"I won't let you. . ." Gaara yelled, "Have Shukaku!" The sand hands that he had made tightened their grip.

Shukaku's eyes widened. With a rush the memories hit him, the memories of one of his previous containers; an old yet kind priest. The memories then faded only to be replaced by a new one, a fresher memory. He couldn't help but remember when Gaara had thanked him. Even if it was for letting him meet Naruto, Gaara the human had thanked Shukaku the biju. It was an amazingly rare occurrence between the two species.

Noticing an attack heading for his former host Shukaku lazily raised a hand and blocked it. "My motto is Absolute Defense," the beast growled, "I have my pride as Shukaku!"

"I know. . ." Gaara muttered. His power over the desert hands wavered for a moment and the chain pulling Shukaku caused him to fly forwards. The second he was in motion the attack that he had been blocking broke through hand hit Gaara, sending the redhead flying a considerable distance.

"Gaara, don't overdo it," Shukaku warned, despite his dire situation; he was still being dragged inexorably towards the Gedo Mazo statue.

"I'm not a jinchuriki anymore. Finally," Gaara said, "I can stay up late as your equal!"

Shukaku's eyes widened as he was once again reminded of his former host, but a moment later he knew no more, having been absorbed by the statue.

Kurama observed the exchange from within Naruto and then quickly went over the situation again. 'One choice,' the fox concluded, 'But it's so reckless. Heh, maybe my host's behavior is starting to influence me. Well, it's worth a shot.'

"Gaara brat, I have something to ask you!" Kurama yelled aloud. Moving his chakra body as close to the sand user as possible he continued. "There might be a way to fix this. You need to enter the Gedo statue yourself once all of the biju have been absorbed."

"What about Naruto?" Gaara replied. "If you're extracted he'll die!"

"Part of the plan, but don't worry. Just trust me. Into the Gedo Mazo. Do you understand? Gaara!" Kurama roared.

Gaara gritted his teeth but nodded. With a slight smirk the Kyuubi released it's hold on it's host and sailed towards the Gedo statue. Not even looking at the falling form of Naruto Gaara jumped on his sand and used it to fly forwards. He knew that if he got a good look at Naruto he wouldn't be able to carry through with Kurama's request.

"What are you doing?" Madara asked curiously. "You can't honestly intend to fight me." Ignoring the god-wannabe Gaara continued until the Gedo Mazo was right before him, mouth gaping. Without even a second of hesitation he flew right in.

Madara gazed down at the statue's mouth. "Now why did he do that? No matter, he's only gotten himself killed. The Gedo Mazo turns things into pure chakra, so I suppose the addition of his insignificant power might even have made it a bit stronger."

The inside of the Gedo Mazo was dark, to say the least. The second Gaara entered the statue he started to fall and he knew that whatever the fox had planned, it wouldn't be pleasant for him. Still, if it meant he could save Naruto and everyone else then he was willing to endure it. The unpleasantness started only moments later. It started with the chakra in his sand breaking down as it was absorbed by the surrounding darkness, and then it spread to his actual body. It was excruciating, the feeling of his body disintegrating. It went of for what seemed like hours until only his face was left and any thoughts of Kurama's plan had been purged from his mind. Annoyingly enough, the process had failed to kill him despite destroying all of his internal organs and basically everything else.

'It should end soon,' Gaara though as his face began to disintegrate. Closing his eyes he waited until they disintegrated as well, and then he waited yet longer as the last fragment of his face which contained his scarlet tattoo disappeared too. The second his body was gone shit started to get serious. While he lacked a body Gaara found that he was able to keep his conscious mind together, but his hold was quickly slipping. In a mere minute he would lose control and truly die.

He would have died. He should have died. But he didn't. Moments before he gave up he felt a swell of chakra from below him, a swell of Kurama's chakra. It was swiftly followed by some of Shukaku's, and then the power of the rest. In an instant he was engulfed in the power of the biju. He senses were shot, seeing as he had no body, but even still he got their message. 'Good luck.'

Sasuke Uchiha was sitting outside looking at the rainy sky, pondering his vengeance. It had been years since his clan had been killed but his rage had not dimmed in the slightest. 'Three more years,' he thought to himself. 'That's when my class graduates. Ch, wonder if that blond idiot will graduate by then?'

His thoughts were dark considering his meager age of nine, but then again he had been through a lot. He was prepared for anything, or that was what he told himself. One way or another, he would deal with anything that came his way until he finally reached the point where his brother was before him. As if echoing the sentiment the clouds above crackled with lightning as thunder roared across the normally scenic city of Konoha.

After a minute of basking in the moment, Sasuke looked up and started to wonder just what exactly was happening. For a full minute arcs of lightning had been shooting across the sky and they showed no signs of stopping. A full five minutes later something new finally happened. Narrowing his eyes Sasuke saw something falling from the sky. He raised an eyebrow, adopting an expression of curiosity. Said curiosity quickly turned to fear as he realized that the falling object was heading right for him. scrambling away he barely managed to avoid the projectile which impacted the earth with a force great enough to send tremors echoing throughout Konoha.

Once the dust had cleared he slowly crept forward to gaze into the hole. He was greeted by the sight of a naked and strangely uninjured redhead with a tattoo of the Kanji for love on his forehead. 'Karma,' he concluded. He might have said he would deal with anything that came his way, but this was really pushing it. 'Eh, the Hokage can handle it.'

In much the same way that Sasuke had come to his conclusion about Karma, Hiruzen Sarutobi had just come to his own conclusion. 'I really am too old for this,' he though as he stated down at the crater. It was still raining and it had been approximately thirty minutes since the. . . impact? That was certainty what had happened, but he wasn't the Third Hokage for a reason. No, this was no ordinary case of a naked teenager falling from the sky (they had more of those than you might expect), this was much more.

'I wonder how much paperwork this will cause?' Hiruzen mused. Sighing he turned to the ANBU standing at attention around him. "Take the boy to the hospital, but keep him under constant supervision. Try to identify him, run blood tests any anything else that might help. Make sure he gets a pair of clothes and alert me when he wakes; he's not allowed to leave his room until I have had a chance to speak with him."

"Hai!" the ANBU replied in unison as two jumped into the crater to retrieve the body and the rest went to inform the necessary parties.

'A lot,' the Hokage concluded. 'This is going to produce a lot of paperwork.'

(A/N: Well now, this should be fun. So, what do you think, like the idea? So incase you didn't get it, Gaara has traveled back in time to three years before Naruto and Co. graduate. So, what'll happen now? How did he get into the past anyways? Can the Kurama of this time help him? What about himself, are there now two of him and what would happen if they met? Ah, so many questions to be answered. Stick around and you'll get to find out. In the mean time, please review!)