A/N

Yes, I know I have like four other stories that I'm currently writing but I'm still working on them and actually have quite a bit done. I just can't leave an idea sitting and then not upload it... Gomen gomen. Well... anyways. This should be interesting. This is obviously AU and all the character's ages have been uped but they're not twisted around so it's not that hard to follow. They're all in their younger twenties. I hope this story will be pleasurable to your eyes.

Lady Tornado

"No!" Frantically screamed a young woman into the darkness of the dusty streets of Suna. "No! Let me go! Please- please," she begged pleadingly in between her pitiful wails. Deep inside a deep alley between run down buildings lit only by the pale streetlights of the empty Suna street and the cigarettes of four large men and a frantic young woman.

A large beefy man twisting her wrist loomed over her as he brought his face so unnervingly close to her's that she felt that she could get drunk just being in his presence. "Ah, don't be so afraid darlin'. Me and my friends just saw your pretty self walkin' by and wanted you to join our little party. See, Ishida here is getting married in a couple of weeks and we want to show him a good time," he said through slurred lips and stained teeth turning to the three men standing behind him.

"Please- just let me go. I just want to go."

The man holding her twisted her arm even more as the young woman withered in pain, letting out a blood churning scream. The four men let out a hearty laughter at her obvious discomfort and feeling encouraged the man twisted her arm even harder until a sickening pop came followed by another scream of pain. He released her and watched her fall the the cement- cradling her injured arm. Turning away from the men she crawled haphazardly toward the alley wall the best she could.

"Don't have all the fun over there Dan. Leave a bit to the rest of us." Said another one of the woman's tormentors. He made his way over and knelt by the frightened woman placing a calloused hand on her hip rubbing it up and down and then underneath her short skirt. "Don't mind Dan any. He doesn't know how to treat woman like I do. Don't worry I'll treat you like the lady you are." He placed his other hand on her face and began to turn her toward him until he felt a sudden, sharp pain against the side of his face. He grasped his face as he fell back grunting in sudden pain. Looking at the girl he saw her dropping a chunk of fallen brick and was quickly making her escape.

Laughter once again enveloped the men as another briskly man walked to her. "Aww, look at that. She likes you Ishida. Does your woman do the same to you?" He laughed as he grabbed the woman by her hair and yanked her back toward the group. "You're not leaving us yet. Are you pretty lady? The real fun hasn't even started yet."

The young woman yelped in pain as she was roughly pulled back to the group of crude men and though she struggled with all her might she was no match for four drunken grown men. She continued screaming incoherent pleas as the man who had her by the hair sat to the ground and pulled her back toward him. Snaking his arms around her petite chest, uncaring of the girls injured arm and her shap cry, he held her in place against him and to a sickening slow sniff of her dark brown hair.

"Maseo, it's your big night! You can have the first ride!" He cheered.

The man who was presumably Maseo casually walked up to the young woman and began unfastening his belt. Wanting to be made useful the two other men positioned themselves by the girl's side and began spreading and binding her legs.

"Fuck, this is going to be wondrous." Maseo uttered through husky pants as he positioned himself before her.

"I get her next!" Spoke Ishida. "I spotted her so I get her next!"

"No! No-no-no-no! No!" Cried the young woman futilely as one of her worst fears was moments away from becoming a very real nightmare. She tried her best to separate her mind and body and force her thoughts to be anywhere except in this dark alley where she was about to be violently raped repeatedly, but as hard as she tried she couldn't help but be trapped in her current hell.

Closing her eyes as tight as she could she tried to brace herself for the upcoming event... but it never came. In a quick flash she could hear the man Maseo went flying through the air and landed with a thick thud against the paved alley. Reopening her eyes she saw the figure of a well toned woman all dressed in tight black standing right in front of her. Her face was also covered in a black mask that covered only half of her tanned face. The powerful woman glanced down at the terror filled woman with her intense teal eyes that quickly shot the most frightening look she's ever seen anyone conjure up and the men that still held the girl's arms and legs.

The men quickly shot to their feet and began backing away. The young woman took this opportunity to try her best to scramble as far away as she could but unfortunately when she was first grabbed she seemingly twisted her ankle while trying to resist being drugged into this alley. So with a bad ankle and arm she made best to drag herself behind a nearby dumpster.

"Shit," commented Dan. "It's Lady Tornado. What do we do."

"First off." The woman cut in. "Don't call me that. Idiot reporters and their stupid names," she said, mumbling the last part. "Second." Started the darkly clad woman calmly. "We can either do this the boring easy way where you just give up now and save some broken limbs or the fun way where I beat the fear into you. Which will it be?"

Ishida broke into a large grin. "Well I say there're four of us and only one of you. I say we add another member to our little party gentlemen!"

A lop sided grin spread across her face as she cocked her head to the side. "Drunken men really do lack all logic. This will be fun."

"Let's take her, Tohiru!" Yelled Ishida has he and Tohiru rushed the masked vigilantly.

Tohiru lunged toward the woman expecting to grab her by her arms and hold her for Ishida but those ideas quickly fizzled into dust as Lady Tornado grabbed him by his neck tie and twisted around him pulling the tie tightly to where it was hard for him to breath and quickly bringing her right leg forward and kicking him in the gut. Still holding onto Tohiru's tie she quickly turned and blocked Ishida's incoming blow with ease. He tried a combo with his left but was once again blocked and with a graceful turn by Lady Tornado she flung her leg into a high kick, sending him sprawling. Her attention once again returning to Tohiru ,who was trying his best to claw at his bound neck, she tugged hard and sent him flying against the brick wall.

Trying to get the element of surprise Dan comes from behind but came short when Lady Tornado took to a short dash to the wall that she used to run up and do a back flip over the unaware Dan. In midair she grabs his shirt and once she makes contact with the ground kicks him in his lower back making him fall painfully to the ground. Maseo came at her but when he got too close she slammed her black leather boot's heel into his foot and grabbed him by the neck Tohiru came once again but was quickly greeted with a swift kick to the gut. She then used her elbow and gave a quick blow to Maseo's chin.

Taking a quick command by Ishida, who appeared to be the ring leader of the group, they all went at Lady Tornado at once. Two came at her front who both simultaneously threw punches at her. She detoured one onslaught away with a wave of her hand that didn't even seem to have any contact at all and quickly brought a fist to the others mid chest. Dunking low under the others comeback she brought her other fist into his stomach and in a flash she was back up, backhanding the other man to the ground. The one who moved around came after her backside but she quickly turned and grabbed his arm and twisting it until it gave a horrid cracking sound. She then kicked him away for some distance and did a somersault with her feet coming into contact with his head bringing him down. Ishida, who was the last mad standing, grabbed her but with her skill she quickly took this to her advantage and arced her back, bringing her heel into the back of his head. Flipping around she brought her palm forward and out of nowhere a powerful gust came and sent him flying down the ally into the outer rim of the large garbage bin.

The young woman who was hiding behind the bin let out a loud scream as the garbage bin rung with the sudden impact. She had her eyes sealed tight as she held her hands tightly to her ears while the fight was taking place and after a few minutes of silence she finally willed enough courage to open her eyes once again. Looking forward she saw Lady Tornado standing before, not even fazed about just taking out four, very large me out only moments before. The girl gasped in surprise and pushed her self farther back into the trash bin. Scared speechless she could only star wide eyed at her rescuer.

Lady Tornado wore a full black leather suit that hugged her body tightly, revealing her toned body. It also looked as if she wore some light armor made into her suit over her stomach and front hamstrings. She wore black leather boots that reached all most to her knees with clasps running down its sides. Her leather sleeves only came a quarter length down and her hands were covered with black gloves with metal knuckles built in. Looking at her face she seemed to be very beautiful even though half of it was covered by a black mask, but through that was the most splendid teal eyes she had ever seen that gleamed unparalleled vigor. Though, if her look of superiority wasn't so great, her unusual hairstyle of four large ponytails coming from the back of her head would seem all most childish in a way. Although it strangely complemented her. Not many could pull off that look.

"You're... You're Lady Tornado aren't you?" She asked meekly, even though she knew the answer.

"Psh, I hate that name. Stupid reporters lack all originality these days." She replied calmly.

"But you're her?"

"I suppose. And who might you be?"

"Me-Megumi."

"How old are you?"

"... Seventeen."

"And Megumi, what was a pretty young woman like you doing walking home in this neighborhood by yourself at night?" Lady Tornado asked annoyed.

And with that question all the recent happening once again came flooding back into Megumi's mind. Bursting in to sorrowful wails she flung forward and latched onto Lady Tornado's legs. "I-" she started pitifully. She tried to explain herself farther but she her voice didn't seem to want to work at the moment.

Lady Tornado sighed and knelled down to where she was at Megumi's level. Megumi quickly took the offer and flung herself into her arms and began sobbing into her shoulder. Punching a hidden button by her ear Lady Tornado was put on a line to an unknown entity.

"Kaze to Puppeteer. I need police and an ambulance sent to 23rd street and Oniyu. We have a kid whose pretty shook up down here as well."

"Roger," came a muffled voice over what Megumi guessed was some sort of radio, but at the moment she didn't really care."

"Don't worry. The police will be here soon and they'll be able to take care of things from here."

Megumi gasped and gripped Lady Tornado as tightly as she could with her pained arm. "Don't leave me! Please!" She pleaded.

"Don't worry I won't leave you until the police get here. Subtle down. It will be okay. Your safe now..."

"Thank you... I can't believe it's really you... Any other day under any other circumstances this would be a dream come true."

"I get that a lot..."

"Do you think I'll ever get to meet you again."

'This kid got awfully clingy fast,' thought Lady Tornado. "Doubt it kid. Unless you do something stupid purposely that you need rescuing from and even then I can't promise anything. It's not like I can be everywhere at once. So I don't suggest that."

"So you've never rescued someone multiple times? What about all those comics and cartoons where the hero always has someone who the specifically look out for and rescues them from danger."

"Look Megumi, that's fiction. This is reality. There's only one person who've I've ever rescued more that once and that was the President. Past that there's never been yet a single person that has been unlucky enough for trouble to just follow them around everywhere they went."

"Ohh..."

"It's a good thing that people don't repeatedly have to be rescued from me."

"Oh, I know. It's just... You're so cool. It just makes me sad that this will be the only time I get to see you." They both turned to the sounds of sirens that were approaching their area.

Lady Tornado pulled away and stood watching as the flashing lights reflected off the display glass off the buildings across the way draw closer. "Well, this is my cue to head out." She turned back to Megumi who was bent over sniffling.

"Chin up Megumi. Who knows. You might just bump into my secrete identity one day."

"Yeah..." Megumi looked up but then she realized that Lady Tornado was gone. Beyond her she watched as a police man ran toward her.

Lady Tornado quickly ran atop the tall buildings, leaping over the breaks with ease with the assistance of the wind she controlled willfully. Stopping at one particularly tall building she turned and gazed over the Suna nightly skyline. Glancing up she momentarily watched the bright starts illuminating the sky. She loved her home here. It was rough at first but since all of the changes in the past few years things have really been turning toward the better. She turned her eyes away from the night's sky, not having time for such trivial things, she entered a quick code to a locked container on top of the building and pulled out some street clothes.

"Puppeteer I'm heading to bed. See you in the morning."

"Sleep tight." Replied the male voice on the other end.

Undoing the clasps of her boots she slip them off and placed them inside. She then unzipped her body suit and shivered as the cold air hit her body. The desert city was cold at night. Folding up her outfit she placed it into the container, followed by her gloves and mask then closing the container that locked automatically. She then quickly slid on her black fitted pants and loose lilac colored top. She slipped on her open toed shoes, followed by her beige overcoat trench that she tied around her waist.

Walking to the edge of the building she scanned the surroundings for anyone who might be around but saw that the streets were dead and without hesitation she stepped over the ledge and began plummeting toward earth. Wind wrapped around her as she fell and built a cushion between her and the ground, slowing her exponentially. When she hit the ground her legs only bent slightly to take pressure off her knees she righted quickly and nonchalantly turned into the streets to head home.

The next day Temari Sabaku, a successful board member of 26, headed into the main lobby of Sabaku Inc., a family run company that excelled in creating military weaponry and defensive contraptions for their country. For many years their company held a powerful, yet notorious reputation brought on many years by the cruel handling of most of the Sabaku line that took control. Some of the most frightening weapons ever imagined have been created in this very complex. The last owner was Temari's very own father, although she hates being connected to that man in any shape or form. He put his family through a hell that only now are the finally making a comeback from. Mostly because now he is now finally dead and another certain incident that happened to her youngest brother, Gaara.

Temari Sabaku is the oldest of three followed by her bothers Kankuro and Gaara, each about a year apart and that's all whom she really claims. Her mother died while she was young and though her few memories of her are mostly pleasant Temari is just trying on focusing on moving forward. She also had an uncle who seemed nice but could now be burning with her father for all she cared.

Now Gaara is in control of the company to the shock of many, but he is doing quite well in his new position. Though the company still creates weapons that yes, do often result in the death of others. Gaara has taken it upon itself to monitor where these weapons go and to make sure that they don't "fall" into the wrongs hands as they so often did in the past. Let's just say that when Gaara took charge many CEO's and higher ups were "let go" and later arrested for... misdeeds. The Sabaku children also turned their family life into an opposite direction once their father had died that... coincidentally cut crime in Suna by more that a quarter.

Life was going great for Temari and she didn't think things could go any better at the moment. Walking toward the from desk she greeted Sayuri who was their long time receptionist. A kind woman who was reaching her mid forties. Sitting next to her was her daughter.

"Good morning Miss Sabaku. You look very nice today." Sayuri greeted.

"Good morning. Thank you." Temari turned to the young woman. "Megumi what are you doing out of school today? And what happened to your face and arm."

Megumi, the girl who was attacked the night before, hung her head. "While coming home last night some men... jumped me and attacked me. The hit me in the face I don't know how many times, pulled my shoulder out of place and twisted my ankle." Megumi wipped a couple of tears from her eyes as her mother did the same.

"Oh my..." Temari started, sounding generally concerned. " They didn't... I'm sorry it's non of my business..."

"They didn't do anything!" Megumi interjected. "Luckily Lady Tornado came and stopped those men. She even put one in ICU for head trauma..."

'Resist cocky smily...' "Oh..."

"They got what was coming to them." Sayuri started. "I'm just so thankful that Lady Tornado was around to stop them... I'm sorry..." She had to once again wip the tears from her eyes. "Megumi has gotten permission to take a few days off from school to recuperate. I hope you don't mind but I talked with the other receptionist, Matsuri, and she agreed to take my shift so I could stay home with my daughter. I just have to wait until she get's out of her class. Megumi's here because she didn't want to be home alone..."

"I understand. Take all the time you need." Temari said with a kind smile. "Megumi, I'm glad to see you're safe."

Megumi perked up and smiled happily. "I'm only safe because Lady Tornado rescued me! You have no idea Miss Sabaku- she's the coolest person ever!"

"Looks like Lady Tornado has an admirer." Said a young dark headed man who stopped beside Temari.

"Good morning Mr Sabaku." Sayuri said.

"Kankuro," Temari greeted. "Have you been listening long?"

"Just overheard the last bit actually."

"Megumi was attacked last night."

"Is that so?" He sounded surprised.

"Lady Tornado saved me. She's the coolest."

"What about Puppeteer? He's pretty cool too, right?"

"No way," Megumi replied quickly, shaking her head with a sour face. "His powers are all right but his make up is super creepy. What grown man wears make up anyway? Totally unhot."

Temari couldn't help as she began to laugh a great deal at the expense of her brother who starred with his mouth agape to the girl in front of him. Kankuro crossed his arms and pouted as he turned away. "Well... I think he's cool." This earned another round of laughter by Temari where Sayuri and Megumi joined in mostly because of hearing Temari laugh over what Kankuro said.

"I'm sorry... I'm sorry..." Temari waved her hands apologetically as she tried to regain her composure. "Oh... I haven't laughed like that in a long time."

"It wasn't that funny Temari..." Kankuro deadpanned.

Temari snickered as she motioned Kankuro to stop before she started laughing again. "I- I have to get to work. So do you Kankuro." She turned to Sayuri and Megumi. "I'm glad to see you safe Megumi. You get well soon."

"Thank you Miss Temari."

Temari and Kankuro both head to the elevator and headed to the highest floor to where Gaara's office was. Temari stood smugly on one side as Kankuro stood to his side and sulked.

"It's not funny Temari. Stop smiling."

"Oh grow up Kanky. So she doesn't like your makeup. I'm sure there are some women who are into that crap."

"It's not makeup! It's face paint." He defended.

"Oh, I'm sorry." Temari raised her arms in mock defeat. "Face paint."

"You know what? Just leave me alone."

The elevator door slid opened and the pair slipped out into the well furnished hallway. They made their way to a pair of intricate double doors where they stopped. Kankuro knocked and then walked right in. Inside the large well decorated office was a young redheaded man who sat at a large desk mounded with paper work. He looked up at the two who entered but showed no emotion as they approached.

"Good morning Gaara," Temari and Kankuro said in unison to their younger brother. Gaara only nodded at their greeting.

"Could you both take a seat?" Gaara asked calmly. The two complied.

"You wanted to see us about something?" Kankuro asked.

"Yes, as you both know we are currently in contract with Nara Labs in the city of Konoha correct?"

As Temari knew that about two years ago, after Gaara had turned the reputation of their company around, created a contract with Nara Labs in the Country of Fire. Nara Labs was a very well know company that excelled in all types of sciences. They are the leading labs that create new and enhanced medicine, astrological, geology, oceanography, blah blah blahology discoveries and so forth. If there was any such thing as a jack of all trades of scientific pursuits it was found in Nara Labs. The center lab was located in Konoha where we had the contact with. They recently were entrusted with one of our new top secret weapons which they were studying the long term effects of if any .

"We are both aware." Kankuro answered for the both of them.

"Well, the current representative between our company and theirs has recently succumbed to a heart attack and has requested an early retirement. As you know this is a sensitive duty that can not be entrusted to just anyone and so, until we can train a permanent replacement I've decided that you, Temari, will be his temporary replacement until then."

Temari stared at him a moment. "I'm sorry what?" She couldn't have heard him right. The Konoha representative stayed in Konoha for months at a time and he couldn't be serious thinking about sending her away for that long.

"You are to leave for Konoha in the next few days where you will take up duty as liaison."

"But... But Gaara. What about, "Temari checked the room, even though she knew they were the only ones in there. She lowered her voice anyway. "What about Lady Tornado? Suna needs me."

"Kankuro and I can handle things just fine by ourselves. Suna's not going to crumble without you for a few months."

"Yeah Temari," Kankuro started. "Think of it as a vacation."

Temari pounded her fists against her armrests. "Damn it! I don't want a vacation! Why can't you send Kankuro?"

"I considered it, of course, but I came to the conclusion that your abilities where much more in line with this task. When you want to be you can be quite diplomatic and you have a sharp mind that does will with math and sciences."

"So that's it. You're just sending me away?"

Gaara sighed, "it will only be temporary."

Temari brushed a hand through her loose hair as she tried to come to terms with her new responsibility. She squeezed her eyes tight as she could feel the beginning of a migraine coming on and it certainly didn't help matters that Kankuro decided it was wise to turn to her, point and let out a triumphant "hah!"

... Oh how he will pay.

Ending note:

Hope you guys liked it so far. Yes I know the names are corny and stupid but I wanted them to be that way! Next Chapter Temari will arrive at Nara Labs and maybe maybe not meet a certain someone... Please review as it as a good source of "vitamin M" for motivation.