So I was reading Naruto fanfictions and the real Naruto when I started writing this. And the first thought that came to me was...Why? Why would everything go wrong for Naruto and right for Sasuke? And the second things start to change, things remain the same, kind of. I'm rambling, scratch that. Speaking of Sasuke, in regards to the character, I have no ill will towards him. He's alright when he's a hero, kind of like Vegeta, both can be pompous asses, but they'll fight the good fight. Then he goes off the deep end over and over, physically, mentally, and emotionally harming his friends and allies over and over. That's why I'm making him a villain in this story, because I think if he was returned to Konoha, it wouldn't have been for the better. Oh, I will also be going from names like the Leaf Village to Konoha over the course of the story, because the longer the five are in the ninja world, the more they'll transition to the new dialect, as well as develop unique personalities. New to them at least. One more thing, when making a space between scenes, don't write -, I realised after the fact that fanfiction erased them somehow.

PF

The five have made it to the outskirts of the desert where Suna is. Moyashi exhales, "This is like looking for the Savage Sword all over again."

Menma asks, "Do you have it with you?"

She snorts, "Hell no. If I did, I'd be giant right now."

Tomago screams, "Can we get going!? I'm an ice person in a desert, so the sooner we get out of here, the better!"

Chasu smiles, "Then let's get going!"

The five run off through the desert. Naruko asks, "Do we know where we're going!?"

"HELL NO!"

Naruko stops, "Well then let's ask Fishcake and Fuzz Butt."

Naruto's voice speaks up, "Fishcake? Real original coming from you guys."

Chasu asks, "What's that supposed to mean?"

Menma explains, "Because we're all but Naruko named after ramen toppings."

Moyashi states, "You can be pretty boring sometimes."

Tomago asks, "Is that smoke I see?"

The Nine Tailed Fox booms, "I sense Shukaku! He's moving very fast."

Menma states, "Point us in the direction, and we'll handle the rest."

As they continue running, Naruko points out, "We're running away from the smoke. This isn't good."

After an hour of running, the five find that Shukaku has stopped moving. That is not a good sign, they think. And they're right, there are two people, or one person and an orb like being, dressed in black cloaks with red clouds. Akatsuki. The five do not have fond memories of Itachi and his shark friend, because if it weren't for them, then this mess wouldn't have happened. There's another in black, but he's surrounded by three puppets and is wearing purple war paint on his face. Menma blurts out, "Is that Kankuro?"

Naruko points out, "He's hurt. And is that one guy riding a giant bird?"

It is true, the more slender of the Akatsuki, with long blonde hair is riding a clay like bird, with Gaara in his mouth. The five decide to throw a smoke bomb each around them, forming a pentagon of smoke around them. The blonde asks, "What the hell's going on, hm?"

Chasu boasts, "You've screwed with the wrong people, Akatsuki!"

Tomago cackles, "Yeah, you should really know to avoid people whose good people!"

Menma snorts, "Although don't feel bad. We don't like you asses anyway."

The giant blob snorts in a dark voice, "Can we get this over with, we have places to be, so quit the damn theatrics."

Moyashi huffs, "Well you're no fun."

The five appear in full armor when the smoke clears, while Naruko smiles, "Akatsuki, Psycho Rangers. Psycho Rangers, Akatsuki."

The blonde one snorts, "Psycho Rangers, what an unimpressive name, hm."

The blob snorts, "Like you'd come up with a name, Deidara. All your pathetic art keeps blowing up."

Deidara smirks, "Well as you can't comprehend, Sasori, Art...Is an explosion! Hm!"

Tomago snorts, "Bit of a flare for the theatrics."

Sasori asks, "Really? We have flares for theatrics?"

Chasu shouts, "Alright enough with the crap then! Give us our friend Gaara and us five won't kick your two asses!"

Kankuro stammers, "Wait, you know the Kazekage?"

Menma smiles under his armor, "Gaara became Kazekage? But he was a genin three years ago. That's impressive, got to congratulate him. After we explain where we met him."

Sasori booms, "This is taking too damn long, Deidara! Take the Jinchuuriki and go without me!"

Deidara starts to fly away, until a giant tentacle made of rock sent the clay bird to the ground. Everyone looks to see that Menma had transformed into his monstrous rock form, and at the giant size. Kankuro stammers, "What the-!?"

Deidara asks, "What the hell kind of summon is this, Hm!?"

Menma booms, "This is no summon, Akatsuki. This is the true power of the Psycho Rangers!"

Sasori asks, "Deidara, where the hell's the Jinchuuriki!?"

Chasu smirks, "Right here."

The two look and see that he is carrying Gaara on his back. He hands him over to his older brother, "Take him back to Suna, paint job."

Kankura head slumps, looking at a wound on him, "Can't. I was poisoned. I'm barely able to keep conscious. The big guy...He's Sasori of the desert...He designed a lot of shinobi puppets for Suna before he defected...20 years ago…"

He falls asleep. Chasu screams, "Crap! Naruko, Moyashi, get them back there ASAP!"

Deidara snaps, "Like hell you will, Hm!"

Tomago makes a hand sign, "Shadow clone jutsu!"

Chasu does the same, "Shadow clone jutsu!"

Menma is still a giant and calls out with a thousand clones, "You ready to fight an army, Akatsuki!?"

Sasori tears off his cloak, revealing that he's a giant scorpion shaped puppet with a giant face on his back with a scorpion tail coming out of the mouth. Chasu exhales, "Huh. That actually explains a lot. He's inside a giant puppet."

The puppet shoots needles out of it's mouth, taking out several shadow clones. Sasori screams, "Prepare to feel the power of the Hiruko puppet for wasting so much damn time! You three will make fine specimens!"

Tomago asks, "Can you make sense?"

Sasori chuckles, "First I drain the blood, then hollow out the inside, and remove the possibility of decay, then finally, you three will be another puppet in my collection, like Hiruko is. Only you'll make 301. This is MY art. This is the Human Puppet."

Chasu gags, "I think I'm gonna be sick. I mean, we're psychos but even we have to have standards."

Menma thinks to himself, 'I see that Hiruko is well made for offense and defense, this might be tricky. I don't know if it's better to get Sasori out of there or not. And that's only because we know next to nothing about the man. But either way, his weapons are probably coated in deadly poison.'

Menma calls out, "Chasu, Tomago, take on your true forms. The thick skin won't be scratched by normal blades, therefore the poison shouldn't get into our blood."

The two nod, "Right."

In a flash of bright light, Chasu becomes a black skinned being with a white face like Menma, but with red spikes coming out of his body, shaped like fire. Tomago meanwhile looks similar but with shards of ice spiking out of him.

Deidara snorts, "More Kekkei Genkai. How disgusting."

Sasori notes, "They aren't Sharingan, that's for sure. But they will make such interesting additions to my collection. Deidara, go after those two girls for the Jinchuuriki, I'll deal with these three."

Deidara flies away, after Moyashi and Naruko. Menma notes to himself, 'Chasu and Tomago transformed, but the shadow clones didn't. That'll make them stand out like sore thumbs, but any attacks on the clones won't poison them. So they should be safe for now.'

Menma calls out, "Psycho Rangers, Attack!"

Sasori fires several needles out of his mouth as the Psycho Rangers charge him. Like Menma predicted, Chasu and Tomago are unharmed by the needles as they deflect off the skin, while several shadow clones are popped, with no ill effects on the original. The ground becomes littered with these discarded needles. Suddenly, he stops, making Chasu ask in a deep voice, "Did he run out of needles?"

Suddenly, Sasori sends his gauntleted left arm at them, blasting off like a rocket. And out of the arm comes even more needles. Tomago notes, "This is becoming annoying!"

Menma tries to stomp on Sasori, but he keeps dodging, until Chasu appears above Sasori and smashes the shell of Hiruko. The puppet is destroyed, with the head sliding across the desert. A cloaked being leaves the shell before Chasu's eyes. Menma shrinks down, thinking aloud, "So that's the real Sasori."

A slender hand with purple fingernails makes a motion, and Hiruko's head flies at them, shooting many needles at them when it splits in half. The needles deflect off of the original Psycho Rangers, while clones still get popped. Sasori states in a smooth voice, "So, you're skin really is thick enough to deflect my needles. Impressive."

Sasori chuckles, "I should've also thought to have a more creative strategy. I just did what I usually do in a fight. I guess I'm getting sloppy."

He removes his cloak, revealing the black cloak with red clouds. His hair is a short mane of bright red hair, almost pink. Tomago recognizes something off about the handsome, "He defected from the village 20 years ago!? He looks barely over twenty!"

Menma guesses, "Wasn't Orochimaru a member of Akatsuki? Maybe he gave whatever that keeps him young to the other members."

Sasori's cocky smile falters, "As if I'd take whatever that traitor has to offer. First partner I ever have in the new order and he immediately stabs us in the back for those stupid eyes. Although I will admit, he's far more pleasant than that idiot Deidara."

Chasu chuckles, "I think I see some makeup around your eyes. Not like Orochimaru, but the same thing more or less."

Sasori snorts, "Cute. Now let's get started, I don't like waiting."

He produces a scroll from his sleeve, he smiles, "This is a favorite of mine. Wasn't an easy piece to acquire. But it makes me fond of it."

He opens it, and shows a simple kanji. Menma asks, "Why does it say three?"

Sasori smiles, and there's a puff of smoke. Out of it is a puppet with a fur lined cloak with a mane of dark hair and golden eyes. Tomago asks, "Why does it look familiar?"

Sasori asks, "What hidden village are you from?"

Chasu snorts, "We were from Konoha, before the new regime."

Sasori sighs, "Ah, monument rock people. So you only recognize Hokage, not Kazekage."

Tomago spit takes, "That's a Kazekage!?"

Sasori smiles, "Not a Kazekage. THE Kazekage. The third Kazekage. Considered the greatest that ever lived. Before he met me ten years ago. Now if you don't mind, I have a Jinchuuriki to catch with my foolish partner."

Chasu stares at him, "...Gaara. His name is Gaara. He is the Kazekage of Sunagakure. Brother of Temari and Kankuro. Friend of...The Late Naruto Uzumaki."

Sasori cocks his head, "Naruto Uzumaki? The nine tails Jinchuuriki? Oh, I remember him? Itachi and Kisame spoke of trying to take him but couldn't because his foolish brother and the Sannin stopped him. Then said foolish brother tried to join Orochimaru and got him killed when he promised to return. He is making us wait for the Nine Tails to return. But enough about that, I hate keeping people waiting."

He sends the Third Kazekage flying at them. And out of one of the sleeves comes...Tree trunks of blades, dripping with poison. Within seconds, Tomago is blocking one of those trunks from taking his torso off. Tomago curses, "Damn! I think he got me!"

Sasori smirks, "So, you really aren't impervious. Now for some salt in the wound."

The puppet's other arm springs forward, and out pops compartments with seals that release a few dozen arms. The arms are like a giant snake, and lunge at Chasu. They pin the fire monster to the ground. He asks aloud, "WHAT JUST HAPPENED!?"

He rips himself out of the arms, and cuts his way free, commenting, "This is like being in a rainforest."

Sasori moves his pinkie, and purple smoke blows right in his face. Menma screams, "Poison gas! Chasu! Hold your breath!"

Sasori smirks, "Time to bound and gag."

Now ropes pop out of those arms that hold Chasu in place. He explains, "Ropes with kunai on the end, deflect them or else you'll be tangled up. Now let's find out if you fascinating creatures really need oxygen."

More gas is sprayed at Chasu. Chasu decides to scream, "Rasengan!"

Within the purple cloud is a blue light, moving. Sasori realizes, "He used the Fourth Hokage's technique to cut the rope! Who are you people?"

Suddenly, the blue light touches the ground, creating an earthquake and a sandstorm. Menma recognizes, "He used the sand to create a storm to push the gas away."

Chasu tells the puppet master, "Sasori! We will get you for what you did for Gaara. But we will make you tell us everything about Orochimaru. We want revenge on him for what he did to us."

Sasori asks, "Oh? And what did he do?"

Menma explains, "He made Konoha what it is when he twisted Sasuke Uchiha into a killer."

Sasori realizes, "Oh, you mean when he tried to get Itachi's brother to join him. But when that failed it lead to a coup of Konoha. Danzo is a terrifying hypocrite."

Chasu asks, "What do you mean?"

Sasori explains, "Wouldn't you like to know?"

Menma asks, "Tomago, are you alright?"

Tomago stands next to him, "Yeah. I don't know if I have been poisoned, but just in case, I've been cooling my body temperature. If I lower it enough, it should freeze up, and hopefully won't harm me the rest of the time."

He produces his axe, and states, "Psycho spin."

He spins like a top at the charging arms and hacks them off. The Kazekage puppet pops off the arm that has become useless. He replaces the lost arm with a buzz saw. Tomago screams, "Come on, Chasu!"

Chasu and Tomago block each swing of the blades from the Kazekage, with their swords and axes. The three step away, with the Kazekage's blades now dull, as well as Chasu's sword and Tomago's axe. Chasu vents, "This was my favorite sword."

Sasori replies, "Well I guess I should play my next hand then."

The Kazekage's mouth opens, with smoke rising out of it. Sasori explains, "This is the Third Kazekage's personal jutsu, the reason he is held in such high regard. I'm going to grind you into dust with the Iron Sand."

Menma realizes, "That's not smoke. It's black sand."

Sasori explains, "This is actually adapted by the sand used by the Shukaku Jinchuuriki. That's something consistent about the beast. It's the same magnetic chakra, only with this more improved sand made of iron. Perks of a human puppet. Now suffer from the scattered shower!"

The iron sand rains on the three like bullets. The three jump out of the way, but Tomago is slower and gets grazed in the leg. He snorts, "Damn. I'm getting slow. That iron sand really can pierce our skin. It's like fighting those Zords all over again."

Suddenly, Tomago's body starts to twitch. He sees in his wounds the iron sand. Tomago snorts, "You've got to be kidding me."

Sasori chuckles, "You have to do more than block, you have to dodge to survive. The iron sand is in every wound made and even in your joints. As long as I have the Third's magnetic chakra, you're worthless. Don't worry, I won't kill you until your friends here are dead. And just to make sure, I'll use my most lethal attack."

The iron sand forms together in the air as a giant spike. He promises, "You won't get away this time."

Menma's eyes widen, "They're each hanging above us. Individually."

The spikes begin to fall. The Kazekage puppets removes a sleeve, and a compartment of the chest opens up. There's a powerful explosion. When the smokes clear, there are giant clay blobs in place of where the Psycho Rangers were. Menma proudly states, "I'm made of rock, genius. I can control this stuff like Tomago controls ice and Chasu's fire."

Sasori smirks, as the Kazekage produces more iron sand. The iron sand forms together into even bigger spikes. Menma starts to shift in a blue light, back into his human form, outside of his suit. Menma states, "Chasu, change back into human form. That iron sand is affecting our monster forms like a paralysis, and will probably affect our armor as well."

Sasori spots something, 'Why does he look like…'

He shouts, "Hey you, Menma. I saw a picture of the Nine Tails Jinchuuriki Itachi and our boss showed us. Why do you look like him?"

Menma smirks, "Long story. Tell you if you surrender and join us."

Sasori admits, "Sorry, not that interested."

He sends one of the iron sand spikes at them, but Menma starts running, Chasu transforms into his human form and stands on Menma's shoulder, deflecting the attacks with his sword. Chasu admits, "I'm glad we can pull out replacement weapons."

Then a cube made out of Iron Sand tries to crush them. But Chasu tosses the blade aside and catches the giant cube. His chakra starts to turn red. Sasori admits, "Impressive strength. It's almost at inhuman levels."

Sasori makes a note, 'But his chakra turned red...Like a Jinchuuriki's would. Could these punks be...No, it can't be. These aren't any other Jinchuuriki and the Nine Tails isn't supposed to be reincarnated yet.'

Sasori turns the Iron Sand into a spinning top. As they dodge it, the cube tries to crush them again. But Chasu just punches it away. Sasori compliments, "Impressive."

But with a flick of his hand, he starts stabbing at the ground where they stand. Sasori looks over at Tomago, who notes, 'That one's watching me like a bird of prey. But if he says anything, I'll just kill him.'

Sasori states, "Time for my trump card. Iron Sand World Order."

All of the iron sand starts to form branches like off of a tree. The enormous branches start raining down on the desert. When the dust cleared, the three have clearly taken a beating. Chasu's got cuts into his black jacket and black pants, with blood dripping from his arms and face. He states, "Damn. I was cut."

Sasori smiles proudly, "Poison soaked iron sand. Took forever, but it was worth it, I think. The body will go numb and unable to move. It gives the infected three days to live in agony."

Tomago states, "Chasu, snuff out the fire. If you lower your body temperature, blood vessels and arteries will narrow, slowing the flow of blood. Won't stop the poison, but you'll be conscious longer. Menma...I...I have nothing for you to do."

Sasori sends the puppet at the Menma and Chasu with curved blades coming out of the Kazekage's arms. Menma looks no different, but states with a smirk, "Boom."

He vanishes with a pop. Sasori asks aloud, "A shadow clone!? When? Where?"

Out of below where the original was, the real Menma is transformed into his armor and strikes him with his staff, destroying the Kazekage. As the iron sand breaks apart into a billion particles of sand, Menma smirks, "When you were eyeing Tomago, you should've noticed that I had used a substitution jutsu with a shadow clone. I had buried myself afterwards."

Sasori scowls, "That was my favorite puppet."

Chasu smiles, "Good...To Hear...I wanna rest now…"

Sasori starts to undo his cloak, not removing his scowl. He admits, "I haven't been forced to solve a problem using this puppet since joining the Akatsuki."

Tomago asks, "Another puppet? What's this one, the first Hokage?"

Sasori throws off the cloak, "No...Me."

Everyone's eyes widen, seeing that his arms have joints with blades sticking out of them. In his stomach cavity is a cable dripping in the purple poison, as are all his weapons, uncoiling. He sticks the spiked end in the earth and stands on the cable, rising like some sort of messiah. His eyes are wide, emotionless. His right peck has a compartment, his left peck has what looks like veins into a white circle reading Scorpion. He's wearing black pants, the thress psychos admitting it would make things a bit unsettling. On his back are a number of scrolls in a compartment on his back.

Menma admits, "Now it makes sense. He made himself a living puppet. Strange that I'm not surprised."

Sasori raises his hands, out of his hands are a barrel in his palm. And outcomes fireballs.