5:Collision! Kage Vs. Biju!

Rasa's giant form lumbered toward the brawling beasts as Naruto kept the pressure upon Shukaku's back. The Tanuki was cackling madly as the kitsune tore into him. "Is that all you've got, Kurama?" The One-Tailed beast laughed, his body beginning to melt into sand, "You've gotten so weak since the last time we fought!"

Naruto spat out a mouth full of sand, and growled as the mad creature melted away from him, growling as he reformed a few meters away. Shukaku was still wearing his mad grin as his missing arm also reformed, "Tell me something, Onii-sama, how does it feel to finally be sealed away into a Jinchuriki like the rest of us?" The mad sand spirit grinned, "So weak! Controlled by the by a mere human!"

Naruto growled, a rumbling beginning in his chest, and the young Jinchuriki opened his mouth, letting loose a roar that created a massive wave of chakra, blasting across the desert, and slamming into the Ichibi, knocking him over.

The shock wave of the roar was enough to be felt across the valley, even knocking over the people that had fled the village to get away from the massive battle. Rasa was not spared as the wave struck his golden armored form, but was able to keep his footing at the cost of a large amount of chakra to keep the form stable.

Meanwhile, Temari, her eyes glued to the battle in front of her. On the one side, her brother was being pushed back by the Kyuubi, while she also worried for her friend trapped inside the gigantic form of the kitsune.

Then there was her father, advancing on both of them. She'd seen his Lightning God Armor in action before, and knew that if he got within range of the two beasts, then neither of them would escape unscathed.

A point that was driven home as the massive golem reared back its fist and slammed it into the unknowning fox, sending her friend sprawling. Naruto turned on the armored Kage in a rage and roared angrily. Rasa braced himself inside his shell as the Kyuubi sprang at him, its jaws agape, and crashed into him.

Shukaku righted himself and grinned as he saw the new target that had entered the battle.

"Hyahahaha! Perfect!" The Ichibi howled, his body beginning to dissolve, "I'll seal ya both up! Then I can kill and kill and kill to my heart's content! Ahahahaha!" The sand around the One-tailed beast erupted in a massive wave bearing down on the Kazekage and the Kyuubi. Naruto growled at the beast as the sand crashed down on him, slowing him down. It covered him from head to toe.

Rasa, seeing the danger the technique was about to pose, wisely chose to abandon his armor, and lept clear of the danger as his gold dust golem began to melt.

Soon, only Naruto's head was visible as a towering pyramid of sand formed around him. He roared, and unleashed a blast of white hot flames toward Shukaku, who merely stepped aside, grinning madly, "No, no, no, Kurama-chan, you won't be stopping me this time! Futton: Desert Layered Imperial Funeral Sealing Jutsu!"

"No you don't!" Roared Hiruzen, "Adamantine Nyoibo!" The black and bronze-capped staff came crashing down upon the Shukaku's head, making the beast scream in pain at being interrupted.

"Stupid old man!" Shukaku roared, and swiped at him with his massive hands, "I'll kill ya!"

"Not today," Kakashi yelled, making his presence known, "Let's see how you like this! Chidori!" He slammed his lightning charged arm into the beast's side, electrifying him.

Pakura came running from behind the creature, darting up from the ground and up his tail, "Careful, Kakashi-san, you'll kill Gaara-kun!" As she made her way up the Shukaku's back, smaller versions of the creature began popping up along her path.

"Get off me, ya Suna bitch!" Shukaku's clones roared, "Futton: Air Bullet Barrage!" Pakura nearly jumped clear off of the beast's back as the miniaturized clones fired off their attacks, but she kept herself going, flashing through her own set of hand signs.

"Katon: Grand Fireball Jutsu!" She roared as a massive fireball erupted from her mouth, "Turn to glass you wretched monster!"

As the fireball was struck by the Air Bullet Barrage, it created a white hot blaze that scorched its way across Shukaku's back, creating a gleaming path of glass in its wake. Shukaku was furious, and used his tail to swat at her in retaliation.

Then, the Kyuubi was there, having torn himself free from the sand tomb, and biting down on Shukaku's tail. With a jerk of his head, Naruto tore the tail free of Shukaku with a mad roar, and a pained scream from the Ichibi. Naruto's blue eyes locked onto the the golden orbs of the Ichibi. "Don't you dare lay a hand on my mother!" Naruto's warped voice roared out in anger before he bulldozed into the beast, nearly knocking Pakura from her perch.

He called me mother, Pakura almost cried, then grinned, "Don't worry, Naruto-chan, your mom's no push over!" She said, and channeled her Scorch chakra into her arms, "Now pay attention! Shakuton: Scorch Fist!" She lept up to the Ichibi's head, and slammed her Scorch enhanced fists into his head, "Wake up, Gaara!" She roared, the sand beneath her knuckles turning to glass and shattering under her assault.

Rasa rose from the ground once more, "Jiton: Gold Dust Imperial Funeral!" The remaining gold dust from his giant rose up in a great wave and crashed into Shukaku, and Pakura along with it.

Kakashi was at her side in a moment to get her away from the impending danger, "Kazekage-sama, what's the matter with you?!"

"Quiet, Hatake," Rasa snapped, "The life of one does not outweigh the lives of many!"

"That's your son in there!" Pakura roared at the man, her anger flaring, "Would you seriously kill him?!"

Rasa looked at the woman, "You are no longer a shinobi of Suna, therefore...this is none of your concern."

"Heartless bastard!" Pakura snapped, and did the unthinkable; she attacked the Yondaime Kazekage. "Shakuton: Explosion!" From her palm, which was still encased in her Scorch chakra, came a white hot blast of flames aimed directly at the man she had once followed.

Rasa brought his gold dust in a shield, blocking the attack, "What the devil are you doing, you stupid woman?!"

Pakura lept after him, "Protecting a child, you ingrate!"

"Pakura-san!" Kakashi yelled after her.

"Look after Naruto-chan," Pakura yelled over her shoulder, "To stop Shukaku, just find and awaken Gaara-kun!"

Meanwhile, Naruto was dragging Shukaku further and further away from the village, Hiruzen following their progress on the ground as he hurried after them. "That's good, Naruto-chan! You're far enough away from the village to fight!"

Shukaku roared and slapped at the fox's face, dislodging his fangs from his hide, "Get off'a me, ya ugly ol' fleabag!"

"Shut up!" Naruto roared, "Let Gaara go right now!" Naruto growled as he prepared another attack, the tips of his tails coming over his body, and glowing brightly.

Shukaku turned toward his "brother". "Make me, Kurama-nii!"

Naruto roared, firing nine beams from the tips of his tails, slicing across the land, and into Shukaku's body. He howled in pain, "Kurama, ya jackass, you're gonna kill my container!" Shukaku screamed, his limbs falling away from his body, before they started reforming from the surrounding desert. "All I want is to taste some blood, but you won't let me! If I can't have blood," the beast growled, then turned his head toward the oasis, smelling exactly what he desired, and grinned, "Heeheehee, I'll slaughter everyone in the entire village!" He roared and curled himself into a ball, rolling away from the fight, and toward the villagers.

"No!" Naruto roared, barreling after him, "That's where Temari-chan is!"

Hiruzen saw the Shukaku's change in direction and sped away in front of the beast, "Not today you bloodthirsty beast!" He landed in front of the beast, positioning his staff, "Expand!" The nyoibo expanded to the size of a large tree trunk, and Hiruzen thrust it into the ground, "Up you go!"

Shukaku, unable to stop his advance, even if he wanted to, slammed into the tip of the staff sticking in the air, and vaulted over it with a cackling cry as the bo staff threw him. The rolling ball of sand careened across the night sky, and sailed over the oasis, crashing into the ground with a titanic rumble.

Temari huddled close to her brother and Baki, "Why won't it stop?!" She asked, "Can't they help him?!"

Baki, watching all of the fighting going on, Pakura fighting their Kazekage, and the Kyuubi barreling after the Ichibi while Kakashi and Hiruzen chased after it, could only shake his head, "I don't know...but we can pray."

At that moment, Naruto's massive form lumbered over them, frightening the villagers into screaming before the sight of the legendary Biju. Temari, though frightened, looked on in awe of the beast. The red fur seemed to glow in the light of the moon, and the eyes of the beast shown like twin blue moons. "Pretty."

Naruto paused in his pursuit, his eyes falling unto the small girl that had become dear to him. Temari was looking right back at him, the fear, somehow, gone from her as she looked into the eyes of the beast he had become.

"EXTEND!" Hiruzen roared, pole vaulting over the beast, and spinning his staff around his body, "Heads up, Shukaku!" Stupidly, the Ichibi looked up, and was rewarded with a hard strike to his head right between his ears from Hiruzen's staff.

"Ow! Stupid monkey!" Shukaku screamed, sending his sand after the man, "I'll kill ya, I'll kill ya all dead!"

Suddenly, Kakashi came barreling out of nowhere, small orb of chakra in his palm, "I won't let you hurt anyone else, least of all your own container!" He yelled and lept up the Ichibi's body, "RASENGAN!" He slammed the Rasengan into the Shukaku's face, distorting it and causing sand to fall from his face, revealing - "

"GAARA!" Temari screamed upon seeing her brother.

Naruto looked up and saw the boy dangling by his arms and legs trapped in sand from the disfigured face the sand Biju, and lept forward, his jaws agape. he crashed into the Ichibi, bearing down on him with his teeth.

Temari saw this and shrieked, "No, Naruto, please don't!"

Naruto's jaws snapped down.

Shukaku screamed as his body began melting into the the desert. Sand dribbled from Naruto's jaws.

Temari screamed as her tears came unbidden. Naruto lumbered over to the villagers, his head hung low to the ground. In front of Temari and her brother, he set down a large lump of sand. On top of that lump, was a small boy with blood-red hair.

And he was breathing.

Temari and Kankuro rushed forward, "Gaara!"

Gaara shifted tiredly, and opened his eyes just as his elder sister reached him. "Temari-san?"

"I'm here," Temari said, taking her brother in her arms, "You're gonna be fine, okay? The monster's gone now!"

"Okaa-san...Okaa-san didn't love me..." Gaara said in a small voice, his eyes tearing up, "She...she only gave birth to me because she wanted revenge..."

"No," Temari said, shaking her head, "Kaa-chan loved you...she loved you more than anything in this world just like she loved me and Kankuro-niichan."

Gaara shook his head, "No..my names means 'a demon that is loved by no one, and only meant to love himself'. She hated me!"

Temari bit her lips, her tears staining the sand, and then said, "Kaa-san used to sing to you, you know?" She said, gaining his attention, "Before you were born, she used to sing to you while you were still in her tummy."

"She did?" Gaara asked, and his sister nodded. "Could...could you sing if form me? The song she used to sing?"

Temari nodded, and looked up at the fox, "Thank you, Naruto-chan." She said, and began to sing.

Yuuyami Semaru Kumo no ue

Itsumo Ichiiwa de tonde iru

Taka wa kitto Kanashi karou

Oto mo tadaeta kaze no naka

Sora wo tsukanda sono tsubasa

Yasumeru koto wo deki nakute(*)

Thoooom!

Naruto's body crashed to the ground, unsettling the thee siblings as the fox's body started to burn in red flames. "Naruto!" Temari shrieked.

"Kakashi-kun! Get Naruto-chan clear of the body!" Hiruzen roared, dashing back toward Rasa and Pakura's battle. "I need to stop those two before they kill each other!"

"Right!" Kakashi yelled as he landed on top of the burning body, "Come on, come on, where are you, Itouto!"

He received no answer as the flesh of the fox kept burning away, revealing bone beneath. Temari scrambled over the inferno, scanning the beast's body for any sign of her friend. "Naruto-chan!"

Meanwhile, Rasa was very close to losing his temper with the woman in front of him. "You ungrateful wench! After all I've done for you, you would turn your back on your own village for a mere child!"

Pakura sent another stream of white-hot flames at him, "I'd do anything to protect the children of any village, even if it meant going against a Kage!" She roared, "And we both know that you'd have attacked Naruto-chan as well! I won't let you hurt my soichi!"

"ENOUGH!" The black shaft of Hiruzen's nyoibo came whistling between them as the Shinobi no Kami landed between them, "You two fools! The battle is over! Naruto-chan's beaten the Ichibi back and Gaara-kun is safe!"

Rasa looked over toward the oasis, "He's stable?! How?!"

Hiruzen glared at the man, "You, oh foolish Kazekage, can thank your daughter for that." He said, looking every bit the shinobi in his battle attire, his staff in hand, "She was able to break through to him while still retained his sanity and bring him back. If not for her and Naruto-chan, your people would have fed the Biju Gaara-kun carries!" He then looked at the woman, smiling, "Pakura-san, once Naruto-chan is retreived, we set out for Konoha...I have a sudden urge to return home."

=x=

Naruto was awakened by an all too familiar dripping sound as his eyes came open, revealing the sewer-like cage where the Kyuubi was held. "Here again?"

"Indeed," growled the titanic voice of the Kyuubi as Naruto sat up, "Consider yourself lucky, you little wretch. If I hadn't forced all of that chakra into your tiny little body, you wouldn't have been able to use my form so readily...now it seems that I have been made a fool." The Kyuubi growled.

Naruto looked at him in confusion, "What are you talking about? You're the one that turned me into that giant kitsune, right?"

The massive fox laughed loudly, causing the waters of his cell to dance under the vibrations. "You fool! As if I would aid you in such a way! No, you took the chakra I forced upon you and stored it away in another part of your being. In a sense, you have but a fraction of my power at your finger tips, but be warned, runt, for my power is limitless, as yours is not. That small amount you took from me will someday run dry, and you will come to me for more."

Naruto looked up at the beast in defiance, "I already told you, I won't use your power for you! I'll get stronger using my own power!"

The fox glared down at him in contempt, "You ningen make no sense to me. You refuse my power, but then you turn right around and use the chakra I forced upon you to do battle with my idiot brother. Make no mistake, even with that small amount of power, you could have obliterated that foolish Tanuki a thousand times over, but for someone like myself or my...more powerful brethren, you will need more."

Naruto shook his head, "You can have it back!" He stated, "I don't want it anymore! Go on! Take it!"

The Kyuubi's claws crashed through the bars of his prison, "You think I haven't tried?! I can't! I am prevented from moving about your being because of this accursed seal!"

Naruto felt a smirk on his face, "Not so tough, now, huh?"

"Insolent worm! Should I ever be freed from this blasted prison, I will make you watch as I raze your village to the ground! I will feast upon your loved one's flesh, and bathe in their blood!"

Naruto sat down in the water, smiling, "Before that day comes...I'll get rid of that hatred you say you carry for everything."

The fox growled, "I am hatred incarnate!" He growled, "To rid myself of hatred you would have to destroy all of the hatred within yourself," he smirked as the boy flinched, "Yes, little worm, you harbor your own hatred. For your village, for its people for what they did to you. For your beloved Hokage for not telling you of your wretched family!"

Naruto looked down, feeling a pit forming in his stomach. He did feel angry at times when he thought about the cruelty he felt at the hands of the villagers. And he was angry that his Jiji hadn't told him of his Uzumaki heritage...but even with all of that...he still loved.

Jiji was always kind to him, and he loved him like a grandfather. There were some villagers that liked, and would give him food and clothing at times...and there was Pakura...okaa-san...

Naruto smiled and looked back up at the Kyuubi, "Kurama-san." The Kyuubi flinched and sneered at the use of his name, "I...I might be angry, and maybe even hate some people...but...I also love them!"

Kurama growled, and turned away from him in disgust, "Get out of my sight. Leave me to my solitude, and never darken these halls again."

"I'll come back and - "

"GET OOOOOUUUUUT!"

=x=

Two days after the battle between Shukaku and the Kyuubi found Hiruzen and Pakura in th Hokage's carriage with Kakashi sitting on the roof to keep watch. They were almost back in the Land of Fire.

Pakura was cradling Naruto in her arms as he slept, the boy cuddling up to her in his sleep. Before leaving, Temari had given the boy a scroll, and sealed inside it were a pair a of Tessen, both blue in color, as well as a letter from the girl, asking if the pair could write to each other, the young Kazekage heiress* not caring about the young blond being a Jinchuriki like her brother.

Temari had also made it her duty to shield her brothers from her father. Though, after everything that had happened, Rasa completely ignored his children. Temari didn't care. She had Gaara and Kankuro, and that was all she needed.

Bidding Temari good-bye, the blond boy got the shock of a lifetime as Temari pecked him on the cheek, causing a few giggles from the fourteen-year-old Kakashi, who hid behind his favorite book, much to Pakura's annoyance.

Naruto's parting with the girl had been a simple smile after that. "See you soon, Mari-chan."

(*)Above the clouds where dusk comes
Always flying by itself
The hawk is probably grieving is it not
In the wind's midst even sound stops
The wings that grasp the sky
Resting is a thing they cannot do

*According to a Lite Novel I read, Kazekage(Wind Shadow) is the clan name of Rasa and his children.

And that's chapter five, folks, and boy was it fun to write! I hope you liked it, but if not...meh, I still had fun! XD

See you soon! And please leave a review!