Breath of Uzumaki

Index

"Speaking"

'thinking'

Flashback begins, Flashback ends, written words

Jutsu, Breath Skills, Spells

"Demon, Summons, Dragon speaking"

'Demon, Summons, Dragon thinking'

BREAKS OR SHIFTS IN STORY

A/N: Well, I seem to be on a roll with this story. I still have my Chronicles of Darkness fic and the Negima crossover to do. I might just abandon it due to not feeling the mojo from it. I feel it from this and my Castlevania crossover, but not from Negima.

Disclaimer: If I owned Breath of Fire I'd be rich and working on a new one, and If I owned Naruto I'd be even richer. Too bad I don't either.

Chapter 4: The preliminaries continue

After the fight Sasuke was taken away somewhere by Kakashi to contain the 'hickey from hell', and the rest of team 7 were left to watch and fights. The second match consisted of Sabaku no Kankuro vs. Mitsumi Tsurumi. Kankuro won through his use of puppet jutsu. The third match was TenTen vs. Sabaku no Temari. TenTen fought valiantly, but was defeated by her opponent's mastery of the wind element.

During the matches, Naruto would glance at Hinata with a confused expression on his face.

"Ne, Sakura-chan, does Hinata look different to you?"

"What do you mean? I don't see anything different." Sakura said noticing the confusion on Naruto's face. See saw what everyone else saw. Sakura saw Hinata as a girl their age with a baggy coat and dark blue hair. What Naruto saw was Hinata as a girl their age with dark blue hair, baggy coat, long pointed ears that were like a fox's, instead of Sakura's cat like ears, and a long dark blue fluffy fox tail that was white tipped like her ears. He just didn't now if it was real or a hallucination.

Shino and Zaku had finished their match with Shino as the victor. The screen was once again rolling through the names of the genin. The screen stopped on two names.

Uzumaki Naruto vs. Inuzuka Kiba.

"Alright Akamaru, we got lucky." The boy with fang marks on his face, Kiba, said as he and his nin-kin jumped down to the arena. Naruto leapt down to the arena as well. Kiba and Naruto faced each. Kiba had an arrogant smirk believing that victory was truly his. Naruto, on the other hand, had his face in serious concentration.

"You should just give up dobe, there's no way you can beat me."

"Hajime" Said the proctor and Kiba, without Akamaru, attacked Naruto with one of his clan's jutsu, Tunneling Fang. His attack made contact and sent Naruto flying into the wall.

"You might as well call the match proctor. The dobe's not getting up anytime soon."

"Don't count me out just yet Kiba. I'll still beat ya down." Naruto told Kiba getting up from the attack. More tunneling fangs followed with Naruto getting injured. Cuts were showing through Naruto's clothes.

"Is that the best you can do ya dobe? I'll take the hokage spot long before you. You can't even hit me let alone beat me."

BA-BUM

Sakura heard more clearly with new ears and started to shake with a bit of fear. The other teams noticed this and wondered what made Sakura so afraid. Sure she was scared of her new changes, but who wouldn't?

BA-BUM

Some memories rushed through Naruto's head. Memories of how he easily defeated the Oto-genin.

RRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGHHHHHHH

Naruto's yell screamed out for all to hear.

"Yo guys, what'd I miss." Of all times to show up, Kakashi chose now to show up and speak. The other jounin pointed screen. When he saw the screen, the masked jounin held a thoughtful expression. He believed Naruto could win with his unpredictability, but part of him thought he was clearly outmatched. It was when everyone started staring at the arena with wide eyes in a fearful silencet that got his attention. Kakashi saw then what happened. Naruto had once again transformed into a dragon/human hybrid.

"What the hell." Kankuro said

"What happened in the forest did happen." Ino said all her doubts cleared.

"I-i-is that N-N-Naruto-kun?" HInata asked.

Shino was stoic but his thoughts were: 'What happened to you in the forest Naruto-san?'

'It was real. I don't care if it is treason I'm not fighting Konoha with that creature in its ranks' Kin had thought deciding possibly change careers.

'Ah, the rumors were true. The Uzumaki indeed have the blood of the gods. Kukuku.' Thought Orochimaru in his disguise.

'What happened to you Naruto? I haven't felt chakra like this since sensei's wife' Kakashi thought with a shudder, remembering a time when his sensei and his wife were alive.

"Energy Ray" Naruto called out as he gathered crimson energy into his mouth and blasted it out at Kiba. It was dodged but Naruto kept started assaulting Kiba. Akamaru then came to his master's aid only to be swatted away by Naruto's tail. Naruto then brought Kiba into the air and a series of closed fist strikes.

"U-ZU-MA-KI! NARUTO DRAGON BARRAGE!" Naruto then landed and reverted back to his human form, tired.

"Winner by knockout, Naruto" So many people thought the 'dead last' would lose. No one there, save a few, would have ever thought he would win in such a frightening way. However, Kiba was relatively fine as he was and akamaru were taken away. No lasting injuries outside of their pride.

Hinata had been wide eyed with what happened. 'Naurto-kun is a dragon? Then does that mean he can see through my genjutsu? Even as a dragon, he's still so handsome' Were part of her thoughts. Everyone's thoughts were interrupted when the screen had shown the next opponents.

Haruno Sakura Vs. Yamanka Ino.

The two young kunoichi started down still somewhat terrified of what they had seen. Sakura knew it was Naruto, and yet, didn't want to think it was.

"Forehead, I don't know what's happened, but I'm still going to beat you." Ino said. She was once Sakura's friend, but since they both liked Sasuke at the time they stopped being friends and became rivals. Sakura looked stronger with her new traits, but she was still shaking somewhat.

"Hajime!" The call came out and Ino started the attack by tossing some kunai at Sakura. She dodged and started towards Ino with a swipe.

"What do you think you're doing? Playing kunoichi? Being a damsel in distress won't get a guy to like. Did you think that Sasuke would save you?" Ino then half-heartedly slapped after saying what she said.

"Ino, I wanted to get out of your shadow. I'll be seen as me." Sakura said after taking the slap. She then adjusted her hitai-ate from on top of her head to upon her forehead remembering saying to Ino that when she puts her hitai-ate across her forehead then she'll be on Ino's level. Ino did the same and the battle was on once more. Sakura struck using her newfound agility and using the training from Nami no Kuni to enhance her power pushing Ino back. It was then that Ino had cut her hair and tossed it towards Sakura.

"She's up to something." Shikamaru said.

"Shintenshin" Ino cried out. Sakura tried to dodge, but Ino had locked her in place with chakra. Then Sakura gave a very un-Sakura like smirk.

"You lose forehead. I, Haruno Sakura…"

"Don't give up Sakura-chan!" Naruto yelled out to his teammate. Then suddenly Ino, in Sakura's body froze up.

Then Ino's body woke up.

"What the hell was that?"

"I see you've met the inner me, and she's just as tired of being in your shadow as I am. So let's end this."

"Yeah, one last strike." Ino and Sakura had started, but sakura had one last thing to say in the match.

"Ino, no matter what happens, let's be friends again." Ino rushed nodding her agreement the two kunoichi hit each other hard on the head and fell down.

"It's a double knockout. This match*cough* ends in a tie and*cough* neither will advance." The proctor finished ending the match. Naruto and Asuma carried the two up to the viewing area. Sakura just smiled and purred thinking that everyone will be alright.

A/n: Okay, maybe not the longest chapter. Heck, I doubt if it's the best written, but it took me longer than the other three. The hardest part in writing this was more likely in trying to portray the weirdness of it all without taking away from the story. I also thank Sky Zephyrus for his idea of having Naruto transform in front of everyone.