Review Responses:

meee: Good to have you back! Yeah it does kinda suck that Sasuke had to die (by the way I agree with your feelings to an extent haha) but it had to be done in order to allow Riku and Misaku to obtain the Mangekyou Sharingan. Glad I could surprise you with Itachi's return. Hopefully I'm able to keep you guessing and hope to see your review on this chapter!

Jinchuuriki Jake: I'm glad you enjoyed the whole Misaku learns wood style thing. I've been building up to that for a while. I also should say that what you described is called a cliffhanger haha!

McAwzome: Well, well look who finally pieced it together!

Maybe Eiseah: Touché with the name, but this name makes you seem even more indecisive about your own identity haha! Glad to see that you like the Akiko-Nabitora team. I have some big plans for them...That is if Rykuga doesn't kill them (He tends to kill people that hunt him down HAHA!).

Nabitora had expected to already be fighting the sick S.O.B called Rykuga but it seemed fate was going to make them wait. Nabitora, thanks to being around Akiko for too long, had picked up his partner's impatience. Now they were stuck in the Land of Tea waiting to prevent the assassination that Rykuga was planning. They had been after him for a month now and this would be their first chance for a LONG time to take him down quickly.

"So you think that bastard will show his face?" Akiko was lazily dangling his leg off of the roof they were on as he ate some bacon.

"Akiko I will never understand where all of that fucking bacon comes from, will I?" Nabitora had always been baffled at the man's "unique" ability to pull the food seemingly out of the air. The statement just made Akiko smile and shake his head in the negative.

"And as for you question, yes I believe that he will try to act on this. It's the best way for him to spread the seeds of insanity in this land." Nabitora's statement elicited a scoff from Akiko as he thought about their target's "life mission" as he was heard saying.

"Just cause the guy's a fucking loon doesn't mean that he has to try and drag other people down with him!" Akiko replaced the piece of bacon with another as he said this, causing Nabitora to shake his head.

"You and your fucking bacon!"

Itachi glanced at his surroundings, not surprised to see that the sky was red. He had been training Riku and Misaku in the use of their Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan. Misaku had show her abilities to be Amaterasu and the Susanoo. She was especially lethal when she would imprison her foes using the Wood Style and then she would ignite the wooden prison with her Amaterasu.

Riku had displayed something that had never been seen in the history of the Sharingan: the ability to use every single ability of the Mangekyou Sharingan. He had even declared that he was developing his own technique that could only be used by someone with the Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan.

"Impressive." Itachi muttered as he was trapped inside the Tsukuyomi. He quickly activated his own Mangekyou Sharingan and broke the genjutsu, although even he was beginning to struggle with breaking Riku's Tsukuyomi. When he returned to the regular world, he found himself inside a tree. Knowing what was coming next, he quickly activated his Susanoo just in time as the black flames spread across it's fire red surface. The Amaterasu quickly dissipated when it was proven ineffective. When his line of sight was cleared, Itachi was faced by Riku's pitch black Susanoo and Misaku's white Susanoo.

'Hm, like the Yin and Yang.' He always thought that when he seen the two Susanoo's together.

"Well lets get this over with."

Hotaru was doubled over trying to catch his breath. Recently, his parents had taken up his training with the occasional help from Kakashi. He had gotten the basics of his mother's strength technique too the point where he was able to replicate the results his mom had been able to do when she was 16. He told her that he would settle with that and now they were training his Chakra Nature Affinities. Hotaru was ecstatic when his father and mother had offered to train him but now he was skeptical if they were there to train him or kill him. Suddenly a wave of nausea hit him, hard. He couldn't stop himself from throwing up on the ground before he stumbled backwards, tripping over his own feet, and landing on the grass.

"Hey, hey Hotaru look at me." Hotaru's eyes were able to focus enough to make out the whisker marks on the cheeks of the man above him.

"Heh heh, looks like I overdid it. Again." Hotaru knew enough from his mother to tell he was suffering from both physical and chakra exhaustion.

"Well hey, don't blame it on me this time buddy. Last time your mom was pretty angry at me." Naruto decided to leave out the fact that his wife cut off his favorite nighttime activity for a week. God he did NOT want to go through that again.

"What's wrong? You don't want to get in trouble again huh?" Hotaru smirked weakly as his father rubbed the back of his head.

"Heh heh, you could say something like that." Naruto scooped up his son and began to make his way home, the whole time hoping that his son wouldn't rat him out.

"Hey if you take the blame for this one, I'll teach you the Wind Armor Jutsu." His son perked up at that one and immediately nodded his head. Naruto grinned, knowing he had just bought his son's silence.

Akiko was having an AWESOME dream. Or at least he was before he felt a foot nudge him.

'FUCK' That was the only thing he could think as he opened his eyes in time to see the ground right before his face hit it.

"WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT FOR!?" Akiko was quickly silenced when a band of light wrapped itself around his mouth and head, effectively silencing him for now.

"Shut up you moron! He's here." Nabitora hissed out the statement as he pointed several yards ahead of them. Akiko nodded as the light was removed from his mouth. He looked at Nabitora and they both nodded as they prepared their signature jutsus. Akiko stood up and aimed ahead of them while Nabitora spun around as they both called out their jutsus.

"Light Style: Light Cannon Jutsu!"

"Darkness Style: Shadow Cannon Jutsu!"

Both Rykugas were destroyed while Nabitora and Akiko went back-to-back and started rotating as they decimated the small force around them. Rykuga quickly emerged from underneath them and shot both of his hands out. Nabitora was quick to dodge as he remembered what happened last time Rykuga grabbed one of his limbs. Akiko, however, was not fast enough as Rykuga latched onto his leg. Akiko cried out in pain when several spikes forcefully ripped through his leg. Rykuga shot out of the ground and began to pick Akiko up, using the spikes to do so, and began to swing him over his head, smashing him into the ground repeatedly. Nabitora quickly formed a sword out of light and rushed Rykuga.

"Fuck! Nabitora get this asshole off of my leg!" Akiko gritted his teeth in pain as he felt the bone in his leg begin to crack. Nabitora jumped up and brought the sword down on Rykuga, who just stood there and let the sword chop him right down the middle. Nabitora was about to turn his attention to Akiko when he felt something hit his chest hard enough to break 2 or 3 of his ribs. He watched in horror as the two halves grew into two separate Rykugas. The one that had Akiko continued to torture the Knight of Darkness as the other one rapidly advanced on Nabitora and engaged him with his transformed arm. Akiko was beginning to see stars as the pain was starting to overwhelm his senses.

'I need to completely destroy his body otherwise he will just regenerate.' Nabitora quickly formed several hand signs before he called out the jutsu.

"Darkness Style: Mouth of the Shadows!"

A black mass emerged from the ground and rapidly swallowed up the two Rykugas. Nabitora quickly made his way over to his partner and tried his best to inspect the damage. Akiko's leg was missing from halfway down the calf, the bone was literally ripped in two. the leg was no where to be found. Akiko had passed out from the pain and blood flowed freely from his leg. Nabitora quickly placed a "pad" of solid light over the wound before he molded it so it fit into all of the nooks and crannies of his mutilated leg so it would prevent him from bleeding out. With their business done, Nabitora quickly began making his way back to the Leaf.

'There is only one person who could heal this damage. I need to hurry before the jutsu wears off and he bleeds out.' Nabitora put on another burst of speed, knowing that his partner's life was in his hands.

Naruto watched as Sakura closed the door to their son's room. Hotaru had passed out on the way home and Naruto told Sakura the story that the two blondes had agreed to. Sakura said she wanted to hear the story from Hotaru first. Know they were down in the kitchen eating a late dinner.

"So besides him passing out, how did he do today?"

"Oh man he was impressive! He actually made me pull out the Combination Form only up to 2 tails though." Naruto had come to calling his ability to balance the physical traits of Kurama and himself the Combination Form. Sakura would always comment on his lack of creativity outside battle, using that name as one of her main references. She couldn't help it, she loved to tease him.

"Couldn't you come up with another name for it? I mean seriously you're not very-"

"-creative outside of battle. Yeah, yeah same old teasing just a different day." Naruto smirked until she slowly made her way over to him. He began to get worried, thinking that she was about to smack him. That was until she leaned over and whispered in his ear.

"And in bed." She whispered seductively as Naruto began to grin. He pulled her back and kissed her deeply. They both liked where this night was heading.

Hotaru dragged himself down the hallway to find his mom. He had developed a splitting headache and his mom's medical ninjutsu always helped. He made his way to their door and raised his hand to knock before he heard something.

"Oh Naruto!" He heard his mother moan.

Hotaru turned around, eyes as wide as dinner plates and his hand still raised, and walked back to his room. The whole way he kept thinking one thing: 'I didn't hear that! I didn't hear that! I didn't hear that!"

AN: Well here's another chapter. Hope you liked it. Please leave a review about your favorite part and any suggestions you may have. Enjoy!