"The marks humans leave are too often scars."- John Green.
"CONTINUE!"
Naruko acted fast, created several Kage bunshin at once. She pulled out a scroll and unleashed a bag of weapons and wire. Thinking back to her time at the Chunin Exams years ago, she turned to the cluster of Bunshin and sent them off. Each had a specific instruction to follow through with and she couldn't wait. They already knew not to attack Gaara, which meant Onoki was in for it.
Naruko pulled her Kasai Shiruku off and released the seal on it, letting her special chakra suppressor be freed. She slipped it on and then used her Meisaigakure no Jutsu, to vanish. Now it was time to wait.
Onoki felt the Hokage's chakra disappear from his senses. He had a feeling he was going to regret teaching her so much.
Gaara floated above the forest, waiting for anything to happen. His sand was prepared to defend from Onoki. Naruko wasn't a liar and she wouldn't attack him until the other Kage was taken care of, so he had to think of a way to defeat the Tsuchikage and fast.
His eyes widened as the forest below began to expand and grow in size. The trees were clumping together and creating bigger trees. What the hell was going on?
Several Naruko Bunshin were visible from where he was floating and they were jumping all over the large roots. He could see the small shimmer of Ninja wire and wondered what they were doing. He could tell that none of them was the real Naruko and he couldn't even begin to guess where she was.
"Hey," a voice whispered in his ear.
He didn't jump, but his sand shifted uncomfortably. She was really too good at sneaking up on people.
He looked around, but didn't see anything.
"I'm floating right next to you, I'm just invisible at the moment."
Of course she was. Was there anything that Naruko Uzumaki couldn't do?
"My Bunshin totally booby-trapped the forest, so I would suggest staying out of there. It'll grow so large that Onoki-Jiji will have to go through it in order to reach us. But inside there are several surprises. I hope his experience comes in handy, I'd hate to see pieces of him scattered about the forest floor."
Gaara's nonexistent eyebrows rose at her explanation. Trust Naruko to talk so nonchalantly about someone blowing up and their remains scattering the area.
As they stood there and watched, the two smirked when several explosions happened at once. There was a loud curse coming from the forest as well and Naruko was reduced to fits of hysterical laughter.
"SHUT UP GAKI!" Onoki yelled from deep within the foliage.
That only prompted the blonde to laugh even harder.
Another explosion and a few more curses. Gaara even cracked a smile!
"What did you do?" he asked, waiting for another inevitable explosion. Surely enough, there was one.
"I have no idea what they did, but they have my mind, so it must've been good!" she grinned to herself.
It took several more minutes for Onoki to make it to their dies of the battlefield and even then, he only saw Gaara, just floating there on his sand.
The old man looked like he'd been through hell. And he had, courtesy of Naruko.
Suddenly, the old man went sailing back into the dense forest and several Naruko Bunshin appeared, running through some hand signs.
As the area was filled with several powerful gusts of Futon Jutsu, the trees were destroyed by Onoki's Jinton.
The arena began to shake and the three competitors looked up to see the dome parting, opening up to the terrifyingly chilly weather that was Tetsu no Kuni.
"FREEZE!"
Naruko sighed and revealed herself, waiting for Mifune to switch them up.
"Kazekage, you go over there," the man said, pointing to the fallen trees.
"Tsuchikage, you go up there."
Onoki flew up, into the snowy weather, making it hard to see him.
Naruko floated on over to the wall farthest away from her upon Mifune's order. She didn't know how, but they had to get rid of the old man and with him in such a place, where neither she or Gaara could see him, made it more difficult. Luckily all of them could fly so it wouldn't be that hard. Hopefully.
"CONTINUE!"
She became invisible once more and battle began anew.
Gaara used his sand to maneuver himself away from the sudden Katon Jutsu thrown from Onoki's direction. As he dodged attack after attack, he ascended high into the snowing air of Tetsu no Kuni. Naruko was surely up there with the two males, not wanting to miss out on the action by remaining inside.
Gaara raised a hand, the sand moving at his order, gathering around Onoki's body. The Tsuchikage made a hand sign and used the Jinton, blowing the particles that tried to hold him, away.
Another Jinton appeared from Gaara's right and nearly hit the old man, who by now was swirling and ducking around in the air.
"Come on Onoki-Jiji! Fight back!"
Gaara used his sand to erect a large wall in front of the Tsuchikage, making him take a turn in another direction. He repeated the action, closing the Kage off and making it easier for Naruko to attack him.
Naruko's form flitted into visible existence, along with several others, who surrounded the old man and they performed a Katon Jutsu.
Onoki threw up a last minute Katon Jutsu of his own and there was an explosion of fire. Gaara made no move, his sand protecting him the entire time. He waited for the air to clear and his sand t move, before he saw the old Kage, clothes completely ruined and in rag, breathing heavily as he looked around.
"Come on you little brats! Fight me!" he wheezed, coughing into his fist.
Gaara looked around, not seeing Naruko anywhere. There was no way she was dead. She was too resourceful for that to happen.
He was proven correct when Onoki suddenly slumped forward and Naruko appeared, catching him in her arms.
"Hit the right pressure point to knock him out. He's too old to be exhausting himself like this," she said, lowering herself to the training area and handing Onoki off to his granddaughter.
She smiled at the blonde and gently took her grandfather.
Naruko jumped and flew back into the freezing air of Tetsu no Kuni. "So Gaara, are you ready to finish this?" she asked, cracking her knuckles.
"Are you sure you can handle it?"
She smirked, allowing her chakra to rotate in her right palm. "What do you think? Say hello to my Futon: Rasenshuriken!"
Gaara raised his hands, making his sand surround his body as he formed a hand sign.
The spiraling attack connected with the wall and cut straight through it like melted butter. The Kazekage disappeared, letting the attack expand into nothingness, since there was nothing for it to destroy.
Naruko was on the alert when she saw Gaara vanish, He could be anywhere and she had to find him.
Down below, the battlefield was being covered in sand and she could only assume that that was where the redhead had gone.
Suddenly, several boulders and rocks formed out of thin air and Gaara appeared in the middle of them all. He raised a hand and Naruko had to fly fast to dodge the projectiles headed her way. She'd never thought of this sort of an attack, but realized that it was totally something Gaara would use. He was all long distance, which meant that she had to get up close with him if she wanted to win, otherwise he'd keep getting away from her and she couldn't have that.
Rocks sailed past her and she narrowly missed being hit with a large one that had been headed for her face. She sliced it in half however, with her wind chakra covered hand.
Just because Gaara himself couldn't move fast, didn't mean that his sand couldn't. Also, she had lightened it to help fight off the other Kage, making it harder for her to win. She needed to make it heavy again and soon.
Gaara's hands moved in a quick motion and Naruko had to thrown up and wall of her own wind chakra to stop the little bullet like balls of sand coming her way. Gaara was really trying to win this t seemed.
Evading another set of boulders, Naruko had enough. She thank every Kami in existence for her Rinnegan as she prepared to use a Hyoton Jutsu. She made the hand sign, collecting the snow and forming it into the needed shape for her attack.
"Hyoton: Kokuryu Bofusetsu!"(A/N: Black Ice Dragon)
The large dark dragon made of snow and ice, roared and charged Gaara. The Kazekage retaliate by making his own sign and using his sand to form a dragon of his own.
"Saryu!"(A/N: Sand Dragon)
They clashed and Naruko's dragon coiled around Gaara's, freezing them both in place.
Gaara's hands moved again, "Futon:Daitoppa!"(A/N: Wind Style; Great Breakthrough)
Naruko wasn't about to be outdone and immediately used a Katon.
"Katon: Karyu Endan!"(A/N: Fire dragon flame bullet)
Wind and fire connected with a great explosion that thankfully wasn't inside the training field. Naruko used the smoke to give herself a chance to go invisible once more. Gaara was proving to be a pain in the ass and if he couldn't see her, she had the upper hand.
She waited as the smoke cleared and reared back in shock as Gaara's form was covered in Biju chakra. He was planning to use Shukaku?
Maybe their relationship is better now.
True. Well then, why don't we put the Tanuki in his place?
Let's!
The blonde decided to forgo the invisibility and allowed Kyuubi's chakra to fill her. Gaara's eyes locked on her location and then, he charged!
Naruko's brief lapse of shock nearly cost her. She hadn't been expecting him to actually come at her himself, because he never did that! Gaara was strictly a long distance fighter.
Gaara broke out with a complete array of Taijutsu moves she had never expected him to know. Hinata must have been training with him whenever he came to Konoha or she went to Suna, because his style was very reminiscent of the Juken, but with a bit of Goken.
Naruko immediately took up a stance for Jinsokunaken and fought back. As long as she refrained from using her chakra in her attacks, Gaara wouldn't die or receive any critical damage.
The Kazekage wasn't backing down though. Arm thrusts and kicks a lot faster than she had anticipated him to be capable of, he was giving her a good workout.
"So," she started conversationally. "When did you have Hinata train you?"
Gaara didn't react, though he did answer, "She and Lee decided to teach me some better Taijutsu, so that if I ended up fighting someone at close combat, I wouldn't be in any serious danger."
"Well, be glad my fists and feet aren't filled with chakra or you'd be in serious trouble if you know what I mean. If you remember, I blinded Neji with a simple kick to the face and then I did it to Hiashi."
"Why him?" Gaara asked, aiming a kick to her stomach. Se easily blocked it and hit a pressure point in his knee with her fingers.
"The bastard admitted to being the one who sent those people after me when I was a kid. He's the reason why my face looks like this and why I can't have children, so I decided to take his prized eyes from him and he'll spend the rest of his days in prison. Hinata makes the best clan leader ever."
Gaara's mouth tightened, "Then it's good you dealt with him."
Naruko spun suddenly and slammed her foot into Gaara's face, knocking his far away. She was on him swiftly though, laying a normal chakra filled punch to his chest.
Gaara's body created a deep indentation in the ground and Naruko waited for any sign of movement.
Gaara was back up second later, the Biju chakra taking care of his injuries.
Get a good hold on him and I'll do something.
Okay then?
Naruko caught his punch and she gasped as Kyuubi's chakra latched onto Shukaku's and began siphoning it. Naruko used her other hand to black and disable Gaara's other hand. She then kept a hold of him as she continually stopped his attempts at kicking her way.
Okay, send him packing!
She did as ordered and swung Gaara around by his wrist and released him, watching as he slammed into the wall.
Did you really take all of his Biju chakra?
Yes. He won't be able to use anything because my dear brother is drained and weakened now. Win this!
As you wish, master.
I like that. Go with that from now on.
Naruko rolled her eyes and waited for the redhead to make a move.
A Futon Jutsu came flying her way and she countered with a fire dragon, easily taking over Gaara's attack.
Her eyes locked onto a small amount of movement to her left and she jumped back, narrowly missing the kunai. She reached back as if going for Samehada, and Gaara tensed, waiting for an attack. He smiled and used her Hiraishin to appear behind Gaara with a hand clasped over his neck.
"Will you forfeit?"
He growled but slumped, "Fine. You took Shukaku's chakra and I barely have any left. I can only do that Taijutsu fighting when I'm using his chakra, because I'm normally not fast enough."
Naruko cheered and released him. "YES!"
Mifune stepped out of the control room and with a sigh, announced, "Naruko Uzumaki Namikaze Uchiha, Rokudaime Hokage of Konohagakure no Sato is the winner. She has earned for herself, the title of Daikage."
Naruko jumped on Sasuke, who was smirking at her. "I knew you could do it. Mifune's camera's were able to capture it all and it was streaming to the five hidden villages. No doubt, everyone will know about it when we get back," he explained.
"So now that I won, you have to keep up with your promise," she said with a wink.
"When we return home, dear wife."
Their return to the village was one of grandeur. Naruko was grinning from ear to ear and she had flew in at a relaxed pace. Sasuke was beside her, rolling his eyes as she said farewell to her godparents and grabbed his arm to drag him along.
"I want my prize now," she growled, pressing a kiss to his lips.
"We both knew you'd win this. So, I think I should get a prize for believing in you."
"If I reward you, will you return the favor?" Naruko whispered, already making quick work of his standard shinobi pants.
"Are you seriously going to-" he gasped.
She looked up and ordered, "Don't talk while I suck."
It turned out that those orders were too difficult to follow.
A month after their return to the village, Naruko began noticing something strange, and it really had her worried.
She had stepped onto the scale and the flashing numbers told her she had gained ten pounds! Not only that, but she would swear that he breasts were bigger.
She had to go and see Tsunade, she'd know what was wrong.