I don't own Naruto or any of its characters.

Pairings: Naruto x Sakura x Naruto x Hinata x Naruto and others

Info: This story follows after Sasuke left leaf to join Orochimaru. Naruto and gang manage to get him back and I'm taking it from there.

English is not my first language; please inform me if there are any mistakes I'll correct them.

NOTE: in this fic I made it as Shikamaru never passed the chunnin test.

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AN: Sorry everyone. I wanted to post more but this is what happens when you forget to pay your internet bill. So I'm really sorry for the delay.

Ok. Regarding the Sasuke retrieval mission, here is how it goes in my story. Out of the sound 5 only Tayuya and Kimimaro survived the fight. Gaara was never in it. The reason I'm telling you guys this now is because in this chapter the 2 of them are going to make and appearance. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------

Gaara was enjoying his fight with Kimimaro; he was enjoying it for 2 reasons. The first is because Kimimaro was strong the second is because he was gruesome and had a sweet spot for blood like himself. After training with Itachi and Naruto and after Shukaku was sealed he Gaara had changed immensely, he was no longer a cold blooded monster with an unnatural thirst for blood. He was now a fully trained shinobi with a thirst for blood. Kimimaro was still trying to get past Gaara's sand shield with his bone sword but it was getting him no where every time he destroyed his sand shield a new laver appears almost immediately behind the destroyed one, and what was more infuriating was the fact that he the strongest of the sand 5 was not able to injure the sand brat, Gaara was just standing there like there like he had nothing better to do. So far the only time Gaara moved was at the beginning of the fight when he tried to attack Kimimaro with a kunai but the attack was stopped but multiple bones protruding from all over his body. Gaara retreated from the attack and although he could have easily broken through Kimimaro's defense, he decided to back away for awhile to observe Kimimaro's full ability.

Kimimaro's was confident that he could beat the sand brat, after all he was one of Orochimaru-sama's most trusted shinobi, his confidence was also boosted after observing that Gaara backed away after being stopped by his defense. Kimimaro knew that he had to complete this mission without any glitches; he did not have much longer to live as he was dying from his bloodline ability. His only hope was that he could show Orochimaru-sama he was still useful and that Orochimaru-sama would use one of his forbidden jutsu's to heal him. He knew it was a long shot but he was not ready to leave this world. He wanted to be by his mentor's side when he destroyed the leaf village, and the only thing standing in his way was the brat in front of him.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------- All the genins just watched in horror as Tayuya's summons were charging towards Naruto. Shikamaru was trembling as he clearly remembered what those summons were capable of doing. Everyone was jus about to run in and help Naruto when they heard Naruto say in a gruff voice.

"Stop and return to Orochimaru I don't want to kill you"

Tayuya did not listen instead she made her summons charge forward with even more ferocity.

"I see. Very well.....BLOOD WAVE!!" yelled Naruto.

Immediately Naruto's red nine tail shield formed a huge protective barrier around him while forcing Tayuya's summons to stay at bay. Tayuya was shocked to see the powerful shield around Naruto but she continued to attack him. Meanwhile Naruto was contemplating what to do to Tayuya's summons, at first he wanted to summon one of his foxes to take care of it but he decided against it as he wanted to keep it a trump card, so he did the only other thing he could he used his toad summon. With a final burst of chakra for his blood wave he pushed back Tayuya and her summons to buy him enough time to perform the summoning.

The rest of the genins were just watching the scene without missing a beat, everyone wanted to see what Naruto would do in this situation, and soon all their question were answered when they heard Naruto yell.

"Kuchiyose no jutsu" (an:spelling?)

Everyone's eyes bulged out when they saw a 20 story toad with Naruto standing on his head appear in front of them.

"Oi Naruto why the hell did you summon me here?!!" Asked Gamabunta.

"Eh boss toad. Sorry I guess I used too much chakra in the summoning. I was trying to summon Gamasuma." Answered Naruto.

"You dumb brat. You're the only one I know who dares to summon the great Gamabunta for every trivial matter you get into. So what's the problem since I'm already here I'll take care of it."

"Ah you see those 3 freaks down there? They are that girls summons and I need you to destroy them." Answered Naruto.

"Ha ha ha. Those 3 weaklings what a joke. Anyway where's Gaara?"

"He's over there fighting that freak."

Tayuya and Kimimaro could not believe that Naruto had the nerve to ignore them in a middle of a fight but before they could do anything Gamabunta shot his tongue out and grabbed Gaara and put him on his head beside Naruto.

"Naruto why did you summon Gamabunta? You should be able to finish off that girl with ease." Asked Gaara.

"Aaa you see...Aahhhh forget it. Let's just finish this mission already".

Gamabunta told Naruto and Gaara to hang on as he sensed that Kimimaro was performing his own summoning. Before any of them could stop him a huge skeleton of a elephant stood in front of them.