A Sacrifice for Another

Chapter 17

"You may Begin." The proctor said, jumping back.

Naruko and Gaara tensed for battle. Both sliding into their taijutsu stances.

"No holding back?" Naruko suggested.

"Why not, just for old times sake?" Gaara said.

Naruko took out several kunai with sealing tags on them and threw them at random spots around the arena.

"I hope you realize that by letting me not hold back, that I will use this jutsu, and you have one of these seals on your gourd, in case you ever get in trouble I could flash to where you were." Naruko said. Gaara simply nodded.

He popped off the cork on his gourd and let the sand flow out. Naruko smiled and closed her eyes, going into the fortress of her mind.

"Ne, Kurama, I might need your help, especially since when he felt us fly by, he hadn't had Shukaku be brought out of him yet." She said.

"Don't worry about it kit. If you need any help just go into biju form. Gaara isn't able to do that with Shukaku, so we'll have the upper hand should you need to use it. Which, by the way, I don't recommend, since, knowing the ways of gossiping in Konoha, everyone will be wondering how the hell you did it." Kurama said.

"Whatever, who the hell cares about the questions?" Naruko said. "But I haven't had a good fight with Gaara in ages. Neither of us will be holding back."

"Good Luck kit." Kurama said.

"Thanks Kurama!" She said, before leaving her mind scape.

She had started gathering Nature Chakra for Sage Mode since she saw it was her match and was now in it. She flashed open her eyes and looked at Gaara.

"Let's go." She said, before using her speed to flash right in front of him.

He had his sand come up in front of and try to wrap around Naruko. Naruko however just punched through the sand like it was nothing and jumped back. She flashed around to his back and delivered a kick to his head, which banged down.

She flashed back to her previous spot. And smiled as she saw his sand armor fall off of him. She knew he wouldn't be so easy to beat. He sped the Sand towards her again and she jumped onto the ceiling and stuck there. She propelled herself off of the ceiling, forming a quick rasengan in her hand. She aimed straight for Gaara who, knowing her attack so well, was able to get around it. He jumped up, twisting his body to avoid being hit and grabbed the hand with a rasengan in it, directing it towards the ground.

Naruko hit the ground, causing a large hole to form, of course, she wasn't hurt, so she turned and looked at Gaara. He was floating up on a pile of his sand in the air.

"I hope you don't think I would be taken down so easily Naruko-chan." He said.

"Of course not Gaara-kun." She said.

Naruko took out a three pronged kunai and used Hirashin to immediately get behind Gaara, who broke his gourd and use the sand to take the kunai away and crush it, while he turned and grabbed hold of Naruko.

He jumped off of his sand cloud and jumped with her to the ceiling, making her hit it with her back. It didn't hurt her immensely, but she had some pains in her back. She got up and took out another kunai, and Gaara formed a kunai made of sand.

They started exchanging blows with the kunai and were blocking each other quite well, although their hands were starting to hurt since they had so much power in their strikes. Gaara had made another kunai of sand behind Naruko and aimed it at her back. She sensed it though and turned and deflected it.