Once again, I'm sorry for the extremely late update. But you try getting a couple of new games AND deal with exams in the same week. Seriously, how do they expect me to concentrate!?! Anyway, I'm glad most of you have enjoyed the fic and the way your characters are portrayed so far. It makes me happy to know that your happy. But enough about me… ON WITH THE FIC!!!

Oh and RuTasheryuu, don't worry if your confused about where Koto stands. It will become crystal clear later on. *Giggles to self as eyes grow wide with excitement* I can already taste the FEAR!!! …. Sorry.

Thanks for reviewing; Yumi loves the darkness, Sauru Tsukiyomi Sanbi's Faeble, Tsubaki Takara, RuTakasheryuu and Riku-sia.

Disclaimer:I don't own Naruto or any of its characters. I only own Vaskar, Shane and the story. Riku belongs to Riku-sia, Shiro belongs to Sauru Tsukiyomi Sanbi's Faeble, Koto belongs toRuTakasheryuu, Hibiki belongs to Tsubaki Takara and Mitsukai belongs to Yumi loves the darkness. Other OC's belong to their respective owners.

Shiro woke up with an extreme headache and felt incredibly exhausted. It felt like she'd been stabbed 3,000 times in the head then left for dead at the bottom of the sea.

She sat up and looked around, spotting the rest of the group at a slight distance away from her. They looked like they were discussing something important. Shiro carefully climbed to her feet and stalked over to the others with a hand against her head.

"What I wanna know is how they knew where to find you. And why they were after you in the first place." Koto muttered, narrowing her eyes in thought. She stared at Hibiki who sat across from her and patiently waited for a response.

Hibiki, who was sitting next to Mitsukai, smiled back at his new-found interest with a coy smile. "Worrying about me over something as trivial as this? I'm touched." Koto raised an eyebrow at the older teen. Hibiki's expression suddenly turned serious. "According to Mitsukai and a couple of my other sources, they have a member whose mainly used for scouting, spying and information."

Riku shrugged from her place besides Vaskar. "So…What's that mean for us?"

"It means the guys we're after know about us, probably more than we know about them. And who knows, maybe they're watching us right now." Shane stated from the other side of Vaskar.

"I'm just surprised they didn't kill us when they had the chance." Mitsukai chirped in.

Shiro stepped into the conversation and everyone turned to look at her. "That's because Itachi would never do such a thing."

Riku gave Shiro an amused look. Koto, however, just looked plain annoyed. "Shiro, I'd appreciate it if you didn't spout random crap that's totally wrong." Koto said airily, absentmindedly waving a hand in Shiro's direction. Shiro frowned at her friend slightly but didn't comment.

"I have a question though…" Mitsukai said, slightly raising a hand. She turned to look directly at Koto and questioned, "Did you finish off that rouge leader like we asked? After-all, we only said we'd help you with your thing after you helped us with our thing."

Koto nodded her head to the younger girl, "Don't worry, the rouges won't be a problem anymore. The rouge leader however-"

"-Is sitting next to Vaskar." Riku interrupted, pointing directly at Shane.

"…" Mitsukai narrowed her eyes at Shane.

"…" Hibiki clenched his fists.

"…" Shane raised an eyebrow at the two.

"Catch him-" Mitsukai snarled.

"-Then kill him." Hibiki growled.

Hibiki leapt at Shane who barely managed to roll himself out of the way and into a standing position.

"The hell!?!" He said in surprise.

Mitsukai stood up, drew her swords and made to swipe at Shane but the boy back-flipped out of the way.

"Hey wait! What are you guys doing?!" Shiro shouted as she and the rest of the group stood up. "He's on our side!"

"For the last few weeks, those stupid rouges made each and every one of our missions hell and has tried to kill us on several occasions. Now it's time for revenge." Hibiki grunted, standing up, drawing his swords and pointing them at Shane.

Shane warily took a step back, watching the two. "Damn, how'd this happen?" He muttered to himself.

"Shane, run!!!" Vaskar shouted.

Shane turned around and dashed off with Mitsukai and Hibiki at his heels. Riku, Shiro, Vaskar and Koto followed at a delayed distance.

Mitsukai chucked her sword over Shane's head. Shane skidded to a stop as the sword imbedded itself in the ground just in front of him. He quickly turned around but was tripped up by Hibiki's foot and slammed into the ground. Shane quickly tilted his head to the side, barely avoiding a Katana impaling his head and scrambled to his feet.

"Earth Style: Black Rose jutsu!"

A hoard of black petals flew directly towards Shane. The boy raised his arms to defend himself as the billions of needle-like petals stabbed and cut at his body. The petals lifted him into the air and threw him to the ground.

Mitsukai rushed towards the downed boy with her katana at the ready and attempted to stab him in the chest. A split second before the blade could connect, Shane's chakra daggers appeared and blocked the attack. The blades pushed Mitsukai away and Shane struggled to stand.

Mitsukai stood besides Hibiki with her hands behind her back whilst Hibiki kept his eyes on Shane.

"Aaannd, gotcha!" Mitsukai squealed. A combination of roses and vines rose from the ground under Shane's feet and wrapped tightly around him, preventing any slight movement.

"Are you gonna finish him now Hibiki?" Mitsukai asked, seemingly far happier than earlier.

"Right now…" He agreed, nodding his head.

"Nooooo!" Vaskar suddenly crashed into Hibiki and knocked them both to the ground. Riku suddenly appeared in front of a surprised Mitsukai and threateningly aimed a Kunai at her throat with a grin.

Both Shiro and Koto ran over to Shane and hacked at the vines that bound him. Koto caught him before he could hit the ground.

Shiro swiftly walked over to the downed Hibiki and surprised Mitsukai and glared at them. "You guys have no right to attack Shane, much less attempt to kill him!"

"Hold on a second, we told you to take care of the leader. What are you doing travelling around with him?" Hibiki stated, gently prying Vaskar off of himself and standing up.

"Yeah, you promised us a dead leader." Mitsukai agreed, cautiously moving past Riku.

"No, what we promised, was to crush them. And that's what we did… Save the leader." Riku said, smirking to herself.

"That's not the point!" Mitsukai snapped. Riku rolled her eyes at the girl.

Koto walked over, carrying Shane in her arms and glared at Mitsukai. "The point is he willingly decided to join us. He's on our side now. So if you kill him… I'll kill you."

"Koto! What have I told you about making death threats!" Shiro asked, leaning forwards with a frown on her face.

Koto turned to look at Shiro and tilted her head to the side, "Not to make them unless absolutely necessary…"

"No, never!"

"Whatever." Mitsukai said, shrugging her shoulders.

"If my lady wishes it… then no harm shall befall the boy." Hibiki joked, crossing his arms over his chest and winked at Koto. Koto cringed but ignored him. She gently set Shane on the ground and tended to his injuries whilst Vaskar watched.

"Is he gonna be okay?" Vaskar asked, staring curiously at Shane.

"Moron…" Shane mumbled.

Koto couldn't help but crack a smile at that. "He'll be fine Vaskar." The spiky-haired boy nodded, took one more look at Shane, then walked over to Shiro who ruffled his hair.

Riku sighed dramatically and placed her hands on her hips. "I'm bored. What do we do now?"

Shiro spoke up, "Well, ideally in this situation, we'd wait for Shane to recover a bit, then we'd either look for Itachi and the other one-"

"-Kisame" Mitsukai cut in.

"Kisame. Or we'd find the nearest village and rest for awhile, then we'd look for them. They can't be that far away so we'd be okay in that respect."

Hibiki crossed his arms over his chest and glanced at everyone, one-by-one, with a look that dared defiance. "Let's carry on looking for those two. I want revenge." Shiro raised an eyebrow.

"Right now?"

"Yeah."

"So soon?"

"Yeah, why?"

Shiro huffed in frustration and placed her hands against her head. "Because Shane needs to recover and we just got beaten by them."

Hibiki walked over to Shiro and explained, "Do you really think it's a good idea to let them get away? The longer we leave it, the harder it will be to find them again. We were lucky they found us this time. Besides, I think we only lost to them from a bad match-up."

"A bad match-up?" Shiro repeated.

"You know what I mean. Let's at least walk for 10 minutes, if we don't find them anytime before then, then we'll stop, okay?" Shiro glanced at Koto and Shane for a second before nodding her head at Hibiki.

"Fine. But no more then 10 minutes." Hibiki smirked back at her. Shiro turned to look at Koto and watched as Koto helped Shane stand. Vaskar walked over to Shiro's side and curiously looked up at her.

"Just start walking Vaskar, we'll stop somewhere soon." Shiro said, gently pushing Vaskar in a certain direction. Shane, Riku and Koto and Mitsukai followed after the two with Shane keeping a wary eye on Mitsukai.

Hibiki stood by himself for a bit, seemingly deep in thought with eyes clouded over. Suddenly his eyes cleared up and Hibiki gave a slight sneer.

"Should I have told them that those two losers are ten minutes that way…" He muttered to himself. He gently ran his fingers around his chin. "Nah, it's more fun this way. Heh heh, revenge is sweet."

Once again, I'm sorry for the lateness but I am in frikkin college here so... cut me some slack okay. Now then, hope you enjoyed this chapter, (even theough you probably didn't) and just wait for the next one. After this week I'll be done with my exams so... y'know. By the way, I think a lot of you will like the next chapter alot.

Later ^^

P.S. I hate exams but love games. So... I'll revise a little bit then, PUMP MY HEAD FULL OF GAMES!!!