A/N: Yo! Here is the promised new story in my challenge series! I hope you enjoy this one!
The challenge this time is: Naruto of the sound! Congratulations for the people who voted for this. The details of this challenge can be found in my Naruto forum.
Let's get this story started!
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto. If I did, Naruto would not be such a pushover.
Chapter 1
Naruto yawned in boredom as he was stuck on gate duty for the teme that had tricked him into coming to the sound, Orochimaru.
Orochimaru had found Naruto in the streets one day, and had decided to offer him the ability to get a better life. Till a few years later, he did not understand why Orochimaru had to trick him into getting the seal instead of just giving it to him with or without his consent. Orochimaru had explained it like this: a unwilling person who takes the seal will get stronger, but a person who takes it willingly will be ten times stronger than the other person.
Naruto had been wondering about why Orochimaru would want him strong, when it would be easier to keep him weak and brainless so that he would be the perfect subject, when he found Orochimaru's hidden chamber. It turned out that Orochimaru was stealing other people's bodies so that he could live longer and master every jutsu. Naruto would not allow that to happen to him in any way, he would rather die.
On another note, Naruto mused, leaving Konoha had helped Naruto gain a few friends. Their names were: Tayuya, Kimmiko, Kin, Guren, Anko, Sasame, Kagero, Kotohime, and a girl called Isaribi.
Naruto had met Anko first. A few days after Naruto had left Konoha, Orochimaru went to go get her from rice country, where she was supervising her master's slaves. The first few days, they hadn't gotten along very well. It was only after Naruto caught Anko sulking about her past in Konoha did Naruto reveal his past and become her friend. The both of them quickly had become best friends, bonding over their hatred of Konoha and ways that they would get stronger and bring Konoha's destruction.
Naruto had met Kimmiko next. Kimmiko had a soft sort of air around her that just seemed to calm him down and bring him down to Earth whenever he became too arrogant without physically hurting him. They had met after Orochimaru had assigned them a mission to kidnap the Daimyo's daughter.
The two had perfect teamwork and were put on a team together from that point on. The two had even gained the nickname The Devastating Demon Duo for their different abilities. Kimmiko could use her bones as weapons and Naruto could use sound to kill someone.
Tayuya had been the next person to join their little circle and team. She had a foul mouth that could make the hardest veteran sailor faint. She had been recruited for her abilities in Genjutsu and summoning. These two had gotten along just fine, right from the start, due to their equal hatred of Orochimaru. In fact, she had helped explain to the rest of the group that Orochimaru was evil. It hadn't been that hard since Anko figured it out once she realized that she was used as the prototype test subject for the curse seal, even with Orochimaru's seal killing the rest of the people it had been used on.
Karin had been just as easy as Tayuya. Apparently, she was an Uzumaki who had been abducted by Orochimaru.
Guren and Kin were next. The both of them were practically like sisters right from the start. Naruto was fairly sure that Guren would have been the next body, had she not been convinced to not be it by Kin. Naruto had guessed that that was the reason that Orochimaru had her all alone; too bad Kin had become her sister. Once the two girls had been informed of the fact that Orochimaru had kept Guren alone so that she would become her next body, they were equally spiteful of Orochimaru, and had been easy enough to convince to join their group.
Isaribi had also been an easy one to befriend. Naruto had found out that she had a seal on her that made her forget that Orochimaru had turned her into a fish-person and then removed the seal just as swiftly, amazing how much crappy seal work can be destroyed. Once she had regained her memories, she had become a great member of their group
The three Fuuma girls were the last to join them. Naruto had been sent out on a mission to negotiate with the Fuuma when he found them. The three of them were very hateful of Orochimaru, but were able to put up a loyal front to fake him out.
It was just a few weeks ago that Naruto and his group, now known as the Devil's Flowers, had made their escape plan. It was just about to start. The first step had been initiated a few nights ago, with Naruto allowing him to be caught so that he had a reason to escape.
"Naruto Uzumaki, you are hereby executed under Orochimaru's orders." One of the sound Jonnin that had just Shunshined in said.
Naruto smirked and slashed the first guy's head off with a sound-enhanced kunai before swinging around and stabbing it into the second one's chest. Naruto then let go so that he could roll out of the way of a kunai attack.
Naruto observed this new threat to be nothing more than high gennin level, in fact, with their reaction time, they probably all were around gennin level when they were supposed to be jonnin. Not that surprising, given the fact that Orochimaru bragged numbers over skills.
Naruto just called out, "Sound style: Slicing sound explosion!" which released a small circle of sound that expanded before Naruto dropped the chakra in the jutsu to zero, letting it go out of control and kill the rest of the so-called Jonnin.
Naruto just yawned as his enemies, or what was left of them after that explosive jutsu, fell to the ground. "How boring was that. Orochimaru seriously needs to learn there is a reason for the saying 'quality over quantity.'"
Naruto remembered the fact that he was now missing ninja before leaving the meeting place.
An hour later, Naruto arrived at the abandoned Fuuma clan house, and saw that the girls were already there.
"Yo dipstick, what took you so long?" Tayuya irritably exclaimed.
"I was the diversion, remember?" Naruto asked in an amused voice.
Tayuya just blushed red before shaking it off and saying, "Ready to start a nation, dobe?"
Naruto smirked and said, "Now, now, Tayuya-chan, remember that we aren't starting a nation, we are reviving one."
Kimmiko snorted in amusement as Anko rolled her eyes at the banter the two of them always had.
Naruto then got serious and asked, "How did you girls do against your enemies?"
Sasame had taken care of hers with an elaborate system of wires, Kotohime had lulled them in and then killed them, we are better off not knowing what Kagero did, even though the characters would be scarred for life, Isaribi tricked them into going into the water and killed them in kaima form, Guren pierced them with crystals, kin stuck them in a genjutsu, Karin just beat them up, Tayuya got them with her summoning, Kimmiko just used bone attacks, and Anko used poisons.
"Let's go. We need to get to Uzu and activate it's seals that will protect us." Kimmiko said, reminding everyone why they were there.
"Right!" They all responded.
Done!
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