Red Moon Assassin

By: Gardie

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto and related things. I just enjoy it and write fan fiction.

AN: SensiblyTainted: I like the summary, otherwise it might give away too much storyline.

Iluvanime493: I just don't like Kisame much. He doesn't feature again anyway. No SakuGaa but I will

try for KimiSaku.

Chapter 3

Kimimaro, Gaara and Sakura were all sitting inside a cafe. It was a small café with round tables, each seating four people, and a large window built into the wall, facing the street, with the name of the café, Avril La Vigne (just imagine saying it in with a French accent, it sounds cool), in twirly letters.

"What do you do for a living?" asked Sakura, looking at Gaara.

"I kill people."

"Oh. What do you do for fun?"

"I kill people."

"Ah. Do you have any dreams or goals?"

"To kill everyone other than me and justify my existence."

"Right."

Sakura turned away from Gaara and looked at Kimi.

"And what do you do?" asked Sakura apprehensively.

"I kill people."

"…Okay. Do you have a dream?"

"I hope that one day the God Orochimaru will use my body as a tool on this earth and I can follow him unquestioningly."

"You two are very strange."

"What about you?" asked Kimi, "Do you have any dreams?"

"Of course. My dream is that one day I'll meet my knight in shining armour and he'll rescue from danger and we'll live happily ever after."

"Knights don't exist," stated Gaara bluntly.

The stars in Sakura's eyes vanished and she glared at Gaara. It had no effect.

"I'm speaking figuratively."

Suddenly the window was shattered and glass flew through the air, sparkling like shiny confetti. With the glass flew a hail of knives, axes, sickles and numerous other things with edges. Gaara's sand blocked the attacks and Kimi knocked the table over to serve as a barrier. Tiny bones poked out of the ends of his fingers. The weapons fell to the floor as the sand retreated. Kimi and Gaara couldn't see it but not one of the weapons would have hit Sakura. Three enemy ninjas jumped through the broken window. The first was a girl wearing a pink shirt with no sleeves and had her hair in a bun, in her hand was an unravelled scroll. She was Tenten from the silently cheeping birds. The second ninja was a male with green hair and green lipstick, a second head protruding from the back of his neck. It was the twins, Sakon and Ukon. The last ninja wore a thick jacket and black sunglasses, the bug master, Shino. Kimimaro came out from behind the table.

"Take Sakura back to the apartment," commanded Kimi, "I'll hold them off."

"Come," said Gaara, taking Sakura's arm in his sand.

"But can Kimimaro hold them off by himself?" asked Sakura.

"Of course."

Gaara took Sakura out a side door and began to travel to the apartment.

"Shino," said Sakon, "Follow them and capture Sakura."

Shino jumped out the window and left. Tenten took out two kunai and held them at the ready.

"Don't interfere in our activities and you'll survive."

"I'll survive anyway. My mission is to protect Sakura. I cannot let you take her away."

"You can't win, we're two of the strongest ninja in The Silently Cheeping Birds."

Kimi shot his finger bullets at his two enemies. Sakon dodged and Tenten deflected them with her kunai, she then threw them at Kimi. When Kimi was distracted by the knives Sakon attacked. Kimi twisted to avoid the knives and caught both of Sakon's fists before raising his knee to block Sakon's. A third hand, Ukon's, came out of Sakon's stomach and tried to punch Kimi in the stomach. Bones burst out of Kimi's sides and blocked the punch. Sakon then tried to kick Kimi's legs out from under him but Kimi jumped backwards and the two separated. Tenten opened a scroll and sent a rain of shruiken at Kimi. They all thudded into his chest and arms. Just as she was about to celebrate Kimi disappeared in a puff of smoke and was replaced by an empty barrel.

Gaara led Sakura through the alley behind the café. It was lined with bins and in between two were two old bums. One was a female with two blonde ponytails and massive breast; she was injecting something into a vein. The second was a white-haired male clutching a bottle of alcohol and using his free hand as a pretend telescope and looking at a crudely draw picture of a nude girl on the opposite wall. Gaara paid no attention to them and they left the alley and entered a park between the cafe and their apartment.

Gaara and Sakura had almost reached the other side of the park when someone called out to them.

"Stop! Hand over the girl."

Gaara turned and looked, it was Shino. Sand flowed out of Gaara's gourd and lay on the grass.

"No."

Shino stared from behind his sunglasses and black beetles began to crawl out of his jacket and walk along the grass.

"Gross!" exclaimed Sakura.

"Gaara's expression remained neutral until the bugs were on his sand, then his eyes widened and a huge smile opened on his face. Sakura backed away nervously. Gaara held an open fist out to his side.

"Sabak Kyuu!"

He closed his fist and the sand closed over Shino's Kikai beetles and contracted with the sound of bugs being crushed. Kimi appeared silently behind Shino and karate-chopped the back of his neck. Shino fell forward, unconscious, and Kimi joined Gaara and Sakura. Together they went back to the apartment.

When they reached the apartment they saw it had been trashed. In the middle of the floor was a tiny bird toy. Kimi picked it up and saw an explosive tag. He threw it away and leapt back. Only Gaara's sand saved them from the explosion

"It's not safe for Sakura her," stated Kimi when the smoke cleared, "We need to tell Itachi."

Gaara nodded and they left again, this time heading to the headquarters of Red Moon.