I knew you would find me

AN: *Well* here I am again with the next chapter..and the long awaited fight..oh wait..not yet thats the *next* chapter...sorry, lol XD. Well Read ahead, there are some things in here that some might find interesting ^_^;

WARNING: Spoilers (of the manga)


AN2: Chapter redone notice: Chapter 4 will be out before I leave for vacation, and it's COMPLETLY re-written, as will EVERY chapter after it. Sooo...reviewing them..would be nice...when I get them up...-puppy dog eyes- I would like that. -_-...


Anyway...onto the next chapter!!
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Gaara could sense him, the powerful demon chakra his lover held was leaking through the area at a dangerous level, and he was losing control. If he was at this point then Naruto has already started a fight he should not be in. Thoughts of the raven sharigan user touching Naruto sent Gaara’s blood to course even harder in his veins. He would pay for touching his precious person. A Konoha nin was right behind him and he raised a hand turning his head his eyes narrowed in rage,

“Tell you’re Captain this: If anyone tries to stop me I will not hesitate in destroying them.” He ordered, though he was of another village he held more authority over the Konoha shinobi, a green blur and Lee was gone. Gaara was alone but his goal was so close his sand shivered at the thought of it being filled with blood once more, it had been a long time since such murderous intent had coursed through the chakra. The fight had already started from two different sides, but it seemed as if there were already casualties. It seemed that rogue nins ordered to try and bring him down were arriving, kunai’s flew as a distraction in front of him but Gaara impassively dispatched the hidden shinobis by pinning the men through their hearts, stomachs and between the eyes, effectively killing them. Surging forward towards the stronghold, he saw the nearest entrance unmanned, it disappeared into darkness, possibly retreating underground. The same mantra of ‘Protect Naruto. Kill Sasuke’ urged Gaara’s body to move faster, killing any who stepped in his way, treading into a darkened archway his hand reaching up to catch a wrist deftly, he tugged the shocked nin from the shadows.

“Where is Naruto?” He hissed

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A black shadow crept over the rooftops, masking his chakra to perfection. Blank lilac eyes turned towards the direction of the hospital, he had made no sound and no mistakes, it had been easier then he thought especially with how closely the nurses had been told to watch him. Though his body protested the movement he knew he could not be the only one who would be left behind, he had to help he couldn’t just sit there and do nothing to protect his Hokage. He slipped through the front gates unseen by any of the remaining shinobi’s taking off into the darkening woods his eyes finding the almost un readable path they eight man squad took. It wouldn’t take long to catch up, but he would have to keep out of sight. Moving from branch to branch he glanced up briefly. There was no moon so no light would ease the path through woods; things would get difficult once night fell.

“Byakugan” his voice was barely above a whisper and his eyes shot open, his bloodline showing him exactly what he needed to see. Their chakra signs, hidden well from normal shinobi eyes were far ahead. They would not sense him following, not at this distance, nor with his ability to control his chakra at such low levels. He landed on one branch lightly catching his breath; every newly sealed wound ached from his movements. He heard the slightest of rustles and instantly twisted around coming face to face with the one who had demanded that he stayed. Nara Shikamara. He hadn’t seen him, heard him or even sensed him.

“I knew you would follow.” Said the other man slowly. Neji’s eyes narrowed, his fists clenching,

“I have to follow, I cannot leave Naruto to his fate.” He replied his voice coming out a bit grated from the medicines and jutsu’s he had been put under. Shikamaru’s eyes bored into his the eyebrows knitting together slightly,

“You believe we are inefficient?” he asked almost an accusing tone to it, the Bykugan’s users jaw clenched tightly before he looked away,

“No, but you will need my help.” He hissed.

“You are nothing more then a burden, you’re still wounded from your last fight, you will become a liability.” Stated Nara flatly, crossing his arms and waiting for Neji’s rebuttal. He was challenging him, Neji knew it. His glare deepened,

“I will not become a liability.” The Hyuuga’s voice was deadly quiet, Shikamaru was not effected, but his stance and eyes softened ever so much,

“Then be careful we will not be stopping until Naruto is safe.” Shikamaru said before disappearing up into the trees. Neji stood stock still, true worry had been written on the other mans face,

“I will be.” He finally said out loud to himself disappearing into the tree.
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Kankuro stared almost in disbelief at the amount of damage done to the lower part of his country, only Gaara could cause such destruction.

“Keep going!” he roared and the nins from the supporting villages fell in behind him following closely. The mairinette-nin eyes caught every aspect of the damage. Gaara could not be stopped at this point, Kankuro would have to prevent whatever leaf nin from trying to interfere with Gaara, he would have no mercy for anyone stepping in his way. The terrain began getting rockier, more trees pushed up from the sparse ground. Kankuro could sense fights almost ever direction except behind their group.

“Kio go left with Cloud, and Rock, Mioko go right with Mist and Sand.” Kankuro ordered,

“Kankuro-sama, you don’t plan on facing Gaara-sama—” The puppeteer glared at the subordinate his look begging no argument, the other nin disappeared with his group. Letting out slow exhale, he pushed forward following the trail of destruction slowly lacing his marionettes with chakra and masking their appearance under sand clones. His second self moved soundlessly through the area and Kankuro hid following him step for step, keeping his senses alert noting the destroyed bodies along the way. His brother was ruthless there would be none alive, he could feel all the fights going on around him and gritted his teeth, how much power did the Uchiha really have over the pawns?

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“You think I would go through so much trouble to lose you now?!” Sasuke hissed throwing his weight into pinning the other to the wall Naruto slammed his fist upward almost catching the other man in the chin with a palm but Sasuke twisted enough away to dodge the blow.

“You lost me a long time ago Sasuke.” Naruto snarled back shoving the other nin from him with a hard kick, Sasuke flipped backwards but it was enough time for Naruto’s swirling rasengans to start in his hand, gritting his teeth Sasuke whipped three kunai up, electricity flying down his arm the bluish charka dancing dangerously around his palm, .

“If that was true then you would have killed me properly.” Sasuke twisted around throwing the kunai’s at Naruto, the rasengan cut through them easily but the cords connected to the ends of blades flickered with charka passed through Naruto body where they touched. Catching the roar of pain at the back of his throat Naruto slashed the cords glaring up at the raven-headed man only to get caught in blazing red eyes—Sasuke’s Sharigan was activated.

“I don’t think you ever stopped loving me Naruto.” Sasuke slid forward his Sharigan slipped past the minds defenses his words would be able to sink into his former lover’s soul.

Naruto yanked his eyes away knowing how easily they could copy his moves and delve into his mind, clenching his jaw he watched the slight shift of the feet, and felt how the chakra shimmered thickly in the air. Eyes narrowed he brought them up to meet the blood red gaze and they both collided once more in a flurry of movement and clashes of chakra.

“I have! You left and never came back!” Naruto met against him, their faces inches apart Sasuke pushed out blocking a kunai and bringing one hand up grabbing Naruto around the neck and pulling his face in close

“You knew what I had to do, and you knew the orders for my assassination was just a scapegoat,” He snarled into the mouth. Naruto curled his lip a snarl starting at the back of his throat; he flipped a blade in his palm,

“I had orders,” He hissed back suddenly pressing the blade into Sasuke gut, The raven-headed man leisurely smirked against his mouth,

“You had orders?” He drawled slowly “And when does the great Uzamaki Naruto obey orders that goes against his very nature? Were you promised the ‘Hokage’ status if the last Uchiha was killed?” Sasuke murmured daring the other man to kill him. Naruto’s eyes narrowed,

“I couldn’t—I had no choice!” Naruto bit out in an enraged growl,

“You had no choice but to kill me, and yet here I am, alive and quite well.” Sasuke urged his body pressed even harder into the blade, his eyes slowly faded from the blood red of the Sharigan to the onyx eyes leaning even further in,

“You loved me too much to kill me, so I lived, I said it before, you are mine, I will not lose you again.” The lips capture his, the mouth brutally demanding his and soundlessly the blade dropped from Naruto’s hand, his fingers clenching at the front of the obi Sasuke wore shoving even as the lips slid wetly against his own.

A infuriated well of chakra flooded the room and Naruto shoved Sasuke back only to have a wave of crushing sand to descend on him pushing him up against the nearest wall, he gasped and coughed, the force causing his skull to crack dangerously hard against the rock wall.

“He is not yours Uchiha.” Gaara hissed stepping from shadows, his entire body trembling from his rage, his narrowed eyes on the last of the Uchiha clan.

“Gaara! This isn’t you’re fight!” Naruto roared finding his voice, his body began fighting the others chakra filled sand, but Gaara’s sand pinned him even tighter against the wall,

“He touched you. He hurt you. This is my fight.” The Kazekage said lowly not taking his eyes of the stoically standing man regarding him with cool indifference.

“Sabaku no Gaara, the feared Kazekage of Suna,” Sasuke hissed, “Finally come to rescue your beloved,” He continued with a sneer.

“Get the fuck out of here Gaara!!” Naruto yelled, but his voice landed on deaf ears, the sand entrapping him slammed his body back into the rock wall in an iron grip. The blazing green eyes focused solely on Sasuke,

“You do not hurt what is precious to me.” The Kazekage’s voice was like ice and a well of sand surged forward. The raven dodged it easily his black eyes glittering in his own rage,

Naruto stared at Gaara at the words….‘You do not hurt what is precious to me.’ Gaara considered him a…precious person? Gritting his teeth Naruto started collecting his chakra at every point on his body to combat the sand, the words swimming through his head.

“Precious to you? What if you are not his precious person?” Sasuke sneered pulling the katana from his back the air shimmered with his chakra, lightning fast he dodged through the sand attacks his blade raised. Not even a few feet away a wall erupted blocking Sasuke from Gaara and the others voice could be heard around the echoing caverns;

“Kanraku sendo! (1)I do not care if I am not one of his; he will not be harmed!” The ground began to tremble collapsing under the chakra as it turned to sand trying to pull Sasuke down into its crushing depths. Naruto’s eyes widened and his struggle began anew at as the two men clashed together, Sasuke just barely dodging the bloodthirsty sand and Gaara’s ultimate defense defending against the impossibly fast moves.

“He’s mine, he’s never been anyone else's, and I’ll kill anyone who tries to take him away.” Sasuke’s voice was almost lost among the noise and he jerked his feet up, the curling spirals of sand reaching for his body. Slashing downward, the Uchiha landing on the opposite wall of the former Shukaku holder. The green eyes glaring at him were mere slits, and the hands rose up sending another brutal wave of sand in Sasuke’s direction. Trapped among the rocks and sand the wall enclosed around the raven-headed nin effectively,

“Kabe-faia no jutus!” (2) Flames erupted from the inside of the sand exploding it to pieces and Sasuke was reveled, his body burned from the explosion. His hands were together keeping the flames alive and sending them up every trace of sand heading straight towards Gaara. The Kazekage dissipated the fire dragon before another replaced the head twisting around the men, the sand unable to keep up with the speed of flames.

The Hokage knew he needed the demons help to be able to remove the sand from his body to stop Sasuke from hurting Gaara...he was his precious person. Feeling the pulsing anger coursing easily through his veins Naruto’s eyes rolled up, he needed to face the Nine-tailed fox for his request, the deep rumbling voice echoed through his mind causing the blood to course even harder through Naruto's body;

Let me fight….whispered the demon, Let me kill him for you. Tightening his eyes Naruto shook his head firmly keeping the steady flow chakra to his limbs before plunging into his thoughts into darkness.

Standing in the middle of a dark dripping room Naruto stared at the wide-open gates that once held the sealed fox. The darkness of the Demon's lair shimmered briefly and the demon appeared the eyes glittering as they openly stared down at him the beast’s mouth curled in an evil knowing grin,

You will let me out human? He asked his body surging forward towards the standing man. Naruto nodded once, keeping still as the Nine-Tailed fox examined him, Naruto breathed in deep;

“Lend me your powers,” He started, before his narrowed eyes looked up at the beast, “But I will make the final blow,” Chuckling the demon pushed forward his bloody red eyes sparking with delight, You know what happens when you are in my form Stated the fox. Naruto clenched his fists his eyes narrowing.

“I know what happens.” He replied softly.

So be it the demon purred, his gleeful laugh sending a chill down Naruto’s back. Calming his mind, he let the fury and fire consume him.

Shuddering, Naruto’s body started emitting uncontrollable amounts of chakra, the mans arms pushing with ease at the sand, it gave way under his hand and a low growl started at the back of his throat, his eyes shot open, the fierce obsidian eyes found the fighting nins. An animalistic curl of mouth the reveled sharp canines and a clawed fist curled experimentally, fur erupted down the arms and his back. Teeth lengthened even more and the growl emitting from the throat turned into a high-pitched scream of joy.

“Finally out.” Snarled the beast deep in his throat and stepping forward into the melee he easily dissipated the flames with a flick of his wrist his deep black eyes finding Sasuke's. The Kazekage was moving behind him, his sand seemed to be dancing with Gaara's anger. Raising one hand behind him to stop Gaara from moving forward the demon chakra flickered dangerously around the other man, nine distinct tails forming to finsih off the transformation.

“This is my fight, Do not interfere.” Naruto and the Demon spoke as one and the red chakra curled brighter and hotter around the Hokage as he stepped forward, the eyes landing on Sasuke,

“I knew you were more cursed then I,” The demon burred throatily lunging forward, the nine-tails spreading out behind him like fire.

“Come Naruto, let me beat you into your final submission.” Sasuke hissed as he faced the final form of the demon that had emerged from Naruto’s body.

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TBC

(1)Kanraku sendo- sinking death
(2)Kabe-faia no jutsu- wall of fire technique

AN: Whew..I know...weren't expecting that were you? I know u all wnated a big Gaara/Sasuke fight...trust me..theres plenty of fight left for that...if you've read the manga..(like all 357 of them) then u realize what will happen with Naruto's true body..O_O...not that I'm giving anything away for the next chapter or anything....but you'll see!! ^_^; Please let me know how you like this ending of the chapter, I would greatly appreciate it!!


Review Responses cuz I love them so!!

AnA La PaNa83: Hehe, love when Naruto's like that too...don't worry their will be a bit more that I promise, this fight is long from over. ^_^; And thank You!! Their going to be hard to write in a battle cuz I don't know their peronsalites very well..but i'll have to try my best!!


Ukagau: LOL..nope..though it does stink -holds nose- yuck...lol..my head is very crowded...ugh..I even have an idea for another stroy..but I can't write it cuz I have to focus on this one!!! ARGH!! lol..Sasuke ass beating is on its way..and then some....who knows what I'll think up next -innocent smile- Oh and the next redone chapter, chapter 4, is COMPLETELY rewritten...and I mean COMPLETLY! And so will the rest of the chapters after 4...i was lazy for the for first 3 chapters lol...ohb well...hope you enjoyed!! Thank you!! He's really fun to write..in all honesty!!! Thanks for the cookies!! and love it when u ramb le, its fun to read!! hehe


Mey: hehe thought that would cause some fangirl squeeness, lol, yes poor Naruto XD I'm trying hard not to get tangled with the big fights..hope this was ok? Maybe? lol. I LOOOOOVE Shino...lol XD hehe...and yes cuz he IS cool!!Anon wareef4@hotmail.com 2007-05-25 id # 3000067519
hiii i just wantedto say how much i lik you fic nd this is the first time i read a naruto X gaara fic
they are such a cute pairing


Anon: hehe, thank u very much ^_^; I'm glad ur enjoying it!!


KingCobra: OH thanks for redone comment!! CHapter 4 is coming out soon!! it's COMPLELTY redone ^_^; re-written that is, hehe. I might be, I'm going through some now...propbably yes...they will be steamier if I do, lol XD and maybe just a tad later, my beta feels i pushed the sex a bit too early, lol. oh well. We'll see! Thanks for letting me know!!Big Fan 2007-05-30 id # 3000068358
I love your story. You made a mistake, though. The name of the Demon of the sand is Shikaku, and one of the characters in this chapter was named Shikaku. Hope you don't mind me pointing it out.

Big Fan: Umm...I think I was right...Shukaku is with a 'u' and Shikaku is Shikamaru's father..which i looked up...maybe i'm wrong, but no one else picked it up..I'll have to check it,thank u very much for pointing it out, I'll have it checked out!

XoXgaaraXoX: Thank you so much!! You're lucky you get the brand new chapter fresh after reviewing today!! hehe


Well, THANK YOU ALL FOR REVIEWING!! I won't be able to update again for at least 2 weeks cuz i'm going on vacation--YAAAAAAAAY!! lol *I'm* excited!! Well see ya!! Please Review and tell me your ideas, thoughts, comments! It motivates me to write faster...maybe if ur all luycky i'll have few chapters done during the time i'm gone on vactiona nd i'll update more quicklly when i get home...maybe..thought I might dangle that juicy bone for u all ^_^;