I do not own Naruto, or any of the other characters from the anime/manga. I only own three (3) characters Hashi Leo, Uda Yuki, Hashi Ryuu, they are my original work.


White Dog

Chapter 12 - Tiger Unleashed

By ShadowUnknown

"Renmaru, today was the best of all days. But Ritsuka will never be seen again. Even though he was a jerk before. Still is a jerk." Leo said looking up at the ceiling laying on her bed.

"What's that around your neck?" Renmaru asked.

"Something he gave to me before he left. The letter said it will protect me, I don't see how. But I'll trust him." Leo said holding onto the necklace.

"Do you think it's some kind of charm? Or did he put some sort of sealing justu on it? Sure smells like it."

"Really?" Leo said sniffing the necklace. "All I smell is sage, and gold."

"Well your nose isn't as good as mine, I smell a difference between the jutsus you use, and the sealings smell the same as Ox, tiger, and bore?" Renmaru was confused on the last one.

"Really? Maybe something was put on it, oh well." Leo said smiling. 'I trust in his opinion as well, Renmaru if your right about this then I might find out sooner or later.' Leo thought.

"Leo, I don't think I've ever seen you sleep. What keeps you up?" Renmaru asked.

"Dreams, bad ones." Leo said turning towards Renmaru sitting on the floor.

"Dreams? Oh you mean the one about the man at your throat?" Renmaru asked.

"Yeah, that's the one. I know the face, but I can't place the name. It was a few days before Uchia Itachi killed his parents and clan." Leo said.

"Hm, you make it sound like he killed your parents." Renmaru said.

"Do I? Well it wasn't him, it was someone else. Itachi was the one there to comfort me, him and Sasuke. Then they left to train, so I was out the entire day thinking of how I would have gotten the man that killed my parents. Only if I was there earlier. But it was useless, I was useless." Leo said turning on her side away from the face of the saddened Renmaru.

"Well, what's in the past is in the past, right?" he said and jumped up on the bed to lay beside Leo.

"Yeah, but I will find him. Someday." Leo said and was silent the rest of the night.

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"Leo! Leo! Wake up!" Renmaru teased as he jumped on the bed and off again. Running around in circles and jumped back up on the bed licking her face. "Come on and get up!"

"Why wake me when I do no sleep?" Leo asked trying to push Renmaru away.

"Because it's fun" he said and licked her face again. Leo sat up and got ready for the day 'My day off again. I will beat Temari, I will make it to the match this time.' she thought as she grabbed her black outfit. It was a new one this time, it had the same symbol on the back, and a small one on the front. Flames on the sleeves, and on the pant leggings. She put on a scarf that wraps around her waist, and put on her mask with the flames on it. She put on her head protector on both her arms, and had one around her neck. She put on her anbu mask that had the face of the tiger growling. She rigged it so it would actually growl when ever she made a word. It looked as if the mask was on fire when ever she put it on.

"How do I look?" Leo asked Renmaru taking off the mask.

"Like your ready to take on the world, and Tsunade." Renmaru said knowing how the new hokage is. "She really does growl at you the most when she's pissed."

"Yeah, but it's only because I bug her the most. That slug women." Leo laughed and put her mask back on.

"See you later, I'll take good care of the house." Renmaru barked in dog. 'It almost hurts to talk human, but I'll keep practicing for her.' the dog thought as he followed Leo out of the room and he made his way to the back yard.

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"Leo! Your such a dog! Calling me 'Slug woman!" Tsunade called in furry.

"You heard that, huh?" Leo said as she tied her anbu mask to her side. "I was thinking of going to the..."

"Oh no you don't! You go straight to the sand country and stay there for a few days!"

"Ok!" Leo called back "Slug woman." she said to herself.

"Why I outta!"

"What 'Slug' me?" Leo laughed putting more meaning to the word 'Slug' Tsunade put on a scary face at the word. "Oh, wow scary" Leo said monotoned.

"Now, now. Leo quickly go to your assigned mission. Immedity!"

"Yes, of course." Leo said and started out. "Tell 'Sluggy' over there to cool her 'Slime'" Leo said you could hear the smile in her voice.

"Why, you!" was the last thing Tsunade said before Leo left out the door.

"Is she really the only one to call you that?"

"Yes, she can actually call me that. She's the only one that can call me that. 'Sluggy' is what she uses to try and bug me, it would all ways work. I know she's only kidding, she just does it to relive some of my stress."

"I see. It seems to me that she has no stress at all."

"That's not true, she flips out sometimes when it comes to something she doesn't like. Even thought she doesn't show it, I can tell."

"Isn't there anything we can do to help her?"

"No."

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"Go straight to the sand country, I was just about to say that too." Leo said smiling as she flew towards the place.

"YOUR LATE!!!!!!!!" Temari called up.

"Sorry, something urgent came up." Leo called down.

"At least it's better then last time." Gaara called up almost seemed annoyed.

"It couldn't be help, I had a collar on!" Leo said landing near them.

"Can we get this battle over with?" Kankuro asked.

"Oh yeah." Leo said.

"Why dress up? It's only going to get ruined." Temari asked smirking.

"What? You don't like it?" Leo said turning around.

"That is the coolest!" Kankuro said taking a closer look at the sign on her back. "Protector."

"I know." Leo said.

"The mask is a nice touch, you look almost like Kakashi. The anbu mask is really nice." Kankuro said taking an even closer look at it. "Looks like it's growling."

"Really?" she said and took the mask and put it on.

"You look like your going...Ah!" Kankuro said but was stopped at the sound of the tiger mask growling. Leo got into a stance, she was ready to pounce and growled again. Kankuro hid behind Gaara as Leo took off her mask laughing.

"Bugging you is better then bugging Tsunade." Kankuro was shaking.

"The deadly killer, Hashi Leo!" someone said behind them.

"Ah, yes!" Leo said giving a slight bow. "Tsunade sent me here for a few days. I hope you don't mind."

"No, not at all. I hear that you gave Temari a scare a few days ago. Now your picking on poor Kankuro?"

"Why, yes. Yes I am." Leo said in a challenging voice.

"Um.." the man started "Carry on." he said and ran away from them.

"Shall we start?" Leo said sweetly.

"Your so evil." Temari said under her breath.

"Yes I am" Leo almost growled the words.

"Out in the sands, the both of you." Gaara said.

"Meet you there, Temari." Leo smiled and started for the sands outside of the village.

"Of course, your in my elements now." she said as she went after her. Gaara and Kankuro walked behind them.

"Oh we will see. When I was little, Gaara taught me how to use the sands. When I visited other counties, I learned to use their elements as well. The Hokage uses me as a weapon when it comes down to her dirty work." Leo said to herself as she took to the air to land outside the village.

"We better find some safe seats." Kankuro said to Gaara. 'She seems different today, something isn't right. This is bad.' Gaara thought as they got some seats away from them but close enough to see them.

"Ready?" Temari called out.

"Hold on" Leo called back as she bent down to take off her weights from her legs and wrists.

"Like a few weights would make a difference." Temari said as she watched her throw the things to the side, only to make a large dust cloud as each one hit the ground. "O-okay, so your that kind of person." she said staring at the large dust cloud. 'Just like, Rock Lee.' Temari thought. 'I remember her cheering us all on, no matter what country we were from. She still cheered for us. Then she left in the middle of Gaara's match then came back after, Lee took off the weights. She was quite for the rest of the time.' Temari thought as she looked at the now changed Leo. 'She's different now, more different then a few days ago. What happened?' she thought.

"Begin" Gaara annouced, Leo looked up and smiled. Temari made the first move and Leo blocked it off with a sand barrier.

"Who's element am I in again?" Leo taunted as she moved out of the way of the kunia knives that were thrown at her. "Aw, you missed."

"My elements!" Temari called as she threw some wind and made a dust devil making it head towards Leo.

"I see." Leo called as she allowed herself to be sucked into the sand tornado. It burst into flames and it changed course towards Temari. Using the wind to blow the fire away, only to be shocked to find that water was behind the fire. Temari picked up some sand with the wind the threw it at the great whirlpool. Only to discover that the water was protected by a thin layer of sand. The water crashed down on her, and suddenly lightning was struck down making it crawl towards the water. "I thought it was mine." Leo said as electricity sparked from her. 'All these advanced techniques makes me weak. I only have so much energy to make little sparks. That collar is no good at this point, I already used all the water I had.' Leo thought as she tried to make up another plan. Temari blew more wind towards Leo as she thought, allowing herself to get knocked around a few times. 'Damn it all! I knew I should have saved my energy. What will I do now?' she thought and got buried in sand.

*-_=+* Gaara *+=_-*

'She's late again!' Gaara thought as he waited with Temari, and Kankuro for Leo to show up for their match. 'She said tomorrow, it's tomorrow right now. She's not here! Is she not showing? Did something come up?' Gaara thought as he heard Temari speak what he was thinking.

"She's Late! Why is she late!? She said tomorrow! It is tomorrow now! Is she not coming!? Did something come up?" Temari called as she paced back and forth impatiently waiting for Leo to show.

"Maybe she's not coming today? Maybe somethng very urgent came up and she was forced to take it." Kankuro said trying to calm his sister down.

"Still she should have told us before hand, instead of making us wait!" Temari said.

"Maybe she did, and we missed it." Kankuro said. "Gaara help me out here. You know more about Leo then any of us."

"That was a long time ago." Gaara said looking up to the sky to see if he could see the familiar shape.

"Still, there must something." Temari said.

"She's changed." was all Gaara could say. 'She really did change, something must have happened, she's very different from the Leo I remember. Angry all the time, she used to be so carefree, calm, collected, and happy.' he thought remembering the time when they used to play together. 'Of course I've changed too. Not even Leo could have gotten me out of that. Only Uzamaki Naruto.' Gaara thought still looking up at the now darkened sky.

"Let's head back and wait to see if she comes tomorrow." Kankuro suggested.

"Hn"

"Yeah, alright." Temari said all the fire in her eyes died out.

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"Well, it's the day after tomorrow, and she is still not here!" Temari called out frustrated.

"There she is!" Kankuro releved that she actually came today.

"YOUR LATE!!!!!!!!" Temari called up.

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'Damn she's fast!' Temari thought fighting with Leo. 'She might actually win! Wait it looks like she's tiring out. I have to keep this up if I am to win this one.' she thought. "My elements!" she called as she threw some of her kunia knives at Leo.

'Leo looks angry, I wonder why?' Gaara thought as he watched the two. As soon as he seen that Leo got buried in the sand it reminded him of his child hood with her.

-xXx- Gaara's Flash Back! -xXx-

"Leo!" Gaara said in surprise as he accidentally buried Leo in a pile of sand.

"Plah! Sand in my mouth!" Leo said popping her head out of the sand. Gaara started to laugh at her trying to spit out the sand.

"You look so funny!" Gaara called out laughing.

"Gaara! Help me out! I can't get up!" Leo said trying to get out of the sand pile. Gaara only laughed more at her failed attempts. "It's not funny! I'm really stuck!" Leo called out annoyed now.

"I'll teach you how to use the sand then!" Gaara said and only let her hands loose. Gaara started to teach her how to use the sand, Leo copied him as best as she could.

"I only got half of me out!" Leo complained. Gaara only laughed. "Oh your just full of giggles today!" she said rolling her eyes. Gaara removed the rest of the sand for her cause she looked worn out. "I should start calling you Giggle Gaara." Leo smiled teasing him.

"Oh yeah I'll call you sand mouth!" Gaara said annoyed.

"I'm sorry, I was only kidding, Gaara." Leo said laughing a little.

"It's fine, you can call me 'Giggles'" Gaara smiled. Leo only laughed at the nickname, Gaara started to laugh too.

-xXx- End Gaara's Flash back -xXx-

"Leo! 'Giggles'" Gaara called down. Just then Leo popped up laughing.

"Giggles?" Temari said confused. Leo laughed even harder.

"Gaara! That's cheeting!" Leo called up trying to take a breath.

"Giggles." Gaara called down again. 'Come on Leo say it!' Gaara thought.

"What's 'Giggles' got to do with it?" Kankuro asked Gaara.

"Everything" Gaara said. 'She has to say it! Leo, please say it.' Gaara thought.

"Giggles!" Temari said wondering if she discovered her weakness. Leo only laughed, Temari started to attack Leo while she was down. The attacks were blocked by her barrier.

"Giggle Gaara!" Leo called finally taking a breath. 'She said! But. It's not right, I knew it.' Gaara thought.

"Something must be up." Gaara said to Kankuro. "This fight has to stop." Just as he said that a lightning bolt came down, it was the shape of a dragon. "To late." Gaara muttered to himself.

*-_=+* Leo *+=_-*

Leo was knocked down by one of Temari's blows and stayed down, she heard thunder then a flash of lightning in the shape of a dragon come down. 'What's that?' she thought. Just then the electric dragon spoke.

"You know what I am, Leo. Now, you come asking me for more power. Correct?" the dragon spoke. 'No, no that's not it. I didn't call it down!' Leo thought as she looked that the dragon. "If it's not power you seek, then what!" The dragon said in a booming angry voice. It's eyes looked red. 'Does he see my power?' Leo thought shaking. "What do you want!" the dragon roared. 'I want to protect everyone!' she thought closing her eyes. The the word 'Power' slipped into her mind. The dragon smiled and then started to go into her body through her stomach. Once the dragon was completely gone Leo stood up as fire started to surround her. She slipped on her tiger mask, then both her arms blew up in flames, the fire taking form of a tigers. A tail appeared, then the legs started to burst into flames as the fire took the shape of a tiger. The mask roared and then she started towards another country.

"What the hell!" Temari spoke as she watched Leo make her way to the wave country.

"Shouldn't we stop her?" Kankuro asked.

"It's to late, for that." Gaara said. A single bolt of lightning came drizzling down and out came a white dog.

"Leo!" the dog spoke "Gaara what happened?"

"The tiger." was all he said.

"Shit!" the dog said and started to go after Leo's fading tracks.

"Tiger?" Kankuro asked.

"Hn" was Gaara's only reply.

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Leo tore up the country, then went to the other ones, fire growing in size. "You can't stop me" the fire tiger roared. Soon the fire tiger's size was way above the trees. Killing half the country, women, children, everyone that came across it's way.

"Tiger!" someone called.

"Who calls?" the tiger spoke turning around to see a white dog.

"It is I, Hashi Ryuu. The very same man that has sealed you up in my daughter!" the dog called up.

"Ah, yes. Now I remember you, not a very good seal. It only held me for 12 years now. I thought it was supose to keep me until she was 15. By that time you would have taught her to control me." the tiger growled.

"Yes, but she wouldn't hear of it." Ryuu called.

"Ha!" the tiger laughed "Catch me if you can." he called then started to run to the other country repeating the same thing he did to the wave, then moving to the next doing the same to it as he did to the other two. Still growing in size "Catch me if you can" he called out.

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"Look! Isn't that Leo?" Temari said pointing to the large fire tiger.

"Hn" was Gaara's reply.

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"Oh no! A large fire tiger is coming near!"

"What!" Tsunade said looking out the window. "Shit! Call for the jounins, chunins, call all the ninjas!" she called out.

"Yes right away!"

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"Naruto! Where is everyone else! Find them get them together and head out towards the large tiger!." Shikamaru called.

"Right!" Naruto said.

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"Itachi, look. Isn't that the Hashi kid?" a blue shark figure said from beside the said man.

"Hn"

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The tiger ran to Kohona growling 'All this power!' the tiger laughed at the thought then something cut him off from his destination. The tiger started to laugh "Like a wall made out of tree's will stop me!" the tiger growled as he turned around. Two more walls flew up beside him. The tiger roared, as he threw down one of the fiery paws. The last wall looked as if it were made to look like a chain link trying to trap the tiger in a cat carrier. The tiger only laughed more and broke it down, he knocked the ninjas trying to trap him away from him with a single paw.

"No!" a deep voice called as a sand barrier went up to protect the leafs when the tiger tried to attack them again.

"Gaara!" the tiger growled. "You know I won't hurt them, I'll only eat them. They won't feel a thing" the tiger growled.

"We have to attack it, it's the only way!" Kakashi spoke "We need to do it together!" he called down the lines of the leaf nins. They got ready to attack, and just when they were going to the sand barrier went up again. It surrounded the large tiger, and Gaara.

"Didn't you notice it was decresing it's size?" Neji pointed out.

"Yeah, I noticed it too." Shikamaru said. They all looked at the dome made of sand, sealing the tiger, and Gaara within it.

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A few hours had passed now and the dome just started to melt.

"Look!" Naruto pointed to the melting dome.

End

Chapter 12 - Tiger Unleased


I have to end it there! Muhahaha!!!!!!! I'm so evil! I don't own any of the characters, only Hashi Leo, Uda Yuki, and Hashi Ryuu. Okay, I came down with a cold, and I was out for a few days. I'll get the next chapter up soon, and yeah...lates.