"What happened to you two? I didn't send you on a hard mission." Tsunade said, peering over her desk at the two Konoha Shinobi.

Naruto held his still bleeding shoulder as he winced. "G-Grandma… w-we were ambushed by those Shi brothers…" Naruto stated.

Tsunade's eyes widened momentarily and she dropped her hands to her desk. "T-the Shi brothers?" Tsunade echoed.

Shikamaru nodded. "They…allowed us to escape." Shikamaru said and lowered his head. "They're just as the rumours go; Kenji Shi: red-cloaked and black mask, grey hair with black tips and the kanji for death written on his forehead, the younger brother of Masaru Shi; Masaru Shi: has scars covering his body, bandages covering parts of his face, green hair with darker blue and purple tips, dressing casually, and has the kanji for death on the side of his neck. Both are very strong and show no fear. They acted like cats with a new toy trying to figure out my shadow jutsu's." Shikamaru stated. "And they both use Kinjutsu."

Naruto nodded in agreement. "They don't even use hand seals for their kekkei genkai… a-and… they are now after me b-because of the nine-tails…"

"They spoke about the Akatsuki. They must have some connections with them, because they spoke about getting the nine-tails before their leader - Pain." Shikamaru added.

Tsunade stood and looked out the window. "How far are they from the village?"

Shikamaru thought for a moment. "At least a couple miles."

Tsunade lowered her head. "Spread the word to all shinobi around. I want a high scale security around the village, no one comes through those gates without my permission. Naruto, keep close."

Shikamaru nodded and quickly disappeared from the room. Tsunade walked over to Naruto to inspect his shoulder. Her brows furrowed as she looked at the flesh surrounding the wound. "Naruto, what happened?"

Naruto sighed. "I-I was stabbed by a… weird black spike from the older brother…"

Tsunade shook her head. "Describe what stabbed you, Naruto."

Naruto's brows furrowed as he tried to think. "I-I don't know how to explain it… I-it was like… a sticky mess of black goo that formed into a sharp spike on Masaru's command. It just latched out and stabbed me before I could react. When I tried to escape it, it formed around my wound so I couldn't get out of it… It didn't disappear until after Shikamaru caught him with his shadow…"

Tsunade closed her eyes and sighed. When she reopened them, she moved to pull Naruto's jacket off. She inspected the wound carefully, her stomach turning. The flesh around Naruto's wound had already begun to rot, letting off a subtle smell of rotting flash. Inside the wound, black goo oozed from dead pores.

Naruto gasped as his nose turned up in disgust. "Wh-What the heck? G-Grandma… what the heck is their kekkei genkai?" Naruto growled.

Tsunade shook her head. "I haven't a clue, but whatever it is, it's going to take your arm if I don't heal it." She walked to the door, turning around quickly to say to Naruto, "To the hospital." before leaving.

Kenji and Masaru waited half the day, allowing Naruto and Shikamaru to spread the fear around. Just as they had expected, their Hokage started a full scale security in the village - only to the brothers joy. It was quite simple getting into the village, their shinobi proving less powerful than the brothers had expected.

There current intentions in this village, primary to killing the raven and blonde, was to search through the villages files and look for Shikamaru's information. Throughout the night, the two brothers searched around through different buildings when they found a promising looking building.

"Behind where I looked back; Who's in the front? In the dark, I sank in my nails - and tore apart the night." Kenji sang gently through the halls.

"The raindrops turn into droplets of blood and travel down my cheeks. If there's no place for me to return to anywhere anymore." Masaru continued gently.

The jounin at the end of the hall narrowed his eyes and turned to the one beside him. "The Shi brothers?"

The other jounin gritted his teeth and nodded. "I think so…"

Before the two could react, the flames on the torches blew out and the hall went black. Kenji quickly stepped forward and gracefully swept his hands forward. The two jounin braced themselves, but left out a stifled scream as something consumed them within seconds.

Their stifled screams last only a few seconds before both fell silent. "The Land of Fire had clearly fell past my expectations; I'm disappointed." Kenji murmured.

Masaru shrugged. "Who cares? I just want that kids file…"

Kenji chuckled lightly and the flames flickered once again once the darkness retreated. They walked forward to the door and opened it.

"Take these fingers, my fingers. I'll take you away with all of your fingers." Masaru murmured as he narrowed his eyes on some jounin that stood on the other side of the room.

Kenji glanced at his brother and slowly turned back to the jounin. "

To the unopened forest where cicadas cry. I can't turn back anymore…" He sang softly.

The two jounin narrowed their eyes at the two males. "You will get no further!" One called to the brothers.

Masaru raised an eyebrow and smirked. He slowly closed his eyes as a puddle of darkness appeared beneath the jounin's feet and slowly climbed their bodies, consuming them whole before they screamed in agony. Masaru slowly opened his eyes as the darkness pulled back and revealed the male's lifeless bloody body.

Kenji shook his head and moved towards the filing cabinet. "This is a lot of files to look through." He sighed when he opened the drawers. "too bad we didn't know the raven's last name." He sighed. "Maybe his name will show up in Uzumaki's file somewhere." He reached look through the files in the U section and found Naruto's name at the very end. He pulled it out and let out a small laugh at the size of a folder for such a young one.

Flipping through, he came across previous missions that Naruto had been on and noticed Shikamaru's name near the top of one. Shikamaru had been the leader of this particular mission, and before his name read "Nara". Kenji chuckled and turned to Masaru. "Nara, Shikamaru." Kenji stated.

Masaru grunted. "What an easy name..." He sighed before smirking. "Oh well, we got it now."

Kenji laughed while he searched through the N file, finding Shikamaru's file, ad pulling it out to hand over to Masaru. "You can do the honours."

Masaru smirked and took the file from Kenji's hands. He flipped through it until he found the section that spoke of jutsu's. He chuckled softly. "These'll be easy to figure out, Kenji." Masaru smirked. He set the file down on a nearby table and took a few steps back from Kenji before forming a hand seal. A weak shadow started to lurch out towards Kenji. "It'll take some practice, but won't be hard." He laughed.

Kenji shrugged. "You keep it, it's not my style." Kenji smirked, contiuing to look through the files from something that would catch his eye.

Masaru shrugged. "What do you plan on stealing? I think we should head out to the training feilds in this village, lurk in the shadows and watch kids train. Maybe a jutsu will be used that'll catch our eyes." He smirked. "I still wish we could get other people's kekkei genkais... it'd be so fun if we could..."

Kenji nodded as he finished looking through the files and stood up. "Well, I guess we could watch some training and try to figure out from that." Kenji smiled and followed Masaru out.

The brothers slowly slipped through the village and towards the training grounds. They hid in the shadows as jounin taught and trained their students. Kakashi was reading his Make-Out Paridise when Naruto came running towards him.

"Kakashi s-sensai!" Naruto gasped as he ran towards him and stopped.

Kakashi peeked up over his book to look at Naruto quizzically. Naruto held his shoulder that was now bandaged but still throbbing in pain. "G-Grandma Tsunade w-wants you..." Naruto stated, his voice slightly panicked.

Kakashi sighed and stood up. "What does she want now?" He murmured.

"I don't know." Naruto shrugged.

Kakashi sighed and stood up, stuffing the book into his pocket. "Keep your guard up." Kakashi stated before walkig away.

"Me? Maybe you should stop reading then, Kakashi-sensai!" Naruto gasped.

Kakashi ignored what Naruto had said and preceeded towards the Hokage's building. Along the way, Kenji and Masaru noticed him and began to follow him. "Well, you're quite an interesting one, maybe you'll have something I want." Kenji chuckled.

Kakashi narrowed his eyes and quickly scanned the area. "So, it's I who happens to fall in the Shi brothers path." He spoke into the darkness.

Keji smirked and stepped out from behind a tree. "So it is." He laughed.

Kakashi looked at Kenji and scanned the area again. "Where's the other?" He asked cautiously.

"Not far off." Masaru murmured as he stepped from a tree on Kakashi's other side. "We're never apart." He chuckled as he leaned against the tree with his arms crossed and his eyes closed.

Kakashi looked back and forth between the two. "I imagined you two to look a little more alike."

"Oh, bother. Many say that, but how can you tell when I have a mask, and some of his is covered?" Kenji shook his head and laughed. "You should understand, we are alike."

Kakashi shook his head. "I am nothing like you."

Kenji tilted his head slightly. "I'm not saying we're alike it any way except that we both have masks. It's a mystery that so many people try to figure out, but you don't want to show them, because it'll reveal a part of you that will make you vulnerable to others questions and thoughts."

Kakashi narrowed his eyes as he stared at Kenji.

Kenji simply smirked. "As I said, you and I are alike."

Masaru smirked. "You're nothing alike to this shinobi, bro. This man is weak - you're not." He chuckled lightly.

Kenji shrugged. "If you say so, brother."

Kakashi slowly moved his hand up to pull down up the headband to reveal his covered eye; the sharingan was now visible. Kenji looked carefully over Kakashi and smiled. "The sharingan - but surely you're not an Uchiha."

Kakashi shook his head slowly as he looked back and forth between the two brothers again. "It's time to finally rid of you."

Kenji pretended to gasp. "Mr. ninja is going to try to annihilate the Shi brothers, Masaru. Oh, what shall we do?"

Masaru laughed. "Fight back of course. I'm not about to shy away from a challenge."

"Oni-san, come here, to where my hands clap. No matter how you flee, I'll capture you~" Kenji sang quietly into the night.

Masaru laughed and narrowed his eyes on Kakashi, deciding not to sing back to his brother. Kenji lifted his eyes to look at his brother. "Brother, is something on your mind?"

Masaru smirked and laughed. "Do you really expect me to sing with you every time?"

Kenji sighed. "It's a beautiful song, brother." He turned back to Kakashi and shut his eyes. "From the animal trail where a cicadas cry."

"The voice that I heard is no more." The two sung the last line in unison, Masaru looked over at Kenji and smirked. Kenji smiled softly from behind the mask as he looked at his brother lovingly.

"Beyond the darkness, the morning won't come anymore..." Kenji's voice faded to a whisper.

Kakashi narrowed his eyes, listening to the lyrics of the song these two sung, his stomach turning.

"Please, brother, I insist." Kenji motioned towards Kakashi.

Masaru shrugged. "I was think we could be kind and allow this ninja to make the first move. What's your intake on that?" Masaru asked, glancing at Kenji.

Kenji nodded. "How polite."

Kakashi narrowed his eyes, murmuring quietly, "

Summoning: Earth Release: Tracking Fang Technique."

Kenji raised a brow when a bull dog suddenly emerged from the ground and dug it's teeth deep into Kenji's shoulder, another dog coming from the other side and biting his side. He looked over at Masaru who was in the same predicament.

"Brother, I hate dogs!" Kenji growled.

Masaru growled and narrowed his eyes on Kakashi. "This is why we've never owned pets!" He screamed in annoyance. Masaru looked back to his brother, giving him a stern look.

Kenji narrowed his eyes and nodded. "Let's give them something more delicious to chew on."

Kakashi narrowed his eyes, as he turned to look at Kenji.

Quietly, the brothers whispered in unison, "Earth Release Resurrection Technique: Corpse Soil."

Kakashi's eyes widened as he looked around at the corpses emerging from the ground. "T-this…You use kinjutsu!" Kakashi murmured. The dogs ran forward, jumping at the corpses to attack. They were easy to kill, and they turned to dust, but they kept coming. Kakashi turned his face to Masaru and stuck his hand down towards the ground, grabbing his wrist with the other hand. "Chidori!" He shouted.

Blue lightning began to surround Kakashi's hand as he stepped forward towards Kenji.

"He likes to get to the punch." Kenji stated and struggled against the dogs hold. Kakashi gritted his teeth and quickly ran towards Kenji, his hand weighing down to drag across the dirt, passing between the incoming corpses.

Kenji's eyes turned sad as he looked to his brother and sighed. Darkness snuck up his legs and quickly consumed his body, thickening itself a foot as Kakashi's fist drove itself into the thick blackness. His fist passed through the darkness and hit Kenji's stomach. Only Kenji's eyes were visible, and his eyes widened as he gasped in pain. The darkness slowly retreating from his body and the dogs let go, allowing Kenji's body to drop to the ground.

"K-Kenji!" Masaru gasped as he gritted his teeth. He narrowed his eyes at Kakashi as his eyes turned black and a eerie black aura surrounded his body, slowly spreading out and causing the dogs to whimper and back off. "I won't forgive you for that!" He screamed as he lifted his arms, darkness forming beneath Kakashi's feet.

Kakashi gasped and quickly jumped back, trying his best to avoid his attack. Just then, he noticed out the corner of his eye that Kenji's body slowly began to fade, rebuilding itself a few feet away from where his body once laid. Kenji gasped and pushed his palm to his forehead.

"That actually hurt." Kenji stated.

Masaru turned to look at Kenji and glared. "What have I told you about scaring me!" He screamed in anger.

Kenji turned to look at his brother, sadness in his eyes. "Haraguroi Himitsu was the one who didn't let me die, Masaru. I didn't intentionally mean to almost die in front of you." He said, half with anger.

Masaru ran his hand through his hair and sighed deeply. "J-Just… don't do that…" He murmured, facing Kakashi again with a glare. "You're lucky we're blessed with such an amazing kekkei genkai…"

Kakashi narrowed his eyes, turning to kill a few zombies that had neared to him. Kakashi quickly placed his hand in front of his face, his index and middle finger sticking up with the others down. "Ninja Art: Hidden Mist Jutsu."

In a matter of seconds, a thick mist settled over the area. Kenji looked over towards his brother, but couldn't see him. The zombies around grunted in confusion, turning and running blindly around.

"So, he was much more difficult then we imagined." Kenji sighed, narrowing his eyes to look around. The mist continued to thicken until he could hardly see a few feet in front of himself.

Masaru growled as he tried to find Kenji but had no luck. He closed his eyes and grunted. "Kenji…" He murmured.

Kenji nodded and took two steps towards Masaru when he felt something sharp drag across his neck. A gurgle of blood spilled from his throat as he turned and fell backwards, eyes wide at Kakashi.

Kakashi smirked as he watched Kenji fall, but his body melted away to a black goo. Kakashi narrowed his eyes and looked around, the corpses all falling away to dust with only Masaru left near by. "Cowards." Kakashi murmured.

"How rude." Masaru smirked. "We'll be back for yah, Kakashi…"

Kakashi watched as Masaru melted away to a same black goo as well. He pulled his headband back down over his eye as the mist faded away and he headed to meet with Tsunade.