AN: An attempt at a Naruto fanfiction. All creative criticism and thoughts are welcome.

Also, I don't own Naruto

'Character thinking'

"Character speaking out loud"

'Biju/Summon thinking'

"Biju/Summon Talking"


Chapter Thirteen: Battle for Konoha


[Third Person View]

[Naruto]

Naruto looked up at the sky

"What's wrong Naruto-kun?" he heard Haku say from behind

"I don't know" he said as he put on his mask

"Hope you do well" he said Haku say, he turned around and saw her smile

"Well to be honest, it's not like you can lose" she said with a small giggle

"Yes yes Master is strong, there is no one who can beat him, especially while wielding me" he heard Eien say

"Moooouuu, that's what I was going to say. Stop stealing my lines you dumb sword" said Miyako angerly

"Ho? A stupid fox like you is calling me dumb?" retorted Eien

"Enough both of you" said Naruto sternly, releasing his chakra cracking the floor a bit.

Even though he was amused he decided to not let it show. It would get annoying if these 2 always backed

""Hai, Master""

Haku simply giggled at their antics

Naruto looked beside him and Satsuki was sitting arm on her knee, she had her mask on and similar to Naruto on her body was a cloak like the one Ameko had, but instead of an Uzumaki crest it was and Uchiha crest it covered the majority of her body and sleeves that extended past her arms, one would imagine that this would be distracting and get in the way but they found that it actually helps with hiding kunai and any other weapons. On her back a sword was strapped.

"You know our plan, right?" he heard her say

Naruto turned to her then rolled his eyes slightly "What if you get disqualified for being late"

"Don't worry about it, remember what I said?" she said shooting him a smug smile

Naruto sighed Well if you say so, if you get disqualified don't come crying to me"

"Even if I got disqualified, doesn't bring me any further from my goal"

"That's true.."

"Satsuki, you're going against Gaara, my sister's holder, you should be careful, she tends to drive her holders insane" said Kurumi as she looked at Satsuki

She nodded "Well not a chance in hell I could lose with Naruto and Kakashi-sensei's training"

Naruto closed his eyes and put on his mask "Okay, let's go" he said as Miyako jumped into his shadow, something she recently learned how to do, and Kurumi was sucked into his stomach and Naruto disappeared in a flash


[Jiraya]

Jiraya was standing on top of the stage looking down

"That damned gaki isn't here yet" he said as he saw down, his legs dangling off the building

He hadn't seen Naruto in 2 weeks, no one has. He went to ask Kakashi but he was also clueless, when Kakashi left Sasuke to train with Naruto they both disappeared. When he went to ask Haku she said they were training and not to worry, nothing had happened. He still couldn't help but worry, with the news of the Akatsuki, Jiraya had no other choice.

"Damned gaki, I still need to warn him about the Akatsuki, I doubt they'll want the Biju for anything good" he said as he looked at where the Hokage was stationed. He attention was turned to the Kazekage, and narrowed his eyes.

Something was off.


[Third Person View]

"Where the hell are they?" Ino's voice was heard complaining

All the contestants were standing in a line waiting, all but 3.

"They have Kakashi as their sensei, and he's infamous for being late, it must have rubbed off on them" said Shino crossing his arms

At the Jounin stands everyone glared at Kakashi, he sheepishly laughed and scratched his head

"Good lord Kakashi, why did they have to inherit your tardiness" scolded Kurenai

She in all honestly wanted to see Naruto fight, he also wanted to see him, to thank him for removing Anko's seal of course, nothing else...

Anko told her that when she woke up, she had a girl tending to her and when she tried to ask about Naruto's whereabouts, she would simply say he was training, and ever since she hasn't seen him.

'Wonder what could have happened' she thought slightly worried

While training Hinata, she would tell her a lot of great things about Naruto, and she started becoming curious about him, he was such a huge mystery to those who didn't know him

'It would be nice if I also managed to get close to him' she thought to herself, her face flushed and then blinked in realization of what she said

'What am I say, god, take control Kurenai, he's just a child'

Asuma noticed this and decided to tease her "You seem to something, or rather someone on your mind Kurenai" he said out loud bringing attention to her

She blushed in embarrassment and punched him in the gut "Shut up Asuma, you pervert" and flipped her head, turning her attention to the arena.


The contestants were also getting impatient

"Hoh? It seems the blonde cutie is too scared to fight me, he must have gotten cold feet" she said with a teasing grin

"Hm? Who has cold feet" she heard a voice behind her

Her eyes widened 'I didn't sense him whatsoever'

She instinctively grabbed a Kunai and tried to swing at him, only to see she swung at nothing

"Woah there, fiesty, you should wait until our match" he said now in front of her

She turned to see him, he had a mask and cloak on, on his back and waist were two swords, they weren't visible and were covered in medical tape, scabbard and all.

'Those swords' she didn't know what it was about them but there one thing she was sure of, they were defiantly not normal swords

She grinned at him "Sorry, I got a bit impatient, I've been itching to fight you ever since my sister fought you" she said with a sadistic grin expelling a bit of bloodlust.

"Feeling is mutual" he said calmly, though his expression was unknown as it was hidden as he expelled his own bloodlust

"Woah, Naruto is that you" he heard Ino say as she walked towards him

"Yo, Ino" he said as he turned at her and waved, then took off his mask

"Hey Naruto"

He looked at Shikamaru who was standing there with his hands in his pocket, he took one out to give a small wave

"Yo Shika"

Then turned to Shino to greet the quiet boy "Shino" he nodded at him

"Naruto" he nodded back

"You're late, how troublesome" said Shikamaru eyeing Naruto up, soaking up his new appearance

"Changed your look once again huh?"

"Not necessarily, I'm still wearing the same underneath this cloak" he said zipping it down showing he still wore the same clothes as before

"But I just cover it with this cloak"

"Wow, you look nice" chimed in Ino eyeing him up and down

"Thanks Ino" he replied with a slight smile

'God, why does he look so hot' she said to herself in internal crisis

She noticed something was missing though

"Hey, why is your fox not with you?" she asked curiously, she liked that fox

As if on cue a fox hopped out of his shadow

"Master, master, it's her, it's the one I like" he heard Miyako exclaim happily

She ran up to Ino and jumped into her arms expecting head rubs, which she received.

"When did you learn to do that?" asked Ino, looking at Naruto.

That's the first time she's seen them do that

"It's actually something she learnt, she learns her own abilities"

"Oh? So she just learns it herself? I thought it worked like the Inuzuka"

"No, she's a summon and she learns her race's abilities, each individual one has their own unique ability though, Miyako hasn't discovered hers though, so she still hasn't reached full strength"

Ino looked in amazement "Wow"

She inwardly squealed 'This is the first time Naruto has been to open to me'

"I also still don't have my super sexy human form, and my unique skill" she said slightly disheartened. Even though she enjoyed this form she wanted to do still like hug Naruto and stuff

"Don't worry Miyako, you will eventually. Trust me, you'll be the sexiest strongest fox of them all. Even stronger than Hikari-sama" he reassured

Her eyes lit up and gained stars in them "Wow! Even stronger than Hikari-sama? Master do you really think so?"

"Yes, of course I do, you're my personal summon after all" he told her much to get excitement

Shikamaru rolled his eyes "Troublesome blondes" he muttered, but a small smile broke though


The Hokage was silently sitting next to the Kazekage looking down at the contestants.

"Is the Uchiha not yet here?" he heard the Kazekage say

"Your son, Kankuro also doesn't appear to be here as well" replied the Hokage

"He... unfortunately suffered from an unfavorable injury while training, I warned him not to push himself but he didn't listen, and now he's reaping the consequences. He will unfortunately not be able to fight"

"Hokage-sama, we will have to continue with the exams, if Sasuke doesn't show up we will have to be forced to disqualify him" said an Chunin that showed up next to him

"We'll start the exam and while they run hopefully he will show up." he replied

"It would be truly be a shame if the Uchiha didn't show up. I wanted this to be an opportunity to show off the strength of my son, Gaara"

"Yes that's true, this is also the chance to show off what the Leaf can do. However Sasuke isn't the only promising shinobi, we have Naruto here who has shown tremendous ability"

The Kazekage reacted to his name

'Hm'?'

"Ah yes, the blonde boy, he certainly is something to watch out for as well" said the Kazekage regaining his composure


They both said nothing and simply looked down at the stage as the proctor made his way there

The Konoha rookies were talking amongst themselves until saw someone show up, it wasn't the same proctor from last time

"Where is Hayate?" asked Naruto surprising some people that he even knew his name

Naruto remembered him, he and his fiancé would train him in some basic Kenjutsu when he was trying to learn.

He cleared his throat "He wasn't able to make it" he said

Naruto raised an eyebrow but decided to not ask anymore.

"Well anyway, since Kankuro has withdrawn from the fight the win goes to Ino Yamanaka by default. We will proceed with the second fight, Shino Aburame vs Dosu Kinuta, everyone else, leave the arena"

"Huh?! Wait what? Just like that?!" protested Ino, she actually wanted to fight. She had been training hard in order to show off to Naruto. After a minute of back and forth she reluctantly walked out of the stage

Before leaving she turned back "Good luck Shino" she said as she smiled back at him

"You better not lose Shino" said Naruto and disappeared in a blur and showed up where the Suna siblings were and noticed that Kankuro was in crutches

Naruto raised an eyebrow "What happened to you? Did you break a leg trying to get into your kitty jumpsuit?" he said with mirth present in his voice

Temari had to hold back a giggle, and Kankuro glared at him

"It's not a kitty jumpsuit you idiot!"

"Is that so? Explain those two ears on top of your head, those definitely look cat-like" asked Naruto

Their conversation was cut by Garra who gripped his head in pain "Uzumaki Naruto"

"Hm?" Naruto looked at him

"Mother, mother wants your blood" he said as he kept gripping his head

Shukaku was currently running amok inside Gaara's mind, she wanted Kurumi and her host dead, and she wanted it now.

The other two siblings looked at Naruto slightly worried, worried at what Gaara might do to him.

"Hey Gaara" he said gaining his attention

Naruto walked up to him and raised his finger, as if in slow motion his finger neared Gaara's face, his sand attempting to rise but it simply warped around his hand, not a single grain touching his flesh, shocking the other 2 siblings

His finger poked Gaara's mark "Love huh? I like your mark, it looks nice" he said and turned to the match that was about to commence

Gaara stood there, confused, his eyes were widened 'That was the first time anyone has ever-"

'What?! How did he get though Gaara's defense like that" panicked Temari

Kankuro simply narrowed his eyes as a bead of sweat ran down his forehead. He would have to be careful around this blonde kid.

However not a word was said by anyone


"Shino Aburame vs Dosu Kinuta, Hajime" the proctor disappeared

Dosu smiled 'I can prove my worth to Orochimaru here'

"Konoha brat, your little adventure ends here" he said

"Same can be said here" replied Shino calmly as small insects began to secrete out his collar and sleeves

Dosu smirked and prepared his gauntlet "I know what your little bugs do" he said as he blasted a pulse of sound to get rid of the bugs

He successfully blasted a majority away but a few managed to get through, so in response, he jumped away

'This is such a bad fight for me, I can't get close enough to attack him because his bugs will just get on me and there's no telling what he can do with that. My furthest ranged ability is not as far away as I need it to be, well against an opponent like this atleast'' he clicked his tongue

'Tsk, annoying Konoha brat'

He was forced to jump away and stay on the defensive as Shino's bugs made their way towards him

He found a slight opening

'Perfect'

He ran towards him in a burst of speed and punched the air. A second delay happened before his body was knocked back. Dosu smiled, but the smile was short lived when he realized the body had turned into a swarm of bugs.

Dosu jumped back and swung to get rid of the bugs

He looked around for Shino

'Where is he?' he asked himself

He felt something crawling on his hand, he lifted it to see a bug there, his eyes widened

'What?!'

"How?!" he exclaimed

A swarm of bugs grouped and Shino materialised quite a distance away from him

"While you were busy focusing on not getting near the hoard of bugs, I individually sent a single female bug to secretly get on you. You know, the females tend to give off a slight smell, nothing we can notice, but to the males... well it drives them crazy." said Shino as he put both his arms and a massive swarms came pouring out

'Shit' cursed Dosu as he jumped away and tried to blast them away with his sound waves. Only for them to keep on insisting. They eventually ended up surrounding him, bugs were on every part of his body, he even felt some getting inside his mouth, which only made him gag

"What? What are you doing?!" he yelled as he dropped on his knees

"What did you do?!" he insisted as he felt his energy leave him

"This is a custom breed of bug that was made by the Aburame clan. They suck your chakra out and feed it to me" he said calmly

"Now yield, or my bugs will suck every bit of chakra out of you. You'll die" he said

'Shit shit shit shit' he said to himself

'...Orochimaru...'

He grit his teeth '...I've once again failed you. To have lost this fast'

"I... I yield" he said through grit teeth

"Winner, Shino Aburame" the proctor said through a loudspeaker as the crowd erupted with cheers

Hinata who had recently arrived smiled, even though he wasn't necessarily close to her she was glad a Konoha shinobi won. She turned to look at Naruto who was standing near a girl and 2 other people.

'Naruto-sama' she said in relief, it's been far too long since she's seen him.

Naruto felt a stare at him and he turned towards Hinata and smiled at her

'I haven't talked to any of them, because I've been training Satsuki' He inwardly said to himself

"Don't forget you've been also trying to control my chakra" he heard Kurumi say

Just because he released her doesn't mean he can necessarily control her chakra to the fullest extent, he could currently only control 3 tails worth of chakra without feeling himself lose control.

'Your body is still too young to withhold the full extent of my chakra. This is just half of it though, the rest is stuck inside the Shinigami's stomach with your father."

"Yeah I know"

"Naruto, do you have any idea what both your little stunts are going to do? It's going to throw the village in a hurricane" he heard Kurumi say taking notice of what Naruto has been thinking of

"That's the whole point, you know, if I want to make a name for myself I have to be a little flashy, and well Satsuki is tired of hiding herself I guess" said Naruto with a slight shrug thinking back to the time Satsuki told him of her plan


Flashbacko

Satsuki was taking a small break from their training

"Hey, Naruto"

"Hm?" he said looking over to her

"So, I have an idea, I've been thinking about what you said about keeping my identity a secret" she said

"So what of it?" said Naruto curious as to where she was going with this

"In the Chunin Exams I'm going to reveal myself to the world"

He raised an eyebrow then smirked as a small chuckle left his mouth "See this is why I love you, I had thought of doing the same thing, at the Chunin Exams I'm going to use the Hirashin and the Rasengan, and if possible the Uzumaki chains. Ya' know just to show off a little bit"

She flushed at his endearing words for a second.

They had gotten a lot closer during their training session, she felt safer being with him, being with him in her true form, she felt like she could take on the entire world with him by her side.

She smiled at him "Both going to be pretty shocking reveals" she said with a glint in her eye

"I'm going to need your help though"

"How so?" he asked

"I plan on being late"

"What? Late? Won't that disqualify you?" he asked

She shot him a smug look for a second "I'm the last Uchiha, they won't disqualify me. Everyone is there to see me"

He looked at her "I don't like how smug you are" he deadpanned

She flicked her hair "Hmm, well it's something you're going to have to learn to deal with"

He waved it off "Yeah yeah, whatever you say Uchiha-sama"

He grinned darkly "Now... back to training"...


Back at the arena stands everyone started getting vocal about their inpatience, asking when the Uchiha was going to fight or when the next fight was going to happen.

"We will continue with the next fight, Sora Komachi and Naruto Uzumaki, please come down" the said the proctor though the loudspeaker

Certain people perked up and hearing Naruto was going to fight. While the civilians and the council wanted to see Sasuke's fight, all the shinobi, wanted to see Naruto's fight

""Naruto-sama is going to fight now"" thought Hinata and Haku in unison. Both with no doubts that he was going to win

Asuma inhaled smoke when smirked at he exhaled and paid closer attention to the arena

Kakashi unveiled his Sharingan to keep track of him better.

Kurenai pretended to not care but she was fooling no one, everyone saw how her eyes perked up upon hearing Naruto's name.

Anko perked up and her full attention was on the match now

All the rookies and the Suna Siblings silently anticipated the fight, finally hoping to catch a glimpse of the blonde's battle prowess.

'This one is going to be interesting' they all thought. Now hopefully his opponent was someone who could put up a challenge

Naruto smiled and disappeared onto the stage in a bolt of lighting the fell onto the ground, his cloak slightly flapping and Sora threw a blade at him from where she was at and disappeared in a blur to catch the blade before it hit him in a show of speed

Naruto smirked, he felt his blood pumping 'Miyako, stay out of this one, I wanna fight her myself'

"Hai Hai Master" she replied from within his shadow

Sora got a crazed smile "So you're the cutie who I'm going to fight, I've been waiting for this, my sister enjoyed her fight with you"

The boiling battle lust can be felt oozing off the two of them

"Ho? That was your sister? Can you relay the message that I enjoyed my time with her then?"

She laughed "Very well, you might want to calm your tone there big man"

She twirled the blade she was holding "Or I might not be able to hold myself back" she said with a lust filled grin

A wave of killing intent filled the arena courtesy of Hinata

"I'll kill her" she grit her teeth to the surprise of everyone present, while Haku just closed her eyes and sighed

Kurenai slightly sweat, from the time she had been with her she realized that Hinata didn't just have a small crush on the blonde, but a full-blown obsession, she practically worshiped him and whenever Kurenai spoke ill of him she would all sense of rationality and try to attack her. Something she defiantly needed to fix, as this can be weaponized against her in battle.

"Well if you two are done flirting, we can begin the match, Hajime" said the proctor from the loudspeaker, to the disdain of Hinata

Naruto put on his mask, surprising none of the Konoha nin, as they had grown accustomed to Naruto's team doing this

"Why the mask? I can't see your cute face if you cover it up with that mask" she said as she began to unwrap the medical tape she had on

"If you want to see it that bad, all you have to do is take this mask away from my face" he said

A crazed grin appeared as she unsheathed the two swords she had on her back

"Then it seems that's what I will have to do!" she exclaimed as she disappeared in a burst of speed, the Jonin were barely able to keep up

Naruto in a blink of an eye pulled a sword out to block her attack, everyone present could feel the amount of power that sword oozed, making everyone uncomfortable

"Heh, not bad" she said as she swung her other sword in an attempt to slash his rib, Naruto however blocked it with a kunai using his other hand. He kicked her stomach making her fly back, she flipped and landed on her feet.

Without pause she began to throw a volley of kunai and shuriken, enhanced with wind chakra to make them travel faster and deal greater damage. It was all in vain as Naruto simply blocked all of them with his sword in a series of clinks.

She smirked and pulled out another sword, then another, then another, then another, then another. She stood in an odd crane stance with swords on her arms mouth, elbows, behind her knees, and in odd places

"What the hell is that stance?" asked Naruto slightly confused about what she was doing

She didn't respond but simply jumped into the air and slammed down onto Naruto

He attempted to block her blades but Naruto couldn't read her moves, she fought using her entire body. They were both moving so fast that the viewers could barely even tell there were 2 people there and to the more advanced people they were simply moving at Jonin speeds, something two Genin should not be doing.

The sound of metal clinging against each other echoed through the ring, no one dared to make a sound, everyone was on their seats wanting to know what happens next.

'She's fast' said Naruto slightly surprised, some of his mask has been scratched up. Seems like she was taking what he said to heart and was trying to take his mask off.

Naruto activated his Rinne-Sharingan, behind his mask he would need it to keep up with her current speed

Naruto jumped back

A playful grin showed up as she saw this "Awwww, leaving me so soon, but I was having fun"

"Don't worry Sora, this isn't the end of it, and we both know it" replied Naruto, returning the teasing tone she had

She giggled at this

Naruto slapped his hands together

"Raiton: Raijin no Kaihō (Lighting Release: Thunder God's Release)"

The air around him began to shift and his cloak started to flatter. Small sparks of lightning began to form around his hands, the density of the lighting began to grow and crackle around him, the form of a demonic-looking Oni showed up behind him

"What the hell is that?" asked Kakashi to no one in particular. He had never seen a Raiton technique of this level.

Sora attempted to use the fact that this jutsu forced him to be stationary and in her eyes, vulnerable. She threw a kunai at his stagnat form. A bolt of lightning shot the kunai out of the air.

"Tsk, it's a defensive jutsu as well" she assumed it was also offensive, somehow. She doubted he would simply cast a defensive jutsu midbattle... he wouldn't.. right? All she had to do now is wait and watch, while slightly marveling at how cool the jutsu looked as well.

"Woah, what is this? This looks cool as hell, when did he learn this?" asked Choji as he finished the bag of chips he was eating and pulled another bag out

"I don't know, but look at that Oni, it looks pretty scary" replied Ino

Sakura could simply shiver in awe, remembering back to the times she called him a loser deadlast.

'Maybe, maybe I can... be this strong one day' she pondered over her past decisions

The oni behind Naruto extended its arms and shot a fast jab at Sora. She jumped away and kept on dodging the quick fists made out of lighting. If it were anyone else the match would have been over.

"You know cutie, you're not making this fun" she said as she was forced to play on the defensive

"If you wanted to have fun you should have sought me out in other ways" she heard him tease behind his mask

"I might just take you up on that offer after this match" she offered as she began to scramble her brains for a way to get out of this predicament. If this went on any longer then it would be over for her.

Much to her relife he oni began to recede 'This just wont work, the jutsu is too slow and I can't get a hit her'

She saw Naruto cast a single hand sign "Level 1 seal: Release" he said a burst of wind surrounded him

"Oh so we're releasing our seals now?" she smirked "Two can play at that game"

"Level 1 seal: Release" she said a a burst of wind surrounded her

"Level 2 seal: Release" the ground around him began to crack

"Level 2 seal: Release" the ground around her began to crack

"Level 3 seal: Release" a larger gust of wind emitted from him and a crater formed beneath him

"Level 3 seal: Release" a larger gust of wind emitted from her and a crater formed beneath her

Naruto smirked, this is the first time he's been pushed this far. He didn't know who this mystery person was, but she now had all his attention and interest. In response to her multiple blades, 2 chakra chains began to come out of his back, he would use them as make-shift swords in an attempt to keep up with that weird stance she had. He had been training control over the chains as well, it had reached a point where they felt like other limbs.

'Are those-" Thought Kakashi as he recognized them from the time he'd seen Kushina use them

"Come at me" Sora yelled then laughed crazily. Even though this was a losing battle for her she was having fun.

Naruto seemingly disappeared from existence, a loud boom was heard. He had broken the sound barrier.

The sound of clinging was the only proof that they were still in the arena and the occasional yellow and black blur, they both couldn't be seen, even to the higher trained shinobi they were blurs

One of them went flying and crashed into a mud wall made courtesy of Naruto. Sora stood up

'Shit, I don't have the stamina of an Uzumaki, but I got too excited and decided to release the seals' she silently cursed herself. She had achieved great speed but she couldn't uphold it for too long without getting tired.

And that she was.

'I haven't even gotten a drop of blood out of him' she thought sadly.

'This might have been so much easier of I did.'

"Don't tell me you're getting tired already" she heard him say. Naruto noticed her slight panting

She didn't have the chance to respond because he immediately started speaking again "Just when I was gonna start the fun part".

She didn't know how but she felt him smirk under his mask.

He pulled two odd-looking Kunai out, he threw one into the air and disappeared in a flash next to it, he caught it midair. But instead of descending down like gravity demanded he stayed floating above the stadium.

'What the hell is he doing?' was the thought on everyone's mind

He threw the two kunai and some people widened their eyes in realization, Jiraya simply smirked to himself. It was time.

As the two kunai flew through the air he cast a single hand sign "Kunai Kage Bunshin no Jutsu (Kunai Shadow Clone Jutsu)"

The two kunai turned to multiple then to hundreds that riddled the arena. A scene that if any Iwa nin that fought in the Third Shinobi War were present would have given them PTSD.

Sora managed to dodge them all wondering what the hell he was doing. Her thoughts were cut short when he disappeared in a flash of yellow and black. Making people's eye widen in realization

"Don't tell me that brat has the-"

"Is that the-"

"No way... that's the-

"That's Yondaime's jutsu"

"Wait is that the-"

"That's the-"

""""""Hiriashin""""""

She felt a blade graze her cheek. She tried to fight back but he disappeared again and she felt another blade scratch her thigh, she had no time to respond before she felt another scratch on her shoulder, again in her stomach, leg, arm, forearm, another arm, thigh, another leg. The attack relentlessly continued, the cuts not being deep enough to cause major bleeds. All that could be seen was the sight of flashing around Sora, that very same flashing left her slightly disorientated, she was about to drop when she heard-

"Rasengan"

Naruto appeared on top of her, a big bright blue swirling ball present in his hand. He slammed it down on Sora creating a crater, he made sure to not use enough force to kill her. He wouldn't want to kill a new friend he's made after all.

The arena was silent. No one said a thing, the crowd had been trying to set their thought straight.

The proctor eventually regained their composure. "Winner, Naruto Uzumaki"

No one made a noise, then the crowd all of a sudden burst out in cheers. Only to grow louder when Naruto helped his opponent up

He smirked at her "Thanks for the dance"

She smiled back "I didn't even scratch you"

He took his mask off and smiled at her. Something that made her heart skip a beat. He brought his mouth close to her ear to assure only she could hear him and huskily said

"Meet me at the Hokage monument tonight at 9"

She blushed and simply nodded

'Fumi-sama, why do you torture us like that. Being this close to him with orders to not jump into his pants' she said to herself

"What the hell was that? That was kind of cool" asked Kiba

"That was The Fourth Hokage's signature Jutsu, The Hirashin no Jutsu. It was a Jutsu made by the Nadaime but perfected by the Yondaime, and his son" replied Hinata as she began to walk to the stalls where all the rookies were hanging out.

"Naruto is his son?! Why did nobody tell us of this?" exclaimed Kiba in shock

"It was a village secret put in place to protect Naruto, if Iwa or any of the enemies of the Yondaime found out he had a son then there would be countless attempts on his life"

'More than there already was' she silently said to herself with a bit of rage behind it. She was a loyal Konoha shinobi but even she can't forgive the villagers for the things they did to him.

"Wow, I didn't know Naruto had that kind of history behind him" said Kiba his respect for the blonde growing slightly, since the Yondaime was his hero.

Orochimaru narrowed his eyes

'This gaki, not only did he ruin the hold I had on Sasuke but he also shut off my connection to Anko... he's going to definitely going to be a thorn on my side. I have to get rid of him soon'

"What a surprise Hokage-sama, I didn't know that this was the Yondaime's son. He certainly does seem strong" he said trying to hide his annoyance

"Yes, we had to keep it a secret, for reason I'm sure you can understand" he said politely

The "Kazekage" simply replied "Yes, right"

Naruto disappeared back next to the Suna Siblings

Temari was the first to speak " Good job Uzumaki-san" she said respectively. She knew he was strong, stronger than Gaara even so she didn't want to risk angering him

He smiled at her, she got hypnotized in his deep blue eyes for a second. She thought he was cute before, but seeing him from this close was making her flush

"Don't call me Uzumaki-san, that makes me sound old, call me Naruto"

She hesitated for a second as her blush slightly increased "V-very well Naruto-san"

"The San can be dropped but we're making progress"

Kankuro was about to say something but was cut off by Gaara

"Uzumaki, why do you live. Tell me, what is your purpose" he asked, his face holding no emotion

"Why I live? I live to accomplish my dreams, my purpose? My purpose is to accomplish my goals, and in doing so protecting my friends and people you hold dearly" he said simply

"Why protect other people? Why not kill them and end their worthless lives-" he was cut off by a burst if malevolent chakra emitting from Naruto

"Gaara-san, I would appreciate it if you didn't call the people I cared about precious"

Shukaku in Gaara's head was running rampant, he gripped his head and blood lust began to ooze out of him

"My purpose is to kill. If I kill those weaker to me I can prove my life still has meaning. That will be your downfall Uzumaki, you are strong but you are weak, if you cant protect the people you care about then you have no purpose, and I, my purpose will forever live, as long as there are people in this world to kill my purpose lives on."

'He's really gone off the deep end' he said to Kurumi

'Yeah, Shukaku really did this boy in, well all we need you to is whip him back into shape' she replied

"You see Gaara, that's where you're wrong, it's because of those people that I grow stronger, the necessity to accomplish my goals and protect my loved ones is what pushes me, and there is not one person in this world that will stop me from accomplishing them, and if someone stands in my way, I'll kill them" he replied adding extra emphasis on the kill

"I'll just have to prove to you that your purpose holds no meaning" he said before turning away

Everyone was getting riled up over the last Uchiha not showing up, while the last fight was a good one everyone was itching to see the last Uchiha in battle

Naruto channeled chakra into his chest and opened up a link to Satsuki

"Satsuki, it's time" he said holding back a smirk

On cue, a massive plume of smoke sprouted from the center of the area startling some people

As the smoke cleared out people could make out a figure.

They had a white mask on with two horizontal eye slits, she had thought about what Naruto said about all of their team having a Doujutsu, so she decided to change her mask and got rid of the eye holes.

She took off her mask to reveal her piercing black eyes, which paired well with her pale white skin that contrasted with her deep dark spikey hair that was tied in a ponytail, 2 locked framed her face, she wore a long black cloak that reached her ankles, it would be an exact replica of Naruto's if not for a single Uchiha crest on the back.

Her previously dark black eyes flared and the infamous Sharingan sprung into life, 3 tomoe spinning wildly

"I'm Satsuki Uchiha, I'm not too late, am I?" she asked her silky voice rang out

Hiruzen was surprised but then smiled slightly

'So she decided to come out huh? I feel like young Naruto had a part to play in this' he said to himself with a smile remembering that Naruto was going to train her for a bit

"Woah whos this hot girl" said Kiba. Of course this was the first thing he said

"That's Sasuke, well, Satsuki apparently" said Hinata

"Sasuke?! I didn't know he was into cross-dressing" he replied slightly shocked

Kakashi raised an eyebrow, he was slightly hurt that she didn't trust him with this, but he felt like Naruto knew and he was content with their students getting along well enough for that. Maybe, just maybe, this bond that she made with Naruto will keep her from letting her eyes lead her down a dark path.

Hinata just sighed and closed her eyes, Kiba was too loud, she couldn't imagine what it would be like being his teammate

"No, Satsuki was always a female, she just hid her gender for personal reasons, I recently found this out as well during the second stage of the Chunin Exams"

"WHAT?!" was all Sakura said. He eyes widened

"B-BUT SASUKE-KUN.." he voice went down a few decibles

"he's a... girl?" she said in shock

"But-" Sakura curled up into a ball and began to mumble some things

"But this can't be-"

Hinata looked at Sakura, she felt slightly bad, but she soon remembered all the things she said about Naruto and took it back.

Hinata ingored Sakura's mental breakdown and looked at the arena and locked her sights on Satsuki, who was looking at Naruto, she was conflicted, she liked Satsuki, she was her teammate, but all signs pointed towards Satsuki also liking Naruto

'She's my teammate, I can't just-' she didn't know what to do. There were already so many girls gunning for Naruto, there was Haku, she knew Ino began to look at the blonde with affectionate eyes, nothing can escape her Byakugan, that Suna girl was also giving him the eyes, there was the Kurumi person she didn't know anything about and even her own genjutsu teacher was thinking of him.

She began to bite her fingernails, contemplating what she should do


Satsuki looked over at where Naruto was standing and smirked at him, something Hinata noticed. She then turned her gaze towards Gaara

"You are my opponent are you not? Get down" she demanded. She couldn't wait to actually win a fight for once, throughout her training she never one spar, even when fighting against Kurumi, so she was itching to win

Gaara disappeared in a sand Shunshin and appeared in front of Satsuki

The crowd was wondering what the hell happening, from all they heard the last Uchiha was a male.

"Subaku no Gaara vs The Last Uchiha, Uchiha Satsuki, begin"

The crowd was still confused but roared nonetheless at hearing "The Last Uchiha"

Gaara's bloodlust was growing exponentially, ever since his talk with Naruto mother has been yelling in his head

He looked at Satsuki and shot an arm of sand at her. She jumped over it and used her hand to push herself towards the air. While mid-air she pulled out multiple kunai and threw them at Gaara. His defense raised and the kunai lodged themselves into the sand, it took him a while to realize the kunai where that fizzing sound he heard came from. The tag blew up, weakening his defenses. She had thrown multiple kunai each with a paper bomb on them with a delay so they would explode in succession not giving him time to recover

'This is my chance' she thought as she jumped back to gain some distance.

She gripped her wrist with her hand and channeled chakra to her palms, lighting began to wildly form and the sound of one thousand birds filled the stadium

"CHIDORI" she exclaimed and began to run at Gaara. She thrust her Chidori into him and she felt her hand inpale, a warm liquid began to leak onto her hand, she knew what it was.

All could be heard the was sound of the Chidori sizzle out and Gaara's blood curtling scream

"MY BLOOD, IS THIS MY BLOOD" she tried to pull her arm out but his sand had gotten a hold on her.

'Shit shit shit' she cursed at herself as she tried to pull her arm out but to no avail

She felt his sand's grip get tighter

'I have to take my arm out before I lose it' she said to herself trying to thing of a way to get herself out of this predicament

She began to channel chakra through her arm "CHIDORI BURST" she yelled as lighting chakra began to crackle all throughout her arm before bursting in an outward explosion. This was enough for Gaara to loosen his grip a tiny bit but this was enough for her as she pulled it out and gained distance. Gaara had gone silent after his scream. She wondered for a second if she had killed him.

She turned to see him just staring at his blood in shock.

He turned up at her and glared "Mother will have you" was all he said before a ball of sand formed all around him.

She kept staring at him wondering what he was doing

Temari and Kakuro looked slightly worried, something that didn't go noticed by Naruto

'He can't be, he isn't going along with the plan, if he transforms here without the signal it can ruin the whole plan' Temari thought worriedly. Even though she had not agreed with the plan they were orders from her father. And after seeing what the blonde beside her could do only made her lose morale.

Satsuki kept analyzing the ball. She tried to throw more paper bombs but when they exploded the sand didn't budge. She pulled her sword out and began to channel lightning chakra into it.

Kakashi's eye widened slightly, he only thought her the Chidori, but all this other stuff she was doing he hadn't shown her 'I knew it was a good idea to have her train with Naruto' Kakashi mused to himself

Satsuki channeled chakra into her feet and pushed herself into the air and was about to slam down into his ball at full force. As she was traveling she noticed as she got closer that the ball began to make form spikes.

Her eyes widened 'If I crash into that I'll die'

She was the last Uchiha, like hell she's dying before restoring her clan.

She pulled out a pair of Kama's with ninja wire attached to them and in mid-air, she threw them into the ground with a chakra enhanced throw. When then impaled the ground she pulled herself towards them effectively stopping her from slamming into the spiked ball.

She began to feel a malicious chakra emit from the ball, something felt by all. The ball began to crack and in there was Gaara standing his his arms hanging down. He looked up and Satsuki saw his eyes were not golden with a golden star-like shaped pupil

'What the hell?' she asked herself

'Is that her?' Naruto asked Kurumi

"Yes" she all she was able to say before she was cut off by the feather that were falling from the sky

"Genjutsu?" asked Naruto as he dispelled.

'As I thought, they were planning something'

He said as he noticed Temari and Kankuro was gone

Naruto made a clone

"Go to the Hokage tower"

The Hokage and Kazekage looked at each other, then an explosion and 5 shinobi began to make a move. As soon as Jiraiya saw the explosion he jumped towards it

"Sarutobi-sensei, it's as Naruto thought, Orochimaru was planning something" he said

Four shinobi surrounded them in a rectangle shape. After they ran through some hand seals a barrier showed up, locking the four shinobi were locked in with the other four shinobi. The barrier casters cast another barrier, effectively locking them between both barriers, so they can't get attacked from outside, nor inside the barrier.

Jiraiya noticed this and clicked his tongue

'We're stuck in here without backup' He turned his attention to his teacher as he responded

"Yes, it's a good thing Naruto told you to stay just to be sure"

"Why are you doing this Orochimaru" he said to one of the two figures. He already knew the response but he wanted to once again hear it.

The "Kazekage" took off his robes and Kage hat to show Orochimaru. The figure beside him had white hair with a zig-zagged line that ran through the middle of his hair, he was wearing purple robes and had 2 red dots on his forehead above his eyebrows

"Ah, so it seems like I have been found out" said Orochimaru with a sickly smile

Jiraiya glared at him "Orochimaru. And who's this?" asked Jiraiya referring to white-haired kid next to him

"This is Kimimaro, my dear subordinate, I wasn't going to originally bring him along but there were some... complications" he said with a scowl

Jiraiya smirked, he had a good idea as to what he was referring to "And you're here to destroy Konoha?"

"Yes, and I'm here to finally kill you Sarutobi-sensei"

Jiraiya scowled "This won't end like last time"

He glared at him "This time I won't hesitate to kill you, and end this once and for all"

Sarutobi also looked determined "Same here, today is the day I correct that mistake I made all those years ago, not only do you betray Konoha, you threaten it's people and that is something I can't simply look over." he said getting ready for battle

Orochimaru laughed "How cute, look at who decided to grow a spine. It's a little too late for that Jiraiya, you can't hope to stand up to me"

"We'll see about that"


[Naruto]

At the same time, Naruto was standing in front of Satsuki staring Gaara and his siblings down. He made a clone to try and go assist the Hokage, but as soon as he got there a barrier came up. 2 ANBU landed besides that him

"Naruto, is there any way to remove this barrier?" asked one of the ANBU

"Yes, it's possible, but I need time. I first want to try something" he said as he activated his Rinne-Sharingan

'Kamui' he said to himself as he tried to warp into the barrier but to no avail

"Crap, it seems like Space-Time Jutsu's don't work in there, the only way to release it is to close it from inside or I'll have to cancel it out from out here but that would require time and multiple people"

He made 3 clones and instructed them "Each of you, go to a corner and began your part of the seals" they nodded and pulled out ink then disappeared

The ANBU were slightly surprised. Naruto turned to them

"You guys stay with me, when the barrier goes down I want you guys to be prepared to go in."

They nodded


The original Naruto was standing in front of Gaara and his siblings. In the arena. A Tokubetsu Jonin by the name of Genma showed up next to him.

"Proctor-san"

Genma just laughed "Call me Genma"

"I was your father's bodyguard"

Naruto turned to him "I see, nice to meet you"

He smirked "Heh, the feeling is mutual kid"

His face turned more serious "Well keep the small talk for later, right now, we have to deal with this" he said as he nudged towards the Suna Siblings.

He shot the senbon he had in his mouth at the siblings for it to be blocked by someone

In front of the Suna Siblings was their sensei

"Baki-sensei, Gaara can't transform right now" said Temari worried as she stole glances at Naruto

'Naruto might kill Gaara if he transforms here' she said to herself. She wasn't entirely sure if the boy had the power to take on a Buji, but she didn't want to risk it.

"Tsk, it's all because Gaara couldn't keep himself controlled" he shot a small glare at Gaara

"Get him out of here"

Temari and Kankuro nodded and they took Gaara and fled the scene

Genma was about to chase after them when he was stopped by Baki

"What do you think you're doing? You're not getting to them without getting past me" said Baki

Miyako jumped out his shadow and prepared herself for a battle.

Red chakra began to bubble around Naruto, it began to form into a shape of a person beside him.

"Kurumi is coming out?" asked Satsuki

"Yea, she said she wanted to have some fun" he replied

Satsuki shrugged "Alright I guess"

Naruto looked at her

"Satsuki, follow them"

"Hai" she nodded then chased after them

Baki threw a kunai at her retreating form only for it to get blocked by Naruto's kunai

Genma turned and smirked at Naruto "Hey kid, leave this guy to me, go check out the situation with the village"

Naruto nodded

"Miyako"

"Yes Master?" she asked

He smiled at her "Stay here and help Genma"

She jumped excitedly "Hai Master!" she said as she ran next to Genma

"Hello, Master sent me here to help you, you're lucky to have such an adorable amazing summon to help you" she said cheerfully

Genma didn't know what she said, all he heard her her yipping so he just nodded

Naruto and Kurumi ran over to where Kakashi and Guy were fighting some nin. He was about to speak to them when someone tried to cut him with a sword. He sidestepped in, and grabbed the sword out his hand and cut off his legs. He dropped to the floor screaming then Naruto swiftly impaled his heart killing him instantly.

"So what's the situation here Kakashi-sensei" he asked

"Well right now, I'm trying to cut the number of shinobi here down with the help of people, a couple of the Genin dispelled the genjutsu, check on them" he replied

Naruto nodded. He ran to them and saw that there was a surprising amount of them who dispelled the Genjutsu, Sakura surprisingly being one of those. Hinata was well and up already fighting some Sound ninja.

"Are you guys up to date on what's happening" he asked them, he knew his teammates weren't idiots.. for the most part.

"Yea, were getting invaded, Kakashi told us" said Kiba as he dodged attacks from the incoming ninja, not returning their attacks and only knocking some out

Naruto sighed at him as he realized what was going on "Kiba, dodging and knocking them out won't do, you have to kill them"

Kiba hesitated for a second "But-"

Naruto cut him off "No buts, they're here to destroy the village or kill you, if you don't treat them that same way the is a chance they'll succeed at one of their objectives, and Konoha's destruction isn't it." he said sternly and cut one of his opponents in half to prove as point

Kiba hesitated for a second before he got a determined look on his face "Right"

"Hinata, Haku" he said as Haku blurred into existence next to him

""Yes Naruto-sama?"" they both replied in unison, raising a few eyebrows around them. Ino who was one of the ones who dispelled the genjutsu found herself blushing at that, she, however, had no time to think about it as she had to fight back against the attacking forces

"You two are the strongest ones here, stay here and protect them. I have to check what that ruckus outside is all about" he said

He looked at Hinata sternly "I need you two to get along"

She nodded nervously "H-Hai"

Haku began to make ice senbon surprising a few people

"I thought she was a civilian" said Kakashi

"Well I guess cats out of the bag now" she said sheepishly

Kakashi just sighed, slightly hurt that Naruto lied to him about this, he must have his reasons though.

Naruto made a single seal. And water began to form around him

They both looked at him and they knew exactly what to do.

"Suiton: Maruchiu Otaburetto no Justsu (Water Release: Multi Water Bullet)" yelled out Hinata as a portion of water began to form into small bullets and she launched them at a group of Sound ninja who just arrived effectively injuring the ones who didn't dodge it

Haku made the other bit of water into ice senbon and launched them at the shinobi that dodged Hinata's attack, taking them out.

Naruto smiled "See, you guys have great teamwork, Haku use your seals to make water for Hinata" he said to her and she nodded

Hinata looked at Haku, jealously present

"Hmph, why don't I have those seals" the grumbled to herself

Naruto had made seals that were on her hands that were connected to an ocean somewhere, so when she applied chakra into the seals they would expel water, effectively ridding one of the downsides of being a Suiton user

Naruto was about to leave but he had one last thing to do something

He walked over to Shikamaru and kicked him behind the head

Shikamaru yelped in pain "Ow what the hell, I was having a good nap" he replied as he stood up rubbing his head

"I knew you were pretending to be asleep, not get off your lazy ass and help"

Shikamaru sighed in response "Okay okay, jeez, troublesome blondes" he said

"Lets go Kurumi" said Naruto as they left


Kurenai and Anko were fighting a magnitude of Sound shinobi before they knew it a huge snake broke through the walls

Kurenai clicked her tongue as she cast a single hand seal.

"Hageshi kutsu (Firery Agony)" she said as multiple sound ninja began to feel as their skin was being burned off. They screamed in agony leaving Anko to finish them off

"Whew, seeing the Genjutsu Mistress in battle is certainly a sight to behold" said Anko whistling

"Yeah, this is a new technique Hinata created in her time training with me, it usually takes someone months before they can develop their own Genjutsu" said Kurenai

"Yeah that's cool and all but what were we going to do about this massive snake" replied Anko while she jumped away to a nearby building to escape it's tail slamming down onto them

As if on cue a blur showed up

"You know, I would appreciate if you didn't run rampant in the village" he said to the snake as he pulled out a sword, lightning crackled around it it for a second before the figure impaled it into it's head

The lighting expanded from its head right down to its tail and crackled madly before the snake exploded in a plume of smoke

Anko then recognized who it is when the masked figure jumped near them. Another figure showed up next to Naruto.

Although they didn't really pay much attention to her, when Anko and Kurenai took a good look at her they were slightly shocked at how stunning she was.

She wore a deep black kimono that cut off at her chest, her hair was a deep crimson that contrasted well with her light skin, she shot them a grin showing off her fangs, her most noticeable features were her deep red glowing slitted eyes that pierced their soul.

But even Kurumi couldn't stop Anko from showing her affection for the blonde as soon as she recognized him

"Naruto-kun!" she yelled before jumping on him, her arms hanging on his neck

"Woah calm down there Anko-chan, were in middle of an invasion here"

She smirked with a playful grin "You can invade something else if you want"

Kurenai blushed and stumpled over her words "Anko shut up, jeez you're as insufferable as ever"

"Don't tell me you're jealous my dear Kurenai-chan, don't worry I don't mind sharing" Naruto raised an eyebrow then laughed slightly

"Hmmm Naruto, I'm not sure how I feel about you cheating on me' said Kurumi with a playful smirk as she eyed Kurenai and Ankom especially Kurenai, since Kurumi already knew Anko was into the blonde

Kurenai sputtered for a second

'Naruto is dating her?' she thought in surprise

She couldn't help but compare herself to her and found herself kind of lacking, which made her frown. Another thing made her frown, how will Hinata react to this once she hears.

"Don't think about it too much Kurenai-chan" her face reddened at the affectionate suffix

Naruto looked over at the war-torn landscape "Well anyways, we can take care of that after this, but right now we need to take care of these snakes"

"And how do you plan on doing that? There's too many of them" she asked

He took his mask off and smiled at which made her heart skip a beat "Easy, I fight summons with summons" he said

Kurenai scolded herself

'For gods sake Kurenai, you are at least 5 years older than him, why am I blushing like a stupid school maiden'

She felt something in her stomach when she thought of the blonde, she didn't know when it started, Hinata would tell her all this amazing stuff about him, and when Anko's seal was released she was really happy with her friend and grateful towards Naruto, she in all reality had been searching for him to thank him. That's what she had told herself, but in all reality she just wanted to see him. She still couldn't wrap her head around the possibility of catching feelings for the same person her precious student had, and for someone who is 5 years younger than her. She didn't know what to do

Kurenai gripped her shirt as her heart bumped harder and harder as a pit grew in her stomach

'But her has her...' she shook her head. Right now isn't the time for this.

'I'll arrange my feelings at another time'

"You have a summon?" she asked trying her best to cast her feelings aside

"Miyako" said Naruto and on cue small fox jumped out of his shadow

"Yes Master?"

"Yup, this is Miyako, the bestest summon to ever exist"

"Kyaaaaa Master you are the best"

"Get ready, this is gonna be the first time you're gonna go big"

She looked excited "Hai hai"

Naruto ran through some hand seals "Kuchiyose no Jutsu (Summoning Jutsu)"

A giant cloud of smoke appeared and as it faded it showed 4 massive foxes with multiple tails, some Konoha nin were startled to see a giant fox in the village

""""Naruto-sama"""" they all bowed their heads towards him

"What do you need us to do" a female voice boomed

"Chizu-san, Orochimaru is invading Konoha right now, I need you guys to get rid of his snake summons" he replied

"Snakes huh? This shall be fun" boomed a male voice

Naruto smirked "Now you can get that snake-skin wallet you've always wanted Hiyoshi"

One of the females looked and saw Miyako "Ah, young Miyako is here as well"

"Hi Hi Kotone-sama, I decided to stay with Master, it's so much more fun here than at the forest" she said as her tails swung from side to side

She simply laughed in response "If you say so"

"Well, let us go" said the male said to the other foxes

"Just don't try to destroy the village" he reminded them

"Hai hai Naruto-sama" replied Kotone

"Okay, it's my turn now Master" she said as she began to grow in size

"Come to me when you're finished"

"Hai hai" she said as she ran off

"Kurumi, you can also have some fun, don't go all out though, I wouldn't want you to destroy the village after all... again" he said with a smirk

"Hmm, I'll think about it, but first, my good luck charm" she said as she grabbed Naruto's face and gave him a searing kiss, that left Anko and Kurenai blushing

"Well, now I'm off to go help Satsuki" he said as he disappeared in a flash

Kurumi turned to Anko and Kurenai and gave them a cheeky grin "You know, I wouldn't mind you guys joining" she said as she dashed at a nearby enemy impaling him with her now long claws

Kurenai's inner turmoil continued and Anko just stood there scratching her head

"He turned this battle around so easily, what the hell is Naruto-sama" she said as she stared at the battle unfolding before them.

Multiple giant foxes fighting along the Konoha shinobi to eliminate the snake summons and the invaders, the foxes breathed out blue flames that eliminated the majority of the Sound invaders and also had no trouble disposing of the snakes. For how massive the foxed were they were surprisingly nimble and moved around quickly, while managing to not destroy and property. They were even more agile then the snakes allowing them to easily outmaneuver them and tear them to shreds with their fire, claws and sharp fangs.


Satsuki was tailing the Suna Siblings, they didn't get far before Gaara pushed Temari away.

His eyes stared Satsuki down, bloodlust filling the air.

"You're the one who made my bleed, mother doesn't like it when I bleed, and neither do I" he said, his eyes still bearing the golden stars.

More sand poured out his gourd and began to encase his arm. It eventually formed a grotesque-looking arm, it was the same color as the sand, excited with giant claws.

Gaara gathered sand around his arm then threw it at Satsuki, they formed into the shape of Kunais, she dodged them all with ease with the use of her Sharingan

Satsuki ran through hand seals "Katon: Gōkakyū no Jutsu (Fire Release: Great Fireball Jutsu)" she shot a giant fireball at Gaara who just blocked it with a wall of sand

She noticed something, his siblings weren't helping him fight, they were standing on the sidelines.

"Where-" she heard Gaara speak, albeit his voice was starting to distort

"Where is Uzumaki, mother wants his blood, mother needs his blood" he yelled out, the sand on his arm began to rise, it now covered half of his body

He laughed maniacally "After I kill you, I'll kill them" he said looking over at his siblings "Then Uzumaki, then I will prove my worth to everyone."

That's when he heard a voice "What did I tell you about that?" Said Naruto as he showed up next to Satsuki in a flash

The Suna siblings looking relieved for some reason

They jumped to him, Satsuki was about to jump into battle with them when Naruto stopped her

Temari and Kankuro bowed "Please, save Gaara, I believe you are the only one you can stop him and save him" said Temari her voice slightly cracking, even as she tried to hide it, it slipped out

"Don't worry Temari-chan, it's only right for me so help someone who suffered through something similar to me"

He said as he pulled his mask to the side and flashed a smile at her making her blush slightly, she smiled back, feeling reassured

Naruto's eyes hardened 'If... If I didn't have Kurumi-chan, Teuchi-Ojisan, Ayame-nee-san and Jiji, would I have ended up somewhat similar to this?' he asked himself

"I wouldn't allow that Naru-koi, my view on you humans changed, when I became your mother's Jinchuuriki, and she tried to befriend me even though all the times I rejected her simply because my previous experiences with humans have been bad. She didn't see me as a weapon, but as an ally, a friend. Then came along you, her son, who held no ill feelings for me, even though I am the one who technically killed your parents, you showed me that humans are not always bad, you showed me that there could be a chance of peace in this world, you once again showed me that I'm not a weapon, that I'm not just an ally, but a lover. I don't know what Shukaku went through, or what made her hate humans so much, but I want you to save her, show her what you showed me. Tou-sama told us before his death that even though we aren't together, we will always be linked. Please save my sister and her host." he heard Kurumi said from within his mind

"I will, don't worry Kurumi-chan"

Naruto changed his focus to Gaara and secured his mask and activated his Rinne-Sharingan

"Okay Gaara, let's do this" said Naruto

Gaara didn't respond "Wind Shuriken"

He swung his arm and a volley of sand shrunken were flung at him

In response, Naruto pulled out Eien and blocked all of them

He dashed as Gaara and kicked him. Gaara expected his defense to block it, but it didn't so he was launched towards a tree.

'What? Why didn't my ultimate defense respond? This is just like last time' he asked himself growling

Gaara managed to catch Naruto with the sand on the floor. The sand then merged with his hands and claws gripped Naruto, Gaara swung his arm and threw him into the tree.

The claws separated from his hand pinning Naruto to the tree

Without giving Naruto a chance to escape Gaara prepared his next attack

Gaara sucked in sand and air "Sand Shuriken Blizzard"

A huge gust of wind, along with shuriken shaped sand blew towards Naruto

"Shinra Tensei (Almight Push)" and invisible force pushed outwards, freeing Naruto and blocking the incoming attack

Golden chains emitted from Naruto's back and dug into the ground. The ground rumbled and before Gaara could respond they shot out from underneath him and wrapped themselves around his waist, more chains shot out and wrapped themselves over his arms and legs. Gaara felt himself getting weaker.

The chains began to grow spikes that dug into his skin making him snarl in pain.

Naruto showed up in front of him and punched him in the jaw, making him bleed.

Temari winced at the action "Hey, you know for someone who is supposed to be saving him he is being quite rough with him" she said to Satsuki

"You call this being rough?" she scoffed

"He tends to get a little sadistic when he's having fun" she continued

'Can't say I mind it too much' she added inwardly. From all the time she's been hurt by him in their training, she found out that she was enjoyed being hurt by him.

She blushed.

'God I sound like such a pervert'

She shook her head to get rid of her masochistic thoughts.

"I just hope he doesn't hurt Gaara too much" said Temari with Kankuro agreeing

Gaara's breathing was ragged, "Just kill me already. You beat me, end my existence, your life has more value than mine" he said clearly giving up. This wasn't someone he could beat.

"No, I promised I would save you"

"Why? Why would you save someone who tried to kill you?" asked Gaara

"Because, I could have ended similar to you, If it weren't for some certain people"

For the first time in a while Gaara was unable to say something

"I once suffered the same pain you're suffering from, it hurts, doesn't it? The pain of loneliness, it feels like there is no one out there that understands you. But there are, you simply feel like there isn't, there are people who may not know the pain of being alone like us but there certainly are people who can help heal that pain. You have people who care about you Gaara, your siblings care for you, you have just been blinded by rage and were misled by that rage. I'll be your friend Gaara." He deactivated his Rinne-Sharingan and took off his mask then gave Gaara a sincere smile.

Gaara once again said nothing. He simply looked at his siblings, Temari sheepishly looked at him and Kankuro flashed him a reassuring smile.

"Now, let me help you" said Naruto as he touched the mark on his forehead

Naruto found himself inside an endless abyss, the only thing that existed was ankle-high water on the floor and a giant figure caged.

He looked at it and saw the massive raccoon

"Hello" he simply said to it

Shukaku began to rage inside her cage. Naruto was having none of it so used his chakra chains to subdue the raccoon.

"I don't want to fight you. I just want you to be your friend" Naruto said to it

The raccoon faltered for a second before her rage grew "Friend? You humans don't have friends, you just use each other, throw each other under the bus, you humans are filth. Why would I want to be friends with someone who wants to use me and control me." she spat out

"Shukaku, it isn't like that. I want to help you"

"She was unable to respond as Kurumi began to materialize beside him in her human form

"Shukaku" Kurumi said calmly

She scowled "What are you doing here Kurumi. Here do flaunt how much better you are than me? Your little boy toy here already beat me. I don't need you to add sand to the wound" she spat out

Naruto raised an eyebrow and looked at her

"She thinks that I think that since I have more tails I'm better"

"wellimeanit'sthetruthbutletsnottalkaboutit" she added a bit silently

Naruto gave her a look "We're here to make friends with her, not enemies"

"And I told you once before. I'm not going to get decived into becoming friends with you."

Naruto sighed this was going to be more difficult than he had thought, Shukaku was dead set on being hostile

Naruto walked into her cage, not being scared of anything she could do to him.

"Shukaku" Naruto said sterny releasing his aura. The water around him reacted and parted all around him.

'Such power, and from such a small squirt too, well small wouldn't be that accurate' she looked at Kurumi beside him and her face turned sour

'Of course, that's to be expected from the Jinchuriki of the "All Might Kyuubi"'

"I, just want to be friends, Kurumi told me, about Hagaromo, she told me about the bond you all shared, she told me all about you guys, I'm here to reunite you all." he said making her raccoon eyes widen slightly

"Why did you tell him?" she asked her sister

"I, think he's the one tou-sama told us about"

"Him?" she asked. She didn't like her sister but she knew to trust her judgment

"When I told him about me, when I revealed myself to him, he didn't hold any ill intent, I... I was the one to kill his parents, but he didn't place the blame on me, he didn't immediately see me as a monster, he tried to understand my side of it, he doesn't see us as mindless beasts like the rest, he sees us as heroes" she said

Shukaku was surprised

Naruto looked at her "Hagaromo split the Juubi into you guys, you guys are the reason it isn't running rampant through the world, you all are the true heroes of this world, thank you"

Her eyes widened even more

'This... is the first time anyone has ever thanked me, or even been nice to me, only other time someone treated me with respect was Hashirama, but only to seal me and sell me to a nation' she thought her thoughts turning me sour

She looked at Kurumi "Why do you trust him so much, enough to tell him about our true origins? Why put so much faith into him?"

Kurumi flashed a foxy smile "Because he's my lover, and I wouldn't be able to hide something like that from him."

Shukaku took a second to process what her sister had said "WHAT?! You? With a human?" she roared as she stepped back

"I'm not sure if I should be offended by that" chimed in Naruto

"It's just that... I don't know, the fact that a human would even consider being with a Biju... seems odd and impossible" she didn't know how to explain it properly. She had grown so accustom to humans hating her and despising her that the thought of being loved like that never crossed her mind. Yet here she was, standing in front of her Biju sister and her lover.

She looked at Naruto. 'Maybe... maybe she's right about him'

She didn't know what, or why, or even when. But she felt like she could follow him boy, something deep within her told her to place her faith into him.

The raccoon closed her eyes.

"Fine, can you release me from these chains for a second" she said calmly

Naruto didn't sense any malintent with her words so he obliged

Upon receding his chains a huge sand storm began to rage around her. Her form grew smaller and smaller until she was human-sized.

All the sand eventually entered her and she stood there.

She was short, shorter than both Kurumi and Naruto.

She wore a beige-colored kimono that cut off at her mid-thighs. Her single tail could be seen swinging from side to side. Blue marks were seen running all throughout her legs, face, hair and tail.

Her head was adorned by 2 small ears who were the same shade of blue as her marks.

Her black sclera contrasted her sand-colored eyes.

She held her arm out.

"I... I wouldn't mind being friends" she said meekly finally giving into the blonde's request

Naruto smiled and shook her hand

He felt himself getting enpowered by something. A single blue mark similar to her's appeared in between his temple and the edge of his right eye

"What did you do?" he asked her

"I gave you a bit of my Chakra, made you a pseudo jinchuuriki. If what she said is true, then I want to let you know you have my support, I don't know what it is, but I feel like I can put my faith in you. Please don't let me down"

Naruto nodded with a smile "Right, thank you" he said to her

"Now, to fix your seal"

Fuinjutsu writing marks began to manifest on his arm. He walked up to Shukaku and tapped her forehead. The marks on his arms then poured over to Shukaku's head, and them soaked into her body.

He said in a voice barely over a whisper "Don't worry Shukaku-chan, this is temporary, but when I revive Uzushiogakure and bring the elemental nations all under one country, you'll be released and the world will see you as the heroes you truly are."

She nodded, she felt at ease "Hai" a small contentful smile appeared on her face

Naruto couldn't resist the urge, so he pat her small head. She barely reached his ribcage and her small form brought upon brotherly love, she is going to be his sister-in-law in the future.

Naruto shook the thoughts out of his head and left Gaara's mindscape he saw Temari and Kankuro standing there, their faces were full of anxiety while Satsuki was standing there with her arms crossed tapping her foot on the floor

"Took you long enough" she said

Naruto rolled his eyes "Shut up, this was a biju were dealing with"

Kakuro spoke up "So what happened" he asked

"Shukaku should let Gaara sleep now, she can't influence him, the main problem with him was the seal he used, I applied a better one that allows the user to communicate with the Biju but not get influenced, Gaara can willingly cut the connection if needed.

He turned to Gaara "But Gaara, please don't hold any resentment towards Shukaku, try to understand her."

Gaara nodded, he didn't know what he meant by that but he will keep it in mind.

Naruto paused for a second as if he remembered something "There is something I want to try" he said

Everyone looked at him curiously

Naruto lifted his arm and the sand that was pooled around them began to respond. He made a movement with his arm and the sand formed a spike, he launched it at a nearby tree destroying it

Kankuro and Temari took a step back

"How can you do that?" exclaimed Temari pointing the accusing finger at him

"Shukaku gave me a bit of her chakra when I friended her, and that allowed me to do this, a Biju's blessing if you will"

'He forged a friendship with a Biju in mere minutes? Not just any Biju but the Ichibi, the Biju that has terrorized Suna for the past 7 or so decades' Kankuro said to himself

Satsuki raised an eyebrow "How much more stronger are you going to get idiot, let me catch up" she said slightly annoyed with a scowl

Naruto blurred from the spot he was in and appeared next to Satsuki

"You're still quite a bit away from where I'm at Satsuki-chan" he said hoarsely into her ear

She felt a shock run through her body, she felt her face heat up and she pulled out a kunai and swung at him only to see he was where he was previously standing. She glared at him her blush still present "You're such an idiot, I swear"

The Suna Siblings scratched their heads sheepishly at their interaction, not knowing what to say

A few seconds of silence proceeded before Gaara spoke, drawing everyone's attention

"Temari, Kankuro" he said

"I'm sorry" he said bowing to them

They widened their eyes in response and blushed slightly moving back slightly waving their hands

"N-no Gaara, it's fine no need to bow or anything like that... w-what brought this on" stammered Temari

Gaara looked down and looked at his hands "When I talked to Naruto, he told me about living to protect people, he told me that people care about me, he told me you guys care about me. Is... is that true?" he said unable to look up at them, fearing their response

Temari smiled "Of course Gaara, we always have"

"Yeah, it's obvious I would care about my little brother"

Gaara's face shot up, looking at them his eyes glazed "Why?"

"Why other reason do we need? You're our brother, we're family, it's only natural for family to care about each other" replied Kankuro

"But, all I ever did was threaten to kill you guys, and on multiple occasions I even tried it. I'm a monst-" he said only to be cut off by Temari running to him wrapping him in a hug

"You're not a monster, Gaara, you're our little brother, you're someone who I care about, who Kankuro cares about. We never once saw you as a monster, to us you've always been our little brother" she said, squeezing him tighter. Kankuro joined and hugged him as well.

"It's as Temari said Gaara, we love you" said Kankuro

His eyes widened, tears falling out. Behind them, a female figure of sand began to form, they felt the figure wrap it's sand limbs around them, neither of them felt threatened by it, on the contrary, they felt comforted by it.

"Mother?" asked Gaara, tears hanging on his eye lids. He shut them close to make them fall.

When he opened them he was met with a different sight from the one he was at, he looked around and saw he was in sandy dunes of Suna, not the bright vibrant tree-filled landscape of Konoha.

The wind was blowing hard sand flying everywhere. He noticed a figure with their back turned to him

He walked to it, curiously filling him. Once Gaara got close enough to make out their short brown hair, said figure turned around.

His eyes widened. The figure that turned, it was a female, she shot a smile at him as tears ran out her eyes.

"You've grown Gaara" she said with a motherly smile

"Mother?" was all he was able to muster out

He instinctively walked up to her, and wrapped his arms around her, not sure how he should react.

He shut his eyes once again feeling the tears pour out harder than before

"I've always loved you Gaara, your defense wasn't from Shukaku, it was from me, but even that wasn't enough to protect you, it didn't protect what mattered most, your heart"

"Protect your siblings Gaara, I love you, please live a long happy life." she choked out, squeezing him tighter

"I'm sorry" was all she said before she disintegrated into sand flowing away in the wind, making Gaara fall onto the sand.

Before he realized it he was where he previously was. He felt the sand figure around them began to crumble. He swallowed his lump and smiled contently.

His siblings released their hug.

"What was that?" asked Temari, it felt warm and loving

"It was mother" was all Gaara said before turning to Naruto

"Thank you Uzumak-"

"Call me Naruto, as your friend I would much rather you call me that."

Gaara nodded "Right, thank you Naruto" said Gaara bowing to him

""Thank you Naruto"" said Kankuro and Temari in unison as they all bowed

They looked beside them to see Gaara began to lose consciousness. Kankuro caught him before he hit the ground

"He's just chakra exhausted, let him rest, he deserves it" said Naruto with a smile

Temari ran to him and wrapped him in a hug "Thank you for helping Gaara, thank you for bringing my brother back" she choked out

Naruto wrapped his arms around her, making her squeeze him tighter, much to Satsuki's annoyance. She began tapping her foot faster and wrapped her arms again.

They separated and Temari quickly turned around "Well go back to Suna now, we don't want to participate in this invasion, we didn't want to begin with"

"Yeah, thanks man" said Kankuro as he shot him a smile and they left with Gaara in hand

Temari shook her head 'What got into me, jeez' she said to herself

'Although, I cant say I didn't enjoy it' she smiled to herself 'Naruto Uzumaki huh? I hope I'll see more of him'

Kankuro who had been watching her facial expressions change knew exactly what, or rather who she was thinking about

'Definitely going to use this as teasing material later on'

Naruto had waited until they were out of vision to talk to Satsuki

"Satsuki" he said as he turned to her and noticed she had a sour look on her face

"What's wrong?" he asked her

"You seemed to enjoy talking to that Temari girl" she said with her arms crossed

Naruto rolled his eyes "What, are you jealous?" he said his a small smirk

She turned around and huffed "Me? Jealous? What do I have to be jealous of her? I'm stronger, faster, prettier and-" she looked down at her chest and frowned slightly and she blushed in anger

Naruto simply turned her around and closed the distance between their mouths, she was slightly surprised, it was short-lived as she melted into it responding to his kiss with equal force, eventually trying to overpower his in the battle of the tongues, only to find out she still gets outmatched by him.

Out of Naruto's shadow, Miyako jumped out and saw Satsuki and Naruto mid makeout session

"Wahhhhh Master, I'm sorry for interrupting " Miyako blushed

Naruto smiled at her "It's fine Miyako, what happened"

"I placed a seal for you at the Konoha entrance the intruders have been taken care of, let's go back" she said

"Right thank you Miyako" he said as he began to scratcher her behind her ears making her tails wag in happiness

"Satsuki" he said

She nodded and grabbed his hand and Miyako jumped into his shadow and they disappeared in a flash

He showed up at the entrance to see the summons, along with his clones and Hinata, and Haku kneeling there waiting for him and Kurumi standing there. A huge crowd of people were behind them, curious about the massive summons who had saved Konoha and why there were kneeling in the front gates

Naruto noticed Jiraiya was there lying against the gate, he turned to his summons

"What are you guys still doing here?" he asked them as Miyako popped out his shadow

"We were promised ear scratches, and we're not leaving without them" replied Kotone

"Well I can't do that if you're all that big" he said and they all shrunk to the same size as Miyako and walked up to him

Naruto bent down and scratched all of them as they all began to nuzzle his legs

"Thanks, Naruto-sama, I'll be taking our leave now" said Kotone as she disappeared in a purple swirl of flames

"Thanks, young master" said the male fox as he disappeared in a swirl of white flames

"Thanks Master" said Chizo as she disappeared in a swirl of blue flames

"Thanks, Naruto-sama, I got the snakeskin wallet I've always wanted" said Hiyoshi with a laugh as he disappeared in a swirl of green flames

Naruto noticed something odd, he turned to see Anko kneeling alongside Haku and Hinata

He raised an eyebrow "Anko, what are you doing?" he had expected it from the two but not Anko

"They were kneeling and it seemed kind of fun" she shrugged

Naruto hummed in response "If you say so, not gonna do anything to stop you"

He changed his focus and turned to his clones

"Dispel" he said, and without another moment's notice they all poofed one buy one sending all the information into his head

Naruto closed his eyes to analyze it

His eyes shot open, they hardened and he turned to Jiraiya. Jiraiya just closed his eyes and nodded.

"Where is Jiji?"


AN: I had to stop writing for a bit bc I had to catch up with school, but hey, at least I graduated Highschool now, well anyways, lol cliffhanger... I actually didn't realize this chapter was so long, I kind of wrote and kept writing, this chapter admittedly had more to it but I deleted it because it would have ended in a weird place, and I think where I ended it was better.

I had Jiraiya be present during the invasion because I honestly don't know why he wasn't in canon, this is my first time writing a fight that has multiple stuff happening, I don't know how well I did tbh but it was kind of fun writing it.

I enjoyed writing Gaara's character, he honestly has one of my favorite stories and I hope I did it justice, I really enjoyed that whole subplot with his mother during the 4th War. Temari starting thinking differently about our blonde protagonist, naisu.

I plan on adding small changed to Naruto's appearance as he get more useful stuff, I kind of like the idea of adding a small change to his attire or appearance as he gains new power-ups or whatever not going to be anything major but something small, to spice things up a little bit, and for this one he got a small Shukaku mark.

If anyone is wondering if Shukaku is going to join the harem, answer is nope, I want her as a little sister type of character, that's why I made her a loli.

I decided to bring Kimimaro into the invasion, because honestly why didn't Orochimaru do this in the first place, Kimimaro was about to die either way.

I honestly had fun writing Orochimaru mald, also Satsuki's true gender was revealed during this. I didn't show much of the reactions here because I was to focused on writing the fights. But next chapter I'm going to show the outroar, for both Naruto's and Satsuki's reveals.

I'm going to try and make an effort to write more of Naruto's interactions with everyone else, because I kind of feel bad for Naruto, he rarely has time to relax, it's one event after the other. I didn't show much of the other girls this chapter but next chapter we're going to see more of yandere Hinata.

I also plan on doing a small rewrite of the beginning portion of this, because in my Hiatus I kind of changed the path the story is going with Naruto's character, and there are some inconsistencies in the earlier chapters, I also want to go more in-depth with the earlier part of Naruto's life, I want to write more of his and Kurumi's interactions along with his interactions with his team, because I mostly did time skips and skipped the interactions. There is also another whole little arc I want to do before the wave arc. But yeah, if you are care enough to reread it once I do it I'll make sure to leave it in an AN, letting u guys know when I added it, if u don't read the AN then oh well.

I don't know how many of you noticed by I enjoy writing Satsuki, she's kind of a tsundere. I've been thinking of writing Kurumi and Naruto's lemon, but I'm not sure how confident I am writing it and honestly don't really know when it would fit. Plus there is also the added fact that Naruto is like 14 right not, I kind of want to wait until he's a bit older, idk what bullshit reason I'm gonna pull out since Kurumi was horny for him since she came out the seal.

I'm also contemplating a big-time skip but I'm kind of leaning towards not doing it because I feel like I have already done a lot of time skips. I will however be doing small ones like month-long or week-long time skips when I think it fits, plus I think instead of making time skips I can work on character interactions.

Well that's all for my usual long AN, as always creative criticisms are welcome

Ja Ne