"Your mission… is to find—and then kill—the Akatsuki."

All four senseis were aghast. "What?!"

"Genin can't handle that sort of mission! It's S-rank—the highest of the high!" Iruka protested fervently, having heard the whole ordeal. "Are you out of your mind?!"

"And that's why all four squad leaders are going to accompany them, including you, Iruka," Tsunade informed him.

"But—" began Kurenai, as Iruka wasn't the only one who thought that the mission was much too advanced for mere Genin.

Yet Tsunade interrupted her. "If twelve Genin, one Chunin, and four Jonin aren't enough to take down the Askatski… then there is but one alternative…"

"…And what's what?" Asuma curiously asked—although hesitantly, as the near-evil smile Tsunade gave off frightened him.

"If the mission fails… then that means all of you—Genin included—will be beheaded by my guillotine."

Iruka shuddered and Guy responded—amazed, "I didn't know you have a guillotine…"

"Are you questioning me, Guy?" Tsunade asked. "I am the fifth Hokage, you know. Don't think that I can't keep my word…or do you wish to test me?"

Guy shook his head hard. "N-no, ma'am!"

Tsunade smiled, "Good. Then go on and tell the Genin. I expect you all to depart in half an hour."

"OH, YEAH!! This is perfect!" Naruto cried, his excitement oozing from his voice. "I've always wanted to take part in an S-rank mission! Kakashi-sensei, you're the best!"

Kakashi sighed. "Don't thank me just yet…"

Iruka glanced at Naruto, and then glared at Kakashi. I thought I was the best!

As all the little Genin paraded out of the gates of Konoha, a blanket of fog engulfed the area before them.

Naruto marveled the distance before him. "Wow! Perfect weather! Ripe for killing those Akatsuki, wherever they may be hiding!"

"Kakashi-sensei," Sakura began, "Might I suggest using your Sharingan?"

Naruto nodded in agreement. "Yeah! With that Sharingan, you're so awesome!"

Iruka seethed in fury. That's it Kakashi, you're going down

But there was no need. Before anyone knew what was going on, a kunai knife came out of nowhere, just barely missing Naruto's head!

"EEK!" Naruto screamed, and then cowered behind Kakashi. "I take it back! I take it all back! I don't think I wanna do this anymore! This is way too scary!"

Iruka was alarmed. "They're after Naruto!"

"Everyone! Move out! We're open targets if we just clump together like this!" Kakashi ordered.

So, everyone scattered, breaking off by themselves and in pairs. Kakashi and Guy, Kurenai and Asuma, Naruto and Hinata, Sasuke and Sakura, Chouji and Ino, Neji and TenTen, Kiba and Shino, Shikamaru and Lee, and Iruka—with no one to pair up with—was by himself.

Guy was scowling. "Why do I have to be paired up with you? You suck! Lee and I would be a much better pairing."

"Enough out of you," Kakashi snapped. "I don't want to be paired up with you, either, but—"

Suddenly, Kakashi was cut off.

When his body unexpectedly split in two!

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!" Guy screamed when Kakashi's blood splattered on the ground and on him. "I take back all that I'd said before! Just come back to me, Kakashi!"

Guy tried to put Kakashi back together, but to so avail. "NNNNOOOOOOO!!! YOU'RE DEAD! YOU'RE ACTUALLY DEAD!!!!!"

Naruto—hidden with Hinata nearby—was quaking in fear. Oh no! Kakashi was my only real defense, my only hope! Now that he's gone, there's no one to protect me! Now all the Akatsuki will be after me! I'll be overkilled! The only way to protect myself then is… Naruto then looked at his partner, Hinata.

"N-Naruto… why are you looking at me that way?"

Naruto slowly approached her. "Hey, Hinata… Can I ask you for a favor?"

"W-What is it…?"

"No! Naruto! NNNNNNNNOOOOOOOO!!"

A faint scream echoed throughout the forest, and Kiba's ears perked up instantly. "No! Hinata!" He started to chase after her scream, but then Shino stopped him.

"Don't bother," he said.

Kiba glanced at him in horror. "You don't mean she's…?" Kiba couldn't even say it, but Shino still nodded.

Kiba's eyes welled up in tears, and he burst out sobbing. "B-but I was gonna marry her!"

Shino raised an eyebrow. "Okay…I'll pretend I didn't hear that…" He then turned the other way. "I'll be back in a little bit…Don't go anywhere."

Kiba started to panic. "Hold it, Shino! Don't leave me! Please! I-I don't wanna die!"

Shino turned around slowly.

"Too late."

"What do you—?" Kiba began, and then his expression changed. From a bewildered Genin, to a gaping Genin, and, finally…

To a dead Genin. His body fell facedown, and it was then that Shino wordlessly strolled away.

And Akamaru?

He was nowhere to be found.

Ino's head instantly turned at the shriek of Hinata—not Kakashi's, though, as she barely knew Kakashi, and so didn't care what happened to him.

But Hinata… she was a fellow girl, and Ino knew that she had paired up with Naruto, and Ino didn't trust Naruto. Her parents told her to watch out for "that kid".

And so Ino blurted out to Chouji—whose back was turned, "Naruto killed Hinata!"

Chouji didn't response.

"Didn't you hear me?! I said, Naruto killed Hinata! We could be next!"

Finally, Chouji replied.

But it wasn't what Ino expected. "So… hungry…"

"Huh? What did you say?"

"Missed… breakfast… so… hungry…"

"You're hungry?! We've got more important things to worry about than—" Unexpectedly, Chouji turned to faced Ino, and the face she was staring at wasn't her former teammate's.

"…Chouji… why are you looking at me that way? Like… you want to… eat—"

Sakura glanced around her surroundings nervously, cautiously looking out for any signs of immediate danger. "Sasuke…I'm worried. We came out here to hunt down the Akatsuki…but…it looks like we're the ones being hunted!"

"And who told you that?" Sasuke asked, his kunai knife held out before him. "Our mission is to kill the Akatsuki, right? And that's exactly what we'll do."

"EEP! Save me!"

Suddenly, someone came running out of the bushes. Instinctively, Sasuke drew his kunai back and swung it, thinking it was an Akatsuki member.

Too bad it wasn't. Shikamaru's bloody body fell to the grass floor.

Sakura shrieked. "Sasuke! Y-You killed him!"

Sasuke just stared at the dead corpse. "Don't look at me! I didn't mean to!"

"But you did!" Sakura protested. She was now seriously freaking out now. "You MURDERED him, Sasuke!"

"You saw. It was an accident!"

"I saw that you murdered Shikamaru."

"B-but—"

"Tell me Sasuke, are you working for the Akatsuki?"

"No! I'd never—"

"TELL ME THE TRUTH!!!"

"WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!!!"

"Are these tears of your confession Sasuke?"

"WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!!!"

"TELL ME!!!!!"

"Sasuke! Brother!" Itachi frantically said, leaping out from the bushes. "I have something to tell you."

Sakura gasped. "So you are working for the Akatsuki!"

"WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!!! N-ni-san, m-make her stop… m-make her s-stop… a-accusing me…"

"Are you making my brother cry?"

Sakura saw the icy glare of Itachi, and flinched. "Er…maybe?"

"That's it! You're dead!" Itachi cried. "Mangekyo Sharingan: Tsukiyomi!"

It was too late for Sakura. There was nothing she could do. She was caught in Itachi's genjutsu.

"NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!"

So now that Sakura was out of the way, Sasuke beamed. "Yay! Ni-san, you're the best!"

Itachi walked over to his brother. Tears welled up in his eyes. "Little brother, I miss you!" he wept, embracing Sasuke in loving hug. "I've been meaning to tell you… I never meant to join the Akatsuki! Kisame kidnapped me!"

Sasuke was horrified. "What?"

As if on cue, Kisame emerged from behind a tree. "Well, well, Itachi. This is certainly a surprise. What do you have to say for yourself?" He withdrew his long shark sword. "You know, I could kill you both…in one single slice."

"You can kill me but not my brother."

"NNO, ni-san! I-I just got you back!"

"What about if I just kill you both!" With that, Kisame swung his sword—yet, at the same time, Itachi exclaimed, "Mangekyo Sharingan: Tsukiyomi!"

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!!!" Kisame screeched.

Then fell facedown on top of the already unconscious Sakura.

Unfortunately, Itachi coughed up a gallon of blood before he collapsed.

"NIIIIISSAAAAN!!!!!" Sasuke cried out, immediately catching his fallen brother, then gasped at the one-foot long, one inch deep wound across his brother's body.

"B-brother…" Itachi began feebly, "T-there's… s-something I-I… h-have to… t-tell… you…"

"W-what is it?" Sasuke asked, his eyes already tearing up.

"S-somebody… o-on… y-your t-team… is… a-a t-traitor…"

Sasuke gasped. "Who? WHO?! Is it… Naruto?"

"I-I… d-don't… k-know… j-just… b-be… c-care… f-full…"

"DON'T DIE ON ME!!!! NI-SAN!!!!"

Abruptly, Itachi's tongue stuck out, and eyes rolled back into his head, which made Sasuke stare into those white, lifeless eyes…

"NNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! NNNIIIII-SSSSAAAAAAAAANN!!!!!!"

As Sasuke cried on his brother's dead body, Naruto suddenly jumped down from one of the trees. "Hey, Sasuke! I heard a lot of screaming just now!" Naruto looked around frantically. "What the heck's going on?!"

Sasuke froze. N-Naruto! He quickly reached down to remove a fresh kunai knife.

Naruto glanced behind Sasuke's shoulder. "Oh my, gosh! Sasuke! Is that Itachi?! Is he really…dead?!"

Sasuke twitched at the word. Dead…ni-san's really dead… He gripped his kunai knife. Itachi warned me that someone on my team was a traitor… And it's gotta be Naruto!

Sasuke swiftly turned around, and charged at Naruto with his kunai knife. "DIE, YOU TRAITOR!!"

Naruto gasped. "Sasuke!"

The next thing Sasuke knew was a kunai knife had impaled him straight in the head. "N-no…"

Sasuke then collapsed onto the ground, and when he did, behind of him was…

"Iruka?!"

"Are you okay?" Iruka worriedly asked, dashing right besides Naruto. "Did he hurt you? Did I get him in time?"

All Naruto could do was stare at the kunai in Sasuke's head.

The kunai that belonged to Iruka.

"I-Iruka-sensei… why did you kill Sasuke?"

"Why? He was going to kill you, Naruto! I was trying to protect you. You should be grateful, after all I'd done for you, and praise me. Instead of that Kakashi."

Iruka's words sent a chill down Naruto's body. "K-Kakashi? Were… you the one that killed him?"

Iruka's brow furrowed. "Me? Killed Kakashi? No…I didn't." He shrugged. "But actually, that wouldn't have been such a bad idea. Darn! I wish I had thought of that first!"

Naruto quickly backed away from Iruka, shaking his head furiously. "I-I don't know you anymore, Iruka-sensei! You killed Sasuke…and Kakashi!"

Iruka stood up and approached Naruto. "Wait! But I—I didn't kill Kakashi! And as for Sasuke, it was for your benefit—"

Naruto whipped out a kunai knife, and held it in front of himself defensively. "Don't come any closer! You don't deserve to live!"

Iruka's eyes dilated in horror. "No, Naruto! You don't know what you're doing! GGGGGAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!"

Iruka fell to his knees, blood dripping from his mouth. "N-Naruto…before I die…I just wanted to tell you that I am…" You coughed up crimson blood.

"…I am…your father." After that last breath, Iruka collapsed on the ground, leaving Naruto to only gape at him.

My…father? Naruto fell on his knees. "NNNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOO!!!"

"Naruto! What—" Kurenai began, appearing from the thickness of the fog—along with Asuma—then stopped cold when she saw Sasuke, Sasuke, Iruka, and two Akatsuki members.

All dead.

With Naruto holding a bloodied kunai.

"Naruto… did you do all this?" Kurenai gasped as Asuma puked from the reeking stench of blood.

Silence.

"Naruto… ANSWER ME. Did you—?"

Twuck!

"OW!!" Kurenai cried out when Naruto's kunai pierced one of her eyes.

Naruto then ran away.

"COWARD!!!! COME BACK HERE AND—!!!"

"Kurenai," Asuma began, just recovering from his puking. "Why are you—?"

"WHAT?!" Kurenai snapped, the kunai still in her eyeball.

And it was this sight that made Asuma fainted.

"Did you hear that, Neji? Sounds like someone screaming," Tenten observed.

"Nah, it's nothing to worry about," Neji reassured her. "They probably found some of those no-good Akatsuki members."

Tenten thought for a moment. "Hmm. I thought I heard Iruka-sensei and Naruto screaming just now…but…" She shrugged. "Oh, well." She held out a tea pot. "Would you like some more tea, Neji?"

Neji held out his cup for her. "Sure, why not?"

"I'm still not sated yet!" Chouji bellowed, rolling around with his Art of Expansion: Human Juggernaut jutsu. That bony Ino wasn't much of a meal…and that sneaky shrimp Shikamaru got away! Aargh! I'll have to find someone else!

It was then that Rock Lee emerged from the fog, searching his partner. "Shikamaru? Hey, are you out there! Hello! I thought we were supposed to stick to the buddy system!"

"Aha! Here's my chance!" Chouji rolled behind a wide tree. Once he comes by, I'll squash him dead and then he'll be easy enough to eat! And what's more, this kid actually has some tasty muscles on his bones! Heh-heh! It's brilliant!

Suddenly, Guy came running out from behind the trees. "Lee! I'm so glad I found you! Kakashi…he's dead!"

Lee gaped at this sensei in shock. "Guy-sensei… I am disappointed in you."

"What do you mean, Lee?"

"That you let your jealousy in Kakashi-sensei overwhelm you, and so you killed him."

"Lee… how could you even think that I would stoop—?"

"And to think I had once idolized you."

"Lee! Are you saying that you don't want to worship me anymore?!"

"No… I am saying that now… you must die."

"Lee…" Guy apprehensively began, cautiously backing away from his former student. "Surely you don't mean that, right? Aren't I your favorite sensei?"

"Not anymore…" Lee replied emotionlessly, unwrapping the bandages around his arms.

Guy noticed, and panicked. "Lee, before you do that, you ought to know that—"

"Goodbye."

"Iknowwhokilled—"

Yet before he Guy could finish, Lee used his unwrapped bandages to strangle his former sensei's face turned blue.

Oops… should have waited till he had told me who's been killing everyone. Oh well. He was probably the one who had done it, and was trying to trick me into believing it was somebody else. Now, I will find the rest of my teammates, and tell them that they have no reason to hide anymore, for I have killed the murderer.

Or so he thought. The moment Lee killed Guy (and let his guard done), Chouji came rolling out from behind the trees. "YOU'RE MINE!!"

"Huh?" Lee turned his head towards the sound of the voice, and the next thing he knew, he was run over…

Flat as a shuriken.

"Hey, Asuma! Wake up!" Kurenai shook him by the shoulders. Hard.

But he didn't wake up.

So she slapped him. Hard.

He still didn't wake up.

So she slapped him again.

And again.

And again.

And again.

And then she stabbed his arm. "YYYYYYYOOOOOOOOWWWWW!!" He slapped her hand away, and jumped as high as Mt. Everest before landing down on his butt. "Kurenai! What'd you do that for?!"

"…"

"Kurenai?"

Finally, Asuma got one good look at Kurenai, and saw that the kunai in her eye was now deeper than ever. Though unintended, he had accidentally slapped the kunai deeper in her head—not her hand!

"Asuma…you idiot…" Kurenai rasped, and then collapsed on the ground.

Of course, Asuma was freaking out. "No! Kurenai!" He propped her up on his lap. "No! I'm sorry! I didn't mean to!"

"F-Forget the Akatsuki…there's a murderer out here… And I think his name is…"

"His name is…?" Asuma urged.

"His name…is…!" Kurenai croaked.

"Yes? What is it?!" Asuma started to grow impatient, and shook her. Hard.

Kurenai glared at him. "Doggone it! His name is Asuma!"

And then she died.

Asuma is the murderer? Shino said to himself, surprised, after overhearing the last part of the conversation that Kurenai and Asuma had. …I've got to avenge my teacher.

But before he could do so, a large boulder was in his way. …I am mistaken… it is the inflated Chouji, not a boulder… but what is he doing

Chouji was rolling back and forward, creating a vast trench.

I have no time for this. I've got to avenge Kurenai before Asuma gets away!

Summoning his entire bug army, he made them horde on Chouji.

And then made all the bugs go down Chouji's throat.

I'm sorry that I had to sacrifice you, my friends, but you did not die in vain. You had died for a good cause.

"Arf!"

"Yes, Akamaru, you are my new friend," Shino replied to the dog that he had hidden within his jacket.

"Arf!"

"Yes, Kiba was a bad master to you. But I'll be a good master, you'll see."

"Arf!"

Finally, Shino had realized that Akamaru wasn't talking about how much better Shino would be to him compared to Kiba.

"What is it, Akamaru?"

Abruptly, Akamaru bolted from Shino as rapidly as possible.

"…I thought we were… friends…" Shino said, downcast.

A tear falling across his cheek.

Unexpectedly, a bunny came into view.

Smiling, Shino bent down and greeted it. "Hello there. Would you like to be my new friend?"

Suddenly, the bunny split into two bunnies!

"Ohh… what a cool ability you have. Now I have another friend."

And then the two split into four. Then sixteen, then two hundred fifty-six, then to a number than Shino couldn't even count!

"…As much as I'd like to keep you all, I don't think that all of you can fit into my—AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!"

The thousands of bunnies had unpredictably dog-piled onto Shino—not only squishing the life outta him.

But cutting off the air supply, suffocating him as well.

Meanwhile…

Asuma could only stare at the dead body of his fellow Jonin.

His one true love.

Tears streamed down his eyes. "No, Kurenai…" Asuma wept, "KURENAI!!"

As he continued to wail over her, he suddenly heard footsteps in the distance, and glanced up.

"Oh, it's you," Asuma breathed, a sigh of relief passing over him. "Kurenai's dead. You've gotta help me. Before she died, she was…she was gonna warn me…about a murderer—right here among us! You don't think it's—"

Yet before he could even finish his sentence, he died in a flash, a sharp blade penetrating his chest.

"Y-you're the…murderer…"

But it was too late. He was already dead.

The murderer stared at Asuma—then turned his head to a voice edging nearer.

"That was a lovely tea party—if I do say so myself," Neji commented TenTen, holding her hand.

Hearing this, the murderer quickly darted away.

"Why thank you, Nej—" TenTen instantly stopped short. The fog had thinned enough for TenTen to see a large pile of dead bloodied bodies only a few feet in front of her and Neji.

TenTen gasped. "W-who'd… do this?!"

Neji responded with a "Byakugan!"

Searching the forest area, Neji explained, "Whoever did it is probably still nearby, waiting to catch us off guard so that he can—"

"Neji! TenTen! Boy am I glad to see you two…"

Both Neji and Tenten exchanged glances in horror.

"Neji! It's gotta be Naruto, right?" Tenten whispered.

Neji nodded. "I think so," he agreed. "I can't detect anyone else close by…at least…no one that's still alive…"

They both then looked at Naruto with icy glares.

Naruto blinked at them. "Hey, why are you guys looking at me like that?"

"Tell us one thing: where is everyone?" Neji asked, his voice calm and even.

Naruto looked around, and then shrugged. "I dunno. I just passed Asuma-sensei and Kurenai-sensei just a moment ago—"

"You mean the Jonin that are now dead?" Tenten interrupted.

"Dead?!" Naruto repeated incredulously. Then it hit him. "Wait, you don't think that I…? No way! I didn't do anything! Honest! The only one I killed was—"

Neji activated his Byakugan again. "Once a liar, always a liar. My eyes see everything, and right now, I foresee your death!"

Naruto bolted in the other direction. "No! I didn't do anything! I didn't do—" A gasp escaped his throat. "You're..!"

"…Dead," Tenten finished, a grin plastered across her face. Her perfect aim hit its target dead-center.

A dozen shuriken stuck out from Naruto's back, and he dropped to his knees before falling face-down on the floor.

And when Naruto fell, behind him was…

"Kakashi-sensei! You're alive!" TenTen cheered, then went up to hug him.

Neji was suspicious of Kakashi's 'survival'. How could he be alive? Unless… "TenTen, wait!"

"Huh?" But that was TenTen's last word before a hand reached into a chest and ripped out her heart!

"TENTEN!!!!"

"Don't worry," Kakashi said, and then threw her heart at him. Neji caught it, as it represented the love they'd once shared.

Kakashi must've gotten the same idea, as he'd added, "I'll let you keep it, so you can always have her heart close to you."

"Why would you do this? Why would you kill my beloved TenTen?!"

Kakashi sighed. "I really don't want to explain myself..." adding to himself, And I thought he was given the gift of being another genius…

"TELL ME!!!"

"Okay, since you're going to die, anyway, I'll tell you. I killed TenTen because I'm supposed to kill all of you. First, I faked my own death using a doppelganger. Then, I killed Hinata by putting her in a genjutsu, making her believe that it was Naruto that was the one killing her, when it was actually me."

"Lady Hinata! My cousin!" Neji cried out, adding, "You fiend! How could you? I wanted to be the one to kill her!"

Kakashi continued as if he'd never been interrupted. "Naruto didn't notice, as he was too scared for himself to really pay attention—and I also placed him in a genjutsu, just in case. Next, I killed Kiba with a giant shuriken I'd 'borrowed' from Iruka to frame him. Then Shino. His death was a mixture of doppelgangers and genjutsu."

"A-And what about Asuma? What about him?!" Neji demanded.

Kakashi just shrugged. "My favorite move. It's a classic…" He quickly punctured his thumb with a kunai knife, and then marked a scroll with his blood.

"Chirdori?" Neji guessed. "Is that it? …Is that how you intend to kill me?" Although he tried to sound brave, fear soon got the best of him. "W-Well I'm not afraid of you! Jonin or not, I can take you on!" He glanced at the bloody heart in his hand. I swear to avenge you…Tenten!

And with this new resolve, Neji sunk down into his Gentle Fist pose.

Kakashi smirked. "Such chivalrous words…" he mocked. "I wonder…can you actually live up to them?"

"Summoning Jutsu!"

Neji was taken aback. "What?! Summoning Jutsu?"

"You really don't know anything, do you? Don't you know that the procedure to perform chidori doesn't require blood or scrolls? And as for that bloody heart I handed to you earlier…that was just so it'd be easier for my Ninken to track you down… Love hurts, doesn't it?"

Neji was horrified. "What?" he gasped, "Y-You tricked me!"

But it was too late. There was nothing Neji could do now.

Now that his head was bitten off.

Mission completed, Kakashi said to himself before he poofed back to Tsunade, announcing, "It is done. Not only are all the Akatsuki dead, but so are the Jonin, Genin, and that Chunin… just like you'd asked."

"Very good Kakashi, a job well done."

"So do I get my Make-Out Paradise back?"

"Ohh, you'll get your reward, alright…" Tsunade replied, a slight, twisted smile escaping her lips. "Just follow me," she gestured, leading him into a dark room.

"So where is it? Where is my Make-Out Paradise?"

"Stand right there," Tsunade ordered, pointing to a spot in the room. Kakashi did as he was told, responding, "Is this where you hid it?"

"Bend down," Tsunade continued, her wicked grin only growing broader.

"Bend down?" Kakashi questioned, yet did as he was told. "Why do I have to—?"

CHOP!!!

As his head rolled across the floor, Tsunade chuckled, picked up the head, and spoke to it. "I needed to use my guillotine on someone."

A/N: I think this is Craftygirl and my best one yet (despite the sort of cut off ending)! And I hope that all you readers had enjoyed it, too. Plus, don't forget to review please.