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January 1. Outskirts of Konoha.8:19 Reign of the 3rd Hokage (2nd Term)

It was a mistake Kaine would later regret ever taking. However, at the time, he was not nearly as nostalgic. In fact, he felt that he could actually beat the boy around when he accepted the challenge.

Rearing up his horse, Kaine started him at a trot. Then it transformed into a full gallop. He would be on the boy in a matter of seconds. Taking aim, he raised his Naginata into the air, preparing it for the swinging arc.

Naruto remained visibly cool. Even Kakashi admired his valor. All of the nearby fighters put down their arms and turned their attention to the duel that was building in the center of them. In fact, most of them backed up to give the combatants more room to fight in.

From Sasuke's position he could hear a large portion of the battle's sounds cease. He and his current enemy turned and slowly made their way to the position of uncanny peace.

The bladed weapon came down in a blur. Anything in its path would surely have been cut down or maimed. Kakashi flinched just at the sight of it. However, the place that Naruto once populated was now vacant.

To everyone's surprise, Naruto rolled to the right, just under the horse's belly, to appear on the opposite side of his enemy.

Kaine pulled his horse around, leveling with Naruto. "Stop squirming. It will only make your death all the more painful."

"Get off that little pony you call a war horse and we'll meet a compromise shorty." Naruto taunted back.

Fueled by the new insult, Kaine charged on horseback again, swinging the Naginata once more. Once more, the blade came down on nothing but air, because once again, Naruto rolled under the horse.

"Damn you fox boy. Get back here." Kaine shouted, turning his horse around again.

"How about you get down here!" Naruto retorted. "And we'll fight like men."

"Men?" Kaine snorted as he started his steed into another gallop. "You're just a kid."

"Come on Kaine." Naruto said plainly.

"Make me come down there then!"

Kaine pulled his weapon back.

"Okay then," Naruto shrugged. "Your loss."

The Naginata came down for the last time. In a mind-boggling blur, Naruto raised his hookswords and, slipping the curved length under slips in Kaine's armor, pulled him down to the earth in a deafening clang of steel crunching.

Hopping back, Naruto smiled. "Wasn't that hard now was it? Now I'll teach you how to get up off your ass. It's just as easy as getting off that horse of yours. Now see here, I put this here," the comical ninja hooked Kaine's belt sash in one of his hookswords and pulled. "Up you go."

Kaine fumed at the way the boy was treating him. In his blinding rage, Kaine swiped at Naruto's face. The boy dodged nimbly backwards, just avoiding the fist.

"Feisty, are we?" Naruto smiled coolly.

"Shut the hell up!" Kaine tried to hit him again, but thanks to Naruto's reflexes, missed. "Get your ass back here!"

Naruto put on an expression of mock surprise, speaking the crowd around him. "We've got quite a mouth on this one here, don't we?"

This brought a raucous laughter from the adjacent listeners. Even Kaine's own men laughed, feeling slightly insecure in doing so. This did nothing to lighten their commander's mood. He thrashed at his enemy again. His only result was more laughter and mortification.

Kaine's face burned in a scalding anger he had never experienced before. This novelty made it worse.

In a sudden blur or speed, two bodies held Kaine by the arms and knocked him to his knees. He struggled, but the hands were tough and calloused. At least one of them was. The other was smaller, but just as powerful. Looking to either side, Kaine saw who his imprisoners were. One had black hair that came to points on both sides of his cheeks. The other was the white-haired ninja he had tried to kill.

"This will be your last few minutes. It might be hard to grasp it now, so I'll let it set in for a few seconds." Naruto breathed in deeply through his nostrils. "It's a great day to kill and be killed isn't it Kaine?"

Fear crawled over Kaine's skin. Goosebumps were telltales of his mental state. His eyes dilated the slightest fraction. Despite his terminal position, Kaine managed to think semi-clearly. I can't take all three of them on my own. He thought. I'd have much better chances with the brat… but how to get rid of these two? Begging is out of the question. It took Kaine only a few more seconds for his plan to come full-circle. He knew exactly what to say…

"Hey fox-boy!" Kaine hollered.

Naruto cocked his head and smiled. "What is it, my friend?"

Kaine put on a smile just a broad. "Your girlfriend," Naruto flinched visibly. "you can seriously do better than that. I mean, who here hasn't seen a part of her pale ass and… oh well you know the rest."

Naruto's grip on his weapons tightened.

"I remember," Kaine smile grew even more in realization he was hitting a nerve. "as I tortured her, she moaned like the little whore she is, begging for more and more, all the time realizing she was cheating on you. But she didn't care. She enjoyed it too much." He licked his lips. "You know she's a masochist don't you? Gaining pleasure out of pain. Don't you think, Naruto, that that is one of the best trade-offs in the world?"

Kaine paused at Naruto's silence. "Don't you…?"

Naruto flexed his muscles and gritted his teeth, seething, "Kakashi! Sasuke! Let him go, now!"

Kaine stood up and marveled at his own genius. "So, now that we've established that your little princess is nothing more than a money-squandering, pleasure-seeking, sniveling, and sorry bitch, I think we can get this show on the road!"

It was then that Naruto made his move. Kaine had expected the boy to act with a vengeance, but nothing like what had happened.

His hand reached out and caught hold of Kaine's throat. His other hand pulled his arm behind himself while his leg brought Kaine to the ground. He floundered helplessly on the ground as Naruto squeezed with an inhuman power against his esophagus.

Sinking his nails into Kaine's neck, Naruto leaned down and spoke in a hushed tone. "You seem to use that voice of yours quite a lot, now don't you? I think its about time you shut the hell up!"

Then, in one swift motion, Naruto put and iron grip on Kaine's vocal chords and yanked with all his might. His hand came away his enemy's vocal chords, still oozing with blood.

The last thing Kaine saw on this earth was the once-blue eyes of his attacker, which were now a bone-chilling, blood-curdling red…