Naruto: Fourth Hokage

"To prove your existence," asked Naruto as he watched Gaara's predicament before Kyuubi's words from earlier came back to him. The blonde saw where Gaara was coming from after hearing those words. Shukaku was presently filling Gaara's mind with painful memories of his childhood against his will.

"GAARA!" shouted out Shukaku, "Give me more control! WE will kill him and take his blood! GIVE ME CONTROL SO I CAN HAVE HIS BLOOD!"

More of the sand encased around Gaara and now his whole body resembled that of a raccoon. Sand spikes burst from his body all aimed at Naruto. The blonde shinobi pulled out his kunai and began slashing with speed and grace destroying all of the deadly sand spikes.

Gaara's chest enlarged before he blew out a breath of chakra-filled air at Naruto. Naruto evaded to the side but was partially hit in his left arm. His arm was partly skinned and blood leaked from injury made by the attack. Naruto grabbed his wounded and bleeding arm. Taking advantage of the momentary cease fire, the possessed Gaara charged at Naruto and grabbed him by the throat before he could do anything. Sand started wrapping around Naruto from off Gaara until Naruto was completely encased with sand. The sand-covered Naruto was levitated to the air a couple of distance away from Gaara.

"He's done for," Temari said was she knew what was coming next.

"Sabaku Sōsō (Desert Funeral)," Gaara said he clenched his fist, causing the sand to implode and crush Naruto from within. But instead of seeing a sizable fountain of blood produced from the attack, smoke came from out of it.

"WHAT?," the possessed Gaara yelled in surprised.

"Kawarimi," Kankuro figured, "But when did he-"

"Doton: Shinjū Zanshu no Jutsu (Earth Release: Inner Decapitation Technique)," A hand suddenly burst from out of the ground and grabbed Gaara by the leg before pulling him down into the ground. A little more than 2/3s of Gaara's body was pulled in saved for his right claw arm. The Naruto clones that hid in the shadows waiting for an opening burst forth and tackled the claw arm and held onto Gaara's head.

"Ō Fūin (Subdue Seal)," the real Naruto said as he applied the seal paper onto Gaara's forehead. The special written seal immediately went into effect as it began to suppress the effects of the demon raccoon's chakra and personality changes. Gaara's screamed with his voice mixed with Shukaku's until the monster raccoon's influence was fully suppressed, returning Gaara back to normal as the sand was forced back into the gourd with the cork popping back over the mouth of the gourd. Temari and Kankuro stepped back out into the opening as they watched Naruto pull Gaara up from out of the ground and hold him up in front of him. The older Suna nins walked to the younger boys when they noticed something was wrong…

"Why are they staring at each other like that," Temari wondered out loud.

"It looks like they're in some kind of trance," Kankuro realized. In deed the two Jinchuurikis were. Both Naruto and Gaara were locked in gaze with each face to face. The two boys remained motionless in the fixed positions they were in.

Gaara found himself in empty opening surrounded by mist. The mist cleared to reveal a massive cage that looked to be heavily damaged and broken in a couple of places. Parts of the bars of the cage doors look like they were slashed and chewed on. On the cage was a ragged piece of paper that had the kanji for the word "seal" on it. Just then a maniacal roar came from with the damaged cage. Gaara's head shot up as he looked upon the massive light brown raccoon dog figure making its way to the cage.

"GAARA!" roared the bijuu standing in front of the cage before it lashed his claw out at him through the broken cage. The claw just barely reached Gaara's face, being mere millimeters away.

"Shukaku," Gaara answered.

"Indeed it is," replied another voice from behind Gaara.

Gaara turned to see Naruto standing some distance behind him with shallow water at his feet with the cage Kyuubi was sealed in behind the blonde. (A/N: it's the same as in the anime)

"Where are we," Gaara inquired.

"In the mindscape realm of our subconscious minds," Naruto answered, "Somehow our subconscious minds linked through some form of telepathic link. Ultimately, this is an entirely different universe being created within our minds."

Gaara looked at the cage behind Naruto before the nine-tailed bijuu appeared from behind the cage.

"So that's the great Kyuubi No Kitsune," Gaara replied calmly. Kyuubi looked at Shukaku with a mocking grin.

"Shukaku-kun," Kyuubi mocked, "Aren't you a sight for sore eyes."

Kyuubi started pouring out his blood red chakra through the cage and into the water, forming a water and bubble version of himself from the upper waist up, forming his head and forepaws. Kyuubi then send his representation over to Shukaku's damage cage.

"The sight of you just comes to show just how pathetic you were and have always been," Kyuubi-figure taunted, "It's no secret that you were always the stupidest and weakest of us bijuus."

Shukaku lashed out at him trying to claw the representation through the cage, but the representation didn't budge at all since Shukaku's claws were a mere few centimeters away from reaching.

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