sighs After I finish this chapter, it will probably be the end of this story. And then I won't have anything to do. For a while. So ask me to write something for you. If you do, I'll know you read my story and I'll adore you forever.

DISCLAIMER: Jaiyu does not own Naruto. Somehow, she thinks she'll survive.

NOTE: Jaiyu apologizes to all Sakura likers out there. Jaiyu happens to hate her. Sorry.

Recap:

Shinra put her fingers in the ring of a kunai, raising it up to her ear to throw it in his heart. She chuckled darkly, her wings flaring. Her muscles twitched to release the kunai when…

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…a huge black shuriken flew through the air, taking off Shinra's left wing. She roared out, staggering off of Naruto's chest, grasping at the pitiful remainder of her severed wing. Naruto rolled quickly out of the way of the fallen extremity, narrowly avoiding the large thing.

Shinra growled, grasping onto the stub of wing, looking at the weapon that had taken off the extension. "That's…" she growled, looking at the large, cross-shaped shuriken embedded in the ground. She spun around as quickly as she could, looking at the raven-haired man standing atop the partially destroyed building.

"Well, Sasuke. I didn't think you'd even be able to breathe yet."

Sasuke glared at Shinra from the rooftop, leaning lightly against a parapet on the remaining roof. "You know, you aren't good enough to kill me."

Shinra's odd sharingan eyes blazed up, and she pushed herself off the ground, gliding as well as she could towards the Uchiha.

Sasuke's sharingan activated as well, and he jumped, barely avoiding the rouge ninja's full-bodied tackle, but falling off of the ruins of the roof and rolling on the ground. He sat up again, face scrunched up in pain. Naruto dashed over to Sasuke's side, putting a hand on his shoulder gently with a worried look on his face. Sasuke shrugged Naruto's hand off coldly, struggling to his feet. He grasped one of the worst injuries on his left shoulder with his right hand, tugging his massive shuriken out of the ground, spreading his feet and glaring at the ninja on the roof. Shinra glared back down at him, her remaining wing hanging limply from her back.

Naruto suddenly laughed out loudly, pointing at Shinra. "You claim to be this amazing ninja, but you can't even fight now!"

Shinra's eyes narrowed, sharpening her glare. Her vision had been blurring slightly because of the pain, but Naruto's mocking had reawakened the deep rage and hatred that ran rampant in her blood. She snapped the wing straight out, the stub of the other wing trying to do the same. She drew a katana from a strapped down sheath on her leg, poising it to strike as she leapt off the roof in the direction of the two other ninja. She twisted in the air, contorting her wing so that the razor points of the feathertips would add extra damage.

Sasuke adjusted the large shuriken in his hand, his feet settling into a battle stance as Shinra flew at him. He raised the shuriken to block the katana, accidentally sending Shinra's razor sharp wings into Naruto. The Hokage stopped laughing, looking down at the feathers that were puncturing his chest. Shinra flipped away from him, ripping the razors out of him. She slid backwards on the ground, kicking up dust.

Naruto fell, first to his knees, then onto his hands, trying to support himself. He slowly brought one of his hands to one of the deepest wounds in his chest, covering it tightly and dropping entirely to the ground, moaning in pain. Sasuke stepped towards him, stopping when a small shuriken when whirling by his face.

"Where do you think you're going? We never finished our fight. Besides, the Air-Headed Hokage shouldn't have involved himself anyway, but he had to go be all noble." Shinra growled at the last word, chucking a kunai knife down into the ground. She stepped towards Sasuke slowly, a fierce grin on her face.

Sasuke raised the massive shuriken again, almost using it as a shield for half of his body. Even as he moved the weapon, his muscles still squirmed under scars from his previous battle with this rouge ninja.

Shinra moved quickly. She lunged forward, covering half the distance between herself and Sasuke before she had to hit the ground hard with her other foot, launching herself the rest of the way. She drew several kunai and shuriken as she flew towards Sasuke, as well as plucking a razor-sharp feather from the top of her remaining wing. She threw most of the kunai and shuriken from a distance, slashing out with the rest of them when she got close. Once all of her weapons were out of her hands, she thrust the feather forward, stabbing it into Sasuke's chest, pushing herself off his shoulder and landing behind him.

Sasuke fell to the ground, crumpling immediately. Shinra walked up behind him, grinning triumphantly. "So, do you think you'll actually die this time, like a good little boy?"

Sasuke chuckled softly, picking up his giant shuriken very slowly. "No, actually, I think that'll be your job."

With that, he slashed the weapon back behind himself, slicing into Shinra's knees and shins, causing her to fall forward. Sasuke drew a kunai and…

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Jaiyu decided she was done with this chapter, because she was bored with it. Reviews please!

-Jaiyu