(A/N) This really only had a few chapters left, just the finals and the invasion.
"Alright, as all three of you made it to the finals, who wants to do what? I am well aware I would be really bad at continuing Sasuke's flying lessons, so if you want to do that, Sasuke, we'll reverse summon you back there, Sakura, Naruto, you do whatever."
Sasuke grunted. "I'll go back with Madara. I'm sure he'll have ideas of how to defeat Gaara without him killing me."
"I have an idea," Sakura said randomly. "Water jutsu. Water jutsu plus his sand will make the sand slow to react, and you'll be able to hit him then."
"I'm the exact opposite of having a water affinity," Sasuke deadpanned. "I don't think that'll work."
"You could turn the sand into glass," Sakura countered. "Both fire and lightning would work well with that."
"Hn." Meaning: "I'll ask Madara about fire jutsu."
"I'll warn Tobirama," Naruto volunteered.
The three looked at him. "Why?" Sakura asked.
Naruto gave them a deadpan look. "Did no one warn you about Madara's pyromaniac tendencies? You'll need Tobirama to put the fires out."
They stared at him.
Naruto stared back. "What? Mito says he's a pyro that would love to see the world burn. You have to admit that most Uchiha were."
Sasuke inclined his head in agreement.
"I'll just assume you'll find your own teachers then," Kakashi mused.
Sakura snorted. "I'm sure even I could find someone willing to teach me more genjutsu. I bet I already know some better ones than you."
"I don't know about that," Kakashi said, sweatdropping.
Sakura just smirked, raising an eyebrow.
In the end, Kakashi wandered around Konoha, talked Jiraiya out of going and finding Naruto, because "he's in good hands, I assure you," and generally convincing everyone that his students were fine, and were with specialists.
His students learned what they could, including that Naruto was correct in his guess that they'd need Tobirama. Then it infected Sasuke, and Sakura and Naruto both decided they needed to learn a couple of water jutsu. If just to ensure the safety of their training ground, and most of Konoha.
They were on time for the beginning of the finals. Kakashi was not. But really, who actually thought he'd be on time. Even if Naruto was up first. As basically everyone of note had already seen, so none of them were actually bothering with henges or anything. The other Konoha people had already gotten used to Kakashi, so they ignored him, and everyone else followed suit.
"Alright," Genma, the new proctor for the third round, said, raising his hands. "All the contestants are here, so we will begin."
"What happened to Dosu?" Naruto asked, glancing around.
"He's dead, and as such, Sakura gets a bye to the next round."
Sakura nodded, her tail flicking behind her.
"First match, Neji vs. Naruto. If the contestants could please come down."
Naruto hopped over the side, landing in a slight cloud of dust. Neji walked to opposite him and settled into his Jyuuken stance.
"Begin!" Genma shouted, leaping away.
Naruto lunged at Neji, who had his eyes activated. Chakra was flickering along the edges of his hands, but it had no shape, at least not yet. Neji dodged neatly but forgot about his tails, which came swinging around to crash into him from all sides and hold him in place while Naruto slammed his hand on Neji's forehead.
Neji gasped as his byakugan deactivated. Naruto lept back, landing back in his starting stance. "I've sealed away your byakugan, you can't activate it until I remove that seal. Go ahead and try, but I'm going to warn you that it'll hurt."
Neji glared at him and apparently tried to activate his eyes because his hands flew up to clasp his forehead. He growled at Naruto, getting back into the Jyuuken stance. "I don't need it, fate has decreed that I will win this match!"
"Hey, Kakashi!" Naruto shouted. "Can I save him from the fate?"
"Sure, just don't go all talk no jutsu on him, we need his mind intact if you don't mind!"
"It is not that traumatizing!" Naruto shouted back, insulted. Neji nicely allowed him to have his argument.
"From what he says, it is!" Sasuke argued.
Naruto stuck his tongue out at Sasuke. "He doesn't count! He had to get the talk no jutsu several times!"
Neji sweatdropped. This was going to take too long. He lunged at Naruto and was repelled by two of Naruto's tails. He struck at them, and they fell limp, muscles Neji had just guessed at paralyzed.
Naruto actually turned to him and glanced at the two tails. "That's annoying."
Neji ignored him and struck again, but the blows harmlessly glanced off the tips of different tails than the ones he'd struck.
"I have more tails then you have hands!" Naruto chirped.
Neji growled at him and continued trying to attack anyway. He finally managed to land a hit, but what had apparently been a shadow clone popped, and Neji looked around for Naruto. Without his byakugan, he was stuck with just normal vision, which was annoying to the highest extreme.
"You didn't completely kill his world view, right?" Sakura asked, sighing heavily.
"Well, maybe, just a bit," Naruto admitted. "But it's Sasuke's turn now, so we have to watch that, not argue about how much I fixed Neji."
"You talk no jutsu'd him. I'm not sure that's fixing…" Sakura mused.
"Can you undo the damage he did to my tails or not?"
(A/N) Yeah, so, I have no idea how to do the Talk no Jutsu, let alone insert it into a fight. Yep, Sasuke's match and the Invasion next. The invasion will probably take anywhere from 1-3 chapters, so on the second to last chapter, I'll put the options for what can replace this one, if I have something to replace it at that time. Go see my profile for the new stories and schedule for that, and see the poll!