Italics indicate thinking

Bold is for attacks

Deidara's POV

"Hmm~" I titled my head "Almost done…"

"You've been almost done for the last six months." Kurotsuchi said.

"This time I mean it." I said "This will be my Masterpiece…no peeking."

"Masterpiece, I thought your masterpiece was that crater in the middle of nowhere." She said.

"No, this will be my new masterpiece!" I said grabbing your curtain "Now gaze on its beauty, I call it, Stone Maiden!"

I yanked the curtain down and watched her face.

"So…what do you think?" I asked "It took a while to get the face right."

"Deidara…" she glared "I'm gonna kill you!"

"But it's a perfect imitation of you." I said.

"IT'S HALF NAKED!" she screeched "It's just a big clay model of me in a towel!"

"Exactly, and I feel it mimics you to perfection." I nodded.

"RAHH!" she took a swing at me.

"Hey now no throwing punches at the artists please!" I backed up.

"You're such a piece of crap!" she ran at me.

"Alright see ya." I stepped outside and slammed the door behind me.

"Deidara!"

"Hmm~ Perhaps that wasn't my best work." I tapped my foot "Huh?"

I looked up when a shadow was cast over the village, a huge flaming boulder was coming right for us.

That's not good.

"HA!" I threw a model down "C2: Dragon!"

These have been coming more frequently lately…what's going on?

Kale's POV

After ending up at the endless sun ocean in the cave was used Sai's ink beasts to fly towards some of the floating islands. This place was strange, it wasn't an illusion, but the sun was artificial and the islands floated in the air.

It didn't take us too long to find a town, but by the looks of it the place had been long since abandoned. The place had been sacked, half the buildings were burned or crumbling and there were discarded tools all over the place.

"This place is strange." Fu noted.

"Yeah." I nodded "Something happened here but whoever did it seems to have cleaned up every trace of ever having been here."

"Do you think it's the same guy who kidnapped Hanabi?" she asked.

"Possible." I nodded "Can't say for sure though."

"Well this seems like a dead lead." Fu shrugged "we should head back to the others."

"Agreed." I said walking with her.

It didn't take us long to find the others, everyone but Naruto and Hinata that is, those two were still off exploring for clues. Still we ended up at an suspicious tomb so Sai went to recover Naruto and Hinata.

"Can you read what it says?" Sakura asked looking at a crumbled statue.

"I'm not sure, half the sentence has crumbled away." I said "There's something about an oath…and something called a…Tenseigan being the fist of the moon."

"Think that's what's moving the moon?" Shikamaru asked.

"Probably but I can't say for sure." I said "I've never heard of a Tenseigan so I don't really know what it does."

"Then Sensei was right." Sakura said "Hanabi's abduction and the moon are connected."

"It's more likely than not." I affirmed.

The floor suddenly rumbled and Sakura was forced to step back as a passageway appeared in the floor.

"Shall we venture forth?!" Fu cheered.

We headed into the small dark passage. It emptied out into a larger room full of coffins and stones.

"It's a crypt." I remarked.

"Someone's here!" Hinata yelled.

"Hmm!" Shikamaru held his lantern up and illuminated the back part of the room, there we got a view of a man in robes, he looked old and disheveled with long hair and a ratty beard.

"I can sense it." He remarked "The Byakugan…Princess."

"Look." I said holding my hand up and making a glow form "He has no eyes."

"Maybe bugs ate them." Fu shivered "I hear they do that, he looks half dead as is."

"BLEHH!"

"Watch out!" Fu yelled backing up as the man dropped to his knees and opened his mouth, a light emanating from it "He's gonna shoot a laser!"

"Get serious!" I yelled "What are you five!"

The light formed into a ball and let off a bright flash, the stunning light only lasted a moment but it was enough to knock Hinata out cold.

"Hinata!" Naruto caught her before she hit the ground "What did you do to her!"

"The Tenseigan…has been revived." The man mumbled before his body collapsed and started to melt into a puddle "It must be stopped or…Otsutsuki will…"

That was all he said, he never finished. We checked on Hinata quickly before heading back to the upper level of the tomb.

"Hinata are you okay?" Sakura asked.

"Yeah…I'll be fine." The girl nodded.

We decided to take a break for a bit, to rest and recover, while we were relaxing Shikamaru asked to speak with me,

"He said Otsutsuki." Shikamaru noted speaking with me alone "That's the surname of the Sage of Six Paths."

"Yes…Hagoromo Otsutsuki." I nodded "The moon was supposedly the husk of the original Ten Tails, so what is it's relation to Toneri and the Byakugan?"

"That man called Hinata the Byakugan Princess." Shikamaru said "This is all is too close to not be connected."

"I concur." I shook my head "That doesn't make it simpler, it's not as though I can just call the Sage up and ask him."

"You're supposed to have been his reincarnation or something like that." Shikamaru said "Don't you have some sort of soul memory of it?"

"Th…That's not how it works." I growled "That's not how any of this works!"

Later

We checked a few more of the surrounding villages, we still came up with no traces of Hanabi or Toneri. We were quickly running out of time, the moon was rapidly accelerating towards Earth and we needed to stop it soon.

We found a small forest and pasture and decided to make camp there for the night, we were all exhausted and frustrated, we needed a good sleep to relax and refresh. That lasted all of an hour as Naruto and Hinata wandered off, only for the later to get kidnapped and the former to nearly die in an explosion.

Something good did come of it though, we finally knew where the hell we were.

"We…we're on the moon." Sai said looking down at the hole that had been blwo open in the floor.

"How'd we get way up here?" Fu wondered.

"That cave with the crab was probably some sort of passageway." Shikamaru said "It must have transported us up here."

"To great such a space time transfer is incredibly difficult." I said before looking back "Sakura, how is Naruto?"

"All his Chakra is just…gone." She said "Healing him will take all night."

"Wiating to help Naruto means we lose the trail of Hinata." Fu said.

"We don't really have much of a choice." I said.

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