Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or the related characters, I just am borrowing them for my own delusions.
Chapter 21
"Would you believe me Jiraiya if I said I mean Naruto no harm?" Natas asked as he stood on the roof looking down after avoiding the mud trap the Sannin had tried to get him with moments after appearing.
"Would you believe me if I said I wouldn't trust you as far as a ten year old academy student could throw the monument?" the white haired sage fired back.
"(sigh) Time is running out Jiraiya. I just wish to speak with you."
"You said that years ago, and then you left and went to capture Naruto."
"I could have killed you and your family that day if I meant to Jiraiya." Natas countered. "I have had numerous chances if I wanted to."
"Your freaks killed my students."
Natas waved a gloved hand. "Bah, two useless idiots and some Konoha Genin died. Kabuto lives I'm told, and should make a full recovery with time."
Jiraiya ground his teeth. "Kankuro was a friend to Naruto's."
Natas shrugged. "He's really unimportant in the end of it all. He was barely decent as a puppet master. His death served its purpose in motivating Naruto to continue."
"What do you hope to accomplish with this?" Jiraiya asked.
"You never should have modified the seal." Natas said. "It threw out all the plans of…others, and now I need to make things balance out drastically."
Jiraiya leapt to the rooftop across the way. "What do you mean?"
"Konoha will not be getting the Uchiha back. After all, I have three of them and while I destroyed that eye of theirs, and some reprogramming, surgical alterations and even some DNA splicing they have become useful."
Jiraiya got a cold feeling in the pit of his stomach. "What have you done?"
XX
(Chunin Exam's Arena)
The nine competitors stood in the middle of the stadium, the sold out Konoha crowd and visitors cheered for their picks.
Naruto sighed, his eyes rested on the Konoha council. Bastards look damn eager. He thought as he stood next to Gaara. Temari was just behind them and Ryu was crouched before them, he kept adjusting his gloves and muttering "Should have stayed in bed." As he looked across the way at Scorpion and Sub Zero, both were motionless, their dead pale eyes were locked on them.
The Konoha team of Neji Hyuga, TenTen and Rock Lee were just below the Kage's Booth. Lee was stretching, the girl TenTen was flipping a kunai nervously and Neji was looking at Naruto, his eyes were cold, reminding the blond of Natas's freaks.
"We take out Sub Zero as fast as possible." Naruto said to his teammates. "Once he's gone…"
"I will deal with Scorpion." Gaara said, his tone cold, his eyes promising the freak across the way pain and death.
"Ryu, remember your duty is to guard Temari-chan. She's our long range hitter. Let no one pass you."
"Got it boss." The taijutsu specialist said.
"Be careful Naruto-kun." Temari said. "You too little brother."
Both jinchuriki grunted, none of the competitors were listening as the Konoha Jonin was spouting rules. They knew no one was going to follow them.
"Your dad's here." The blond said to his friend.
"The Kazekage is not my father." Gaara said. "He is just the sperm donor. You are our family." Gaara said.
"Stay alive Gaara. I'd hate to see how Hinata would react to loosing you."
The container of the one tailed demon looked up to where Hinata was sitting next to Tsunade and Shizune. Tayuya was standing behind them with Anko and Kidomaru as guards.
"We'll survive."
"You better believe it. We have a date tonight." They heard Temari grumble. Naruto sweatdropped and shot a look at his friend.
"You are the only one I believe is worthy to date her." Gaara said. "Kankuro would agree with me."
Naruto nodded, and knew that the sand sibs missed their brother. His blue eyes turned back to where Scorpion and Sub Zero waited.
"I DECLARE THAT THE FINAL ROUND OF THIS YEARS CHUNIN EXAMS IS READY TO BEGIN!" the Jonin called out, and the fans cheered.
The gong sounded and all hell broke loose.
XX
With the sound of the gong the East wall exploded taking out most the spectators sitting there.
As rubble rained down around the stadium several figures appeared in the arena.
"Shit." Naruto muttered.
It was echoed in the Kage's Booth by Orochimaru, and in the sensei's booth by Tsunade.
Surrounding Sub Zero and Scorpion were several new figures.
"Kano and Jade." Naruto muttered, his gaze hardening. It was then that the smoke cleared and the other three figures were revealed and gasps were heard.
Three Uchiha were there, two of them were well known in Konoha, the last was recognizable to a Hokage, a Kazekage and the Otokage.
"Madara." Sarutobi whispered the name.
"What?" Orochimaru said. "That can't be possible. He's dead."
"He hasn't aged a day." Sarutobi muttered. He made a motion. "Anbu, stop them!"
Orochimaru looked at Kimimaro. "Protect Naruto and the others…"
"Milord, I must protest leaving you…"
"I will be fine, see to my family."
The bone user bowed and shushined down to the field where the battle exploded as Kano taunted Gaara about making Kabkuro squeal like a pig as he carved him up.
The sand users rage sent a wall of sand, Kano never stood a chance while Jade and the others got out of the way.
Naruto went right for Sub Zero, but found his path blocked by Neji. "You have brought this upon Konoha. Your fate will be death at my hand."
"Fate? Fate is for losers that have no imagination and small dicks." Naruto said and they were in battle before anyone could blink.
Ryu and Lee were engaged in the mother of all taijutsu fights, both were determined to win.
Temari was making a mockery of TenTen, scattering the weapon mistress's weapons long before they got close.
Kimimaro appeared and used a bone spike to block Scorpion's serpent like spear weapon. The clash of bone and living weapon rang out and was joined around the arena as dozens of ninja dressed in green and black outfits like Scorpions appeared.
The battle for Konoha had begun, while three Uchiha stood perfectly still as if made of stone.
XX
Jiraiya heard the explosion and looked towards the stadium. "You bastard, you've been distracting me."
"No, I've been talking with you. It just so happens some of my lieutenants are impatient and jumped the conclusion." The skull masked figure shrugged. "Later Ero-sannin." Natas vanished.
"Wait…" Jiraiya frowned at what the masked man had called him. Another explosion and he swore loudly before leaping from rooftop to rooftop praying to reach the battle in time.
XX
Naruto swore as Neji attacked. "Cut it out you idiot, can't you see that Natas's forces are invading."
"I have my orders." Neji said. "The council has ordered your death, and it is my destiny to deliver your fate."
Naruto twisted and twirled avoiding the deadly juken strikes.
This nut job is serious. Naruto thought as he sidestepped and then slammed Neji's arm with a palm strike that spun the Hyuga away. "What of the alliance between the Hyuga and Oto?"
"Meaningless. Hinata is weak, her removal from the main house was foreseen long ago." Neji said as he tried to connect again and failed.
"Your Uncle, her father made an alliance, attacking will break it…"
"If that is what it takes for me to fulfill my duty to Konoha, then so be it." Neji said.
Shaking his head, Naruto sighed. "Then I will destroy you, and I hope Hinata will forgive me, for you shall not make her wedding to Gaara."
Altering his stance, Naruto took up the Hebi style favored by his "Uncle" Orochi and with serpent like quickness he avoided the juken attacks and would strike Neji's arms and even landed several blows on the torso. Neji was falling back under the style.
"You like that?" Naruto asked watching as Neji rubbed his arms where he'd been hit.
"Here's one Ero-pop taught me." He took up a slightly weaving stance. "Drunken boxing."
Neji attacked while his attack missed which pissed him off, Naruto's blows hit with the strange precision, the weaving pattern, and near falls threw Neji off his game as when he would attack high, Naruto would go low, and when he went low, Naruto would go high.
Rolling away after another exchange, Naruto smirked. "If you didn't like that, how about the style designed by my Kaa-san."
Neji getting feeling back charged.
Naruto waited, arms crossed, until Neji was upon him and then focusing his chakra into his arms, he connected with the Finger Flick of Doom right between Neji's eyes.
Everyone watched as Neji acted like a stone skipping across a pond as he skipped across the arena floor until he hit the wall where he was imbedded.
"Your getting better."
Naruto turned and grinned at Anko who slit the throat of one of the green uniformed ninja. "Seven skips." He said.
"Where's Kaa-san?" he asked his sister.
"Dealing with an infestation." Anko said and Naruto turned to see his mother fighting another of Natas's freaks. "Jade."
Naruto took the moment to look around. The Kage booth was a war zone as the Kazekage had turned on Orochimaru and Sarutobi. The veil was removed and it showed a man with pale skin, a long black braid of hair and goatee.
"Shang." Naruto muttered seeing the mage that was in the bingo books.
"Don't worry, Uncle O has it in hand. We need to make sure the freaks don't get any civilians."
"We're helping them why?" Naruto asked as he kicked an enemy nin away and into the path of TenTen's weapons barrage. "The Konoha nin are attacking us as well as them."
"I know, but your mothers orders."
Naruto muttered about this being a bad idea. His gaze found Gaara destroying Kano and his thugs.
Haku, Kin, Tayuya and Haku had Sub Zero contained.
"The Konoha Jonin are playing around too much." Naruto saw.
"Don't worry about them little brother. Kill the freaks, keep moving. Remember the plan."
Naruto nodded and leapt into the air, doing so saved him from being crushed under Ryu who had been kicked by Lee, both fighters enjoying the battle and had removed their weights, neither was holding back.
Anko shook her head and hurled a kunai at another nin, it caught the idiot between the eyes and was buried up to the handle.
"This reminds me of the time at that coastal town and all those pirates." Anko said as Naruto landed nearby atop another nin, driving him into the ground like a nail.
"Which time?"
Anko grinned as she drew a trio of throwing stars and smirked. "Tuesday before we came here."
Naruto laughed. "I don't think that captain will ever walk upright again nee-chan."
The siblings were cutting through the green attired nin with ease. Naruto saw the Uchiha not moving. "What's up with them?"
"Not sure. But you notice they all have their eyes covered." Anko pointed out as she stabbed another ninja while Naruto ducked one and performed a mule kick that sent a poor nin flying in between Ryu and Lee as they both went for powerful kicks. Said nin found his ribs turned to powder and died before he hit the ground.
"They're endless." Anko noted as Natas's forces continued to pour through the hole in the stadium wall.
"Just more to kill sis." Naruto shot her a grin.
XX
Gaara looked at the remains of the criminal Kano and his thugs. "My brother has been avenged." He turned his gaze and leveled ten green clad ninja with a sand wave. His dark gaze looking for several people. Temari and the Konoha kunoichi had stopped fighting one another and were now fighting a pair of Natas's freaks. A woman in a purple leotard with a pair of sai and another woman with long black hair streaked with white.
He saw Naruto and Anko destroying ninja left right and center, while Ryu was still fighting the Konoha nin with the freakish eyebrows.
Gaara looked for and found his Hinata fighting with Kin, Haku and Tayuya in containing Sub Zero. He decided to help them, but found his path blocked by another of Natas's freaks. This one seemed to be made of shadows.
"Move or die." Gaara said coldly.
The black ninja made a bring it motion, and Gaara one to comply sent a sand spike at the strange nin. It missed as the shadow nin melted into the ground and reappeared a foot away, his foot lashed out and connected with Gaara, sending him several feet back.
The jinchuriki of Shukaku knew that he was in for a fight with this strange freak, sand swirled around him and he prepared for battle.
XX
Jiraiya reached the stadium and looked down. He wasn't sure where Natas went, but he could see his help was needed in several places, he just didn't know where to start.
"Hello Jiraiya-kun."
He turned to see a man wearing the markings of a monk and a wide brimmed hat.
"Kung Lao." Jiraiya said softly as the monk reached up and pulled his hat off.
AN: More next time. Cliffhangers, the ultimate form of fanfiction in which we use to drag you back for more. Hey, it works with TV. (I hate To be continued) but it does work, because we all need to know what happens next.