I do not own Naruto, and all that stuff.

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Changing the perspective to a different character

Italic either a high pitched shout or someone's thoughts or in the past

Although this is a story for my friends, I have changed the story of Naruto a little to my own will, such as Naruto being Hokage. But I will not explain these changes, so don't bother asking why I didn't.

The following is a story I made for my mates, but it's possible for all you to read as well. It based 20 years on, from the most recent Naruto Chapter, and focuses around our own created characters, plus some people from the show. So your not lost, here's a brief description of each Character.

Ukah Irakizu – A Mist Jounin, who wishes for nothing but to be a disciple of Orochimaru, and his now greatly expanded Sound Nin army. His best friend, Rain, is a member, and he constantly pests her to find a way for him to get in. He is a strong ninja, focusing mostly around Water techniques.

Kaguya Rain – A young nin stolen at the age of 4 by Orochimaru, and has been his disciple ever since. She has forgotten her previous life, but still remembers her brother Kaguya Apoc.

Kaguya Apoc – A Powerful Leaf Jounin, extremely cocky and arrogant. However, he has a much more sensitive side when it comes to the mention of his sister, whom he had thought died ages ago.

Uchiha Exar - He was the second strongest Uchiha of his time, next to Itachi, at only the age of 14, but he died by Itachi's hands defending his parents. After 100 years training in the depths of hell (time is slower in the afterlife then on earth) he was pulled from the netherworld, by a technique developed by Hunoo sage. He broke free of Sage's control, and now lives as a Leaf Jounin. He is extremely fast and focuses around lightning techniques

Honoo Sage – The evil tyrant of his time. Like the Orochimaru 20 years ago, he is one of the strongest Nins, and works solo to conquer and create his own empire. His reputation is well known. As his same suggests, he focuses mainly on fire techniques.

Uchiha Kirai – Born in the Uchiha clan, he was sent away to Cloud village during the Itachi attack, and so his life was spared. Although his mother and father lived as well, they both died later on, when Kirai was still a baby. Without any god-parents, Kirai was driven to grow and live by himself, sometimes high in the mountains. This caused sever lack of sunlight, and a hate for mankind. Later recruited by Konoha, he is now ANBU squad leader for assassinations and torture. He is also a Jounin, but because of his Psychotic lust for killing, lying and death, he was prevented from having a team.

Shadow Brothers

Two S-class missing-nin. Twin brothers, putting their expertise to better themselves, none others. They form their paths from the

Village hidden in the mists. At the age of 5 they killed their mother and father. The brothers graduated from the Ninja Academy at the

Age of 8, and took to a small clan of assassins. Months after they joined into the clan, they slaughtered each member, and took leadership

Of it (Kemuri Clan). Many hired the assassins of this clan, even the two brothers. And thus they began their rise into the society of days. They also specialise in torture. They are Omaki and Karasu Metaru.

Kakuza- Anbu specialist and friend of Uchiha Kirai, Kakuza is a very talented Shinobi, leader of the 1st Original ANBU Leaf Missing-nin hunter force.

Shadow sketcher – A famed Leaf Jounin, expert in the arts of the "Ink Ninja" Profession. His paintings and drawings are known throughout the city, and he has the mischievous habit of making them come to life. Thus, he has been dubbed the "Shadow Sketcher"

Pyro – A cocky Leaf Jounin, he knows many Pyrokinetic techniques that have made him well known around his Jounin buddies, and given the alias "Pyro". He has a large Afro, and is proud of it. He's also the only black in the village, and he holds the legendary "B" Staff.

Ero-senin Jr. – the guy who thinks with his cock 

Hyuuga Demetris – Part of the Branch family, Hyuuga Demetris is a powerfully cocky Leaf Jounin.

Akimichi Shihouin – One of the largest Akimichi's in Konoha. '….

Maiko – One of the most talented and strongest female Jounin's in Konoha. She is the protégé of Haruno Sakura, and has learnt the arts of Medical Ninjas.

Hyuuga Temai – Hyuuga Jounin from the branch family.

Nuth – so to not spoil the story… his background is unknown.

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The boy sitting on the top of the Konoha Mountain was called Uchiha Exar. He was dressed in a slightly torn black robe, tightly covering the top of his body, with black tracksuits and sandals. He also had a spike of long silver hair thrusting out from his forehead. He calmly slept in the coolness of the night breeze, a toothpick gently fidgeting between his teeth, and legs crossing over each other. He had never felt more at peace. This town was not like all the others he had been to; peaceful, polite, and didn't mind him occasionally dropping in. Of course he couldn't stay, he was always on the run… memories of his escape from Hades and then Honoo Sage, filled his nightmares. But right now, he was having a bliss dream. That was of course, until the horrific scream of a young Jounin awoke him.

"Help!" Exar sat up quickly, to quickly, and so the Black scarf around his neck flicked up and smacked him in the eye.

"Ow!" He winced, and whilst rubbing his eye, stood up to get a good view of where the problem was coming from. The city of Konoha was an amazing site, the small un-modernised buildings, perfectly in parallel as they ran in straight lines down the streets. The night wasn't the best time to gaze, as it didn't bring out the brilliant red and orange colours around the city, which glowed brightly from the suns glare. Being so high up, he was clearly able to see where the commotion had come from. On the other side of the city there was a small shack, which seemed to be un-like, the brilliance of all the other Konoha houses. Exar had to focus his eyes to be able to see that half of it had been torn of by some sort of flood. It looked like he would have to check it out. With his calculations, he guessed it was about a 20 minute run from where he was to where the shack was. Exar smirked. Looks like ill be there in 5. If anyone had been watching the silver haired boy sitting on the mountainside that night, they would have seen a brilliant flash of light, and then he disappeared.

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Apoc's eyes were heavy upon him. It took all his remaining strength to lift them, revealing a slightly blurry run-down shack floor. Suddenly he tore them open, and sat up bolt right. He looked all around the room, in a state of panic, and it took him minutes before he realised he was alone. They had got away he thought to himselfUsing the wall to support him, he carefully got up, and winced from the pain. His body was scared all over, but not as much as he was mentally scarred. He couldn't believe he had let them slip, he had become too cocky in the recent weeks, and it was his entire fault they had got away…Honoo sage damaged your pride, and he would not get away with it… It was then that he remembered.

"Mum!" he shouted, as he ran towards the gaping whole in the left of the shack, and splashing through the water he collapsed next to the rigid body of his mother. "Mum!" he shouted again, kneeling towards her with trembling hands. Soft tears trickled down his cheeks, as he reached out and held her in his arms. She was only unconscious, but she must have suffered major injuries. Apoc backed of to see the extent of the damage and to his horror saw she was covered in blood. It was a while before he realised that it was his blood. Carefully he stared down at his arms; his skin had completely charred up. If it wasn't for his powerful skeletal frame, he was sure that fire would have damaged him internally. Luckily, it had only burnt of the face of his skin. His skin was shrivelled up and burnt in many places, and blood dripped of him quickly, as if it were trying to leave the deformed body behind. Although he felt no pain, he knew he would need help soon, or his body would start to get infected.

"Help!" He yelled with all his might, and started to pant breathlessly. The fight had taken too much out of him… he needed to rest… and suddenly the world around Apoc went black.

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Irakizu kicked of the trees to get home more fiercely then ever. He was ecstatic that it had all gone well; he had not only kept his nerve, but even took out some Leaf Nins during the process. He kicked from tree to tree, now on the borderlines of the Fire country, in great anticipation of his soon-to-be reward. He could imagine it now… a unit bowing to him, Orochimaru forever in his debt, Rain giving him a welcome home kiss… he shook his head suddenly, bringing him back to reality. He couldn't have thoughts like that at this time. It still might not go as perfectly as he hoped.

It took him about a day before he reached Sound Village. He had no idea why the meeting with sage had been in Konoha, but Rain had left him a map for his journey home, with the starting point in Konoha's main forest. He had managed to finally follow it all the way to the main destination. The sound village had become a lot more organised during the past years, it was now more like all the other villages, except for one main difference. There were no citizens. Sound village was entirely made up of Shinobi, each one apart of Orochimaru's vast growing empire, and that was probably why it was such a small village. Each building was just a small lodge; however there was a massive Fortress in the centre. The Fortress of (Enter Japanese name for Snake here), as it was dubbed, stretched a kilometre in length and almost the height of a mountain. The entire village was practically made up of the fortress, and it may as well have been, seeing as that's where everyone went. Inside it, were all the academies, training rooms, bars and what have you that any Ninja could possibly need? Irakizu had only visited it twice before, on missions for Mist Village, but he knew it was an incredible place.

He strode up to the main gate, fully confident, and gave it three knocks. It was a moment before a very scrawny looking ninja peered through the door hatch.

"Purpose of visit?" he sighed, as if he had said it a thousand times.

"Private." Irakizu held up his pass. It was a golden badge with a snaked shape crest in the middle.

"Oh right, here you go…" The main pulled back the massive iron doors, and Irakizu stood into the main hall. It was a large room; it ran almost half the length of the entire fortress, with great marble pillars that ran full length of the room, stretching from top to bottom. The floor was also stainless marble, running down the hall, which seemed endless. Irakizu took firm steps along it, and quickened his pace as he started to see other members walk down the halls. If he was rejected, he didn't want to bee seen leaving in shame. He wouldn't have known which the correct door to find Orochimaru was, but he soon found Rain standing boredly outside a large main door. He stared at her for a moment. She looked so good standing the way she was… so sexy. She stretched backwards, putting out her chest whilst yawning peacefully, and flicked out her beautiful purple hair. She had a leather jacket, zipped down to her belly, revealing the purple shirt around her breasts. She noticed Irakizu, and licked her lips provocatively. She strode over to him.

"Hey there…" she didn't give him time to reply. She thrust her head forward slowly, and pressed her lips against his. Just as slowly, she unzipped her jacket, and carefully took of her shirt…

Irakizu blinked. He was looking at Rain, who was slumped boredly against the main door. He wiped his brow… Why am I thinking these things? She smiled suddenly as she noticed him, and quickly ran and gave him a big hug. Irakizu blushed as he felt her breasts against his chest.

"Yeah… I completed the mission." He gulped.

"Great! Orochimaru will see you now" she smiled brightly, and walked back, allowing him entrance. Irakizu stood where he was.

"Something wrong?" she looked puzzled. Irakizu's face was red. He didn't want to move in case it gave away the massive rise in his crotch area.

"Err… no" he took slow steps, and carefully entered the main room.

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Exar stared down at the purple haired boy on the floor. He was pretty sure his name was Kaguya Apoc, a high ranking Jounin Below him on the floor, was also a Jounin, a woman he believed was called Anko. They were both unconscious. The one named Apoc was severely burnt over, and would need medical attention quickly. He sighed, looks like this is going to be another sleepless night. He carefully pulled them both over each of his shoulders, and ran to the Hokage main building as fast as he could. After around 30 seconds, he appeared outside the room of the Hokage, Uzumaki Naruto. Exar noticed the door was unlocked, and creaked it open to see a very frustrated young adult at his desk. From the looks of it, he had been working all night. He looked up startled. Naruto still had the same bright bubbly face, even at this moment, with his spiky blond hair and black shiny whiskers.

"Yeah?" Naruto's proper English was still coming along.

"Delivery…" Exar grunted, and threw in his two passengers. Naruto stood up, and the colour from his face drained.

"Apoc-kun," he ran to his side "what happened?"

"Looks like he was burnt, not sure who did it. And his mother there seems to have taken a heavy hit to the head."

"Argh… this is out of my league. I need to get Sakura-Chan in here."

It only took about 10 minutes, before Medic Nins were pouring into the office, but Exar had been taken outside.

"Walk with me…" Naruto waved his hands at the garden, and Exar reluctantly followed.

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The room Irakizu entered was extremely dark and foggy, quite like the shack he had been in earlier. Waxed candles were the only light source, and the room was filled with smoke. Irakizu brushed past it, making his way to the inner chamber. There, high above on a golden throne stood the leader of sound village. He looked a lot more old and decrypted then before… Irakizu couldn't remember the details, but something had gone wrong with his immortality technique. His eyes had become much more focused and wisdomised… he had seen a lot more violence in the last years.

"Aah," he began in a croaked voice, "The infamous Ukah Irakizu. I've heard a lot about you…" he gestured to a seat in front of him, but Irakizu stood.

"I'll stand." Irakizu tried to sound confident.

"Very well," he nodded to someone behind the chair, and from behind it, stood a young adult "Sasuke… the band." Orochimaru held out his palm, and a Sound Nin headband was placed in it by the one called Sasuke.

"Well," Orochimaru continued, "I take it by the fact that you are alive, that the meeting went well"

"Oh, yes Orochimaru-sama," Irakizu had forgotten about the money in his bag, "the man named Honoo Sage wishes to purchase 12 Elite Sound Nins at the current price" He threw the bag to Sasuke, who caught it mid-air.

"Good… good" Orochimaru got up and walked to Irakizu. "So you wish to join my ranks? Hmm? Well here's the simple task I will give you," he smirked, "this headband represents any man in my Sound army as equal to other members, and therefore, by wearing it, you become apart of my army. If you can get this headband of Sasuke-kun, you will have what you desire." His long tongue licked his grinning lips, and Irakizu gulped. He stared at the young man, who smirked. He had extremely scary eyes. Orochimaru sensed the fear.

"Maybe tomorrow…" Irakizu sighed "I must get some rest now..."

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Exar stared at his feet. Naruto was in deep thought with himself in the corner. It was a while before either of them spoke. Exar broke the silence.

"Look, I know you think I just saved them because they were there at the time, and your maybe right," he sighed "but I must admit I have been looking for a placement here" Naruto didn't seem the least bit phased by this.

"I know," he stated, "what I'm troubling over is how to test you. By your age, it would be strange to put you in the academy, so I believe I need a chance to test your skills and acquire your level." A smile suddenly appeared on his face. "That's it then," Exar looked at him quizzically, "tomorrow, when he gets back from his latest trip, you will fight Uchiha Kirai, our top Jounin and ANBU squad leader." Naruto smiled with himself, pleased with his decision. Exar was hesitant,

"Uchiha Kirai? Isn't he that psycho?" Naruto frowned

"Actually… he just happens to have a bit of a bad past. He's Anbu for assassination and torture, and has always taken every mission I give him without questions."

"So he's a loner?"

"How should I know? People just sometimes find his… "Lust" for killing a bit strange. But with all respect, those people don't know what he's had to go through in his life. He's had it rough."

Exar looked of into the night sky, and started to count the stars.

"Alright." He simply said. Naruto took this as his sign to leave, and quickly walked back to the medical room. Exar sighed again. If only they knew how rough MY life has been… The sun was just rising, signalling the start of Saturday. It's going to be a long day…

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The Dojo Orochimaru had chosen was the brightest room in the Fortress. Its shiny wooden floorboard was slippery to walk on, and it had 4 large pillars on each corner of the room, made completely of gold. It felt like the room wasn't meant to be here, completely out of place to the rest of the fortress, which was dark and creepy. Irakizu entered through one of the Slide doors, to see Sasuke and Orochimaru awake and ready for him. He hadn't got much sleep; the fight was brooding on his mind too much. From his thoughts, he had figured it would be better to make it a long range fight. Getting up close with a Sharingan user wouldn't be the best option.

"Morning, Irakizu-kun" Orochimaru said. He had a huge grin on his face. Obviously he doubted Irakizu's ability's. Irakizu stepped up to the opposite side of the room to sasuke, who was wearing a white Samurai robe. Irakizu was dressed in his previous Mist Jounin Uniform, before he had become a missing-nin. He had a large glass container in his right hand. Sasuke saw it, and smirked.

"Planning on using water techniques eh?" He chuckled. Irakizu's eyes widened, so he knows it's filled with water… It was true; he needed a medium body of water to be able to launch his techniques. He hoped this container would be enough. He carefully rested it on a bench to the side, and got into his stance. Sasuke's face turned from a smirk into a glare, he was pissed of with Irakizu's lack of fear. He got into a stance as well and Orochimaru raised his hand.

"Now remember, the objective here is to obtain the headband in Sasuke's pocket, by any means necessary." Both the boys nodded.

"3"

"2"

"1"

"Go"

Sasuke reached deep into his pouch, pulling out a combination of Shurikens and Kunais in between his fingers. He swung his hand, flinging them all at Irakizu's direction. Irakizu drew a kunai, preparing himself, but the weapons flew right past him. He then realised there true target was the container. Almost as instantly as Irakizu turned around, Sasuke launched himself after him. Irakizu hesitated. He needed to make a decision now, and it needed to be quick. He turned to face sasuke, and the instruments smashed into the container. As the water was flung into the air, Irakizu quickly performed a seal.

"Mizu Bunshin no jutsu!" the water suspended in the air quickly span in circles, and formed an identical copy of Irakizu. Sasuke had reached the Original Irakizu by now, spinning his left foot on the floor; he span-drove his right foot into Irakizu's neck. The impact sent Irakizu sprawling to the left of the dojo, but he quickly recovered. The fake copy dashed at sasuke, throwing a fist into the direction of his jaw. Sasuke moved his head to the right an inch, evading the punch with Irakizu's hand only clipping his left ear. Sasuke smirked, and threw his fist into his chest. It was only then that sasuke realised he couldn't move his arm. He looked behind him, to see 6 Irakizus holding onto his right arm. Dammit, how much water was in that container? Sasuke thought to himself, and quickly span round, throwing the clone in front of him into the others behind. The collision splattered 4 of them all over sasuke, who was now wrenched in water. The other two Irakizu's charged blindingly forward into sasuke, who smashed a roundhouse kick into both of them, again covering himself in water. He panted a bit, and then turned to see the original Irakizu… surrounded by 10 clones. Sasuke spat, and performed a large amount of seals

"Horse! Tiger!" Sasuke put his hands to his mouth, and yelled "Goukakyuu no Jutsu!" The heat instantly rose in his mouth, and he fiercely blew outwards a massive flamed ball, which blew into the Irakizus. 6 were instantly incinerated, there water thrown over the room into Sasuke's face. "Gah!" he quickly rubbed his eyes, and opened them to see another 4 Irakizus charging towards him. "What's the deal with these pointless attacks!" Sasuke's temper flared, and he performed seals at an immense speed. Irakizu could have sworn for a moment, that he saw Sasuke's eyes form into a weird shape. "AMATERASU!" he screamed, and suddenly, an immense inferno covered the room. Irakizu's eyes widened, the room seemed like it was about to explode. The roomed rocked and shook like and earthquake, a massive black fire surrounding Sasuke's body, and he roared insanely. "DIE!" The massive beam shot out towards Irakizu, tearing the floorboards with its very force. Irakizus eyes widened, as a black inferno enveloped him.

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Sasuke's had a maniac grin stretched across his face. He panted heavily, got the little barstard once and for all. He waited for the dust to clear, and walked over to the gaping hole that had now formed in the wall. He stared out, to see nothing but a stream below. He turned around, and saw something. Standing on the other side of the room, with the same fearless expression as before, was Ukah Irakizu. Sasuke gritted his teeth, and began to stride forward. Before he could move another foot, Irakizu performed a few seals quickly,

"Hyourou no Jutsu!" he yelled, and Sasuke's eyes widened. He could no longer move.

"Imposs-." He stopped, as he suddenly realised where he was. He was standing in the middle of a massive puddle of all the former Irakizu's water. He was also still covered in water from before. The jutsu began to take effect, and before he could do anything else, the water around him began to freeze. Suddenly, Icicle spikes burst upwards, enveloping his body completely in one giant ice cube. Sasuke was frozen before he could even scream. Irakizu panted hard, and fell to the floor. It had cost him a lot of Chakra to make all those clones, but the plan had worked. He got up, and walked over to Sasuke's body, smashing away the ice around his pockets. He reached into them, pulling out his well deserved Sound Headband. He heard clapping sounds, and looked around to see Orochimaru. He had forgotten he was there.

"Well done, well done," he stared with a surprised expression on his face "I didn't expect that at all." Irakizu walked over to him, and tied the headband around his head.

"A pleasure to be working with you." He said.

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Naruto had guided Exar out into the courtyard, but he hadn't needed to. Exar would've been able to tell which of the people Kirai was from a mile off. He sat rigid on a rock, one knee bent and the other relaxed. He had snow white hair, coming down to his eyes, which looked extremely cold and thin. His face was also very pale, almost as if he was dead. He didn't even glance up at Naruto as they entered; instead, he got of the rock and closed his eyes.

"Hey Kirai! How you been?" Kirai didn't answer. "Ah well, im sure you got my message, so here's your opponent, Uchiha Exar." Exar stepped out from behind, and Kirai gave him a sinister stare. His eyes were completely serious. Exar frowned; he wasn't so used to being stared at in such a hateful way.

"Yo" Exar waved. Kirai just stared at him, and suddenly, his eyes closed into a "" Shape, and a smile grew across his cheeks.

""Yo" Exar-kun" he said, and licked his lips. Exar stared at him, baffled. Naruto looked a bit concerned; this is how he gets before a fight… He thought.

"Hey Kirai," Naruto interrupted, "This isn't a fight to the death you know…" Kirai kept on smiling.

"Oh well" Kirai muttered. Exar was beginning to get a bit pissed of with his expression.

"Let's start!" he smiled pleasantly. And before Naruto could even speak, Exar dashed towards Kirai.

Exar dashed towards him at immense speed. The smile on Kirai's face instantly dropped, and he pulled up his left sleeve. Exar's eyes widened as he saw what was there. Tiny needles were attached inside his skin on his left arm, loosely stuck into his skin. Just as Exar got close, Kirai swung his left arm, causing 8 needles to fly out towards Exar's neck. The needles drew in closer, 10 feet, 5 feet, 1 inch… Kirai smiled, but then Exar disappeared. Kirai thought he was imagining things at first, but the needles had gone straight past, all the way to the other side of the courtyard. He span around, to see Exar literally inches away from him, charging just like he had been before. It was as if he had never moved at all. What speed… Kirai thought, As Exar made his attack. He thrust his knee upwards towards Kirai's chest, but Kirai managed to see it in time, holding the knee down and pushing of it in an attempt to counter with a head butt. Exar smirked, and disappeared again.

"Impossible!" Kirai hissed, and looked down, to see Exar standing just below him. Exar took full advantage of the moment, and moving incredibly fast, pummelled his fists into Kirais chest as he was still mid-air. Exar rammed fist after fist into his stomach, moving at such speed Kirai hadn't even landed yet. Exar continued to pummel and smash away at his ribcage, and then finished it off with a large swing into his jaw. The final attack sent Kirai sprawling into the ground, making a crater as he smashed into the water fountain behind. Exar panted hard, and wiped the sweat from his brow.

"Game over." He stated, and slowly turned back to Naruto. However, as he turned around, he heard a slight rumbling from behind him. He turned back round again, to see a dust covered Kirai standing amidst the rubble with the same happy expression on his face. Except this time, it looked a bit more Maniacal then it did happy. Exar smirked, "you don't know when to give up do you?" and with that, he dashed of again towards Kirai, but was frozen in his tracks. Kirai had opened his eyes, and he was staring right into Exar's with an insane glare. Exar's eyes suddenly widened with horror. Such murderous intent… His mind was suddenly full of dark images; he saw his mum die again just like she had all those years ago, he saw his own death, he saw all the years he had spent in the dark depths of hell… he saw new death, he saw the village of Konoha burn, he saw an Inferno of blood…Exar was unable to move, his whole body trembled from head to toe. He had never felt so sick in all his life, never felt so cold. Kirai smirked at the stiff person in front of him, and wiped the dust from his hands.

"Kanashibari no jutsu…" he murmured, and slowly performed 2 seals. Exar realised that he had murmured another jutsu, but he didn't hear it. He was to busy fighting of the images in his head to worry about the next attack. He collapsed to the floor, and violently threw up. It was then that the illusions suddenly stopped, for he felt a terrible pain all over his body. He lifted his head, and saw that each of his limbs was being ripped into by vicious snakes, around 6 in total, all coming from the sleeves of Kirai's shirt. He screamed as one of them dug into his left arm, as blood gushed out of his arms, splattering over the lush grass below like red paint staining a perfect picture. Naruto realised it had gone out of hand, and was about to intervene, when Exar screamed,

"NO!" Exar frantically rolled on the floor, causing 2 of the snakes to get squashed off him, and he carefully removed the others. He looked up suddenly, just in time to see Kirai launch another wave of snakes from his sleeves, and sending them springing towards Exar's neck. Exar quickly devised a plan, and launched himself directly at the snakes. Moving at an immense speed, he evaded through all of the snakes, now in clear path of a very vulnerable Kirai. He raised his fist upwards shakily, his speed giving him not much control, but he managed to slam it down directly into Kirai's Jaw. Kirai flung back like a rag doll across the yard, smashing into the courtyard Oak tree, causing it to collapse on top of him. Exar took in deep breathes and panted again, except he kept an eye on the tree this time. He wanted to be ready for a surprise attack, in case he got up. But Kirai had no intent of that. Carefully, pushing the tree aside, he rose to his feet again. The same smile written all over his face, as if it was mocking Exar's feeble attempts to hurt him. Except this time, it was covered in blood. The tree must have somehow scraped him, because he now had a long gash across his forehead, causing blood to seep out. Exar stared in shock at the gash in his forehead.

"Stay down!" he roared

"No thank you Exar-kun."

"What the hell is wrong with you! Don't you feel pain!" Kirai licked his lips… and started to wipe the blood of his forehead...

"This…" he stood up fully, brushing of the splinters from his face,

"Is getting interesting…" slowly, he began to perform seals, with Exar still captivated by the gash on his forehead,

"This is getting interesting Exar-kun!" he spoke normally with a large grin on his face, but suddenly, he brought his hands up forward and yelled "Daitoppa!" Suddenly, Exar felt wind rush towards Kirais hands, and almost as suddenly, it flew at him. The wind soared across the courtyard, levelling everything in its way, causing a massive crater underneath it as it moved.

"Shit!" Exar yelled. There was no way he could escape it in time, he could only brace himself. As he brought his arms up to cover his eyes, he felt as if a bulldozer had just smashed into them, flinging him backwards across the yard. The wind scythed and cut into his skin, tearing flesh, and eventually threw him down into the courtyard stone wall. Exar smashed into it helplessly, and lay under the rubble. Kirai panted hard, and Naruto gazed horrifically at the courtyard. It was completely decimated. Naruto was about to rush for aid, he didn't need a dead Shinobi on his hands let alone Apoc and Anko in the medical ward. But suddenly, something stirred from the rubble at the end of the yard. Very slowly, a hand broke out of the top of the rubble, and Exar pushed his way upwards. He steadily rose to his feet, and breathed hard, his body soaked in blood and dust. Naruto gazed at him in horror, how much stamina do these two have? Just as Exar's eyes were brought back into focus, Kirai was already on the move, dashing at him with incredible speed, almost as fast as Exar's speed was earlier. Exar was still too wounded from the last attack to move, and could only guard the punch with his fists. A searing pain rushed up his hands, as he saw two Kunais stuck into his knuckles. Kirai had managed to put them between his fingers, so quickly, Exar hadn't noticed until it was too late. He groggily fell to his knees, and gazed up at Kirai, the happy expression still on his face. He put a kunai between each finger on his fist, and drew back for one final punch. Exar had to think fast, it was now or never. Before Kirai could smash into Exar's neck with his fists once again, Exar ducked forward, going head-first into Kirai's bull sack. For the first time in the match, Kirai didn't have the happy smile on his face…instead, it was complete puzzlement. He obviously had never experienced the pain he was feeling now before, but all he knew was that it hurt a lot. Exar rolled over on the floor, and attempted to stand, however he only managed to knee. He needed a battle plan, and he needed one fast. He was nearly out of stamina, and he was losing blood fast, but his Chakra levels were still at maximum. If he wanted to win, he would need to strike him quick with one powerful Chakra attack. He smirked. Guess I might as well use "that".

He quickly performed 4 simple seals, and suddenly felt a surge of chakra fill his right hand. He tried to control it; he dragged up his left hand up his right arm, focusing all his chakra into his right palm. The enormous Chakra revealed itself, a massive spark of blue energy all over his right hand.

"Chidori!" he screamed, and the Chakra settled into a bright blue ball. He drew it back carefully, and aimed for Kirai, who was still standing dazed, his hands holding his crotch area. One strike, that's all I need… my advanced speed should increase the deadliness of this attack 10 fold… I hope its enough. He swung his Chidori-held hand backwards, its very motion causing the wind to rush away, and instantly dashed for Kirai. His speed was immense, he covered half the enormous courtyard in half a second, closing in on his target, he rammed his hand forward, and dashed the last few steps. Right into Kirai's chest. The Chidori ripped into his skin like paper, chewing into his ribcage and resting inches away from his heart. Blood splattered out over Exar's face, and oozed over the floor below. Kirai stared motionless, his eyes wide open, jaw-dropped. If it wasn't for his slow breathing, Exar would've thought he was dead. He withdrew his hand slowly out of Kirais chest, and looked into his blood soaked hand. He had hoped he would never have had to use that technique again, but this situation had become a bit too extreme. He sighed; gazing into his stained hand brought back memories, bad ones. That was of course, until Kirai grabbed hold of it. Exar's eyes opened up large, and he looked up into Kirai. Kirai's face was now calm and straight forward; his smile disappeared as if it had never been there. Kirai's blank eyes met with Exar's.

"Very interesting, Uchiha Exar" the grip on Exar's hand tightened, and Kirai threw him into the air with a massive show of strength. Exar couldn't believe it. He had cut him, pummelled him, he'd practically stabbed him but he still came back for more. Its as if he enjoys the thrill of the fight, Exar thought, whilst still high in the air. He quickly snapped back to reality, and noticed Kirai was performing a jutsu below. Without thinking, Exar quickly performed 4 seals, dragged his hand up, and started to charge Chakra into his palm again. But suddenly, the chakra flow cut of, and it poofed away in a powder of smoke from his hand. Exar had forgotten, he'd already lost a lot of chakra from his Chidori, and he quickly rushed to do another move, but it was too late. He barely managed to hear the murmuring of Kirai below, but he knew enough Ninjutsu to make out what he said.

"Kokuryuu Boufuusetsu!" Kirai thrust his hands forward again, releasing a massive black wave. The wave swam into a circle, and slowly manipulated out into a gleaming Black dragon. The dragon soared upwards towards Exar, at an amazing speed. Through Exar's eyes, he saw a massive darkness crushing towards him, and it enveloped him as quickly as it had moved. The dragon smashed clean through his chest, ripping through a massive whole. Blood and guts ripped out through his torso, sprawling all over the sky like a massive fireworks display. Exar's face was emotionless, the pain was immense, and the dragon seeped through continuously. It finally soared out the other end, curling into the sky. Exar dropped to the ground slowly, falling helpless. The dragon span around in the air, and made its way for another attack. It rushed down, aiming for Exar's head, mouth open wide in an attempt to crush him once for all. Exar hit the ground with a thud, and stared blankly at the beast that was about to consume him…

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A lone figure entered a dark misty room. The figure was too dark to make out, and made his way casually to the other end of the room.

"I need your help" the figure spoke towards two individuals on the other corner of the room.

"Is that going to be the only reason you ever visit us?" one of them muttered

"Omaki and Kerasu... you know me, I would've have come unless this was serious, it's my first job and id rather not get my hands dirty."

"And so you think we want to?" the man named Omaki muttered again. The shadowy figure threw a money bag towards the two brothers, and there eyebrows rose.

"How much is in there?" Omaki whispered

"60'000 yen, I trust you to do this well…"

"Aye aye, you know us, we always get it done right…" Omaki grabbed the bag quickly.

"Who is the target…" it was the first time Kerasu had spoke

"Kaguya Apoc." The lone figure stated.

"Consider him dead."

"So what's the barstard done?" Omaki chuckled

"Wasted the time of a very powerful individual…"

"Oh, it's always the same…" the two brothers got to there feet.

"You've changed man, seem a lot more serious now."

"I've got a new job… it needs a bit more seriousness to it."

"Alright, well later…" the brothers left the room, but Omaki stopped in the doorway, and turned back.

"You sure you're ok… Irakizu?"

Irakizu smiled menacingly,

"I'm better than ok."