Naruto's Bizarre Adventure

by Takeshi1225

First it all started with a race, then ghost like entities, beings from stone pillars, a tenacious cult, a crazy eighteenth century vampire who could stop time, and finally a combination of two of the worse people you ever had the misfortune to know. Yare yare daze. Safe to say, this blonde's going to have one Bizarre Adventure.

1. Start of the Golden Race

Naruto's Bizarre Adventure

Part 1: Golden Race!

Chapter 1: The Great Genin Race!

September 1984, in a far off land, uncharted on the maps of the world.

A new event comes to take place. For this region hidden by most of the world, five powerful political figures have come together to initiate a brand new plan of action to determine who breeds the best of them all.

Right now, we are in the Land of Irons, home to a nation full of Samurai, where a meeting is being held.

In this land, the Godaime Hokage, Tsunade Senju, executes a challenge that could bring interest to each nation.

"The first ever Great Genin Race." Tsunade announced.

"A genin race? How is that supposed to help?" Onoki, the Sandaime Tsuchikage questioned.

"Easy. Every single genin in our village participates. With the numerous quantities of genin we have, we can allow a person to bet as many people as they can, whether it's from their own village or another. Each person makes a bet on who ends up at the first checkpoint. With every person in each village around the world pooling their money into this event, we take the loss and split it up evenly to go to our own village's economy. Also, depending on the progress of the shinobis from each hidden village, it will bring new business to the villages, kind of like the Chunin exams, for them to determine which village has a better success rate for missions, but with this being an all-out race with few limitations, it will perfectly allow them to see the full potential of each villages rising soldiers." Tsunade explained with a smirk.

"Not a bad idea, but with the kind of scale this event possesses, a lot of money must be put into it." A, the Yondaime Raikage, questioned with a raised eyebrow.

"Already have that covered. Let's all be honest. We can get a bit prideful with our villages, but the only ones who can be more prideful in their land are the daimyos. Making bets on whose land is superior is an offer they cannot afford to lose. They become our sponsors in this event."

"Using the daimyos for our own gain. Do you have no shame Tsunade?" Onoki said with a smirk.

"Hey, it's been something they've been wanting for years, why not take advantage of the opportunity." Tsunade said with a smirk.

"How devious, yet I'd like to see this event. With all the strapping youths taking part in this competition, it sure would make things interesting." Mei, the Godaime Hokage, said with a smirk.

"So are we all decided?" Tsunade asked.

"Why not. I could use a little payback on some of you, especially your home Hokage-sama." Onoki said with a grin.

"Hmph. This could get interesting. Fine. The Land of Lightning will partake in this event." A said with a smirking grin.

"How can someone like me refuse such a spectacle? I'll tip my hat into the ring as well." Mei said with a smile.

"Now what of the brat?" Onoki said as all eyes were on the young Gaara, the intermediate Godaime Kazekage and soon to be officially the youngest kage in history, only being thirteen years old. "Despite being an intermediate kage, your word still represents the word of your village."

Gaara had his eyes closed and arms crossed as he thought over the situation.

"I'll agree on one condition." Gaara said.

"Hm?" Tsunade raised her eyebrow.

"Allow me to race as well." Gaara said, shocking everyone else.

"How is that fair!?" Onoki shouted as he flew up from his seat.

"I am still technically a genin. The only reason I am here as acting Kazekage is because I have skills in political affairs. With the numerous amounts of genin in the race, my chances for complete victory aren't as high as you'd expect." Gaara briefly explained.

"He does have a point. I don't have any objections, especially since my village is skilled in the power of storm release." A said.

"Tch. Fine, I'll allow it, but only because I have much faith in my own genin to crush the competition." Onoki said with his arms crossed, descending back into his seat.

"So it is agreed." Mifune, the General of the Land of Irons, spoke, earning a nod from everyone. "Then I declare that the first ever Great Genin Race commences."

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Back in Konoha, a few days after the meeting at the Land of Irons.

Every jonin in the Hidden Leaf was requested to take three golden tickets for their genin in their teams. The golden tickets were to register who will participate in the Great Genin Race.

Our story is focused on the members of Team Seven, or to be completely accurate, the short, blonde genin of the three.

This young genin… is Uzumaki Naruto!

"Holy Crap! This Is Awesome!" Naruto cheered with his huge trademark toothy grin, staring down at the golden ticket in his hands. "A Great Genin Race to show off my skills as a shinobi!" Naruto cheered. He thrust his hand, holding the ticket, into the air. "This is it! The perfect opportunity! I win this and I'll become Hokage!" Naruto cheered with all his heart and a big inerasable grin on his face.

"Baka! Not so loud!" Haruno Sakura shouted as she punched the back of Naruto's head.

Hatake Kakashi, jonin leader of Team Seven, sighed at his team's sole kunoichi's behavior. Granted Naruto was being loud, but he had a good reason to be excited. This is the first ever Great Genin Race, and he was going to participate in it. Truth be told, he was prepared for this excitement. He just wishes his other two genin, Sakura and the sole surviving member of the famous Uchiha clan, Uchiha Sasuke (if you don't count his criminal older brother of course) to show a little more excitement.

Sasuke was just leaning against the railing of the small bridge of Team Seven's training ground, his hands in his pockets and eyes closed as his expression looked like that of disinterest. On the inside though, he was very much excited. This is a chance for him to see where his skill set lied. Two days ago, he was approached by goons who worked for Orochimaru, one of Konoha's most infamous missing-nin, who had curse marks, sealed markings on their bodies that give them power, courtesy of Orochimaru, offered him the invitation to come and study under Orochimaru. He was thinking of leaving the village and joining, but this race sounded too good to pass up before leaving.

Naruto groaned with pain as he rubbed the lump spot on his head.

'Jeez. You think with how much I show that I like her, that she'd warm up to me a little.' Naruto thought with a frown.

"Now that you have your tickets, you are to wait for a week and a half." Kakashi said.

"What!? Why That Long!?" Naruto shouted with disappointment at the long waiting period.

"Well this is officially the biggest event in the five nations' history. Well, none that included war of any kind that is. The kage and their villages, along with several other villages must prepare. At this moment they are working to get everything ready. I'm sure a week and a half won't kill you, now would it?" Kakashi explained.

Naruto groaned with annoyance.

"I guess not. I just wanted people to see how awesome a shinobi I've become as soon as possible." Naruto complained.

"You idiot. How do you think that'll be possible, when nobody from our village and the others will be around to see it? It is a race around the five great nations, not one held in a stadium." Sakura said with her arms crossed.

"Nanda!? Then what's the point!?" Naruto shouted with an exaggerated expression.

"The point of this race is mainly one to establish a sort of peace. It's become an official sport that binds the five villages together. Albeit in a bizarre way, but it'll still work as a sign of showing equality between one another through not just the event, but also the profit they gain from it and new clientele who are impressed by the most qualified in a certain village who seem to be up to code with their expectations." Kakashi said.

"So~… like the Chunin Exams." Naruto said with his bottom lip out.

"Yes. Looks like you have been paying attention. Although technically you're correct, this event will have few limitations and will be on a bigger scale. Every genin in the five nations has a chance to participate. The odds will be incredibly stacked against you."

"Pfft. Please, like that'll scare me!" Naruto grinned as he brought his fist up. "Just watch me! I'm going to be the first to cross that finish line! And then everyone will know I'm the best around!" Naruto said as his toothy grin widened. His heart and blood circulation getting pumped from the excitement of showing off his skills.

"Hn." Sasuke closed his eyes, while Sakura sighed, but at least developed a tiny smile from Naruto's attitude.

Kakashi chuckled a bit as he gave the little genin an eye smile with his sole revealed eye.

'Make your parents proud Naruto.

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The time had come.

The Great Genin Race starts today.

Naruto's alarm rang, which annoyed him so much that he punched it into silence. However he remembered what day it is today. He sat up with a gasp and happy grin. He jumped out of bed, ran into his bathroom, took a shower, got dressed in his usual orang with blue shoulder patched and white collared jumpsuit and ran out of his apartment room, slammed his right foot onto the railing as he pumped his right fist.

"Today's the day! Today's the day that I take part in the greatest race of all time!" Naruto shouted as he thrust his fist into the air. "Whoa." Naruto looked down at the populace below. "Sure are a lot of people down there. But then again, every genin is coming here for the race." Naruto said as he looked down to notice shinobi of different villages were mixed in with the group. Naruto's stomach suddenly growled making him frown. "Oh man~. I forgot about breakfast." Naruto said rubbing his stomach as he had a frown with drool coming down the side of his lip. He crossed his arms and hummed. "Takes too long to make ramen myself from the packet. I know! I'll go eat at Ichiraku's! Today's a special occasion and I deserve a smorgasbord!" Naruto shouted with a grin.

Naruto chuckled with excitement as he jumped off the railing and started hopping roof to roof.

Unknown to him, some people were watching him with a menacing aura.

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Naruto finally made it to Ichiraku Ramen stand.

"Hey old man! I'll take-"

"Another order of miso pork please." Naruto looked to see Tsunade already at the stand, with a few empty bowls of ramen next to her.

"Coming right up." Teuchi, managed and founder of Ichiraku Ramen, said with a smile as he started to make more for the Hokage.

"Baa-chan?"

"Hm? Oh, it's you Naruto." Tsunade said turning to see the little blonde punk who always called her 'grandma' that she had a soft spot for.

"I didn't know you liked ramen." Naruto said as he sat down next to her.

"Of course I do. It's one of the best meals out there." Tsunade said with a smirk.

"I hear that!" Naruto exclaimed with a grin. "So the race starts today. You making bets that Konoha will win?" Naruto asked.

"Nope. This time I'm not making any kind of bets today."

"What!? That's so unlike you baa-chan! What happened to the cranky old lady who's never afraid to make a bet?" Naruto questioned with his arms crossed. He suddenly went 'ow!' as he earned a bump atop of his head, courtesy of the Hokage herself.

"That lady is never afraid to make a bet." Tsunade said with her eyes closed and a tick mark on her forehead.

"Then prove it!" Naruto shouted.

"Hm?" Tsunade looked to him with half lidded eyes.

"I bet that I'll be the first to cross that finish line!" Naruto shouted with pure gusto, shocking Tsunade.

"That's a pretty big order to fill, gaki." Tsunade said.

"Just you watch! Now are you going to take the bet or not!?" Naruto exclaimed.

Tsunade stared at him for a few moments, before smile appeared on her face.

"I must be out of my mind. Actually considering of agreeing to a bet from some twerpy little genin." Tsunade said with a smirk and the bottom of her palm against her forehead.

"So we got a deal?" Naruto asked as he raised his pinky to her. Tsunade smiled at Naruto, before wrapping her pinky around his own.

"You got yourself a bet, gaki." Tsunade said with a smirk, making Naruto grin at her.

"Here you go. Two bowls of miso pork ramen. One for the Hokage and the other for the future Hokage." Teuchi said, placing the bowls of ramen in front of Tsunade and Naruto.

"Thanks old man!" Naruto said with a grin as he grabbed the bowl. "Itadakimasu!" Naruto said with his hands together before chowing down.

Tsunade smiled at Naruto. He really was something this kid; actually making her bet again, and on a huge event with such a slim chance of victory for him. She honestly hoped that she'd lose. But then again, it wouldn't hurt to milk this, in case she came out on top.

"So gaki, what do I get if I win?" Tsunade said with a proud smirk and her head held up high.

"Huh?" Naruto turned to Tsunade in confusion.

"Well you don't expect me to make a bet with you and not expect something when I win do you?"

"Oh, that's true. So what do you want?" Naruto asked.

"Hm~… well the Hokage Tower is getting a bit dirty. If I win, you'll have to clean the entire tower." Tsunade said with a smile and her finger up.

"Done!" Naruto exclaimed with a grin.

"Without using any shadow clones." Tsunade said with a devious smirk.

"WHAT!? THAT'S NOT FAIR!?" Naruto screamed with shock at the demand.

"Be careful who you make a bet with kid." Tsunade said with a smirk as she started eating her bowl of ramen.

"You're a real sadist, you know that baa-chan?" Naruto said with a long frown and a sweat drop down the side of his head.

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The final hour was nearing. Genin from all over the nations had gathered into the stadium where the Chunin Exam finals have always been held in. The whole stadium was completely filled with genin. It looked like sardines compacted into a can, only properly lined up.

Tsunade, along with A, Onoki and Mei, were all standing atop of a balcony, looking down at the genins, while the jonin senseis and other jonin, tokubetsu jonin and chunin were in the stadium seats.

Tsunade grinned as she was ready to announce things underway.

"Welcome… to the first ever Subarashi Jeinresu (Great Genin Race)!"

All the genin below cheered, causing the stadium to echo with loud cheers of excitement.

"Now the rules are simple. You all race to village to village to retrieve a scroll, whether they reside in a kage tower or near a public official's residence. You have all been given a map each when you gave in your tickets to the Chunin guards at the entrance of the stadium earlier. They will lead you to which village you need to go. Once arriving, a resident shinobi of the village you arrive to will inform you where the scroll will be. The scroll will be another map, leading you to the next village. No matter what, you must keep all scrolls you have attained in one piece, as to show that you have all traveled to each designated village. If you don't have one, you must return to that same village to retrieve another, even if you know which village you must travel to next. If you have more than one scroll, you will be disqualified, for we will believe you have stolen one from another genin. Violence against one another is allowed, but do not steal another's scroll. Death is prohibited at all costs. Unless it was by natural causes, no one will die, understood?" Tsunade explained, earning nods from all the genin below. At least they won't have to worry about death… to a certain degree. "And one more thing. Unlike the Chunin Exams, every team member does not have to consent, and the reason for that is… you all will not be a part of teams in this event. This is an individual race."

Everyone looked shocked, and started to make an uproar of shock and confusion.

"No teams!?" Gai exclaimed with shock.

"Well… that's unexpected." Kakashi said with slightly wide eyes.

"Now calm down, all of you. I'm not saying teams will not exist. You can chose to either travel in your usual team, or form an alliance with another shinobi or group, whether they are from you resident village or from another, but from the start, you will all be starting solo." Tsunade said, making some genin gulp. "Now those are all the rules! You will be allowed five minutes before we officially start this thing. You can use your time to relax or start forming teams. The decision is up to you. The five minutes starts now!" Tsunade announced.

Immediately, genin below were either relaxing and staying calm or trying to form teams.

Naruto clenched his fist and looked down at it.

"Well… I guess we'll be working as a team as usual, huh guys?" Naruto said to his teammates with a grin.

"Guess again, dobe." Sasuke said with his eyes closed and his hands in his pockets, shocking Naruto and Sasuke.

"Nani!?" Naruto and Sakura exclaimed with shock.

"I'm in this for myself and that's how it's going to be." Sasuke said.

"But What About Kakashi-sensei's Lesson About-"

"This competition starts with me and it will end with me." Sasuke said, interrupting and not facing Naruto. Naruto growled at Sasuke with anger written on his face.

"Teme~."

"Ja ne." Sasuke turned and walked away from them.

"I can't believe this! What a selfish jerk!" Naruto shouted with anger.

Sakura stared at Sasuke's retreating form with a sad face on.

"Sasuke-kun…" Sakura whispered his name with sadness.

"Well… I guess it's just you and me Sakura-chan." Naruto said with a hopeful smile. Sakura stayed silent for a few moments, staring down at the ground with somber eyes. "Sakura-chan?" Naruto said his crushes name with concern. He reached his hand out to her, about to touch her shoulder, but Sakura suddenly ran off.

"Sasuke-kun, wait!" Sakura called out.

Naruto stared at Sakura's retreating form with shocked eyes. She soon blended in with the other surrounding genin, getting lost in the crowd.

"Guys… guys! Come on! Guys… Sasuke… Sakura… Team Seven for life." Naruto's voice lost its will to speak louder at the fact at what just happened.

His team had just abandoned him.

A few genin had noticed what happened.

A kunoichi from Iwagakure with short, black hair looked to the sad blonde with a disinterested expression.

"Pfft. What a baby. Too afraid to do anything without someone to hold his hand. Konoha shinobi are such sensitive weaklings. As expected." The Iwa kunoichi said.

"Man… his team's cold." A fairly tall, dark skinned young man with shaggy, white hair which covers his left eye, hailing from Kumo said.

A genin from Kiri with short, tufty blue hair with pointed, shark-like teeth, adjusted his square, black rimmed glasses that were connected to ear protectors, stare at the blonde with pity and sadness in how his teammates just abandoned him like that, when he obviously needed them.

A bit away, Gaara was staring at Naruto with sad eyes. He honestly expected more from Sasuke and Sakura. Especially after Naruto gave his all to the point of exhaustion just to save the both of them from himself back when he was mentally unwell. Hell, he expected it more from Sakura since she was the one in imminent danger from being crushed unless Gaara lost all his chakra in the fight.

Gaara turned to his siblings, Temari and Kankuro, who were just relaxing with their eyes closed.

"Temari. Kankuro."

"Hm?" The two looked to their younger brother.

"I'm going to go off on my own this time." Gaara said, surprising the two. However they nodded, understanding their brother. After all, not much to worry about since after this race he will officially become Kazekage. Hopefully anyway. Gaara looked to Naruto. 'I will make sure to be there for you. I owe my life to you Naruto… for saving me.'

Naruto had a sad expression on his face. His team had just abandoned him. How could they?

Naruto looked to his fist with sad eyes.

'Guess I'll be doing this… alone.' Naruto thought with sadness. He never liked being alone.

Kakashi managed to see the whole thing with sad, disappointed eyes. He shook his head in disapproval.

In truth he expected this from Sasuke, seeing as this could be an effect of the curse mark, but with Sakura… she had no excuse. She is too stuck on Sasuke that she's willing to follow him anywhere, even if that meant abandoning something important.

(Like she said she was going to do in the manga, right when Sasuke was about to leave Konoha. Zing! I may be a NaruSaku fan, but that actually felt good! And don't worry, NaruSaku isn't the main couple in this, but despite that this is a Bizarre Adventure first!)

"Alright! Time's up! Everyone get ready!" Tsunade shouted. Everyone quickly started getting into positions.

Naruto stayed staring at his fist, not really paying attention.

"Hey." Naruto turned to see a Kiri genin with short, tufty blue hair looking to him. "You better get ready." The Kiri genin said.

"Huh? Oh right!" Naruto quickly got into position. He still had sad eyes as he couldn't believe his team had left him.

"On your mark! Get set!" Tsunade paused for dramatic effect. Taking in a deep breath through her nose, filling her lungs with air, she yelled out. "GO!"

All the genin quickly hurried out the stadium. Some through the exit, some climbing up the walls to get to higher ground and some even actually shushining (teleporting) out of the stadium.

Naruto was running up the wall, trying to get to higher ground like some of the others. Like they say, sometimes the best road is the high road.

Tsunade smiled as she looked down at the progress that's already being made.

"You think your little experiment will work, Tsunade-sama?" Mei asked.

"Honestly… I think it already is." Tsunade said. Her eyes were staring at Naruto, as he finally hopped up to the top of the wall of the stadium. He and many other genin jumped off and landed upon roofs.

Naruto was hopping from roof to roof, looking around seeing that civilians were looking out their windows cheering as the streets and roofs were filled with genin from all around the five nations.

'Man, it's like a stampede!' Naruto thought. He looked around and noticed some familiar faces. He saw Kiba, Akamaru, Shino and Hinata hopping together on the roofs of the village. He also saw Lee, Neji and Tenten doing the same. He didn't see Shikamaru, Choji and Ino, but that was to be expected. I mean they do have the 'honor' of technically being the laziest genin team from their graduated class. Naruto tried looking around for a certain pair, until his eyes landed on something pink to see Sakura following Sasuke. "Guys!" Naruto called out with a hopeful tone and grin. "Guys over here!" Naruto called, but they didn't hear him, so he decided to go to them, however that was a bad idea, as someone bumped into him.

"Watch It!" A genin from the Amegakure said as he bumped into Naruto, sending him falling down towards the stampede of genin below. Naruto fell to the floor and was starting to get trampled by countless genin. Nobody was helping him. He needed help.

'No!' Naruto thought with a new fire in his eyes. He was starting to bring his fingers together to make a certain seal. 'I refuse… to look helpless! Not Here!' Naruto thought as his fingers crossed. "Kage Bushin no Jutsu!" (Shadow Clone Technique). Suddenly a cloud of smoke exploded in the crowd, making everyone jumped back and protest as numerous Naruto's jumped into the air. "Made it." The original Naruto said, but as he was high up into the air, he noticed that genin were nearing the exit of Konoha. 'I'm gonna be too far back! I'll lose the advantage if I don't hurry to the front.' Naruto suddenly got an idea. Naruto grinned as he landed on a roof, as his clones vanished via puffs of smoke.

Naruto crossed his fingers one more time as a large and now towering cloud of smoke was created, catching everyone's attention as a tower of Narutos were standing up high, holding one another's ankles. The tower leaned back pretty far, but suddenly it shot forward.

"Go Boss!" A Naruto clone shouted as he threw the original Naruto.

Naruto flew in the air as his tower of clones vanished. Everyone stared in shock as Naruto rocketed towards the exit. Naruto grinned as he flew through the air, all the while the most shocked were those of Konoha; Sasuke and Sakura shocked the most that Naruto had used his head to get a big advantage.

Naruto cheered as he flew pass everyone and managed to be the first out the gate. He rolled across the ground, before jumping high into the air.

"I'M THE FIRST ONE OUT, DATTEBAYO!" Naruto cheered with a huge grin and his fist thrust into the air.

"No Way!" A genin shouted.

"Damn Konoha genin! I'll kill him!" Another genin shouted.

"Damn you Naruto!" Kiba shouted with anger with Akamaru barking in agreement as his master had a super ticked of exaggerated expression.

"He actually used his head to gain the lead. I'm shocked." Shino said in his usual monotone voice, but was actually impressed by Naruto's ingenuity.

'Naruto-kun… good job.' Hinata thought with a smile and blush.

"WHOO~~~ WHOO! GO NARUTO-KUN! YOUR FLAMES OF YOUTH ARE BURNING SO BRIGHT!" Lee yelled with pure excitement, pride and vigor of his friend's display with flames for eyes.

"I have to hand it to him. That was clever." Tenten said with a smile.

Neji just smirked at the sight.

Gaara smiled at the sight.

"Excellent work Naruto." Gaara said with smile.

"Wow. Not bad, Naruto." Sakura said with shock.

Sasuke stared at the sight of Naruto in the lead with wide, shocked eyes. They suddenly transformed into his sharingan (Copy Wheel Eye), his clan's kekkei genkai, as Sasuke growled with rage; grinding his teeth.

'Damn you… Naruto.' Sasuke mentally cursed his teammate. Somehow he was always proving to be a match for him and he hated it!

"DAMN KONOHA GENIN!" The dark haired genin from earlier screamed as she started running at full speed. "I'll show you to be so cocky, you little punk!" She yelled with gritting teeth as everyone started shouting and yelling, running at full speed.

'Not bad… for a Konoha shinobi.' The tall, dark skinned Kumo genin from earlier thought with a smirk.

'Amazing! Why did his team abandon him? He's a genius!' The short blue haired genin from Kiri thought with a small grin.

Naruto grinned cheekily as he continued to run at full speed.

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Back at the stadium, a Chunin with a pair of binoculars was watching the whole event from atop the stadium wall.

"Oh~! The first genin has made it out!" The Chunin shouted down to the jonin, chunin and kage in the stadium.

"Who is it!?" Onoki called out, determined to know who made it first.

"Konoha Shinobi, Uzumaki Naruto!" The chunin shouted, shocking everyone.

"Yes!" Shizune, the Hokage's aide cheered with a smile.

"Excellent work Naruto-kun!" Gai cheered with a fist pump and grin.

"Well, safe to say the brat managed to exceed my expectations." Anko said with a smirk.

"I believe that could be said for everyone here." Kurenai said with a smile to her best friend.

"Mm hm." Asuma said with a nod and smile as he smoked his cigarette.

Kakashi smiled underneath his mask.

'Great work Naruto. Your parents would be proud. I know I am.' Kakashi thought as he couldn't help, but widen his smile.

Up above at the balcony, Onoki was grinding his teeth with rage, with wide anime eyes as his face turned red with steam coming out his ears.

"Dammit. Kurotsuchi, you said you had this." Onoki growled with rage.

A shook his head, while Tsunade and Mei smiled and giggled at the mad Tsuchikage's behavior.

"Hold on. Uzumaki. You have one?" A asked the Hokage.

"Yes." Tsunade said.

"Congratulations. It must be rare to find one." Mei said with a smile.

"If I recall right, you're an Uzumaki yourself, aren't you Tsunade-sama?" Onoki questioned, glancing at Tsunade with a raised eyebrow.

"Yeah, and your point?" Tsunade said with her arms crossed.

"He's not… yours is he?" Onoki asked.

"Mine?" Tsunade questioned with a raised eyebrow.

"Of course she's his!" The kage turned to see none other than Jiraiya, Tsunade's fellow Sanin and closest friend. "An adorable tyke and our grandson is, isn't he?" Jiraiya joked with a grin.

"When the hell did you get back!? And he's not ours, you fool!" Tsunade shouted with an anime annoyed expression.

"Take a joke, will you hime?" Jiraiya said with a grin.

"Jiraiya of the Sanin. It's an honor to meet you." Mei said with a small smile.

"Ah, the new Mizukage, Terumi Mei." Jiraiya said walking over and grabbing her hand. "If anyone should be honored, it's myself for meeting you." Jiraiya said with a smile as he kissed the back of Mei's hand like a gentleman, but his eyes widened as he jumped back screaming as his lips were steaming.

"You're such a charmer." Mei said with an 'innocent' smile.

'I knew I liked her for a reason.' Tsunade thought with a smirk and her arms crossed.

"So he does not come from you?" Onoki asked for clarification.

"Nope." Tsunade said with her arms crossed.

"Hm… interesting." Onoki said as he held his chin.

"You seemed very agitated by the way Tsuchikage-dono. Were you expecting one of your own to make it out of the village first?" Tsunade asked rhetorically.

"Hmph. Well what kage would not want to get a little prideful for their own genin to be in the lead?" Onoki said with his head held high and his arms crossed. "Besides, I made a bet with my granddaughter Kurotsuchi. If she wins the race as she stated, then I'd save the hat for her."

"Not bad. I made a bet with Naruto as well. He said he'll be the winner of the race. I bet against him, and so if I win, he'll be forced to clean the entire Hokage tower, without the use of his shadow clones." Tsunade said with a smirk as she dug out imaginary dirt from her nails.

"That's sadistic." Jiraiya said with a smirk as he shook his head with his arms crossed.

"And here I thought I could bring torture." Onoki said.

"So what will the gaki get if he wins the bet?" Jiraiya asked. And it was at that moment, Tsunade's eyes widened.

"Uh… I… that was never really brought up." Tsunade said, making Jiraiya laugh.

"Well knowing the kid, he'll probably ask for that hat of yours." Jiraiya said with a smirk.

"Hmph. He's too green to even touch it yet." Tsunade said with a smug smile and her head held high.

"Same with my granddaughter." Onoki agreed with his head also held high with a smug smile on his face as well.

"Still, I'll find something he might like."

"How about paying for his entire ramen meals at Ichiraku's for the entire month?" Jiraiya suggested with a smirk.

"Are you senile!? Do you want me to end up in the poor house?" Tsunade exclaimed with narrowed eyes and her hands on her hips as she glared at the grinning Jiraiya.

"Tsunade-sama." A spoke getting the Hokage's attention. "The reason I brought up the question is because I wanted to know… is this Naruto yours? And by that, I don't mean descendant."

Tsunade knew exactly what he meant. She sighed.

"Yes. Naruto is Konoha's jinchuriki." Tsunade confessed.

"Hmph. Confident, aren't you? Allowing your jinchuriki to run off around the nations." Onoki said.

"That's why I have that cover. However, I believe in Naruto's strength as a genin." Tsunade smiled. "He'll go far."

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Naruto grinned as he ran through the forest with a grin, ready to win this challenge.

'I'm gonna win this. I'm going to prove to everyone how strong I am! I am going to show that I am worthy to be acknowledged! This will show everyone never to underestimate, Naruto Uzumaki!' Naruto though with a huge toothy grin.

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"AH! I'M LOST!" Naruto screamed as he was in the middle of the forest. "Dammit! I had the lead too and now I lost it!" Naruto cried. Naruto moaned with disappointment as he fell to the floor in a cross legged position. "Now how am I going to beat the competition?" Naruto wondered to himself. He sat there in silence. He looked down to a couple leaves on the ground. Grabbing them, he picked them up and let them go, watching them fall to the ground. He had suddenly gotten an idea. "That's it!" Naruto chuckled with a cheeky grin. "They never said that only other genin should be your only partners." Naruto got up from the ground, bit his thumb and made a few hand seals. "Kuchiyose no Jutsu!" Naruto shouted as he slammed his hand onto the ground, causing a cloud of smoke to plume over.

As it soon started to dissipate, there standing in its place… was Gamakichi.

"Yo Naruto. What's up?" Gamakichi greeted the blonde with a hand up.

Naruto looked down to him with a frown.

'Oh man~. I wanted the big guy.' Naruto mentally complained. Suddenly he was tackled by someone, sending him and the other person stumbling to the ground. Gamakichi looked to them, to see they both sat up, rubbing their heads. "Hey! Watch Where You're Going!" Naruto yelled, pointing at the 'assaulter'.

"I'm so sorry! I didn't see you there!" The person quickly said with his hands up, but realized who he bumped into. "Oh hey, you're that Konoha genin who got in the lead earlier."

"Yeah I am." Naruto said with his arms crossed. He noticed that this was the Kiri genin who told him to get ready earlier when the race was about to start.

"Why are you still out here?" The Kiri genin asked.

"Um~… I…" Naruto looked to the side and scratched the back of his head in embarrassment.

"Are you lost too?" The Kiri genin asked. "Me too. I've never been out this far from my village before."

"Oh. Well then welcome to the Land of Fire." Naruto said.

"Thank you. My name is Chojuro." The Kiri genin, now known as Chojuro, introduced himself with a smile.

Chōjūrō has short, tufty blue hair, and dark eyes. He also has pointed, shark-like teeth, square, black-rimmed glasses connected to ear protectors, a blue pin-striped shirt and camouflage pattern pants. He wears his forehead protector on the front of his holster which he uses to carry what looked like some sort of odd shaped sword. The sword itself is wrapped in bandages leaving only the double hilt visible. He also has shuriken holsters strapped onto each of his legs.

Naruto noticed something on Chojuro's back that was wrapped in bandages.

"Hey, what's that on your back?" Naruto asked pointing to it.

"Oh that? That's Hiramekarei. Believe it or not I'm one of the Seven Ninja Swordsman of the Mist."

"Seriously!? Does that mean you know Zabuza!?" Naruto asked with new excitement.

"Yes. You knew master Zabuza?" Chojuro asked in shock.

"Mm hm." Naruto nodded. "My team and I fought him back at the Wave Country."

"I see." Chojuro said, looking down to the ground. 'So his team are the ones who killed master Zabuza.' Chojuro thought, adjusting his glasses.

"He was a pretty scary guy, but he was okay. He did save Wave Country in the end by killing that slime ball Gato." Naruto said with his arms crossed, shocking Chojuro.

"He saved Wave?" Chojuro asked getting a nod from Naruto. "Then… how did he die?" Surely if Zabuza had saved a country from a tyrant, then he couldn't have been killed by this team.

"Well, after he fought my sensei, he was pretty beaten up, but since Gato betrayed him, he spent his last moments going through a crowd of thugs, hitting him with weapons to get to Gato. And he did it all with just a kunai in his mouth, since both his arms were done." Naruto said, remembering that day perfectly.

Chojuro's eyes shimmered with admiration.

'So in the end, you really were a good person, Zabuza-sama.' Chojuro thought with a smile.

"Oh! I almost forgot! I'm Naruto, and I'm going to be Hokage someday." Naruto said with a grin as he extended his hand to Chojuro.

"Chojuro." Chojuro reintroduced himself again, shaking Naruto's hand.

"Hey, you already introduced yourself, dattebayo!" Naruto exclaimed, still grinning, pointing at Chojuro.

"Oh. Right… I guess I did." Chojuro said with embarrassment as he looked to the side with an embarrassed smile and blush, scratching the back of his head, while Naruto was still laughing.

Gamakichi continued to stare at them.

"Huh… humans."

"So~, where's your team?" Naruto asked.

"I don't have one. Lady Mizukage recommended me for race."

"Whoa. You must be really strong if a kage of all people forced you to be here." Naruto said with a grin.

"Yeah… I was forced. But I don't think I'm that strong." Chojuro confessed.

"Why not? You got that thing on your back." Naruto said, pointing to Hiramekarei.

"That's true." Chojuro said, turning his head as he gripped Hiramekarei's handle.

"Hey guys, if you're done with your talk, what's going on around here?" Gamakichi asked.

"Huh, oh right. You see, I was trying to summon your father, the Chief Toad so he could take me to Suna for this race." Naruto answered.

"A race? Jeez Naruto, my old man wouldn't even bother, you should know that by now." Gamakichi said.

"Yeah, but this is the Great Genin Race! Every genin from all five nations are in this!" Naruto retorted.

"Whoa, that big huh? Well don't you guys have a map?" Gamakichi asked. Naruto and Chojuro looked to each other with wide eyes. "You two forgot, didn't you?" Gamakichi rhetorically asked with a dull look.

Naruto and Chojuro took out their maps and looked to them.

"Ah! I can't read any of this! Even when it's one big picture I can't understand it!" Naruto shouted.

"Give me that." Gamakichi quickly hopped up and took the map. "It says at the bottom, follow the shadows to reach the desert."

"How is that supposed to help?" Naruto questioned with closed eyes and a confused look.

"The trees!" Chojuro exclaimed making Naruto and Gamakichi look to him. "Look." Chojuro pointed to the trees' shadows, which were all stretched to a certain direction. "The shadows from the trees are all pointing in one direction. It's only been like half an hour since the race started and the sun has only move slightly, but still the shadows of the trees are still facing the same direction! We follow the shadows, we find the desert and go on from there!"

"Alright! Great Work Chojuro!" Naruto cheered with a grin.

"Finally, someone using their brain." Gamakichi smile making Naruto glare at him.

"Whatever! Come on!" Naruto exclaimed as Gamakichi jumped on his shoulder and the blonde started running off, but Naruto stopped as he turned to see Chojuro still sitting. "What's wrong? Aren't you coming?" Naruto asked.

"Huh? You want me… to go with you?" Chojuro questioned in surprise.

"Yeah. You helped us out, so that makes you nakama." Naruto said.

"Na… nakama? Me?" Chojuro questioned with shock.

"Yeah! Come on! We don't want to be dead last, right?" Naruto said with a grin. Chojuro stared at Naruto in shock, before smiling.

"Right!" Chojuro got up and hurried up. The two genin and toad raced off towards where the shadows faced, but unknown to them, a person with a bow and arrow was watching them from a tree above.

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Naruto and Chojuro were hopping from tree branch to tree branch, talking along the way.

"And so we gave Zabuza and Haku a proper grave at the top of a cliff in Wave. His sword Kubu… uh… Kubiku… um…"

"Kubikiribocho." Chojuro answered.

"Yeah that's it! That huge ass sword is up there!" Naruto said with a grin.

"I see. Thank you for trusting me with this information." Chojuro said with a smile.

"Well Zabuza was one of your village's shinobi. I figured you deserved to know." Naruto said. "Say, by the way… why did Zabuza become a missing-nin in the first place? I mean I think I've heard before, but, um…"

"You forgot." Gamakichi, still on Naruto's shoulder, said, making Naruto chuckle with embarrassment as he scratched the back of his head.

Chojuro developed sad eyes at remembering the truth behind Zabuza's defection.

"Before the Godaime, Terumi Mei, our Yondaime, Yagura… he somehow… changed. Once he was a great kage, but somehow he made a law that all with kekkei genkai from our village had to be… eliminated." Chojuro said, shocking Naruto. "Of course no one like this, but the law was taken into effect. Zabuza-senpai though… he couldn't stand by to see this. He formed a rebellion and initiated a coup against the Yondaime. It failed though, forcing Zabuza-sama to leave Kirigakure, officially becoming a missing-nin."

'So Zabuza was a good guy after all.' Naruto thought, remembering the vicious swordsman, but found a new found respect for him. "But… why would your kage do this?" Naruto asked.

"Honestly, no one knows, but it was suspected that someone had brainwashed him. Someone with a kekkei genkai." Chojuro said.

"But that doesn't make sense!? Why would someone with a kekkei genkai take control of a kage to kill other people with kekkei genkai!?" Naruto shouted with disbelief.

"I don't know. Sometimes people just want to be the best. That's the world we live in." Chojuro said with sad eyes.

"Well that sucks! When I'm Hokage, I'm going to change the world from that!" Naruto shouted with new determination.

"No offense Naruto, but one kage can't change the world on his own. It just won't fly with other kage."

"Then you'll be Mizukage once I become Hokage then." Naruto said, shocking Chojuro so much that he lost his balance on a branch and fell off the tree, landing hard onto the ground. Naruto stopped and looked down at Chojuro.

"M-Me?! Mizukage!?" Chojuro shouted with a flabbergasted anime expression.

"Yeah, why not?" Naruto said nonchalantly.

"B-But I'm not qualified!" Chojuro shouted from below, sitting up from the ground.

"Well yeah, not yet. I still have a ways to go before becoming Hokage, but your one of the Seven Ninja Swordsman like Zabuza. You're strong and I bet a lot of people acknowledge you." Naruto said.

"Not as many as you'd think." Chojuro said glancing to the side with a pout. Naruto hopped down to Chojuro.

"Look, I'll make a deal with you." Naruto said.

"A deal?" Chojuro looked to him.

"If you stick with me, you're going to have to believe in yourself more, understand? Because so far I can tell your strong. So stop whining! Because if your own kage believes in you then why should you?" Naruto said with a grin. Chojuro stare at Naruto in shock. Someone actually believes in him. And now that he thought about it, Mei wouldn't have forced him into this competition if she didn't believe in him. Naruto extended his hand to Chojuro. Chojuro looked to the hand, before looking to Naruto's smiling face. Chojuro reached his hand over and grabbed Naruto's hand.

Suddenly Naruto threw Chojuro away, sending him flying into a tree, while Naruto jumped away as a stream of lightning came through right where they were.

"Chojuro! Are you okay!?" Naruto shouted. Chojuro was upside down, against a tree. He started sliding down until he fell on his head.

"Yes." Chojuro said with pain.

"Sorry about that!" Naruto called out.

Suddenly they heard laughter making them turn to see that the lightning dissipated into a tall person.

"Not bad reflexes. For a squirt. Although that toss does make me laugh."

Naruto, Chojuro and Gamakichi looked to see a strangely dressed shinobi from Kusagakure.

He was a muscular, fairly tall teenage male with short spiked up hair with a black headband wrapped around his forehead with the metal plate with Kusagakure's symbol on it. He wore an army green vest with a grey blue coloration on the front of it, a black left shoulder pad, black with grey blue forearm guards with the right one have a golden chain connected with an emblem at the end of it that was a gold circle with white wings coming off the sides of it and at the bottom a long gold extension that had lines through it like the pattern of a rainbow if it was all gold, baggy dark grey pants, thick black shinobi sandals that extended to below the knees and holding the pants was a black belt with a golden 'N' as the belt buckle and golden spikes protruding around the belt and finally on the left side of the belt, a long black cloth came out the bottom of the belt and extended down pass the left knee. The most noticeable feature about this guy was that he had long earlobes with strange black hole earrings inserted inside the earlobes.

"To think you'd be okay with hurting your comrades so long as they're saved." The tall teen said with a grin.

"Who are you?" Chojuro asked with new worry as he managed to now be sitting on his rear.

"And what the hell is with your ears!?" Naruto shocked with shock and disgust.

"WHAT DID YOU SAY ABOUT MY EARS YOU WHISKER MARKS FREAK!?" The mystery person shouted with an angered anime face.

"WHAT WAS THAT ABOUT MY WHISKER MARKS YOU BUDDHA EARED BASTARD!?"

"THAT'S IT FUCKER! YOU'RE DEAD!"

"Newton." The mystery person stopped and looked up, which caused Naruto, Chojuro and Gamakichi to look up to see another teenage male… with a strange hairdo.

He was a fairly tall teenage male with jet black hair, groomed into a very large, curved partition across the right side of his face, ending with three prominent spikes. He wore a high collared long cloak that split at the front from the collar to reveal his abs, which meant he was shirtless and that he had a slim muscular body, that of a swimmer's body. He had a long, big gold chain necklace that was so long that it went all the way down to his chest, a golden shark emblem on the left side of his collar, grey baggy long pants with gold helix lining down the left side, a golden 'J' on the front of the pants, black half calve high shinobi sandals and black fingerless gloves with a back hand holes on them. In his hands was a bow and a peculiar looking arrow.

"John!" The person below, known as Newton, spoke to the other named John.

"Don't lose your cool." John said.

"R-Right." Newton said. Suddenly he heard laughter making him turn to see Naruto laughing and pointing as him.

"Your name is Newton! That's so stupid! And with those ears too!" Naruto laughed holding his gut.

"YOU LITTLE SHIT! I'LL KILL YOU!" Newton yelled with anger.

"Don't lose your cool." John said.

"W-Who are you two, and what do you want?" Chojuro asked.

"My name is John and down there is my brother Newton. We've come to collect Hiramekarei." John said.

"No way! That's Chojuro's!" Naruto shouted.

"We aren't asking." John simply said.

Chojuro started to sweat with worry as he grabbed one of the twin handles of Hiramekarei.

'I… I can't let them have it. It's the only one in Kiri's possession left!' Chojuro thought, but he was scared. Newton looked to be strong, especially with that lightning attack he did earlier. John just looked intimidating, especially with that strange bow and arrow in hand.

"Oi John, where's the little red?" Newton asked his brother.

"Forget her. She did her job. She found our target and that's all that matters." John said.

"Yeah, you're right. She would just slow us down." Newton said with his hands behind his head.

"Don't say it like that. She is still useful." John said.

A bit away, hiding behind a tree was a red haired girl with a pair of black glasses on, and a Kusagakure symbol on her hitai-ate, was watching the whole thing. She felt bad for what she did, but those two, Newton and John, were very dangerous, especially since they aren't supposed to be in this competition.

"Whatever. You!" Newton pointed to Chojuro, making him flinch in surprise. "Hand over the sword or suffer the might of the Newton-John combo!"

(Get it! That's their namesake! Olivia Newton-John. Since this is a Naruto x Jojo story, I figured do the namesake for OCs, along with flashy styles, with those who are shinobi having a mix of Jojo style with shinobi clothing.)

Chojuro shook with fear as he tightened his grip on the handle of his sword.

"No way." Naruto said as he got in front of Chojuro. "You're not taking his sword." Naruto said with a glare.

"Back off blondie, or else I'll really have to kill you." Newton said with a serious expression.

"This fight does not concern you konoha-nin. There is no alliance between Konoha and Kiri so you do not have to feel it is your duty to assist him." John said, trying to reason with Naruto to decrease the amount of possible bloodshed to come.

"It doesn't matter!" Naruto shouted surprising the others. "I don't care if my village and Chojuro's aren't allies. I don't like it when jerks like you steal stuff from other people. It makes me sick. Even if Chojuro wasn't my friend, I'd still kick your ass! Because that's the kind of person Naruto Uzumaki is, dattebayo!" Naruto declared with his fist thrust forward.

"An Uzumaki. Just like red." John said to himself.

The red haired girl from afar, stared at Naruto with wide shimmering eyes.

'One of my own. But… he's blonde.'

Chojuro looked up to Naruto with shock. Naruto is willing to help him protect his sword, and he even considers him his friend. Naruto barely even knows him and yet… he's willing to lay his life on the line to help him. Chojuro suddenly got confident. He stood up, gripping one of Harimekarei's handle while his other hand was on the bandages.

"If you're willing to kill us to get Harimekarei… then…" Chojuro ripped off the bandages and swung Harimekarei forward to reveal its form. A wide, flat blade with two curved indentations near its base, creating a sort of cross-guard. "I won't hold back!" Chojuro shouted as he held the revealed sword by its twin handles as it glowed with chakra.

"Oh~, I'm so scared." Newton said with a smug smirk, but chakra shot out of Harimekarei, like a blade, and went to pierce him, but he quickly dodged. "Holy shit!" Newton cursed with shock.

"Whoa~ totally cool!" Naruto exclaimed with amazement.

Chojuro pounced at Newton as Harimekarei's chakra form changed as it grew a large hammer-like chakra form from its side. He brought it down onto Newton, but he leaped away as the hammer slammed into the ground, breaking it apart. Newton landed onto the floor, but Naruto had charged to where he landed when he dodged Chojuro. Naruto crossed his fingers and rolled as a he went for a sliding kick, but Newton jumped, only for a clone to appear above Naruto and kicked him into the air.

Chojuro quickly leaped at the airborne Newton and slammed his hammer form Harimekarei into him, sending him into a tree. Newton's mouth open wide as he made a pained noise as blood came out his mouth.

John sighed at his brother's behavior.

"And he's supposed to be a Chunin." John said with a frown. He tied the bow and arrow on his back as he jumped off the tree and slammed his hand into the ground.

Suddenly the ground shook, alerting Naruto and Chojuro, as the earth below started to crack.

"Jump!" Gamakichi, still on Naruto's shoulder, shouted.

Naruto and Chojuro jumped away as hot steam erupted from where they stood before.

"How in the!?" Naruto exclaimed.

"Is that a kekkei genkai!?" Chojuro exclaimed.

Once they landed, the ground below Naruto's feet crack. Naruto noticed only to have enough time to toss Gamakichi away as steam exploded from the earth below, consuming Naruto, causing him to scream as he was sent flying into the air.

"Naruto!" Chojuro cried his friend's name, only to be tackled by Newton who was covered in lightning, sending him through a tree. 'They're not genin.' Chojuro thought as his eyes were blank and his mouth wide open as blood came out it.

Newton slammed him into one more tree, dissipating his lightning, then grabbed Chojuro by the face, lifted him high up and slammed him into the ground.

"Worm!" Newton kicked Chojuro away.

While Naruto was flying in the air, his skin burnt, he saw what happened to Chojuro, causing his teeth to grit in anger as his eyes shifted to blood red eyes with slit pupils. Naruto flipped in the air, creating a clone above himself, and kicked off the clone to dive downward towards Newton.

"TAJU KAGE BUSHIN NO JUTSU!" Naruto yelled as a battalion of clones rained from the sky, dive bombing down towards Newton. Newton and John looked up in shock, and from afar so was the spectacled red head.

"Raiton Chakura Modo!" (Lightning Chakra Mode) Newton shouted as his body burst with lightning as the clones rained down on him. Newton gritted his teeth as he concentrated on keeping up his armor as the clones rained down upon him. 'How much chakra does this little shit have!?' Newton thought. He roared as he exploded with lightning, causing a shockwave to destroy the remaining clones.

However as they vanished, he was covered in a cloud of smoke, disrupting his eyesight. Just as Naruto planned. Naruto had landed earlier and created another clone as they charged at Newton with the clone helping Naruto create a familiar sphere of chakra in hand. Naruto burst through the smoke, right in front of Newton shocking him.

"Rasengan!" (Spiraling Sphere) Naruto slammed the jutsu straight into Newton's stomach, causing it to grind right through the lightning armor, and straight into Newton. Newton's teeth gritted in pain as he felt his stomach get grind into. He was suddenly sent spiraling away, straight through a tree and hit into another.

Naruto panted with a grin, but suddenly he felt a hand on his left shoulder as steam exploded from the hand, causing Naruto to fly away as the collar and shoulder of his jumpsuit jacket was burned off.

John watched as Naruto slammed into a tree and fell to the ground. Naruto gritted his teeth as blood came down the side of his mouth.

"Not a bad person. Very strong with an even stronger spirit. Too bad you are our enemy." John said.

Newton fell to his knees, holding his stomach as blood leaked from through his teeth. His head turn to glare at Naruto.

"You Little Shit!" Newton charged at Naruto and punted him across the face. Newton panted with anger as he lifted his foot up.

"Newton, that's enough. I'm sure he won't be getting back up. Not after the harsh attack I dealt him." John said.

"Tch." Newton scoffed as he put his foot down, but he spit blood onto Naruto's face. Newton and John walked over to the down Chojuro. Newton went to grab the sword, but once he did, it along with Chojuro turned to water. "Nani!?"

"Mizu Bushin!" John exclaimed.

Chojuro roared as he charged at the two and started slashing at them. Newton and John were forced to back pedal away from his attacks. John managed to leap to Chojuro's left side and was about to grab his arm and explode it with steam, but a pair of arms suddenly wrapped under his shoulders and managed to get him in a grapple.

Naruto roared as he bent back, slamming John into the ground, suplex style, with another Naruto running up and starting to punch his fists down onto John's face repeatedly.

Newton managed to jump to the side, but a Naruto clone jumped up to a tree and bounced off a branch, giving a battle cry with his fist cocked back. Newton looked back only to get punched into the face, sending him crashing into the ground, where Chojuro lifted Harimekarei, now in hammer form, and slammed it into Newton.

John exploded with steam, destroying the two Naruto clones holding him down. He slowly got up as the real Naruto charged from behind him with a Rasengan in hand, but John spun around him, shocking Naruto, as he slammed his hand onto Naruto's back, exploding it with steam, burning Naruto's back so bad that the back of his jumpsuit jacket got burned right through, showing off a nasty red mark.

Chojuro and the Naruto clone turned only to for the real Naruto to slam into them as the three flew into a tree, causing the clone to poof away. Naruto and Chojuro fell to the ground. Chojuro groaned in pain, but as he looked down, he gasped in horror to see the large wound on Naruto's back.

"Naruto!" Chojuro picked up Naruto a bit.

Newton slowly got up to his feet. His eyes blank with rage as his teeth grind with rage.

"You little shits." Newton cursed with anger.

"Should I be concerned?" John asked.

"Get ready to cover yourself in armor." Newton growled. John sighed, bring up a sole hand sign as steam came from his body. Newton roared as he slammed his hand into the ground with lightning coursing through his hands for a second.

Naruto moaned with pain as he cracked open his eyes, only to notice electricity course through a tree. He noticed that the tree behind Chojuro coursed with electricity. Naruto's eyes widened with shock. He grabbed Chojuro and threw him to the ground, before jumping atop his body.

"SUFFER IN HELL!" Newton screamed, shooting his hands up into the air as his body burst with lightning once more.

"Futton: Futto Yoroi." (Boil Release: Boiling Armor) John spoke as his body was consumed by steam.

"Kage Bushin no Jutsu!" Naruto screamed as he and Chojuro were surrounded by a huge dogpile of clones.

The surrounding trees exploded with bursts of lightning, causing giant spikes of wood to shoot all over the area.

The red head from afar screamed as she got fully behind the tree, sitting down as sharp spikes of wood shot towards her.

The Naruto clones suffered getting impaled by the spikes to protect their leader and Chojuro. For John, his steam burned the wooden spikes upon contact, while his brother Newton's lightning armor bounced them off his body.

Once the hell was done, Newton panted as his and John's armor dissipated. They stared ahead to see a large cloud of smoke surround their targets.

"He's a smart one." John said, making Newton growl.

The red head from afar, pushed out her head when making sure it was safe to see the cloud slowly vanish to reveal a few clones still alive with the original Naruto panting and Chojuro underneath him with shocked eyes.

'Wow… he's a genius.' The red head thought with awe written all over her face.

"Little shit." Newton cursed with gritting teeth. "It took a lot of chakra to affect the root system of those trees."

The original Naruto rolled off of Chojuro, allowing him to get up from the ground and turn to him.

"Naruto…" Chojuro tried to help him up.

"Always clever as ever." A new voice spoke, making them all turn to see a short red haired young teen with black rings around his eyes.

"Gaara…" Naruto said, relieved to see the red head.

"K-Kazekage-sama!" Chojuro exclaimed with shock.

"Kazekage? Wait, You're A Kage Now!?" Naruto shouted with shock and being very pissed as he managed to lift himself up on his hands and knees.

"Intermediate, but it will be official after this tournament. After all, I am still technically under genin rank." Gaara said.

"Dammit! It's so unfair! How come you get to be kage at thirteen and not me!?" Naruto shouted with closed eyes as he felt pissed, sadness and disappointment.

"Hmph." Gaara smiled with humor. 'Same old Naruto.'

"A kage now!? Dammit!" Newton cursed.

"You two… you are not genin." Gaara said. Newton growled while John stared stoically at Gaara. "Despite still being a genin, it is in my power to deliver judgement upon those who break the rules."

"And what are you going to do, huh!?" Newton shouted.

"Don't mouth off to a kage. Especially one who is a jinchuriki." John said.

"Just like the Yondaime Mizukage?" Newton questioned. Naruto gasped with wide eyes. He slowly looked to Chojuro, who saw the look of shock and horror in Naruto's eyes, only to look away. "That's just great." Newton said with annoyance. He suddenly noticed grains of sand around him and John. The two brothers looked around to the sand, but they felt something consuming their feet to see sand encasing their feet. "Shit!"

"This battle is over." Gaara said as he started to raise his hand.

"Newton-John Special! Now!" John shouted. The two brothers slammed their hands onto the ground below.

"EXPLODE!" The brothers yelled.

Suddenly the area exploded with a sphere of steam and lightning, breaking trees apart and the earth, along with creating a powerful shockwave.

Naruto, Chojuro and Gaara flew away, along with the red head and Gamakichi.

Gamakichi screamed as he flew through the air, but his eyes managed to see John appear away from Naruto with the bow and arrow out, aiming at Naruto.

"Naruto, No!" Gamakichi cried out, but the shockwave was too loud for Naruto to hear. John fired the bow. Naruto turned his head as he finally noticed John, only for the arrow to get stabbed straight into his head, breaking right through his forehead protector. "NARUTO!"

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Around the forest, everyone in the area turned their head to where they heard the large explosion.

"What was that?" Sakura questioned as she and Sasuke looked to the direction.

Team Gai were facing the direction as well with curiosity. Team Kurenai did the same in a different area.

Far away at the edge of the forest, meeting the desert, the fairly tall dark-skinned Kumo-nin just faced to where the sound came from.

"Huh." That was all he said as he turned and walked further into the desert.

On a tree top, the dark haired Iwa kunoichi stared at what she managed to see be a large rising dome of steam.

"What the hell… how come I'm not facing that kind of action!? My skills are being wasted!" she complained.

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The dome of steam started to dissipate, leaving in its wake a giant crater with protruding roots from its sides. Surrounding trees were broken up and resting on the floor.

The red head groaned as she managed to get up only to gasp at the sight. Despite feeling fear, she wanted to see what had happened more than anything. She ran toward the direction to see what had happened.

As she ran, she started to get a clear view.

Gaara managed to get to his knee, while Chojuro moaned on the ground, but was slowly getting up. Newton panted as he managed to climb out of the crater. Her eyes had soon spotted a toad hopping over to a horrifying sight, making her face twist with pure horror. She screamed, making Gaara and Chojuro turn to see her, but noticed where her eyes looked. They turned their heads only to have looks of shock and horror.

There stood John, over Naruto, lying on the floor, with an arrow stabbed into his head, blood leaking down his face.

"NARUTO!" Chojuro screamed.

(Now here is where a To Be Continued would be… but I'm not gonna leave you all hanging like that… that'd be a dick move.)

Everyone stared in shock and horror at the sight. Gaara's blood ran cold seeing the person who had rescued him from hate… now dead.

Gaara's eye color changed to yellow as he roared with sand surrounding his being, but Newton charged at him at lightning speed, and chopped him Gaara at the neck, with electricity sparking, causing Gaara's eyes to widen and change back to their teal color as he fell forward with the sand falling as well.

"None of that Kazekage-sama." Newton said.

"It didn't have to be this way." John said.

"AND THAT'S SUPPOSED TO MAKE IT ANY BETTER!?" Chojuro screamed with an angry expression with tears going down his eyes. "YOU'RE MURDERS! MURDERS LIKE YOU TWO ARE NEVER TRULY SORRY IN THE END! DAMN YOU!"

"Yeah, whatever kid." Newton walked over to Chojuro and sent a hard kick into his stomach, making him spit out blood with his eyes wide. Chojuro fell to the floor, releasing Harimekarei to hold his injured stomach. "Now for our prize." Newton said as he went to grab the sword, but Chojuro quickly grabbed the handles and pulled it away. "You little shit! Give it here!" Newton went to steal it, but Chojuro bit his hand, making him grunt with pain. "You Little Bastard! Let Go!" Newton started to kick Chojuro, but he refused to release his grip on both Harimekarei and Newton's hand.

'I can't give up! If I do, Naruto's sacrifice will go to waste! I can't let that happen! I will never forgive myself if I let it end like this!' Chojuro thought with tears rolling down his eyes.

Gaara watched the events helplessly; unable to move. He felt so useless. He's never felt this way before.

'Dammit… no!'

"Let me out Gaara! I'll kill them all for you!" Shukaku's voice echoed through Gaara's head.

'No. I refuse! If I lose control then it's all over!' Gaara thought. He never felt so helpless.

"It's all useless." John said as he walked over Naruto's body, making sure not to step on him, out of respect.

"Naruto!" Gamakichi hopped over to the blonde. "You can't die! Please! You never gave up, remember?" Gamakichi shouted as he tried moving Naruto's body. "Dammit! If only I was bigger!" Gamakichi cursed.

"Your chakra reserves are low, Kiri-nin. You have suffered too much damage. There is no reason to continue on, when the battel has already been decided." John said.

'No, no, no!' Chojuro thought. Suddenly the kicks stopped, making him look up to see Newton had a look of pure shock. He also noticed Gaara had the same look as well. Chojuro looked to where they were looking, only for his own expression to look the same.

John noticed that the three all looked in shock, with his brother's face soon developing horror. John raised his eyebrow, but suddenly felt a new presence behind him. John's head slowly turned, only for him to have a look of shock and horror as standing behind him was Naruto, with the arrow still stuck in his head.

"Na… Naruto?" Gamakichi spoke his friend's name with pure disbelief and horror.

Naruto's right hand reached for handle of the arrow. Grabbing it, he tried pulling the arrow out from his skull. Successfully pulling out the arrow, Naruto exhaled out a thick fog from his mouth as he developed a pair of fangs. His hitai-ate fell to the floor, broken.

"B-Bakana! (Impossible) No One Can Survive A Shot to the Head! My Brother's Precision Is Excellent! No One Has Survived His Dead Shots! Especially With That Arrow!" Newton shouted, still in disbelief.

Naruto stayed silent, his eyes shadowed, with all on his face. His arms and legs shook as his body was trembling.

"Hmph. I don't see how you could survive. The arrow was far enough to pierce your brain." John said, turning to face Naruto. An aura surrounded Naruto. It was red mixed with some sort of golden aura. "Regeneration. Red chakra. I see. You're a jinchuriki as well." John said walking over to Naruto.

Chojuro's eyes widened with shock.

'No wonder he had that look earlier when he learned about the Yondaime Mizukage being a jinchuriki.' Chojuro thought.

"So be it." John brought his hand up as steam started coming from the palm of his hand. "This may bring about an undesired heat, but you along with these two must die." John said extending his hand to Naruto's bloodied forehead.

"Naruto!" Gamakichi shouted his friend's name.

Suddenly John's cheek was punched in by an invisible force, slamming him into the ground, shocking everyone.

"N… Nani? What just happened!?" Newton exclaimed with shock.

John trembled as he slowly got up to his feet and looked to Naruto.

'What did he do? I didn't see a thing.' John thought. Suddenly he had his throat punched in, causing him to be a bit airborne with blood coming out his mouth.

"John!" Newton shouted with fear for his brother. Suddenly John was hit all over his body by an invisible force, sending him flying away. Everyone stared at John as he hit the floor. Newton had pure shock on his face, but then it became anger. "Yaro!" Newton shouted as he charged at Naruto, but as he pounced, ready to send a hard, lightning encased punch, something grabbed him by the throat, suspending him in air.

"What the hell?" Chojuro questioned with shock.

Newton made choking noises as he felt the grip around his throat get tighter.

'What the hell is going on!?' Newton thought with confusion, shock and fear.

Naruto's eyes were blood red with slit pupils. He looked up only to see a large super muscular golden arm come out of his body and tightly gripping Newton by the throat.

Naruto stared at the arm to see that it had long fingerless gloves with studs on the knuckles. Naruto slowly turned his head as a pure golden being started to rise from behind him. It was a tall, very muscular humanoid being with long spikey flowing hair that reached its tail bone. It was shirtless, exposing his strong muscles, and had baggy pants, with thick long boots that were open toed and stop at the knees, and of course it had a pair of long fingerless gloves with studs on the knuckles. It also had a loincloth. It had golden whirlpool emblems tattooed on its shoulders, the back of the gloves and a large one on its chest. The most defining and noticeable feature of the being was its large jaw, which was tall as it hid most of its face, the top of it having sharp teeth, honestly the jaw looked like half of a cylinder with a zigzag at the top of it. Since the jaw was most of the face, only the eyes could be seen, but they were shadowed as they could only be seen because they glowed gold.

(For those who have read my Naruto: Ultimate Maken Shinobi story, yes, this is Golden Asura, but with a bit of a different design.)

"Huh… well that's new." Naruto said as he stared at the being. He turned to Newton. "You see this big guy?" Naruto asked with a serious expression, but Newton managed to shake his head, surprising Naruto. "Wait… are you serious?" Naruto questioned. He turned to the golden being, then back to Newton. "He's standing right behind me! He's holding you by the throat! You can't see that!?" Naruto shouted, earning a shake of the head from Newton again. Naruto looked back to the golden being with confusion, with it staring back at him. "Chojuro, you can see it, right?" Naruto asked, only for Chojuro to shake his head, surprising Naruto. "Gamakichi?"

"Naruto… I think that arrow messed up your head." Gamakichi said.

"Unbelievable!" Naruto said. He could not believe that no one could see the giant floating ghost on steroids floating behind him. "Well whatever." Naruto turned back to Newton. "This guy, floating right behind me, is going to fuck you up, dattebayo!"

"ORA!" The golden being roared as it sent a hard uppercut up to Newton's lower jaw, causing it teeth to crack and fly out his mouth as he was sent flying into the air with a tail of blood, shocking everyone, but Naruto.

"Newton!" John screamed his brother's name with fear. He glared angrily at Naruto. "You Bastard!" John exploded with steam as he rocketed towards Naruto faster than the eye could see, ready to kill him with his explosive steaming hands. However as he got near him…

"ORA!" The Golden Being delivered an uppercut, stopping him, shocking everyone and suspending him in mid-air.

"Nice one big guy!" Naruto exclaimed with a grin. "Now… let's fuck him up!"

"ORA!" The Golden Being screamed as it then delivered a blinding barrage of superhuman fast punches at John while crying. "ORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORA! ORA!" The Golden Being finished with one hard punch straight into John's face, sending him rocketing back.

Everyone in the surrounding area stared in pure shock and disbelief. To them it looked like John was convulsing in mid-air as an invisible force was leaving indents into his body and now he was flying back at a high speed.

"BROTHER!" Newton screamed as he watched his brother hit the ground, causing a cloud of dust. Newton quickly hurried over to John, only to gasp as he stared down at his brother's defeated form. He was covered with bruises, swollen areas and blood. "Otouto…" Newton said his younger brother's name with fear and concern as he knelt down and tried to pick him up, only to gasp in horror. "His bones… THEY'RE COMPLETELY BROKEN!" Newton screamed. He then turned to Naruto with a raging, unadulterated angry expression with a heated glare to match. "You Bastard! I'LL KILL YOU FOR THIS!" Newton screamed, but he suddenly developed a look of fear as Naruto glared at him with a stone cold expression as his eyes became blood red with black slit pupils. 'I… I can't beat him… not with the way I am. I'll be completely destroyed!' Newton thought. He looked down to his brother. He needed medical attention and quick.

Newton grabbed his brother carefully and hoisted him over his shoulder, before running off, leaving a dust cloud trail.

Naruto stared at the direction the brothers had left for a few moments. He sighed as the Golden Being finally vanished as it looked to have went in him. Naruto trekked over to Chojuro, falling to his knees in front of him.

"You alright?" Naruto asked.

"How… how did you do that?" Chojuro asked, still in shock.

"I dunno." Naruto shrugged. "All I did was think of beating that guy down a lot and that giant golden guy behind me beat the crap out of him."

"So you're not kidding… there really was someone behind you that only you could see!" Chojuro said in shock.

"Yeah, that's what I said before." Naruto said as he scanned Chojuro's body. 'Damn. He's all beat up. I wish I could heal him or something.' Naruto thought. Suddenly the Golden Being's hand came out and grabbed Chojuro's arm, causing both Naruto and Chojuro to gasp as suddenly Chojuro was surrounded with golden energy for a few moments. The aura of energy vanished as Chojuro was healed.

"N… no way." Chojuro said as he stood up from the ground. "I… I don't know what happened, but… I felt it. I felt something grab hold of me and then I just felt this warm energy and now… I'm healed." Chojuro said looking to his hands.

Naruto looked to Chojuro in surprise, but he noticed Gaara was still lying against the ground.

"Gaara!" Naruto quickly rushed over to him. The Golden Being's arm came out again and gently grabbed Naruto's neck, causing a golden aura to cover him as well, but only for a moment. Gaara finally was free of his paralysis, managing to get up to his feet. "How are you feeling?" Naruto asked.

"Good." Gaara answered.

"That's good to hear." Naruto said with a tired smile.

"Here, let me help you." Chojuro walked over towards Naruto, taking out a scroll. He unraveled it onto the ground to reveal medical supplies. "I know some medical procedures. I can patch you up enough for the next few hours and by then, hopefully we'll get to Sunagakure." Chojuro said as he took some bandages and alcohol.

"Trust me, we will. After all, we have Gaara now." Naruto said with a smile.

"I'm sorry I wasn't much help." Gaara said.

"Hey, don't beat yourself up Gaara. These guys were really tough, for a pair of genin." Naruto said.

"Hold on, Kazekage-sama, didn't you suggest earlier that they weren't genin?" Chojuro asked.

"Yes. I wasn't a hundred percent sure, but I had come in time to see them try and take that sword of yours when they believed your bushin was yourself. No village would send a pair of genin to retrieve one of the swords belonging to one of Seven Ninja Swordsman of the Mist." Gaara said.

"Makes sense." Chojuro said. "Naruto, I need you to take off your jacket and shirt so I can tend to the wounds."

"Got it." Naruto said with a nod. He took off his now damaged jacket and then his black shirt followed by his mesh one.

"Huh, that's peculiar. Is that a tattoo?" Chojuro asked.

"Is what a tattoo?" Naruto asked.

"This thing, right here on the rear region of your left shoulder." Chojuro pointed out.

"Oh that. That's just a birthmark like my whiskers. Old Man Third said me and my dad, whoever he was, have the same one in the same place." Naruto explained.

"I see." Chojuro said as he stared at the birthmark for a moment. 'A five pointed star.' Chojuro started to apply alcohol to the burn wounds.

"OW! DAMMIT! SON OF A MOTHER!"

"Well pain is to be expected." Chojuro said with a nervous smirk.

"Say Naruto, what do you plan on doing with that arrow anyway?" Gamakichi asked, hopping to Naruto's side.

"Huh?" Naruto looked down to his right hand to stare at the arrow. "Oh yeah, I forgot about that. Guess I'll keep it just in case." Naruto said, but then he felt the burn of the alcohol. "Ow!"

"Sorry." Chojuro said. "Oh! I almost forgot. That girl-" Chojuro looked over to where he saw the girl from earlier was gone. "Where'd she go?" Chojuro questioned, causing Gaara and Gamakichi to look to see the girl from earlier did indeed vanish. All the while, Naruto looked confused.

"What girl?" Naruto asked.

"Uh… I guess it doesn't matter anymore. She must have ran off." Chojuro said.

After fixing up Naruto, bandaging his wounds, the three started to think over their situation.

"Da~mn!" Naruto cursed as he grabbed the top of his head with his right hand and placed his left hand on his left cheek. "I can't believe the time we lost! And now the area's such a mess with all the trees down that we can't find the shadows and where they're facing anymore so we don't know where the desert will be. And to top it all off, my jacket's all messed up! I love this thing dammit!" Naruto cursed his luck as he held the tattered remains of his jumpsuit jacket with anime tears going down his closed eyes.

"Uh, Naruto, remember we do have Gaara-sama to guide us. Plus you could just get a new one." Chojuro said as he, Gaara and Gamakichi were standing on the sidelines watching the blonde grieve.

"You don't understand. I had my one hundredth ramen while wearing this jacket." Naruto took a big whiff of his jacket. "I can still smell the drops of broth on it."

Chojuro chuckled at Naruto's behavior, embarrassed by his childish behavior, but also amused by it, while Gaara had his usual stoic expression, but had his eyes closed.

"Hey, not that I want to bring you down some, but aren't you guys in a race? You're lagging behind." Gamakichi spoke.

"Yeah… that's true." Naruto said as he put on the tattered remains of his jacket on. "Let's head out." Naruto said turning to the others with a serious expression, earning nods from them. They all started heading out with Gaara leading. "So Gaara, how long will it take us to get to Suna?"

"Depending on our travel speed, most likely a day or two." Gaara said.

At that moment, three little words had popped into Naruto's head. Three little words he never thought he'd consider saying, but felt like saying them nonetheless.

"Yare yare daze." (Gimme a break/Good grief)

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The red haired bespectacled kunoichi from earlier was running through the forest. That's all that came to her head. Run. Her instincts told her to run from the danger and that's what she did. She didn't feel proud of it, but what else could she do? She was just a genin.

She tripped a bit, skidding her knees across the ground, hurting her as she came to a halt. She panted from anxiety.

She couldn't believe it. She had found another of her own kind and he was now dead.

How… how could things get any worse?

Out of nowhere he heart gave off a loud beat, causing her eyes to widen. She grabbed the left side of her chest, feeling some pain in her heart. She screamed as her forehead landed against the ground. Her body was sweating and she was panting. She moaned in pain as she held her chest tighter.

'What's happening?' She mentally wondered to herself. Suddenly a golden aura was surrounding her as her heart felt like it had been pierced by numerous mini-swords. She shot her head up and screamed to the heavens. The red head slammed her hands into the ground, now being on her hands and knees, panting and sweating.

Her eyes were wide. She did not know what the hell she had just experienced, but she hopes to never feel that pain ever again. However her eyes noticed something red appearing on her forearm. At first she thought it was blood, but her eyes widened in shock as it looked like a pair of blood red sharp teeth came out of her arm and was now a part of it.

Her pupils shook as she stared down at the sharp toothed mouth. As the mouth suddenly opened, her own opened as she screamed in shock and horror at this bizarre new effect.

End of Chapter 1

There! The first chapter of my first ever Naruto x Jojo's Bizarre Adventure is finally done, and in a few days no less.

Honestly this was a long time coming.

I'm going to try my best to blend Naruto and Jojo into a believable mold of style, fashion of characters, fights with strategic thinking put into the mix from time to time, and of course the gore. There will be gore. I mean Jojo is a series all about blood. Especially how a person could bleed from the most miniscule of injuries. Seriously, even a backhand can make you spit out blood, just ask Josuke from DiU.

Anyway, the first part of this story is basically based off of the Steel Ball Run race, but with genin. I have already planned out big elements in this story. Now I just need to try my best to come up with interesting and unique designs since that's part of Jojo's style.

Anyway, thank you all for choosing to give my story a chance. I hope you all enjoyed reading this beginning chapter, just as much as I had fun writing it, or hell, even more than I enjoyed it.

Thank you all again.

Takeshi1225, out!