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Ryo's eyes blinked a single time as they opened, all was blurry. He blinked again and Kakorata began to come into focus. "S..s-sensai? Where's Itachi? What are you doing here?" he asked in a confused daze.

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Itachi come to the battle grounds where Naruto and Minato were talking. They were quickly identified, given away by their bright hair and clothing.
"Minato, what are you trying to prove...?" he thought to himself.

Minato could sense Itachi's gaze upon him but chose to ignore it, after all, he wasn't doing anything he couldn't explain away later, "Ah yes, the arrogance of vampires, they always think they are far above the standards of all mortals. Yes I wanted to know what you wanted with Naruto, I need to know what a 2 century old Vampire wants with him. And if you plan on turning him, then I'm going to have to teach you how poor a choice that would be. Trust that is definitely the last thing I want."

"What? You're a granny? But you look so young and pretty." Naruto said getting closer to examine her

"Naruto, get back, we don't know her or the full extent of her powers, she cannot be trusted!"

Naruto just looked at minato with a confused expression plastered across his face.

<(Sorry, but I think I am going to quit as well. I won't leave you hanging to badly. Sasuke is just going to have to kill another person.)>

Heikaze got wrapped up in the tendrils, however, he diapeared in apuff of smoke before anything else could happen. Xinrie had been fighting a clone...

"Dual Wind Blade." Heikaze said calmly as a sword made of wind appeared in each of his hands. He slashed at each fireball as they came at him, the wind causing the flames to disperse. He the walked slwoly toward the Uchiha still holding hte blades.

(I believe they did what everyone else did. Leave...
Oh, TO WHOEVER IS PLAYING SASUKE: do you mind if I kill Zane's Character?)

((LOL That is a good point...))

Kakorata, still with his Sharingan activated, was able to see a chakra build up near by. He told Ryo to stay close and ran off towards the spot. He was building up chakra as he went.

Ryo gasped, he was close and still speedily closing in behind Kakorata to get to Sasuke. It was too late, their jutsus had struck, it would all be over soon. Ryo felt the impact from where he stood, he stopped his feet and covered his face with his forearms to deflect any debris that flew up from the collision. Behind his restricting arms his eyes urged to see the conclusion of the battle.
"Oh no, this must be over. Sasuke...don't die on me when I just risked my life to try and spare yours you jerk!"
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Itachi was almost back to full strength, he hid in the distance but sent a clone to the battlefield where Minato, Naruto, and Yurano [sp?] stood. The clone stepped out and looked at Minato, then to Naruto, and lastly to Yurano. "Minato, we have important things to attend too. Whatever it is you hope to accomplish here, please be quick about it..." said the clone, survailling the situation cautiously. Nobody there had sharingan or byakugan, there was always a chance his clonelyness wasn't recognized.

Raven slept through the time. She had trailed a ways away from the village. Something felt kinda odd. Something strange and different was all around them. Raven's gaze jumped to the sands of another region.
"What can i suspect from the chunin exams?" Raven walked from the patch of grass an over into the desert sands. Digging her hands she pulled a sand from the ground and let it trickle through a small hole.
"This is such a weird feeling." Her mind swirled as the sands acted almost like a watery earth.
"I am bored" Raven sat and watched withen the sands something was approaching.

<(It's just that this rp isn't going anywhere... The story line has made loke no progress in the past month. I mean, I guess I can stick around for a while longer if you want me to... )>

Heikaze threw both of his hands forward thrusting both versions of the rasengan at Sasuke. In the process he left himself wide open. He was hit cleanly by the chidori, it hit him on the right side and dove into his rib cage. There was a sickening crack that echoed over the attack as his ribs split, then there was a second crack that resulted from the chidori ripping out of the back of his chest. Blood splattered on the ground and poured from Heikaze's wound. He didn't have time to see the results of his attacks, he remained on his feet with his arms haning loosely at his side. His eyes were fixed upon the lifeless corpse of Machi. After the dashing attacks he and Sasuke had passed each other and were back to back with a bit of space between them. Even if he could continue, Heikaze knew it would no longer be a one on one as Kakorata and Ryo were closing in.

Heikaze coughed loudly spraying blood all over himself and the ground. He stumbled forward towards Machi's body. After a couple steps he collaped. He lay still for only a moment but there was already a crimson pool around his body that quickly stained his once pure white clothing. Pushing himself up onto his hands and knees he crawled over to Machi, a trail of blood left behind.

When he finally made it over to her body he wrapped his arms around her and pulled her up into his ripped open and bleeding chest. His breathes had been growing shorter and shorter as he struggled for air, blood dripping from his mouth the whole time. He some how managed to raise to his feet with Machi in his arms. "Wind Carriage..." he stammered out before coughing up blood once more. A strong wind blew through the area with the intentions of carrying Heikaze and Machi far away, but before it could pick them up Heikaze fell to the ground unconscious.

He had lost lots of blood and his right rib cage was all but shattered. His right lung had been ripped open and peirced by fragments of bone from his rib cage. He wasn't dead, but he would be soon if he didn't get immediate medical attention.