Hell Sharingan V2

by The Fifth Rider of Armageddon

Naruto dies during the Wave mission and makes a deal with the Shinigami to get a second chance at life. After his rebirth he finally learns what a true shinobi is. Naruto Naruxharem. This is the rewrite, trust me this will be much better than the first.

19. The Chunin Exams: The Preliminaries

Disclaimer: I do not, in no way own Naruto or Yu Yu Hakusho. On that note Santa I have been a very goof boy this year I think I deserve the rights to one of them. Come on fat man hand one of em over!

"Talk" Character talking.

'Think' Character thinking.

"Talk" Jagan talking.

'Think' Jagan thinking.

"Talk" Tailed Beast talking.

"Think" Tailed Beast thinking.

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Kagari vs Sakura Haruno

The names flashed on the screen and those who saw it could hardly believe it. The first preliminary match and Sakura was the first one to fight. The pinkette herself honestly couldn't believe it, but neither could her opponent, who if he removed his rebreather would show a devilish smirk.

"To those who are fighting I ask that you stay in the arena, the rest of you please head to the stands to await your turn." Hiruzen instructed the Genin of each village.

"Excuse me, Hokage-sama?" Kabuto raised his hand in questioning. "I apologize for the interruption, but is it possible for me to abstain from these matches? I used a lot of chakra in the forest and received an injury, not to mention we came in just a bit before Team Ten-"

"That is not going to happen Yakushi-san. Already we have too many teams and having even one bow out will leave us uneven." The Hokage interrupted him. While he couldn't prove it, and neither could Ibiki with all the information they had, including Kimimaro's testimony that Kabuto and his entire team, minus their oblivious sensei were spies for Orochimaru, they could not arrest them, not yet at least with so many witnesses. Otherwise that would alert his former student, but that didn't mean he was going to make it easy on them. "When you are in the field and get injured you don't have the chance to tell the enemy you're tired and hurt, they can and will take advantage of that. There is a boy from a relatively new village with both his arms in slings, but from the look in his eyes he is still willing to fight, aren't you son?" Hiruzen turned his attention towards Zaku.

"You got that right." The spiky-haired Sound Genin smirked in reply.

"So bring honor to your village Yakushi-san, stand and fight. Now everyone to the stands except for those who were picked to fight." There were no further arguments, not from any Genin, Hiruzen just prayed that all three would be beaten so his medical shinobi could cart them away for 'medical treatment'.

However he looked over at the teachers for their respective students. Many he knew and watched grow up to become splendid shinobi. However his gaze shifted towards a man that stood a little under average height with green hair expanding in wild directions with his Rain hitai-ate covering his forehead. His very unique eyes were not unlike Kurenai's but were purple in color, and his attire consisted of a white sleeveless body suit with a dark blue stripe going down his entire front, back, the inner parts of his legs, a black cloth wrap on his right arm that went from his elbow to his wrist, white wrappings on his wrists, and black shinobi styled sandals. Strapped to his back were two umbrellas that were snugly inside a tan leather strap.

However there was this one person who made his blood boil, along with Ibiki's who's face turned into a utterly terrifying scowl that would melt even the coldest of ice if given the chance. "Aoi Rokusho..." He growled, feeling the scar that trailed past his lips and into his bandanna flaring up painfully.

"Ibiki...don't." The Sandaime ordered the man.

"But Hokage-sama..."

"That goes for you too Anko. We must follow the rules." The old Fire Shadow interrupted Anko.

"Damn rules." Ibiki gritted out.

Hiruzen could only silently agree. Before the outbreak of the First Great Shinobi War, his sensei did everything in his power to create institutions to bring foundation and strength to the village by creating the Academy, the Anbu, and the Chunin Exams as a substitution for war. The latter held great success, but there were unforeseen problems, mainly with shinobi defecting and appearing in other villages. In order to stop any unnecessary bloodshed, the Nidaime Hokage created a rule of mutual amnesty, that the sensei's of the Genin teams, no matter if they defected from their home village and showed up years later as a sensei for another team, they could not be taken in, tried or executed for their past crimes.

Naturally the first village to undermine this rule was Kirigakure. They had a shinobi defect some ten odd years before showing up at his home village with a Sunagakure team, he was quickly rounded up, along with his students being immediately sent home and put on trial. The only intervention was an embargo put on the country, stiff penalties, and outright war if they went through with his execution.

Gengetsu Hozuki; the Nidaime Mizukage, realizing that this would likely doom his country allowed his once former shinobi leave unharmed. The man never returned to Water Country again, but the point had been made. Unfortunately there had been several close calls since then by several other countries, and even now, looking at the smirking face of the man who not only was using his own sensei's rules to his advantage, but the fact he still held onto one of Konoha's most sacred treasures made Hiruzen's blood boil.

After the remaining Genin left to the stands, a shinobi appeared in the middle of both Sakura and Kagari. He had short brown hair, dark-colored eyes and dark markings under his eyes along with pronounced lines. He wore the standard Konoha shinobi outfit complete with a Leaf hitai-ate that he wore as a bandanna, flak jacket and regular shinobi sandals. He also carried a katana with a rectangular hand guard strapped over his back.

"Okay you two, before the fight starts here are a few rules." He said before coughing. "My words is law...you are to fight until your opponent is knocked out, is unable to fight, or I call the match." He began coughing again, gaining a worried look from Sakura. "Failure to comply with these rules will lead to an instant disqualification. Is that clear?"

"Y-yes." Sakura said.

"Crystal." Kagari growled.

"May we proceed...Hokage-sama?" The man looked at his village leader for confirmation to start.

"You may Hayate." Hiruzen said.

After harshly coughing one more time Hayate jumped away from the two opponents and raised his right arm. "Then it is great honor that I call this match between Sakura Haruno of Konohagakure and and Kagari of Amegakure as the first official match of the preliminaries." Lowering his arm, the Special Jonin shouted at the top of his lungs. "Fight!"

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The Shinigami was bored. Super bored. Unimaginably bored. He had finally finished his work after nearly a month of nonstop judging souls and sending them to their rightful afterlife's. One would say that his job was never done, and they would be right, right now he had roughly a million souls to cast into the white light or hellfire that was their eternal destination. But for the past four days he had been...distracted.

Every six months the Chunin Exams rolled around, and he would put everything on hold to watch the insanity unfold, because not only was it entertaining, but there were usually fatalities in one way or another, so at least he would get a heads up on potential new arrivals.

The first day was quite possibly the best he has seen in a very long while. His little Avatar impressed him with not only passing the First Exam, but the Second Exam as well, and man what a great piece of entertainment that was. The way he fought Kimimaro was worth him replaying it over and over again due to the sheer awesomeness he witnessed, he even was impressed by Sasuke Uchiha's fight against the bastard snake he hoped to personally send to hell when the time came.

But after that it got real dull real quick. Sure there were some fights and skirmishes, but those were few and far and between. What really got his attention though was the drama unfolding. The potential gathering of three new shinobi from Otogakure, Sasuke showing immense willpower against the Curse Seal, a blossoming affection from Tenten and friendship with Hinata, secrets being revealed, and Sakura getting her head out of her ass. This was better than reality tv!

Looking up from the giant tv screen where Sakura and Kagari were about to engage, four presences alerted the Shinigami enough to tilt his horned head towards the intruders.

The first person he laid his eyes on was a woman that was hauntingly beautiful. Her skin was as pale as alabaster, white hair hung loose and cascaded down her back like a waterfall, and blue eyes so perfect that a sapphire would look dull in comparison. She wore a pure white kimono and obi that made her look like some sort of specter, a very sexy specter at that.

The second one was another equally beautiful, dusky-skinned woman with hair blacker than midnight and ruby red eyes that matched the lipstick she wore. She wore an elaborate kimono that came up to mid thigh that was red in color with black flame markings on the bottom and sleeves, a red obi, and black sandals.

The third figure was a tornado of water. Just that, nothing fancy like the two women, but a gigantic tornado of water that obscured everything from sight.

The fourth and final one was an anthropomorphic, red furred fox that came to their knees and always had a shit-eating grin on his face. His clawed hands were hidden by the long sleeves of his green and yellow yukata, hakama, and was barefoot. "Heya there Shinigami, long time no see." The fox person greeted him with this amber eyes sparkling in delight, and a swishing red tail. "I see you're keeping an eye out on the contestants, eh?"

"Tsukuyomi, Amaterasu, Susanoo, Inari. It's good to see you again. What brings you to my humble abode?" Shinigami greeted his fellow Gods.

"The Chunin Exams of course, our six month tradition of taking a break and watching it." Susanoo's watery voice replied before revealing two bags full of goodies that appeared on Shinigami's desk.

Tsukuyomi looked at her brother, her beautiful face marred with a frown. "Susanoo, as much as I like spending time with you, can you please put some clothes on? It's a little hard to concentrate with a category ten hurricane next to my ears."

"Oh fine, you're such a prude little sister." The God of the Sea and Storms sighed in irritation before the gigantic tornado of water died down to reveal a man with tan skin, a thick head of wavy black hair that went to his back, along with red and white war paint on his face. He was clad in a white kimono with red sleeves and white flower designs on them with dark red yoroi hakama (Armored Trousers), and zori sandals. Tucked in his obi was the Sword of Totsuka, the Yata Mirror strapped on his left arm, and three Yasaka Magatama jewels on his neck.

"Much better, I honestly don't know why you hate that form so much. It suits you." Amaterasu said with a small smile on her face.

"It's stuffy and uncomfortable, the only reason I even wear my clothes is because you all gripe about it." Susanoo pouted in response.

"I'm a fox, and yet I wear clothing." Inari deadpanned.

Shinigami could only chuckle in response to his friend's bickering. Most humans would think that Gods were omnipresent, majestic, calm and rational. But the reality was very different, just like the people they watched over they had their personality flaws like everyone else, the greatest example was Susanoo being a nudist, Tsukuyomi was a prude, Inari had a bad habit of wagging his tail when he was excited, and Amaterasu was a little flirty. And don't get him started on Fujin and Raijin and the others, he would point out many flaws for days to come.

Four chairs popped into existence after the bickering ended and the five Gods turned their attention towards the screen.

"So, what did you think of these exams so far?" Shinigami asked after shoveling a handful of popcorn into his mouth, after taking the tanto out and setting it on his desk.

"I thought it was going to be boring," Inari replied after sipping his soda from a big gulp that was comically larger five times larger than him. "But the first day...man am I glad I taped it."

"I will have to agree, the Aburame was merciless towards those Amegakure Genin." Susanoo remarked, preparing to dig into a bucket of fried chicken with a jug of saki to his side.

"I was more impressed by that Gaara kid." Amaterasu sipped some green tea from her cup. "I know he is the Jinchuriki of the Shukaku, but his Magnet Release Kekkei Genkai is nearly on par with his fathers." She then took a bite out of a chocolate pocky stick before continuing. "However given his...attitude, he won't surpass the Sandaime Kazekage at this rate."

"Speaking of Jinchuriki." Tsukuyomi turned her head towards Shinigami and snapped one of her pretzel sticks in half. "I heard a very...very...very nasty rumor that you brought the one holding the Kyuubi back from the dead and made him your Avatar. Is this true?"

"Heh, it's all true." Shinigami said without any shame in his voice. "The kid died, I brought him back."

"Shinigami how could you be so irresponsible!?" The Moon Goddess barked in outrage. "We are to never interfere in the affairs of mortals!"

"Plus Kami has been throwing a nonstop bitch-fit." Susanoo replied with a dour expression. "He is not amused."

"Ah fuck him. That guy is so uptight you could shove rocks down his throats and diamonds would shoot out his ass." The God of Death scoffed in response before drinking down his own soda. "Listen, that kid was not supposed to die, not yet, not for a long time actually. Both Haku and Zabuza were supposed to die on that bridge, but something happened to make Naruto take the blow. He is destined for great things, you know it, I know it, but he couldn't do it dead so I brought him back to life." (1)

"And tweaked him a bit." Inari burped out with his ever present grin. "You know Yami isn't gonna be happy when he finds out about the Jagan Eye missing from his vault, or you took Muramasa from Hell to create a sword."

"Fuck him too, he's more amused with shoving pineapples up Hitler's ass and torturing other souls to care about a treasure or two. And that goes double for Kami." Shinigami growled out before tossing his empty bucket of popcorn over his shoulder and began chowing on a hot dog. "Listen I know what I am doing. Especially with the deal I made with him." (2)

"And what was this deal, Shinigami-kun?" Amaterasu asked.

"His life for three others. Orochimaru, Madara Uchiha, Danzo Shimura."

Tsukuyomi blinked in surprise, hell everyone did. "That is a tall order."

"Especially since Madara is, you know already dead." Susanoo stopped in mid-bite with a chicken leg to say this. "My sisters and I would have felt him if he were alive."

"Well whoever this Madara is, he needs to die. Causing a Civil War in Water Country has not made my job any easier, among his other crimes. We can't interfere with mortal affairs unless directly summoned. However the rules never said we couldn't...push a little in our favor." Shinigami wily remarked before turning back towards the television. "Lets not discuss this for now, we'll miss the action."

The other four Gods could only agree.

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Back in the mortal realm, the match started the way everyone expected. Both combatants drew their respective kunai's, but that's where the similarities ended.

Kagari reached into his side pouch and threw down a couple smoke bombs, obscuring the entire arena in a thick cloud of black smoke. It dissipated a minute later to reveal Sakura standing alone with a bewildered expression on her face.

"What the? Where did he go?" Sakura whispered to herself.

"Anywhere, and everywhere." Kagari's voice echoed with the use of the Ventriloquism Jutsu as three dozen of him emerged from the ground in a slumped over fashion. "Come on little girl, lets see what you got."

"Big deal, I got a teammate who can create a bunch of clones too!" Sakura exclaimed before nailing one clone right in the face with a wicked left hook, only to pass through it like it was a mirage. "Oh no, this isn't a solid clone."

"Of course it isn't you stupid bitch, what sort of Genin has that much chakra!?" All three dozen Kagari's growled at her. A dozen of the clones charged at her swinging their kunai's causing Sakura's eyes to widen and backpedal away. However before she thought she was safe, another Kagari rose up from the ground and sliced at her, cutting deep into her right arm.

Sakura cried out in pain and dropped her kunai out of reflex before clutching her bloody appendage. Several of the clones broke away, attacking from her at all sides, causing her to throw several wild kicks that phased through them, only for the real Rain Genin to cut into her side. But as quickly as he appeared, Kagari disappeared into the ground, confusing the pinkette once again, as she clutched her new wound with gritted teeth.

"Hahah! Just like I thought, you're all bark and no bite. Without your teammates you're useless, nothing but cannon fodder!" Kagari laughed at her, appearing behind her and delivered a punishing kick to her back that sent her tumbling onto the cold, unforgiving floor.

Up in the balcony Aoi smirked seeing the fight going exactly the way he was hoping for. Kagari was not exactly malicious, but whatever this girl did to piss him off only caused him to chuckle in amusement and turn towards Kakashi. "Heh, it looks like this village has been producing more rejects since I left."

Kakashi cooly looked at his former comrade with a detached gaze. "You would know, wouldn't you Aoi. I'm surprised that you of all people volunteered to train a Genin team."

The Rain Jonin only scoffed in response. "Teaching is not my forte, it never was here, and it certainly isn't in Amegakure." He then looked at both Oboro and Mubi. "However their sensei unexpectedly died a week before the exams stated. And I was volunteered to take over. Hmph, first I was against it, but then I remembered that you can't touch me during these exams. So flaunting my status and the fact I'm immune in your face was a great motivator to take up the position."

That got a good many Jonin from Konohagakure to glare at the man. Asuma was very tempted to use his trench knives to cut his impudent tongue from his mouth, while Gai lightly cracked his knuckles. Ibiki's growl was the loudest however due to how the man personally scarred his face and caused the death of his little brother. Aoi however wasn't even remotely worried, he only smirked in response when Sakura got cut in the legs by his temporary student.

Back in the arena Sakura was losing faith. After the fifth cut she honestly lost count of the number of injuries she received from her opponent, she was losing, the match should have been called by now. And yet Hayate was standing on the sideline with his arms crossed, watching them like a hawk.

Receiving a punch to her already abused face, Sakura felt the hot blood fly out her nose and smacked into the wall with a whimper. All three dozen Kagari's laughed at her pain and twirled their bloodied kunai's in their hands. "Ah nothing's better than beating on a weakling, listen girl. While it was fun roughing you up it has lost it's luster. Give up now and I'll stop, if you don't I'll just have to hurt you some more."

Wiping the blood from her broken nose, Sakura looked up with one good eye since her other one was swollen shut. Pants of exhaustion and pain escaped from her, her arms and legs were like lead weights, she had nothing left to give.

"Proctor...I...I-"

"Don't you dare Sakura!"

Looking up in the stands, Sakura looked at a snarling Naruto, or at least his mask was snarling; seriously how was he able to do that? "Don't quit now! What happened to all that progress you were making? Beat his ass and show him you aren't weak!"

"The dobe's right Sakura." Sasuke immediately seconded. "You're a member of Team Seven. The strongest team of the Rookie Nine. Calm down and use that big brain on yours."

'Naruto...Sasuke-kun...you're right!' Steeling her gaze, Sakura glared at her enemy.

"Hmph, your funeral girl." Kagari scoffed before the three dozen copies of him ran at her.

Closing her eye Sakura's brain immediately went into overdrive. Kagari was faster, stronger, and had much more experience than her. This was true on every account. But he certainly wasn't smarter than her. Using what had happened so far during the fight Sakura knew that she couldn't trust her eyes anymore, and so she listened.

There were only two sets of feet running towards her, meaning that there was indeed only one of him, and he didn't suddenly mix up his clones with solid ones was a great relief for her. They were distant, and becoming louder, and louder, and even more louder until they were right on top of her.

Snapping her eye open, Sakura saw that five copies were descending on her. Their kunai's thrusting to skewer or cut her, her eye cast towards the ground and saw a shadow coming from the one on the far left. "I got you now! Shannaro!" She cried out.

Everyone watched in surprise as Sakura's right fist impacted Kagari's face. They also watched as it shattered his rebreather, lifted him straight off the ground, and sent him spiraling into the wall opposite of her and embedded in it.

No one moved, no one said anything, no one even blinked after seeing that. Hayate was the first to snap out of his stupor and made his way towards Kagari and placed his fingers on his neck to make sure he was still alive. Letting out a light cough he turned towards Sakura and gave her a small smile. "Winner of the first match by knockout, Sakura Haruno."

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Back in Purgatory the five Gods stopped stuffing their faces and tilted their heads in confusion and bewilderment. The fight went as expected with Sakura getting her ass kicked, but the very last minute was something that was completely unexpected.

"Aw damn, I should not have bet against her." Amaterasu sighed out with a cute pout.

"Told you dear sister, pay up." Susanoo held up his hand and twitched his fingers in a 'gimme' motion.

"Oh I hope you choke on it." The dark-haired sister reached into her kimono and handed him a pouch of jingling coins.

"Still gambling at your age? Unbelievable." Tsukuyomi said in disapproval.

"We're immortal beings who have seen and done everything since the beginning. What do you expect us to do, sit on our thrones and just stare down at the earth?" Inari mockingly asked the Moon Goddess, rudely burping before popping off the cap on his giant cup of soda and began licking one of the giant ice cubes. "Hell no, we gotta do something to pass eternity."

Before any retort could be made, a gigantic lightning bolt erupted in front of them to reveal two people. The first a red headed green-skinned humanoid with a pot belly wearing a leopard skin toga, and carrying a large brown leather bag on his shoulders.

The second was also a red headed humanoid, only his skin was blue, was just equally as fat as the first one, wore a leopard skin toga, and had four large tomoe drums attached via a large ring to his back.

"Hey guys!" The first one loudly greeted them.

"Sorry we're late, Lightning Country needed their weekly storm!" The second one said in an equally loud voice.

"Hey Fujin. Hey Raijin." The five dully greeted them.

Two chairs popping existence, both brothers settled in and stared up at the screen. "So what'd we miss?" Raijin asked.

"Sakura Haruno won the first match." Shinigami replied.

"Huh, didn't see that one coming." Fujin said as he scratched his belly.

"None of us did, now shut up the next match is starting." Inari barked at them.

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After both Sakura and Kagari were escorted out of the arena to get their respective injuries fixed. The screen flashing through the random names until they settled on the next two destined to fight this round.

Yoroi Akado vs Rock Lee

"Wahoo! I'm next, watch me Gai-sensei. I will not hold back this fight and give it my all!" Lee loudly exclaimed, causing several participants to cover their ears.

"Yes Lee! Even if he is a fellow Konohagakure ninja, hold nothing back. To do so would be an insult to him! Go my precious student and show everyone your Flames of Youth!" Gai bellowed, causing both Kiba and Akamaru to fall into the fetal position, clutching their ears.

"Gai-sensei!" Lee turned towards the older version of himself and began to run towards him.

"Lee!" Gai raced towards his mini-me, despite them being mere feet away from each other.

"Gai-sensei!"

"Lee!"

To the onlookers horror, they were nearly caught in their genjutsu that would put the Kurama Clan to shame. The sparkles in their teeth were so real that Gaara's sand acted out of reflex and blocked them from touching him. Kankuro was not so lucky, he was struck right in the head and toppled over.

"Gai...Lee...please knock it off." Hiruzen's voice was the only thing to stop them from colliding and quite possibly causing everyone to either declare war on him for assaulting their senses, or killing them, whichever of the two. "Get in the ring or I will have to disqualify you."

"You're right Hokage-sama! I apologize for my behavior!" Lee saluted his village leader and jumped into the arena.

"Oh thank Kami, I was getting worried." Naruto sighed out in relief. "The last thing I want to do is kill my sparring partner...and partial sensei."

"I know what you mean." Sasuke said as he holstered his kusarigama, he didn't even know that he brought it to bare. In fact everyone seemed to be putting away some form of weaponry. All except the members of Team Eight and Shikamaru for some reason.

"Make it stop...make the bad people go away." Kiba muttered over and over again, along with his faithful companion whimpering beside him.

"Um...there there Kiba." Kurenai awkwardly tried to comfort her student.

Back in the arena Yoroi scoffed when he looked at the Genin with the terrible fashion sense. Thanks to Kabuto's research he learned that Rock Lee was nothing more than a one trick pony. He had absolutely no talent in ninjutsu or genjutsu due to the low amount of chakra in his body, all he needed to do was simply brush him with his hands to absorb his chakra, and he would either die or fall unconscious, he honestly didn't care.

When Hayate called for the match to start, he stretched out his right hand and it began glowing a dull blue color. He blinked once, and when he opened his eyes Lee was right in front of him, his fist outstretched. The last thing Yoroi felt was a harsh impact to his solar plexus, pain in his back and that was all he could remember.

"Kabuto, your team sucks!" Naruto said to the bespectacled Genin.

"Naruto!" Kakashi admonished his Genin.

"I'm sorry Kakashi-sensei but...the dobe's right. Lee hit him with one punch and he was out like a light." Sasuke defended his teammate as the medics pried Yoroi from the wall and carried him away on a gurney.

Pushing his glasses up on his face Kabuto only sighed in response. In total honesty he expected Yoroi to lose against Lee, he was just faster thanks to the training of Gai Maito, but he didn't think it would be that fast. Oh he honestly hoped Orochimaru wouldn't kill him outright when they next saw each other.

After Yoroi was taken away to the medical ward, and Lee ran up to give his sensei the so-called 'manly hug', the names began flashing once again.

Kin Tsuchi vs Choji Akimichi

"Huh, Choji is fighting next. Interesting." Sasuke commented as the two contestants made their way down into the arena.

"And against one of those Sound Genin," Kakashi said before turning towards his two students. "Tell me you two, what are they like?"

"Merciless." Sasuke immediately said.

"Interesting more likely. Their abilities are unique, but I don't think Kin can beat Choji." Naruto countered.

"And why do you say that dobe?" Sasuke asked, narrowing his eyes in suspicion that it was this ghost of his talking to him.

"Hell if I know." That's more like it. "Lets just watch."

Back in the arena Choji was visibly gulping as he stared at his opponent, the mean-looking woman that he nearly had to fight in the forest only days ago. Even now she was snarling at him, glaring intimidatingly.

"Hey Choji, don't be afraid of her! You can do this!" Shikamaru shouted at his best friend.

"Fatso!" Ino seconded to rile her teammate up.

And it worked, several tick marks appeared on Choji's face, and his chakra began flaring. "Oh you're gonna get it Ino! You better hope she knocks me out or I'm going to squash you!"

Kin however was unconcerned. If anything watching this fat Genin lose his mind over his weight problem would prompt her to a quicker victory.

"The third match of the Preliminaries. Kin Tsuchi of Otogakure versus Choji Akimichi of Konohgakure. Ready...fight!" Hayate shouted at the both of them before jumping away, he did not want to get caught in the middle of an angry Akimichi.

Quickly flying his hands into the Ram seal, and clapping his hands together, Choji shouted. "Expansion Jutsu!" To the shock of the foreign shinobi, his entire torso expanded in size. Then tucking in his limbs he used chakra to propel himself into a powerful roll. "Human Boulder!"

"Nice try! But you won't escape from this!" Kin threw several senbon and with several bells attached to them, she began the process to create her special genjutsu to disorient her opponent. She smirked when she activated it.

In a perfect world her genjutsu would have worked. However her genjutsu affected the eardrums of her opponent. Choji's entire head was safely tucked inside his shirt.

Her eyes widening in alarm, Kin let out a shriek of terror as the human size bolder sped at her, and her fight reflex turned straight into flight as she turned tail and ran. And to the spectators, and annoyance of her teammates Kin was running in circles of the entire arena with Choji following her. She tried running on the walls, but like a heat seeking missile Choji followed her by rolling on the walls, denting the concrete with his weight.

"Ahem, you know you can surrender." Hayate said, watching with a sweat-drop when the girl ran by him. Lightly coughing when she passed by him again he looked at her once again. "Uh, are you going to surrender?"

"No! I can't!" Kin shouted.

"...Why?"

"He'll run out of steam eventually!" The Sound kunoichi quickly shouted out as she ran past him.

Lightly coughing Hayate only looked on at the situation that grew less amusing by the minute. Instead of Choji losing steam, Kin was the one who was slowing down, her form panting and sweating until the inevitable happened. She finally ran out of stamina and her legs just gave out on her, causing her to fall to the unforgiving ground. Choji was still rolling, unaware that his opponent had fallen, leaving the Special Jonin to swoop in to save the downed kunoichi, and his fellow comrade of the Leaf to crash into the wall.

His jutsu dismissing Choji turned back to his regular, pudgy form and slowly stumbled around with swirls in his eyes. "Did I...did I win?" He asked in confusion.

"Yea, the match is over. Due to chakra exhaustion, I deem Choji Akimichi as the winner of the third match!" Hayate announced the end of the match before handing Kin off to the medical shinobi baring a gurney for her. "You'll be all right."

"No I won't...I'm going to be punished for sure." Kin said in the lowest, most defeated voice imaginable. It actually caused the Special Jonin to wince just hearing it.

"That's not going to be a problem." Hayate leaned close to her, pretending to check for any injuries. "Just stay in bed, we will take care of you." And left it at that before turning towards the Hokage, and watched the older man nod.

Thanks to Naruto's...charisma one would say, the Sandaime met up with him an hour before the preliminaries began, and gave him clear instructions to make sure the Sound Genin; should any be defeated were to be treated, put on guard, and eventually whisked away for reasons of safety. Kabuto's entire team however was to be treated, and spirited away for reasons of national security.

Kankuro vs Kiba Inuzuka

"All right! It's finally our turn to kick some ass!" Kiba exclaimed, immediately snapping out of the funk Gai and Lee put him in and jumped down into the arena with vigor, despite Kurenai insisting he use the stairs.

"Heh, a Leaf shinobi. Whatever." Kankuro scoffed before uncrossing his arms and prepared to head down to the arena.

"Careful Kankuro, he may look dumb, but don't underestimate him." Temari warned her brother.

"Don't worry sis, I got this fight in the bag." The kabuki painted Genin waved her off before arriving in the arena thirty seconds later.

"The fourth fight of the Preliminaries, Kankuro of Sunagakure versus Kiba Inuzuka of Konohagakure." Hayate coughed into his left hand before raising his right arm. "Ready...fight!"

His entire body coating in blue chakra, Kiba immediately fell onto all fours and gained an even more feral appearance. His canine teeth, their finger and toenails grow to claw-like length, and his eyes also become more wild with their pupils becoming slits. "All-Fours Jutsu!" He snarled out.

"Well looks like the mutt became a mongrel." Kankuro said with an arrogant laugh. Reaching behind his back for the wrapped object he commented. "I got something that will take care of you, and your puppy."

"I don't think so! I'm ending this with one move! Akamaru!" Quickly reaching into his hip pouch, Kiba snapped a soldier pill towards his canine companion. Akamaru swallowed it in mid-air and turned red in appearance before transforming into an exact copy of his master, utilizing the Man Beast Clone Jutsu.

Without a word, the two jumped into the air, both slapping each other on the hand and both man and beast began to spin at a ferocious speed, resembling destructive dual tornado's. "Fang over Fang!" The attack struck Kankuro engulfing him in a whirlwind of teeth and claws, causing him to cry out as it tore him asunder.

Both Kiba's stopped after their attack ended, watching as the lifeless body of Kankuro fell to the floor. However before he could let out a victorious cheer Kankuro rose up from the ground. "What the!? How is this possible, you should be down for the count!"

Kankuro didn't respond, instead his face chipped away, revealing wood underneath. The cloth sack exploded outwards and the real Kankuro revealed himself, a little battered, but virtually unscathed. "Not a bad move there Inuzuka, if that was the real me I would have been toast. Though I suggest you surrender now before you find yourself facing oblivion."

"Fuck off makeup boy!" The real Kiba cried out, causing Akamaru to snarl next to him. "You made a mistake revealing yourself to me, now I know where to aim! Let's go Akamaru!"

Repeating the same maneuvers as before, both Kiba and Akamaru, jumped, slapped their respective hands and rotated, forming their respective tornado's. However Kankuro was ready, both he and the replica of himself moved away from the tornado's of death. But both Inuzuka just rebounded off the arena walls, damaging them in the process, missing and repeating each and every time.

"Oh for the love of Kami, they are going to destroy the entire arena at this rate!" Asuma exclaimed before turning towards Kurenai. "Didn't you teach your students to not be so destructive?"

"This is Kiba's clan jutsu, Asuma!" Kurenai snapped back as the bearded Jonin. "They aren't known for exact subtly when they are forced into a massive confrontation!"

"Ha! All brawn and no brains, typical Inuzuka's!" Aoi laughed in response. "The kid's a goner, that sand-rat will lay him out soon enough."

"And why do you think that, huh?" Kurenai argued against the former instructor. "Kiba will win this match."

"Oh care to wager?" Aoi lewdly asked the exotic Jonin.

"I don't think so." Kakashi interrupted their bickering before it got out of hand. "Just watch the fights. This is getting interesting."

Back in the arena, the tiled floor and concrete walls were getting decimated. Each miss, Kiba and Akamaru caused another round of destruction. Kankuro himself was beginning to sweat a lot from ducking and dodging the attacks, he was meant to be a ranged fighter, taijutsu wasn't his strong suit. Manipulating Karasu with his chakra threads, he made two more arms sprout from the fake body it was using, the elbows cracking back he fired off smoke bombs to obscure the entire arena.

Hitting the ground Kiba began hacking. "Argh, dammit! This smoke is laced with something, I can't smell. Akamaru how are you holding up boy?" Receiving no response a pit of dread hit his stomach like a rock. "Akamaru?"

"Your puppy dispelled immediately after hitting the ground. Poor dog can't handle his poisons very well." Kankuro said in a mocking tone.

"P-p-oison!?"

"Don't worry, it's nothing fatal. However you will wake up with one hell of a headache."

"I don't think so. I'm gonna blow this smoke away, Tunneling Fang!" Kiba jumped into the air, and that was unfortunately all he did. With a 'hurking' sound he collapsed onto his face. "Ow...why can't I move?"

"Oh did I forget to mention?" Kankuro stepped over to him, a mask over his face and four dual wrist knives sliding out of Karasu's wrists. "I also laced a paralyzing agent in my bombs as well. Don't worry it won't be permanent, lets just hope you don't have to pee for a few hours, otherwise...well you already look like a fool." Placing all four blades at the Inuzuka's neck he looked up at the ref, standing on the railing. "So, your call ref."

"Due to being incapacitated, Kankuro of Sunagakure is the winner." Hayate lightly coughed out. "Now can you please get rid of this stuff? We need to start the next match."

"It'll settle down in a few moments ref." Kankuro smirked before the smoke simply dissipated. "There we go, don't worry it's safe to come down."

---

Back in Purgatory the Shinigami was widely grinning as he accumulated the vast amount of ill-gained wealth on his desk. "Told you so, suckers!"

"Oh piss off fang-face, you cheated, I know it." Fujin grumbled.

"Don't complain, we all lost fair and square. Even you Tsukuyomi." Susanoo said before gulping down a long drink of saki from his gourd.

"Don't rub it in Susanoo." The Moon Goddess said with a cute pout before biting into a dango stick in frustration. "I thought at least the dog would win."

"Hey, I only bet because the Inuzuka had a animal companion." Inari huffed in response and slapped down some acorns, drawing confused looks. "I'm a fucking animal, I can carry acorns in my pocket."

"Shut up you guys, the next match is gonna start, and I'm actually looking forward to this!" Raijin bellowed, eagerly pointing at the screen.

"Huh, Dosu Kinuta and Misumi Tsurugi. Now that is an interesting match up." Amaterasu said, looking at both teenagers with amusement. "Shinigami, what's the story on that Dosu boy? He's definitely more interesting than many of the other participants in this tournament."

"Ah yes, Dosu Kinuta. Born and soon orphaned he grew up on the streets, disillusioned by his own existence as to why he was born to just to struggle. Orochimaru found him, and just like Zaku offered him power in exchange for his loyalty. He trained himself to the bone, getting wounded in his face from strong shinobi he defeated in combat, and adopted the name Kinuta for himself." Shinigami gave a brief rundown on the file he had on the kid. "But now his loyalties are shifting due to the realization that his devotion towards Orochimaru was nothing more than a lie, and the only thing he cares about are his teammates...well for now, at least until my Avatar can flip him."

"If he can flip him." Tsukuyomi remarked.

"Woman have you not seen the crap the blonde kid can do?" Inari demanded. "He flipped that Kaguya...granted it was through the Jagan Eye, but he also flipped Zabuza and Haku, not to mention those Demon Brothers. Though Shinigami, you really ought to do something about that hair of his. I mean seriously, black streaks? What is he a wannabe goth?"

"Duly noted."

---

Back in the mortal plane Hayate just started the fight, and immediately the two shinobi were at each others throats. Each had their kunai's in their respective hands, clashed together, struggling for dominance.

Misumi sneered behind his mask, hissing at his secret comrade. "You should be dead you know."

"I'm hard to kill." Dosu remarked in an equally low voice, kneeing him in the gut before flipping away.

Misumi lightly rubbed his newly tenderized area before throwing his kunai and watching it bounce off Dosu's Melody Arm. "Hmph, like a cockroach." He said before reaching into his hip pouch and threw a handful of shuriken.

The Sound Genin only scoffed as he used his melody arm to block the projectiles again, he then charged the purple-clad man. Bringing his kunai to bare, he began swiping it at his opponent. "That's quite an insult, considering how much of a worm you are."

"I'll show you who's a worm!" Catching Dosu's hand in a strong grip, Misumi then to the disgust of most of the audience, dislocated his joints, and using only chakra he stretched and twisted his arms in legs like a snake, ensnaring his opponent's entire body. His legs tangled Dosu's, his right arm was twisted three times around the Melody Arm, while his left trapped his left arm straight out, and tangled around his neck, making it tilt awkwardly.

"Shit Blondie, that mummy of yours has gotten himself...tangled up." Ishikawa said with a snicker.

'You unbelievable asshole, I can't believe you used that pun at a time like this.' Naruto mentally cursed out his resident ghost.

"Ha, I know right, but seriously that Dosu kid's gonna die, I can see it in four-eye's eyes."

'I don't think so, call it a gut feeling but I think Dosu has this in the bag.'

"I'm going to snap your neck!" Misumi hissed into Dosu's covered ear, tightening his grip on his neck and savored hearing the popping sounds. "You were a good soldier, but now you're all used up. Just let it go...you can't fight it forever."

"Fight this!" Flicking the kunai he had in his hand, Dosu hit the exposed part of his Melody Arm, causing it to vibrate. Channeling his chakra through the device, the mummy-like Genin upped the vibrations, aiming for Misumi's ear.

The glassed-wearing man let out a horrible scream as his entire body...well there was no medical term for what happened to him, but his entire body became slack an he fell off Dosu's entire frame. The lens of his glasses shattered, both ears were bleeding profusely, projectile vomit erupted from his mouth, plastering his mask to his face after he was finished, his bowls vacated with a horrible squishing sound, and he laid on the ground, this limbs completely stretched out like wet noodles.

If Dosu could have spat on his opponent, he would have at that point in time, but when Hayate called the match and after Misumi was awkwardly put on a gurney, Dosu looked straight up at Naruto. No words were said, none needed to be said. He just gave him a ghost of a nod and walked back up to his team.

"Heh, knew he could do it." Naruto said.

"He almost killed a fellow Leaf shinobi." Kurenai admonished him with a disapproving frown.

"That fight was getting out of hand Kurenai." Kakashi defended his student.

"Yea, from what my precious student told me, he could have easily used his technique to turn his opponent's insides to jelly. It was youthful of him to spare a fellow comrade!" Gai exclaimed with animated tears running down his eyes.

"Uh...Gai." Kakashi lamely trailed off, pointing at the screen.

Tenten vs. Temari

"Oh come on! I have a last name you know!" Tenten wailed as she pointed at the screen.

"Sorry Tenten-san, there was a malfunction with the board. Your name is registered here but...this is out of my control." The Sandaime apologized to the bun-haired Genin with a sheepish smile. He may have been a master of a thousand jutsu's, but master of technology he was not.

Lightly growling in response, Tenten resigned herself and jumped into the arena, followed by Temari with a confident smirk on her face.

"Ahem, the sixth match of the Preliminaries. Tenten Higarashi of Konohagakure verses Temari of Sunagakure..." Hayate trailed off to cough several times before continuing. "Ready...fight!"

Immediately Tenten brought her hand to her kunai holster and flung three of her kunai-knives with deadly, pinpoint accuracy. To her surprise though, Temari only moved her giant fan and opened it slightly to reveal a purple circle, allowing her weapons to bounce off of it.

"Too slow." Temari said in a mocking tone. "This is only the first moon you shall see. When all three are revealed you're finished."

"Then it looks like I need to go into overkill." Tenten then turned towards her fellow Genin, and winked at a certain mask-wearing one. "I planned on using this for the finals, but it looks like a sneak preview is in order." Pulling out two scrolls, the bun-haired kunoichi placed them in an upright position on the floor. Flying through five hand seals and crossing her arms, the two scrolls released smoke and flew up into the air spinning into the shape of two dragons made of smoke. Tenten then jumped between the two scrolls, and began pulling out all sorts of weaponry.

In the blink of an eye she fired off four kunai, in another six spears were thrown, in another a trio of swords flew through the air. It was almost inconceivable how many weapons were being used at the same time, and how she was able to handle them so well with so little effort.

Unfortunately it was all for naught. With a frown on her face, Temari opened her fan a little more, revealing the second purple moon and flung her fan, scattering the raining metal of death. "Two moons, you can't beat me."

"Not yet!" To the surprise of many, Tenten threw back her arms, revealing that she had wires wrapped around her fingers, and flung nearly all the weapons she threw at Temari towards her person, but with a little manipulation of chakra she flung her arsenal back at the fan-user.

"Pathetic one trick pony! Wind Style: Wind Scythe Jutsu!" Extending her fan the entire way, Temari swung it at full force, creating a gale of wind that blew away and shattered some of Tenten's weapons and carving her body.

Many winced hearing the strong kunoichi cry out in pain, many more even even looked on in horror as she began falling to the ground. Temari closed her fan and brought it forwards in order to watch Tenten fall directly on it and injure her spine.

What she did not expect was for a certain demonic-masked individual to land on top of her fan, catch Tenten in his arms and back flip onto the arena floor.

"What the? Uzumaki!" Hayate barked out.

"Sorry." His mask gave the chronic cougher a sheepish look, that confused the hell out of him and turned his gave to the kunoichi in his arms. "You all right?"

"I've been worse..." Tenten coughed out with a pained smile. "I didn't make it...sorry."

"Hey, you just got matched up with the wrong opponent, it's not your fault." He then turned his attention towards Temari, his eye holes glaring crimson for a brief second. "But you, you were out of line!"

"It's a competition brat, she lost I won." Temari simply said.

"That's right a fucking competition! You could have crippled her you know that."

"Whatever, I won. See you in the finals if you make it. Then you can put your money where your mouth is." The blonde scoffed before making her way back up to the stands.

"You're damn right I will! I'm gonna make it to the finals and kick your ass!" Naruto bellowed, practically spitting fire from the open mouth of his mask.

"It seems Naruto-san is all fired up." Shino lightly commented.

"Yea...he does." Hinata agreed, giving her not-so-secret crush a smile. Of course she couldn't help but be jealous that it was Tenten in his arms instead of her, but it didn't engulf her. Tenten was a friend who liked him as well, she would get her turn in the spotlight very soon.

"Nice going dobe." Sasuke commented with a ghost of a smile on his face.

Dosu narrowed his eye seeing the black-streaked blonde getting chewed out by the proctor. He risked disqualification for a comrade, that was something no one in Otogakure would do. The strong survived, that was the fact of life where he came from, and if you were weak you were left behind or...whatever Orochimaru did to you when you were of no further use. Damn idiot was making his decision becoming more clearer with each interaction.

"Ha, that kid. Man I cannot find myself to hate him." Anko commented with a satisfied grin as she tucked her arm under her impressive bosom. "So, is he going to be in trouble Hokage-sama?"

"No, I'm going to let this one slip by. Naruto-kun's actions may have been rash, but he saved a friend from further injury. He would definitely have made the first two Hokage's very proud." Hiruzen said with a smile on his face before turning to Ibiki. "Don't you agree?"

"He's...interesting I'll admit that much." The scarred Special Jonin gruffly said.

"All right we're going to have a small intermission to clean up the weapons. ten minutes for everyone." Hayate said before coughing and turning towards Naruto. "Go on, get get out of here."

"Thanks Hayate." Naruto grinned, which was again shown by his mask before following Tenten being lead to the medical area.

"What a strange kid."

---

In the medical ward the medical shinobi were glad that they had a full supply of soldier pills, and the special drink to lessen the harmful effects after they were finished with their jobs. Honestly Genin these days were as violent as pit vipers, some of these injuries were something they had never seen before.

Kanpo, wearing the standard high collared, full body uniform of the standard Konohagakure medical ninja with the red patch of the Medical Corps on the left side of his chest held up his clipboard while Mitate and Iyashi frantically tried healing Misumi's in his own words; fucked up body.

"Kids these days, and here I thought our generation was bad." Kanpo commented as he looked at the injury chart.

Sakura Haruno sustained a total of eight lacerations to her body, many were deep along with a broken nose and her right eye swollen shut. Thankfully her injuries were minor and she would make a full recovery, leaving no scars behind. A few days of bed rest would be required though, doctor's orders.

Kagari however was a different story. His jaw had to be wired shut and lost several teeth due to vicious punch that he received. He was put in a neck brace until they got the x-rays back and had a bruised back with several cracked ribs from the impact of the wall.

Yoroi Akado was relatively in the same condition. His entire ribcage was broken and they barely managed to get everything in their proper place and put him in a medically induced coma so he wouldn't wake up screaming.

Kin Tsuchi was thankfully the easiest patient they had so far. Minus some bumps and bruises from the forest, she also had a mild case of chakra exhaustion. Though oddly there was a member of the Anbu standing watch over both her and Yoroi.

Kiba Inuzuka and his partner Akamaru were poisoned, simple as that. However it was non-lethal, and they gave both of them a drink that would naturally purge it from their systems faster. Already he was slowly moving, and cursing under his breath a lot.

Misumi Tsurugi however was the biggest pain to deal with so far. Not only were all the teen's joints dislocated, but his ear drums were damaged, the blood vessels in his eyes were broken, his voice box was fried, and with his arms and legs stretched out they were painstakingly reconnecting his joints to make him go back to normal.

"Here we go coming through!" Kanpo heard Mogusa's voice as he raced a gurney towards him.

"What happened to her?" He asked in alarm seeing Tenten all cut up, and the village's resident jinchuriki beside her.

"Wind jutsu." Mogusa simply replied.

"Of course, I should have payed attention to the fights." Palming his face tiredly, Kanpo looked Tenten over.

"Is she going to be okay?" Naruto asked.

"Don't worry kid, she will be fine. Luckily I know how to treat these sorts of injuries." Mogusa said with an arrogant smirk. "If there's anyone you want to check on, you can see all those who aren't unconscious. We'll take care of your girlfriend."

"What?" Thankfully his hannya mask did not have the ability to blush, otherwise he would look cherry red. "Tenten's not my..." Feeling a strong, feminine hand grab his forearm, Naruto looked down to see Tenten, lightly pink in the cheeks smiling at him.

"Go ahead Naruto I'll be fine." She said with a slight grimace. "Win for me, and after this...I need to talk to you about something."

"Ohh talk to you about something." Ishikawa said with the biggest shit-eating grin on his face. Naruto heard his cackling like a madman, knowing something that he didn't. "Prepare yourself Blondie."

"Prepare for what?" He asked out loud, before realizing he actually said that out loud and looked into Tenten's big brown eyes. "I-I mean sure, whatever you need." He left her at that, not noticing her mischievous smile.

After walking a good distance he arrived in Sakura's room and saw the pinkette resting on the bed with her arms and torso bandaged up. She looked tired, and distracted, but positively beaming with happiness. Good for her. "Hey Sakura, I see you're doing better."

"After three days in a terrifying forest, and getting beaten up by a merciless opponent and winning, I would hope I was doing better." Sakura replied with a tired smile.

"Haha! After punching that guy right in the face I would hope so." Naruto laughed in response. "You did really good out there, I'm proud of you."

"Thanks...and Naruto." For the first time since he knew her, Sakura visibly gulped in front of him and looked nervous, even misty-eyed. "Naruto I'm sorry. I'm sorry for everything I have done to you. The yelling, calling you an idiot, hitting you...I was out of line."

Silence was the only thing she heard, and timidly she looked to see the imposing hannya mask, even completely cracked on its forehead was still intimidating. She knew that there wasn't going to be any forgiveness on his end, but she said her peace. She could at least know that she tried unlike some people.

"A few weeks ago I would have told you to go to hell." Naruto honestly admitted, causing the pinkette to flinch in response. "But you are the first person to ever apologize for being a bitch towards me. So I forgive you because you are actually trying to improve yourself. And I respect that."

The flood gates nearly opened then, and Sakura barely managed to compose herself right then and there. "Thank you Naruto...that really means a lot to me."

"Sakura-chan." Naruto said, using the suffix she hadn't heard for months now. "It's all in the past now, and lets leave it in the past. Now I only got a few minutes left before they restart the matches. Sasuke an I will join you afterwards, all right?"

"Sure, just be careful those matches are getting brutal by the minute." Sakura said, gesturing towards the tv that kept her up to date. "And Naruto...after the matches are done, is there a chance I can get some alone time with Hokage-sama? I have something to tell him."

"Uh, sure. I'll mention it I got to talk with him anyways regarding what happened in the forest." Naruto replied with some confusion before sprinting away.

---

"You're late dobe." Sasuke dully said to his teammate when he arrived.

"Sorry about that, it took a little longer than I expected to drain the lizard and talk to both Sakura and Tenten. She's doing fine by the way." Naruto immediately replied before looking at the arena. "So, what did I miss?"

"Ino fought against that Oboro guy. She lost badly and the jackass heckling our Jonin wouldn't shut up about it. Shikamaru fought against his teammate Mubi and won. That shut him up." The Uchiha replied with a glare towards the Rain team.

"I was late by two minutes. How the hell did those matches go by so quick?"

"Because they were quick. Ino attempted to pin Oboro down using wires and kunai, she then tried to use her Mind Transfer Jutsu but missed after he broke free. Oboro then beat Ino's body quick enough to where she blacked out upon returning." Kakashi replied, glaring at Aoi who smirked at him. "Shikamaru trapped his opponent in his Shadow Possession Jutsu and forced his opponent to knock himself out by headbutting the walls."

"Shit. I wish I didn't miss the second one. Who's fighting now?" Looking down into the arena Naruto saw both Zaku and Shino just arrive in their designated fighting spots. "Huh, did not see this coming."

"The Ninth match of the Preliminaries. Shino Aburame of Konohagakure versus Zaku Abumi of Otogakure." Hayate announced, surprisingly not coughing this time as he raised his right arm. "Ready...fight!"

"You should forfeit Zaku-san." Shino immediately spoke after the match began. "Why you ask this? Your arms are useless, and you can barely stand. To fight me will be your undoing."

"Thanks but no thanks." Zaku instantly sprinted at him with surprising speed given his condition. "I rather win! Decapitating Airwaves!" Snapping his right arm out he struck Shino right in the face, blasting him to the other side of the arena. "Ha! Take that!"

"Impressive...you faked being injured." Shino slowly said, shakily standing on his two feet. That was when everyone noticed that small beetle-like insects were crawling out of several small, microscopic holes in his face.

Zaku didn't care, if his opponent was weird it was still an opponent, and a punching bag to him. "Oh it still hurts like hell. Actually it hurts like a motherfucker, but I nailed you right in that stupid face of yours. You have to be feeling it."

"Painful, yes. But I have you trapped." Shino gestured behind the Sound Genin to show a swarm of insects, the same ones that were coming out of him were behind him. "My Kikaichu insects are capable of draining chakra from the human body in a matter of seconds. And in your state you won't last long, so I say again, surrender."

Glaring at the Aburame, Zaku gnashed his teeth together. "You really think I will give up just like that?"

"It is only logical. You have one good arm, you can either attack me, and my insects will get you. Attack my insects and I will get you. This is a lose-lose situation for you." Shino logically said.

"That's where you're wrong!" With a sudden movement of his left arm, and several sickening snaps later Zaku hollered at his opponent. "I have an ace in the hole that will blow both you and your bugs away! Extreme Decapitating Air-"

"Zaku stop!" Dosu screamed out, stopping the fight dead in its tracks.

"What?" Looking up at the unofficial leader of the team, the spiky-haired Genin glared up at him. He was about to shout at him before something caught his eyes. Looking at the palms of his hands he saw the tubes were clogged with those same damn insects. "My...my arms."

"Zaku." Their sensei, a fair skinned man with long black hair done up in a high ponytail, wearing dark grey clothing, black shinobi-styled sandals and a black flack vest that came with shoulder padding and a neck guard. It was also fastened by three metal clasps on the left side and have a pouch in the front just over the stomach. "Continue."

"But...but O...sensei. My arms will..." Zaku tried to defend himself. His arms were the most precious things to him, if they were ruined then what would he be to him?

His 'sensei's' cruel black eyes glared at him in response, sending a cold feeling of dread into the pit of his stomach. "I don't care, a Sound shinobi does not give up. Your teammate made a fool of herself, but she continued until she ran out of chakra, what is your excuse?" He sneered in response. "Fight!"

But Zaku didn't fight, instead he lost the feeling in his legs and collapsed onto his knees, he looked at his plugged hands, and saw them shaking in terror. He didn't know what to do, he was stuck between a rock and a hard place again, between being trapped by Shino, his insects, the insects in his hands, and Orochimaru glaring down at him he felt his resolve failing, and the man he put such loyalty into breaking.

Taking pity on his opponent, Shino used this distraction to take out a kunai, ran at him and beamed Zaku in the side of his head with the ring on the end of it, mercifully rendering the Sound Genin unconscious.

"Uh, winner by knockout is Shino Aburame." Hayate coughed, declaring the male member of Team Eight the victor as the medical shinobi brought out a gurney and lifted Zaku onto it. The chronic cougher honestly felt sorry for the kid, he was screwed no matter what happened to him.

"You're lucky you made it to the finals." Dosu's 'sensei' said to him in a quiet whisper. "If you were to disappear, it would cause suspicion. Risking yourself for a teammate who was nothing more but cannon fodder, I thought you were better than that."

"I'm better than I figured I was sensei." Dosu almost spat his name with venom.

Sasuke Uchiha vs Kabuto Yukushi

"About time, I was getting bored." Sasuke said before stretching his arms out. Making sure he had all his weapons on him, and whatever supplies he had left he turned towards his teammate. "Looks like you're going to be last after all."

"Oh bite me teme!" Naruto casually replied without any heat in his voice. "If you lose I will never let this die, I'll bring it up until we die or I lose the ability to speak."

"I'll learn how to remove your voice box in your sleep." With that said, Sasuke made his way down to the arena.

Kabuto however frowned as he made his way down to the arena. His ploy to disqualify himself failed spectacularly, apparently being deaf in one ear and having little chakra wasn't an excuse anymore. So now he had to fight, and he had to lost in a very convincing manner. The problem was, he was stronger than Sasuke, he could beat the pants off him no problem, he could even take on Kakashi with some difficulty so he would have to hold back on everything that made him strong.

"The tenth match of the Preliminaries. Kabuto Yukushi of Konohagakure versus Sasuke Uchiha of Konohagakure." Hayate announced the fight, hacking twice afterwards. "Ready...fight!"

Kabuto pulled out an unusual kunai after the fight started. A kunai with a curved blade, an odd choice of weapon for fighting. Sasuke himself however immediately flew through several hand seals. "Fire Style: Fireball Jutsu!" He roared expelling a massive orb of roaring flame that tore up the floor as it raced towards his ash-grey haired opponent.

Waiting until the last few seconds to dodge to the side, Kabuto felt the fire lick his right leg, slightly burning his calf and torching his pants. Rolling on the ground he immediately sprinted towards him, slashing at him with his kunai, only to have the Uchiha block it with the haft of his kusarigama.

"Not bad Sasuke-kun." Kabuto easily smiled at his opponent before reaching behind him to pull out another kunai, slashing at his belly, causing the younger Genin to disengage and jump away. "Not bad at all."

"Don't be too easily impressed, you sound like one of my fangirls." Sasuke quipped at him, causing Naruto to laugh as he gripped the steel chain and began spin it above his head, making a loud whooshing noise.

"You think a ball and chain are enough to frighten me?" Kabuto mocked him

"Lets find out." Channeling chakra into the chain, Sasuke launched it towards his opponent, causing his eyes to widen and move his head in the nick of time, otherwise he would need a new pair of glasses. Before he thought was was in the clear, the chain moved on its own striking Kabuto right in the back, causing him to cough and stumble, hitting the ground with a roll before getting up.

Not allowing his opponent to catch his breath, Sasuke attacked him viciously. Sending the iron ball he crushed the ground where he barely managed to dodge, barely missed his injured leg, and when he tried to wrap the chain around his other one he slipped out of it by the skin of his teeth. "You're slippery." He commented.

"I am supposed to be evasive." Kabuto idly replied, sluggishly skipping away from several more strikes that would have broken his legs. Damn brat, he was really beginning to anger him.

Sasuke only smirked in response and advanced towards him, each swing of his weapon carving a scar in the floor, sending chips of concrete flying and sending Kabuto skittering away like a mouse. It was almost laughable.

Keeping himself calm Kabuto judged the distance and speed of the chain. If he did this correctly he could end the match for himself, but by Kami it was going to be painful. Gritting his teeth he focused a bit of chakra into his legs and burst towards Sasuke, swinging his kunai for his throat.

His opponent nearing towards him, Sasuke activated his Sharingan out of reflex, the world seemed to slow down for him. Just enough to flip his weapon so the sickle part was on the bottom, near where his hand was and positioned the haft near his neck.

He blocked the kunai strike to his neck, and with an aggressive moving of his arm, the pointed tip of his weapon cut into Kabuto's eye, tearing his flesh, going underneath his glasses and digging into his right eye.

Kabuto screamed in pain and pulled away, dislodging the weapon from his destroyed eye. Dropping both kunai he cupped his right eye, trying to hold back the blood that was pouring from his ruined socket like a broken faucet. "I...I give...oh Kami my eye!" He wailed.

"Winner by surrender, Sasuke Uchiha!" Hayate immediately ended the match and watched as the medical shinobi on standby tended to the young man's injury. Ouch the loss of an eye, that was usually a career ender unless he got a replacement.

Orochimaru only smirked in reply as the took Kabuto away to fix his injuries. He expected his right-hand man to lose, but to sacrifice an eye was definitely above the call of duty, he could only imagine the amount of pain he was in. The fools didn't know was that his most faithful subordinate activated his Pre-Healing Jutsu, the loss of his right eye was devastating, but he would gain it back so long as he had the chakra for it. (3)

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"Dammit! This match was rigged!" Raijin threw a rather large chicken carcass that used to be fried and full of meat against the wall of Purgatory, watching it shatter.

"I agree brother, this was bullshit!" Fujin bellowed, tossing the wrapper to his finished mega burrito that he liked to call the meat tornado to the side.

"You shouldn't have bet against a Uchiha" The three siblings replied, in unity sipping their large plates of saki.

"Meh, I didn't want to bet anyways." Inari remarked, sitting on top of his overturned soda cup and picking his teeth with a toothpick. "Bet Jashin is jerking off to all this violence and bloodshed though."

"No talking about Jashin, say his name three times in a row and he'll appear." Shinigami warned his furry friend. "And I didn't want to bet either, I wanted to be surprised...or somewhat surprised. Now pay up you two."

"Aw but we don't want to wear the dresses!" Both brothers cried out.

"Hey shut up for a minute, look!" Amaterasu pointed at the big screen.

Hinata Hyuuga vs Gaara

"Oh shit." Shinigami cursed out.

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Immediately Hinata's blood froze seeing the name of her opponent. She remembered what he did to Team Shigure, how he mercilessly captured them in his sand and crushed them to death without a flicker of emotion.

"You don't have to do this Hinata-san." Shino said, his usual monotone voice holding a great amount of worry for her. "There is no shame in stepping down for this fight."

"You should listen to him." Neji said to his cousin, smirking when he saw her shaking like a nervous kitten. "After all a weakling like you would not even stand a chance against an opponent like him. You piggybacked off your teammates to get here, now it's time for the real shinobi to step up to the plate."

"Fuck off Neji!" Naruto shouted at the older Genin. "The match hasn't even started yet, and you're already dismissing her? Why don't you shut your trap and watch her kick his ass."

"Please." Neji activated his Byakugan in response. "If you can see what I see, then you will know my cousin is doomed to fail."

"Oh look at me I have a Kekkei Genkai that's all powerful and lets me see stuff that I...blah, blah, blah!" Naruto mocked the Hyuuga, gaining a series of disappointed, and scathing looks from some of the Jonin teachers. "Oh don't give me that, he has a pike shoved so far up his ass that he cannot wear hats."

"You know he is going to be your opponent in the next match." Kakashi calmly told his student.

"Good that means I can kick his ass later. Go get em Hinata!"

Her eyes widening, and cheeks reddening, the Hyuuga Heiress nodded in reply. She could do this, she would give it her all.

Lightly coughing Hayate looked at the two contestants. He was definitely going to keep an eye on this one, the red-haired one looked very unstable, and he was not going to get chewed out by the Hyuuga Clan if their Heiress got injured. "The eleventh match of the Preliminaries, Hinata Hyuuga of Konohagakure versus Gaara of Sunagakure. Ready...fight!"

Immediately after the match started Hinata reached into her hip pouch to pull out a handful of shuriken and thew them at Gaara, to make sure what she saw in the forest wasn't a fluke. Sand immediately erupted from Gaara's gourd after popping the cork and defended him, catching the shuriken and dropping them to the ground.

"You failed Hyuuga." He stoically said.

"Not yet." Bringing a kunai to bare, Hinata dashed towards him with a surprising amount of speed, but before she could even get near his sand came to his defense and caught her kunai, forcing her to let go and back away.

"Useless, but mother doesn't care who's blood I give her." The red-haired jinchuriki said before sending torrents of sand at her.

Hayate nearly leapt to her defense, but to the surprise of many the Hyuuga Heiress ducked and weaved out of the way with such acrobatic grace that they thought they were watching a dance instead of a fight. Dear fucking Kami was someone's spine supposed to bend like that?

"Whoa." Naruto said.

"You can say that again Blondie." Ishikawa seconded.

"Whoa." He said again.

"Not bad for a ningen." Kyuubi remarked.

"Hmph, I've seen better." Jagan commented.

'Shut up Jagan.' The three collectively thought towards the sentient eyeball.

"Stand still..." Gaara growled to himself, feeling the voice in the back of his head screaming at him. "I'm trying mother, she's not making this easy." He was feeling himself growing frantic, growing in anger that this weakling was not giving him her blood!

Hinata meanwhile was getting closer, her Byakugan active helped her dodge and duck the sand coming at her from her blind spots. She was nearly there, her opponent was almost in range. After another ducking and weaving, and twirl later, she was ready. Pumping her chakra into her legs, the Hyuuga Heiress shot at him like a rocket, raising her right hand up covered in glowing blue chakra. "Gentle Fist!"

Her attack struck home, the palm of her hand striking her opponent right in the chest. Gaara looked stunned, almost like he believed he wouldn't be hit.

But then his body crumbled away, revealing an empty shell.

"A-a substitution?" Hinata whispered to herself.

"Hinata run!"

She didn't know who screamed at her, but it was too late. With her palm resting on the sand clone, it quickly enveloped her until she was trapped inside a twisted sand pillar. Gaara appeared next to her, glaring hatefully and raised his right hand. "Sand Coffin." He then began squeezing his hand, constricting the Hyuuga Heiress, causing her to cry out in pain. "Sand Bur-!"

"That's enough Gaara!" Hayate shouted at him before he could complete the technique. "The match is over, you win!"

"Mother demands blood!" Gaara growled out.

"The man said the match was over. Put Hinata down." A chilly voice and the cold feeling of steel resting upon the back of his neck caused the Jinchuriki to stop. Turning his head he saw the red blazing eyes of one Naruto Uzumaki glaring at him, and his katana poised to kill, even Gaara felt a sickening energy coming off of it, like it was scratching for his soul. And Sasuke was beside him, his kusarigama at this throat, ready to slice into it if necessary.

"How did you get behind me?" Gaara demanded. He didn't hear them, he didn't feel them, he didn't even sense them until the one in the mask spoke.

"Wouldn't you like to know. Now you heard the dobe put the girl down." Sasuke said.

Glaring at the two shinobi before him, he released the girl, causing her to harshly fall onto her back and into sweet unconsciousness. "You're lucky I can't kill you now. But when the finals start do not expect any mercy from me." With that said he turned away from them and made his way back to his team.

Kneeling beside Hinata, Naruto looked at her with an angry expression adorning his mask. She was beat up and scuffed, but internally he was worried. Hearing someone clearing their throat he looked up to see Hayate looking down at him expectidly. "I'm not disqualified am I?"

"Since Gaara disobeyed my orders anyone could have stepped in, you two were apparently the fastest." The bandanna-wearing Special Jonin replied after coughing. Oh he would have loved to disqualify that kid, but the Genin interfered before he could do so, rendering his call moot. "I would say don't do it again, but this is the last match. Let the medics take her away, they'll fix her up."

With a good amount of reluctance Naruto stepped away and let the medics take her up on the gurney. "I'll be by soon Hinata. After I beat your cousin."

"You beat me? That's rich." Neji said before appearing in the arena. "You're strong, but you can't defeat me. Fate won't allow it."

"Are you still spewing that fate crap?" The black-streaked blonde growled at him. "Fate is nothing but a crack of shit."

"That is were you are wrong." Neji said as he shook his head in disappointment. "From the moment we are born, our fates are determined and set in stone. Fate determines everything up till our death. Take for example your desire to be Hokage, it will never happen. Only a select few every become Hokage and that is because they were fated to do so. It is impossible for you, an orphan with no clan to speak of, because you are only as strong as the family you are born into. Things like free will are only an illusion!"

"Fate can suck my balls, especially when you don't got all your facts straight." Naruto proclaimed, and even grabbing his crotch to show exactly what he thought of his speech, causing Ishikawa to laugh. "If you believe so much in fate then tell me, was it fate for Tenten or Hinata or anyone here to lose?"

"Yes." Neji said without hesitation. "Everyone who lost this day was because fate deemed it to happen. When my teammate was matched up with a stronger opponent she was fated to lose, as for Hinata-sama..." His face twisted into a scowl. "Fate has been far too kind to her, she was lucky that you and your teammate arrived at the last second, or she would have been crushed like the spoiled princess she is."

"Just for that I am going to shove your own foot up your ass." Naruto growled before taking his sword, scabbard and all off his belt and tossed it towards his team where it landed beside Sasuke. "I'm not going to use my sword, otherwise I might get a little too stabby with it."

"Ahem, if you two are done..." Hayate coughed at them with a light glare, he was really going to have to keep an eye on these two. "The final match. Naruto Uzumaki of Konohagakure versus Neji Hyuuga of Konohagakure. Ready...fight!"

Snorting in response Neji slid into his Gentle Fist taijutsu style stance, and activated his Byakugan. Naruto didn't slide into anything and sprang at him with speeds that caught the Hyuuga prodigy off guard, expecting him to get into some sort of stance. The former full blonde cocked back his right arm punching him in the face, Naruto took this opportunity and punched his opponent in the solar plexus causing Neji to gasp as the punch drove the air out of his lungs. Neji threw a chakra powered punch, but it was brushed aside and he ate a punch to the face, and then a kick to the stomach, sending him back a few feet.

"How did you do that?" Neji demanded through gritted teeth. Naruto was fast, faster than he saw him last time during that joint B-rank mission.

"Thank Bushy Brows-sensei, he helped me work on my speed while you were dealing with clan issues for a week." Naruto said, his mask smirking like a Cheshire Cat.

"I'm glad our hard work paid off Naruto-kun, explode with your Flames of Youth!" Gai dramatically cried out.

"You know he's fighting against your student, right Gai?" Kakashi dully reminded the bowl cut Jonin.

"I know, and I am torn!" The spandex-wearing man cried out with anime-styled tears falling from his eyes. "My precious student that I spent a year mentoring and the spunky lad that joined me and Lee during a run and developing an unbreakable bond of brotherhood. It's almost too much to watch!"

That caused a massive amounts of sweat-drops to develop on the sides of everyone's heads. Way to overreact Gai.

Naruto only chuckled in response, Gai may have been the weirdest person he had met to date, but whenever he was feeling down his antics always did being a smile on his face, and unlike his own sensei he actually helped him when he didn't understand something. Now that was a good teacher.

"This is for you Bushy Brows-sensei!" Naruto exclaimed before dropping into a loose version of the Strong Fist taijutsu stance. "I may not be awesome like you and Lee, but I'm gonna give it my all!"

"That's the spirit Naruto-kun!" Was the response he received from the master and student duo.

"Knock it off you two." Neji growled at them before attacking his opponent with open palm thrusts, narrowing his eyes as his opponent ducked and weaved. He went for his legs and his opponent smashed his arms with his fists, he went for his arms and were batted away by painful kicks, going for his torso the former full blonde skipped away. It was becoming very irksome.

Suddenly Naruto reached into his hip pouch and pulled out a handful of pellets and threw them at him. They impacted his face and erupted into a burst of smoke that caused him to close his eyes out of reflex and cough violently from the smoke shooting up his nostrils.

When the smoke eventually cleared, everyone saw Naruto siting on the statue with the tiger hand seal, reading of all things. "What in the world are you doing!?" Neji hotly demanded.

"Reading," Naruto simply replied showing the second book he had in his pouch. "It's the last Bleach manga and truthfully I want to see how this catastrophe ends. I want to see the one thing I can forgive Tite Kubo for!"

"How the hell did you get that!? I couldn't get a copy for weeks!" Choji barked out at his friend in outrage.

"Naruto if you spoil this for me, then so Kami help me I will make your live a living hell." Shikamaru said in an eerie voice.

"Are you kidding me!?" Neji broke character and raged at him.

"I'm sorry you were saying something?" Naruto asked the Hyuuga Prodigy.

"Ahhh! Curse you Kakashi for bringing your hip influence to the younger generation!" Gai cried out.

"I'm sorry, did you say something Gai?" Kakashi automatically asked.

"Curse you my rival!"

"Don't look down on me!" Neji yelled at his opponent.

"It's kinda hard not to since I'm so far up here." Naruto licked his finger and turned one of the very last pages. "Besides, you're the one who should be looking down."

Eyes widening Neji learned too late as five clones burst out of the ground. One clone punching Neji in the face, all five yelled out, "U-ZU-MA-KI", three of the other clones kick him into the air. Then, while being launched in mid-air, the last clone assaulted him with a somersaulting heel drop while yelling "Barrage!"

Getting blasted right in his forehead, causing his Hitai-ate to fall from his head, Neji was launched ass first back to the ground with another clone with his mask devilishly smirking with his hands in the tiger seal. "Leaf Village Secret Finger Jutsu: One Thousand Years of Death!" And gave Neji a hell of an ass poke.

The reactions of everyone varied. Temai blushed, Choji looked horrified, Shikamaru was giving his friend a deadpanned look along with Sasuke who had a twinge of disappoint on his face. Kankuro, his sensei and the remainder of the Rain team simply looked shocked. For the Sound team Orochimaru palmed his face while Dosu made a small whimpering sound. Shino himself simply raised an eyebrow while Gaara raised his nonexistent one, his 'mother' silent for once. Lee screamed about unyouthfulness, while the Sandaime and everyone with him had the tendency to look embarrassed. Kakashi wasn't spared by his fellow Jonin looking at him with a glare, and felt a tiny bit of nervousness.

Not even the Gods watching were unaffected by what they just saw.

Neji however, as ashamed as he was to admit it cried out. His long hair stuck out on end, tears of embarrassment fell from his eyes and he clutched his ass as he rocketed towards the wall, crashing into it with a loud crackle.

"Naruto...what the hell was that?" Shikamaru demanded.

"What? I figured it might clear the stick out of his ass." Naruto said before tossing to book his way. "Keep it, it's a crap ending but I got my pairing out of it at least, didn't see the second one coming though." He continued to his lazy friend before jumping back into the arena while getting a round of high fives from his clones. (4)

"You...how dare you!" Neji all but snarled as he slowly got to his feet, his face red with anger and embarrassment, his forehead revealing the Caged Bird Curse Seal. His clothing was ragged and tattered, and several thick streams of blood were falling from the corners of his mouth, his obviously broken nose and the crown of his forehead. "That is it Naruto Uzumaki, I am through playing around with you!"

"So am I, go get em boys. Go wild." Naruto said to his clones.

The masked clones smirking in response they charged at their injured opponent. One took out a kunai with an exploding tag and threw it at him.

Another sprinted at Neji and began glowing, ready to blow himself sky high.

The third one placed his hand into the bird hand seal. "Earth Style: Falling Earth Spears!" He shouted, causing the earth below them to erupt, creating a dozen sharp, deadly earth spikes that came near the Hyuuga.

"Leaf Hurricane!" The fourth one shouted with great enthusiasm.

"And finally Fire Style: Fireball Jutsu!" The last one bellowed, causing Sasuke to flinch when a weak fireball erupted from it's mask.

Hey the boss told them to go wild, he never said what they could or couldn't do.

Narrowing his eyes Neji quickly got into a stance. "Eight Trigrams: Rotation!" Expelling his chakra from his tenketsu and spun rapidly to parry the attacks, creating both a rotating shield of chakra around himself. All the attacks struck the shield, bouncing off of it and either dispelling, or blowing up, causing massive damage to the walls. Glaring at the two remaining clones, Neji deactivated his technique and attacked the first clone, striking it right in the chest, not waiting to watch it dispel, he took out the second clone with a strike to the throat before going at the original.

Getting back into a fighting position, Naruto began ducking and weaving from the renewed strikes. They were precise, but somewhat sloppy due to Neji being so mad. All according to plan.

That was until Neji lowered his body and tilted it forward, and with his right arm stretched back, he smirked. "You are in my divine range Eight Trigrams: Sixty-Four Palms!" Neji shouted springing forward towards Naruto with speed that he couldn't keep up with.

"Two palms!" The strikes were met by Naruto's forearms.

"Four palms!" The strikes hit him in the torso.

"Eight palms!" These strikes hit the former full blonde in the legs.

"Sixteen palms!" Those strikes hit the Kusharingan-user around the torso and his back.

"Thirty-two palms!" Those strikes hit Naruto's entire torso

"Sixty-four palms!" And finally those strikes hit Naruto everywhere, and he was especially struck in the mask area, sending him flying and crashing into the wall, sending up a cloud of dust and debris, along with a good section of the concrete to fall right on top of him.

"Declare the winner judge, he won't be getting up again." Neji said confidently turning around to make his way to the stands. "The fool tried to defy fate, and got burned for it."

"Who's the fool?"

The entire arena look on in surprise, shock and for some in a mixture of amusement or horror as Naruto's right hand burst out of the rubble and he pulled himself out of it. He was an absolute mess, the ruined vest he wore was gone, torn away after taking a good brunt of Neji's attack. The mesh armor was torn in many places, revealing the cuts on his athletic body, the right leg of his pants was torn away just under the kneecap. Blood fell from parts of his body, and his mask cracked even further revealing his right eye that was alternating between a red eye with a slit pupil, or a black iris with three red tomoes swirling like crazy before going back to the blue color. His Byakugan activated eyes also widened, was he going crazy or was there a stern-looking Stone shinobi standing next to him?

Cackling Naruto looked at Neji and growled at him. "What's the matter? It looks like you've seen a ghost."

"Not funny Blondie." Ishikawa said. "You got cocky and nearly paid for it, if it wasn't for fuzzy wuzzy you would have lost. Knock the kid out and get it over with."

"Yea. I goofed...won't happen again. I did promise to kick his ass."

"Why won't you stay down!?" Neji screamed at him. "It doesn't make any sense, stay down! What do you have to gain from this!?"

"I'm going after the title of Hokage you idiot. Do you really think that they would back down from a challenge?" Naruto simply said with a bit of a laugh escaping from his mouth. "I know that I'm a long ways off from getting the title, but that doesn't mean I can't plan out for what I want to do. Heh, and I think I know what one of my first laws will be."

"And what is that?"

"Well lets see, half off ramen on Fridays, fining people who read porn in public...oh and..." Sprinting towards his opponent Naruto cried out. "Changing the Hyuuga Clan!" He then punched his stunned opponent in the face, sending him flying and hit the unforgiving pavement. Cracking his knuckles and letting out a sigh Naruto smirked at his unconscious opponent. "And that's a promise dattebayo !"

He was met with silence at first, but Sasuke was the first to clap, followed by the Sandaime, then Anko, then Ibiki, Gai and Lee started at the same time. Until eventually every team from Konoha, including Kabuto's disappointed sensei couldn't help but join in. It was a well earned victory.

Hayate smiled at the beaten and battered, but victorious shinobi. "And the winner of the last match is Naruto Uzumaki!"

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"Haha! I knew it, I knew my boy could do it!" Inari cheered after the fight ended as he hopped up and own on his overturned cup, before tipping it and falling flat on his ass.

"And he didn't even use the Jagan's powers, or that interesting Sharingan of his." Susanoo commented with an intrigued smile. "I must say, your judgment call, while up for debate has brought about a unique shinobi."

"Ha! Naruto knows better than to use his powers against a comrade, even if he is a bit of an asshole." Shinigami replied with a giant smirk. "Besides, he hasn't had a chance to really practice with his powers just yet. Some of Jagan's techniques he's getting a handle on, and the Darkness Flame...well that is another thing entirely."

"So are we just going to ignore that strange Sharingan of his?" Tsukuyomi demanded with a huff. "Because of you it was altered."

"I actually like it." Amaterasu said with a saucy grin. "When he dies I hope he gets sent to my realm."

"He's twelve you lewd woman!" Both Fujin and Raijin bellowed, both brothers now wearing pink frilly dresses that stretched against their burly/fat frames, their hair done in pigtails, and make up on their face. They even had the pink fingernail polish and purses to go with their outfits.

"And we're how old?" The Sun Goddess remarked.

Both Tsukuyomi and Susanoo only palmed their heads in response. There she went again thinking about men.

"I honestly cannot promise anything." Shinigami said, where people were sent to was out of his hands. If they were bad they went to to Yomi where they were tortured for all eternity. Jashin had claim on the souls of all his followers, and when they died they were sent to him no matter what foul deeds they did. As for the rest, well their afterlife really depended on the paths they chose in life. Most of the Inuzuka's for example were sent to a beast-like realm, the Uchiha's went all over the fucking place being divided in so many categories that he all but gave up on guessing which went where; they could have gone to either Tsukuyomi's, Susanoo's, Amaterasu's, Izanami's, or even Izanagi's realms, unless it was hell of course, a good lot managed to go there. And it went on like that until time will eventually cease.

"He could always go to hell." A rich, high and mighty voice broke them out of their good time. The figure that revealed himself was a handsome, tall man with fair skin, golden eyes, short platinum hair, and a kimono that was a mixture of gold and silver with an obi to tie it all together. Held clutched in his right hand and lightly resting on his shoulder was a gold and silver Jumonji yari. "You got a lot of explaining to do dear brother for defying the natural order."

"Kami." Shinigami simply said.

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The Fifth Rider of Armageddon: *Comes in dressed as Santa Claws* Ho Ho Ho! Merry Christmas and every other festive holiday you do on this wonderful time of the year!

Pvt. Liquor: Hey cut that shit out, I'm the drunkard around here.

Lt. Doom: Looks like someone has been hitting the egg nog.

Pvt. Fox: All right I don't want to be "That guy" but why are we wearing elf costumes?

Lt. RasenganFin: Spirit of the holidays, do you want him to make us wear dresses again?

Pvt. Superninja: When did he make us do that?

Sgt. Shadowtrayser: Hell if I know, might have been when we all got super wasted. Man I'm so glad we aren't at war with anyone, seriously how are we a military force again?

Pvt. Shadowninja: I honestly don't think we are, we're more of the comic relief/forgotten about half the time.

Pvt. DemonShifter: Meh, better than being a flamer or an anonymous guest that spits poison for being a hater.

Pvt. VFSNAKE: By now I think the boss just laughs at them if Spiraling Shark is an example. *Wearly eyes his boss being a little too jolly for his own tastes*

Pvt. Runox: Should I be worried?

Pvt. Leaf Ranger: Na, just wait a minute and the boss'll give us something good as usual.

The Fifth Rider of Armageddon: Everyone we're going to Vegas!

Everyone: We love you Armageddon!

The Fifth Rider of Armageddon: I know you all do. And now my dear readers all I want for Christmas are your reviews about what you liked about this chapter or what you didn't like, I'll even take your thoughts. That and you all having a wonderful and safe holiday. Now I shall leave you with my number things as usual, now to Vegas! *Gets on the plan with everyone, while being piloted by Krampus and Frosty the Snowman*

(1) *Imitates John Belushi's scene from Animal House while peeking through the window*

(2) I honestly hope you know where that is from.

(3) I'd like to thank Reign A.G.E for giving me that idea.

(4) ...I have feelings on what happened to Bleach.