Uchiha Change

Chapter 25- The Final Battle

Naruto didn’t know what to say about Choji’s match. The boy only fought because he was bribed and in Naruto’s books, that was not a reason to go into a battle. So Donso had used the boy’s jutsu against him and Choji lost.

“Lee VS Gaara,”

“Lee, be careful,” Naruto told the green wearing boy. He had never seen train at his top speed, but he guessed the boy was fast. Team Eleven had turned with Team Ten since they became Genin, they think they were able to tell their strengths and weakness by now.

“There’s no need to get antsy,” Lee said as he caught the plug to Gaara’s guard. He would show everyone, that you need to work hard to become a shinobi, that it wasn’t by fate or blood.

“Begin,”

Lee looked at the red haired boy, before running trying to kick him. Gaara knew that he didn’t need to move, since the sand would stop his attacks.

‘Sand?’ Lee thought before he was knocked away. He could use chakra, it was just one of his gates where blocked, once the problem had been found, it was easy to sort it out. In fact he was saving it for the final rounds. He stopped after trying to get through his defences, he needed to go faster and the meant that he had to take off his weights.

“Lee, take them off,” Gai yelled from the stands. Lee quickly got onto the highest point in the arena and took of his weights. Both of the sand siblings didn’t think that would make a difference until they landed, making large carters.

Soon, Gaara could see how his sand wasn’t able to keep up and for the first time in his life, someone was able to hit him. Lee kicked his head.

“Gai… what did you teach him?” Kakashi asked his friend. Something that confused people, was that Gai wanted to show everyone how good Taijutsu was, but challenged a Ninjutsu user.

“Hopefully, nothing to dangerous,” Kushina liked Lee and he was the reason, she was able to hold her own in a Taijutsu match. If Gai taught him something stupid, she was going to send him into the Mirana, where Tobirama can talk sense or beat sense into him “We need to stop this match,”

Gai looked down the ring, he was a bit scared, since he had taught Lee something dangerous and he had seen Kushina’s angry… he didn’t even want to see Natsumi’s and the blonde girl was mostly a happy child. He also knew that he was going to face both of them, since the two girls were starting to see Lee as an older brother of sorts.

Kushina didn’t wait and quickly went to the Hokage, she needed him to stop the match, this kid murdered someone, because they looked at him wrong… what was he going to do, to the person that was able to injury him. She knew that he was going to open the gates… Gai was dead, he was going to meet her fist and then her foot.

“Lee stop!!” Natsumi shouted. She knew what was going on, she wasn’t going to allow him to risk his life. If this was an actual battle and not a simple match, she knew that it might be the only way. Not now, he can surrender and try again next year, when ichibi wasn’t there “Please stop, Lee, don’t open the gates, you’ve proven yourself, but please don’t put your life on the line,”

Lee stopped and looked at the blonde, the gates were only meant to be used to protect someone important, not his pride. One day he would find someone who didn’t care, if he was able to use chakra, fully, and didn’t care that he mostly used Taijutsu.

“I surrender.”

Gaara didn’t care that he wasn’t fighting any more, Lee saw sand coming his way. He had to run out of the way, but the lotus pulled the muscle in his legs. Both Gai and Kushina saw this, Gai stood in front of his beloved student, while Kushina went to Gaara.

“Like I told you in the forest, you shouldn’t do that,” Kushina told him, while she had a clone point a kunai at his throat, she wasn’t going to kill him, but if he pushed her hand, she would have to “If you step or do anything to Lee, you won’t like the price,”

“Gaara is the winner,”

“Why?”

“Why what?” she asked, the raven didn’t know where the boy was going with this, but she knew the faster Gai got Lee out of here, the safer it was going to be for everyone.

“Why did you protect him,” Gaara didn’t think people did that anymore. Baki just looked at the girl, she was the one who didn’t like the Leaf, so why was she helping them? Natsumi and Naruto knew the reason.

“He’s like an older brother, one that annoys the living day lights out of you, but you know, and he knows, that you’ll have each other’s backs,”

The red head didn’t understand it, since he was betrayed by the only person who showed him kindness and love. He just looked at the raven, the other two were gone, along with the rest of Team Ten.

“Your sister and brother, they do love you,” Kushina didn’t know what was going on with the three, but as long as they didn’t attack each other, they could still go into the finals. Gaara just looked at her and went back to the stand, Kushina following his example.

Haku didn’t know what she was going to do, there was no one left and she still hadn’t fought. Zabuza called this to attention, since Kakashi was worried about the Uchiha in his group. It seemed that Haku was allowed into the last ground, since there was an odd number of people.

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“I want the winners to come down,” Hayate shouted. They had fixed the floor and soon the twelve winners came down. The last battle would be in a month, but first they had to see who was fighting who.

The twelve teens that had passed the first three rounds came into the arena. Looking at the others, these people were their compaction. Hiruzen saw this and started to explain what was going to happen in the next month. Then Anko gave them a number from one to twelve.

The finals rounds…

Naruto VS Neji

Natsumi VS Shino

Kankuro VS Haku

Kushina VS Temari

Donso VS Shikamaru

Gaara VS Sasuke