Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto

Rating: M

(this story is rated mature for a reason.)

Chapter 1

"It"

There is a rumor that is being spread around the guards of the Hyuga compound, just east of Konoha. But the rumors are always whisper never spoken loudly for fear that death might come after them. It is a rumor of the Main Branch family and of something they have created. Something dark and soulless, a monster that they use against their enemies or certain 'problems' that have become to troublesome to handle. It's not very clear of what it is just that it is a monster, a demon by the ways to mutilates its victims. Not caring if it is man, women or child, just as long as it gets to bathe in their blood.

Many of those poor souls that had to clean up the mess once the destruction is done have become quite and fearful. Never being able to forget what they have seen. A few have even gone and killed them selves. Slowly the Lower Branch family becomes more fearful of the rumors than their cursed seal upon their foreheads. And as the fear grows the rumor begin to fly far and wide, causing the Hyuga's to be treated the caution. Some to the large village leaders turn them down as just rumors, some begin to fear them. But one set of ears just turns intruded by this as something begins to forms in their head.

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"Shit" whispered a voice as it ran silently from roof top to roof top, trying to stay out of sight as the voices of soldiers echoed through the streets. "Dame it, where the hell is it."

"Kankuro, are you there yet." shouted a voice over the radio around his neck.

"Shit, no I can't find it and we're starting to get a lot of attention. Where's my god dame distraction, Temari!? What the hell is Gaara doing?" he said as he jumped into a small dark alley, just as a squad of soldiers ran passed him. The alley reeked of filth and dead things as he moved into the darkest corner behind a rusted dumpster, long forgotten.

"What! Shit, I'll try to get in contact with him, give me a sec." she said as he heard her begin to curse under her breath.

"I think I heard something over here" shouted a voice as the sound of foot steps neared the alley. Kankuro began to move closer to the wall as he turned down the volume of the radio. With in seconds the whole alley was flooded with light as flash lights beams began to inspect the alley.

"Do you see anything?"

"No, are you sure you heard it come from over here?"

"Yes sir."

"Kankuro, I can't get a hold of him. He turned off his radio. The little shit." she said her voice low in the head phone in his right ear. "Kankuro, are you there?" He winced as a light beams suddenly moved to the dumpster. "Kankuro, Kankuro, dame it you better not have turned off your radio!" she shouted.

"Sir?" questions a voice of one of the soldiers as a silence began to fill the air.

"It's nothing, come on they probably went this way" he shouted as the lights and sound of soldiers moved away. When the alley once again engulfed in darkness did he release a breath be did not realize he had been holding.

"Shit, Kankuro answer me!" shouted Temari again.

"Ya, ya I'm here." He said in a board tone as he force chakra to his feet and ran up the wall.

"Why didn't you answer me!" said her angry voice.

"I had some of them on top of me, and your shouting did little help." He said as he swung himself up onto another roof. "Do you know where he was at lest heading?"

"Ass, no he just leaped over to the east gate by the main branch district." she said with slight confusion. "Where are you?"

"I'm heading towards the Main House." He said as leaped from house to house dodging light beams that began to flash up to the roofs.

"I'm coming to you." she said as he saw a shadow leaping towards him. As it came into view swiftly and moved quickly in step beside him. "We have no chose; we have to do this without him. Did you find out where it has been retrieved?"

"Ya, I heard some lower branch guards; it is being retrieved at the front gate of the Main House." He said as they suddenly separated just as a huge light beam moved to where they where seconds before. It turned to another roof.

"Where Gaara is? Maybe if where lucky, we wont run into him when he's in one of his moods." Temari whispered as cold shiver ran up her spin. "Did you find out what it is?" she asked as Kankuro leaped back beside her. He look at his sister closely, one of the four blond, spiky ponytails look a bit loses and her black kimono still hand a few leave on it. She had been sitting in the forest on the outskirts of the large compound for hours on end, which had put her into a very pissy mood. Then again who could blame her?

"All I could get is that it completely scares the shit out of everyone. When ever the brought it up it was always in whispers. Also something about it being able to kill thousands at one time. One man even said that his brother had to be on one of the clean up cures and couldn't eat for a week and now refuses to talk. I swear some of these things they said were completely ridicules. At one time you would be thinking they were talking about some type of object and the other a demon. One man even said that there was a rumor of it being a beast that head black fire around its paws and fangs and claws like icicles. It was quite obvious that they knew completely nothing." He spat with disgust.

"I swear the things that go around among soldiers. No matter where you go it's always the same shit." she said as they finally made it to the Main House. It was about the size of a castle; eight story's high with white walls that made it seem like it was glowing.

"Main House? Main Castle would be more like it." commented Kankuro as he looked up at it. "White, white, white. Why is everything white?"

"Shut –up" hissed Temari suddenly as they began to hear a screams and what sounded like some type of liquid splashing against something.

"Sounds like we found out where Gaara is." whispered Kankuro with a scared look on his face.

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The sound of moving sand filled the bloody hallway as it danced around the bloody corpse, or more like what would have been corpse if they hand not been crushed into mound of flesh and meat. Slowly it moved it's self away from the bloody scene and slithered its way up into the large gourd against a tall person back.

He stood in the shadows of the hall looking comely at the scene before him with his arms crossed over his chest. Then his slowly turned around and continued walking down the hall way, his long maroon jacket swaying behind him.

He slowly moved from hallway to hallway until he came to a large metal door that stood out sharply in the white house hold. He stopped just in front of the door looking at it for a moment.

With in seconds the large door was ripped from the wall and sent flying behind him knocking though another wall by sand. The room in front of him was small with only a single window high up on the wall where moon light shown through. He slowly walks in, his sand dancing around him, where a rather large, wooden crate sat in the middle of the room. He walks up to the crate as his sand moves form circling around him to the crate lifting it in the air.

"Gaara!" shouts a voice as he hears two sets of feet running up to him. With in seconds both Temari and Kankuro where in the room with him. "Is that is?" she asked as she took in the scene in front of her. Her only responds was a dark glair towards her by two sea green eyes, heavily lined by insomnia.

"Shit, they're coming. We have to go." said Kankuro, the sound of guard was heard, probably finding the remains of Gaara's kill. "Were going to have to bust through the wall."

"I'll do it." Temari said with a dark smile as she reaches behind her for the very large metal fan.

"What! No, we want to bust through the wall, not use too. I'll do it." Kankuro said with a frustrated frown on his painted face. He moved one of his arms and grabbed one of the three very large scrolls behind his back and rolled it out along the floor. He made several quick hand signals before slamming his hand on the ground. "Karakur Engeki, Kur Higi Ippatsu Kuroari!" he shouted as a large puff of smoke engulfed the room.

When the smoke cleared in place where the scroll was seconds before was a large crocodile looking puppet. It had six small legs and two large slit eyes. With in seconds a large whole was broken through the wall and everyone was leaping through it and up over the lager wall surrounding the whole compound with the large crate surrounded in sand flowing close to Gaara.

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"Persistent fucking pricks." gasped Kankuro with his hand on his knees, trying to catch his breath. They had been running thought the forest for nearly two hours as hundreds of guards search after them, coming close several times. At one point Temari had to send a large tornado around the area with her fan, trying to distract them.

"Shut (gasp) your mouth." wheezed Temari leaning against a tree with a hand to her chest. "We should keep moving, just incase." She said once she had her breath back. She looked over to Gaara that just stood there with his arms crossed glairing towards his siblings, crate sitting next to him. He then began to walk pass them leaving it behinds.

"Wait, what about the crate?" asked Kankuro as he stood up straight looking over at Gaara who just turned to glair at him. A cold shiver went up his spin as he heard the gourd on Gaara's back begin to hiss with angry sand. "Temari, you carry it." He said his voice a bit higher pitch than before.

"What! Hell no you do it." She shouted at him

"No, you did nothing this whole mission except bitch over the radio. The lest you could do is pull your own weight." He said pointing at her.

"No I'm not going anywhere near that thing, and besides how the hell do you expect me to carry the dame thing hum?" she said pointing to it. "At lest you can us your dame dolls!" she said pointing at the scrolls on his back.

"Their not dolls their puppets! To me it just sounds like you're scared to." He said with a smug grin on his face.

"Why the hell would I be scared of a box?" she said a bit taken aback by his comment.

"I don't know maybe your scared of the monster in side of it. You never know, every now and then you get a rumor that is true." He said walking over to the crate.

"Hello" clunk … clunk … clunk " if there is something in side please knock four times." He said as he grin became larger. There was a long moment of silences to where even Gaara waited for a response. "See nothing, so-" clunkrattlerattle. . . clunk rattlerattle. . . clunkrattlerattle. . . clunk.

"What the!" shouted Kankuro while both he and his sister jumped back, as Gaara turned fully to look at the crate. "Shit something's in there."

"No shit Sherlock." shouted Temari smacking him over the head. "Open it."

"What no way, you do it." He said pushing her in the arm.

"No, look why don't we just forget about it, maybe what ever is in there will just stay quite. Will just pretend we never herd anythi-"

clunk! clunk! Clunk! Clunk! CLUNK! CLUNK! CLUNK! CLUNK! CLUNK! CLUNK! CLUNK! CLUNK!

"STOP IT!" shouted Temari as she slammed her foot against the crate shaking badly.

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"O.k. I think that your idea may not be a good one." whispered Kankuro walking up behind his sister with slightly shaky hands.

"Kankuro." said an emotionless voice; causing both he and Temari to stiffen as they jerk their heads back to look at Gaara. He was now standing eight feet in front of the crate. Kankuro made a deep frown on his painted face before walking to the corner of the crate. He then pulled out a kunai and jammed into it, the sound to groaning wood and nails filled the silences before a loud pop.

Kankuro took one last look at Temari, who had a hand on her large metal fan, and gave her a slight node who returned it. With one quick movement of his wrist all four sides of the crate slammed down to the ground as Kankuro leaped over to his sister. What they saw made bother Temari and Kankuro gap openly while Gaara's eye widen, slightly with his mouth before his emotionless mask was back in place.

"Dear Kami."

"It's a . . ."