Desert Exiles

Ch1. Coup D'état

Disclaimer: I do not own any part of the Naruto series. This is just one of those things I think could of happened.

Baki stood perfectly still staring out at the calm Sunagakura night from a window in the Kazekage's palace. He had sent the Kage's children to bed hours ago but his position as their tutor and guardian afforded him some privileges, like freedom to roam the palace. He was distracted from his contemplations when he heard a commotion at the gate; he glanced that way just in time to see the gate explode inward. Just then ninja began swarming over the walls and already cutting their way through the palace guards. Baki reacted immediately, he yelled the alarm and dashed for the children's rooms. Rushing into Temari's room he saw she had already gotten out the two battle fans he had been teaching her to use, he was proud of how quickly she must of reacted despite only recently beginning training. But the time for praise would come later for now he just motion her to follow him and headed across the hall to the boys' room. As they came through the door Kankuro was reaching for a kunai but relaxed on seeing who it was, Gaara was sitting on his bed with his arms wrapped around his knees obviously scared and confused.

"Hurry up! I need to get you guys to the bunker before the palace is breached." Baki urged the children.

Looking up and down the hall Baki couldn't see anyone so he lead them towards the secret passage entrance at the end of the hall. They had made it almost half way there when ninja suddenly came at them. Baki cut them down with wind blades as they tried to close with the group, except one who dodged the blade and shot past him aiming for the children. But he only made it a step before a monstrous hand grabbed him and with a quick squeeze crushed the life out of him. Now the rest of them were staring at Gaara who in turn was staring at the sand that had left its usual place around him and crushed a man to death. Baki didn't know if Gaara had done it out of reflex or if it was Shukaku protecting his host but it wouldn't help the boy's already unstable mental state, the death of his mother during his birth and the fact that his father wanted him to be a weapon had already permanently screwed with the boy's head. Baki didn't break the silence but he silently rushed them down the hall and into the passage hidden by a large tapestry of the first Shodai Kazekage and followed it all the way to the hidden bunker outside of the village.


The bunker was only known to the Kazekage the village elders and the royal guard, it had been made for just such a case as this and was well stocked with weapons and had a small spring in the center. But now an hour after they had arrived Baki was really starting to get nervous, he wanted to know what had happened to his village and the kage. Just then they heard movement coming from one of the other passages that lead to the bunker, Baki put himself in front of the entrance incase it was an enemy but it wasn't. The elders of Sunagakura had finally made it, Chiyo stopped to catch her breath and Ebizo made some had seals and made a stone barrier over the tunnel they had just exited.

Ebizo then began speaking to Baki "Not much time, there has been a coup d'état and the Yondaime Kazekage is dead. You, the children, and Chiyo must all go. They have followed us and will soon be on our heels, I will stop them here but you all must go."

Baki went to go get the kids ready to go out into the desert and gathering the supplies that had been storied in the bunker. Chiyo and Ebizo had a fierce argument over him staying behind to stop them instead of her but in the end he won out saying that she was the only one who could teach Kankuro how to use puppet jutsu. With that they left the bunker and headed out into the desert, they had only made it a short ways away before there was a rumble and then a crash and when they turned to look they saw the crater that was all that was left of the bunker. After a minute they turned away and continued on into their exile.