AN: Hey everybody, here I am with a new chappie and even a new character to torture, er, cough I mean have fun with!

Kankuro:………..why me?

Me: Shush, or else I'll make u wear Harry Potter robes again

Kankuro: Big deal, you don't own Naruto, there's nothin' you can do to me!

Me:(Whips out wand) Sileco!

(Tries to talk but finds he can not due to spell)

ME: Well that's better, now on with the story! And take one more step towards my chocolate frogs and you'll be choking up slugs Kankuro!!!!

Chapter Seventeen

A Dead Uchiha's Return?

Kakashi stared at his opponent numb disbelieve going through him. There was just no way was this his old team mate but the face and the missing eye meant it just had to be him. Kakashi analyzed him for a minute then asked with a slight frown behind his mask,

"How did you survive?"

The Uchiha frowned himself, but it was because he was thinking.

"I guess I really don't know. I was half dead when you two fled so I guess I was rescued by Zetus and that was that. I trained and became a part of Akatsuki's ranks. For the longest time I didn't know who I was but it slowly came back to me. Like a fog slowly dissipating. Of course I could never come back so…."

Kakashi said nothing. This was weak to say the least. It didn't seem quite right but there was somewhat solid logic behind it. If it was true, Obito must have been with Akatsuki for a while. Even with his memory back, he wouldn't have be able to get away with out them killing him. He said nothing. Tobi or Obito which ever looked at him then said,

"Well, I guess it's finally time to find out which one of us is stronger."

"I guess it is." Said Kakashi, his sharigan eye sharping on its' attention on its target.

The two observed each other for a moment then Obito made his first move. His Chordi came crackling at Kakashi, which was dodging by him and countered with an earth technique. The battle seemed to rage on for hours, the two throwing attacks at each other and blocking them or counting them. Kakashi knew he would have to end soon or else he or one of the others would die and he would be damned if it was the others. On a rebound, Kakashi cut him point blank through his side. His eyed then widen to see him heal instantly.

"Not good."

Sakura had never been happier to see the pervert of a sanin. Kisame pulled his sword free of the toads tongue and glared at the new comer.

"Well, well we meet again old man." He said with a horrible smile. Jiraiya snorted. Without another word Kisame jumped right at Jiraiya, and the toad he was on jumped out of the way. The sanin jumped beside the girls and said,

"Any ideas Sakura?"

The pink haired ninja growled.

"Yeah, hit him with everything we've got." Jiraiya rolled his eyes.

"Just like Tsunade…"

Out of no where, Kisame's scaly sword came at them, moving at incredible speed. Sakura kicked the ground hard and the earth blocked most of the blow. Ino unfortunately, still got grazed by it and went flying, blood gushing from the deep cut on her arm.

"Ino!"

Sasuke heard Sakura's voice calling out to Ino not far from where he was. Though he had no time to think about it before blocking an attack from Itachi.

"Little brother you are as pathetic as you were when I killed our clan." Mocked Itachi as the two brothers fought. Sasuke said nothing. He was not going to let his older brother get under his skin. He was not going to give him the satisfaction. Just then, he could feel his brother's glaze and knew what he was trying to do but he was not going to fall for that trick. Itachi noticed this and said with a slight amusement.

"You know the reason why Sharigan was created and yet you still fight like this?"

Sasuke finally looked into his brother's eyes which were red as well but no jutsu seem to be planned.

"It makes no difference. All that matters is that you die."

"No difference? You are so ignorant little brother it matters extremely. Of course you'll never find out due to the fact you are going to die." Sasuke frown inwardly to himself noting the hinting tone in Itachi's voice not quite sure what to make of it. Suddenly though, Itachi made a hand sign and black flame surrounded them. Sasuke eyes went wide in amazement and worry. How the heck was he going to get out of this? Then he heard Sakura yell again. His eyes narrowed.

Sakura had barely gotten away from Kisame's sword this time. She was hitting the ground with all her might but it wasn't enough to slow him down even with Jiraiya throwing attacks at him. Ino was far out of the way, unable to help them with her injured arm and cursing herself for it. Kisame had tried to surround them with water but Jiraiya countered with his bog technique. Sakura cursed for now her super strength wouldn't be any good in the soft earth. Jiraiya was cursing for he knew that they need to take Kisame out quickly if they had any chance of saving the others. The key was to take out the sword. He knew that the sword could suck chakra right out of you not to mention cut you to ribbons. Sakura looked at him and they nodded.

"Aright squid for brains, is that the best you've got?" smirked Jirarya. Ino got and looked at Sakura as though questioning the toad sage's sanity; she nodded.

"Yeah, for a swordsman you're pathetic."

"Oh I am little girl?" he smirked unwrapping his bizarre sword completely.

"Okay here we go." Muttered Sakura to Ino. Sakura threw kunai to distract Kisame then Ino quickly did her hand sign for her mind transfer jutsu.

"Mind transfer jutsu!" she quickly entered Kisame's mind which she found to her disgust was dark and bloody. He like Sakura, had a strong will and quickly got Ino to leave. That was just what Sakura and Jiraiya enough time.

When Kisame opened his eyes, he was surrounded by cherry blossom trees and a really heavy perfume smell. Then he heard Sakura's mocking voice.

"Enjoy my name sake genjutsu? In old stories it was said if you stood under a blooming cherry tree for too long you would go mad. Let's see how long it takes you!" Kisame closed his eyes and laughed. He cut himself to break the genjutsu but when he re-opened his eyes he still saw pink petals.

"Good job Sakura." Smirked Ino. Together, the three charged Kisame tried to swing at them but it was no good; Ino knocked his sword out of the way and far off. Then with all her might Sakura punched Kisame. He coughed up blood then chuckled at Jiraiya.

"Who knew a couple of little girls would be the end of me?"

Jiraiya smiled as his hand started to glow,

"I did."

"No offence Shino but what the hell took you so long?" half joked Shikamaru as the faced the ant charmer.

"Sorry about that." Said Shino back as they watched to see what Masuyo was planning on next. It was an even match. Both bugs having the ability to attack chakra were canceling each other out.

"Go help Choji I got this guy." Shikamaru simply nodded and rushed to where he had last heard his team mate.

Deidara with all his explosives would easy bring half the mountain down on them killing them and most likely everyone else. Choji thought maybe if he could get close enough maybe he could take Deidara out before he could activate the bombs but he knew it was slim.

"Why the heck would you do this?"

"Simply for the beauty of my art." Choji looked at him dumbfounded.

"The what?"

"Hmph. It's something you'd never…." But before he could finish, Deidara found he couldn't move. He looked to see that the shadows of his clay birds lead right to Shikamaru.

"Need some help?" he asked his large friend.

"A little."

Deidara narrowed his eyes. Shikamaru did too. He calculated the chances of them surviving and they weren't too promising. He knew he had to get him and Choji away so he yelled at him to stay still. They only had one chance. Suddenly, Shikamaru's shadow failed and Deidara started to make the necessary hand signs…

It shook the whole mountain. Everyone stopped and held on as part of the mountain slide down from the explosions.

"Deidara." Cursed the Akasuki girl. She started at Naruto and Hinata when the regained their footing and glared at her ready for another attack. A voice then entered her head,

"Give it up. Flee. You know what to do."

She narrowed her eyes then began doing hand signs. Naruto and Hinata glared waiting to see what she was up to."

Zetus and Yamato where locked in a fierce battle when the large Venus fly trap suddenly sliced at Yamato; he dodged then blinked to see him gone. He got up and looked around.

"Now what are they up too?"

Kakashi looked down at the slay Obito. His Sharigan eye glaring down. As the mountain slide down, Kakashi dodged an attack from Obito, cutting him with Chordi. He was then hit from flying debris and crushed. What was left gave Kakashi an anger that he had never felt before deep from inside his heart. Suddenly he heared a scream and rushed to where it had came from.

"Well our fight was short but informative. I will see you soon Uzumaki Naruto." Chuckled the girl. Before either of the other two could do anything Moroiko teleported behind them and attacked with a large strange green plant. Naruto was knocked out cold.

Shino looked down at the ant charmer with a blank face.

"Thank you my bugs." Sighed Shino as his bug clone dissipated. Shino heard panting and turned to see Shikamaru being helped along with a not much better off Choji.

"Are you two alright what happened to…?"

"Dead." Growled Shikamaru.

"Idiot killed himself trying to get us if it hadn't been for Shikamaru's teleporting shadow jutsu we would have been crushed like bugs!" sighed Choji. Shino raised his eyesbrows slightly at him.

"Er, sorry." He chuckled.

"That's okay." Shrugged Shino.

"I heared someone scream do you think it was the girls?" asked Choji worriedly letting Shikamaru sit down.

"It was." Growled a deep male voice. The three looked up to see Sasuke, Kakashi, Jiraya, and Yamato. They all looked a bit beat up but in one piece.

"Where's the girls?" asked Shikamaru sharply trying to get up but found it hurt too much.

"Gone." Muttered Jiriaya sitting beside Shikamaru.

"WHAT?!" yelled Choji.

"Before I could do anything, Itachi attacked me from behind and next thing I knew Sakura and Ino were gone." The sanin said with a bitter taste in his mouth.

"He was battling me then suddenly he surrounded me in black fire and teleported away saying that we would finish our battle later." Said Sasuke punching the mountain side or what was left of it.

"To boot, he was hinting at something about the sharigan and I have no I idea what he was talking about!"

"Where's Naruto?" asked Kiba coming up behind Shino.

"Dunno where were you and Akamaru?" asked Shino.

"The path we took was ridden with traps and we had to dismantle them; Hinata went ahead of me to help Naruto. So where is he?"

As though to answer him, the blonde suddenly came towards them holding his head, his left cheek had a long scratch.

"Naruto are you alright?" asked Sasuke walking over to him to help.

"No, damn it, some chick from Akatsuki took Hinata!" he said almost to the point of tears. He was cursing himself for falling for her trick.

"She said her name was Moroiko, she has the ability to talk to plants." He added not sure what else to say.

Kiba cursed and spat on the ground. Sasuke and Naruto looked at each other not sure what to say but they knew what to do.

"We have to go after them." Said Shikamaru saying what they were thinking.

"How? You two, (pointed to Choji and Shikamaru) are no condition to fight." Said Yamato.

"We are going." Said Naruto standing up Shikamaru and Sasuke as well.

"Right." Said Kakashi without hesitation. He knew that they didn't have time to go back to get help and that none of them were going to risk losing the girls.

"Kiba, can you sniff them out?" asked Naruto giving Kiba a piece of Moroiko's Akatsuki cloak. Akamaku took one sniff of it and growled deep from his throat.

"No problem."

With a heavy heart but an unwavering determination they dusted off then ran off.

"Hang in there girls." Thought Naruto as they rushed to save them.

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Sigh…I had a really bad case of Writer's block with this chapter so the fighting isn't as good. The next chapter will be much better.

Kankuro: Well if you asked me I could have helped you.

Me: Right this coming from a guy who wears black in the desert.

Kankuro: hey there is a perfectly good reason I wear it like others do!

Me: like what?

Kankuro: uh………………

(30 minutes later)

Kankuro:….. I know there was a good reason…..

Me: Why don't you admit that you forgot and give it up?

Kankuro: Whatever. This is a lame parody thingy or whatever this is called!

Me: Yeah I know. Wanna watch TMNT?

Kankuro: sure I'll get the pizza bites

Lol, kiki

The Akatsuki Female glared slightly at the new comer. She had pale eyes and the way she was looking at her indicated that she was a Hyuuga. She sifted her foot; a plan forming to deal with the girl.