The end is near...

-waterfall of tears on my cheeks- LOL!

Anyway, I hope you will enjoy this chapter!

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-Red-

FLASHBACK

Hidden Village of the Mist, Hirou's house

Tenten looked in the mirror to see the person she hated the most staring back at her. These hazel eyes… her chocolate hair… her nose… her beauty…

It wasn't hers. It was her mother's. She was just a pale reflection of what Tayuga had been, just a pale copy of her mother… nothing more and nothing else. She was certain it was never going to change unless she made her own way in this jungle she called the world… the real world. It was not when you grew up with your women all around you to take care of you, not when you thought the women had their rights, not when you thought the men are nothing but jerks who will help you one day to have a heiress. The outside world was the exact opposite of what she had grown up with. Nobody will take care of you, nobody will help you. Grow up by your own to be protected from the pain. Love doesn't exist unless you find someone just like you. The men were the King of the world since they were living for them and the women they had married.

It was hard to see that maybe her life was a lie or simply a mistake. All her world had been faked and her mother had never prepared her to the outside world. She had grown up with love but the world is more like 'never trust anybody because one day he would give you the worse bullshit you had ever seen' or the sentence of her sensei resumed it pretty much too 'to kill or being killed'.

She put her hand on the mirror to stop the girl with these hazel eyes to stare at her nostalgically. Tenten lowered her head looking down at the sink. She shook her head. All of that was her past and no more her future. She picked up a rubber band and put her hair in a high ponytail even if her mind was screaming in protest.

A Jurinai would have never done that. She let out a small laugh. She wasn't a Jurinai. This clan was a fool. Konoha had only borne them because they were a bunch of killer machines without mercy, because the ANBU force had been created by them, because they were great fighters. For centuries, they had been used. The women knew but never mind because they loved Konoha and will always be there to protect the people and the territory even if it means to out their lives on the line.

She clenched her fists shaking of rage. 'Fools…' Like hell they cared if they had been killed. Anyway, the heiress was still alive so what if we used her...? All the Lords had argued over who will take her because everybody wanted the powers of a Deadly Weapon on their sides. Lord Hyuuga was about to win but she ran. She ran like no tomorrow and they never found her. They thought she was dead but again why should they really cared? There are a thousand of killer machines around, people like her with a past but no future and the present doesn't count at all until they die.

She didn't want to admit but she was doing the same damn thing as her mother: to kill to protect people and a Country. In fact, she was as good as her and her Sisters. She stepped back falling on her knees. Again, she was just the pale reflection of her mother… She clenched her fists punching the floor.

"No… I won't be like you…"

She stood up and headed towards the door. She turned her head a last time to face the hazel eyes.

"I don't want to, so I guess this is the end of the Deadly Weapons. I hope you are proud of you because this is all your fault. Good-bye, mother..."

She closed the door behind her, opening the door of a future as a killer. Even if she wouldn't kill any ninja, she was still going to kill even if they were criminals, even if they deserved the death… She smirked. 'In this case, I will be The Death…'

END OF FLASHBACK

Wind Country, Gushij Country

Temari cursed slightly walking all around her cell. They had been taken by surprise when twenty members of the Gushij clan attacked them all at once. She gritted her teeth as she remembered the pathetic battle they had shared. As the leader of her team, she should have known that that they might attack but they were supposed to do it in their territory, not in her brother's. They had no right to do such a thing but Gaara was in Konoha and Kankuro will not know what had happened since her other brother had ordered her to go back in Konoha as soon as possible with the name of the responsible of all this mess. Now, they knew it was the Gushij clan but it how were they supposed to inform the Kazekage or Neji now?

She slapped mentally herself. Neji was gone in the Cloud Country where the 2 other clan of Torture users were. He must know by now that the responsible of the explosions is the Gushij clan. She closed her eyes. Gaara will kill them all when he would learn it. Neji must be pretty angry too, anyway. This clan was as good as dead. She frowned slightly as she realised that if the Gushij clan fell Gaara will become the King of the Wind Country. It was the only thing that was still not in his hands in this Country, the only thing that had refused to be under his control… She smirked. They were sooo going to get it when the Kazekage was back.

However, there was something bugging her driving her almost insane. They were keeping them alive. It would have been more logical to kill them to erase all the traces of their betrayal against the Fire Country and the Wind Country. Even if Gaara doesn't choose to kill them all with his sand they will be execute by the Fire Country. Temari had never heard in her whole life of a similar situation to the mess she was seeing today. Never in history, a clan had attacked another country without the agreement of their King of their Kage. Something was definitely wrong or Lord Gushij was simply gone crazy. It was the only possible and logical possibility since he had dared to attack the Uzumaki and the Inuzuka clan at the same time. There was something else… They had separated her from Shino and Lee.

They had put her in a nice room where everything was fancy, clean… too clean. The last time she checked the prisoners weren't supposed to be treated that well. She remembered her brother throwing a man in a cell because he was a criminal who had stolen something from a merchant. She remembered specifically how he had been treated like dirt. When she had asked Gaara to be a little more civil he had raised an imaginary brow saying that he was a prisoner and he had disappeared. She frowned slightly looking around her. This was nothing like real cells. 'The hell?' Temari took out her fan from her back and tried to blow away the door to get the hell out of there because it smelled trouble like no tomorrow in this room. Red seals appeared around the wooden door. She widened as the handle of the door turned slowly. A man appeared smirking.

"Were you planning on running away, dear?"

She rolled her eyes. She decided she hated her guts since 1: he called her dear when she hated when a man called her that. 2: he entered the room without knocking even if she as planning on running away not in a very tactful way but whatever. 3: he had this annoying little smirk on the lips. 4: he was a Gushij. She had four really good reasons to hate her guts.

"What do you want?"

He smirked and approached her but she stepped back moving away from him. She had known a lot of perverts in her life and this man just smelled like one.

"Well, Lady Temari, I want a lot of things… You have to be more specific."

The Sand kinochi snorted mentally. 'Does he think I'm a child or what? Note to myself: make sure he suffered…'

"Sorry, sir, I wanted to say what do you want from me?"

"Who says I wanted something from you, dear?"

"Don't drop the honorific."

"Then, you should call me Lord Gushij."

Her eyebrows twitched. This man was the brain of this machination? He was sooo dead when she will have finished with him. 'I won't call him at all… How's that?'

"Okay, then, what do you want from me?"

He smirked smoothly and turned around to glance by the window.

"You know… Lord Kazekage, your brother, owns a gigantic Country and may I add beautiful."

Temari resisted the urge to burst out of laughter. 'He's a poet or what?"

"And I decided that I didn't want just the Fire Country. I also want the Wind Country."

She widened eyes looking at him coldly.

"Oh and how are you planning to get the Fire Country? By menacing them by blowing up all their clans' compounds?"

"Almost but I know that Lord Hyuuga won't agree with only that…"

"So lightened me! What are you going to do?"

"I did something already. You know your arrogance remain me of someone I knew once… If you don't change your attitude I will have to do the same thing to you that I did to her…"

"Which is?"

He turned around facing her with a grin on his lips.

"I killed all her clan in front of her eyes. Then, I tortured her."

Temari backed off wide eyes. 'This man is crazy…'

"But her daughter managed to stay alive. That's the second reason why I attacked Konoha. I want her back… to kill her."

The blond woman stepped back again.

"Who is she?"

"Well, I don't know if she tells you her real name… Though, even me I don't know her real name but the name of her clan is Jurinai…"

The information rang to her ears as her eyes widened even more if it was possible. It was the clan which all the achieves had been burnt by Lord Hyuuga because their massacre was supposed to be a secret. She and her brother had found that this clan had been exterminated; all these women had been tortured in the worse way possible according to the Informer… She inhaled deeply.

"So, you are the one who tortured them?"

He nodded smirking at her frightened and shock expression.

"Yes… It was a true entertainment but you didn't see the bodies so why are so paled? Oh… You saw the other one?"

Temari glared at him even if her complexion vied with the white walls behind her.

"Anyway, the King will give her up along with his dear kingdom."

"I don't think Neji will agree with you… He would probably give you the girl without a second thought since he doesn't care at all but his kingdom? He won't give it up even in 2 hundred years!"

"Maybe, but he will since I have his sister and I'm ready to kill her if he doesn't agree with my terms. As for the girl, it seems that she had managed to win his heart since he declared her as his bride to be. What do you think of my torture for the dear King?"

She gritted her teeth blanching again. 'This bastard! I can't believe he took Hinata! And if he says that the girl is the fiancée of Neji it means that… This Tenten girl is a Jurinai!!! We had all the answers of the puzzle right under the nose all this time?'

"I still don't get what it has to do with me!"

He smirked at her.

"I said it, though. I want the Fire Country and the Wind Country and the best way to have it is to pass by the sisters. Don't you think? I have you and I have Lady Hyuuga. I have the Fire Country and I have now the Wind Country. Good night, Lady Temari but I have to go. Please excuse me…"

'In your dreams you jerk! I will never excuse you! Stupid guy!!!! Gaara… Be smart! Don't… ARGH!!!! Of course he will, he's my brother!!! I hate this man! I hate him! I swear I will kill him!! How could he do this to Gaara? My little brother worked so hard to accept as the Kage of this country. Him? What did he do? NOTHING! I swear he will die.'

"… I have two Lords to blackmail and a demon to send back to hell. Hope you enjoy your stay and it's useless to tell you that I put many seals everywhere in this room."

He shut the door quietly walking down the hallway with a huge smirk on the lips. Her expression had been priceless. She was mad because Lord Gushij was about to take every dream her brother possessed. Everything will explode in his face when he will learn that his sister is with him.

"Prepare the girl. I hope the Transportation no jutsu is ready…"

"Of course, My Lord. Everything is settled. We can proceed now."

"Good because I wasn't in the mood to wait for anything."

The Captain nodded slightly and opened the door for the Lord. In a couple of second, they will be in the forest around the Hyuuga castle.

Fire Country, Hyuuga castle

Tenten, Neji, Shikamaru, Ino and Kiba entered the gates of the castle in a high speed. They stopped when they saw the bunch of men who were dead in the Gardens.

"What happened?" Kiba asked mostly to himself looking around for an answer.

"I don't know but it looks like the damage of Naruto's Rasengan."

"NEJI! SHIKAMARU! INO! KIBA! AND WHO THE HELL ARE YOU?" A voice screamed.

They looked up from the bodies to see a pink haired woman running towards them. She panted stopping in front of them.

"The hell happens and what are you so…?"

Sakura grabbed the King by the collar shaking him.

"Hinata is gone! The Gushij clan took her. Naruto ran after them with Gaara."

He took her hands off his robs because he was becoming dizzy as Ino cried in shock.

"Now, tell me what happen exactly… and slowly."

"I told you! Didn't you hear anything that I just said! Hinata is gone!!! Naruto took Gaara with him to search for her and to bring her back. The Gushij clan wants your kingdom so they took her to blackmail you."

Neji paled before glancing at them coldly.

"We are going now. Sakura you come if they dared to injure her or even to touch her. Which direction did they take?"

"This way! Follow me."

They ran off heading towards the West. Shikamaru shook his head. 'Bad move, Neji, you should have left Tenten at the castle… They want her too even if I don't understand why.'

Tenten's muscles were screaming in protest but she kept running. She knew it was important for Neji to save his sister but for that he would have to give up his kingdom. She lowered her gaze. For no apparent reason, she felt guilty like all this mess was her fault… She shook her head as she saw the blond loudmouth in front of her. She could feel his big amount of chakra. He must be really but really mad. They jumped in front of Gaara and Naruto making them stopped.

"Naruto… Calm down." Sakura pleaded seeing the red eyes of her best-friend.

Gaara thanked Kami to have given birth to Sakura. She was the only person along with Hinata to be able to calm him down and seriously he knew that this mission was purely suicidal. Even if he was repeating over and over the same damn thing, Naruto was stubborn and pretty mad.

"I can't Sakura and Neji you should understand me! It's your sister damn it!"

"Naruto, get a hold of yourself! I'm mad but everything will be fine. I will give them my kingdom and they will give her back." The King stated coldly.

Everyone widened eyes looking at him. 'It is me or he's growing soft?' They all thought smirking and nodding to encourage him. Naruto closed his eyes thanking the Gods that Neji was ready to do it for his sister.

"I'm glad to hear this but it's not the only thing I want."