Naruto Nanaya Legacy Chapter 4: Forest of Death and Rebirth, an Anime X-overs + Naruto Crossover fanfic

Title: Naruto - Nanaya Legacy

Author: Newfiespaceman

Crossover: Naruto/Tsukihime

Date:

Written

July 08, 2008

July 09, 2008

July 11, 2008

July 12, 2008

July 13, 2008

Edited

July 18, 2008

Disclaimer:

Naruto is written and illustrated by Masashi Kishimoto.

Tsukihime, Lunar Legend was created by Type-Moon

I don't own anything. This is a work of fan fiction for non-profit entertainment purposes only. No Infringement or Offense intended.

A/N: This will be a mix of canon events and fictional crossover events.

Chapter 4

Shi no Mori, Konohagakure no Sato

(Forest of Death, Village hidden in the Leaves)

"You're about to find out firsthand." says Anko, "Why they call this the Forest of Death!"

Naruto smiles at Anko's words, like he finds it humorous.

Anko notices and says, "You're pretty cocky,. huh?"

Anko throws a kunai so fast it passes Naruto in an instant.

"Heh... Your kind are always the first to go." says Anko holding Naruto from behind, licking the blood from the cut she made in the side of his face, "Spilling all that rich, red, lovely, luscious blood..."

Naruto wonders if Anko is one of those girls into bondage and quickly forces that image away. The last thing he needs is a nose bleed.

Suddenly, Anko whips around with another Kunai to see a grass ninja holding her Kunai with a long prehensile tongue. "You're kunai knife." says the woman, "I believe you dropped it."

"Gee.. Thanks." says Anko, while Naruto looks disgusted.

Naruto, that ruined the mood.

"Don't just stand behind me radiating blood lust." says Anko, "unless you're in a hurry to die."

"I'll try to keep it under control... but the sight of warm fresh blood really makes me crazy and I was already revved up from losing a strand of my precious hair.

"Looks like we have a hot-blooded team on our hands this time out!" says Anko with a sadist's grin, "Heh... Should be fun... Before we begin the second exam there's something I have to hand out."

She pulls out a stack of papers.

"There consent forms, everybody has to sign one."

"Why?" asks Naruto

"We want all the details covered before the first deaths occur." says Anko with a laugh, "Sign before you go in, so we can't be held liable. You wouldn't want me to get in trouble would You??"

'First, I'll explain what the second exam entails. Then you can sign the forms. With the two other members of your cell, bring the forms to the hut behind you and submit them.'

'Got that, now about the exam. To put it simply it's a no holds barred survival test. Let's start with the topography of this training ground. I'll explain the rest later. Training Ground #44 is bordered by a circular perimeter, interrupted at regular intervals by 44 locked gates. There are forests and a river... and in the center is a tower about ten kilometers from the gates.Within the confines of this carefully delineated area, you're going to undergo a survival test. During the course of that test, you may use any ninja arts or weapons you have at your disposal. It's kind of fight-to-death version of 'capture the flag' or in this case 'capture the scroll..'"

"Scroll?" interrupts someone.

"Exactly!" says Anko holding a white scroll in one hand and one black scroll.

"There's a 'scroll of heaven' and a 'scroll of Earth' and your objective is to acquire both scrolls. There are seventy eight of you here. That's twenty three member teams."

Holding the white scroll with the kanji for Ten meaning Heaven, she continues

"Thirteen teams will start out with a Heaven scroll."

Holding up the black scroll with the kanji fro Chi meaning Earth.

"...and the other thirteen will start with an Earth scroll, but you'll need both scrolls to pass. So your objective is to hold onto your scroll, get your hands on one of the other kind, and then bring the both to the tower at the center."

"In other words, at least half of us." says Sakura, "the thirteen teams whose scrolls are stolen will fail."

"You bet! and there's no time limit!" says Anko, "You have a hundred twenty hours to complete this exam... exactly five days!"

"Five Days?!" yells Ino

"What are we supposed to do for food ?!" yells Chouji

"That's your problem." says Anko, "The forests are full of nature's bounty. Of course, they're also full of man-eating animals, deadly insects, and poisonous plants. There's no way as many as thirteen teams will pass this. As the time shortens , the trials will come harder and faster with less recovery time for any mistakes, accidents, or injuries. You'll be surrounded by enemies at all times, so you'll have to sleep with one eye open. So, in addition to those who die In attempts to defend or capture a scroll, some of you are bound to succumb to exhaustion, exposure, starvation, and dehydration. "

Anko holds up her hand with a smile.

"Now let's talk about the rules and what offenses you can be disqualified for! Obviously, the teams that fail to reach the tower in time as three member cell, carrying both a heaven and a earth scroll are out. So is any team that loses a member, whether to death or severe injury. and under no circumstances can you leave the forest before the time is up. No recess. No time outs. Also, you're Forbidden to look at the contents of the scrolls until your inside the tower!"

"What happens if we sneak a peek?" asks Kiba

Naruto can imagine opening the scroll to reveal an explosive tag. She looks that sadistic.

"That's for those who look to find out!?"

Anko turns and continues.

"If any of you make it to the chunin level, there will be times when you'll be entrusted with top secret documents. So consider this a test of your trustworthiness. That's all the explanation you get. We'll trade one scroll for every three forms. When you've got yours, choose the gate you want to start from. Everyone will begin at the same time.'

"One final piece of advice Stay Alive!"

One team with there headbands hidden stands watching Naruto's team from the shadows. They are heading towards Gate Twelve

The first member of the team has long white hair and is dressed in the dark clothing of a kunoichi with a headpiece that covers the bottom part of the face and wide rim hat. As she speaks, her female voice is revealed to be Gigi.

"That's Naruto. Lord Seiun's descendant. The other two are fan girl kunoichi Sakura Haruno, the weakest, and Sasuke Uchiha, the class best."

The second is a tall, muscular man wearing a black shitagi (short-sleeved undergarment), a black sleeveless kosode and hakama, and a dark green hakama-himo (sash). He also wears a sleeveless green camouflage haori with the black kanji "Ten" or "Heaven" on the back.

"That bastard Madara Uchiha's clan. I hoped they had been all destroyed, when the council became aware of there plans. I know they became suspicious after the village was attacked by Madara's pet fox."

The third is a tall thin man with white hair. He's dressed in a dark clothing with many straps and laces with metal toed boots instead of the common ninja sandals and fingerless black gloves with metal plates on the backs and fingers covered in mesh. He also wears a mask resembling a skull with a cloth mask covering the head and mouth area. It's very intimidating for a genin especially with the kanji Akuma or Demon on the back in white.

"The fox will die and Naruto will bloom, but first we have to get threw the snake girl's little test. Targets."

"Avoid Loyal Konoha and Suna ninja." says Gigi, "Shukaku is too unstable. I think I see a bunch of traitors."

The other two follow Gigi's line of sight to Kabuto and his team at Gate Thirty Eight

"All right, everyone follow your proctors to your perspective gates!" yells Anko, "When the signal sounds in half an hour, the exam will begin!!"

Half an hour later, the padlocks on the gates are unlocked and as Anko's watch clicks the last second, she yells out her orders.

"Part two of the Journeyman Ninja Selection Exam Begins... NOW!!"

With the shout, everyone races into the Forest of Death.

"Did you guys hear someone scream?" asks Sakura, as Team Seven walks threw the dark woods.

"The place is creeping em out!" says Sakura

"I'm telling you, Sakura, it's no big deal." says Naruto, "It just means a team failed already."

Naruto has a frown.

"Excuse me." says Naruto as he walks towards the side of a tree.

"Where are you going??" asks Sakura as he goes around to the other side of the tree.

"I have to use the washroom."

Sakura blushes.

A few minutes later, a Ame ninja wearing a jumpsuit, eye mask, and re-breather goes flying over Sakura and Sasuke's head. The Konoha ninjas pull there kunais, but Naruto appears swing on a tree trunk near the Hidden Rain ninja's path and delivers a brutal double kick to the back.

As the rain ninja falls with Naruto's feet in his back, another Naruto appears below and does a handstand driving both feet into the stomach of the enemy ninja. The kage bushin (shadow clones) burst into smoke as the real Naruto walks out from behind a tree looking annoyed.

"I can't even use the washroom in peace." says Naruto, "This place sucks!"

"How do I know it's you, Naruto?"

"My first kiss was my worst experience and yours as well."

Sasuke turns a little green remembering that incident.

"Dobe, how did you learn to do that with shadow clones?" asks Sasuke

"I've been working on my strengths." says Naruto, "I can make so many clones, but there nothing but cannon fodder most of the time."

"Remember this. If we get separated again we can't trust each other blindly! If Naruto hadn't been practicing, he would have been captured and killed, and the impostor could have stolen our scroll!"

Nice to see you care, Sasuke-teme, thinks Naruto.

"but what can we do?" asks Sakura.

"The safest thing is for us to have a secret password. That way we'll know no matter who they look like or how they sound, if one of us gets that wrong they're an enemy! Listen very carefully, I'll only say this once!"

As he speaks he doesn't notice the bamboo stick in the ground attacking as an air and sound pipe to a ninja hidden in the earth.

"It's a poem called Ninki - Ninja Opportunity. When I ask for it, here's what you respond.'

'We thrive in the chaos of th enemy tide. Quiet shinobi need dens to hide. Our only concern is to watch and wait until the enemy lowers the gate."

"Bingo!" says Sakura, but Naruto looks confused. Then he nods.

"I'll take the scroll." says Sasuke and Naruto gives him the scroll.

Suddenly, a thunderous wind blows sending up clouds of dust and fragments of the forest. It creates an explosion. At the origin of the attack, the "woman" with the prehensile tongue tells the other two to stick around, while she goes in alone.

After the attack clears, Sasuke gets out from under the bushes wishing he knew the bush was poison oak. Sakura runs up to Sasuke, but he pulls his kunai and asks for the password. Sakura answers the password correctly. Naruto then runs up to them and Sasuke asks the same thing. When Naruto gives the correct password, Sasuke attacks.

The fake Naruto's henge fails to reveal the kusa kunoichi

"What gave me away?"

"I knew you were underground eavesdropping on everything I said. That's why I chose that kind of password... the kind the Real Naruto would never manage to memorize." says Sasuke, "Gotcha Impostor!"

"I see. Watch and wait, eh?" says the Kusa Kunoichi removing her hat, "This is going to be more fun that I thought!"

Naruto wakes up to find himself lying against some tree roots. He quickly gets to his feet and fixes his goggles.

"Where did Sakura and that bone head Sasuke go? Where did I go??"

Then he notices a huge shadow

"It's..." says starting a monstrous snake large enough to eat him whole, "HUGE!!"

Naruto crosses his fingers as the snake lunges at him. Naruto is able to avoid the first strike which creates a cloud of dust and stone, but the snake manages to get it's tail behind Naruto and wraps him in it's coils. The giant snake swallows him whole.

Then he notices movement behind him and sees the real Naruto behind him on the bark of a tree.

"Problem? Something you ate?? Bushin Bakuha!" (Shadow Clone Explosion)

The shadow clone of Naruto inside the snake's throat detonates like bomb. The explosion shreds the snake and soaks the ground and trees in blood and gory fragments. Naruto stands firm semi-covered in snake blood and happy that he learned those related techniques from the Scroll of Forbidden Seals otherwise he would have had to do something disgusting and stupid like get eaten.

"I'm the shinobi who'll become Lord Hokage. So don't mess with me!!" says Naruto, "I got better things to do with my life than end up a big snake turd! Right!! Now to find Sakura and Sasuke...!!"

Naruto arrives to find the Kusa Kunoichi emerging from the body of another one of those large snakes. He remembers his conversation with the Oyagi Sandaime Hokage.

"He was one of my students, one member of the Genin Team I took long ago. They became Densetsu no Sennin,. the Legendary Three Ninja, each known for there immense skill and power. They each possessed summoning contracts, which earned them the names Tsunade, the Slug Sennin; Jiraiya, the Toad Sennin, and Orochimaru, the Snake Sennin.'

'The Granddaughter of the Shodaime Hokage, Tsunade became the greatest of all Medic-Nins and Jiraiya became a master of Fuinjutsu (Art of Sealing). Orochimaru, who was once to my shame, my favorite, became obsessed with learning all the ninjutsu in the world.'

'It was only later, that I learned how far he had fallen. I learned he had been kidnapping people for experimentation, trying to recreate bloodline limits and gain immortality. I failed to stop him and he became an S-Class Nukekin (Missing Nin)."

Naruto adjusts his goggles and let's his Chokushi no Magan - Demon eyes of Direct Death, also known as Mystic Eyes of Death Perception- activate. With the suppressor on Kyubi's chakra, he can handle a short battle without going berserk. He juts has to make a big enough distraction to escape with the others.

"...for the Predator." says Orochimaru in the form of a burn scarred Kusa Kunoichi.Then he seems to flow and slither up the tree towards them.

Naruto's shuriken collide with the tree in front of Orochimaru, stopping his charge.

"Sorry Sasuke." says Naruto shocking his Genin teammates, "I can't remember that stupid password!"

"Sweet! Naruto, that was awesome!! yells Sakura

"Naruto to the rescue, huh? You're completely psyched by my save, but now would be a good time to run for your life!!"

"This guy is way out of your league!!" says Sasuke.

"Heh heh... My compliments on your stunning defeat of the snake..." says Orochimaru sliding across the trees " Naruto."

"I guess the old man would be impressed, since he taught you!" says Naruto, shocking both the Nukenin and the Genin, "Orochimaru!"

"So you figured it out?" says Orochimaru, his voice changed and slowly peeling his burnt skin away to reveal the infamous white skin and serpentine gold eyes of the Legendary Snake Sage. As he does the killing intent in the air surges, making both Sakura and Sasuke freeze in place. Naruto has felt the killing intent of the villagers and shinobi since before he could walk, so he can resist it. He's also so use to it, he has trouble sensing attacks beyond instinct.

Suddenly, Sasuke's red sharingan fade to black

"If it's our scroll you want, come and get it!" says Sasuke, holding his heaven scroll, "Just take it and go!"

Suddenly, Naruto appears in front of Sasuke, between him and the distant Orochimaru.

"Stay out of this!" yells Sasuke, "You'll ruin everything!!"

Naruto then delivers a brutal punch to Sasuke's face. Sasuke rolls for several meters, then lands in a mess. "What do you think you're doing?!"

"I forgot the stupid password, so I needed to see if it was you, teme!" yells Naruto, "I'm suppose to be deadlast, but it's obvious he's not after the stupid scroll. He could have killed any Genin, but the old man would have figured him out during the next exam. He came here looking for you, Sasuke. I wanted to know if the hebi-teme found the right person!"

"What?!" asks Sakura

"Naruto" says Sasuke shocked, "You Idiot! I'm me!"

"Your the Idiot, Idiot!" says Naruto, "You're a coward, which Sasuke isn't. So you're not him!! I'm sure we need to careful with this guy and maybe running would be the best idea, but handing over the scroll would be pointless. So, even if you were Sasuke, I'd still be telling you you're an idiot... and maybe a chicken too!"

"Oh, Naruto! This is Rich!" calls Orochimaru from a branch, licking his lips (and face) with his long tongue, "and you're right. Why bargain, when I can simply kill you and take what I want?"

Orochimaru pulls up his right sleeve to reveal a complex tattoo coiled around his arm. He bites his thumb hard enough to bleed and swipes the blood across the tattoo. Sasuke cringes and Orochimaru thinks "My faith in Sasuke is totally shot!!"

"Kuchiyose no Jutsu!" (Art of Summoning!)

A massive swirling cloud of thick smoke forms and from the smoke emerges another immense snake, even larger than the one that tried to eat Naruto. It moves so fast, that's it's tail hits Naruto and sends him flying, then smashes him threw the thick tree branch.

The giant snake moves in position to eat the falling Naruto, but the Kyubi Jinchuriki delivers a punch hard enough to stagger the massive creature. As Naruto passes by Orochimaru can see that Naruto has thicker whisker marks and his blue eyes have become red and slit like those of a demon.

Naruto lets out a thunderous roar and the sound of snapping branches fills the air.

"Naruto's completely snapped.. but.." says Sakura, "Where did he get that kind of power!!"

Orochimaru's snake manages to knock the kyubi-inducted Naruto threw a tree. Then he turns his attack to his prize. "And now it's Sasuke's turn next! How will he take it?!"

"Sasuke!!" yells Sakura, thinking her crush is dead meat

Sasuke is frozen in fear thinking he is dead meat, as the massive snake moves to crush him, when Naruto appears in front of him back turned to massive creature. Naruto's strength is immense managing to stop the massive snake.

"Hey, are you okay..." says Naruto, "..you big chicken?!"

Naruto then jumps forward an inch and spins two hundred degrees in an instant slashing the snake with his claw-like nails. The claws instantly cut the lines of destiny and Orochimaru has to jump away as his summon is shredded to pieces in an instant!

The snake sage lands on another ancient tree, but has to jump away as a shower of a several hundred shuriken each moving at superhuman speed, shred the tree. Orochimaru recognizes the A-Class jutsu as Shuriken Kage Bunshin no Jutsu (Shuriken Shadow Clone Technique), a technique that uses Kage Bunshin to create multiple physical clone copies from one thrown shuriken. The amount of chakra needed to create enough blades to destroy a two hundred year old tree is insane.

Naruto uses a clone to throw himself towards Orochimaru's tree at high speed, using a second clone to decelerate himself. He runs towards the Orochimaru, shredding everything behind him as his claws instinctively cut the lines on every branch and piece of bark he touches. The shower of wood is flung forward preventing the snake from escaping before Naruto claws can pierce the destiny point on the chest.

Orochimaru explodes into a shower of mud revealing itself to be Tsuchi Bushin (Mud Clone). One weakness about the Chokushi no Magan is that while it allows you to destroy nearly anything, it can't tell you if what your looking at is true like the genjutsu-wrecking Sharingan or "x-ray vision" Byakugan.

"Senei Ta Jashu!" (Multiple Hidden Shadow Snake Hands)

A mass of snakes wraps around Naruto's limbs from behind and sink there fangs in. He's then pulled from shredded tree and into another larger tree hard enough to create a crater in the wood. Naruto has no time to react as Orochimaru attacks with a sword coming out of the mouth of a snake, which is coming out the freak's mouth. The blade pierces Naruto's chest and goes straight threw into the tree behind him.

"I never thought I would have to use the Kusanagi on a Genin." says Orochimaru after his sword-wielding snake returns to his throat leaving the blade in Naruto's chest. "You've done more against me then some Jounin, boy."

Orochimaru lifts up Naruto shirt with his left hand to reveal the spiral seal of Kyubi no Kitsune's prison. He raises his right hand and an supernatural purple flame appear on each finger tip. They seem to form different kanji for Tree, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Water. He then rams the glowing fingers into Naruto's stomach causing the young jinchuriki to cry out in pain and release a spray of blood from his mouth.

"Gogyou Fuuin!" (Five Elements Seal!)

"Sasuke! Naruto needs you!!" comes Sakura's voice.

She would be right in most universes and maybe even in this one. Normally in this point in the time line, when Orochimaru cuts off Naruto's access to the Kyubi's chakra he loses consciousness from the shock and sudden drain. Gigi's identical attack in Wave Country changed thinks, lessening the shock and drain enough for Naruto to get off one more attack. He brings up a blade hidden in the palm of his hand, which is what the word Shuriken actually means, and hits a tiny point on the Kusanagi piercing his chest with the last of his energy before losing consciousness.

While a line symbolizes "damage" along that part of the body, a dot symbolizes the totality of that body's damage, and by extension, "existence". When a dot is pierced, the victim's concept is destroyed. Orochimaru can only watch as his personal weapon, the legendary sword Kusanagi (Grass cutter) shatters into billion useless fragments like a piece of fragile crystal into a shower of sparkling fragments.

Orochimaru's face twists into an inhuman rage and he grabs Naruto smashing him over and over into the wood creating blood stains. He then smashes him threw the tree using his Multiple Hidden Shadow Snake Hands with the audible sound of breaking bones, then the snakes grab Naruto and Orochimaru swings the ninja's body sending him far into the forest. A fall to his death is the thought shared between Orochimaru and the two horrified Genin.

In Another Part of the Forest

Kabuto's team planned on spying on the other teams, until they completed the second part of Chunin Exam. That plan went straight to hell when Gigi's Team attacked them.

Misumi Tsurugi subjected his body to surgery to grant him the ability to manipulate his body. He can pop his bones out of their sockets and use his chakra to move his soft muscle tissue. This allows him to wrap around opponents like a mass of snakes and snap there bones.

His opponent Akuma proves to be far more dangerous. When Misumi wraps himself around Akuma's body hoping to snap the horned shinobi's neck, but barbed spines shoot out from the black material of his clothing. The poison barbs pierce Misumi in a hundred places, preventing him from contracting without causing more serious injury and preventing him from disengaging his technique.

"Raiton: Denkoukugi no Funbo!" (Lightning Release: Grave of the Lightning Nail)

Akuma's eyes seems to glow as he channels his chakra into the nails covering his body, discharging massive amounts of electricity into Tsurugi's helpless form. As the technique ends, the nails retract back into the black fabric and the smoking corpse falls to the ground.

Yoroi Akadou has the ability to leach the chakra out of an opponent by placing his hand near their body, combined with his taijutsu makes him a strong opponent and more than a match for most normal Genin.

His opponent is not like most, not really a Genin, and no where close to normal. It's a fact Yoroi learned when he grabbed Ten's wrist and found out under the bandages his opponent had metal coils instead of coils of muscle. Ten twists his arm away using a technique that breaks Yoroi's fingers, delivers three kicks that send the Oto (sound) spy flying into the air. Then, Ten's arm extends and delivers a punch that sends Yoroi flying into a tree. The impact creates an indentation in the wood and he quickly finds himself bound by thin wires.

"Ninpo: Usugiri Harigan!" (Ninja Art: Thin slicing wire)

As Ten pulls the chakra-infused wires with his superhuman taijutsu strength, the old tree and Yoroi are sliced into very thin slices of flesh and bone, creating a red shower.

Team Leader Kabuto Yakushi is the strongest and is actually Jounin in skill level. This allows him to survive the longest against Gigi's team.

"Kuchiyose: Daiga Gejigeji Nisei!!" (Summoning: Grand Fang Centipede Second Generation!!)

There is a massive explosion of white smoke, which clears to reveal a massive creature. It's elongated flattened body is over twenty four meters in length covered in dark red-brown armor. It has many sharp legs ending in a sharp claw and it's head has black eyes, long antenna, and sharp mandibles. The massive monster centipede slowly releasing a purple-white mist.

Unfortunately for Kabuto, Gigi is in a league of her own.

Daiga Gejigeji II releases a spray of purple mist that quickly covers the area of forest. The mist is extremely poisonous, proven when the grass and plants on the forest flower quickly wither and die. It also causes bark on nearby trees to crumble apart and the burns the skin of Kabuto's dead team mates.

Kabuto tries to escape threw the mist, but Ten appears and delivers a brutal kick. Kabuto explodes to revealing himself a shadow clone. Akuma finds out his Kabuto is also clone, when he stabs it threw the spine with a lightning charged spike.

Kabuto appears from behind Gigi on top of her centipede puppet and slashes her across the chest with his Chakra mesu (chakra scalpels). The ijutsu (medical ninjutsu) is used to perform surgery, but can be used by skilled Medic Nins as a lethal weapon. The swipe is designed to cut the veins leading to heart for a quick kill and Gigi seems to collapse with Daiga Gejigeji II.

Kabuto smirks figuring out the centipede was a puppet, since he was once the spy of the ultimate puppet master, Akasuna no Sasori (Sasori/Scorpion of the Red Sand). Suddenly, he falls to ground and looks at his fingers which are turning a sickly purple. They shake uncontrollable and the pain grows.

Gigi rises from the ground like a vampire in a movie, as if pulled by the chest by an unseen force. As she rises, she bends forward and strikes quicker than a cobra sending a dozen long needles threw Kabuto stomach. Kabuto tries to heal the damage, but the bleeding becomes more severe.

"Poison."

Kabuto looks up into Gigi's grinning face

"A special poison that is drawn to chakra like iron is drawn by a magnet. This hemotoxin is emitted into the air by my centipede, but at a level you can't see it. It's also mixed in the poison mist since it can be absorbed by the skin and on my needles."

Kabuto begins to feel weak from the blood loss and every movement cause pain.

"The more you chakra to heal, the greater the damage becomes. You channel chakra to perform a jutsu and the body part involved is severely damaged. Even as I speak, the poison is attracted to your chakra network, to your inner coils that surround your vital organs.

Kabuto begins to feel nothing beyond pain in his chest, his senses of sight and hearing fading away. Gigi's voice is almost a whisper in his ears, the voice of death itself.

"Mission failure, Kabuto."

Kabuto Yakushi, Orochimaru's most trusted servant and most skilled Medic-Nin falls to the ground. Dead.

Team Gigi retrieve the needed scroll from Team Magane, a good nickname for the corpses since all the members wear Glasses. Then they turn in the same direction, sensing Naruto Uzumaki.

"Looks like Seiun-sama's Exam is beginning early."

Inner World

Naruto awakens to find himself on the forest floor, but it doesn't look like the forest of death. He runs up the tallest nearby tree and stops on the highest branch that can support his weight. He stands and looks at the immense green forest he finds himself in. The trees are immense, at least a hundred years old for the youngest. There are also immense stone mountains with statues carved into them.

One looks like the Hokage Monument that overlooks his home Konohagure no Sato (The Village Hidden in the Leaves). It contains the faces of Shodaime Hokage Hashirama Senju, his brother the Nidaime, Sandaime Hokage Sasuke Sarutobi, Yondaime Hokage Minato Namikaze, and a beautiful woman as Godaime.

On another mountain resembling a gate are two full size statues, one of Hashirama Senju and the other of his rival Madara Uchiha.

On another mountain is a very ugly demon statue with two five-fingered hands bound by a manacles and nine eyes covered by a blind fold.

There's also a giant version of the memorial stone that Kakashi-sensei showed them during the Genin Exam resembling a giant black kunai blade.

Suddenly, there is an explosion from the center of the forest and tower of flame surges into the sky turning it blood red. The center of the forest collapses into the fiery sinkhole and a giant red tail emerges from the ashes. Naruto watches two more tails of energy appear inside the pillar of fire before he realizes it's the Kyubi no Kitsune.

"What can I do?" asks Naruto

Naruto hears people landing on branches near him and turns to see.

The first person is an eighteen year old boy standing five foot six with short messy black hair and strange eyes behind glasses. He's dressed in a button up jacket and pants resembling a military uniform. He's carrying a small knife, but the danger Naruto senses from the man and his little blade is immense.

The second person is a beautiful woman standing five foot nine with gold eyes and shoulder-length red hair. She's dressed a white shitagi (short-sleeved undergarment), a black kosode (shirt) and hakama (pants), and a white hakama-himo (sash) making her looking like samurai from a Daimyo's court, but she also wears a ninja headband with a spiral symbol.

"Who are you?!"

"We are parts of your grandfather and grandmother." says the woman, "Parts of there spirit that were given to our daughter Kushina and inherited by you, Naruto."

The giant memorial stone begins to crumble.

"Where are we??" asks Naruto

"We are inside your mind." says Grandfather, "The snake sennin Orochimaru killed you and now your soul is in danger."

"Killed?! What do you mean killed??"

"Other than the poison of his summoned snakes, the kusanagi is a poison-soaked demon blade. A demon sword born from the combined powers of the snake summoner and boss snake Manda capable of cutting souls as well as flesh. When you destroyed the blade you released tiny fragments of toxic spirit into your body. Now without the regenerative energy of the filthy demon Kyubi no Kitsune, your body died."

"If I'm dead, then what is that!?" says Naruto pointing to where the fourth tail has broken free!

"The Kyubi is not a physical creature of flesh and bone." says his Grandmother, "It is tainted spiritual and physical energy mixed to create near infinite demonic chakra controlled by a dark spirit. The seal was damaged by the second Five Elements Seal and the Kusanagi, so Minato's plan is failing."

The forest around them begins to catch fire and the Hokage monument begins to crumble.

"Now separated from the physical energy, it's reverting to it's true nature. What the the Biju were before they appeared in this war torn land centuries ago." says his Grandmother, "To save your soul you must awaken your complete heritage and end the existence of the Kyubi."

Slowly, his maternal grandparents begin to dissolve into a shower of fallen leaves.

"Wait! What are your names??"

"I was Shiki Tohno, born Shiki of the Nanaya clan." says Shiki, his eyes the last thing to vanish, "Fight for the future!"

"I was Sora Uzumaki, daughter of Seiun Uzumaki. Release your power! Find your dreams!"

Naruto leaps into the air as the tree he's standing on bursts into flame. He pulls off his goggles and instead of seeing of lines and points he sees ribbons of energy flowing threw the burning forest. He avoids another exploding tree and jumps from tree to tree. He hears a roar and can see a seventh tail rise into the sky and the hole continuing to grow.

He lands on the crumbling memorial stone as the statues of Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha begin to crumble into the growing sink hole. He calms himself and looks at the ribbons. All of them are white, except for one. He runs after them red ribbon.

Black flames appear in front of Naruto to stop him, but he sees a shining point and pierces it with his kunai. The black flames are extinguished and he continues to follow the white ribbon t it's source, the Hokage Monument.

He can now hear a voice in his head, not the voice of his maternal grandparents, but very similar

"Find me! Call my name!"

A memory explodes in Naruto's mind as he lands the stone.

"So you have anyone special in your life?" says Haku

Old Man Sarutobi. Iruka-sensei. Konohamaru.

"When people are protecting something truly precious to them, they truly can become.."

Kakashi-sensei. Sakura-chan. Ichiraku. Ayame.

"...as strong as they must be!"

Inari's adopted father dying to protect the Land of Wave. Kakashi vowing "I will never let my comrades die!". Iruka-sensei taking Mizuki's fuuma shuriken to the back to protect him and him beating Mizuki for hurting Iruka. Yondaime Hokage giving his life to defeat the Kyubi no Yoko.

"Fight for the future!"

Naruto follows the ribbon to the center of Yondaime Hokage's forehead to where the leaf headband would be if not for his spiky hair. The ninth tail breaks free and a wave of fire shoots from the immense hole incinerating the entire forest. The monuments begin to shatter as the Kyubi rises from the hole.

"Find your dreams!"

Naruto pulls the ribbon and a white sword hilt rises from the stone. He grips the hilt...

"Call my name!!"

...and pulls it free!

"Kiai! Toushi Musouka!" (Cry! Fighting Spirit Dreamer!)

The Kyubi no Kitsune charges his jailer Naruto Uzumaki, all rational thought it gained from being sealed inside a human decaying. It's red fur is turning a menacing mix black and white, it's thunderous roar resonating, howling in like a demonic wind.

Naruto is not dressed in his black top of his youth, the hideous orange jumpsuit, or even his new Chunin Exam clothing. Instead he now wears the same clothing as his mother and holds a sword.

The weapon is a unique, a chisakatana - shortened katana- with the saya (sheath), tsuka (hilt), fuchi (collar), kashira (pommel), and tsuba (hand guard) all pure white. The blade itself is mirror polished with a spiral decoration near the tsuka

Naruto turns to look at changing demon, his Chokushi no Magan seeing the lines and points concentrated in the white mask that now covers it's face. There is a howling sound as Naruto slashes with his sword and sound of a giant piece of porcelain shattering into a million pieces.

The Real World

Naruto wakes up surrounded by swirling lights. A column of energy shoots into the sky with Naruto in center. The whiskers on his cheeks grow thicker for a moment, then become thinner and thinner until they vanish completely. He looks down and watches as the spiral seal on his stomach changes. The mass of red-black lines turn purple-white, then become a new blue-black design. As the column of light fades, the markings vanish and Naruto lands in a crater in the forest floor.

Naruto stands up, fixing his goggles and looks down at himself. He's still dressed in cargo pants and black shirt, now with holes on the chest and back. The skin he can see threw the holes is flawless, showing not a trace injury despite the large blood stain on both sides. He wonders if the inner world was a dream, then he notices the sword Toushi Musouka is still next to his side.

Naruto then jumps into the trees and races back towards where he thinks his team is.

Konoha Teams vs Oto Ninjas

Naruto hears an explosion and lands high in the trees to see a bunch of Konoha ninja including a short haired Sakura fighting the Oto (sound) ninja. It looks like the one with the helmet just blasted the long haired Kunoichi.

"Wh..What unbelievable lowlifes." says the Kunocihi Kin, with Ino's tone, "...to wound your on comrades!!"

"You underestimated us. Bad mistake."says helmet head Zaku

"Our objective is not some stupid scroll, nor have we any interest in passing your infantile exam." says bandage boy, Dosu, " We're after Sasuke!"

Naruto notices Shikamaru's shadow retracting from Dosu and the Oto Nin regaining movement.

"So... your little trick can only work for five minutes at a time?" he says flexing his fingers, "and as for the art that girl is using... from the look of things, if we inflict any harm on her host, her real body suffers as well! Heh Heh... We can kill her by killing Kin ourselves!"

"You're despicable!" says Neji Hyuuga arriving with Tenten to rescue there down teammate Rock Lee, "You Buccolic Nonentities think you're all that juts because your sonic powers we're strong enough to whump these novices!"

"What?!" yells Dosu

"Again, the Vermin come crawling fro the woodwork!"

Naruto decides to check on Sakura, so he creates a Kage Bushin and has it appear next to Sakura.

"NARUTO!!" yells Sakura in shock and joy.

The groups turn at the new arrival.

"I thought you were dead!! You should be dead?! How are you here??"

"You know I can heal fast, Sakura-chan."

"but..but.. Orochimaru drove his sword threw you and tossed you into the forest unconscious!!

The Oto Ninja stiffen at the name of there lord and master. The Otokage failed to kill him!?

"No sweat, Sakura! I completely destroyed snake freak's Kusanagi and healed the wound." says Naruto pointing to the the blood-stained hole in his shirt, not caring the others can see the hole on the back of the shirt. "Right now, I'm worried about you. Did those sound freaks hurt you??"

The Oto ninjas pale. Someone managed to destroy Orochimaru's legendary sword!?

"Heh Heh... If you find us so despicable.." says Dosu hiding his fear, ""why don't you all stop posturing and start doing something about it?!"

"From the look of it." says Neji Hyuuga, "...We won't have to."

Everyone turns to see Sasuke rising to his feet surrounded by dark tainted chakra.

"Sasuke! You're awake!!" yells Sakura, the notices something seriously wrong.

Part of Sasuke's body is covered in flame-like markings and the tainted purple chakra seems to grow stronger and stronger. Naruto can feel his Nanaya blood warning him of a demonic threat.

"Sakura..." says Sasuke, "..point out the ones who pummeled you into that state!"

"Sasuke.." says Sakura

"Who was it...?!" says Sasuke with a deep anger in his voice.

Zaku says with a grin, "It was us!"

Naruto watches as Sasuke altered by Orochimaru's Ten no Juin (Curse Seal of Heaven) talks about being an Avenger, sounding more than a little insane.

"So..." says Sasuke getting in attack position, "It was you."

"Ino! If you stay in that form, you'll be dragged into this!! Get back to your own body!!" yells Shikamaru running by with Ino's body, "Choji, Let's get moving! It's time we got out of here!!"

Ino releases her technique and her body wakes up feeling like crap.

"His chakra's immense!!" says Dosu

"Snap out of it, Dosu! Just because he refuses to die..." yells Zaku Abumi

"Zaku, no!!" yells Dosu Kinuto,"Don't you get it?!"

"Zankuuha!!" (Decapitating Air Waves)

Using the air vents installed in his arms, Zaku can control supersonic waves and air pressure. The Zankuuha creates a massive gust of wind which he can blast at an opponent. The gust is so strong it can even break rock. It creates a huge trench in the earth.

"Hah! Blew that pipsqueak to bits." says a tired Zaku

"What Pipsqueck is that?" says Sasuke next to Zaku before using a backhand to send the sound ninja flying. He then does hand signs and exhales small fire balls.

"Katon: Housenka no Jutsu!" (Mythical Fire Phoenix Technique)

"You're getting over confident!" yells Zaku seeing the fireballs, but easily blows them away with his air cannons, "I can just blow these out!"

The fires are extinguished but the shuriken hidden inside them cut him in many places.

"Zaku! Beneath you!"

The last Konoha Uchiha then appears behind the distracted Zaku and grabs both arms and places on foot on Zaku's back. Sasuke grinning like sadistic maniac he has become, begins to pull.

"Heh... you take such pride in your arms... time to bid them farewell."

With two loud snaps, Zaku's arms are pulled out of socket. He then turns to attack Dosu with the creepy grin growing.

"Time out!" yells Naruto, appearing behind Sasuke with a Kage Bushin and his goggles up. While the clone holds Sasuke still, he swipes at Sasuke's shoulder with shuriken tip, cutting only the juin (curse seal).

The effect is immediate. The immense dark chakra streams off Sasuke's form, which is now crawling with arcs of blue electricity. It like a radio or TV with the wires exposed and still plugged in being tossed into a tub of water, a complete short out. The curse markings covering his skin glow bright red causing Sasuke extreme pain as being burned alive, then the marks dissolve like scattered ashes and vanish. It starts at the farthest points and goes back towards the the original seal. The curse seal reverts to it's dormant state now missing one of the tomoe. No longer charged by curse seal's chakra, Sasuke collapses unconscious to the ground.

There is a pause as Naruto's clone brings Sasuke over to Sakura.

"You're pretty tough!" says Zaku holding up his Earth Scroll, "Obviously we have no chance of defeating your team in our current state. So I surrender my Earth scroll in exchange for letting us go unharmed."

He puts the scroll down, then grabs both Zaku and Kin and retreats into the forest.

"Wait!!" yells Sakura, "You've got to tell me! What did Orochimaru do to Sasuke!? Why did he choose him!?"

"I don't know..." says Zaku, "We were only following orders. We did not know about the seal and I have never heard of a even a partial removal."

The Tower

The Konoha teams quickly break up and return to the journey to the tower. They don't try to take Team Seven's scroll since the powers used by Sasuke and Naruto are frightening. Sakura doesn't even offer there scroll because Naruto deserves it more after nearly dying.

Naruto and Sakura wait until Sasuke wakes up before they head towards the tower. Sakura told them that Orochimaru had burnt there heaven scroll, but Naruto reveals it was a fake and that he hide the real scroll inside food scroll case marked "Ramen". That causes both Sasuke and Sakura's jaws to drop.

Naruto also tells them,

"I wish I had spent a little extra and got that roll of explosive notes. When Orochimaru burnt the scroll, he would have blown his own head off!"

They encountered a team of kiri (mist) ninja trying to get revenge for what Naruto did to one of them at the beginning of the exam, but Sasuke being able to partially use his Sharingan and Naruto beat the living crap out them and took there extra Heaven as insurance.

"There's no one here..." says Naruto as the three enter.

"I'm all right, Sakura. You can let go." says Sasuke

"Oh Okay."

"So what do we do now?"

"Hey!" says Sakura pointing to the wall, "Look at that!"

If quantities of Heaven are your desire. Acquire wisdom and knowledge and take your mind higher.

If Earthly qualities are what you lack, train your body in the fields and prepare to attack.

When both Heaven and Earth are opened together. The path of peril will revert to the righteous path forever.

This " " is the secret way... that guides us on from the place today.

Sandaime Hokage

"I think it refers to the scrolls." says Sakura, "I think it's telling us to open both the Heaven and Earth scrolls."

Sakura opens the Heaven scroll and Naruto opens the Earth scroll with Sasuke between them.

The scrolls are identical with kanji for humanity in the center surrounded by a sun-like ring of script. The symbol on the heaven scroll begins to smoke and they drop the summoning scrolls to the ground. The mass of smoke soon clears to reveal a smiling Iruka Umino.

"Hey kids, it's been a while, eh?" says Iruka-sensei

"I don't understand!!" yells Sakura

"You three look like you've been through the wringer." says Iruka, "What happened to your shirt, Naruto?"

"I got impaled by the snake freak" says Naruto, "What are you doing popping out of a summoning scroll?!"

"The spell was designed so that we chunin could greet applicants at the End of the Second Exam." says Iruka, "It was just good luck that I got to be the messenger for the three of you."

"Messenger..?!" says Sakura

"Yeah..." says Iruka, "You barely made it! Wait a minute?? Snake Freak!?"

"The snake sennin Orochimaru." says Naruto despite Sasuke's scowl, "He summoned a snake that nearly ate me, nearly killed me impaling me with that sword Kusanagi, beat the crap out of Sasuke, and gave him a demonic hickey that turned him into a psycho!"

"Hickey?"

"Some sort of curse seal that gives him an insane power boost. Emphasize on Insane!"

"I need to tell Hokage-sama about this." says Iruka using shushin to vanish after showing where Team Seven is suppose to go.

Tower Arena - Hours later

"Congratulations to you all." says Lord Hokage, "on passing the Second Exam!!"

Heh...we started with seventy eight applicants and twenty one of themn actually made it.

Anko thinks, I said I would pare their numbers down to less than half, but really I was only expecting a single digit figure.

The collection of Genin face there collection of proctors and Jounin senseis.

Orochimaru hidden in the form of the sound is upset. Kabuto and his team failed to report in with the information he collected. Also, the blond brat who destroyed his precious Kusanagi survived!

Team Kakashi notices Teams Gai, Kurenai, and Asuma made it with Gaara's Suna Team and the Oto Team that attacked them. There's also an unknown team, that most believe are from Ame (Rain) and Kusa (Grass). Team Kakashi doesn't know the Kunoichi is Gigi, the girl that nearly killed them in the wave country.

"Now Lord Hokage himself will explain about the third exam." yells Anko, "Listen up and take every word to heart!! They're all yours, my lord."

"Very well." says Sarutobi, "The Third Examination is about to commence, but before I got into the specifics of how it will be conducted let me make one thing perfectly clear!! It pertains to the underlying purpose of the exam. Why do you suppose an examination of this nature is being jointly conducted by all of the nations in our mutual alliance?! 'To promote friendship among the allied nations and raise the level and standards in art of the shinobi' Be very clear about what those fine-sounding phrases actually mean! The series of so-called examinations is, in fact, a war-in-miniature between all the of our allied lands."

"Wh..What do you mean?' asks Tenten.

"If you were to study our recent history -- and consult a map-- it would swiftly become apparent that our alliance is in fact a temporary and mutually beneficial agreement between a group of geographically continuous lands who previous existence was one of continual strife... constantly jockeying against one another, openly and in secret, for power and the control of resources that were perpetually depleted almost to exhaustion in the struggle... until a better way was devised... the way of the Chunin Journeyman ninja selection exam.'

'Make no mistake, when this exam is done, It will have had the side effect of winnowing out many applicants unfit to ascend to the level of Chunin, but even more importantly, it serves as an arena where in for the honor of their respective homelands... young shinobi may fight... to the death if need be!"

"The Honor of the Lands?" asks Ino.

"This third examination will be conducted under the watchfulness of a number of distinguished guests including the rulers and nobility of the various lands you all aspire to serve and among their numbers will be those who rule over each country's own hidden ninja villages. They will be watching you."

Naruto almost zones out the rest of words, understanding what Hokage means. A man named Gekiko Hayate, proctor of the third exam, arrives and explains that there are too many applicants and they need to have Preliminaries.

"The Preliminaries start now!"

"Now?!" yells Kiba

"In case I forgot to mention it, from here on in, you fight as individuals not as members of teams, so you can make the decision that's right for you without worrying about anyone else. So... anyone else want out? Show of hands?"

Not a single person raises there hand.

Sasuke does raise a hand to place it on the damaged curse seal on his neck.

"S-Sasuke.." says Sakura worried, "Maybe you should quiet, too!"

"?!"

"Ever since Orochimaru attacked you, you haven't been yourself!!" says Sakura, "The mark on your skin is hurting again, isn't it? and it just keeps getting worse!!"

Sakura is near tears

"Please withdrawn.." says Sakura, "I'm afraid. You're in no shape to fight, Sasuke"

"Shut up!" says Sasuke, his voice filled with anger.

"Sasuke I know.."

"I said keep your mouth shut! Not a word about the mark!" says Sasuke holding Sakura's wrist. A kick from Naruto then breaks Sasuke's hold leaving Sakura unharmed.

"Watch it, teme! She's worried about you and it's more than you deserve!"

"This is more than a test for me and I don't care whether I achieve the level of Chunin or not." says Sasuke, "'Am I strong?' Finding that out is all that matters to me now. I'm here to test myself against the best of the best and the best opponents I could find are all around us, here and now."

"Not even for you sake" says Sasuke looking at Sakura, "will I turn away from the path that leads to my dream." he then turns to Naruto, "Naruto. You're the one of the ones I want to fight.

"Ahh, We'll then we'll now begin the preliminaries..." says Hayate, "which will consist of individual combat matches, as though this were part of a tournament. As there are a total of 21 combatants remaining, we will hold ten bouts and the victors of those bouts will advance to the Third Exam.'

'This is no-holds-barred combat. Each pair of combatants will fight until one of them is dead or unconscious or admits defeat. As soon as you sense your opponent is overpowering you, immediately concede your loss if you value your life.

hhh. since we don't want to today bloodbath on our hands, there may be cases,where we ascertain that there is an undisputed winner and step in to end the match. But don't count on that. From here one out your fate is held in.."

Anko orders the scoreboard deployed.

"Ummmmm. This electronic score board. At the start of every round, we will display the names of the two combatants competing in that match" koffs Hayate, "So hmmm... not to hurry you all to the slaughter but let's begin. We'll now announce the first two names."

Gaara vs Tenten

Naruto winces as the slaughter occurs. Tenten is one of Konoha's greatest weapon mistress, able to hit a target with one hundred percent accuracy. All which means nothing to Sabaku no Gaara, who ultimate defense of sand stops every projectile.

Senbon. Shuriken. Kunai. Spears. All are stopped by the chakra hardened sand that surrounds the son the Kazekage. Finally, Tenten is forced to use her most powerful technique.

Tenten removes two scrolls and set them on the ground, forms the necessary hand seals, and the two scroll rise into the air and begin to swirl around a middle vortex. Tenten then uses this space to launch herself into the air between the spinning scrolls.

"Soushouryuu!" (Twin Rising Dragons)

As Tenten is in the air, she uses the scrolls to summon her weapons which she then begins to throw at her opponent. A shower of projectile weapons ranging from nearly every type rain down on Gaara. The average ninja would be sliced, beaten, and torn to pieces by the barrage, but Gaara is far from normal. His shield of sand surges up and blocks every strike.

Tenten looking slightly pale uses the wires that run from each weapon to her fingertips to pull them back into the air to strike at her opponent again. This attack has less effect than the first, as the sand grabs and crushes the weapons. It then violently pulls the mass of wires, cutting Tenten's fingers before they snap. The sand then surges forward to grab her, but Tenten leaps into the air using what taijutsu she learned from being on Gai's team.

A wave of sand, almost like a giant tail, knocks her out of the air and into a wall hard enough to create a blood stain. She falls unconscious to the ground, but the sand rushes to finish her off. Hayate calls the fight to prevent a slaughter.

"Sabaku no Gaara is the winner."

Hyuuga Neji vs Aburame Shino

The Second Fight is a little more Interesting

Naruto remembers what he read about Juken Ryuu (Gentle Fist style).

Juuken is fighting style utilized by Hyuga clan members. The Byakugan has a penetrating ability to see the tenketsu, the internal chakra coils system 361 pressure points. The clan member can use their fingers or palms to emit chakra to flow into their opponents body's at these precise points. When the hand draws close enough to strike, the clan member can stop or increase their opponents chakra flow. The internal chakra coils which spread throughout the body also wrap around the internal chakra producing organs. So if the internal coils are attacked, it also damages these internal organs. Because a ninja can not train their internal body, such damage can be a critical hit for even a highly skilled ninja.

The effectiveness of the Juken is reduced greatly by the Aburame hijutsu (secret art). Each Aburame, including Shino, is a living hive for a symbiotic Kikaichu (destruction bugs). The little insects protect Shino and devour his opponent's chakra in return for being there hive and feeding them his own chakra.

As a result, while Neji can make several strikes, the Kikachu devour the injected chakra like candy. It still causes damage, but not as severe as it could be. Neji is slowly weakening from the Kikaichu that managed to latch on to him from his blind spot. Juken is pure chakra manipulation, so draining chakra effectively makes them helpless.

"Kaiten!" (Heavenly Spin)

Hakkeshou Kaiten (Eight Divination Palms of the Hand, Heavenly Spin) is a very powerful technique that involves releasing a large of amount of chakra from their tenketsu. The member then begins to spin like a top, creating a whirling vortex that can nullify almost any attack. The pressure of Neji's chakra blows off the Kikaichu, causing many to burn or burst from the overload.

Neji then attacks Shino with his finisher.

"Hakke Rokujuuyonshou!" (Eight Divination Signs, Sixty-Four Palms of the Hand)

"Two Strikes."

Neji delivers two quick strikes.

"Four Strikes"

Four faster strikes.

"Eight Strikes"

Another eight than cause Shino to slide back slightly.

"Thirty Two Strikes!"

Thirty two strikes that cause Shino to slide back quickly.

"Sixty Four Strikes!!"

Sixty Four strikes that cause Shino to go flying into the wall. He quickly passes out and Neji is declared the Winner.

Kinuto Dosu vs Haruno Sakura

The Third Fight is quick and brutal and fills Naruto's heart with a rage.

Sakura may possess perfect chakra control and book smarts, but she lacks everything beyond basic Academy ninjutsu, genjutsu, and taijutsu. She also has a weak body from being more concerned about her looks, then training hard to defeat enemies. Dosu is aware of this since he and his team attacked her trying to kill Sasuke.

Dosu avoids her illusion bushin and delivers a brutal punch putting a large amount of chakra behind it. The collision with her arm and kunai creates a loud noise, which is music arm amplifies and manipulates. The sounds enter Sakura's ears and the shock and pain causes knocks her out bleeding from the ears. It Dosu had been serious, he would have gone over two hundred decibels and would have killed her from the shock (sound) wave alone.

Uzumaki Naruto vs Temari

Naruto and Temari both jump down to the arena floor. Hayate gives the signal to begin and Temari starts with a verbal psychological attack

"That pathetic team mate of yours didn't last long."

Naruto seems to growl as chakra flares around him.

"Don't lie to me about her being a good kunoichi. I can even call her a bad kunoichi, she's juts a fan girl that gives real female ninja a bad name. I guess that proves that Konoha has let it's standards drop low."

Naruto pulls out four shuriken and Temari pulls her fan.

"Shuriken Kage Bunshin no Jutsu" (Shuriken Shadow Clone Technique)

The four thrown shuriken become several dozen spinning blades. Temari uses her fan to block the shuriken with her wind affinity, but two the shuriken she appeared to knocked away poof to reveal henged shadow clones on either side of her. They both throw there kunai towards her back, but she jumps forward to avoid it and whips the fan away. The chakra-charged winds blow away both clones, then she releases her own technique at the charging Naruto in front of her.

"Kamaitachi!" (Cutting Whirlwind!)

Temari uses her fan to blow a concussive wind that is imbued with her chakra. As Naruto is caught in the wind he poofs revealing himself to have been a shadow clone. She swings around to see another far closer Naruto charging her and releases a far more powerful technique

"Futon: Dai Kamitachi!" (Wind Release: Great Cutting Whirlwind!)

Temari releases a far more powerful version of Kamaitachi that crosses the battlefield like a hurricane. The pressure of winds are great enough that the concrete wall nearly shatters. Unfortunately for the sexy Suna Kunoichi and Wind Mistress, the other Naruto also explodes into smoke.

The real Naruto bursts from the ground with his sword Toushi Musouka drawn. He slashes with his sword, while the shocked Temari blocks with her fan. It's pointless as Naruto's blade cuts the lines of destiny that his two Kage Bushin were able to see and transmit when they were destroyed. Temari's giant fan shatters into half a dozen pieces leaving her with a small broken handle.

In less than a second, Naruto swings up and places the edge of the blade at Temari's throat, cutting threw her kunai defense without noticing. The silence in the arena is so great, you can hear the kunai tip, cut cleanly off, falling to the ground.

"Not bad." says Temari, a little stunned.

"You pretty good yourself." says Naruto with a smile, "You going to surrender?"

"Guess I have to."

"Winner Naruto Uzumaki!"

Kin vs Chouji

Kin Tsuchi is a skilled Sound Kunoichi who specializes in sound based genjutsu, but she faces a major problem in Chouji Akimichi. If she possessed the air holes of Zaku, she could send the large konoha genin flying. If she possessed the melody arm of Dosu, she could punch the large genin and use the water in his body to deliver a sound attack. Unfortunately the sound of genjutsu bells are blocked by Chouji's technique.

"Nikudan Sensha!" (Human Bullet Tank)

After using the Baika no Jutsu to modify their body into a large sphere shape, Chouji draws his limbs into the main spherical body. He launches his body into the air and begin to spin at a high rate of speed. Launching himself at the target, the fast spinning prevents most incoming projectile attacks (such as Kin's senbon and kunai) from landing, instead they bounce off with little effect.

Kin is directly hit by the giant living bowling ball, smashing her into the concrete wall with the audible sounding of crushing bones. As Chouji returns to his normal form, Kin's bloody broken form is left in the crater in the wall.

Chouji almost losses his lunch, Almost.

"Winner Chouji Akimichi!"

Hyuuga Hinata vs Yamanaka Ino

The battle between Hinata and Ino is more psychological then anything else.

Hinata is far more skilled than fan girl Ino, but lacks confidence and aggression.

Ino has confidence, but possesses limited skills.

Ino manages to distract Hinata with some insults, a psychological warfare tactic. This allows he to trap Hinata's legs with an odd jutsu. This sets Hinata up for Ino's main technique.

"Shintenshin no Jutsu!" (Mind Body Change Technique)

Shintenshin no Jutsu is a Ninjutsu technique originally used for spying. The ninja forms the needed handseals and then projects their spirit out of their body into their target. This can be another ninja or an animal. Unfortunately the spirit flies in a straight line at a slow speed. If the target moves and avoids the incoming spirit, the ninjas body falls lifeless until the spirit can find its way back to the body several minutes later.

Ino's plan is to control Hinata's body and make her forfeit, but a problem occurs when she's raising her arm. A problem named Naruto Uzumaki.

"Come one Hinata! Don't give up!"

Ino suddenly finds herself frozen, unable to move or speak.

What's happening? thinks Ino inside Hinata's head, I can't move. Am I losing control?

Naruto-kun...

Huh? What's that? Hinata?

Naruto-kun believes in me.

Naruto is important to you??

I won't give up!

I'm still inside your body!

Naruto-kun believes in me! I won't give up!

Suddenly, Ino's spirit is thrown from Ino's body by a surge of chakra. Ino awakens minutes later and finds herself on the receiving end of the Hyuuga Clan's Juken. Ino coughs blood, then pass out as Hinata stands panting from the strain and energy loss.

"Winner Hinata Hyuuga!"

Inuzuka Kiba vs Akuma

"All right, Akamaru! Let's show them what we can do!" yells Kiba jumping into the ring

"Ruff!" says Akamaru.

Akuma looks at the Konoha ninja and his canine partner. He knows the Inuzuma pride themselves on canine theme hijutsu (secret techniques), techniques known only to there clan.

Akuma cracks his fingers, the crosses his arms showing absolutely no emotion.

"Don't worry, Akamaru. I can handle this one, but be ready if this freak has surprises." says Kiba,

"Shikyaku no Jutsu!" (Four-Legged Technique)

After forming the hand seals, chakra begins to flow around Kiba and he takes on a more canine appearance. He then rushes towards Akuma at high speed, only for Akuma to dodge every strike and fire needles. Kiba barely avoids the thin needles, which are very dangerous because his enhanced sense of smell can detect the poison on each one.

Finally, Akuma delivers a kick to Kiba that sends him sailing into the wall. Akamaru quickly runs up to his partner in concern.

"I'm Ok, Akamaru. Guess will have to go all out."

He tosses Akamaru a soldier pill and the white puppy's fur turns spiky and red. The puppy lets out a roar of a much larger animal before jumping on Kiba's back.

"Juujin Bunshin!" (Beast-Man Clone)

Akamaru transforms into a copy of the feral Kiba standing on the back of the original.

"Gatsuuga!" (Dual Piercing Fang)

Both Kiba and Akamaru in human form shoot towards Akuma spinning like a drill. Akuma's response is to form an odd set of hand seals. Millions of barbed spines shoot out from the black material of his clothing.

"Ninpo: Raikou Kadou no jutsu!" (Ninja Art: Lightning Vortex Technique)

Akuma begins to spin in place, faster and faster, until it's several times faster than Kiba and Akamaru's Gatsuuga combined. When the Inuzuka and his partner hit Akuma, there is a thunderous explosion. When the smoke clears, Akuma is still spinning, but slowly stops. As he slows, the loss of many of his spines can be scene.

Kiba and Akamaru on the other hand are on there feet, but not by choice. There bodies are tangled in thin wires connected to the spikes Akuma released during his initial attacks. The wires are as thin as spider web silk and should only possess five percent of there strength, but the ultra thin lines hold like cables.

"Chakra wires."

Kiba and Akamaru look up to see Akuma talking with his hands in a seal.

"The reason you can't break them despite there thinness is the special alloy absorbs chakra to increase it's strength. I have even learned to animate and manipulate them using this ability." says Akuma, "They also conduct my lightning nature affinity. Raiton: Rakurai" (Lightning Release: Thunderbolt!)

A bolt of chakra lightning shoots from Akuma's hand and illuminates the web of thin wires. The charge is so immense the alloy wires vaporize in seconds, but not before blowing holes in the walls and floor where the spikes embedded themselves. The massive charge also arc into Kiba and Akamaru using where the wires contact there skin and broken barbed spikes that pierce parts of there bodies. They both scream out in pain before passing out.

"Winner, Akuma."

Kankuro vs Ten

The fight between the puppet master Kankuro and the mysterious Ten was anti-climatic.

Ten recognized Kankuro as a Suna puppet master and tore the bandages from his right arm, revealing metal bones and muscles composed of cables and tightly woven wires. He then formed a couple of hand seals with one hand avoiding Kankuro's punch and launched his jutsu.

"Ninpou: Kanaami Houin" (Ninja Art: Wire Mesh Sealing Method!)

His right arm releases a mass of dark wires that hits not Kankuro, but the wrapped puppet on his back and smashes it into the concrete wall. The wires binds the puppet's movements and holds him tightly

Suddenly, Kankuro collapses to reveal he's actually the disguised puppet Karasu (Crow). The bandages around the bundle pinned to the wall by the wire mesh fall away to reveal a helpless Kankuro.

Ten looks back and forth between the two, then rubs the back of his head.

"Lucked out!"

This almost caused the entire crowd to face fall.

"Winner, Ten!"

Nara Shikamaru vs Rock Lee

The next battle was some what interesting.

Rock Lee is one of Konoha's greatest taijutsu (hand to hand) experts and the genius of hard work possesses the greatest strength of the rookies.

Shikamaru Nara on the other hand possesses a powerful strategic mind and the lazy genius is only held back by his slothful nature.

Rock Lee was the first to attack, but Shikamaru used Kawarimi to replace himself with a long and jumped to the edge of the arena and started throwing shuriken When Rock Lee blurred towards him, he sprung his trap.

"Kage Mane no Jutsu!" (Shadow Imitation Technique)

Rock Lee suddenly finds himself frozen after the shadow of the real Shikamaru behind him extends and connects to his own. Rock struggles against the technique and Shikamaru also struggles to stay in control.

"How did you capture my flames of youth?" asks Lee

"I placed myself in the corner and used those two lines of shuriken to make sure you could only attack from the narrow angle. . I replaced myself with a shuriken behind you leaving a Bushin.You were moving too fast for me to see, but I was able to predict your path"

"So how are you going to end the fight?"

"I heard about how hard your head is."

Shikamaru positions Lee in the right stop, then rams Lee head into the concrete wall. Rock Lee's head hits the wall hard enough to create a large crater, but it doesn't stop some one like Lee.

"I give up."

Rock and everyone stares.

"I'm running low on Chakra and Lee possesses too much stamina and durability to go down quickly. If I possessed Kage Kubi Shibari no Jutsu (Shadow Neck Bind Technique), it's possible I could strangle him, but I would not use that technique on a loyal konoha ninja."

Shikamaru's shadow separates from Lee's and returns to him.

Rock Lee looks disappointed. He didn't win with his Flames of Youth. He won because Shikamaru's little flame burnt itself out.

"Winner, Rock Lee."

Zaku vs Gigi

While Team Seven pales at the name, the Sound Ninja and unknown Kunoichi make there way to the Arena below.

Zaku Abumi looks confident despite one arm in a sling. Gigi looks very relaxed with her arms crossed. Hayate raises his hand, then brings it down to begin the fight.

"Zankuuha!" (Decapitating Air Waves)

"Fuiuchitama!" (Surprise Attack Ball!)

Zaku fires a destructive blast from his one good arm, but Gigi pulls off her lower mask and releases a huge black fireball, at least three times larger than a Uchiha Goukakyuu no Jutsu (Great Fireball Technique). The black flames are extinguished by the slicing air pressure, but within the fireball are a shower of a several dozen shuriken that scrap, cut, and slash Zaku in a hundred places.

Zaku looks around wildly as Gigi vanished when she was hidden by the black fire ball.

Gigi on all fours sticks to the wall above Zaku like a a spider ready to strike. She bites her thumbs and rams her hands into the wall creating two seals and two massive explosions of white smoke.

"Kuchiyose: Nihontateeiga: Dakatsu!" (Summoning: Double Feature: Serpent and Scorpion)

Zaku fires a blast at the wall, but two figures land on either side of him.

As the smoke clears, he can see Gigi to his right looking unimpressed and on the left is a giant black and silver scorpion with two sets of claws. The massive creature has extremely sharp looking mouth pieces, claws, and a blade like stinger. There are also thin spikes running down the sides of the body and sharp points near the joints

"I think you should surrender." says Gigi with a creepy smile, "It will make your death easier."

"Ha! Don't count me out yet!" says Zaku pulling his healed arm from his sling. He points one hand at Gigi and the other at the silver scorpion.

"Zankyokukuuha!!" (Extreme Decapitating Air Waves)

The ultimate version of the Zankuuha hits both targets with immense force, shaking the arena. As the smoke clears, Zaku is shocked to see nothing but small fragments, too small to be the complete remains. He also find out he can't move his arm.

The silver scorpion descends from the air and lands on one rigid arm, securing itself with it's claws and driving it's stinger into Zaku's shoulder. At the same time, an iron grey snake wraps around his other arm, crushing the bones before sinking it's fangs into the flesh.

Gigi appears behind him and impales him with her sword. Zaku has a shocked look on his face and manages to say, "How?" with a pain-filled voice and blood dripping from the mouth.

"Ginnezu Daija (silver grey great snake) and Ginsasori (silver scorpion) can disguise themselves as me. When you targeted them, I was able to wrap lines around your arms. Snake tunneled underground, while scorpion jumped into the air, and with you unable to move, you became the perfect target." explains Gigi, twisting the blade. She then jumps back, and the scorpion and snake vanish in puffs of smoke.

"Zaku is unable to fight. Winner, Gigi."

"Proctor?"

"Yes." asks Hayate looking curious.

"Can I fight Sasuke Uchiha now?" says Gigi with a smile, "I don't need a month to kick his weak ass."

"I accept!" yells Sasuke despite the warning of his teammates.

As the medics carry the poisoned Zaku, he begins to scream.

"What's happening??" asks Medic Ninja 1 seeing smoke rising from the ninja's skin

"The poisons are reacting to each other. It's exothermic reaction" says the second Medic He remembers Gigi's words during the fight.

"I think you should surrender.It will make your death easier."

Despite the efforts of the Konoha medics, the mixing chemicals release enough heat that Zaku's body ignites. In seconds, he's dead and seconds later all that remains is charred flesh and bones.

Gigi vs Uchiha Sasuke

Sasuke glares at Gigi, whose mostly hidden face still has the same creepy smile. She tilts her head, then points at him or more specifically the ten no juin (curse seal of heaven).

"I see that Naruto managed to break it." she says, "Good. You'll be able to use some of your chakra. It would be too easy a win."

Hayate barely says begin, when Sasuke attacks with Sharingan active.

Sasuke throws a dozen shuriken with wires connected. The shuriken aren't meant to hurt Gigi, only limit his movements and distract her long enough for Sasuke to get in position.

He uses Konoha Kage Buyou (Leaf Shadow Dance) to launch Gigi into the air. Sasuke then jump into the air to "shadow" the target with the target's back to their chest. While Gigi is in the vulnerable aerial position, Sasuke goes into his own taijutsu technique.

"Shishi Rendan!" (Lion Combo)

He delivers a kick, which is a feint to move the attention and defense. He then strikes the undefended area and begin knock Gigi downwards towards the ground. As Gigi falls back to the earth, Sasuke deftly rotates his body around and deliver a full force kick to her chest.

As Sasuke gets up, he's shocked when the Gigi on the ground crumbles away. The real Gigi melds from the ground like the lead in a monster movie.

"Stealing techniques already, Uchiha-teme?" says Gigi pulling off her hat and tosses it into the air, "Let me show you mine. Gigi forms a set of hand seals and arena is soon covered in thick mist

"Kirigakure no Jutsu!" (Hidden Mist Technique)

Sasuke is left totally blind by the technique, his Sharingan rendered useless as Kakashi's eye was against Zabuza, the Demon of Bloody Mist.

On the walkway above, where the proctor Hayate has retreated, Kakashi, Naruto, and others watch as the thick white mist darkens. Suddenly, a disc shaped objects shoots out of the mist towards the ceiling.

The traditional bamboo hat (kasa) flies high into the air and then releases a shower of tiny needles that flow around like shower of hornets. It's similar to the Amegakure (Hidden Rain) technique known as Jouro Senbon (Sprinkling Needles)

"Ninpo: Suzumebachi Senbon!" (Ninja Art: Hornet Needles!)

Within the Mists as the needles fall, Sasuke jumps back and slides into the corner of the Arena, while making hand seals. He draws chakra from their mouth into his chest and them immediately exhales it.

"Goukakyuu no Jutsu!" (Great Fireball Technique).

He then blow a stream of fire which erupts into a large sphere of flames. The spherical fire blast acts like a shield blocking most of needles. It also heats the air, blowing away the thick mist.

Suddenly, Sasuke feels a pain spread threw his body and coughs violently. When he pulls his hand away, it's soaked in blood. He can also see his vision turn red as blood drips from his eyes like tears.

"Kirigakure no Jutsu not only hide me from your eyes, but it also hide my second technique. I released a poison mist that mixed with mist using by Makaze Dokukiri no jutsu (evil wind poison mist technique)." says Gigi, "The same chakra poison on the needles. Inhaling for your fireball didn't help."

Sasuke cough again and more of his destroyed blood hits the ground.

"I blocked your genjutsu with my mist. You need to breathe to use your famous Uchiha Katon jutsu. The needles prevented Taijutsu."

In desperation, Sasuke tries to activate the curse seal despite it's damage.

"I told this to another ninja." says Gigi walking up to Sasuke's paralyzed form, "A special poison that is drawn to chakra like iron is drawn by a magnet. Doujutsu users channel chakra into there eyes, so the poison attacked them. You used the Great Fireball, so your lungs became targets."

The surge of malevolent chakra gives Sasuke a boost in strength and power, for a moment, then an a massive surge of pain. Sasuke screams as the skin covered by the curse marks bruises and bleeds violently. It's like a flesh eating disease devouring his body at an accelerated rate. The pain grows even more severe as one of precious Sharingan eyes bursts!

"Sasuke!" yells several Konoha ninja, as Sasuke passes out.

"Orochimaru's tainted chakra just makes it worse and more painful." says Gigi, turning the shocked Proctor, "Well?"

"Winner, Gigi."

Author Notes

Fights

Fights are Randomized List by RandomDOTorg

Why Did I add BLEACH?

Naruto may be able to destroy everything he sees, but only if his blade can reach it. The two reasons I decided to add BLEACH are:

(1) A Zanpakuto can cut threw many things and may be more effective against things that don't have physical/corporeal forms.

(2) Speed techniques. All the major forces has speed techniques. Shinigami (Soul Reapers) has Shunpo (flash steps), Arrancar has Sonido (Japanese for "resounding revolution," Spanish for "sound"), and Quincy can also move at superhuman speeds using hirenkyaku.

Sasuke's Pain?

In the recent manga, the Uchiha teme has become like Itachi in almost every way. Mangekyo, Akatsuki cloak, he betrayed Naruto like Itachi betrayed Sasuke, etc... All he needs is Naruto to toss him his scratched headband. In my story, Sasuke now surpasses Itachi is blindness and sickness by at least three years. Take that Bishonen-Bakayarou! This is only the beginning!

Why wasn't it Naruto that caused Sasuke pain?

The fights were picked at random for originality. If Naruto had maimed the "precious" Uchiha, the entire village would have gone ape shit and the Council would try to kill Naruto even with out the Hokage's permission. A foreign ninja can cause a lot of damage because of politics.

The Poison?

In X-Men comics, Agent Zero (David North/Maverick) used a anti-healing factor corrosive against Sabretooth. My idea is the more chakra you use, the more damage it causes.

Another Rare Update! I have completed my First Halloween World Story Arc, so I'm now taking time to work on other projects before I begin the Second Arc.