The crisp winds blew harshly over the vast desert landscape. The only thing one could see was the rare cacti in the far distance. The laughing sun overhead heating this desalt land. Yet a single figure traveled the desert on foot. A cloak over their face covering it from the harsh winds and sharp sand. The figure's shape was slim yet sturdy, like a snake ready to strike with the first sight of danger.

The figure continued to walk through the vast dessert searching, wondering. After what felt like years, a cave came into view. The figure rushed to the cave hoping to get out of the harsh sand storm that had just been picked up.

Once inside the figure lowers the hood of the traveler's cloak allowing the built-up sand to pool out. The figure turns out to be a woman. Long coal black hair, a sharpened pale face, and onyx eyes that held annoyance.

This was not what the plan. Her plan was to return to the battlefield and stop the madman from destroying her former home. The plan was for her to reborn the world to end the cursed cycle, she wanted to see them all again.

Yes, for one Sasuke Uchiha, nothing was going as planned.

Sighing deeply, she began to dust off her clothes of the sand covering them. White collared shirt, a purple sash worn over a pair of black shorts, and black thigh-high boots. They were all covered head to toe.

She had found that ever since she entered this desert, she had exceptionally bad luck with all the sand throughout it.

Then again, she supposed that's what she got for turning her back on everyone. Karma was slowly moving in on her. Surely it would progress into much more serious issues than simple humiliation. Why did she listen to the Sound Five...? Why did she do all that awful stuff...? She grimaced at the memory. "I was a fool...Nothing but a worthless, damn FOOL..." She spat.

A child. That's all she was. A stupid child who didn't understand her place in the world. Her actions were the actions of an angsty, whiny teenager who couldn't learn to deal with the world's unfairness.

Her older sister had killed her clan and made her hate her for the express purpose of SAVING the Hidden Leaf. And in response, she had gone completely against everything the woman wanted. She had intended to murder a bunch of innocents who had nothing to do with it because of her own stupid grudge.

Frankly, she should have been locked up on sight. But they needed her to fight in the war...

And Naruko...Naruko still trusted her, even after all she had done...

That idiot still trusted her, still claimed to be her best friend, still wanted nothing more than to bring her home. She sighed softly. She was the fool, not her, now…she couldn't tell her how sorry she was.

She leaned her head on the wall as she gazed out at the billowing sand, reminded of a red headed mistress of all things sand. The Uchiha sighed once again reminded of why exactly she had ended up here instead of on the battlefield. A rough ninja, one untested and rushed jutsu and the next thing she knew, she was in the dessert.

It happened so quick, not even her eyes could detail what exactly happened. It felt much like how Tobi used to escape, and just avoid blows all together, but…it felt…wrong, almost unstable. She came to the realization, that she was trapped, and alone.

Off in the distance, she could see a city. She had been moving in its direction for what seemed like hours. But she felt as though she was barely any closer. And the constant mishaps were not helping.

The woman sighed deeply and sat against the wall of the cave. This whole thing was absolutely unreal... She wondered if she would ever see her friends and family again...

Then a noise got her attention...Voices...

Narrowing her eyes slightly she felt her body tensing on its own. She was not alone in this cave. She stood up and glared down further into the cave, her onyx eyes pulsing, she glanced back at the cave entrench and saw that storm had not slowed down. Sighing in frustration at her rotten luck, the ninja decided to go deeper into the cave and see what exactly was hiding here.

As she walked she noticed the once rough sandstone of the cave was slowly becoming smooth rock as if it had been cut by human means. Her eyes narrowed more at this, something was not right. Her gaze traveled along the walls finding the rock slowly turning into flat stone. Then she found the oddity.

Notes, diagrams, letters all hung on the walls as if by some careless user. Not only that but the aria felt very…lived in. She gazed around her body tense. Then she heard a sound, one that sent a chill down her spine. It was the sound of a child's pained scream.

She began to have visions. First to the potential outcomes of her would-be attack on the Hidden Leaf.

Then the undoubtedly staggering amount of children that would suffer if Naruko and the others were to fail.

Then, a flashback to her own childhood, witnessing her clan's demise...

These thoughts awakened something inside her...

They awakened the desire for redemption.

Meanwhile, one Medusa Gorgon was taping on her clipboard with a small frown on her face. She was currently running a few tests on her weapon and seeing exactly what needed to be updated. That and trying to drive her child into maddens. One step at a time.

She gazed up from her board to see the pink haired child of hers strapped to a table, his arms and legs bound and in front of him, was something that she took from the school. Why they had a running electroshock gun, baffled the witch but she was not going to look for a gift horse in the mouth.

She gazed over at the gun and raised the charge a few more decuples. "Healing rate around four minutes. Needs to be faster to react." She commented, "Also still receiving shocks, immunity at zero," she wrote that down.

"Mommy."

She paused and looked over with a small scowl at the child looking at her with teary eyes. "P-Please…no more…please…it hurts."

Medusa rolled her eyes. "Yes, Crona, I'm well aware that it hurts. Your screaming has been more than enough to make me realize that."

"M-Mommy-"

"Be quiet!" Medusa snapped. "Why do you think we're doing these tests?! So these things DON'T hurt you! You're still too weak, and you will not stop until I see improvement!"

"I...I don't want-"

"When have I EVER cared about what you want?" Medusa said in a disinterested tone before continuing the experiments.

But before she could flip the switch to turn the machine on, something sharp slammed into her hand making her yell out in pain and shock dropping the clipboard to the floor. She griped her hand in pain glaring at what had caused it. Her eyes widen when she saw silver stars sticking out of her hand.

She pulled them out letting them fall to the ground before glaring around letting her soul extend out wishing to sense who had just attacked her. She flinched and turned around just to see Crona's restraints be cut off making the child fall to the ground on his behind in shock and sight pain.

Her gaze then travels up and its then she sees her attacker. Standing on the ceiling, sticking to it like a spider, was a woman, long black hair, pale complexion, but her eyes where a hard onyx that was staring right at the witch.

Medusa scowled slightly. She had not sensed her at all! It was like her soul was being blocked by something. Her eyes narrowed. "You plan on coming down?" she teased slightly shaking her hand.

Sasuke's eyes hardened. She responded by tossing a kunai down at the witch, who parried it with a simple summoning of a vector arrow. "Tch...Quite aggressive, aren't we?" She said with a smirk. Sasuke dropped from the ceiling and landed in a crouching position.

"You're scum." She said simply. Medusa quirked a brow.

"Am I now? Well, judging by your face, it would seem you have your own share of 'scum' like deeds done."

Sasuke did not react instead she gave the woman a dull look, getting into a fighting stance her hand moving back behind her.

Medusa smirked at her slightly putt off that she didn't get a reaction from her. Oh well. She raised her hands and the ninjas eye's narrowed as the vector arrows rose around her. "You have made a grave mist-" She froze as she felt something sharp being pressed into her neck.

Glancing down she saw the silver glint of a sword to her neck. Turning her head to the side she saw the same onyx eyes staring back at her. 'How?' she thought, before glancing back over to where the woman once was only to see a puff of smoke.

Medusa could only chuckle softly. "A distraction. Not bad." She complemented. The ninja narrowed her eyes at this then her eyes widened when she felt her instincts tell her to move!

Leaping away from the witch she avoided the many sharp arrow heads that had shot out of the floor right where she was standing, any second latter and she would have been swish cheese. "But not good enough"

Sasuske glared at the witch before closing her eyes. Medusa smirked and sent her arrows to finish her. The arrows were sent flying only for her sword to raise sparking with electricity. She slashed at the arrows sending them all flying away, and its then that the witch saw her eyes.

No longer where they an onyx black, but now they were a blood red with three tomes in each. It was unnerving to her as she felt the tension rise. "Changing your eye color won't save you." She teased lightly letting her arrows slither around her.

The ninja scowled at the witch. The blonde woman was going to pay for her actions...

The raven-haired woman ducked to avoid an onslaught of arrows, then tackled the witch to the ground, holding him down in an attempt to remain safe.

But the witch still had some tricks up her sleeve...

The tattoos on her arms started to glow a neon purple surprising the ninja for a second before she leaped away to avoid the sudden snap of a snake's jaws. Landing a few feet away she turned her red eyes to the woman who stood back up with a mocking grin but inside she was scowling. 'She grew faster and stronger! Those eyes must be doing something to her soul to do something like this.'

Sasuske glared at the woman before getting back into a ready stance and with a flurry of hand seals prepared her next attack.

The witch narrowed her eyes and fired off her arrows at her thinking it was an opening. However much to her shock the woman seemed to flicker around the room moving at intense speeds before appearing above her fingers put together in a hand sign. "Fire Style: Fire Ball Jutsu!" she shouted and then lifted her finger to her mouth making an O shape and then exhaling fire down onto the witch.

The ninja landed back on her feet and glared ahead her red eyes not leaving the smoking cloud, ready to move in a moment. Her hunch was correct as those black arrows came flying out of the cloud aiming for her. She rose her sword and sliced them away before turning to a panting witch with a glare to match her own.

Then the ninjas eyes caught the slight shift of her opponent's gaze and grew tense when the woman's scow morphed into a dark smirk. The witch raised her arm and fired her wave of arrows at her. She rose her sword up ready to defend but to her shock they traveled over and around her.

She spun around at first confused then grimly enlightened as she saw the true target. The boy stared wide eyed at the many arrows coming right for him. He couldn't move, couldn't scream all he could do is close his eyes and accept his fate.

Medusa smirked darkly as her attack connected causing lots of dust and sand to be kicked up. She covered her eyes to block it and gazed into the smoke to see what had happened. She saw the black hair of the ninja first and she smirked, her plan worked. Use the tool as a distraction and have the ninja take the arrows. Yet as the dust cleared she noticed something was wrong.

The woman was kneeled over but there was an ominous purple glow surrounding her. Finally, when the dust cleared she gasped at what she saw. Around the woman's back, was a purple rib cage that acted like a shield and even more there was an arm that held a sword. The purple energy rippled around, like flames and yet it gave off the look of a body.

Medusa glared at the ninja. "What is this?!" She demanded fiercely. "What kind of power is this?!" Sasuke smirked.

"You're the last person I want to know that." She said simply before lunging forward.

Medusa dodged as the arm swung the sword down, paling slightly as it just grazed her. She looked at the raven-haired girl. "Just who do you think you are?!" She demanded in a rage.

Sauske remained silent for a moment before gazing up at the witch the tomas in her eyes shifting to form a black star. "An avenger."

Medusa hissed as her vector arrows traveled to both her arms and started to spin around them making them drill gauntlets. She charged at the ninja both of her arms pulled back ready to impale her foe. "Avenge this!" she shouted.

"Chidori!"

Medusa hung in the air as the only sound that could be heard was that of a thousand birds chirping. Slowly looking down she saw the girls hand had impaled her in the stomach with a blue light skittering out of the hole. She felt the pain, oh did she feel the pain but her nerves were shot, the electricity had shocked her numb.

She stared blankly at the black-haired kunoichi, who smirked at her. "What? That's all you could do after all that boasting?" She said smugly.

"..."

"Not even enough strength to talk? You really were a weakling." This witch had been so arrogant, it felt amazing to tell her how worthless she really was.

Scoffing at the witch she pulled her hand back and took a step to the side letting the witch fall to the floor. She turned her gaze to the woman only slightly before turning her gaze to the wide-eyed child and demon her red eyes returning to their onyx. She approached them slowly and knelt in front of the child. She looked over him with a critical eye seeing if he had any injuries and so far, he checked out.

Usually that would be when she would leave. Yet, something about this child was keeping her from doing that. Maybe it was the pink hair, reminding her of her old teammate. Or the wide scared eyes that she had seen many times…eyes that she had seen in many and herself.

She gently lifted the child up into her arms and held him securely. The least she could do was get him out of this place. She started to head out only to pause and look back at the shaking woman who was trying to get up.

Grasping the child's head gently she pulled it to her chest so he could see nothing, but was very comfy. All the child could hear though was the soft whisper of "Amaterasu"

The blonde let out a choked sound, clearly trying to scream, but nothing came out. Sasuke gave her one last cold look before walking out, leaving her to burn to death in her hideout.

As she left, she felt the child fidgeting slightly in her grasp. She looked down at him with a raised brow. "...What's wrong?" She asked with a quirked brow.

"Um...N-Nothing...Sorry..."

"You can tell me if you want to. It's all right." Sasuke said gently.

The child looked up at her his eyes showing fear but also confusion. "Uh…Who are you?" he asked softly.

The ninja smirked lightly at him. "Sasuke Uchiha"

Crona blinked at that and tilted his head slightly at the very odd name. "Mines Crona…what happened to mommy?" he asked.

Sasuke sighed softly closing her eyes. "She's gone."

"Did she go away?"

"Yes."

"Will she be back soon?"

She stared down at the child who was staring up at her with dull eyes. Something in her knew that the child understood what happened, but he needed to be assured what had happened. She sighed softly. "No…no she is never coming back."

Crona let out a soft whimper. Sasuke frowned. 'I hope he doesn't want revenge or anything...' Wouldn't that be ironic? She'd almost committed unimaginable atrocities over someone causing the death of her family, and got killed because she killed another's family...

Luckily, that didn't seem to be the case. "...Is she gonna go to a better place...?" Sasuke sighed. She couldn't really tell him his mother was going to burn in hell...

"Yes. Yes she is."

"Pfft, yeah right!" the voice of the demon said mockingly but yelped when the woman turned her red eyed glare to him. Crona sighed softly and just nuzzled into her wanting just comfort right now.

Sasuke sighed but held the child tighter giving the demon a glare. "So, we got a long way to go before we reach town. Mine telling me what's been going on." She said.

"Only if you tell me what the hell you did back there. Lighting powers, breathing fire, both red and BLACK! The hell was that!?" he asked.

Sasuke smirked. "Well...That's a story you'll be interested in..."