"Stay together unless I say other wise." He started going a certain direction until a large snow tiger appeared. He stopped and looked behind him and saw a large black wolf growling at Itachi and Kisame.

Kyten walked out arrogantly in front of Sooner, behind the white tiger. " It's not going to be that easy." She said, smiling.

Akari climbed onto the black wolf and laughed. "Time to die.." Itachi stayed silent while Kisame started toward her, carrying his giant sword threateningly. The Wolf growled loudly at him.

"Yubuki, attack!" Kyten yelled to the tiger. In a blur of white and black, Yubuki tackled Sooner. He crawled out before she could get her full weight on him, and then disappeared, leaving a block of wood...with a straw hat on it. Kyten grinned. 'It's only a matter of time'. She yelled to Akari, " Want help?"

Akari yelled back, holding her sword against Kisame's, "NO!!"

Kyten shrugged, "Ok. I guess I get the creep."

Sooner sat in a tree a few hundred feet away, examining himself for any serious scratches or bites. He found none, but one thing was missing..."MY HAT!!" He looked to where Akari and the black wolf were fighting Kisame. Kyten fought Itachi from a distance, throwing shuriken and kunai at him. Yubuki was sniffing around the log and jumping from tree to tree, searching for Sooner.

He immediately started coming up with a plan to get his hat back without being seen, heard, or smelled. His eyes shifted from Yubuki to Akari to Kyten, waiting for an opening to sneak past. Suddenly, he remembered something, Kakashi wasn't there. He activated his chakra-seeing eyes and looked around. Kakashi was no where to be found. Sooner sighed and created a scentless shadow clone, the clone made it's way silently to the battle area.

Akari and Kisame continued pushing their swords into each others, Kisame pushed his strength into his sword and Akari lost grip of her sword and the sword flung back, Kisame and Akari watched as it stabbed Sooner's clone and caused it to disperse.

"Well that was………weird." Kisame said.

"Crap." Akari looked back at him still with a coy smile on her face. "Oh well." She tackled him to the ground.

Kyten and Itachi stared at the place the shadow clone once was, Kyten blinked several times and looked back at Itachi who was still staring at the log and the hat. Kyten took this to her advantage and threw more shuriken and kunai at him. Itachi jumped back to reality and dodged the projectiles, irritated he pointed at her and then casted a genjutsu on her.

Kyten froze. The area swirled around her, her vision was foggy. Light colors were dark and dark colors were light, slowly her vision cleared and she tried moving, but her body fell weakly to the ground, a figure's shadow loomed over her, looking back she saw Itachi holding a sword toward her torso, he then lifted the sword up and pointed over her to several unidentiful figures chained to a wall, blood dripped visibly from their mouths and wounds around their bodies. Kyten tried getting up and going to them, she knew they were her family, she couldn't move. Itachi stabbed her in the side. Kyten screamed in pain and fell over holding her side. The ground around her gave weigh and she fell, reaching for the edge, but missing. She looked down and saw a bit of large spiders crawling over to get her. She landed into the pit and the spiders crawled over her biting her.

Suddenly, Kyten realized what was happening and bit her arm...hard. The Genjutsu still wouldn't break, so she tried again. Before she could try a third time, Kakashi was letting his chakra flow into her. The jutsu broke, and Kyten looked over at him.

" Thanks...Dad." She said, sighing. He smiled under his mask, " No problem...daughter. Now you need to go find the other guy, I'll take him." Kakashi jumped toward Itachi, summoning his ninja dogs to his side.

Akari threw her self back against a tree to push off of it again on Kisame, while the two continued fighting, Kyten landed lightly behind Akari.

" Seen anything of the currently hatless dude?" Kyten asked, rubbing the self-inflicted wound on her arm.

Kisame dodged Akari's kick and pointed his sword at the gray haired girl. "Don't talk to her, she's fighting me at the moment." He growled.

Akari smiled coyly, " Exactly...but in answer to your question: No." She threw a punch at Kisame's head, which he ended up dodging. " I think last time I saw him, he was sneaking around that log, but that was a shadow clone. Sorry, sis."

Kyten shrugged, " That's Ok." She jumped into one of the nearby trees. 'I'll find him myself.' She thought, catching up with her snow tiger. She bent down by Yubuki's head, the huge tiger purred. " Found anything yet girl?" Kyten asked, stroking her pet's head. Yubuki shook her head in response. Kyten sighed and jumped back to where Akari was STILL fighting.

" I'll take over for you, Akari." Kyten said, "Yubuki is having a hard time finding the guy. I was thinking Haru might be better for the job."

Akari jumped from almost being smacked with a sword, and landed next to her twin. " OK, just make sure you get your tiger back, she might ruin the track of scent."

Kyten nodded and summoned Yubuki back to help her with Kisame. Akari flew out of sight

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Here's a short but new chapter...enjoy, I'll be out of town for the next three days, thurs, fri, and sat I'll come back on saturday, I'll try to get as much writing done as possible...Dancing-Fox-Princess(who changed her username again!) wrote a majority of this chapter as well, so give her a big thanks.

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