The Sand Meets the Light (A Naruto fanfiction)

Chapter 2: Confrontation

          The Sand Siblings were walking through the tunnel that was discovered. Temari looked around and analyzed the tunnel's design. It was carefully dug and structured, with little lamps placed along the walls, lighting their paths so it wasn't completely dark. The strange thing was, the lamps weren't lit by fire, but little light balls made of chakra energy. Gaara eventually regained his consciousness and noticed they were on the move.

"Where... are we?" He asked weakly.

"We're in a tunnel underground. The way we came from was crawling with those things so we have to find another way out," Kankuro explained, keeping his stare to the road ahead.

"I could... make a way out," Gaara responded, groaning in pain but still had some determination in his voice. He winced every time he took a step with his right foot. Kankuro noticed his brother's pain and felt worried.

"Temari, let's take a break," he called out to Temari who was walking up ahead as he put Gaara down and settled him against the wall. Temari stopped and walked back towards her brothers. She crouched down next to Gaara and examined his feet, which seemed to be sprained.

"We should have Gaara make a path for us to the surface and get us out," Kankuro suggested to her. She gave him a disapproving look.

"I don't think that's a good idea, especially after what had just happened. The grounds just collapsed and we don't want to risk that again," Temari argued, pointing above them. Her brothers became quiet, silently agreeing with her point but at the same time, they were frustrated.

Temari and Kankuro suddenly sensed some presence approaching them and stood up quickly, bracing themselves against whatever or whoever was coming as they hovered near their brother, intending to protect him since he was injured. Gradually, they saw two people walking up towards them from afar in the tunnel.

An adult man came into sight, presumably in his mid-thirties, with medium length blonde hair with bangs covering the side of his eyes and wearing a light beige coat over a worn jumpsuit and was holding a strange weapon, with his fingers on a handle attached to it. Strangely, there were wires connecting his wrist to the weapon, as if the weapon was a part of his body.

And the other one was a tall muscular woman, with a light brown hair in a high ponytail wearing a slightly revealing kunoichi outfit. Her face had red curvy markings on both of her cheeks and she showed off her strangely sharp teeth with a sinister smile. She licked the blade of the kunai she was holding, covering it completely with a thick layer of saliva and twirled the weapon around her finger.

They stopped right in front of them, seemingly with the intention to threaten them. They didn't really point their weapons at them, but they were definitely holding them tightly in their hands. Both of them did not say a word, but they glanced behind them, as another presence approached them.

It was smaller than the other two, but somehow all three siblings sensed a heavy dense chakra from it. As it came into visibility, it was revealed to be a young girl, seemingly a similar age to Gaara, with mostly black hair but with just a white streak of hair by her face in a hairpin and tucked behind her ear. She was wearing a similar outfit to the man, a black jumpsuit, closed shoes and a long coat with the sleeves folded on both arms. There seemed to be a sword with the sheath on her back with strap across her body.

She looked at the Sand Siblings with a neutral expression. Her hand reached behind and unsheathed her sword, the blade glowing with chakra energy. She stopped her tracks at where her subordinates were, swinging her sword with her wrist and shortly after, pointing it towards the Sand Siblings.