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Kage no Oni

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He had been busy this past month, doing more than just training. A number of Stalkers and Runners that patrol Konoha and a portion of Fire Country had reported to him that a Yaut'ja was on the planet. Instead of leading an all-out assault on the Predator and risking over half of his hive being incinerated by the hunter's 'suicide bomb', Naruto decided to let the hunter be and deal with it later. As in after the invasion had been dealt with.

With a little difficulty, Naruto managed to get his hands on the needed things to progress his Cursed Seal to Level Two within just a week of the month-long training period. Since then, he had trained heavily in mastering his Cursed Seal along with sharpening his other skills. Genjutsu, taijutsu, kenjutsu, ninjutsu, and even kinjutsu were only some of the things he trained in.

He had even refined his chakra missile/shield technique to the point he could use it at anytime on any part of his body for as long as he wanted. He had named the 'missile' half Yami Mori (Dark Lance) and the 'shield' half Yami Ooi (Dark Shroud). Naruto had named it thus because when used at full power, his entire body is engulfed in a dense shroud of black shadowy mist and the 'missiles' appear as black smokey projectiles. Even his Yami Bakudan (Dark Bomb) was refined to the point he could use it in rapid succession with his taijutsu to quickly knock out or kill the target.

"Mmm..." Haku moaned softly in her sleep as she nuzzled his neck affectionately, tearing him away from his thoughts. Naruto smiled and stroked back the dark hair of his lover, who was leaning back against him between his legs as he leaned back against the headboard. Kira was also snuggled against him on his left side. Unlike Kira and the other women he had impregnated before, Haku had grown far larger than he had anticipated.

While Kira's womb had grown about as big a beachball in six months, Haku's belly had nearly tripled that in the first three months and was more than twice that size now at seven months into the pregnancy. Although thoroughly surprised at her rapid growth, Naruto knew it was due to the Queen's blood that coursed through her veins. He could only imagine how many new Xenomorphs she would bring into the world over the next few years...

Turning his attention on Kira, Naruto wrapped an arm around said woman's waist and pulled her closer. She was actually the reason he was looking into kinjutsu. While solid, Kira was simply made up of highly concentrated and dense chakra that gave her flesh and blood. What Naruto wanted to do was find a way to permanently seperate the vixen from seven tails of her chakra and place her in a physical body to continuously birth him new offspring much like a Queen.

He already had a few ideas on how to do just that since he had recently used the blood of a human female and some demonic chakra to turn his Queen into an Empress. The difference between a Queen and an Empress was the simple fact that the Empress used an actual womb to continuously birth one Xeno after another for the rest of Her life while a Queen simple lays eggs to be distributed by the Hive.

In essence, Naruto had eliminated the 'middle man', the need for live hosts. While that would essentially cut off the production of the Xeno castes that use non-human hosts, Naruto had found the Queen's one special egg that contains the 'Super-Facehugger' that would spawn another Queen. That Queen was left here in his Main Hive while the Empress was moved to the Branch Hive in Wave. This allowed him to continue increasing the numbers of his Titans, Stalkers, Banshees, Dragons, etc. without having to find knew ways of doing such.

He did have one special idea, however...

Kissing the top of Kira's head and then Haku's, Naruto closed his eyes and nuzzled the side of Haku's head as he relaxed, slowly drifting asleep. He had no way to escape his two mates at the moment and it was still dark out, so he had a few more hours before he needed to be at the arena.

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Stuffing his hands in his pockets, Naruto stepped out of the shadow he was in behind the other genin present, idly noting he hadn't reapplied the Henge meant to hide his true height of 6'9" during the month. It brought a dark grin to his face when the genin around him stared at him in shock and fear when he walked over to the rail.

While they had seen him in his true form during the preliminaries, they had not seen him without the Henge. Towering over his peers by nearly a foot and half, Naruto crossed his arms over his chest, grinning darkly at the scent of their fear. He was quite satisfied with recent events. Glancing at the Suna genin team, Naruto smirked.

He had dealt with the forces outside of Konoha accordingly. The ninja from Oto were all captured alive and imprisioned within the Hive, chakra suppression seals placed on each of them. The ninja from Suna were captured and restrained as well, but they were not being held to be used as hosts. The Oto ninjas weren't so lucky...

As to why he kept the Suna forces alive, Naruto planned on returning them to Suna after the invasion to keep the vilalge from collapsing into chaos due to no military forces. If that happened, one of the the more zealous villages like Iwa would attack Suna in hopes of taking over the village, igniting the embers of the Fourth Shinobi World War. Should war occur, Naruto had no doubt he and his Hive would survive, but not without taking heavy casualties and losing a large quatity of potential hosts.

While he would not bow to the human race, Naruto was not stupid enough to completely eliminate them. If that happened, his Hive would run out of food and hosts. That would only spell doom for both races. So, for their continued existence, he would return the Suna ninja to keep such an event from happening.

Then again, he could just be over thinking things...

Snapping out of his thoughts, Naruto came to the realization that his match was up and that he was already standing in the arena. Glancing at Genma, Naruto nodded to the man to let him know he was ready before looking back at his opponent. A grin formed as he looked upon said opponent.

"Looks like you're luck finally ran out, eh, Uchiha?" Naruto tauned his opponent after Genma announced the beginning of the match. Sharingan flaring in anger, Sasuke charged him and started off with a left jab at Naruto's face. Dodging to the right, Naruto drove his left knee into the Uchiha's gut and then slammed his elbow into his back right between his shoulder blades.

"Still think you're so strong, Uchiha?" Naruto asked tauntingly as he wrapped his tail around Sasuke's ankle and lifted the teen into the air before slamming him on the ground on the opposite side of him. He then threw the Uchiha away from him, causing said teen to impact against the wall of the arena and fall to the ground.

"S-Shut up!" Sasuke exclaimed as he got back on his feet and tossed a handful of kunai at Naruto before performing a few handsigns. Naruto simply stood where he was, the kunai bouncing off of him as they struck his Yami Ooi, causing thin ripples of black energy to appear on the outer layer of the otherwise invisble chakra shield.

"Katon: Endan!" The Uchiha exclaimed before expelling a jet of flames at his opponent. After a few minutes, Sasuke released the technique and took a moment to catch his breath, watching as the flames slowly started dying away to reveal...

"What? How are you still alive?" Sasuke shouted in both anger and fear. Naruto let out a hollow laugh that sent a cold shiver up everyone's spine and struck fear in their hearts as he slowly stepped towards the lone Sharingan weilder. His Yami Ooi shielded him from the heat of the flames perfectly well and since Naruto didn't truly not oxygen to breath, the flames did virtually nothing to him.

Like all Xenomorphs, Naruto could fully adapt to almost any environment within minutes. It was one of the reasons why poisons, toxins, and venoms never really worked on him. His body naturally adapted to them and his acidic blood burned through anything in his circulatory system, but even if anything got passed those, Kira's chakra still flowed through him and burned away anything that might have been missed. His skin shed cells to adapt to the climate and his lungs changed to better suit the atmosphere

"I told you before..." Naruto trailed off as he drew one of his ninjatos, both of which strapped parallel to his spine on his back. "I will NOT bow to your will..." The blade of his ninjato was engulfed in greyish lightning chakra and extended until it was nearly six feet long. "And...I will NOT grovel at the feet of a human like a whipped dog!"

Lashing out as he came within range, Naruto slashed Sasuke across the chest, blood spurting from the teen's wound and splashing against Naruto's Yami Ooi. Blood dripping off his shield, Naruto approached the wounded Uchiha as said ninja tried backing away, finding it hard to remain balanced with the lightning chakra coursing through his body.

"Do you even know why Itachi killed your clan? Do you even know why he left you alive?" Naruto asked with narrowed eyes before kicking Sasuke in the stomach when he opened his mouth to say something. "The true reason? Can you even comprehend it?"

"W-What the hell are you talking about, dobe?" Uchiha snarled angrily, only to howl in pain as Naruto stabbed him in the left bicep until the entire blade was pierced through Sasuke's arm, staking him to the wall as Naruto drew his other sword. Genma, having been given advice from Hayate, decided not to hault the match until Naruto walked away from the fight. The toothpick chewing jounin finally understood why Hayate warned him about halting the match too soon...

Naruto was real brutal and had no inhibitions about harming comrades. Hayate had confided in him that he had nearly thought Naruto was going to lash out at him in anger when the sickly jounin had almost stopped the match in middle of Naruto's execution of Kabuto.

"Fool. You have no idea what I'm talking about, do you?" Naruto asked as his expression turned cold, his black eyes frosty. Itachi was the only human he would ever truly respect until the day he died and to know that Itachi's very own brother despised the older Uchiha...Not giving Sasuke time to answer, Naruto coated his sword in lightning chakra again before stabbing it through Sasuke's right palm, pinning it to the wall just like his left arm. The amount of lightning chakra alone was enough to sever and fry the nerves struck and destroy the chakra pathways around the wound as well.

Unfortunately, it wasn't enough to kill the Uchiha...

"Pathetic parasite." Naruto hissed as he backhanded Sasuke across the face just as he was about to scream in pain, silencing the Uchiha and sending him into unconsciousness. Grabbing his two swords, Naruto reabsorbed the chakra in them and yanked them free of the wall and the Uchiha, flicking them to the side to shed them of the blood. Walking away, Naruto sheathed his swords.

"Winner: Uzumaki Naruto!" Genma called out as a team of med-nins scurried out and hauled away the Uchiha. While the young man's bloody and sadistic methods of fighting were usually frowned upon, Genma was impressed with Naruto's skill and guts. Most jounin didn't even have the balls to willingly play chicken with a kunai, let alone a fireball. Oh, yeah. Naruto definitely had his vote for chuunin.

Standing among his fellow competetors, Naruto crossed his arms over his chest, fully aware of the brief glances he was getting from the Suna kunoichi. Several of them were ones of hesitance and fear, but a majority of them were ones of attraction and reluctance. He understood why, too.

While she was attracted to him, Naruto knew that Temari was reluctant to form any bonds due to the coming invasion. He also knew that her attraction to him was only simply vain temptation. Not that he cared, Naruto mused as he grinned slightly. He just hoped she went along with it.

Then an idea hit him. He could pull a few strings and land him an arranged marriage to strengthen the alliance between their villages. Not to mention, get himself a new mate...possibly...

Temari's flaxen blonde hair reminded him of that Kumo kunoichi he rescued back in the Forest of Death. Mentally kicking his own ass for forgetting about his cloak, Naruto decided to deal with the girl and his cloak once the invasion was over.

"Nara Shikamaru vs. Subaku no Temari!" Genma called out, prompting Temari to jump down and ride on her fan while Shikamaru whined. Before he could quit, Naruto pushed him over the railing with his tail, snickering as he watched the lazy teen land with a 'thud' and glare at him from his place on the ground. Winking at Temari, Naruto laughed lightly at her fierce blush.

Kankuro noticed this and glared at the back of Naruto's head. Noticing this, Naruto looked over his shoulder at him with a raised eyebrow. Not wanting to deal with him, Naruto simply gave him the figure and turned his attention back to the match...or so they all thought.

As the match progressed, Naruto waited for the right moment to strike. While he may have informed the Sandaime of the attack, Naruto had requested that no one was to know of it, not even the Council. When asked why, Naruto simply stated that he and his Hive would deal with the invasion. Luckily, the Sandaime agreed.

'It's almost time...' Naruto mused as he watched Shikamaru give up after finally managing to ensnare Temari in his Kage Mane technique. Rolling his eyes at the Nara's predictable move, Naruto grinned upon realizing the invasion was fixing to start soon. First, he had to take care of something.

"Neji. A word, please?" Naruto asked the Hyuuga quietly as he stepped out into the hallway where no one could listen in on their conversation or spy on them. Neji, having followed, looked at him suspiciously.

"What is it?" Neji asked haughtily and Naruto once again found it hard to resist the urge to backhand the arrogant shit.

"Forfeit the match-" Naruto started, but Neji opened his mouth to interupt. Before the afore mentioned Hyuuga could, however, Naruto pinned Neji to the wall with his forearm pressed to the 16 year old genin's throat. "Listen up, Hyuuga. I have no care for your pride or your clan, but Gaara is far more powerful than you. Even I am hesitant to fight the Suna genin and you saw exactly what I did to Kabuto and Lee." Neji looked like he was about to say something again, but Naruto's glare shut him up. "Gaara's sand protects him from everything and can crush every bone in your body in an instant if you get caught. You're a close range fighter with no ninjutsu while Gaara's power is his sand and can fight in close and long range and everywhere inbetween. You're powerless against him."

There was silence for a few moments as Neji thought about everything he had heard, but still looked reluctant...

"As you saw, I have no issues with playing dirty and I can do just that right now..." Naruto hissed as a Kage Bunshin appeared behind Naruto and Henged into a perfect replica of Neji, all the way down to the arrogant smirk. "However, do as I say and you get to keep what little pride you'll have left when this is over."

"...F-Fine..." Neji choked out after a few moments of silence.

"Good boy." Naruto praised sarcastically as he released the Hyuuga and dispelled the Kage Bunshin. "Now go out there and give up." Rubbing his throat, Neji scowled before going back over to where the other chuunin-hopefuls were and stepped up to the railing.

"Proctor-san! I forfeit!" Neji called out, scowling deeply as he felt rage build up from being so humiliated by the Uzumaki. That peasant will pay dearly for his actions.

Up in the Kage Booth, Orochimaru- disguised as the Yondaime Kazekage- was inwardly seething. With Kabuto's death, he had been forced to use one of his more inferior subordinates for the genjutsu before the invasion begins. Then, after that, he starts getting reports that some of his shinobi have started vanishing randomly. It was only a handful, so it wasn't enough to warrant any alarm.

After the invasion, Orochimaru will soon discover that it was more than enough to give him reason to call it off...

With a twitch of his hand, he gave the signal for the invasion to start. The genjutsu was cast over the people in the stands, and the time-delayed explosives on the southern wall detonated. Naruto grinned as he watched this happen before using a reverse-summoning seal to send him to the roof of the building used for the Kage Booth. Henge-ing himself into a roof tile, Naruto lied in wait as the Sandaime and Orochimaru appeared on the roof, Orochimaru's Sound Four setting up the barrier around them.

The invasion had already ended before it started...

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