Good night all my readers. Yes, when I started writing this chapter, it is the following Monday of the last Wednesday's installment at 11:44 p.m. I'm also going to be working on another story for Mind Warped soon, so please read and review that as well.

I woke with a start at the sound of running feet. In the middle of a field flower filled field, alone and unsatisfied with life, a rogue ninja was charging me. I looked for my support, but I was quick to realize I had none. I was alone.

Typical.

I dodged his first slash of the blade, which was aimed directly at my throat. As I back hand springed onto a tree I got a closer look at his blade. It was a large, very wide, thick sword with a large crescent hole in the bottom of the blade and a large circular hole near the top of the blade. The ninja wore a mask and was dressed in black and white camo pants. He didn't have a shirt on, which was strange because the ground was littered with snow.

He jumped towards me again, and I dodged agian, leaving behind a paperbomb on the back of the tree. He dodged this easily, but didn't expect me to follow up so quickly with three shuuriken and two kunai headed his way. He barely blocked these and hit the ground, morphing into another ninja who easily could pass off as Sasuke, but with wings.

I knew what was going to come from this Sasuke look-alike.

He powered up a chidori, which was pure black, and charged at me. I evaded once more and launched my Land/Spear Earth Technique. A moderatly powerful earth-javeline that upon hitting the ground turns to a thick paste and then hardens, leaving the opponent incased in earth. The attack managed to hit the imposter Sasuke and I walked up to him casually.

I used a release jutsu to find out just who he was. The summer heat was unbearable at this point, and I was sweating from it and anticipation. I cast the jutsu and the opponent slowely started to change. I had just gotten a glimpse of him in the midnight moon before my eyes shot open and I was dumbfounded.

There, in the middle of the forest with my feet covered in my own cement, stood an exact replica of me. He was cocky looking and was wearing a black T-Shirt with grey blotted skulls. Just like my everyday outfit.

His cargo pants were sheen camo and within the many pockets were assortments of weapons and scrolls used in familiar and powerful jutsu. He had a scroll on his back, which was really the only difference between us two, with a cocky smile on his face.

The sunlight glistened off of his bright blue eyes, with matched the cold stare that I possessed, which was known for chilling my friends and enemies to the bone. My replica had black, spikey hair like mine, but for some reason it was really long compared to mine. Mine was medium length between long enought to reach two inches high and short enough to flatten it without it getting in my eyes.

Finally, he said without a hint of remorse, "This is the way you will die. Destroyed by your own hand, you will fail this mission and you will kill the only family you have left. You are weak young one, whereas I have lived one thousand lifetimes. I feel nothing for you or your petty friendships. All I want is to be out of this cage once and for all. Set me free!" He screamed.

-In the real world-

I gasped as I sat up frantically in the midsummer warmth. I was cold with perspiration. I looked around to see it around eight a.m. and everyone was still sleeping. I was glad to be out of my nightmares, where I was safe in the real world again.

"No. Sasuke..." Tess mumbled. I looked over to see her fast asleep and frantically flailing her arms everywhere. She smacked Luna in the face, which she didn't even react to, and rolled around trying to wake up.

"Tess. Tess, wake up. Sasuke isn't going to hurt you..." I trailed off. I shook her gently.

"Dead, run. He is going to kill you."

"Tess, who is going to kill me," I said awestruck that she could be having a dream about my death, just like I was.

"SASUKE!" Tess screamed as she sat up. Man, we always have a lot of nightmares, but this is out of the ordinary. Two people in the same camp on the same night. Bizzare.

"Tess, why are you such a heavy sleeper? What was happening in your dream?" I asked quietly as to not wake the others. It would be better if Tess and I had some alone time to chitchat and finally get some things off of our chests.

"I... I don't know. Sasuke was trying to kill you, Jono wouldn't let me help, and there was this guy. He was wearing a pinstripe suit and looked almost identical to you."

At this note, I was majorly creeped out. The Anti-Me in Tess' dreams too? How was this possible?

"He told me that no matter what, you had to destroy yourself. He told me it would benefit the world to have you die, but I just couldn't let it happen." Tess told me.

"Well, dreams are dreams," I lied to Tess. "They don't mean anything. I'm glad I'm still here mostly. Let's get the others up and get moving. We have a long travel ahead of us."

-Eight hours later-

Somehow, I began to lose myself in the trip. I wasn't losing my memory as quickly yet, but I kept dazing in and out like usual. We were nearly to the Village of the Rocks, and I was focusing on more important things. For example, Luna's ass(Hey, I'm a guy. Give me a break. We all do it.). I stopped ignoring my surroundings when something was out of the ordinary.

A small twinge type sound resonated in my highly tuned ears. I leaped for Luna and Tess, yelling "Down!" to Jono as quietly as possible.

As we all dove straight to the ground, the sound of metal filled the air as many weapons collided. I got up as quickly as possible and surveyed the surroundings. Just like in my dream, a lone ninja stood before me. I saw him standing there with that sword again.

My vision flashed and I realized I was hallucinating. The ninja was actually three ninja. They all had hoods on except for one, who had orange spikey hair. All of them for eye strips. I must be losing my memory, because I can't remember the actual name for them. The strips they were wearing had slits in the eyes so they could see but cut out the ability to see the depth of their eyes.

A clash of metal brought me back into the battle field. A kunai had been thrown at me but was deflected by Jono. I studied the opponents for a brief second.

The first was a short, scrawny guy with a mask on that made him look like he was hiking in the winter. He only had a club with a nail in it and was wearing a black jumpsuit with a utility strap over his shoulder.

The second guy was very similar to the first in his outfit, but was very large and muscular. He was built like a tank, and could easily have thrown a medium sized tree at me if he wanted to. He had no weapon pouches on him and looked as if he relied on his fists to win his fight, rather than skill with weapons.

The third guy was obviously the leader. He had a katana and was holding a kunai in the other hand. His eye strip was loose and looked like it would fall off if he moved to fast. He looked left and right and noticed the four of us, three of us being girls. He charged Tess, who happens to be the smallest member of our team. Too bad for the rogue she is also the strongest fighter.

She quickly dispatched the leader with a swift kick to the crotch and a sharp blow to the back of the head. She turned to the other two ninja.

The large one charged me, not afraid to take on a guy. I ducked under two massive fists and slid under him on my back, slicing his ankles and tendons on his feet with shuuriken as I went under. I put a kunai to the back of his neck when he fell to his knees.

Luna looked to the last rogue standing. The small and feeble looking one. He was shaking like a chihuahua, while looking for an excape. Finally, Luna looked him straight in the eye.

"Boo," she said. The bandit took off in the other direction, all the while screaming like a girl.

"That takes care of that problem," Jono replied casually, laid back on a tree branch.

"I guess. Let's get to the village before something worse happens, or he finds some friends. I don't want to be here all day fighting off bandits for the rock villagers!" I exclaimed. With my final comment and some looting of the leader, we were off again.

I ended exactly at 12:34 a.m. How ironic. Anyway, Thanks for reading and please check out my new story, Mind Warped.