Chapter 89 Rematches

Unaware of the situation with Shino and Kiba, Naruto Namikaze was preparing for his match with the Captain of the Demon Feline Royal guard Yahiko. He had been given some food for lunch and probably for the first time in his life he turned down Ramon noodles. He had tried to avoid reading the papers this morning but he had seen that the feline newspapers where giving Yahiko the edge because of his greater experience fighting as a demon and he was fighting in his home arena. Still it was by far the closet match of the day odds wide. Even in the underground catacombs which ran like a maze under the arena Naruto could hear the roar of the crowed. Near the end of the first match he had heard them yelling something but he was unable to understand what it was. He now stood at the back end of the demon fox tunnel waiting to go.

"They are ready." stated a voice as Naruto turned to see another demon fox standing there.

"Alright then." said Naruto as he walked up a small ramp before entering the arena. He stopped for a moment as he looked up at the massive number of demons all gathered to watch him fight. He turned around to see the demon fox section behind him. He could just make out his family in the massive crowd, he waved to them but the crowd roared as if he was waving to them.

"The Fox fighter Naruto Namikaze." stated the announcer as Naruto turned and walked over the destroyed trees.

"What happened here?" asked Naruto to himself as he stepped over another destroyed tree, he knew that a battle happened here but he didn't know who won or how the battle played out but it was clear that a once massive forest was now totally destroyed.

"And standing for the tigers if the Captain of the Royal Guard Yahiko." stated the announcer as the crowd roared for the home nation respective. In wasn't uncommon the past tournaments for the championship match to come down between the two of the three feline races and since the panther representing Itachi was in the second group it could happen again. Naruto finally reached the center of the arena where a demon horse referee was standing along with Yahiko. Naruto just stood there and listened as the demon horse explained the rules which pretty much matched the rules for the chunin exams.

"Alright you two ready." asked the horse as Naruto looked into the face of the tiger, he couldn't help but remember his battle with the Deva path of pain since it was his fake dead body which was used for that path of Pain.

"Kind of feels like rematch to me." answered Naruto as Yahiko laughed a bit.

"I heard about your battle with the fake me under the control of Nagato, but I am very different then Nagato so don't rely on that as a reference." Stated Yahiko "However I do find it funny we where both trained by Jiriaya."

"Ya, pervy sage has a habit of picking strong students." laughed Naruto as Yahiko laughed a bit.

"Pervy sage, I should have thought of that nickname." laughed Yahiko "Tell you what after I am done beating you, I'll buy you a drink."

"When I am done beating you I'll buy you a drink." answered Naruto

"Did you hear that, we have a bet between the two of them." stated horse referee. "You two ready?"

"I am ready." stated Naruto as Yahiko nodded his head.

"Begin." ordered the horse referee almost at once Naruto ran forward trying to get in close to deliver a punch however Yahiko jumped back running though hand signs. When Naruto's fist made contact with Yahiko it went straight though. Naruto's eyes widened as he released what he had just hit.

"A damn water clone." stated Naruto as he scanned the area as suddenly rain started to fall from a cloudless sky.

"What is your play?" asked Naruto to himself as he sniffed the air trying to get a scent but the smell was being washed away by the rain. The rain kept coming down harder and harder until it was so load that it drowned out almost all other sounds apart from the rain. The rain didn't hurt but it was cutting in off from two of major sources in information from the outside by taking out his ability to smell his enemy and to almost destroying his ability to hear him over the sound of the crashing rain on the ground.

Up in the stands Naruto's family was watching as he moved slowly over the destroyed tree tops, his eyes scanning the area for any sign of Yahiko.

"Naruto isn't looking so good." said Adria

"Yahiko has cut off two of his major senses and I wouldn't be surprised if that rain is also a sensory justu." stated her father "Yahiko is probably able to sense every move Naruto makes."

"I always hated going up against justu's like that, you can't hide and you can't surprise your enemy." Stated her mother

"Then how do you deal with it?" asked Seth

"Either by tricking the sensory or by simple brute force." answered Sakura

"I was just pointing out that wet fur looks bad." added Adria as her family either rolled their eyes or simply groaned "He kind of looks like a blonde wet squirrel right now."

Out in the field Naruto wasn't worried about how he looked he was too busy trying to find Yahiko. Naruto had just turned his head when slowly and quickly the rain drops behind him, the rain formed into Yahiko. Naruto couldn't hear the yelling from the crowed as Yahiko prepared to place his claws against Naruto's throat giving him the victory. Suddenly his eyes widened as he turned his head to the right to see a second Naruto flying toward him with a rasengan in his hands. Yahiko jumped back as the first Naruto disappeared in a puff of smoke.

"Water release: Wild Water Wave." stated Yahiko as he sent a jet of water at Naruto who was now only a few feet away from him. The Two justu's hit each other as point blank range sending both of them flying backwards bouncing a few times before each of them stopped with their feet in the ground and one hand in the muddy dirt. The rain came to a stop as the two of them stood up.

"How did you pull that off?" asked Yahiko as Naruto grinned.

"Once I hit your clone I created my own." answered Naruto "Also you made a critical mistake you had your justu stop only a few feet above us."

Yahiko simply laughed as he looked at the still very dry tree tops.

"You hid yourself in the up parts of the trees and used a clone as bait." laughed Yahiko "Clever."

"I know." Stated Naruto with a smile on his face "But sometimes the old ways are always fun."

"Old ways?" asked Yahiko as suddenly the ground below him broke open as yet another Naruto came shooting out of the ground, the Yahiko had no time to react before Naruto's fist hit the bottom of his jaw sending him into the air. At the same time the Naruto which had been standing across from Yahiko bolted across the field only to deliver a massive Tsunade strength punch to Yahiko's right chest. Yahiko hadn't expected a punch that strong as he felt his collar bone fracture from the blow as he went flying backwards smashing against the stone outer wall of the arena.

Up in the stands the entire Namikaze pack and Naruto's friends where looking at Sakura wondering how Naruto could know Tsunade's justu's for super strength.

"What did you think Naruto-kun where only having sex every time we had private training sessions." answered Sakura with a grin "I taught him some of Lady Tsunade's Justus and he taught me some things."

Down on the field Yahiko was slow to get up as he placed his hand on his bleeding right shoulder, the bone from one end of his broken clavicle could easily be seen. As he showed his teeth as he crouch down and prepared to attack. Naruto did the same as his twelve demon fox tails moved behind him, the two of them prepared to attack only to suddenly have the horse referee jump in between the two fighters raising his hands toward the two fighters.

"Stop, I am calling this match." Yelled the referee as the crowd began to boo at the call "Yahiko is unable to fight without the high risk of death. Winner by medical fall is Naruto Namikaze."

Slowly Naruto and Yahiko got out of their stances and walked toward each other as a medical team rushed to Yahiko.

"I had worst." stated Yahiko

"If you hit this the wrong way the bone can go down into your body and either hit a lung or a heart killing you." explained the medical lion "And judging from how you are breathing I think you broke a rib or two."

"Like I said I had worst." stated Yahiko as he and Naruto meet once again in the center of the arena.

"I know that you may be upset about my choose to call the match but after the first match I would rather be safe than sorry." stated the horse

"What happened in the first match?" asked Naruto

"The demon ant fighter Shino was killed on the field by the demon wolf Kiba." explained the Referee as Naruto's eyes became as wide as dinner plates as he scanned the area before spotting something he had missed the entire time, their mixed in with a bunch of mud was blood that didn't belong to either him nor Yahiko.

"Kiba did what?" asked Naruto as his blood began to boil.

"Killed his appoint and you will face him in round two the day after tomorrow." answered the referee as the speaker systems came to life.

"Advancing too round two is Naruto Namikaze who will be taking on Kiba Inuzuka, it will be wolf vs. fox to decide who will advance to the finals." stated the announcer.

Naruto shook Yahiko's hand before slowly walking out of the arena, in the stands his friends and family where already heading down toward the locker room.

In the human world an group of demon feline sat in a blind watching the northern gate of the last human ninja village, Kirigakure.

"Any updates?" asked a male lion as he walked up to the two other lions who were watching the gate.

"Nothing much a male and female guard got into a yelling fight on the northern watch tower. Oh they had 15 guards up there during their lunch break instead of 19 other then that nothing." reported a tiger "How is the tournament going?"

"Reports are that Captain Yahiko lost by medical fall to Naruto Namikaze." stated the lion "Reports are he could have kept fighting but there was a horse referee who called the match."

"Damn, I had Yahiko going all the way to the final round against Itachi." stated tiger as he looked down at a piece of paper which showed who he thought would win each fight "Now the top half of my entire bracket is worthless I am going to be at the bottom of the pool."

"That is why you should bet anything…." stated a panther not realizing that it would be the last thing he ever said as a missile strike came in from above killing the three demons in one massive explosion. A few seconds later ten more missiles struck the outposts around Kirigakure.

"Outposts are cleared moving in for pickup." stated a voice over the radio as once demon ape weapon platforms began to fly over Kirigakure. The evocation of Kirigakure would take hours even with the heavy lift aircraft in the demon ape fleet. To keep it a secret from the demons their outposts had to been taken out.

"Roger moving in." stated another human voice over the radio; over the past few days a group had been trained on how to fly the aircraft. They weren't ready for true combat or advance maneuvers but they could fly and they could land.

"You know we were supposed to hold that vote today on our fate." stated another voice over the radio network. "I think that ape is tricking us."

"They only pushed it back so that we could bring them to the city for the vote." explained another man as the heavy transport aircraft began landing using the heavy concrete road as their runway before rolling off onto the grass/stones that surrounded the village. "Once we get them back to the city we will have the vote."

"Sorry I don't trust demons." Stated the voice as the aircraft began to line up for the evacuation of the Mist village.

Back in the demon world Naruto was rubbing his eyes as he listened to what happened in the first match between Kiba and Shino.

"So he just cut off his head, just like that?" asked Naruto

"Yes." said Sakura sadly "He killed his best friend just like that."

"I hate to say this son, but you will be able to see what happened when you study the video of the fight." said Minato knowing that all the fights where recorded so that they could be studied and battle plans could be planned for the next round. He would bet that already there was groups of wolves where studying the fight between Naruto and Yahiko

"I am not watching that video." admitted Naruto "I don't want to see my friend die."

"Well do you at least want to watch the next match." asked Seth

"Sasuke vs. Lee take two." said Shikamaru

"Alright." said Naruto as he stood up as everyone headed out of the locker room and into the hallway outside.

"I'll be right up; I need to take care of something first." said Sakura she headed down a different tunnel. It took her only a few minutes to find the fox she was looking for, for the longest time she knew him only by his military rank but now she knew his real name.

"Hello Kado." Said Sakura to the demon who had for over twenty years had been sealed in Naruto.

"Hello Sakura." said Kado as he took a drink in the large lounge designed for the relaxation of the different referee. "Is there something I can help you with."

"I know you're the referee for the next match." Said Sakura

"I am sorry Sakura I will not rig the fight to make sure Sasuke loses, no matter how much I think that snake is evil." explained Kado

"I wasn't going to ask you to do that." said Sakura as she pulled out a small field needle vile. This medical tool was basically a metal tube with a button on top. Press tube against someone skin and press the button causing a needle to pop out of the bottom. "In here is a powerful anti toxic that should save Lee's life if Sasuke bits him."

"You know it is against normal regulations for me to carry that onto the field." explained Kado before taking the vile "However we already had someone die today and it doesn't help anyone so I guess it will be fine."

"Thank you." said Sakura as she walked away heading back to her friends and her pack.

A few hours later the stands where once again full as Naruto walked into the demon fox section of the stadium, as he started walking down the stairs to his seat all the foxes surrounding him broke out into cheers as they slapped him on the back.

"Well looks like your Mr. Popular now." laughed Ino as they all took their seats.

"Well he is the first fox not to be kicked out in the first round in over eighteen tournaments." explained Seth as he used his knowledge of history of the tournament "And if he wins just one more match he will beat the best we have ever done in any tournament of 4th place. You actually stand a chance of winning the whole tournament."

"Well if I don't win, you will just have to win for us in a later tournament." answered Naruto as he rubbed his little brother's head causing both of them to laugh a bit. Kushina smiled as she looked at her two sons.

Right when the clock hit four the announcer came back.

"Welcome to the third match of the day, this match will see Sasuke Uchiha for the Snakes taking on Rock Lee for the demon horses." stated the announcer as Rock Lee came out of the tunnel by the demon horse stands while Sasuke moved out of the snake tunnel. The two of them moved toward the center where Kado was standing to referee the match.

Out in the field Lee just nodded his head as confirmed that he heard the rules, his eyes were locked on the red and black Sharingan eyes of the black snake, Sasuke. Sasuke nodded his head as he confirmed that he heard the rules as his body coiled and he prepared to strike.

"Begin." ordered Kado as the match started. At once Sasuke's head snapped forward his fangs ready. Lee jumped back missing the poison filled fangs by inches, seeing an opening Lee moved kicked Sasuke hard in the head sending him flying to his right. Quickly Sasuke regained his stance as he coiled up to protect himself, Lee bolted toward Sasuke once again dodging another snake bit before punching the side of Sasuke's face. Lee's eyes widened as he looked at the impact point of his punch, there was blood on Sasuke but it wasn't Sasuke's it was his. Lee jumped back as he looked at his hand which was covered in blood.

"Surpised?" laughed Sasuke "It's a little justu, which makes my scales as hard as stone and the more you hit them the harder they become. Since you don't have any chakra to do justu with means I am protected."

"You thought of everything didn't you." stated Rock Lee as he ripped some of his own black fur from his main and wrapped his bloody hands.

"Anything that can stop you." stated Sasuke as he slithered around Lee with a look in his eyes, Lee was his prey and he was going to toy with it before killing it "Sadly this justu stops me from using other justus while it is working so I have to do it the old fashion way."

"A loser always thinks that they are winning until the until they are defeated." stated Lee as he ran forward as he started to deal blow after blow to Sasuke's heavy armored body.

Up in the royal box Hinata sat watching the fight between Sasuke and Lee.

"So Queen Hinata who do you think is going to win?" asked the president of the Grand horse herd Achak as he sat watching the fight.

"Yes, who do you think?" asked Val as the demon snake chancellor grinned, as he hoped to get a feel for the newest major player on the world stage. Hinata lowered her head a bit as she looked out to see Lee barely missing Sasuke's bite for a third time.

"Sadly while Lee is a great fighter, possibly one of the best in the world Sasuke is in a totally different league. I see only two other fighters who could possibly beat him one on one in a fight." Stated Hinata "One of those is his older brother Itachi and the other person is his rival Naruto. I fear that Itachi will be unable to stop Sasuke."

"So your already predicting that that the final match will be Sasuke vs. Naruto?" asked Kenadia the head of the demon bears.

"I fear that outcome." stated Hinata as she took a breath "Because if those two fight they will both try to kill each other."

"The referee will stop that." stated Queen mother Oda

"It didn't stop that from happening in the first match." pointed out Gamba

"It wouldn't make a difference anyway." said Hinata "If those two fight trying to stop them from killing each other is like trying to stop a thunderstorm, it can't be done. And they may hurt a lot of others when they fight."

"Do you really think that a fight between those two would go that far?" asked Queen Mother Oda

"Yes." answered Hinata

Back on the battlefield Lee kept up his punishing assault on Sasuke, Lee's blows seemed to be having no effect on Sasuke however Lee was just way too fast and maneuverability for Sasuke. Sasuke's snake form had deadly fangs that could kill in a single blow but without feet demon snakes couldn't jump. Suddenly Lee jumped back his hands and feet covered with blood from all the hard hits that he deliver to Sasuke's body.

"Are you done?" asked Sasuke who seamed unscratched by all of Lee's blows.

"I was about to ask you the same question." stated Lee with a grin.

"You haven't made a mark on me." laughed Sasuke as suddenly he started coughing, to everyone's amazement Sasuke coughed up a small amount of blood. Sasuke's eyes widened as he looked at the blood which he had coughed up.

"Your armor like skin protects your outside but with enough blows your internal body will be harmed even if on the outside you look fine on the inside you are bleeding." stated Lee "Internal injuries can be even more deadly then outer injuries."

"Smart Lee." stated Sasuke as he formed a hand sign as he released the armor justu which protect him "Looks like I will have to end this now."

"You dropped your armor justu which means you are no longer protected." stated Lee

"True but it also allows me to do this." stated Sasuke as he ran though hand signs before breathing out two streams of fire. To Lee amazement Sasuke didn't aim at himself instead to two streams of fire went out one ot either side forming a cone of fire.

"What are doing?" asked Lee as Sasuke stopped sending the fire out and instead he moved toward Lee. To Lee's amazement the fire remained burning and even closed the gap behind Sasuke encasing the two of them in a ring of fire and cutting the field to less than a 10th of the starting size.

"I am trapping you, like the rat you are." explained Sasuke "Go ahead try and escape."

Lee never one to turn down a challenge tried to jump over the flames only to suddenly see the flames fly above the height that he could jump. Lee landed back on the ground still trapped within the ring of fire with Sasuke who now had a chidori covering both of his hands as he slithered closer. As he moved the fire behind him moved with him like a hangman's noose tightening around Lee.

"It's ownly a matter of time until you have no room to run." Laughed Sasuke

"I am sorry Kurotsuchi but I have no choice." said Lee as he formed a hand sign as he prepared to open the chakra gates which would give him a chance to defeat Sasuke however Sasuke planned for this. The moment Lee formed a hand sign Sasuke raised his hands as two chidori sharp spears came shooting out of his hands hitting Lee in the shoulders. Lee screamed in pain as the spears sent him flying backwards into the wall pinning him against it.

"About time you tried to use the gates." Laughed Sasuke as the chidori sent electricity into Lee's body causing him to scream in pain as the flames rapidly closed forming a tunnel around them, the flame was so close that it burned Lee's skin. Sasuke slowly began to pull his arms apart which in started to spread the spears. Lee's screamed filled the air as both his arms became dislocated and muscles began to pull away from skin. "When you open the gates it seas to be the only time stand still."

"I am calling this match." stated Kado as he looked at Sasuke "You win end it now."

Sasuke only grinned as he pulled his arms even wider as Lee screamed in pain even more.

"Sasuke stop that." ordered Kado as Sasuke sent one last bolt of electricity though Lee's body before stopping his attack.

"Very well." stated Sasuke as the fire died as medical teams rushed to be bleeding, burnt and electrocuted Lee. Lee was badly hurt but he was still alive.

"Winner of the third match of the day is Sasuke Uchiha of the demon snakes." stated Kado as Sasuke moved off the field.

I am sorry for the long wait in posting this chapter; I am currently working on the Ark story which I hope to officially post once either this story or Clash Worlds ends. I hope you enjoyed this chapter and the two fights. Until next time I hope you keep reading. Thanks Wilkins75.