Forgive me but I have had the longest writer's block with this story even though I knew what I wanted to happen next. I won't change anything in the past chapters but there are some things that I wouldn't have done now that I look back because it's not my style. Eve, I tried but I can't do all that you requested from this story because it just doesn't fit in with my writing style. For several months I had contemplated actually deleting this story cause I wasn't okay with the past couple chapters but then decided that those few chapters won't mean anything as soon as I get farther along in this story. Hopefully my writer's block won't be as bad as before.

I do not own any characters from Naruto. Neither do I own Meg Akanoichi, that goes to my reader, evelynmegkuchikisalt6, who requested this story to be written.

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Baki entered the Kazekage's rooms and found Akanoichi still asleep under the covers. He sighed sadly, not sure how to tell her that the Kazekage was missing and Kankuro was possibly going to die because of a former Sunagakure shinobi. He walked over to the bed and shook her shoulder gently.

"Meg, you must wake up," Baki sighed and she stirred slightly before rolling on her side. "Meg, Lord Kazekage was taken last night, you are slacking in your duties. Wake up now!"

She bolted into a sitting position and Baki felt his face heat up as he realized that she wasn't wearing anything and she didn't bothering to cover up as she looked at him. Her eyes were narrowed in confusion as she stared at him and he sighed again.

"Gaara was taken by the Akatsuki last night and Kankuro has been poisoned by Sasori of the Red Sand," Baki said and she shot out of bed and pulled on her clothes that were scattered across the floor. Baki averted his eyes out of respect and as soon as she was fully dressed, she dashed out of the room as she pulled on her haori and pulled her hair up into a messy bun.

"Why wasn't I woken earlier?" Meg growled as he finally caught up to her as they ran to the Kazekage office.

"When the Akatsuki appeared last night, Lord Gaara told us that you were sleeping and to leave you alone. He saved the village from being completely destroyed but sacrificed his own safety defenses to do so. They got past his sand armor."

"How many hours ago was this?"

"About eight hours ago," Baki spoke ashamed and cringed at the anger in her voice. "Forgive me..."

"I will deal with your punishment later," she snapped. "Have we sent out shinobi or calls for help to our allies?"

"We sent a letter to the Leaf, but none of our shinobi are the best trackers and we lost the trails..."

"Pathetic, stay here and make sure the village doesn't go to shit. I will go after our Kazekage," She growled before changing her direction and started running towards the cliffs of the village.

"We definitely could have prevented something if we had just awakened her the second we spotted those two spies," Baki muttered to himself as he kept going towards the Kazekage office to confront the Daiymo.

I found where the sand shinobi's trail ended and choked on my laughter as I saw the trail of Gaara's sand on top of the grass. I followed the sand trail through the forest then after several hours of running, it completely ended at a lake that was against a rock side.

"Damn it Gaara, where are you?" I muttered as I looked around.

I looked around the lake as much as I could but didn't find any other trails and I couldn't sense him. I felt over a dozen chakra signatures around the cliff face but didn't see anyway to get past the ginormous rock unless I used most of my reserves and put myself at risk. After hearing a scream, I made up my mind and gathered half of my chakra to my legs and ran at the cliff face then as soon as I was with in ten feet I lunged my feet forward and destroyed the rock and I rolled forward through a shallow part of the water and landed on my stomach.

"What the hell is this? Who is she?" One of the Akatsuki yelled as the rock shattered and a small girl landed on the ground as rock shards fell around her. She lifted her head and slowly got to her feet as her eyes narrowed as they focused on the blue chakra orb that held the Kazekage.

"How dare you take my Kazekage?!" she growled as she stood at her full height. "No one has dared messed with an Akanoichi in this kind of way since the first Kazekage!"

"Since when was there a female Akanoichi guarding the Kazekage?" the blue skinned Akatsuki snorted.

"Since my mother died the day the Shukaku was sealed inside my Kazekage and I was born the same day. You all will pay for what you have done and what you are trying to do now. You will not get away while I am alive to protect my Kazekage."

"You are just one girl." All the Akatsuki felt her chakra gathering to the center of her body then suddenly she disappeared and then the machine the akatsuki was on started shaking before cracks formed everywhere. "No! How is this possible?! This machine hasn't been able to be destroyed by a mere girl! How dare you, you cursed child?!"

"I was born cursed, I have lived cursed and I will die cursed after I am done protecting my Kazekage," her voice echoed around the cavern as she appeared near the entrance with Gaara on her back. "Die."

"I will personally kill you!" The akatsuki with orange hair snapped but with that one word, a ginormous gust ran through the cavern before explosive tags that hadn't been on the walls moments ago activated and brought down the cavern.

"Hold on Gaara, I'll get you home," Meg whispered as she turned from the demolished area and started running back towards Sunagakure. She pushed back her pain and the injuries she had acquired from the one jutsu that was a once-in-a-blue-moon type of jutsu that damaged her body as she went through the technique. Her blood mixed with the dirt and soon mixed with the grass as she ran through the desert, not willing to give herself a rest until her Kazekage was fully safe and under watchful eyes. "Don't give up on me Gaara, you have a village to take care of and a brother who needs you there for him. We'll be home soon, the gates are in sight."

"Ak...an...oi...chi...?" she heard his rough voice force out as his chest rumbled as he coughed.

"Hold on Gaara, we are almost home. Don't try to talk..." she started coughing and became lightheaded as she continued running. "Save your energy..."

"Meg... you're injured..." his voice was stronger than seconds ago.

"I'll be fine," she coughed but tasted blood in her mouth and fell to her knees as she started coughing again.

"Meg...?" Gaara got on his knees and crawled so he was in front of me and lifted my head. "Whats wrong?"

"The jutsu I used... to save you, as a very dangerous jutsu and should only be used once as a final resort. It has its own side effects when it is finally used. The younger you are, the more dangerous it is. I had to save you Gaara..." she whispered sadly, not really wanting to tell him the truth but knew she needed to. She saw shinobi running towards them from the village and smiled as her vision started to fade. "You are alive and safe and that is all that matters."

"Meg, hold on!" voices yelled around her as she felt her body hit the sand below her and it became fully dark. "No, Meg... damn it no!"

"Meg, hold on! Please stay with us!" Gaara was pulled back and placed on a stretcher and Baki ran past him and ran to Meg as she laid on the ground, blood coating her clothing and the sand around her. The screams of Baki as he sobbed made Gaara's heart clench as he watched Baki fall to his knees next to Meg and pull her torso in his arms. "No, Meg... damn it no! You can't leave us, you have a duty to your Kazekage! No!"

Meg was pulled from Baki's arms and laid on a stretcher and med nin surrounded her, doing chest compressions and putting air into her chest. After several minutes, they stopped and Gaara saw them shaking their heads as they stood up and covered her with a blanket before picking up the stretcher.

"Meg! Come back!" Baki screamed and his voice echoed over the empty desert as he wailed on the ground, his hands clutching his head as he rocked back and forth. "NO!"

"Take Lord Gaara and Baki to the hospital. Get Lord Gaara checked up and sedate Baki for a few days," one of the med nin spoke who was helping hold up the stretcher with Meg.

"Yes sir," several other shinobi spoke solemnly and Gaara felt his body go numb as the truth started to crash down on him.

Meg was gone and they tried their best to bring her back but it didn't work. Her body was too depleted of chakra and she had lost too much blood from saving him from the Akatsuki. Meg wasn't coming back.

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Horrible ending I know but that was all that came to mind at the moment. I had a hard time choosing how this chapter would go and it came like this. This story isn't over yet so don't fret too much.