Naruto: Ultimate swordsman by Isom

Chapter 12: Akatsuki rise! The Kazekage has been captured!

Late night in Suna...

There was a strange sight going on this night in Suna. Two figures floated in the sky staring at each other.

The first of which was a red headed sixteen year old with brown and black clothes and a white scarf wrapped around his waist. Above his right eye was the kanji for love in red.

This was Gaara no Subaku the Kazekage of Suna.

Gaara's blue eyes narrowed intensely as he stared at the man he was fighting.

The man in question was male. He had long blonde hair that flowed past his shoulders and covered one of his eyes. If you removed the hair you'd see a fake one in it's place. The man wore a long black robe with red clouds decorating it. His hands had mouths on them. It was unknown what those were for at the moment. What stuck out about him was the fact that the man was standing on a giant bird that was made out of clay. On his head he wore an Iwa headband that had a long gash across the plate on the front.

This was Deidara: The mad bomber.

"What do you want with me?" Gaara asked as Deidara.

"You have something that our boss wants," the mad bomber said, "You and eight others like you."

"You want the Shukakau," Gaara said, "You can take it from me...when you rip it from my cold lifeless corpse."

"Oh," Deidara said, "Now you're making it fun."

The man held up his hand revealing the mouths on his palm. The mouth opened and clay came out. The clay shifted and formed a small bird. The bird flew at Gaara. The red head didn't see any immediate danger, but the sand on the desert floor flew up and formed a shield around him. Good thing too. A few seconds later the bird exploded.

Deidara smirked as he saw the explosion. His smirk fell when he saw that the shield around Gaara held. The blonde Akatsuki member smiled as he saw something on the shield.

"Got you," he said.

Gaara then realized that there was a clay spider on his shield. Before he could consider this the whole thing exploded in a huge blast of smoke and chakra.

Down below...

"Gaara!" a figure yelled.

This one was male. He wore a black body suit that covered his head with a hood that gave him the appearance of a cat. He had war paint all over his face and a large bandaged pack on his back.

This was Kankouro Gaara's older brother.

"You will not interfere," came a new voice.

Kankouro turned to see a hunchbacked figure wearing a black robe with red clouds on it. He couldn't see his face due to the fact that it was shadowed by a straw hat that the figure wore.

"I don't' know who you are," Kankouro growled taking the package of his back, "but I won't let you hurt my little brother."

The package unwrapped itself to reveal a large monstrous looking puppet.

"Oh," the figure said, "a fellow puppeteer."

The man then held out his arms. As he did multiple strings shot out of his sleeves. The then about fifty our so puppets came out of the ground.

"No way," Kankouro gasped, "You're-""Sasori of the red sand," the figure finished for Kankouro lifting up his head revealing a Suna headband with a large gash running across it.

The puppets then charged at Kankouro. The boy tired to fight them off, but was struck from behind with a poisoned blade. The boy fell down in complete agony. The pain he was in just seemed to get worse and worse.