Uchiha Change

Chapter 6- Kazekage of the Sand

"Please protect him," Natsumi whispered putting her hands over the top of Chiyos. Looking at the old women, she didn't know what she meant by that, but she could ask once Gaara was back. "I'll protect him, his like my brother in all but blood."

"I'm glad that the future looks so bright," Chiyo said a smile on her face as she looked at Natsumi, then the two ravens behind her. Both of who were looking at her with red eyes and sad looks. "Know I can do something right in my life."

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"Hey, Gaara," Natsumi said as her friend woke up. Her green eyes looking at the sky and then at her face, he was surprised that she was there, but he thought he was dead. Or at least looking at himself and questioning himself. "I'm glad your back... then again, I think we all are."

Gaara only looked at her, before sitting and seeing half the force of Suna standing around him, not with glares and looks of hate that he grew up with, but with relief and happiness. Trying to get up, but Temari stopped him shaking her head.

"Granny was able to help you," she told him pointing to the 'sleeping' old women in her sister's arms, but Kushina only stock her head. "She's going to be alright, right?"

"No. She's gone," Kushina told her and it was then that her words made sense. She had given up her life so that Gaara could continue his, for this the old women would always have a place in her heart and she would always remember her.

"Let us have a minute of silence to remember Lady Chiyo," Gaara said as Natsumi helped him up, walking to stand in front of the passes women, he closed his eyes followed by the rest of the shinobi there.

Kushina only looked at her with dry eyes, she didn't know Chiyo. She only knew what she had told her, but Madara had always told her that you could learn a lot by the way a person fought and she didn't find anything in the way the women fought.

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Walking back to Suna was a sad thing, since they were morning the loss of Lady Chiyo, but Gaara looked up to see his teacher walking towards them and then the rest of Suna waiting for them. If someone were to tell him that this would happen, he would've killed them.

Team Kushina was walking behind his siblings. The body of Lady Chiyo being carried behind him and her brother looking at her body. He had told both Kushina and Natsumi that he thought she was playing 'possum' something she always did when she was bored. He almost didn't believe she had passed, since she looked so peaceful.

Gaara looked at the crowd and then behind him. "Let us have a moment of silence, to remember Lady Chiyo."

The members of the Sand village looked at the ground, while the arriving group walked around them, heading to the cemetery, where they would bury their only fallen member. The funeral was quick and the Leaf shinobi left soon afterwards. Gaara sending a scroll with them to give to Tsunade.

Kushina was left to think about adding another person to the team. She didn't care what rank they were, since she could always train them, but they got lucky this time with Team Gai and Kakashi helping them. They needed a third member.