Meanwhile back at the Kage summit-
"And why would someone like you want to kill a defenseless woman?" The Mizukage asked in a cold tone that rivaled Gaara's. The tone sending chills down Madara's spine as he shrugged and attempted to look bored.
"I'm a criminal. Why do I do anything? Maybe I just want to shed her blood." Madara said flippantly as he located Karin and used his time space jutsu to send her to where Sauske was so that she could heal him while he talked with the Kage's a little bit to see if they would listen to reason.
The Raikage's chakra flared dangerously. "Hand over the Uchiha-" Madara gave him a calculating look and smirked a little beneath his mask. Hn. How fortuitous that out of all of the Kage's there was one that he may be able to use to get his hands on the girl.
Perhaps he'd be able to kill her after all. "First listen to what I have to say, then depending on you...I might hand Sauske over. If your willing to make a deal with me." Madara said in a coaxing tone, speaking to them as if they were children.
The Raikage growled low in his throat. "Never! Making a deal with you would be the same as making a deal with the devil! I won't do it!"
"A pity about your brother Killerbee-" Madara said in a mocking tone causing the Raikage to scream in rage and charge at him. He had almost reached Madara when several of his subordinates grabbed him and forced him back talking all at once in an effort to calm him.
Telling him that his younger brother was still alive. That he was in perfect health and somewhere hidden away form the Akatsuki.
It worked to a degree but apparently the Raikage was still utterly terrified that his brother might be somewhere dead. Might, being the operative word. But apparently the simple possibility of his younger brother's death was enough to send the Kage into a rage.
"Well, whatever. I'll get your brother and the nine tails host soon enough. But right now I'm more interested in that girl. She's dangerous and needs to be eliminated." Madara said as he pointed at the red head in Kankuro's arms.
"She's a simple civilian. What's so dangerous about her?" Gaara asked curiously as he narrowed his eyes and gave Madara an unblinking stare.
"Ah, but she she isn't just any civilian. She carries the last of an extinct blood line. The same extinct blood line that carries with it the power to destroy worlds. If allowed to continue living, she would destroy us all-" It was a clever half lie that Madara was feeding them. Clever. But still a half lie.
Aside from the power of prophacy, he had no idea what other abilities she had. He didn't even know if she could use them at will. All he could do was assume that the possibility existed.
Gaara felt the weight of the other Kage's eyes on him and made a low growling sound as he took a few steps back, his sand swirling around him in agitation. If even one of them tried to grab the girl, he'd rip them to pieces.
He didn't care that they were fellow Kage's, or that it would mean war. He knew that Madara was lying to them, or at the very least half lying to them, which meant that he was desperate about eliminating the girl and foolish enough to turn the Kages against one another in the hopes that one of them would manage to do his dirty work for him.
Gaara wouldn't stand for it. He sure as hell wouldn't put up with it.
He was fully prepared to kill them and possibly even die himself.
"Kazekage-sama-" The Mizukage said gently, noting the way that the young Kage was sizing them up. He was tense and ready to strike, his mind already forming several different battle plans. What an interesting guy. She thought as she spoke again. "Tell us what you think."
Gaara looked at her, his aqua eyes like chips of ice. "I think that Madara is trying to turn us against each other by feeding us lies. I also think that he is hoping that someone will be stupid enough to kill the girl for him. I think that it is suspicious that he seems so intent on destroying one little civilian..."
"Almost as if he see's her as a threat to his plans?" The Mizukage asked. Gaara nodded his head and smirked a little bit. He had known that not all of the Kage's were self centered morons. The Mizukage moved to stand with Gaara and glared at the others in the room as her one remaining subordinate moved to stand next to her with his massive sword in his hand and a fierce look on his face.
"I agree with Kazekage-sama. I believe that Madara is lying to us to manipulate us into doing his dirty work." She said gently.
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Naruto hadn't moved for hours.
Something that worried Kakashi greatly since it was getting later in the day and the temperature had dropped a bit more to accommodate the snow storm hanging over the town where they were staying. The copy nin stood just outside of their room window staring at the teens back, trying to figure out what he could say to him to get him to stop worrying about Sauske.
As far as the copy nin was concerned, Sauske was a criminal and a traitor and as of earlier when Madara had visited them; the Uchiha was no longer Naruto's problem. Because the next time Kakashi saw him, he was going to kill him for all of the pain and suffering that he had been putting Naruto, Sakura and everyone else through.
"Should one of us go up there and say something? It's getting cold and he doesn't have his parka on." He hadn't been down to eat anything for lunch either and Kakashi had made sure to order ramen for him in an effort to cheer the blond up a little bit.
The copy nin sighed and grabbed Naruto's parka and walked over to the window and opened it and slipped outside and leaped up onto the roof and landed lightly on the balls of his feet several feet from Naruto and slowly straitened his spine so that he could walk over to the teen.
He stepped slowly, cautiously, not wanting to startle Naruto from his thoughts to such a degree that he might attack him and cause them both to tumble off of the roof and possibly break both of their necks. He got close enough to drape Naruto's parka across his shoulders, causing the teen to twitch a little bit before he tilted his head and looked at him out of the corner of his eye.
Once Naruto realised that Kakashi was the one who had come up he looked away again. "Something wrong...sensei?" Naruto asked in a rough voice as he lifted his arms and crossed them in an X fashion over his chest and gripped the edges of his parka and pulled the edges closer around him.
"No. Nothing-" Just everything. Kakashi thought as he dropped down so that he was sitting beside the blond. "I just came up to tell you that there's ramen if your hungry." Naruto perked up a little bit and Kakashi smiled a little under his mask as Naruto turned azure eyes to him and looked like he was about to break down and cry for a second but quickly reigned himself in and smiled for the copy nin.
"That would be awesome...it's kind of cold out here anyways..." Naruto mumbled as he started to get up and wobbled a little bit forcing the copy nin to reach out and grab his elbow to steady him. Naruto mumbled something else under his breath and grasped the copy nin's fore arm and shifted his footing so that he wouldn't fall and gave Kakashi a tight lipped smile as he let go of his arm and took a step away from him.
"You good Naruto?"
"Yeah." Naruto said as Kakashi loosened his hold on his elbow and let him take another step away before dropping his hand to his lap completely and sat there watching Naruto as he walked along the roof and bit the inside of his cheek and tried not to laugh when Naruto slipped on a patch of ice under the snow and slipped and fell off of the roof and landed in a passing wagon full of hay.
"Naruto?"
"I-I'm okay!" Naruto called back weakly as he blinked his azure eyes and patted himself down to make sure that he was still in one piece before calling out again. "Can we pretend this never happened?"
Kakashi chuckled and shook his head. There was no way he was keeping this story to himself.
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"So you refuse to hand over the girl and the Bijuu then?"
"Of course we refuse! We aren't fools."
Madara snickered in amusement. It was funny how defiant they were when they didn't know what sort of trouble they were getting themselves into. "Very well then. I here by declare the start of the fourth great ninja war."
The Kage's all looked shell shocked by his words.
"Your joking-"
Madara shook his head no. "I'm not such a fool that I would joke about something like this. I merely wish to warn you that while I myself have no power, I do have the seven Bijuu that I've collected thus far. You have no hope of victory."
Gaara bared his teeth and growled at him. "We will not abandon hope!"
"Then you are fools-" Madara said in irritation. "And the next time we meet it will be on the battle field." Madara said before vanishing in a swirling vortex, leaving the four Kage's alone to think of their next move.
The elder sighed. "Dear me. What do we do now?" They had just more or less condemned every man, woman and child in all of their villages to death for the sake of three small and insignificant people.
We must be insane. The Mizukage thought as she looked over at her subordinate. The dark haired young man looked back at her and gave her a grim smile. Understanding very well that there are simply some things that those in power shouldn't do.
And that sometimes those lines blurred.
"We must form a shinobi alliance. It's the only way to oppose the power of the seven Bijuu." Gaara said as he started to cross his arms when a soft moan tore his attention from the other Kage's and he glanced over at the girl in Kankuro's arms as she started to stir.
"Oh my-" The Mizukage said as the girl's eyes opened and she saw Kankuro's face and blinked at him a second before letting out an ear splitting shriek as her hand shot out and her fist caught him under the chin, snapping his head back on his neck. Causing him to fall as he dropped the girl.
Temari jumped back away from Kankuro as he hit the floor with a dull thud as the red headed girl scrambled to her feet and promptly looked around the room, her eyes impossibly wide and frightened looking in her pale face as she looked at the four Kage's and her fear morphed into full blown terror. Gaara put his hands up in a non threatening manner and was about to speak when the girl turned and started running, slipping through the hole in the wall and vanishing from sight as Gaara sighed and dropped his hands and hung his head for a second as the Raikage wrinkled his nose a little bit and said in a hushed tone.
"You should have broken one of her legs."
Gaara lifted his head and gave the man a funny look. "Why?"
"Because it makes it hard for one to run away if their leg is broken."
Gaara made a funny sound in the back of his throat and looked over at Kankuro who was sitting up now and rubbing the under side of his chin. "You okay?" Gaara asked as Kankuro groaned. The man nodded his head.
"I'm peachy...jesus christ she has a mean left hook..." Kankuro said as Gaara gave him an apologetic look and moved over to the hole in the wall and slipped through to go chase down their new friend before she got herself into trouble, or worse.
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Wow, this was a nice chapter.
I'm a little bummed that it only has thirteen reviews but whatever. It's a cool story.
If any of you know any people who like OCish fem naru/Naruto/ Kakashi stories then please tell them about this.
I think my computer is starting to get a virus from that damn manga site that I've been using for the Naruto canon stuff. It keeps acting up.
I'm not going to write about the fight between Sauske and Danzou, or the fight between Naruto and Sauske.I feel that it would take up too much time and right now I want to move the story along as much as I can.
So after the next chapter or so I'm going to skip ahead a few weeks and introduce Shay to Tsunade and establish a few things.
