Well, After finishing chapter 4, I'm back onto the fifth chapter. It's fun having cliffhangers, but it sucks because I can't just ignore it. I have to finish it! Gaaa! And of course the almighty disclamer where I tell you that I surprisingly don't own the series. Enjoy chapter 5!

(start story)

Kyuubi flew back a few hundred of feet, the battle appearing to be over. Shikaku walked over, his hand slowly forming ino a sharp sword, using some of the sand that solidified into glass to form the sharp edge. He knew he won, and he wasn't about to waste the opportunity. Kyuubi lifted his head weakly and grinned. Shikaku, however laughed as a very large sword was brought down on the fox beast's heart.

Kyuubi laughed at Shikaku as he dissiapered in a puff of smoke.

"Kage Bunshin" The real Kyuubi appeared, along with five others surrounding the raccoon. "The kit's idea, and a very good one at that." Shikaku looked around in horroras six Kyuubis surrounded him. Wait, there was only one real Kyuubi. Ther other five were-

Shikaku gaped at the clones. Normally, Kage Bunshin created exact copies, but the clones were differnt than the original. They each had blue flame like designs along the bodies, a seal on the stomachs, and the Konoha Leaf symbol on the forehead. Also, the chakra was more blue than red.

"Son of a -" Shikaku was cut off as six simutanous Katon Goukakyuus were unleashed onto the poor raccoon. As fast as he could, he raised as strong of a sand wall as he could to block all of the fire attacks, but he just wasn't fast enough. The flames got through the sand wall and torched the raccoon as it shreiked in pain.

Meanwhile, in Konoha, those that were still alive are yelling in agony. The last fire attack was nothing compare to this. People were being cooked alive, the streets were boiling, houses were falling apart, and the Hokage, who was outside rushing people into the mountain caverns, was fried. The normally cool caverns only acted like an oven in the intense heat. All of this, however, escaped the attention of everyone.

The Kyuubi's halted thier attack as the clones dissiapered. However, he was noticably smaller now, using up so much chakra at once. Shikaku, on the other hand, was now a giant glass figurine. Picking up a tree with his tail, Kyuubi chucked it at Shikaku, shattering the glass. However, the demon raccoon was still alive, though lost much sand to the attack. Sizing each other up, they both were similar heights.

"It ends now!" Kyuubi exclaimed.

"Agreed, I am going to defeat you!" Shikaku retorted. Gathering up all of thier remaining chakra, the two monsters prepared themselves for a final attack. The winner will go on to destroy everything. The looser will be dead.

Five miles away, the villiagers were slowly getting up, assesing the damage. Some of the weaker elderly and infints had dies from the excessive heat and many had recieved burns. They looked back to see the demons gather huge balls of chakra in thier mouths. Kyuubi had a deep red orb, mixed with a swirl of blue, and Shikaku had a dark brown color to it, the color of bloody sand. Fully powered, both had shot the beams at each other, colliding and exploding in midair, creating a huge explosion, wiping out half of Konoha. The escaping villiagers didn't fare any better, as all but the very strong shinobi had died from the huge blas and getting slammed into various objects.(A/N think of hyper beam from Pokemon)

The last thing Naruto remembered was yelling at Kyuubi to stay, a facefull of sand, and something about shadow clones.He slowly stirred as he recognized his surroundings almost immediatly. A sewer like maze, with a cage at the center. Having traversing this place many times in his dreams, he went to where Kyuubi is, or was. Sure, the cage was there, but the door was forced open, the lone peice of paper was on the ground, torn in two and mostly burnt. He cursed all that existed and wished that this was all a dream. Being stuck in here, Naruto decided to take a peek inside the cage. What he saw, however, surprised him greatly. At first, it was only a back wall, but it disolved. Inside now, was the exit of another cage, forcibly opened in a smilar manner. But instead of sewers, it opened up to a sandy corridor. Then he noticed something. There was sand on his side of the cage, while the other side was marked from fire.

"Kyuubi opened Skikaku's cage" a familer red haired sand-nin appeared and explained "While Shikaku opened Kyuubi's. I don't think that they intended it, but the fury of meating each other had busted it.

Naruto, not as surprised as he thought he should be, responded. "But what about the seals? Arn't they meant to keep them in?"

"Yes, the seal in you was protected from Kyuubi's power, but not Shikaku's, and vice-versa. Essentially, they found a loophole." Gaara explained as he stood next to Naruto. As for the connection, well it's a bit harder to explain. I figure that when the two demons noticed each other, they attacked and destroyed the other cage. Though i was breif, it was all that was needed. Now, however, I believe that we are in a final ditch struggle to the death. he final attack if you will. Hard to tell who's winning" Gaara sat on the floor, not really caring about what's going on.

"Well, let's stop them! push them back in, or atleast integrate them into ourselves. If we don't then they will destroy everything and kill everyone!" Naruto yelled, but the only response was a shrug. "Besides," he tried to move Gaara, "it will mean that we are weak." That finially stirred him. He stood up and faced Naruto.

"I'm not weak." He said matter o' factly. Naruto nodded and they went into thier respective cages. Simutaniously, they made a series of seals, facing the broken cages. "Seal!" They yelled before dissapearing.

Outside, the monsters continued thier beams, in a dead lock, neither one willing to budge. Suddenly, Shikaku let out a scream as it slowly deepened and began to be recognizeable as Gaara's. Kyuubi, had also been battleing his inner shinobi, but was having more success. His chakra was playing tug of war between red and blue, and it looked like red was winning.

"Get out of my way kit! Damn you I'm in control!" kyuubi howled as blue was slowly gaining foot.

"This...is...my...BODY!" with the last part yelled the red chakra was fully subdued. Still in demon forms, Naruto looked at Gaara and nodded, getting the same reaction. In a puff of smoke, both were on the ground, barely concious. Sitting acroos from each other, leaning against a tree, Naruto raised his thumb.

"No, you arn't weak." he chuckled and they both blacked out.

(end story)

Wow, there ya go. The battle is over, Konoha is in ruins, and nearly everyone is dead. What will happen now? PLease R/R!