Chapter 13

Well the summon contracts that Naruto has signed have now been decided, they are the following: Fox, Wolf, Phoenix, Dragon, Hydra, and Toad. The reason I'm keeping the Toad summoning contract is… Sage Mode, because Toad Sage Naruto is epic why would you want to get rid of that? LoL XD and a side note on the Hydras, their tails don't represent the power level, instead the number of heads does. And the voting on Shukaku's gender was kind of one sided, Shukaku will be female and her name will be Shizuka.

Disclaimers: I don't own the anime/manga Naruto in any way, shape, or form.

There was an explosion of smoke as Naruto used the Summoning jutsu and when the smoke cleared there was a large toad with a kind of two pronged pitchfork/club thing with a shield that looked like a sake cup strapped on its back. It had dark red skin with some black on it and a slightly aloof expression. The enormous toad looked around and saw Naruto and nodded towards him, 'Greetings Naruto, I must ungracefully ask why you summoned me?' Naruto sweat dropped at Gamaken's attitude, he always said he was ungraceful, which was basically his way of saying he thought he was not a very good fighter, even though he could give Gamashiro (A/N: Gamashiro is the white and blue toad with the two katana that Shima summoned with Gamaken, Gamabunta, Fukasaku, and Sage Mode Naruto in the fight against Pein) a run for his money in a fight. 'Hey Gamaken, I summoned you because I need you to help me beat that freak right there along with that human puppet of his.' Naruto pointed at Sasori with the Human puppet of the Third Kazekage and Gamaken nodded, 'As ungraceful as I am, I will do my best.' Gamaken pulled the shield off his back and held it on his left arm while holding his forked weapon in his right and Sasori looked surprised at the summon and narrowed his eyes, 'This fight will not be easy, that boy must be the Jinchuuriki but I thought Itachi said that he wasn't a very strong fighter, either Itachi lied or this boy was holding back greatly when they last encountered each other. He did say that Naruto used his comrades distracting him for Naruto to use a technique to get his impersonation clone.'

Gamaken jumped forward and swung his club, only for it to hit a barrier of black-grey sand and Gamaken jumped back, 'I was most ungraceful to not realize who that human puppet is, it is the Sandaime Kazekage, wielder of the Iron Sand.' Naruto was surprised by this and looked at the puppet with interest, 'Iron Sand manipulation huh? So it's an Earth style jutsu.' Naruto made a few hand signs and lightning covered his hands, 'Gamaken, I'm gonna give you a slight advantage, put your weapon near me.' Gamaken did this and Naruto touched the weapon's tip and imbued it with Lightning chakra. Gamaken had to smile at the brilliant idea of Naruto's and went back to attacking, but instead of being blocked by the sand, Gamaken's weapon went straight through the barrier and nearly hit Sasori and hit puppet. Gamaken jumped up, landing on the ceiling and pushed off at an incredible speed, and slammed his weapon onto the Kazekage puppet, smashing it to pieces.

Meanwhile, Kakashi saw the fight as well as Chiyo and Sasuke. Chiyo was beyond surprised at seeing the Sandaime Kazekage as a human puppet and realized that he had started the Third Great Shinobi War. She was upset at this and so was Kakashi, but Sasuke was upset for an entirely different reason. He saw Naruto summon Gamaken and was shocked, but was angered when he saw Naruto use a lightning jutsu that he couldn't copy because he was too far away and the fact that he had more than one summoning contract, something that shouldn't be possible. Sasuke was seething as he charged past Deidara and at Sasori, not wanting to be seen as weaker than Naruto. Sasuke did three hand signs and charged a Chidori and thrust the lightning covered hand at Sasori only for Sasori to leap out of the way and reach into his Akatsuki cloak and pull out a small scroll that he opened. Suddenly there were a hundred poofs and above Sasori were one hundred puppets in red cloaks, each carrying a various weapon. Sasori looked at Chiyo and smirked, 'I am sure you have those ten puppets, the ones you used to take down an entire village, but you should know, with these… I took down an entire country! Now behold, Red Secret Technique - Performance of the Hundred Puppets!'

Chiyo then looked at Kakashi and nodded at him and Kakashi nodded back, knowing she wanted to fight Sasori and shouted, 'Sasuke! Get over here, you and I are gonna fight this guy, Naruto and Chiyo will take on Sasori!' Deidara was annoyed and he shouted at Kakashi, 'Hey "this guy" has a name you know, it's Deidara.' Kakashi looked at Deidara, 'I know, I recognized your Iwa headband and hair style, you were a part of the Hidden Stone Village's Demolition Corp.' Deidara was surprised he knew so much about him and stuck his hands into the pouches on his hips and saw Sasuke coming towards him. He jumped out of the way and he looked at his hands. Sasuke and Kakashi saw his hands and were surprised. In the palm of both hands was a mouth, which spit out clay and smirked. Deidara smirked as well and closed his hands and started molding the clay with a single hand. When he was done he opened his hands and there were two clay spiders. He threw them and made a single hand sign which caused them to poof in smoke and reappear as the size of a tiger and them moving towards Sasuke and Kakashi. They dodged out of the way but the spiders kept chasing them. When they got near Deidara made a half Ram hand sign and smirked, 'Katsu!' The spiders suddenly exploded and sent Kakashi and Sasuke flying forward where they crashed into a wall but managed to stand up as Deidara laughed.

Naruto and Gamaken were fighting Sasori with Chiyo who used her White Secret Technique - Ten Puppet Collection of Chikamatsu. Sasori's puppets were now destroyed and he jumped back and landed beside Deidara who was talking to a worn out Kakashi and Sasuke, 'You people underestimate my art…' Sasori scoffed, 'You're work? Art? Don't be ridiculous, that isn't art, Art is the preservation of beauty that lasts for all eternity.' Deidara had a tick mark on his head and glared at Sasori, 'No, art is the single instant of beauty that lasts for a brief second before vanishing completely, in other words, Art is an explosion!' The two Akatsuki members argued making everyone sweat drop, but also using the time to recover their strength. Naruto was getting annoyed and made a shadow clone and the clone ran towards the two Akatsuki members as the real Naruto made two Rasengan, one in each hand. Sasuke was watching Naruto but couldn't copy the jutsu, much to his frustration. Naruto ran forward with the two Rasengan and leapt into the air as the clone threw a large smoke bomb making Deidara and Sasori look around for what was to come. They weren't expecting Naruto to attack them from the front, but when Sasori stabbed him with what looked like a whip with a needle tip covered in poison that came from the torso of his cloak, the Naruto turned out to be a Shadow Clone. They looked around when they heard Naruto shout, 'Rasenrangan!' Naruto dropped and hit Sasori with two Rasengan and destroyed his body but he saw a piece of him, where a heart on a human would be, fly out and land in the hollow part of a heart portion of random puppet and he stood up.

Naruto looked annoyed and Gamaken jumped and landed behind Sasori and swung his club/fork weapon and sent Sasori flying and Naruto smirked as he saw the container fly out of the puppet again and he held out his hand, 'Banshou Tenin.' The container, which almost landed in another puppet flew and landed in Naruto's arms as it struggled to get free and then Naruto heard a sound. It was a beating sound, almost like a heart and he looked at the container and his eyes widened ad he walked to a puppet that was just a head and torso, no arms, no legs, and most importantly, no weapons. He slid the heart in and held the puppet making sure it didn't try anything as Sasori took it over. Sasori saw he took over a useless puppet and he tried to get out but saw Naruto was holding him in and he sighed, but his eyes widened as he heard the sound of something being summoned and he turned but before he knew what happened, Naruto pierced the container with his Katana. Sasori looked at the blade and heard Naruto speak loudly so Kakashi, Chiyo, and Sasuke could hear him, 'I figured out how you turned yourself into a living puppet. That container holds the only human part of you, the part you don't want but need, your own heart!' Everyone was surprised to hear that and Sasori chuckled, 'Very clever coy. So just for beating me, I'll give you this pointless piece of information. I am supposed to meet with a spy in ten days. This spy relays information to me about Orochimaru. I am supposed to meet him at the Tenchi Bridge at midday. Unfortunately it seems I won't be able to make the rendezvous which is unfortunate since I hate to keep others waiting just as much as I hate to be kept waiting.'

Sasori fell silent and Naruto noticed that he was dead and he sighed. He pulled his sword out and Sasori's heart and slid it into the sheath that appeared with his Katana. His Katana was a simple one, with a hurricane shaped guard and its grip was orange with black, smoothened, shark skin underneath. The sheath was a dark orange and hand a dragon etched into it. Sasuke was looking at the sword, 'With that, I'm sure I could kill Itachi!' Before he could say anything he saw in the mouth of the dragon was a swirl much like the ones on the Konoha Jonin jackets and other clothes and Naruto saw him looking at the swirl and said, 'This is the symbol of my clan, the Uzumaki clan, which ruled in the Village Hidden in the Whirlpools which was destroyed years ago.' Sasuke smirked, 'I guess the Uzumaki were pretty weak then.' Naruto rolled his eyes, 'Idiot, if they were weak they why did the Hidden Mist and Hidden Cloud villages fear them so much?' Sasuke stopped and looked shocked, 'What do you mean dobe? Answer me!' Naruto sighed, 'It's because they were masters of Fuinjutsu, and they were known for their incredibly long life, enormous chakra levels, and a secret ability that even I don't know much about.' Sasuke was shocked that Naruto was from such a clan but narrowed his eyes, 'Well I doubt they would be able to compete with the Uchiha clan, we're true elites of the Shinobi world.' Naruto shook his head, sighing once again and walked towards Deidara who was confused about what was going on and had decided to slip away.

He would've gotten away had Naruto not whispered, 'Deva Realm' and held out his hand at Deidara and moved his hand like he was swatting a fly, causing Deidara to fly towards the wall and he pulled some clay out and used it to make a soft clay barrier for him to safely crash into. He landed and started chewing on the clay with the mouths on his hands which spit out clay birds and he made them become larger and fly at the Konoha Shinobi and he used them to distract them as he jumped onto the back of one and flew off. They followed him except Gamaken, who was dispelled, and Sasuke and Chiyo, who were getting Gaara to safety. Kakashi told Naruto of a plan he came up with and Naruto nodded as he watched Kakashi concentrate. After a minute or two Kakashi opened his eyes and his Sharingan had twisted into a new shape and he strained his eye as he whispered, 'Kamui!' Suddenly a rift in space appeared and Deidara tried to escape it but lost his arm to the technique as it sucked it up. Deidara's clay bird was injured in Kakashi's technique and crashed in the nearby forest. Naruto jumped out and using his katana, cut Deidara's other arm off. Deidara was then surrounded by team 9 and Kakashi and Naruto. He ran towards his bird and began ripping pieces off with his teeth and started chewing and swallowing the clay and Neji activated his Byakugan and saw chakra being compressed in the center of Deidara's body.

He knew they would have to run to survive and they ran, except for Naruto and Kakashi as Deidara bloated up and exploded. Kakashi used Kamui again but some of the blast was escaping so Naruto used his gravity manipulation to keep the rest of the explosion in the field of Kamui. Naruto and Kakashi fell down, exhausted and Naruto stood up shaking his head as he helped Kakashi stand up. Gai ran up with Lee and they congratulated the two and started shouting on about the Flames of Youth again and Gai and Lee hugged each other as everyone turned away before the dreaded Sunset over the Sea Genjutsu appeared. They managed to separate the two and they headed back to meet up with Chiyo, Sasuke, and Gaara. When they caught up Gaara was regaining consciousness and looked around, 'W-what happened?' He then saw Naruto and was surprised, 'Naruto? What are you doing here and what's with that cloak?' Naruto chuckled, 'Don't worry about me, how are you feeling, Gaara?' Gaara suddenly yawned and was surprised by something, 'I hear a woman's voice, what is that?' Naruto looked confused and made a few hand signs before touching two fingers to his and Gaara's foreheads and said, 'Ninja Art: Mindscape Linking Jutsu.'

In Gaara's Mindscape…

Gaara looked around, expecting to see the giant Sand Spirit in its tailed beast form. Instead he saw a room behind the usual caged doors and saw silhouette of someone lying in a bed muttering in their sleep. He felt a hand on his shoulder and saw Naruto and behind Naruto a similar caged door only with a woman with red hair, fox ears, and nine tails behind her staring in awe at Naruto. She smiled and waved at Gaara and went back to staring at Naruto who sighed, 'She's kind of a fan girl.' Gaara sweat dropped a bit and Naruto walked up to Gaara's seal and made slight adjustments to it. Suddenly and Naruto walked up to Gaara's seal and made slight adjustments to it. Suddenly the figure in the room stirred and woke up. Suddenly they heard Kyuubi shout out, 'Hey, Shizuka! It's great to see you again!' Said woman looked around and walked into view and they were surprised at her appearance. She looked human, with long blue hair that reached her thighs, her eyes had heavy makeup around them, making them look similar to Gaara's. She had gold eyes, but they weren't the star shapes as before but just regular slit-shaped pupils. Her skin was tanned a light brown, and she had what looked like dark blue tribal tattoos all over what could be seen of her body. She wore a sandy brown battle kimono with black edges and gold kanji for "Tanuki" on the back that showed off her curves well but was also very modest. She had a golden sash across her waist and two small gourds on her waist.

She saw Gaara and she just fell to her knees, sobbing, 'Please, please don't be angry at me. Please forgive me, I didn't mean to torment you I just couldn't control myself, the sealing done by your father drove me to madness, but I never wanted to hurt you, can you ever forgive me?' Shizuka was now crying openly and Gaara looked at Naruto who smiled and nodded. Gaara walked up and placed a hand on Shizuka's shoulder and smiled gently at her when she looked up, 'If you did not mean to torment me all my life because of my father's idiocy at sealing then I forgive you Shizuka.' Shizuka looked amazed that he forgave her and she smiled and closed her eyes, 'Thank you Gaara, I'm so glad I was forgiven.' Gaara looked at Naruto who looked deep in thought and said, 'Maybe my disrupting the extraction process knocked some sense back into her.' Gaara nodded and Naruto walked up and smiled, 'Glad to see everyone happy, and I'm sure this mean's Gaara can sleep now?' Shizuka nods and looks up at Naruto and smiles with a few tears in her eyes still, 'Thank you for making me stop tormenting him, I'm forever grateful.' Shizuka bowed and Naruto felt embarrassed as he rubbed the back of his head and chuckled, 'Don't worry about it, I was happy to help. Now let's get out and back into the real world, you two can still contact each other by telepathic connection.' Gaara nodded and he and Naruto faded from Gaara's seal.

Outside Gaara's seal…

Gaara and Naruto opened their eyes and they saw that most of the Sand Village shinobi had arrived and they looked grateful that Gaara was alive. Gaara looked around and suddenly saw two girls start going on about how awesome Gaara is and how happy they were that he was alright, a few people sweat dropped at their fangirl antics but they agreed on the second part. Ever since they saw Gaara defend the Hidden Sand from Deidara's C3 bomb, even some of the most stubborn saw that he truly wanted to be accepted and was willing to put his life on the line to protect the village. Though not everyone was convinced, a great number of people were. The two girls rushed up to Gaara and hugged him, much to his surprise. The girls noticed each other and glared for a second before thinking and nodding at each other. Then they resumed hugging Gaara as Temari walked up, 'Matsuri, Mikoshi, will you two let Gaara rest?' The two girls looked at Temari with pouts and let him go, making everyone but Sasuke sweat drop again as they walked back to the crowd. Naruto helped Gaara up and everyone left for the Hidden Sand Village. As they ran Sasuke was confused as to why Naruto was so liked while most of the shinobi in Konoha, aside from those who are his annoying fan girls, looked down in him. He decided to find out everything about Naruto and learn what makes him so powerful.

Several Hours later outside of the Village Hidden in the Sand…

The Sand and Leaf shinobi landed outside the entrance way to the Sand village and saw almost all of the civilians of the village waiting with Kankuro in front of them all being supported by Sakura. Gaara walked up and saw his older brother looking rather weak, 'Kankuro, are you alright?' the older brother chuckled and waved his hand a bit, 'Don't worry about me, are you ok Gaara?' Gaara smiled and nodded, 'yes, and the Akatsuki did not get the 1-tails.' Kankuro looked nervous when Gaara suddenly yawned and so did the civilians until Naruto spoke up, 'You don't need to worry about the 1-tail. Due to the seal being absolutely sloppy, her mind was altered and she was sent into a rage. When I freed Gaara from the sealing her mind returned to normal, and you people messed up her name. Her name isn't Shukaku, it is Shizuka.' Everyone looked confused until Gaara nodded, 'He speaks the truth, my father was a horrible at Fuinjutsu, so when Shukaku was sealed, she lost her senses and went into a blood thirsty rage. Now she has promised me that I can sleep tonight without threat of her overwhelming me.' Everyone looked at Gaara and nodded and felt relieved that everything was going to be ok. Then Gaara said something unexpected, 'But now I lose my edge of the other Kages since I can't stay up all night finishing my paperwork now. Now it'll be more of a pain then a psychotic Shizuka.' Everyone, excluding Sasuke who was still thinking, laughed and sweat dropped. In the Seal Shizuka sweat dropped and pouted, 'Don't be mean, I said I was sorry.'

This made Gaara chuckle inwardly. Naruto walked beside Gaara and Gaara stood in front of the crowd, with the shinobi joining the civilians and Naruto smiled, 'Glad you're happy here Gaara. I'll be sure to ask Granny Tsunade if I can come visit some time.' Gaara smiled and nodded as he and Naruto stood for a sec and Gaara held out his hand. Naruto saw this and smirked. He took off his sunglasses, surprising Gaara and Kankuro, who was standing beside Gaara. They looked at Temari who promised she would explain in private. Naruto took Gaara's hand and some sand rose and formed a woman's hand which placed itself on their hands and Naruto laughed, 'Shizuka, I'll see ya later too, take care of Gaara, alright?' The sand formed into words that spelled Of course, I won't let anyone hurt Gaara nor anyone he considers precious. Naruto smirked as did Gaara and Naruto, along with the Leaf shinobi, took off, heading towards their home as Gaara and his people went into their home.

Naruto and the group had been traveling for a few hours, when suddenly Naruto felt a presence nearby. Said presence suddenly appeared before them in a flash similar to lightning and they heard a voice, 'Yo, you're Naruto right?' Everyone had glares of light in their eyes from the flash the stranger gave off when he arrived and they all squinted to try and see said stranger. The stranger seemed to chuckle in a way that made them realize he was embarrassed, 'Oh, sorry about that, I guess I should've held back on charging lightning chakra in my body and had more wind instead. That was my mistake there, sorry.' Naruto's eyes weren't as badly affected due to his sunglasses so his eyes recovered first and saw who was in front of them.

End of Chapter 13

Hehe, a new comer, who is it, why are they there? Wait for the next chapter to find out :D

Btw, this new person is an OC, but its more Japanese based then Darian and Lexi. And please no flames, I'll just force them back at you and you'll only burn yourselves. :P .-.