A/N Hello! Hello! Welcome back to the next Ch. Of The Man with Sage Eyes, I hope you all enjoy this one, and if you are then that's good. Oh and I'm going to do a new segment called song of the Ch. This will be a song I like that I hope you'll check out.

Mandopony-Just Gold.

"Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple"-Dr. Seuss

When Naruto beat Neji he expected to be met with silence or even boo's at him beating a clan prodigy, at first it seemed to be silence. However when the crowd slowly at first began to cheer, he stood there for a second shocked at the fact that the village was cheering for him. Allowing a massive grin to form over his face he raised his fist into the air,

"h-how" a whisper reached his ears, turning he saw Neji had woke up, and was staring at the sky in shock

"How could a clan less loser like you beat me? A Hyuuga." He asked confused

Walking over to Neji he plopped down next to him he put his finger on his forehead, putting some of the blood on his finger, taking his other hand he took some blood from his mouth onto his other pointer. Presenting them to Neji he looked thoroughly confused.

"What do you see?" Naruto asked

"I see our blood but what does that matter" nodding at his answer Naruto answered his question

"yes and as you can see there is no difference between my blood and your blood, we are the same both of us human, it does not matter if your born a noble or a street urchin, both bleed red, and in the end its not what's in our blood that makes us special it what's in our deeds that does that."

Neji seemed to be thinking this over as the fixed up the arena and gave the fighters five minutes each to prepare. Finally Neji asked a question that had been on his mind for a while

"Why do you believe so strongly that you can deny fate? Was it not fate that dictated you be born an orphan, was it not fate that determined you would awaken those eyes?" this caused Naruto to look up with a thoughtful frown

"maybe it was fate" he started "however it was my choices with these eyes that matters, and yea maybe fate did dictate that I would be an orphan, maybe what was my destiny since I was conceived"

"Then why? Why fight the fact that this is how you were born, with no one"

This caused Naruto to chuckle "the conditions of our birth does not change the fact that in life anything is achievable, you see Neji the reason I won is because I don't believe in something like fate, to me your fated to be born and your fated to one day die, what you do in the time in between is your choice and ask yourself this Neji" looking him right in the eye Naruto asked

"If you were to die right now would you be happy with the choices you made?" the question hit Neji hard and caused him to go into deep thought.

However Naruto stood up and began to walk away, "you don't have to answer it now, just think about it after all I know when I die I'm going to die like I lived" turning to Neji with a grin as he walked

"I'm going to go out guns blazing fighting for what I believe in, and if that's how I die, then I know I had lived with no regrets"

And with that he vanished into the exit to get to the fighters box. As soon as he walked inside he was immediately swarmed,

"Good job man, wish it could have been me to kick his ass" said one Kiba with a slap on Naruto's back. This caused the blond haired shinobi to scratch the back of his head with a blush

"Thanks mutt that means a lot" he said

"Don't push it" snapped Kiba

"Naruto you finally changed your outfit" one surprised Ino said

"Out of everything you decide to take note of Naruto-san's wardrobe change." Butted in Shino

This made Ino Tch, "well someone got to do it, I mean the rest of you are probably content to let it rest but I have to have questions Shino nodded to this accepting her answer.

Naruto gained a sour look on his face, "well it's not by choice"

_flashback_-

Naruto laid against a rock, puffing in exhaustion, Naruto allowed himself a short break,

'Say what you want about ero-sennin but he can be a slave driver when he wants to be.'

So he thought he would give himself a few seconds to rest however he heard a cry, one that he would remember for the rest of his life.

"DODGE"

However he could not react in time and was hit was hit by a giant ball of flame. It burned like all hell causing him to jump up and run around, Jiraiya stood nearby with a dead pan expression on his face before pointing to the river and saying

"There is a river over there you know."

Amazingly Naruto heard this before running over to the river and jumping in causing a lot of steam to come out of the water. Launching out of the water his flesh already healing Naruto shouted at him

"ARE YOU CRAZY!" he screamed Jiraiya hoping to express how much hatred he had for him, Jiraiya however simply laughed off his students rage while saying

"Most likely, but anyway you clothes are wrecked Naruto, what are you going to do about that, unless your gonna go out there naked, you're going to need something new"

Looking down his clothes were wrecked, while he did know how to sew together minor cuts and holes, but now his clothes were unrepairable. "Just great" he muttered

So after a small argument on Jiraiya paying for Naruto's replacements, however at the shop however Naruto ran into a small problem,

"What do you mean you don't have any more orange jumpsuits?!"

The shopkeeper was glaring at Naruto cause of the noise he was causing

"I mean that I burned the last of them in the fire, they were not selling good enough to warrant me buying anymore, frankly I don't know why I bought that set, but you bought the only ones so I decided to make use of the rest."

This caused Naruto's head to drop before his head snapped to Jiraiya "you planned this didn't you?" he asked accusingly causing Jiraiya to look at him shocked

"How could you even think about of accusing me for that? I told you to dodge if you were faster than you would have gotten out with your precious jumpsuit still intact."

Naruto however just narrowed his eyes before walking into the store, "fine ero-sennin but mark my words I will have vengeance for this one day… ONE DAY!"

_flashback end_

Everyone listened to him with dull looks in their eyes the only reason he had changed was due to the fact that his last outfit was burned to a crisp and could not be used. Seeing their stares Naruto began to rub his nose allowing them to see his hands. Before his hands looked fine a little rough from training however now they were in rough shape, like he hit something over and over again. Most of them either winced or nodded in respect at the signs of his harsh training, however everyone was surprised when one hand reached out and grabbed his.

Everyone turned to find Hinata grabbing Naruto's hand, raising his hand so it was level she brought out some medical tape and began wrapping his hand. All of this time she refused to meet his eyes while blushing up a storm however she had a fire in her eyes. Naruto also was blushing while looking away; he was not used to this. When Hinata finished his left hand she went and wrapped his right hand. When she finished both his hands except for his fingers were taped up.

Clenching and unclenching his fists to get used to the feeling, Naruto smiled widely at Hinata before putting his hand on her head, "thanks a lot I appreciate it" he said honestly

Everyone else was silent unsure how to react to the adorable scene in front of them, only Ino seemed to notice that Shikamaru had already fought in his match, and the puppet guy was forfeiting his match, now it was just Sasuke and Gaara however Sasuke was nowhere to be seen.

It took a little while however both Sasuke and Kakashi appeared in a giant swarm of leaves. Gaara at this point was looking very annoyed. Looking at Sasuke he asked

"Do you know who I am?" he asked which confused Sasuke

"Yea Gaara of the desert right?" this caused Gaara to shake his head

"No I am Gaara… of the funk" he said with a UN ch UN ch UN ch Gaara of the funk being heard after he said his name.

Up in the stands Naruto turned to Kankarou "does that happen every time he says his name?" which caused the other boy to sigh

"Sadly yes"

"Really? Gaara of the funk" UN ch UN ch UN ch Gaara of the funk

"Please don't do that" back to the fight

"You have kept me waiting and there is only one punishment for this, a battle of DDR"

"DDR? wait!"

"GO" suddenly a bunch of arrows started flying in front of them Gaara hit every single of them with a perfect, or a great, on the other side Sasuke was barley hitting any getting mostly almost and miss. But on the other side Gaara WAS still going strong, at the end instead of a perfect or great it only says marry me.

"The funk was not with you no-"HOWEVER it was at this moment that the author decided to forward the plot, so a smoke bomb went off in the kage booth signaling the beginning of the invasion.

Seeing the invasion had started Gaara and his siblings both began to jump off into the woods.

UP IN THE STANDS

Naruto and many others had fallen prey to a Genjutsu which caused them to fall asleep, only higher ranking shinobi were able to break the Genjutsu. Seeing as the kids were going to be needed Kakashi appeared next to them, he woke up Naruto, Shino, and made Shikamaru get up. He was quick to issue them order

"you guys need to go track down the Gaara and his siblings, then you're going to put them down understood?" he said getting nods from all of them quickly he slapped his hand on the ground and summoned a small dog, "here he will help you track them" he said getting another nod from everyone seeing this he jumped off to defend his home.

In the end it was only Naruto who made it to Gaara, Shikamaru and Shino were left behind to fight leaving only Naruto who had caught up to Gaara and Sasuke. Landing next to Sasuke he asked

"How is the situation?" he asked examining everything

"Gaara is entering some kind of powered up stage, the sand is becoming harder and harder to dodge" Naruto nodded at this,

Gaara however did not want to wait, he began throwing a bunch of Suna Shuriken (Sand Throwing stars) Naruto blasted them away with a quick Shinra Tensei, before he and Sasuke jumped in different directions, they both threw some kunai and shuriken, however they were not enough to penetrate the sand.

But neither one of them stopped, all the while Gaara stood and took the blows before he suddenly lashed out slamming into both Sasuke and Naruto sending them flying. Naruto crashed into a tree a little while away with the sand trying to crush him but he blew it all away before he could.

Flying through six hand seals Naruto put his hands to his mouth holding the tiger hand seal. Katon: Gokakyu no jutsu (Fire Release Great Fireball Jutsu) he pumped a lot of chakra into it he spat out a huge roaring flame which quickly engulfed all of where Gaara was. The flame completely destroyed the tree and when Naruto stopped for a second he took in a deep breath his chest expanding, this time he put his hand to his mouth in an o shape then he shot out a huge ball of flame which crashed into the ground causing a massive explosion.

When the smoke cleared it revealed Gaara his sand shifted, and not at packed onto his body however he was fine.

"It will take more than AAAAAAA" he began before suddenly screaming when a hand engulfed in lighting exploded from his stomach. Blood flew from the wound and Gaara coughed some up, behind him stood Sasuke his Sharingan activated. He held his hand in there for a while, the lightning sounding like birds

"Chidori (a thousand chirping birds)" he muttered. Before removing his hand allowing Gaara to fall to his knees.

"No" Gaara muttered looking at his blood in shock, "my… blood you spilt my blood, my blood… aaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA" he started screaming.

When he began screaming huge amounts of sand rose around him causing Sasuke to jump back. The sand kept going and going until it was beginning to grow huge, bigger and bigger it grew both Naruto and Sasuke stared in shock at what was happening in front of them.

Eventually stood a huge Tanuki made completely in sand atop its head there was Gaara, unconscious from shock

"HA HA HAAA IM BACK!" shouted the Tanuki with a very different voice.

'Damnit what are we going to do against that, it's to massive if only I had something that could equal its size then we might have a chance' Naruto he grabbed his neck as the curse seal began to burn.

'Damnit not now!' cried Naruto in his mind as the seal began shifting the marks spreading across his body

"Ku ku ku don't worry Naruto I will give you some power, however only will it be free this onetime" suddenly Naruto was flooded with power, this power however was a sickly purple and killed the plant life around him.

Looking at Gaara 'this would help but I'm still to SMALL' suddenly images flooded his head, his eyes lost all life to them as he stood to his feet, suddenly he began calling Kyuubi's chakra with the purple and red chakra swirling around him, he focused to them into his hand while the Tanuki seemed to be more busy with being free.

Saying nothing he slammed his hand into the ground there was an absolute HUGE explosion of smoke, however all of the smoke was blown away when an unearthly roar was heard causing not only Sasuke has to use chakra to not get blown away. Suddenly a feeling of pure death seemed to radiate everywhere, looking up Sasuke could only gasp in shock as he looked at a beast he had been told was dead. There standing tall and proud with its nine tails swaying stood the monster of monster

THE KYUUBI NO YOKO WAS JOINING THE FIGHT

A/N the Kyuubi is free! How could this be oh woe is me we are all gonna die, or maybe not guess you'll have to figure it out in the next Ch. (sorry for no update yesterday I got sick with a disease running rampant across America… Laziness) TTFN ta ta for now