Nightmare? Chapter 8, a naruto fanfic

So its a little shorter than usual...mainly because I felt like getting to the moreo fun stuff to write...aka, I ran out of soccer ideas. You can't blame me. In order to keep ALL the kids in character somethings were just not possible...so...this is the end of the soccer game...but no where near the end of this story.

"GAARA!!! WHERE ARE YOUUUUUUU???" shouted Kankuro, walking around his puppet draped over his shoulder. Damn. Why did he have to be the one stuck babysitting Gaara??? Temari was the oldest!!! Anyway, wasn't it during her watch that he went poof? Well, technically their younger sibling had gotten dragged away by a bunch of Konoha brats. At first, it seemed like Tou-san didn't really mind, but as soon as all the Konoha shinobi were gone, the two children had been ordered to get their brother back before he killed someone. It was imperative that this treaty went through, for the sake of the Hidden Village of Sand. He always pulled that one on them every time something happened with Gaara, whether it be at home at the dinner table, outside in the playground, or even during training. Kankuro shuddered at the thought of Gaara fully transforming before…and almost lost his breakfast. He had to find his brother fast, or both he and Temari were dead…

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"Pass it here dattebayo!! Here Lee! Here!!!" shouted one of the multiple Naruto Kage Bunshins. Lee attempted to kick the ball towards the shouting blonde boys, but failed miserably and ended up slipping on the ball, and slamming his head hard on top of it. From the corner of his eye he saw Neji bearing down on him, all set to kick the ball out from under his head.

"H-HEY!!" Lee began to protest trying his fastest to get back up, but fell over yet again. Then in the nick of time, Sasuke came flying out of nowhere, propelled by at least two of Naruto's clones, to get Lee out of the way, and somehow, to get the ball. Lee noticed that the other six-year old's eyes had turned a vivid blood red, and a small dark dot was spinning rapidly around his pupil.

"Uh—WAAAAHHH!!!" screamed Lee in shock and horror. This was creepy!!! WHY DID HIS EYES TURN RED?? WHAT WAS HE??? IT WAS A MONSTER!

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The game stopped when Lee started screaming. He was staring at Sasuke as if he was some sort of alien creature of some sort…

Naruto narrowed his eyes. He knew that sometimes Sasuke could be kind of intimidating, especially whenever there was a girl nearby and he really wanted to get away, but all he had done was make sure Lee didn't get hurt…But how had he known exactly how to dodge Neji? That other boy was really fast…

Coming over, Naruto realized what had scared Lee. Sasuke's eyes had turned red with his Sharingan. The first time Sasuke had shown him, Naruto had also screamed until Sasuke started laughing, explaining kekkei genkais. Sasuke was of the Uchiha clan, and all of them had Sharingan, some inherited stronger than others, but all of them had it. Sasuke's family happened to be pretty strong with Sharingan. His father was the chief of police, his mom had been a famous kunoichi before she got married and had kids…Sasuke had even grudgingly mentioned his older brother Itachi, who had awakened his Sharingan at eight and was an ANBU commander at thirteen. Naruto impressed, had asked then why Sasuke hadn't shown his parents that he could use Sharingan now. He was two years younger than when Itachi had gotten his…

Sasuke had adamantly refused and had sworn his best friend to secrecy. He didn't want to be compared to his big brother.

It was only after much explanation and reassurances from both Naruto, Sasuke, and surprisingly, Gaara, that Lee agreed to continue playing. They had to explain Kekkei Genkais, that Sasuke using Housenka no Jutsu during the game was perfectly normal, that Neji hadn't really meant to scare him, charging for the ball like that, and Naruto having enough chakra to maintain all these Kage Bunshins for the past hour really was perfectly normal.

Neji didn't really see the point in having to encourage the stupid kid. The other boy was a wimp. Wimps didn't deserve having anything explained to them. The only people who deserved recognition were strong and smart people, like him…and maybe that Uchiha kid…and a lot of adults…including his uncle…It wasn't fair. Why his father was strong, stronger than the head of the family, if it hadn't been for that stupid mark…

He hated the head family, them and all the weaklings in it…he had liked his cousin Hinata well enough…until they had carved that seal into his forehead…

"Hey Neji, aren't you gonna play?"

He nodded distractedly.

"Psst! Hey Lee…Neji's not paying attention, let's take advantage of this and score!" whispered one of the multiple Naruto Kage Bunshins loudly.

As if…even with his eyes closed, Neji could beat them soundly…

"YOSH!! Let's GO!!!" roared Lee, and suddenly with a terrifying speed, began tearing down the field towards the stationary ball.

Neji was shocked by the mere raw speed that the thick-eye browed boy had, and for a moment had let himself acknowledge some spark of power in Rock Lee…until the boy tripped over his own feet and went in a headlong slide towards the ball. He didn't even reach it either, instead he stopped two inches in front of the ball.

"What a klutz…" smirked Neji running towards the ball.

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Okay, so that hadn't gone exactly as planned…and true, Lee did lack…a certain finesse…To be blunt, Lee was showing no talent at anything whatsoever.

And to think he beat me…sighed the Older Sasuke watching as Lee, in his process of getting up, managed to trip over nothing yet again, and smashed into one of Naruto's clones. He must have rammed it pretty hard, because the bunshin vanished in a puff of smoke.

THIS guy beat YOU?

Oh trust me, he gets a lot better…only after a lot of hard work.

Are you just saying this to make me train more?

No, I'm serious. This guy worked so hard he could run faster than a horse…with…lemme see…200 pounds strapped to his legs. Feeling his younger self's incredulity he showed him the memory of being almost Hidden Lotused. Sasuke decided that, to see the rest of that memory would be traumatizing…Gai and that turtle…that had been horrible…

Oh yeah, noted the older consciousness, Lee also beat Gaara…in fact, he was the first person to ever hurt him.

WHOA!! He got GOOD!!!

My point exactly. And by the way, isn't that Naruto Bunshin on your team?

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Kankuro had been running around the Hidden Village of Konoha for at least two hours…He had been going in circles…How was he supposed to find Gaara in this stupid place? He wasn't familiar with the terrain, and he was hungry! The one thing that kept him going was the thought of his father's wrath upon discovering that his youngest child had accidentally murdered some stupid little Konoha brat or some such... Best case scenario would be Gaara killing at least a Genin who was picking on him or something, so they could write it off as self-defence…but that would still mean death for him and Temari. His stomach gurgled loudly. He was hungry…But he couldn't go back to the main building without Gaara, or an empty stomach would be the least of his problems.

"GAARA!!! WHERE ARE YOUUUU???????????!!!!"

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"HEY! NO fair!! NO tenketsu strikes!!!" exclaimed Sasuke angrily rubbing his arm where Neji had poked him really hard. Naruto could see small bruise where Neji had done a two fingered jab on him.

"Tenketsu strike?" echoed Naruto, coming over. The game had come to a momentary halt at Sasuke's shout of foul play.

"He messed up my chakra circulatory system! I can't flow chakra through my arm…" he explained, shooting murderous glares at the Hyuuga boy.

"How?"

"It's the Hyuuga kekkei genkai. Byakugan, he can see the chakra circulatory system…"growled Sasuke. "Hyuuga's fight with Jyuuken, a type of taijutsu that only attacks the internal organs…Tenketsu strikes require extreme precision and good chakra control… you can like control the other person's chakra, like make it flow or stop it…and you can't just learn how to do them," he added with a look toward Naruto.

It wasn't fair!! How come all the cool stuff was either forbidden or exclusive only to a bloodline????

"You know a lot…" was all Neji said.

"You're pretty good if you can do tenketsu strike…" said Sasuke, glaring at him, "But that was cheating!"

"CHEATING? I wasn't cheating, you were using your Kekkei Genkai to dodge my shurikens!!" retorted Neji.

"YOU WERE USING SHURIKENS!!! "

"YOU SPAT FIREBALLS AT ME!!"

"NINJUTSU WAS ALLOWED! WEAPONS WEREN'T!!"

"SAYS WHO???"

"Says me…" interrupted Gaara, interposing himself between the Uchiha and the Hyuuga boys.

Naruto felt a chill pass through him. The way Gaara had said that…it was creepy. He sounded…Naruto's six-year old mind couldn't put a word to it. If he had the vocabulary for it, he would have described it as 'blood thirsty'.

"I just want to play soccer, nicely."

The emphasis on the word 'nicely' made Naruto think that Gaara had the wrong definition of the word…

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Sasuke just looked at Gaara for a moment, before speaking again.

"Fine, but he still cheated."

"No, you did!!" retorted Neji.

OH? You wanna fight about this Hyuuga boy?? Growled the Older Sasuke mentality. Geez. The seven-year old Neji was just as stubborn and pig-headed as the 13 year-old one…stupid Hyuugas…He had the perfect comeback to that.

"NO! YOU DID!!"

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Gaara was getting frustrated…for the first time since that incident with the other kids back home. He just wanted to play sokkur with his new friends, but they were all arguing…

He was mad now…

"WHAT PART OF NICELY DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" he yelled angrily, sand erupting from the air, as all the small tiny particles floating in the air congregated to create multiple streams of sand that was harder than steel. This sudden new even at least caused the two boys to stop arguing, if only for a moment…All of them were just staring awestruck by Gaara's suddenly outburst…For a while it seemed like they would be able to get on with the game…until Sasuke shouted something that let all hell loose.

"NEJI'S GOT COOTIES!!!!!"

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"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!" Lee screamed in terror.

"I'M TOO YOUNG TO DIE!!! AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Sasuke was expecting some sort of reaction…but not one this serious…Gaara's sand had formed a protective shell around the red-haired boy, much against his own will, from the muffled shouts coming from inside the sand…Lee had fallen over yet again and was still screaming as if he was dying or something, Naruto's bunshins had all disappeared and the real one was staring around dazed and confused.

The Shukaku is afraid of cooties??? Was the first thought that came through the Older Sasuke's mind. A giant, sand tanuki, was afraid of tiny, almost microscopic head-lice????

WHAT THE HELL WAS WRONG WITH THE WORLD?????!!!

"NARUTO!! SASUKE!!! WHAT ARE YOU TWO DOING HERE???!!!" roared an all too familiar voice…

OH man…we're in trouble…

Okay, So that's 8 chapters now, huh...Well Chapter 9 is coming up right after this...Just in case you want to know what happened.