Disclaimer: don't own Naruto or any of the other characters, i wish though sniff
Information: this is a redone chapter, if anyone notices. We now have the internet back, however, i do have a life and school, so just be as patient as possible, or you'll ruin my mood. Please keep on readin', and just be patient.
Pre-information: Anything priory to this point in the anime/manga is the same; however, I have changed the exam around some. Instead of them going straight into the tournament part of it, or part three, they have a day off to recuperate and such.
Special Thanks: A special thanks to all of those who have read one or more of the stores I already have up!!! Hope you enjoy this one!!
AN: slightly redone because i accidentilty left stuff out! Gomen!
After entering the building he headed to the stands where the rest of the canidates were. He, unlike usual, was wearing a black outfit. He now wore a black tank top with a long-sleeved net shirt, with black long shorts ending four inches above his ankles. He, as usual, had a kunai pouch wrapped around his thigh, a regular pouch around his waist, with two long daggers strapped on his lower back. On his biceps he had placed his forhead protector, and on the other a small pouch containing senbo. Now on his forhead was a bandanna encassing his entire head, except for a couple of blond hairs that wouldn't stay. Finally he had wrapped wraps around his hands to his ellbow and around his ankles being covered by black ninja sandles.
"Konnichiwa, guys," Naruto said brightly once he was inside the arena, a couple of levels up near his leafnin companions. At first he grabbed no ones attention, even while standing next to them, their attention was focused on the Nins from the other villages or they were ignoring him, which irked him to no end. Eh, take it how you can get it, he thinks. However, soon, he would grab their attention, and they would be mesmerized by his sheer personality, skill, and hidden intelligence.
"Konnichiwa," a few of them mumbled unwillingly as he stared down at the first floor of the stadium. He smirked a little, focusing on everything at once, while the others only focused on one thing. Across the stadium stood most of the Nins from other villages, staying as far from the home village as possible, as well as from each other. Three from Stone village were left and they sported their villages atire, Gaara and his companions, three from Sound, and they looked like they really wouldn't last long. Three were also one last group from wind, and the rookie nine also got to this point, barely in the case of the other two teams.
"If the genin that passed the second part of the exam would please come down, we will begin," called the referee for this year's Tournament Exam and the genins made their way down, Naruto being the first one down by way of teleportation, but no one noticed. He stood there patiently with a small smirk on his face and waited for the others to line up, silently sizing up the foreign Nin. Once satisfied he'd gathered enough he focused his attention on the referee while also keeping an eye and ear out at everything else. He focused more on the Sound than anybody else, who knew what they had underneath their sleeves.
"So, I'll make this short and sweet. We have an uneven number, so we need someone to volunteer to quit here and now," he said, starring them all down with a steady eye. Kabuto immediately raised his hand, smiling at Sasuke and Sakura, but Naruto was already suspicious of him, his character made him wary. After the announcements were over with, the rules were stated and the plan was outlined, everyone was sent back to where they were.
The first matches were quick and sort of easy, at least to Naruto they would have been, but to the actual contestants, one side found it easy, the other hard. The matches flew by, Sasuke won his, Sakura tied, Chojo lost, and so on and so forth; Naruto memorized the winners of opposing villages, they were possible future opponents, and he focused on them all, watching if any were holding back, other than the teme.
Finally Naruto V.S. Kiba lit up on the board and Naruto smirked; Kiba had no idea what he was up against. He quickly teleported to the ground, kneeling as if he was a feline, and in all honesty he is a feline and looked up at the referee expectantly, with a odd look on his face, one they had never seen before. It was an hidden look, as if those eyes hid a ferioius beast inside, and silent and frightful hunger. Finally the others saw him and realized his change in wardrobe and attitude, not to mention the teleportation trick he just pulled. He was right, they were mesmerized, he smirked up at them, scanning all the different expressions, there sure were some funny ones. He stood up as if in slow motion as Kiba made his way onto the ground.
"What's with the change in wardrobe, taking up Sasuke's look; dark and stupid? Heh heh, well it doesn't matter, your clothes don't make you a better ninja, you can't beat me," he boasted and his dog barked, getting in a position tha obvousily said he didn't fear him at all. He had no idea what he was getting himself into. Naruto merely smirked wider.
"Uzumaki Naruto versus Kiba, begin," says the referee brought down his hands swiftly and the match began. Naruto stood still for several minutes as Kiba stared at him waiting for him to make the first move. It was unexpected for Kiba to make the first move, even so Naruto went first. He pulled out something from one of his pockets, something small enough to fit in his hand without being seen and fisted his hands around it, eyes serious and always watchful.
"Heh, something that small can't be of any significance, so I'll go first, Arkamaru, let's go," he said with confidence as the used their family's jutsu, and Arkamaru transformed into a henge of Kiba. "Let's end this quick, Arkamaru, so we can see some real matches," he said arrogantly, charging Naruto. Naruto stood his ground, preparing for the impact and would have undoubtly sent him unconcious, if he was someone else.
Kiba was on him, Arkamaru right behind him for a double hit. Kiba went for it, thinking to end it in one blow and punched him in the gut, while Arkamaru would kick his head up, hitting two fatal points. What ended up happing no one expected, not even the Hokage or Kakashi. Naruto grabbed Kiba's outstretched hand and hit him in the stomach with his open hand. He then immediately kicked Arkamaru in the side of the head, sending them in opposite directions of each other. When everything settled, Kiba laid stone still but conscious, and Arkamaru was wrapped up in chains. The main thought throughout the stadium was 'How did he do that?' as everyone stared with wide eyes, at least those who had no self restraint.
"What the hell, why can't I move," Kiba shouted furiously wiggling around. He glared at Naruto from the ground, eyes drilling wholes in him as Naruto stood several feet away from him, inbetween him and Arkamaru(sp?).
"Heh shouldn't be so overconfident until you know your opponents true strength. As my sensei once said to me 'look underneath the underneath', and that applies to all ninjas, better learn it now, or you'll pay the consequences. That's a special tag I made, it immediately paralyzes a person by using their chakra against them, I won't go into anymore details, I don't want to give away the secret behind making it," said Naruto calmly, without an ounce of his usual bouncy loud self. Naruto walked away from the stadium, already knowing he had won the match, at record time to boot.
"Oh, and Kiba, clothes may not make someone a better ninja, but it sure as hell helps," he said, giving him a sideway glance as he stopped for a moment, and then continued on his way, teleporting in a flash before anyone knew what had happened.
"Winner, Uzumaki," called the referee as the medic Nin came onto the grounds retrieving Kiba and Arkamaru, who seemed drained of 75 of his chakra, and it was now surrounding Kiba. Now; how did that happen?
"Good job Naruto, that's great, way to go 'em up," said Sakura enthusiastically. Naruto looked up at her sharply and she gasped. Naruto then turned around and walked right out of the stadium, Sakura stretching out her arm, wondering where he was going. Naruto had no reason to stay, that was his one match and the rest would be in a month, like always. He sighed as he made his way to his usual training ground, Training Ground 7.
Once there he let out his frustration from the last couple of months. It was lame mission after lame mission, with Sakura fawning over Sasuke, Sasuke being an ass, and Kakashi's laziness to the extreme. He hadn't had the chance to release his frustration, sure he had training, but that was development in his arsenal and physical strength, no he needed a good workout of just releasing built up frustration and such. So, he released his henge, and sent his chakra rippling through the clearing with his eyes closed. When he opened his eyes, his pupils missing from his eyes stared at nothing as his other senses became more aware and he started his first real workout in months. His muscles stretched as he moved his body everywhere and anywhere, sweat slipped down his scar covered body.
He began a pattern dance that involved fists, kicks, kunai, shrunken, and anything a ninja would consider a weapon, but he did not use jutsus or genjutsus, only taijutsu.
He pushed and pushed himself passed his limit; for hours he worked there, well after dark and well into the next day, when the first part of the tournament was over. That was how Sakura, Sasuke and even Kakashi found him; sweating like nothing they had seen, except he had put up a henge long ago. So they saw their goofy, prankster, and master of surprises like they had never seen him before.
"Naruto, what's going on?" Sakura asked unsure of what she was seeing. This couldn't be the same Naruto they all knew, but ignored. It couldn't be the one that froze when they had their first enemy, the one that caused nothing but problems for the ones around him. He couldn't be the same ramen loving Naruto, it just couldn't be.
"Yeah, dope, and what's this I hear about a paralyzing tag that uses your chakra against you?" Sasuke demanded irritably, mad that the dope had something like that in his arsenal and he didn't. He should be the first to obtained anything like that, he was a Uchiha.(sp?)
Naruto immediately stopped at the end of a strong jump kicked that sent wind infused chakra to a tree and sliced it in two, causing it to come crashing down. The three that interrupted him stood stock still in awe and slightly in fear. Naruto turned slowly after landing on all fours, much like a feline, and stood just as slowly.
"Naruto?" Inquired Kakashi as well, a little worried about the situation and concerned for Naruto. Once he turned all the way and faced them, they finally got a good look at him, and a good look at what he hadn't covered up with a henge, his pupil less eyes and scar covered face. Kakashi's eye widened slightly as Sasuke gaped and Sakura gasped, covering her mouth quickly, holding back tears and the urge to vomit, even their first examiner, the interrigator. (sp?)
"Heh seems I've surprised you yet again, Kakashi," Naruto said lightly,starring Kakashi in the eye, as if he wasn't blind. Naruto then looked Sasuke and Sakura in the eye as well then went to pick up his clothes he had taken off a quarter of the way into his workout. Kakashi then noticed the condition the training ground was in and realized Naruto had to have been here a while, a long while.
"Naruto, how long have you been here?" he asked as Sasuke and Sakura looked over at their sensei curiously. Naruto didn't answer as Sasuke returned his eyes to Naruto, who was claiming all the shrunken and kunai he'd thrown during his session. Sasuke was about to repeat the question when Naruto answered.
"Since after my match with Kiba yesterday and man do I feel good," Naruto answered with glee, looking at them with an eerie smile. The others stared at him like he was crazy. Sakura raced to where she stood in front of him anxiously, hands moving around frantically.
"You feel good? If you've been here since yesterday afternoon, you should be exhausted. Why, how do you feel good?" she asked confused.
"I just do, okay. Besides, you should know by now that I've always had I high amount of energy, even above Kakashi over there," he said, pointing directly at Kakashi. Sakura was about to object, thinking that even so, he should have passed out by now, but Naruto beat her to the punch.
"I've had to run for long periods of time, stay awake so that I wasn't killed for longer periods of time, and have been deprived of food for a month at the most. Heh there's no way I couldn't have lived this long and not had a high amount of energy. You think it's not humanly possible, ask a villager otherwise, and you just might discover that I'm not completely human," he said harshly and walked by her, not giving a second thought to the other males listening.
Naruto started on his way home, jumping from roof to roof, ignoring any curs sent his way or anyone following him.
Well, there it is, the redone chapter. it's mostly the same except for some added info. and it's not all bold.
So, here a question, or vote you could say. As a reader, what do you want to happen next, what do you want to see Naruto do, not do, show, or explain. It'll help me right the next chapter if you tell me, or give me little hints of what you want to read next. Even a small idea, scene, or action will help!!!
Again, Disclaimer: i don't Naruto or any of the characters
However i do own any original characters that come into the story next
