AN: Hey everybody what's up? Anyways for those of you who didn't get the last reference that Naruto said to Gaara at the end of the last chapter that was from the Batman VS. Superman trailer where Batman said that same quote to Superman. I just loved that line so much that I just had to use it. But enough of that stuff you all want to get to the story and see that battle between The Tanuki and The Crimson Blossom.

IMPORTANT READ: Also my peeps, Naruto has more spiritual energy than normal humans meaning that to make up for it his physical energy has to also increase so that balance won't be interrupted. That means Naruto has more chakra than a normal Uzumaki male does, while not as much as a jinchuriki it's up there and will continue to grow, this also makes his chakra more potent and stronger.

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To Thor94: You keep saying that Naruto has no chance against his sister, well what you are about to read will make you see why Naruto WILL become the strongest shinobi in the world. Also remember this is a fanfic meaning if I want to I can make Naruto wipe the floor with his sister if I wanted to, so please either make reviews giving me support or CONSTRUCTIVE criticism, enough with the reviewing only to tell me that Naruto in MY story can't defeat his sister. Thank you and I hope you continue to read, recommend and enjoy this fanfic. Sorry for the outburst but it does get annoying reading reviews like that.

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Chapter 6: The Tanuki VS. The Crimson Blossom Part II

Gaara attempted to turn around so that he could kill the swordsman, but a thunderous kick to his side sent him flying through a couple trees stopping the attempt. Before he could react thousands upon thousands of those tiny little blade began to rain down on him, his sand only being able to catch a few.

The speed of which the tiny blades moved were too great, at least they couldn't cu-

Gaara lifted his hand to his cheek as he felt something begin to drip down his face, when he looked at his hand he was shocked to see that familiar crimson liquid.

"Blood, my blood!" screamed Gaara.

"Oh it seems you do bleed. Would you like to bleed some more?" Asked Naruto coldly.

"How!? How did you do this, my sand armor can hold against kunai and even against swords, so how the hell did those little things cut me!?" roared Gaara, charging at Naruto in anger.

Laughing a bit Naruto dodged the slow attacks and continued cutting Gaara with Senbonzakura's petals.

"How you ask? My name is Naruto Uzumaki, Gaara no Sabaku. Do you know what one of the things the Uzumaki were famous for? Being the containers of the Kyuubi, why? The containers were all women so far, and the first container used fuinjutsu but that wasn't the only factor. My mother, Kushina Uzumaki-Namikaze, had something special in her blood that manifested in only very few Uzumaki's." said Naruto as continued to dodge and give Gaara small cuts.

"That was the power of chakra chains. While all the reported users were women, it seems the same gene is dormant in male Uzumaki's blood. To put it simply so that you can understand, while I don't have the power to use chakra chains, my zanpaktou awoke this dormant gene and took it for itself. Meaning that my sword, like all those women before, now has the power to subdue, weaken, and battle against bijuu and their containers, cloak and all." Finished Naruto giving Gaara a bloodthirsty smile, which Gaara matched.

"YOU ARE THE PERFECT ONE TO FINALLY PROVE MY EXISTENCE! BY KILLING YOU I'LL FINALLY BE ABLE TO PLEASE MOTHER!" said Gaara with insane glee.

Before Naruto could reply Gaara charged again, this time faster and with more persistence. Naruto could only block and dodge, but soon he had to do a two handed block and his petals weren't fast enough to block the fist made of sand that hit him in the face with enough force to make him crash through a couple of trees himself.

Looking at Gaara Naruto couldn't help but shudder at the ugly features that have now appeared on his face. His arm now covered with sand, purple marks covering it, his eyes turning gold with sclera black. What made Naruto worry was that Gaara now had a sand tail, meaning that he was preparing to go biju mode.

Summoning Senbonzakura, Naruto had it turn back into its sword form before he charged at the tanuki, and began shunpoing in and out all around him trying to cut down the insane sand genin. Though whenever he believed he had made a hit his sand would cover the wound and fortify itself.

"I need to find a weak spot. That sand is starting to get annoying." Said Naruto to himself.

Dodging another swing from Gaara Naruto jumped back and began analyzing his opponent. Trying to figure out where the weak part of the sand cloak would be. While his sword was able to cut through the sand, he can't hit the skin meaning it took longer to weaken the source of the biju chakra.

"Sand Shuriken!" said Gaara, snapping Naruto out of his thinking.

Four sand shuriken came rushing at him at blinding speeds, dodging the first two and blocking the third with Senbonzakura, he barely had time to shunpo out of the way of the last one. Though he couldn't quite make it as the sand shuriken had given him a large gash along his left leg.

Gritting his teeth in pain Naruto continued looking for a weak spot as he dodged more sand shuriken, getting scratches here and there.

"THERE!" thought Naruto as he jumped to the ground below Gaara.

Lifting his right arm while supporting it with his left Naruto began reciting the incantation for his currently favorite kido, he has been practicing this one for quite a while too so he hopes it works.

"O ye Lord, mask of flesh and bone, all creation, flutter of wings, ye who bears the name of man, truth and temperance, upon this sinless wall of dreams unleash but slightly the wrath of your claws! Hadou #33: Sokatsui!" He exclaimed, soon after completing the incantation his chakra began building up before a large ball of bright blue fire was sent out of his hand.

A large explosion echoed throughout the forest as Naruto's kido crashed into the spot under Gaara's tail, the weak point of the armor. Pain flowed all through Gaara's body as the blue fire ball connected with him, his sand armor slowly falling apart. Naruto grinned at the fact that he managed to use a high level kido before taking advantage of Gaara's downed state and followed up with another kido.

"You who is crowned with the name of man, wearing a mask of flesh and blood, flying on five thousand fluttering wings, break the light into three pieces, and be paralyzed by heaven's light! Bakudo #30: Shtotsu Sansen!" he said before a bright yellow light shot out of Naruto's hand, separating into three beams of light that shot towards Gaara pinning him to a tree before the three lights formed a triangle and trapped him around the tree.

"Let me go Uzumaki! I need to please mother! I need to prove my existence!" he screamed while thrashing around, trying to break free.

Naruto just sat on a tree and tried to catch his breath, the two high level kido took a lot of chakra out of him and he needed to rest so that he could try to replenish it. Naruto then looked around and found that Sakura was still pinned to the tree but thankfully the sand had loosened quite a bit.

Naruto was brought out of his relief when a body was thrown in front of him, it was a blonde girl with four ponytails on her head, beaten and bloodied. Soon a boy with black hair shaped like a ducks ass followed after. He had a few cuts here and there but was overall fine, he soon looked at Naruto and saw that Gaara was subdued.

"Who the hell are you?" asked the boy.

"Does it matter?" retorted Naruto.

"Actually no it doesn't, I would probably forget your name too easily anyways. My name on the other hand is Sasuke Uchiha, a name that you will remember." Said Sasuke arrogantly.

"Huh, did you say something?" said Naruto as he looked up from polishing his sword with a rag he pulled out of his pocket.

In the Chunnin Stadium

Kakashi Hatake for some reason felt the need to swell with pride, somewhere out there someone just now, used his favorite catchphrase perfectly. With newly revived vigor he began cutting down more enemies quicker.

Maito Guy on the other hand looked towards his eternal rival, "Curse you and your cool and hip attitude Kakashi, you're making it spread!" he yelled before attacking his enemies in frustration.

Back to the forest

Sasuke stared at the crimson haired boy, his eyebrow twitching in annoyance, "Does this kid know Kakashi-sensei or something?" he wondered to himself.

"Anyways, I'm going to need you to let that kid go, he was my opponent in the exams and I need to fight him to test myself." Said Sasuke looking at Naruto as though expecting him to actually comply with what he just said.

"Are you fucking crazy? That kid is about to go full biju mode, there is no way I am going to let him go so that he can just slaughter you." Said Naruto looking at Sasuke as though he was insane, which he probably was.

"What did you just say? There is no way someone like him could match an Uchiha. We are the elite of this village! Now let him go or else." Said Sasuke attempting to intimidate the swordsman.

"While I am tempted to let him go and watch him knock you around till you're unconscious, I am not about to jeopardize the safety of this village just to feed your fucking ego." Said Naruto before turning around and walking towards Gaara.

What Naruto didn't expect was for the girl, that Naruto was sure she was unconscious earlier, to get up and attack him. Dodging the girls wild swings from what seem to be a giant metal fan, Naruto quickly shunpoed behind her and knocked her back out. After getting rid of that quick distraction Naruto's attention was brought back to Sasuke when said boy crashed into him.

"What the hell was that?" asked Naruto to Sasuke.

Before Sasuke could respond they were interrupted by a large roar that was made by a very irritated and angry jinchuriki.

"Did you let him go duck-ass?" yelled Naruto at Sasuke.

"Just get out of my way you nobody, let an Uchiha handle the rest." Said Sasuke before making the hand seals for the chidori, Naruto watching in interest.

Charging at the angry jinchuriki Sasuke quickly attempted to pierce the tanuki like boy before he had to dodge sand tendrils which he cut easily with his lightning technique before lunging at Gaara.

"Chidori!" yelled Sasuke as he felt his hand enter Gaara's shoulder, piercing the sand armor and cloak.

Gaara yelled in agony until he fell to the ground unconscious, his sand falling off of him. Naruto seeing this while angry at the Uchiha prick was glad he got rid of Gaara. Turning around Naruto headed towards Sakura and quickly cradled her head into his lap. He gently stroked her hair as he looked down at her, happy that she was safe now.

Stirring Sakura opened her eyes and jade green met amethyst purple, "Naruto-kun, is that you? When did you get here, all I remember was sand and pain before losing consciousness." She said.

"I got here after that and fought Gaara, I was able to subdue him before your royal prick of a teammate showed up, set him free and knocked him out." Replied Naruto.

Before either of them could talk some more, Sasuke was launched into a tree below them, unconscious. Looking at the direction of where he was thrown from they saw a giant mass of sand forming feet before looking higher and higher before seeing a giant one tailed tanuki standing there.

"I'm free! Finally fresh air once again, and look at that. That useless kid decided to surprise me with a lovely little village to annihilate. How sweet of him, maybe for that I'll let him sleep for one night instead of taking over his body….HAHAHA yeah right! What was I doing again? Oh yeah I was about to destroy this village." Said the insane tanuki before walking towards Konoha.

"Sakura-chan, can you walk? Good, take Sasuke and that sand girl and clear the area, I'm gunna try to stop that thing before it gets to the village." Said Naruto before shunpoing away not giving her time to answer.

Appearing at the top of the tallest tree near the giant tanuki Naruto unsheathed his blade and made Senbonzakura turn into petals. He quickly sent them out and began hacking at the giant tanuki gaining its attention.

"What the hell? What are those, flowers? HAHA you think you're going to cut me with flowers?" said Shukaku laughing.

"I advise that you don't underestimate Senbonzakura." Said Naruto annoyed.

"Hadou #33: Sokatsui!" he yelled sending the blue fire at the biju, which didn't really do much to it.

Gritting his teeth in frustration Naruto summoned Senbonzakura as it made the shape of a dragon, "Sakura Dragon!" he said before sending out the dragon which attacked the biju, managing to completely lop off an arm, he had managed to make this technique an A-rank.

"What the fuck! How the hell did you do that? I'll show you not to do that to me you fucking little brat! Air Bullets!" yelled the now pissed off tanuki sending out five giant air bullets towards Naruto.

Shunpoing out of the way Naruto hid in the trees trying to think of a new strategy on how to win this.

"C'mon Naruto. Think. Think, damn it! What is something I could do to get this guy! How the hell did he get out anyways? The Uchiha didn't kill the kid, so how did he get out? A failsafe in the seal? Wait what did he say before? 'Maybe I should let him sleep instead of taking over his body', so that means…it came out when the kid was knocked unconscious!" thought Naruto before having to clear the immediate area dodging the deranged tanuki's air bullets.

"So that means, if I wake the kid up that damn biju will go back into the seal. Okay good, now, where the hell is the kid?" thought Naruto.

Making another Sakura Dragon Naruto using chakra stuck to the back of it and began flying around the tanuki, searching for the kid. Dodging the wild one handed swipes of Shukaku Naruto continued to fly around him before finding the kid on the damn things head.

"Now how do I get this thing to hold still long enough for me to get close and wake the kid?" said Naruto to himself before he remembered what Sasuke did earlier.

"That's it! He seems to be weak to lightning attacks! But I don't know any lightning attacks big enough to stop that." Thought Naruto.

Thanks to his thinking the damn tanuki managed to knock his dragon out of the sky, making Naruto start free falling. Thinking quickly he flash stepped to a tree and tried thinking of some lightning technique to finish off this annoying biju.

Concentrating Naruto decided to go with a last Hail Mary attempt to defeat this thing, making Senbonzakura, hilt and all, disperse into petals he had him turn into a giant twenty foot western dragon. Jumping on top of its head Naruto looked at the tanuki, "I hope this works." He said.

"Hey you over grown sand box! I'm over here dumbass!" said Naruto gaining the tanuki's attention.

The tanuki finding its target began walking towards the annoying brat, ready to make this kid a red stain in the ground.

Naruto took a deep breath before closing his eyes and concentrating, summoning forth all the lightning chakra he could making it surge all around his body. After doing that Naruto kneeled on one knee and laid a hand onto his dragon, sending all of his lightning chakra into the dragon making Senbonzakura surge with lightning.

Looking back up at the tanuki, Naruto maneuvered the dragon out of a wind bullets way before charging the biju.

"Zanpaktou style: Zakuraryu raiho!" he yelled before the dragon picked up more and more speed before Naruto jumped high into the air as the lightning charged Senbonzakura dragon crashed into the tanuki. A large discharge went off as Shukaku screamed in pain as the lightning began to make him crumble.

Free falling once again Naruto this time aimed himself directly at the tanuki's head where Gaara laid limply, completely exposed. Rearing back a fist Naruto glared at the unconscious boy before yelling one last thing before he connected.

"WAKE THE FUCK UP!" he yelled, his fist sending Gaara right through the tanuki's now useless body and into the trees below.

Southern District of the Leaf

Kushina had just finished killing a couple of more sand nins when she felt the Kyubi act up, looking towards the Western District she saw the Ichibi battling against, a pink dragon?

Jumping onto a building she focused chakra to her eyes to get a better look of what was going on, all she could see was someone dressed in red and black clothing, and had hair similar to hers. Wait what? No one but Uzumaki's have hair like that, could it be? No, he could never use techniques like that. She was then amazed when she saw the dragon surge with lightning and attack the tanuki and actually managed to beat it!

Before she could go and investigate, Natsumi contacted her through the radio requesting back up at the hospital, apparently a team of jonin decided to go and try to kill the doctors.

In the Barrier

Minato was currently having a little trouble as Nidaime kept intercepting whenever he was trying to use his Hirashin. While he was able to hold his own and even managed to seal away the Shodaime, Orochimaru and the Nidaime were giving him some trouble.

Opening his sensor ability to locate the Nidaime in the forest the Shodaime made before being sealed. He felt a large familiar chakra signature, "Naruto." Thought Minato before almost getting cut by the kusangi.

"Okay that's it, I'm ending this. Summoning Justu!" he said before two small toads appeared on his shoulders.

"What can we do for you Minato-chan?" asked Fukasaku, or pa.

"Why haven't you come to visit lately Minato-chan, I have some new recipes I want you to try." Said Shima, or ma.

"Oh well I'll visit soon, but at the moment I need your help. Gather some nature chakra for me." Said Minato before locking kunai with the Nidaime. He soon felt the familiar feel of nature chakra enter his body as he his eyes turned orange, his pupils into horizontal bars, and an orange pigmentation covered his eyes.

"Okay, no more playing around. Time to end this." Said Minato, as he saw Orochimaru get paler, if that was possible.

Back with Naruto and Gaara

Naruto then landed a few feet away from him, gasping from the lack of chakra. Walking towards him Naruto picked up Senbonzakura, the tip dragging through the dirt.

"Get away from me! My existence will not end! Mother! Help me!" yelled Gaara hysterically.

"Calm down you crazy bastard! As much as I should, I won't kill you. You'll be a strong ally to have one day, so what do you say? Try not to destroy my village again, or I will kill you, and we can be friends, ne?" asked Naruto, giving him a small smile.

"Friends? I don't need any friends! Friends make you weak!" yelled Gaara at Naruto.

"That's actually not true. If it wasn't for the fact that Sakura and the entire village were in danger I wasn't sure of whether or not I could beat you. Thanks to them, I was able to find the strength to kick your ass. Having friends Gaara, gives you something to fight for, and that's what makes you strong." Said Naruto before Sakura jumped into the clearing Temari hot on her heels.

"Naruto-kun are you okay?" asked a very worried Sakura, as Temari ran towards her little brother.

Nodding at Sakura, Naruto looked at Temari and Gaara, "Get out of here, don't question it. Now go before I change my mind." He said.

Gaara got up and left with Temari, Kankuro showing up looking like shit, "What happened to you?" asked Temari.

"Don't fuck with Aburames. That's all I am going to tell you." Said Kankuro.

"Temari, Kankuro. I'm sorry, for everything." Said Gaara, his siblings looked at him in shock before smiling and continued trying to get the fuck out of there.

"Why did you let them go Naruto-kun?" asked Sakura.

Right when Naruto was about to answer, three people appeared before them.

"Hello, father, mother, Natsumi." Said Naruto looking at the three with his mask of cold indifference back on, Minato and Kushina flinching at the way he said mother and father.

"Sochi-kun, it's you, it's really you." Said Kushina as tears streamed down her face, she then tried to hug him, which he really wanted hug her back, but he flash stepped away from her.

They all looked shocked at the speed of which he moved at, though Minato and Kushina saw it.

"Naru-nii, why did you do that? Aren't you back for good?" asked Narumi.

"No I am not. Though one day I will return, but it will be for one thing, and one thing only." He said before looking straight into his father's eyes.

"And it will be to defeat you in an all-out battle." He said shocking them all.

"Wait, Naruto!" was all that Minato could get out before thousands of sakura petals, swirled all around them making them shield their eyes.

Once they looked back up all they saw was Sakura smiling and that Naruto was gone. They sadly looked at where he stood before they quickly left back to the village to send a tracking team to locate him.

Sakura on the hand looked at the sky dreamily, when Naruto had made his smoke screen he had flashed stepped in front of her and had given her a short yet searing kiss before disappearing. She then had the urge to reach into her pouch where she found a locket, one side was a picture of Naruto and the other side had a picture of her, they were positioned to look like they were smiling at each other.

A piece of paper was attached to the clasp which had a p. o. box that said she could send letters to and that he would write back when he could, all she had to do was just address the letters to Byakuya Kuchiki. Smiling once more she put on the locket and walked back to village.

With Naruto

Naruto on the other hand had also taken a couple Sakura's soldier pills when he left her with that gift. Popping them into his mouth he began flash stepping as fast as he could so that he could get out of fire country so that his parents or the team of ANBU that he knew they would send wouldn't be able to reach him.

Soon after about an hour of flash stepping he was nearing the border of Kiri and that was definetly not a place the ANBU would enter. Okay now he would enter mist country catch his breath and then and get the hell out of there, they were in a civil war after all. Sticking with his decision he then continued on towards the border.

Entering Wave Country Naruto knew he couldn't relax here as he found out his sister's team had supposedly saved the country from some guy named Gatou, and his hired guard Zabuza of the bloody mist. A member of the seven swordsman of the mist, maybe he should grab the Kubikiribocho while he was here.

Taking a quick detour Naruto went to the outskirts of the town of Wave and found the grave marker and the giant sword. Walking up to the graves he paid a small respect to Zabuza and grabbed the sword, he knew Zabuza would be happy that his sword would be put to use again. Naruto then popped another soldier pill, sealed away the zanbatou and made it to Kiri's border.

Entering he continued to go deeper and deeper into Mist Country until he was far enough into it that he knew he was safe from Konoha forces. Seeing that the sun was beginning to set Naruto quickly began looking for a good spot to set up camp. He soon found the perfect little patch of grass hidden from all sides and collapsed.

Naruto though had made a grave mistake due to his exhaustion, he had let down his sensor ability, and that is gonna cost him. Naruto was about to fall asleep when he felt a shift in the air and opened his eyes to see himself surrounded by shinobi.

"Shit." Was all Naruto had the chance to say before he was knocked unconscious.

And Scene!

AN: Man that was a long chapter! Now I know the battle probably wasn't as exciting as you all hoped it too be, but hey I am still learning people. So cut me some slack! Anyways peeps, how did you all feel about Minato having Sage Mode? Cool right? I thought it would be appropriate for him to have it so I gave him it. Now about what happened in his fight will be shown next chapter.

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