Land of Fire, Konohagakure, Chūnin Exams Arena, Battle Arena


As soon as the battle started, Gaara sent a wave of sand at Naruto, "Bakudō #81. Dankū," He called out as a translucent barrier formed before him.

The sand met the barrier and hit it as Naruto jumped over his shield with his sword in hand. He drew the blade so fast that he released a large blast of wind.

The black wind blew away the sand as Naruto landed on the other side of his barrier.

Naruto, his resolve unwavering, held his Zanpakutō to his side as he released his Reiryoku. "You are possibly the only person in this exam who would warrant me to release my Shikai," Naruto told him. His Zanpakutō, a mighty spirit sword, started to give off a black glow. This Zanpakutō, known as Ōjo Ōkami Senshi, is a unique weapon that, when released, transforms into a powerful crescent moon-shaped blade capable of intense offensive capabilities.

As if it was pitch black.

"Break your chains, swallow the sun," Naruto said as he started to chant his release command as he spun the sword around his hand, "Howl in the night, hunt the moon," He added as his sword started to change.

Like its sealed form, the sword was a purely black blade the size of Naruto, shaped like a crescent moon, and as wide as Naruto, with an enclosed handle with a portion acting like a hand guard.

"Ōjo Ōkami Senshi," He called out as the black glow faded from the sword.

Gaara looked at the sword before sending another wave of sand out at Naruto, who ran towards the sand.

"Give a challenge Naruto Uzumaki," Gaara said as he sent out two bullets of sand at the demi-god.

Naruto, in turn, cut the bullets down with his sword, the blade of which had a gentle white glow each time Naruto cut at the sand.

Gaara waved his hand at Naruto as sand turned into Shuriken at the blond.

The Uzumaki flared his chakra as a thin wind blade shot out of his sword and cut down the Shuriken.

Naruto held out his hand and started to chant, "Ye lord! Mask of flesh and bone, flutter of wings, ye who bears the name of Man! Truth and temperance, upon this sinless wall of dreams unleash but slightly the wrath of your claws!," Naruto chanted as blue energy gathered in the open hand, "Hadō #33. Sōkatsui," The demi-god called out as he sent out a large blue energy blast that washed over Gaara.

When the energy disappeared, it showed that Gaara had defended himself with the sand.

But for a moment, Naruto senses something within the sand.

"What was that?" He asked the spirits.

"I don't know kit," Kurama said as he looked through Naruto's eyes.

"Why don't we see if we can find it once more?" the spirit of Naruto's Zanpakutō told him as Naruto nodded, held his blade high, and went in. Gaara sent a clone of himself to attack Naruto, who went to a horizontal slash core, moving for a crescent slash.

And then, in a fast movement, he moved his blade to his side as crescent blades of air cut into the sand clone before dispersing it in a pile of sand.

"It seems that using Moon Breathing does not work when you use Shikai," Kurama told the blond, who rolled his eyes.

Naruto got ready before a splash to clear away the sand before something pinged in his head, and he jumped into the area once more and over a central sand that Gaara sent underground.


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Sakura looked down with deep sadness as she watched her teammate fight the Suna ninja.

"Or was it former teammate," Sakura thought as she watched the fight, her heart heavy with the weight of their strained relationship.

"Why is he fighting the sand head on?" Ino asked, her curiosity piqued as she watched Naruto's unorthodox tactics. The mystery of Naruto's abilities added an intriguing element to the fight.

"Naruto's sword is a type of sword called Zanpakutō, and his one is known as Ōjo Ōkami Senshi, and when she gets into a hunt, she will pursue her target until she tales there blood," Yūgao said as she watched Gaara look at his fallen sand confused.

"Okay, but what does have to do with why Naruto is like that," Choji asked as he pointed to the fight down there, where they watched Naruto move in with skills he did not think the blond had.

"Naruto has always been a natural-born hunter, but he has never had a real chance to show that skill," the purple-haired woman said as Sakura nodded.

"She's right. When we were on the Tora mission, as you know, it was to test our teamwork and survival skills, but with how our team was, Sasuke was made the one that Kakashi said to follow when Naruto proved his worth by tracking and hunting down that cat, even if the trail was cold," she said, her voice filled with the same sadness as her eyes, a reflection of the emotional toll she was going through.

Ino looked at Sakura before looking down at Naruto, who stabbed his Zanpakutō into the ground as ghostly wolves formed around him. "What is that?" Ino asked as she looked shocked.

"Ōjo no Ōkami, Princess of the Wolves, he summons spectral chakra wolves that he commands, and you see the slight colours of their chakra," Yūgao said as she pointed to the five wolves. Everyone saw that they were slightly yellow, "Naruto has made sure that he called on Lightning Release and channelled it into his wolves to make them stronger than they would be," She told them.

"Amazing, how is he able to do that?" Jiraiya asked, still coming up with ideas for training the blond.

"It's thanks to Ōjo Ōkami Senshi Zanpakutō-type but other than that it's one of her techniques," She told him.

They watched as the spectral ghosts ran at Gaara, destroying the stand sent their way.


Battle Arena


"How are you doing this," Gaara asked Naruto as he sent another wave of sand out but was met by one of the lightning wolves.

"Ōjo Ōkami Senshi is a Chakra-type Zanpakutō, and she allows me to perform Jutsu without seals, and she also has some techniques of her own, and one of the things that I like is that she can make other Zanpakutō abilities into Jutsu for me to use," Naruto said as he held his sword up high as a storm cloud formed, "Gonryōmaru," He called out as a bolt of lightning was sent out of the clout as Gaara's sand rose and shielded the boy from the lightning.

"Did you sence it," Kurama asked his Jinchūriki.

"I did; there's a second soul within him," Naruto told the fox.

"That desert rat is blocking the soul from helping Gaara; my king, I think that when this Gaara is saying that his sand is his mother," Ōjo Ōkami Senshi told Naruto, who nodded.

"Then I know what must be done," Naruto told her, cutting his thumb on the blade.

The blood travelled down the sword's edge before giving off a sinister crimson glow.

The wolves that he called out started to give off the same glow.

They ran and jumped into the air, turning into scarlet lightning bolts, and more sand rose to defend Gaara.

While the lightning distracted Gaara, Naruto once more stabbed his sword into the ground as a puff of smoke formed beside him.


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"He can summon," Jiraiya asked as the purple-haired Anbu nodded.

"Yes, and it's the a summon of legend, beasts that right now only obay one master to there clan," Yūgao told him as they watched as the wind blew away the smoke.

They saw a long, serpentine creature with sky-blue scales and a white underside. It has a rounded snout, oval purple eyes, and a small white horn on its forehead. On each side of its head is a small, stylised wing, which is white and curves into a swirl at the base. Three blue crystal orbs adorn its body: one on its neck and two on its tail.

"That is not a snake," Anko said as she looked at the serpent in the battle arena.

And it wrapped its body in a circle around Naruto, who had closed his eyes and clapped his hands together.

"Is that a dragon," Sakura asked with wide eyes as Kakashi and Sasuke returned from the medic room.

Sasuke's arm was reattached thanks to the medic, but he was told that he would go easy for a few days or that he could lose chakra access to that arm.

"Yes, and as to why summoned one of thouse dragons I do not know," Yūgao said as he cubed her chin in thought.

But her answer was something that she did not expect.

Chains from Naruto and the dragon and chains burst out from his sword.

And all three sets of chains were heading towards Gaara.

Naruto's chains were golden orange, while the dragon sent out what looked like cyan chains.

But from the sword was pure gold chains.

"Ōkami Ōjo no Sokubaku Kusari, Wolf Princess's Binding Chains, they are like the Uzumaki clan's Kongō Fūsa, but they bind their spirit and if need's be will pull that spirit out," The Anbu told them as she watched people's faces grow pail.

"So what is going to do, pull the Shukaku out of Gaara," Anko asked as Jiraiya's eyes widened in amazement.

"That blond genius, he's planning to use that chain thing from his sword to link him to Gaara to that he can pull the Shukaku out of the Suna nin, and be an Uzumaki and fix that shit seal, before shoving Shukaku back in before showing by an Uzumaki can do anything with a seal and time to think," The toad sage said as Kakashi's lone eye widened.

Everyone looked down at the battlefield as Naruto opened his eyes. He now had purple eyes with concentric circles covering them.


Battle Arena


Naruto looked dead in Gaara's eyes as the chains went into him, and he stilled, so the blond stopped his Lightning Release jutsu and held out one hand while cubbing it with the other as kanji started to form on each finger.

His thumb gained wolf (狼), his index gained sun (日), the middle finger gained (媛), over the ring finger had the kanji of moon (月), and on his pinky he gained chain (鎖).

The golden orange chains then started to pull a red mass out of Gaara as another shot through it and into Gaara, still linking them. The sand around the red-haired Suna ninja began to scream in pain.

The cyan chains then dug into something on Gaara's chest, over the boy's heart, and pulled out what looked like a seal.

"This seal is pitiful," The dragon said with a scoff in a female voice.

Naruto smiled at the dragon, "It's how they are," He said as he used the hand with kanji to grab the chain.

The five kanji burst down the chain and formed around Gaara's seal as Naruto pulled out an ink brush.

He then moved the brush through the air, leaving a trail of glowing orange symbols.

He first drew a knot in the air before he drew symbols around the knot, and his golden orange chains rose like snakes behind him as if they were waiting for the seal to be finished.

He drew a triangle that pointed around the seal he was making and then drew a circle connecting the three points.

Naruto then let go of the chain and the brush in one, "Uzumaki Fūinpō: Saisho-jū Fūin: Sunae Garasu," Naruto called out as he clapped his hands together as his chains moved forward.

They hooked the seal Naruto created and moved it onto Gaara before it pushed the red mass into the seal.

The three sets of chains returned to their users as the dragon Naruto summoned returned to its summoning realm.

"The voices are no longer fighting," Gaara said as he looked at Naruto before a look of confusion formed on the boy's face. And I can hear Mother now and understand her better. What did you do?" he asked Naruto.

"I removed and replaced the seal that held back Shukaku while at the same time making sure that the second soul that was within you could speak with you without that sand rat interupting," He said as he pulled his Zanpakutō out of the ground.

"Why," Gaara asked as a smile started to form on his face.

But it did not speak of insanity.

No, it was one of joy.

"I'm you if you add eight," Naruto told him as the two brothers of burden looked at each other before the sand rose around Gaara once more, and Naruto started to let out his Reiryoku.

They both sent out their chakra, which met with the sand and Reiryoku, forming shapes among the two boys.

Above Gaara was the demonic visage of Shukaku and a smiling woman woman.

Meanwhile, Naruto had a demonic visage of Kurama and a snarling wolf.


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No one had words for what they saw as the two boys letting their power out or how happy they were down there.

"It seems the young pup finally letting loose," Yūgao said as Naruto and Gaara charged at each other with a blast of chakra and sand flying away from them with each hit.

But the smiles did not disappear from their faces.

"It's like watching two friends spar," Anko said, but as she watched the two boys, she saw something that made her stop and look over to see people in full-body cloaks start to make their way to the rim of the arena.

"Something is not right," She said as Sasuke scoffed.

"I know. It should be me down there, but that doup," he said as Anko rolled her eyes.

"No, look around," She said as the others did.

"Are they," Ino asked before Sakura narrowed her eyes.

"They plan to ruin the match for Naruto somehow," she said as she looked around before seeing the symbol on their masks. "There, Oto," she said as Kakashi's eye widened.

He looked at Sasuke before looking up at the Kage booth, revealing his Sharingan eye, and cursed, "Dame it." He muttered, "Jiraiya-sama, Hokage-sama will need you; it seems as if that is not the", Kakashi said before the Sage nodded and disappeared, heading towards his sensei.

"Now, now, is that really necessary?" a voice said as Kakashi looked down and saw that one of the cloaked people stepped forward.

"Yes, it is Kabuto," Kakashi said as people saw what was happening and started running out.

"Then we must do this," Kabuto said as he and his men cast a Genjutsu over everyone.

But people dispelled it.

"Now it's time for Konoha to fall," Kabuto said as he charged at Kakashi.

"Sakura, get to Naruto and tell him to me on gurd," Kakashi ordered as Sakura made her way to the stairs but was soon blocked by a Suna ninja.

And that was when she looked and saw the arena, with both boys still fighting, smiling, and not aware of the battle.

So she ran to the lip of the bowl.

"Na-" She was saying before she had her mouth covered by one of the clocked men.

"Now there is no-," He was saying before his hand was but by Sakura.

She looked down into the arena once more and screamed at the top of her lungs, "NARUTO HELP," before she was punched to the floor.

"You bitch, what the fuck did you think that was going to do," The man asked as he kicked Sakura across the floor, "Those Jinchūriki will fight to the death down there and they can't heaer you," He said as he picked her up.

And threw her into the arena.

Sakura looked down and saw that the man was right.

Naruto and Gaara were still fighting.

But then she saw that Naruto looked eyes at her.

And emerald looked into cobalt and a silver blue.

Neither knew that a pink ring had formed around their eyes for a split second.

But she watched as Naruto disappeared before her eyes.

And then she was cradled in his arms as he seemingly floated in the air.

But the two of them just looked into each other's eyes.