A/N: Heya people, now before you all launch yourselves at me to kill me please let me explain the predicament I seem to have at the moment... I have a mum who can hardly get up ( BTW the opperation went ok, she was out the next morn...) and a suddenly tempermental LAPTOP, which i am about to throw at the wall...it died and i had to wait ( cause i'm no tech-wiz...) for my DAD to get back and help me fix it! so when school starts again and i've finished gettin accessories for my DS i WILL buy a new one!! So enjoy the new chappy...cause there mighnt be a new one for a while... BTW, this chapter is split up into 2 parts...basically 2 pages...there'll be about 1/4 of a page skip for each 'page' or part i'm doing...XD Enjoy as always!

Part 1

Gaara felt the pain ease away very slowly, but still decided not to push it. Hopefully that stupid Uchiha thought he'd killed me, if he comes back now...the Shukaku will become unstable again...

Who you callin unstable...

You, you stupid Tanuki...

Hey! I'd be gratefull brat...i can always wait for you to die then take over your body...

No thanks Shukaku...how far away do you think Sakura and Sienna are?

A mile dumbass...but we can't go anywhere yet. Your stupid, frail human body is fatally wounded. What about if we shift? The kyuubi can heal when it shifts...i haven't personally tried it though... Gaara buried his hand under his shoulder to lift himself up...only to fall back, hissing in pain...and the Shukaku's hysterical laugh echoing through his body.

Now I know why I was placed with you...to stop me from being a grumpy old bastard-

SHUT UP! Gaara roared. Were he at home, his siblings would be staring at him wondering if he needed medical attention...unfortunately he wasn't...or was it fortunately? He hissed again as the Tanuki demon started to feed chakra to the tender spot just above his heart.

And why am I helping you? It snorted. Because, unfortunately...if you die...i will cease to exist..and become old and grizzly in your rotting corpse!!! How the hell did I get into this!!! I shouted at itself as it fed the chakra painfully into Gaara's wound. Gaara whimpered as the Tanuki forced more and more into him. Sure the Tanuki had, close to, an unlimited source of power...but it was nothing compared to the Kyuubi. They'd fought before...Gaara remembered it, as well as the day he and the demon inside of him were paired up...the day his mother died, cursing the village and his father while she bled out...the day his father first betrayed his trust and turned his back on him, and the day he began to despise people. He also remembered the first day he had tried to aquire a friend, the same thing Yashamaru had told him of before he'd been laid into bed...the day the kids ran off screaming to their fathers...the day they threw stones at him, and the lonely nights amongst the rooftops...gleaming in the full moon light. So many years ago...but still like an open wound to him. The Tanuki demon within him snarled...

When I get out...

You won't...that the whole idea why that elder agreed to bond us when father asked. She didn't want to hurt me, but... you were just too much of a risk to leave unbound. I see that now...

So your on their side...after all they did to you? Tried to kill you, made you feel like an outcast-

But I am an outcast...even if i wasn't bound to you i'd still be one.

but they tired to KILL you! How can you forgive them for that? Huh? It wasn't just your father that wanted me sealed inside of you...it was the villagers as well!

But they were under a false impression...Father told them it would make us look stronger and gain food for the village. The people were starving!

But they would have done the same thing...humans crave power. That's why they try to harness us demons...because to them, we ARE the ulitmate source of power. Sure, you've got the Kyuubi who were sealed to contain them, but then most of us demons are forced into you humans, not for containment...but for power...

I didn't say I forgave them...Gaara smirked.

Good cub...Suddenly the 'not so foreign' power inside him rumbled to life with the power of seething vengence...the great tanuki awakened... It snorted with a chuckle..

Stupid Uchiha...hmph, partial decapitation...grrr...kill...

Shut it Tanuki, and get on with it...i don't think you want Seinna killed do you?

Grrrrr...stupid, dumbass kit...

What did you say?

What? Ohh nothing...Gaara smirked as the Tanuki began to curse under it's breath again...that's if demons actually breathed...The feeling in his hands and feet began to ease back into reality, and with it the cuts and scrapes on his chest and arms...The Tanuki chuckled.

One last boost should do it...then it's my turn to take that little coward out...

Shukaku...Gaara sighed, Ohh fine, i guess you can, my body needs to rest.

Good kit, now just let the darkness take you... it'll let you rest... Gaara sighed again as the Tanuki started to pester him again...He felt the blackness, with it's promise of sleep envelope him again...it's soothing, coolness aiding his cuts...and setting the great Ichibi free...

Sakura screamed as the huge demon lunged for her. She gripped harder to the brilliant orange fur beneith her as the demons jaws sliced downwards. She clamped her eyes shut... Ohh god, it's over, it's all over! I can even see the light!!!! Ohh my god, where's Gaara?!?!?!?!

"Sakura, run!", she heard a familiar male voice shout. Sasuke stoood over her with his katana raise high over his head, protecting him from the giant jaws...

"Sasuke I thought we had a deal!", The giant rumbled.

"We DID Madara, but I now see she doesn't deserve you...she'd beter deserve me!", Sasuke challenged it.

"You stupid fool! You would dare to defy me!!! You will pay little runt! She was mine from the very begining! An idiot like you couldn't revive the Uchiha's! Your a weakling! The sane as your offspring!", the great beast roared. Sakura backed away behind the Kyuubi as Sasuke tried to ram his sword into the Dragon. The Kyyubi was all curled up on the sand, snout and paws pointing away from the great battle...with no visible signs of life. Sakura hugged into the Kyuubi's soft-pelted chest, her tears drying in the dusty sand beloew her. The white sand at her side swirled and seethed around the Kyuubi, no doubt making 'arangements'...Sakura snuggled in closer to the downy, white pelt of it's massive chest...

Thumps and crashed rent the air as the two enemies fought, the weaker Sasuke fighting for a good, clean shot, but Sakura didnt care...her ex-lover might be there but the most important person in her whole life was lying infront of her...well maybe not 'all' of that person, but still...he taught her things she would have never knew of...The truth about Sai and Sasuke, the true meaning of friendship...and the true meaning of appreciation and...the most innapropriate times to applicate the possibility of a prank...She sighed. He'd really taught her alot, and she hadn't even realised it! How stupid had she been? How could she have hated him so much, when he cared for her double in return? How could she have fixiated on that bastard Sasuke when Naruto had been fighting for her attention...her care, all along? And after all that hate...he'd come back to help her, when she hadn't even asked him...and now...he was going to die because of her...dying to save someone, just like his father had...She clamper even harder onto the limp and lifeless kitsune before her. Crash... Sasuke been picked up and flown straight into the surrounding cliff face. He hung limply on a thick root, protruding from the face...The dragon turned it's ruby eyes on Sakura and the Kyuubi... It flew, like a black bullet towards her once more, and this time...there was no one there to save her..

Part 2
Gaara felt muffled somehow...like he had a bag over his head, constricting his breathing. The demon was enraged, he could feel it's radiating power from where he was...wherever 'here' was...He called to the demon.

WHAT!?!?!

Where am I?

What? You don't remember? You've gotta be kidding me...Your asleep...in MY body.

I...i don't understand...

Just shut it and let me do my job... Gaara felt himself drifting again, like he was drifting in a huge, black sea..

Sakura closed her eyes again as the beast approached, speeding towards her like a missile...with the unmistakable sound of birds echoing off the cliff as it prepared it's final attack. Sasuke was still out cold and hanging from the root, slouching ever further towards the thinnest part of it... Sakura gasped as the dragon suddenly haulted mid-air and arched it's head back...

She gulped as she re-snuggled into the orange fur...Boom...boom, boom...boom, boom. She was astounded as the heartbeat became stronger under her bunched fists...She smirked as she felt the furball beneith her rumble a long but quite growl. Suddenly she felt a warm wet object gently touch the side of her cheek and she looked up...into two VERY blue eyes...and the giant shape below her lept up in an instant flying through the air, jaws wide... There was a sickening smack as the two forces collided, the huge fox spinning past the dragon to land gracefully on all fours. The dragon however, landed with a satisfying thump at the bottom of the cliff face...The younger Uchiha plumeted to the ground at it's feet. The Kyuubi reared up, it's massive tails swinging up over it's head like 9 arms...and brought all of them down to meet the ground with a resonating rumble. Bits of rock and dust flew everywhere as a massive crack snaked it's way towards the cliff. Sasuke woke just in time to flit away from the falling cliff-top as it smashed onto the collapsed dragon. There was a single shiek of pain from the dragon before it returned to it's orriginal form. The giant Kyuubi chuckled darkly and started to gently pad it's way over to the rockfall. Sakura quickly noted the change in eye colour as the giant approached it's victim, red...blood red with widening slits. The Kyuubi stopped a few feet away from the twitching corpse. Obito was dead, but Madara...was already dead... It lifted it's great paw, all while Sakura looked on in amazement, and laid it gently on the corpse' abdomen. A red and blue, whispy substance began to seep into the body as the Kyuubi growled. Another shriek rose from the body as it began to convulse, a white and grey fog energed from it...Suddenly two slitted, red eyes opened within the misty fog...

"HOW DARE YOU, KYUUBI!!"

"Correction...Kyuubi no Kitsune!! Do not EVER touch my kit's MATE EVER AGAIN!! Ohh wait a sec...there isn't gonna be a next time for you bastard!", The demon fox roared. Madara whimpered.

"But Kitsune! I am Kin!!!", he cired. An evil look crossed the Kitsune's features...

"You are no Kin of me...", The Kyuubi sneered as it snapped up the ghost. A bright light engulfed them both, blinding Sakura. When it had faded, a bloodstained Naruto stumbled into view...and collapsed. Sakura ran...she ran like wildfire as she raced over to him...

Meanwhile Sasuke sat in the nearest tree supporting a broken arm and a nasty head concussion...Damn it! Damn it! How could I have been so stupid! Why did I go up against him in the first place?!?He thought to himself as he cradled his swolen forehead, maroon blood seeping down between his eyebrows. He watched the fight...he watched the Dragon go down and finally...Sakura running for Naruto...He glared. How dare she show this commoner, this beast love when he didn;t deserve it...after all he WAS a dobe...the village idiot...he revelled in attention. Wasn't like he was being ignored but...If he couldn't have her...neither could Naruto! He charged out of the tree towards Naruto and Sakura...
Sakura buried he head into his neck, staining the rim of his old orange and black uniform with crystaline tears...She heard him moan as he lifted his hand up to her hair.

"S-Sakura? What are you doing? Go find Gaara! Leave me!", Naruto rumbled. Another tear trickled down the base of his neck, missing the collar. He shivered. Sakura lifted her head up.

"But Naruto, your part of my team...and Kakashi always said-", Sakura was cut off by Naruto's soft hand on her shoulder.

"Actually he said, leave him behind if he hinders the mission...that's what i'm asking you to do Sakura...", He felt a small, warm tear run down his cheek. Sakura heard birds chirping in the distance...was this a mirrage? Naruto lolled his head off towards the sound...

"Sakura, stay alert. Sasuke is coming...", he wheezed. Sakura nodded and called to her sand...to Sienna...she needed her for Sasuke...This was one battle she needed to fight alone...

A/N: Whoop! A whole chapter without the computer dying!!!!! And no on to bother me on MSN!! YAY!!!!! So? Sakura's going up against Sasuke...hmmm...this'll be interesting...a FEMALE SHUKAKU against a MALE SHARINGAN USER...oooohhhhh! Can't wait! Anyways I need a snack! And it's REALLY late and i wanna play with my DS...Toodles!