Chapter two peoples! Sorry for the shortness of the first one but was strapped for time when I wrote it. I hope you enjoy this cause there is plenty to come.

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It was drinks, singing and fun all around, the Konoha shinobi had warded off an attack by Orochimaru and the Shikage's shadow nins and were celebrating. There was not one person without a smile on their face and the bartender was far to scared to remind them they were underage. Hell even the normally cold prude Azura (formerly of the sand village) was sawing away at his fiddle. "A toast," said Rain holding his glass high "To our skilled Anbu for warding Orochimaru, to Rag Doll for bringing an end to the second Ravage Brother…" Rag Doll shrugged "And to Naruto and all the others fighting to bring Sasuke back!"

"Cheers!" the whole room called. In a place of such joy there was however sorrow, disbite their smiling faces Hyuga Shinn and Hikari Kosei were very worried. They both cared for Sasuke and hated what he was doing. Shinn made a motion to Kosei and they both stepped outside.

"What do you need sensei?" Kosei said with fake enthusiasm.

Shinn pushed the hair from his face and said "every time I looked at him while I was training him, while I saw him going down the street," he let out a heavy sigh "I could always see the pain in Sasuke's eyes."

"So we were thinking the same thing then." Kosei said shrugging. He put a hand on his teacher's shoulder "Sasuke is far to stubborn to listen to us, he won't come home until he has accomplished his goal." He tried to sound as reassuring as he could "There is nothing we can do."

"There is one thing," Shinn said just above a whisper "Yes there is one thing we could do."

"Oh hell no," Kosei took a step or two backwards "You can't be serious."

"You know I am Kosei," Shinn turned and smiled "We could do it if we worked together,"

"I am not hearing this, I'm not hearing this."

"Kosei with my skills and that eye of yours we could out maneuver him, we could take him down." Kosei got a bit nervous at the mention of his eye, he unconsciously rubbed the headband that covered it "Sasuke won't go to Orochimaru if Itachi is dead."

Kosei turned to Shinn with a smirk on his face "You better know what you are doing," Kosei laughed and smiled "Should we tell Rain?"

"No let him have fun," Shinn said "He is half wasted anyway,"

"SPRING TIME OF YOUTH!"

They turned at the sound of Rain's voice and shook their heads. "This is a bit unexpected don't you think? I mean going after Itachi." Kosei said chuckling.

"Yeah," said Shinn "I never saw it coming." He took to steps to the side, reached into a bush and pulled out a huge backpack with bright-embroidered letters reading "ANTI-ITACHI GEAR" on the side. Kosei's jaw dropped to the floor.

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"Three days and still no sign of them," Cannasa said panting; they had not stopped for several hours "I'm beginning to think this is useless."

"Don't be such a downer Cannasa," Rag Doll said "I can carry you if I need to." Cannasa didn't respond he simply took a swig from his flask and looked at Azura. Azura's entire head was covered in a desert style rapping and telescoping goggles covered his sensitive eyes; they made him look rather intimidating. 'The Kage-gen' Cannasa thought to himself 'What powers those eyes have I do not know but the lack of an iris makes them sensitive to bright light' he took another sip 'great night vision though'

"We should keep moving," Azura said stoutly "We must be getting close to them by now." He didn't wait for a response from his teammates he just started running.

"Ass hole!" Cannasa yelled and picked himself up "I'm going to kill him." Rag Doll and him started running after Azura one mad as hell and the other just laughing.

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Shinn and Kosei had been traveling for quite some time now; they never slept only using jutsus to cure fatigue. They both knew something bad was going to happen, they had noticed something following them at least twenty times and it was getting more daring. It had dark chakra as far as they could tell which meant it was a shadow shinobi but they did not know which one. In truth they did not want to know whom it was but funny how life screws us all; they were dodging wooden arms before they knew what was happening. Kosei quickly discarded his pack to allow more speed but Shinn kept his firmly on his back; not risking it getting damaged. It was less then two minutes before the puppets were sawdust but they both knew it was not going to be that easy, only two shinobi from the village hidden in the shadows used puppets and they were both trouble.

"Yaka how nice of you to screw up our day." Kosei said; good guess. Yaka's signature puppet came flying from the shadows and barley missed Kosei's head with it's strike. Shinn heaved his bag at the puppet and knocked it to the ground. They both moved with the speed hundreds of hours of training provided, Shinn drawing two kunai and Kosei drawing a stout katana to deal with the wooden menace. The puppet was indeed swift and managed to avoid many strikes but in the end lost two arms to the skill of Shinn and his student. Kosei moved in after one of Shinn's strikes Kosei cast aside his sword and did three hand seals "Steel Palm Jutsu!" he struck the puppet over and over again turning it into a splintered mess, Yaka finally released the chakra threads and let the puppet fall. Kosei retrieved his sword and Shinn moved to his bag shuffling through until he brought out a pack of explosive tag kunai.

"Are you such a coward Yaka that you won't even face us yourself?" Shinn yelled, "Your supposed to be an elite Junin of the Shadow village for fucks sake."

"We of the shadow don't like to show ourselves unless it is needed Shinn," Yaka appeared behind him and raised a clawed hand to strike "To bad for you that it is right now!" Shinn turned in time to block the attack; he knew that if it wasn't for his gauntlets than he would have lost his forearm right there. He reacted quickly and struck Yaka below the chin sending him sprawling backward then sprung forward and drilled him into the ground with his foot, Yaka gasped for air blood dripping from the corner of his mouth. Shinn moved for another strike but was interrupted by a large impact to his chest that made him take a few steps back; by the thump he heard beside him he assumed Kosei was hit too. When they both came to their senses they saw something they did not expect, a black figure one in front of each of them seeming human yet shapeless at the same time. Shinn reacted on instinct and threw a kunai at it but it passed right through and stuck in a tree far off, which of course proceeded to explode. "Chakra Shades." Yaka said wiping the blood from his mouth "Lets see if you and your brat can deal with this."