A/N: I'd like to thank Sango Hikari and Cryptic Innocence for reading my fanfic and reviewing it. I'd also like to thank other people that reviewed my fanfic. Ooo Special thanks to Thanh-sensei. So like, hope you guys enjoy! Ooo To Gaara and Sakura fans, I assure you, it's coming up soon. Just wait . Oh yeah, because of the 3-day weekend and have nothing better to do, I'll keep writing this fanfic til it finishes. xD. Oo to answer Sango Hikari's comment about me posting this up quickly. Answer: I typed several chaps of this fanfic ahead of time, 'kas like I had to wait 3 days 'til I can upload my fic with my new account. And during those 3 days, I got seriously bored hahaha. Damn Naruto fillers. Hopefully if we ignore them, they'll go bye bye.

Chapter 7: Transcending Winds

His eyes of power hungry blood glowed fiercely in the room. Gaara's body lay in front of him. The room reeked of immense power in the dim cold sandy rift. His hands tightly together, in a seal like position. A blue-ish radiant glow came out of Gaara's body. Until this blue-ish glow stopped, Sasuke had to sit near Gaara's body with his hand tightly bonded together.

In Gaara's unconscious mind, he found his inner self pondering on whether the flesh he was staring at was reality or all in the head. Pondering then leaded to wandering. Even in his mind, he still saw the sandy distances. "Is this real? Why am I here?" Gaara thought. Thinking hard to himself he tried to remember what happened previously. His distorted eyes bulged. "I remember now….That guy…..Tasuke….we fought," he thought.

Suddenly, Gaara's fingers began to twitch a little as his eyelids opened a little to a blurry dim scene. What is this place?

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Temari, Kankurou, and Sakura ran to across the hellish desert. Coarse beige looking particles all around. Sakura, out of breath, still continued to go on. Sakura's only motivation: to save Gaara and prove to herself.

He stood on guard like a frozen imprisoned tiger. In his hand gripped a dagger-shaped water chakra. He heard rustling in the sands, each step was a heart beat, and they were coming.

Sakura and the others stopped, facing him. They knew they had to get through him to get to Gaara. "That bastard! What is he smirking at!" wondered Sakura with rage. He began to swiftly run forward towards them. Clinging onto the dagger shaped water chakra, he began to pick on memento and then released it through the wind. With the dagger shaped thing coming so fast, Temari didn't have time react and it then ran across the side of her face. Sakura rushed to Temari's side frantically, and so did Kankurou.

"Temari-chan, daijoubu?" wondered Sakura. Temari then lifted her hand up against the opened flesh. She then looked at her hand, and found that her wound dripped with blood.

"I watched the thing come rushing towards me, I tried to move but the timing was too late, I couldn't even make a sound," responded Temari. Kankurou stared at his sister bleeding flesh. He turned around his head facing Tasuke. It was now time for pay back. Kankurou then brought out his puppets.

"Temari, let me put on a bandage for that," said Sakura.

"No. Its find Sakura. I need to fight with Kankurou. Go now and head to where Gaara is! He's probably in that sand rift, because Tasuke wouldn't be here unless he was guarding something" Temari told Sakura. Sakura stood still frozen as Temari then brought her fan and opened it up.

"Let the games begin," shouted the smirking Tasuke.

"Sakura! Go now! Save our brother!" Kankurou yelled out loud, and woke the frozen Sakura.

"Hai," responded Sakura. Sakura ran like the wind and jumped into the mysterious hidden sand rift, not knowing what to expect next. But she knew that she must save Gaara, too many people were counting on her.

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With his mind finally pieced together, he began to gain control of the once limp body. He then leaned forward, picking up the rest of his body with his hand. The once glowing blue-ish flame coming out of his body, burnt out. Sasuke's hands then let go of its seal position.

"Sadly, you're still alive," Sasuke said with a frown.

"hmm…So you're the unforgivable traitor I heard about," responded Gaara, "I think it's time to settle some unfinished business from back then."

"Yes. It's time to settle this business. You know, if that event didn't happen during the exams, I would've have won either way."

"You still sure about that?" Gaara said sarcastically. Gaara then let out one of his hand and circulated a grip upon his sand. Sasuke knew what Gaara planned on doing, so he prepared his chidori.

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The blowing gusts of sand blew between Naruto and Chise. Naruto stared at Chise's eyes. Why were they reddish yellow? But anyways, the kyuubi inside of him burnt fiercely. Naruto glowed of a fire, and his eyes gave a deadly look, and ran towards Chise with his rasengan. As he ran towards her, he shouted out Kage Bunshin no Jutsu. Chise's pupils slowly rotated clockwise and lifted up her hands. The rasengan came directly toward her, then Chise stepped forward and in a hand seal position she shouted out Flesh-Piercing Kaze no Jutsu. It then cut through the rasengan's power and turned it to flowing sand out of Naruto's hand.

"What! How can this be! My rasengan is the best!" shouted Naruto.

"heh, No one did bother to tell you that I'm undefeatable"

"Undefeatable? Yeah right! No one is undefeatable, you evil bitch!" yelled out Naruto.

"There is no such thing as evil. Only power," responded Chise. "By now you've noticed these eyes. Depending on the direction of the pupils, I can either see the future or the past. In conclusion, you can't defeat me Naruto."

"Who cares about you're stupid kekkei genkai, you're still going down!" Naruto then formed a fist and jammed it into Chise's cheek. "Hah! I guess you didn't see that coming!"

"Who said I didn't," said Chise coldly. Naruto then found out that he punched a clone, which then went poof. He turned around, finding that Chise was really behind him. His heart beated faster, in his mind he thought how can he beat someone that knows his next move.

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Sakura lifted out from her pouch several shurikens not knowing what was up ahead in the dark passage. Suddenly she heard a noise resembling steps. In her head, she told herself, it's not time to stop and you must save Gaara. Sakura then swiftly ran through the passages in the rift. But then, she saw a shadow casting in the corner, her pace gradually decreased. Who can this dark figure be? Sakura stared at shadow; it began to branch out even more to where Sakura was standing. Sudden something freaky unexpectedly happened; this shadow came to life. A dark soul of a person came of the shadow, and then the soul formed into a body. His eyelids opened, and lit out snake-like yellow eyes peering over Sakura.