Warning: I do not own RWBY, that belongs to Oum & Rooster Teeth. Nor Naruto that is shonen and his creator.


The sun shined brightly in the morning sky. In the Konoha stadium, hundreds of people were all lined in their seats as they waited for the games to begin. In the center of the stadium were the contestants as they were lined up so the crowd could see them all.

Naruto drank from his mug

"How in the world did you get that?" Shikamaru muttered as he rubbed his eyes. Ozma knew the boy wanted something to keep him awake, or be allowed to sleep this all out.

"I have my ways" he replied back.

"Oi, can it you two and face the crowd" said the proctor "... What kind of blend is that? Smells good."

"Not Konoha Brown"

"Ah, lucky bastard, my order was postponed"

The immortal sighed, why in the world did Konoha have to have the worst coffee out of all the nations. For a nation that is considered the strongest ... was this the cost for creating so many powerful shinobi, to be forced to endure that sludge?

Such mysteries would need to be investigated and taken care of.

On the other hand, naruto looked around for the sound nin. Looking around he could not see the boy, there was no way that he would have quitted, unless Orochimaru ordered him too. That or ... He turned to see garra with that ever impassive face.

"Great, either I have garra who killed him or Orochimaru decided to butt in and do something else with the genin" The immortal thought. He knew Shikamaru was also noticing the same thing too.

Before long the Hokage stepped forward and started his speech before allowing the proctor to take over. Said man pulled out a piece of paper with how the tournament would work, It showed everyone but dosu and confirming Ozma's worries. The man explained that exam will be going the same with only exception being Gaara who would have to wait later.

And with that the man ordered everyone but him and neji to leave the arena. "Alright you two, the first fight! Naruto Uzumaki vs Neji Hyuga. BEGIN!"

"Hmph, let's see just how far you can go Uzumaki, before you fall apart to the truth of your destiny" Neji warned as he readied himself into his stance.

Naruto took a sip from his mug

xxx In the Stadium xxx

"Watch Hanabi, you will given a first look at one who's hyuga blood is strong" stated the head of the hyuga clan. Neji was the pride and joy of the clan, regardless of his stature as branch member, however that same pride was the only thing keeping him alive. More importantly from death.

His nephew was an utter fool, had not the jonin stopped him then the elders would have killed him with the cursed seal on the spot or worse in front of the branch members. The boy attacked and nearly killed a main branch member, even if hinata was weak she was of the main branch and heir to the clan. The elder council would never allow this to happen.

The boy would not fail here and nor would he be allowed to. After all fate was on his side ... and he would need every bit of it should he somehow loose.

"Yes father" the younger girl next to him spoke.

In another spot the remaining rookies watched as the blonde drank his coffee without care.

"Seriously, what in the world is he doing just standing there drinking from his mug!?" Ino gaped "Doesn't he know who he is fighting?"

"I fail to see how that matters" said Sasuke.

"But that is Neji Hyuga, he was the rookie of the year before sasuke ... and I heard he is the strongest genin among his generation" Ino warned "That guy is no joke, he nearly killed Hinata for god's sake. And naruto is not doing anything but drinking from that mug!"

"Come on Ino you have to have some confidence in Naruto" said Sakura.

"I'm more surprised that you do" the blonde muttered "I mean why Naruto is average but that is not going to help him here."

"Trust Sakura, Naruto won't loose here. Neji doesn't even realize that this match was over before it began" said Sasuke.

xxx In the Arena xxx

Naruto and Neji watched each other, waiting for the other to move.

Neji was the first to move, activating his bloodline. Ozma made sure to read up on the byakugan and it's ability. Can see a person's chara network and his chakra points, see in a 360⁰ angle, and giving the users an incredible boost to the sight too.

"Shadow Clone Jutsu"

Four clones popped up as he saw the hyuga looked surprise. Seems the byakugan couldn't tell the difference between clones or at least shadow clones. He ordered the four to charge.

The clones went after neji as the two in the front activated their canes and went for an undercut. Neji jumped out of the and used the clone's heads to push him up. The other two went after from the back but he easily dodged out of the way. The four clones began attacking him at different angles while making sure to keep distance from. Neji merely dodged out of the way, as only one clone managed to brush against his hair before being pushed back.

Naruto dispelled that clone and ordered the rest to retreat.

"Hmph, is that all you can do? I heard of your goal of being Hokage, if that is all you can do then give up" Neji advised. "These eyes allow my to see many things, including that one is born with power. It is fate that decides who is strong and who is weak upon their birth."

"Oh? And you don't believe in hard work?" Naruto decided to play with the child. Gave him time to plan with what his clone learned.

"Don't you see, out of the hundreds of shinobi that live here only a handful are ever chosen to even have the chance of being a hokage. Each hokage himself were prodigies and legends themselves, each of them were chosen by destiny to be what they are. You don't became hokage because you want to, you are born to it. All people must follow the rules that fate gives, the only thing that shared between all of us ... is death" said Neji.

The boy seemed more resigned and sadder at the end before covering it up. The crowd seemed to listen in on his monologue as a few seemed guilty for some reason.

Naruto finished up the last of his coffee before tossing the mug to the proctor "Well good thing I don't believe in destiny. Your right that the one of the things that bind us is death. However, what we do with our life is up to us." With a single hand sign he created a five more shadow clones as they all summoned more earth clones, creating a small army between him and neji.

They all charged at the hyuga.

Neji's arms glowed with chakra as they connected to the clones, causing the rock ones to collapse and the shadow clones ones to dispel. The boy tore through the clone army before coming right towards the real naruto. A straight jab to the chest caused him to cough up blood and his body to shake a bit.

"Your fear of fighting made it very clear who was the real one. That's why I told you is was useless" said Neji. The boy was about to turn when Ozma started to laugh. He tried to ask why as the clone dispeled. The remaining shadow clones came at him, three on the left, two on the right, and four rock clones from above.

As the clone's fist was about to hit Neji's body glowed right before he started to spin and creating a dome of chakra with propelled the clones back, leaving naruto defeated. It seemed the rest of the crowd looked shocked too, the spinning died down as neji looked smugly at him.

"You really thought you had me there? Foolish ... not that it matters now, you are now within the field of my hakke" said Neji. Leaning down the hyuga members gasped knowing what technique it was. The boy had not learned one but two techniques within the main branch. Neji started to declared a higher list of numbers as he tore through naruto, sealing away 64 of his chakra points.

Naruto was thrown onto his knees as neji looked at him. He tried to get up but his entire body flared up in pain whenever the tried, he could barely feel his chakra already, like something was blocking him from accessing it, was this the power the hyuga clan? What a devastating power indeed.

"And now you are on your knees, stay on it. You now stand before a power you can't change and realize how futile it is. Having your dreams come true through hard work, that is nothing more than an Illusion" said Neji.

The rest of the crowd was silent as they waited for what naruto would do next. Everyone looked worried or knew that this match was over before it began.

The ones that didn't were Sakura and Sasuke

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"Whew, man that was pretty brutal there Neji, I think you nearly popped a bone or something" said Ozma as he easily stood back up. Much to the shock of Neji and the rest of the crowd. His teammates on the other hand simlied, knowing what was about to happen next. "Can't seem to feel much of chakra but I think I have enough to stay alive ... so good enough for me."

"I-Impossible, how can you stand after that? You should in great pain now or in a hospital!?" Neji looked baffled by the blonde.

"That? Well I'm Naruto Uzumaki and I can do the fuck I want" Naruto answered "But enough about me, I want to know more about you. You declared Hinata a failure and even attacked her, a member of the branch house attacking someone from the main house. Now of course adding the fact you seemed almost depressed from when you said we all share death give some ideas of your little old childhood.

Seems to me that you have some kind of personal vendetta with Hinata or the main house. Now of course ignoring the question of why or how there is a branch house and the consequences of such a system I can deduce that there is some kind of trauma between you and Hinata or the main branch. So why don't you give me your story eh? Considered it as one final request."

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"Fine, I will humor you one last time" Neji said quietly "Let me tell you the Hyuga's destiny of hatred. Within the main branch of the hyuga they have a powerful fuinjutsu made to keep the branch house in line. With a single hand sign they could end our lives without a thought, it is the cage bird seal branded on each of us."

"Caged Bird Seal?" Ozma wondered.

Neji simply took off his headband to show off the curse seal to him. "When I was four this seal was carved into me forehead. On that day a celebration was being held, kumo had sent an ambassador to sign a peace treaty between the two villages. The only clan that did not join the hyuga clan, this was the day that the Hinata turned three."

Neji turned to where Hiashi was sitting "My father and clan head were brothers, the problem was my father was born after him and by the clan rules was sent to the branch house. However, one day the main branch killed my father. On that same day Hinata was kidnapped as her father killed the man, however that man was in fact the ambassador and with him dead kumo demanded Hiashi's body for compensation.

Of course the main head would never allow that. So instead they killed my father and used him as a replacement for Hiashi. They were twins and equals in every way, however it was destiny who decided who born first. And it is that destiny that this match was decided long before we fought."

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"Hm, not what I expected but too far from my own theories. However, I have to interject on one part of your tale ... you are not the only one that is cursed by a seal" All around his the konoha part of the crowd suddenly quieted as a few shinobi even looked to the hokage. Neji looked a bit perplexed while the proctor started to look uncomfortable. The hokage raised his brow but did nothing.

"Tell me Neji, what was the greatest threat twelve years ago?" Naruto asked.

"That was the kyuubi attack, why do you ask?" Now he was confused. Was the blonde becoming delirious.

"You see there is something funny about that. A bijuu is a being of pure chakra and last time I checked you could not really destroy energy. Something about the laws of physics or something. But the main point is you can't destroy chakra, so how do you stop a rampaging bijuu? It is very simple, you seal it. Twelve years ago the fourth hokage branded my with a seal that keep the kyuubi trapped within me. Making me a jinchuriki."

Naruto pulled off his sweater to show everyone the seal on his navel.

"You say that destiny decides everything, then by that account I should have become the very demon that destroyed konoha. So, let me show the difference in that" He called upon the Kyuubi's chakra.

Like a maelstrom chakra exploded out of his as everyone watched the boy draw the beast's chakra. Red and orange chakra was visible and so potent anyone could feel the hate and anger rolling off of it. The older generations all tensed and became scared at the sight, the only thing stopping them from running was that two kages were close by to stop anything.

For the younger generation they looked with shock. They heard of the kyuubi but they never knew what it was like on that night, but seeing that chakra out and in the open and that one of their own was the monster's host ... it was an eye opener.

Neji looked with fear as the primal rage nearly drowned him, his byakugan showed what was a snarling demon glaring at him. He nearly shut off his eyes from how potent it was, the demons chakra was more like looking at the sun! "This is insane, this is the power of the Kyuubi!? What is he, how can anyone handle this power?"

Slowly the red/orange chakra died down and naruto looked more relaxed then anything.

"Tell me Neji, my chakra at that moment was that mine or the Kyuubi's" Naruto asked.

"... That was the Kyuubi's" he answered

"Good, so how about now? Tell me, is it that orange chakra or is it blue. You said that your eyes can many things, so tell me ... Is my chakra that of a demon or a human?"

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"Human"

Naruto nodded as the crowded muttered to themselves. They knew the hyuga clan's eyes could see one's chakra, and for one to declared his chakra that of a human ...

"So there you go Neji, that is my answer to your belief in destiny. Now, thanks to the fox my chakra is back up and running, so I'm done playing around with you" The blonde vanished before Neji.

A sharp pain was felt in his one blind spot, Naruto's cane quickly let lose a barrage of attacks at his blind spots. He then kicked neji into the air and attack three times at his joints, the hyuga felt was limbs became a little sluggish as he fell down. He barely got up before using a Kaiten, and naruto broke through it with a single swing.

Throwing his cane up naruto's stance shifted and Neji thought he saw a female with snake like skin behind him.

He attacked him with a style that looked similar to his. He felt something crawl into his limbs as they slowly stopped listening to him. Be the time naruto finished off the attack with a kick Neji could not feel much of his body, he could feel his chakra ... but it was like someone but a huge block on each body part.

He couldn't move

"You said that destiny controls our lives" Naruto began, catching his cane "But right now I've proved you wrong. If destiny was true I would have been the demon everyone thought I was then their would not be a konoha standing, because I would've ripped the seal open a long time ago. You know, ninjutsu used to be my worst major, I could never do it. But you know what, I did do it and I passed the exam so I am going to tell you this once.

Destiny is what we make of it and I long decided that it will not stop me. So stop holding yourself back Neji, reach for your goals and keep going because you can do it."

Seeing that neji could not move the proctor called the match as the crowd began to cry out from the battle. Many ever cheering the boys name out.

xxx Competitor Booth xxx

"Jezz, you trying to give me a heart attack there" said shikamaru "So you really are the jailor of the kyuubi?"

"I think that chakra of mine proved that" Naruto replied "Does that change anything. Do you think I am a demon shikamaru?"

"You a demon? Pfft, in your dreams. Still boring old uzumaki to me, regardless of what is in your gut" the boy answered.

"I agree, I find it rather logical to see you as the kyuubi. The hyuga already proved that and as you said if you were the demon then we would all be dead now." Shino chimed in.

"Thank you, both of you. However, I need you two to do something for me. I'm going to be fighting gaara soon and I need you two to give up if you have to fight him. He's just like me" Naruto warned.

"How good is his seal" Shikamaru went first.

"Paper thin ... or a real shit show" Naruto watched as the lazy genin cursed under his breath. Shino looked worried and that was coming from the most stoic boy in their class "Look, that battle is going to be between jinchuriki and I don't want to guys to get in the way so ... "

"Yeah yeah, run like our lives are on the line and don't turn back" the nara explained.

He nodded.

xxx Infirmary xxx

Neji could still hear the crowd this far away. The medics finally returned some level of mobility as he could stand up and walk now. A few minutes later and he could fight lightly. He listened to the two medics before someone opened the door, it was hiashi. He ordered the medics to leave.

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"Ugh ... what do you want Lord Hiashi" he barely got off the bed. The genin already had some ideas on why the man was here, he had lost after all, the prodigy of the hyuga clan lost a claness orphan. He was more surprised that the clan elders were not demanding how or why he knew two main house technique. That and the pain from 'stealing' them too.

The only reason he was not executed by the elders was because of his skills. Or was Hiashi to be his executioner—

"I am here to tell the truth of that fateful night" ... alright, that was not what he was expecting.

"Truth? What do you mean by the truth?" He asked.

"On that day, I fully intended to die" The man answered

"What!? What in the world are you talking about!? My father was killed to take your place!" rage exploded within him, damn all the consequences, that man was speak blasphemy and lies now.

"It may appear so but that wasn't what happened. The reason why I am telling you this now is that now is that I think you will believe in me now ... and I am nothing more than a coward" That caused his nephew to look surprised.

"You see I was willingly to throw my life away if it meant keeping peace, it was my fault that the 'ambassador' died in the first place. Your grandfather and the hokage wanted your father to go in my stead since we were identical twins. I objected, this was my burden to pay ... or at least it was meant to, your father attacked me and left me paralysed. He explained to me that he choose this ... because it was the first time he had the power to choose and wanted to protect his older brother from a future of war" Hiashi explained.

"Sounds like a lie to me, why in the world should I believe your words it seems to me like an excuses. And why now of all times!" He snarked back.

"Because I knew you would say that and why I waited. I wanted to tell not as the head of the main branch, but as your uncle who wanted to tell the last words of his brother" and then the man did something completely unexpected.

He kneel, to a branch member

"Please, believe me"

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"Please ... raise your head ... uncle" tears streamed down from his eyes. He looked up the window to see a bird unforouged its wing

"Father, is destiny like a cloud flowing an inescapable flow, or does it have the power to choose? I still don't know the answer, however, even though we all arrive at the same path we still have the power to choose your goals and see them accomplished. And in my match I understand now about strength, so from now on I want to become strong so I can make my own fate"

"Father ... the birds are flying so freely"

xxx Staduim xxx

Shikamaru was quite.

Shino was too if you ignored the erratic buzzing

The crows was silent too as they the next match.

The matches for Shikamaru and Shino were quick affairs before the biggest one. It was the second round and the first part began.

Naruto Uzumaki vs Gaara Sabaku