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Sasuke Uchiha perched cautiously on the cliffs, Sharingan ablaze waiting for whatever might come. His eyes narrowed as he sprang further up, the ground erupting beneath him once more. There was more time between the hits now, and they were getting less accurate. He chuckled as he looked back, his old nemesis hadn't moved from the position he'd initiated the technique. He was a tank, but had lost his movement. "You're not going to beat me standing still dobe!" he tossed a fireball Towards Naruto, who clawed at it, wind promptly ripping it to oblivion. "Even you don't have unlimited Chakra, how long can you keep that up?!" He tossed his hands together a few more times. "Incendiary Arrow" He held a senbon in his hand and it soon began to give off an immense heat. It was small, it was powerful, and it was Sasuke's best chance to get through Naruto's wind. He tossed it, and as expected Naruto swiped it away easily. Wind tearing it to shreds long before it came near Naruto.

Naruto sat and focused eyes cool and calculating. He knew Sasuke was testing what he could and couldn't do in this state. He also figured from that last attach Sasuke knew his eyes weren't just for offense. Without them he would have never been able to hit the needle his enemy threw.

"So you can't move!" Sasuke yelled as he landed at the top of the great waterfall. "What now? Maybe I go back after your little Hyuuga princess?"

"Who said I couldn't move?" Naruto's voice echoed behind Sasuke. His mind raced, only barely managing to turn and catch Naruto heavy fist slamming into his gut, knocking the wind out of him, and throwing him back over the falls.

"Damn Clones." Sasuke cursed as he twisted in the air. Two more jumped after him to engage him as he fell, Latching onto his arms. A taijutsu bomb? he thought, a quick look told him Naruto was still standing at the base, clawed hands waiting. He knew if Naruto managed to bring him all the way back down into the valley he wouldn't be able to dodge his next windstorm. "I knew there was a reason I held you in such high regard." he said to himself. He spun violently in the air to throw off the two clones. Overpowering them with sheer force. "Dark angel wings." As he spoke the black wings grew from his back and stopped his descent. Bringing him to a halt in midair. He looked toward Naruto and laughed, "You won't be able to get me back down in that valley. I'm not an Idiot. I'll just wait you out." As he hovered there he realized Naruto's lack of anything, movement, speech, nothing. Realization hit him with just enough time to wrap his wings around his body in defense.

Naruto burst forth from the waterfall. He knew Sasuke would be able to stop his fall, and by avoiding the obvious trap he fell right into the dangerous one. Suspended on wings his ability to move quickly was greatly decreased, and under the cover of the waterfall he managed to get almost right next to him before launching his attack. A ball of energy spun wildly in his hand. Not the usual Rasengan, but a new form he'd created imbuing with the power of the claw windstorm. Instead of spinning in a sphere, the vortex power of the wind condensed the attack into a cone, making the point of impact smaller, and exponentially more powerful. "Rasengan, Tempest Spike!" he call out as he crashed the technique into Sasuke's makeshift defense.

The Uchiha crashed down into the valley below, his left wing all but obliterated, but his body nearly unscratched. His eyes glowed a deep red as he forced his body to stand.

Naruto landed with a surprisingly light touch only a dozen yards away... he had been sure that an attack of that magnitude would have given him an edge, his senses now told him that his attack had been but a bee sting, just enough to anger the Lion. It was not a feeling with which he was comfortable.

Sasuke's teeth gritted as he once more drew his katana, and Naruto's eyes widened as a black flame raced its way up the blade.

"Amaterasu"

Haishi Hyuuga's mind raced as he eyed down his opponents... he was no match for the two of them, he didn't even know if he was a match for Itachi.

His mind settled quickly as he met the eyes of the village traitor, he had to stop them here. He knew the girls would be overthrown quickly, and for all he knew Naruto would not have the power to defeat this man's younger brother. His stance lowered, his eyes hardened, and he drew upon his resolve.

Kisame watched the Hyuuga head eye down his partner, it angered him... everyone always watched Itachi. In a flash he crossed the battlefield, Samehada already crashing toward Haishi from above. "Block this with your Kaiten." he yelled. "I dare you."

Haishi prepped himself to sidestep the giant weapon, but the attack never came. A high pitched noise shattered the air of the battlefield like glass. The strength of the great sword backfired as if it had ricocheted off an impenetrable wall. The force of it tore Samehada from Kisame's grip, sending the weapon spinning off into the trees. Haishi stood wide eyed at the fiber thin red wall that stood in front of him. He remembered it, he'd seen it not three days ago. He turned to Tenten, who looked poised, but just as surprised as he was. Kisame Vanished into the trees after his weapon.

"Blood Mist Wall..."

Haishi knew the voice that called out the Jutsu behind him. He'd heard it his whole life. "Hinata..." He turned, a look of shock on his face.

Hinata smiled, the tip of her thumb bloody. She had regained her control of chakra.

Haishi looked back to Tenten, she too looked ready to fight. It struck him quite hard that he was not looking at his daughter and her friend, but at Kunoichi. If they were going to get out of here alive, he would have to treat them as such. "I need 73 seconds undisturbed..." he looked at Tenten. "Protect me from Kisame." he looked at Hinata "You take Itachi." the words were falling from his own mouth, but he could not believe he was saying them. "Close your eyes, use the Byakuugan to fight his chakra, not his body."

The two girls nodded as Haishi dropped into a sitting position. His mind calmed as he pushed out the rest of the world. In the midst of battle, he found himself at peace in his own mind. It was something that had taken him years of training to accomplish. No fear, no joy, he needed the exact place between rage and serenity, or everyone there was dead.

Hinata waisted no time moving to Tenten's side in front of her father. 73 seconds against monsters could just as easily feel like years. She drew the blood mist wall in front of her again and with a Chakra Scalpel cut through the very atoms of the wall, separating it into one hundred pieces in only a moment. Carefully she pushed a wall of chakra out of her entire body. Only 70 seconds. She reminded herself. That was how long she would have to pump out chakra at this rate. She had been building up Chakra for days without the chance to use it. She was overflowing, and she still didn't know if she could do this. She wished silently that she had some of Naruto's unending supply. As the power flowed out of her body the individual pieces of the wall stuck to the chakra like magnets. They formed themselves around her like armor, an armor she could move and control at will. She closed her eyes, only able to see the Chakra flow of the people around her. Itachi was easy to spot, his Chakra flow was the largest, bigger than even her fathers, she was surprised at how pure it felt. Just a look at Kisame's felt like she was swimming in the fish mans dark waters.

"Armor of the Red Queen." she finished. a heavy breath escaping as she fell into her Jyuuken form.

Tenten made no waist of the three seconds herself... she knew Hinata was pulling out all the stops, she would need to do the same. She pumped as much Chakra as she could into one explosive tag on her belt. It was a specialty tag she had designed herself, and the force of it at full charge could take out nearly three blocks. By her estimate, she would need all of its power. When she was confident in the charge of the tag she pulled a scroll from her belt and tossed it skyward. This was not her usual barrage of weaponry. Only ten heavy lances feel from the sky, there tips imbedding them in a circular pattern around Tenten. Ten Moissinite heavy lances. Naruto had spent a great deal of time constructing these for her in exchange for her weaponry lessons. They were balanced to perfection, but they were extraordinarily heavy none the less. As Kisame re-emerged from the tree line with his weapon Tenten picked up the first lance, pushed the tag on to the tail end, and with all her power launched the weapon into the sky. With a Coquettish smile toward Kisame she pulled the Chakra string that activated the Tag. The force of the explosion, even as far away as it was, nearly knocked them all off their feet. The blast fired the heavy lance into the sky at an unimaginable rate. Any other weapon would have been incinerated, she knew from experience the Lance would be undamaged. For the first time in her life she prayed for her aim, she had never thrown anything as far as this.

"That was a big bang for such a little girl..." Kisame gruffed as he took in what had happened in his absence. "You missed me." he propelled himself forward again, confident that he would be able to circumnavigate the red wall if it reappeared. Samehada was hungry, and he was certain to feed his partner. A great wind picked up as the great blade started its arch.

"You aren't the only one with a good weapon." Tenten called as her chakra strings lifted two of the lances to intercept. It was nowhere near as definite as the Blood mist Barrier, but the two lances caught the weapon far before it was a threat. Tenten pushed her power into the remaining seven. They struck out at Kisame like a barrage of scorpions stingers. She noticed the water swordsman blocked only the first with Samehada, then backed away, dodging the strikes with ease as the gap widened. Deciding to conserve energy she returned the lances to there resting place in a circle around her. She smiled as she fell back into ready stance. "Weapons Mistress Secret Technique: Diamond Lancer." 48 seconds. She told herself, glancing at Haishi.

Hinata broke into a charge at Itachi, no matter what happened, she didn't want to give him time to complete any S-Class jutsu. She could see him forming attacks as she charged, felt a fireball crash off of her armor. She heard the ping of weaponry that offered her no threat. Suddenly Itachi's chakra signature was gone, even with her eyes she barely noticed him behind her before his foot crashed into her midsection. The armor absorbed all of the damage, but the force behind it still sent her flying into a nearby tree.

"That armor is annoying..." Itachi's voice was monotone, almost bored. "Shield spike."

Hinata saw the huge mass of power condense into Itachi's hand. She could barely move after his kick. There was no way she could avoid it. The wall itself could stop a shield spike... it had never been tested on her armor. sink or swim. She thought to herself.

The impact of the blast made Itachi's previous attack feel like a pin prick. She could feel the armor shaking, like it could crumble at any minute. Unlike Kisame, Itachi dug in. All of the energy transferred to Hinata as the attack propelled her deep into the woods.

Even the shield spike failed... Itachi thought absentmindedly. He turned toward Haishi sitting on the ground. His protector had been fired off deep into the woods, and he was now defenseless. It is a shame to see the Hyuuga head go down so easily... he walked forward toward the defenseless man. Pulling a kunai from his pocket. Suddenly the air around him vibrated, all his senses told him to get away.

The blast of the shield spike had propelled Hinata... but it did her no harm. Reacting quickly she latched a chained kunai to a tree as she flew past, grabbed on with all her might, and let the force of Itachi's technique whip her up high above the tree tops. She was flying, and she could see the whole battlefield. More over, her armor held firm. She angled herself towards Itachi without a second thought. He would surely believe she hadn't recovered so quickly, and he would never think to look up. As she dove from the sky she began to spin, felt the familiar air of the Kaiten forming around her. It felt different though, comfortable, like her favorite blanket, like Naruto's embrace. She would drop it on Itachi's head like a cannonball.

Itachi pushed himself back in retreat as far as he could as a great Kaiten erupted, crashing into the ground where he stood not a second ago... He wondered briefly if the clan head had awakened. He had fought many Hyuuga in his life, none other than Haishi had a Kaiten like this one. It was enormous, nearly twenty foot wide. It had been terribly precise, and vicious enough that it was capable of being used offensively.

Before the great tempest even slowed Hinata burst forth from within, her armor protecting her from the tearing walls of her own technique. Itachi sidestepped with all his might to avoid the Jyuuken Strike aimed at his heart. He managed to avoid the majority of the strike, but the outside edge of Hinata's chakra blast smashed into his left arm, rendering it useless.

He reeled as he pulled back away from the encounter with the dangerous Hyuuga technique. He had trained and strengthened his Chakra pathways since he was a young boy in fear of the ivory eyed clan. A normal Hyuuga Jyuuken strike would be completely useless against him. He knew had he not dodged it, that one would have stopped his heart cold. His Sharingan blazed mercilessly as realization hit him. He was in combat with the future head of the Hyuuga clan. She may be young, but she was her fathers daughter, he would fight her as he would fight her father.

Hinata's breath slowly fell from her lips. "12 seconds."

Tsunade sipped her tea gingerly. Another long day ahead and nothing she could do about it. She'd stayed up late the night before finishing the majority of the weeks desk work. This afternoon she would need to go make an appearance at the academy and evaluate the students.

She felt the danger in her mind before she heard the crash in the courtyard just outside her window. In an instant the courtyard of the Hokage's Office went from peaceful to a dust storm. She and the ANBU were in the courtyard in seconds.

As the dust settled they all saw the Moissinite Spear embedded nearly 6 foot into the concrete. Tsunade's heart dropped as she ran up and pulled a message off the weapon. "SHIZUNE! FIND ME A NARA!" she called out. Her assistant needed no more instruction. The message was a red card with a black line down the middle. It stood for the highest level of distress Konoha had call for. "SOS S-class adversary present."

She knew it was Tenten who sent the message. Naruto didn't have the thought process to find a way to get a message to them. Shizune reappeared moments later with Shikamaru.

"Where did this thing come from Shikamaru?" she asked short tempered.

The lazy Jounin Ignored the short tempered Hokage, already running the gauntlet of numbers in his head. Pulling a map out of his belt. Writing equation after equation in the white spaces. "I need to know how much that thing weighs." he said without looking up.

Tsunade placed one hand on the weapon and ripped it free of the concrete like she'd just picked up a pencil. "A lot, probably a 140 pounds."

"I don't need a probably, Tsunade-sama." Shikamaru said angrily. The hokage generalized far too much when she was angry. "five pounds off could put this thing in a different nation."

Tsunade resisted the urge to bash in the lazy Nara's skull. This was why she kept the Nara's close by though. They were rational when she wasn't. Just then an ANBU arrived with a scale.

"165 pounds hokage-sama."

Shikamaru didn't even react as he plugged the numbers into his equations. Not thirty seconds later he drew a circle on the map. "It came from within that area." he said. "Im 90% sure."

Tsunade glanced quickly at the map, a quick look was all it took. "The Valley of the End."

Tenten's Lances danced around her, fending off Water sharks from all directions. She was being overpowered, Samehada's raw power had already managed to break one of her lances, something she thought impossible. Another now had a crack and would not withstand another hit. Kisame was a tank, he was fast, he was smart, and if this battle went on any longer she would run out of gas. The fishman blasted his way into the mix with his weapon once more, Tenten drew one of the lances away thrusting it at the Water ninja. Kisame retreated... narrowly missing getting skewered, but Tenten could tell he wasn't in any real danger.

Hinata stood firm in front of her father as she watched chakra concentrate into her opponents eyes. For the first time his aura seemed truly frightening.

"Mangekyo Sharingan." Itachi called as he flew through hand seals, "I wonder if your armor will protect you from this... Amaterasu."

The black flames of the Uchiha spilled out of his mouth in a firestorm of destruction. Hinata prepared a Kaiten, but could do nothing other than hope her shields held out.

An aura of death suddenly covered the battlefield, it felt as if the grim reaper himself had arrived and his presence sucked the life out of all that existed. Hinata waited for the black flames to hit her, but they never came. They were, and now they simply were not. The sharks that viciously attacked Tenten vanished as well.

"Zero." Hinata said as her Armor of the red Queen fell from her body. Her chakra no longer being able to support it. Her legs nearly giving under her own body weight.

Haishi Hyuuga's eyes opened slowly. The trademark Ivory eyes of the clan head were gone, and ebony iris's stood menacingly in their place.

"Look out across this cluttered realm... Byakuugan: Erase."

Its been quite some time since I've written. Long enough that I've forgotten the names and spellings of many of the techniques. Anyone who would kindly remind me It would be much appreciated. I hope those of you that enjoy the story enjoy this update. I don't write much anymore. Today just seemed like a good day for a story. Thanks to all of you who have supported my writing.