A/N: Well I just realized that in the note at the top of the last chapter, I said I would be addressing his kekkai genkai. I'm sorry I didn't get to it but that will be one of the main focuses of this chapter. I'd appreciate some comments on what people thought about the Jinjuriki thing because I'm not sure that went to well. However since the only place it ever addresses the subject of this change, I have figured out a way to still make him a Jinjuriki.

Disclaimer: I don't really see why these are necessary. It's called "fan fiction" not ownership fiction.

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Betrayal

Itachi let out an exasperated sigh. He had been attempting to raise Rioko's awareness of how females thought but so far, he was doing more damage than harm.

"So," Rioko started "Your saying that she didn't want to kiss me, but all she really wanted to do was flick a piece of dirt off my shoulder?"

Itachi cried out in frustration and whimpered "No! She did wan... oh why do I even bother?"

Rioko looked up at him and asked "So really, the only kind of feelings she has for me are that of a friend and some really creepy uhh...procreative feelings."

Itachi shook his head and said "Forget this." He thought to himself while he was walking away 'That kid is gonna have some serious problems when he hits his teenage years...'

Rioko stood around in confusion and thought out loud "Well that was a waste of time..." Then he heard Itachi yelling down to him from on the deck "Get up here! We're at the dock!" Rioko dashed up the stairs and found himself looking at a vast expanse of snow and ice and saw Seii down by the waters edge patting a small seel's head.

"Uhh...how do we know which way to go.?" He asked Itachi.

He was about to answer when one of the dock workers let out a scream and fell to the ground, writhing and shrieking with blood pouring out of a hole in his chest. A cold laugh filled the air and they saw a man wearing a mask appear on a roof, kicking up snow as he came into view. "Shit." Itachi growled.

"What?" Rioko asked.

"There's more than one of them. They're keeping out of sight using speed, I can barely follow them even with my sharingan." Then his head jerked around and looked at Seii who was now staring at the man who had appeared. "Seii look out!"

Acting on reflex, Rioko activated his Kokugan but something was strange. Instead of being able to feel small amounts of strength ebbing away as he used it, he was losing no strength at all after activating it. Then he saw what Itachi had seen. Another ninja was moving towards Seii, and even with his Kokugan, it still looked like he was strolling down the pier. Rioko instantly made the hand seals to use Raikosuru and then he flew towards the man. It seemed that the man could see him because his mouth opened in shock and he tried to dodge out of the way but he was to slow.

The Raikosuru ripped into him, giving off the smell of burning flesh, and the man began to shake uncontrollably from the amount of electricity running through him. Rioko disbursed the jutsu and the man slowly sank to the floor. Rioko felt a sudden wave of pure hatred and pleasure coming from deep inside of his mind. He grinned like a psychopath and then watched as the life faded out of the man. Then he looked up and saw two more of the strange ninja he used another Raikosuru on the one closest to him and when the other one turned towards him when he heard his partners yell, Rioko drove the still active jutsu right through the mans heart. 'They may be fast...' Rioko thought 'but I'm faster.'

Rioko deactivated his Kokugan and was surprised to find that he had lost almost no chakra and what he had lost was coming back quickly. Then a fourth ninja appeared right in front of him and swung a kunai at him sp fast there was no way Rioko could dodge it. Then Rioko's arm jerked upward and grabbed the mans wrist right before the kunai hit his neck. Rioko's fist tightened and he heard the wrist snap. The man howled in pain and the fell silent as Rioko swung him around and smashed his skull against the side of a pillar of ice. The ninja fell without a sound to the floor and Rioko turned around to find the first man he had seen on the roof looking at him with a thoughtful expression. Then without warning, he vanished and before Rioko could activate his Kokugan, the man reappeared in front of him, stabbing a sword through his chest. Rioko grunted and then fell into darkness.

Rioko opened his eyes and was surprised to find himself standing at the edge of a pier. The walkway stretched out in front of him. It had no side branches leading off of it, just the narrow walkway he was on. At the end he saw an opening, cut right out of the cliff side the dock was built on. He began to walk forward, moving towards it. When he reached it, he found himself in a large cavern with an enormous cage door leading into darkness. He heard a soft growling coming from within it.

He looked into the cage and saw a pair of gleaming yellow eyes starring back at him. Then a bird that towered all the way to the top of the ceiling that was easily a hundred feet up stepped into view. It rustle it's feathers and then started to speak "So...we meet at last. I am very unimpressed that it is only because you're on your deathbed that you found this place, It shows that my vessel is weak, and I find that unacceptable."

Rioko starred on in fright at the great bird and asked "W-what are y-you?"

The falcon let out a screech that shook Rioko to his bones "I?! I am the great demon falcon Ingo no Taka!"

"What do you want?"

"What do I want?" The falcon let out a dry laugh "What do I want? I want to be rid of my weak shell that is you! But that is unattainable at the moment and if you die, I will die as well so I can't allow that..."

Suddenly energy made of pure black chakra began bubbling up out of Rioko's skin and the room began to fade into nothing.

Rioko awoke to find himself lying in a pool of his own blood in the snow but saw that the wound had healed. Then he began to feel a sudden craving for blood and he slowly rose to his feet. The black chakra began bubbling out of his back and took the shape of wings while his Kokugan activated itself. He began to laugh psychotically and several of the attacking ninja in the area near him turned towards the sound. Rioko was pleased to see the masked ninja and was able to sense his powerful rage. The Ninja's next to him shpt towards Rioko but then he felt Ingo take control of his body and the wings rocketed him into the air. The Ninja's shoot underneath him and stumbled when they found nothing there. Rioko's hands formed a combination of hand seals he'd never learned and heard the Ingo no Taka's voice say "Saiko Homura!" And flames formed around Rioko and he began to spin causing waves of flames to fly in every direction.

The two ninja were instantly killed but the masked one managed to avoid it. He stood facing Rioko from another rooftop and Rioko grinned maniacally. Right before Rioko/Ingo were going to attack, another ninja that had injuries all over him appeared by the man and said in a weak voice "We have to pull back sir!" The man stood there for a bit then he nodded and then he and the rest of the attackers vanished.

Rioko stood motionless for a minute and then he felt Ingo relinquish control of his body and then he passed out.

Rioko awoke to find Seii sleeping in a chair next to his bed, Itachi reading Icha Icha Paradise, and Anko drawing a picture that looked like him being decapitated. He also saw the bratty boy they were looking after there to along with his guard. Itachi saw that he was awake. "Ok. Takomo," He said addressing the boy "If you would please come with us. We will leave immediately. However, I would ask that you allow your guard to stay here to guide Rioko to where we are going."

They boy just shrugged and everyone but Rioko and the intimidating guard left.

The guard looked at him and listened to see when everyone else was gone. When he was sure everyone had left he said in a serious voice "You possess the Kokugan." Rioko looked at him in surprise and the guard continued "My name is Yajuburi. I noticed your eyes right before you passed out after the battle."

Rioko's head was swimming with questions and he picked one to ask "How do you even know what the Kokugan is?"

Yajuburi looked solemnly out a window and replied "When I was young I knew a man who possessed the Kokugan. I thought he was the last one who had it but when he was mortally wounded on a mission, he told me that more may have survived and he gave me two scrolls for safe keeping. One contains all of it's secrets and the other is a summoning contract." He pulled the two scrolls from a bag and handed them to Rioko. "These would do you more good than me so you can have them." Rioko quickly opened the summoning contract and bit his thumb but Yajuburi stopped him. "Never sign something without reading it." Rioko sighed and began to read what it said.

The list of names was very short and above the names it said 'He who signs this contact with form an everlasting alliance between themselves and the creature that is bonded to them by their first summon. This creature shall remain with you until death and shall never from the day it is summoned, return to the world of summons.' 'Ok...' Rioko thought and then he signed it and immediately went through the described hand signs and a puff of smoke appeared in front of him and Yajuburi.

They waited with baited breathe to see what it was, and out of the smoke, popped a small head with white and gray fur with specks of black. "It's a snow leopard." Rioko said. Slightly disappointed. He'd wanted something huge and deadly like a dragon.

It jumped into his lap and curled up and looked into his eyes. "Hi! Are you the one that summoned me?" Rioko nodded and it purred and rubbed it's ear on his arm. "I'm Mikomi! What's your name? What's your favorite food? Mines Ramen! Speaking of food, when's lunch? I'm starving. Are you? You must be! What do you like do? I like to play outside! Got lots of friends? I did in the summoning world but you seem nice too! Like any girls? I can tell you do, you started blushing when I said that. What's her name? I won't tell her! Ok maybe I will but still! Lets go meet her! Or maybe we could just go play! Lets do that! It feels cold! Is their snow? I love snow! Do you? Of course you do cause you summoned a snow leopard! Come on lets go!"

"Uhh...Rioko..."

Rioko and Yajuburi were eye twitching and Yajuburi said "Ok. It's definitely a girl."

"How can you tell?" asked Rioko while trying to lift Mikomi off his lap.

"It managed to say all that in one breathe."

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A/N: I wasn't able to make this chapter as long as I wanted but I will try to make the next one make up for that.