"Hey, you obviously know me. But I don't recognize you, ya see? Fool, ya fool!" He said.
Naruko's eyes narrowed. She had forgotten how annoying his rapping could be at times. "Ummmm... yeah.. I guess. Anyways, what are you Kumo nins doing here?" She asked.
"Well, don't you see, we're here to stop you, and hopefully kill the famous 'Yellow Flash of Konoha'." One of them said. Everyone looked towards him and the time travelers' jaws dropped. The Fourth Raikage. And he wants to fight the Fourth Hokage. Great. Just great.
"Bee, you take the kids, I'll handle The Flash." The Future Raikage said.
"I'll knock 'em all out! After all, they're just some sprouts!" Bee said. Naruko sighed, yep, she really forgot how bad the rapping could be.
"Yeah yeah yeah! Now come at me!" Naruko yelled as she ran towards Bee. She had missed fighting him, it had been awhile. She had always had fun, especially when they really tested each other in biju mode.
"Bring it on, fool ya fool!" Bee said as he shot out a tentacle to grab her.
Neji turned to his teammates "Well, we should probably just let Naruko fight Bee on her own. She can handle him. Besides, if he's going to be in biju mode the whole time, which is likely, we won't be able to do much." He said. The others nodded and they stayed where they were and watched the battle, just in case Naruko needed help.
Seeing that Bee had transformed his arm, she brought out her biju mode. What could be better to use to beat the eight tales other than the nine tails after all?
"BEE! This kid isn't normal! I'd recognize that chakra anywhere! That kid's the nine-tailed fox jinchurriki!" The eight tails said from inside Bee's head.
"What? Nine-tails? I thought that demon was sealed inside of a red-headed woman. This is just some blonde little girl!" Bee said, not rapping since he was confused and alarmed.
"I'm not sure Bee. I've seen that woman myself and she does have the nine-tails sealed inside of her. Or did at least. I felt it, there is no way that they could fake that type of chakra, But we met her just a year ago, demon still inside of her, yet here this kid is, with it in her. The demons are supposed to be sealed inside newborns, or else they kill the host. I don't understand what is happening, this kid is at least 13 and she has mastery over the Kyuubi! I've never seen anyone gain mastery over it, and there is no way that Kyuubi would give over control like I did for you." The eight tales said. Then, it snapped its head up. There was the nine tails, standing in front of him in Bee's mind scape as only the demons could do.
"Well well well. Didn't think I'd encounter you so soon Gyuki." Nine tails said.
"Soon? It's been ages Kurama. Would you mind explaining to me how that little human was able to beat you to take control of you?" Gyuki asked.
Kurama laughed. "Kit's no ordinary human Gyuki. Sure when she did it she had the help of one of my former jinchurriki, but she probably would have pulled it off somehow even without that woman. Kit's special, you would find out if you really talked to her. She's even made me like her, she's the only human I've ever let call me Kurama, or even find out that I had a name other than Kyuubi." Kurama said.
"Sheesh, why are you so close to her? You've never been anything but cold to the rest of us." Gyuki said.
"She's like my own kid Gyuki. Not sure how, but she always finds a way to worm herself into people's hearts, even mine." Kurama said.
"Well, she's seems pretty amazing. Even though I'm not actually fighting her. Oh, and by the way, how did you get in here? I mean, I've got Bee on my nose and he's just not talking. But where's your kid?" Gyuki asked.
"I'm up here! Ttebayo!" Naruko yelled from atop Kurama's head.
"This is that magnificent kid you were talking about? She's tiny!" Gyuki said.
"Hey! Don't make fun of me just because I'm short! And don't underestimate me either!" Naruko yelled.
"Sheesh kit. Could you quiet down? Your yelling and your close to my ear." Kurama said
"Hehe, sorry Kurama! Anyways, it's been awhile Gyuki! I've missed you and Bee." Naruko said.
"Kurama, what is she talking about?" Gyuki asked.
"Gyuki, me and kit are from the future. I used our time travel jutsu, the future is incredibly messed up, so I'm putting my faith in Kit. Her and Bee were pretty close in the future. So, yeah, I guess that's it." Kurama said.
"Wow, the future must be pretty messed up if you decided to use the time travel jutsu. Well, let's get these two close again! Yo, Bee! I want you to meet this kid! Make friends with her!" Gyuki yelled.
What seemed like a day to them, was only a few seconds in the real world. Bee and Naruko had already gotten close again in that amount of time.
"Well Bee, I think it's time we went back to normal time and out of our mind scape." Naruko said.
With that, the two exited their mind scape and ended up in the position they were in right before they entered the mind scape.
Naruko landed on the ground in front of Bee and exited biju mode. He too, exited biju mode. Naruko held out her fist to him and smiled. "Fist Bump?" She asked.
Bee smiled and bumped her fist. "Fool, ya fool! Too bad us jinchurrikis are used as tools." He said.
"Way to put a damper on the mood Bee." Naruko said. Then she withdrew her fist.
"Bee! What are you doing!? Why are you making friends with her!? You're supposed to be killing them!" The Raikage-to-be yelled.
"Sorry A! She's a jinchurriki fool, ya fool! Just like me, I can't just make her be as still as a stool!" He said.
Naruko's sweat dropped, it seemed like his raps were even worse in the past. A looked extremely angry.
"BEE! YOU BETTER FIGHT THEM RIGHT NOW-... Wait... did you say... jinchurriki? Just like you? She is a jinchurriki? For which demon?" A asked.
"Only the strongest of them all. It's the nine-tailed fox y'all!" Bee rapped.
"The nine-tailed fox? That's impossible, the nine-tailed fox jinchurriki is that red-headed Kushina. Besides, that girl is 13, we saw Kushina with the fox last year, she would be dead had it been sealed into her." A said.
"Yeah, that's what Gyuki thought too. Well, until-"
"Octopops! Quiet!" Naruko hissed as she clamped a hand over Bee's mouth.
"Octopops?" Everyone questioned at the same time.
"Yeah, I call him Octopops, gotta problem with that, ttebayo?" She asked.
They all shook their heads. She let go of Bee's mouth and whispered to him "It's an S-rank secret, don't tell anyone about it. Got it?" He nodded his head and then turned to A or as many will call him, Raikage-sama.
"A, let's go bro! If we stick around any longer, they'll mow us down! Fool, ya fool!" Bee said.
"But, Bee!" He said.
"I don't wanna hear it. Let's go, these people are too important to the future to kill. Besides, me and Naruko-chan are close now. Right, Naru?" He said.
"Right Octopops! I can't believe you said something without rapping!" She exclaimed.
Bee laughed at that. "Don't get used to it, fool, ya fool!"
A just grumbled and left with his brother. Naruko turned back to her teammates who had all raised eyebrows to her.
"What?" She asked.
"How did you get him to side with you? One second you were attacking him and the next, you both disengaged and randomly bumped fists. How did you do that?" Minato asked.
"Easy, it went like this.." Naruko then explained what she had gone through during the battle, and the others were amazed that something like that could even exist. They guessed it was sort of jinchurriki entry only though.
"Well, that's good. Saves us a fight. Though this isn't exactly a C-rank anymore. We will continue, since we have skilled ninja on our team." Minato turned towards the clients. "You won't have to worry about paying extra, since they were after me, it wasn't your fault. But we will be more on guard, so sorry if our happy mood earlier isn't present for the next few days. As shinobi, we take our mission seriously and smother our emotions to keep the mission going as successfully as possible. Of course, we can take you back to the village and arrange a new team if you don't feel comfortable with us as your protectors since apparently Kumo nin are after me."
"No, it's fine, we trust that you will all keep us safe, even if powerful ninja should appear." The man said.
"Alright, let's get go. Everyone take positions and we will continue on." Minato said.
"Minato-sensei, do you really think we'll be attacked again?" Rin asked.
"There's a chance Rin, always be on guard, just in case. Besides, don't worry, because if you worry over a simple mission like this, than how will you be able to lead a team as a Chuunin?" Minato said.
Rin nodded, he was right. There wasn't anything to be scared about. Not when she had her teammates... still... she felt like the weakest link in the team. Of course, her sensei would be better than her, Kakashi was already a Chuunin and the three time travelers were high Anbu and Sannin level.. but that just made her feel useless. She was a genin. That's it. She clenched her hand into a fist. Not anymore, she would ask Christina and Naruko what she should study in to become strong kunoichi like them. They would know after all. She would show them her skills so far and they would be able to tell her what area she was most skilled for. She bet Christina would show her how to improve her medical ninjutsu. She only knew basics and surgery since she helped out at the hospital. It seemed they had better medical training programs in place in the future though. Of course, it wouldn't surprise her, Tsunade was the Hokage in their time when they were her age. She had determination now, she wouldn't fail. She would become stronger, and become a Chuunin.
The next few days passed quickly without anymore attacks. They were traveling through the desert at the moment, and in the distance, they saw the gates of Suna.
"Well, there it is!" Obito said. This was his first time to Suna, he didn't like the desert that much, but he had to admit, from where they were, the landscape was pretty cool. It's like they had just found a tower that hadn't been found for centuries that held valuable treasures.
Naruko looked upon the city with great sadness. She hadn't been to Suna since the day that Gaara died. She knew that when she came back it would break her, one of her very best friends had been in this city. The city that she had many memories of, she had been picked as an ambassador. Well, maybe not picked, more like Gaara forced them to make her an ambassador after he became Kazekage so he would get to see her more often. She had gone back and forth so many times already, and she had gotten so close to Gaara over that time. She missed him so much!
Tears started to roll down her cheeks as she thought back to all the times she had with Gaara. She had gotten him to open up, just like she had with Sasuke. They fell onto the hot ground and disappeared quickly. She bit back sobs, she didn't want to seem weak, but it hurt so badly. She still would get to see him again of course, but it would be awhile.
She was still crying of course, the tears were flowing from her eyes quickly and there were a lot of them too. She felt a hand on her cheek and when she turned her head, she saw that it was Kakashi's.
"Why are you crying?" He asked as he wiped the tears off her cheeks and from around her eyes.
"This was my old friend's village. It's just hard to come back, remembering all the times he and I had here... I miss him a lot." She said.
"Kit!" She heard cry from inside her head. She snapped her head backwards of course. Then she realized what she was doing. She looked forward and started walking with the others. Her mind was with Kurama though.
"Kurama, why did you sound so alarmed? I've never heard you alarmed like that before. Even when you thought we were going to die! What is it?" She asked.
"Kit, this is serious! I affected some major things when I brought you back, even things that happened in the timeline BEFORE we came back!" he said.
"What?! How could that happen?! How could things change BEFORE we came back?" She asked.
"Time ripples. By causing us to come back this far, I created major time ripples. Like how the Kurama that was inside of Kushina disappeared, he disappeared to make room for us! By doing this, it created major problems, and it affected up to 3 years before we came." Kurama said.
"3 years! But, that's ridiculous!" Naruko yelled.
"It is kit, but the thing I was alarmed about was-"
He was going to continue but Naruko was pulled back to reality when she felt a flare of something behind her. She pulled out a kunai and whipped around, it seemed as if none of her teammates had noticed it though. When her eyes locked on the target her jaw dropped down and her kunai fell to the ground.
"Naruko?" He asked in amazement. There, standing in front of her, was a 13 year-old boy. He had red hair and creamy colored skin. He had black rims that surrounded his teal blue eyes. His mouth was open slightly in amazement. He had a red kanji on his forehead that meant 'love'. He wore his usual red robes and black vest. His gourd of sand was slung over his back and his Sand headband was wrapped around the strap of the gourd.
"Gaara!" She yelled out as she jumped him.
He caught her in his arms and squeezed her. He set her down lightly on her feet after half a minute and smiled at her.
"What are you doing here?" He asked.
"I should ask the same of you." She said.
"Well, I know why you're in this time and all, since that's why I am here too. But what I meant why are you in Suna?" He asked.
"Wait, wait, wait! Hold up! So, did you come from the future too?" She asked.
"Yes." he said.
"But how? Kurama said I could only bring back two people!" She said.
"Well, I was in the middle of a battle, and Shukaku was starting to stir, that's when he said he felt Kurama using some time travel jutsu only the demons know. He figured that if there was something strong enough to send the nine tails packing, that he might want to head back too. So he told me he could follow Kurama back to whenever he was going to. I could also bring two people, so I chose my siblings, naturally." He said. "Now, why are you in Suna?"
"Well, I was on a mission to Suna with my team." She said as she pointed with her thumb back to her teammates.
Gaara blinked and laughed. "Well, Shukaku didn't tell me how far back we went, and we don't have any telltale signs like Hokage faces to let us know. And we couldn't just ask someone the year, since that would rouse suspicion. We were wandering through the desert, hoping to see someone we recognize, and here you are. Anyways, Kakashi-sensei is our age here it seems. That means we're pretty far back." he said.
"Yep, we are 2 years before the Kyuubi attack. Well, when it was supposed to be anyways, it won't happen now since I contain the fox and Madara is dead-"
"Madara is dead?! But how?" Gaara asked.
"How do you think dumb ass? I beat the crap out of him." She said.
Gaara sighed and then pulled her ear. She flinched at the harsh contact. "What do you think you're doing, hm? So disrespectful to the Kazekage." He said.
"HM! Well you're not the Kazekage here, now are you! Besides, you always got mad at me when I called you Kazekage-sama, since you hate when I use formalities with you. So hah! I win!" Naruko said.
Gaara just sighed again and let go of her ear. That's when Temari and Kankuro jumped out from the trees.
"Awww! Are the two love birds having a cute moment!" Kankuro teased.
Temari bashed him upside the head. "Idiot! You know they're just friends! After all, me and you tried to get them together but it didn't work!" She said.
Kankuro got up and rubbed his head. "Jeez Temari. I remember, after all, how could I forget my little brother's first kiss when I was there to witness it myself?" He asked.
Gaara blushed at that but then wrapped sand up his brother's legs and held his hand out to him. "Say anything of the sort again and I'll crush your legs like twigs." he said in a serious tone.
Kankuro immediately stopped and stood up straight. Gaara brought back his sand and dropped his hand. Then there was silence as Gaara and Naruko just stared at each other, remembering the day that Kankuro and Temari had tried to get them together. Obito was the first to break the silence.
"Wait, so who the hell are these guys?!" He asked.