Chapter no.92

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Gasps of horror could be heard all over the stadium, especially from the combatant booth and where all of the people who knew Naruto were sitting. They couldn't believe that Nawaki would go as far as to kill Naruto for the sake of winning.

Natsuki, Narumi, and Kushina were all in tears as they saw the flames swallow Naruto, nobody could survive that. He was gone, now and forever. They would never have their chance for forgiveness. They could never even begin to imagine what they would do without Naruto driving them forward. It was all that Narumi and Natsuki lived for, to be loved and acknowledged by him. To have a life with him, and now he was gone.

"Haha! You thought you would be burning me alive! How does it feel to be incinerated by your own jutsus?" Nawaki laughed at the large sea of flames beneath him and the toad he was standing on.

"Your flames are pathetic. You dare to call this a Katon jutsu?" A voice could be heard from the arena floor, catching everyone off guard. Natsuki and Narumi looked up with hope shining in their eyes as they recognized who it was. The flamed were drawn to the center of the arena and were sucked into what looked like a vortex. When the flames finally converged, they revealed a glowing yellow Naruto who was still absorbing the last of the flames.

"WHA-WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU!" Nawaki yelled as he fell back onto his butt on top of Gamabunta's head. "You should be dead! Any normal person would have died!"

Naruto ignored his question and decided to continue his monologue. "Let me show you what real flames are...let us all burn together." Naruto bent down and crossed his arms over each other, summoning a sea of spiraling flames centered on his location. "Dai Enkai (Great Flame Commandment)!" The flames surrounding him suddenly started amassing at the palm of Naruto's right hand as he held it above his head. The large amount of flames manifested to reveal a large mass of yellow energy surrounded by flames, resembling the sun. "Entei (Flame Emporer)!"

The technique was easily as large as Gamabunta, if not bigger. "Let's see which is stronger. The water or the sun." Naruto hurled the giant mass of energy forward with the intent to obliterate his opponents. Nawaki's eyes widened as he saw the fireball become bigger and bigger after it impacted them with the strength of a meteor. It consumed them instantly and continued to disintegrate the large wall behind them, completely destroying it before the technique dispersed.

What it revealed was that Gamabunta was forced to dispel after shielding Nawaki for as long as he could. Nawaki was laying in the pile of rubble, unconscious and covered in burns, especially the left side of his face. That may never be repaired no matter what operations were performed. The wall behind them was obliterated and now there was nothing to even suggest that there had been a wall there in the first place, revealing a beautiful view of the village in its place. It was a good thing that nobody was up there and it was in the opposite direction of the audience.

Genma quickly called the medics over to Nawaki's location before walking to the center of the arena. "Winner by knock out, Portgas D. Naruto!"

Naruto was met with silence as he began to walk off the field. However, the audience soon erupted into cheers after recovering from the titanic battle that they had just witnessed.

An assistant in the tournament came running up to Genma and whispered something in his ear before running back to the sidelines. Genma coughed once to clear his throat and gain the attention of the audience. "Excuse me everyone! There will be a one hour intermission so that we may repair the arena, combatants please use this time to recover from your previous matches or to prepare for your upcoming matches"

With those words said he walked off the field to begin coordinating the repairs for the arena floor, but more importantly the arena wall. If a stray jutsu were to make it through there, then the village itself would be damaged. He would need to gather Doton users to begin the reparations.