Chapter 7: Surprise

The group had been walking for hours going through the usual teasing, bickering, fighting, and reading. It was about 3:00 when they saw something in the tree. "I hear you're after demon circle," he said, "My admin would be most displeased about that. Therefore, I'm obligated to destroy you three." He jumped out of the tree. He wore his headband backwards, but Sakura saw the leaf mark on his headband as he flipped.

"Out of our way," Sasuke ordered.

"Fat chance," he replied starting to do the hand signals, "Art of fire wall." A large wall of fire blocked the road. "This will hold you," he said.

"Please," Naruto said, "I'll go past that with my eyes closed. Art of the burning barrier." Flames encased Naruto's body. He closed his eyes and walked through the wall. "Loser," Naruto said drawing some Kunai Knives. Naruto threw them at him. He gracefully dodged it.

"That all you got," he asked.

"Art of burning barrier," Kakashi, Sasuke, and Sakura said all together. They past the wall and joined in.

"So your not some misfit renegades," he said, "Now things will be interesting."

"I'll cave your head in twerp," Naruto said pulling out some shuriken.

"Hold up Naruto," Kakashi said with his eye wide open, "I sense that all of a sudden his true charka just flared up, and it's extremely odd and has a burning sense to it. Something's not right."

"Master Kakashi, he should be simple to knock out, because he's a flunkie, a Kahona ninja so we'll know how to counter his attacks, and we out number him 4 to 1," Sakura said.

"All that's true but I sense something unnatural about his charka," Sasuke said drawing his kunai knives, "Brace yourselves."

"I've been trained by Gamdori, the great horse demon," he said, "The chance of you 4 beating me are pretty slim."

"Your as cocky as Naruto," Sasuke said running up and trying to stab him. Then from out of nowhere to strikes hit Sasuke in the side. The boy didn't appear to have even moved from where he stood.

"Ignorant fool," he yelled running toward Sasuke. Naruto jumped in.

"Art of doppel ganger solid form," Naruto yelled. 4 seprate Narutos formed a barier around Sasuke. All 4 blocked an attack as they all seemed to come at the same time.

"Not bad, not bad at all," he said returning to 1 spot.

"He's using the solid doppel gangers too," Naruto said.

"No, that is a lost art, and he didn't call on that spell anyway," Kakashi said.

"I can't keep this up much longer," Naruto said, "He's way to fast for me. It's like there's 4 of him."

"I can go even faster," he said.

"No way, he goes any faster he'll be as fast as me," Kakashi said. Then, the boy jumped into a tree. There was a long pause, and then there appeared to be 5 attacking as the 4 Narutos and Sasuke had to hold them back. This went on for several minuets until 2 Narutos vanished this went on until only the original Naruto was left.

"Naruto can't keep his doppel ganger spell up," Sakura said. Then they all came again at Sasuke. Sasuke, Naruto, Kakashi, and Sakura blocked 1 each. Then 1 came from nowhere.

"It's to far away for me to block," Kakashi thought running as fast as he could to defend Sasuke. He didn't make it and he stabed Sasuke in the upper arm. Then 3 strikes threw Kakashi down. He bounded back and headed for Naruto. He jousted out a kunai knife at his neck. Naruto and Sakura were faceing the other way and didn't see him. Sasuke and Kakashi were still knocked down from the blow they took. Naruto turned a second to late to see 2 kunai knives at his throat. Just then, Everyone saw that the knives were stopped dead in their tracks as Arron was holding their weilders' hands at bay. There were 2 different bodies. Arron swept over them onto their backs and made them stab each other in the throat. Arron got back up and whipped his blood-stained hands on the grass.

"Hey guys, don't let your guard down yet, there are still 4 more to take out," Arron said, "They're the infamous speed brothers. There's 6 identical brothers. They syke their opponates out by making them think that there's only 1 of them. Then the other 5 strike making him look super fast." The other 4 jumped out.

"I suppose you figured it out," one said.

"We would have had them if this dude hadn't shown up," another said.

"Let's get them," the 3rd said charging forward with 2 giant shuriken spinning around his arms. Naruto charged at him with 2 kunai knives ready.

"Eat this," Naruto said barely dodging the shuriken to stab him in the back and the back of his upper leg. Then, he pulled the knives back out and stabbed him in the sides. He fell down dead.

"I'm not about to let Arron and Naruto get all of them," Sasuke said starting to make some signs, "Fire style, art of the fireball technique." He blew a huge fireball out of his mouth. When the smoke cleared, there was nothing there.

"Nice try," one of them said coming up behind Sasuke. Just then, he tripped over a string, and shuriken flew out at him. He was cut deeply and was knocked into a tree. Sasuke saw that he was still alive, and he ran with his knife out to finish the job. Then, his brother ran after Sasuke to save him with his kunai knife flying in front of him.

"Jump," Sakura yelled. Sasuke jumped, and the knife hit the attacker in the head. He bleed to death shortly after. The last one saw his dead brother and bound of to slash Sasuke's leg. He succeded and came back around until Arron's foot broke his skull.

"Idiot," Arron said as the last one hit the ground.

"Hu, hu, hu, thanks Arron," Sasuke said, "If you hadn't shown up, I could be a lot worse off."

"Sasuke, your leg," Sakura said running to him, "Let me clean it and wrap it up." It was cleaned and bandaged quickly.

"What about my wounds," Naruto yelled. Sakura threw a bandage and bottle of poroxide at him.

"Do it yourself," Sakura said.

"Crud," Naruto thought bounding up the cut in his arm.

"Well, I guess I've got to go now," Arron said.

"Come on Arron," Sakura said, "Surely Sasuke will change his vote after you saved him."

"Nope," Sasuke said shaking his head.

"I can tell that Arron's not after us," Kakashi said, "When he stabbed those guys, it would've been much easier to have redirected the knives into Sasuke's and Naruto's throat as beat as you were. He went way out of his save you 2."

"I…I guess I'll change my vote," Naruto said reluctantly.

"Yes," Arron said, "I'm traveling with a team, finally. It took me forever to find friends. Beware Demon Circle."

"Alright, calm down Arron," Sakura said. They set off again to find the remaining 9 demons.