So before the chapter begins I want to address one big point: Naruto using guns was NEVER in the cards a permanent part of his arsenal. The appearance of Casull and Jackal was a one time appearancce as weapons. Also, just a heads up there will be a bit au changes to the match and the matches. Naruto will be overpowered in this chapter both in how he deals with Neji but also his second opponent- this is intentional.


Hiruzen Sarutobi couldn't keep the grimace from his lips as he and the visiting Kage, nobles, lords & daimyou watched the arena with rapt eyes. Neji was already waiting down with the proctor and the people in the viewing seats were talking loudly about how the demon brat wimped out. The Sandaime, seeing the look exchanged among the other Kages, stood before he used a quick jutsu to amplify the volume of his voice so that everyone in the arena would be able to hear him clearly. "Naruto Uzumaki has one minute to enter the arena or be disqualifi-"

"I'm right here Hokage-sama."

The four visiting Kave and their guards turned surprised to see the shadows melt into the form of a black clad youth. Between his last visit to the Hokage after his return and now Narutos appearances changed very little. Instead of the trench coat, net shirt, ninja pants amd combat boots like last time he was seen the redhead now opted for something a bit more seemingly theatrical and sinister. The trench coat he wore now was split at the hips and the back end that reached his knees was split into nine tails & a dark crimson color like dried blood, his net shirt was replaced with a tight muscle shirt detailing a conplex looking seal array on the front, urban combat am fatigues covered his legs and skull capped combat boots replaced the regular ones he'd was seen walking away in when he ended Kibas career.

"Naruto.. Just get in the arena and listen to the proctor for the love of Kami" Hiruzen said as he felt a migraine begin to grow. The snort he head as the teens figure erupted into bats made him wish for a moment that Tsunade was there, she was always good to have a bottle of sake on her person.

The Mizukage, a rather beautiful woman with long auburn that obscured one eye completely, turned her gaze to the Sandaime Hokage. "What is that boy Hokage-sama? There is no concerivable method for a shunshin execution to involve animals like that and there is no way in Kamis heaven or earth a bat clan of animal summons. I should know, I tried like hell to find one when I was overthrowing Yagura to keep him from destroying Mizu no Kuni" she said with a look that said she would get answers even if they were vague. She understood keeping ninja profiles unknown but that boy was the farthest thing from normal, even for a shinobi.

Hiruzen retook his seat and contemplated saying nothing for a moment. "A monster of the villagers own making is what he is. Naruto was once a bright boy with the biggest heart out there. Always so willing to give second chances to prove people can change no matter how rotten they are at heart" he said with a grave tone of voice. "Then he snapped during the preliminary matches when one of my former genin made a very bad move on his part. Naruto murdered his animal partner and destroyed an entire section of his spinal column ending his career."

The Kazekage looked surprised hearing that. To his knowledge all Konoha shinobi were nothing but tree hugging teamwork bullshit spouting morons. For one of them to snap and end a career of his fellow shinobi when it only barely began was a shock. Under the surface though a cackle erupted within his mind. Perhaps this was the advantage he needed. "Forgive my forwardness Hokage-sama but if this boy can so callously end careers on a whim and not care would it not be wise to seal his chakra & lock him away from the general population? Surely the lives of your other subordinates and civilian villagers are worth something to you" he said.

"They are but its out of my hands." Hiruzens eyes shot over to the Daimyou box where the country lords sat protected by a contingent of Tetsu no Kuni samurai. His eyes cut back to the arena when he heard Hayate finish explaining the rules.

"Are the rules clear to you both? The match ends when one of you forefeits, is knocked unconscious or dies. While death is preferred to be avoided" Hayates eyes shot over to Naruto and the large bandage wrapped object on his back "killing is allowed. If I say the match is over, its over. Disoebeying my orders will result in your disqualification" he said shifting his gaze back to the two boys.

Neji nodded his head dropping into the Jyuuken stance. "You should just call the match now. Fate has ordained that this match will be in my favor. To even suggest this clanless no-"

"Proctor, start the match so I can murder him already. This neutered little bitch with daddy issues voice is grating on my nerves" Naruto said boredly. Hayate barely had gotten out the signal to begin before Neji was bearing down on his with lunging attacks. Even seeing the veins bulge around the Hyuugas eyes he did nothing as the flurry of chakra infused pinpoint precision attacks struck his person. The flat chakra infused palm strike connected with his chest and the redhead felt his heart burst in his chest as his body fell back limp.

Neji snarled at the blood staining his clothes. "I told you to call the match in my favor before the match began. Stupid demon can rot in hell where he belon-"

A dark chuckle escaped Narutos 'corpse' as the wounds closed and his clothes seemed to reform the tears in his shirt. "Is that all you got Hyuuga?" he asked pushing himself back to his feet and spit out the blood in his mouth, his fangs glinting in the sunlight. "If thats it this will be a disappointment to all those viewing."

Up in the viewing areas the Hyuugas who were watching with their Byakugan active fet a cold dread as they saw not only Narutos tenketsu re-open on their own but his heart reform to perfect undestroyed shape. There was no possible way for that to happen. Not even a demon like the Uzumaki kid was that lucky and he had the devils lucks or so he was rumored to possess it if you bought second hand talk like that.

Hayates mouth went dry as he saw Naruto reach for the bundle on his back and begin to unwrap it with a flick of his wrist. Whatever the object was it was a weapon of some sort and just the size alone dentoed to the swordsman it was extremely dangerous. He'd need to be lightning quick to intervene if things even seemed to south steps ahead of when it actually would.

"My fellow competitors and those who lost in the preliminaries know of my weapons Casull & Jackal, the weapons I used to give Akamaru a quick death and end Kiba no longer an Inzukas ninja career. But there was just one problem with them." As the last of the bandages fell away Naruto smirked a demonic little smile as his hand was wrapped around the hild of a nasty looking sword. Slightly longer pummel to leading edge than he was tall the nodaichi could easily be called a weapon straight out of a sane persons worst nightmares nightmare. The metal of the blade was black as pitch and seemed to suck in the light around it. Etched into the metal were seals bright red like fresh blood though he would not tell their purpose to anyone. The hilt was shaped like a deformed monster skull and the grip had a handguard like spiked brass knuckles attached. "Paralying and murdering my opponents at a distance is so...boring. So when I disappeared to train I did a little soul searching before I decided to pull an old page out my grandfather Alucards book. Casull and Jackal are no more." Violet eyes glinted with madness as he saw Neji charing back in for another chakra backed palm strike and swung his sword.

Pain unlike anything felt before erupted in Nejis veins before he clamped his mouth shut to grit back the pain as he jumped back.

"Meet their successor, I call him Belial" Naruto finished saying as he watched the hand that just then hit the ground burst into black flames. The succession of cries, both of outrage in terms of the Hyuuga seeing him dismember Nejis hand and the delayed true pain of Belials after-effect to hit Neji, made the young vampires eyes glow brightly. The necrotic seemed to spread faster than he intended as he saw the veins under Nejis skin rapidly darken and turn black as it spread up his arm.

Agony did not do justice to the unbridled pain that hit him like every Main Branch Hyuuga member activated the Caged Bird Seal on him all once. Despite hjs pride and arrogance he felt fear penetrate his mind and heart. Through the pain helooked at his stump arm and felt something akin to primordial fear consume his spirit. His flesh was rotting off the arm chasing blackening veins running a sprint to his elbow leaving bone and rotting muscle in its wake. Even with all his problems he knew this would kill him as he coughed and blackened blood escaped his lips. "I give! Make it stop!" Damn his pride and damn the Hyuuga clan, his departed father the only exception, he was not going to let them rule that image was number one above the next to no value of his life in the Main Branches eyes! He would damn his pride and make the Hyuuga look like a bunch of pussy footed toddlers and expose every secret publicly if it meant saving his own life.

"Winner Naruto Uzumaki! End the technique before it kills him now!"

Naruto snorted and flared dark purple chakra, his talk with the Kyuubi during his time away saw to a peaceable enough absorption of the biju entirely as a familiar thanks to Alucard- or was it Morgana, the ancestral spirit like to flicker back & forth-, through the blade in his hand. "There is no way to stop the effect other than to" he brought the sword down in a flash severing the arm at the elbow before the necrosis reached it "removing tbe affected limb." The agonized grunt, borderline scream really, that followed as the wound cauterized from the activation of three seals in particular as the sword severed the limb made him look at Neji with contempt. "Pussy. Your clan member would skewer me with swords and kunai as a child and you, the strongest of the younger generation Branch Clan, can't even handle mutilation? You make me sick."

Up with the Kage the four visiting Kages shared a disturbed look between them, even the Kazekage was on edge. No one that young should be that dark and jaded to murdering or crippling another for life. "I stress my point Hokage-sama again after that display, is it wise to have that boy as an active shinobi? If he is that lethal not using chakra, or so it seems, he should be buried in the deepest vault and have the key thrown away" the man said. Now he was worried as he watched oi-nin cart off the Hyuuga for treatment with Hyuuga specialists and the best doctors brought in from every corner with Hi no Kuni to attend to the wounded genin after their fights. If the Uzumaki brat was like this then the invasion would fail for sure.

"It wouldn't do any good Kazekage-sama." Hiruzen turned his gaze to look at the Youndaime Kazekage. "Naruto has willingly become the demon that so many accused and cursed him to be. The shadows are his friends as you all saw. Trying to contain him or seal him away is a futile endeavour better put to use in what is useful."

The Raikage had a stony expression on his face despite his eyes denoting concern and skepticism as he looked to his BOLT contingent of body guards. A knew that being a Kage meant a lot of things but right now in the face of seeing that monster of a boy fall over DEAD and come back to life before that little display with that sword he felt apprehension flood his body. What did this boys possible promotion mean for his ninja out in the field? There was certain death but whose? The Uzumakis youtb and lack of experience was a big factor but if he could take a fatal blow and come back to life like he'd only been knocked on his ass than all the experience in the world meant nothing. Factor in his seemingly minimal use of his sword didn't speak one way to the boy knowing how to use sword like the Uzumaki Clans boasted mastery of alongside their sealing knowledge, the boy was an unknown.

The Tsuchikage said nothing as he was having a momentary flashback to the last battle where he had seen such callous use of excessive force. A blur of yellow and crimson red. "Hes a monster" Onoki said in a flat voice that revealed none of his thoughts to anyone.

"Correction Tsuchikage-sama. I am a demon." Naruto plopped down on top of the roof of the Kage box as the next mach began, his feet hanging over the edge just barely putting his feet in view of those inside the booth. "My hand and blade is stayed of the innocents but the guilty of sin are my prey. Neji Hyuuga is guilty of attempted murder of Hinata Hyuuga, heiress of the Main Branch of the Hyuuga Clan and clan heiress proper. The only reason he did not die is because even I am bound by rules and Neji forefeited. With him now sans one arm his ninja career is gone just like one former no name former Inzuka heir who had a habit of forcing himself on women. Call me a demon, an attack dog but by no means call a monster. Its insulting, calling me a monster is like a kunai a kitchen knife; completely and factually inaccurate" he saod with a scolding tone.

"Naruto you have to wait with the other other competitors while the matches are held" Hiruzen said with a sigh as the second match was called and the combatants entered in.

"No I don't. In accordance with the Chunin Exam national regulations followed by all the Elemental Nations with ninja villages, whole teams must wait together. Individuals who make it through if only fractions of teams make it through may take their viewing elsewhere so long as they are not in the way of officiating representatives or proctors. This spot just happens to have the best vanatage to observe every opponent I may face" Naruto said stabbing his sword into the thick wood of the viewing so that it stood up straight. It wouldn't penetrate through but the meaty thunk as the metal sliced in a notch would hopefully unnerve and rattle the Kage protective details.

"Naruto-sama, what is it with your urge to irritate authority so?"

"It makes the time pass quicker. And its fun. What do you want me to say?"

"Something mature for your station and age. I mean Kami forbid you actually listen to Morgana for once and act your age not your boot size."

"Shes hardly one to talk about being mature and acting her age. Before I made my thing with you who do you think was teaching me? If you want someone to blame for my flippancy and fuck the world attitude its her. Oh, and the people of this village; they have a big part if this to play in that too."

Meis eyebrow furrowed slightly listening to the Uzumaki boy bicker with an unknown woman while her eyes were trained on the arena watching the matches as they progressed. Some went as she expected while others did not but her mind was focused on the sadistic purple eyed Uzumaki. Something nagged at her like she should know something about him. The last Uzumaki she had heard of was Uzumaki Kushina, an extremely distant cousin of hers if her families medical records were any way accurate in regards to the marrying of Uzumaki a couple of generations back. If that was the case then the boy would be her...second cousin? A cousin once removed? Science had never been her big subject but he was family of some sort if he was indeed Kushinas son. Just what had happened to Kushina was a mystery to her and why Naruto, clearly an Uzumaki by his looks and apparent naturen was treated like dirt when the Uzumaki were the reason Konoha was so protected baffled her.

"Ryo for your thoughts Mizukag-sama" Hiruzen asked find the Mizukages silence worrisome. For an outspoke rebel leader turned Kage like Mei Terumi to be so silent did not bode well. He was aware of the links between the Terumi Clan and the Uzumaki Clan & could almost see the gears turning in her mind. The Uzumaki were instrumental in the founding of Konoha, this was well known to all. There was the knowledge of the intermarriage of the Senju and Uzumaki that led to the birth of Konohas fortification, another well known fact. For one like Naruto, so clearly an Uzumaki in looks, to claim allegations of systematic and repeated mistreatment would not only be suspicious to one like her but no doubt stir up questions.

Unnoticed by nearly all but the Kazekages guards said man sent a signal to the crowd that said the invasion was off. An unknown element like the Uzumaki was too big a risk. Throughing a laugh in the face of death by coming back after what was an obvious fatal blow was not something he wanted to face off against. No doubt in that same vein he felt a shiver run down his spin thinking of the fangs that looked ready to pierce flesh like a vampire and drain a corpse of all its blood. No, he would rework his plan amd strike back but a piece like the Uzumaki who claimed the title of demon so flippantly would revel in the slaughter and bloodshed that would ensue in the panic. Retrieving the Uchiha could be done later.

"Tell me Hokage-sama, how familiar are you with clans not within your countries borders?" Mei asked with measured words.

"I'm no expert if thats what you're asking but I am fairly knowledgable of basics within the major Nations. Why do you ask?" Hiruzen asked cautiously.

"Several generations back the Terumi clan and the Uzumaki clan intermarried. That in itself is not the important thing though. It was agreed upon by the daimyous of Mizu no Kuni amd Hi no Kuni as well as the Mizukage and Hokages of the time that should either clans be found being mistreated that the persons in such a position would be welcomed into the oppositie country and ninja ranks of the corresponding vilage. Young Mr. Uzu akis claims are making me question how true they and if they are as bad as he is claiming blatant attempts of murder by a whole clan of your ninjas if this matter should be brought before the full Council of Daimyous for formal charges of treaty violation and conspiracy" Mei said warching a duck haired boy get his ass handed to him by a sand manipulating Suna ninja before a rather dangerous lightning jutsu could harm do serious harm to him. Minutes passed in silence as two more fights went fairly quickly leaving two ninja left for the very final match.

"Narutl Uzumaki vs. Gaara of the Sand! Come down into the arena."

Naruto hopped off the booth, sword in hand, and made a crater on impact that shook the arena. "Come on Shukaku you mad monk. I can smell yoj in the air. Its time to lay a petulant whelp to sleep. A deal is a deal and I was asked to deal with you in the most painful way possible" he said with a soul freezing smirk as Gaara, who had sand shunshined into the arena, was stock still save for a tremor in hands.

Temaris eyes widened as she saw the tremor and cursed. For Gaar to be scared and given how extreme his reaction had been one month ago to be like this was not a good sign. Her eyes shot into the crowd where their spy sat within sight of the Kage booth and felt her heart stop seeing the sign flashed back orders had changed & the invasion was cancelled. Her baby brother, as scared of how the Ichibi made him psychotic as he was, was trapped in the arena with a true monster who seemed completely nonplussed to murder. If Gaara died and the Ichibi was freed then they were all dead once the biju escaped & began to go on a rampage

"Mo-Mokther wishes Parley with the King of the Damned and Lost, his ma-majesty of bloodlust and carnage."

"Parley denied Tanuki. I have a deal to keep and you are first on my list." The moment the all clear to start was given and Hayate was clear a violet dome of youkai filled the arena.

For minutes the only sounds were those of steel and desperation til a soul shattering wail of agony filled the air. Temari recognized her brothers voice but sucb a pitch caused her untold panic as Kankuro was forced to use his puppets to keep her from trying to rush to Gaaras aid. When the dome finally fell she wasn't ready for the horror that was there. Blood littered every surface and Gaar hung crucified from an element manipulated cross with his stomach cut open and his internal organs spilling out with copious amounts of blood seeming to end its flood as thick yellow chakra were absorbed by the sword Naruto had hold of that was stabbed into the center of Gaaras chest. The dead look in the sea foam green eyes told her all she needed to know, her baby brother was dead and the biju now somehow being controlled by the demon who murdered him without a care. She would get revenge but at that moment her stomach, like many of the viewers in the arena civilian and ninja alike, lost all its contents at the gore.

"Win-winner Naruto Uzumaki!" Hayate shook from his perch. Kami above they were so screwed to turn a kid who embodied all of Konohas ideals about giving those who were rotten a chance to change into something.. Something like the absolute beast in the arena looking at the demonic sword in his hand as a seal etched itself into the flat of the blade in a dark gold!

"Welcome to the army Shukaku. Your defiance will make sapping every ounce of youkai from you and stealing your mastery of wind & earth manipulation for my own so much sweeter and fun as I watch your essence die" Naruto said with a sick smirk to himself feeling terror resonate in his sword.