Past and Future Collides
Naruto Uzumaki woke up with the sounding of his alarm. 'Hn, it's seven thirty and today is the chunnin exams. Thanks Kyuubi, it worked.' He got out of bed and headed to his closet for clothes to get dressed in. No way was he going to wear pajamas to embarrass himself. 'I forgot I still had these orange clothes…better get a new set of clothing.' He thought and put on a pair of his old orange jumpsuit. All he could go to was a shinobi clothing store.
In the store, he chose a whole set of black clothing. A pair of pants, a t-shirt and a matching sweater.
'Time to get to the training grounds to meet them or Sakura will not stop blabbing nonsense.' He thought and teleported to the grounds.
Naruto arrived just to get yelled by the familiar pink-haired kunoichi, "Naruto you baka! You're late!"
Fortunately, Naruto took no notice of the noise while staring straight ahead.
"Answer me!" she screamed but no reply.
She suddenly flung her fist towards the blonde but was shocked when he caught it with no sweat. With a flick of his arm, Naruto flipped the Haruno onto her back. He kneeled over the fallen body, "First off, do not let you're emotions overwhelm you to attack recklessly, that will affect you later on. Second, there is no point of arriving so early when Kakashi-sensei always comes two hours after the given time." Sakura was stunned by the intelligence in his words.
'He must of put up with her behavior' thought Sasuke
"Yo!" Kakashi once again popped out of nowhere. He looked slightly surprised when his student's orange trademark wasn't there. A stern looking shinobi in black clothing had replaced him. "You guys go head to the exams. Good luck!" 'Naruto, you look very different. You even act different. What happened?'
The three-team genin left. Naruto took the lead of the three. Sakura was ready to yell at him for going in front of 'her' Sasuke-kun. Sasuke just walked past Naruto and began to take lead. He was surprised that Naruto showed no indifference of reaction.
Eventually, the three arrived at the gates into the examination rooms. "You two go ahead." He said
"Where are you going Naruto?" asked Sakura, hands on her hips.
"Taking care of something. Just go. I'll catch up."
The two shrugged and continued to walk.
'What are you hiding from us Naruto?' thought Sasuke
"Orochimaru-sama said to kill Sasuke. But didn't he say that he was going to use him?" Dosu lazily asked
"Hmm, I'm not sure. He has been acting strange." Stated Kin [A/N: I forgot her name and that's the closest I got. Heh heh, sorry.]
A voice made them all freeze in alarm. "You three, what are you doing here?" Naruto said, accusing the three oto/sound-nin.
"Oh? What are you going to do about it?" the man taunted
He barely got to finish his sentence when he was stabbed by a kunai. The other two tired to flee but also got slashed at out of thin air. 'Same old people…' Naruto left a note on the fallen bodies, warning the chunnin about the invasion and explaining who they were.
Sasuke and Lee were having the little showdown just like the last time. Right before they exchanged kicks, a blonde appeared in-between. He grabbed both of their legs and threw the two to opposite sides of the room.
"No one should be showing off before the exams, it gives away too much and that gives opponents a better chance at you." Naruto said calmly.
'Oww…where did Naruto come from? I didn't even notice his presence.' The sharigan wielder lifted himself from the ground.
Rock Lee just muttered something suspiciously sounded like youthfulness.
Kakashi sweatdropped in the shadows. 'Hm, Naruto made his move without any notice. To top that, I, an elite jonin didn't even notice'
Sakura was ready to make a huge fuss, "Naruto baka! Why did you interfere with Sasuke-kun's fight? He—"
Naruto's hand was suddenly around the kunoichi's neck, "Listen up pinky, I will kill you right now to my pleasure. You are just worthless scrap. All you do is run your mouth, nothing else. But if you would like to live, I suggest you shut up. You are annoying." He let go of the blue Haruno.
"Never mind, let's hurry up to the first test." He sighed
'This is not the feeling of a genin's chakra. Not even the Kyuubi's chakra feels like that. More like a person that has been on the battlefield not just once.' Kakashi shivered
Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura made it into the genin's room. They were surprised of how many genin that took the test. Naruto showed no interest and had no expression on his face. He was planning Kabuto's death. The rest of the rookie nine plus Gai's team met up with them. Ino and Sakura, both stupid kunoichis were fighting over 'their' Sasuke-kun.
A silver-haired man walked over to the rookie genin. "Hi, my name is Kabuto. You must be the new genin. Taking the test for the first time?"
"Yes. This is your first time too?" Asked Sakura.
"No, actually, this is my seventh time, fourth year."
Naruto was ignoring all of this. He was still plotting for the death of Kabuto.
He walked over to Kabuto when he was done explaining to the others of how his chakra cards worked. "Show me your card"
"Alright" the white-haired genin said while slightly glaring at Naruto. He quickly started spinning the card with his chakra.
"Kabuto, teammates Yoroi, and (Missing name). Done 14 D-rank, 2 C-rank. Skills are all below average." He read aloud.
Naruto nodded then muttered, "Liar"
"Okay! I am Ibiki, the first examinator. Genin, select a number from this box and make your way to the numbered seat." Said a man in a long black coat.
Naruto smirked; knowing his role in the future, but also gave a sad sigh of his fate. He left to get his number.
Same as before, sitting beside Hinata and one of the chunnin disguised as a genin. He gave another sigh.
"Test takers start off holding the perfect score of 10 points. The test consists of 10 questions and one point is subtracted from your initial total for every question answered incorrectly. The test is a team event. Meaning that passing is determined by combining each team's total score"
Sakura sweatdropped at that last sentence. She thought that no way they were going to pass with an idiot on their team.
Ibiki continued, "Those caught cheating will lose 2 points for each offense. Those that lose all their points during the exam through cheating and those who fail to answer any questions correctly will fail along will their teammates."
The whole room remained silent. One team member fails, the whole team fails.
Like in his past, he only answered the last question and passed because he was confident enough. He looked down at his paper. These questions were way too complicated for any genin to answer.
"Start!" Ibiki stated. Everyone immediately started the test.
'Too easy' Naruto thought, 'I'll just steal someone's paper' 'But what should I use? I remember Gaara used some sand as a decoy and created an eye out of sand to copy answers. Ino did her family's secret technique for sure. Huh, it's obvious that Hinata and Neji are using byakugan. Sasuke was using sharigan. Hn, I'll use Hiraishi and Kawaimi to switch my paper with someone. Twice should work…'
He put his hands under the desk and started to make hand seals. 'I'll just wait for a decoy or create one myself'
Suddenly, the chunnin disguised as a genin yawned.
'Perfect timing, switch!' he flipped over his new paper and mentally smirked.
The other man flipped over his paper, which is technically Naruto's to recheck his answer. He was horrified when his was blank. Great, now his face was blank.
'Now I just have to wait for the final question…but how should Kabuto die?'
Sasuke's point of view:
'Sharigan, activate!' he thought. He looked around for answers to copy. Well, of course, he found out the meaning to cheat.
Something caught his eye, 'Hn, what's going on? Why is his page full of answers? That dobe is way to stupid to find all the answers. I doubt that he couldn't even find the meaning of this test…'
He was now staring at Naruto. A red face that looked suspiciously like a demon just appeared. He quickly deactivated his Sharigan and started to tremble, 'Woah, what was that?'
Sakura's point of view:
Naturally being a smart kunoichi, she answered all the questions with ease, 'I wonder how Sasuke and Naruto are doing… Bah! If Naruto fails, it's the end for all of us. Then he will be in big trouble. But how he reacted earlier, I don't think he's going to take it out calmly on me. Well, I hope they don't cheat, there's a huge risk of failing. Oh, what to do?'
She glanced over to Sasuke, 'Hey, why is Sasuke-kun shivering? Could it be the test?'
Naruto's point of view:
'That's my warning if someone tries take my answers. But Sasuke, what the hell are you doing? You still think I'm a dobe… Though I will forgive you this time.'
"We will start the tenth question." Ibiki announced, "Now…before we get to it, I'd like to go over the added rules for this question."
'Pfft, taking risks and those who do not take risks are not fit to be chunnin. Good work, Ibiki' Thought Naruto even though he paid no attention to what he was saying.
"I'll explain now, these are the rules of desperation."
Kakashi gave one of his rare sighs. It usually meant something was wrong or he was annoyed.
"What's the matter Kakashi?" asked Kurenai
"Just worried about my team." He replied
Asuma chuckled, "There's no need to worry. They'll do fine on the test."
"It's not that, Naruto has been acting very cold to his team members. Not acting like himself. No smiling, no fights with Sasuke or chasing Sakura anymore. I'm worried about him."
"Hey, wasn't Naruto always arguing with the Uchiha?" Kurenai tilted her head in confusion.
"Yeah, very loud mouthed kid." Asuma muttered
"But when Gai's star student, Lee was sparing with my student, they were both stopped by Naruto. It was so fast that I couldn't even sense his presence. Though, when I sensed his chakra, it felt old…"
"Could it be the Kyuubi's?"
"No, not even a demon's chakra could feel like that, it was more like a person that has been on the battlefield many times…" 'Naruto, what are you hiding?'
"For this tenth question, you'll have to decide whether you will take it or not"
"Choose?" yelled a girl with two blonde pigtails.
"If you choose not to, you fail along your teammates. But if you choose to answer the question and it is incorrect, you will never be able to take the exams ever again. Now, you may choose to not try this year and go for the next time or take the question."
A bunch of hands went up. After they were dismissed, Ibiki just smiled, "You all pass!"
"What? What are about the tenth question?" someone yelled out
"This was the tenth question. You were at the time of desperation, you had to choose one choice and take risks. Those who do not take risks are not meant to be chunnin."
Suddenly, the window shattered and a few kunai flew in with a giant piece of cloth. It said, 'Chunnin Exam #2'. A purple-haired kunoichi in a trench coat jumped through the window.
"Alright! I'm Anko. Chunnin exam takers, come with me!" she said and ran off.
'Still the same, Anko..' Naruto shook his head and followed behind the jonin.
Naruto was the first to arrive at the entrance to the Forest of Death. After ten minutes, his teammates arrived after him.
"Naruto, why are you going so quickly?" Sakura panted but shut up when she received a glare in response.
Sasuke was feeling queasy of this 'new' Naruto. Even the great Uchiha was a bit afraid. He shook those thoughts away when Anko started talking about the instructions.
In the middle of announcing the rules, she threw a kunai. No…not one, but two kunai in Naruto's direction. He caught both of them and threw one of them in the direction in where it was supposed to land. 'Orochimaru…' He turned around and was face to face with a grass-nin. Not exactly face to face since Naruto was still short. The grass-nin had a long tongue and wrapped inside of it was the kunai he just forced back.
"Did you drop this?" the grass-nin pleasantly asked
Naruto glared at the man. But swiftly nodded and took the kunai, 'So he first used a grass-nin's body.'
Anko paled. She had a feeling that he was Orochimaru. She waved it away and told each team to line up to receive a Heaven and Earth scroll.
It was about time for team 7's turn for their scroll. Sasuke walked up to the desk and was given a Heaven scroll. "Let me hold it" Naruto glared. Without any hesitation, he handed it to the blonde. Naruto started heading to their entrance gate to the second test.
"You guys mess up or lag behind, I'll kill you to get us disqualified." Sakura and surprisingly Sasuke exchanged anxious glances.
"Start!" one of the chunnin opened the gates. The trio dashed in immediately. Naruto parted ways. Sakura took notice and was about to open he mouth to ask where he was going but Naruto just muttered, "It's just some personal business, you guys go ahead." She nodded.
Naruto encountered a few teams in which he killed and seized their scroll. He already had more than enough to pass the test. He arrived at a clearing when he saw Gaara and his siblings after they had killed a team. 'Gaara, you're the only person I've ever considered as a brother.' He fled to find Kabuto.
Wahoo! First chapter of this new story is done! Let's celebrate! Here, have some beer, joking! Whoops, I'm not even at the age yet lol! Pretty sad and mysterious story eh? Heh, I had to take some quotes from the actual Manga. Some the writing types are from different stories so I'll say the disclaimer; I do not own Naruto!
See you next time!
Hold it! Wait, there is going to be a vote on who Naruto should battle for the third test. Most likely Kiba or Neji. But I do not want to mess with the storyline so I guess it's going to be these two as the votes.
Until next time! Sayonara!