Nightmare: Hey guys the darkness is back to consume all of you

Dosu: Oh joy Christmas has come early.

Nightmare: Cheers for the sarcasm

Nodoka: hey aren't you supposed to be doing another project?

Nightmare:…Not yet was thinking about doing a Resident Evil story but might do that after this chapter or at least start it.

Nodoka: You sure it's a good idea doing another project especially when you barely have time for this one?

Nightmare: It's called having a go and besides I should get a couple of hours before I sleep to work on it anyway so :P

Dosu: Just update quicker to be honest

Nightmare: I'm doing it asap so shut up…anyway I don't own Naruto or characters except me so lets get going.

Opening song: Your Betrayal (by Bullet For My Valentine)

After that hard fight that Sakura had with Ino she decided to go find Gaara, it's been a while since they last had a little chat and did indeed wanted to get to know him better. But of course Gaara is going to try and avoid her, however some part of him still wanted to believe that Sakura isn't like the others but Nightmare persuaded him otherwise, nevertheless some part of him still didn't believe him. Meanwhile Nightmare and Dosu had arrived in the village but didn't know what the hell to do. Then suddenly he saw a sound ninja guiding them to a dark alley.

Dosu and Nightmare didn't have anything better to do so they followed him, especially since he might have some new updated orders from Orochimaru. They followed him to the alley and the sound ninja got out an envelope and gave it to them and with that he took his leave. Nightmare and Dosu stepped out of the alley and opened the envelope and it was indeed orders from Orochimaru, it read 'Dear Nightmare and Dosu excellent work in the preliminaries Kins loss was unexpected indeed however she will be fine and we still have to proceed with the invasion however we must get the sand as our allies for it to become a success. What you will do is simple, distract the Kazekage while I assassinate him. Distract him as long as you, get to the building he is staying in, in ten minutes I will meet with you shortly." Signed by Orochimaru himself.

"Well we have to distract the Kazekage do we? Oh joy even a walk in the park wouldn't be as simple as that." Dosu said sarcastically.

"Heh I agree however we do have our orders...even if they're from the wrong people. However he will get his soon enough, and so will this village but as soon as this invasion proceeds and fails, my plan will be in motion." Nightmare coolly replied.

"By the way what exactly is your plan? To a specific point I mean." Dosu asked while Nightmare thought about the answer.

"Let's just see this village isn't going to know what hit it." He answered while Dosu looked unsatisfied with the answer.

"I meant in specific terms."

"Fine…let's say the darkness in this town is greater than it looks like." He simply replied with a slight chuckle.

"That only gave me a slight idea anything else?"

"Nothing else today you're just going to have to watch it unfold." He said with that signature evil smile of his.

"Oh god, seriously Nightmare stop with the damn teasing, I'm impatient as it is."

"Isn't that a fact!" Nightmare smirked while Dosu chuckled slightly. They arrived at the building with the Kazekage and knocked on the door and the Kazekage himself appeared behind it.

"Evening Kazekage we have something to discuss with you in private if you don't mind."

"Why would I waste my time with some lonely genins like yourself." He turned and started to close the door but Dosu interrupted him with a surprising statement.

"This involves the survival of the Sand Village."

"How so?"

"An…invasion from the leaf after the exams we know the details about it." Nightmare interjected, improvising from Dosu's reaction.

"Hmm ok, we can't talk here though, come inside to my office." He offered and they both stepped inside and went to the office.

"So" he began as he sat down. "Tell me the details."

"Aren't your children here? We should include them in the conversation." Dosu questioned.

"My children at the moment are just finishing their exams same as you, I imagine they are just exploring."

"Ah of course, after all you can always tell them the plans later on, anyway what will happen is that once the chuunin exams are complete, the hokage will turn on you and raze your village to the ground and start the fourth great ninja war." Nightmare said while the Kazekage replied with absolute rage.

"How dare you accuse the hokage of such a thing! Do you have any proof of such actions!"

"No not really however our information has come from a reliable source no doubt about it."

"Silence! I will not hear you any longer, I am the Kazekage and I will see to it that you two are seriously dealt with!" The Kazekage shouted little did he know a shadow was creeping up behind him, he opened his mouth and a sword came out like a tongue getting ready to strike. Nightmare just grinned evilly at this.

"See, the thing is you USED to be the Kazekage but" the Kazekage didn't know what he was on about until it was too late. He screamed in agony and couldn't move, Orochimaru stabbed him in the heart with the sword, he was losing a lot of blood and no amount of medical jutsu could save him now.

"But you took a sword to the heart!" Nightmare finished and Orochimaru sheathed the sword back into his mouth and the lifeless corpse of the Kazekage landed on the floor bleeding as the life seeped away from him.

"Excellent work boys." Orochimaru congratulated. Nightmare bowed with his hand in his fist, while hesitant at first Dosu reluctantly did the same but he felt disgusted with himself for doing this.

"It was no problem Orochimaru-sama phase 1 of the plan is complete I assume?" Nightmare questioned.

"Yes onto phase 2 now, I will disguise myself as the Kazekage and make the sand join the sound with the invasion. You will have to get the body of the former Kazekage out of here before someone notices."

"Where would we put him in the desert?"

"Excellent idea, if you be careful you will not encounter any difficulties with getting spotted."

"Oh great we got to do your" Dosu was speaking until Nightmare nudged him hard enough so that he felt pain and no longer talked.

"Of course we will begin at once, once you finish getting changed of course. We'll be waiting outside." Nightmare said while walking off with Dosu following close behind him.

"What the hell was that man, seriously control your damn anger."

"Sorry, I'm trying my best here ok, when you go through shit like what he put me through it's pretty difficult to see the big picture here." Dosu retaliated.

"Of course, I know it's difficult but you need to be patient, he already suspects something is up and he is probably expecting you to attack him and then you're dead, what would your death then accomplish? How would your family react then eh?"

Dosu took a good think about this whole situation, what Orochimaru made him go through was unforgivable and he deserves death now however what Nightmare said has a point, however it became so harder for him to contain it especially since Orochimaru was so close to his kunai he could almost taste the blood that would be dripping off his neck. While he was thinking the 'kazekage' walked out and signalled the boys with a nod to take the body out to the desert. Nightmare and Dosu put the body in a convenient body bag that was next to the corpse. The body was put in the bag and tied up.

"Right I'll just drop this in the desert, please try to refrain yourself from murdering everyone."

"No promises but I can make an exception."

"I swear to god if you get caught…"

"Don't worry I'm not gonna murder anyone…in the light."

"Fine, fucks sake just make sure it's someone who won't be missed in the community." With that Nightmare had a dark portal under his feet and he slowly sunk when he was completely submerged the portal closed. Dosu walked outside and get fresh air. He got out of the door only to be knocked down to the ground, his head collided with another one. His vision was blurry and all he saw was two people lying next to him. They got up quickly and apologised, they sounded like girls too and they ran off. When he was getting up a grown man asked him where they went Dosu didn't like the look of him so he told them they went in the opposite direction. The man thanked him and went off, Dosu staggered a bit when he got up and rubbed his head.

'Nightmare might want to look at them two girls, they seem to be hiding something that someone doesn't like and he likes to create trouble.' Dosu thought to himself. Meanwhile Sakura was looking all over for Gaara she really needed to talk to him. She had a bad feeling about what happened in the arena. She looked everywhere but couldn't find him then she saw little grains of sand. She followed them to the outskirts of the village when she finally found him sitting in a tree.

"Hey Gaara." She called and Gaara knew whose voice that was and didn't even bother turning his head.

"Go away." He simply said while Sakura was wondering why is he acting like this now well at least to her.

"Hey what's up?" She asked while Gaara was getting more annoyed at her persistence…more than usual since he's under his influence.

"Get the hell away from me or you die. Simple." Gaara threatened while Sakura did step back by one step but still she persisted.

"Look what's gotten into you, I can help you know." This was when Gaara snapped. He turned his body to face her and he wrapped her up in sand and this of course surprised Sakura. She struggled to try and break free but to no avail. Gaara brought her to him to inches away from his face. That was where Sakura saw his eyes, those eyes, full of hate and emptiness, they were just so dark it was like he wasn't Gaara anymore but just a near empty shell or a pure weapon of destruction ready to be set loose and create anarchy.

"You stay the hell away from me or I will rip apart your limbs and crush your organs one by one." Gaara threatened her with that she was terrified for her life but also for Gaara since this wasn't him at all it can't be, suddenly she saw for one second a gold tint in his right eye. With that Gaara held his right eye firmly as it was causing him pain and Let Sakura go and fled. Sakura didn't know what to do, she was confused. She had even more questions to ask but it didn't seem like he was in a conversational mood. That was when a person with a dull beige hoodie with the hood up appeared behind her.

"You know he's not himself, he's under the influence of the darkness and became a creature of destruction, something the Ichibi was primarily created for." Sakura turned around to find the mysterious person who sounded like a woman with serenity in her voice.

"Can he be saved?" Sakura asked while the mysterious woman just chuckled slightly.

"If he can you're the only one who will be able to."

"Wait why only me? Who are you?" She asked.

"All will be revealed soon, just take comfort in that I am an ally in your struggle against the darkness." She reassured Sakura. But Sakura was still confused with everything that's been going on.

"What about this darkness, why don't you just tell me what's going on?" She asked.

"I can't tell you at this moment, we're being watched. We will always be watched. You'll know what's happening soon enough but for now I must go." She replied as she turns around and slowly vanishes in the wind while she is walking.

"Wait!" she shouted but it was too late, she was no more but she had even more questions about everything. It was like torture for her, she went off to find Naruto and Sasuke and take her mind of these recent events, at least for a while because these questions need to be answered but she knew she can't answer them yet. Meanwhile in the shadows Nightmare dumped the body, came back to the village and watched the whole scene. This made Nightmare confused and made him think.

'Who the bloody hell was that woman, it looks like she knew something about my future plans but how! How the hell did she know I was watching them?' Nightmare pondered on this for a while and then laughed evilly.

"Alright then bitch, you want to play? Ok I'll play just so you know your nothing but a difficulty amplifier…let the games begin." He said to himself with that nefarious smile of his.

Ending song: Hard to see (By Five Finger Death Punch)

Nightmare: Another chapter for you guys Merry Christmas and new years if I don't upload by then…and valentines day to.

Dosu: O_O

Nightmare: What?

Dosu: You uploaded early…

Nightmare: Oh go to hell (yawn)

Nodoka: You all right there?

Nightmare: its 3 in the morning what do you (rests head on desk)

Dosu: Damn…think we'll get another one soon?

Nodoka: Well he's getting better at uploading and his writing come on better with experience.

Dosu: Yeah…I think he deserves a break at least until he gets enough sleep.

Nodoka: I don't know I think he's kind of cute like this.

Dosu: What did you say?

Nodoka: Erm (blushes)…So guys review and fav I'm sure Nightmare will enjoy the support you give him, anyway bye.