Naruto finished explaining his encounter to the Raikage. The Raikage had an angry look. "How many came in total?" The Raikage asked.
"I don't know, but you should stay here in case some more people show up, I trust Gaara to take care of himself. I'll go help Yugito, just tell me where she is." Naruto stated.
"You think you can take them on by yourself?" The Raikage asked.
"I can hold them off while you send reinforcements. Just trust me." Naruto said again.
"She took off for a mission a while ago. She's at the nearby town taking out some bandits." The Raikage finished, and just as he finished Naruto disappeared. "Karui! Darui! Get some shinobi around, and B!" The Raikage yelled.
Naruto ran down the street at great speed, his destination was the town The Raikage had previously pointed out. He was distracted by something though, why would Itachi give him such great detail about their target, it's almost like he wanted him to try and stop him.
Naruto ran but stopped when a man with a scythe was sent flying past him. He looked to see it was a silver-haired man, what he was hit by was Gaara who had a sand shield protecting him from four floating masks shooting different elemental attacks at him.
Naruto locked eyes with Gaara. "Gaara! They're after Yugito also, I'm gonna go get her! I trust you to handle this!" Naruto finished but looked at a man swinging a scythe at him. He dodged it easy and roundhoused the man sending him back. "The hell," Naruto said jumping off.
Gaara jumped as Earth Bullets hit his previous location, his sand wall rose protecting him from a stream of fire. "How the hell did this even start?" Gaara thought.
-5 minutes ago-
Gaara walked down the street admiring his surroundings, especially the woman aspect of it. That's until he heard a loud voice.
"Where the fuck is the bitch!" A man with a large scythe yelled.
"I don't know. Quiet down." Kakazu replied. Gaara walked up to the top.
"Need directions?" Gaara asked. The two turned around and looked at each other, Hidan smiled.
"There the bitch is," Hidan said. "Yes, could you show us the way to hell!" Hidan yelled raising his scythe. Gaara raised his arm sending a pillar made of sand shooting from the ground and hitting Hidan making him fly back. Kakazu reacted, four retracted from his body and floated around Gaara.
"Kakazu huh, I heard you're big on bounties, may I ask why you're with the Akatsuki?" Gaara asked.
"If you know about us, then why didn't you flee! You stupidly approached us on purpose?" Kakazu asked.
"Well, I thought I could get a cheap shot in, which I did but, I forgot that you are the hard ones to get rid of in your group," Gaara said as he remembered Naruto and Jiraiya talking about this group with him.
A stream of fire shouts out one of the masks, a wall of sand rose to protect him, simultaneously three other masks surrounded him, wind bullets, a stream of lightning, alo g with a spear of water shot out of the masks. Gaara's sand surrounded him protecting him from the attacks.
Gaara then saw a blonde-headed knucklehead not that far away. He looked back and forth between him and Kakazu, basically asking him to help out a little, but then heard the reason Naruto had to go.
"Of course they are, greedy. Can't even kidnap one person at a time." That is all Gaara thought as he formed spikes into the shield surrounding him before shooting them out? Gaara jumped as a scythe passed by him digging into the ground.
"Where you going you little bitch!" Hidan yelled. "I sacrifice all you little Fulkerson to the great Jashin!" Hidan yelled.
"You're pretty slow for an S-ranked shinobi. I guess the only thing that makes you special is your healing huh." Gaara said as a spike of sand grew from the ground penetrating Hidan.
"You Fucker! This hurts!" Hidan called out. Gaara ignored him as the four masks continued their attacks. He leaned back dodging five water bullets that dug into the ground before going back to their regular property.
A stream of fire was shot. Gaara raised his hand and made a sand wall, but what he didn't expect was another mask arriving by its side and shooting a stream of wind into the fire amplifying it.
The fire hit the sand causing the heat to be felt by Gaara who was behind it. He heard a swoosh through the air as he turned to see four kunai heading for him being covered in a stream of lightning.
"Tch," Gaara responded. He made a hand sign causing shadow clones to form and run at the attack meeting it headway while the original Gaara jumped once again dodging a fast stream of water. "This is getting annoying, how about a little help?" Gaara asked opening a channel between him and Shukaku.
"Hell yeah!" The Raccoon screamed. "And when we beat them we will go save the fox!" Shukaku yelled. On the outside, a glow could be seen on Gaaras seal, the one on his belly, and his head. Sand poured from it automatically blocking a wave of attacks from the masks.
A hard shell of sand then started to form around Gaara as he raised his arm. Four sand tendrils raised from the ground and shot towards the two. The masks dodged the tendrils, but that wasn't Gaaras's goal.
Kakazu watched in anticipation but then tilted his body dodging an attack. It was Gaara in his sand armor. Gaara began a blur of attacks, from the left and right. Fists flew as Gaara began his onslaught of attacks, however, Kakazu blocked them.
Kakazu blocked a punch and countered with his own before pulling out a kunai and making dozens of slashes at Gaara, some hit, but did not get through the sand. Three tentacles grew from Gaaras back and shot from Gaara towards Kakazu who dodged two and cut the other two in half severing them from Gaara.
Gaara saw an opening and punched Kakazu in the back. Gaara continued his attack and landed a left punch and then uppercut Kakazu. Kakazu now in trouble ordered his masks to help him out, the water maks stopped to help him out, but Kakazu quickly kept it moving as it almost got hit by one of Gaara's tendrils.
Gaara rose his hand causing a large column of sand to rise and grab Kakazu in the air before Gaara squeezed his hand causing the sand to harden and squeeze Kakazu inside at incredible pressure. Gaara then brought his hand to the ground causing the sand to shoot towards the ground bringing Kakazu with it.
Gaara was surprised at what he saw, it was a lot of thread. "Was this guy, stitched together?" Gaara wondered, but stopped when he saw the threads quickly start to connect again. Gaara was ready to act but was stopped when a stream of lightning hit him causing him to stop, when looking back he could see Hidan and the masks behind him.
Then, fire amped by wind shot at him, along with a fast stream of water hitting Gaara. As this was done Kakazu already was stitched back together. He walked towards Gaara holding a kunai. "Let's wait a while, that thing will fall eventually, and you will come with us," Kakazu said smiling.
"Then we will sacrifice this fucker to Jashin!" Hidan yelled.
"No, we will take him back." Kakazu corrected Hidan. "After I collect the money for him," Kakazu said.
"Y-you know. I know you can't keep that up forever." Gaara struggled to say. "But I won't need to wait for you to finish anyway," Gaara grunted at the end. Spikes formed on the outside of his sand suit.
"Hidan!" Kakazu tried to warn his partner but failed as the armor exploded sending the spikes shooting out. Hidan and Kakazu were riddled with sand bullets as they fell due to the attack. Kakazu grunted raising himself, he looked at his masks and saw three left, when he realized what might happen, he tried to get his masks far away, but the mask with the lightning affinity was too slow.
"I think I get it now, those masks aren't masks are they? From the way you tried to protect them, they seem irreplaceable. They must be important." Gaara said standing up, his skin was a little red, evidence from the heat from inside of the armor he was in.
Kakazu frowned, Hidan also got up from his spot, holes closing in his body from being riddled with sand spikes a second ago. "That bitch! I'll bathe in your blood!" Hidan yelled. He charges in with a scythe swinging it down towards Gaara. Gaara sidestepped it and brought his foot up, connecting it with his nose sending him in the air.
Gaara rose his hand causing sand tendrils to shoot from the ground, four skinny tendrils pierced each a Hidans limbs before ripping him apart. Kakazu frowned once more.
"This brat is a bigger problem than I thought he would be, no wonder there is a bounty on him." Kakazu smiled at the thought of the money Gaaras head was worth.
"Time for us to end this." Gaara said as sand swirled around him at great speeds, quickening by the second. The masks tried to resist the pull, but couldn't as they got sucked in.
-Flashback-
Gaara sat bored watching Naruto practice his wind affinity, training it to be stronger, he signed at the sight. Naruto noticed this.
"What's wrong with you?" Naruto asked.
"I guess, I'm a little jealous. You have three powerful chakra affinities, while I just have Earth." Gaara said sadly.
"Don't think about it too much, some are just naturally lucky, and you could always test it again, sometimes it's not always right." Naruto said, even though it's not likely. Gaara didn't see a con in it and tried it, by was surprised when the paper split in half before turning to dust.
"What the hell?" Gaara questioned.
"That's interesting. When were you gonna tell me you had a wind affinity?" Naruto chuckled?
"I'm wondering that too." Gaara thought for a moment before an idea popped up in his head. "Hey, Shukaku. Do you know anything about this?" Gaara questioned the raccoon.
"Yes, since we have a temporary link now, you are greatly gifted the benefits from me being sealed in you, when you link us, and I give you my power you receive the benefits of being my Jinchuuriki, how do you not know this?" The raccoon finished.
"Then how come it didn't show I had a wind affinity when I was younger, and it did now even though you weren't giving me chakra?" Gaara questioned.
"Cause I use to have a choice when to give you chakra, now with your new seal, when you open a link between us it forces my chakra out, and I guess you just had leftover chakra flowing through you." Shukaku said.
"I didn't know it worked like that." Gaara replied.
"It doesn't matter, anything to keep you powerful so you're able to power up, even if it's for a bs reason." Kakazu replied.
-Present-
The masks got pulled in by the strong wind, and as they got close, sand spikes shot out hitting two of them as the fire affinity was able to dodge the attack. Kakazu grew a panicked look as he charged forward with two kunai in hand.
Gaara stopped the wind around him and dodged the two swipes aimed at his throat. His sand shield rose protecting him from the stream of fire shot at him from the last mask. Gaara did a couple of hand signs before shoving his hand into the ground.
"Earth Style: Shattered Ground!" Gaara yelled. The ground around him whole fiercely causing cracks to appear. Kakazu jumped as a couple of cracks appeared below him. He threw the two kunai in his hands at Gaara, and it was blocked by his automatic shield.
Gaara didn't focus on Kakazu but instead jumped towards the last mask. Kakazu saw this and made the mask retreat, Gaara held his hand out causing sand to surround his hand forming a claw. It shot at the mask and grabbed it. Gaara shot forward pulling him close.
In a last-ditch effort Kakazu made it fire his strongest Jutsu. A torrent of flames shot from it causing the sand holding it to explode, Gaara jumped to the side dodging the stream of fire, but then saw a kunai fly towards him. The kunai was close to hitting him but were met with another kunai.
Looking to the side, Kakazu saw the arrival of two other people, Karui and Darui. "Shit." He muttered. The sand rose to protect him from the flames as Gaara landed.
"That mask is his heart! Destroy it and he's done!" Gaara yelled. Karui and Darui smiled both pulling out a katana. They split and rushed towards the mask. Kakazu threw kunai in their path, but they were stopped by a wall of sand.
They jumped and slashed the mask, causing it to fall into pieces. Kakazu felt a great pain, his skin started to loosen, threads could be seen. He turned to run but stopped as a spike pierced his chest making him stop. Gaara watched as he unraveled and fell apart.
He then turned and sighed at the sight. Hidan was bow reattaching his left arm. "You fucker! That bitch died to you! Jashin will meet you all!" He preached. Gaara shook his head as five spikes penetrated him. They tore him apart as he screamed in pain.
"Make sure he doesn't get put back together, and I recommend removing his tongue." Gaara told the two.
"Where are you going?" Kari asked.
"To he'll Naruto." Almost immediately, a force was felt as the wind pushed their hair back. When looking at what caused it, it was obvious. There was a large red beam reaching into the sky, only a couple knew what it was. A little ways away a man saw this.
"Naruto's situation doesn't seem well, I hope he doesn't release The Nine Tails." He horribly rhymed.
-Narutos location-
Four red tails waved around as Naruto was on all fours, he was surrounded by red chakra with a bone exoskeleton. He laughed like a maniac, looking at him was Kisame smiling with a trickle of blood running down his chin, next to Itachi with a bruise on his cheek. Yugito laid not far away burnt and panting, and out cold.
-Not Long Ago-
Yugito cut down a bandit then dodged an attack from a man with a kunai. She roundhoused him, he would not get up for a while. She then walked away.
"That stupid man! How did I not get promoted! It's because of him! Just because he's a little stronger and I lost a little control!" Yugito said punching a tree.
"Why are men the reason everything goes wrong in my life!" She punched the tree again leaving a mark on it.
"Now kitten, you can't blame them for this. You made a promise you couldn't keep." Matanabi said. Yugito sighed.
"I know, but why of all people did I lose to him." Yugito said and sat down.
"Kitten." Matanabi was about to say something.
"Yeah yeah, I know. Don't be so down, you did well. I don't wanna hear it." Yugito interrupted.
"That's not what I mean, look." Matanabi said. Yugito looked up and her eyes saw red ones, she stood up, and in front of her stood Kisame and Itachi Uchiha.