"Well then! I wonder which one the jinchuuriki is, un!"
Mayumi's eyes fluttered open slowly. Where was she? Why was there a creeping looking fat guy, giant bird, and a freaking blonde chick who was sitting on Gaara staring towards her for? Or better question. Why was Gaara allowing the blonde to sit on him? He never allowed her to sit on him… Maybe he was just giving it a shot so that when she wanted to again she could! YEAH! That was it…
"You bastards! I'll beat you to a pulp!" Naruto shouted.
Wait? Naruto? When did he get there? And why was she on Kakashi's back? Had she entered some strange world were Kakashi gave her free rides?
"That one?" The fat one with funky hair asked.
"Sure looks that way, doesn't it, un?"
Naruto glared at them then looked down at Gaara, "Gaara!" Well no shit. "What's the idea, sleeping at a time like this!"
"He's not sleeping he's testing what it's like to be sat on, duh!" Mayumi told him, rolling her lavender eyes.
He ignored her, "Get up!"
Sakura looked over at her friend with a sad expression, Lady Chiyo did the same.
"Oi! Gaara! You hear me!"
"That's enough, Naruto…" Kakashi told him. "You must understand by now…"
"Yup, you get it, don't cha?" The blonde spoke. "He's real dead, this one, un."
Mayumi's eyes widened and she jumped off of Kakashi's back to farther herself from her teammate, "Oh shit…"
"'Give him back… Give him back, you bastard!" Naruto roared as he charged at the pair.
Kakashi, with his new found lightness, placed himself in front of him, "Calm down. You charge in there without a plan and it's over."
"Leave this one to me…" Fatty spoke. "Because it seems this other jinchuuriki wants him back…"
"Boss…" The woman said, suddenly not sounding so pretty, more…male… "You might get angry at me for saying this but… I'll deal with this jinchuuriki, un."
"It's one jinchuuriki for each member. Don't push it."
"An artist is one whose talent wanes…in the absence of stimuli, boss. And it's said the Kyuubi jinchuuriki is rather strong at that, un."
"What? You insist on calling those… Fireworks of yours art? True art endures the ages…beauty everlasting."
"As a fellow artist, boss…I respect you, but art is beauty fleeting, beauty gone in an instant, un," the blonde argued.
Sakura stared at them with a confused look, "What… What's up with these guys?"
"Cut the crap!" Naruto shouted and reached into his tool pouch.
He pulled out a scroll which then gave him and huge, nice, sharp, and shiny shuriken. The Uzumaki jumped over Kakashi and flung the weapon towards his enemies. The fat one seemed to have a tail…Why a tail? Whatever… He lifted his "tail" up and hit the item to the ground as if it were a served volleyball, his eyes never leaving his partner as he did this.
"Deidara… You mean to make me angry?" He asked his partner.
Mayumi raised an eyebrow and muttered, "Isn't Deidara a guy's name?"
"Well? Didn't I say you'd probably get angry just a while ago, un?" Deidara stood up and his pet/clay birdy picked up the zombie Gaara, why a zombie? Because he's playing dead! Duh! "My artwork explodes. That's the way it is. Quite different from your little puppet shows boss, un!"
The fat guy's tail shot at the blonde who took notice and jumped on his now airborne bird. He growled under the dark cloth he wore to cover his mouth. Maybe he was toothless? Mayumi wondered.
"See ya later, boss!" Deidara called to him.
The clay bird swallowed poor Gaara. Naruto glared up at Deidara as he and birdy took off through the entrance. Naruto charged forwards, towards them, "Hold on you!"
Kakashi sprang towards the blonde, grabbing Mayumi's hand and dragging her along, "Naruto, Mayumi and I will deal with the one outside. Sakura you and Chiyo-baasama take this one but- Try not to take any unnecessary risks until Team Gai gets here."\
"Understood!" Sakura shouted back.
"Why me!" Mayumi pouted.
*With Naruto, Kakashi, and Mayumi*
The three who had followed Gaara stood on a…wood thing? Anyways Deidara stared down at them while Kakashi talked to Gai on his little thingy ma-jigger…(Dear god I shouldn't be typing at this time XD)
The Hatake pulled his forehead protector from over his eye and looked quickly at the blue-haired female and then glared back up at Deidara. With Naruto's anger he couldn't take just standing around, so, he jumped at the blonde bomber, missed, then got little birds threw at him, which, thankfully, Kakashi threw kunai at; forcing them to detonate. Deidara formed a few hand signs and the small blast became larger, causing the kunai to come back at him. Kakashi quickly deflected and looked towards Mayumi. He mouthed words to her threw his mask which, thankfully she'd lived with him for most of her life, she understood and nodded.
"I won't let you have Gaara!" Naruto shouted, his blue eyes now a crimson red.
"You're real strange for a jinchuuriki, you know that?" Deidara asked. "I've heard your kind are lonely creatures who loath humanity, un. This "Gaara" was unusual too… I've seen no jinchuuriki's welfare cause other people such concern. Besides this one, two other jinchuurikis have been caught by my comrades. No one among their friends, no one person in their respective villages, actually raised a finger to help them, un. On the contrary I've heard there were even people thankful to us," he laughed. "So you can't let your poor fellow, hated creature go, un? This "Gaara had the ichibi drawn out he's dead. You can be sure it'll be you fate as well, you little monster!"
Naruto stared up at him in shock, "…I'll kill you all… You bastards…"
*Later*
The group ran after the blonde bomber, Mayumi in the lead with Naruto following her closely and Kakashi in the back. They were jumping from logs that seemed to have stuck themselves into the sides of the rock walls. Kakashi sprang forward and his former students, "I told you both to wait, didn't I!"
"It's alright…" He told them, Mayumi looked down like a child being punished while Naruto growled. "We'll definitely get Gaara back. So calm down!"
He released them both and continued on, "Listen Naruto, you're not used to this type of opponent. You specialize in close combat, so this long distance fighter type is a bad match for you. There are only two ways to defeat an opponent like this."
Naruto looked at him, "What are they?"
"The first is to draw the opponent into short-range and defeat them. The other is to outdo your opponent with you long-distance attacks."
"But how do I do that?"
"Either a companion who specializes in long-distance attacks or someone who can use long-range combat support ninjutsu must be in your team. If that's not the situation defeating the enemy is impossible. Well, unless you have a brain like Shikamaru."
"Get to the point!" Naruto shouted at him. "So what are you Kakashi-sensei!"
"Oh me?" Kakashi looked away from Deidara to Naruto. "I'm a Jounin who has a brain like Shikamaru and long-range combat support ninjutsu."
"Then we have what we need!"
"So I told you, calm down," he looked back up towards the bird. "It's not that easy… No matter how much we follow, he's not giving us an opportunity. He's someone who entered the sand by himself and defeated Gaara. Above all, he is a member of Akatsuki. Then what do we do? We have to create an opening here. Both of us together… When you're taken in all I've said, listen up. I'll you the plan."
*With Deidara*
The blonde stared down at the two male ninja that ran towards him; where had the blue-haired female disappeared to?
He shook his head and focused on the blonde, 'That kid… He's become completely passive… What are they planning, un?'
He looked back forward and his breath caught in his throat, "How the hell did you get up here, un!"
Mayumi grinned and gave him the peace sign, "Maybe you should move that hair from your eye so you can see better!"
"Whatever, you're my hostage now, un."
"No I'm not."
"Yes you are, un."
"I bet I can get you say, un!" She said, pointing at him.
Deidara rolled his eyes, maybe he'd allow her to get kidnaped back to her team…
*Back with Kakashi and Naruto*
"Kakashi-sensei, still!" Naruto asked; his eyes back to their normal blue.
"I told you; don't be in such a hurry… Since I don't have as much chakra as you it takes time…but… I'm ready now. Let's go Naruto!"
"That's what you said before…" Naruto said, staring at the strange new Sharingan in his old teacher's eye.
"Yes. It's a new sharingan," Kakashi informed him.
Naruto's face tightened as he frowned.
"What is it?"
"Kakashi-sensei… It's okay if you screw up… 'Cause I'll finish it off!"
"Yeah…If you get a chance…"
"…Got it!" Naruto shouted.
Kakashi's eye widened as he stared up at the bird, "Mangekyou Sharingan!"
*Mayumi's p.o.v*
I kicked my legs over the side of the bird as I irritated the crap out of the Akatsuki guy. Yeah, turned out, he was a guy! Who knew! I sure as hell didn't. I look back at him briefly then turn away, eyes wide. It looked like Kakashi-sensei had started the jutsu he mentioned. Just saying… Any good looks the guy might have had; were on the side of the street with their bags packed waving goodbye at the moment.
*Back with Kakashi and Naruto*
Kakashi did his best to keep the jutsu going and away from Mayumi whom he had sent to occupy Deidara. The blonde male couldn't fight what was happening to him as he got sucked towards a type of warp-hole forming basically on his arm. He let out a shout as he arm was torn from him. Kakashi covered his eye and grunted in pain. With a growl he removed his hand and focused on Deidara once more. The area around him became like a hole; sucking him in.
Suddenly the blue haired female jumped off the bird and raced towards the silver haired man. Deidara reached out to her, not noticing that Naruto was about to hit him with a rasengan. His bright blue eye focused on the other blonde just before it hit; that allowed him enough times to jump off the bird. Too bad for him Naruto managed to get the head off the bird of which Gaara was in.
Naruto quickly did a Kage-Bunshin jutsu and caught the falling head. He stared tearing open the clay, screaming Gaara's name as he did so.
Mayumi pulled Kakashi close to herself, a worried expression written across her face, "Otou-san- I mean Kakashi-sensei are you okay?"
His face softened and nodded, "Yeah, one way or another…"
Naruto opened the clay bird and found his friend, lying perfectly still. His eyes teared up his heart pounded in his chest.
"I'll get you…" He said to the blonde bomber some ways behind him.
Deidara sneered towards him, "Gotcha, Gotcha. I'll fight you again soon, un."
Kakashi allowed Mayumi to help him to his feet, "You're let your guard down…"
The blonde's eyes widened and he looked behind him, this time, he was too late. Naruto's fist his him hard on the cheek, allowing the blonde to spit blood. Deidara began falling to the ground but Naruto grabbed him with his clones and threw him down, hard. He came down and kneed him the stomach, then pulled back his fist and hit him continually.
Mayumi's eyes widened in horror and she hid her face by holding onto Kakashi, who, stared in shock at the boy.
The Uzumaki pulled back his hand and formed a rasengan on and pushed it to Deidara's chest. His eyes widened, however, when he noticed that the man wasn't actually beneath him, but a clay clone had taken his place.
Kakashi looked down at his student, his eyes showing his pain for the blonde.
Mayumi looked back towards her friend and stood to her feet. She jumped from her place next to Kakashi and started towards him. Her lavender eyes widened when two tails formed behind him and red chakra began to flow around him in bubbles. The Hatake's eyes widened and he jumped from his place and rushed past the female, straight towards Naruto. Before the blonde had time to react a small sheet of paper, which was made to stop the chakra that Naruto was using, was pressed to his head.
The Arakaki girl smiled softly at the suddenly content look on her teammate's face, not knowing what could have happened.
Okay, I was originally going to make this chapter extremely long but, I've decided to make it two chapters instead. So, news on the poll is, Sasuke is in the lead with…twenty-four? And following him is Itachi with about nineteen. I personally have to say… I'm kinda rooting for Itachi but hey, shhh, don't tell! Anyways if you haven't voted yet please do so, let me know who you want. I thank all of you that have, it makes me smile every time I see it! And also, to those of you that have reviewed, that you very much! Please do review again! If you have a specific chapter you would like me to write please just ask and I'll see what I can do, at least one of you know that I do work with that and if you have any questions feel free to ask away, I'll either answer them by message or on the next chapter if I forget. Anyways, be safe to all, and please, read the next chapter when up up PLEASE! XD