Something Interesting

Chapter 36: Sound/Sand Invasion pt2

"Naruto, let's do this!" Arcana said to the blonde.

"You got it!"

Gaara was not in a patient mood however and struck at them with his sand-like claw which they dodged. Naruto was on the left of the claw arm and Arcana was on the right.

Naruto made a hand sign for his favourite jutsu, "Kage bunshin no jutsu!"

About a dozen Naruto clones were created and they headed straight for Gaara.

The clones struck but their attacks were futile due to Gaara shielding himself with his Shukaku arm. He then backhanded the clones and then all dispersed with a 'poof'.

"Is that the best you can do!?" Gaara yelled like a madman.

"Not quite, behold the secret jutsu I learnt from Kakashi sensei!" Naruto shouted happily from behind Gaara.

'He can't mean…' was the thought that crossed the minds of Arcana, Kurai and Sasuke, Aqua was confused when she saw the expressions of the other boys.

"Sennin Gouroshi! 1000 years of pain!" he shoved a kunai where Gaara's butt was meant to be except that it was coated by Shukaku.

Arcana face palmed, "Dude that is so wrong…"

Kurai sweat dropped, "You have got to be kidding me…"

Sasuke was shocked, "Really…? What a loser…"

Aqua was speechless.

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BOOM!

There was an explosive tag attached to the kunai though and the blast did quite a bit of damage to Gaara as it was near the tail.

"Argh!" Gaara grunted a good amount of his Shukaku coat damaged from the back.

Arcana then took his chance, he gathered a bit of bio energy while Naruto attacked Gaara but he almost lost it when Naruto used his, 'Secret jutsu'.

"1st Gate Open!"

Arcana was now a bright green and in the next instant he was upon Gaara and gave him a powerful uppercut which cracked his Shukaku coat a bit by his jaw and sent him soaring upwards.

"I need more! 2nd gate open!" Arcana roared.

Arcana then jumped up and was giving Gaara a barrage of stone fists to his midsection creating even more cracks. Arcana then looked down and shouted, "Naruto get ready!"

"Got ya, taijuu kage bunshin no jutsu!" Naruto created a huge amount of clones.

"That is a lot of clones." Aqua said

"Indeed it is." Kurai said.

Arcana now flipped Gaara's body so that it was in a horizontal positional with his back facing the sky and then elbowed him downwards.

Gaara was going down fast but Naruto's clones caught him midway halting his descent with another barrage of attacks.

First upward then from the left side then the back and then it just became too much for him to remember.

"U-ZU-MA-KI Naruto super barrage!"

'Is this, Naruto…?' Sasuke thought in watching the blonde, 'Him and Okami are fighting together like lifelong partners. Gaara didn't even touch them and yet I…' he grit his teeth in anger.

It ended with Naruto axe kicking Gaara down to the ground.

BOOM!

A huge crater was made and Gaara was in the middle looking like a wreck.

It wasn't over though as Naruto and his clones threw Shuriken at Gaara who was in no position to do anything about it.

They then made a hand sign, "Shuriken kage bunshin no jutsu!" it looked like thousands of Shuriken were headed to Gaara. Before the shuriken hit Gaara was shielded by the Shukaku coat though, however he had no time to relax just yet.

"Naruto, make way!" Arcana shouted as he descended. Naruto and his clones Made a circle around the crater out of Arcana's way.

"3rd gate open!"

Arcana was upside down and headed towards Gaara at a rapid pace while glowing a emerald green. He put his hand out and created a large boulder and started to spin. He looked a whirlwind but green in color.

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BAM! Gaara was crushed and Arcana was atop the boulder panting a bit.

"Arcana jump!" Naruto shouted.

Arcana jumped and a bunch of Naruto's clones met him in the air giving him boosts upward until he was a good distance away.

Afterwards all the clones who had circled the crater jumped atop the boulder, it looked like they were part of a rugby match.

"Super clone explosion!"

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

All the clones self-destructed. It was so intense that it knocked Arcana who was atop a tree branch down.

Aqua, Kurai and Sasuke were fine as Kurai was levitating and was using his dark powers to keep Aqua and Sasuke afloat too before he lowered them and himself.

Gaara was buried under debris.

"Heh, I think I overdid it a bit…" Naruto said sheepishly while scratching the back of his head.

"Woah, They fought like a dream team. Now that is superb team chemistry!" Kurai said, one could hear by his tone that he was truly impressed.

"Wasn't it a little… extreme?" Aqua asked.

"Maybe your right…" Kurai said.

Sasuke was completely flabbergasted, 'Naruto, and Okami, just how strong are you.' He then looked at Kurai. 'He fought Okami to a draw, does that mean he is just as strong…?'

Naruto was practically celebrating. Arcana was grinning.

"It's not over." Kurai said but only Aqua and Sasuke heard.

"What do you mean, he is buried alive, no way he survived that." Sasuke said in denial.

Kurai shook his head. "Look over there." He pointed to the side of Sasuke.

"That's… Sakura!"

"Yes, that sand thing is still there so…"

Kurai didn't have time to finish as something emerged from the ground were Gaara was buried, something huge.

"WOW, I'M FREE! FREE!"

A large creature which looked like a mix of a raccoon and a dog yelled like it was crazy (Basically it's Shukaku).

Everyone looked on in shock.

"Is that…" Aqua asked.

"Yes, that's him, or rather the beast within." Kurai answered 'Woah, they knocked Gaara unconscious.

Shukaku was awake and ready to play.

He looked at Arcana and Naruto and began to attack them while laughing menacingly.

Naruto dodged but Arcana was knocked away by Shukaku's sand-like arm. He was tumbling in the ground until he hit a tree.

"Argh!" he grunted in pain.

"Arcana!" Naruto shouted in worry, "You'll pay for that, summoning jutsu!" Naruto bit his thumb and put his hand on the ground and summoned… a small toad… like a normal sized toad… no seriously, a REALLY small toad.

"Hey, I'm Gamakichi!" the toad said.

"Oh come on!" Naruto said. He then quickly grabbed Gamakichi and dodged more of Shukaku's attacks.

"Man, I need to try again but there's no opening…" Naruto said, until he was shot while in midair by a blast of water.

"Gaaaah!"

"Okay, it's our turn." Kurai said and turned to Sasuke, "Can I count on your help?"

Sasuke looked like he was debating with himself, "…Fine."

"Cool, okay, first Aqua, do you think you could free Sakura?"

"I'll try."

"Cool, hang back afterwards, we might need healing."

Aqua nodded and went to help Sakura.

'I wonder if she can free Sakura, anyway as long as she isn't in the line of danger…'

"Ok Sasuke, here's what I need."

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Naruto was thrashed into a tree and was about to get crushed but Arcana saved him.

"You okay?" Arcana asked

"Yeah thanks"

"Hey guys." Kurai had just teleported in front of them his dark aura active.

"Rai? What happened to a surprise attack?" Arcana asked.

"New plan, Naruto, you need to make that summon, I'll buy you some time."

He then teleported behind Shukaku, "Hey ugly! Over here!"

"Kurai, what are you doing?" Aqua said as she was heard Kurai's shout. She was unable to free Sakura.

Kurai teleported to the ground, his dark aura gone now.

"WHO'S UGLY, I'LL KILL YOU!" Shukaku followed Kurai.

"Sasuke, anytime now." Kurai shouted.

Soon the sound of chirping birds were heard.

"Chidori, 1000 birds!" Sasuke ran with his Chidori.

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Kurai put his hand out and what happened next made Arcana, Aqua and Naruto's heart stop.

Sasuke just struck Kurai with his Chidori…

End

What has Sasuke done!? Why did he strike Kurai instead of Shukaku? Only the next chapter will tell, stay tuned for the next episode of Dragon Ball Z! just kidding guys.

Oh as you may have noticed, Aqua isn't part of the Naruto world, I plan on bringing in another character who isn't from Naruto in the next chapter or two.

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