Naruto's Ninja Harem!

L.T: well, I've not yet received any entrants for my fanart competish, so get your butts in gear and use the talent I know that all of you have to get me some pictures in, and do it fast! If you don't I'll write a Might Gai\Kakashi yaoi fic, and make it graphic! Anyway, on with the story!

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From the stands, a pair of figures, the same ones from earlier, to be precise, watched the blonde with avid interest. "He fights like the Hyuuga, but is not a Hyuuga himself? Hmmm... I may have to meet this boy soon..." the white-haired man mused. "I'll draw him out, then you can talk, Jiraiya-sensei," said Hensuke. "Yes...you do that, young Kurokawa, and then we'll see what he really can do..."

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As the dust cleared and the Third Hokage stood, there was not a sound to be heard. He cleared his throat, and then made a few handsigns: ox, tiger, rat, and snake. His voice, magnified by the jutsu, echoed around the arena. "That was an impressive battle, young Genin! I must say that you both possess the Will of Fire in spades! But, due to unexpected circumstances, there can only be one outcome of this match… The new Chuunin of the leaf village, NARUTO UZUMAKI, AND NEJI HYUUGA! Neji, you earned your Chuunin rank for knowing when to surrender, a trait that more people could learn to develop, and for understanding when you are hopelessly outmatched.

I already knew Naruto was much stronger than many here give him credit for. And Naruto, you earned your Chuunin rank by winning the match, yet causing no permanent damage, and proved to all your fighting spirit. You not only won the match, but bore no grudge, instead extending the hand of friendship. Congratulations, Chuunin!" Sarutobi clapped, and the sound rang, before Iruka, Anko, Hinata, Lee, Gai, Ayame, Teuchi, and Tenten burst into applause, whooping, cheering, and generally carrying on.

The rest of the audience sat there shocked, but Naruto grabbed Neji's wrist and raised their clasped hands together, saluting their friends and family, and Neji smiled for the first time in years, a slow, genuine, happy smile, before shouting, "we did it, Naruto! We both made Chuunin!" and hugging the blonde affectionately. Naruto slapped his new friend on the back, and then the two high-fived, before bursting into howls of laughter. As the two came back onto the stands, they were mobbed by Naruto's girlfriends and supporters, and Hinata hugged the pair, sobbing happily.

Tenten and Anko planted kisses on Naruto's cheeks, and Iruka hugged his former student with pride. Neji received many hugs and slaps on the back from Gai and Lee, who had cheered for both youngsters, and made sure that they hadn't shouted 'YOUTH!' all the damn time. Teuchi and Ayame invited the whole party back to the Ichiraku ramen stand for ramen, o the house. Naruto crouched down and covered his face with his hands. When he looked up, tears shone on his cheeks, and he whispered, "this is… the best day…of my life!"

Everyone crowded around the crying boy, and he ended up in an enormous group hug, and he started to smile through his tears, before flinging his arms around his girls and leading the charge to the noodle bar. Sarutobi watched all this from a distance, before announcing, "THE NEXT MATCH WILL BE HELD TOMORROW AND TEN O'CLOCK, AND WILL FEATURE SASUKE UCHIHA AND GAARA OF THE SAND!"

As the night fell, Naruto lay in bed with his four lovely girls, Tenten and Kurama on his left, and Hinata and Anko on his right. His new Chuunin jacket hung on the back of his door, and he was full of delicious ramen. He'd managed to make an appointment with the Hokage for eight in the morning, and slowly, his eyes closed…

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Naruto arrived at Sarutobi's office just before the agreed time, and saw him hard at work, filling in paperwork. The Hokage smiled when he saw Naruto, and asked, "What can I do for you, then, Naruto?" Naruto said, I will tell you how to vanquish your nemesis, and in exchange, I want you to give me some extra Ryo once a month. I need one thousand Ryo each for every one of my girls, adding one thousand Ryo for each girl I add to my harem. In return, you will finally defeat your worst nightmare…"

The Third gulped, and, in a trembling voice, whispered, "You mean…?" "Yes. I will tell you how to beat the stacks of paperwork you have to do," Naruto confirmed. In second, the third had filled in a form for a standing order, to pay the bearer of this card the agreed sum of five thousand Ryo a month, increasing by one with every new girl. Naruto smiled, and said two words. "Shadow Clones," before jumping out of the window. Sarutobi blinked, and then slammed his palm into his forehead, cursing himself for not thinking of that sooner.

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THE CHUUNIN ARENA

SASUKE'S MATCH AGAINST GAARA

Naruto and the girls sat at the edge of the stands, looking right into the arena. This time, Kurama came with them, under a henge so her ears and tails wouldn't cause a ruckus, and Naruto shuddered, remembering what had happened to lee in his trial fight against the formidable Sand Demon Ninja, Gaara.

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Gaara stood calmly in the centre of the arena, his sand-filled gourd on his skinny back. As time wore on, the onlookers began to shift restlessly, waiting for something to happen. Just as Hayate Gekkou was preparing to announce the Uchiha's failure to show, and thus his forfeiture, a strong wind swirled up, and Kakashi-sensei and Sasuke stood there, a few feet from the Suna-nin. The two stood there, staring at each other for a full five minutes, sizing each other up. Gekkou looked to the V.I.P stands, where the Kazekage and Hokage sat watching. He brought his hand down in a chopping motion, yelled "BEGIN!" and leapt backwards to safety.

The two stayed perfectly still, until sand vomited from Gaara's gourd. (A/N Heehee...Gaara's Gourd, heehee...) Sasuke jumped away from the psychotic racoon-eyed ninja, who groaned and clamped a hand to his head, moaning, "Uuuhhh. P-please...don't get so mad at me...Motherrr...I'm sorry, earlier...I know, I made you taste such awful blood...but this time, I'm sure it'll taste so very good... "

The sand floating in the air over the crazed redhead suddenly dropped to the ground, and Gaara raised his face to stare at Sasuke, and his eyes were terrible to look upon. "Come on," he growled, and Sasuke watched as the fallen sand gathered itself in a loose pile a foot or two in from of the madman he was fighting.

Sasuke muttered, "Here goes," and flipped up his shuriken holster, drawing and hurling two in a single fluid move. Gaara didn't even twitch. Instead, the sand fountained upwards and became a sand-clone who caught the shuriken, then sprayed a wave of sand at the onrushing Sasuke, who leapt upwards to dodge it. The sand clone hurled the shuriken at Sasuke, who threw two more, deflecting them in mid-air. Sasuke flipped over and kicked the clone's arms off, but the clone maintained its shape. He then backfisted it in the throat. The sand clone's eyes widened, and the sand that made up its entire form slithered around Sasuke's forearm, and the clone grinned maniacally.

Sasuke tugged, but couldn't break free, so he slammed a palm heel strike into its head, shattering the clone back into sand. As he charged at Gaara, the sand piled into a wall, but Sasuke grinned, and the body-flickered behind Gaara, catching him off guard with a fist to the cheek, sending the crimson sand-nin spiralling into a heap on the floor, several metres away. Gaara sat up, a crack in his cheek's skin, but Sasuke knew that it was- "so that's your sand armour, huh?" In a manner reminiscent of Gaara, he flipped his fingers, beckoning, and taunted, "come on!"

Gaara just sat in a pile of sand, glaring at the hated Uchiha. Sasuke shouted, "If you won't do it, then I WILL!" he ran full-tilt for Gaara, who kicked up a ramp of sand, but Sasuke flash stepped past it. Gaara made another, but Sasuke dodged inside it, heading straight at his enemy, spin-kicking him in the gut and launching him again. "What's the matter, Gaara? Is that all you've got?" he sniped, and Gaara slowly rose.

Sasuke dashed straight at Gaara as he stood, and Gaara raised a ring of sand to halt a frontal assault. Sasuke just ran in circles around the sandman, blurring with the speed of his passage. As Gaara tried to follow him, Sasuke flipped over the sand barrier and kicked him in the side, then grabbed Gaara's gourd straps and pulled him straight into a knee-to-the-stomach attack.

Now, both Gaara and Sasuke were breathing heavily, Gaara, because he was the one getting battered, and Sasuke because he was behaving like an emo version of Lee. Gaara placed his hands in the horse sign, and his sand formed an orb around him, obscuring him from sight except for a small, star-like gap.

Sasuke ran straight for the sand ball, and threw a punch that would have connected, but for a dozen spears of sand that thrust from the ball, nearly skewering him like a duck kebab. A trickle of blood ran from Sasuke's knuckles as the sharp sand cut at him, and he vaulted backwards and the spears retracted. Another trickle of blood dribbled from his leg, and his sharingan was eating into his chakra reserves with alarming speed.

As Sasuke watched, a vortex of sand formed in the air above the sand mochi (A/N I mean, come on! Gaara's sand ball looks like a mochi dumpling!), and slowly formed an eye in the air. Sasuke used the back of his right fist to wipe the blood from his cheek, and flared into motion, throwing a trio of kunai which bounced off, flash-stepping above and lashing out and hitting the sand ball, all the while dodging the sand spears and listening to Gaara's foreign babbling.

The spears chased Sasuke around the arena, and forced him to flip and twirl like a manic-depressive ballerina until he backed off. Glaring at the sandy blob, Sasuke unclipped one of the bands around his left forearm.

He backflipped several times, skating straight up the arena wall and crouching there with the tree-walking technique, quickly forming a short string of hand signs, placing his palm parallel to the wall. Corposant started flickering and surging around his palm, and he poured more chakra into his hand, increasing the power of the attack he was forming, and the amount of electricity along with it.

Sasuke swung his lightning-filled left hand back, carving a path in the wall's surface, and hurtled down the wall, accompanied by the sound of hundreds of chirping avian things.

As he plummeted, he left a trail marking his path in the wall, and kept running when he hit the bottom, heading straight for Gaara's sand ball. Dodging the spikes, he slammed his left palm into the surface of the orb, yelling, "CHIDORI! ONE THOUSAND BIRDS!"

Naruto bolted upright, staring in shock and a little fear at Sasuke's jutsu, knowing that it was of an almost unmatched power. An A-rank assassination jutsu, it was only to be used in the direst of circumstances. 'What...what the hell is Kakashi-sensei thinking, teaching something like that to that duck-butt-haired emo?!'

He was jolted from his distraction when an ear-splitting howl burst from the ball of sand. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGHHHHH! BLLOOOOOOOOOODDD! IT'S MY BLOOOOOOOD!"

Sasuke struggled, but his arm was stuck in the sand ball. He ramped up the jutsu again, and the unearthly howl boomed forth again, if possible, louder than before. He wrenched himself free, followed by an arm of sand, limned with blue veins. The arm flailed about, then drew back into the sand ball, leaving a perfect circle in the side of it. An eerie, echoing growl that sounded like nothing human emanated from the hole. "Hrrrraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhh..."

Cracks formed on the surface of Gaara's sand prison, and it started to disintegrate, revealing Gaara, panting and clutching a bloody shoulder. His eyes were wild and bloodshot, with that thousand-yard stare common in shinobi war veterans. Meanwhile, on the stands, people started to fall asleep, even the genin and a few chuunin. Naruto's eyes felt heavy, and he started to droop in his seat, but Kurama, who was unaffected, jabbed a finger into his side and gave him a small shock with her chakra, before doing it to the other girls, rousing them from sleep. As they woke, ninja from the village hidden in the sound leapt the walls, preparing to strike...

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L.T: WHEW! Longest...chapter...ever written! This is dedicated to all of you who reviewed me positively! You gave me the encouragement I needed to get back on my feet and keep writing. I was very depressed this week, but I'm feeling better now that you've shown me how much you care. I lost my phone today, but it'll be back from the repair shop sooner or later, so I won't be able to reply to messages so easily, but I'll try, cos I love you guys! Kasumi, OUT!