"Uzumaki, I will prove my existence by killing you!" Naruto looked him in the eyes, one being yellow now, and saw he was losing himself to something inside him.

"Looks like you are being ignored once again, Sasuke," Naruto said to him, making him growl in anger.

"I haven't forgotten the Uchiha. I am more interested in your blood than his. Though he will die as well." That only served to make him madder.

"...I was Rookie of the Year, I am the last Uchiha, and I have the full form of the Sharigan. And you are the one everyone focuses on." He glared at Naruto while jumping back to avoid a claw from Gaara. Making Naruto smile under his mask as his cloak settled over him.

"NOT THIS TIME, UZUMAKI!" Gaara's gourd fell apart and completely covered him in sand, turning him into a giant raccoon-dog. The Kage Keiri bit into it but was stopped before hitting flesh. "DIE!" Sand along the hidden blade to the hand holding it. Only to find there was none.

Naruto reappeared next to Sasuke. "That didn't turn out so well."

"Stand back and let a professional do it."

"Oh, by all means," Naruto told Sasuke, motioning forward.

"You think you can do what he failed?"

"I know I can. Ushi, U, Saru!" His hands formed the three handsigns he said and began to shoot off lightning from his outstretched left hand. "Chidori!" He lunged at Gaara, his lightning blade leading. Gaara swung a claw at him, expecting to tear him apart. Instead, Sasuke cut right through it to his upper arm, just below his shoulder. Through the hole in the sand, a heavy amount of blood came pouring down. "Damn, threw off my aim. Still more than you did though."

Gaara was going into shock. That hit had taken a large part of his bicep and he was bleeding to death now. As the sand was stained red, Gaara began to stumble a little from the blood lost and the most painful thing most will ever feel made worst in that he had never felt pain before. Sasuke grinned at the clapping Naruto. "Nice job, Sasuke." Gaara fell onto the ground, unconscious. Naruto was about to walk over, to check to see if he was still alive when the sand began to pulse. It then wrapped around the wound, putting pressure on it, stopping the lost of blood. It then bulged out as the flesh knitted back together. "What the hell..."

Gaara stood back up and started laughing as the sand around him began to expand. But this time, his voice was much different. "HAHAHAHA! Isn't this something!?" His sand gathered around him until he towered over even the trees. "Finally, I, Ichibi Shukaku, has been freed! I think I'll celebrate by destroying that village over there!"

Both genin, their heads tilted back as far as they could go, dropped their jaws. "Nice job, Sasuke."

—oo000oo—

"I like that rabbit," Raiga shouted as Mandarb cut down several more ninja. Bolts of lightning were flying everywhere from his dual swords. Mangetsu grinned his toothy grin and swung Slaughter, the blade of his sword while Rotter, the giant counter weight at the end of the handle, slammed into a Sand ninja, crushing the bones in his chest.

"He is impressive," came the cold voice said to him.

"We know that voice," Mangetsu and Raiga said while still attacking.

"Long time, boys," Auron said to them.

"FUCK," one of the surviving Sand shouted. "That is the Fang of the Hidden Mist, Auron!"

"Where the hell you been," Mangetsu shouted.

"Retirement," Auron replied. "So, I hear that everyone is taking on apprentices."

"My little brother, Suigetsu," Mangetsu told him.

"I guess you can say Ranmaru here," Raiga told him.

Auron brought his sword down, knocking a Sand ninja out of the way. "I guess you can say I have one as well now."

"Auron-sensei," Tenten shouted as she blocked with her sword. "Are those who I think they are!?"

"My friends," Auron replied. The three swordsmen stopped swinging their weapons and looked around. None of their foes were left standing. Haku was sitting on a pile of unconscious sand ninja, all of them having needle piercings throughout their body. "So, how is Zabuza?"

"The bastard is good," Raiga told him. "You coming back now?"

"Nah, I'm good." He looked over at Tenten. She was wielding a sword similar to the Ashura. It was really just a heavier katana to get her ready for a zanbatou. "You're movements are still too slow."

"Hai, Auron-sensei," she panted out.

The other two of the Seven Swordsmen shook their heads. "She doesn't look like much," Mangetsu stated. "That sword probably doesn't even weigh thirty pounds."

"Hey," Tenten shouted.

She dropped her head when Auron said, "It weighs twenty five." He turned to her. "Don't worry, those two started with twenty pound swords."

"Did not," they lied.

"So, where do you suppose the Kazekage is," Raiga asked.

Haku grinned. "We know." She pulled on a web behind her, making a body strung up in a tree swing. He groaned while the man tied to it began to laugh at him. "The other, the jonin sensei for Temari, Kankuro, and Gaara by the name Baki, was called to defend him from Mandarb, he told him to go to hell."

"...Where is the rabbit anyway?"

"The Blade is right here," Mandarb said, thumping the Kazekage with his hind leg. "This one was strong but he was complacent. His soldiers were more worth the effort of killing."

Haku went over and scratched his ears. "Thank you, Usagi-chan." His right hind leg was beating the ground under her administrations.

"...Not everyday you see a summon turned into a lapdog," Mangetsu stated.

"Raiga-sama, you told us that you wanted to speak with Naruto-kun," Haku stated. "What about?"

"We heard from Zabuza that he helped you when you were dying. I want to ask him a question about Ranmaru."

"About what?"

"Zabuza told me he 'healed' you when you were dying. I was hoping he could be able to do something about Ranmaru not being able to walk."

Haku smiled. You wouldn't think it of Raiga but he loved Ranmaru like a son. "What is it about the Seven Swordsmen and taking in strays," she wondered aloud. All three of them scratched the sides of their faces, realizing what she meant. "We would be a better person to talk to about that, Raiga-sama. We..."

"HAHAHAHA! Isn't this something!?" All of them looked in the direction that the evil sounding voice came from. With the wall in the way, they couldn't see it. Haku jumped up onto the wall, followed by the others. Several miles away, climbing above the trees was a sand colored raccoon-dog.

"WHAT THE HELL," Mangetsu demanded.

"Don't worry. Naruto-kun is over there, he will handle it."

—oo000oo—

"Sasuke, run" Naruto told him.

"No way am I..."

"This is a Bijuu. You remember them from history, right?"

"...Fuck," Sasuke said, looking back up at the thing. It hadn't noticed them yet. "And what will you be doing?"

"You run, we will stall it."

"How are you going to do that," Sasuke growled.

"We can't produce fire. We can't shoot jutsus from our eyes. But..." Naruto grinned, pulling down his mask and placing the Kage Keiri in hand, "we are the best at what we do. Go." Sasuke couldn't argue that. Before he could run, Naruto ran a thumb along the edge of his blade and placed it on the ground. Five Wolves appeared, bearing vest with the kanji for, 'Winter Fangs'. "Hello."

"Hey, its him," one said excitedly. "How can the Winter Fangs be of service, hunter."

"My village is under attack. I need you to take Sasuke back as fast as you can and hunt down any shinobi with a head band that has a music note on it. They should smell a little like snakes."

They all grinned. "I like this hunter," another said. "Climb on boy." In moments, they were gone and Naruto turned back to the problem at hand.

"Hey, big guy, down here!" Shukaku looked down at him. "You know how to spell ugly? U...you, you, you!" It blinked then began to growl.

"I'll kill you!" Shukaku swiped at Naruto with his claw. But he didn't smell blood. "Where he go?"

"Too easy," Naruto said. Shooting the limb he was on with two webs, he swung around it twice before attaching them to the tail. "Hey, what is the purpose of a tail this big? Trying to compensate? You probably couldn't even smash a tree with it. Much less me."

"I'll show you what it is for!" He brought his tail down, intending you flatten this annoying worm. When it hit the ground though, he no longer felt his arm. Looking at it, he saw it gone and the arm on the ground, changing back into sand. "You annoying little insect! I'll tear you apart and make a ring from your bones!"

"...I just now would be a good time to stop playing with you. Summoning no jutsu!" There was a tower of smoke and when it cleared, Naruto was standing on the Boss Hare. "Good afternoon, Usagi-sama."

"Hello Naruto... You make interesting friends."

He shrugged. "It happens that way at times. Ready to see if we am worthy of being your summoner?"

"Let's do it then," Shukaku challenged. "I was just itching for some rabbit stew!"

"...If you can, runt," Usagi told him. The hare started running too fast for it to react. He hit Shukaku with his sword as he passed. Digging his claws in to stop, he spun around and charged back at him. "Who is this, Naruto?"

"A jinchuuriki," Naruto told him. "He fell unconscious and the demon surrounded his body with sand to escape from inside of him."

"Then we wake the boy up. I need you to get to him and force him awake. I will deal with him." Usagi charged at Shukaku and tackled him. Naruto jumped in the air and into Shukaku's mouth. "Good luck," Usagi wished him.

—oo000oo—

Naruto slid down his throat and dug his sword into the side of it. He could only figure two places that Gaara would be. The head or the heart. The heart made the most sense as that was the heaviest protected. Standing on the blade and expanding it, he summoned another pack, the Howls of the Earth pack. "I need your help to find someone. He is inside this sand body somewhere. His scent is on this," he said, tapping his foot onto his sword.

The leader of the pack sniffed it and began to sniff around at the sand. "This whole thing carries his scent."

"Then we have to split up," the smallest of the wolves said.

Naruto nodded. The seven wolves began to dig through the sand. Every once and a while, they felt the thing get hit from the battle outside. Finally, they came to a chamber where the heart would be. It was filled with air and being held above the ground was Gaara. Who looked like he was enjoying his nap. Naruto dismissed the Howls of the Earth and stepped inside.

—oo000oo—

Shukaku stopped. Usagi had been slowing down because he was tiring and wanted to keep his strength. He didn't know why but when he felt the room he kept the boy in disturbed, he understood. "You have some nerve," he growled.

"Our fight is not over."

"Oh, but it is. You see, I am only made of sand, you can't kill me. My only weakness is the boy. And with him sealed inside me, you can't reach him. Anything you do to me is pointless." Usagi knew he was right. All the wounds he received soon healed, including the lost of his arm. "I will deal with you when I have dealt with the intruder."

—oo000oo—

Naruto jumped out of the way of a claw. It came out of the ground. "You did well to reach here," the chibi Shukaku said to him. The thing was only seven feet tall. "But you will not ruin my fun so soon."

"You are being used, Great Bijuu. We..."

"Don't care," Shukaku interrupted. "All I care about is killing and destroying. And once I am done with you and that rabbit outside, I am going to tear your village apart."

"We stopped one Bijuu before, we will again."

"Who ever it was, they were obviously stupid or being controlled. Nothing can kill us, fore we can't die. We can only be sealed."

"Stupid or being controlled? What does that say about you?"

Shukaku shrugged after a minute. "You have a point there. But that is in the past. And your friend oh so generously caused so much damage to my host he has fallen into a coma. It might be months before he is awake."

Naruto said the one word that could describe this situation. "Shit. Then only two things can be done. We somehow wake him or we kill him." He formed the handsign for the Enmu no Jutsu and darkness filled the room. Holding the Kage Keiri over his shoulders, he made the handsign for the Shunshin and teleported next to Gaara. He began to spin, meaning to cut him in half. He had nothing against Gaara, he is just a man following orders.

His blade stopped just short of taking Gaara's life. And he had no idea why. His spider sense never told him. "Something wrong boy," Shukaku said right next to him. He pushed the blade back. "Can't find me in this darkness? That is because I am all around you."

Naruto couldn't believe it. No one ever got pass his senses before besides Haku and Hinata. "...We will get passed you," Naruto said, dropping the darkness. "We will not let our home be destroyed." He jumped back and held the Kage Keiri in front of him. When Shukaku took a swipe at him, Naruto flipped over the arm and cut it off. "Too slow, far too slow." He pushed the blade tip forward, stabbing the demon through the stomach and pulled to the side. As the demon fell apart, Naruto ran for Gaara. He jumped and brought the sword down in an overhead chop.

A tendril of sand wrapped around him and threw him against the wall. "I am not going to die that easy, boy! Now die!" The sand around him began to encircle him. Naruto forced his hands free of it and pulled himself from the death that awaited. "And I see you are not someone to surrender so easily either."

Standing, Naruto decided to try the unexpected. "Prepare for our first jutsu. Ninja center fold!" Shukaku dropped him jaw when he saw Naruto do that.

He was then looking at him from all angles. "The form, the skill! You must have spent a long time perfecting this!" Naruto sweat dropped before he changed back and tried to attack. But Shukaku punched him in the jaw. Naruto straightened from the hit, still standing where he was.

Naruto was moving his jaw under his mask. He reached up and uncovered his mouth. He spat the blood he coughed up from that last blow onto his gloved hands. He made the needed handsigns and pressed them to the sand. "SCARMORY!"

—oo000oo—

Usagi jumped out of the way as Shukaku expanded and exploded. Scarmory let out a cry that shook the forest itself. In one of his talons, he carried both Naruto and Gaara. The sand came back together as Shukaku. "Interesting, Naruto! I have been looking forward to something like this in forever!" Scarmory landed next to Usagi, setting the two jinchuuriki on him.

"Scarmory-sama, Usagi-sama, Shukaku's life is bound to Gaara," Naruto told them. "If we kill him, we kill the bijuu."

The raven looked at the boy. Unconscious, he could put up no resistance. "Not yet, Naruto. I will try to defeat him first. Shukaku," Scarmory said with a nod of respect. Which was returned.

"So the pup is your summoner as well. The Wolves, Hares, and Raven... What fun! Boy, I wish you were my host!"

"Sorry, we're taken by Kyuubi."

Shukaku looked at him for a moment. "Damn..." He raised his arm and it shot at Usagi for Gaara.

As Usagi jumped, Naruto slipped off. "Summoning no jutsu!" Another tower of smoke appeared. "Ookami-sama, we are glad to hunt with you again."

"A demon," the giant wolf said. "A worthy opponent." The three cubs with him began to growl as they circled him.

Shukaku looked at each in turn and growled as well. "Though I hate to admit it, this is not a battle I can win."

"We are not about to let you go," Scarmory told him. "Not so you can just escape at a later date."

Usagi put Gaara on the ground and reached into his shirt. He pulled a bottle from it and took a swig. "Damn..." he said with a cough. He poured a single drop of it into Gaara's mouth. Shukaku opened his eyes as far as they could go before his body fell apart. Gaara on the other hand, reached both hands to his neck and began to gag. He yelled for a moment before his eyes rolled into the back of his head.

"You killed him," Naruto said from atop of Ookami.

"No. That was what is known as gutshaker. A common joke about it is if you survive it, you can survive any poison."

"Why did you give that to him then!?"

Usagi looked at him. "Because to a human, it drains all the chakra they have until they almost die. That is why Shukaku isn't here anymore. Until this boy wakes up, we don't have to worry." They heard a crash as a giant two headed snake moved to destroy the wall. "Naruto, you did what I asked. You may summon the Hare tribe freely now. Ookami, Scarmory, I wouldn't mind scaring the hell out of some humans right now." He started running, moments later, he crashed into the snake, throwing it clear of Konoha.

Naruto jumped up onto Scarmory. "I apologize for summoning you so late in the battle, Ookami-sama."

"It isn't over yet," the wolf Naruto stood on stated.

"And there is still many to fight," another said. They all began charging forward, howling as they did.

Ookami chuckled. "Pups." He followed them.

Scarmory nodded, "Taking on a demon and forcing it to stop, not bad."

"Only because we had all of you there."

"And in time, you will grow strong enough that you will not need us except for the strongest opponents you could imagine." He took to the wind. "...Look," he said, spotting another snake, "dinner."

—oo000oo—

The defenders of Konoha gave a cheer as the advance of the Sound and Sand forces were broken. With both the Wolves of the Tides and Usagi attacking them, most outright retreated.

"Scarmory-sama, before you eat, we have to make sure the old man is still alive!"

"Who is the 'old man'?"

"The Hokage! And he is with a very important friend of a very important friend of mine!"

"Who is this friend of friend?"

"Momichi Zabuza, current Mizukage, the father of my girlfriend."

"Then lets make sure he is still alive." Scarmory banked and faced the stadium. "What have we here?" The giant raven landed on the roof next to a red cube. He tapped it with his beak and was jolted by enough electricity to kill a human. "Pathetic." He flew back up into the air.

The ANBU waiting watched him fly off. "What is he going to do?"

Scarmory flew around the building once, twice, building up speed. He pulled out of it and headed straight for it. He bought both wings to in front of him, sending a blade of wind at the barrier. It strained for all of a moment before exploded. The smoke cleared and the ANBU saw the four lying on the ground, blood coming from their eyes and mouths. One of them groaned a final time before his chest fell and never rose.

"What the hell," Orochimaru said, stopping his summoning. The dark portals that were on the ground dissipated. "Fuck," he shouted when he realized he let it go.

"You have much more to concern yourself right now than a failed jutsu," said a voice that froze every person that had been inside. Zabuza had his eyes as wide as they would go, ready to drop out of his head. Hayate looked ready to faint. Even the Sarutobi looked unnerved.

"There is something bad behind me, isn't there," Orochimaru asked them.

"You bet your scaly ass there is," he heard the demon brat say above and behind him. Turning around, Orochimaru saw him sitting on the head of a giant raven, not wearing his mask, and a grin that split his face.

"...Naruto, if I cannot eat the snake we saw from the air, can I eat this one?"

"Scarmory-sama, I have no problems with that what-so-ever. Bonn appetite. Orochimaru-teme, we you be so kind as to rub yourself with seasoning?" That made Scarmory laugh before he lunged at Orochimaru. The was a spray of blood as the snake jumped back, his right arm missing.

"Damn it!" His mouth stretched open and a pair of hands opened his mouth and pulled another Orochimaru out of the first.

Naruto had the most disgusted look on face. "Now that is just nasty."

"Just means there is more of him to eat now." Scarmory lunged at him again.

Orochimaru jumped back, avoiding the beak followed by the talons this time. He opened his mouth and a snake, followed by a sword, came from it. It flew at Naruto, trying to impale him. Scarmory raised a wing and the sound of metal hitting metal rung over them.

Naruto jumped off Scarmory, flipped over Orochimaru into the hole in the roof created by Scarmory. At the same time, he strung a web under Orochimaru's chin and around one of the exposed beams. Orochimaru was pulled back and hit the beam hard. He tried to pulled the web from his neck but Naruto just had to strong a pull. Orochimaru struggled for another moment until he saw Scarmory about to kill him. He tried to release himself from this skin like before but he couldn't concentrate long enough to while being choked. Orochimaru was desperate now so he looked around and saw his Sound Four were dead or dying. He looked to the side anything... He saw Naruto.

Orochimaru opened his mouth and what looked like a giant white snake came out his mouth. "You may not be Sssasuke, but your power will do!" The snake twisted around the beam and shot at Naruto. He was jumped out of the way only for all the snakes that made up his body to come alive and lunge at him as well. Naruto cut these apart, getting some of the blood in his mouth. To his horror, he became paralyzed. "I will not be denied!" He lunged at Naruto and he could do nothing to stop it.

—oo000oo—

Author's notes. Evil, I know. This was just another thing I have never seen before. And I thought it would go great. To those that might have thought the battle between Shukaku and Naruto sounded familiar, thing of two different anime series. G Gundam, the battle inside the Dark Gundam. And also the battle inside Buu in Dragon Ball Z

I know this isn't my style but I would like to recommend a story. 'Transient Guest are We' by 1sniperwolf. Not many chapters yet but a well written story in my opinion. NarutoXWarcraft crossover where Naruto becomes a death knight. We have all read them but this is good. I thought I would give him a favor since a lot of people read my stories but not many for him. And it also helps that he is also a Marine.

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