The weather now coming over with that of grey clouds, as to every ninja this would have been an advantage within combat. As with ever foot step, no mater where they were to hide, they would be heard.

With Kunai's already thrown within the trees, as ever person seemed to be stuck fighting one another, with cuts upon their shoulders, yet Ryozo was the only one who wasn't fighting none, instead he just stopped at what he himself thought was a safe distance to wait for Kakashi to finish his fight.

Now with the final of everyone's kunai's within their hands they had no choice by to enter into hand to hand combat, with Kakashi now leaping towards his opponent, yet within a second he had appeared behind him with his kunai pressed against his throat.

"Now, how about you tell me what you want with the boy?" Kakashi made sure the man could feel the cold pierce of the kunai against his neck. With his opponent shaking his head slightly back and forth, knowing that if he was questioned he wouldn't be able to do anything. So he pressed his neck harder against the kunai causing his neck to become cut, and himself falling towards the floor within a mater of seconds from the slit throat.

Kakashi now turned to face that of Sakura, and the two boys, he had to see whether or not they would be fine fighting a number of ninja by themselves, as he got a quick nod from all of them in return, before he was to get kicked from behind by a man that had now joined within the battle.

The man now standing where Kakashi was, as he looked down towards him, as Kakashi himself had regained his own balance on a branch which was not that far from the floor, with a slight turn he looked up towards the man, folding his arms over his chest to sigh slightly. "I take it your Ronin. The man we have been told to be aware of."

The man not saying anything towards Kakashi only seemed to beat his covered sword upon his shoulder watching them all within amusement. With now a loud laugh parting from his lips as he had heard Kakashi saying his name. "Well, they pay you for something then don't they?" He now sniggered softly towards Kakashi. "Yet is it enough at that?"

"I'm sure it is." Kakashi now took a quick glance up towards the man. As that was all he was able to get before the man had disappeared. As Kakashi now looking everywhere to try and spot him at his speed. All that could be heard where three thuds as though someone had hit that of a tree. Yet as he glanced towards Sakura and the others they had then fallen out from the tree. With the other ninja's now disappearing themselves, as they had known that their job itself was done at that.

Kakashi jumping from where he was stood catching that of only Sakura as he knew the other two would be able to coop with a light thumb upon their back, yet Sakura wouldn't, as she wasn't a battle type like the other two of them. As he now laid Sakura onto that of a thick branch, her eyes slowly opening too look up towards her Sensei.

"Kakashi-Sensei! Behind you!" She now looked up with shock to see a man standing there with his swords cover within one hand, yet his other itself wasn't visible with that of his other, as nothing seemed to be within it. Yet as Sakura had looked down to her Sensei after hearing him cough hardly, being able to see that of a blood stain appear over his mask, as the man's sword had been shoved right through Kakashi's back, only just missing that of any of his vital organs.

Sakura's eyes now seemed to tremble with fear, as Kakashi himself had just been able to move himself to stop a serious wound to his body. As he now feel forward just beside that of Sakura, as the man walked over towards her, grinning ever so softly, as he pulled his sword out from Kakashi. "My, my little girl, you should have stayed quiet." He now reached her, only to kick her off from the branch and down onto the bush causing her to scream out loud before she hit the floor, and becoming knocked out just like that of Naruto and Sasuke.

Ryozo's eyes now light up from her scream, as he could tell that someone would have been after him if they had taken care of the people who where meant to be looking after him first. Why else would they have had a fight with ninja's, without someone wanting to get towards Ryozo. He now started to run along the tree tops, but it was all too late as the man had appeared in front of him. This was the first time that anyone had been able to get a close look upon the man.

"Not so fast little boy" The man now grinning, with his pale face looking down towards Ryozo, as his hair seemed to be that of shoulder length, and almost jet black yet having that of a soft blue mixed with it. As his eyes seemed to glow with a dark red feeling around them, yet what he was wearing only seemed to be that similar to what a bounty hunter would wear. "I need you for something."

"No!" Ryozo demanded hitting the mans chest, only to hear a thud as though he had just hit something metal, with Ryozo's had now burning ever so slightly.

"Hurt yourself more than you did me?" The man smirked, moving the cloak like cover away from his chest to reveal that of a metal sheet, that seemed to glow red just like his eyes had done. "Don't worry you will feel more in a moment."

"But…" Before Ryozo could say a single word, the man had raised his arm quick enough to smack Ryozo across the face causing him to go flying into a tree. As Ryozo now began to pull himself back up onto his feet the man appeared in front of him once more smacking him within the stomach, causing Ryozo to cough out blood, and very slowly cause him to close his eyes to become in a slight fainted thought of mind. Yet he could still feel himself being lifted up from the floor and onto that of the mans shoulder, as within seconds they had now escaped the area with that of Kakashi, and his team, and appeared in front of an open lake, where a soft waterfall could be heard within the distance, as well as the trees had left a clearing.