Chapter 21 The final confrontation

Me: Welcome back to Hidden Love! Glad you all took your time to read my story, alas, I couldn't find someone else to replace Sasuke so I'm doing the disclaimer today (Clear throat). Naruto doesn't belong to me, it belongs to Kishimoto-sama… wow, that wasn't hard at all, I waste so much money for something I could've done by myself… anyway, on with the chapter.

Kiba, Shikamaru and Naruto were jumping faster and faster to catch up to the fleeting Sakon and Tayuya.

"We almost caught up to them." Shikamaru said.

Naruto smirked. "Despite the fact that we lost two teammates, this sound Nin made it too easy for us." he said. "I mean, they forgot to put traps again, which must mean they thought we would die."

Shikamaru nodded. "Kiba, how close?"

"Close enough that I can smell Sasuke." Kiba replied.

Shikamaru looked at Kiba for a long period of time. "Is that a yes or a…"

"Yes."

"Good."

Tayuya and Sakon continue to jump toward Orochimaru's base.

"How long is it gonna take for Sasuke to reach the second level?" Sakon asked.

"I don't know…" Tayuya looked at the crate. "Wait!" Tayuya abruptly stops.

"What, is it starting now?" Sakon asked.

"I just said I didn't know. How the fuck would I know the next second?" Tayuya asked.

Sakon grumbled in annoyance. "Then what the hell is the matter?" Sakon asked.

Tayuya looked back and Sakon did the same, Sakon 'tsked', looking at the smirks of Naruto, Shikamaru and Kiba.

"It's four against two. Give up if you want to avoid a humiliating defeat." Naruto said.

Sakon glared at them and with great speed, dashed towards them.

All three shifted to their respected fighting stance, Naruto threw a kunai to Sakon but he quickly dodges it.

"Take this!" Kiba and Shikamaru jumped in front of Naruto, who Sakon was aiming for, and attempted to throw a punch at him. But they both suddenly got punched multiple times in their stomach.

They both fell back, making Sakon smirk but he was shock to see Naruto with a ball of chakra in his palm.

"What the…" he was even more shock to see Shikamaru and Kiba suddenly vanished.

"RASENGAN!" Naruto thrust that ball of chakra at Sakon but Sakon grabbed his wrist at the last moment. "Crap!" Sakon grinned at him.

"Checkmate!" he said. But before that could happen, a mini vortex passed through Naruto which revealed it to be a clone.

"TUNNELING FANG!" Kiba yelled. Sakon almost got hit but somehow he was able to bend down and narrowly dodge the mini vortex, Sakon looked back and was shock to see Kiba heading for Tayuya.

"Damn it!" Sakon yelled.

Tayuya was shocked to see Kiba going towards her but quickly steel herself but that was before she got caught in Shikamaru's shadow.

Tayuya looked down to see her shadow connected to Shikamaru's.

"Shadow possession complete." Shikamaru said with a grin.

"Shit, bastard!" Tayuya looked ahead at Kiba who was still spinning towards her before he abruptly stops and grab the crate.

"Tayuya what the hell are you doing! Move!" Sakon yelled, sprinting towards Kiba that is until Tayuya got in the way. "What are you-" before he could finish he collided with Tayuya.

"Naruto, catch!" Kiba yelled, throwing Naruto the crate.

"Thanks Kiba!" Naruto said. All three, plus Akamaru, jumped away.

Sakon glared at them. He unleashed the first level of his cursed mark, which were blobs and sprint towards them again. "I won't let you go away!"

All three looked back to see Sakon quickly gaining on them.

"Damn it he's catching up to us!" Kiba said. He looked at Akamaru who was setting up a trap. "Hurry up Akamaru, he's almost here!"

Akamaru put a paper bomb on a tree trunks but then tripped when he was about to go towards Kiba. Kiba notice this and he went to grab Akamaru but at that exact moment, Sakon reached them.

"You can't escape from m-" the paper bomb exploded at the moment, pushing Kiba, Akamaru and Sakon over a ravine. They both scream as they fell.

"Kiba! Akamaru!" Naruto yelled. Naruto and Shikamaru stopped and looked back, Shikamaru noticed Tayuya catching up to them.

"You son of a…" Tayuya abruptly stops and looked almost fearful. "What the… why are you here..." Naruto and Shikamaru was confuse until they felt a present behind them, they turned to see a guy with long white hair and… you guys already know how he looks like. "... Kimimaro?" Tayuya finished.

Kimimaro grabbed the crate and jumped to another tree branch.

"Kimimaro, you shouldn't be here. What about your-"

"You were too late." Kimimaro interrupted.

Tayuya was taken back. "What?"

"You were too late, Orochimaru-sama needed a new body now and you weren't there in time… you were too late."

Tayuya eyes widen. "Then he…"

"He got a new body… but he got to wait three years before he can change it."

Tayuya clenched her fist.

"Where are the other three anyway?" Kimimaro asked.

"They got distracted by three other genins." she replied, almost shamefully.

Kimimaro continue to look at her with piercing eyes, he suddenly glared at her, making her flinch.

Kimimaro looked at the other two and saw one of them heading towards him.

"Give back Sasuke you bastard!" Naruto yelled but Tayuya suddenly appeared in front of Naruto and punched him.

Tayuya glared at Naruto before flinching when she felt Kimimaro appeared next to her.

"You're lucky those two are here otherwise you would've been dead, now take care of them."

Tayuya frowned as Kimimaro vanished and took the crate with him.

Tayuya took out her flute and glared at the two.

"Naruto…" Shikamaru called, Naruto turned to him. "The circumstances has changed, we need a new plan." Naruto nodded. "Here it is…" Tayuya watched as Shikamaru whispered things to Naruto.

'Whatever those shitheads are planning, it won't work.' Tayuya thought, she flinched when they turned to her and stood.

"Let's go Naruto! It's two against one, there's no way we could lose!" Shikamaru yelled.

"Yeah!" Naruto said, they both jumped towards Tayuya, she ready herself and blocked a kunai strike from Shikamaru.

"Naruto, now!" Shikamaru yelled.

Naruto jumped towards her. "Take this bitch!" Tayuya watched Naruto fly towards her, then above her, then behind her, then…

"What!?" she looked behind her to see Naruto jumping towards Kimimaro's direction. "Son of a… you tricked me!" Tayuya yelled at Shikamaru.

"It really wasn't that hard." Shikamaru said, Hoping to annoy her, he succeed.

"Why you…! How dare you say that you damn bastard! I'll make you pay for that!" she yelled.

Kimimaro jumped to a clearing and landing, he turned and looked behind just in time to see Naruto jump from the forest and land in a low crouch. Kimimaro looked at Naruto impassively but Naruto glared at Kimimaro, his eyes red and whisker thicker thanks to the Kyuubi's chakra.

"Don't you dare take another step back!" Naruto growled. "I'll beat you, and then take Sasuke back."

"Why waste your time trying to get someone back who doesn't even want to go back?"

"Because I'm his friend!"

"If you're his friend then you wouldn't force him into a place where he doesn't want to stay." Kimimaro remarked, Naruto only deepen his glare. "If you want to fight that badly then so be it." Kimimaro put Sasuke down and made a bone appear from his left hand.

Naruto looked questionably at Kimimaro for a split second before going back to glaring at him.

(Back with Shikamaru)

Shikamaru has a stare off with Tayuya for a while before Tayuya laughed.

"What's the point of this mission? You're went and sacrifice your whole team and for what? One guy? Ha, what a bunch of homos!" Tayuya laughed.

Shikamaru said nothing for a while before smirking which got Tayuya confused. "You know, this is the very first mission in whom I'm a leader, I had to make tough decision, sometime I wonder if I even made the right ones. But my teams weren't sacrifices; they are still alive, I'm sure of it. Besides, my team wouldn't abandon one of our own just to save their own hide, that's not how we do things in Konoha." Shikamaru explained to Tayuya. "Don't underestimate my team…" he made the hand sign for his jutsu. "You'll regret it."

Tayuya tsked and made several hand sign. "SUMMONING JUTSU!" she thrust her hand down and three giants appeared around her. Shikamaru had a deadpanned expression on her face. "You also shouldn't underestimate our team, you're team will end up regretting it." she countered.

Kiba appeared behind Sakon and was about to punch him but he suddenly got punched and thrown back.

'Grr, why that little…' Kiba thought, he growled and looked at Akamaru. "Let's go, we'll attack from both sides, Akamaru barked in agreement. Akamaru transformed to Kiba and they both ran on opposite directions.

Sakon didn't seem fazed.

"FANG OVER FANG!" Kiba yelled, him and Akamaru spin into mini vortexes and hit Sakon, dust flying everywhere. Once it was cleared Kiba and Akamaru was being hold down by Sakon and Ukon. Kiba seemed shocked. 'The hell is with this guy!' Kiba thought. Sakon quickly pushed him back.

"MULTIPLE FIST BARRAGE!" Kiba was able to dodge in time, resulting in Sakon hitting a rock, what surprised Kiba is that the rock shattered.

Sakon grabbed Kiba's neck.

"What the hell is with you?" Kiba asked.

"My brother and I are joined together…" Ukon appeared from the side of Sakon's head. "He can produce any part from his body from my body."

Kiba looked at Sakon and Ukon in disgust. "Orochimaru has the most fucked subordinates doesn't he?"

"Don't insult Orochimaru-sama!" Sakon yelled and three feet appeared on his left leg. "MULTIPLE LEGS BARRAGE!" he kicked Kiba who slide to Akamaru.

"We're wasting time." Ukon growled. The cursed mark covered him, it made him grow horns and made his chin pointy, his hair also get longer, the same thing happened to Sakon.

"Son of a bitch." Kiba cursed. "We were screwed when we found out he had extra help but now his chakra increased in tenfold!? The hell is with him!?" he asked before taking a thinking pose. "It was the crate wasn't it?" Sakon didn't even answer. Kiba stood. "We need to think of something to do." Akamaru barked. "What? We can't use that! It's too risky!" Akamaru barked again. "It'll drain out chakra and render us immobile!" Akamaru barked again. "This is insane, there gotta be another way!" Akamaru growled at Kiba which was a first since Akamaru never growl or harmed Kiba.

Sakon dashed at Kiba and Akamaru turned to Sakon and growled. Kiba steeled his resolve and glared at Sakon.

"Alright, fine, let's get this out of the way." Kiba said.

Akamaru jumped out of the way as Sakon punched Kiba into a rock.

Akamaru spin around rapidly as he peed on Sakon.

"What the… gross! What the hell!" Sakon and Ukon yelled in disgust.

Kiba jumped towards Akamaru. "Now to take this to the next level. INUZUKA STYLE: MAN BEAST TRANSFORMATION COMBO: TWO-HEADED WOLF!" there was a huge poof of smoke and, like the name says, a huge two headed wolf that looked a lot like Akamaru appeared.

Sakon scoffed "So you became a giant dog, who cares?"

Kiba and Akamaru jumped and started to spin rapidly. "Take this!" they heard Kiba voice. "WOLF FANG OVER FANG!" the giant wolf made a huge vortex at Sakon who narrowly dodged it but it scratched his leg pretty bad. Sakon flinched and looked at his injured foot which was stepping on saliva but that moment of distraction earned him another Wolf Fang over Fang.

Sakon wasn't able to react fast enough to dodge it so the attack hit Sakon dead center.

Soon Sakon got ripped to half and Kiba and Akamaru stopped spinning.

Kiba grinned. "How about that? We actually beat him!" Kiba told Akamaru. Akamaru barked in agreement before it whined. Kiba was also shocked to see Sakon and Ukon standing.

"That would've worked… if we couldn't split." Sakon said.

"Your attack won't work on us anymore." Ukon said.

Kiba glared at him, Akamaru barked. "I know… we'll get them this time." they ran forward before spinning rapidly.

Sakon and Ukon dodged the attack and hid themselves.

"That won't work we're not even using our eyes to find you!" Kiba yelled as he turned to attack them again.

Sakon and Ukon bit their fingers. "Summoning: Rashomon!" they both yelled.

Kiba and Akamaru hit Rashomon and were able to put a dent in it but they didn't break, their spinning soon falters and they both fell.

'Crap…' Kiba thought, He saw Sakon and Ukon come towards them. They were about to punch them before they suddenly poof and Akamaru took the hit. "Akamaru!" Kiba yelled.

"Son of a bitch! You peed on my eye!" Sakon screamed.

Kiba looked around cautiously. "Where is the other one?" Kiba asked.

"Over here." Kiba looked to his right and was shocked to see Ukon morph into him.

"W-what?" Kiba went to punched Ukon but Ukon quickly appeared to his other side and put his arm around Kiba's neck.

"Shit! This thing is burning my eyes! This isn't ordinary pee!" Sakon yelled in pain.

"Why don't you watch your face in that nearby stream?" Ukon suggested. Sakon quickly ran to clean his face.

Ukon turned back to Kiba. "I bet your wondering how I got in your body?" Ukon asked. Kiba was too busy being green to answer. "This is my ability, in my level 2 I can reconstruct and deconstruct cell at will. To put it simpler words, I can break my body apart, invade and enemy body and reconstruct myself inside…" Kiba looked green again. "So basically, we're sharing the same body." Ukon finished.

"Ok, that's just wrong in so many levels!" Kiba yelled; he then smirked. "But if we do share the same body…" he grabbed a kunai and shoved it in his stomach.

Ukon grunt in pain. "W-what are you…?" Kiba twist the kunai, making Ukon grunt more in pain. "Are you actually going to commit suicide?"

Kiba smirked. "There's no way I'll let you invade my body." Kiba said. Kiba raised his kunai again to strike himself but Ukon separated at the last moment before receiving more harms.

Kiba grunt in pain before throwing the kunai at Ukon who blocked it with his armor and threw a smoke bomb on the floor Ukon looked at the smoke bomb and when it vanished, Kiba was gone.

"Mh, coward." Ukon said then walked towards Akamaru and picked it up. "Heh, idiot, leaving his dog here, and they're supposed to be…" Ukon's eyes widen when he saw the dog expanding, he dropped it and covered himself when the bomb exploded, shooting several kunais at him. Ukon growled in frustration. "Bastard! I'll kill you!" he yelled. "Sakon! Where are you!?" he ran towards the stream where he found his brother still washing his face.

Sakon looked at Ukon. "What's wrong?" he asked when he saw his brother turning back to normal.

"I got to go to sleep. Make sure you kill that bastard mutt and his fucking dog." Ukon growled. Sakon nodded without any objections. They merge back and Sakon splashed his face one more time before going to look for Kiba and Akamaru.

(With Naruto)

Naruto growled and formed his hand sign. "MULTI-SHADOW CLONE JUTSU!" several popping noise can be heard as Kimimaro looked disinterested to his left and right.

"I have to say, making this many clones without getting tired, and not to mention that they are solids, is quite an impressive feet." Kimimaro said, and then ready himself. "Sadly, it won't make a difference." the Narutos practically covered the field. They all charged at him. "Behold, the Willow Dance." he started to spin, charge, and made long slashes to get rid of some Narutos who were unsuccessful in harming Kimimaro.

Naruto glared at Kimimaro. "What the hell is with him?" he asked, he watched as his clones attack Kimimaro from all sides and yet Kimimaro threw them aside easily. Naruto actually saw actual bones sticking out of him.

"Are those… bones?" Naruto asked.

Kimimaro didn't reply, his bones returned to his body. A small hole appeared in his left shoulder where a bone sticks out. Naruto was confused by this but was more confused when Kimimaro grabbed it and yanked it out of his arms.

"What the… you grabbed your own bone!?" Naruto asked.

Kimimaro didn't answer; he pointed his sword at Naruto. "I got no time for you; I'll show you the Camellia Dance." he said.

Tayuya played her flute as her curse mark spread through her, which looked like crooked lines. Shikamaru was dodging her summoning for now. Shikamaru was able to figure out that she controlled them with her flute.

All three surrounded Shikamaru.

"Crap!" He was able to dodge it in time, but the impact that came from her three summoning hitting each other resulted in Shikamaru getting thrown back.

Shikamaru landed on a branch, looking as tired as ever.

Tayuya smirked. "Why don't you give up, you can't beat my three Dokis." Tayuya boasted.

"You attack by using different melodies to direct them to do different actions." Shikamaru said.

Tayuya frowned before smirking. "You may have figure that out, but it won't change a thing." she went back to playing her flute.

Shikamaru was shocked that he couldn't read her melody at all. 'She even changed the verse of it.' Shikamaru nodded. Tayuya's Doki flinched and jumped towards Shikamaru. Shikamaru jumped in time to avoid her Doki punch but watched in confusion as the Doki opened their mouth and out came small ghost like things with big mouth. They went towards Shikamaru and dodged two of them but one of them got his hand, Shikamaru expected pain to come but instead he saw chakra that looks like his hand come out and watched the ghost eat it.

As the ghost came back for second, Shikamaru put an explosive tag on the floor and jumped. The tag exploded, concealing him so they don't know where he is hiding.

'How do I defeat her, I can't seem to be getting near her at all with does three summoning of her. I could try to trap them with my shadow possession jutsu but if they keep attacking randomly that'll be difficult, and if I only get one, the other two can easily finish me.' Shikamaru turned to Tayuya. 'I could try to get her but her offense and defense are high with her three summoning.' Shikamaru closed his eyes and took his thinking pose, after a while he opened them.

He threw a paper bomb at a tree near Tayuya which exploded. Tayuya jumped away.

'Idiot, that won't work.' she landed on a tree branched and play her flute again and had her Doki attack where she think Shikamaru is. She notice a kunai heading towards her. She quickly played a few notes which got one of her Doki to block the attack.

Tayuya looked where the attack came from. 'There!' she played her flute and the ghost thing went over there. But another kunai came from another direction Her Doki quickly blocked it from her notes. 'Where the hell is he?' she thought before more and more kunai keep coming making her use her Doki to block it. Tayuya continue to look around.

"You know what's funny?" Tayuya looked ahead to see Shikamaru in front of her. "When I get to use the capture pieces as my own." Tayuya looked as a ball slowly falls in front of her; she looked at her confusingly until it started shining.

She closed her eyes before the ball unleashed blinding light.

"SHADOW POSSESSION JUTSU!" the shadow extended and captured Tayuya three Doki.

"How the hell where you able to capture them!? There's no way you could memorize my melodies!" Tayuya yelled.

"I didn't…" Tayuya looked confused. "I memorized the moment of your fingers."

Tayuya eyes widen. "You spent hiding and attacking me from afar… just so you could memorize my finger movements?" she asked, Shikamaru's smirk told her stories. "Why you…!" she played some melodies, her Doki struggle but didn't escape.

"Sorry, no can do, they are in tight lockdown." Shikamaru said. He sent the Doki towards her but she quickly made a hand sign and they vanished. "What?"

"Heh, retard! I summoned them in the first place; I can simply just return them!" she said.

Shikamaru looked shocked before he groaned in annoyance.

"Hehe, now to finish y-" she looked down and was shocked to see her shadow stretching. "What the… no!"

Shikamaru smirked again. "Yep, I got you." he said. "It's over."

"Hehe, you think it's over shithead? I think it's just the beginning." while saying this, her curse mark started to spread. Her hair gotten longer and skin darker, her unique feature is that she grew horns on her head.

Shikamaru grunt. 'She's breaking through my shadow!' he made another hand sign. 'I have to stop her!' "SHADOW STRANGLE JUTSU!"

Hands started to circle around Tayuya.

'The hell is with this jutsu, I feel as if actual hands are grabbing.' she glared at Shikamaru. 'That little perv!' "DEMON FLUTE: CHAINS OF FANTASIA!" her melody reached Shikamaru's ears and he immediately started feeling dizzy.

'Damn it, what's with this jutsu!?' Shikamaru tried throw a kunai at her hut instead hit a tree branch.

"Heh, what's the matter? Can't tell the difference between a human and a tree branch?" Tayuya asked with a smirk.

Shikamaru grunt as he fell to his knee. 'Can't… move…' Shikamaru saw himself in a red world with ropes holding him up. He felt pain and looked at his right hand to see it melting. "GAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!"

Tayuya smirked at his scream. "Music to my ear." she chuckles and jumped towards him, Shikamaru let out another scream. She takes out the kunai Shikamaru threw. "Hehe, time to end this!" she thrust her kunai towards Shikamaru only to be punched in the stomach. "W-what!?" she looked at the hand that was still back and saw a broken finger. "You broke your own finger to get out of the illusion?" she asked.

"Heh, the first hand is always a feint; you always land with the second hand." Shikamaru said, hoping she get it, she didn't.

"What the hell is that supposed to mean!?" she asked.

"I don't think I should waste my time to explain." Shikamaru said. "My shadow strangle jutsu gets stronger by how close to you I am." Tayuya eyes widen.

"So I made the mistake of getting too close to you." she said.

"Nope," now she was confused. "Your mistake was saying that your only weapon was your flute…" Shikamaru smirked. "I miss the kunai on purpose in the hope that you would grab it. You didn't disappoint me." Tayuya glared at him.

"This was all pure luck shithead." Tayuya said.

"Yeah, sure…" he pulled back his fist. "Guess I'm the luckiest guy to exist!" he threw the punch but Tayuya quickly block it. "What!?"

"Or the most unlucky." Tayuya said with a smirk.

"Crap." Shikamaru cursed. 'But I can't lose.' he thought and continue to stretch the hand to Tayuya's neck but Tayuya's horn suddenly extend and the hand started to retract. 'Damn it! Even this close she can resist the Shadow strangle, but this uses too much chakra, I can't give it up.' and now it's a power struggle.

They spent several minutes struggling to overpower the other but, Shikamaru started panting.

'This is taking too much effort from my body, it can't keep up.' the shadow hands went down and freed Tayuya's hands.

She moved her hand that was holding the kunai. "Die scum!" before she could stab him, she got blasted away with wind.

"What the…" Shikamaru watched as Temari landed next to him. "Why are you here?"

"Helping, what do you think?" Temari asked.

"No, I mean… how did you know I was here? We're in the middle of the forest and on top of that, none of us were making any noise, it's near impossible for you to find me." Shikamaru said.

"Shut it! This is one of those insignificant moments in anime where the hero gets saved from total death." Temari said with an annoyed expression.

"Oh… Ok, I'll take it." Shikamaru shrugged.

(With Kiba)

Kiba was swimming in the stream and he soon got out. Kiba panted as he gripped his injury. 'Swimming in the stream is dangerous with this wounds.' he picked up Akamaru and continues walking and sat down on a tree trunk, he started to breath heavily but immediately stops, when he picked up Sakon's smell. Kiba tried to keep as quiet as possible, soon the smell started to vanish.

'The smell is getting farther…' Kiba thought then breathe a sigh of relief. "That was a close one." Kiba said.

"Really?" Kiba's eyes widen when he heard the voice, he turned to see Sakon.

"But… how did you…" Kiba looked at the jacket Sakon was wearing. "My jacket!"

"I figured you were too used to your own scent that you wouldn't be able to tell the difference." Sakon said with a smirk.

Kiba gave a mirthful laughed. "This is the end isn't it?" Kiba asked.

Sakon looked confused before glaring at him. "Why the hell are you laughing when you are about to die!?" Sakon lunged with the kunai but something suddenly got in the way.

Sakon flinched by the sudden block, he looked in all three eyes of a… puppet.

"What the…" Kiba turned to see Kankuro smirking. "How did you know I was here?" Kiba asked.

"Anime logic Kiba… anime logic." those two words explained the situation to Kiba.

(With Naruto)

Kimimaro continue to use the Camellia Dance and the Willow Dance to pop Narutos clones, soon they were a handful of them and he quickly and easily got rid of the rest.

Naruto seems to be getting angrier. "DAMN IT!" he shouted, seeing his clone vanished like that.

"And then there were one." Kimimaro said. Naruto glared at Kimimaro and was about charge at him himself but more dark energy appeared on the crate and it soon exploded.

Naruto covered his eyes with his arm so sand doesn't get into his eyes. When he opened them, they were back to blue.

There stood Sasuke only for some reason the curse mark covered him completely to the point his skin looked dark-grey, his hair was also longer and dark blue. But as quickly as it was seen it was gone. Sasuke stretched.

"That felt good." Sasuke said, he turned to see Kimimaro and Naruto, when his eyes landed on Naruto, he's eyes widen.

"Sasuke, what are you doing with this guys!? Look, I'm sorry I gloated to you; I'll never do it again! Come on, your girlfriend and Sakura are waiting for our arrival!" Naruto yelled with a cheerful smile.

Without even answering, Sasuke turned and hightailed it out of there.

Naruto blinked. "Sasuke? Sasuke! SASUKE!" but Sasuke continue to run and didn't stop for anything… maybe for a drink or two but other than that he didn't stop for anything.

Naruto glared at Sasuke's back, he didn't even notice Kimimaro appearing behind him.

"Useless." Until now. "Die!" Naruto turned to see the bone sword coming down on him.

"LEAF HURRICANE!" Kimimaro suddenly got kicked in the guts. Naruto looked questionably at Kimimaro until someone landed in front of him.

"Naruto-kun, go and get Sasuke!" Lee said.

"What!? What about your body?" Naruto asked.

"I am fine; you made a promise to Sakura-Chan with the nice guy pose!" Rock Lee gave a thumb up. "Go and fulfill your promise, Leave this one to me!" Lee said.

Naruto looked uncertain. "Alright, but be careful of this guy, he uses his bones for weapons." Naruto said.

"His bones?" Rock Lee asked, Naruto nodded then ran off.

They both stared at each for a long time, waiting, waiting for one of them to make a move. At once, they both dash towards each other.

"SEVERAL LEAF HURRICANE!" Lee yelled kicking Kimimaro in the stomach again then went for another kick but Kimimaro quickly ducked and rolled out of the way of an axe kick. "Not bad." Lee said.

Kimimaro nodded. "You're also very good, let's continue." Kimimaro was about to run but Lee quickly raise his hand.

"Please wait!" Rock Lee yelled hurriedly, Kimimaro almost tripped forward but was able to balance himself.

"Yeah?" Kimimaro asked with an eyebrow raised.

"I have to take medicine, though I hate them, I do have to take them at the moment." Rock Lee took a bottle from his pouch and drank it, he made a disgusted face. "Blah! That taste awful." he started to swing left to right.

Kimimaro cocked his head in confusion. Rock Lee looked at Kimimaro with a blush on his face; he held up to fist with his index and middle pushed out.

Lee looked at Kimimaro's face and glared at him. "What are you looking at ya bastard!" Lee yelled and ran at him. He threw a fist which Kimimaro dodged almost effortlessly but he wasn't able to dodge the follow up punch, just block it, which he did.

But Lee grabs part of Kimimaro clothes to prevent him from escaping and kicked his stomach, again.

Kimimaro glared at Lee who started to spin around rapidly and flew to Kimimaro like a rocket.

'What's with him, I know he's drunk but he shouldn't be this unpredictable and fast.' Kimimaro thought.

Lee went to kick Kimimaro but he blocked it with his sword.

"CAMELLIA DANCE!" Kimimaro moved his sword swiftly and made his sword and attack almost unseen, but somehow Lee dodged them with ease, in some point Lee stop facing Kimimaro Lee bent back to dodge one of his strike. 'There.' he slashes at Lee's leg but Lee gave a small hop and was out of the sword reach.

Let gave to back handed punch to Kimimaro who blocked it with his sword.

Kimimaro tried to kick Lee away but Lee blocked it with one of his legs and spin around and did an axe kick but Kimimaro blocked it.

"Haaaaaaa!" Lee yelled as he suddenly punched Kimimaro three times and finish with a kick which sent Kimimaro sliding through the floor.

Kimimaro glared at Lee who started laughing at him.

"You're fast, I'll admit, that style of yours is incredible to be able to land continues hits on me." He took off his shirt and lifted his left hands which had not bones… until he created more. He created the bones in his hand and produced more bones from his arm. "But I haven't been using my full ability yet." Kimimaro ran towards Lee and threw a punch but Lee blocked it and blocked his follow up punch, the one with the bones sticking out and pushed it down. Lee took the opportunity and aimed for his guts again but Kimimaro produced bones from his chest and stomach, cutting both of Lee's check.

Lee stumbles back and fell to the ground.

"It seems your sober now." Kimimaro nodded. Lee glared at him and in the next second appeared behind him. "LARCH DANCE!" Kimimaro said. Making bones appeared from his back, Lee quickly changed to defends and blocked the attack, Kimimaro quickly spin, holding Rock Lee with the bones that stabbed him and threw him forwards.

Lee struggle to stand up and glared at Kimimaro.

"I must apologize…" Lee stood and got to his stance. "I got drunk for some reason but the real battle begins now." Lee unwrap some of the cloth in his arm and dashed at Kimimaro, appearing in front of him in seconds. "PRIMARY L-" Lee suddenly stops when Kimimaro stopped the kick with his bones.

"You fast, I'll admit that… but I'm afraid the end comes now." Kimimaro reached for Rock Lee's face and a bone appeared from his hand, it was about to stabs Lee's face but Sand suddenly appeared and pushed Kimimaro and Lee back.

Rock Lee was surprised that he survived but was even more surprised to see that it was sand that saved him.

"Wait, if sand save my life then…" Lee turned to see Gaara's impassive look in his face. "Gaara of the Sand? Why have you save me?" Lee asked, not in anger, more in confusion.

"The Sand is the allies of the Leaf. We'll help you no matter what, even if it's someone that I almost killed." Gaara said. "Plus…" he turned back to Kimimaro. "I owe Naruto a huge debt, if helping you get Sasuke back then I'll do so gladly.

"DIGITAL SHRAPNEL!" Gaara blocked the bullets that Kimimaro fired from his fingers with ease, Kimimaro kept recreating and shooting his fingers at Gaara but Gaara kept blocking them with ease, not once moving from his spots. Finally Kimimaro stops. "It seems I'll have to get serious on you."

"Good." Gaara said as he lowers his sand. "Because if that was your best, then this would've been a really short match."

Tayuya looked at Temari questionably. "Who are you? This guy's bitch or something." she asked.

Temari popped a vein. "His bitch? Like that'll happen!" Temari growled.

Tayuya smirked and put her flute into her mouth.

"I have to warn you though; she controls genjutsu with her flute." Shikamaru said.

Temari nodded and readied herself. Tayuya took a big breath. "CYCLONE SCYTHE JUTSU!" she swing her fan, distracting Tayuya who quickly jumps out of the way of the wind. "All I have to do is prevent you from playing the flute right?" Temari asked with a smirk. "Good thing my attacks are wind based." but then blinked as she suddenly couldn't find Tayuya. "Hey, where the hell is she!?"

"You shouldn't have gotten too cocky." Shikamaru said.

"Oh shut up, all we have to do is find her. What's her ability?" she asked.

"She uses her flute and sound to trap her enemy in genjutsu… that practically it." Shikamaru said.

"That's it? That's what you have problems with?" Temari asked.

"Did I mention that she uses the flute?" Shikamaru stated again.

Temari snorted. "You leaf ninja, such an annoyance." she said.

"Wow, this alliance is the best thing that happens." Shikamaru said sarcastically.

"Ok fine…" Temari turned to Shikamaru. "You stay here and take care of this chick!"

"Just finish her already."

Temari turned back, grumbling something about 'idiotic lazy-ass'. She bit her thumb and drew blood on her fan. "SUMMONING: BLADE DANCE!" she swing her fan and a sickle-holding weasel appeared tornadoes appeared, slashing every trees there is and lifting rocks.

Shikamaru covered his eyes with his arms, when he uncovered himself; he was shocked to see several trees cut in half, he could see a wide view and could see uncut trees 100s of meters away. He also saw Tayuya crushed under some trees.

Temari smirked as her weasel vanished. "That wasn't too hard, you leaf ninjas must be really weak."

"Man, you are as troublesome as always." Shikamaru sighed.

"What!? I save your ass and that's the thanks I get!? You ungrateful son of a-"

"Stop, you're giving me a headache."

"MAYBE I SHOULD'VE LEFT YOU FOR DEAD!" Shikamaru rolled his eyes.

(With Kiba)

Sakon looked at the puppet that he stabbed, he jumped back when the puppet moved and tried to stab him with a poison blade hidden in his arms.

"You're having problems with this guy?" Kankuro asked. "How weak."

"Hey, this guy is tougher than he looks; besides, there's only one of him."

"Only one of him?" Kankuro asked.

"Behind you!"

Kankuro quickly turned to narrowly block a punch from Ukon.

"Ukon, are you ok?" Ukon- I mean, Sakon asked Ukon, the one wearing Kiba's jacket. Ukon nodded. Sakon smirked at Kankuro. "A sand nin? Why are you interfering, go play with your creepy dolls."

Kankuro gave a comical glare. "Creepy puppets?" he asked.

"Don't get distracted, he can merge with you!" Kiba warned.

"Why!?" Kankuro asked.

"I… I don't know… I freaked out before he could explain what that ability could do!" Kiba admitted.

Sakon chuckled evilly. "Too late." he grabbed Kankuro's face and started to morph into him but was shocked when sand started to leak out.

"What the…" the sand vanished to reveal another puppet. The wrap behind the puppet revealed to be Kankuro.

"I can't believe another sucker fell for that trick!" Kankuro laughed.

"I can't believe you were lame enough to do the same trick." Kiba deadpanned.

"Ok fine!" Kankuro turned to Kiba. "You take care of them then!"

"Just finish them already!" Kiba yelled.

Kankuro grumbled something about 'meddling kids and their dog'. "This is Black Ant. Black Ant, say hi."

Black Ant slashed Sakon, throwing him towards Ukon.

"I'm need to go to sleep again, try not to die." Ukon said.

"I won't, trust me." Sakon said Ukon morph back to Sakon. "Now, who wants to die first?" he asked.

"What do we have to do?" Kiba asked.

"Raise your hand." Sakon answered.

"Like?" Kankuro asked.

"Like so…" Sakon raised his hand.

"Ok, so you do!" Kankuro made Crow attack Sakon who started to jumped about.

"Ha! As you could defeat me with such slow attacks." Kankuro smirked and before Sakon could blink, he stumbles inside something which closed on him. "Hey! What the hell is this!?"

"Black Ant isn't to attack, its only purpose is to capture…"

"And to rape?" Sakon asked inside.

"Ok! That's was the last straw!" Kankuro yelled. Crow split into pieces. "SECRET BLACK MOVES: IRON MAIDEN!" the blade that appeared from Crow's head, arms, and legs stabbed several part of the holes. Sakon was screaming in pain during the whole ordeal.

Kiba looked in surprised at Black Ant which was oozing Sakon's blood.

Kankuro smirked at Kiba. "What do you say?" he asked.

"You… bastard." Kiba said.

Kankuro blinked. "Huh?"

"You… defeated him… so easily."

"Yeah… so?"

"I had to use my strongest jutsu and stab myself when Ukon merged into me, yet you defeat him in mere seconds!"

Kankuro glared at him. "So what you're saying is that you angry because you were too weak to defeat an enemy?"

"Son of a-"

"You annoying brat, I should kick your ass!"

"Oh yeah, how noble of you! Beating someone that is out of chakra, that's shows how strong you are!"

"No, that shows how weak you are!"

"FUCK YOU!"

(With Lee)

Garra and Lee looked at Kimimaro who still had his bones out like a freak of nature, which he is but…

Lee stepped forward. "Let's go Gaara!" he went to run but Gaara grabbed Lee's leg with this sand, making him fall to the ground.

"Uh, Gaara-san, you accidentally grabbed my leg." Lee pointed out.

"You're too weak to fight; I'll deal with him myself." Gaara said.

"No, I must help in anyway, how about I distract him and you-"

"No."

"Uh… ok, how about-"

"No."

"Uh… h-"

"No…" Gaara sighed. "In your condition you'll just get in the way, just fall back for now."

"But I must help!"

"Then help me by staying out of the way." Gaara replied. Lee had nothing to say this time so he nodded and stepped back.

Kimimaro watched Gaara for a while before making more bones appeared in his fingertips. "DIGITAL SHRAPNEL!" he shot them at Gaara and dodged his sand, Gaara blocked the bone fingers while attacking Kimimaro at the same time. Things went like this for a while neither seems to be letting up.

"SAND SHOWER!" Gaara suddenly yelled, making a big lump of sand to appear above the enemy.

Kimimaro looked at it disinteresting. "Too easy." he was about to jump back but almost tripped and looked down. Sand was holding his legs. The sand hit Kimimaro, covering him completely.

"You got him!" Lee said in total excitement.

"Not yet." Gaara said as he held his hand in front of him. "SAND BURIAL!" he clenched his fist and the sand crushed Kimimaro.

Gaara looked impassive but Lee jumped up and down on his victory but it was quickly short lived when Kimimaro casually walked out of it, part of his skin missing. But his curse mark was also activated, which, spread in a rip-like pattern.

Kimimaro looked at Gaara impassively. "I was too careless with you, but it won't happen again. I assure you; those sands of yours won't catch me again."

"It won't?" Gaara asked, he spread his leg and clapped his hands together. "SAND TSUNAMI!" a sea of sand appeared from the ground and was heading for Kimimaro. Kimimaro grunt when the sand hit and covered him. "GIANT SAND BURIAL!" the whole field that was covered by sand got crushed in an instant.

"Amazing." Lee said, looking at everything that the sand crushed.

"Ugh, persistence bastard." Gaara said, looking at Kimimaro who appeared from the sand with… a tail!?

Gaara, acting on impulse tried to crush Kimimaro with his sand burial but it Kimimaro quickly dashed out of it, he seems to have activated the second level of the cursed mark, surprisingly his hair is the same length but his skin is dark grey and he had six large bones appearing from his back and like I mentioned, a tail.

Kimimaro ran towards Gaara but said sand genin made a wall of sand which Kimimaro easily ripped through.

Gaara got thrown back and landed painfully on his back, taken as he has a gourd on his back and it could bend his back.

Kimimaro looked at Gaara and was mildly surprised to see sand dripping out of it. Mildly, mind you.

"That's the extent of your defense? How disappointing." Kimimaro said before Lee appeared behind.

"I am also you opponent!" Lee yelled before trying to kick Kimimaro but he didn't have any effect. Kimimaro tried to smack him with his tail but the sand blocked it… or at least cushioned the impact to Lee.

Kimimaro glared at Gaara, or tried to glare at him at best he could without actually glaring at him. "Your sand is starting to annoy me." Kimimaro said before his spine started to appear from his back.

Lee and Gaara looked in mild surprise as Kimimaro ripped out his own spine.

"CLEMATIS DANCE: VINE!" he swing his spine at Gaara who wrap sand around himself to try and stop it but the spine just wrap around Gaara. "FLOWER!" bones appeared from his arms, huge bones that created a drill. "I'll end it here!" he was about to dash at Gaara but he started coughing. 'Now? I have end this fast!' Kimimaro thought.

Gaara used the time is hesitation and formed… "ULTIMATE DEFENSE: SHUKAKU'S SHIELD!" yeah, that. A toy-like version of the Shukaku appeared, holding his arms out and wearing a what looks like a straw hat made out of sand.

"You think your pathetic Sand can stop my flower?" Kimimaro asked then dashed to and smashed his 'flower' to the belly of the beast. Trying to overpower it. Finally, Kimimaro's 'flower' broke.

Kimimaro still look impassive at his broken bones.

"That's your bloodline limit isn't?" Gaara asked.

"Yeah." Kimimaro said.

"And you're the last of your clan?" Gaara also asked. Kimimaro said nothing. "As of today, I'll be ending your clan's origin." Gaara said.

Kimimaro said nothing for a while. "I highly doubt you will be the one that ends my clan's origin, but my illness might." Kimimaro said. "But even if I die, I will always be with Orochimaru-sama."

Gaara notice the spine losing its grip on him, so he uses the sand around him to unwrap himself and made a hole under Kimimaro, Kimimaro fell and sand started to cover him.

Kimimaro, feeling his chakra near empty only struggle to escape.

"Orochimaru brainwashed you." Gaara said. Kimimaro looked at Gaara questionably before sinking into the pit with the sand covering him.

Lee looked at the hole that Kimimaro is in. "It's finally over?" he asked.

Gaara nodded. "It should be." he said.

"BRACKEN DANCE!" before them, countless of bones started to rise from the ground. Large, small, tall, short, bended, straight; the bones grow in several ways. Gaara and Lee were shocked by this as the bones went towards them.

Before they both got impaled by the growing bones, Gaara quickly used sands to lift them both up to avoid the growing bones.

Lee panted while looking at the Forest of Broken Bone (Should be a name and a tourist attraction).

"Stubborn guy… he resisted my most powerful attacks but now it is over." Gaara said. Lee nodded.

Unknown to them, Kimimaro appeared from a bone. "It was my own reasoning…" well now they know.

Gaara and Lee looked behind them in shocked.

"WHAT THE HELL WOULD YOU KNOW!?" Gaara used up all of his remaining chakra to levitate them over the bones and Lee can't move for the life of him which he's about to lose in the next couple seconds. But Kimimaro suddenly stops; they both look at Kimimaro who has blood falling from his mouth.

"He's… dead?" Lee asked.

Gaara nodded. "It appears so." he replied, he took them down to a tree and they rested on it.

Lee stared at Gaara. "Thanks for coming here and saving me." he said. Gaara said nothing and nodded.

"Let's just hope Naruto gets to Sasuke in time." Gaara said.

Sasuke dashed through the trees before he came to a clearing with two giant statues of two people facing each other, though Sasuke doesn't seem to notice it as he landed on the Madara's head.

He sighs. "Finally away from that dope."

"SASUKE!"

Sasuke looked back to see Naruto glaring at him.

"Son of a shit!"

Me: Wow, I actually completed my task! This goes to show you that if you concentrated on a single task then you will complete it no problem. Anyway, I highly doubt I'll be able to finish the next chapter which will most likely have 6000 words today so you'll have to wait a minimum two weeks for the next update if I can get my act together. After writing the next couple of chapter and reading them over to see if I made mistake, I figure that I need a better reader taken that I tend to skim through my chapter when I'm checking them over I mean seriously, which author writes their chapter and reads it twice without skipping anything? No one, that's who... try not to miss me too much.

Ja ne ;)