Maggie: Hello! This is our first chappy of our first collaborated story! Welcome!

Lori: Allo! This is my first fanfic… hope it's good.

Maggie: Yeah, go easy on the little tike! Anyway, that's enough introductions; let's get this show on the road!

Disclaimer: If we did own Naruto, we'd be rich.

The Seventh Tail

Chapter 1: First meetings, and a secret jutsu.

It was a normal day in Sunagakure. The birds were chirping, the wind blowing lightly, and Gaara was awake. Everything was regular.

"Three, two, one," Gaara sighed and a hoard of stampeding fan girls crashed into the abnormally clean window that was in his room. They were all holding sighs and wearing shirts that read, 'We love you Kazekage!' For some reason, ever since he became Kazekage, girls were all over him. It's like having to govern a whole nation was sexy or something. Gaara just didn't care, he pulled the blinds across the window and left to see if anyone else was up yet.

"Good morning, brother!" Temari greeted as Gaara strolled into the kitchen. His sister was in a purple robe so she looked presentable even though in her own home. Temari cared what the town thought of her. She didn't have her hair in the pony tails she usually wore, though.

"Morning, Temari, what's for breakfast?" the red head asked in a nonchalant manner.

"Well, I made some pancakes, and Kankuro said he would cook eggs, but he doesn't seem to be getting up. Could you go try? I've been at him for hours," the only girl of the family requested.

Gaara went down the hall and entered his brother's room. The place was dark and he saw Ant leaning against the wall. He looked to the left wall and saw his brother sprawled across the bed with his feet at the pillow and his head nearly falling off the mattress.

"Ugh," Gaara sighed, his brother was a pain some times, "Wake up."

Kankuro still slept.

"Get up!"

SNORE

"Kankuro! Come make eggs!"

Still sleeping.

"God, HEY, LOOK, I'M TOUCHING ANT!!!!!" Gaara did the one thing that got his brother every time.

"NOOOOO! Stay away from my puppets!" Kankuro jumped on top of his bed and yelled. It had worked. Ever since they were little, all Gaara had top do was threaten to touch his stuff, and he'd comply with anything.

"Good, you're up, Temari wants you to make eggs, go," Gaara said once again calm.

"Fine," the brunette sighed and slugged out to the kitchen. He still wore his pj's. His messy hair was almost never brushed, and he was as lazy as ever.

Yep, it was just one more average day in Suna.

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That same morning a girl with light red hair that looked more like it was orange, and hazel eyes was running at full speed across the border to the Wind nation. This girl wore a pale blue shirt that was quite long, so long in fact, that it could pass as a dress. Under this she wore some semi-loose pants along with her kunai pouch strapped to he leg and a necklace that resembled a flame around her neck.

"Huh, huh, huh," the girl whose name was Natsuki panted. She had been running for hours and hadn't had more than 3 hours of sleep in five days, "Good thing these people are pretty dumb, there's no border patrol! Now I can sneak in without a passport."

"I can't wait until I can find some place to sleep! I swear, I'm so tired… I think I might just take a little nap… right …here…" and with that, Natsuki stopped and leaned against a tree to take a morning snooze. Little did the girl know that she was sleeping in the border area of the major ninja town called, Sunagakure.

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That afternoon, Natsuki woke up on the outskirts of Suna. She walked into the patrol area of the town's own Kazekage. Little did she know that he happened to be watching her. From a tree.

"Identify yourself!" the leader of the ninja town ordered.

"Well, 'love boy', I'm Tsushima Natsuki, pleased to meet you! What's your name?" the girl answered.

"What village are you from?" Gaara asked as he jumped down from the tree.

"Well, I'm from a small town called Kawagakura, and can I ask, what's with the make-up, you should really leave eye liner to us girls," she answered and asked diligently. She didn't care for him too much, he hadn't even introduced himself!

"Where's your passport? And it isn't make-up," Gaara ordered.

"Uh…. Why do you need to see that?" Natsuki asked and smiled a sweet childish grin to see if she could get away with it.

"So you have no passport?" Gaara asked.

"No," she hung her head for she knew she couldn't convince him.

"So you're a spy, you'll need to come with me," Gaara said and he approached her.

"What, oh no no no no no! I'm just a traveler, no threat here! I'm just passing through!" she tried to explain.

"Well, I'm still gonna need to take you in for questioning, just to be safe," Gaara said and turned back to the village, expecting her to follow.

"I ain't going anywhere! I'm not lying!" she was now offended. She hated it when people called her a lair. The only thing was that Gaara was just trying to protect his village, so he wasn't actually accusing her of lying.

"Then I'm going to need to search you here, to make sure you have any weapons on you besides a few kunai," he negotiated.

"What?!" Natsuki was now very taken aback.

"Just let me search you down, and you can be on your way," Gaara explained and began to step closer to the girl. He was in arm's reach when she threw her arms into a defensive stance and got into fighting position.

"Lay a hand on me, and I'll kill you!" she said. She didn't want to be felt over by some… guy! He was her age, and who knows what he might try! She didn't want some possible perv feeling her up!

"What? I'm not going to do anything, I just need to search you," Gaara stepped back and put his hands up to show he meant no harm.

"Right, I'm supposed to believe some stranger!" she accused.

"And you want me to believe a stranger when you say you aren't a spy? Right, that makes complete sense!" Gaara wasn't in the mood for this. Actually, he was never in the mood for this.

"Oh, well that is different! You might be a pervert trying to take advantage of me!" Natsuki said in defense.

"And you might be a spy ninja trying to plan the down fall of my village, now I'm going to have to take that threat you gave me back there as a huge clue that you are!" Gaara explained his reasons.

"Whatever, just let me pass!" she ordered. That was it, nobody ordered Sabuko no Gaara around!

"No, now either you can comply with my orders, or you fight me," Gaara said calmly, yet firmly.

"Well, then I guess we're fighting!" At that moment, Natsuki got into a fighting stance and Gaara just stood there as sand began to swirl around him.

Gaara smiled inwardly. This was turning out to be very interesting. "The name is Gaara by the way, what's yours?"

"Tsushima Natsuki" she replied smiling mischievously at him. And with that she threw the kunai at him. Performing quick hand seals Natsuki shouts, "Shadow Clone Kunai!" Then the one kunai multiplied into 40 kunai.

Quickly a barrier of sand rose up to block the attack. "This is too easy. Can't you do better?" Gaara asked. Natsuki didn't falter though, and quickly formed another set of hand seals.

"Release: Earth Dragon! Earth Fireball attack!" There was a slight rumbling sound and a huge dragon made of mud rose from under Gaara. He dodged just in time and directed his sand to block the oncoming mud balls that the dragon had sent his way.

Damn! That was to close. She's good. Then he noticed a kunai flying toward him. "That won't work on me…" Then he noticed what was wrapped neatly around the kunai. An explosive tag. Crap! His sand formed a barrier around him, but he still felt the impact of the explosion from within the enormous sand ball.

Shit, that didn't work! He is good. That sand thing is fast…, but is it strong enough?

Natsuki closed her eyes and concentrated. Blue charka slowly began to swirl from her. She opened her hazel eyes and smiled. "First Gate: Open!" Chakra began flaring around her. As Gaara disabled the sand ball, he barely saw the blue blur rushing toward him. Natsuki grinned as she feinted a roundhouse kick to his side and threw a punch at his face. The sand could barely keep up and was only able to make a small barrier. Gaara was sent flying back into a wall.

Then, from within the huge dust clouds, Gaara roared, "Sand Coffin!" Immediately Natsuki found herself trapped by sand that slowly began to envelope her body.

Oh no you don't! Natsuki made a quick set of katas, "Wild Fire no jutsu!" Flames erupted around Natsuki, enveloping her and burning away the sand. Then the flames shot toward Gaara.

Gaara formed some fast hand seals and said, "Desert Tornado." A small tornado swirled around Gaara and protected him from the flames onslaught.

Hmmm… nice try, but you haven't escaped yet! Natsuki closed her eyes and concentrated harder. The flames began to intensify and strengthen. The very ground began to appear to have small burn marks.

What!? Gaara grimaced as he tried to protect himself from the flames scorching heat. Sweat began pouring down his face as he considered what to do next. I have to put out the flames… but how? I probably should have paid more attention to learning water techniques. Hmmmm… maybe this will do.

Calmly Gaara muttered, "Rain of the Sand…" Above the mini tornado a small cloud of sand formed and it began to rain sand. Slowly, but surely, the flames began to die out. He then canceled his jutsu's to see what she would do next.

Damn! I hate him already… Natsuki's eyes narrowed slightly as she panted from the effort it took to control the Wild Fire no jutsu. Gaara was watching her warily. Natsuki reached up and touched the fire charm around her neck. Think, think…

Gaara noticed her distraction and sent his sand flying after her. Before she could react the sand had wrapped tightly around her. This time Gaara made sure that she couldn't get free.

Shit! Not good, not good! Natsuki struggled to break free.

"That won't work. It's useless." He said as he walked over and leaned in close to her face, his eyes expressionless. Natsuki stopped struggling and glared defiantly at him.

Very pretty eyes I must admit.

Then Natsuki did something that was completely unexpected. She leaned forward so that their faces were only centimeters away, closed her eyes, and Kissed Him!

The shock made Gaara freeze and the sand fall away from her. Then Gaara fell away from her, dazed and slightly blushing!

Ha! Work's every time. Guys are hopeless to the female ways! Just then footsteps could be heard coming their way. Gaara quickly gained his composure and turned to see who was coming. A tall girl with blond spiky hair that was drawn back into four ponytails appeared.

"What is going on here Gaara, I mean Kazekage-sama?" Temari asked as she cam upon the two, "I've got papers I need you to sign some papers, but I see we've got a bit of a problem. So, what's going on?"

"Nothing, sister, I'm just trying to keep this, spy out of our village!" Gaara retorted.

"What!? I'm not a spy, how many times must I tell you that! My village doesn't even have a ninja academy!" Natsuki said in defense.

"Right, then how come you know jutsus?" Gaara mumbled to himself.

"Well, I see no head band, so I think she's clean Gaara, now, come on, I'll get one of my subordinates to take over, we need to go get her documented. If you're going to stay here, we need to have proof of you being here, so we can keep track of you. Just to be safe," Temari smiled and helped the girl up.

"Thank you, you're much nicer than he is…" Natsuki mumbled.

"Sorry, I'm his sister, Temari and he's Gaara, who are you?"

"I'm Tsushima Natsuki, thank you for being nice about all this, I can't believe, he's your Kazekage!" Natsuki said in shock.

"Oh, he's not so bad! You just need to get to know him!" Temari stood up for her little brother. How nice.

"Whatever…"

The entire way back, Gaara was thinking to himself, Did she really just do what I think she did? I can't believe her!

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Natsuki made t out of the Kazekage office and over to her hotel room. During this stroll she replayed all that had occurred.

/flashback/

As Natsuki entered the Kazekage office she was surprised by the large shelves of books and the mountains of paper work that lay waiting on the large wooden desk. God no wonder he was so up tight. Natsuki watched as Gaara walked slowly over to the desk and sat down in the chair behind it. Temari stepped forward and handed him a yellow sheet of paper and Gaara proceeded to fill it out.

"What's this?" she asked.

"It's your register paper. It gives you permission to go around town and stay here for a while," he said while still looking at the sheet.

What? Stay here any longer than need be… out of the question! "Fine, just tell me when I can…" Natsuki was interrupted by a brown haired guy bursting into the office. This guy was decked in black, had what looked like a mummy on his back, and purple make up on. What's with all the make up?!

"Sorry, did I interrupt something?" he new guy asked.

"No, Kankuro. What is it this time?" Gaara sighed. Stupid lazy ass! "Did something happen?"

"Nah, just seeing if I have any missions today."

"Yes… You and Temari are to go with a search party to see what has been causing the strange disturbances in the south. Once you're done with that, I would suggest you train your genin," Gaara ordered. A frown appeared on Temari's face.

Before they left the Kazekage office, Kankuro turned to see Natsuki and asked who she was.

"Tsushima Natsuki. I'm a newcomer to Suna," She replied in a bored tone.

"Maybe I could show you around some time?" Kankuro offered hopefully. Before Natsuki could answer, a large hand made of sand grabbed Kankuro and threw him out of the office. A stream of curses could be heard for some time afterward, mostly directed at Gaara.

Temari giggled, "Nice one Gaara," she said before picking up the sheet of paper labeled 'A-Rank' and strolling out the door.

Natsuki turned back toward the Kazekage, "What was that for?" she demanded.

"He was annoying."

"So, that's a good reason to throw someone down the stairs?"

Gaara didn't answer; he merely held up the yellow sheet of paper and said, "Sign."

"Grumbling, Natsuki snatched the paper from him and grabbed a pen off his desk. After signing it, she gave it back to him and turned to leave. "Wait…" there was a pause, "Don't tell anyone what happened," Gaara said in a low and dangerous voice.

Natsuki walked out the door, smiling inwardly.

/end flashback/

As she looked for a place to sleep, she came upon a local ramen bar. It was now that Natsuki realized how hungry she was.

"Hello, may I help you?" the owner asked. He was a slightly fat man who donned a chef's hat and apron.

"Yeah, uh, I'd like some miso ramen. And do you know anywhere I can stay for the night?" she asked in a polite tone.

"Well it just so happens that I rent some rooms here, my name is Mr. Aramaki, and who might you be?" the plump man introduced.

"Tsushima Natsuki, nice to meet you." She said for the umpteenth time that day.

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Maggie: Ok, folks that be the first chappy, so remember READ AND REVIEW OR ELSE GAARA WIIL GET YOU!!!!!! Bye-bye!

Lori: Yeah, what she said only I'll send Kyuubi after you! (he he he)

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