Hello, everyone! I decided to make this chapter a bit shorter than the last, because let's face it: It was rather big. The remaining chapters will have varied lengths, but nowhere nearly as long as the last one...hopefully. So, without anything more to say: read and enjoy! :)

Also, no information will be given this chapter. Maybe the next, but not this one. Okay, I'm done.

(Pacifica's Cottage; 9:00 am)

The sun rose high in the sky, birds started to sing and a rooster was heard from afar. On the cottage where Pacifica and Dipper resided, Dipper slowly opened his eyes, getting up and letting out a big yawn before stretching himself. "Good morning, Pacifica." greeted Dipper as he got off the bed.

The girl opened her eyes and yawned, soon followed by her canine companion. "Good morning, Dipper." replied Pacifica, getting off her and her ninken's bed and going to the kitchen, "So, what do you want to eat for breakfast?"

"Anything will be fine, but I'm actually curious: why aren't you more worried about me living with you?" replied Dipper, Pacifica serving some cereal as the boy continued, "I mean, I'm the prime cypher host, and a good deal of people could come after me."

Pacifica rolled her eyes and went to the table, where she put her and Dipper's bowl of cereal before she answered the boy's question. "Dipper, relax. I know exactly what to do if you're ever found...Okay, I'll be honest, I got nothing, but I can always improvise!" assured the blonde, "I mean, I'm always chased by Kiba when I get myself in trouble, and I always find a way to escape punishment."

"Who?"

"A member from the Inuzuka Clan, the clan that took me in when I was younger. Did I mentioned that already?" asked Pacifica, taking out a picture and handing it to Dipper.

Dipper looked at the picture, though it didn't took long before he heard something, or someone, coming. "Did you hear that?"

Before anything else happened, the door was busted open by an ANBU agent wearing a snake mask. "Nobody move!" ordered the ANBU agent, "Stay still, hand over the prime cypher host, and we can save ourselves a lot of trouble. And don't bother to try one of your escape plans, Pacifica Inuzuka..."

The duo turned to see another ANBU agent at the door, one with long reddish hair and a cat mask. Another one came from a pond, with short hair and a shark mask and another one arrived through the same door the snake masked one came from. "I have taken countermeasures. Both inside..."

An outside shot of the cottage is shown next, showing at least a hundred frozen kunai in mid-air, all of which were aimed at the cottage. "And outside this cottage."

Looking at the situation, Dipper gulped and turned to the blonde girl. "Pacifica, grab your dog and get out of here. I'll handle the rest."

"But-"

"Just do it."

Nodding in response, Pacifica walked to her dog, got on top of her and looked at Dipper one last time before the two left the house. Luckily, the ANBU didn't bother to go after the girl, what mattered for them was that the boy stayed. Dipper then turned to the snake masked ANBU agent, walked towards him, exchanged glares with him for a while...

"I surrender!"

And that happened. The ANBU agents took at least a minute to register what had happened, their expressions of surprise hidden by their masks. "Umm, okay?" The snake-masked agent spoke, still confused about what had happened, "Apprehend him!"

From outside the cottage, Pacifica had seen everything, having a look that expressed both shock and confusion. She hid in the bushes with Kiniriko when she saw the agents come out with Dipper, peeking out to see the snake masked agent knocking out the boy, ordering the other three to carry him before leaving, followed by the other three agents.

Shortly afterwards, a few familiar faces arrived: ANBU faces, in fact. Everybody went inside and started to look around for Dipper, obviously unaware that he had already left with the other agents. Pacifica soon followed, seeing the ANBU agents checking every single part of the cottage once she got inside.

"Captain Yamato, the prime cypher host isn't here." informed one of the agents to Yamato.

"I don't get it, he was here yesterday." said Yamato.

"Umm, who are you?" Asked Pacifica.

Yamato and the other ANBU turned to see the girl, who walked to them. "We are members of the ANBU, we came here to take the prime cypher host with us for an interrogation. But, as we can clearly see, he's nowhere to be seen." explained Yamato, immediately recognizing the girl once the two saw face-to-face, "Hey, you're his acolyte aren't you? May I ask you to tell us where he went?"

"Why do you need to ask me? That snake masked agent of yours and his friends took him."

"What are you talking about? We never sent anybody with a snake mask..." He instantly realized, to his horror, just what this implied, "They must've got him first."

"Who? Who were those people who impersonated you?" questioned Pacifica.

Instead of giving an answer, Yamato and the rest of the ANBU agents left, Pacifica following close behind. "Hey, you didn't answer my question!" she complained.

"There's no time to explain lad, we gotta get to your friend before It's too late!" replied Yamato, "Trust us, whatever those impostors are going to do with him will be far worse than anything we could think of."

Getting a worried look, Pacifica briefly looked down before getting a determined expression on her face, continuing to follow the ANBU and Yamato as they started their search.

(Hidden Gravity, Stan's House)

Stan, Wendy, Soos and Mabel were at the kitchen, Mabel having shortly explained to everyone what happened last night. "Okay, let's recap: Dipper decided to leave the village after hearing a feminine figure tell him to, and become a missing-nin so that we're safe?"

"Yeah, he believed that, since he was the prime cypher host and stuff, it was for the best." confirmed Mabel, "However, that doesn't makes me less worried about him at all, in fact, it makes me even more worried. What if one of the ANBU got him?"

The question was never answered as everybody heard nearby some breaking news about the cypher beast. They walked to the tv where they saw a reporter that looked like Shandra Jimenez talking about the resent spotting of cypher pieces. "Blue and red cypher pieces have been spotted lately, heading to the locations shown next."

The locations were, in the next order: Hidden Cloud, the Corduroy Clan, and a random desert. "It is recommended that, if you're anywhere near this area, find a hiding place and call ANBU in any way you can so that they can take care of the situation. That's all for now, this is Shandra Jimenez on ninja news."

With that said and done, Stan turned off the tv, turning around to see Wendy with a horrified look, Soos with a worried look and Mabel with a confused look. "Since when do we have tv?"

"The Corduroy Clan!? That's my clan!" exclaimed Wendy, running and jumping through the window, glancing at the rest and saying "Sorry Stan, I gotta go. I'm not going to stay here and let that piece of that beast do something to my clan." before leaving.

"I'll go to Hidden Cloud, they'll probably need the help." stated Soos, walking to the door and opening it. He turned to the duo and told them "You two should probably stay here for when something happens, like a random cypher piece landing here or Gideon reappearing." before leaving, closing the door shortly afterwards.

With that done, Mabel and Stan exchanged worried looks before they heard an explosion coming from outside. They came out to see a red cypher piece laying on a crater, with the rest of the Hidden Gravity community looking in shock.

Mabel and Stan walked closer to it, and stared at the cypher piece for a moment before Mabel reached to grab it. "I guess we should grab it?"

She was stopped by Stan, who grabbed the girl's hand and pulled it away from the cypher piece. "Mabel, don't. Even a single touch will cause the cypher piece to take control your body." the old man explained, "Luckily, that effect can be negated with my left hand's tattoo. Let me handle this, okay?"

Nodding in response, Mabel allowed Stan to approach the piece, using the tattoo on his hand to somehow tame the glowing energy that surrounded it when he got close. Once it finally calmed down, Stan slowly reached for it...before it was grabbed by an unseen presence.

The village was filled by an echoing, diabolical laughter as a shadowy figure got on top of one of the building, the cloak covering it flowing with the wind. It tried to escape, but Stan quickly catched up to him and knocked him down with one punch.

Once he hit the ground, Mabel went to the figure and reached for the cypher piece it took, only for the figure to regain consciousness and hit the girl. "Gideon?"

The figure removed the hoodie covering his face, revealing himself to be Gideon Gleeful. He laughed once again as he took out the red cypher piece. "Gideon! I should have known you would return!" exclaimed Stan as he landed on the ground.

"Thanks for saving me the trouble of getting possessed by it, Stanford!" mockingly praised Gideon, "Now, if you excuse me, there are some more pieces I have to-"

Before he could finish, his cypher piece was struck by a kick, hitting it strong enough to send it flying far away from the village. The boy only looked shocked for what seemed like 2 seconds before he got angry. "What?! Who dares?!"

Gideon looked down to see Mabel, looking smugly as she took on a battle stance. Gideon, in response, raised his arms and narrowed his eyes as they and the arms were covered in light red flames. "You're going to regret messing with me, Mabel!"

The reply the girl gave was a familiar hand gesture. Furious, Gideon jumped down and rushed at the girl...who skipped past the boy, who crashed on a tree behind her.

"Huh, sorry Gideon, but you will have to go through my dead body if you want it. And if you really want to do that, you need to get better." said Mabel with a determined tone, turning to her grunkle and winking before turning back to Gideon, "I'll deal with the living ventriloquist dummy, you go get the yang cypher piece."

Reluctantly, Stan looked down before closing his eyes, nodding in agreement and running after the piece. Gideon tried to dash to him, but he was stopped by Mabel, who kicked him upwards. The girl then jumped up high and hit him once again with a kick, one that was downwards this time. The collision between Gideon and the floor crater a small crater.

She fell safely to the floor and waited for a few moments, expecting Gideon to get up and counterattack. Sure enough, the boy got up shortly afterwards and started to laugh as he was surrounded by a red aura. "Mabel, you've a very, very bad girl." snarled Gideon with a scowl, "Do you really want your punishment that bad?"

"The one who's going to get their punishment is you! Specially after what you did to my brother years ago!" stated Mabel, earning a smug grin from Gideon in response, "That is something I promise you, Gideon!"

Meanwhile, at the Woods of the K.I.A., Dipper regained consciousness, only to see he was restrained by chains, on a trunk in the middle of the woods. "Where...where am I?" asked Dipper, looking around.

"You should better be careful, mortal."

The boy felt a sharp pain on his head as he once again lost consciousness, entering his mind as the ANBU knock-offs from before arrived. On his mind, the boy acted surprisingly calm as he crossed his arms, knowing what to expect.

"Oh man, I wonder who is it this time." sarcastically uttered Dipper, rolling his eyes.

The cypher beast's single eye opened and his body's light blue flames started to shine, illuminating the cage he was in once again. "It's me, silly!" the cypher beast laughed, either oblivious or ignorant at the boy's furious look on his face, "I can't believe you could be stupid enough to forget about me after just one night! Specially after taking over your body and stuff!"

"I was being sarcastic."

"That just makes you look more stupid, believing I would actually recognize such a thing! But seriously speaking, you should better think of something fast. It will not be long before they try to take away the cypher pieces you absorbed."

"Me?! You are the one who took them, using my body!" complained Dipper, which fell on deaf ears as the cypher beast mockingly laughed, "And why would they even want the pieces? And for that matter, why would they want to extract them?"

After hearing that question, the cypher beast remained silent for a moment before speaking in a serious tone. "Let me tell you one little secret: I am a being made of pure chakra." Dipper gasped after hearing the answer, "My pieces, despite being a very small part of me, have tremendous amount of chakra of the likes very few ninja have ever seen. Even one little piece can give a ninja enough power to rival one of the hokages!"

"And just how exactly did that happen? How did you came to be?"

The cypher beast laughed for a moment after the question, his eyes turning red and his voice echoing as he said his answer. "There are some things that are better left unknown, Dipper. And trust me, you would be horrified if you knew my origin."

Dipper narrowed look, but not because of the implied answer, but because he was feeling a slight pain on his stomach, which intensified as time went on. "What's going on? Why does it hurt so much?!"

"They must be starting the extraction process." said the cypher beast in a nonchalant tone. He then raised his arm, which got covered in light blue flames, "Allow me to do this, you wouldn't want to wake up only to see you're being dissected like a fish either way, would you?"

Back on reality, the snake-masked ANBU knock-off was using a knife to open Dipper's stomach, believing the cypher pieces were there. Without warning, Dipper's eyes sprung open, although they didn't have any pupils and they were surrounded by light blue flames.

Narrowing his eyes, Dipper's whole body was eventually surrounded by light blue flames, which immediately struck the ANBU knock-offs with enough strength to send them flying to some nearby trees.

Shortly afterwards, Dipper's stomach closed up and returned to normal, like it had never been opened. And as the knock-offs got up, he used the last of the beast's strength to break off his restraint. "Okay, who are you, and why do you look like ANBU?" questioned Dipper, "I know I allowed myself to be captured, but not to be gutted like a fish!"

With a little laugh, the ANBU knock-offs took off their masks. With that done, the main leader walked to the boy with a stern look and his knife, covered in light red flames, raised. "You do not need to ask any questions, just let us rip off those cypher pieces from you and we'll let you go...if you live after that, of course."

This had as much success as expected: Dipper grabbed the knife, kicked the boy's knee and quickly did a Snake → Ram → Monkey → Boar → Horse → Tiger hand combination. "Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique!"

Kneading some fo his chakra, Dipper expelled it, and it didn't took long before it turned into a giant fireball which was shot towards the raven-haired boy.

Unfortunately, the redheaded girl saved him at the last moment, the fireball continuing until it hit a tree, causing a small explosion. "First of all: what makes you think I'm gonna coöperate with you at all?!" what Dipper got for an answer was an angry glare from the raven haired guy, "And second: you never answered my question."

After being released by the girl, the boy let out a little laugh before answering in a stern tone. "I, am Sasuke Uchiha! Last survivor of the legendary Uchiha Clan! Former member of the now famous Team 7! And he, who will become, the next, hoka-" Sasuke stopped once he saw Dipper looking away with an indifferent look on his face, "ARE YOU EVEN LISTENING TO ME!?"

"Sorry, were you saying something? I lost interest the instant you continued to talk past your name." answered Dipper in a deadpan tone.

Sasuke, enraged, screamed and rushed towards Dipper. The boy activated his sharingan, predicting Sasuke's next move and counterattacking before he got the chance.

As Sasuke regained balance and landed on the ground, he looked at the boy more clearly so he could know if his eyes lied to him or not. It turned out that the boy really did have the Sharingan, which greatly amused him. "Is that the sharingan?" he questioned with a slightly amused smile on his face.

"So what if it is?"

Sasuke lets out a little laugh, which eventually goes on until it sounds maniacal. While Dipper and the white-haired boy get a bit worried about it, he orange-headed man looks indifferent while the girl looks on dreamily.

"The sharingan is part of the Uchiha family, only those that have had the eye transplanted or are of the uchiha clan itself have it. Now, the cypher piece you have inside could have given it to you, but in order for that to work, the piece must have the dna or be made from the chakra of someone from the clan. What I say is that we should work together, 'cause we are part of the same family!" his insane logic fell to deaf ears as Dipper once again looked uninterested. "Oh come on! You're ignoring me again!?"

"Dude, get this: if you talk past the answer I needed for my question, I can't guarantee that I will listen. Besides, your logic is just nuts: so I have something that's supposedly part of your family's unique stuff, why should I take that as reason enough to believe we should work together?"

"...You know what? I'm wasting my time talking with you. I might as well rip that cypher piece off your body and call it a day." Sasuke raised his arm, which got surrounded by light red flames, "Now stay still, and don't bother to scream! This is gonna be over soon!"

"You're right Sasuke, It's gonna be over soon." before finishing, Dipper's arms are surrounded by light blue flames, and both his eyes gain sharingans with reptilian-like pupils, "It's gonna be over soon, but for you!"

To Be Continued...