I DO NOT OWN NARUTO AND/OR THE CHARACTERS

Showdown

"So, it is agreed," said Ryu. "If there are no objections, will you all be willing to hold this in our arena?"

"Why not the arena in the Leaf Village?" objected the Raikage.

"Well, how often do we get to see you guys getting it on?" replied Ryu. "Besides, I think this is going to be a little bit more than a mere chunin exam match."

"I don't trust it," said Raikage.

"Neither do I," added Tsuchikage.

"Not to worry, of course you'd be allowed to bring a contingent of shinobi with you as security and witnesses. I assure you, no harm will come to any of you unless you try something."

After much deliberation, the kage all agreed.

"So, when will this take place?" asked Ryu.

"Give us one month," said Jiraiya.

"Why so long?"

"We need time to choose and I'm sure there are those who will want to volunteer," Jiraiya said as he watched Sasuke and Naruto staring each other down.

"Okay, I'll get the arena ready, if you'd like, you can send someone to keep tabs," assured Ryu.

"That's fine, I'll send a squad of ANBU," said Jiraiya.

All parties went their separate ways to prepare for what was to come. The kage remained in the Leaf Village as they debated about who would face whom.

"I say each village deals with their own mess," said Raikage.

"I'd like to have a crack at the either the one, six, or nine tailed jinchuuriki," said Mizukage.

They argued for a minute until the voice of reason spoke up.

"I think the one advantage we have is that we know who they will be sending to fight so we're able to match up," said Temari.

"She's right," agreed Jiraiya.

"I don't care, I'm going to take Bee down myself," said the Raikage.

While the kage were preparing themselves, the jinchuuriki decided to spend what could be their last minutes in the village among their friends.

"Keep the ramen coming, old man," said Naruto.

"Yeah, keep it coming," repeated Kimi.

"Sure thing," said Teuchi.

"So are you worried, Naruto?" asked Ayame.

"The only thing I'm worried about is how bad should I beat whoever they send my way, right, Kimi?"

"Uh-huh"

They both flashed bravado together until she feels a little pain from her injuries.

"Are you okay?" asked Naruto.

"No, it hurts, Naruto," she replied with watery eyes.

"You can't work yourself up like that," Naruto told her as he gave her a hug and doted on her.

"I thought you said you were different, Kimi," Hinata said with a smile.

"Yeah, but I like when Naruto hugs me," she replied returuning Hinata's smile.

"How is everyone doing?" asked Tsunade as she walks in with Shizune.

"Hey!" shouted everyone in the restaurant.

"I'm like Norm in this bitch," said Tsunade as she and Shizune sat with Naruto. "So, this is how you're preparing for everything?"

"Yeah, there's no point in fretting over it when we don't know who we're facing. Besides, I don't think I could get significantly stronger in one month at this point in my development anyway."

"Um, I know I've been conflicted since I've been here, Naruto but I'd just like to say that I can see how much you love this place and that you're a sincere person," confessed Shizune. "I hope you're able to remain here."

"Thanks."

With nine days left before they planned to leave, the villagers decided that they were going to celebrate each of the jinchuuriki individually. On the last night, Naruto was spending it with Hinata. They stood nude before each other in what may have been their last moments of happiness together, he approached her and took her into his arms as they began to kiss each other passionately. He picked her up and laid her on the bed then took a moment to look at her.

"What's wrong?" she asked.

"This could be the last time I see you like this," he replied. "I'm just taking it all in."

"Isn't that my job?" she said with a playful smile.

He spread her legs and began to lick her pussy while he kept eye contact with her, she rubs her breasts as the power of his tongue made her toes curl. Her juices flowed from her like a waterfall as Naruto was sure to collect some of it on his tongue. She came as he shoved his tongue in her while he rubbed her clit with his thumb. They kissed once again as they switched positions, she gave his member a few strokes before she climbed down and took him in her mouth, she got her revenge as the feel of her soft lips on his shaft and her hands rubbing his balls made his toes curl in kind. She took him out of her mouth and climbed on top of him, she slid down his length and began to ride him while he massaged her breasts. As they made love, they got the sense of being in another world where trouble didn't exist. She rode him until she came all around her, he flipped her over and began to drive himself into her as she clutched him and dug her nails into her back. She screamed his name as she made love to her and feeling another orgasm coming.

"I love you!" they both screamed as they came in unison.

They held each other while the gravity of the situation hits him again.

"This may be the last time we do this."

"It won't be," she said as she looked him in the eyes.

"How do you know?"

She kisses him on the lips.

"I have faith in you and the others."

He smiled as they held each other.

"Have you told Kimi about all of this?" she asked.

"No, I don't want her to worry. Besides I'm taking her with us tomorrow."

"Are you sure? You've been particular about her seeing you hurt people since I've been here."

"But what if we don't succeed, I don't want her to be here wondering about me," he replied.

The next day they all set out for the Hostile Village where they met with Ryu and Konan from the Rain Village with some of her shinobi.

"Are you ready?" Konan asked.

"We're about to find out," replied Han.

"Relax, this is going to be easy," assured Naruto as Kimi rode on his shoulders. "We kick some ass and go home, right?"

"Right," the jinchuuriki agreed.

"Well, let's go," said Ryu.

They followed Ryu through the village where the villagers greeted them warmly.

"Jin-chuu-ri-ki!" they chanted with accompanying claps.

"This village doesn't seem very hostile," Hinata thought out loud.

"That's because they like you," replied Ryu.

They arrived at the arena and Ryu showed them where they can prepare themselves then he took the non-compatants to where they could be seated.

"Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go and welcome the Kage and their participants."

Ryu left and headed for the gates, it wasn't a long wait as the Kage and their shinobi arrived.

"Welcome, I'll show you to the arena."

Ryu's words to Hinata proved true as the villagers were particularly nasty.

"Fuck you!"

"You suck!"

The only person who received any kind of compliment was the Mizukage from the men in the crowd.

"Goddamn, she fine!"

"I'd drink your bathwater."

"You have no idea what I'd eat out of your ass."

"Thank you, you guys are so sweet," she said as she waved and blew kisses at them.

"Why are they so kind to her?" asked a confused Raikage.

"Don't get us wrong, we hate you guys but not as much as we love pussy," Ryu said as he held Mizukage's hand.

"I should visit this village more often," she said as she winked at him.

They arrived at the arena and showed them took them to where they could get ready.

"So, are these the participants?" asked Ryu.

Hearing affirmation, he took the Kage to where they were to be seated.

"Here it is," he pointed out to them. "Before I leave you, I just want to say, don't worry about the villagers. They do get riled up but they shouldn't be able to get to you up here and, of course, the shinobi have orders to stand down unless you try something."

With those words, he left the kage to wait until it was time to begin, they looked out into the arena which was similar to the Leaf Village's except for it being bigger and more dangerous as it was full of weapons and dangerous objects. Soon, the leader of the village came out to address the crowd.

"Is everyone doing okay?" he asked.

Their reply was a thunderous roar.

"Hostile Village!" they chanted.

"Now, both sides have received the rules here but let's go over them once more. This is one on one, hardcore battle. Rule #1: Anything goes. Rule #2: Everything goes. Rule #3: Death is your problem."

The crowed erupted again.

"Now, I'll get out of the way so we can get this show on the road."

He bowed out and the first participant came out.

"Yeah, Gaara!" members of the crowd shouted.

Gaara walked to the center of the arena, he was pacing back and forth as aggression boiled over within him. He stopped when he saw his opponent coming out.

"Are you sure letting your brothers face each other is such a good idea?" asked Jiraiya.

"Kankuro wouldn't take no for an answer besides, besides, Gaara is a close range fighter and Kankuro doesn't have to get close."

Kimi was surprised when Hinata told her about Gaara and Kankuro's connection to each other.

"That's really Gaara's brother?"

"Yes, and that blonde girl up there is his sister."

"I didn't know he had any."

Sakura watched with her classmates as Kankuro approached the center of the arena.

"I wonder what's going to happen."

"I don't know but this should be quite a show, at least," replied Ino. "The last time I saw Kankuro, he was completely dialed in for this."

Down in the arena, Kankuro faced off with Gaara as the shinobi that was acting as a referee told spoke to them.

"I'm really just here to announce when one of you can't go anymore," he said. "You can begin whenever you want."

He got out of the way as Kankuro and Gaara continued to stare each other down.

"I'm going to beat you into the ground, little brother," Kankuro said. "You're going to pay for killing Baki."

Kankuro summoned a puppet as Gaara uncorked his gourd and the sand poured out, they backed away as they prepared for battle. Without warning, Gaara launched a ball of sand and Kankuro that he blocked with his puppets defenses to find two more coming at him. He blocked them both but didn't have time to rest as Gaara surprised him by charging at him. He sent his puppet towards Gaara to stop him but gets surprised with a mound of sand appears before the puppet.

"What's he doing?" asked an equally surprised Temari.

They found out quickly as Gaara jumped on top of it then jumped off and over the puppet then gave Kankuro a kick to the head that sent him flying. Gaara uses his sand to crush the puppet as he went after Kankuro, he used his sand and reshaped it into a plate glass while grabbing Kankuro and getting him go his feet. He then threw his brother head first through the glass.

"When'd he learn to do that?" asked Temari.

"It must be his tailed beast helping him," replied Jiraiya.

"What do you mean?"

"I got a report that the power of Naruto's tailed beast helps him further manipulate his elemental affinities of wind and water to create ice by rearranging their molecules. If you rearrange the molecules of sand you get glass."

Back in the arena, Gaara was still all over Kankuro with kicks to the ribs but Kankuro recovers and grabs his leg, he gets to his feet and flung him into the ground.

"Why didn't his sand block it?" Temari asked.

Kankuro got the answer as he looked behind him and noticed that the glass was slowly turning back to sand.

"So, the glass complicates things," he thought to himself.

Gaara gets back to this feet and charges but Kankuro counters by ducking and locking Gaara's leg up with his. He jumped off on a nearby stone that was set up in the arena and landed a punch to Gaara's back that was partly blocked by the newly recovered sand. The sand captured his arm as Gaara struggled back to his feet and threw a right hand to Kankuro that knocked his hood off. Gaara used his sand to form another plate of glass that lay horizontally, supported by sand at the ends. He set Kankuro up on it and held him down then gave him two more punches to the head for good measure, he used his sand to form another mound. He used it again to form a smaller mound in front of the first but it he struggled with it as he had to maintain the glass. In essence, he made a stairway that he backed up from then charged towards, he jumped onto the smaller mound then onto the bigger mound then off of that and landed on Kankuro, the glass broke and left them both laid out on the ground as the crowd erupted.

"Holy shit!" they chanted.

Gaara wasn't completely immune to the affects of the maneuver as something on Kankuro seemed to hurt Gaara as much as Kankuro.

"I figured since I was fighting you, that I'd take a page out of your book and get some protection," Kankuro said as he tapped his chest while he stood up.

Gaara stood up and they engaged in a taijutsu duel.

"Kankuro improved his taijutsu over the years but I didn't expect Gaara to as well," said Temari.

"As a matter of fact, he hadn't used his sand as we expected during this battle," added the Mizukage.

"By the look on their faces, they don't realize that Gaara uses his sand differently one on one," Kenta said as he watched the battle with Makoto and Kyo.

Their taijutsu display wasn't as impressive as Naruto's was with Lee but was still pretty good until Kankuro retreated and stood on a wall to escape Gaara's sand as Sasuke did during their Chunin Exam match.

"You must be high if you think that I only had one puppet after all these years and you don't have the speed to get here before I summon it," Kankuro said as he began to perform some hand signs.

"That's what I wanted you to think," Gaara said.

It seemed as if Kankuro was baited in by Gaara as he quickly formed a plate of glass and two mounds of sand while charging at him so fast that Kankuro wasn't even halfway through his hand signs.

"He'll never reach Kankuro," said a confident Temari.

"I'm too high up on this wall," thought Kankuro.

To their surprise, Gaara jumps from one mound to the other then directly up to Kankuro. He puts him in a headlock before he could finish the summoning and falls backwards driving them both through the glass. The crowd erupts once again as they both laid unconscious, it was about a minute before the shinobi that acted as their referee went to check on them.

"Neither of them can continue," he said to the crowd. "This match is a draw."

The crowd didn't care as they enjoyed the battle, they chanted cheered Gaara as some of the Other Shinobi came out to see to him.

"Gaara, you are a menace," one of the crowd members shouted as Gaara was being carried away. "Oh, my god."

Kankuro, however, was now endeared to the crowd after being able to endure so much as they cheered him as well while he was carried him out.

"I have to go check on them," Temari said as she left.

After checking on Gaara, Yugito stepped into the arena and waited for her opponent to show.

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