Ok, everybody here it is. Sorry it took so long I really was thinking about stopping, but reading some reviews made me feel like I should keep going and at least finish this arc. I will try to update more frequently, but make no promises just know that this story will keep going. Well as always please review and let me know what you think.
I don't own Naruto in any way shape or form, but if I did this is how it would go.
SUCCESS
It was pitch black and hard to breathe. The thoughts going through her mind were not good thoughts. She should have listened and prepared better, she won't be able to have as much fun as she had hoped, and she had underestimated this brat. Oh well she thought a mission is a mission so I better hurry up and get this one over with. The sand was all over her body and she could not move well, but that didn't seem to matter. The second she heard his muffled voice she set off the bomb she was riding on(the giant clay bird). It not only canceled out the pressure of the desert coffin, but propelled her through the sand past the next smaller bomb she had sent out before she had been totally surrounded. Getting out of the center was the important thing because that was where the most pressure would be applied she set off her smaller bomb and was propelled further out through the sand. She had set bombs there for a purpose and now that purpose was being served she was escaping Gaara's desert coffin. Each small clay bird propelled her forward until she flew out of the ball of sand. She did not think that Gaara saw her because she had come out on the backside of the ball. So she had the ball between her and Gaara. She quickly opened her hand and a tiny bird was sitting on her palm she let it drop and quickly made hand seals and had another giant clay bird to ride she landed on it and was already working on her next work of art.
Gaara did not see her, but he felt her moving through the sand and knew she was going to be a difficult opponent to defeat. He moved the sand so he could see where she was. He caught sight of her landing on her bird and beginning to do something with her hands. He was not going to let her get away and a giant hand of sand shot from the ball next to the ninja and enveloped her. He looked at her with menacing eyes and asked. "What is your purpose here?"
She was once again almost caught off guard, but she had finished what she had wanted to do. She looked at her target, because that was what he was to her. She forced her hand outside of the sand she dropped the object she had just made and let out a croak of a laugh. She looked again at her target and started saying, "Tick, tick, tick, tick"
Gaara did not know what she was trying to do at first, but he quickly got the drift when she started mocking him with the ticking noise. He wanted to crush her right then, but didn't know the explosive power of the object she had let fall. He immediately let her go and sent all his sand speeding to get in front of the object as well as raising sand from the floor to create a giant barrier underneath the object. The sand was almost there when the stranger finally stopped ticking and said "BOOM!"
The explosion was enormous. At first it simply popped like a fire cracker and then all of a sudden the energy was released and a conflagration of fire and destruction started spreading outward. The explosions noise was ear splitting. Twice as loud as a jet engine and many times more deadly. Gaara knew he was exposed, but an explosion of that magnitude would decimate his village and he couldn't allow that. An ocean of sand rose above the buildings to protect the village. The sand above the explosion made a barrier to protect Gaara. The explosion kept growing forcing Gaara to reach further into his immense reserve of chakra to raise more sand to protect his village. He was reaching his limit raising such a quantity of sand and still did not know how much power the explosion held. Suddenly some of the sand above the explosion that had formed the barrier protecting him shot up towards him. Without breaking his concentration he looked up to see the reason the sand was charging at him. The sand moving towards him was the special sand from his gourd that always protected him. There were four small explosive birds flying towards him at a high speed, the sand was flying towards him to protect him. The sand was able to form a wall in front of him to protect him from the small birds giving itself time to form a protective sphere around him.
The explosion reached it's apex and started diminishing, but Gaara could not see this and kept expanding the sand to protect the village. The blond stranger laughed and snapped her finger. A hole exploded in Gaara's sphere and three birds rushed in. Earlier she had sent four birds and they were embedded in Gaara's gourd sand and she only set one off to fool Gaara. Throughout their encounter the motion off the sand ground the clay making it impossible for the sand to protect against. She set it off and the explosion displaced some of the sand to allow the birds in. She left one out so that the sphere would stay in place, and stay closed. While all this was happening she leisurely guided the large clay bird under the sphere and set off the three birds inside the sphere. The explosion had finally completely disappeared. The sand started falling back to the ground not all at once, but it was a marvelous sight to behold she thought. She looked up to see the sphere loose its form and let its occupant fall. She extended her arms and caught Gaara, "Hmm, you look cute, yes. I told Sasori he had nothing to worry about." She let out a short laugh and guided the bird back towards the edges of the village.
Hirai and Kankarou arrived on the roof of the Kazekages office in time to see the giant wall of sand start to crumble. They knew the wall was Gaara's doing, but they doubted he would let it fall in the manner they were witnessing. The sand looked like it was raining, like a huge solid roof on the village that was raining like clouds, after a few seconds though they were able to see what was happening above the clouds. What they saw shocked them, Gaara's lifeless form was caught by the enemy. Kankarou could not reach them from this distance and Hirai was too stunned to move. (NOOO! This can't be real!) Kankarou didn't know what to do for a second, but it didn't take long to compose himself. Looking at Hirai he started barking out orders. "Hirai write a letter to Temari and inform her of what's happened immediately and have an official message sent out to Konoha's Hokage asking for help." When she didn't move he yelled at her at the top of his lungs. "What the hell are you waiting for! Get moving!" She seemed to snap back to reality and went back into the Kazekages office. Kankarou finished formulating a plan and ran in behind her. "I'm going to follow them, when you finish up here follow my trail so you can back me up. Inform everyone of what's happened" With that being said Kankarou ran out of the office and was on his way.
Hirai grabbed a piece of paper and pen from the Kazekage's desk and quickly scribbled a note telling Temari of what had happened. She then took one of her kodachis and wrapped the paper around the handle. She held the kodachi in both hands and began to transfer some chakra into it. After about a minute she seemed satisfied with the amount of chakra. She ran out onto the balcony pulled her arm back and threw the Kodachi into the sky. Instead of falling to the ground the kodachi soared through the air gaining speed and altitude until it was out of sight. She quickly turned around and ran towards the message room to give them the news and have them deliver the message as fast as they could. The workers in the mail room were shocked at the news, but nevertheless hurried to get the task done. They had the message on the fastest falcon headed towards Konoha in no time at all. She then ran after Kankarou hoping she could reach him in time to help. Never in all her time in the village did she think the events which had unfolded before her eyes were possible. She had no idea what was going to happen, but for the first time in a long time she felt a worm of fear crawl into her mind. With insecurity of the future on her mind she ran out of the village tracking Kankarou.
Back in Konoha in a forest near a river there was a confrontation brewing. Jiraiya was sitting at the top of the tree "gathering information" when he felt someone's vision on him. He looked down to see a hyugga girl looking at him with her blood limit. She was accompanied by two boys. He wondered what they wanted, but then figured it probably didn't have anything to do with him. He was about to focus on gathering information when they called out to him. He spotted a bug and spit at it before he turned to look at them again. "What do you brats want!" He asked.
Kiba had let out a yell to get the targets attention because he looked like he was about to turn away from them. Their target didn't look that dangerous, in fact Kiba didn't think he looked like anything than an old pervert at all. What's more he didn't like the old mans tone of voice when he literally talked down to them. Shino just assessed the situation and observed everything unfolding before his eyes formulating a way to best handle the situation. Hinata turned off her blood limit as how it wasn't necessary any longer and looked down at her wrist. She was wearing a bracelet with WWND written on it. She told everybody that the N stood for Neji, not because she really looked up to him, but because she didn't want everybody to know what it really stood for and found out about her feelings. It stood for her favorite nin ever, Naruto. She knew it was a little bit foolish, the bracelet eased her mind at times and helped her focus. She looked back up at her target and was a little startled when Kiba let loose a yell. "Hey, you old geezer we're not brats! You better get down here so we can finish our mission without hurting you." Hinata had not expected this development and looked back up at her target to see how he reacted. He looked at them for a few seconds seriously and then let out a hearty laugh.
"You don't know who you're dealing with making such a threat. Hahaha" Jiraiya calmed down and prepared to do his introductory routine. He put his hand in front of him in his first pose and started talking. "I'm the legen-what the hell is wrong with you brats." He had dodged two kunais that Kiba had thrown at him just in time. He jumped down from the tree to confront his little adversaries face to face.
Kiba had grown overconfident, this old geezer is nothing special I could take him down with Akamaru he thought to himself. "Alright Akamaru, let's get him!" Akamaru prepared to attack he bared his teeth and growled in support to Kiba's challenge at the stranger. Hinat inhaled sharply she didn't like where this was going. Neither did Shino he was about to say something and was reaching up to adjust his glasses, but it was too late. "Get him Akamaru!" Kiba yelled and they took off towards their target. Dammint, Shino thought they could have at least closed the distance a little bit before they attacked. Hinata saw Kiba take off and was about to also go after him when she thought about it. Naruto would analyze the situation and then take the best course of action, she thought to herself. (side note, no I have no idea why she would think that, girls are crazy like that I guess.) So she stayed where she was and observed the target to try and identify his attacks during his fight with Kiba.
Jiraiya had no idea what the deal was with these kids. First that rude kid tried to hit him with kunai's and now he was coming at him with his giant dog. He let out a long sigh and raised his eyebrows, casually he reached up and bit his thumb. He quickly jumped back as Akamaru pounced on the spot he had just been standing at and flew towards a tree behind him while forming seals. Akamaru came after him. Jiraiya's feet hit the tree and he crouched to put his hand on the tree, a cloud of smoke appeared and then Jiraiya could be seen jumping above the smoke forming more seals. Akamaru had leaped to where Jiraiya was on the tree with the intent of pining him there he was still in the air when the smoke began to clear. Out of the smoke rushed a sword, hilt first colliding with Akamarus head right under the jaw. A giant frog matching Akamaru's size had appeared where Jiraiya had been only moments ago and propelled itself from the tree to make it's devastating blow. The hilt was moving forward when it connected and Akamaru's head followed the direction of the sword, but his body kept moving in the opposite direction. The impact of the blow made Akamarus body spin in the air, when he landed on the ground he was out cold.
"Akamaru! No! You bastard!" Kiba yelled as he rushed forward to attack the frog. In his rush he had lost sight of his target and focused on the frog because it was the one that had hurt Akamaru. That was a fatal mistake. Out of nowhere a kick connected with his midsection sending him flying back. He slammed into a tree and looked up through blurry vision to see the old geezer coming at him, but he was to dazed to do anything. Even before this thought had completed in his head his neck was caught in between the blades of a large fuuma shuriken. The blades were embedded into the tree trunk in a way that Kiba had to stay still or else he would cut his own neck.
"Ok, time out. Who the hell are you kids and what do you want with me." Shino and Hinata were impressed by the way this stranger had handled Kiba. Shino released two female insects as a precaution before answering. Jiraiya was waiting for some good answers.
"Who we are is of no importance, all that matters is that you know you will come with us." Shino said calmly, hoping he conveyed some sense of authority to this stranger. Instead he was rewarded with the strangers laughter. Shino did not like being laughed at.
"You're joking, right. Look here bug boy, I know you're of the aburame clan so I'll ask you this. You're insects feed on chakra, but how well will they do when my buddy back here eats them?" Jiraiya asked pointing back at the giant frog standing in front of Akamaru. The frog rolled out its tongue to show the two female insects shino had let out earlier. Shino was shocked and did not like where the situation was headed. "Correct me if I'm wrong, but won't all your male insects follow those females?" Jiraiya continued. "I asked a simple question and you failed to answer it correctly, if your friend here doesn't give me an answer I like you three will die here." The humor had left Jiraiyas face and he asked one more time. Directing the question to Hinata "Who are you and what do you want?"
Hinata froze for a little bit. This man had easily taken care of Shino and Kiba and was in a position to beat them, even if she were to attack there was a high probability that one of her team mates could die. She gathered herself and thought out how to best answer. There was no point in lying she figured if he didn't like the answer she would have to fight. Hinata worked up the nerves and answered, "W-we were sent by the Hokage to escort you to her office. That is all." Hinata was tense ready to fight even though she knew they might not win. The last thing she expected was for the stranger to go to where Kiba was now hanging unconscious and make the shuriken disappear letting catching Kiba's body. Shino was also shocked by this strangers actions. He put Kiba on his shoulders and walked towards Akamaru, he put Kiba down and lifted Akamaru onto the frogs back.
"Please follow us and you can leave once we're there." he told the frog. He then turned to Shino and Hinata and said. "Lead the way." He picked up Kibas body and carefully put him on his shoulder. "All you had to do was ask, I don't know why your friend attacked. Honestly..." Jiraiya started mumbling to himself amazed that Tsunade had sent these kids to get him. Well he thought at least it was better than the anbu he thought. Shino let out a breath of relief and Hinata smiled glad that they would be able to accomplish their mission without any problems. They turned and headed back towards the village with Jiraiya following them.
this is the kind of shuriken Sasuke used when he fought Zabuza
Next time we'll see what's going on with Naruto and team seven, and what about Gaara will Kankarou be able to save him. What role will Hirai play in this unfolding drama. You gotta stay tuned to find out.
Thanx snakeeyes I hope everybody feels the same way about the preview.