Thank you to everyone who clarified the 'sannin' and 'sennin' issue. Thanks for all the reviews though. I kind of find it hard to believe it has been a bout a year and a month since I started this fic. Sure, I revamped the whole thing but I'm happy on where it is today. I believe someone addressed that Naruto should be calling Jiriaya "ero-sennin" instead of sensei, do realize he has been raised by Kenshin who has a formal style of speech and isn't hasty to judge people right away.

Ch. 14

Naruto followed Jiriaya to a nearby training ground, near a waterfall. "So first things first, I going to test you on your chakra affinity, Naruto."

"Chakra affinity?"

"Yes. Each ninja has a certain affinity to the five main elements. Jiriaya pulled out a piece of paper from a pouch and gave it to Naruto. "This is a charka detecting paper. All you need to do is push a small amount of charka into it and your affinity will reveal itself."

Naruto held the small piece of paper in his hand. "How will I know which affinity I have?"

"Wind will split itself in half, Water will become wet, Fire will burn itself, Earth will crumble and Lightening will give off sparks."

Naruto pushed some chakra into the piece of paper and it split it self in half. The two halves floated to the ground. Jiraiya was about to tell Naruto about several wind jutsus he could teach him when one corner gave a small burst of flame, another became wet, another crumbled and the last gave a weak spark. Interesting, the boy's dominant chakra is wind but have a weak affinity to the other four. I haven't seen someone like this since I trained Minato... Geez, this boy is like his father in so many ways. But I think I will focus on wind jutsus for now. "Well, it seems that you have a knack for wind jutsus and I just happen to know some I can teach you." Jiraiya pulled out a scroll from another pocket in his clothes and gave it to Naruto. "In there contain several wind jutsus you can learn and I will help in any way I can if you have any questions."

Naruto took the scroll and looked at the several jutsus that had been recorded down. He looked up from his scroll and saw Jiraiya, looking through some brush and giggling. I take my eyes off of him for two seconds and he is already peeping on other women. Stupid ero-sennin. Naruto chuckled at his nickname for Jiraiya before walking up behind him to unleash a surprise on him. Kyubii was screaming bloody hell for him to not use the technique made so long ago to he would occasional use to disguise himself when walking by himself on the streets.

Jiraiya was busily writing down notes for his next book when he heard a sensual voice and a pair of soft hands rubbed down on his shoulders. He turned around to see what he could only describe as the one of the most perfect women he had ever seen in his life. A blonde-haired woman with red streaks in her hair stood before him. Thin wisps of smoke covered the most private parts from view and Jiraiya could feel himself drooling at the sight before him and he inched closer to feel up the perfect body.

There was a puff of smoke and Jiraiya suddenly felt cold steel on his throat. "Consider this a warning for the next time you decide to go peep on women while training me."

'Naruto how dare you! You know I forbade you to ever use that technique again.'

"But it was the only way I could think to try that perverted old man away from the women to pay attention to me."

Kyubbi gave a deep growl. 'Fine, I will let you off easy this time but I'm still going to punish you, in a way that going to keep you up all night.' Kyubbi gave a low chuckle and Naruto could only shiver at what her punishment could be.

Over the next several days, Naruto had mastered the several jutsus that Jiraiya had given to him but a certain dream from Kyubbi had been keeping from getting a full amount of rest. It involved a certain lavender girl in some rather vivid positions and actions that kept his mind in turmoil. He had requested from a Jiraiya a day to calm his mind and Jiraiya quickly agreed saying he had some "research" to conduct.

Naruto sat down on a bench in a park and leaned his head back trying to clear his head of everything that was happening and soon to be happening in the future, with the village and his relationship with a certain lavender-eyed girl. Hinata, who had just been released from the hospital, was taking a walk through the park to fill her lungs with fresh air after residing in the hospital. The preliminaries had proved to almost fatal as Neji had managed much damage to her internal organs. Several weeks and the doctors and nurses had proclaimed her healthy enough to leave the hospital and do some light training. She was deep in thought when she turned her head to the side and saw Naruto sitting on the bench, head leaned back and eyes closed. Hinata walked up to Naruto and sat down next to him. She tapped his right shoulder. "Naruto-kun, are you okay?"

Naruto opened up his eyes and looked at where the voice had come from. He looked at Hinata and quickly turned away with a fierce blush adorning his face. "I apologize, Hinata-chan, but I must be going." He gently removed her hand from his shoulder and walked away. Hinata looked hurt and walked away, with her head hanging down.

-At the Hyuuga Manor-

Hiashi was currently walking through his house and passed by the courtyard just to see Hinata as she was walking into the manor with her head hung low. Hiashi called to his daughter but his calls fell on deaf ears. His eyes narrowed and wondered about the times Hinata had ever been unhappy enough to not hear his summons. The only time was when his wife and her mother had died during childbirth of Hanabi. With concern lacing his face, he quickly moved to discover his daughter's distress.

-Hinata's Room-

She was lying facedown on her pillow and was staring listlessly at the wall when she heard a small knock on her door. She stood and slid open her door a small crack and looked out. "Yes, Father?"

"Is something the matter, Hinata?"

"I apologize, Father, but I do not feel like talking right now." She slid the door shut and left Hiashi in a state of confusion and anger as to who could upset Hinata this much. He knew he hadn't been the cause and no other clan member has seen Hinata yet. He let out a low growl and muttered, "Naruto…" He set off on a brisk pace to find Naruto and bring him to justice.

-In a Training Ground-

Naruto currently sat quietly in the ground, cross-legged and was chanting a single phrase when a furious Hiashi burst out of the trees and advanced on him with eyes blazing. Hiashi rushed up to him and pinned him down on the ground by his throat. "What did you do to my daughter?"

Naruto gripped at Hiashi's hand and tried to pry it off to no avail. He moved his hand down to the hilt of his sword and rammed it into Hiashi's right armpit, breaking his grip and numbing his arm.

"Hiashi-sama, I haven't done anything to Hinata!!!"

"Then explain to me why she is currently in her room moping around? The last I had seen her like this was when her mother had died. Nothing I or the clan could do to break her out of her misery for several days until I forced her out of her room, which I regret. But I had a duty to my clan and it is clear now I wasn't thinking at that moment because it made her skills collapse and brought my own fury on her. But here came a certain young boy who had encouraged her to become stronger than I could have done. You are the only other person I know that can influence into such a state and I demand to know what you did to her!!!"

Naruto tried to rack his head to figure out what he had done and quickly found what he had done. He was about to tell Hiashi he was wrong when it hit him. He body quickly slackened and he fell to the ground. Hr took several deep breaths to calm himself down and righted himself up. "I apologize for Hiashi-sama, but I must leave." He gave a quick bow before disappearing in a swirl of leaves.

Hiashi could only give a hard glare at where Naruto had just been. "For your sake, Naruto, I hope you do."

The Eve of the Finals

Hinata was starting out at a full moon, rubbing the fur on Shiro's back when he darted off and she heard a flute being played. (AU: Shiro is the name of the small fox that Naruto had summoned but stayed with Hinata. Hinata named it that.) She looked out her window and spied a certain blonde-haired boy of her affection under the affect of the full moon. She walked over to Naruto and put a hand up on his cheek and he brought up his hand to meet hers. "I'm sorry, Hinata."

Hinata looked confused and was about to ask what happened when Naruto put a finger on her lip. "I pushed you away and without any regard to your feelings. My mind was in a great storm and wasn't thinking clearly about what was happening. I apologize for my coldness to you that day and-" He was suddenly cut off when he felt Hinata's lips press up against his own.

Hinata pulled back and whispered in his ear. "All is forgiven, Naruto-kun." She pulled back and asked, "What is with the cute fox ears and tail?"

Naruto looked flustered and tried to stutter out a response. Hinata giggled in response before moving her hand and scratching the back of Naruto's ear. His face instantly relaxed and he leaned into Hinata's hand, muttering several inaudible statements that Hinata couldn't make out. She stopped her scratching and pulled Naruto into a fierce hug and Naruto wrapped his arms around, wishing he could never let go. Later that night, a certain clan head getting a glass of water saw the jinchuuriki of the village with his arms wrapped protectively around his daughter who was snuggling into his chest and they were talking about things he couldn't decipher. He decided to not raise the alarm and would get back at that boy at a different time.

Dawn of the Finals

Several people were staring at the rising sun and were thinking various thoughts.

'Today is the day…'

'…when I get my revenge…'

'…destiny will prove me to be the victor…'

'…I need to hurry back…'

And a certain blonde haired boy was standing on top of the Hokage Monument, staring down at the village. 'Today is the day…'

At the Stadium

People were filing into the stadium and all of the contestants were lined up and Naruto did a quick look over his opponents. Neji had a smirk that made him look like he was king of the world, Gaara looked at him directly and gave a small nod of thanks, which relieved Naruto that Gaara would follow Leaf's plan to defend the village. Naruto had received a scroll telling him all the plans prior before coming to the stadium and found them adequate but had a nagging feeling that something would not go as planned. Shino was as stoic as ever while Kankuro and Temari looked apprehensive as he surmised would be about the upcoming invasion. Shikamaru clearly had a face that showed he would rather be some where else. Sasuke had not yet shown up and Naruto had an odd suspicion it had something to do with Kakashi.

The proctor was a jounin who was chewing on a senbon. "Listen here. The battles will go in numerical order. The matches end when one person concedes defeat or when I call the match. The rest of you will wait up in that area over there." The all gave some from of consent and they walked up to the competitors box while Neji and Naruto remained on down on the field, staring down each other.

Neji was the first to speak. "What are you even here, loser? Fate has already proclaimed me the winner."

"I made a promise to Hinata and I intend to go through with it. I never go back on my promises."

"A promise to that main house failure? She was destined to a life of failure and her defeat by mind hands was a perfect show of that." Naruto's response was to summon a bow out of a scroll and readied an arrow.

Genma looked at both of them. "Hajime!"

Naruto jumped back and released the arrow he had ready and Neji broke it in half with a swift chop. Naruto shot several more arrows which were disposed in the same manner as the first. Naruto darted up the wall of the arena where he stuck there and contemplated his next move. Neji, becoming impatient, threw several shuriken at Naruto which he deflected his bow.

"Let's test you Neji." He lobbed an arrow high into the air and all eyes followed its path. "Ya Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!" (Arrow shadow clone jutsu) The single arrow multiplied into several hundred and rained down upon Neji.

"KAITEN!!!" Neji started to spin around while expelling charka from his tenketsu points, creating a sphere of charka around him. Many of the arrows were either deflected or broke when the came in contact with Neji's Kaiten. Neji stopped spinning and looked at Naruto with a smirk that said he was destined to win the match. "It seems that your arrows have not effect."

"I can see that, Neji-san." Naruto laid his bow down on the ground and brandished his sword. "Then, let's try this." He struck the ground with his sword. "Doryusen!!!" (Ground Dragon Strike) Neji performed Kaiten once again and deflected the rocks. "So, mass doesn't matter either."

Naruto crouched down and put his right hand around the hilt of his sakabato and his left hand holding the sheath. They both stood at stared each other down for a few second before dashing toward each other. Naruto pulled out his sakabato out of the sheath and aimed for Neji's head, who was only able to dodge by a hair's breadth butt still lost several strands of hair. Neji had jumped back form the attack and growled at Naruto before dashing back at Naruto. The exchange of sword blows and Juuken strikes continued for several minutes without either person gaining an upper hand until Naruto had over extended one of his attack and had left his right side exposed. Neji recognized the opening immediately and slammed his palms into Naruto's side pushing him away and leaving two charka marks on his side.

Naruto could only gasp in pain and heard Neji say 'You are in range of my Hakke'

"2 palms!" "4 palms!" "8 palms!" "16 palms!" "32 palms!" "64 palms!!!"

He flew back and landed in a heap several yards away, with all of his charka points closed.

"Proctor, call the match. He won't be getting back up." Neji turned away but was stopped by a voice.

"Where are you going, Neji? This battle is far from over." Neji whirled around and saw Naruto hunched over with his sword stuck in the ground getting him standing up.

"Kyubbi, I need to heal my ribs and also open up my charka points, but do it without any noticeable charka surges."

"Kit, must you make this difficult? I'll will do it but you are going to need to buy yourself time while I heal you. Think you can do it?"

"I think I can."

"Fool, why do you still stand up? You are destined to fail like the Hyugga main house failure. Her defeat at my hands shows how weak the main house truly is. The main house deserves to suffer after everything they have done to me…"

Naruto had expected the response that Neji after his life story from Hiashi. "Well so what, you lose your father and you grow bitter against the world and take your anger out on the Main House?"

Neji ripped off his headband and showed the curse seal mark on his forehead. "You have no idea what it is like to be branded with curse seal and never be free from it!!!"

Naruto could feel his ribs healing and almost of his charka points being unsealed. "Are you sure about that Neji? You aren't the only who has to suffer in this world. Just because you have one problem, you feel the need to blame other for your own destiny. Tell me, for attacking Hinata-chan to a state of near death when you are supposed to protect her, are you not going against you own destiny?" He shot a glare at Neji and Neji recoiled when he saw that Naruto's pupils had turned into slits.

Neji recovered from his shock. "It doesn't matter. Destiny has already still declared the loser today." Neji dashed forward and was about to strike Naruto square in the heart with a Juuken strike when he was blasted away by a large wall of charka. Neji tried to look at Naruto but the charka emanating off of him was too much and he had to turn off his Byakugan temporarily. When the charka had settled down, Neji and the crowd could only gasp at Naruto.

A thin shroud of red charka surrounded his form and is seemed to also give him a fox tail and fox ears though they were not definite. Naruto glanced over at Neji before disappearing. Neji jumped back to avoid a slash by Naruto before whirling around to strike at Naruto only to hit an afterimage. "Impossible! All of your charka points should be sealed."

"I trained with a Hyuuga for longer than you know and you don't think I would know of a way to be able to open my charka points? And you might want to look up" Neji looked up and saw Naruto descending on to him when he quickly performed Kaiten. Naruto hit the shield and was quickly repelled. He hit the ground hard and rolled several feet on the ground.

"You still have not penetrated my ultimate defense, loser."

"Is that so? How about we put that to the test?" Naruto got up and jumped into the sky, with sword back in its sheath. "I will meet your destiny head on and I will win." Naruto came down while Neji started his Kaiten again. Naruto's charka covered sakabato impacted with Neji's Kaiten and neither gave leeway from one another for several seconds until Neji's Kaiten started to give in and it broke, completely taking the entire crowd by surprise, mainly the Hyuuga clan.

Naruto followed through with the sword's momentum and it impacted with Neji's temple, sending him several yards away. Neji got up and was shocked his couldn't see anything. He tried to activate his Byakugan but achieved nothing as he was still unable to see anything. "How does it feel to be blind, Neji?" Neji looked around trying to locate Naruto's voice and couldn't pinpoint the location. "For a proclaimed prodigy and genius, you are blinded by your so called fate and destiny. Therefore, maybe being blind will open up your eyes."

"How dare you do something like this to me!!! I am a Hyuuga and a genius and I see all!"

"Then how are you unable to see the truth of what Hinata was saying to you? You have been blinded by your anger and hatred of the Main House and you are not deserving of such eyes!!"

"Because she is a Main House brat who doesn't even know her place in the world." He got up again after locating Naruto's voice and dashed at Naruto with a glowing hand. Naruto, who was caught off guard, was unable to defend himself when he was hit by a charka palm in the chest only to disappear in a puff of smoke. "Kage Bunshin no Jutsu?" He whirled around only to have a fist impact with his chin and he went flying back. He fell on the ground and tried to move but his body would not respond. He could only look up and see Naruto standing over him. "Why did you not defeat outright?"

"Because if I did, Hinata would lose someone she has cared about for a long time. I had intended to defeat you as quickly and painfully as possible but Hinata eased my mind on that subject. Hinata cares more than you think about you and you should at least try to know her again."

"The winner of the first match is, Uzumaki Naruto!"

A pair of medics came out to assist Neji, while Naruto went to go retrieve his bow that he had set down. The crowd was cheering for him and he looked sheepish. He caught Hinata's eye sitting in the crowd and gave her a small wink that made her blush.

"Will Sasuke and Gaara please come down to the arena." Gaara passed by Naruto as he walked down the steps and they both made eye contact, giving a small nod to each other. Gaara waited patiently and was making small sculptures of sand in his hand, which worried Temari, Kankuro and Baki. They had never seen Gaara doing such things in his spare time and it made them slightly nervous to see him so relaxed and wondered if this would affect their invasion plans.

"If Sasuke does not appear in the arena in the next minute, you will be automatically disqualified."

The Kazekage turned over to Sarutobi. "Why not delay the Sasuke and Garra match? Many of the lords present today are waiting to see the last Uchiha in combat. Many of them would be disappointed if they are unable to see such a spectacle." Sarutobi could only grimace at what the Kazekage had said and thought for several moments on his next course of action. "The match between Gaara and Sasuke will be postponed for the final match of this round." There was a large roar of disapproval as people voiced their opinion on wanting to see the Uchiha in action. Gaara shrugged his shoulders and walked back up the stairs into the waiting area, receiving odd looks from Temari and Kankuro. Gaara, noticing their looks "What?"

Both looked hastily away but thinking the same thought. What is wrong with him? They had observed his odd behavior for some time and they thought it was just something that would eventually blow by but it hadn't. Not that they didn't mind not hearing the constant threats on their lives, but this Gaara made them nervous in a different way.

"Will Kankuro and Shino Aburame, please come down to the arena to start their fight."

Kankuro quickly surrendered without a fight which made a certain Aburame irate and his Kikai colony could sense his simmering anger. "Will Temari and Shikamaru Nara, please come down to start their fight." Temari floated down on her fan and was waiting impatiently for Shikamaru to come down.

"Man this is so troublesome. I had to fight a girl in the preliminaries and now I have to fight another one. Why does life have to be such a drag? Maybe I should forfeit too, seeing as the crowd doesn't want to see my fight anyways." He felt a sword being poked into his back and he fell forward over the rail and onto the ground. "Geez, Naruto. Thanks a lot."

He looked over the rail and waved at Shikamaru. "No problem, Shikamaru." Naruto was glad he had pushed Shikamaru over the rail because he was able to see a sleeping genius flaunt his mental superiority and tactical genius to a near victory only to give up due to a lack of charka. Needless, to say his opponent was not satisfied with her victory and kept glaring at Shikamaru although Naruto could of sworn it was for a different reason other than being mad at Shikamaru.

Naruto had decided to leave at this moment, explaining he had some business to attend to after being asked whether he was going to stay behind to watch the final match. "No matter who win, I expect both of them to fight to their best, though I don't think they will be able to finish." Kankuro and Temari looked at each other again and wondered if Naruto was on to their plans.

At that moment, Sasuke and Kakashi appeared in a swirl of leaves. "Sorry, we're late. I got held up by my Sensei. He said something about making a dramatic appearance." The entire crowd face planted but excited to see the last Uchiha.

"Next time, could you actually appear on time?" Genma shot a glare at Kakashi who looked away. "Any who let the final match in the first round between Gaara and Sasuke begin." Sasuke got down into a taijutsu stance and had expected Gaara to stand there with his arms crossed only to see Gaara drop into a basic taijutsu stance, which surprised the Sand shinobi present greatly. "Hajime!"

Sasuke darted forward only to quickly jump to the side as a fist of sand had come out to hit him. He looked at Gaara to see his own fist extended before he returned back to his own stance, the sand receding back. Sasuke gritted his teeth and jumped at Garra again. Garra threw another punch but his attack only hit air. He felt the sand moving to defend him and it only barely blocked Sasuke's kick before he moved again to attack Garra's front.

Garra quickly expelled the sand off his body like a shield, pushing Sasuke away. He quickly gathered his sand around him again and formed it into a solid shield of sand and he sat inside quickly thinking of what to do to be able to defeat Sasuke. Outside the sand ball, Sasuke was furiously attacking hoping to break through and went it seemed pointless to continue, Sasuke jumped back on to the stadium wall. He crouched down and held his arm out and soon the crackling of lightening could be heard as it started to gather around his hand. He dashed down the wall and ran straight toward moving at a very high speed. He thrust his arm out and impacted with the sand shield. He felt his arm move into the ball but was quickly pulled out as spikes jutted out of the sand, almost impaling him.

A scream was heard from within the shield that was heard all around the stadium. "What is this? Is this my blood?" Another blood curdling scream was heard when everything started to happen.

Prior and during Sasuke and Garra's match

"That is the plan. Any questions?" No one raised their voice. "Alright, then. For Konoha, let's go!" Everyone disappeared in a large swirl of leaves and soon the Battle for Konoha would begin.

Hello again fellow readers. I hope you enjoy this chapter. Please review as they do help get insight on what to write next and they also motivate me. I'm also done with school for fall semester so I may be able to get at least 2 chapters in a month. Well, until next time, Peace out.

Author's Rant: Just recently I realized one of the reasons I decided to write a Naruto story with a Ruronin Kenshin crossover. Many Naruto stories that use swords take a style of sword fighting, mainly Hiten Mitsurugi-Ryu, and they don't give credit to Ruronin Kenshin for that sword style or least I'm not aware of. Anyways, enjoy reading.

Also, looking for a beta reader if anyone is interested.

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