Animegrrl: ummm….. dang

Nozomi: What?

Animegrrl: I forgot to put the freakin disclaimer

Misa: don't worry we'll do it for you!!!

Misa &Marco: ANIMEGRRL DOESN'T OWN NARUTO!!!! (woof)

Nozomi: -rolls eyes- you're all freaks just get on with the story

Chapter 23

Nozomi couldn't believe it, Gaara was a demon holder too?!?!?

-of course he is kit why the hell would he want a craving of blood??-

'thought it would be natural I guess'

-you idiot-

'look whos calling me an idiot in the first place! No one bothered to tell me this!'

-……cause I thought you already knew-

Nozomi just rolled her eyes if this fight is like gonna be like that one where Misa got hectic cause some dude said pocky was the most disgusting thing ever made. That was just insane she could remember Ai saying "I've never seen so much BLOOD!"

Kankuro wasn't exactly a bunch of pretty flowers either though. He was obviously shaking in fatigue or fear whatever reason Nozomi didn't know. 'this is just ain't my day' she thought miserably not to mention that Kankuro was just not cooperating with his thoughts they were saying 'MOVE YOUR ASS KANKURO!' but he couldn't he knew if he did Shikaku would freakin kill him on the spot.

"I'M FREE!!!!!!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!! I'M FREE!!!!!" Shikaku yelled.

-yup that's Shikaku alright, he never really HAS cooperated with his holder-

'hey we haven't been the "best of friends" either'

-just shut up and pay attention-

'sorry miss "high and mighty" kitten'

With Misa, Naruto, and Pakkun

"DAMN!!!!!!"

"Naruto can you please shut up! We're not even there yet!"

"Yah but have you seen the size of that damn shit raccoon thingy!"

Pakkun just had to roll his eyes, the ANBU captain (Misa) and Naruto have been complaining since that huge raccoon thing just popped up out of no where.

"uuuhhh….. this is just crazy are you sure we're not going in circles?"

"Can you just SHUT UP! For the love of pocky just shut up!" (guess who that is)

"YOU SHUT UP!"

"HEY YOU WERE THE ONE COMPLAINING THE WHOLE TIME!!!"

By this time they stopped running towards the raccoon and were practically at each others throats. Pakkun also noticed this and stopped as well watching the heated argument with amusement in his eyes. But that was when another BOOM was heard crackling in the distance.

With Kana and May

"What is with the BOOMS!"

"I don't know but I don't like it. I wonder what's going on?'

"yah well you wanna know what!?!?"

"What?"

"If we don't hurry we'll miss all the fuckin fun!"

So then Kana increased her speed leaving May in the dust. May just stared in wonder and as to what just happened till the dust cleared and she noticed Kana was WAY ahead of her. She started to panic what if she got caught they weren't even supposed to be here, they were supposed to follow Orochimaru's orders and try to get the demon holder but he wasn't very specific.

He just said the one participating in the chuunin exams, so they were trying to find out which one was the demon holder. And here is the jumbo big demon right in front of them. But he also said to stay near the arena so they were just going with the flow. "Hey Kana hold up!!!" May shouted then went and tried to catch up with hey partner.

With Nozomi and Kankuro and I guess Shikaku

"Chidori!"

"AAARRRRGGGGGHHHHH!!!!"

Unfortunately for out little puppet master ( A/N: yes I like calling him that) the impact of the blow was a little too much for Shikaku and well he started to move around and well Kankuro just oh so happened to be right next to his feet and you see where this is going. Karusu just stood there hardly doing anything cause of Kankuro and the nicked arm. Nozomi was currently spinning through the air and was trying to tell which way was up and down. That was when she happened to hit (you guessed it) Naruto, and he barely managed to catch her. "Holy shit! Nozomi where did you come from?" he said while trying to make her balanced. When she was, she looked around (they were on a branch) and spotted Pakkun and Misa with her ANBU mask and body armor and katana.

She raised an eyebrow but didn't say anything else. She shrugged off Naruto's hold on her and pointed to Shikaku who was still howling in pain, cause she hit him on his eye. Pakkun and Misa did the math, and well Naruto is always slow to do these "thinking" skills. Once he stopped howling in pain, he started looking around for Nozomi with a bloodshot eye. Kankuro easily spotted them since he was right under them.

"This is just great we got a huge looking raccoon demon looking for US." Said Naruto

"Actually he's looking for Nozomi but no one's complaining." Said Pakkun

Misa stayed silent well knowing Nozomi knew who she was.

"Hey why don't you guys go ahead I'm starting to get lazy, fight him for me or something." Suggested Nozomi. She was trying to get rid of them so she could talk to Misa.

"Don't need to tell me twice!!!" Naruto shouted and went ahead. Pakkun watched in shock and quickly ran after shouting "Get back here Naruto you idiot!"

Nozomi sighed knowing Naruto he would follow her bait and run into the action. She finally turned to Misa and Misa then took Marco out for the world to see. "So they recruited us back in I see." Said Nozomi. Misa sighed and nodded "Yah this is serious pocky here Nozomi so we gotta keep our eyes and ears open." Nozomi nodded her head in recognition this was a life of an ANBU no questions asked just do the damn thing.

"Okay and here is your body armor your mask and your katana." Said Misa taking them out of her pack. Nozomi just gave her a blank stare took the katana and mask and left the black body armor in Misa's hands. Misa just rolled her eyes of course she wouldn't take it she didn't even know why she brought it in the first place.

After Nozomi wrapped her mask and katana securely on her person and whipped her katana out of her hostler and started to slice it through the air. "Yup, it's good still after all these years." "Umm…. Nozomi we have a little problem on our hands." Nozomi turned to Misa and noticed that she was pointing at something she turned her head to where she was pointing at and looked to see. The two sound-nin, Kana and May.

Nozomi just got this deadpanned look but no one could see it through her mask and they thought she had this cool composed look while Misa practically had the same one expect she was still pointing at them.

Kana had wide eyes who had the witnessed the whole scene since Nozomi tumbled into Naruto, and May had the biggest eyes anyone had ever seen while her mouth was agape having half a mind to point at them as well.

Marco started growling menacingly towards the two sound nins. "Now Marco shush." Kana raised an eyebrow why would she do that? "So you must be the infamous ANBU captains aye? What where your names again ANBU captain sleazy and obnoxious?" Kana replied cockily while leaning against the truck of the tree (they were also on a branch across from them). Nozomi glared while Misa seethed in anger "Look who's talkin all talk and no show, and not to mention by the looks of it your nothing but a chuunin." Nozomi smirked out, but yet still no one could tell if she did. The mask is kinda well not worth it in the ANBU business. Now it was Kana who started seething in anger while May and Misa watched in shocked, and scared, silence.

(A/N: while this was happening Shikaku and Naruto were battling it out)

"Ummm…. Nozomi I think you should stop now." Misa managed to sputter out. "And why should I?" Nozomi questioned while directing her attention back to Misa not noticing Kana. But Misa couldn't say anything but started to shack a bit. Nozomi followed her gaze and saw Kana a little umm…. VERY scary. She was fuming and pissed at the same time and not to mention that her hands were loaded with kunai and shuriken. And her eyes oh boy her eyes they looked a little red. Nozomi just got tired of these little feuds they were having and decided to have a little battle herself. She stood her stance but not without first getting rid of the irritating mask. She just ripped it of, without a second thought. That was when it was about to get cool till

ANOTHER BAM

That was when the 4 girls stopped to see the raccoon thing fart like hell. Or was it a fart? Misa just sweat dropped and couldn't believe it. "Man did that demon just fart?" said May and that's when Kana stopped and started running towards the commotion. May watched till she followed. Misa and Nozomi just stared and thought 'what the hell just happened' Nozomi just shook her head and followed after them with Misa in tow.

Meanwhile

Pakkun, and that little frog dude just stared in awe wondering if Naruto killed him or not. And with Kankuro and karasu watching from a safe distance. There was so much smog no one could see if Gaara survived or not that was when did it clear did they see Shikaku in all his wonder with half of his face looking like it was slowly melting.

That was when a HUGE amount of chakra started to from out of no where that was when they noticed it was coming from none other than Naruto. Could the little guy make some chakra. Then everywhere you looked there was a freakin Naruto there was even one near Nozomi and Misa. But hey they were clones so they didn't even know what was 2+2. Now what was really weird they couldn't find Kana or May but they could feel their chakra somewhere just really well hidden.