(And here's my next chapter. Hope you enjoy it.)

The very morning after Naruto and his groups' first night in Suna, they were stationed in certain areas of Suna where the guards were stationed. Their mission was to monitor to see if any of the guards were engaging in any suspicious behavior while in the line duty.

Ebon led the Breed and were patrolling the Northern wall, Team Namikaze was patrolling the Eastern wall, Kankuro was monitoring the Western wall, and Naruto was patrolling the main entrance.

With the Breed they were watching from the shadows as the guards were taking shifts for the other guards who needed breaks, "This is getting way too boring." Hotstreak grumbled quietly in boredom.

"Keep it down, Hotstreak." Puff scolded him quietly.

Ebon watched the guards squinty eyed making sure he didn't let anything go unnoticed. Meanwhile Team Namikaze was watching from a distance as well, while Suigetsu had turned himself into a puddle and was able to keep an even closer eye on them. Jugo pulled out a shock vox that Naruto had equipped each member of his team with, "Jugo to Naruto, do you copy?"

Naruto who was watching the main entrance, picked up his shock vox, "Naruto here Jugo, status report?"

"Everything's good on our part no sign of any intruders." Jugo explained.

"Good, the same is around here as well," Naruto answered back, "Keep me posted if anything changes."

"Copy that." Jugo replied as they ended their transmission.

Naruto contacted Ebon and the Breed, "Naruto to Meta-Breed, do you copy?"

Kangor picked up his shock vox and spoke, "Copy that Naruto, everything's quiet here."

"Same on my part," Naruto said, until he saw the newest guard from yesterday; Hakado approach the other guards, "Hold on."

"Hakado what's wrong?" one guard asked.

"It's bad. I just spotted Houka in the center of the village." Hakado explained frantically.

This got the guards attention as well as Naruto's, "Impossible!" one guard said.

"How could he have gotten in?" another guard asked in confusion.

"I don't know, but we have to find out." The lead guard ordered as they headed for the center of village.

Naruto spoke back to his shock vox, "Kangor big news Houka's been spotted in the village, alert my team at once. I'm gonna check something out."

"Copy that, Naruto!" Kangor replied as they ended their transmission.

Naruto hopped on his saucer and surfed around the village hoping to find a lead. Soon he landed by a small abandoned store that was undergoing renovations, until he heard two voices coming from inside, one voice belonging to Hakado, "They fell for it just as we planned." Hakado's voice was heard.

"Good, have you got the scroll I asked for?" another voice said.

"Right here."

"Good. You've done well, Hakado."

'Hakado?' Naruto gasped in thought but knew he had to stop them. He barged in and spotted Hakado along with a guy wearing a red cloak with the fire symbol on his back along with the hood being down, under the cloak he wore a fishnet shirt, and blue shinobi pants. He had short reddish brown hair, dark eyes, and had a few third degree burns on his neck, "Hakado!" Naruto growled.

Hakado smirked, "So you figured out did you?"

"So this is the Naruto the Ninja Land's been talking about?" The one known asked.

"Houka Susumaru." Naruto turned his gaze to the one ninja.

"One and the same." Houka nodded.

"How'd you get in through the village?" Naruto demanded out of the nukenin.

Houka smirked, "It's simple, Hakado and I have built an underground tunnel beneath this old place that connects to the border of the desert. That's why no one could find out how I got in."

Naruto turned to Hakado frowning, "How could betray your own village, Hakado!"

"Houka made me a deal I just couldn't pass up." Hakado replied proudly.

"And what was that?" Naruto demanded out of him.

"I give him the scroll of some of the village's prized Jutsus, and he cuts me in on the profit he earns from delivering it to his superiors." Hakado explained.

"That's low Hakado, selling out your own village for profit!" Naruto shouted, "You don't deserve to live in a place like Suna."

"And I won't have to for long, once we get out of here." Hakado smirked as he and Houka got ready to fight.

"Raiton: Ikadzuchi no Utage!" a voice shouted as an electric current raced through the ground and into the building. When the current reached its target, it split into about two tendrils and attacked both the rogue ninja and traitor. Naruto looked to the side and standing by a hole in the building was Raiga, with the rest of Team Namikaze, and the Breed behind him, "Nobody's going anywhere." Raiga replied.

"Not without getting past us first." Ebon added.

"That hasn't stopped me in the past, and it won't now," Houka says as he formed a hand sign, "Katon: Kaibun Kiri no jutsu (Ash Mist Jutsu)!" he shouted as he blew a smokescreen of ash which resulted in a mist.

"I can't see!" Suigetsu coughed.

"They're getting away!" Ranmaru called as he was able to see their life energy due to his bloodline.

"Oh man I can't take this!" Onyx coughed up some ash.

Suddenly a gust of wind blew the ash away, revealing it was the work of Temari and her wind jutsu, "Temari!" Naruto gasped.

"I heard there was something going on around this area." Temari explained.

"Well you heard right." Guren replied.

"Hakado's a traitor! He's been letting Houka in though an entry way in this place." Naruto explained.

"Hakado?" Temari gasped until she frowned, "I'll go alert the Kazekage!"

"No need, Temari!" Gaara said appearing in a Shunshin of sand.

"Gaara." Naruto gasped.

"I had my suspicions it was Hakado the moment he was appointed as a guard." Gaara explained.

"You're right, and Houka didn't invade until it was four months after he was initiated," Temari remembered, "He obviously waited for this moment to throw off any suspicions we had of him."

"Exactly." Gaara nodded.

"Hey guys," Ferret called as he dusted off the floor of the building revealing a trap door, "I think we found their escape route." He said opening the trap door revealing a stair well leading to a tunnel that obviously ran through the village and out of it.

"We gotta go after them." Haku said.

"I'm coming to." Gaara said which got everyone shocked.

"Gaara you're the Kazekage, the village needs you." Temari pleaded.

"That rogue ninja and traitor made off with our villages forbidden Jutsus," Gaara explained, "If they use them on any other ninja nation it'll be my fault for not stopping them."

Temari wanted to argue but couldn't, seeing how Gaara made his point to her. "Hai Kazekage-sama."

Naruto turned to Karin, Ferret, and Ranmaru, "Guys track them down," Karin nodded activating her sensory abilities, along with Ranmaru, while Ferret sniffed the stairwell for their stenches, "You guys go after them through the tunnel. Gaara and I will head them off."

"On it!" They reply as they go down the trap door.

"Temari alert Kankuro and the other guards." Gaara ordered his sister.

Temari nodded and hurried. Naruto turned to Gaara as he got on his saucer, "Well hop on Gaara."

"That won't be necessary, Naruto." Gaara holds his hand up dismissing the offer.

"What do you mean?" Naruto asked as he was hovering on his saucer.

Gaara led Naruto outside where the Kazekage made sand pile under him and lifted him off the ground and became a wave of sand, "As the people from your friends world say, 'Surfs Up'!" Gaara called as he surfs the wave of sand that carried him out of the village.

Naruto smirked and thought, 'I think I had a strong impact on his personality.' He thought as he surfs after him on his saucer.

Below underground through the tunnel, Team Namikaze and Team meta-Breed were in hot pursuit of Houka and Hakado, "Can't be too far behind." Ferret called as he sniffed them out.

"We're gaining on them, I can sense it!" Karin added as she sensed their chakra.

"Let's hope Naruto and Gaara can head them off." Haku put in.

Meanwhile above the ground, Naruto and Gaara were still surfing their way out of the village and across the desert, "Shouldn't be too long." Naruto called to Gaara.

"Let's pick up the pace just in case." Gaara replied as they surfed faster.

Back underground, Hakado and Houka made it to the edge of the tunnel and popped through the opening by a forest bordering the land of Wind, "We made it." Houka said.

"Not a moment to spare." Hakado added.

"Soon you won't have any moment's to spare!" Ebon called as he emerged from the tunnel with his crew, and Team Namikaze.

"You're all gluttons for beatings aren't you?" Houka asked.

"Actually, we're gluttons for fighting!" Naruto shouted as he and Gaara appeared before them.

"You're all surrounded now." Haku called out.

"Give yourselves up!" Hotstreak added.

"Or what, you'll take on all of us," A female voice asked as a waterfall rained down to the ground almost hitting them before they moved away. Emerging from that waterfall was a woman with long greenish colored hair, a nice figure clothed by a blue kimono, "I'm Mizu. I hope we can get acquainted later." She smiled sweetly.

The earth started shaking as it partially split in half with a ground pillar emerging up with a guy standing on top of it. He had dark skin, beady eyes, muscular build, black sandals, black pants, and a brown shirt, "Mizu always with the dramatic entrances," He sighed, "Anyway I'm Tsuchi."

Lighting struck the ground by Houka and Hakado and appearing was another man with wild blonde spiky hair, brown eyes, lightning bolt tattoos on his cheeks, gray pants, and a dark yellow shirt, "And you can call me Raiko!"

"So there are five of them." Guren looked at each of them.

"And they obviously each specialize in a certain chakra element." Talon added.

"That's right, to the ninja land we're known as the Affinities because we each posses a certain chakra affinity." Houka smirked.

"We each belonged to a certain village, until we abandoned them." Mizu explained.

"You will return the scroll to the village and give yourselves up!" Gaara ordered as Kazekage.

"You are not my superior." Houka shot back.

"Well we are now!" Naruto said as he got ready.

"You go on ahead, we'll deal with them," Tsuchi told Houka and Hakado as he, Mizu, and Raiko took positions. Tsuchi went through some hand signs, "Kuchiyose no Jutsu!" he shouted placing his palm to the ground and poof there stood two spotted hyenas with blades attached to their front and back paws.

"Hey what've we got here?" Kangor asked, "A couple of spotted hyenas mon?"

"Let's go!" Houka told Hakado as they hurried.

"After them!" Naruto called to Gaara as they zipped past the three other ninja to catch them.

As Hakado and Houka made a break through the forest, Naruto and Gaara followed their trail unaware of Zetsu watching them, "Things seem to have gotten truly interesting." Zetsu's black half began.

"Yes, especially the familiar faces that are here," His white half said looking back at the Breed, and Team Namikaze, "Better let Pain know about this soon as possible." He said sinking into the tree.

Back with the Breed, and Team Namikaze, they were going all out against Mizu, Tsuchi, his two hyena summons, and Raiko, "Raiton: Raikyuu!" Raiga shouted as he drew his two swords together, causing a ball of electricity to form. He hurled it at Tsuchi.

"Gah!" Tsuchi growled as he formed a hand sign and earth armor covered his body.

"Earth armor." Raiga gasped.

"I'll crack it!" Guren charged as crystal spears grew on her arms, and she started jabbing them at Tsuchi who was on par with her.

Meanwhile Mizu was using her Suiton Jutsu, "Suiton: Mizu Bunshin no Jutsu!" She shouted summoning three water clones.

"I'm not scared of you!" Suigetsu shouted as he drew his sword and slayed the water clones one after another until the real Mizu appeared behind him forming hand signs.

"Suiton: Suirou no Jutsu!" she shouted trapping Suigetsu in a water sphere.

"No!" Suigetsu shouts unable to move inside the sphere.

"Let him go!" Hotstreak called as he got ready.

"Try and stop me," Mizu smiles smugly. Hotstreak growled and launches fire at her. Mizu yawned, "Fire, you got to be joking?" She fired a blast of water dousing the fireball, "Everyone knows that fire is weak against water."

Hotstreak smirked, "True, fire may be weak against water, but let me tell you something about water and fire. Fire can easily overpower water if it's just hot enough!" he shouted as he powered up his fire to the max and blasted Mizu weakening her and her water trap freeing Suigetsu.

"Thanks man!" Suigetsu called.

"No prob!" Hotstreak gave him a thumb's up.

Mizu frowned, "That's it!" she went through more hand signs, "Suiton: Suiryuudan no Jutsu!" she shouted launching the water dragon Jutsu right at Hotstreak, only for it to collide with a wall of ice, "Ice?" Mizu gasped.

Haku was shielding Hotstreak, "You ok, Hotstreak?"

"Yeah Haku, thanks for having my back."

"No problem," Haku replied and looked to Mizu, "I'll finish this one myself," He started forming hand signs, "Makyou Hyoushou!" he shouted and created his demonic ice mirrors with the help of the water left from Mizu's water clones.

"What is this?" Mizu gasped as she was surrounded by the ice mirrors.

"This is your end!" Haku said appearing in one of the mirrors and started moving through them at a fast pace launching needles at Mizu striking her in the most vital areas, her screaming faded soon as the mirrors melted revealing her corpse covered in needles.

"That worked well." Hotstreak said to Haku who nodded in agreement.

Kangor and Onyx meanwhile were squaring off against the two hyena summonings, making sure not to get cut by their blades, "Come on is that all ya got mon?" Kangor asked as Jamaican music played in the background as he fought them. As he round house kicked one it yelped from the pain and crashed onto the ground and poofed away, "One down!"

Onyx and Jugo who was in his full demonic form wrestled with the other one pinning it to the ground, "Shiv, count it!" Onyx called as Shiv ran to the side getting down and slammed his hand to the ground like a wrestling ref, "One, two three!" Shiv called, "And the winners are Onyx and Jugo!"

The Hyena stopped breathing after being in Onyx's choke hold for so long and poofed away, "Yeah!" Onyx cheered as he, Shiv, and Jugo did a three way high five.

Tsuchi landed by them and growled, "I've tired with your meddling, idiots!"

Kangor landed at his teammates sides, "If you are tired, I suggest you lie down now!" Kangor spun kicked Tsuchi's legs making him trip.

Tsuchi grabbed Kangor's leg and tried crushing the bone in the leg with his strength, until a pink crystal almost nailed him causing him to let go. He turned to see Guren, "Now let me show you the beauty of my crystals!" she extended her hands out and Tsuchi found his body getting covered in the crystal.

"What's happening?" he gasped and soon he was encased in a crystal imprisonment unable to move at all.

"Suigetsu, could you be a dear and cut this crystal down to size?' Guren asked.

"Gladly." Suigetsu smirked and swiped the crystal a few times. At first nothing seemed to have happened, but the huge crystal block was reduced to small particles taking Tsuchi along with it.

"Now for the third!" Kangor said as he turned to Raiko who was going at it with Raiga in a duel of the Raiton Jutsus.

"Your reputation truly precedes you Kurosuki Raiga." Raiko commented.

"How kind of you." Raiga smirked as he released more electric spheres from his twin blades.

"After this I will be famous for killing off a member of the Seven Swordsmen!" Raiko shouted as he fired a lightning blast form both his palms.

Raiga quickly uses his Lightning Strike Armor jutsu to repel Raiko's lightning attack, "Guren now!" Raiga called.

Guren used her crystals to trap Raiko's legs to the ground, "No, I'm stuck!" Raiko growled.

"Suigetsu, execute!" Raiga ordered.

"Coming up!" Suigetsu leaped into the air above Raiko swinging his executioner's sword back and slices his head right off causing it to land on the ground lifeless, and his body went limp.

"All right, we did it!" the teams cheered over their victory.

"Come on we gotta catch up with Naruto and Gaara." Ebon said as they rushed off to catch up with the two Jinchuriki's.

By the time they caught up they saw Gaara fighting against Hakado the traitor, and Naruto against Houka the boss. Gaara was using an assortment of his sand Jutsus on Hakado who was countering with his Fuuton Jutsus, "Don't think because you're Kazekage you can defeat me." Hakado shouted as he used his Fuuton element to try to blow Gaara away, but the Kazekage stood his ground against his former guard.

Gaara frowned, "I'm not Kazekage for nothing you know. Plus if you really knew about the village you would know what I'm capable of." He shouted as he crossed his arms, "Suna Shuriken!" he unleashed shuriken made from sand.

Hakado took a few of the hits, but avoided the rest as he attempted to attack Gaara only to be blocked by a Suna Bunshin of Gaara and started covering him, "Oh no, not this!" Hakado cried as he tried to get out of his hold but to no avail.

"This is what happens when you betray your own village for selfish needs." Gaara tells Hakado as the traitor is encased in a shell of sand and was doing nothing but screaming. Until Gaara called out, "Sabaku Sousou!" He shouted as he clenched his fist causing the shell to explode thus killing Hakado.

"He did it." Ebon called.

"They're not done yet." Jugo said as they saw Naruto fighting against Houka in a Katon style fight.

"Katon: Karyuu Endan!" Houka shouted blowing a jet of fire right for Naruto who countered with his own blast of fire.

The two struggled to push each other's fire blast back but both appeared to be equally matched, "Naruto!" Gaara shouted as he summoned a spear weapon made from sand, "Shukaku no Hoko!" He shouted throwing his sand spear at Houka making him lose focus and got caught in Naruto fire attack sending him flying backwards. This resulted in the Suna scroll falling out of his pocket and Gaara used his sand to catch it.

"I'm not done yet!" Naruto shouted as he zipped past Houka appearing behind him only to slug him again sending him back the way he was flying from.

Gaara was on the ground uses the sand to level him up to Houka as his right arm became Shukaku's arm, "Suna Punch!" Gaara shouted as he slugged Houka sending him upward.

Houka was sent upward at a fast pace. However Naruto flew up faster and slammed his Kangor feet down on him causing him to fall below. He then flew back downward to Gaara's level and the two threw their arms back and they called out, "Jinchuriki twin KO!" they shouted sending Houka a double uppercut back up into the air.

Naruto smirked and shifted his Sharingan to Mangekyo mode, "You like fire Houka? Well try some of this, Kyubi Amaterasu!" Naruto shouted as he sent a blast of Amaterasu up to Houka as he was falling back to earth.

"Huh?" Houka was confused wondering what was happening. What he saw coming right for him was a black fiery Kyubi made from the Amaterasu flames. Houka screamed in fright as he fell right into the mouth of the Amaterasu fox and burned to dust.

Naruto powered down his Mangekyo and took in some breaths. Temari and Kankuro arrived with some Suna ninja but to their shock the fight was done, "They did it?" Kankuro asked.

"They sure did." Ebon replied as he and everyone watched the two Jinchuriki's approach each other.

Naruto used his left hand to shake Gaara's left hand as a friendly teamwork gesture. Naruto and Gaara noticed everyone was watching them and Naruto looked at his pal, "Let's do it G."

Gaara smiled, "Yeah." He replied as the two faced everyone and struck a fighter stance just for show off. They were all cheering on their victory unaware of Zetsu still watching them but then vanished.

Later on back in Suna, everyone was celebrating for the bravery of the Kazekage and their allies from Konoha. Gaara was standing before the civilians of Suna with Naruto, Teams Namikaze, and Meta-Breed behind him, "We're gathered on this momentous occasion to give thanks to our dear allies from Konoha, Naruto Namikaze, Team Namikaze, and Team Meta-Breed." Gaara declared and everyone in Suna cheered their hearts out.

"This I could get used to." Karin smiled and waved.

"I'll say." Shiv agreed as he was soaking up all the attention he was being given.

Gaara turned to Naruto, "Naruto you've done a lot for me, and for everyone in Suna. How can I ever repay you?"

Naruto smiled and answered, "It's what we do Gaara. We look out for each other. Although there is something I've wanted to do here."

"What is it?" Gaara asked curiously. Naruto smirked and whispered into Gaara's ear. Gaara turned to Naruto with a smile, "That could be arranged." He replied causing Naruto to smile.

Meanwhile far away from Suna inside a cave the light apparitions of the Akatsuki members were gathered, "What's this emergency meeting called for?" Itachi asked.

"Besides the fact the zombie bros are no longer with us." Kisame added as a joke.

"It appears the Kyubi Jinchuriki has gathered himself a group of followers to form a team." The leader explained.

"Ooh the boy has a group of playmates." Kisame cheered humorously.

"Kisame this is no joking matter, some of them you know." The leader scolded which got him quiet.

"Ok then, who?" Kisame asked.

Zetsu spoke up, "One of them is none other than your old teammate Kurosuki Raiga."

"Raiga?" Kisame gasped, "Oh that takes me back. He always was fun to be around despite his threats of giving everyone funerals."

"Along with him is one of the Hozuki bros." Zetsu continued.

"Ooh little Suigetsu huh? He was such a cute kid, especially when he would execute his victims." Kisame added.

"Accompanying him also is bipolar Jugo." The leader added.

"That would prove difficulty trying to get near the boy." The female member noted.

"But he was being held by Orochimaru for his experiments." Itachi reminded them.

"Yes, it seems the boy has gone and freed Suigetsu and Jugo from his prisons, along with a sensory girl known as Karin." The leader explained.

"Is that all?" Tobi asked.

"Not quite." Zetsu answered.

"You mean there's more, oh goody!" Tobi cheered.

"Also accompanying Naruto is the legendary crystal style user, Guren," Zetsu continued, "Not to mention the famed Ice User Haku from the Land of Waves."

"Strange that's where Zabuza was killed at," Kisame remembered, "Looks like they were once partners."

"And finally accompanying him is a boy named Ranmaru with a Kekkei Genkai superior than the Byakugan eye." The leader added.

"It seems Naruto's not taking any chances against us now." Itachi said calm and collect.

"Exactly," The leader replied, "If he continues to get anymore powerful than he already is there's no chance in obtaining the Kyubi."

"So what do we do about it?" Kisame asked.

The leader thought until he spoke up, "We'll have to act quicker and acquire what remaining Jinchuriki's exist. Tobi, you and Zetsu are to seek out the Sanbi."

"Hai!" Zetsu and Tobi salute.

"Kisame, your targeted Jinchuriki the Yonbi shouldn't be too far away." The leader added.

"Hai." Kisame nodded.

"Good if all's said we'll meet again soon." The leader says as their apparitions vanish.

Later on that night in Suna, in front of a stage set up in the center of the village where amps were set up thanks to Naruto sealing some into sealing scrolls just in case. Civilians and ninja of Suna gathered around the stage as Gaara appeared on in a Shunshin of sand and spoke into a mike, "Ladies and gentleman of Suna. I give you Naruto Namikaze, the Bang baby Shinobi!" he declared and music started playing.

In a flash of lightning Naruto appeared in the center of the stage and started singing. Soon the Breed, Team Namikaze, and the Sand Sibs came onto the stage and were dancing it out with Naruto. Raiga was using his Raiton Jutsu to send some sparks fly for special affects, while Hotstreak used his fire attacks to make some fireworks.

Naruto saw Gaara walk into the center and wasn't sure what to do until he saw all of Suna cheering him on. He smiled and started dancing it out showing off some killer steps that pros would know which really impressed Naruto as he joined him. When the song ended all of Suna cheered their hearts out for the performance they have witnessed.

(And there you have it. I'll see you next time.)