Kairo Chapter 10

Suzume-kage: Let's just start this chapter with a disclaimer, just so you guys don't sue me… And guess what? I'm too lazy to state it, I'll let these guys do it for me… (Motions over to Naruto and Lloyd)

Naruto: Right… Suzume doesn't own anything but the twisted plot itself…

Lloyd: All Naruto characters are property of Masashi Kishimoto; all Tales of Symphonia characters are owned by Namco's Tales Inc. Hope you enjoy this next twisted chapter!

An Akatsuki member! Sasuke recognized the cloak's patterns. Naruto, Kankuro, Temari and the rest of the team were trying their hardest to free Hinata. Slashing at the Akatsuki with all their strength, throwing shuriken when they sensed openings, they did all they could to hurt the hooded figure. Sasuke was frozen on the spot. His widened black eyes watched as the figure struggled, trying to hold Hinata, and block all of the team's attacks. Hinata was gripping onto the kunai tightly, while trying to reach into her card case, which was strapped to her waist. He saw Hinata pull out a bright red card. Hinata carefully brought the hand with the kunai up to her mouth. Bringing her thumb up, she bit it so that she would bleed. Sasuke watched the vile red liquid ooze out from the bite marks. Hinata brought up the hand with the card, and dragged her bloody thumb across the length of the rectangular card. Sasuke observed the card glow, and Hinata performing single handed signs. She was transferring some of her chakra to the card, to activate the effect of her jutsu.

"Fire Element: Flame Seal!" Hinata yelled out loudly, throwing the fire imbued card at her attackers head. Sasuke watched in amazement as the spinning card made contact with the offender's hood. The black material burnt away, revealing raven black hair, a pale face with red eyes with long dark markings running down to the base of the nose. Sasuke's eyes widened once more. 'Brother!?' he thought. Sasuke watched as Itachi's red Sharingan eyes shifted from, the kunoichi in his arms to him. They narrowed a bit and a smirk came to Itachi's pale lips. Sasuke glared at him, fists clenched, teeth perched.

"Itachi…" he grumbled, clenching his fists tighter.

"Little brother…" he said, loud and clear. Many shinobi in the group looked from Itachi to Sasuke, noting the resemblance. Itachi smirked some more and lowered his head so that he was level with Hinata's neck Hinata's eyes were wide open in fear. Gaara was standing near by Sasuke; his fists were also clenched, frowning.

"Itachi Uchiha…" his low voice mumbled. Itachi looked at Gaara from his spot behind Hinata, still smirking. His frowned deepened a bit. Sasuke clenched his fist so tightly; his nails dig into the flesh of his palms. Ino's eyes were bulging out of her head; Chai was just plain surprised, as was Shikamaru. Lee was panting heavily, from delivering all those kicks and punches. Temari and Sakura both had fingers to their lips, Kankuro was frowning, Crow was reared up and ready to lunge forward if needed to attack. Indeed, the tension in the air was thick.

"Gaara of the Sand…" Itachi mumbled back, his equally deep voice contained just as much venom. Gaara seemed to tense up when Itachi would lean in to brush his lips against Hinata's neck. He watched as Hinata shivered and dropped the card she had used earlier. Neji was standing next to Tenten, panting. He had been hammering away at Itachi using kunai's, but it didn't work, he was just too strong. Neji was beyond furious, he had evaded all of his attacks, and the fact that Itachi was holding his cousin. 'He better not touch her-'he stopped his train of thoughts as Itachi leaned in and nipped at Hinata pale skinned neck. He widened his white eyes a fraction. Itachi's tongue peeked out between his thin lips, licking Hinata's soft nape. Hinata closed her eyes and frowned, shivering a bit. Blood trickled out of the gashes in Sasuke's palms that formed when his nails dug deeper into his skin. Naruto who was on his hands and knees, slowly got up and dusted his orange pants off. Kiba reached into his kunai holster, and took out a burgundy kunai that was decorated with little yellow puppy paws. Watching Itachi close his eyes, as if he was enjoying Hinata's taste, Kiba threw a Kunai at his shoulder. The kunai sped towards its target with breakneck speed.

As if seeing the kunai speeding towards him, Itachi snapped open his wildly spinning, Sharingan eyes. Removing one hand from Hinata's waist, but tightening the grip of his other, he backhanded the supposed attack. The kunai spun off Itachi's swung arm, deflecting, and stuck head-first into the snow.

"Ksoh!" Kiba cursed under his breath, panting slightly.

By now, everybody was reaching for a weapon of their own, and yet Itachi had pulled no threats yet.

Sakura and Ino had pulled out kunai and shuriken of their own, Temari had untied the rope holding her fan, though it was still closed, she held it out in front of her in case Itachi made another daring move. Tenten also took out a kunai, tying an explosion tag around the hilt and eyeing Itachi menacingly. Neji looked ready to sprint over and attack. Lee and Chai were both in offensive Taijutsu stances.

Itachi just stared at all of them, his gaze lingered on Sasuke. He brought his mouth to Hinata's neck again, tongue peeking out from between his thin lips. But before he could taste her again, Hinata had pulled out a two foot dagger from under her obi and stabbed at Itachi's arm fiercely, legs swaying to the side at the force of her thrust.

The metallic blade bit into Itachi's tough flesh, his eyes widened, Sharingan slowly fading. Letting out a groan, he hunched over, loosening his grip on Hinata as he did so, but tight enough to keep her prisoner.

Sasuke saw this chance and charged forth, Sharingan activated. Just then a sheet of white light stopped Sasuke of proceeding in attacking Itachi. A man with bright red hair, (somewhat brighter than Gaara's) a pink sleeveless top with matching pink and black gloves, and beige dress pants came falling from the sky in an impressive speed. Sasuke's orbs locked onto the seemingly graceful man swoop down, pulling out a European like double edged sword. Raiding it high above his head in a heroic manner, he came down hard, striking Itachi's shoulder while managing to rotate his body rapidly. The red haired man looked about their age, and he seemed inflict some major damage.

"Light spear!" he shouted, his voice deep, yet high pitched at the same time.

Itachi was sent stumbling back a few meters or so, due to the force applied to the blow. In the process, he pushed Hinata forwards, thus, freeing her. She lurched forwards; about to plummet to the snow covered ground. Gaara quickly released some of his sand to break her fall, but the mysterious savior caught Hinata, securing her in his arms. Gaara scowled and more sand spurted out of his gourd. The sand slithered, around and around until it came to the stranger's feet, daring him to make a wrong move. The stranger hadn't noticed, he was preoccupied with wrapping his arms around Hinata's waist. Gaara watched as he tightened his grip ever so slightly, allowing Hinata to rest her back against his chest. Inside, Gaara was turning green with envy.

Itachi stopped stumbling and regained most of his balance. Sasuke took this opportunity to quickly run up to his older brother, giving sharp kicks to his stomach. (Hah, don't worry; Itachi isn't as weak as you think.) Delivering the blow that should've finished him, Sasuke's eyes followed Itachi as he flew backwards through the air. Just as he was about to land on his back, he disappeared, narrowly missing the flurry of kunai that were thrown at him by nearly everyone, even Hinata had gently asked the mysterious swordsman to shift his arm a bit, just so she could pull out a kunai of her own. 'Just 'cause I've been attacked does not mean I can be pushed around!' she had thought.

Sasuke turned his head in all directions, desperately looking for where Itachi might appear. Everyone else did the same, Itachi may attack anyone, the man clad in pink, was scanning the area with his now wide aqua eyes. His sword was encased in a cobalt colored sheath, strapped around his broad waist with a black belt. Ino jumped onto Shikamaru suddenly.

"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEYYYYYYYIIKKKKKKEEEEEESSS!" her high pitched scream seemed to travel across the vast, but yet snowy terrain. Shikamaru looked startled, but he blinked his now wide eyes, staring at the frightened blonde.

"What happened?" Neji called out to them, Tenten clutching his arm. "I FELT SOMETHING TOUCH MY FOOT!" she hollered back, earning her looks of confusion.

The ground shook and rumbled loudly underneath them. Naruto stumbled and fell on his bottom. Gaara frowned again, though the shaking of the ground beneath them didn't affect him much. He could trace someone's chakra signature underneath the crust of the earth. 'I'll get him… I'll tear him apart and delve him in his corpse in his own damn blood…' upon feeling the familiar need to kill, Gaara stiffened as the former power of bloodlust took over. It seems as if Shukaku had left him some uncontrollable urges to hurt the ones who he thought of as truly repulsive. The feeling for killing, the feeling of blood sliding down his face, it was all just too much for even Gaara to handle. Hunching over, no longer able to contain the urges building up inside of his soul, Gaara clutched his head. His fingers entangled themselves in the red locks; Gaara realized that he could no longer feel the presence of Shukaku. His eyes widened, tiny veins appeared at the corners of his eyes. His knees buckled, unable to sustain his upper body weight any longer. Gaara collapsed into the cold snow.

Temari and Kankuro both widened their eyes. 'He's convulsing!'

Suzume-kage: Tsk, Tsk, Tsk… Short chapter… Yes… Will I make another one shortly…? Damn right… How about we zero-in on how the cast from one of my all time favorite RPG's is getting along with some of the characters from Naruto…

Zelos: No, Pink is MY favorite color!

Naruto: Like hell yeah! Only REAL men wear pink! (Naruto and Zelos nod in unison)

Sasuke, Gaara: Ugh… (rub temples)

Suzume-kage: Ok… well maybe there'll be some progress, next time. Oh and also you may have noted Zelos's first appearance on the sets. If you have no clue whatsoever on whom on earth Zelos is, check my profile; click the link with Zelos's name beside it. Don't worry! Gaara will probably make it to the next chapter; I'd cry if he doesn't!

Sayonara,

xSuzumex

xKagex