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Part 11 – 07/08/06
Gaara!
A Kitsune's Adventure
"He's coming!" was the sudden warning that Yuki gave to the group as Hidden Sand came into view over the distance sand dune. "Who's coming Yuki-kun" asked Hinata with a surprised look on her face at his sudden proclamation.
"Gaara is Hinata" was Naruto reply as he had a large happy grin on his face. "How far Yuki?" asked Naruto as he readied himself; for what most of the group wondered. "A mile and closing was Yuki's reply, as he dashed alongside Naruto; his golden eyes sprinkling with joy.
"What's that?" pointed out Sasuke at the sudden appearance of a sand twister about a half a mile in front of them. "Gaara's here, Gaara's here!" was Yuki's happy bark as he dived straight into the twister's base. Naruto was right behind Yuki with two elongated kunais in his had; his blue eyes bright with joy and a sunny closed mouth grin on his face; as who wants a mouthful of sand.
"Naruto-kun!" was Hinata alarmed cry as she saw him disappear into the sand twister. The dull sound of metal hitting something hard was heard along with the shouting, barking, and growling heard with the whirling sand death trap. Sasuke wondered what could cause the varies metal and stone grinding sounds; as he had expected metal on metal sounds and not the current dull sounds of metal hitting stone or rocks with the occasional barking and growling from who they expected was Yuki.
The rest of the group waited a good distance outside of the continuing sand twister which was halted about five-hundred feet in front of the group. Hinata had a small frown of worry on her face and she moved herself into her battle stance. Sasuke worn a grim and serious expression on his face and was currently pulling a kunai from his side pouch. Kakashi was glancing over his copy of 'Icha Icha Paradise' at the sand twister and the sounds of battle coming from within the twister. Kui was sitting down by Kakashi, her eyes and ears narrowed in concentration at the twister as she caught glimpses of the battle from inside the twisting sand.
Suddenly Yuki was ejected from the twister with a yelp; Kui laughed and commented that he should have dodged instead of jumped. Yuki twisted in midair and landed gracefully on his feet beside Hinata; the continuing sound of battle raging from the twister.
"Are you okay Yuki-kun?" asked Hinata as she knell down to check over Yuki. "Yep, I'm okay Hinata-chan" was Yuki happy yip as he shook off some extra sand from his furry form. "Are you going back in to the twister Yuki-kun?" questioned Hinata as she rubbed Yuki in between his ears; Yuki purred his happiness. "No, I'm tagged out" was Yuki purred answer as he rolled over to have Hinata scratch his stomach his tail waving in the wind slowly with leisure.
"Why?" questioned Sasuke as he placed his kunai back into his side pouch at Yuki's reply and casual manners. "Because we are just playing" was Yuki lazy reply. "We used to always mock battle each other" continued Yuki under Hinata's gentle touch. "So you battled two on one" questioned Sasuke as he tilted his head towards the twister. "No, we would battle two on two" was Yuki reply as he happily purred his delight. "Two on Two?" was Hinata questioned remark. "Yep, two on two" purred Yuki as he licked Hinata's hand in a happily thank you for the scratch and belly rub; as Hinata stood up beside Yuki as he rolled over and stood up on his feet.
Suddenly a small round furry object was ejected from the twister and shoot straight at Kakashi; who caught the object with his free hand and tucked it under his arm.
"Aaaa!" whined the object from under Kakashi's arm as he continued to read his little orange book; his finger turning a page of his book. "I thought I had him" continued the furry object as it un-tucked its head and unrolled itself.
"I don't think so Shushu-kun" barked Yuki in laugher at the small furry object which turned out to be a small sandy brown raccoon. "I was so close too; and DON'T CALL ME Shushu-kun, you baka kitsune" snapped the raccoon in anger. "Or you'll do what?" questioned Yuki with a laughing bark. "I'll scratch out your eyes and bit you, you, you baka kitsune" shouted the angry raccoon as it tried to get loose from Kakashi.
"Now Yuki stop teasing Shukaku, it's not nice" remarked Kui calmly from beside Kakashi. "Yea, baka Yuki; listen to your elders" was Shukaku reply as he blew a raspberry at Yuki. "And you should act your age Shukaku; you're not acting like the proper lord that you are" was Kui respond to Shukaku taunt. "But Kui-chan; I'm in this little body how can I act as a proper lord if I look like a chibi" whined Shukaku in hope from some support.
"It does not matter your form, you should act as the lord that you are and behave in a matter that is proper" was Kui stately response. "Aaaa, Kui-chan" whined Shukaku as he tried to show Kui his wide baby brown eyes with his cute little lower lip sticking out in a pout. "But nothing" was Kui stern reply as she focused once again on the twisting sand. "You're no fun" pouted the little raccoon from under Kakashi arm. Kakashi casually scratched under Shukaku's chin with his hand from the arm that was holding him securely.
"Kakashi-sensei, shouldn't we do something?" questioned Hinata as she still glanced with a worrying frown at the sand twister; battle could still be heard ringing from within the twisting sand. "Don't worry Hinata-chan, Naruto-kun can take care of himself; besides he's only playing and having a little fun" replied Kakashi as he gave Hinata his happy little eye smile.
Slowly the twisting sand came to a slow stop, still hanging in the air. Naruto and a pale face red-headed boy could be seen from the Konoha shinobis. One of Naruto's elongated kunai was just inches from the red-headed boy's left eye; the other was just barely holding off a lance of sand that was slowing pushing, inch by inch towards Naruto's heart.
"So do we declare a draw and continue on to Suna Gaara" asked Naruto with his foxy grin. "Humph" was Gaara's reply as he withdrew his lance of sand; as Naruto pulled away from Gaara and put away both kunais. "It's a draw but you have to admit that was one of our better battles" remarked Gaara as he crossed his arms in a little huff at not winning the mock battle outright.
"So we are at 40 wins to you and 41 wins to me and 38 draws. Oh man, you must have spent all day training for the past two years; that sand lance almost had me" laughed Naruto as he rubbed the back of his head. "And that twister; wow man that must eat up some massive chakra, your control has greatly improved too" continued Naruto as he remarked on the mock battle.
"Well your speed has jumped ten fold since the last time we battled. I saw that you had little problem breaking through my sand shield most of the times" commented Gaara as he and Naruto headed towards Suna. The rest of the group had little sweat-drops hanging from their heads after being ignored by the two.
"Hey what about Shukaku and me; we were battle too" whined Yuki as he ran to catch up with Naruto. "You sucked" snipped Shukaku from under Kakashi arm. "I did not" replied Yuki hotly; as he stuck his tongue out at Shukaku. "You do to; you were the first one knock out of the battle" proudly stated Shukaku as he lifted his nose at Yuki. Yuki pouted beside Naruto as his tail drifted down to the sand.
"Oh, I don't know Yuki, you kept Shuu pretty busy" remarked Gaara as he tried to lift Yuki's spirit. "Yea, right up to the point where you jumped up to bit and tackle me and ended up being sucked out of the battle by the twister" laughed Shukaku. "I don't know Shushu-kun" remarked Naruto with a backward glance. "It was not long before you overshot your own mark in your own claw attach that you ended up being eject also" remarked Naruto in a neutral voice. Shukaku 'huffed' in silences.
"It was a good battle and we have learned much from it and we have learned what we need to improve upon" remarked Gaara from beside Naruto, a small smile on his face. "And we have the perfect opportunity to train in a new environment" remarked Naruto as the rest of the group caught up to them.
"Wow Naruto-kun; you and Gaara-san are really good" spoke Hinata quietly as she looked at the duo thoughtfully and quite impressed. "Humph" mumbled Sasuke as he sized up Gaara for a future match. "Yes that was quite an impressive match up Naruto-sama" barked Kui as she walked alongside Kakashi. Kakashi just gave the two his happy eye smile as he continued to ready his little orange book.
"Hey! Hey! I can see the gates" barked and yipped Yuki as he danced and pranced around Naruto and Gaara; while sticking his tongue out at Shukaku who was still under Kakashi's arm. "Just you wait fur ball, when I get loose you're eating sand" shouted Shukaku to Yuki; as Yuki just waved his up-raised tail at Shukaku; just to irritant Shukaku further.
"Come on Yuki; stop teasing Shukaku" remarked Naruto as he pouted at Yuki. "It's not nice and you would not like it if he did that to you" continued Naruto. "Aaaa!" whined Yuki as he pouted back at Naruto, but discontinued his teasing.
"Okay you guys, lets race; last one to the gates is a rotten egg and has to be the target in our shuriken practice tomorrow" shouted Naruto as he readied himself to run for the Suna's gates. "You're on" smirked Sasuke as Gaara rolled his eyes but readied himself. "Go!" shouted Hinata as she got a head start on the boys. The boys gapped at the back of Hinata, then shouted 'hey' before taking off after Hinata. Yuki was running alongside of Naruto as well as trying to tip at Gaara and Sasuke's heels to trip them up. "Well Kakashi should we be off" remarked Kui as the teens distanced themselves from the trio. "Well we better or we will be the rotten eggs" remarked Shukaku from under Kakashi's arm "and as I do not want to be their target from tomorrow." "Hmm, yes we better get there first then" commented Kakashi as he disappeared in a puff of smoke. "Show off" remarked Kui as she just fazed from view to appear at the Hidden Sand's gates.
To be continued
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