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Chapter 8

A Warning

I had been staying in Sunagakure for a while now. When I had first arrived I was shocked to learn that Gaara had become the Kazekage, I remember he was a nutcase who had a very small temper and I remember the fight between him and Lee very vaguely but I knew it was brutal. So to hear he was the Kage of this sandy location was very curious.

The village he ruled over was very peaceful and quiet hardly anybody asked questions and hardly ever made eye contact. It made walking about in the day very easy. I was comfortable here; I lived in a hotel in the greasy side of town where the delinquents and prostitutes resided, when I first arrived I was harassed, they were all under the impression I was a man and so threatens of fights and good times were all I heard for a while besides they decided to leave me alone.

At night I hung out at bar if I wasn't training in hopes to find new information about Konaha or Naruto and Sasuke but so far I had heard nothing. I was headed over to that very bar I had my hood up and my chakra disguised.

I walked through the dark brown saloon doors and took my seat at the bar I flagged my hands to the bartender. I ordered a bottle of sake I wasn't going to drink, he handed me the bottle and a cup and as I proceeded to pour I heard a few words from the drunks next to me that caught my attention.

"I heard the Akatsuki is back." One of the men mumbled to the other

"What do you mean they've been back?"

"No no no I heard the got plans to kidnap our Kazekage."

I got swiftly taking the bottle with me as I walked over to the two men. I slammed the bottle down, catching there attention.

"Tell me all the information you have in exchange I will give you this whole bottle of sake."

One of them smirked and then he began to tell me about the latest crimes being committed by the Akatsuki and who they were and how he heard what he did.

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I was in my hotel room thinking about what I had learned from the two drunkards and about Gaara who was the Kazekage here, memories of my childhood came floating back to me, and the energy he had how it was always pained and angry.

I kept pacing my room for several hours before I decided I had to warn Gaara, creep or not he was still someone I had known and he had to have a fair advantage. I couldn't just let him get ambushed like that….

I was at the Kazekage tower the sandy structure was like a giant sand castle with few windows, I peeked into one of them upside down my feet glued to the edge of the roof that seemed to be the Kazekage office and saw a body slumped forward on the desk, I used chakra and withdrew my blade cutting swiftly into the window causing it to not shatter as I cut a circle allowing myself to open it from the inside. I grabbed the bottom of the window sill and held my body on it before lowering my lower half (legs) and lowered my arms and landed my legs as m arms slowly followed allowing me to slowly backflip in.

I sheathed my small blade and then looked at the slump body. The sunlight of dawn illuminated the room a little to let me see it was Gaara, I looked at his familiar red hair and his now grown body and felt a pang of sadness for him, he was my age and yet he was already ready leader of his village and now at threat for dying. He was even younger than me.

I took a few cautious steps towards him and touched his shoulder, suddenly his frame dissipated into sand , which then floated behind me to an image in the shadows, I spun around just in time to block sand coming for my heads. The sand sliced my arms causing me to gush out blood leaving deep lacerations. Ignoring the stinging of the sand and cut I yelled out.

"Gaara stop! Stop it's me Sakura!"

His face scrunched up into sick humor "I know who you are, you're a criminal!"

"Yes yes I know I am, but I'm here to warn you!"

As the sun began to rise it flooded the room with sunshine letting him properly look at my pleading face.

"Gaara you're in danger!"

After the words left my mouth his head perked up and he began to run I followed after him he had ran to the roof of his building and began doing signs and then sand was above the village, a few muffled explosions could be heard before the sand dissipated again, I looked up and saw a large deformed bird flying overhead, as I watched he bird fly a few white things flew over the top of it, Gaara grabbed me and pushed me against him as a sphere of sand surrounded us. A few explosions went off around us and the sphere dissipated again, then on the floor where Gaara and I were standing were weird white paper birds, he shoved me back quickly as explosions went off, he fell back and I tried to run over to him, but the bird had spit more bombs at me causing me to stop shutting my eyes from the explosion of sand the hit my face and cut it.

I opened my eyes again to see Gaara being carried off by the large white bird.

A/N

I do apologize for the very long update but I had gotten busy with school and what not and actually finding the time to write this and I felt myself be in a writer's block since chapter 8 and 7 we're from my head and not prewritten, and actually thanks to the help of those two chapter I know have a solid plotline that will be devolping. Anyways I do apologize for the very long wait please make sure to review, also I hope you enjoy, until next time enjoy!