Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or any of its characters, I do own however my OWN characters and I shall own my boyfriends charries for the fic )

Title: A New Enemy

Warnings: There will be OOCness whether you like it or not, pairings will come up at some point in the story, and everyone is around 16-19.

Author: Mairi. (Dark Winged Angel Mairiel).

Proof Reader: Kaoru Saotome

Summary: Konoha, The hidden village of Sand and a newly discovered hidden village join together to defeat an all new enemy. Question is why is this new enemy planning to overtake these three countries? And within the new country, who has something like Gaara and Naruto trapped inside them?

Author Notes: A bit shorter than the last chapter.

Pairings: Getting there.

Chapter 2 – The arrival of the Storm Country ninja

"We nearly there yet?" Jin asked as they stopped to get a breath. Dea looked to her teammate and shook her head from side to side.

"We have at least another mile to cover," she said sitting down on the branch then looked to her oldest brother Kami.

"No signs of any danger, Kami?"

"None," he answered, without turning to face her. Dea sighed in relief; she was more skilled at the medical side of things other than at dealing with enemies.

"How long is it until we get there, exactly?" Yukai winced from the bottom of the tree to her teammates Wolfgang and Kaiser. The others looked at her from the branches above.

"We'll be there soon, so quit whining, will you?" Elijah replied, with a bit of a snap toward the younger girl. He looked to his other team member, Mairiel, who was busy keeping a lookout – as paranoid as ever – for anything that may pose a threat to them.

"Kami's got the best view you know, Mai." He spoke suddenly from behind her, making her jump a little and nearly fall off the branch. Mairiel turned to him and gave him a half glare; he was too good at sneaking up on her these days.

"I know, I know," she said simply in response, then decided to walk by him and jump up a few branches to where Kami was.

A couple of minutes later the twelve ninja moved onwards towards the main gates of Konoha, they'd likely be there within the next hour or so.

(At Konoha)

Naruto stirred awake rather drowsily, feeling horrible due to a repeated banging on the front door. He turned his head sleepily towards the clock on the bedside and groaned; who in their right mind would want him this early?

"Alright…ok, I'm coming…" he mumbled as he dragged himself towards the still-banging door, grasping the handle and turned it slowly, opening it to see who needed him at such a ridiculous time in the morning.

"What do you want at this time in the mo- Sa…Sakura-Chan?" he stuttered as he realised who it was.

"Naruto, we're going to be late. Come on, Kakashi-sensei sent me to get you."

"Right, I'm coming, let's go," he replied, walking out and closing the door after him. Sakura watched him for a split second, trying not to laugh at the blonde-haired ninja.

'Oh that's so cute of him, forgetting to… wait a minute…' She thought still watching him with a faint smile.

"Naruto wait!"

Naruto stopped and turned his head back to her clearly getting the message of being sleepy across to her.

"Eh?"

"Baka, you need to get dressed first." She couldn't help but let a giggle slip out when she said that to him. Naruto looked down and done a great combination of going red in the face and sweat dropping, Sakura couldn't help but cover her mouth and giggle lightly.

"Oh…I, uh… I'll be right back," Naruto muttered, slowly walking past her again to go back into his home and get changed into his clothes.

Ten minutes later he came back out wearing his newer outfit, grinning at Sakura now that he was fully awake.

"So where are we off to?"

"Don't you remember what Kakashi-sensei told us yesterday? We were to meet Sasuke and him at the gates at nine, it's nearly eight thirty…it'll take us about ten minutes," Sakura said, while walking off. Naruto began a jog to catch up with her.

"I forgot, those ninja from the country of Storm are coming here."

"Yep, not to mention Gaara and his team will be here too. I know for a fact that Tsunade-sama requested his presence."

Reaching the gates a little later than they had wanted to, they met up with Sasuke and Kakashi along with Tsunade and a few other Genin, Chuunin and Jounin.

Sasuke eyed Sakura silently from underneath the slightly now longer bangs of jet black hair with his onyx eyes. He couldn't believe that he was just leaning up against the wall, staring at the pink-haired kunoichi, taking in her beauty and also taking in how close and friendly Naruto was trying to get with her.

'What am I thinking? Naruto likes her, and I don't 'like' anyone in that way…do I?' he thought to himself after finally being able to drag his attention away from her to a bird flying overhead. The sand nins arrived at the gates a little before nine - not long after Naruto and Sakura had gotten there, in fact. Gaara spotted Tsunade over beside Naruto and his team. Smiling inwardly to himself he decided to go over and talk for a little bit, it'd pass the time in any case.

"Gaara?" Sakura questioned as she spotted him walking over to them before any of the others in the small conversing group had. Tsunade, Kakashi, Sasuke and Naruto turned to see him walking over.

"Gaara-sama."

"Hey," Gaara said in his usual dead-calm voice, but sounding somewhat happier to see his old friends.

"It's been a long time, Kazekage-sama," smiled Tsunade, bowing formally. "How have you been?"

Gaara shook his head. "I never thought being a leader of ninja could be this boring. You wouldn't believe the amount of sitting around I have to do now that we're not at war…"

He didn't get to talk long before a few noises from just outside the gates were heard by those gathered. Looking round they were faced by other ninja; Tsunade recognized them from the three wavy horizontal lines on the headband. They were the Storm ninja.

"So, that's them?" Naruto muttered as he and the others studied them, a lot of them seemed to have weird eyes like the Hyuuga family's.

Tsunade and Gaara approached the ninja, welcoming them other than taking caution of them as they were the allies and not enemies, and feeling relieved upon finding out that they weren't. After the Konran's explanation as to why the ArashiKage hadn't came with them they were allowed into the village.

"Wow, I didn't realize they'd only let Genin come." Neji muttered to himself, slightly impressed with it. There was a great danger threatening their villages, and Genin were sent to Konoha without the assistance of Jounin or any Chuunin. How tough were they?

Weeeee second chapter done hehe hope you liked it. The pairings for the fic has been decided to ) and please review As this is really my first serious fic o.O;