Here's yet another chapter of my lovalily story. Thanks to the one person who reviewed, I am very grateful. So keep on reading, telling me what you think, and someone have any ideas of what I should do next? I'm open to suggestions. Oh yeah… and please excuse the terrible beginning, I just couldn't think of a way to start this chapter. I'm losing my touch -sniff-.

I think you are aware that I don't own that cute widdle foxy puu, naruto Kun.

Fallen Leaves

Chapter 4

The sand blew outside, and Akamaru, Naruto, and Shikamaru sat on a couch in a dimly lit room. The Kazekage's house, or Gaara's house was fairly big compared to the other houses outside. They had just finished explaining what had happened at konoha to the sand siblings. Shikamaru had done most of the explaining because naruto wasn't really there through the attack. Gaara listened and let them stay in Sunagakure, they could become the Suna shinobi if they wished to.

Three weeks went by, Naruto and Shikamaru had gotten used to the weather in Suna, they were both Jonin and for the most part, started to get the way of things as sand ninja. It was a fairly clear day, just a normal day, and naruto was in the Kazekage's office reporting back from a small mission he had gone on, Shikamaru was out on a date with Temari, or a "meeting" as he had put it. They were out in a restaurant "discussing" about their "missions".

"Yeah so that's how my assignment was a success!" Naruto reported as Gaara read a piece of paper naruto had written up.

"Good, you can take a brake for a while then." Gaara replied and smiled up from his desk.

"No, are you sure there's nothing else I need to do? I want to be a help around your village, I feel like I'm being a burden." Naruto asked.

"You should just relax, your not being a burden to anyone, and this is your village now too remember, its still really soon for you to do any harder missions naruto, its so close from the "Konoha incident." You should just relax and then do missions when you feel ready." Gaara said sadly, he didn't want Naruto to push himself. Shikamaru was more then happy to stay out of any missions and just relax in the village, but Naruto kept asking for more assignments.

"Yeah but…" Naruto started but was interrupted by the door being slammed open and 3 men standing in the doorway. The man in the middle was bleeding badly, there were 2 bloody holes on his chest, and the other 2 men were holding him up on either side.

"Kazekage, we found this man just outside the village! He says he was on a D rank mission with his troupes when they were suddenly attacked by some one!" one of the men said hurriedly.

"Quick! Bring up a chair to sit him in and call the Medical Nins! Gaara ordered and stood up to help the men. Naruto brought a chair over for the man to sit in, if he could sit in it, he looked like he just wanted to die. Just as he did so the Medical Nins ran in and started to treat the man. Gaara sat down beside him.

"Where were you when this happened?" He asked softly. "All four of us were near a small lake in the woods of the fire country, alittle ways out of the desert." The man wheezed and he coughed up blood.

"Who did this to you? Did you see a face, and what happened to your troupes?" Gaara asked.

"My troupes are all dead." He replied.

"Do you know who did it?" Gaara asked again more hurriedly. Naruto saw the man turn pale as he thought about what happened.

"A child, no more then 16 years of -cough- age." With that, the man fainted and the Medical Nins ran off with him on a stretcher.

Gaara looked puzzled. "That must be one strong kid." He said and got up from the chair he was sitting in.

Naruto stood there, thinking through all of the information the man had given them, and who it could have been, although, at the back of his head he knew who it had to be, Orochimaru. Gaara seemed to have come to this conclusion too and looked at Naruto, who looked back at him. They had to go check it out. "I'll go get Temari and Shikamaru!" Naruto said and darted out the door. Gaara ran out after him to go and fetch Kankuro.

When they finally gathered them all up, they were off.

"Man, what a drag, why do there have to be evil ninjas out there? Why! Naze, naze, naze desu ka! Shikamaru thought as they dashed through the sand country and soon got to the fire country, and the weird border were the two, forest and sand, met up to cause a line between the two countries. When they got to were the man and his troupes were suppose to be for their mission, they saw three dead bodies of young children, each with holes in there chests, obviously caused by the Chidori.

"Damn it, it really was Orochimaru, who else can do the Chidori now that Kakashis gone?" Naruto thought angrily as they reached the dead children. They were laid out near the small lake and the trees covered all around kind of like a big watery circle in the middle of the woods.

"Come on, let's search the area for anything, or, anyone." Temari stated and they all agreed. But before they could start a voice called out from in the trees.

"That wont be necessary, I'm right here." And in a puff of smoke Orochimaru stood in the middle of the lake. "Thank you for coming to my little party, I suppose you liked my invitation?" He asked and smiled darkly as he spotted naruto among them, then he noticed Shikamaru and a small dog (Akamaru) and smiled even darker with a death glint in his eyes.

"Oh we got it all right you jack ass!" Kankuro growled and started towards him ready to fight but was stopped by Gaara's sand that held him back.

"That's good, now shall we get to the fight?" Orochimaru asked and upchucked a long sword from his mouth. Gaara nodded and let Kankuro go with his sand, then they got into fighting stance and were ready to fight. If Orochimaru could kill a whole village by himself then he probably wouldn't have a difficult time with 5 people including a dog. They had to be ready for anything.

"Hahaha, you don't have a chance!" Orochimaru cackled and was gone in another puff of smoke, and appeared behind Temari. Temari jumped out of the way just in time because Orochimaru swung his sword trying to decapitate her.

"WIND SIDE JUTSU!" Temari roared and swished her fan towards him, he merely moved his hand and the wind was gone. He laughed and disappeared again. Just then they all heard a yelp and found a sword threw Akamaru's tail. The dog had dodged it just in time to avoid getting hit through the head with it.

"Alright, Ive had enough of this!" Naruto growled and conjured up a clone of himself, then started making the Rasengan. As he was doing this, Kankuro got his puppets at the ready and Gaara his sand, Shikamaru was obviously thinking up something because he had his hands into position. Temari was helping the dog mend it's tail the best she could, with her fan ready to strike if necessary.

The battle went on forever, them slowly getting cut up and from time to time they would clash their kunai and were able to hit him. Kankuro was the first down, Orochimaru, with some jutsu, turned Kankuro's own puppets against him, poisoning him with their needles, and Kankuro could no longer fight. Then Temari, who was hit with the Chidori three times before she wasn't able to fight anymore, Akamaru was next, he's a dog, and no matter how hard he tried he still ended up the same as the others, fainted, or worse.

"SHIKAMARU! LOOK OUT!" Naruto screamed as he saw his friend get hit in the back with Orochimaru's sword, sending it strait threw him and onto the other side. Gaara grabbed his ankles and naruto used the Rasengan on him, but Orochimaru cut threw Gaara's sand easily and was able to dodge naruto's attack by alittle. By this time they had used up a lot of chakura. "Shikamaru, are you ok?" Naruto asked worriedly, he didn't want to lose another friend, he was losing to many lately. Shikamaru, looked at him blankly and spat out some blood, then collapse onto the ground with a splash of blood and water from the lake, that was now stained red. "No damn it!" Naruto growled and heard Orochimaru laugh as another one of his prey fell to his death. "DAMN YOU BASTARD!" Naruto roared and went to start his summoning technique for the Frog Boss when Orochimaru appeared not even an inch in front of his face. He swung his sword out and hit Naruto in the side hard. Fortunately Gaara had used his sand to protect naruto as best he could but it still went through just slightly less quick. "AAHHH!" Naruto felt like the wind had been knocked out of him, and fell to the ground coughing up blood. "Rrrr, damn it all. What can I do, I cant summon in this position. I'll have to use the Kyuubi." He thought and started to bring Kyuubi into his mind, into his form.

"Hahaha! Your done for now, brat!" Orochimaru cackled and flashed his sword down so fast, even Gaara's sand couldn't stop it. Then it hit.

Chapter End

Am I doing this right? Ive never written a gruesome story before, it's always been a humor one. Anyway, I really, really would like more reviews….really. please stay tuned and if you like this story, you might like my other ones, they basically all have the Kyuubi in them, except for my Gaara and Konkuro one and inu-yasha one. Chow!