Extemerly obvious disclaimer: No I Do Not Own Naruto, I mean do you think I do?
In this story Naruto is very different to the Manga or Anime so don't tell me I got the character of Naruto all wrong of whatever.
砂の炎のフォックス
(Fire Fox in the Sand)
炎のフォックス
(Fire Fox)
Chapter 1: Introducing the Sand Siblings.
Kakashi was not a very happy man. He was being hauled over the shoulders of his two male students to their client's, Tazuna, house. The mission his team had been sent on had supposed to have been a C-Rank. However, they had been attacked my Momochi Zabuza, an A-Class missing-nin, and it had been bumped up to A-Rank. In fact if it hadn't been for one of his students, Inuzuka Kiba, he would have been killed.
His over two students, Haruno Sakura and Uchiha Sasuke had been too scared to do anything.
Tazuna, still pale from the fear he had felt in the battle, grinned suddenly.
"My house is just ahead! We should be there any second!"
As they approached the door Kakashi sensed seven chakra signatures behind the door.
"Tazuna, Wait!" he called out to the man who had his hand on the door handle. "How many people should be in the house?"
Tazuna blinked at this and Kakashi felt two of his students tense whilst Sakura stared blankly at him.
"There should be two, my daughter, Tsunami, and my grandson, Inari. May I ask why?"
Kakashi mouth tightened into a grim line. "There are seven people in your house."
Suddenly, the door of the house slammed open and a blur shot at Tazuna. Sakura's eyes widened and she had to stifle a shriek whilst Kiba and Sasuke tried to leap to intercept the blur but couldn't because of Kakashi. Tazuna closed his eyes and waited for the fatal blow.
"Dad!" His eyes snapped open as he realised that it was his daughter. Smiling happily he spun her round just like he did when she was younger.
"Tsunami!" He laughed grinning at her. Then he stopped as he realised what Kakashi said.
"Tsunami, who is in our house?"
Tsunami looked up at her father, from within his arms.
"They're the ninja I hired."
Tazuna raised an eyebrow and the four Konoha ninja tensed once more, expecting it to be an enemy country. Seeing her father's raised eyebrow, Tsunami blushed slightly and pulled out of his arms to begin her explanation.
"Umm, well you see Dad… You didn't take that much money and I couldn't be sure that you would actually get some shinobi to come, so I went to Wind Country and then to Suna."
Whilst the four ninja had calmed down slightly when they heard the name of their allies, Tazuna blinked in confusion.
"How could you get ninja to come? I used all the money we could spare to get these to come."
Tsunami smiled brightly at this and brushed imaginary dust of her blue skirt. Once she had finished that, she answered.
"The Kazekage made a treaty with wave. Once Gato is gone and we are prosperous again we shall start trading. They'll also post ninja here to guard wave. The only down side is that we aren't allowed any alliances with other countries."
Kakashi cursed under his breath. He'd been planning to arrange a similar alliance with wave. Although Konoha didn't really need it, it would be nice to have fresh fish and such from Nami.
The door to the client's house opened once more. This time a man stepped out. He had bandages wrapped around his head and a cloth hanging down over the left side of his face. On the right side of his face he had two red stripe-like tattoos and a brown eye. He wore a light brown jounin vest and the Suna symbol stood proud on his forehead. The Suna Jounin smiled when he saw Tsunami with her family but his smile faltered ever so slightly when he saw the Konoha ninja.
"I see your father has returned, Tsunami-san."
Tsunami whirled around and smiled at the desert ninja.
"Baki-dono! How are your genin?"
The jounin, now named Baki, tilted his head backwards and stared at the sky. Looking back down at the group he replied.
"They are fine. After it was revealed that this was a false alarm they went to train in the forest."
The man paused has he took in the teams haggard appearance and Kakashi's form slung over the shoulders of two genin.
"Perhaps Hatake's team would like to rest today and meet my team tomorrow."
Kiba walked down the stairs late the next morning. Yawning and rubbing his eyes, he shuffled into the dining room.
"Good morning."
The Inuzuka's eyes snapped open at the sound of an unfamiliar voice and grabbed the nearest item, which turned out to be a plate. Hurling it at the owner of the voice with a loud battle cry, he reached down to the holster on his leg and pulled out a kunai. As he was about to charge, he paused when he heard a sigh and a tanned hand snatched the plate out of the air and placed it on the table.
"I'm not sure Tsunami-san would appreciate you hurling her fine china around, kid."
Kiba's eyes finally focused on the other occupant in the room, just as Sakura crashed down the stairs, having been awoken by the sound of Kiba's battle cry. Both stared at the exotic boy.
He had light blond hair that fell to his jaw with two shorter bangs on either side of his forehead. He had jade coloured eyes that contrasted with his tanned skin and seemed to glitter with amusement. He wore an open blue shirt with fishnet underneath and knee-length greyish white shorts. Both focused on the Suna symbol that was on his forehead protector which was tied under the two bangs.
Kiba realising that this was one of the Suna genin that had been mentioned yesterday was about to apologize when Sakura shrieked and fainted. Both boys blinked before the Suna boy settled down at the table and gestured for Kiba to do the same.
"My name's Tam."
Kiba sat down as he replied. "I'm Kiba."
The Suna teen smiled at him. Kiba realised that he was probably fifteen years old at the most.
"My sisters are about somewhere and Tsunami-san is fixing lunch in the kitchen. Your teammates should be waking up soon."
The brunette grabbed onto the fist piece of information in hopes to make conversation.
"Your sisters?"
The blonde boy chuckled lightly. "Yes, my sisters. We aren't your regular team. All of the genins on our squad are siblings."
Just as Kiba was about to question him, they both heard footsteps on the stairs. Kakashi limped in on wooded crutched and Sasuke followed behind him, scowling. The door to the kitchen opened too and Baki stepped in.
The bandaged man glanced around at them before speaking.
"Tsunami-san says that the meal will be ready in about an hour. I suggest that we all head out in to the forest for training."
Kakashi nodded and Sasuke smirked at the idea of learning new techniques. Sakura was staring blankly at the Uchiha from her position on the floor. Kiba smiled happily and pushed back his chair.
"I'll just go get Akamaru!" he shouted, running of into the living room.
Tam's lips twitched upwards into a smirk and as he stood up he reached over to the wall behind him to grab a metal rectangle. Sasuke frowned at it and Kakashi's eyes narrowed for a second before he focused on Tam.
"I take it that you're a wind user?"
The blonde boy nodded and turned to walk out the door. The others quickly followed as Kiba returned with Akamaru.
As they neared the training clearing they heard the sounds of metal clashing and suddenly a feminine voice called out.
"Rendan: Suna Shigure."
As they burst into the clearing a success of shots fired into the tree line to their right and a red haired girl cursed as none of the bullets she had fired connected.
A blur shot out of the trees heading right for the girl. Suddenly, sand flowed out of the gourd on her back and sped towards the blur. As it wrapped around the shadow the girl called out the name of the technique.
"Sabaku Kyu."
"Gaara," called out Tam, "Who are you sparring?"
As the red head turned to reply light started to shoot out of the 'Sand Coffin'. Gaara's eyes widened and she whipped around as the sand exploded in a burst of white fire.
A musical laugh shot out of the resulting smoke. Gaara cursed as she leapt backwards towards the group.
Kakashi's eye widened suddenly and Sasuke, Kiba and Sakura looked on in shock as Gaara was tossed away by seemingly nothing.
"Fast…" Kakashi murmured, and the three realised that someone had moved at an insane speed to toss Gaara.
"Alright! Gather 'round, brats!" called out Baki, and a brunette girl dropped out of the trees above them.
The brunette wore a black crop top with a yellow and red symbol on the front. She wore black shorts that finished just above her knee and had her Suna headband tied around her waist. She also wore black heeled sandals and had purple face paint forming strange patterns on her face. The curious thing about her was the bandaged package that hung horizontally on her back from a bandage going around her shoulders.
Gaara stood up from her position on the ground and rushed over. As she did so a gust of wind signified the arrival of the insanely fast opponent she had been facing.
Gaara wore a gold shirt that fell to med thigh. Her sea green eyes wwere surrounded by black kohl and held a small amount of insanity. Her eyes flickered back and forth like an animals. The gold shirt was covered in yellow swirl patterns and was tied with a red obi. She wore red cropped pants and wore black sandals. A large gourd was strapped to her back by a red piece of fabric.
Her opponent was revealed to be a blonde haired girl with gold slitted eyes. Her hair was tied into a spiky ponytail and she bangs falling into a fringe just covering her right eye. The bangs in her fringe were streaked in red and brown. She wore a v-neck brown t-shirt with fishnet underneath. Over that she wore a knee-length cream short sleeved coat marked with a strange orange tribal pattern on her shoulders. Under that she wore dark grey baggy knee-length shorts and black ninja sandals. Bandages were wrapped around her hands and wrists. She had a selection of bracelets and bangles and her ears were studded with many earrings along with one on her lip. However, what stood out the most were the three whisker marks on her cheeks. She looked animalistic.
Baki nodded at the three girls before he turned to the Konoha team.
"Introduce yourselves to our allies." He ordered and Tam stepped forward.
"My name is Sabaku no Temari. I am sixteen years old. I prefer to be called Tam. I like learning wind jutsus, the desert, weasels and my family. I dislike jerks and people who insult my sisters. My dream is to become the Wind Master of Suna."
The brunette stepped forward next.
"My name is Sabaku no Kankuro. I am fifteen years old. I like my puppets and my friends and family. I dislike people who insult my family and idiots who hit on me. My dream is to create the strongest puppet ever."
The red head stood next to her sister.
"I am Sabaku no Gaara. I am thirteen years old. I like my family. I dislike… things. My dream… is to have a family of my own."
The animalistic blond stood next to her family next.
"I am Sabaku no Naruto," ignoring Kakashi's choking gasp, she continued, "I too am thirteen years old. I like my family and foxes. I dislike… My dream is to become Kazekage."
The Konoha Genin quickly said their introductions whilst glancing at their sensei who was staring at Naruto.
Baki stepped in front of Naruto, effectively blocking Kakashi's view. Levelling a glare at the silver haired man he spoke to the genins.
"Perhaps we shall begin training."
The next chapter of Fire Fox in the Sand. I'm not very happy with it but…. –shrugs-
I designed Kankuro, Temari and Gaara's outfits myself. Naruto's outfit was based on Orin's Desert Naruto. Seen here (follow the instructions in the brackets) - http:// (nothing here)orin(dot)deviantart(dot) com(dot)art(dot)Naruto–Weathered-63909386
