A.n: There has been a time skip. We are now at the end of all of the fights.

The leaf village ninja failed to get Sasuke back... it is quite disheartening for all of us. Of course I hate him, however now I'm left with no one who will challenge me. Thankfully, no one was killed in the fights but I can not help but wonder if all of these leaf ninja will ever be the same. Some of their bodies... they look like they should not have made it out alive.

I recognize a few faces from the chunin exams, rock lee, neji and hinata hyuga, shikamaru.. the rest I can't quite place. Wait, from the third eye, I saw Naruto Uzumaki. But where is he? Oh no.

"Kankuro, Temari, stop." They had been getting ready to take the wounded back to the village. "Has anyone seen Naruto Uzumaki? I saw him in the third eye but he isn't present. My third eye is useless here because I don't know my surroundings well enough. Hinata was barely concous but she weakly reached up and grabbed my arm and pulled me down to hear what she had to say.

"He's off the edge of a cliff not to far from here with Kiba and Akamaru. I checked with my byakugon, they're still alive. Please hurry." Tears slipped from her eyes and her body shook slightly.

"I think I can find them, you two go take care of everyone else." With that, Temari and kankoro left. I wasn't going to leave anyone behind, it'd happened to me enough for two lifetimes. Standing on my sand, it rose above the trees an I could see the cliff about half a mile from here. I quickly set off in their direction, fearing I wouldn't get to them in time.

The third eye jutsu would have taken too much time to find them, but it's pretty effective with assessing their medical situations. After placing my Palm on my forehead, the jutsu showed me a haunting image.

The two boys were conversing and extremely pale in the face, Kiba shivering and hugging the dog and Naruto rubbing his arms, trying to stay warm. I began using more chakra, knowing that the only reason they're shivering in the middle of summer is because they're on the verge of bleeding out. Reaching the cliff, my sand carried me to the ground and I began taking my sashes off of my body. I could hear them panting and their teeth chattering.

When I approached them, the boys hardly reacted at first, but after recognizing me, it was a completely different story.

"Gaara, what are you doing here?" Naruto locked eyes with me as I knelt beside him. He tried to sit up but I pushed him back down gently. I was quickly grinding the earth underneath them so I could have enough sand to carry all of us back to the leaf village. I wrapped one of my sashes around Naruto's waist as he glared at me. "Thanks for the help and all, but you having bedside manner is really freaking me out." I calmly tended to Kiba and Akamaru.

"Hokage Tsunade ask for our help and I was ordered to. Now, don't jump, this will probably scare you."

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