AN/ Another chapter is up! Thank you again to everyone who Favorited, followed and Reviewed! I have recently discovered that reviews give me much needed motivation, so don't forget to review!

Now I will admit a couple of things about this chapter...

The first is that I was (and still am) in a really strange mood.

And the second is... Well that I discovered that I cant write a fight scene to save my life! . Although I do intend to keep practicing!

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto, -Man or anything else that may be referenced in this chapter...

It had been an hour since the Shinigami dumped the Womaniser out in a desert in the middle of nowhere, still not finding any sign of civilisation when a thought struck the former General of the Black Order.

'That bastard Shinigami said that I had access to the chakra I had when I was Naruto... Might as well test it out.' And so test it out he did and with a mumble of "Kage Bunshin no Jutsu" an exact replica of him appeared and IF Allen Walker was here the boy would be having a panic attack or be screaming something like "The devils multiplying!" but the young exorcise wasn't there so all is well.

Just as the Ex-General dispersed his clone he saw a figure that to him was a very beautiful figure. That long blond hair tied up in a high ponytail, that nicely shaped face and the body that was concealed by the black cape with red clouds. To Cross this 'woman' was of extreme beauty and his instincts were screaming at him to go and flirt with 'her'... As he approached the 'woman' he only then noticed the bundle of red hair that was almost the same colour as his own... Crosses eyes widened in realisation as he remembered seeing that cloak before, the Ex-General frowned as he thought 'What is such a beautiful woman doing in Akatsuki? I must save her... Wait a minute now that I have a closer look...'"YOUR A GUY?!" The shout drew the attention of the blond who had now been identified as a guy. As the said blond turned around he shouted "WHO ARE YOU? AND OF COURSE IM A GUY, UN!"

As the blond turned around Cross got a better glimpse at who the red-head on the blonds back was... Crosses eyes widened.

'Gaara!'

"Judgment!"

Far far away in a place called Mount Myoboku, the land where the Toad summoning's reside there was huge panic and screams of...

"HIS NAME IS GLOWING!"

"HE HAS RETURNED FROM THE DEAD!"

"MY CABBAGES!"- Everyone ignored that shout. Where did he come from anyway...

"GET JIRAIYA HERE RIGHT NOW!"

Now we return to the middle of the desert... To find a beaten up Blond who had lost another one of his arms trying to dodge the bullet that seemed as though it was following him... And a perfectly unharmed Red Haired womaniser and Ex-General of the black order who was now holding an unconscious Jinjuriki of the Ichibi, with Cross muttering about how a man tried to deceive him by looking like a woman...

Cross then moved to the side as what looked like ten Senbon came rushing towards him. He looked around and saw another MALE defiantly male wearing the same black cloak with red clouds on it... Another member of Akatsuki.

"Sasori no Danna! This man isn't ordinary, he's strong, to strong, un! He isn't even trying! Run and report to leader, un!" The man, now identified as Sasori thought 'well that's out of character for him.. What did this guy do to him?' Then suddenly there was a *Bang* and Sasori fell, or so it seemed at first but then another person jumped out of the 'fallen' Sasori. This person had red hair and the same black cloak with red clouds on it that all the supposedly 'fallen' Sasori. Sasori was hoping to catch the Ex-General by surprise however by that time Cross Marian had realised that what he had shot with his Judgment was some sort of shell so he fired another bullet and not having the time to react Sasori fell to the ground dead..., well almost. Now that Cross had finished one of the two he went to go and end the blond but when he looked around the said blond was gone, not that it really mattered to him, as he had saved one of the only people he could call a friend in this world...

"I suppose this is the end for me... Your strong, I didn't even have any time to fight back... *sigh* I may have some information that you could use... In two weeks from now I have a spy that's working for Orochimaru that I was going to meet but as I'm dying I won't make it..." The red haired Akatsuki member was still alive...

"Why tell me?" Cross thought aloud.

"Because... You are strong, you may have use for that information..." Sasori's eyes did not dim, for they are eyes of a puppet however the womaniser could tell... The Puppetmaster that was easily taken down by the bullet was dead. Cross pulled out a cigaret, lit it and put it in his mouth when he felt something stir on his back. Only then remembering that Gaara was there and put the Suna Jinjuriki on the ground just as the said Jinjuriki opened his eyes.

"Who are you?" The red haired Jinjuriki questioned trying to get up but Cross stopped him, he was still injured and badly for kami's sake! Cross smirked and thought 'should I tell him? Should I not tell him? Maybe I'll just drop hints, or maybe...' "I'm hurt Gaara! How can you not know who I am? After all those years as well, I was sure you would remember me!" The womaniser exclaimed while acting as if he got stabbed in random places.

"I am sorry but I do not believe I have met you before Old man" if you looked closely after Gaara had said that you could see a tick mark on Cross Marian's head.

"I am not an old man, god damn it! I'm only... How old am I anyway? Anyway it's no wonder you don't recognise me! Even if it's only been three years to you it's been a good fifty for me... Am I really an old man" as Cross started rambling to himself Gaara rose an eyebrow 'it's only been three years to you' playing through his head over and over again while Shukaku was... Cowering in fear? Gaara decided that enough was enough and wrapped the strange man up in his sand.

"Who are you?" It wasn't so much as a question as it was a demand. Cross smirked as the sand threatened to squash him and he mumbled something that sounded like "your social skills sure have improved!" As he said this the sand around him tightened.

"I take that back, your social skills are still as sucky as ever... It's been awhile since I last saw you Gaara. I now go by the name Cross Marian but before that I went by the name of..."

Meanwhile on Mount Myoboku a man with White spiky hair was in front of the elder toads with a shocked look on his face and this man said

"Can you please repeat that?" Then a toad spoke

"It is as we have said ten times before Jiraiya, the summoning contract with the supposedly dead Kyuubi Jinjuriki, Uzumaki Naruto has just recently been activated yet again by the return and use of his chakra. The only thing that can possibly explain this phenomenon is that Uzumaki Naruto has somehow returned from the dead..."

Jiraiya simply fainted while one of the toads whispered

"He's done that ten times now. What should we do?"

All toads in that room got a glint in their eye that would have scared even the most fearless of people and one thought entered the man who was now regaining conscious for the tenth time.

'Someone save me!'

Now returning to where the Ex-General and the Ichibi Jinjuriki were in the middle of the desert where apart from them there was nothing but white sand except for the body of Sasori of the red sand but that's not important at the moment, what is important is the scene of the younger one of the two running up giving the older one of the two a nice friendly hug...

"OUCH! GAARA, YOUR HUGGING ME TO TIGHTLY, I THINK I MIGHT HAVE BROKEN MY RIBS... OUCH! AND MY BACK!" Maybe it wasn't so friendly after all...

And that ends chapter 3! I know that is there was a lot of stuff that was Out Of Character...

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- Shio