My second Fanfic. The first was so bad, I took it down less than a day after I put it up.

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, but I do own chicken.

Let the games begin!!!!!!!!!!!

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Chapter one-

Haruno Sakura awoke early in the morning. It was Thursday, and she had to meet up with Kakashi-sensei and Naruto to train with them. Naruto had just gotten back from a two-year training session, and was dying to show off. She rubbed her eyes and got out of bed. Sakura got dressed and on tied on her headband, pausing briefly to glance in the mirror. She called to her parents to tell them she was leaving, and grabbed an apple on the way out.

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Gaara looked down at the monstrous pile of paperwork on his desk. Being the Kazekage had its annoying points. He stood up and walked to his window, thinking about his crush. Yes, as weird as it sounded, Gaara had a crush. Her name was Hideko, and she was an ANBU ninja. In fact, she had been the one to catch the would-be assassin that had tried to murder him. He had offered her anything she wanted as a reward, but to his disappointment, she had simply requested that he raise her clan's status and make his father one of his advisors. He wasn't sure exactly what he had wanted her request to be, but he was never the less, he was annoyed. He saw a flash of light out of the corner of his eye. A white bird flew overhead. What the-

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Deidara flew over the village, dropping his clay bombs onto the ANBU on watch. He was here to capture the Kazekage, and he would not fail. He jumped off his clay bird onto the roof of the Kazekage's office.

"Infiltration complete," He muttered as he landed. He looked up to see Gaara regarding him coldly. When did he get up here?, He cursed himself for not being more cautious.

"This is as far as you go," Gaara said in a monotone. His gourd was already open, and a stream of sand trickled out, forming a ring around him. Deidara smiled, reached into his clay pouch, and suddenly jumped up and landed on his bird. Gaara was surprised, but sent up a wave of sand to follow him. Deidara's mouths were already chewing the clay as he dodged the sand attacks. He made a nosedive into the village, and shot through the streets, knocking down two chuunin. The sand shot after him. He looked down at his hand.

"Almost there," He muttered. He looked up in surprise as another wave of sand came up in front of him, attempting to cut him off. He steered sharply upwards, and the sand followed him, then returned to Gaara. Deidara observed from a distance. "He's pretty good," He muttered to himself. Gaara tried again, this time jumping in the air to land on his sand.

"I gotta say you noticed me pretty quickly," Deidara said.

"Birds like that don't exist in this desert." Gaara replied.

"I see."

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"Hey, what was that sound?" An ANBU ninja stepped out onto a roof. "If anything happens, you should report immide-" He gasped as he saw one of his comrades lying face down in a pool of his own blood. He looked up and saw the fight. He stood and stared, then ran to find Kankuro.

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"What do you mean some one has infiltrated the village! Yuura made sure that the security was beefed up!" Kankuro strode down the hall with a chunin closely at his heels.

"We are unable to contact Captain Yuura at this time." The ninja replied.

"What!?" Kankuro turned around in disbelief.

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I should have known. Deidara never fails to cause uproar." A shadowy figure stood at the entrance to the village watching his partner's battle. "Yuura," He turned to his companion, a sand ninja. "You'd better head back. It will cause problems if you are found here."

"Hai, Sasori-sama." The man bowed and vanished. Sasori turned to look back at the battle. "Hurry the hell up, Deidara. I don't like to wait."

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"Gaara, I'm coming in." Kankuro turned the knob and stepped into the office. He was surprised when he saw no one there.

"Kankuro!" He turned to see the ninja that had discovered the body. "The Kazekage-sama is fighting in the sky!"

"What!" Kankuro ran to a window and looked out. "Gaara!"

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Deidara sighed. "I guess my stealth moves failed. But thanks to that I don't have to waste time searching for you." Gaara said nothing, but raised his hands, and a monstrous amount of sand rose behind him. "As expected, you have the advantage. This could get ugly." Gaara sent an arm of sand chasing after him, and Deidara kept flying away. He looked down at his hands, and spit out some clay. He molded it. Now he had six clay birds. He smirked. He threw them down at Gaara, but the sand blocked all the explosions. He withdrew and started to chew the clay again, but this time he wasn't fast enough. An arm of clay swooped out of nowhere knocking him off. He fell, but watched in amusement as Gaara was hit by the bird he had just fallen off of. They both fell, and landed on different rooftops. They were unconscious on impacts.

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Sasori watched his partner fall, and cursed. This mission could not fail. At least Deidara had knocked out the jinchuuriki; all he had to do was get them out before any sand ninja could interfere. He jumped out and headed towards the unconscious Gaara.

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Kankuro ran out onto the roof. "Gaara!" He ran towards his fallen brother, breathing a sigh of relief when he realized he wasn't dead. The sigh turned into a gasp when he saw Sasori. He backed away. "Who the hell are you!?" He shouted out. He reached toward his summoning scrolls, and pulled them out. "Karasu! Kuroari! Sanshouo!" the three puppets appeared in smoke. Sasori just glared his usual glare.

"The puppet technique. How cute. I don't have time for this."

Kankuro sent out one of his puppets, but it was blocked by a chain-like tail emerging from Sasori's cloak. He gritted his teeth. "Its impressive that you can match Karasu's speed. Now I'll show you my puppet performance!" His puppets lunged at Sasori. He shot hidden kunai at him, but they were blocked. Kuroari was suddenly behind him, and pulled Sasori inside his cabinet like chest. "Karakuri engeki. Kuro higi Ipatsu!" Karasu broke apart, and the blades extended. Kankuro whipped his hands forward. The blades shot through the air, and impaled Kuroari. "The end." Kankuro lowered his hands. Then sand started pouring out of the holes. Wait- sand?! Kankuro motioned with his hand and the locks clicked open. There was a sand clone that was rapidly disentigrating. He cursed, and just managed to dodge Sasori's tail as he attacked. He cursed again, and continued using his puppets. He shot at him with hidden senbon, and poisoned kunai. But Sasori seemed to see right through is attacks.

"I'm sorry, but you chose the wrong fight. I know everything about your weapons, because I designed these puppets." Sasori attacked with his tail, but Kankuro had gotten Sanshouo in front of him. Sasori withdrew the tail, then attacked again, this time aiming at the shield's joint. The shield flew off the puppet and Kankuro barely had time to dodge it. The tail struck again this time catching him in the chest. He was thrown backwards, and did not get up. By now the room was filled with ANBU and ninja, and Gaara had already been taken away. "Damn it, I can't get him now, and I have no time to kill you off. But no matter, the poison will kill you within four days." Sasori jumped to the roof where Deidara lay, and picked him up. Then, dodging kunai and shuriken attacks, he fled the village.

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Naruto was exited. It was team Kakashi's first official mission, and he couldn't wait to find out what it was. That is, until he was standing in Tsunade's office.

"A convoy escort mission!? That's only a C- rank!"

"Shut up, Naruto! It's your first mission back, so I'm giving you an easy mission!" Suddenly, a decoder ran in. "Hokage-sama, there is important news! An emergency!" she handed Tsunade a scroll and bowed, looking flustered. Tsunade opened the scroll.

"What!? Change of plans! Team Kakashi! You are now assigned a new mission! The Sand's Kazekage was attacked last night by the Akatsuki. We have more information about them, so they are requesting assistance from us. Your mission is as followes: Go to the sand and gather information to sent back to Konoha. Follow their orders and back them up!"

"Hai, Tsunade-sama!" Kakashi saluted. They left immediately for Suna.

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Ya, this is the introductory chapter, most of it is pretty much quoting from anime, so the story will really begin next chapter. You know, I never noticed that the anime was so rushed! It looks really bad when its written down on paper. Oh, and the eye from the beginning of the story is shukaku's eye- just pointing that out if you didn't get it. Please review! (I prefer nice reviews over bad ones, or constructive criticism crap if you think this story absolutely sucks. It makes me feel like not everything I do is worthless (that's your cue to say, 'no, you're a great author' and I'll wipe my tears away and say- oh what the heck, just review.))