Hey everyone, on the previous chapter I asked what kind of summons that Naruto should get aside from the toads and I have gotten quite a lot of votes. So I'm going to display the votes so far in order of the highest.

Monster (Digimon) = 17 votes

Monster (Bakugan) = 11 votes

Dragon = 7 votes

Wolf = 3 votes

Tiger = 2 votes

So far Digimon is in the lead with Bakugan close behind, personally I would prefer Bakugan but that's just me. Please those that are voting should select one, it confuses me when I'm counting the votes. Keep in mind that the poll closes after the next chapter. Until then enjoy the next chapter of Naruto: The Weapon Master ;)

Naruto: The Weapon Master

Chapter 16: Prepping for the Finals

Naruto was walking through the street towards the hospital after passing by the Namikaze compound to replace his clothes and told Haku and Fu of what had happened at the forest and decided to follow him to the hospital too but they were rather frowning with what he had told them about what had happened during the rest of the preliminaries.

"I can't believe Neji would do that to Hinata, his own cousin," said Haku angrily.

"He'd better not meet me, cause I'll make him pay for hurting Hinata-chan," said Fu with Chomei agreeing with her.

Naruto clenched his fist in anger with Kurama and Chinami trying to calm him down as he thought back on what happened during the match between both Hyuugas.

**Flashback Start**

When the screen displayed the names for the next match, Hinata started to shake in fear and Naruto noticed Neji smirking with glee but he was able to encourage her to fight with all she had. At the arena, Neji tried to talk her down but she ignored it and stood up to him much to his surprise and anger. The fight was a close one, with both combatants in a stalemate as Hinata was able to land several blows on the Hyuuga prodigy, but then the tides turned when Neji struck Hinata's chakra points in her arms, disabling her ability to use her Gentle fist and then started attacking her brutally to the point of striking her heart much to Naruto's horror.

Hinata was struggling to her feet, refusing to give up the fight which reminded Naruto of himself.

"Why don't you give up? Fate has decided that you won't win this match, the reason being that you're weak and helpless, stop fighting against fate," said Neji with a stoic expression.

"You say fate has decided this and that I should not fight it, but the one fighting against fate is you. If you had accepted fate, then you wouldn't be fighting against fate of the main and side branches of the Hyuuga clan," said Hinata while clutching her chest in pain.

Hearing this made Neji fly into a rage and charge at Hinata with the intent to kill much to the shock of the spectators around. But before he got any closer, he was held back by the Jounin.

"Neji that's enough, you said that you wouldn't let clan matters cloud your judgment," said Gai.

"Why did you stop me?! Is this special treatment for the main branch members?" asked Neji through gritted teeth.

"On the contrary, we stopped you to save your life," said Kakashi.

"What do you mean?"

"He means that you should take a look at your chest and see what would have happened had you taken another step," said a cold voice that sent shivers down one's spine.

Neji looked down to see a blade covered in green flames just a few inches from his chest and traced it to a hand which belonged to Naruto who was glaring at him with barely controlled rage.

Suddenly, he heard a thud and turned to see that Hinata had collapsed and quickly ran over to check on her with Sakura and Kurenai following him.

"Hinata, please be okay!" said Naruto with anxiety in his voice.

"Naruto-kun….did I do good?" Hinata whispered out.

"Yes Hinata-hime, you did great and I'm truly proud of you," said Naruto with a smile while holding her hands, Hinata smiled before she closed her eyes and lost consciousness. Then the medics came and carried her to the emergency room to be treated whit Naruto and Sakura watching on.

"Naruto-kun, will Hinata be okay?" asked Sakura worriedly.

"She will be fine Sakura-chan, after all she's strong just like you," said Naruto placing a hand on her shoulder.

"Hey you,"

Naruto turned to glare at Neji, Kurama is trying to prevent her chakra from leaking out due to her rage at what the boy had done, and even Chinami was glaring at him.

"Why do you support a weakling like her, she was fated to always fail, or perhaps you support her sine you're also a weakling. Let me tell you this, once a loser always a loser,"

Naruto's eyes turned ice cold as his hand slowly reached for the hilt of Mumei no Tamanoo "If that is what you think, I might have to change that," he was about to dash forward and slash him across his chest but someone stood in his path and it turned out to be Lee. "Get out of my way,"

"I may not know how you truly feel, but all fighting must be done in an official match. Someone through hard work, defeating a prodigy will definitely make for an exciting match as I too wish to fight him. Although if you end up fighting Neji, then that is fine too," said Lee, Naruto still wanted to attack Neji but his tenants spoke up.

"He has a point Naruto-sama, you could get disqualified if you attack him," said Chinami.

"She's right, if we get him in a match then there will be no one to stop us from hurting him," said Kurama who had finally calmed down after hearing what Lee said.

Naruto took a deep breath to calm himself before speaking up "Alright Lee, you've convinced me. Now I really want to have a match with you,"

"Of course, I too wish to fight you," said Lee with a good guy pose. Naruto turned to face Neji who looking at him with a smug look.

"If we ever meet on the arena you better watch out, cause I'm not showing any mercy," before he walked back to the upper levels.

**Flashback End**

Soon his anger changed into concern for Lee, he had the next match against Gaia. He kept on attacking taijutsu but Gaia used the sand from her gourd to guard, many wondered why he wasn't using any ninjutsu until Gai revealed that he can't do any due to having underdeveloped chakra circulatory system. No matter how many times Lee attacked, he just couldn't get past the sand, which was until Gai told Lee to take his leg weights off.

When he did, Lee's speed increased drastically to the point that the sand was having difficulty to keep up and was able to land a direct hit on Gaia much to the sand ninja's surprise. But it was revealed that Gaia had an armor of sand on her, Lee tried to finish it with a Primary Lotus which was a double edged sword putting a serious amount of strain on his body.

But Gaia survived the attack and proceeded to pummel Lee, which forced him to use his trump card, which is to open the eight inner gates. After opening five of the inner gates, he then started to attack Gaia with a high speed combo which even the sand couldn't keep up with at all, something Naruto noted that he could keep with when using the Clock Up (AN: He was holding back on Haku back then), and used Hidden Lotus leaving his muscles torn and body fatigued. Gaia used the sand to cushion her fall and then crushed Lee's arm and legs, she would have continued hadn't Gai stepped in to call the match.

The next and final match was between Chouji and Dosu, but it ended rather quickly with Dosu using his Melody arm to knock Chouji out, giving him the win. Later the winners assembled and Hiruzen had them draw numbers and were given matchups which were:

Naruto Uzumaki vs. Neji Hyuuga

Sasuke Uchiha vs. Gaara of the Sand

Kankurou vs. Shino Aburame

Shikamaru Nara vs. Temari

Sakura Haruno vs. Dosu Kinuta

Hiruzen then tell them that the final phase of the exam will be a tournament whereby any or none of them could have a chance on becoming Chuunin based on how they fight in a match and that they only have a month to train before then. Afterwards everyone left the tower and returned to the village.

When they reached the hospital, Naruto asked which room Hinata stayed at and was told where to go. When they reached the designated room and opened the door, Naruto and the others saw Hiashi Hyuuga sitting next to Hinata's bed with a younger girl who looks like her but with longer hair.

"Sorry Hiashi-sama, we didn't know that you would be here," said Naruto, bowing to the man, he had gone to see him for Hinata's hand in marriage, although he was scared out of his wits when Hiashi accepted but gave him the overprotective father speech much to the amusement of Kurama and Chinami.

"It's no trouble at all, I just wanted to check on my daughter," said Hiashi, he may act cold on the outside but deep within he cares for his daughters and still has regrets for what happened back then "I believe you two haven't met, this is my second daughter Hanabi,"

"It's a pleasure to meet you," said Hanabi, bowing to them and received a bow in return from Naruto and the girls.

"I'll be taking my leave then, I wish you luck in the finals Naruto-san," Hiashi was about to leave when Hanabi spoke up.

"Father, may I stay for little while longer?" and got a nod of confirmation from the man before he left.

"So you're the little firecracker, whom Hinata would always talk about," said Naruto with smirk, making the girl blush from embarrassment.

"D-don't call me that!"

"As long as it makes you at ease around me, then I won't stop," Naruto rubbed her head gently, making Hanabi smile more happily.

"Now I can see why Nee-chan likes you,"

"And she's not the only one," said Fu with Haku nodding in agreement.

"Wait you like him too and Nee-chan's fine with it? How come?" asked Hanabi.

"That's because Naruto-kun is the head of an almost extinct clan so the CRA applies to him, and we know that he will love all of us equally," said Haku hugging Naruto from behind lovingly. Hanabi was at first angry with Naruto, but looking at him she could tell that he would never hurt her sister.

"So how is she?" asked Naruto looking at Hinata sleeping on the bed with concern.

"The doctor said that she'll be fine, she should be able to recover in time for the finals,"

"That's good, because I want her there to see me beat stoicism out of Neji for what he did to Hinata-chan,"

"Please be careful when facing Neji, he's known to be a genius when it comes to the Jyuuken,"

"Not only that, we must also find out the reason why Neji hates Hinata and main branch in general," said Chinami.

"I'll be leaving you girls, I get the feeling that Jiji will want to meet me so I'll meet you later. Sakura-chan will come by later to visit," with that, Naruto left the hospital and upon passing through the entrance, an ANBU member wearing a cat mask appeared before him.

"Uzumaki-san, lord Hokage wishes to speak with you,"

"Okay, and sorry for not getting the time to spar with you,"

"It's understandable as you are currently partaking the Chuunin exams," with that said, the female ninja placed a hand on Naruto and used the Body Flicker technique to transport them to the Hokage tower. Upon arriving at the office, they saw Hiruzen along with his shadow clones just finishing up with the paperwork.

"I see that your remaining life is now easier with Shadow clones eh Jiji?" said Naruto with a smirk.

"You don't know the half of it, I get the feeling that the previous Hokages will never let me hear the end of it when the time comes for me to go to the afterlife," said Hiruzen with a sweatdrop as he could have sworn that he heard them laughing at him.

"How about you play a prank on the next Hokage by not telling them to use Shadow clones to do the paperwork," hearing those words, made Hiruzen and his clones chuckle darkly.

"Now that isn't a bad idea, I can simply sit back and watch them sweat away with the answer in front of them. Anyway, Anko told me about your encounter with my former student,"

"Yeah, too bad old snakey got away as we would have made a human snake wallet out of him. But I get the feeling that he didn't take us seriously, I also discovered that the cursed seal which he placed on Sasuke is much stronger than the one he put on Anko-chan that I couldn't remove it,"

Hiruzen signed deeply, even since that day he regretted having let Orochimaru live and the consequences that came after "The next time we meet, I'll finish it once and for all," then he turned to Naruto "Kakashi placed a restraining seal on Sasuke to prevent the seal from taking over so you won't have to worry about it for a while," Naruto nodded but he wasn't too sure.

"Okay Jiji, I'll have to go and start training since Sakura-chan has gone to Anko-chan for that," said Naruto turning to leave.

"Actually Naruto, I've found someone who would train you,"

"Really who?"

"I'd rather not say, I'm sure you'll recognize the person when you both," Hiruzen mentally made a note to get his crystal ball ready "You'll find him at the hot springs,"

"Okay, I'll be heading there now, see ya later Jiji," Naruto left the tower in direction of the hot springs while Hiruzen took out the crystal ball and got ready to record the scene.

Later on, Naruto had arrived at the hot springs and was looking around for the person who would help him with his training for the finals. "What kind of person do you girls think he would be for Jiji to recommend?"

"As long as he isn't a pervert, then I should be okay with him," said Kurama.

Then they heard giggling and turned to see someone squatting close to a fence, he was wearing clothes similar to that of a kabuki dancer, wearing a horned headband with a kanji for 'oil' displayed in the center. His long spiky white hair is tied into a ponytail, and he has two tattoos that look like bloody tear streaks, under each eye.

"That no good pervert is peeping on the women in the hot springs!" said Kurama with feminine anger.

"Don't worry Ku-chan, I have an idea to deal with him," thought Naruto with mischievous grin as he summoned the Cooper cane. Then he slowly snuck up to the man until he was standing right behind him, Naruto slowly raised the cane above his head "FORE!" and swung at the man, sending him flying right into the women's bath.

They heard a splash, then women screaming followed by the man's although his was screams of pain to which Naruto laughed at.

"It serves the pervert right, that's what he gets for intruding a woman's privacy," said Kurama with Chinami nodding agreement.

"Hey you, brat!" Naruto turned to see the man stomping towards him while covered with bruises and some parts of his clothes were torn "Why did you do that? You ruined my data gathering!"

"What you call 'data gathering' is nothing more than peeping in the women's bath," said Naruto with a deadpanned expression.

"Do you not know who I am?! I am the great toad sage of mount Myoboku, the all-powerful Jiraiya!" said the man, then he noticed that the blonde standing before him had a blank look on his face "What's the matter brat? Aren't you going to say something?"

"No I'm rather going to do something,"

"And what will that be?" Jiraiya got his answer in the form of an uppercut to the chin as he was propelled into the air before crashing to ground, he got up to yell at the boy but quickly had to avoid a fireball which was shot at him. "What the hell was that for?!"

"Just a greeting for my godfather after not seeing him for twelve years of my life," said Naruto with anger clear in his eyes. Jiraiya's eyes widened upon what he heard.

"N-Naruto?" Jiraiya rolled to the side to avoid a slash from Tsukiotoshi when Naruto jumped at him.

"Where the hell have you been all this time?!" shouted Naruto who kept on attacking the man.

"Naruto, you must understand, I had to take care of my spy network for-" the toad sage felt a knee in the gut before a punch to the face.

"That's the worst excuse I've ever heard! So it didn't even come across your mind to even write a letter to me, just to check how I am?!"

The gravity of those words really struck Jiraiya hard, he has now realized how much he had hurt his godson by not being there for him this whole time since his birth. Knowing fully well how a jinchurriki is treated didn't make him feel any better as he slid down against a wall.

"You're right, I should have been there for you and yet I wasn't. I know saying sorry won't be enough and if you don't want me in your life then I'm willing to accept it,"

Naruto stepped forward and raised a fist to punch Jiraiya again, he stared at the man for a moment before striking, only to hit the wall just a few inches away from his head. Naruto turned and walked away before stopping after a few steps.

"You're right that saying sorry won't be enough," said Naruto, Jiraiya's head slumped "Which is why you have a lot of ground to cover if you want to patch things up with me, we can start with my training,"

Jiraiya raised his head to look at Naruto with hope in eyes "Thank you, you won't regret it,"

"I hope not, we'll meet tomorrow near the riverside," with that said, Naruto walked away towards the Namikaze compound. Jiraiya simply sighed sadly, this wasn't how he wanted to bond with his godson. He decided to meet Hiruzen to get some info before going to a bar for some sake.

"Damn, I never thought that I would be doing the same thing as Tsunade," muttered Jiraiya as he headed towards the Hokage tower.

The next morning, Naruto met with Jiraiya at the riverside with a waterfall nearby.

"So what kind of training are we doing Pervy sage?" asked Naruto.

"Why are you calling me that?" asked Jiraiya with a twitch in his eyebrow.

"Because you're a sage as well as a pervert, so I'm calling you that whether you like it or not,"

Jiraiya wanted to complain but figured that being given a nickname is Naruto's way of slowly opening up to him.

"Well sensei told me everything that had happened and the current situation. This first thing that I'll teach you is the Summoning jutsu,"

"What kind of jutsu is that?" asked Naruto, not knowing that the mysterious scroll began to glow when he asked that question.

"It is a teleportation technique which a contract signed in blood with all kinds of creatures, then you can summon them at any time you wish,"

"That sounds like what old snakey did back at the forest of with that giant snake, I can't help but feel that they're related," Jiraiya laughed at the nickname that Naruto has given his former team mate.

"I see that you understand it, now let me show you how it's done, Summoning jutsu!" Jiraiya bit his thumb to draw blood and then went through a few handsigns before slamming it on the floor which produced a seal matrix, then there was a puff which faded to reveal Jiraiya standing on a large with a scroll held with its tongue. The mystery scroll glowed more brightly in Naruto's pouch. "Now all you have to do is sign the contract and you should be able to summon the toads,"

Naruto was about to take the summoning scroll, when the storage scroll flew out of his pouch and unrolled itself, then the seal released the mystery scroll which floated before Naruto much to his Jiraiya's confusion. The scroll unrolled itself to reveal that it was a summoning scroll with strange symbols that he had never seen before.

"What's going on?" asked Naruto.

"I don't know, but where did you find this scroll?" Naruto then told him how he found the scroll "It seems like the scroll wants you to sign the contract,"

"But doesn't one sign a single contract?"

"Normally, those who sign a single contract, only have a sufficient amount of chakra to summon. But there are ninjas with large amounts of chakra close to yours who can summon a variety of creatures by signing multiple contracts. With your being a jinchurriki, you are of the latter, so you can sign it,"

"Okay then," Naruto bit his thumb and proceeded to write his full name on the scroll and placed his fingerprints at the bottom. Then scroll glowed brightly before rolling itself back and shrinking and returning to his pouch.

"Now try the summoning and let's see who the boss of the contract is," said Jiraiya.

Naruto went through the handsigns and slammed a palm on the ground, there was a puff of white smoke and when it cleared, they saw a creature whom Jiraiya instinctively knew that nobody has ever seen before.

"And to think I had seen everything, this godson of mine will definitely make things more interesting around here,"

After meeting with the creature, Naruto also signed the toad contract and met Gamabunta, the toad boss. Gamabunta recognized the boy to be Minato's son but still decided to test him by having Naruto stay on his back as he jumped around until to which Naruto passed by a skin of his teeth and he had to rest for three days.

Afterwards, he resumed with the training, Jiraiya was impressed with Naruto's level of fuinjutsu, ninjutsu and kenjutsu but still help polished his skills by sparring with him.

As time went, Naruto was still angry at him but sometimes would smile and laugh with him. Naruto often summons the creatures secretly and train with them as he had planned to summon them when the times comes. When Jiraiya met Naruto's fiancées, he had to run like hell as they chased him, angry for not being there for his godson much to Naruto's amusement. He had also received a message from Inari via the scroll, wishing him good luck on the finals and told of how the Land of Waves was getting back on its feet.

Soon it was the night before, the finals as Naruto laid on his bed and thought about the match tomorrow "I don't what will happen tomorrow, but I can tell that it's gonna be wild!" then he closed his eyes and went to sleep.

Weapons/Gears appearances

Cooper Cane = Sly Cooper

This is Hussbek online with another chapter, the next chapter will be the finals before the invasion. Naruto has signed the contract on the mystery scroll but I haven't decided since the poll is still on but it closes on the next chapter right before the invasion as they will make their debut on it. Some readers have been suggesting powers for Naruto, this story is based mostly on him using weapons but I might make another fic with Naruto using powers instead but I'll shelf that for later. Read and Review as always.

This is Hussbek from Ghana

Signing out.