Naruto's Various Chūnin Selection Exams Finals

Disclaimer: Masashi Kishimoto is the author and creator of the popular manga and anime Naruto, and has ownership of all official characters, ideas, countries, backgrounds, etcetera from the series. Anything else that pops up that's not original or is simply cameo I do not own, that includes crossover cameos, fictional cameos, celebrity cameos, and real-world cameos. All I own in this are the story's originality and plot, the ideas that may appear to not make it full-time on its own, any and all of my Original Characters both with background and of filler purposes, original jutsu, techniques, and original countries and locations to expand the horizon within the Naruto world.

Author's Note: This came to me after discovering the many different Naruto stories out there that go through their own Chūnin Selection Exams. Each one vastly differs from the rest, and others have a crossover flavor. This is MY version of Naruto's Chūnin Selection Exams Finals... against mostly Neji in different mannerisms. Each one can be considered its own separate little story, exploring the different sides of Naruto in my list of favorites and few chosen selections recommended by friends and fans of my works. Beware however that some of them will sound like crack.

Butterfly Genjutsu (Or Can A Kunai Go Snicker-Snack?)

My name is Naruto. I guess you could say I'm a ninja. After all, I DO serve Konoha as one of their many weapons in human form. After all, in the end, we're but tools for villages who desire bloodshed and death. Naïve children growing up wanting to be ninja, believing it's all fun and games until they take their first kill, and then before they know it, are forced to kill and kill some more, slowly chipping away their psyche, and encasing their heart in a little bit more of black tar that eventually envelopes their souls in darkness. If this was a different world, humanity would have destroyed the "monsters" who fashion children into murderous brainwashed soldiers. After all, each village is different, but the brainwash is all the same: insert name of village is the enemy; you must kill them before they kill you. It's all the same garbage. They never got that chance to brainwash me. I've already gone insane, or so they clarify me as such. Even as a Jinchuuriki, a supposed human weapon of mass destruction, I was already off the deep-end.

And no, despite what many claim is true; Kurama never did turn me into an insane demon brat. I simply delved into another realm once closed-off centuries upon centuries ago, before my world I thought I knew came after another calamity that destroyed the old world. How else could you explain microwaves, computers with virtually no internet access, and trains and boats, except people still use horses or oxen-driven wagons as means of transportation? The world I am talking about is Wonderland... MY Wonderland... After an incident that left me in a coma for several years, forced to be hidden away from the masses that'd enjoy "finishing me off", I went into Wonderland. I sought Wonderland as MY sanctuary... to get away from the harshness of the real world, its bleak and blindness that draw you towards their deadly light, and then ensnare your soul when your guard is dropped.

Of course, my fractured Wonderland was fusing with the real world. A world once a memory and then told as a mere tale in the old world, was existing side-by-side in my head. Because Kurama was the strongest of the Bijuu, some of his energies were almost a direct reflectance of the true beast he and his brethren were shattered from. Thus, the slow poison once destroyed by Alice Liddell was finding a stronger form, using the chakra as a way of recreating its black existence, and empower itself. Queen Alice, the mad girl who took the crown in Queensland, sought to have the poison forever destroyed, and I was the one that will do it in her place. But first, to save Wonderland, I have to destroy the poison's obsessions it sought after. And in order to destroy the black poison, I must destroy the ninja society. In a way, those in power who breed children into killers for their ninja village are a poison in the world. What was it that mangy cat once said?

Oh, yes. I believe it was, "Those in power corrupt those around. Even the most sincere of man holds darkness in one's heart." Cheshire could very well be mentioning the old man wearing the Hokage Hat, but even I knew he's not as pure a saint everybody else is blinded to believe. Even my father is not safe from this: a killer of many people in the last war. How many did my old man kill were children forced into the ninja war? How many families did he destroy in a fortnight? Whatever... I appear to be getting off-track. Yes, sorry. I believe I talked about the destruction of the current society to prevent my Wonderland from fading forever. But the poison seeping into my real world was also dragging out the monsters of Alice's old nightmares and madness. The good side to this was the Vorpal Blade was now under my mastery... Only now I'm calling it the Vorpal Cleaver, as the blade has morphed into the shape of a meat butcher's blade. The Hobby Horse is now the Knightmare, the Pepper Grinder is now Octo Grinder, and even Cheshire smiles madly every time he sees me use the Catnip Cannon that took the place of Hatter's Teapot Cannon.

If only you were there when I somewhat slipped from my peaceful state. Sasuke, my opponent (yes, it wasn't Neji... I was to face Sasuke in the finals) had been enraged when his little training in order to defeat Gaara was in vain. Because I had defeated Neji quickly, the matches gone through quicker and I barely scraped a victory against Gaara. They should have disqualified the Uchiha but the ass-kissers didn't want to. But I heard rumors our future clientele were disappointed that us as a whole (in meaning the whole village of Uchiha ass-kissers) would blatantly favor one whole person above all others; even the Fire Daimyō made verbal note of this. Still, Sasuke was mad because he could never prove his strengths against Gaara whom I knew would simply crush him under tons of sand and microscopically grind him. His jutsu failed against the shooting power of the Octo Grinder, or the explosive super-heated balls of water from the Catnip Cannon, or the crushing blows from my Knightmare. And when he tried to use Chidori on me, the Vorpal Cleaver sliced through the jutsu and part of his hand.

It's a shame the match would never continue because many ninja whom favor Sasuke stepped in, thus granting me automatic victory due to interference. But the invasion sprung off from there... and then my nightmares broke free and began to flood the world under waves of black corrosive ink. I'm the only one who can stand against this evil... to save MY Wonderland. But to save my Wonderland, I must first sacrifice my old world...

Only then will I and the Queen survive and be safe...