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Episode 11 – INVASION: THREE AGAINST ONE

Kakashi stood there for a moment in silence. Sasuke's remark had certainly caught him off guard. A cool breeze rustled the leaves on the trees as the warning alarm continued to sound overhead.

Kakashi let out a silent sigh as he knew very well who Sasuke was talking about.

Of all the things to happen at a time like this…

Kakashi never liked to be the bearer of bad news, but he knew all too well of this situation.

"Sasuke, whatever love you have for this girl, I'm afraid you're going to have to let it go," he said sadly, but sternly.

Sasuke looked up at him. He opened his mouth to protest, but Kakashi raised his hand and stopped him.

"Let it go. One of the most important ninja rules is to not let your personal feelings get in the way. It could cloud your judgement and put your own life in serious danger," he said, and with that, he vanished.

Sasuke returned his gaze down to Kaiya's locket in his hand. The silver had lost its shine, and the heart was covered with scratches.

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"PREPARE FOR BATTLE!"

The siren continued to sound overhead as Sasuke neared the South Wall, in spite of Kakashi's orders to go to the Main Gate.

By the time he reached his destination, Kaiya's clones had the village completely surrounded.

Without hesitation, the clones swarmed up and over the village walls, mercilessly killing everyone in their path. Battle cries from Hidden Leaf shinobi could be heard all around, we well as the clinking of kunais, shirukens and swords. Paper bombs that were littered across the village outskirts were going off like fireworks.

Let's just hope I find the real Kaiya before anyone else does… Sasuke sighed.

Naruto streamed across the village walls with a kunai in each hand, wiping out clones by the dozens, but they just kept coming.

Out of nowhere, a fist collided with Naruto's cheek and sent him flying onto the concrete roof of a nearby building.

A short cry escaped his lips as his body crashed into the roof, leaving a dust trail behind him. He jumped to his feet as one of the thousands of clones appeared infront of him.

"Leave this village!" Naruto bellowed, preparing for the attack.

Kaiya's clone snorted as she pulled down her black facial mask, revealing a sinister smirk. "Ha! What are you going to do, little rat? Kill me?" the amusement in her voice enraged Naruto further. The red eyes of the Nine Tails usurped his natural cerulean eyes; the whiskers on his cheeks grew bolder as he bared his teeth.

"Tch; maybe if you back out, then I won't have to!" Naruto yelled back, his voice becoming more gruff and angry by the second.

The clone took a step closer. "Then I'll just have to kill you instead!"

In a flash, the Kaiya clone leapt at Naruto and knocked him over. Naruto landed on his back and repulsed her attack by kicking her up and over behind him.

The clone caught her balance and charged again, this time, wielding her sword.

Naruto whipped out a kunai and deadlocked with her sword. They whipped around each other and deadlocked a few more times before they both leapt back to their original starting spots.

Naruto was breathing heavily, his red eyes wild with rage. Kaiya hadn't seemed to break a sweat. Naturally, this enraged Naruto.

The red searing, red chakra of the Nine Tails seeped out from his body, forming only one tail. His eyes grew wilder, the black outline around them growing bolder. His bold whiskers grew longer and more rugged, as did his blonde, spiky hair.

As his body submerged into his chakra, his fingers grew slightly longer and bore claws. Naruto grunted heavily with every breath as his teeth grew longer and sharper.

The clone's eyes grew wide with excitement as a grin tugged at the corners of her peach-pink lips.

Ah… So this is the Nine Tails, hm? Things just got interesting…

Sakura bounded along the streets of Konoha, breathing heavily. Every few feet lay a dead shinobi's body. She would stop to try and heal them, but most were all dead before she had reached them, so she gave up.

The sky was a deep, burnt red. Sakura continued to choke on the smoke that densely covered the village.

She stopped to briefly examine the destruction Kaiya and the army of her clones had caused; dead bodies littered every square meter of the village, weapons lay askew, most buildings had already been demolished in the series of fights against the clones and fires plagued other buildings that hadn't been destroyed yet.

And the scariest part was: barely an hour had passed.

Sakura was about to head on her way again when a clone stopped her at the end of the vandalized street. This one was badly beaten, but still refused to die. It strode toward her threateningly, wild eyed with a twisted smirk plastered on its face.

Sakura resumed her fighting stance. The clone began to pick its pace, and before long, it was charging at Sakura.

She stanced and focused all her chakra to her fists.

"YIIIIIIII-AAH!"

Sakura raised her chakra infused fists and pummeled them into the ground, taking no regard for the destruction of buildings around her, causing huge cracks and debris to race toward the clone.

The clone stopped dead in its tracks and looked up in shock as the enormous chunks of debris showered over her.

Sasuke had abolished a few hundred of the clones that he sensed, with his sharingan, to be weaker than the others. He knew he would be able to sense the girl he loved, sooner or later. Kaiya would have had to be in the vast array of clones somewhere, and it was just a matter of time before someone else could find her too.

Kakashi was surrounded by at least 70 clones, all jumping on him, swords outstretched. He had no trouble destroying the clones. But as he continued to fight, more and more clones swarmed over him. He blocked kicks, punches and kunais with the metal spot on the back of his glove-covered hands, but he knew that wasn't going to cut it. If he kept going, the clones would surround him and use that water-control and Relinquishing Jutsu that Sasuke told him about, and that would be the end of him.

Kakashi refused to use his sharingan too early, as it eats up most, if not all, of his chakra. He could not afford to use it.

Clones poofed away and reappeared as Kakashi struggled to find a split second of time. Finally finding a few spare seconds, he conjured up hand signs at phenomenal speed, gripped the wrist of his opened hand and pointed it down to the ground.

"Lightning Blade!"

Silvery-blue lightning sparked out from his hand and grew larger and larger. The shrill sound of his crackling lightning grew high and louder. The clones hesitated for a moment, but continued to swarm over him.

In a split second, Kakashi had wiped out at least a hundred clones; and in due time too; his chakra was almost gone and he was covered in bruises, cuts, scratches and kunais.

But more were headed for him.

Naruto was on his hands and knees, breathing heavily. His whole body was not under his control anymore. Naruto couldn't figure it out.

That stupid cloak won't let me hold him down for much longer… I'll have to do get this over and done with now, Kaiya's clone thought.

"L-Lemme… g-go!" he rasped, trying to break free of Kaiya's unbreakable water-control jutsu.

"You're finished…" the clone rasped as it uttered an evil laugh. It strode towards him, conjuring hand signs with the free hand. It finally stopped a few inches from his body and held the free hand over Naruto's forehead.

"Relinquishing Jutsu!"

An aura of orange-red bubbling chakra rose from the cloak that protected Naruto and entered the clone's hand.

Tsssssss…!

"Ah, fuck!"

The clone jerked away its hand, uttering a growl of frustration, revealing a burn mark on the palm of her hand. Determined, she tried again, this time ignoring the burning pain in her hand as she absorbed Naruto's Nine Tailed Fox chakra.

Naruto closed his eyes uttered a sickening howl as his chakra cloak began to dissolve into the clone's hand. He tried desperately to escape, but he couldn't. Naruto felt his strength disappearing with every passing second. He was tuned out to his surroundings, only hearing himself howling in utter agony.

Suddenly, a drop of warm liquid greeted Naruto on his cheek and made its way down to his neck.

Naruto opened his eyes to see the clone standing above him, eyes wide, and mouth agape. Blood was trickling from both corners of her mouth.

The iron grip on his muscles faded as her hands dropped by her side.

Naruto, loving the fact he had control of his body again, scrambled back and raised his hand to shield out the brightness that was behind the clone.

"K-Kakas-shi…?" Naruto mumbled.

The shrill chirping and blinding light of Kakashi's Lightning Blade faded away. The clone dropped to the ground, lifeless, and then disappeared in a cloud of white smoke.

Before Kakashi could speak, a familiar, ear-piercing scream tore through the air.

Naruto gasped as both his and Kakashi's heads turned to the direction from with the scream came from.

"Sakura!"

The air was silent. The screams, battle cries, and sounds of weapons deadlocking could still be heard in the distance, but the area around him was dead silent. Smoke filled the air as paper bombs went off in the distance. Somewhere nearby, Sasuke heard the devastating crumble of a building collapsing.

Although, something wasn't right.

Sasuke halted and landed on a slanted, red tin roof of a high-rise building, stopping to take a quick breather.

He examined his wounds and flinched at how bad he managed to get himself beaten up. As long as nothing was broken and he still had sufficient chakra, he would last the rest of the battle.

Within earshot, Sasuke heard the familiar pace of high heel boots clonking on the tin roof, growing louder and louder. His heart leapt into his chest as he turned around.

"At last, we meet… again," Kaiya said, just loud enough for him to hear.

Yay for cliffhangers!

So I hoped you all liked how I wrote about Kaiya's clones battling Naruto, Sakura and Kakashi!

I didn't just wanna focus on Sasuke, so I thought I'd give you all a taste of the other battles.

The next chapter won't be up for a few days; I'm suffering from writer's block, plus I have an English Oral due next Monday when I get back to school…

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What happens now?

Is Sakura okay?

Can Sasuke bring himself to fight Kaiya?

And win?

Or will his feelings get in the way?

And get himself killed?

Tune in next time:

CHAPTER 12: SASUKE vs KAIYA

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