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 88

Naruto stood up and took a deep breath in before releasing it, the blonde really wanted to fight a tailed beast and have that story spread, but. The Uzumaki looked to Hinata Hyūga and sighed when she gave him a soft smile while tilting her head to the side as she blinked.

'So beautiful.' He gave her a small smile in return before facing down and locking gazes with Gaara who was on all four growling at him behind the yellow translucent surface of the barrier. The barrier was as high as a four-story building and as large as the lake was big, caging Gaara inside.

The Tanuki Jinchuriki roared inside the barrier and Shot both its sand arms toward the Uzumaki and Hyūga above. The arm made contact with the yellow surface and the point of impact caused a ripple but the barrier did not waver.

"Let's Go!" Naruto made a seal and the barrier parted below their feet before closing immediately when they fell. The two members of Team 7 began free-falling toward the lake and the monster waiting for them above its surface.

The blonde member of Team 7 made a clone, grabbed its legs, and turned twice in mid-air before throwing it toward Gaara with a grunt of effort.

The Suna Genin now fighting a bit smarter even in his mindless rage-filled state knew better than to let the clone too close. Gaara sent his right-clawed arm stretching toward the Clone and the other one moving toward Naruto. The tail behind his back made fast horizontal arcs back and forth to send fast Sand Shuriken projectiles toward Hinata.

Boom!!!

There was a shower of sand after the suicide bomber met the clawed right arm head-on and exploded before impact, decimating the appendage.

Naruto turned to face Hinata's free-falling form and made a come over here motion with his right hand and the seal at the back of his palm glowed. A gust of wind pushed her toward him and he grinned as he wrapped an arm around her waist while they fell.

"A ride me lady?" He offered as the multiple Sand Shurikens shot at Hinata completely missed their target when she was swooped out of their trajectory and into the blonde's hands.

Gaara growled but he continued with his last attack, his left clawed sand arm reaching for the couple to grab onto them as it enlarged. Naruto suddenly swooped Hinata into a princess carry, surprising her with the act and then shocking her with the next.

Mere center meters away from their targets, Gaara's giant clawed hand missed completely. Naruto stepped to the left while in the air like he had a platform there to stand on. Gaara was surprised, Hinata was surprised and the audience was surprised.

The Jinchuriki of the one tail curved its arm around and sent it back around to attack the two Genin still free-falling. Naruto side-stepped to the right and performed a back flip to dodge the sand arm that tried to grab them from below after missing for the second time.

Hinata was freaking out as she grabbed onto Naruto tightly, quite blind to her surroundings. She could tell they were still in the sky and falling, what she couldn't tell was how the blonde could maneuver in the air and in the process delay their landing.

Hinata did sense bursts of Chakra coming from Naruto's feet every time he moved.

Naruto landed on the surface of the lake with a gentle step and Gaara's sand arm struck from above immediately after. it landed on top of them and caused a splash when it entered the water.

"There you go, princess." Gaara looked away from the afterimage of the Uzumaki carrying the Hyūga heiress that was fading away and looked around just in time to find Naruto Uzumaki's face retracting from her left ear as he grinned in clear mischief.

"W-what W-will I do do wi-With you-you Ugh you Naruto-Kun!." Hinata stuttered and squeaked out like a champ as she turned scarlet for some reason.

"Ma-make ba ba ba ba babies Naruto-Kun!!" Hinata squeaked out again in embarrassment and began poking her index fingers together.

"Ba ba ba babies!!" Hinata repeated before she looked left and down, the dojutsu she had deactivated because they were starting to bother her after constant usage activated

and spied one Naruto Uzumaki's junk winking at her. Hinata then looked down at her junk and blushed Crimson as she brought her hands up to cover her eyes, eeping in the process.

"Ugh Hinata-Chan, why are you overreacting? We just have to do that other stuff right." Hinata separated her index and middle finger to see what the blonde meant and almost fainted.

It wasn't Naruto's words that turned Hinata lava red but the way he gestured the act of lovemaking with his left index finger forming a circle with the aid of his thumb and the right index finger held horizontally straight going in and out of the hole.

Gaara rushed them at that moment with a roar and a leap as he rebuilt his right clawed arm now significantly smaller and held it behind him poised to bash Hinata, she was glad for the deadly distraction.

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Gaara was at a disadvantage and his crazed mind was slowly figuring it out. This was the worst terrain for him to do battle, as it stood the only sand he had at his disposal was the one making up his new form. Every time his sand arms dunked in the waters he lost a chunk of it. His sand getting wet also made it muddy and heavy, making his attacks slow and sluggish.

The Tanuki Jinchuriki swiped his right claw diagonally down aiming to shred the Hyūga. She was of course very good at reading his movements so she dodged as though she knew he would attack before he took action.

Uzumaki spun on his feet and took a step back. The youngest member of the Kazekage bloodline landed in front of the blonde after missing the Hyūga and gave Naruto his back.

"Kill the progenitor!" Gaara spun with an arm outstretched to slap the blonde across the face but Naruto raised his guard. Both arms bent in front of his face and took a step forward while performing the body flicker technique.

Naruto knocked into Gaara's sand arm with great forward and force before blasting past him. Leaving a small ripple in the water's surface due to his increased Chakra control.

Gaara Kazekage's clockwise backhand strike became an uncontrollable spin in the opposite direction after Naruto's counter landed. When he stopped spinning, he felt dizziness strike him before he received a slash on his back followed by three more.

The first water crescent attack cut Gaara at the bottom of his neck horizontally from right to left, luckily the sand around the area was the only thing to receive a deep gash.

The next water attack came diagonally down from left to right and slashed a deep gash on the sand covering Gaara's back.

There was a Horizontal slash that followed, landing directly on Gaara's legs behind his kneecap from right to left.

"RIEEEYYAAA!!!!" The possessed boy screamed in pain and fell to his knees with blood leaking from the wound and mixing into the lake.

Naruto ran forward with another Rasengan in hand and Gaara grimaced, he would be out of sand soon. A final crescent water attack followed, going diagonally up from left to right drawing a deep gash in Gaara's sand armor but not reaching the skin.

"Rasengan!!" Gaara Received the attack on his chest where his sand armor was muddy and vulnerable. The Technique grounded away at his flesh and began spinning him like a fan before he got blasted toward the Hyūga behind him with great speed.

The youngest member of the Kazekage bloodline skidded off the surface of the water a couple of times spinning and twisting before colliding with Hinata's dome of fast-spinning Chakra front first like a hug.

She let the dome burst outward after a few seconds, throwing her arms out, and sent Gaara back toward the blonde waiting as he was poised to punch forward.

Gaara braced for impact while crossing his arms in front of him and received a heavy wind punch from the blonde who shot his right hand forward in an uppercut motion. Gaara felt like he was punched by a Giant fist as he broke the sound barrier and collided with the yellow barrier causing a ripple on its surface that spread outward.

Gaara lost air in his lungs after the collision with his back and began dropping back toward the lake from the height of a three-story building. Another dunk and he would be defenseless.

Naruto Shot his arm forward in another uppercut and Gaara was shot back up into the barrier with another painful meeting. The falling Jinchuriki of the one tail received a wind smack after that, it blasted him to the adjacent wall of the barrier on his side.

SMACK!!!

Gaara met the sturdy barrier with his left shoulder and felt it dislocate, The possessed Suna Genin slid down the yellow barrier surface heading toward the waters below and falling inside.

Out of sand with nothing to use for attack or defense. Gaara was now defenseless in the battle against the two prodigies of team 7. They were coordinated to a tee and merciless in their strikes as well as prepared to use every advantage they could capitalize on.

Gaara felt himself go deeper inside the lake and lose more sand to the waters as it got washed away. With the last grain of sand parting from his fingertips, Gaara knew he had lost even in his fucked up state of mind.

The possessed Jinchuriki broke out of the lake surface and took a deep breath in only to receive a tap on his forehead tattoo/seal. Gaara blinked all the foul chakra and bloodlust he released away as exhaustion hit him.

"Uzumaki." Gaara's gruff voice sounded out in confusion while looking at Naruto. "Hyūga." Gaara said with another confused blink before groaning when he felt a headache strike him. He pushed himself out of the water with effort and stood on its surface feeling naked because he was sandless.

"What happened to me, I don't ….." Gaara got punched square in the face by Naruto Uzumaki before he could finish his words.

He let loose a scream of pain as he spat blood and skidded on the water's surface before knocking into the barrier and falling back into the lake.

That was the meanest right hook Gaara's unprotected face had ever received and he felt his world spin as he lost the tooth that had finally regrown.

A hand grabbed Gaara by the back of his shirt and raised him out of the lake before he could get too deep. Feeling exhausted without the Tanuki's Chakra rampaging in his system. Gaara could only stare up with a busted lip at Naruto Uzumaki when he raised him to eye level with one hand.

"Pass on that message to the one tail will yah, thanks." Gaara nodded dumbly before a tag was placed on his forehead and he fell asleep. Naruto grinned, looked back to Hinata, and gave her a big thumbs up, She waved back at him from the distance with a smile and he snickered.

The barrier dropped a second later and the crowd cheered while others who betted on Gaara winning groaned in defeat but clapped their hands anyway due to the amazing show the exams have become.

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Rasa looked to the Third Hokage and narrowed his eyes in suspicion. The blonde Uzumaki could not have been your ordinary Genin, from his skills, movements in the field, and the planning he enacted to eliminate his opponents. The boy was obviously above being a newly minted Genin and was on his way to becoming a Jōnin-level Shinobi if he wasn't already.

'Gaara never stood a chance with those two jumping him.' Rasa fidgeted and began contemplating. 'I should have taken Gatō's offer or at least taken it into consideration and delayed the invasion.' The gold dust user thought with disdain, was he about to send hundreds of his soldiers to their deaths and stain Sunagakure's image in front of the other Kages because of Orochimaru?

'How could I have been so easily convinced by the snake.' Rasa refrained from looking at the snake Sanin behind him to the right and watched the feed instead. The barrier dropped and a Konoha Ninja moved toward the arena floor to escort Gaara out of the battlefield.

'Hopefully, those friends of his will make a huge difference in strength and numbers.' Rasa rubbed his hands together and inwardly prayed that the invasion would go as planned.

'Orochimaru has to die before it ends.' Rasa decided.

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The Raikage narrowed his eyes in concentration, eyes firmly locked on the Hyūga Heiress being shown on the feed. The girl took a fighting stance with her Katana out ready to do battle with Namikaze's brat, a Jinchuriki, and a Uzumaki at that.

Konoha is not the strongest ninja village because it is the largest but because it has more Ninja clans than other villages. The Leaf as a village is home to many powerful ninja families with other villages unable to boast the number of bloodline limits they have or special techniques at their disposal.

Kumo did not have many families that carried bloodline limits, twice did his village attempt to get their hands on one of the bloodlines available to Konoha. First was an attempt at kidnapping an Uzumaki during his father, the Third Raikage's reign.

'Minato Namikaze foiled the kidnap attempt on the previous Jinchuriki of the Nine-tailed fox.' The muscular Kage remembered while watching the fight on the feed with clear interest in heart.

Even as a Genin, Minato Namikaze managed to defeat multiple Jōnin level Shinobi to rescue the Jinchuriki. The man was barely a teen at the time and had none of his signature jutsus.

'The Uzumaki was not chosen because of her status as a Jinchuriki but for her special chakra.' A remembered his father's plans clearly. The fourth Raikage was young at the time but the girl was supposed to be wed to him where they would begin reproducing the Uzumaki clan in Kumogakure.

'Getting our hands on the nine-tailed fox would have been a bonus, with the ability to subdue tailed beasts, Kumogakure would have become the most powerful village in the elemental nations.' A's muscular chest flexed twice as he contemplated the new information gained during these finals.

'The Hyūga can subdue Jinchurikis somehow.' The Raikage deduced as he watched the Hyūga send out a crescent water attack with a swing of her blade toward a clone who zigzagged toward her.

The second kidnap attempt was on the Hyūga Heiress dueling bellow them above the lake surface. The fourth Raikage lost a close friend and adviser during that attempt and had to play the victim or risk getting sanctioned by the other nation's leaders.

'She seems able to influence a jinchuriki's mental state with physical touch.' A was very interested in that and he found himself wanting to make another attempt at the Hyūga Heiress.

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Onoki was plotting diabolical plans as he sat silently among his fellow Kages. It was all nice for laughs and giggles but the blonde Gaki had to die. The Hyūga will need to be studied because she was clearly not what she seemed. The Uchiha was a blessing in disguise, that brat would only be detrimental to the leaf village's growth due to his violent tendencies.

'I cannot let that boy survive long enough to become a problem later because they always become one along the way.' Onoki was happy to find that the boy was defecting, and if not for his father's past sins Onoki would have offered the brat refuge in his village.

'As it is Suna has one Jinchuriki.' Onoki thought before looking to the fifth Mizukage of the Mist. 'They should have one too if Yagura was defeated and his tailed beast got extracted.' Onoki stared at the Raikage from the corner of his eyes.

'Two Jinchuriki in Kumo, Iwa has two and Konoha has one.' Onoki almost snickered at the thought of Konoha killing the boy to keep the nine-tailed fox.

'If he does escape this village I will have an elite black ops team go on a search and destroy mission to eliminate him.' Onoki decided before grabbing his chin and shaking his head, he had to be thorough.

'An elite team of Jōnin led by me personally.' He decided and faced up to watch the show.

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Naruto refrained from performing the body flicker technique to attack Hinata directly and instead used it to reach her in bursts of speed. He already knew what to do and what not to do when dealing with his girlfriend in battle. Rushing her meant nothing if she knew he was coming and a dome of chakra to the face was not something Naruto was too eager to experience.

He couldn't fight her head on, one poke and she could hinder his movements, multiple pokes and he would be defenseless. Naruto jumped left and rolled on the lake's surface to dodge a katana slash. Getting back on his feet, he dashed left to circle the girl of his heart.

Hinata wanted to end the fight quickly, In a battle of attrition she would not stand a chance against the blonde. As a Hyūga she had a significantly larger chakra pool than an average child her age but that difference meant nothing to the Uzumaki's above-Kage level reserves.

Hinata dipped the tip of her blade in the lake and concentrated her chakra on the weapon's sharp tip before swinging upward. The Hyūga heiress sent out a bigger and broader Katana slash in the direction of the approaching blonde.

Naruto raised his right arm, palm opened, and shot it forward as his unnamed seal glowed blue causing a strong gust of wind that moved forward destroying the water attack and moving toward the Hyūga.

Hinata was moving to the left before Naruto let his arm fly so she was able to dodge the gust of wind and do a turn before sending a horizontal katana slash. Naruto was running toward her and he jumped over the attack in a diver position but instead of dipping inside the lake, he rolled on its surface and continued running.

There was a puff of smoke on the left of the blonde as he summoned a seal-less clone and had it speeding toward Hinata who was already performing a counterattack.

Reaching the Hyūga heiress with amazing speed, the clone was already delivering a body strike to the Hyūga's abdomen. Hinata having the longer reach jumped back a little to get out of the clone's reach and swung her blade at its neck.

Hinata's sword cut through an afterimage of the clone that appeared behind her poised to strike her from behind. She sliced cleanly through the clone when her swipe turned out to be a full 360-degree turn.

Hinata did not slow down as she blasted herself toward the blonde Uzumaki with her katana in hand and her face set in a mask of concentration. They were the final two, Naruto defeated most if not all the contestants with her as the final boss or that is what his feelings told her.

Naruto wanted to win against Hinata so bad it was like a twitch in his instincts, His face set in a mask of determination. He wanted to win against his girlfriend, it had been years since he had taken a win.

They clashed in the middle of the lake and Naruto called upon all of his intelligence while the water splashed around them.

The entire time no one said a word, both locked in a mildly deadly match for supremacy.

Authors Notes:

From now on chapters will be shorter until the end of the invasion which should be about 7 to 8 chapters long.

I like the plot of Naruto Part 1, I just think Kishimoto went about it the wrong way. I always thought that if it was not for the tailed beast sealed within him Naruto would have been so undermined we would be hating on him like we do tenten.

An Uzumaki without seals, the son and the yellow flash without the tri prong kunai, all things he could have been physically handed. Yet Itachi with a tap to Sasuke's forehead passed on his blackflames which did not make any logical sense.

I plan on ending this story at chapter 100 so until then enjoy while it lasts.