The man from akatsuki was lying on the floor there were no injuries but he had used all of his chakra animating the trees. Naruto stood over him panting slightly and a wounded shoulder. The remains of shattered trees surrounded them like a graveyard.

"Incredible I never thought that I would ever face someone this strong" the man said panting heavily.

Naruto only looked at him with eyes that were as red as hell, behind his mask it looked as though he were a cold hearted monster ready to kill at a seconds notice.

"Well at least I get to die a warrior's death just like I wanted to all these years, I thank you Naruto demon of the leaf." With that he died a quiet death Naruto stood there a minute before walking away from the corpse.

The cloaked man walked through the wasteland towards his home, there was nothing around him but desert and dust. He looked up to the sky to see hundreds of thousands of stars.

"Another one gone" he said as he watched one of the star start to flicker and eventually die out.

When it was over he walked away towards the cave he called home. He stopped suddenly and said

"It seems that I have to make one more trip" then the tentacles of darkness appeared and swallowed him.

"You want to do what exactly" the priest asked

Clare was in a bed in the medical wing among many others. Miria was in a bed across from Clare, Raki was on her right, and Helen was in the bed on the other side of Raki while Deneve stood up having refused any medical attention whatsoever.

"I would like to borrow one of your charms father specifically the yellow fox" Clare responded.

She had asked him and after a moment he had finally answered her in a slightly shocked tone.

"I am sorry but it is forbidden for anyone from outside the temple to touch the jewels let alone use them."

"Are there any exceptions to this rule any at all"

"No unfortunately it is an ironclad rule there is no exception."

He walked away without another word; the others looked at Clare there was sadness written on her usually blank face.

"What's with the sudden interest Clare?" Helen asked.

"Yes I am curious to know why you seem so anxious to get this amulet" Deneve added.

"You remember that monstrous yoki we felt"

"Which one" Helen interrupted.

"The last one the one that overwhelmed Priscilla's"

"yes I had been wondering that I felt it for only a minute but it far surpassed anything I had ever felt" Miria said.

"Yeah I remember that one" Helen visibly shivered "it felt horrible I swear I just wanted to run for it as soon as I felt it, it took everything I had just to keep fighting."

"Do you know what it was that projected that aura Clare" Miria asked.

Clare fell silent for a while and after about five minutes of silence she finally answered "Raki". Everyone in the room suddenly stared at her even Deneve who is usually calm and composed could only stare at her.

"Him yeah right his aura is weak barely detectable and you're saying that he of all people possess that much strength" Helen rasped trying to put humor in the situation. Clare just looked at them and they understood that she wasn't joking, they all looked away consumed in their own thoughts. Raki stirred causing the silence to break and he sat up looking to see where he was.

"How are you feeling" Clare asked concern in her voice

"I'm feeling okay it's you that I'm worried about how did you manage to get out of that alive?" Of course he would be concerned about her and not himself and by him saying that everyone seemed to breathe a sigh of relief not even noticing they were holding their breath.

"Hey why is everybody so quite we all got out alright didn't we" Raki asked the group who were indeed silent.

"Raki" Clare said "do you remember what had happened before you passed out?"

"Well lets see I ran out of arrows, fought a group of yoma, beat them using them using the quick-sword but in doing so I used up all of my energy and collapsed." "

Do you remember anything else" Clare persisted.

Raki strained to remember the last moments of consciousness and then it dawned on him "and then Priscilla came she was going to kill you I tried to get up and then"

"then" Helen said impatiently.

" nothing" if people face vaulted in claymore they would have.

" That's it, that's all you can think of" Helen asked.

"Yeah after that I passed out although I'm wondering how did you survive Clare I thought you were dead for sure?" Raki didn't see the expression on everyone's face when he asked that question.

"Everyone could you please give me and Raki some privacy please"

"Why…" Helen started but then Clare gave her a fierce look and Helen knew better than to continue. Everyone left the room silently only Helen looking back. When the door was shut Helen blurted out "who does she think she is!?"

"What do you mean?" asked Miria

"you know what I mean"

"no I actually don't I'm a tactician not a mind reader"

"It's just that why do we have to leave were just as close to him as she is"

"no we are not." They both looked at Deneve who up to now had been the observer "as much as you think were as close to him as Clare is we are not she has been with him for years she understands him more than all of us put together if anyone should tell him it should be Clare not us" Deneve said. Helen couldn't think of anything to say to that so for about a minute she remained quite.

"Do you really believe that monstrous power actually belongs to him?" She finally said the other two looked at her "I mean think about it he didn't even have that much strength to begin with it was only because of Miria's blood that he even survived that wound and that would mean that he would be only one-fourth yoma."

Deneve agreed "yes and since Miria only gave him a small does he should really be only one-eighth yoma so his aura should be incredibly weak." Miria listened patiently before saying "but why would Clare lie about something like that?"

That was the final word no one really ever disagreed with her. Then they heard the okay to go back in each of them sat down quietly only glancing at Raki to see him, look down at the floor.

"So what should we do?" Miria suddenly asked. Clare looked at her and said "the man in black seems to know a lot about this we should take his advice." "His advice" Helen blurted.

"What did he say?"

"He said that he had prepared a world for us and we should use the fox charm to enter."

Why should we trust him?"

"To trust or not to trust" a new voice came and all of them looked towards him. "I trust you'll decide."

Helen stood up and drew her sword pointing it threateningly towards the stranger "who are you."

"That's him" Clare said.

"This is the one who's causing so much trouble well then who exactly are you."

He seemingly smiled under his hood "I'm nobody just someone on a mission."

"Enough of these games tell us"

"instead of wasting time with me you should be attempting to help young Raki." He started to walk around his feet never seeming to touch the floor "Now that the seal is cracked that power is leaking through at a much quicker rate than before."

"Seal?" Deneve inquired. "Yes the seal that prevented the monster from being unleashed into the worlds, it was sealed into a newborn babe many years ago it seemed to hold up just fine until something unfortunate happened to him and was forced to take yoma tainted blood."

He looked at Miria and continued "the mixture of human and demon blood was the key to breaking the seal; luckily it was a very small dose so it only cracked the seal and only insignificant amounts of power slipped through periodically." Miria looked shocked "I did this to him." "Yes however if you hadn't he would have died and then the demon would be released anyway, in fact you gave him a chance of controlling the monster when you did that." Then Raki woke from his trance and asked "how?" "All in good time for now do as I say and leave for the next world."

He turned around to leave but Clare said "the priests won't let us use the charms how are we supposed to do anything?"

He looked over his shoulder to look at the group "and how will they stop you?"

"Naruto where are you?" Sakura's voice rang out from the walkie-talkie. Naruto was racing towards the temple

"I'm 0.5 kilometers from the temple I should be there in less than five minutes."

"Naruto don't go in the enemy camp were at a stalemate since sasuke killed orochimaru"

"he killed the snake pedophile alright!"

"Don't shout baka this thing was next to my ear when you yelled!"

"But you shouted too!"

"Only because you did!"

"So what!?"

"Grow up!"

Naruto smiled still the same old sakura "don't worry I'm almost there how's everybody doing?" "Well Hinata's hurt pretty bad and Sasuke's arm is torn up but I can fix it other than that everybody's okay." Naruto stiffened when he heard about Hinata "how bad is she?"

"Don't worry she's stabilized she got poisoned by a kunai but I injected her with some antidote." He let out a sigh of relief he and Hinata have dated a couple of times and they were thinking of continuing. "Alright I'm here" he said as he got to the gate the men immediately recognized him and let him in. Almost none of the destruction reached the inside with exception of a few kunais and he proceeded directly to the tower.

"I don't think this is a good idea" Helen said while they were in the room,

Deneve looked at her strangely "We knock out the guards, opened the forbidden door, broke the glass to get the charm and now you say something." Clare brought over the charm and held it out to the group they looked at it until Miria asked "how do we work it."

Clare just stood there for a second before saying "I haven't really thought that far." The group let out a sigh "it's alright" Miria said "we all have our Helen moments."

"Yeah" Helen interjected "we all have our, hey wait what's that supposed to mean." Everybody laughed at that Helen always had something to say to ease the tension away. Then the charm started to glow and everybody fell in what seemed to be a hole of light.

"What the hell is this"

"how the hell am I supposed to know"

"were all gonna die"

"calm down Helen."

Then they all landed together in a pile on the floor in a room that looked exactly like the one they were just in before they fell. "Ouch who's on top of me" Helen asked

"me sorry" Raki said.

"I think someone's got my arm" Deneve said

"that would be me" Miria answered.

"You're all very heavy" Clare said since she was on bottom. They all got up in unison while Clare said "this was a big waste of time"

"I think not" Miria said pointing at the unbroken glass that had the charms in it.

"Hey what are you doing in here?" They looked to see a blond haired man in a mask holding a strange looking knife at them.