Hey guys, how's it goin'? I guess most of you are pretty pissed about the crap that admins are doing. You know, taking down stories because of the 'inappropriate' stuff.

Yeah, some pretty annoying shit.

So Nori either means Seaweed or Glue. Fine, he's evil frozen seaweed-glue.

That aside, I own nothing besides the HATE for this annoying banding thanks to the admins.

'It's dark in here...'

'Is that a bad thing? You can't see anything, so nothing will bother you here.'

'Who are you?'

'Does it really matter? Rest. Sleep. Let yourself go. Everything will be fine.'

'Okay. I guess I'm a little tired. I can't really think straight. I can't even remember where I was supposed to be. I was supposed to meet with people. People important to me...'

'That's nice. Now simply let go. I'll make sure nothing bad happens again.'

'Okay... goodnight... whoever you are...'

'Goodnight young Shishi.'

Golden eyes opened as the face twisted into a sick grin. 'Sometimes this boy is way too easy to goad.' he thought, standing up from the bed and exiting the room. The king walked down the halls, ignoring the golden eyes that would sometimes appear on his clothes. They usually appeared with no real purpose, so he was used to it.

Too bad that they usually scared a few of his servants away. It got pretty boring when walking the halls and there was no one to talk to. With a shrug that was seen by no one, he turned a corner into a pair of large wooden double-doors that had guards in front of them. Both stood rigid and at attention as soon as they saw their king, before both opened the doors and let the man in.

Said king simply grinned and continued into the room, the doors slamming shut as the guards relaxed slightly behind them. The room was actually a giant throne-room, which looked more like a giant monster's skeleton. The roof was large and wide with pillars extending from the 'spine' and curving downwards into pillars like 'ribs'. At the very back, facing the doors, was a throne that was made of a grey stone, though it wasn't really much to look at. Rather square in shape, it had an insignia on the seat where the legs would be. He sighed while shaking his head.

'While it's nice they replaced my throne, it wouldn't have hurt to make it a bit more presentable. Then again, it looks the same way as I left it. Can't blame them for keeping things exactly the same.' he thought, sitting down on the throne and enjoying the familiar feeling of power that came with it.

Not even five minutes later the doors opened to show a familiar ice demon, his eyes showing both respect and something like worship and awe. The king simply grinned at him as the demon bowed before the throne on one knee, lowering his head in submission. "My lord, it is wonderful to see you once again."

"Nori-kun." king said, his usual cold grin present as he crossed his right leg over his left knee. "And I think it wonderful you have kept this place in such state. Admittedly, I was hoping for a few changes, but I guess that now that I am here, I can make them myself." He looked around the room, though he seemed to be thinking about something else. "Things have changed greatly. Humans are actually beginning to use their own source of power. I suppose that they are now more valuable than they were a few millenia ago." With a shrug, the king stood and began to walk towards the double-doors, Nori following behind quietly.

They both began making their way down the halls, the flames always seeming to shrink away from the duo. More specifically, the king. 'The humans are more divided than they have ever been.' Thought Nori, a smirk appearing on his face as he walked to the right of his king. 'This will make things many times easier.' The darkness around them shifted before collecting to the left of the king, opposite of Nori.

"It is good to see the three of us together once again. Wouldn't you agree, Nori-sama?" asked the shape before forming completely into Usomaru. "The castle is a bit dusty, I do apologize for that, but it's nonetheless in great condition." he said, bowing his head while speaking to the king.

"No matter. It's a castle, fill it with a few servants, and I'm sure it will be just fine." the king said dismissively, turning a corner. Another minute of walking and they were soon outside the castle. The sky was covered completely in black clouds with a red glow coming from somewhere ahead. Arround the castle was a wall that, while not exactly big, was made completely of skeletons of different species, some that would only appear in human myths. The three disappeared in a burst of speed and reappeared on top of the wall to look down below. The castle and the land around it was built right beside a volcano with a river of what seemed like blood down at the base of the giant mountain. However, it was what was inside the liquid that cause the king to smile in amusement.

In the river of blood, many people could be seen screaming and writhing in agony as red steam rose and the 'water' bubbled. 'Humans were right that it was a river. But it wasn't of fire.' Thought Nori, crossing his arms and smirking in amusement as Usomaru crouched down and looked down at the river with a sick smile. The king watched both his best men enjoy the show, his hands resting inside his pants' pockets

'Even after all this time, they are still the same. Sometimes it's great how nothing changes.' He thought, the screams of the human souls below. 'Home sweet home...'

Naruto grimaced as he stopped suddenly, looking down at the waterfall and the two statues. 'The Valley of the End. Hashirama and Madara once fought here.' he thought, gripping his still broken sword in his right hand while Red Queen stuck to his back. Sakura was next to him with her gauntlets out, flexing her claws in a beat only she seemed to sense.

"We're going down, aren't we." mumbled Sakura, looking over the edge and watching the waterfall end into the large lake below. Naruto nodded, squatting down and gripping the edge of the valley before pressing his feet into the wall and applying chakra.

"Come on. We came this far, we have to at least see this as far as we can." he murmured, beginning his trek down the edge. Sakura followed closely, silent as she kept her eyes and ear open. The mist coming up was making things a bit difficult though. Reaching the bottom, they quietly began to search the area.

Sakura stepped closer to the lake, a bit perplexed by the large amount of mist. She almost instantly found out why. The water in the lake was boiling uncontrollably, and a red glow was seen under the water. Narrowing her eyes, she pulsed her chakra once to get Naruto's attention. Once he was beside her she spoke. "There's something in the water. And it seems to be boiling it." Before anything else could be said, the water glowed brighter and began to shift as something big began to come out. Both jumped back as a large appendage of sorts appeared and tried to slam them both into the ground. Naruto dodged to the side while Sakura flipped backwards, narrowing her eyes while flexing her guantlet-clad hands.

Before them was a mass of lava, slowly shaping itself into a somewhat humanoid form. No eyes could be really seen, but it had a pair of large arms while it had no legs, the bottom half seeming to be a dress of pure lava. On its shoulders were a few spikes of red hot metal-like plates, while the ends of both arms were large fists with metal bumps at the knuckles. It move similar to a slug, though it was in no way slow. Rearing its fist back, it shot the melted rock to towards Naruto.

Said Jinchuriki dodged again, teleporting to the middle of the lake as he ran through hand seals. "Water-style: Water Bullet jutsu!" His cheeks bulging, he spit out a giant ball of water that grew as it dragged along the water, collecting more and more until it was nearly half as big as the 'golem'. It crashed onto it, steam rising up as the bottom part hardened for a moment, though it was almost instantly melted once again by the heat escaping the thing.

Sakura meanwhile was running through her own seals, rearing her fist back as the water around her began to rise. "Water-style: Shark Missile jutsu!" A giant shark made out of complete water shot out from her feet, chomping down on the lava creature as steam rose once again. With a few hand-signs, Naruto jumped into the air and inhaled again.

"Water-style: Water Bullet jutsu!" Another ball of water raced towards the lava golem, hardening one of its arms enough that it heavily fell off of the rest. However, he noticed immediately something in the stump of the creature's severed arm. A smaller child-sized hand was there, black lines on it in what he assumed where the veins. 'What the hell?' Flipping back to avoid the hand that reformed pretty quickly, he ran around it, looking for any opening he could exploit.

Unfortunately, the golem seemed pretty capable of not only taking the hits, but turning to keep its sights (Not that it had any eyes) on him. Even as Sakura blasted it repeatedly with water attacks from behind, it persisted in not only facing him, but slamming its palms in the areas that he was at one point. It didn't seem to really try to hit the places he was going to be in, seeing as he ran pretty straight.

'Seems pretty smart, yet unable to learn from his mistakes. He can move his lave fast, but so long as we keep moving, he cant's hit us. And water jutsu seem to have very little effect on it. Well... crap!' he thought, gritting his teeth as he ran straight towards it, dodging its fist and summoning red queen. 'Wonder if lava can overheat...' he thought, revving the sword until it completely glowed red. Stabbing the blade into the thing's left arm, he released the handle and pulled the 'brake' causing the blade to explode violently. The entire arm and half of its abdomen was blown off, a gaping hole where they once were. Looking closer, Naruto almost wished he hadn't 'What in the...'

He stood there, mouth gaping as he saw the little clown-demon from earlier. Unlike last time though, her face was contorted in agony as blue vein-like lines were all across her body. The lava quickly cloaked her once again, its arm regrown as it turned to Naruto and slammed into the boy's side. He noticed immediately that there was no pain. He could feel his side sizzling and burning but it was not painful. Looking at his side, his eyes widened when he saw the abyssal eyes and mouth on his ribs before they disappeared, the skin replaced a bit pink but nonetheless healed. "That's new." he mused, looking at the large golem try to slam Sakura as said girl jumped around, sometimes manipulating the shadows to make walls that helped her jump in different directions.

"We're running out of ideas!" Sakura called out, flipping back to gain some distance while the golem. began to crawl farther from the water. Thinking quickly, she ran straight up the cliff side and got high enough to possibly become a smaller target for the golem. Then running through a few hand-signs, she placed her palm against the opening on her canteen before pulling it back, showing a flowing whip of water. "Water-style: Water Whip jutsu!" Cracking the whip once, she wrapped it around one of the rocks jutting from the wall around her. With a strong tug that was somehow only female-possible, she ripped the piece of rock out of the wall and sent it hurling towards the golem. The piece of rock stuck into its shoulder, seeming to do no damage for a moment. Then it began to squirm as a red chakra began to pour out of the 'wound'. That wasn't the only thing escaping the wound, though. 'I hear a girl screaming!'

Cancelling the water-whip, she watched as the golem writhed and pieces of it falling around it. Then she too saw the girl. A silent scream on her lips as tears of fire trailed down her cheeks. Sakura nearly fell when she stopped concentrating the chakra at her feet. she also saw that a piece of the rock had ripped into the girl's right arm, letting the red youki out from there. She couldn't look away, she could only stare as the lava once again wrapped around the girl's form and the golem reformed itself. Naruto grimaced when he saw the golem rear its arm back, intent on killing Sakura. 'Fuck!' Teleporting over to her, he grabbed her and teleported to the other side of the lake, keeping a constant look out for the creature. With a single hand-sign and a quick thought, three shadow-clones appeared. "Study it. Try to find a weak-point." With a grimace he added. "And try not to hurt the demon inside." With a silent solute, the clones all went towards the golem while throwing a few kunai and shuriken. He checked on Sakura to see if she was okay and found the girls crying.

"She's just a little girl. A demon, but nonetheless, she's just a little girl. A child!" she whispered, a disbelieving look on her face.

Naruto nodded. "I know."

"W-Why would someone do that. I-It's horrible!"

"From what I can tell, even demons have monsters among them." he paused and looked back to the golem. "Monsters willing to do those kind of things to children."

Walking quickly, Akyo and Hikari made their way through rows and rows of books, each one neatly stacked on the ground despite there being some pieces of paper here and there. At the end of the rows was a large book, almost as big as a five-year-old. It was old, obviously, as it was a dirty brown leather and some chunks of the cover were missing. Somehow this did nothing to falter the majesty of the insignia at the very center of the book. A circle with ten spikes jutting out from a star at the center. With a wave of Hikari's hand, the book opened up to a marked page. On it were various notes and drawings concerning a large amount of youki in a single spot. 'Aniki said that this should tell me things about the "Strange youki" within Shishi.'

Truth be told, everyone could see immediately there was something wrong with Shishi. Everything about screamed 'unnatural'. He had power equal to Shukaku for crying out loud! Reading through the book a bit more, she grimaced when she saw that the last few pages where blank. That is, until she noticed that there was something nearly transparent about the pages. Almost like something was... She rolled her eyes when she realized it was a seal. Made of invisible ink. 'It's funny how obvious it is now that I think about it.' She placed her palm on the seal and pumped the seal with her youki. And almost immediately, the seal rejected the youki, burning her hand a bit. She hissed in pain as she waved her hand around, her eyes narrowing on the seal as it glowed once then disappeared again. She sighed and mumbled, "Looks like we're getting nowhere here. Come on Akyo, we have to find a different way." Putting the book back where it was, she turned to the exit.

"Understood!" Both of them began walking out of the library, unaware that as every second passed, something began to stir in its slumber. And that Naruto was beginning to go through a horrific change.

It's moments like these that he had to seriously wonder how much time had passed since last he had been awoken. Walking through the cave, he looked around at the glowing eyes of different sizes, shapes, and colors. Some were blue, others yellow, mostly red. In the end, it was the glowing green eye at the deepest part of the cave that he was searching for, a grin almost visible right below the eye. Another set of eyes popped out from what could only be the shoulder. "It's good to see you again, old friend." called out the kings, the eye stepping forward into the light.

"And I thought you were fucked last time I saw you." came a gruff voice, a small giggle coming from the smaller pair of eyes. There stood a tall man with spiked hair that almost looked ridiculous had it been on anyone else, but only made this man seem scarier. He had an eye patch over his right eye, and bells on every tip of his spiked hair. He wore a pair of black baggy pants, a black shirt with the sleeves ripped off, Black military boots, and a white vest with the number eleven on the back. On his shoulder was a little girl with bright pink hair, and wearing a big black shirt that was probably a size bigger than her over black shorts, her feet covered in blue flip-flops.

With big smile she waved and said, "Hi there! I'm Yachiru! Are you Kenny's friend?"

If you can guess who that last guy was, then yes. He will also be a big boss that will have to be defeated in the future. I'm also debating on either having another scary bad-ass as an enemy, or to save it for a future fic. Probably the later.

That aside, sorry it took some time to write this. My life's been catching up to me, and I have to take care of some things.

Please review.