Chapter 31

Seeing various colors of lightning flying around in the purple barrier, Karma stood up. "Since she's probably gonna finish up soon, we should too. Himari, Rin, Kushina, you stay here. I'll go catch up with Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura." Karma said. Though he suspected Naruto would probably be done dealing with Gaara by himself right now.

Utilizing shunpo, and his sense of smell, he quickly tracked the groups scents, following them until he saw Naruto and Sasuke standing on top of a giant toad. Before his very eyes, the toad transformed into the Kyuubi, closing the gap between it and the giant sand tanuki. From the head of the nine tailed fox, came a large red fireball, along with Sasuke's shout of "Great Fireball Jutsu!"

After it hit, a small strip of sand on the head of the tanuki turned into glass which Naruto used to run on and punch Gaara upper body, poking out of the beast. "It looks like I'm not needed here..." Karma said aloud, attracting the attention of both Sakura and Temari nearby.

"You?" Temari asked getting into a defensive stance when she saw him.

"I've had it with you!" Naruto yelled as he head-butted Gaara.

"Karma! You're here!" Sakura as she jumped onto the branch next to him, also taking up a fighting stance while facing Temari. Meanwhile, the giant Toad vanished in a puff of smoke, sending Sasuke flying, and launching Gaara and Naruto into two trees, directly opposite of each other.

"Relax, you two. This'll be over soon, anyway. Temari, your attack on the Hidden Lead has already failed. The best you can do is come with us afterwards and clear things up with the Hokage." Karma explained. "He'll probably want to reestablish an alliance since there's more to this invasion than you know. There was a snake manipulating your village behind the scenes, posing as your Kazekage."

"...what?" Temari asked.

"You'll learn about everything more clearly later, for now, we should go pick those two up. Though, Sasuke and Kakuro are already doing it. That's perfect though, I can take you all to meet the Hokage directly afterwards." Karma said as he started making his way towards the fallen Gaara and Naruto. Temari and Sakura quickly followed after glaring at each other.

When the trio arrived, Kankuro was about to escape with Gaara. "Wait!" Karma yelled. "Hold it right there! Everyone here needs to follow me to meet the Hokage. We have to broker a new peace between the villages. All of this was orchestrated by Orochimaru, so the Hokage will forgive the Sand Village. Even if he didn't, he'd have to, since Temari is my girlfriend."

"""""EH?!""""" Everyone other than Gaara yelled. Even Temari, since she never agreed to that!

"Well, future girlfriend." Karma blushed. "I did say it before, didn't I?"

"Karma! Can't you at least be serious in this situation?!" Sasuke yelled as he punched him, sending Karma flying into a tree.

"Ow. I was just trying to lighten the mood, Sakura. We should all be glad this is over rather than angry that Orochimaru did this." Karma said as he stepped out of the hole his body made in the tree. "Besides, Naruto's back on his feet thanks to that. All right, everyone follow me. Someone pick up Gaara." Karma laughed as he jumped into the trees.

Everyone closely followed him, and they headed straight back to the arena, with Karma clearing out any fools still fighting and trying to get in their way. Once they were back, they were greeted by the sight of Yoruichi carrying two bodies on her shoulder and the Third also carrying two, one with two heads. Behind them, another young man followed.

"Well, the stupid snake barely got away, but he'll have trouble even moving from now on!" Yoruichi laughed. "I did manage to get some souvenirs though! If it weren't for these I would have gotten rid of him. Unfortunately, two of them are dead, so they won't be as strong though. Karma, you can have this one as a maid!" She joked as she threw a red haired young woman as Karma. "The other other is a spy we'll be interrogating named Kabuto. As for the last one, well, he's something else. His name's Kidomaru, and he's basically a slave. He agreed to serve our clan if we can free his 'queen,' whoever she is. She's apparently capture by Orochimaru."

"Well, I guess." Karma sighed. Picking her up, he patiently waited until everyone, but the Third and Yoruichi left.

"Au- Big sister, Third, you've seen my and Ailane's Ketsuryugan. Because of that, I wish to eventually set up a new clan in the Leaf Village. Members of the Nekotsume clan would grow jealous of us and it would incite strife within the clan if more Ketsuryugan users begin to pop up. I do not wish for the clan members to grow jealous of the Head because we have the Ketsuryugan. Nor do I want some kind of divide because of 'a superior bloodline' or something. So, after training, I will go out and find the Chonoike Clan, subdue them and bring them back to the village to form my new clan. This souvenir will be part of my new clan now, I think. Kidomaru too."

His words shocked everyone, but the Third and Yoruichi nodded. Anyway, Yoruichi would join the new clan, and the Third was happy the village would have a new power. Karma quickly left after getting their approval and Jiraya entered.

I also think it's about time we have a new Hokage, Yoruichi." The Third said.

"No, thanks. Jiraya should do it, he's one of the legendary Sannin!" Yoruichi replied.

"Hmm, I won't do it, but if you want someone with the name of the legendary Sannin, I know just the woman." Jiraya smiled.

"Tsunade, right?" The Third said. "If you can bring her back..."

"Yes, but there is one guy I'll be taking along for the ride." Jiraya said as he left.

"Well, I better make preparations and tell the clan. By the way old man, why not that Itachi or Shisui?" Yoruichi asked before leaving.

"They may be mature enough, but I don't know if they're entirely strong enough yet." He replied. Having received her response, Yoruichi quickly left.