Gaara's Wolf - Thrust into the Naruto World

Chapter 20

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While Temari, Shika, Naru, and Sakura were talking, I spoke with Lady Tsunade. It was after our appointment, so I decided to just ask for permission to leave early, before she and Temari were done talking.

"I just learned about something, I have to go." I said. "It already happened, so there's no need to worry Temari, but I need to go check on Kankuro. Please send team Kakashi after me after their test."

"Go ahead. There's no need for me to keep you here. We're already done."

When Lady Tsunade started talking to me, the others turned to see what was going on.

"Ummm, why is Granny Tsunade talking to a dog? Is she starting to act her age?" As you can probably guess, that was Naruto's reaction. The rest just stared at us, except for Sakura, who already knew.

Shika sighed. "What a drag. Naruto, everyone here but you already guessed. Kira's not a dog."

I knew Shika would get it, but the lazy guy kept it too himself. Must have been too troublesome.

"What are you talking about, Shikamaru? She's obviously a dog." Naru replied, while Lady Tsunade sighed. (Lol, that rhymed)

"Naruto, Shikamaru's right. Kira isn't a wolf, she's a human. As far as I know, that's why she is so tall. Her height now is how tall she would be if she were herself."

While they kept up their discussion, I Hiraishined out of there, flying toward Suna as fast as I could go. As soon as I was far enough away from Konoha that no one could see me disappear, I Hiraishined to Kankuro. He was on the ground, watching as Sasori turned away from him.

As soon as I arrived, Sasori turned back, watching me. I turned my back on him, activating my byakugan in case he tried anything, and checked on Kankuro. He didn't seem to be any worse off than originally in the show.

Focusing my healing chakra, I could sense the poison. The show never really explained how to do the poison removal jutsu, and it had to do with the heart, so I didn't dare try to do it. I grabbed Kankuro's shirt in my mouth and flew off toward Suna, leaving Sasori watching me disappear into the distance.

On the way home, I ran into the rescue group sent after Kankuro. When they saw me fly past them carrying Kankuro, they stopped their search and followed behind me as fast as they could. 

As soon as Kankuro was safely in the hospital, I took off to find Baki. We had made up and got along after I quit pranking him. (I'm pretty sure he always guessed that it was me) He saw me coming toward him and took one of my pills.

"Baki, write up a message to the Leaf for backup. Trust me, Lady Chiyo won't be able to heal Kankuro. Specifically request Team Kakashi. Sakura can save his life. I'll take the message; I'm faster than the hawks."

Baki quickly agreed, and so did the council when he told them "his" idea. He couldn't tell them I came up with it, they still saw me mostly as a dog. I usually would care, but this time I didn't. Too much was at stake to care about what some old cronies think of me.

As soon as Baki let me know, I took off, flying toward Konoha. In a few hours, I was on top of the Hokage building. I waited for a minute, then flew threw the window of the Hokage's office. I had timed it perfectly. Team Kakashi were still closing the door when I burst in.

"Kira, what is it?!" Lady Tsunade barked out in alarm.

I quickly passed the scroll over to her before sitting down and waiting for her to finish reading it. The whole time, I was stiff with nerves.

I was also trying to stop myself from rushing to the Akatsuki hideout and getting Gaara before he could die. I knew that I couldn't let him die, but, at least for now, the rational part of my brain was stronger, remembering why he did have to. Until Gaara died and was brought back, he never truly believed that anyone but me cared about him. Seriously, he sometimes even wondered if I really cared.

I was brought out of my thoughts when Lady Tsunade started telling team Kakashi about their mission. They were to head to the Sand as quickly as possible to heal Kankuro and save Gaara.

They packed quickly, and we met up at the gates before I even had the chance to eat anything. I hadn't eaten since I left for Suna. With the way things were going, it was a good thing that I would be going at their pace. I wouldn't be able to go much faster anyway. At least I managed to drink from a river before we left.

We kept a decent pace, even with stopping to pick up Temari on the way. As soon as she heard, she knew that that was the reason I had left earlier yesterday. After glaring at me, she decided to ignore me for the rest of the trip. 

Not that I blame her. I'd hate to be purposefully left out when it concerns the safety of my family. I just took it. Something bad really should happen to me to make up for the amount of pain I was causing all of them just to make Gaara happier.

I stayed ahead with Naruto the whole trip there, staying up with him at night too. I couldn't sleep, knowing what was going on. I was so worried that I couldn't even fangirl about meeting Itachi and Deidara soon. (I vastly prefer Dei's art to Sasori's creepy puppets.)

The last day of traveling, I started lagging behind. I kept pushing myself to keep up, but my body was running low on almost everything and decided it wouldn't mind plummeting to the ground if it ment I'd get some sleep. Luckily, I caught myself before I could crash, and landed on the ground.

My wings were dragging on the ground as I ran behind them, too exhausted to lift them up. Kakashi was the only one who noticed. The others were too anxious about Gaara and Kankuro.

He gave me a pointed look, obviously wanting me to stop and rest, I shook my head at him and pushed myself to run faster. He sighed, then took out a chakra replenishing pill and have it to me. I quickly ate it, using the energy boost it gave me to run faster and numb the pain from my wings dragging in the sand.

As soon as we were in Suna, Temari led them to the hospital. I followed at a slower, more subdued pace. Some of the villagers stared at me, so used to me flying around that me walking was strange to them. I just ignored them and kept a steady pace toward the hospital.

When I got there, the medics in training healed my wings and put an IV or whatever it was in me to help bring up my strength. After about five minuted, I started feeling super drowsy. I tried to keep myself awake, but succumbed to sleep all too soon.