I don't own Naruto or any of its characters, I'm just a fan I enjoyed the anime but I love the fanfics even more, they made me fall for the whole franchise.

Chapter 83

Neji walked in front of Tokuma Hyūga in handcuffs as they made their way down the streets of the Hyūga grounds. As a very strict and stoic clan, most Hyūga did not attend the ChuninExams Finals. Neji faced the ground as he walked to hide his visage, his life was over, they would all know the truth and exile him.

Neji did not know why he cried so much this year. They were pointing their fingers at him and speaking with bland voices, calling him a disgrace to the Hyūga Clan for working against the main family. Kō had left to drop Hanabi off at the stadium and most certainly report to Hiashi-Sama.

'I might as well be dead.' Neji no matter his outward tendencies of seeing those beneath him as insects did not feel like he deserved this pain, embarrassment, and dishonor. They left the busy streets of the Hyūga entrance and turned a corner heading to the Hyūga Clans' private cells.

"There is no reason to cry Neji-San, I know you were only being misled, we just want answers and you will be given a clean sheet." Neji still facing the ground dropped more tears at the falseness of the statement. Neji was guilty, he killed his grandfather in cold blood and then stole his eyes.

'Fate was never their Karma but my own.' Neji thought as he walked into the cell and turned around to face Tokuma Hyūga from behind a cage. The Hyūga Jōnin nodded at the Genin and closed the gate.

Neji watched The Jōnin turn around and walk away from the cell. Neji dropped to the floor and sat crossed legged awaiting his fate.

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I traveled through the forest-like setting of the arena at my top speed and my mind set on a task. An hour ago there was no forest here, this was the power of Hashirama Senju. It was just as captivating as the history books said it to be but I did not hold on to the thought for too long.

"Naruto Uzumaki!!" I shouted for the true source of my anger. I tried to push further and traveled even faster toward the general direction Hinata battled. 'Hinata Hyūga. I-I.' She chose the dobe over me, 'Why am I always losing to him?' I won't!!

I jumped over a large tree branch in my way and continued my dash. She doesn't care about me, she does not want to be with me. 'It's fine.' I thought with a sickening grin forming on my face. 'It is cool.' I broke out of the makeshift forest and began running toward the faux mountain.

I can't let him show me off, At home, Itachi is the center of attention. His dream of becoming Hokage was well-known and encouraged by the clan. As the firstborn my big brother also held the title of future clan head. What do I have there?

'Nothing!' My malice spiked and my Sharingan spun like a fan behind the shades I had on. I reached for the shades with my right hand before grabbing it, removing the accessory, and then crushing it in my balled hand.

I was supposed to succeed outside the clan and create my own legend. 'It is not my fault you don't know how to advertise Duckass, you think people are just gonna pull your name out of their ass one day calling you great?' I remembered the first time Naruto was acknowledged by a whole village for his strength and courage. I discarded those words like stupid talk but now I understood them

"He thinks I am nothing without the Uchiha Clan name supporting me." I mumbled before throwing a bunch of Kunai on the vertical surface of the mountain and jumping high, landing my one foot on a Kunai embedded in the rocks I jumped again using it as a stepping stone to reach another Kunai. I repeated the process until I was close to the mountain tops and took a final jump to find myself on top of the mountain where there were faint sounds of fighting.

I landed with a roll and did not stop my momentum when I spotted the dobe watching Hinata fight Gaara with a smile on his face. Always so fucking happy, I reached for my Kunai and twirled it in my hand, holding it in a reverse grip. Naruto already saw me coming so he turned around and made a big mistake.

'I will wipe that smirk off your face.' I thought when I was just three feet away from him. I outstretched my hand and leaped forward to reach my destination. Naruto's hand came around to block the strike aimed at his heart by bringing his hand in its way.

My Kunai never made contact, for a second I thought I was caught in a genjutsu when the Kunai was suddenly out of my hand. It just vanished when it reached the blonde's open palm facing me and revealed a Fuinjutsu array that resembled a sun. Naruto grabbed onto my now free hand and intertwined our fingers.

I quickly stopped in front of him and brought my free hand around to punch the side of his neck. He raised his free arm and blocked my attack before he twisted it along with my arm to lock mine under his. I had nowhere to go, My Sharingan saw what came next and a nano-second later it did.

My head flew back and I spat blood and spittle when I got head-butted. The pain made me close my eyes so it was expected I did not see the next head strike coming that broke my nose. I was disoriented, so the blonde let me go as I took a step back feeling dizzy. Then I was reintroduced to the brick wall as I got punched so hard across the cheeks that I was blasted off 60 meters away.

'Did I just lose?' That thought plagued me when I finally stopped rolling on the Rocky Mountain tops. The rocks scrapped my skin, cut my clothes in different places, and left me feeling sore all around. I sat up and found the enigma in my life standing in the distance not planning on continuing his attack.

I stood up shakily and forced myself to my feet using my knee for support. Naruto stood there and snickered before pointing behind me, I growled and concentrated on him only to get punched behind the head and find my face buried in dirt, I honestly wondered why I removed my forehead protector back then.

I placed my hands on the ground and sprung myself up, I locked my legs around the clone's neck and broke it. In that split second before I did there was another clone created and aiming a high-speed Kick at me. I braced for impact and got kicked in the ribs like a ball and was sent flying back once more.

I landed on my sides and turned around on the rocky terrain for a few more meters gaining more cuts and scrapes. I think a rib snapped, I was feeling exhausted already.

I shakily stood up once more and the blonde pointed behind me again now with an expression that spoke of doom. I turned quickly to counter the incoming attack and saw nothing!

'He tricked me!!!' "Ack!!" I felt two strong arms wrap around my waist and lift me from behind like I weighed nothing. My world quickly turned upside down and my head met the rocky floor sending so much shock through my body that I felt a surge of electricity go through my being.

Disoriented I did not notice when the blonde stood up again and dropped me into another suplex. I was in pain but I was also angry at the situation I found myself in, there couldn't be such a big gap between us. Naruto stood again and my tired body could do nothing more than watch as he threw me up in the air and jumped before placing my legs on his shoulders and grabbing my waist then we descended and I met the ground with my back hard.

Crack!!!

The ground caved in and I met darkness, there was something poetic about this whole situation but I couldn't put my finger on it.

'I lost.'

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"Phew….thought he would catch on for a minute there." Naruto wiped the sweat from his brows and grinned in mischief. What was Sasuke thinking taking him head-on? Honestly, the only person who could take him on now was either an experienced Jōnin or a competent Hyūga.

"Kukukuk I'm so badass..kukukuk.." Naruto giggled in mischief, to fight him now was to fight an army, and to fight him without knowing his arsenal was stupid. Every very stupid but could he blame Sasuke? Nobody told the boy the stories of the fabled Uzumaki Clan. Naruto shrugged.

The blonde watched Sasuke's out cold form for a second longer before approaching the raven-haired boy in a walk. Naruto's mane of blonde hair blew in the wind as he walked and a frown marred his face. The Sharingan wasn't a problem to him anymore, he took measures against all its abilities.

Naruto reached Sasuke's body and stared at it for a minute, seeing the boy's peaceful expression and bloody face made him feel kind of bad. To nullify the Sharingan's ability to predict movements all Naruto had to do was attack from Sasuke's blind spots.

To prevent Sasuke from using his interceptor fist, Naruto simply took a hands-on approach by grappling with the Uchiha and giving him some of that three-hit combo and a finisher. Naruto watched Sasuke for a second longer before dashing towards Hinata's battle with Gaara excited to Eliminate him and fight his girlfriend seriously.

He did not notice Sasuke's finger twitching.

Hinata is a sensor so she will be able to keep track of all his clones, and the spike in chakra before a jutsu is performed will point her out to any incoming surprises. The strategy he used against Sasuke was not going to work against her. For one, Hinata had no blind spots and the whole arena was in her sights.

Grappling as well is a no-go due to her being a user of the gentle fist. Then there was the Katana he gifted her, Naruto gulped and then grinned.

"Man…..Hinata Hyūga….." Naruto thought with heart in his eyes at the thought of his girlfriend. How did he find her? "No wait! She found me." Naruto corrected and looked above, thanking the world for sending her to him. It was the best choice they could make to keep the balance of their universe.

Naruto was too preoccupied with his lovely princess to be plotting grandass world domination plans. It took time and Naruto was trying to spend all of it with his little lady. Ain't nobody got time for world domination when you got a nice woman by your side.

"Man…I love her so much and I will protect her forever," Naruto promised and jumped into the air to soar above Hinata and Gaara fighting. The blonde raised his right arm to the air with open palms and then swung it down.

There was no limit to fuinjutsu, Naruto thought with a grin as the seal at the back of his right hand glowed blue and he sent out a blast of pressurized wind at the two fighting contestants. Hinata of course seeing him in the air with her Byakugan and feeling the spike of Chakra jumped back and away from the blast.

Hinata's eyes widened when she saw a giant five-finger imprint in her previous position with a dome of sand in the middle having protected Gaara from the wind attack. Her eyes narrowed in annoyance when Naruto landed on the ground and ran towards her while smacking her with his love.

"Hey Hinata-Hime, did you see that?! It's awesome right, right!!?? Hahaha." Naruto not knowing the dangers he was in ran toward Hinata with a big smile on his face while waving his hands in the air with excitement.

He quickly regretted his actions when he reached her.

"Ouch, Ouch Ouch Hime….. what was that for?" Naruto cried comical tears now squatting and drawing circles in the dirt with a depressed cloud above him.

Hinata at seeing Naruto's depression and feeling his genuine sadness sighed and her eyes softened. She approached him and squatted before bringing her hands up to mush his cheeks.

"I'm sorry...Na-Ru-To-Kun." Hinata said sweetly looking into his deep blue eyes with her deep black ones. Naruto pouted and shook his head no before folding his arms and acting bratty.

Hinata sighed and felt his emotions wanted some kind of compensation for the act of pulling his cheeks that still felt warm to the touch.

"What can I do for you to forgive me?" Hinata asked sweetly, sometimes she thought her friends and classmates had a point when they said they were like mother and son.

Naruto blew out his cheeks and tapped his right cheek like a demand and Hinata rolled her eyes. She approached him to give him the requested Kiss, forgetting all the eyes on them and acting like she would if they were alone.

Hinata felt the blonde's mischief when it was too late as Naruto turned his head in the last second and her kiss landed on his lips. Hinata felt love strike her core and got lost as she held the position for a full 6 seconds.

"Haaaaaaaaaaaa!!!"

"You! Close your eyes.!"

"Mommy I want to see!!"

"Yeahhhhhhhhh!!"

"This Exams is the bomb!!!"

"Konoha knows how to throw a partAYYYYY!!"

"That brat smooth as fuck!!"

"Whaaaaatttt!!!!"

The crowd was in a frenzy and Hinata finally realized the act she was putting on. She immediately stood up and blushed red.

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Gaara watched with fascination in his eyes as Naruto Uzumaki laughed and laughed in Joy at the Hyūga Heiress as she began fumbling around in embarrassment. The spectators were making catcalls and asking for another show.

Was She the one that kept Naruto Uzumaki sane? Gaara was still flabbergasted by the prospect of a Jinchuriki laughing so loud and deep. His laugh made Gaara want to crack a smile himself, it felt almost contagious. Gaara looked at the spectators and found them laughing, talking, cheering, and getting along.

So many different people from different lands and cultures, laughing and getting along just because they were enjoying themselves here.

'His existence has already been proven.' Naruto did not have to kill anyone, Gaara wondered if he had been going at it the wrong way. The Hyūga Heiress already informed him of his party's elimination at the hands of the Jinchuriki of the Nine-tailed fox while they fought.

Gaara of course got worried for his sister but Hinata told him she was not harmed and was escorted by leaf nin.

"Naruto Uzumaki." Gaara called out in his gruff and emotionless voice that gave many spectators goosebumps. Naruto who now had his arm around Hinata's shoulder while teasing the girl by poking her red cheeks looked toward him and hummed.

"Sup?" Naruto asked casually and Gaara had only one question for the blonde Genin.

"What is strength Uzumaki Naruto?" Gaara asked and Naruto instantly smiled with a melancholic gaze in his eyes.

"It is her." Naruto said looking at Hinata Hyūga with a soft smile that punched her in the stomach with the force of a freight train of love. "She is my strength," Naruto said with so much love that Hinata felt her heart rate increase.

"Naruto-Kun." Hinata said lost on what else to do and Naruto reached out a hand to place on her chin.

"My strength is my Hime." Naruto told Hinata but Gaara thought he understood what the blonde was trying to convey by the look in his eyes. His strength comes from the desire to protect those closest to him. Gaara smiled genuinely for the first time in a long while and the crowd began chanting.

"KISS KISS KISS KISS KISS!!!!!" As the crowd chanted for the now-public couple to kiss, Gaara could admit one thing from this whole experience.

'Your existence will one day be the grandest of them all Uzumaki.' Gaara looked to Hinata Hyūga who became a blushing mess once more with her guard so down it would be so easy to eliminate her but Gaara wouldn't do that, not unless he wanted to receive The blonde's wrath.

Instead, he stood there and watched the show.

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'K-kiss N-Narut-to-kun in pub-public!!!' Hinata's thoughts were going in a whirlpool of directions, she couldn't think straight with everybody's eyes on her so she deactivated her eyes but her emotion-sensing ability told her the crowd wanted what they wanted.

"If you're too chicken to kiss him, I will do it for you!" A random teenage girl in the crowd shouted out.

"Please have my babies Naruto-Sama!!" Hinata's eyes twitched at that moment and she grabbed Naruto's collar before smacking her lips to his initiating a passionate kiss to chase all the home wreckers away.

Hinata was blind so she did not see how Naruto's arms were waving around due to the shock of being manhandled and unexpectedly kissed. Hinata broke the kiss after a long 15 seconds and cleared her throat trying to keep her composure as the crowd roared in approval.

Hinata released Naruto's collar not knowing he stared at her with wide eyes that were in the shape of hearts. She patted the wrinkles she caused on his collar and tried to fix his jacket and get her mind back in the game.

At that moment Hinata began hearing what sounded like a thousand birds tweeting. She spaced out during that kiss and only then realized that Sasuke was in the vicinity. His pure malice and anger pointed at the blonde she loved with all her heart.

Hinata heard a thousand birds tweeting and felt Sasuke dash towards Gaara at speeds she was shocked he could achieve. Sasuke's signature reached Gaara in seconds and Hinata activated her dojutsu to see what was going on only to gasp when Sasuke's left arm covered in lightning struck the unsuspecting Gaara from behind and his arm came out the front of his chest.

Hinata saw Gaara's eyes widen while staring in their direction before throwing up blood from his mouth. Hinata watched as Gaara looked at the hand sticking out of his chest where his heart should be located before he spat out more blood. There was a tingle in her body when the arm drew back and out of Gaara's body.

Sasuke proceeded to kick Gaara's back which pushed the Jinchuriki forward to drop face first on the ground with blood leaking from the hole in his chest. Hinata was seeing all this with wide eyes of shock, Gaara was starting to understand the world, she could feel the struggle in his chakra diminish with every interaction he had in the arena.

When Gaara asked Naruto that question earlier and received an answer, Hinata felt the boy's resolve strengthen. Gaara was willing to fight his inner demons but Sasuke used that moment to strike the gourd-wearing boy.

"Do you see NARUTO?!!" Sasuke shouted looking like a bloody mess with a sickening glare in his visage and a swollen right eye. "THIS IS HOW A TRUE NINJA ENDS A BATTLE!! WITH DEATH!!!" Sasuke proclaimed loud enough for the silent crowd to hear. Hinata did not care for that, the only thing she could see was Gaara's downed form with her mind playing games with her as she saw her lover's form instead on the ground dying.

"Hinata." Hinata did not know what got over her but she started to hyperventilate. Sasuke's emotions all spoke of Naruto's death, it made her uneasy and terrified of losing the blonde. Gaara's signature was becoming more and more silent, she always felt Naruto couldn't die but seeing Gaara who had a life so similar to her blonde lover on the floor losing his life had Hinata thinking differently.

"HINATA!!" Hinata eeped out of her funk and finally noticed her lover's yellow warm chakra engulf her core and soul.

"I-I y-yes.." Hinata found her voice and the blonde nodded before she noticed the panic he had dissipated.

Hinata felt Sasuke's emotions get even angrier when Naruto hugged her and he attacked. Naruto's emotions spoke of anger aimed at Sasuke and she felt a burst of sinister chakra envelop Gaara.

Hinata felt fear engulf her.

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