This is the long awaited second installment of 'Alliances are forged and Betrayal is afoot' I'm terribly sorry for the long wait, I have been busy with finals and the fact that because of my stupid unreliable teacher I might fail my math class.

Enough about my stupid excuse, I'm sure you all aren't reading this anyway, and if you, congratulations on the fact that you love me enough to read my opening statement in this chapter.

Anyway, I have many ideas for this story and I'm sure you are all looking forward to it. My goal with this story is past 100,000 words in less than 30 chapters. In fact, I would like to ask all of you if any of you are willing to be my beta reader because if you are, then be sure the PM me because god knows that Google docs can't pic up every single grammar error and I suspect that I'm not adding enough detail to my stories.

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Disclaimer: I do not own Bleach or Naruto, Tite Kubo and Masashi Kimoto each respectively own these two ingenious animes.

Neji growled at the messenger chunin, his pearly gaze hardening as they left swiftly in order to escape the wrath of the village head. The Elders, they were riding his ass to terminate the alliance with Suna and Gaara, something he couldn't do. Especially when it was that old war hawk, Danzo's suggestion. That man didn't want anything for the good of the village, he just wanted chaos and to have the military force under his control.

Standing up to look out at the village, Neji sighed heavily, suddenly realizing why Tsunade was always extremely temperamental with all of the underlings. A bird cawed in the distance and her narrowed his eyes at the sky.

The last time he had seen a double rainbow snaking around the sun was when Orochimaru had invaded the village with the Sand and had wreaked absolute havoc upon the Leaf, killing hundreds, including the Third, who was dearly missed in these times of strained alliances.

"Troubled?" A voice asked, and he turned around to see the Copy-Cat ninja Kakashi Hatake gazing back at him with a solemn eye.

"What brings you here? I do not ever remember being all that close to you..." Neji recalled, looking back over at the village.

"You know, it's hard to bear." Kakashi started, "I was the cause of my teammate, Obito,'s death and then Rin disappeared. My sensei died sealing the fox, and my student joined Akatsuki and is hunting down my other one, who is distraught over not getting picked for the Hokage position... and my other student, Sakura, is in ANBU, and is such a workaholic that I think she doesn't even sleep. She works constantly and trains nonstop. Not to mention that after her sensei's death she's taken to having one cup of sake every meal in remembrance." He snapped his book shut. "I'm entrusting her to you."

Neji looked back in shock. "What are you saying? She's your student!" He yelled at the man.

Kakashi shook his head in disagreement. "No, I was never her teacher, I never taught her anything, Tsunade and Shizune did. The only thing I taught her, look underneath the underneath. So I'm entrusting her to you, not Naruto, not Ino, nobody else but you, because it is obvious that it is you teaching her how to discipline her emotions to succeed, it's you she trusts above everyone else, it's you she idolizes, and although there is the possibility I might die in whatever the hell is coming our way, I want her to be happy because as a Sensei I never did anything for her," He sighed, "But you can, you can make her into some of the best shinobi the Leaf has yet to see." A poof of smoke and Kakashi was gone, leaving Neji staring at the now empty office once more.

Entrusting?... To... me? Why? Shaking the thought from his head, he saw the aproaching shadow and softened his gaze, She is quite the dedicated shinobi... He looked up at the Hokage Mountain, and he realized something, something he knew all along and had come back with an even deeper realization. I've led this village to happiness through wisdom and a clear sense of justice, however, I am not what the village needs anymore, but even so, I will readily die for this village...

A swoosh sound and another presence entered his office. Turning around, expecting it to be a chuunin, he was surprised to see a black Hare mask staring back at him. "What happened to your Wasp mask, Hare?"

Green eyes stared back, "I believe it broke so I stowed it away."

Neji nodded in understanding, after all, he had been the first out of the Konoha twelve to reach ANBU ranking and therefor understood the need to switch masks. "What is the meaning of this? Sending orders through a slug without explanation." He demanded, slamming a hand on his desk. "This better not be another one of those damn drills again!" He added, looking at the clover green eyes behind the Hare mask for any signs of guilty pleasure at seeing him like this, fustrated and angry, or any amusement at the situation. He calmed down considerably at seeing that there was none.

"Um, Hokage-sam-" She started, raising a finger.

"I told you to call me Neji when you were alone." He interrupted, causing her to blush under her mask.

"N-neji, I must point out that those strange creatures are heading this way, and I barely managed to escape a really big energy blast. They weren't even alive, it felt like fighting foot soldiers or pawns. Like they were there to distract us from something." She described, mentally going over her fight.

Neji nodded, "Were you able to gather any more information on them besides that?" He asked.

Sakura took a deep breath. "Yes, this piece was gained through fighting them, they die if they're sliced in half or if their mask is completely destroyed, and they all have different abilities, one had acid that would dissolve anything it touched, and they all shoot these red energy balls. It feels different, denser than a rasengan but the energy put into it is lighter in mass than ours."

Neji looked contemplative, "I can see why you told me to get the Civilians to shelter and to send all shinobi Chuunin and higher to their position-"

A BANG resounded through the room and the door flew off of it's hinges, flying two feet or so before flipping forwards and landing with a heavy KUTHUNK!

Sakura turned to see a blur of yellow pass by her before she restrained it, meeting blue eyes that radiated killing intent. Three voices sounded from behind her somewhere. "Uzumaki-san, if you do not calm," She spoke, knowing that Naruto knew it was her, "I will be forced to restrain you even further, seeing as the village is to be attacked at any moment."

The profanities towards Neji stopped, and cerulean eyes widened at the news, and she was sure that three more pairs of eyes were also widening behind her, complete with the classic jaw-drop seeing as all of the yells and arguing had stopped. "W-what'd you say?" He asked.

Sakura rolled her eyes and grit her teeth, "You heard me quite clear Mr. Uzumaki, if you were deaf you wouldn't have asked me what I just said. But, for the sake of those behind me, let me repeat, there is an army of creatures of no identification nor name headed for the village as we speak. Now, if you hadn't interrupted the meeting that was going on and had smartly eavesdropped like ninja are trained to do, you would've learned something new." Falling silent, she released her long-time teammate.

Neji looked at the other four shinobi, "Get to your positions. We have a village to protect." Nodding, they disappeared in four clouds of smoke. Looking back over to Sakura, he gave her a nod. "Let's do this."

Sakura smiled behind her mask, "Careful, Hokage-sama, you might need to keep your ego in check, it's growing to the size of the Shinobi Continents. It might suffocate all of us." She teased.

He scoffed, "Whatever, Hare, now, let's go protect this kami-forsaken village and go on with our lives in the shadow of the great land of fire."

They disappeared off to fight and to protect the village they had dedicated and given their lives to... now way in Hell were they going to stand by and allow it to so easily be destroyed by a simple minded army of creepy as fuck monsters that had no business there.

Shinji stared in wonderment at the sheer amount of hollows swarming the huge gate in front of him, all of them being slaughtered as they entered the gate by the strange beings that dwelled in there. Just when things were beginning to look bad and he was about to step in, two individuals arrived, one in a strange rabbit mask, and another in strange robes with the kanji for 6 on it.

The robe flew away, revealing garb that looked similar to the rabbit-masked girl's, no guy wore pink hair in an Unohana braid, and all of a sudden half of the Hollows had been cut down by the HUGE golden scythe the girl was wielding with one hand, and had another in the other! They were held together by a golden chain, and when the hollows would surround her, she would use the chain and swing the scythes around in a wide 360 degree turn and swipe them all in half and then throw herself back into the fray.

The man was using some kind of martial arts, not the kind like those two weirdos wearing green spandex, but with the tips of his fingers and then use this palm technique and completely shatter the hollows mask. When the hollows would surround him, he would do this spin and an blue energy dome spinning at high speeds would form over him and repel all the hollows that touched it.

They all fought weirdly too, a silver headed man was simply slicing them with a knife-like thing as they came near and all these little blond headed kids would double team random hollows. Soon they were gone, and Shinji was finding himself to respect these people when more of them arrived, the people, all fourteen wearing black cloaks with red clouds.

"Akatsuki!" Someone yelled, and most of the lower ranking persons were led from the area, leaving only the elite fighters.

Neji stepped forward, Sakura beside him, faithfully and dutifully ready for any and all attacks, sizing up Hidan, who's gaze was that of one who was mildly impressed. "What business do you have here? We have nothing you could want!" He called, opening his arms, gesturing to the now ruined city.

Kisame barked out a laugh, "So this is the new Hokage, especially after that old hag bit the dust."

Sakura tightened her hold on her scythes. "You have no right to speak of my master that way!" She yelled, widening her stance. "She died because she was poisoned when she was in a coma by that bastard!" Tsunade was still a sore subject for the medic-nin.

Neji sighed, "Calm down, Hare. What brings the Akatsuki to the village they already destroyed once? Naruto is here, but to go through all of us isn't your style." Neji observed.

Hidan cackled, "Maybe we wanted a change of style, besides, going on jinchuuriki hunts are so boring when all you're doing is collecting heads for the bounty" He called.

Kakashi and Yamato appeared behind them, wood and earth bindings appearing around the fourteen as a cage. Patting the bar, he stared at them over his book. "Don't worry yourself over this, just a simple precaution."

Sakura grumbled and proceeded to lift the cage above her head and set it easily on her shoulders. "Kakashi, you're incredibly lucky I have enough chakra to lift this thing, otherwise they'd be left in the middle of the village..." She grumbled. Thunder rolled overhead and water poured down on top of the cage. "You have got to be kidding me... Fate fucking hates me..."

Sakura jostled the cage a little and set it down in the middle of the conference room. Cracking the wood a little, but otherwise, no damage was inflicted upon anything other than that. Neji nodded and she proceeded to break the top open.

Danzo looked up at them in shock, "What is the meaning of this?" He asked, hobbling up to them, "Why have you just released the Akatsuki, had you been under my jurisdiction you would have gone straight to Ibiki." He growled, advancing on the pink-haired ANBU.

Neji appeared in front of him, "Danzo, have a seat, you are not to discipline my ANBU." Danzo grit his teeth but nevertheless sat down at an end table seat. "Now, I want no impute, I want you to listen to this information and take what you have and leave the village, do you understand me?" He asked, turning to look at the old War Hawk. This was all said so casually that half of the Akatsuki had to review the conversation to get the 'leave the village' part.

Turning to Nagato with a nod, Konan stepped forward, the most diplomatic out of the group, "We have come to discuss a..."

Yoruichi smirked as she easily dispatched another killing blow to a Hollow. This is almost too easy... She looked up as a rip in the sky opened over in the Southeast.

She looked over as the rest of the Shinigami assembled behind her, Shunsui gazed into the distance. "Hey, Shinji-chan is over there isn't he?"

Juushiro sighed, "Then let's get going..."

Gomenasai, everybody, but it has to end here because this is only the first chapter and is therefor an attention builder, I hope you are all interested so far. I sincerely hope you take up my offer to become my Beta.

Ja Ne for now.