Chapter 1

Sakura realized that she was in a pickle. The three little runts running around, and eventually infurating her to no end, had gotten her into a sticky situation. After chasing the brats, they ran into two, menacing looking Suna-nins. The big guy was dressed in black, with black face paint covering his features. Opposite him was a fairly attractive blonde, dressed in loose clothing with metal fishnet sticking out from underneath her clothes. The guy with cat ears and the girl with four pig tails also had what looked to be menacing looking weapons on their back, but from this distance, Sakura couldn't tell.

"Damn gaki's are all over place, eh Temari?" Remarked the kabuki man.

The girl known as Temari just snorted before saying back, "Do do anything that'll get us in trouble, Kankuro. You don't want to get... him mad, do you?"

Kankuro just shuddered when she mentioned him, but Sakura had no idea what or whom she was talking about. When she looked at the other two children, she could only see despair and hope in their young eyes that she would help them. Sakura bit her lip before the ultimate confrontation.

"W-what are you two doing in Konohagakure no Sato? I understand we're allies, but I'll have to see your papers before I let you get any further." Sakura tried to state with authority.

The Kankuro guy guffawed a little before Temari whipped out a couple of pieces of paper, waving them around with a sardonic smirk. Sakura believed that they were there for official reasons, since she caught a glimpse of the insignia of Konohagakure. However, that didn't relive the situation the little boy with a scarf had gotten himself into. "You do realize that you need to put that boy down, right? If you harm him, you will leave me no choice but to subdue the both of you," Sakura said in more confidence than she felt.

Kankuro and Temari shared a knowing smirk before Kankuro responded. "I was going to let the little gaki go after scaring him a little, but since you've threatened us with a fight, I think I might want to stretch my 'combat legs' a little before the chuunin exams," He said while craking his knuckles. Sakura glanced down, biting her lip, kicking herself for putting out the bluff. Her feather light pink hair fluttered in a gentle breeze, a complete opposite to the tense situation. When Sakura looked up, however, she couldn't repress the gasp that escaped her lips.

Standing unnoticed between the two Suna genin was a boy, slightly shorter than her. She couldn't see his eyes because his blond head was drooping and his shoulders were hunched. His arms hung limply at his sides, apparently moving with the gentle breeze. He had orange cargo pants with an orange muscle shirt that hugged his torso. Sakura would have thought the boy got back from a devasting defeat, if it weren't for his bronze skin and rippling muscles under his shirt and on his arms.

The two Suna nins were still smirking at Sakura when a wraith like, hollow voice spoke from in between them, startling them. "You should listen to Kunoichi-san," the boy said. Kankuro and Temari tried to turn towards the boy, but get had a hold on Kankuro's weapon, and he was holding Temari's fan stationary by holding it down with a nail glued to the front of his sandal.

"O-oh yeah," Kankuro remarked.

"Oh yeah," the defeated looking boy said. He then looked up, startling Sakura once again with vivid blue eyes, eyes that seemed hauntingly familiar. However, the biggest shock was looking into the depths of those eyes. Unlike the rest of him, they looked barely restrained, with unbridled fury, even moreso while looking into Sakura's own green pools.

"You see those two over there," the boy said gesturing towards Sakura. Surprisingly, standing next to her was Sasuke, with an intense stare. She didn't know whether it was directed at the strange boy or the two Suna nins. "You know nothing about them," the boy began again, dragging Sakura from her thoughts, "and they know all they need to know about you."

"W-what are you talking about?" Temari gasped out. She was trying to wrench her battle fan from the boy's grasp, but wasn't strong enough.

"Aww, cute little Suna gaki's, trying to play ninja. You will never be able to compete with a true ninja, a ninja of Konohagakure no Sato," the boy growled out. "I couldn't even graduate from the academy," the boy spat out, "and I could tell how to beat you. Just think what those two could do against you, Wind Mistress, and Puppet User."

When the boy uttered those words, Kankuro's anger reached its limit and Temari's desperation grew. They both maximized their struggles to get out of the boys grasp, but were unprepared for what was about to happen. First, the boy, who had a firm hold on the puppet's head on Kankuro's back, crushed the head with a slight squeeze. Kankuro gave a agonized yell, as if his own head was crushed. Temari on the other hand faired a bit differently, as the boy slammed her fan down the couple of inches it was above the ground. It did nothing more than unbalence her.

Now with nothing to hold on to the two Suna nins, Kankuro whipped around, dropping the little boy he was holding, who immediately ran over to his two friends. The detatched blond quickly gave Temari a side kick, bouncing her along the ground twenty feet away, before he sprung into the air.

Sasuke viewed the whole thing in slow motion. He wasn't aware if his Sharingan was activated or not, but the boy looked to be moving in real time, while the other two looked like they were in slow motion. That boy just moved with so much grace it was hard not to be in awe of something like that. While in the air, the boy slowly spun, and connected with a roundhouse to the Suna nin's jaw. After that, Sasuke's vision sped up as the Suna nin was launched from the boy's foot as if he had been shot out of a cannon. The Suna nin exploded into a tree, causing a massive dent in the tree. Luckily for the nin, his puppet seemed to take most of the brunt of impact. Sadly though, said puppet was no more than wood chunks.

When Sasuke looked back towards the blond, another surprise awaited him. A boy with red hair and with eyes with bags underneath them, sporting a crazed look in his green eyes. The gourd on his back was leaking sand, and the blond boy had sand creeping up his legs. Before the sand made it up to his waist, it surprisingly fell off, with a seemingly shockwave being emitted from the blond boy. It did little more than ruffle Sasuke's clothes, but it seemed to have a significant effect on the red haired boy.

Temari could only watch on in awe. She was a little ticked off that the boy didn't use the strength he used on Kankuro, knowing implicitly it was because she was a girl, but ultimately happy as she watched Kankuro try to get up groggily and dig the various knives and wood chunks from his back. She was shocked when she looked back and Gaara, with his murderous, crazed eyeswas behind the blond boy. She recognized that look. She witnessed that look every time they went on a mission and Gaara assassinated all of their enemies. Hell, he'd slaughter everyone until his bloodlust was satisfied. She knew it would spell doom for her team not being able to accopmlish their mission since Gaara would now kill until they were stopped or all of Konoha was destroyed.

It was shocking to her when a silent shockwave was emitted from the blond haired kid, nullifying Gaara's sand. Gaara had gotten a crazed unblinking expression to his eyes, then the boy spoke.

"You use that demon of yours on me? One that you should control, and yet it controls you." The boy, with lightning speed, reached behind him and grabbed Gaara by his head. "You now will not have your demon to rely on, for about two weeks. I have silenced it, with the power of my demon." The boy only whispered, allowing only Temari and Gaara to hear him."Perhaps now, you'll embrace all that is ninja, and know what that means." The boy then gave Gaara one final squeeze, knocking him out through intense pain and throwing him at Temari.

"Take your brothers and leave. If you cause anymore trouble, I'll be there, and I won't go so easy next time." Temari gave a slight nod and gathered up her brothers and left.

As the blond boy was about to leave, Sakura yelled out to him, "What's your name?"

They boy just quirked a questioning eyebrow with fury filled eyes. "Do not concern yourself with my name Kunoichi-san. I am beneath you, and your skills." With a seemingly after thought, he added, "Thank you for protecting me and all of Konohagakure no Sato. May fortune favor all of our shinobi," and left before she could blink.

Sakura looked towards Sasuke as he clenched his fists. "You didn't recognize him Sakura?" Sauke asked. She shook her head as Sasuke said back, "You should. That was the Dobe who followed you around for god knows how many years. He flunked out of the Academy a few months back when we graduated. That was Uzumaki Naruto."

AN: This story just came to me. It won't be too long, I think around ten chapters, fifteen at most. I hit a block on Will of Change, I know where I'm going, it just hard to write to get where it will easily flow out, you know? So write this until I get the next chapter up for that story. So, I hope you like this bad boy.