(Earlier that same day)

Naruto had awoken up from his sleeping bag, feeling refreshed as well as at peace with himself since he had buried the proverbial hatchet of his conscious getting the better of him since he had left his home years ago without any sort of goodbye. So he packed up his stuff, used a hot plate to make himself a light breakfast which consisted of eggs and toast, and then summoned a crow to deliver a message to Nagato about the status of his new body. It was nearly done, and would take a week and a half at most until it was complete. He just wanted the man to know that it was still being made and that he had not been ripped off in some sense.

So with everything he wanted done for the moment done, Naruto packed up what he had left and left his old home once more, this time with no plans to ever return to it…

He pulled out his watch and saw that he had quite a bit of time to kill before he needed to be at the stadium for his match, so he made his way to his mother's grave to visit once more since he preferred to be alone at this time instead of surrounded by many people who either wanted to have him set up shop here via persuasion that went either verbally or physically, or people who wanted him to heal them. He was a doctor, true, but he wanted to keep his mind clear for what he had planned for the day. Especially since his first opponent alone was a Jinchuriki who was quite mad in the head since Naruto easily recognized the signs of it and knew it was caused by insomnia.

He made it to the grave easily enough, since either the people who were up were heading to get breakfast before they finally went to the stadium themselves so as to get good seats or were opening said businesses to feed the former. So he made it to his mother's grave and sat down cross-legged as he began to meditate to calm himself. He had no words left to say to her other than 'our vengeance is almost complete.' There he sat for quite a while before he heard someone speak behind him.

"So this is where the infamous Surgeon of Death goes in his spare time," said a man who Naruto easily recognized by his snake like tone of voice. He had only met the man once, yet his tone was unique so as to identify easily in a crowd.

"I don't know why you are here Orochimaru," said Naruto calmly. Though he might have answered it in that tone, he was ready for a fight if it came to it. "Since the last time we spoke I told you I will not work with you, also add the fact I removed one of your arms tells me this is meeting is more of a hostile nature."

"Oh yes that," said Orochimaru with a bit of a growl since he remembered losing his arm. He had to transfer into a new body sooner than he wished because of that, but he was willing to overlook that incident if it meant gaining the one who damaged his last one on his side. "Water under the bridge. I have a new body so I have my arm back. But the reason I am here is to offer you one more chance to work with me."

"And my answer to your offer is the same as last time," said Naruto as he placed his hand onto the ground. "Now I suggest you leave me be or else you will find that losing your head is far more lethal than a removed arm."

"Are you sure that you want to scoff my offer? What if I were to tell you that I have the means to bring your mother back from the dead?"

"Choose your next words carefully," said Naruto with an angry growl. He wondered how Orochimaru of all people knew about his mother when not many people knew about her. It wasn't like it was a secret of any sort; it was just that the two of them slipped through the cracks of society to the point that no one noticed them other than the clan heirs who bullied him for years.

"If you are wondering how I know about your relationship," said Orochimaru with a smirk, "it's your emotions itself that tell the story of who this woman is. Only the child of a parent would do as you do and visit a grave such as this exactly like you are now. Sure there are the cases of married couples or lovers and such, but the year on the tombstone say otherwise when one does the math."

"Well look at you," said Naruto angrily, "you are showing some form of intelligence after all."

"Well," said Orochimaru with his eye twitching in anger. He hated when people belittled his intelligence, "I am going to ignore that insult and offer you one last chance to join with me."

"And what exactly do you plan to do if I refuse really," asked Naruto with a raised eyebrow, "do you really think that attacking me is going to change my mind? There is nothing you have that I want, even if you had the means to bring my mother back, I have had years to come to terms with her death and will not try to resurrect her."

"Oh I have my ways to make you obey," said Orochimaru with a smirk.

"I bet you do," said Naruto as he ducked. He sensed that the clone was trying to bite into his neck and he was right to duck since it missed. Then he had to roll out of the way as another tried, and then another. Naruto had sensed so many clones pop up, but he had prepared for this already. When he had placed his hand into the ground, he had sent blood through his hand and injected it into the ground to be used later, which was right now. The blood solidified and shot through the ground and hit the clones simultaneously so that they dispersed. Orochimaru growled in anger that his surprise attack had failed, but that growl turned to shock when he felt as his body was unable to move.

"You are like an insect," said Naruto as he held up his hand in an open gesture. Orochimaru saw the glint shine off of the wires that were attached to his hand and it angered him that he had not prepared for this fully. He tried to use a Substitution Jutsu to break free, but his body would not move. "Wandering into a spiders web. And like any good spider I have my poisons along with my webs. My wires are laced in the stuff. You see, I took that arm of your and did some tests, ones to see just how durable you are and I have to say that it is impressive what you have accomplished. But while your body may be immune to poisons, with the one I used only stunning you briefly, I have another trick up my sleeve that no one ever sees coming."

Naruto then snapped his fingers and set up a Room. Then with a slight of hand he showed Orochimaru a heart incased in a cube. Naruto wanted to torment Orochimaru, really he did since the man deserved no less after all the things Naruto had heard he had done, but one quick look at his watch and he realized he had to leave now if he was going to make it to his match in time. So he set the organ on fire by superheating his hand until it lit aflame. Orochimaru screamed in pain for a moment, but Naruto permanently silenced him with a swipe of his hand. The wires decapitated the man's head clean off which he then picked up and stored for later since without it he knew that no one would believe him if he told them he kill Orochimaru…

(Present Time)

The crowd was still in a very deep state of shock from seeing Orochimaru's head of all things being thrown out into the arena for all to see. For all who knew about him, it was hard to believe that somebody had managed to kill him in the first place. The man was known as one of if not the most elusive Shinobi around with plans within plans to avoid capture and death itself. So to see someone, who was not even a Shinobi himself, manage to do what no there trained one could do was utterly baffling to them…

But eventually, Minato called for the next two contestants to appear for their match. Temari stood up and walked to her starting position, all the while glancing at Naruto on the side. The man had beaten her brother Gaara, who was a Jinchuriki! Sure it was possible, but it usually took entire squads of people to do so or people who specialize in defeating them, and those types of people were only well off against one of the nine Biju and in short supply last she heard. So to see Naruto do as he did filled her with quite a bit of fear.

Shikimaru groaned as he made his way down to his starting position since in all honesty he didn't even want to be here right now. When he had been questioned by his parents about the clan heirs' treatment towards Naruto in his youth, he had told them the truth. He had never hurt the guy, only stating that he was troublesome as he did to just about everything in life really. But his mother though… she did not like his response and whipped out her frying pan, the extra thick one that hurt especially hard when whacked with it. Shikimaru got a fair amount of exercise that day as he ran for his life until his father was able to calm her down. They both expressed their disappointment in his inaction to help the poor boy in need and just stood there while he suffered. So his punishment was to participate in this Exam, no matter what. And if he was to face Naruto in a fight…

Well they told him to prey to Kami herself he was merciful towards him…

So here he was, forced to fight when he didn't want to risk being disabled like Kiba had been, but his fear of his mother was far more intense than his fear of Naruto, and multiple years of being attacked by said woman with various blunt objects only solidified that fear.

So Shikimaru took his starting position and waited for the fight to begin. When it did, he was easily able to capture Temari in his Shadow Possession Jutsu. She never saw it coming since he never used it in front of her since he didn't have to fight in the second half of the second part of the Exams since Naruto had scared so much of the potentials away. Plus the ground was scorched dark by Naruto's flames that had been hot enough to melt sand into glass within mere moments. It would appear that Naruto was helping him too much by coincidence. So with her shadow under his control, he forced her to knock herself out with her own battle fan, to her embarrassment, and thus Shikimaru was the victor of their match. And while that may be the case, the fear of having to fight Naruto made the victory feel so hollow to him.

The next two up were Haku and Ino, which Haku was really not looking forward to what was going to happen. Naruto had explained to her in full about her clan's mental jutsu that could fuck with one's mind, and while he was known as the miracle worker he had no real means to counter it. Sure he had altered his mind to do so, but that was after extensive research into his own brain and how to alter it so as to become immune in a way that didn't liquefy his mind. Haku had no such immunity, and so he offered her another way. A very disturbingly unorthodox way…

He had given her a vial of his blood, with the explanation that once in her body he could control her once Ino used her Mind Jutsu so she would win. Haku was against it at first, but Naruto assured her that he was well aware of the fact that in strength and technique she had Ino beat, it was just that one jutsu that threw a curveball at her. Haku really didn't want to do this, but then Naruto pointed out that he didn't want to fight in a war either, yet he did it for her and she knew it. She was pissed that he threw that at her, but she was even more pissed that he was right.

So she took the vial he had given her that day and uncorked it before drinking the contents of it without thinking about it. It was only after she did that she gagged since this was not something couples did. Sure he had injected some of his other fluids into her body, but that was a more pleasurable experience that was natural to all. Drinking your boyfriend's blood was not in any way one could think about it. A blood transfusion was one thing, but this was consuming it so it was going to her stomach not her bloodstream.

Once the match started, Ino did as Naruto said she would and used her family's Mental Transference Jutsu to infiltrate Haku's mind. Once she did, Naruto used the blood that infected Haku to discreetly control her slowly. He had her pull out a senbon needle and aimed it at an angle before he had her stab upwards with it. Ino was not in her own body to defend it since her subconscious was in Haku's so it was easy to deliver the blow that would ruin not only Ino's career as a kunoichi, but her life entirely. Naruto could only smirk at the irony of the situation, since the mind of a Yamanaka clan member was a dangerous thing given their ability to alter the minds of others. So he thought to cripple her in the worst possible way…

With that simple jab of the senbon through her brain's prefrontal cortex, Ino was now officially lobotomized…

Haku felt as the invader of her mind simply vanished and looked down to see what Naruto had done to her while she kept Ino at bay in her head. She saw Ino on the ground, her body twitching there. Quickly, medic Nin arrived and took her away for immediate medical treatment, which Naruto knew that there was no possible means to cure a lobotomy…

She was now a prisoner of her own mind, and to make it far worse, the senbon he used was something he dipped in fear inducing toxins that affected the brain the closer the point of input was. And since he had jabbed the thing directly into her brain, it would be most effective. She had used her ability to cause him nightmares for her own sick pleasure, so he had used science to put her in a state of nightmares she would never be able to escape until death itself came to claim her…

After the shock of what had happened to Ino finally died down, to which Naruto saw Inoichi and his wife leave to go to the hospital to see just how bad the damage was to their daughter, the next fighters were called to the arena.

Kurotsuchi had never been so bored to fight anybody in her lifetime as a kunoichi. She had never really met Sakura outside the one time they were in the center tower of the Forest of Death, but that was it. Now that she got one good look at her, she saw that Sakura was nothing more than a fan girl. She was not sure as to whom Sakura was fawning over like all fan girls did, which was understandable since she didn't care to look into it or was even from the village to know who.

So as Sakura took her meager and weak fighting stance to face against her, she groaned since she wanted a challenge and this seemed more like just handing her the win really to the point it was just embarrassing to her. The moment the proctor called for the match to start, Kurotsuchi used a basic fire ball jutsu to distract her and then appeared behind the pink haired girl who had the nerve to call herself a kunoichi and chopped her on the back of the head, knocking her some of the way out. Apparently the girl was more thick headed than she thought so she than punched the back of her head to make sure she stayed down this time. The crowd booed as they saw this, and she had no idea if it was because of the fact the fight lasted about ten seconds or the fact that she just made one of their own kunoichi look weak and pathetic in front of a live audience.

The crowds mood did improve a bit though as the next two participants entered the arena. Shino and Tenten threw their all into their fight, with many people cheering them on as they fought on. But in the end Shino won since for all the various weapons that Tenten knew how to use as well as had on her person via scrolls, she had no jutsu that could aid her against Shino's bugs that his clan were well known for using in a fight. Sure many of them were dead, but that was only because she had senbon to stab them with in a shower of the item, but she ran out while Shino's bugs were nowhere near depleted. So in the end, when Tenten saw she could not win she forfeited the match leaving Shino as the winner.

The next fight was between Choji as well as Kankuro. Choji knew that Kankuro used puppets since he had seen someone from Suna fight his dad with one years ago and knew the signs of a puppet master when he saw one. He might not seem like he was paying attention to things other than snacks that he always had on him, but he was and that was what gave him the edge over his opponent since they underestimated him. So their fight was intense, with Kankuro's initial plan to trick Choji into fighting his puppet while he hid not working since Choji broke the thing. Kankuro was pissed that his puppet was destroyed, but he summoned up another one. This one had not been fully tested yet, and in the end it came to bite him in the ass hard since the thing exploded in between the two of them, the concussive blast of it knocking them both out since it had been a fairly powerful one. They weren't dead, but they would need to get their heads looked at to ensure there was no long lasting damage to the cranium that could pop up later if left untreated.

Naruto, who this whole time had whipped out a cigarette and smoked it while he waited for his name to be called again, heard just that and put the butt out in his hand. It burned the flesh sure, but he felt no pain and the damage healed nearly immediately. He hadn't smoked in a while, but he wanted his nerves to be fully calm for what he was going to face in the near future so he smoked one to relax a bit.

"Ah," said Naruto as he saw Shikimaru take his place opposite of him in the arena, "if it isn't Shikimaru himself. Still as lazy as when we last met I'm betting?"

"Look Naruto," said Shikimaru nervously. He wanted to say this just right so as to not piss him off even more than he probably already was at him. "About when we were kids…"

"No need for apologies," said Naruto with a chuckle as well as a passive wave of his hand, "since I don't need one from you."

"Seriously?" asked Shikimaru, who was stunned to hear this since he was internally shaking in fear of what Naruto would possibly do to him, and given his track record as well as the power to beat a Jinchuriki of all things were too numerous to count.

"Of course," said Naruto as he twirled his cane as he did out of habit from time to time, "since you never so much as laid a hand on me to add to my misery. All you ever did was call me troublesome, which isn't even the worst thing I have been called. And insults don't really merit a vendetta so you are fine in my book. Lazy, as well as an asshole for not sticking up or aiding me in our youth, but still fine all the same."

"Wow," said Shikimaru as he breathed a sigh of relief. "That is a relief to hear."

"I wouldn't drop your guard fully though," said Naruto with a chuckle, "since this is still a fight."

"I know," said Shikimaru as he held two fingers up to finish his jutsu, "and I have already won. Shadow Possession complete!"

"Huh," said Naruto to himself since he had not seen the shadow reach out and touch his own for the man to use his family jutsu on him. He didn't even hear the proctor start the fight, but that was his own fault for not paying attention really. He had to give it to Shikimaru; the man knew how to plan accordingly and used his time talking as a distraction. "Well this happened." Naruto felt as Shikimaru controlled his arm to pull out a kunai he happened to have on his person and held it up to his throat.

"Surrender or I will be forced to slash your throat," said Shikimaru.

"Wow," said Naruto with a grin, "the usually lazy Nara actually has some balls on him. Didn't think you had it in you really, nor do I think you have the mental will to actually slit my throat."

"When you have a mother like mine threatening you with pain," said Shikimaru with a shiver of fear rolling up his spine, "you gain one."

"I wouldn't know," said Naruto in response, "since mine died when I was five. I was then raised by an insane man who was a doctor. Learned the trade and doing fairly well if I do say so myself."

"Last chance to surrender," said Shikimaru.

"Still don't think you…" he would have said more, but Shikimaru forced him to slice his throat with the kunai, which made the rest of his speech just garbled words. The people who saw this booed the man for apparently killing the Surgeon of Death, but they stopped when they heard Naruto begin laughing. The blood that flowed out the wound retracted back into his body and closed the gash so it seemed like it never happened in the first place.

"How?" was all Shikimaru was able to say, but that one word spoke volumes.

"You saw my entire body get crushed in a manner that I should never have healed from and did just that in the manner of seconds. Do you really believe that slitting my throat would be any different? But I have to say, I am happy to see you proved me wrong and have the will to go for the kill." Shikimaru was disturbed by that statement for some reason he couldn't explain, but his face went fully white as he saw Naruto move of his own accord, which shouldn't be possible since he was still under the influence of the Shadow Possession Jutsu.

"And before you ask," said Naruto with a smirk, "your jutsu had no control over me the entire time. Your shadow controls my body's outer layer, but my blood controls everything else, and is far stronger than that." Naruto then spun the kunai in his finger by the ring at the end for a second before he threw it into Shikimaru's lower gut, making sure to avoid anything vital since he did not want to kill the young man, just hurt him enough really. "So now, do you surrender? Or do I have to get more creative with my methods?"

Shikimaru looked at Naruto and knew that if his family's jutsu did nothing to him, then most of his plans would fail since that was a key point of them. Sure he had other tricks up his sleeves, but the problem with those was the fact that all his life he had trained to fight other Shinobi, but Naruto was not one and fought in a manner that not only was unpredictable since he did not fight as they did, but from what he saw Naruto do to his two opponents already with one of them being crippled via loss of limbs, he knew this was a lost cause of a battle that he had no hopes of winning.

"I give up," said Shikimaru with a sigh. He heard his mother in the crowd yelling out his name, which caused him to break out in a cold sweat. And as he left the arena Naruto heard him say his trademark, "Troublesome," under his breath.

Haku and Kurotsuchi were the next two called down to fight, and dear Kami people could just sense the anger both had for each other. It made many people wonder just why that was since the reason must be a personal one to get that much hate towards someone. Only Onoki as well as Naruto knew since they were both aware of the bet the girls had placed with Naruto being the prize. Naruto never mentioned that he knew, and to be honest he hated the fact he was thought of as such but he was going to see how this played out since his curiosity got the better of him.

"Remember our deal," said Kurotsuchi simply since there really was nothing else to say here. Both women were fighting for the rights to call a man their boyfriend so there was no need for intimidation or the like since it really wouldn't work against the other.

"Oh I do," said Haku in response. Then they heard the proctor start the match, and they came out swinging. The two of them rushed forward and went at it with their fists for quite a bit before they came to the realization that they were equally matched in their physical strength. They then separated by jumping back and began to throw various jutsu at one another. The problem with this though was that while Haku was well defended by using her bloodline of ice manipulation to form shields as well as mirrors that she used to surround her opponent, Kurotsuchi had various Lava Release jutsu to use to counter it and so it didn't really help her.

Haku was running out of options at this point if her face was anything to go off of, and Kurotsuchi was feeling happy that her victory seemed assured. But deception was a shinobi's best skill, and Haku was luring her in for the kill…

What no one other than her, Naruto, and one seal master from another country were aware of at the moment was that she had a massive trump card… A three tailed one sealed within her…

Naruto had known that he could not keep the Three Tailed Biju in his labs permanently since the thing was growing at a slow but steady pace and would eventually grow too big and destroy everything there. So he thought hard on what to do since if he released it back into the world then some village would just capture it and reseal it to use as a weapon for their village, and knowing his luck it would be Konoha who ended up with it since they had spies everywhere as well as people who could easily suppress the thing into submission since the demon was weaker than the Kyubi by six tails worth of power.

So with no real options he thought to give it to Haku since her abilities were water based basically since ice was made up of the stuff. So the two of them went to a seal master he knew about and paid for his services to help seal the demon into Haku. Luckily the creature was at a fraction of its power so the process was not too hard. Naruto paid the man as well as left a simple reminder that only the three of them knew about this so if that changed… well Naruto would be back to rectify that and left it to the man's imagination as to what he would do.

So without any options, Haku called upon the power sealed within her to power up her next move. Kurotsuchi was not going to allow her to use whatever move she was powering up for, which shocked her to see her have such power to begin with when it seemed like she was on her last leg.

"Sorry," said Haku in a serious but dark tone before she slammed her foot down hard. From it, a sub-arctic blast of wind soared forth and froze the very ground leading up to Kurotsuchi as well as freezing her up to her neck in a massive block of ice with the shards pointing all over the place. Kurotsuchi was unable to move since the ice was too thick with no manner of give to break free from, so as it was she had lost her match.

Minato was shocked to see this since he knew the power of a Biju when he felt it. And from the research he had done on the creatures there was only one that was water based. This meant she contained the three tails, which made more questions pop up into his head since Yagura was the one to bear that burden and he was dead. So how did this young woman acquire the demon for herself? Questions for later, since he would have Jiraiya find out somehow in the future. He would send ROOT, but most of their numbers were dead and gone so they weren't really a good force to rely on anymore until the numbers could be returned back to what they were.

Haku simply smirked as she walked forward and pushed her hand through the ice until she touched Kurotsuchi herself. With a bit more of a push she shoved her out of the ice as it melted around her and became a puddle that sank into the cracks in the ground. She then simply walked away since there were no words that needed to be said between them. Haku had won the bet, and as such Kurotsuchi would back off her man. Naruto saw as she wiped a few tears from her eyes as she got up, and it made him realize that she had genuine feelings for him and had fought so hard to show him that she did. He thought to himself on the matter for a second, deciding to talk to the two of them about it later when there was time.

To say people who watched the fight take place were surprised was an understatement. People had heard about Kiri since the village was no longer a major one with the loss of its main forces in the civil war. But to see the new Jinchuriki of the three tails here and now raised so many questions that no one could answer. But the Exams went on with Naruko entering the arena to fight Shino, who accessed the situation in his mind and forfeited the match. He had a feeling like if he had fought her in the beginning of this portion of the Exam, his chances would have been better for winning, but as he was now with a large portion of his bugs now dead and replenishing as they spoke, he knew he had no means to win so there was no need to fight and already lost battle.

Naruko made to leave the arena for the fight between Haku and Naruto, but Haku immediately forfeited since there was no possible way she could beat Naruto and she knew it. Even with her new abilities she was still outmatched by him and she knew that since she knew him better than anyone else here did. So Naruko remained in place as Naruto made his way to the arena, the entire time he felt his anger boil inside him as it only increased the closer he got to his opponent. By the time he took his position, it had upgraded into straight up rage, but he had the best poker face about it and simply had a grin on his face as he stood there.

"Well look at this," said Naruto with a chuckle, "isn't this a blast of our past? But where is the rest of your little group? You know the one you used to gang up on me and hurt me?"

"You know what happened to them," growled Naruko, who didn't like her friends being belittled like this.

"Oh that's right," said Naruto, this time with a cold laugh that was entirely cruel in nature, "two of them are injured with Kiba losing his hands and feet to me. Can't use him to sniff me out anymore now can you?"

"I will make sure to hurt you like you did to them," said Naruko as she got into a fighting stance.

"Uhhh," said Naruto as he twirled his cane a bit before he sent it away. He would not need it here since he wanted to hurt her with his own bare hands since this was about more than just showing her that he was no longer weak and one to be bullied, but to hurt her in a way that she would not recover. "I doubt it since you don't really have the means to remove my arms and legs."

"I'll get creative and think of a way," said Naruko in response.

"I'm sure you'll try," said Naruto with a chuckle, "but unlike when we were kids, I will fight back this time. And since you no longer have the advantage of numbers on your side, you won't be able to hold me down and laugh as you stab me again."

"Will you shut up already and fight me," said Naruko in anger that he kept throwing that out. She heard it enough already and she wanted to put this fucker in his place already. While he may be infamous throughout the Elemental Countries due to his skills as a doctor, she was an Uzumaki that was the daughter of Minato Namikaze himself. Two of the most powerful Shinobi were part of her genetics and she was going to show everyone that she had the skills to put this clown down and ruin his infamous reputation here and now.

"By all means," said Naruto with a smirk, "if that is what you wish…"

Naruto than vanished from sight which made Naruko go on the defensive in preparation of an attack. She was right to since Naruto appeared before her and aimed a blow to her face. She crossed her arms to block it, which it initially did, but Naruto had a trick up his sleeve that he rarely used. With the mixture of Bloodlines he had implemented into his genetics, he was able to mix and match them to use them in new and unique ways such as now. His fist was solid steel through his Steel Release, but jets of flame rocketed out the sides of his arm through his pores as he used his scorch release to increase the momentum. This was not something Naruko expected, so her guard was broken through and the fist hit its target after all with a loud clunk.

Naruko had to shake her head a bit since the blow had her seeing a few spots, but she was fine for the most part. Naruto smiled as this time he charged up his hand in electrical energy as he charged forward. Naruko saw this and jumped back to avoid it, but Naruto used his other hand to wrap his thin wires onto her leg and pulled her back towards him so that his open palm grabbed her face and she felt it as it coursed through her body painfully. Naruko got free though since she kicked him in the stomach hard and he let go. While he may not feel pain, his body did still have its reflexes and a kick to the stomach usually made you drop whatever you were holding.

Naruko began to realize that Naruto was seriously trying to hurt her, and since that was the case she needed to hit harder. She had been training with her father and Jiraiya as well as the Toads she signed the contract of to master her Sage Mode. She was getting there, but so far she could only manage an incomplete form that was limited as more a suit of armor with a slight increase of her power than anything else. She planned to perfect it in the future, but for now it would help her in this fight, but she just needed to keep Naruto distracted until she could collect enough energy to do it.

So calling upon her reserve energy that belonged to Kyubi, she went through the hand signs for the Shadow Clone Jutsu and summoned at least a thousand of them that surrounded Naruto. He knew what she was doing since he felt the energy in the area flow towards her and made a guess as to charging up some attack or better form to aid her. He simply sighed to himself and decided to play along. So for the next several minutes, Naruto was busy dealing with the Shadow Clones, who weren't too much of a challenge since their numbers worked against them with his wires in use. But they did what they were supposed to and distracted him long enough for Naruko to power up her imperfect Sage Form. Naruto saw her body envelop in pure chakra, but the way it moved seemed so course instead of smooth which showed that it wasn't perfect. She smiled as she assumed victory in their match now and used a Shadow Clone to help her form a Rasengan in her hand.

Naruto saw the jutsu that was made infamous by Minato himself during the Third Shinobi War when he had used it to kill so many Iwa Shinobi. He shook his head a bit since he wondered if Naruko would use it against and apparently she would. Now that she showed that she could use it, he would show her his own version of the jutsu.

"Impressive," said Naruto as he held up his hand in an open palm, "I honestly wondered if you knew that jutsu or not, so thank you for answering my question."

"With this jutsu," said Naruko as she got into a stance so as to rush forward and charge at him, "Victory shall be mine."

"You would think so with a unique jutsu like that," said Naruto, yet as he said that a sphere of his own blood formed into his hand, one that then thinned itself out as it grew a bit in size and began to swirl like the one Naruko had in her hand. "But the irony of this is that I can do the same thing in a different way than you, plus the fact I can do it alone…"

"How dare…" seethed Naruko to see Naruto have such a power. She wasn't the only one since Minato was furious as well. He spent years to make such an infamous jutsu, and to see Naruto make this literal bloody knockoff version was far beyond infuriating to him. Naruko didn't just stand there though, since she charged forward as she planned with Naruto following suit. They both thrust their jutsu forward, with the both of them colliding in-between. Naruto's bloody jutsu apparently held up perfectly fine against the Rasengan, since his blood was infused with so many bloodlines that put together matched the power of it, but that didn't mean that this would end in a stalemate…

Their combined attacks ended up blowing up in their faces, literally. But while Naruko was protected by her Biju's power that enshrouded her during her Sage Mode, Naruto was not so fortunate. His Steel Release was strong, but this was a point blank explosion that tore through him. He felt as his blood quickly healed the damage he was suffering through, but there was something missing that he couldn't put his finger on…

Which once he looked turned out to be his hands themselves. The explosion had literally blown them off his arms and somehow they ended up near Naruko who was already getting back up and healed from her injuries. She saw his hands there and grabbed ahold of them so that he couldn't use them somehow since she was not going to underestimate his abilities now of all times.

"Look at you now," said Naruko in a bit of a haughty tone, "doesn't this bring back memories? You on your knees in pain while I stand above you. Ready to give up now that you know you are weaker than me?"

Naruto's hatred for this bitch skyrocketed as the memories flooded his mind of the pain she as well as the others had inflicted upon him when they were younger.

"Don't you dare look down on me," said Naruto quietly as he got to his feet with his head still looking down.

"I'm sorry," said Naruko as she prepared another Rasengan to put her opponent down once and for all this time, "but care to repeat that, but louder this time."

"I said," started Naruto before he looked at Naruko with pure hatred appearing in his eyes. But what made her flinch in fear was not that alone, but the fact that his eyes had shifted into the Mangekyo Sharingan as well. She wasn't the only one since Minato and so many others were surprised to see he had such power under his control. "DON"T YOU DARE LOOK DOWN ON ME!"

Naruko fell to her knees as a powerful pressure was placed on her as Naruto concentrated his Haki onto her alone. She felt as she broke out of a cold sweat and even the demon inside her was freaking out about this power. She had no idea as to how Naruto had such power, but it pissed her off immensely that he did since power like that belonged to those who were in a clan, and last time she checked he was an orphan with no such thing. But she didn't get to say much though since the next thing she saw was Naruto's shoe in her face as he used his Scorch Release to rocket it forward with more force as well as his Steel Release to make the impact hurt more.

Naruko tasted blood as she bit her lip from the impact, as well as dropped the hands that she was holding. Thin streams of blood shot out his arms and grabbed his hands before they retracted them and healed the skin back on. He clenched his hands to make sure that they worked fine, which they did so there were no problems. He then felt weak and fell onto his hands and knees as he began to breathe heavily.

While to many it seemed like Naruto was invincible with his vast array of abilities, that was not the case since he was limited like anyone else in the use of said abilities by his chakra levels. And after fighting Orochimaru, which wasn't that hard, Gaara himself in a fight that took way more chakra to fight than he expected, and then used what he had remaining to get to this point was nothing more than a miracle as it was. He weakly got back to his feet before he pulled out a box.

In this box was something he would have preferred to test more before he resorted to it, but his vengeance would not be denied him and so he said to hell with it. He opened it up and pulled out a clear pill that he then gulped down quickly. When he had received the Hero Water for helping Fu, he had gotten to work quickly on finding a means of not only replicating it but in a diluted state so as to not kill the person using it afterwards. He learned what made it what it was was the unique bacteria that resided in the liquid, which was easily replicated once he knew about it, and then made a means to replicate it. Once that was up and going he found a means to dilute it with a simple triple filtered machine while diluting the rest of it with water. Then he put said liquid into pill form via injection, and viola he had what he called the Hero Pill. Now while he found the means to do so, he never had a chance to test it fully before he got here and had only his own calculations to go on.

So he felt as his body became not only energized once more, but even more so than he had been before he started his fight with Gaara himself in the beginning. He clenched his hands into a fist as he saw Naruko back on her feet once more and knew he would have to do something drastic if he was going to beat her as she was since that cloak of hers not only protected her but healed her as well as enhanced her abilities so it was very unfair. Luckily he came prepared for this, and now that he had his strength back to full he could use his own trump card to defeat her once and for all.

"Bravo Naruko," said Naruto while mock clapping her in a way that only served to piss her off, "you nearly had me there. But now I think it is time for me to get serious about this fight and finish it here and now."

"Like somebody like you possibly has something that could beat me," said Naruko as she began to gather the energy around her to keep her Sage Mode up and running. She would have to not only thank, but fully finish her training with the Toads when this was all over.

"Ah that arrogance," said Naruto with a cruel laugh, "oh how I hate it. But seeing who your father is who loved and raised you, it makes so much sense in retrospect."

"What the hell does my father have to do with this?"

"More than you could possibly know," said Naruto before he pulled out his largest scroll to date which was his size in height. He unrolled it quickly before he shot some of his blood via his finger onto the seal it housed. Once there the scroll glowed brightly before a massive two door entrance erected out of it. Many who saw this were amazed that he had such a thing in his possession while others wondered just what the hell it contained since a door was meant to be opened and whatever came out would be the true threat and not the door itself.

"What the fuck is that!?" shouted Naruko in shock that now she would most likely have to fight something larger than her and would need to summon a toad to battle it if that was the case.

"The instrument of your defeat," said Naruto as he smirked in a sinister fashion as he clicked his fingers. Everyone heard the loud creak as the door began to open, but not a single one of them was prepared for what was behind them…

"Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate," said Naruto darkly as he stood before the doors as they opened up wide, "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here…"

From the doors poured out a literal tidal wave of blood, so much so that those who were still in the participants box waiting for the end of the exam had to move lest they be drowned in the liquid. The two Kages looked on in shock and horror to see Naruto throw this much blood at his opponent, and even more so when the realization that the shear amount of people he would have had to drain to acquire it made it worse. Naruko quickly preformed multiple hand seals to form a chakra powered protective bubble around her body so that she would not be covered in the stuff, but it was not necessary since the blood never hit her.

It instead began to spin around the arena itself as it soared into the air like some sort of tornado. No one on the outside could see what was happening inside the twister, nor could they do anything about it since the blood repelled basically everything they could and would throw at it.

"Well," said Naruto as he pulled out his unfinished smoke from earlier and lit it up to finish it now, "look at the so called Mighty Naruko Namikaze. On her knees in fear of the blood that would splash on her."

"What kind of monster are you to use blood like this!?"

"This coming from a woman who is stealing energy from a demonic creature sealed within them," said Naruto with a chuckle, "we all have our forms of power, and this just so happens to be mine to wield. But it seems a little chilly in here. Allow me to turn up the heat." Naruto then flicked his butt into the blood, which caused it to light up as it set ablaze. So now there was a raging inferno of a twister that many people were forced to move away from since the heat was too much for them to take. Naruko felt the heat as she was in the center of it, and what made it worse was that she was having problems breathing due to it. She knew that defeating Naruto was the only means to end this and so charged forward to try and do so. But Naruto simply clicked his fingers.

"Room," said Naruto with a smirk before he said the next part, "Shambles." Naruto disappeared from her sight after he said that, which made her look frantically around since she had to beat him or else she would suffer who knows what while in this burning twister he erected. She heard a whistle from above her and looked up. Naruto was sitting there on a platform he had form with blood hardened to steel. Naruko was seeing red at this point and not because of the flames either so she quickly formed a Shadow Clone and threw it upwards at him.

Naruto only smirked more as he twirled his finger a bit. Out of the twister shot a condensed ball of metal at such speeds that it penetrated through her clone's skull before it dispersed. Naruko was horrified to see he had such control, but she still knew he had to be dealt with as soon as possible if she was ever going to break free from this freak storm. But Naruto then stood up and spread his arms out as he hummed to himself. As he did, he began to wave his hands around with the grace of a conductor. As he did this, Naruko was forced to dodge multiple spikes made of blood that shot out at her. She was able to do it, but it took all her concentration as she did, fully unaware that Naruto was messing with her as he did this.

His Sharingan showed her path to him clearly, and he threw the spike in a manner that nearly hit her, but he had no intention of fully doing so since he had something far worse planned for her. While she was dodging, he was basically caging her in as her field of movement got smaller and smaller with every passing second. Eventually, when she was no longer able to move about as freely, Naruto then smiled as he clicked his fingers. The crystals then erupted in a massive explosion that rocketed upwards. Naruko was in the center of it all and felt the full force of it as the blast was too much for her cloak to take and disappeared. Naruto was protected by the platform he was on, which was why he had erected the thing as he did far from the ground.

He saw Naruko on the ground, trying hard to get off her knees as her chakra was being used to heal all the burns she suffered from. He then jumped off his platform, and used some blood to form a slide to reach the ground safely. At this point Naruko was too weak to talk, which was perfect for Naruto as he pulled out the syringe he had used to hold the poison he had made for her and her alone…

He stabbed her in the chest with the syringe before he pushed the plunger down hard to inject her with the cruel concoction he had made for her.

"I know you can't speak," said Naruto as he placed his foot on her chest and slammed her onto her back hard, "and that works for me since you can only listen. I just injected you with a poison that there is no cure for. But don't worry your little head about dying since that is not what this poison was made to do. What it does is make your body decay from the inside out in a very painful manner, but the kicker here is that the stronger the immune system the longer the process takes. And for every second your body is fighting this poison, it will be a burning agony on your person the likes you never thought possible. Painkillers won't help you; tranquilizers won't be capable of putting you to sleep since your body will be in so much pain that it will be impossible for you to sleep. For one proudly claiming to be a member of a clan, your genetics will only make this process longer as well as more painful for you. So enjoy your last few hours of peace since once it starts it will never stop." Naruto then kicked her hard across the face, knocking her out and winning his match against her. He breathed a sigh if happiness as he fulfilled the second to last portion of his vengeance, which only meant one person remained on his list to deal with.

But he now knew that he had to act fast if he was going to do as he planned to do. He pointed his finger at Naruko, and with a simple mouthing of 'Shambles', a massive influx of power entered his body that he had prepared his body for. He had always planned to take the Kyubi from his half-sister, mainly as a means to show her just how weak she was without the thing, but now that he had injected her with the poison that was no longer needed since her life was officially fucked.

As the last of the power entered him, he found himself in a large field that he recognized as his mindscape when it was not trying to defend itself.

"Who are you," demanded the Kyubi, who was looking around in surprise of the sudden change of scenery.

"My name is Naruto good sir," said Naruto with a kind wave of his hand. "And I am here to ask for your help."

"My help," said Kyubi in a questioning tone since this was not what he was expecting to hear.

"Yes," said Naruto, "since both you and I have a mutual enemy that I need your assistance dealing with."

"And just who could you believe is our mutual enemy?"

"I could tell you," said Naruto as he pulled out a book which represented his memories in full, "but it would be easier to just show you." He opened the book, and out of it sprang a light that Kyubi was blinded by. But as his sight came back to him, the memories of the boy abandoned by his own father came to him in full. And the fox demon chuckled, for it would appear that they both did have a common enemy.

"So you are the bastard son of the man who sealed me away," said the Kyubi, "and seek to destroy his reputation before you end him personally."

"Exactly," said Naruto as he sent the book away since it was no longer needed, "and for that I need your assistance."

"And just what is it that you require of me?"

"I need your power," said Naruto simply, "since Minato now knows of what I can do. He will plan against it and defeating him will be all the more difficult. Yet with your power I could still manage to surprise him and defeat him in the end."

"And just what do I get out of this?"

"Freedom," said Naruto with a smile, "since after I use your power once, and only once since I will not need it more than that. You saw my memories and know I don't need it. But once my vengeance is complete, I will travel far West, beyond the Elemental countries itself and let you go there. From there you can make a new life for yourself away from those who not only know who you are but would seek to seal you back up into someone to use as a weapon."

"And what is to stop me from leaving now, seeking my own vengeance now and then gaining my freedom?"

"Nothing really," said Naruto with a shrug of his shoulders, "since you are not sealed in me. My power put you here but you could easily leave. But if you did, I would die, Minato as well as many Shinobi including his wife who is an Uzumaki capable of stopping you will do just that. And even if you manage to kill Minato, he would become a martyr that people would rally behind. My plan would discredit him and show the world just what a monster he really was so that they will not mourn his death."

"Hmmm," said the Kyubi in deep thought. The boy did make a good point. "Fine then. But I will only allow you to use my power once and only once. When finished, you will keep your end of the deal or I will simply kill you and leave myself."

"Deal," said Naruto as he held out his hand to shake something. Kyubi put the tip of his tail in his hand and shook with that. "Now make yourself comfortable since it will be a while before my plan will come into place."

"Take your time boy," said the Kyubi as he stretched out and laid down for a proper nap, "this place is far better than the others I was sealed in. Here I can truly relax."

"Well that is good," said Naruto, "and don't hesitate to ask for anything to make your stay more comfortable. Remember you are a guest here, not a captive."

"Will do," said the Kyubi before he closed his eyes. Naruto then disappeared from his mind and returned back to the real world where the fiery twister was still going and Naruko was still out like a light. He then shot a bit of his blood out the tip of his finger into the twister; doing so stopped the fires, and then directed it back through the doors where he had stored it away in the first place. It took a bit due to the sheer amount of blood that need to go back. Once they were able to, Minato arrived with several Medical Nin as well as ANBU to assist him if need be. He saw his daughter on the ground and he feared for her life and checked for a pulse. If Naruto had killed her he would have retaliated, not caring about the rules of the fight and saying damn all to the rules. He felt a pulse and handed her off to the medical Nin to take to the hospital, where Tsunade was thankfully at right now since she had returned a few days ago. Minato hastily named Naruto the victor and then proceeded to chase after the people who now had his daughter, but not before glaring heavily at Naruto, who only smirked as he did since there was nothing he could do to help his daughter at this point.

So with the exams done with, he found Onoki as well as the others who had come with him from Iwa. The old man had laughed and congratulated him on his victory as well as his amazing skills. He made a mental note to remind his Shinobi to never anger Naruto since the end results would not be pleasant if what he saw was a clear indication of such a thing. Once everyone was accounted for, he summoned a door for them all to enter, which he dropped Onoki and his group off at Iwa, but not before handing Kurotsuchi a scroll and telling her to read it in private. She blushed a bit as he told her that, but she would do as he asked since she was curious as to what was written inside it.

Once they were gone, Naruto took Haku back home and told her he needed to go back to Konoha for something, but he would be back later on tonight. Haku simply smiled as she kissed him goodbye and watched as he left her there. The moment was ruined for her though since she heard Fu chuckling at her as she was bringing back some groceries to restock the fridge. The two of them entered the house together, both of them wondering just why Naruto had to return to Konoha…

As they thought this, Naruto entered Konoha once more and began to walk towards a BBQ restaurant to eat. He needed to stay for a bit for the next part of his plan to take effect, and he was a patient man so he would wait…

As he ate in peace, Naruko had been taken to the hospital where Tsunade as well as her assistant Shizune were there to look after her. Minato sat there in fear of his daughter's wellbeing as they did so and waited for them to tell him anything. The news he got was not good. Tsunade took samples from Naruko to ensure she was right, and as she did those tests, Naruko woke up screaming as the poison finally took effect in her system. She felt as though her insides were being scorched by liquid magma. Minato called out for doctors to come and aid his daughter, but no matter what type of painkiller they gave her, she still screamed loudly. It got to the point that Minato was forced to place a silencing seal on her so that her screams were no longer audible to the rest of the hospital.

Tsunade returned with a worried look on her face and showed Minato what she found out. She told him about the poison that was slowly killing her inside and that the fact that it was in her system and they had no means to get an uncontaminated form of it, there was no cure for it. Minato broke out into literal tears as he heard this, which he was joined by his wife Kushina when she heard the news herself. It was then that she knew that Naruto was responsible and ran out to find him and make him heal her daughter. He had done this to her, so he could just as easily heal her!

She ran through the village angrily shouting out his name for all to hear. Naruto heard her as she got closer to where he was, which coincidently was where Tsume had attacked him for what he had done to her son. Strange how it was most likely going to happen again. Eventually she was able to track him down where he sat.

"You," said Kushina in anger through her heavy tears that had yet to stop flowing since she knew her daughter was suffering in agony, "you are going to heal my daughter right now or so help me!"

"So help me what?" asked Naruto with a raised eyebrow, "you'll kill me? Hurt me? Enslave me in some manner until I do it?"

Kushina was speechless out of anger and grief so she was not capable of thinking up a proper response to his questions.

"I could heal her," said Naruto with a growl, "but I won't nor will I ever."

"Please," said Kushina, who at this point was basically begging him, "she is my only daughter."

"Death and pain care not for such things," said Naruto in an uncaring manner, "and I know this first hand since your daughter made my life a living hell for her own sick amusement. It didn't matter that I was the only child of a loving mother, my pain still persisted."

"What do you want!?" shouted Kushina angrily towards the man who was looking down on her daughter and refusing to aid her.

"What do I want," said Naruto in a tone that seemed more like he was questioning it himself really, "I want to live a life I can be proud of. One where my name is known to all, but not as an infamous killer such as everyone else, but as a healer who they can depend on in the worst of things. But the problem is that my past kept coming back to haunt me in various ways, and the only way to stop it and move forward is to deal with those who made me suffer in my youth, the same ones who felt no remorse for making my life a living hell and were relishing the fact that they got away with it until now. Only with my vengeance fully complete will I know true peace, and unfortunately your daughter made her choice the second she stabbed me over my own mother's grave."

Kushina at this point was pissed beyond reason, but she couldn't just attack him since the political backlash of doing so would be immense. He was well known as well as liked all over the Elemental Countries, with his actions being done in a legal setting that all villages had agreed upon when the creation of these Exams became a thing. She couldn't force him to heal Naruko since he had the right to refuse service, and even if she fought him, she had a feeling that she might actually lose to him in some manner. She was no pushover by any means, but Naruto was a walking enigma of a man whose full capabilities seemed to be suppressed somehow and that terrified her to no end.

"But fret not," said Naruto as he pulled out a scroll, "you are still young and attractive so having another child is not out of the question as of yet. So you at least still have options. And while you have no reason to do so, I have a message I would like you to deliver to your husband for me."

"And why would I do anything for you after you did what you did to my daughter?" asked Kushina angrily.

"Because I'm fairly sure that you would love to read what is written in it," said Naruto as he placed the scroll onto the ground and then opened a door before he walked through it to his operating room, leaving Kushina there alone with the scroll that he had left her. She picked it up and looked at it to make sure it was not booby trapped or something along the lines of that, but as she looked at it she did see something that was there discreetly…

It was a blood seal, one that could only be opened by people who shared the same blood. As an Uzumaki, who were well known for their knowledge in sealing she was easily able to make out what it was, but why it was there made no sense to her. How could she deliver this message to Minato if only someone related to Naruto could…?

It was then that her mind as well as her heart stopped for a second…

The pieces of the puzzle were starting to come together in her mind as the facts made themselves known to her. She tightened the grip on the scroll in anger as she gritted her teeth tight to match. She would take the message to Minato, but not for Naruto, but to get answers for herself from the man she called her husband once and for all…

(A/N: Sorry for the long wait for this new chapter. It's just being cooped up at home in self-quarantine has killed my creative mind a bit to the point that writing is a slow process to me now. But I hope you liked this new chapter and will see you in the next one!)