Walking. (Open to two people max)

Rai walked around the forest till he stopped and sighed, he was walking to get in some fresh air since the hokage died, all he had was Hachibi. He began to focus slowly as chakra bubbles began to form around him, he was making the famous chakra cloak that everyone had known made him and the other host stronger. He reached into his pouchs as he mouth hands licked their lips can took a bite each as he pulled them out and began to mold the clay. He molded two birds as he had realised his cloak had fully formed, he tossed up as he spoke, "Katsu!" They exploded into a puff of smoke as two birds stood there looking around. he smiled as he was getting better and better at making his cloak while using his clay. He allowed the cloak to disperse as he looked around with a smile, he decided he might ride one of them if no one else arrives. Then he could pratice air battles if they were to ever happen.

"Well I see you are playing with your powers Hachibi" Suna said looking down from a tree "How's it going big boy?"

Suna jumped down from the tree branch and flashed the Hachibi a smile. Her Akatsuki cloak waved in the wind.

"I'm Shukaku, but people call me Suna" Suna said with a smile "What's your name? or should I just call you Hachibi?"

"Akatsuki..." He whispered then quickly remembered what it felt like being treated like some filthy virus and decided to give her a chance. He smiled towards her and held out his hand, "I am known as the Eight Tailed Explosion, though you can call me Rai. Nice to Meet ya suna!" He decided he might as well break the ice, "So i suppose you are a host like me eh? Well me and Hachibi prefer to be called two seprate enties, are you and shukuka friends as well? He thought to himself about her "She seems diffrent, don't you agree Hachibi-san?" "Watch her kid, after all you never know about certain host, only me and you are true exceptions." "Hai. I understand, still though i can't treat her like others did me." "Hey, you wanna go for a ride on one of the birds? I promise nothing will happen if you just trust me, though i can understand if you won't." He was still smiling, he never could be cruel to someone with out a reason, he knew how it felt. It was a horrible feeling and akatsuki hasn't done anything wrong yet so he could atleast give her a chance.

"Well well well" A mysterious voice suddenly spoke "If it isn't Hachibi?"

A miniature version of Shukaku emerged from Suna's shoulder, coming out through the opening, still connected through sand. The miniature demon looked at Rai with a smile.

"So this is your host Hachibi, not bad, not bad" Shukaku rubbed his chin, grinning with amusement "But I prefer a young woman rather then a man, oh well whatever floats your boat Ahahahaha!!"

"Hehehe" Suna said with a smile "So Shukaku, what do you think?"

"Hmm, they're partners alright, Hachibi learned to love a human, never thought I'd see the day"

"So they're like us?"

"No they aren't like us, their still two or should I say eight Ahahahaha! You and me are one" Shukaku said with a smile "They haven't connected on our level"

"So you want to go with them?" Suna asked

"We still got a job remember, we're supposed to be getting that stupid little brother of mine"

"Oh yeah, we're supposed to get the Kyuubi" Suna agreed "Oh well, thanks for the offer Rai, but I'm going to have to pass"

Suna began to walk away towards Konoha.

"So Shukaku, what game should we play for this one?"

"Let's see..." Shukaku pondered "How about let's compete this time? Each of us tries to kill as many people who try to stop us as we can before we catch the Kyuubi"

"Sounds fun, let's do it, I'll be using the body this time"

"Alright, I'll control the sand" Shukaku nodded

No! YOU WON'T ENTER THIS VILLAGE WITHOUT GETTING PAST ME!! Rai shouted as his power was shown through his voice, "Watch yourself Kid! This isn't going to be easy and you outta watch yourself with your temper remember what you said." Rai started to blush and quickly looked away as he was being lectured with his own words. "I mean, you can't go into konoha and kill all of those innocent people! What about their families thier friends! You wouldn't like it if konoha came to your family and friends and slaughtered them. Why don't we talk this over peacefully? Maybe you could take me instead? Or we could just be friends and hang out and you don't have to kill or take anyone. No one can force to do a thing not even that little thing on your shoulder, is that a tanaki? But besides that don't you understand how i feel about this village? I was hated everywhere and these were the only people to accept me for who and what i am.... can't you just understand that simple fact atleast?" He didn't want her to go and take the host, the village The hokage worked so hard to protect, he couldn't allow her to take him, he was the boy the hokage want the new hokage to watch over. He meant something to the Hokage so he meant something to Rai.

"Hehehe" Suna grinned, which turned into a smile, which became more twisted "AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!"

Suna bellowed out in laughter, she fell on the floor laughing, she began to roll around. Finally she got up, a twisted smile bordered her face.

"That's a good one, you don't understand do you?" Suna said "I'm a Biju, I'm not a jinchuriki, I am Shukaku, I want to kill and slaughter everyone I meet because it is in my nature"

Suna walked towards Rai, meeting him eye to eye, his normal eyes meeting her demon eyes.

"I didn't try to kill you because you are just like me, but unlike me, you changed the beast, the beast changed me" Suna said "Everyone who is my friend or family ends up dead anyway, that is why I joined the Akatsuki, so I wouldn't go back to my village, I gained a way to enjoy myself thanks to Shukaku, and now we are one"

"Thats not true though, not everyone of your friends end up dead, i'm still alive right?" He said with a big grin, "I'll be your only friend, you wouldn't be able to get rid of me easily, i'll stick to you like glue, then i could take you are konoha. People trust me i could vouch for you and you could live with me and my friends in konoha. That sounds a lot better than being with akatsuki to where you won't go back to a village. To me it sounds like you just closed yourself off because of that thing on your shoulder. Also i didn't change hachibi i found the good side of him, everyone has one, i bet you have one too no matter what your told or called." He smiled as the birds behind him paid close attention to her, his clay was always watching everything waiting for his command to make any action. "Besides i think you look kinda cute with those ears and tail. Why don't you try to experience my life for a day before you decide that your bijuu has any power over you." He thought a hug might help her but he decided that if he did that she might just use it as a way to attack him. "Good call kid, i understand you want her to look through your point of view but maybe touching her in anyway may let shukuka get a hold of you with his sand."

"Ahh I see, you think that Shukaku is controlling me" Suna said with a smile "Here, I'll make a deal"

Suna walked back a few steps.

"If you can hit me once, just once, I'll try things your way" Suna grinned, suddenly a gust of wind blew and Suna began to blow away into sand. "If not, I'll be continuing what I was doing"

Suna disappeared with the wind, letting it carry her away. Anyone who looked would see a sandstorm blowing.

Rai stuffed his hands into his clay pouch and pulled them out as one molded a pelican and the other began molding spider balls. Rai threw the pelican and spoke as he activated it., "Katsu!" It exploded into a puff of smoke as a pelican stood there with its jaw open awaiting the spider balls, he quickly began molding even more spider balls and stuck them into its mouth just as it was half full and saw the sand strom brewing into an even stronger one. He jumped onto one of the birds and ordered the other two to fly around and await his command, the bird would protect the pelican so the spider balls would be safe. He flew into the air and looks for Suna, "Suna! Come on out! I don't want to hurt you! I can already tell that you are going to make this difficult so lets avoid this!" He knew it wouldn't work as he floated around a bit looking.

Suna reformed onto the ground and looked up Rai. Her smile going across her face.

"If you want me to try your life, you have to win by my rules"

Suna raised her hands and large amounts of sand began to form. Suna made a few hand signs and clapped her hands together.

"Sand Tsunami"

A wave of sand began to form and began to flow towards Rai, reaching an extreme height. When the sand got within range, it began to move in random directions and attack Rai, trying to grab him and all of his creations.

"GET AWAY GUYS!!! DON'T COME NEAR ME UNTIL I CALL YOU!!" He shouted as he dived off his bird, they flew off except for the one he rode on, the sand caught it before it could get away, "Don't worry, you death shall be my assitance, KATSU!" The bird exploded as the sand fell off it and became useless for a moment. He jumped off the sand pillars that came at him as his chakra cloak formed, he had two tails and started to punch the sand back as he came closer and closer to suna. He stopped and whistled as all the sand was focused on him his birds came back and the pelican opened its mouth, the spiders fell out as the pelican and the bird dived down towards suna. "Katsu!" The spiders came to life as they started to spread apart some getting caught in the sand the others falling down towards Rai. Ultimate Bombing! KATSU!!" Explosions happened all through out the sand as peices fell down making most of it useless, the birds exploded just above Rai giving him a speed boost. He came closer and closer to suna, then he heard a voice, "RAI!! QUICKLY!!! MOVE TO THE LEFT THEN RIGHT!!!!" He didn't understand till he saw sand to his right, he quickly kicked off it then saw more sand encasing him slowly in a ball, he punched off that and ended up just above suna. The sand was getting faster the closer he got, he wasn't going to finish this quickly.

"It's useless, my sand moves faster then any of the other Shukaku hosts ever did" Suna smiled "And I also have this"

Suna watched as sand erupted from the ground and surrounded her entire body, placing her inside of a ball of sand

"Just try and break my defense, while sand rains" Suna said inside of her protective sphere "Sand Shower Barrage"

Clouds of sand formed and spread across the sky. Soon the sky around the forest was completely covered by a thick cloud of sand. The clouds began to rain senbons of sand down to the earth at extremely high speeds. The senbon peppered the ground, causing large chunks of it to sever off, and ripped apart trees upon impact. Sand around Suna formed into boulders, surrounded the shield of sand. The shield of sand began to shoot senbon of sand as well.

"SUNA!!!!" Scream rai as he stuffed his hands into his clay pouchs, he began to mold three birds, he tossed them into the air and shouted, "Katsu!" Two of the birds floated over the one bird and Rai as the sand hit them full force, the didn't falter as Rai was making another bomb, it was a big one, it was a statue of a taniki sitting on a girl's shoulder,senbon from the sphere of sand kept peircing him in non vital spots as he bird moved side to side to help him dodge.. He tossed it forward and shouted. "Suna! This one is for you!! Katsu!" The statue grew up to be huge as it fellow on her sand sphere as it exploded do to the boulders smashing into it, the senbon were turned to nothing from the explosion as Rai jumped off his bird and all three dived into the explosion and exploded as well making the explosion even bigger as rai ran towards the explosion, the explosion had stopped as he jumped into the smoke the sand had to be gone, nothing could stop four explosions as he stopped infront of were he remembered the sand sphere was he shouted as he made his cloak disappeared, "SUNA!! COME ON OUT!! YOU HAVE TO BE HURT!!! THE EXPLOSION WAS TO BIG TO NOT BREAK YOUR SAND!! JUST COME ON OUT I WON'T HURT YOU!!! LETS END THE MADNESS AND SAY YOU WON!!! NO ONE SHOULD BE HURT BECAUSE OF SUCH A GAME!!!" He shouted into the smoke.

"Ultimate Defence: Shukaku Shield" Suna said as the dust blew and a statue that looked like a fat tanuki was seen where the sphere of sand was before. Suna emerged from the statue and stood on top of it "If it was just my normal sand I would have taken a good hit, nice work Rai"

"How about you take this head on" Suna said as she formed a strange looking halberd "Ultimate Attack: Shukaku Spear"

Suna threw the spear at lightning speed, it's force and velocity increased as Suna used her speed, strength and sand to push it forward. Suna took in a deep breath and unleashed a massive gust of wind to push it faster.

"Wind Style: Sandstorm Devastation"

Rai stood there as the halberd peirce him, blood poured all over the place as he fell to the ground, underneath his corpse was a tunnel hole, and the body of rai looked diffrent, it was made of clay? Lightningt fast rai is in mid air about to tackle Suna from behind, then the sand catches him in it, "Nani?! Ah let go!! Crap, my plan failed... Hehe it was good though right suna-chan?" The sand had captured his torso, elbows and his legs suppending him there in mid air, his left fist and right fist were clenched shut as he struggled to get out. He was stuck till suna decided to let him go, little did she know in his right hand were ball spiders and in his left he had nothing but some clay incase he needed to mold something.

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"Well that was fun" Suna said with a smile "Thanks for the fun time Rai"

Suna released Rai out of her sand and walked towards him

"I guess I should say we tied this round" Suna said "After all, you would have planted a few bombs in my sand when you got caught"

The sands that surrounded the area all converged and were absorbed into Suna. The sands disappeared leaving no trace of ever being there.

"Surprised I know? I can see everything through my sand, my sand is me after all"

Suna put out her hand to shake.

"Well neither of us won, neither of us lost, so I won't attack the village kay?" Suna said with a smile

Tenshi dropped down from the sky and landed a few feet away from the two fighters.

"Raigato Haifutu, I thought I'd find you here" Tenshi said as she looked at Rai, then when she looked to Suna, her Sharingan activated "And Akatsuki member Suna the Sand Demon"

Tenshi pulled out her sword, and pointed it at Suna.

"If you've come for the Kyuubi he is under my protection" Tenshi said with a cold gaze "Now, will you come peacefully or will I have to take you by force?"

Rai flinched and looked at suna, he looked over his shoulder and decided on what he was going to do, Hokage i suggest you leave, you are not needed. I say this with respect but you are no right to point that sword at my new friend." He turned and faced the hokage as he stood infront of suna, he opened his left hand threw a minature bird off to the side and threw his ball spiders infront of him, "Katsu." He said as the bird and the four ball spiders exploded into a puff of smoke and the bird stood there as the spiders watch the hokage, "Suna leave on my bird or stay and help me talk to the hokage it is up to you, Hokage i dare say that if you even attempt to harm her my clay creations here won't react too kindly." "Dear god you are insane, well i suppose i understand how you feel about your friends. Though i believe you happen to be in love." Hachibi said teasingly making Rai blush, "I'm not in love you baka! She is just my friend!" He said aloud before realising that. He blushed even redder and looked off to the side and regained his composure.

"Thanks" Suna said with a smile "But I'll talk, I'm not attacking the village right now so it's fine"

Suna stood in front of Rai, but then turned around to face Rai again.

"Thanks for your feelings" Suna said, for once her smile showed a light of good in it, she then turned back to the Hokage "I'm not here to attack anyone, I've made a deal with Rai to not attack the village"

"Hmm, very well" Tenshi said, sheathing her sword "However..."

Tenshi suddenly disappeared and reappeared behind the two hosts, leaning on their backs.

"Raigato, you should watch yourself, you are putting yourself at risk, Shiro wouldn't want that" Tenshi said calmly then turned to Suna. "So long as you don't harm my village I won't fight, I don't like to kill"

Rai started to blush at suna's smile but it went away when he saw tenshi "You don't know what he would want.... he would want me to atleast take a risk for my friends..." He said under his breath, that was a sore topic for him as he turned his attention back to suna, "But suna-chan! Let me show you what you are missing out on! i mean honestly having the tanaki with you all the time must suck so let me atleast show you what my life is daily." He smiled and ran forward as his spiders and bird just stood there then an idea formed in Rai's head, "Why don't we just fly above the city! It would be fun and i could show you the places of the city much faster!" He wanted her to know what it was like with friends loved ones even if it was only hachibi he had it was still good to have friends. "Oh and hokage-sama, i don't think you should be here, i am more than capable to defend the village myself from any sort of invasion. I just find it curious you allow hunter ninja sneak into our village yet when i fight you immedetally stop what you are doing to find out what it is." He said as he looked towards tenshi with a cold glace.

"You know why Raigato? Because you are Shiro's heir, you might not have heard this, but Shiro told me to take care of you and Musashi" Tenshi said calmly "Also, do not underestimate others just because they don't have a tailed beast, many ninja could kill you in an instant from a kage to a lowly genin, everyone is a risk"

Tenshi walked over to Rai and patted him on the shoulder.

"You have potential and you will make a fine Kage someday, but right now go with your girlfriend" Tenshi said with a smile "Good work, in the ninja world, those who don't follow the rules are scum, but those who abandon a friend are worse than scum, Shiro would have been proud of you"

Rai looked away as tenshi was speaking until she called suna his girlfriend, "DAMN YOU AND HACHIBI!!!" Rai shouted as he turned red, "WHY DO YOU TWO THINK I LOVE HER!?!?!" "Cause you do." Hachibi said quickly, "SHUT UP NO ONE ASKED YOU!!!" He shouted out loud, then he realised he once again spoke out loud instead of thinking it, all that could be heard in his mind was Hachibi laughing loudly. "Anyways i'm going to see you later hokage-sama." he said as he turned his attention back to suna rubbing the back of his head, "This is my life, i suppose heh. I deal with him being a smart ass and a hokage that likes to act like hachibi." he said with a chuckle.

"Looks like the Hachibi host likes you" Shukaku said inside Suna's head "He must either be an M or he has something for animal ears and tails"

"Shut up Shu" Suna grumbled

"What, you don't like me saying things about your love at first sight?" Shukaku smiled in Suna's head "You are definitely affected by him"

"I am not, it's just, no one ever went that far for me, no one threatened a Kage to protect me"

"So you like it?"

"Yeah..." Suna blushed

"Did it make your heart skip a beat?"

"A little..." Suna blushed even harder

"Then your in love baby" Shukaku said "Your love is starting to bloom, and your love is like a desert flower, it ain't going to go down"

"Anyway" Suna shook the feeling off, or tried to at least "Rai!!! Come on!!! I thought you were going to bring me flying!!"

"Right the flying part, hmm okay i have an idea." Rai said as he whistled for the bird as the ball spiders just wondered off towards the unknown. Rai shrugged as he jumped onto the bird and held his hand out for suna's so he could pull her up. We might have to share one since i don't think you know how to fly a bird. Hehe. he said with a chuckle as he heard the hachibi say something he couldn't fully hear, "What did you say? Cause i didn't hear what you said." "I said you will do anything to wrap your arms around her or visa versa nyeh?" " Shut up bastard..." He thought as he smiled towards Suna.