NARUTO MASTER OF THE VASHTA NERADA

Neji sneered at Naruto Uzumaki who lay face down on the ground. "I told you, Uzumaki, that it was my fate to win." He called to the proctor, "Call the match. He can no longer-"

He was, however, cut off when Naruto began to laugh, and the laughter grew louder as Naruto slowly rose back to his feet despite the injuries he'd sustained. Everyone in the audience watched as Naruto continued to laugh and Neji was annoyed. Had he gone mad.

"Oh, Neji, Neji, Neji," said Naruto . "Did you really think all those 'love taps' would work?"

Neji scanned Naruto with his Byakugan and snorted. All his Tenketsu points had been sealed, closing off his access to his chakra. "You are unable to access your chakra, Uzumaki. You've already loss."

"Well, why don't you try and make it permanent?" Naruto challenged, pointing at his heart. "I'm completely weak, helpless and powerless in front of you. I'd be easy to kill. That is if you can't really kill me." There was a mischievous twinkle in his eyes.

"Don't dare to think you can goad me, Uzumaki. You've lost. Proctor-"

"You're just afraid to get blood on your hands and your nice clothes dirty with blood," Naruto interrupted. "Then again I guess I'm not surprised. A clan like yours would always want to be clean. It wouldn't look nice to have blood on your clean, white clothes." He added, "Or, is it just that you can only want to kill if someone is completely weak and helpless like Hinata. Oh, wait. She wasn't, was she? If she was she would've fallen after one punch."

"Be silent, Uzumaki, and just give up," Neji hissed.

"Oh what? You can keep me from accessing my chakra, but you can't stop me from talking," Naruto said. "Go ahead and shut me up! I'm sure the entire village would love to see you do that!"

The villagers cheered for Neji to finish off Naruto.

"See? They want you to do me in, Neji," Naruto encouraged. "So, why not give the crowd what they want. That is, if you are too scared to kill me."

Neji's eyes narrowed. If Naruto wanted to die so much, so be it. "Then I will grant your wish!"

He charged towards Naruto who just smirked but then the unexpected happened as Neji tripped.

But he hadn't tripped on anything.

He screamed and so did the audience.

The flesh of Neji's legs had all just vanished. The Hyuuga's eyes widened in horror as he saw his leg bones, exposed, absent of any flesh. He could no longer move. He looked to Naruto with accusing eyes, "What did you do!-?"

"I did nothing, Neji," Naruto said coldly. "You just didn't care to count the shadows. Now, how does it feel to be weak and powerless. Come on, crawl. Crawl!"

Neji, due to the loss of his legs was crippled. His career as a ninja was over.

An emergency council meeting, with Naruto brought to the conference room, was called.

The civilian and shinibi council wanted to know how Naruto had won.

Naruto arrived, carrying a bento lunch box.

"Boy, tell us how you were able to defeat Neji Hyuuga?"

Naruto's answer was two words, "Vashta Nerada."

"Naruto, what do you mean?" Sarutobi asked.

"The shadows that melt the flesh," Naruto translated. "When you entered this room, did you remember to count the shadows? How many shadows do you each have? Check."

They did, to discover they each had two shadows.

"What kind of Jutsu is this?" Sarutobi asked. "Naruto?"

"It's not a Jutsu, gramps. The Vashta Nerada are just microscopic creatures with a hunger for flesh. Here, I'll show you." He picked up a chicken leg and tossed it onto the table and in the blink of an eye it was reduced to bone.

"And it ain't a Genjutsu. The Vashta Nerada are everywhere," said Naruto.

"What do you mean everywhere?" Sarutobi asked.

"They can be in any shadow, anywhere," explained Naruto. "You just won't know it."

"And how did you come across them?" Sarutobi asked.

"I didn't. They came across me."

The villagers had formed a mob to kill the demon (Naruto) who'd crippled one of the Hyuuga. They were carrying various tools and weapons and torches and were coming for Naruto.

Once they saw him, they charged at him.

And in a matter of a second the shadow under Naruto had come under them.

Bones littered the ground.

Only one man survived and was horrified by what he saw. He saw Naruto coming at him and he curled up into a ball, trembling in fear. "Mercy! Mercy!"

Naruto didn't spare him a glance as he walked past him.

The man did not move until Naruto was out of sight.

Stay in the light, count the shadows, and just run. For God Sake Just Run!

KR CHROME: Just a crazy idea in my head. What if Naruto discovered he could control the Vashta Nerada which were in the forest? All he needed to do was to offer them meat and they'd obey. He'd be dangerous, very dangerous. Nobody would come near him and they'll be wary of his shadow. As you can see this is a DarkNaruto fic. So, if anyone is interested in this please let me know and you can try this out.