AN: Not sure what to say. I must say that I sympathise with the Uchiha clan being treated like that. You can only bend a twig so far until it breaks, or as I like to say: You can only poke a bear so many times.

I have redone the first chapter go take a look if you want.

On with the story

Chapter 21: Soon very soon

Sakura was sitting outside of the emergency operation room. "Please Sasuke-kun hold on." This wasn't looking good at all. "Naruto be careful, I don't want you to get hurt as well." She thought and clenched her fists when an image of Shinkumaru appeared in her mind.

Dante looked at Vergil with his trade mark confidence. "Well, shall we dance?" he said and did a mock bow.

Vergil disappeared and aimed a kick at Dante's head which was dodged. Dante pulled out his gun and fired at Vergil who bent out of the way. Vergil made a move to draw his weapon but Dante kicked the scabbard out of Vergil's hand and aimed at Vergil's head, Vergil grabbed Dante's wrist and twisted forcing him to drop his gun. He pulled his second gun and fired making Vergil teleport away.

Vergil retrieved his weapon while Dante picked up his gun. He pulled out his Katana and in the same motion launched an energy strike at Dante. Dante pulled out Force edge and blocked the blast but was sent skidding backwards. Vergil sheathed his blade and charged his blade with energy. "Rest in peace." He pulled out his blade a bit and Dante was surrounded by a blue orb which he dodged by jumping. Vergil appeared in front of him and tried to cut him but Dante blocked with his blade. Dante pushed Vergil away and flipped his sword into a reverse grip. "Take this!" Dante launched his red energy blast at Vergil who disappeared.

Dante landed on the ground just as Vergil appeared a few yards away. "Your Drive has gotten quicker." Vergil said and sheathed his Katana again.

Dante smirked and charged his weapon again. "I call it quick drive, this is the full DRIVE!" Dante launched a much brighter red slash at Vergil who back flipped letting it fly under him. When he landed he saw another one heading for his face. He disappeared and appeared behind Dante and slashed at him. Dante twisted around and parried the strike with his glowing red blade. Vergil cursed as another blast sent him flying. Dante pulled out his guns and fired away, Vergil spun his blade deflecting every shot before landing on the ground. Dante kept firing and ran toward Vergil who kept spinning his weapon. Vergil disappeared and appeared in the air and launched another blue sphere that encircled Dante.

Dante just kept running dodging the first, second and third sphere before putting away his guns and drawing his blade. Vergil appeared in front of Dante and swiped at him only for Dante to block with his blade. Vergil jumped into the air and disappeared. Dante looked up and saw him at the top of a nearby building. Dante looked up at his brother. "Come on Verg running away already?"

Vergil smirked and sheathed his blade. "No just taking it to the next level." He gathered a large amount of energy in his blade until the blue glow covered his entire body. "Die you trash." He said and disappeared.

Dante looked around tying to spot him. Suddenly the street was covered in blue spheres, but no one came close to him. Dante was confused until he noticed that the spheres were not disappearing. His eyes widened and he felt fear. "SHI..." a giant explosion sent air slashes in every direction destroying the nearby buildings and throwing up a crazy amount of dust.

Vergil appeared on a building farther away and looked upon the destruction. "So it ends brother." He turned away and started to walk away. A red energy slash flew at his back and he teleported away in the last second. He appeared on the same roof top and stared as the dust disappeared, blown away by the slash.

A figure appeared "Dante." Vergil said quietly.

Dante was in his demon form but was covered by much ticker armour. "I call it Dreadnaught." He said making Vergil smirk. He released his demon form. "Lucky no one was in these buildings, it would have been quite bloody." Dante said looking around.

Vergil appeared a few feet in front of him. "You are too damn persistent." He said and drew his blade.

Dante smirked and grabbed Force edge. "And you are too damn destructive."

Both brothers dashed at the other and started trading slashes at an insane phase. Dante leapt backwards but Vergil followed and the blows rained upon Dante who blocked every one of them. Dante used trickster and managed to get some distance. He launched a quick drive that Vergil avoided and appeared behind him and attacked with his judgement cut.

Dante disappeared and appeared above Vergil and performed a helm breaker. Vergil rolled to the side and slashed at Dante who raised his blade blocking the strike. Dante jumped backwards and used Stinger moving incredibly fast towards Vergil who countered with rapid slash. Both attacks cancelled each other out and the brothers both leapt backwards.

Vergil gathered energy in his scabbard and shouted:"DIE!" large blue energy beams surrounded Dante and exploded.

Dante flew into the ait surrounded by red fire. He landed on the ground and smirked. "These gauntlets are a life saver." He was wearing gauntlets that locked like they were made out of fire. "They are called inferno."

Vergil grinned and sheathed his Katana. His hands and feet were surrounded by a white light and he revealed his new weapons. "These are called Beowulf." He wore gauntlets and greaves glowing with a white light.

Dante smirked and charged forward, Vergil met him half way and their punches connected and cracked the ground beneath their feet. Vergil did a double kick that Dante rolled away from and tried to uppercut Vergil who back flipped kicking Dante in the head at the same time. Dante crashed into the ruins of a building and Vergil launched another Judgement cut at him. Dante burst forth from the building and rushed at Vergil. Vergil sheathed his Katana and blocked Dante's punch and the brothers were locked in combat again.

Dante was at a slight disadvantage because he could only use his fists. But he suddenly Devil triggered and punched Vergil square in the face sending him flying. Vergil flew across the road bouncing twice before flipping onto his feet. Dante was heading towards him using stinger so he devil triggered and raised his arms blocking the strike. The shockwave broke the ground throwing up dust.

Vergil aimed a kick at Dante's stomach, Dante grabbed Vergil's leg and threw him into another building or ruins of a building at least. Vergil appeared behind Dante and slashed him across his back splashing blood on the ground. Dante snapped around and slashed Vergil across his stomach. Both brothers released their demon forms and jumped away.

Both of them were breathing heavily. "You haven't lost your touch Vergil." Dante said.

"You have gotten better Dante." Vergil replied.

"Tell me Vergil why do you want the power of our father so badly?" Dante asked.

Vergil smirked. "I need more power isn't that good enough?"

"Before I meet Naruto, I would have said screw you and kicked your ass. Now I want you to give me a straight answer before I say screw you and kick your ass."

Vergil raised an eye brow. Then he started to chuckle and Dante joined in and finally both burst out into echoing laughter. "You seemed to be serious brother. Fine if you want to know so badly I will tell you."

Konoha stadium

The crowd was looking at the crater where Lee crashed only to see a smashed log.

"Substitution?" TenTen said in disbelief. "But Lee refused the operation."

Kakashi was thinking the same thing and looked at Gai who had tears streaming down his face. "Lee didn't want the operation, he wanted to prove his Nindo." He turned to Renko and gave her the nice guy pose. "But Renko-sama convinced him to give up his pride in order to get stronger to protect his friends."

Renko blushed a bit. "Please don't call me that I only did what I thought was right." She turned serious and gazed at her older brother who waved to her. "Shinkumaru would not which to fight an 'incomplete' opponent, he is too greedy."

Kakashi looked at her thoughtfully for a moment before turning back to the arena.

Gaara looked across the arena trying to spot Lee; he crossed his arms and stared straight ahead. "Taskete koi." (Hurry up and come)

"As you wish!" Lee shouted and kicked Gaara in the face sending him flying up into the air.

"Now Gaara-kun let me show you my new strength." Lee said and made hand seals. "Katon: Goukakyuu no jutsu!" he breathed out a large fireball straight towards Gaara. Gaara made his sand appear in front of him blocking the fire. The sand was unharmed and flew at Lee who back flipped to dodge. Gaara landed on the ground and made hand seals. "Sabaku no GoRyuu!" (Five Dragons of the desert) Gaara's gourd exploded and five dragons made of sand flew at Lee who jumped over the first and rolled a top the second before jumping onto the third who crashed into the fourth. Lee threw a kunai with an attached explosive note blowing the last sand dragon into...well sand. Lee landed on the ground as sand rained down upon both of them. "Your skills are impressive Gaara-kun." Lee said and smiled.

Gaara didn't respond and raised his demonic right arm. Lee braised himself. Gaara pulled back his arm and looked at Lee before punching. A giant hand of yellow chakra shot out straight towards the spandex ninja who rolled to the side dodging it. Suddenly the sand below him latched onto his legs immobilising him. Gaara repeated the move and sent another hand at Lee who was unable to dodge. It grabbed Lee and pulled him towards Gaara who snapped around and did a throwing motion with his hand sending Lee crashing into the wall. Gaara started doing hand seals again. Lee burst out of the wall and rushed towards Gaara who finished the hand seals. "Sabaku no Umi!" (Ocean of sand) the ground exploded in five places sending sand flying into the air which started to fill up the stadium.

Lee jumped into the air and started somersaulting towards Gaara "Kagyou Konoha Senpuu!" he cried out and Gaara raised his right arm and the attack hit it. Another shockwave sent Lee flying. The sand had now reached waist height and Gaara leapt into the air and landed on a newly formed sand cloud. Lee landed in the sound and had trouble getting up. He tried to apply both water walking and tree walking but neither helped. Gaara raised his arms and looked at Lee. "You should forfeit." He said.

Lee was still struggling but smiled at Gaara "No I'm not beaten yet."

Gaara sighed "Fine then I will force you." He moved his arms and sand formed into a large wave and was heading straight towards Lee. It crashed down upon him sounding like an explosion. Gaara sighed and prepared to clear away the sand, when Lee burst forth from the sand his skin red and chakra covering his body. Gaara didn't have time to react as he was sent flying back and forth by Lee. Suddenly he kicked Gaara high into the air and flashed through and seals "KATON: GOKAKYUU NO JUTSU!!" Lee screamed and launched a giant fireball at Gaara more than twice the size of the previous one. Gaara's eyes widened as he saw it heading straight for him. The fire engulfed Gaara and covered the entire arena ground; the crowd covered their faces shielding themselves from the flames.

Genma was standing on top of the arena wall and gasped as the flames disappeared. He wasn't the only one; the entire arena was covered in glass. In the middle there was a big dome of glass. Lee landed on top of the arena wall and released the gates and feel down panting.

Before anyone could truly comprehend what had happened the glass dome shattered revealing a slightly ash covered Gaara who looked irritated. "Do you have any idea how hard it is to turn back glass into sand? It is going to take me forever with this amount." Gaara said and sent what little sand he had left to break the glass.

Lee grunted and got onto his feet. "I apologize I didn't know the effects would be so amplified." He entered his Gouken stance. "But let us finish this." Lee said and opened the gates again all the way to five.

Gaara raised his right arm. "Fine."

Both of them gathered their chakra in their right arm and Lee charged as Gaara punched their fists collided and an enormous amount of energy was released along with another shockwave. Lee refused to be pushed away and used his chakra to fight against the shockwave. Gaara gritted his teeth and pushed harder trying to knock away Lee. Both of them failed to overpower the other and pushed more and more chakra into their right arm until blood started dripping from their knuckles.

Temari was gripping the railing so tightly her fingers were turning white along with her knuckles. Naruto was sweating slightly. "Damn it they are going to get seriously hurt no matter who wins." He said.

Finally both combatants made the final push of chakra and an explosion of light blinded the entire stadium. Once the light died down the crowd saw that the glass had turned to sand again and was covering the stadium ground. Everyone looked around trying to spot the combatants and finally saw Lee and Gaara imbedded in opposite sides of the arena wall.

Genma made a Kage bunshin and sent it to look at Lee while he went towards Gaara. He started looking Gaara and looked at his Kage bunshin who gave him a hand signal he nodded and turned toward the crowd. "Winner: Sabaku no Gaara!" the crowd erupted into cheers.

Some of Gaara's sand floated up to him and pried him of the wall and gently placed him on the ground. Gaara swayed a little but made a bird seal. The sand started flowing behind him and transformed into a new gourd before starting to fill it up. When the sand was gone Gaara returned to his normal form making his tail disappeared but his ears remained. He held out his hand and a new straw hat appeared made out of sand, he put it on and started making his way toward the exit before collapsing. Temari and Kankurou jumped down immediately and rushed over to their little brother.

"Gaara can you hear me? GAARA!!" Temari shouted. A medic team rushed into the arena, half of them rushed to Gaara and the other half towards Lee. Both boys were carried off towards the medical bay; Gai disappeared to check on his student while Kankurou and Temari followed after their little brother.

Turned around and was about to go after Gaara when Shinkumaru spoke up. "Don't go. Our match is next." He said and Shino and Shikamaru looked confused. "No we both have a match before you and that guy as well." Shikamaru said nodding towards the orange haired Obito.

Shinkumaru smiled "Gaara's siblings won't turn up for the match and Topaz is forfeiting." He said.

Topaz smiled "Yeah I wanna watch Aniki kick ass."

"Woohoo free victory for me!" Obito said and pumped his fist.

Shino narrowed his eyes slightly. "Making your own Ototo giving up just to getting a fight sooner is no fitting action for an older Niisan."

Shinkumaru chuckled and glared at Shino with his glowing red eyes. "What do you know about my family? Shut up or I'll make you."

Naruto jumped onto the railing. "Fine let's go." He said and jumped down into the arena.

Shinkumaru smiled and disappeared in flames and appeared beside Naruto. Both of them walked toward the centre towards Genma who just raised an eye brow. "What are you doing? Your match is not until later." He said sounding slightly irritated.

"The siblings are not coming and Topaz forfeited." Shinkumaru said.

Genma looked up at the other Genin and saw a nod from Shino and Shikamaru and a wave from Obito and Topaz. He sighed. "Well it would save us some time so alright." He said and both boys got in position opposite from each other. "We will begin the battle of Uzumaki Naruto vs." Genma hesitated but got a nod from Shinkumaru. "Uzumaki Naruto vs. Namikaze Uzumaki Shinkumaru."

The crowd was buzzing with excitement.

Sarutobi turned and looked at the Kazekage who seemed indifferent despite his children being pushed aside.

"Both combatants ready?" Genma asked and got two nods. "Begin!" he shouted and jumped backwards.

Shinkumaru took a relaxed stance while Naruto jumped backwards.

Shinkumaru smirked "Tell me Naruto do you have an answer to my question?"

Naruto relaxed and stood up "Yeah...the reason I fight for Konoha despite that the villagers hate me, is because my friend is worth more to me and I would go through hell and back for them."

Shinkumaru suddenly lost all traces of cheerfulness on his face and sighed. "I figured you would say that. You truly must care for them, but you see it is not so simple." He said making Naruto look confused. "If you saw your friends suffering you would put a stop to their suffering no matter what."

Naruto nodded. "Of course."

"It is the same for me." Shinkumaru continued. "Even if my family would hate me for helping them I would still do it. Naruto...you are coming with me to Reigakure."

Naruto's eyes widened. "But I don't want to leave my friends; I won't come even if I would have a better life over there."

Shinkumaru sighed. "I have seen the villagers Naruto; I know how they treat you. I will not let your suffering continue. Even if you hate me, even if you want to kill me, I will bring you to Reigakure." Shinkumaru's body was surrounded by flames. "I will not stand by and watch my last blood relative suffer when I can make it stop."

Naruto gulped.

"But how about we make a bet? If you beat me then I will allow you to chose if you wish to come with me, and I will save the life of that disgusting Uchiha you call a friend."

Naruto's eyes widened "How could you do that and why should you need to?" he asked "Konoha's medics are great they can save him."

Shinkumaru smirked. "Uchiha Sasuke will perish, my flames will see to that."

Naruto narrowed his eyes. "If you touch him..."

"I already did and you didn't seem very upset." Shinkumaru replied.

Naruto flinched.

"Win and I will save him, but should you lose you come with me without a fuss. You can even bring your girlfriend along if she wishes."

Naruto thought it over and no matter how he looked at it he could only see profit. If he lost he would leave Konoha and be free from the hateful glares and Hinata would definitely come with him. If he won then he got to stay with all of his friend and Sasuke would live.

"Do we have a deal?" Shinkumaru asked while the flames still licked his body.

Jiraiya looked at Sarutobi "Are you willing to let him go?"

Sarutobi lowered his head. "I cannot deny him happiness."

Naruto looked into Shinkumaru's eyes. "We have a deal."

Hinata hugged Asa closer to her body. "No matter what Naruto I will stay with you."

Chouji looked at his friend. "Naruto please win, I don't want to lose a friend."

Zabuza looked at Naruto. "Whatever you chose we stand behind you kid." He said and got a nod from Haku.

Shino and Shikamaru thought the same thing as Zabuza. "I just hope you don't regret it later on Naruto." Shikamaru said.

Shinkumaru grinned. "Then it is settled now let's see who wins." The flames increased in size making Naruto raise his arm to shield himself from the heat. "You said you would go through hell and back for your friends, now then prepare to live up to those words. WELCOME TO MY FLAMES OF HELL!!" Shinkumaru screamed and the flames whipped around with increasing ferocity

Naruto drew Rebellion. "Easy with the flames Shinkumaru I wouldn't want you to get burnt."

Shinkumaru held his hands in a ram seal. "Don't worry about me I'm used to the heat, now let's see how much you can take before you submit!"

Naruto smirked. "Bring it on."

Cliff hanger...no jutsu

Short, yes I know but this chapter was just filler. Deal with it.