This is where I throw out the original ad let Misa screw with the entire plot. Enjoy!
It was three years after Gaara had given Misa the letter outlining their plan to get her accepted into the village. He had become the Kazekage and had extended citizenship to Misa by the request of Sand Village. They had decided to reveal the love they had nurtured over the months and announce that she would be taking up residence in Sand. It was the day before this announcement when it happened.
Misa checked the shrine for a letter from Gaara. She was expecting one telling her the time and manner by which she would enter the village. It wasn't there. Instead, she found a letter from Temari. She opened the letter right then and there, a sinking feeling in her stomach.
The ink was smudged and still wet in some places. This had been written in a hurry. As she read it, she understood why.
Misa,
A group called the Akatsuki had been hunting Jinchuriki for a while. Jinchuriki are people who have spirits sealed inside them. My brother had the Sand Spirit inside him, but the Akatsuik wanted it so they came after him. They caught him last night. Kankuro went out to try to stop them but got poisoned. Konoha sent help but I don't know if they'll be enough. Please, go and find him. Bring him back, and I swear I'll never say anything against the two of you being together again.
She dropped the letter and dug into her pack. She wanted to cry but didn't dare. If she cried now it would block out all the sounds. Instead, she focused hard. There was a group from another village. They would have a different accept than the ones she was used too. There! Someone was saying something about a buttonhook. It was a different accent, coming from quite a distance away. She dropped her pack. It was weight she didn't need right now. And she ran. Misa 's speed broke every record from every village. Of course it did. She was running for HIS life.
"Give him back!" The blonde boy charged toward the enemy when there was a sudden wind. Suddenly, the enemy who had been sitting on top of the boy was lying face down on the floor knocked out and a girl was lifting Gaara into her arms. She was there for only a moment before the wind passed them again and she was gone with the boy.
Naruto was the first to react. He turned around and yelled "You're not taking him again."
He ran off before Chiyo yelled "Stop!" Kakashi looked at her in puzzlement. "He'll be fine. Don't you know who that was?" Kakashi shook his head. "I will tell you later. For right now we need to get rid of these two." She pointed at the two advisories. Neither made a move to stop the Human Animal and Gaara. Why would they? They'd already gotten what they wanted. But she and the Konoha bunch could at least stop them from getting away with it. Chiyo got her shuriken ready.
As soon as Misa was out of site of the cave, she put Gaara down. She felt for breath first, then a pulse, and finally put her ear against his chest. Nothing. She was starting to cry when Naruto caught up with her.
Okay, now he was confused. This girl looked nothing like the rest of the Akatsuki. She wasn't wearing one of their crazy cloaks and was crying to boot. He swallowed the shout that had building at the back of his throat and approached quietly. As soon as she stopped crying enough to hear his footfalls, she scooped up Gaara and started running again. She took him all the way to the village gate, hastily wrote a note to Temari telling her to send for her if Gaara was dead or improved, and ran for her nearest hideout to wait.
Temari was on watch, so she saw Misa almost at once. She ordered two of the bigger wall sentries to come down and help her with him. They took him to the infirmary. That was where Chiyo and Naruto found him later, and revived him using the Forbidden Jutsu. After being thanked numerous times and holding a service for Chiyo, the Knonha bunch headed home. Gaara finished being welcome and cried over a little later. At the first opportunity, he snuck out and went to the shrine.
Misa was waiting for him. He smiled when he saw her. "Thank you for helping to save me. I don't know how they would have gotten me away from those two without your help."
She walked up to him and pulled him into a tight hug, and was surprised to find that he was as tall as she was now. "You've grown. Now I don't have to bend down to kiss you."
He smiled, his arms around her waist. "Dare I say you've gotten prettier?" Then his smile became more serious. "The whole village knows what you did today. How you saved me. This is a perfect time for you to come and live with me."
Her smile took on a sadder hue. "I would love too. You know that. But…"
"But what?"
"Temari told me that they were hunting all the Jinchuriki, not just you. That means they're hunting Naruto too. I'm surprised they didn't go after him today." She stared up into her beloved's eyes. "I have to protect him now. As soon as the threat's gone, I'll come back and marry you, but for now I have to obey my father's wished and look after him. I promise, I will come back."
His eyes began to well up. They'd been so close! "I will wait for you. Just, hurry. Please."
She kissed him on the forehead like she had the first time they'd parted, then picked up her pack and ran off into the woods. Both of them were crying.