This is a Naruto Fan Fiction only.

I saw Temari basically cornering him to either give up or end up killing both of them. Shikamaru was anything but a quitter he was definitely not. He got a nasty reputation of being lazy, but even I knew that was just a way to make others relax around him.

He did quit much to my surprise, but if the looks he was giving her were any indication I think that my good friend was a victim of the same thing I was, we both got bitten by the love bug it seems.

Kankuro ended up fighting his brother for the spot in the finals, and wouldn't you know it his sand pretty much crushed his puppet into pieces smaller than a Dango ball.

At long last, my chance to fight against him had come, and he and I were the two finalists of this little tournament. There was a brief stop of the tournament to allow the people in the arena to get some things done. I could only guess it was either a bathroom break or a mad dash to bet on our fight.

I simply walked down the wall till I saw the top box, and with a little effort I threw a special miniature kunai at the back of the chair the supposed Kazekage was seated, just in case he really was who I thought he was.

I walked down the wall till I was in the entrance doorway to the waiting area, Sayomi was there still pretending to be Sasuke, and boy did she look mad. She was glaring at me, but since she often pretended not to care about anything this caught a few people by surprise, mainly Sakura and Ino.

"You are late! Where have you been dope? Trying to lose by default since your opponent will wipe the floor with you?" She must really be angry about something, I will ask her once we are back at my place.

"No, I am not late but thanks for caring Teme. I was actually looking for a cure for your condition, but every Medic, Herbalist, and Fortune Teller told me the same thing, there is no cure for the chronic emo syndrome. Sorry Teme you will just have to live with that illness it seems."

I pretended not to care about the way Sayomi was pretending to glare at me, I still wondered why the bloody hell was she so angry with me? I pretended to have to go to the bathroom, and wouldn't you know it she did too.

My fight would start in about half an hour, I know there are many people watching but an hour long bathroom break? I closed the stall as I got in it, or I would have but Sayomi decided to make it a two-person stall. I was seating on the can and she was on my lap.

"Ok, what is exactly eating you? Why you angry with me?" She dropped her disguise for a second and looked like she had her Sharingan active, or maybe she had been crying quite a bit.

"I saw you and that ANBU getting cozy together on the roof. I couldn't believe that my lover was flat out cheating on me." Wait a second she was seeing me and Cat talking and she jumped to the wrong conclusion?

"For crying out loud, I went up there to get a better view of my friend's fights. Cat just happens to see me and we got decided to chat a little bit. She is one of my best friends. Trust is part of every relationship, and if we are having trust issues now then maybe just maybe I should be the one to rethink our relationship.

She began to really look worried as I told her that, "Look I may have jumped to a conclusion, true, but how can you blame me? I am stuck pretending to be a dude, and I find you chatting with a total knockout, seating together so close. Anyone would be jealous."

I looked at her and she stopped talking, "I am a nine tails fox! You humans might cheat on your lovers and not think about it for a second, but not us! I do not cheat on my mate!"

"Now the question I have is how long are you going to rub against me like that? You know I am going to have a hard time fighting if you do that." She laughed and looked at me.

"Maybe I am just marking my territory, if you manage to beat Gaara I imagine there might be quite a few vixens out there who want to claim you after seeing that. You get this straight, you are mine buster, and I don't share."

I laughed as she said that, "I could say the same thing Sayomi, come on. I got a cousin of mine to beat and you got to keep pretending you are a dude for a little while longer. Let's not forget the Snake pretending to be Kazekage."

She got off me but not before kissing me on my lips. She walked off but not before turning around and smiling, "Don't get too tired lover boy, I want a taste of that thing I was feeling after we get that promotion."

She had to notice that, damn it. Why did she have to say something like that? Now how am I going to concentrate if I keep picturing me and her doing that?

The final fight was going to be me against Gaara of the sand. I walked into the arena and looked at the man pretending to be the Kazekage, I know he will attack it is just a matter of time.

"So you finally decided to show up Brother nine, so nice to see you actually show up on time. Mother and I have been hearing some rumors about your lack of what did these creatures call it? Punctuality?"

I smiled, and I walked towards Gaara. All the while I felt several people stare at me with pure venom in their gaze. "I wouldn't pay much attention to what they say if I was you Brother One, they are notoriously inaccurate when it comes to gossip."

I opened my arms and looked at him with a smile on my face, granted I was pretending, but I was showing quite the smile, "So come on Brother, why don't you give me a nice hug?"

Sure enough, the goard on his back popped it's cork and sand began to pour out of it. The sand came directly at me and I knew he was not going to wait for the start signal to even appear as an idea on the proctor's head.

I managed to evade the attack but the more he attacked, the more of his sand he spread around the arena. I knew this had a major attack in the making written all over it. I did a hand sign and began breathing fire against the sand.

The second my flames touched the sand it immediately melted and turned to glass, this made Gaara rethink his strategy.

The thing that caught me off guard was how much the pretender was actually enjoying our fight, it was almost like he was screaming so that people know he was a fake. It was no major secret that Gaara, Kankuro, and Temari were all his children.

No father, no matter how demented that father may like to see his son treated the way I was treating Gaara, I could almost say he was happy that I was making Gaara look like an absolute fool.

The sand simply didn't stop coming and with more sand, I was pretty much sure I would be skating over a glass floor by the time Gaara or more than likely his tailed beast got the right idea.

There was no more time to fool around, the second I saw the fake pull out a strangely shaped kunai I knew that this was the time I needed to go and take care of him. I simply couldn't leave Gaara to cause damage thinking he was protecting his father.

I had to go full out and thanks to a set of shadow clones I made while jumping around and burning his sand it was an easy matter to get started. One of the clones turned into my nine tails form. This has the intended effect of causing people to leave the stadium as quickly as possible. This would minimize the casualties caught in the battle.

My clone was working hard to get Gaara to wake up, and I, on the other hand, use that Jutsu to travel as quickly as I could to where the Hokage and the traitor were seated. I arrived as soon as the fake Kazekage was ready to stab the Hokage in the back.

I cut off his hand with my sword, he sure wasn't that happy that I did that or so I thought from the look of hate he was giving me. "Now Naruto why would you defend that worthless fool? We both know that he could have kept you safe, but he did nothing to keep you from harm now did he?"

The costume was shed and he was standing in front of us much in the same looking clothes that he appeared in every single bingo book ever printed after he turned traitor. The only difference was that he was wearing passion pink lipstick.

"Now I was only going to harm the old fool, but you and do this to me. You know regrowing an entire part of my body is not going to be pleasant or easy. You are such a naughty, naughty little boy Naruto. I do believe you will need to be punished."

It seems my clone actually managed to get the situation with Gaara has taken care off. Orochimaru approached the Kazekage under the pretense of fixing his son's seal.

My shadow clones managed to knock him flat on the ground and pinned him there long enough to not only repair the damage to the seal but even improve it. This will never happen again, and Gaara will be able to sleep like anyone else.

"So Orochimaru did you plan on using the one-tailed beast to destroy the village too? Wasn't it enough to try and kill your old teacher?" Orochimaru laughed as I said that, he must have found it particularly funny that I said that.

"Actually Naruto I planned to use the one tailed beast to distract the ANBU long enough so that I could kill the Hokage, but now that you mentioned it, you know that doesn't sound like such a bad idea after all. So tragic that you will not get to see that happen."

I looked around and I saw four beams of energy shoot straight into the air. "Damn it, a chakra cage. You really did spend quite a bit of time preparing for this attack didn't you?" Orochimaru smiled and just as he did his cut off hand had been replaced.

"It is so nice for someone to recognize a person's efforts. For you knowing about the cage I gather you read my old books. I wrote theories on the usage of chakra in three books, no one ever considered them useful and so the old fool actually never recognized my hard work."

He touched the light wall that was near him and laughed, "It is as you said a Chakra cage since you know about it, you also must know it's one weakness. Since you been such a well-read student, let me give you a reward. I know someone like you will be able to appreciate this technique as well."

He touched the ground and I could tell chakra being pumped into the ground. He then jumped back and from where he touched two large coffins appeared. The mummified remains of two unfortunate victims were inside the two coffins, I sure didn't like where this was going. It was written on his third book and I never liked that technique for it was a desecration of the dead as far as I was concerned.

"So you did read my three books after all, why don't you smile Naruto? No one has ever seen my resurrection technique and lived to tell about it. Then again considering who I am bringing back to kill you, you might not survive after all."

As soon as he placed two strolls on each of the bandaged mummies the bandages tore into pieces revealing two people both me and the Hokage would never imagine would harm the village, the resurrected people were the first and second Hokage.

"Damn you Orochimaru, you would use my own teacher and his brother to do your dirty work. Did you wonder why I never put your name forward as my successor to be the next Hokage? Here is your answer, your total disregard for human life. A Kage must protect others and you would have only used the village as your test subjects."

I looked at him, and then at the Hokage. "If you think these two will be enough to do us in you are sadly mistaken human! You may try to pretend you are a serpent but to me you nothing more than a lowly worm. Correction, a worm is actually more useful than you are!"

I felt my clothes disappear from my body and I dropped on my hand as my body began to be covered by my fur. "You had to cage me in, you have no idea what kind of beast you caged yourself with. I am generous however, I will tell you I am a nine tails fox! I am also your doom!"