"Sakura, please go and get the reports for today's entries and exits from the village."Tsunade asked without looking up from her papers she was reading.

"Yes milady."Sakura said and began to walk out."If you don't mind me asking why are you getting these so early today?"

Tsunade looked up at her."I have my reasons"

Sakura rolled her eyes and marched out the door and down the steps. She took her time shuffling to the gates and when she got there she was greeted by the guards.

"Hey Sakura-Chan!"The first one called, he was one of the ninja who bugged her team in the Chuunin exams.

"Hey, how you doing."Sakura asked and walked over to him.

"I am good, but what do you need with us today?"The guard asked scratching his chin.

"Um, I need the traveler reports."Sakura said as she thought about it for a second. The guard nodded his head and reached under the desk and pulled out a couple sheets of paper. Sakura nodded happily at him and took them and turned on her heel.

"Hey Sakura! We saw Jiarya earlier!"The guard yelled at her back and she turned to him with her eyes opened wide.

She turned and began to run back to the Hokage's tower. When she arrived she ran up the steps and flung the door open and she was surprised to see Jiarya already there, staring at her sudden interruption. Tsunade looked at her briefly then turned her head away.

"Where is Naruto?"She asked right away.

Jiarya's face dropped in grief and he turned away from the girl and walked past her and out into the hallway. Sakura watched his retreating back and then looked at Tsunade.

"What happened?"She demanded and dropped the reports from her hand.

"Sakura, you know the Akatsuki right?"Tsunade asked in a voice barely above a whisper.

Sakura nodded her head slowly. She had heard Tsunade talking about them in the past, and how they were after Biju for some reason. It dawned on her suddenly that Naruto had one of the Biju sealed in him.

"W-why do you ask?"She said in horror.

"Sakura I am sorry but Akatsuki has Naruto."Tsunade said and turned her chair towards the window as Sakura fell to her knees with tears flowing down her cheeks freely. First Sasuke and now Naruto was gone.

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The boy sat on a rock with his Knees hugged to his chest as he watched the steady drip of water falling from the sharp rock hanging from the cave's ceiling.

"...453, 454, 455, 45-"he was counting with boredom until a voice interrupted him.

"Will you shut the hell up already?"A blonde yelled at him and threw his hands in the air wildly.

The boy sitting on the rock looked up and frowned."What else can I do to pass the time?"

The blonde who yelled rolled his eyes and went back to scratching the thing he had been working on previous to the outburst on the wall."Twiddle your thumbs, I don't know but just be quiet."

"Deidra, be nice to our guest."A voice said from behind the two and they looked up and then went back to what they were doing.

"Sasori, why are you here again, are you not suppose to be getting ready for our journey?"The boy on the rock asked and jumped to his feet.

"Naruto, do not worry. I carry all I need right here, and besides I will not be the one retrieving the target."Sasori said in his deep and rasping voice.

Naruto rolled his eyes and walked to Sasori's side."Are we leaving right now?" he asked and Deidra threw the Kunai he was using to the side and stood up.

"Of course we are dumb ass." he said and slammed his hands together and the rock that blocked the cave they were in began to rise up and soon Naruto could see outside.

"Let us go, we have not much time to waste. The sand village will not be ready for Naruto to storm in and take the Kazekage."Sasori boomed and then the trio began walking out and Naruto reached inside his cloak and pulled out his hat and set it on his head.

The three soon were miles away from the cave and were shuffling through the sands that sheltered the village of the hidden sand. Naruto wiped away beads of sweat that were forming on his forehead and sighed."I hate this place." he muttered and Deidra grunted in agreement.

"How did you ever live in this barren place Sasori?"Deidra asked looking at the large hump that was moving behind them.

"You get used to it." was all the man said and became quiet again.

Naruto rolled his eyes and continued walking and began thinking about the last six or so months. First he remembered being approached by the Akatsuki and was trying to fight them off but they proposed an offer. They needed his help to achieve peace, and also they told him that the only reason he was training was so that he could become the true weapon of Konoha. Actually they told him a lot of stuff, like that Namikaze Minato was his father and they also told him that Konoha was always watching him and even when the villagers were beating on him they never told the village that he was the fourth Hokage's son.

Naruto remembered thinking about it for a week and it finally dawned on him that the Akatsuki were right and he had left Jiarya's side abruptly. He met up with Itachi and Kisame who filled him in as they brought him to one of their hideouts. They told him about all of the members and they told him about how they would achieve peace. They needed all of the Biju but since Naruto was working with them now they didn't need to do the painful extraction technique, and they could just let him willingly use all of the Fox's chakra.

Naruto took everything in and he didn't hesitate when they told him that he needed to cut all ties with his old life away. He had done so promptly and than they were in the cave and he was meeting everyone, including the leader Pain. But he didn't really meet a few of them in person, but rather in a hologram like being. Naruto was quickly taught how to kill with stealth and how to remain invisible. After about five days of grueling work the group finally gave him a ring that showed that he was part of the Akatsuki and also a cloak. He had now been with the Akatsuki for more than half a year and he had several close calls were people from his past almost found out that he wasn't dead. Jiarya had also been trailing after the Akatsuki, refusing to go back to Konoha empty handed.

As a final act of admission Naruto made a slash through the Leaf symbol on his Hitai. When he first joined he usually stayed by himself and didn't talk to the members around him. But soon he took to talking with Hidan, a ninja from some village Naruto hadn't heard about. The man was supposedly immortal just like his partner. Naruto and Hidan liked to pull pranks on the members of the Akatsuki and thanks' to Naruto's shadow clone technique they always had an alibi.

Naruto chuckled as he remembered all this and got a glare from Deidra. Naruto spit at the man and laughed when it hit him square in the face. Deidra hissed and raised a fist to Naruto but the boy cocked his head to the side.

"Are you going to injure me before I have to go and capture such a strong Jinchuriki?"Naruto asked and turned his attention forwards again.

Deidra glared at him and looked at the sand they were walking on. It was well into the night when they arrived on the outskirts of Suna and the three stopped as they heard random shouts of protest from the guards on the wall. Deidra and Naruto disappeared from sight and soon the three men were walking again and all of the guards were dead were they stood. Naruto slid his black Katana back in the sheath that he had on his back hidden in his cloak.

"Naruto are you ready?"Sasori growled from inside his hat and mask.

"I was born ready."Naruto grinned and disappeared from sight and reappeared about five hundred feet away then disappeared in another red flash.

"Are you sure the kid should be catching this runt, I mean didn't they have a relation in the past."Deidra said as he saw a guard who happened across Naruto cut down.

Sasori chuckled and Deidra nodded his head."Let us set the traps."

Naruto arrived on the outside of the Kazekage's tower and listened to the council talking.

"We have to exterminate the Akatsuki as fast as possible, if we don't they will wreck havoc all across the land!"

Naruto listened in and heard Gaara's voice."We cannot rush fool hardy into a battle against people with extraordinary skills."

Naruto shrugged and stopped listening and waited for the moment that he would strike. It came ten minutes later.

"Lord Kazekage, the guards that watch Suna have all been found dead! We found one person alive who was able to tell us that it was the Akatsuki!"

"When did this happen, have they got into the village?"Gaara demanded and Naruto heard him stand and kick his chair back.

"Yes it happened about ten to twenty minutes ago." the man replied and Naruto wasted no time getting his strategy ready.

He pulled out ten Kunai and wrapped explosive tags around them and stuck them in the wall of the building. He jumped away and landed and a house not far from the building and brought his hand up. The whole side of the building exploded and chunks of the tower were sent flying. Naruto watched as the smoke cleared and he snorted when he saw what happened. Gaara had thrown up a shield faster than the explosion could hurt anyone.

Naruto watched as the sand swirled around the red haired boy who turned and looked at the boy he only knew as the Akatsuki and not as a former friend. Naruto realized that Gaara didn't recognize him.

"Well, I didn't think that would work to well but I have hoped it would take out a few ninja at the very least."Naruto said and Gaara stiffened at his voice.

"Uzumaki Naruto...is that you?"Gaara asked and even though he tried to hide it Naruto heard the shaking in his voice.

"None other, now are you going to come peacefully or do I have to drag you out."Naruto demanded.

Gaara replied by closing his eyes and then suddenly a long spear of sand shot out from behind him and Naruto grinned. He jumped up over the sand and drew out his Katana and ran at Gaara. He disappeared in a red flash and Gaara opened his eyes in shock and threw up a wall of sand as Naruto's Katana whizzed at his head. Naruto grimaced as the sword stuck in the sand. He yanked it out and jumped away in another red flash.

"Why are you doing this Naruto?"Gaara demanded as he shot another pillar of sand at the now retreating Naruto. Gaara jumped on a hovering platform of sand and followed Naruto.

"Why do you think, have you not seen my cloak?"Naruto laughed and rolled in mid step and hurled a dozen shuriken at Gaara who didn't even raise a finger as a line of sand shot up and caught all of the deadly metal weapons.

Naruto rolled his eyes and did a back flip and landed on top of the roof of a house. Gaara stopped about a hundred feet away from him and Naruto snapped his fingers and then suddenly there was a poof of smoke. When it dispersed a giant frog was squatting upon a vast area of destroyed houses. Gaara growled at Naruto when he realized that several people had died in the summoning.

Naruto was crouching on the frogs head and pointed his sword at Gaara."Are you coming or not?"

Gaara hissed at Naruto."Naruto what happened to you!"

"I looked at the world for what it really is."Naruto laughed and formed some quick hand seals.

"Suiton: Mizu Tatsumaki!"

Gaara made his sand board fly high into the air as a sudden tornado of water started to form and roar around the place that Naruto stood. Gaara watched as even more houses were destroyed. He frowned and raised his hands up and a wave of sand washed over the water tornado and the sand became a wet mush and fell to the ground. Naruto sighed and pointed at Gaara and the frog leapt at the boy.

Gaara crossed his arms as a long whip of sand shot up from behind him and speared the frogs in its chest. Naruto frowned and jumped from the frogs head as it disappeared in a poof of smoke. Naruto kept flying at Gaara and opened his eyes in shock as a large platform of sand rose of and he landed on it.

"If you want a fight, then let's go but I will pick the terrain."Gaara growled and ran at Naruto.

Naruto smirked and slashed at the boy's legs with his katana and struck a sand wall and ducked underneath a blow from Gaara's sand encrusted fist. Naruto lunged up at the boy's chest and the point of his sword embedded itself in a ball of sand. Gaara jumped back as Naruto swung his legs around to trip him and then he created a large spinning disc of Sand and let it hover in front of him.

"Do not make me do this." he said to Naruto who rolled his eyes.

Gaara sighed in defeat and tossed the giant Sand Shuriken as Naruto. Naruto watched it and then made four quick hand seals and brought his hand back. When he thrust it at the sand weapon a torrent of fire engulfed it and sent flaming masses of sand flying in all different directions. Gaara opened his eyes in shock as Naruto detached himself from the flames and in his hand was a spinning chakra sphere. Gaara engulfed himself in a sand bubble and fell on his rear as the whole front of the sand barrier was blown away.

Naruto poked his head in and muttered to Gaara in a cocky tone.

"Rasengan."

Gaara hissed at him. Naruto had managed to match him move for move and break his perfect defense. Gaara made the large hole quickly close around Naruto's neck and the boy gasped in horror."I got you."Gaara said and Naruto closed his eyes.

"Gaara, who won in our last fight?"Naruto asked and opened his eyes again.

"You did, but that doesn't mean anything."Gaara said and stood to his feet.

"To join the Akatsuki you have to be strong not just a wimp."Naruto said and disappeared in a poof of smoke.

"Shit Shadow clone!"Gaara said and looked out of the hole that was holding Naruto's neck and gasped. Naruto was flying at him and in his right hand was a ball of fire and around it was a wide circle of spinning fire and then all around the ball of fire were little strands caging it in."What the hell?!"Gaara exclaimed as he tried to close the hole.

"Katon: Rasenmoeru!"

Kankuro couldn't see what was happening on the sand platform; all he knew was that Gaara was fighting an Akatsuki member. His blood froze when he heard Gaara's high scream of pain that he hadn't heard for a long time. Kankuro blinked away tears as a flash of fire blasted out form the sand platform. It roared across it and when Kankuro could see again he gasped. Above him was a crystal clear platform of glass. He could see right through it and in the center was a bubble of glass and he could see Gaara lying inside of it and he then saw the Akatsuki tapping on it. Kankuro watched in horror as the Akatsuki made a spinning chakra sphere in his hand and slammed it down into the glass.

There was a loud explosion and suddenly billions of shards of glass were falling to the ground. The villagers screamed as the glass rain approached them. Kankuro watched the Akatsuki member grab Gaara as he was falling and disappear in a red flash. Kankuro saw the man appear on a roof above the soon to be slaughter. Kankuro closed his eyes and waited to be decapitated but it never happened. He opened his eyes and saw all of the glass floating above him and then slowly began to sink to the ground. The villagers got out of the way and when all of the glass was in the sand they ran out and began cheering.

"Gaara, you have just discovered a new element, now use it to your advantage."Kankuro whispered in excitement but it never happened.

The Akatsuki member looked at Kankuro straight in the eyes and then disappeared in another red flash and left the chaos behind him. Kankuro couldn't believe who he had just seen.

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Deidra and Sasori watched Naruto appear in front of them grinning."Well that was a little easier than I expected, I didn't even have to use my fox form."

"You took longer than we thought."Deidra rolled his eyes at Naruto.

"Well Gaara was always strong, but I had to provoke him into letting me get close enough to use my Jutsu."Naruto said and threw the boy at Deidra who let him hit the ground with a thud.

"I'm not touching it."Deidra sighed and reached into his pocket. He pulled out some clay and Naruto watched as he threw it into the sky and in a poof of smoke a giant bird was hovering above them. The bird picked Gaara up in its mouth and began to fly ahead of them."Let's go."Deidra said and began walking.

Sasori and Naruto rolled their eyes and followed just as a hawk flew overhead."Well they are sending for reinforcements."Sasori muttered to Naruto.

"Probably Konoha."Naruto sighed.

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"Oh my god." Tsunade whispered in horror as she read the report that had came in the day after the attack on Suna.

"What is it milady?"Sakura asked lightly, still grief stricken about Naruto's capture by the Akatsuki.

"The Akatsuki have just invaded Suna and captured Gaara and killed many people in the attack."Tsunade whispered and Kakashi looked at her and raised an eyebrow.

"Shall we go and help them?"He asked and Tsunade looked at him.

"That's the thing, the person who caught Gaara was none other than...Naruto."Tsunade whispered and Kakashi and Sakura stared at her in horror."Kankuro confirmed it; Naruto just popped in and then popped out with Gaara, and killed many in his wake."

"No it cannot be."Sakura whispered.

"It has to be a mistake."Kakashi added with horror.

"It is true, the Akatsuki have not captured Naruto."Tsunade said and then looked out the window and Jiarya looked at her. She sighed as the man hopped in from where he was sitting and listening in on them.

"Naruto has joined them."Naruto's former sensei whispered in shame.

Author's Notes: There, done first chapter. Before anyone can complain, I KNOW that the Naruto and Gaara fight should have been longer, I KNOW that Naruto isn't fire and water type, but I have plans for the story and I just had to show that Naruto is incredibly strong, so I had him beat Gaara in a matter of seconds, ruining his ultimate defense. But I also did something I haven't seen many people do, and that is making a new element. Glass, yeah Gaara is now a user of sand and Glass and if you want to get all, "It is impossible to control that!" well than shut up. Glass is made from sand hence Gaara saw the connection and used it. Now if you want to see how the story will go keep reading.