Naruto Fanfiction

Disclaimer: Kishimoto owns Naruto, I don't.

Author's Note: Ok, a lot of Naruto and Gaara action in this one and the total revelations of the link between Naruto and Kyuubi is released over a few people, so a few thoughts here in there...

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Review Reply Corner:

Curlsofserenity: Heh, yep, the Kyuubi is no more… Thanks for reviewing!

Sirus183: Yeah… I'm sorry the Kyuubi's dead… Heh, here's the next chapter, thnx for the review!

Alden-san: Nope, Hinata has grown a lot since Naruto's disappearance, and has become very talented now, being a Chuunin Leader. Hanabi is good Genin and is on her way ;)… Uhmm, yep, there's probably going to be a book 3 and a book 4, but I'm not going to tell what they're going to be about.

Sally: Heh, Naruto is a lot stronger now… Here's an update, thnx for reviewing!

:D: Now worries, no worries. I guess it's probably a lot to remember… Thanks for the review!!

Misu no Yami: Yep, this Chapter is also a bit shorter than the others. I'm glad you still like it despite that. I hope you enjoy this chapter as well!

RuByMoOn17: Thanks!! I hope you like this one as well! Thnx for reviewing!

FlareOfDragon: No prob, we all have busy lives. About your question: When Kyuubi was defeated his entire Chakra was back to hundred percent and then put into Naruto himself. So what Naruto now has is mostly the full Kyuubi's Chakra and little bit of his own, what was left…

Lemmings12: Ah, I;m glad you enjoy the battle scenes. And about Higaryou in Yukio: It's all about the Scrolls. After she learned all of the techniques of the Hidden Scrolls, she became the last descendant of the Ryuuki Clan and as a 'present' she received the demon Higaryou, also as a follow-up after learning everything of all the Scrolls.

Maya Amano: The strongest Summon? I think Manda is the strongest… But heck, who am I to know? Maybe Katsuyu is the strongest, or one of Kakashi's digs, heh… In comparison, Yukio is somewhat stronger than Naruto, with the state Naruto now is in. Yukio has high speed, being from the same clan Haku was and her Bloodline Limit is beneficial, but not really helpful in the situation and on top of that she has a demon in her with all its Chakra completely hers. Oh well, I hope you enjoy this chapter as well! I updated this one in two days, didn't I? -Shrugs- Oh well, Thanks for reviewing!

Lostlily: Finally, so we get to see what the Akatsuki is up to in your fic? Heh, I hope you enjoy this chapter, though… Thanks for reviewing!!

Kage-shalom: Heh, thanks!! Forbidden Scrolls? Yukio became what she is now thanks to those Scrolls. Ja, thanks for reviewing!!

A: I guess she could be considered Mary Sue, but she is a bad person and fighting Naruto and Gaara, so…. -whistle- Heh, I'm glad my spelling and grammar is good. Usually those suck with me…

Nobuyasha: Thanks a lot! I appreciate you saying that! Here's the next chapter, hope you enjoy!

DarkLinx10: heh, yeah well… sorry… Thanks for liking it!! Oh, I just have a few days off now so I just started writing away… Heh, kinda enjoying it too… It usually takes a little less than three hours to have a chapter finished, just correcting it and making it 'just' right takes a little longer. Thanks for reviewing!

En Satsu Koku Ryuu Ha: Three days?! Whoa, I'm glad you're still reading it! Here's an update! Thanks for reviewing!

Irony: Heh, I'm glad you liked Naruto's actions. My native language? Dutch. And yeah, my English isn't that good, so you might encounter words I use a lot to describe things, heh. And your native language is?

Moonlight's Shadow: Hell yeah!! Hehe, Naruto beat Kyuubi! Thanks for reviewing!!

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It felt great, no more than great. They had finally reached the point where they had always wanted to be. No longer could people point at them, yell at them about being demons. No longer would they be compared to monsters or killers. Perhaps, finally, they would be recognised as beings, genuine beings who just tried to go through life like everyone else, instead of being the reason for all the chaos… Perhaps they would, if they survived fighting the woman before them, that is.

Truth be told, Naruto and Gaara were grinning confidently. Defeating their demons gave them all their Chakra on top of their own. While they had been using most of their own Chakra against their demons, the death of their demons gave them the full Chakra again, making them slightly stronger as their own Chakra had not yet been completely restored to the original amount. But a demon's Chakra and little of your own should be sufficient… Especially when there were two…

Naruto smiled. 'No longer is the Kyuubi inside me… His strength and his Chakra even his speed… they are no longer his, but mine… completely mine… I'll have to get used to this…'

There Where When is Now

Chapter 21

"Kakashi…" Sasuke started, after noticing Shino, Chouji, Hinata, Genma and Aoba had woken up as well. "Why did that Fox Demon turn into Naruto?"

Ino, Sakura, Hinata, Shino, Kiba, Chouji and Shikamaru were standing behind Sasuke and also wanted to know. Gai, who held Lee, looked at Kakashi, who had Asuma on his shoulder, with a serious expression.

Kakashi sighed as he hid his Sharingan. "I guess I can tell you now… since I think the Fourth's Jutsu has now completely finished its job…"

Genma, Aoba and Kurenai were all looking at Gaara and Naruto and silently agreed with Kakashi. It seems the Fourth's Jutsu's full purpose was to ultimately let the vessel kill the demon.

"Nineteen years ago, the Kyuubi attacked our Village. Many Shinobis were killed and most buildings were crashed down. The Kyuubi had hit the Village hard. The Fourth Hokage, the strongest Hokage at that time, arrived at the scene and used one of his own special Jutsu to seal the Kyuubi within a baby. The Kyuubi had never been defeated, because it simply could not be beaten at that time. But to go on, The Fourth died during his own Jutsu, because that particular Jutsu seals himself as well… The Fourth had succeeded and the Kyuubi was sealed within a boy, named Naruto…"

All the rookie Genins from thirteen years ago gasped.

Kakashi continued. "It's odd that none of you guys ever wondered why almost everyone hated Naruto. Strangely enough, instead of seeing Naruto as a legacy of the Fourth Hokage, a hero, almost everyone saw him as the Kyuubi, because the Demon was still alive inside of him. They blamed Naruto was all those deaths, while Naruto himself never had anything to do with it. Imagine, living a life where everyone hates you and on top of that, not even knowing WHY you're being hated. Naruto found out he was the vessel of the Kyuubi thirteen years ago, a few days before he became Genin."

Kakashi sighed at the gloom looks in front of him. 'Perhaps you will be acknowledged now, Naruto…' Kakashi shivered at the Chakra Gaara and Naruto were radiating. 'Such strength they possess now…'

Tsunade and Jiraiya were on the other side of the Battlefield, both awake. "Heh, so that brat finally did it. He has defeated the Kyuubi. Very impressive. And Gaara has succeeded as well. He has defeated the Shukaku. Do you know what that means, Tsunade?" Jiraiya asked with a grin as he looked at Tsunade, who was slowly reverting back to her young state.

Tsunade nodded. "Yes. They are now the strongest Shinobis… And they're also… still Chuunins… I hope they are able to beat the woman."

'So, Naruto was hated for THAT reason? That's… That's too cruel…' Ino thought. 'Even I disliked him back in those days… How Naruto must have felt…'

Sakura's line of thoughts were almost parallel to Ino's. 'To be able to withstand all that hate, without knowing why he was hated… To think ANYONE can endure that… Naruto… I'm sorry…'

Kakashi continued. "But no more. Naruto no longer has the Kyuubi inside of him, I think. I'm guessing he has beaten the Kyuubi now… And gained all of his power… and probably all of his knowledge as well… I wonder what will happen now?"

The older Jounins present nodded. "Naruto-kun, Gaara-kun, I'll pray for you two!!" Gai yelled.

'Damn… so Naruto also had a terrible past…possibly even worse than mine…'Sasuke thought. 'That total idiot… how could he stand all that without killing everyone?!'

'Heh, this much could have been figured from just watching it…' Shikamaru thought. 'It is odd to think Naruto lived with such a burden his entire life… I just thought he was a brat always doing pranks…'

'Naruto-kun… Kyuubi? That's so harsh… And yet, he always smiled… he was always laughing… I… I have been watching him a lot and never noticed anything sad in him all those years ago… Naruto, to think you're that good at putting up a façade…' Hinata thought.

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"Naruto… Tell me, is it true you know a lot more techniques than before now?" Gaara suddenly asked. "I ask because I do know more now… It seems I have truly gained ALL of Shukaku…"

Naruto nodded. "yes, it's true… But how can that be? I… know techniques I never performed before, but somehow, I know what they all do… It's strange…"

Gaara smiled. "Strange, but beneficial… With the amount of Chakra we possess now we can do outstanding techniques…"

Yukio narrowed her eyes at both of them. "Are you two done talking? It's time to settle this! I never expected I'd be forced to do this, but after you two are out of my way, there'll be no single obstacle left…"

"Aw, shut it!" Naruto yelled back. "You'll never beat the two of us!"

Gaara grinned as he inwardly activated all of his defences. "I suggest you kill yourself. Otherwise you will walk a path of only pain and embarrassment…"

Yukio gritted her teeth and in less than a second two Dragon Blasts were heading for Naruto and Gaara.

"What the…!?" Yukio was more than surprised to see Naruto use a special Chakra field of some sort and watched as her Dragon Blast seemed to struggle to get through. Moving her shocked gaze to Gaara she that her Dragon Blast didn't reach Gaara by a few millimetres… Sand had stopped its way. Yukio managed to jump out of the way as her own Dragon Blast came back at her as Naruto shot it back with his Chakra.

"Give up. Fighting even one of us will prove too much for you. Fighting the two of us will be fatal to you… Bow and accept death." Gaara offered as he had his arms folded.

Naruto grinned as he tried to mimic Gaara and folded his arms as well. "Yeah!!"

Yukio shook her head and rushed forward and awesome speed, appearing behind Gaara, crushing through his defence and knocking him hard away. She continued to attack Naruto, who blocked the punch and kick Yukio gave and countered her Chakra Wave with his own Chakra, causing the ground to shake.

Gaara rose to his feet. Sand was falling from his back, where Yukio had hit him. 'Hmm, as I thought. She IS stronger than me or Naruto…' He thought as Yukio grabbed Naruto's face with her two arms and head butted him hard backwards.

Gaara immediately released a huge Sand Wave towards Yukio, big enough to swallow a whole Village. Yukio used Chakra to dispel the Jutsu and rushed through the remaining sand to hit Gaara, crashing through his defence and again managing to hit him through his Armor as well.

Gaara grinned as he landed, while blood was pouring from the left corner of his mouth. 'She's using too much Chakra. Even though she has plenty, she shouldn't use that much to defend against attacks. Against us that will be a mistake…'

Naruto was doing hand seal after hand seal. "Hyousoundare!!"

Yukio frowned as she found herself on a huge mountain, it seemed she was somewhere totally different. The mountain Naruto had created this time was the hugest ever.

The Konoha Jounins and Chuunins were gaping at the huge mountain before them.

Gaara smiled as he also found himself on the mountain. 'I'll have to get out of here before I also get hit…'

'Genjutsu?' Yukio thought before she watched above her to see Naruto. She immediately ran towards him, only to see Naruto throw a huge avalanche at her. Yukio's eyes widened.

Yukio quickly jumped as high as she could, avoiding most of the Avalanche, until a larger wave of ice and snow managed to take her down. Naruto smiled as Yukio screamed in pain as the Ice sliced and smothered her from every side.

As Naruto made the mountain disappear, Gaara performed seals. Yukio did not have time to recover as Gaara released a new technique as well. "Fuuton Gufuu Renkuudan!!"

Yukio watched in terror as a huge Chakra-induced Wind Blast came at her, spinning at the same time. Yukio found herself in the middle of it and had to use Chakra to keep her body together. She screamed in pain as the Jutsu threatened to rip her entire body apart. 'D-damn!! Such power they possess!!'

As Gaara's Jutsu stopped, Yukio used her Chakra to heal herself. 'Fighting both of them at the same time is too hard. I'll have to take one out fast.'

"It is over. You've used far too much Chakra already." Gaara seriously uttered. "We will kill you now…"

Yukio screamed in full fury as she lunged at Gaara at full speed. Gaara was blown backwards harshly and found a Dragon Blast making an impact on his defence but saw as a second Dragon Blast hit him full on the body, penetrating his Armor of Sand as well… Gaara landed on the ground, grunting in pain as his torso was burning. 'Tch… Her speed…'

Naruto stared wide-eyed before bracing himself as Yukio turned to him and appeared behind him. Naruto also appeared behind her only to face Yukio's elbow. As Naruto landed on his back, Yukio had already grabbed his right leg and threw him in the air, immediately following him with a move similar to the Shadow Dance. But instead of appearing behind the enemy, Yukio appeared in front of Naruto. "Ryuuken Rendan!!"

Naruto could do nothing as Yukio began with a slicing sweep with her feet across his hip, creating a gash because of the sharp Chakra. Naruto never moved away because of the hit as it just barely skimmed at him, but the effect was a lot bigger than one would expect. She continued with another sweeping motion with her arm, also just to use Chakra to create a wound on Naruto's body. This time she hit Naruto's chest, causing a huge rip in his skin to appear, as she ripped through his dark red cloak. Yukio continued with a somersault in the air, slicing across Naruto's stomach, chest and face. Naruto screamed as Yukio performed the Shadow Dance and appeared behind Naruto. "Ryukagusai!!"

With a huge cloud of Chakra around her, Yukio embraced Naruto with it and made it slice at Naruto from all sides, before slamming Naruto downwards.

Gaara softened Naruto's impact on the ground with sand and watched as Naruto healed his wounds with his Chakra. 'This is not good… The both of us are also using too much Chakra, especially Naruto… But he also has a lot more Chakra than I do…'

Yukio landed in front of Gaara with grin on her face. "Heh, you two are also using a lot Chakra. How's your stomach?"

Unlike Naruto, Gaara couldn't really heal himself as fast. Because his defence didn't often let anything through, he never really bothered. He could heal himself, but it just took longer than Naruto, who could do it instantly. Speaking of which, Naruto was already up and ready to fight again.

Gaara narrowed his eyes at Yukio. 'She is powerful… but I think we can take her…'

This time, it was Naruto who used his newfound speed to surprise Yukio and had created two Shadow Clones underneath Yukio, who were both now holding her legs. Yukio used Chakra to destroy both of them, but was too late to dodge the three Rasengans Naruto had thrown at her and she fell on the ground several feet away.

Gaara quickly performed hand seals. "Suna Shuurajou!!"

Yukio rose from the ground, still recovering from the Rasengans that had ripped through her stomach. But purple Chakra was already healing it. Yukio's eyes widened as hardened sand spikes appeared around her and drilled through her body. Yukio screamed in pain.

Naruto and Gaara simply looked at the screaming, bleeding woman with a serious expression, not feeling the slightest pity for her as she started coughing up blood.

Yukio then gathered a lot of Chakra to make the Sand spikes disappear and immediately fell to the ground, letting her Chakra heal her. 'Damn them!!'

Yukio, still bleeding, rolled sideways as se saw Naruto above her, with another Rasengan ready. The Rasengan ripped through the ground as Yukio jumped to her feet, Chakra still healing her from the massive wounds she inflicted.

Naruto landed in front of her. Yukio somersaulted away to avoid being embraced by a huge hand of sand. Naruto performed hand seals again. "Kyuu Muchutsu!!"

Yukio jumped from the left to right repeatedly, avoiding nine whip-formed Chakra shapes, who all crumbled through the ground easily with each strike. As the nine whips stopped, Yukio performed her own technique. "Kage Ryudan!!"

Naruto was ripped to pieces as what seemed like Purple Chakra Blades, came from out of Yukio's Shadow and were shot towards Naruto. Yukio looked annoyed as another Naruto appeared to her left and yelled. "Ryouganku no Jutsu!!"

Yukio jumped backwards to avoid the huge wave of lava coming out of Naruto's mouth. As Yukio landed on the ground, she immediately got surrounded by sand and got trapped in.

Gaara smirked. "This was known as the Sphere of Shukaku… but now I call it the Sphere of Gaara…" Gaara spoke out loud. 'I have to be quick, knowing her power, she can probably get out easily…'

Gaara immediately let hundreds of hardened spikes appear inside the Sphere to cut at the enemy. When no scream was hurt, Gaara let the Sphere grow smaller to squeeze her and ended by letting it explode.

Gaara snarled. 'So she escaped before I started…' From underground and behind Gaara, Yukio appeared, only to be blown away by an intervening Naruto, who kicked her hard in the side of her face, not letting her attack Gaara from behind.

Gaara and Naruto were standing next to each other as they watched Yukio stand up again.

"Damn, she's really strong, Gaara." Naruto said. "If you can stop her movements, I'll give her my best attack…" He whispered.

Yukio chuckled. "Idiot. You think I don't hear your whispering? But it's useless, because even your best attack won't be able to harm me…"

Gaara performed hand seals fast. Naruto recognised the hand seals and stopped him. "No, don't use that one… it'll put you out of the fight and… it's not sure whether it would work on someone like her… In this situation, the Shinken is definitely a suicide move, Gaara…"

Gaara still had his hand clapped together, but continued to do other hand seals. "Fine… Hangetsuzan!" Gaara's right arm grew a lot bigger and he let it soar towards Yukio..

Yukio easily side-stepped the huge arm and threw another Dragon Blast at Gaara, who managed to let his defences stop it. Naruto rushed forward while yelling "Suiton, Suidan Daitoppa!!"

Chakra surrounded Naruto and from out of the Chakra huge Waterballs were released, all towards Yukio. Yukio gritted her teeth as she tried to do everything she could to avoid getting hit. She felt those Waterballs packed a lot of power.

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"What a battle…" Lee uttered. He had woken up a few minutes ago and was on Gai's back, as he could not stand on his own. "Naruto-kun and Gaara of the Desert… They're so strong…"

Kakashi nodded. "Indeed… They're the strongest Shinobis I've ever seen…" Kakashi had his mouth open under his mask as he was staring at the battle. 'None of us can join the battle now… We would simply be destroyed in an instant when Yukio spots us interfering…'

Sasuke was narrowing his eyes at the battle. 'They're doing impossible Jutsus, even one of the Jutsus they use take a lot of Chakra… Enough Chakra to make a regular Jounin almost tired… And they're performing one after another, not showing any sign of getting tired… How can anyone become that strong?!' Sasuke dropped his gaze to the ground. 'How can you expect a rival now, Naruto?'

Jiraiya analyzed the battle. "Without the Kyuubi's Chakra, Naruto and Gaara both were already stronger than me… now with the Kyuubi's Chakra, they've more than doubled their power. But since they've lost most of their own Chakra fighting their own demons, both of them are not fighting at their fullest power… If they had all of their own Chakra, they would crush the woman easily…"

'Naruto… You've become so strong… Where all of us could do nothing against her when she was a lot weaker than now, you manage to hurt her in the state she is in now.' Sakura thought. 'I can't believe the Chakra I sense within Naruto and Gaara…'

'She was the first ever to be able to throw me out with Chakra alone and that was when she was in a weaker state than she is in now. I don't want to know how strong she is now, but Naruto and Gaara are actually pushing her back. They are so much stronger than me…' Ino thought. 'I think Naruto and Gaara can throw me out with their Chakra alone as well.'

All of the Jounins and Chuunins looked up to see Iruka, Temari, Kankurou, Baki, Ten-Ten and a few Genins approaching.

"Lee-sensei!!"

Lee looked to see the Genins Hyuga Hanabi, Gekkou Toji and Morino Ujin walk up to him as he was still on Gai's back.

Hanabi snorted at him. "Hmph! You're weak, Sensei! You can't even stand on your own!" Toji and Ujin nodded in agreement as they shook their heads.

Lee pouted, before he started to sob silently in embarrassment. Gai just chuckled. "So these are your students, Lee? They look impressive! True examples of Youth Power indeed!!"

The other Jounins sweat dropped.

"Oy, Nara-sensei! Why are you not helping out there?"

Shikamaru groaned, not liking that he had to turn his face to see who of his students was talking to him. 'Of course. Damn brat…' Shikamaru thought as Konohamaru was standing in front of him, with Moegi by his side. His other student, Aoba Ruin, was talking to his father, the Konoha Jounin Aoba, who was standing with Genma.

"Because it's too troublesome. If I head in there, I'd only get killed. Only morons fight a battle they know they're going to lose, idiot."

Konohamaru wanted to reply, but couldn't find anything smart to say back. "I like that last sentence, Nara-sensei!" Shikamaru just groaned and turned away.

'Gaara…' Temari was watching her little brother fight the incredible battle. 'Together with Naruto, he's facing the strongest of them all… Their Chakra is all over this place…'

Kankurou and Baki thought just about the same thing as they observed Gaara.

"Kakashi. What happened?" Iruka asked as he stepped next to Kakashi. "Naruto is back…" Kakashi could hear the relief and joy in Iruka's voice as he said that. He let Iruka continue. "What happened?"

"It seems Naruto has killed the Kyuubi, Iruka. He's completely free…"

Iruka's eyes widened at Kakashi, before he turned away and stared at the fighting Naruto.

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Naruto found himself in the air, groaning in pain as Yukio had sent him flying hard backwards. He skidded hard over the ground before he came to a stop. 'Damn it, Damn it!, DAMN IT!! We're not moving forward!!' Naruto thought as he watched Gaara trying to catch Yukio with awesome and huge sand attacks, but saw Yukio easily dodge them or simply rush through them. Even when hardened sand spikes were surrounding Yukio from all sides, Yukio managed to escape and appear behind Gaara, who was forced to drop his attack to gather all his Chakra to guard against Yukio's attack.

Naruto ran back to them and performed a new set of seals. "Taiyuu Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!!"

Yukio's eyes widened as she saw thousands and thousands of Shadow Clones around her. Even Gaara looked slightly surprised. 'Heh, so this is what it means to have a Demon's Chakra…'

Gaara was allowed to jump away through all the Shadow Clones, but Yukio wasn't.

Almost all Shadow Clones gripped Shurikens and Kunais. "Ok!! This is the ultimate Naruto Combo!!"

More than a thousand Shadow Clones began throwing Kunai after Kunai and Shuriken after Shuriken at her, while the remaining Shadow Clones were moving underground.

Yukio dodged most of the Kunai and Shuriken and only got hit on areas where it wouldn't really matter. All of a sudden, she fell through the ground and found herself by a lot of other Shadow Clones. Held in place, Yukio could not dodge the next rain of Kunai and Shuriken. Yukio screamed…

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"Damn, he created a lot of them…" Kiba said as he petted Akamaru, who was standing next to him. "Damn that idiot, there's no way I can beat him now…"

Sakura and Ino were staring unbelieving at the thousands of Naruto Shadow Clones.

The Genins were all more than impressed and were watching the battle with wide opened eyes. "That's Naruto-nii-chan!!" Konohamaru yelled. 'How… He's become so strong… I'm jealous…'

Shikamaru analyzed everything. 'He's created so many Shadow Clones… but sensing his Chakra, every Shadow Clone apart has more than enough Chakra to give a lot of damage. If I would fight him, there's not a single way I would win… He can easily get out of my Shadow Bind and any other techniques I have are too weak to even tickle him now, I bet. How troublesome…'

Tsunade had now fully regained her young state and was watching the battle before her with Jiraiya. "We could probably join in now, Jiraiya."

Jiraiya shook his head. "No way. They're far more powerful than the both of us. Even summoning GamaBunta or Katsuyu now would make no difference…"

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With an incredible explosion of purple Chakra, Naruto found himself blown away and all of his Shadow Clones defeated. 'How?! How can we beat someone like her!! She fights just like me and Gaara and on top of that, she is able to heal herself as fast as me!'

Gaara continued fighting Yukio, letting about twenty fast and huge hands of sand roam around the area, all of them trying to grab and ultimately squeeze Yukio to death. 'I'll let my new version of the Sabaku Kyuu active while I attack her.' Gaara performed a new set of seals. "Suna Shuriken!!" Gaara was a little surprised his Sand Shurikens were now a lot bigger and faster than before, but couldn't be very disappointed with it…

Yukio growled in anger as sand was all around her and it became more difficult to dodge all those huge hands and now the Sand Shurikens Gaara had thrown at her. 'They just won't give up!!'

Yukio's eyes widened as two Rasengans were about to hit her. She dodged at the last second and watched the Rasengans destroy two hands of sand.

While Gaara focused on the hands of sand to make them faster, Naruto jumped in the middle and started a hand to hand combat with Yukio.

Gaara narrowed his eyes. 'I'll have to do it, Naruto… It's the only way we'll really destroy her.'

It was a new technique Gaara had learned from Itachi. While it took a lot of Chakra and put the user unconscious for AT LEAST two days, Gaara wanted to do it. Itachi did it on him once and Itachi was unconscious for almost a week. Gaara wondered how long he would be unconscious now, now that he had gained the Shukaku's Chakra as well. When Itachi had performed the Shinken on him, Gaara found all of his defences disabled, simply because everything around him had simply… stopped. He could not move, not talk, not move his eyes and not channel Chakra in any way. It only took about three minutes and there was a chance the victim was put into a coma afterwards, but that chance was only meant for victims who had a Chakra level lower than that of a high-levelled Chuunin, but Itachi was almost out for a week. The Jutsu was useful in this situation, Gaara figured, but it would make him unconscious, that was sure. And then there was the chance that it would not work at all on someone like Yukio, as Naruto had stated before… Gaara was still hesitating…

Fists connected with each other as Naruto tried to hit Yukio and Vice versa.

Suddenly all of the sand towered above Naruto and Yukio. Gaara took the element of surprise to quickly use sand to take Naruto away and drop all other sand on Yukio.

As Yukio flew out of the sand, she rushed forward…

Gaara performed a few seals and this time ignored Naruto as he said. "Gaara, no!"

"Shinken!!"

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TBC

Author's Note: Hehe, well, in the next chapter the fight will end. What will happen?! Will Konoha fall? Will Naruto die? Or Gaara? Or both? Will the Shinken (Death Shield) fail? Shinken means the user loses every sense (five senses – sight, hearing, smell, touch, taste) and the capability of moving around and channelling Chakra for three to ten minutes… After that, the victim regains everything again, any victims who are regular Chuunin or lower fall into coma. Anything higer will just stay conscious, perhaps being dizzy a bit after regaining all senses back in one small and fast moment.

I know this chapter was rather short…(around 4800 words when I type this) Sorry! I'll release the next chapter as fast I can, but I have a prom tomorrow(Tuesday) and the day after that I'm gonna go to the beach reeeaaallly early… I usually type my chapter after 1:00 AM, I'm somewhat a night-person, or what do you call it? Newayz, I hope you enjoyed the chapter. Please R&R!

G'bye!