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And for you guys who are worried I asked and got permission from S'TarKan for the use of the 'chakra wave' jutsu. I hope you enjoy the chapter.
Chapter 32 – Gaara vs. Naruto…
Hinata noticed the genjutsu almost immediately. Feathers falling from the sky everywhere, Hinata put her hands together making a hand sign she said quietly, "Release." Hinata repeated the process again and touched Kiba waking him and Akamaru. Neji also broke the genjutsu as did the two complaining chunin. Suddenly the five were surrounded by sound shinobi that had come out of the crowd.
All of them ducked when they saw a green blur then heard it speak. "Leaf Hurricane!" Gai performed a aerial spin kick sending all the sound ninja flying. "Are all of you ok?" Gai asked.
"Yes, Gai-sensei we are fine, thanks to you." Hinata said.
"Okay, I need you to wake Lee and then head down and protect Sasuke." Gai said.
"Okay sensei, but I cannot use much more chakra as my injuries are not fully healed yet." Hinata explained.
"Is nap time over already?" Lee said tiredly as Neji woke both of his teammates up.
"That is fine, chunin you are with me. Genin go protect the last of the Uchiha. And do it with the power of youth!" Gai said as he and the chunin leapt back into the battle that was going on around them.
"Lady Hinata you can lead we will protect you and Sasuke." Neji said to the surprise of the others.
"Okay niisan. Let's head down and get the arrogant one and make sure he gets medical attention." Hinata said.
The five genin jumped down to the arena floor only to see Sasuke walking slowly away from Naruto, Hayate, a Sand jonin, and a large tanuki.
"Naruto-kun please be careful!" Hinata yelled.
Naruto smiled and waved as he turned back to the tanuki as Naruto's demon chakra flared. "Shall we do this Gaara?" Naruto said to Gaara who had a sinister smile on his face.
Hinata and the others reached Sasuke who was taking his sweet time getting to the medical area. "Sasuke Uchiha, we were ordered by Gai-sensei to escort you to receive medical attention. Will you do as ordered?" Hinata asked as they approached him.
"Not from any of you losers." Sasuke said arrogantly.
"Why do you not want to get help for your injuries Sasuke-kun?" Lee asked as he disappeared and reappeared as he kicked a Sound ninja away that appeared behind Sasuke. "You are a fellow Leaf shinobi and have been ordered to seek medical attention, we were sent to make sure you got it, now go or you will need more medical attention than you currently need."
Sasuke nodded as he understood the implied threat, he looked at the others and saw that they all nodded in agreement. Sasuke might be able to take out a couple of them but fighting all five was something he could not do. "All right you win. I can't use jutsu anyways so I am basically useless until my hand and arm are healed." Sasuke said as he bowed his head.
Back on the other side of the arena Naruto had summoned a large frog that had shields on its arms. The frog had blocked several sand attacks sent against Naruto by Gaara. Hayate was fighting against Baki but appeared to be losing. Genma appeared behind Baki who shunshined away. Both Hayate and Genma gave the demon containers plenty of room and made sure no one interfered with their battle.
Gaara had had enough of fighting against Naruto and getting nowhere. When Naruto appeared behind Gaara and said "Hidden Leaf secret finger jutsu, a thousand years of death." Naruto hit Gaara below the base of the tail with a kunai. Gaara realized it too late and hit Naruto with his tail only to see him poof into a cloud of smoke. The frog brought both of his guards up and made his silhouette as small as possible, and Naruto quickly jumped behind the frog.
Gaara smelled smoke then heard the crackling sound of a paper bomb getting ready to go off. "What did he do?" Gaara asked as the bomb went off. When the dust settled Gaara's tanuki form had most of the right side blown away as Gaara staggered forward. "What did you do to me?" Gaara angrily asked.
"Give up now Gaara, I know how hard it is to be a container, the looks the taunts. Worst of all the way they try to keep you away. Stop now and I can tell you that it will be better. You can have a better life." Naruto pleaded.
Gaara angered. "You will not wipe away my existence!" Gaara yelled as a column of sand rose and transformed into a huge tanuki as large as a boss summons if not larger, it nearly filled the stadium.
Naruto not sure what to do threw several wind scythe jutsu at the large demon. 'I would have enough space to summon Gamabunta but we would have not much maneuvering room. What do I do? I guess I can go ahead and do that if nothing I can beat him while Gamabunta holds him.' "Summoning jutsu!" Naruto yelled after he wiped some blood off his face, makes several hand signs, and then slams his hand on the ground.
A huge puff of smoke revealed Gamabunta to those that were awake. This stopped the fighting for a minute. Everyone was surprised that Naruto was able to summon the boss of toads. This gave a boost the Konoha forces fighting in the stadium as they recognized Gamabunta and returned to fighting quicker than the others. Many Sand and Sound shinobi died while distracted by Gamabunta's summoning.
"What do you want gaki? Why have you summoned me?" Gamabunta demanded. He looked around and saw the fighting and Shukaku. "You summoned me to fight the demon Shukaku? Are you insane? I am no match for him."
Naruto smirked. "You only need to distract him. I am going for his container."
Gamabunta smirked. "I see where you are going with this. Let's hope he does not try to go to sleep."
"What do you mean?" Naruto asked confused.
"Well if the container or medium goes to sleep, Shukaku will take control and he will be even harder to fight than he is now. How much control do you have with yours?"
"One tail for extended, but I could go two tail for a little bit. I will of course be injured if I do that though." Naruto admitted.
"You will not stop my existence. Mother will save me!" Gaara said as he started to go through hand signs. "Feigning Sleeping Technique." Gaara said before his head drooped.
"This is bad, he went to sleep and we will have to deal with Shukaku directly." Gamabunta said nervously.
Shukaku's eyes became clearer, from a dull tan to a bright yellow. "I am free at last!"
"Oh crap! Guess I have to do this the hard way." Naruto said as he made the ram seal and concentrated his chakra. He released the built up chakra all at once. "Chakra pulse!" A wave of chakra flowed from Naruto hitting Gaara like a brick wall waking him immediately. Everyone that was asleep in the stadium woke up. They saw Shukaku and also saw Naruto standing on top of Gamabunta.
"No!! I just came out! It isn't fair!" Shukaku yelled. His eyes changed back to dull tan.
Naruto jumped to the head of Shukaku and landed on his nose. "I am going to stop you now and I am not going to let you hurt this village! It's my home and I will protect them with my life!" Naruto yelled at Gaara.
"I will continue to exist. You will not stop that Naruto Uzumaki!" Gaara yelled at Naruto as sand started to surround Naruto. "I will not die! I will continue to exist! You will not stop me!"
Naruto reached deep inside himself. 'Fox I need chakra or game over!' Naruto was surrounded by red chakra and his features changed. His hair became wilder. His eyes turned red and had slits for pupils. His nails became claws. The chakra blew the sand away. "I will protect them!" Naruto growled loudly.
Gaara swept his hand towards Naruto "Sand shuriken". Globs of sand hit Naruto and stopped his progress towards Gaara. Naruto's chakra shroud spouts fox ears and a tail. Naruto's canine teeth now grew out of his mouth. Gaara continued to hit Naruto with sand shuriken. Naruto moved and nearly took Shukaku's nose off as Naruto ran towards the ear. Gaara was barely able to keep up with Naruto's movements. Gaara decided that he would put up a wall of sand between himself and Naruto. The wall of sand came up two meters away from Gaara. Gaara then hardened the wall.
Naruto saw the wall go up and charged the wall as normal shuriken bounced off of him. Naruto stopped and saw a couple of Sand shinobi throwing shuriken at him. Naruto just roared at them, this caused the shuriken they just threw returned to their owners killing them. Naruto then walked to the wall and swiped it with his right arm. He tore a large gash in the wall. He looked directly at Gaara who was starting to be covered by sand and took on the appearance of a tanuki again. "I will stop you Gaara. You will not hurt anyone else."
"What makes you so strong? The Kyuubi?" Gaara asked.
Naruto shook his head. "He helps but real strength comes from protecting those you care about. I can see you were hurt and are hurting because of your burden. But it doesn't have to be that way." Naruto replied his eyes showed sorrow. Naruto was breathing heavily.
"I will not cease to exist. You will not snuff me out!" Gaara screamed in terror.
"Please don't kill him!" Temari yelled pleadingly.
Naruto walked up to Gaara and brought back his fist. A wave of sand hit Naruto and he was covered. "No! Stay away!" Gaara yelled. A fist covered in red chakra pushed thought the sand hitting Gaara in the face. Gaara's sand flew everywhere. Shukaku's body cracked and started to fall to pieces. Gaara and Naruto both fell.
"I am no longer needed." Gamabunta disappeared in a puff of smoke. This caused the falling Naruto and Gaara to hit the trees in the stadium rather than be buried in the sand from the crumbling Shukaku.
Naruto looked at Gaara who panted as hard as he did. "So you want to call it a draw and not get killed or do you want to go for round two, and have me kill you?" Naruto said his eyes now blue but still had slits for pupils.
Gaara's face was written in fear and confusion. "You won't kill me? Even though I have threatened those of your village?"
"I will not kill you now if you will stand down now and go with Hayate-sama and Genma-sama. They will treat you right, you have my word. Right Genma-sama and Hayate-sama?" Naruto asked looking directly at them. They both nodded as they jumped up to where Gaara was kneeling.
They both caught Gaara as he started to fall forward. "You have our word Naruto." Genma replied as they jumped off with Gaara in tow.
Naruto looked up to the Hokage's box and saw the dark barrier. 'So you think we can break it?' Naruto asked the Kyuubi.
'It is up to you kit. It more than likely will take the power of two tails for you to breech the barrier. You really want to help that old man don't you?' The Kyuubi replied.
'You know it! He has been there for me so I want to repay him if I can.' Naruto jumped up to the roof near the barrier only to see three ANBU and the burned body of another ANBU. "Guys I am going to try to break the barrier you go in when I do it okay?"
The ANBU just nodded as Naruto took a wide stance and red chakra started to flow out of him. He sprouted a single tail and his features again turned wild. The second tail came out and Naruto fell to his knees. He grimaced and stood again. He walked to the barrier and drew his hand back.
"There is no way in hell you can break this barrier! You little fucker!" Tayuya yelled.
Naruto smiled as a third tail formed, but this caused him to grimace. Naruto then hit the barrier and caused a large hole to be formed. The ANBU jumped through the opening. Naruto fell backwards as the red chakra dissipated. Naruto smiled as his world was going black. He then saw the face of his sensei Kurenai and heard her speak as he passed out.
"Naruto hold on, you did well, now you can rest." Kurenai said softly as she picked Naruto up and jumped down to the stadium floor. She rushed Naruto to the medical facilities in the stadium.
Inside the barrier all the combatants had stopped as they saw Naruto break the darkness genjutsu that the Second Hokage had created. They watched in morbid fascination as Naruto and Gaara fought. Sarutobi and Orochimaru both looked on with wide eyes as they saw Naruto use the three tailed form to break a hole in the barrier. When the ANBU entered Orochimaru was worried, as he had set it up as battle between himself and the Sarutobi. This changed things, Orochimaru looked at the odds and was not happy.
"So old man I thought you would be able to take me by yourself." Orochimaru taunted.
"Enma to me! We will end this now my pupil. You have used those that should stay dead and brought them back to life. Your end is near." Sarutobi told Orochimaru.
"Ha, ha! You are funny old man. You don't know what I am capable of. Those ANBU are not even up to doing a Kage level battle." Orochimaru boasted.
The First slumped as a hole appeared in his chest and a hand filled with an electric ball was sticking out of it. "I might be able to help." Kakashi stated as he pulled his arm out of the First and jumped away. The First Hokage fell to the ground then was enveloped in an explosion. There was nothing left of the First. "Hokage-sama you and Enma-sama get Orochimaru, we will take care of the Second and then help you with Orochimaru." Kakashi said.
In the medical area of the stadium Kurenai is running down the hallway towards the room Naruto was in before. She suddenly stopped as a Sound ninja blocked her way. The Sound ninja's eyes rolled back into his head and he fell forward. "He will no longer bother us." Neji said with a smirk. "This way, bring Naruto-sama we have a couple doctors and medics waiting for the injured and wounded. Gaara and others are already here."
Kurenai followed Neji into a room that had several injured people and several medical personnel working on those that were injured. Kurenai recognized the doctor and took Naruto over to him. Naruto's right arm was burnt and he was sweating profusely. Hinata ran over to Naruto screaming "No!"
"Doctor Naruto got this injury trying to save the Third I am sure he does not have much chakra left. Can you help him?" Kurenai asked the doctor.
"How many did he use?" The doctor asked.
"Three." Kurenai replied. Both Hinata and the doctor were shocked. Kurenai put Naruto on an available gurney.
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A/N: Thanks to 'desuta' for pointing out my mistake. Good catch. This was a harder chapter to write than I thought as I needed to change it enough from cannon to make it interesting and still enjoy writing it. I hoped you liked it. I am sorry for the double cliffhanger but YOU will have to guess what is going to happen. This chapter is over 2500 words so not a bad bit of work.
Oh desuta which other story are you talking about? I have two others posted right now Uzumaki of the Whirlpool and Avatar and the Demon. And yes some characters do cross over between the stories in name only.