Chapter 9:

"Chidori!"

Zaku stumbled back, but then, he froze, as he was being restrained by Shino's insects. He screamed as Shino stabbed him, and blood started gushing out. After a few seconds, Shino pulled his hand out, then calmly walked away.

Gai instantly appeared by Kakashi. "You taught him the Chidori? How?"

Kakashi smiled. "Simple. He makes sure his opponent is close, then he puts some kikai bugs on them, retreats so they are directly in front of him, and starts having them drain their chakra. Then, he just runs in a straight line, and hopes his friends will protect him. Its best to use it only when you are doing a one on one battle."

Gai shook his head. "No, I meant...how could you? Why did you?"

Kakashi turned to him. "He had a lightning element."

"But isn't that favoritism?"

Kakashi shrugged. "Well, I'm also going to teach it to someone else."

Gai moaned. "You don't mean..."

Kakashi nodded.

"The Winner is Aburame Shino!"

Naruto grinned, cheering, while the others politely clapped.

"Next Match: Kankuro vs Tsuguru Misumi!"

Naruto sighed, then created a Shadow Clone, and he shunshined away.

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"Thanks!" Naruto said, devouring some ramen. Ayame smiled.

"No problem, Naruto. But, shouldn't you be at your match?"

Naruto shrugged. "My match isn't until later." he said. Ayame nodded.

"Well, alright then."

Naruto turned, then saw quite the disturbing sight. "Um, Ayame, I've got to go." he said. Ayame smiled.

"Well, good luck at the match, Naruto-kun!" she called, kissing him on the cheek.

Naruto blushed a little, walking away, then storming over to the hot springs. "Hey! Stop looking at the women's springs, you lecher!"

A tall head of white hair popped up, and women started screaming. The lecher turned, scowling. "Come on kid, I was doing my research!"

Naruto snorted. "For what!"

Until then, the perv wasn't paying attention to the kid. "I'm Jiraiya, legendary Toad Sage and Sannin, and writer of the Icha Icha series! Who the hell are y-y-y-y-y" he stuttered. Naruto snorted again.

"Naruto Uzumaki, pervy sage!"

Then, Naruto blinked as his clone dispelled, giving him his memories. Kankuro had won, and it was now Sakura's match. He turned away from Jiraiya. "Shunshin no jutsu!"

Jiraiya smiled. 'He's really a chip off of the old block...except Minato's shunshin was better then that when he was ten.' He grinned at the thought.

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Because Naruto did a slower shunshin to conserve chakra, he got there in 2 minutes, and Sakura had already won by then. He chuckled softly, seeing as her opponent was Ino.

"Tenten vs Temari!"

Naruto grinned. "Go Tenten!" he called. Tenten seemed to turn her head, and Naruto swore he saw her smile a little.

"Begin!"

Tenten started by charging at Temari furiously, throwing weapons insanely fast. Temari responded by holding the large black thing on her back in front of her, and all of the weapons bounced off. Tenten then got out a scroll, and cut her finger, spraying the blood on the scroll. Then, weapons appeared, and she started throwing them even faster then before. Naruto was amazed. "Thats just crazy..." he whispered.

"Isn't it?"

Naruto yelped, leaping into the air. He turned to see Lee. "How long were you here?"

Lee shrugged. "About 5 seconds."

Naruto blinked. "Weird..."

Lee smiled. "Team Gai is known for having the fastest of things. Neji-san can strike you 32 times before you know it, I can...well, you'll see, and Tenten-san? She can throw her weapons at a speed of 70 feet per second. Thats almost 50 miles an hour."

Naruto blinked. "Woah..."

Lee turned. "Amazing, right?"

Naruto shook his head. "I just realized...you aren't using the metric system."

Lee facefaulted, then got back up. "Look, it doesn't matter." then, he grinned. "Well, it looks like Tenten is gaining the lead!"

Naruto looked. A kunai had scraped Temari's cheek, and it was bleeding. Temari reached up to touch it, then scowled. Then, she swung the large black thing.

Naruto raised an eyebrow. "A giant fan?" he asked. Tenten threw some more weapons, but then, Temari swung her fan, and the wind blew away all of the weapons. Tenten swore. Temari grinned.

"Someone who fights like you do has no chance of beating me, a wind user!"

Tenten then leapt up into the air, throwing two scrolls in a way that they would circle around her. Lee smiled. "Temari-san has no chance now..."

Tenten then started throwing weapons faster then ever. "Twin Rising Dragons!"

Temari sighed, then opened her fan a little more, swinging it more. The weapons all headed to Tenten, who swallowed.

Luckily, most somehow stopped in midair, and only a few hit her. Lee whistled. "That was miraculous!"

The red aura around Naruto faded, and he smiled weakly. "Yeah..."

Then, Tenten fell, and hit the ground painfully, bleeding. Temari smiled, walking up to her, and raising the fan above her head. "This next attack will kill you." she said softly. She swung her fan.

Lee leapt in front of Tenten instantly, knowing he wouldn't survive, but wanting to save her. He closed his eyes.

Nothing happened. He opened his eyes.

Naruto was in front of him and Tenten, still standing, with his arms out to protect them. Lee blinked. 'How?...'

Then, Naruto collapsed.

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Naruto moaned, getting up, but then noticed a chain attached to his chest. "What?" he said. Then, he looked, and the chain was attached to...

his body. He swallowed. "Am I..."

"Dead? Kind of."

Naruto turned to see a figure towering over him. "Don't worry, you wont be dead for long. My name's Urahara, nice ta' meet you." Urahara said, tipping his hat.

Arashi moaned. 'Great, its him...' he thought. Naruto blinked.

'What? he seems nice enough.'

Arashi groaned. 'He's a shinigami! He once nearly killed me!'

Naruto chuckled.

Urahara grinned. "Well then, you see, you would be dead, but you have such high spiritual pressure and chakra that you aren't dead for now! However, you will be dead, unless..."

"Unless what!" Naruto demanded. Urahara grinned.

"Unless I stab you through the heart and give you some Shinigami powers."

Naruto sweatdropped. "Your going to stab me through the heart...to bring me back to life."

Urahara nodded. "However, when I do, you'll probably wear Shinigami robes, and you'll have a sword. Probably a huge sword. And, you'll see hollows, and people's souls. And..."

"I GET IT! STAB ME ALREADY!" Naruto roared. Then, he choked as a katana slipped into his chest and through his heart.

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Naruto groaned, getting up, to see he wasn't in the arena anymore, and Tenten, Sakura, Hinata, Haku, Anko, and, oddly enough, Temari were all gathered around him. "What happened?" he asked.

Hinata gasped, hugging Naruto tightly. "You're alive!"

Sakura snorted. "More importantly, its your match! Move, Naruto!"

Naruto swallowed, shunshining to the arena, where Kiba was cracking his neck.

"Inuzaka Kiba vs Uzumaki Naruto!"

Kiba grinned. "Too easy..."

"Begin!"

Kiba charged at Naruto, kunai in hand, before Naruto ducked under him, then grabbed him with one arm, then threw him into a wall. Naruto growled.

'Arashi-san, this is my fight! Don't interrupt!' he thought. Arashi grumbled something, then his power receded. Then, Naruto choked as he was hit in the gut by Kiba's claws. Naruto fell back, then skidded to a stop, and charged at Kiba, throwing kunai. Kiba snorted, and Akamaru leapt out of his coat.

"Beast Human Clone!" he (Kiba) called, and then Akamaru changed to look like him. "Four Legs Technique!"

Then, the two Kiba's charged at Naruto on all fours, moving really fast and looking exactly the same. Naruto snorted, leaping up into the made a snake seal.

"Verdant Mountain's Violent Wind!" he yelled, and all of the kunai he threw earlier shot towards Kiba and Akamaru. They both just leapt at Naruto, who shunshined away, then made a bunch of shadow clones, and he leapt at the two. Kiba and Akamaru grinned. "Dual Piercing Fang!"

Naruto swallowed as the two started rapidly spinning, and carving through all of the clones, aiming for the real Naruto, who was still on the ground. "Got you!"

Then, the 'real' Naruto turned into a cloud of smoke, and Kiba heard kunai land around him.

'He wouldn't make kunai land around me unless they had explosive tags!' Kiba thought.

Then, there was a large explosion, and when Naruto landed, Kiba was gone. He swallowed. "Kiba?"

Then, he was sucked underground by Kiba, who howled with laughter. "Loser! You thought I was dead???"

Naruto snarled. "No, but soon you're gonna be!"

Then, his sclera turned black, and his iris's yellow. The ground he was in shattered, and he leapt out, holding a huge sword, like Zabuza's, without any holes or semicircles cut out, and it's blade was twice as long with a black edge and silver flat side. Also, the handle was two feet long, and there was no crossguard. He wore a black kimono with a white rope belt, but then, the colors inverted, to a white kimono witha black rope belt. Kiba stumbled back. "What?"

Then, Naruto disappeared, and there was a loud boom. Kiba swallowed, then hurriedly ducked down as a sword sheared the air above him. Looking up, he saw that Naruto's hair was a sickly gray, and his hair was pale white. Naruto grinned, then swung again, and Kiba barely dodged, some of his hair being sliced off.

Hinata was watchng, horrified. "That can't be Naruto..."

Kiba panted, resting on the wall until Naruto appeared right in front of him, swinging his sword insanely fast. Kiba closed his eyes, expecting to die.

The blade sliced his shoulder, but didn't cut his arm off. Kiba slowly cracked open his eyes to see Naruto's left eye was now blue and white, while his right was mostly inverted, except for some tendrils of black sclera that were creeping away. His skin was less pale now, but he was panting now, and his hair was a weak yellow instead of golden. Then, he turned completely back to normal, aside for the fact that he still was wearing a kimono, and panted, dropping to the ground. Kiba grasped his shoulder painfully, but then, Naruto reappeared, slashing his chest and other arm's bicep. Kiba howled, falling.

"Winner: Uzumaki Naruto!"

Naruto grinned, raising his hands up as people acknowledged his victory and cheered.

"And now, a short intermission before Hyuga Hinata vs. Hyuga Neji!"

Naruto grinned, then shunshined to his seat, where he leaned back.

"Fun match, huh?"

Naruto screamed, noticing Urahara right next to him. Urahara waved a box at him. "Dango?"

Naruto pointed at him, shivering. "How did you get there?"

Urahara shrugged. "I walked." He sighed, looking into the sky. "Hey, you see that?"

Naruto looked. Nothing. "No..."

Urahara looked at him. He was now wearing his normal clothes, instead of the kimono. Urahara sighed, then tapped him with his cane, and his clothes turned into Shinigami robes. Naruto gaped.

"What is that!"

Urahara smiled, but was really thinking. 'He didn't have his soul forced out...he just changed clothes. Weird...'

Urahara pointed. "That is a hollow. You have to kill it by slashing its mask and breaking it."

Naruto turned. "Why me?"

Urahara sighed, smiling and leaning back. "Im too lazy."

Naruto sighed, then readied his sword, and leapt at the hollow.

Yes, this is now a Bleach crossover. DEAL WITH IT. Read and review.