SUP EVERYONE! YEAH ... looks like I've finally posted a chapter ... after the long wait ... I'm going to make this chapter the best you've ever seen from me and maybe anyone else ... whoa ... gotta a little carried away there ... lol ... yeah ... so ... i got some reviews saying that the last chapter was kind of lacking ... so I'm working on it ... now ... on with the story ...

p.s. I will be taking small bits and pieces this chapter from the latest chapter and a little from Desaix's Training for the Job

Sharingan and Hiraishin

Tsunade put on a sad smile, "Looks like our age is catching up to us ... ehh .. Jiraiya ..."

Jiraiya looked at the ground, "I know." He put his hand on Tsunade's shoulder. "I think its time we retired and found ourselves our replacements." He looked at Sakura, Sasuke, and Naruto in succession.

Tsunade nodded, "They would be perfect for the job."

Blood began to walk toward them saying, "You punks aren't anywhere near my power. But all the same, I'll give you one last move to decide whether you live or not."

Naruto and Sasuke slowly got up. "Damn it ..." Naruto said. "Looks like Plan A didn't work. Time for Plan B." He slowly began to get up. Sasuke looked at him unbelievingly.

"What Plan B," Sasuke said, "Your Hokage - sama only came up with one plan to get rid of the S - nin in front of us."

"Shut up," Naruto said, "We're in deep shit now if we don't think of something fast." He looked at Blood, walking towards them, Ninbi's chakra aura forming a cat like presence around him.

"Any ideas," Naruto started to say, when Blood began to run at them in all fours. "What -" Naruto didn't finish his sentence as Blood rammed him and Sasuke into the wall.

"NARUTO!" Sakura yelled, pounding at the barrier.

A tiny crack appeared on the chakra barrier.

Sasuke slowly got up, coughing, to find Naruto on his knees, bleeding badly.

Sasuke helped Naruto up, asking, "You alright, Naruto? Looks like you took the better half of that swipe."

Naruto dusted himself off a little, "Yeah. But that crash wasn't a walk in the park neither."He coughed a little.

Sasuke looked at Blood. "He's just unstoppable. I don't think we can do anything right now. We need some backup."

Naruto yelled, "Are you crazy? I'm not going to back down!" He got up quickly, and he fell down, holding his side. Looks like he had broken a few ribs from that blow.

"Look at yourself, Naruto," Sasuke said, "You can't even stand up. What do you think you can do? How are we gonna beat this guy? Are combo didn't work! It wasn't strong enough!"

Then ... it hit him. Sasuke looked at Naruto and said, "Are you healing yourself right now?" Naruto smiled, nodding, hoping he knew what Sasuke was thinking. "How long will it take?"

Naruto stood up, and he didn't fall this time. "Allready on it. I'll probably be up at 95 percent in five minutes or less." He looked at Sasuke. "You planning on using your Bloodline jutsus?" Sasuke nodded.

"Get ready, Naruto," Sasuke said. "You better be ready in ten minutes, cause I think that'll be the most I can last by myself." Naruto nodded. "Wish me luck." he added with a half smile.

Naruto closed his eyes and fell down. He called Kyubi for help. Kyubi! How long WILL it take for me to heal?

By yourself ( with your new abilities ) or with the help of my chakra?

With your help, obviously! Hurry up! Tell me!

Five minutes ... but I suggest that you don't jump in until the very last minute ... I must ask for the ability to see what you see for a brief minute ...

Sasuke's body ... its releasing a familiar chakra ... Huh? ... What are you talking about?... Nevermind, kid...

Meanwhile, Sakura and Claire continued to pound away at the chakra barrier preventing them from going to help their boyfriends face the Akatsuki member. Blood had the two-tailed biju, Ninbi, and Naruto and Sasuke needed help.

Fortunately for them, Blood hadn't mastered the control of Ninbi's chakra, and his barrier from before was weakening and weakening ... second by second ... it was only a matter of minutes now ...

When she saw Naruto fall down again, Sakura yelled, "NARUTOO!"

Blood snickered evilly, "It seems that I will soon be facing the true powers of the Uchiha Bloodline, the Sharingan." If I am not wrong, your bloodline is the result of demon ... is it not?"

Sasuke stopped short, "How do you know about that? I didn't think Itachi would tell anyone!"

"He didn't," Blood continued. "I know because my ancestor also received a demon's gift." He paused for a second, waiting for the information to sink in. "Whereas a very, very young Kyubi imparted you with the gift of foresight in battle, I was given the power of analysis by a very wise, old Gobi."

Sasuke found himself shocked. "Gobi! What? You mean your doujutsu is another cursed bloodline ability?"

"Congratulations," Blood said, sarcastically, "You figured it out." He took a deep stance. "It's time we took the ultimate test. The power of foresight vs. the power of analysis. Sharingan vs. Katsugan. I will destroy you!"

Sasuke looked at Blood, wearily. The battle was beginning to take its toll on him. He looked up and he saw Itachi standing there.

"Foolish little brother ... You can't beat me ..."

Sasuke's eyes shifted slightly, revealing a three tomoed Mangekyou Sharingan. "I will defeat you." He charged at Blood, chakra gathering as much chakra as he could into his eyes. "I WILL BEAT ITACHI!"

Blood charged and the two began to trade blows. Sasuke was taking more hits, and after a few seconds, Sasuke was forced out of the fray by a hard blow.

"AAHH!" he landed in dirt, panting heavily. Sasuke looked up, thinking. He clutched his neck in pain. Damn him ... his Piercing Eye is analyzing my techniques weak spots! What can I do ... he's mastered his eyes .. I can't ----

It's ready. Sasuke had collected enough chakra in his eyes for at least two of the Uchiha power moves. Amaterasu ... Tsukuyomi ... or the third, which I haven't masterd the third ... He looked at Blood ... I might not have a choice ...

Blood stared at Sasuke, coldly. "You weakling! How do you even expect to beat Itachi if you can't even match me?" Sasuke chuckled coldly. Blood took a step back.

There was something dark in his voice. He thought, 'I ... I sense something in him ... darkness ... yet ... not truely evil ... ' He paused. 'Such power! Where did it come from?'

Kyubi ... How much longer until I'm completely hea---

KID! It's back! That's what I sensed before! What are you talking about, Kyubi? THE CURSED SEAL! Look at his neck!

Naruto slowly turned to look up from the ground. The cursed seal was glowing red, but it wasn't spreading across his body. Oh no! How did it come back!

I don't know, kid .. but at the same time ... its not as evil as before ... it's dark ...

Still ... Am I done? Yes ... but watch Sasuke ... he might just win the battle right here and now ... The cursed seal! Somewhat ... it seems that the chakra's joining with Sasuke's own chakra ...

But that's not good! That means that he's going evil!

Not quite ...

Sasuke stood up, confidently, purple chakra rising. Blood stared at him realized that higher up in the chakra aura ... the purple chakra turned blue ...

Sasuke began to walk up to him, saying, "What's wrong now? Afraid that you're going to lose?" His eyes were at their maximum chakra storage. Blood took several steps back.

Sasuke looked straight into Blood's eyes. "TSUKUYOMI!" It was all over for Blood.

Blood found himself fading. "What the hell is going on?" he yelled looking around. He found himself staring at Sasuke in the middle of space. "Where are we?"

"We're in my world." Sasuke coldly replied. Blood looked around in surprise. "I control everything here ... time ... space ... energy ... " He paused waiting for the information to sink in. ".. Even the mass of objects ... including you." He disappeared.

Blood found that he couldn't move. "You can't do anything in this world except feel the pain for the next seventy - two hours ..." a voice whispered from behind him. "I don't even exist here. I'm god ... I'm everywhere ..."

Blood screamed, as hundreds of Sasukes pummeled him with kicks, punches, Chidori's, etc. Sasuke chuckled, "Seventy - one hours, fifty - nine minutes, and fifty - nine seconds left ..." Blood screamed even louder, as Ninbi's chakra began to rise up.

Blood collapsed onto the ground. He wasn't moving. Apparently, he wasn't breathing either. Sasuke, slowly walked up to the body, and said, "Game over, loser." He realized that the amount of chakra that had been taken was less then what he expected.

He began to turn away when he heard someone say, "An impressive jutsu ..." Sasuke immediately turned around to see Blood standing over the body. How ... no way ...

"That jutsu ... is quite powerful ..." Blood said. The body disappeared. "Too bad, it wasn't me." He looked at Sasuke. "Care to know how I did this ..." Sasuke could barely nodd. "Blood Clone ... only disappears when I want it to ... at the cost of half my chakra from Ninbi."

He glared at Sasuke. "I must know ... your power ... It's different then that blonde kid ...Your power ... Rather then the vile chakra of Kyubi ... your chakra is dark ... yet not evil ... How?"

Sasuke stared at him. "What are you talking about?"

Blood grew angry. "If that's how you put it, things have become too dangerous with you and your power. I will kill you now." Ninbi's chakra consumed him, and he snarled and attacked Sasuke.

"LIKE HELL YOU ARE, TEME!" A blond blur crashed straight into Blood from the side. Naruto rammed Blood straight into the wall. Kyubi's chakra aura was completely surrounding Naruto, but for some odd reason, Naruto's eyes remained the same shade of blue.

"Nice timing, dobe," Sasuke slowly said looking at Naruto. Naruto jumped back from the walls, landing right next to Sasuke.

He asked, "You ok, Sasuke? It looks like that move took way too much of your chakra. Are you sure you can keep this up?"

"Sure I can," Sasuke said, "I have enough chakra for two more of those moves. I'll try the Amaterasu next, but I need your help." Naruto nodded, and he looked at Blood, who was rising up.

"Got it," Naruto said. He flashed over to Blood and immediately began to pound away. Ninbi screamed out from Blood's body, and pretty soon, it looked like Blood wouldn't be able to stand up anymore.

Sasuke smiled, and signaled to Naruto. Sasuke zoomed over to Blood, and staring directly at him, yelled, "AMATERASU!"

Blood went up in flames. The barrier broke into millions of pieces as Sakura and Claire burst through and jumped to their boyfriends. They gave them a really big hug.

Sasuke and Naruto looked at each other, smiling. They ad won. Out of nowhere ... A huge applause emanated as all of Konoha appeared in the stands. Apparently, they had all been watching, concealed by and invisibility jutsu. It was over.

Notes: Finally ... I'm really sorry that this chapter took forever ... but my finals just finished yesterday ... yeah ... so thanks to everyone for waiting ... yeah ... I love you all ... wait ... too much there .. lol ... yeah ... i'm officially a freshman ... COOL! yeah ... so ... anyways ... the Jounin Exam arc is going to start again ... I call this arc the Blood Arc .. there's still one more chapter to close things off ... anyways ... YEAH! there's gonna be another mini arc before the final clash between Naruto and Sasuke ... yeah ... please stick with me ... and thank you ... you know the drill ... rate and review