Me Feel ALIVE

I don't Own Naruto

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Oso: Sorry for being so late with my update but October is conditioning month in basketball and my coach is trying to kill me this year.

Kiba: He also had writer's block but he didn't want you guys to know that.

Oso: Silence you.(throw kunai at Kiba) Well I hope you enjoy the this chapter and I promise I'll try to update faster.

Chapter 20: The Finals Scene 2

"Will Temari and Chouji Akimichi make their way down to the arena floor." Genma stated. Temari opened her fan and jumped off the railing of the Competitor's booth. The blond Kunoichi sat on top of the fan and it acted like a glider allowing Temari to float down to the arena.

"Show off." Ino mumbled up in the spectator's section. "Hey Asuma-sensei how do you think Chouji will do?"

"I'm not to sure that girl relies a little to heavily on that fan of hers so if Chouji can separate it from her he might have be able to win." Asuma replied before take a long drag from the cigarette in his mouth.

"Do you think he can do it?" Sakura asked from her spot next to Ino.

"I'm not sure Chouji like Ino and Shikamaru spent this month training with their family. His skills are somewhat of a wild card." Asuma stated taking a another pull of his cancer stick. Before the conversation could continue Genma's voice cut through the crowd.

"LET THE THIRD FIGHT OF THE CHUNIN EXAMS BETWEEN CHOUJI AKIMICHI AND TEMARI START NOW. COMPETITORS YOU MAY BEGIN." Genma shouted before jumping off of the arena floor.

"Hey fatso I'm gonna end this quickly." Temari said stated pulling her fan off her back. Yet before she could open the fan Temari was forced to jumped back or be crushed an enormous fist. The Suna kunoichi looked to see Chouji glaring at her. Temari unconsciously shivered from the look because it's eerie resemblance to Gaara's constant glare. The glare that promised death in the near future.

"I'm not fat." Chouji growled. The plus sized shinobi swung his fist at Temari and in almost an instant the fist was tens times it's normal size. Temari was stunned by the action and couldn't evade the blow entirely.

"Wow I've never seen Chouji like that before." Ino mumbled Sakura.

"What happened to him?" Sakura asked equally puzzled by Chouji's transformed state.

"She called him fat." Everybody turned around to Shikamaru walking over to the with a few bandages wrapped on his body.

"I've called Chouji fat before and I know he gets mad but never like this." Sakura retorted.

"It's because Chouji has enough self control to prevent himself from harming a comrade but this girl he doesn't know from an different village calls him fat plus they're supposed to fight each other. Chouji has no reason to hold back his temper." Shikamaru replied.

"Well you're better than I thought you would be." Temari replied as she evaded another swing from Chouji's enlarged limbs. "But to be honest I hadn't expected much."

Chouji glared at her and swung at her with his enlarged limb. Temari jumped over the enormous right arm almost lazily and yawned for added effected. Chouji then followed up with a left hook and Temari being in the air was forced to block with her fan. Temari gasped as the force of the blow not only caused her arms to go numb but launched her back into the wall behind her. A gasp of pain escaped Temari's mouth as she impacted the wall.

"Seems Chouji really improved over the month's break." Kakashi stated as he appeared next Gai reading a copy of Icha Icha.

"Yeah if your not careful my genin will pass yours by." Asuma replied.

"Don't be so sure." Kakashi said as he gestured back down to the fight with his free hand.

Down on the stadium floor Chouji reached into weapon's pouch only to pause as Temari's body turned into sand and fell to the floor. The heavy set shinobi scanned the area in search of his opponent but despite his efforts he couldn't find Temari.

"Wind Style: Slashing Tornado." Temari's voice shouted from above Chouji. The Husky ninja instantly enlarged his arms to block the attack. Chouji grimaced when the chakra laced tornado cut into his forearms. Chouji grunted and snapped his arms apart dispersing the tornado. Chouji eyes widened when see saw Temari just above him with her large fan held back like a bat.

"Eat this." Temari shouted before swinging her fan at Chouji with all her strength. The husky konoha ninja took the full force of the attack and went crashing head first into the arena wall behind him. The crowd watch with baited breath as Chouji's body hung limply by the head. For a few seconds the entire area was silent. Then just as Genma was about to jump down Chouji yanked his head out of the wall.

"Black out there for a second, tubby." Temari jeered. Chouji growled as he brushed some rubble off his shoulder.

"It's time to end this." Chouji said pulling a long thread of ninja wire out of his weapon's pouch. On the wire were multiple kunai tied to it and evenly spaced apart. Chouji draped the the wire around his body before starting a chain of hand signs.

"Expansion Jutsu." Chouji shouted and his entire body tripled in size. The the wire the had been hanging loosely in his body now was wrapped firmly around his large form. Temari opened her fan fully revealing all three purple moons and waited cautiously. Then in a motion similar to a turtle Chouji brought all his extremities inside his body and taking on the form of a large ball.

"Spike Human Bullet Tank," Chouji's muffled voice came from inside the the ball just before it propelled forward. The kunai not only increased the lethality of the attack increased the speed shooting Chouji at Temari double the speed most chunin could match. Temari gripped her fan with both hands before swing full force at Chouji.

"Wind Scythe Jutsu." Temari shouted as an enormous tornado was expelled from the battle fan. The Tornado crashed into chouji's bullet tank and the two opposing forces were halted. Unfortunately for Chouji Temari's attack didn't fade instead it simply sucked Chouji in. The konoha shinobi still in his ball like form was lifted into almost twenty in the air before he stopped. At that moment large gashes appeared all over his body and cries of pain emitted from the ball. After around ten seconds the cries stopped and the tornado dispersed. Chouji fell to the ground, returning to his normal form, with a dull thud. Genma appeared in front of the boy and inspecting him before calling for the medic crew.

"WINNER TEMARI!" Genma shouted as the crowd erupted into applause.

"Naruto Uzumaki and my son fight next. The battle of the demons is about to commence." The Kazekage replied turning to Hiruzen. The fire shadow in turn looked to the kazekage and leveled him a hard glare.

"Kazekage-dono, while I can't force you to stop calling your son a demon, I can tell you if you ever refer to Naruto in such a way you will find the results of my actions very troublesome." Sarutobi stated.

"Is that a threat." The wind shadow asked with a low growl.

"Of course not child. That is a promise." Hiruzen replied looking back toward the arena to see Naruto and Gaara standing while Genma jumped up to the stands.

For a over a minute the two simply stood at each other glared but slowly blood lust began to fill the arena. The intent started slowly but soon rose to almost unbearable levels. Civilians in the crowd began to crumble at the intense pressure pressure the two boys were emitting while the shinobi populous was put on edge. Just as it became to much to handle for even some of the shinobi the two boys disappeared. Less than an instant later they reappeared in the middle of the arena in a deadlock. Naruto had both his knuckle dusters out and Gaara was holding two kunai made of sand. The trench knife in Naruto's right hand was attempting to edge closer to Gaara's neck while the left hand weapon was holding off Gaara's sand kunai that was dead set on removing Naruto's head from his body.

Mere seconds after the stand still had occurred Naruto's chakra tails and Gaara's sand entered the battle. The demon granted defenses attempted to strike the opponent while defending their own container. As time went by those of keen vision noticed some distinct changes in the boys, namely their eyes. Naruto crystal, ocean blue eyes became a malicious blood red while Gaara's dull green eyes became a sandy yellow. The pupils in Naruto's eyes transformed into vertical slits similar to a cat or fox and Gaara's pupils morphed into a a four pointed star with four black circles surrounding it. The moment the boy's eyes finished changing they disappeared and a large shock wave resounded in the air. The crowd looked in the direction of the noise only to find nothing.

"He's still slower than Lee without his weights off." Tenten murmured to nobody in general but Ino caught the declaration and chose to pry.

"How are you sure? Both of them are..." Another shock wave interrupted her. "too fast to spot." The platinum blond inquired.

"Yeah but the truth is while that Gaara kid is able to match... "A shock wave resounded nearby causing Tenten and some others to flinch. "Naruto and Lee's speed he's not used to high speed fighting so he has to slow down slightly."

"How can you tell?" Sakura asked. An shock wave on the arena floor stopped Tenten from answering but when a quick glanced showed the two jinjuriki were no longer at the source of the sound Tenten answered.

"While I can't see it, it makes sense. The sound of their connections aren't nearly as loud as they were when Naruto and Lee fought. When Gaara fought before he made almost no movement besides raising his hands so fighting with taijutsu isn't his style..." Tenten was about to continue when she was cut off.

"And Naruto-kun isn't trying." Hinata finished. "He's toying with Gaara-san."

"Just how fast is Naruto?" Ino asked.

"Naruto-kun is faster than Lee-san when Lee-san opens his first two gate. When Lee-san has opened up four gates and Naruto-kun has Kyuubi's chakra in his system the two are even and Lee-san is faster than Naruto-kun in the fifth gate until Naruto-kun uses his transparent kyuubi cloak." Hinata explained though even with her activated Byakugan eyes staring at the girls it was obvious she wasn't focusing on them. "Their talking."

Upon Hinata's words Ino, Sakura, and Tenten returned their attention to the arena floor to see Naruto and Gaara were in another stalemate and talking this time. Naruto was attempting to slice Gaara's neck with his trench knives while Gaara was blocking with both kunai. Sand and crimson chakra was flying in every direction as the two boys conversed. That's when an insane laughter filled the arena. The laughter sent chills down many spectator's back.

"Uzumaki have you challenged me like no other shinobi. When I kill you mother will definitely be satisfied." Gaara replied as he calmed down.

"You're still as pathetic as before." Naruto stated. The blond began to exert more force while adding wind and Kyuubi's chakra to his blades. With the added chakra Naruto's trench knives cut through Gaara's sand Kunai like butter before slicing his head off with minimal resistance.

"Sand clone." Naruto murmured right before he ducked under a roundhouse kick from Gaara. The blond ignored the sand spear aimed toward his temple and blocked a back fist from Gaara. The moment Gaara's strike was blocked a tail of chakra destroyed the sand spear. Naruto then attempted an elbow which was blocked before following up by throwing a punch twice as fast. A crack echoed through the arena and Gaara was sent flying.

Gaara got up and to the surprise of many of the spectators spider web cracks appeared all over his right cheek. A sadistic smile found is way to Gaara's as he looked at Naruto. Then without warning Gaara broke out into another insane laughter. If the sudden laughter effected Naruto he didn't show it, for the blond simply watched with apathy. As Gaara laughed the cracks on his cheeks slowly began to heal until no evidence of the attack was present.

"Uzumaki, no other shinobi has ever landed a hit on me yet you not only did that but you also have managed to endanger my life in each of are confrontations. There is no doubt now when I kill you your blood will satisfy mother. In fact mother is screaming for your blood right now." Gaara said. Suddenly the sand in Gaara's gourd shot out and latched onto his right arm. The sand engulfed his arm past his shoulder onto the right side of his face. The arm and portion of his face took up the form of the Shukaku and and a look of insanity manifested Gaara's face.

"Now time for round two." Gaara stated just before he disappeared. Naruto tensed and his chakra tails swayed protectively around his body. The crowded silenced as they waited for Gaara to reappear. They didn't have to wait long when Gaara appeared front of Naruto his sand encased arm inches from Naruto chin. Naruto tilted his leaned back evading the brunt of the uppercut but the glancing blow still managed to send the blond reeling. Naruto's chakra tails attempted to impale Gaara but he was gone before they made contact. Naruto reoriented himself but it was all for nothing because an instant later Gaara buried his fist into Naruto's stomach. Naruto doubled over and hacked out a wad of blood onto Gaara's sand arm and suddenly a spike of sand shot out of the arm and into Naruto chest. Naruto chakra tails faded and the blond slumped over. Gaara grinned until Naruto's body lost shape and fell to the ground in a puddle of blood.

"What?" Gaara asked confused by the sudden action. Before he had time to think on the matter anymore a sandal connected with his chin shooting him into the air. Gaara grunted in pain but before he could try to regain balance in the air a fist drilled him on the sand free side of his face. Gaara went spiralling out of control but seconds later a heel buried itself into his solar plexus. Gaara vision blurred for a moment and when it cleared Gaara landed painfully on the arena floor. Yet before the Suna Jinjuriki could react his head was punted and he went flying into an arena wall. Gaara's body crashed into the wall and continued to move until Gaara found himself buried three feet deep in concrete. Just as the red head began to recover a fist connected with his chest burying him deeper into the wall. Gaara looked to see Naruto on the arena floor standing with his armed crossed. The blond looked up to Gaara with a bored expression on his face.

"Blood clone came up with it over the month break." Naruto didn't divulge in anymore info about the technique instead he glanced at his trench knives and began channeling wind and Kyuubi's chakra into them. Red tinted blades of wind extended out of the knuckle duster about three feet and Naruto looked back at Gaara and was about to step forward when suddenly a sharp crack sounded through the arena. Looking back at his trench knives Naruto growled when he saw the weapons were covered in cracks. An instant later the knuckle dusters shattered like glass and fell to the ground.

"Foolish boy did you really think those toys would be able to harness my chakra. Honestly I'm surprised they lasted that long." Kyuubi's voice echoed in Naruto's head.

"What do you mean it was your idea to have me channel your chakra into those blades." Naruto retorted.

"I thought they would shatter the moment you did it but apparently the owner of that weapons shop is an expert at his craft." Kyuubi replied.

"Great I was just about to end this fight, plus I need knew blades." Naruto growled in his head.

"I wouldn't waste your time. As you age the potency of my chakra increases cause your body can handle it. Those trench knives would simply shatter again and quicker too. The only weapons strong enough..." Kyuubi started only to be cut off as Gaara pulled himself out of the wall. Naruto watched impassively as more sand covered Gaara's body. When the sand stopped the only part of Gaara's body not covered was his legs and a large sand tail had been formed by Gaara's gourd.

"The kyuubi brat has rushed things along but I guess now is a good time to start." The fifth kazekage thought before giving a quick nod to one of his guards. Down in the arena one of the ANBU suddenly formed a hand sign before white feathers began to fall all throughout the stadium.

"What the," Kakashi murmured as he saw the feathers falling. When Kakashi was hit with a sudden sense of drowsiness he instantly brought his hand together. "GENJUTSU! EVERYBODY RELEASE IT WE'RE UNDER ATTACK!"