Chapter 5: The others

Suna

Gaara, a red haired little girl no older than five, was laid down on a rooftop right after she saw that faint light off in the distance. Whatever happened out there had some sort of effect on her as she fell unconscious. To anyone else in the village, especially the kunoichi there, it would be a time of panic. In fact, when another assassin tried her luck at killing the girl as ordered, she visibly panicked and immediately rushed over to hope the girl was dead. From what she was told, if the little girl fell asleep, then the demon would awaken and destroy the village with ease.

The woman went over and turned the girl around, stunned at the steady breathing the little red head was doing. Removing her face mask to reveal a lightly tanned skinned woman with red marks on the right side of her face while the left was completely covered by a flap of fabric from the top of her head. The woman went wide eyed at the sight of the little girl asleep when she clearly wasn't supposed to be able to.

"I-I must inform the Kazekage." The woman frantically said as she left the area, continuously looking back over her shoulder out of fear the girl would rise up and kill her too.

Gaara's mindscape

While the woman was leaving, Gaara opened her eyes to find herself in a desert of sorts. Though, this desert was unlike the sands of Suna or any desert she had ever seen. The sands were a pure white and flat, the sky was completely clear and a bright blue that seemed to shine a brightness with no heat. Gaara was in awe at what she was seeing and looked around before noticing a sand dune not too far off. Steeling her nerves, she walked over to the dune, hoping to get a much better view of her surrounding area. When she was close to it, she realized this dune began to move and then seemed to sink into itself. When that happened, Gaara could see that there was something forming from the white sands. At first it looked like narrow tree, but upon a closer inspection, it was actually a woman.

The sand finished shaping her and she began to take form. She was the about average height and size all around, pale skin that matched the sand she was formed from, and a few purple markings over her breast and stomach. Her hair formed and was a smooth, sandy brown that went to her neck, but upon closer inspection was actually made out of sand. Clever. She opened her eyes and Gaara could see that they were a yellow color that held a bit of menace to them, or maybe that was mischief, she couldn't really tell.

"So," the woman started with a grin, showing off her fanged teeth. "I guess it's finally time I met you officially brat."

"Um." Gaara started, pointing at the mysterious woman.

"What?" She asked with a bit of annoyance in her tone.

"You know you're naked, right?" Gaara spoke in an innocent tone.

The woman looked down to herself and sure enough, she was nude, all out on display to the young girl. She blushed a bit as she tried covering herself with her hands and heard the little girl giggle at her. She scowled comically and began to shout out. "WELL SO ARE YOU YA DAMN BRAT!"

Gaara stopped her giggling fit and noticed that she was in fact also naked. She also tried covering herself, but instead of her hands doing so, the sands around them quickly formed around her and changed into the clothes she was wearing before. This amazed the two as Gaara stopped covering herself to look at herself. You couldn't even tell it was sand unless you touched it directly with, and even then the sand hardened and responded like real clothes. Also clever.

Gaara looked up to the woman who was a little slack jawed and smirked to her in a playful mocking way. "I guess you're the only one who's naked now lady."

The woman scowled at first, but then began to laugh hysterically. "I guess you will be fun to be around kid!' She howled out in between laughs. This in turn caused Gaara to laugh a bit, the first sign of true happiness she had ever felt in her life.

"Alright." The woman began as she recomposed herself from her fit of laughs. She then looked to Gaara with a smirk and spoke once more, not really caring about her nude form anymore. "Gaara, we have a lot to talk about now."

Gaara tilted her head a bit. "How do you know my name miss? And where exactly are we?" She asked as she looked around the desert.

"Easy." The woman started as she held her hand and raised a finger. "One, my name is Shukaku, the Ichibi Tanuki and the one tailed Biju." She then held up a second finger. "And two, this place is your mind, where my seal resides in your body."

Gaara looked around at the desert and scratched her head sheepishly. "Seems pretty barren really."

Shukaku grew a tick mark over her head and shouted. "Well whose fault is that now!? You can control what this place looks like, so why don't you!?"

Gaara started to think after Shukaku said that. 'I guess a few trees would be nice.' No sooner did she think that did trees appear around them along with an oasis in the center where the sun came through. "Wow." Gaara's widened in amazement at what she had just created.

"I know right?" Shukaku spoke up once more. "Guess that's enough for now kid." Gaara looked up to her and raised a brow. Shukaku grinned to her. "Make sure not to tell anyone about this just yet. I'll be training you from now on."

"Really?" Gaara asked, excitement in her eyes.

"Yeah yeah yeah, I know, I'm amazing." The still nude sand demon responded, earning a slight giggle from the redhead. "For now, just get some sleep kid, you've earned it."

And with that, Gaara started to feel fatigue like never before. Her entire body relaxed and began to vanish from the desert as she felt herself slipping into a blissful slumber for the first time in her life.

Iwa

It took some time, but soon enough, the two women in their small hut awoke with a fright of sorts. They quickly looked around to their surroundings to see they were still in their rag-tad hut and that they hadn't been moved for some time now. The tall girl in the red armor looked to her friend and vise versa.

"Hana." The second girl started towards the red armored one now named Hana. "Did the same thing happen to you too?"

Hana nodded. "Yes, my tailed beast spoke to me. Something about being free and training of some sort."

The first girl stood on shaky legs before inevitably sitting down in the chair still situated behind her. "Yeah, mine said the same thing too."

"What do you think we should do, Roichi?" Hana asked her friend as she too sat in her chair.

Roichi leaned back and thought to herself. From what their Bijuu told them, the seal on their bodies had disintegrated due to whatever happened to them earlier. There was no way they could stay here in Iwa as that old bitch would simply replace even more powerful seal upon them or maybe even put them in breeding stocks with their chakra sealed up. That thought made Roichi grit her teeth in anger. They also couldn't just leave now without a plan as then they would be hunted down as missing nin. What exactly could they do?

"Why not fake your deaths?" A voice spoke in her mind. Roichi opened her eyes as she heard the four tailed monkey sealed in her speak up once more. "It won't be too hard little one."

"How do you suggest we do that?" She asked out loud, causing Hana to narrow her eyes at what she and her Bijuu were discussing.

"Simple. This is what you do."

An hour later

It took Roichi some time, but after conversing with an all too eager Hana about it, they managed to perform Son Goku's plan off. Roichi had finished rigging up the small hut and packing away the essentials for both her and Hana, now all she was doing was waiting. That didn't take too long as Hana had reentered the hut with two unconscious kunoichi over her shoulders that had similar heights to them. Coincidentally, it was the same two that held them down to kneel in front of the Tsuchikage earlier, so this was some good revenge on their part. Hana placed them both on the floor and looked to Rochi.

"Ready?" Roichi asked her.

Hana nodded and the two began to strip out of their clothes and armor. For Roichi, her body was almost a smooth, light skinned tone where even her scars from the obedience seal had healed up. Her body was slightly curvaceous with a round rear that would make any man turn his head.

Hana, even though for the most part her body was always covered, had a slightly tanned skin tone to her body. She was surprisingly just as well endowed as Roichi was, though slightly muscular as well. Her hair was surprisingly short as well, only reaching the back of her neck and it had a burnt orange color to it as well.

They're bodies soon laid bare as they even removed their undergarments for this plan. After that, they stripped the two in front of them and meticulously placed their own outfits on the two to make it look convincing enough.

"Alright." Roichi spoke first as she looked down to the two. "Let's tie them up and put them over there." She pointed towards the center of the hut where the table was and Hana nodded.

They did so and in quick order ensuring that the two would not wake anytime soon to really make this convincing. When they did that, the two nodded to one another and left the hut through the door with their belongings. They locked it from the outside and set the bombs off, causing a large fire to flare up, gaining the attention of the villagers inside the walls of Iwa. The two left rather quickly afterwards, making sure to cover their tracks in the process. As they were leaving, they heard the alarms blare in the distance behind them and how chaotic everything was inside the village. As a little insurance policy to keep their escape guaranteed, Hana place a few bombs in random locations in the village to go off at the same time as the ones inside the hut. It was only a few places, but it would cause enough pandemonium for them to escape.

After running for hours, the two stopped, realizing they were at a beach of some kind.

"Okay." Roichi started as she spotted a small house off in the distance with some clothes hanging on a clothesline. That was when she also noticed that they were still naked. It was better this way to not have anything on to affiliate themselves with Iwa and also to keep their scent relatively cold to any trackers, but it was still oddly embarrassing in a way. "Lets get some clothes and figure out where we go from there."

Hana nodded and they were about to go before she stopped them. "Actually Roichi."

"Yeah?" She stopped and looked to her friends.

"Shouldn't you do something about your hair?" Hana started. "It is far too noticeable and distinguishable, especially if any Iwa kunoichi come this way somehow."

Hana had a point. Unlike her, Roichi never had her face covered, meaning everyone in Iwa knew what she looked like. Her hair would have to be the first thing to change since there weren't many red heads in the world now.

"I'll deal with that..." Roichi started but stopped once her stomach growled along with Hana's. "...after we get some clothes and food in our bellies. I'm starving."

And with that, the two went into this small village near the waves to start a new life and train with their Biju.

Kiri

Inside of a hospital room laid the two girls from earlier that collapsed on the street. The auburn haired girl had been in their room for some time now as she wanted to make sure that the two were just fine now. She sighed as she was about to fall asleep herself, but that all changed when the shorter of the two girls suddenly sat up, completely awake and surprised by her surroundings. The auburn haired girl fell out of her seat right as that happened.

"Whoa." The shorter girl spoke more to herself as she had just had a conversation with her Bijuu spirit while unconscious. She let out a sigh as she looked to where her friend lay ad saw that she was alright. Before she could even do anything though, she heard a groan on the floor. "Huh?"

"Ow, my head." The new voice spoke up as she stood rubbing the back of her head.

"Who are you?" The girl asked as she had seen this auburn haired girl before but never communicated with her.

The girl looked to the one in the bed with slight smirk and stood tall. "The names Mei Terumi." She said proudly. "I saw you and your friend collapse in the street and rushed you both to the hospital. You okay?"

The girl could tell that Mei was being genuine in her question. Not many others would think the same way about Jinchuuriki, especially here in Kiri. Smirking herself as now she had a goal in mind thanks to her Bijuu, the girl looked up to Mei. "I'm fine. Thank you for Mei, not many would've done what you did."

Mei smiled to her. "It was no problem."

The girl nodded then turned when she heard her friend stir awake. The dark haired girl sat up and stretched out her arms as she yawned. Mei stifled a laugh as did the first girl, but that all changed once the dark haired one turned to them with that disheveled look on her face. Both girls couldn't help themselves and began to laugh hard at the way the girl looked.

"Well that's just rude Yaguri." She spoke up while crossing her arms in a pouty way.

"Sorry Uta." The now named Yaguri spoke in between laughs at Uta's face.

Mei regained her composure long enough to address the two while wiping a tear from her eye. "So, are you two okay now? I mean, you seem like you are, but earlier-"

She was quickly cut off by Yaguri. "It's okay Mei. We're fine, in fact," she looked over to a smirking Uta, knowing the dark haired girl had a similar conversation with her Bijuu, "I'd say we are so much better than fine now."

Mei simply raised a brow at that statement, but was happy nonetheless.

Taki

The girl with mint hair awoke inside the large cocoon with a slight start. She looked around for a moment before hearing a comforting voice in her mind.

"It is alright little larva." The voice was soothing and calmed the girl down fast. "You know what you must do, Fuu."

The girl, now named Fuu, breathed in deeply as she closed her eyes. After taking a few breathes, she opened them once more, resolve deep in her orange eyes. "I do."

Without wasting anytime, she began to dig. It would take a while, but soon, she would be free of these people and free to live her own life.

Kumo

Right now, A was in a frenzy as she had quickly rushed her little sister to a hospital after she and her teammate had collapsed in pain on the street. She along with another blond girl named Samui, who was carrying the two tailed Jinchuuriki, raced along to get the two there as quickly as possible. A didn't know what had caused her sister to collapse like that, but she had a sinking feeling it had something to do with her seal. Before she passed out, A was able to see her seal glowing slightly right before they passed out.

'B.' A said to herself as she took a quick glance down to her sister. 'You and Yugito had better be alright after this.'

As if Kami was listening in on her thoughts, B woke up suddenly along with Yugito, stopping both A and Samui in their tracks.

"YUGITO!" Samui yelled out as she hugged the now conscious blond tightly. A little too tightly.

"Samui." She started in a gasp as she tapped the concerned blond on the shoulder. "Can't breathe. Can't breathe."

Samui didn't let go for a short time, causing Yugito to pass out, comically. Once Samui realized this, she started acting hysterical trying to wake her friend up. As this was going on, A set B down and steadied her for a moment as the younger of the two held her head for a moment.

"B?" A started in what was commonly referred to by their friends as 'Overprotective Big Sister Mode'. "Are you okay? What happened? Is their anything you need?"

B sighed as she was bombarded by question after question only to hear the eight tails muttering something to herself about the Kyuubi. B didn't quite understand her as her sister was still asking too many questions right then and there, but whatever had happened to her and Yugito must've had something to do with the nine tails. Whatever it was, B decided that she and Yugito would have to become stronger so when whatever happens does happen involving the Kyuubi, they were ready.

I know, I rushed the last two. Really wanted to get this chapter over and done with. Next chapter will have Naruto and his family discussing things as well as Aika being brought in.

Stay awesome and as always,

WASH YOUR DAMN HANDS!

PEACE!