Declaimer: I own nothing in this fanfic, but my created characters they abilities and Jutsu and that is about all I own "Goes to corner and starts crying"
Writing: Italic: thought, Bold: Bijuu or summoning speaking
"Let the gates of oblivion slam open and the jaws of hell shall spew forth fire and wrath." - My most disturbed frienf Undead Yeti
"Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe directly we just experience our consciousness of the universe, our perception of it, so right, our only universe is perception."-Alan Moore
Naruto jumped out of the reach of Gaara as he ran right through the tree that Naruto was at a few seconds ago. Naruto watched has Gaara turned and looked at Naruto with a sick and twisted smile on his face.
"What's wrong Uzumaki Naruto!?" Gaara said with a slight growl. "You look terrified why don't you show me your true power. That way when I kill you it will make me fill alive it will prove my existence." At that Gaara charged at Naruto again while he created Kage Bunshins and jumped at Gaara as well. Naruto transformed one of the five shadow clones into a giant shuriken and threw it at Gaara. Gaara just smiled a more predatory smile and began to suck in a huge amount of air.
"Fūton: Mugen Sajin Daitoppa (Wind Release: Infinite Sand Cloud Great Breakthrough)." Gaara announced his Jutsu and expelled a large amount of wind and sand that hit the clones, the shuriken, and the real Naruto. All the clones where dispelled by the Jutsu while the real Naruto was slammed against a tree. Naruto staggered has he picked himself of the tree.
"What's the matter Uzumaki I thought you were stronger then this?" Gaara asked in more of a statement then a question. "I guess I'll just have to kill you and then move on to all your friends."
At this Naruto's eyes snapped open. "That's right if I lose here everyone will be endanger." Naruto thought to himself. "Hinata, Sakura, Kakashi, Shikamaru, everyone while be endanger if I don't stop him now, but how he's stronger then me." That is when he remembered what Arashi told him.
"You have to besides you are the only one who can help Gaara. You both have lived similar lives, but you both chose a different path. You need to get him off his path and on the right one before we can't save him."
"That's right I can't lose everyone is counting on me." Naruto said with determination in his voice which confused Gaara greatly. "So get ready Gaara I'm coming at you with everything I have." Naruto said this as he put his fingers together and formed the tiger seal and began to channel huge amounts of chakra that was clearly visible.
Naruto looked at Gaara and Gaara saw his eyes held fierce determination. "That's right Naruto so me your power so I may crush it and prove my existence!" Naruto put his fingers together in a familiar cross sign and in a giant poof of smoke Gaara was surrounded by a thousand Kage Bunshins.
"If you want me to prove your existence then I will grant your request!" All the Naruto's yelled out at once and for the first time in a long time Gaara felt fear has the Naruto's descended upon Gaara.
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"This is such a drag." Shikamaru said while he hid behind a tree with Sakura. "This is just like what happened during our match."
"Well why don't you come up with a plan then." Sakura said with urgency. "If you are in the same position you were in last time then do the same thing again."
"It won't work against her again." Shikamaru said with a bored voice. "But we have something that she doesn't."
"Oh, and what's that?! "Sakura yelled out has another gust of wind tried to destroy the tree they were hiding behind.
"We have teamwork." Shikamaru said has he bent forward and began to whisper his plan into Sakura's ear. Sakura first was surprised by the plan, but has he went on she smiled a very big smile.
"Come why don't you rats come out of hiding." Temari said eager to get this pathetic fight over with. Shikamaru jumped out from behind the tree and fired off a kunai at the sand Kunoichi. Temari responded by jumping out of the way and sending another gust of deadly wind down at Shikamaru, but he just managed to get behind a tree. Temari noticed a shadow running at her has she jumped away.
"That technique won't work again!" Temari yelled out, but behind the tree Shikamaru let a small smile grace his lips.
Temari kept jumping backwards away from the shadow until the shadow stopped coming forwards. "What was the point of that?" Temari thought until she remembered something. "This is just like our last match he's leading me somewhere." Just as she finished that thought she heard a snap of a branch and turned and saw kunai being flung at her.
She jumped out of the way into a clearing when she noticed cherry blossoms and something fluttering towards the ground. She grabbed one of the things in the air out of curiosity and turned it over and got a shock. It was a tiny exploding tag she looked around and noticed that she was surrounded by the tags. She saw a flash of pink and looked in the direction and saw Sakura holding a kunai with an exploding tag tied to it.
"Yes his plan worked we caught you in my Sakura Fubuki no Jutsu (Sakura Blizzard Technique)." Sakura announced with joy as she threw the kunai has the tag began to sizzle.
"Shit!" Temari screamed out has she swung her massive fan in a attempt to blow the tags away, but she was too late has the tags exploded and surrounded her in a massive fireball. Sakura and Shikamaru waited up in a tree until the smoke died down and noticed Temari on her knees grasping for air. She looked up at the two with an amused smile.
"I…can't… believe…I…fell for…you're…trap…again." She said before she collapsed face first knocked out.
Sakura and Shikamaru both collapsed on the tree exhausted. "Do you think Naruto can beat that Gaara kid?" Sakura asked in concern as she looked back at Shikamaru and noticed he was sleeping. Sakura curled her first and hit Shikamaru in the head hard. Shikamaru immediately fell out of the tree and landed on his head knocking him out as well. Sakura just muttered to herself has she jumped down to check on Shikamaru.
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"What is he?!" Gaara thought to himself has he was pummeled by the multiple Narutos. Gaara was slammed into the ground hard as all the Naruto's descended on him again.
"WE ARE GOING TO BEAT YOU TO A PULP!" All the Naruto's screamed out, but before they could get to him Gaara was surrounded by a huge mass of sand that shot upwards destroying all the clones and sending Naruto right back into a tree. When Naruto looked up he saw the sand forming itself into Gaara's demon. Suddenly sand began to encircle Naruto threatening to crush him.
"Damn it." Naruto thought to himself. "I have no choice I have to summon Chief Toad." Naruto thought this as he bit his thumb, smeared some blood onto his right palm, and began to form handsigns. Just has the sand was about to crush Naruto he slammed his hand to the ground.
"Kuchiyose no Jutsu!" Naruto yelled out as there was a large poof of smoke. There was the sound of cracking branches as something big arose from the smoke and when it cleared Naruto was riding on the head of the massive toad boss Gamabunta.
"Hey, chief toad." Naruto said with amusement.
"Oh, it's you again." Gamabunta said with a bored tone. "What do you want now you gaki (brat).
"I need your help with that guy over there." Naruto said pointing to Shukaku.
Gamabunta looked to where Naruto was pointing. "That's Shukaku of the sand." Gamabunta said. "Why would I want to get mixed up in a fight with him?"
"Because you said I was your henchmen." Naruto said with nervousness in his tone. "And bosses always watch out for their henchmen."
Gamabunta was about to respond when he noticed Gaara appearing out of Shukaku's head fingers in a tiger seal.
"This could be bad." Gamabunta thought to himself.
"Tanuki Neiri no Jutsu (Feigning Sleep Technique)." Gaara said has his he brought his hands down he went into a sleep like state. Shukaku's eye began to spin and change color until it stopped on a sandy color.
"YES I'M FINALLY FREE!" Shukaku screamed out in excitement. "HERE I COME BABY I HOPE YOU'RE READY TO DIE."
"Fine I'll help you out just hold on." Gamabunta said as he took his pipe from his mouth. Naruto looked at the toad in confusion, but quickly did what he asked as Shukaku sucked in a mouth full of air.
"Fūton: Renkūdan (wind release: Drilling air bullet)." Shukaku announced has he punched himself in the gut releasing compressed air in the shape of a bullet at Gamabunta, but Gamabunta jumped out of the way with Naruto holding on for dear life.
"Suiton: Teppōdama (Water Release: Gunshot)." Gamabunta said while he was at the height of his jump. Water filled his mouth and he shot it out in a sphere of water heading straight for Shukaku, but he intercepted that attack with his Renkudan. As the two attacks hit the other the exploded and the water of Gamabunta's attack rained on the forest below. Gamabunta unsheathed his dagger from his back and arched his body to go into a dive bomb straight at Shukaku. Shukaku extended his right arm in order to shield his head from Gamabunta, but Gamabunta went straight for his shoulder and with some effort he cut Shukaku's arm off.
"He had a lot of resistance in that area." Gamabunta thought "I barely made that cut." Shukaku looked at his arm which was turning back into sand and falling into the forest.
"YOU FUCKING ASSHOLE THAT WAS MY ARM!" Shukaku yelled. Shukaku began to suck in some more air while Gamabunta jumped into the air and began to fill his mouth up with water.
"Suiton: Teppōdama (Water Release: Gunshot)." Gamabunta said has he shot out two water bullets.
"Futon: Renkudan (wind release: Drilling air bullet)." Shukaku said has he fired two air bullets.
The attacks collided and created a giant smoke screen. Shukaku was smiling behind the smoke so Gamabunta didn't see.
"You missed one." Shukaku said. As he finished the air bullet came out of the smoke and headed straight for Gamabunta. Gamabunta couldn't move out of the way and took the force of the attack. When the attack hit Gamabunta he was covered in smoke and was sent straight back down to earth with a giant thud.
"I DID IT I FINALLY KILLED YOU!" Shukaku yelled out with excitement, but that quickly turned into anger when the smoke cleared and Gamabunta was standing back up rubbing his right shoulder.
"Not bad." Gamabunta said. "A couple more of those and even I won't last long."
"Chief," Naruto said from his head. "What are we going to do?"
"Well, the first thing we need to do is wake up that kid on top of his head." Gamabunta said. "Because the longer he is asleep the stronger Shukaku will get."
"Okay so just grab a hold of Shukaku and I'll wake up Gaara." Naruto said with a determined smile on his face.
"One problem with that plan gaki." Gamabunta said while lifting up his hands. "These aren't the hands to get a grip on him."
"Okay so what do now?" Naruto said with a little tone of desperation in his voice.
"Our only hope is to use a combination transformation." Gamabunta said. "You form the necessary handsigns and I'll supply the chakra just think of something with teeth and claws."
Before Naruto was ready Gamabunta charged straight at Shukaku. Naruto began to concentrate on something with teeth and claws when a image appeared in his head. There was poof of smoke that covered both Naruto and Gamabunta and before Shukaku could even make a move towards the smoke cloud a giant fox erupted from it, but this wasn't any fox these one had nine tails swinging behind him. Before Shukaku could attack the fox it jumped at him and clamped its jaw on his shoulder and stuck it's claws into it's chest.
"Go now kid." Gamabunta said.
"Right." Naruto said. There was another poof of smoke and Naruto appeared jumping at the top of Shukaku's head aiming straight for Gaara, but Naruto was covered in visible red chakra that reeked of malevolent energy.
"WAKE UP ASSHOLE!" Naruto yelled out as he delivered a chakra enhanced punch to Gaara's head. Before the punch hit sand rose up and made a little shield around Gaara, but the force of Naruto's punch still detached Gaara from Shukaku's head. Both Naruto and Gaara fell to the forest below. Shukaku began to dry up and pieces began to fall off.
"DAMN IT I JUST GOT HERE!" Shukaku yelled out before he turned back into sand and fell to the forest. Gamabunta gave one last look at Naruto before disappearing in a poof of smoke.
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Gaara awoke to feel immense pain on the left side of his face and the fact he couldn't move his arms and legs. He looked to his left and saw Naruto crawling towards him using his chin and legs.
"How is he so strong?" Gaara thought to himself.
"It so unbearable isn't." Naruto said to Gaara with some sadness in his voice. "The pain of being all alone in that dark and lonely place."
Gaara's eyes widened when Naruto looked at him with tears in his eyes. "No stay away from me!" Gaara yelled at the blond, but Naruto kept crawling towards him.
"I've been there before in that dark and lonely place." Naruto said with pain in his voice. "But now I have people who accept me for who I am. That's why I will stop you even if I have to kill you." Naruto looked at Gaara after that last part and Gaara saw that his eyes were silted.
"Why… Why would you do this for anyone other then yourself?" Gaara asked confusion and slight tone of fear in his voice.
"Because they saved me." Naruto said with determination. "They bought me out of the darkness they were the first to accept me for who I am. I'm willing put my life on the line to save them."
"Love and friends is that why he's so strong." Gaara thought. He noticed movement to his right and saw his brother and sister beaten and bruised, but okay. Naruto noticed two people land beside him and looked up too see Sakura and Shikamaru looking at him.
"Gaara are you okay?" Temari and Kankuro said at the same time.
"Yeah." Gaara said with a sad tone in his voice which brought confused looks to his siblings.
"We have to get out of here." Kankuro said with urgency. "Sand is pulling out of the invasion."
Temari and Kankuro both picked Gaara up and disappeared.
"Are you alright Naruto?" Sakura asked a little bit worried about her teammate.
"Yeah I'm fine." Naruto managed to say before he let the darkness claim him.
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Gaara was thinking about what Naruto said to him back in the forest.
"Maybe he was right." Gaara thought to himself. "Maybe fighting for someone utter then yourself makes you stronger."
"Temari, Kankuro." Gaara said. The two siblings looked at their little brother.
"What's wrong Gaara?" Temari asked
"I'm sorry." Gaara said with sadness in his voice. This confused the two even more.
"What are you sorry for?" Kankuro asked with surprise.
"I'm sorry for threatening your lives and for being cruel to you." Gaara said with a tone that left no room to doubt that he was truly sorry for what he did.
"Its okay we forgive." Temari said with a smile. Kankuro gave a nod of his head to signal that he too accepted Gaara's apology and for the first time in a long time Gaara smiled a true smile.
"Thank you Uzumaki for what ever it was that you did to him?" Temari thought
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"Why don't you die and go collect dust like ancient relic that you are." Orochimaru said with a strain in his voice.
"Damn it I can't get his entire soul out." Sarutobi thought has his strength was slipping away from the Shiki Fūjin (Dead Demon Consuming Seal) combined with the fact he had a sword sticking out of his chest.
"But I can do the next best thing." Sarutobi thought with resolve. The reaper took his blade from his mouth and sliced the soul of Orchimaru's arms and Sarutobi completed the sealing. Orochimaru watched in horror as his arms turned black as if they had just died.
"WHAT DID YOU DO!?" Orochimaru yelled out
"I stole your ability to use handsigns." Sarutobi said with a smile. "Ninjutsu is now out of your reach."
"Damn you old man give me back my arms." Orochimaru yelled out, but Sarutobi could no longer hear him has he slowly fell to the ground still smiling he looked at his student one last time and saw him the way he was when he was a child.
The barrier dispelled has the sound four went to check on their master. "We are leaving." Orochimaru said with hate in his ever word and with that they left Konoha. The invasion was a failure and leaf was left to mourn the falling.
Sorry for the late update I had a lot of stuff I had to get done for school. Oh and this story will soon start to break away from cannon a little bit in later chapters. Tell me what you all thought.
