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A/N: I don't really know what to say but sorry guys.. I mean…. I haven't updated a chapter since febuary ;__;

I do have acceptable reasons though, this Friday my summer vacation starts and that's when I will finish my second year in upper secondary school.. The thing is, I'm reading science as my major, and here in Sweden the second year is the toughest one, especially around April and May, that's when all the national test is… and let me tell you, they're though when they come in packs of two to three per week, together with rapports on laboratory practice, essays and stuff like that =.=

Because of all this I was stressed out I guess and just didn't have any urge to write at all.. Now though I promise you all it's over and I can write again..

For those of you who can't stand waiting for my irregular updates but still yet wants to read this thing for some reason, do not fear, for the next chapter shall be the last... And, I promise to start writing on it as soon as possible… like, tomorrow or something :P

Next chapter will though open up for a sequel, a story which I have planned together with my cousin since the start of this :P … It will probably take a whole lot of time before we're able to actually write much on it… so don't wait for too much too soon if you want to read it..

Well, I'm not going to keep you on hold any longer… those of you who actually read this that is… So here it is, chapter 39 ;)

Chapter 39: Bitter end

Sakura blinked groggily as she woke up, wondering what happened. Her entire body felt heavy as she tried to sit up.

"You should take it easy Sakura-chan." a high-pitched voice said just next to her ear. She looked up to see a small Katsuyu sitting on her shoulder, the sight of the snail calmed her somewhat, it could only mean that Tsunade was still alive and that she was aiding the entire village right then through her healing jutsus with the help of Katsuyu.

"How does it look?" Sakura asked the snail as she stood up, knowing that the huge snail had divided up in to several small snails and could therefore keep check on the entire village.

"Most of the village has been demolished, the situation is calmer now than before though as it seems as if we have gained control over most of their forces. The only parts where there are still turbulence is over by the river and..." the snail quieted as if uncertain of to say something.

"What?" Sakura asked her before seeing how Katsuyu looked away from her towards the academy. As she followed the snail's gaze she wondered how she could've missed it earlier.

As she saw it she could also immediately feel it, how that sinister chakra pressed against every pore of her body, making her want to crawl in to a fetus position and just hide until it was all over.

High up in the air above the academy was a large golden colored eagle with five tails protruding from its behind. Either the seal was broken and the Gobi had taken over Tori, or it had broken free from its container. A horrible sound came out of its beak, making a shiver run down Sakura's spine in fear.

Her fear was momentarily broken by a groan nearby, and as she looked down she saw Anko lying there with a deep gash down her leg, but otherwise seemingly unharmed.

"Anko-san." Sakura called as she ran over to the woman, collapsing next to her as she realized that even though she had awoken she was exhausted and completely drained of energy.

She tried to ignore how tired she felt as she looked down at Anko's leg, trying to focus healing chakra in to her hand.

It was futile tries though as nothing happened, her hands didn't even start to shimmer green the least as nothing stirred within her no matter how hard she tried. An previously unknown fear gripped at her as a thought occurred to her, what if she had lost the ability to use her chakra through that technique?

"Sakura-chan?" a questioning voice said, looking up she saw how Genma came walking towards her, holding his senbon in his hand instead of in his mouth as usual. At the sight of him she pushed her fear to the side even though she right then realized that she couldn't feel any chakra-signals from neither him nor Anko.

"Genma!" she said as she stood up, hope tinting her voice. Because even though she told herself not to worry about her own condition she was scared that an enemy ninja would show up, neither she nor Anko could after all defend themselves right then.

"Are you two okay?" Genma asked them as he reached them, crouching down next to Anko's body.

"Yeah, Anko-san's just unconscious and the only wound she seems to have is that one on her leg." Sakura said as she motioned towards the gash across Anko's thigh. Genma nodded before he looked up at Sakura again.

"And you?" he asked her with a piercing gaze.

"I'm fine, just a little exhausted." she said with a somewhat nervous laugh. A slightly unbelieving look passed over his eyes before he turned back to Anko and her leg, ripping open her pants to inspect the cut more closely.

Suddenly she felt something flickering in the back of her mind, as she snapped her head upwards she realized what it was. She felt how two more sinister chakras started to grow and she knew immediately that it was Rin and Naruto and that they didn't have any control over the two bijuu.

"What is it?" Genma asked her as she cursed under her breath. As she met his gaze she realized why she hadn't been able to feel him or Anko, obviously her mind had been too busy feeling the enormous chakra from the Gobi that it was impossible for her to feel the chakra of mere humans.

"Naruto and Rin." was all she said before she started to run not. She knew that Genma would be able to take care of Anko right then so she wouldn't have any feelings of guilt later on, especially not since she just knew that she needed to get to Naruto and Rin. She wasn't sure why she was needed, she just knew.

Deidara looked up at the gigantic bird as it closed its talons around the edge of a roof and made itself comfortable there.

He smiled to himself as he thought of how this had just gotten much easier. At first he had been overwhelmed with the chakra, however as the Gobi had taken on its physical form more and more the chakra had started to subside and hide inside of the large bird and was by now controllable from him.

Tori's face flashed in front of his eyes, at first she had looked afraid, not for herself though but for him. Then after a while it had changed as she felt the pain and her expression had changed into shock and anger as she looked up at him.

He guessed that she hadn't expected it to hurt so much, and because of it she couldn't die without resenting him, especially not as the Gobi took over after a while. He remembered how her eyes suddenly had glazed over by a shadow, giving her bird eyes that pierced through him before her body had suddenly erupted as if a volcano, and the next moment the Gobi had broken through.

Itachi landed silently next to him. Deidara didn't turn to watch, he knew it anyway from the chakra-signature.

From it he could also notice how exhausted Itachi seemed to be, something that Deidara found odd since the Uchiha usually wasn't that exhausted unless he had used the Mangekyo for a long series of time, and who in Konoha could force him to do that?

"Let's just hurry up and get out of here." Itachi didn't look at any of them as he spoke, instead he kept his eyes firmly on the large, five-tailed bird in front of them.

Sakura ran with all of her remaining powers to where she could feel the two huge chakras, and even though she knew her tries were futile she still hoped that she would reach them before they reached the Akatsuki members.

Jumping from one roof to another she suddenly felt how the Kyuubi and the Hachibi clashed, from what she could feel it seemed as if the two didn't like each other.

Her eyes widened at the realization that the two demons were fighting each other, with Naruto and Rin's bodies. She desperately tried to add more speed to her feet when she, from exhaustion, suddenly took a wrong step and slipped.

Gai looked at the large man in front of him as he breathed heavily, the nun chucks weighed heavily in his battered hands as he thought over his situation.

He didn't really want to use it unless necessary, but it really did seem as if he would have to open up some of the chakra gates.

Just as he started to ready himself to release them the blue-skinned man looked away from Gai and up in the air.

Suspiciously Gai let his gaze flicker in the same direction only to see the same large bird as earlier, still yet a new smirk grazed the other man's lips as he suddenly opened his mouth and started speaking.

"Seems as if though I gotta go." was all the mysterious man said before leaping away from there.

"Hey you coward, get back here!" Gai yelled after him as he immediately followed the man, he couldn't forgive such cowardice!

Neji didn't like the feel of this, not one bit. First Sakura, Kiba and Shino had gone the other way without them and the fact that Lee was dangerously much in front of the rest of the group. He had been nervous from the start because of those factors and for Hinata's sake, then the worst possible thing , maybe it wasn't really the worst possible thing, but right then it certainly felt like it. It had felt like being pressed down under water when the Gobi had been released and for a short time he had actually been unable to breath. Now though he had gotten used to the pressure and didn't want anything else but to get down to the village to make sure that everyone was safe, especially Hinata.

He looked around himself at the others as all of them patiently ran towards the village, even though it had only been a few minutes since they started off from the top of the hill it felt as if though they had been running for hours. Not because of exhaustion, rather because they wanted to get to Konoha to help the others. Even in a usual fight mere minutes could decide who wins and who dies, and this wasn't a usual fight, no, in this one mere seconds were enough to decide the outcome.

It was with great relief that they ran the last part down the mountain and the familiar houses of Konoha surrounded them again as they were nearing the fights. All around them were evidence of the fighting, thrown weapons, cracks in walls and the ground and even a few unconscious bodies. It seemed as if the majority of all the fights had died down and all that was left was the large ones that made sinister chakra flash out in the air.

Immediately after entering the village the group jumped up on the roof to enable easier movements throughout the town. As they did so Neji also activated his Byakugan to more accurately locate the chakra signals that they all could feel. What he saw shocked him at first before he collected himself and told the rest of them to follow him. He didn't take them far, just a few rooftops to the west. When they stopped they did so at the edge of a large plaza that none of them had seen earlier, which had to mean that it hadn't excited earlier, the two persons fighting on it must have created it with their earth-shattering attacks. It wasn't something unbelievable considering the bottom of previous walls still sticking up from the ground and the fact that the two fighting down there were Naruto and Rin.

The only one who actually recognized them at first was Neji, all because of the chakra that covered them and gave them completely new shapes. The Hyuuga boy only recognized them immediately because he could see Naruto and Rin's own chakras deep within them thanks to his eyes. It didn't take long though until the rest of them could figure out who the two fighters were because of their chakra.

They all stood there, knowing that they should do something but unable to do so. Because, after all, what were they to do against two jinchuuriki covered in bijuu chakra? No matter how much they wanted to do something they knew that they could probably only going to end up hurt and then give Naruto and Rin feelings of guilt, that was if the two Jinchuuriki survived this. Their friends didn't know what was going to happen to the blond boy and red-haired girl.

Suddenly a black-clad figure zoomed past them and landed in the ruins of buildings where the demons were fighting each other. As it stopped they could immediately identify the man as an ANBU because of the white tigre-mask that covered his face and the swirling tattoo on his arm. They watched in shock as the man immediately made

A hand sign and said a name on a technique they hadn't heard before. To their great shock pillars made from wood rose from the ground and wound themselves around Naruto and Rin, hindering them from moving further.

The group breathed out in relief at this, the man on the other hand didn't waste any air as he suddenly made several more hand-signs before screaming out one of the longest names they had ever heard on a technique. The next second the man moved quickly and hit Naruto and Rin in their chests before hurrying away from them. Just as he once more landed more wooden pillars rose from the ground, this time they were stood in a large ring surrounding Rin and Naruto, large spikes protruding from their inside.

From the roof the group watched in awe as they noticed something similar to a chakra-rope that went between the ANBU's hand and the chests of Naruto and Rin. As soon as the man had jumped away from the jinchuuriki earlier the rope had started to pull on Naruto and Rin, or was it pushing at them? No one of them were able to tell exactly what it did but after a while it seemed as if it was forcing the sinister chakra back in to the confines of their bodies again.

As the red chakra slowly showed more and more of Naruto they could all see the thin layer of skin that seemed to glow red. Ino immediately jumped down from the roof, knowing that both Naruto and Rin would need medical attention, something that she would have to make certain that they got as she was the only one there right then who knew medical ninjutsu.

The two ANBU landed on the roof and looked around. It was one of the few roofs that, surprisingly enough, hadn't been destroyed. One of them quickly walked up to the green-clad man who stood there alone.

"What seems to have expired here Maito-san?" the man said as he looked at Gai through his monkey shaped mask. Gai made an annoyed voice as he pointed up in the air to where he was watching. As the ANBU turned his gaze there he could distinguish a small dot in the air that had to be incredibly far away considering how large it had to be, because even though the ANBU hadn't been here then he could easily figure out that it had to be the Akatsuki members who were transporting the Gobi.

"I found someone!" the ANBU turned around at the call from his partner and went over there. Behind a large boulder lied the body of a blond girl, she was wearing red, formal robes that seemed to belong to some clan and she had two large wounds on her body. One of them seemed to have been from something piercing through her breast whereas the other one were in the exact same shape as a seal, placed right over her bellybutton.

"Seems to be the Jinchuuriki from Stone." said the ANBU who had found her, a horse shaped mask covered his face.

"Yeah, seems like it." said the monkey masked man as he watched the lower wound, knowing that it had to be from when the Gobi had broken free. Even though there was no doubt about it he still bent down and checked her pulse.

"She's dead." he said as confirmation when he felt her already cold and still neck under his fingers.

A/N: Thank you to Gravity The Wizard, Rena the pirate jedi wizard, narutojazz19 and superfish01 for your reviews! ^^

I hope you're still with me and haven't given up on this lousy thing that I call myself ;___;

Hope you liked the chapter as well, despite all I am somewhat proud of myself.. because, three hours ago I had one and a half page written on this chapter.. and two and a half hours later I had a little over four pages (including what I had before today) … so that feels good.. just hoping I can do the same with next chapter :P