Author: So these next few weeks, I'm on a fanfiction update craze. I'm going to update every fanfiction. One a week, each one changing with the week. Just because I can. Though I'm starting work next Friday, and doing some stuff with my daddy, and my boyfriend, and his dad, and yeah… so if I get busy, DON'T HATE AND DON'T DISCRIMINATE

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Stone Heart – By Jayde Malao

"Minori, although it is not your strongest suite, I want you to put up a protection barrier. One that will temporarily stun anyone from Mari whom we are not expecting besides my brother." I tell her as we stop for water.

"Amaya-sempai, that's too dangerous! You remember last time I used the Hakai* Barrier jutsu!"

"Yes, I remember very well. But you have since matured, and thus should be able to use it fairly safely I do believe."

"AMAYA! I SUMMONED A DEMON FROM ANOTHER DIMENSION!"

"Well, maybe we'll get lucky this time and the demon won't be hell-bent on eating Amaterasu-chan alive." I replied curtly.

"Fine. But do not blame me if something bad happens." She snapped, and performed the handsigns saru, tori, ne, tora, and hitsuji. "HAKAI BARRIER!" Punching her fist into the ground, half of a dark purple orb formed, expanding as it stunned anyone unwanted within a four mile vicinity.

"Thank you Minori-san." She nodded, and sat down on the ground, taking an iron pill out from her waist pouch. "Since the meeting is only a mile away, I will go ahead, leaving a shadow clone with you as a safety precaution, and to warn you if I am in danger."

She grabbed my arm, looking at my eyes before I could turn around, "Amaya-sempai, you need to be careful. If you get hurt, or even killed, Kin will fall apart. None of us are strong enough to hold together an organization on our own, we have to think about our families our brothers abandoned for power. Please, stay safe."

"I will Amaya-san. Don't you worry. If anything happens, I have complete faith in you and your abilities to lead, and I will never let my teammates, friends, family, or my organization die on me. If I die, then my spirit will forever protect those I love and care about!" I twisted my arm out of her grasp before she could continue, and ran off, leaving her alone with a shadow clone of myself.

-TIME SKIP-

"Damn it, sister." Nori muttered as he left his unconscious team where they had fallen. "Now I don't have the backup I actually need to kill you…" He paused when he finally arrived at the meeting place. He sat down on a large rock, waiting for his twin sister to finally show up.

She walked out from between the trees, flicking imaginary dirt off her clothing. "It's nice to see you again brother."

"I wish I could say the same, Amaya."

"Now, I understand you have certain… issues with my organization."

"Just a few, and they are rather simple to rectify."

"If any of these solutions involve disbanding Kin, then I think you are sadly going to have to think of another solution."

"Oh well! There goes my master plan!" Nori snarled sarcastically. "Oh woe is me!"

Amaya sighed, and lifted her hand in a stop sign. "Your maturity has not increased with age, Nori."

He sat up straight, realizing how childish he was acting in front of the leader of his enemy, even if she was kin to him. "Right. Now, like I was saying, your organization has been in the way of ours for many years, however, I'm sure we could find common ground to stay out of each other's hair."

"No. My organization is protection for Jinjuriki and for the protection of the people from all nations. Your organization is for the destruction of all that is right for power. There will never be any common grounds for us to stand upon. Ever."

"Very well, but humor me, what would your organization do without you around?"

"What are you implying, brother?" I asked him maliciously.

"Oh, nothing, dear sister. I'm just asking a simple question." He grinned violently, his hand resting on his thigh near his kunai twitched towards his weapon.

"They would continue. We are strong and reliable, and we will always triumph over you. Now if that was all, farewell, brother. If questions like these are all you will ask, simply asking them in a letter will do."

"I don't believe so." Nori lunged out from his sitting position, kunai ready to strike, lifting my armored left arm, I heard the crash of metal. Performing the hand signs of boar, tiger, monkey, ox; I raised my fist, and attempted to hit his face, but my fist was met with air. The same kunai was stabbed out at me from my side, as I curled my body away from it, moving back, away from the deadly weapon.

I performed more hand signs, u (OU), I (E), ne, tora, "TRANSFORMATION JUTSU, HIDDEN TIGER OF THE MIST!" My skin paled into a milky fur with black stripes as my hands and feet grew into large, sturdy paws with unsheathed claws, my face became that of a demonic figure, and I grew five long tails. Letting out a loud roar, I lunged at my twin brother, who completed a similar transformation jutsu.

Tori, hitsuji, u (OU), mi, "TRANSFORMATION JUTSU SNAKE OF HAKAI!" His skin grew green and scaly as his body elongated and his head flattened and he became a large and deadly snake.

"Oh shit." I thought, as we faced each other in the center of the forest.

Hakai* means destruction in Japanese