Past meets Future

Just so's you know if you don't watch Dragonball Z at all, (name)-mirai mean, like, future (...). So like Naruto-mirai means future Naruto. . just so's you know.

Sakura and Ino charged at each other. Both past their last leg. Both determined not to lose. Every one stared down in the ring watching the fight, which had been going on for over twenty minutes. Sakura's fist struck Ino's face the same moment Ino's struck hers. Sakura's vision began to blur, but it wasn't like she was about to black out. The floor churned and pitched and several ninja's were thrown from the balcony onto the arena. A shudder like a heart beat went through her and she thought she saw someone standing calmly in front of her. Then everything went black.

Gaara jerked awake when he felt the Shukaku stirring. Looking around, he saw his sister and brother and several leaf-nins lying about him. Something gently shook his shoulder.

Sitting up he saw a boy kneeling next to him. He had red hair down his back and a knee-length sand colored poncho. He was wearing a traveling hat so Gaara couldn't see his face from the tip of his nose up. "Are you alright?" he asked. Gaara ignored him and stood up. "And your friends?"

"I have no friends."

"That's right, I forgot. You don't yet."

"What?"

Gaara looked at the boy in confusion. The boy stood with a smile. "Wake your friends and go to 1725 Gata road. Someone there will help you." He turned and walked away, leaving Gaara very confused, indeed. One of the leaf-jounin (Kakashi) sat up. If he noticed Gaara he didn't say anything and began waking the others. Thirteen gennins, and one other jounin. Kankurou, Temari, Shino, Shikamaru, Ino, Ten Ten, Sakura, Naruto, Kiba, Neji, Hinata, Lee, and Gai. Gaara watch Kakashi out of the corner of his eye as the jounin shook them awake. The ninjas sat around for a few minutes trying to understand what had happened. None of them had any idea.

"Before I blanked out," Sakura put in, "I though I saw Gaara standing in front of me."

"That's impossible," Temari said. "Gaara was next to me the whole time."

Sakura frowned. "I'm just saying I thought I saw. It might not've been him, but someone appeared in front of me with red hair and dark circles around their eyes." The older sand-nins looked doubtful. Gaara said nothing. He hadn't been in front of her, but he had seen something similar as well.

"I believe you, Sakura-chan." Naruto said, though it fell on deaf ears.

Kakashi turned to Gaara. "Who were you talking to before I woke up?" Everyone turned to look at Gaara.

"He woke me up." Gaara replied, glaring Kakashi down, but the glare had no effect on him.

"Did he say anything?"

Gaara paused, pondering whether he should just ignore him, answer him, or kill him. He chose B. "Go to 1725 Gata road," Gaara answered. "Someone there would help us."

"Interesting." Kakashi said.

"Why didn't you say that earlier?" Kankurou asked. Gaara glared at him and Kankurou wisely shut up.

"Let's go there then." Gai said, placing a hand on Lee and Ten Ten's shoulders.

Temari banged her fan on the ground. "Where's that?"

"Gata road is around the corner from my house." Naruto said, pointing. "Does that mean we're still in Konoha?"

"Perhaps." Kakashi said. Naruto led them all through the streets to Gata rd, pointing to his own house on the way to prove his last statement. At number 1725 they stopped.

"It's an old inn." Naruto explained. "It closed down a week before I graduated."

Gai and Kakashi went up and knocked on the door. Someone inside said they were coming. The door opened and Kakashi stuck his hand behind his head.

"Sorry...um...we're having a dilemma, and we were told to come—what the...?!" he stared at the person in the doorway, then turned and looked behind him at the gennins then back again. Everyone looked in to see what was wrong. A girl with sandy blond hair in four ponytails and dark green eyes opened the door wider and leaned against it, frowning.

"T-Temari?!"

End of chapter 1

Chapter 2: Complicated Situations