Well, here you go! I'm home sick today so I decided to add a new chapter. It took me a while to think of what should happen in this chapter, so I hope you all like it... Enjoy!

Disclaimer-I will never own Inuyasha and/or Naruto. They belong to their respected owners who just so happen to not be me... but I sooooo wish I did own them!

Recap:

Temari and Shikamaru made their way back to the place where the other genin were being kept until the exam was over. Once they arrived, Naruto tackled Shikamaru.

"Why in the world would you give up that quickly?" asked Naruto. "You could have beaten her instead!"

Shikamaru shoved the blonde off of him before answering, "I was tired. Plus, I was out of chakra sending all those shadow jutsus at her since she kept dodging."

"Whatever. You could have still used taijutsu instead!"

"No I couldn't have! She had that fan of hers," countered Shikamaru.

Instead of continuing to listen to the argument, everyone else turned around and listened to the proctor announce the next match.

"The next match is Kankuro from Sand vs. Shino of Leaf," announced the proctor from the arena down below. "Will these two please come down for your match?"

Before anyone could say anything, Kankuro called out, "I give up. I'm not going down there."

Again, this caused uproar since there weren't any matches once again. None of the Konoha ninja and civilians completely understood why this was happening. They all figured that the puppet master would love to fight the young bug-nin.

"Alright then. Due to Kankuro of Sand surrendering, the winner of this match goes to Shino of Leaf," announced the proctor loud enough for all to hear.

End Recap

Chapter 13-Invasion: Leaf vs. Sound and Sand

There wasn't a loud cry like it was for Naruto and Inuyasha. Instead it was an anticipated cry out for the next match. It was time for the last match.

Gaara vs. Shippo

However, Shippo wasn't there. Up in the place where the hokage were, the 'sand' hokage was looking at the Sandaime with murder intent in his eyes. Of course, the third hokage didn't know about the evil glint in the other's eyes.

The Sandaime turned towards the 'sand' hokage and asked, "Well, what should we do? It appears that Shippo isn't going to be here in time for his match. What do you suppose we should do about the last match?"

The 'hokage' of 'sand' just answered with a little bit of a sneer, "Why not just let one of the other genin that didn't fight go against Gaara? That way, we can see if that genin is ready for chunin rank."

"Yes, that might work out perfectly. I think that Inuyasha Taisho should be able handle your youngest son and many more to come," agreed the third after a couple minutes to think about which genin he should have face Gaara.

The 'sand' hokage just nodded his head in agreement about the genin. He wanted to see what exactly the other Tsuki-nin was capable of doing. If he wanted, he could also take control of the three Tsuki-nins that showed up and took care of Sasuke and Neji.

'They showed tremendous amounts of power when they were fighting their opponents,' thought Orochimaru in his disguise. 'If I want the last Uchiha though, I will have to get him alone to give him the mark. I could always just leave it to my new henchman…'

While Orochimaru was thinking about his plan and how to make it become real, he didn't notice that the Tsuki-nins were watching what was going on to be prepared for anything. However, he did notice that the proctor for the matches was conversing with the old man about what should happen next.

"Do you think that will be alright, Lord Hokage? I don't think we can have anyone else in the infirmary right now," said the proctor while talking with his lord. He didn't really want to question his lord's orders, but he just wanted to make sure before announcing the final match.

The third hokage just shook his in agreement. He would have no one question his orders unless it was going to have an awful outcome. Since he didn't know what the outcome was for this kind of match, he didn't think that anything awful would happen.

Besides, he had the Tsuki-nins that were technically ANBU watching everything force its way in case something like an attack would happen.

Since the third hokage didn't say anything else on the subject at hand, the proctor disappeared back in the middle of the arena.

He quickly announced, "The last match of the day is between Gaara of the Sand and Shippo Kodosaki of Tsuki. However, since Shippo Kodosaki isn't here to complete his match, Inuyasha Taisho will take his place."

The audience was surprised at the announcement but also glad that they can see what the other Tsuki-nin was capable of doing. The roared with excitement when the proctor added,

"Would the two contestants please come down to begin their match?"

Up where the other genins were waiting, Inuyasha was looking at his teammates with a confused look on his face. He didn't understand what just happened but somehow he just got a fight between the enemy that would be invading soon. He would have to slow him down a bit so the redhead wouldn't be able to cast so many jutsu when the invasion finally came.

Before he could start to walk down towards the arena, his teacher and captain stopped him. He didn't get very far seeing as how Sesshomaru and Kagome also were between him and the door. They wanted a few words before he left to face the enemy.

"You must weaken him before the invasion. You must do all that you can to stop what will happen," started Itachi in a whispered voice so no one else would hear him besides Sesshomaru, Kagome, and Inuyasha.

"I already know that I have to weaken him. He might be the key pawn that the sound and sand are using in this war," whispered Inuyasha in the same voice as Itachi. He turned around towards Kagome and Sesshomaru.

"We now know that the battle will either take place in the middle of the match or after it. I guess it would all depend on what goes on in the match," said Sesshomaru in the equally whispered and cold voice.

"What do you take me for? An-" he didn't get to finish when a quiet voice said,

"Just be careful, you idiot. And, yes, you are an idiot!" That came from the quiet voice also known as Kagome Higurashi.

Instead of answering back at her, Inuyasha just pouted like a little boy would. Of course, he had to get down to the arena fast in order to do his part in the invasion: slowing down the pawn and main key.

Before he could say anything else, Kagome and Sesshomaru moved out of the way like they knew what he wanted to say. He had to get down there and quickly. He nodded towards them and started to run down the stairs that led to the opening of the arena.

Once he reached the middle of the arena where Gaara and the proctor were waiting, the proctor began the match and disappeared without any more words.

After the proctor left, neither Gaara nor Inuyasha jumped to start the match. They wanted to wait to see what the other opponent would do first. They wouldn't attack blindly like normal ninjas would do.

The half-demon Taisho jumped back a few feet when he realized that the redhead from Sand wasn't going to do anything. He pulled out his sword, tetsusaiga, and ready to use his attack on the sand-nin.

It was only a few more minutes before the half-demon got tired of waiting. He picked his sword up from the ground, where it was waiting to be used, and slashed at the wind yelling out, "WIND SCAR!"

Of course, Gaara being Gaara had a sand shield brought up around him even before the attack could hit him. He didn't have to do anything else until the shield went down on its own and revealed a non-hurt Gaara.

Inuyasha scowled when the dust and smoke cleared to reveal Gaara, not even a scratch on him. Inuyasha, being the complete idiot he is, rushed towards the sand-nin with his sword ready to attack.

However, before the silver-haired hanyou could get even close to hitting the redhead, sand came out from the gourd strapped on the back of the sand shinobi. The sand formed a hand and grabbed the sword and Inuyasha with it since he didn't want to let go.

'Man, he must really be strong if the sound and sand are using him for the first attack wave on this village,' thought Inuyasha as he recovered from being grabbed and tossed by the hand made from sand.

"How did you do that? You didn't even do any hand-seals!" exclaimed Inuyasha completely dumbfounded by what just occurred. He really didn't understand what just happened.

Instead of answering the question, Gaara just sent another wave of sand towards Inuyasha. Said demon just jumped a few feet away from the oncoming sand attack. He didn't need to be a genius to stay clear away from the sand that could very likely kill him.

Gaara was confused a little but didn't allow it to show on the outside. He wouldn't show any emotion at all. It was how he was brought up with being hunted down and almost killed by all the people his father sent after him.

However, while Gaara was lost in his thoughts about the past, he forgot all about Inuyasha and the match. Inuyasha saw this and took his chance to attack the sand-nin. He sent another wave of power from the sword after making clones to attack on opposite sides of Gaara.

By the time Gaara was able to sense the multiple attacks coming at him, his sand had made a huge dome around him. He didn't know how much attack his shield could handle, but it had to hold up until it was time to attack the village.

However, Gaara's shield couldn't hold out any more since Inuyasha attacked the dome with iron reverse soul reaper after the clones attacked with regular wind scar. He had his left claw inside the whole he made with his attack.

Inuyasha felt something wet and slimy on his claws and realized it was Gaara's blood. He had been able to pierce the dome made of sand and Gaara's shoulder. He heard some kind of mumbling coming from inside the sand dome and pulled his hand out from there.

The entire crowd was watching excitedly when they saw that the sand-nin that could leave a mission and come back without a scratch had a whole in his right shoulder. Inuyasha stared at the blood on his left claw and back at the shoulder that was in his sight.

Before Inuyasha could give the final blow to the injured sand-nin, Temari and Kankuro jumped from the balcony and grabbed Gaara. Once they had Gaara, they made their way towards the forest surrounding the village.

The invasion had just begun.

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Well, there you go! Another chapter. It might be a little bit shorter than the others, but it'll have to do for now! I think that the next chapter will be the end of this fic... not really sure, but it might just very well be the last of it!

So, please read and review! I would like to see what you think of this new installment of The Prodigy and Miko.

Oh yeah, should I have Sandaime die at the end or let him live?

Should I kill Naraku (Kagome's brother and person being controlled by Orochimaru) or just get rid of the curse mark?

Again, please review!!

Ichigo Mirai