"Hello." Someone else speaking

"Hello." Kyuubi speaking.

"Hello." Thoughts

"Hello." Kyuubi thoughts

Chapter 23

"I warned you…" said Akira chuckling. "But actually I was hoping you would do that as well…"

Sasuke tried to block out all of the screams but they just kept coming.

"What the hell is this!" shouted Sasuke at Akira who just kept laughing harder and harder.

"Don't you recognize them?" asked Akira.

"Sasuke! Why couldn't you save us!" screamed a woman that made Sasuke flinch.

"You were my son! Why couldn't you be stronger!" shouted a man.

Soon hundreds of voices began to scream at him making him kneel down and cover his ears to try and block the voices out but with no success.

"How are you doing this!" shouted Sasuke.

"That's my secret…" said Akira laughing.

Sasuke gritted his teeth almost in tears from hearing all of his clan screaming at him.

"No more!" shouted Sasuke. The Uchiha deactivated the Mangeyhou making both warriors fall on their knee's in the real world. "I'll show everyone what you are freak!" All the ninja's were puzzled by the teenagers claim and were amazed when he got onto his feet appeared right in front of Akira and struck him in the head as hard as he could shattering his glasses. Sasuke flinched once again when Akira looked at him with extreme hatred.

"Whoa!" said Rock Lee in surprise.

Naruto was surprised at first but it soon died away knowing that Akira was still the same person despite the new appearance. Yumi and Hinata on the other hand were wide eyed at Akira's eyes which were pitch black.

"Well now that everyone knows." Said Akira. "I promised that I would break you." Akira ran at the shocked Sasuke and kicking him right in the gut followed up by a strong punch making the Uchiha slid across the ground. "Come Sasuke… I thought the last survivor of the famous Uchiha clan would give me a bigger challenge then this..." Naruto's eyes widened a bit at this comment making Hinata look at him.
"Naruto-kun?" asked Hinata. "What's wrong?"

"He's not acting like himself." Said Naruto.

Akira then jumped into the air and was about to kick Sasuke who was still on the ground but the teenager jumped out of the way just in time as Akira's foot landed on the roof making a huge crater. Sasuke kicked Akira sending him into another building with Sasuke following him. Akira then kicked Sasuke right when the Uchiha landed in the room sending him flying right back outside. Akira quickly made a earth elemental and began to attack Sasuke who had no choice but to go on the defensive.

"Katon Hoshenka no jutsu!" (Mythical fire) shouted Sasuke sending several fireballs at both Akira's but they were easily dodged. "I got you!" Suddenly several strong wires came out of no where and wrapped themselves around both Akira's. 10 Sasuke's jumped out in every direction making Akira laugh.

"That's all you got Uchiha!" shouted Akira easily breaking the wires making Sasuke's eyes widen. "You though you could trick me that easily!"

"That is defiantly not Akira. He doesn't make confident remarks like that!" shouted Naruto.

"Then who is it?" asked Hinata.

"I don't know."

Suddenly Sasuke was surrounded by a huge cloud of smoke and before he knew it he saw 5 Akira kage bunshin's surrounding him.

"He transformed his bunshin's into rubble!" thought Sasuke. "Naruto must have taught him some surprising tactics.

"Like I said I am going to break you!" shouted Akira quickly finishing off Sasuke's clones.

Sasuke suddenly screamed in pain when each of Akira's clones grabbed an arm and leg while Akira grabbed his earth elemental and threw it right at Sasuke slamming into the Uchiha's chest making him spit out a huge amount of blood. Sasuke looked around to see the earth elemental getting up from all the rubble.

"Shit…" thought Sasuke. "It's so hard to breath I must have a few cracked ribs…"

Akira soon landed right in front of Sasuke.

"What the hell are you…" grunted Sasuke.

"None of your business." Said Akira smiling but before the teenager could do anything Sasuke kicked him hard sending him several feet into the air. "Still got some fight in you huh?

"Shut up you freak!" shouted Sasuke who sucked up his pain and flew into the air. Akira had to squint his eyes when he saw Sasuke activate his strongest jutsu. "Chidori!"

"So this is the famous Chidori that Naruto mentioned… In that case." Akira charged towards Sasuke.

"Take this!" shouted Sasuke pushing his arm forward but he suddenly screamed in pain when he heard several more bones on his right side creak making him withdraw his arm.

"Akira knew that Sasuke wouldn't be able to complete that attack…" said Shikamaru.

Akira placed his foot on Sasuke's back for more power and then flipped in mid air striking Sasuke right in the head making him fly into another building. Akira then landed next to Ino's flower shop and looked at Sasuke who was panting heavily on the roof while looking at him.

"I'm going to stop this!" shouted Lee who had actually grown to be close friends with Akira just like Neji and Shikamaru. But Naruto put his hand out to block his path.

"It's too late…" said Naruto looking at Akira. "We have to wait this part out if we want to stop this."

"But-" began Lee.

"Look." Interrupted Naruto.

Lee saw what Naruto meant when Akira stuck out his hand and generated his own powerful jutsu. Sasuke looked in amazement and horror remembering its effects. Akira then hovered his hand over several roses making them turn black instantly.

"I'll show you how it is done Uchiha!" screamed Akira jumping towards Sasuke.

Sasuke quickly began to get up when he saw Akira twirl in mid air and throw 2 kunai's at unbelievable speed pinning his arm and his leg to the wall making him scream in pain.

"Akira enough!" shouted Tsunade.

"Or what?" laughed Akira. "This is actually fun!" Naruto's eyes widened when he heard this knowing that Akira was really never the one who liked to fight. His best friend only fought when he had to.

"Neji!" shouted Tsunade. Neji nodded and appeared right in front of Akira before using his heavily spin to repel his friend away. Akira soon landed on the ground making his hand hit the floor making his death dealer disappear. Akira then pulled out a kunai getting ready to jump once more.

"Get out of my way Neji!" shouted Akira. Soon Neji was flanked by Naruto and Lee who were in front of Sasuke who had just pulled the daggers out.

"What's gotten into you Akira!" shouted Naruto.

This made Akira flinch a bit when he heard those words. Akira then looked at the kunai in his hand and then at Sasuke who face showed a tremendous amount of pain. The teenager slowly began to back away while dropping the kunai and falling down into a seated position. Naruto made his way over to Akira and put his hand on his trembling shoulder.

"Hey bud you okay?" asked Naruto who was concerned for his best friend.

"I don't know what came over me…" said Akira. "I can hardly remember the battle…" He looked in front of him to see all of his friends and the medical ninja's carrying Sasuke off. Yumi soon kneeled in front of him and hugged him tightly making Akira hug her as well. Tsunade along with several other ninja's were surprised by this but remained silent. Hinata smiled softly before walking away.

"Hokage-sama… I am sorry." Said Akira looking at Yumi's shoulder.

"I will talk with you later about this." Said Tsunade. "I believe you dropped something." Akira looked up at Tsunade's small smile as she handed him a small metal object which Akira saw was his headband. Akira didn't even notice that it fell off. Akira looked at it before Yumi took it from his hands and tied it around his head while smiling.

"Akira-kun." Replied a soft voice. Akira looked over to see Hinata offering him a pair of new sunglasses. "These are for you." The teenager smiled before taking them and then bowing.

"Thank you Hinata-chan."

"Everyone to my office for your mission please." Said Tsunade. All of the ninja's nodded and began to follow her. Naruto then looked back to see Lee with a sad look as he began to walk away.

"Hey Lee! Where you going come on!" shouted Naruto. Lee's eyes lit up and was instantly beside the group showing his blinding teeth.

"Man Akira you scared me back then!" said Lee.

"Sorry." Said Akira softly.

"Don't worry about it!" said Lee putting him in a headlock.

"Ack get off of me!" said Akira making everyone laugh. "Just because you're a year older doesn't mean you can do this!" Akira then tried to trip Lee who easily jumped over it.

"Enough." Said Tsunade smiling a bit. Once in her office she sat down on her chair and looked at her volunteers. After she filled Lee on what the situation was she continued with the briefing. "Now Shikamaru will be in command of this mission. You were all chosen because of your team work and dedication. Just be careful remember this is a cave that use to be owned by one of the strongest demons he must have placed several jutsu's to protect his lair. They all nodded. "Good luck all of you and please return to us. There will be a sand representative waiting for you tommorow but he will continue to wait for 3 days. But try not to keep him waiting." They all bowed before heading towards the Konoha gate.

"Okay everyone we are going to get to the cave today. So were going to be traveling fast." Everyone nodded a bit slowly but knew they had to get there before their enemies. All 8 of them soon disappeared in smoke and were running at incredible speed towards the sand country.

By night time each of them were panting heavily and were lying on the ground drenched in sweat.

I saw a stream nearby I'm gonna get cleaned up." Said Shikamaru leaving the group behind with his pack of supplies."

"We'll get dinner ready then." Said Yumi who was already getting all of her supplies ready for dinner with the help of Hinata.

After 2 hours everyone was washed up and fed and were already beginning to get into their sleeping tents when Neji saw that there were only 7 tents pitched up.

"Oh hell no…" thought Neji getting up and intercepting Naruto and Hinata who were heading towards their own tent.

"What do you think you are doing?" said Neji.

"Going to sleep." Said Naruto not knowing the situation he was in. Hinata on the other hand was getting nervous and hid behind Naruto.

"That's a good idea." Said Neji. "Hinata-sama where's your tent."

"Oh come on Neji…" began Naruto.

"This is absurd!" said Neji beginning to lose his patience.

"You're with TenTen obviously nothing absurd about that in your point of view." Said Akira who was heading towards his own tent.

"That's different Akira!" said Neji to his friend. "I'm suppose to protect Hinata not because its my job but because she is family!" Hinata was surprised by this remark and began to smile.

"What do you think you are protecting her from?" asked Akira. "You know just as well as I do that Naruto is probably the strongest in our group. If he can't protect her there is a very low chance that any of us can…" Neji was about to protest but he couldn't find a reasonable argument. "Plus Naruto isn't that stupid to do anything inappropriate right?" Naruto felt like a mouse knowing that Akira really cherished his friendship with Hinata and Neji wanted to keep his cousin safe so the kyuubi container just nodded several times. "Good. Night everyone!" said Akira before going into his own tent.

Neji looked like he was arguing with himself before saying good night as well and retiring to his own tent. Hinata giggled at Naruto's scared face and followed him into the tent before laying on top of him and resting her head at the crook of his neck making him press his cheek against the top of her head.

The next morning Naruto crawled out of his tent and the first thing he saw was a pair of feet in front of him. He stood up and looked at the person standing before him before grinning.

"Who is that?" asked Yumi coming out of her tent. The rest of the team also came from their sleeping areas to stand in a circle around the new comer.

"You're here early Uzumaki Naruto…" said the stranger.

"Yeah well didn't want to keep you waiting now did we… Gaara…" said Naruto

I am so sorry for the late chapter I have just been so occupied with stuff that I really didn't have a lot of time to write this. I hope there are still some reviewers out there but this chapter wasn't exactly written with the best thoughts so please bear with me. Next chapter will hopefully be out soon. Now to answer some questions.

Citan- Naruto and Hinata don't know anything about his eyes since this the first time they have seen it as well. You'll have to read on to find out if any of the original genin die and I don't have a number on how many chapters this story will be. But you'll get a clue on to when this story will begin to close.

Jetflash- To give you a clue now his eyes are nothing like the sharingan.

Thank you all for your kind reviews and those who continue to read this. I will try my best to update faster.