Another Path

Chapter 8

I must say, I stories that are out there are starting to freak me out. Example: 'Kami's My What' WHAT. THE. FUCK. That master/slave shit is freakishly annoying and creepy. Some of you may like it and that is ok, I just think it is a bit creepy so don't hate me. Other than that I think the story is interesting…

Anyway, I looking for an older story that I read once and if you guys could help that would be great. It is a Naruto/She Cyborg crossover and it is just like the movie…..That was a good story even if it was only 6 or 7 chapters. Ok, Lee will be the quincy and Sai will be evil with Danzo later in the story…..Now the choices for the summon creature are Shadow Creatures since they can be anything….or Ravens.

Ok enough rambling, here is the next chapter in this story….

Naruto sighed as he walking through the desert to the Sand Village. "Getting will be simple my ass!" Naruto ranted as he took out the map and growling. "Yeah, thanks for the map grandpa…..THE DESERT LOOKS THE SAME FROM ALL DIRECTIONS!" He yelled to the heavens.

So, as he continued, a few ninja appeared in front of him. He looked at them for a good few second before he was the headbands and smiled. The leader smirked and said, "Well kid, I can't believe the Hokage sent you to help us with or problem…you were in that Genjutsu for hours." The others just chuckled at his.

Naruto's eye twitched before he exploded, "GENJUTSU! I FUCKING SUCK AT GENJUTSU DAMNIT!"

"Yeah….I kind of figured that out, but I though the Hokage said you could dispel them pretty easly." The leader of the group said with a raised eyebrow.

"Yeah well, I not that great at detect them but he is right." Naruto then smirked and activated his Uzugan, shocking the ninja and the genjutsu was blown apart to show that he was at the front gates of the Sand Village. "OH COME ON! I WAS IN FRONT OF THIS PLACE THE WHOLE TIME!" He yelled, very pissed off as the guards fell on the sand ground, laughing their asses off.

"Heh, well it does not matter anymore, we were just toying with you with a genjutsu that was beyond you level."

"I hate you." Naruto said as he deactivated his Uzugan and started walking with the ninja to the Kazekage tower in the middle of the village. The man chuckled as he lead him through the village till they got to the Kazekage's office.

Once there, the veiled Kage looked up and zeroed in on the ninja next to Naruto. "You should have cancelled the genjutsu after the first hour, four hours is just annoying. Leave now!" The kage ordered, ticked at his prankster ninja. When the man left, the Kage of Sand spoke to Naruto. "I am sorry young Naruto, but I guess it was just his prankster side kicking in."

"Heh, then he will have to watch out for he messed with Konoha's King of Pranksters!" Naruto declared with his fist in the air.

Ah….shit The kage thought with a deadpanned expression. "Anyway, the reason I called for one of Konoha's ninja was because of my son. His team recently went to some ancient runes that I wanted checked out. They found something as it took over Gaara and almost killed my other son Kankuro. Temari thankfully got them out of there and returned and now here you are. You also have to know that my son Gaara is the demon container for the Shukaku." He explained.

Naruto blinked once, and then twice before saying. "You made your own son a demon container?"

"Yes and I do regret do thing because I lost my wife that day. He was a problem child for me because Shukaku tries take over my son when he is asleep. He is always angry and kills people to prove is existence and I cannot take it anymore. I tired to have his killed on numerous occasions but it does not work. Each time I am doing this….I am truly ripping apart my family."

By the end of the speech, Naruto was pissed but he knew not to anger a foreign Kage. "That sounds a bit odd….I read somewhere the Shukaku was somewhat nice, not a total nut job."

The Kage's eyes widened at this and said with a thoughtful look, "I wonder if the spirit of that priest is that cause of this."

"The WHAT!"

"Yes, the second Kazekage, after the death of the first demon container, wanted to make his next one even stronger so he fused the Shukaku with the soul of the priest of the wind temple who went crazy and killed half the monks there before he was killed."

"No offence, but he was a complete dumbass." Naruto said bluntly. "Fusing a demi hollow with a demon is bad news. Tell you want, I will get rid of the priest for you and then you will have your son back. I do have a request though."

The Kazekage's eyes widened and said, "Name it!"

"Being the former demon container of the Kyuubi, I making a little group that will consist of the other demon container so that we could protect ourselves from those who will to do us harm….like this Akatsuki I heard about."

"Former! Shouldn't you be dead?"

"Kyuubi unlocked my bloodlines and that killed it, so I am not dead….not yet anyway."

"Fine, but who else is in this group so far?"

"Oh, my girlfriend Fu, who is the container for the 7 tailed horned beetle." Naruto said nonchalantly while the Kazekage and the hidden ANBU sweatdropped. "So, where am I going going?"

"You will be going to those runes I talked about. You will be joining my daughter in helping my son. I expect you to fullfil about what you said about my son. I want him back, alive."

"Will do sir."

"Good, now go, my daughter should be at the gates." The Kage of Sand said and Naruto nodded and left. A truly interesting boy…

When the blond reached the gates, he saw the ninja from earlier talking to a blond haired girl with four pigtails. I am not going to ask. He thought as he looked the one to many pigtails. "So, could I get your name so who I know I will be pranking back."

"Heh, you call me Gin, and you can't get me back."

"We'll see about that, I am the King of Pranksters in Konoha!" Naruto yelled out with a fist in the air, to which the blond haired girl sweatdropped.

"Well, good luck then. Anyway, this is Temari. She will be the one leading you to the runes." Gin said and chuckled, "Hopefully with her around, you won't get lost or run into a random Genjutsu."

Naruto fell anime style and said, "I really hate you."

"Are you two about done?" Temari asked with annoyance.

"Yes!" Gin said with a smile as he walked away with a smirk.

Naruto looked at him oddly before following Temari into the desert.

2 hours later at the Runes…

"So, let me get this straight, Gaara found some old talisman and put it in a hole and the madness started?"

"Yes, this army of sand appeared and if what you said is true, then the priest has taken over my little brother."

"Great….." Naruto said sarcastically as they walked the runes. Large buildings were not half caved in and a dead looking tower in the center of it all. "Well, let's get this over with." Naruto said. Temari nodded and they ran up the tower. Once on top, They hade dinner plate eyes.

Why? Well, there was a sand storm brewing all round them, Gaara was to the side….knocked out, and there was a man in priest robes standing there waiting for them. "I see you have returned young sand maiden and with a friend. Do you really think you can bet me?" He said, smirking at them.

"Give back my brother!" Temari pleaded.

"You can have the whelp, he is weak." Sneered the priest.

"You're the one who is weak….." Naruto said simply.

"Insolent boy….but you know, I was not going to give you the boy. I was just going to kill you and him, but I have a better idea." He priest laughed. "Get back to me to top of this tower without the use of Chakra and I will give you a fighting chance." He smirked evilly and before either rof the two blonds could respond, the sand storm swirled around them and when they could see clearly again, they were at the entrance to the tower once again.

"The hell!" Temari yelled to the sky.

Naruto scowled. "I never saw that coming. No matter, let's move." Naruto said but before they could enter, the sand around them shifted before turning into a small army of sand soldiers.

"No!" Temari growled out. She was at a disadvantage because most of her attacks needed chakra to use her wind jutsu.

Naruto smiled and said, "Well, guess I should try this now. Temari get behind that broken pillar. I will be using a destructive attack."

Temari, not wanting to argue at the moment nodded and left the attacking to her partner. Naruto then smirked to his enemies. "Heh, I may not be able to use chakra at the moment, but that does not mean I can't use spirit energy!" He yelled as Temari looked at him oddly as he took out his dagger and chain. He sent spirit energy into it to make it spin around him. It looked like a snake was slithering around him to the others.

The soldiers looked at him blankly before charging at him and Naruto called out, "Spiralling Silver Winds!" the dagger and chain started to spin really fast around around him, creating silver like winds and when the soldiers came close, they were obliterated

When all was said and done, he saw that Temari was gawking at him. "How ?"

"Spirit energy. He may have taken our ability to use chakra, but if we split it, we can use it."

"Say what?" Temari yelled as she ran back up to him. "How?"

"Heh, chakra is made up of Spiritual energy and Physical energy…two energies that we have the ability to use like I did."

"That…is pretty awesome! Can you show me because I don't feel like dying in these runes anytime soon?"

"Sure, just feel out you chakra like you usually do and spate them…..it is very easy" Naruto said as he watched her try to do it. Ten minutes later, she was able to get it and tried one of her old attacks.

"I can't believe it!" Temari said happily. After that, they went into the tower, never noticing a stream of glowing sand trailing after them.

After reaching the halfway point, they decided to rest. They had been in there for at least an hour and the soldiers just would not quit. Well, they were made of sand and sand was all around them after all.

"I still don't understand this….why Gaara and why are you the one to come to help?" Temari asked.

Naruto sighed and sat down across from her. "I am guessing that Gaara got the short end of the stick in the beginning of life. He choose the path that most demon container take…..the dark path. They don't think their existence is worth anything so they do what they think is right. There are those that are respected and they get to act like normal humans, like those two from Kumo and Fu from Waterfall. Then there is the former demon container of the Kyuubi. Most people in Konoha thought and still thinks he is the reincarnation of the beast and think he is evil. That is not true and he has had the same life as Gaara and the others but, he chose to take the Light. He wants people to see that demon containers are not evil."

Temari stared at the blond for a few minutes before asking, "And who is this you speak of?"

"Me, Naruto Uzumaki."

Temari's eyes widened and said, "That is incredible! That would mean you are actually trying to help my brother instead of trying to kill him."

"Correct, I will save in from that nut job and I won't let you die in these runes, you are my comrade after all."

Temari blushed when Naruto got back up and started walking again. Wow…he is pretty noble and he is really not like the other guys. He has not even looked like me in a perverse way…Hmmm. After her thoughts drifted off, Naruto was looking around the large room they were in. It would seem they would need to use a lot of acrobatics to get to the next floor. For now though, something caught his eye. It was a door, the only other door in this room. So he crack it open to find a small room with an altar of some sort in the middle. He walked up to it and as soon as he touched it, it broke and fell apart.

"Ah….shit." He said but he did see a small scroll poking out of the rubble. As soon as he took it, he heard a cracking noise and saw something in the room that Temari was still in! Slots for razor blades slowly rose out of the ground and what seemed like flamethrowers were showing up along the walls. "Teamri…." He said a little uneasy.

"Yeah?" She said getting out of her thoughts.

The flamethrowers were starting up now and it looked like the part of the room was starting to spin. "GET THAT ASS MOVING!" He announced as he jumped to one of the rods to flip to the next room, leading to the top of the room.

Temari was about to retort to the rude comment but froze at the sound of buzz saws and the flamethrowers. She looked around frantically to be free from these thing but she was trapped! Suddenly, she was flanked by two of Naruto's Spirit Clones. Before she could say anything, she was thrown into the air like a sling shot does rocks. Once she was she was close enough to Naruto, the blond haired leaf shinobi reached out his hand saying, "Like I said, I won't let my comrades die." Temari smiled as she took Naruto's hand and he smiled as well. Then, he threw her upward, closer to the exit. She actually screamed as she flew through the air!

Naruto didn't think much on it and flipped to a higher rod and then did the same thing again, he thought it was faster this way and he really couldn't help but laugh as Temari screamed on her way up.

Once no the next floor, Temari was about to bash Naruto's head in but he felt that this was not over. He looked down the hole they came through and saw that the fire was searing the room it was in and travelling upward! "Shit!" He quickly ran to his blond haired companion to see that she was a little pissed. He knew he would regret this but he tackled her to the ground just as the fire shot out the hole and sky rocketed around them. It swirled around the room before going out.

Naruto rolled off of Temari with a groan. "What a drag! AH! I am starting to sound like Shikamaru!"

While Naruto was droning, Temari was red as a tomato. He saved me twice now…what is this feeling?

They didn't have time to be screwing around at the moment because the room was starting to fall apart thanks to the fire weakening it. The walls began to fall and the two blond nodded to each other and began to hop off of the rocks at choice points to get to the top.

"That was interesting." Naruto panted.

"True, but don't even get on top of me like that again!" Temari said as she bopped him on the head with a blush on her face. Naruto, clueless as ever, just looked at her like she was nuts.

"Sorry, I was just trying to protect you from the fire." Naruto said simply.

Wow….he is so clueless. Temari thought with a deadpanned expression.

"Well, if you two are done blabbing, I think you have proven to me that you have some fighting chance against me." A voice said behind them.

They turned around to once again see the Priest with a sandstorm all around them. Temari rushed to Gaara's side who had woken up but was very weak, so he could not move.

"So boy why do you fight against me. Why fight against the dead?" The priest yelled.

"People like you is one of the reasons demon containers are hated and this world is screwed up. I will put an end to you and send you to the King of Shinigami!"

"HA! King of Shinigami? What stupidity! Like some nobody brat is going to send me anywhere!"

"I am not just a ninja you freak, I am a Shinigami!" Naruto announced as he brought out one of his blades and his dagger and chain.

"You can't beat me boy, for I have the power of sands!" The priest yelled out as the sandstorm closed in and claimed him. It began to harden into a terrifying shape. It had molded the priest into the shape of Shukaku's body with a white bone mask for a the face. "Try and kill me now boy!"

Inside Gaara, the Shukaku was freaking out as it did not want to die but his vessel could not move and this boy wanted to fight that thing! The blond was more of a nut job then he was in his eyes.

Young one, I will give you a power to stop this man, I have seen you actions and deem you worthy…take my gift and use it well. A voice echoed out as they all looked around, only to see some glowing sand heading to Naruto's dagger and chain. There was a flash of light and there where odd runes on the dagger itself. Not one to look a gift horse in the mouth, he accepted it.

Naruto then ran forward, calling out his shikai and whipping out with his dagger and chain. He blasted the Sand Hollow a few dozen times but it did not do much because the sand reformed the monster each time. Hell, even parts of the mask he had nicked reformed!

Temari and Gaara watched as Naruto was flung across the roof and to the edge of the other side. Not even thinking about it, Teamri ran after Naruto and caught him right before he was uncatchable. "Thanks Temari!"

"I won't let you die partner!" She yelled as she lifted him up.

"Right, now go protect your brother, I will take care of this guy somehow!" Naruto growled as Temari nodded and ran to her brother.

When Naruto looked back at the Shukakufied dead priest, the world froze and he was sent to his mind. He looked around to see that Zemnas was looking at his with his arms crossed with the Titan of Time siting down on the ground "Young Naruto….you will not be able kill this hollow with my power. You must use the Titan of Time's power along with the new power of the Sands of Time you have acquired."

"Alright, I don't know if I am ready to hear his name but I must if I want to save Gaara and Temari."

"Then you are ready, now here my name! I am…"

Naruto opened his eyes and called out while replacing the swords. "Rule the Titans! Cronos!" Naruto's form exploded with power and everyone was blown back a bit by it. They looked back to see that Naruto's other blade and changed to the of a huge Chainsaw blade that when active, sparked electricity. "I got a new attack for you you nut job!" Naruto yelled as he threw the dagger and chain into the chest of the priest and it stuck there. Before the nut job holy man could retort, Naruto called out, "Time Freeze!" Time froze for the priest only and Naruto smirked as he called out, "Eye of the Storm!" a glowing sand storm erupted around the two combatants with Naruto as the center of the storm.

It created true blades of wind that ripped up the priest's new body. Naruto then charged and brought his new blade down on the priests head, cutting the nut job in half.

The sand siblings saw the weird sand storm die down and saw Naruto drop down. The blond looked up to see the priest just standing there for a few seconds before saying, "Good job kid, but you can't stop the Sandstorm that will engulf this place and then the rest of the world." The priest then began to dissentegrate and disappear into nothingness.

Naruto paled and went to the edge of the tower and saw the dark storm coming. He cause and thought, Can't lose here….no I won't and I won't lose these to either! I am going to use that seal!

FLASHBACK!

"Naruto, that is quite the seal you made, just be sure you use it only when necessary. I am labeling that seal S ranked." The Hokage said as he saw the desvistation of this one seal that not even the Fourth Hokage had thought about.

FLASHBACK END!

Naruto sighed as he ran to the sand siblings and jumped up, high above them. He sent chakra to his hands, now that he could use it, and called out, "Seal Art: Blackhole!" A pair of seals appeared on Naruto's hands and before the sand siblings could blink, a massive amount of the sand storm launched upwards and was sucked into the tiny seals on Naruto's hands.

Naruto growled out in pain as it did hurt because the sand was blasting into the sand on his hands, so he activated his Uzugan. With the combination of the two at work, the sand became attuned to his DNA and in turned, gave him the power over sand like his Mokuton. After that, his struggles stopped and the sand storm was instantly silenced.

As he fell back to the ground after all that stress, he heard Temari's voice and then his world went back.

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Next chapter, Naruto leaves sand and meets Sora on the way back to Konoha.