Nightmare: Sup guys another chapter coming your way…well once this is uploaded anyway.

Dosu:?

Nightmare:…Don't even think about saying anything.

Dosu: What I wasn't even thinking it.

Nightmare: Right and I invited the queen over for my 21st bash where she can get hammered and become a pr*stitute.

Nodoka: Right this is the part where I slowly back away.

Nightmare: Yeah but we're in an apartment so you can't go anywhere

Konoka: Besides Nodo-chan wouldn't leave you even if she could.

Nightmare: Why you say that?

Setsuna: Because she-

Nodoka: Oh look Nightmare doesn't own Naruto or its characters now start…please!

Nightmare: No don't start until-

Intro song: Your Betrayal (By Bullet For My Valentine)

It's been a couple of weeks since the unknown assassination of the Kazekage but Orochimaru excelled in manipulation and played the Kazekage character to near perfection and no one was the wiser. He made an alliance with the sand for the cooperation for the invasion. Hayate eavesdropped what was going and attempted to assassinate Baki the sand jounin in charge. But he was too late as Dosu appeared behind him and sliced his throat like butter. He held his throat to try and prolongue the inevitable however it was worthless. Dosu just left him there struggling for his life. He revelled in the suffering of his enemies lying in their own pool of blood, it satisfies him greatly. Then a minute later the corpse was now a proper corpse Orochimaru ordered the removal of the body post-haste to remove any evidence. The sand ninjas and the sound ninjas were informed of their alliance and began preparations.

Of course the relationship between Gaara and Sakura was strained greatly for obvious reasons but Sakura knows that Gaara or rather Shukaku is influenced by the darkness and she is persistent about bringing him back. However she doesn't know the details since that mysterious woman disappeared before her questions were answered. Gaara on the other hand was doing...less than exceptional since he keeps experiencing migraines from inside his own head. Shukaku seems more aggressive than usual. Something is fuelling his desire to leave this shell of his, however it's not certain whether or not it's out of aggression or fear. Once he finishes his clawing however Gaara cannot take the pain and loses himself more into the darkness, he's becoming like a true monster now.

"I don't understand it, Gaara should be under my will by now…how the hell does she have that much influence over him from just a day or so. It doesn't make sense unless…no it can't be that, Shukaku or that bitch doesn't seem to remember a thing which is good for me." Nightmare said to himself walking in the shadows of the village. Nightmare decided it's time to control Shukaku himself to break Gaara apart, and then Nightmare can pick up the pieces and ultimately create a weapon of mass destruction. Suddenly Dosu jumped from a roof of a building and lands alongside Nightmare.

"Hey Nightmare I already checked with Kin, she should be able to join us again tomorrow or by the latest, the end of the week."

"Excellent, her true talents would be useful in our struggle when it comes."

"Hope it comes soon because man I'm ready to be let loose."

"Easy, this is nothing but a skirmish compared to what we're going to do."

"You still haven't told me what exactly we are going to do."

"That's a surprise until halfway into phase 2 of my plan."

"Can you at least give me a hint or something." Dosu pleaded while Nightmare chuckled and complied.

"Fine I'll give you a little clue, you eat something bad and it will hurt you." Nightmare said.

"…WHAT THE FUCK DOES THAT MEAN!" Dosu shouted.

"You'll find out eventually." Nightmare said and walked off while Dosu followed him grudgingly still pissed off that he's not telling him his plans but Nightmare loves surprising everyone, he knows that.

Meanwhile Sakura caught up with Naruto and Sasuke and they were arguing…again. Sakura just sighed at the two and offered to get ramen for them.

"Oh boy, let's go." Naruto said in a hurry because he bloody loves his ramen.

"Now look what you done Sakura you started him off. Oh well as long as you're buying." Sighed Sasuke while Sakura looked like he wanted to do terrible things to Sasuke that are better left unsaid. They reached Ichiraku ramen store and Sakura paid for 3 ramen bowls. Well she's still sort of paying since Naruto eats every bowl in under 50 seconds, Sasuke just eats slow as fuck and try to look cool while doing so. While Sakura who was sitting in the middle was eating like a normal person and just scratched her head and smiled while watching them.

Sakura wishes she Gaara was here to but for obvious reasons he wasn't. That's when Sakura realised something that mysterious woman said that the darkness influenced Gaara and the demon so maybe there is a chance that the same thing could happen to Sasuke and Naruto. Sasuke because all he wants his vengeance for his clan's murderer, his own brother Itachi. Naruto also because he's been alone almost all his life because of the Kyuubi inside him, if she wasn't there for him would he be same as Gaara now? Of course she didn't think about these things for long before Naruto budged her.

"Hey Sakura you said you were going to train with me today after the exams." Naruto said with his mouthful of ramen.

"I did? Oh yeah I did." She remembered as she bashfully scratched the back of her head. She got up and gave Naruto a sign to follow her, of course he would be excited and jump from his seat and started to walk with her. Sakura offered Sasuke but he declined.

From a tree above Gaara was watching her every movement studying her, analysing her. However for the life of him he couldn't figure out why she was willingly hanging out with her friend. He knew about Naruto's demon, they all have the inborn ability to sense these things. But how come she's being friendly to him, he's just a monster isn't he?

'Who cares if he is or not, let's just kill both of them and be done with it!' Shukaku roared.

'No not yet remember we need to wait till we proceed with the invasion, then she dies. But…'

'But what kid?'

'A part of me doesn't want to believe Nightmare's story about Sakura but it does fit to a certain degree but…I mean look at her, she doesn't seem to be the manipulative type, unlike Nightmare who is shady.'

'Yeah, I agree with you kid.'

'What? What's gotten into you, one minute you want to kill them, the next minute you agree with me. What's up with you?' He asked.

'I don't know, something is trying to control me.'

'What? I didn't think you could get controlled.' He

'Oh I can, it's just much more difficult to control us demons, I feel that I have to do it not because I want to. It brings out my demon rage and instinct out when I don't want it to…ARGH!' Shukaku winced in pain.

'Hey are you all right?' Gaara asked then all of a sudden Shukaku attacked him.

'Ahhh, let me out of here. C'mon you know you want to, just let me out!' Shukaku roared and Gaara held his head in his hand in pain. This pain was like getting stabbed inside his own mind. He disappeared in a whirl of sand while Nightmare and Dosu was chuckling at their antics.

"Oh I love doing that, soon Gaara will just be broken and I can make him what he was meant to be." Nightmare said about 100 yards away.

"Do we really need him though?"

"Hmm no not really, the more the merrier though and he could always prove to be a valuable distraction in the invasion. That way I can know for sure whether Shukaku will betray me again or actually do what he is told." Nightmare answered.

"So how will the invasion actually commence?" Dosu asked.

"Simple, they proceed with the exams and during one of the fights Orochimaru will signal the sound ninjas to attack, while this happens Gaara will fight and attack Sakura and her friends and Orochimaru will fail in this invasion then his worst Nightmare will be revealed to him." Nightmare replied smiling nefariously.

"Good with Kin getting back in the fray tomorrow, everything should be" He was interrupted when he heard a girl scream from the opposite side of the village.

'Kin!' Dosu thought to himself panicking as he rushed to the hospital to her room, he reached there in five minutes but when he got there, she wasn't only her clothes was left behind with blood on the mattress. Dosu tried to figure out what the hell happened to her, she couldn't just got up and left especially not without her clothes so what exactly happened. Nightmare appeared beside Dosu and explained what took place.

"So…Orochimaru actually done it did he? This was unexpected of him, didn't think he would actually stoop this low."

"What the hell are you on about?" Dosu furiously questioned.

"Orochimaru is going to use a resurrection Jutsu to help him with the hokage."

"How does that involve Kin then?"

"When the body dies, the soul leaves it, leaving the body nothing more than a shell, it's possible that a huge amount of chakra can make another soul go into this shell, the body will then morph into the spirit before it died by having a bit of DNA to…in a way guide it to the body. This makes the resurrected person a slave under the casters control like a necromancer. It's possible to do this while the soul is still inside a body but it requires more chakra and the patient needs to be physically and mentally weak." Nightmare explained.

"Wait, so he killed Kin I presume and took the body to resurrect someone else?"

"Yep."

"That…that…that son of a bitch!" Dosu yelled, smashing the medical equipment around the room. Nightmare let him vandalise it, he needs to let off some steam. About 10 minutes later Dosu was panting heavily while the room was…pretty damn messy. Everything was smashed, the bed was torn apart and glass was shattered all over the place.

"Oh he is going to die a most painful death!"

"Not yet, unfortunately."

"What do you mean not yet? Dude we need to kill him now!"

"I know this frustrates you and I'm not exactly happy about this either but we need to follow our fucking orders!" Nightmare replied.

"Godamnit!" Dosu punched the wall which made quite a big hole but his knuckles were fine. He knew Nightmare was right even if he didn't admit it, he just wishes he could extract revenge for everything Orochimaru has done to him, to his village, to everyone he cared for. Meanwhile Nightmare was wondering how to put Kin's death into his plan, yes she was a friend but her death could provide a reason for betraying Orochimaru after all, once Dosu wants something bad enough, even Nightmare might not be able to stop him fully.

"There might be a way to bring her back." Nightmare said.

"Wait, really?" Dosu replied in disbelief and excitement.

"There might be, don't get your hopes up too much though." Nightmare casually said as he was a bit unsure himself of how this resurrection was going to work. He was also wondering of how that mysterious woman was going to interfere with him, he knew that was her intention, but as to the extent of her power and intelligence was yet to be said. She just seems to give a few subtle hints to Sakura though for the moment but he knew that would change quite easily. Nightmare couldn't wait until after the chuunin exams because that was when the fun would truly begin as he was deviously plotting Konoha's downfall.

Two weeks later, finally the chuunin exams were here everyone was so excited. The ninjas were training really hard over the last couple of weeks, some were nervous, some were excited and some simply didn't care and had other things on their minds. Nightmare was thinking about the outcome of the upcoming invasion, will Gaara do what he's told or will he rebel and defy the darkness? Only time will tell. The 'Kazekage' sat down next to the hokage and began conversing with him.

"Ah finally, the exams are here I'm glad I'm here to see it." The hokage said.

"So am I, old friend. It is exciting and inspiring to see such young ninjas who are this strong and yet offer more potential." The 'Kazekage' replied. All the competitors were in the back, separate from each other and anxious to get this under way.

"The chuunin exams are now underway." The announcer announced and every spectator in the arena cheered. However on the outskirts and outside of the arena were disguised sound and sand ninjas getting ready for the signal to commence the invasion. Some were disguised as normal citizens, some were leaf jounin but a few actually got hold of Anbu uniforms.

The first match is going to be Naruto vs. Neji, Hinata was in the audience cheering for Naruto but was one of the very few who actually did. Both ninjas stepped out to the arena. Both were standing on opposite ends of the arena. Naruto had an angry look on his face, he was going to make Neji regret what he done to Hinata a month ago. While Neji will enjoy making Naruto realise his fate is simply nothing more than to be a weak ninja and a laughing stock.

The announcer began the match and both of them charged towards each other.

Credits: BLOOD (by DEATHGAZE)

Nightmare: There we go, I am so sorry for the late chapter I really am, I had to deal with something though.

Dosu: What's that then?

Nightmare: Fighting my severe depression problem.

Dosu: Wait what?

Nightmare: Didn't see that coming did ya? But yeah I'm fine now and I'm ready to write…I'm assuming people are still reading this aren't they?

Nodoka: Oh Nightmare that must've been awful :(

Nightmare: Just a bit, as I said I'm back and better than ever…oh sorry for the shit chapter by the way as well. A little bit rusty. Oh if you want to contact me as well some of the ways you can are on my bio, I will probably regret this as I will get either no one or I will get people trolling me.

Konoka: So are you staying then?

Nightmare: Yes, I'm going to put more work into fanfics and just work in general really. With that my fellow fans, worship the darkness by R&R and favourite this story and you will survive ;). See you later then dudes.

Setsuna: Wait.

Nightmare: Damnit what is it?

Setsuna: We still have to explain why Nodoka wouldn't leave your side.

Nodoka:…

Nightmare:…we don't have time though…oh you mother-