A/N Okay here's chapter seven! Read and Review as always! Sorry it took a bit, but it's a long one! and if you guys want to use Amari in a fan fic you can do so! :)
- I don't own Naruto...but I wish!
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"Errrrrrrr...I don't wanna go!" Amari whined loudly as she buried her face into the pillow.
"Get your lazy ass up!" A shouted.
"No! I don't wanna fight Kankuro he's boring!" Amari replied out loud since she was alone.
"If you don't show..."
"Okay okay,I'm going I'm going." She said with a sigh as she pushed herself off the now messy bed, then grabbed her normal clothes and got dressed.
"We got to something about this hair of yours, it's too long." A complained, Amari started to brush her straight waist length dark purple hair.
"No. I'm not cutting it." She said with a sigh, she liked the length of her hair.
"Hey!" Shouted a very familiar voice, Amari jumped a bit then turned around to find an annoying blonde whiskered ninja. "What...are..you...doing...in...my...house.?!" Amari gritted her teeth, trying to strain herself from murdering him, but overall Naruto and her have become great friends over the last month.
"Ummm...I came to say hi, and to bring you the exams. The final one is in fifteen minutes you know." Naruto said with a smile, clearly not knowing how ticked off she was.
"I don't know need escorting and how the hell did you find my house." She said in a calm tone, hoping that he didn't follow her home. "Ohhh uhhh I guessed." He lied, he didn't want her to know that he sort of followed her.
"Sure..." She said sarcastically as she put on her shoes, and then grabbed her gourd and ninja headband. "You are gonna let me walk you there right?" He asked with that big annoying smile of his.
"Sure, it couldn't hurt. But if you try anything I will snapped your neck." She threatened as she walked towards the window where he came from.
Naruto gulped, "Worse than Sakura..." He said subconsciously.
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"Hey, mind telling me what took you?" Shikamaru asked when both Amari and Naruto walked into the large outdoor arena. "Relax ponytail, we took our time no need to rush." Amari said as studied her surroundings. The place was indeed big, the arena was surrounded by the audience that was above. She looked towards where the Hokage and Kazekage were seated. "Of course.." She thought flatly.
Shikamaru interrupted her thoughts by stating, "Well taking your sweet old time was stupid, the Third exam is about to start!" He stuffed his hands inside the dumb pockets of his and then started for the stairs to join the crowd above. "Girls..." He said flatly before he let out a deep sigh, "How troublesome."
"Well excuse me..." Amari said sarcastically as she herself began walking towards the stairs. "What an ass." She continued,but stopped dead in her tracks as she watch the seen in front of her unfold.
Well she actually let out a soft chuckle as she saw Gaara slowly crushing the life out of the two men in front of him. She could barely make out what they were saying,considering that they were mumbling,but that quickly stopped when she saw the deadly red head tighten the sand's grip on them.
She let out another soft laugh as she heard their ragged gasps, "Sicko." A's voice rang in her mind, but she ignored it easily. A was right though she shouldn't be laughing at this. She was about to stop him,but Gaara had already successfully murdered them. "Wow..." Amari said subconsciously, "Wow..just wow..." She continued, and she continued walking towards her destination. Ignoring the uncomfortable glare that the red head gave her. "Just what do you expect from him?" A asked...
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She stood next to Temari and Kankuro, resting her hands on the railing, looking down at the fight that was about to begin, of course it was the annoying whiskered blonde and the Hyuga that always had the emotionless expression. "Well this is going to be boring." She mumbled before taking a seat next to Kiba. It was strange, she slightly enjoyed his company now.
"What's up?" He asked with a friendly smile, "Err..nothing really." she simply replied, returning the gesture with a small grin.
"Gaara." Temari said as her baby brother stood beside her, he grunted as a reply. "Anti social much?" Oh how badly Temari wanted to say that out loud,but she knew that the comment would probably cost her a limb or two.
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"Is this match gonna end, or am I gonna die watching?" Amari groaned as she sunk down in her chair, which unbelievably uncomfortable. "Relax, it should be over in a bit." Kiba reassured her, she was seriously doubting that but whatever.
Her focus was snapped back on the fight when she saw a flash bright orange, "Is that...?" She asked subconsciously yet nervously, she jumped out of her seat and raced towards the rail to get a clear veiw. She honestly didn't care that both Temari and Gaara were glaring daggers at her when she pushed them out of the way, they were probably thinking of a million different ways to kill her. How nice.
"I guess he isn't just a dumb knucklehead after all." She said quietly to herself as she watched a wild-looking Naruto give strong attacks to his opponent. The scratches on his face were deeper, eyes blood red with slits instead of pupils, nails longer, and bright red-orange chakra surrounding him.
"Jinchuuriki maybe...?" She wondered, knowing that the Leaf Village is sort of known for it's nine-tailed fox and jinchuuriki host, but she never would have guessed it was the natural idiot.
Before she knew it Naruto was back to normal, and the Hyuga kid was on the ground struggling to get up. "About time!" She said loudly in relief, knowing that her match with Kankuro was next, but her hopes were shattered when he said," I disqualify myself from the exam!" "Okay, Amari Akimoto wins by default." The proctor answered back, just wanting to get on with the exam. She quickly snapped back to reality as she realized what the proctor had just freaking said.
"WHAT!" Amari screamed, startling probably everyone by her volume. "I-I'm sorry?" He said in confusion, she rushed towards him, grabbed his arm tightly and lunged him into the nearest wall, causing a very noticable crack. 'Owwww!" He shouted, getting on his feet, "How dare you!" she shouted again, Kankuro backed away, fearing for his life. Temari giggled in amusement, but quickly stopped when she realized her match was up.
"What were you thinking?!" She tried her best not to yell at the puppet master, but with that stupid purple face paint she just couldn't help it. "Calm down! If I fought you then that would've taken too much time!" He shouted back, receiving a death glare from the furious kunoichi. "Too much time for what? You sick douche." She came down to one conclusion: Kankuro was delusional.
"Sick Douche my ass." Was the only answer he intended on giving her, wondering why she didn't know. He knew that if she didn't know it was for a reason. "Nothing so forget it." He said as he walked away from her. "Errrr...I hate it when people walk away.." She whispered to herself in disappointment.
She sat back down in her seat next to Kiba and yawned in boredom." You alright?" he asked as his puppy,Akamaru hopped into her lap. "Yeah I'm fine just bored and confused." She said as she gave Akamaru a belly rub of a lifetime, "Confused? Maybe I can help?" he offered.
"Its complicated." She said,hoping that was the right answer. "Lame Amari, lame." Apparently A didn't think so., what was she supposed to say? That her weird friend that played with puppets and wore purple make up told her something strange and alarming that could involve her mentally unstable best friend, who happens to have a freaking demon inside of him? Hmmmm she didn't think so.
"Okay.." He said with a chuckle, "Wow Kiba, you're a pretty nice guy." She said subconsciously as a smile formed on her face,"Hey isn't that your friend?" He said as he tapped her shoulder, she opened her eyes unaware that they were even closed. She stood up and walked towards the railing and saw that the Uchiha had finally decided to show up and that Gaara was versing him. "Oh this should be good." she said with a smirk.
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"Hey guy with the eye make up!" Sasuke shouted to his opponent who seemed to be lost in thought. Gaara wasn't the least bit of offended, that was because he didn't give a shit. "You gonna make a move or should I?!" He shouted again, this time smirking after. Gaara's reply was silence as usualSasuke had already started to form his signature move. Gaara sighed in boredom as he saw the lightning form in the Uchiha's hand.
As Sasuke was baffled when the sand automatically flew up to block his attack, "How did-" He didn't even have enough time to finish his question as he was thrown to ground hard by Gaara's sand.
"Sasuke!" Sakura shouted as she stood up suddenly as she watched her first love be thrown to the grown by the freaky-looking red head. "Sakura! Calm down, Sasuke is fine." Ino reassured, "I sure hope so, I know what that red headed bastard can do." Sakura said said as she gritted her teeth and finally took a seat. "Well I'm sure it's anything Sasuke can handle." Ino said as she winked at her pink-haired friend.
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"Uggggghhhh this is boring!" Amari groaned as she got up from her seat again and walked slowly towards the railing, "He's been in there for hours!" She almost shouted. "Actually it's been only about ten minutes." Naruto said with that big retarded grin of his. "Well I feel like going down there and dragging Gaara out of there and beating him into next week!" Naruto and Kiba laughed slightly at her comment, as she continued to stare at the giant ball of sand that Gaara isolated himself in.
"What the hell is he doing." Temari snapped as she clutched her fists tightly. Kankuro appeared behind her, "Apparently he wants to play hide-and-seek." he laughed at what he thinks was a 'Clever' comment. "Shut up. I don't care what he's doing, we need him out of there." Temari was now losing the last of her patience.
-BANG- They all heard a startling loud noise from the arena below them, "The fu-" KIba started, but decided not to finish that last word. "What an idiot." Amari muttered to herself as she saw the horrific events unfold infront of her.
"What the hell is that?" Shikamaru asked as he straed wide-eyed at the giant demon-looking arm that just emerged from the sand cocoon, then the whole thing came down revealing a half-looking Gaara Half-looking demon, it was truly horrible.
"Oh my God, he's batshit crazy!" Amari yelled, as she jumped over the rail and into the arena. "Great now we have another crazy one." Shikamaru said as he watched the purple-haired girl jump over the rail.
"Come on Sasuke Uchiha, are you afraid." Gaara said in that psychotic demon voice he has now. "Oh-My-God." Sasuke said as he started to barely evade attacks from the demon. Sasuke quickly made several complicated hand signs and," Fire style! Phoenix flower jutzu!" He shouted before several flames shot right out of his mouth, but were blocked by that protective sand wall.
Gaara shot another attack, this time by his transformed arm, and this time Sasuke had no where to go.
Sasuke now saw the Gaara's demon arm coming for him, he jumped up, but then realized he jumped a little too high. Gaara chuckled as he moved his arm up, in a few seconds Sasuke Uchiha would actually be dead. And this would be very satisfying.
"That stupid idiot." Amari said in annoyance as she made a few quick hand hand seals. "Shadow clone jutzu!" she shouted, then one clone of her appeared and pushed the Uchiha out of the way. "Geez learn to dodge." She snapped as Sasuke got up, "Speak for yourself!" he shouted as he lunged forward and shoved both of them out of the way or yet another attack. "Thanks." She said as she jumped to her feet, now noticing the small, but deep scratch on her face. Must of been from a previous attack that was too strong for her sand to fully block.
"That should've been me." Sakura muttered quietly to herself as she sank back in her chair.
"This is getting too intense let's go." Kiba said as gestured the guys to come and help, Naruto,Shikamaru, and Kakashi-sensai quickly followed. Gaara grunted in annoyance at the sight of the others showing up to help, he was already pissed off about Amari showing up. This was between him and the Uchiha, he was now annoyed and he darted towards the woods. Hoping that the Uchiha would follow.
"Come on Kankuro lets go before he transforms completely." Temari practically ordered him as she pumped chakra to her feet and jumped towards the direction Gaara headed in, with Kankuro right behind her.
"Great, he wants to play chase. Come on guys before he gets away, I want to get there before his siblings do." Amari said as she pumped chakra to her feet and jumped on after him without giving the others any warning or signal. "I guess we're going." Naruto chuckled as he mimicked her actions and darted on after Gaara. " I'll stay here and handle other matters, you guys go." Kakshi-sensai said, "Wait! I'm coming with you!." Sakura shouted as she jumped over the rail and quickly followed Sasuke before anyone could object or even say anything to her. " I guess she's going then.." The gray haired Jounin sighed as he made his way towards the stairs with his hands in his pockets. "Girls, how troublesome." Shikamaru said as he, the last one there followed the others.
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"Err... I hate chasing people." Sakura complained to herself, "Stop whining, you're the one who insisted on tagging along." Sasuke snapped without even looking at her, Sakura had a gift for being extremely annoying when it came to times like this. With out warning or hesitation Sasuke pumped some more chakra and picked up his pace dramatically, leaving the others far behind. He wanted to get there first, this was his fight and his alone.
"That asshole." Amari said, " I'm going on after him." She pumped more chakra and lunged herself forward, at this speed she would catch up to him in no time. "Wait!" Sakura shouted, but Amari was already gone, so of course with out further due Sakura imitated Amari and Sasuke's moves and picked up her speed.
"These people, such a rush." Shikamaru calmly said as he actually slowed down his pace a tad bit, the nerve. "Meanies." Naruto grunted as kept on tree hopping, surprisingly he didn't pick up his space which is just what you'd expect of hyper whiskered nin.
"What are you doing?!" Amari shouted at Sakura as she noticed the pink-haired kunoichi appeared behind her, "I'm following Sasuke." She said loudly, "What do you like love him or something." Amari asked as she glared at the green eyed ninja, Sakura blushed at the thought. She knew it was true, Sakura did love him. Amari chuckled slightly as the blush from the ninja gave her her answer. "I knew it." She couldn't help but say.
"Heheheh I found you, you bastard." Sasuke said as he approached Gaara, who still looked psychotic as ever only this time he had a tail and half of his face was transformed. "Freak" He muttered as he hid behind a tree and started to form the Chidori.
"That idiot where is he?" Amari said in annoyance, "Don't call Sasuke-kun an idiot!" Sakura whined in his defense. "Kun? Is this girl like close to him or something?" Amari said in her mind but she couldn't help but ask, "Why do you like him anyway? And don't try to deny it because you make it pretty obvious." She knew she was being nosy and she didn't care, she wanted to know she was interested.
Sakura's blush deepened, "Ummm I mean look at him..." She began but Amari cut her off, "I have, nothing interests me, I mean he's good looking but nothing that would make really attracted." Woah, that was like a big hard slap to the face, not interested in Sasuke-kun? Was this girl alright?
Sakura opened her mouth to say something else when, "Hey! I see him!" Amari shouted before she picked up her pace and went even faster, "Wait a minute...or not." Sakura pouted quietly.
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Sasuke saw that his jutzu was ready, but didn't have much chakra left he could probably only make one more Chidori after this one. He jumped up to strike when he felt a soft touch on his shoulder. "I wouldn't do that. One you have a great chance of dying gruesomely, which I wouldn't mind watching..."Amari started, "Hey!" He interrupted when he heard that she wouldn't mind just watching, "Second-" She continued, "The sand will do a good job of blocking it anyway." Even though she had a good point Sasuke still didn't like the idea that they showed up.
"Well then if you're so smart-" HE started to say, "Which I am, obviously." She cut him off, "Then what should we do." He continued. "Well I was thinking...
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"We there yet?" Naruto asked, he was bored he wanted to get at that freaky guy with the Eyeliner for going crazy and Sasuke for taking off as well as Amari and Sakura. "Relax we're almost there, I can already feel chakra signals up ahead. What's got me worried is that guy Gaara, There's two unbelievably strong ones and I'm certain that one of them is Gaara's as I already know the other is Amari's." Kiba stated, knowing that his and Akamaru's scent is never wrong.
"Yeah we shouldn't underestimate him, after all he is part demon by the looks of it." Shikamaru said, "Yeah Shikamaru we know that, duh..." Naruto said as if he'll actually listen. "Naruto for all we know you might just jump in without warning and get yourself killed, and get the rest of us in danger." Shikamaru continued as he finally pick up his speed a bit.
"Blah blah blah." Naruto said then stuck his tounge out to Shikamaru, "I'm serious Naruto." He said firmly, but of course Naruto wasn't really listening he just wanted to get there already. Shikamaru let out a deep sigh, "What a drag."
Naruto eyes lit up when he saw the familiar pink hair "Hey look who it is!" He shouted in excitement of seeing Sakura-chan. "Yeah! Look it's Sakura!" Kiba shouted next, "Hey Sakura-Chan!" He shouted again.
Sakura knew that voice, she'd know it anywhere it was Kiba! "Kiba!" She shouted back, she was glad that they showed up to help. " Amari!" She called, Amari stopped babbling nonsense to Sasuke about the so called "plan" that she just made up from the top of her head and looked up at Sakura. "What forehead?!" She hollered back, just noticing now about how terribly large her forehead was. Hopefully Sakura wouldn't totally freak out.
Sakura was dumbstruck about what Amari just called her, nobody had called her that in a while accept Ino of course. Hopefully she wouldn't call her that again. "Hey look Kiba and the others are here!" She shouted to the purple-haired kunoichi. Amari looked in the direction that Sakura pointed at. "Great!" She said loudly. "Does this change anything?" Sasuke asked hoping that it did, her plan would probably get them all killed as it involved just going in without warning and hoping for the best. That pretty much summed it up. "This changes everything." She said with a smile, he sighed in relief.
Amari just realized that she lost her focus on what was actually important, she turned around and lunged herself in to the area Gaara was in, of course he was standing on a tree, good thing his transformation didn't go any further for the time being. "Gaara what the hell are you doing?" She asked, actually thinking that she would get a straight answer. "I kill him." Was all he said before he let out an insane laugh." "Of course." She said subconsciously, yet sarcastically already knowing that "he" met Sasuke Uchiha.
She was tempted to asked another stupid question but she held off on that instead she did something actually stupid. She made several complicated looking hand signs and, "Fire style, Phoenix flower jutzu!" She yelled before several bright flames shot right out of her mouth and attacked Gaara. Instead of actually hitting him it just made contact with a wall of sand, she sighed for a minute there she actually thought it would work.
"Naruto!" Sakura yelled, "Yeah Sakura?" " Go help Amari she seems to be the only one doing anything. Me,KIba, and Shikamaru will back you up, while Sasuke you should go rest before you collapse." Sakura ordered, Naruto was more than happy to finally participate he pumped chakra to his feet and jumped foreword, several yards from where Amari was. He knew what to do, he bit his thumb and made a few hand signs before placing his palm firmly on the ground. "Summoning jutzu!" he yelled, and there it was a tiny little toad. Just what you'd expect.
"That's it!" Gaara snapped, "Are you kidding me? That thing is pathetic!" He yelled again. "Hold on hold on, I'll do better, promise." He said as if he weren't under attack right now, but before he could even do anything he felt like he was sinking. He immediately looked down to find that the sand was already up to his ankles and his feet were no longer visible, he instantly shot Amari a glare. "Hey! What gives?!" he accused, " Shut up baka! That's not me! IT's Gaara you fool!" She shot back, disgusted by how Naruto thought it was her!
"Oh no, Oh no no!" Naruto was panicking he only had one hop left and his life would count on it. He made more hand signs and then bit his thumb, hoping that this will work he placed his palm firmly on the ground. "Summoning jutzu!" he yelled, only this time instead of a tiny pathetic toad, there was a huge massive one! "What do you want now kid?" The toad asked, annoyed that Naruto summoned him. "Hurry up Naruto look!" Amari shouted as she pointed to a now fully transformed Gaara, there before them was the Shukaku, or as many call it the one tailed beast. "Yeah we need help beating that guy." Naruto said with a grin on his face, hoping that the toad will help them succeed.
"Help you beat him?! I'm not going out of my way to mess with a guy like that." The toad simply said, Naruto sweat-dropped (A/N A lot of Anime characters sweat drop.) "What." He groaned " You heard me." "But daddy, he made fun of me and called me pathetic." The tiny orange and black toad exclaimed, that's when daddy gave in. "What?! He made fun of my boy! HE's not getting away with that! And kid, you owe me!"
"Sure thing!" Naruto said, glad that he was willing to help. "Awesome! So what do we do?" Amari said with a smile, Naruto slightly jumped. " Amari since when did you?" He said, wondering how long she had actually been there for. "Shut up baka!" She yelled and gave him a good slap on the back of his head. "Owwee..." He groaned in pain, she slapped him good.
"Well first we got to wake that red head up. When he's asleep the Shukaku is even stronger, wake him up and we actually got a shot." The toad explained, "Gaara asleep? Amazing." She said subconsciously, seeing Sabaku no Gaara asleep is something you really didn't see everyday. "The medium (Gaara) Hasn't been asleep for long so it should be easy. Kid I'm gonna bring your friend close so she can wake him up while you transformed us into something with sharp teeth and claws." The toad continued on. "Sharp teeth and claws, got it." Naruto said with determination. "Alright I'm ready." Amari said, she just wanted to get Gaara back so she can teach him a lesson then.
" Alright let's hop to it then." The toad said before leaping foreward,getting close to the giant raccoon. Once they were close enough she pumped chakra to her feet and took a big leap off the toad and she made a fist, oh she was gonna take great pleasure out of this. Three...two...BAM! Gaara woke to an unpleasantly but pretty epic punch to the face. Amari landed roughly on Shukaku's nose.
"You're gonna regret doing that!" Gaara snapped. "No I won't, I quiet enjoyed it." She chuckled, he growled. She jumped as she saw the sand move around her, no way was she getting caught in that crap. But the sand only stretched out and wrapped around her ankle, then pulled her down. "Damn it!" She yelled, as she landed quite roughly the sand now wrapped around her other ankle and both of her wrists. She squirmed and shaked, but the grip only tightened, she struggled and no use. She was trapped, "You bastard!" she yelled, well it was sort of like a whine.
All Gaara did was merely chuckle, "Naruto!" She screamed.
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"Hey did you here that?!" Shikamaru said with worry, "Yeah it sounded like Amari screaming for help from Naruto." Kiba said in a concerned tone, "I'm going in." Kiba said, but stopped himself when Shikamaru spoke again, "Do that and you will get killed and won't be able to help anybody." Kiba sighed.
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Amari tried her best, but with her hands being unreliable there was no point in performing any jutzus, she struggled and struggled more. Until she finally snapped..
Those blue and black eyes with slits int he middle of the pupil returning,fangs, cat-like ears, blue and black tail, longer nails. She hadn't even called upon it it just happened. Now she broke free effortlessly, sand flying in all different directions. She chuckled, before she gave him a hard kick to the face. It was so fast the sand didn't even have the time to block it, it made a very noticeable crack on his sand armor. He looked pissed now. she was about to attack again when.." Amari come on! You aren't fighting alone! Take cover for now. I got this." Amari didn't like being told what to do, she didn't even know what "I got this" Meant from someone like him. So she didn't take cover all she did was jumped on the top of Shukaku's head like an idiot.
"Alrighty then..." Naruto said, but he couldn't wait much longer. He made a few complicated hand signs,and remembered what had sharp teeth and claws. "Transform!" He yelled, and there it was the nine-tailed fox.
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Temari and Kankuro finally decided to show up and they were greeted byt he most horrific sight, there it was a fully transofrmed Shukaku and the nine tails. "Is that the.." Temari was too shocked to finish her sentence. "Yep, Temari it is.." Kankuro said, they both decided it would be best to take cover until this hole thing blew over.
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"Oh my god! Is that the none tails!" Sakura yelled, "Yep it...is" Sasuke struggled with his words. "I guess that hyper knuckle head isn't a complete and total idiot after all." Shikamaru said with actual meaning.
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Amari nodded her head in approval, "Oh goody, he isn't a complete idiot after all." She said to herself, expecting no less from one of her best friends. The nine tails (The toad and Naruto) Lunged forward biting on to Shukaku's arm until it finally tore off. "Owww that hurt!" Shukaku whined at the intense pain. "I'll kill you for this!" He whined again.
The nine tails struck again, this time biting Shukaku's neck and then pulled back and transformed back into Naruto and the chief toad. "Okay kid, I'm gonna do some strong attacks on him. This should do the job considering he is already weakened." The chief explained, hoping that blonde would comprehend everything.
Amari jumped off Shukaku's head and on a nearby tree branch, from the looks of it it looks like the chief toad would attack again. And she did not want to get in the way of that.
"Okay ready kid?" The chief asked, making sure that Naruto was actually ready. "Yep chief." And with that the chief made several hand signs of his own and before you know it strong jutzus were attack Shukaku left and right!
Shukaku whined and growled in pain and Gaara looked like he was just out of it, considering he was flopping around like a ragdoll and laughing hysterically. "Okay Naruto this should be last one." The toad informed, "okay got it!" The toad actually pulled out a sword and starting attacking the Shukau, with one slice of shukau's other arm being cut off it was all done.
"Well it's about time!" Amari shouted as she came out of hiding (still in jinchuuriki form) and rushed towards her friend. Naruto who some how had loads of energy left was actually crawling on the ground like a worm getting close to a now normal Gaara. "Okay kid remember you still owe me big time." The chief said before he and his son disappeared in a cloud of smoke.
"No you stay away!" Gaara yelled at him, but that didn't seem to fade Naruto who was still inching closer. "Let me ask you something." Gaara began, "Why did you protect them?" He continued, he was sort of confused. He rarely encountered stuff like this, because he usually ignored it. "I protected them because they are my friends!" Naruto snapped back, Gaara was wide-eyed now, "Friends?" he asked as if he never heard of the term. "Yeah friends, you would protect Amari am I right?" Naruto asked he was now inches away from the dumbstruck red head. And Gaara would protect her, he would protect her with his life, thing is though he never really knew why he had such feeling for a person. He nodded to answer Naruto's question.
"Yeah you would do that because you guys are friends." Naruto spat out quickly to make sure Gaara actually got what he was implying. "But Amari is more important than that." Gaara choked out, barely realizing that she was like five feet away. "Yeah she mentioned that you guys were best friends or something." And with this Naruto smiled with that big idiotic grin of his. Amari was dumbfounded she never imagined that Gaara would say such a thing, ever.
She didn't even realize that she was still in jinchuuriki form but who cares? she wanted to get Gaara on his feet, since Naruto was already standing and ready to go. Amari walked towards the read head, lifted him up and sitting position. Gaara tensed up at the feeling of her touch he liked how she was helping him. Gaara's arm wrapped around her for support while hers was around his upper waist, she pulled him up quickly. That's when Gaara noticed her form, "What? Why is she?" He asked himself subconsciously,he didn't want to hound her with questions so he just kept to himself.
Temari and Kankuro appeared out of no where, "Gaara! Thank goodness you're alright!" Temari and kankuro said surprisingly at the same time. Gaara grunted at the sight of his annoying siblings, wondering why they were so worried about him.
"Yeah, good to see ya back!" Kankuro smiled as walked towards his baby brother. "Amari I'll help you carry him." Temari offered as she supported her little brother's other side, he was too weak to object. But he was sort of relieved as he would call it once his sister supported him.
"So I guess this means that we can go back now?" Kiba asked, the truth was he was starving. "Yeah I suppose." Amari smiled, "Okay then let's go then, I can't wait to grab a bite at the ramen shop!" Naruto exclaimed in excitement. Amari giigled and finally returned to her normal form.
"Oh Naruto." Sakura giggled as she pumped chakra into her feet and jumped on ahead back, as well as Kiba and Shikamaru. "I guess this mean we're off." Kankuro said loudly as he was the next one to take off, followed by everyone else.
As Amari,Temari, and Gaara were heading back he replayed the short, little conversation about friendship with Naruto, he then thought about Amari and his srong friendship with her. How he would protect her, and surely she would do the same, He was truly starting to get it now...
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I know long chapter :) I will post the next as soon as I can!
