Chapter 28: CEP 6: Finals concluded.

Naruto woke up in a hospital bed bandaged up and Restrained to the bed. Naruto hated hospitals and tried to break the restraints. He grunted as he continuously tried to break them. Tsunade walked over to his bed.

"Stop trying Naruto-kun, They are made with chakra seals so pesky ninja like you can't get out of them." Tsunade saw him growling at her and poked him in the forehead on the word 'them'. Naruto struggled harder as he pleaded.

"I'm fine now Baa-chan! I got to get to the finals and win!" Tsunade wanted to let him go but knew exactly what would happen, Naruto would break open his wounds, pass out and lose. She decided it would be better to leave him here.

"Sorry Naruto-kun, I'm on my way right now to deliver these papers right now about your forfieght. Sorry Naruto-kun maybe next year!" Tsunade said leaving Naruto trashing hard against the bed. She then heard a crash through the window and ran back into the room to find Naruto and his bed gone. She looked out the window to find he threw himself out the window and smashed the bed to pieces. She then saw Naruto running down the streets. Tsunade growled as she jumped down and ran after him.

"I'm going Baa-chan!" He shouted as he couldn't use his chakra thanks to the restraints, or he could have used a little to flash step there in a few seconds. He continued running down the street as the arena came into sight. He ran in the arena and found the other three contestants where there. Next match is Uzumaki Naruto verses. Ubarmi…" The proctor was cut off by the man raising his hand.

"I forfeit my match with Naruto-sama. He is too powerful for me, and in this situation it would be best to refuse." The man said bowing and walking away. He walked pasted Naruto and out of the arena. The proctor then looked at the remaining three.

"I guess then you two will fight then we will have the last match tomorrow." The proctor said rubbing his chin.

"I got a suggestion." Naruto said walking up to them. The proctor looked up and stopped rubbing his chin. "Why don't we have a three way free for all today and decide the winner this year by that?" The proctor wouldn't mind it but he had to get it approved. He looked up at the two Kages sitting in the chairs. Tsunade looked at Naruto with a 'I'm going to get you later for this.' Look that he knew all too well. The proctor could see all the bandages on his body and had heard about his battle outside Suna. The proctor knew that Naruto would probably pass for his dedication and impressive first day. A messanger appeared in front of the proctor then whispered in his ear.

"The two Kages agree with those terms, but if Naruto-san gets too injured or you think he cannot continue, then you must pull him out." The messanger then disappeared into dust. The proctor looked over at Naruto who was staring at him waiting for the final verdict. Kushina, Hinata and Tayuya, who were in the stands, noticed Naruto when he came in but was sure he was going to get pulled out.

"The two matches today have been replaced with a three way match for the finals. This match will now be the final match making tomorrow the conclusion of the exams, announcing who passed and who did not. With that being said will the three contestants ready themselves for battle." The proctor said having all three contestants get into a stance before announcing, "Fight!" All three continued to stand there waiting for their opponents to make the first move. Naruto created ten clones and all of them stood ready for battle. Two clones charged the two opponents who dodged their attacks with ease. Naruto gave his clones low movement and speeds to make them test what they could do. The two opponents saw his match yesterday and knew he was testing them. Both quickly got a shot off at each clone to hopefully dispel them. Both clones took the hit and none of them disappeared, instead both countered and got one good shot on each of them.

"How the hell old are you! Shadow clones are one thing, for them to be able to take a small beating is something Jonin level or above!" The boy yelled at Naruto. "What the hell are you?" Naruto smiled.

"I am Nazikage-Uzumaki Naruto! Son of the fourth hokage of the Konoah." Naruto boldly claimed. Tsunade was ready to kill him. Tsunade was eventually going to make it public but Naruto just did. Tsunade wanted to beat the crap out of Naruto now. Both his opponents became very afraid of what Naruto knew. They had both thought that he was definitely just a ninja who never got the rank of chunin, but at the same time, they thought he was weaker then he appeared. Naruto took advantage of the momentary shock by performing a jutsu. "Water Style: Water Down Pour Jutsu" Naruto screamed waking both of his opponents up. Suddenly clouds formed above them and which let loose a rain that could cause floods if they weren't in a dessert. Both opponents looked at the rain in disbelief. That was a S rank jutsu. Both could see the battlefield, but it made keeping track of your opponent very hard. Both opponents saw Naruto who was doing hand signs again. "Koūton: Jinkōraiu" Naruto whispered as thunder and lightning entered the mix as well as almost 15-20 mph (24-33 kph) winds appeared. Both opponents now reentered combat with the Naruto clones. The real Naruto now watched as he knew there must be something he could learn about both opponents. Meanwhile two figures stood on the roof with huge smiles across their faces.

"He's learned so much. I wonder if we could have taught him more?" Tobias asked as he looked over to the other figure.

"If we did, then he might rival us too much, he'd be impossible to stop and he'd be like Sasuke, he would let power get to his head." Kyuubi looked on the fight with eager eyes. "Besides, he's already Kage level with his abilities and skill." Tobias laughed.

"I suppose so." Tobias said, his eyes returning to the fight before them. "I feel bad for them though, Naruto-kun is going to use that technique on one of them." Kyuubi got chills up his human form spine's back.

"What kit has done to his own techniques makes me so proud and fearful of his still promising potential." Kyuubi sighed. "I just wish I could have brought out more in him."

"You know, shouldn't you be inside him right now and helping him? I mean he did just fight you after all." Tobias commented. Kyuubi thought about it for a second.

"I suppose I can lick a few more of his wounds." Kyuubi and Tobias laughed. They both took great pleasure in watching their student become such a cunning and lethal warrior and now sat back and watched as he made his return. Naruto observed and both opponents were becoming exaughsted and took more hits then when they first started to fight moments ago. Naruto figured both of them were chunin level only. Those two were going to need to work hard to get to jonin rank. Naruto decided that it was time. He did a few more hand signs which stopped the rain and thunderstorm wasting more of his chakra but giving him more time to play with the two. Naruto's clones got a shot at each opponent and grabbed each of them, restraining them. Naruto funneled his chakra to his palm as the wind began to blow around them. Naruto formed Rasengans in each hand but instead of blue they were white.

"Futon: Rasengan!" Naruto cried shooting both Rasengans at his opponents who both took the blow along with his clones which quickly dispelled. The two opponents smashed into the wall knocking them both out. Naruto's eyes watched as both opponents weren't moving. It was lucky he decided to hold back a lot otherwise it could have killed them. The proctor noticed the holding back when Naruto was forming it, he took most of the power out of it. The proctor quickly looked over to the two boys and called the match.

"Winner Uzumaki Naruto!" The crowd erupted in cheer as Naruto walked to were his cape and hood were and put it back on. The symbol on the hood glowed for a moment before Naruto place a smile on his face and started cheering.

"I WON!" Naruto ran into the stand and found his two women who hugged him…wait two? He looked down at Tayuya who has a smile across her face.

"I'm really happy for you Naruto-kun…" Tayuya said giving him another hug. Naruto started wondering if he wasn't home yet.

"What's going on here, Tayuya-chan is nice?" He said almost noticing her cloths matched. "And she smells really good too…" Tayuya blushed. "And blushing… What's going on here!?!!" Naruto said freaked out at the sight. Tayuya, still with a blush and smile, spoke sweetly towards Naruto.

"While you were away, Hinata-chan and Tsunade-chan broke my mental barriors I put up for so long or something like that, and after they came down I became like this. Do you like it?" Tayuya added after a short pause.

"It's just that…" Naruto watch the newly changed girl's posture and smiled. "You've changed so much and I wish I could have been there for you in case you ever need a shoulder to cry on." Tayuya wrapped him in a hug.

"Thank you Naruto-kun, it means a lot to me that you care. Even when I was mean I admired you for your bravery without the need to curse everyone off."

"It's the reason it was easy to break her." Tsuande said walking into the area. "Her mind loved you, giving us the way in to help break the mental barriors. Her acting out was a way to keep people away from her cause she was hurting too much. You managed to make her like you, you kind of have that effect on people Naruto-kun." Tsunade said smiling. "Don't you remember what happened when you first met me?"

"Yeh you were a booze drinking jackass." Tsunade chuckled. "and now you're a booze drinking hard ass." Naruto joked which got a response from everyone except Tsunade who tried not to ruin the moment by kicking Naruto's ass. Jiraiya appeared with a smile across his face.

"She's always been a hard ass Naruto-kun." Jiraiya said quickly walking next to her.

"And you have always been a hentai." Tsunade rebutted.

"Anyway enough on the past, Naruto-kun…"Jiraiya walked over to Naruto and placed a hand on his shoulder. "I want you to forgive me." Naruto scratch the back of his head.

"Why ero-sanin?" Naruto asked.

"I doubted you would be nearly as good as your father. I truly believed that someone like your father could only come along once in a lifetime and you would never be the man your father was because of it. I didn't train you as well as I could have, I neglected to teach you things I taught your father. But most of all, I thought by training you in something not even your father could accomplish would prove myself wrong. It was wrong of me to do that. I could have taught you so much that you managed to do on your own and for that I'm sorry." Naruto wasn't surprised to hear that Jiraiya didn't train him good, but was surprised to hear Jiraiya admit it.

"It's ok Ero-sanin you…" Naruto was interrupted by a another red haired girl wrapping him in a bear hug. Naruto's face went blue before the girl let him catch his breath. Naruto gasped and turned around to greet her. Naruto smiled and hugged her back. "Hi mom." He said getting a hug back. They broke the hug and stared at each other for a moment.

"You called me mom…" She said happily.

"Cause you are…" He wrapped her in another hug as Kushina started crying into his back.

"How touching isn't it?" A voice behind them said with Sharingan eyes blazing.

"Get's me straight to the bones…" Naruto knew that voice.

"Sasuke!" He yelled turning around to meet two Sharingan users.

"How are you doing dobe?" Sasuke said standing next to Uchiha Madara. Tsunade and everyone took battle ready positions after they gasped in fear of who they were seeing.

"Come Sasuke… have manners…" Madara said watching Naruto in particular heard a growl in his head. "We are here to deliver a message…a message of death to the Village hidden in the leaves…" Tsunade stood on guard. "The two people before you now lead a small but powerful group. This group serves on purpose and that is to destroy the village hidden in the leaves!" After a small pause, "We give you three days to prepare yourselves, to call up any allies you may or may not have yet and ask for help… do whatever you want to, but in three days by morning, we will attack." Naruto gritted his teeth.

"What the hell do you think you're doing Sasuke!? Your brother died to make you a hero and you're gonna throw that away?!!" Madara was surprised to know Naruto knew Itachi's true purpose for living. "He died so you could return to us…" Sasuke abruptly interrupted.

"I know all of that."

"Then why the hell are you doing this?"

"Haven't I said it a thousand times? My playing ninja with you kids are done. Now I have my new purpose, the purpose to avenge my clan's death. Something my brother had orders to stop. To overthrow the leaf village and make the Uchiha clan once again back on top!" Sasuke shouted with a smile across his face. Madara stopped Sasuke before he got too out of control.

"Let's not be too hasty now Sasuke…" Madara looked at Naruto who had nine tail chakra leaking out of him. "You are the reason we are here is for you…" He said pointing at Naruto.

"Me?" Naruto was getting ready. "Fine let's do this then and…"

"Not you…" Madara said with a calming effect on Naruto who realized who he was talking about. Kyuubi emerged from his hiding spot in Naruto. He emerged with a look of disgust on his face.

"So what do you want…" Madara smiled.

"Oh come on… is that any way to treat your own brother?" Madara said smiling.

End of chapter.

Wow am I cruel or what? The expected last chapter is 30-31 so I'm beginning to wind it down. Answers in the next chapter (if anyone is still reading… think I lost some people.)