A/N: I know this chapter is long overdue and I apologize but to make it up to my readers I'll try to post the next chapter sometime this week or next week.

As a reply to the review from Hanipman, Sakura isn't in the harem only the girls that came in First, Second and Third are in the harem. So the list for the harem is Mei, Yūgao, Kushina Uchiha, Tayuya, Anko and Yugito. Also I may add girls from the harem randomly and even though Mei won the poll I probably won't put her as the main love interest.

On a separate note I will be using dragons from the Monster Hunter franchise because I can't be bothered to make up dragons and the Monster Hunter franchise doesn't get enough popularity outside of Japan.

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or Monster Hunter.

A month had passed since the preliminaries and now the finalists were standing in the centre of the battlefield, only Sasuke Uchiha, Naruto Namikaze and Dosu Kinuta were absent. In the Kage Box the five Kages sat with their bodyguards standing near them while they waited for the exams to begin and, in the area below, the heads of clans as well as feudal lords sat. Genma Shiranui was filling in for Hayate who had been ordered by his doctor to stay in bed. Hiruzen stood up and announced the start of the final exam and all the genin except Neji walked up to the waiting area.

"Looks like he chickened out," Neji said.

"Who chickened out?" Naruto asked as he appeared in a burst of flames. He had ditched his cloak so everyone could see what he looked like.

He wore blue sandals, blue shinobi pants, black fingerless gloves with metal plates on the back, a black short sleeved shirt and metal arm guards (Like Kakashi used to wear) over all this he wore a black short sleeved long coat with golden flame-like motifs along the bottom. Due to the fact that he didn't wear a headband his spiky blonde hair with navy blue tips hung over his eyes.

"Good you're here," Genma said. "Begin whenever you're ready."

"Give up now while you still have some dignity," Neji said while getting into the gentle fist stance.

"I don't know about you Hyūga but I wouldn't be insulting a Kumo-nin, we still think highly of the byakugan you know," Naruto said in an aloof manner. "But then I suppose if I wanted the byakugan I could just ask Hinata to come with me back to Kumo, she'd say yes in a heartbeat and get us there faster than my dad could use the Flying Thunder God Jutsu."

"You should never talk like that about Lady Hinata in front me," he said angrily.

"Why? We both know you hate her and every other member of the main house and that if she did leave you wouldn't care in the least."

"I said shut up!" Neji shouted with his byakugan active and aiming a strike at the jinchūriki's heart. Naruto swiped the attack away like it was an annoying fly and followed up with a punch to the Hyūga's chest. Neji stumbled backwards but quickly regained his composure then charged at Naruto again while trying to hit a chakra point near his heart. The blonde jumped away to dodge the attack and landed halfway up one of the arena walls.

"Fire Style: Burning Earth Jutsu," Naruto shouted as a stream of fire erupted from his mouth and set the battlefield ablaze. The entire floor was covered in fire and after a few minutes the flames began to die down revealing Neji standing in the centre of a crater surrounded by fire. "So that's the ultimate defence of the Hyūga."

"Nothing can defeat the Eight Trigrams Palm Rotation," Neji stated.

"We'll see about that. Uzumaki Secret Jutsu: Whirlpool Summoning," the jinchūriki said, the battlefield was instantly covered in water that began to spin violently until a whirlpool formed with Neji at the centre of it. The Hyūga prodigy jumped above the water and used chakra to stand on the whirlpool that was beginning to slow down until it stopped completely leaving the arena filled with water as high as the waiting area for the other genin. Naruto jumped away from the wall and aimed a punch at Neji but the Hyūga grabbed his fist and landed a strike against a chakra point, closing it, before Naruto landed a kick to his opponent's chest and dove underwater. Neji dove after him and the two started exchanging blows with both of them taking hits but there was one major difference; Neji needed to resurface or risk drowning where as Naruto had used a jutsu to let him hold his breath for extremely long periods of time.

In the stands

Meanwhile everyone was watching the two boys fight in the clear water. Some were worried about how long they could stay down there while others were more concerned about whether they were going to lose their money.

"How long do you think they hold their breaths for?" Ino asked worriedly to her rival.

"Who cares as long as Naruto drowns," Sakura replied.

"But what about what Naruto did for you in the forest of death?" Chōji asked.

"Just one act of kindness can't make up for all the people he's killed."

"Billboard brow how many times do I have to tell you he's not a demon?" Ino asked angrily. At this point Chōji had decided not to leave the two alone since they were usually violent during these conversations.

"If he's not a demon explain why he looks the way he is."

"Because he's the son of the Fourth you idiot."

"I know that I meant right now."

"What are you talking about billboard brow?"

"Look Ino-pig," Sakura said while pointing at the fight. When Ino looked back Naruto was still fighting Neji underwater but now he was surrounded by something red that looked like a fox with two tails, his hair looked wilder and his eyes were blood red with slitted pupils.

"He's only using two tails which means he's not the demon otherwise there would be nine tails," she replied.

"Fine believe he's not a demon but don't blame me when he goes berserk," Sakura said while watching the fight.

In the Kage box

"Lord Hokage what should we do it seems he's lost control," an ANBU asked to his leader.

"Leave him be he's not lost control and his control won't even start to waver unless he uses all nine-tails," A, the Raikage, said.

"Oh and how do you know this Lord Raikage?" Hiruzen asked intrigued.

"I've watched his training with my younger brother who is the Eight Tails' jinchūriki," he said. "And if he truly did lose control he would be emitting killer intent but he hasn't released even a bit."

"It's true he's got as much control over his beast as the Sage of Six Paths probably had over it," Ōnoki, the Tsuchikage, said.

"I wouldn't be surprised if he had even more," Yagura, the Mizukage, said.

"Well it appears you should leave him be captain," the Hokage said to the ANBU, said ANBU nodded and disappeared.

Back to the fight

Neji was currently trying to resurface and breathe but his opponent just kept coming at him from seemingly every angle. Every time he got close to the surface he was dragged back down and when he tried to fight back he couldn't because the red chakra that surrounded Naruto burned him so he was left defenceless and trying to escape before he lost consciousness or drowned.

"Do you surrender?" Naruto asked as he appeared in front of Neji. "If you don't surrender you'll probably drown. What's more important; your pride or your life?"

If Neji was in the right mind he would've probably been asking himself how Naruto could breathe, let alone talk, underwater but currently he was just trying to live and all of his thoughts were on that one thing.

"I'll ask again do you surrender?" the blonde asked, the prodigy nodded before finally blacking out. Naruto grabbed his limp body while deactivating the chakra shroud and he brought the unconscious boy to the surface. He deactivated his jutsu and the water receded until they were left in a muddy battlefield. Medics came and took Neji to the infirmary while Naruto was announced the winner.

Gaara then won his match by default when Sasuke failed to show, Kankurō forfeited his match to the Aburame and Temari won her match against Shikamaru when the lazy Nara surrendered, leaving Naruto the only one who didn't win by default.

"For the first semi final match will Gaara and Naruto Namikaze please come down here," Genma said, both boys jumped out of the waiting area and landed in the arena.

When their match started both jinchūriki jumped away from each other to keep as much distance between them as possible. As Naruto was about to unleash a jutsu he stopped when Sasuke Uchiha and his sensei Kakashi Hatake appeared in the middle of the arena.

"Sorry we're late," Kakashi apologized to the crowd.

"You're getting in the way of our fight!" Naruto shouted irritably.

"Shut up demon you shouldn't even be here," Sasuke said coldly.

"Says the guy with a hickey from Orochimaru," Gaara said and the crowd burst out into laughter while Sasuke's fangirls were glaring daggers at the Suna-nin.

"You're getting in the way of an official match, leave or be arrested," Genma said.

"You can't arrest me I'm an Uchiha right Kakashi-sensei," the Uchiha said smugly, however when he didn't get a reply he turned to glare at his sensei only to see he had vanished.

"He left the minute Gaara mentioned your hickey," Naruto said causing a vein to pop on Sasuke's forehead. "And by the way just because you have Uchiha blood doesn't mean you're exempt from the law. Now move."

"He's right now are you going to leave or be arrested?" Genma asked. Sasuke growled before storming out of the arena.

"Finally now we can get started," Naruto cheered.

"Sand Shower Barrage," Gaara said as dozens of sand bullets shot towards Naruto.

"Fire Style: Phoenix Flower Jutsu," the blonde countered. The sand and fire bullets met halfway and both attacks cancelled each other out. Wind chakra suddenly erupted from all of Naruto's chakra points covering him in a layer of wind that was in constant motion.

"This is going to hurt," the red said out loud while bracing himself for the imminent impact. Naruto vanished in a burst of speed and delivered a punch to Gaara's gut with enough strength to send him flying into the arena wall where a crater was formed. The sand armour he had used crumbled and fell away revealing his skin that was badly bruised. "You know if I hadn't used my sand armour that would have probably killed me."

"Maybe but who said I was going to hold back," Naruto said as he appeared before his friend in another burst of speed. He held a kunai against his neck and applied enough pressure to draw a small amount of blood. "You gonna give up?"

Before Gaara could answer an explosion came from the Kage box which was covered in smoke blocking everyone's view of what was happening. Suddenly two figures jumped out of the smoke and landed on the roof closely followed by seven others. That was when Naruto noticed everyone in the crowd was asleep except for most of the ninja.

"Looks like it's started," Naruto commented while withdrawing the kunai and stopping the chakra surrounding him. He held his hand out and helped Gaara to his feet while trying to ignore the fighting shinobi around them. However he couldn't ignore it when the sound of birds chirping filled the arena from directly behind him.

"I've finally got a chance to kill you demon," Sasuke said as he slowly walked towards them, the lightning in his right hand illuminated his face that had a maniacal grin on it. "This is an invasion so when it's over no one can blame me for your deaths."

"We could say the same to you but we don't like killing people," Naruto said.

"Then this will be easy," Sasuke replied before running as fast as he could with the intent to pierce the blonde jinchūriki's heart.

Jutsu list:

Name: Fire Style: Burning Earth Jutsu
Rank: B-rank
Range: Mid – Long range
Description:
A stream of fire erupts from the user's mouth and sets anything it touches on fire. Mainly used to change the battlefield to the user's advantage or used to keep enemies at bay.

Name: Uzumaki Secret Jutsu: Whirlpool Summoning
Rank: A-rank
Range: All Ranges
Description:
The user can summon a whirlpool using the moisture in the air and no matter where they are one can be summoned. A few minutes after being summoned the whirlpool will stop but the water will remain for however long the user wishes.