Reviewers;

St3rfire: You sound like you would split it into mainly needs and small wants and that is what donating and giving to others is all about. I wish I had 100k to give you, and would think that you'd probably do exactly that.

Czar Joseph: Yes...everything goes and moves away from the happily ever after.

7th Demon of Razgriz: Nice design for the money I will admit, but where put the money where exactly? As for your review, I am glad to give you an area of tenseness around you and I am fine fighting a dragon in my dreams...because then I can make dragon-slayer knights appear and they absolutely love to fend off dragons.

Weldingman0315: just part time? well, that would be good for me if I wasn't still in school.

Duh Bomb: (Sniffle) good, very good. And in hindsight, I never really knew what altruistic meant until you just pointed it out. I guess my subconscious wants to be like Sakura, but it'd be a lot of hard work, and I think i'm allergic to that. ;)

JK24: That's too bad about your limited access but I appreciated your time on the questions. They were each pretty good to find out and I appreciate them.

Logan Locke(15): Still a chapter behind but I'm guessing that you read this in a few days anyways. Very long review by the way and I did not create that scenario; it is an actual philosophical one which was my final for the semester. Don't you just love it when two brothers are so dissimilar it's not funny? I wanted to go into the psyche of how people wants others to look at them around people they like and hate, and I suppose I did that that time around. The underlying area of Sasuke lustful for Sakura's body and literal power makes him seem like a nice villain, eh? And then there is Ino, who I swear has always needed a sporadic spazzout with sakrua about her friend's actions and this just hit the boiling point. So, keep posting and i'll try to review them for your review, sound good? GREAT!

AN: So...now we get to it! As some may understand, this is not an action packed story, but I decided to try to add a little bit of it for you guys and girls. I like your various responses to the question this last week, and so I figure that i should tell you my own.

Answer: Place the 100,000 dollars into a 10 year bond, giving 10% back a year, meaning that every year, I would get 10,000 to pay off debts, aka school loans and such and then get my 100k back plus extra. Really, the bonds are the safest and biggest ways to go with risky your money on the stock marker directly. Just make sure to invest in long time companies like Disney or the electric company and I'd say you're good to go!

So then, I won't keep you waiting...

Fire & Ice

Arc 1: Conceal It

Chapter 17: Assault on Haruno

Down on the deck of the ship, Sasuke stood behind the second mast, and looked pleased with himself. So much in fact that he let a mad smile become an ornament on his white skin, and he inwardly chuckled as two ships surged forward and trapped one of the escaping ships between them and then saw the signs of grappling hooks being thrown to secure them.

Sasuke saw the ships slam together and the screams that were heard was melody to Sasuke's ears. He closed his eyes to savor the sound, for there would be much screaming as soon as the tide turned in his favor. Sasuke felt a blanket of utter misery slowly cover his body, but he was used to misery, so he simply turned his face to the older twenty or something girl before him, and despite shewho looked around his own age, as she let her shrouded cloak show more of her ivory colored skin, Sasuke let his eyes wander up and down the girl's luscious body.

Before Sasuke, leaning casually bored against the mast, was the goddess of misery herself, but whereas some gods represented their powers upfront and before others, Akhlys thrived under men's misery and so did her generous bust size and figure to show for it. For as more misery moved into the mortal world, she grew stronger, and as Sasuke watched her, Akhlys smiled lustfully, for once eyeing the younger Uchiha as a potential mortal appetite for even Gods had urges, and Akhlys was after all, a God.

"Do you feel their misery, Sasuke? Feel their fear edging closer to death?"

"I hear their screams and am satisfied."

"Satisfied already?" Akhlys asked, the shroud moving like smoke around Sasuke's body, and he choked a bit, as deadly poison filled his lungs. "I thought we had a deal?"

"W-we do…My Lady." Sasuke wheezed, for once showing respect to another. "I will bring misery to this world, for after there is misery, there is gladness to the victor."

"And what will you do after I grant you this victory?"

"I will sacrifice to you and you alone, My Goddess. There shall be no other Gods besides you."

"I do so like the sound of that, but you had better keep your word. You pledged an immortal oath to me years ago, and the consequences…are severe."

Sasuke gulped, but smiled still. Akhlys was the perfect girl, thoygh immortal, making him move mountains to please her, but still allowing him access for her to please him. his mind wondered for a second...He wasn't always like this. He was once happy and adored his brother- No! That was the weak Sasuke. The one who could do nothing.

Sasuke looked to his men, and saw the smiles on their faces, as they were ready to charge into the city, and rape, and pillage, and plunder all that it had to offer. He would be happy to oblige to their greed, for once their task was complete, these lowly souls would please the Goddess and make her stronger, and therefore himself stronger as well.

"Oh Sasuke, what will you have that Poor…Innocent witch…do?" Akhlys asked, her voice sounding in a convincing concern for Sakura, but Sasuke had heard her recant his father's last words, in his voice…just before he killed him...

And yet, Sasuke smiled wider. "She will bow to me, and say that I am superior to her. She will cry and admit that I could have her body, mind, and soul. And then! I will send her to you, my precious Akhlys, as the first of many sacrifices."

Akhlys moaned and touched herself, and many men's eyes turned to lust as their misery for a want of pleasure took hold. "Oh Sasuke, you flatter me so...One of these days, I'll have to reward you in more than words."

Suddenly, the wind died instantly, and Sasuke smiled as it changed course, and smiled wider as Akhlys lifted her mouth up to his ear as her body laid against his. "Let the arrows of war fly swiftly and bring an end to the madness."

At the same time, up in the throne room, the cold breeze blowing through the castle came to a silent still, and Sakura sighed as frost came out of her mouth. Sakura looked to her wolf, Tanya, and bent down to hug her warm body one final time.

Why couldn't Sakura be as warm as Tanya? She felt like she was normally warm, but she wasn't. Even her snow sometimes hissed and began to melt as she moved on it. She just wanted a warm embrace, with Tanya, with Ino, with her deceased parents….With Naruto.

'Oh God,' Sakura thought. How Naruto would feel once he learns of my death. I just hope he finds a girl to love him and treat him like I did before our accident. Sakura sniffled and pet down Tanya's ears which flattened at the atmosphere.

"Tanya, go hide."

Tanya whimpered but stood up on her four paws and moved out of the room, to where Sakura did not know, but she was glad to have one final moment of peace. Suddenly, the wind picked up again, this time in the opposing direction and Sakura looked back out to see the ships just beginning to make port. Now, they were at war. But Sakura smiled. What they would find in store for them.

With the wind of victory now on their side, one hundred ships, each carrying one hundred and fifty men a piece, surged forward into the small inlet, pressing their sides together to fit in three by three. As they reached the open harbor before them, the men moved to the ballistae and catapults of the lead ships, aiming for the towers all around them that were sure to attack any second.

But instead, the harbor was silent, deathly silent, and not even the seagulls sounded their infamous call. The towers stayed still, their own walls devoid of defense. Each man thought it a trick, but thanked the defenders for allowing them passage to the docks where they would rush and kill them, in the names of their own lords and ladies.

The walls on top of the tall two hundred foot cliffs slowly sloped inland and downward until they reached the docks and all the ships rammed their fronts deep into the wooden docks, next to those made of stone, up onto the beaches in between the areas, as Sasuke moved his royal ship into the Haruno royal dock, shaming it as he did so.

They all cheered and yelled to the invisible defenders to defy them, but none answered back, and before them now stood the hundred foot walls of the dock defenses, with only three gates that had stood siege after siege in the last four hundred years.

But that was when there were defenders to guard against the enemy, and though the gates themselves were frozen over, the enemy soon launched massive grappling hooks and ran towards the walls with bendable ladders and wooden poles, thrusting the enemy up to the top of the walls themselves.

The gates stood closed for twenty minutes as the attackers chipped away at the ice from the inside out, and the gates were bust open with three battering rams with the image of a black raven as its head burst into the chilling air behind the doors.

The men surged inside the city from the southern docks, but many were stunned and shocked as no enemy rushed to meet them, or the sounds of screaming civilians reached their ears. So then they were gone and there would be no raping, but just pillaging and plundering. And so, throughout the houses of Port Haruno, men rushed into them with gusto, but each was met with bare walls and empty cabinets.

But in a number of houses, Sakura had paid these families a large sum to rebuild them for the future, and so as the enemy tore the houses apart looking for gold, perfume, and anything of value, it was not the screams of girls, but the dying calls of burning soldiers as houses burst in flames, toppling the roofs over its victims.

After an hour of pillaging, Sasuke received word that his men had secured the northern walls and so he turned his sights on the castle and its single bridge that led to the great walls of Castle Haruno, but once again, after a half hour, even these mighty gates fell into the misery of destruction and Sasuke and his army surged into the castle.

"Check Everywhere!" Sasuke exclaimed as his men rushed the hallways, where they all gloated and began to pick up royal wear and banners and everything that was still here, but as they touched them, the objects turned to icy mirrors of themselves and the men gulped and decided to not touch anything in here that the witch might use to end their lives early.

Men rushed the halls in a mad dash to find the princess, hoping to have some fun with her before their leader had his own form of the word. Their leader had denied them any form of last minute celebration, promising them even more celebration after the siege and assault, but since there were no women to satisfy them, if they found the princess first, then before her execution….

This thought was crushed time and time again as men ran out of spaces to look into. They moved into the stables, their horses filling up the stalls rather than finding the Queen hiding there. Men moved slower towards the rear of the castle, and the doors to Sakura's bedroom crunched and flew open, where men saw the pristine bed and desk, that was currently worked on.

On the desk was a map of where the explosives would be placed and how the invaders were likely to invade the kingdom, and the men in the room sighed as the idea was a great one…better than what they were doing, just running around. But still, they moved ahead, up to each of the twenty high towers that held room and storage, and down into the catacombs of the old city, finding nothing of worth.

They broke into the storage cellars to find the once full rooms devoid of anything edible and even the shelves were gone. Finally, they burst into the dungeons, in a last hope that the Queen had just decided to lock herself up in one of the cells, in the hope that the bars would protect her from the lust of the enemy, but she was not there.

All of these reports came in the form of messengers to Sasuke and he crossed each area off one by one until he circled the last place to check and ran with his elite guard of knights to where the Queen had to be.

Sasuke arrived at the sight of a hundred men, pushing against the ice of the door that was frozen in three door lengths of ice, each as if cut in halves and differed from the last, as if one cut was in the middle horizontally, followed by a vertical slash and finally by a diagonal cut in front.

Sasuke pushed the men aside and called out for a cannon to be brought up to the door and a few minutes later, one arrived and men prepared it for firing. Sasuke looked to his men and saw the frostbite on their hands and even near their eyes. Oh well, they were lower forms and therefore, disposable.

With a great sound of power, the first wall of ice crumbled and shattered, but the other two layers stayed strong and it took two more shots and a lot of smoke before finally the great wooden doors burst inwards and Sasuke and his men surged into the throne room, where a women in red and white threads and pink hair stood facing the window.

As she turned, she looked at Sasuke and tskked at him, clucking her tongue in dissatisfaction. "My...Sasuke, do you have no idea of strategy at all? It took you three hours to take over a defenseless city?"

"I invaded it and now it is mine."Sasuke snarled before smirking. "Already wearing those robes? I guess you are ready to die then."

"A royal should welcome death as an old friend. But that takes preparation, which you did not show with the very gates that blocked your way."

"There was iced reinforcement on those doors."

"And you just used the cannon now? Really...little Sasuke. One should expect that if a witch uses ice, then one brings fire into the equation. Such a shame really that you had to be my enemy." Sakura commented. She really shouldn't make fun of him, but he would torture her anyways, and she would not be obedient, not with her mouth anyways.

"Enough of this! Get her!" Sasuke yelled and two hundred and ten men surged from behind him to cover all corners of the room, splitting themselves evenly into three semicircles with seventy men a piece and each two yards apart.

Slowly, they began to move forward, their metal shields and swords in front of them, as they watched The Queen's hands rest at her side, waiting for the defense of herself that they knew was soon to begin. But soon, they had reached the area from the second half of the room to the steps of the royal thrones. The men smiled and yelled out a war cry before charging forward, but as each man in the first circle placed a foot on the first step, Sakura's eyes smiled and her hands shot up to the sky.

Men waited for the ice to shoot out at them, and therefore braced their shields close to themselves, but suddenly their feet gave out from under them as the entire room; floor, ceiling, columns, and walls, broke apart as if a reflective ice was covering these surfaces. The ice impaled the men's feet slightly under their guard and sliced hamstrings at the backs of some soldiers who lacked the necessary armor, and the ice rapidly formed together into swords made hilt to point of ice, as many swords that the enemy had.

These swords began to duel with the men themselves and the men tried to defend themselves as they scurried backwards into defensive rings with their shoulders back to back. Archers stayed in the middle, aiming their shots at the Ice Queen, but a reflective surface of ice shot up in a curving fashion around her, like a cliff face over the edge.

The men tried to defend themselves and that is all they could do, as the swords had no bodies to hold them and Sakura moved her hands with determination, as the swords moved faster and faster, spinning one way and then the other, without the need to care about armor or the limitations of an actual body, and suddenly, every soldier was frozen in worry, as the slink of over two hundred throats were ready to be sliced and cut.

Slowly, Sakura stepped from around her wall of protection, as Sasuke watched from the entrance to the room, his elite guards as frozen as the men inside the room. Sakura lifted her hands an inch and slowly, the swords lifted up, the men following them to stand at attention, or else die by the icy blades.

Sakura tightened her grip on air and the swords began sliding sideways, and men let out guttural sounds as their throats began to slice open. Suddenly though, Sasuke laughed aloud.

"You play a hard game Sakura, but you are not a killer."

"I killed five hundred of your men already with those explosions."

"Yes, you did, but this make your hands a strong dirty red. You do this, and you are forever bloody. Are you really going to deprive the families these men have of their fathers?"

"I should kill them and anyone else you send in."

"Then you kill thousands by your hands. What do you choose, Sakura?"

Sakura's eyes shimmered for a full minute and men's Adam's apples pulsed madly before Sakura sighed sadly and closed her hands, and the iced swords dissolved into mist and all of the soldiers fell to the ground, heaving huge breaths of air, and bowed their heads in gratitude to the Queen.

Sasuke signaled to his men and more men surged into the room; Sasuke's elite forces, and ran up to grab the Queen as they held her neck tight and her arms apart as Sasuke smiled dangerously right in her face.

"You lose, Sakura. Prepare for your death."

Question: What is your Least Favorite Color? (As well as favorite color if you would like to compare them.)