Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto.
Note: After reading the Naruto manga, I saw that the Ten-Tails was….big. Like really big. So please note that the Ten-Tails in this story is merely a mini-mini-sized version of the Ten-Tails in the manga. Like a revival of the Ten-Tails in the manga, just a lot smaller. Maybe say….elephant-sized.
Kazekage Tower, Sunagakure, 20 Hours After Bandit Raid
Kankuro leaned toward the professor. "So how would someone ever BEAT that thing?"
"I—I don't know," stammered the nervous-looking man.
"NO!" shouted Kankuro. "There has GOT to be a way to save my sister!"
"Relax, Kankuro," admonished Gaara. "Let him think. He'll come up with something."
But inside, he wanted to shout too.
Kikai Heights, 20 Hours After Bandit Raid
The monster in front of Temari suddenly hunched over, covering its head with its front paws. It roared in pain.
"Yes….we'll kill her and slice her open and take all the organs out….yes….you can have the heart…but I get the liver…..no, I WANT THE LIVER! GRAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" The monster lifted a boulder and flung it over rocky terrain. The boulder fell off the edge of a cliff a hundred feet to Temari's left.
The Ten-Tails followed Temari's eyes to the cliff. It looked up and bared its teeth at her in grotesque smile.
"How would you like to play a game?"
The old man's eyes suddenly opened. "I have an idea." He glanced at Gaara, licking his lips nervously.
Gaara nodded at him.
"W-well, I was thinking, i-if this process draws its p-power from the moon, then all we have to do i-is to cut off its power source. In this case….we would somehow block its access to the moon."
"How would Temari do that?"
"Your sister is a wind jutsu specialist…so she would generate a cold front to make a cloud, which would have to be thick enough to completely block all moonlight."
The professor sighed. He'd met Temari before, back when he had been teaching in the Academy. He remembered one instant when he had been teaching a lesson on mission protocol. "What do you do when your comrade is in trouble, but the mission is in danger?"
She had jumped up and screamed, "Abandon your comrade!"
Temari had been such a bright and promising student. It wasn't her time to die.
"Now your sister just has to figure out what we've just figured out."
"And the rules are….One: If you die, you lose. Two: If you force me out of the Ten-Tails form, I lose. Three: If you lose, I get to eat you. Four: If I lose, then I'll let you get on your way. Five: If you fall off the edge of that cliff, I'll kill you if you aren't already dead when I find you at the bottom. Then I'll eat you. And no one will ever know where or how you died. What a pity that would be!" The Ten-Tails cackled gleefully. "THE GAME STARTS NOW!"