Uchiha Legacy

Chapter 23: 23 - Clash of Titans

DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN NARUTO OR ITS CHARACTERS. A SHAME REALLY

BLACKWOLF501: I know that the timeline is a bit cheesy but I believe it isn't much farfetched. I removed a generation by placing Tsunade as Hashirama's daughter thus removing about 20 years.

I don't know the age at which they founded Konoha. From the anime they seemed like grown man so I assumed their age to be around 25 to 30. I assumed that Tsunade was born around the time Konoha was founded and that Madara attacked 11 years after leaving.

So that would place Madara around 42-43 years when Minato was born and you will see in this chapter that I placed Madara's death age around 65-70 years old.

About Sasuke he won't be good in this plot. Due to Tobi he won't be redeemed in this story.

Slytherin's Pimp: There won't be a harem and even in cannon after he defeated Neji a couple of girls in the crowd said something similar. I just added this so later on Hinata could have...how should I say this...juuken targets.

Chapter 23 - Clash of Titans

## Arena ##

Naruto and Gaara were standing a few feet from each other. Each one of them had emotionless faces as they eyed and studied their opponent. The proctor had already started the match but neither of them moved not wanting to make any mistake. Even though Gaara knew that his sand would defend him he somehow knew that Naruto was strong.

Gaara's mother a.k.a Ichibi or Shukaku had warned Gaara to be careful around Naruto since he was also a jinchuuriki and had the kyuubi the strongest of the nine bijuu. The silence in the arena was uncomfortable. There was no sound, no birds, no wind; the crowd itself was silent watching what it was the most anticipated match since the first round.

"Want help?" – Kurama asked.

"No. I want to this on my own I just need a refill should I go empty" – Naruto replied making Kurama smirk at the devotion of his vessel in proving that he can be strong alone.

Suddenly a small breeze lifted up and signaled the start of the match. Gaara's sand slowly started leaving his gourd on his back and started dancing around him. Naruto saw the sand starting to move and jumped back to gain some distance.

Both of them were ready for their fight, Gaara already had his sand outside ready to crush our fellow blonde and Naruto was watching it very carefully with his sharingan blazing.

Gaara suddenly clutched his head in pain making Naruto raise an eyebrow to why suddenly Gaara would feel pain.

"It must be the Ichibi" - Naruto thought as he watched Gaara clutching his head trying to relieve his pain as best as he could. Just as it began the pain suddenly stopped and Gaara slowly raised his head to show Naruto his face angry for blood.

"PROVE MY EXISTENCE UZUMAKI" - Gaara shouted and sent forth a wave of sand towards Naruto intending to crush him instantly. Naruto started evasive maneuvers and he watched the sand splitting into various waves trying to outflank Naruto.

However Naruto's speed coupled with his sharingan made sure Naruto could predict the path of each wave making sure he would never be caught.

"It's a shame they removed the water from the previous match. Since I don't have affinity towards water I can't use high ranking moves without a water source nearby" - Naruto thought as he kept dodging the sand. "Let's see if his sand armor can keep up with me" - Naruto thought as he disappeared in a burst of speed.