Starting Over Chapter 15

Disclaimer: I do NOT own Naruto, Slayers, or the first 14 chapters of this fic.

I do own some of the spells and several of the mysterious figures in the crowds

At the Outskirts of Konoha

Several Giant snakes, had been summoned by the Oto-nin. They were rampaging through the city walls and taking out many of the defenses. The Oto-Nin used the distraction to break into the city and begin killing the inhabitants. As they were fighting the snakes and the Oto-Nin, one of the Leaf-nin summoned a ninja-dog and told him, "Go get Jiraya-Sama, We need him to help defend the city". As the dog raced off, one of the Snakes hit a warehouse of ninja tools and weapons, causing all the bombs inside to explode.

At The Chunin Exam Finals

Hayate never got to finish his words as everyone was rocked by and explosion. In the center of the ring a group of Oto-nin Jounins stood and while the other four started sealing for Nemurihane no Jutsu (Feather Sleep Technique), the leader stood and looked out and said, "the real winner here is Otogakure (Hidden village of Sound)!"

At the same time, a figure in the stands whispered "Flow Break," and a blue six pointed star appeared around him, shielding him from the jutsu. The figure chuckled and said to himself, "Well now, this promises to be interesting."

At the Kage Box

The Kazekage grabbed the Hokage and held a kunai to his throat. The Kazekage used the Hokage to flee to the rooftop of one of the lookout towers. As the Anbu pursued them, four Oto-ninja landed on the roof, in a rectangle, and in unison, made several hand-seals and shouted "Ninpou: Hankaku Baioretto Boukaheki!" (Ninja Art: Four-way Violet Firewall!). As they spoke, a violet Barrier sprang up around their formation, enclosing the four ninja, and both Kages. An Anbu tried to follow through the barrier, but bounced off and burst into powerful Violet Flames. One of the Anbu said, "Damn! They have a barrier"

The Hokage said, to the Kazekage, "You can stop your disguise now; I know it's you Orochimaru"

Orochimaru laughed, saying "Well Sarutobi-sensei, I guess I can't fool you." As he spoke he pulled off his face revealing his true form.

Back At the Stadium

Everyone else in the stadium, with the exception of the, a few genin, most of the chunin and all of the present jonin, who were able to break the genjutsu, was forced into a deep sleep. Among the few still awake, were Kakashi, Hiashi, Hanabi, Guy, Kurenai, Asuma, Sakura, Hinata, Ino, Neji, as well as Shikamaru, who was pretending to be asleep, to avoid any work, and several other chunins and jonins. Naruto however had fallen unconscious, apparently unable to resist the Jutsu. The Oto-Jonins leaped to attack the still conscious ninja.

This is bad thought Kakashi, To Guy he said, "There is a large number of Sand and Sound Ninja attacking the village"

"Yes, but the situation looks more dire than that," replied Guy, Look at the Central Watch Tower."

"A Barrier Jutsu, This is bad," said Kakashi.

"Look inside the barrier" said Guy

As Kakashi looked, the shock was visible on his face, "O-O-Orochimaru"

"Who is that Kakashi-sama?" asked Sakura. As she spoke two Oto-Jonin leaped to attack her. She cowered and threw her hands up to protect her head.

As she did Kakashi jumped over her and kicked one ninja and stabbed another with his kunai. "An Evil man," He replied. "One who I hoped we would never have to face in combat. Sakura, get the other genin, except my squad, and help with the evacuation of the citizens."

"Hai" As she spoke ran off to gather the other genin.

As she ran off, three more Suna-nin (Sand Ninja) charged Kakashi "Come on fools," he shouted "Show me what you've got."

Inside the Stadium

Gaara heard the explosion and ran to assist the leaf-nin in defending the village. As he ran through the passageway, he had to skid to a stop to avoid hitting a girl, who was standing in the middle of the hallway. The girl was wearing a light brown tank top, kaki shorts, and she was barefoot. Her hair was sandy brown, and her eyes the color of and onyx (the gem not the pokemon,) Gaara looked at her and growled "Move, girl, I need to help the Leaf-nin, defend the village.

The girl, who appeared to be around 12 years old, giggled and said, "Sorry I can't do that, I have orders to stop Shukaku from fighting against the Sand Village." She gave Gaara and evil grin, made some quick hand-seals, and said "Gohatto Ninpou: Chinnyuu no Omoi!" (Forbidden Ninja Art: Forced Entry of the Mind)

Suddenly the scenery changed from a hallway, to a desert oasis with several trees, and a large pool of water, "What the!" exclaimed Gaara, "How the hell did we get here?" He looked around and asked," Where is here anyway?"

The girl simply giggled and waved her hand towards the pool of water, and said "I'm surprised you don't recognize this place. It is your own mind after all. She walked over to the lake looked in to it. "Oy, sand rat," she yelled, "Get out here, I need to talk to you"

Shukaku's face appeared in the pool glaring at the girl, and he growled "What the hell do you wantamaccho. And for that matter, how the hell are you here anyway? This is the gaki's mind."

"Get you sandy ass out here so I can hit you, you bastard!" She shouted in response, "Anyway I have a proposition for you. I have reason to believe that you are dissatisfied with your recent resealing into this wimp here and I can help with that. My master wants you to fight against the Leaf village, but this brat refuses to use your powers against them. If you consent, I will take your mind for the time being, and allow you to rampage through Konoha, until you are defeated. Then your mind will return to Gaara. Do you agree?"

"LIKE HELL I WOULD! " shouted Shukaku, "I don't like being resealed, but I am not leaving this gaki alone, we may have had issues in the past, but he's grown on me. If he has decided to join the leaf village then I'm not going to stop him. I ain't leaving him and that's final, amaccho."

"Fine then! Well Gaara, it seems that you don't want to fight Naruto at full power after all." She said as she turned to walk away,

"What do you mean, woman?" asked Gaara, "Why won't I get to go full out with Naruto?"

"Isn't it obvious, Baka? If the two of you were to go at it all out then you would wind up doing major damage to the village. There's no way that you'll be allowed to fight, if you join the village. They will hold you back, because you are weak" Her words droned on in his mind, his mind began to grow foggy.

"No! I am not weak!"

"If you stay here in Konoha, you will never become as great as you are destined to be. They will make you a puppet of the Hokages, following their every command." A thick fog shrouded his mind at her last sentence. Her voice drifted through the fog, a hypnotic whisper

"No one Controls me! NO ONE!!!"

"Prove it then. Fight! Fight Naruto and the leaf village. Let me help you show them how powerful you are, Show them just how powerful Gaara of the Desert truly is!"

"Yes," said Gaara a glint of madness in his eyes, "let's show them. I will be nobody's tool puppet. I will destroy those fools who think they can control me!" The scenery changed back to the hallway, the girl was nowhere in sight. "Come Shukaku," said Gaara, "We have a war to fight." He stalked out of the stadium and headed towards the combat oblivious to the ruby that now hung from his ear.

Outside the Stadium

A small figure watched he left. He recognized his sister's seal in the ruby. He felt the tug of his master's summons, and smiled as he went to report her success. He appeared in his master's ward, as his master was watching the fray inside the stadium from his new seat, in the Kage Box. As he appeared the figure asked "What do you have to report Toki, good news I hope."

"Hai, Kenshu," said the boy "Gaia has successfully sealed herself in Gaara's mind, and persuaded him to fight against Konoha. Also you where correct, it was the Hitotokigami-sama and Inverse-san who were responsible for the imbalance. They have brought the concept of Chi and Mana into this world."

"Well that makes things more interesting, Toki remind me to thank Hikaru-san. He's certainly given me a bit more freedom," said the man, smiling, "We just have to make sure that things don't deviate too much, or this world wont be prepared for certain cataclysms. Now, I need to go wake up Naruto, we need to send him to fight Gaara."

With Sakura

After receiving her orders, Sakura made her way to the other genin. She signaled Neji and Ino over to her. As Ino and Neji fought their way towards her she went and woke up everybody but Shino, who was still too weak after his fight with Sasuke, and Kakashi's team. After the other five gathered with her, they split up in to two teams to help with the evacuation. They put at least one tracker ninja in each group. The first team was Kiba, Choji, and Tenten, and the second was, and Ino, Sakura and Neji. Kiba's team would help with the evacuation while Neji's team would join the battle against the Sand and Sound Ninja

Inside Naruto's Mindscape

"HOW THE HELL DID THIS HAPPEN?!" Naruto's voice rang though the sewer-like complex.

"There's no way the Kit could have fallen for such a simple Jutsu! And why the hell are you here anyway!! You're supposed to be unconscious!"

Naruto looked at the Kyuubi the confusion clear on his face. "I don't know. That Jutsu should have put me to sleep, not sent me here. There is no reason I can see, for me to be here. Anyway that wasn't a genjutsu or a Sleep spell that took me out, it was something stronger. Much stronger. What do you think Hikaru-sama?"

"Me? I got nothing, guys. I've never seen any technique like that before. It was too powerful for any spell I can think of."

The three sat there bickering about what could have happened.

"I think I could shed some light on this issue." A voice rang out from down the hall.

The three turned to see a man standing in the shadows down the hall. He was wearing a cloak that seemed to fade into nothingness around him.

"Who are you?" asked Naruto and Hikaru in unison.

"How did you get in here, the minds host is unconscious?" asked Hikaru,

"Oh, that? That's simple. He's not unconscious; his mind has been sealed off from the outside. I simply walked into his mind." replied the stranger.

"But that's not possible," stated Hikaru, "There is no spell or Jutsu to allow you to breach a sealed mind. If his mind has been closed to the outside, then there should be no way to enter it."

"Are you sure?" asked the man in a condescending tone, "There's no spells?"

Hikaru thinks before saying "Well, there is one I read about in some ancient texts, but it takes a massive amount of Mana. No one has that kind of Mana!!"

The Kyuubi chuckled, "No mortals at least."

The man simply watched Hikaru and Naruto think about this. As he watched the three a girl, who looked about 6 stepped out of the shadow on the other side of the hall. She was wearing a black shirt with long ragged sleeves, dark grey sweatpants and navy blue shoes. She had Dark black hair and a pale complexion.

As she ran to the cloaked figure she yelled "Kami-sama! Kami-sama!" When she got to him she threw him an overdramatic salute and said, "Kami-sama, I've come to report that the battle is going according to plan! Shukaku and his host are battling the Leaf and Oto-nin moving out of the village! I brought good news! Praise me! Praise me!"

"K-K-KAMI!!!" shouted Hikaru, "YOURE A KAMI?!"

"I thought so," said the Kyuubi, "I've been wondering when you would show up."

The cloaked man smiled and patted the girl on the head and said "Good job Yamina." Then he bonked her on the head.

The girl stated crying, as a large bump grew on her head. Through her crying she asked "Why did you do that Kami-sama?"

Still smiling the man said "Remember what I said, about calling me Kami-sama in front of other people?"

She stammered "B-b-but Kam-."

"Kinsei-sama" he interrupted, "That way, people don't know I am a kami. (god) And yes I am a kami. How else would I be able to breach a mind sealed mind like this?"

"What do you mean that Shukaku and his host are attacking Konoha?" Naruto asked coldly, "Gaara is joining the leaf village why would he attack it?"

At this Yamina looked up and said "Because he is being forced to by Gaia-neechan, of course!"

"What do you mean by that?" asked Hikaru.

Yamina said "I'm not telling" then stuck out her tongue.

Naruto grabbed Kinsei by the front of his cloak, and yelled in his face "WHY ARE YOU FORCEING GAARA TO FIGHT HIS FRIENDS, YOU BASTARD!!"

"Cool it kit" said Kyuubi, "it's probably because The Balance would be thrown off if he allowed a second tailed beast to join the Leaf village. Am I correct Kami no Kinsei?"(God of Balance)

"Almost," said Kinsei, effortlessly breaking Naruto's hold on him, "It would also disrupt the balance for the future Kazekage to join this village. For The Balance to correct, Gaara must return to the village hidden in the Sand, and become Kazekage, in a few years. He could not do that if he disobeyed the Council of Sand, and did not fight against the Leaf village. He would become a Rogue-nin and be unable to take the position. It is of great importance to the future of the world, that the Sand and the Leaf strengthen their bonds. This will only occur if the Kazekage has a good friend among the ninja of the Leaf. That friend will be you, Naruto. That and the Leaf-nin would get too lazy with two tailed beasts in the village."

During the Kinsei's monologue, Yamina had managed to worm her head under his hand. "If you were concerned with this Balance, then why are you only intervening now?" asked Hikaru. "Why didn't you interfere with the Time House or the any of the other changes in the leaf village?"

"Oh that? That's simple," replied Kyuubi, "The Time House, was something the Leaf village could have done on its own, with its current technology, and the other slight details either didn't affect The Balance or they have been already counteracted."

"You see Yamina; this is why I didn't want the Kyuubi to find out who I was. He knows way too much about me and the other kamis. Now I have to go through the bother of making a new body, so he won't recognize me. Well I can see that you all are quite busy, so we'll take our leave."

"We're not busy." said Naruto.

"Really?" asked Yamina, as incredulously as a six-year-old could. "Then who's saving Gaara, and stopping the possessed Shukaku from destroying Konoha?" with that Kinsei and Yamina faded, and Naruto regained consciousness.

Back in the Arena

As Naruto awoke, he became aware of the chaos around him. He quickly leapt to join the fray and after several minutes he found himself near Kakashi. "Bad News Sensei," he called, "It seems someone has taken control of Gaara, and he is going to fight against Konoha."

"WHAT!!" yelled Kakashi, "Why do you say that?"

"Because the interloper came and told me himself, after knocking me unconscious," replied Naruto.

"Damn, I was going to send you Hinata, and Sasuke to help fight off the invading ninja, but if you're right then you need to go take out Gaara immediately, I'll send Hinata and Sasuke to catch up with you, Understood?"

"Hai Kakashi-sensei," he called back running to chase after Gaara.

In the stands Temari and Kankuro, where eavesdropping. "So," said Kankuro stealthily looking at the Anbu-ninja watching them, "It would appear that Gaara is not joining the leaf village. This means that we need to join him, incase someone tries to attack him while he is transforming."

"Hai," said Temari wearing a fake evil grin, "Let's go." The two of them dashed off to catch up with Gaara.

End Chapter.

Authors Notes: This is my first chapter after taking over this series. I don't know how the rest of my chapters will be, but I plan to more detail, in the next two. The next one will either be Naruto Vs. Gaara, or Orochimaru Vs. the Third Hokage. Both of them will have several big differences from the manga/anime. Thanks for reading, and I hope you continue to read. Please Review.