Hey guys!
So yeah, i'm back updating as I did before so don't worry. I also wanted to tell you that I probably won't update during weekends as I'm normally too lazy in weekends to do anything.
Anyway, I hope you like today's chapter! And remember:
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The Third Hokage standed up from his seat and waited for the crowd to make silence.
"What an amazing battle and what an unexpected result. But, unfortunately, we have to proceed with the next match as we do not have much time." The Hokage smiled after finishing his phrase. "So let's receive Ino Yamanaka and Gaara from Sunagakure!"
Ino couldn't believe it, did they just pair her with the strongest guy in the exams behind Gohan? Shikamaru couldn't believe neither, and even was concerned about Ino, but he tried to look as calm as possible. Chouji directly panicked, she knew Ino was going to be pound and probably with no mercy. Gohan simply smiled, he was afraid, yes, but he wanted to give confidence to his friend.
"This is your opportunity to show everyone how strong you've gotten." Gohan said, smiling. "I know you can defeat him."
"Yeah, kick his ass or whatever." Shikamaru said calmly, although he was afraid of what that guy could do to his friend.
"Good luck, Ino." Chouji said, eating a chip to try and hide his concern.
"Thanks guys, I'll kick that guys ass!" Ino said, nodding afterwards.
As the two went down to the arena, Gaara talked to her.
"You're doomed." He coldly and simply said.
Ino could just try to ignore him, but deep inside she believed he was right, he was stronger than her.
The two Genin finally arrived at the arena, they got one in front to the other. They both took their respective fighting posture. Hayate gave the signal and the match started.
Ino quickly throwed as much shurikens as she could. Gaara simply used his sand to block them. The blonde kunoichi kept throwing shurikens and kunai, but she started running around Gaara, but the redhead just used more sand than before.
"Is that all you can do?" A bored Gaara said.
Ino stopped and thought about a new strategy. She remembered that Lee had hit him several times, but he was way faster than her. She then thought about something. She started to throw her shurikens while she ran around Gaara, but this time she was getting closer and closer. Gaara noticed this, trying to hit her with sand, but Ino jumped very high and avoided it. The Yamanaka was great full for Gohan's physical training as she wasn't that good at it. The redhead was confused at how high Ino jumped, but before he could do anything, Ino got her hands in front of her face, opening them.
"Solar Flare!" Ino yelled, as a really strong light appeared.
Gaara didn't react on time, being blinded by the technique. As the blonde kunoichi went down, she grabbed a kunai and used it to break through the sand wall the redhead ninja had made. Then, she aimed for Gaara's head, hitting it with her knee, leaving him apparently unconscious in the floor.
Back in the Genin zone, everyone was surprised at Ino's amazing strategy. Gohan was happy because his technique had been able to help one of his friends in their match. Chouji was cheering and celebrating Ino's win. Shikamaru was completely in shock, had her just defeated such a strong guy?
As Hayate was about to announce Ino's win, a chunk of sand hit Ino's back, throwing her towards the walls of the arena. Then, Ino looked at Gaara, who was smiling sinisterly. The ninja's head had a weird sand armour, which had protected him from the blonde's attack.
Everyone in the Genin zone was surprised, but they knew it would eventually happen, specially Gaara's teammates.
"I'm going to kill you!" Gaara yelled furiously.
Ino felt fear, but a fear like she had never felt. As she got out the crater Gaara had made with her in the wall, she tried to do the same, but this time Gaara used sand to get her back to the floor. The redhead started talking to himself, which Ino took advantage of, jumping high again, and using the solar flare. As the redhead was blinded again, he started attacking furiously and randomly, but Ino had to do this fast. She went through the walls using her Kunai, constantly changing her position to confuse Gaara even more, and as she went through the last sand wall, she used her Mind Body Switch Technique. Ino, now inside the redhead's twisted mind, started to see everything that was inside, disturbing her immensely. She started to feel how Gaara was trying to kick her out, so she tried to surrender quickly.
"I su-" Gaara, who was actually Ino, couldn't finish his phrase before screaming.
As soon as she went back to her body, Ino ran away from Gaara, as fast as she could. As she finally found the wall, she turned back and saw Gaara's sand aiming at her,
"I surrender!" Ino yelped, covering herself with her arms.
The sand hit Ino directly just after she had covered herself. As Ino got hit directly, the Genin, except for Gaara's teammates, were terrified. Gaara continued to attack her, which made Hayate intervene, trying to knock him out, but Gaara reflected his attack with his sand. Then, Asuma, Kakashi and Guy intervened, knocking Gaara out, and Asuma taking Ino to a safer place.
Team 10's leader arrived at the Genin zone, starting to check in Ino, she was unconscious and had some serious injuries.
"How is she, Asuma-sensei?" Chouji asked, as he and his other teammates went to where their leader was.
"She could be worse, but I'll take her to the hospital either way. She'll be fine." Asuma explained.
Gohan, Shikamaru and Chouji were relieved, as well as Sakura, who had been hearing their conversation.
The rest of the Genin now feared Gaara even more, he was crazy and extremely strong, was he invincible?
As the audience were horrified at the redhead's behaviour, they started to calm down as Kakashi and Guy took him down. After the audience had calmed down, the Hokage raised his voice to speak.
"We'll take a break of 20 minutes before continuing with the next match." He announced.
"Why a break?" The Kazekage asked.
"Oh, you finally said something, I was starting to get nervous." The Hokage replied, laughing afterwards. "And the break is for the audience to eat something or to go to the bathroom, whatever they need."
"Oh, of course." The Kazekage replied, laughing with the Hokage.
The Third suspected the Kazekage, he wasn't behaving normally. Was it true that Orochimaru would replace the real Kazekage?
After the 20 minutes, the Hokage raised his voice again, announcing that the next match would be between Temari and Shikamaru.
"How troublesome." Shikamaru said, sighing.
"Good luck." Gohan said, smiling. "I know you'll win."
"Let's go, Shikamaru, kick her ass!" Chouji cheered.
"Yeah, yeah, whatever." Shikamaru said, waving off.
As the two Genin arrived at the arena, they got in front of each other. Temari took her fighting position, while Shikamaru simply stood there. And as Hayate gave the signal, the match started.
Shikamaru tried to hit his opponent, and then, he tried to kick one of her legs to make her lose balance, achieving this. As the kunoichi got back up, she used her fan to send Shikamaru flying. As Temari's attack stopped, Shikamaru used his Shadow Imitation Technique, and as she fell for it, he surrendered.
"What? Why?" Temari asked.
"I don't really want to fight, it's just… troublesome." He said, before waving and going back to the Genin zone.
"Umm, it's over." Hayate said. "Temari from Sunagakure is the winner!"
As the crowd started cheering, the Hokage got up, being followed by the Kazekage, making the guards nervous. The Kazekage took his hat off, showing that he was Orochimaru, and then took the Hokage.
"If you try to attack me, I'll kill him." Orochimaru warned, laughing as he saw the guards' face, who got knocked out by the Sound Four.
This same group the made a barrier, protecting Orochimaru and Hiruzen, and also leaving them alone so no one could intervene in their fight.
Meanwhile, in the audience's zone, a weird white thing, similar to snow, started to fall from the sky, making everyone sleep. The shinobi that were hidden between the audience were able to neutralise the technique. Back in the participants' zone, Gohan told everyone to get close to him, making an energy barrier that protected them.
Naruto noticed that the ninja from Sunagakure weren't there, telling that to his friends.
"We should follow them, they might be part of this."Naruto said.
"I'll go with Naruto." Sakura said. "I want to prove that I'm not a weak girl anymore."
"I guess I'll go too." Shikamaru said.
"Let's go then." Gohan replied, retrieving the barrier.
They quickly followed the Suna ninjas.
"Your time has come, old man." Orochimaru said, smiling confidently.
"No, you won't win this battle." Hiruzen replied, quickly attacking the snake-looking ninja.
And so the battle between two of the strongest ninja alive had begun.
As the Genin advanced through the village, they noticed how people were escaping. They realised that the village was being invaded.
They continued to follow the Suna ninja. Gohan was helping by locating their energy, so they basically followed him. The more close they got to the wall, the more death and war they saw, the ninja of the village were fighting, although they had clearly been ready for the battle. As they arrived at the walls of the village, they saw the many holes that were made to it.
Gohan felt the ninjas' energy out of the village, so they went through the holes of the wall, increasing their speed.
After some more minutes, they finally reached them. Temari and Kankuro were helping Gaara run. As the redhead realised that they had been found, he went crazy and started attacking everyone. Temari and Kankuro attacked Sakura, and Chouji and Shino respectively. While Gaara fought against Kiba, Naruto, Gohan and Shikamaru. The Nara fell behind as Kiba and Naruto attacked Gaara. Gohan, on the other hand, decided to go and make sure the hospital wasn't invaded too.
Sakura got in her fighting position, as Temari took her fan out.
"You made a mistake by following us!" Temari said, she was clearly mad.
"And you made a mistake by starting a 2v1 fight." Sakura replied.
The pink-haired ninja tried to take the fan from the Suna kunoichi, but she failed and got deflected by the fan. Then, she tried the same, but when Temari used the fan, she used the wind to go up, grabbing a kunai and going down. Temari quickly realised what she intended, throwing two kunai at her, avoiding one and deflected the other one with her kunai. As she got closer to her, Temari avoided Sakura's attack, but then was taken by her hair, and hit in the back. As she was freed, she used the fan to hit Sakura. The pink haired then decided to destroy that damn fan. She ran at Temari, avoiding her fan attacks, and throwed a shurikens to Temari's hands, making her drop the fan and then taking it. Sakura broke the fan in two and left it there. Then, the pink-haired kunoichi quickly tried to hit Temari's face, but as Temari tried to block her attack, she jumped up and fell behind her, hitting her neck and leaving her unconscious.
Sakura fell exhausted.
"I… won…" she said, smiling tiredly.
Kankuro fell defeated as Shino had figured out where he really was.
"How?" Kankuro asked.
"My insects can sense your smell, and they detected that the one fighting Chouji was a puppet." Shino explained.
"We should get going, Shino." Chouji tiredly said.
"Maybe you should rest a bit." Shino said, sitting down next to Chouji.
Meanwhile, Kiba, Naruto and Shikamaru were having a hard time against Gaara. The redhead was starting to turn into a monster, a monster made of sand.
"What the hell are you?!" A tired Kiba asked.
"Your worst nightmare." Gaara replied, hitting Kiba with his sand, finally defeating him.
"Shit." Shikamaru said. "Kiba, are you okay?"
"I can't fight anymore." Kiba said.
"Naruto, what are we gonna do now?" Shikamaru said. He was starting to get desperate. "At this rate, we're all going to die."
"Protect Kiba!" Naruto ordered, turning back to Shikamaru, then turning back at Gaara. "I'll take care of him."
Shikamaru nodded, then took Kiba and went off to a safer place.
"Why do you do this?" Naruto asked.
"Because I want to." Gaara answered. "I love killing people." He added, laughing sinisterly.
"But why? Why do you kill people?" Naruto asked.
"Because no one's ever liked me or loved me, I've always been hated by everyone." Gaara answered. "I'm a monster, and that's why I kill."
"You're not the only one that's been through that." Naruto replied.
"No one's suffered like I have!" Gaara yelled.
As he yelled, Gaara started to scream. Naruto tried to take advantage of this and attack him. Then, the blonde ninja created a Rasengan, and ran towards Gaara. As he got closer and closer, Gaara started to turn into a monster, and by the point the Rasengan had hit Gaara, he had already transformed completely into a racoon-looking sand monster. This monster grabbed Naruto and throwed him away, making him hit hard against trees and eventually the floor.
The blonde Uzumaki got up, and started to grab some of the Fox's chakra. He wanted to summon someone.
Hmmm
Asuma was in the hospital, checking on Ino. Suddenly, Gohan appeared next to Ino's bed.
"Asuma-sensei, are Ino and Sasuke alright?" Gohan asked.
"Yes, they're stable." Asuma answered. "Where are the others?"
"They're fighting the ninja from Sunagakure." Gohan explained.
"And why did you left them alone?" Asuma asked, raising one eyebrow.
"Because I wanted to check if the hospital had been attacked." Gohan explained. "Anyway, I'll go ba-" Gohan wasn't able to finish his phrase as he felt the Hokage's energy go down drastically.
Asuma noticed Gohan's face, and asked him what happened.
"The Hokage… his energy is down…" Gohan answered, terrified. "He's fighting an evil energy, it is greater than his…"
"Shit! Orochimaru!" Asuma said, going towards the window. "There they are, they're fighting in that barrier." He pointed towards it. "Can you teleport there?"
"I believe I can, Yes." Gohan replied.
"Take me there." Asuma ordered.
Gohan nodded as he put a hand in his leader's shoulder, and suddenly, they had disappeared.
As the two arrived, they saw the horrible scene: Orochimaru had defeated the Hokage. But something looked weird, Orochimaru's arms has a weird color.
"You damn old man, I promise I'll destroy everything you worked for!" A furious Orochimaru yelled at the almost dead Hokage.
"Hehehe…. You won't… be able to… without… arms." An exhausted and defeated Hiruzen replies, before dying.
"NOOOOOOO!" Gohan yelled.
He flew at full speed towards Orochimaru, hitting him in the face with all his power. He then threw a Masenko at Orochimaru, leaving him on the verge of death.
"H-how?" An afraid and terrified Orochimaru asked.
"Gohan, stop!" Asuma ordered.
Gohan turned to his master, following instructions and calming down. Then, Asuma took the Hokage's body and told Gohan to take care of Orochimaru. The hybrid saiyan nodded, but as he turned back, Orochimaru was gone.
A giant toad was holding the raccoon-like monster with it's two hands. In that monster's forehead was Gaara, who was asleep. Naruto was falling towards Gaara, aiming to hit him, which he did successfully. As Gaara woke up from the hit, Naruto stood in front of him, tired and without any chakra left.
"Sand Binding Coffin!" The redhead ninja yelled.
As the sand approached Naruto, the giant toad used his tongue to protect him, avoiding the attack. Naruto thought about surrendering for a moment, he was out of chakra, after all, but he remembered that Sakura and his friends were in danger.
"Sakura, I promise I'll protect you, always." Naruto said before asking the Kyubi for a bit of chakra.
He then charged against Gaara, who stopped his attack with his sand, which made Naruto mad. Naruto finally used his head to finish the attack. The two hit their heads, and started to bleed, then, they fell down as the monster disappeared, followed by the giant toad. The two boys fell down to some trees, where they spoke a bit before standing up.
"We are similar, more than you think." Naruto said.
Gaara kept silence as he got in his fighting position, followed by Naruto. Then, they both charged against each other, but in the end, just Naruto landed a hit. The two boys fell down to the floor, lying there exhausted. Not caring about his exhaustion and about his physical pain, Naruto crawled towards Gaara.
"Stay away from me!" The redhead ordered desperately.
"It is horrible, isn't it?" Naruto asked him, stopping his crawling and raising his head. "The feeling of loneliness."
Gaara noticed the sadness in the blonde's face.
"I know what it feels." Naruto said. "I've been there, too."
Gaara was shocked at Naruto's words.
"But I have to stop you." Naruto said. "And I will, even if I have to kill you."
Shikamaru finally arrived at the place.
"It's over, Naruto, he can't do anything." Shikamaru said. "His chakra is completely drained."
Temari and Kankuro appeared too, but they looked tired and their clothes were ripped.
"It's over, guys." Gaara surprisingly said.
His teammates looked back at him, shocked at what they just heard, but they calmed down and helped him get up.
"Come on, Gaara." Kankuro said, helping Gaara get up. "Let's go." He said, leaving alongside Temari.
As the three left, Gaara apologised to them, surprising them, but they accepted his apologies and continued to go.
Meanwhile, Naruto had already fell unconscious, and Shikamaru saw curiously how Naruto was smiling.
Asuma had taken Hiruzen's body to the Hokage building, were they had started to prepare his funeral.
Now, at the funeral, everyone was sad, ones more than others, but in the end they had all lost a great leader and a great human being. Naruto was devastated, he had lost one of the first people who had talked to him and had treated him nicely. Konohamaru, too, was really sad as he had lost his grandfather, who had promised to help him in his training to become Hokage.
Jiraiya was there, too, it was hard to believe that his master was dead. The Konoha Crush, as some called it, had been really devastating for the village and it's inhabitants.
But there was a new problem to solve, they needed to find a new Hokage.
And that would be it for this arc, I hope you liked it.
Remember that if you have any complaint, you can leave in the review section and I'll take it on count.
Anyway, I hope you have a nice one! See you next chapter!