Chapter 18 revelation

Me: Hello everyone, I am back with an all new chapter of, dun Dun DUN, HIDDEN LOVE! I bet your wondering how I got rid of the fan girls, well, let's just say I'm an expert liar… and that Mizuki now wants my blood. Now since Sasuke died, I needed to replace him with someone so I got one of my main characters, Sakura!

Sakura: WAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH! SASUKE-KUN! *Holds a picture of team seven with Naruto and Kakashi cut out*

Me: Um… Sakura-Chan…

Sakura: WAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH! HOW COULD YOU DIE!

Me: Sakura-Chan, can you please do disclaimers.

Sakura: SHUT THE FUCK UP! CAN'T YOU SEE I'M BUSY MOURNING SASUKE-KUN'S DEATH!

Me: *Sigh* I don't own Naruto or any of its franchises.

Sakura: WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!

Me: Maybe I should've picked someone else.

♣Storystart♣

Gamabunta and Shukaku stared at each other, watching their move closer, for any muscle twitches, any breathing, any movement what so ever.

Gamabunta did notice the fact that Shukaku's belly seems to be getting bigger and bigger the more he breathes. Shikaku raised his arm and Gamabunta readied himself.

"WIND STYLE: AIR BULLET!" Shukaku hit his stomach and shot a giant compressed ball of air.

Gamabunta barely dodged it in time.

"WATER STYLE: LIQUID BULLET!" Gamabunta shot three giant compressed ball of water at Shukaku who dodged it with ease.

"Is that all you got! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! You're weak!" Shukaku shot more air bullets at Gamabunta who also continue to shot liquid bullet and countered the air bullets.

Naruto growled. 'Damn it, this is going nowhere!' "Yo, Gamabunta, can't you do something else!"

"Like what!"

"I don't know, something! Argh!" Naruto grip his head tightly. 'There has to be a simpler way to defeat him!'

Gamabunta thought for a while. "Yo, Naruto!..." he dodged another air bullet. "Do you know any fire style jutsus?" he asked.

"Fire style? Whoa!" Naruto used chakra to stick to Bunta. "No, I'm a wind type user! Sasuke knows some but he's unconscious!" Naruto yelled.

Bunta sighed in exasperation.

"What's the matter you stupid frog, tired already? Don't worry; I'll put you out of your misery very SOON!" Shukaku shot another air bullet at Bunta who quickly counter with his own bullet.

"Damn it, no time for this! Just try to think of a plan! I'll keep this guy busy!" Bunta said, shooting a liquid bullet at Shukaku who jumped to the left.

"AIR BULLET!" Bunta jumped at the nick of time and several trees where ripped from the ground. "AIR BULLET!" he shot three air bullets.

"LIQUID BULLET!" he shot two bullets, not seeing the third, the four bullets collided, making it seems like its raining. "Close one…" Bunta sighed, before the third bullet hit him square in the face.

"HAHAHAHAHAHA! I GOT YOU! I GOT YOU SON OF A BITCH!" Shukaku laughed.

"That's it…" Shukaku stopped laughing when he sat Bunta stand up from plummeting to the ground. "I'm going all out, I won't hold back anymore."

"Ha! You, hold back? Don't joke around ya old toad! I'm going rip you to shred!" Shukaku laughed.

Bunta took out his tanto. "Try it…"

(Chunin arena)

"LIGHTING BLADE!" Kakashi thrust a lighting blade through a guy chest. "FIRE STYLE: FIREBALL JUTSU!" several sound and sand Nin got scorched. "EARTH STYLE: HEADHUNTER JUTSU!" Kakashi went underground and several guys went underground also, where other ninjas finished them.

Kakashi panted. "There's so many of them, I'm starting to run out of chakra." he said. One of the Nin sneak up behind Kakashi and was about to slash him.

"DYNAMIC ENTRY!" that was, before Gai kicked him in the face, sending him to a wall. "Kakashi, you need to watch your surroundings, you almost got-"

"Yeah yeah Gai, now's not the time to be yelling things out loud, we have to concentrate on defeating this people." and with that, Kakashi ran off, leaving behind a really disappointed Gai.

'Damn you Kakashi and your hip attitude!' he thought. And ran off to youthfully punch and/or kick someone.

Neji was holding them off easily, quickly disable them, and tell them there are failures and their destiny are to lose this fight, rush to someone else, and do the same thing, it was a long process but it was worth it to see their hopeless face.

Neji hit another guy in the chest, immediately disabling him. "Did you actually though you could defeat me, the prodigy of the Hyuuga clan, apparently you haven't done your homework on the Hyuuga clan because of you did, you would've known that-"

"AW FUCK I GOT THE ONE WHO BRINGS PEOPLE DOWN! SON OF A BITCH! WHY DO YOU HATE ME KAMI-SAMA! I JUST WANTED ENOUGH MONEY TO FEED MY WIFE AND KIDS AND WHAT DO I GET! MY FINAL MOMENTS I GET ELECTED IN THIS FATE SHIT BY THIS STUPID THIRTEEN YEAR OLD BOY! WHAT KIND OF LIFE IS THAT! I MEAN SERIOSULY! SERIOUSLY! I RATHER BEEN RUN OVER BY A STAMPEDE OF ELEPHANT! AT LEAST THEY WON'T GO ON ABOUT MY DESTINY BEING TO DIE BY BEING RUN OVER BY THEM…" and the guy went on and on and on until Neji got enough and left the man to his death, and even then the guy didn't stop.

Hinata was sleeping, a lot of guys keeping their distances from her due to her 'ability' to change your personality with one hit to the brain… they like their personality.

"Alright, move it! What's going on here!" a guy pushed through the crowd to see Hinata sleeping. "Guys! She's sleeping! Attack her!"

"We can't! Every time someone gets near her it's like her brain detects enemy and controls her body and attack our brain cells! Turning us to different peoples." one of them said.

"Nonsense, you guys are just scared of killing a little girl, I'll take care of her." the idiotic guy said as he walked towards Hinata.

"NOOOOOO! DON'T!" everyone yelled but it was too late, the guy already walked in front of Hinata, he raised his kunai and before he could stab her, Hinata quickly sat up and hit his forehead with a gentle strike, the whole time her eyes being close.

"Hanabi-Chan… stays away…" she said before collapsing to the chair (No incest).

The guys shook slightly before stopping and looked around for a while. "Whoa! What's going on here!" he asked.

"Um… a war sir, an invasion." one of them said with a confused expression.

"An invasion, who's attacking us?" the guy asked.

"No one, we're attacking them." he answered.

"What! I'm invading someone? Sorry, can't be a part of this, I'll just have to take you down." the guy hunched over. "AAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" he screamed, almost as if he's trying to power up (Hint Hint).

Everyone looked at themselves, shrugged and attacked the guy; sadly the guy seemed to be really skill as he took care of them all without getting touched.

"Don't you guys know who I am?" he asked.

"No…" they answered weakly.

"I am-" whatever he was going to say, it was cut off by Hiashi who killed him.

"No…" everyone moaned in pain for not knowing who their captain turned to and died on the spot.

Hiashi looked at the sleeping Hinata. "How can she sleep at a time like this?" he asked. He went to grab her but since her brain consisted him an enemy, she strike him, luckily for him he was able to redirect the strike somewhere else, sadly for him, it was in every man's weakness.

Hiashi collapse, his pride forever destroyed by his own daughter.

Ino's body is being protected by Choji, whoever got closed to him got sent to orbit, if it's a girl… he just throw them somewhere else as he is still not comfortable hitting girls. Ino, she took over a guy's body and was killing his comrade, leaving them wondering why he betrayed them for.

'Dumbasses, having mind transfer is such a useful jutsu.' Ino thought inside the man's body. She came to a woman and as she's about to reach her weapon the woman smiled at him.

"Glad you're still alive, wouldn't want you dead." she said, she quickly grabbed the man and gave him a quick kiss…On the lips.

Ino was stun, on one hand she was mad because that woman stole her first kiss and now she wants to kill her, on the other hand she knows this two are going out, if they weren't that would just be odd, and despite the fact they are enemies, she didn't have it in her to end their relationship, she quickly made her hand sign.

"Release!" she yelled and returned to her body. She sighed. 'I'm so weak…' she thought.

"You ok Ino?" Choji asked her before punching a guy and sending him to the sand village.

"I'm fine…" Ino thought and looked for someone else to take over. "MIND TRANSFER JUTSU!" she slumped back to her chair and Choji went back to protecting her, and Ino went back to killing her enemies/comrades.

Shikamaru controlled several people, making them kill their comrades, make them kill themselves, rest, then do it all over again.

Though he was having problem with this guy since he seems to be able to resist some of his actions

'This guy is too troublesome… I can't even kill him before he resist more, and I can't throw a kunai at him because then he'll do the same to me and I'll have to dodge, which will make him dodge, and if I release, he'll try to kill me, seeing me as a formidable foe, and to top it off, I'm running out of chakra. This is really troublesome.' Shikamaru thought.

"Let me… go… you stupid brat…" the guy thought.

Shikamaru said nothing. He just stood there… and did nothing… and nothing… and nothing… and nothing… and-

"DAMN IT DO SOMETHING!" the man yelled, Shikamaru grabbed a kunai and threw at him, the man doing the same towards Shikamaru, Shikamaru and the guy dodged it.

"There, I did something, now can you leave me alone, you're too troublesome." he said.

"DAMN IT! DO SOMETHING ELSE! LIKE RELEASING ME!" the guy yelled.

"I won't do that, if I do, you'll just kill me then try to kill my friend." Shikamaru said, he spread another shadow and caught another man and forced him to walk towards the two of them.

"H-hey. What's going on here?" the guy asked. Shikamaru forced the two of them to draw too kunais and made them turn to each other.

"Ha! I can resist you easily, you can't make me kill my comrade." the first guy said with a confident smirk.

"No, but that guy seem extremely scared, and when he's like that, he is easy to control." Shikamaru said and before the first guy could say another, Shikamaru swing his arms, making the second guy cut open the first guy throat.

"Oh no, I killed a guy whose name escape me at the moment!" the second guy yelled then he killed himself, courtesy of Shikamaru.

Shikamaru sat down while rubbing his arm. "How troublesome." he muttered.

Kiba fang over fanged someone. 'Damn it, I need to do better, after my defeat, everyone keeps calling me loser and after Naruto's second win, I could already imagine his popularities with the girls.' Kiba thought in anger.

(Worst-case scenario)

Naruto was laughing with several girls around him in a way that would remind you of the way Jiraiya would laugh in a bar.

"Ladies, ladies, one at a time." Naruto laughed. They were currently asking him several question and truth be told, he enjoyed the attention.

"Naruto-kun! It was so cool the way you defeated that Haku girl and the way you took care of some of those Ninja in the invasion with no problem what so ever." one of them squeal.

"Thanks, but the real moment I started to shine was when I defeated Kiba's ass." he said.

"Who?" one of them asked with a questioning glance.

"Oops, sorry, I forgot you don't bother to remember retards." they all started to laughed before Naruto picked up a lighted lighter and threw it at a shrine of Kiba in which a supposed 'fan-girl' made for him.

They all continue to laugh while staring at Kiba burn.

(Scene end)

Kiba looked even more infuriated as soon as he was finished. 'I won't let that happen.' he thought.

"That guy seemed pretty lucky." an enemy said next to Kiba.

"He won't get to that point, I'll defeat everyone here and they'll think of me as the hotshot, not that loser." Kiba said.

"That'll be tough guy." the enemy said.

"What are you…?" Kiba stopped, seeing himself surrounded by several guys and woman, grinning evilly at him. "Uh… is there a chance we can have a civil conversation about this?" Kiba asked, they all shook their heads and dived at Kiba.

"AAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

(With Naruto)

Bunta jumped back from a torrent of sand that almost stabbed him then tried to slash Shukaku but got blocked by his sand and thrown back.

"Damn it Naruto, Have you thought up something yet?"Bunta asked.

"Shut it! I'm still trying to think, everything you do is being reflected and I'm… just not sure how to get close to him!" Naruto yelled.

Gamabunta sighed. "Well you better think of something soon, this guy is regaining more of his strength, if this keeps up, he'll be able to bury the whole leaf village in sand, he'll be worse than the time the Nine-Tails attacked." Bunta said.

A light bulb shined on Naruto's head. "The Nine-Tails! Gamabunta, do you think we can transform ourselves into the Nine-Tails!" Naruto asked.

"Mh… I don't want-" Bunta was interrupted when Shukaku hit him with another Air bullet.

"Hahaha! Take that dumbass! You can't compare yourself to me! I'm one of the Tailed-Beast!" Shukaku laughed.

Bunta shook his head. "Let's kick his ass." he said.

Naruto made the reverse ram and while Gamabunta inserted his chakra and they both poof.

Shukaku stood there, staring at the smoke before he heard a growl, one all too familiar.

Out of the smoke came the Nine-tailed fox, growling at Shukaku.

"K-Kyuubi?" Shukaku asked, surprised.

Kyuubi growled at him again before pouncing on Shukaku, biting his arm.

"AHHHHHHH!" Shukaku screamed in pain.

Kyuubi continue to growl, even by biting him. Suddenly it transformed into Gamabunta and Naruto who jumped on his arms and started to run towards Garra but before that could happen, he got hit by a torrent of sand.

"Gah!" Naruto fell down his hand but quickly grip it. "Damn it!" Naruto prepare himself to run but got hit again by sand.

Shukaku threw Bunta off of him. "Haha! You tried to impersonate the Nine-tails? How pathetic!" Shukaku shoot more air bullet at Bunta who countered with liquid bullets.

"Damn it!" Naruto continue to run towards the top of Shukaku's head but sand continue to hit him, either pushing him back or slowing him down. Naruto growled. 'This is starting to piss me off.' he thought. He made a cross. "SHADOW CLONE JUTSU!" hundreds of clones appeared and rushed towards the still sleeping Garra but sand quickly got rid of more than half of them. "KEEP GOING!" the original Naruto yelled.

Shukaku laughed. "Try all you want kid! You can't beat me! Why don't you just give up and accept death." Shukaku laughed before firing another air bullet at Bunta which again hit him. "Haha! Take that you stupid dissecting project!" Bunta grumbled annoyingly.

"Grrr." Naruto growled. He looked at Sakura whose face of twisted in pain. 'Sakura-Chan…' then at Sakura who also looked to be in pain. 'Sasuke… I can't give up.' he made the cross again. "MULTI SHADOW CLONE JUTSU!" he made another couple hundreds clones. "CHAAAAAAAARGE!" all the clones gave a battle cry before charging towards Garra.

"All too easy." Shukaku said, and in the next second, they all vanished. Naruto falling roughly on his back.

'Shit…' Naruto thought. 'This is harder than I thought…' Naruto looked at Gamabunta to see him try to slash him with his tanto but to no avail as Shukaku constantly tries to keep his distances and shots more air bullets.

"Why the hell can't I help them?" Naruto asked himself. "Come on; pull any chakra I have left." Naruto put his hand together and focused to get his chakra but instead of his own, he got the nine-tails. 'Huh?' Naruto looked at his chakra with confusion.

"I'm lending you my chakra for now; kick that one-tailed raccoon's ass!" Kyuubi yelled, Naruto nodded and pulled the amount he could control.

Naruto glared at Garra. "Alright, you're finish!" Naruto charged at Garra but he got hit by sand again. "This is ridiculous!" He made several hand seal. "WIND STYLE: AIR BULLET!" he blew a big ball of air at Garra; it hit him in the chest.

Garra's eyes fluttered open for a bit.

Shukaku looked surprised. "Damn it!" Bunta used that second of distraction by charging at Shukaku and cut his arms off. "Double damn!" Shukaku yelled while holding his 'bleeding' arm.

As soon as Naruto noticed Shukaku distracted, he charged at Garra once more.

"Garra!" Naruto yelled as he threw a punch at Garra.

Garra dodged the punch but wasn't able to dodge the head butt, fully awakening him.

Shukaku started to melt. "I'm melting! Melting! Damn it, Garra, I said I'm melting! Go to sleep!" and all those pile of sand fell to the floor, including the ones holding Sasuke and Sakura.

Garra and Naruto started to fall, Garra landed on a soft bed of sand, Naruto fell head first into a thick tree trunk.

"Freaking tree trunk! Going against me!" Naruto yelled at the tree trunk, punching it several times. Naruto quickly turned his attention Garra who already stood up.

"How?" Garra asked. "How can you defeat me, I have the Shukaku at my side, I fight to prove my existence! How could you possibly defeat me!" Garra asked.

"Because… unlike you… I'm…" Naruto glared at Garra intensely. "Fighting… to protect my friends…"

Garra growled. "Why?... why do you got friends! Why is it that I have to go through the turmoil and you didn't!" he asked.

Naruto didn't answer, he just continue to look at Garra. "I was the same as you…" he said. "I used to hate everyone… wishing that they would stop hurting me… I know how it feels like to be hated, to be unwanted; I know it so much its painful." Naruto grip his chest, almost as if he's in pain. "You don't have to think about yourself; don't your sister and brother care for you?"

Garra looked down. "They are afraid of me."

"Oh… well…" Naruto scratched his head. "That doesn't mean you have to kill to prove your existence, if you're really that desperate for a friend, I'll be your friend." Naruto said with a smile.

"Really?" Garra asked in shock. "Even though I almost killed your friends, interrupted the chunin exam, practically destroyed a huge part of the village and called you the 'weakest pussy ever to exist'?" Garra asked.

A wind blew in their way.

"Wha?" Naruto asked with a confused expression.

"Yes, I would enjoy it… if you became my friend." he said.

Naruto smiled. 'That was easier that I thought.' Naruto thought.

"But if you think of betraying me, I'll kill you on the spot." Garra threaten, going back to his cold personality.

Naruto sweat dropped. 'Or maybe not.'

"Garra!" they both turned to see Temari and Kankuro jumping towards them.

"Temari… Kankuro…" Garra said with shock.

"Oh, hey gu-" Naruto was cut off by a punch by Temari.

"You bastard! Beating my little brother!" she yelled.

"But I-" Naruto didn't even get to finish as Temari grabbed her fan from Sakura and started to beat the living hell out of Naruto.

"I will never forgive you for hurting my brother! You bastard!" She yelled while beating.

"Please! Listen to me!" Naruto yelled.

Kankuro simply helped Garra stand. "You ok?" he asked.

Garra looked at Temari in shock before looking down. "I'm… sorry…" he asked.

Temari stopped and looked at Garra in shock. "You're apologizing?" she asked.

Garra nodded. "I hope you won't hate me." he said.

Kankuro continue to stare at Garra as if he seen a ghost, Temari on the other hand smiles.

"It's fine Garra…" she said, and then continue to beat Naruto as if nothing happened.

"Oh come on!" Naruto yelled in pain.

Everyone who was in the stadium kept fighting for a while.

"Garra of the sand has been defeated! Retreat!" a random Sound Nin yelled.

Everyone started to run away as everyone in the leaf stared at them.

Hinata finally woke up from her nap and stretched. "I wonder what put me to sleep." she yawned and rubbed her eyes, she look around to find the several dead bodies around her. She quickly turned green. "That's not something I'd like to wake up to." she muttered to herself and ran off before she threw up.

Kakashi panted, sitting next to Gai. "How much did you kill?" he asked.

"At least a hundred?" he said with a wide grin. "And what about you? How much did you kill?"

"How the hell am I supposed to know? I don't count when I kill people, what kind of unyouthful person would do that?" Kakashi asked with a glare.

Gai went pale… then burst into tears. "You're right! My flame of youth is quickly diminishing! I must regain my flames of youth as much as I can!" he stood and ran off, despite the fact that he just been in an invasion.

Asuma, as always, was smoking his cigarette. "Well that was fun, but I wonder what happened to the old man, haven't seen him at all." Asuma said, after a moment he shrugged. "I'm sure he's fine. He didn't become the third hokage for nothing." he said and continues to smoke.

Kiba was lying on the ground, defeated and humiliated. "I can't believe I let myself get beat up… I'm in so much pain… it's not funny…" he groaned, Shino came to him.

"Kiba-san, what happen?" he asked.

Kiba groaned. "I was too busy cursing Naruto and planning my revenge that I…" he stopped, seeing Shino gone. "WHY THE HELL DID YOU LEAVE! I'M IN A LOT OF PAIN HERE!" he screamed to the sky.

Ino was resting in the chair, almost out of chakra. She gave a smile. "I can't believe I killed so many people, my mind transfer jutsu really is useful." she said.

"Ino-san!" she turned to see Hinata towards her.

"Hinata! I see you aren't injured." Ino said with a smile.

Hinata looked around with a worried expression. "What happened?" she asked.

Ino blinked. "What do you mean what happened?" Ino asked. "We were in an invasion, what happened to you?"

Hinata blushed. "Um… I, uh… kind of… fell asleep." she admitted.

Ino had her mouth gaping open. "You fell asleep while they were an invasion, how did you not die?" Ino asked.

"That's what I'm wondering, I woke up and they were several dead bodies around me." she said.

"Mh…" Ino took a thinking pose. "Oh! I know!" Ino lean to whisper to Hinata. "Maybe you got a secret admirer." she said with a sly smile.

Hinata blushed. "I don't know… are you sure?" she poked her fingers together.

"Of course, I mean, what over reason would you not die when you were asleep in an invasion?" Ino asked.

Hinata twiddle her fingers. "I'm just… not sure…" Hinata admitted. Ino groaned.

Kurenai was walking around, looking for everyone that is alive and who is dead.

"What a mess this turned out to be." Kurenai whispered to herself. Soon she noticed Kiba on the floor. She quickly ran towards him. "Kiba, are you ok!" she asked.

Kiba looked at her. "Yeah I'm fine, I'm just lucky that Garra got defeated, otherwise I would've been dead." Kiba explained.

Kurenai nodded in understandment. She left to look for more survivors.

"Hey! I can't move! Can you at least help me! KURENAI-SENSEI!"

Kurenai found the other jonins. "I see you guys didn't die." she told them.

Kakashi gave her an eye smile. "Yep, you didn't actually expect one of us to die now did you?" he asked.

Kurenai chuckled. "No no, I just thought with you guys strength, you would've gone easy on them, which would've gotten you kill." she said.

Asuma chuckled.

Haku was lying onto Shikamaru's back, panting.

"That was a workout…" Haku said, she turned and smile at Shikamaru. "Don't you think?" she asked.

"No… it was too troublesome." he said.

Haku frowned. "Would it kill you to show some excitement?' she asked.

"Mh…" Shikamaru grunted.

"Geez…" Haku grumbled under her breath. 'Sakura got lucky that she claimed Naruto-kun first… but who would be able to replace Naruto-kun?' she took a thinking pose.

(With Naruto)

Sakura's eyes slowly fluttered open; she looked into the eyes of Sasuke.

"Sakura, your awake." he said and stepped back.

Sakura sat up but as soon as she did, she grips her chest. "Owww… why does my chest hurt?" she asked.

"Probably because of the sand hands that was holding us." Sasuke answered, also feeling pain in his chest.

Sakura looked around. "Where's Naruto-kun?" Sakura asked.

"I don't know, but I don't see Garra, and I don't see Naruto, so they probably died." he said. Before he knew it, he receives a punch on the head.

"Naruto-kun is not dead, you hear retard!" she yelled at him.

"Ok ok, geez." Sasuke rubbed his head. "Let's look for him then." Sakura nodded. They were about to jump before they started hearing voices.

"And this is for head butting Garra!" they heard something getting hit.

"OW!" a familiar scream echo through the forest.

"And this is for not taking me seriously!"

"OW! SON OF A-"

Sakura's eyes widen. "That's Naruto-kun!" she jumped faster to the source, Sasuke following close behind.

They both came to a horrifying sight… well for Sakura at least.

Temari was on top of Naruto, occasionally punching his head when she name a reason for punching his head, by the bumps on his head, there been a lot of reasons.

"And this is for-" Temari was saying.

"DYNAMIC ENTRY!" to Naruto and Sakura's surprise, it was Sasuke who gave Temari that kick to the face. Sasuke turned to Naruto. "Are you o-?"

"NARUTO-KUN!" Sakura tackled Naruto. "Are you ok! How much are you hurt! Why do you have sand all over you! Why are you letting her hit you! Will you survive!" Sakura asked these entire questions in one breath.

"Sakura-Chan! Breathe!" Naruto said, shaking Sakura by the shoulder.

Sakura did that. She glared at Temari. "Why are you hurting Naruto-kun? Do you want to die?" She asked.

"Ha! As if you could beat me." Temari said.

Sakura took a threatening step forward but Naruto grabbed her arm.

"Don't bother Sakura-Chan." he said.

"But Naruto-kun-"

"Don't worry, I'm fine, let's go back." he said, grabbing Sakura's hand.

Sakura sighed and glared at Temari one more time before jumping away, along with Naruto and Sasuke.

They jumped in silent for a while; Sakura was the one to finally break the silent.

"Naruto-kun, what happened while we were knocked out?" She asked her boyfriend.

"Mh?" Naruto raised an eyebrow. "Oh yeah! When you got knocked out, me and Garra fought for a while before he got pissed and unleashed the One-tailed raccoon, I had to summon Gamabunta, which is the Chief Toad, and me and him battled again, I was able to beat the One-Tailed raccoon by waking Garra up, which is how the Raccoon got out and defeated him." Naruto explained with a smile.

Silent fell on them again.

"So…" Sasuke started. "What you are saying is… you fought a Tailed beast and not only have you survive, but you defeated him and decided not to kill him?" Sasuke asked.

"Mh? Oh no, Garra is my friend." Naruto said with a large smile.

"Mh hm, yes, a friend that tried to kill us, you, your friend and tried to destroy the leaf village. I so do not see a problem in the relationship." Sasuke said sarcastically.

Naruto narrowed his eyes. "Garra was alone his own life, having no friends, being feared by his brother and sister and most likely his parents… all Garra wanted was a friend, and for someone not to fear him." Naruto said.

"Well if that what he wanted he should've been less creepy." Sasuke stated a matter-of-factly. Only to receive a punch on the head by Sakura.

"Shut it, Naruto-kun did a great choice, by not killing him, Garra was able to become friend with Naruto-kun, Naruto-kun is the only one who could understand Garra's pain so of course Naruto would become his friend, if only to shield him from the pain." she said.

"See?" Naruto pointed at Sakura. "She understands my motive." he said.

Sasuke rolled his eyes. "We're nearing the stadium, let's land." he said.

They all, landed soundlessly in the entrance and walked inside to fine everyone circled around, staring at the floor.

"Hey everyone!" Naruto called cheerfully. Everyone froze and slowly stared at Naruto. Naruto raised an eyebrow at their sad faces. "Hey, what's wrong?" he asked.

"Naruto…" Kakashi started but stopped, he looked at the same spot.

Naruto tilt his head and walked towards them, looking at what they were looking and was shocked to see Hiruzen there.

"Hey… why is the old man sleeping?" Naruto asked, almost nervously.

"Naruto…" Kakashi started again.

"Someone should wake him up, he has a job to do right?" he reached for the Third but Kakashi grabbed his arm.

"Naruto… he's dead…" he said.

Naruto looked at Kakashi in shock. "Wha?" he asked.

"It's true…" he turned to Kurenai. "There was no pulse, Jiraiya and Tsunade saw the whole thing." she said.

Naruto turned to Tsunade and Jiraiya who were avoiding his eyes.

"Sorry Naruto, we couldn't do anything, Orochimaru put a barrier around him and Sarutobi-sensei… we couldn't interfere." Jiraiya said.

"We're sorry." Tsunade said.

Naruto continue to look at them in shocked silent and turned to Hiruzen.

"I can't believe… he's actually dead… the… old man…" the fatigue of his fight with Garra finally caught up with him as he started to sway from left and right. "Jiji…" he fell unconscious.

"Naruto-kun!" Sakura, Haku and Hinata yelled. "Jinx!" Sakura yelled.

(Several hours later)

Light shined in a hospital, where some people were standing around a single bed.

Naruto was lying in the bed with some bandages around him; Sakura was the closest one standing near him. Hinata and Haku would too but Sakura growled at them like a hungry dog protecting its food.

Sasuke was sitting on a chair, brooding as usual.

Kakashi was standing near the bed, watching Naruto and making sure a certain pink-haired kunoichi doesn't do any stupid.

Naruto groaned, everyone immediately leaned in, even Sasuke who jumped out of his chair and leaned in to see if Naruto is waking up.

Naruto slowly open one eye and tried to adjust to the light. When he was done adjusting, he looked around to see everyone very uncomfortably close to his face.

Naruto didn't comment on that; he simply just sat up, looking down.

"Naruto-kun?" Sakura asked with a worried expression.

"The old man is actually dead." he said.

"Naruto, we're all just as sad as you." Kakashi said.

"No! You guys don't understand. He was the only person who acted nice to me when no one gave a crap about me. The one who protected me, the one who helped me during my down times…" Naruto closed his eyes tight, tears falling down. "He was like a grandfather to me." he whispered to himself.

No one said anything; Sakura put her arms around Naruto, trying to comfort him.

Kakashi turned. "Hokage-sama's funeral is going to be tomorrow, I'm sure he'll appreciate it if you came." he said then left.

Naruto continue to look down when Sasuke stood and left without a word.

Hinata bowed. "I'm really sorry for your loss Naruto-kun…" Hinata left after that.

Haku scratched her head awkwardly. "Hope you feel better Naruto-kun." she also left, leaving Sakura and Naruto alone.

"Thanks for saving me Naruto-kun." she said.

Naruto nodded. "At least your still here." he said.

Sakura nodded.

Soon Naruto was let out of the hospital; he and Sakura walked for a while, seemingly aimless until they bump into a couple of familiar faces.

"Naruto?" Tenten asked.

"Hey Tenten, hey Bushy Brows." Naruto greeted half-heartedly.

"Hello Naruto-kun." Lee said, even he wasn't feeling that spirited. "I see your flame of youth is diminishing." he said.

Naruto nodded.

"How weak." everyone turned to Neji. "He's dead, there's no changing that."

"What did you say?" Naruto asked with a glare, Sakura put a hand on his shoulder to try and calm him down.

"The third died, that's fate that was his destiny, the sooner you accept that, the better." Neji continued.

"The better? Aren't you even sad that he died?" Naruto demanded.

"Of course, he was our strong leader. But you simply cannot escape fate, and even if he did survive, the injuries would've most likely killed him." Neji said. Tenten looked at Neji in shock.

"Neji, how could you say that!" Tenten asked.

Naruto growled at Neji. "What the hell is wrong with you! Fate, fate, fate! That's all you ever talk about!" Naruto yelled at him. "Are you looking for a fight!"

"Naruto-kun, relax." Sakura said.

"Mh…" Neji looked away smugly. "As if you could ever defeat me. Don't make me laugh." he said.

"Neji…" Lee said in shock.

Neji moved his head left, avoiding a punch courtesy of Naruto.

Naruto glared hard at Neji while Neji stared back impassively, that infuriate Naruto.

"So you really want to fight me." Neji narrowed his eyes.

Naruto also narrowed his eyes, if that was possible with the way he was glaring at him.

"You're really pissing me off." Naruto said.

"Naruto-kun, please relax." Sakura tried again.

"Stay out of this Sakura." Sakura took a step back due to Naruto's cold voice. "We're fighting in training ground seven."

"Alright, but try not to look so broken once I defeat you." Neji said. Naruto growled while Sakura and Neji's team follow them with a worried expression.

(Training ground seven)

Naruto continue to glare at Neji while Neji had an air of confident around him, Sakura looked from Neji to Naruto to Neji nervously.

"Relax." Tenten said. "I'm sure Neji wouldn't kill Naruto."

"I'm not worried for Naruto; I'm just hoping Naruto doesn't kill Neji for this." Sakura said.

Tenten blinked. "Excuse me?" she asked, trying not to sound rude.

"When Naruto-kun is really angry, he tends not to give mercy to anyone, I just hope he knows when to stop so he doesn't kill Neji." Sakura said, continuing to watch Naruto and Neji.

Tenten got an annoyed. "What makes you say that Neji will be defeated? I know what Neji said was horribly wrong but that doesn't mean he'll lose." Tenten said.

Sakura turned to Tenten, also with an annoyed look. "Apparently you don't know how strong Naruto-kun is."

"Apparently you don't know how strong Neji is!"

"Naruto-kun defeated Garra! Can you precious Neji do that?"

"First of all, he's not my precious; second of all, I bet that if he blocked all of his chakra, he would be able to beat Garra!"

"Oh please! Like he could-"

"LADIES!" they both stopped upon Rock Lee's loud yell. "Please, we are here to watch a youthful battle of this two! Do not fight and watch Naruto-kun and Neji express their flames of youth through a spar!" he yelled.

Both girls sweat dropped. 'Dumbass.' Sakura thought. 'Lee, why?' Tenten thought.

Neji slowly got to his taijutsu stance while Naruto got to his basic one.

"You can't hope to defeat me." Neji said.

"Oh yeah, and why's that?" Naruto asked angrily.

"Because fate has already chosen me as its winner." he answered.

"Mh, what are you a nerd?" Naruto asked with a blank expression, before Neji could answer Naruto charge at him.

Neji just stood there and waited for Naruto to come. Naruto threw a punch but Neji easily dodged it and threw a gentle strike at Naruto's chest but Naruto dropped to the floor and rolled to Neji's back where he threw a roundhouse kick; Neji ducked and kicked Naruto's face.

Naruto stumbled back slightly but that small distraction earned him another strike to the chest which pushed him through the floor.

"Naruto-kun!" Sakura yelled in worry.

"Give up, you can't win." Neji said.

Naruto quickly jumped to his feet. "Screw you! You can't tell me what to do!" Naruto yelled charging at him away. As soon as he reached Neji, he threw a punch which Neji moved his hand to block but Naruto quickly changed from a right hook to a left hook which surprised Neji but not long enough as he blocked it and gentle strike his arm twice.

Naruto grunt in pain and held his useless arm.

"It's over, with one arm useless, you can't do any jutsu, and fighting with one arm will be too easy for me, give up." Neji said with a smug smile.

Tenten also smiled. "See? I told you Neji would win." she said, smirking towards Sakura.

"Please, if you knew Naruto-kun, you'll know that he doesn't give up that easily." Sakura said.

Naruto grinned. "Pfft, weak." red chakra covered his left arm, Neji eyes widen due to not having his byakugan activated and he still could see it.

Tenten and Lee were also in a state of shock.

"Red chakra! How does Naruto have red chakra!" she asked.

"Naruto-kun's flame of youth must be so strong that it shows in his chakra!" Rock Lee yelled.

Sakura sweat dropped. "Yeeeeaaahh, no." she replied.

"So you know?" Tenten asked Sakura.

"Yep."

"Then why is he's chakra red?"

"Not telling."

"You bitch!"

Neji finally activated his byakugan and to his further shock his chakra points opened again, Naruto started to flex his arm.

"Ahhh, there, much better…" Naruto glared at Neji again. "Now then…" he made a cross. "SHADOW CLONE JUTSU!" dozens of Naruto appeared.

Neji got over his shock and glared at all the other Naruto's. "Just try and touch me." he said.

They all glared at him and charged at him, screaming. Tenten smirked and so did Sakura, Rock Lee's eyes shine in amazement.

"EIGHT TRIGRAMS: ROTATION!" Neji spin rapidly, releasing chakra from every part of his body, creating a dome. All the Naruto's crashed on the dome of chakra and vanished.

Neji stopped and to his surprised, Naruto was in front of him.

"Got you!" he threw another kick, hitting Neji's ribcage. Neji skid a couple of feet away. "Heh! How 'bout that! Did you 'fate' foresee me kicking your ass?" Naruto yelled at Neji in triumph.

Neji stared at Naruto impassively. "One kick doesn't change the fact that you will lose. Just give up."

"I don't know the meaning of the word, 'give up'." Naruto said.

"Ever heard of a dictionary loser?" Neji asked. While Tenten laughed, Sakura frowned.

Naruto growled at Neji. "I'm not that dumb! Don't underestimate me!" Naruto made several hand sign. "WIND STYLE: AIR BULLET!" he blew a large ball of compressed air at Neji who jumped out of the way. "WIND STYLE: GREAT BREAKTHROUGH!"

Neji covered his eyes as several sands and grass got blown to him, when he uncovered him he once again saw Naruto in front of him, a fist cocked back.

Naruto threw the fist which Neji caught and threw him over his shoulder and gentle strike his whole torso.

Naruto fell to the floor with a heavy thud and he struggle to stand up. 'Damn it! Kyuubi, help me!' he thought.

"Mh, no thanks."

'You bastard.' Naruto still stood, despite his injuries, he glared at Neji.

"It's over, give. up." Neji said with a disgusted look. 'Why can't he see that fate has it for him to lose to me?'

"I'll never give up… not to someone like you." Naruto said with some struggle.

"Please, why can't you just accept fate?" Neji asked.

"Screw the fate!" Naruto yelled. "Fate doesn't control me! Fate doesn't control anyone!"

"Pfft…" Neji looked away in disgust. "You're simply in denial."

"No you're in denial!" Naruto yelled back. "What the hell happened to you that made you like this?" Naruto asked.

Neji looked down, a moment of distraction. But Naruto choose not to take it. "It's none of your concern." Neji got to his gentle fist stance. "I'm gonna finish this in one go."

Naruto glared at Neji. "That's it, I had it with you!" he ran towards Neji again.

Neji continue to stand, he soon got in a low crouch.

Tenten and Lee were shock.

"He's not going to use that will he!" Tenten asked.

"I believe so Tenten!" Lee said.

"What is that?" Sakura asked.

"You'll see." Tenten said grimly, which surprised Sakura since she was bragging to her a couple of minutes ago.

Naruto made some shadow clones and had them all got around Neji, all at once they made the same hand sign. "WIND STYLE: AIR BULLET!" he blew compressed air at Neji.

"ROTATION!" Neji spin and stopped the attack, he soon stopped spinning and saw all the Naruto diving towards him.

"You're mine!" they all threw a punch at the same place but instead of them punching Neji they punched a log. "Shit." Naruto cursed.

"You in my division." they turned to see Neji in the same stance as before. "EIGHT TRIGRAM: TWO PALMS!" Naruto grunt as he felt the pain of the first two hits. "FOUR PALMS! EIGHT PALMS!" Naruto cried in pain. "SIXTEEN PALM! THIRTY-TWO PALMS!" Sakura looked worriedly at Naruto. "SIXTY-FOUR PALMS!" he did one final poke of death before Naruto went flying back and crashed to the floor.

Neji stood straight, looking at Naruto who was struggling to stand. "It's over. I sealed all of your chakra points now you can't use any jutsus, I win, get over it."

Naruto paid Neji no mind as he clapped his hand together. 'Kyuubi, give me chakra now!'

"Now now, is that anyway to ask for favors?" Kyuubi asked.

'Damn it this is no time! I need chakra so that I can beat Neji's ass, now give me some!' Kyuubi groaned in annoyance.

All at once, Naruto unleashed a huge amount of red chakra. The chakra shocked Tenten and Lee, Neji mask his shock rather well while Sakura smirked at Naruto.

"Yep, this match is over." Sakura said.

With enhanced speed, Naruto dashed and appeared behind Neji.

"What!" Neji said in surprised and received a punch to the face. But Naruto didn't stop there.

He dashed towards Neji again, Neji flipped in the air landing safely. He threw his open palm to hit Naruto but Naruto narrowly dodged it and head-butt Neji.

"How 'bout now!" Naruto asked. "Did your supposed fate saw your ass getting kicked? I thought you said my fate was to lose!" Naruto yelled.

Neji stood up slowly then got to his stance. "It doesn't matter how strong you got, fate has it for me to win, there's no changing that." he said.

Naruto growled. "You are the dumbest, most idiotic person I've ever meet! And that's saying something since I know a lot of dumb people! You actually think that fate has anything to do with this!"

"Yes, it is destiny to defeat you." Neji said.

"Is it also fate that I'll convince you that there's no such thing as fate and that nothings control your action?"

"Something does control my action… my brain." Neji replied, a matter-of-factly.

"Sh-shut up! That was a cheap shot!" Naruto yelled with a sweat dropped. "That point is that you're obsessing over this fate crap, almost as if you have a fetish on it or you're a creepy stalker of it… I'M TALKING ABOUT YOU HINATA-CHAN, I KNOW YOU'RE IN HERE!" a few second later, Hinata landed next to Sakura who cried in surprise.

"Hinata! Why are you here!" Sakura asked, almost in anger since she knows the fact that Hinata used to stalk Naruto. 'I swear if she still stalk her I'ma kick her ass right here.'

"I heard Naruto-kun and Neji-nii-san talk about a fight and I wanted to see who would win." Hinata answered.

"Then how come you didn't join us?" Tenten asked.

Hinata laughed nervously. "I guess I forgot." she said.

"Pfft, yeah sure." Sakura mumbled but Hinata heard her.

"What is that supposed to mean?" she asked.

"It means that I know the fact that you used to stalk my Naruto-kun!" Hinata blushed while Tenten raised an eyebrow.

"S-so?"

"Sooo… I wouldn't be surprised if you stalked him again." Sakura answered.

"How rude! Naruto-kun is going out with you and I can respect that! I would never stalk someone else's boyfriend!" Hinata said strongly.

"Mh hm, yeah sure…" Sakura said disinteresting, Hinata fumed.

'I can't believe she's accusing me of stalking her boyfriend! I can't believe she distrust me this much!' Hinata thought.

"Excuse me!" they turned to Naruto. "Do you mind shutting up!" he asked.

"We are trying to fight here!" Neji surprisingly yelled.

Tenten laughed nervously. "Gomen, gomen (Sorry, sorry) continue fighting."

Naruto and Neji nodded and charged at each other, they exchanged fist for a short time before Naruto did a leg sweep, Neji started falling but used the momentum to back flip out of harm's way.

"WIND STYLE: DIVINE DOWN CURRENT!" Neji got hit by a blast of vortex. Neji quickly got to his feet and charged at Naruto, throwing gentle strike everywhere but Naruto narrowly dodged them. "Heh, what's the matter? You seem slower than before." Naruto taunted.

Neji narrowed his eyes, and then smirked. "Heh, as long as I have fate in my side, I have nothing to worry." he said smugly.

"Then I'm gonna shove that fate crap down your throat!" Naruto threw several kunais at Neji.

"ROTATION!" he spun around rapidly and the entire projectile reflected off of him.

"Gotcha!" several Naruto's was about to jump towards him.

"EIGHT TRIGRAM SIXTY-FOUR PALMS!" he hit all the clones in a speed that was near unseen. All the Narutos except one vanished, the real one stayed in the air for a while before it turned into a log.

Neji seemed unfazed by this as he turned to see Naruto land on the ground. "Give up."

"How many times are you gonna tell me to give up!" Naruto asked. "And how many times do I need to tell you that I won't give up!"

Neji sighed annoyingly. He rushed Naruto as he threw gentle strike in several part of Naruto's body but Naruto easily dodged it with his enhanced speed, Naruto back flipped. Naruto ran towards Naruto and pulled back a fist.

"ROTATION!" Neji made the chakra dome which Naruto crashed through but instead of being thrown back Naruto stayed there. Neji seemed shocked. Through sheer will power, Naruto was able to break the rotation.

"WAKE UP DUMBASS!" Naruto head-butt him. "I don't know what happened to you, but that doesn't give you any right to bring people down too!" Naruto pointed at himself. "You don't think I'm hurting inside! There's a lot of people that are hurting inside, not just you, but do you see them crying? Do you see them blaming something that doesn't exist? NO!" Naruto punched Neji to the floor. "Like I said, I know nothing about you, who your father is, or what your deal is, but she…" Naruto pointed at Hinata. "Is also suffering, people keep calling her weak, even her father, and she's horribly unconfident in herself."

"I'm right here!"

"She's weak and a failure, she'll never amount to anything."

"I'm still here!"

"Maybe so…"

"You're doing this on purpose!"

"… but it doesn't mean you're supposed to discourage her. One day… I believe that Hinata-Chan will become the Hyuga clan head and I'll become hokage, if something is wrong with the Hyuga, me and Hinata-Chan will work together to change it!"

"Can you stop calling her 'Hinata-Chan'?"

"Think about it Neji, unlike me, you're a genius, whether fate is real or not, it can be change, with a lot of hard work."

Neji said nothing. Tenten ran towards him.

"Neji, are you ok?" she asked, grabbing a cloth and wiping the blood from his forehead.

"Alright…" Neji said, Tenten stopped abruptly. "I'll… give Hinata-sama a chance, and I'll try harder to change my fate."

Naruto grinned. "That's the spirit!" he said before being tackle two masses.

"Thank you Naruto-kun!" Hinata cried.

"You amazing Naruto-kun!" Sakura cried too, they both stopped abruptly.

"Why are you hugging my Naruto-kun?" Sakura asked.

"It was a 'thank you' hug." Hinata replied.

"Yeah right! Just for your information, Naruto is not getting a harem! He only needs me, right Naruto-kun?" Sakura asked.

"Huh…" Naruto was speechless to say the least.

"Sakura-san, don't be so jealous." Hinata said with a sly smile.

"I'M NOT BEING JEALOUS!"

"STOP YELLING IN MY EARS!"

Tenten laughed while looking at the couples. Neji just gave a small smile.

Me: Geez, how long has it been! Sorry for the huge wait, I got stuck on Neji's fight and have been for a long, long time. It doesn't help that I got a big case of writers block, I'll try harder to update faster and sorry for the ending, not sure if it's good. Oh well, what will you do, see ya next week! Sakura-Chan, got something to say?

Sakura: *Walks towards readers* whoever killed Sasuke, I'll find you, and make your life A LIVING HELL!

Me: O.o… uhhh… yeah, I really should've picked someone else.