. Here I COME!" Neji shouted as he rushed at his opponent.

Just as he was feet away from his enemy, Neji jumped into the air, flipped over, landed behind Kosuko, and slashed at his back with the green sword made of chakra.

Suddenly a rock was cut in half and fell to the ground. " Shoot! Kawarimi No Jutsu? No it couldn't be, if he switched himself with a rock then where would he be hiding?" Neji asked himself while discarding his sword.

" Above you!" Shouted Kosuko as he landed on Neji's shoulder's and stabbed his back with yet another kunai.

" AHHH!" Neji screamed in pain as he leapt away from his enemy. This time however, Neji couldn't reach the Kunai to pull it out.

" Amazing isn't it? How you thought that you could defeat me, yet you're here weak, and hurt. It's over." Kosuko stated with a smile.

" You're absolutely right, it is over." Said Neji as he put his hands together and shouted, " KAI!"

Suddenly, there was an explosion at the place where Kosuko was standing. After the smoke had cleared up, Neji saw that his opponent was missing his right arm.

Under gritted teeth Kosuko asked, " How?"

" Simple, when you first used Kage Bunshin on me, I destroyed all your clones. But you still kept on running at me. I let you hit me but before I was sent in the air, I place an exploding tag on both your arms, and back." Answered Neji.

But before Kosuko could take off the next two explosive tags, Neji shouted again, " KAI! KAI!"

There was then another explosion. The smoke rose to join the clouds. Kosuko had no arms, and a small whole, in the middle of his chest. Blood was constantly leaking from all three wounds.

Kosuko wheezed as he said, " I'll……kill you…….brat…"

" On the contrary, it is me who will eliminate your existence. I gave you a warning, but you ignored it. Prepare yourself." Neji said as he ran toward his bloody opponent.

As soon as Neji reached his enemy, Kosuko wheeled around and swung his leg to sweep Neji off his feet. Neji however, jumped up and flipped back to land and punch Kosuko in the face. Before Kosuko fell to the ground, Neji caught Kosuko by the cloak and swiftly slid behind him to wrap his arm around his neck therefore choking him.

" Goodbye," Neji said as he slit Kosuko's throat with a kunai from his kunai pack. As Kosuko fell on his knees, then on his stomach. The battle that took place in the large crater was now over. Neji picked up Sakura and slowly walked back the Earth village to drop her off. After he did that, he used his Byakugan to then search for a teammate in need. After he spotted Naruto, he ran out the gates toward his somewhat friend, leaving Sakura in the care of the Earth civilians

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Before Itachi could budge, Iyou gave him a punch to his face which sent him sliding across the ground.

" How did you do that?" Asked Kakashi in amazement.

" I just told him I was going to punch him and I did." Replied Iyou as Itachi got up. Itachi's jaw was hanging as if he couldn't close his mouth.

After Itachi placed his hands on his jaw and popped it back in place, he said, " You've managed to break my jaw…" His voice sounded cold, as if he could not experience emotion.

" FUZEN KAWARIMI NO JUTSU!" Screamed Iyou as she squatted down and punched the ground with her right hand. Suddenly a fist made of earth arose and grabbed Itachi's right foot. Itachi tried to move his right foot but it was no use.

Then, Iyou punched the ground again with her left hand so she now had both fists pressing against the floor. Another fist came out of the earth and grabbed Itachi's other foot. Itachi couldn't move his legs anymore for they were being held in place.

" I'm going to kick you now, Mr. Akutsuki member." Said Iyou peacefully as she used her right leg to stomp on the ground while still keeping her fists against the earth. Like the other two limbs before her, a leg came out and kicked Itachi in the face hard, so hard that the hands crumbled as Itachi was sent flying fifty feet high in the earth.

Iyou then jumped up after him. However as Iyou and Itachi made eye contact, Itachi unlocked his Mangekyou Sharingan and peered through Iyou's eyes.

Iyou's POV

-What is this? Where am I? I thought I was fighting…-

Iyou then gasped she was suddenly in darkness. The only light there was, were the lanterns that were lit up outside the houses. Iyou suddenly knew where she was.

" NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO!" Iyou screamed, but the memory wouldn't stop. She then saw her father run out of her own house.

" Iyou!" He screamed. " Get your butt over here! It's dark outside. Don't you know what could happen to you? You cou-" Iyou's father then stopped speaking after a kunai flew into his throat. The force knocked him on the ground where he lay there still, like a brick, just….still.

" DAD! Iyou screamed as tears rolled down her damp cheeks. Each step she took toward her passing father made her heart thump faster and faster. Suddenly, she saw him. A shinobi up above on the rooftop. She stopped in her tracks and looked up in fear as the ninja jumped down to the ground. He slowly walked toward her, all she could remember was his red eyes, the eyes she saw right before she entered this memory.

-Genjutsu! Oh no! I've fallen for it.- Iyou thought as she witnessed the memory of her only piece of family she had left crumble under the darkness. The memory continued over and over again for what seemed like days.

Normal POV

The sudden hit of Iyou's body on the cold, dark earth made her wake up from her trance. She was heartbroken, after trying to forget the memory long ago, she devoted her life to her friends and became a shinobi with them. She was ready to fight, but now the memory had come back. She realized that she wasn't strong enough when she needed to be. She knew that she had managed to run away from her thoughts but they would eventually catch up to her. She couldn't run from her thoughts, no she had to defeat them…

Iyou closed her eyes and relived the memory on her own will and then realized, the man that killed her father, was the one she was fighting today. She detested this man with all her might, she wasn't afraid no more, she was angry, very angry.

She opened her eyes to see Kakashi battling Itachi. She slowly got up and wiped herself off.

" FUZEN KAWARIMI NO JUTSU!" Iyou screamed at the top of her lungs. She then constantly struck the ground with open hands. The earth limbs stuck Itachi with such power each time, that they shattered against Itachi's face. This gave Kakashi an opportunity to hop back and clutch his right arm. Suddenly a blue light that was giving off bolts of light all around was formed in Kakashi's right hand.

" Chidori!" Kakashi yelled as he drove his hand through Itachi's chest. Iyou stopped punching and grabbed Itachi's neck with her earth limbs where she then threw his body against the ground.

" Good job." Stated Itachi behind Iyou. "You've managed to defeat one of my bunshins."

Iyou widened her eyes as she stood up and turned around. Again she made eye contact. Those dark red eyes made her anger level rise greatly. She stood fearless against her enemy. " We'll manage to defeat you too…"

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Neji dashed toward Naruto and the Akutsuki member. However, Neji could see that Naruto didn't need help, but was going to help him anyway. The sky was starting to become a little lighter. Although the sun wasn't visible, Neji knew it would be soon.

As Neji reached the battle, Neji could hear Naruto's annoying voice shouting countless threats to his enemy.

" Neji? What are you doing here?" Naruto asked panting from the battle. Naruto was seriously scratched up, but not as much as his opponent beside him. " I've got everything under control. It'll be over soon."

" We need to move on as fast as we can in order to help the others." Neji replied.

Naruto shrugged, then nodded. " Well then I'll end it fast. I'm sorry, but I'm going to stop playing around now." Naruto then looked serious he focused his eyes on his enemy. Neji watched in amazement as Naruto willingly brought out the Kyubi's powers. The red Chakra surrounded him as Naruto's teeth grew into fangs. His nails grew longer as he crouched down ready to pounce on his enemy.

Neji could see Naruto had this under control, but he didn't want to leave, he wanted to stay and watch to see how much Naruto had improved from the last time he fought him.

Naruto then leapt high into the air and as he was going down, he disappeared with a Poof! And landed behind the Akutsuki member.

" Dodama Rasengan!" Naruto shouted as he drove the extra large Rasengan into the Akutsuki member's head. This battle was over as well. Two Akutsuki members were dead and one had left. Naruto and Neji then returned to the Earth village to pinpoint the next battle.

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" AAAAHHHHH! IT'S OVER YOU BRATS! I'LL SHOW YOU TAIJUTSU!" Kisame shouted as he rushed at Lee and Ayame with his shredding sword.

" I've got this one Ayame-chan, thank you, but this is my area of expertise." Lee said to Ayame as he shifted into his Taijutsu stance. Ayame released her jutsu so the earth golem disappeared.

" Good luck," Ayame said to Lee as she backed away.

Kisame reached Lee and swung his sword. Lee ducked and swung his feet across Kisame's legs. Lee then jumped up and twisted around in the air where he then smashed Kisame's face into the earth with his foot. Kisame lost grip of his sword and lee grabbed it and jammed in into Kisame's stomach in just a split second which made him barf...water. Lee then hopped back and shifted into his Taijutsu stance once more.

Kisame was bleeding my his lip. After he wiped off the blood with his forearm, he picked up his sword and ran at lee once more. Lee tried to kick Kisame but he blocked and shouted, " Mizu Bunshin No jutsu!"

Suddenly, four other Kisame's were created out of the puddle of water Kisame had barfed out. They were there to block Lee's attack in not time. Before Lee's kick had been able to connect, one of the Kisame's grabbed the leg and the other three grabbed his limbs as well. Now Lee was being held by his arms and legs and he was defenseless. Kisame then was about to bring down his sword on Lee's head just when Ayame interfered and did a flying sidekick to Kisame's wound around his ribcage. The Akutsuki member flew back and landed on his feet. The clones distracted by this, gave Lee the chance to break free and destroy all four of them.

" It's over…Kisame." Said Ayame as she formed a short set of hand seals and shouted, " DAICHI GOOREMU NO JUTSU!"

Suddenly, out of the very ground they were standing on, a large earth golem like the one before had formed. Kisame could do anything to defend himself, he was stepped on by the golem. Lee and Ayame then went to the village to recuperate.

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Suddenly, the ground rumbled as if an earthquake were occurring. Kouga and his puppet each prepared themselves for whatever came next. Kouga knew that Sasori had used a very powerful jutsu, but what was going to happen?

Kouga was prepared for the worst, but not even for this…A hydra made of sand appeared from underneath the ground coming up and into the air. It was around twenty-five feet long from nose to tail. It had no legs just like a dragon/snake monster.

It flew towards Kouga and his puppet, but Kouga jumped up used an earth jutsu in order to defend himself and stop the hideous monster.

" Kendo Shorai No Jutsu!" Suddenly, humongous spikes arose from the earth and surrounded the hydra. If it wanted to get out, if would have to go through the spikes. However, the hydra just went through them as if it were no trouble at all. Kouga could not stop the inevitability of being swallowed whole along with his puppet.

After the Kouga's went into the belly of the beast, the hydra entered it's way through the quicksand deep underground where it had been formed.

" Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!" Sasori laughed as walked toward Ten-Ten huddled by a boulder. " Even your little friend was no match for me."

" You forgot one thing, I specialize in earth jutsu as well!" Kouga then ran out of the boulder and delivered a swift kick to the Kazekage's face which then smashed into pieces under the pressure.

Kouga then rushed at Sasori and pushed him into his own quicksand. Kouga watched as Sasori screamed in terror as he quickly sunk to join the hydra he had created.

Poof! Kouga disappeared and the actual Kouga walked out of the same boulder as his puppet had. He picked up Ten-Ten and he dashed back to the village to leave her there.

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Kakashi and Iyou were having the hardest time of all. Itachi was hurt but not that badly. The Akutsuki member had managed to defeat his opponents.

However, soon enough, Neji, Naruto, Ayame, Lee, and Kouga had arrived ready to take Itachi on.

But before anybody could make a move a very familiar voice said, " Back off, he's mine."

Everyone looked back to see an old ally and an old rival.

" Sa-sa-sa-suke?" Naruto asked in disbelief. Sasuke Naruto's former best friend stepped up to look at his brother Itachi straight in the eyes.

" Don't try it brother, Mangekyou will not work on me. I'm immune. I've waited all these years for this single moment, my glorious revenge." Sasuke stated.

Sasuke was wearing a black, long-sleeved tunic with black pants of the same material. It was plain. Sasuke however, looked a bit different. He had a bit of hair growing on his chin, he also had a hair cut so that it was short and spiky like Obito's hair. Sasuke also wore a black leather glove on his left hand, and had a long vertical scar going across his right eye. His eyes looked firm and strong, as if he had matured a lot while he was gone.

Sasuke stepped up so that he was five feet from Itachi. He did not underestimate his brother so he quickly activated his Sharingan. " You're bleeding internally in over 8 places brother, you've lost your chance to beat me. It'll be over soon enough."

Itachi jumped back and shouted, " KATON GOUKAKYUU NO JUTSU!" A large flame of fire appeared as Itachi blew it out of his mouth. It was so powerful and huge, everybody had to jump back in order to get burned. Sasuke however, didn't'.

After Itachi stopped and the smoke cleared, Sasuke was standing there, unscathed.

Everybody looked surprised. Then Sasuke spoke, " You're illusions don't scare me, I know that you are not capable of using any jutsu's for now. Your chakra pathways are sealed. You can create illusions however but nothing is real."

" Maybe this will hurt," Itachi said as he stabbed his little brother in the stomach. Poof! Sasuke's body disappeared. Everybody searched around for the real Sasuke but he was nowhere to be seen.

Then suddenly Sasuke spoke, but from inside…of Itachi. " I'm here brother, I've managed to create my own jutsu where I can enter my opponents body and destroy him from the inside. This will hurt brother." Suddenly Itachi started wheezing and trying to gasp for air. " Your lungs are now punctured. There go your kidneys." Itachi kneeled down clutching his stomach in pain. " Don't you dare think it's over yet brother, I have yet to go. I will make you suffer."

Suddenly, Itachi coughed and blood splattered on the ground. He coughed over and over again until a kunai came out of his mouth. " Don't die yet…I still have yet to do. I will now rip open your stomach." Itachi clutched his stomach harder as he fell to the ground.

Snap! Sasuke then suddenly appeared in front of Itachi. Sasuke's right hand then slowly moved up to his brother's throat. With a quick movement, Sasuke's hand snapped back along with Itachi's throat.

Blood started leaking everywhere. Sasuke's black clothes were stained all over. Itachi wriggled as if he were a worm on a hook. Suddenly a kunai flew through the air past Sasuke and hit Itachi's brain through his eye. Sasuke looked back in anger to see who had killed his prey.

Kakashi slowly stood up in pain and said, " That's enough…Sasuke, he's already suffered too much. It was time to end his life."

Sasuke looked at his former sensei in disgust. " You don't understand, you don't understand at all. There's only one way I can show you true pain, the pain I went through." Sasuke said as he started performing very familiar hand seals.

The sound of a thousand birds filled the air as Sasuke charged the group. The power of the incoming Chidori was overwhelming, it was to late to dodge and it was too powerful to block. Kakashi knew there was only one option, he managed to get in front of everybody, turned around, and said simply with a smile, " Don't worry, I won't let my comrades die."

BOOM…

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Author's note: this is not the end so plz keep reviewing. I really hope you liked this one. The next one won't have as much action but there will be some cool stuff in it. Also I don't think the next one will be over 2000 words but plz keep reading and reviewing. Anyway I would like to thank the people that have helped me up to this point, and I hope that I was better in this one. Also, really, thanks for everything. I'll try to update soon but my Internet is kinda screwed up right now so I'll do my best. Also, the next chapter will probably be called -peace restored- or -off I go- I hope you liked this story and plz tell me what I can do to make it better. I hope I wrote the action scenes good enough. Alright thanx for reading. J