Author's note: This is the very first fanfiction that I've posted so please don't flame me. Constructive criticism and suggestions are always appreciated, but no flames please. Also, this is during the very beginning of the Shippuden arc so Naruto's personality is a little more mature at times. Other than that enjoy the story. DISCLAIMER: I don't own Naruto, Masashi Kishimoto does.
'thoughts' "regular talking" 'demon talking in person's head' "demon talking through person"
Naruto Uzumaki had just settled down in the room he had rented at the local inn after another uneventful day of waiting. He looked up at the ceiling as he lay on his back, fully dressed, on his bed and sighed as he remembered the events that had brought him there. After returning to Konoha from his travels with Jiraiya, the pervy sage, the council had questioned his loyalty to the village. If Jiraiya and Tsunade hadn't been there to vouch for him…He didn't want to think about what would have happened. The council had always hated him because of the nine tailed Kyuubi. They were looking for an excuse to get rid of him. They always had, and he knew that they always would, especially since he failed to retrieve Sasuke from the valley of the end two years ago.
The council and the two sannin came to a compromise after several hours of debating. If Naruto could capture the number one criminal in the ANBU bingo book, he would be reinstated as a Konoha ninja and promoted to the Chunin level. So that was why he was out here in the middle of nowhere. He was looking for Ookami no Akira, the container of the eight tailed wolf Myobi. The information on her was next to nothing. All he knew was that she was involved with the Mist village ninja before going insane. She was his age, had light blue hair, and silver eyes.
Apparently, any ninja who went after her never returned. Other than that, he knew zip, zilch, nada about the infamous kunoichi. Naruto in one of his more brilliant ideas let it be known that he was tracking her so she would come to him, and he chose a remote location so fewer civilians would be involved. Now, he was on day fifty-one of waiting for Akira to show, and he was starting to run low on cash. He sighed and rolled over to see that someone was standing there, toying with a kunai. Naruto instantly jumped up and drew his own kunai.
"Naruto Uzumaki?" she asked as though they were chatting over tea instead of in a potentially deadly situation. Naruto narrowed his eyes at her. Light blue hair, silver slitted eyes, wolfish features, nails resembling claws, fighting clothes, female, and appeared to be his age. "Ookami no Akira the Myobi container," Naruto stated in reply. "Aww, you guessed so quickly. That's no fun," she pouted as an insane light began burning in her eyes. "Enough talking already! In the name of Konoha, I now place you under arrest, dattebayo!"
A feral smirk slowly crept across Akira's face. "Do you now? You seem to be under the impression that I'll just come along like a good little doggy. Well, that would be so very boring, and I hate being bored. You see when I get bored-" The world will never know what happens when Ookami no Akira gets bored because she never finished on account of Naruto throwing a forty shuriken at her! His look of triumph changed to one of shock as Akira caught, yes caught, all forty shuriken out of the air! "What? You didn't actually think that I'd be stupid enough to get caught monologuing did you? I'm crazy, not stupid," she said her voice dripping with contempt.
"Stupid enough to fall for it!" a demonic voice said behind Akira. She turned around to come face to face with a Kyuubified Naruto who had five tails of power out, and he wasn't afraid to use them. Before Akira could even respond, the force of Kyuubi-Naruto's chakra knocked her out cold. (AN: yes she's more powerful than Orochimaru and Itachi, but you try to take down Naruto when he's using five tails of the Kyuubi's power, and she was caught completely off guard.) When Akira awoke, she was hand cuffed with chakra restraints and, well, handcuffs.
Naruto watched her, on guard for anything. "So you have a demon too," she said, "The nine-tailed Kyuubi, right?" Naruto nodded. "Rumor has it that you can also summon a frog," Akira pried. Naruto didn't reply to that because he didn't want to give out too much information, and he still wasn't sure how Akira was going to react to being captured. The thing was she didn't react, at all. Then when Naruto announced that it was time to head for Konoha Akira jumped up and started singing,"On the toad again, on the toad again, making jutsu with my friends...I just can't wait to be on the toad again!" (AN: I don't own the song: On the Road Again).
After seven days of fighting off tracker ninja and bounty hunters who wanted the reward for catching Akira and getting hopelessly lost at one point, they finally arrived at the border of the lands of Wind and Fire where they were greeted by the Gaara who had been hired by Tsunade and Jiraiya to help Naruto bring Akira to Konoha.While Gaara and Naruto caught up, Akira sat down under a tree, and Naruto was just telling Gaara how he captured her when Sasuke showed up. "Gaara, you beat me during our fight at the Chunnin exams, but now I will prove that I am more powerful than a demon container!" "Oh, brother," Akira cut in, "Now that's just plain pathetic! The guy beat you years ago, get over it!" "Who asked you?! Stay out of this you stupid woman!" "What did you just call me?" Akira said, her every word dripping with the promise of a slow and painful death.
Before the verbal abuse could continue Kabuto arrived on the scene. He had obviously been coming after Sasuke since there was no other logical explanation on why he was there, but when he saw the look on Akira's face he wet his pants and ran away screaming like a little girl. Obviously, Sasuke didn't have a sense of self preservation because he kept talking. "As I was saying, once I've killed Gaara I'm coming after you dobe," he said looking pointedly at Naruto, "And then I'll finally be strong enough to kill Itachi!" "Not on my watch, Sasgay," Akira yelled, "No body is killing them but me!" With that she gave one burst of chakra which broke her chains and shattered the chakra restraints.
Akira then lunged for Sasuke and punched him back into the dense underbrush. Ten seconds later Sasuke was screaming bloody murder and begging for mercy. Suddenly, everything went as silent as the grave, and Akira strode back into view wearing a psychopathic grin. Needless to say Naruto and Gaara were disturbed beyond all reason. "What did you do to Sasgay, I-I mean Sasuke?!" Naruto demanded. "Come and see,"Akira replied leading them through the forest. There was Sasuke, singing the Barbie girl song (AN: I don't own that song either) and was as pale as Orochimaru. "What are you doing to him?!" Naruto yelled. "Well, this is known as the karioke no jutsu. It forces him to sing the most annoying songs ever created, and he can't stop until he's sung them all, muhahahahaha!!!" "Hn,"Gaara stated,"It's a simple jutsu. Release!" With that, Sasgay was free, and his sense of self preservation finally kicked in because he started running and didn't look back.
Akira looked slightly impressed. "Not bad. You aren't half bad at all. I think that I'll play The Game with you two. Hahahahaha!" Akira burst out into maniacal laughter, again. "I'm afraid to ask," Naruto began, "but what's The Game?" "You'll know it when you see it." With that Akira disappeared seemingly into thin air. "Gaara, what did she mean by all that?" "It means that we just became her new play things, and when she gets bored we're dead men." "This is bad. I'm going to go warn grandma Tsunade that she escaped." Gaara nodded to show that he understood, although he was very tempted to sarcastically thank Naruto for pointing out the obvious, but he was Gaara and he didn't do sarcasm.
He was still thinking about how stupid that last line Naruto said was when he arrived at Suna. It was then that he noticed that the only entrance to the village was boarded up as high as the surrounding cliffs. That and the fact that he could hear the villagers panicking told Gaara that he was in for a rough homecoming. He used his sand to teleport to the top of the cliffs and was momentarily stunned. The entire village was being flooded by water. Someone was summoning a huge supply of water into the village, and since the entrance was sealed it was all pooling inside the cliffs. Now normal flooding is bad in and of itself.
However, every building in the village was partially made out of sand which was being washed away by the water making the buildings weak, and when panicking villagers try to stay on top of weak buildings to escape the rapidly rising water, buildings collapse. Add all of that to the fact that only the ninja in the village knew how to swim and the Kazekage tower was the only building left and you were watching the destruction of Suna. "Let the games begin!" Akira's voice reverberated through out the area. Her words snapped Gaara out of his temporary paralysis. "Alright, if that's how you want to play it take this!"
Using all of his strength Gaara summoned the water logged sand and formed it into sand tentacles that grabbed all of the villagers and moved them to safety. As soon as the last villager was on the cliffs, Gaara fell to his knees and began to pant heavily. Immediately the boards at the village entrance and all the water disappeared. He heard measured clapping behind him. Gaara didn't even need to turn around to know that it was Akira. "Nice. Very nice." "This is between you and me. Keep the village out of it!" "Of course, besides I know that Naruto's been dying to see me." Gaara gave her a look that clearly said 'don't you dare!' "Perfect. Now, I know who my next target will be!" She said before disappearing again.
The only thing that registered in Gaara's mind at that moment was 'Oh crap.' Gaara ran faster than he had ever run before. All he could think about was all the horrors and destruction that Akira was causing. He ran through out the night and didn't take one single break. Just when he thought that he couldn't go any further, he saw Konoha on the horizon.