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Sasuke sighed, "Nice to see you too..." he murmured. His eyes were downcast, and the tone of his voice clearly said something was wrong, "Listen...I did something...terrible." his voice shook. Swallowing, he closed his eyes. He never acted this way before...he was usually calm and collected...but now.
"You know Machi and Heikaze...the guys that confronted me before about joining thier little group?"
He opened his eyes, and, remembering Ryo supporting him, he added, "Well, you saw most of what happened I guess...so I need help."

"Naruto, I've already introduced myself, I only joined Akatsuki so that I could steer them from you and so that I could easily watch over you and make sure you got strong enough to protect the village. And Yaruno-chan, has her own secrets, you will need to find them out on your own."

Heikaze wasn't staying behind. He thought he made that clear to Shadar at the beginning. While the jounin was distracted by the chuunin, Heikaze went behind him and continued towards Raven. Even after Shadar disapeared, Heikaze could still see his chakra. It wasn't so easy to escape from a Hyuuga. As he ran he made handsignes, "Wind Carriage." after he spoke he wa swept away by the wind.

<(They aren't fighting. They are going to wherever Raven is. They just left Konoha.)>

Shadar stood some yards away. Taking off after the trail of blood that led down the path.
"Please don't be her." As the path was shielded by the trees, light was unable to enter the forest canopy. Though, the light at the end of the trail glowed brightly. As he emerged from the forest, his heart stopped. Raven was slumped against a tree stump outside of the forest range. The forest suddenly dropped off to a section of sands. It was almost like a dried sea. Shadar shifted the gourd so it fell before his feet.
Opening it, he dipped his hand in the cool waters. Removing the makeup from his forehead, closed his right eye and touched it with his clean hand. The third eye slowly opened revealing it was not blind like normal. Taking a senbon from his inner back, he sliced the other's aimed at his vital organs.
"Nice trick Reigtor. Were you planning on me to take the supposed death of my sister lightly?" Shadar collected the five senbon and held onto them.
The man cloaked in black emerged from withen the sands.
"I was wondering when your little brother would get here." The man's dark and deep voice offered no relief.
"What have you done to my sister? RELEASE." Shadar let his chakra destroy the genjutsu on him. Though he didn't make enough for Heikaze.
"So you were able to see through the Hell Viewing Genjutsu." The man was grinning madily.
"Your sister was taken away by the Spider Queen. By the way how did your sister get hold of the spider contract?" Reigtor asked.
"The same way i got hold of this." Shadar took his senbon and cut himself on his thumb. Making some hand signs he pressed his hand against the earth.
"Summoning jutsu." Shadar cried as the wind exploded from his hand. The summoning was sent and the serpent came.
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((kagome, you know i left back to the training grounds and left you back in the forest, you can come out now))

Heikaze landed behind Shadar, his byakugan had not been fooled by the genjutsu for a second and he had seen teh shinobi who was waiting long before he revealed himself. "Reigtor?" Heikaze asked repeating the name. "Spider Queen?" Heikaze asked again. The first name meant nothing to him, but he second was explained by the rest of the mysterious man's sentance. But still, it was intrigueing. "So, what's going on here?"