He remembered the moment precisely. He could hear a ticking clock.

“Time has run out,” he said to himself.

He clenched his fist.

“Are you scared?”

He turned his head towards the voice.

He couldn’t see anything. It’s been this way for a long time now. He was slowly going blind. He was scared. However, he wasn’t going to tell this stranger.

Of course not!

He was a demon lord after all.

“Tsk. You’re weak.”

The intruder walked around with an indifferent attitude.

He growled as all his front teeth were shown. However, if you looked closely you can see that there were little cracks on the top of the teeth and they weren’t really sharp anymore.

The intruder laughed as it pointed to him.

“You are going to help me whether you like it or not….”

He laughed at the intruder’s naivety.

“Your Sharingan won’t work on me, Uchiha-scum.”

He spat the word out as he moved farther away from the intruder. His once great tails now only drag behind him as he tried to make himself more comfortable. He was getting old. How the hell did this happen and can happen? He thought he was immortal! No, he is immortal. Wasn’t he? No, only humans died . . .NOT DEMONS. Especially a demon lord. . .No he wasn’t getting old.

The intruder must have been daring or a complete idiot. It touched the demon’s long old tails as it chuckled to itself.

“Uchiha-scum? Huh? I guess it works. HA! No, demon I have better things to do then destroy a useful fossil.”

The intruder jumped away as one of long tails attacked it. It chuckled again as it started dodging so easily that when it raised it arms to attack, he didn’t even have a chance to counter. It roared as the whole cave that he lived in start to collapse around him. It laughs—was it just him or did it do that a lot--as the rocks started to hit him. Even though he might be turning old, those little insignificant rocks couldn’t do anything to him. However, it chuckled again as it started to make some symbol and suddenly the rocks turned to sharp edges as it cut through the demon’s skin. He roared as he started to move back and forth. Unfortunately, it just made things worse as more rocks began to attack it. He roared in aguish as he tried to move away from it.

The intruder laughed again as it lifted its hand. He grew scared as he tried to move back. He couldn’t believe that he, the great demon LORD, was scared of a human. However, everything that lives and breathes learns to fear sometime in their life and this was his. He let forced laughter out as he gave it his full attention.

“Ok, whatever you are I will help.”

The intruder chuckled again---god did the intruder ever get tired of doing that----as it formed another seal with its hands as the rocks went back to where they were before and from the cave again.

“Good I’m glad you volunteered to help me.”

The creature’s eye twitched as he nodded. Stupid human! As soon as he finds any weakness in this person, the demon was so going to enjoy destroying him. He let his full broken teeth show as he heard it speaking.

“You know…now do you believe in time travel?”

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Chapter one

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“Sasuke!”

As the two collided into each other, a quick silence fell on them before a huge explosion surrounded the forest. Kakashi bit his lip as he felt the over use of his Sharingan start to wear him down. He didn’t have time to think as he dodged to the right as he saw another Chidori make its mark where he stood a minute before.

“You know something Kakashi-sensei you might have made the Chidori, but I made it better!”

With that as his only warning, Sasuke raised his arm within a blink of an eye and hit his sensei over the head. As Kakashi watched his world go dark, he noted two things that were there: Strings with different kind of colors attached everywhere on Sasuke, and his student was acting like he did before he came back from killing his brother.

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Everyone was stiff. Another team was sent to find the rest of Team 7. It didn’t help that no one could find the Iwn nin army either. And the results weren’t good. Also it didn’t help that Anko and Sakura were going through the whole town breaking anyone who said that the rest Team 7 might be dead. God, don’t dare even say a word about that whenever they were around the Hokage. If Anko and Sakura were scary when anyone who spoke about that subject was either beat up to a pulp or attacked by snakes. So excuse them if they were scared silly into not wanting to deliver any news to Team 7 about not finding anything over and over again. Because neither snakes nor punches were any match to a full pledge demon holder and no one wanted to stand up against that. So that’s why the team that just came back from looking for Team 7 were drawing straws. Too bad for Shikamaru and lucky for the rest of the team he choose to pick the short straw. Everyone patted him on the back as they watched him go towards the Hokage tower.

“Troublesome,” was the last thing they heard as they watched his Jounin vest disappear into the surroundings.

The rest of the team left towards their homes to rest and get ready for anything.

Especially to save Shikamaru’s ass just in case Naruto couldn’t hold back his frustration.

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He ran a hand through his hair as he let a sigh escape his lips. How could he have let this happen? How did the fool land back where it would help him? He needed to kill him before his plan was discovered.

“I will not lose! I’m so close to finding it….”

He glanced over his shoulder as a wicked smirk formed on his lips.

“Oh Sasuke-kun? Do me a favor and bring your sensei here. I need him to do me a little favor.”

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Shikamaru delicately took his time to walk very slowly up the staircase. He started chew his lip in nervous habit whenever he had to go against Naruto Demon Holder Hokage. Not only was it too troublesome to deal with, but also Naruto scared the shit out him when he acted like that. Not that he didn’t like Naruto, he didn’t mind hanging out with him and they actually became close friends. Everyone loves the blonde and he kept peace for as long as the Jounin could remember. He would die for his friend, but sorry, he drew a line here where it crosses the demon mode. He let s sigh out as he reached the top faster than he expected.

“Will here goes nothing,” the pony-tailed ninja said to himself as he went down the hall towards the big door.

He about to reach it when the two doors pushed open, and speak of the devil, there stood Naruto. He wore a big grin as he turned around to meet Shikamaru eye to eye. The raven gulped as he opened his mouth, but before he could say anything Naruto made a big ‘whooping’ sound.

“You heard the great news too! Don’t worry I’m going to hospital right now to see how Team 7 is doing.”

As Shikamaru watched the hyper Hokage run past him to the hospital he looked up and gave a quick ‘thank you’ as he too left to see the remaining member of Team 7.

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Kakashi felt like…he couldn’t think of nice word to describe how he felt now. He slowly opened his eyes, but closed them again when the sunlight hit his eyes. He let a groan escape his lips. He tried to move his finger but the only thing that happened was a sharp pain that went through his whole body. He didn’t bother to try moving again. Anyway, as he was about to go back to sleep the door slammed opened and Naruto’s loud voice filled the room. Kakashi cracked one eye open to come face to face with blue concerned eyes.

“Kakashi-sensei, are you OK?” asked Naruto.

He was about to answer when the door slammed open again and in came Gai.

“Ah, my youthful rival! I heard what has happened and I here to make you feel better!”

Kakashi groaned as he tried to make run from the inevitable challenge that his so-called “rival” was going to announce, but before anything like that could happen Naruto came to the rescue.

“Actually, Gai I was wondering if I talk to Kakashi-sensei alone for awhile.”

“Oh course, Hokage!”

Both Kakashi and Naruto watched Gai leave.

“So, Naruto what brings you to my side of the hospital?” asked Kakashi as he got as comfortable as possible.

Naruto brought his hand to his pocket, but before he could pull out what he wanted to show him, Kakashi caught his arm and pulled it towards him.

“Where did you get these strings, Naruto?”

Naruto looked down at the strings wrapped around his whole arm. He remembered Yoanga telling him it was important that he had them, but didn’t explain more than that.

“Yoanga.”

“I don’t trust him,” Kakashi told Naruto bluntly, which made the blonde look at him like he had grown two heads.

“Why not?”

“I think he’s working against us!”

“Whoa… Kakashi-sensei! I think you’re jumping to conclusions!”

“Really? Did you see what was wrapped around Sasuke when he attacked me!”

“What are you talking about? Sasuke didn’t have any strings when he came back,” Naruto answered, feeling puzzled by his sensei’s words.

Kakashi slammed his hands on the bed as he growled under his breath. Not knowing what was wrong with Kakashi, Naruto thought it was better to leave him alone. Kakashi watched the blonde leave and felt a little guilty, but he just knew that something was up and needed to be on the alert.

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The more days Yoanga stayed in Konoha, the more paranoid Iruka felt. There was hardly a time where Iruka would walk around a corner, or walk down a street, just minding his own business and then, BAM, he’d run into Yoanga. Not that the man was scary or anything, but it was hard to ignore him, since he never acted nice to anyone. He was only nice and only seemed gave a darn about was Naruto’s generation. This attitude was not attractive to people, and it seemed that was the way Yoanga wanted to keep it. If that was so, then why is the man following him? At first he tried being nice to the man since Naruto seemed to respect him. On the other hand, the man didn’t give the impression that he wanted to be friends at all. Whenever he did speak, it was always rude.

Anyway, it came no surprise to Iruka, when one day, after a tiring day at the Academy, he went to get a bowl of ramen only to find Yoanga already sitting there. To exhausted to start conversation, the raven sat down on the chair next to him. Then the thought crossed his mind that Yoanga had some qualities that they shared and were different. For example, they both had a scars across their noses, but Yoanga had more scars across his cheeks like little ‘X’s. Also, they both had brown eyes. Well, he thought Yoanga did even though they were unfocused and diluted. It was kind of freaky when he looked straight at you and it looked like he can read your soul. He had long brown hair that went down to his knees, which he would sometimes tie in a ponytail.

It reminded Iruka of a Samurai hairstyle. His own hair was long, but if he let it loose, it would go down to his shoulders. Those were the only the similarities they both had. Everything else was different. While Iruka was shy, soft, mother hen, had a welcoming attitude, and would die for his love ones, Yoanga was his opposite. He cared for only a small group of people, was a warrior, wise and uptight. It scared Iruka a little bit, but they were like Yin-Yang.

“Do you believe in time travel?” Yonaga asked, suddenly, snapping Iruka out his thoughts.

Iruka studied Yoanga to see if he was pulling his leg, but he was serious. He couldn’t help but snort.

“There is no such thing as time travel.” He couldn’t help but laugh at the idea.

Yoanga eyes tapered as he said, “Never say never sensei. The impossible can happen. Look what happened to you.”

Iruka’s eyebrow rose up as he about say something when he heard a chuckle behind him.

“Yo, Yoanga, you should know that it’s my job to tease the sensei.”

“!” both of them stuttered in surprise as they eyed their new member.

“Yo.” Kakashi waved at the two, as he gave a wink to Iruka.

Iruka blushed as Yoanga snorted and gave the man a wary look.

Kakashi’s expression was neutral as he put his hands in his pockets. He gave all his attention to Iruka. He smiled under his mask as he got to work.

“Sorry Iruka. I need you to leave without any worry.”

“You know, sensei, I know that you been checking me out.”

Iruka eyes widened in shock as he stared at the silver-haired Jounin. His only visible eye did its usual ‘u’ look when it was happy.

“Sorry, but even if you’re cute, I wouldn’t turn that direction.”

Iruka whole face turned red as he tried to speak.

“However, I don’t mind sharing a bed. My door is always open for you, sensei.”

With one more wink from the masked nin, Iruka made a noise that sounded like a squeal as he started to run away from the two least likeable people in the world now.

Yoanga barked laughter as he turned his attention to Kakashi. “That was way out of character for yo…” He smirked as he felt a kunai against his neck along with a little bit of blood trickling down. He let dry laughter escape his mouth as he crossed his arms. Gasps could be heard around the ramen stand.

“Or maybe not so out of character. Hmmm…Copy Nin?”

Kakashi didn’t react to the name as his Sharingan spun violence in his eyes.

“I don’t know what you are up to Yoanga, but if you hurt anyone, and I mean Iruka too, you will find out howin character I can be,” Kakashi growled into Yoanga’s ear.

Yoanga’s smile turned to a frown as he looked at Kakashi with an unreadable expression.

“What makes you think I want to hurt anyone, fool?”

Kakashi face became hard as he hissed the last sentence.

“Don’t play dumb with me. I know the strings that you used are the same ones that I saw attached to my student Sasuke.”

Yoanga eyes widened as he turned his head towards Kakashi, but the Copy nin wasn’t there anymore. The only thing left was a little something to show that grey-haired Jounin meant business.

He let out a sigh as he scratched the back of his head.

“Ok, that just complicated stuff just a little.”

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Sasuke wasn’t having a great day. Every part of his body ached for some reason or other. Also, something big had happened.

“Oh Sasuke, it’s time to play.”

He felt his eyes activate his Sharingan as he started to work.

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Yoanga let out an aggravated noise escape his mouth. This was getting to a whole new level of annoyance. He let his fingers twist the string in his pocket as he walked into where he knew the market was and where trouble usually landed for HIM. He let a wicked smile spread across his face.

“I’ve been through hell and this will not stop me.”

He quickly moved his face to right as he felt something cut his cheek. He growled as he let his eyes dance around however, as it seemed today was the day that people choose to attack his weakness. Anyway, there was always a message attached to every attack. This attack was simple enough to translate:

We are watching you.

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Yoanga was getting the point beyond annoyance to plain frustration. He had the urge to pull his hair out or just kill everyone in this forsaken street. Why was it that everyone chose today to keep a close eye on him? He couldn’t even go the bathroom without feeling someone follow him…ok maybe he going crazy because that person might need to use the bathroom. There was only one person to blame…Kakashi. If he ever sees that man again he was going to make him suffer. Maybe he would steal Kakashi’sIcha Icha Paradise and burn them in frontof the Jounin while he was hanged upside down. An evil laughr escaped his mouth as he continued to think of ways to punish the Copy-nin.

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Sasuke watched the market street with a neutral expression. He was sitting on the remade Hokage Monument with the idiot face attached to it. Something twisted in Sasuke’s stomach as he watched the peaceful market street, but this time his eyes narrowed and he felt a frown form. Flashbacks started to rush into his mind when he was brought back into village. As everyone praised Naruto as a hero, he was left to felt humiliated, and an emptiness of not fulfilling something. Then to feel even more disgraced, he was put into prohibition for the rest of his life of doing only D-ranking missions. He had to work with GENIN for crying out loud! When Naruto became Hokage, he took off the prohibition and let him become Jounin. Then again everyone praised Naruto for how he was so nice to be so generous to the last remaining Uchiha. He didn’t need pity from anyone! He could have gotten the Jounin rank without the idiot’s help! He could feel his Mangekyou Sharingan activate as his anger, jealously, hate along with the feeling that no one was on his side. It didn’t help matters when he somehow could see a clear picture of Naruto laughing and having a great time with one the many friends he had. He just knew one thing he wanted was Naruto to feel the same way he did when he dragged back against his will to a village that felt more like a prison than a home to him.

“I agree, Sasuke. Use your Mangekyou Sharingan on Yoanga!”

Without even second thought, the raven went though the hands signs.

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He felt weird as felt something wrapped around him and suddenly he felt himself being pulled into darkness.

Yoanga knew something was wrong when the chatter of people in market place suddenly turned into no noise at all. He became alarmed when he could see a scene appear in front him.

His hands were covered with blood. He stares at them with dazed look. He could hear the chaos around him, but that didn’t bother him. All that mattered right now was the blood on his hands. There shouldn’t be blood on his hands. There shouldn’t be any…he slowly let his eyes go down and follow the blood.

He should have listened to him. He should have known when that weird man came into his life that it was all for the better. However, without seeing the oblivious warning bells, he again lost someone precious to him. He could have saved him. Now it was too late and everyone blamed him. Will even if they didn’t, he did.

He could feel the tears run down his cheeks as he still stared at his hands. He should have died.

A strangled cried escaped Yoanga’s mouth as he felt tears form.

“No…No…NO!”

He screamed as he took out a piece of sting from his pouch. He let the string wrap around his finger and then he attacked.

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Kakashi was beyond suspicious and he knew it wasn’t wrong for feeling that way. Yoanga was a ‘questionable’ person. Where the hell did he come from? Why does he dress like a mummy? Where did he get those strings? What is he doing here? What is his connection to everyone?

He was snapped out his thoughts as he heard an explosion and felt then saw the demon charka of Kyuubi. Somehow he knew his questions were going to be answered as he ran towards the chaos.

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Iruka didn’t know what he did wrong. He thought that Yoanga and him had found a common ground and were somewhat friends. Will maybe not friends just yet, since the incident from the ramen stand might not count as friendly terms. Yet, he thought he should at least try and be friends because Naruto wanted them to be friends. So when he saw the man walk right passed him without even a word of sarcasm or witty remark, Iruka thought he should at least say ‘hi.’

That backfired when Yoanga suddenly attacked. Iruka didn’t have time to react when the man was holding him tightly around the neck. This was the first time since he met Yoanga, that the brunnette felt fear. Yoanga had a crazy look in his unfocused eyes. Without warning, Yoanga pieced Iruka in the stomach. A scream escaped his mouth as Yoanga threw him away like a rag doll.

Yoanga didn’t get far when he dropped Iruka as he suddenly felt stuck in place. He let his eyes drop down to see that his shadow was caught. He roared as he tried to get unstuck. Shikamaru gritted his teeth as he tried hard not to break the jutsu, while Ino went to get Iruka out the way. Luck was on Shikamaru’s side as reinforcements came to the rescue. He let the justu go with Neji and TenTen as his back up, he attacked Yoanga. However, it was too late as Yoanga blocked the attack and sent Neji flying into the building next to them. TenTen, worried about her teammate, ran towards where Neji had landed to check to see if he was all right.

Yoanga, on the other hand, took this time to attack everyone there. He would have succeeded in killing everyone there if a shield suddenly hadn’t blocked his attack and it wasn’t just any shield. Everyone’s eye snapped behind them to see an extremely angry Hokage. Naruto was in his demon form with four tails and red slit eyes looking straight at Yoanga.

They both roared as they ran towards each other. Everyone got out of their way before a massive bubble-like thing swallowed the two.

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Sasuke was enjoying the scene below as he sat on the Monument. He didn’t bother to go help down below when it seemed so desperately needed. He didn’t flinch when he saw and felt Naruto’s demon charka form. Nope, he got more comfortable as he watched the scene get tenser below. He about to fall asleep when he saw the bubble that formed around the two combatants. Sasuke’s eyes widened, remembering something similar happening to him also.

Naruto knew he was crying, but inside he just burst into fire. Well, that was far from the true, since the demon fox was consuming him, and he could feel his teeth turn sharper and his pupils turn into slits.

Sasuke on other hand, had a million thoughts crashing on him as he watched the animated charka form turn into tails and change the color of the background of his Sharingan. Trepidation was the only feeling other than numbness that took over his body as he said the first thing that came from his mouth.

“What the hell…are you?”

“A...friend.”

Something weird snapped inside the Uchiha as he felt his hands were already ready to drop the Genjutsu.

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Far down below from where Sasuke was Yoanga felt an abrupt jerk as he jumped away from the angry Hokage. His urge to fight stopped, as he knew he had done something wrong. It wasn’t Naruto’s demon charka or chaos around him. No, it was the feeling that someone was controlling him, and that he knew all too well who that was. He shivered at the thought.

“He can’t be alive! I was sure I killed him,” thought Yoanga as his unfocused eyes moved everywhere as he tried to single the other person out, but he forgot that he was currently in a battle with pissed off Hokage.

He soon remembered when Naruto was holding him by the shirt, and he could feel the animated demon charka wrap around himself. He could feel himself suffocate under the charka. He knew Naruto was going to kill him.

“Naruto, wait! I c-can explain,” Yoanga tried to say.

Naruto let his actions speak as Yoanga’s breathing became short. Kyuubi was enjoying himself until he felt his charka being drained back into him. Naruto started going back to his normal form. He dropped Yoanga as he turned away from him.

“You have a minute to run. Before you count as a traitor and I send ANBU…”

Yoanga understood what Naruto meant, but he didn’t want things to end this way.

“Naruto---”

“LEAVE!!!!” Naruto screamed as demon charka started to reform around him.

Yoanga didn’t get a chance to say anything else as the ground opened up and wrapped tightly around him. Yamato, with the rest of Team 7, minus Sasuke, stood protectively next to Naruto while the other teams were standing by ready for anything. Yoanga knew the only way that Naruto going to trust him again was if he found the answer to this problem. So he closed his eyes as he let his charka strings attach itself on the wood around him. Yamato shocked, let the jutsu go as Yoanga disappeared before landing on ground.

Everyone gasped in shock, but Naruto was already on it as he turned to Kakashi and ordered, “Get him sensei! I’m sorry I didn’t believe you before, but make sure you do not lose him. I think he was working with the enemy.”

Kakashi ruffed Naruto’s hair then he bit his finger and summoned his dogs. Pakkun in front like always was going to say something when Kakashi cut him off.

“I want you to find Yoanga. When we find him I want you guys as back up.”

“Wait, Kakashi-sensei, you should let one of us go with you as back up,” Sakura interjected.

“No---”

“Naruto, Sasuke is missing!”

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Sasuke didn’t know why he was running away, but the bag on his shoulder couldn’t explain anything else only that he should run away. Why he didn’t do this sooner, he didn’t know. He still didn’t have an answer now 300 miles away. Finally, when he took a break from running he sat under a tree and put his face in his hands.

“Why did I do that?”

“Because you were mistreated! You should have done worse and you can.”

Sasuke’s head snapped up as he tried to find the voice.

“Who the hell are you?”

“You know who I am. Anyway, I think it’s be better if I’m in control.”

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Snow danced around Yoanga as his unfocused eyes looked up in the sky. A bittersweet smile crossed his face as he started to plan. He knew that he had to get rid of Kakashi to get his plan in motion. So he crossed over into Snow Country as he prepared for the inevitable attack from Kakashi. He knew that he was behind the suspicions of him being an enemy. He just needed to slow down the Jounin, so he could finally get his real plan into motion. He didn’t care anymore about warning Iruka. If he could just get him away from Naruto then everything would fine. With his sensitive hearing, his guest arrived and didn’t seem to care for stealth as hand full of kunai were thrown at him. He skillfully dropped on the ground, rolled over and stood up immediately into a fighting stance.

“Is that the best you can do Kakashi-idiot?” He taunted.

However he didn’t get any response. Actually, he couldn’t hear anything. Everything was dead silent and it scared him. As he search frantically for Kakashi, he didn’t see a shadow behind him. His eyes widened as felt his blood spill over on the ground as his knees gave out and he doubled over. He quickly grabbed his strings as he blindly threw a hand full around him. He brought his hands up as he rapidly went through the known jutsus while he started something like a little prayer.

Suddenly, the strings became alive. Like a snake hypnotized by the snake charmer, it rose high. Yoanga’s head turned behind him as his eyes widened larger.

“Sasuke?”

His middle finger twitched, as it was the only warning, he dodged to right. His face twisted into disgust, as he blocked the next attack with his arm. Yoanga glared into the infamous Sharingan of Kakashi as he pushed down the kunai. He gritted his teeth as his Sharingan eye narrowed down his opponent who was on his knees beneath him. He knew that he shouldn’t trust this person from the beginning. The strings were just an example of what this person was capable of doing. As his anger started to rise, his Sharingan slowly started to change and Yoanga could feel a shiver go down his spine.

“No it can’t be…but I thought…I guess the only way to know is to use that attack,” Thought Yoanga as he brought his hand that wasn’t protecting himself as he pushed his own charka into it.

Kakashi felt something tug on his foot as he lowered his eyes down toward his feet. That was all that Yoanga needed as he lifted his leg and kicked Kakashi under his feet. Kakashi landed ungracefully on his back as Yoanga put one foot on him to hold him, while strings started to wrap around him. Kakashi started to struggle as he tried to get lose from the string. Strange enough it was so thin that Kakashi’s strength should break it. Actually, it started to get tighter as he struggled harder. This frustrated him, as his Sharingan suddenly was a burden more than a help.

“What the hell are you?” Kakashi yelled.

Yoanga unfocused eye softened as he took his foot off Kakashi and started to walk away. Kakashi watched helplessly as an enemy that could bring him down with just a piece of string, walked away. However, he did remember something that brought a grateful smile to his face. He scanned the area for the fallen kunai that he attacked Yoanga with.

Three minutes later, Kakashi had freed himself and pursued Yoanga with his pack of dog nin spilt up do the job that he had told them to do. However, Pakkun had refused to leave him and persuaded Kakashi into going with him after Yoanga. The look that the dog gave who usually liked to put words that no one said into their speech made Kakashi thankful for having such a loyal friend.

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Kiba hated being on guard duty; it was no fun and nothing unusual happened. Not that he was complaining about the latter part but it just so…boring. As he heard a noise to his right he turned to see that Akamaru had just woken up from a nice nap and was ready to go back to sleep when Kiba hit the over grown dog on the head.

“Hey! If I have to stay awake for this then you should too!” Kiba yelled, annoyed that his dog could sleep on the job and he had to stay awake.

The dog gave him a look like ‘that is your problem’ as it closed its eyes. Kiba huffed as he leaned against Akamaru. His eyes started to slowly close, but he shook his head to wake himself. Even though sleep seemed like a good idea, and he was so bored that sleep was a more entertaining than doing his duty, but Kiba knew he couldn’t do that. He would never live it down if something happened while he fell asleep. It would eat himself from the inside out if anything happened to his friend because he was so bored to keep watch. A sudden image of a shy Hyuga came into his mind as he thought what would happen if he failed to protect his friends. His whole face became red as he quickly shook that thought out. However, no other thought was given to that when Kiba sniffed the area. Even Akamaru was alert and growling.

Silence fell over the two as three agonizing seconds went by. If Kiba didn’t jump out of the away then the big hole where he was standing would have been him blown into a million pieces. Kiba jumped on top of Akamaru as he quickly went to warn Naruto of a sudden attack.

Kiba was too late as his eyes widened at blood gash on Akamaru legs. When that happened Kiba didn’t know, but all he knew was that he couldn’t go anywhere and his friends were in trouble. He immediately got off Akamaru and checked his friend to see if the injury was serious. It was a serious one and there was another one near the dog’s heart. Kiba eyes widened in alarm as he put his hand on the spilling blood.

“Don’t worry Akamaru. I’ll get help,” He whispered, reassuring Akamaru as he got ready to attack.

“Leaving already, dog breath?”

Kiba turned his head around as his eyes first widened and then narrowed.

“Sasuke,” he said in disgust. “I should have known! Traitor!”

The last Uchiha leaned against a tree a couple of feet from the duo. His arms were crossed; his eyes were closed and an aloof atmosphere was around him. Kiba had a sudden flashback when they were thirteen years old of Sasuke doing the same pose he was doing now.

“Hn.”

Sasuke’s eyes snapped open as his Mangekyou Sharingan locked with Kiba’s eyes. Kiba eyes widened as he felt himself get caught in the Genjutsu. Too bad Kiba was too caught up in the genjutsu to notice Sasuke strike him in the heart. As Sasuke stepped over the dying dog master, he made his way towards Konoha with an army of Iwn nin as the massacre began.

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TBC….

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