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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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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------

Naruto just stood on top of Gamabunta speechless.

"Oi! Oi! Of all the things you could have summoned you had to summon a huge pile of dog bones." Yelled Naruto towards Kimimaro.

Everyone present there just sweat dropped at his exclamation.

"Hey Naruto don't underestimate that bag of bones it might not look like much but it's strong." Said Gamabunta while Gaara just nodded.

"Heh strong my ass. After I finish it off I'll take a piece for Kiba's dog." Said Naruto while Akamaru gave a bark of approval from the side lines.

Tayuya watched Kimimaro while standing beside him on top of Madoka. Madoka was the sacred summon of Kimimaro's clan. She had only seen him use it twice before in a fight and one was when he fought with Orochimaru-sama. For Kimimaro to summon Madoka now must mean that the 2 brats were a force to be feared of. She quickly focused her chakra below her feet to stay on top of Madoka. She could feel Kimimaro's anger of being ridiculed by Naruto. Boy were they going to pay. Little did she know how wrong she was.

Everyone on the side lines were watching with awed expressions as most of them had never seen such a battle before. The only ones who perhaps had seen such battles were Kankuro, Temari and Sasuke. Everyone was silently waiting to see what Naruto and Gaara would do as they could feel the power radiating from the skeleton, everyone that is except Sasuke. He was still finding it had to believe that someone like Naruto could become so strong and so skilled, someone like Gaara he could understand but Naruto?. He did not want to admit it but he was no where near Naruto's level now. Not by a long shot. Vision of Naruto's words kept playing in his head over and over again "Change your attitude and I'll help you gain the strength you need." Sasuke finally gave in to the change that was taking place within him. He was slowly starting to understand what Naruto was trying to say. And for the first time in a while he felt that he had a true chance of being strong without being a burden like he had before.

Naruto decided to make the first move in order to judge how strong the summon was.

"Hey frog boss gimme some oil!" yelled Naruto.

Gamabunta obliged and shot a huge stream of flammable oil out of his mouth while Naruto shot a stream of fire out of his mouth. Kimimaro looked surprised for a moment before he smirked and did a few hand seals before slamming his palm on the head of Madoka and yelling.

"MADOKA!! Wail of the crescent moon!"

The moment the words left Kimimaro's mouth the tusks of the elephant shot out of the skeleton like a boomerang. It headed straight towards the oncoming inferno that Naruto caused. But before it touched the flames the tusks shot up to the air and started spinning madly and to everyone's surprise the flames followed the wild tusks like a magnet. And the tusks right now were heading straight towards Naruto, Gaara and Gamabunta.

"Shit! Hey boss we need some airtime now!" yelled Naruto.

Gamabunta just grunted a response before he shot up towards the sky like a bullet. The force of the jump was enough to put the fire out. But before they could react they found Kimimaro doing another set of hand seals while placing his hand on top of Madoka's head.

"Vines of the scourge!" yelled Kimimaro.

The moment Gamabunta touched down to the ground he found himself unable to move as both his front and back feet were being held down by bones coming out of the ground. Naruto and Gaara were trying to find out what the hell Kimimaro did while Gamabunta struggled to free himself from the stupid bones.

Gaara then spotted the skeleton's trunk embedded on the ground while Kimimaro was doing another set of hand seals, most likely to finish of the fight. Gaara them informed Naruto as to what was happening and they both agreed on one solution. Take the fight personally to Kimimaro.

"Hey boss. The moment your free do your thing and finish off the skeleton. Gaara and I will take out the freak. Ok?" Naruto whispered to Gamabunta.

"Heh kid just get this stupid toothpicks off me and I'll show you what the great boss of the toads is capable of doing."

Naruto just gave his trade mark foxy grin. While he began to make his move. He nodded to Gaara who immediately took of to the ground towards Kimimaro with Naruto hiding in his shadow.

"Desert tsunami!" said Gaara in a cold voice.

Tayuya and Kimimaro's eyed widened as they witnessed a huge wave of sand towering over 20 stories head towards them. Without any choice they broke of the jutsu holding Gamabunta while they used Madoka to disperse of the oncoming onslaught. That was their fatal mistake.

The moment the sand dispersed they were greeted with the sight of Gamabunta's katana heading towards the 2 of them. Without any further option they jumped of Madoka to avoid being sliced into 2, Gamabunta ignored them and slammed himself into Madoka while driving the katana into its eyeless eye socket. The beast made a sound while Gamabunta supposed was a scream, but without any vocal cords it was hard to be certain. So just to make sure it was indeed a scream Gamabunta took the liberty of twisting the sword shattering the left side of the skeleton's face.

An unearthly howl broke through the battle field while Gamabunta just smirked and continued his attack.

Tayuya and Kimimaro were unable to believe what was happening in front of them Madoka was being trashed to the ground and without Kimimaro to summon its jutsu's Madoka was a sitting duck.

"Hey hey forgot about us?" asked Naruto as he appeared beside Kimimaro.

Kimimaro spun around just in time to avoid Naruto's chakra enhanced kick. Tayuya was about to interfere but she found herself being quickly wrapped in Gaara's sand.

"Do not interfere Naruto said not to kill you, so do not force Me." Said Gaara while he too joined the fray.

Kimimaro was having a tough time dealing with Naruto and Gaara. He expected Naruto to know taijutsu but not Gaara, as he heard that Gaara only relied on his sand to do his attacks for him.

"Their taijutsu is almost as good as mine" whispered Lee to the group of genin.

Everyone could just blink at him and Gaara and they never expected to hear that or see Gaara performing taijutsu.

"But it's different from the type of fighting I have seen. I have never seen this style of fighting before, it's like they is no defense only offence." Said Lee further.

"What do you mean no defense only offence?" asked Neji. Everyone turned towards lee for an answer while the fight continued.

"I mean just look at their movement. It's extremely fluid and agile. It's not like regular taijutsu of the Konoha style taijutsu. And they are not blocking any of Kimimaro's attacks, they receive it and use its energy and force to return the hits. Look! Look!! See that hit? Naruto-kun took the kick straight in his back, but instead of jumping or blocking he took it and used the force of the kick to perform a cartwheel and kicking Kimimaro's face. I mean it's unbelievable. Whoever thought Naruto-kun and Gaara-san must have been a master of taijutsu. I wonder if Naruto-kun will teach me if I ask him. " Explained lee to the awed group of genins.

Naruto was getting tired of fighting Kimimaro as all his attacks were being blocked by his stupid bones. So he decided to end it.

"Hey Gaara lets finish this. I'm getting hungry."

Gaara just nodded and jumped away performing some hand seals.

"You stupid brats, I'll kill you for your insolence!!" yelled Kimimaro.

"Heh not if we kill you first!" yelled Naruto.

Before Kimimaro could reach spikes of sand impaled him all over his body.

"Uagghh!!.Wh..what is this!" yelled Kimimaro while blood splattered from his mouth.

"Spikes of Shukaku." Said Gaara like it was the most obvious thing in the world.

"Now to end this. Rasengan!!" yelled Naruto as he charged towards the immobilized Kimimaro.

Kimimaro and Tayuya could only watch in horror as Naruto slammed his palm containing the rasengan on Kimimaro's face. Blood, brains and bones splattered everywhere before Kimimaro's body fell lifeless.

Naruto then turned to Tayuya while Gaara's sand started to eat up all the blood oozing out of Kimimaro's headless body.

Tayuya could only shiver in fear as Naruto approached her.

"Look I don't want to kill you. I sensed that you don't really have any evil intentions within you. So most likely you were just following orders before. Now go back to the snake face and tell him what happened. And make sure you tell him that it was Konoha's shinobi's who did this and that we are coming for him soon. Understand?

Tayuya could only nod as Naruto waved her off. She immediately took off while thinking about what Naruto said to her. "I sensed that you don't really have any evil intentions within you. So most likely you were just following orders before". What did he mean?