Ok, this story is set after the time skip in the manga, but before Gaara was kidnapped. In fact we're going to assume it never will happen as I need Gaara to keep his demon. Sasuke is still with Orochimaru, however he will be making an appearance later on in the story.
WARNING! This story will contain Yaoi, which means boy/boy love! Homophobes are not welcome and any flames about this will be ridiculed. The main pairing is Naruto/Gaara, though there will be others; however it is unlikely that I will make any other gay pairings. The rest are currently planned to be straight. This is the last time I will mention this warning, as I can't be bothered typing this out for every chapter.
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto.
The ANBU breathed heavily as he stared down the thing in front of him. Around him his team or rather bits of his team were scattered across the forest floor in all of its gruesome glory. The ANBU himself was missing an arm and most of his stomach. He was going to die, however he was determined to take down the beast in front of him before that happened. The ninja reached into his pouch and brought out some poisoned kunai and quickly flung them towards the creature. Before they could hit the thing vanished and appeared behind the ANBU and slashed his throat open. The dead man collapsed to the ground while the beast licked his claws clean. He looked down at the very dead team and smiled.
"I'm hungry"
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Kakashi wrinkled his nose in disgust at the sight in front of him. Three of Konoha's best ANBU were lying on the ground mutilated and partially eaten.
"What the hell did this?"
"I don't know"
"It looks like a freaking animal did this. But they're ANBU…"
"Maybe an animal did do this"
Kakashi's partner stared at him "What?"
"Maybe an animal came after they died and did this"
"I guess so…"
Kakashi scratched his head and turned away from the mess, "We need to get back and inform the Hokage of this"
"Yes sir"
The two shinobis leaped into the air and vanished.
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A boy of 15 ran down the street ignoring the glares from the villagers as he past them.
"SAKARA-CHAN!" He yelled as he spotted the pink haired girl standing by the bridge. The girl looked up and sighed "Naruto, do you have to be so loud?"
Ignoring her, Naruto looked around "Where's Kakashi?"
"Naruto, you should know by now that Kakashi-sensei is never on time"
"Yeah I know that, that's why I told you to meet us here at 12 when he told me 10"
"Oh"
An hour later, the mask-wearing ninja suddenly appeared in front of them. "Sorry I'm late, but I had an important meeting with the Hokage"
Naruto and Sakura stared at their teacher in surprise, "Kakashi-sensei?" Sakura spoke up "That excuse was almost…..plausible. Are you feeling okay?"
"Look, I really did have a meeting with Hokage. She also asked us to do a really important A-Class mission" Kakashi snorted and turned away from them. "But if you're going to be like that then…"
Naruto suddenly grinned and walked towards the older man, "Sorry Kakashi-sensei, we were just surprised that's all, we really want to do this A-class mission"
"Well that's all right then, we're meeting tomorrow morning at 9 outside the gates, don't be late" And with that he vanished.
"Naruto, is it just me or did he seem odder than usual?"
"Kakashi-sensei is always weird; anyway see you tomorrow at 11"
"But Kakashi said 9…oh"
At half 11 the next morning Kakashi turned up, "Good morning Sakura, Naruto. I was late because I spotted an ill kitten and I just had to take it to the vet and then…"
"You're lying!"
"Believe what you want" Kakashi walked off down the path with Naruto and Sakura trailing behind him.
"So what's the mission Kakashi-sensei?" Naruto asked eagerly.
"Well, yesterday morning a team of ANBU were found umm… dead. We're to scout around and see if we can find any clues as to who killed them"
"With just the three of us?"
Kakashi turned towards Sakura and raised an eyebrow "Well Gai's team taking the mission as well, you should have met up with them earlier"
"We…we must have just missed them"
Kakashi sighed and brought out three headsets from his pouch. He gave two of them to Naruto and Sakura before putting the third on himself. "We'll use these to communicate with each other; we should also be able to talk with Gai and his team"
He pointed to his left "Sakura you go that way, Naruto go to the right, I'll go straight ahead. We meet back here in two hours, now go"
The ninjas vanished at his command.
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Neji looked around him using his byakugan, seeing nothing of interest within several metres of him, he moved off.
"Neji, this is Gai, did you find anything?" His sensei's voice suddenly appearing in his ear.
"No, I'm moving off now, oh and Kakashi's team has finally arrived"
"Ah! Kakashi! Trying to be as hip and late as ever, I see!" Kakashi winced as his eternal rival shouted in his ear via headset.
"Were you trying to be sarcastic there?"
"Gai-sensei, I think I found something"
"Tenten? Good job! What did you find?"
"…A dead person….and some…something's eating it…"
"Stay hidden, where are you? We're coming now"
"Around 3 miles directly north of the Konoha gates…shit I've been spotted..."
"Tenten hold on we're coming" Gai cried "Everyone got that?"
"Yep" answered Kakashi.
"Yes" replied Neji.
"YOSH!" shouted Lee.
"Yeah" Sakura nodded.
"Right!" called Naruto.
Tenten stared in horror at the thing in front of her before snapping out of it. She leapt into the air and threw several shurikens down at the creature. They lodged themselves into its head and the beast collapsed onto the ground bleeding. Tenten moved towards it, it appeared to be dead, its head completely ruined from her attack.
The creature looked like a very large canine. It was completely black and had massive claws and fangs. She spoke into her headset. "This is Tenten, I've killed the creature, you better come and look at it though…huh?"
There was a hissing noise coming from the body and Tenten watched as the beasts head healed before her eyes
"SHIT!"
"What's wrong?"
"It's not dead!"
Gai looked worried, "Tenten, get out of there now! We're almost there"
"AHHHHH!"
"Tenten!" yelled Lee "Are you ok?"
She didn't answer.
"We better move faster"
Lee burst into the clearing "Tenten! I'll save you!" His eyes widened as he saw his team-mate lying in the grass. He immediately turned around and puked up in the nearby bushes.
"Lee, are you ok?"
The spandex clad boy stared up at the new arrival. "Sakura-Chan" He choked "Don't….don't get close, Tenten….she's…she's…"
"OH GOD!"
"Tenten?"
Gai and Neji had arrived; Sakura ran towards them despite Lee's pleadings and gasped at the sight.
The area was coated in dark red and sticky blood. The girl was almost unrecognisable, her body mauled to pieces. She stared at the gory mess for a few minutes before joining Lee in the bushes.
As the rest of the group arrived to see the horrendous mess something watched them from the trees and smiled.
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The honourable Hokage Tsunade stared at Kakashi after he had finished delivering his report, she really didn't need this. She didn't need this at all.
"Are you trying to tell me that the one you killed 3 ANBU and now Ten-ten is some sort of monster? Not a rouge Nin or a shinobi from an enemy village but in fact a monster?"
"That's the jist of what we got from Tenten before we lost contact from her"
"Ugh…I'm sending ANBU out in the morning then, see if we can get them to kill this thing" She waved her hand at the jounin in front of her "You're dismissed"
Kakashi bowed before teleporting out of the office leaving Tsunade alone with her thoughts.
"I need a drink"
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"Hello Naruto"
Naruto looked up from the bowl of ramen he was currently devouring. He smiled as he recognised the person.
"Iruka-sensei! How are you? Come to treat me to some ramen?"
The scarred chuunin smiled as he sat down beside his favourite ex-pupil. He ordered some ramen and turned to face the blond boy.
"I'm
not treating you today, I don't get paid till next week and I'd
like to have some money till then"
"Stingy!" Naruto
playfully stuck his tongue out at the older man.
"If you didn't eat so much at one sitting, I probably would be able to treat you. However since you're such a greedy pig…"
"You take that back! I just like ramen that's all…"
Smiling, Iruka picked up his chopsticks and with a silent "Itadakimasu" and started eating.
"Anyway, Naruto, are you ok?"
"Huh? Why wouldn't I be?"
Iruka looked at the boy surprised "But didn't one of your friends die on a mission you were on earlier today? "
"Oh…well…I'm ok I guess. Her team isn't though Gai and Lee keep crying and Neji won't talk. I mean he doesn't talk much anyway but he's refusing to even make a sound just now. I'm kinda worried about him"
They finished eating in silence.
"Well, I better be going now Iruka-sensei! I've got things to do places to be, bye"
"Bye Naruto"
"Well, that was odd"
Iruka looked at the man behind the counter. "What was?"
"He only had one bowl"
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Arriving back at his flat, Naruto wandered over to his kitchen area. He opened the fridge and peered inside, grinning he shut it again and called out "Gaara?"
There was no reply so he tried again "Gaara! I know you're here come out already"
"How did you know I was here?"
"The present you left in the fridge"
"It was supposed to be a surprise for later"
Gaara walked slowly out of the bedroom, the red head stared solemnly at the grinning blond.
"Oh come on, you must have known I would look in my own fridge, couldn't you have thought of a better place for it?"
"No"
Naruto rolled his eyes and walked over to Gaara, grinning he kissed the other boy gently. "So when did you get here oh great Kazekage?"
"About an hour ago, I've been waiting for you here since"
"Aww, Were you bored?"
"Yes, I was so I wandered the streets a bit. I heard someone died on your mission today, are you sad?"
"What! No!" Naruto laughed "Why do people keep asking me that? I barely knew her! And why would you care? Didn't you here how she was killed?"
"No" Gaara looked thoughtful for a moment "You mean she was killed by…"
"Yep!" Naruto leaned over and nuzzled his face into Gaara's neck. "Gaara…I don't want to talk anymore…It's boring. Let's fuck instead"
Gaara stood there for a few moments as the blond gnawed at his neck before giving his answer.
"Ok"
Well that's the start of my first Naruto story. I shouldn't be doing this as I still have my other story to finish. Anyone who's waiting for the next chapter of The Other Half I'm really sorry! I'm just so stuck at it. I have started the seventh chapter but I haven't written a lot, I know roughly what I'm going to do but I just can't seem to push the story forward. AGH!
Anyway I would really appreciate feedback for this first chapter as I want to know how you think.
Review please!
