There was a giant sand raccoon-dog towering over him, and an orange blur was streaking about on its head, desperately trying to escape being trapped by the sand flying around. Sasuke felt his eye twitch as Naruto screamed something at the sleeping redhead. 'Why do I even bother?' He thought with a sigh. 'A few minutes ago I was the main fighter...'

Naruto struggled inside the sand cocoon, trying to suck in some much needed air. He looked over to Gaara, who was grinning madly at him, completely ignoring Sasuke, who was trying to hit him.

"T-Teme! Hit hi-im!" Naruto choked out, just as the sand covered his head. Naruto gasped and forced his arms to move up into a hand seal. "SHADOW CLONE JUTSU!" He shouted and the cocoon exploded outwards as a bunch of clones leaped out. One of his clones grabbed onto him and dragged him back, out of the sand's reach.

"Naruto! Are you alright?" Sakura asked, rushing to him. Naruto smiled at her.

"Yeah Sakura-chan, I'm alright!" His clone dispelled itself and Naruto swayed a bit uneasily. Sakura checked him over anways.

"You're arm!" She gasped, and Naruto shrugged.

"It's fine, really!" Sakura reached into her pouch for some bandages to wrap his arm up in. Naruto huffed, and returned his attention to Sasuke and Gaara. He blinked once he noticed that one of the fighters was missing, and turned to face his teammate. "Um, Sakura-chan? Where'd Gaara go?" Sakura turned her head to see a confused Sasuke with a Chidori slowly sputtering out, and furrowed her brow.

"I dunno." She turned back to him, and her eyes widened. "Look out Naruto!" She shouted, pushing him out of the way of a wave of sand. Naruto landed on the ground with a grunt, and quickly stood back up, only to see Sakura pinned to a tree a few metres away.

"Sakura-chan!" He ran to her and attempted to pull the sand off of her. As he did so, he heard Sasuke shout out in pain. He twisted around, just in time to catch the Uchiha that was flying towards him. "Sasuke! What happened!" Sasuke gave him a flat stare as Naruto carefully dropped him. Sasuke muttered something under his breath, and tried to stand back up.

"Well Uzumaki Naruto! Fight me!" Gaara growled across the clearing. Naruto's head snapped up, and he glared.

"Hey! You can't do that to my friends!"

"Friends!? Friends are useless!" Naruto scowled at the redhead and stepped around the downed Sasuke.

"No they're not!" Naruto took a deep breath before continuing. "And I'll show you why!" His hands slammed together and he called forth all of his chakra. When his eyes closed, heard the Kyuubi growl inside his head, and his blue chakra tinted red. He waited a few more seconds before opening his eyes, and he flashed forward.

"You! You're-" Gaara started, cut off by his sand catching Naruto's punch. Gaara's sand kept attempting to block all of Naruto's kicks and punches.

"TAKE THIS! SHADOW CLONE JUTSU!" A large amount of Narutos appeared all around. "You're going down!" All of the Naruto reached to their shuriken packs. "Straight from my super secret ninja handbook! Everywhere Shuriken!" In barely a second, hundreds of shuriken were flung at Gaara. Gaara raised his sand in an effort to dodge all of them.

"Come out and fight me!" Gaara shouted. The real Naruto (although it was very debatable because every clone thought they were the real one) sneaked closer to Gaara, and shoved a kunai with an explosive note wrapped around it into the underpart of his sand tail. He smirked, and leaped back.

"Hah! Got you!" Naruto laughed, as the note caught fire. After a large explosion, Naruto grinned triumphantly to himself. "There's no way he-" The smoke cleared before Naruto could finish his sentence, revealing a mostly intact Gaara. A mostly intact Gaara with an even more deranged look on his face. "OH COME ON! How in the hell did you block an explosion!?" Gaara leveled him with a glare and made a hand seal.

"Playing Possum Jutsu!"