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Ok well here is chapter fourteen. Sorry, but since it's a cliffy, it will take awhile to get back to finishing the cliffy.

It's how I do things.

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CHAPTER FIFTEEN: Null Void.

Sakura sighed and played with her ration bar. They stopped to rest because it had gotten dark.

"How are we going to find them anyways?" Ino asked with frustration. She was getting increasingly annoyed with how Kakashi was treating their misson. He was acting as if it were just another clean up job or capture mission, but it wasn't. This was Sasuke and Naruto they were talking about, the two people they saw the most of in their lives.

"Sakura should know." Kakashi murmured, pulling something from his pouch. Understanding crossed Sakura's eyes when Kakashi produced a scroll. Kakashi nicked his finger with a kunai and made hand signs. "Summoning jutsu!"

With a poof of air a scruffy looking dog in leaf ninja uniform appeared, his eyes drooped as if from bordom.

"Pakun!" Sakura said with a smile. It had been awhile since that last time she'd seen the tracking dog. He looked just as he always had. Brown with drooping eyes and floppy ears.

"Pakun, can you catch any hint of Sasuke or Naruto?" Kakashi asked. The dog lifted his snout and sniffed around in circles, before stopping in one direction.

"They're that way." The dog replied.

"How about this scent?" Kakashi murmured, holding the ribbon in front of Pakun's nose. But the dog frowned, staring down at the strange accessory.

"What scent?"

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"Mayu..." Sasuke breathed, feeling his legs move without his brains permisson. It was as if all that tension, all that fear from before, had melted away and been replaced with suffocating relief. The air was cold around them, considerably faster on the cliff then it had been in the forest, but Sasuke paid the wind no attention. All he saw was Mayu.

"Sasuke." Naruto barked suddenly, grabbing Sasuke's arm roughly and shoving him back. Sasuke glared daggers at his supposed friend. "Stop. Something isn't righ-"

Broth boys cried out in surprise as they dodged a hail of kunai's and shurikan. Sasuke's eyes were wide as one slipped thruogh the sleeve of his shrirt, barely missing his arm. Then he remembered why it would be impossible to dodge.

"The Kogenkan, as I'm sure you know of, is a formidible technuiqe. A state of being I should say, because those who possess it live their lives with it activated." Naruto and Sasuke's head spun in the direction of the low voice from before Mayu had come out. A tall man with pale skin stepped out from the trees, seeming as if her were gliding instead of walking. His ears were sharply pointed and his teeth looked like that of a rabid animals. Reaching from his eyebrow, down his neck the beggining of his chest was a jagged scar. He was wearing a strange robe that showed nothing of which country he came from. I dipped open along his chest until his wais, where it was tied off with a black sash. "A life of pain and suffering and anguish. You could never understand the pain."

"Who are you?" Sasuke snapped, clutching his arm to make sure the kunai hadn't cut. Mayu stood stock still, her eyes never moving, her head slightly tilted as if she were empty. "What did you do to Mayu?"

"Mayu?" The man scoffed, chuckling an evil laugh. "Don't you mean Kandara?"

"Is that her name?" Naruto murmured, grinding his teeth together. He knew this wasn't good. Why was Mayu, or Kandara, attacking them? Why was it that when Naruto looked at her eyes, he didn't feel that sharp pain?

"It is." The man replied with a feral grin. "Kandara, little Kandara."

He turned towards Mayu and held out his hand. With a look and walk as if she were possesed, Mayu pulled herself to his side. He wrappd his arm aruond her shoulder and grinned directly at the sweating Sasuke.

"Kandara, my daughter."

BWHAHAHA, aren't I evil? TEhee. So the stories coming along great, only people haven't been reveiwing. I guessw it's because the longer it gets, the less people want to read.

But please, read!

This is an incredibly short chapter, but I promise the next one will be much longer.