I do not own Naruto (i am not that smart).
"Talking" will be done with the normal font.
'Thoughts' will be done by Italic.
I'm sorry again for reposting the story but I had a few big mistakes I needed to fix. Anyway i will make this chapter pretty long to compensate. It is the fight with Gaara after all.
Chapter 3- The Kazekage.
(Flashback one year ago)
"Kazumu. Do the drill one more time for me." Itachi readied several shuriken in his hands.
"Sure thing Itachi." He took a stance, with no eye techniques to help him. Itachi then threw a single shuriken at Kazumu. "Is this a joke Itachi?"
"Shuriken Shadow Clone Justu!" Suddenly that one shuriken turned into thousands of them!
"Crap!" Kazumu panicked a bit but kept his stance and when they reached him, they didn't leave a scratch, either being hit away by his kunai or completely dodged. It was an amazing sight to behold. He finally managed to dodge the last one after doing a massive backflip. "What was that Itachi! Warn me next time!"
"But you didn't need the warning. You avoided all of them." Itachi was actually proud of him.
"I guess I did." Kazumu smiled. "Ok lets do it again!" As they continued to train, Kisame and a wierd two coloured man who looked like a Venus fly-trap were watching the training session.
"So Kisame. How is he doing?" The guy spoke in a really weird way. Sounding completely insane.
"Well he's a lot better than he used to be, but I know you don't actually care Zetsu. So what's your deal?" Kisame was a little interested in why Zetsu would hang around here.
"Well do you have a kunai on you?" Zetsu sounded different this time. His voice was deep and sounded more evil than anything else.
"Got a few. Why do you care about my kunai."
"I just think we should give the kid some tough love and 'train' him." Zetsu was smiling like a fool. "Throw the kunai into his shoulder from here. He won't see it coming."
"Heh. Sounds like fun i guess." Kisame picked out a kunai and began spinning it. Then held it in his hand before throwing it at full speed towards Kazumu. "This is gonna be good." Kazumu was to busy doing the drill to notice the kunai coming at him at all but just before it slashed at his shoulder he span around and smashed it back at Kisame. Missing Kisame by about an inch, Itachi dispelled the Shadow Shuriken Justu and Kazumu just stood there staring at Kisame. "How could he have possibly seen that coming!" Kisame then looked back at Kazumu as he noticed some thing odd about him. His eyes were completely white and there were veins bulging around his eyes.
"Itachi my vision is all messed up! Help me!" Kazumu fell to the ground as his new Dojustu started acting up.
"What the-" Itachi got a good look at his eyes. "The Byakugan?!" Kazumu just laid there panting not understanding a word. He was more scared than anything.
(Flashback End)
"Byakugan!" His eyes turned pale and white as the veins around his eyes bulged. "Good. With this I can see every guard there is in this village." Kazumu had pinpointed the location of all the guards using the Byakugan as he suddenly took aim. "Sorry guys but you're clocking out early!" He the threw an insane amount of kunai at once. Sending them in every direction as one by one all the Hidden Sand's Shinobi guarding the rooftops dropped. "That should just about do it." His eyes returned to the Rinnegan and he started flying towards the centre of the village. "This might be easier than i thought!" He landed on the Kazegage's building and was about to enter when he was stopped. "Uhh, Hi?"
"Who are you." A young man with red hair and green eyes was waiting for him on the building. He was wearing a big gourd on his back and sand was flaring around him. "I won't ask again."
"I assume you're the Kazekage I've heard so much about." Kazumu readied his Rinnegan.
"That would be correct. Now leave." Suddenly the sand charged at Kazumu.
"Ahh!" He wasn't expecting an attack so quickly. "Almighty Push!" He used the Rinnegan to block the sand and then he flew into the sky, the sand still right on his tail. The Kazekage was just standing on the spot coordinating his hands to control the sand. 'This is insane! I can't get too close and i'm too slow to stay away for too long! I need to get out of this and fast.' Kazumu then started flying towards the ground at an incredible speed. "This should do it. Animal Path! Summoning Justu!" He hit his hand on the ground and a black glyph appeared on the ground A massive while cloud of smoke erupted from it as a giant bird came out, It also had the Rinnegan in it's eyes and two black rods sticking out from its neck. "Hey! Get here you stupid bird!" The bird flew right past Kazumu and he jumped on, narrowly avoiding the massive sand wave that was right behind him. "That was too close." He floated there in the sky with the bird as the Kazekage gathered up sand and jumped onto it. Creating a platform to fly around on. "Huh. That's creative." The Kazekage then floated up and was opposite to Kazumu. "So what do I call you. Kazekage?" He definitely wasn't taking this very seriously.
"Gaara." He said very bluntly. His voice had a creepy but caring quality to it.
"Well I'm Kazumu." He performed a mock salute to Gaara. "This is my first mission so I'm sorry if I don't measure up to your expectations." Gaara was really confused. He was a member of the Akatsuki but he was acting so formal about this.
"Why are you here." Gaara decided to find out as much as he can.
"Well you have the One-tail right?" Gaara nodded hesitantly. "Well that's what I came to get. My orders are to take you and seal the Shukaku."
"I've heard enough." Gaara wasn't happy about his answer and lifted sand from the village and had gathered it all behind him.
"Why did I have to fight a sand manipulating shinobi in the desert." Kazumu realised his disadvantage and took off with the bird with the sand right behind him. 'He makes it impossible to fight back yet he is on the offensive so easily. I wonder if i can use any other paths to help.' He turned to face the sand coming behind him.'Of course! That will work!' Kazumu raised his hands together towards the sand. "Preta Path!" A blue energy began to seep out of the sand and surround Kazumu. He absorbed it and the sand dropped to the ground. "That should keep the heat of me for now, and it makes up for the chakra I lost flying in the Deva Path." Kazumu was suddenly over shadowed by something. "Crap! I wasn't paying attention!" A massive sand wave was heading straight for him. Surrounding Kazumu very quickly. 'I'm not going to make it!' He was right, just before he almost escaped the trap, he smashed into some sand and was sucked into the huge sand mass Gaara created. Gaara stared at the sand, making sure it was really over. "Deva Path! Almighty Push!" A huge gravitational force completely expelled the large sand barrier and Kazumu began falling to the ground. 'Damn, it's going to take me a bit of time to recharge from that. Also I lost my summon to that stupid sand.' He continued to fall as the sand was surrounding him again. "No you don't!" Kazumu readied his hands again. "Preta Path!" He absorbed the chakra out of the sand again. The sand dropped soon after "Deva Path!" Kazumu began to float on his own again 'This stupid flying takes up way too much chakra, but i have no choice at this point. I need to end this amd fast!' He flies as fast as he can towards Gaara and raises his hand. "Almighty Push!" Gaara flies off his sand platform and falls towards the ground but sand began to come out of his gourd and quickly recovered him. 'Damn! That sand is quick' He kept flying toward him on the offensive while Gaara was recovering There was now a sand cocoon surrounding Gaara. 'That's it i have to go for it. I'm running out of chakra!' Avoiding the sand flying at him in all directions he raised his hand at the barrier. "Preta Path!" At this distance he was only able to take off one chunk of the sand from the barrier by absorbing the chakra it held but that's all he needed. He flew faster towards the cocoon and put his arm through it. Sand quickly enclosed his hand inside trapping it. "Game over Gaara. Asura Path!" Kazumu's arm inside the shell of sand began so change and morphed into some kind of cannon. Aimed directly at Gaara. His arm was completely mechanical in this Path. "Fire!" The cannon lit up and Gaara's eyes widened.
"No!" Gaara got hit at point blank range by a condensed chakra blast coming from Kazumu's arm. The sand around the barrier was silent and then began to drop.
"That's better I have my arm back." Kazumu didn't realise it but there was lots of sand shinobi on the rooftops preparing an attack to save their Kazekage.
"Launch the attack!" The commander yelled as massive arrows launched at Kazumu in high numbers.
"You can't hit me with those things." He had no trouble avoiding them as he flew towards Gaara. By now his shield had fallen and he was barely staying airborne His skin appeared to be cracked all over his body and he was finding it hard to breathe. Then his body wend limp as the rest of his sand fell off of him and he began to fall. "Ok I better grab him now. I've left Sasori waiting long enough." He used the Deva Path to fly at Gaara as fast as he could and grabbed him in his arms. "Well that's one down for me."Kazumu started flying off to Sasori and all the arrows stopped firing, "Heh, I knew they'd be too afraid to keep firing." Kazumu holding Gaara landed next to Sasori who didn't seem too happy. "How was the wait Sasori?"
"You're late. You could've been faster doing your job!" Something came out from Sasori's cloak and almost hit Kazumu.
"I'm sorry, but i did get him. I didn't think he would be that difficult." Kazumu weaved a hand sign and hit the ground. "Animal Path! Summoning Jutsu!" Just like last time a glyph appeared followed by a lot of white smoke, but this time an orange centipede came out. "I am not carrying him to the hideout. I'm worn out enough." He handed Gaara over and placed him between two of the centipede's legs. "The bird better recover soon, he'd be better suited for this." They began to walk off into the desert. "Did you take care of things here?"
"Of course, because unlike you I know what I'm doing." Sasori's tone started to get a bit uneasy.
"Ouch Sasori. That's a bit far don't you think?"
"It's just the truth. Now shut up!" He glared at Kazumu then he faced forward and began to walk off again.
'I wonder what happens after the beast is captured. Do they just take it out and send Gaara home? Or does the extraction kill him. Hmm, I don't think I could live that down. I feel terrible enough as it is killing all those guards. I don't think I could handle being responsible for someone dying that is so important to so many people. I should just stop thinking about it-'
"Kazumu!" Sasori was yelling at him the whole time.
"Oh, sorry Sasori" He bowed just like before. "What is it?"
"I wouldn't have thought it possible, but we're being followed."
"What?" Kazumu looked behind them.
"Hold it right there." Sure enough they had been followed. By a young shinobi wearing black with purple face paint outlining parts of his face. He also had three scrolls attached to his back. "We meet at last." He looked over to see Gaara being held by the summoned centipede. "Hand over Gaara now!"
"Not likely to happen kid." Sasori looked over at Kazumu.
"Kazumu, you go on ahead." He jumped in front of the enemy, making a large thud on the ground as he landed.
"Sound good to me." He dispelled the centipede "Animal Path! Summoning Justu!" And he re-summoned the bird from before, placing Gaara in its mouth. As he was doing this the Sand ninja took the scrolls of his back and placed them on the ground.
"Are you two ready, for a puppet show?" He said as he readied a hand sign. "Crow! Black Ant! Salamander!" As he said all three names the scrolls let out a white smoke and when it cleared the shinobi had and ensemble of three different puppets connected to threats of chakra coming from his fingers. "I'll say it again. Hand over Gaara now!" Kazumu saw the technique he was using and he knew that Sasori could beat him without breaking a sweat. He then jumped on the bird.
"Ok I'll go on ahead. You've got this covered." He said as he began to fly off.
"Think again!" The Sand ninja sent one of his puppets after Kazumu by moving his arm connected to the chakra threads, but the puppet was stopped by Sasori. He revealed the silver tail-like body part he had hidden under his cloak. It was wrapped around the puppet tightly.
"What!" The boy was stunned to see his puppet be intercepted like that.
"I don't like to wait." Sasori tipped his hear, letting his straw hat fall off his head. "Or keep others waiting." Sasori stared at him intensely. "So I'll make this short and sweet."
"You moved as fast as Crow. I'm impressed."
"The spider needs to be as fast as the fly."
"Hmm. Who is this kid?" Kazumu was a little in the dark with this.
"Well it was said that the Kazekage had siblings, and one could use puppets. So that would be him I'm guessing." Sasori stared at the boy. "Kankuro I believe." He was surprised to be found out so easily. He then disassembled the puppet ensnared by Sasori and reassembled it, getting it free from it's grip. Then he sent it straight for Kazumu again. Only to be stopped by Sasori yet again. "Forget about him. I'm your opponent." Sasori readied his tail-like weapon for another attack. "Kazumu. Quit gawking and get out of here. You're in the way!
"I'll make myself scarce then. Have fun with the puppets." He began to fly off with Gaara again.
"Where are you going!" Kankuro yelled but Sasori attacked him before he even had a chance to attack again.
"Didn't you hear me. I'm you opponent!" They stared each other down as Kazumu flew off with Gaara. Kazumu glanced back at the stand-off.
"How unlucky can that Kankuro kid get." He laughed to himself and continued to head towards the edge of the desert. He arrived and he put Gaara on the ground. He looked at him, thinking about what he was doing. 'Is this right for us to do? Why are we even taking the Tailed Beasts? I just don't understand all of this. Hmm. And Sasori talked about 'his' target on the way here. Who does he mean I wonder. Well there aren't many Jinchuriki that aren't already being pursued so he must be talking about-'
"I'm getting sick of waiting for you Kazumu!" As usual in Kazumu's little world he failed to realize Sasori was there.
"Oh, sorry again Sasori." As usual a bow for an apology. "Did he take much effort?"
"Of course not. A bit of poison and he was dealt with." Sasori began walking. Kazumu put Gaara back in the bird's mouth and followed close behind him.
"Are you going to tell me what you meant by 'your target' Sasori?" Kazumu was determined to find out what he meant now.
"You'll find out soon enough. Now be quiet." Although Kazumu was shut off before he got a chance to question him further. "We're here." They had arrived at a cliff. Further down the cliff was a water current along with a red archway on the side of a rock wall.
"It's about time." They both jumped down with the bird close behind them, Kazumu performed a handsign that made the boulder between the archway raise up and reveal a cave, he then dispelled the bird and carried Gaara over his shoulder, realizing it wouldn't fit in the entrance It closed behind them and they were greeted by a rainbow coloured hologram.
"You're late." The hologram faced the two of them and it turned out to be Pein.
"The Kazekage lived up to his name. He was harder to deal with than expected." Kazumu then dropped Gaara on the ground.
"Hmm. We must get ready at once." Pein then weaved multiple handsigns and place his hand on the ground. A big cloud of smoke appeared behind him and a statue emerged from the ground. It had 9 eyes and its hands were chained together. "Now let every one gather." He performed one more handsign and all the members of the Akatsuki Stood on a different finger of the statue as holograms. Kazumu and Sasori jumped up and joined them. "This will now take 3 days and nights."
"Lucky we had Kazumu to fill the gap after Orochimaru left." Kisame added.
"Lets just start the damn sealing!" Hidan was running his mouth again.
"Agreed." Pein, ignoring his tone agreed with his statement. One by one all the members raised their hands and performed a single handsign as the fingers they were standing on lit up. "Sealing Justu! Nine Phantom Dragons!" One by one dragons spewed out the statues mouth and all came together upon Gaara. As it started to painfully extract the One-tail from the Kazekage.
End for chapter 3.
Whew! That was a fair bit to get through. Although I'm still enjoying every second of it. Again if you have anything that I should change within the story I would love some input. I really want to improve my writing and if you have any ideas for a story that you would like me to write give me a message. if it's a reasonable idea I'll give it a shot. I'll probably aim to have most chapters this long. I want to get the most out of it. Oh and if there is any problems with Kazumu and Gaara's fight, please let me know. I wasn't sure if i could get the fight scene going right with all the Rinnegan abilities.
Anyway thank you for reading and see you next chapter.