Author's Note: Naruto nor the characters belong to me and the same applies to Devil May Cry and its characters, they all belong to Kishimoto Masashi and Capcom respectively. All I am doing is using them in a fictional story.
"Kakashi-taichou, what are you doing here?" The girl asked.
"This young man named Sasuke here requested my assistance in an S-rank mission and I chose you, Ten-Ten, to be the third member of our platoon. Are you in?" Kakashi asked the young girl.
"An S-rank mission? Of course I'm in. Let's go!" Ten-Ten exclaimed as she walked out of her house and closed the door.
"Now Sasuke, you're going to have follow my directions. I know how to get to our destination." Kakashi said to Sasuke.
"I don't care, as long as we get this mission over with." Sasuke said as he gripped his katana.
Gaara walked up to the northern gate and then saw his teammates standing there, waiting for him. One had a pineapple like head with black hair tied in a ponytail, black eyes and had a lazy look on his face. He also wore a gray vest, fishnet shirt underneath, dark blue pants, and dark blue shoes. The one next to him was big-boned and had long and spiky brown hair, black eyes, had markings on each cheek and wore a red uniform with gray plates on it with the symbol Akimichi written on them.
"You must be Sabaku No Gaara, right? The name's Nara Shikamaru and this here is Akimichi Choji." Shikamaru said as he introduced himself and his friend.
"Nice to meet you two." Gaara said as he shook hands with them.
"Alright then, let's get going." Shikamaru said as he led the way for his team.
"What's taking that person so long?" The pink-haired girl from the hot springs asked. She now wore a red shirt with a pink skirt, black boots and matching fingerless gloves.
"I don't know but I just wonder who that person is." The purple-haired girl from the hot springs asked. She now wore a beige coat with a fishnet shirt underneath, and blue shoes.
"Looks like I struck the jackpot today!" Naruto said as he arrived.
"YOU!" Both girls yelled as they recognized him from the hot springs.
"Hey, aren't you the girls I saw naked at the hot springs today?" Naruto asked only to evade a punch from the purple-haired girl.
"I'll kill you!" She screamed as she turned around to smack him again only to see him right outside the gate.
"I would love to play with you but we got business to attend to. Besides, I don't think we've introduce ourselves properly. My name is Uzumaki Naruto, professional demon slayer." Naruto said.
"The name's Mitarashi Anko." Anko said as he cooled down a bit.
"And the name's Haruno Sakura." Sakura said.
"Good, now let's get this party started!" Naruto said as he started to walk away.
"Great, we're stuck with a pervert." Both Anko and Sakura sighed as they headed off.
Mission 3: Mallet Island I
"So Gaara, where you informed about this mission?" Shikamaru asked as he and the other two were riding a boat on their way to the island.
"Yes I was. The Hokage-sama told me about this mission." Gaara replied.
"Okay, then let me set some guidelines. First off, this is an infiltration mission so we have to be very careful about how we enter this island. If we get caught then this mission is a failure." Shikamaru said.
"But why would that make it a failure? Even if we get caught, we can still complete the mission." Gaara asked.
"You may be right but getting caught decreases our chances of success by 45 percent and also, our mission is to free the island and its inhabitants, not to destroy it. It's like chess, capturing the pieces of your opponent isn't how you win. You win by capturing the king hence why infiltration is key." Shikamaru said.
"I see." Gaara nodded as he now understood what Shikamaru was saying.
"Hey Gaara, why are you hiding your right arm for?" Chouji asked, startling the red-head.
"It's your bijuu arm, isn't it?" Shikamaru asked as he saw the look on Gaara's face.
"How did you know about it?" Gaara asked, shocked.
"The Hokage told me that you were a jinchuuriki and with the way you were hiding a healthy right arm, I just put two and two together." Shikamaru explained.
"So you guys don't mind it?" Gaara asked as he unveiled his arm.
"Not at all. In fact, it looks pretty cool." Chouji said before eating another chip.
Gaara felt an immense joy as he was happy to find people other than his brothers who were not frightened by his demonic arm.
"Actually, that arm of yours and the fact you're a jinchuuriki might work to our advantage." Shikamaru said with a smirk.
"Who are you?" A young man with white hair, golden eyes, doggy ears, and wearing a white shirt with white pants and black boots growled as Gaara arrived on the island alone.
"My name is Sabaku No Gaara and I'm a hanyou who seeks refuge." Gaara said as he then showed his arm and fangs.
"Ah, a hanyou. Okay, follow me." The young hanyou said as his face relaxed and he turned around and started to walk toward the village.
'It looks my idea is working so far.' Shikamaru said inside of Gaara's mind.
Flashback:
"You're going to what?" Gaara asked.
"My devil arm, Shadow Slave, has the ability to swallow anything and also attach itself to other shadows. What I am proposing is that I let my devil arm swallow Chouji and myself and then connect itself to your shadow and be able to communicate with you telepathically. Remember, this is an island of human-hating hanyous, if they see either me or Chouji then the mission gets screwed. Geez, didn't you ever use stealth during your missions?" Shikamaru sighed.
"Not really. Only Sasuke ever did." Gaara replied, laughing sheepishly.
"Whatever. Just trust me on this, everything will go as planned." Shikamaru said.
End Flashback
'It looks like your plan is working, Shikamaru.' Gaara said.
'But one thing is worrying me, isn't one person for security a bit too lax?' Chouji asked.
'You do have a point but right now, let's just take in our surroundings.' Shikamaru replied.
"Welcome to Mallet Island, the home of hanyous everywhere. As long as you are a hanyou, you're more than welcome here." The young hanyou said as they had arrived at the main town of the island.
The buildings of the island looked almost like those from Konoha and there were many luscious trees around but the most striking feature was the large castle about 30 meters ahead.
'Gaara, ask him about the humans?' Shikamaru asked as there were no signs of any humans around.
"Hey, shouldn't there be any human around? When I heard of this island, you guys had enslaved all of the humans which didn't sound too bad I always wanted to boss some humans around." Gaara asked.
"Oh the humans who originally lived on this island. We killed them all." The dog-like hanyou answered.
'So I guess this changes everything.' Shikamaru said.
"But why didn't we know about this from the mission briefing?' Chouji asked.
"Beats me but we don't have time to think about how this happened. What we need to do now is assume that we have to go to our secondary objective which is to defeat the leader or leaders of the hanyous since they are responsible for killing all of the humans.' Shikamaru said.
"Wow, this is a huge castle. Who lives in there?" Gaara asked as he saw the castle.
"Oh, our leaders live here. They're the ones who freed this island from all those pathetic humans and made it a paradise for all hanyous. If you want, you can go and visit them. They're very courteous hosts." The dog-hanyou said with a smile.
"Sure." Gaara said, a bit surprised.
'That was easy.' Chouji said.
'A bit too easy. I'm not liking where this is going.' Shikamaru said.
"Follow me." The dog-hanyou said and then he and Gaara walked up to the castle and stopped in front of the main door which was shielded in a purple barrier.
"My dear masters, a hanyou named Gaara would like to visit you." The dog-hanyou said.
"We would be more than happy to welcome him." A voice said and then the barrier broke and the huge steel door opened.
"You may enter and please, enjoy your visit and once again, welcome to Mallet Island." The dog-hanyou said as he saluted them and then turned around with a dark grin on his face.
Gaara then enters the castle and the door suddenly closes and locks itself with a barrier. In front of Gaara was a huge staircase with three paths leading to three individual doors.
'Might as well disengage.' Shikamaru said and then a flash of light illuminated and then Shikamaru and Chouji were outside of Gaara's shadow.
"This doesn't seem right. Why would they let us in so easily?" Gaara asked.
"Either they're idiots or they spotted us even before we set foot on the island and probably told that hanyou to lead us here. Either way, we're now going to proceed with operation Lion's den." Shikamaru said.
"Lion's den?" Gaara and Chouji asked.
"It's like the name says, we're in the lion's den as of right now which means we're in the middle of enemy territory. Thus, we have to assume that everything in this castle is a threat to us and hence why we must be alert in case of any traps or enemies. Also, there are those leaders we have to deal with and judging by these doors, there are three of them and each door leads to one of them. As of this moment, the chance of us surviving this mission is now down to 20 percent so we're going to have to be very careful, understood?" Shikamaru asked.
"Understood." Chouji and Gaara both said, nodding their heads.
"Everyone pick a door and let's do it." Shikamaru said.
Gaara headed for the middle path while Chouji went for the one on the right, leaving Shikamaru with the one to the left. They open their respective doors and entered.
"This doesn't seem so bad." Gaara said as he walked into the room before the door closed. He had entered a section of the castle that had two floors with gothic windows illuminated by the sun. There were also three doors, two on the lower floor and one on the upper floor to his right and two of them were sealed by barriers.
"I don't know any anti-barrier spells. Hopefully there's something I can use to break them in that room." Gaara said as he then walked into the room.
Once he entered the room, he saw that were armors of knights laying on the ground and books everywhere with a statue of a naked woman in the far end of the room with something in its mouth. Gaara walked up to the statue and saw that there was some sort of bluish orb inside the statue's mouth.
"If I remember correctly from one of big brother Nero's books, this looks like an anti-barrier orb. If I take this from this statue then I should be able to break the barriers on those doors and move further along." Gaara said as he then took the orb with his demonic arm. He then turned around and was about to leave when suddenly, a barrier appeared on the door.
"A barrier? Don't tell me!" Gaara said as he then turned around and saw the armors were actually moving on their own with swords in their hands, "I see, so you guys wanna play huh? Alright, then let's play!" Gaara said smirking as he got his sword out. He then blocked an attack from one of them and then countered with four diagonal slashes.
"High Roller!" Gaara yelled as he then performed an upward slash that propelled the armor in the air as Gaara followed and then slashed his sword down, cutting the armor to pieces.
"Snatch!" Gaara yelled as he then extended his arm and grabbed one of the armors and reeled it back toward him, "Buster!" Gaara then yelled as he punched the armor and slammed it to the ground, breaking it apart. Gaara then came down with his sword and slashed down one of the armors. He then performed his Snatch technique and followed by a diagonal slash, a horizontal slash and then a High Roller, killing the armor.
"C'mon!" Gaara said with a grin as he was taunting the demonic armors.
The last two armors tried to slash Gaara but all they hit was air as Gaara had disappeared.
"Breaking Benjamin!" Gaara yelled as he was five meters from the last two armor demons and then struck the tip of his sword to the ground and then his sword lit up in an orange color before unleashing a reddish chakra wave toward the armor, obliterating them upon contact. Then, the barrier broke into pieces.
"I guess they we're too weak after all." Gaara smirked as he walked out of the door. He then decided to jump onto the second floor and he then walked up to the closest door to him. He then pushed the orb up against the barrier and caused it to break apart, allowing him to enter the room. The room was barely lighted up but all there was were bookcases and tables with books on it.
"Okay, obviously someone likes books." Gaara said as he then started to look around. He then saw a unwrapped letter with a black cross on it.
"I've seen that symbol before. Oh yeah, Master Vergil told us to be on the lookout for the symbol of the black cross. Hmm, I should take this with me in order to show it to the Hokage." Gaara said as he then put the letter in his left coat pocket and then left the room.
Gaara then extended his arm all the way into the rail that led to the other side of the floor and the other door and he then pulled himself in and landed right next to the door. He then repeated what he did for the last door and then broke the barrier and opened the door.
Once inside, Gaara found himself in a large hallway. He started to walk when suddenly, ten marionette-like demons appeared from out of nowhere and headed toward Gaara with sickles as hands.
"Isn't that special? Though I was expecting a little something better than puppets." Gaara said as he took out his sword. He then ran toward the first marionette and slashed it diagonally before knocking it into the air with his High Roller and then followed through with two more mid-air diagonal slashes and then used his Buster technique to punch it in the gut and tossed it down to the ground, destroying it.
Gaara then landed on his feet and dodged the sickle slice from the marionette to his left and then retaliated with a four diagonal slash combo followed by a horizontal slash and then used his Buster to finish the marionette off. Gaara then quickly spun around and struck the marionette coming up behind him with a spinning slash followed with a High Roller and then slashed it a couple of times.
"Buster Coffin!" Gaara yelled out and then grabs the marionette with his arm and then crushes it to pieces. He then uses his Snatch to grab another marionette, slashed it a couple of times before grabbing it, spin it around and then tossing it far away with great might, killing it.
"What the heck?" Gaara asked as he felt himself unable to move and then realized that one of the marionettes had wrapped its strings around Gaara and was holding him down like a puppet and then prepared to strike him when suddenly, Gaara blew him into pieces by emitting his chakra, and thus breaking free of the strings. "This is getting boring so time to wrap this up! Desert Avalanche!" Gaara said and then unleashed a huge wave of sand from his arm and then some of the sand wrapped around the remaining adversaries.
"Desert Requiem!" Gaara yelled and clenches his demon arm and then the marionettes get crushed by the sand.
Gaara turned around and started to walk through the hallway until he stopped in front of a red door. He then opened the door and stepped in.
The door then disappeared behind him and Gaara found himself in a huge field with a large statue of a centaur in the middle of it all. Suddenly, the statue starts to crack and then breaks apart as a large gray-skinned and flaming centaur with yellow eyes bursts out of the statue and roared.
"Woah, talk about some major heat." Gaara said as he was staring down at the huge flaming centaur.
"Hmm, a jinchuuriki. I didn't expect them to actually exist." The centaur said.
"What can I say? I'm pretty rare." Gaara smirked.
"Either way, you're taking your last breath, jinchuuriki." The centaur said.
"Oh, is that so? Sorry but I find that hard to believe." Gaara smirked.
"Thou shall not underestimate me, Ifrit the Fire Conqueror!" Ifrit roared.
"And thou shall not underestimate me, Gaara of the Desert, and the one who's going to kick your ass until you cry like a bitch." Gaara smirked as he pointed his sword at the centaur.
"Hell Pillar!" Ifrit yelled and stomped on the ground and then a flaming pillar erupted from under Gaara but the latter was able to roll out of the way. Ifrit stomped the ground three more times and Gaara was forced to roll out of the way multiple times as more flaming pillars erupted from under him.
"Breaking Benjamin!" Gaara yelled as he unleashed his ground wave technique. The wave stunned the demon but did not wound him.
"It looks like I'll have to get up close and personal." Gaara said and then dashed toward Ifrit.
"Hell Fire!" Ifrit yelled and then launched three fireballs from its mouth.
Gaara was able to dodge them all, and went up to one of Ifrit's left legs and then slashed him around multiple times. Ifrit tries to smash Gaara onto the ground with his right fist but Gaara was able to jump out of the way. Gaara then slashed the demon in the chest multiple times before coming down slashing with his sword and then continued to hack at the Ifrit's leg. Ifrit then fell down to his knees and Gaara smirked and then performed a High Roller that allowed him float in mid-air and he then grabbed Ifrit's head and then slammed him head first to the ground.
"I'm not done yet! Rock n Roll!" Gaara yelled and then punched the ground three times with his bijuu arm, creating three explosions that rocked Ifrit.
"Go to hell! Roaring Upper!" Gaara yelled as he then uppercuts the demon with his bijuu arm and then send him flying about 10 meters with a powerful punch from the same arm.
"C'mon! Is that all you got?" Gaara said, taunting Ifrit.
"YOU WORTHLESS JINCHUURIKI! HELL GENOCIDE!" Ifrit yelled as he unleashed a huge blast from his mouth that created a huge explosion. When the smoke cleared, Gaara was standing within a blue chakra barrier.
"Good thing Nero-aniki taught me how to use my chakra as barriers." Gaara said.
"I'll kill you, you worthless jinchuuriki!" Ifrit growled as he summoned a large flaming sword in his right hand and then swung it at Gaara who tried to block it with his sword but was overpowered and knocked deep into the wall.
"Hell Fire!" Ifrit roared as he fired three fireballs from his mouth into the hole where Gaara was and caused the wall to explode and collapse.
"That should have done it." Ifrit said with a grin when suddenly, Gaara flew from the collapsed wall and punched him hard in the face with his bijuu arm. Gaara then landed on the centaur's body and performed his Rock n Roll attack, causing massive damage and causing Ifrit to yell in pain.
"Eat this!" Gaara yelled as he jumped up and grabbed Ifrit by the head, lifted him up and then slammed him to the ground head first.
"You're strong…" Ifrit said weakly.
"Damn right and now, you're going to answer me a few questions. First, who's the name of your leaders?" Gaara asked.
"You may have defeated me but I will never betray my master!" Ifrit chuckled only to get his left eye pierced by Gaara's sword, causing him to yell in agony.
During his time with the white-haired demon hunters, Gaara had learned that the best tool in order to coerce a demon into telling you information was simply through force.
"Answer me or next is your other eye." Gaara said with a dark glare.
"O…okay. Their names…their names are…" Ifrit began to say but then suddenly, a golden electric lance flies down from out of nowhere and struck Ifrit in the back and electrocuted him to death. A few moments later, he turned into dust.
"What the hell? Could that have been one of the leaders?" Gaara asked when suddenly, the door in which he reappeared in, reappeared.
"Oh well, might as well move on." Gaara said shrugging his shoulders as he went through the door.
Mission Stats:
Hunter: Gaara
Style: SS
Damage Taken: A
Final Rating: S
To Be Continued…
AN: Yes, Gaara has one of his attacks named after a rock band and the reason for it is that he is a huge fan of rock n roll and thus will have some of his attacks either after songs or bands. As always, read and review.