I Do Not Own Naruto, BloodRayne or Inuyasha

A/N: After a long time, I finally updated but I will have to say I am cutting this story much shorter then I ever wanted. This is the second to last chapter as I have lost motivation for it and decided to finish it quickly before I lose my will to complete it entirely. As such this isn't how I wanted this to end originally as I wanted another arc but that isn't possible now.

Outside of that, I hope you enjoy this chapter and if you have it, you might want to listen to Frontline by Pillar while reading. That was the only song I was listening to while working on this chapter.

Screeching loudly as she lunged at her opponent, her claws dashed through his body only for her to pass through once more before a blow connected to the center of her spine. Slamming into the ground, she immediately turned and lashed out only for her opponent to mysteriously vanish once more.

Leaping back onto her feet, growling as she searched for any signs of him, she couldn't help but scream out as yet another of the ninja knifes pierced her flesh, this time in the back of her leg. "What the hell is this? No human should be able to stand against me!"

"You are an archaic life form that has existed for far too long… But I am glad that you have." Her enemy said as he materialized before her in a swirl of an orange glow. "With you… I can achieve my dream and unleash hell upon those who oppose me."

"So you are the ones he spoke of…" Ferril growled as she stared down the man before, her eyes narrowing as he now showed himself without fear of what she could do to him. "But you aren't too smart. Not only do you think you can control that monster but you just made your biggest mistake!"

Using as much as her banpai ryoku she could muster, she sprinted towards him to end this in one fell swoop. But she caught something in the corner of her eyes just as she was about to reach him. A giant scale-like sword was about to cleave her in two.

Leaping to the side to avoid being split, she was forced to jump into the air as the ground beneath her literally turned into spikes and nearly skewered her. But as soon as she leapt in the air she felt a powerful force slam into her yet nothing was seen. Skidding across the ground, grimacing from the blow she nearly screamed out as kunai began to strike her limbs and the plants around her rose and wrapped her torso and neck, pinning her down into the ground.

Thrusting his sword through her stomach as she struggled against her confides, Madara's lone eye gazed at the vampire below him. "And it was never just me you were fighting. You were fighting the entire Red Dawn!"

Spitting into his mask, being able to do nothing more, Ferril growled as the other seven began to surround her. "You worthless humans! You will get nothing from me!"

"Oh we won't… I beg to differ. Once he knows… I will have my final piece in order to revive Beliar." Madara responded as he began to go through hand seals as there would be no way for them to move her as she was.

Her eyes slowly started to widen before her she started to scream as her she felt her very being beginning to be pulled away from her and being brought towards the masked one.

Helping with the reconstruction of the village made him feel a little better. He had been part of the force that took this village by storm and it just made him feel a little better that he was helping them rebuild as this was his home at one time to and he still felt loyalty toward it.

So he was doing what he could for the village while spending time with his family and girlfriend. Yamato was doing most of the work but there were a lot of people that wanted to rebuild their homes and place of work how they wanted it to be. So he helped them and currently was helping Chouza rebuild his restaurant… As he kind of wanted to eat there once before they headed out.

The man could cook.

"What'cha doing?" Nibi spoke in a playful tone as she wrapped her arms around her lover's chest while she buried her head into his shoulder blades.

Most people would have jumped from such a sudden and unsuspecting sneak attack. Itachi however wasn't even flustered as he hammered the nail into the two by four. "Helping rebuild. I thought it would be good to help instead of roaming around, doing nothing."

"What's your real reason?" Nibi said, grinning as she knew him too well and knew there was an ulterior reason for him helping this particular person.

"Food… Good food. Even seafood." Itachi responded in fragments, immediately catching Nibi's interest with the last.

The said cat demon removed herself from his back before picking up a two by four by herself and placing it above Itachi's. The said weasel was about to comment that she shouldn't be doing any heavy lifting seeing how far along she was when she shut him up. "Work faster! I want my seafood now!"

Itachi dutifully complied, knowing her wrath better then probably anyone else did. While he didn't have much to fear, it was just best to comply as she could make his life a living hell if she didn't get what she wanted. …She could throw some of the biggest hissy fits he had ever seen… He thought Sasuke was spoiled when he had left.

Speaking of his little brother, Itachi glanced around as it was around this time Sasuke promised to take a break from his training and come help him so they could talk… Utter syllables towards one another. "Nibi… Have you seen Sasuke? He was suppose to be here by now."

Looking at her lover for a moment, Nibi glanced around then closed her eyes for a moment before frowning as she had heard Sasuke say that as well. Wondering what was going on, she lowered the two by four. "Huh… That's weird. I don't feel his presence within the village.

"What?" Itachi yelled as he knew of Nibi's sensory and if he wasn't in the village, where in the hell would he be?

It was at that moment Chouza came to them, hearing what they were talking about and being worried himself. "Chouji, Shikamaru and Ino were suppose to be training with him and a lot of the other gennin… Can you sense them either?"

Focusing for a moment as her abilities were dampened from Naruto's rampage ages ago, despite that her range was still the best among the bijuu, Nibi nodded as she found their presence. "I sense them near the Rice along with a group of pretty powerful shinobi… They're heading straight for Naruto and… Oh no!"

Itachi didn't wait for another word to be said. He knew exactly where Naruto was and if how Nibi reacted was an indicator…

Bad things were about to happen.

Working diligently through his papers now that he had his clones do most of the work for him, Orochimaru sighed in relief as this job was a little more relaxing, as it should be. All he had to do now was hand out mission statements, have meetings with his appointed elders, Tsunade and Jiraiya, along with top jounin within the village and finally to teach the gennin of the village respect…

He was getting almost no respect from them! Even his group started acting like the others! However after a little display of power and awe factor as he was a sannin, they were beginning to at least fear him.

In an instant he was on guard as he was ready to unleash a Shadow Snake Hand on the intruder only to groan as he knew who it was now. "Jiraiya… Could you please enter through the damn door? I swear if you don't one of these days I'm going to feed you to Tsunade."

"What this about eating Jiraiya? I only did that once when I lost a bet." Tsunade said as she entered through the door with a small stack of papers before dropping them on the desk. "These are from the hospital and to let you know it is up and running at maximum capacity once more."

"Tsunade… Gross. I didn't need to know about what you said before. I was happier before I knew you blew the toad over here." Orochimaru commented as he gave Tsunade a dead panned stare before turning to the said toad. "And you, what do you have for me? I thought you were going to be gone for a little longer as the Akatsuki has been rather quiet as of late."

"That's the thing… The Akatsuki seems a little different then before. They are easily to follow as they've been traveling as one." Jiraiya stated as he moved into the room and found a comfortable spot.

"Okay… That's disturbing. Eight super powerful shinobi are moving and working together towards one goal. …Must be to accommodate for Rayne incase they run across her." Tsunade grimaced as that meant they would be even more difficult to defeat if they all banded together at once.

Nodding as that was his first thought, Jiraiya sighed before he rubbed his temple slightly. "That is what I thought at first… But what I learned was rather disturbing… They are no longer interested in the bijuu. They've seemed to have found another way to awaken Beliar."

"What?" A new voice yelled before she appeared through the shadows, her red and emerald eyes gleaming dangerously at what she had heard. "The only way to awaken the heart is through reunited the nine to its altar and drain their power to it. Any other way would simply end in failure."

"Nonetheless, it seems they might have found a different way to do it. But what is odd is that they seem to be doing nothing other then collecting the pieces of Beliar. They are leaving no clues as to what they are doing and that is making it difficult for me to figure out what this new way is." Jiraiya told what he knew before slumping against the wall.

Narrowing her eyes for a moment and cursing that it was still in the middle of the day; Rayne flicked her blades forward as she gazed over at the toad hermit. "I will take care of this soon as dusk breaks. If they have truly found another way to awaken him, they must be stopped now."

"Now wait…" Orochimaru commanded as he looked over at Rayne, his eyes narrowed. "We don't know a thing about what they are doing. For all we know this could be a trap as I would suspect Madara knows you would act like this."

"Eight humans no matter how powerful they are cannot defeat me. Whatever it is he has planned, I will be able to overcome it… Just as I have done before. I have faced far harsher situations then something that man can come up with and I succeed where I should have failed. No matter what, when night ends it will be over." Rayne responded, flicker her blades back before checking her dragons to make sure they were loaded.

No one else spoke as Rayne turned and left in a blur and at that very same moment, Zaku and Kin nearly broke through the door to Orochimaru's office. Their action caught all of their attention as they were both panting heavily before Zaku spoke. "Lord Hokage… I have a message from Asuma, Gai and Kurenai."

"What is it?" Orochimaru responded as he looked at his young gennin team, wondering why they would be panicking like they were… Unless Rayne was attacking them. That was a reason to panic.

Regaining her breath, Kin spoke in Zaku's stead, who was still catching his breath. "A lone missing ninja breached our walls as he was…

"She…" Zaku interrupted Kin before she smacked him on the top of his head as he didn't know any better.

"As I was saying, he was only there as he was trying to get a message to you saying the Akatsuki were about to initiate the final part of their plan and capture Naruto. The jounin didn't believe them at first until he showed them what seemed to be a glowing bone in his left arm. After that they seemed to trust him and followed him along with all the gennin present while we were asked to come tell you." Kin reported what she knew of what happened.

If possible, Orochimaru's face paled considerably as he heard what Kin had to say. And without a second thought, he flipped over his desk as he stood up. "Jiraiya, Tsunade… Get as many fucking people as you can now! We're going to war! And tell Ibiki to bring some of the defectors with him! We're going to need everyone and entity we can possibly get."

Neither hesitated as they knew exactly what was going on and left in a hurry to call their shinobi to arms. Orochimaru turned to Kin and Zaku, his face devoid of all emotion as he gave them his orders. "Both of you go and tell Kyuubi and Gobi what is going on. They'll need to know and we'll need every helping hand."

Seeing the two bolt from the room, realizing something big was about to go down, Orochimaru slid a hand through his hair before closing his eyes. "If this is really happening… Will we be able to do anything in the end?"

Appearing in the hotel they were staying she walked into her room and pulled out her traveling cloak and just exited the room when Kyuubi appeared behind her with a look of worry. "Rayne… You know it as well as I do, your luck will run out sooner or later. You aren't meant to stop every great disaster that threatens this planet."

Only turning her head slightly so her emerald eyes was focused onto him, Rayne clinched her fists tightly as she didn't want to deal with him now. "I won't stand idly by and wait for the world to be turned upside down once more! If I go down, I will go out knowing I did everything I possibly could to keep everyone from enduring the hell I have gone through."

Almost taking a step back from her conviction, Kyuubi closed his eyes and nodded as he knew she would do this sooner or later. Sighing as he "Then I'm going with you whether you like it or not."

"Is that so?" Rayne said as she turned away from Kyuubi, a single tear rolling down her cheek. "Then I am sorry for this my love…"

All the wind gushed from Kyuubi's lungs as Rayne drove her left blade through his sternum before bring her right hand and caressed his cheek before kissing him on the lips. "You were the first to make me feel truly loved since Severin… But this is something I most do alone."

Pulling her hand away, she drew her right blade against his throat before slashing through, tears flowing freely as blood spurted from the fox's throat. Watching as he fell to the ground with a thud and hearing a scream, Rayne turned to the source to see Nibi and Yonbi, looking at her in fear at what they had just scene. "His wounds should heal by night fall… I must go."

Slipping into her cloak and covering her head, Rayne disappeared from the room, sickened by what she had just done. …But it had to be done. This wasn't for him or anyone else.

This was her job and hers alone.

It had been almost a week and they were almost finished with the clean up. The rogue Sound ninja weren't too difficult to deal with… They were just hard to find and attacked when least expected!

"Mental note… I fucking hate missing ninja!" Naruto yelled out in frustration as he ripped a kunai out of his shoulder as the sand rolled off the now deceased ninja and back into Gaara's gourd.

"Well at least we are through with them." Yugito commented as she watched Naruto's wound regenerate, being hypnotized by it for a moment before recovering. "Nearly all of the ninja that were joining the leaf for a new start have already made it and we've eliminated the trouble makers and war mongers."

"Besides, you are only complaining as he hit you from behind and you aren't use to being hit that often." Gaara added on smirking as Naruto glared daggers at him and was undeterred by his friend's gaze. "Not to mention you have been in a really bad mood lately. So what's eating you?"

Naruto's first reaction was to flick Gaara off and then to tell him nothing. But that never worked against the damn sand user and he would pursue the problem until it was solved… He was worse then Yugito was! "I don't want to talk about it… Let's say I just have too many things on my plate and leave it at that."

While knowing this to be true, Gaara was tempted to leave it at that and let Naruto be. But something seemed off as he normally very upbeat and he just hadn't been in these last few days and he really wanted to know why.

It seemed Yugito had an answer for him as she neared Naruto, somewhat downtrodden as she felt to be the reason why he had been acting so off-beat lately. "Does it have to deal with what Gobi and I said before we left?"

Sighing as he turned to Yugito, giving her look that pleaded for her to let him be, Naruto closed his eyes. "It isn't just that… I admit that you two didn't help me then, but I can deal with it for now… There are just some things that are bothering me and I have had a bad feeling ever since we headed out."

Yugito winced at his words, hearing that she was part of his problem right now. That brought her mood down further even if she knew both Gobi and her deal wasn't the entirety of what was wrong with Naruto.

Looking between the two, seeing now both weren't in good moods, Gaara was really wondering what the hell to do. He knew leaving Naruto alone would eventually solve his problem as time seemed to be the only thing to help him. However if Yugito started to act as she was now, she wouldn't feel better until Naruto did.

Gaara's first solution to this was to entrap them in his sand until they kissed and made up. That option in the end unfortunately ended with him being mauled multiple times by the two. His next was to wait it out and hope it worked itself out. He could go with that for now but if they didn't start being more like their normal selves…

Turning his head as he heard something, he frowned as he scanned through the forest. While he couldn't see anything he knew something was there. Narrowing his eyes at this, he stopped moving and his sand began to pour around him from his gourd. "We have company… Decidedly not friendly."

Flicking his blades in place, sensing the same and prepared himself for combat, Naruto gazed around before growling as he couldn't see a thing. "Dammit! These guys are good! …They definitely aren't the same ninja we have been dealing with!"

"Then who could they be…" Yugito was suddenly cut off as she barely moved back to avoid having her chest pierced from a kunai, her clothing being ripped from the said weapon.

At that exact moment, Kisame rushed from the shrubbery behind Yugito, Samehada in full swing descending towards his skull. Her eyes widened as she felt his presence and knew she wouldn't be able to react, too caught up in the sudden attack.

Samehada fell short as a blur of black and red flashed in front of her and Naruto's twin blades met the scale sword. Grinding his teeth as the strength behind the blade was far more then what he was expecting, the dhampire began to flow his energies into his arm to gather more strength to repel the blade.

But at that exact moment a spear of earth flung straight for him only for a thin layer of sand to suddenly interrupt it just inches before it pierced his stomach. The sand didn't act as much of a barrier as it pierced through it but it gave Naruto enough time to slide underneath it as he activate his Super Speed and slip to the side of Kisame's strike before jumping up and delivering a kick straight to the fish man's jaw bone.

The kick knocked Kisame into the air and Naruto was ready to move in for the kill when he was forced to jump to the side as a man materialized beside him and a blade shot out from his cloak, almost stabbing him. Rolling away, surprised the man before him was able to keep up with him while he was using Super Speed, Naruto growled as he instantly recognized who the man was. "Uchiha Madara… What brings you and all of you Akatsuki bitches here?"

"Watch your tongue boy or I'll kill you now!" Fuguku growled out as the other members waiting in the shadows slowly made their presence known.

Seeing the seven before them, Naruto, Gaara and Yugito did not feel very good about their chances. Madara on his own would be difficult but Fuguku, Kisame, the man known as Pein, Zetsu and their three new recruits, Akanami Rikimaru, Kazekiri Rei and Uzuki Yugao made the situation almost hopeless. Their only chance was to carve out a path to escape or pray that Rayne or Kyuubi was heading their direction.

"Let him say what he wants. It matters not." Pein responded as his lone eye gazed over the three young teenagers while an eye patch covered the eye he had lost from Deidara's explosion.

"I would say you were here for Gaara… But something would tell me I would be wrong." Naruto growled as he formed a protective triangle with Gaara and Yugito. "If I had to say… You are here for me, but why? I'm not a vessel any longer."

"Smart boy…. But we no longer need the demons to succeed in our cause. All we need is your red haired mother… And the best way to bring her to us is to have you." Madara answered his question before tilting his head back at him. "But I'm surprised you didn't come running to us. I thought your connection with that vampire would have alerted you to what happened? I was so sure you would."

Naruto's appearance visibly paled at what he had just heard. Not only had they said their goal was to capture Rayne they had… "You… You caught Ferril?"

"Oh she put up a good fight but against all of us she stood no chance. That is expected when eight of the strongest ninja alive band together and work as one." Akanami replied as his legs swayed in the wind as he sat on the tree looking down onto the three.

"Stop acting so tough, Rikimaru. You would have been sliced into pieces if you were involved in the close range battle." Rei responded, almost directly underneath the said Akatsuki member, glaring daggers at him before bring her focus back upon the three. "Now you can make this easier on yourselves and come with us."

"Or we can do this the fun way and I get to cut off all of your limbs." Kisame grinned, showing off his shark like teeth while he placed his rebuilt Samehada on his shoulder, giddy at the idea of tearing their arms and legs of with his sword.

Cursing at them, knowing his options were limited, Naruto growled as he looked back at Gaara and Yugito. If they weren't here he could possibly escape this situation through luck and sheer will. But with them here, there was only one way to get out them out alive.

Catching Naruto's gaze, Yugito narrowed her eyes and backhanded him. "Don't even think about it! We'll find a way out of this! We're not going to let them take you from us!"

"It seems your comrades don't value their lives too much. Pity, I didn't want to shed your blood. I only wanted Itachi's." Yugao stated as she drew her ninjato and was ready to strike at a moments notice.

Hissing from Yugito's hit, Naruto looked over at her and was about to yell when Gaara intervened. "I have to agree. I rather die then let you fall into their hands. And even if you did go with them… What makes you think they would spare us when they have what they wanted?"

"It seems you have made your decision… I guess we will have to take you by force." Madara stated shrugging his shoulders as a fight seemed inevitable despite seeing Naruto was ready to hand himself over to keep them safe.

Growling as this was not going his way and there would be no stopping this conflict, Naruto held his left blade close to his right wrist to make the cut so he could have quick access to his most powerful attack. That was going to be the only way they could create a large enough path to escape.

"NO YOU DON'T!" Rikimaru quickly caught this action and flung three kunais towards the dhampire, a loud snap being heard from the speed they generated heading towards.

Before they could even connect a large green shield erupted from Naruto and surrounding not only him but both Gaara and Yugito, knocking the kunai back. "I'm going to try to create a path so we can run. It is the only chance we got so get ready."

Letting go his barrier, Naruto leapt as his blade ripped through his wrist and just as he was about to let it flood out his eyes widened as he felt someone behind him. "Too slow boy!"

Barely being able to reflect Yugao's ninjato, Naruto tried to release his attack before Madara gripped his right wrist. "I don't think so. I know all about your and Rayne's attacks."

"Then get ready for this!" Naruto yelled as yet another shield pushed both the two back before he focused his aim down towards Rei and Rikimaru. Blood erupted from his wrist in a violent wave but quickly took the form of a roaring dragon as it soared towards the two unsuspecting Akatsuki members.

Both jumped form the path as the bloody dragon tore through the trees, decimating them on contact before it turned and headed straight for the others trying to move and block the path. But before it could Madara suddenly appeared beside it and with a single touch the blood seemingly disappeared, ending their chances of escape.

As he landed, Naruto couldn't believe what he had seen. The elderly Uchiha had use some sort of space/time jutsu and simply sent his dragon else where and only price he paid was his hand had been crippled by the blow as Madara flicked his hand, seeing that it wasn't functioning correctly.

Being so caught up he was not able to react quickly enough as Rei made her way behind him, her skin covered in a thin layer of rocks. Yet before her hardened fist could connect, Yugito gripped her wrist and growled as she drove her fist into her forehead, piercing through the armor and knocking the woman back. "You will not touch him!"

Sand quickly rushed towards the downed Rei only for it to be blasted away as Pein jumped in her way, holding his hand outstretched to stop Gaara's attack. Kunai began to rain down onto Gaara but his sand easily protected him from such attacks before quickly tossing them aside to allow them to explode as each had notes attached to them. "The only way we are getting out of here alive is we fight as one entity, protecting one another and combining our attacks!"

Seeing both Gaara and Yugito step in for him, Naruto nodded as he prepared himself for the next attack as they backed into their defensive triangle once more. They didn't have to wait long as Kisame barreled towards them, Fuguku flanking him as he went through the proper seals before breathing a gigantic dragon of pure fire.

Erecting yet another barrier to block the flames, Naruto stepped aside as Yugito stood beside him before taking a deep breath as breathing a stream of blue flames just as he let down the shield. Fuguku cursed and was forced to jump above the attack before using a replacement to avoid the shards of sand while Kisame swung his sword into the flames, absorbing the youki filled flames.

But as he did so Naruto was at his side, drawing one of his blades into his arm before driving his knee into his gut. Kisame grunted before attempting to elbow Naruto back when Yugito advanced onto him, jumping over his blade and smashing her fist into his face. As he hit the ground Naruto attempted to drive his blades into the downed fish before being knocked away by an invisible force.

Gaara immediately lashed his sand out towards the Rinnegan wielder before the man jump away as Yugito knocked Samehada away and mounted Kisame and began to unleash a barrage of punches into his face and chest when they weren't guarded. She was however knocked off as Naruto knocked her away as a kunai nearly stuck into her temple.

Kisame rolled away as the leaves shimmered for a moment around them as Yugao charged in with two shadow clones flanking her sides. She went straight for Yugito as she got onto her feet and having no weapons would have difficulty dodging her deceased fiancé's attack. But before she could reach him sand lashed out from Gaara but with a flick of her blade she knocked it away without difficulty.

That however was a distraction as he clones disappeared in a flash of black and red before the same flash appeared behind her. Sensing this Yugao flipped and floated over the dhampire and thrusted her blade down. Countering with a single swipe of his blade, Naruto formed a Rasengan in his other hand and leapt towards her, attempting to ram the blast it into her chest.

Yet a kunai struck the orb and dematerializing it before spikes of earth rose out towards Gaara and Yugito, both forced to go airborne. At this, Akanami screamed out as they fell for his attack. "Fools! Now suffer my trap!"

All the kunai that he had been throwing suddenly rose into the air, connected to some sort nearly invisible razor wire and formed a deadly web above and below them. Gaara immediately reacted and destroyed the sand below but those were the least of their problem as the web above was grabbed by an unknown force and pulled down towards them.

But before it could reach them, a single being with two katanas jump before it and in a second the wires were suddenly torn to shreds. Naruto's eyes widened as he instantly recognized the one who had destroyed the web. "Daisuke!"

Landing next to him, Daisuke grinned before he held out his two blades before him and towards the Akatsuki. "I owed you a favor for clearing my mind, Uzumaki. You saved my life and I will be damned if someone were to take your life before I can thank you for that!"

"Goddamn kid! Get out of our way!" Fuguku yelled out as his katanas were pointed towards him and he took offense as he went through hand seals before the sound of chirping caught his attention.

In the very next moment he was forced to jump back as Sasuke jumped before him, his palm filled with electricity and anger written on his face. "You will not take another step towards him or my friends! You will not take anything more from me!"

Stunned to see his youngest son standing before him, Fuguku barely had any time to react before he caught the boy's wrist and avoided such a lame death. "I don't know why you are here… But you are in my way son!"

Before he could do anything further a wildly spinning Kiba in his Piercing Fang collided into him, breaking his grip of Sasuke and knocking him back. Landing next to the Sasuke, Kiba grinned. "Looks like I saved your ass, Uchiha."

"Where the fuck are these kids coming from? Rikimaru I swear if you were jacking off again instead of keeping look out…" Rei yelled out furiously before shaking her rocky fist in the general direction she knew the Akanami was in.

"I didn't know! I can't see shit outside of this damn mist rolling in combined with the thicket of god forsaken bugs and trees!" Rikimaru responded, giving away his position as a slow mist began to roll in while Sasuke and Kiba backed their ways to Naruto's small force.

Glaring at the two before simply giving Daisuke a dirty look, Naruto turned his focus back onto the Akatsuki members before him. "Daisuke, Kiba, Sasuke… If we survive this, I'm going to kick all three of your asses. You have no idea how tough these guys are."

"Well, we did bring reinforcements if that comforts you." Sasuke blandly commented as he gave Naruto a glare for a moment before setting aside his irritation for getting scolded for coming to help them.

"How did you even know we were in danger?" Yugito asked as the Akatsuki seemed to have momentarily stopped their assault in order to find out what happened as one of their eyes had been blinded.

At this, Kiba grinned as the mist fully covered the area leaving them enough visibility of their opponents. "Well… A very hot girl came and told us that you were going to be in trouble so we came."

"Madara! We have trouble! Momochi and a group of Konoha gennin and jounin are here!" Zetsu responded as he emerged from the ground, looking rather alarmed as the sudden turn of events.

Frowning underneath his mask, he shook his head. "It doesn't matter. The eight of us can still take care of them we'll draw out Rayne with the boy. Now attack!"

As soon as those words came from his mouth, he was immediately forced to move as a giant blur of green decimated the ground were he had been standing seconds before. And in that exact moment another green blur appeared by him and forcing him to fade out of existence to avoid being pulverized.

Appearing away from them, Madara tilted his head awkwardly before a loud and boisterous voice yell from the cratered ground. "It is I, the Azure beast of Konoha that has come to save the day and show all the youth the brilliance of their vigor!"

"And it is I, the Green beast of Konoha that has come to help my master and protect a good friend!" Lee proclaimed as he stood by his master, being the blur that nearly hit Madara in the air.

The beasts' entrance aside, Yugao was the first to make a move and slashed her blade towards the group of teenagers, an ethereal wave suddenly slashed towards them. Gaara's sand rose and withstood the blow before Naruto jumped over it as he pulsed his youki into his twin blades. "Two can play it this way!"

An x-shaped waved flashed from his blades and straight to Yugao, who ducked and rolled before racing towards the airborne blonde. She didn't make it there as her ninjato met a single trench knife. "How you have fallen Yugao… I'll be sure to send you to him."

"Fuck you Asuma!" Yugao roared as she pushed him back with all of her strength before she was suddenly knocked back as Asuma used the force of her push and drove his leg into her chest.

He didn't have time for another attack as Kisame brought his sword down onto him, forcing him to roll away from the blow as he was pretty sure being cleaved in two would kill him. Bringing his trench knife to the large man's leg, he found it suddenly deflected as a kunai coated in wind.

Cursing as he wasn't expecting that, he jumped back only to realize the length of Samehada was too great. It never reached him as a blade of equal size met it as a single warrior wearing a tilted mist headband with a scratch through it blocked it. "Goddamn Konoha ninja… This big fuck is mine!"

"Ah, Zabuza." Kisame grinned as he looked down to see his old comrade before him. "It was too bad that you didn't join us… But I think I'll enjoy this more. I always wanted to know which of us truly was the best."

"You got that right, fish face. That was the main reason I didn't join your pathetic group… Other then I just didn't like the sound of world domination. That has a bad ring to it." Zabuza grinned as he looked up at Kisame, glad he would have a chance to cut the big guy into pieces before the end.

"Naruto." Haku's voiced echoed before the said ninja appeared through a mirror that formed directly behind the blonde. "Is everyone here alright? Any injuries?"

"None that I can think of… But what the hell? Where did you all come from and how did you know this was going to happen?" Naruto yelled out before Fuguku and Rei charged towards them just as a swarm of bugs swarmed around them.

Fuguku burned them to a cinder and Rei burst forward, ripping a large chunk of the earth out of the ground and tossing it towards them. Before Naruto could forge a barrier, a wall of mirrors formed before it and the two shattered on impact, allowing Naruto to form his barrier. "We had been tailing them to figure out what they were planning and we finally stumbled on it when they captured that vampire and we knew they would be coming after you next so we came here to help you… And get some reinforcements."

"Just great… Incoming!" Gaara dryly commented before his sand walled off the barrage of kunai only for him to be shocked as they pierced through.

Yugito pulled him out of the way just in time but one struck and stuck into his thigh. Ripping it out and growling as Shukaku didn't heal him very quickly, he glared at those standing around him. "We have more then enough people now! We need to go on the attack to drive them away!"

"I agree." Naruto quickly responded before calculating what was at his disposal, counting the other gennin waiting for their chance to jump in. "Sasuke, take Yugito, Daisuke and Haku to attack your father. Watch out for Amaterasu and never look him in the eyes otherwise you will be in an instant! Gaara, you and I will take on the rock chick! And someone tell Shino and them to find the plant fucker as he has been leaching our energy!"

"Aren't you forgetting about me?" Pein stated as he stood before them, grinning as he held his hand straight at Naruto.

"Oh fuck!" Was the only thing he was able to say as he was flung back and skidded and skipped across the ground.

Growling as he picked himself up, Naruto stood up before his eyes narrowed as he watched Sasuke try to engage him in hand to hand before he knocked him away before blasting Daisuke and Yugito away from them. With that single act, Naruto Stop Time and used it to get as close to Pein as possible before releasing it and driving his blade into the man's gut.

A gasp of air rushed from Pein before growling as he focused the gravity around him and repelled the blonde and others away from him, creating a crater beneath as he stayed afloat above it. Regaining his footing, Naruto grinned at this development. "Change of tactics! Sasuke, take Gaara and Daisuke to deal with your father. Yugito, you and Haku will have to deal with the rock bitch! This one is mine!"

"I'm not a bitch!" Rei countered and tried to attack Naruto before a mirror deflected her blow as many others began to form around her, encircling her in a half sphere.

Entering the closest mirror, sliding into it, Haku's image appeared in it as Yugito stepped on the outside of the semi-globe of mirrors. "Alert me when my window for me to attack arises. I doubt you'll be able to finish an opponent of her caliber on your own."

"Let's find out." Haku grinned at the challenge as his image began to multiply within his mirrors.

Rei immediately knew something was wrong and attempted to bolt when Haku began his assault, moving mirror to mirror as he pelted her with senbon. It mattered not as her armor dealt with it and even if it began to chip away, she could rebuild it as there was always plenty of minerals around rebuild it.

Surprised by her speed and the armor, Haku immediately called out for Yugito's help as there was no way he could stop her from exiting. "She's getting away! Kick her back in!"

"You've got it!" Yugito ran to intercept the ex-rock ninja, her speed being greater and stopping her just before she got outside.

But as she tried to strike her, Rei moved ever so slightly that her blow failed to connect before driving her fist into Yugito's gut before she grabbed onto Yugito's visible cat ear and smashed her face into the mirror.

Just as the moment, Haku jumped out of the other mirror and drove a senbon into the back of her neck. It penetrated the soft armor of stone but it didn't do enough damage as Rei twirled around and attempted to catch him off guard with a haymaker but Haku duck below it and placed his hands onto her stomach before she was blasted back by a rapid saturation of her armor before it froze and shattered with some applied force.

But Rei simply slammed back into the mirror and bounced off it before Yugito grabbed her ankles with her tail and with a single flick, tossed her back into the semi-sphere before following with a burst of blue flames to try and break the rest of her armor as Haku remerged with his mirrors and was ready to begin a new assault.

Rei was unable to move as the flames died around her, her rock armor flaked off as she slowly rose. Gnarling as the two younger girlswere beating her, the youngest woman to ever to be declared an S-rank shinobi, a dangerous glint came from her aquamarine eyes before she screamed out and her chakra exploded around her. "You will not defeat me!"

In that exact moment hundreds of spears erupted from the ground and spread around her, obliterating the semi-sphere of mirrors. Neither Haku or Yugito knew what hit them.

Haku was first hit by one as it ripped through the right side of his collar bone follow by yet another grazing his left forearm and yet another pierced his stomach and knocked him back. Yugito was hit dead center in the chest as it went through before another graze her right leg before a swirling sphere of chakra deflected the rest.

"KAITEN!"

Stopping his heavenly spin as the barrage of spears ended, Neji looked back to see how the two were before grimacing. "Sorry I was late… Kurenai told me to come help as she deals with their sniper and genjutsu specialist and I saw you need the most help."

"Never mind that…" Haku growled out as he cut what didn't pierce his flesh of the spear off before looking over at Yugito, seeing her crying out as her spear had landed in a more critical area. "We have to hurry this quickly so I can tend to her… She won't make it very much longer."

Neji simply nodded as he took his stance, staring down Rei as her stone armor began to reform. "Then I'll end this…"

"YOU FUCKING BRAT!" Fuguku screamed out, catching a lot of attention as Daisuke caught his armor and nearly sliced it off with his katana before he managed to knock the kid back. "You have pieces of Beliar within you? God dammit! That explains your strength and speed!"

Jumping back as Sasuke ran to his side with two kunai in hand, the first thrown to his father's face in a feint as he went to stab the other kunai into his hip to hinder his movement as he was beating them with his speed and experience. Fuguku saw this however and caught the kunai thrown and attempted to drive it down into his son's back only to find his arm wouldn't move as sand wrapped around his shoulder.

Yelling out as Sasuke managed to deliver the kunai on target; he kicked his boy away before blasting the sand of his shoulder with a focused chakra burst. But then Daisuke was on him and he was forced to use the kunai to deflect his flurry of slashes with his katana, all the while having trouble with the constant rain of sand around him.

To make things worse, Gaara also was engaging him as the Shukaku vessel emerged from the sand that was now beginning to fill the forest and complemented Daisuke's slashes with strikes of his own. Getting annoyed by these two as his Sharingan was keeping him a step ahead of either as Sasuke began to charge for a Chidori, Fuguku knew he had to end this now.

Seeing a small opening, he pushed Daisuke into Gaara before jumping back as his eyes began to slowly morph into a new form. "I didn't think I would have to use this against kids like you… But you are strong for your age. But now it is time for you to die! Amat…"

He was unable to finish his attack Pein crashed into him, covering in cuts and slashes. Naruto stepped forward, not looking to great either and heavily panting despite finding the weakness in his attack was having a hard time getting around that one fucking attack and kept getting blasted by it. "Now, now Fuguku… Wouldn't want to be wasting that on them would you? Am I not your real target?"

Growling as he tossed Pein aside, pissed the man was bleeding all over him, Fuguku growled as the demon spawn stepped before him, looking cocky as every. "I was going to use it against them… But now since you offered yourself…"

"THIS IS QUITE ENOUGH!" Madara yelled out as he stood in the middle of the battling and in his left hand hung Yugito from the back of her shirt's collar. "You all call yourself members of Akatsuki! All I see is a bunch of grown men and women struggling against children and their teachers! Not a single one of you is worth calling a warrior! You are all worthless!"

"Each of you disappointed me so as of now, you will all perish when I summon Beliar!" Madara growled out before he turned to Naruto before holding up Yugito in a mocking manner. "As for you boy, if you wish to save this girl come to my base and bring you mommy with you to."

Naruto attempted to flash in beside him but Madara knocked him away with a single kick and sending him skidding. "It isn't too far from here so you shouldn't have any problem mind it. But I suggest you would hurry. It won't be long before she bleeds out."

With nothing more to say, he dispersed into a swirl of orange similar to his mask. Watching this in horror, Naruto's entire body began to tremble as the combat slowly began to die down, no one wanting to continue after hearing what had been said.

The first to say a thing was Fuguku as he spat out in anger and was ready to march to the base to take Madara out himself. "I may be many things, but worthless is not one of them. That bastard will p…"

He was silenced as Sasuke pierced his hand through his heart with Chidori, his eyes narrowed as he looked up at his father's shocked face. "He won't get the chance to kill you… You took everything from me and I will be damned if you will do any more damage to anyone else! This ends here!"

Ripping his hand out of his father's chest, Sasuke's three tomoe slowly began to morph as his father fell to his knees and once he heard the thud of his collapsed body, his eyes had fully morphed into a six point Mangekyou before he looked down at the corpse before moving straight to Naruto. "We've got to go after him. We can't let him do whatever it is he has planned."

Naruto didn't respond as he seemed glued to his spot, his eyes flickering with fear. Frowning as he saw this, Sasuke drove his fist into his temple, knocking the blonde to the ground before he reached down and gripped his collar, lifting him up and looking straight into his eyes. "Snap out of it! She's one of the people you fight for, right? If you don't get the fuck up now you are going to let her die!"

As soon as he had said that, something seemed to register in Naruto. However, what it was took Sasuke off guard as he was suddenly whisked away and found himself in his brother's grip. "Shit! Not now! Naruto calm yourself!"

Everything within miles was suddenly coated in green as Naruto stood in the center, his entire body rigid as the power coursed through his very being while his skin turned a deep grey coated with a thin layer of slime. Anything and everything nearby was suddenly blown away and torn from the ground as his visage began to change before their eyes.

His features became more canine by the second as his body was quickly coated by a layer of fine fur. His muscles began bulging and reforming as two large, leathery wings with fur on the backside ripped through his upper clothing off. His lower half was taken care of as tails ripped through them, totaling at eight.

Roaring as his transformation had been completed, the oppressive mist of energy receded back to him as he sniffed the ground. It seemed he found what he wanted and immediately took flight with a great burst of wind and blazed to the north, hell bent on catching the one that took his neko from him.

As soon as he left, Kiba was the most vocal as he yelled. "What in the blazing hell was that? I've never seen or heard of anything like that ever!"

"That would be Naruto's fully transformed state… A mixture of his demonic and vampiric natures." Itachi announced as he followed the trail that Naruto seemed to be leaving behind him. "This is the third time that he has ever summoned it as it takes not only both sides to cooperate, but he and his dark side half to agree on one single thing… And I would be guessing it would be to save Yugito."

"Well then… Why in the hell are we waiting here? Let's go. He is going to need all of our help." Gaara announced as he stepped forward and began to follow the path Naruto had headed, remembering what had been said earlier when they were ambushed.

"Dammit… He's right. With him heading straight for him, there is no doubt that dhampire chick is going to go there and he'll use her energy to activate Beliar's heart. And if that happens… We're all dead." Pein groaned as he picked himself from the ground before he ripped off his Akatsuki cloak.

"Oh shit!" Orochimaru said along with a now healed Kyuubi, Tsunade, Jiraiya and practically every able bodied shinobi that Konoha possessed. "Rayne already has headed out to stop him! She didn't know he was what she was after!"

"No… She knew." Kyuubi responded as he looked off into the distance before shedding his open shirt. "She knew it was her he wanted and she went after him, planning on ending this on her terms… But I think she knew she would fail this time."

Digesting everything that had been said, everyone stood quietly. The end of the world could very well begin tonight? As the silence became deafening, Rikimaru threw his Akatsuki cloak away before grinning. "Okay… That's it. I'm fucking going out with a bang, anyone with me!"

Stepping forward and throwing her ripped cloak down, Rei stood besides Rikimaru and nodded. "I'm with you till the end. I promised to stick with you till death do us part."

"Count me in." Kisame grinned as he tossed his cloak off before glancing over at Zabuza. "Sorry old friend, but I think this takes precedence over our little feud. It was nice knowing you."

"Fuck you. I'm going with you. I'm not about to let you take the glory for yourself!" Zabuza responded before he slid his head cleaving sword behind him.

"I think everyone feels the same." Kyuubi stated as his eyes began to glow a deep crimson and his visage became more feral. "Anyone that wants out, all the injured stay behind for healing and anyone that doesn't want to die just yet, get as far away as you can! Tonight, we battle death!"

Appearing in his lair, Madara sighed as he laid the unconscious girl next to the chained vampire. That had not gone as expected, but none had so far so he should have figured something like that would have happened. Nonetheless, he had to prepare as he knew an entire force of shinobi would be descending on this place very soon.

"Took you long enough to get here. I've been waiting for hours." Rayne spoke, her two different colored eyes gleaming as she stepped out of the shadows with her blades flicked open.

Madara was taken back for a moment at Rayne's sudden appearance. Yet despite that he didn't even bother turning to face her as he pulled his mask off. "Should have figured you would have already been here too."

"Not having a good day, my love?" Rayne said as she stepped towards him as he moved to place his mask on the altar of Beliar's heart, acting like she use to when he came home. "This place has barely changed… I should have figured this was where you were based at. …This was our old home, after all."

"Could you stop taunting me? I've had a hard day. Let's just finish this." Madara stated as he finally turned towards, his face withered with rotting flesh and bones clearly beginning to show.

"What is your true plan, Madara? I'm quite sure me killing you isn't part of the plan." Rayne said as Madara bent down before her, holding his head down as if he was ready to be executed.

He simply shook his head as he closed his eyes, a slight smile on his face as it was about to all be over. "You will see soon enough… Now kill me. This life has grown too long for me."

Rayne knew something wasn't right about this. All of this seemed wrong. The Madara she knew was never like this and was always confident and willing to do whatever he must. But to give up his life just like this… He wasn't one to give up.

"Hurry otherwise I will continue my plan and not only will your son die, but so will everyone else you seek to protect!" Madara yelled out as he suddenly lunged at her, almost looking like a zombie ready to bite into her flesh.

Against her better judgment, Rayne quickly beheaded him with a single swipe. His body fell to its knees as his head seemingly began to slowly float towards the ground. "Thank you my love… And my you live in the hellish nightmare I wished to create! As with my death, your energy belongs to Beliar!"

Her eyes widened as his blood splattered onto the floor, ancient runes began to spread around the entire room, coating every single inch before the all converged right beneath her. She attempted to utter a cry, but it did not come.

Instead their old home was filled with Rayne's screams and a dark, evil laughter that seemingly became louder and louder.

A/N2: And with that, that is the end of chapter eighteen. The next chapter will bring this saga to a conclusion and I hope you have enjoyed the ride so far despite the wait between updates. However, the final chapter won't take long as I need to get this over with so it should be out in a week or two unless unforeseen delays stop me from finish it.

I hope you enjoyed the battle as that was rather enjoyable for me to write. There is even a little comedy within it which made it even better as it was one of those 'Ah God Dammit' moments along with a few other things thrown in. I did however cut the non-essential fights, Rikimaru/Kurenai and Asuma/Yugao as they were difficult to add and had no real point.

Anyways, if you have any questions leave a review or something and I will get back to you. If you want to flame… I don't really see why not to. This story is practically over and if you hated it that much… How in the hell did you get to this point?

So farewell for now and the final chapter will be out soon. Peace Out!