Chapter 13-War
Naruto sat in is bed the morning of the Chuunin Exam Finals having been awake now for a little bit over 15 minutes, striking the hair of the woman that occupied his bed that was Haku, and saw her snuggling up to him in her sleep. She had once more presented herself to him knowing that tomorrow, which was now today, would be filled with danger, and possibility of one of them dying. Naruto understood of course, as Haku didn't want to live in regret in not being able to express her constant appreciation for taking him in, and saving her from being some woman the Councils would use to breed a new clan.
'She's a real hellcat in bed. I think I awakened a fire under that ice,' thought Naruto, as he kissed her head, and she moaned at his touch while wrapping her more around his under the sheets.
Naruto could only imagine what Hinata would be like when they went all the way.
(Master Bedroom)
Sesshomaru was in a similar condition, except he had two women on either side of him holding him down, and each glowing with fulfillment from their night with the Demon Lord. Sesshomaru himself had taken both women that night, each with their own quirks, kinks, and hidden spots needed to be fully satisfied while being touched by him.
Now each woman had their bodies lying on him with each sharing half of his large form while occasionally trying to snuggle deep into his muscular chest. Even when they were dreaming, they would kiss his chest, move slightly at the waist, and gripping his body tighter as if to silently plead for more.
'Sorry my mates, but no more love making for now, as we have to fight a battle today, and you will need to be in top form,' thought Sesshomaru, as he kissed both on the head with lips touching hair, and making the women moan out his name.
Sesshomaru had a distinct feeling his Father was looking down on him now laughing at this it ironic and the strange thing was...the late Demon Lord found it to be true.
(Few Hours Later)
The whole village was filled with excitement over the Chuunin Exams, as most of the competitors were from right here in the village, and proving that they were in fact the strongest of the villages. Of course, there were some displeasure in having a certain Namikaze Naruto in the Exam Finals, but any voices opposing it seemed to be mute in getting what they want, though they did find joy in finding out that if Naruto didn't win against Subaku no Gaara, then he would offer up his head to Hiashi, and end his life.
The other Rookies, who were both in and out of the Finals, were shocked by this news of him offering up his life, and some had even tried to reach Naruto at the Estate to find out what he was thinking. However, when they tried, no one answered the door, and they wondered if Naruto was going to go through with ending his life if he lost.
"You really think that Naruto would end his life if he failed to regain Hinata-san's lost honor?" said Lee, as he had been training with Gai to withstand the powers of sound, and various sound based Genjutsus that attacks via the mind's senses.
"Naruto-sama loves Hinata-sama with all of his heart and the same can easily be said for Hinata-sama herself. She is one of the most precious people in his life right now and he will destroy anyone that hurts Hinata-sama or anyone else close to him," said Neji, as his team along with the other Rookie walked with those that qualified to the stadium, and were overhearing the gossip spreading throughout the village.
"I saw Naruto training one day and I looked into his eyes. I've never seen them with such coldness and fury," said Lee, as he had come over from time to time to train with Naruto, and during that time the Namikaze gave him a gift that was currently sealed up in a scroll hanging at his waist.
"I have seen those kind of eyes before back during our mission to Wave Country during the fighting on the bridge," said Shino getting everyone's attention now since he was on Naruto's team with Hinata.
"It's still troublesome," said Shikamaru getting his head hit from behind by Ino.
"He's still going to lose. He's a loser after all," said Sasuke, as he was seething inside at losing to Naruto from the beginning, and wished he was in the finals right now.
Itachi would have been so why couldn't he?
"Sasuke-kun is right! Naruto may have gotten this far, but he can't win against Gaara, and is only going to get himself killed. What a crazy baka!" said Sakura, as she grinned in her denouncing of Naruto's skills, and seeing Sasuke smirk making it a bonus for her.
"Yeah! I mean, what kind of baka willingly wants to throw his life away for something as stupid, and meaningless as what he's doing?" said Kiba, as he was seeing his chance after Naruto lost, and died to make his move on Hinata with intentions of having her be his bitch with lots of pups for her to give him later on.
"Says the group that never made it beyond the Forest of Death," said Tenten having been preparing for her day for the Chuunin Exam finals like Naruto did and was determined to prove women could be just as strong as men in the Shinobi world along with proving she was strong to Naruto too.
"Quiet you bitch!" said Kiba only to be slugged by Tenten before she drew two swords pointing at his throat and his crotch.
"Call me a bitch again!" said Tenten not liking that name even if it was the given term for a female dog.
"Okay! Okay! You're not a bitch. Get those weapons away from me," said Kiba, as he did not like either sword aimed at his two heads, and would prefer to have kids one day.
"Call me that again and I'll see to it that stray dogs aren't the only ones neutered around here. Got it!?" said Tenten, as she was not going to be bossed around by the Clan Heir, and prove she didn't need to be from a clan to be strong.
'Must be that time of the month for her,' thought Kiba, who despite his thoughts nodded his head, and decided to keep them to himself.
"Good," said Tenten before putting her blades away and headed towards the arena with the others not far behind.
"She got lucky. Right Akamaru?" said Kiba looking at his faithful companion, who just shook his head, and barked out at him calling him a baka before walking off.
(Namikaze Estate)
Naruto looked out from his balcony area that was similar to what his Father had with his bedroom and stared out at Konoha while dressed in his crimson robes. He smelled the clean air and embraced the rays of the raging sun above feeling his body was ready for this day.
"Its finally time Naruto-kun," said Haku behind him now wearing her own robes from last night despite them doing little to cover up her female figure unless you had x-ray vision.
"I know. Tell me Haku-chan, am I worthy of your love? Of Hinata-chan's love? Or any woman's love for that matter?" said Naruto looking back at Haku, who walked up to him, and hugged him with her hands pressing against his muscled chest.
"You were worthy the very moment you defended us when we had no strength left, when we had nearly lost ourselves to the darkness, and were about to experience a fate worse then death. Your heart is pure, your intentions forever noble, and no one has a right to say otherwise Naruto-kun," said Haku kissing him on the cheek before her hand to turn his face allowing her to kiss him on the lips.
"Thanks Haku-chan, I needed that. However, I need you to make a promise to me Haku," said Naruto turning to face her making Haku look at him with worry knowing that any promise she made was in regards to serious matters.
"Anything," said Haku holding onto him tight while looking into his incredible blue eyes of his.
"When I face Subaku no Gaara, you are going to see a darker side of me, and that you saw once before when we were back in Wave Country. It's going to be much worse this time since you will be seeing me in that state at full strength and while I want to use it on Gaara I'm...I'm hesitant because of you will see. Everyone will see me at my meanest when they see me unleash my fury on Gaara for what he did to Hinata. You must promise me Haku-chan that no matter what happens, you will trust me in what actions I take, that you will not fear me, and not see me as monster that is sealed inside of my body," said Naruto kneeling before her, his face now against her stomach, and her hand massaging his spiky hair.
"I resent that! Honestly, calling me a monster is so low level, and puts me under those lame monsters like the lockless monster. I'M ONE OF THE NINE DEMON LORDS OF THE ELEMENTAL COUTNRIES DAMN IT!" said Kyuubi not liking the fact he was called a monster when Demon sounded so much more badass.
"I promise Naruto-kun. You mean everything to me just like I know Hinata-chan and Temari-chan do too," said Haku having been told what went on in the Forest of Death by Naruto when he got home from seeing the Hokage and the contract that was signed.
Haku wasn't happy with it at first, but she knew she could blame Temari for her brother's crimes, and understood why Naruto took the girl in the Forest of Death. It wasn't like it hadn't happened with her and Hinata when they were in Wave Country getting it on with Naruto.
"Thank you Haku-chan," said Naruto slowly rising to his feet and kissing her on the lips before kissing her on the forehead.
"You're welcome Naruto-kun. I finished making the clothing you wanted by the way," said Naruto, as he had asked of her to make him a set of clothing for this event, and since very few stores were willing to let him in despite his last name being Namikaze.
"You're a heavenly angel, you know that?" said Naruto kissing her one more time while she hugged him a warm embrace.
"So you keep telling me," said Haku before they let go of each other and prepared for the Chuunin Exam Finals with Naruto participating while Haku cheered him on in the stands beside Hinata.
(Chuunin Exam Stadium)
The Hokage sat comfortably in his chair, as the Demon Lord Sesshomaru sat in a seat next to him, and his lovely mates standing beside him. Originally, that seat was going to be for his ally from Suna, the Kazekage himself, but the information he learned about the impending invasion changed that, and now it was Sesshomaru taking that spot.
To the stands to their right, there are the nobles, Daimyos, and basically all high paying potential clients for the distant future. One day, those people would seek out the need for Shinobi to help carry out various levels of missions for them, and if the Leaf proved they were the best around again...well all the more power to Konoha in the process.
"Your son has yet to make an appearance Sesshomaru-sama," said Sarutobi looking at the Demon Lord, who had an unreadable facial expression on his face, and made quite him difficult to read.
"My son will show up Sandaime. Make no mistake about it," said Sesshomaru eyeing the other competitors, who were waiting for Naruto to arrive, and so they could start the exam.
"The Hokage should let me take the losers place. He's going to die anyway so why not let an Uchiha his rightful place beyond the Namikaze," said Sasuke seeing Naruto was no where in sight and had a great need to leap down into the arena to take over.
"Give Naruto more time Sasuke. Had you been late, you would have been given a much needed extension, and would have gotten away with it too," said Kakashi seeing the very arrogant Uchiha scoff at that, as if it didn't matter, and that he was beyond any rules that surrounded others.
'He could have until the end of the world and he probably wouldn't make it here in time. When he fails to get here, he'll die, and then Hinata will be all mine,' thought Kiba with a lecherous stare aimed at Hinata, who seemed to sense it, and hid behind her Mother's form.
Hitomi saw this so after whispering to Hinata, she turned to Kiba's direction, and then activated her Byakugan to tell the Inuzuka to back off from looking at her daughter. The said Inuzuka Heir did back off due to the piercing gaze, but in his mind however, he was determined to make Hinata's his bitch, and planned on doing so by having his Mom make the arrangements.
No sooner did that happen though, did a heavy wind blow, and one Namikaze Uzumaki Naruto escorted by Haku walked into the arena like it wasn't even there. Many people gasped, women blushed, and young girls got severe nose bleeds from seeing Naruto in his current outfit. What Naruto wore was crimson trench coat with nine wavy "tails" in the back, his uniform under it was that of black ANBU combat boots, black pants, black shirt with brown vest, and metal gauntlets with black leather going up his arm. His hair was push back to look almost like Kakashi's, only with Naruto's hair, it looked more kick ass, and the shades Naruto had on had a yellow tint to them with the metal line that went back to his ears were wavy rather then a straight line. In his left hand, Naruto held his trusty sword Trickster, which had just received a good maintenance cleaning sessions a few days prior at Tenten's family store.
When there, Naruto wished Tenten good luck at the Finals in facing her opponent, and should they be the two fighting that it would be a great match. When Naruto left, he did not see Tenten's face go beet red before she fainted, and went right to work on making sure his sword was in tip top condition for the fight when she woke up.
From the serious look on Naruto's face, he was here clearly ready, his sword in his hand was ready, and now everyone else was ready to get these Exam Finals underway.
"Good luck Naruto-kun. Get a good punch in for me," said Haku giving him a quick kiss making the now Naruto fan-girls of Konoha hiss at her for doing that.
"I will. Now go sit that sweet ass of yours next to Hinata-chan before I lose control," said Naruto making Haku blush and head towards the stands sitting next to Hinata while also sitting next to Hanabi.
"Why is your face all red?" said Hanabi, as she didn't hear what the two said below, and it made Haku blush a little more with Hiashi on the opposite side of Hanabi now nervous.
He didn't want to give his youngest the "talk" anytime soon or else Hitomi would kill him.
"Just some things that you can't learn about until you're older," said Haku seeing Hanabi look at her curiously, but decided to wait until she was older since it was clearly an adult thing, or something else entirely that kids can't learn yet.
'Yes. Very much older and when I'm long dead before your Mother can kill me,' thought Hiashi, as he had no intention of being sent to the Hospital again, and even more so when it was because your wife got angry at you for making their oldest daughter upset.
"So the loser has come here at last," said Sasuke, as he nearly activated his Sharingan right there, and wanted to see what kind of power Naruto possessed.
"Damn!" said Kiba under his breath, but was elbowed for it by his sister Hana, and then a hit on his head from his Mother.
As for Naruto, he was standing next to Shikamaru, who looked at him in surprise, and wondered if the Namikaze would ever stop surprising him in the slightest. Of course, the lazy Nara knew that Naruto would never stop being unorthodox, and decided to just go along with the ancient words used by past strategist that simply stated to "expect the unexpected" when it came to certain people of this nature.
"I take it you're Naruto?" said Genma with his senbon needle in his mouth looking at the form that was supposed to be Namikaze Naruto.
"I take it you're a Jounin with a senbon needle in his mouth?" said Naruto pushing his glasses up slightly so Genma could see the seriousness in Naruto.
"Touché. Okay, now that everyone is here, I would like to officially announce the Exam Finals can now officially begin!" said Genma getting a nod from the Hokage, as he had decided to forgo the speech himself this year, and he wanted to see just what Naruto was capable of.
'For now we will enjoy this, but when the fighting happens, then the true test will begin, and we'll see just who is worthy of being a Chuunin,' thought Sarutobi since he knew that the Councils would seek to block Naruto from advancing in rank if given the chance.
"First up in the Exam Finals, is Nara Shikamaru VS Tsuchi Kin so would all participants aside from those to head to the second floor of the competitors booth, and wait for your turn," said Genma seeing the group of Chuunin hopefuls nod and head up the competitors booth.
"I like the new look Naruto-kun," said Tenten once the group got to the top of the booth to see the two on the ground.
Temari was grinding her teeth at the girl taking away her compliment.
"Thanks Ten-chan. I asked Haku to commission it for me during the Month I was training since she is good with a needle and thread. I can't go to the usual people that do this since I'm not welcome there for reasons you obviously know," said Naruto seeing Tenten look down with sorrow in her eyes.
"There a bunch of ignorant bakas," said Tenten before Naruto touched her chin with his right next index finger to bring her back to his eyes covered in amber yellow shades.
"Let them be bakas. It makes me being Hokage of this village all the sweeter when they realize that there is nothing they can do about it. Even if they did try, it would just result in them being arrest, and possibly executed for treason against the Leaf. So relax," said Naruto before kissing Tenten on the lip making Tenten blush at the public affection.
'That bitch! I wanted him to do that with me,' thought Temari seeing red and was itching for her fight with the weapons girl soon.
"N-Naruto-kun I-I um...I...," said Tenten wishing her brain would think of the right words to say while her mouth had the decency to speak them.
"We'll talk about this later. Don't worry," said Naruto, as he smiled at Tenten making her blush go crimson red, and she nearly fainted from it.
"Winner: Nara Shikamaru!" said Genma making everyone turn their attention to the battle, which had ended rather quickly, and made everyone raise an eyebrow at it.
"The Nara caught the Sound girl in his shadow and threatened to make her flash her chest to the crowd if she didn't give up," said Gaara in a bored voice seeing the embarrassed look on Kin's face and the look of anger at Shikamaru.
"You perverted jerk! When the Exam Finals are over, I'm going to beat the crap out of you, and make sure your own Mother doesn't recognize you!" said Kin wishing she could throttle the lazy Nara, who was wishing that the girl did just that, and prevent his Mother from hurting him later.
'It wasn't honest, but it got the job done. Hopefully Mom will understand. Oh, who am I kidding I have a better chance of fighting Kyuubi, then surviving the wrath of my own Mother, and living to see the next day,' thought Shikamaru looking into the stands and seeing his Mother with a frying pan that she was patting onto her free one.
Engraved on the bottom of the pan were the words "The Man Whip" on it.
Shikamaru paled at seeing it and let out a heavily defeated sigh knowing that his life was so screwed when this day was over.
'Poor poor Shikamaru. Win or lose, he's going to get the crap kicked out of him by his Mother,' thought Naruto chuckling at the Nara's unfortunate predicament since he had witnessed such things before with the boy's Mother.
"The next fight will be against Subaku no Temari VS Ama Tenten. Would both fighters come down to the arena floor so we can start the match," said Genma seeing the look the girls were giving each other before they leaped off the balcony in their own fashion with Tenten using her agility let her land on her feet while Temari used her fan.
"You're going down pig tails," said Tenten, as she had a look of fire in her eyes, and was looking forward to cutting those pig tails off.
"Really? I could say the same thing to you too little mouse," said Temari smirking at the angry girl while Temari herself had an angry fire in her eyes aimed at the weapons girl.
'Oh, she did so not call me that!' thought Tenten a bit of a fan-girl persona in her that got angry when someone called her that.
The last person to call Tenten that name was some girl at the Academy a year ahead of her thinking that the weapons girl was nothing compared to her abilities. Before the poor girl knew what happened, Tenten tackled her to the ground, took out a kunai, and took off a large chunk of the older girl's hair.
"Ready? GO!" said Genma before getting a good distance away from them since these two were clearly going to cause damage around them.
"Give up now and maybe I won't embarrass you in front of Naruto-kun," said Temari, as she smirked at Tenten in a way like she knew something the other didn't, and if need be was going to use it to win.
"Hah! You're just upset that he kissed me and not you," said Tenten drawing several of her weapons for a fight while Temari readied her fan.
'She may have gotten a kiss from him today, but I got so much more, then a kiss, and after today I'm going to get it again,' thought Temari, as she got serious, and prepared her fan for battle.
Tenten threw several her weapons at Temari, who with a wave of her fan made them fall harmlessly to the ground, and shocked the weapons girl like several others were. Temari smirked more at Tenten's surprised face before preparing her fan yet again and sure enough Tenten threw more weapons only for them to fall like the first.
'That fan is meant for long range combat, so instead of matching her in that area, I will fight her using close combat, and then beat the crap out of her that way,' thought Tenten, as she drew her katana sword, and charged quickly at a slightly surprised Temari.
'So the little mouse wants to get close does she?' thought Temari before fully closing her fan and used the outer iron casing that held the paper fabric to successfully block the blade aimed horizontally at her sides.
"You are going down Suna bitch," said Tenten trying to pushing Temari back, but found Temari had more strength, then she originally thought, and found herself on even ground.
"Oh really? Well from the looks of the fact you can barely push me back says otherwise little mouse," said Temari knowing that girl clearly hated to be called that.
"Prepare to be gutted!" said Tenten, as she uses her skills with a sword to get through Temari's defenses, only to find that the girl had strong defensive skills with the fan, and able to keep up with the sword attacks.
"Seems your threats are as lame as your swordplay," said Temari, as she had been trained to use her fan as a shield as well as the preverbal sword, and wasn't about to let some girl that liked to use weapons a lot win over her.
"Go eat sand!" said Tenten, as she stomped on Temari's foot while deadlocked, and made the Suna girl head butt the other in retaliation.
'And now it's a catfight,' thought Naruto sweat dropping at the sight of the two fighting like fan-girls rather then Shinobi, but he supposed that was because they were fighting for his love, and they did put up a good fight before this happened so he would let it slide this one time.
"Victory will be mine! Rising Twin Dragons," said Tenten before leaping into the air and unleashing a scroll filled with weapons in them before unleashing the barrage at Temari's beat up looking body.
"That's what you think!" said Temari unleashing a gust of wind to knock the weapons away from her.
"Let's see you try that again," said Tenten using her wires attached to the weapons to bring them back for another attack.
"Three strikes, you're out mouse face. 'Wind Scythe Jutsu!'" said Temari unleashing a huge gust of wind that surrounded Tenten cutting her skin, clothes, and overall caused serious pain in the process.
After the attack ended, Tenten began to fall to the ground, and would have done so had it not been for Naruto appearing out of nowhere to catch her. Tenten looked up at her savior and blushed knowing that she must have acted like a total fan-girl in front of him. Still, he came to her rescue, so it must have meant he forgave her for acting like that, and she vowed to make it up to him if she had too.
"Winner: Subaku no Temari!" said Genma since he knew the fight was over from that attack and from the look of Tenten snuggling into Naruto's chest, the Jounin knew the Genin didn't want to fight anymore.
The crowd of course was booing Temari, but at the same time was also booing Tenten for losing, and being with Naruto of all things while calling her a disgrace. A flash of killing intent from Naruto silenced them all and he began to carry Tenten to the medical area to get checked out.
"By the way Temari-chan, you did very well, and I look forward to fighting you in our match," said Naruto in order to tell her he wasn't mad and that there would be no hard feelings regarding this match.
"Did I also put up a good fight Naruto-kun?" said Tenten, as she liked being held in his arms, and loved the feel of his muscled body against hers.
"Of course. You both fought beyond all expectations," said Naruto carrying her to the medical area where Tsunade was waiting for them.
"Another one?" said Tsunade, as she was referring to him getting another girlfriend, and would have said something else when Naruto scowled at her.
"She injured Tsunade-san. If you didn't realize it when I came in, Ten-chan here just so happens to be one of your biggest fans, and worships you for your greatness. She wished to be just as strong as you so be nice or I'll find someone less vain to help her out," said Naruto seeing Tsunade scowl at him, but let his remark go since she had a patient to heal, and prepare for the eventual invasion to come.
'Jiraiya said he and Sarutobi-sensei had put together a defensive strategy that none of the two senile Councils know about. He felt they couldn't be trusted since there were several spies in their midst that would tip off this information at a drop of a hat to Orochimaru and Konoha couldn't have that,' thought Tsunade, as she began to fix up Tenten, and make sure the girl was ready for things to come.
"Next fight is Aburame Shino VS Hyuuga Neji," said Genma to draw the crowd away from their hatred of Naruto and the women that seemed to fall for him.
"This should be good," said Naruto now back in the stands seeing the others nod their heads since both competitors were skilled prodigies.
"Proctor we both forfeit," said Neji seeing many turn to look at him like he was crazy and Shino merely nodded in agreement with the Hyuuga Branch member.
"What?" said Naruto wondering if this was some kind of joke?
"We forfeit. Logically, we cannot defeat each other, and to try would result in a draw," said Shino, as the Hyuuga style would lose to the Aburame bugs at close range, and the bugs if sent out in swarms would be knocked away by the Hyuuga bloodline with the Gentle Fist skills Neji possessed.
Like Shino said...it was a draw.
"Okay. Since neither competitor wishes to fight, I declare the match a draw, and we will be moving onto the next match," said Genma seeing the crowd let out another set of boos at losing a chance to see a good fight.
'Subaku no Gaara,' thought Naruto turning his head to look at Gaara with two crimson eyes hidden behind the amber shades.
'Namikaze Naruto,' thought Gaara staring at Naruto now with psychotic eyes and a deep hunger for blood.
They had come to it at last.
"The next fight of the Exam Final will be Namikaze Naruto VS Subaku no Gaara," said Genma already hearing the boos for both demon vessels before he could even speak their names and they got louder when he did.
The two demon vessels appeared in the arena floor with Gaara appearing in a swirl of his sand from the gourd on his back and Naruto appearing via ball of crimson energy that consumed him before dissipating when he touched the ground. The very sight of the two made the crowd angry since they had to deal with Naruto being in the Exam Finals rather then the Uchiha made them furious. Some were even calling for Sasuke to take Naruto's place in the arena and demanding the demon brat step down so the Uchiha could have his glory.
"You are not welcome in your own village I see," said Gaara finding that to be no real surprise since no one wanted him around in Suna either.
"I suspect the same could be said for you too Gaara. It makes you wonder why we put up with them so much?" said Naruto letting out a sigh, as he sensed a figure to his right with his arms folded, and a cocky smirk on his face that told everyone he was arrogant.
"You should step away and let a real Shinobi handle Gaara," said Sasuke, as his surprise appearance made the crowd go into a frenzied cheer, and people calling for him to fight Gaara.
"Like you? Someone like you, who can't even get through the Forest of Death, and make it with his team to the Prelims? You're an embarrassment and I want you to leave us so we can have this long awaited fight," said Naruto his eyes never leaving Gaara's gaze, as Gaara never left his even when the bloodlust in the Suna boy's eyes increased, and the sand came out of the gourd.
"The people want me to fight Gaara. Not you. Not some weird freak of nature that has no business being in Konoha much less being alive right now," said Sasuke getting more cheers for him while Sarutobi sighed, Sesshomaru growled, and the mates for both seemed to be getting very angry.
'Minato always said to have faith in people. What he doesn't realize is a person is smart, but people are stupid, and right now I have to deal with a whole bunch of stupid people,' thought the Sandaime, as he was practically wishing for the attack to happen, and let some of the arrogant fools below in the stadium get killed in the process.
"Hey! Did you hear me you Namikaze piece of shi-ACK!" said Sasuke only to find the point of Naruto's sword, Trickster digging into his skin, and nearly drawing blood.
"Leave the arena Uchiha. I won't tell you a third time," said Naruto his eyes aimed at Gaara, as he was not in the mood to be delayed by a spoiled child, and his belief that he was better then everyone else.
"Stop it Naruto! You're embarrassing the Leaf," said Kakashi seeing his student now bleeding slightly from fidgeting with the sword pointing into his neck by his sensei's son.
"It is the Uchiha, who is the embarrassment Kakashi, and you being his sensei are just as embarrassing with all the other people of the Leaf. My biological Father known through the elemental Countries as Namikaze Minato would be ashamed of ALL OF YOU!" said Naruto making the crowd go silent while the various Feudal Lords, nobles, and other high paying clients looked on in awe at this child that silenced the people around him.
'You tell them Naruto-kun,' thought Hinata knowing that these fools should worship the ground her love walked on rather then the Uchiha's tainted ones.
"For years, I've had to endure pain because of what the Kyuubi did 12 years the day I was born, and my Father sealed up the demon inside of me. His dying wish was for me to be seen as a hero, but instead you all treat me like I'm the fox, and I've had it up to here with everyone thinking I deserve to die. You all want to kill me that badly? Then I say go ahead and try. All you, both civilian and Shinobi a like, get your ass down here, and take your very best shot. Simply because the instant you try, I'm going to send every one of you into hell, and see to it that your new best friends are demons...just...like...ME!" said Naruto making the whole arena fall silent with fear, as they had never seen the boy snap at anyone before to this extent, and the look of fury on his face told them he would do it.
"So much for my S-Class Law," said Sarutobi wondering how much paperwork this was going to give him.
"Better they know from him, then some of the fools here that will give false truth, and bend the parts of that false truth into a lie," said Sesshomaru seeing his mates nod at his words of wisdom and the Hokage sighing in silent agreement.
'True, but does it have to come with lots of paperwork?' thought the Sandaime knowing that this was going to be a pain in the ass.
"Naruto, I won't tell you again. Remove the tip of your sword from Sasuke's throat, right now!" said Kakashi seeing blood trickle down Sasuke's neck.
"Considering Sasuke shouldn't even be here on the arena floor, I say I'm well within my rights to pierce his throat, and I will should he continue to be here when I move Trickster away from him," said Naruto his eyes never leaving Gaara, as he removed his sword from the Uchiha's throat, and was trying to keep his rage for the Suna demon vessel in check given the current interference from the Uchiha.
"Sasuke, are you all right?" said Kakashi seeing the Uchiha holding his neck all the while glaring at Naruto for what he did.
"I will be when you arrest the loser here for harming me," said Sasuke, as he activated his Sharingan Eyes, and tried to use them to bend Naruto to his will.
Naruto didn't even feel a thing.
"Get him out of here Kakashi before I make him as blind as a bat," said Naruto flaring his chakra at Sasuke forcing his Sharingan Eyes to reverse back to his normal black ones.
"The Councils will punish you for this Naruto," said Kakashi before he took Sasuke away while Naruto put Trickster away in it's sheathe.
"Wouldn't be the first time they've tried," said Naruto letting a grin appear on his face since many a times the Councils wished to punish him for the littlest things whether he was involved her not.
"Can we fight now?" said Gaara looking over to the proctor, who looked at both boys, and nodded his head.
"All right. Namikaze Naruto VS Subaku no Gaara. Are you both ready?" said Genma looking over at Gaara, who nodded briefly to the proctor, and Naruto nodding as well.
"I'm going to hurt you," said Naruto spinning his sheathed weapon in circle several times before putting the end into the ground hard.
"Both competitors ready and...GO!" said Genma before running near the stands for safety since every other place would leave him vulnerable to attacks.
"You're not going to use your sword I see," said Gaara, as his sand moved around him like it had a mind of its own.
"I told your sister I would be merciful, but using that on you would be too merciful, and like I told you two second ago...I'm going to hurt you," said Naruto before he erupted with demonic chakra swirling around him like a great vortex that turned into fox like features with a tail and ears.
'Naruto-kun wasn't kidding when he said he was going to hurt Gaara,' thought Temari before Naruto vanished in that same blink of an eye and within moments socked Gaara right in the jaw with a mean uppercut that sent a surprised Gaara high into the air.
Gaara himself was shocked by this, as his sand couldn't react in time to block the blow, and his sand shield that covered his body could only take so much punishment. Before he could figure out more about what to do, Gaara was hit from behind, his side, his front, and his back again sending him back down to the earth. About half way down, Gaara was kicked to his right, bouncing when he hit the ground all the way into a nearby wall, and stayed there unmoving for a good minute. The crowd watched in fear and awe, as Gaara slowly got up with the help of his sand that cushioned the blow, as the sand that covered skin on his body was now falling off his face, and the once serious look that everyone had thought was his actual face was revealed to be one of an angry psychopath.
'He's strong. No one has ever done this to me before,' thought Gaara, as he now looked around for his foe, and was surprised once more when a crimson chakra hand came out of the ground that wrapped its clawed fingers around.
'That's new,' thought Sarutobi seeing the massive appendage slam Gaara into the ground, the wall, and then throw him against the ground making the Suna boy skid over 30 feet.
"When I said I was going to hurt you, did you think I was lying? Or maybe, you didn't think I would simply go through with it," said Naruto appearing from a corner of the little tree and bush area with his gauntlet arms covered in Kyuubi's chakra.
"How are you this powerful?" said Gaara, as no one had hurt him this badly ever in his entire life, and it began to make the one emotion he inflicted on other before killing them spread throughout his body.
Fear.
"Because I'm fighting someone else. It gives me a drive far more powerful, then anything else you could ever imagine, and I'm going to show you why you never ever mess with someone I care about like Hinata ever again!" said Naruto his darkening, as his clawed hands made a cracking sound on occasion when he moved his fingers knowing that the gauntlets were designed for this occasion.
Rushing forward, Naruto punched Gaara right in the gut, and grabbed the red haired boy before he could go flying. Pulling the boy towards him, Naruto repeatedly slammed one punch after another into Gaara's body, and the sound of breaking bones was heard all through the stadium before used his sand get one good hit on Naruto sending him a few feet back.
"I won't...go down so...easily. I'll unleash...the true power of...of Shukaku upon...you!" said Gaara so focused on his enemy that he was ignoring the coughing up of blood or the blood currently leaking from his nose and mouth while going through hand signs before creating a dome of sand to cover his him while a single eye appeared above several feet in the air made of sand.
"I can't allow that," said Naruto in a demonic voice, as his bloodlust had finally gotten to him, as he began molding his chakra, and combining it with the Kyuubi's to create large purple Rasengan in his right hand making everyone in the stands gasp since they all knew where that technique came from.
Charging forward at blinding speed, Naruto prepared to aim his Rasengan at Gaara's sand dome, and prepared to slam it into the Suna boy's defense. Within getting 10 solid steps of Gaara's domed barrier, the surface of the said dome shot out multiple sand spikes 8 ½ steps, and forced Naruto to do the unexpected.
He jumped over it.
Naruto barely jumped over the sand spikes, used his left hand to throw a kunai with an explosive on it at the sand eye staring at him causing it to explode, and landed behind the dome before slamming his Rasengan right into it. For a moment, nothing happened, there was total stunned silence, as people saw how Naruto had been dominating the entire fight thus far, and now he had slammed one of the Yondaime's signature moves into Subaku no Gaara's defense.
'Please don't kill Gaara. Please remember what you promised me, Naruto-kun,' thought Temari, as she saw the fury in Naruto's eyes when he began to literally beat the living sand right out of Gaara.
After the moment passed, the dome exploded with a violent force that rocked the stadium almost down to its foundation, and made those in the stands try to grab something to hold on for dear life. The end result of Gaara's fate was him lying on the ground 20 some feet away from Naruto, bleeding, his clothes shredded, and barely breathing. Naruto however, didn't care, as he waked over to Gaara, picked him up by his torn shirt, and punched him back into the ground creating a small crater.
"If you ever make your sister sad again or hurt someone else...I'll break you. I'll break you and leave you to die. I'll wipe away your existence so there will be no memory of you, except for that of rumors, and the myths to the nameless lost boy that possessed the power to wield sand," said Naruto his crimson eyes exposed, as his glasses fell some time during the fight harmlessly onto the ground, and letting his demonic eyes pierce into Gaara's frightened ones.
"Kill...me," said Gaara his voice barely a whisper, but it still echoed throughout the entire stadium, and it allowed everyone to hear it.
"Care to repeat that Gaara," said Naruto leaning down closer to Gaara so he could hear him better.
"Please...kill me...Namikaze Naruto," said Gaara, as he had never felt himself in such pain before, and wished to die to end it all.
Naruto's right hand clenched into a fist, his eyes narrowed at Gaara's defenseless form, and felt the need to turn the Suna boy's body into paste. However, at that moment, the Namikaze remembered Temari, and how she done everything with the exception of getting on her knees to beg. Beg for the mercy of her brother, who would sooner kill her without a second thought in the matter, and then move on without batting an eye at what he had done. But her face, filled with tears in the Hokage's office came into his head making him stop his hand, and the night before when he told her about officially agreeing to the contract to spare Gaara's life flashed before him.
"No, I won't kill you Gaara. Not because I want to spare your life, but because I made a promise to Temari that I would spare you, and beat some sense into that psychotic brain of yours, you baka!" said Naruto his voice returning to normal, as the Kyuubi's chakra now receded back into his body before he went to pick up his shades, and put them on letting out a sign as he did.
"Winner of the match is Namikaze Naruto! Thank Kami," said Genma with the last part whispered to himself since the battle or rather the one sided fight had messed up the arena pretty badly.
Satisfied with the results of his victory, Naruto put his crimson coat on his sword, picked Gaara up onto his right should, and walked over to the medical area where Temari had rushed to go meet there.
"I'll be right back to get my sword. Make sure no one touches it Proctor. It tends to have a...crippling effect on anyone that tries to use outside of me," said Naruto, as he stopped to turn, and look at the Proctor nod before continuing the walk towards the Slug Sannin waiting for them.
'Now's my chance! The loser's sword will be mine and all the power it wields,' thought Sasuke rushing down to the arena floor with a victorious looking grin on his face.
"That's it Sasuke! Take that baka's sword and make it your own. Only you should have a weapon of such quality," said Sakura from the stands while Kiba was wishing Sasuke would just break the damn thing so Naruto couldn't have it.
'Your power is mine loser,' thought Sasuke triumphantly after throwing off the coat, as he reached out with his hand to take the hilt of the sword, and was met with an intense shocking that came from the sword's hilt that crawled up the Uchiha's arm up just past his elbow before causing an explosion that tore threw the boy's limb.
All the Uchiha could do was scream out in pain while the arm itself was useless for how long was anybodies guess.
(During all of this)
"How is he? Aside from looking like he got mauled by the very thing inside of him that is," said Naruto seeing Tsunade scanning Subaku no Gaara's body while looking at Naruto from time to time with a "did you have to hurt him so badly look?" on her face.
"He'll heal. He's got a concussion, broken bones, some minor internal bleeding, and I found he's been an insomniac for all of his life up to this point so that would explain his psychotic behavior," said Tsunade seeing the boy now unconscious from the beating he took at Naruto's hands.
"His seal is incomplete. The only reason Shukaku doesn't get out right now, is because I'm here, and knows I hold the strongest of the nine. And Shukaku, I know you can hear me, and if you know what's good for you, then I would suggest you leave Gaara alone. Let him get sleep from now on or else I'm going to do the merciful thing and kill him to ensure he doesn't have to deal with you anymore. Also, to further ensure that you don't mess with Gaara, I'm fixing his seal, and making your influence is non existent while all the control of the goes to him," said Naruto leaning close to Gaara's ear knowing that while Gaara was out, Shukaku was very much awake, and was hearing everything Naruto had told him.
All Shukaku could do was stay silent.
"How is he?" said Temari seeing her brother now being patched up while unconscious, but not possessed, which in itself was a blessing, and prayed such an event didn't happen.
"Beaten up worse then when Ero-Sennin goes peeping in the hot springs, but is still very much alive, and has his manhood intact. Something that Jiraiya doesn't after trying to peep on Jiraiya so many times," said Naruto smiling at Temari while Tsunade smirked at that statement since she knew that it was only through her medical skills Jiraiya had both his marbles and his one eyed weasel.
"That's good. He maybe psychotic, but he's still my brother," said Temari smiling at the brother making Tsunade sweat drop and Naruto smile while shaking his head at the girl's loyalty towards her younger sibling.
'And I thought Anko was crazy,' thought Naruto before walking with Temari out of the room for the next few matches only to hear Sasuke scream from trying to take Trickster.
(Present Time)
"Naruto-kun warned him," said Haku getting a nod from Hinata, Hiashi, Hitomi, Hinata, and a slightly frightened Hanabi at seeing the defense the demonic sword possessed.
"I warned you Sasuke-teme, but you just had to try anyway. What a baka you are!" said Naruto before taking his sword and wearing his coat.
With the medics taking Sasuke away, Naruto felt better knowing that the Uchiha was out of the way, and the risk of him screwing things up was no longer a factor. Seeing a bird flying overhead with a snake in its claws, Naruto saw the signal, and no sooner did he along with all the other players of this game see it did the sound of an explosion in the distance was heard.
"Ah, the dance of battle has truly begun," said Kyuubi letting out an evil laugh knowing that his vessel was going to be soaked in blood by the end of the day and make a name for himself in the process.
"Looks like our match will have to wait Temari-chan. Go get Ten-chan and we'll head out with the others to fight the invasion," said Naruto smiling at Temari, who smiled back, and then nodded before getting the weapon girl.
"Troublesome girl!" said Shikamaru, who acted quickly in using his Shadow Possession Jutsu just before Kin could take the kunai she had taken out to stab the Nara in the face.
"You are lucky you have that damn Jutsu on hand because if you did, I would gut you like a fish, and then castrate you while you were bleeding to death!" said Kin angrily, as she didn't like how Shikamaru had humiliated her in public like that, and wanted to get some revenge before she was either caught or killed during the invasion.
"Please, my Mother is going to be doing enough killing of me for you twice over, and I'd rather you not help her in that regard," said Shikamaru, who maneuvered her to a wall, and forced her to hit her head effectively knocking her out right after he disengaged his shadow from hers.
"Still having girl troubles Shikamaru?!" said Naruto up in the booth while grinning up at the Nara.
"Something like that you troublesome baka," said Shikamaru only to be hit in the head by a rock by Tenten and then again from another thrown by Temari.
"Don't you dare call Naruto-kun a baka!" said Tenten her eyes blazing with anger with Temari's eyes doing the same.
"Yeah! If you call Naruto-kun a baka again, I'll give your Mother my iron fan to help smack you around for a whole week, and then buy her one to keep doing it," said Temari making Shikamaru pale at that before moving away from their throwing range with rocks.
"Nice!" said Naruto making both women blush at his compliment.
"Okay you guys, its time for action, and you know the drill so get out of here while you can to stop the invasion," said Genma, as the Rookies leaped into action with the other Shinobi of the Leaf to quell this invasion, and help helpless civilians get to their shelters.
(In the Kage's Booth)
"It's finally time," said Sarutobi, as he removed his robes, and revealed his battle uniform he had used many times before.
"Let's go," said Sesshomaru, getting a nod from his two mates, and the group left to enter the battle already being engaged by Leaf Shinobi everywhere.
(Outside of Konoha)
"So this is the place. Nice vegetation, but the place is too large to be hidden," said a regal looking figure before looking at his wife with her boomerang on her back.
"How true. You think the village would want to actually stay hidden rather then everyone knowing its location," said the woman while looking over to her horse sized feline friend, who growled at the sight of smoke in the distance while the little kid with fox tail and ears on the cats back looked on.
"It looks like were missing the fight too. Damn!" said the regal man, who came to see the Exams, and now a full scale fight.
"I think its time we helped now Inuyasha-kun," said the woman making Inuyasha smile at his wife that was Sango.
"Yeah you're right. We'll go see my brother first and then we'll spread out afterwards," said Inuyasha knowing that if they didn't see his brother first to show them they arrived, then things would get messy, and Inuyasha would have a lot of explaining to do to his older brother.
It was a good day for a war.
(A/N: YAY! I updated again. I hope you all loved it. That was fun to write. Until next time...PEACE!!!)