Naruto had no idea how things had turned bad so quickly. One minute he was leading Konoha to victory after victory, and now the Akatsuki had them pushed all the way back to the city and completely surrounded. They had effectively cut off any way out of the village, and cut off their supply lines.
Konoha was starving, and her men were dying by the hundreds.
Naruto was being driven back by Kisame, the big shark man was leading hundreds of Akatsuki men.
Naruto had been injured pretty seriously in the last raid on Konoha, so this fight wasn't exactly going in his favor.
A punch to the gut latter and Naruto, Konohas Hokage, found himself on his knees before the blue, shark man.
"I never thought it would be this easy." Kisame sneered. He went for one last blow and swung with both hands.
His eyes went wide as a dome of hardened sand formed over Naruto.
"What the fuck?" He cried out
That's when the Sand ninjas made everyone else aware of their presence. Kisame looked up into pale gold eyes. Emotionless and dead. Kisame turned around and tried his best to run but Gaara was faster.
"How?" Kisame asked. "Why would you do this to yourself all over again?" he asked.
"As long as I am alive, no one else should have to be subjected to dealing with Shukaku, when I die someone else will have to protect him from the likes of you."
Kisame hung his head. The Akatsuki was fucked. Royally.
Sand shot out of Gaara's gourd and encased Kisame. The blue flesh of his face standing out drastically against Gaaras pale gold sand.
"Now, Die." Gaara said turning his back to the blob as all the bones in Kisame's body broke at the same time. He stepped off the dome surrounding Naruto and all the sand returned to his gourd.
"Wha..." Naruto started to say as he looked up at the red-head with ocean green eyes.
"Gaara?" Naruto said jumping to his feet before the Kazekage of the Sand.
"I realized that we as the people of the sand could not sit this fight out Naruto. We had to help. I came here with a small ANBU force. My best fighters. And you and I will finish this war." Gaara said in a way Naruto never heard the redhead speak before. It was very confident. He stuck his hand out and Naruto grabbed it as the bigger man pulled him to his feet.
"Well I guess that makes us even." Naruto said.
"Not even close, It will take a very long time before I can fully pay back what you have done for me." Gaara said.
The two walked into a makeshift tent Naruto was using as his field office. The two walked in and everyone stopped what they were doing to watch Gaara, the Kazekage of the sand, who they had no clue was even in the area, walk in with their injured Hokage, who using Gaara as a crutch.
All at once everyone in the room was surrounding them seeing what they could do for Naruto.
"We need to go over the plan of attack. We don't have time to coddle my injuries." Naruto said. He wanted this war to be over, and with Gaara here there wasn't much chance the Akatsuki had left.
Gaara sat Naruto down in his chair and went to leave the tent.
"Where do you think you are going?" Naruto asked.
"I plan on taking care of whatever forces the Akatsuki left here after I dispatched Kisame." Gaara said and just like that he was gone.
"This fucking guy..." Naruto muttered. Gaara had a habit of taking things a bit too far. Taking risks he shouldn't even if it was for the greater good.
Gaara found himself standing before five of his own ANBU operatives. He looked around at the Akatsuki men who had killed them, there was maybe twenty of them.
Pale gold chakra poured out of the red-head and when he looked back up at the cloaked men they looked with horror at pale gold eyes.
"It seems the brat is okay with letting me play with you." Shukaku crackled.
None of those men died quickly, or cleanly. Shukaku took his time, which was exactly what Gaara wanted.