Chapter 2 - Kage Level: Huge Tag Team Battle!

"Ugh!" Kurotsuchi stared into the fallen white body in front of her with disgust. A rock dome was surrounding them. It was the method chosen by the Iwa kunoichi to protect herself from the large amount of rocks that had fallen earlier, a result of the appearance of Sasuke's Susanoo. As soon as the rock avalanche stopped, Zetsu's white half appeared from nowhere and tried to suck Kurotsuchi's chakra but she finished him swiftly before he could do so. "What the hell is with this guy? Gross!"

"This doesn't look like Danzo's trap. It must be Akatsuki's..." Ao thought to himself as the white body of Zetsu fell into the snow. The Mist Hunter-nin swiftly cleaned the kama he used to defeat Zetsu and put it back inside of his coat. "I'd better hurry..."

"It's a jutsu that activates chakra suppressed spores to parasitically drain the chakra of any living being." Fu explained after quickly observing the three white bodies layed in front of Danzo, Torune and himself.

"That's why you didn't notice it..." Torune concluded. "So, what about the one that was following us?"

"He's still on our trail...I don't know if he'll fall for the trap or not." Fu admitted.

"Your traps are special. He'll fall for it." Torune assured.

"I don't care if he's alive or dead. Just make sure you bring me his right eye." Danzo ordered.

"Yes, sir." Fu slightly bowed to Danzo, before turning to his Root partner. "Watch over my body, Torune."

"Now what?" Torune asked to Danzo, after stopping the suddenly unconscious Fu from falling to the snow.

"I'll tell you my plans when Fu returns." Danzo simply answered, while Torune lifted Fu's body and put him on his back so he could carry him.

"Naruto?" Kankuro couldn't believe that Naruto was in front of him. Also, he didn't knew if it was a good or a bad thing.

"What are you doing here?" The intrigued Kakashi asked but before any of the Sand Siblings could answer, a trio of samurai passed by them. Following them, came a pair of Kumo shinobi, that stopped and assumed defensive stances as they recognized the trio of Konoha shinobi.

"You guys again!" Shi shouted as he started a set of hand seals, only for Kankuro to stop him by grabbing both his wrists. "What is this?"

"Allies of the Sand, shinobi from the Leaf." Temari announced as she stepped between the Konoha and Kumo shinobi and stuck the tip of her iron fan into the ground, as if making a wall to separate them. "And among them the Jinchuriki of the Nine-Tailed Fox, Naruto Uzumaki. Also...the man who more than likely will assume the position of Sixth Hokage following Danzo's actions in today's summit, Kakashi of the Sharingan."

"Danzo's actions? What's going..." The confused Yamato was about to ask, until he saw a new pair reaching them.

"Is something wrong?" The still running Chojuro asked as he and Akatsuchi came closer to the group.

"No, just keep going. We'll follow you immediately." Kankuro assured and both shinobi nodded, passing by the group without stopping. "Danzo tried to take control of the meeting and got on the run once he was busted."

"So you're going after them, is it?" Kakashi asked and Kankuro nodded, before releasing Shi's hands. "We'll go with you then. It's our responsability as Konoha shinobi to imprison Konoha criminals, right guys?"

"Of course." Yamato nodded with a serious look on his face. Naruto didn't answer though. He had brought his right hand into his chest as he was feeling weird. The fact was that Naruto wasn't sure if he was feeling angry or afraid, but for some odd reason he couldn't take his eyes from the summit room's direction.

"I'm not going."

"What?" Some of them shouted as they heard Naruto refuse Kakashi's indirect order.

"I said I'm not going. I'm having a feeling similar to the one I had when we met Madara earlier." Naruto revealed to the shock of everyone.

"Madara? You met Madara Uchiha?" The incredulous Darui asked.

"Yeah...He came to make some threats and to talk about some weird stuff about becoming complete." Naruto quickly explained and Kakashi sighed as he was glad that Naruto didn't reveal the stuff they heard about Itachi and Sasuke. But still, Kakashi found it weird when no one questioned them about the truth of meeting the Madara Uchiha, who was supposed to be dead long ago.

"You guys don't seem all that surprised about Madara." Kakashi stated, in the hopes he could find something out.

"He appeared at the summit." Kankuro let out. "The Kages are fighting him as we speak."

"They what?" Naruto shouted.

"You shouldn't have told them." Temari whispered.

"It's alright..." Kankuro assured in a whisper as well. "They ordered us to leave. We don't have the time to explain it all but if we had stayed in there, it would be a lot worse."

"Kakashi-sensei!" Naruto turned to his mentor, in hope he would let him go to the summit.

"Yamato...you go with these guys. I'll let you in charge of capturing Danzo." Kakashi told him but Yamato was about to disagree so he continued. "We've seen already that your style can't harm him. I still may be able to do something with my Sharingan."

"I know that but...if Akatsuki is going after the Jinchuriki then..."

"You sounded like Shizune now, Tenzo." Kakashi lightly reprimended him. "We know that Naruto in his regular state can't do anything against him but...we don't know how will it go with his new powers."

"New powers, eh? That guy..." Kankuro couldn't avoid to think that everytime he encountered Naruto, he always had a new trick in his sleeve.

"Eh, fine, sorry about that." Tenzo excused himself as he rubbed the back of his head, before turning to the Kazekage and Raikage's bodyguards. "I don't know about you guys but I'm a good tracker. My skills should be of great help to you."

"Then let's set off." Temari said and all nodded. The bodyguards and Yamato left, but one of the Raikage's bodyguards remained in the same place.

"The Jinchuriki..." Darui started, getting Naruto's attention. "Don't let your Biju fall in their hands. The people from this world are always after power, power and more power. To get it, they step on whoever comes in their way. If he gets you and Bee...Bee's isn't the normal kind of Jinchuriki, people actually like him. If we lose him, we'll lose our will to fight. From what I've seen, you seem to be a lot like him, so where would the will of your friends go if they lost someone like you? It would be the end of them. Don't get yourself get caught..."

"Right..." Naruto nodded and Darui smirked before leaving after his partners. "Kakashi-sensei, let's get Madara and show him our will." Naruto said with his right fist clenched, causing Kakashi to eye smile. As they left towards the summit, two samurais came out of the rubble.

"They're going after Madara? Then, where are the others going?" The masked Suigetsu asked to his partner who was much taller.

"I didn't hear too...maybe after Sasuke. It seems more likely since Madara's reputation would make the Kages after him instead of Sasuke, I think." Jugo explained.

"Then, after Sasuke we go!" Suigetsu shouted as he rushed in the direction of the bodyguards, followed by Jugo.

As Ao was moving through the forest, a puppet that was layed on a tree branch suddenly lifted its head. The puppet had what seemed to be to small shovels as its legs and two kamas as its arms. There was also a small written tag on its forehead. To Ao's shock, a kama suddenly appeared as it was launched towards him. As it was almost stabbing his face, Ao managed to grab hit at last second. Then, he felt a source of chakra behind him, before turning and launching the kama, stabbing the puppet in its torso as it was about to launch a second kama. The puppet crashed against a tree and then, the inscription of the tag disappeared.

"A booby trap...This one's Danzo's." Ao noted but suddenly a feeling of emptiness filled him and all went black. As he made an effort to open his eyes, he saw his own body in front of him. "What the hell? Why am I looking at myself?"

"You felt for it." Ao suddenly spoke, confusing even more the real one. "Ninja Art: Mind Puppet Cursed Transfer ...that's the name of this jutsu."

"Shit! It's a curse that forces a bodyswap on whoever attacks!" Ao realized in what the jutsu consisted, at the same time he realized he was inside the defeated puppet.

"They're doing well, avoiding Mizukage and Tsuchikage's attacks while trying not to hurt them and still trying to attack me from time to time." Madara thought as he watched the fight from another wooden pillar where he was seated in.

"This isn't working! We can't hold back on them anymore!" Ë furiously shouted to the Kazekage.

"Are you really willing to put their lives on the line, Raikage?" Gaara countered. Before Ë could answer, both had to part ways so they could avoid the incoming glob of lava launched by the Mizukage.

"Not being able to perform seals doesn't help in this situation but I think I can still manage it..." The Raikage thought as he rushed once again towards Madara, while being followed by the flying Onoki. "Here I go! Big Bang Shot" Ë shouted as he suddenly turned while his body immediately got enveloped in the Lightning Armor. The Raikage thrusted his right foot forward and the big boot hit Onoki square in the chest, as he couldn't stop his midair movement. While the Tsuchikage was being projected against the wall, Ë had already turned into his primary target, getting close to him astonishingly fast.

"Like you could hit me." Madara mockingly stated as Ë's fist passed through his body. The leader of Akatsuki grabbed Ë's throat but before he could anything, Ë's body started to leak even more Lightning chakra. "Ah, nice trick but not good enough to fool a Sharingan."

"You're solid now!" The Raikage shouted as he appeared behind Madara ready to punch him. Unfortunately, the new blow passed through Madara as well, much to Ë's shock. Madara followed with a kick of his own that sent Ë crashing against the nearest wall. "H-How, damn it?"

"Your Lightning Style: Shadow Clone was a good trap but I warped the electricity away as soon as the clone dispersed. You were close to hit me this time, young Raikage." Madara complimented, finishing with a moking chuckle.

"Tsk, I knew you would recognize it as a clone but I never expected you to take care of its after-effects and become intangible once again before my Body Flicker was done." Ë upsetly admitted. "He really must be Madara Uchiha. His speed and space-time ninjutsu seem like what the histories tell..."

"Summoning Jutsu" Mei intoned as she waved a scroll above her head. A large portion of water appeared in the air and, before it could fall, Mei performed a set of seals and the water was kept floating in the air. The water then started to boil until every single drop of it turned into a cloud of water vapour. That same cloud moved in Gaara's direction until it was right above him. "Boil Style: Acidic Downpour Jutsu"

"I have a bad feeling about this rain...Sand Style: Sky Sand Protective Wall" Gaara raised all the sand around the room to form a large shield above him, so he could defend himself from the heavy rain that was falling on him. The rain drops were swiftly corroding the shield of sand, causing a drop of sweat to slowly fall across Gaara's face who was holding his arms upwards to hold the shield with his chakra. "I knew it, it's acid rain! But for it to corrode this shield...this jutsu it's my second thickest shield, only second to Shukaku's Shield. It looks like I'll have to use the last of my sand to defend..."

"It seems Gaara is running out of sand..." Madara thought as he briefly watched the scene. "I'll get him before she kills...What?" Madara's movement stopped as he noticed large chuncks of wood and stone falling from a part of the ceilling and of the wall where Ë was stuck in. "He's using electrical energy to cause a kind of rockslide?"

"Eh, don't fail me now kid!" Ë thought as he too was watching Gaara's struggle to survive. A growl started to form in the Kazekage's throat before it turned into a large shout as he moved his right hand in a circular motion to create a thinner shield of sand above him. The shield, hard as steel, was enough to protect him from the final rain drops that passed through the hole made in the first one.

"Ah, it seems the ultimate defense isn't as strong as it once was." Madara, who warped a few meters behind Gaara, commented as the second sand shield fell to the floor. "Shukaku was the one responsible for it. Now, for it to work, it depends of Gaara's will and chakra. While still strong, it isn't something that can be used on a constant basis."

"This is the last of my sand..." The tired Gaara whispered as he looked to the sand that fell from his second shield, along with some that remained from the first one after Mei's jutsu took most part of it. Gaara stared into the ceilling and sighed. "It seems I'll have to end up using Shukaku's jutsu..."

"Dual Elemental Art: Acid Trap Hole" Mei slammed her hand into the floor and a large hole opened under Gaara's feet. As he fell into it, boiled water started to raise from below.

"She combined her Earth Style with her Boil Style!" Gaara thought as he kept falling, getting closer to the water in the process.

"Dangerous woman will kill him. Tsk, it's not good for me to exaggerate in warping..." Madara regretfully thought. "I guess I'll have to get a hold of Suna sometime later...Huh?" To Madara's shock, Gaara appeared from the trap hole in a levitating platform of sand. "Ah...he still had the sand that composed his gourd, huh?"

"I only have chakra to use that jutsu so..." Gaara took a bag from inside his jacket and picked a soldier pill that he swallowed so he could recover his chakra. Seeming more lively, Gaara performed a set of seals, took a breath and gathered chakra in his throat. "Wind Style: Drilling Air Bullet" Gaara spat a huge sphere of compressed wind chakra towards the ceilling, destroying it completely.

"Why waste such a jutsu in destroying the ceilling?" The confused Ë asked to himself as he stood on top of the rubble created by his last jutsu, in the attempt to stall Madara. To both Ë and Madara's surprise, Gaara layed a large scroll on the floor and slammed his right palm into it.

"Sand Style Summoning Scroll: Silent Wasteland" The summoning formula written in the scroll spreaded all across the room and started to glow. Then, right in the center, sand started to erupt in large amounts, quickly filling the room's floor. It didn't stop there though. Sand continued to appear in large amounts, completely filling the conference room.

"What's happening up there?" Naruto shouted as sand started to erupt from the opened ceiling of the building where the summit was held. Both him and Kakashi were standing a few meters away from the principal door.

"First that huge explosion that blew off the roof and now this huge amount of sand." Kakashi thought as he used his Sharingan to see the chakra that filled the entire building. "We can't enter by the front door. The entire building is filled with Gaara's sand. We'll have to climb all way up there."

"Fine with me. Let's hurry Kakashi-sensei!" Naruto said with a fierce look in his eyes, before he and Kakashi both started to climb the outside walls.

"This is quite a sight..." Madara couldn't help but to indirectly compliment Gaara for what he did. The ground where the five shinobi were standing was all made of sand. Not only that, all of the building below that was filled with sand. Madara had Mei and Onoki by his side, while Gaara stood by the side of a kneeled Ë.

"Silent Wasteland...Isn't that the name of a desert in the Land of Wind?" Ë asked and small smirk appeared on Gaara's face.

"Since it seems you like a good conversation, I'll explain it to you too Madara." Gaara spoke a bit louder so that his far away opponent could hear him. "I'm sure you knew that I was out of sand already, so I just summoned a part of a desert near Sunagakure."

"You summoned the desert?" Ë incredously asked.

"Hmm, yes, I'm familiar with that practice. If I recall it correctly, it's a space-time barrier that is placed on an area, so that someone can summon it to gain the field advantage. It was a way to place a number of pre-made traps or even to summon entire troops if they stood inside the barrier, back in the day. Plus, in a battle situation like this one, it's highly advantageous since a Summoning Scroll Jutsu only needs a very small portion of chakra to activate the summoning formula. I'm truly impressed you pulled this out, young one." Madara complimented. "Since you've ingested a soldier pill earlier, you still should some fight in you."

"If I hadn't, I wouldn't have pulled this out to start with." Gaara countered, while he slightly raised his right hand. A nice amount of sand started to swirl around him. "I'll show you why I'm known as Gaara of the Desert."

Next Chapter - Gaara's Weapon

-Nawirama13

-NawiramaWikia-

1. Jutsu:
1.1 Boil Style: Acidic Downpour Jutsu - It's simply acidic rain.
1.2 Sand Style Summoning Scroll: Silent Wasteland - A summoning through a scroll which needs less chakra than a regular summoning jutsu, because the only chakra needed is to activate the formula in the scroll. This particular jutsu summons part of the Silent Wasteland, a desert in the Land of Wind. It's considered a Sand Style Summoning because the sand had already been infused with some of Gaara's Sand chakra before being summoned.

2. Characters:
2.1 E Yotsuki - the rockslide caused by the release of electrical energy is the exact same jutsu as Raiga Kurosuki's Lightning Style: Boulder Avalanche
2.2 Mei Terumi - The water she summons into the air is the exact same thing as the Portable Water Field that Shikamaru uses in the anime against Kakuzu.

Concepts:
3.1 Dual Elemental Art - A term that will be used whenever two different elements are combined without it being an advanced nature. Most jutsus that are included under this term are collaboration jutsus.

-Nawirama13