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Warning: This is rated M for a reason (blood, gore, extreme violence, language, and possible adult themes/lemons, etc.) Some of the characters will be a little OC.

Now on with the chapter.

The Black Leaves

Chapter 30

The month that the young ninja were given to prepare was finally over and they all stood in the center of a large, open-air arena. The stands were filled with ninja and civilians alike along with many important political figures. Standing near the genin was the referee for the soon to occur matches. He looked down at a little watch and watched the second's had slowly move to the twelve. He looked around at the gathered genin and sighed. Three of the genin had yet to appear. The Uchiha, the Uzumaki and that Nightmare girl.

He looked up at where his village leader sat and saw the old man give a curt nod. Again, he gave a sigh before addressing the genin; "Temari and Shikamaru will stay here while the rest of you stay here while the rest of you head up to the waiting area?" Without talking, the teens made there way up while Temari ad Shikamaru made their way to opposite sides of the arena. As soon as they were all in the correct places, he walked in-between where the two ninja stood.

He looked at the two and then up at the Hokage. The sounds of random chatter had changed to sounds of disappointment, as the scripted Uzumaki vs. Hyuuga fight was not going to happen first. Many bets were made on the Hyuuga's almost guaranteed victory; almost nobody made any bets on the Uzumaki winning and the few individuals that did place bets on the underdog only did so to simply cover all their bases.

The referee looked down at his watch one last time before raising his hand high into the air and quickly dropping it down before jumping out of the way. The fight went around the same as it went in the canonical story so everybody's reactions were the same with an irate Ino screaming at the lazy Nara from the stands. Said shiftless kid slowly made his way to the waiting are with the intent on sleeping through the rest of the little tournament.

Temari on the other hand was in a more shocked state. As she made her way to the waiting area her mind wandered to how she had been trapped, completely at the Nara's mercy and all he did was give up. She would be lying if that feeling of complete and total helplessness did not excite her a little bit, even more so that it was not her brother to have instilled the feeling. Just the thoughts of being bound and helpless, at another person's complete control and will sent a shiver up her spine. A shiver she secretly enjoyed.

When the arena was cleared, the referee whose name I can not remember pulled out his watch and looked up at his leader before announcing that they were going to wait a few more minutes in case the people who had to arrive do so. And so, everyone was forced to wait. Tension built up in the crowd as now everyone was simply itching to see a fight. They had all stopped caring who fought just as long as a fist was swung.

Eventually, the allotted time had passed and it was time for the next match to begin, but before the ninja could even leave the waiting area Kankuro quickly forfeited, causing a wave of frustrated shouts, groans and one little girl to scream out "OH COME ON!" Out of frustration.

"Quiet an interesting turnout we have had so far, eh Hokage-sama?" The visiting Kazekage said to the Hokage sitting next to him. "One fight that ended in a surprise victory and another that ended before it began. Let us hope that those not here arrive soon so that we may at least see a good fight that ends the way it should."

So, yet again the whole crowd had to wait another thirty minutes for nobody to arrive. Just when the time limit was about to be reached and thus all of those missing to forfeit by defult, a swirl of leaves finally announced the arrival of the saut after Uchiha Sasuke and Team Seven's sensei Hatake Kakashi.

"I hope we are not too late," The one-eyed weirdo said. The referee smiled before pocketing his watch.

"Your right on time." The sound of shifting sand drew their attention to the suddenly appearing Gaara just a few feet away. Kakashi placed a hand on Sasuke's shoulder and gave it a hard squeeze before making his way out of the fighting area and up into the crowd.

"This will be a most interesting fight."

A voice said from the other side of the Hokage's seat. The sudden voice startled both the fire shadow and the Kazekage, along with their guards stationed near them. The voice belonged to none other than the leader of the symbiotes who had promptly taken her seat on the opposite side of the Hokage. Her two long, antenna-like hairs softly swaying in the gentle breeze.

After calming down his old heart, Sarutobi noticed that Empress was alone. "Where might I ask are your guards, Lady Empress?" He asked kindly. Though he could not see, he could feel Empress give an unnerving smile.

"Oh, they are here. They are just...scouting for any signs of potential danger." Nobody could see her look over to where a large number of Hyuuga's were seated. Instead of sitting down, Hyuuga Hinata was standing behind the stands near the exit. A look of worry etched on her cute young face. Empress watched as Payback slowly appeared from the exit with a jar filled with a cyan colored symbiote contained inside. Since everyone was focused on the fight about to happen, nobody noticed Payback slowly unscrew the jar's lid.

Down below, the referee raised his arm high into the air and slowly looked at Sasuke and Gaara before quickly dropping his arm. What followed was a loud cheer from the crowd and the unheard scream of one Hyuuga Hinata. The cyan symbiote had leapt out of its jar and quickly covered Hinata's head before the girl could scream.

'Let's see what happens.'

Empress thought as she witnessed Payback quickly drag Hinata down the exit hallway. As the fight that everyone can guess what is happening, the symbiote crawled along Hinata's body as the young girl tried to scream and struggle free.

"Don't struggle dear. It will only take longer if you do." Payback said while a smile as she watched the whole thing.

"Why don't you think about cute little Naruto? Not as hot as Lord Venom, mind you. But there have been worst host."

The instant she heard Naruto's name being said, the mental visage of the boy appeared in her mind. The visage started out tamely; all it was Naruto standing with a large smile aimed at Hinata. Her struggling lessened as the symbiote continued to cover her and the mental; Naruto started to get a little more amorous. His smile turned from his large and goofy grin into a softer and more wanting leer. The imaginary Naruto very, very slowly began to strip away his jacket and black shirt.

Hinata's symbiotically covered left arm quickly reached up to her cloth covered breast and lightly massage it while her human hand reached down in-between her pant covered legs. She tried to stop but found her arousal only grow as she felt her body being consumed by the gooey mass and the mental image of Naruto stripping completely down in an erotic show. Her clothes were violently torn off by her own hands as she tried to get more satisfaction out of her self-loving session.

Payback gave a happy sigh as she watched the spectacle. "We remember when we first bonded. Best orgasm of our existence. Well, the best that Lord Venom had not been the cause of." She giggled as she watched the cyan colored symbiote spread across Hinata's young body. Seeing her masturbates in front of her made Payback feel a tad wet and so, she decided to relieve some stress of her own as she dove her symbiotic fingers into her honeypot.

Hinata's finger grew longer and longer as they delved deeper and deeper into her wet cave. Even with her face covered her moans and yelps could be heard as her hair turned a pure white and grew out. Her height increased as well as her waist thinning, her breasts become larger; even larger than Payback's already impressive bust. Hinata's butt swelled as her hips widened and her legs got longer.

The Hyuuga's hips were lifted high into the air as orgasmic bliss came closer and closer to the girl. Her large white eyes appeared just in time for them to close tightly while her newly formed fang-filled mouth opened wide in a loud moan and her tongue rolled out of her mouth. Her transformation ended just as the biggest orgasm of her young life washed over her. She could have sworn she had knocked herself out from the force of the orgasm.

The new symbiotic Hinata simply laid there on the concrete floor for a few seconds as she tried to catch her breath. When her breathing finally stabelized, the new symbiote got to her feet and gave herself a once over. Besides the before mentioned enhancements to her figure, she noticed that her fingers were very long and thin in relative preportion to the rest of her body. She lifted her hand to her face to feel what changes might occurred to her face besides the fang-filled mouth and the long white tresses.

She felt most of the upper portion of her face covered in vein-like tendrils. The tendrils reached into her white hair and just above her massive mouth. Giving her another once over, the symbiote looked over at the still masturbating Payback and smiled. "We really like this host."

Payback opened her eyes slowly. "We are happy to hear that. Have you two decided on a name or will you be keeping your old name." Payback did stop thrusting her fingers into her dripping cunt.

Symbiote Hinata raised a hand to her head and the two beings conversed inside their collective young mind. "Hmmm, we like the name, Ambush."

Payback just shrugged her shoulders before lowering her other hand and started using both to fill her dripping hole. Seeing her fellow symbiote masturbating reminded Ambush that her crotch was still wet and so decided to clean up in the only, and best, way she could at the moment. She stretched her back and bent forward until she could reach her snatch with her mouth and quickly cleaned up.

After her crotch was all clean she leaned against a wall and waited for Payback to finish. When said symbiote orgasm and cleaned up the two walked back towards the stands where they could see Gaara hidden inside a sand cocoon an Sasuke charging up some electro hand thingy. Over in the waiting area, they could see Naruto standing as far away from Neji as possible for some reason. Nightmare was standing up there as well as avoiding the male Hyuuga in the same fashion.

Payback assumed that they had been just as surprised by Naruto's sudden appearance as the Kage's were to Empress' sudden arrival.

Ambush's eyes were glued onto her blond-soon-to-be-sexoholic. Just looking at the boy caused her knees to quake and for her vaginal lips to swell up and dripping love juice yet again.

"Wow. And we thought we were obsessive." Payback mused, only to get a drooling grunt out of the again horny Ambush.

The crowd watched Sasuke charge up and prepare to attack his incased target. When a sudden honking cry echoed out from where Shino and the others were waiting and caused Sasuke to loss his concentration and look over to where the noise came from.

Somehow, Neji had made an attempt to attack Naruto and appeared to be trying to stab the blond with the crossguard while said blond was trying to not fall over the railing at the same as trying to force away the Hyuuga.

It was Naruto that was making the odd noise. It was an odd mixture of an airy honk and a human scream, like as if the cry was meant to signify as need for help and to warn of danger. The crossguard got closer and closer to Naruto's face as the two male ninja struggled.

The sudden struggle drew the crowd's attention and murmurs and excited chatter filled the arena while Higashi jumped to his feet with an enraged expression etched on his face. He was about to command a few underlings to go over and control the suddenly aggressive Neji only to witness Nightmare diving at said boy and slamming into his back, causing all three of them to fall down into the arena.

As they fell, Naruto was able to pull Nightmare away from the Hyuuga and shove off him before landing on the ground below. Neji landed a few feet away and quickly brandished his weapon.

Naruto could feel and see the blade that the sonic dagger created. It appeared as nothing more than some distortion of the air while making a soft humming noise. Despite it looking like a simple toy, past experience has taught Venom to fear the deadly weapon. A single slice from that and both symbiote and host would be nothing but dust in the wind.

He slowly lowered into his fighting position before baring his teeth and letting out a low growl. His normally spiky hair wiggled a little before slowly lying down on his head. His body rippled as an extra layer of muscle formed underneath his skin.

"You really don't want to use that Neji. If you do, we'll have no choice but to consume you and destroy that accursed weapon." Naruto growled.

Neji only tightened his grip on his weapon as he remembered Danzou's words when he was training, 'Make him angry. Insult him, threaten him, and verbally attack any and everything he holds dear. That Uzumaki is brash and prideful. If you attack what is important then he will get sloppy and your win will be assured.'

"Doubtful." Neji replied. "A weak Uzumaki could never be a challenge for a Hyuuga. Especially a bratty little freak with a worm crawling around in his gut."

Venom did not take too kindly to the insult and ignited a small flicker of anger in his host. Naruto pushed that slowly growing flame aside; yes, he was pissed at Neji for what he did to Hinata but he was not honestly planning on killing the kid. Just maul him to a near death states. But considering the weapon his target was now in hold of, Naruto might have no choice but kill the Hyuuga if he could not destroy the weapon or persuades Neji to give it up.

Upstairs, Empress is leaning forward in her seat and was gripping the arms of her chair with enough force that the wood was beginning to splinter. She was well aware what the sonic dagger was and what it could do if it wounded Lord Venom. She had to think of something quickly or loose the black symbiote forever.

Everyone else was confused as to what was happening until the thought that it was going to be a five way fight made its way through the crowd along with a massive roaring cheer.

"Even more interesting." The Kazekage said, hiding the anxiety he too felt. "I think a five person free-for-all will do nicely. To make up for all that wasted time." He turned to face the Sarutobi. "Don't you think so, Hokage-sama?"

From how the Uzumaki and the Hyuuga were staring each other down, Sarutobi knew that no matter what he said there was nothing he could do to prevent the inevitable fight. Plus, considering how many important individuals from many different villages where at the arena, ranging from diplomats to large business owners, putting off such a potential display of violence and excitement might irritate the already impatient crowd and lead to problems for the village later on.

Down below, Neji tried again to force Naruto to attack him. "Just how pathetic a family did you come from? No special talents, brainless, nothing even worth becoming a ninja for. The only thing unique about you is that bug inside you." Neji felt weird talking so much since it was very far from his actual personality but he also felt a wave of honor and determination wash over him. Neji wanted to fight the Uzumaki so badly he could taste it.

He could hear Danzou's words echoed inside his mind.

"Hyuuga Neji." Danzou spoke up after several hours of watching the boy train. "You want to fight Naruto do you not?" He received a nod from Neji. "Well, you may not be aware of it but Naruto has committed countless of crimes ranging from simple theft and vandalism to murder and treason."

Neji gave the old ninja a questioning look. "If that is true, then why does he still walk free? Shouldn't word of his actions have been found and caused at least some rioting due to his freedom?"

Danzou gave an audible grunt at being question by such a child. His obedient ROOT members non-questioning attitude had spoiled the old man from natural human curiosity. "The Hokage has been blinded by the boy's false good nature and can not see that leaving the boy alive or not in my 'special' training program will kill everyone and doom this village to destruction." He pulled out the sonic dagger his ROOT members were able to 'obtain' from an old museum in Kirigakure.

"With how you are now, you will never be able to defeat Naruto with thing inside him. Your eyes will be useless as will your fighting style." He held up the guard before applying chakra to it and allowing the blade of sound to form. "This weapon here was designed to kill the specific parasite that lives inside the Uzumaki and leave the boy completely helpless."

He held the weapon out to the boy, who looked at it for a moment while contemplating on, if he should take it or not. On one hand, the Hyuuga clan was very honor bound and would almost never accept help from an individual from outside of the clan. That seemed to not matter to the elders regarding Neji and his match against Naruto considering it was they who forced Neji to train under Danzou. Also it was almost unheard of for a Hyuuga to use any weapon either outside of the clan's heritage or was made specifically for an individual Hyuuga.

But, if he were to not take the weapon and fight Naruto with only his current abilities and knowledge and lose...Neji could not imagine the amount of shame he would feel and the disappointment his clan would express to him. He unconsciously raised a hand over his headband, where his seal was and cringed.

Neji had only experienced the effects of the seal when activated once in his short life. That pain was something he could never forget. He looked at the sonic dagger and slowly grabbed it before channeling his own chakra into the weapon and forming the blade of sound. Neji slowly looked at Danzou with a solemn look.

"Teach me what I have to do."

Neji stared down Naruto with hate filled eyes before finally deciding to make a move. He quickly reached back into a hidden pocket on the inside back of his jacket. He fingered three smoke bombs before gripping them strongly and tossing them at his blond opponent. Naruto was surprised at the Hyuuga using something other than his family's fighting style and the dagger but did not betray his surprise. Or move at all for that matter.

Neji quickly applied chakra to the sonic dagger and leapt into the smoke cloud at an angle so as to deliver a quick and lethal strike. Before his feet could hit the ground, something large slammed into his side and threw him right out of the smoke cloud.

Right as he landed, Neji threw a single kunai at where he presumed Naruto was standing. The sound of metal clashing with metal was heard before the Hyuuga's weapon was thrown back at him. Only this time, the kunai was bent at a ninety-degree angle.

Sasuke had leapt a good distance away from Gaara's sandy cocoon so he could witness the exchange between the Uzumaki and Hyuuga. Even Gaara had made a small hole in his cocoon to watch. Nightmare just sat in the corner and watched with a wicked smile adorning her charred face.

Neji got the sonic dagger ready and focused his byakugan. He growled when he remembered how useless his bloodline was against Naruto. Slowly, the smoke dissipated to reveal a terrifying sight.

Naruto stood more hunched over then before his primary arms and hands looked unhealthily thin. Each finger sported light purple claws. His secondary arms however where a completely different story.

Instead of the skin-colored bony appendage with rigor mortified fingers and long single blades; the arms had changed into thick dark purple appendages, like as if every inch of flesh had been beaten until bruised. They had grown much longer than before; long enough that Naruto would be able to use them as feet and lift him at least a foot off the ground. Naruto held the arms at a forty-degree angle so as to not let them get in the way and so that they are easily ready when needed.

The single blade that had once been in the center of each palm was gone along with the fingers attached to each hand. Instead, where each finger should have been was a massive claw with the coloration of stained bone. There was a difference to the claws on each hand however. The claws on the left hand were very long rather straight and only slightly curved. They were obviously made to stab and impale prey and aggressors. The claws made the hand very ineffective at grabbing or picking up anything.

The right hand had claws that compensated for the left hand. The claws were shorter due to them being more curved and having a finger-like bend in the middle of each. This made them perfect for slashing and grabbing any prey that made any attempt at escape. The combination of the two clawed hands would tear almost any enemy stupid enough to get too close apart.

Naruto's jaw was slightly bigger and he had a single long, thick, and sharp canine poking out of the right side of his mouth; the tip just barely reaching past his chin. The rest of his teeth had sharpened into thin fangs while his tongue became very long, red, and reptile-like. Out from around his collar, several thin black tendrils could be seen attached to Naruto's neck. The final noticeable change was that his once sky blue eyes were now a very light gray-blue.

Naruto looked at the surprised Hyuuga and chuckled. "What's wrong Hyuuga? Shocked that we have changed? Don't tell us that you thought we were too lazy to train. Hahahhahaha." Naruto's laughter stopped abruptly, as did his smile. "We will give you one more chance to drop that toy or die."

Naruto's body puffed up and his secondary arms spread out widely in an attempt to seize up Neji and intimidate him into giving up. Instead, his actions gave the opposite result. Seeing Naruto as a real life monster, Neji lost any doubt he might have had for Danzou's words.

Without saying a word, Neji suddenly dashed to the right before making a sharp left and starting to bob and weave while dashing towards Naruto; a kunai in one hand and the sonic dagger in the other.

"Oh, so unwise." Naruto sighed as he tracked the Hyuuga's random swerving. He stood there patiently and just when Neji was within range, Naruto slammed his secondary left arm down, claws first. Instead of impaling Neji, the claws sank deep into the soft ground and allowed the Hyuuga a free shot at Naruto face. If only Naruto's other secondary arm had not made an attempt to disembowel him.

Neji quickly stepped back away from the attack before bolting around Naruto's left side and preparing to stab into the teen's shoulder with his sonic dagger. This time, Naruto swung his human arm ad was able to catch Neji in the side and knock him away before he could be stabbed.

Naruto tried to yank out his stuck arm and was surprised when he met with resistance. He planted his feet firmly before pulling hard again, this time a few centimeters of his claws escaped the ground but a web of sand quickly burst out from around the claws and swarmed over the trapped arm.

The trapped host turned towards the incased Gaara as best as he could and gave an angry glare before raising his other massive arm and slamming it into the ground in the direction of the sand user. The instant said clawed hand dug itself into the soft Earth, a trail of cracked dirt ad shifting Earth bolted straight for the sandy cocoon.

A second later, Gaara was forced to jump out of his shell when a small forest of large black spikes burst out of the ground and pulled apart into a sharp spread right where he had been standing. The spikes quickly rejoined before shrinking back into the ground and the cracked trail shifted once again. Naruto pulled his secondary right arm out of the ground while the last inch or so of the claws returned to normal.

The attack caused Gaara to loss his focus and Naruto was able to free himself and saw Sasuke try and attack Gaara from behind. Naruto's symbiotic senses alerted him to a danger behind his and turned around just as Neji landed a flying kick square on his chest. The Hyuuga quickly brought his other foot up against the Uzumaki's chest before pushing with all of his might.

The force knocked Naruto off his feet and backwards onto the ground. He used the momentum to get himself off the ground quickly just as Sasuke tried to drive a kunai into the back of his neck. The weapon dug into his soft flesh and he released a growl of pain. Naruto's tongue swung over and wrapped around Sasuke's neck before tossing the boy over his shoulder and directly into a charging Neji.

The two crashed into each other and were about to be impaled when a massive cleaver dug into Naruto's demonic hand. This time, Naruto roared in pain as he yanked himself free and swung at the offending Butcher. His clawed fist smashed into the bare side of the monster's head.

The Butcher staggered back for a second before raising his cleaver high into the air and attempting to smash it down on Naruto's head. Only, a tendril of sand had wrapped around the weapon and was trying to yank it out of the monster's hand. The Butcher gave a grunt of dissatisfaction before turning and grabbing his cleaver with both hands and started a tugging match with Gaara.

Naruto turned to see Sasuke and Neji fighting on their own. The crowd above them was cheering as loud as humanly possible. Ambush and Payback watched with glee while the former drenched the head of an unfortunate and terrified attendee with her drool. Even the ass' of the village were enraptured by the fighting below.

Fugaku and Hiashi locked glaring eyes from across the stadium as their respective clan member's ducked it out.

Naruto kept his eyes on the same pair of fighters. They were his most dangerous opponents at the time. The Hyuuga because of the deadly weapon he held and the Uchiha due to his fire-based choices of attack. But, then again, Venom could sense the massive amount of chakra locked away inside Gaara and was screaming in his desire to consume it all.

He turned his attention to the sand user and saw that the redhead was having trouble staving off two Butchers. Their Otherworld cleavers sliced through his sandy defenses like a hot knife through cold air; forcing Gaara to continuously throw sand-based attacks while slowly backing away from the constantly approaching monsters.

Seeing the boy as the easier target, Naruto quickly approached him from behind while being as silent as possible. He was right behind Gaara when one of the Butchers lifted his head to glance at the blond. This alerted Gaara who turned just as a fist came up and smashed into his sand-shield-covered face.

The Suna ninja did not have time to form any sort of defense when another fist smashed onto the top of his head, sending him to the ground. Naruto stood over Gaara and smirked wickedly before starting a vicious beating. His attack was relentless; years of abuse and past experience tough Naruto exactly how to hurt someone in this fashion. Gaara's sand tried to stop Naruto only for the blonde's extra arms to smash any attempts out of the way.

Mainly Naruto just stood over Gaara's prone form and wailed on the back of his head, both to hurt him and to crack apart his sand armor. Only after a little while did a small crack appear on the back of Gaara's head. Seeing this, Naruto focused his fists on that one spot until enough of it had cracked away and Gaara's bare flesh was visible.

Another wicked smile appeared on Naruto's face while he raised his right hand high into the air. The hand shifted into a shapeless blob before being violently slammed down onto the redhead's exposed skin.

Almost instantly, Naruto threw his head back and let out a loud, pleasure-filled roar. "Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesssssssss!" His eyes rolled into the back of his head while a waterfall of saliva fell from his open mouth. He was so enraptured in the delicious taste of a chakra-constructed demon that Naruto failed to notice Gaara's gourd dissolve into sand and slowly crawl up his arm. The unstable sand was falling apart even as it crawled past Naruto's elbow.

Finding it unable to completely cover it's attacker and heal Gaara at the same time; the sand demon decided to literally sever the connection between it's attacker and it's host.

Suddenly, every grain of sand wrapped around Naruto's arm shot through his flesh; tearing through skin, muscle, and bone in a mer instant.

Naruto roared once again, but in pain instead of pleasure as his arm was severed just above the elbow. His extra arms swung around wildly as he grabbed onto the bleeding stump that was once his arm. Gaara was able to crawl away and watch Naruto, as did the rest of the crowd.

Gaara looked at the bleeding blond with an evil grin before letting unconsciousness claim him; knowing full well what will happen. Or so he had hoped if not for a loud roar combined with a retched stench hit him the instant he closed his tired eyes.

The sand user's eyes shot wide open to see Naruto's gapping maw inches away from his face. Gaara was able to push his attacker away before turning his head and vomiting violently. Gaara had obviously smelled death before having killed more people than any healthy individual should have. But he had never had the 'joy' of smelling decaying human flesh mixed in with the rot of every other living thing combined with overpowered smelling salts that have all been left out in the hot sun for seven hours.

Gaara tried to attack Naruto only to have the blonde's remaining human hand slam down onto his neck with enough force to shatter the sand shield protecting him.

"We know what you are," Naruto growled softly. "We know what you hold," Naruto jerked Gaara forward until they were nearly touching nose to nose. "And we are going to let you live." He then threw Gaara to the ground.

Inside, Venom was thrashing and roaring in a combination of anger and hunger. There was a perfectly delicious demon not five feet away from his host and that blond idiot had the audacity to suddenly find a kindred spirit in the redhead. The small flashes of memory that was absorbed when Naruto was trying to consume Gaara showed how harsh and similar their lives had been.

The confused and terrified Gaara looked up at Naruto's glaring eyes and could suddenly see the hurt, fear and understanding of being a monster in the eyes of peers. Seeing that made an unknown feeling well up inside of Gaara. It felt like all that loneliness that he had been feeling almost all of his life had just suddenly disappeared. For the first time that Gaara could remember, the smallest bit of the right side of his mouth curved upwards.

Venom tried to get his host to attack the sand user and devour him. He screamed, roared, and even begged for Naruto to eat Gaara. But Naruto stood his ground and refused. He did buckle slightly and promise Venom that every demon that they would encounter was free game and he would consume them. Venom made sure to hold Naruto to his word; no matter what.

The Kazekage was sweating heavily, his plans had just gone up in smoke when Gaara calmly attempted to stand up before admitting defeat. His fan-using sister quickly jumped down and picked up her brother before sparing a small glance at Naruto and leaping away. The Hokage and Empress could feel their colleague's ire but chose to ignore it for the time being.

Down below, Sasuke had finally shoved away Neji and noticed Naruto's distracted state and missing left arm. So, he took what he thought was an open advantages and started through a quick series of hand signs. He whispered the name of the jutsu under his breath before taking in a lot of air, puffing out his chest and placing his thumb and forefinger right in front of his lips.

He released the air in his lungs into a massive stream of fire. The stream stretched out several feet before curling into a massive ball and zooming towards Naruto. Said blond quickly leapt high into the air and flipped upside down and stared at the attacking Uchiha with an emotionless expression. Sasuke immediately stopped his attack and instantly switched to shooting several smaller fireballs at the airborne Uzumaki.

Naruto quickly changed the direction of his fall before plunging headfirst for the Uchiha. Sasuke got out of the dive-bomb attack but Naruto's extra right arm reached out and grabbed Sasuke's leg, tripping him and pulling him closer to the blond. The onyx haired teen made to turn and face Naruto when a strong foot slammed down on his back.

Naruto looked down at Sasuke then to Nightmare and her Butchers and then back to Sasuke. Sasuke struggled to get free but was only able to turn his head to look directly at Naruto. He then looked up at the remains of his left arm, the bone sticking out an inch or two from the torn flesh. Naruto looked directly at Sasuke before giving a wickedly amused grin.

"For the time we've spent as your teammate we've noticed how strong your arms are. We hope you don't mind if we take one!" Naruto's second right arm reached down and grabbed Sasuke's left arm. The Uchiha increased his struggling as he felt the claws dig into his skin and his arm slowly being pulled away from his body.

With a violent jerk, Sasuke's arm was snapped in the wrong direction. The boy let out an agonized scream as blood leaked out from his arm. Naruto violently jerked the limb back in the proper direction, causing another loud crack to echo out from the arena followed by an even louder scream. More blood poured from the tears in Sasuke's skin as his arm was slowly pulled away from the rest of him again.

The arm was about to be completely torn away when a kunai embedded itself into the side of Naruto's skull. The force of the impact knocked Naruto off Sasuke and allowed the Uchiha to crawl away. Naruto gave an angry roar before yanking out the blade and glaring at Neji.

"We have had it with you!" He shouted before charging at Neji and jumping at the youth with claws prepared to dig into flesh. Neji quickly brought his sonic dagger up just as Naruto came down on him. The two clashed into each other and lay motionless on the ground.