AN: So sorry, school, camping, tests, homework, other things. That is what kept me off of my computer. This Thursday I'm getting a school laptop, so I will update more. Hope you enjoy this, I spent all night working on it. Yes, really. And a call out to SasukeAlpha, for helping me come up with this plot twist.

Inspiration: Uh, well I'm making myself do this. This is not my best writing, but I just need to get the chapters out. I'll probably change the thing when I feel like it, after it's completed of something.

Dedication: To you! Yes the person reading this that will review, follow, and favorite!

Disclaimer: Look at the other chapters. They have disclaimers, I swear I only do this for amusement purposes.

The two cloaked Nin smirked at the surprised looks on the genin's faces. Well, what looked like genin? In truth, to the intruding Shinobi, they didn't look like they could be anything more than academy brats. There targets didn't even sense the chakra obviously around the area.

Actually, only the blonde one smirked, looking over confident. The one with the crimson hair just looked bored and impatient. He sent a warning glare at the blonde ninja, as if saying don't overdo it. Both agreed though, it was too bad this was going to be boring.

Naruto and Sasuke were in a completely different state of mind. They were emotionally exhausted from earlier. In fact, physically they were pretty wiped out too, having stayed up most of the night. Sasuke never slept very well even without this situation, and well Naruto's nightmare had started this mess.

It seemed they were in the worst place to be ambushed. Just out of reach of the rest of the team, and the hill behind them made it nearly impossible for a quick escape. There only option was to see if they could hold them off. But one wrong move could end in the young Shinobis' deaths.

Sasuke POV

I was surprised when I saw the two shinobi ambush them. On quick assessment, it wouldn't make sense to have two people ambushing. If we could get with the rest of the team they would be badly outnumbered, but even now we were two against two. Usually there was a larger group as a rule for ambushes.

I didn't lower my guard. There was something about them-maybe their chakra, or the way one smirked, and the other looked like he could care less, or maybe even the strange cloaks-something made them seem like a VERY dangerous threat. They shouldn't be that confident. What I could sense it would even be called arrogance. It ticked me off, but the message was clear: this was not a good fight for us. The danger I felt was worse than Zabuza, and then we had Kakashi.

I clutched my kunai knife in my hand, my body instinctively falling into a defensive position as I held my weapon threatingly. I saw Naruto doing the same, but he looked like he was about to charge into battle without thinking-as usual. Stupid dobe, he should assess the situation.

I gave him the signal to stay back, and I saw his eyes flicker with annoyance. He listen though. I hoped he realized how big of a threat they were, but knowing the dobe, he didn't try to sense their powerful chakra, even when they were right in front of us.

"What do you want?" Naruto exclaimed, challenging the enemy, something that I saw coming. He always did this. Not exactly the definition of stealthy. But was he ever?

Either way, I looked on intently, at the same time sensing the rest of the area for traps. I realized on both sides of us, obvious traps were laid with heavy traces of chakra. But the way we came, and up the hill seemed to be free of any obvious traps. Something told me this wasn't a simple ambush, it was more. I already knew they were more than simple bandits, thieves, or even assassins.

"Not that you would need to know, Gaki." The redhead answered Naruto's outburst... His voice was emotionless, yet threatening and harsh at the same time. And the whole while his face remained just as cold and emotionless, as if it was carved out of wood.

That was all it took. That one push sent Naruto over the edge. Again, normal. Unfortunately the situation was not.

"Hey! You jerks! I'll get you! I'm not letting someone like the likes of you stop me, not here!" the dobe said, charging forwards. He went towards the redhead, but I claimed that one as my opponent first. My instincts told me he was a tougher enemy than the blonde, who was pulling out some-wait clay?

I didn't have time to wonder why-maybe a special technique- before my opponent pulled out a scroll, and quickly, as if he had done it a million times. He then did a complicated set of hand-seals. With a puff of smoke, two eerily human like puppets appeared, controlled by his chakra strings. So my opponent was a puppet master. I knew this would make things difficult, because any blades would be poisoned, and I would be fighting multiple enemies.

I just had to foucus and remember my training. That and be very lucky.

I went kunai to sword with one puppet, dodging the senbons thrown from a hidden source in the first puppet. Sparks flew as a clash was heard, when my kunai hit the puppet's wepon. I quickly dodged an attack from behind, side stepping, only to spin around to meet the second's sword. The battle was quick and intense, right of the bat.

I was dodging, barely holding my own. It was strange, because I felt like if the puppet master wanted to, he could defeat my in seconds. He was leaving openings in his defense, and when I tried to use them, I was blocked. The kunai weren't as fast as they could be, and if they were it was plain to see.

That being said, I was already starting to lose. It was strange, but it almost had the same feel as when I was fighting with Kakashi for the bells, what seemed forever ago. In reality, it had only been a few months or so. It was like I was missing some important detail.

I was almost caught by a third puppet that appeared out of nowhere, but the blades course was changed at the last minute, so openly, I could dodge it.

It was like he was playing with me. A new surge of anger washed over me, as I found the smallest of openings. But only managed to get a shuriken into the second puppet, not doing any real damage before I was jumping, weaving, bending, and ducking, bringing my kunais up to block attacks from the three puppets.

As I was fighting, I barley recognized that Naruto was in battle with the blond. I spared a glance over for a millisecond, and saw him narrowly doge a small clay bomb. I heard the explosion as I narrowly missed a thrown kunai knife. I was unprepared for the senbons that came from both sides. I couldn't dodge them all, so I jumped up, hoping I could get high enough.

In mid-air, I did a summersault and landed kneeling, springing back up.

At this point I was breathing heavily, sweating. I had never been in a battle so intense. None of them looked phased, while I was wearing down, and I can bet Naruto-even with his stamina-was too.

"Hey Sasori no Danna, hm," the blonde said. "You told me that was Itachi's brother, hm. Maybe you're wrong, he doesn't even have a sharingan." I froze for a second in shock and fury.

Itachi? How did they know him?! It was the wrong move, because just then a tone of shurikan came flying at me. I quickly tried to dodge them, but my foucus had been jarred. 'This is hard at the best of times' I thought as one of the surely poison coated weapons came close to scraping my cheek. I was amazed at the fact that I could even dodge.

It was strange, but it seemed different from any other attack. The attacker-Sasori did the other say? Sasori seemed, well bored. Like he wasn't even trying. And I sensed it from both of them, they were playing with us.

Rage boiled up even more. They dared to mention him, and they were just toying with us. Like we were nothing and that's what we would always be. I was not nothing.

Rage boiled up inside of me. They knew Itachi. They seemed to know a lot about him, in fact. They could tell me what I needed to know, and I would show them I was strong.

A part of me realized that rage was controlling my thoughts, and making my vision go red. Put that part of my brain, the rational part, was pushed away by hatred. My hatred fierce and strong, as he said to make it.

I felt my energy spike, and I renewed my battle. My moves were sharper, I was dodging the seemingly randomly timed batches of poisoned blades, and even began trying some offensive moves. They were blocked to easily however.

The puppet master seemed to notice this, as he stepped up his game flawlessly. It conformed what I had been thinking. They weren't here just to kill us. And there was something farmilair about there cloacks, that connected with my brother, I just didn't know what.

It all added up to one fact. This wasn't just an attack.

So what was it ?

AN: YES Sasori IS in his body, not inside Hiruko. Why? Because you can't hide that thing in the trees, and because I felt like it. I don't have a lot of inspiration- well more like I don't NEED to write this story right now. You know that feeling when you just HAVE to finish a story? I don't have that. I want to start a new fic, but I have my hands full as it is.

I will have the next chapter out soon, it will fill you in what happened with the rest of the fight. And a little well, if I told you what was going to happen in the fight, it would give it away! Its not good. And yes, Kakashi and Sakura WILL join the fight eventually.

I'll get started on the next chapter… Maybe I'll finish it tonight, probably not.

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