(This is probably confusing, so here's the thing: EVERYONE who is on this mission is Edward, Alphonse, Kiba, Sasuke, Naruto, Virgo, Scorpio, Pisces, Capricorn, Cancer, Sagittarius, Libra, Aries, Gemini, and Taurus.)

Chapter seven: Power of the Kriinta

"Look what we caught."

Virgo shoved Envy into the clearing, following him. Naruto and his friends were just lounging around and Edward was eagerly trying to spear a fish with Alphonse. Virgo's brothers, Cancer, Capricorn and Taurus, were playing cards at the base of a tree. For once, Cancer was saying a word with meaning: "FISH!"

"A homunculus. Envy, the shape changer."

In a moment, Edward pounced on Envy, battering away at his cheek with his right fist. "YOU BASTARD! I HATE YOU! DIE, ENVY!"

Virgo pulled him off. "Come on, Ed. We have questions! Keep off, come on! Do we have to tie you down?"

When Edward calmed down, Envy chuckled. "To be bossed around by a woman, Edward, you certainly have come a long way since we last met."

Naruto was about to make a comment about Hokage Tsunade but thought better of it.

"SHUT UP ENVY!" Edward lunged for the homunculus, but Kiba leapt up and held him back. "Come on Ed… Calm down…"

"I HATE YOU ENVY! I HATE YOU!"

Envy just laughed again. "You hate me, but you haven't even seen your little girlfriend over there."

"What about Virgo?"

"You haven't seen her eyelid, have you? You silly little boys! Silly, silly little boys!"

"Eyelid?" Naruto inquired. "Huh?"

"What does he mean, Virgo?" Kiba asked, releasing Ed. "Your eyelid looks normal enough to me."

Sasuke flinched. So Scorpio was telling the truth!

"Does Envy mean the eye under your headband? Why do you hide it anyway?" Naruto went on.

Virgo silently began to untie her head protector. She pulled it off so it slipped across her bangs, revealing her eye with a flourish. "Happy now?"

"So Scorpio WASN'T lying!" Sasuke gasped with surprised.

Virgo glared into the shrubbery in the direction of her sisters. "No. She wasn't. There are many more secrets about me and my sisters that you are not fit to know yet. Now what are we going to do to the homunculus."

"We kill it. Duh. Virgo, you are SUCH an idiot!"

Virgo turned in aggression towards the voice. Libra held one arm at the elbow, and was bleeding severely. She smiled weakly. "I mean come on, what else do we do with it?"

"LIBRA! YOU'RE ALIVE!"

"Yeah…"

"What happened to Greed?"

"Is he dead?"

"Is he mortally injured?"

"IS HE SOMETHING?"

Libra chuckled. "Greed is dead. The burusugan found the stones in his body so I removed them, and that's all there is to it." She coughed up blood. "He did get some good hits in…"

"Libra! You need medical attention! Are you okay? What happened to your arm?" Naruto ran around in circles trying to think of what to do. "Oh my God oh my God oh my God…"

Virgo smirked and looked at Capricorn, who just smiled nervously.

Twenty minutes later, Libra's arm was bandaged up and her wounds were healing.

"I thought Scorpio said no one in your family was a medical ninja?" Sasuke asked.

"Capricorn's NOT a medical ninja. He's just a plain doctor. He doesn't use medical jutsu, he uses the manual methods. Ointments and such." Sagittarius replied. Capricorn mixed some leaves into a bowl without even looking at his sister.

"Libra, where is the last injury?" He asked quietly.

Libra looked down at her chest, then around her. "Can you all…"

"We're gone."

"CAN'T I STAY?"

"NO, Naruto!"

The band moved on to the next clearing to allow Capricorn to work on Libra's chest. Akamaru ran off with Sundance to play while the other Elementé children just sat around with Envy, bored. Envy kept up an endless stream of chatter that no one wanted to listen to. That is, up until a certain dark-haired homunculus came up.

"Hello, Envy." She cooed. "Got yourself caught, I see?"

"They have freaky eye powers!" Envy protested.

"LUST!"

Kiba dove on Edward to keep him down. "STAY BOY! SIT!"

"Your pal Greed certainly got WHAT FOR!" Aries punched the air. "Libra took him down in two hours flat!"

"It took Envy even less time than that to seal Greed away," Lust chuckled. "So anyway, we'll be taking our buddy back and leaving!"

"HELL no!" Gemini leapt up and began to create rasengan. Aries did the same with her chidori. "You're not taking him back until you leave us all alone! You'll just take him back and keep looking for the Kyuubi and the Kriinta!"

"I told you, you little girls, the Kriinta is in one of you!" Envy sighed. "Weren't you listening?"

"No, not really." A Sagittarius shadow clone replied. Several others appeared in puffs of red smoke.

"Listen, it's eight against three, and Envy's currently immobile." Taurus made horns come from his head. "Why don't you all just go home and deal with the military in Edward's country?"

Lust sliced through the ropes holding Envy with her abnormal nails. "The military there is boring. They're all too easy to kill, even the Fullmetal boy over there."

Edward growled and glared at the homunculi, debating whether to use alchemy or not.

"You're going DOWN, lady!" Gemini's rasengan was at its peak of power now, so she began to rush the homunculi. Virgo made no effort to stop her, but her sisters sprang forward. It was too late.

Gluttony jumped out of the trees and clamped his mouth over Gemini's rasengan, disabling it and biting into her hand. He tore away, and Gemini fell back screaming. Her hand was torn off at the wrist. No more rasengan for Gemini.

With a leap, Aries swept up her sister and ran back to the clearing, shouting, "CAPRICORN!"

Her sisters and brothers followed her. Virgo stayed back with the homunculi, along with Edward, Alphonse, Sasuke, Naruto and Kiba.

Virgo twitched as Lust pointed at her. "I see. You are the most careless of all. You did not flinch when your sister's hand was bitten off. You did not go back with your siblings. You, Virgo, are the Kriinta."

Virgo scowled and her eye narrowed. This was the reason she isolated her family. The feared cat Kriinta was sealed inside not her body, but…

Edward looked at her. "Kriinta? The seven-tailed cat demon? That's just a story, like Shukaku."

"Shukaku is no more a story than the Kyuubi." Naruto replied. "He's sealed in Gaara."

"The Kriinta is not sealed in me." Virgo said. "I can assure you that. The…"

"The Kriinta is in me."

Scorpio walked from the brush and shrubs to stand beside her sister. Her eyes were dark and her pupils were slits. The green from her eyes was replaced with scarlet red. Small fangs flashed when she spoke. "The Kriinta was sealed in me when I was born." A storm began to brew behind her, thundering and raining. "The power of the seven tail will be your downfall!"

Virgo's arm shot out, barring Scorpio's path to the homunculi. "No. Scorpio, go find the others. Unless I'm mistaken, the others are Sloth, Pride and Wrath."

"Actually, no," Envy chuckled. "Sloth was too busy to accompany us. You'll be facing Pride and Wrath, and they aren't exactly walks in the park."

Scorpio glared at Envy, her fangs growing longer and her blood beginning to boil. "Let me. Virgo, let me…"

"No! Go fight the others. What could happen to our siblings?"

"YEAAHGG!"

Virgo spun around violently and took off for the next clearing.

"Hey, don't scream!" She heard. "We just saved you! Stop screaming!"

"SHUT UP!" This voice sounded more violent. The screaming stopped.

When Virgo arrived, she found Gaara of the sand glaring at her sisters. "Finally, you're here. They wouldn't shut up already."

Beside him lay a tied up Wrath and Pride, who were struggling angrily. A girl with one hand sat on them, kicking them ever so often the shut them up and make them stop. Two boys were talking to her sisters, chatting animatedly while Capricorn tended to Gemini's stump of a hand. Virgo looked at all of this contentedly. Then she realized; Scorpio was still back there.

Her pupils shrank to the diameter of a pin. She dove onto Gaara, shouting, "GEDDOWN!"

"HUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"

Waves of yellow chakra pulsed from the other clearing, destroying trees and other plants in the process. Everyone threw themselves to the ground. Yellow lightning stuck down from the heavens, absorbed by Scorpio, whose energy was overwhelming.

"NOBODY HURTS GEMINI LIKE THAT!"

You could hear her yells clearly, now that the trees were gone.

"NOBODY! NOT EVEN SOME HOMUNCULI WHO THINK THEY'RE POWERFUL! YOU JUST DON'T DO SOMETHING LIKE THAT TO AN ELEMENTÉ CHILD! GEMINI IS PERMANENTLY DISABLED, AND IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT! JUST LIKE VIRGO IS CURSED! AND CANCER HAS A MENTAL ILLNESS! I BLAME YOU FOR IT, NO MATTER WHAT!"

Scorpio was crazy with power. It waved over the homunculi, pushing them back and shredding them to pieces… Repeatedly. It didn't seem to affect the humans.

"The only reason you're collecting is us Akatsuki! You're with them, aren't you? You're with Orochimaru, and Itachi, Sasuke's older brother!"

Sasuke flinched.

"Do you know the pain you have caused him? The nights of suffering? I hate you! First you hurt Sasuke, then you hurt my sisters? What is wrong with you!" Her eyes narrowed and her fangs grew even longer. Yellow tails of bubbling chakra sprouted behind her. "Sasuke, you think you know pain? That is NOTHING compared to how these homunculi are going to feel!"

Then, the chakra waves stopped. The homunculi

Were dead.