Heya! I'm back! and Shukaku's here too!

Shukaku: ...

Thanks for all the lovely reviews! Sorry i haven't replied to each seperately lately, i've been ultra busy, and now i've got more work piled on top of it! And that means i'm also later than late itself! (-mutterings-Not possible...but...)

Elaboration: We have a new baby goat, and he's just too adorable;
We have six new kittens by MamaCat(that's her name, and she's earned it), three matching pairs, cause they each match color and pattern wise. well, the last pair only matches because they look almost nothing alike! (go figure that one out), and the biggest one of all:
We have five more kittens because up at the shop that my parents own and work at(CRS Petroleum Welding and Tank Serivices, mouthful if you ask me) we have pet cats, and BP had kittens(three black, and two black and orange fuzzzzzzycalicos)a few days after MamaCat, and then she died just a bit ago(and we're not sure why, and that's the part i hate the most) and now we've got to take care of her babies. I never knew it was so much work! But at least we have the bottles already, so that saved us an emergency trip.
Which is kinda bad that we already had bottles from before anyways, but:
Newsflash! I named one Chouji! Cause he's just as pudgy and just as much of a glutton!
Err, wait, pleasently plump, yeah, that's it. -GRIIIIIIIN-

Now;
How'd you like to just get on with the story and ignore this little note? -sweet and innocent grin-

Shukaku: Uh-oh, she's got something planned...

Me: Hey! The day i've got something planned is the day that fish swim!

Shukauku: They do, so that means...

Me: Yup! I do! -evil grin- on with the show then! Err, story!

"Who ARE you!" This time, it was Naruto who spoke, er, yelled.

"I'm Itaku, descendant of the sharingan." He said.

Well, that got their attention immediately. (cue authoress rolling her eyes)

"What?" Sasuke growled out, his Shuriken in his hand cutting his palm to where it bled.

"Just what I said, though I can assure you, I am no closer to Itachi in blood than you. Farther, infact. I am also the wolf here. Korochi is the Lion, Hare is Kiia, Solo is the bear, Fuuka is the tiger, and Kira is the hare." He moved off, done with the conversation. "I'll fight, you stay back, though I know it will be hard, and you must hide in the trees if you do not want to be found an easy prey by one of them, or worse, if what I think is going to happen does." He was gone in the next second, and in the battle field, Sharingan lighting up his eyes, all three commas showing.

Sasuke was about to go berserk, that had to be Itachi, or someone just as bad, if he had all of the commas and abilities of Itachi, which he showed he had in the next five seconds, using the thousand years of pain eyes(a/n: what's it called again?)to bring two sound nin to their knees, and knock out another.

"Stupid. Sensei's not Itachi, that bastard would have a hard time finding something to like about Sensei here." A voice rang in all their heads. 'though he does anyways' the owner of that mental voice thought privately to herself, not sharing that little tidbit of info with the rest of the mental group.

"He's got all of Itachi's powers, how can he not be?" Sasuke called out to the voice angrily.

The girl with the ponytail looked pointedly at them all, before diverting her attention to the ninja in front of her just in time to avoid getting hit by a very deadly attack.

"Itachi got his by killing off his clan" She told them 'so far as you know',was her contradictory thought. "Sensei got his through more...not evil ways." She stated, making it clear that she was the one 'talking' to them through her mind with how much she looked back to them as if in a real verbal conversation.

"H-how?..." Ino started. "That's not possible, that's my power, except I can't do it that well..."(meaning the mental talk, she can still take over anyone or thing, minus Sakura)

"You'll learn it soon enough Ino" the girl grinned at her. "But yeah, it is mental, like yours. Anyways, Sasuke--omfh!" She didn't dodgea kunai that time, but Korochi shoved her, rather un-gently, so that only part of her arm was gotten, instead of her heart, and healed her up fast, sweat starting to sprout on her brow. "Whew, close call." She grinned at them, "Gotta love my Korochi-chan. But anywhoo, There are more ways to activate the top level of your bloodline than what Itachi 'did', or you think you would have to do. So no worries. I actually think Sensei's more powerful because he did the other way." She returned to fighting, all the while giggling about something she knew and they didn't.

"What other way could there be?" Chouji asked in between mouthfuls of his chips.

"I don't know, but that isn't Itachi.(Gee, ya think the pinkish-red black highlights in his hair wouldn't clue you in, or the fact that he laughs so sweetly(-stern look- and he does, i'll make sure of it), nothing like a maniacal killer) WhatI can't figure out though, ihow that girl keeps on making those clones without hand signs, or how they are so much like real people that Icouldn't tell the difference before, and can barely now." Neji said. "Almost can't tell now either..." He muttered angrily to himself.

"I wanna know how that girl got my powers! I would have remembered someone from my family like her, you would think!" Ino griped.

They were cut off on their musings and rants and thoughts by a strange crashing sound through the underbrush.

Orochimaru stepped out.

"Get out of here Orochi-bastard!" Korochi yelled at him. "You're not welcome here!" Then she got a good look at him. "Wait, you're the other one, then you're good, so long as you didn't..." She slapped her forehead. "Of course you did, where is he?"

Another Orochimaru stepped out, this one much stronger than the first, and with much more chakra and powers radiating off of him. (here's the good part!)

Daaaannngg, they (the naru-tachi)were glad they were in the trees now, after just seeing this guy...

This second Orochimaru was much different than the first, he was now a blonde, and had sculpted abs and pecs, viewable through his black leather vest, chains from around his neck dangling down. His pants were leather chaps, and he had on boots and spurs. Leather gloves adorned his hands, with holes at the knuckles, and he sported a spiked collar around his neck and upper right arm. His hair was tied in a ponytail with a strip ofblack leatherhalfway down his back, and the hair still went on till it got to his tight butt.

All in all, if he wasn't Orochimaru, he quite possibly would have been one of the smexiest things alive...

...But he was, and that just gave him a strange aura that creeped every female within view, and those out of viewof him, out.

"Get out of here, psycho-perve" He raised his eyebrows to the offending girl.

"I think not Korochi, there is something I want, and it is here somewhere, I can feel it." The blonde hott-not/uber creepy one said. Korochi just stared at him.

"Didn't think I'd find my past self so soon, huh? Well, that's where simple thoughts go wrong." He laughed his laugh. "Kyu-ku-ku-ku..." He looked around.

"Funny, I would have thought Konoha ninja would be here by now, oh well. I guess you just scared them off. Wouldn't want your parents to die before they give birth to you, am i right?" This almost had Ino out of the tree on the ground in a face plant. What the hell were they talking about?

"As if, you bastard, we're not that stupid, and besides, we can kick your ass all the way to the ice country in ten seconds flat if we really wanted to!" Someone shouted.

"Shut-up!" Itaku berated his student, Nuken, for that outburst.

"Oh, so they're here right now are they? That just makes this easier for me then. If I kill them now, you won't be born in the future." He scanned the area. They all felt a wave of chakra as Kiia received a large amount from Nuken and used it to shield the area around them all, blocking Orochimaru's sensing abilities.

Unfortunately, none of them were sure if this jutsu would actually work, or if he'd kill their parentsbefore their eyes.

So, what do you think?

Besides that, review and tell me what you think! (gotta love messed up logic)

Bye!

Shukaku: I still don't know what you have planned...

Me: Wait till a few later chappies, then you'll get it... -cue mischeivious authoress laughter- It's gonna be gooood...

La-ter!

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