The Reaper Organization

by floridarocks0091

What if naruto lost everything as a child, betrayed, hated and lost all hope, until the death god visited him...

10. Chapter 10

The reaper organization

Chapter 10

I do not own Naruto, obviously…

Hey all, I am really sorry for the extremely long time it took to update, so yeah, I made it up for being an extra 5000 words longer

Anyway, something I want to clear up in Mercy is not immortal, more like a combination of ageless-ness and an immunity to poisons and situations where he loses flesh/tissue. He is still killable by other orthodox means, like drowning, or suffocating, as well as being crushed, and other means that will be revealed later on…so yeah, sorry if that made anyone think this is a blind "OMG INSANLEY POWERFUL NARUTO" fic

After writing this chapter, I have come to the conclusion that I have no skill whatsoever in writing romance. Hence why I chose a NaruHina pairing, it's just so easy to pair them together…but so yeah, this chapter also has a bit of (horribly done) NaruTemari as well, I also have no skills in staying in character, so expect the occasional OCC scene.

Also I'm just curious if the stories are getting a little too long, as the chapters have been steadily increasing in word count. I would also appreciate comments on my writing style as well, I'm sure it needs some work.

Answers to reviews…

To be honest with you all, I was extremely surprised at the reaction to the whole Uchiha bridge thing, I had just put that in there last second, not really thinking anyone would care. I had actually expected more comments on the fight…

(universal answer to the bridge) because everything comes so easily to Sasuke, he is beloved by the village for just being an Uchiha, thousands of fan girls, and can copy Justus with his eyes, so power easily comes to him, so why shouldn't the get the bridge named after him, he already had his two biggest fans with him, (Sakura and Kakashi) to propose the idea. After all, why would they name it after Mercy, the infamous serial killer…

spycon fighter- yeah, she is ;)

Syaoran-San- there are many mysteries in Naruto, and that is one of them

Hoyt- good that means my whole plan for that worked

Hoyt- of course she will appear later, she is just too powerful to be ignored. I guess people don't really understand that if s/he had another sensei instead of Zabuza, she could be on league with gaara, both can wield their elements like no other

Cyber-Porygon- thank you for catching onto that:)

neko-in-tears- yes, and I cant wait till I start writing the Chunin exams

the-eighth-sin- yes he did, but it's a secret

Bobert-theinsaneninthgrader- thank you

Soul-Harvester- yeah, he is going back to the base, and with tit eh beginning of the filler before the chunin exams, such as meeting several other Genin teams and such.

Arsenel- thanks, would you believe I'm am STILL trying to find a good minimum…so far I'm up to 12k words…I'm sorry but, Naruto is already pared up with Hinata

LordofVermillion- thank you

Lt. Doom- just Naruto x Hinata

Well, onto the story…

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"I am freaking sick of eating octopus every freaking day!"

Slamming his fist on the table, everyone stared as Satsui complained about the food. The reaper organization was currently having dinner, and Naruto had just gotten back. All of them sat with their hoods down, their weapons strapped to the back of their chair.

After several minutes of silence and stares, Naruto spoke up,

"Next time someone summons a giant chicken; I'll make sure to kill it for you, but until then, STOP COMPAING AND EAT YOUR FOOD DAMNIT!"

Satsui grumbled and stabbed his knife into the octopus steak, mumbling about how much he loathed the stuff. After seeing Satsui begin to eat, everyone followed suit. Shashu decided to try and stir up conversation,

"So Naruto, how was the Uchiha?"

"Hn…"

"I see, so it was bad" Shashu prodded.

Naruto looked down at his plate and muttered, "Kakashi was there…"

"Wasn't Kakashi the one who..."

"Hai, lets drop that for now, now anyway, how was everyone else's missions?"

After the normal round of exchanging stories and listening to each other, soon the hours began to pass, and then they busted out the sake.

After getting themselves drunk, Naruto, being the only sober one, was forced to return them to their respective rooms. After dropping all of them off, he went back to his room, and locked the door.

Sitting down in front of his desk, he pulled out a small scroll. Un-sealing a cup of coffee, he pulled out another scroll and unfurled it. On it were various diagrams and pictures of experimental seals.

Taking out a pen, he began to work on his own power seal. Racking his brain for ideas, he decided to resort to the fox. Pulling back into the depths of his mind, he cursed when he found the huge demon sleeping.

He figured it would be his best interest tot not wake the thing up, he didn't want to deal with a PMS-ing fox at 1 am. So going back to the drawing board, he tried to think of something orthodox, something the snake bastard would never think of.

After several hours, he got bored and decided to work on the third jutsu. Pulling out the scroll, he looked at the name of the jutsu, Raiton: Denkou Dangan. (Lightning bullet)

Making the necessary hand seals, he shouted out the technique and pointed his palm at one of his stone walls. In seconds, a huge blast mark appeared, with a small amount of smoke rising.

Smirking, Naruto yawned, content with having learned a new Jutsu, went back over to his desk. Putting away all of his supplies, he laid down and looked at the ceiling.

Reminiscing, he clenched his teeth and cursed. Painful memories came back to the surface. At least it would be awhile before he had to watch the Uchiha again, Saiu was guarding him tomorrow.

Closing his eyes, he fell asleep, with dreams of burning Konoha to the ground.

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Yawning, Naruto went over to his bathroom and took a shower. Letting his sleepiness dissolve, he got out and brushed his teeth, then slipped on his undershirt and a pair of faded jeans. Putting his cloak over that, he walked into the kitchen, seeing some of the others already there. Grabbing an apple to eat, he went over into the main room and waited for the Shinigami.

The death god slowly formed, a wicked grin adorning its face. Looking at the nine assembled figures, it began to address them by name, and soon, all were gone save Naruto. Looking up at the giant figure, Naruto patiently waited, hoping against al hope that his mission didn't deal with Konoha, or any of its shinobi.

"Naruto….I'm sending you to destroy a sound fortress. Sound is trying to expand further west, and if they continue they will soon be upon us here. Destroying one of his most well stocked fortresses will send a message to Orochimaru, one he would do well to regard. The fortress is located just south of the Shinano River; though you should be able to see it from miles away.

Your primary objective will be to kill the commander and your secondary objective will be to obtain any and all information on Orochimaru and any of his other accomplices. Dismissed."

"Hai Shinigami-sama"

Disappearing in a puff of smoke, he shot out of the cave, running full speed towards the sound fortress.

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His eyes scanned the forest, looking at every plant and bush, making sure no intruders were lurking around. Seeing no one around, he resumed walking along the path. Taking of his forehead protector, he wiped the away the sweat and cursed his damn uniform, why must these thing be so damn thick?

His face didn't give away any of his thoughts as he looked over to see the rest of his team still looking out for intruders, in the distance one could see the outline of the fortress.

Returning to scanning the forest, the sound ninja suddenly collapsed to the ground. Immediately his team rushed over and looked him over. Their eyes widened when the saw the kunai lodged in his neck and instantly one man shot off for the fortress. The rest of the sound ninja got into defensive positions, looking everywhere. Suddenly, the ground beneath them exploded, and several cloak-wearing figures leaped out of the earth.

As Mercy's clones were dealing with the sound patrol, he himself had given chase to the one escaping. Closing in, he gripped his sword, and then at the right second threw it straight ahead of him. The sound ninja suddenly felt a huge pain surge through his body, and watched as his arm was cleanly sliced off, the huge sword imbedding itself into a nearby tree trunk.

Screaming the man fell down and writhed in pain on the ground, not noticing the kunai the suddenly tore through his neck.

Picking up and sheathing his sword, Mercy turned his attention back to the clones he had left behind. Images of several bloody bodies filled his mind, confirming the kills. Making a hand seal, he shouted out his technique,

"Kage Bunshin no Jutsu"

Instantly, the surrounding forest was filled with Mercy's clones. Mentally giving them the order to find any weak points in the fortress, the clones raced off surrounding the sound installation.

Mercy waited for about thirty minutes before all of his clones relayed all of the information they had picked up. Deciding the best possible entrance to sneak in from, he made a several more clones, then ran off to the ventilation shaft one of his clones had found.

The two sound guards were currently extremely bored, really, like anyone is going to be stupid enough to attack the fortress, and even if someone that dumb, Kabuto was currently inside, and every sound nin knew better than to get in a fight with him.

The guard on the right sighed, "I'm going in to get some water, you want anything?"

"Yeah sure get me a bottle of water, damn these stupid uniforms…"

The other guard just groaned, "In this heat…ugh"

Walking over to the nearest door, the nin disappeared inside after showing his id card and saying the password. After several minutes, he came back out holding two bottles of water and headed off back to his station. The sound nin passed underneath a small balcony on the way to the ventilation shaft, and he barely felt the nin wire slip around he throat.

Putting on the sound nins uniform, he ordered several of his clones to take the body away. Walking over to the sound guard he tossed over the water and watched as the man took a few long gulps, before suddenly falling to his knees, convulsing horribly. Taking one last glance at his 'partner', the man died. Two clones immediately came out of the forest and slipped on the sound nin uniforms as Mercy put back on his cloak.

Crawling inside the small ventilation shaft, Mercy went inside. After he figured he had gone far enough, he made several hand seals then muttered a few words under his breath. After the jutsu took effect, he pulled out several small orbs and closed his eyes and concentrated. The small spheres suddenly began to move, and each spread out, one going down every tunnel to every grate.

Once they were all in position, Mercy opened his eyes and all the orbs silently exploded into transparent gas. The poison silently spread though the ventilation system, and several minutes later, the sound of ninjas coughing and hacking up blood echoed throughout the base.

Mercy knew that the poison would probably only take out ninja Chunin and under, around 70 of the ninja's in the base, which left the tougher opponents still alive. The jutsu he had just done was one that filtered the air in front of one's faced, making one immune to poison. The technique took huge amounts of chakra though, required a significant amount of concentration.

Lifting up a grate he slipped down and made went over to a dead nin's body. Finding nothing useful, he barely avoided the numerous kunai aimed at his head. Turning around, he leapt out of the way of the sound ninja. Increasing the distance between them, he studied the enemy and noticed the two strange looking devices on his arms (think Dosu, but with two melody arms)

Smirking, the Sound nin charged again, as Mercy pulled out his sword. Blocking Mercy's sword with his left arm, the sound nin slammed his fist into the cloaked figure's gut. The sound nin watched as Mercy exploded into a puff of smoke, then moved his right arm behind his shoulder, blocking Mercy's sword again.

Mercy pulled away, but suddenly he felt extremely dizzy. His back up clones all fell down, then exploded into smoke. Mercy promptly fell over and dry heaved, not being able to concentrate on the sound nin in front of him.

Grinning the sound nin pulled up his fist and slammed it down into Mercy's face, creating a crater to form. Coughing up blood, Mercy fought to stand up, only to get another punch from the sound nin, causing him to become even more dizzy.

Sneering, the sound nin reared his arm back and sent a bone crushing punch into Mercy's face, sending him crashing though several walls. Running up to Mercy, the sound nin expected to find a body whose entire skull was shattered, not someone who was still struggling to stand up.

Slamming his fist down next to Mercy's hood, the cloaked boy screamed as he felt his eyes nearly explode in his head. A constant stream of blood soon began pouring out of his ears. Smirking, the sound nin spit at his face, then picked him up by the collar and was ready slam a fatal punch into his face, when Mercy rose his head, and the nin could only watch as two blood red eyes opened. Eyes widening, the nin let go of him instantly and collapsed onto the floor, twitching every few seconds.

Mercy slowly got up and waited for the dizziness to pass off before going over and went over to the stunned man, and slamming his sword into his chest. Concentrating, he gathered his charka and helped stop his dizziness. It was lucky that the idiot had brought him up to eye level. He had been bale to unleash a huge amount of concentrated killing intent, effectively stunning the jounin.

He could already feel his ears repairing themselves before he took off down the hall, searching for the commander's office.

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After killing several more Jounin, Mercy was nearly spent. Trudging along the hallway, Mercy suddenly felt the stone beneath him turn slippery. The floor turned to a 90 degree angle, and Mercy watched as hundreds of spikes showed themselves. (Think of the trap Naruto falls into in Orochimaru base) Eyes widening, he tried to use chakra to stick to the floor, but found that it was just too slippery, probably some kind of chakra repellent as well.

Unsheathing his sword, in one swift move he slammed it into the stone wall, effectively stopping his fall. However, as he looked up he saw the floor start to move back in its original position.

Pulling his sword out of the wall he leaped up in the air, and then tossed his sword at the exit, still holding onto the handle, using its weight to his advantage. Flying out of the trap, Mercy fell down onto the floor, then stood up and sheathed his sword. Hearing a strange noise, he turned around, only watch as a huge wall covered in spines charged at him.

Turing back around he was ready to start sprinting when he watched as a second wall was dropped down the ceiling, also charging at him. Concentrating his chakra, he collected it to his hands, and closed his eyes. In seconds, both walls were closing the gap between them significantly, and Mercy spread his arms apart, targeting two of the more central spines.

As the walls approached, Mercy's palms slammed against the spines, sweat coming down from his face from the concentration it took to create a small barrier between his hands and the spines. He had probably bought himself a few minutes to get out of the trap; he wasn't the best when it came to chakra control. Eyes opening he scanned the small amount of space he had, and then noticed the small grate on the floor next to him.

With it being his only choice, he quickly let go of the walls and slammed his now free fist onto the grate, shattering the rusty metal. Falling down the small tube, he was suddenly stopped in his free fall, and his eyes widened pain.

Looking above him, not all of him had been able to escape, his left leg was impaled with dozens of spines, blood beginning to fall into his face. Cursing, he unsheathed his sword, then quickly sliced of his own leg and continued his free fall, his body already at work regenerating his lost leg, quickly shutting off all the blood flow.

After several seconds, he landed in small tunnel, the rancid stench of a sewer overwhelming his senses. His leg was already completely regenerated, and so he began his miserable walk down the tunnel, until he turned a corner and nearly walked into a beam of light coming down from the ceiling. Looking up, he saw that it was another grate. Using chakra to climb up next to it, he narrowed his eyes when a foot stepped over the grate.

'Apparently the remaining sound forces are regrouping; they are most likely going to the commander for orders…'

Waiting until all of the jounin had passed overhead, Mercy quickly pushed the grate up and over and silently climbed out. As he did, one of the sound jounin quickly turned his head and looked down the empty hallway, grunting when he saw that no one else was present.

Mercy was currently suspended above them, hanging onto the ceiling 'spider-man style', and let himself down, slowing his descent with chakra. Touching down, he quickly followed them to a T-intersection, where he waited until they had all turned the corner before pulling out a small mirror and making sure they weren't doubling back. After he checked that they weren't, he waited until they turned another corner before he made several hand seals and whispered,

"Kage Bunshin no Jutsu"

Immediately the hall was filled with Mercys, who silently waited for their mental orders. When the original had finished, the clones set out for their appointed tasks, while the original and 2 clones headed off for the Jounins.

As he approached the corner the sound ninjas had turned, he heard fragments of a conversation, and placed his hand on his sword. Narrowing his eyes, he tried to pick out some of the conversation or at least the sounds of someone trying to find him. Taking out his small mirror again, he checked in on them, only to watch as one of the jounin looked straight at the mirror and smirked.

Immediately he pulled back to avoid the massive fist that smashed the floor where he was sitting. Rounding the corner came a jounin who must have been the result of Orochimaru trying to replicate Tsunade's strength. The ninja was huge at least 8 and a half feet tall, and had biceps the size of beach balls. His face was covered by a mask, with only the sound forehead protector showing he was even a sound ninja.

Pulling back a massive fist, the nameless jounin slammed his fist down on the ground, casing a shockwave that sent Mercy flying completely down the hall. Meanwhile all the Jounins were snickering at what they all expected to be a slaughter. The huge jounin suddenly began running down the hall, at incredible speeds.

Slowly getting up, Mercy tried to get his balance, but his legs felt like jelly, he looked up only to watch as the huge ninja came straight at him. His clones were still hiding in the shadows like he had ordered them, so he still had the element of surprise.

He managed to barely avoid the giant jounin, flatting himself against the wall. As soon as he had passed, Mercy brought out his giant sword and was ready to send it straight into the sound nin's back, when another Jounin rushed forward and intercepted the attack. Mercy grunted, then leaped backwards to avoid the heavily muscled jounin. Unfortunately, he wasn't fast enough, and the sound nin grabbed his leg with his giant fist, then proceeded to slam him against the stone walls.

Wincing at every time his body was slammed against the wall, Mercy slowly felt all of his bones snapping, and knew that if he didn't do something soon, he would be in trouble, there were still five or so fresh jounin watching the fight. Sensing that his clones were ready, he gave them the order to execute his plan.

All of sudden, 2 clones jumped down onto the sound nin's shoulders and drove their swords into his back. Hissing in pain, the sound nin dropped Mercy to concentrate on the clones, while all the other ninja were scanning the shadows, trying to locate any more attackers.

Mercy could feel his bones starting to mend themselves, and watched as his clones made the necessary diversion to give him time. One of his clones was staying back and mass producing Kage Bunshins, while the other was leading the charge against the muscular sound shinobi.

Slamming his fist down into the ground, the jounin sent a massive shockwave that destroyed about half of the clones, only to be swarmed by dozens of others. 3 clones stayed back and began making hand seals, while 2 clones went over to Mercy's aid, one picking him up and the other taking his place on the floor, and amongst the confusion no one noticed the switch.

Suddenly, the 3 clones staying back finished their hand seals and shouted out their techniques,

"Katon: Karyu Endan"

3 Huge dragons made of flame completely filled the hallways, burning through all the ninjas, the small cramped hallway preventing escape. Screams echoed all though the hallway, while Mercy looked on, safely hiding behind the chaos.

His bones had almost been repaired but he still couldn't walk. Slowly the flames died down, and quite a few jounin stepped out of the smoke, and all were brandishing vicious looking weapons, one was carrying a double bladed scythe while another was carrying a huge spiked club.

Mercy's remaining clones managed to intercept the Jounins, and soon a huge battle was taking place, the sounds of metal hitting metal echoed through the now empty halls of the fortress. While the clones were distracting the Jounins, Mercy and several more clones set off for the commander's office.

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Arriving at the door, Mercy sent one of his clones in first, and flanked the clone on the right with the other on the left. Breaking the door down, the 3 Mercys had their hands on their swords, eyes scanning the room. The commander was mostly high jounin leveled, and the fact that he would have had a significant amount of time to create a good defense while Mercy was dealing with the Jounins.

Fingers tapping the handle of his sword, the clone in front gave the order for the original and the other clone to look for him. Mercy smirked and did as he was told; the clone in front had now marked himself as the main target, thus giving Mercy the element of surprise.

In the shadows, a hidden ninja sneered at how pathetic his enemy was, leaving himself out in the open…wait…no sane leader would do that unless….

Dodging the flurry of shuriken and kunai, the Mercys watched as the commander stepped out of the shadows, the faint candle light showed a very scarred face along with the normal sound ninja getup, only with several modifications. The man wasn't wearing the head part of the uniform, and he also had several defining marks adorning his shoulders. He also had metal body armor around his torso and shins.

Smirking, the man pulled out a kunai and charged targeting the clone in the middle, inwardly grinning that the cloaked freak would fall for a simple trick. Mercy and his other clone in return unsheathed their swords, and then went to engage the commander while the clone in the middle jumped back to give the others some space.

Swinging his sword in a manner to slice the sound ninja in half from the waist, the commander in turn just slid down to the floor, rolling over to avoid the other clones stabs. Jumping to his feet, he blocked their swords jumping up in the air when the 3nd clone joined in the fight.

Keeping his eye on the original, the commander twisted around the swords and threw a kunai at one of the clones, who just blocked it with his sword. Leaping back, the commander's smirk intensified, as the exploding tag on the kunai blew up, creating an effective smokescreen. The clones and Mercy were able to avoid the damaging explosion, but were still momentarily blinded, which gave the commander the time to finish his jutsu.

"Fukuzai Ikkounoken no jutsu" (Hidden Sword technique)

Mercy watched as the smoke slowly dissipated and readied himself for anything, and then he felt the connection he had to his two clones sever. Finally, the smoke had let up enough to let him see, and he immediately brought his sword into a defensive position.

In front of him, the commander was standing, the same smirk on his face. Only thing was the large blade coming out of his upper wrist (think wolverine, but make the prongs into a single blade)

Suddenly, the man disappeared and reappeared in front of Mercy, and began thrusting with his blade. Barely able to keep up, Mercy ground his teeth; this was going to be a difficult battle. In his head, he began to receive random images of dead bodies laying everywhere; apparently his clones had been able to successfully eliminate all the remaining jounin.

Turning his attention back to the fight he ordered all of his remaining clones to immediately come to the commander's office. Blocking another flurry of thrusts, Mercy wasn't expecting as second blade to emerge from the sound nin's other hand.

With his torso open, his eyes widened when he felt the blade go clean through on of his lungs. Hacking up blood, he jumped back to avoid a second assault and knew that his lung was already healing itself, seeing as the amount of blood he was coughing up was dwindling. The commander's eyes narrowed when his opponent didn't die, that was a fatal strike.

'It would be best to not underestimate him.'

Charging forward again, he put his blades in a 'x' and caught Mercy's sword, then hopped and sent his feet straight though the gap in Mercy's guard. Giving a vicious kick to the demon container's chin, the boy was sent up several inches.

While he was open, the commander stabbed both of his swords straight through Mercy with inhuman speed. But he didn't stop there; he proceeded to slice of Mercy's arms as well. His smirk still present, he pulled his blades back and inspected his work. Mercy grinned underneath his hood. Pretending to be in immense pain, he cast a stray glance at the stumps that used to be his arms.

Internally wincing at the immense pain, Mercy used one of the methods Shinigami-sama had taught him, to use his bad memories to his advantage. Thinking back to one of his earlier memories, Mercy felt the pain go away, and felt pure rage coursing though his veins.

Looking back up at the commander, who had just raised his blades, ready to finish the fight, he suddenly leaped up into the air and slammed his heel into the sound nin's cheek. Caught off guard, the nin crashed into his desk, sending papers flying everywhere.

Suddenly, the room was filled with clones, who all had their swords ready. Growling in frustration, the sound nin leaped back to his feet and put his blades in a defensive position. After several seconds, Mercy's arms were completely healed, and picking up his sword, he joined his clones in surrounding the commander.

Shifting his eyes back and forth, the sound nin tried to find the original, but to no use, until he saw the blood stain. Inwardly grinning even more, he raised his blades, then disappeared in thin air, reappearing in front of Mercy, decapitating the cloaked figure, and waited for all the clones to disappear, showing that Mercy was actually dead. However, instead of seeing blood splatter everywhere, all that happened was the clone disappeared into a puff of smoke.

Eyes widening in surprise, the grin on his face was gone, replaced by an agitated snarl. In front of him were 19 copies, and one original, but which one was the real one. Biting down on his hand, he let the pain help him focus, and remembering all of his elite jounin training. He slid into a defensive position, waiting for Mercy to come to him. Narrowing his eyes behind his hood, Mercy gave the mental order for about 6 clones to engage the commander, silently waiting along with the rest of his copies. Letting the clones come closer, the commander began making several hand seals,

"Raiton: Ai Hakaisha" (eye destroyer)

A bright intense flash filled the room, stopping all of the attacking clones and making all of the Mercys temporarily blind. Snickering, the elite jounin raised his blades and began dealing out death, slicing clones to ribbons.

Sending his blades at ones head, he was shocked when it was able to dodge and counterattack. Jumping backwards, he avoided another assault of clones, and was trying to think of how they could still find him.

Suddenly it came to him; they were using sound to find him, how ironic. His sick grin once again graced his face, as he decided to have a little fun with his blinded prey, and whipped out a explosion tag and detonated it, causing all the Mercys to flinch from the loud noise.

His ears still ringing from the explosion, Mercy tried desperately to locate the commander, waiting for his eyes to heal. Finally, after several seconds, his vision returned, only to witness a blade plunging into his chest. Gripping his sword, he swung it at the sound nin, who only jumped back. The remainder of his clones that were still alive exploded into smoke, leaving Mercy alone.

Charging in again, the commander wasted no time in attacking Mercy relentlessly, leaving little room for counterattack. Mercy, on the defensive, wasn't given the time to make a fresh set of Kage Bunshins, and was instead left all alone against the commander.

Frowning, Mercy desperately tried to get back on the offensive, but to no avail. Instead he was being pushed back into one of the walls. Suddenly diving to the side, Mercy watched as the sound nin's blade was thrusted into the wall, making it stuck.

Having the tables turned, Mercy quickly charged the nin, who was till trying to pull his arm blade out of wall. Only capable of using his one blade the elite jounin resorted to ninjutsu to get out of t he mess. Making several one handed seals, he shouted out his technique,

"Gougi Himei" (grand scream)

Opening his mouth, a blast of sound hit Mercy square on and sent him slamming into a filing cabinet. Pulling his blade free, the nin suddenly went and took something out of his ankles and forearm guards.

Struggling to his feet, Mercy watched as the commander threw several small disks over his shoulder. Putting his sword out in front of him, Mercy waited for some sort of attack, what he didn't expect was the scarred man to suddenly appear in front of him and sent a powerful kick to his gut.

Crashing though several walls, Mercy finally skidded to a halt, slumped against a corner. Steeping through the newly formed holes, the commander came out to inspect his work. In a mocking tone, the commander spoke up,

"Those weren't just any of your typical weights; those were specially designed chakra weights. They restrain your chakra, which means that when I take them, it feels like my chakra has doubled!"

Slowly, Mercy squatted and raised his head, only to be kicked in the chin, sending him straight through the ceiling. After several seconds of immense pain, Mercy felt the effects of gravity on him, and soon he was falling right back thought the hole he had made.

Laughing, the commander leaped up in the air, ready to intercept the demon container only too happily with his arm blades. Barely conscious, Mercy plummeted down like a dead duck. The Kyuubi snarled, than proceeded to wake Mercy up by infusing more of its chakra into Mercy's. Eyes snapping open at the surge of pain, Mercy quickly realized the situation and began twisting in mid air and was able to dodge the Commander's blades.

Narrowing his eyes as he sailed past Mercy, the sound nin used his feet to push off the ceiling and shot back down at Mercy. Extending one of his blades forward, he wasn't expecting Mercy to let himself be stabbed. Letting the blade pierce his chest, Mercy grabbed the man's wrist, and then used his feet to push the other nin so he would fall headfirst. Getting over his momentary shock, the sound nin struggled to free himself, but failed to do so.

Slamming down onto the hard stone, the commander's neck seemingly shattered with a large snap. Letting the body go, Mercy hobbled over to his sword and picked it up and sheathed it, but when he turned around, he watched as the sound nin slowly got up from the ground, a maniacal smile gracing his face. Strange black rectangles soon spread all over his face as his grin grew even bigger. The blades on his arms grew even bigger, and his muscles began to tear his shirt.

Mercy watched on calmly, as the man continued to draw power from his curse seal. Finally, the marks had spread all over his body, and were visible on his arms. Suddenly, two massive dragons made of fire came down from each end of the hallway. The sound commander's eyes widened as he was completely engulfed in the flames.

"Katon: Karyu Endan"

Mercy simply looked on as the flames began to recede, his two clones joining him at his side. The hallway had been completely scorched, leaving nothing but black adorning the walls. Suddenly, two white orbs appeared, and then came the expected grin once again. The sound nin was completely burned, so much that his entire body had turned black. A slow crazy laugh began to emit from the man, as he began slowly walk forward. As he moved, his skin cracked and he began to profusely bleeding.

"Lord Orochimaru-sama…..has blessed me!"

With that, the man began to sprint at Mercy, with his crazy grin in place, extending one of his blades at Mercy's head. Mercy made no effort to move, and just simply stood there. As the blade went straight through his opponent's skull, the sound nin began to laugh like a mad man, it was obvious the power of the curse seal was making him insane.

However, as he was laughing, he didn't register the puff of smoke that appeared where Mercy had previously been. If the commander had turned around, he would have watched as Mercy grabbed his swords handle, and in one smooth move, decapitated the man, and sheathed his sword once again.

Picking up the head, Mercy sealed it into a scroll, when he heard a slow clapping. Narrowing his eyes, he slowly turned around and saw Kabuto leaning against a wall.

"Good job Mercy-kun, I would have never expected you to be strong enough to kill a sound commander all by your lonesome."

In seconds, Mercy quickly charged the medic nin his sword as Kabuto pulled out a kunai. Both blades met, with Kabuto smirking as he countered Mercy's strength.

"Well Mercy-kun, it seems that we are almost equal now, this will be interesting in the future…."

Pulling away, Kabuto leaped back and bit his thumb. Smearing his blood across a seemingly random brick, he smirked. Suddenly the ground underneath him vanished, as he fell down a tube. The ground suddenly reappeared as Mercy hurried over and began to slam his fists into the hard stone, blooding his knuckles.

Kabuto's voice filled the hallways, filling Mercy's ears with the sound of evil laughter.

"Mercy-kun, please don't die, I want to fight you later…."

Exploding tags appeared all over the walls, and Mercy's eyes widened, the bastard had activated the bases self destruct. Solid steel slabs began to fall down from the ceiling, trapping Mercy in the commander's office.

The exploding tags slowly began to burn, and in seconds a huge explosion shot out in the middle of the forest, sending chunks of stone everywhere. Where the fortress once stood there was only a huge crater. The forest near the base had been completely incinerated, leaving only black stumps of where trees used to be. Various fires dotted the crater and surrounding trees, being the only source of color for miles.

Near the base of blackened stump, were shreds of black material. If one was to follow the trial, one would have come across what remained of Mercy.

Nearly his entire body had been incinerated, his head and his right shoulder and arm were all that was left of him. However, he was far from dead, as his bright blue eyes snapped open and winced as the smell of burning wood invaded his nostrils.

Mercy tried to move his fingers, and found that only two actually moved, even if it was just a small twitch. Slowly, the stump of what used to be his left arm began to grow, and in several minutes, he had re-grown his entire arm. His torso began to fill up, as his spine grew, then organs began to form, and ribs surrounded them. Soon, his entire torso was regenerated, and in several more minutes, he had his legs again.

Slowly he sat up, and cracked his neck and arms. Black material began to form over is skin and soon his cloak had been formed. Then the strap appeared over his shoulder as his sheath was last.

Standing up, he slowly hobbled over to where his sword lay, and picked it up, examining it, and as usual, it was completely un-harmed, the steel still gleamed like it was brand new.

Slowly, he began to walk towards home, eager to rest.

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Several weeks later, Naruto was napping in his room when there was a knock at the door. Not opening his eyes, he made a hand seal and mumbled a few words, and an exact copy of him appeared. Walking over to the door, the clone opened it to find Saiu, who looked bored. Pointing in the direction of the main chamber with his thumb, Saiu left, his job was over.

The clone exploded into smoke as Naruto sat up and yawned and stretched. Then he proceeded to the main room, the death god probably had a mission for him or something. When he got there he found the Shinigami already visible in the gate, as well as another member of the reaper organization standing there as well.

Iken (name means power) was currently leaning on a wall with his arms crossed, looking at the ground. His only reaction to Naruto was a glance at him and a grunt, before he went back to concentrating at the ground. His hood was down, so one could see his face, well, if he had one.

Iken was the last Kaguya, in his own personal opinion. He had been the only survivor of the Kaguya clan massacre, after the male population had gone and attacked Mist, Mist had retaliated by trying to wipe out the entire clan.

Slaughtering the women and children, Mist showed what happens when one crosses a ninja village. Iken had been forced to witness the total annihilation of his clan when the attack happened, and it was something that would be forever etched into his memory, not unlike a certain Uchiha.

Flashback

A 7 year old Iken was having one of the best moments in his life, it was his birthday and his mother had just given him his first jutsu scroll. As happy the occasion was, one thing was plaguing the back of Iken's mind. His father had just recently left, saying it was something clan related, though Iken clearly saw the bloodlust in the man's eyes.

His father wasn't exactly the nicest person alive, but there was worse. He was always striving to prove to his father that he was a great warrior, but he just wasn't as talented as some of the other Kaguya children were, he could barely make his bones break the surface of his skin. But that didn't stop him from practicing everyday, trying to hone his Kekkei Genkai.

His father still looked down at him though, always scoffing at his sons attempts to manipulate his bone structure, wishing that he was as talented as Kimimaro. This caused Iken to envy the other boy, always striving to be as good as his father wanted, and even surpass Kimimaro.

But it was not to be, as Iken's father never returned from his 'meeting', in fact, Iken could see the fires in the distance. Little did he know what was about to happen would change his life forever.

In an hour, they came, hundreds of Mist shinobi, ready for revenge. The came upon the village like a swarm of angry hornets, storming into each individual house and began to slaughter everyone inside. Soon screams echoed thought the camp.

Iken's mother heard the screams and quickly looked out her window and her eyes widened when she saw all the fires. She immediately ran to her sons room and threw the door open. Inside she found Iken staring out his own window, his face showing a mixture of emotions, ranging from shock and extreme anger.

Grabbing his hand, his mother began to head out to the back door, wincing every time she heard another shrill scream. Going faster, she and Iken rushed towards the trees, hoping to find cover there. Along the way the join up with several other mothers running with their children, and soon many more Kaguya joined their group. Chaos was running rampant, explosions were going off every 30 seconds, random shuriken and kunai would zip by, imbedding themselves in something or someone.

The group of Kaguyas began to dwindle, various people falling down. Iken watched as an elderly man supported his equally old wife, but fell down from a giant shuriken imbedding itself in his back. The old wife just looked on in horror, as she turned around, Iken saw her face, and her eyes were full of absolute terror. Suddenly a Mist chunin appeared in front of her and slashed her neck. Crumpling to the ground, Iken watched and resisted the urge to cry.

Soon a group of pregnant women were brutally cut down, and small children were sliced in half. Iken watched as one shinobi jumped down in front of a mother and killed her, and the small 4 week old baby she was carrying.

Iken felt the extreme fury well up in his heart, and he sent a pleading glance over to his mother to let him go, to let him fight back, to help save something from his life, but his mother still held onto his hand as they ran for the forest.

Finally as the reached the tree line, the first person who entered found themselves full of kunai. Iken was panicking now, the bastards had put up traps so they couldn't escape, how were they going to get away…

He was thinking a thousand thoughts a second, his heart rate had doubled and he was sweating. He found himself looking to his mother for support, but she didn't know what to do either. Slowly, Mist shinobi surrounded the Kaguyas, all brandishing wicked looking swords. The mist chunin smirked as they all charged, slicing the remaining women and children to ribbons, not giving their victims a second glance.

Iken's eyes began to water as he watched his life shatter in font of him, all his childhood friends and their families were being slaughtered in front of him, and there was nothing he could do. He watched as the baker's wife was sliced in half, as his best friends sister fell down face first, a kunai stuck in her back.

His mother pulled him close as she pulled him into a tight hug, before suddenly stiffening, and Iken watched from her shoulder as the red liquid poured down from her back, a steel sword in her back. His mother gave him one last smile before collapsing on top of him. It was at that moment that Iken's life was utterly destroyed.

The mist shinobi just kept on killing, not checking to see if the small blood covered boy pinned underneath his mother was still alive.

After several hours, the Mist shinobi had killed off the Kaguya clan, and so began the process of burning all the bodies. Picking up one corpse after another, the mist shinobi piled bodies on top of each other, Iken being able to nothing but watch.

Two chunin proceeded to begin working on the bodies around Iken, and soon one had moved onto his mother. Roughly picking the Kaguya, the shinobi didn't expect to find a small boy, and in seconds a bone sword pierced his throat.

Collapsing on the ground, the chunin slowly died, a look of pure shock on his face. His partner came back from fire to get more bodies when he spotted the other shinobi bleeding on the ground. He immediately pulled out a kunai, and strained his eyes looking for whoever did this.

'One of those Kaguya bastards must have survived…'

He began to slowly check each of the bodies around him, eyes skipping over the blood-soaked child, and turned around, only to feel a foreign object go straight through his heart.

Iken quickly ran away, not even looking back at the two men he had killed. Rounding a corner, he stopped as two mist shinobi went by, carrying bundles of wire and kunai.

'They must have taken down the traps…'

Waiting until they had walked off, Iken made a mad dash for the forest, not stopping for anything, even when one noticed him called out to his comrades. Ducking underneath branches and leaping over roots, Iken raced though the dense forest.

Images of what had happened to the Kaguya clan kept cycling through his mind. Clenching his teeth, he bit his hand, he didn't need thoughts like that, he needed to be concentrated on escaping. Tripping over a rock, Iken fell face first on the ground, then quickly got back up and started running, the ninja behind him were catching up.

An idea suddenly formed in Iken's head, and he slowly concentrated on his rib cage. Sprinting as hard as he could, Iken suddenly jumped in the air, and fell with a huge splash into a large river. As the Mist shinobi approached the river, all they saw was the raging water. Coming to the conclusion that no one could possibly survive in a current like that, they began to run back to the remains of the Kaguya clan, there were still more bodies to get rid of.

Concentrating on his expanded ribcage, Iken had used the extra space in his chest to take an even larger breath of air, and now he was being pulled along to bottom of the river like a rag doll. Desperately trying to get to the surface, Iken kicked his feet furiously.

Finally, after several minutes, he was able to break the surface, and took another huge breath of air. Being sucked back down to the bottom, Iken once again tried to get to the surface, before he suddenly couldn't feel the bottom of the river anymore; in fact it felt like he was…freefalling! After what felt like an eternity he finally made contact with the water below him. He was instantly unconscious, as his body was at the mercy of the water.

Someone was watching over him that day,his body somehow made its way onto one of the sides of the river. When he finally woke up, he blinked, and then slowly lifted himself to his feet. He was covered in mud and blood, and he had no idea where he was. Coughing up water, he fell on his hands and knees as his mind began to play back the images of what had happened to his clan.

Shaking his head in futile attempt to make the images stop, Iken screamed out at the world and began to pound his fist on the mud in front of him. Grinding his teeth, he knew inside that thinking about it wouldn't help, so he tried to get his mind off the depressing subject, and concentrate more on finding out where he was.

And so he got up and decided to walk along the river, it most likely would lead to some village. As he was walking, he made a turn and watched as 7 more children came from the opposite direction. Among them was one who was wearing a mask coving the lower half of his face along with silver hair. After that, the rest was history…

/Flashback

Ever since then, Iken had mastered his bloodline, to extremes thought impossible by some. Strapped to his back was huge double bladed axe, and he was wearing a silver necklace with a skull at the end. The necklace was something the death god had given him, it boasted his control over his bloodline and something that he kept on his person at all times. Iken's code name was Humility.

Iken looked back up at Naruto, his red eyes blazing from behind his eye sockets. He had manipulated his skull and jaw muscles in such a way that his head looked like it had been reduced to a skull, something he used to intimidate his opponents and make him look more like a representation of death. He also used a mild genjutsu to make his eyes turn red, something that still sent shivers down the spines of the other members.

Standing up straight, Iken sent a glance over to the Shinigami, waiting for his orders. Putting on its typical sick grin, the death god looked down at his pawns.

"We have received information that's states that Akatsuki has a spy in Sand's ranks. The spy is mot likely getting information on the Ichibi. Seeing as we are dealing with Akatsuki, you two, our strongest members, will be infiltrating Sand, eliminating the spy and if possible do it swiftly enough that you can get out of there and back here. We don't want Akatsuki to target us, not this early.

The man you are looking for is Yura. There is also a distinct possibility that Sasori might turn up, I'm ordering you not to engage him at any cost."

Satsui suddenly came in holding a manila folder. Handing it over to Naruto, he turned back and waved goodbye, before disappearing down to dimly lit hallway. Opening up the folder, Naruto found a picture of the Akatsuki spy, along with other useful information. Sealing the folder into one of his many pocket-sized scrolls, Naruto looked back up at the Shinigami

"Dismissed."

"Hai Shinigami-sama"

And with that, both Naruto and Iken raced out of the caves entrance, speeding towards the Village Hidden in the Sand.

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The whole trip there was spent in silence, something that would have driven most ninja insane with boredom, but not these two. Mercy simply stared ahead, touching down on the next tree branch, already ready to jump to the next one.

Blankly staring ahead of him, Mercy barely noticed as the terrain began to slowly change. The seemingly endless forest began to slowly shrink, soon leaving nothing but grassland. Progressing further, the grassland began to turn sparse, until finally, the two were treading on sand. Eyes narrowing, Mercy suddenly stopped, causing his partner to stop as well. Sending a questioning gaze over at Mercy, Humility questioned why they had stopped. Mercy, who in return, just pointed several feet in front of them.

Gently using a weak futon jutsu, Mercy uncovered a small piece of paper with a strange seal on it. Gently, Mercy set it down behind them, using a small chakra string, he was able to not trigger the detection seal. After he was done, both cloaked figures took a much slower pace, not wanting to alert Sand that they were coming.

Along the way, the two came across a few sand merchants, who were properly taken care of. Putting on his newly acquired clothes, Mercy strapped on the lower face guard and strapped on his massive sword to his back. Looking over at Humility, who had finished putting on the bandages surrounding his open skull, putting goggles over his eyes, the only thing not covered.

The two set out again, and soon the village's gates were visible, and Mercy felt a little relief that soon they would be able to relax, at least until he felt the small gust of wind. Eyes widening, he slowly turned around, only to look at a huge cloud of sand, heading straight at them.

Immediately he turned back around and sprinted for the village's gates which were slowly beginning to close, the other figure right behind him. Trying to outrun the sandstorm, the two were moving at in-human speeds.

The guards in the watch tower just gaped at the two, before coming to their senses and sealing up all the windows and doors. The villagers already knew what to do, scrambling towards their homes, putting damp towels near the bottoms of the doors to keep out the unwanted sand.

The two zipped through the gates not stopping to look back at the stunned guards. Heading off to the nearest public building, the two were in luck that the door was still open, the inn owner calling them over. After they had entered, the man slammed the door shut and fixed it so sand wouldn't come in. Mercy's and Humility's eyes scanned over the crowd inside, a mixture of civilians and shinobi, with several vendors setting up their stalls.

In seconds, the building began to rock and a fierce howling came from outside. Ignoring the storm, Mercy pulled out a small sealing scroll in one of his pockets and began setting up his own stall, un-sealing various shinobi weapons. Humility sent a stray glance over to him, before walking over to help him.

Mercy figured that if they were going dress like Merchants, they might as well act the part, after all, they might be here for awhile, and they didn't want to raise suspicion.

Soon, shinobi came up to their stall and the two began to barter, making a significant profit in the process. Mercy's bright blue eyes watched over the crowd, causing several girls to blush, as he looked for potential customers.

Soon the storm was over, the loud howling dulling down to a dull roar, until it finally stopped. Once he was sure the san storm was over, the inn keeper picked up the towel and pushed on the door. Unable to get the door open, several more men came over, and digging their heels into the floor they finally got it to swing open.

Outside it looked like a strange new world, sand covered everything, dunes were everywhere. Sand covered buildings up to their ground floor windows. Soon people began leaving their temporary shelters, coming out like ants from an anthill. Various ninja began to use wind jutsu to move all the sand, one kunoichi especially.

Temari swung her fan again, sending sand hundreds of feet, away, uncovering a small fruit stand. A grateful old woman thanked her and proceeded to put her good back on the stall. Sighing, Temari went over to help another merchant, wiping some of the sweat off her face.

Mercy just raised an eyebrow, where had he seen her before…

Humility looked over at his partner and pulled out his bingo book, flipping to the Suna section. In seconds, Mercy was looking at a picture of the girl, and after looking at the girls family, he nodded, and Humility put the book back in his pocket.

Giving Mercy a look that said , 'should we?', Humility watched as Mercy just shook his head, it would be the best option to go up to the daughter of the Kazekage and ask for information.

Sealing all his extra weapons back into his scroll, Mercy and Humility headed over to the front desk of the inn they were just at. Using the money they had just gotten from the sales, Mercy bought two rooms and tossed Humility the key. Heading up to his room, he promptly took a shower, glad that he could get all the sand off him. Heading off to his small cheap bed, he fell asleep, already thinking of ways to find the Akatsuki spy.

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In the morning, Mercy slipped on his sand disguise and knocked on Humility's door. Being let in, Mercy proceeded to discuss the plan with Humility.

"Since we are going to be Vendors, we might as well sue that to our advantage. Yesterday when we were selling the weapons, most of our shinobi customers looked interested in our goods, perhaps if we stay here long enough, we can attract the attention of the higher ups, and maybe that of the Akatsuki spy. It would be best if we split up, and each take two sides of the village, we would be twice as likely to encounter the target."

Humility just nodded, then spoke up, "What if one of us finds the target, what should we do?"

Mercy pulled out two identical pieces of paper with seals on them. Giving one to Humility, he explained, "If you see him, just swipe some blood over the seal, and my seal will notify me. The seals also work as locators, so keep in on you at all times."

Humility just pocketed the seal and didn't say anything. Mercy took that as a yes and handed his partner one of his sealing scrolls. The two then went downstairs and onto the street, the bright sun temporarily blinding them.

After getting used to the brightness, the two split up, each going down one section of the road. After going a ways down the road, Mercy pulled out his sealing scroll and un-sealed a large blanket along with all of the weapons Kongou had made.

Soon after, passersby would stop and look at his wares, and soon shinobi came. Making a significant income, Mercy had to pull out a second sealing scroll and restocked his items.

Baki was heading t his teams meeting spot, the sand sibling's house, when he saw a larger crowd out of the corner of his eye. Deciding to check it out, he headed over and shoved aside several villagers, he got to see Mercy's stall. His visible eye widened as he glanced over all the weapons, and soon he too felt the urge to buy something.

Not very many traders came to Suna, do to its desolate location, so foreign made weapons were of short supply. Baki, thinking hard, decided to gather his team, they might be interested in this, well at least Temari and Kankuro.

Disappearing in a puff of smoke, Baki left to get his team. Underneath his disguise Mercy smirked, he had already gotten one jounin, sure enough there would be more tomorrow.

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Temari yawned as she got up from her bed. Looking over at the clock next to her eyes widened, she had forgotten to set her alarm! Last night she must have forgotten to do so, seeing as she had been exhausted after helping clean up all the sand.

Sighing she got up and took a shower, getting all of last nights sand off her before grabbing her fan and going downstairs. Kankuro was already up, over at his desk in the corner of the family, one of Karasu's arms in front of him. Scattered all over the table were various tools, screws and weapons.

Not looking up from his work, Kankuro ignored her and kept working. Meanwhile, Temari felt a shiver down her spine as she realized her other brother was staring at her back. Turning around, she watched as Gaara just gave her his emotionless stare, before going upstairs and back to whatever he did in his free time.

Temari let out a breath she didn't know she was holding, and then walked over the small kitchen. Their father had been so kind in that he had actually given the three their own house, even though it had various infestations, and they had to buy all their own food, who would ever want to live in the Kage's mansion, not them.

'Yea, right…cheap bastard' Thought Temari as she searched for the eggs in their small refrigerator. Living by themselves had its perks though hey got stay away from their father longer. The man was probably trying to kill them all off, locking them all in some second rate townhouse.

Sighing again, she got out the frying pan and was about to begin to whip the eggs when she heard a knock at the door.

"Kankuro, can you get that?"

Hearing no response from her brother she tried a second time,

"Kankuro, can you please get the door?"

STILL not responding, Temari clenched her teeth as her eyes narrowed,

"KANKURO, GET YOU ASS OF THE DAMN CHAIR AND ANSWER THE FUCKING DOOR!"

Immediacy springing up from his desk, Kankuro ran to the door, fearing for his life if he made her any angrier, sometimes he wondered, who was scarier, his sister of Gaara.

Opening the door, he came face to face with an excited Baki. Raising an eyebrow at his sensei's expression, he was bowled over when Baki ran inside. Temari just stared, Baki never acted like this, something must have affected him so much that he….

"WEAPON SALE!"

Temari instantly became a female Baki clones, not unlike a certain bushy browed genin and his equally hideous sensei. Kankuro struggled to get up, and when he did he nearly tore his eyes out from the scene in front of him.

Temari and Baki were hopping up and down with excitement, singing ridiculous songs that made no sense, and all the commotion had attracted Gaara, who just gave them the "Gaara-glare."

Kankuro just weakly raised one arm giving off a bland, "Woohoo" Before heading off for his desk. Temari, seeing this, stopped dancing and grabbed her brother into a headlock, and dragging her puppet-obsessed makeup clad brother the three started off for the weapon stall Baki was talking about, until the remembered Gaara.

Said demon container continued to give them the patented "Gaara-glare" before giving off the expected,

"Shut up or I'll kill you."

And the four left the house, heading for Mercy's ninja weapon stall.

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Mercy was getting bored. All the customers where just chunin and below, not a single Jounin had come since that guy with half a face. Suddenly, a scream caused him to raise his head. The crowd in front of him began to recede, some running away seemingly for their lives. After the crowd was gone, the only people in front of him were that jounin who had been there earlier and what appeared to be his team.

Scanning their faces, he stopped at the red head.

'So that must be Gaara…. '

Standing up, Mercy quickly bowed,

"What an Honor, having the Kazekage's children here…"

Temari merely grunted,

"Stuff it, what do you have for sale"

Mercy smirked, the girl had just given away valuable information, the 3 were not apparently on good terms with their father apparently.

'How to sue to my advantage…'

Pulling out another scroll, Mercy quickly unsealed more weapons, only these were the secondary weapons he was selling before, these were more high quality. Kankuro immediately began to scan the weapons.

Temari also began to sift through the weapons, until she came across another battle fan. She immediately picked it up and began to inspect it. It was bigger than her other fan that she had had for almost her entire life, a gift from her uncle. When she opened it up she was shocked to find that the fan opened even more than her other one, this one could let her have 4 moons instead of 3.

"How much for the fan?"

Mercy just looked at her, and thinking about it some, answered

"Well, for the desert flower, free of course"

Shock overwhelmed Temari, a small blush appearing on her cheeks, while she tightly gripped her newly acquired fan and tried to slam it into Mercy's face. Baki just rolled his eyes at his students behavior, turning his attention back the sword he was inspecting.

Kankuro, knowing that his services were not needed in pummeling Mercy, was trying to decide if Karasu should wield a weapon, and if so what kind. Gaara was just bored, there was nothing really to do. Still one thing bugged him, it felt like the vendor was hiding something, something he wanted to know.

Temari smirked as she swung her fan, ready to give the poor guy in front of her a concussion for actually trying to flirt with her. At least, her smirk lasted until her fan was blocked, with two fingers. Mercy had just calmly stretched out his arm and blocked it, something that caught Baki's attention.

'He must be one hell of a ninja to have the strength to do that effortlessly…hmmmmm'

In reality however, Mercy was in immense pain, this would have to work. Trying to come off more powerful than he really was reminded him that he needed to up his training some more; maybe later he would practice chakra molding.

Temari's blush continued to spread as she began to analyze Mercy,

'Wow…he so strong…and he sounds really hot wait what am I thinking? I don't know anything about this guy, he is probably some low life, but I bet he looks really cute underneath that mask…'

Shaking her head, she tried to clear her mind, but she couldn't. Suddenly, Gaara's sand shot out of his gourd, and began to wrap around Mercy. Baki immediately tired to stop Gaara, but as he saw his face he knew it was over. Sending a sympathetic look over to Mercy, Baki just stood there.

Temari's and Kankuro's eyes widened as they chose the best option available, hide behind Baki. The jounin didn't appreciate his students acting like such cowards, but when Gaara was involved it was justified, no body wanted to deal with the boy, he was just too unstable.

Mercy struggled against the sand cocoon, but to no avail, Gaara was calmly watching, a manical smile breaking out. Finally Gaara spoke up,

"You make her afraid, how you make her afraid….TELL ME!"

Constricting his sand just a little, Mercy clenched his teeth, the last the he needed to be doing was getting in a fight with Gaara of all people. Gaara still expecting an answer didn't expect Mercy to just suddenly explode into smoke. Temari's and Kankuro's eyes widened, what kind of technique was that?

Baki narrowed his eyes, he was familiar with the jutsu, but what annoyed him was that he hadn't even seen the merchant make any hand seal, was he that could that he did so without him seeing it?

Gaara began to madly look around, searching for the missing ninja. Suddenly, his sand flew up to protect him on his right. Turning his head he found several kunai imbedded in his sand.

Mercy raised an eyebrow at what happened,

'So this is the automatic sand defense….interesting'

Grabbing the hilt of his sword, Mercy eyes darted over to the other 3 sand ninja, who were at the moment bowing. Several seconds later, he found the reason why.

"Gaara, what are you doing?"

Not even looking over his shoulder Gaara mumbled something, and then his sand began to slowly recede. After all the sand was back in Gaara's gourd, he formed a cork in his hand and then plugged the top of it. Baki nodded to the Kazekage, and then all 4 of them left, leaving Mercy and the Kazekage and his guards.

The Kage jumped off the roof top he had been on and slowly walked up to Mercy.

"I am terribly sorry about Gaara, he is a bit….unstable sometimes…"

As the Kazekage was rambling on about how 'incredibly sorry' he was, Mercy took the liberty to scan over his assortment of guards. After identifying about 3 guards, Mercy suddenly found himself looking at his target's face.

His eyes giving away nothing, he concentrated on Yura. One of the clones he had made earlier had already begun making hand seals.

"Katsugan no Jutsu" (keen eye technique)

The clone closed its eyes for several seconds, and suddenly on Yura's neck a strange black line appeared. The clone, its charka nearly gone, leaped away to self destruct, not wanting to alarm the Kazekage.

Mercy watched as said Kage strode over to Mercy's stall, his guards close behind. The Kazekage inspected each of the weapons, and then turned to look at Mercy.

"Where did you get these?

Mercy, in the most respectful voice he could muster replied,

"A close friend Lord Kazekage-sama"

Nodding , the Kage picked up one of the swords, and after turning it over a few times in his hand, pulled out a small piece of paper.

"Would you care to ask this friend if he would like to be in a contract with the Sand village, his work is most excellent, and would be very appreciated here in Suna."

Nodding, Mercy accepted the scroll and placed it in one of his pockets.

"I will ask him when I leave"

The Kazekage sneered underneath the cloth covering his face,

'With these weapons, crushing Konoha will be a breeze…kukuku'

Turning around to leave, the Kage and his escorts disappeared in puffs of smoke, leaving Mercy all alone in the middle of the street. Almost immediately, he bit his thumb and smeared some blood across the seal on the small piece of paper.

After several seconds, a tan blur appeared in font of him. Humility, one hand already on his axe, looked around the street.

Mercy just shook his head in the negative, before going over to his stall and beginning to the long process of re-sealing all the weapons into one of his scrolls. As he was packing, he pulled a small piece of paper out of his pocket and threw it at Humility.

Opening it up, Humility scanned the contents and then tossed it back to Mercy. Humility then disappeared in a puff of smoke, leaving Mercy to go back to his stall.

After several minutes, Mercy had completely packed everything up and headed off for the inn he was staying at.

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Knocking on Humility's door, he was promptly let in and sat down in a chair. Humility watched as Mercy made several hand seals, and then mumbled a technique. Effectively sound proofing the room, Mercy began to tell Humility the days proceeding, carefully detailing his meeting with the Kazekage and seeing Yura.

Just nodding, Humility listened occasionally speaking up to ask a question, but over all being silent. After finishing, Mercy looked back at his partner expectantly, as if waiting for Humility to comment, but he only stayed silent.

Mercy sighed and was about ready to leave, when Humility finally spoke up,

"You have a plan, right?"

Mercy just nodded and began to tell him the plans for tomorrow. After that, he slipped off his sword, and wished partner good night as he left for his own room.

Making several hand seals, Mercy muttered

"Kuchiyose no Jutsu"

Instantly a small fox appeared with a signature 'pop'. Pulling out the contract he had gotten from the Kazekage, he gave it the small creature, who took the paper in his mouth. Already knowing where the destination was, the small fox leaped out the window and began to run all the way back to the cave.

However about 3 hours later, Mercy silently woke up. Slowly opening his eyes, he saw the same small fox come into focus. It was gently licking his face, and after it figured he was awake, it used it head to point o his bedside table. On it was the same scroll Mercy had sent out.

Thanking the fox, Mercy dismissed it and went back to sleep, dreams of sending his sword straight through the old man's heart.

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The next morning, Mercy had already set his stall up, and the usual crowd had formed around him. Sighing, he accepted the money one shinobi gave him, while answering another's questions.

As this continued throughout the day, Mercy grew increasingly more and more agitated. It was probably the intense heat, or perhaps the non stop barrage of various shinobi trying to intimidate him into lowering the prices on some of his items.

Sighing, he stood up seemingly at random and made his ever famous hand seal, causing the space next to him to fill up with an exact copy of himself. Not even looking back, he decided to set his plan in motion, heading over to the local ice cream shop.

Inside, he found the person he had been hoping to find, well actually he already knew she was here, he had also placed a small tracking seal on her as well, simply because she was so integral to his plans.

Walking up to her he sat down on the stool next to her and waved the waitress over. Temari looking over couldn't help but blush, before weakly trying to demand why he was here. Then it came to her, she didn't even know his name.

Deciding to try and figure out, she nudged him in the ribs, with a significant amount of force.

Eyes widening at the pain, Mercy turned over to look at her, raising one eyebrow in the process, looking over at Temari who just smirked back at him,

"I never even learned your name..."

"Ganjou Kashiwa"

Temari raise an eyebrow,

"Strong oak?"

Mercy shrugged, "I'm from grass, and at least it's better than some toy ball"

Temari stuck her tongue at him, then promptly turned around and pouted. Mercy just stared at her back before teasing her,

"If you want me to leave I'll go…"

And standing back up he was forcefully pulled back down in his seat and felt his ear begin to bleed from the loud, "NO!" that came from the pigtailed blonde. Blushing, Temari looked away as Mercy carefully wiped all the blood away from under his head piece.

Suddenly she realized he would have to take off his mask for him to eat, giving a good look at his face.

Trying not to be too blunt, she carefully watched as he undid the knot holding up the cloth, only to reveal his other black face hugging mask, something that made Temari face fault.

Chuckling, Mercy took out a kunai and slit a small cut over his mouth, then picked up his spoon and began to chow down of the ice cream, never before had he been so thankful for the frozen stuff, it helped him cool down from the blistering sun outside. In between he bites he sent her the ever occasional glance, something Temari tried her hardest to ignore.

Finishing his ice cream, Mercy watched Temari out of the corner of his eye. Wiping the ice cream residue off his mask, he put his cloth facemask back on, giving her a wink when she pouted.

"What are you, some kind of identity-freak?"

Smirking, Mercy replied,

"Something like that, anyway, I was wondering if you would be so kind as to give me a tour of the village, me and my partner might be staying here for a bit, so I was wondering if you could help us..."

Barely containing her excitement, Temari grabbed Mercy's arm and the two shot out the door, leaving a pissed off un-paid waitress behind.

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Mercy tried to stop and get a breath of air, but found that he was still being dragged by the arm through the streets of Suna, his apparent guide giggling like a school girl every few seconds. She had been doing that for 3 hours, and it was very taxing on his sanity.

Mercy, out of desperation tried to pry of her grip of steel but failed to do so, and considered using the communication seal to get Humility to help him, but that was until he saw said partner on a roof top holding what looked like a camera.

Sighing, he already knew that the next month would hell, but he strengthened his resolve and once again tried to dig his heels in the ground, but was halted when Temari suddenly stopped, Mercy already not liking that look in her eye.

Temari swung Mercy up to his feet, and then pushed him inside another restaurant. Almost throwing him into a booth, she promptly sat down next to him, ignoring his now-turned-swirly eyes. Nudging herself closer to Mercy Temari giggled as she read the menu.

Looking over at Mercy, she giggled again and then prodded him,

"Hey what are you getting? Hmmmmmmmm"

Barely getting over the fact that he had just been thrown in a booth with the blonde sand kunoichi, and was now nearly being squeezed to death from being stuck between the wall, and said girl, Mercy took as second to get his bearings.

'Birei would a kick out of this' Mused Mercy to himself as he remembered the whole reason the girl was acting like this. It had all started when he and Humility had seen the girl using her fan on the day of the sand storm. After learning her identify, Mercy had reasoned that since she was the daughter of a Kage, she might be very useful in their mission.

It had been simple enough using a special potion that Birei had made, the ever-classic love potion. Apparently made from some special flower or something, Birei had recommended it, saying she used it all the time for missions and such.

He had innocently applied the potion to a battle fan, and had simply waited for her to show up. The second she had touched the fan, it had instantly made her fall for him, though recently he was staring to regret it, very much so in fact.

Temari had just scooted closer to him, so close that he was now being squished between the wall, and said girls chest. The potion was supposed to gradually increase her feeling for him over a good amount of time, not hours. He must have added to much or something, well that or the girl was that lonely.

Thinking back to the fact that he knew she was the sister of the local 'demon spawn' he reasoned it was that. So, sucking it up and once again putting on his 'good natured loveable guy' mask, he picked up the menu in front of him and began scanning the contents.

After reading though halfway, his eyes stopped at the Ramen section. Memories of his childhood began to leak into his mind, something he didn't exactly like. He remembered all the times he had gone to eat at ramen stand, seeing as it was the only restaurant that served him.

Grinding his teeth on the inside, on the outside he put on a grin,

"I'm thinking about the pork ramen, you?"

Temari bit her lip as she looked at the newly-found love of her life,

"Why don't we split it, that way we don't have to pay as much."

Shrugging, Mercy agreed and as the waitress came over he gave her their order and waited for their food to come. Several minutes later, the waitress came over carrying a large bowl of noodles, setting it down in front of the two.

Immediately Temari pulled the bowl towards her and began to chow down. Mercy's eyes widened as he watched her slurp up the last of the noodles. She had eaten their ramen in the course of 5 seconds…

Coming back to reality, Temari's eyes also widened as she realized what she had done. Blushing furiously, she quickly began a huge string of apologies, end not in sight.

Mercy put his hands up his eyes turning into the infamous Kakashi upside down "U"

"No it's alright, I wasn't really hungry anyway. Hey I was wondering if we could go visit the Kazekage tower, I really need to give some documents to the Kage, we have a contract."

Temari just nodding her head, not really listening. Just looking at his face, with a long sigh, she finally got up. Before Mercy could do anything, his arm was once again grabbed, and the pair left the restaurant, Mercy just able to put the correct amount of money on the table before he was pulled from his seat and once again dragged through the streets of Suna.

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As he was being dragged, Mercy quickly made a hand seal, and an exact clone of him appearing next to him. The clone immediately leapt off to a nearby rooftop, Mercy glancing over his shoulder to see that the girl hadn't even noticed a thing.

Sighing he went back to his fate of being pulled around the girl, feeling the slightest shred of pity for whoever she ended up with later.

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Meanwhile, the clone had already started off after Humility. After leaping over several streets, the clone finally appeared in front of Humility's stall. Nudging around the crowd, the clone finally came face to face with the originals partner. He had come back after taking a few pictures, not that he actually wanted to make fun of him, but rather use as blackmail and possibly acquire some useful jutsu.

Whispering something into Humility's ear, the clone stepped back as Humility cleared his throat and announced that the stall would be closed. Watching the disappointed crowd turn to leave, Humility immediately jumped to the rooftops heading off towards Mercy, while the clone stayed behind to clean up what was left of Humility's goods.

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As Temari and Mercy neared the tower, 2 Jounins immediately jumped down. Stepping forward, one hovered his hand over a sword strapped to his side, while the other blocked their way to the front door.

Emitting the ever-predictable, "Who goes there?" The guards waited as Temari seemed to wake up from a dream. Putting on a sweet smile, Temari gave their names and their reason for going to the Hokage tower, not really needing do so, seeing as the Guards already knew her to be the daughter of the Kazekage.

The two heading inside, they didn't notice the two other figures following them.

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After arriving at the Kazekage's office, they found it completely deserted; the man had probably gone to lunch. Pulling out the contract from his pocket, Mercy laid it down on the man's desk.

He smirked as he mused over the potential benefits; for starters, there was the obvious money issue. The Reaper Organization could have a steady flow of money, something that would be an immense aid to them.

Another point would be the possibility of making an ally. Having Sand's shinobi forces assisting them in assaults against Orochimaru's base would be invaluable to them.

Turning over to look at what became of the pigtailed girl. Behind him said girl was pouting on one of the benches, angry that she was being ignored over a piece of paper. Sighing, Mercy went over and sat next to her, wrapping one arm around her shoulders.

Relishing the newfound contact, Temari snuggled up into his arms. Turing her head just enough to see his eyes, she blushed when she saw his caring blue eyes. Sighing, she snuggled deeper, Mercy just giving her the Kakashi grin.

Flexing his arms, Temari couldn't help but help blush even more at the touch of his muscles. Her world was filled with bliss now, snaking one of her arms around Mercy, she pulled him even closer to her. Resting his chin on her head, the two sat there for about 5 minutes before they heard several chunin bustling about outside. The two got up and headed off to one of the closets.

Temari's mind was overflowing with thoughts; she was alone in a closet with the guy of her dreams. Almost as if on cue, Mercy snaked on his arms around her, pulling her close into him. Nearly melting in his touch, she moaned out his name, before an extreme blush adorned her face.

Mercy curious what was making her so embarrassed, gazed down at her with his bright blue eyes. Gently Temari grabbed the back of Mercy head with her hands, gently undoing the knot that held up the cloth mask. Not stopping her, Mercy just waited until the cloth fell of his face, revealing his black face mask. Blushing even further now, she slipped her fingers down his other mask, Mercy bringing their faces closer and closer together.

Once they were barely an inch away, Temari pulled off his mask, and suddenly her world turned black. Mercy set down the unconicsous Temari down to the ground, then closed the closest and went over to one of the windows.

Opening it up, a figure immediately came flying in. Dusting himself off, Humility looked up at Mercy, waiting for a report. After the two were set up, they headed off to find Yura.

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After arriving at the man's office, the two found their target, taking a nap no less, a strange scroll in front of him. Taking his axe and slitting the man's throat, Humility felt rather disappointed that they wouldn't have to fight, but he remembered that the man was one of Akatsuki's agents…perhaps it was best that they hadn't fought after all.

Picking up the scroll, Mercy's eyebrows shot up as he scanned the contents, it seemed as thought hey had caught the man at a bad time, as he had been writing documents for Akatsuki. The document appeared to be based on Gaara, likes, dislikes, potential weaknesses and various un-tested theories on how to get past the boys defense.

Pocketing the scroll, Mercy turned to look at Humility, who had just finished eliminating the body. The two immediately set off for home, eager to get out of there as quickly as possible.

Still, something was troubling Mercy, Yura had been a special jounin, and jounin didn't take naps in the middle of the day, while writing secret documents that could compromise their whole mission.

Trying to think of reasons why the man would have done this, the two didn't even notice the strange mechanical sounds outside, along with a soft,

"You outlived your usefulness Yura. With the discovery of the Kazekage's personal scrolls, we no longer need a spy in Suna."

With that, the mysterious figure disappeared, probably heading to the large clay bird waiting for him a few miles away.

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As the two were exiting the building, they entered on of the many courtyards surrounding the tower. As they stepped outside, they sensed something was wrong. Immediately grabbing their respective weapons, the two quickly got into a defensive position, eyes scanning the surrounding area for enemies.

Suddenly, the sand in front of them began to rise and turn into something, a large dragon head. Eyes widening, the two boys dove in opposite directions to avoid the attack, effectively splitting them up.

As Mercy regained his balance, in front of him a familiar person appeared out of the sand, Gaara. Putting on his maniac smile, the deranged demon container's sand began to speed straight at Mercy, who was just barely able dodge.

After evading the boy's sand, Mercy sprinted towards Gaara, sword ready in hand. Already knowing what would happen when he hit the space near Gaara, he was simply testing its strength and reaction time.

Sand immediately formed a shield that blocked him from hitting the sand shinobi, who just stared at him with bored eyes. Finding his sword stuck in the sand, Mercy's eyes widened as he realized the boy had easily disabled him.

Leaping backwards to increase the distance between them, Mercy once again began dodging various weapons made of sand, large spears and kunai, until he found he could move his legs anymore. Looking down at his feet, he found sand had finally caught up to him and was holding him down. Looking up only to see the same bored expression, along with a giant buzz saw made of sand.

A scream pierce the air as the saw separated Mercy's waist and torso, disappearing as quickly as it had been formed. Turing around at the sudden scream, Humility just scoffed before looking back at his opponents.

Kankuro and his newly wakened sister smirked as they heard the scream, using the temporary distraction to their advantage. Kankuro and Gaara had been tailing the two ever since Mercy had gone to the ice cream parlor. Gaara came mostly because he wanted to kill Mercy, while Kankuro was mad that he was shitting on his sister.

After the two had followed them to the tower, they had been ready to interrupt when the two had dashed off into a closet. Waiting, they had watched as Mercy left with his partner when Kankuro had dashed off to help his sister.

After several minutes, he was able to make her conscious again, and the two caught up with their younger brother. Apparently, the potion had worn off and Temari couldn't remember a thing, seeing as why she hadn't already gone over and proceeded to smack the heck out of Mercy.

Temari swung her huge fan at Humility, creating a huge gust of wind that created a small sand storm.

Leaping up into the air to avoid the attack, Humility suddenly found himself a target for Karasu. Launching several kunai from its arms, Kankuro smirked as the kunai imbedded themselves in Humility's chest, only to watch as Humility turned into a small toy skeleton.

Whirling around the twos and siblings watched as their opponent out stretched one of his hands, the ends of his fingers pointing at the two.

"Hessendan" (finger bullet drill)

Ten small white bullets shot of his fingers, forcing Kankuro to dodge to the side while Temari just blew them away with her fan. As they were concentrated on the projectiles, Humility charged with his massive axe, Temari just barely able to block the blades with her fan.

In a struggle of pure strength, it was obvious who won, sending the blonde flying, Humility didn't even watch as she slammed into the Kazekage building, instead focusing on the rapidly approaching puppet.

Kankuro moved his hands slightly, causing Karasu to gently swerve around Humility, before going in to attack from behind. Humility just watched as the puppets mouth opened and launched hundreds of small needles at him.

"Kotsusoshiki Koutetsu" (bone armor)

Suddenly, his entire shirt tore apart as all the bones in his torso cloned themselves and formed a layer of pure bone. The needles bounced harmlessly off the armor, something that made Kankuro grind his teeth.

Sending his puppet around Humility again, Karasu suddenly spit out a huge cloud of poison, and the area that Humility had been standing in was covered in a thick poisonous fog. Kankuro smirked; no one could survive that, no even if they had some kind of freaky bloodline limit.

As the fog cleared, Kankuro's eyes quickly widened then narrowed,

'That sly bastard…'

Where Humility had been, there was only a large hole, meaning that…

Suddenly, Karasu's entire left side exploded in a mixture of wood and metal. Kankuro gaped at the sight, as Humility emerged from behind the puppet, his giant double bladed axe in hand. His bone armor had gone, due to the fact that it consumed so much chakra to maintain. Humility just gave Kankuro that same Gaara like stare, though all Kankuro could see was his goggles.

Humility then spoke up,

"Kotsusoshiki Bouchou" (bone growth)

Kankuro watched as his opponent's arms began to change, until the skin on the bottom of his arms broke, an arm made entirely of bone came out, giving Humility two sets of arms. Flexing his newly formed bone fingers, Kankuro winced, it was disgusting.

Pulling out two more bones from his shoulders, his two new arms were wielding bone swords. Charging at Kankuro, who was still stunned, Humility attacked. Kankuro managed to snap out of his stupor and pull back on the chakra strings, causing Karasu to shoot back towards him.

Intercepting Humility with Karasu's body, the puppet lost the complete right side this time, leaving it seemingly defenseless. Raising his axe above his head, he was ready to jump over the destroyed puppet when he heard the puppeteer laughing. Looking down, Humility's eyes widened as he saw the puppets head detach itself from its body.

Using one of his bone swords, Humility impaled its head, watching as Kankuro's hands stop glowing blue. Said puppeteer was panicking, this guy was almost unbeatable, well there was that thing that he could do…

Smirking as Humility cleared the broken puppet, its head still stuck on one of his bone swords, One of Kankuro's hands glowed blue for just a second, before a huge explosion erupted from where Humility had just been.

Smirking, Kankuro walked over to where the body should be and grinned, smoking in the middle of a large crater was a skeleton, complete with 4 sets of arms and the two bone swords he had once been holding.

As Kankuro began to turn back, the skeleton slowly rose, staggering to its feet. Feeling a strange chill down his spine, Kankuro looked back just as the skeleton began to charge at him, bone swords in hand. Kankuro just stood there paralyze with fear, watching at the mass of bones grew closer and closer, with what looked like a sick grin on its face.

Suddenly, a huge gust of wind blew the skeleton into the nearby building, causing it to fall apart. Temari grinned, looking over at her brother who had a surprised look on his face. Looking back over at the now broken pile of bones, Temari and Kankuro gasped as the skeleton began to reform itself.

Temari ground her teeth, and gripping her fan even harder she swung another great blast of air, then another, then another. After it had once again been reduced to a pile of bone fragments, Temari pulled out a kunai with an exploding tag on it, and then threw it at the pile, creating a huge explosion. Thinking that the skeleton wouldn't be getting up over that she smirked and swung her fan over her shoulder.

Suddenly her ninja danger senses went off like crazy and she and her brother dodged the rain of bone kunai and shuriken. In front of them, Humility appeared, not a scratch on him. Temari's eyes widened as her quickly sent a glance over at the broken skeleton which was still there.

Then turning back to look at Humility, she felt a pang of immense fear as he muttered a quick,

"Kotsusoshiki Bunshin" (bone clone)

The siblings watched as what looked like a human skull split out of Humility's head, making it look like he had two heads. Then a neck formed, and then another boney arm formed out of his arm. In several minutes, a new skeleton stood in front of them, right next to him was the original, both holding twin axes, however, one's was made out of solid bone.

The newly formed skeleton charged Temari, who just swore and began to swing her fan carelessly, forgetting all about the original as she concentrated on the clone, or whatever the hell it was.

She barely heard Kankuro yell out a warning as Humility leaped down, ready to slice her head off with his axe when Kankuro leaped in front of her with a kunai, trying to block the attack. However, his eyes widened as the axe split his kunai like it was tissue paper.

In seconds a huge gash appeared across his chest. Gasping, Kankuro fell down to the ground, Temari instantly by his side. Humility just looked down at the two, before raising his axe, ready to behead the both of them.

Temari looked back up at him, eyes blazing. Grabbing her fan, she swiftly blocked the axe, and began to viciously thrust her fan at him, eventually pushing him back some. Seemingly at random, she opened up her fan and sent a huge gust of air straight at him.

Humility effortlessly stood there, simply using charka to hold himself down. After the wind died down, he began to slowly walk forward, causing Temari to keep sending gusts of air at him. Temari could only watch as he came closer and closer, using all her strength in her arms swinging her fan.

Suddenly, Humility began to unwrap the bandages around his head, causing Temari to gasp in shock. After all the bandages were gone, Humility slowly began to bring down his goggles, showing her his glowing red eyes. Unimaginable fear overwhelmed the poor girl, collapsing on her knees, she could only sit there, not able to move a muscle.

As he walked closer and closer, she just couldn't stop looking deep into his eyes, not even able to look at the axe he was gripping, or the two extra skeletal arms he had grown. Humility eventually closed the distance between them, but before he could kill her, he suddenly stopped.

Looking over his shoulder, Humility could sense 2 huge chakra signatures coming from straight behind him, and looking out at the desert, Humility narrowed his eyes, what that a giant bird?

Well whatever it was, it was going away from them, so shrugging it off, he turned back to the blonde, only to find she had disappeared. Smirking, he already knew what she was trying to do, and didn't even move, just waiting for her.

In seconds, he felt the huge smack of the girls fan, a direct hit to the back of his head. Temari smirked, the baka hadn't even moved, he must be…

Her eyes widened as she jumped back, he had just turned to look at her, that strike should had killed him, or at least given him a concussion, but he was still standing.

Humility just gripped his axe harder, then used chakra to hurl himself even faster at the blonde. Temari over came her shock and brought her fan up to defend herself.

Meanwhile, Gaara was beginning to get very annoyed. He had thought the fight was over when he had sliced the other ninja in two, he hadn't been expecting him to repair himself and begin attacking again. He had even been able to get this sword back. His sand intercepting several more kunai, Gaara narrowed his eyes.

The sand all around them started to change shape as Gaara extended his control. Soon Mercy was having to go far more on the defensive, dodging sand tendrils left and right, not to mention the several Sand Bunshins the redhead had made. Mind thinking back to the documents, the various strategies that Yura had thought up, he decided to test one out.

Taking 10 or so kunai with explosion tags on them, Mercy proceeded to throw all of them near the same area. Gaara just watched impassively as the kunai imbedded themselves into his sand, before detonating. All of his sand quickly went in front of him, protecting him.

Suddenly, a foot slammed itself into Gaara's face, sending the redhead flying. His sand quickly forgot about Mercy and went back to its master's side.

Gaara got up, a maniacal smile graced his face, and giving off a short insane laugh, his eyes widened. In front of him was a small army of clones, all brandishing the same sword.

Gaara watched as the army swarmed him, sand already ready to lash out. Raising one hand, the sand under all of the Mercys grabbed their feet, and began to cocoon all of them. In seconds Gaara killed the entire army of clones. Still, Gaara hadn't killed the original. Eyes sweeping back and forth, Gaara searched for Mercy, before deciding to use force.

Sand began to reach out and search for the missing shinobi, making it look like Gaara was at the center of a large sand web. Mercy simply smirked, before making himself visible, and charging at the redhead.

Gaara just gave an emotionless look as his sand quickly captured and destroyed Mercy, but upon crushing it, all that happened was a puff of smoke. That's when Gaara felt the heat coming from behind him.

"Katon Karyu Endan"

His sand automatically blocked the attack, once again using up all of Gaara's defense sand. Again, Gaara didn't know what hit him when he went sailing from a punch from one of Mercy's clones.

The original just looked on as his clone beat Gaara up a bit, before smirking. It was simple enough to realize that the kid depended so much on his sand shield, that he was completely reliant on it. So if one could figure out how to get passed the shield then it was a simple fight.

If one was to do an attack with enough force to require all of the sand to block, the boy was vulnerable to attack from the three other sides. The problem was it was the sand moved so fast, that even if one was able to divert it, the sand would reform before one could attack.

But that problem was solved with the kage bunshins, having several waiting for the sand to move, and take advantage of Gaara's momentary weakness.

Mercy watched won below as several kage bunshins were busy kicking the red head around, like a ping pong ball, to fast for the sand to catch up.

Meanwhile Gaara's body was overflowing in pain. His sand was trying its best to come to his aid, but whenever it got close, a clone would beat him away. After awhile, the clones stopped, and watched as Gaara struggled to get up.

Collapsing on the ground, Gaara panted for air, as he looked up at one of the clones, who just stood there. In seconds, the original was beside him, and then his partner appeared next to him.

Mercy knew that they would need the demon container, so it would be absurd to kill him, but the problem with taking him, he was the village's super weapon, and he was sure the Kazekage would stop at no lengths to get him back.

The was also the fact that they were lucky no sand shinobi had turned up yet, even though any passerby probably assumed it was another of the boy's assassination attempts. The two desperately needed to get out of Suna, once Yura was found MIA, and the two should be long gone, however these three had slowed them down.

Sighing, Mercy was just about ready to knock the boy unconscious when a gargled scream came from across the courtyard. Humility had unsheathed his axe when Mercy held up and arm to stop him.

Kankuro tried desperately tried to tell them not to knock out his brother, but all his yells were made unintelligible from all the blood in his mouth. Mercy just looked at the boy, until he finally passed out from over exerting his already worn out body.

Taking another look at the redhead, Mercy decided not to knock him out, there was obviously something he didn't know about him. Instantly the two leaped to the rooftops, heading out to one of the gates.

After several minutes, the two arrived at the gate, Humility already reapplying his bandages and goggles. As the two approached, they went over to the guards, who used a special jutsu to make sure their papers were in check and then were promptly released.

The two then began to long, and the promise of warm showers. Speeding across the desert, the two created 2 twin plumes of dust, and their footprints mysteriously disappeared.

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All I can say is, Holy shit.

Pages: 41

Words: 17, 646

Anyway, hope you enjoyed reading it, because it was fun to write

Oh yeah, I REALLY REALLY NEED A BETA!!!!

I am also going to be editing the other nine chapter, just fixing grammar, spelling etc… nothing major, and if it is I'll tell you

All right, well please read and review, I would really appreciate the comments.