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The Uzumaki Prodigy
Chapter Twenty-Five: The Semis conclude: Blood and Chakra
A/N: Here we go with the last two matches of the semis next week the finals are here but don't be in a hurry for this week we've got two matches we've imagined since childhood Naruto Vs Gaara, and Neji vs Sasuke! Enjoy!
Was gonna wait a week to post this but nah enjoy!
Naruto stared at the red-haired boy across from him remembering their talk the week earlier.
"Do you still need me to recognize your existence."
The boy nodded.
"Naruto Uzumaki only you are worthy only your blood can please mother."
Naruto smirked.
"Well tell your mother she can't have it I sorta need it."
Gaara growled in irritation.
Ciel signaled for the match to start and Naruto flipped back as waves of sand shot at his feet.
'Sand!'
Gaara stared at him shaking with blood lust as he licked his lips.
"Yes feed mother Naruto Uzumaki!"
Naruto drew a kunai channeling wind chakra into it he cut through jumping and weaving as the tendrils shot from varying directions.
He could barely keep up and was forced to draw a second kunai.
'Even with my shunpo, his sand is still too fast!'
Naruto did his best flipping and cutting through the sand but it began to overwhelm him and he was encased in it.
Gaara raised his hand shaking with anticipation.
As he prepared to say the words a shockwave blasted away the sand.
'A paper bomb?'
Naruto was nowhere to be seen in his place a straw dummy in his image.
"You can't hide from me Uzumaki!'
Sand shot out of the gourd on his back flooding the arena with sand.
"Where are you Uzumaki show yourself weakling!"
The ground exploded in a ball of fire.
Gaara's head swiveled to face the source of the sound.
He turned back just in time to see Naruto flying towards him with a fist aimed for his face.
Much to Naruto's annoyance, his sand responded instantly blocking the strike.
"Damn it!"
Naruto channeled chakra into his heels launching himself and flipping up to the rails on the other side of the arena.
The sand began to snake towards him but he had a few moments to think.
'Sorry, dad but I'm going to use that power.'
He closed his eyes and focused on the feeling of the second chakra inside of him.
'Hey, Fuzzbutt wake up and give me your chakra!'
He felt the warmth flow through him his eyes glowing crimson.
'That's more like it!'
He channeled more wind into his limbs intermixing it with the bijuu chakra.
In a streak of red and green, he suddenly appeared in front of the shocked Gaara with a fist aimed for his face.
The sand jumped to block him but he was no longer there now he was behind him with a kick aimed for his head.
As the sand rose to defend him he vanished again this time above Gaara with a lightning fast chop the sand couldn't react in time as Gaara was caught in the neck spitting and being sent to the ground.
He skidded for a few feet his cheek being scraped on a rock.
"How'd that taste sand geek."
Naruto smirked cockily doing a quick come at me pose.
Gaara climbed to his feet his eyes wide in shock.
'What is this sensation it's it's warm.'
He felt his face and stared at his fingers the red liquid dripping from between them.
"It's blood! my own blood!"
He began to scream sand encasing him as Temari and Kankuro looked on in horror.
Naruto got a sudden o shit feeling as he felt chakra permeate the air.
Kankuro grabbed his temple.
"He's done it now."
Temari covered her mouth.
"We're doomed."
Naruto wasn't sure what he was up to but it couldn't be good.
Forming a handsign he pulled a flask of water and swallowed it all in a single gulp filling his lungs with water he shot it out in a jet hosing down the orb of sand and turning it to heavy mud.
He followed it up with a gust of wind knocking away the clumps of mud but more sand simply raised intercepting the wind and forming a larger orb.
"Damn it how much sand does he have!"
Naruto scratched his chin thoughtfully.
"Fine let's try this, Fire Style: Fox Flame Bomb!"
He spit out a stream of fire which took on the shape of a running fox crashing into the sand it exploded in a tornado of flame.
Melting the sand and turning it into glass.
Naruto charged forward flipping high into the air to avoid the sand which tried to intercept him.
He channeled Kyuubi chakra into his heel and came down with an axe kick which shattered the orb and caught Gaara in the head planting him.
Naruto was horrified when the boy got up grabbing his leg and squeezed it with an iron vice grip he saw half his body encased in sand his eye a demonic yellow.
"Dieee Uzumaaki!"
The boy was rabid drooling his eyes mad with bloodlust.
Naruto barely freed himself with a wind infused slash from his kunai but his leg had been crushed by the boy's demonic grip.
'He's like me!'
Naruto suddenly felt worried.
'This isn't just a match now this needs to be stopped.'
He flipped away landing shakily on his bleeding mangled leg.
He looked to the kage stand but his father shook his head.
'Damn it's up to me then!'
Naruto growled pooling as much chakra as he could tapping into his reserves and the Kyuubi's the air popped from the pressure the shinobi in the audience perking up.
The clouds darkened and began to swirl in a single point above Gaara but he was so far gone he didn't even notice.
Naruto tossed a kunai at him and Gaara raised his sand encased Racoon-like hand to catch it only for it to explode knocking the sand off his right side.
It began to reform and Naruto took the time to toss some shuriken at him the curved around him wrapping him in metal cable.
Naruto charged forward quickly tying the cable to a tri-prong kunai he tossed it towards the sky and made a handsign.
"Lightning Style: Hikari Sky Fire!"
The Kunai was struck on all three points by a series of orange lightning strikes which vivified the cable electrocuting Gaara and turning his sand to glass.
"AAAGH!"
Gaara began to shake as the lightning racked his bones blood spewing from his mouth.
Naruto cut the cable with a wind blade and kicked him in the chest with a dragon kick sending him flying back smoking as the glassed sand shattered off of him.
Gaara fell unconscious and badly burnt on his hands and neck.
'The winner is Naruto Uzumaki!'
The crowd cheered all jumping to their feet at the spectacle of the final jutsu.
In the Kage box, the Raikage looked on in wonder.
"That last jutsu was S rank at least how did a leaf ninja make lightning that strong!"
He turned to Minato who smirked.
"Well Lord Ay he is my son."
Ay scoffed.
"Of course the family of show-offs."
Ciel raised Naruto's hand in victory.
'Good job Naruto a moment later and I would've had to step in and seal him.'
Naruto sighed in relief a draw at this stage would've been horribly anticlimactic.
'Now run along the next match is about to start.'
Naruto smirked.
'Sasuke.'
He locked eyes with the Uchiha who was still in awe at his rivals jutsu.
Ciel raised a scroll.
'And now the last match of the semifinals Sasuke Uchiha Vs Neji Hyuga!'
The crowd roared with anticipation Genius vs Genius.
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Hiruji sat in the small cell across from him Kujin was leaning against the wall nursing his shattered jaw.
They heard the guards talking from beyond the corner.
"We still haven't found the sensei The Uchiha was taken into clan custody though."
The other guard a younger man nodded.
"What about the Yamanaka?"
The older man chuckled.
"It seems his clan disowned him."
The younger man chuckled.
"Sucks for him no more lavish living."
The old man laughed in agreement.
"Let's go we're doing a border sweep to find the sensei."
The guards shuffled off and everything was deathly silent.
Then the boys heard footsteps metal clanking on the floor.
"If you're here to feed us don't bother Kujin can't eat and I'm not -"
"Hungry?"
The boys looked up and saw a man in a long black fur coat with metal plate sandals twirling a fang necklace between his right thumb and index finger.
He gave them a smirk.
"Who are you?"
He chuckled.
"You know who I am child of Sanctus or should I say Akashi Hiruji."
Hiruji paled.
"Where did you hear that name?"
The man raised his finger.
"Tsk tsk Introductions first child, I am Soleil The Messenger, First of the Homunculus, Demon of Earth and Mud."
As he said that his purple hair turned to straw his arm transforming to a crude stone maw.
"Let's get more acquainted."
He walked up to the bars slipping through them as if they were made of water.
He grabbed Kujin by the throat holding him up against the prison wall.
Akashi tried to grab his wrist but it turned into a serpentine mouth biting his hand and filling him with some sort of venom.
He felt himself weaken as his muscles froze and he fell back.
"Now watch as I devour your friend."
Kujin tried to scream but his jaw was engulfed by the piranha-like mouth growing from the man's hand.
He was torn to pieces from his head down by the fanged maw and swallowed by a razor-lined void like a mouth where the man's chest split open.
"Mmm Yamanaka spiritual chakra always exquisite."
He licked his lips with a long forked green tongue.
Turning to face the remaining boy.
"You asked how I know you child, it was I who killed your grandfather the previous high priest of Sanctus Hiruji Namikawa."
Akashi was frozen not by the venom which had worn off quickly but by the terror of this new demon before him.
"I'll let you live this day but it is not mercy tell the other's we are here,"
"-The second generation of demons not born of Kaguya in the fire of Gehenna,"
"-but man-made demons born on the earth of Mundus, we the Homunculus."
With that said he sunk into the floor just as the guards returned to see the boy petrified in a cell painted with blood.
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Sasuke and Neji made their way to the arena both smirking with cool confidence.
They faced each other and bowed as Ciel raised the scroll beginning the match.
The action was immediate as Neji rushed forward with a three strike combo aiming for Sasuke's left shoulder chakra points.
Sasuke swept at Neji's leg and leaned back avoiding the strikes.
Sasuke put a palm to the ground lifting himself he kicked up at Neji's chin forcing him to hop back.
Sasuke made rapid signs shooting a series of fire orbs from his mouth.
"Fire Style: Phoenix Flower Jutsu!"
Neji spun and was encased in a swirl of chakra which knocked away the flames.
From a television, in the leaf, the Hyuga clan heads watched in wonder.
"Hizashi when did Neji learn to do that?!"
The man turned to his brother mouth agape.
His eyes lit up with pride.
"I haven't the faintest clue, Neji, what power have you hidden?"
Neji smirked from behind his chakra shield.
Not even a dragon flame could break through.
It was the ultimate defense.
Neji used the momentum of the spin to dive at Sasuke and catch him by surprise with a strike aimed for his lower leg.
It worked and Sasuke tumbled over as his leg's chakra points were struck.
Neji went to follow it up with a chakra palm aimed at Sasuke's solar plexus but he knocked it away with a closed fist smack and used the momentum of his fall to move his leg and sweep the Hyuga.
Neji and Sasuke both fell back knocking dust up to the air.
They both climbed to their feet though Sasuke was hobbled.
Sasuke knew he was at a disadvantage in close quarters so he needed to push him back.
Making handsigns with a rapidity he had yet to achieve he opened his mouth and fired a constant swirling stream of fire at the boy.
"Fire Style: Fire Valley!"
Neji went to rotate but noticed a wire on his legs that would've tangled him had he done so.
He cut the wire with a kunai and hopped away barely avoiding the flame which brushed his shoulder.
Not giving him time to breathe Sasuke made more rapid seals and tossed a line of lightning.
"Lightning style: Nervous Wrecker!"
It grew in length and width and struck the ground at Neji's feet throwing off his footing then zigzagged into his chest electrocuting him.
He fell to the ground steaming slightly his muscle control thrown off as his nervous system had been shot.
Sasuke took the opportunity pulling a syringe from his pouch he stabbed himself in the leg.
The adrenalin made it so he could move again and he channeled fire chakra into his fists.
Each of them encased in flames with jets of fire like wings shooting off of them.
"Sorry, Neji but this is the end Tsuin Hokuken!"
Neji reacted in time spinning.
"Kaiten!"
He managed to block the first fist the impact making a loud pop sound but the second one was much faster and more powerful.
The impact managed to halt his rotation reversing it and sending him spinning into a wall engulfed in flames.
Sasuke made a handsign and the flames vanished but Neji was unconscious.
Ciel nodded.
'The winner is Sasuke Uchiha!'
He held the boy's arm up.
'Thus concludes the Semifinals the finals will commence two days from now at noon!'
Sasuke made his way to the stands as Ciel vanished.
Naruto was waiting there to greet him.
They bumped fists and hugged.
"Great match teme!"
Sasuke chuckled.
"Dobe."
"You wanna grab a bite our teams together?"
Sasuke smiled slightly.
"Sure, why not."
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A/N: next time on TUP in the leadoff to the finals we see some inter-team sparring, and in the background dark demon fuckery see you there!