Uchiha Heiress Remix Chapter 21, a naruto fanfic

Chapter 21: Remember Humanity and Finishing the Preliminaries

Sasuke rushed towards his opponent, ready to fight him with everything he had. "No one calls me runt and gets away with it!" Satsuki thought with annoyance as Sasuke started delivering multiple blows at his opponents, only to have missed every time.

With each blow that Yoroi managed to dodge, he smirked with confidence. "Heh, what's the matter little man, can't land a blow?" He taunted with arrogance in his tone.

This caused the desired reaction as the Uchiha got more and irritated, which caused his attacks to become a bit more disorganized and sloppy.

The Kyūbi meanwhile easily saw the opponent's intentions. "Girl, calm down, you're just playing right into his plan. Focus!" He advised with narrow eyes.

Sasuke's eyes widen at that as he jumped backwards to gain some distance, much to the displeasure of his opponent.

The Bijū let out a sigh at that. "Finally using you head. . .Jeez, your acting more like the kit's mother then before!" He then added in annoyance.

"Fuzzbutt's right," Naruto surprisingly agreed. "It's funny, your somewhat acting like me before graduating." He commented while mentally chuckling.

Upon hearing this, Satsuki couldn't help herself from mentally giggle as well. "I guess I was." She replied in an all too proud tone from that fact.

Hinata also couldn't help but let out a giggle. "It's alright, now you just need to calm down and you'll be able to win if you just keep you cool and focus." She suggested.

Sasuke nodded as he took a deep breath. "Looks like I got a bit short tempered there. . ." He commented with a cocky smirked as he then got back into a fighting stance. "Where were we?" He taunted back with a smirk.

Yoroi however scuffed as he to took his fighting stance and glared at his opponent. "Just to where I beat you to a pulp, that's all!" He declared as his hand started to glow before he rushed at the Uchiha.

Back in the stands. . .

Naruto, Hinata and Haku were watched as the cheered for Sasuke while they were mentally cheering for Satsuki, until. . .

POOF!

The two turned and saw who had appeared, Naruto smirked as he recognized who it was. "Hey Kakashi-sensei." He greeted with a grin.

Kakashi gave them an eyesmile. "Yo." He lazily greeted the three as he looked on towards the fight. "Looks like Sasuke's doing well." He then added.

His stepson nodded in agreement. "Indeed he is father." Haku replied as he turned towards the fight.

Hinata nodded as she looked on as well. "He did almost lose his temper when his opponent called him a runt, but he got over it very quickly." She informed her sensei.

Kakashi chuckled at that. "And here I thought that was just a Naruto thing." He joked with and eyesmile.

"HEY!" The boy in mention retorted.

"I rest my case." Kakashi simply stated while eye smiling.

Hinata and Haku began to giggle and chuckle at the annoying expression on Naruto's face as they then turned back to the fight.

Back at the arena. . .

The fight wasn't going well for the last Uchiha, even thought he was fighting with a much more level head, he was slowly getting more and more tired. He could feel as though each time he clashed and every time his fists were blocked by Yoroi, he was feeling slightly more tired.

Yoroi saw the slight beads of sweat the was falling from the Uchiha's face making him smirked. "How's it feel? Getting tired?" He meanwhile taunted with confidence.

Sasuke meanwhile was panting in exhaustion as he looked at his opponent. "What the hell is going on!?" Satsuki exclaimed in confusion. "Why am I so tired!?" She then added.

Yoroi however chuckled some more as he then showed his chakra covered hand. "Must be from me absorbing your chakra." He declared.

In response, Sasuke's eyes widen as he realized what this meant. "So that's it, your syphoning my chakra. . ." He declared in a serious tone. "Oooooh that motherfucker!" Satsuki meanwhile roared in anger.

Now letting the Uchiha have a chance to think, Yoroi went to the offensive and went to delivered blow after blow the forced Sasuke to dodge or have his blows to be blocked and have his chakra drained from contact with his hands.

Sasuke was soon getting really tired as the fight continued to prolonged. "This is getting annoying. . ." Satsuki thought. "He just keeps blocking my attacks, and his hands keep absorbing my chakra. . ." She got out in annoyance. "Wait, if he can absorb chakra. . . And if he can keep absorbing normal chakra. . . Let's see if his bad can handle some demonic chakra."

"Wait what are you-" Kyūbi got out before being cut off.

Sasuke soon smirked as he allowed his opponent to rush at him. This only made Yoroi smirk even more as he thought that Orochimaru's choosing him was a farce. "Then let's ending farce!" He thought as aimed for the neck.

The Uchiha then was pushed down as he had his neck pin down. However that's what he really wanted as he began to use the tiniest amount of Kyūbi's chakra to cover the area where he was being hold.

"Oooh, so that's it. . ." The Kyūbi chuckled out after regaining connection with the disguised Uchiha Heiress.

Not enough to be noticed, but to serve it's purpose. "Now then. . ." Sasuke muttered.

And the result was well worth the idea as Yoroi, a normal human, have him absorbed chakra from the Kyūbi, which is known to have the most potent and corrosive chakra of all the Bijū's, made his arm feel like it was being melted.

Yoroi quickly released the Uchiha as he held his arm in agony. "W-What is this. . . this chakra!?" He choked out as he forced his own chakra to attack the foreign chakra in an attempt to flush out the hostile chakra.

"Now, the finale!" Sasuke's voice echoed.

To hearing that, Yoroi's eyes widen, however he couldn't even look forward as he got kicked in the jaw, sending him into the air.

"This is!" Yoroi barely got out as he felt his opponent right under him in midair.

In the stands. . .

Lee and Tenten were surprised along with Gai while Neji looked on with interest.

"That's!" Tenten started with wide eyes.

"My move!" Lee exclaimed in shock to the display.

"Looks like there's another copy shinobi now." Gai thought with amusement.

With Team Seven. . .

"Oh~ Looks like our dear Uchiha is imitating my imitating tactic." Kakashi joked in a fatherly tone.

Naruto and Hinata sweatdropped in unison to that.

Haku however sighed to hearing that. "Father. . ." He got out in a slightly embarrassed tone.

"Lame. . ." The Kyūbi simply commented with a deadpan tone while rolling his eyes. "While it's good that she learned that for a predicament like this, it's typical for an Uchiha to copy another with their Sharingan." He then remarked.

"Oi fuzzbutt, don't blame it on Satsuki-chan!" Naruto mentally retorted. "She knows not to copy a friend's jutsus!" He then reminded only for the Bijū to roll his eyes once more.

"Naruto-kun's right," Hinata reassured. "It could have also been an accident." She added.

"Yeah. . .you tell yourselves that. . ." The Kyūbi simply retorted while rolling his eyes.

Back in the arena. . .

"Dancing Leaf Shadow!" Sasuke finally exclaimed what the move was while right underneath him. "Thank you Lee-kun!" Satsuki mentally declared in excitement , even if copying the move was an accident on her end. "I'll have to apologize to him afterwards though. . ." She then added to herself.

Sasuke then began kicking his opponent in the side, then quickly switching their positions to kick the other side with the fully swing of the kicks, this double the impact of each kick.

The defenceless Yoroi meanwhile began to feel the Uchiha barrage of deadly strong kicks to the sides as he could feel some rips breaking with each hit.

Sasuke after delivering the devastating kicks on his opponent's side, she decided to finish this as their momentum began to end. With one mighty swing of one to gain even more impulse and delivered a brutal kick onto Yoroi's chest just in time as the two had reached the floor, thus doubling the impact. "LION'S BARRAGE!" Satsuki declared the name of her attack.

"AH!" Yoroi screamed in agony as his ribcage were completely shattered and the shards ricocheted into his heart and lungs, completely shredding them.

When the dust cleared, Sasuke was brushing himself off. "Whew. . ." He breathed out in relief.

However the Uchiha then looked towards his unmoving opponent before going wide-eyed as he knew that he wasn't alive anymore. ". . ." Sasuke was left speechless at seeing the dead body. "I. . .I. . ." Satsuki breathed out in shock before feeling sick.

Hayate coughed as he went over. "Since Yoroi is. . ." He began before hesitating. "Anyway, the winner is Sasuke Uchiha." He announced.

Silence. . .

Nothing but silence had reigned through all of the arena to what occurred as most of them didn't expected such a brutal death like that, while others had expected or just didn't care for the lost of life.

"That was. . .extremely brutal." Shikamaru got out, his eyes widen with shock as he did not see that coming at all.

Kiba gulped as he looked as the medical-nins covered Yoroi's face and took his body. "Don't mess with that girl. . ." He thought to himself as he heard Akamaru was whimpering a little.

Shino looked on as he tried to stop his bugs from going after Sasuke's chakra smoke, telling them that it would kill them.

"Satsuki-chan. . ." Naruto and Hinata thought unison as they looked at shocked disguised girl with concern.

Kakashi and Haku looked away for a moment, giving off depressed looks on their faces, possibly knowing what the girl was thinking at the moment for this development.

The Hokage looked at this with neutral eyes as he analysed this. "It appears that the girl's new found abilities wasn't just chakra base, they also have enhance physical strength as well." He analysed as he looked at the shocked Uchiha. "And unfortunately she had to find that out on her first kill as well. . ." He added with sadness.

Thought the green spandex genin was just as shocked about this, he couldn't help but be amazed at the move the Uchiha created had in the heat of battle. "To think at Satsuki-san would've learned my initial move for Primary Lotus so easily, even making some improvement to adapt it for the fight." Lee thought as he looked at the disguised girl. "But judging from her shocked face, she didn't expect to kill him with the move." He then added in his mind.

Back in the arena. . .

". . ." Sasuke was still in a state of shock at what happened, at what he did. "Oh kami. . . what have I done?. . .What have I done!?" Satsuki thought with rising panic.

The Kyūbi however rolled his eyes to hearing the fear and panic coming from the girl. "You were fighting, and you defeated your opponent. You should rejoice! Besides, that trick with using my chakra was an incredibly unique idea!" He surprisingly praised as he then pulled her into the mindscape.

"But. . .I never meant to kill him!" Satsuki then exclaimed as she looked at the cage with the demon fox on the other side.

The Bijū let out a sigh to that, as he find it annoying dealing with this kind of situation. "Listen here," The Kyūbi started in a surprisingly calm tone. "Didn't you even get a scent on that guy? He had the same scent as that Kabuto, which means he was with Orochimaru. . .though it should have been obvious since he was on the same team as Kabuto. . ." He explained.

Satsuki then downtrodden her head to hearing that. "But I still killed another human. . ." She soon got out in depression and shame.

"I really don't think he deserves how your feeling at the moment Uchiha, after all he was a kind human being if their with that pale skinned fucker, so think he didn't do anything bad?" The Kyūbi questioned with narrow eyes. "Besides. . .It's the shinobi life. You'll have to get used to it." He then stated as he rested his head on his paws.

(A/N: Let's face it. . .the almighty Kyūbi no Kitsune was hopeless when it came to emotional support at critical moments. He was a bloodthirsty demon of rage incarnate, for crying out loud! Even if he's a pervert most of the time. . .besides the moments where he does show some support. . .)

Satsuki suddenly became quiet as that advice really didn't help much. "What have I done?" She thought this over and over, wondering what she should have done.

Maybe she shouldn't have become a ninja. No, it's far too late for that path, she already had blood on her hands.

The Kyūbi lazily looked at the girl as she vanished from the mindscape. "Hmm. . .she is definitely different from other Uchihas. . ." He simply thought with a intrigued tone.

Sasuke finally got over his shock as he then headed back up to the stands, he looked at his teammates. "I need to cool off. . .I'm heading from the restroom. . ." He muttered to them as he left the arena via Shushin.

Naruto and Hinata meanwhile watched on as a depressed Sasuke vanished from the arena with concern in their eyes.

Kakashi saw this interaction and easily understood. "He was affected by what happened. . ." He stated in a serious tone.

Haku meanwhile nodded in agreement to that. "Indeed, this was his first kill. . ." He deducted while lowering his head. "It can be very hard on anyone's mind and heart. . ." He then added with a sad tone.

Naruto frowned at that, he knew about this as part of being a shinobi, but he had yet to experience it himself. He then turned towards her fiance. "Hinata-chan. . .could you?" He started to request via mind link.

Hinata smiled at this, she already knowing what he was going to ask as she pecked the blond on the cheek. "Sure, I'll help her." She answered the unfinished question.

"I still don't see what the big deal is?" Kyūbi densely remarked as he didn't care about the death of human life. . .save for one that matter to the Bijū. . . "All you humans die one way or another." He then reminded with narrow eyes.

The two young jinchūrikis sighed at that as Hinata went off to find the Uchiha while the Uzumaki stayed behind to watch the match. "You still have a lot to learn about humans Kyūbi." Hinata revealed as she headed out.

". . ." The Kyūbi said nothing to that, but he didn't deny it either.

Elsewhere in the tower. . .

Hinata was standing in front of the restroom, the girl had been walking around for a while as she wasn't used to the tower's rooms and locations. It was thanks to the Kyūbi telling her where Satsuki was in the restroom and the general location of it, thanks to their bond the trio shared with him.

Then the Hyuga took a deep breath and heading inside. There Hinata instantly saw the female Uchiha without her transformation, while she was washing her face. As she got closer, she noticed her friend's eyes were red and puffy, making her frown sadly. "You've been crying. . ." She started with a concerned tone.

Satsuki then finished dry her face with a towel while she sniffled a little. Once she was done, she turned to best friend and simply nodded as she didn't want to lie or pretend to her best friend that she was. "Y-Yeah. . ." She replied with a tired and raspy voice.

Hyuga's frown deepen as she could easily see the sadness and despair the Uchiha was feeling, Hinata didn't need to use her Byakugan to see it. She then slowly walked towards her and gave her Satsuki a tight hug. "It's alright Satsuki-chan, I know that it must have been horrible for you to experience something like that. . ." She attempted to calm the Uchiha down.

To hearing that, Satsuki instantly and openly cried on the Hyuga's shoulder as tears ran down her eyes. "But I still killed someone!" She shouted with dismay and fear as she couldn't bare the weight of taking a life.

Suddenly Satsuki's memory recalled the night of the massacre. "I know. . .I became a shinobi to find and capture my brother, but I don't want to be a killer like him!" She declared as more tears fell while her body shaken violently.

"Satsuki-chan. . ." Hinata once again started while rubbing the girl's back in a gentle manner trying to calm her down from the state of mind she was in.

The physical contact did the desire intention as the Uchiha's body finally began to relax, if only enough to stop shaking.

Then Satsuki looked at the Hyuga with a calmer yet sadden eyes. "Kyūbi may have said that it's a shinobi's life to kill, but that would just make me as bad as him, a monster that only knows how to kill." She admitted with conflicted emotions.

"Satsuki-chan please. . ." Hinata started once again as she wanted to say something once more to help the girl and decided to take a page from her favorite blond.

"And another thing, I-" Satsuki started once more, but was soon interrupted from the Hyuga as she forced a kiss her on the lips, her eyes widening to the action. "MMM!?" She got out in confusion. "Nata-chan!?" She thought in the same manner as the two soon proceeded to make-out.

Hinata then separated from Satsuki, all the while fighting back her own blush from kissing the fellow girl's lips. "It's alright Satsuki-chan, you don't have to suffer through this alone." She soon began.

"But. . ." Satsuki tried to say.

Hinata then tightened her hug on the Uchiha. "Me and Naruto-kun know that you're not a monster, as a monster wouldn't feel bad about taking a life. Whether that person was bad or not." She then stated with confidence.

". . ." Satsuki was soon speechless at seeing the confidence the former shy Hyuga was displaying.

Then Hinata gave a beautiful and kind smile at Satsuki. "We will alway be there for you. . .as friends. . ." She reassured.

"Nata-chan. . ." Satsuki barely got out as she felt herself melting into the kiss.

"And. . .and as mates." Hinata then mumbled out while her blushed returned at full force.

To hearing that, Satsuki blinked as she looked at her fellow fiancé, then she too began blush. "Y-Yeah. . ." She got out in response while returning the hug with a gentle smile. "Thanks Nata-chan." She soon replied.

"Hai." Hinata happily replied while still blushing.

"So. . ." Satsuki then started with a grin. "Can we keep making-out?" She asked.

This made Hinata blush crimson red as she didn't even had the chance to reply as Satsuki just held her face and began to make-out, both in the mindscape and in the bathroom, much to the embarrassment and delight of the Hyuga before she soon melted into the kiss.

Back at the arena. . .

"Okay we will now continue the preliminary match." Hayate started while coughing as he then looked at the screen as the next pair of names had been randomised. "Next match is between Rock Lee vs. Kiba Inuzuka." He revealed.

To hear that, Kiba jumped down straight to the arena. "Alright!" He cheered in excitement. "I'll win against this freak, no problem!" He declared with a cocky and overconfidence.

"Yosh! Finally! It's my turn to show off my Youth!" Lee declared as he too followed soon after his opponent. "This fight will surely increased my flames of Youth to higher heights!" He stated while his eyes were on fire from excitement.

"Yes! Go Lee! I'm sure your flames of Youth will grow even stronger!" Gai declared with even more excitement.

"HAI GAI-SENSEI!" Lee excitedly responded.

At hearing all of this made everyone, making all but a few present sweatdrop.

"Hey, Lee! Get ready for the beating of your life!" Kiba taunted while Akamaru whined a little.

This however didn't even phase Lee as he simply took his fighting stance. "Don't worry, Kiba-kun, I will fight with everything I got! So that my flames of youth grow even more!" He responded with complete confidence.

"If the contestants are ready. . ." Hayate said as he gain the two genin's attention. "Begin!" He announced and then jumped out of the away.

Not even wasting an instant, Lee charged at Kiba with incredible speeds and when to delivered a spin kick, stunning the Inuzuka and ninken.

Thanks to the Inuzuka's canine like senses and reaction speed, Kiba manage to blocked the kick with both arms and slide back a few meters. However the boy instantly felt as his bones were about to break from the impact. "Agh! What the hell!?" He got out while his arms felt like they were going numb with pain.

Lee was still in the same pose where he threw his kick as he then lowered his leg and retook his fighting stance. "Great reflexes Kiba-kun!" He praised with an impressed smirk.

Kiba winced as he looked at the spandex wearing shinobi. "What the hell is up with your legs!? They felt like I was blocking a sledge hammer!" He exclaimed in confusion.

Lee looked at him with a big smile on his face. "Why thank you! I train hard so that I could break Konoha's strong trees and the hardest stones I could find!" He thanked the Inuzuka for the praised.

"I wasn't praising. . ." Kiba retorted in an annoyed and worried tone, as he now realized that a direct hit from this guys kicks could be dangerous if not lethal for him, he looked as his still shaking arms and realized one thing. "Ok. . .I think I seriously underestimated him. . ." He quietly admitted to himself with a worried tone.

Akamaru meanwhile whined in agreement to that.

Kiba took a deep breath as his hand went towards his pouch. "Can't even risk it. . ." He thought to himself as he pulled out two small brown pills.

In the upper stands. . .

"Wait. . .what are those. . ." Naruto asked with squinted eyes.

"Those are soldier pills." Kakashi answered.

The blond turned towards his sensei and raised an eyebrow. "Soldier pills?" Naruto questioned in a curious tone.

"Soldier pills are a special medicine that can restored and sometime amplify a shinobi's chakra. Some shinobi have them in case they're running low on chakra." Haku explained.

"Cool. . .wait ain' that cheating then?" Naruto then got out as he looked at Kiba holding the pills and gave one to Akamaru.

"Not really, because they are categories as a shinobi tool just like kunais and shurikens." Kakashi simply stated as he saw the Inuzuka eating the other one. "Though most only consume very few and only as a last option as constantly consuming them may result in very negative results from over using them. Trust me when I say it not a pleasant experience." He then added with a knowing tone as if he knew what he was talking about.

Back in the arena. . .

Lee once more got into his stance as he looked at his opponent. "Hmm. . .interesting. . ." He started.

The both Inuzuka and ninken began to change in appearance as a result after swallowing the pills, the puppy's fur began to turn dark red and began growling furiously, while Kiba's teeth were now turning canine like and his nails became much sharper like claws.

Then Kiba crouched down in all four of his limbs. "Let's go Akamaru!" He growled out in a feral manner as said ninken jumped on top of his back and barked in agreement before making a handsign. "Beast Mimicry!" He began.

Suddenly the two were covered in a smoke as Lee waited patient so that he could fight his opponent at his best. Soon the smoke cleared and Lee saw that Akamaru had transformed into a copy of his partner.

"MAN BEAST CLONES!" KIba and his clone declared in unison.

Lee smiled grew even wider as he saw this. "Impressive! Not let us fight with everything we got!" He declared with excitement.

"That a boy Lee! Show your opponent the power of youth!" Gai declared from the stands with a thumbs up.

"Yes sir!" Lee instantly responded with a salute.

The duo of Kiba growled in response. "We'll end this!" He declared while the other Kiba just growled and jumped off the real one.

"Here I go!" Lee declared as he charged at the two.

Then both Kiba's began to spin in place and charged at Lee. "Fang Over Fang!" Kiba declared.

Lee stopped for a moment as he saw the two deadly twister headed his way. Using quick footwork he narrowly dodge the two with minimal effort.

Kiba and Akamaru didn't let up as he quickly stopped and then began another assault, but only this time they attacked in a sphere like fashion to try an minimize the space the spandex wearing genin could use to dodge. "YOUR DONE!" He declared while spinning

However, once again, Kiba was shown how wrong he was as Lee jumped spin upwards before the two could had reached him. Once in the air, he went and delivered a dive kick towards one of the Kiba's midsection.

The Kiba that was struck gasped loudly as he was sent crashing down with great force that left a small crater on the floor. The other Kiba looked at this in shock as he was then covered in smoke and Akamaru ran towards his unconscious partner with concern.

"Do not worry, I only struck him to knock him out." Lee revealed in a calm manner while taking a deep breath.

Hayate walked towards the Inuzuka and saw that he was indeed unconscious. "The winner by knockout, Rock Lee." He declared while pointing at said boy.

Back with those up in the higher stands. . .

For those that didn't know about Lee and his problem with his coils, they could only stare at the match with shock as they couldn't believe that Kiba was easily beaten by someone using only taijutsu.

However for those that did know about his inability to cast any ninjutsu or genjutsu, they were once again reminded of how hard the boy's training must had been to be able to get this far.

"Good that he didn't go all out; we might have lost Kiba." Naruto thought to himself as he felt sorry about Kiba's lost as he was taken by the medics, but it was expected from a hard worker like Lee, which only made him smiled.

Neji however sighed at the sight as his teammate stood next to him and Tenten. "The fool. . .no matter how hard he tries, it's his faith to be weak. Beating another weakling doesn't change that fact." He thought with complete belief in the fact.

After Kiba was taken by the medical shinobi's for treatment, the practor watch the screen for the next participants.

"Next match is between Gaara of the Desert and Dosu Kinuta!" Hayate announce.

Dosu simply scoffed at that. "So it my turn now. . .I got to show Orochimaru that I am not worthless like the other two." He thought to himself as he jumped down.

At the call of those names, many were indifferent all except Naruto and the Sand siblings.

"Great, that Oto prick. . ." Naruto got out in a low tone, but then his eyes turned towards the other participant with a neutral expression. "Gaara. . ." He thought to himself with neutral tone.

". . ." The Kyūbi didn't reply at all as he had a good idea what his host was probably thinking.

"You heard the proctor Gaara." His sensei stated. "Just don't over do it and finish it quickly." He then advised.

The older siblings had concern expressions as they knew if their little brother does over do it it would be very dangerous. ". . ." Gaara however said nothing to that.

Then the red haired boy's eyes looked at the blonds and both stare at each other for a moment, but for them it was much longer than that. It was as if they were looking at each others souls, one were shining with hope and love, while the other with despair and hatred.

Having enough, Gaara simply looked away as he performed a sand Shunin and appeared in the arena as he looked straight at his opponent. "Weak. . ." He emotionlessly declared.

Hayate turned at the two and saw that they were ready. "Ready, begin!" He declared and jumped out of the way.

Dosu took his stance and pulled his long sleeve to show his gauntlet. "I will defeat you swiftly, weakling!" He declared while he charged forward.

Gaara didn't even move a muscle as he watched his opponent with a bored expression. "You. . . Will prove my existence." He simply reply with a murderous eyes, then he extended his hand. "Sand Coffin!" He declared as sand rapidly rose up from his large gourd and was sent towards the Oto genin.

Just as Dosu was a foot away, he was suddenly stopped in midstep while being surrounded by the sand as he was suspended him in midair in a large sand cocoon unable to move. "W-WHAT!?" He exclaimed in shock while futilely struggling to break free.

Gaara looked at his opponent with an emotionless expression as he clenched his fist. "Sand Burial!" He declared.

CRUNCH! SPLASH!

A sickening crunching sound echoed as the sand around Dosu imploded and crushed his entire body while blood flew from the cocoon, however somehow the blood then began to be pulled into the sand. Then the sand began to retracted and returned to the gourd as Gaara placed its lid back.

THUD!

The sound of the cadaver of Dosu's body landed on the floor, Gaara only watch the bodie's face that had an expression of pure agony and despair without a single emotion on his face. "Weak. . ." He declared in a unsatisfied tone and began to walked back to his spot on the railing.

". . . The winner is Gaara of the Desert." Hayate simply stated as he didn't even needed to check to know that Dosu was dead.

Back at the upper area. . .

Almost all of the genin were left both speechless and sicken by the brutality of how Gaara murdered Dosu.

"Whoa. . ." Naruto got out in disbelief and a sick tone as he watch the body. "That was . . .ugh. . ." He got out, feeling sick at what he witnessed as his hand clenched the seal on his stomach.

"That's Shukaku for you, likes to finish things as quickly and bloody as possible. It's all for the blood; just can't get enough." Kyūbi bluntly stated as his face snarled. "This isn't what the old man wanted you to be. . .idiotic potbellied tanuki. . ." He meanwhile thought in annoyance and disapproval.

At that moment, Hinata and Sasuke finally returned just in time to see the cadaver being picked up by the medical shinobi's. "What the hell happened here?" The Uchiha bluntly asked. "This reminds me of the day of the massacre. . ." Satsuki thought with disgust.

"Naruto-kun. . .what. . ." Hinata barely got out at the sight.

". . ." Naruto couldn't say anything as his mind was still wandering with Gaara being the reason.

"Just one insane tanuki's sick mind at work. . ." The Kyūbi vaguely answered as he just continued giving a serious expression.

The others genin meanwhile were just as baffled and scared by the boy's actions. "Damn. . ." Shikamaru got out with a disturbed voice. "He would be a troublesome opponent. . ." He muttered. He was now thinking that if he has to fight him, he was going to forfeit, he wouldn't care if her mom would chew him out, it was better than getting killed by a psychopath.

Shino and Kurenai looked on Gaara went back to the stands next to his siblings. "Kurenai-sensei. . .we better avoid him at all cost." Shino muttered out as Kurenai nodded in agreement.

With the Suna siblings and their sensei. . .

"I told you not to over do it." The Suna jonin stated in annoyance.

"Not to disrespect you sensei. . .but I can say that this was Gaara not overdoing it. . ." Temari admitted with fear in her voice.

Kankurō cringed at that. "Got that right. . ." He simply remarked.

Back at the arena. . .

The cleaning didn't took long as the sand had taken all of the blood, now the screen soon selected the next set of names for the next match.

"Next match will be: Naruto Uzumaki against Tenten Higurashi!" Hayate announced.

"Huh, wasn't expecting that." Kakashi honestly admitted.

"Tell me about it." Naruto agreed with a nod but he soon smiled. "But anyways, finally my turn." He said with an excited tone at finally be able to fight after so long.

"Excitable idiot. . ." The Kyūbi grumbled in annoyance.

"Oh who asked you furball!?" Naruto annoyingly retorted.

Both Hinata and Satsuki had to hold back from giggling out loud to the banter of the two. "Don't screw up dobe." Sasuke remarked with a smirk.

Hinata just smiled gently. "Good luck Naruto-kun." She encouraged as she then pecked him on the cheek.

Naruto blushed slightly but his smiled never lost its happiness. "Thanks!" He replied as he jumped off the edge of the balcony and landed on his feet while grinning widely.

Suddenly the blond's eyes widen before he closed them.

Inside of the Seal. . .

Naruto appeared in the room where the seal that held Kyūbi and there he saw the Uchiha Heiress staring into the cage while the tenant just looked lazy while looking back.

"You look way cuter in chibi. . ." Satsuki commented with an absent minded tone.

The Kyūbi let out a large yawn, this gave Satsuki a good look at his huge canine teeth that were at least three times bigger than her as then huffed his nose making the girl's hair raised a bit while still looked bored. "At least I'm not a puny girl like you." He simply retorted with a smirk.

This instantly got Satsuki's full attention. "Why you perverted little-!" She replied with an annoyed tone.

Naruto couldn't help but let out an amused chuckle at that. "Satsuki-chan. . ." He then called out to the girl.

To hearing that, Satsuki turned to see the blond. "Naru-kun!" She greeted before strutting over to him. "I kind of asked the Kyūbi to bring you here before the match began." She told her.

"So that's why I was suddenly pulled her." Naruto got out as he realized the reason.

"She's already adapting well to my power." The Kyūbi simply clarified.

"Good to know." Naruto replied as he then turned towards the girl. "So what is it that you wanted to say? Because I need to be back quick." He then asked with a curious tone.

Satsuki then gave a infamous Naruto like grin. "I have one thing to say." She started to say as she lean closer to the blond and looked at him with a seductive expression.

"!" Naruto's eyes widened at the closeness of the Uchiha.

"Naru-kun~" Satsuki started in a seductive tone as she then pecked him on the lips and then quickly separated. "Good luck." She encouraged while grinning widely.

Naruto blinked a few times before he realized that he was tricked, he then chuckle as he pecked her back. "Can do, my raven haired beauty." He playfully replied as he stroked the girl's cheek.

"Always the ladies man, huh kit." The Kyūbi commented as he gave off a perverted chuckle.

The two young lovers turned to the demon fox with narrow eyes. "Oh shut it you!" They both yelled out, though the two had blushes on their faces.

"Leave it to the fox to ruin the moment. . ." Satsuki got out in annoyance.

"Yup. . ." Naruto simply replied.

Then both genin's disappeared and left the seal, while the Kyūbi let out an amused chuckle. "They make it too easy sometimes. . ." He then remarked.

Back in the real world. . .

Tenten meanwhile smiled widely at the announcement and began lightly stretching her arms. "Finally, it's my turn now." She happily declared.

This made Lee tightening his fist. "GOOD LUCK TENTEN, WE WILL BE CHEERING FOR YOU AND FOR YOUR FLAMES OF YOUTH!" He exclaimed as he then gave her a thumbs up.

Tenten chuckled awkwardly at that. "Thanks Lee, but still I'll do my best!" She replied.

Neji meanwhile glared at the blond intently for a moment before looking back at her teammate. "Just don't lose Tenten." He simply stated.

Gai manage to catch that glare and frowned, however he didn't said anything or risk making the boy even more angry.

Tenten also had caught this, but remain composed. "Like a said, I'll fight with everything I have." She replied, but did not fully answered the Hyuga's question.

With that, the girl decided to walk down the stairs instead of jumping like most of the participants.

At the arena. . .

Both competitors were looking at each other, ready to begin the fight.

"So, you ready to go Naruto-san?" Tenten asked as she took out a kunai on each hand while taking a battle stance.

Naruto in response respond in kind, taking his own stance. "Bring it, Tenten-chan!" He replied as he began to channeling his chakra on his body.

The proctor looked at the two genin and nodded. "If you're ready, then. . . begin!" Hayate announced as he got out of the way.

The two then instantly jumped backwards to make a comfortable distance, Tenten so that she could use her throwable weapons, while Naruto for more space to both dodge and counter.

Naruto then quickly took out and held a kunai on each hand and took his fighting stance. "Let's do this!" He declared with excitement and could already feel the adrenaline pumping.

Inside of the seal, the Bijū merely just let out a scoff. "Like I told Satsuki before kit, don't show all your power nor my chakra, it should be used only if absolutely necessary." Kyūbi reminded once more.

"Whatever. . ." Naruto thought as he rolled his eyes as he charged at the older girl.

Tenten didn't waste any time either as she fired handful of kunais and shurikens at him with pinpoint accuracy.

Naruto eyes widen at this. "Oh boy!" He got out as he quickly dodged weapons, however he did cut a few cuts here and there, mostly just shallow one.

It went on like this for a while, with Naruto dodging the endless streams of weapons and constantly remaking clones. She used wires connected to her fingers to reuse the same weapons and throwing them at unusual angles, making it harder to dodge.

"Nice dodging skills." Tenten commented as she then pull out even more throwable weapons. "But can you dodge a whole lot?" She then asked and threw a large amount of kunais and shurikens.

This made Naruto cringed in fear. "Oh come on!" He complained as he was forced to dodge and block the barrage with his kunai.

However, just as the blond dodged or blocked the projectiles, the girl quickly send even more. Until she finally had to stop because she ran out of weapons.

"Looks like your ran out, huh?" Naruto asked with a grin on his face.

"Looks like this tactic isn't going to work. . ." Tenten thought to herself as she frown at this, she was always proud of the fact that she had dead aim, but now she knew that that didn't matter in the slightest to fast and agile opponents. "It's either fight up close or use that. . ." She then analised.

"So that's it? Got nothing else?" Naruto playfully taunted with a large smile and excitement as he waited for his female opponent.

Tenten frowned even more at that. "He's just like Lee. . ." She thought with slight annoyance, but that made it easier to know that the blond was more so a physical fighter. "Guess I have no choice but to use that." She concluded as she pulled out the two small scrolls from the back of her belt.

"What's she up to?" Naruto thought to himself as he saw the girl crouching down and placing the scroll on the floor. "I had a bad feeling about this. . ." He added with while he gain a cold sweat.

"I wanted to used this for the finals, but. . ." Tenten began to say as she began to make some hand seal. "I'll just show it off here! Bukijutsu: Twin Rising Dragon!" She declared.

Suddenly a huge cloud of smoke exploded off of Tenten's position. Then two smoke like dragons shot up of the smoke and circle on another, the dragons disappeared and in their place were the two scrolls.

After this act, Tenten jumped right in the middle of the two scrolls as high as she could. Then the girl began to touch the spiraling scrolls and a kunai appeared, which soon followed by another type of weapon as she then began to throw and summon one after another straight at the blond.

"I KNEW IT!" Naruto shouted in terror as he quickly made his signature seal and summon four clones.

"Meh." The Kyūbi meanwhile remarked, unphased by the attack.

"NOT HELPING!" The original and the clones shouted in unision.

Then in a two man formation, each of the clones began to block the weapons while Naruto blocked the ones that manage to passed his clones. This continued for a long yet intense moment as two clones were dispelled while Naruto had a lot of cuts, but nothing serious.

Tenten soon landed on the floor and growled at the fact that her technique had failed. "I'm not done yet!" She declared while preparing herself once again for another attack.

With yet another jump, she floated with her head facing downwards and began to move her hands. At this action, all of the weapons on the ground began to slowly move as the suddenly sprang upwards.

The young weapon mistress and her weapons remain floating for a moment before Tenten lunged her hands forwards and the weapon all went straight at Naruto.

The blond was let out a low growled at that. "This is getting annoying." Naruto muttered as he looked at the last remaining clones. "Might as well. . ." He simply told his clones as they nodded in understanding.

One clone began to channel wind chakra on his lungs while the other on his hand. "Wind Style!" The two clones declared.

"Great Breakthrough!" The first clone shouted as he sent a large gust of air towards the weapons making them change their course upwards and pushed back Tenten.

"Beast Wave Palm!" The second clone declared as he sent a horizontal slash, this instantly cut through the wires but a been very careful not to slice the girl.

The original Naruto didn't let this chance pass as he dashed forward and jumped towards the defenceless girl as he cocked back his fist. "Time to end this!" He declared as he delivered a strong uppercut to the girl's chin.

Tenten's entire body meanwhile was numb from the blow as she couldn't stop herself from falling towards the ground, the impact almost sent her unconscious, but was still conscious.

Not wanting the girl to have broken a few bones or have her skull cracked, Naruto caught her in mid-air and they both landed safely. He let out a sigh of relief at this as he turn to the girl in his arms. "That was close, you alright Tenten-chan?" He asked with concern.

Tenten could only weakly chuckled before wincing in pain. "A bit, but I'm done. . .it's your win." She turned to the proctor watching their match. "Proctor. . . I give up." She simply stated with a sigh escaping her lips.

With a nod of acknowledgment, Hayate turned towards the audience. "The winner of this match by way of forfeit, Naruto Uzumaki!" He announced.

In the stands. . .

Naruto's friends and loved ones look on at the blond with a smile on their face's.

The Ice user nodded at the his friends victory. "Naruto used impressive his tactics with his clones." Haku began with a smile with approval in his tone.

Kakashi couldn't help nodded in agreement to that. "Indeed, Naruto's skills have grown." He then admitted.

Sasuke on the other hand just smirked at he witnessed this. "Typical of the dobe being a complete show off." He stated. "Way to go Naru-kun! Awesome work!" Satsuki meanwhile cheered in a delighted tone.

"Always want to have a girl in your arms, huh?" The Kyūbi meanwhile joked with a smirk.

To hearing that, Sasuke's face scrunched slightly as his eye twitch. "Oh shut it Ero-kitsune!" Satsuki retorted in annoyance.

"We already know it's nothing like that." Hinata calmly declared to the demon fox, unphased by the remark.

Back with Naruto. . .

Naruto began heading up the stands while he was still carried Tenten when Lee landed in front of his path. "Yo Lee." He greeted with a grin.

Lee nodded in response to that. "Though I am sad that Tenten lost her match, I am happy that your flames of youth have improve after a youthful battle." He stated with a thumbs up. "Both of you did extremely well!" He then added.

"Thanks Lee. . ." Tenten weakly reply.

To hearing that, Naruto looked and saw that the girl was really tired. "Come on, let her get some rest Lee, I think she's really needs it." He stated as he handed the girl to her teammate.

Then the three walked back up and returned up to their respective sides.

Once they reach there, Naruto turned towards the girl. "And like bushy brows said, that really was a good match Tenten-chan, we got have to spar again sometime." He replied with a wide grin.

Tenten smirked as her teammate placed her against the wall. "I'll hold you to it Naruto-san."

"You got it!" Naruto replied with his fox grin on his face.

With that the blond wave at the both Lee and Tenten as he returned with his team, not noticing or caring about a glare towards him from a certain male Hyuga.

With Team Seven. . .

Naruto calmly had finally reached his side as he waved at his team and sensei.

Hinata was smiling as she looked at the blond. "Naruto-kun, that was a excellent match." She praised in a soft and kind tone.

"That was. . .meh at best. . ." The Kyūbi meanwhile stated with a bored tone.

"Oh be quiet." Naruto and Satsuki remarked.

"It would had been faster if you had fought seriously." Sasuke commented. "How come you didn't used the Executioner's Blade? You would had beaten her way quicker." Satsuki mentally asked.

"Hey! I won at the end right?" Naruto simply retorted as he then rubbed the back of his head. "I don't know, I guess I just wanted to test how far I gotten without the need to rely on it and it would've been overkill if I did." He then admitted.

"So we saw." Kakashi stated as his stepson nodded in agreement. "You have improved greatly with perfectly using both Shadow Clones and your elemental jutsus." He praised, making the blond grin widely, however the jonin's eye then narrowed. "But Sasuke was right though, in a real fight you have to use everything you have to win or risk dying out of arrogance or overconfidence." He then added with a serious tone.

Naruto flinched at that as he did saw the logic behind those words. "Yeah. . .I guess your right sensei. . ." He embarrassedly admitted.

Seeing that the blond understood, Kakashi eye smiled once more. "But still, good job." He remarked once more.

The blond quickly recovered and grinned widely to hearing that as they all turned back to see who the next match will be between.

The sound of the screen had finalize the randomizing finally ended.

"The next match that will commence will be between Neji Hyuga and Kankurō of the Desert!" Hayate declared.

At the hospital. . .

The medical shinobi's had just finished the examination, a now short haired Sakura was placed into a room within a secluded area in the most secure areas in the hospital so that she could rest peacefully.

However inside of the girl's mind. . .

Sakura was floating around in a black empty space, completely devoid of anything. She slowly struggled to open her eyes. Once she regain enough conscious she looked around. "W-Where. . .am I. . .?" She groggily asked with a raspy voice.

"WHERE DO YOU THINK YOU!?" A familiar yet excessively loud voice. "YOU'RE IN YOUR MIND, DAMN IT!" She then roared in annoyance.

Sakura's eyes wide at this as she turned around to see another person that looked like her, but the only difference was that this Sakura was see through black that was outlined with white lines and the writing Inner Sakura on her forehead. "Your. . . me. . ." She got out.

Inner Sakura looked even more annoyed as the real one stated the obvious. "HELL YEAH I'M YOU!" She retorted while gritted her teeth.

Sakura tried to take a step back from both startlement and fear at what she was seeing. "W-What do you want?" She shakily asked.

Inner Sakura suddenly calmed down and smiled evilly. "Well," She began to say as he see through body began to glow and white flame like marks started to cover her body. "I wanted to talk to you about this power boost we go dammit!" She stated with an evil glee in her tone.

Sakura's eyes however widen at the sight of her inner self marks. "W-What is that!?" She nervously asked in fear.

The girl was so startled that she didn't even notice her own body was gaining black marks that were similar to her inner self's as they started to spread over her and they were originating from her right hand.

Back in the tower. . .

The oldest of the sand siblings just smirked at the announcement. "Finally my turn, huh?" He stated with arrogance in his tone.

"Don't screw up little bro, me and Gaara already made it." Temari teased with a smirk.

Kankurō frown in annoyance, but before he could retort. . .

"Kankurō." Gaara suddenly said with his normal emotionless tone.

Both of his older siblings were startled by that. "Y-Yes, little brother?" Kankurō shakily said.

Gaara's eyes then looked straight at the eldest brother. "Do not fail, do not be distracted, and do not play around." He said that as both an order and a threat.

Both Kankurō and Temari gain a cold sweat at that, knowing that their little brother was not in the mood. So the eldest simply and fearfully nodded as he walked down the stairs.

With Team Nine. . .

To hearing his name, Neji just let out a scuff, not even thinking it was worth the effort.

However his eternal rival on the other hand was excited. "Good luck, Neji-kun! Let your flames of youth burn brightly!" Lee encouraged energetically.

"Yeah. . .good luck with your match." Tenten encouraged in a calm tone as she rested against the wall.

Their teammate only scoffed once more. "I don't need luck; Faith is on my side, and has decreed that I will win." He simply replied, before he started walking down to the arena.

Gai meanwhile shook his head in disappointment as he watch his student head down. "Neji. . .your wrong, fate does not determine one's worth nor does it decides the outcome, if you continues on this bitter path, it will destroy him." He thought before he then sighed, but he knew that he couldn't change his mind unless he himself is willing to change.

Down below. . .

The two contestants got into their ready positions; Neji took his Gentle Fist style while Kankurō took a ready stance.

Not wanting to annoy Gaara, Kankurō took of the large bundle that was on his back, and was able to increase his mobility, so that he could end this fight as quickly as possible.

Hayate looked at the two genin and nodded. "Ready? Then, begin!" The proctor declared.

Neji smirked as he readied himself. "Faith has already declared me the winner, so you should withdraw before you embarrassed yourself." He advised with an arrogant tone.

Kankurō responded with a frown. "This is why I hate little brats. . ." He thought with annoyance. "Just shut up already." He retorted before charging at the Hyuga while giving out heavy blows.

Neji just shook his head in disappointment of his opponent's choice. "Byakugan!" He declared as he quickly activated his Kekkei Genkai and began to dodge the heavy blows.

However, thanks to his eyes, the Hyuga instantly saw that something was very wrong with his opponent. "There aren't any Tenketsu nor chakra pathways. . .There's only strands of chakra. . ." He quickly analysed as he continued dodging.

The Hyuga then quickly followed the chakra strands and saw that they were connected from his opponent towards the weird bundle that he always carries on his back. Then dashing backwards enough so that he focus his bloodline even more and managed to catch what was inside.

Neji smirked when he saw that the bundle had human chakra coils. "I see now. . ." He got out as Kanakurō charged once more towards him. The Hyuga dodged yet again and then rushed towards the bundle. "I have you now!" He declared.

Suddenly Kankurō was pulled like a rag doll and quickly got in Neji's way. Then the wrappings on the bundle began to unwrapped and revealed that the bundle was the real Kankurō all along. "Whew, it was stuffy in there. . ." He said playfully as he pulled out the last of the wrappings of him. "Should've know this tactic wouldn't work on a Hyuga but was worth a shot." He commented with a hint of arrogance in his tone.

Then the Sand genin brought the fake Kankurō closer to him as a shell-like outer surface of his face fell off it, revealing a creature with four eyes, six arms and no legs.

Neji however was not surprised by this revelation. "I see, a puppet user. . ." He openly stated.

Kankurō just smirked as he began to move his fingers in a certain manner. "Say hello to Karasu, the Crow puppet. Now let's start the real battle." He introduced before swinging both arms towards the Hyuga and twitching his fingers rapidly. Karasu immediately rocketed towards the other boy and began to shoot kunai and senbon.

Neji smirked as he quickly evaded the incoming projectiles with grace. "A foolish delay. . ." He simply declared.

Kankurō growled for a moment, but kept his cool. "Cocky little brat." He muttered in annoyance as he moved his finger with an aggressive pattern. In response, Karasu move erratically for a moment before it dashed towards the Hyuga while gliding through the floor and began to quick swings of its wooden arms at him.

Neji frowned at both the speeds and attack from the puppet and forced him to go to the defencive, since the puppet didn't had chakra pathways, the Hyuga couldn't attack them nor could he predict his moments like normal.

All Neji could do was dodge or deflect the strikes, however when he did deflect them it left his arms with a sting from the hardwood that the doll was made of. "Tch, annoying puppet. . ." He remarked with narrow eyes.

Kankurō smirked as he saw this. "What's wrong? Where did all that confidence go ya little brat?" He taunted the Hyuga as he then changed the pattern of his fingers. Once again, the puppet moved erratically for a moment before it changed its attacks and focus on hitting the Hyuga's lower and upper legs, trying to make him lose balance.

Said boy however quickly adapted like the prodigy that he was and quickly changed his moments to dodge the strikes. "This is getting to be a real nuisance." He complained though he could easily dodge the attacks it wasn't going to help if he can move passed the puppet. "And if I just try to go straight for him he can quickly pulling him back in time to block me attacks." He then analysed the situation.

"Hehe, you'll never be able to beat Karasu, so you better keep dancing!" Kankurō declared with a smirk as he continued to move his fingers.

Neji continued to avoid the attacks that were thrown as him as he continued to dodge and evade the onslaught, his Byakugan then noticed the strings of chakra that moved along side the puppet making him smirk. "I see, it's that simple." He declared and then rushed straight at the puppet.

The Hyuga had reach the puppet and began to delivered some Junken strikes, this only made Kankurō chuckle in amusement. "Seriously? You think that will stop my Kasaru?" He taunted.

Neji however smirked back in response as he finished striking the puppet. "You mean you haven't noticed?" He questioned.

Kankurō raised an eyebrow. "What are you talking about ya damn brat?" He asked in annoyance when his Kasaru began to move slower than it should. "What!?" He shouted as he finally felt something wrong inside of his puppet. "The strings!" He thought with fear.

"Finally noticed?" Neji retorted as his smirked didn't left his face. "To defeat you quickly, all I have to do with aim for the chakra strings inside it and then. . ." He began to explained as he charged towards the back of the puppet and used his chakra strikes to cut the strings that connected the puppet to the user. "Sever the links to its puppeteer." He concluded as he chopped the last of the chakra strings.

Kankurō's eyes widen as he saw Karasu fall to the ground. "Crap!" He shouted in fear as he couldn't just make another chakra strings and connect it to his puppet that quickly.

"And now," Neji continued as he quickly dashed towards the defenceless puppet user, then once in front of him he began started hitting multiple chakra points throughout his body. "Your finished." He grunted out as he finished hitting as many tenketsu as possible.

To all the pain, Kankurō started coughing up a little blood from the Hyuga's strikes to his tenketsu and by connection, his internal organs. "Damn it. . .the brat got me. . ." He thought with anger as he fell to his knees after the Hyuga stepped back. "Fuck. . .Gaara's going to kill me. . ." He added as he could only decide the only course of action he could take.

"So? Do you give up?" Neji asked with a superior tone in his voice.

Kankurō had to hold his back fury from being looked down by a brat, but he then raised an achingly hand and painfully moved his head towards the proctor. "Procter, I'm done. . ." He barely got out with much annoyance in his tone.

Hayate came over and saw the boy was unable to battle. "The winner of this match by forfeit, Neji Hyuga!" He announced.

Back within the hospital. . .

Sakura was left speechless as she looked at her inner self being covered in those flame like marks.

After a few moments, the girl finally manage to recover from her initial shocked. "W-What is this?!" Sakura asked in both fear and confusion as she finally realized that she herself was gaining in black marks covering her body.

". . . Are you really this stupid? The power boost from that snake that bit us!" Inner Sakura explained as she began to feel the power that the markings were emanating.

"W-What are they?" Sakura asked as she looked at her hand was the source of the marks and then it spread to her entire arm.

"Who knows, but whatever this is," Inner Sakura replied without a care as her face gain an evil smile. "It made us stronger, much stronger that I ever thought I could feel! Now, we can win Sasuke-kun's heart! With these!" She stated as she pointed to the marks. "He'll admire our new power! He'll never even think of getting with any other girl!" She declared as she began laughing in a menacing manner before licking her face..

Sakura on the other hand was still confused and hesitate about the whole situation. "I-I don't know. . . Sasuke-kun might not like. . . all of this." She admitted, referring to the way the marks made strange shapes on her body.

However, what the girl didn't realize was that her hesitation was slowly crumbling; her inner self was very convincing.

Inner Sakura meanwhile rolled her nonexistent blank eyes to that. "Come on! Who could resist us? Think of what we can achieve with this awesome power!" She then remarked.

". . ." Sakura couldn't say a word as she continued looking at the marks, however this time without a hint of confusion or hesitation, only wonder.

Inner Sakura merely smirked to the wonder filled expression. "It'll be great! We'll become an incredible kunoichi that will be worthy of being Sasuke-kun's husband! And he'll be all ours. . ." She soon stated.

"All ours. . ." Sakura repeated with fascination as a small smile of excitement began to form on her face.

Inner Sakura inwardly smirked; this was going very, very well. She started to walk over to Sakura and caressed her cheek. "Exactly. . .all you need to do to finally get Sasuke-kun, is for us to merge. With your abilities, and my abilities, seeing as I have more of this thing's power, we could win over Sasuke-kun in no time at all!" Inner Sakura stated.

This finally got Sakura to seriously considered what her inner self had said. She had always felt weak, even when she did have that one sparring match against her love, that was a golden ticket to win Sasuke's affections only to failed miserably for being weak. "I'm sick of being weak. . ." She admitted to herself with a sense of louding of her own weakness.

The Inner Sakura growed with pure anger. "Who wouldn't be!? I even hate the fact that Sasuke-kun even acknowledged that blond akuma of being strong! Much stronger than I am!" She then reminded in annoyance and anger.

That was the final pushed Sakura needed to decide. "Alright." She said in a low tone as she knew what to do as she then looked at her mark covered hand and smiled wickedly. "Do it!" She declared her desire and a slight power hungry tone.

Inner Sakura smirked openly now as she saw the girl stretched her hand towards her. "Perfect. Now, this may sting a little. . .Our personalities will probably also merge so you might exhibit a little of me afterwards." She revealed as she grabbed Sakura's hand and began slowly channeling her power into Sakura.

At first, Sakura felt much, but that soon ended when she felt discomfort and then she start grating her teeth to ignore the pain.

"Bare with it me, we need this power!" Inner Sakura declared as she and the curse seal on her hand began to emanate even more chakra. "We need all of this power!" She then added in anticipation.

After a few more moments, the pain slowly began to stop and then started to moan in pleasure. "Ah~!" Sakura got out as more and more flame like patterns began spreading, giving the girl even more feeling of pleasure from the intoxicating power coursing through her body.

"Oh yes. . ." Sakura got out as the marks then started to spread from her arm to her face, once it reach her eyes they became snake-like for a moment before returning to normal.

The more the inner self poured more of her chakra, the more it slowly began to fade. However she didn't looked like she cared as she was loving every second of this process.

"Oh yes. . .!" Sakura got out in ecstasy as the marks covered her entire side as one eye gained a tint of yellow.

By this point, Inner Sakura was barely visible anymore as only a faint outline of her remained. But as it faded more, her expression slowly began to twisted in vile glee.

"OH YES!" Sakura soon exclaimed as the marks cover her entire body as her eyes went completely yellow and snake-like before turning back to normal. "THIS. FEELS. GREAT!" She screamed out pleasure.

The barely visible Inner Sakura smirked as she let go of her and moved in front of her. "Kukuku. . .Now then. . ." She began to say as her entire existence slowly faded away.

"The final union. . ." Both Sakura's declared in unison as what was left of Inner Sakura walked into her, completely merging with the physical original self.

Suddenly a sinister yellow-green flash of light came out of the girl and only the sound of a vile laughter echoed in the darkness followed by the sounds of hissing snakes.

Back in the hospital. . .

A doctor went by Sakura's room and saw the girl sleeping peacefully.

The doctor then looked at the mark on the back of girl's hand with concern. "We'll have to keep a close eye on her, Orochimaru's Curse Mark could do anything to her. . ." He thought as closed the door and walked away.

Unknowing to him, Sakura slowly started to smile in her sleep as she continued resting, however the Curse Mark began to glow red, before it turned green for a brief moment before dying down.

Meanwhile at the gates of Konoha. . .

A lone figure was walking from the route that let it to Konoha, after a few more steps it finally reached the entrance and looked upwards is it stare at the massive gates of the village while the clouds above cover their form by with its shadow.

The figure then stopped walking to take in what they saw. "Whoa. . ." A girl's voice got out in amazement, the clouds finally moved away from the figure and showing it was a young girl around the same age as Naruto.

The girl was petite and had an androgynous figure that if it wasn't for her voice she could had been confused with a boy, tan-skinned, she had short, spiky mint green hair that had a small orange clip on her right side of her head that matched her eye colour, which was also orange.

Her outfit was slightly revealing as it consisted of a short sleeveless white midriff shirt, a fishnet armour was underneath it, she also wore long white armlets and fishnet shorts with a short white apron skirt over it.

However what was more eye catching was that she had a shinobi forehead protector was worn on her right arm, which signified she was a kunoichi and finally that she carried a cylindrical object in red wrapping on her back.

"That's sure one big gate. . ." The kunoichi then added as she looked at the massive gates.

"Not as big as me!" Another more childish voice remarked with confidence.

The kunoichi then rolled her eyes to that. "Your an exception you overgrown bug. . ." She counter remarked with a witty smirk for the rebuttal.

Then the kunoichi hear loud whining and crying, but she simply ignored it as she walked towards the guards that watch over that gates.

Meanwhile, two very familiar chunins that were sitting at the front gate with bored expression.

"Man I'm bored. . ." Izumo started.

"Yeah, well just be thankful that since the genins have complete the second exam, we'll be able to watch it when we get our time off, just in time when the finals begins." Kotetsu stated with a smirk.

However before his best friend could reply, he saw a figure walked towards them. "Heads up." Izumo simply stated as his head point at the road.

Kotetsu then looked toward where his partner was pointing. "Hmm? Who's that?" He then questioned with narrow eyes and a serious tone.

As the kunoichi finally reached the two, the chunins finally saw that the girl had a shinobi headband with a simple of an arrow split in half. "A Taki shinobi?" They both thought in confusion.

They weren't very startled as Konoha did had an alliance with Taki, but it was very rare for their shinobis to ever come to Konoha.

"Heya, the name's Fū and I'm from Taki." The girl then greeted with a wave. "This is Konoha right? First time out of the village." She then revealed.

Kotetsu was the first to recovered as he nodded to the girl. "Yes it is, however you need to show your pass and registration to be able to enter the village." He stated with a professional manner.

Fū then rubbed the back of her head to that. "Actually, I was send by our leader to give a message from my leader to give to the Hokage." She stated with an awkward tone.

Both chunins, even the normally lazy Izumo, quickly were on high alert to that. After all for all they know this could be an assassination attempt. "Very well. . .however we will first need to see and read it ourselves to see if it safe to give the Hokage." The serious Izumo declared with narrow eyes.

This made the Fū flinch at the intense pressure of the two. "Shesh. . .serious much?" She thought to herself. "Sure, but my leader said not to let anyone other than the Hokage read it as it has S-Rank secrets." She lazily replied as she pulled out a scroll that had high ranking seals and the leader of Taki's seal.

Once again, the two chunins flinched at hearing and seeing that scroll, I mean it's not everyday that they heard of someone doing an S-Rank mission and even less about someone having S-Rank information that only the Hokage could see.

This made the two chunin look at each other with concern and worry, because if they messed this up, it wouldn't be an exaggeration that it could literally cost them their heads.

"Hey. . .what do we do?" Izumo whispered to his partner with a hint of fear in his tone. "We do not get paid for this sort of shit." He then added.

". . ." Kotetsu however remained quiet for a moment. "We should get an Anbu." He soon decided. Then he turned around to looked at the girl. "Wait here." He ordered as he

Fū in response nodded to this. "Ok." She replied.

Then Kotetsu shushin back into the village, leaving a bored Fū with a very worried Izumo as all he could do was stare at the scroll on the girl's hand as it was a bomb. "I seriously don't get pay enough for this. . ." He thought with fear. He may have wanted the job for the peace and quiet, but there were times like these where he wish he didn't.

". . ." Fū said nothing as she kicked the dirt as she waited. "So. . .anything fun happens here?" She then asked the remaining guard to start a conversation.

"Nothing much really, just the Chunin Exams are already going on the way for the final part soon." Izumo replied.

Fū in response to that gained an eye twitch. "Damn, I missed it. . ." She grumbled out with a small pout. "I can't believe Shibuki didn't let me participate. . ." She thought annoyingly at not given the chance to participate.

The girl's complaints were put on hold when Kotetsu returned, alongside the Anbu Bear. The Anbu walked and stood in front of Fū and looked at her with a silent yet intense stare.

This made said girl gulp with concern. "W-What?" She asked.

"Show the scroll." Bear simply ordered.

"O-Ok. . ." Fū nervously replied as she stretched her hand with the scroll towards the Anbu.

"Don't move." Bear then ordered as he made a hand sign and followed by another and rapidly went through a multitude of handsigns, ending with a dragon seal.

This caused Fū become frightened at the thought of an Anbu attacking her.

"Do. . .not. . .move." Bear repeated with seriousness in his tone.

Out of fear, Fū was left frozen as she didn't wanted to make the Anbu angry.

Then Bear placed a hand on top of the scroll and it flashed brightly for a moment as it then stopped. The Anbu simply nodded. "It's checks out, the scroll is both authentic and their isn't any explosive seals on it." He declared with his normal neutral tone. "Come with me, the Hokage is busy at the moment, so you will remain in Anbu headquarters until then." He stated.

Fū finally manage to breath again at this. "R-Right. . ." Was all she got out as she could had swore she lost a few years of her life from the fright.

At that moment, the Anbu placed a hand on the girl's shoulder as he then looked at the guards. "Keep watch and do not mention this to no one." He then ordered as he and Fū disappeared with a puff of smoke.

Izumo then sighed as he slumped his head onto the table. "Back to work. . ." He grumbled out.

"Well at least this had a bit of excitement." "Kotetsu then remarked with a smirk.

With that, the eternal chunins returned to their guard duty as one would only complain about anything he could, while the other just grumble in annoyance.

Back at the tower. . .

Temari's face cringed at what happened as she knew that about her sensei and Gaara would not be pleased, however she was more worried about his little brother than her sensei.

"The fool. . ." Gaara emotionlessly said as he watched his brother get taken away on a stretcher by the medical-nin.

The Sand jonin's face meanwhile glared at the sight of one of their own being taken away. "Damn, the plan was for all three of them to make it to the final part of the exams. . ." He thought to himself in annoyance as he was now have to think of changing the plan as best he could. "The Kazekage will not be pleased about this. . ." He added with fear.

With Team Seven. . .

The trio had watch the match, while Naruto and Satsuki begrudgingly admit that the older Hyuga was very strong and that he wasn't all talk.

Hinata meanwhile slightly closed her eyes in sadness as she watched her cousin confidently walk back up stands, as she knew that he purposely didn't even looked at her. "Neji-niisan. . ." She muttered with a sad tone.

Naruto noticed the discomfort in his girlfriend as he wrapped an arm around her waist. "It's alright Hinata-chan. In the finals, if either one of us had to fights him, we'll both try to set him straight."

"Doubt it, assholes like him need more than just a beat down to get their head out of their ass." The Kyūbi commented.

"Like you?" Satsuki retorted.

"Yeah like- OI!" The Kyūbi responded before roaring in annoyance at the realization of the remark.

Hinata couldn't help but stifle a giggle at hearing that as she looked at her boyfriend and smiled before she gave him a quick kiss on the cheek. "Thanks Naruto-kun, Satsuki-chan, I think all Neji-niisan needs is a wake-up call." She admitted as the trio then started to laugh a little at the thought.

"I get no respect. . ." The Kyūbi whined with an annoyed tone.

"That's because you need to earn the respect from not being a pervy fox." Satsuki then remarked with a smirk.

"I'M CONSTANTLY SEALED IN WOMEN THAT HAVE ATTRACTIVE BODIES! IT'S BOUND TO HAPPEN!" The Kyūbi roared out in annoyance.

"SO YOU DID PERV ON MY MOM!?" Naruto then roared back. "WHAT THE HELL DATTEBAYO!" He then added.

Hinata meanwhile blushed at the mere idea while saying nothing to the mere thought.

"EWWW! YOU PERVED ON NARU-KUN'S MOM!?" Satsuki exclaimed in slight disgust.

"SUE ME!" The Kyūbi retorted before calming down. "Constantly seeing hot adult naked girls anytime they took a bath or shower would do that to anyone. It developed over time." He then surprisingly admitted.

"I/WE DON'T WANT TO HEAR IT!" Naruto and Satsuki roared, the former with disgust while the latter in annoyance as Hinata merely had a blushing red head to hearing everything stated.

Kakashi meanwhile looked at the unspoken interaction between his genin in amusement as he got an idea it had something to do with a certain Biju.

Haku meanwhile leaned on the railing. "It's almost time for the last match. . ." Haku calmly stated.

This got Kakashi's attention and nodded in agreement. "Yeah," He simply replied as he then looked at the Hokage, who had been silent for most of the time.

"I'll have to tell Hokage-sama about Orochimaru afterwards. . ." Kakashi thought with urgency, as the Jonin wanted to speak with the Hokage immediately, but he was forced to wait for the preliminaries to end.

The jonin then turned toward the Uchiha. as he remembered Satsuki's reaction of her accidentally killing her opponent. Kakashi saw that she had more or less calmed down thanks to Hinata, but knew that it will take some time for her to fully recovered.

"Well I shouldn't worry too much as long as she remains with the others." Kakashi thought with relief, then it made him think that if she does recovered the girl will have the right mindset for something. "Maybe. . .I finally found someone worthy to pass that. . ." He then added.

Back at the arena. . .

Hayate coughed as he stepped forward. "We will now proceed with the final match," He began to say as he coughed again as he didn't need the monitors anymore. "Shino Aburame against Misumi Tsurugi." He declared.

With the announcement, both combatants waked down the stairs.

With the Hokage. . .

As Hiruzen looked on the final fight, he began to think over each of matches. "Many genin are in the hospital and two were even killed. . ." He thought with critical mind as he then looked over to Gaara. "Even if killing is normal in this exams, it not normal for a genin to have such bloodlust when it's not even a time of war. . .We better keep an eye on him. . .I've got a bad thing about things to come. . ." He added with suspicion.

Before the Elderly Hokage turned his attention back to the match, Bear suddenly appeared beside him as he kneel before his leader. "Excuse me Hokage-sama," He started.

Hiruzen turned his attention to his fateful shinobi. "What is it?" He ordered.

The Anbu stood up and got closer to him to whispered into his ear while casting a jutsu to make it impossible for anyone to listen in. "A representative from an allied village has come to meet you as soon as possible." He stated.

"Is that so?" Hiruzen simply question as he closed his eyes. "And what village is she from?" He then questioned.

"Her pass, registration and headband shows that she's a kunoichi from Takigakure." The Anbu quickly responded.

Hiruzen nodded in understandment. "Very well, however why the urgency?" He then asked.

"That is unknown sir, she had told us to give you this scroll as it contains S-Rank information and its contents are for your eyes only." The Anbu answered as he then revealed the scroll to the leader. "I had personally checked its authenticity and confirmed that it's not a bomb nor a trap of sorts." He then added.

Hiruzen nodded once more as he took the scroll and put it in his robes to read it in private. "I'll meet her in my office when the preliminaries are done." He then declared.

"Understood, in the meantime she will remain in Anbu headquarters to be protected." The Anbu said after bowing as he then disappeared into a puff of smoke.

Hiruzen sighed before looking at the match to see that Shino's bugs completely covering Misumi. "It seems the matches are done." He stated as he completely missed the fight.

Back at the arena. . .

Misumi was screaming in agony and fear while Shino's insects were encased him and quickly began eating his chakra at a dangerous rate. "I give! I give! Get them off me! Get them off!" He screamed in terror.

At hearing his begging, Shino didn't responded as he then turned towards the proctor with his usual emotionless face. "If you're so kind to call the match." He simply requested as he wanted confirmation first.

Hayate coughed as he nodded in agreement while looking at the downed Misumi. "The winner of the final match is Shino Aburame." He declared

Instantly, the Aburame's insects leave Misumi as he fell to the ground, shaking in fear and trauma.

Once the medical shinobi took the boy, he turned towards the Hokage, jonins and the genin combatants in the stands above. "And with this, the preliminary rounds for the third test is now complete!" He soon announced to all present in the room.

A few minutes later. . .

The genin that passed the test all went to the arena and stood in a straight line in front of the Hokage, Hayate, Anko, Ibiki and other jonin's.

"To all of you who won their preliminary matches have rights to compete in the Third Round in the Chunin Exams. . .*cough* Though one is missing, congratulations to you all!" Hayate declared while coughing every other word as he then looked at the Hokage. "If you would Hokage-sama." He then requested.

Hiruzen nodded as he stepped forward and took a quick look at the genins. "Besides Sakura Haruno, there are eight from Konoha and two from Suna, a decent setup save for the lack of an Oto genin for more diversity." He thought as he analyzed at the genin in front of him.

The Hokage then started to go on about how they were all gonna be representing their villages and how the finals would be in one month to prepare.

Shikamaru asked a question why that is, to which he explained that they will use that time to learn new skills or further improve their current ones, much to the Nara's annoyance.

The blond genin smiled excitedly at that. "Looks like we got some intense training ahead." Naruto told his teammates/fiancés via mental link.

Hinata nodded in agreement to that as a small smile graced her face. "Yes. . ." She then replied.

Sasuke simply silently scoffed as he gave off a serious expression. "Got that right. . ." Satsuki however agreed as she took a quick glance at the competition. "We're gonna have our work cut out for us for this month huh?" She then guessed.

"It's only a month though." The demonic fox then remarked. "Not to mention one of them has that insane little idiot." He soon reminded with a serious tone.

"There is one last thing that now must be done," Hiruzen said as Anko stepped forward with a box with a hole on top in her hands. "Inside this box are pieces of paper, you must each take one." He instructed.

Anko then looked at the genin combatants intensely. "I'll come around when it's your turn so be patient!" She ordered as she first arrived to the Suna kunoichi.

Temari didn't said a word as she simply took hers while Anko then moved down the row until finally every single genin had a paper of their own.

"Alright then, now call out the numbers on each of your papers in the order you received them in." Anko then ordered as Ibiki took out a notepad and prepared to write.

"Number 5 for me." Temari revealed.

"2" Neji simply stated.

"10" Gaara emotionlessly said.

"6" Shino informed.

"I've got number 9." Sasuke replied.

Shikamaru yawned before saying his. "Number 7." He got out.

"I've got Number 1!" Naruto declared with a wide grin on his face.

"That doesn't mean you are number 1!" Kyūbi however remarked as he knew what the blond was literally thinking.

"Oh shut it you." Naruto retorted to the demon fox in his head.

"I HAVE NUMBER 8!" Lee loudly declared.

"And I have Number 3." Hinata calmly finished.

"That would mean Sakura Haruno has the Number 4 then." Ibiki stated as he finished writing.

"Yes," Hiruzen responded with a nod as he stepped forward. "Alright then, I will now reveal to you the final part of the exams, a combat tournament!" He declared.

"So that's what we drew the numbers for. . .?" Shikamaru exclaimed with a bored and annoyed tone.

"Ibiki, show them the match arrangements." Hiruzen ordered.

Ibiki nodded as he turned the paper around to reveal the match line-up:

Match 1: Uzumaki Naruto vs Hyuga Neji

Match 2: Hyuga Hinata vs Haruno Sakura

Match 3: Temari of the Desert vs Aburame Shino

Match 4: Nara Shikamaru vs 8. Rock Lee

Match 5: Uchiha Sasuke vs 10. Gaara of the Desert

The thoughts varied between all the genin.

"Hm. . .the Suna kunoichii. . ."

"Troublesome. . ."

"Sasuke Uchiha. . .why is there a genjutsu around him?"

"WHO THE HELL CARES?! WE'LL BATHE IN HIS BLOOD IN THE END!" A screechy loud voice in Gaara's head said.

"So the bug user is my next opponent, huh?"

"Perfect. . .I'll slaughter him in front of everyone. . . As it is his fate to lose to me. . ."

"YOSH! THIS WILL BE EXCITING FOR TRAINING!"

The trio also had their own thoughts as they decided to say them to themselves via mental link.

"You three have some interesting matches coming in a month. . ." The Kyūbi then stated.

"Well it will be interesting, right Naru-kun, Nata-chan?" Satsuki asked with a grin on her face.

"I believe so." Hinata replied as she looked at the names. "I will fight against Haruno. . .and Naruto-kun is up against Neji-niisan. . ." She then added with concern for the blond.

Naruto instantly knew why she was feeling concern. "Don't worry, I'll knock some sense into him." He then stated.

"Still please be careful, Neji-san is strong." Hinata then requested with concern and fear because she knew that her cousin was a very strong and also knew that he wish to do whatever he could to hurt her, even hurting those she cared about.

The blond saw the fear in her eyes, so he gave her a wide grin. "Don't worry Hinata-chan, I'll be alright and after this, we're all gonna make Chunin when this is done!" He encouraged.

"After a month has gone by, arrive at the examination ground in the village which will tell your sensei's the location to those that do not know the location, so train hard, dismissed." Hiruzen ordered.

Some Anbu appeared as they took the genin back to the village as the jonin disappeared in puffs of smoke.

At the Hokage Tower. . .

To say that Fū wasn't having a good day, it's would saying that a certain creature didn't annoyed her in the slightest. The green haired girl was forced to sit in one of the most heavily secured placed in all of Konoha while being watch by their most lethal and pro shinobi's of said village for hours. . .Yeah was pissed. . .

Then after a few more minutes of intense and suffocating silence, an Anbu came and reported to the Captain that was in charge there, the Captain nodded giving his permission.

However before Fū could even asked, she was suddenly brought to Hokage Tower as she was in another office, most likely the Hokage's and was forced to wait once more with yet another Anbu watching over her. . .again. . .

"Mmm. . ." The impatient and fuming Fū moaned out with a small pout on her face. "This was just supposed to be a simply and quick mission! All I was supposed to do was give the scroll and then leave! But no~ I'm forced to wait here with Anbu's watching my every move and I can't even breath without one of them writing it down as me doing something like an assassination attempt!" She ranted in her mind as she still couldn't believe all she was forced to deal with.

The Anbu member with the Taki kunoichi merely stayed by her side in the tower. "Hokage-sama will be here soon, be patient." He simply ordered without moving an inch as he just knew what the girl was thinking.

The Kunoichi's eye twitch as she heard a child like giggle inside of her head, to which only made Fū even more annoyed.

Back within Konoha. . .

After saying their goodbyes to their friends, the members of Team Seven decided to head for Ichiraku's for a bowl of ramen.

"Alright! We finished two rounds and one more to go!" Naruto exclaimed excitedly at the upcoming final part of the exams.

Hinata meanwhile giggled as she held his hand. "I know, we've all come a long way, right Sasuke-san?" She replied as she looked at the Uchiha.

Sasuke however smirked as he looked at the two. "I have to admit, our skills have improved since we first formed Team Seven." He admitted. "Yeah! We're finally going to be Chunins!" Satsuki declared with equal excitement as the blond.

The demon fox meanwhile rolled his eyes to hearing the excitement from the Uzumaki and Uchiha. "Don't get too cocky you brats, one of you is fighting Lavender Eye's cousin who's dead set on killing the kit, while said girl here is gonna be fighting the green and pink haired banshee that needs someone to kick her ass and the last of you is gonna be fighting the guy with my idiot and insane brother inside him." He then reminded. "But no pressure though." He soon remarked.

"Way to kill the mood. . ." Naruto retorted with half closed eyes.

"However, he does have a point in some of what he said." Hinata admitted with some seriousness of her own. "We'll all need to be careful." She then added in concern.

Sasuke meanwhile narrowed his eyes to that statement. "Well. . .when you put it like that. . .I guess the perv is right" Satsuki begrudgingly admitted. "Though I'm surprised your supporting us more." She then added.

"Meh. . .Got nothing better to do." The Kyūbi lazily declared. "And unlike with your two, if the blond brat dies, I die and it will take me a couple of years to reform. . .which is a bitch to do by the way, it does hurt like hell." He clarified as he then let out a scoff. "Not that I'm like the others that let themselves get killed." He then added with a prideful tone.

"And people say that the Bijūs are immortal beings." Satsuki then retorted upon hearing the Bijū's tone. "You really are just a fuzzy fox." She then added with a giggle.

"OI!" The Kyūbi got out in anger and annoyance. "You humans were the ones that made up the immortal thing! And I am no plushie for you Uchiha!" He declared.

Naruto just let out a chuckle to hearing the argument between the two as he lightly tighten his hold on the female Hyuga's hand and then looked at the sky for a moment. "And one step closer of my dream. . ." He told himself.

After a few more meters, the trio had finally made it to Ichiraku's, where they were greeted by the owners as they sat down at the stolls.

"So how are we gonna do our training?" Naruto suddenly asked as they waited for their ramen.

"Hmm. . ." Hinata hummed out as she began to think for good suggestions. "Maybe we could-" She began to say, however. . .

"Actually, I'll need to take Sasuke for the month." A familiar lazy voice declared.

The trio quickly turned to the entrance and saw Kakashi, but without his perverted novel in his hand. "Yo." The one eyed jonin greeted.

"Oh Kakashi-sensei, what are you doing here?" Hinata asked with a curious tone.

"It's as I said before," Kakashi began to say as he sat down beside them and then gave the three serious looks. "I need to take Sasuke." He repeated with a serious tone.

Sasuke in turn raised an eyebrow to hearing that. "What's going on?" He questioned. "Sensei?" Satsuki meanwhile thought to herself.

Kakashi simply let out sigh as he had to tell them. "Alright, you three know who Sasuke is facing. . .and what he possibly holds. . ." He asked as the three nodded at this. "Well he will need to train in a certain way." He then hinted.

Sasuke widened his eyes in realization to what this meant. "That would mean without the fox's chakra, I would be at a major disadvantage since he has more experience than me using Bijū chakra. . ." He quietly declared with narrow eyes. "Crap. . .that means I have to train more than ever just to come out alive." Satsuki realized.

Kakashi soon looked at the Uchiha as he figured what she was thinking. "Exactly," He started as he stared at the boy intently. "Listen, for a long time, I've sensed that you are similar to me, that's why this training will be vital for me to train you." He then admitted as he took out a piece of paper. "But first. . .I want to verify what your your elemental affinity is." He declared and handed the paper to the Uchiha.

Sasuke simply took the paper and stare at it. "I just send some of my chakra in and. . ." He asked with a skeptical tone. "Can this little paper really tell me what my affinity is?" Satsuki thought to herself with an equal skepticism as her male persona.

Kakashi nodded at the spoken question. "That's right, it's the easiest way determine what your element is." He answered.

"How so Kakashi-sensei?" Hinata then asked with curiosity.

Then the jonin took out another piece of paper in his hand. "Simple, if your element is fire, it will burn, for water, it will get wet, for earth, it will crumbles, for wind, it will tear, and finally," Kakashi started as he then channeled a bit of his chakra on the paper. "If you have lightning affinity like me, it will wrinkle like this." He revealed as his paper suddenly wrinkled.

"How can a paper do that?" Naruto asked with eyes widen when he saw this.

"This paper was made from a tree that absorbs chakra and react to it, as you saw that's to this paper you can find out what your chakra's affinity will be." Kakashi explained and then turned towards the Uchiha. "Now you do it." He then ordered.

Sasuke nodded as he focused his chakra into the paper. "Now lets see what my nature is." Satsuki thought as she concentrated.

A moment later, the paper wrinkled to the center where Sasuke's fingers were before burning, causing him to drop the paper, surprising the three.

This left the Uchiha blinked a few times as he turned towards his sensei So this means. . ." Sasuke started.

Kakashi simply eye smiled as he nodded. "Yes, you have both a fire and lightning nature, however it looks like you have a higher affinity for lightning then fire. Which is very surprising coming from an Uchiha which are known for always having a high affinity for fire." He answered with an amused tone as his suspicions were correct.

"Whoa. . ." Sasuke muttered out in awe. "Cool! I'm Lightning along with Fire!" Satsuki declared in excitement.

Naruto smirked as then put Sasuke into a headlock. "Well well teme, must be impressive having two natures." He jokingly remarked. "Great job Satsuki-chan, this is awesome like my Wind and Earth dattebayo!" He mentally told the Uchiha Heiress.

"Hmm. . ." The Kyūbi hummed out. "Two elements, not bad for an under aged, big busted girl like you. Thought for sure you be water with those milk jugs of yours." He remarked with a perverted tone.

"Oi!" Satsuki mentally roared as she wanted to strangled the demonic fox.

Hinata also didn't find that funny, but she placed a hand on his shoulder to calmed her down. "Congratulations Sasuke-san." She congratulate her teammate. "I'm happy for you Satsuki-chan." She then added mentally.

Sasuke smirked back as he got the blond off him. "Guess so," He replied as Satsuki mentally cheered in excitement and then turned back to the jonin. "So what does this mean?" He then questioned.

Kakashi gave off another eye-smile. "It means I'll be training you in lightning style during this month before the exams." He declared.

"Really now." Sasuke replied in a calm tone with a smirk on his face. Satsuki however was anything but calm. "AWESOME! I AM SO GONNA MASTER LIGHTNING!" She mentally declared, excited to learn this.

"However, during this time you and I will have to spend in a remote and secure area the whole month." Kakashi quickly added.

". . .?" Sasuke then questioned. "Wait, what?" Satsuki meanwhile exclaimed.

"What do you mean by that?" Naruto then asked.

"Kakashi-sensei?" Hinata then questioned in a calmer tone.

"It means until your ready for the finals, you won't be able to be with the others ." Kakashi then declared.

"Wait for it. . ." The Kyūbi commented as his placed his hands-like paws on his ears. Knowing what was coming.

"WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT!?" Was Naruto's reaction, while Sasuke had a stoic expression and Hinata a shocked one, but mentally the blond and raven haired girl were exactly the same.

"Knew it." The Kyubi declared while chuckling in amusement.

The Jonin let out a sigh as he too saw this was coming. "Calm down, it will only be for the month and I will bring him back for the finals." He explained with a calm tone. "Besides you'll be busy training yourselves that you'll not even notice the others."He then reassured.

This did calmed down the trio, however it wasn't what the one eyed jonin thought. "That what he thinks." The trio thought in unison as they knew they could contact each other through their mental link.

Unaware of they were thinking, their sensei turned towards the Uchiha. "So then Sasuke, do you accept?" Kakashi asked, even though he knew the answer.

Sasuke smirked as he gave off a firm look to the jonin. "Yeah, I'm ready." He responded. "Bring it on!" Satsuki mentally declared with a Naruto like grin on her face.

Kakashi then eye-smiled again as he got up. "Alright then, rest for to night as for tomorrow I'll take you to begin training." He instructed. "I'll see you at the usual training field." Kakashi then left as three bowls of ramen arrived.

As the three started to eat, they enjoyed the ramen. "On the house, for make it all the way to the finals." Teuchi said to them.

"Thanks!" They all said in unison as they began eating their meal in peaceful silence.

A half an hour later. . .

The trio had finished their meal as decided to head back to the Uzumaki/Uchiha apartment to get a good night sleep together.

The three of them continued to walked as Kakashi's words finally reached them. "So then teme, tomorrow we won't be seeing you for a while." Naruto remarked. "It's going to be a bit lonely without you with us." He said via mental link with a sad tone.

Sasuke in response nodded as he looked at the sky. "Yeah, Hokage-sama said that we would all have to train individually so we all can prepare ourselves and no one else would know their new skills until the finals." He declared. "Yeah. . .I don't like this either, but I have to if I want to have a chance of beating Gaara." Satsuki replied with a sad tone.

"That is true." The Kyubi agreed with a nod. "She will need to increase her arsenal if she wants to stand a chance against my brother." He then stated in a serious tone.

To hearing that, Naruto and Hinata nodded in agreement.

Soon enough, the three had arrived and entered the apartment, once inside Sasuke dropped his transformation and Satsuki let out a sigh of relief while quickly stretched her arms a bit.

"He's right, we all should surprise each other at the finals so we can later adapt and further improve ourselves as a team later." Hinata was the first to said.

"I guess. . ." Satsuki begrudgingly admitted.

Naruto then looked out the window to see that night had fallen. "Man what a day." He got out.

"Yeah. . ." Hinata and Satsuki agreed in unison.

Naruto let out a sigh as he could feel the sadness from the girls, so with a mischievous grin on her face he got closer to them. "Well then ladies," He began to say as he then pecked the two girls on the cheeks, causing them to blush. "How about we take a nice bath and then go to sleep?" He offered while chuckling in amusement from the blushes. "Even with all my stamina, I'm exhausted as hell!" He then added.

"You know. . .with some practice you can be a real playboy kit." The Kyūbi joked in amusement.

"Oh don't start dattebayo!" Naruto retorted. "I'm just trying to make the ones I care about happy!" He then declared, though his blush on his face didn't sound so convincing.

Satsuki stretched her arms as she walked down to the shower, but not before returning the gesture and pecked the blond on the lips. "Alright Naru-kun, a good bath would do us good." She replied then headed for the bathroom.

"I'll help her run the bath. " Hinata offered as she quickly caught up to the Uchiha.

"Again kit, playboy. . ." The Kyūbi once more stated with a perverted smirk.

"WOULD YOU JUST SHUT UP YOU PERVERTED FOX!" Naruto roared.

In the Uzumaki/Uchiha bathroom. . .

The girls began taking off their upper clothing and neatly placing them in the dirty basket as Satsuki was getting the water started running.

Hinata looked on at the other girl as she noticed her expression. "I'm glad your feeling better, you became really depressed after accidentally killing your opponent during the preliminaries." She stated as she looked at the Uchiha in her light orange bra.

Satsuki smiled a bit sadly as she took her pants off before looking at the Hyuga with only a lavender bra on. "Thanks Nata-chan, I appreciate it. . .but I have to be honest. . .it really did and still is affect me. . ." She admitted with a sad tone. "I just. . .I just want Naru-kun to keep worrying. . ." She then added.

The young Hyuga also smiled sadly at that. "It's ok, no normal sane person can recover that quickly, so please take your time and know that we'll always be there to support you." Hinata stated with an encouraging tone.

At that moment, the Uchiha then went up and hugged the Hyuga, smiling sadly still, as she hugged the other girl. "Thank you Nata-chan. . .thank you. . ." She whispered in a grateful tone.

Hinata in turn just smiled gently as she returned the hug. "It is not a problem Satsuki-chan." She replied in a kind tone.

As the two continued to hug. . .

Knock knock!

"Oi, are you two alright?" Naruto called out from the hallway.

"Anything kinky going on?" The demon fox then questioned, although he actually knew what was happening.

"And you be quiet dattebayo!" Naruto retorted.

At the sudden knock, the girls looked at the door and blinked. After a moment the two girls giggled at the blond's usual outburst.

Satsuki was happily giggling as she couldn't help it from the regular interactions of her boyfriend and Bijū. While Hinata was glad that the Uchiha was doing alright now and was glad that Naruto could always bring a smile on their faces.

Then a lightbulb comically appeared on top of the Uchiha's head and began smirking mischievously.

Upon seeing this Hinata sweatdropped as she more or less figured out what the girl was thinking.

"You thinkin' what I'm thinkin'?" Satsuki then whispered in a way to make sure that only the Hyuga could only hear it and blushing all the while.

Back at the hallway, the blond and Biju were continuing their talk. "Ooooh, if it's kinky threesome play then give me the play by play!" The Kyūbi demanded/joked.

"Will you just shut up you perverted fox!?" Naruto shouted as he had enough of the pervert.

"Hmm?" The Kyūbi got out as he heard the girls whispering, making him chuckle perversely at the duo's plan. "Well then, I'll be going to sleep now, have fun kit." He declared with a perverted tone as he cut the link.

"Huh?" Naruto got out, however before the blond could even ask, his eyes widen when he hear the door slide open and felt two pairs of hands grabbed him with the sounds of two giggling girls. It was then that he realized what was gonna happen. "Oh boy. . ." He got out with a red blush on his face and was then pulled in.

The blond was now on the bathroom floor as his face was bright red from seeing the two girls laying right on top of his body with only wet towels covering their bodies. "Hey Naru-kun~" Satsuki seductively and teasingly started.

"N-Naruto-kun. . ." Hinata meekly got out with a blush, but also a smile on her face as she was just like the Uchiha.

"G-Girls. . ." Naruto stammered out at how they two were before looking at the Uchiha. "Y-You put Hinata-chan up to this didn't you?" He then guessed in the same tone.

Satsuki in turn to hearing the question gave of a grin that mimicked her boyfriend's. "Maybe~" She teasingly replied. "Nata-chan's a little rough around the edges, but I know she'll shine like a diamond." She then added with confidence.

Said girl on the other hand was blushing deep crimson at the implications but decided to remain quiet. "This is just to make Satsuki-chan feel better. . ." She repeated to herself as if it was a mantra.

"Eventually, she'll be able to flirt just like me!" Satsuki then happily declared.

To hearing that, Naruto then began to imagine said version of the Hyuga being just like the Uchiha said, causing him to blush even more as a small trail of blood fall from his nose. "Good kami. . ." He got out.

To seeing that, Satsuki giggled as she then gave a quick peck to the boy's lips. "And this why I love you and Nata-chan." She revealed while giving a gentle smile. "You two really are the best things that ever happened to me. . ." She admitted.

Upon hearing that, Hinata smiled happily at finally seeing Satsuki smiling happily while Naruto could only looked on with a clueless and embarrassed face before the two girls then dragged the boy into the bath.

At the Hokage tower. . .

Hiruzen had just finished reading the scroll and if he was being honest to himself, this was definitely something he did not expect as he look at the kunoichi from Takigakure.

Said kunoichi, was sitting in a chair in front of the Hokage while doing her best not to show any annoyance in front of one of the most powerful shinobis in all of the elemental nations. As internally she swore that he will killed her leader for making her deal with all of this.

"So then. . ." Hiruzen then started as he looked at the scroll for a moment before looking back at her. "Your name is Fū, is that correct?" He asked for confirmation from the kunoichi.

Fū immediately reacted with bow to the leader in respect. "Yes Hokage-sama, as your Anbu member undoubtedly told you, I was asked by my village to bring you this scroll." She informed, as she hope this wasn't going to take long or she would want to scream.

"I think a day's worth of waiting while being watch by deathly shinobis could do that to anyone." She heard a voiced joking in her head.

"Please, just call me Hiruzen. Hokage-sama makes me feel old like Onoki." He chuckled a little before looking at the girl.

"Um. . .Of course Hiruzen-sama." Fū responded, surprised a little by the attitude of the leader of Konoha. "Huh. . .looks like he's not uptight, well at least it's not going to be an a tiresome conversation." She said to herself.

The Hokage then looked at the scroll once more and had a surprised expression on his face. "Though I must say, it is quite a shock to have a foreign ninja join our ranks. . ." Hiruzen then got out.

To hearing that, Fū then looked at the Hokage in confusion. "Eh?" She got out.

"Huh?" The voice also got out in the same manner.

This made Hiruzen glance at the kunoichi with a nod. "Why yes, it said in the scroll that your leader wishes to have the representative of Taki, you, here in this village, but it was stated here that you would also be a link between our two villages." He then revealed.

To hearing that, Fū blinked a couple of times to that. "What?" She once more asked.

"Hmm? Well simply put, you'll be joining Konoha kunoichi by orders of your leader." Hiruzen soon simplified.

"Oh boy. . ." The voice got out in a nervous tone.

To hearing this, Fū was just sitting in the same spot with a blank expression as she suddenly raised her hand. "Excuse me, may I step out of the room, just a moment please." She requested with a hollow voice.

The leader raised an eyebrow in confusion but regardless nodded in response to that. "Of course Fū." Hiruzen replied.

Then in a lifeless zombie like manner, she walked towards the door as the Anbu open the door to her and then closed it after she exited.

A second later. . .

"SHIBUKI! YOU MADE ME A PEACE OFFERING WITHOUT TELLING ME!?" Fū's voice screamed out.

If the Anbu didn't had years of experiences he would had jumped in terror at this, however is body did tremble from the roaring voice. "If I may Hokage-sama, but I believe that she was not told about this and did not take it well." Was the Anbu's comment.

"That's an understatement, but also understandable. . ." Hiruzen simply replied as he then looked once more at the scroll, but only this time, he narrowed his eyes with seriousness. "Seven. . ." He muttered.

The first part of the scroll had the information about Fū being the representative of Taki to join Konoha, however Hiruzen found a particular seal that once he unlocked the entire contents of the scrolled changed with detail information of both Fū and something sinister involving her.

Then the Hokage read the more important aspect for his eyes only to read.

While this would be treated as an offering, please do not think for a second that it is. . .the true reason for this is that I had found out that someone with immense power is planning to kidnap Fū.

The reason for this is because she has something inside of her that they want to have at all cost. . .you must have realized what she has thanks to having your own set of tails. . .

Fū may not like this and will react negatively to it, but I knew that she couldn't stay here in Taki, as you know we aren't remotely as strong at the other villages, so we won't be able to either defend her nor protect the village if they do attack, however if she's with Konoha, they may think twice of attacking her.

Please. . .as the only person that is a family to her, please protect her. . .

With that final line, Hiruzen stood up and head towards the window where he burn the scroll and threw the ashes out, so that it will never fall in the wrong hands. Then he walked back to his chair and sat down as that he could processed the information.

At that moment, Fū reentered the room as she took in a deep breath. "I. . .apologize for that outburst. . ." She got out.

The elderly man let out an amused chuckle at that. "Do not worry, I myself would had probably done the same if I was in your position as well." He joked while masking the seriousness of the scroll contents he just destroyed. "Though I am sure you are surprised by this reveal." He then stated.

The mint green haired girl in response nodded to that. "Yes sir. . .it really did surprise me." She admitted.

"Tell that to my antenna. . ." The voice whined in a child like manner.

Hiruzen merely nodded to that as he looked at the Anbu. "I have a matter to discuss with Fū privately." He calmly stated.

Without even saying a single word, the Anbu bowed and disappeared in a smokeless shushin. Once alone, the Hokage activated the privacy and silencing seals to make sure no one would eavesdropped or forced their way inside of the conversation.

"Eh?" Fū once more got out in confusion to the sight of the seals around the room.

"Privacy and Silence seals. . ." The voice revealed.

The Hokage then looked intently at the girl with a serious expression. "Jinchūriki." He simply stated.

To hearing that single word, Fū's eyes widen in shock. "W-What? Y-You. . .You know?" She got out.

". . .Oh boy. . ." The voice got out as it was wondering what will happen next as it was watching a sitcom. "Wish I had popcorn. . ." It then added with excitement.

Hiruzen merely nodded to that. "Yes, but do not worry, it was Shibuki that had told me within the scroll when he requested me to let you stay here along with the Nanabi." He clarified.

To hearing that bit, Fū placed her hand on her head in exhaustion. "Shibuki. . ." She groaned out.

"Well I'm having fun with all these surprises!" The now identified Nanabi exclaimed with child like happiness.

"Ugh. . ." Fū once more groaned out in annoyance.

"Let me guess, the Nanabi is some kind of pervert?" Hiruzen guessed with amusement.

"Huh? Pervert?" Fū got out with baffled tone. "No, he's more like a brat with sugar in its veins twenty four seven." She remarked.

"WAAAAAAAAA! Fū is being mean to me again!" The Nanabi cried out.

"And a cry baby. . ." Fū added with an annoyed tone.

". . ." Hiruzen was left poundering at this information. "It looks like all of the Tailed Beast's have very different personalities." He thought with fascination.

"Uh, where did the pervert idea come from Hiruzen-sama?" Fū then asked.

The Hokage merely chuckled to that question. "Lets just say that I know another Bijū that is a complete pervert that annoys a certain you boy." He simply answered.

"Wait. . .do you mean. . ." Fū got out in shock. "But that could only mean. . ." She then got out at the implication.

"No way. . ." The Nanabi thought to itself as there was only one Bijū that fit that description. "Nii-san's here!" He then added in excitement.

The Hokage then nodded in response to that. "Correct, we have our own Jinchūriki here in Konoha, the Jinchūriki of the Kyūbi." He revealed.

To this reveal, Fū was left speechless at this as she never thought she would ever meet someone that was just like her.

"HAHA! SO IT WAS NII-SAN! AWESOME!" The Nanabi cheered.

The elderly man smiled sadly at the reaction as he got a small grasped at what the girl was probably feeling. "I believe that you and Naruto might become good friends in the future." Hiruzen declared with a small chuckle.

The next morning. . .

After having a steamy make-out session on the bath and then followed with another session of making-out in bed, the trio fell asleep as the girls hugged the blond like a giant teddy bear.

Now the trio were fully awake, then the three of them began eating breakfast while ignoring perverted comments from the Kyūbi of what they did last night, much to their embarrassment and annoyance.

Not fully dressed, the trio helped Satsuki pack a bag with the essential had to get ready to meet with Kakashi and the month long training.

with compliments being given to each other, and helping for Satsuki, the three made it to the training field where they noticed that their jonin sensei wasn't there yet.

". . . It's been awhile since he's been this late. . ." Naruto commented with an annoyed tone

Satsuki yawned as she balanced herself with her backpack on. "It has." She replied with a slightly sleepy tone.

"I wonder what's taking him." Hinata wondered out loud as they waited waited for their sensei.

"Do you three really need to ask that?" The Kyūbi meanwhile questioned with a deadpan tone.

They all just sweatdropped and continued waiting until. . .

"Yo." The three heard a lazy voice greeting them as they turned and looked for a moment before they saw Kakashi and Haku sitting at the nearby tree.

"Sensei." Satsuki responded as the three watched their sensei and his adopted son jumping down from the tree and landed in front of them. "Haku-san." She then added.

"Good morning everyone." Haku greeted as he bowed to them.

"So you came to see your dad off?" Naruto asked, putting his hands behind his head.

Haku nodded as to his father had told him about his plan for the month and understood his plan. "Yes, he also asked me to train as well while gone so my abilities don't diminish. Luckily, my probation month is done so I'm free to do as I please. As long as I don't kill anyone." He replied playfully.

Both Naruto and Satsuki sweatdropped at the last bit. "I'm happy for you Haku-san." Hinata replied as she stepped forward. "Actually, I could use some training myself, so I would like to asked, since we all have to train in secret so we can all surprise each other at the finals would it be alright to have you train me?" She then requested.

Haku smiled as he looked at her. "Of course, I'd be happy to train you Hinata." He replied with a kind tone

"Just don't flirt with her Haku, or else your gonna get hurt." Naruto commented, giving him a glare.

Haku chuckled a little as everyone, except Naruto, joined in. "Don't worry Naruto-san, I'll simply train her properly and have her be ready for her match." He reassured to the blond.

"You better. . ." Naruto merely growled out in a possessive manner.

"Anyway," Kakashi said, gaining everyone's attention as he turned towards the Uchiha. "It's time for me and Satsuki to go and begin our training." He declared, he needed to start her training as quick as possible if she had a chance of teaching what the jonin had in plan.

Satsuki nodded to Kakashi before turning to Naruto and Hinata with a smile. "Well then you guy," She started.

Then the raven haired girl went to to the blond and planted a kiss on his lips as the two moaned with their tongues in each other's embrace, soon separating with a string of saliva connecting the two.

"See you at the finals." Satsuki breathed out with a flushed face.

"Yeah." Naruto replied as he too had small blush.

However before Satsuki left, she then turned to Hinata and hugged her before kissing her on the lips as well, with just as much as passion as before. This action made Naruto cover his nose as a futile attempt of stopping his nosebleed.

Then the two girls soon separating after a few seconds. "Get stronger Nata-chan." Satsuki encouraged her while blushing from the kiss. "For your sake and to beat Sakura, we don't know what power she has gained now thanks to the curse mark, but be prepared." She then added.

The blushing Hinata could only nodded. "I will," She then turned to Naruto and kissed him on the lips, massaging their tongues for a while before separating. "What about you Naruto-kun? Who's gonna train you?" She then asked.

To hearing that, Naruto rubbed his head in embarrassment. "Ah. . .well I was just gonna have my shadow clones train in everything I know already, while I train both my physical and sword moves. Hopefuly I will get some new ideas for any new jutsu's or moves. I mean I already thought up of my own version of Satsuki-chan's Lion's Barrage." He explained.

"Hey! I thought Kakashi-sensei was the copycat!" Satsuki joked with a grin on her face.

Said jonin narrowed his single eye to that. "Haha. . ." Was all Kakashi had to say as he heard the trio and his stepson chuckling and giggling. Then looked up and was the position of the sun. "Ok, time to go." He ordered.

This caused all the tomfoolery to end as they nodded in agreement. "Now let's get strong then we had been!" Naruto declared with a wide grin on his face.

"Right!" The girls replied.

Kakashi then stepped forward and placed a hand on Satsuki's shoulder. "Remember that it will be a very hard training and it will be up to you if you succeed or not." He remind the girl.

Satsuki nodded before turning to her sensei. "Right." She replied as the two then disappeared with a puff of smoke.

Haku stepped over to Hinata. "We better get going as well." He remarked

"Yes." Hinata said as Haku placed a hand on her shoulder and disappeared as well.

Naruto stood at the field alone before the chibi version of the Kyūbi came out. "Now what should I do?" He asked more so to himself then the chibi Bijū.

"What do you think kit, start training!" Kyūbi deadpanned.

"Yeah. . ." Naruto replied as he looked at the sky. "Let's begin!" He thought with a smirk before making a handsign.

The training for the our young heroes starts now!

(Original A/N, PLEASE keep reading to read the new one)

JG's (jgresidentevil) A/N: Well, here we are. The preliminaries are done and now the month training begins! The next three chapters will be all about each member of Team Seven's unique training that goes on for the month. Who will be first, well. . .that's a secret! XD

S-98's (Shinobi 98 Productions) A/N: Yo! Sorry about the delay, we... that is to say, I, was lost on the road of life. …

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What? No laughs? Giggles? Smiles, grins? Ya'll are a tough crowd. Kami, it's like talking to a computer screen... Oh wait, I'm typing this... hehehe. Oh well. Anyway, as fair warning, I, and most likely JG-san as well, will have a hectic week... but the madness will finally end on June 7th! THE LAST DAY OF SCHOOL IS NEAR! So, after June 7th, we will (hopefully) be making them chapters at super speed - a speed to rival that of the Raikage Ay! However, also like Ay, we will have both speed and power - quality sacrificed means that you guys won't be satisfied, right? If only I could write my stories like that... I need my own helpers... Ah, well, don't want to waste your time... R&R, people! Arigatou gozaimasu! Ja ne!

P.S.: Fū 'Sora no joō' Jintama: Fū is the jinchuuriki of the Seven-tailed beast, Nanabi, or Chōmei to the picky ones. Sora no joō, her nickname, means "Queen of the Skies", which fits since Chōmei is a flying... bug-thing. Also, I just came up with "Jintama" on the spot. She has no last name, so... I figured, why not?

(New A/N)

JG (JGResidentEvil)'s A/N: Man it seems like so long ago when I first made the A/N for this chapter and now here comes the new one involving the changes for the remastered chapter. :)

F2P (fight2protect)'s A/N: I know right!?

JG: But you weren't the co-writer then. ^^"

F2P: I may not have been, but I was a fan that it felt like that. :D Anyways, we like to tell you readers that will be changing the format, just a bit.

JG: Basically for this chapter we'll be explaining the changes that happened in each individual chapter.

F2P: Mostly because we feel this way the readers will still have the chapter fresh in their minds.

JG: Yeah, these changes can be really small or big changes, one of them being Temari going to the finals now instead of Zaku unlike the original version of the chapter.

F2P: We say this, for the sole reason as some had told us that we made a mistake in those changes because they didn't read the AN's stating our reasons for changing then and that we WILL change the future chapters that revolves Zaku originally being in the finals. So please, read them so that their won't be any more confusion.

JG: Yeah, we work hard on explaining all these details so everyone knows that there have been changes from the original. One of them being the more detailed fights then the original versions from the chapters to show that more did happen in the fights that happened.

F2P: The next is the end results of Satsuki's fight, we felt it to be to unnatural as she got over her first kill too soon, so we decided to change it to make it just a bit more natural. . .well as natural as a fic can get.

JG: Yeah, another thing that must be talked about is the fight between Kiba and Lee where in the original version was just basically where Lee sucker punched Kiba in the gut to knock him out.

F2P: Well we thought that was both short and degrading for the most part, so we decided to change it up a bit to make it a bit better. Though the end results would still be in Lee winning, it was much more interesting that just one hint and that's it.

JG: Another thing that needed to mentioned was the Gaara fight and man the original version was even shorter then the current version.

F2P: It was mostly just better structure than anything else, but we did added some hints that will make a major impact on a certain hero. . .later down the road. :D

JG: Meanwhile for Naruto's fight against Tenten, it was also improved so that it ended with creating a better friendship between the two. (Not romantic!) XD

F2P: So don't think otherwise! Anyways, their fight was greatly improved as we felt it to be both sluggish and quite seriously boring as he completely destroyed her with much effort or skill.

JG: Yeah, we decided to not make it so that Naruto was over powered.

F2P: I mean it would be to boring otherwise if Naruto was God-like right? (Not that I was saying that their bad though)

JG: From there, we had to make sure that the rest of the improved fights were more detailed and flowed better. However the major thing that needed to be talked about for this chapter was Fū's first appearance and the changes that were made for her.

F2P: Oh yeah! We decided to changed hers a lot because it felt like it came out of nowhere. However we did explain the reasons for this event in the scroll, because in the original version it was like she staying in Konoha and the Hokage was like "Ok, welcome aboard!". Kind of convenient, huh? So we decided to make the reason be much more deeper than that.

JG: Yeah, I admit that it really needed to be changed. ^^"

F2P: And well let's just say Fū did NOT had a fun day, nor did she expected how the day was going to end at all. XD

JG: Oh yeah and man that was funny as hell to write! XD And with this, the we are done for this remastered chapter!

F2P: See ya in the next one!

JG: Until then, later!