Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Eyes piercing the darkness ❯ Don't hold back! Chunin exams final rounds ( Chapter 13 )

[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]

Phew, now that I've gotten all of the semi-fillers out of the way I'm going to get back on track, for those who don't know, I never like to stick to one genre. Just be gld I didn't put a songfic in the actually storyline like I did with almost all of my other stories.....yet.....just kidding. Anyway it's about time that I got back to the exams and this is the chapter where that begins. Are you all ready? I hope you are, because I'm about to show off my skills in one-on ones for the first time. As well as show off some of the things that I couldn't do before now. This is the first chapter in the leaf destruction arc, how many things are going to change? You'll have to read to find out, and there were no references in the last chapter except one.

Grand Theft Auto: JJ actually reference this at the beginning of the chapter, and for those who didn't notice it was actually the "6 stars" comment. A level on this game where if attained, your ass is pretty much dead. Unless you play like me.



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Don't Hold back: Chunin exams final rounds.


Naruto stood staring at his ceiling for what seemed to be forever. Two weeks had passed, but the attack from Minatsuni wasn't far from his mind. He couldn't seem to stop thinking about it.
Naruto: That'll never happen again.

He said clentching his fist tightly.
JJ: What won't?

He asked appearing over Naruto from seemingly nowhere, causing Naruto to jump straight from his bed.
Naruto: When did you get here!?

He shouted pointing an accusing finger at his friend who just sighed and said.
JJ: I've been here for the last ten minutes, you were just so out of it that you didn't notice.

He replied with a shrug.
JJ: You do know it's almost time to go right?

He asked lifting an eyebrow. Naruto sighed and nodded to him with his head hung low.
Naruto: I don't think I want to anymore.

He said silently. JJ stared at him for a few seconds before he shouted.
JJ: Too bad!!!

Grabbing tightly onto the younger boy's shoulder he tossed him through the door and dragged him down the street.
Naruto: Do you really have to drag me?
JJ: Are you gonna walk?
Naruto: Well....
JJ: Then yes, I have to drag you.

Naruto sighed and looked around himself as the many people walked toward the large staduim he was being dragged to.
Naruto: What's up with all the people?
JJ: Oh, they're lords and kings of their lands. They come watch the chunnin exams to see new up and coming shinobi, just in case they want to enlist their aid at a later time Think of it as them shopping for something they may want to buy later.
Naruto: Oh.

He said as he finally stood to his feet.
Naruto: So the entire world is watching me?
JJ: Not all of it, but most.
Naruto: Why do we have to fight each other anyway?

He asked as he finally started walking forward on his own. JJ held a finger to his chin and thought hard before pounding his fist into his hand.
JJ: Because, a shinobi usually shows his greatest strength's and weaknesses when he's match against another shinobi. I mean, think about how hard you would have to fight against me. And then match that to a simple fetch quest.

Naruto nodded to his older friend and then looked down once again.
Naruto: I guess I get it.
JJ: Don't guess, know.

He said patting the younger boy's head as he gave him a brotherly smile.
JJ: Just remember, this is something Hinata wants to do too. You have to help her prove herself.

Naruto sighed and then nodded before he stood right in front of the exam fields.

[Flash]
Orochimaru: You know what to do, right?
Yura: Yes, my job is to protect Tayuya-neechan and the other sound four from the anbu long enough for Yubiki to arrive, then I destroy the anbu in order to hold off re-enforcements.
Kabuto: Do you actually think she would be able to do something like that?
Yura: Of course I could, cats make natural ninjas, after all we have the agility, balance and flexibillty it takes to do taijutsu. Not to mention my natural strength and my ability to neutrelize chakra. Even if I can't use it myself I can force anyone else to fight me on my terms. As far as I saw during the chunin exams there is only one person in the village with the potential to rival me in taijutsu, and he's been incapicitated by Gaara.
Kabuto: Quite confident aren't you?
Yura: I need to be.
Orochimaru: Good, I need you to find a good vantage point to oversee the exams.
Yura: That'll be easy.

She said as she walked away from her master.
Orochimaru: Why is that?
Yura: I have a date.

She said witha smile that was soon returned by Orochimaru as he watched the girl walk continue her stride.

[Flash]
Neji slowly walked through the stadium with a sigh, he wanted to be in the chunin exams at this point, but now he was going to be watching from the sidelines. However, he didn't feel bad about in the least, just anxious.
Ishi: Are you still moping?
Neji: I'm not moping.
Ishi: There's always next year y'know.
Neji: Yeah.
Ishi: I'll be in it with you then.

She said with a smile as she and Neji sat in there seats.
Neji: I guess.

He said looking away.
Ishi: We'll win then okay. For now let's just root for the people about to fight.

She said pointing to the children gathering in the middle of the feild.
Sakura: Where's Raizen and Sasuke?

She asked out of nowhere, startling the girl sitting next to Neji.
Ino: I don't see them. Maybe they're not here yet.

Naruto looked around himself as the many people began to fill the stands and then to the people around him.
Naruto: Hey Naki, where's Sasuke and Raizen?

He called out to the proctor with a Chunin standing in front of him.
Naki: Well, that Raizen kid is already here. He was here before the stadium even opened. As far as Sasuke goes, I have no clue.
Choji: Raizen's here? Where is he?
Naki: He said he didn't want to give that away until he had to fight.
Jinta: I don't care about all that, when do I get to fight big mouth over there?

He said pointing at JJ who looked back at him with disinterest.
Naki: You're guys are in the fourth round it seems.
Jinta: You're going down!

JJ leaned over to Naruto and pointed his thumb back at the arrogant boy before he asked.
JJ: Is he still talking to me?

Mika chuckled and Jinta growled at JJ's giesture. Naki clapped his hands and then proclaied with a single finger pointed to the children.
Naki: Listen up, all of you are being tested because you have the potential to become chunin, but you don't have to win to become one. You will be judged on your strategic and combative abilities, but be wary that just because you have skills doesn't make you a good ninja. It's your ability to use them and the wisdom on how you use them.
Naruto: Question.
Naki: Yeah?
Naruto: What if we die and you were gonna make us chunin?
Naki: Well then, I guess you're just-
JJ: No! No Naruto abridged reference.
Naki/Naruto: But-
JJ: NO!!!
Naki/Naruto: Awwww.
Naruto: You're no fun.
Naki: 'Sigh' whatever, Naruto and Hinata are our first contestants, everyone except for the two I mentioned must leave the arena.

JJ patted Naruto on his shoulder as Mika did the same with Hinata, silently wishing them both the best of luck, before they evacuated the arena, leaving the two lovers to stare ackwardly at each other. Naki shook his head sighed before he said.
Naki: You may begin.

Naruto at that moment suddenly became extremely interested in the dirt around his feet. Hinata, much like Naruto before her, suddenly found herself completely captivated by a small patch of grass. It seemed like forever they had been staring at the ground, and suddenly roars of anticipation flew from the crowd above. The crowd quickly and slowly grew more unruly.
Hanabi: What's wrong with these people?

She asked looking over to her father who only sighed. Yukari's forehead twitched and she stood to her feet. With a deep breath she shouted.
Yu: SHUT UP!!!!!

Into the crowd, immediately getting the reaction she desired, if not for the shock of what the girl said, it was the lack of a comeback that made them quiet. Yukari's shout seemed to drag the two in the arena from their distractions and back to each other.
Naruto: Hinata-
Hinata: I know.
Naruto: This is kind of weird, isn't it?

He asked looking away from her.
Hinata: Yeah.

She said with a chuckle. Kiba looked down and sighed, if he had beaten Naruto, he would've been the one fighting Hinata. Thank goodness he saved himself that trouble. Yura looked over to him and asked.
Yura: Isn't that the girl you used to like?
Kiba: Yeah, I actually find this hard to say, but I kind of feel bad for Naruto. I don't know if I could do it.

Naruto smiled and looked to the sky.
Hinata: Please don't hold back because of our relationship.
Naruto: I can't go all out, but I won't hold back.
Hinata: That's all I ask.

She said with a smile. Naruto rub the back of his head and said.
Naruto: How about a kiss first?

Hinata blushed at Naruto's words and nodded with her gaze cast down. Naruto slowly walked over and blushed as well before he closed his eyes and smiled. Hinata looked up and leaned to him as he leaned down, both meeting in the middle. A sudden wave of understanding swept over the crowd, who didn't know, now knew why they had to take such a long pause before starting the fight. Hiashi looked away and tried to fight the fatherly urges he felt, as Hanabi looked away to fight the jealousy she felt, both's actions gained a chuckle from Yukari. Naruto pulled back and flashed a fox grin and Hinata shyly looked away from him. A sweet moment, that quickly ended as both leveled a stern glare at each other and leapt fifteen feet back away from one another in croutching position. Both touched where their marks were and closed their eyes.
JJ: What are they doing?
Yubiki: They're focusing.

JJ jumped back as Yubiki suddenly appeared at his side. Gaara snorted at them and turned his attention to the arena.
JJ: Where did you come from?
Yubiki: Does it matter? Anyway, I met with both of them before the match and placed a small seal over their marks.
Choji: You nullified it?

He asked in curiousity.
Yubiki: No. I can't remove it, the only thing that can remove a mark is death. I simply, suppressed it so that they would be able to face each other. Because of the mark Hinata and Naruto can sense each other with minimal effort. That makes it hard for them to actually be able fight each other. It would be like fighting someone who can read your mind. It's temporary, but it should last long enough for them to test themselves.
JJ: Nice, I wonder, just how they'll fare against each other.

He said with a smile.

[Music que: Given up-by Linkin park]
Both Naruto and Hinata started to slowly walk around, circling one another as their eyes never parted. Hinata mouthed the words, "thank you." to Naruto as he simply nodded his head. With that out of the way both burst into a blinding speed. Neither slowed down until they met in the middle of the stadium and slmmed their forearms togather as both went for the first blow at the same time. The force from their sudden impact cause their wind to blow fiercly around them. Hinata shot her left hand forward after Naruto who spun under it and countered with a spinning sweep kick. Hinata easily dodged it and came back with a kick of her own, which once again, Naruto blocked. For what seemed to be forever, Naruto and Hinata simply had a match of who could counter who. Naruto sidestepped another of Hinata's palms and grabbed tightly onto her wrist. In one fluid motion Naruto spun in front of her and delivered a shoulder tackle into her chest that sent her stumbling back and freeing her from his grip. Naruto quickly went after her and sent a straight punch into her stomache, going for a stun rather than a punishing blow. Naruto quickly followed with three more lightning fast punches before he spun into a kick that collided with Hinata's side. Naruto used the momentum and sent himself spinning in the opposite direction. Naruto lowered himself and swept Hinata's feet, sending her spinning into the air. Naruto slammed his hand on the ground and once again span his body around until he sent a kick straight into Hinata's stomache that sent her flying across the arena. Hinata hit the ground and bounce back into the air before she regained herself. A single tap on the ground was enough to send herself back into the air. Hinata turned into a spin and launched three kunai at Naruto mid jump, all of which he caught and threw back at her. Hinata easily mimicked his technique and landed on the ground before flipping into the air and throwing the kunai at him once again. Naruto pulled five kunai from his pouch and jumped to the side just in time to dodge the kunai coming at him, with that he launched his weapons at Hinata before she could land. Hinata, still airbourne began to spin on her way down, executing an aerial rotation.
Hiashi: How did she manage to gain the speed to use a rotation in the air?

Naruto thought the same thing at that moment, only not out loud. Once the swirl of chakra vanished from around Hinata. She fell toward the ground with a smile on her face before vanishing in a poof of smoke. Naruto's eyes went wide as he shot his head to the side just in time to catch a straight palm to the chest. Hinata quickly followed with seven more quick strike before sending a downward palm into his face. Naruto leaned down and spun into a straight punch that Hinata grabbed. With a shout, she flipped Naruto up in front of her and slammed her palm roughly into his chest. Naruto slid across the ground before flipping to his feet sixteen feet away. Naruto stared back at Hinata, breathing heavily as a smile of anticipation graced his face. With only a push of his foot he was already half-way across to Hinata who also sought to close the distance between them. Naruto flipped forward and attacked with a falling axe kick that Hinata smoothly dodged. Quickly following his assualt Naruto used the force from the impact to send himself slightly back into the air where he followed with a sidekick that Hinata barely blocked. Using the force from the kick Hinata spun downward into a low sweep kick, Naruto spun away from. Hinata jumped at Naruto with a dive kick that he deflected and countered with an uppercut to her stomach strong enough to send the girl into the air. Following his first attack Naruto swung his foot around into Hinata's stomach, sending her spinning back to the ground. Before she could meet with an impact Hinata landed smoothly on all fours and ran at Naruto. There was no time to counter attack, before he could even react Hinata charged up his chest and flipped into a flip kick that collided with Naruto's chin. While still flipping Hinata threw two explosive tags on Naruto chest. Naruto cursed and braced for impact as the shockwave from the resulting explosion sent both flying back. Naruto slammed into the back wall and frowned as he focused chakra into his feet and flipped back onto the wall behind him before he began to run up it at lightning speed. Naruto flipped from the top of the stadium and put up the seal that he was famous for.
Naruto: Shadow clone justu!!!!

Naruto blocked the sun with the sheer number of clones he had summoned to life.
Naruto: Echo Chamber!!!!

Naruto and his clones shouted in unison as all joined together in a roar that caused a sonic shock wave to come crashing down on Hinata. As hard as she tried to resist the blast sent her falling back to the ground, just what Naruto wanted. Each of the clones reached over and grabbed the clone next to them before launching them down to the ground after Hinata. Each one slammed their fist into the ground, the first of which Hinata flipped away from. The next she dodged with a spin, each time more fell. Hinata dodged the next with a roll, that she recovered from in croutching position. She waited, but nothing more came, this drew her attenton to the sky. What she saw was all of the Naruto descending on her at once with a massive shout.
Naruto: THUNDROUS ECHO!!!!!!!

As they all slammed their fist into the entire arena, leaving not even enough space for a bug to get through. All at once they rose looked around for their opponent, who was no where to be found.
Naruto: Hey do you see her?
Naruto: No.
Naruto: Where did she go?
Naruto: Why are asking me?

All stopped arguing and activated their byakugans as they all realized and shouted simultaenously.
Naruto: BELOW!!!

At that moment Hinata shot from the ground and latched her plams into two of Naruto's clones, with four clones of herself doing the same. When Hinata emerged Naruto's clones descended on her and she slammed her plam back into one of their chests before she kicked forward into another face. Surprisingly, Hinata was managing on her own with only for clones by her side. However, suddenly four smoke clouds appeared around her letting her know that her clones were gone. One of Naruto's clones tackled Hinata, dragging her back through the crowd, before he hurled her into the air for another clone to deliver a straight kick to her stomach that sent her flying through the many clones on the ground. Hinata caught herself and prepared as once again the clones closed in on her. Hinata waited until one grew clone then she frog-hopped over his head. and ran along the backs of the clones laid out in front of her before she twisted into a triple axle that she used to create another aerial rotation. Once Hinata landed she turned and stood firm facing the many clones of her beloved before she spread her arms and shot hundred of sharp chakra beams into the crowd of Narutos, effectively weeding out the real one. Naruto's eyes went wide as he looked around and stared in shock at the fact that Hinata had just cleared the entire field of his clones.
Naruto: What the hell was that?

He asked himself as Hinata smiled at the look on his face. For a moment, the battle ceased. Naruto stared hard before he quickly pulled back his hand and opened his palm. A familiar sphere appeared in his hand and Hinata gasped. Naruto frowned and charged after Hinata. Hinata sidestepped the rasengan and prepared to counter attack, but suddenly Naruto vanished and stood behind her with another rasengan ready. Hinata turned around and acted on the only defense she had. Her hand lew in all directions and a strange barrier of sharp chakra appeared in front of her.
Hinata: Eight trigrams: Sixty four plams guard!!

She shouted out as Naruto's rasengan collided with the sheild. Naruto could feel the chkra from her attack lashing out at him dispite the fact that he wasn't touching it directly. Naruto was pushed back by Hinata's defense and he found solid foundation on the ground a few feet away from her.
Mika: What was he doing? The rasengan could've really hurt her.
JJ: He wasn't trying to hit her with it.
Choji: How can you tell.
Shikamaru: It's simple, he wanted to know what that technique was she used. The best way to find out what your enemy has in their sleeve is to force them to reveal it.
JJ: Right, but that's not enough.
Choji: How so?
JJ: She just used that attack to wipe out his clones, but she just used it as a defense, I'm guessing that was an attack that can be used in many different ways. Think about it, how many forms of the rasengan have you seen Naruto use, or how many different ways have you seen him use the shadow clone jutsu. Just because you know what the move is doesn't mean you know how it can be used in battle. Hinata can still surprise Naruto.

Both in the arena stood still, not yet ready to move.
Naruto: Nice move.

He said un-zipping his jacket, Hinata began to silently wonder what Naruto was doing until her eyes caught the sight of round weights wrapping his arms. Naruto unstrapped them and let them fall to the ground.
Naruto: I got this idea from watching Lee. JJ helped me do it though.

He said with a sideways smile.
Mika: I thought he was moving slower.
JJ: Yeah, it's not as much weight as Lee had on him, but it was enough to make a difference.

Naruto smiled, he expected a reaction from Hinata, but now she just stared at him.
Naruto: Hinata?

He called out to her as she just chuckled back. Then Hinata started to slowly remove her jacket as well. Hinata gained a different response from the crowd, well at least the boys. Hinata also had weights on, not that that's what everyone was looking at. Hinata wore a dark blue tanktop, that was so tight and fitting that it moved to her every curve, and there were a lot of them.
Hinata: I guess we had the same idea.

She said she unstrapped the weight from her body as well. Naruto stared at her subtle muscles that seemed to crawl up her beautifully toned body, suddenly he remembered why he didn't want to fight her.
Raizen: Damn.

He said from his hidden perch.
Raizen: If that's what you saw Kiba, I don't blame you anymore. Sakura may be cute, but she never showed up like that.

As if she said the words herself Sakura looked down and covered her chest, strangely now she felt very inadequete.
Yu: Your sister has a really good body.
Hanabi: I'll look like that one day too.

She said with a smile, completely ignoring the growls coming from her father. Kiba looked away from the sight and sighed as Yura blushed and thought aloud.
Yura: I, I think I lose.

Hinata started looked up to Naruto who stared at her with narrow eyes as blood dripped from his nose.
Hinata: What's wrong?

She asked, completely confused, she hadn't done anything, but remove her jacket, however, that was enough to take away Naruto's fighting spirit altogether. Naruto cleared his face and pulled back before saying with a smile.
Naruto: Why don't we leave our jackets on.

He said as he pulled his jacket back on his body. Hinata tilted her head and shrugged before doing the same, however, she didn't zip it up. Right now, she needed to have freedom of movement. Naruto sighed and put up his fists, right now, he had to go all out, it took a few minutes to remember that. Hinata dropped into her stance and gave Naruto all the time he need to get ready. Naruto smiled at her and both charged forward at the same time. Naruto punched forward and Hinata quickly ducked under it. A quick swing of her hand sent a focused line of chakra across Naruto's stomach. Naruto coughed and quickly spun away from her. Something was really wrong, whatever she was doing, it would probably be something he'd be better off dodging. Naruto suddenly lost sight of Hinata.
Naruto:Where'd-?
Hinata: Over here.


Naruto's eyes cast down as Hinata slammed her hands into Naruto's back and then swiped her hands across his back. Each motion was cutting deep into him, Naruto tried to turn, but before he could Hinata side-stepped to his front and pulled back both hands.
Hinata: Heaven's dance of hazy white!!

Came a mighty shout from Hinata before she slammed both palms into Naruto's chest. Just like thwe move's name suggested, a brilliant white light flashed from Hinata's hands and sent Naruto skipping across the ground like a rock on a pond. Naruto slid to a stop and placed his hand on the ground as he panted, staring at the girl who had just sent him on a trip. Hinata smiled at Naruto, she had held back some of the move's strength, but the look on his face showed that he was surprised, that made her happy. Naruto stood to his feet and almost stumbled to the ground again just on the way up.
Naruto: Dammit.

He said as he finally gained his footing. Hinata called out to him.
Hinata: Naruto-kun, are you alright?

She asked wondering if she had done too much. Naruto smiled and said back.
Naruto: Yeah, I'm fine, just a little dizzy.

He said with a smile before he placed a handsign.
Naruto: I'll be sure to stop underestimating you from now on. He said as he charged forward to Hinata. A shadow clone appeared in front of him and grabbed his hand before hurling him at the girl.
Naruto: Echo pulse!!!

He shouted as he passed Hinata with a gust of wind flying behind him. Hinata had expected an attack, but none came, she looked back to Naruto as he slid to a stop on the ground, suddenly twenty clones laid in front of him. Hinata turned around just in time to catch a fierce punch to the stomach.
Naruto: Echo shock!!!

He shouted as each of his clones traced his attacks, completing an uppercut that sent Hinata into the air before the clones linked together and hurled each other into the air.
Naruto: Echo pulse!!!!

Each one slammed their fists into Hinata as they passed her and once into the air they all placed up the shadow clone sign, creating more clones while still airborn. All of the clones inhaled and shouted in the same direction toward Hinata.
Naruto: Echo chamber!!!!!

A solid sonic boom slammed into Hinata, locking her in the same spot as the force from the blast crushed her from all directions. Naruto's clones gathered in the sky and prepared for an attack as they grew in numbers.
Naruto: The final note! Thundrous Echo!!!!!

He shouted as all of the clones in the sky fell down on Hinata with vicious punches that created a loud explosive sound on impact with the ground.
Naruto: For the first time, Naruto Uzumaki's echo symphony!!!!!

Minutes passed before Naruto smiled back at Hinata as she laid motionless on the ground. He closed his eyes and and asked back.
Naruto: How long you plan on laying there?

At his words, Hinata started to lift herself up.
Hinata: That really did hurt, you know?

She said with a frown. Naruto looked down and said silently.
Naruto: Sorry, I actually created that to fight JJ.
JJ: Hey!

He shouted from the stands.
Naruto: You wanna keep going?
Hinata: Of course, I have to pay you back for that.

Hinata smiled through and Naruto chuckled, she laid stationary on the ground to buy time, she needed her wounds to heal, however that also gave him to time to heal his own as well, right now it was as if the fight had started over from the beginning. Naruto didn't mind though, it was a rush he had never felt before, Hinata proved herself more than a good opponent. Hinata flipped back and hurled three kunai at Naruto, all of which he dodged, but not before he made a clone at his side. Hinata placed up a single seal and an explosion went off behind Naruto, not close enough to hit him, but close enough to gain his attention. Hinata appeared to his side in an instant and slammed her plam into his chest. Naruto reacted by disappearing into smoke. Naruto kicked at Hinata and she flipped back away before landing into a sprint. Naruto had grown cautious, right now she couldn't tell which of him was a clone, and that made her cautious as well. Naruto made two clones appear beside him and he smiled at his determined girlfriend. Hinata suddenly turned and flipped toward Naruto, coming at him with a thrusting palm. Naruto reached up and blocked it, an action he soon came to regret. Hinata's chakra pushed through Naruto's arm, disabling it, and now with just a simple push her palm slammed into his face. Hinata landed at Naruto's side and brought herself up with four quick thrusts into Naruto's clones before turning to her boyfriend. Hinata sent two quick palms to his chest and then sent an upward windmill into his face that sent him soaring back into the air. Hinata smiled and leapt above Naruto as blue lines of chakra traced the palms of her hands. Once in range Hinata swiped her hands across Naruto chest countless times, leaving behind the image of a wall between them and with it in sight Hinata released chakra from her entire body and began to spin.
Hinata: Eight trigrams: Sixty-four palms gaurding rotation!!!!!!

A large sphere appeared around Hinata and slammed into Naruto as the attacks from her palms continued to wreck his body. Once the phere vanished Hinata pulled back her hands and drew the remaining chakra to the center of her hands, before slamming the into Naruto, dragging him down to the ground with her, creating a massive crater around them both. Hinata landed on Naruto and exhaled deeply before she realized she was sitting on him. Hinata quickly jumped from the more than delirious Naruto.
Naruto: Somebody stop that bus!

He shouted in dellusion, before he dropped his head back down to the ground, trying desperately to hold on to his conciousness. Hinata looked down at him and wondered if she had gone too far, but Naruto slowly started to look at her. Naruto sat up slowly, trying to let his head clear, the birds wouldn't stop flying around his head. After finally regaining his own frame of mind he stood staggering to his feet, before swayed like a leaf in the wind and nearly fell to his back before he snapped forward and shouted.
Naruto: Here we go!

With that shout three clones jumped from the ground and flipped to his side before all went running for Hinata.
Naruto: On the count of three!

He shouted as his clones closed in on their target.
Naruto: Three!!!!!

Naruto ran under Hinata and smoothly dodged to the side, giving his second clone the time it needed to attack. A fierce upward punch slammed into Hinata, dragging her into the air.
Naruto: NA!!!!

The second clone charged under her and flipped into a kick that knocked her higher.
Naruto: RU!!!!

The third stood under the girl grasping onto the hand of the clone next to him as he hurled him into a missile kick that connected with Hinata's body.
Naruto: TO!!!!

The clones on the ground placed the seal for the shadow clone jutsu with a smile as they launched their counterparts into the air. All slammed into Hinata with the shout.
Naruto: UZUMAKI!!!!!!

The final Naruto stood on the ground waiting as his clones grabbed both of his hands and launched him into the air above Hinata. Naruto smiled as he materialized two small rasengan into both of his hands and hurled down at Hinata from the skies.
Naruto: RASENGAN BARRAGE!!!!!!

He shouted as he slammed both of the weakened rasengan into Hinata's stomach. As Hinata plummeted back to the ground Naruto's clones and himself all gathered around her to soften her fall. A thundrous crash came down to the ground with the children as Naruto held tightly onto his fallen girlfriend.
Naruto: Hinata-hime.

He called out to the seemingly unconcious girl. Hinata looked up at Naruto with a glare that instinctively made him gain his distance. Hinata slowly staggered to her feet and growled. Her eyes, blood red, her nails sharp, her teeth fangs, Hinata had just reached her limit, she felt the will to win, by any means neccessary. Naruto held his position, waiting for the girl to make the first move, however, Hinata's expression grew into a dark smile and she stood tall, her dark blue chakra lashing around her.
Choji: Hey, isn't it against the rules to do that?
JJ: No, only if she was facing someone who can't do that too, such as you. Right now, Hinata can't change to her heart's content, Naruto just has to deal with it.
Mika: Doesn't she look kind of different?
Shikamaru: Yeah, she's looks.....hot.

He said gaining the stares of his friends, all giving disapproving look.
Shikamaru: What, Hinata's never worn that dark expression before, it looks kinda hot.

He said looking away from them as if giving a compliment. Naruto's clones all stood to their feet, watching the newly transformed girl, not knowing what to expect from her. Not even a second had passed and Naruto felt Hinata's presence at his side, before he could turn Hinata slammed her palm into the boy's back. Naruto skidding across the ground as if he were being pulled by a truck. Hinata smiled widely as Naruto's clones jumped at her. Hinata placed her left hand on her hip and snapped her fingers with her right, causing an instantaenous rotation to surround her body. Naruto's eyes shot wide, Hinata managed a rotation without turning.
Neji: What hell was that?
JJ: Hinata just released chakra from every pore in her body and focused it around herself, then she triggered the chakra into a sphere by snapping her fingers, which in itself released another flow of chakra into the surrounding area. This not only a technique I've never seen , it requires a massive amount of chakra control. The likes of which I have never even seen before.

He said with an all new interest brought forth by the match. JJ's eyes became more focused his smile growing wider with every second. Hinata managed to deflect Naruto's kunai without even so much as an effort, bringing the boy into shock and awe. Soon Hinata grew tired of his shocked face and once again moved on the offensive. Clouds to brown smoke fulled the entire arena with a single footstep from Hinata, blinding anyone who wasn't fortuneate enough to be a Hyuuga, or Naruto. With his byakugan fully activate he managed to turned back in time enough to block Hinata's strike, the force of which blasted away all of the dust surrounding the two. Hinata was still held into the air as Naruto held tightly onto her wrists, stopping the attack from reaching him. Hinata smiled at him and dragged her legs forward slamming them upward into Naruto's chin. Naruto lost his grip and his opprotunity to stop Hinata's onslaught. Hinata quickly turned her body and delivered a scythe kick to Naruto's face with such force that it caused a shudder to run through the entire audience. Naruto lost all ability to stop himself as he skidded across the ground, leaving a long a dusty trail flying into the air behind him. Naruto hit the wall hard, before falling to his knees and coughing, Hinata was not joking right now, she wanted him to go farther, she was pretty much forcing him. Naruto throw up his hands and slammed together a hand sign.
Naruto: Shadow clone justu!

He shouted as four clones appeared into existence at his side. Hinata smiled at her boyfriend as his clones all started doing a cycle of seals. Hinata decided not the wait for Naruto to finish and once again she made her way to him.
Naruto: Number 3, stall her!
Naruto: Right!

He shouted as he stopped doing seals and ran for Hinata. A quickly strike flew at the clone who dodged by flipping over Hinata's head and latching his legs tightly onto her stomach. The clone set his hands on the ground before he spun his lower body and hurled Hinata to the other side of the arena. Hinata quickly flipped to her feet and made after Naruto once again.
Naruto: Two, four, I'm almost done, I can finish on my own, go help three.

With only a nod Naruto clones took off into the arena after Hinata who quickly waved between them and ran for the main Naruto. Naruto's clones all pounced at Hinata and grabbed tightly onto her before they started pushing her back as if they were trying to stop her from taking the ball into the N-zone. Hinata's face was almost directly in fron of Naruto's as he gave her a blank stare, trying to finish his technique.
Naruto: Fire style: volcanic eruption justu!!!!!

Narutohand slammed into the ground and sent forth an explosion of molten magma that completely surrounded himself and everything else below the spectators seats. The heat was almost unbarable, blinding to anyone who saw it. Naruto jumped from the lava as if it had no effect on him and sighed, Hinata would no doubt come out of that unscathed too, he knew, he just needed to test something. And just as he thought, Hinata shouted to the sky.
Hinata: Water style: Aqua crush jutsu!!!

Naruto frowned as a the air in front of his own eyes began to form into mist and then into water, that dropped the to the ground below like a ton of boulders, all the while Hinata stood smiling at Naruto with her right hand on her hip, not even single burn resulted from Naruto's attack. Now Naruto was worried, Hinata wasn't joking around anymore. Hinata ran forward and flipped into the air toward Naruto who jumped at her at the same moment. Hinata punched at Naruto, who blocked it with a single palm, Hinata's eye shot wide and she smiled widely at her boyfriend, he had stopped playing too.
Hinata: Finally.

She said staring into his red eyes as both of the pushed each other away before they hit the ground. Both stood still, enjoying their distance and the rest that came with it for the moment.
Naruto: You're not going to make the first move are you?

Hinata smiled at Naruto and he sighed at her.
Naruto: Then I guess I'll have to came for you.

Naruto's feet dragged him across the ground at an alarming speed, but the second he reached Hinata she was holding a long blue rod to his throat.
Hinata: So like a boy to be impateint.

Naruto turned into a spin and sidestepped Hinata's newly created rod, making a move for her side, but suddenly something long slammed into his side. Naruto moved back and frowned at the girl, who was now holding another rod in her free hand.
Naruto: Deceptive.
Hinata: I like to call it steathy.

Naruto flipped back and ran toward Hinata, who swung the rod at him again, this time Naruto dodged by jumping over her head, but Hinata simply leaned forward kicking her leg back at air. However, when Hinata's leg kicked up another rod that shot for Naruto's face, leaving him little more than enough time to dodge sideway before he landed behind her.
Naruto: What the?
JJ: Is that weapon creation like what Naruto does?
Yubiki: Very perceptive.
JJ: Ah!!!
Mika: Cor blimy!!!

He shouted as he and Mika jumped away from the sudden appearance of Yubiki at their side.
Yubiki: Naruto can create blades and even blunt objects with his own chakra and they have alot of power, however they have a limit. Hinata's chakra control gives her the ability to make as many weapons as she want. That means that Naruto could try to get close to her, but it probably would just get him knocked out.
Shikamaru: Did you teach her that?
Yubiki: Maybe, HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
Choji: She's so twisted.
JJ: Training one student to fight the other, that is preety messed up.
Yubiki: I like to think of it as giving her a fighting chance. Right now Hinata and Naruto are about even, but the difference is that Naruto doesn't know what she's capable of.

She said with a smile. Naruto ducked under another swing from Hinata's rod and kicked back into her stomach sending her sliding back slightly. Hinata smiled and created another rod above her head, with a fluid flip she kicked the rod down at Naruto, who dodged by sidestepping, however Hinata dropped from above him, standing on another rod that slammed into the ground slightly in front of Naruto, who dodged at the last minute. Hinata smiled and did a sideways spin before she kicked a rod that slammed into Naruto's chest. Naruto flipped back and slammed his claws into the ground. Naruto once again went in to close the distance and Hinata grabbed one of the rods from the air and stabbed it at Naruto, who flipped over it and landed a downward kick onto Hinata's shoulder. Forced into a spin, Hinata turned and grabbed another rod before she thrusted it at Naruto, who dodged by ducking under it and placed his hand on Hinata's stomach.
Naruto: Gale shot jutsu!!!!

He shouted as a focused gust shot from his hand and propelled Hinata back. Hinata skided across the ground and stopped herself by slamming one of her rods into the ground. Hinata stood tall and held out her hand as the rods around her returned to water and shot to her hand. A single hand motion merged the rods together. When Hinata moved her hand to the side and the rods formed into something that defied Hinata's entire personality, a scythe. However, Hinata's dark expression seemed to match her weapon. Naruto dropped his hands to the side and formed his two swords, with a sigh he slammed them both into each other and formed a single long sword. It had been a long time since Naruto had used his swords as one, but right now he felt like he needed it. A single flash lit up the area and the two lunged themselves at one another. Both slammed their weapons into each others' and brought themselves to a stalemate.
Naruto: Have I ever told you how hot you look making that evil face?
Hinata: No, but I like the compliment.

She said as she pushed him back and swung her scythe at him. Naruto smoothly dodged by flipping back over it. With a smile Naruto returned to his stance and waited for Hinata's next move. Hnata stood still and waited for Naruto, her stance had no holes, not even a small crack in it, however Naruto chose to attack anyway. Naruto swung his blade down at Hinata, but a loud clash came that knocked his blade back, Hinata had deflected his attack and returned to her stance in 0.1 seconds. Hinata smiled at Naruto who smiled back and continued to try the same attack, only for it to be deflected numerous other times. After finally confirming what he suspected Naruto slammed his blade into the ground and dragged it up, causing a five pronged wave to fly at Hinata, who quickly realised that she couldn't deflect the attack. Choosing the only course of action clear to her, Hinata jumped back into the air, opening a window for Naruto's attack. Naruto pulled back his sword and quickly waved it at Hinata.
Naruto: Blazing wind!!!!

He shouted as large wave of burning wind flew toward Hinata. Naruto saw it as the final blow, but Hinata saw it another way. Quickly disposng of her scythe she threw togother a hand sign and created a clone by her side.
Hinata: Echo pulse!

She souted mimicking Naruto's own technique and hurled herself into the air. Naruto looked up at her as she dropped down at him with her scythe now returned to her grasp. She roared as she slashed downward at him. Naruto narrowly dodged the attack as water splashed in front of his face. Naruto was blinded by the water and Hinata smiled behind she quickly ripped her scythe from the ground ground and swung it at Naruto, who quickly lifted his sword to deflect the scythe. The resulting collision sent Naruto spinning bacwards.
Naruto: Damn, she's good.

He said as he once again saw Hinata coming for him, each time she attack Naruto deflected it and Hinata's attacks calmed the flames on his blade.
Naruto: Dammit, if only I could get some distance.

Naruto stopped himself and readied for Hinata's next attack, once their hits collided Naruto placed his foot on Hinata's stomach and kicked her back. Using the moment he had, Naruto started to invoke the power of his blade, however Hinata waved her scythe at him as she fell bac and sent a wave of focused watr flying at him, Naruto ha no time to dodge, instead he was sent flying back by the hit. Hinata landed to her feet and focused the power in her own scythe. Dark blue began to focus around Hinata's entire body, and then into her blade. Hinata placed her left hand onto the bottom of her scythe and her right directly under the blade, before she leaned downward.
Hinata: Eight trigrams: One hundred twenty eight palms!!!!!!!

She shouted as she rushed for Naruto, who prepared for an impact that never came. Hinata slashed across the wide area around Naruto epeatedly, blurring around him with every single slash. Once she completed her attack Naruto stared at her from the center of the arena and she smiled as she finished the name of her attack.
Hinata: Entrapment.

Those words triggered something the slashed she made suddenly became visible all around him. One hundred and twenty-eight lines of focused and sharp charka surrounded Naruto. Hinata turned away from him as the lines suddenly started shooting at him. At first their was only one at a time, Naruto easily dodged it, then there was two, then four, then eight, each time doubling the number before it. Naruto barely managed to move from the attack and by thirty-two, they had hit him. Wounded, Naruto waited, thinking of the next number. Hinata opened and closed her hands.
Hinata: The final sixty-four!

Naruto looked up as the lines all closed in on him and then tried to jump through the gap between them, but suddenly they started to spin. Naruto created another echo pulse and sent himself back to the ground. He activated his byakugan and tried to look under, but somehow Hinata attack had gone under ground too. Naruto as had no way out, he was going to lose. At one moment the attack lined up and crushed him. Naruto screamed to the sky and once it finally ended, or more accurately when Hinata stopped, Naruto fell to his knees covered in blood. Then he vanished in a poof of smoke. Hinata turned away as a flash wall fell from the far end of the arena and Naruto revealed himself.
Shikamaru: Shadow clone replacement jutsu huh? Pretty nice.

He said as Naruto fell to the ground, clearly showing that he was wounded. He didn't replaced himself before the attack, but in the middle of it. He had still taken a lot of damage. Naruto held his arm, breathing heavily as he walked forward.
Hinata: You escaped, I wasn't expecting that, but I have other ways to take you down.

She said as she smoothly placed together seals that suddenly snapped Naruto into a trance.
Naruto: Genjutsu?

He said as the world around him began to blur, after realizing the truth of Hinata technique the replacement personas in his mind began to take over. However, suddenly they bacame overtaken as well. The clouds above fell down on Naruto, forming into jagged blades that fell roughly through Naruto's body. Naruto stared into the sky, leaned back slightly as his eyes went blank. A five layer genjutsu, Hinata had truly learned much from her teacher. Naruto reached up, holding tightly onto the sword in his chest, trying his best to remember that it was only a genjutsu, but it felt so real.
Naruto: Dammit!

He screamed out into his mind, trying to call upon his other personas, but they only looked at him with dazed eyes.
Naruto: Why can't I recover?

He thought to himself, suddenly he remembered something, he needed to act quick, before he lost conciousness, and at that the match.
Naruto: Guys....

He said weakly, calling out to the other hims, they didn't repond.
Naruto: We can't lose, not even to Hinata-hime. We have to.....focus our.....chakra. Please, focus with me.

He said as he began to spill chakra, trying to force Hinata's genjutsu from his mind, however alone this proved to be an extremely difficult task. Naruto's eyes bgan to close, slowly he lost conciousness, until suddenly his other selves began to leak chakra as well.
Naruto: I won't lose here, believe it!

He second clone shouted out.
Naruto: Same here dattebayo!!!

His third persona shouted as he grabbed the sword with chakra dripping from his hands. In reality, Naruto's hand slowly grasped onto his sword as he leaned back to his feet!
Hinata: He broke it!?
Yubiki: Impressive Naruto. He managed to break a reinforced genjutsu without outside help.
JJ: Now all he has to do is finish it.

Naruto stood to his feet and clutched his sword tightly before swirling fire started to engulf it.
Naruto: Blazing whirlwind!!!!!!!!!!!!

He shouted as he spin with his sword aimed out, sending a tornado of fire around himself and right into Hinata, blasting her far back into the wall of ther arena. The sound of her colliding with the wall echoed through out the stadium followed by her falling limply to the ground.
Hinata: [No, I don't want to lose. Not even to you Naruto-kun.]

Naruto slowly walked over to Hinata as she laid still thinking that it was over, however, suddenly rain began to fall around them, each drop echoed something.


I won't lose I have to prove.That I'm worth something. I'm not a dead last, I deserve to be the head.

I can be a leader. I am strong. I'll prove it to everyone. I'll prove it to father. I'll prove it to Neji.

I'll show Naruto-kun that I'm worthy to be his bride.

I am not weak!


[Music que: Bring me to life by- Evanesence.]
Suddenly the rain began to form something on the ground, all merged to become a water clone of Hinata. Naruto stared on as the clones all began to walk to the downed girl, who slowly stood up as her canines grew longer. She smiled at Naruto and extended her hand as the clone reached out to it and Each one that walked over to her formed a cloak of chakra around her body.until finally, there was one tail hanging behind her. She had forced herself to go futher than she should've been able to. Once the cloak finally settled Hinata sent a sweet smile to Naruto and vanished from sight. Her reappearance came in the form of her sending a vicious plam downward into Naruto's face, sending him sliding across the ground. Naruto had no time to think as Hinata quickly pumped her chakra into his chest as he slid, sending him flying into the back wall. Naruto tried to escape, but Hinata took a sharp intake of air and roared an echo at Naruto that almost pushed him through the very walll behind him. Barely able to form seals Naruto escaped the attack by using a replacement jutsu, smoothly positioning himself behind Hinata. Naruto grabbed onto her arm and spun her to him. before he delivered a thrusting palm into her stomach, barely even moving her.
Naruto: Dammit!

Shouted Naruto as he followed his previous attack with a spin kick to Hinata's chest, this tyime she was sent back, however, Hinata just smiled and vanished once again from sight. When she reappeared she had her hand placed on Naruto's chest, slowly pushing chakra through his body.
Hinata: It burns doesn't it?

She said pushing her chakra into his body once again, gaining another grunt of pain from the young boy. Hinata slowly turned Naruto to her with her hand still firmly placed on his chest.
Hinata: This is amazing, I've never felt so alive!

She said pushing Naruto all the way back into the stadium wall once again, this time giving him no time to recover. The sound of smashing rock and Naruto's screams echoed throughout the entire arena as Hinata repeatedly slammed her arm's chakra into Naruto, slowly being driven mad by her own power. Naruto leaned away from Hinata's last attack and flipped back onto the wall, his feet sticking to it as he ran along it, away from Hinata's onslaught. A smile crept onto Hinata's face as her chakra cloak extended and she slashed widely across the wall, each time it touched the wall behind Naruto large shards of ice appeared behind him, until finally Hinata's arm caught him, roughly dragging him through the ice she had just created before throwing him roughly into the wall recreating JJ's crystalline fissure. Naruto rolled o his knees and tried to stand, but something was holding his leg down. Shock wrapped Naruto entire face when he looked back to see that Hinata had frozen his leg to the ground. A eerie smile crossed Hinata's face as she continously shot icy cold chakra onto Naruto, sealing each of his body parts in the position they were hit in, the very last being his face. Hinata sighed at the the Naruto sculpture she had just made and turned her back on Naruto, before she felt the rising of a fiery chakra behind her. Naruto's eyes locked onto her and gazed across the glassy ice wall Hinata had made before he ripped through it with his own chakra cloak draped over his body.
Naruto: I can't believe you pushed me this far.

He said walking forward through the fallen ice. Hinata quickly turned back to him and said.
Hinata: I told you not to hold back.
Naruto: Yeah, that you did, but I plan to end this in the next move.
Hinata: Think you can?
Naruto: Of course.
Hinata: Then feel free to try.

With Hinata's words her chakra lashed out at barely missing the boy as he quickly made his way for her, dodging each of her attacks. Once e finally gained ground on her Naruto threw a punch for her, but Hinata quickly threw up her Eight trigarms guard, a move Naruto was waiting for. Naruto pulled his hand back and charged a rasengan into his palm, with once he felt it sufficient he slammed it into Hinata's sheild, sending chakra lashing out to both of them with the power of their attacks clashing. The attacks eventually cancelled out each other, giving Naruto his chance. Two of Naruto's clones appearance beside him and grabbed firmly onto Hinata's arms.
Naruto: Sorry about this, but this is going to hurt.

He said as he quickly formed a seal and roughly flipped up Hinata's tanktop, exposing her bare stomach to his attack.
Naruto: Five-pronge seal!

He shouted as he slammed his fingers into Hinata's stomach, completely canceling out her chakra. Hinata's chakra distorted around her body and finally she returned to her normal state before she fell down onto Naruto's shoulder.
Naruto: Are you calm again?
Hinata: What happened to me?

She asked weakly looking up to Naruto. Sarutobi smiled at Naruto as he thought to himself.
Sarutobi: [Naruto, you held back on purpose. You could've turned it around at any point, but you wanted to win without hurting her, you even won without ever once landing a blow onto her face. A show of restraint worthy of a chunin.]

Naruto placed his hand on the back of Hinata's and head smiled.
Naruto: You got a little ahead of yourself. But I'm surprised, who knew you had so much power hidden inside that small frame of yours. I think that there aren't many people here who could have overcome you. Everyone saw, they all know how hard you've been working, how strong you can be. Hinata, You're not a failure, I know that, and now so does everyone else. You don't have to push yourself like that anymore.

Hinata smiled at Naruto and rested her head on his shoulder before falling into dreamland. Naki smiled at them and lifted his hand into the air.
Naki: The winner of the first round is Naruto Uzumaki.

Cheers flew from the crowd as the boy slowly cradled his girlfriend and jumped up the waiting room.
Yubiki: Nice match.
Naruto: What happened to her, why did she go all.....you know.
Yubiki: Much like humans, female fox demons mature faster than males do. However, that somewhat makes our powers hard to control at first. In her state Hinata might have found herself going even futher, and then she would've lost herself. You handled it the best way Naruto, impressive.
Naruto: I know you hate that jutsu mom.
Yubiki: I wouldn't have taught it to you if I didn't want you to use it. You might need to remove it for her JJ.
JJ: All right, but who's next down there?

He asked looking down to the empty arena before he roughly slammed his fingers into Hinata's stomach, removing Naruto's jutsu from her and gaining a sharp yelp from the girl on her rough awakening.
Hinata: Ow.
JJ: You'll recieve my bill in the morning.

He said with a smile at the newly awakened girl.
Naki: Now that the first round is over, I need Raizen Aname and Sho Suno to report to the arena.
Sakura: But Raizen's not here.

She said in a low voice, mostly to herself. Sho made his way down to the first floor and stared at the empty arena.
Sho: You said that kid arrived early right, where is he?

Slowly a member of Anbu wearing a white fox mask stepped out from the spectator's seats and jumped down into the arena. One of the most confusing things about this ANBU member was that his mask had no eyes holes.
Ino: What is an ANBU doing down there?
Kiba: Huh?

He said as a scent flew to him, a smile crossed Kiba's face and he growled.
Kiba: That's what he's been hiding, ay?

Yura looked over to Kiba and then down to the newly arrived person in the arena.
Yura: [That's one hell of a drastic change in only a month.]

The ANBU member had a large executioner blade drapped across his back and a long sword placed sideways across his lower back.
Naki: Took you long enough.
????: Well I couldn't let them see me, or else some of my friends and competition would know what I can do.

Raizen said as he pulled the mask from his face. Raizen's hair was longer, long enough to fell down to his shoulders, spiky and black, his body, more toned and defined. Raizen's smile almost caused of the girls watching to swoon at his features. Raizen had never been one to try and stand out, but right now he wanted to show-off everything he had, Sho was in some serious trouble.
Sho: About time, I look forward to fighting you. After all, I can't afford to lose.
Raizen: Neither can I.

He said with another small smile, his attitude had obviously changed too.
Naki: If you're ready, you may begin.

Raki assessed the situation and quickly made a move.
Sho: I know you're fast, I bet that sword on your back throws down your speed. I have the advantage.

Raizen's eyes shot wide and he quickly ducked under Sho's attack.

[Flashback]
Zabuza: You're fast, but that's not enough. I need you to get stronger.
Raizen: So you want me to become strong like you?
Zabuza: Don't ahead of yourself, I want you to be able to fight. You're fast, but if your hits don't hurt it doesn't mean squat. Building your strenth will be the first thing we work on.

[Flashforward]
Raizen drew himself back up and slammed his fist into Sho's stomach, knocking him back slightly. Before the hit could land however a strange blue glow came form the boy, partially stopping Raizen's attack. Sho landed to his feet and smiled back at Raizen.
Sho: That almost hit, but my jutsu allows me to sheild myself from a certain amount of damage.
Raizen: [A chakra sheild.]
Sho: Now I'll show you what my chakra can do!

He shouted as he formed a visible sheild from his own chakra and extended it to completely cover his body.
Sho: Spiked sheild jutsu!

He shouted out as his sheild grew large spikes and he charged for Raizen. Raizen didn't move, he just placed the mask over his face once again.
Raizen: Release: 10%.

When Sho's sheild finally reached Raizen he simply pulled back his hand and slammed it through the sheild and into the boy's chest at once. Sho coughed up blood and once again he was sent rolling back along the ground. Sho looked at Raizen and frowned before shock gripped his face. Raizen's eyes had completely changed.
Ino: Did he?
Kiba: He's snapped again, but why so soon?
Sakura: Raizen, he'll kill that kid.

She said standing from her seat ready to stop the match, however Raizen looked straight at her with a smile.
Raizen: Man you guys are jumpy.

Those words shocked his friends to no end. He was in control of his own beresker strength.

[Flashback]
Raizen: Gah!

He said as he sharply awoke from his forced slumber. He reached up to feel the large lump placed on his head, before he looked over to his teacher.
Zabuza: I have a mind to kick you out of here.

He said with a frown.
Haku: He wouldn't really do it.

Haku said down-playing Zabuza's words, making him send her a sideways frown. Zabuza stood to his feet and walked over to Raizen.
Zabuza: Did I or did I not tell you to tell me everything you can do, and I wasn't only talking about your sharingan.
Raizen: What did I?
Haku: You kind of went all "HULK SMASH!!!" on us for a second there.
Raizen: Oh, crap....I'm sorry, I didn't mean to do that I-
Zabuza: I want you to do that again.
Raizen: And I'll never- say wha?
Zabuza: Whatever you just did is the key to maing you stronger. Being a beresker is a big step to unlocking your full potential. Humans usually only have access to a certain amount of their body's true strength. However that Berserker mindstate of yours is a massive shortcut. If you can manage to harness that power, you'll become significantly stronger. So I want you to snap again.

He said with a smile.

[Flashforward]
Raizen: I may only be able to unlock it in small doses, but I still have a lot of strength just by doing this. Right now your sheild means nothing to me.

He said as he clentched his fist and raised it to the tip of his executioner blade's hilt.
Raizen: And there's something else I want you to understand. Never doubt my speed, even with this massive sword. There is no one-

He said bursting to Sho's side.
Raizen: In this village-

He said bursting to the far wall.
Raizen: In any village-

He said bursting to the middle of the feild.
Raizen: In this world or this universe-

He said bursting to the directly in front of Sho.
Raizen: Faster than ME!!!!

With that he pulled back and slammed his fists repeatedly into Sho's chest, each time breaking through the sheild as he tried desperately to reactivate it. Raizen finished his attack with a short uppercut and then quickly ripped his sword from his back, before he ripped through the wind with a slash that slammed into Sho's body. Many expected Sho to split in two, however he just slammed into the ground with a sickening thud.
Raizen: Heh, how'd you like that?

He said as he effortly lifted the massive sword and placed it on his shoulder as if it were just a simple stick. Sho sat up trying to catch his breath as he felt his breath shortening.

[Flashback]
Zabuza: Only a month isn't enough, you still need a lot more training, but when the exams are over, come back, and I'll continue my lesson.
Raizen: Alright.

He said with a bow. Before he could turn Zabuza handed him something.
Raizen: What is this.
Zabuza: It's my old blade, it's the one before I hold this one.

He said pointing to the sword on his back.
Zabuza: However, it's not sharp anymore, if you want I can always have it resharpened.
Raizen: No, it may be dull, but I can feel how strong this blade is. Besides, quick kills were never really my style. If yours is the sword that cleave the mountain in two.

He said taking a swung of his new sword.
Raizen: Then mine is the hammer that crushs it from it's very base!

Raizen fixed up a holster and place the blade firmly on his back before he walked down the road. For a moment he halted and turned to something. Raizen smiled and balled his fist before slamming it into a large boulder, causing a large chunk of it to break into pieces.
Raizen: Without even using my berserker strength.

He said turning back to the road, never once did he look back to see the smile on Zabuza's face.

[Flashforward]
Raizen: Sorry, but I'm don't intend to kill you. I'm just gonna rough you up a little. You still okay to fight, because I'm not going to hold back.
Sho: Heh, I was able to block a little of that before it landed, so I'll be fine. You've changed since the last round, and I want to see everything you've got, but one thing is clear to me.
Raizen: Huh?
Sho: I can't beat you, but that doesn't mean I'm gonna go down without a fight.
Raizen: Well put.

He said placing his hands together as both boys started t place together handsigns. Raizen finished first and Sho smiled as his prized sheild changed into the form of a giant spear. Boys boys shouted out the name of their desired jutsu in unison.
Raizen/Sho: Water style: Water fall jutsu!/Earth Style: Gaia spear jutsu!

Both boys launched their attacks at the same time. Raizen's waterfall launched forth only to be completely repeled by Sho's attack, water was spread everywhere. Raizen dodged the boy's spear by smoothly spinning to the side at the last minute.
Sho: Chakra link!

He shouted out creating a link to his own spear. Sho dragged his hand back, causing his spear to fly back at Raizen who quickly ducked under it, barely managing to dodge it a second time and not willing to wait for a third. Raizen lifted his sword from his back and and then pulled his closed shuriken from his back into his second hand. With both of his weapons drawn he placed up a guard against the boy's spear, before deflecting it into a different direction before he snapped open his shuriken and flung it at Sho who instantly formed his sheild and blocked the shuriken before it could land on him, then he smoothjly side-stepped as Raizen appeared at his side and slashed at him. Sho snapped his fingers and the spear split into many different directions and flew everywhere across the arena. Much like Sho had expected, Raizen had completely dodged them all better the pike could land on him. However it did hit something, most didn't notice, but JJ's eyes eyes shot to it and he never once looked away from it. Raizen smiled at his opponent.
Raizen: It's time I ended this.

He said as he placed two fingers in front of his face and two other fingers above his head.
Raizen: Secret technique: Hidden mist jutsu!

He said summoning mist from the water he had just scattered around the feild, Sho had played into his hands. Raizen smiled as the mist completely covered the feild around the and gave him all the room he needed. Razien called back his shuriken and held it down in front of him as he pulled the exucutioner blade to his front along with it, holding them close together he semmoned the water to form around his blade before he sent a strong electrical current trough them both.
Raizen: Hydro electric blade!!

He shouted as he effortlessy found the boy in the dense mist. The sound of steel hitting flesh could be heard everywhere, until finally Raizen sent un upward slash into Sho that sent him flying into the air.
Raizen: Now charge!

He shouted as he hurled his shuriken into the air in front of Sho and opened his left palm.
Raizen: Instantaenous transport jutsu!!

That shout sent him into the air with Sho as he clutched onto his shuriken, with a swift turn he slash both of his blade across Sho's chest, both weapons being charged with lightning. He slashes came in the form of a cross and lightning followed each slash like a guided missile.
Raizen: Lightning grand cross!!!!

He said calling out the name of his new technique. Before the two could fall Raizen threw his shuriken around Sho and it drew the lightning to it before Raizen once again called himself to the shuriken. Draining the lightning from the blade Raizen tossed it and his exuctioner blade to the side before he charged down to Sho. Both fists charged with eletricity he barreled after the boy before slamming his left first into his stomach sending him crashing into the ground. Just then Raizen came crashing down onto him with his right fist sending a large exhaust of lightning shooting from his fist into the sky.
Raizen: Oni-Raizen!!!

He shouted before standing to his feet and looking down at the boy. Without casting his eyes up once, he grabbed both his shuriken and gullitine sword with both hands before slammed them into his holster and placing the mask back onto his face. With them all returned to him he turned back to the waiting room and crossed his arms.
Naki: The winner is Raizen Aname!

He said after checking the unconcious boy on the ground. Raizen turned back and removed his mask, revealing that his eyes were back to normal again. A smile crossed his face and he turned up to Sakura before in a flash he was sitting right next to her.
Raizen: Hey.

Was all he said sitting on the person's lap as she forwned and pushed at the boy. Raizen turned back to the girl with a dreamy expression before asking.
Raizen: Mind if I have this seat?
Heria: Not at all.

She said with a blush before moving quickly from the seat. Raizen sat down and turned to Sakura as the arena was prepared for the next fight.
Raizen: So where's Sasuke?
Sakura: Y-You disappear for so long, come back all cool and stuff and then act like nothing happened?
Raizen: Yeah.

He said with a straight face.
Raizen: You liked what you saw, huh?

Sakura blushed and turned away from the boy.
Sakura: D-Don't be stupid.
Ino: What up with the mask, there's no eye holes.
Raizen: Oh this is for my berserker state. I can unleash it if I use this. It's kind of like a catalyst, if I cover my eyes for a short while I can focus enough to release my true strength a little bit.

He said holding the mask in his hands. With a single turn he glance over to Kiba, who sent him a thumbs up, which he returned in favor.
Raizen: Excuse me.

He said to the girls before he stood to his feet and walked away, suddenly the girl he had seen before was looking at him with a blush. Raizen smiled softly at her and said.
Raizen: Please excuse my rudeness earlier, I hope you can forgive me.
Heria: N-No problem.
Raizen: Thank you and I apologize again.

He said before he walked away, leaving the girl to swoon on her own. Sakura frowned as Ino blushed with narrow eyes.
Ino: I don't know what happened to him while he was training, but I think his stock just shot up ten fold. You're gonna have a hard time Sakura.
Sakura: Like I care what girls think about him.

She said with a huff, quickly turning away from her friend. Raizen walked over to Kiba and sat down next to Yura before saying politely.
Raizen: Nice to meet you, my name is Raizen, Kiba's told me a lot about you.
Yura: Likewise.

She replied with a smile while scanning the boy's chakra.
Yura: [His chakra has become unpredictable. He'll definitely be a problem later.]
Kiba: Hey, nice show out there.
Raizen: Thanks, let's just say that I had a lot of hard times, but I like the results.

He said making a muscle Yura cast her eyes down to the arena and noticed the unrest running through the audience.
Yura: What's going on down there?
Raizen: Seems like their trying to figure out what to do about Sasuke's match, since he's still not here, they said they would continue on so I guess that makes JJ's match next. I'm kinda curious to see what he'll do here, will he still hold back or go all out.
Kiba: I don't think he would.

Claire walked over to to Sakura's seat and stared down at her student.
Claire: Hey, do you know where Sasuke is?
Sakura: No.
Claire: Well he better be glad that the hokage decided to postpone his match or else he'd never become a chunin.
Ino: But, now it's JJ-kun's match I kind of want to see him crush the big mouth down there.

She said pointing to Jinta, who was eagerly waiting in the center of the stage. JJ walked in front of him and waited for Naki's word. His jacket removed as if he expected to damage it during the fight.
Naki: Are you ready JJ?
Jinta: He'd better be, or else he's gonna get crushed.

JJ sighed and looked back to the thing that had caught his eye before the match started.
Naki: You may begin.

Jinta smiled and charged for JJ who slowly turned back to him before staring emptily at the boy. Jinata pulled back his hand readied to punch JJ before he said suddenly.
JJ: Hold on a sec'.

Jinta sharply stopped and looked at JJ with confusion in his eyes. JJ rubbed the back of his head and smiled at Jinta before saying.
JJ: Sorry about this, but there's something I need to take care of real quick.
Jinta: Wha?

He asked as JJ turned from him and started walking to a spot in the arena before bending down.
Jinta: You think I'm going to let you just walk away after you treated me like crap.

JJ formed a few handsigns and gained the attention of both Jinta and Naki.
Naki: A bird?
JJ: Yeah it got hurt by that spine attack that Sho used in the last match, do you mind if I heal him before I fight?
Naki: It's okay, just-
Jinta: No, I've been waiting a long time for this, an you're not going to ingore me for some stupid bird.
JJ: I'll fight you in a minute.
Jinta: You, you said the match started right?
Naki: Yes, but-
Jinta: Then I'm going to attack you.
JJ: Feel free.

Jinta growled at JJ's arrogance and pulled a kunai.
Jinta: If you're so worried about that bird, then let me just put it out of it's misery.

JJ snapped his head back as the boy lundged for the injured bird. JJ quickly moved his foot over to the boy's arm and pushed it to the side, knocking his attack off course. Jinta growled again and slahed for JJ's neck, making the boy lean back in an attempt to dodge without moving away from the injured bird. With a smirk Jinta stabbed his kunai into JJ's head, breaking his own weapon.
JJ: Things like that don't work on me.

He said with a small as he lifted the bird and turned away from Jinta.
Jinta: Where do you think you're going!?

He shouted as he cycled through a round of handsigns.
Jinta: Water senbon jutsu!!!

He shouted as pikes of water shot at JJ, slamming into his back, none penetrated his body, but they did knock him forward. JJ grunted as the attack slammed into him and rolled to the ground before he returned his attention to the bird.
JJ: I'll get you out of this.

Jinta made his way to the tree and rounded it, only to find a flash bomb waiting for him and JJ nowhere in sight.
Ino: Why is he doing that for a little bird.
Claire: Would you rather he let it die?
Ino: I didn't mean that, but he's going to get hurt doing that.
Claire: That's how he is, until it's safe, he won't fight.
Sakura: But he's putting his own life in danger.
Claire: If you could understand a mouse's plea for life, would you still be able to crush it?
Sakura: But he can't-
Claire: That's where you're wrong, I'm sure there's been moments when you've seen him talk to Akamaru right, JJ can understand the words of animals, it's a power that the dragons hold.

Suddenly understanding washed over the girls. Naruto watched on, the boy wanted blood, if he pushed JJ too far there would be hell to pay.
JJ: Alright.

He said as the birds wound vanished. He lifted the bird into the air and watched as if flew away.
JJ: Okay Jinta, now we can-

JJ stopped once his eyes caught sight of a kunai whizzing through the air.and the sound of something being cut. JJ's eyes went wide as he watched the bird fall back to the ground. This time healing it wouldn't help.
Jinta: No more distractions now. Right JJ?

JJ stared in disbelief letting a wind of shock rush over his friends, especially Claire.
JJ: He....he said thank you.
Jinta: Heh, you sayin' you can understand animals or something?
JJ: Yeah.

Jinta stared for a moment then shook it off.
JJ: Why? He was going to live, he had a family waiting for him, why did you kill him.
Jinta: Because you made him a target. Besides, the world is run by the strong, if you're not strong enough to adapt, you get left behind. The weak are meant to be prey upon by the strong.

Claire stepped back and looked away as JJ growled, showing his fangs to the world, before hiding them again quickly.
Claire: That boy is going to die, and I have no sympathy for him.

She said slightly scaring the two girls in front of her.
Jinta: Go ahead and growl, am I supposed to be scared of a lazy guy who was going to quit last round?
JJ: Hehehehe.

He chuckled as he turned to Claire, who only nodded to him.
JJ: You want to know why I was going to quit? It's because these exams are a joke to me. You're a joke to me, and excluding my friends everyone who entered was a joke to me.

Everyone who was considered a friend of JJ who completely shocked, never before had they seen him so thoroughly pissed. However, his comment seem to only upset others.
Jinta: What did you say?
JJ: Wanna know why? Simple because I had a solid promise from the Hokage, as long as my name was signed onto the entrace form I'll be a chunin, whether I participate or not. The only reason I even went through the forest of death is because my teammates didn't have the same deal.
Jinta: What!?
Sakura: How fair is that?
Claire: Pretty fair considering.
Ino: Huh?
Choji: That's not right, why only him?
Mika: Listen.

Jinta growled at JJ and shouted.
Jinta: Why, what makes you so special!?
JJ: Simple, I was a jounin in my last village.

He said sending a wave of shock through the entire stadium.
JJ: In my village I was on the same team as my current sensei, we were equal. I became a jounin when I was twelve. And I came to this village when I was thirteen, too young to qualify as a jounin, so I was bumped back down. 189 D-rank missions, 156 C-rank missions, 125 B-rank missions, 98 A-rank missions, 56 S-rank missions, and 10 SS-rank missions, all successful. Two failed missions on my record. Truthfully if I were allowed my rank here, I would be in ANBU. You actually expect me to care about some childish assed test?

He said slowly losing himself. His eyes grew slits, slowly his jaw extended and his teeth became fangs. He was angrily fighting from losing his human form.
JJ: Humans, always assume they are dominant. You dare stand in front of me, the great king of dragons and speak of strong and weak. YOU AREN'T STRONG, YOU'RE A WORM WITH MORE POWER THAN MOST.

His words slowly began to be roars. JJ slowly breathed out and frowned.
JJ: Thou hath forced my hand, I no longer wish to continue this farce. Thou hath invoked the wrath of an endless. CLAIRE-SENSEI!!!!!

He called to his teacher who stepped forth and held out her thumb, before she slowly dragged it across her neck.
JJ: I thank thee. Mine hands have been aching to let off some steam. Thou ought learn the foley of overestimating thineself.
Ino: Why is he talking like that?
Claire: Fou lu's personality is seeping through.
JJ: I wished to hold back against thee, however, I now wish to embarrass you. And show thee humanity's true place in the food chain.

He said as he stepped on his shadow and it lashed out onto Jinta's neck before forming a black completely black clone of JJ.
JJ: Kage.

The shadow removed itself from Jinta and walked over to JJ.
Kage: Kid, you've made a mistake by pissing off my master.
JJ: Eat it.

He said as he tossed his sword into the air. Kage grabbed it with a sick smile and jammed it down it's own throat. After a short moment the shadow's head split in two and formed twin heads.
Kage: What a handsome devil.
Kage: You too.

They said smiled at each other before forming into the guise of a two headed dragon. JJ held out his arms and the two headed dragon split into two serpents before biting tightly onto JJ's fists and digging their tails into his arms. JJ's muscles grew to a frightening size an Naruto stared in shock, that form was completely different from the last time he saw it. The black aura swirled around JJ's arms making him hover slightly in the air.
JJ: Black dragon king: The form that needs no transformation!!

He shouted as he looked Jinta who slowly back away from the boy.
JJ: What's wrong? You were so eager to fight me.

JJ launched himself forward before slamming his palm nto the boy's chest, sending a dragon's head forth through his body, and the stadium wall. Each hit passed right through the boy however, from the look on his face everyone knew, though it caused no pyhsical damage, he felt like hell had just through his body. JJ frowned and sent a vicious backhand into the boy's cheek making him roll like he was falling down a steep hill.
JJ: Pathetic, are you going to fight back? You were talking about how strong you were.

JJ launched his dragon's fangs over to Jinta and dragged him back to him before fiercely launching his elbow into the boy's chest, knocking him back into the air. A swift draw back of his left fist and a quick thrust sent his dragon flying once again through the boy's body. No time was given for the boy to recover. Naruto was completely shocked, why was JJ so much stronger than he was against Orochimaru, and he still seemed to be holding so much back, as if he set a limiter so the boy didn't die. JJ's attack were scary, they ripped through the entire stadium without doing physical damage to Jinta. JJ leapt over the boy's body and placed both of his wrist together.
JJ: Hadoken!!!

He shouted as he launched boy of his dragon down into the boy's body at once, sending him crashing into the ground, creating a crater and a massive eruption of black chakra flying into the air around JJ before he landed to the ground in front of the boy. JJ held out his hand and the dragon around it formed into a spring.
JJ: Dragon jet.

The spring launched into the boy's body and sent JJ flying into the air. Jinta screamed out in pain and JJ's dragon fang latched onto him before throwing him into the air above JJ. With a roar, JJ slammed both hands into the boy's back sending his dragons through him.
JJ: Dragon rain!!!

He shouted out as the dragons plit into many different ways and fell to the ground by the hundreds. As they went through inta's body on the way down he screamed to the heavens once again. Once reaching the ground JJ's many dragon slammed their fangs into the ground and latched tightly onto the earth. JJ was held in the idled of the storm and with a powerful turn, the dragonheads formed into a tornado, fiercely ripping the the entire arena.
JJ: Dragon rage!!!

He shouted as Jinta screamed out at the bottom of the storm. As the storm claimed JJ called back his dragons and dropped his form in mid-air. Kage fored together and coughed up JJ's sword before landing to the ground as it's master's perfect shadow. JJ frowned at the unconcious, possibly dead for all he cared, boy.
JJ: You couldn't even fight back. If the strong are meant to prey upon the weak, then I was meant to prey upon you.

Naki walked over to Jinta, not to see if he was concious, that was pretty much obvious, but h wanted to know if the boy was still alive, there was a very high chance that he wasn't, after all, JJ's attack destroyed the entire arena, save for the spectators seats. Shock was the least that could be said about JJ's sudden display of power, but something had washed over them, the boy's story about being a jounin seemed a lot less like a lie now. After Naki confirmed that the boy was still breathing he turned to JJ and annouced.
Naki: The winner of this round is-

JJ lifted a hand to him and turned to Naruto.
JJ: Naruto, we'll have a sparring match after this okay.
Naki: What?
JJ: I quit. Send him through and let him know that there is no one here he can beat. I don't feel like doing this anymore. Mika, can you repair the stadium for me?
Mika: Sure.

She said doing so with a single footstep. JJ turned away from the crowd and jumped up to the waiting room with a single step before leveling a glare to everyone he saw. A growl and killing intent flew from him before he dropped against the wall and closed his eyes. Mika sat next to him and queitly comforted him.
Naki: The winner of this match is Jinta Manabe.

He said with very little enthusiasm, Ino looked over to Claire and asked.
Ino: Was he always that strong?
Claire: Of course, JJ transforms first because it makes his opponents and those around him think that's what makes him strong, but in our village his transformations were banned unless he was training, if not then he had to stay like that. He became a jounin on his own. It was a good way to evaluate his real strength.
Sakura: So, he just revealed his true hand all for a bird?
Claire: You haven't even begun to see his true hand. And as for the other thing, JJ hates humans.
Ino: Wha?
Claire: I can tell from that wave of killing intent that he probably needed to remind himself of who he is. Much like Naruto, JJ wasn't born a dragon, he became one when he was just a baby, and because Dragons can already take on a human form, JJ is more dragon than human right now. He just kind of keeps of the disguise, like how you saw him show is fangs earlier. When he was younger he would have random mood swings that would cause him to attack anyone too close to him, so when he was five, his father cast him out into the forest around our village.
Ino: What?
Sakura: How horrible.
Claire: I found him when he was nine, and when I did, he was a lot calmer than before, but those feelings were still there. When he was in the forest he was alone with nothing, but wildlife and being able to speak with them made that a whole lot easier to do. In the eyes of something higher up, humans and animals are no different. We humans, are able to build and create, and design things on a grand scale, making us more intelligent than animals, however, we are the only species tempted and secuded by power. The only species that would kill their own kind simply for enjoyment. We are an arrogant race who believes that this world and everything in it was handed to us just to be our toy, that's what JJ hates most. That boy just reminded him why he hates humans so much. Yet he took the time out to mention all those he considers friends, that means to him, you all are exceptions. Either way, it was probably best that he quit here, he probably needs the time to calm down.

She said as she walked away from the girls to her sulking student. Gaara stared back at the boy. Losing his composure for a simple bird, how would he react when he killed Naruto. Gaara hoped that his reactin would be have as good, another target had been added to his roster.
Naki: Kankuro and Shino Aburame, please report to the lower arena.
Kankuro: [Dammit, how much longer is that Sasuke kid going to take?] I quit!
Naki: Huh?

The auidience was thrown into an uproar, first Sasuke not showing up and then the black boy frightening everyone, now people were quitting. Temari looked over to her brother and sighed, maybe he wanted to save his strength for what was about to happen, but she wasn't going to quit like he did. With out a single word she dropped down to the arena and stared up at Shikamaru.
Naki: What are you doing?
Temari: It's my match next right?
Naki: Uh, yeah.
Choji: Guess you're up next Shikamaru.
Shikamaru: Aww man, I don't feel like this right now.

Shikamaru slumped over and Naruto placed a hand on his shoulder as Hinata smiled behind him.
Naruto: Good luck.

He said before pushing Shikamaru over the ledge. After a loud impact with the ground Shikamaru stared back up at Naruto and thought aloud to himself.
Shikamaru: I am so gonna kill him for that.

Shikamaru sighed and quickly reached into his pouch as the impatient girl charged for him. He patted the ground once and then pushed himself into the air as Temari slammed her fan down at him like a hammer, only managing to kick up dust.
Shikamaru: I can't stand impatient women.

He said with a tired expression as he stood on two kunai he had effortlessly slammed into the wall.
Shikamaru: You're really one to jump the gun aren't you?
Temari: Heh, why don't you come down here and find out.

Shikamaru smiled and looked down to the girl's feet, which she snorted a reply to.
Temari: Don't even think about it, I know all about your jutsu, and I don't intend to get close enough for you to use it.
Shikamaru: That's alright, you're fine where you are.

He said activating the flash bomb under the girl's feet, as the light below her began to engulf her Shikamaru formed his handsign, completely ready to finish off the girl. Temari cursed under the light and opened her fan before jumping into the air. With a quick swing of her fan she sent herself soaring back, away from Shikamaru's attack range. A sharp exhale of breath and a small grunt came from both competitors as they looked across to one another.
Temari: That was close.
Shikamaru: Why'd you have to move, I could've gotten this over with a been gone by now.
Temari: Then why don't you come over here and let me kill you.

She replied with a smile.
Shikamaru: Because being killed by a girl is more of a drag than having to fight one.
Temari: Then you can just stay there and die if you want.

She said pulling back her fan. Shikamaru jumped from the kunai he had placed in the wall and smiled as he dived behind a tree to dodge the girl wind attack.
Temari: Stop hiding!
Shikamaru: No thank you.

He said as he bent over and placed the tips of his fingers together in an underhand position. For while he sat there, unmoving as Temari's wind blew past him. Once his fingers seperated he turned and looked back to the girl with a serious expresion on his face. He slowly pulled a kunai form his puch and hurled it at Temari who quickly knocked it away with her fan causing the discarded weapon to become stuck in the dirt. Temari moved the fan from in front of her face and saw Shikamaru running straight for her with another kunai in his hand. Temari slammed her fan into Shikamaru's kunai and wrestled with him in a struggle, quickly finding that the boy was much stronger than he looked.
Shikamaru: You should really look down.

Temari hesiatated, he couldn't have made a handsign while they were both like this. However, she did notice something, he placed a tag under her. Shikamaru placed together the activation sign in front of Temari causing her to flinch and brace for impact, but it never came.
Shikamaru: Got ya.

Temari lost her struggle against Shikamaru and he deflected her fan before her placed his foot on her stomach and kicked her back. With a quick turn Shikamaru placed together his signature jutsu once again. Temari spun back and swung her fa at Shikamaru, blasting back the boy or so she thought. The second that the gust of wind hit Shikamaru he vanished in a blur, Temari flipped back to her feet and stared at the spot the boy had been standing in.
Temari: [A substitute jutsu! He knew that I would counter him and he moved before I could even see him. But where is he?]

Temari silenced herself and concentrated on where the boy could've gone, then she jumped back just in time to avoid his jutsu. Shikamaru cursed and tossed a kunai at the girl before she could get far and once again she deflected it, unknowingly playing right into the young genius's hands. Shikamaru quickly activated his jutsu and again and sent his shadow after the girl, this time using the shadow of the deflected kunai as a catalyst for his attack. Temari realizing the boy's attack quickly flipped back, slightly avoiding the attack. Shikamaru smiled and walked slowly to the next tree before he vanished. Each time he walked out his image vanished behind the tree.
Temari: I growing really tired of you.
Shikamaru: Good, that means I'm almost as tiring as you are. If you'd just give up now we could get this over with.
Temari: No on your life.

She said as she held her fan over head and flipped sideways.
Temari: Gust of wind dance!!!!

She shouted and she slammed her open fan downwards, sending forth six large blade of wind after Shikamaru. Shikmamaru smiled a he prepared to dodge the attack. A single step and Shikamaru found a hole in her attack. Temari looked on and cursed at the boy, completely missing that the boy had somehow rid himself of his jacket. Once she noticed a small shadow slowly creeping for her she looked up to a jacket floating like a parachute held by a single kunai above her. Shikamaru had used her own wind to propel his own jacket into the air, and with that ready he once again activated his jutsu. Temari, who had found herself on the recieving end of Naruto's attacks ever since the match started, was once again forced to fall back and mark her distance from the boy.
Shikamaru: Not done yet.

He shouted as a paper bomb wrapped around the kunai exploded in mid-air, opening his jacket, making his shadow grow even wider. Temari barely managed to dodge again, and as the shadow finally drifted away from Temari she exhaled and looked back at the boy with a smile before he smiled back and said.
Shikamaru: Checkmate.

Temari's eye went wide, not because the boy said what he did, ut because it came from behind her. He motions became restricted and she gulped hard. The Shikamaru in front of her was a very intricate clone jutsu, an illusion he made to keep her off his real trail. She had lost, there was nothing more she could do. Shikamaru turned the girl back to him and stared into her eyes.
Shikamaru: Guess I'd better get this over with.

He said reaching down to something, there was nothing next to him, but next to Temari was a kunai, stuck in the ground. The very first kunai Shikamaru had thrown. She was playing into his hand from the very first second of the match.
Shikamaru forced the struggling girl to lift the kunai and place the blade to her throat before he quickly flung the knai to the side and raised his hand.
Shikamaru: I give up.

He said bringing a shocked looked to all who watched. After a long silence someone from the crowd shouted "What!!!!?" completely exclaiming the thoughts of everyone else there. Seconds later Shikamaru's jutsu forcibly dropped and he looked away from the girl in front of him.
Shikamaru: I was almost out of chakra, and here I had a more than 400 more moves plan out in my head.

He said shrugging his shoulders and walking away from the bewildered girl.
Temari: [I lost to a slacker like him?]

Shikamaru slowly and impatiently walked away, not even waiting for the victory announcement before leaving.
Naki: Uhhhhhh.

He said with narrowed eyes before he turned back to Temari who also looked pretty confused.
Naki: Um......Temari wins I guess.
Temari: Yeah, it seems that way.

Both just stared for a moment before they looked at each other and walked their seperates ways. Shikamaru walked up to the second floor just in time to catch a stare from Naruto.
Naruto: Shikamaru, what the hell man? You had that in the bag.
Shikamaru: I ran out of chakra.

He said scratching his nose.
Naruto: You had enough chakra left to finish her off. I was watching.
Shikamaru: I didn't feel like it, if I had won, I would've had to keep fighting, and then eventually I would've had to go against you, which is just as bad if I had to fight the monster over there.

He said pointing his thumb to JJ before turning to look at him.
Shikamaru: .....Is he still sulking?
Naruto: Yeah.

They said not noticing that Temari had rejoined them on the second floor. Claire looked at JJ's eyes and noticed a small gleam came from them when his name was mentioned and then Mika walked over to him.
Mika: You're gonna get wrinkles if you don't stop all that frowning. Com'n is there anything I can do?

She asked bending in front of him. Claire looked away, she knew what was about to happen, but she figured it'd be funnier to let Mika find out on her own. JJ stared up at Mika with a puzzled face and then he scooted over a little before reached over and carressed her backside slowly gaining a blush from everyone watching and a shiver from the violated girl. Mika jumped back in shock as JJ took a deep breath and said with a smile.
JJ: Much better.

Mika placed her hands over her butt and shook before frowning and lunging forward at JJ, throwing a lghtining fast flurry of fists, which JJ dodged all while wearing a straight face.
Shikamaru: I have such troublesome friends.

He said rubbing the back of his head as Naruto and Hinata chuckled at the couple's actions. Gaara however seemed rather angry, quickly noticed by both of his siblings. Naruto stepped forward and said.
Naruto: Hey JJ, can you see Sasuke's aura yet?
JJ: Nah, I saw it earlier, but then it got detoured somewhere, who knows when he'll saw up.

He replied to the boy, before one of Mika's punches finally reached his face, only managing to make his head lean a little. With the girl's fist still on his face JJ looked over and asked.
JJ: Guess that means that yours and Mika's match is next Choji.

He said with a smile. Choji, stepped back and thought, he had completely forgot that Mika was his opponent.
Choji: Nooooo!!! Anyone, but her.

He said holding his head, gaining a confused look from the girl in question.
Mika: I'll go easy on you Choji, I promise I'll only use two jutsu to kill you.

She said wih a sickeningly sweet smile.
Choji: NOOOOOOO!

He shouted only his cheeks and distorting his face. Suddenly a ruckus came from the arena as a swirl of leaves appeared in the center of the stadium. Kakashi Hatake stood tall above the young Sasuke Uchiha, both casting their eyes down to the ground and slowly raising their eyes to the people in the stands.
Kakashi: We're not too late are we?
Naki: You're waaay too late, luckily the Hokage decided to postpone Sasuke match or else he would be sooooo screwed.

Naki replied with a straight face.
Naki: Why were you so late anyway?
Sasuke: Well you see, we got-

Before Sasuke could finish Kakashi placed his hand over the boy's and shook his head.
Kakashi: Don't even bother, they won't believe you.

He said shaking his head to his young student. Choji looked down at the scene and took a deep breath before he shouted.
Choji: SAFE!!

Gaining a tired sigh from Shikamaru.
Gai: So Kakashi finally decided to show.

He asked from behind Sakura and Ino who jumped at the enthuisastic man's voice. Neji looked back at his teacher and sighed.
Neji: You sure took your time getting here.
Gai: Well, I had to bring Lee with me and...
Lee: It's okay Gai-sensei.

He said walking down with a crutch in his hand. Tenten stood close at his side, making sure that he didn't fall over from pushing himself too much.
Tenten: What did we miss?
Ishi: JJ's a jounin, Naruto won against Hinata, Raizen looks way cooler and he kicks ass now. Then Shikamaru almost won, but then he quit.

She said with a smile.
Neji: That's the synopsis.

He said agreeing with his smiling girlfriend. Gai simply rubbed his head and sighed.
Gai: I find great shame that none of my students were able to make it to the second round.

He said holding his head down, causing said students to sweatdrop and look away. With renewed vigor Gai snapped his head back up and shouted.
Gai: So that's why I'm going to kick up your training ten fold.

All of Gai's student, save for Lee, looked like they had just gotten an execution letter.
Tenten: That won't be-
Gai: I insist, it's required for your youth to ignite into a powerful flame.

Tenten sweated and prayed that she would be able to survive Gai's new training regimine. Hoping that whatever he had planned was something that she could handle. Gaara smiled as his prey finally arrived onto the scene and quickly made his way down to the lower floor. There were sounds of someone moving around, yet he ignored it, there was a bigger fish waiting for him after he rid the world of Sasuke Uchiha. Naruto Uzumaki, Norugi Suzaku, Mika Viria, squad 14 was his grand target, he would crush them all with his own hands. and the two peons coming toward him were nothing more than distractions. However, he stopped and listened to them, hoping that they chose their words carefully, they didn't. Gaara's eyes snapped wide as a smile grew, his bloodlust completely piqued, Sasuke was going to face him as an agressor simply because of these two men. As a thank you for their help invoking his wrath, he painted a beautiful moral on the wall with their blood and composed a wonderful symphony with their screams. Surely to die in such a way was to be thankful for, Gaara, was fully awakened.
Sasuke: Here he comes.

He said as he stared at Gaara entering the stage with a bright sickening smile.
Gaara: I've been waiting for you.
Sasuke: Sorry about that, but I promise that I won't disappoint.

He said before dropping into battle stance, completely ready for Gaara's onslaught to begin. There was no annoucement, Naki wasn't able to say anything before Gaara's sand lashed out at Sasuke, who barely managed to dodge by a hair. Naki backed away, feeling no need to annouce the beginning anymore, he left the stadium. Gaara walked slowly forward, allowing his sand to fly at Sasuke as it pleased, however no hits were able to land. Sasuke fluidly dodged every attack that came his way before bursting into a sprint straight for Gaara. Gaara halted his advance and prepared waited for the boy to get closer, once in range the sand leapt from the ground, completely surrounding the boy, who only replied with a smile. A blur appeared in Sasuke's place and then nothing, soon after, he was standing at Gaara side with his hand drawn back.
Sasuke: Got you.

He said as he slammed his into Gaara's face, only managing to make the boy lean slightly, but as spontaenously as he appeared, Sasuke once again vanished amidst the brown sand. When he reappeared he once at Gaara's other side, this time he delivered a spinning back kick to the boy's chest. This time Gaara went sliding back along the ground, Sasuke took the chance to attack and leapt over Gaara before forming his favorite seals.
Sasuke: Fire style: Grand fireball jutsu!!!

The instant that Sasuke fireballs grew closer Gaara's sand encased his body and defended against it. Sasuke finished his flipped and landed on the other side of Gaara, waiting for him to emerge from the sand cocoon he had hid himself in, however when the sand melted away Gaara was nowhere inside it. Instead he appeared behind Sasuke, who smiled before fazing to the other side of the arena. No words were said, both knew what the other was planning, and they were antsy to see how they were planning to follow through. Sasuke was the first to make a move, shortly before Gaara's sand started to rise from the ground, both certain that their plans would succeed. Sasuke disappeared in front of Gaara's sand, mimicking Lee's attempt on him the month before, Gaara, however simply smiled. Sasuke's fist flew from Gaara's side, hoping to land on his cheek once again, however Gaara's hand rose to stop it. With a quick turn Gaara dragged his fist up into Sasuke's chin and spun around, making the surrounding sand form into a hammer on his hand before he slammed it into Sasuke's stomach with tremondous force, gaining a bloodly cough from the boy before he slammed into the back wall.
Sasuke: Gah.

A groan came forcibly from his mouth as his body crushed the wall behind him. Sasuke fell to the floor under a eap of rubble that followed him down as Gaara called his sand back to him. The sand formed clones of himself at his side before they flew like streams to Sasuke under the debris.
Sakura: No.

She said with shock as the sand copies of Gaara slammed into the pile of rubble, however all they managed to do was crush the ground below the rubble. Dust flew into the sky and Gaara turned his eye to the five shuriken flying toward him. His sand stopped it, he didn't even have to move. The sand slowly became a hand that tightly grasped onto the small weapons before forming into another Gaara clone. Sasuke appeared at the side of the arena and quickly made his way over to the stationary boy. Gaara folded his arms and readied for Sasuke's next attack and once again Sasuke vanished before he could reach him, reappearing in Gaara's face. Sasuke delivered a spinning back hand to Gaara's right cheek before spinning into a jump spin that. Gaara flipped back to his feet and smiled as he thrusted his hand forward, commanding his sand to lunge for his opponent, who quickly gained distance from the boy. To any watching, it seemed that Gaara was losing, but he was simply enjoying his elusive prey, Sasuke was landing a lot of hits, but like Lee before him, he didn't do any damage.
Sasuke: Heh, sorry, Yukari. I'm going to borrow your technique for a while.

He said as he jumped abck to the far wall and started forming together a long string of seals. Sasuke sprinted forward and jumped into the air over Gaara's sand and then shot down at him like a missile.
Sasuke: Fire style: Grand blaze jutsu!!!

He shouted as his body became engulfed in flames and he rammed down into Gaara's chest. Because of Gaara's sand Sasuke wasn't able to cut through his body, but he did manage to slam him back into the far world at such a speed that his sand wasn't even able to cushion it. Gaara hit the wall and shattered into tiny pieces of sand, never once did he show fatigue or damage from Sasuke's attack. As the sand rushed across the ground Sasuke flipped back to gain distance from it, however a hand formed that reached out and latched out Sasuke's neck before it slammed him into the wall he tried to escape to.
Gaara: Scream!

He shouted as the grains of sand grew tighter around Sasuke's neck. Slowly he began to lose sight, urging his body to push forward, he slowly formed together seals.
Sasuke: Water style: crushing wave jutsu!

He shouted out as the air particles around him formed into a large wave. The jutsu would have been stronger if there were more water around, but at the moment he had to settle for what he could get.Much like he had expected, the sand holding him melted under the water and forced Gaara to show himself, however, it didn't take long for him to dry back of enough to once again make his sand a deadly force. Sasuke dropped to his feet and breathed in heavily, his body trying it's best to make up the loss of oxygen. Gaara didn't come after him, instead he lick his lips and walked to the center of the arena before the sand covered him a cocoon. Sasuke could hear mumbles coming from the sand sphere that encased Gaara, but there was no signs of moment. Even with that knoweldge, Sasuke felt a strong sense of urgency, he needed to do something and he needed to do it fast. Without thinking Sasuke ran for the cocoon and slammed his fist into it, not really hoping to reach through or break it, but simply to test it's strength, a bad decision. Lances of sand emerged from the cocoon's outer walls and shot forth at Sasuke, scraping him, but barely managing to avoid a fatal blow. Sasuke shot back, not of his own will, but the force of the lance sent him soaring back across the arena as if he were light as a feather.
Sasuke: Dammit!

He shouted before he turned himself around and landed on the back wall. Sasuke stood to his feet on the wall as if gravity never existed and smiled down on Gaara. Sasuke croutched down and cycled through a quick round of seals and held his left wrist tightly with his left hand.
Sasuke: Chidori!!!

Came a shout from the boy's lips before he recklessly ran down the wall in an effort to pierce Gaara's cocoon. Gaara, sealed inside his cocoon had no knowledge of he attack coming his way, he just prepared as he numbled to himself with a smile on his face. Sasuke smoothly dodged as lances shot forth at him once again, and flipped over another, sending himself into the air. once again the lance began to launch at him as he danced away from them, never once unfocusing his chidori from Gaara's cocoon. With a fierce battlecry Sasuke fell down, thrusting his chidori through the sand, barely hitting Gaara, but still managing to land the hit.
Gaara: What? how did he? Urgh.

He said as he felt a sharp sting in his shoulder. Gaara slowly lifted his hand to the sting, his touch seemed to intensify the sensation, not only that, he felt a wet sticky substance on his shoulder. When he pulled his hand back and examined it he noticed that it was something he recognized, it was blood, however this blood was different from the sight he was used, after all, this blood was his. What was this feeling? He had never felt it before, never once had anyone managed to draw blood from Gaara.
Gaara: Bastard. BASTARD!!!!!!!

He shouted out to the world.
Gaara: I'LL KILL YOU!!!!!!

Sasuke suddenly felt the weight of what he had just done, with a renewed sense of vigor Sasuke tried to pull his hand free from the gaping hold in Gaara's cocoon, but to no avail. Something was holding him, so tightly in fact that he couldn't bring his hand away, but when finally did, something monstrous came out with him, tightly latched onto his wrist, a long arm of sand with black claws and blue streaks running down it. The arm didn't let go, instead it lifted Sasuke into the air just in time for him to see the dark golden eyes turned to him. Gaara's face had changed, it was long and beastly, a bijuu, the first thought that hit Sasuke's mind. Gaara roared into Sasuke's face, simultaenously releasing his grip on the boy's wrist, making the strong blast of wind push Sasuke back into the wall with a thundrous boom. Gaara's sand melted from around his body and he held tightly onto his head.
Temari: Gaara!
Kankuro: Dammit!!

They shouted at the same time as Gaara's bloodlust hit a peak, it was now or never, the Kazekage's eyes slowly turned to Sarutobi, who in turn looked back to him, he could feel the rising killer intent. At that exact second a mass genjutsu fell through the entire stadium. JJ's eyes snapped open as Temari and Kankuro jumped down to Gaara and then shouted.
JJ: Everyone gather near me!

At his word all those he called friends huddled under him as he dispelled the genjutsu.
JJ: Kai!

With his efforts he managed to save those near him, but Sasuke was still in big trouble. Sasuke slowly pulled himself from the hole in the wall his body made. Once he dropped to his feet he saw Gaara being carried away by his siblings.
Sasuke: You're not getting away!

He shouted quickly gaining a grasp on the situation. Ignoring his own fatigue he ran after the fleeing trio.
Yu: Oniichan!

She shouted readying herself to follow him, however, something more pressing caught her attention, the sound of someone descending toward her.
Hanabi: Annoying.

She said with a glare, never turning to the enemies behind her. Hiashi stood to his feet and sighed.
Hiashi: You made a big mistake.

He said as without even moving his body a powerful blast of chakra sent one of the ninja flying back through the wall. One of the ninja jumped at Yukari, but without much effort a kunai somehow ludged itself into his throat. Hanabi smiled at her new opponents, no fear could be seen in the girl's eyes, she simply sidestepped the attack and slammed her palm into the ninja's chest instantl killing him. Yubiki's eyes flew up to the kazekage, a familiar scent came from him all of a sudden.
JJ: Dammit, Sasuke can't handle Gaara.
Naruto: Then it's time I returned a favor.

He said as he ran from under JJ and sprinted off after Sasuke, Raizen and Sakura doing the same.
JJ: Claire-sensei.
Claire: This is your mission JJ, what are your orders?

She asked her student suddenly dropping the guise they caught up.
Claire: The job of a regulator is to observe the village he is assigned to, it is completely up to that person whether he fights for that village or not. You are the regulator here, I am merely here to support you, so what are your orders?

Those who heard her, had no idea what she meant, but it caused JJ's eyes to slant slghtly. It only took a fraction of a second for him to make a decision.
JJ: Claire, support the forces on the ground fighting. Take care of anyone injured and protect anyone who isn't.
Claire: Right.

Once again people grew confused at JJ's speech, he was going his own sensei orders, and he didn't call her sensei.
JJ: Hinata, you gather everyone and support the evacuation effort. With your byakugan you'll be able to see enemies coming before they can even get close, as such you are also very skilled in combat, I have high expectations of you.
Hinata: Y,Yes.
JJ: Shikamaru, I don't need to give you any orders, follow your gut, do what you do best.
Shikamaru: Got ya.

He replied with a smile.
JJ: Choji, go and gather all of our allies still scattered around here and regroup with Hinata, once together all of you find shelter. I can see Shino already went on his own though.

He said looking at the aura of the Aburame heir heading in the direction of the escaping enemy ninja.
JJ: Mika, you and I will cahse down Naruto and assist him against Gaara.
Mika: Us?
JJ: Yeah, you know that boy and he seems to be drawn to you, as such I think we'll need your power to stop him.

Mika slightly backed away, how did he know, and how much did he know?
JJ: I'm not trying to milk you for answers or anything, I'm just stating a fact, right now our mission is to assist the leaf village and protect all who live here. Now, GO!

He shouted waving his hand to the side. At his word save for Mika all beside him became nothing more than a blur. In the forest Naruto charged after the fight he could already see signs of.
Naruto: Gaara, Sasuke, I'll stop both of you.

Gaara's expression before he left struck a nerve with the boy, he could feel his pain. Gaara was just like him. Right now he focused on helping his friend then he would worry about how he'd handle Gaara. His father's words ring into his head once again.
[Minato: You must walk on the grass without crushing it.]
Naruto: Fight, without having to take a life. That's what he meant, I don't know, but I'll fight with everything I've got.

At his side, suddenly JJ fell into place and caught up to Naruto's pace. On Naruto's other side Mika landed, causing the earth around her to stalagmite around her feet on impact. Quickly making the earth shatter away under her Mika also snycronizes her pacing with Naruto. Aquad fourteen moved as a unit into the next battle. The war had begun and there was going to be blood, lots of it.

Chapter 13 end

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Naruto: Gaara!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Gaara: I've been waiting for you. You will make me feel alive!!!!!!!!!!!
JJ: He's gone mad, be careful.
Insuru: Long time no see Yubiki, what say I tell you a story, will you listen to my woes?
Yubiki: I'll kill you!
Insuru: Your angry face is so beautiful. Just like I remembered.


Next time on eyes piercing the darkness: Leaf destruction part 1: The decisive battle begins.

Naruto: I'll stop you, no matter what it takes!!!!!!





Man this took longer than I thought it would. Also, JJ's biggest role in the story has been revealed, it's also the reason why he has so much knowledge on the village and the people who live there. Also there was a lot going on at the time JJ was giving orders to everyone, and I'll make sure to tell you what in the next chapter. As well as me showing a little from about myself through JJ. The thing about him hating humans is kind of true about me as well, not saying I'm some type of saint or something, I just really don't understand people or even like them most of the time. I could explain in deeper detail, but at the moment I don't feel like it. If this doesn't make sense to you, just PM me and I'll explain. Sorry for the long wait, I had a job that took away my entire day, but thanks to it I now have a home computer. Which means that Chapters will be coming out a lot faster than before, because now I can write at my leisure. I still don't have much free time, but I proise that the next chapter will be out soon and also, progress on Resident Naruto 4 REvival, is going well and the first chapter to that will be up soon as well. I'll try to post both at the same time, but that will take a long time to do so I may post them seperately either way, they will be done. Before we begin let me tell you all that I well put canon before the omake that are part of the story. And now for the return oooooooooof-

Omake theater!
Omake 1: Raizen's greatest challenge.

Raizen zipped around his opponent as if he were nothing but an illusion, leaving not a second to be seen.
Raizen: There is no one.

He said disappearing from sight and reappearing to the side of the boy.
Raizen: In this village.

He said vanishing again.
Raizen: In any village.

He said once again vanishing from sight.
Raizen: In this world.

He said as he appeared above the boy before he suddenly blurred from vison once again.
Raizen: In this universe.

He said he appeared in front of the boy with his arms drawn back.
Raizen: Faster than me!!!!

He said as he readied himself for his attack making Sho instinctively go on the defensive.
????: Is that so?

Raizen screeched to a halt and tuned back to the voice, and much to his surprise the voice was coming from what seemed to be a blue hedgehog.
Sonic: I'd like to see you outrun me.

He said issuing a challenge. Raizen narrowed his eyes as Sonic did the same, with a moment's pause both streamed from the arena in a light speed foot race.
Naki: Wait, what about the match!?

Raizen at that point was beyond the range of Naki's voice, at that he wasn't even in the village anymore. He and the logic defying creature were already ten miles from the village in a 10 second time frame. As Sonic gained the lead he flipped over a large boulder and landed on a tree branch before he propelled himself futher ahead of the boy.
Sonic: You're too slow.

He said looking back at the boy while still running. Raizen smiled as he flipped into the air and tossed his shuriken in the ground far ahead of Sonic. In an instant the boy was ahead, running at mach speed. Sonic, impressed boy the boy's speed found himself laughing as he sped up to match the boy's speed, ignoring the fact that they were now in another village. Weaving through the people they pulled off hat's, clothes, and even dragged tables along with them as they broke the sound barrier. This was a new experience for Raizen, he had never been able to run as fast as he could, and the hedgehog was every bit as fast as he was. Soon they found them selves running across water, a large ocean under there feet, unable to drag them in because of their sheer speed.
Raizen: Looks like I'm going to win.

He said with a smile.
Sonic: Not so fast.

He said as he started juggling seven bright jewels above head head that soon disappearing into his body. Suddenly the blue hedgehog turned golden and a bright yellow aura emitted from the small creature. In an instant he shot the through the sky like rocket going mach 10 blasting the water back at Raizen and leaving him in utter defeat.
Raizen: CHEATER!!!!!

He shouted at his opponent, knowing full well he couldn't hear him Raizen returned to the stadium, he had been gone a full minute yet he had crossed half of the world.
Naki: What hap-
Raizen: Don't ask. Okay there's no one in this universe faster than me except that guy.

He said pointing back and sighing.
Raizen: Let's just get over with.

He said with dipressed tone before he dropped back into fighting stance.

Canon/Omake 2: Here we go again.
Sasuke walked eagerly awaiting the moment when he would face off against Gaara. Opening and closing his fist, he turned to his teacher with a smile.
Sasuke: I feel so much stronger, do you think that I'll be able to beat Gaara?
Kakashi: That all depends on you. Can you beat Gaara?
Sasuke: I'll definitely see.

Kakashi once again buried his face into the book his held tightly in his hands before he looked down at the end of the road with a calm face. He slowly put away his book and said stoicly.
Kakashi: So we meet again.

Sasuke turned and saw nothing more than a sign set up at a fork in the road.
Kakashi: You seem to have gotten bigger since last time.

Sasuke stared in shock as he stared on at the hundreds of pathways spreading from the fork before him and in the middle, the sign said "life.".
Sasuke: What the hell?
Kakashi: Now do you believe me?
Sasuke: Which way do we go?
Kakashi: There's only one way to figure that out.
Sasuke: How?
Kakashi: We start walking.

He said making his way down the road. Sasuke slightly drooped his shoulders and followed behind his teacher. Four epic battles later Sasuke found himself finally arriving in the chunin exams arena.
Naki: Why are you so late anyway?
Sasuke: Oh, you see we got-

Kakashi placed a hand over his student and shook his head.
Kakashi: Don't bother, they won't believe you.

He said dismissing the entire notion of telling the truth.

Canon/Omake 3: Yubiki's new favorite food.
Yubiki and Iruka sat on a bench at the side of road as Yubiki effortlessly scarfed down dango, smiling widely as she did so.
Iruka: You really like these don't you?

He asked turning to the giddy woman.
Yubiki: Yeah, I looove these. I wonder how I never ate them before.

She said with her voice slowly becoming higher. Iruka figured that her good mood was probably the best time to say what he was thinking. With a nod of determination he turned back to Yubiki with a blush bright on his face.
Iruka: Yubiki, I-
Yubiki: Hm?

She said turning back to him under the form of a child. Iruka facefell straight to the ground and Yubiki looked down at him with pure innocence in her bright red eyes.
Yubiki: Did you call me so that you could show me pyhsical comedy?
Iruka: No, why did you kid into a kid?

Yubiki smiled again and replied.
Yubiki: Fox demon transformations are tied to our emotions, I changed because I'm in a good mood. And it all thanks to these.
Iruka: I can tell, I'm glad I brought you some then.
Yubiki: Hehe.

She chuckled as her ears twitched slightly. She closed her eyes and smiled before taking a deep breath as if falling into her own world.
Yubiki: Dango, dango, dango, dango, dango daikazoku. Dango, dango, dango, dango, dango daikazoku.

Iruka turned with a blush to the demon as she suddenly started singing.
Yubiki: Yancha na yaki dango yasashii an-dango. Sokushi yumemigachi na tsukimi-dango.

Suddenly people started to gather as they stared at the surprising innocence of the demon they once hated.
Yubiki: Osumashi goma-dango yotsu ko kushi dango. Minna minna owasete hyakunin kazoku. Aka-chan dango wa itsumo shiawase no naka de. Toshiyori dango wa me o hosometeru.

She sang, completely unaware of the people gathering around her. Families stopped to watch the kitsune's out of character moment, or maybe she was always like this, but they had never seen this side of her.
Yubiki: Nakayoshi dango te o tsunagi ooki marui wa ni naru yo. Machi o tsukuri dango hoshi no ue minna de waraiau yo. Usagi mo sora de te o futta miteru dekkai o-tsuki-sama. Ureshi koto kanashii koto mo zenbu marumette.

She said finally her face to a sight purity before she finally opened her eyes and caught notice of the hundreds of faces in front of her, including the hokage, Naruto and his himes, all of rookie nine and Gai's team, with their senseis, and even the Ichiraku and Ayame. Yubiki blushed once she finally realized what she had done, as all looking blushed at her.
Yubiki: Um, I.
Iruka: Kawaii.

He said gaining a collective nod from the entire crowd. With that said Yubiki ran, it was going to take her forever to regain that sense of fear she still held over the villagers.

Canon/Omake 4: Raizen's cooking ability.

After a long mission team seven had gathered to rest in a wide grassy feild. Looking up at the sky Sakura smiled as she looked back at her teammates. Raizen was cooking the food, Kakashi was reading and Sasuke seemed to be thinking about something. Even if it was just for a moment, they were able to rest, and it was moments like this that made being on a time worthwhile.
Raizen: Lunch is on.

He said as he finished preparing the food. Kakashi closed his book and nodded to the other children to gather around the young chef. As Raizen handed out the food Sasuke stared at him.
Sasuke: You know to cook?

He said asking a little too late. Raizen smiled and replied.
Raizen: Yeah I learned when I was younger.

He replied to his secret cousin's question before Sasuke lifted a questioning eyebrow and tasted his food at the same time as the others. For a second there was shock and then they all began eating as if they had never eaten before. After downing his food yet somehow managing to never let his students see his face. Raizen mentally snapped his fingers and frowned, causing Kakashi to chuckle at him.
Kakashi: Wow, that was better than I expected Raizen. You'll make a great wife someday.

He said in mock tone making his students laugh at boy.
Raizen: Yuck it up, but you'll wish you could cook like me when you're hungry on a mission. And next time I won't cook for you.
Kakashi: I'm just messing with you, calm down.

Sasuke stared at the food with a warm smile on his face, once Sakura noticed she blushed and slightly leaned away from the boy, bringing attention to him.
Kakashi: What's wrong with you?
Sasuke: Huh? Oh, this food kind of reminds me of something, like I've eaten it somewhere before.

Raizen's eyes went wide and he turned away.
Raizen: Haha, yeah right. I've never cooked for you before. How could you have tasted this?
Sasuke: Yeah I guess you're right, but it definitly tasted familiar.
Sakura: What made you want to know how to cook.

Raizen stared for a moment and then smiled.
Raizen: Because my mom couldn't boil water, and my dad said that cooking wasn't manly. Yet, now that I think about it he never complained when I started cooking.

He said with a frown.
Raizen: He must have just used that as an excuse for not knowing how to cook.
Sasuke: None of your parents knew how to cook, what did you eat before then.

He asked, strangely interested.
Raizen: Well mom cooked, but then we would usually suffer for the rest of the day. Any other time we just went out to eat.

Kakashi stared at Raizen and sighed.
Kakashi: You poor, poor child.

He said shaking his head. Raizen sighed back at his sensei's reponse and replied.
Raizen: I know.
Sasuke: But really, I know I've tasted this before.
Raizen: NO YOU HAVEN'T!!!!

Omake 4 end.

Omake 5: Naruto's side effect.

Hinata sat on her bed staring up at her ceiling as the world went black. She thought back to the moment when she had seen Naruto last, her mind flying on every single second she had been near him. Naruto could feel it from inside his tomb. With a smile he cast his eyes down and said.
Naruto: I make them good girls go bad. I make them good girls go, good girls go bad!

The last part echoed throughout the walls of the hyuga complex and somehow only reached Hinata's ear. Hinata woke from her bed and ran to the pathway of Naruto's tomb, hearing another echo fly through as she did. Hinata hastily ran to the tomb and opened, leaving Naruto's red eyes to fly from the ground and gaze up at her.
Naruto: I know your type.

He said standing to his feet and walking over to Hinata. He grabbed her chin and pulled her closer.
Naruto: You're daddy's little girl. Come take a bite-
Echo: One bite.

Came a mysterious voice as Naruto bit into Hinata's neck and she did the same to him. Then he whispered in her ear.
Naruto: Let me shake up your world. Cause just one night couldn't be so wrong.

He said pulling Hinata back and gazing into her daze eyes before saying.
Naruto: I'm gonna make you lose control.

Hinata stared emptily as her mind fell back into a dark place.
Naruto: She was sooooo shy.

He said as an image of Hinata flew from the darkness, she had her eyes cast down and she twiddled her fingers.
Naruto: I droooove her wild.

At that second Hinata's image grew fangs and her eyes turned as she seductively ran her hand through her hair and materialized her scythe. Suddenly Naruto was in a club with mutli-colored lights flashing and lighting up the room.
Naruto: I make them good girls go bad!

He said with Neji, JJ, Raizen, Choji, and Lee, all dancing beside him.
Naruto: I make them good girls go bad!

He said pointing to Hinata.
Naruto: You were hangin' in the corner with your five best friends. You heard that I was trouble, but you could resist. I make them good girls go bad. I make them good girls go-
JJ: Good girls go-
Lee: Bad.
Neji: Bad.
Naruto: Good girls go-
Choji: Bad.
Raizen: Bad.
Naruto: Good girls go-

Hinata smiled over to Naruto with Sakura, Ino, Tenten, Mika and Ishi standing behind her as she said.
Hinata: I know your type.
Girls: Your type.
Hinata: Boy you're dangerous, yeah you're that guy.
Girls: That guy.
Hinata: I'd be stupid to trust.

Hinata leaned in to Naruto and blushed.
Hinata: But, just one night couldn't be so wrong. You make me wanna lose control.

She said as her eyes began to flash red.
Naruto: So was soooooo shy.

He said as Hinata finched when he reached for her, then he pulled her closer and leaned her down.
Naruto: Till I drooooove her wild.

Naruto pulled Hinata's hand and made her spin away from him before she stopped herself in a suggestive pose.
Naruto: I make them good girls go bad. I make them good girls go bad.
Hinata: I was hangin' the corner with my five best friends, I heard that you were trouble, but I couldnt resist.
Naruto: I make them good girls go bad, I make them good girls go-
Raizen: Girls go bad-
Neji: Bad-
JJ: Bad-
Naruto: Good girls go bad-
Choji: Bad-
Lee: Bad-
Naruto: Good girls goooooooooooooooooooooooooooh.

He said as the other boys gathered at his side.
Boys: She got a way with the boys in the place, treat em like they don't stand a chance!

Hinata's friends gathered at her side as well as she continued.
Girls: And he got a way with the girls in the back acting like they're too hot to dance.
Boys: Yeah she's got a way with the boys in the place, treat em like they don't stand a chance.
Girls: And he's got a way with the girls in the place actin' like they're too hot to dance.
Naruto: I make them good girls go bad-
Boys: She's got a way with boys in the place treat em like they don't stand a chance.
Naruto/Hinata: I make them girls go, them good girls go baaaaaaaaaaad!

Suddenly the world snapped back to reality and JJ stood staring at Naruto with confusion written all over his face as Naruto stopped singing.
JJ: What the hell are you doing?

He asked with a question mark over his head. Naruto looked away and saw that he was standing on the second floor of the chunin exams arena and everyone of the people there with him were staring at him. Naruto away and said silently.
Naruto: Well I do.

He replied making Hinata blush at his comment, JJ looked back at Hinata and thought back to how she was mere moments ago before he shrugged and said.
JJ: Yeah I guess you're right, pound it.

He commanded as he held his fist out toward Naruto, then knocked his fist into JJ's with a smile.
Mika: Boys are so stupid.

She said as she consoled Hinata who had tears in her eyes as she whispered.
Hinata: I'm not a bad girl.

Omake 5 end.

Omake theater closed.


JJ: Well now that that's out of the way, it's time once again for-

Character introduction corner.
JJ: And our guest today is.
Sakura: Wait a minute!

She said as she slid on screen.
Sakura: Why do you get to do the introduction?
JJ: Well, I was here first. And where is Ino-chan?
Ino: Here, I was sleepy backstage until forehead girl came and started yelling like an idiot.
Sakura: Hey don't start with me!
JJ: And our guest today is Raizen Aname!
Sakura: See thanks to you he finished the introduction.
Ino: It's your fault for getting all riled up.
JJ: ...sigh...
Raizen: Are they always like that on set?
JJ: Pretty much. To start things off, tell us your stats.
Raizen: Alright.

Strength: Since I began training it's 17.
Endurance: 14.
Speed: Unmeasurable.
Weapon skill: 16.
Chakra: 20, since I can recharge it.
Ninjutsu: 18.
Genjutsu: 0.
Taijutsu: 17.

That's it.
Ino: Wow, you're pretty good then.
Raizen: Yeah and I'm not even counting the power of my Rai-kami sharingan.
Sakura: Yeah you're pretty cool I guess.
Ino: You're blushing.
Sakura: Shut up!!!!
JJ: Tell us about your weapons.
Raizen: These? Well this is my shuriken, it's a family heirloom. It's made from a metal that conducts and amplifies electricity based charka, which is perfect for members of the Aname clan. By reversing the polarity of my own electric signature, I can either bring it to me or drag me to it through simulated teleportation. It can open and be used as a Shuriken, but because it's roughly three feet long, when closed it can be used as a sword. Now this-

He said holding up a long broadsword with a smile on his face.
Raizen: This is an executioner blade like my master's, but this one is totally blunt and can't be used as a sword. Instead I use it like a hammer. Because of my training I can carry it with ease. However if I use some of my berserker strength it gets much lghter, like swinging a stick.
Sakura: Oh yeah, Raizen why don't you tell us about the berserker power.
Raizen: Oh, the first time I ever became a berserker it was because someone important to me after I came to the village was killed. And they tortured her first, before they left her for dead. I broke out of the village and hunted them down and when I found them I managed to kill three on my own, but I was quickly over powered. Then I blacked out, and when I awoke they were dead and I was covered in their blood. After that I came back own and tried to supress the urge to snap, but I wound up doing it again, which is why Kiba knew about it. I usually stopped myself from snapping, but Zabuza-sensei wanted me to control it. Therefore he made me snap and forced me to "keep my eyes open." After a hearty pummeling I finally managed to do it. However, I can only control it if I closed my eyes, my mask helps with that. However, I can only release it in moderation, I use percentages to measure it. At th moment I can only go to about 20%, any higher and I might lose control.

He said looking down at the fox mask with a smile.
Ino: You have really stong electrical powers. How far does that go?
Raizen: Well, I can discharge up to 1 million volts of power, but that's in my Rai-kami sharingan state. If I do discharge that much though it expends all of my chakra. However if there is any my residing chakra or electricity in the area after my attack I can completely recharge my chakra with no damage to my body at all.
Sakura: What about your sharingan?
Raizen: I don't train my normal sharingan that much, mostly because it reminds me of someone I hate. However, I do train my Rai-kami sharingan. If I use that sharingan I become stronger and my speed evelates to a unmatchable state. As well as giving me the ability to control lightning from even the heavens themselves.

JJ: Yeah now for the fourth wall breaking moment. When I came up with Raizen his biggest purpose was simply to be someone who filled Naruto's spot on team 7. Which is why he got hurt in the first chapter. That was supposed to be when Naruto was placed on team 7 and continued on in the story until Raizen was healed by Tsunade. However, that made it feel like I was halfassing it and being lazy. So gave him an actually ersonally, and I found that I like the results. One of the reason for the racing omake was for fun and to let everyone know that I am a big Sonic the hedgehog fan and that as unbelievable as it may be. Raizen was inspired by him. There are going to be more obvious shows of this later in the story, but not now. Raizen quickly became my favorite OC and that is the reason why his background is so much more detailed than most of the others. His growing strength and presence are much more defined than in the original draft, there have been many changes since then, but I won't go into them now.

Raizen: Whoa, I didn't even know that.
JJ: Well now you know.
Ino: And knowing half the battle.

Everyone opened their mouths for something then closed them and thought.
Ino: I feel like something is supposed to go there.
JJ: Me too.
Raizen: Ugh, now this is going to bug me for the rest of the day.
Sakura: Didn't we do that joke already?
Raizen: That's about it on me.
JJ: Everything else about Raizen will appear in the story later on.
Ino: So to all of you out there.
Sakura: The curtain closes once again.
Raizen: To all our fans.
JJ: Shine eternal!

They said as they bowed and the lights dimmed on them closing the introduction corner once again.