I'll be posting a poll soon, but right now it's way too soon to be thinking of pairings. However I would like to hear from you readers. I take advice from my readers about my stories. If there's something I've not been explaining write, please bring it up.

Now that we've gotten that out of the way please read and enjoy!

Previously

"Uchiha Madara. Normally I'd welcome you back, but under the circumstances I sure the formalities can be skipped."

Present

The orange-masked man only chuckled, the sound cold enough to freeze a lake in summer. "My pawn comes to me himself. You've saved me the considerable hassle of luring you out myself." The Kyuubi was silent, alert for any change in Madara's stance. However the man just stood there, lazily looking over the celebrating village.

"Your precious little sister has birthed a spawn. I wonder what power such a child holds. Demonic chakra for demonic arts and human chakra for human arts. She would truly have no limits. I wonder how easy it would be to simply kill your sister and take that child from her cooling corpse." Kyuubi moved without a sound. Clawed hands slicing forward, drawing ever closer to Madara's neck until the demon lord could almost feel the skin beneath his hand.

Until his hand went straight through. He paused right where he was, arm halfway through Madara's body unable to grasp anything. He almost thought he was facing only an illusion, but that idea was shattered quite immediately when the supposed illusion struck out an open palm to Kyuubi's chest and followed through with a hard kick that had him skidding back.

Those hits were definitely made with flesh and bone. So how had his hand gone straight through? Unless… "You've been messing with dimensional jutsu." There was no question about it. It was the only plausible solution. But how? The last one to successfully use such jutsu was the Sage of Six Paths. Making sure to keep his eyes locked on Madara's chest, he wondered idly if it was the work of the Sharingan.

"You'll leave my kin alone." It wasn't even a question. Kyuubi would forcibly pry Madara away from his sister, damned dimensional jutsu or no.

The Uchiha only took a step closer to the edge of the mountain. But just as he would have jumped off towards the village below, Kyuubi made his move.

Appearing behind him with several flame clones, Kyuubi moved with his full speed, not allowing the Sharingan a chance to read his movements. But Madara was experienced. Every attack simply phased through him, but Kyuubi didn't have such a luxury. Forced to dodge and block, Kyuubi realized he had found an opening.

Feinting a right hook, Kyuubi watched as Madara's fist blurred towards his gut. Catching it at the last minute, he jerked the appendage towards him and snapped it backwards with a morbid crack.

A kick to his middle brought enough distance between them, but Kyuubi allowed the Uchiha no time to recover. Dashing forward, tainted chakra covered his hands in claw-like manners, slashing forward and using the momentum to spin around with a kick. A remaining flame clone had snuck behind the masked man while Kyuubi had distracted him and just as his kick phased through his stomach, the clone struck; body twisting into a pillar of fire that struck behind his knees.

But he seemed to be anticipating it, using the hit to push into a roll and come up into a leg sweep that forced Kyuubi into the air. Following quickly, Madara pushed into a crushing offense. With all of his attacks wasted, Kyuubi was strained to keep up a defense and wait for another opening. But Madara had obviously learned from his mistake, never allowing his fist or legs to linger and quickly using his dimensional jutsu after his hit had either landed or been blocked.

Quickly growing frustrated, he unleashed a moderately sized ray of pure chakra at Madara, hoping to at least delay him so that he could touch ground without being forced back into the air. But he got no chance. The Uchiha blazed through his attack and one mistake declared the winner. Muscles tensing, he landed awkwardly, eyes still locked onto a furiously spinning dojutsu.

"Let us see whether this Yondaime is as fearsome as everyone claims when he has to face against a real demon." Kyuubi could feel his mind receding, but using the last of his gathered will, he threw himself off of the Hokage Mountain. Despite the fact that the demon lord could feel his body shifting and changing into his feral form, he ran through the Konoha forests as fast as he could, putting as much distance between them as he could. But he could run no longer. Madara's chakra was in his mind, forcing him from control of his own body until he could only watch helplessly as the world grew gradually smaller around him, tall trees toppling and a mighty roar tearing the night asunder.

Yondaime, protect my kin.

"Yondaime-sama! Yondaime-sama!" A jounin scrambled into the room, fear engraved on his face as he barely managed to keep himself upright.

The Yondaime had heard the roar, heard it and felt it shudder through his bones. "What is it? What has happened?"

"It's Kyuubi-sama! He's turned on us and is coming to attack the village!"

Only his willpower kept Minato from showing just how much that one statement affected him. "Sound the alarms, all able-bodied ninja are to fend off the Kyuubi. Do not let him get in!" A swirl of his robes and he took off towards the Hokage Tower, unsurprised at seeing the Sandaime already there.

"I have something that might work."

Hiroko gazed out the window with something akin to horror etched in her expression as she watched waved after wave of Konoha and Tani shinobi head towards the vast approaching figure of her brother. What could he be thinking? This wasn't like him at all!

"Hiroko." Her attention was brought to her husband who had an unfamiliar stern expression, his eyes hard, "Stay here and protect Seiran. I must go aide them." Shushing her protest he gave a smile that looked more like a grimace, "It is my duty as a Tani Shinobi. Don't worry, saiai. I will return alive." A shunshin took him away. Away to the field that promised certain death.

Hiroko's lips pressed into a firm line, she needed answers and the one she could possibly get answers from would be Minato-san. Carrying Seiran down the halls, she opened Kushina's hospital door only to freeze in shock.

The once fiery redhead now lay slumped against the wall, pinned there by several kunai and not breathing. Her eyes darted to the bed where Naruto lay in a bundle of fabric. Eyes darting to and fro Naruto and the dark figure that still had her back to her, she moved without hesitation. Putting Seiran next to Naruto and immediately turning to clash the man's kunai against blunt chakra blades of her own. Holding him at a standstill, sweat gathered on her brow as she began to feed her chakra into a field around the two kits. She wouldn't let this man get to them. As her chakra blades faltered, she moved to kick him away only for her foot to go through him and to lose her balance.

He latched onto the opening like a leech, as she fell back next to the field she had created, his one good hand left, still holding the kunai, jolted forward lodging into chest, just below her collarbone. Still weak from labor, Hiroko wheezed when he left the kunai stuck in her body and threw her against the opposite wall. Spider web cracks forming behind her, white spots erupted across her vision but soon turned to dampening black when multiple kunai peppered her body. Hitting many vital points, she could only give a bloody smirk, the last of her chakra being fed to the field.

Both women dead at his feet Madara was left with only one barrier, literally. Approaching the hospital bed, both babes crying in high wails, the Uchiha bent down ever closer. His good hand extended towards the barrier.

Goal Number 2 - Write a decent fight scene... Well... I'm not sure. I'd say this was decent, but please tell me what you think of it! I don't want anybody to get confused, especially with these scenes.

Not much Japanese used in this chapter aside from basics like kunai and shunshin. But for those who don't know.

Dojutsu - Eye technique

Shunshin - Flash step

Hope you stick around for Chapter 3! XD

Chaux signing out!