The Best

Robin moved her neck back and forth, earning a popping sound. Another popping sound came as she stretched out her arms and flexed her fingers. With a sigh as pulled her arms back to her and push them out above her, trying to stretch as much as possible. As her mind grasped the memories of the night before her heart clenched.

"You fell asleep?"

"No." Robin looked over to see Itachi standing in her doorway. "I meditated all night."

"Why?" A cold smirk danced across her face.

"You shall see soon enough."

Setsuko jumped off her bird, followed by Yoko. After a small thank you the bird disappeared in a cloud of smoke.

"Setsuko-sama-" Yoko began but was cut off by Setsuko.

"Yoko, this is when you hang back and let me do the fighting. You-"

"Are going to die today." Setsuko's head snapped up in the direction of the eight Akatsuki. Robin looked over Setsuko's shoulder to see the groups from the Leaf and the Sand arrive. "Who do you guys want?" Itachi remained motionless as the others grinned cruelly at the Leaf and Sand shinobi.

"Does it really matter?" A woman spoke. Her long black hair was tied in a pony tail as she removed her straw hat.

"Itachi's mine." Sasuke hissed to the others. Over hearing this, Kisame grinned.

"Did you hear that, Itachi? You little brother wants to fight you pretty bad!" Lee dropped into a deep stance with his eyes on Kisame as Gai spoke.

"Because of his sword Lee will take Kisame." The woman with black hair barked out a harsh laugh.

"Looks like your fight is decided, Kisame."

"Naruto-kun is mine." Robin demanded, startling Naruto. "I have to see once and for all who deserves to be the best fighter in the Uzumaki clan." She turned her cold, emotionless eyes to the other woman. "Kaori. Take on Jiraiya." Robin felt a smirk tug at her lips. "He should be no match for you."

"Hai." A pale, thin man smirked as his spiked black hair was revealed when he removed his hat.

"I will take both the Hyuuga."

". . . Kento, you won't take longer than a minute to disable them both." Itachi muttered. Kento smiled.

"I don't think so. If they're Hyuuga, then I might break a sweat." Kento sent Itachi a smirk. "And what about you? Just your little brother?"

"It appears he wants it that way." Itachi watched as Sasuke tried to calm himself, remembering Sakura's words.

"I want the fan girl." A dark skinned man muttered to the others. His black eyes stared down Temari. "I will take Pinky too. What about you, Sasori?" A large mane grinned cruelly as puppets began to emerge from the ground.

"I'll fight Gai. I want to see how my puppets stand up to a Taijutsu specialist." The last man laughed at his partner's statement. "That leaves you with Kakashi, Deidara." Deidara, the last of the eight members smirked.

"I suppose that will be alright. After all, Setsuko is Ai's, yeah." Several puppets shot out of the ground near Setsuko and grabbed onto her, restraining her. Vines and branches nearby came to life and aided the puppets.

"What the hell!" Kakashi moved to help his wife but he ended up having to jump back because of a clay bird flying towards him. It exploded, the blast barely avoiding Setsuko. Kakashi glared at Deidara and revealed his sharingan. The male Akatsuki smirked cruelly at him as a mouth opened on each palm.

"This is gonna be fun, yeah." Kakashi glared at her before moving his hands through a set of seals and letting a stream of fire out towards Deidara, baking his clay birds and spiders. Meanwhile, Hinata and Neji both dropped into their family stances. Kento smirked and dodged each strike as the two cousins attacked in unison. He grabbed their wrists and swung them both to the side.

"Hinata-sama, summon a dragon while I distract him."

"Hai!" Hinata bit her thumb and ran through the seals, slamming her hand down onto the ground. Smoke blocked her from view as she felt herself being lifted up into the air on top of something. She watched as the cloud of smoke cleared to reveal a long white dragon. It shot forward, already anticipating her command and struck at Kento. The Akatsuki member leapt up high into the air and avoided the dragon. However, Neji appeared in front of him, moving quickly to cut off his chakra. Yet Kento managed to block at the hits and evade the dragon once more. He flipped in the air and landed on his feet.

"Pathetic. I thought two Hyuuga would be a challenge." The two Hyuuga charged forward once more, their movements coordinated.

Sasori had a wicked glint in his eyes as his puppets fought Gai. Gai had barely avoiding poisoning so far. But it was only a matter of time before his deadly puppets struck true. He watched in satisfaction as a puppet hit Gai across the face. He let out a low chuckle as poison dripped from the gash across Gai's face.

Setsuko felt the vines and branches cut into her flesh while she watched the others fight. The cold metal pressed hard against her skin.

"Yoko!" Setsuko yelled to her cousin. "I need you to try and get these restraints off me!" Yoko looked slightly shaken.

"But I don't know how-"

"Just do something! I need to help!" Yoko nodded and began to try and pry off the puppets.

Temari panted as she swung her fan again. The dark skinned man smirked as he hit Sakura in the stomach, sending her flying back. Temari jumped up into the air and caught Sakura, gently placing her on her feet once she touched the ground again. Sakura nodded her thanks while holding her stomach.

"How do you suppose we can take him down? All he's done so far is to dodge any attacks we throw at him and then knock us around." Temari grinned at Sakura.

"Well, I suppose we just force him to take us seriously." Sakura smirked and cracked her knuckles.

"I think I can do that."

Lee winced as he was thrown to the ground. Kisame laughed as he swung his sword above his head and brought it down roughly on Lee. Lee barely rolled out of the way, having a sleeve torn to shreds from the sword. Lee sent a powerful kick towards Kisame's head but Kisame used the base of his sword to block the kick, swreading part of Lee's leg warmer. Lee did several back flips away from Kisame and dropped into a deep stance. Kisame smirked as he charged forward, sword raised up high.

Itachi showed no emotion as he dodged a punch from Sasuke. He did grunt when Sasuke twisted around landed a firm kick into his older brother's ribs. Itachi jumped away from his brother and let loose a large ball of fire. Sasuke rolled out of the way and hurled several kunai towards him.

"Very good, little brother." Itachi deflected the kunai with one of his own.

"Bastard." Sasuke hissed, trying hard not to lose his temper.

Kaori dodged Jiraiya's attacks with ease. With a cold laugh as rolled to the side and avoided a mudslide.

"Look around you sannin. Everyone is falling because you are a foolish old pervert. And that's why I'll beat you." Kaori held out a hand to reveal it covered in a fine powder. She blew the powder off of her hand and let it fill the air. Kaori made a handseal and watched as the powder multiplied. Jiraiya blew fire from his mouth to try and burn the powder but it was too late. The powder solidified and formed large red crystals. Jiraiya finally got a good look at her forehead protector.

"So, you're a from the Cloud. You belong to that Shouka bloodline." Kaori smirked.

"I am the sole heir to the Shouka bloodline, thanks to Konoha's Yellow Flash! The bastard wiped out most of my family in the Great ninja Wars." The crystals grew as she blew more powder into the air. "And you're the one who taught that bastard! So I'll take my revenge on you!" Jiraiya made a series of hand seals and spat large balls of fire. However, creatures made of the red crystal had emerged from the crystals and batted away the fire balls.

Naruto spat out blood as he stood. Robin had just sent him tumbling back with a right hook. She smirked as she looked down at him. Naruto charged forward, pulling back to punch Robin. His cousin jumped up into the air and flipped over him, landing and kicking out behind her and into Naruto's back.

"Ahh!" He cried out in surprise as she spun around and kicked as he landed on the ground. Robin jumped back a fair distance and summoned her naginata.

"Naruto!" She yelled. "Fight me with everything you got!" Naruto looked back at his cousin and stared in disbelief.

"Look at what you've become." He whispered. Raising and eyebrow, Robin smirked.

"I like what I've become. I am acknowledged here. Back in Konoha I was just an Uzumaki. Here I am the Emotionless Executioner. And I wouldn't want it any other way." Robin lunged forward, sweep her naginata in an arch and narrowly missing Naruto as he jumped back.

"But you aren't known for Uzumaki Robin. You're known for just being a tool." Naruto ran through a series of seals and spat out mud. Robin jumped high in the air, dodging the mudslide. When she landed, Naruto was there with a punch. Robin was hit in the jaw but se managed to kick out and throw him back into the ground.

"That's what a ninja is!" Naruto disappeared in a golden flash and Robin barely had time to bring up her naginata to block the punch. Robin leaned back and avoided a punch from Naruto. Her leg kicked up and hit Naruto in the chin as she flipped back. With ease Robin landed and dropped down deep with her naginata ready. Naruto held out his hand and formed a rasengan. With a smirk Robin focused chakra into her naginata and began to twirl it. She twirled her favored weapon in front of her and channeled more chakra into it as Naruto slammed his rasengan into it. Robin was pushed back nearly ten feet. With a cold grin she lunged forward, this dropping her naginata to the ground as smoke arose from it. As she came closer to him, Naruto threw a punch. Robin ducked under the punch and slammed her fist into his stomach. As Naruto started to rise from the sheer force, Robin head butted him. The Uzumaki vessel flew back twelve feet before hitting the ground and tumbling to a stop.

"H-how . . . ." Robin jumped back and slid her foot under her naginata. With ease she kicked it up into her hand. "How-"

"-did I withstand a rasengan? Dear cousin, that's one of your favorite moves from you father, the fourth. You used it plenty of times when we sparred. To reduce the power all I had to do was channel more chakra into my naginata spin it clockwise with you rasengan. It took me a whole two weeks of nonstop work to find that weakness. And then to be able to preform it? I've just now got it down. Good thing, too." She dashed forward and slammed a punch where Naruto's head once was. Naruto had managed to duck under her punch and kick her feet out. Robin was able to do a handspring to avoid falling and landed a ways away from him. Robin rammed the blade of her naginata into the ground and let go of it. She dropped into a low stance and held one arm stretched out in front of her and one arm stretched out behind her. She shifted her weight onto her back foot and then shifted it to her front foot. "I know as many powerful jutsus as you. I know how to counter every one of you jutsus. Not only that, but I've studied the Uzumaki Forbidden Scrolls longer than you have! I have trained harder than you will ever! Do not presume to think that you can beat me without coming at me with the intent to kill me! Because that's how I'm coming at you!" She charged forward and avoided Naruto's kick. She grabbed onto his leg and spun around, taking him with her. She let go of him, causing her younger cousin to go flying into a tree. Wasting no time, Robin charged forward and slammed her elbow into the side of his face. Naruto tumbled down onto the ground and spat out blood. He was propelled back when a kick connected with his stomach. She spun around and caught a punch aimed for her head while Naruto disappeared in a cloud of smoke. She smirked as she looked at the real Naruto. "Pathetic." Robin pulled the fist towards her along with the body it was connected to and rammed her foot into the side of her younger cousin. She frowned as he disappeared in smoke. A surprised sound made its way out of her throat when Naruto's foot slammed down onto her head. There was no time for her to react when Naruto spun around and rammed his other foot into her chest. Thrown to the ground, Robin rolled back and spared no time in pushing off the ground with her hand and landing on her feet. "Fight me with everything you have!" Robin yelled as she charged forward. Sorrow danced in Naruto's eyes as he too charged forward. A golden flash blinded Robin and she leaned forward in time to avoid the punch. However, she was not prepared for the kick to the side of her face. 'A clone!'

"Robin-kun!" Naruto yelled as he formed a rasengan and slammed it into her stomach. Robin was hurled back into the air and landed with a harsh thud. She wiped blood away from her mouth as she stood. The wind blew and ruffled her clothes. Robin let her hands go through several seals before she summoned a ball of lightening. With a cold look at Naruto she shoved it into her stomach and let out a painful cry.