:P Here's chapter nine! Hope you like, I'm seriously questioning on whether or not I should continue this story or not...

~ I don't own Naruto.

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She let out a huge sigh in boredom, "When are they gonna choose teams?" She asked the air, "So who ya talking to?" A asked, interested. "Not you so butt out, I'm talking to the air now leave us." Amari said out loud as she sat down on the roof she was standing on, with one leg flat and straight and the other with one knee bent upwards towards the sky.

"You're insane."

"Speak for yourself!" She didn't mean to shout, but oh well.

Kankuro heard her shout and spoke up, "Hey Amari!" He called out as he turned away from his future students. "Who are you talking to?!" He shouted, "Ummm, the annoying voice in my head!" She hollered back, she knew it might be best to keep her big loud mouth shut.

"Okay!" Temari called out before she put her hands on her hips. "Soon you guys will be able to chose your instructor, but before you do that I will explain a few things..."

Amari sighed in boredom, "Temari explaining things?" She asked her self, she knew that Temari always said more than whats needed. "Well then." SHe said before she yawned and thought about other things while Temari explained how you choose a weapon and crap.

Ten minutes later...

"Got it?!" Temari asked with a freakishly wide smile. "Oh hey she's done." Amari chirped as she stood up in excitement, as all the students chose their instructors. She growled as she saw that all of the students chose either Temari or Kankuro. "Whats wrong with Gaara?" She asked the air again. "Nothing is wrong with your precious boyfriend. They are just scared little brats." A said, Amari blushed at the word boyfriend.

"He is not my boyfriend we are just friends." She responded out loud since no one would hear her from up here if she spoke quietly. "Yeah, friends with benefits." "Whatever." Amari shot back, "Hey look!" Amari chirped as she pointed, "I can see! I am you. you dumbass!" "Pfft whatever, but look!" She let her arm drop down to her side. "Yeah sure cool whatever."

Amari was happy that Gaara got a student, even if it was only one. Then she recognized who the kid was, the girl she made fall yesterday. Amari decided that she will talk to her later, she wanted her and Gaara to get to know each other first. Who knows? The girl could actually be really nice.

Amari let a small chuckle when she saw the kid fall over when she picked the big weapon, " I shouldn't have laughed that was rude of me." She said to herself, just as Gaara recommended the rope javelin to her. Amari smiled, Gaara was going to make a great teacher. "Softy."A laughed, "Shut up." Amari said in reply as she jumped to near roof to get a better view of Gaara and his student.

She may say this, Gaara looked pretty damn hot while demonstrating the rope javelin. "Shut up thoughts, Gaara is not hot he is just a very good friend." She said firmly to herself. "Gaara does look pretty damn hot though..." A started, but Amari cut her off. "Shut up you asshole." She said before she sat down on the edge of roof with her legs dangling off.

Just as Gaara let Matsuri try out the weapon Amari felt something crack under her, "What is that..oh no!" She shouted just before the part of the roof she was sitting under cracked and broke off, she screamed as she fell two stories down.

"Ahhh!" She screamed just before she hit the ground, she didn't take great pleasure in falling on her butt."Haha! What a way to fall on your ass!" A shouted as she laughed uncontrollably. "What...?" Gaara asked himself before rushing over to her.

She tried to get up but a intense pain in her ankle dragged her down. "Damn it!" She hissed as she landed on her butt, yet again. "Are you okay?" She didn't even notice Gaara come over. "Yeah I'm fine, I'm just a dumbass." She said as he helped her up, he frowned he didn't believe in calling oneself stupid. "Are you okay?" Amari heard someone ask, she looked up and noticed that it was the girl from yesterday.

"Yeah I'm fine,and I'm really sorry about yesterday."She said to Matsuri with a smile, "It's fine, really." Matsuri said, returning the smile, as Gaara wrapped his arm around Amari's waist to support her, she couldn't help but blush slightly. "You two know each other?" He asked, slightly uninterested.

"Umm yeah, I accidentally crashed into her yesterday." Amari answered as she walked out of his grasp since she no longer needed the support due to her quick healing. Matsuri giggled while Gaara just nodded. "Umm...Gaara-sensei can you continue to teach me how to use that weapon?" Matsuri asked with wide eyes and crossed arms, he nodded and with that she rushed over to pick up the javelin.

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Meanwhile back at the leaf...

"NARUTO! You idiot!" Sakura hollered as she gave the blonde a good punch on the head. "Owwwww you don't have to be so mean!" He said as he rubbed the now swollen spot on the back of his where Sakura hit.

"Yeah Naruto you shouldn't jump to conclusions." Shikamaru stated, "Yeah Naruto, it was just an errand we are definitely no dating." The pink haired kunoichi stated firmly. "Okay okay alright, I cam here to find you because grandma Tsunade wants Shikamaru." Naruto said backing slightly away from Sakura. Shikamaru sighed, "How troublesome." He said as he walked off with Naruto to meet with the big bad Hokage.

"Shikamaru I summoned you to inform you that the villlage Hidden in the Sand is now following the leaf's training program with the Kazekage's children as instructors. " Tsunade stated firmly while having a shot or two. "That means Temari and her brothers...man when did that witch get trusted with a bunch of kids? Especially Gaara." Shikamaru practically shouted with worry.

The fifth Hokage sighed, "As always you didn't let me finish...I also wanted to inform you that we have a few enemies in the village of Artisans, there are four of them they call themselves the four Celestial Symbols. I received word from the village that this group is very village that they are after the Sand's "Ultimate weapon" which I am well aware that its Gaara. So Shikamaru listen up!" The Hokage shouted, he put all of his focus into the lady in front of him. "Your job is to assemble a team to go after them and Help Gaara, his siblings, and Amari defeat them. This is an A-ranked mission you will leave the village in a half hour understood?!" The Hokage hollered at the teenager.

"Understood!" He shouted before rushing out of the door with Naruto right behind him. "What a drag." He muttered.

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Matsuri keep practicing the rope javelin, I will be back later." Gaara said in a slightly friendly tone as he walked off, "Okay Gaara-sensei." She said shyly as she resumed her shinobi training.

"This must be Gaara's student." A woman with bright blue-green hair that reached slightly passed her shoulders said with an evil sounding chuckle. "yes, we will take her then we will keep picking off everyone that he cares about until the Shukaku's power is ours." A man with slightly long borwn hair said with a wide grin, "This will be the rise of the village of Artisans!"

"I'm going back to go check on Matsuri, i know its only been forty minutes but I want to see how she is coming along." Gaara said as he started to head back to the training area. "yeah good idea. can I come with?" Amari asked, he nodded then she flashed him one of her rare smiles from the heart. He was shocked by this no one smiles at him ever, he was nicer now and he didn't kill unless it was for a really good reason like defense even then he would try not to kill them and all he got was mere smirks and maybe a friendly gesture...but never a smile.

He studied her features, since he got taller over the months she was still shorter her hair was still naturally dark purple and waist length. He quickly looked away risking a blush if he went any further, okay she was pretty but did she feel the same way about him? He never let anyone know, but this really bothered him from time to time.

"Gaara!" She shouted, he didn't even realize that he was this far behind, "She's gone she left the javelin and everything. I don't like this I have a bad feeling." She said, worrying about her new found friend. He gasped slightly at the scene, she was indeed gone and the weapon she was using seemed to be thrown to the ground. "Get Temari and Kankuro now!" He shouted, she nodded right before she ran off to get them. He studied the area for a lead.

"Temari, Kankuro! Matsuri was taken come quick." Amari said firmly to them, "That's Gaara's shy student right?" Kankuro asked with a stupid and worried tone. "Yeah we better go." Temari said as she dismissed her students and Kankuro's. "Yeah this way." Amari said as she led them back to the training area.

"It seems that the people who took Matsuri went in this direction." Gaara said as he turned towards it. "Well what are we waiting for? Shall we?" Kankuro said as Gaara led the way.

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They knew that they were headed in the right direction since they picked up five chakra signals. "They are up ahead." Amari said, "Yeah I can feel it." Temari said with a smirk.

"I should've stayed with her." Gaara said subconsciously. "I shouldn't have left her." Amari said quietly to herself, "Now you notice that!" A screamed so loudly that this caused Amari to have such an intense pain in her head that she had to put both hands on it, and instead of landing smoothly on the next thick tree branch she tripped over it and started to fall...

It doesn't take long to fall about fifty, but it took a lifetime for a her, Gaara took a quick glance over his shoulder he stopped dead in his tracks when he didn't see her. "Stop!" He commanded his older siblings who were ahead, they stopped instantly.

"What it is Gaara?" Temari asked in concern, "Where's Amari?" She continued, he didn't answer he just jumped forward to where Amari was. He looked in all different directions, still no sign of her. Until he looked down, that's when he saw her falling.

"Shit shit!" Amari said loudly to herself. "Grab onto something!" A screamed which only caused Amari's head to hurt more. "There's nothing to grab onto Baka!" She screamed, she didn't want to die not now.

Upon instinct Gaara jumped down catch her, "Wouldn't using your sand to catch her be easier?" Shukaku asked, "Shut up." Gaara said out loud in reply. He wasn't catching up to her quick enough, he made a fast hand seals and disappeared in a swirl of sand.

He appeared right beside her and they were still falling so he had only a few seconds to do this, Amari felt a pair of strong arms around her flat stomach. They were seconds away from direct contact from the ground, she closed her eyes not wanting to witness what happen next because she already knew...

She didn't crash into the ground like expected...instead she was placed gently down on a thick tree branch with her back against the tree trunk. She looked up to find Gaara looking at her with concern, "Are you alright." he asked. His face was inches away from hers she blushed madly, "Y-yes I'm f-fine." She struggled with her words she winced at the sharp pain that was coming from her forehead. "Liar." He immediately replied.

"W-what I'm not lying!" She kind of was, her head was throbbing and her ankle hurt like bloody hell, but she was still perfectly capable of completing this mission. "Fine." He replied kind of harshly, he didn't mean to but he was just cared about her. "Oh Gaara, why do you have to be so difficult." She teased, he wanted to shake his head at her childish ways but he decided not to. She struggled to hide the smirk on her face.

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"Hold on I'm coming!" Naruto shouted as he sprinted towards Shikamaru and the others. "Its about time! What took you?!" Ino shouted you could really hear the irritation in that annoying high pitched voice she has. "Oh sorry about that! I was eating some ramen before I came hehe!" He said before he burst out laughing. "Aww how come he got to grab a bit to eat and I didn't?" Choji complained. "Because we would never leave! Now can we please go?!" Shikamaru was now losing what was left of his patience.

"Okay! Geez!" Naruto said raising his voice to a loud shout that probably only dogs can hear. "Yeah, let's go you knucklehead!" Ino said before she stuck her tongue out at the blonde.

"Okay, lets go please." Choji said as he pulled out a bag of barbecue potato chips. "man, you can't go one minute without eating." Ino teased, "Eating is a part of nature." He continued to shove handfuls of chips into his mouth. "Gross, don't choke on it now." Ino said before she faked throwing up.

"Hey wait a minute!" Naruto shouted, "What is it now?" Shikamaru asked, annoyed. "Where is Kiba,Hinata, and creepy Shino?" he asked, "They are taking a different route, so we will cross paths with them later. Now can we please leave, now!" The boy with the spiked ponytail yelled and immediately all five of them were off.

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She jumped to another tree, steadily keeping her balance so she wouldn't fall. She had her giant fan on her back ready to be used at anytime. She jumped again to another tree...then another..she was bored, like she would kill just for amusement bored. She adjusted one of the four blonde ponytails on her head then sighed deeply, "Ugghh when is this painful silence going to end?" She moaned.

"If you want it to end then say something...duh!" Kankuro said as he let out a loud laugh thinking his comment was clever, she was about to laugh with him as she felt a few strong chakra signals up ahead. "Kankuro.." she started, "Yeah I feel it as well. I'm sure the others feel it two." He said as he stole a quick glance over his shoulder to fine Amari and Gaara following closely behind as they should.

"Great we have company." Amari said quietly to herself as she jumped to another thick tree branch. 'If all of us take down this person, then the slimmer our chances are of getting Matsuri back...so one of us should stay behind but what will the outcome of that be?" She said subconsciously, Gaara stole a quick glance at his fellow teammate she seemed to be lost in thought. "Always thinking ahead." He said to himself as a sly half smile formed on his face.

"Okay I will take one of them, while you guys lead Gaara into position." The women with bright blue hair said. "Go on." A man with dark brown hair replied.

Temari gasped as all four of them were hit with a strong force of wind which sent them all flying, "Ow." Amari snapped as she was sent crashing into a large nearby tree. "The hell?!" She shouted, Temari shrugged at her once she was up and Kankuro was straightening out his kitty ears. And Gaara well he wasn't affected.

"Who are you?!" Temari snapped at the woman in front of her who was holding two swords and had bright blue-green hair, all she did was chuckle and not answer Temari's question. "Temari we can't all stay here would you like one of us to stay and help you?" Amari asked with concern hoping that Temari would say yes to the help.

"Nah I'll take her." Temari said with a smirk as she pulled out her giant fan, "Are you sure?" Kankuro asked. "Yep, me and her are gonna swap wind jutzu techniques." Temari replied with a wink. "Temari, thank you." Gaara said before he,Kankuro, and Amari took off. Temari nodded as the fight began.

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"Are we there yet?" Naruto whined as he did a front flip to another tree, "No Naruto not yet you big knucklehead." Ino said with a girly giggle, "Naruto you need to learn patience." Shikamaru added in. "Yeah yeah." Naruto said.

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"I'm really worried about Temari now.." Amari said to herself subconsciously, "Come on this Temari we are talking about, she's a total badass she'll wipe the floor with that woman's ass." A reassured, "Yeah you're right." "Aren't I always?" "No..."

"Amari watch out!" Kankuro shouted that really snapped her out of her thoughts, but not quick enough. She evaded as quickly as she could,but the puppet-like sword still sliced her upper arm. She grunted at the deep cut, she hated to be injured and once again what was going on with the sand's poor job in protecting her from attacks?

"Damn it!" She snapped at the air, "Geez what did the air ever do to you?" A teased, " Shut up you dumb fuck." Amari snapped again. "Hey you okay?" Gaara asked as he stared at the deep cut on her upper arm. "Yeah I'm fine." She said with a forced smile. "Hey guys I'm gonna take this kid." Kankuro said with a chuckle. "No way! WE already left Temari!" Amari shouted, "Relax its just a kid I'll catch up with you in a minute!." Kankuro reassured.

"Are you sure Kankuro?" Gaara asked, "Yep baby bro!" Kankuro smirked, and Gaara nodded and him and Amari went on. "You ready little boy?" Kankuro teased. "Little boy?" The kid with short blue hair snapped, "I'm not here to play games in a few minutes you will be begging for my mercy." The boy smirked as he got his large blue sword with three blades ready. "Hn. Please." Kankuro said sarcastically said as he got his own puppet out.

"First Temari now Kankuro? I have a bad feeling.." The dark purple haired kunoichi said subconsciously, "Really? Are you kidding me? I have already told you they are total badasses! they will totally catch up with us in no time!" A reassured and it could've worked but Amari was still a little concerned.

Gaara jumped to another tree, now sensing another strong chakra signal. He wondered if Amari would volunteer to take this guy by herself just so he could go on ahead, just like his siblings. Well he wouldn't let her, she was already wounded so that was a disadvantage and what if this guy was really powerful? Now he wondered why he cared so much...

-CRASH- Amari quickly evaded the weapon that was lunged at her, it was one of those spikey balls that were attached to a chain. She remembered her sister getting hit by one in the leg during a fight it looked like it hurt like hell. The man chuckled, "Quick on your feet I see, but for how long?" He said with another chuckle as he whipped his weapon again this time at Gaara who also evaded quickly.

Amari jumped to the ground from the tree she was on and finally got a look at this psycho. he was huge and wore armor all over and had sort of long dark brown hair. "Eww." She said quite loudly, Gaara could have laughed at her comment but now was not the time he jumped down as well and was soon at her side.

"Ha! You look weird!" She blurted at the strange looking dude, "You're gonna regret that!" He shouted as he was preparing for another attack, Amari noticed that it appeared that the armor he was wearing could have something strange about it, she also noticed that Gaara should get going like now.

"Gaara its okay go! I will take him, you get your student!" She shouted as she evaded more attacks, "Absolutely not!" He shouted as the sand shot up to protect him from an attack, "Hey kid! How much of your chakra is actually fused with that sand of yours?" The man asked, interested. Gaara knew exactly what to say, " If I told you, then I would have to kill you." " I would like to see you try." The man said.

"Gaara come on don't be a noob, just go already!" She shouted as she made a few quick hand seals, "Fireball jutzu!" She shouted and then a giant ball was shot at the guy, much to her surprise it was absorbed by the tiger-armor he was wearing on his stomach. "Heheh This armor is my favorite of all, it absorbs chakra." He said with a smirk. "Now I'm definitely staying!" Gaara shouted, "Gaara you're a stubborn brat, and guy with stupid armor thingy! You're cheating!" She shouted, Gaara wasn't shock she was known for her funny smart mouth, that guy however.

"Its not cheating this armor was crafted by the people of the village of artisans kid!" He shouted, "Okay whatever you already lost me." She said as she rushed up to him, "Amari no!" Gaara shouted.

Amari hit him with a few good kicks, but her chakra was still getting absorbed which was making her weak, she jumped back. "Great." she said sarcastically.

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Temari struck again, but her attack was still block by those swords that that woman was using, it was bugging her. Most of the trees around them were cut down from all of the wind jutzu. "Come on kid, is that all you got?" The blue haired women shouted at the struggling blonde. "No!" Temari shouted as she waved her fan around causing a powerful wind force to escape, but it was no effect on the woman.

The blue haired ninja struck another wind attack which hit Temari perfectly, the blonde was out of chakra so she had no strength to evade. Temari was blown into a tree, she yelped in pain she had already went over her limit it was just no use anymore she would just have to accept that she was so done for.

"Come on are you giving up already? That was no fun! Well I promise that I will make this quick and painless for ya." The blue haired ninja teases as she raised her swords for a finishing move, Temari was already on her knees so she closed her eyes and prepared for death, but the attack never came.

Instead she was flipped over and was out of harms way for the time being, the strange thing was was that she didn't move on her own she smirked she could recognize this jutzu from anywhere. "Shikamaru what are you doing here?" She asked as she struggled to get up, "Well hello to you to and your welcome." The boy with the spiked ponytail said. "Thank you." Temari finally said. "You're welcome, now lets get this show on the road!" Ino shouted loudly, causing Temari to cringe she would have enjoyed that Naruto more than this one.

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"Damn it!" Kankuro shouted as he witnessed his puppet shatter into pieces and then his other one was struggling, he was almost out of chakra and the crow puppet is kind of weak without the black ant, plus this kid was strong and seemed to be bursting with energy. "Damn it!" he said again as he saw the kid's sword blades transform into three puppet snakes. He knew he was so done for.

He then saw the snakes coming for him and from where he was there was no way to escape, he knew he was a dead man. He shut his eyes tightly and prepared for the worst but it never came.

"Fang over Fang!" Kiba shouted as he and Akamaru attack the snakes and got them away from the sand ninja, "Wha?" Kankuro was dumbfounded by who is rescuer was, it was that kid he saved from one Orochimaru's men. "Thanks Kiba!" He shouted, "No problem, just returning the favor."

"But, I didn't even need help." A stubborn Kankuro said loudly, "Yeah my ass! You were about to be toast a few mins ago!" KIba shouted back, as Akamaru barked loudly. "Yeah, sure whatever!" The puppet master yelled. "Yeah, sure totally face paint!" Kiba hollered, "You did not just diss the ninja make up!" He yelled, "Hey whats going on! I'm not in the mood for games!" The blue haired boy yelled, but little did he know that Akamaru was getting the pieces of the black ant together.

"Hey look the puppy is getting the black ant back together!" Kankuro yelled with a retarded looking grin on his painted face, and befoe he knew it the balck ant was as good as new. "hey you ready kid!" Kankuro yelled, "For what?" He answered, "For a puppet show." Kankuro smirked as he got the black ant ready. "Yeah my ass! The only puppet show you're gonna see is mine! And it will be your last!" The boy shouted as he prepared for a strong looking attack, little did he knew that kankuro had him right where he wanted him.

The boy was a second too late in evading because he was trapped inside the black ant and the grow split up into pieces and the knives from it stabbed everywhere in the black ant killing the annoying little twat easily. "Whoo! He almost had me there." Kiba said as he Akamaru jumped back into his over sized sweat shirt. "Yeah, I'm glad that I didn't have to deal with him." Shino said as he finally came out of hiding, "Shino!" Kiba yelled, "You were there the hold time and you didn't bother to step in or anything?" Kiba said as his voice level escalated.

"Well you sort of had that covered anyway so I would save myself the trouble." Shino said as he crossed his arms and leaned against the tree trunk. "Wow we could of used the extra help you little scared brat!" Kankuro a shouted, Shino wasn't scared he just didn't feel like stepping in that time since Kiba already had that part down. "Well its over now." Kiba said as Kankuro gathered up his puppets dumping the boy's body to the side, "Yeah lets go catch up with Gaara and Amari." Kankuro said as he walked off with Kiba and Shino closely behind him.

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"How the hell do we beat him? " Amari asked as she evaded again, "I'm sure we'll figure it out!" Shouted a voice that she knew all too well. "Naruto!" She shouted as she saw him and bushy brows running up to them. "Hows it going?" Naruto asked, "Naruto, its not the time." Amari said with a smile. "So you need help beating him? No problem!" the hyper blond shouted, "Shut up dobe! That guy's armor absorbs chakra so don't even think about...the hell?" She said as she saw the tower of sand rise up with Gaara standing with his arms crossed on top of it, "Wow." She said as she saw the enemy attached to the sand with no way to go. "Woo Gaara awesome!" Naruto shouted.

As Gaara's sand tower stopped growing he soon lunged the enemy into a far distance, "Geez.." Amari said to herself, "Relax Amari he's the man." Naruto said with a large grin, "DON'T YOU THINK I KNOW THAT YOU BAKA!" She screamed in his face. "Yeah, I just wanted to know you." He laughed she sweat dropped.

"There's the signal." The guy said with a evil looking grin as he saw the light coming from where his leader was he quickly pulled out his sword and reflected it towards the puppet master's

The sword was still left behind so it wasn't that hard for it to reflect the light off and send it to the wind master's sword...

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"Shikamaru, are you sure this will work?" Temari asked, "Positive." Shikamaru said with pride. "Alright." Temari said as she swung her fan once more, but not at the other wind master but at the water several meters away. "What the hell was that?! At least try!" The woman snapped at Temari after she saw that wind didn't even come close to her but she figured that once she realized that she couldn't move.

"What is this?" She screamed, but instantly calmed down once she saw the signal she waved her swords up and reflected the light back to her leader, forming a giant complete triangle. She laughed she didn't care what happened to her anymore as long as the triangle was complete.

" You seem pretty happy." Ino said as she saw the women laughing in an insane manner, honestly it wasn't normal. "I have had enough of this shit!" Temari shouted as she gave her fan one final swing directly hitting the woman, knocking her over a cliff surely killing her instantly. "There done and done." Ino said, "But what was that light was it like a signal or something?" Ino asked, "Yeah it could be we should catch up to the others right away." Shikamaru said before they all pumped chakra to their feet and headed off.

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"Oww!" Rock lee shouted as he was lunged into a large near by tree. "Bushy brows!" Naruto shouted as he ran up to him, "I'm okay Naruto." He said as he got up. "Okay you sure should I get Sakura? She can heal you. " Naruto offered, "No Naruto, I'm fine that's not necessary." He said. "Gaara!" Amari shouted as she saw him get drenched with water and his tower getting destroyed. "Wow, he even falls like a boss." A said as he saw the red head fall with his arms crossed and his eyes closed. "shut up!" Amari said as she rushed over to him, making a large pile of sand so he wouldn't be just guts and crap when he fell.

He ended landing spot on the sand pile, but unfortunately his gourd was shattered as he landed roughly on his back. "Well that's gonna hurt in the morning." A said, "Wow you're on a roll today." Amari said a little louder than expected, and she didn't care. "Gaara!" She yelled as she ran over to him, he was standing up but he looked a little dazed. " Don't worry, I'm fine." He said with a smirk, as the enemy walked up.

"That last attack stunned me for a minute, I wasn't able to absorb it all." He said with a chuckle, Gaara didn't say anything. "I will finish him off." The red head said. "But Gaara your sand.." Naruto said with concern of his best friend, Gaara formed a spear out of his sand armor, "This is all the weapon I need." He said as he threw right at the dude piercing his heart. "Woah. You have to teach me that." Amari said, he smirked in reply.

"Sakura!" Naruto said as he saw the pick haired medic ninja appear out of like no where. "Hey! I'm here to help anyone need to be healed?" She asked with a bright friendly smile. Amari spoke up this time, "gaara does! he fell like a hundred feet..." She said with a smile, Sakura walked up to him and went to work. "Wow..." Naruto said as he rubbed the back of his head, "What is it?" Rock lee asked. "Nothing." Naruto replied, Rock lee sweat dropped.

"I'm fine, that's good." Gaara said as he got himself up, "Are you sure? Your chakra loss is incredible." She said with worry, he stared at her. "Don't worry, I'm fine now I have to go." He said as he pumped chakra to his feet and headed off with Amari and Naruto close behind.

All three of them ended up at a dead end where there was a giant like earth wall, "Great. Now what?" Amari asked, "Now you die!" An unfamiliar voice shouted as her shoulder was slashed by something sharp. "Oww you asshole!" She shouted in pain at whoever cut her. "Amari you okay?" Naruto asked she nodded, too pissed off to say anything else.

The attacker than headed towards Gaara who seemed pretty helpless since all he had was his sand, but who knew he was also good in taijutzu? But that quickly ended when Gaara evaded an attack and ended up in a large metal dome. "Gaara!" Naruto shouted as he rushed forward towards him. "Don't worry buddy, I'll get you out! Promise!" Naruto said as he tried to claw the dome open with his bare hands and it clearly wasn't working. "That isn't going to work this dome will absorb the Shukaku's power and tranfer it to Seymei, the leader of our village he will rise from the dead!" The man shouted loudly, "Geez guy, you got the crazies." Amari said with a smile as she manipulated her sand to attack him but he evaded it easily.

"Heheh just watch it's only a matter of minutes now!" He said loudly with a freakishly large smile on his ugly face.

-CRASH- They all heard a loud noise coming from the stone wall, a coffin came out of it and was placed on the ground next to the dome that the red head was trapped in. "Yes let him absorb all the power of the Shukaku!" He shouted, the coffin opened, revealing a decayed body and you see it absorbing the tailed beast's power. "Yes great leader take my body as your physical form!" The man said before disappearing into nothingness. "Creepy." Amari and Naruto said at the same time, and then there before their eyes was Seymei The great leader of the village of Artisans.

-CRASH- Another deafening noise was heard, this time from the large metal dome revealing a half transformed Gaara. "Oh god." Naruto gulped. "Yes give me the power of the Shukaku." Seymei said, "God, I hate his creepy voice." Amari said. The guy looked pretty creepy himself as well with that long ass white hair of his and he is like hovering around with freaking blue snakes coming out of his back!

But what really surprised Amari the most was that Gaara transformed back, by himself he didn't rely on the Shukaku's power he wanted to defeat this guy himself. She smiled, he smirked at the demon in front of them. "Why so cocky? I'm surprised you have enough energy to form that half smile on your face boy. You don't even have sand." Seymei stated liek an old fashioned grandpa.

"I am Gaara of the desert, wherever there is Earth I can make more sand." The red head said with a hint of determination in his eyes. "So can we." A said, she truly had a gift for making certain situations like these all about her. "Shut up." Amari said as she crossed her arms and watched the battle.

Gaara made several hand seals and pretty soon the earth wall cracked and formed sand, "Sand burial!" He shouted and the ground was now covered in at least two hundared feet of sand, Naruto and Amari had to jump for survival. Gaara made a more hand seals and huge spear was formed in his hands. "Shukaku's pipe!" He shouted before throwing it directly at Seymei's stomach, piercing it. "Wooh! Gaara!" Naruto shouted.

But Seymei wasn't over yet, before he died again he took the pipe out of his stomach and threw as hard as he could at Gaara who was already weak and limp and clearly unable to evade, and the pipe was coming right back at him. He closed his eyes and waited, he would welcome death with open arms even though he didn't want to, he had things to do. And one of them was telling a certain purple haired ninja that he loved her.

What Amari did next, she did it without thinking she just did body just moved on its own she jumped right in front of the red head and made a sand wall to try and block the strong final attack from Seymei.

Gaara waited for impact but it never came, he opened his eyes and they widened in shocked, Amari was there in front of him with her hands out and a giant sand wall in front of her he assumed it blocked the attack, but then he felt a tear escape his black rimmed eyes as he noticed the big puddle of blood under her.

"No." She said to herself, "No." She said again, since she was already weakened from her previous battles the sand wall wasn't strong enough and the pipe went right through the wall and was shoved right in her stomach, piercing her. "Oh no you didn't." A said in shock. "I did." Amari replied out loud.

"Amari." Gaara finally manged to say, "Why...?" He continued. "I did it to save you, because you're my best friend you have been there for me, you cared for me and I am simply returning the favor she said with tears in her eyes. More blood poured from her injured stomach, "I did because I...Gaara I l..." And then to her everything went black and she collapsed in his arms.

"Amari!" Naruto and Sakura shouted as they ran over to help hoping that it wasn't too late and that she still be saved. More and more tears escaped from Gaara's jade eyes as he held on tight to her.

"Gaara, Let me see her. I might be able to help." Sakura said firmly, trying to hide the pain in her voice and it had worked. Gaara handed the purple haired kunoichi to the pick headed ninja to be examined and healed. Sakura checked the girl's pulse and smiled, she examined her some more to find that she wasn't stabbed in any too vital spots. "She is going to be fine." Sakura said with a smile.

"Oh thank god!" Naruto screamed loudly, Sakura sweat dropped at the noise level. Gaara smiled, his first ever real smile in years, the ones that come from the heart. When Amari woke up he was determined never to let her go again.

"Hey what did we miss?" Kankuro said as he and the others walked up to them, Sakura, Naruto and even Gaara sweat dropped and started to burst out laughing as they all made their back to the leaf..

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A/N! This is not the end! The next chapter will be posted soon! And just so you know there will be a two to three year time jump! READ AND REVIEW!

~ I'm thinking about writing a high school fan fic too! So review! people!