Naruto: Shinobi Hunters

Digi-Destined Saga

Ninja Storm Tournament Arc

Kurama no Kyubi: Before the start of the chapter, let me just say that I don't think this chapter will be quite as long as the previous one. I should get done writing it a lot faster, though, especially since I've already got most of the scenes in mind. Please note that by the time you read this, I will already be several chapters ahead.

"Digivolution." Normal speech

'Digivolution.' Normal thought

"Digivolution." Biju, Digital God, Legendary, transformed Laguz, Perfect, Spirit, God speech

'Digivolution.' Biju, Digital God, Legendary, transformed Laguz, Perfect, Spirit, God thought

Mina: Kurama no Kyubi doesn't own anything other than his OCs, which includes me.

Chapter 48: Round 1

Naruto was standing in the lobby of the hotel along with all of the other contestants who were waiting in anticipation for the tournament to begin.

Naruto however, thought back to his earlier conversation with the girl calling herself "Sheena the Summoner".

Flashback

"Who are you? A friend of Saina's?" Naruto asked.

"The name's Fujibayashi Sheena, also known as "Sheena the Summoner", and I'm of the Dragon Guard's Death Squad." Sheena said.

"The Dragon Guard?" Naruto asked.

"We're a group serving the Dragon of the Apocalypse, Acnologia, one of the Perfect-Level Digimon." Sheena said.

"Acnologia? The Perfect?" Naruto asked, narrowing his eyes as he thought 'Isn't Acnologia the one who…?'

"That's right. You know about the Perfect, don't you?" Sheena asked, and Naruto nodded.

"I read about one of them in Dorumon and Zolo-san's report. Gelelmon." Naruto said, also hiding the fact that he had seen Acnologia before.

"I'm sure you'll find that Acnologia-sama is far stronger than Gelelmon." Sheena said.

"So why are you here, anyway?" Naruto asked. He had had a point on always keeping the Type-Orbs on his person, so he got ready in case this Sheena tried to take them.

"What are you getting so tense over? We're not here for you or anything. Me and my companions came here to take part in the tournament and enjoy ourselves." Sheena said.

"You think I'm going to believe that? You told me yourself that you work for one of the most evil beings in the World. You really think I'm gonna believe you only came here to enjoy yourselves?" Naruto asked before a thought crossed his mind and he asked "Besides, even if you did come here just to enjoy yourselves, then why did you spy on me?"

"I was just curious what all the commotion about the Digi-Destined was about. Looking at you, however, I can see that we have nothing to worry about." Sheena said.

Then, another message came over the loudspeakers.

"There is now only ten minutes left. Everyone not yet in the lobby needs to hurry."

Sheena then turned began walking in the direction of the hotel.

"Hey, where are you going 'ttebayo?!" Naruto yelled after her, and she stopped as she looked at him over her shoulder.

"You heard the message, didn't you? You should get going too if you don't want to be late." She then resumed walking.

Flashback end

"Naruto-kun?" Fu asked curiously as she looked at him.

"Ah, sorry. I was just thinking about stuff." Naruto said.

"Geez. You think of that later. We're about to head into a series of life-and-death battles, you know." Fu said with a sigh.

"Yeah, sorry." Naruto said as he scratched the back of his head before thinking as he looked around 'I'm not seeing that Sheena girl around here? I wonder if she made it in time.'

"Hey, Naruto-kun, focus!" Fu said.

"Ah, sorry, Dattebayo!" Naruto said.

They then heard a commotion in front of them and looked towards the podium at the front of the room to see someone walk up to it.

"What the…?!" Naruto said in surprise as both his and Fu's eyes widened.

The one standing at the podium was none other than Naruto's uncle, Gildarts Clive Uzumaki.

"What's Gildarts-oji-san doing here?" Naruto asked.

"Hmm? You know him?" Kurotsuchi who was also standing by them asked.

"He's Naruto-kun's uncle." Fu replied.

"But the question is; what is he doing here now?" Zolo asked.

Gildarts then began speaking, his voice sounding all across the room thanks to the microphone on the podium in front of him.

"Everyone, welcome to the 776th Ninja Storm Tournament." Gildarts said "This tournament has been around since the dawn of the Shinobi World, and today, you have all come here to compete." He paused as he looked over all of the people that were assembled, some even standing on the galleries above, including Sheena and Kakuzu "There are a total of 1.568 contestants, each from different corners of the world, and each with vastly different battle styles and Ninjutsu at their disposal. This will not be an easy struggle for sure."

He paused again as the people around the room began murmuring amongst themselves, though they became quiet again as Gildarts continued speaking.

"There are three stages to the tournament. Stage 1 which will soon commence will be a series of 10 consecutive 4-person battle-royals. However, these won't be like any traditional battles; instead, you will each start off with one hundred points, hit an opponent or get hit yourself, and the number of points the one hit lose will fly out of their body in the form of spheres of chakra, and whoever grabs these will get the point. Those that lose all their points will be disqualified, whereas those who have the most points by the end of the battle will move on and take all of their points with them to the nest battle. If someone lose, but still have points left, however, they will get one chance to redeem themselves in a battle against other losers. Lose that battle, and you're out for good, and won't be able to ever reapply." Gildarts explained before taking another pause to allow the contestants to properly absorb the information. Or at least, that's what everyone thought at first, but then the wall behind Gildarts suddenly began moving up.

"Stage 2 will be explained to you when you've made it through Stage 1, but for now, make it through this tunnel, go through the door at the end, and you will be taken to your first battle." As he spoke the wall finished rising up, revealing a long hallway behind it "Now, HAJIME! Go and bring glory to your villages!"

Just as he finished, everyone began charging ahead into the tunnel behind.

"Hey, things suddenly got really livelier." Fu noted.

"Looks like the party's starting." Kurotsuchi said as her hand brushed against her X-Loader.

"Heh. What're we waiting for? Let's get going." Zolo said with a smile.

"Yeah, let's, Dattebayo!" Naruto said, and the four of them ran off as well.

Gildarts just smiled as everyone ran past him, his eyes briefly meeting Naruto's as they exchanged smiles when Naruto and the others ran past him as well.

The tournament had officially started.

Naruto

Everyone ran through the tunnel as they headed for the other end. The tunnel seemed to be much longer than they had thought however, and additionally what no one realized was that people were disappearing one after the other. Naruto himself didn't realize this until Fu next to him had disappeared. Soon after, a glowing door suddenly appeared before him and he passed through it quickly.

Next thing Naruto knew he was in a dark hallway, facing a small light in the distance and he began moving towards it.

As he walked through the light at the end of the hallway, he had to cover his eyes at the brightness, and as he removed his hand again, he saw that he stood in a large dome-like arena.

As he stepped forward, he heard a sound behind him, and turned around to see only a wall, and as he turned back around again, he saw three other doors, one at each of the corners of the room, and above them was some kind of digital counter which were counting through the numbers before landing at "0100".

Naruto walked a bit further before reaching the middle of the room. He then heard the sound of footsteps to his left, and he turned to see someone walking in from the darkness of the hallway.

As the person got closer, he could see that it was a girl in her mid-twenties with purple hair tied in a spiky pony-tail similar to Sheena's, as well as purple eyes. And she wore a black sleeve-less full-body Kunoichi outfit with a fish-net shirt underneath. She also had a long purple scarf and a matching purple waistband which had three Poké-Balls attached to it.

Naruto had no way of knowing of course, but this was Janine, a Gym Leader from Fuchsia City in the Kanto Region in the West Blue.

"Hmm?" She looked towards Naruto as a smug smirk crossed her lips "So you're my opponent? If so, this shouldn't be too hard."

Naruto looked at her in slight annoyance at the fact that she basically called him weak, but then another female voice was heard.

"Underestimating your opponent is the first step towards defeat." It was a young girl who appeared to be around Naruto's age, maybe one year younger. She had white hair in a bun with two pins going through it, red eyes, and strangely enough, pointed ears. She wore a blue stealth outfit with a face-mask covering the lower parts of her face, and there was also the image of a large red eye on her chest with three pointy eye-lashes on top and a large teardrop going down. (Kurama no Kyubi: Imagine the Stealth Armor from Breath of the Wild)

This young girl was Paya, a member of the Sheikah Tribe from a certain Kingdom down in the Grand Line, just south-west of the East Blue.

"So there's only the two of you here then?" She asked as she walked into the room.

"Looks that way. Maybe the last one got cold feet and ran." Janine said.

Just then, however, Naruto suddenly felt something and he tilted his head slightly to his left, and a kunai suddenly shot by, giving him a scratch on the cheek as it continued on towards Janine who caught it in mid-air.

'How did I…' Naruto thought to himself. It almost felt as though he knew the attack was coming before it even happened.

"Heheh… heh. What luck. To think that I'd be paired against the Kyubi in my first battle." Naruto turned around to see a man who appeared to be in his late twenties with shoulder-length dark brown hair which had several purple lines running through it, and matching purple eyes. He also wore the Konoha Chunin/Jonin uniform and had a Konoha Hitai-ate on his forehead.

This man was Teshi Hikashi, a Konoha Jonin and strong supporter of a movement in Konoha of people that wanted Naruto dead. Mizuki had also been a member of that movement.

"The Kyubi?" Jaya asked nonchalantly, not expecting an answer in return.

"How fortunate. I was quite upset when I heard you had been banished since it meant that I couldn't enact my revenge, but now that you stand before me, I can finally kill you!" Hikashi then took out another kunai and charged at Naruto.

"Don't you dare tough my Tamer!" Dorumon, who had suddenly appeared out of nowhere, jumped into the air right in front of Hikashi and spun around, hitting Hikashi in the face with his tail, sending the Jonin to the ground. Dorumon then landed as he looked around vigilantly at the other opponents.

"Hey, hold on! The battle hasn't even started yet!" Janine said.

"You're wrong. Look." Jaya said as she indicated to the orbs floating just above the ground, both next to Naruto's feet as well as around Hikashi. Naruto's orbs were a golden yellow as they had the image of a nine-tailed fox on them, while Hikashi's were purple with the image of what appeared to be the face (or mask) of an Oni.

"The battle actually started the moment we entered the arena. So what are we waiting for?"

"Heh! Exactly what I was thinking!" Janine said as she grabbed her three Poké-Balls and threw them into the air, letting out her Crobat, Weezing, and Toxicroak.

"Pokémon? In that case…" Naruto said as he grabbed his own Poké-Ball and threw it, letting out Celebi.

"Bi!"

Paya then pulled out an odd-looking dagger as she charged at Naruto, causing him to jump backwards before he continued to dodge the swipes of her dagger as he moved backwards. At the end of the flurry of attacks, Paya spun around before jumping into the air, and she brought her dagger down on Naruto.

Naruto pulled out a kunai as he blocked it, the impact causing orbs from both of them to fly out. Paya's were a dark blue-ish black with a red eye symbol in them.

Naruto then pushed her away, causing her to cartwheel through the air before she landed in a crouched position with her left palm against the ground as she held the dagger tightly in her right hand.

Weezing then came up in the air behind her before expelling a large amount of black mist from her mouth towards Jaya, who was soon engulfed by it.

'Hmm?' She looked up to barely see Weezing through the mist 'Is this some kind of toxic gas? Is she trying to poison me?' Having a face-mask, Jaya was of course protected from most poisonous gas-type attacks, unless it went through her skin, though she doubted that this gas was like that.

"…!" Her eyes widened as she noticed that even though she wasn't taking any damage herself, she was still losing orbs from the poison 'Shit!'

She jumped out of the poisonous gasses of Weezing's Toxic Move before landing on the ground, but as she did so, she began hearing the sounds of her orbs being picked up. Stealing a quick glance over to her point counter, she saw that she was down to 87 points.

Looking back towards the black mist, she saw it fading to reveal Janine standing there with a triumphant look on her face.

In the meantime, Naruto had gathered all of the points which he and Paya had lost in their earlier clash, bringing his total points up to 107.

Toxicroak then appeared behind him before thrusting her right claw towards him as it was glowing a purple glow. Naruto managed to jump out of the way in time before throwing his kunai at her. However, she managed to grab the kunai in mid-air,

As Naruto was about to pull out several shuriken, he felt something, or someone behind him, and he quickly jumped away before turning around to see Hikashi standing there, looking as he was about to kill him.

"Heheheh… You better pray to whatever God Demons worship, for this will be your final day alive." As he spoke a dark purple aura enshrouded him "When I return to Konoha, I will be recognized as a hero. The hero who killed the Demon brat!"

The purple aura then flared out as he charged at Naruto, a tanto in his right hand.

As Hikashi approached Naruto, the blond threw three shuriken at him as he jumped back before creating two Kage Bunshins. The shuriken flew by Hikashi, one scratching his cheek and the other two flying by on either side of his waist, causing orbs to fly off him, though he didn't seem to care as he was entirely focused on Naruto.

He swung his tanto at Naruto, but the blond just jumped back again before pulling out a kunai and holding it at the ready.

'He's so focused on me that he doesn't care that he's losing points. That's good. In that case I can get him to lose all of his points so that he becomes disqualified.' Naruto glanced over to Hikashi's point to see that he had 86 points left.

Naruto then yelled out his partner's name.

"DORUMON!"

Dorumon immediately disengaged his own fight with Crobat before running over to Naruto, coming up between him and Hikashi.

"Hyper Dash Metal!" Dorumon called out before shooting himself into Hikashi's gut, causing him to lose even more points. And Naruto then came up to him as he swung his kunai through him three times. Before Hikashi could retaliate, however, Dorumon jumped up before biting into his shoulder.

In the end, Hikashi was down to 56 points, while Naruto, who had grabbed all of the points that he had lost was up to 137.

Paya VS. Janine

Paya was currently at 93 points while Janine was at 96. Now, if anyone have been keeping track of their points, they would notice that their current distribution wouldn't add up, and the reason for this was the fact that there were 6 orbs lying around them on the ground where they were standing, adjacent of one-another, neither one moving an inch as Weezing was around above them, waiting for a command from her master.

Having gotten enough of waiting, Janine charged at Paya before swinging her kunai down at her, but Paya dodged to the side before moving past Janine, and cut her in her side, causing three orbs to fly off.

Janine's orbs were a dark violet with an image of the Soul Badge, the Badge given at the Fuchsia City Gym, within them.

"Charging blindly at your opponent like that just invites death." Paya said as she looked over her shoulder before turning around as she added "Whoever your teacher is, they can't be very good…"

"Weezing!" Janine yelled and Weezing came up behind Paya before spitting a glob of some kind of purple goo from her mouth "I'll have you know that my father is the best there is!"

Paya easily jumped out of the way, however, before jumping into the air and landing on Weezing before stabbing her dagger into the top of Weezing's head, and then jumped off as the Poison-Type Pokémon fell to the ground.

Paya landed on the ground behind Janine before she continued.

"As I was saying; whoever your teacher is, they can't be very good, or you're just incompetent."

Before Paya could attack, however, a loud booming noise could be heard as powerful winds raced past them.

"Wh-what's going on?!" Janine asked.

"I-I don't know!" Paya said as she tried to look towards where the winds were coming from, and what she saw there was some kind of massive purple aura , and within it was… some kind of Demon 'What… is that?'

Elsewhere

Elsewhere in the world were three people walking up a mountain trail. One was a young girl with shoulder-length brown hair who appeared to be about 10 or 11. Another was an older girl who looked to be 17 and had long black hair in a braided pony-tail. The last one was the only boy out of the three, and he also appeared to be the oldest at age 20. One thing they all had in common was that the sclerae of their left eyes were black, and they had a black Dragon tattoo on their left cheek.

"Aww man, why do we have to walk all the way? I'm seriously tired here!" Pony-tail Girl complained.

"Why are you complaining? Anyway, there's nothing that can be done about it since both Byaku and Walter are off on their own missions." Brown Hair said as she looked over her shoulder. It was then however, that she noticed the third member of their group "staring" off into the distance.

"Kalos, what are you looking at?" She asked.

"I can feel as if someone has released a powerful Aura. One akin to that of a Demon's." The man, Kalos muttered seemingly in response, even though he couldn't hear her. This was a man who couldn't see, hear, smell, taste, touch, or even sense, however, instead, he was able to use Aura to perceive what other people would use their normal six senses for, and thus, while he couldn't "hear" what the girl had said, he still knew what words had come out of her mouth. Whether he had been responding to her question or just muttering to himself however was unknown.

Naruto VS. Hikashi

A purple aura flew out of Hikashi's body as his eyes were completely white. He then let out an inhuman scream as the purple aura formed itself into the shape of a Oni's head, with Hikashi standing in its mouth. He then stared towards Naruto and Dorumon standing a bit away with hateful eyes.

"Wh-what just happened?!" Dorumon asked.

"No idea! Maybe it's some kind of Kekkei Genkai?" Naruto wondered.

Toxicroak then came up behind Hikashi before jumping at him as the claw on her right hand began letting out a purple hue. But before she could reach him, what looked like purple tentacles rushed past her and one of them wrapped itself around her. She screamed in pain as her skin began turning a dark, almost black purple, starting from where the tentacle was wrapped around her.

The screams stopped when her whole body was covered in the purple color, and the purple then disappeared to reveal that she had been completely turned to stone.

"NOOOO!" A scream could be heard before Janine rushed towards Hikashi and then jumped into the air as she readied her kunai. However, another tentacle wrapped around her waist and in short order she was turned to stone herself. Both she and Toxicroak were then dropped to the ground.

"Kyubi… Kyubi…!" The voice coming out of Hikashi's mouth as he began inching his way towards Naruto sounded more like that of a Demon.

"You… bastard…!" Naruto gritted his teeth in anger at what he had just witnessed.

He then looked around frantically before his eyes landed on Paya who had just been staring the whole time.

"Hey, you! This guy seems to have gotten a lot stronger, so I think we should work together to take him down!" Naruto said, also surprising himself a little as he knew that before, he would've just charged at Hikashi.

However, what Paya did next was something that he certainly hadn't expected. She appeared behind him with her dagger to his throat.

"I don't know why, nor do I care, but that guy is clearly fixated on you. So then the answer is obvious; just dispose of the object of his fixation, and he should go back to normal." She said coldly.

"Wait…! Dispose… of…?" Naruto asked nervously, wondering if he had heard her right, though one look into her eyes, and he could tell that she wasn't joking.

That's when Bakuto's words came back to him.

"Here, even the most innocent-looking people will kill you if you pull your punches."

Dorumon, who had also been caught off-guard by Paya, was about to attack her to get her away from Naruto, but then something unexpected happened as Crobat suddenly rammed herself into Paya, knocking her to the ground.

"Crobat Cro!" Crobat said as she hovered in front of Naruto.

"You want to save your master?" Naruto asked and Crobat nodded.

"Cro Crobat! Crobat Cro Cro Bat!" Crobat said.

"I see. So you want us to help you save her." Naruto said with his foxy grin, but then a thought came to him as he asked "What moves do you have?"

"Cro Crobat. Crobat Crobat." Crobat said.

"So, Heat Wave, Cross Poison, Confuse Ray, and U-Turn?" Naruto asked and Crobat nodded.

"Cro Crobat?" Crobat then asked a question.

"Huh? How I can understand what you're saying?" Naruto asked before responding "I just do, I guess. I haven't really thought too much about it myself." Which was true, he really hadn't thought much about it. He felt as though someone had once mentioned something about it to him, but he didn't quite remember.

"Don't you… IGNORE ME, KYUBI!" Hikashi yelled as a blast of purple Aura shot out of him before he charged towards them.

As the purple tentacles shot towards them, Naruto and Dorumon jumped off to the right, and Crobat flew up into the air.

"Crobat, get in front of him and use Confuse Ray! Dorumon, get him and use your Metal Cannon! Celebi, use Ancient Power!" Naruto called out, and Crobat then flew down into Hikashi's line of sight as her eyes began glowing before a pair of multi-colored beams shot out of them and towards Hikashi, hitting him in the eyes.

Dorumon then came up behind him and opened his mouth as several metal balls shot out, hitting Hikashi hard in the back.

Celebi concentrated hard before several large rocks were pulled out of the ground and came up around her before she thrusted her arms forward, and with a cry of "BI!" the rocks crashed down on Hikashi.

"Did we get him…?" Naruto asked. But of course it was not going to be that easy as all of the rubble was simply just blown away with Hikashi standing in the center. None of the attacks seemed to have done any real damage to him, assuming they had even hit in the first place, however, despite this, there were a bunch of orbs lying on the ground around him.

Naruto was then about to check out how many points he had left, but soon found out that he didn't need to, as a grey filter suddenly covered Hikashi's body and a red X appeared over him, indicating that he had been disqualified. Naruto then quickly looked up to Hikashi's counter and immediately felt as though a weight was lifted from his shoulders as he breathed out as he saw that Hikashi had indeed reached 0 points.

"No, this can't be happening…! Not while I am so close! Not while the Kyubi is standing right in front of me!" Hikashi said as his body began getting pixelated before disappearing entirely, starting from the soles of his feet and going up. He let out one final scream as he vanished completely.

"Did we enter a Game or something without realizing it?" Dorumon asked as he stepped up to Naruto.

"More importantly…" Naruto said before looking down towards Janine and Toxicroak who were still encased in stone.

Naruto walked over to them before kneeling besides Janine, and he reached out his right hand to touch her. And just as his hand made contact, to his surprise, a grey glow then covered Janine before she returned to normal.

"What the…?" Naruto looked curiously at his hand before looking over to Toxicroak and touching her as well, and sure enough, the same phenomenon happened with her where she turned back to normal.

"You think it's the kind of Jutsu where, if the Jutsu caster is gone, you just need to touch them to return them to normal?" Dorumon asked.

"Hmm… Maybe…" Naruto said as he looked at his hand again.

Soon

"Hnngh…"

"Ah, look! It looks like she's regaining consciousness!" Dorumon said as Janine began to stir.

"Hey, you all right? Can you stand?" Naruto asked as he helped her stand up.

"Yeah…" Janine said, before she noticed that the blond was holding her hand, and she quickly pulled it towards herself.

"CROBAT!" Crobat yelled as she flew into Janine's arms and began hugging her.

"Ah, Crobat! Where you worried about me? Well, you should know there's no need to worry. I am my father's daughter, after all." Janine said.

"Well, anyway, now that you're up again, ready for round two?" Naruto asked with a serious look on her face.

"Finally." Paya said as she stepped away from the wall she'd been leaning against. She and Naruto had agreed to a ceasefire until Janine had regained consciousness.

Just as they were about to continue from where they left off however, a voice suddenly came over the loudspeakers.

"Hello, is this box 10-1?" Naruto's eyes widened. He had heard that voice before. In fact, he knew it too well. It was undoubtedly the voice of one of the Legendary Sannin, Orochimaru.

"Your battle is as of now ended. The winner of this battle is Uzumaki Naruto with 173 points, while the other contestants, Paya has 131 points, Janine has 96 points, and Teshi Hikashi is disqualified with 0 points." The doors that they had come in through suddenly reappeared "Naruto-kun, go back through the gate you came in. It will lead you to your next battle. Paya-chan and Janine-chan, you two go through the gates you came from, and they'll lead you to your respective "loser battles"."

Naruto walked back through the door he had come from towards where his next battle awaited him.

He fought his way through the following battles, managing to barely come out on top in the earlier battles, but as it continued on, he noticed just how unfair this tournament was, as those with the most points at the end of the day had the advantage. He ended up losing his sixth battle, though made a comeback in the "loser battle" and moved on to his eight.

Eventually though, with a total of 1.827 points, he moved on to his final battle.

As he walked into the arena, and the door behind him disappeared, he noticed that just like wit his first battle, he was the first one there. He looked towards the point counters above the other doors to see that the one to his left began counting first, eventually landing on 2.347.

He gulped slightly as that number was much higher than his own, and his fears got justified as he saw who came out through the door. Kokuo Mina.

"Ah, you!" She exclaimed as soon as she saw Naruto "You're the boy trying to steal my Kurotsuchi-sama! I won't let you!"

"Ah, no, I'm just her friend, and we're both Digi-Destined. I'm not trying to steal her or anything." Naruto defended himself.

"Oh, yeah?" Mina then pointed an accusing finger at him as she yelled out "You think I haven't noticed the way she's looking at you?! Earlier when you talked, it was clear that you were the only thing on her mind. In fact, in the last few months now, I've heard her occasionally giggling to herself, and whenever I asked what was funny, she would just brush me off! And she always used to tell me everything; we never hid anything from each other! And now you've come along to ruin all of it! She doesn't even talk to me as much anymore!"

"About that last part, maybe she thought you were getting too clingy and just wanted some space?" Naruto guessed.

"NEVER!" Mina shut it down immediately.

"I still think you're overreacting a little." Naruto said.

"I am not overreacting!" Mina yelled.

'Could've fooled me…' Naruto thought with a sweatdrop.

The point counter over the door to Naruto's right then began counting before stopping at 1.666.

"All right! Finally at the final battle!" Naruto's eyes widened as the new contestant came out from the darkness of the tunnel.

He was wearing a red cape that covered almost his whole body and a white turban with a red top on his head. Under the cape it seemed as though he was wearing a red sleeve-less shirt and brown pants that was rolled-up to his knees. Despite the different appearance, however, Naruto could still see who it was; none other than Akagami.

"Eh? Akagami, what're you doing here? I thought we told you that you couldn't enter!" Naruto yelled.

"What the…?! There are two of you?!" Mina yelled.

"Ah! Naruto? Ah, crap, I was hoping to get through the first round without being noticed." Akagami then turned to Mina as he pointed at her "And you, I'm really getting tired of people comparing me to that guy!"

"And this is why we couldn't have more than three people join. To minimize the risks of running into each other in the first round." Naruto said with a face-palm.

"Hey, maybe I could beat you, and then I'd be the Uzukage!" Akagami said.

"Like hell I'll let that happen!" Naruto yelled.

"Um, sorry to barge in on your heated conversation, but I don't think it works like that." Mina said, the scene before her somehow causing the hatred she felt for the blond boy to dissipate slightly.

They then heard the sound of the final point counter counting, and soon enough it stopped… at exactly 6.000.

"!"

They then began hearing footsteps which sounded much louder than they should have coming from the last remaining tunnel. It didn't sound like walking though, rather it sounded like the person was happily skipping along, and on that note, hymning could also be heard.

Soon enough, the person came into view, and she landed on the ground as the tunnel behind the person, who was now revealed to be a young girl vanished, replaced by a wall.

She had long red hair in a braided pony-tail with a sandy-brown ribbon near the end. Her attire consisted of a red vest that stopped at her waist and had sleeves that went down to her elbows, and underneath it, she wore a dark blue t-shirt, and finally on her legs, she wore matching shorts. The sclera of her left eye was black, and she had a black Dragon tattoo on her left cheek.

"Eheheh! This is gonna be fun!" She said with childish glee and closed eyes as she had a huge innocent-looking grin on her face.

This was Saiokko the Warper, a member of the Dragon Guard.

Chapter preview

Mina "I'm gonna kill you right now, and then Kurotsuchi-sama will finally be mine, and mine alone!"

Naruto "Grr-GRRRAAAAAAARRRRR!"

Saiokko "IIIIIIIIIIIYYYYYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA HHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

Saiokko "Next time on Naruto: Shinobi Hunters: Saiokko the Warper."

Naruto (stares in shock at a transformed Saiokko) 'What the…? Just what the heck… is she…?!'

Character status

Naruto: Level: 150

Chakra Level: Devine.

Techniques: Soul Perception, Henge, Kawarimi, Oiroke, Harem, Kage Bunshin, Taju Kage Bunshin, Uzumaki Naruto Rendan, Uzumaki Naruto Rendan: Rasengan Edition, Katon: Goukakyo, Futon: Kamikaze, Shakuton: Moesakaru-Rendan, Shakuton: Shakunetsu-Kyu, Ranton: Kumori, Hyoton: Kessho-Sei Koraseru, Kuchiyose, Rasengan, Over-Limit.

Weapons: Kyukiri no Kiba, bo-staff, kunai, shuriken.

Kekkei Genkai: Ranton, Shakuton, Hyoton.

Pokémon: Celebi (lvl70), Pichu (lvl5).

Digimon: Dorumon, Cutemon, Spadamon, ChibiKamemon, Dorulumon, Drimogemon, Leomon.

Series: Naruto.

Janine: Level: 156

Aer Level: Chunin.

Techniques: unknown

Weapons: kunai, shuriken.

Pokémon: Crobat (lvl52) Weezing (lvl56) Toxicroak (lvl52).

Series: Pokémon (R/G/B/Y/G/S/C/FR/LG/HG/SS).

Paya: Level: 163

Mana Level: Jonin.

Techniques: unknown

Weapons: dagger.

Series: Original Character.

Hikashi: Level: 246

Chakra Level: Kage

Techniques: unknown

Weapons: kunai, shuriken.

Kekkei Genkai: unknown

Series: Original Character.

Character information

Name: Titania.

Age: 33

Affiliation: Crimean Knights (former), Greil Mercenaries, Uzushiogakure.

Affinity: Light.

Likes: The Greil Mercenaries, Her friends.

Dislikes: The Black Knight.

Info: When Titania was young, she joined the Crimean Knights, and was one day entered into an Officer Exchange Program with the neighboring Kingdom of Gallia. It was in Gallia that she met Greil, a powerful Beorc warrior whose strength intimidated her. Despite this, she still challenged him to a battle, only to be unceremoniously defeated. Afterwards, she asked him to train her, which he did. A few weeks later, he decided to invite her to his house where she met his wife, Elena, and their children, Ike and Mist. Eventually, she began harboring a deep love for Greil, though she kept it a secret, even beyond Elena's death. When Greil formed the Greil Mercenaries, Titania became the Deputy Commander, a role she retained even after Ike succeeded his father. When the time came for the final battle against the Goddess Ashera however, she remained outside of the Tower of Guidance where she led the Army against the Goddess' minions.

Kurama no Kyubi: You may notice that I changed Saiokko's alias, and the reason for that is that I wasn't entirely happy with the one I had given her before, which would more so elude to her past, something that wouldn't make sense considering that the members of the Dragon Guard have an unwritten rule of not talking about their past, while this one would more elude to her powers. Now as to what she's warping, that's up to you guys to speculate, 'cause I'm sure as hell not telling.