Past to Future

Chapter 2: Gaara's future metamorphosis

Hey guys! Oooo! That first chapter looked a lot longer in my little notebook then on computer. (Does a Naruto thinking face).... Well this one is hopefully going to be longer. And a bit more exciting. Here it is.

Oh yeah...remember:

1. -mirai after a name means they're the future people.

2. "... " Talking

3. ' ... ' Thinking

4. bold Shukaku talking

The ninjas stared at the girl in the doorway.

"T-Temari?"

"Yes," the girl said. She looked them over, the frowned and went into a defensive position. "Who are you?!"

"Um....Hatake Kakashi," Kakashi replied, not sure of what else to say.

"Temari, who's at the door?" another Kankurou stepped up to the door, then stopped when he saw who it was. Then blinked when he saw himself. "Whoa...now that's weird." He smiled. "Why're you so tense, Temari?" he asked the other Temari. "It's them, playing some joke."

"Neither's back yet." the Temari said stubbornly. "Well, one is, but he was just here!"

"Please, Mrs...Temari.." Gai said going passed Kakashi and up to her, "let us explain—"he grasped her hands and she punched him all the way across the street.

"Don't touch me! You're weird!" she screeched. Gaara had stepped to the side to avoid Gai and the movement caught the other Temari's attention. "Gaara! When did you get back? Did you find the seal?" she went up to Gaara who glared at her, already confused and this person who looked like his sister was invading his personal space. Maybe he should just kill her.

"Temari, wait!" the other Temari stopped and looked back and the Kankurou in the doorway. "That's..not Gaara."

"Yes, I am," Gaara said the same time the other Temari said, "Yes, he is."

"No, no I...don't think..so." the doorway-Kankurou was frowning unsure at Gaara, then he looked around at the others. "Something's not right." They stood and stared at each other. Confused, or more confused then before the ninjas were unsure of what to do.

"Temari! Kankurou!" a ninja stood on the roofs across the street. "Hokage- sama says to bring these ninjas to the main office immediately."

"Hokage knows about them?" doorway-Kankurou asked.

"Apparently." The ninja disappeared in a puff of smoke.

"Well, um, lets go then." The other Temari said to them. The two sand-nins led the ninjas down the road that all of them had walked before. The ninja's began recognizing the streets that led to the Hokage building, though they were a bit changed. The ninja's were whispering to each other, while the sand-nins ahead of them were doing the same. When they reached the Hokage building, the Hokage told them to take a seat in the chairs prepared for them.

"T-Tsunade-sennin!" Kakashi said in surprised.

"Yes, Kakashi," the fifth female Hokage said. "I have been informed of the situation and will explain it to you." She adjusted her shirt and continued. "It's not a trick, nor a spell." She pointed to the two Temari's and Kankurou's. "You are both Temari and Kankurou. Let me explain!" she said as they opened their mouths to protest. She stood ad walked around her desk. "To make a long story short, it was all Gaara's fault."

Everyone: "........"

"I think we should hear a longer version of the short story." The other Kankurou said.

Tsunade sighed. "On his mission, Gaara—our Gaara, not you," she said to the Gaara sitting in front of her. "On his mission, Gaara stumbled on a small deck of rare, yet famous cards with a spirit sealed into each one. These cards are called Element Cards that can be released and controlled with chakra. Gaara experimented on one to see what would happen. The Card he released was the spirit of time and space, a very, very difficult Card to use because, to control it, you have to keep your mind focused on one specific thing, or things go wrong. Gaara didn't know this and this is the result." She gestured to the crowd in front of her. "What confuses me is that the Card is very wild and would return to the Card willingly, and Gaara didn't say in his report what he did with it only that he sealed it away."

"Maybe he got it back in the Card?" Kankurou-mirai suggested.

Tsunade turned and picked up something on her desk. "This is the Card that Time and Space was sealed in. It's blank." She held it up for them to see. "If it was in this Card there would be black signs on it. No Gaara sealed it some where else and he isn't incline to tell me where it is." She placed the Card down and turned back to her audience. "If I understand him right, you all were involved in the Chûnin exam when you were dragged here. Yes?"

"The Chûnin exam?" Temari-mirai said. "The one when we first met the leafs? That was five years ago."

"Fu-five years?"

"Yes." Tsunade said, obviously getting bored.

"So we're in the future?" Sakura asked.

"Yes."

"And we'll get to meet our future selves?" Ino added.

"You've already met two of them." Tsunade nodded to the other Temari and Kankurou. "This is Temari and Kankurou of the Village Hidden in the Sand. They have been living here in Konoha with their younger brother for the past four years now. I have no idea where everyone else is at the moment."

"Everyone is here in the village." Temari-mirai put in. "Naruto's back. He stopped by earlier to see if Gaara was back."

"How is it that the sand-nins can live here in Konoha?" Kakashi asked.

"The Kazekage has given them permission to stay here, although many believe he'd rather not have to bother with certain people he feels is a danger to Sunaga village." Tsunade spoke as though she disagreed with the Kazekage's decision.

"Me." Gaara stated.

"Yes, he still doesn't trust your ability to control the Shukaku."

"What's a Shukaku?" Naruto asked.

"They don't know about Gaara...or anything.." Temari-mirai realized.

"Gaara has a demon in him like Naruto does," Kankurou-mirai stated, deciding to cut straight to the point. "It's name is Shukaku."

"Oh, really?"

Tsunade decided to set the conversation back to the original point. "Besides the Kazekage's permission, Gaara at least is allowed to live here any time he wants and is also sent on missions."

"Why?" Gai asked. "The Hokage of Leaf can't send Shinobi of Sand on missions."

Tsunade gave him a sly look. "Who said I was sending a Sand Shinobi on a mission. But I'm curious, how did you know to go to the Sand House?"

"Someone told us to." Sakura replied.

"Who?" the past nins all turned to Gaara.

"He had red hair like mine, but very long, and was wearing a sand colored cape wrapped around him. I couldn't see his face." He replied.

"Was he wearing black pants and a white band around his right foot?" Temari- mirai asked.

"Did he have a weird three tailed thing with him?" Kankurou-mirai added.

"I didn't see any three tailed thing, but yes he did." Gaara replied to Temari, not understanding why his sister's older self was so excited about.

Temari-mirai squealed ad clasped her hands. "Oh, he's back! He's back!"

"Lovely," Kankurou-mirai muttered trying to looked disappointed.

"I just told you he turned his report in," Tsunade said exasperated as Temari-mirai dragged her brother out the door.

"Can we go with them?" Temari asked. Tsunade casually waved them out and the ninja's followed the future sand-nins out side. The two had begun looking around for someone, seemingly to expect for them to be right there waiting for them.

"I'm glad you followed my directions, Gaara-chiisai." (a/n: chiisai means little)

"Don't call me 'chiisai ,'" Gaara said with his usual death glare.

The boy who'd woken him up was two inches from his face. The boy's hat was gone and a small three tailed creature that sort of resembled a cat sat on his shoulder. Green-blue eyes stared at his own, intensely.

Who is that? The ever-present voice in Gaara's head pondered. 'I don't know.' I don't like him.

"Go away," Gaara said holding his hand up ready to perform the Sabaku Sousou. "I'll kill you!" his voice was low and cold, but he was very surprised when it had no effect on the boy in front of him.

"Your sand can't hurt me." The boy said, lowering Gaara's arm.

"Your hair got very long." Temari-mirai stated when she saw the two.

"Che. You look like a girl." Kankurou-mirai added.

"I've been gone for two and a half years." The boy said, not taking his eyes off Gaara. He then sighed and looked away. Gaara felt relief sweep over him. Something didn't seem right. Like something other then the boy was looking at him. "I can't come home yet." He said to the future sand- nins. 'I have one more thing to do." He straightened and walked away.

"Welcome home," Temari-mirai called after him. "We missed you, nii-san."

The past-nins stared at her then whirled around to look at the retreating boy, who had stopped and turned back to her. The wind caught his hair and blew it off his forehead, revealing a bright red kanji for love tattooed above his dark-rimmed eyes. Gaara-mirai closed them and smiled. "Me too," he replied before disappearing in a while of sand.
Ok that one's done sorry it took so long, mom gave me an enormous list of Things-To-Do-During-The-Summer. I actually wrote this on my youth group trip to Hershey Park in the dark with a flashlight. I can barely read my own handwriting. My friend pointed out how stupid it was to write a Fanfic about the Naruto cast going to an amusement park (A Day to Remember) and then actually going to one. She was right. I left so much cool stuff out. So there might be a sequel to that fic, but I'd like to finish this one first.

Oyasuminasai!!!