Hey. So I've finally finished college, feels great, feels kinda empty. But at least I have more time to work on the stories.

Flo463, yeah, Orochimaru will do a lot to get Sasuke and Kirito. And about the Shinichi and Suguha thing, erm, I guess... I mean, Kirito and Suguha are not blood related here. And well, I did make it a one sided thing with Shinichi, so yeah... And yep, Sinon's the new Niibi Jinchurikii. Well, Kirito would definitely work harder, but given how they'd be stronger than him eventually, that is, without anything to help him grow, he wouldn't need to. But don't worry, Kirito will get stronger, its Kirito after all. Hehe.

To Guest, yeah, if Sinon gets the Niibi extracted, she'll die. But will the Akatsuki even get the chance to extract the Niibi? XDXD I leave that to your imagination.

To that other Guest, I suppose that does require weird physics. But just in case anyone misunderstood what I meant, I was thinking, Hidan swing his scythe, the blades stabbing into Yugito, and as he swung his blade, the momentum threw her off the blade into the forests.

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As the two girls were surrounded by the bijuu chakra cloak, Zetsu tch'd. Black Zetsu sighed, "Well, this complicates shit..."

Kirito narrowed his eyes and charged, swinging his swords at the man as the plant dodged it again.

Meanwhile, Hikari and Sinon were glaring at Hidan. The Jashinist hadn't been able to kill the two Kumo ninja yet, well, he could have, but he was interrupted by the two girls.

The mad priest turned from the two tired men to see the two Jinchurikii cloaked in their chakra cloaks, both glaring at the man. Hidan laughed in glee, "ARE YOU TWO ALSO OFFERING YOURSELVES FOR JASHIN-SAMA?!"

They didn't reply, instead, Hikari glanced at Sinon, "Sinon-chan, let's go."

The new Jinchurikii of the Two Tails nodded, then they both charged. In an instant, the two Jinchurikii appeared in front of Hidan, and a pair of chakra shrouded fists slammed into Hidan's gut, sending him high up into the air.

As the man flew straight up, Matatabi asked Sinon, "Sinon, that man is immortal. No matter how much we burned him, he still came back. What will you do?"

Sinon smiled softly and thought, 'I think Hikari-chan has that covered.'

The Niibi nodded. Meanwhile, with Hikari, the Kyuubi smirked, "You haven't really completed it yet, you know? Do you really want to try it?"

Hikari nodded, 'Yeah, since he cannot die, we might as well just slice him up so much he cannot come back. And the only thing that can do that is the final version of the Fuuton: Rasengan.'

The Bijuu hmph'd, "Fine, since its also a jutsu based on the Bijuudama, I suppose I can give you another tip. All you've been able to do now, is add elemental chakra into the Rasengan, but its only the minimum amount you need to shape it into an elemental jutsu. The achieve the final version you're aiming for, you need to stabilize the huge amounts of elemental chakra in the Rasengan, I don't think I need to tell you that anyways. So, all this time you've been doing it in one hand, or two hands in some occasions. How about three, or four?"

Hikari blinked, 'What do you mean?'

The Kyuubi chuckled, "Figure it out yourself. That's all I'm giving you. If you can't even perfect this imitation of the Bijuudama, then you won't be able to fully master my Bijuu mode."

With that, the Kyuubi went silent. Hikari thought, 'Kyuubi? Hey Kyuubi?'

No response. The girl growled, "Damn it, what did he mean?"

Hidan was starting to fall, and it would only be a matter of time before he started swinging his scythe around like the mad man he was. The girl then thought back on how she always made the Rasengan. It was always with one hand.

Then she realized it. The problem with her final version of the Rasengan was because she couldn't stabilize the wind chakra in it. In the beginning, when she added elements to the Rasengan, she had to do it with two hands before she managed to make it with one.

Hikari thought, 'I'm an idiot...'

She raised her right arm and quickly formed a Fuuton: Rasengan. Then, she made two chakra arms that slowly added the wind element to the Rasengan, the wind blades around the sphere slowly enlarging until it grew into the size of a Fuuma shuriken.

Hikari grinned, it was complete. The jutsu was incredibly stable in her hands, unlike the unstable versions which all felt heavy and hard to maintain. No, this was light and it was surprisingly easy to hold.

Unbeknownst to the girl, the Kyuubi smirked, "Hmph, she could do it after all..."

Back outside, almost everyone stared in awe at the Fuuma shuriken shaped Rasengan. Hikari grinned and roared as she flung the jutsu at Hidan, "Fuuton: Rasenshuriken!"

The Rasenshuriken sailed through the air before it collided with Hidan, and a huge explosion engulfed the man. In mere seconds, the man was sliced up by the wind blades caused by the jutsu over a thousand times, turning him to dust.

The explosion died down, and nothing was left of the Akatsuki member. Kakuzu could only stare in surprise at how Hidan was killed. True, he hated the priest, but Hidan was useful to have around as a partner, more specifically, an immortal punching bag that could actually give him a good fight.

Seeing Hidan turned to dust shocked him, making him momentarily freeze on the spot, ignoring Asuna, Suguha and the others on the battlefield.

That was his mistake, as in a blink of an eye, Sinon was in front of him. And before he knew it, Kakuzu was sent flying by a chakra infused punch before he was pulled down by a chakra arm from Sinon, slamming him into the ground.

Kakuzu groaned in pain as he got up, but Sinon wasn't done. Taking advantage of his loss in balance, the archer used a chakra arm and sent him flying yet again.

As he was sent into the air, Sinon asked mentally, 'Matatabi, right? Is it okay if I call you that?'

The Niibi nodded, "Of course, what is it?"

Sinon nodded, 'Is it possible for me to use the full Bijuu mode?'

The Niibi smiled, "Why not? As of now, your body can probablt handle the strain for ten minutes, and that's with my help of course, since your body isn't used to it yet."

Sinon nodded, 'You don't mind, right?'

The bijuu chuckled, "I wouldn't let you if I did mind. Let's get started, we don't want that bastard to recover, yes?"

Sinon nodded before she felt more of the bijuu chakra enter her body, filling her chakra coils. Then her view changed. Everything seemed to get smaller for her and she started to rise.

Then she realized she was looking down at two blue flaming paws. Sinon blinked, "Wha?"

Then she heard the Niibi chuckle, "This is your first time transforming into a bijuu, right? You better get used to it, if you are to be my new partner, we're going to be equals, and that means you're gonna be using my powers."

The archer nodded before she turned her attention to the airborne nuke nin, a bit surprised at what he was doing. He had managed to make his tendrils as make shift wings, floating in midair.

Matatabi grinned, "Hey Sinon, wanna try the Bijuudama?"

The girl grinned as the bijuu started to gather red and blue chakra at its mouth, surprising everyone present. The two types of chakra combined to form a dark purple sphere in front of the Niibi's jaw.

Then Sinon released her hold on the Bijuudama, blasting it towards Kakuzu. The man tch'd and tried to push himself out of the line of fire, but his wings were too inefficient for flight and only managed to move him from the center of the blast.

Kakuzu had initially planned to stay at one spot, then dodge the attack at the last minute. But apparently he had miscalculated the size of the Bijuudama and how good his make shift wings would do, and that costed him all his hearts.

Then the bomb slammed into the man, and a huge explosion engulfed the man, leaving nothing but dust as the man who fought the Shodaime Hokage was obliterated by the power of the attack.

Zetsu sighed, seeing the supposedly immortal duo killed, "Well, I guess my job here is done."

The plant man started to sink into the ground. Kirito's eyes widened before he yelled as he charged forward, "Oh no you don't!"

However, he was too late as his blade only struck the ground as the man sunk into the ground. Kirito cursed and raised his sword, channelling chakra into it as he activated a sword skill, making the sword glow yellow, "Ground Calibur!"

(Look up Orb Ground Calibur from Ultraman Orb, I saw this move when my little cousin forced me to watch the show with him a while ago, and I thought, why not use it here? Haha, so what Kirito did is basically the part where he stabs the Elucidator into the ground. )

He stabbed his black sword into the ground, causing two streaks of energy to form a circle before the ground exploded. However, nothing came up, showing that Zetsu had most likely escaped.

Kirito cursed as that meant one morr Akatsuki member to deal with in the future, but it didn't matter much now. They had successfully killed two Akatsuki members, so it wasn't that bad.

He turned to see the other standing by Yugito's corpse and walked to them. Kirito looked at the two Kumo shinobi, "So, what are you two gonna do?"

While it was Yugito's wish, the fact that one of Kumo's bijuu, which as much as he hated to admit it was still considered an asset to the age, was being taken in by Sinon, who is a Konoha ninja, was very troublesome.

Plus, depending on how the Kumo ninja took it, Konoha could even be seen as taking advantage of the joint mission to steal the bijuu, which could lead to war.

Kouga stared at the peaceful face of the former Jinchurikii, "We'll tell Raikage-sama everything that happened. Hopefully he will understand and respect Yugito's wish."

No one needed to say that their original mission was a failure now, especially since the Kumo shinobi were both injured, not to mention two of the four Kumo ninja were dead.

Asuna then asked, "Do you want us to follow you back?"

Jinga shook his head, "No, it's fine. Besides, its better if you didn't. While we don't exactly have a civilian council, the elders will go crazy and demand Sinon-san to be sent to Kumo."

Kouga nodded, "Yeah."

The Konoha shinobi nodded as the two remaining Kumo ninja took the corpses of their teammates, albeit reluctantly, and left the area.

As the Kumo ninja left, Kirito turned to the girls, "So, what now?"

Suguha sighed, "Might as well just head back, we won't be doing the mission now with how things went. Hopefully this won't start a war."

The other girls nodded in agreement, while Sinon just felt a bit nervous since she was the one who had the Niibi in her.

Matatabi huffed upon feeling her new host's thoughts, "Sinon, feel proud, Yugito chose you, I chose you. Even the Raikage knows enough to respect Yugito's wishes, besides, if they try to force you to give me up, we can always launch a Bijuudama at that cursed village. Hell, maybe we can even convince the Hachibi and Kyubi to join."

Sinon sweatdropped, 'Erm, Matatabi, are you sure you should be saying that?'

The bijuu huffed, "Of course, while Yugito is respected there, its only because of how strong she is, and because the Hachibi's Jinchurikii is the Raikage's brother. While Yugito never noticed it, since everyone treated her normally, I could feel the animosity from those idiots, especially the elders of the village."

Sinon nodded, not really knowing what to say. She was then cut off from her musings when she noticed her teammates were about to leave.

A few hours later, Kirito, Asuna, Hikari, Suguha and Sinon all stood in the Hokage's office. Tsunade sighed as she rubbed her temples, "Oh my fucking god... I send the five of you on a mission, hopefully to improve village relations, and you come back... With that village's fucking bijuu?!"

Jiraiya chuckled, "Well, its not their fault that Yugito chose Sinon as the next Jinchurikii of the Niibi."

Tsunade slumped onto her chair, "I know... That's what makes it worse..."

Jiraiya's face turned serious as he looked at Hikari, "On a side note, they went for the Niibi next. We managed to secure the bijuu this time, but no one knows if they will go for the Sanbi or attack us here to get the Niibi or the Kyuubi."

Hikari nodded, "But, aside from the fact that the Bijuu are strong, why would they want to collect them?"

Asuna looked at the blonde, "No idea, does the Kyuubi know?"

Hikari replied, "Let me ask."

She thought, 'Hey Kyubi, I know you're listening...'

No one answered her, and unknown to anyone, the two bijuu were in a shared mindscape, discussing the exact same topic.

In the mindscape, the Kyubi sighed, "Do we really need to tell them?"

Matatabi nodded, glaring slightly at her brother, "Of course, you sensed it, didn't you? Shukaku got sealed into the husk, that's the only clue we need. They are trying to revive the Juubi."

The Kyuubi hmph'd, "Fine, but you tell them."

With that said, the Kyuubi vanished from the shared mindscape, causing the cat to sigh again. The Niibi then vanished from the mindscape.

Moments later, right after Hikari asked the Kyuubi, Matatabi spoke in Sinon's mind, "Sinon, we know why the Akatsuki are gathering the bijuu, let me take over for a bit, and I'll explain."

The archer jumped a bit, not expecting the Niibi to suddenly speak up, plus she wasn't used to it yet. The brunette asked mentally, 'Wait, you do?'

She felt the Niibi nod mentally, "Yes, I'll explain everything, so I'll be taking control, is that okay?"

Sinon just nodded, before she felt as if something pushed her to the back, then she felt herself speak, but at the same time, it wasn't her.

The girl's eyes turned to a dark shade of blue, with slits in her eyes, making them look like a cat's eyes, slightly surprising everyone as they felt the girl leak bijuu chakra.

The girl opened her mouth and spoke, but her voice was different, much deeper than before. The Niibi spoke through her host, "There's probably only one other reason the Akatsuki are gathering us."

Tsunade stared at the girl, "That being?"

Matatabi nodded, "To revive the Juubi. Before us, there was one single bijuu, if you can call it that. I cannot tell you the details, but long story short, if they seal all of us nine bijuu together, they can revive the Juubi."

Everyone was surprised, they had never even heard of a tenth bijuu. Jiraiya looked at the Niibi, "But why go so far for one bijuu?"

Matatabi stared at the pervert in the eye, "The Juubi is a combination of all of the Bijuu. It is far stronger than any of us, and possibly stronger than all of us combined. I'd say one Bijuudama from the Juubi can destroy Konoha in one go, and that's just at minimum power ."

That was alarming to them. If the Akatsuki succeeded, then they'd have the world as hostage, since they could easily destroy any one at any time.

Jiraiya turned to Tsunade, "What if we get the bijuu before the Akatsuki can?"

Tsunade nodded, "I suppose we could."

Getting the bijuu away from them was a good option, at least better than just protecting the Jinchurikii of their respective villages. Matatabi sighed, "I guess its better than getting sealed to form the Juubi."

At that, the Kyuubi spoke up in Hikari's seal, "Hikari, let me speak for a moment."

The girl blinked, 'Umm, what?'

Immediately, the girl felt as if she was pushed to the back and she took on the features she'd have when she used less than one tail's worth of the Kyuubi's chakra.

Everyone was surprised by the sudden change as the Kyuubi spoke in his deep voice, which felt weird since it was coming from Hikari, "If you want to get our siblings, I want it to be done under several conditions."

Tsunade and Jiraiya shared a look, if it were twenty years ago, they wouldn't even thought of negotiating with the bijuu. Back then, it was widely known that the bijuu were weapons, living weapons maybe, but still weapons.

But after knowing Hikari, they knew the bijuu were as humane as they were. The Hokage nodded, "Okay, what are your conditions?"

The Kyuubi/Hikari nodded, "You'll bring Hikari with you, and we decide how my brethen will be dealt with, be it sealed in a Jinchurikii or live in the open."

Tsunade nodded, "But we'll have to monitor them, in case the Akatsuki comes for them."

The Kyuubi hmph'd, "That goes without saying of course. As of now, only the Sanbi is not sealed, the others, including myself, are all sealed in our respective Jinchurikii, and the Shukaku is in the Akatsuki's hands. I suggest we go find the Sanbi, at best I can convince him to join us."

Tsunade nodded, while the others just stayed silent as they watched the exchange, though Kirito was slightly freaked out by how Hikari/Kyuubi spoke in the deep voice.

The Kyuubi then narrowed his(her?) eyes, "But don't misunderstand me, to be honest with you, being sealed in a Jinchurikii is the safest place a bijuu can be now, given how the Akatsuki's gathering us to revive the bijuu. Plus, a seal is all it takes to immobilise us. We are NOT going to be your weapons."

Jiraiya nodded, "Of course, the Jinchurikii and the Bijuu are not weapons, you are all living beings just like we are, and if you would have us, comrades."

The Kyubi smirked, "Hmph, we'll see about that."

Then the bijuu heard Hikari scold him, "Oi Kyuubi, be nice..."

The bijuu chuckled internally before he spoke, "Well, that's all I have to say for now. Remember what I said, Hokage, toad, I will be watching you. Hikari trusts you because you are her godparents, and if you do anything that endangers us..."

He left the threat hanging, but Tsunade and Jiraiya got the message, besides, they wouldn't do anything that'd endanger the bijuu or Jinchurikii, especially sincr Hikari, and now Sinon, were involved.

With that said, the Kyuubi's presence vanished, and Hikari returned to normal. The Niibi also returned to the seal, seeing as she had nothing to say anymore.

Suguha then asked, "So, what now?"

Tsunade nodded to Jiraiya before she said, "Take the next two days off. Jiraiya will go search for the Sanbi, and we still have to see how the Raikage reacts to Sinon's new... partner. So I'll notify you when we get the news."

The five nodded before they left the room. As soon as they left, Tsunade slumped back onto her seat, "Gods... They never seem to stop causing trouble for me..."

Jiraiya chuckled, "Its Hikari we're talking about, not to mention Kirito as well. But to be frank, I believe Ay won't bother too much, since if I remember correctly, its Yugito who willingly gave Sinon the Niibi. Its Kumogakure's elders I'm worried about. They might just pull something like the Hyuga incident."

Tsunade nodded before she quickly wrote a letter to the Raikage.

At the same time, in Kumogakure, the two remaining Kumo ninja of the squad had just given their reports to the Raikage.

Ay's first reaction was to blow up, but seeing how his two ninja were exhausted, plus they had just witnessed two of their friends die in front of them, the Raikage decided to calm himself down.

The muscular man looked at his subordinates, "So, Yugito decided to give the Niibi to a Konoha kunoichi?"

Kouga nodded, "Yes, the girl's name is Sinon, she appeared to have close relations to the Kyubi's Jinchurikii."

Ay leaned onto his seat, if that was the case, then he had no doubt this Sinon was worthy of holding the bijuu. The problem, as much as he disliked it, the power. True, he prided himself for leading arguably the strongest shinobi village, tied and/or second only to Konohagakure.

That was when Kumogakure had Yugito alive. But now that the Niibi was with Konohagakure, that position wasn't stable. As those thoughts went through his mind, a part of him scolded himself for even thinking of those thoughts, it made him just like those bastards who saw the Jinchurikii as weapons, and his brother was one of them.

Ay sighed and looked at the two men, "Take the day off, I'll decide what to do next. Don't worry, we won't go to war with Konoha, not when there's the Akatsuki."

Kouga and Jinga both nodded before they quickly left the office, leaving the Raikage to his own thoughts.

Ay stared at his table, he just hoped the elders didn't get wind of this. Knowing how they planned the Hyuga fiasco, they'd do something similar for the Niibi.

As if on cue, the office door opened to reveal one of the village elders, an old man with a white beard and wore a grey kimono.

The old man spoke, "Raikage-sama, I heard we lost the Niibi to Konohagakure, did we not?"

Ay cursed in his mind, 'I had to jinx it.. Guess there's no hiding it.'

The Raikage nodded, "Yeah, Yugito passed the Niibi to a Konoha kunoichi, who's a friend of Minato's daughter."

The elder frowned, "Then you should hurry and retrieve that girl, she possesses our property. If they don't extract the Niibi and give it back, then they should give us the girl."

Ay sighed in annoyance, "Yeah yeah, I'll do something about that. Now, do you have anything else, or did you come here just to bother me with that?"

The elder looked at Ay one last time, "No, that's all I came for. Remember, Raikage-sama, get the Niibi back."

After saying that, the elder exited the office. Ay sighed, while he had almost removed most of the civilian council, he was still working to remove the elders from their positions as advisors, and they were all incredibly annoying.

Regardless, Ay wasn't planning to take the Niibi back, not forcefully at least. The man considered writing a letter before he heard Mabui enter the office.

The secretary spoke, "Raikage-sama, there's a letter from Konoha."

Ay blinked, that was fast... He nodded, "Thank you, Mabui."

The Raikage took the letter and quickly read it. In the letter was an apology from the Hokage regarding the Niibi and formalities for something that could potentially be a capital offense.

Now with the letter, he had two options. One, accept the apology and treat it as if nothing had happened and continue to try to build the alliance. Two, request or demand the Niibi be returned to them and potential cause a war.

The second choice was definitely a no go. True, Kumogakure was known to be at least as strong as Konohagakure. But that was without factoring in Sunagakure. Yes, the village hidden in the sands was weak when compared to the other villages, but recently he had received info that the Kazekage had survived a bijuu extraction. Granted he had medical attention, but still, he survived a fucking bijuu extraction. That was saying a lot.

Furthermore, Kumo had no allies. Kirigakure was still recovering from their civil war, and he heard they were considering forming an alliance with Konoha too. To Iwagakure, he'd commit seppuku before he asked for an alliance with that old bastard.

So no war. Besides, he respected Jiraiya and Tsunade, and he definitely respected Minato's daughter, even if only for the fact that she had learned the Hiraishin and could put up with his idiot of a brother.

Ay sighed, he guessed that made his choice. The Raikage quickly wrote a reply and called for Mabui. The secretary wasted not a second and quickly sent the letter to Konoha.

The huge man sat on his chair as he considered everything. Ever since the elders forced the Hyuga incident to happen, Kumogakure's reputation, apart from their strength, was not good. Because of that fiasco, the clients' trust in them had dwindled. If they pulled something like declaring war on Konoha, they'd not only risk having their village physically destroyed, if they survived, they'd have the village economically destroyed. Even worse, Ay knew Konoha had a trading alliance with Nami no Kuni, and Kumo still relied on that country for some of their trades.

The man was then broken out of his musings by the door opening. Ay looked up and saw his brother, "What do you want, Bee?"

Kirabi asked, "Is it true, about Yugito?"

Ay nodded, not really botheted by how Bee was not rapping, given the situation, "Yeah, stupid Akatsuki. Now, we lost a fine kunoichi and a good Jounin because of them."

Bee nodded, "I heard, Matatabi is with Konoha now."

The Raikage nodded, "If you're telling me to get the Niibi back, don't. I'm not about to risk the village in a war just for that."

The Jinchurikii nodded, "Good. So, what are you gonna do now?"

Ay looked out of the window, "I've sent a letter to Konoha, with their position, they can cripple us. Hopefully, we can still have that alliance."

Bee nodded, "I see."

The rapper then turned, "I'll be off then. Tell me when is Yugito's funeral, and call me if you need anything."

Ay just nodded before his brother left the office.

Meanwhile, in Amegakure, Pein sighed as he received the report from Zetsu, "So, Hidan and Kakuzu got themselves killed."

Zetsu nodded. The Rinnegan user turned and stared out to the raining village, "Keep watch on the new Niibi Jinchurikii and the Kyuubi. Depending on the situation, we might go for the Sanbi or the Niibi first."

Zetsu nodded before he sunk into the ground. As soon as the plant left, a man wearing an orange swirled mask appeared.

The man spoke, "So, you failed in retrieving the Niibi."

Pein replied, "Don't rush, we have time. I suppose we won't need to go by order now, after I regather our forces, I'll go hunt for the Yonbi, Gobi and Rokubi."

The masked man inquired, "What of the Niibi, Sanbi, Nanabi, Hachibi and Kyubi?"

Pein nodded, "Once I gather the rest, I'll go for the Nanabi, then we launch an invasion to get the Kyubi and Niibi. I won't fail, Madara."

Madara chuckled, "I hope you won't. I look forward to it, Pein."

The man swirled away as his laughter faded into the air.

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Done. So the next few chapters will be the Sanbi sub-arc. Review please. Until the next chapter.