Chapter 4:

-a few moments ago-

- It's quite strange that the Hyuga clan wasn't insulted. Shikaku watched as he watched several look at the Hyuga council and Hiashi with some suspicion. – you wouldn't dare to bribe the presenter, wouldn't you, Hiashi?

- Of course not. The aforementioned patriarch Hyuga defended himself. – I'm also surprised by the fact that...

- Baki Hanma! The moment the name of his nephew's challenger was revealed, each and every member of Konoha's entourage couldn't help but turn pale.

- I think that even the narrator is not such a horrible person as to make fun of a dead person. Shikaku commented again earning a bad look from Hiashi, of course he knew that the rule of not killing was more of a suggestion, but he doubted that they were really going to kill Neji or that they hadn't insulted him just for that reason.

-Kage stage-

- They brought the damned son of the ogre!, exclaimed all the Kage upon hearing that of all the monsters they could have released in this tournament, the empire chose to bring the son of one of the ten accursed kings of heaven. Vale was the weakest in terms of total power, but in terms of raw physical power Yujiro was by all accounts second only to Gilgamesh of Uruk himself and the emperor himself.

- It was a last-minute addition. I mention maria. – We originally had another fighter planned, but this one had a slight unforeseen event and since we didn't have more time to perform a last minute eliminator for a new fighter we chose to ask the pocket ogre to participate in the tournament. Honestly, she wasn't sure why Lord Zeref put Pickle to sleep, but she wasn't going to complain, after all, the only real reason for trying to bring the primitive man was that he would eat the leg of rock Lee, Baki, on the other hand, would put on a better show.

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Baki was as many expected, a young man who was a... He was actually quite short for what one would think of the ogre's son, he had reddish-brown hair and brown eyes, wearing only red sports shorts although that was not what stood out the most about the young man, but he actually had a lot of scars all over his body.

- Because this combat is between two members who possess a visual ability that allows them to see inside the human body, only in this case will the use of the Kekkei genkai by the fighter of the hidden nations not be grounds for sanctions. (basically Baki has the same ability as Yujiro to see people's weak points and it's an ability that can't be disabled so, that's why I chose to let Neji use byuakugan) so you can use your doujutsu without any penalty.

Again the drums started and increased in speed as both fighters prepared, Neji adopted the classic position of the soft fist while activating his Byakugan, while Baki on the other hand adopted a pose that he learned in his training fights with Uncle Naruto who fought in a similar way to the Hyuga (remember that Qin can see the breaking points) being a much looser pose.

- How do you know that position? Neji asked in shock, after all, he recognized that posture was the posture that Naruto had used in his fight in the chunin exams.

- Ohms... One of my father's friends showed it to me. The young man declared without understanding the surprise on the face of the Jounin of the leaf, at least until he remembered something this man was the man who restored his uncle's hope in friendship. – I guess you didn't expect to see Uncle Naruto's posture on someone else. He commented without realizing the hell he was going to cause.

After all, even though they were said in a low voice, the silence in the arena was enough to make everyone hear him, not to mention that his words had been heard and caught on camera and his words were broadcast to the whole world, and the moment everyone heard the son of the gro say the name of his missing hero, And not only that, calling him his uncle and a close friend of the same ogre simply had an answer when they knew if he was alive or not.

The Namikaze family was filled with hope, Gaara smiled genuinely happy to know that his friend was still alive just like his siblings, Mei, Ay and Onoki honestly didn't care about the situation in general, if they had the chance they would offer him a place in their village.

Unbeknownst to them, not far from there the emperor felt a strange and inexplicable desire to punch the mini ogre in the face, oh well he would find out because later.

The sound of the gong again began, Baki quite effectively using the fighting style of the interceptor fist mixed with the rudimentary turtle style that Naruto had improvised in his time to defend himself from the Hyuga in his battle in the chunin exams ten years ago, in fact to the surprise of many Baki was actually better at using the style than Naruto himself because with his varied knowledge in many other styles Martial weapons learned in his quest to surpass his father simply made him a rather unpredictable opponent.

- Your fighting style is very different from the one I use with me. He mentioned the prodigy of the Hyuga clan causing Baki to shrug.

- Obviously, styles evolve over time. He said as if he was talking to a mentally retarded person, or perhaps a small child, the truth is that with the Hanma clan it was difficult to know. – Uncle Naruto explained it quite simply actually, I still remember his words, "mini ogre, everything changes is simply the natural order of things, if living beings change why should our arts be different?" and I'm honest I completely agree with him I mean I explain about your clan and it's completely stupid that you impose the earth style on all users when each one of you it's different, okay most have earth affinity but what about those who don't? Damn, I invented a couple of styles of your soft fist myself based on affinity, fire, and affinity, wind, and I don't even have chakra. not to mention, I learned it from someone who isn't even a fucking Hyuga.

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-with the Konoha group-

- That's definitely bad. Hiashi murmured somewhat worried about the future of his clan, if Baki really learned the Taijutsu of his clan based on Naruto someone who was not even a Hyuga, and not only that but he was also able to create several new variants well it could only mean one thing, and that was that the empire had many secrets of the village all because Naruto knew the village better than anyone, Damn it, his damn jokes, dismissed as a joke by most, had given him knowledge of practically everything in the village.

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- Be that as it may, you are in my rank. The Hyuga announced. – Eight trigrams, sixty-four palms! And with that, as with Naruto before him, he began to give him his best combination of punches until he reached 64, however, Baki did not even move despite the brutal force of Neji's punches, who jumped back waiting for his opponent to surrender or say something.

- Ehm, I told you I don't have old chakra, that didn't really do much to me. I report the Hanma to the Hyuga.

The Hyuga not being sure he wanted to believe that, he just did as he asked and to his surprise this guy, it was in a way like Naruto that is, he didn't have a single chakra point in his entire body, nor did he have that strange energy running through his body like the black-haired shinobi who had shown the ineffectiveness of his style against those who are pure brute force ago ten years, it was quite nostalgic from a certain point of view.

- Even without chakra, those blows knocked Naruto down and his body was far superior to yours. Neji commented in shock.

- Oh that, yes Haki in armor, Uncle Naruto pretty much broke the damn thing. The ogre's son commented as if this was not a fight but a conversation with a friend. – during the Unification War he discovered that your will can manifest in three different types of skills, armor Haki is one of the ones he uses the most and he taught it to me a few years ago, of course I'm quite rudimentary in comparison but I can still use it quite skillfully, and well armor Haki can't be considered a bloodline limit and since it's mostly used by body fighters The body of all kinds is considered a martial art... although just barely.

And to show what he meant he simply created a film this time much more noticeable around his body, causing shock to see that his abdomen had turned almost tar black,

- Uncle Naruto describes armor Haki as your will to strengthen your body, being able to become as hard as diamond, after that he went completely crazy and did real savagery with it, but I honestly use the basics. And since the manifestation of will and anyone can learn it if they put in enough time I haven't broken any rules.

The Hyuga certainly didn't like knowing that there was something on the outside that could actually render their Taijutsu completely useless, rather it had left them completely shocked and stunned, especially because if what the boy had said was true, then the fucking Naruto could not only do the same, but he was also capable of doing much more than just creating an armor of his own fucking will over his body to cancel the soft cuff. What kind of monster was Minato's son to do things like that? Assuming, of course, that he was Minato's son, of course.

- Anyway, a lot of talk. With that said Baki simply lunged at Neji with a powerful charge forward followed by a sequence of quick blows aimed at the body of the prodigy Hyuga who was not able to even see most of the blows receiving a good portion of them, fortunately they were not meant to kill just to paralyze as it was hitting his nerves, or so Neji thought when he felt that his right arm had quickly gone numb and that he was no longer able to use his left arm at all.

This was the ultimate test of the power of the Hanma, having no magical abilities, or any other kind of abilities they reached the top of the food chain, or at least to be in the upper echelons solely on the basis of pure brute force, having to overcome the users of magic, of Yomi, users of special powers, of spiritual energy, or fought using mutations, technology or other monsters of physical ability, so his family was forced to evolve over time to survive in the more than chaotic and savage world, something that sadly seemed not to have happened in the hidden continent.

Baki continued to move his fists at high speed, giving him the appearance of having multiple arms that riddled Neji who did not have the slightest chance in this fight from the beginning, because blow after blow, Baki deprived him of the ability to even move, in fact he had even managed to lift him off the ground based on pure brute force and refused to let his feet touch the ground, At least until he finished with his combo with a powerful hook to the jaw that sent him flying backwards until he landed ostentatiously on his back barely being able to maintain consciousness.

- Neji Hyuga cannot continue. The announcer declared himself when he saw the young man fail to stand up. – winner Baki Hanma.

- Wait... Neji needed to have the question answered that everyone wanted to ask at that moment. – Your uncle Naruto, does he have eyes like stars? Tsunade had reported it, Naruto's eyes were unique in that sense, asking about other characteristics was silly and they didn't know if he kept his family's surname or had changed it.

Baki simply nodded his head, however, cutting off the hope of Neji and the others. – Since I don't see him in the grandstand with his wife, I can only assume that as always he ended up getting lost and right now he is walking all over the place like a headless chicken, I guess that's why Queen Arturia didn't want to be left unsupervised, it's not that they can control him he's just a free spirit.

Neji could only nod the shock of knowing that Naruto was here, it was simply too much to say anything else, soon the stretcher arrived and took the prodigy Hyuga leaving much more uncertainty and discomfort in his delegation.

-with Konoha-

- Problematic, if the queen wanted him supervised that only means that he is close to the imperial family. Nara thought with his mind moving at a thousand miles an hour. "That probably means that the emperor doesn't have a good view of the village."

- My brother is here. I celebrate Myth. – All the more reason.

- Are you an idiot or what? Hanabi cut him off. – You heard what the son of a heavenly king said, the queen wants him under supervision I doubt very much that someone who is a friend of those monsters is weak so the only reason why he should have protection is so that one of his best fighters is not forced to meet you, Congratulations to your daddy and mommy for making things even more fucked up. It was a bit unfair to blame them for the now virtually impossible relations between Konoha and the empire, but Baki's revelation had torn his older sister apart.

Older sister whom she had to hug to provide comfort, the love of her life was so close to her, but much farther away than ever, respected by someone of the level of the Ogre himself, and backed by the imperial family, but worst of all, finally after knowing something about him to know that he was still alive, And he had already given his heart to someone else, he had lost it... And there was nothing I could do.

-Kage stage-

- Is it true that Naruto is one of you? Gaara asked Maria with hope in her voice, receiving only a nod of confirmation.

- The best of the best, only the heavenly kings rival him, a ray of sunshine that illuminates the most desperate being and capable of making people follow him to hell itself to achieve a goal, he is the reason why the whole world united under a single flag, the loss of some was our greatest gain. After saying that, I see Minato again and speak with a bit of mockery in his voice. "Don't you think so?" he asked with his mocking smile.

And of course Minato only clenched his jaw in a vain effort to calm down, given his current situation it wasn't even the time to explode, besides what kind of monster his son was... How was it possible that he was even stronger than the monsters that were the ten kings of heaven? Why was it not mentioned in the chronicles of the empire if it was so?

-Imperial Stage-

- It seems that Baki created a good eh. Naruto's voice made both Koyuki and her companions jump in their seats only to then turn to the seat that until just a couple of seconds ago had been completely empty.

- Where did you come from? Koyuki asked in a way he was happy that he was fine and hadn't gotten into trouble, but how the hell did they get out of literal nothingness?

- That funny story... Honestly, ballads will be written about my journey through this country in the future. Naruto said with a smile from ear to ear as he slightly lifted the blindfold from his eye so that he could carefully observe the next fight, he didn't know why, but the voices in his head had brought him to this place just now and he wanted it here.

- You got lost. Zeref and Arturia commented dryly, it was well known that Naruto claimed that the voices of the world always guided his path, a cheap excuse to never admit that he had a bad orientation, oh they knew of Naruto's ability to hear the voice of all things, but they doubted that they would help anyone go to the place where they were needed at that specific time.

- . . .

- Hahaha never change love. Neal told him as he dropped his head on his shoulder.

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- And now ladies and gentlemen of the audience. The announcer took the floor again once the presence of the same emperor in his box caused the gossip to stop, he found it terribly funny that people were talking without knowing or rather understanding that "the great emperor" and "Naruto Uchiha" were the same man, oh well they didn't pay him to reveal something obvious like that just for being the announcer of the fights. – The last combat of the day is about to begin, from the hidden nations, of the largest whorehouse of the elemental nations, son of one of the stupidest people in the world, and a cheap harlot, Menma Namikaze!

- Retract! Menma shouted as he approached the announcer more than angrily, only for an incredibly heavy presence to make itself felt in the place, one that brought each and every shinobi to their knees.

- Menma Namikaze. The voice was calm, but no less deadly for that, and it was a voice that made man, woman or child not care, they all turned to Koyuki's VIP box, where the black-haired, tattooed man was talking as he watched Menma with his piercing and terrifying crimson red eye. – If you want to continue in this tournament, you will take a step back right now.

Menma could only grit his teeth out of both fear and anger, who did that guy think to be to prevent him from taking his righteous revenge? What the hell had he done to bring his mere presence to his knees? Even so, the need for the village came first, so as best he could, he simply nodded, causing the all-powerful presence of the black-haired man to disappear from the entire stadium, allowing everyone to breathe again.

- Continue with the tournament. He spoke the same black-haired man once his silly "brother" took a couple of steps back.

- Now hailing from beyond our sun, she's not just a girl, she's a super girl, the last female of her race, from the planet Krypton, Kara Zor-El.

Soon she entered receiving ovations from each of the spectators of the empire both on this side of the great wall and outside it, at first glance she was a girl of 23 years or so, blonde to the middle of her back, sapphire blue eyes and a thin figure with modest breasts, not that those were her best characteristics those were her long and well-shaped legs that were accentuated by a pair of red knee-high boots and her red miniskirt, to cover her torso she wore a blue short-sleeved blouse with the symbol of the house Zor-El, on the chest.

- Hey sweetness, aren't there men in the empire? Menma asked, that is, of four fighters so far, all had been women, incredibly beautiful yes, but women at the end of the day.

- Really, you've just been humiliated by the big man and you're just acting like an idiot again. Mentioned the young woman with a raised eyebrow.

gong!

However, before Menma could answer him, the gong sounded, and without wasting any more time he threw himself forward, throwing an Upercut to the Kryptonian's jaw, smiling shamelessly at the moment he struck the blow.

- Ah, my hand! But it didn't last long, after all the only thing more stupid than fighting with a Hyuga hand-to-hand if you're using Chakra user, was trying to hit a Kryptonian, at noon, on a sunny day, and on top of that she was friends with three sun gods.

- Actually, nothing. The blonde commented with a shrug. "Only the elementals are so weak. That was true, each and every one of the elementals were weak, with two notorious exceptions of course, Shanks and Naruto himself were two monsters, unique anomalies in this land.

Cutting off these thoughts, the blonde counterattacked by giving her a jab in the jaw, causing a chilling Crack! A more than unmistakable sign that at least his lower jaw had burst, if burst there was no way that thing had not been destroyed by the sound that had sounded.

The Namikaze could only drown out his cry of pain as he held his jaw tightly and took a couple of steps back without understanding how the hell this had happened, the fact that he was literally the weakest member of his generation, if even the lazy Shikamaru was physically stronger than him, it never crossed his mind.

-VIP stage-

- Hahaha it cracked, it cracked. Mordred, like every girl, couldn't help but find the extreme violence incredibly funny.

- It really had to be paired with a Kryptonian. Arturia wasn't trying to sound compassionate by any means, just a Kryptonian deserved a better challenge than a pathetic weakling like Naruto's little brother.

- It was him or my brother and I wanted to face my brother. Naruto commented casually, he wanted to confront Sasuke, to see the last vestige of his past

- Forgive the ignorance, but what does it have about her being a Kryptonian? Whatever that is, Sannin asked without understanding much why the girl's race was so important, especially since Arturia's tone was not exactly that of a worried person but rather of disdain for the redhead.

It was not Naruto, Arturia, or Neal who responded, but Zeref who explained the situation on the planet Krypton.

- The Kriptonians are a very special alien race, possibly the most powerful in the entire universe leaving aside this and his ridiculously broken ritual technique. He said this while pointing at Naruto who simply shrugged, his technique wasn't as broken as Zeref thought. (emotional manifestation, and above all creation of all things agree with this comment) – they have a rather unique ability they can take energy from the dwarf stars, quasars and pulsars, and well Kara has a quite notorious peculiarity, and that is that she is a friend of the Sun God Apollo, she shares a lover with Amaterasu, and Karna likes her, in other words, our sun, which is a baby star by galactic standards, nurtures it more than others, and on top of that, the sun gods, even if Karna is only a demigod, simply increase the effects of the son on her, which actually makes her much stronger than her cousin Clark.

(Someone explain to me why in the Unified Eastern Empire they nerfed them so much as to say that during the night they can only use 10% of their power, even in the old comics where they couldn't fly they didn't have a nerf as like that)

- Let's be fair, Clark is broken just Apollo is an idiot, Amaterasu plays favorites, and not Karna is simply indifferent. Naruto commented indifferently, he liked Clark, but they were not exactly close, he was Kara's lover, yes, but it did not imply that he got along with his cousin, they were cordial of course but not friends at all. Only political primor with a cordial relationship.

For the moment he simply focused on the fight once again where he saw how Menma tried an axe kick at the future no longer last daughter of Krypton, without her even being fazed by the direct blow to her beautiful face, in fact, on the contrary, she took advantage of the moment and simply grabbed the redhead's leg and began to whip him mercilessly against the floor.

As soon as he stopped whipping him, he simply picked it up again and whipped it again, repeating the action about six more times before releasing it forcefully once more, causing the blood and teeth of the Namikaze who simply no longer had any strength to defend himself.

- Hey little one, aren't there any men in Konoha? Kara was much more hurtful by focusing directly on the village and not the entire continent, after all Naruto respected Gaara, he couldn't call him a friend as such after all their relationship was limited I beat you up straighten your way and then you helped me with a bone-throwing lunatic, only that makes us friends, at least from Naruto's perspective, however, that didn't mean he didn't respect the man who had straightened out his life's path and was now a better man. "Yes, supposedly the best of Naruto's brothers, I would suggest that you quit, after all you have no chance of defeating me.

They were going to give it to him the Namikaze was stubborn, so much so that even if he was barely able to get up and showed off his rather poor level of Senjutu and started attacking the daughter of krypton, he actually managed to give a bit of a result, after all he was able to cut a little above her left eyebrow.

- So, you're going to play rough, then I'm going to play rough too. And with that said, he threw himself forcefully forward.

Menma just felt as if... He really had no comparison for what he felt, the impact was much stronger than anything he had ever felt in his life, demon the onslaught even if it was just a normal tackle, it was strong enough to send him back off the platform embedding him in the wall behind him, And he was also not able to hear the sonorous crack of his ribs being fractured or rather turning to dust.

To be honest Kara didn't even hate the boy, she was simply a girl who liked a good challenge she had heard in the wise way from Naruto, who described it as a great plus of power for the shinobi however to face him in a wise way and that with a truly powerful blow and even so being just a simple mockery of the strength of his brother who with a Punch could not only make her stumble but even knock her out, she just felt quite annoyed after all she hoped that at least the *ing brat was at least a worthy shadow, which he wasn't.

- Ehm, I think he's still alive. The announcer said as he poked Menma with the same stick he had used to poke Kiba to see if he was still alive. – Kara Zor-El wins, please enjoy the games and the festival that has been prepared to celebrate this first day of the tournament, remember that tomorrow the second day of the tournament will begin.

Unbeknownst to him, only the Imperials would enjoy such a festival, after all the Shinobi villages had a lot of things to think about right now.

-Konoha's inn, that same night-

- Of the three, the worst is undoubtedly Menma. Kushina mentioned to her husband. – That woman broke his jaw completely, the lower jaw is fractured in three parts and the upper jaw has not even been repaired at all, it is completely shattered, in addition to having four broken ribs and all the others splintered, Kiba, on the other hand, has a broken lower jaw as well as his knees, Neji only has contusions.

Minato simply sighed tired both physically and mentally, he was aware that everyone in the country of spring would be honestly hostile to them, but not that they would be so much, especially with his eldest son, it was quite evident that absolutely everyone hated him completely, his bloodlust in the sand each and every one of them wanted him dead, How on earth had his son overcome this situation without committing suicide?

Speaking of the now man, now they finally had reliable news of his whereabouts and that they were still alive, he was even apparently married to someone if Baki's words were credible, he was here literally a few meters from them, but given the refusal of the emperor to receive a retinue and that from what they had said he was guarded 24/7 surely by the same celestial king who roamed the town from time to time, I should simply wait for the tournament to come to an end.

-the next day-

Punctual as clockwork at the same time the day before the arena was already full of contestants ready and willing to resume the playoffs, or in the case of the hidden continent, to start winning fights and reverse the crushing performance that the empire gave the day before, apparently Kara's comment about "you shinobi are so weak" never crossed their minds.

- And now, on the second day of the Minatorias, we will give way to the first combat of this day, coming from the distant mountains of kumogakure, one of the most faithful men to the current raikage, his right and faithful hand, the Ace up Kumo's sleeve, Darui...

Naruto for a moment couldn't help but think that this man was somehow what would come out of a relationship between Kakashi and Shikamaru, only that one of them would have to have black ancestry in his veins, because the cheeky young man was dark-haired, brown-eyed and blond hair with a lazy attitude who placed himself in the center of the platform to wait for his opponent.

- And coming from the kingdom of China, from the distant valley of peace, the current grand master of the lotus order, the most skilled warrior of Kun-fu and one of the mentors of our emperor himself... Master Po.

The introduction, the fact that the man was from the same realm that had given birth to someone like the emperor, that he was appointed as the master of it, simply made people have high expectations about this so-called Po. But when they saw it, the only question that came to mind was.

- That... He's a panda. Ay was the first to ask the question that everyone in the stadium had, that, that was clearly a panda one grade, quite tall, but still fat... with traditional Chinese clothes well the pants, but he was fat. He was wearing a traditional red shirt and I'll see with the dragon emblem, but he was fat... I already mentioned that he was fat.

- It's not just a panda, it's the panda. Maria couldn't help but defend the young kun-fu master, after all, without the young man's teachings, his emperor would never have found his own inner peace, or mastery of chi... Well, the latter probably yes the emperor was a prodigy, but he would have had to do it the long way and not through inner peace and acceptance of the Self.

And Maria was not the only one who had these opinions because without exception each of the members of the empire cheered the panda master, they of course knew the truth behind the man's abilities and how much he had to fight in his beginnings in the martial art to reach the degree of master, to be seen as a failure, to have to face the one who was called by many as "the best master of kun-fu" only after the great turtle master Oowgay, to face a past and not be who he was to find inner peace, and to face a resentful spirit sacrificing his own life to end it, if the young panda was no longer in the realm of the living as such because he had transcended in that realm of the living He battled becoming a spiritual warrior in the most literal sense of the word that protected the Valley of Peace and more currently the lands of all China.

(Wow, if it's barbaric with all this said, and if I refuse to recognize the four as canon. Phoenix: Which four?)

- Alright, let's wrap this up. Darui murmured who would trust the opinion of his elemental compatriots more.

- If you only look at my appearance, do not doubt that you will not be able to see my barbarousness coming. The panda warned him, who was actually confident, after all, he doubted very much that this man would heed his warnings.

gong!

And then Darui immediately regretted his previous words, because with a big belly blow the "dragon warrior" sent him flying backwards at least six meters to the last stretch of the platform.

- Shit, I didn't see that coming! Kumo's shinobi exclaimed completely furious at falling into such a childish ruse, and when he was about to throw himself head-on to fight, something fell on him, of course it was none other than Po who showed that although he was perhaps a little overweight even for a panda, that did not mean that he was not fast and agile.

- Do you see what I meant? Po joked getting up a little, and moments later dropping his... panda again on poor Darui who couldn't even scream when a giant panda fell on top of him effectively taking the air out of him.

Then Po jumped back and without letting Kumo's ninja breathe he did a few more tastings and when he finished them curiously at the same moment in which the dark-haired man stood up, the panda punched in the air.

- Panda Fist. And with that technique a great current of hyper-compressed air hit Kumo's shinobi's face sending him flying another two meters backwards, and now Darui was now only four meters from the edge of the platform. However, Kumo's shinobi barely had time to avoid a kick aimed at his stomach from the Kung fu master who smiled at him amused, there was no longer condescension or apathy in Darui's gaze, that only meant one thing and that was that now the fight would be serious.

-Konoha delegation-

- Now I understand why they call someone so ... peculiar, the panda has undoubtedly earned the title of grandmaster. Gai mentioned thinking to himself out loud.

- What does Gai-sensei mean? Tenten asked, looking quite confused.

- Watch their movements. The man with bushy eyebrows asked and when his student concentrated better, like almost all shinobi, he continued his lesson. – The panda clearly knows that he is fat, he should be slow and clumsy, especially crude to fight. However his movements are the opposite and that gives him the great advantage when fighting because his opponents assume him clumsy, no one would expect him to be someone so fast and agile and that will undoubtedly cost you the fight, also he uses his body as it is and bases his fighting style on it, He uses his fat as a weapon, and given how well developed his style is, we could say that he is a great master of martial arts. The man certainly couldn't help but admire the panda.

-Kage Stage-

And while Gai was lecturing about analyzing Po's fighting style, Ay was sparking at the sight of Darui being dominated by him. Po's rushed and unpredictable style seemed to be a drunken-style Taijutsu, but without the need to be drunk, his movements were very unpredictable, but it seemed like he had control over his clumsy movements that made Darui look like a fucking rookie.

Kumo's Jounin gave him an axe kick that the master blocked by bending a hook to the liver that was blocked before launching himself effectively, when the fat man stepped very Darui on the right foot making him jump while grabbing his stepped foot.

And when he finally managed to give him a devastating blow, Po had used the strength of Darui's blow and the natural elasticity of his belly to somehow give the body a double hook using the power of the inertia of the blow received, which by the way shook Kumo's shinobi hard to the point of making him spit blood.

-Back in the sand-

- I think it went a little too far. The maestro said somewhat embarrassed with his right hand nervously rubbing the back of his neck. "Well, I think I should finish the commander once and for all."

And it happened again, she began to do katas, this time being more agile and fluid, looking more like a dance than Taijutsu exercises, when she finished them Darui had already recovered from the pain and positioned herself to reverse the course of the fight. – Ox strike.

Kumo's man tried to give the panda a direct hook to the stomach, however, he blocked it easily with the palm of his paw, the worst of all is that he seemed to have his eyes completely closed.

- The fight is over. Po declared with complete serenity and before Darui could know what he meant, Po swept his feet off balance and before he could even touch the ground the Kung fu master did a split before hitting it with his right palm giving him a powerful blow that sent Darui flying until he was only two steps from the edge of the platform, And to make things much more ridiculous, the panda simply stomped on the platform, causing the dark-haired man's already precarious balance to be lost and fall off the platform.

- Darui has fallen off the platform, thus Grandmaster Po wins the fight.

After the announcement the face of complete calm and serene of the panda became one of pure joy completely opposite to his previous serenity, in fact he even began to send kisses to the arena and thanked everyone for coming to see the fight, it was quite disconcerting for the Konoha team to see the fight, in a way it reminded them a little of Naruto of course his reaction to Neji's defeat was much more reserved by simply raising her arm in victory, but considering how reserved she was as a general rule, it was a genuine sign of her joy at that moment.

Upon leaving, Po was severely scolded by... Okay, that was weird: a red panda less than a quarter of his size was scolding him for celebrating his victory in such a childish way.

- Personal note: talk to Master about taking life easy. Naruto muttered to himself he had to talk to the master of the Jade palace to calm his attitude a little, okay he had relaxed quite a bit in recent years but he was still quite bitter on some issues.

- Good luck. Arturia couldn't help but snort, Master was certainly too old to change his way of being and acting at this point, it was a miracle in itself that the old master had achieved his inner peace and therefore his character had relaxed quite a bit.

Back in the arena, once again the announcer went up to the platform. – Alright, it's time for two heavyweights to face each other, from Otogakure... Yugo, wasn't he something like an uncontrollable beast? I ask the people in the imperial box who just shrugged their shoulders, this whole matter really didn't give a fuck.

Somewhat embarrassed by his description, a young man with tousled orange hair and almond eyes who wore black shinobi pants and a white shirt climbed into the arena, something that was very evident given the reputation of the pale Sannin, it was the serene face of the shinobi of his "village"

- And now from the empire, directly from Jump City, the former student of the Dark Knight, and the current leader of the Titans, Dick Grayson.

The young man who went up to the platform was the opposite of his opponent, quite tall they did not deny him but small compared to his opponent, he had black hair and light green eyes, wearing black pants, a blue black jacket shirt, with military boots and a yellow belt, he was one of the people who could genuinely be considered attractive and many women sighed in defeat when the young man got a girlfriend, Especially since although polygamy was legal in the empire, the girl was extremely possessive of her man.

- You'd better give up, I don't want to hurt you. To the surprise of many, the shinobi of Oto actually seemed terrified at the prospect, however, Dick simply smiled in amusement.

- I've faced bigger than you. I mention the young man simply, and it was true, mammoth was much bigger and stronger than this man not to mention Gismo and his robots.

The sound of the gong again started the battle and Dick was the first to move by kicking his yoke knees a couple of times who fell on them heavily, this was one of the tactics that his mentor had taught him when he was still wearing Robin's cloak, (if he is now Nightwin) to enemies who are bigger than you should always limit their movements and that should always be their first it happened if it was possible.

Of course Oto's shinobi did not live so long being a fool and of course he noticed that his opponent had based his entire strategy on disabling him, so he tried to counterattack quickly, got up as best he could and gave a devastating Jab to the jaw, which managed to connect with the young man who was sent to fly spectacularly, However, he landed after gaining control of his fall, causing cheers from the Empire when he saw the maneuver of the former circus acrobat.

-Spectator stands-

- Booyah! That's old, it shows who's boss! He spoke very loudly of a young man with brown skin who was covered from head to toe with rather heavy clothing, although curiously his eyes showed a red glow.

- that's Nightwin! Exclaimed another young man, this one much smaller, who nevertheless surprised several, because his skin and hair were completely green and he had pointed ears.

Next to this young man there was a purple-haired girl with a white cape who encouraged her leader in her own way by lazily moving a little flag with the symbol of the titans from one side to the other while reading a book, for her the fight was a mere formality so she guarded her ovations when the real fights came.

On the other hand, the last member of the original titans, a beautiful young redhead with orange skin and green eyes with a sclera of a lighter shade of green, was the one who put the most encouragement into cheering up her boyfriend.

- Come on Dick, break his fucking legs! Exclaimed the more than excited young woman.

- Star without profanity. I scold him for the purple movie without looking up from his book.

- Sorry, but this is so exciting. The redhead said with an obvious blush... or the equivalent of his race to one in his pretty face.

To be honest everyone in the empire thought it was terribly funny, after all it's not every day you could see Starfire, Beatsboy, cyborg and Raven acting like the young men they were, and not the team of heroes that protected Jump City.

Back with Dick, he was already more than used to this kind of mistreatment, after all most of the opponents he had faced in the empire always surpassed him in size and strength, for that reason and to the bad luck of his opponent, that blow was actually not at all enough to really hurt him, which was actually making him a little nervous as well as Orochimaru, because the longer the fight dragged on, the greater the risk that Yugo would get out of control and be disqualified due to his small anger control problem.

That is why the greatest man went from having a real strategy to trying to knock out the black-haired man, a rather poor strategy that left too many holes and very large in his defenses, eggs that were quickly taken advantage of by the leader of the titans, who after a vain attempt at a new Jab, Batman's former student took the yoke arm and using a Judo hold used the power behind the blow of his opponent and his weight to send him flying to the right side, which was the nearest shore and without letting him recover he threw himself with a flying kick that almost threw him off the sand.

Yugo of course managed to hold on to the sand, and tried once again to regain control of the fight and for this he tried a kick to the jaw that Dick managed to block with difficulty, before moving quickly to gain a more advantageous position, sweeping his leg that he did not have high by taking him off the platform... The fastest victory so far without a doubt. On the other hand, they talked about Batman's student who tended to prioritize efficiency over spectacle.

- Yoke fell from the platform... as always, the announcer began with his message, only for Otto's Shinobi to interrupt him with a bloodcurdling scream and then transform into a creature that flashed a great thirst for blood.

Later he jumped back up to the arena and Dick in response only walked away without paying attention and everyone saw why, because before the young man was hit by the now beast, everyone heard a loud crack only to see how out of nowhere the beast had stopped from its charge shortly before reaching the young man of the empire.

When the beast fell to the ground everyone saw what happened, this being that Kori had simply moved at high speed to simply break his neck with a single blow to the head, thus ending the young life of the only fighter that Orochimaru managed to sneak into the tournament.

- Thank you Kori. Dick mentioned, breaking the sepulchral silence that was made after everyone witnessed what legally speaking was a murder, one broadcast worldwide no less.

For the inhabitants of the elemental nation they actually just went completely silent, as they saw how in a matter of simple moments the orange-skinned girl passed from the stands to the arena and broke the neck of the much larger and monstrous opponent as if it was nothing more than paper, making one thing clear, Actually, no one from the Empire was taking the fights until now, each and every one of them was just playing with them.

In fact this revelation only caused one thing in the Namikaze family, because from what they had heard from fragments of conversation here and there, Kara and that Kori girl had fought in the empire qualifiers with Kara evidently being the winner and as far as they knew it was by a pretty wide margin, in other words if the woman had really wanted it she would have killed Menma just as easily as this woman had used the shinobi of Orochimaru to kill one of the strongest men.

- Hmph... Maybe we should pause. Naruto commented, after all, seeing a murder was quite traumatizing for a good part of the public.

- Kuroka told you to classify this as R. Arturia reproached him.

- Isn't it? The question was genuine, Naruto really had no idea that this wasn't actually R-rated, and of course Zeref could only just sigh as he muttered about "idiot dwarf demons" and his inability to understand that R stands for not suitable for children.

End of the chapter.