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Chapter 13: Start the Tournament

Everyone in the stadium was at a standstill. The little show they had just seen was absolutely spectacular. The fact that these two could control their chakra so expertly that they could form creatures with them. Some of the people in the stands noticed how Naruto looked like Minato and started yelling, "How dare you!" or "Don't you dare disgrace our Kage!"

"Silence!" Minato roared as he heard these things.

"What is wrong with these people?" asked the fire daimyo. The water daimyo was also wondering why they all hated this child so much for a new appearance.

Minato hung his head in shame. "When I sealed the Kyuubi away," he started, "I expected the village to see Naruto as a hero. Instead they did things to him that should not be done to such a young child. He was beaten, stabbed, and raped among other things."

The daimyos looked at each other, then at Minato and scowls crossed their lips. They had heard great things about this village. Apparently this village wasn't worth anything they had been told.

Minato continued, "After the sealing Sarutobi put a law that said that anyone who mentioned the Kyuubi would be met with death. Unfortunately the civilian council kept finding ways around to hurt him. On a plus side the ninja clans tried to adopt him but all of them were over ruled."

This seemed to make the daimyos even angrier. They had done these things to a child and they had stopped him from knowing the comfort of a family. Minato filled them in on what had happened since he had come back. They wee glad to hear that the root division was taken care of but upset that they still had Sasuke being a spoiled brat.

Meanwhile in the arena…

Naruto and Hinata approached the other contestants who were participating in the tournament. Naruto noticed that Dosu wasn't there and neither was Sasuke. He guessed that Sasuke was probably expecting to get special treatment and was going to show up late. Then Haku who was the referee for the tournament stepped up.

"All right," she started, " Due to some mix ups there are a few changes in the tournament plan. The Hokage will announce the rounds because things are going to get confusing."

Naruto grinned slightly. He was glad that he would probably not going to have to fight Hinata.

"All right," Minato said speaking into a microphone, "The first round will be between Hinata Hyuuga and Ino Yamanaka. If that is not your name get out of the fighting arena. If that is your name don't go anywhere."

The other fighters left leaving Hinata and Ino facing each other.

"May the best woman win," Ino said holding out her hand.

"Yeah," Hinata said as she shook it.

"Ready?" Minato asked, "Begin!"

Ino started first and rushed forward. She drew back her arm to punch but Hinata brought up her lance and she hit that instead. Ino jumped back clutching her hand in pain. She tried again but this time she jumped up and brought her heel down. Hinata just side stepped it and slammed her knee into Ino's gut. Ino went back a little ways. She recovered quickly and went through hand signs. "Mind Transfer jutsu!" Hinata knew she was trying to get at her mind since she couldn't harm her body. Hinata knew she would get her to say she forfeit the match. She couldn't stop her from taking her mind. Once in Hinata's body Ino tried to get her to give up but was surprised when Hinata fought her control hard enough to actually get out of it. When Ino got up she found Hinata waiting for her to get up. Hinata went through hand signs and yelled, "Star Lightning Rain!" Hinata lifted her hand and seemed to draw a star in the air out of chakra. The she took her lance and thrust in into the star sending beams of light at Ino. Ino closed her eyes and waited for the pain to come but to her surprise she felt nothing. She opened her eyes to see that the lights had stopped just a few centimeters before her body.

Minato saw that if Ino moved then she would probably cause the lights to shoot forward and turn her into swish cheese so he called out, "Winner: Hinata Hyuuga."

Naruto cheered silently up in the booth where the other fighters were. Shino had a small smile hidden behind his collar. All the others were staring at the power that this village had. If Sasuke he probably would have been jealous. Hinata made her way up to the booth. Just in time for Minato to call out the next match.

"The next match is Gaara vs. Sasuke."

Gaara was down in the arena in an instant but Sasuke couldn't be seen anywhere. 'Stupid runt,' Minato thought. He stood up and yelled into the mike, "If Sasuke Uchiha isn't here in twenty minutes he is disqualified. Now then on to the next match Temari vs. Shikamaru."

Temari jumped down from the booth and floated down on her fan. Shikamaru didn't really do anything. Fortunately (or unfortunately depends on how you look at it) Naruto gave him a little push that sent him down into the arena. After a few minutes of laying on the ground he got up and faced Temari. The match was an interesting one to say the least. Temari kept Shikamaru at bay with her wind style attacks. Shikamaru kept trying to snag her with his Shadow possession. When he finally did he gave up because he ran out of Chakra.

The next match was supposed to be between Kankuro and Shino but Kankuro withdrew. At that time the twenty minutes were up. Minato announced that Sasuke was disqualified getting a few angry protest from the villagers. This of course got an angry response from the daimyos. Minato had told them of how the village spoiled Sasuke and how he had everything handed to him on a silver platter. To be honest it kind of made them angry. And it ticked them off that one of Minato's student's showed favoritism toward him.

"Now with Sasuke disqualified," Minato said after calming the crowd down, "The next match is Naruto vs. Gaara."

Some of the villagers actually seemed happy about it. Some were actually thinking that Naruto would be killed by this Gaara guy. Naruto and Gaara faced each other in the ring. It was at that moment that in a swirl of leaves Sasuke showed up.

"Am I late?" he asked expecting some special treatment.

"You're already disqualified for being late, moron," Naruto said with distaste.

"What?" Sasuke yelled. He was appalled that he wouldn't get a chance to fight in the tournament.

"You were disqualified for being late," Gaara said getting impatient. He wanted to start the fight. "Now get out before ANBU called in."

Sasuke growled, "No I won't believe that this loser is fighting you. You are my opponent!"

Minato had had enough of this and jumped into the arena. "Get out now or I'll throw you out." he growled.

Sasuke just growled at Naruto and charged at him firing up a chidori. Naruto however saw this coming and grabbed it before it could even make contact. Naruto summoned Elyon's chakra and hit Sasuke in the chin with an uppercut sending him flying.

Minato looked at where the brat had flown took out a radio. "Will ANBU please get Sasuke Uchiha and take him to the hospital." Minato didn't get to be kage by being cruel. He walked up to Haku and whispered something into her ear. She smiled at something and laughed a little bit.

When Minato got to his booth he picked up the mike and spoke, "Before we start the match I have an announcement." Everyone listened to him. "As you all know the Namikaze clan has almost been extinguished except for me. But there is something you don't know. Before my alleged death my wife Kushina gave birth to a child. Someone to inherit the Namikaze clan secrets and our power. His name ( he paused so everyone would get tense listening) Naruto Namikaze."

The reaction from the crowd was for them to cry out in outrage. Some yelled, "There's no way" or "He can't be his son. He's a demon."

"Your all disgraceful fools!" Naruto roared.

Everyone was quiet at Naruto's outburst. Naruto faced Gaara. "You ready sand boy?"

Gaara grinned viciously, "Yes I am Namikaze."

"Begin!" Minato yelled.

The cork on Gaara's gourd shot off and sand flowed out. The sand rushed toward Naruto but at the last second Naruto vanished in a flash of gold. Naruto was able to use the body flicker because he had come to the arena a few nights ago and snapped a few shots of the place. He also put a few seals on the stands. Gaara looked around until he saw Naruto coming at him swords drawn. The sand blocked Naruto's attack.

Gaara chuckled, "Your not fast enough."

Naruto chuckled this time, "Who said?"

Naruto vanished in a blur. A few seconds later Gaara was hit by something. It happened again and again and again. Naruto appeared in front of a downed Gaara.

In the stands Lee and Gai watched in shock. It took Lee Years to get that fast and Naruto had done it in just a month. To say they were jealous was an understatement.

Gaara was starting to get annoyed. Naruto tried to move again but realized he couldn't. He looked down to see sand had wrapped around his ankles. Gaara brought out some more sand to crush him. Naruto had to think fast then he got an idea. He closed his eyes. Gaara thought it was so he wouldn't see it coming. Gaara brought his sand down only to have it blocked by a wall of sand. Gaara looked at Naruto to see that Naruto had activated his Dragon eye ability. Gaara stared at them in wonder.

"What is that?" he asked

"It's called the Dragon's Eye," Naruto explained, "It allows me to copy any technique I see including kekkai genkai."

Gaara grinned. This opponent was stronger than he seemed.

"Look Gaara," Naruto said, "I know about that demon you have in you." Gaara looked at him in shock. He knew? "Don't worry about it. I have one too." Gaara looked like he had been hit with a hammer. "Why don't we show these guys what we can really do?"

Gaara's response was to call back his sand and wrap it around him forming a ball. Things were quiet for a minute and then it burst. When the smoke cleared It showed a massive raccoon-like creature. It was made completely out of sand and had some spots of blue on it on the tail. Almost everyone screamed when they saw this form and some wee even begging the Hokage to intervene before things got out of hand. He did nothing to stop them.

Naruto smirked and took his swords out. He focused Kyuubi's chakra and took the form he used when he sparred with his dad. The two went at each other again and crashed. Naruto was able to get a lot of hits in and Gaara missed a lot due to Naruto being a lot smaller. But he still had trouble doing significant damage to the creature.

"Kit," he heard Kyuubi growl, "You gonna need more of my power if your going to defeat Shukaku. Take Elyon's sword and put it in the tattoo on your arm then take mine and say 'Kyuubi lend me you power.' When you do you'll have full access to all my power but there's a drawback. You won't be able to use your dragon techniques or the Dragon Eye. You'll only be able to use my gifts. Now go and beat him into the floor."

Naruto slid the sleeve of his trench coat up and placed Elyon's sword on the dragon tattoo. When he did the sword turned to chakra and flew into it. Now it had the gold image of a sword on it. Naruto then raised Kyuubi's sword and said, "Kyuubi lend me your power!"

After he spoke those words red chakra focused in the sword and flew out of the sword. The chakra then flew down and hit Naruto dead on. When the smoke cleared it revealed Naruto only different. He was covered head to toe in black and red armor. It was basically black with a little bit of red on the shoulders and legs. The red fox tattoo shone brilliantly on the gauntlet where it was on Naruto's arm. The helmet was black with a red almost V-shaped visor that was sharpened at the tips. The shoulders wee spiced and he had curved blades on the back of his legs.

Naruto set Kyuubi's sword on his shoulder. "This is where things get serious," he said in a dark voice.

He shot forward like a bullet toward Gaara. He went through hand signs and yelled, "Kitsune/earth style: Beast Mountain!" After those words wee spoke a massive fox made entirely out of rock came out of the ground and sank its teeth into the raccoon. Naruto ran up the side of it to see Gaara sleeping in its forehead. He guessed that if he wanted to stop this thing he had to wake him up. He tried to get there but was stopped by a bunch of sand flying from the beasts neck and slamming him into the ground. Naruto got up and growled.

"Hey ugly!" he yelled. The beast looked at him. "Remember how Lee was able to nearly beat this guy using the chakra gates? No? Well then…here's a reminder!"

Naruto seemed to focus intensely. Then out of nowhere there was this huge rush of chakra. The chakra intensified until Naruto was completely covered in it. He was radiating it so much his armor was completely red except for the outline of his armor where the lines of were to separate red and black. (think of how pikachu on pokemon looks when it uses volt tackle)

"How?" Lee asked in the stands, "How did he get one of the chakra gates to open?"

"No," Gai said, "He's opened all of them at once!"

Everyone stared at Gai when he said this. Naruto had opened all twelve chakra gates? This was insanity.

"The Dragon Eye!" Lee suddenly said

"What?" Gai asked

"Naruto said that the Dragon Eye allowed him to copy any technique. He probably tested it on me to see if it was work." Lee was quiet for a minute. "This is great! I have helped make a Namikaze strong!"

Back in the arena the newly transformed Naruto charged at Gaara. He was even faster than before. He sliced at the body until the only thing left was the head. Naruto then rushed at Gaara's body and yelled, "Dark Style: Demonic Seal!" Naruto slammed an extended hand with curved fingers into Gaara's gut sending him to the ground. After that the sand monster crumbled and Gaara was barely conscious. Then Gaara fell asleep. The Kyuubi's chakra wore off and Naruto resumed his original form and looked at the sleeping Gaara.

"Oh no!" Temari said as she flew down.

"What's wrong?" Naruto asked as she knelt down by her brother.

"If he sleeps that thing will get out and…is he snoring?"

To her surprise Gaara was snoring and he actually smiled. She picked him up and looked at Naruto. "What did you do?" she asked.

"That seal moved improved the one already on him. You won't have to worry about that thing getting out again."

Temari smiled at Naruto. She walked up to him and kissed his forehead. "Thanks." she said smiling.

She picked Gaara up as Naruto was declared the winner. To his surprise most of the arena let out loud cheers. Naruto turned to face the booth where the contestants were and looked at Hinata.

'Well,' he thought, 'I knew it was going to happen but I can't stop it. I'm going to have to fight…my lover.

Meanwhile up in the booth Hinata was thinking the same thing.

Meanwhile…

Minato had received word that someone was in his office waiting for him. After Naruto was declared the winner he used the body flicker to get to his office. There he found a tall man in black waiting for him.

"Hello Minato," he said in a voice some were familiar with.

"Hello…Itachi." Minato answered

Naruto vs. Hinata! I know it stinks but you'll really get to see what she can do. Itachi finally makes his debut. Man Sasuke is really gonna be mad especially when he hears how much power Naruto and Hinata have. I think I'll end this in a few more chapters. See ya!