Broken.9: *sits typing at a computer before looking up* Oh shit! Hey there reader!
Broken.9: So you might be wondering where lilmissmindy is and why I'm typing at her computer. Well to be honest I'm not sure either. I mean i'm new to this type of stuff but who am I to turn down help.
Broken.9: Anyways, Mindy asked me to write part of this scene and I figured that Exams and shit could wait and I'll give her a hand.
Naruto: HEY! Wait a second. Dont you need to graduate in order to do what you want?
Sasuke: Tch. Like this writer could join there Anbu Force. What was it called again?
Broken.9: *sigh* The Marine Corps you idiots. Now shut up so I can write this damn chapter! Sachiko do the honors please?
Sachiko: No.
Broken: You'll get a deluxe spa treat and a mineral infused bath…
Sachiko: Neither Broken.9 nor Lilmissmiindy own naruto or its characters but does own the OC and OOCs within. … Where's my bath?
A/N: Here I am with chapter eleven! Character development is happening and I'm honestly super proud of myself. I want to give a huge thanks to my friend Broken.9 if it weren't for him this chapter would've taken forever to write. Most of the fight is his writing. Go check him out!
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"An invasion! Figures." Kouchi grins as they run out of the stadium. "What a perfect time for a war." Sachiko laughs at his reaction. "The birds are chirping, the sun is out, it's time to fight." They were currently chasing after Nagomi, who followed Gaara into the woods.
"Gives us a bit of excitement, hmm?" She quickly summons three wolves as they run. "Keep a look out of the area. Howl if anything."
"Hai!" Kouchi grins.
"Can't have your wolves doing all the work." He summons two red foxes. "Scout ahead of us. Make sure there aren't any traps waiting for us." The foxes bark before rushing off. "Kami-sama, I can't believe Nagomi would go out of her way for this brat."
"If we look on the bright side, she's getting intel." She hears a howl to her left and pushes chakra to her eyes, they spiral to three tomoe. "Let's get this over with." They speed up, and she frowns lightly. "Kankuro is trying to delay Sasuke. Nagomi and Temari are going ahead with Gaara." Kouchi frowns.
"What is so worth it to her? She's never the type to fight needlessly." Another howl is heard behind them.
"There are people following us. I'd assume the sound, maybe the leaf. We only have to worry if they're from Konohagakure."
"It seems you have influence over everyone." Kouchi notes.
"Sasuke's gone ahead." Sachiko presses her hand down on a branch, imprinting a seal before flipping over and continuing to run. "Let's slow down whoever's behind us." The foxes come running back, relating to Kouchi what they found.
"They've stopped. Gaara pushed Nagomi and Temari to the side. He and Sasuke are about to fight." Sachiko's eyes widen and she shudders.
"A spike in bijuu chakra. Gaara is transforming. We need to get Nagomi out of there."
"UAHHHHHHH!" A large crash is heard from ahead of them. They stand on a branch, seeing a clearing in front of them. Kouchi lets out a low whistle as Sachiko's red eyes widen. She scans over Gaara, biting her lip.
"This is not good." In front of them was a monster. Half bijuu, half human. Nagomi's eyes are wide, and Temari is holding her by her belt.
"DO NOT INTERFERE!" Gaara roars out. The sheer shock of seeing Gaara in this half transformed state keeps them rooted to their spot. Sachiko looks over to Sasuke, who is beginning to form hand signs. He rushes towards Gaara, blue sparks crawling up his arm and gathering to his hand. She grins slightly.
"Alright, that's enough for today." Kakashi stretches his arms above his head as Sasuke lays on the floor exhausted. Sachiko is off to the side, meditating with a group of wolves around her. A young pup walks over to Sasuke and he opens his eye, grinning slightly and petting the pup.
"It's not as easy as he makes it look, hmm Sasuke?" Sachiko opens her eyes, cracking her neck, stiff from sitting in the same spot for so long.
"Shut up, baka."
"I could probably learn it much faster than you if I tried." She grins, trying to rile him up.
"I'm honestly used to Uchiha girls showing me up." He says in a deadpan voice. Sachiko blinks.
"What?"
"You and Emiko are at the same level. I haven't beaten you two since.. Ever. I wouldn't be surprised if you could learn it." Sachiko frowns at his out of character statement and looks up at Kakashi, who conveniently has his face buried in one of his perverted books.
"That's depressing."
"That's not to say I won't beat you. You guys may have pure talent, but I work much harder." Sachiko bites her lip to hold in a laugh. He had no clue what kind of training she'd gone through.
"Okay Sasuke."
"Chidori!" He slices through Gaara's sand arm.
"No matter how many times I see it, that jutsu will always be impressive." Kouchi says.
"HAHAHAHAHA! IS THIS WHAT PAIN IS? I WANT MORE!"
"Creepy." Sachiko whispers.
"Our sister is friends with this guy?" Kouchi mumbles. Sachiko fingers the pendant around her neck. She looks over at the blue-haired girl.
"We need to get out of here."
"How? We can't get around them."
"We'll have to try." She runs up the tree, narrowly dodging an attack from Gaara's sand.
"STAY AWAY!" She laughs softly, flipping over the branch before landing next to Nagomi.
"We have to go."
"No. Gaara isn't in control.. We have to calm him down."
"You're crazy!" Temari says. "You need to stay away from that monster."
"That monster is your brother." Nagomi stands and Sachiko keeps a firm grip on her arm.
"You don't want to do this Nagomi. If you do this, this will be a fight I can't stay out of." Sachiko's sharingan swirls.
"He needs someone. Especially if his own siblings can't be there for him." Nagomi gives Temari a glare.
"You're too kindhearted for your own good." Sachiko tells her.
"He's going to kill Sasuke." Sachiko looks up to see Sasuke gripping his shoulder and Gaara rushing at him. Suddenly there is an orange blur, and Gaara is kicked out of the way.
"Sasuke-kun!" Sakura rushes towards him, and Sasuke looks up at Sachiko, gritting his teeth in pain.
"You help your friends, I'll help mine." Nagomi says. Sachiko squeezes her arm.
"Be careful. If you die, I'm bringing you back from the dead and killing you myself." Nagomi grins at her sister's response before they both rush in opposite directions.
"Sasuke." Sachiko kneels next to him. "You shouldn't have tried another Chidori, you could have died.." She murmurs, placing a hand on his shoulder. She slowly pushes chakra into the seal. He stays quiet.
"UCHIHA, SASUKE! DIE!" Sakura stands up in front of them, and Gaara's eyes widen. He slams her into a tree and Sachiko jumps back, supporting Sasuke. "WHY.. WHAT DO THEY MEAN TO YOU..?"
"They are my friends! Leave them alone or I'll kick your ass!" Sakura screams to the side as Gaara's grip on her tightens. Sand begins to creep over the rest of his body.
"Now what? Aren't you going to kick my ass?" Sachiko pushes chakra into Sasuke's seal again, it slowly begins to recede. "She won't be free unless you beat me."
"Gaara! Please calm down!" He throws sand shuriken and Nagomi steps in front of Naruto. The ones in front of her dissolve into nothing. "You must control the Ichibi!"
"STAY AWAY!" He swings an arm at her, and she quickly motions her hand up, water flowing out of the satchels around her waist and covering her. The sand dissolves when it hits the water.
"You must control yourself."
"IF YOU DON'T FIGHT ME SHE DIES!" The grip on Sakura tightens and she coughs. Sachiko looks down at Sasuke, who is watching the fight intensely. Naruto clenches his fist before creating hundreds of shadow clones.
"There is no convincing him, lady." Naruto says. Nagomi looks up, the water flowing back into her satchels. "You can talk to him when I'm done." Each clone activates an explosive seal. Each clone jumps on him, the seal exploding. Naruto then ties one to a kunai. "Hidden ancient taijutsu supreme technique! I learned it from Kakashi-sensei!" He stabs Gaara in the butt. "1000 years of pain!" Gaara's tail whips out and Naruto flies towards the Uchiha pair. They both grab him. "Boom." The explosive seal sets off.
"Even after all that, you only managed one blow. Shape up, will you?" Sachiko rolls her eyes. "Sakura.. You must protect her."
"I WILL PROTECT THE PEOPLE CLOSE TO ME NO MATTER WHAT!" Naruto stands, summoning hundreds of clones. "Sasuke. Take it easy. You just leave the rest up to me!" He rushes off with his clones, the audience looks on in amazement. Sasuke grits his teeth.
"What are you irritated about now?" Sachiko puts a bit more pressure on his seal to get his attention. "Let Naruto do something right for a change." She circles her fingers, and Kakashi's seal is rewritten. She had focused most of her chakra on making the seal breakable to her. "What I just did used both of our chakra. You need to rest."
"Gaara!" Nagomi rushes up to him after he falls to the ground, seeing a semblance of the boy inside. She quickly grabs his head, pressing her forehead to his and there is a large chakra surge. Both of them freeze in the clearing. Nagomi's eyes are wide open and glazed over.
"Wh-what is she doing..?" Temari asks.
"Nagomi is our sensor. She's our defense. She also specializes in brain-chakra manipulation. She is calming him down." Kouchi says. Slowly, the sand around Gaara's body begins to dissolve, as does the sand holding Sakura.
"Kouchi! Sakura!" Sachiko yells, the siblings' eyes meet.
"On it." He rushes, catching Sakura just before she hits the ground. A large intake of air is heard as Nagomi begins to cough.
"No.. No.." She blinks, tears filling her eyes. "Shukaku no! Let him be!" Kouchi runs and pulls her out of the way as Gaara begins to morph into full ichibi form.
"He's far away from here."
"No.. I was so close.."
"Leave this to Naruto." Kouchi tells her. Nagomi looks down, clenching her fists.
"Kuchiyose no Jutsu!" Naruto slams his hand on the ground and under him appears a ginormous toad. "Gamabunta! Fight with me, would ya? I'm counting on you, boss!"
"Nope." Sachiko sweat drops and stands.
"He's huge.." Kouchi murmurs. "To think he has that much chakra.." Kouchi grins. "He's an Uzumaki for sure!" Nagomi grins.
"The legendary Gamabunta.." Sachiko whispers in slight amazement. "To think that the brat could actually summon him."
"What do you mean you won't fight with me?" He yells while stomping on the toad's back.
"Why would I get myself involved with the Shukaku? What am I? Stupid?"
"WAH?! I you already said you were going to make me your henchmen! Isn't that what bosses do? Look after their henchmen?!"
"Well yeah, but we haven't even finalized it. We have yet to share a drink!" Gamakichi hops up onto Naruto's head where he lays on the blonde locks.
"Come on pops! Here the kid out! After all he did save me from that bully over there. He was picking on me and Naruto got me out of the squeeze." Naruto looks astounded but says nothing as Gamabunta squints his eyes at the Shukaku.
"Hmm is that right? Well kid, I'll show you how to get rid of a pest!" Gamabunta draws his tanto and holds it in front of him in the attack position. Kouchi sweatdrops.
"To think he almost didn't help."
Gamabunta reverses his grip and jumps, pushing Naruto down from the sheer force. Gamakichi grabs the blonde's hair as his father jumps right at Shukaku.
"You worthless bastard! I'LL MAKE YOU PAY!" The toad boss says.
He brings his blade forward and into the sand raccoon's arm. Gamabunta grunts as he draws the blade all the way through the arm slicing it off in one go. His blade goes flying, twirling through the air before embedding itself into the ground shaking it slightly. The Akatsuki trio focus chakra to their feet to stay balanced, Kouchi keeps a steady grip on his sister, whose face is distraught as she keenly watches the fight.
Gamabunta lands and turns around looking at his target, deep in thought. "Hey Boss!" Naruto brings the Toad out of his musing. "Try to take him this way! Sakura is over there and she might get hurt if we fight over there!"
Both were brought back to their opponent as sand started to ripple on top of Shukaku's head. Slowly Gaara emerged from the top, his form hanging over as if he were tired.
"Thank you for entertaining me today Uzumaki, Naruto…"He looks up and Naruto gasps as he sees Gaara's pupil-less eyes. "But now I'll show you the true manifestation of the sand!" Gaara slowly brings his hands together in the sign for Ram.
"Gaara, STOP!" Nagomi starts to run forwards but flies backwards as Kouchi pulls her back to him. His face is emotionless, as if he were on a mission of some sort.
"Playing Possum Jutsu" Gaara says. He slumps over and remains still.
Gamabunta gasp. "He's done it… He's woken up the full power of the Shukaku."
Slowly the giant Raccoon's eyes turn from a sandy shade of brown to a bright yellow.
"AHAHAHAHA! I'M FINALLY FREE! HERE I COME BABY!" The sand spirit cackles. "GET READY TO DIE!" His stomach quickly expands as he prepares his technique. "Wind Style: Air Bullets!" From his mouth a powerful gust of wind, sharp enough to cut the hardest steel makes its way to the toad boss. Gamabunta quickly jumps in the air dodging the incoming bullets.
"Water style: Water Bullets!" he shouts as a huge spout of water comes barreling from his mouth. However, the attack is nullified by another of Shukaku's Wind bullets. The blast sends turrets of water down on the spectating ninja and hits Sakura, who is passed out on a branch next to Temari.
"Such power.. What type of fight is this gonna turn into?" Sasuke murmurs, his hand still applying pressure to the seal on his collarbone. The Shukaku forms three air bullets causing the Toad to jump quickly into the air. He is able to cancel out two of the incoming missiles forming a ring of water, yet the third burst of wind breaks through and squarely hits Gamabunta. This causes a huge explosion wrapping the Toad in black smoke as he falls to the ground.
"Haha I killed him. I KILLED HIM!" Shukaku stops his gloating just as Gamabunta bursts through the smoke, jumping straight at the ichibi.
"Kid, you need to wake up the medium! Hit him with a couple of shots already!"
Naruto nods his head. "Alright but I need you to hold him down for me!" Gamabunta narrowly dodges another wind bullet and fires his own at his opponent. The raccoon back steps, allowing the water to fire at his feet creating a huge wall of water. The Toad Chief's hands break through the water and grabs at the sand creature but Shukaku merely jumps away and fires another Wind Bullet at the toad.
"I need claws or teeth! We need to transform but I'm lousy at transformation. We can do a combined transformation. I'll send you my chakra and you form the transformation! Ready? GO!" Again he jumps right at Shukaku and in mid-air, smoke envelops both the toad boss and Naruto. As the smoke clears the audience is stunned into silence.
"That's t-the.." Pakun gasps.
"The Kyuubi.." Sachiko's eyes are wide, and she tenses up, fighting back the sense of fear rising within her.
A giant fox appears in mid-air. Its teeth glisten brightly as its nine tails thrash wildly. In the air from the fox's landing knocks over trees and the fox picks them up before rushing at the Bijuu. Shukaku's stomach expands again and he lets out another air bullet at the duo. The giant fox jumps into the air and lands in front of the ichibi, who turns slightly and bashes the fox away with his tail. The combined duo spring at him again, unleashing furious swipes with clawed hands. The Sand Bijuu takes the hits before again swiping the Fox in the ribs.
"Naruto this isn't going to work!"
"I know! This guy needs a good smack to the head! Nagomi!" Nagomi's eyes widen and she nods, focusing all of her chakra to her legs and jumping high on top of the transformed fox.
"GO!"
Not a second later smoke shows the detransformation of the duo and Naruto burst up and straight at the sleeping Gaara.
"GAHHH IT'S TIME TO WAKE UP DATTEBAYO!"
Naruto Cocks his fist back and delivers the blow to Gaara's cheek with such force it creates a shock wave that even Sasuke could feel.
Naruto lands on Shukaku's snout as the Bijuu screams his frustration and hate. Gaara's eyes fly open and he glares at Naruto with a deep hatred.
"You will die by my hands. My existence will not disappear." Nagomi stands in front of Naruto, coating herself in chakra. Gaara's gaze lightens then intensifies. "So you've turned traitor, huh? Just like they all do?" His hands fly to his head and he begins to scream; Nagomi calmly walks up to him. There was no doubt that she felt the murderous intent rolling off him in waves, but she did not let it stop her. She slowly removes his hands and places hers on his temples.
"Shh.." She pushes chakra through her hands and their eyes glaze over again. The sand body of Shukaku quickly dissolves, and they begin spiraling down to the ground together. Nagomi murmurs something to Gaara, and before they hit the ground they are enveloped in sand to cushion their fall. Naruto too plummets to the ground, exhausted, Gamabunta was gone. When the sand disappears, Nagomi is unconscious, and Gaara is staring at the sky. Sachiko jumps down, walking over to her sister, whose face is contorted in pain.
"Be grateful, Jinchuriki. She's relieved you of your pain. You will most likely never see her again." Her wolves run up to her.
"Sachiko-sama, there are leaf village shinobi closing in on us." Sachiko hums.
"Summon an elder. We're heading home." A very large wolf appears in a poof of smoke, and the teens disappear.
"Sachiko-chan.."
"Akano-sama." Sachiko bows lightly. "We're heading home. Could you help carry my sister?" The large female wolf gives a gentle, wolfish smile.
"Of course." Sachiko picks up Nagomi and lays her on the back of the large wolf. (A/N: Think Moro from Princess Mononoke. Akaichi is about the size of the brothers.)
"Take care, jinchuriki. You should be thankful that my sister has regard for your life." Kouchi gives Gaara a nasty glare before they begin to head off.
"Wait!" Sasuke calls, dropping to the forest floor.
"I'll catch up with you." Kouchi nods, and he and the large wolf speed off.
"You're leaving."
"I am. The leaf is going to be weary of all foreign ninja. It's best I leave now."
"Am I ever going to see you again?" Sachiko smiles.
"If you choose your path correctly, you'll be seeing a lot of me." She bites her lip, looking away from his hard gaze. "The wolves will be around. No matter the clan, they'll always be able to get a letter to me. If you really need to get in contact with me, tell Emiko to summon a wolf."
"The Hikari clan can get in contact with you?"
"The wolves have their ways Sasuke.." She kisses his cheek softly. "Goodbye."
Broken.9: That was intense man…
Sasuke: You're telling me… What does she mean by " if i choose my path correctly"? I mean what path is there to choose?
Broken.9: Well I don't know what to tell you. Girls are confusing and cryptic. I don't think they even know what they mean half the time.
Sachiko/Nagomi/lilmissmindy: -glares-
Broken.9: Hehe but not you ladies… C-could you dial back the KI a bit?
Lilmissmindy: -continues to glare- There is a reason for everything I do, you'll see.
A/N: I never realized how similar Nagomi and Gaara's abilities were before writing this chapter. I swear that wasn't intentional! Broken.9 might help me a bit more, if you like his writing style PLEASE go check out his stories!
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