Secrets

XXXVII

-Kazekage

Naruto leaned on the balcony. His legs crossed and arms resting on the railing.
Mizo grumbled and walked toward him.

"What the hell were you and Sasuke doing earlier?" "Earlier?" "When he fixed your hand." "Walked to the infirmary?" "No while you were walking!"
Naruto thought.
"Messing with your head." Naruto chuckled. "Good to know you thought we actually liked each other."

Mizo held a fist up. His anger rising with embarrassment being his gasoline.
He went to speak but Naruto beat him.

"Oh look there they go."
"Begin!"

Gaara used his sand as Sasuke tried to find someway around it without getting any of his limbs caught.
He had heard what happened to Lee and didn't want to experience that himself, Lee should just be glad Tsunade was in the village or that he even survived long enough to have surgery.

This went on as long as it took Naruto to defeat Neji. Sasuke growled, somehow on the wall of the arena.
He built a chidori in his hand, the three tomoe sharingan activated as he charged down. He threw his arm right into Gaaras' ultimate defense with Naruto leaning anxiously over the railing.
Shikamaru held Naruto back so the blonde didn't accidentally intrude on their fight.

Sasuke groaned at the pressure around his arm but slowly it went deeper and deeper into the sand.
Gaara stared at the blue lightning right in front of his eyes. His breathing became uneven and quick before he felt something drip onto his hand.
He looked down to see a drop of blood before another droplet dripped onto his hand before it slowly came to him.

"Blood! It's my blood!"

Naruto jumped down and pushed Sasuke forcefully away from the sand just for the young Uchiha to watch the sand clasp together.
He grabbed onto Narutos shirt as they stumbled away.

"Move!"

Naruto pushed Sasuke out of the way and began to dodge the bullet like sand.
Some scraped his clothing and his exposed skin seeing he was a 'Genin'.

"You!"

Gaara advanced toward Naruto, sand crumpling from his insane eyes.
Naruto dodged as the ground rumbled.
Sasuke looked up to see a purple cage growing with four people in diamond shaped prisons on each end. Orochiamru was in the cage with Madara, their hokage.

"Hokage-sama." Sasuke breathed.

He went to go help the Anbu who were trying to get their hokage out but Naruto grabbed his shirt just in time for a ginormous claw to miss him.

"You broke through his shield Sasuke! He's after you!"

Sasuke looked at Naruto.
Gaara was after him... but the hokage, he needed to do his job as Captain and help them.
Naruto cupped his cheek.

"Madara will handle himself, he's survived this long from major threats, we'll help afterwards alright?"

Sasuke gulped and nodded slowly.
Naruto nodded and grabbed his arm, jumping out of the stadium with Gaara following.

"What do you we do?! Naruto and Sasuke can't deal with the one tail jinchuriki alone but Hokage-sama needs help... and the villagers!" Kurenai started to freak out.
"Naruto and Sasuke will be fine for now, we need to get the villagers out of the area." Kakashi stated.
"Oh righty!" Guy chimed.
"Naruto and Sasuke can't handle the one tails jinchuriki!" Asuma yelled over the commotion.
"Narutos the nine tails jinchuriki! If anyone can stop Gaara it's him! Right now our concern is what's happening here!" Kakashi growled.

Guy jumped away with Kakashi.. the other senseis joining almost instantly.
Though they still had their doubts. Naruto may be the nine tails jinchuriki but he could loose control any time and if he lost control along with Gaara, than their would be no Leaf village.. or shinobis anymore for that matter.