Leaving Konoha was easy. The mayhem that the attack on the village was causing served as a perfect distraction. However, it was in the forests surrounding it that they were stopped by the strangest sight.
"Is that...a giant raccoon, yeah?" Deidara asked, looking between the tall sand raccoon and the really large toad.
"I'll kill you all!" (insert insane giggling here)
"Like I'll let you hurt Sakura-chan!"
"Hn. Fool. I will not lose to you!"
Kagome turned her gaze from what she assumed was Gaara, to the black dot and yellow dot atop the large toad's head.
"What have you brought me into, gaki?" the toad's voice boomed angrily as everyone evaded the shards of sand Shukaku was throwing.
Deidara huffed as he scooped Kagome into his arms and leapt from tree to tree, landing rather close to the raccoons 'ear'. He blinked when she pulled on his bangs lightly, and motioned to be put down.
"That kid's homicidal, Kagome. We have to leave quickly," Anko hissed to her, making the girl shrug, before squirming from the bombers hold.
"Well well, what have we here? Has a little miko come to play?"
The three jumped when diamond shaped eyes landed on the smaller female between them, and the blond cursed as he placed himself before her.
"Hey! Freaky boy! We're your opponents!"
Kagome blinked as she saw a blond blur shoot out and punch the sleeping Gaara smack in the temple, knocking him unconscious.
"No! I wanted to play with the mi-!"
Kagome watched as the red head fell out of the sand and quickly shot forward to catch him, blinking when Deidara caught them both midair on one of his 'birds'. She sighed as she carefully carried the boy off the clay and sat him on the forest floor, nodding to his siblings when they stepped forward.
"You don't want to take him now?" Sasori murmured as he appeared beside her, eying the kabuki painted male wearily.
"No. It's not time yet, you know that," she whispered as she handed the boy over to his older brother.
"Geeze. You're such a pain, gaki," Temari scowled as Kankuro slung him over his shoulder carelessly.
"Come on. We were called back a while ago," the male said, winking at Kagome before the sand siblings disappeared.
"Hey! Where do you think you're going! Get back here!"
Sasuke and Naruto blinked when both groups disappeared, and the Uchiha turned to look at his blond companion.
"Did you see that female that was with Anko?" he asked quietly as the blond ran to their female teammate.
"You mean the one with the huge boo-OW!" Naruto winced as the pink haired girl's fist came in contact with his skull.
"Pervert," Sakura huffed, before glancing at Sasuke, who was staring off in the direction the strange group had disappeared.
End of Chapter
A/N: This was extremely hard to write. :( However, the next chapters should prove much more fun/interesting. This 'meeting' was necessary to put in before the following chapters, however, so yeah.