The fireball is just barely dodged. Sasori smiles, "Don't think you can run forever!"

Chasu absorbs as much as he can, "I'm a fire monster! I should be able to absorb this, but I can only take so much since I'm poisoned!"

Below their feet, the sand starts to turn into glass, with Chasu's jacket being burnt away. Sasori asks, "What's the matter?"

One of the scrolls in his back vanishes in blue chakra. He states, "Let's try something different."

Now out of his hands comes pressurized water. As it shoots at Chasu, Menma grabs him and they both dodge as the water cuts into the glass crater he was behind. Sasori's hands rotate a full 360 as the stream becomes more compressed, making the shots more precise. Suddenly, another scroll vanishes. He stops shooting and asks, "How long are you going to waste my time?"

The cable in his stomach cavity shoots forward. It wraps around Tomago tightly, scraping his weary body. Sasori admits, "Can't have you running around with the iron sand out of your system."

Sasori shoves the spiked end into the sand and pulls himself to Menma. The blades on his side starts to spin like a propeller. He cackles, "Die! Die! Die!"

However, Sasori hears a problem and looks down to see Chasu grabbing the cable and trying to throw him around like an athlete in a sports game. Sasori realizes that the cable is at it's limit and is just a ragdoll. He looks at Chasu, and see his eyes have become red and his features looking almost like…

'I don't know how...But these psycho ranger brats...They are the Kyuubi Jinchuuriki.'

Chasu pulls him towards himself and punches him so hard the puppet breaks apart into a thousand pieces, the scorpion symbol popping out with purple roots throughout it. Tomago asks, "Did we do it?"

Suddenly, Menma hears something. Something familiar, almost like, '...Is that...A Heartbeat?'

They hear rattling, with Menma stating, "This isn't over."

They look to the scattered remains as they reassemble. Sasori states with those wide eyes, "On that, we can agree. But I will admit, nobody has made me so happy to be late in a long time. Usually my fights have been so quick and effortless that I've hardly used this puppet. The sheer fact that you've kept me on edge has been...Interesting."

He genuinely smiles for the briefest moment, "But don't think that means I'm calling you a worthy opponent or something like that, because you are not. But I do have a question...Do you know how to tell if a puppet master is any good?"

Menma nods, "Not really."

Sasori snorts, "I'm not surprised...Jinchuuriki."

The three Psycho Rangers eyes widen at the word. He continues, "It's said that you can tell a puppet masters worth by how many puppets they can control at once. That boy Kabuto controlled three, my granny in Suna controls about 10. I however…"

Sasori with a flick of his finger pulls out one of the scrolls in his back, and as the scroll opens floating in the air, he opens the compartment in his right pec. Out of it pours blue chakra, as a hundred chakra strings start popping out of it, and a hundred red blobs out of the scroll. Tomago notes, "A sealing scroll."

The chakra strings attach to all one hundred puppets cloaked in red. Sasori boasts, "I have been able to control a HUNDRED puppets to destroy an entire NATION! Secret Red Move: Performance of a hundred puppets!"

Each of them brandishes a deadly weapon, from swords to scythes, and so on. Chasu blurts out, "You...Gotta be kidding me."

Menma states, "Got no choice, guys. If he already knows we're jinchuuriki, we might as well tap into the foxes Chakra."

Chasu nods, "Yeah. Hopefully, it will slow down the poison, too."

Tomago adds, "Let's make as many shadow clones as we can."

The three enter their monster forms if they weren't already in it, and are coated in red chakra as they make the hand sign for shadow clones. Kyubi notes, 'I'd be careful if I were you, the more clones you make, the more detectable my chakra will be on a larger scale.'

As the red puppets charge at them, a shadow clone of Chasu immediately decapitates one of them. It charges forward, hacking and slashing at several of them. Chasu snorts, "No guts, no glory, Kyubi."

(A/N: Forgive me if this is bad writing right here.)

The whole thing becomes a blur as Sasori's puppets battle a hundred of the psycho rangers. As a puppet fell, a shadow clone or the original three psychos would grab a weapon. Menma states, "Don't pull out your swords or axes, you'll just ruin them like the fight with the Kazekage!"

Tomago adds, "Focus on Sasori! He's the puppet master! Take him out, we take them all out!"

Chasu notes, "We better hurry! Shadow clones are being cut down like rice paper!"

Kyubi calls out, "Kit! Tap into my chakra right now!"

The three do just that, and suddenly the chakra forms Kyubi's head. He charges through the remaining puppets and right at Sasori. Sasori just closes his eyes as he envelopes him. When the sand stops flying, the three see that almost every shadow clone was popped, and the only standing puppet is Sasori's body, the rest crumbling away. Chasu asks, "Is it finally over? Is he dead?"

That's when he's stabbed. A modest katana goes through his stomach, as a puppet duplicate of Sasori rises up in the rubble, dressed in the same blood red cloak, with several swords in it's back. Another thing, the cylinder that reads scorpion is in the center of the chest. Sasori smiles, "I'm afraid not just yet."

Tomago screams, "WHY WON'T YOU JUST DIE ALREADY!?"

Menma looks at Sasori's original body, and notes that the scorpion cylinder is gone. He asks, "Sasori, that cylinder in your chest...That's you, isn't it? That's how your able to make yourself a living puppet, and why you're now standing by Chasu."

Sasori smiles like a cheshire cat, "Very impressive how you figured that out. But it won't do any of you any good. Each of you except for you, rock Jinchuuriki, have enough poison in each of you to kill you slowly and painfully thanks to every weapon. And if any of you try anything, fire Jinchuuriki here will be castrated where he stands."

Chasu asks in a high voice, "That's a bit extreme don't you think!?"

Sasori makes a move to remove the blade, but Chasu grabs it and begs, "I know I'm a major jerk, but please don't cut off my mini-me!"

Sasori pops off his arm, revealing a blade attached to the elbow. He prepares to cut down Chasu, but stops short at the sound of a sword going through something. Sasori trembles as he leaks purple blood. Menma and Tomago are at his side, with a pair of poisoned blades going through his cylinder vessel. Menma states, "Ya should've paid more attention."

Blood starts to come out of his mouth. He looks so scared. Tomago admits in an unusually somber tone, "I'm sorry, Sasori. You were...A worthy opponent."

Sasori starts to break down, "To think...My worthy opponent would be a couple of Jinchuuriki. But don't feel bad. The ways of the Sand is different from the ways of the Leaf, especially now with that freak Danzo in charge. Please understand, I've killed hundreds, thousands even, made those worthy into puppets, many of which you three fought. If given the reason, I would have burnt the entirety of Suna to the ground, my family included, without a care in the world. I am neither dead, nor alive to care. Although I admit I don't find a reason to do it, it'd be pointless. But the man named Danzo Shimura, is an even greater evil than me. All those orphans, broken until they cannot comprehend emotion anymore, entire clans razed to the ground...Even the formation of the Akatsuki. My ambition was to live forever, his was to rule the world for Konoha's sake when it was really for his own vanity and ego, yet ignoring the ways that made Konoha what it was, a modern Madara Uchiha. That, is pointless to me. Regardless, my end is near...Time to do something pointless...I will be meeting with a spy I put within Orochimaru's ranks at the Tenchi Bridge in the village hidden in the grass, ten days from now at noon. I'm supposed to rendevouz with him, but...I'm afraid I'll…"

His head becomes limp, as they realize what just happened. His scratched Suna headband falls to the ground. Menma just bows his head, "Find peace in the afterlife, Sasori. May you never be late again."

The three transform, and Menma states, "Let's collect a weapon. We can then seal them into scrolls so the poison will be fresh. In the meantime...Let's take Sasori and what's left of the Kazekage back. Suna will want some closure."

Chasu asks, "What about Moyashi and Naruko? They still have a giant clay bird chasing them."

Tomago admits, "There's not much we can do. You and me are poisoned, and its by sheer willpower that we aren't unconscious yet. The only people that can help them are Menma, whoever it is that was possibly following Kankuro, and themselves. Mostly themselves."

Meanwhile…

Deidara follows the two girls, calling out, "You know you can't run from me forever, hmph?"

The two hear some sort of smacking. Moyashi asks, "What is that sound?"

Kankuro wakes up briefly to say, "He has...Mouths...In his hands...They make that exploding clay crap...It's how they were able to get...Gaara…"

Naruko chuckles, "This is probably our ancient, dirty minds talking, but I'd say that sounds like a fun friday night when he's by himself."

Moyashi asks, "Are you implying…? You're sick. Anyway, if he was the one to beat Gaara, we need to be careful."

Deidara snorts, "If all your doing is running, you two aren't even worth the time to fight. The first two jinchuuriki were not this hard to get, their villagers practically gave them to us."

Moyashi screams, "Shut up! We don't need a repeat of our life story!"

Deidara's eyebrow raises, "Are you implying you know how these jinchuuriki feel? Interesting, hmph."

He throws a bomb that the two barely dodge, making Deidara continue, "If Gaara is brought before our boss, he'd be the third. And even if we don't get him, we have six other to get with other members hunting them as we speak. Well, five, stupid Uchiha and their accursed eyes made us wait for a few years before we can hunt that fox down."

Naruko scowls, "That's it, I'm done screwing around."

She transforms into her monstrous form, looking like a monstrous bee. She begins to grow gigantic. She booms, "I'm done running!"

She tries to grab Deidara, whose bird just zips away. Naruko cackles, "You think that stupid art will protect you!?"

Moyashi stands on Naruko's shoulder, Psycho Bow in hand. She begins taking shots with the blue lightning arrows. After the third arrow is shot, it gets lodged right into his elbow of his one remaining arm. He cries out in pain, "First I lose my arm to the Jinchuuriki, now I lose another to these art hating monsters!? How cruel, Hmph!"

Moyashi laughs, "I'll be aiming for your crotch next for what you did to Gaara!"

Deidara asks himself, "Speaking of which, where is the Kazekage? Last I saw him and that makeup boy they were being carried by the two of them. Then the queen bee became a giant. Hmph."

Suddenly, Deidara feels a tug, and sees that his bird is being torn apart by clones of Moyashi, who boasts, "Shadow clone jutsu! Perfect for distraction, wounded carriers, and clay smashing!"

Several of the dozen shadow clones start forming rasengan, forcing Deidara to jump off the crumbling bird. He lands with a thud, stating, "You have no idea how lucky I am to have survived that jump, hmph."

He stands over a lump of clay, and smiles, "I have to thank my explosive intellect for thinking ahead of making a clay clone. This wasted art managed to take the blunt of the fall, hmph."

He coughs up a bit of blood, "Although, I didn't land like a cat, it would seem."

Suddenly, three people land before him. The blue suited one cackles, "Looks like we got here on time, ladies!"

Deidara's eyes widen, "You three beat Sasori? No...He probably ran to keep up his eternal art crap. Hmph."

The red one deadpans, "Yea-no. He's dead. Ready to join him."

Deidara sweats, before he goes to bite into the lump of clay. He states, "Enjoy my masterpiece. Sayonara! Hmph!"

He swallows with a loud gulp. His body contorts as parts of him blow up like a misshapen balloon. The black one screams, "EVERYONE GET AWAY NOW!"

As they flee, they hear hims cream, "Art...IS AN EXPLOSION!"

There's a loud bang, and in Deidara's place is a giant ball of fire growing bigger and bigger. The explosion eventually subsides after a few seconds. Chasu admits, "I..Am very...Glad that we...Have super speed."

The five walk off with the two down brothers, and a broken puppet in hand. After what seems like hours, they arrived at Suna. A group of Suna Shinobi arrive at the main gate to greet them. A small girl with shoulder length brown hair, asks, "Who are you guys?"

Menma states, "My name is Menma. These are my brothers and sisters. We're friends of the Kazekage. We found him being taken away and were able to save him and his brother Kankuro. We managed to take out one of them, but the other blew himself up."

The girl bows, "Thank you, Menma. My name is Matsuri, a student of the Kazekage. Thank you for saving him."

Chasu states, "Your welcome and all, but can you get us all to a hospital, some of us were poisoned during the fighting."

Tomago adds, "It's taking all our willpower just to stand at this point."

A team of medics come along and takes away those that were. An old women with worn purple hair and wrinkled face and in charcoal grey robes comes out and stares at Sasori with tired eyes. Menma asks, "Did you know him?"

She nods, "I'm lady Chiyo...Sasori's grandmother."

Menma's eyes widen, "I-I'm sorry for your loss, ma'am."

She waved him off, "You are forgiven. He defected 20 years ago. I was ready then to see him dead one day, and that feeling hasn't left. Still...To see him gone from this world…"

Menma looks down at his hands in disgust, 'This could've been avoided. I don't know what the others will think. But I don't want to take another life anymore.'

A man with half his face covered in a white cloth, who Menma recognizes as Baki, Gaara's sensei, arrives, he asks, "May I ask, Menma, how do you know the Kazekage?"

Menma states, "Me and my siblings met him at the Chunin exams in Konoha. Although only he can provide proof. If you want, you can put us five under surveillance until Gaara recovers."

Baki admits, "That would be appreciated, although it wouldn't be too hard since half of your team will be bedridden for a while."

He exhales, like he's about to say something he doesn't like, "Konoha has decided to send a team to aid us in our time of need. One of them being sent is a medic, and will probably know more about healing your siblings better than we do, sadly."

Menma asks, "And how can the Phoenix Hokage get away with that?"

Baki admits, "We're still allies, technically speaking. But we never ask for help, they invite themselves. Personally, I think it's a dependency that bullhead is trying to exploit."

He starts walking away, while grumbling, "Phoenix Hokage. What a loaded crock of…"

Menma doesn't hear what else he says, but he can guess a few words of what he says.

A few hours later…

Menma and the girls didn't have to wait long for Gaara to regain consciousness. The three spent the time at one place that they agreed on: A ramen stand. They hadn't had the chance to get ramen in the land of waves, and the old taste buds were kicking into overdrive. That is something the five have noticed, the longer they know they were Naruto, the more old quirks return to them. The ramen stand was indoors, for obvious, sandy reasons. The ramen was delicious, but nothing to Mr. Teuchi's level. While here, Moyashi asks, "You named all of us, except for Naruko after stuff in ramen, didn't you?"

Menma nods, "Yeah, you got me."

The Anbu standing over them cocks his head, "You're using aliases?"

Menma raises his hands in defense, "It's a long story, but we more or less don't have actual names. We were literally just named Psycho Rangers when born in a lab. It's a little complicated, but you can ask the Kazekage for the details he can give if you want to know."

The Anbu shakes his head, "I don't think I want to know. Just know I won't be afraid of putting you in the ground."

Naruko admits, "Well, at least you have more personality than those ROOT pansies."

The Anbu bows, "For that compliment, I am thankful."

Another Anbu enters the ramen stand, whispers to him, who states, "The Kazekage is awake, and ready to see you three."

The three get up to leave, while Moyashi asks, "We're winging this, aren't we?"

Her siblings nod. They are taken to an office where at the desk is Gaara, with Lady Chiyo is standing off to the corner. Gaara speaks in his raspy monotone, "First of all, I'd like to thank you, Menma, Moyashi, and Naruko, as well as your brothers Chasu and Tomago, for saving me and my brother. Second, I thank you for stopping Sasori, who has been confirmed to have taken the Third Kazekage from this world, making him the deadliest shinobi this country has ever produced. And finally, I must ask a simple question...Who are you? And why do each of you look somewhat like a late friend of mine?"

The three struggle to figure out what to say, until Menma states, "It's almost unbearable, isn't it...The pain of being alone," This makes Gaara's eyes widen as Chiyo looks at him confused, "I know the feeling; I've been there, in that dark and lonely place."

Menma pats his hand on Gaara's shoulder in a sign of affection, "I died almost three years ago, came back as five psychos, and couldn't be any more proud of you, Lord Kazekage Gaara, your lucky to have an entire village of precious people."

Gaara looks ready to cry, "A-Are you Na-Naruto?"

Menma smiles as closely to Naruto's smile as he could, "Hey, Gaara. Good to see you again. It's been a long story."

And so, the Psycho rangers spend the next hour explaining everything they could. They started by explaining how Naruto had gotten cheated of an afterlife. And how evil beings from another universe had found his soul and used him to create five villains called Psycho Rangers. They then had to explain the eternal war between Power Rangers and evil, which they were dragged into. And how because most of Naruto's personality was suppressed with a strong desire to destroy the Rangers, infighting lead to them fighting each other instead and giving the Rangers a chance to destroy them. TWICE they were resurrected to fight the rangers again, and eventually, how Zordon sent them to the Land of Waves to make a change. Lady Chiyo admits, "I've heard many stories in my long life, but that one...That one takes the cake."

Gaara goes up to Menma, and suddenly pulls him into a hug, and begins to cry, "Welcome back, my friend."

He corrects himself, "Forgive me, friends. Plural."

Menma returned the hug and the girls joined in. Menma admits, "I'm gonna be honest, I thought you wouldn't believe us, or that you'd hate us. I mean, we did kidnap children and murder a woman."

Gaara nods, "No. Only Naruto would know those words, I also can see you each look like him. And...If you think you were worried about me looking down on you kidnapping children, and killing a woman, you clearly do not know what gutter you pulled me out of. And I promise you, when you take the fight to Danzo, know that Suna will be right behind you."

Chiyo bows to the psychos, "You each were apart of the Jinchuuriki of the Kyuubi, and are still Jinchuuriki. You were the one who shaped the Kazekage into the man he is. For that, I am thankful."

Naruko asks, "Alright, as much as I enjoy a good heartwarming moment, we need to discuss brass tax. We know that Danzo crowned himself Phoenix Hokage and has started to attack other nations without retribution. What else is there?"

Chiyo nods, "It gets worse. I've known Danzo when we were both fighting in the second Ninja War. He's using all the underhanded tactics he used as the Hokage's ignored advisor to set up military colonies across the nations. We've detected one in Wind Country already. It's small for now, but it's getting bigger everyday. We believe they are planning an invasion. And that's just Suna, we have no detailed access to the other nations, but we believe they are in the same boat. However, any attempt to fight has been cut off by the Daimyo. He cites the fact that several civilians, shinobi, and kunoichi are in Konoha, Lady Temari included, would be in harm's way 'needlessly.' We have reason to believe Danzo is blackmailing our Daimyo, possibly with his own family. Other nations...Have been told the same thing. And to top it all off, Root is able to attack any ninja that comes their way without recourse, and those that don't die are taken to Konoha...By Danzo's top dog, Sasuke Uchiha."

Menma and Naruko snort, "You have got to be kidding me."

Gaara adds, "It gets worse, before you came in here, we had received word that Danzo had heard of what happened to me and decided to send a team to rescue me. Since they're already on their way, we can't deny them entry or be seen as a sign of disrespect."

Moyashi knows the answer, but asks, "Who are they sending?"

Gaara answers, "Team 7."

Menma states, "Well in that case, we'll need disguises. If they see we look like Naruto and Sexy Jutsu Naruto, we're screwed."

Naruko smiles, "I've got an idea."