Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, Masashi Kishimoto does. This is nothing more than a story to alter the canon. Also I will use Jutsu of my own creation or alter the name of real ones to fit my work.
Author Note: This story includes gore, lemons and adult content. Also it will negate parts of the canon, like the space bunny goddess mumbo-jumbo. Lemons will be announced so is easy to skip them in case you are not willing to read them.
"Speaking"
"Thinking"
"Biju speaking/ inner Sakura speaking"
"Biju thinking/ inner Sakura thinking"
Jutsu.
Spirits of the sand
Last time in N&H Uzumaki:
"Thanks boss! You´re the best." Grinned the red eyed teen. "OOOOOOOY! UNCLE SHUKAKUUUU! Momma wants me to take a good look at your seal! Be a good uncle and help your niece out!"
"UNCLE!" Thought everyone.
"Well Boss let's do this! My uncle is a bit touched on the head cuz his seal is crap, so we are going to surpass him a reseal." Naruto stretched on top of the red toad. "Just help me reach his head!"
Gamabunta charged to the gigantic racoon monster. But Shukaku fired several Wind release: Drilling air bullet.
"Water release: Great water bullet" Said the toad releasing a volley of water projectiles to intercept the incoming attacks. "Listen here tadpole, I can´t fight like this for a long time. We need to hold him before you jump and awake the jinchuriki!"
"Nah, relax boss. You just need to cut his arms, he is made of sand after all, so even if they reform they need a bit of time." Naruto then have an idea and started grinning madly. "Ne GamaBoss, if some of my clones enter your mouth… can you spit them like bullet jutsu?"
"You serious?" Naruto just keep grinning and nodded. "Well I guess I can… What´s your plan? Tell me that you haven´t gone mad!"
"Oh you´ll love it! Just cut his right arm and split my clones all over him! I´ll do the rest… je je je…Shadow clone jutsu!" Naruto explained before producing 7 clones. Gamabunta reluctantly opened his mouth and six of the clones jumped inside. "Let´s do this! Prepare yourself Uncle Shukaku!"
"What is the matter with you crazy fleshbag? I´m not your uncle Kami dam it!" Shouted the sand spirit before launching another volley of air jutsu.
"NOW!" Gamabunta, using his powerful haunches, rushed forward in a zig-zag pattern. Each jump closing the distance at astonishing speeds while easily avoiding the incoming attacks. Then instead of talking the bigger form of the Ichibi, the toad chief feinted and in a clean slash took Shukaku´s right arm.
The sand demon didn´t care about that, in fact the arm almost immediately started to grow back. Yet Shukaku yelled and ranted about killing them for hurting him. Had he not yell, he would have heard Naruto and her summon calling their new collaboration jutsu: "Toad style: Clone bullet jutsu! Now we got ya!"
Gamabuta spited the six clone in a rapid succession. Four were flying above the monster´s head and the other 2 above its remaining arm. "Secret jutsu: Kongo fusa!" Shouted the clones each of them unleashing a single adamantine chain from their left arms. Four chains pierced around Shukaku´s neck and the connected with the others forming a collar of sorts. Meanwhile the clones keep producing the chain so they could go down like if they were going down a ravine. The other two did the same, but their chains where spiralling down the beast´s arm.
The original Naruto put her feet in the last clone´s hands, and, with her help, was catapulted to the head of the raging Biju. Shukaku tried to crush the little pest running to his jinchuriki, but the orange chains were disturbing his chakra so his movements were slower, slow enough for the blonde kunoichi to evade his attempts to stop her.
"Well now uncle! I can´t have you destroying the leaf! Girls pull!" Ordered Naruto and the clones, already on the ground, pulled their chains producing more disturbances so Shukaku could not erect a sand shield around Gaara. In his desperation to remain out of the seal, the sand beast managed to release his arm from the chains and tried to catch the girl. But he was not fast enough.
"UZUMAKI TAIJUTSU OUGI: WAKENING UP BITCH SLAP!"
A slap echoed through the forest and the world went silent for a minute.
"NO, NO, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I JUST GET OUT! I DON´T WANNA BACK IN THAT AWFUL PLACE. PLEASE JUST FIVE MORE MINUTES. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Cried Shukaku as his body started to decompose into sand. Both Gaara and Naruto were falling when Gamabunta cached them and let them in the ground.
Naruto, grinning approached the boy with a hand shaped red mark in his face. "No! Stop, don´t come near me! I don´t want to stop existing! Nooooooo!" Yelled Gaara crawling backwards to put some distance between the blonde ninja and himself.
"STAY AWAY!" Shouted Temari struggling to free herself from the clone´s iron grip. Naruto smiled softly and enveloped her fellow jinchuriki in a tight hug. "Hush my brother. You are safe, I won't hurt you. We are the same."
"Why? How are you so strong? Why not kill me? I don´t understand…" Said Gaara, confused and scared.
"Because we are family. You are what I could have been if not for my precious people." Naruto sighted and relaxed her embrace around the red head. "It hurts so much doesn't it? The stares, the hate… the fear. A pit of loneliness that sucks away the light and the will to keep going. I´ve been there Gaara… You kill people for them to be afraid and by their fear you got reassure your own existence. But that way is flawed. Sooner or later they will force you out, or they will kill you."
Naruto eyes gleamed with understanding, compassion and disgust. "For people like us, forced to carry the sins and the fears of the ninja world there is only acceptance or madness. She saved me… she brought me to my new home… she became my family and putted me in contact with my mother inside of my seal…" Naruto stared dreamy at the sky. "You asked me how I am so strong? Is to protect her, to protect all of them."
"But how? How did you do it? I´m alone! No one cares for me!" Shouted the desperate boy. Naruto giggled a bit.
"No my brother…" Naruto pointed to Temari. "… She´s being trying to reach and protect you. You have her, you are not alone. And once you accept her other will follow. Besides, you don´t need lots of people but those that actually care for you." The clones released the Suna kunoichi who ran to his brother tears falling from her puffy eyes. Gaara realised how stupid he had been.
"I am sorry Temari… for all I have done. Will you forgive me? Can we start over?" Temari hugged her brother, the sand didn´t move. "Of course (sobs) you are my little brother, all I ever wanted is to have you back."
"Well, let's see your seal now. Momma says that uncle Shukaku is totally a tsundere. So maybe he acts bat shit crazy because the seal is harming him and in consequence Gaara." Said Naruto ripping the other Jinchuriki´s clothes with no same.
"WUT! What the hell is this? Who drew this seal? This turd of ink can even contain the shit of a brain the sealer has!" Shouted the blonde making her anger pretty clear.
"What is the problem with the seal?" Asked Temari as the others neared to them. "That is crap! No mental protection seals, no chakra filtering arrays, no way to block the biju influence over the host! And don´t make me start speaking about what there is in it for the Ichibi. The useless piece of shit who made this seal just stuffed the Ichibi in a space barely big enough for him. I bet that he can´t even breath properly or sleep! Man no doubt he went bananas!"
Naruto sighed, then with a very serious glare she stated, with no chance of saying no: "For fucks sake! When Hashirama Senju handed out the biju, his wife, Mito Uzumaki, provided each nation with seals designed for each one! But NOOOOOOOOO! Why trust the Uzumaki seals? Let's do our own! Well I am resealing the Ichibi in a proper seal, I don´t give a crap about what the sand village plans or does, no brother of mine will suffer for the idiocy of a lame seal master."
The Uzumaki craked her fingers and unsealing a small brush she started writing very complex runes and diagrams all over Gaara´s exposed torso. The chakra laved ink reshaping itself in the correct symbols after each stroke. In a matter of minutes Gaara´s full body and part of the ground was covered in seals. No one dared to speak as the Uzumaki worked, afraid of angering the very same teen that took down a Biju.
"Well, here we come! Nine times nine tails, a seal to protect both the host and the vessel. Uzumaki style sealing: Nine tailed companionship seal! Transference!" Shouted Naruto as all the seals as well as the previous seal started to converge over Gaara´s heart forming a spiral shaped seal starting in nine points engraved inside a circle of indecipherable runes. Gaara trashed but did not cry in pain. As the seal compression ended the red head ten sighed in relief.
"It… It´s gone… The shouts, the anger… the bloodlust." Mumbled Gaara thinking clearly for the first time in his life. Naruto smiled from ear to ear.
"Hehehehe. That is a seal done correctly! Well time to meet the tenant! Oi! Make up-kun! Come over here! You two Shino-san, Kiba-san and Lazy-san!" Ordered the blonde.
"For the Konoha shinobis. I have permission to do this kind of shit from the Hokage, but just in case I need witnesses. And as a foreign ninja I can´t allow myself to be mind-dived by a Yamanaka, you are tagging along. But remember this: Everything that has happened between Gaara and myself is top secret stuff that you can only discuss with the Hokage. Got it?"
At the weird stare that she was receiving Naruto decided to clarify that they were going to dive into Gaara´s mindscape thru the Seal. There they'll meet Shukaku and explain the features of the new seal and cheek on the Biju's sanity. Completely safe.
Inside the seal
"… What do you mean with a pull to the inside?" Kiba was saying when he, and the others, found themselves in a cavern with sandstone pillars illuminated by torches. At the end of the cave a transparent veil like curtain allowed them to see what looked like a napping Shukaku.
Gaara looked around surprised. Normally his mindscape was more like a ragging sandstorm. Besides, it was the first time he had guests. The group advanced to the towering form of the biju, somehow pushed by the grinning blonde.
"OOOOOYYY, SHUKAKUUUUU! Get up uncle! Is not nap time yet!" Shouted the Kumo kunoichi. The gargantuan creature started to move while grunting. Everyone hide behind the pillars except the Jinchuriki.
"Uuugh my head. Stop screaming please!" Begged the sand creature.
"Bah, you can sleep latter. Let me tell you about your new seal. The nine tailed companionship seal design allows both of you to coexist, improve your relation and the seal will give you more features. For example, at the moment the seal is in its base form, meaning that Shukaku has a perfect habitat for him and full control over his chakra. This means that he is trapped in the equivalent of a five star Hotel suite, and Gaara can´t access your chakra without your permission. The next steps include features like a reservoir of biju chakra for the Jinchuriki and the common traits, while giving the beast access to your senses. If you reach full trust, Shukaku will be able to manifest himself as a chibi version in the real world, but most of his power will be inside the seal still. It's like a weir cute chibi clone jutsu?" Naruto scratched the back of her neck. "Nah, I´m not telling you all the pros, just know that being in good terms will help you a lot."
Shukaku got in all four legs to lower his head to the teens level and with a raspy and remorseful voice said: "Kid… I am sorry… the seal was turning me crazy. I couldn´t sleep and it was so suffocating inside of it… I know that is not an excuse, but come on. You can understand that I lashed out at humanity right?" Gaara was speechless. The monster of his nightmares, the creature who whispered in his ears was not only a victim but was also asking for forgiveness. "I know that this is not much, but… you see… me posing as your mother was not entirely a fake. She is also here…"
Tendrils of sand slowly drifted behind the veil and started to change colour and form the figure of a red haired woman. There, before them, stood Karura… crying.
"Gaa-Gaara, my baby…" She said while running and embracing him in a tig hug. As she moved part of her body decomposed in sand, but as soon as she stopped it returned to her body, slowly.
"Mother? But… how?" Said the Suna kunoichi coming from her hiding place. Kankuro didn´t leave his place, he had no trust in the sand demon.
"Temari? Is that you?" The sand woman´s back deformed and turned into a tendril of sand. Once the sand enveloped the blonde girl it reformed into a copy of her mother hugging her. Both sand women connected by the very sand that formed them.
"When your father decided to turn Gaara into a weapon I reluctantly agreed." Said Karura when she found her voice back. "But when they were sealing you I discovered that they were using a different seal that the expected one to turn you into a living killing machine! So I sealed all my chakra and soul with Shukaku´s and died cursing the village and specially your bastard of a father. I´ve been protecting you since then. I am the sand shield."
The woman let go of her offspring too have a better look of them and was about to continue speaking when Kankuro interrupted: "How can you trust that thing? For all I know it might be the demon tricking you again!"
"Shukaku can´t pass to this side of the seal. That is your mother´s spirit indeed. Trapped inside of Gaara for the rest of his life." Assured Naruto.
"But, but, but…" Stuttered the puppeteer. "Kuro-chan. It's ok. I understand your doubts, but is me, your Oka-chan. You were always a clever boy… can´t you see your father´s foolishness behind all of this?"
Kankuro was doubting, nervously sifting his gaze between his family and the one tailed beast. Naruto, feed up of his behaviour, bonked his head and told him to take the chance to reunite with her mother. He still had that chance. Kankuro joined his family.
After the emotive reunion the Suna family turned to the blonde sealer. Shukaku got closer also.
"Who are you young lady?" Asked Karura. Naruto, unable to supress her emotions, let some red tears roll down her cheeks. "I am N Uzumaki, of the Uzumaki clan of Kumogakure… I am Shukaku´s niece."
Kiba asked about the red tears out of curiosity as the Konoha ninja got near them. Naruto glared at them full of killing intent, making them step backwards.
"Why are my tears red you ask? Because I shed tears all over Konoha until I had no more. Because only humans have tears. Because your village took them from me. So… now I cry blood."
Naruto focused her eyes on Shukaku. "Uncle, there is someone out there planning to capture all the Biju. Their leader is a man with a mask and a lone Sharingan. They will come for you so you better train Gaara and be ready."
"I see… Thanks… I will help Gaara don´t worry. It´s the least I can do to make amends with this children." Said the remorseful Tanuki. "Why do you call me Uncle young Jinchuriki?"
"I am the child of 3 people." The cave behind Naruto became darker as she spoke and two glowing, red and slited eyes started to form in the darkest spot. "My Momma was sealed inside my human mother. So both of them nurtured and protected me as I grew inside of them. But THAT man ripped the seal the very moment of my birthing causing the death of my parents and lots of people. Then the very same people tried to kill me because Momma was now inside of me! They broke me! But my dear parents, who like Karura-san here sealed themselves in me, fixed me. Now I am closer to a Biju than any Jinchuriki ever!"
Dark chuckles echoed in the seal. The Shukaku, Ichibi, lor of the desert and spirit of the sand got really nervous. "It can´t be! No… you´re not. You can´t be One-sama´s child!"
The chuckles turned into a full fit of laughter spooking everyone but Naruto. "Meet my Joy and Pride little brother. My firstborn, your niece."
"Gaara, I know that you must hate me. But hear me out. Do NOT anger this girl!"
"Wow! You are making me look like I´m worse than I actually am!" Said Naruto with a foxy grin while sheepishly scratching the back of her head. "Well, we should get going. The invasion is mostly over and sand defeated, but you are my prisoners now so don´t worry. I´ll keep you safe until you can return to Suna."
"Wait!" Exclaimed Gaara. "If I leave… will I be able to return here? Will my mother still be here? Can… can my siblings come?" Asked a shy Gaara.
"Of course! Karura-san soul is intertwined with Uncle´s after so much time together in a shitty seal. Decades will be needed for them to separate! And once it happens your mother will have to wait until the seal is released to go to the pure world so… she will be here until you die more or less."
"Child… I will teach you how to return here and how to use your powers correctly. Is there any chance of you ever forgiving me?"
"Shukaku, it was not entirely your fault so I forgive you. I hope that we´ll be able to trust each other in the future and get as strong as Uzumaki-san is. Strong enough to protect our precious people…"
Temari started to cry. Naruto Grinned. And the boys tried to act tough and hide their tears. Karura smiled proud of her son. Shukaku nodded solemnly.
AN:
It´s been a while isn´t it? This story is not dead by any means.
I have fragments of the next chapters already written yahoo! But lately I´ve found myself with the right plot to write but unable to produce the contents in a way that I like. I hope that my inspiration returns soon or chapters will take longer to be published T.T
