Birth of the Wizarding Shinobi

by SinbadThe3rd

Naruto was born without chakra in a world where everyone has it. Disowned by his family for being seen as an abomination against nature, he set out into the world to find his own path. Along the way he meets a man who gifts him an item that will set him on the path towards being the great man he always wanted to be in life...

3. Darkness Unleashed

(A/N: I enjoy the reviews I am getting for this story, and it motivates me to keep writing. Well there is that and the fact that the Corona Virus makes it impossible for me to leave my house for anything other than to get groceries since everything else is closed for who knows how long. I'm hearing until June from some people and up to 18 months from others… I am so hoping that is not the case since I am already losing my mind after a month. I repainted my house twice since it needed it, and I didn't like the color of the first coat after I was done so id bought more at Home Depot and painted it again. It's not too hard since my house is only 1 story high, but at least it was something to do. I did all the housework I could think of, made repairs where I could, built a new desk, constructed a kitty playground for Mrs. Snuggles and Hope, who I swear if I didn't have them this would be worse since petting them calms me right the fuck down, rearranged my entire house's furniture… Are you starting to get the picture of just how bored I am here?

Sure I have video games as well as Netflix and Hulu, but those are only fun when you do it in moderation and by choice. If you are not able to do much else, it is not as fun to do it! Sorry for the rant there, but as I said, I am bored, so I write frequently to shake it up a bit. I am writing on a schedule now, with me using the TV for games and shows one day, and then the next day I type until I have a full chapter to post or fall asleep while writing it. So for those who have been asking me to continue and update my stories rejoice since they will come faster than you thought.

Also before I end this note, to the reviewers who pointed out that Naruto smoking in this story seemed out of place for various reasons, the reason he does is because he is essentially the Yami from Black Clover in this universe. Let me paint a quick picture of the man… Yami smokes… a lot. Most scenes you see him smoking unless he is fighting someone or it's important. Then there is the fact that Yami gambles worse than Tsunade does since there was the one time he lost the very clothes off his body and literally walked butt freaking naked back to the Black Bull building. I'm pretty sure Tsunade never did that, but don't fret Naruto is not that bad of a gambler in this story. He does gamble, but his devil's luck will aid him immensely so he does not lose big. So here is the next chapter and I hope you enjoy it!)

Naruto walked with his friend Gaara and his sister towards the village of Konoha. Kankuro had been placed in charge of the village of Suna while Gaara was gone since he was very good at running the place when Gaara was unavailable like right now. They weren't alone since there were about a dozen ANBU that had come along as a protective detail since Gaara was the Kazekage after all. Attempts on his life could still happen even though it was well known he was a Jinchuriki. As they walked, not much was said since many of the things that they would have talked about had already been said in the few days that they had been in the village before they all set out like this.

Naruto had been happy to find a blacksmith who made him a custom made lighter like he wanted with the same Black Bull symbol on it to use when he wanted. It cost him a bit to get it custom made like it was, but that was the point since the materials it was made of were far stronger than the cheap plastic ones you find just about anywhere.

The trip to Konoha had been mainly uneventful since there were no attacks on their group as they made their way there. The only thing of note was that Temari had kept trying to express her feelings for Naruto, but would just get all red in the face and sort of drift away. Naruto was oblivious to all this and thought that she was just having some sort of hot flash or something since she was in a forest when she was so used to being in the desert where her home was located. Gaara mentally called his friend an idiot since he knew about his sister's attraction to the man, along with pretty much everyone else in their party since it was so Kami damned obvious, yet to see Naruto so dense only made this stranger. He thought to himself that maybe he should say something, but he decided against it since it was not his problem, and the others who saw this came to the same conclusion to the matter and left it alone. To them it was actually funny to see the normally strong willed sister of their Kazekage fluster and get nervous around a guy since it was the polar opposite of what she was usually like around people.

Yet all good ties came to an end as they came into view of the village of Konoha. Naruto stopped as he saw the gate, the memories of his past flooding his mind as he saw them. Pure rage flashed through him for a brief second before it simply disappeared as quickly as it had come. Naruto was surprised that his anger left him so quickly, but he was not going to complain since the village was not worth all that anger. Sure they saw him as an abomination since he was not like the rest of them with their chakra, but it was due to their actions towards him that he became what he was today, and he had to admit that he like what he had become better than if he had become what he was expected to be if he had remained as a shinobi.

So with a deep breath followed up by a slight smirk on his face, he walked into the very village that he left so long ago without so much as a glance back to…

He met up with his group once more, who had continued to walk as he stood in place. They didn't question as to why he did but to be honest they didn't want to know since a man was meant to have his own troubles in life that others should not pry into. Gaara told Naruto and Temari to go and do what they wished since it was about noon at the moment. He had to go and announce his arrival to the Hokage as well as sign up Naruto for the tournament so he could participate in it. Naruto simply waved at the tow of them before he set out to get something to eat, all the while Temari looked back between him and Gaara deciding who to follow after. In the end she chose to follow Naruto.

"So you decided to follow me," said Naruto as he sensed her running after him to catch up, "and here I thought that you couldn't stand me with the way you kept walking away from me on the trip here."

"That's…" was all Temari was able to say since she was embarrassed about this whole thing. She mentally cried over the fact that she just could not admit her feelings to Naruto since every time she opened her mouth near him she could only say simple phrases or single words since she became tongue tied around him. It pissed her off that he was so dense to not see this as a sign of her feelings, but that anger was always crushed nearly instantly after it poked its head out. Why did she have to be in love with such an idiot for a man like this one?

"So do you want to join me for lunch," asked Naruto as he pointed at the noodle stand he had always wanted to go to in his youth but had never did so since the owners were just like the others in this village and hated him. Since so far no one had recognized him upon entering the village meant that they probably wouldn't either so now was a good time as any to get some noodles. He wondered how no one recognized him, but then again he was a scrawny ass weakling of a kid when he had left, and now he was a muscular young man, the complete opposite of what he once was in the past so it wasn't so surprising now that he thought about it like this.

"What!" said Temari with a squeak as she basically shouted that in surprise that he asked that. In her mind, it was racing with the possibilities of this being a date, one where she would finally be able to admit her feelings to him, but for reasons that baffled her as well as caused far more embarrassment, she responded with something else. "Fine, but this isn't a date."

"Okay," said Naruto with a raised eyebrow. Where the hell had that come from? "I never said it was. This was just me treating a friend to lunch since I have a bit to spend from a past job. I am a firm believer in karma and believe that good things come to those who help others."

"Oh," said Temari as she mentally beat the shit out of herself for saying that last bit. Why did she say that to him?! Why couldn't she just admit her feelings already?! And why, dear Kami why, could this idiot of a man she was in love with not see this with her body language being such an obvious sign?!

So with that bit of awkwardness out of the way, the two of them made their way to the stand and took a seat. As expected from Naruto, neither the owner nor his daughter recognized him as he was which suited him just fine. But he did notice the flirting that Ayame did towards him for a bit before she just stopped abruptly. What he was not aware of was that Ayame had been scared off by the killer glare that Temari had sent her to tell her to back the fuck off of her man. The glare promised pain like no other if she continued to flirt with him, and Ayame listened since she was not a shinobi and knew not to fight against one since it would be suicide to try. Naruto had not seen all this transpire since he was lost in his own thoughts, but he was happy that Ayame was no longer flirting with him. She had thrown boiling oil at him when he was six and threatened to throw knives at his if he ever returned the last time he was here, so why the hell would he give a woman who hated his guts the time of day?

They were served their food without any further issue, with Naruto leaving the money for it on the counter before they left. He didn't leave a tip though since he didn't really want to tip assholes like them, and it wasn't like he was coming back to this place since Konoha wasn't really a destination he would keep coming back to in the future if he could help it. He had no business here other than to fight in this tournament to help his friend, nothing more nothing less.

As he and Temari walked away from the stand, Naruto got run into by a kunoichi who had been sprinting for some reason. He was built like a solid wall, so he was still on his feet, yet the kunoichi was not so lucky and fell onto her rear.

"What the hell," said the woman as she shook her head for a moment to clear her head. She looked up to see just who the hell she had run into like this and the moment she saw, she sighed in annoyance. "Dear Kami, why do you do this to me?"

"Oh," said Naruto with a chuckle as he saw that it was Shizuka who had run into him like this, "wow. Didn't expect to see you again Shizuka. Thought you were brought back to your village."

"Yes I was," said Shizuka with a growl, "no thanks to you!"

"Sounds more like a 'you' problem," said Naruto with a smirk as he held out his hand towards her, "so will you accept my help to get you back to your feet or are you still too much of a bitch to accept help?"

"Why you…" Shizuka growled in rage at being called a bitch by this asshole yet again.

"So I'm gonna go with a definite yes on the still being a bitch part," said Naruto as he chuckled to himself. But to his surprise she grabbed his hand and pulled herself up using it. Yet before he could say anything else, she slapped him hard across the face. To be honest, he didn't feel it, and the fact that she was holding her hand in pain meant she hurt herself more with her actions than she did to him.

"Ow!" she shouted as she held her hand in pain, "what the hell were you fed!?"

"Meat," said Naruto with a shrug, "and lots of it to bulk up."

"You fucking asshole," Shizuka said, more to herself than to him.

"And just how am I the asshole here?" asked Naruto with a raised eyebrow, "since you ran into me by accident, I offered to help you up, and then you slapped me with enough force to hurt yourself. Where in that sentence that I just said am I the asshole?"

"You just are," growled Shizuka. It was then that she noticed the glaring blonde woman behind Naruto who was leaking so much killing intent. This made her question just how the hell Naruto was not aware of this, and wondered if this woman was his girlfriend or something. But from how dense the man was from the few times she met him, she highly doubted it.

"Shizuka," said Tokiwa as she appeared by Shizuka, "we need to meet with the Hokage to register you into the tournament."

"Oh," said Naruto with a smirk, "so you are going to be part of the tournament as well. Well that's good to know."

"Wait a minute," said Shizuka in confusion, "you are here to enter the tournament?"

"Yes," said Naruto as he pulled out a cigarette and lit it up, "I thought I made that clear a second ago."

"So you are going to challenge shinobi who can use chakra, including the son of Minato himself. I have to ask since I am curious, are you insane!?"

"I might be," said Naruto as he smoked calmly, "but then again aren't we all in a way. You were insane enough to run away from your home and nearly got molested by a guy for doing so. So what if I am picking a fight with shinobi?"

Shizuka would have said more on the matter, but Tokiwa covered her mouth so the young lady couldn't shout out what she wanted to say.

"I wish you luck in the tournament young samurai," said Tokiwa before she began to drag Shizuka off to meet the Hokage. "I feel as though you will need it."

"Thanks for the luck lady," said Naruto as he finished his smoke and put out the butt with his foot. Tokiwa then left him and Temari there by themselves. She did look back once before they disappeared from sight though. She had arrived with Shizuka yesterday night, and as Shizuka slept in the hotel room they had for the night, she had set out to do some information gathering. She found Jiraiya in the village and asked him to join her for a drink. They were old acquaintances so he was willing, mainly due to the fact that he was a pervert and she was a good looking woman.

The man was quite the lightweight when it came to hard alcohol, and once he had a few in him he became loose lipped to her. She did this to see if Naruto was telling the truth about being the student of Jiraiya as he said he was the last time they met. Jiraiya had gotten angry at the mention of Naruto, and went on a rant about how the boy was nothing more than an abomination that was once the stain upon the Uzumaki as well as the Namikaze name. She listened intently as he explained who Naruto was being the boy with no chakra in his body, and the fact that he as well as Tsunade tried to teach the brat in an attempt to strengthen him in some way, but that he failed to grow stronger so they just left him to fend for himself. He then went on to cheer about the brat's demise since the fact that he was kicked out of his home at the age of seven as well as the fact he left the village as well meant he was without a doubt dead.

Once Tokiwa had gotten the information she wanted to gain, she left the man there drunk. He complained about the lack of action he was expecting to get from all this, but Tokiwa could not stand to be near a man who proudly proclaimed to abandoning a child, and even more so a child who needed more help like Naruto. She smirked to herself as she left him there though since this tournament would be far more interesting to her now. The reason she had come here with Shizuka in the first place was their tradition stated that she would have to fight her future husband in battle. She had been told that she would be betrothed to the student of Jiraiya, and while she had felt bad about the fact that she would have been forced to marry Menma since the brat had an ego that was enormous in size, now there was a chance she would be betrothed to another instead. She saw the interactions between the two of them, and while it seemed like Shizuka couldn't stand the man, he at least helped her and wasn't self-centered or narcissistic about it. For all things, he was just an asshole, but nowadays what man wasn't?

Naruto and Temari had went on their own way as they departed, and as they walked to who knows where, Naruto couldn't help overhearing multiple citizens of the village talking about the tournament itself.

"Did you hear that the last Uchiha Sasuke is joining in the tournament along with Menma?"

"Yes I heard about it. With the two of them fighting, our village will win it all quite easily."

Naruto was confused when he heard this, since when he had left at the age of seven, there had been a whole clan's worth of Uchiha. So how was Sasuke the so called 'last Uchiha'? He turned to Temari who explained to him why that was. When it came to proper conversation such as this, she was able to do so without any sort of complications; it was just when it was emotional in some way that she would falter. She explained how Itachi, who he remembered as Sasuke's older brother, had killed off his entire clan, leaving Sasuke alive for reasons that they didn't know since it couldn't be due to the fact that he was family. He had killed his own mother and father without issue so how was he not able to kill his own little brother like he had them? She didn't know, nor did anyone else for that matter, but Naruto didn't really care too much. The Uchiha were all assholes with egos that matched Menma's so they brought their own deaths upon themselves he assumed.

Temari excused herself since she wanted to go somewhere and buy something, which didn't matter to him since she was her own person and could do as she wanted to do. He began to walk around for a bit to see what there was to do to kill time until tomorrow when he saw a little girl with red hair being chased by dogs. The girl couldn't be any more than five at most so he thought to help her out. So he quickly got between the girl and the snarling dogs. She held onto the back of his leg with tears in her eyes as he glared at the dogs. The leader of the pack rushed forward to attack him, but he punted the dumb mutt like a football to the point it went flying into the distance. This caused the others in the pack to back away in fear before they ran off.

"Are you alright little girl," asked Naruto in concern for the wellbeing of the child.

"Yes," said the girl as she wiped the tears from her eyes. "Those mean dogs tried to hurt me."

"It's okay," said Naruto as he kneeled down and handed her a handkerchief to wipe her face, "the bad dogs are gone now."

"Can you take me home now?" she asked him.

"Well I would love to," said Naruto since he had nothing to do right now and this seemed like a good way to kill a bit of time, "but you can't go home all scared and sad like that. I know how about some ice cream to cheer you up a bit."

"Yay!" shouted the girl in joy as she loved ice cream. She took the man by the hand and tried, and I emphasize the word 'tried', to pull him along. It didn't work though since he was massive in comparison to him. But he decided to play along and let her believe that she was dragging him along. She led him to her favorite ice cream stand and pointed to the picture that she wanted. Naruto smirked as he ordered it for her and paid the man for the frozen treat.

"Well do you feel better now?" asked Naruto as he saw he licking her ice cream with much gusto.

"Yes," she said before she hugged his leg in gratitude, "thank you mister."

"It was my pleasure," said Naruto as he ruffled her hair a bit, "now before I take you home, can you tell me your name at least?"

"My name is Naruko," she said with a quick smile before she returned to licking her ice cream.

"Huh," said Naruto with a genuine chuckle, "that's funny. My name is Naruto. So let's get you back home. Your parents are probably worried about you right now."

"No," she said sadly, "they are always too busy. My brother is supposed to watch over me, but he keeps leaving me alone."

"Well," said Naruto. Whoever this older brother of hers was seemed like a real jerk to leave his little sister like this to be chased by dogs of all things. "I hope that things get better in time."

"Okay," Naruko said.

"NARUKO!" shouted a voice in the distance, "WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU!"

'This only further solidifies my image of the brother being a jerk if it took him this long to look for her. Just who the hell is this guy?'

He got the answer to his question not long afterwards, and Dear Kami Naruto knew that there was someone up high fucking with him in all this. There was just no other explanation for this kind of thing happening to him like this…

The man to stand before him was none other than Menma Uzumaki Namikaze…

"There you are Naruko," said Menma angrily. He had been told by his mother to watch after his little sister as she played in the park, but then his girlfriend Hinata showed up and he left Naruko alone to spend some time with her instead. He had lost track of time and when he got back to the park she was not there. He got angry that she had left the park in the first place, and now he was even more so that he had to spend time to search for her. To him, his little sister was nothing more than a nuisance since the moment she was born since she latched onto him and his parents kept telling him to be nice to her. "I told you to wait at the park!"

"Scary dogs chased me," said Naruko in fear. She was scared of her brother when he was angry like this, "but this man saved me and bought me ice cream."

"Well thanks whoever… you… are…" it was at this point that he looked at Naruto fully, and within moments of looking at him he recognized him. "Naruko, come over here now."

"But Menm…" whined Naruko.

"I said now!" shouted Menma in rage that his brat of a little sister was not obeying him. He grabbed her by the arm and pulled her away from Naruto with enough force to the point that she dropped her ice cream.

"Well that's no way to treat your family," said Naruto plainly, "but then again you threw me out of the house when I was seven so it's not much of a surprise."

"How are you still alive!?" demanded Menma. The fact that Naruto was here shocked him. Everyone had expected him to die after he left the village when he was disowned, but to see him here of all places, and far stronger looking than ever was shocking to him.

"I just didn't die," said Naruto with a shrug, "since I wanted to live. No big secret."

"And you thought to come back here of all places?" asked Menma in rage. Just looking at his former brother pissed him off something fierce since the fact that he shared the same genetics with this abomination of a man only infuriated him to no end like this. "Back to the place where you are not wanted?"

"I have my reasons to be here," said Naruto as he began to walk off. Naruko was with her family now so he didn't need to take her home like he thought, and even though Menma was apparently a horrible older brother if his actions were any indication of the matter, he couldn't really do anything here since they were the children of the Hokage, and he was not trying to start anything out of the blue. "And luckily for me I don't have to explain myself to you."

"Hey," seethed Menma as he saw someone who he deemed as lower than him just brush him off like that, "Don't you ignore me freak!" Yet when he saw that Naruto was not listening to him and continued walk away, he made to attack him with a punch to the back of the head. Naruto felt his KI and held up his own hand to grab ahold of Menma's fist with it. While every fiber of his being was telling him to crush it, he was going to be the bigger man here and simply threw it away from him.

"How so shinobi like of you," said Naruto with a grunt, "you wait for me to turn my back before you strike. At least when I attack, you see it coming."

"Like a weak freak such as you can hurt anyone!"

"Funny you say that when I just blocked your blow and shifted it away from me," said Naruto as he tried to walk away from Menma once more. Yet once again he felt Menma's key warning him of an attack, but this time it was multiple strikes. He blocked all of them easily, which only fueled Menma's rage as he did so. As he blocked all Menma's attacks, Naruko grew worried that the man who saved her from the dogs and cheered her up with ice cream would get hurt and tried to get between the two of them. But that was a bad idea since Menma ended up punching her in the face in his fury fueled attack. This did not register to him as he continued to try and attack Naruto, but Naruto heard her crying from being punched in the face hard enough to cause a nosebleed. He grabbed ahold of Menma's fist and began to squeeze it as he glared at the man who hit his own sister like this.

"Are you just that heartless?" asked Naruto in rage, "you hit your own sister and don't even stop to aid her. What type of brother are you!? I may be considered a freak, but at least I never hurt my family!" It was then that he decked Menma square in the face with a punch. The force of it launched Menma to the point he hit a wall, which Naruto used this time to use the handkerchief to wipe the blood off Naruko's face. "Are you okay?"

"Yes," said Naruko as she continued to cry.

"Run home and tell your mother what he did to you," said Naruto. She nodded in agreement and ran off to head home to do just that. "Some family…"

"Do you have any idea as to who you hit?!" said Menma in rage as he got back to his feet, "Do you understand just what I can legally do to you now?"

"How can I not," said Naruto with a huff, "we were born from the same parents. Just because you all forgot me doesn't change the past. But the better question is do you know what I can do to you if you hurt your sister again like that. Because spoiler alert, you won't have a hand to repeat the process by the time I'm done."

"Is that a threat!" demanded Menma as he grits his teeth in rage.

"No," said Naruto as he looked the man in the eyes. What Menma saw was cold murderous intent as their gazes met, "Since just about anyone can make threats. I make promises, and if there is one thing you must know about me is that I keep my promises. Now if you'll excuse me, I have better shit to do than stand here and argue with a man who beats up his little sister."

"Get back here freak!" shouted Menma, but before he could attack yet again for the third time, he heard a voice shout out that sent a shiver up his spine…

"MENMA UZUMAKI NAMIKAZE!" shouted his mother Kushina in a voice that was heard by everyone in the village since it so loud as well as pissed. Menma lost all the color in his face since he knew he was in so much trouble right now. She only ever used his full name when he was in serious trouble. He growled, since he might be in trouble now, but he would get Naruto back for this one way or another…

This he swore…

(The Next Day)

Naruto arrived at the arena to participate in the tournament like the others were. He saw that like the citizens had said, both Menma and Sasuke were there to participate as well as Shizuka. There were several other people who came from Taki as well as the Grass village, but the numbers were low enough so that there would only be three rounds to it. Apparently no one wanted to mess with the son of the infamous Minato, but it mattered not to Naruto since a tournament was a tournament no matter how many people were a part of it. People all filed into the stadium to get a good seat and watch the matches. Minato and his wife were in the main booth with their young daughter sitting on Kushina's lap to watch. Gaara and Temari were in the booth as well to the side of Kushina in the seats reserved for guest Kages.

Minato looked at the participants of this tournament. He had been shocked to hear Naruto was the one to participate for Suna. He had thought like everyone else that Naruto had died long ago, but to see him here surprised him. But if the abomination wanted to make a fool out of himself in front of everyone like this, than who was he to stop it? If anything he honestly could use the laugh since he had to watch as Kushina laid into Menma over the fact he not only left Naruko alone in the park, but he had punched her as well. So after several hours of hearing her yelling at him, he could use the laugh. So he welcomed everyone here to watch the tournament and announced the two first combatants.

The people were now all surprised to see Naruto since not a single one of them recognized him as he was right now. But then again he had been so weak the last time they saw him and didn't think that he would survive on his own when he had left the village. So once the surprise of his survival wore off, they all began to laugh in unison over the fact that he was even in the tournament to begin with. He heard as people were taking bets on how long he would last, ranging from seconds to about a minute at most. While this ticked him off a bit, he didn't let it get to him.

His first opponent was none other than Shizuka herself, and boy was she pissed that she had to fight the man who she saw as nothing more than an asshole.

"You still have the right to forfeit the match," she shouted towards him. But to her annoyance, he simply grinned at her.

"The same could be said to you," Said Naruto with a shrug of his shoulders, "but we both know that is not happening. So stop worrying about things and show me just what you are made of. Prove to me that you are more than just a bitch who refuses help."

His words had their intended affect since Shizuka hated to be called a bitch like that. She glared at him as she unsheathed her blade and used a jutsu to make multiple afterimages of herself to distract him from the real her. He never stopped looking forward as she as well as her images circled around him, hell he never went for his own blade as he did and this only ticked her off more that he didn't see her as a challenge. So when she was sure that he was unaware of the real version of her, she went in for the winning strike.

Everyone watching, at least those who lived in this village, thought that this was the end of the match. But the looks on their faces changed when they saw as she slashed the afterimage of Naruto himself. Shizuka was surprised that this happened since she had not seen him move from his spot. But she wasn't able to do anything else since she was slammed to the ground on her stomach as Naruto fell on top of her. He sat on her back in a cross-legged position and pressed his still sheathed blade to her head. She felt as her chakra began to drain from her body, and it was then that she understood how dangerous of a blade this man had in his possession if it was able to drain an opponent of their chakra like this. Naruto remained there until she was nearly dry of it before he used the tip of the sheath to slam into the back of her head hard enough to knock her out without causing any sort of permanent brain damage.

He got up off of her and slung her unconscious body over his shoulder and brought her to the medic Nin that were there to treat the combatants if needed. The looked at him with wide eyes as he basically passed her off to them and then walked back to where the others were waiting. They looked at him in surprise, but then Sasuke was called out to fight the one shinobi who came from the Grass village. Naruto didn't pay attention to the fight as he sat there and smoked in peace. He wondered if the rest of the fights would be this easy, yet he doubted it. Shizuka had lost to him since she had assumed he had no means to keep track of her, which he easily could since only the real version of a person gave off KI, or in the case of clone jutsu, more Ki than the copies of said person. No one took him seriously, but now they would have to since he showed he was not easily beaten.

He heard as the crowd cheered when Sasuke won, but he still did not care about it, nor did that change as he heard Menma's name getting called to fight the shinobi from Taki. To no one's surprise, Menma won his match easily and so the Semifinals began. Naruto heard as his name was called and walked out onto the field as he enjoyed the last of his cigarette, and he put it out with his foot as he looked up and saw as it was Sasuke himself that he was fighting in this round. The people were cheering him on, which Sasuke was eating up with a show of his hands demanding more praise…

What an ass…

"Are you quite done making an ass of yourself," asked Naruto, who just wanted this match to start without all the showbodding, "because I don't really have all day for this."

"Are you in such a hurry to lose to an Uchiha elite such as me?" asked Sasuke in a haughty voice full of arrogance. Naruto had remembered that Sasuke had been this way when they were young, and apparently it had only gotten worse over the years.

"Uchiha elite?" asked Naruto with a raised eyebrow, "that's not much of a title considering you are basically the last one. It's like getting a first place medal for being the only person to participate in an event."

"You shut your mouth freak!" said Sasuke in anger that his claims of being an elite were being mocked.

"Or else what cry baby," said Naruto with a chuckle, "you gonna go all emo on me? You think you are so strong and bad because you lost your family like you did. Yet I know of many a man and woman who have suffered the same fate who are not only stronger than you, but far less arrogant about it."

"I'm gonna make you regret those words," said Sasuke as he activated his Sharingan that he had unlocked during the mission to Wave with his squad.

"And how do you suppose that?" asked Naruto as he laughed hard at this weak runt of his family talk such big game when he didn't have the power to back up his words, "just gonna stand there and run your mouth or are you gonna man the fuck up and attack me?"

At this point Sasuke charged forward with a kunai in hand as Naruto expected him to. He remembered in the past that Sasuke would grow pissed if people ever mocked his strength or his family, and he had just done both really. So Naruto used that anger to his advantage and easily dodged the kunai slice towards his throat and kneed the arrogant piece of shit in the chest hard… And when I say hard, I mean cracking of the ribs hard… Sasuke coughed out blood before Naruto grabbed ahold of his face and full on slammed it into the ground with enough force to crack it. He then stood straight up and began to roll his arms a bit since they had gotten stiff from him doing that for some reason.

This was too much for the crowd since Naruto beating Sasuke should never have happened like this. They all began to boo at him for a few minutes before they were finally silenced by Minato himself who called out the next two combatants to the field. Menma glared at Naruto as he walked by, and then proceeded to beat his next opponent into a bloody mess the second the match began. Naruto felt sorry for the shinobi who had been on the receiving end of Menma's rage, but he would avenge the fallen challenger personally. But like he was waiting for, his name was finally called to fight in the finals…

"Well would you look at this," said Naruto as he walked over to his starting position, "would you have ever guessed that we would be in the final round like this."

"Never had I thought this would be possible," said Menma through gritted teeth since he was so pissed off at the moment, "but then again you were supposed to be dead already so I never thought about you at all."

"Well good to know I can change your mind like this," said Naruto with a chuckle as he pulled out his lighter. He was going to light up a smoke, but he saw that he had only one left in the pack and thought of smoking it in victory instead of provoking his opponent. He learned that people got really pissed if you lit up a smoke when fighting them due to it seeming like you are not taking them seriously. Menma he knew was strong, but then again he was trained by two of the most infamous shinobi around so it was expected. Plus add on the Kyubi and you have yourself a real challenge ahead of you.

"Well when I'm done with you," said Menma as he cracked his knuckles, "you won't be so much as a thought in anyone's mind."

"Have you looked in the mirror lately," said Naruto with a raised eyebrow, "because I am twice your muscle mass. This is not going to go the way that you think it will. I can see this going one of two ways really."

"Oh yeah freak," said Menma, who himself was laughing at this point, "and how do you see this ending between us?"

"Either you beat me," said Naruto as he held up a single digit, "but the cost will be too much for you in the end so it will feel like a hollow victory. But the second way I see is you beaten, laid out at my feet."

"Oh is that so," said Menma as his hands clenched into fists, "Well allow me to show you a third way this fight will end, with your body being sent to our morgue before we throw it out into nature to allow the animals to deal with it like they should have years ago!"

"Well this should be interesting to witness," said Naruto with a smirk as he pulled out his blade with the sheath still on. "A fight between two prodigies trained by the most infamous of their professions."

"What the hell are you talking about?"

"You were trained to be a shinobi by Minato and Kushina, two of the best," said Naruto. He knew they were the best and so he wouldn't lie and say otherwise, "but I was trained to become a samurai by none other than Mifune himself. Imagine that, the most infamous of samurai took the time to train this so called 'abomination', so let's see whose training was better."

Minato was surprised to hear that Naruto had been trained by Mifune personally. Last time he checked, the elderly samurai didn't teach anyone and vowed never to do so since no one could meet his expectations. To hear that Naruto met them was perplexing since the brat couldn't even make it as a shinobi so how could he make it as a samurai?

The two former brothers heard the start of the match, and in true Namikaze fashion Menma rushed forward faster than people could see with their eyes. Yet when he went to punch Naruto, he noticed that he was smirking, not surprised in the slightest about this happening. Menma felt as Naruto grabbed ahold of his hand and used the momentum behind the punch to throw him towards the wall. Menma landed on the wall with his feet, and used them to push off to go for a kick this time. Naruto dodged this one as well, and then quickly ducked as a shadow clone popped up and tried to stab him. He expertly aimed for the throat with his blade so cause enough damage so that it dispersed.

Menma decided to use range to his advantage since while Naruto might have physical strength, he lacked range since he did not have access to chakra like most other people, so he quickly formed the hand signs to launch a powerful fireball at him. Naruto simply sliced the thing down the center using one hand to swing his sword down.

"What's this," said Naruto with a smirk, "is the prodigal son of one Minato Namikaze afraid to get in close to fight his opponent?"

"SHUT UP!" shouted Menma as he summoned up several dozen shadow clones to surround Naruto with. They all threw kunai in synch with each other so that there was no possible way that Naruto could dodge them. But he did something differently; he charged forward and deflected most of the ones coming from this direction. The ones he did not pierced his skin, but not too deeply nor where they anywhere near anything vital. One of the lessons he had learned was that it was impossible to always block everything, so in times like this you had to minimalize the damage done to yourself. Once in range of attack he swiped his sheathed blade upwards, but as he expected Menma leaned back to dodge it. Naruto smirked as Menma did what he wanted and full on Spartan kicked him in the chest with enough force to slam him into the wall. Menma coughed hard as the wind was knocked out of his system and then fell to the floor onto his hands and knees once the initial force of the blow wore off.

"Still think there is a third way this will end?" asked Naruto as he stood there with his sword slung over his shoulder.

Menma at this point had had enough of this bullshit. None of this was adding up in his mind since Naruto had been so weak without the proper means to get stronger since he lacked chakra. So how the hell did he get so strong!? He would not stand for it, and so he decided to play his trump card here and now to end this farce of a match and fully eradicate an hope of recovering from the beating he was about to dish out to Naruto. He screamed out in rage as he felt the energy of the Kyubi envelop him like a cloak of sorts to empower his body. He then put his hands together to form the Rasengan, the infamous jutsu that their father had made in the Third Shinobi War to use against Iwa along with his Hirishin. The damage done to their forces forced the village to surrender to theirs and end the war, and in Menma's rage fueled mind it was the perfect means to destroy this smirch upon his clan's legacy here and now.

"So you are taking this seriously then," said Naruto with a serious tone, "funny to see you have to do so with the one you called an abomination like the rest of this village did."

"I'm going to put you so far down that it will be impossible to ever rise up again!" shouted Menma, who at this point let his rage control him. The fact that he was using the Kyubi's power only made it worse. Naruto saw as the size of the Rasengan in his hand grew in size, and he smirked since he saw that Menma was really trying to hurt him in a manner that would cripple him beyond the realm of healing from it. He always knew that this day would come, when the two of them would throw down like this, and to be honest he wouldn't have it any other way…

"Then allow me to take this a bit more seriously as well," said Naruto he spun his still sheathed katana. His Grimoure began to glow with a dark purple power as he called forth its power to aid him in this fight. The Dark magic that laid within it seeped out and infused itself into his blade in a fashion that seemed akin to a flaming sword. This show of power utterly stumped those who saw this. It was already crazy enough to see the boy they saw as an abomination beat not only his first shinobi opponent, causing many to lose their bets in the process, Sasuke Uchiha the prodigal clan member, but this was too much for their minds to see. How had this freak acquired power that they felt was akin to the Kyubi's own from what they could sense? None were surprised more than Kushina Uzumaki as well as Minato. Naruko was cheering for the man who not only saved her from mean dogs, but had bought her ice cream to cheer her up and punched her mean older brother. She never knew about Naruto in the past so the hate for him was not there.

Menma only grew far more enraged to see this freak dare to stand toe to toe with him. HIM! He was the prodigal son of Minato Namikaze! He would become the greatest shinobi this world had ever seen as the prophesy had foretold! And he would be damned it this abomination to the very nature of the universe would stand in his way! The Kyubi inside him screamed at him to eliminate this power once and for all since it was one that could rival his own, and the strongest of Biju refused to have something like that in the world to challenge him.

"I may not be a shinobi like you Menma," said Naruto as he held his blade above his head and used his other hand to grab ahold of it as well, "but I found my own way in the world, one of my own choosing. And I will not let people like you tell me how I should live it."

"DIE YOU FREAK!" shouted Menma as he charged forward with the Rasengan at the ready to end Naruto here and now. His body was still covered in the chakra of the Biju sealed within him, and he knew that nothing Naruto could throw at him would pierce through it.

Naruto waited as many a master samurai had before him until the perfect moment to strike. Once it presented itself with Menma being about a yard from him, he swung his blade down. People watched in shock since it seemed like time had stood still as he did so.

"Dark Magic: Dark Cloaked Dimension Slash," said Naruto simply as he spun his blade to rid it of the Dark magical energy before he placed it back into the straps on his back. "Be happy that I held back quite a bit. If I had unsheathed my blade, you wouldn't have lived through this."

Menma's eyes rolled to the back of his head in pain as the energy that was meant to protect him was cut down the middle from the blow. Yet the damage did not stop there since he felt as a straight line of his bones and organs were damaged from the strike as well. He fell to the ground unconscious from the blow, his Rasengan dispelling due to that fact as he did so. The powerful slash hadn't stopped with just Menma though, since the power behind the slash had gone through him and literally cut ground leading to the wall of the stadium itself right between where Minato and his wife were sitting in the booth to the point it shifted apart like in an earthquake. It had even gone on to do the same to several buildings outside of the stadium as well. Minato and Kushina had jumped in fright as they felt the stadium shift like it did from the slash, and Gaara as well as Temari were utterly dumbfounded that Naruto had such power in his possession. They had never been told or shown this, and now Gaara could understand why the Biju within him had told him to befriend Naruto since he could only begin to wonder how much pain Menma was in after taking a blow like that.

"Like I said," said Naruto as pulled out the last cigarette in the pack and lit it up with his lighter, "beaten and unconscious at my feet." He then began to laugh out loud to the point that everyone could hear him…

(A/N: I hoped you liked this chapter, and I will say it now that this fight between the former brothers will be tame in comparison to when they do it next. This was not the prophesized battle, since neither of them is at their true Strength. Naruto at this time has yet to uncover his full power, nor has Menma learned the Sage arts or the full power of the Kyubi like Naruto did in the Anime. So this was basically a means for Naruto to show that he was not the weakling that people all assumed he was most of his life. And now that they see that Naruto is capable of beating someone who is considered a prodigy, his problems have only just started…)