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Turning her head around from the sitting position on the ground she looked at the redhead. He didn't change much since the last time she's seen him. His wardrobe sure did change a little though. Gone were the black overalls, now he wore a reddish-brownish one with longer sleeves and an upright collar. He kept the white cloth and the leather band system that he uses to carry around his gourd containing his sand. Bits of the mesh armour were seen on his wrist and around his ankles.

"Gaara…" She and Lee exclaimed in a slight shock from his appearance.

Not saying anything yet Gaara bypassed them slowly his hands still crossed over his chest

"Gaara…Is that you? Teshi sendan!" Kimimaro interrupted them as he again shot the tips of his finger bones toward them, just for them to be blocked by the wall of sand again.

"You are so hasty." Said Gaara to their opponent.

"You…" Gaara started looking over his shoulder too Lee. "When we fought, you had more speed and spirit in your attacks." At that Nana sweat dropped besides Lee.

'Did he not realise what kind of damage he caused too Lee, of course he wouldn't be in his top shape just yet.'

"Whatever you say…" Lee started to say as he slowly stood up to stand behind Gaara. "I don't have a grudge against you or anything, but because of you… I had to go through some tough times." Lee explained his situation to him.

"Besides you almost caused him losing his position as a Leaf Ninja. The damage you inflicted upon his body was critical and the operation could have costed him his life. But…" She slowly exhaled with a small smile on her face "He's a leaf ninja, he's strong, and he'll be in top shape before we know it." She said smiling up at Lee now while Gaara casted his eyes over her.

"Is that right?" Gaara replied to them as he retracted the sand around them back in to his gourd.

Standing up Nana dusted herself off and put her hand over the wound gently pressing on to it, the wound had to be deeper than she initially thought since the blood was already visible through the makeshift bandage.

"I own Konoha… a big debt." She heard Gaara exclaim as she finally looked up from her wound.

Before she could ask him as to why, Lee took a fighting stance besides them, making both redheads look over at him.

"I'll fight him." Gaara said after a few seconds of looking and noticing Lee's and Nanami's wounds.

"No. I will have you as my backup" Lee protested as he started running towards Kimimaro.

Using this time she turned over to Gaara.

"The guy is called Kimimaro, he is one of the Orochimaru followers that kidnapped Uchiha Sasuke. As for his abilities… He uses bones. It's his Kekkei genkai, he can freely form and control bones. Breaking them would be no use since he can even control their density and just regrow them as he pleases. As for his other skills…He's an expert in taijutsu with impressive speed and agility. He wastes no movements so… be careful." She finished and moved towards Lee that laid face first in Gaara's sand after he used it to stop Lee charging in to the battle.

"You can't do anything in your current condition. I'll fight him." Gaara again explained to Lee as he slowly moved pass them over to Kimimaro.

While Gaara fought with Kimimaro, Nana and Lee sat there looking at the fight with amazement.
For Nanami this would be the first time actually seeing Gaara in a fight, not counting the 2 ninjas that threatened him in the Chuunin exams. She followed his sand movements with her eyes, looking as he cough Kimimaro in his sand coffin technique that made her remember when he used it on her two teammates.

"You got him!" Lee exclaimed making Nana snap back from her memories.

"Not yet." Gaara exclaimed with his arm stretched out as he pressed his palm together in to a fist.

The movement of his hand made the sand contract around their enemy squeezing him under the pressure.

"Watching him reminds me of that guy…Uchiha Sasuke. He had the same eyes."

"Same eyes?" Lee questioned, but did not receive an answer as Kimimaro broke free of Gaaras sand coffin.

His clothes were torn and his skin was covered in black line tattoos as it was missing on some parts of his body, showing bones underneath it.

"Bones…He's also a monster." Gaara said.

"That's a troublesome body." Lee added.

"Indeed." Nana added as she would have felt left out from the conversation and the battle.

She's seen Gaara shifting his body in to a different stance, his legs were now in a wider and firmer stance as he clapped his palms together and started making signs with an impressive speed. Her eyes widened as she saw the large amount of sand resembling a tsunami cover the grass completely changing the terrain they were fighting on.

"Y-you did it." Lee stuttered in amazement.

"Not yet." Gaara replied as he kneeled down placing his palms on to the sand's surface.

Sudden shockwaves resembling a small earthquake were sent throughout the sand making Nana and Lee both catch their footing after stumbling around for a second or two.

'Amazing…' Nana thought to herself as she looked at the back of the sand ninja.

"He sure is persistent…" Gaara exclaimed as his face actually showed some emotion, even though it was frustration.

Nana furrowed her eyebrows as she saw something trying to force itself out of the sand. But could not see the thing weary clearly as Gaara already made his next move circling sand around his target. The sand could not contain the thing any long as it broke free of it dashing towards them. Taking a close look at it she saw the same hairstyle as Kimimaro had only now it was grey coloured, and had the same face, but his body changed, bones were sticking out of his back to which was attached a long tail, even his skin wasn't as sickly pale as before but was now brown coloured and marked with tattoos around his eyes.

"He's got a…tail?" Nana murmured more to herself than anyone else.

Gaara tried to catch Kimimaro with his sand, but his speed increased making him hard to catch now. As the enemy closed to them Gaara summoned a fast sand wall that got bypassed by Kimimaro.

"Watch-.." Nana yelled to Gaara as Kimimaro ran around her hitting her across her torso with the tip of his tail making her loose her balance and plop down to the ground.

"Gaara!" She yelled as she watched Kimimaro successfully land a hit on him.

"Is the absolute defence I've heard so much about that weak? What a letdown." Kimimaro exclaimed as Gaara started to get back up.
Looking back at the redhead she could see bits of his sand armour falling down to the ground, before he fixed it. She let out a breath of relief. He wasn't injured.

"I see. You were wearing the sand." Kimimaro observed.

"Not so-" Nana started to say.

"He's not your only opponent!" She heard Lee say as he appeared behind their enemy.

'Idiot!'

Using her hand to push herself of the ground she dashed as fast as she could grabbing Lee's back and turning him around so she was between him and the enemy. With her other hand she grabbed a kunai and positioned it in a defensive position. Before the tail could hit her a wall of sand appeared between them. The sand however only softened the blow by a little as Nana was sent flying with Lee a few feet back, she tossed him away from her before she herself crashed on to the ground. Landing a few feet before Lee, crashing on to the sand filled grass on her side she turned around spreading her arms over the ground as she tried to catch her breath. Every breath she took was starting to get painful. Lifting her shirt a bit she looked at her ribs, the area where the tail hit her was already bruising. She let out a sigh of defeat as she laid her had back in to the sand beneath her. She kept her eyes on the clouds while listening to the sounds of the battle. She only looked back up at the fight as she felt the ground besides her starting to shake. Looking up she saw Kimimaro being sucked in to the sand by Gaara.

"What an amazing person." She heard Kimimaro say and she could only agree to that as her eyes shifted back to Gaara.

"You will skin 200 meters underground and be held there. With the pressure of the sand glued to your body, you won't be able to move a finger." Gaara explained as his jutsu fully submerged the enemy.

Standing up she winced in pain as she made her way towards Gaara.

"You know…" She said as she winced again but forced herself to smile at him as she touched his shoulder gently. "You really are an amazing person. Good job."

"You did it! This time, it's over, right?" Lee asked from the other side of the field.

"He shouldn't be able to…" Nana started as both she and Gaara heard the same voice.

"Mai… Sawarabi no mai." Bones came rushing out of the ground taking them by surprise.

Letting go of Gaara's shoulder she turned away from him to look at Lee with fear in her eyes.

"Lee! Move!" She yelled as the bones went his way.

The ground under her shifted and she lost her balance. Before she could fall of the sand wrapped itself around her, letting go off her only when she was stable on her feet again.

"T-Thank you." She muttered as she sat down besides Gaara who was kneeling besides her looking over the terrain that now looked like a forest made of bones.

"He was a persistent bastard, but it's over now. He won't appear before us again." Gaara explained as he looked from Nana over to Lee that was sitting on the floating sand besides them.

Gaara suddenly fell a bit forward with his upper body as he reached his limit.

"Let's get off." He told them with a strained voice.

"It's not brainwashing!" Gaaras eyes widened at the voice as Nana fully turned around wide eyed.

There behind them was Kimimaro, still alive half of his body was merged with the bone that was sticking out from the ground.

'How? He must have travelled up the bones'Nana thought to herself and moved back a bit her hand reaching out for Gaara as she noticed the weapon Kimimaro was holding, ready to strike.

"Orochimaru-sama is the only one who understands me!" He said as he started pulling his arm behind him for a greater impact. Gaara turned around the shock visible on his normally calm and controlled face.

"How could you guys possibly know?!" He yelled as he went in for the attack.

Nana stretched out her hand towards Gaara. Her fingers grabbing the soft fabric of his upright collar and pulled him back with her a bit. They both knew that he will land that attack no matter how far Nana tried to pull them back. Before the impact came Nana wrapped her arms around Gaara's neck and positioned her body between him and the attack.

"Returning the favour." She said to him smiling and closing her eyes in preparation to the attack tightening her hands around Gaara a bit more.

She felt the attack approaching but before it could reach her it stopped. Her red hair swayed a bit from the wind as she opened her eyes.

"He's dead." Lee said and Nana released her hold on Gaara and moving back to her previous position like nothing happened.

Gaara lowered them back to the ground at the edge of the forest away from the bones. As they touched the ground Nana despite her injuries rushed over to Lee and helped him sit down. Lee leaned his head back against the tree, while Nana went to sit beside him.

"That was close" She said while letting out a shallow sigh trying not to cause any more pain to her ribcage.

"I completely lost." Gaara said hanging his head a bit lower.

"That's not true. My sensei taught me, that luck is part of your skill." Lee said.

"That meddling fool?" Gaara asked not looking away from a spot on the ground.

At that Lee became defensive over his sensei and he and Gaara started talking. Nana used this time to actually bandage her injuries with real bandages that were in her back pocket. She still listened to them conversing, not saying anything as she was occupied bandaging the last of the wounds on her arm.

"By the way Nanami-chan." She heard Lee call her so she looked up and stopped poking at her ribs.

"Hm?" She replied.

"Why did you come after me?" He questioned her now fully turning towards where she sat.

"Oh, right!" She said as she dug her hand in to her back pocket taking out the flask containing Lee's medicine. "It's my first mission as a Chuunin- ranked ninja, but I couldn't carry it out perfectly as I wanted to." She said looking down as she clutched the flask a bit tighter.

"Huh? What mission?" Lee asked but before she could answer his arms shot up above his head.

"Ahhh! Congratulations on Chuunin rank." He said quickly before letting her continue.

"Thanks." She smiled up at him as she handed the flask over to him.

"My mission was to not engage in to any fights because of my handicap at the present time. The other part was successful. Retrieve you back safely." She said smiling.

"Handicap?" Gaara questioned.

"Yeah. I was unconscious since my fight with Hibachi at the chuunin exam. I woke up a day ago just to find out that I won't be able to use my chakra for two years. After that I should be healed with no more chakra strains." She explained to Gaara.
She reached again in to her back pocket and pulled out three small wrapped up chi chi dangos.

"Here eat it. Sweet stuff helps you replenish your energy." She explained as she put the small candy in to their arms.

"Oh, by the way Lee. What happened to the previous Hokage?" She questioned. She knew Lady Tsunade was the new 5th Hokage as she heard the medical staff speaking to hear addressing her in that manner.

"Oh you mean you don't know?" Lee exclaimed as he started to explain everything that happened after she passed out. He told her about Sand's betrayal, Orochimaru and the Sound Five, and of course about the battle between Naruto and Gaara, which he did not know a lot about.

When Nana heard that Gaara attacked her brother she almost lost it. Turning around to face Gaara she stretched out her hand towards him her eyes piercing his, making him move back a bit. His chakra was not yet restored enough for him to use his sand shield. He was positive enough that he could defend himself against Nanami even without one, since she was injured.

She however did not attack him, the only thing she did was take back the candy she gave him and turned around pouting and crossing her arms over her chest.

"I don't share my dango with traitors." She exclaimed as Gaara's face was for the second time today covered in shock.