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Dancing Winds	By : DSaph Category: Naruto AU/AR > Het - Male/Female Views: 2417 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or anything from it, and I'm not making any money from this.

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A/N: I hope I'm taking this story in the right direction. I wrote most of it out and then decided to go a completely different way. This is the completely different way. I've edited it a bit for AFF. I took out some of sappier bits.
I started a Forum Discussion here. http://www2.adult-fanfiction.org/forum/index.php/topic/55735-dancing-winds-reviews-and-replies/#entry349417
Thoughts are in italics.

Temari woke prone on a cold hard floor feeling heavy and slow. Sick and disoriented, she couldn't seem to get her bearings. It didn't help that her surroundings were completely dark.
She reached out around her and felt nothing. There was nothing to feel but the ground. She tried to use all of her senses. She smelled the air and it reeked of earth. It wasn't the rich moist smell of soil or the arid smell of the desert. It was almost dank.
She could hear faint rumbles but she couldn't tell where they were coming from in her disoriented state.
"It would be nice to have some lights around here." Nothing happens and she wonders why she tried in the first place. She can't sense anyone else around, so she sits back down and starts to think.
The only thing accomplished by putting her in this abyss, that she could see, was that she was no longer on the battlefield. She tried to focus on who might not want her up there and why. She was not in the main battle against Madara or Lord Mu so it probably wasn't one of them.
Temari wasn't even sure if anyone would notice she was gone right away.
Someone must have figured this was the perfect chance to dispose of me. I do have a few people who don't like me. They probably couldn't take me very far without being missed; trying to set up some kind of an alibi.
Temari started to talk out loud. The silence was becoming deafening and it helped to calm her anxiety about the situation. "They're trying to put me through some sort of sense deprivation. Well, I have news for-"
A soft rumble surrounded her and a soft light filled the room. After her eyes adjusted she stood up and looked around. The first thing she scanned for was her fan, but it wasn't there.
"Am I in someone's home?"
She could tell that she was underground because of the faint intermittent rumbles that she could now tell came from above, and the ceiling was covered with sprawling roots. The walls were all stone and there were more than a few doors.
Against one side was a kitchen area with a western style dining table. Further towards the center of the room was a sitting area. There are a couple of couches and arm chairs that look crudely made from tree trunks along with a stone coffee table. There is a lot of empty space all around though. It seemed like a man-made underground cavern.
There were six large rounded wooden doors and she tried opening them all. One opened to a long hallway with four more locked doors on one side that ended in a dead-end. She made her way back to the big room and decided to feel against the walls for an opening anywhere. She found nothing.
Temari started thinking of a way to get out of there. She didn't know how deep underground she was so that left her with few options that wouldn't result in a cave-in that could kill her.
She went back over to the locked doors and tried to kick them in. They hardly budged. The doors were somehow reinforced and after a few kicks, punches, shoulder throws, and wind blades nothing was happening.
If she couldn't get out, she needed to get a message out. She tried summoning Kamatari or another one of her weasels, but absolutely nothing happened. She tried it three times and just felt drained by the end of it.
"Where the hell am I?" she mumbled to herself.
"You're here." Temari jumped back and turned to see a White Zetsu clone smiling at her.
"Stay back."
The clone slunk into the floor and projected his voice out. "There's no reason to attack me. I'm here to help you."
"Yeah right. Just like you helped at The Kage Summit and like you've been helping the alliance on the battlefield. I don't think so you clone freak." Temari jumped on the dining table and stayed alert to her surroundings.
"That wasn't too nice. There was no need to call me a freak. From the looks of it, I'm the only one willing to be near you right now. Maybe you're the freak."
"Ha, ha." After a few moments of silence Temari figured that she had to get information from someone and she would just have to talk to Zetsu.
"Are we beneath a forest?"
"Those are my roots. Don't worry yourself about them." Temari flinched when she saw a zetsu come out of a root and drop to the floor while another rose from the ground.
"Hi. You can call me Z." It seemed that the one from above is a new addition.
"Why are there two of you here? Shouldn't you be out there fighting?" As if on cue a light boom makes its way through the stone.
"We'd rather be down here with you." they both said while gesturing for Temari to have a seat on the couch.
She jumped off the table in a fighting stance. "I'm fine standing. Now why am I here?"
"Because he thinks you should be here. He'll explain more when he comes." Temari figured the first zetsu must be the zestu in charge.
"Who is 'he?' And why does 'he' want me here? And where am I in the first place?"
Z laughed, "We told you already. Are you always this forgetful?"
"You did not."
"Oh, maybe we didn't. It doesn't matter, anyway."
"This is really starting to get irritating. How do I get out of here?"
"There is no way out until he decides that you can leave."
She took a step forward and said, "I'm going to kill you two idiots if you don't start giving me real answers right now. Now who put me here?"
"Madara." they both said.
Well this definitely changed things. Temari figured that she was probably a prisoner of war. However, she couldn't figure out why the actual leader of Akatsuki would bother with her in the first place.
"Wait, which Madara, the old masked one or the new dead one?"
"The old, original Madara." Zetsu chuckled.
"So the masked one?"
"No, the dead one." said Z.
Temari blanched and sat on one of the crude couches. Why would some dead guy transport me to a stone underground apartment prison? That just made her even more confused.
"Why me? Why am I here?"
"You said not to underestimate you. Or was that someone else?"
"It was me, but I'm no real threat to Madara." She nervously chuckled, "That was just harmless bravado on the battlefield. You know I wasn't being serious. He knows I wasn't serious." She strained out a sigh with her last laughs. "For goodness sake go up there and tell him that I wasn't serious!" She broke out in a cold sweat. See if I ever open my mouth again during a fight.
She continued, "If anyone should be here, he or she should be a kage or something. Not that you should bring one of them down here either…"
"And yet you are here."
Temari gained some of her anger back and shouted, "This is ridiculous! He didn't even acknowledge me up there. He hardly glanced at me. He brushed off my attack as if it were nothing. It was nothing to him. Now tell me why I'm really here."
"I'm happy you're down here and not up there. You could be dead by now and then who would I talk to?" Z had a comically sad frown that didn't fit his naturally smiling face.
"Yourself, each other, I really don't care who you talk to you crazy freak. And even if I were dead at least it would be with my comrades defending our world. Instead I'm going crazy and talking to a plant in a magical underground bunker. Now why am I here?"
"Hey! This is much better than just a bunker. There's even a bathroom down here." Z leaned in and stage whispered, "It's for you to poo in."
"There's also a stocked kitchen. We worked really hard on this place. We're still working hard on this whole thing." Zetsu haughtily added.
"What?"
"Madara gave us plans to build this place before he died. We've been working on it for years."
"You've been planning on kidnapping me for years!"
"No, not you. Just building this place. We'll be back soon, so don't get too worried. The bathroom and the library are now unlocked so have fun figuring out where they are."
Zetsu sunk into the ground and right before Z's face also disappeared into the ground he called out, "Madara will be here soon."
They both sunk into the ground and she was left alone.

"Mokuton: Kajukai Korin!"
Gaara was almost stunned as the giant blossoms raced towards him and the other kage. "Kazekage!" The Hokage's voice brought him back to reality in an instant. He lifted everyone above the forest, and as he marveled at the tangle of branches, he hoped that Temari and the others had managed to get a safe distance away. He knew that Madara would demand everything of him and he just couldn't afford to worry about anyone who couldn't contribute to this battle.

Temari actually found three rooms that were now unlocked. The bathroom was amazing. First off it was huge. There was a large natural looking stone pond and the water looked steamy and inviting. There was even a small little waterfall flowing into it. Along the far wall was a stone bench coming out of the wall with towels and buckets while the toilet and shower was in a smaller private room off to the side. It was like an underground onsen. It was calming just to look at.
The library was a cozy room with a golden hue. There were plenty of scrolls and books and a desk in the middle of the room with some sitting chairs placed between a couple of the bookshelves that lined the walls. There was even a shogi set.
The third room was a little strange. It was a thoroughly traditional room. The door opened to a small area for shoes that led to a screen door. Beyond that the room was bright and comforting. The walls looked like paper screens and the floors were covered in tatami mats. You could never guess that this room was in an underground cavern. There were cushions for sitting on the floor and a low table. A large section was a bare and raised about half a foot above the rest of the room.
None of this really made sense to her. She needed to think.
She went back out to the couch and put her feet on the coffee table. It was time for her to figure this mess out.

The searing heat combined with the suffocating pollen produced by Madara brought the Kazekage to the brink of unconsciousness. He struggled to lift his head and looked around at the other kage. They were literally dropping like flies being exterminated.
His mind flew through all the books he read to prepare for this war. Was there anything in any of them that covered revived and practically immortal shinobi? He didn't think so.
His chest was getting tighter and he could see the darkness closing in. Gaara made a silent prayer for the safety of the alliance without its kage to lead them. He had faith that new leaders would emerge but he hoped that the alliance could get over this loss quickly.
He prayed for Suna. Suna always needed a prayer. It's so easy to become and feel alone out in the desert. Gaara hoped that Suna might be able to make some lasting relationships through all of this.
He prayed that Naruto could continue to change hearts and minds.
He prayed the hardest for his family. He felt like he had too few years of actually living as siblings. That was his one regret. He wished that he could have known their support before his fateful trip to Konohagakure. He hoped they would both come out of this war victorious and able to achieve the happiness they both deserved.
He finally prayed for himself and the kage next him. He prayed that their past deeds be forgiven and that their intentions matter much more than the actions that came from those intentions. The heat went from searing to comforting and Gaara drifted to sleep.
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