Thank you for all the reviews I received, now here's chapter 27!

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Unwanted

Chapter 27 – Uncle

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"T-That's…!" gasped Katayanagi as she stood spellbound, staring down at Ryuga who stood face-to-face with Naruto. When Ryuga drew his sword, Naruto smirked.

"This'll be a blast!" exclaimed Naruto, forming the same sequence of hand signs he'd done many times in the past. Four clones of him appeared. The four clones instantly attacked, and while they kept Ryuga busy Naruto formed four more clones, and they lined up beside him, placing their right hands on the 'Naruto' next to them.

Hand signs flashed with Naruto's hands, and then the last clone Naruto had sent forwards was gone. All the left hands of the other four clones shot up, as did both of Naruto's. Lightning shot out from all the 'Naruto's' hands, towards Ryuga.

Ryuga tried to dodge, but the bolts followed him.

"Crap!" yelled Ryuga, and to Naruto's great surprise Ryuga changed directions in the air; now he was heading straight for him. He ducked behind one of his clones, and it disappeared instead, the bolt of lightning that had shot out from that clone's hand disappeared too. Ryuga swung his sword to the side, hitting to more of the clones and killing them.

Two more bolts of lightning were speeding towards Ryuga; he avoided them one more time and killed the last clone. Now there was only one blast left. It circled around and came back for him.

Naruto stood up from the ground and looked for Ryuga; he couldn't see him, he'd jumped again in the air. Naruto looked up just in time to see Ryuga's sword headed for him. He ducked with his hands on his head; the sword scraped his knuckle as it whizzed past.

The last bold of lightning finally collided with Ryuga, but he'd blocked it with his left hand.

"Pretty good," replied Ryuga as his arm fell limp.

"You too," replied Naruto, licking his hand. "Tell me first…"

"Y'know?" interrupted Ryuga. "I hate it when in matches people stop to talk!" Ryuga charged, and slid past Naruto, grasping the hilt of his sword. "I'll tell you anything you want if you can beat me!"

Naruto pulled out a kunai; not a good match-up for a sword. He hesitated. Suddenly Naruto felt cold steel on his neck. He dare not even swallow it was piercing his skin so closely.

"I win," stated Ryuga.

"Damn it!" thought Naruto, staring at the clone in front of him that held the sword. Ryuga made him think that was him, but it was really only a clone, "Beat with my best technique? How pitiful…"

"Ryuga is the winner!" exclaimed Anko, and Ryuga let Naruto fall to his knees.

"I can't believe I lost that," Naruto whispered to himself. He turned around to see Ryuga walked off the arena already; his clone was gone and his sword returned to its sheath. "Wait!" called Naruto as he got up and ran to Ryuga.

"What is it?"

"Please tell me! D-Do you know someone named Katayanagi?" he asked, Ryuga stopped walking.

"That's right," Ryuga said to himself, "this is the boy hanging out with her all the time."

"So you do know Katya?"

"Maybe I do, what of it?"

"B-But your last name is the same as hers, she told me she killed her whole clan! And your headband around your neck is the same as hers!" Ryuga glanced at his headband; his was exactly the same as Katya's, except hers had 'death' written on it in blood.

"She likes to exaggerate things, she didn't kill her whole clan," replied Ryuga finally. They both looked up as Katya came running through the opening that led to the stands towards them.

"R-Ryuga!" she gasped, she got to them and stopped running, out of breath.

"I have to go," replied Ryuga.

"S-stop!" gasped Katya; she stood up straight and looked into Ryuga's dark blue eyes. "Why are you here?"

"To fight, of course," he replied.

"But you're already a jounin, why come to these chuunin exams?" she sighed. "More to the point, I thought you were dead!"

"Well, as you can see, I'm not," he replied, pushing past her.

"Stop! I need to talk to you!" she grabbed his arm.

"At least come back up to the stands so they can start the next match," stated Ryuga.

"But you fight again next," Naruto pointed out.

"Oh, they'll call intermission," replied Ryuga. Katya and Naruto followed Ryuga back up to the stands so they could talk and be out of the way. Sure enough, Anko called intermission for half an hour for lunch.

"You're a jounin?" asked Naruto, but Ryuga ignored him.

"What did you want to ask me, Katayanagi?"

"How are you alive?" she inquired, "I remember seeing your body laying still, imbrued in blood! Your own blood! How are you alive?"

"You didn't kill me," he replied, "though you thought you did. I was unconscious, and you left me, thankfully for me. When I woke up; I looked around but in the end everyone was dead."

"So…"

"I have no more to say," Ryuga replied as he walked off.

"That guy's an ass!" exclaimed Naruto.

"That guy's my uncle," replied Katya; Naruto looked at her.

"Really?" she nodded.

"Yeah, he's my uncle," she said again, "he cared about me, but he was always away so I didn't see him much. I guess he really hates me now for killing my father; his brother. They were best friends."

"Oh, ok…" Naruto sighed. He was tired; he wanted to go to sleep.

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There's chapter 27, kind of short. But I'm a lot busier now, so the chapters might stay around this length, maybe a little longer if I'm lucky. Anyway, thanks for reading and please review!