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He ran so fast and so blindly, the ground nearly tore up as he passed by. Naruto had lost all sense of who he was. The only thing he knew was someone precious to him was being threatened by a guy named Kabuto and that he had to kill the guy for it. He recalled what the person he was protecting looked like and he felt another surge of power swell from within him. He felt it fill his body and he let out a cry in anger and sped up to catch his prey.

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Sasuke smirked when he felt an immense chakra coming from Kohona. He stopped on a branch and turned to face the direction that he knew his brother was coming from.

"Will you hurry up?" Kabuto demanded nervous by the huge amounts of chakra that were speeding towards them.

"You go ahead." Sasuke said insanely, "I'm going to kill my brother and this girl is just an addition to the pain I'll cause him."

Kabuto looked at the younger Uchiha then over in the direction he knew kyuubi and Itachi were coming from.

"You want to get yourself killed fine. I'm getting out of here." He said before pumping as much chakra to his feet as he could to run. Sasuke smirked, Your time is up, Itachi! He thought before preparing his trap.

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Itachi looked ahead and felt his blood boil he speed up his pace so he was next to naruto who he knew was no longer himself. He reached out and grabbed the boy by the collar and ignored the intense burning he felt on his hand.

Naruto looked back at him with hate filled eyes and Itachi returned the look.

"Listen to me. The one you seek is heading north. With your power you should be able to catch up to him quickly." he said before pointing to a creak near by, "if you run as fast as you can and follow that, you'll be able to catch up to them. Now go."

Naruto looked at him oddly but he nodded his head in understanding. If that guy was right, then following the river meant getting closer to his pray. He jumped over to the waters bank and began to run as recklessly as he had before.

With him gone, you wont be able to sense me. Itachi thought as he suppressed his chakra to its limits and planned how many different ways he could teach his brother not to mess with him without killing him.

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Sasuke frowned when he felt the huge pulse of chakra start to head in the direction Kabuto had gone.

"Where is he going?" he said softly to himself.

"Naruto is going after Kasai." A dark voice said from the shadows.

"So you're here all ready?" Sasuke said with an insane look on his face. Itachi stepped out of the shadows behind him and glared at him with his sharingan.

"You have over stepped your boundaries little brother. You were to try and slay me. Not get innocent people killed." Itachi said with a cool a voice as he could.

"What makes her so innocent? She spends most of her time with you! You! The same person who killed off everyone in our clan but me! If you think that you can run from me by getting close to this girl, then I'll do the same thing you did to me! I'll kill her right in front of you!" Sasuke said before revealing Hikari.

She was tied up with thin metal wires wrapped around her entire body and on those wires were explosion tags. Itachi knew that a look of shock and horror came to his face but he couldn't help it but just as quickly as the look of shock came a look of rage replaced it.

"She has nothing to do with it! Leader decided to give our strength to Sakuragakura which means that I have to follow every order given to me by Kurei! Hikari is nothing more then my student!" Itachi shouted back trying to think of a way to save Hikari.

"Is she? Then why is it every time she walks by you she blushes and you watch her until she's out of your sight? Don't play this bullshit Itachi!" Sasuke demanded. Itachi watched his brother cooly.

Thinking back his brother was right. He did watch Hikari whenever he could. Damn it. How could I have been so stupid? He questioned. He closed his eyes as he calmed himself down.

"I have no idea why she acts so. I am here on orders to bring her back. Besides, I have been wondering how strong you have gotten while alone all this time." Itachi said as he opened his eyes. From beneath his Akatsuki robes Itachi drew a hand full of shuriken and threw them at his brother, "Lets find out!"

"Don't underestimate me!" Sasuke shouted as he dodged the shuriken and began collecting chakra to his hand.

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Naruto stopped at a giant fall. On both sides were giant statues of two people. One he didn't recognize but the other was the first Hokage. He knew this was the border for the fire country and he also knew if this guy Kabuto was going to get away then this was most likely the place he would head and he was right.

On the other side of the bank naruto saw a small camp of people. But best of all, all those people were sound ninja. Naruto smirked as he realized he had beet his prey to their refuge. And what was better, when they did get there they wouldn't find refuge. They'd find him and a pile of corpses.

Grinning a grin of insane pleasure, Naruto headed into the sound camp to massacre every person wearing a sound headband.

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Kabuto felt a sense of dread fill him as he headed for the randevu point. Behind him were two more sound ninja and both didn't seem to feel uneasy so Kabuto brushed the feeling off.

He came to a stop when they broke free of the forest and were on the river bank.

"This way." he said to the other two ninja. He headed north as quickly as he could. Yet the closer he came to his freedom the more the sense of dread filled him. Why wont this feeling go away? He questioned. Gritting his teeth in frustration Kabuto speed up the pace almost leaving behind te two sound ninja following him.

Kabuto smiled when he heard the sound of rushing water. But the look of triumph quickly faded when he saw the camp of escorts. He stood frozen as the other two caught up to him and also fell silent.

Before them the camp was a rune. The tents torn were claws had cut threw them, blood decorated the torn cloth, and the ground was littered with corpses.

"What...What the hell happened?" Asked the ninja the carried Kasai.

"Silence." Kabuto ordered. He couldn't pin point it but he could hear something. It was like a small chant. Unwillingly Kabuto followed the sound into the small camp. He walked past the bodies of his comrades as they lie there dead or dying.

He came to a stop outside of a tent that the almost silent chant was coming from. He stood in front of the tent for a moment before his hand went to move the flap so he could enter. He slowly raised the flap to look in side, his heart pounding in his chest.

But when he fully opened the flap he found there was nothing inside the tent. Wh...What? He thought before his eyes went wide. Behind him he heard a blood curtailing scream of pain.

"What the..." the other sound ninja asked before he was stopped. Kabuto stood where he was frozen. He knew his face was white, his face in an expression of pure horror, and that his hands were shaking violently.

Move. He thought. Damn it move. If I don't get my body to run, I'll be next. Move! Move! Kabuto thought as he slowly began to turn around. When he had turned enough to look behind him his eyes went wide and his breathing became labored.

Naruto with three tails was setting Kasai down on the ground gently before turning to Kabuto and glaring at him with his demonic red eyes. Kabuto watched as naruto turned to face him on all fours and heard him chanting something softly.

When he listened hard enough he was able to make out what naruto was saying and it terrified him.

Naruto smiled when he caught the scent of fear coming from the man in front of him.

"Kill." he said softly, "you bastard. I'll kill you!!!"

Naruto charged at Kabuto with an insane look. Curling his fingers, Naruto went to slash the mans throat out.

Yet he missed. In his pain kabuto jumped back and away from Naruto's attack. Naruto looked at his empty hand then back at kabuto and an insane smile came to his face.

"You might be fun to kill." he said before repeating his earlier attack. Calm down. Kabuto thought. If I keep my cool I might be able to fight him long enough to run.

As Kabuto dodged Naruto's wild attack again he charged chakra to his hand and went to cut naruto off from kyuubi. However, Kabuto's attack was halted the moment his hand touched the chakra that surrounded Naruto. Naruto came to a halt and turned to Kabuto chuckling sinisterly.

"Did you think you could actually touch me? Idiot! My body is being surrounded by demonic chakra!" Naruto said with a smirk. Kabuto cradled the hand that he had used to try and attack Naruto with. When he held it up to look at it he was shocked to find it was nearly burnt to a crisp.

Shit. There's no way out. I'm going to be killed. Kabuto thought as panic began to rise in his chest. Naruto smiled as the scent of fear came once again to his prey.

"I'm scary aren't I?" he questioned, "But don't worry. You won't live to long."

Naruto quickly made some hand signs before calling out his jutsu, "Kage Bushin no Jutsu!" he shouted as several more replicas of him appeared. Kabuto gritted his teeth as he stood on his feet. Have to stay calm. Have to think of a way out. He chanted in his head as he prepared for Naruto's attack.

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Sasuke leaned on a tree trying desperately to get air in his lungs. Shit. How is he still so strong? He questioned.

"Hiding won't save you." Itachi's voice said. Sasuke's eyes grew wider as he slowly looked up to look straight into his brothers Sharingan. Quickly activating his own Sharingan, Sasuke dodged Itachi's attack.

"Who said I was hiding?" Sasuke asked with a smirk. Drawing a kunai he threw it to his right where it cut a nearly invisible string. Itachi remained where he was even as two huge logs came towards him. It wasn't until just before they would have hit him that he dodged and appeared behind Sasuke.

"Fool." he said quietly before slashing Sasuke's back open with a kunai. Jumping away to avoid more attacks, Sasuke skidded to a halt and grasped his shoulder where it was bleeding. Itachi straightened up as he glared at his little brother, his sharingan deactivated.

"Your still pathetic, Sasuke. You cling to your life by trying to capture me in traps but it won't work." Itachi said cooly. Sasuke avoided looking into his brothers eyes.

"Heh." He said as he smirked, "Who said they haven't worked?"

Itachi felt his body stiffen. There was an intense pain, and it was coming from his right shoulder. He felt a warm liquid sliding down his arm as he slowly turned to look behind him. Sasuke smirked as hid brother turned to look at him.

"You underestimate me, Itachi. Deactivating your sharingan like that. It was your biggest mistake." He said as he pulled the kunai he had pierced into his brothers shoulder, out. Itachi quickly turn once his brother had removed the kunai and swiped him with his hand.

The sasuke disappeared into a puff of smoke and while Itachi's back was turned, the sasuke that had been cut on his back came up behind his brother with a kunai. Aimed for his heart. Itachi looked back at his brother as he prepared to run his heart through with the kunai and quickly swiped his bleeding arm.

Sasuke cursed as blood got in his eyes, but he cursed more when Itachi used his temporary blindness to get away. Itachi jumped over to where Hikari was tied up and skidded to a halt. He looked up at his little brother and was shocked when his vison began going in and out. You have to be fucking kidding me. He thought as he kneeled to breath.\

Sasuke rubbed the blood off his eyes and turned to his brother. He was delighted to see him on a knee and panting.

"What's the matter Itachi? Am I stronger then you thought?" Sasuke asked as he through the kunai he had at his brother. Itachi went to catch the kunai when he felt a pulse of chakra.

Blood splattered on the ground as the kunai cut into flesh.

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Hikari felt like she was drifting in an incredibly dense liquid. Why?... Why is it so hard to breath? Why am I so tired? She questioned as her sight went in and out. What are those voices? Why does one sound so familiar? She questioned as she strained to find the source of the soothing sound.

She looked around and could see two blurs. One was further off and when her vision was the clearest all she could see was black hair and a navy blue shirt. And when that person spoke Hikari found herself wanting to recoil.

She looked at the person in front of her and instantly felt a sense of comfort. Who is that? Why do I feel so safe in his presence? Hikari watched as the person further off threw something towards the person in front of her. Hikari sent chakra down her arm to try and shield the person in front of her but she was too slow.

Hikari's eyes widened when she felt something warm splatter on her face. Touching the spot were it began to run down her face, she was shocked to find it was blood.

She looked ahead of her at the person the blood had come and her eyes went wide. Her vision instantly became clear. The events that had happened moments before were suddenly fresh in her mind.

Itachi gasped when the kunai pierced his left shoulder and he grabbed the injury.

"Heh." Sasuke smirked as he deactivated his sharingan, "Looks like you've lost your touch."

He drew a kunai and slowly began to walk towards his brother.

"This will end it." He said as he threw the kunai at Itachi's chest. Itachi motioned to catch the kunai but when it was suppose to be in his hand he found it wasn't.

Sasuke looked at the person in front of him like he was seeing a ghost.

"You bastard." Hikari whispered. She was standing in front of Itachi and in her hand was the kunai Sasuke had just thrown. Sliding off her body were the metal wires that had kept her suspended off the ground.

"How did you get down?" Sasuke asked quietly.

"I'm going to... I'm going to..." Hikari said feeling her anger grew with every word he said.

Sasuke smirked, "Your going to what?" he asked with a sneer.

Hikari felt her body beginning to tense as she glared at the younger Uchiha. Her chakra was beginning to feel more like boiling water and Hikari knew what was about to happen. But seeing what the Emo-boy did to Itachi. She didn't care.

"You bastard." She said softly before hunching over and crossing her arms in front of her body, "I'll kill you!!!

Hikari felt Hachibi's chakra shatter the five prong seal and fill her body with an intense amount of chakra but that was the last thing she felt or saw before she lost it.

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Kasai awoke feeling herself leaning on someone. The whole right side of her body that was against, whoever she was leaning on, was warm and felt wet. Kasai slowly opened her eyes to look around her. She was in a tree over looking a waterfall.

"So beautiful." She said softly to herself.

"Ah, you are." A male voice said from behind her. Turning her head Kasai was shocked to see Naruto. But it wasn't the fact that he was there that shocked her, it was that he was covered in blood.

"Naruto!" she said completely turning her body. It was then that she realized that it was Naruto's blood that made the right side of her body so warm. Naruto looked at her with distance eyes and smiled.

"Its ok. I'm fine. Just tired." He said softly.

"Bull shit! Your going to die of blood loss!" Kasai shouted as she went to wrap one of Naruto's arms around her shoulders, "Come on. We need to get you to the hospital."

Naruto nodded and Kasai headed for the leaf village passing by the destroyed camp on her way. Yet she paid it no attention. All that she could think about was getting naruto to safety.

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Itachi watched in complete amazement. He had never seen Hikari go this far with Hachibi's chakra and it terrified him. He knew exactly what happened to Naruto every time he lost it and he was worried about Hikari's well being.

But at least she was beating the crap out of Sasuke. In fact Sasuke was laying on the floor covered in his own blood and gasping for breath. Hikari stood over him with a chakra cloak that had a split tail and was quickly growing a third.

"Bastard." She whispered like a chant. She raised a clawed hand and it looked as if she were to give Sasuke the death blow when Itachi appeared behind her and wrapped her in his arms.

"Enough Hikari." he said soothingly. Hikari looked back at him and saw the worry in his eyes and as if that look were a command, Hachibi's chakra resided. Itachi caught Hikari as she fell unconscious and gritted his teeth when her clothes rubbed against his now heavily burnt chest.

He put Hikari on his back and went to run them back to Kohona where he would find medical attention for her. But he was stopped when he felt something grab his foot. Looking back he saw it was Sasuke.

"Damn it. I'm not done yet." Sasuke said threw clenched teeth. Itachi ignored him as he kicked his hand off his ankle and began the long, hellish run back to kohona. Leaving his brother to ponder his own uselessness.

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By the time the invasion was over the number of dead ninja was substantial. The number injures just as bad. But nevertheless the Leaf survived and so did all the Sakura genin; who were all promoted to chunin a few days later. It became common knowledge Sasuke left the sound for Orichimaru and that he swore to kill Itachi and Hikari but neither cared.

For a while peace settled over the Sakura Ninja and their close allies the Leaf.

But they soon found out, that peace doesn't last forever.

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