Alrighty dudes, back to some action! ewe

Off to the side is a picture of Hana, Keio and Akamaru I quickly put together X3  ;u; Aren't they adorable? Except Keio, Keio's classy~ =3=

Also, yes, this is very, very late... I have not been updating recently, so I hope you all will forgive me, highschool is... Tiring. Very, very, very tiring. ;-; So much work... So. Much.. Work... I'm starting to think I might as well put TPC on hold T-T  Ah, well, wish me luck with it all, I've already been taking several exams and tests every week -___-

Enjoy!!

***Akisha's POV***

I stared amused at the panting Kiba. Akamaru whined at his side, nudging him to get up. "Shino, I think you went too far." I observed as Kiba stayed on the ground. Hinata looked at him with worry. "Kiba, do you want any help?" You could see his head shake 'no'. Somehow I was unconvinced. I patted Hinata's shoulder to calm her, mouthing 'watch this.' I looked back to Kiba. "It's been forever since I trained with you, and you're already down? Tsk, guess that makes Shino better than you. Hell, it probably makes Naruto better than you-" Kiba hopped to his feet, waving his arms. "I'M UP! I'M UP!" Shino through all of this, had been near the trees in the training grounds, inspecting insects.

It's good to know some things don't change at all. Kiba walked over to a stump with Akamaru by his side, leaning down to sit against it. "I let Shino win.." He mumbled, an apparent pout claiming his lips. He snapped his head towards me. "And we didn't have to invite you along!" I crossed my arms. "Nor did I have to come along." It was true, having them startle me awake by banging on the door and then my mother running to tell me my friends were here... Well... It led to someone getting pushed out the window... Again. Hinata titled her head towards me. "So why did you Kisha?" I smiled, motioning to her and Shino. "I missed my teammates-" I looked to Kiba, motioning at him. "-And of course, I missed Akamaru." 

Kiba would have fell over had he been standing. Akamaru barked happily at me, making Kiba glare. "Who's side are you on?" Akamaru whined, looking away from Kiba. Shino turned to Hinata and I. "Will you two spar now?" Hinata and I faced each other. "Sure?" "Okay.." Shino nodded. "Kisha, you remember the rules. No forbidden techniques. Stop when told to stop. Do not inflict damage beyond repair. This applies to you too, Hinata." We both nodded to Shino's monotoned voice.

I looked around first, seeing the trees of a forest surrounding the training grounds. A small pond over by the left side. Kiba, Akamaru, and Shino near the right side. Hinata and I walked more towards the middle, facing each other. "Ready?" Shino asked, looking between us, still by Kiba's side.

I pulled out several needles, and focused my chakra to coax my body. Hinata activated Byakugan, standing guard. Shino brought his arm down through the air, signaling us. "Begin." I ran at Hinata first, throwing a needle from one hand. Not too shocking, she dodged, moving to the right. Flash stepping behind her, I slashed at her. She rotated making a chakra ball form around her. I flew back from the force, but caught myself easily. 

Hinata jumped at me, swinging her chakra filled hands my way. I dodged each one, moving back and back. After the fifth dodge, I swung my leg out, catching hers and letting her drop to the ground. I took the moment of advantage to swing down the needle, aiming for a pressure point to lock her body up. Hinata rolled away, getting back to her feet and evading the move. "Is it me, or did they get... Good?" Kiba whispered from the sidelines. I wanted to reply with a cocky sentence, but Hinata took her moment now, appearing besides me and sending me flying with a hit. 

I could have stopped myself when an idea appeared. I let myself continued to skid back, reaching the forest line. I jumped up to my feet, dodging left when Hinata threw another hit. "Whew! You got better." I laughed out. Hinata sent me a tiny smile. "As did you." The light conversation blew away in the wind, to reveal the now determined face of Hinata and myself. I raced towards her, aiming a punch that she barely dodged by leaning back. 

She retaliated by kicking me. Instead of blocking I took the kick, getting flung deep in the forest. I landed on my feet, wobbling to regain balance. Good, now I have the time. Hurrying, I summoned up Hana. "Akisha-Sama! Is there something you need?" She asked, almost surprised. Not that I blame her, I don't summon her too often. "Hana I need you to Henge into me! Keep Hinata busy, do not actually harm her!"

Hana nodded sternly, smoke suddenly appearing around her, leading up in the air and then leaving for me to see a perfect clone of myself. I nodded, an approved look on my face. "Very nice." Hana cocked a grin, before looking off to the right. "Shall I go?" I nodded again. "Remember not to speak, you don't sound like me." Hana took off after that last bit of advice. I spun around, looking up in one of the trees. "Now Keio, do the same as Hana." Keio jumped down from his hiding spot, a curved smile on his face. "Oh Kitten, you spotted me? Damn, here I thought I could enjoy the show." I crossed my arms. "Now Keio. Remember, try using the same amount of chakra as me so you can fool her." Keio sighed, smoke appearing around him to then reveal a clone of myself. "GAH-KEIO-THAT'S NOT FUNNY!!" I yelled in a hushed whisper, sheilding my eyes from my own body. "What? If you're naked then it should distract-" "KEIO!"  "Fine." 

He poofed in to a clone of myself, with clothes this time. I sighed at the cat. "Now then, your job is a bit different, I want you to act like me in hiding, coming out when I yell OUCH just like that." Keio, or 'me' titled his head.  "And where exactly do I hide Kitten? Hiding from Byakugan is a bit different than a normal ninja." I looked down at the ground, then back to him. "Well if you conceal your chakra for the most part and hide underground... Heh?" Keio sighed once again. "...I'm only going underground because that's easiest with my earth chakra nature, if I didn't have earth than I would not be doing this." I rolled my eyes. "Stop being so scared to get dirt-" He glared, silencing me. Wow, my glares are actually scary? 

He performed a small jutsu, opening the earth and proceeded to hide within it. I ran towards the line of the forest where it met the training grounds. Hana and Hinata still fighting closely, but you could tell Hana was playing it safely. Kiba, Akamaru, and Shino watching, highly interested. I dug within my pouches, praying that I had the scroll with me. 

Ah! Found it. I smiled, pulling out the trusty scroll. I rolled it out, summoning the puppet, Sutinga. "It's been awhile, my friend." I whispered, touching the smooth iron of it. "I'll only use you for a bit." 

I connected the chakra strings and forced some chakra to my eyes, enhancing my vision. I jumped back, pushing myself deeper in to the forest again, by Keio's hiding spot. My eyes searched to the front, still able to see Hinata and Hana due to the chakra. The chakra strings of Sutinga should get Hinata to come straight here. I lifted my hands, making Sutinga jump out on to the concentrating Hinata, she saw a bit too late, getting knocked back. 

Kiba stood up, pointing at it. "Hey! Hey! Where the hell did th-" "Shut up and watch, Kiba." Shino silenced the loud boy making him grumble a bit, sitting back down. Hinata hopped back up to her feet, staring at Sutinga and 'me' confused. She reached a verdict, pointing towards 'me'. "You're not Akisha." Hana smiled, poofing back in to her cheetah form. "Well done! It was hard making my chakra like Akisha's, you know." Shino looked down curiously, at least I think curiously. "Who are you?" "I am Hana." "That's my sister's name.." Kiba mumbled, not too interested by a feline. "It's a small world, bye now." Hana poofed away, leaving everyone to stare back at Sutinga. I made the puppet snap one of it's scorpion claws, almost to say, 'you got me'. 

Hinata jumped over Sutinga, following my chakra strings to me like I want. When she neared, I threw several senbon needles, causing her to dodge left. I hopped back, evading a punch and sent a fast kick to her. She flew back but caught herself against a tree, using the momentum of the actions for propel herself forward. Landing a punch on me. "OUCH!" I yelled.

Hinata turned around just as Keio emerged, kicking some of the rocks that came with him towards her. She hit Keio, letting him skid back, and letting me flash step behind her. Holding two needles to her neck. "...Kisha, you really did get good." Hinata breathed out, panting a bit. "Same to you.." Keio got up, brushing dirt off of his.. Er... My skirt. "I hate fighting Kitten. You had to drag me in to this, didn't you?" He poofed back in to his normal form, a scowl upon his face. 

"Another summoning." Hinata observed. "Yeah, that's Keio." I said, still not moving the needles. "So uh, I won, correct?" I asked, moving with the subject. "Indeed." I took back my needles, looking up with Hinata at Shino on the branch. Kiba next to him, sitting down and swinging his feet. Akamaru sat comfortably next to Kiba. "You got much better than three years ago Akisha." Shino said to me, and then looking to Hinata. "And so did you." Hinata gave a little bow. "T-thank you!" Still not able to handle compliments that well either. I simply waved a thanks towards him. Kiba, swinging one leg now, looked down towards me, and motioned back to the actual training grounds. "I didn't know that you even used your puppets anymore, what brought that on?"

I shrugged, taking out Sutinga's scroll and letting the summon disappear. A poofing sound was heard over in the distance. "I don't know, I knew with hinata's Byakugan, I was going to have to use a trap. And I thought of my puppet. And-Yeah." I chuckled nervously, trailing off with my words. Honestly, I'm not sure where I was going with that explanation. I had the idea for the little trap and saying there was nothing else to do, I went with it. Kiba hopped down from the tree with Akamaru. "Ey! Now that training's done, you guys want to get a bite to eat?" "That sounds well." Shino said, hopping down from the tree too. "You're paying?" 

Kiba glanced at Shino, a frown plastered on his face. "Why should I pay?" Shino started walking out of this forest area, along with the training grounds. "Because you are the one who offered up going." Kiba flailed his right arm out. "Yeah! But that doesn't mean I'm paying!" Hinata and I followed behind the bickering boys and Akamaru. I looked up to the sky, feeling a chill set in the wind. Clouds blocked the normal blue color. "Hey, it looks like it's going to rain." Hinata agreed with my words, looking up and around. "Ye-" A plop of rain interrupted her, splashing on her nose.

I laughed quietly as she rubbed it off, looking embarrassed for whatever reason. Several more drops came down making Kiba and Shino stop their argument. "We might want to hurry, or else we'll get wet." We started walking faster, as the rain came down harder. "I don't like rain anymore." I murmured, thoughts going back to the funeral. Then again, I never really liked rain in the first place. Akamaru barked loudly stopping us. "What'd he say?" Hinata asked, putting up the hood of her hoodie. I followed in suit, raising up the blue hood. "Ah, are they? You think they want to talk to us?" Kiba asked, looking down at Akamaru. Akamaru barked again. "Hello? Kiba?" I waved my hands in front of him. Kiba looked at me. "Hm?" I motioned at Akamaru. "Care to explain any of that?" 

Kiba pointed behind me. "Nah, you'll understand." I turned around, following the direction of his finger to see Team Kakashi. Each of them wore a white cloak with two red strands circling around it. Kakashi held out four cloaks to us. "We need Team 8." Kiba grinned, taking the cloak and whipping it on. "Finally, a mission!" Shino accepted his cloak, putting it on but leaving his normal hood up. "What's the mission?" Hinata took her cloak, saying a small 'thanks'. I grabbed mine, waving a 'thank you'. Hinata put down her hood, putting on the cloak while I kept my hood up even wearing the cloak. "We're going to attempt to find Itachi Uchiha of the Akatsuki to hopefully lead us to Sasuke." Kakashi answered.

"What happens if we do find Itachi? Or Sasuke for that matter." I asked, looking up at Kakashi. Through his mask you could see his lips open to answer when Naruto swooped in. "Capture Itachi, then we can bring Sasuke back!!" I bit my lip, staring at the determined Naruto. Doesn't he remember what happened? When we tried before?... Our two teams began to jog over to the gates of Konoha leaving me standing there. "Kisha?" Hinata voiced over, a few feet away in the pouring rain also behind from the teams. I broke from my thoughts. "Hm, yes?" "Aren't you coming?" 

I stayed still for a moment. I think Hinata had the same fear as I did. Although her's was mainly for Naruto getting hurt at the outcome of all of this while mine revolved around most of Team 7 and now our team being thrusted at danger. I jogged over with her to the gates, never responding to her question. Naruto took a step forward, officially out of Konoha. "Everyone, move out!" Kiba nudged me, looking at Naruto. "Seems the weather might help our resident hot-head cool off." I scoffed with a small grin at his joke. "Really, you shouldn't try to act cool and collected Kiba, it doesn't fit you." 

Some time of jumping around, the rain let up. Kakashi, hopped up on to a building with square roof shingles, reminding me of an older traditional building. Kakashi looked at each of us. "To start off, we'll make this our starting point, and search the surrounding 5KM. North, south, east, and west. We'll fan out in all directions." Sakura looked confused. "That far? We won't be able to contact each other with the wireless communication devices. We'll all be isolated!" She had a point, but I could just very easily summon Ryu, with his loud roar everybody would hear him- Oh wait. Kakashi looked to me, nodding as he saw what I thought. "Sakura, you forget, Kisha, Kiba, and myself all have something much better than devices."

Atthe same time Kakashi and I slammed our hands down. I summoned up Ryu while Kakashi summoned several dogs. "Pakkun!" Naruto cheered with surprise at a small pug. "Yo." The pug returned. Kakashi smiled, closing his one eye. "Now then, each of you will have two of my dogs excluding Akisha and Kiba since they have their own partners." Two dogs trotted to Sakura, Shino, and Sai. One excitedly chatted to Sakura making the other sigh. "Can't you shut up for a minute?" Others growled at Sai not taking a liking to him while Shino was accompanied by the more silent dogs. "Child?" Ryu questioned. I patted his mane. "We're off to look for Sasuke Uchiha or Itachi Uchiha. That's our mission." Ryu dipped his head. "Understood. However, you do know that I do not have their scents, correct?"

I looked around, everyone continued to talk with Kakashi giving orders. To avoid offending Naruto's feelings, I whispered to Ryu quietly, "If you smell something with malicious chakra, it's probably one of them. Keio had gotten a whiff of Sasuke's chakra before and said something along the lines of it being bad." "Ah, I understand." Ryu said, whispering back. "Now go!" Kakashi yelled, everyone taking off except for me and Ryu. 

"Erm..." I scratched the back of my neck, looking around clueless. "You weren't listening, were you?" Ryu asked, making me shake my head. "Ehehe... No." Ryu chuckled at me, jumping off to the left. "Come, this is where no one else ran, so it's where we will search." I jumped off after him. "Got it! What would I do without you, Ryu?" The mighty lion shrugged his shoulders, slowly beginning a run in to the forest area we were in. "I couldn't say, Child." I started to run next to him, dodging under and over branches. "Where do you think this'll lead us?" I asked loudly, to be heard over the wind whipping by us. "Deeper in to this forest, I sense there might be a village near by judging by random scents of people, but that seemed to be more in the direction your pink haired friend went." Ryu, still running and not looking back, answered. 

It felt like half of an hour went by before Ryu and I came to an abrupt stop. Without warning, a mass wave of chakra in the air. Our heads both turned to the right, near, eyes lifting to the sky. Ryu stepped back, squinting up at the figure. "What is that?" His older voice hinted with fear and worry. "I-I don't know." I replied, not knowing what the bright star lit figure was. The only resemblance I could give was the fact that it did look like a star. Ryu's eyes widen before he tackled me down, shielding me with his body. "DOWN!" As the yell came from him, a large, powerful, gust of wind hit us, even blowing down some of the weaker trees.

The wind soon came to a stop, letting me free myself from Ryu. "Ryu! Why'd you do that!? You could have been hurt!!" The sudden stress and abundant amount of fear was obvious. The lion looked around at the damage, finally resting his kind eyes on me. "I am your summoning, I will protect you." I stared at him, only pondering one thing in my head, one thing that Ryu knew. "Yes, that is probably what Joka was thinking too."

I rubbed my arm looking away. "You know me well..." "We normally do know the ones we love well." I looked back up at him. His fuzzy feline lips curved in to a small smile. I sighed, hiding my own smile. "Yeah, yeah.. We should check that out." I stood up fully, jumping over some torn branches from the fallen trees. Ryu followed behind me, choosing to let me lead the way. I glanced back at him. "Be more careful next time." He nodded, making his mane shake and little pieces of wood and leaves fall out. I laughed at his unamused face staring down at the wood. Ryu didn't meet my eyes, rather to let them trace the ground. "Shouldn't we be going?" "Is your mane tidy and clean yet?" Ryu walked by me with his ears down in annoyance, ignoring my small amounts of laughter. "I'm leading now." I finished laughing, walking behind him. I don't normally tease Ryu because he is Ryu, but it would have killed me not to take advantage of that moment. 

"Whoa." I breathed out next to Ryu. We arrived after everyone else, including all of Kakashi's summoning dogs. Ryu was looking at the giant crater a few feet away. That star thing we saw.. Was a bomb? "I sense the chakra here.. Mainly two. Both very dangerous." One of the dogs with Sakura nodded to Ryu. "Yeah! And I recognize one of these scents from the village, looks like Sasuke has some companions." Naruto raised his fist. "Then let's go!! Track his scent!" Kakashi shook his head. "We can't anymore. The trail ends here. He could have died from the blast or used space/time Ninjutsu to transport him elsewhere." Naruto went to groan but Kiba's voice drew in everyone's attention. "Looks like it's the latter, nowadays my nose is even better than a ninja hound's. I found Sasuke." "Impressive." I marked, making Kiba grin. "I know." I held back the temptation of an eye roll. So cocky he is. "Lead the way, Kiba." 

Everyone jumped branch to branch, following Kiba's steps. All of the summonings left, including Ryu who had decided we'd move faster with less holding us back. "Shit!" Kiba cursed aloud. "What!?" Several voices rang out, even my own. "The scent split in to a bunch! It's all traveling different ways!" Sakura quirked an eyebrow. "How is that possible?" "They must have saw us coming somehow, managed to split up the scent." Yamato retorted, following closely behind Kakashi. "Then how about this!?" Everyone glanced to Naruto, who performed a hand sign. In seconds, what looked like a hundred clones appeared, spreading out. I half smiled at Naruto. "Good thinking."  He returned it and we continued jumping behind Kiba who choose to follow one of the scents.

Naruto stopped his jumping, not even ten minutes later. "I've found him!" Naruto twisted around, taking the lead. "This way!" Everyone's steps soon changed that way, not questioning him once.

The trail he led took us to the forest floor, a semi-cleared out area. We would have kept going had Kakashi's voice not yelled out, "Naruto! Everybody, stop!" I stopped myself next to Hinata and Shino, only seeing now why Kakashi had given those orders. "This is Akatsuki?" Shino asked, directing this question to me. "I've never met this one but yeah..." I stared up at the Akatsuki member upon a branch. Black spiky hair sticking around from a strange, orange, swirly mask. "Hiya!" The member greeted, waving his hand actively.

A sweat drop placed itself on my forehead. "Erm..." Kakashi kept everyone calm, raising a hand defensively. "No worries, we're out numbering him." The Akatsuki member nodded vigorously. "Yes, yes! Nine to one doesn't seem in my favor, or would it be ten to one with that doggy? Hm." The Akatsuki tapped his mask in thought. Naruto glared at the Akatsuki member, taking out a kunai. "We don't have time for this!" He raced at the Akatsuki, swinging the kunai to which the Akatsuki punched Naruto. "A kid like you, using that type of-HEY!" The Naruto he punched poofed into a thin air. "A CLONE!? HOW UNFAIR!" The Akatsuki yelled, seeing the real Naruto come out from behind with Rasengan. "Oh no, if that hits me than I'll probably die!" Naruto brought the Rasengan at the Akatsuki but... His jutsu went right through him. Literally. The Akatsuki laughed. "Just kidding!!"

 "Oof!" Naruto crashed in to the ground by us. "Naruto!" Hinata faced him, almost going to run to his side. Sakura never took her eyes off of the Akatsuki member. "Keep focus Hinata, it'll take more than that to keep Naruto down."  I stared up at the Akatsuki member. It's like he's messing around with us... "He's trying to hold us back." I said loudly, coming to the conclusion. "It's a matter of why." I finished. "Perhaps to buy time for the other members?" Yamato suggested. Kakashi nodded with thought, ready to agree yet not so certain at the same time. "It would seem so, but even then this is still unusual for the Akatsuki, creating a diversion for another member." 

"Hey! Leaf peoples! What game should we play next!?" Everyone glared up at the Akatsuki. "We don't have time to screw around with you." Naruto restated. Sakura and I nodded our heads in sync. "Damn right." Yamato pointed at all of us. " Get ready to attack! Formation B!" 

"Uwah? Attacking Tobi? I thought we would just play a game." The Akatsuki member; Tobi, whined. He moved off to the side, stretching his arms. "Okay Leaf peoples! Let's-HEY NOT FAIR!!" He yelled out, narrowly dodging the kunai I threw. Sakura then grabbed Naruto, swinging him around till letting him go flying in the air. Tobi whistled, looking at Naruto fly. "Man that girl has some superhuman strength." Tobi turned back, flinching as he saw Sakura, Myself, Kiba and Akamaru charge at him. "Whoa! He was a distraction?" Kiba threw a punch but Tobi hopped off to the side, also managing to avoid Akamaru. 

"HAH!" Sakura yelled out, bringing her foot down where Tobi stood. He swirled back to his original spot where I ran at him, going to strike with a three senbon needles. He twirled, avoiding me just like the rest of us. "Olé!" I jumped back down to the rest of the team, hiding my eye twitch. This Akatsuki member is certainly... Different. "RASENGAN!" Naruto came back down from the sky, going to hit Tobi with Rasengan. "Oh my, you weren't the distraction!? You got me!!" Naruto's Rasengan seemed to hit Tobi, creating a pile of dust to appear. "Go!" Yamato yelled out, hushed enough for only us and not Tobi to hear. 

Kakashi took the lead, all of us hoping along the tree branches quickly when Tobi popped up from the ground. "Wait! You tricked me again!" Kakashi jumped off to the side. "Don't stop! Split up and force your way through." I listened to him, jumping off to the left, down to the forest floor. "Uah! Uhm! N-Ninja Art uh-" Tobi stuttered before going back in to the ground again and appearing right infront of me. "OW!" I yelled out as the Akatsuki whacked me on the head with a branch and then disappearing again. "W-what kind of jutsu is that?" Yamato asked, jumping down by side, wearing the same irritated expression as me. Everyone else, including Naruto joined us, looking pissed. "Hehe! I think I'll name this, Ninja Art: Whack-A-Mole!" 

"DAMMIT! STOP BLOCKING THE WAY, BASTARD!!" Naruto yelled, firing up another Rasengan. I shook my head, grabbing his arm to stop him. " Don't. Doing that over and over will only waste your chakra." Naruto huffed a sigh, knowing I was right. "What's that?" Sakura's voice called, getting my attention to drift back up to Tobi. Next to him a strange... Creature... Appeared next to him. It's body was divided in half with the colors black and white. Mossy green hair and two deep green venus fly trap extensions sticking up around his head. The creature looked up at Tobi. "Sasuke won. Itachi is dead." Two very different tones coming from the creature. 

"Sasuke killed Itachi?" I repeated, feeling shocked as much as everyone looked. Tobi put his hands up. "Whoa, I didn't see that coming!-" The aura around the spastic Tobi changed faster than the tones of the creature. " -Kidding. It's as I predicted it to be." The happy, free voice dramatically changing to a deep, intimidating tone. "Sasuke collapsed, like, a second later though... He's slowly dying as we speak." Sakura's and Hinata's mouth dropped open, even Kiba and Shino seemed overly shocked by the information. "YO, ALOE VERA! WHERE THE HELL IS SASUKE AT!?" Naruto yelled, pointing at the creature. 

The white side frowned, almost offended. "Aloe vera? Ignore him. We have to be going now." The black side answered. The whole creature soon disappeared back in to the ground. Tobi looked down to us, through a single hole in his orange mask you could see his eye open to show- "Sharingan?" I said aloud, feeling more and more puzzled by the minute. "I'll play with you children another time." Tobi's deep voice rang out. Kakashi seemed the most taken back. "Who is this guy?"

Tobi lifted his arm above his head. "So long, Konoha." Slowly he continued to bring his arm down around his body, vanishing from our sight. 

Not a thing was said.

It was already known by all of us.

We failed in retrieving Sasuke again. That man and his jutsu would already be there by now. Taking Sasuke where ever and erasing Itachi's body. Shino and I shared a glance on our way to look at Naruto. When our eyes continued to see the blonde, it wasn't too surprising to see him shaking in anger. "That's it? Just like that?" His voice came out pained. "There's nothing else we can do now Naruto." Yamato said, watching him with concern. I could see in Yamato's eyes what he was concerned about. If Naruto became too upset about this and the demon in him came out. "THAT'S BULLSHIT!!" He snapped with a growl. 

Sakura stared at Naruto with sorrow. "It's okay Naruto.." Naruto's anger instantly erased whether it was Sakura's words that calmed him or the fact that it was Sakura talking, I don't know. "..Right.." Hinata looked at the saddened Naruto, her eyebrows creasing in worry. "What do we do now? Can't we go after!? I mean, all of this for nothing!?" Shino turned to Kiba. "You should shut up." Kiba glared at the Aburame. Going to yell back, Kakashi quickly stopped him. "Kiba, calm down. Sadly, what we're all thinking is correct... With that jutsu that man has, there's not a doubt in my mind he already has collected Itachi's body and Sasuke." 

"The man with Sharingan." My voice was quiet yet still was heard and had brought a few glances my way. Yamato looked back in the direction we came from. "We need to report back to Tsunade." Kakashi nodded to Yamato. "I agree." With sullen faces Naruto and Sakura jumped after the leading Senseis. Kiba with Akamaru and Hinata following along wearing an angry expression and one full of worry. You could probably guess who's who with that. 

I turned to Shino who still stood in the middle. "It feels like this was all worthless, doesn't it?" He asked, hints of stress hidden in his tone. "Not exactly, we did get good information." Shino nodded his head slowly, thoughts going back and forth in his head. "We should go catch up." He said, then taking off after everyone. I took one last look where the man with Sharingan stood; Tobi. "Yeah." I knew what I felt inside me was the worry of something big was going to happen. Something big and extremely bad.

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Oi... Do.. Do all of you guys hate me? ;-; *covers face* I'm really ashamed by how long this took to publish. And I'm not trying to make excuses but school work has been piling up >o< So I always leave a Wattpad tab up and whenever I get the time I wright a little bit! However, that still takes forever T-T

I am actually thinking about putting this book -On Hold-  or at least putting up a warning to the title about the slow updates. What do you guys think about that? 

And of course, what'd you guys think of the chapter? Good old Tobi, right? XD Ah, I miss that Tobi. So you know the deal, please, vote! Comment!!! Fan/follow!