AN: HEEEY GUYS! another story...I know I haven't updating on the other two stories much, but I haven't really been working on this one either, it's just been sitting around on my computer and I decided to put it on. I've got about 3 chapters written on this one so be ready for this one. I've been working diligently on my book, and due to the poll I will not be telling you guys anything about my book because they've voted "don't do that because somebody could steal your ideas", so sorry. I do have another chapter of new life new world written I've just sent it to my cowriter to see if they want to add anything. And I'm sorry, I know I said I would but I haven't really been working on Life of a blind jinchuuriki but I'm trying my best to write 3 stories and a book at the same time, just bear with me. Now time to end the AN and go to the story!

Chapter 1

Two young men were walking down a dirt road. The one on the left had spiky blonde hair, he looked about five feet eight inches tall. His face strong with absolutely no baby fat, with three whisker marks on each cheek. His skin had a nice tan and was absent of any kind of blemish. He wore an orange and black jumpsuit and black ninja sandals.

The one on the right had calm red hair, he was also about five foot eight inches tall. His pale white skin greatly contrasting with the dark rings of an insomniac under his dull green eyes. On his forehead was the kanji for "love" in the form of a blood red tattoo. On his back he carried a large gourd.

The pair had been traveling aimlessly for months. And it is with these two that our story begins.

"Oi, Gaara" the blonde addressed his companion "where are we?"

"I do not know where we are, Naruto, we will just have to ask the next traveler we see" he answered him, his emotionless voice just coming over a whisper.

"Aww, we haven't seen anyone on this road for weeks. What makes you think we will anytime soon?" Naruto complained.

"What makes you think we wont?" Gaara retorted "Just be patient, Uzumaki, we will find someone soon" And with that said they continued on in silence.

Naruto kept on walking, looking up at the sky with a small smile. It had been a few minutes since Naruto had last spoken when all of a sudden his face turned serious, now looking straight ahead. "Someone's coming" he said.

"Who?" Gaara asked with a little interest.

"I don't know, but it's something big" Naruto said listening intently "it's about a mile behind us on the road"

"Be prepared, Uzumaki, they may not be friendly." Gaara warned.

"This is so boring" Mai said in a bored voice "I hate being cooped up in this tiny tank." She complained.

"For once I agree with you, Mai" Azula said with a sigh.

"Come on guys, there's no reason to be the grouchy" Tai Lee said trying to make her friends not so gloomy "Look on the bright side, at lest we're all still friends"

Mai and Azula both stared at Tai Lee blankly, then at each other, Before heaving a large sigh in unison.

"Soldier!" Azula called, a fire nation soldier came in the room. "Take a few tanks and scout ahead for people we need to interrogate," She ordered finally having found something fun to do.

"Yes Lady Azula, at once" the soldier said with a low bow.

He left the three girls and to the top of the tank to look outside.

"When do you think he'll be ba-" Tai Lee was interrupted by the door opening and the soldier coming back into the room.

"Back so soon?" Azula questioned.

"Lady Azula, there are two young men, presumably mid-teens, right up the road" he said.

"Hmm..." she began to think to herself "Soldier, bring them to me"

"Yes ma'am" he said quickly in affirmation.

"Hopefully these two are interesting enough to keep me from being bored." Mai said.

Naruto and Gaara had stopped walking and turned around to face the on coming convoy of large metal tanks. "What a waste of resources" Gaara commented "All that metal could supply Suna for years."

"Yeah, well we aren't in Suna now are we?" Naruto said sarcastically.

"Of course not, we left there months ago" Gaara answered seriously.

Naruto looked over at him "Sarcasm is a foreign language to you isn't it?"

By this time they were surrounded by five of the tanks. A soldier wearing red armor popped out of the tank directly in front of them "Halt!" he commanded firmly "By order of the fire lord, you are to be taken in and interrogated for information, if you do not comply then we will have to use deadly force"

"Yeah well your fire lord can kiss my ass!" Naruto yelled before Gaara could stop him

The soldier's face was taken over by a look of anger. "Then by order of the fire nation princess, you will die. Soldiers!"

The Fire nation soldiers were about to attack but were stopped by Azula who had just come out of the main tank "Stop, I gave no such order" She said

"But Lady Azula, they insulted you and the fire lord, they must be dest-" the soldier was cut off.

"Are you questioning me?" Azula asked darkly, staring the man directly in the eyes.

The poor soldier couldn't look away as a babbled out an answer "N-n-n-n-no m-m-a'am, I'm not q-questioning you at all, my mistake."

"Yes, your mistake" She said.

"Who're you?" Naruto asked the Raven haired girl.

Azula smirked at him "Someone who can talk like that to me, must have guts"

"It would be wise if you answered my friend's question" Gaara told her, his eyes piercing into her.

Ignoring his gaze, Azula turned to the soldier "Make Camp here, I wish to speak with these two,"

With only the slightest hesitation the soldier started barking out orders to the others "You heard her, get a camp going!"

Obviously hearing what Azula said, Tai Lee jumped out of the tank doing a full flip in the air before landing next to Azula. Mai slowly pulled herself out of the tank, taking her sweet time, before walking to Azula's other side. "Is this them?" Mai asked Azula in her bored tone. "they don't look that special"

When she said this Naruto was just about to explode at her about just how special he really was, but Gaara stopped him with a hand on his shoulder. At this point Tai Lee rushed forward to the two with giddy smile on her face screaming "OHMYGOSH". Suddenly she was on Naruto "Oh my god! How did you get your hair this color!" She squealed with delight running her hands through his hair.

Everyone, including Gaara sweat dropped at the sight of the struggling Naruto trying to get Tai Lee off of him "Would you get off me! Didn't anyone teach you to keep your hands to yourself?!" he yelled pushing at Tai Lee.

"Tai Lee! Get off our guest" Azula ordered the overly hyperactive girl, before turning and heading ti a large pavilion-like tent that had already been erected "Come with us" she said to the two.

"How was that thing put up so fast?" Naruto asked while trying to put his hair back into it's original position.

Gaara answered with one word only "Fear"

When Naruto and Gaara walked in through the tent flaps, they saw Azula already sitting on a very comfortable looking cushion. She pointed to an empty space on the ground about seven feet in front of her "sit" she ordered.

"I'd prefer to stand" Gaara said flatly, without even looking at her with his arms crossed in front of him.

Naruto looked at Gaara before deciding that at the moment he didn't care what his friend thought and sat down on the ground.

Getting a little angry at Gaara's disrespect, Azula just sat there in the cushion and waited for how these interrogations usually started.

"Sooo... What's your name?" Tai Lee asked the pair, chin resting in her cradled hands.

"It is rude to ask someone's name before offering your own." Gaara stated before Naruto could say anything.

"I'm Tai Lee" She said very upbeat like, before introducing her companions "That's Mai, and that is the fire princess Azula," She told him pointing to them in turn "I told you our names now tell us yours" she said expectantly.

'The princess? I've heard of this person from other people here in this land, they say she is the cruelest and strongest person in the area. Well that explains all of the fear from the soldiers and this big tent' Gaara thought to himself.

"My name's Naruto Uzumaki, former shinobi of the hidden leaf village" he said pointing to himself with one thumb.

Everyone turned to look at Gaara who was still just looking in front of him. After a few seconds of silence Gaara finally looked down at them staring blankly directly at Azula. "My name is Gaara," he said with absolutely no emotion "I am the former Kazekage of the village hidden in the sand"

Actually taking interest in what was being said, Mai looked at the two " 'Hidden Leaf'? 'Hidden Sand'? I've never heard of such places" she said with a questioning tone "where are they?" she asked

"Hidden Leaf is in the fire country" Naruto told them.

' He's from the fire nation' Azula thought ' he certainly doesn't look like it'

"The sand village is in the country of wind" As soon as Gaara said this, all three girls jumped up into fighting stances, by reflex sending Naruto and Gaara into their fighting stances, well Naruto's at least.

"You're an airbender?" Azula accused Gaara seriously.

"Airbender? What nonsense is this?" Gaara asked as the cork popped off of his gourd.

"Don't play cow with me, airbender" Azula said before smirking "By order of my father, you are to be killed where you stand, for being an airbender. Mai, Tai Lee You take the blonde, I'll fight the airbender."

Mai and Tai Lee turned to Naruto, who was still in his fighting stance. They surged towards him, Mai threw a kunai at Naruto, expecting an easy victory when he didn't react to the knife coming his way. Naruto reached into his pack, grabbed a shuriken and threw it at the kunai with pinpoint accuracy. There was a loud clang as shuriken hit kunai, blocking each other.

Though still surprised, Mai didn't let this slow her down she pulled out some more kunai out of her sleeves and were about to throw them, but was stopped because Tai Lee had gotten in front of her target. Tai Lee now close enough to Naruto to attack, threw a few punches and kicks, aiming for his chakra points (or tenkentsu). Somehow he was able to evade them all, if just barely. But what was strange was that he knew to dodge and not block, as if he knew what she was aiming for. What was making it nearly impossible for Naruto, was that Mai threw kunai, senbon, and Shuriken at every opening she had.

Naruto was fighting for his life, this Tai Lee girl was using her extreme flexibility to attack in ways that he previously thought impossible. After the first few attacks Naruto realized she was aiming for his tenkentsu. Because of this he couldn't block attacks like he usually would he had to dodge them all. And Mai was just adding to the difficulty having to dodge all of her weapons as well. Together, these two fought in perfect unison, making him have to dodge every attack, not giving him time to get on the offensive.

Gaara on the other hand, seemed to be doing well against Azula, mainly because she hadn't even attacked yet. Apparently they have both learned the big rule of violent conflict; Whoever attacks first has the disadvantage. But Azula didn't know Gaara's style of fighting was almost completely defensive, so he never attacks first, and Azula being an all offensive fighter, meant that this did not bode well for her.

Azula, deciding to screw having the advantage, began her attack on Gaara. She rushed forward towards him at a fast pace and jumped at him, her right foot in front of her for a kick in the chest and still Gaara hasn't moved from his position he didn't even look at her. Her attack would have connected but a long band of sand rose from the ground in front her kick, catching it. Azula raised her eyebrows in surprise as the sand slowly covered her foot to the ankle. The sand threw her back making her land in a skid.

"Sand?" she asked, confused.

"Yes, Sand." Gaara answered "This sand has defended me ever since I was born, protecting me from all harm, even against my will"

"You, can bend the sand? You're the second avatar!" Azula said in realization.

"You continuously accuse me of being something I'm not and never will be. I am exactly what I told you I'm Gaara, of the sand" Gaara told her his expression never changing.

"Whatever you are, you're going to die for opposing the fire nation." Azula said extending two fingers shooting a stream of blue fire at Gaara.

Tai Lee was getting tired of this blonde guy being able to dodge all of her attacks. She was doing everything she knew to hit him and even with Mai's help he keeps avoiding everything. She needed to end the battle, but how? She smiled when she figured out what to do.

"What...are you...smiling...at?" Naruto managed to ask between the attacks.

"This!" Tai Lee, answered his question. She suddenly ducked low under Naruto's guard and slid between his legs until she was behind him.

' Where'd she go?' Naruto paused for a fraction of a second, because he couldn't figure out where she went. That tiny hesitation was all Tai Lee needed to hit several of his tenkentsu in his arms, legs, and neck. She expected him to collapse onto the ground, but he did just the opposite, he swung around quickly his hand clenched into a fist and punched her in the gut sending her flying back.

She got up slowly, clenching her stomach in pain "How?" she asked in disbelief "I closed nineteen of your tenkentsu, you shouldn't even be able to stand"

"Ha! I've fought someone stronger than you with all sixty four of my tenkentsu closed and won" Naruto scoffed.

Tai Lee's jaw dropped "That's...that's impossible"

"Oh it's possible" Naruto said with a smirk "Believe it!" he charged back into the fight, but before he could make it to Tai Lee, he was hit in the back from the two handfuls of kunai, courtesy of Mai.

"Uggh!" Naruto grunted in pain as seven kunai stuck into his back. He stood there in pain until Tai Lee delivered a powerful kick to his chest sending him back, his limp body rolling to a stop several feet away.

Gaara was still fighting Azula, and still hasn't moved from his spot. Azula's firebending was easily blocked by his sand. which was heavily imbued with chakra, that is why it hasn't been melted into glass.

Azula was getting tired even though she wouldn't admit it, even to herself. She was about to jump back into battle when she heard Naruto's body roll across the ground. She looked over at him and smirked "Do you see that?" she taunted trying to get a rise out of the stoic red head "Your friend's just been killed, will you surrender now?"

Gaara looked over at Naruto for a few seconds then back at Azula "He's not dead" he said flatly.

Azula looked like she was about to laugh at the insomniac's refusal to accept that his friend was dead. "Just accept the facts, your friend was dea-"

She stopped in mid-sentence because when she looked over at Naruto, she saw him move. He was slowly standing up, his arms hanging limply at his sides "Do you guys have any freakin' idea," Naruto's voice seemed to be different, more feral, more... animalistic, he stood up straight looking at the fire nation girls, his irises had changed from their normal deep blue to crimson, his pupils now long vertical slits "how much that stings!?" he yelled, scaring the trio greatly.

Gaara walked over to Naruto's side and placed a hand on his shoulder. "Naruto, I think we should leave now," Gaara said "We have lingered here long enough, we shouldn't have even stopped"

"You're right we shouldn't have, but I have a feeling that we would have met anyway" Naruto growled his eyes slowly changing back to normal.

They turned to leave "What are you?" Azula asked truly curious.

They froze at the opening to the outside, Naruto looked slightly over his shoulder, just enough for him to see them. "Jinchuuriki" He spat out the word like the taste of it on his lips made him sick. They then disappeared in a swirl of sand.

AN: Sorry for the cliffhanger, but I'm tired. To keep it short, cause it's exactly 4:05 AM and I'm not feeling like writing this AN, Read and Review please, and don't forget to submit better summaries for me, thank you.