Ladies and Gentlemen!! ShadowRonin is back!!! After months of being unable to upload due to my computer crashing, I finally found a way to convert my documents to Microsoft Word. Now, since I'm going to be working on 3 fics at once, I'll try to update every two Sundays. Till then, sit back, relax, and enjoy the revival of my first fic!!!

Chapter 17: A Brush with Death! A Byakugan Rivalry!

It was now 7:00, and people were chilling. Kai was walking around the inn that the contestants were allowed to stay in. He saw his friends and the 12 from Konoha, minus Lee because of his injuries, and Shikamaru because of reasons unknown. He also noticed that Temari and Naruto were rather close, chatting and playfully hitting each other on the arm.

Kai decided to try and avoid them since he wasn't the kind of person to hang with a giant crowd. But like the other Sun Nins, outside of battles, the gods loved to screw them over. "Hey Kai!" Kai turned around to see Tenten walking up to him. "Something wrong?"

"I wanted to thank you for helping me back at the fight." Tenten said. "No biggie!" Kai said, praying he could get out of there. He was stunned when Tenten kissed him on his cheek, causing him to blush. He tried for a quick escape but a loud "Hey!" caught his attention. Kai knew it was Neji, and sighed out loud. (What do I have to do to get out of here?) Kai thought to himself.

(Outside Sand Village. 2 miles.)

Satoshi and Shikamaru were tired and winded. They had been fighting a losing battle for the last 45 minutes. The situation was grim. Satoshi was down to three Senbon, and Shikamaru only had the kunai in his hand. "Well, this is going well." Satoshi said, silly smirk on his head.

"Troublesome sarcastic bastard." Shikamaru said. "Hey, a little humor in a grim situation keeps hope up." At the end of Satoshi's sentence, they both dodged a fist, Soren realizing that he had another damn Senbon stuck in his fist. This was the 10th fucking time the Musashi bastard did that, and he was getting pissed. "You bastards are pissing me off!" Soren screamed.

Satoshi and Shikamaru was getting tired, and their vision was blurring. "Alright Satoshi, the time is now!" Soren screamed, creating hand signs, and creating a giant fireball. "Oh shit!" Satoshi said, his face grim. "AHHHHHHH!!! GRAND BLAZEBOMB!!!" Soren screamed, throwing the fire bomb at Satoshi and Shikamaru.

(The inn.)

Kai was starting to think some higher god hated him. Across from him, Neji was looking at him, with a semi-glare. "Who are you?" He asked. "I don't see any reason why I need to tell you that!" Kai said, a smirk on his face. "The fact that you have the Byakugan is enough to make me wary of whoever the hell you are!" Neji said.

"You sound like you are mad. Did I strike a nerve when I helped Tenten out? Or was it when she kissed me?" Kai asked, knowing he would get a reaction. "What the hell does that have to do with the situation you are in now?" Neji asked. "Well one, you are uptight since you are now not the only one with the Byakugan, and two, I noticed the glare you sent me when Tenten was coming my way." Kai said, jumping back because he knew Neji was going to break eventually.

"So, I guess that leads to a couple of assumptions. One, you having a rival with abilities equal to yours makes you a little uncomfortable. And two, you're jealous because Tenten would rather hang out with me, than some stiff!" Kai said. Neji, getting madder by the moment, unleashed his Byakugan, causing Kai to do the same as well.

"You would think that I would be jealous of your third rate Byakugan?" "Now you've done it Hyuuga. Your toast!" They both took their stances, ready to fight. "You sure you want to go through with this? I can't guarantee that you will survive!" Kai said, giving Neji a last chance to walk away. "You wouldn't hope to stand up to me. I'm not a prodigy for nothing, rather than some unknown loser nin." That obviously got Kai mad, and they charged each other.

Before a punch was thrown, an explosion was heard, and both boys looked in the direction it came from. "An explosion." Shino said. "There are 3 chakra signatures over there. One is way too strong, and the other two are barely there." Neji said. "Purple chakra? That could only mean…!?!? Shit!!! Satoshi is in trouble!" Kai said.

"Why would you say Satoshi?" Tyson asked. "Those people with curse marks are the only people I know that emit purple chakra!" Kai said, getting Tyson's attention. "Orochimaru sent someone to kill him. Catch, I'm off!" Tyson said, tossing his jacket to Kai before disappearing in the blink of an eye. "Come on! Tyson may be fast, but he may need help!" Kai said, and they all took off.

(Battle Ground)

Soren looked at his handy work, until he only saw Shikamaru on the ground, barely conscious. "It looks like one of the worms was caught. Where's the other one?" Soren asked. He was about to finish the shadow master off, before a whizzing could be heard. He turned around and saw a Fuuma (sp?) Shuriken nearly take his knees off, thanks to him jumping at the last minute.

Bad move!

The Shadow Shuriken then transformed into Satoshi, who threw another one, cutting him straight across. Satoshi landed awkwardly and was down. "Well, that was rather unexpected. Shikamaru, we did it!" Satoshi said, passing out from injuries. Shikamaru staggered up, and saw Soren in two separate places.

He was cut in half, and Shikamaru knew Satoshi managed to do it. Shikamaru helped Satoshi up, who stirred.

"Hey, we made it." Satoshi said, quietly. "Of course. As troublesome as that was, we had no choice but to pull out on top." Shikamaru said. They both couldn't stand well, and fell down, fainting. Satoshi heard a movement, but was too out of it to do anything about it.

When everyone arrived, Tyson already was there, watching them before help came. "Took you guys long enough!" Tyson said. Hinata looked extremely sad to see Satoshi pretty messed up on the ground. Tyson put his jacket back on, and noticed her look. Tyson attempted to make her feel better, but was immediately pushed into a tree by her moving towards him.

Everyone sweat dropped and had O.O looks, and Tyson had a X.X look because he was out cold. "Hinata, you just pushed Tyson like he weighed nothing. Doesn't he weigh at least 2500 pounds since he put his jacket back on?" Neji asked. She didn't hear him, as she raised Satoshi's head and put it in her…ahem assets. "Satoshi!! What happened to you!?!?" Hinata asked.

"Some guy with a Curse Mark came at us. He gave us a beating, and Satoshi exerted too much chakra to do anything other than sleep right now." Shikamaru said. Ino had came over to help him up, and he was awake. "Satoshi killed him by cutting him straight across the middle!?!?" Naruto screamed. Everyone gathered and saw Soren cut right

across the middle. His top half was 5 feet away from his bottom half.

"If a friend is in trouble, then he gets pretty defensive. That, and he killed off 4 people with curse marks at the same time." Shikamaru said. Everyone gave the unconscious cat carrier a surprised look.

(I hate to see how they would react if they knew he was a demon container.) Shikamaru thought to himself. They didn't know of Naruto's Demon half, (Actually Sasuke, Sakura, and Hinata knew of Kyuubi) but Satoshi knew because Gatto brought it to his attention, the same as Naruto knowing his demon. (Once again actually, besides the Sun Nins, Neji, Hinata, and Shikamaru knew as well as Naruto) "I won't put it past him to be at 100 in the morning!" Naruto said, picking the Sun Nin up. They looked at the blond nin, and he told them it was a gut instinct.

(The Inn)

Like Naruto said, in the morning, Satoshi was still tired, and feeling like he never had a life or death fight. Satoshi had taken his shirt off in his sleep, and he was thirsty. He got up, and went to use the bathroom. Hinata had also woken up, use to being awake early because of Satoshi's training.

She went to use the bathroom, before she got a view she didn't want to see. Satoshi was still using the bathroom, and Hinata got a look at his…ahem family jewels. What made it worse was that he was suffering from Morning Wood.

The other guys out there know exactly what I'm talking about.

She turned five shades of red before passing out, blood jetting out her nose. Satoshi was still not able to register what was going on, but he then saw red on the ground. "Blood? Hey Hinata, why….OH SHIT!!!!!" Satoshi screamed, causing everyone within a 15 mile radius to shoot up in wonder.

It would be noted that Naruto was hit in the head for being so damn loud.

Satoshi shot out of his room and ran with Hinata in his arms to the nurse's office. "I think she's broken! I saw her sprawled on the floor bleeding out of her nose!" Satoshi said, the nurse sweat dropping.

(Later)

"And that's what happened." Satoshi said. "You aren't concerned about the fact that you were in Hinata and Neji's room, were you?" Tyson asked. "No, but she saw something that caused her to faint." Satoshi said. Shikamaru put together a guess with barely no clues.

"Was she near the bathroom when she passed out?" Shikamaru asked. "Yeah." "And were you using the bathroom before you saw her passed out?" "Yeah." "She probably passed out from seeing something that she wasn't supposed to see." Shikamaru concluded. "I bet she passed out from a perverted fantasy, or something of that sort." Shikamaru said.

"…" Satoshi and Tyson were rather quiet about it. "I bet she saw Satoshi's manhood." Tyson said. "Whatever! What time is it?" Satoshi said. "About 10:00." Kai said. "Well, get dressed guys. We have two hours before the next set of fights happen." Satoshi said. "I'm already dressed because Hinata was unconscious." Kai and Tyson sighed, and left to put on some clothes.

Satoshi left for some small training, but ran into Naruto by accident. "My bad!" Satoshi said, after getting up. "Don't worry about it, just watch it next time!" Naruto said. They both took a few steps before they stopped at the same time.

"I know about your demon friend." Satoshi said. "The same can be said about you." Naruto said. "So you know about Gatto?" "Yeah, and you know about Kyuubi." They were both quiet, before they turned to look at each other.

"When we meet in battle, our fight will have to be in an area where we won't hurt innocent people." Satoshi said. "Agreed. Our demons will want to test the other's strength." Naruto said. They both smirked and turned to walk where they were originally going.

(The Arena)

Baki was the new announcer for the fights, and it started off with Neji Hyuuga vs. Claw of the Sound. "Hey Neji, prove you are the strongest Byakugan user here. I wouldn't want to make you look pathetic in the end." Kai said, causing Neji to glare at him.

"Don't worry. I won't be bogged down by you. Your merely trash in comparison to me." Neji said. "Sounds like a challenge. Hope it doesn't blow up in your overconfident face." Kai said. Neji then smirked at him. "Overconfident isn't what I would say. I would say determination to prove myself." Neji corrected, entering the arena.

(Prove me wrong Neji. Prove to me that you are the best with the Byakugan, because if you want to hope to beat Satoshi or Tyson, then you will need it.) Kai thought to himself.

ShadowRonin: And that is the chapter. Both Demon Children have called each other out, and they hope for a battle neither will ever forget. But first, Neji takes the stage, to show his Sun Nin rival what he's got. Who will face who after!? Find out next chap!!!

Next Chapter: Neji takes on Claw, as Sasuke takes on Haku's Brother, Hikaru. Tyson and Katsuya also square off in a battle among allies that gets intense! Who will come out on top in these intense battle!?!? Find out on:

Chapter 18: Fierce Battles. A Cursed Revelation, and Tyson's Will!