Chapter 11 is now complete :D I actually sat down at about 10:00 PM, the wrote until about 1:00 AM, and finished ; I hate to dissapoint!

Sakura made an 'Eep!' sound, and we all turned around like lightning.

All I could see in front of me was the swampy like woods. "Where are you!?" I demanded.

I scanned all in front of and to the sides of me, the others doing the same. Sasuke spun back around, so I followed.

"Konoha sent children?" The voice was still there, but he, (I assumed) wasn't in sight.

"Come out, coward!" Sakura called.

Her comment was completely ignored. "They must not have known who they were dealing with. Not that anyone could kill me, anyway."

"Just come out!" I growled. Was this the guy? Where's Sensei?

The tapping of footsteps got louder and louder, and we tensed further. Then abruptly, they stopped.

"Where are they?" I whispered, referring to the footsteps.

"Maybe he stopped." Sakura muttered.

Sasuke shook his head. "No, he might have moved, or changed positions again."

"You're a smart boy." It all happened at once. From behind us, multiple and continuous kunai came, causing the familiar metallic sound of the metal and the air's friction.

"Move!" Sasuke ordered.

Sakura gasped, and she wouldn't have been quick enough. I grabbed her arm and pulled her with me in my jump. Sasuke used the kunai he was still holding, and deflected the others coming his way with quick hand movements.

"Stay here!" I told her, leading her out of harms way. She nodded, and I dashed back to Sasuke, the kunai knives slowing their assault. I stayed a few yards behind him.

Amused yet horrifying, quiet laughter filled my ears. "So you can fend off some knives. What else are you good for?"

Sasuke and I stared at the figure suddenly approaching us from the camouflage of the shadowy trees.

"Sensei!" Sakura yelled into her headset.

"Sakura? What's wrong?" Kakashi asked worriedly.

"Did you find him!?" She asked.

"No…" He sensed the panic in her voice.

Then this has to be him. "He…he's with us! Sasuke and Naruto are…"

"Calm down, Sakura. I'm coming. Don't panic."

"R-r-ight!"

A human being's figure, no less. But his voice gave me other suspicions. In the little light that our eyes had adjusted to, we could see him.

He was tall and thin, but obviously older. Maybe fifties or sixties. He had long black hair that went down past his shoulders. He had golden yellow eyes that got just the right gleam from the little moonlight. He had darker marks under his eyes I couldn't tell the color of, thanks to the lack of light. I could tell, however, that his skin was very pale. Much paler then Sasuke's. So much, it sort of…illuminated, in the tiny light.

He wore black clothes with a lighter colored over cloak. He had a darker colored rope tied around his waist.

"Who are you?" Sasuke demanded, holding his defensive posture.

"What makes you think you're special enough to know?" He mocked. "You're just children in my way."

"In your way of what?" I growled.

"I have a Konoha Jounin to kill."

"So you're the one Kakashi was sent to kill." Sasuke mused.

His face changed, he became even more amused. "Kakashi? They sent Kakashi?" Then he laughed again.

"How do you know him!?" I demanded, still unfaltering from my tense position.

"That isn't any of your business, either. Where is he?" He demanded.

"We don't know." Sasuke answered before I could.

He was quiet for a minute. "Then why are you here?" His tone was still amused.

"We're his squad! We were watching out for you!" And we didn't stay hidden. This probably wouldn't have happened if he never found us. Who is he? And how in the hell does he know Kakashi? How strong was he…

And if he was strong, what would he do to us?

"So I should finish you three off and find him." He hissed.

Ew. Ew. Ew. He licked his lips, and this must have been where my suspicion came from. His tongue was like…eight inches long!

"What are you?!" Sasuke asked, emphasizing on are.

He ignored him. "I'll just kill all three of you. Starting with the annoying blonde one."

I drew back slightly.

"I don't have time for you children, so I'll make this quick and easy."

I swallowed, and tried to move.

Then I tried to move again.

I couldn't move.

He came towards me. "But it won't be painless." He had another kunai in his hand. He intended to rip me open. Stab me. Do something with it.

"Ah…I can't…" I started, trying to shake free.

"Naruto get out of the way! Move!" Sakura called. "Do something!" Her voice shook.

"Naruto, don't just stand there!" Sasuke growled.

"I-I can't move!" I said in slight hysterics.

He lunged forward at me, aiming to pull up through my chest. More importantly, my lungs, heart, any other vital organs.

Even if I knew I wasn't going to die here, I'd find some way to pull through, or have Kyubbi heal me, in such situations, you usually see your life pass right before you eyes.

I did. The last thing I saw before I would be stabbed, was Sasuke. Sasuke who didn't know that I…

Then I opened my eyes. There was no pain.

And I really saw Sasuke, in front of me, with his back to me.

Taking the fatal blow that I would have been feeling.

Don't you just LOVE cliffhangars? (Sarcasm)