Trouble in the Sand! The Ultimate Ninja Hunter

A Fanfiction (A story using characters and settings from another story or show; in this case, Naruto, by Masashi Kishimoto) using characters from Naruto. This is a prelude to Trouble in the Sand 2! The Return of the White Snake!

Trouble in the Sand! The Ultimate Ninja Hunter!
~~~~~Chapter 1“Boss, must we really do this…..” Grunted a man in a dark green cloak. The man had coal black hair that came down over his eyes and was accompanied by 3 others, creating a four man squad. The man on the left revealed his head and was a pale boy with gray hair running down his back, with 2 scarlet red dots on his forehead, and he seemed to be their leader, also, his cloak was white, like fresh snow, unlike the other 3 wearing dark green ones.Another man had his head down, he really didn’t seem like he had wanted to do this; he had a scar running down the left side of his face and had spiked scarlet hair, that shot back like needles. The last person was a girl who was shorter than the other 3, and had blonde hair that was held back in a pony tail.The four walked in the desert, where a sudden storm had erupted earlier that day. The village of sand seemed to be where they were heading. “Boss! Why won’t you answer me? Why are we going here!” shouted the man with coal black hair, but the leader remained quite. “Heh, you know how Kekon is Zekok; he really won’t talk unless need be, heh...” muttered the woman, with some giggles thrown in. “Shut up Senu! I know how he is! I just want to know why we’re going to the sand village!” Spat Zekok. “Why must you to fight so much!” yelled the man who had his head down, and he suddenly stopped looking at his feet, revealing cold gray eyes.“Fine, we’re sorry Sudon.” Muttered Senu.~~Sand Village~~“Gaara–sama!” shouted a man who burst into the room of the red haired kazekage, “we have received information that 4 mysterious people are approaching the sand village, what action shall we take?”The serious looking man sitting on his bed staring at the rain turned and answered, “do you even know what village their from?” Asked Gaara.The man replied, “Well, no sir, they don’t have a visible forehead protector on.”“Then leave them be, and alert me if they cause trouble.” Said Gaara in an uncaring voice.~~outskirts of the sand village~~“You two know the plan, right?” Asked Sudon, whom was obviously second in command. “Ya, can we get this over with!?” yelled Zekok, while Senu maturely nodded her head.The four of them spread out into the sand village, to prepare their little surprise.~~The next day, Gaara~~Gaara was walking towards the conference room to discuss some bothersome matters going on around the city, when a huge barrier covered the whole village. Gaara stared out a window, stunned by what he saw.The people of the sand village were scared and the streets turned chaotic. Suddenly, a chain of explosions could be seen in a small corner of the village!Baki came running down the hall and stopped when he saw Gaara. “What is going on?!” He asked, and all Gaara could say was, “I have no idea.”~~Leaf Village~~Naruto awoke to the sun shining on his face, opening the door to a brand new day. "Naruto, get out of bed and get dressed, tsunade-sama has requested you, kakashi, Lee, and my presence," said a familiar voice."Sakura? What are you doing here?""I JUST TOLD YOU IDIOT!" Screamed the annoyed girl standing outside his window.So naruto got dressed quickly and was dragged along to Tsunade-sama's office.~~Tsunade's mansion~~"What took you so long, naruto and sakura?" Asked the women who had been appointed hokage only a few years ago."Naruto slept in, as usual." Replied sakura, who was still very annoyed by Naruto's sleeping habits."Why did i even have to ask....." said Tsunade. "Well, anyway, i've gotten reports that the hidden rock village was attacked by 4 cloaked figures; also, there isn't a living shinobi left in the village. Your job is to head there immediately and investigate, and i am sending you two with kakashi and Lee, who haven’t arrived for some reason, with you, is that clear?""Yes ma'am!" replied the two of them."And tell Kakashi and Lee the mission, please."~~~~~end chapter 1

~~~Chapter 2~~~“Naruto!” Said Lee as Naruto and Sakura walked out of the hokage’s mansion. “Hey Lee! Hey Kakashi!” Replied Naruto!After greeting each other, the four ninja separated and went back to their homes, to prepare for the investigation that lies ahead...~~Naruto’s home~~Naruto was packing quickly, packing all the essentials. He finished quickly, but before he left, he stood there, staring at the picture of Sasuke sitting on his dresser. “Where are you right now sasuke?” Said Naruto in a low voice.~~Konoha gates~~The 4 ninja gathered at the gates, and prepared to head out“Naruto, what do you think could have killed off all the ninja in the rock village?” Asked Lee.“Who knows, but it would have to be one hell of a ninja to have taken them all out.” Replied the blonde haired ninja.So the 4 of them left the village on an investigation of the killings in the rock village.~~Sand village~~People were screaming and running from the site of the explosions, where Zekok was killing off the gathered shinobi one by one. Most of the shinobi were dead when Gaara arrived.“So I’ll assume that you are the sand user that the boss want alive.” Said Zekok as Gaara floated into the dust on his sand.“What are you doing here?” Asked Gaara.“Killing off shinobi, what of it?”“This is my village, now leave or die!”“MAKE ME!”“YOU WILL NOT DESTROY MY VILLAGE!!” Screamed Gaara.Suddenly, sand shot at Zekok from all around him. Zekok Jumped out of the way just before the sand hit him, but the sand turned up and pulled Zekok down into the sand.“DESSERT COFFIN!!” Yelled Gaara.The Sand around Zekok pressed in on him with so much force, that it would’ve killed him, had it not been for his iron body jutsu. He climbed out of the sand, deactivating his jutsu.“HAHAAHHAAHHAHAHA!!!” Laughed the sadistic man, “Did you really assume that that would kill me?!”“Humph” grunted Gaara as the man came out of is sand coffin unscratched.Zekok then performed a series of hand signs and said, “Water style, water cutting blade! Block this with sand!”The sand tried to protect Gaara, but the water blade easily sliced through it and barely missed Gaara.“This is over! I’m your natural enemy!”~~South side of the village~~Senu began to set off the bomb, but before she could set it off, Kankuro arrived. Black ant glided over to the bomb and contained the explosion, stopping it from harming the citizens.“How about I show you my marionette?” Said the puppeteer, Kankuro.

~~~~~Chapter 3
~~Forest~~
It was growing dark as the 4 Konoha shinobi jumped from tree to tree, swiftly heading for the rock village. Kakashi was at the lead, occasionally looking down at a detailed map; Naruto was second and Sakura was behind him, with Lee taking up the rear.
“Kakashi-sensei, how long will it be till we reach the rock village?” Asked Naruto, almost hitting his head on a tree branch.
“About a day,” answered Kakashi, “but we’ll have to continue tomorrow, it’s getting late.”
So the 4 of them stopped in a clearing where you could see the night sky through the trees, and that is where they stayed.

~~Gaara vs. Zekok~~
All Gaara could do was jump and dodge Zekok’s water blade, while the sand naturally tried to defend him, but the blade always went right through it.
“You’re good at dodging, but I doubt you can dodge this! WATER SHOCKWAVE JUTSU!!!” Zekok yelled after performing several hand signs.
Water seemed to appear from nowhere, flooding the area, and also turning all of Gaara sand to mud. Gaara fell into the water, where all of his sand armor faded away, leaving him at a huge disadvantage. Then something disturbing happened; when Zekok landed in the water, he began to change into some kind of superhuman fish-man.
“You’re confused about my transformation, aren’t you? Well, I’ll explain it nice and slow. A long time ago, maybe 4-5 years I guess, I was captured by a man named Orochimaru, and he took me to some weird fish-lab where he was experimenting on people. He used me to test his new mutation for a mutant fish-man, but I was only a prototype. The serum worked, but I only changed when I hit the water. Orochimaru through me out like garbage, I was dieing until Kekon Kaguya found me on a beach somewhere. Another side affect was that I still had lungs, so this water we’re in is full of oxygen, so breathe already ya idiot!” Explained a changed Zekok.
So Zekok continued to fight, as Gaara tried desperately to swim out of the water, where he could only try slow moving kicks and punches. But Zekok would never let Gaara get out, and every time he attempted to get out, Zekok would grab his leg and pull him back down. Gaara was useless under the water.

~~Senu vs. Kankuro~~
Senu began to perform hand signs as she dodged hundreds of poison-tipped needles.
“EARTH SPIKE JUTSU!” Screamed Senu.
Upon hearing this, Kankuro jumped into the protective shell of salamander. The spikes sent salamander flying, and, when salamander began to fall, Kankuro flew out the back and moved his fingers around. Crow glided towards Senu with precise aim, but Senu jumped out of the way just before she was hit by his poison blades.
“Do you think you can hit me with such direct attacks?!” Laughed Senu.
But she was now off guard. “It’s over!” Yelled Kankuro, as she flew right into a wide open black ant. Just then, crow split apart and revealed roughly 8 blades. All of crow flew in and stabbed Senu through the slots in black ant.
Blood oozed from the slots. Kankuro separated his puppets and open black ant. Senu was alive! She slowly climbed out of the doll, her clothes covered in blood stains. She smirked at the surprised look on kankuro’s face.
“What’s the matter? Did you want me to die?” She said as she stood up as if nothing was wrong.
“How in the world did you-“ said Kankuro before he was cut off.
“Idiot, I can see those slots you know, all I had to do was make sure you didn’t hit anything vital.” She said with a triumphant look on her face.
“I really couldn’t care less,” replied Kankuro, “each of those blades had poison all over it, you’ll die in a few hours.”

~~Other side of sand village~~
Sudon was setting up his bomb, and set it to go off in 5, 4, 3, 2. Suddenly a strong wind came from nowhere and blew the bomb into the air, where it exploded like fire works!
“Who are you?” Asked Sudon to the lady standing in front of him.
“I am Temari, the wind kunoichi of the sand village!”

~~~~~Chapter 4
~~Gaara vs. Zekok~~
Gaara was still in the water, getting trashed by the super-human strength of Zekok’s fish form. Gaara then saw a slight chance of escaping the water, to where he might be able to use his sand again. He swam upwards as fast as he could; his head came out of the water and sparkling water droplets went everywhere. He slowly climbed onto the roof of a nearby building, just before Zekok could grab his leg and pull him back in.
“You think that you can get away that easily?!” Yelled Zekok.
Gaara was still catching his breathe as the structure began to shake; Zekok was destroying whatever house he stood on. Gaara was being chase like a dog, jumping from home to home, to keep from falling back into the water. Just then, he had an idea.
‘What if I move the sand and let the water flow from the village’ He thought.
So Gaara got as close to the wall of dirt and sand that covered one side of Suna. With all the chakra he had, he began to move all the sand. In a few moments, the sand was gone and the water had flowed out of the village.
“So what, you still can’t win!”
“I will, and this will end it!”

~~Temari vs. Sudon~~
“AIR BULLET JUTSU!” Yelled Sudon.
“CUTTING WIND JUTSU!!” Yelled Temari in response.
The blasts of strong currents collided in between the two shinobi, blasting them both backwards and into a wall. Sudon recovered and began to dash at Temari, with a barrage of kicks and punches. But Temari just blocked it with her fan. Then Sudon finally landed a strong downward kick on her neck, causing her to cough up drops of blood.
“Your jutsus are strong, I’ll give you that, but your taijutsu and blocking skills need work!”
Sudon began a series of kicks and punches, hitting her with each attack. Temari was losing to the taijutsu skills of the shinobi.

~~Kankuro vs. Senu~~
“You’ll never kill me with poisons!”
“I think I just did.”
“Arrrrggghhhh!!!!!”
Senu started to attack with blind rage, and unpredictable moves. Kankuro didn’t have time to get to salamander, so he took all the hits until she calmed down. Once she had stopped, Kankuro launched crow into the air, where it shot out about ten smoke bombs. With the whole area now covered in smoke, Kankuro got black ant to swallow her up again. Big mistake.
“EARTH SPIKE JUTSU!!!”
Several earth spikes flew out of the ground, destroying black ant. But she wasn’t done! More spikes came up rapidly in a line heading for Kankuro, who had already jumped into salamander.
Salamander was hurled into the air, with it’s puppeteer inside it. Once more, Kankuro jumped out of the puppet’s hard shell, totally un-scratched. Before Senu could notice, crow had begun to glide behind her and was launching poison tipped needles at her.
“AAGGGGHHHHH!!!!”
“Dead yet?” asked Kankuro with a smirk.
“Like I said, you can’t kill me!”

~~~~CHAPTER 5!!!!!!!!!
~~Gaara versus Zekok~~
“What can you do? You’re already injured badly!” yelled Zekok, who had been turned back due to the water being drained.
“This!” Replied Gaara, “DESSERT FISSURE!!!!!”
Suddenly, a huge fissure opened directly underneath Zekok, with sand tumbling grain by grain into the abyss. Gaara’s eyes had turned white, and his chakra was visible, lashing out from all sides, going into the earth. Zekok called out, screaming for his life, as he fell deeper and deeper into the earth.
“DIE!! DESERT CATICALLISM!!!!!”
Sand begun to shoot from the ground around the fissure, and shot straight into it. Zekok began to grab the air, his hands and head helplessly trying to stay above the sand. The fissure then closed, with Zekok deep below, buried in deep sand.
Just then, Gaara suddenly collapsed onto his floating sand. Other sand shinobi who had been assigned as his back up finally arrived, and took him to the infirmary at once.

~~Temari versus Sudon~~
Temari was still being mercilessly beaten by Sudon, whose strength seemed to know no bounds. The blood of the blonde sand shinobi was being spilt all over the ground, turning small patches of sand scarlet red.
“Admit god damn defeat already!!” Demanded Sudon.
“You first!” Replied a cocky Temari.
“Why you insolent little!”
Sudon was beginning to be pissed at this girl who wouldn’t just shut-up and die. Then, out of no where, as Sudon was in blind rage, Temari kicked off his chest into the air and began waving her fan with all her strength, sending powerful blasts of wind at the mad beast. But just the wind would not stop him.
“Wind orb!”
Once said, wind began to swirl in a ball similar to the rasengan, but all around Sudon like a shield. The powerful blasts of wind, that Temari had used the last of her strength to create, were just redirected into the ground, kicking up sand like smokescreen. Temari was stunned, she had put the last of her strength into that attack, and they were simply deflected. She was to weak, her body wouldn’t move an inch. Just then, Sudon suddenly flew from the kicked up sand, and punched Temari so hard that one could hear her ribs crack.
“This is over…”
Temari plummeted downward, creating a crater when she landed. Now, all that was left, was a dead body, with sand rolling over on top of it…

~~Kankuro versus Senu~~
Their battle went on, with needles and smoke bombs flying every where.
“AAARRRGH!!!” Yelped a very pained Senu.
The many attacks made by Crow were finally beginning to hit, many of which were hitting vital points on her body. Senu fell over, with heavy breathe, with pain enveloping her whole body. She cried out in pain once more before she finally died.
“You will pay!!!!”
With that, her body had finally met it’s limits. Kankuro smirked triumphantly, and then left for Gaara’s mansion.

~~Kazekage’s mansion, infirmary~~
“Gaara!”
Gaara was being treated when Kankuro came in.
“What happened to him?”
“His body is heavily wounded, and his chakra is low, but we’ve already taken care of the life-threatening wounds, we’ll be done in a few moments,” replies one of the sand village’s best medical ninja.
“Where’s Temari?”
Once Kankuro uttered that sentence, a mournful silence fell over the room, and Baki called Kankuro over.
“We only found her body, half covered in sand…” said Baki sadly.
Kankuro didn’t move, his fist tightened, and tears began to fall from his eyes. He then just ran out of the room.

~~Outside the mansion~~
“I’ll kill whoever did that to her”
Images of Temari began to flash through his head, making him cry even more. He wiped the tears from his face, and began to run in the direction of the lost battle.

~~~~~Chapter 6
~~~Temari versus Sudon, Area after the battle~~~
Tears fell from Kankuro’s eyes, as he stood, staring into the crater where Temari’s body had been thrown. His fist tightened, an angered expression began to unfold.
“I will kill who did this to you, Temari,” he said to himself through gritted teeth.
“Hahahahahahahaha!”
“Wha?”
“Are you related to that girl?” Said a voice that drifted down from the rooftops.
Kankuro slowly turned towards the roof of a small building that had been half-destroyed by the one-sided battle. Sitting there, was Temari’s killer, Sudon.
“BASTA**, I’LL KILL YOU!!!”
"Heheh, come and get me.”
Kankuro pulled the two remaining scrolls off his back and laid them out in front of him. In a sudden puff of smoke, the puppets black ant and salamander appeared. Nearly invisible strings, laced with chakra, shot from the puppeteer’s hands, latching on to both puppets.
Crow was the first to move. The puppet glided along the ground and up the walls of the ruined building. When crow was about 10 feet from him, Sudon waved his hand in front of him, and a sudden gust of wind blasted crow back at Kankuro. Crow had already readied poison covered blades, which were now stabbed into Kankuro.
“Heheh, you call that puppetry?”
But all Kankuro could do was grunt in pain, fore the blades had punctured his heart, lungs, and stomach, and in only a few seconds, he died right there, in the blood covered sand.
~~~The Konoha Ninja’s Camp, Morning~~~
Naruto yawned, as he awoke from a good nights sleep. Lee and Sakura were also slowly getting out of their sleeping bags, but one person hadn’t woken up. Kakashi was in his sleeping bag, snoring and surrounded by Jiraiya’s many novels.
“KAKASHI, GET THE FU** UP!!!!” Demanded the pissed Sakura.
She then kicked Kakashi, still in his sleeping bag, straight into the air. He crashed into a tree, and fell to the ground.
“OMG!!! WHAT’S GOING ON!” Said Kakashi, as he was jumping around in his sleeping bag.
“I think you overdid it, Sakura,” said Naruto and Lee in unison.
So once they were all packed and ready to head out, they jumped into the trees, and reassumed their journey to the rock village. But, they were stopped by a figure in a black cloak, with red clouds.
“Stop, which of you is the 9-tailed jinchuriki, hmm?” Asked the blonde haired man.
“Who wants to know,” asked Naruto.
“Deidara, missing ninja of the rock village, yeah.”
“The jinchuriki would be me,” blurted out Naruto.
“IDIOT!!!” Yelled Sakura, hitting him in the back of the head.
“I’ll be taking you then, hmm.”
“Come and get me, I’ll kick you’re as*!”
“No Naruto, let me fight, go on to the rock village,” Said Lee, who jumped in front of Naruto and started to take off the bandages on his arms.
“So, if I beat you, I can fight him, hmm?”
“GO!” Commanded Lee.
The other three ninja sped off, around Deidara. Deidara reached, trying to grab Naruto, but Lee suddenly appeared in his way, kicking him into a tree.
“You’re speed is quite surprising, hmm.”
“Like I said, I am you’re opponent.”

~~~Chapter 7~~~
“You seem to be a worthy opponent, yeah,” muttered Deidara, getting into his fighting stance.
“Being a member of Akatsuki, I suppose you will be as well,” said Lee in his usual respectful voice.
“Heh, you seem to be one of those respectful pieces of sh*t, hmm.”
Deidara jumped off the trunk of the tree he was on, leaving shattered bark in his place. He reached into the bag on his side; the hands on his palms began to swallow clay, molding it into a bird. Deidara raised two fingers in front of his face, and in an instant, the white clay bird enlarged into a living model, big enough to stand and ride on, thus becoming Deidara’s platform. Lee began jumping from tree to tree, at his usual unnatural speed, kicking Deidara’s bird under its beak. The huge bird exploded, send Lee back into the tree, where the crafty Deidara had planted small clay spiders, which all climbed onto Lee and began to blow up all over him.
“AAAAAGGGHHHHHH,” he screamed in pain.
“Maybe this will be easier than expected, hmm.”
“Not even in you’re dreams!”
Lee flew at lightning speed out the smoke, and kick Deidara in the chin. Deidara flew upward, with Lee not to far behind. He got behind the menacing artist and the bandages he had unwrapped earlier curled around Deidara, and then tightened.
“What is this, hmm!?”
The two of them began to spin in mid air, spiral downward at lightning speed, thundering into the ground. Lee jumped away at the last moment, while Deidara was hurled head first into the hard earth. His blood splattered into the dirt, but he was not done yet. One spider on each arm blew up, sending Lee spiraling toward a thick tree. Lee grabbed his knees and steadied himself, jumping off the tree, and even with its strong trunk, the tree broke in half and fell. Lee flipped onto the ground, landing perfectly, and instantly readied himself in his fighting stance.
“Well, I see you aren’t an ordinary ninja. You are most skilled in taijutsu, hmm,” said a voice that came from somewhere under ground.
“Show yourself!”
“Wish granted, yeah.”
Deidara’s bloody hand emerged from underneath Lee, pulling him underground. Lee found himself in a cave under the earth, staring at Deidara. Deidara had obviously taken a lot of damage from the last attack. His shirt was ripped off, along with his cloak, revealing a stitched up chest. Another mouth, bigger than the ones on his palms, was over his heart, gapping open, hungry for clay.
“It seems you are to strong for even I, so how about I take you with me!?!?”
“What!?
Deidara reached for the last of his special clay, letting the mouth on his chest devour it. Black lines began to cover Deidara, blood and clay oozing out of all his mouths. The explosion was vast, like a nuclear missile. Devoured by the blast, Lee could do nothing…

Nothing of Deidara was left, and Lee was blown apart, his left leg and right arm blown off. Lee was gasping for air, about to die where he lay. Before his eyes completely shut, blurred Konoha medics, along with Tsunade, appeared over him.
“I guess this injuries chance is one in a million eh, Were Lee’s last words before he fainted…

Author:
Time to make all the sasuketards happy.:zaru

~~~Chapter 8~~~
~~~Deep in the Forest, Naruto’s group
“I wonder if Lee is all right…” sighed Sakura as they jumped through the trees.
“Sure he is,” encouraged Naruto, “he is strong, and he won’t fall to that kind of opponent!”
***flashback***
“Before you leave,” said Deidara, “I’d like to warn you, something is happening in Suna, probably the same fate that befell the Hidden Rock, yeah.”
“But that means…” muttered Naruto
Naruto quickly changed direction to Suna, and Kakashi and Sakura soon followed.
“Gaara…” Naruto muttered…
***~***
The team swiftly flew toward Suna, quicker than ever. But, as they emerged from the trees, all that stood before them was walls of sand with black smoke flowing its center. Naruto’s fists tightened with rage, when, out of the corner of his eye, he saw four shinobi jump out of the trees farther south. One with a white cloak, another with a huge sword, and 2 more, a girl and boy, which were harder to make out.
“Could it be?” Naruto whispered, “Sasuke?!”
Naruto Jumped in Sasuke’s direction, but Kakashi caught his foot. He only shook his head slowly.
Holding back the urge to go and settle the score with Sasuke, Naruto and company charged into the wrecked Suna, all of them reminded now of the incident that had occurred years before.
~~~Outside the Kazekage’s Mansion
“A huge amount of chakra… their leader, I can feel his presence!” said Gaara, clenching his fist, “He will DIE!!!”
Sand from the ground lifted Gaara onto the sky, and in the direction of the chakra.
~~~At the Edge of the Cave
“Soon it will begin,” said Kekon, chuckling triumphantly, “all the pieces will soon gather here, and even Itachi showed up…”
“When did he…” sighed Itachi from behind a large boulder, “Never mind, I’ll still kill him, but why do I also sense that Sasuke is nearby, this could be trouble.”
Itachi suddenly disappeared into the shadows.
“Boss the plan is all ready,” said a new man in a white suit… Orochimaru! “Heh heh, I didn’t expect Sasuke-kun to show up hahahah!!”
“Orochimaru…” muttered a man in glasses… Kabuto! “You never did thank me for reviving you…”
The four retreated in to the depths of the cave, Kabuto, Orochimaru, Kekon, and Sudon, all of them sitting in wait for their opponents to appear.
Soon, all of the shinobi were gathered at the entrance to the cave. Sasuke, Karin, Suigetsu, Juugo, Kakashi, Sakura, Naruto, and Gaara.
“Just this once… we fight together to stop these people, admittedly, I can’t stop them on my own.” Muttered Sasuke, “But I kill Itachi if we find him!”
“Fine!” naruto and Sakura said in unison, both with a gleam in their eyes.
Team 7, REVIVED!

Note:
How do you like that?! :P

~~~Chapter 9~~~
~~in the cave
Dashing into the cave, the group could sense a large amount of chakra ahead, 4 of them to be exact. But, there was an almost unnoticeable sliver of chakra hidden deep in the back of the cavern.
“This slight chakra… it seems so familiar,” said Gaara.
“I wonder who it is; I recognize it, too” replied Naruto.
~~Back in Konoha’s Infirmary.
“LEEEEEE!!! HANG IN THERE LEE!!” Sobbed Might Guy.
“SHADDUP!!!” Yelled Tsunade, giving him a swift uppercut.
“Wait, he’s, he’s, MOVING!!!” Screamed Guy.
Tsunade gave a cold glare at Guy, which made him scramble in the wall, out of her reach.
“Ugggh,” coughed Lee, slowly getting up.
“Lie back down and let your injuries heal, Lee,” stated Tsunade, “it seems you’ve lived another near-death injury, have you?”
~~On a tree, outside the cave
“It seems little Sasuke did show up.”
Itachi sat on a tree, waiting for Kisame to arrive. Suddenly, a blue that liked slightly like a shark, appeared suddenly out of now where, scaring Itachi to the point that he fell out of the tree.
Itachi stared at him menacingly, grinding his teeth. All Kisame did was whistle nervously.
~~Back in the Cave
“It seems the entertainment has arrived!” Yelled Sudon happily from atop a large boulder.
“Go on, we’ll take him; won’t we, Juugo?” Said Suigetsu, looking over at Juugo.
Juugo simply nodded slightly, his curse seal expanding all over his body. Suigetsu’s Muscles grew to about twice their original size.
“You two seem to be quite special…” said Sudon, not surprised in the least by their power-ups.
“Are you can take him?” Asked Gaara, “He’s the one who killed Kankuro and Temari.”
“Yeah,” replied Suigetsu, sadistically licking his lips.
“Let’s get started then,” said Sudon.
Suddenly, Sudon disappeared and reappeared in front of Suigetsu with a kunai at his throat, which Suigetsu quickly blocked with the huge sword that he had taken from Zabuza’s grave.
“So fast,” Suigetsu murmured through clenched teeth, “GO!” He yelled at the rest of the group.
In an instant, Juugo was behind Sudon, in his first level of the curse seal, punching with all of his strength. Sadly, he missed, and his punch flew right into Suigetsu’s gut, who flew back and slammed into a wall.
“What the hell!!!” Yelled Suigetsu, coughing up blood.
“Hahahah! You guys don’t even know your target!” Laughed Sudon.
Juugo closed his eyes, and swiftly jumped up to Sudon, his punch missing again, smash the boulder in two. Sudon jumped into the air, and sent a hard blast of wind at Juugo, slamming him into the ground.
Juugo was crushed into the ground, blood flying from his mouth, and his eyes turning white. Knocked out, Juugo lay there.
“Not that he’s out of the way, we can fight for real!”
“Heh heh, fine by me!”
Suigetsu and Sudon both disappeared, and then reappeared as their sword and kunai clashed and clanked against each other. Then, Suigetsu scored a hit, putting a large gash on Sudon’s leg
“You basta**!” Yelled Sudon, sending Suigetsu back with a gust if wind.
Suigetsu skillfully flipped onto his feet, and smirked. He started to swing his sword around like a buzz saw in a reckless manner. Jumping up, he surprised Sudon with a burst in speed, cutting him in half.
Afterwards, Suigetsu and Juugo sat against the wall, breathing heavy.
“I guess we’ll wait for them here,” said Suigetsu with a slight smirk.
~~Deeper in the Cave
“Sudon’s chakra has disappeared...” said Sasuke.
“That means that Suigetsu and Juugo won,” replied Naruto.
The group of six continued into the deeper into the cave, relieved that Suigetsu and Juugo were ok…

Authors note:
Next chpt… get ready Sasuketards…

~~~Chapter 10~~~
~~Deeper into the Cave
“It seems that your follower, Sudon, I believe, is dead,” chuckled Orochimaru.
“It is a necessary sacrifice…” replied Kekon, “the more chakra used in this cave the better.”
All of them stood around a coffin in a room brightly lit by the orange light of torching lining the walls. Kabuto was over the coffin, chanting some kind of jutsu, standing over a scroll marked with many different characters.
“Lord Orochimaru, it’s ready,” said Kabuto.
“Good…” hissed Orochimaru, “than why don’t you go and entertain our friends?”
“Yes, lord Orochimaru.”
Kabuto then swiftly disappeared, back tracking to the entrance of the cave.
~~Naruto and Company
“I wonder what’s next,” murmured Naruto under his breath.
“Watch out,” replied Kakashi, “there’s someone with a familiar large amount of chakra ahead, and he’s coming, fast!”
“Well, well, well,” said Kabuto, “what might we have here? Sasuke-kun and Naruto working together again? How cute.”
“Tell me, Kabuto,” replied Sasuke, “why do I sense a dead man’s chakra? Could it be that you actually revived Orochimaru?”
“Actually, yes.”
“Than I guess I’ll just have to kill him again!”
“You’ll have to take me down first, because you and your new girlfriend are fighting me, now.”
“Karen, you step back and just tell what’s he’s going to do next; play the role of my support!”
“Anything for you,” she replied.
After everyone else had gone ahead, walls of rock enclosed them, giving no escape. Suddenly, needles, probably poisoned, came out off the walls and turned them into a death trap.
“This is my special room,” Kabuto blurted out proudly, “in here, all I have to do is push you into a wall, and you die.”
“Well than we’ll just have to avoid the wall, won’t we.”
“Easier said than done.”
Kabuto’s hands started to glow an eerie blue, his chakra scalpels ready to pierce Sasuke from the inside. In an instant, Kabuto was behind Sasuke, ready to strike. Just as he punched, Sasuke quickly evaded it, reappearing on the wall. Lightning-like chakra began to dance up and down Sasuke sword, the end was near. In seconds, Sasuke’s blade was in Kabuto’s gut, and he was coughing smoke.
“Are you kidding me,” said Sasuke, “you thought you could beat me? Hahahah! I’ killed Orochimaru! You are worthless scum…”
He threw Kabuto on the ground without second thoughts, and began to walk out the cave with Karen.
“Come, I can sense Itachi,” Sasuke said, his eyes turning red.
~~Farther into the cave
The battle had already begun; Kakashi and Sakura had stayed behind so that Naruto and Gaara could get to the final destination. But, Kakashi was already badly wounded, and Orochimaru wouldn’t give Sakura the chance to heal him even for a second.
“What’s wrong?” Hissed Orochimaru, “I thought Tsunade would’ve raised a much stronger apprentice, how disappointing…”
“You snake, we’re not going to lose!”
“I beg to differ!”
Orochimaru begun to form a long series of hand signs, and then slammed his hand into the floor.
“SUMMONING! REANIMATION JUTSU!”
A coffin sprung up from the ground, and slowly opened.
“Don’t tell he plans to… Sakura! Get out of there!”
To late. A man in a white cloak, with spiky yellow hair stood before Sakura. Yondaime. The man standing there then kicked Sakura high into the sky and jumped up after her.
“Rasengan…” He said quietly as a swirling ball of blue light appeared in his hand.
Sakura began to spin violently, and was knocked into the ceiling, and then fell to the floor, spiting up blood.
Kakashi shakily stood, his red left eye spinning quickly.
“Sensei… I’m sorry, but I have to stop you!” He yelled…

~~~Author:
Woo, Yondaime!

~~~Chapter 11~~~
“Chidori!”
“Rasengan!”
The two shinobi clashed at full speed and power, the shockwave immense. Lucky for Kakashi, he went into the ground instantly and came up behind Yondaime, whom, being a soul in a different body, couldn’t react as he would’ve when he was alive. Kakashi grabbed the paper on the back of his head, making Yondaime’s body fall to pieces.
“I’m sorry sensei…”
“Heh heh heh… you really think you’ve won?” Hissed Orochimaru, “watch this, REANIMATION JUTSU!”
Thousands of coffins all rose from the earth at once, and the bodies of thousands of dead unnamed shinobi emerged from them all. Overwhelmed, Kakashi tried to defend Sakura and himself, but it was all in vain… they both died.
The body all fell apart, and Orochimaru snickered as he disappeared, and the rest, well, you know…
~~Team Hebi~~
“It’s time for us to take our leave, Itachi has left…” muttered Sasuke.
And they all dashed away into the forest.
~~Deep in Cave, Naruto and Gaara~~
The last two shinobi rushed onwards, already knowing that Kakashi and Sakura were dead. Tears fell from Naruto’s eyes, but he was now more determined to kill whoever was truly behind this than ever. Then, the cavern opened into a small clearing underground; the ceiling was opened, and it was raining hard down into the cave.
In the center of the area was a coffin covered in seals and signs; the torches around it were doused by the downpour.
“You can’t stop me now… HE will be revived…” said a menacing voice from the other side of the clearing.
“Show yourself!” Gaara demanded.
A man in a white cloak, drenched in rain water, emerged from the darkness. The man walked up to the pair, and smacked them both into the wall.
“Fools, do you really want to see my face?”
He ripped off his cloak, and, all over his body, was various ninja headbands, from many different villages.
“You see, I take the headband of every ninja I hunt down and kill, what do you think of my collection? Hurry up, because… soon, YOU WILL BE A PART OF IT!!!” He yelled, going into a fit of sadistic laughter.
“No we won’t,” replied Naruto, his voice filled with confidence, “cause’ I’m gonna be hokage someday! Believe it!”
A smirk planted itself on Kekon’s face, and he suddenly disappeared and reappeared behind Naruto. Then, something white, smooth, and hard, stabbed Naruto various times, in various places.
“My full name is… KEKON KAGUYA!” He said, his rib cage receding back into his chest.
“Ka…gu…ya?” muttered Naruto, falling to the ground.
Sand began to form a ball around Naruto, and it carried him over to the wall, sticking there. Gaara had decided to do this on his own.
The fight began, first with Gaara flying into the sky on his sand cloud. Kekon swerved and rushed around, as hands of sand shot out of the ground, trying the drag him into the ground. Kekon jumped up, pulled out his spine, and whipped in Gaara’s direction. Sand tried to block it, but it went through, and smacked Gaara right in the face.
Gaara fell to the ground, and was absorbed by the sand. Just then, the ball that contained Naruto began to shake; it burst open. Naruto, covered in blood and red chakra shaped like a fox, with four tails, emerged from the mess of sand, roaring in pain.
“What… what are you?”
Naruto instantly appeared behind Kekon and smashed him into the ground. Naruto then jumped into the air, and ate a ball of black chakra; a ray of the blackness then fired from his mouth, crushing Kekon into the ground.
“N… no… not now, not here…” muttered Kekon as his life faded away.
Naruto fainted and fell to the ground just as steam started to emit from the coffin’s lid. The lid fell off, and gray-haired man emerged. A curse mark on his chest, the man disappeared into the sky, out of the cave, off to find Orochimaru…
“This time… Orochimaru will get what he desires… I Kimimaro will ensure it!

~~~~~End Trouble in the Sand! The Ultimate Ninja Hunter!~~~

In the next story, the characters will be much more understandable, this being only a prelude.