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Chapter Eight

Garra immediately felt threatened, and sent his sand to atack. Imagine his surprise when his sand was immobilized. Temari, Kankuro, and Baki were also surprised. Sasuke was also paralyzed, and then thrown clear across the arena, crashing into the Kazekage.

"You will do well," he spoke in a sinister voice. He held out his hand behind the cloak, and then threw what looked like an orange and black-lined jagged object. The black and orange glowing shard impacted Gaara's forehead, sunk halfway in and it stayed there like a kunai in a dead Nin's chest. Gaara dropped to the ground on knees, as all of his sand began to spiral around the Suna-nin. Naruto had by then leapt over the railing, Midna taking notice of grooves made near the railing, dragging out his sword and shield. The figure chuckled, seeing Naruto get swatted away by the dark aura that was now surging around Gaara, sans the screams he was releasing.

"So, you are a Hero... well then, Hero, let us see if you can survive this?" The man cackled as he vanished in a wave of twilight, just as an inhuman roar slipped from Gaara's mouth. Slowly the sand compacted around, growing larger, and changing from light, to a pure black, with lines of blood red tracing around in runic patterns. Slowly, the same sand began to fill until it resembled a type of whirlpool-like sand pit.

Naruto! I think I see a similar pattern!

What?

Remember that object you found, the Spinner? Use it on those square grooves you see lining the edges of the arena walls, fast before you're sucked in!

Naruto backed away, as the sand slowly transformed into hardened sand armor. The head resembled a raccoon; however the arms were constructed with stone plated segments lining the arms and the shoulders. Half of the body was melted with the sand that had pooled the arena floor. Oni horns lined the sides, curving around, as red beady yellow eyes stared at the marked hero. Raccoon marks were visible around the eyes. It was so quiet, one can hear a pin drop.

Naruto's heard reply: Oh sh-

Twilit Suna Jaianto: Sabaku no Shukaku

What the fuck! That was not supposed to happen! The Kazekage through angrily, gently removing (roughly tossing) Sasuke off him, who the hell was that! That man just completely threw off my plans of invading this damn village and destroying it! Fuck it!

The sand rumbled, as several decaying warriors armed with ninja-to and round shields emerged from the sand, and slowly began to track Naruto. The Konoha-nins were trying to get all the now panicking civilians away from the danger as Naruto rushed to the edge, and held the Spinner that Midna pulled out for him. He hopped on and zipped across the railings carved in the wall. At the same time, the Kazekage decided to go with his plans anyway. An explosion ripped through the Sky Box as enemy ninja sprout from their hiding positions and began attacking. The Leaf were caught off guard, but they were able to fight back, while the Kazekage ripped off the skin, revealing the Snake Sannin who kidnapped Sarutobi, and had him trapped behind a jutsu barrier.

This is similar to the monster Link had to fight against centuries ago in Arbiter's Grounds; however it was an undead brought to life. But it looks like we have other problems than just this Twilight Beast.

The village is under attack, and I'm busy trying to take out this creature... How the heck do I fight this thing then?

Well, wait until you get to the back, and then eject off the rails and go in, lashing out the backside with your sword. Let's try that route. Go!

As Naruto stayed on the Spinner, Shukaku slowly turned around roaring.

"Sabaku Shikon (Sand Fang)!" Several fang-shaped waves of hardened sand were sent trailing after Naruto, who disengaged off the rail and charged Shukaku, the fangs following. He moved out of the way when a rotted corpse emerged, but one of the fangs struck the spinal area of the demon and it roared in pain.

Naruto! That's it! Trick the demon's attacks back at itself!

Already on it, Midna!

Naruto was back on the Spinner again, but this time he was cutting it close with several of those decayed ninja popping up in random areas like zombies would in those slasher films he once watched on TV.

"Whoever that person was, Sarutobi-sensei," Orochimaru hissed, back with the battle between Kage and Sannin, "has completely destroyed my plans, but at least I can still try and take you all down!"

"So, Suna ARE betrayers!"

"Yes, because they listened to me... however they never knew that the Kazekage had been killed the first time, so in truth, I pulled the blinds on their eyes. Once the Leaf has been destroyed, survivors will blame Suna, and you peace loving freaks will destroy them."

"You won't get away with this!" Sarutobi yelled, shifting signs. Orochimaru was way ahead of the old man, and attacked with his jutsu first. Sarutobi dodged the jutsu.

Meanwhile back with Naruto, he was tracking along the gear tracks, but this time he had to dodge these saw-like blades that ran along the tracks. Not to mention, those zombies that popped up would not create a more studier defense. However, Naruto was getting help from Midna, who was looking for weak entrances to get close enough to mislead those Sand Fang attacks. They were getting bloody annoying.

Orochimaru cackles, as the duo jutsu of earth and fire barely got through his defenses he summoned forth. Elsewhere in the village, giant toads armed with swords were battling against the three-headed snakes that were attacking the village, while many older generation ninjas tagged to take out enemy Suna and Oto ninja. Sasuke was still out cold because the seal of reacting to his anger of not being able to fight Gaara, and the rest of the Rookie Genin were fighting Kankuro and Temari.

However, a loud roar echoed, as Naruto shot away when the Sand Fang impacted the area around the back. The sand demon was disintegrating away when Naruto led its Sand Fangs trailing to strike back at itself four more times, as most of the sand compacted, flowing back into the giant gourd, while the rest of the regular sand seem to just melt away. Naruto now stood on solid ground, until the sand exploded from the gourd once again, this time forming a giant raccoon-like creature. It towered over Naruto, with its loud angry cry it unleashed.

"Oh crap, now what?"

It unleashes a shuriken made of sand, barely hitting Naruto had he not leap back.

Try and get to the top somehow Naruto! I can barely spot something sticking out on the forehead between the eyes!

"Okay, let's hope it works: Kyuchiyose no Jutsu (Summoning Jutsu)!" A giant billowing puff of smoke emerged, and now matching the Shukaku's height, was Gamabunta, the Leader of the Toad Clan.

"What in the world? What's going on?"

Gamabunta was surprised the first time when Naruto summoned him a week ago, and now, here he was once again, only in a different situation. "Hey, I need your help! That guy over there is being controlled by an evil force! Can you distract it for me?"

"Alright then, but I still want my first drink with you once you're of legal drinking age, Naruto!" Gamabunta took out his sword, and hacked at the sand tendrils launched. Naruto kept himself stuck with chakra.

"Kyuchiyose: Edo Tensei!" Three coffins rose. However, Sarutobi was unable to stop them from opening up. Orochimaru would however be given quite a shock. First, the Fourth Hokage's body disintegrated away, revealing an unknown Oto ninja. The second coffin held the Nidaime's body that was fully alive. The first coffin which held the Shodai's body... was empty.

"What in the world!? Why isn't Minato here!?"

Sarutobi smiled grimly. "The Fourth's soul is still within the belly of the Shinigami..." Though that doesn't leave out the fact about the Shodai's sacrifice not being in the coffin.

Damn it! Where is Kin? I know we sealed her into the coffin along with Zaku a month ago!

Orochimaru just ordered the only summoned Hokage to attack Sarutobi, and Sarutobi had to fight back against two potential threats with King Enma transformed into hsi weapon state. Somewhere in the village, Kin, with a replaced hitai-ate that displayed Konoha's symbol, was cutting down Oto ninja left and right around Naruto's apartment lot. Orochimaru was planning on sacrificing her life for his own goals, however she was found by Naruto. Naruto kept her hidden form the rest of his village just to keep her safe, because he had said she was but an innocent soul held under evil. She could never thank Naruto for saving her from death by that snake freak. As she cut the last Oto ninja down, a loud roar was heard, and she saw the sand demon fighting the Toad Boss, Gamabunta.

"Naruto!" She rushed to the arena.

The demon could take a lot of damage, and there were only a few times any real damage was done to the black sand barrier that surrounded something in between the eyes of the transformed raccoon. The last attack however had shattered the black sand barrier, revealing Gaara and a sinister glow coming from the human's forehead.

"Get me close, so I can get to that giant rat's forehead! There's something on it!"

"I see what you're talking about. You know a fire jutsu?"

"No, but I do have a Nin-omb," Naruto replied, taking out the bomb. Gamabunta shrugged, and spat out some oil, and Naruto launched it. The bomb's lit fuse ignites the oil, and the vat of sappy oil transformed into a sea of flames, washing the sand demon down.

"Here ya go Naruto!" Gamabunta yelled, launching forward when the sand beast did, and both creatures struggled. Naruto ran, and leapt across the wide, very high gap, and onto the Shukaku. There was Gaara, with the red shard poking out. He lashed at it with his sword, managing to dislodge it before sending a hard kick, waking up the no-longer sleeping Jinchuuriki. Shukaku roared out as the sand soon dissolved away, and Gaara and Naruto hit the ground below... well, Gaara hit the ground, Gamabunta caught Naruto and lowered him down to floor level.

All around the village, enemy ninja were being beaten back, but here in the empty arena, Naruto had leap back when Shukaku still possessed Gaara, a dome of sand swirling. Gamabunta leapt across the arena wall, following Jiraiya's tracker when he felt himself being summoned. The evil shard that amplified the power of Shukaku was gone; however Gaara was still under the demon's control, which now, the insane demonic presence wanted rip and bathe in Naruto's blood. The sand attacks kept on coming, however Naruto countered, and lashed out when Gaara least expect it. He pulled out from his pocket a paper tag, which held intricate runic writings. He sprinted towards Gaara, but ducked back when Gaara's defense sprung again. He swore, before countering with Gokumonken once again, taking out Gaara. This allowed him enough time to slap the paper on Gaara, which went across the neck. The boy screamed horrifically as Shukaku's aura filtered away. The paper was burning the runes to Gaara's neck, which acted as a seal, fortifying Gaara's defenses and like him before, completely jailing the insane demon from taking control. The insomniac was horrified as his sand defense shattered. He could no longer hear his mother's cries, and now stared in fear at Naruto.

Gaara though Naruto was going to finish him off, but Naruto had simply sheathed the sword. Kankuro and Temari, who had escaped the Rookie Genin, were ready to fight, but Naruto shook his head. "I never saw you three escaping," Naruto said, "Besides, whatever the rune paper did, it had sealed away the demon inside Gaara... so he's safe now. Get out of here, now."

Temari smiled softly. "Thank you for saving my brother..." She and Kankuro disappeared, but she had dropped something. It was a folded metal fan.

(Naruto obtains Kagura. An artistically designed small metal Battle Fan capable of Wind attacks. This apparently belongs to Sabaku no Temari...)

"Naruto-kun!"

Naruto turned around, and was engulfed in a glomp by Kin.

"Kin-chan!"

This was the sight the rest of Team Seven minus Sasuke, Teams Eight, Ten, and Team Gai but Neji, came across when they were chasing after the Sabaku siblings. The sight of the Oto girl, Tsuchi Kin, from the Chunnin Exams hugging Uzumaki Naruto, who held her in a protective almost loving embrace.

"Naruto-kun, are you alright?"

"Yeah, I'm fine... it wasn't hard to take down that creature, though under influence by that man again..."

"Man?"

Naruto stared into Kin's dark eyes, brushing some locks of her black hair away from her eyes and tucking them behind the ears. "You see Kin, I was born only to become a human sacrifice... a Jinchuuriki. However, two months ago, there was this man who appeared in a wave of black light, and not only rendered me unconscious and beaten nearly to death, but he also extracted the demon's energy right from my body in a painful matter..."

Kin gasped in shock, as Naruto sighed.

"It's true... the demon I once held was the Kyuubi no Youko. For all I know, that guy in the black cloak and the pumpkin-colored mask, he still has the Kyuubi's power sealed away for his own personal use. Ever since that day, I... well... I've been the target of so far, two different attempts on my life. The first time was outside the village, when I had to fight off against a reanimated corpse of this innocent slain girl, Haku, and just now... Gaara under a curse who I freed and let escape."

"Naruto!" Kin cried as Naruto slumped to one knee. Naruto cursed. He had forgotten about the adrenaline pumping through, which had lessened the pain of some of the cuts and slices he taken form those attacks. But now that it wore off, the pain was kicking in big time.

"Kuso..."

"Those cuts look deep..."

"I'm... fine, Kin-chan."

She huffed. "No you are not. You're clearly injured! You idiot!"

Sheesh, you seem to make friends from just about anybody, Midna commented with a sly grin.

Who asked your opinion?

Oh, I'm just saying... I mean, you got that girl with the Triforce of Wisdom, then that girl you sometimes call Panda-chan, the young lady with the giant fan strapped to her back, and now you have the girl Kin who you saved from being sealed inside that strange coffin we found a half a month ago.

Though she would not admit it... though she missed Link dearly, she was starting to feel attracted to Naruto as well and with three other girls to contend with, the fourth from another village... Naruto's screwed. At least Link did not have this kind of problem before... well, other than Beth having a crush on the older lad, then Ilia who was his best childhood friend, Telma who would sometimes flirt with Link, those three girls who worked at the STAR tent, the three Zora sisters Rin, Lin, and Kin from Zora Palace, oh, and let's not forget Coro's two sisters.

So far Link has Naruto beat in the Harem department with eleven to five. Away from the village, Gaara groaned softly, pealing the paper away. The ink had burned on his skin, forming a new tattoo.

"I'm... I'm sorry..." He said with a hoarse voice.

Temari said nothing, except help her brother back to the village. Naruto was a kind young man, and had helped her get back the one thing she cared for the most: her brother Gaara. She hoped the seal continued to work. Inside Gaara, Shukaku screamed and raged, trying to filter his chakra, but felt pain when he did. He was trapped behind a new seal work, which prevented him from whispering sweet things (Rip! Kill! Maim!) to Gaara. The one-tailed demon was truly trapped inside his Jinchuuriki. Elsewhere, Kururi smiled.

"To the descendant of the Hero... you will face the evil king one day. I only hope you can fill your ancestor's shoes in the destiny that is shared between the three of you, and all of your other ancestors."

=0=0=

"Tobi!"

A figure emerged into the chamber.

"I have a job for you, Tobi. Think you can do it?"

"Yes! Yes! Tobi is a good boy!"

The man did not reply to Tobi's eccentric reply. "You are to team up with Deidara, and go after this next target, understand?" He showed the target of which he would have to go after.

"Tobi understands. He is a good boy. I won't disappoint you."

With a dismissive hand, Tobi disappears. The person then looks at two other figures, one with black eyes, and the other with a sword attached to his back wrapped in bandages.

"Go after the fox."

The two disappear, their assignment given to them.

Tobi reemerged in his other chamber, and looks into the mirror. The reflection showed his alter ego, the Twilight King. His childish-like voice faded. "Once all the demons have been captured and sealed... it will be time to release the King of Evil... and claim the King's darkness as my own. Pein and the rest of these fools with then die, all crushed under my foot." The door opened and Deidara stood at the entrance. Tobi looked into the mirror again, fixing his spiral orange mask.

"Let's go," Deidara muttered impatiently.

Tobi turned around.

"Tobi is a good boy..."

Tobi/Mandara has a more darker role in this, however... you just cannot have a LOZ story (or a crossover) without Ganondorf. And I had al simplimented the Shield Attack and the Helmsplitter into an original technique.

-- Naruto's Status --

Collection: [Men's Wallet - 8,500 Total Ryo] [Midna's Headgear] [Naruto's Ninpod]
Sword: [Kubikiri Hocho] [Master Sword]
Shield: [Konoha Shield]
Costume: [Hero's Clothes]
Ninja Inventory: [Ninja Pack - Kunai x20] [Ninja Pack - Senbon x30] [Ninja Pack - Nin-ombs x05] [Toad Summon Contract]
Other Inventory: [Relic Spinner] [Kagura]
Hidden Skills Learned: [Gokumonken] [Mikazuki no Mai]
Jutsu Skills Learned: Kage Bunshin, Sennen Goroshi, Kawarimi, Oroke, Harem, Shougekiha, Uzumaki Naruto Rendan, Fuuton: Rasengufuu, Ichi Ni Ko Rendan

Pairing is STILL unofficial... but so far the girls included in the possible lineup are Midna, Hinata, Tenten, Temari, and Kin. No Ayame since she is older than Naruto, and she is like a big sister to the descendant of Link.