The Battle rages on

Sasuke was with Temari and the rest of his forces, which was about a third of Ne's army, creating an army of three hundred. The Uchiha was with running ahead of his troops with his Sharingan activated, he was heading towards the southern end of the village, where there was the most resistance from Konoha forces. Sasuke's responsibility was to search and destroy and remnants of Konoha's army and cut them down. The Uchiha's army was specially trained for long-distance fights, do they were all firing various attacks at many buildings and people around the village, causing havoc to evoke everywhere.

Temari glanced over at her boyfriend and smirked. "You are enjoying this aren't you?" asked the girl amused.

Sasuke looked back at his girl and winked at her. "What can I say, this is the village that tried to stop me from avenging my family, it wanted to suppress my power, it tried to control me into becoming nothing but an Uchiha breeder...of course I am enjoying this." said the man as he jumped from one roof to another.

Temari nodded at the man before she spread her battle fan. "Then I will help you with this one Sasuke-Kun!" cried the girl as he jumped up into the air. "Daikamaitachi no Jutsu!" exclaimed the Kazekage's daughter as she sliced through the air with her weapon. The surge of wind chakra made many wind currents collide with one another and created many vacuum forces that blasted towards a legion of Konoha Chunin ahead of them.

Sasuke smirked as he ran through some hand signs of his own. "Katon: Ryuka no Jutsu!" a flaming torrent of flames erupted from Sasuke's mouth, the flames carried themselves with the wind that Temari had made, and it's attack amplified several times in power and ferocity. The fire and wind combo nearly wiped out all of the Chunin ahead of them, leaving only a few groaning on the ground barely alive.

Sasuke saw with his Sharingan that the Konoha forces were pretty much scattered around the village. "Attention! team one head towards the east of the village, team two head towards the west of the village, and team three remain with me!" commanded the Uchiha.

"HAI UCHIHA-TAICHO!", cried the lot as Sasuke's legion split into three armies.

Temari sped up and ran alongside Sasuke. "Let hurry this up, I want to see our new home..." said the girl to her man.

Sasuke smirked and nodded. "Sure babe, I'm sure Uzumaki-taicho is almost ready."

Sarutobi Hiruzen was looking around the village that he had been protecting for over six decades, as it was being destroyed. The elderly Hokage couldn't believe that some of his best Jonin and Genin were actually hidden soldiers of the enemy, he would have never imagined that Yuhi Kurenai, Inuzuka Hana, and Mitarashi Anko would be the enemy. He was just discussing the defensive planning with Anko the day before, and he had no idea that he was just feeding information to the enemy.

The old man's heart was aching very badly, not only was his village being destroyed before his eyes, he saw that his second son Asuma was killed by Yuhi Kurenai...tears formed in the elder's eyes, he may have been a Shinobi for over half a century, but the loss of a son was too much for the man to hold in his tears.

The Hokage's vision had a purple hint to it as he was surrounded by a Shishienjin, a powerful encampment Jutsu that was designed to hold in even the most powerful of Shinobi.

Sarutobi glared at the man that was standing mere feet away from him, the man had his arms crossed and looked to be really relaxed. "Who are you really...you are not the Kazekage." announced the elderly Hokage as he looked at the man.

The man dressed in Kazakage robes chuckled a little before he removed his hat and veil, to reveal himself as Yakushi Kabuto. "Well Hokage-sama...you sure are perceptive," he said with a smirk. "But was I the one you were expecting to see?"

Sarutobi hid any sort of surprise under his rough demeanor. "It does not matter who you are...no matter what, you will die today by my hands!" said the old man seriously.

Kabuto chuckled and nodded. "Sure Hokage-Sama, I have no doubt that a legendary man like you will have absolutely no problems dealing with a guy like me..." said the grey-haired man as he crossed his arms in front of his chest. "But a man like me is the least of your worries..."

Sarutobi narrowed his eyes and stepped forward a little. "Let me ask you this...who is your leader? I know that a boy like you would not be able to create an attacking force like this..."

Kabuto smirked as he pushed his glasses back up a little. "That is quite a question Hokage-Sama, and I am afraid that I can't answer you..." said the man with a carefree tone. "But I can tell you now, that my leader is not Orochimaru..."

the Sandaime's eyes widened in surprise, he was sure that his old pupil was the leader of this group. Orochimaru was the only man that he could think of that could pull off such a sudden and large scale attack. The Hokage was afraid to think of the implications of this information, he would have felt more secure if it was Orochimaru that had attacked because at the least he would be able to identify the culprit. But now that Orochimaru was not the man that planned the attack, Sarutobi was at a loss of who would attack Konoha out of the blue...

Kabuto suddenly let loose an amused chuckle as he looked at the Sandaime. "It really is funny, seeing such a legendary Shinobi trying to figure out who in the world would attack his precious little village." said the man in a mocking tone.

Sarutobi glared at Kabuto. "It matters not...I will find out after I eliminate you." said the old man as he ripped off his Hokage robes to reveal some battle armor.

Kabuto smirked and waved his hands in front of his face. "Oh no...I am not the one you will be fighting..." said the man as he quickly forms a hand sign and planted his palm onto the ground. Sarutobi was not fast enough to stop the younger man, so he jumped backward to prepare for an oncoming attack. Kabuto continued to smirk at the Hokage. "I told you already Hokage-Sama, I am not the one fighting you..."

Suddenly two coffins came out of the ground, each with a number on its cover. Sarutobi's eyes widened when he figured out what Jutsu Kabuto just used, and from all his years as a Shinobi, he gathered his experience from all those years and threw two shurikens to stop one of the coffins. The projectile stopped one of the coffins from opening, and Kabuto had no choice but to release that particular part of the Jutsu. The second coffin started to open, and when the lid fell to the ground, Sarutobi stared in shock at the person inside the coffin.

"Shodaime-sama..." mumbled the old man.

Neji and Tenten were both running at top speed towards the training field that Naruto had ordered them to be during the invasion. The Hyuga could see that they have passed the area most of the battles were taking place and wanted to speed up faster so he could hurry back and help fight. This was possibly one of the most important days of Neji's life, it was the day that he would be freed from his curse. Neji had a smile on his face as he put more gusto in his jumps.

Tenten sighed and ran faster to keep up with her boyfriend. "Stop going so fast Neji-Kun!" cried the girl as she slapped his shoulder.

Neji chuckled and turned to pull his girlfriend close to him and kissed her cheeks. "This is it, Baby, today is the day that I will be free!" exclaimed the man as he pulled Tenten along as they ran.

It took the young couple another few minutes before they arrived at the field, and when they arrived they found that the opening was empty. That was until Tenten saw somebody lying still on the ground on the far side of the field, and much to her shock, it was Hinata. Tenten quickly nudged her boyfriend, and when Neji saw the body of his younger cousin, he didn't know what to feel...he was indifferent. He didn't hate Hinata too much, but it was because of her that him and his father had to suffer...so if he had to say, he would say that he was glad that the girl was dead.

"Whatever...she is insignificant now," said Neji as he began to walk into the field.

Tenten adverted her gaze to hide her sadness from her boyfriend, but she knew that she would have to disregard Hinata. She held Neji's arm close to her and leaned her head on his shoulder...

Suddenly, a shadow emerged from from out of the tree line and before anyone noticed, Neji was wrapped inside a white sheet of paper. Tenten was pushed away slightly by the force, but she was still standing, with widened eyes she saw that the paper was at least three feet long and it was wrapped tightly against her boyfriend. There were some kind of writting on the paper, and she saw some blue chakra run through the sheet slowly.

"This is it Neji!" said a voice that Neji and Tenten immediately recognized.</p><p>Neji's eyes widened when he knew that it was his leader than wrapped around him. "Uzumaki-taicho!" exclaimed the man.

Naruto smiled. "Don't worry Neji, this will not take more than a few minutes." said the Uzumaki as he channled more chakra into his newly constructed key.

Neji felt foreign chakra invade his chakra network, it did not hurt him quite at all, but it did feel much warmer than normal. He closed his eyes tightly as he felt his body heat up very quickly by his leader's chakra and soon he felt the heat focused on his forehead, where his seal was. Neji suddenly felt a jolting pain shoot through his body, it was not very bad but he could feel that his seal was becoming more and more condensed and tight.

"Neji, try to relax your own chakra as much as possible, do not fight against mine." said Naruto as he started channel more chakra into the seals, and the ink began to loosen from the paper and attached themselves onto the body on Neji. The seals contracted until it was a organized square of overlapping seals and made it's way to Neji's forehead. Naruto began to pulled his push his own chakra through Neji's body and into the key, forcing the seal to unlock.

"AAHHHHHH!" cried out Neji in pain as he felt that his seal was on fire. Tenten looked on with worry, but she believed that their leader would not harm them...

Naruto grunted as he gave on final push, his chakra was forced through Neji's seal and broke it down internally. The key then easily slipped in and unlocked the chakra seal of the caged bird seal, absorbing of the residual chakra into the sheet of paper. Naruto sighed as he let Neji down from the air and left the man to kneel on the ground because of exhaustion.

Tenten quickly ran over to the Hyuga and wrapped her arms around his shoulder. "Are you okay Neji-kun?" asked the girl worried.

Neji's eyes slowly opened and the first thing he did was looked up at his leader. "Uzumaki-taicho...did it work?" he asked.

Naruto smiled and nodded. "Yes...it did."

As soon as Naruto said those words, Neji's headband fell off of his head because of the pressure it suffered the past few minutes. Neji picked up the piece of metal and held it in front of his face...and he lost his consciousness a little when he saw that his forehead was blank...the caged that locked him his whole life was finally gone...

Tenten had tears in her eyes as she kissed Neji on his cheek. "Congraulations Neji-kun..."

The Hyuga turned to his girlfriend with his own tears in his eyes and hugged her close to his body, all those years of being controlled by the main branch of the Hyuga was finally over, he was a free man that could do what he wanted. He turned back to Naruto and bowed to him until his forehead touched the ground.

"Thank you so much Uzumaki-taicho...I owe you my life." said the man with passion in his voice.

Naruto smiled and walked up to his loyal subordinate, he clapped his hands on Neji's shoulders and lifted him up. "There is no need to thank me Neji, I just did what I promised you...that is all." said the man kindly.

Suddenly Naruto felt a strong killer intent from behind him, he and his two subordinates were not currently under the effects of Kyoka Suigetsu, so normal people could actually see them perfectly. Looking back, Naruto saw the Hyuga clan head, Hyuga Hiashi glaring at him with untamed anger...and by the man's feet was the dead body of Hinata.

Tenten was shocked to see the man standing there, but stood strong for her leader. Neji just smirked at the man with his Byakugan activated, he knew that he was just as powerful as his uncle, and without the caged bird seal on him anymore, he no longer had to fear the man.

"Hey Hiashi-jisama, " sneered Neji with venom, purposely flaunting his clean forehead at the man.

Naruto smiled at the man as he stuck his hands in his pocket. "Well, how nice of you to join us Hiashi-san..." he said with a hint of condesention.

Hiashi felt livid, he had never been so angry in his long life. He was worried about his daughter and went back to the Hyuga estate to check on her, but to his shock his daughter was not there. He went back to his own room to change his clothes because of the heat, but then he noticed that his safe had been removed by someone. At first Hiashi was afraid that it was some Kumo Shinobi that had kidnapped his daughter along with his safe, he ran out to the village in search of Hinata, but that was when the fighting broke loose.

It was until he saw his nephew in the distance on the battlefield, he wanted to ask for his help in finding Hinata...but to think that it would lead him to his daughter's corpse.

Hiashi glared at Naruto. "Aren't you suppose to be dead...?"

Naruto smiled and nodded a little. "Yes...but I guess I guess it wasn't my time yet."

The Hyuga gripped his fists tightly and growled at Naruto. "You...You were the one that killed my daughter...she was pierced with a Katana." accused the man, having inspected his daughter wound slightly with his eyes. "Why did you kill her?" asked the man.

Naruto shrugged. "I felt sympathy for her, if I left her alive after I abandon her, she will just end up killing herself...you can say that I put her out of her misery."

Hiashi's eyes flared with untamed anger. "SHE LOVED YOU, THE WHOLE REASON SHE HAD BEEN TRAINING HERSELF TO HARD WAS BECAUSE SHE WANTED TO PLEASE YOU! HOW CAN YOU DO THIS TO HER!" cried the man as loud as he could.

Naruto smirked. "I wanted something that she could get me, and I used her to get it, it is as simple as that." said the Uzumaki as he crossed his arms. "Let me tell you this Hiashi-san...admiration is the emotion furthest away from understanding."

That was the last straw for Hiashi, he flared his chakra and charged at Naruto. "I WILL KILL YOU BASTARD!" shouted the man as he pulled his palm back.

Suddenly Naruto disappeared from Hiashi's vision, making the man stop suddenly with surprise...but before he saw anything, he felt someone place a finger on his chest. Looking ahead, he was shocked to see Naruto standing in front of him.

"Goodbye Hiashi-san..." whispered Naruto as Hiashi's eyes widened. "Byakurai!" a beam of pale lightning blasted through the man's chest, Naruto had aimed for the man's heart so he would have a faster death. "You can go to your daughter now Hiashi-san...you can be with her in the afterlife, maybe that is the price of neglecting her all her life...this is a chance to redeem yourself."

Like his daughter before him, Hiashi fell to the ground with blood spilling from his chest...dead.