20 Chapter 20

Kankuro heard his name being called, he thought for a while, then shouted, "I'm withdrawing from the match."

Hearing that someone had withdrawn from the match, the audience started booing even more fiercely because they were angry that the match they had been waiting for was postponed.

Temari, who was standing next to Kankuro, snorted and jumped into the arena and said, "I'm the one who will fight in the next match."

"You're pretty impatient. Hey, you there! Come down." Jonin said while looking at Shikamaru who was standing in the waiting area.

Shikamaru descended the stairs with a bored expression on his face. Shortly after the two genin came face to face, the match began.

Shikamaru tried to beat his opponent using his brain completely in the match. He even came very close to beating, but later gave up and lost the match.

However, Shikamaru showed that he was at the chunin level with his intelligence and strategy.

Now it was again the turn of the match, which was expected by many, but the expected person still did not come.

Hokage and Kazekage decided to wait 10 minutes for Sasuke to arrive after thinking for a while. If Sasuke doesn't arrive within 10 minutes, he will be disqualified and Gaara will advance to the next round.

After 5 minutes, Kakashi and Sasuke appeared on stage in a cool way.

"Kakashi-san, it seems you have passed on your habit of being late to your student. If you were 5 more minutes late, Sasuke would have been disqualified." Jonin said.

"Oh… We apologize for being late." Kakashi said shyly as he scratched the back of his head.

"Anyway, please go to the audience, the match will start soon."

"Ladies and gentlemen, it's finally time for the much-anticipated match to begin. The match is starting, Gaara, come down." Jonin said.

The match started after Gaara came downstairs while grinning awkwardly.

At first, Sasuke surprised everyone with his speed. Then he used the Chidori taught by Kakashi to surprise everyone once again.

Sasuke had pierced Gaara's sand dome with his Chidori hand and injured him.

Seeing his bleeding wound, Gaara went wild and was close to losing control over Shukaku.

One of the Anbu Ninjas, who was in the audience at that moment, used genjutsu to put many people to sleep.

Then, out of nowhere, An explosion occurred at the location of the Kages. Kazekage took Hiruzen hostage and climbed onto the roof of the arena.

A short time later, 4 people built a barrier around them to prevent anyone from entering on the orders of Kazekage. In this way, the few Anbu who came to save Hiruzen could not enter.

At that time, Gaara's team had jumped down and started to run away with Gaara. Sasuke also started chasing them to stop them.

Kakashi, who was in the audience, looked at Sakura and said, "Take Shikamaru and Naruto and go after Sasuke."

Sakura looked around for a moment, then said in surprise, "Sensei, Naruto isn't here."

"What? Then go with Hinata. She looks pretty strong too." Kakashi said after a moment of surprise.

Sakura started running after Sasuke with Shikamaru, Hinata, and Kakashi's summoned dog.

At that time, Naruto went to the home of Yondaime Hokage Minato Namikaze.

He made a few shadow clones and quickly searched everywhere after entering the house. There was nothing in sight, but one of the clones found a secret door.

After Naruto dripped a drop of blood on the seal above the door, the door opened.

On the other side of the door was a large room. There were many shelves in the room, with paper labels on the shelves that said what they were about.

"So you've been hiding everything here, Daddy." Naruto said with a big grin on his face.

Some of the labels had inscriptions like "Rasengan," "Flying Thunder God," and "Dead Demon Consuming Seal" on them.

Naruto then opened the shelf with "Eight Trigrams Sealing Style" on the label and took a cursory glance at the papers inside.

"Damn, these are not enough either. I must go to Uzushiogakure for more information. Otherwise, I may have to destroy Mount Myoboku if they don't want to give it to me."

Then, Naruto put all the shelves there inside the seal on the scroll.

"My work here is done. Now let's see what Tanuki is doing." Naruto said while leaving the house.

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Sasuke finally caught up with Gaara and they started fighting. Sasuke was winning at first, but as time passed, Gaara was gradually transforming into Shukaku.

After a while, Sasuke started to lose and the seal on his neck covered his whole body. Gaara was about to attack Sasuke, who was barely moving, but Hinata suddenly appeared and slammed him into the distance.

Shortly after, Sakura arrived and she said while approached Sasuke, "Sasuke-kun! Are you okay?"

With the help of his tail after Gaara grumbled, he quickly threw himself from the tree onto Hinata.

Hinata dodge Gaara coming towards her and she said as blue chakra appeared on her fingertips, "Eight Trigrams One Hundred Twenty-Eight Palms"

Then, she quickly approached Gaara and started tapping her fingers all over his body. Hinata had hit Gaara's body 128 times in a short time.

She slapped Gaara one last time gathering all his strength in her hand and said, "Eight Trigrams Mountain Crusher."

Gaara was blown backward by the hard blow he received. He couldn't use his chakra because of Hinata's hits. In this way, Shukaku had taken over Gaara's body more easily.

Gaara was suddenly transformed into something like a giant tanuki made of sand.

"Khakhakha! I am finally free!" Shukaku happily shouted.

But the poor raccoon had no idea what was going to happen to it.