Insanity's Slip

Chapter Thirty

By Boejangles

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Oh and what a nightmare it was. The entire arena was filled with debris after a series of explosions erupted throughout the village. Naruto managed to push himself to his knees before the inky darkness began to crawl up his arms. A scream tore through his mouth as he threw himself onto his back and attempted to scrape the blackness off of him.

His attempts were futile as the thing, whatever is was, continued to consume him. He could feel it climbing up his throat and over his face. His back arched and a scream of pure agony left his lips at the tendrils of darkness shoved themselves into his mouth and eyes.

The youngest Uchiha lay completely motionless on the ground as chaos ensued around him. The boy appeared dead for all intent and purposes. And dead was exactly what Gaara thought the blond was as he approached him.

The red head had watched in curiosity as his opponent began to wither in pain. It was as if the boy's body destroyed itself. He had no idea why or how, but he really didn't care; he only regretted that he wasn't able to kill the boy himself.

He was staring down at the motionless body when pitch black eyes snapped open and black spike shot from the blonde and into his chest. It had moved too fast for his sand to react and it was strong enough to penetrate his sand armor. With a strange slurping sound the thing removed itself from inside him.

Gaara felt as though he was moving in slow motion. His hand moved to his chest and became wet. His hand moved in front of his face and he saw red. His brain took a moment to comprehend that he was bleeding; a part of him always thought he didn't have blood: he had never bled before. It was in complete fascination that he stared at his bloody hand. Even as he feel to his knees and then crumpled to his side, his eyes never lingered from the red substance. His own life source was the last thing he saw before his eyes slid closed.

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Kakashi was forced to dodge an incoming kunai that was intent on taking him out. With a quick flick of his wrist, he decided to return the favor- his target was not as lucky. It was in the split second that he was turning from one opponent to the other that he noticed a moving black mass down in the arena.

Quickly grabbing the man into a sharp choke hold that snapped the man's neck, he turned his attention back to the arena. Time seemed to stand still as the black being growled and began running on all fours as if a wild animal. It was in horror that he realized that the evil looking creature was in fact his youngest student.

Moving his head to the side quickly to avoid being impaled with a sharp object, his attention was drawn back to the fight.

"Naruto!" He heard the scream from his left and turned to see his pink haired student leaning against the stadium's banister as his chidori slid into the heart of an attacking ninja.

"Sakura, I need you to wake as many genin as you can and have them begin moving civilians out of the stands and danger," his voice was commanding in a way that seemed to bring a calming aura.

"But Naruto…" Sakura trailed off as her attention returned to the raging male.

"Is very dangerous right now and should not be confronted by you." Kakashi's voice held a finality that was not to be questioned.

The female genin gave a small nod as she finally tore her eyes away from the black creature that had run full speed up the side of the stadium. Biting her lip and shaking her head, Sakura began searching for any and all Konoha genin that could help in the disastrous situation.

Quickly eliminating another enemy, the silver haired male turned his attention back to his youngest student. Naruto had begun climbing up the pillars that went up the portion of the stand that held viewer seating and supported the roof. Tilting his head, he wondered just where the boy was going. Allowing his eyes to slide upwards, he noticed the purple shimmering wall that stood on top of the stadium roof.

As the small form rounded the end of the roof and shot itself full speed at the glimmering chakra. It was like watching a moth fly into a bug zapper. Kakashi's eyes widened in horror as the boy's body hit the wall and began to jerk violently as if being electrocuted by the mysterious wall.

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Orochimaru's complete focus was on killing his sensei before the senile old man was able to rob him of his soul. Shoving his sword further into the hokage's chest he was determined to win. He could almost feel the light leaving the older man's eyes when a large screeching explosion erupted to his left.

His attention diverted that direction and was quite impressed with the sight. His experiment in progress was attempting to claw through the barrier even as his body convulsed. His satisfaction in his creation was shortly lived as he experienced a sudden tugging sensation on his mind and his chest seemed to compress.

Moving his eyes in front of him, Orochimaru reeled at the satisfaction in Sarutobi's eyes. That was when the falling sensation began and everything began to burn.

-/-

Sarutobi had grimaced in pain when he noted a black mass flying towards the side of whatever barrier his old student had placed. The sound of the creature hitting the purple wall was the only distraction he needed.

Ripping out the last of his once beloved student's soul, he felt no satisfaction: only a sad bitterness at what had been lost.

The barrier crashing down all around him was the last thing the Hokage witnessed before the cold embrace of death welcomed him.

-/-

Crimson spotted silver hair weaved through the crowd leaving a corpse every few feet. The man felt the need to reach his student increase tenfold when the chakra that had been holding him in the air thrashing about dissipated and allowed the boy's body to drop out of sight.

Killing a sand nin and throwing the body over the balcony onto a sound nin that was fighting Asuma, Kakashi run up the same pillar Naruto has used previously to make his way to the roof. The sight that waited him was one he had not prepared himself for.

ANBU were in the process of detaining a group of what looked the be children, two ANBU were crouched above the Hokage with their hands glowing green, a silver haired male with glasses, who he vaguely remembered from the previous stage of the exams, was standing protectively over the already decaying corpse of Orochimaru while another set of ANBU were circling and preparing for an attack, and in the midst of the chaos the figure of a boy was crumpled on the roof.

A/N: I know, I know: you have been waiting forever and this chapter is barely a teaser. However, I figured instead of holding onto it and banging my head on the wall wait for the next part to come to me I would update it a little more with some new stuff I have an go ahead and give you what I had. I know what is going to happen in the near future, I am still just unsure how we are going to get there.

Thank you for reading and hopefully enjoying. Again sorry for the super long wait I could list out all of the very valid reasons, but I highly doubt you care.

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