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Disclaimer: I do not, and probably will not (but hey, you never know) own Naruto or any of its characters or techniques. However, the Imozogan, and aura techniques are mine (except for aura sphere, that belongs to Pokémon, of which I also don`t own.)
Uzumaki Reborn
Chapter III
The Truth about Strength
**You can skip this if you want to**
Name: Uzumaki Naruto
Age: 13
Rank: Genin
Nature: Wind
Bloodline: Imozogan (Aura)
Girlfriend: Hyuga Hinata
Jutsu:
Shadow clone, Aura Sphere, Air Bullet, Aura Strike: Uzumaki Barrage (working on Rasengan) Secret Aura Technique: Roar of the Heavenly Lion
Bloodline Abilities: Stage 1 of the Imozogan; Spirit sight (like a weak Byakugan, Naruto can only see the initial 'starting' point of the chakra network However, unlike the Byakugan, Naruto can also see the soul/spirits of those around him.)
Summons: Toads
o.O
Hinata and Naruto walked towards the forest of death together, hand-in-hand. They had just passed the first part of the exam and were waiting to commence the second. Naruto stole a glance at his girlfriend and smirked. Ever since the day that all of their friends had barged into the hospital, the two genin had dropped their act of stuttering and being the village idiot. However, neither of them had actually shown their peers how strong they had become. None of them knew that they had been receiving secret training from Naruto's godfather; Jiraya of the Sannin. Hinata had almost perfected her advanced form of the Jyuuken and was learning a water jutsu. Naruto had confidence that they would both make it far in the chuunin exams.
He himself had created his own fighting style that he called the Spirit Fist. Every punch and kick was spontaneous, yet flowing, with no real style, but what made it unique was that Naruto would release pulses of aura with every punch and kick, allowing him to strike his opponent, even if his advances are blocked.
As they made it to the gates of the forest, they listened to Anko as she gave them the rules for the second part of the exam. He said goodbye to Hinata as the two separated to meet with their teams and take their places at their designated gate.
o.O
'Man this is nasty' He didn't know how, but suddenly he was stuck inside a massive snake.
'Wait, snake...what did sensei say about snakes...Oh...crap'
"Shadow clone jutsu." The snake that had attempted to swallow him exploded from the mass of Naruto's suddenly appearing in its abdomen.
"Now where is my team?" Naruto began to walk in a random direction when an explosion sounded off in the distance behind him. Turning around, Naruto tried to pinpoint where the explosion had come from.
'Man, I hope Sasuke didn't do something stupid.'
Following the sounds of battle, Naruto found Sasuke backed up against a tree. He was fighting it out with some girl that had an extremely long tongue and was using snake based attacks. Naruto watched as the girl opened her mouth to an extreme extent and Orochimaru emerged from the body.
His neck became elongated, making him resemble a snake even more than he already did. His head shot forward and Naruto chose this moment to strike.
"Aura sphere!" Naruto jumped to the braches below, slamming his attack into the side of Orochimaru's head. The snake Sannin fell to the forest floor, bouncing off of a few branches before regaining his bearings.
"What the hell, you didn't need to save me dobe, I could handle him on my own!" Naruto gave Sasuke an incredulous look. Sakura dropped next to him and crossed her arms.
"Yeah, Sasuke-kun would have beaten him to a pulp!"
"Sakura, no matter how great 'Sasuke-kun' is, I highly doubt he, or any one of us, can beat one of the Sannin." Sasuke looked shocked while Sakura looked confused.
"You mean to tell me that-"
"Yes, that," Naruto pointed at Orochimaru, "Is Orochimaru, traitor to Konoha and holder of the snake summons contract. Now, I don't like it, but we have to run, now!"
The three began to jump through the trees, Orochimaru hot on their heels. Naruto bit his thumb and drew blood as he slammed his palm onto a branch.
"Summoning Jutsu!" Naruto summoned Gamakichi and Gamatatsu, who proceeded to jump onto his shoulders.
"Hey Naruto, what's up."
"Kichi, Tatsu, I need you guys to spray some oil behind us."
The two toads spun around on Naruto's shoulders as they began to spray a steady stream of oil towards Orochimaru. Naruto stopped and looked towards Sasuke.
"Aim your phoenix flower jutsu at the oil." Sasuke raised an eyebrow, but complied, just as Naruto enhanced the attack by adding his own air bullets. Each phoenix flower doubled in size and then created a massive flame thrower.
"Uh, Naruto, that isn't stopping the creepy snake-man." Sakura was shivering slightly from the adrenaline. Naruto peered through the fire and took note of the black form emerging from the flame.
Acting on instinct, Naruto grabbed a decent sized rock and wrapped it in explosive tags. As he cocked his arm back, he yelled out a warning.
"Tatsu, Kichi, dismissed. Guys run!" Naruto allowed his teammates a five second head start before chucking the rock into the flames. Not even bothering to make sure the tags caught fire; Naruto followed the quickly receding teens as quickly as he could.
The following explosion could be seen by all the teams throughout the forest and left a mile wide crater in the forest. Orochimaru was blasted straight through the gates on the other end of the forest, losing both arms in the process.
o.O
A slightly charred team seven emerged from the forest and began to approach the gates. Just before reaching the tower, the team was confronted by a blue blur heading towards them, causing Sasuke and Sakura to get into fighting stances. Naruto, however, opened his arms.
"Naruto!" Three voices cried out at the same moment, two warning, but the third in happiness. As the blur hit Naruto, he fell backwards, holding onto it tightly and laughing.
"Well it's nice to see you too." Sasuke and Sakura looked confused until Kiba and Shino walked up to them.
"I have never seen Hinata move at such speeds before." Shino cocked an eyebrow in curiosity.
As Hinata let Naruto sit up, she took notice of his missing the top part of his orange jumpsuit. She gave him a stern look.
"Naruto, that explosion was your fault, wasn't it?" Naruto grinned and rubbed the back of his head sheepishly. Before he could respond, the group was interrupted by three bodies flying from the forest, all three knocked out with fist sized indents in their skulls.
Three figures followed the bodies out of the forest. The first was a girl with her hair in two side buns and had scrolls hidden all over her body. The second had long dark blue hair and wore the normal robes of a Hyuga and the third wore a bright green spandex suit and was yelling something about youth.
As the two groups took note of each other, the boy stopped his rant. Naruto and the spandex wearing boy looked at each other for a moment.
"Naruto?"
"Bushy Brows?"
There was an awkward silence that was broken by the two charging at each other and embracing each other in a massive hug. Naruto backed up and held the older boy at arm's length.
"Dear Kami, Lee I haven't seen you in ages! Fancy us meeting here of all places!"
The teens around them looked at the two boys like they were a new species of humans.
"Naruto, how do you know Lee?" Neji asked curiously. Lee slung his arm around Naruto's shoulders.
"Naruto and I were roommates in that most unyouthful orphanage."
"Yeah, Lee was my first friend." Everyone looked at them oddly, causing the two to become slightly self conscious. They looked at each other, then down at themselves and back at each other. Lee furrowed his eyebrows.
"Naruto, why are you most unyouthfully not wearing a top?" Naruto blushed slightly.
"Uh, I kind of, sort of…blewuphalfoftheforestusingpa perbombsandafire?" Sasuke and Sakura laughed at Naruto's attempt to hide his actions from Hinata as she walked up to him and punched the top of his head.
"I told you to be careful, you could have killed yourself and your teammates!" Sakura walked up to Hinata and placed her hand on the smaller girls shoulder.
"Hinata, leave him be a bit, he did save us from being pulverised by a Sannin." The group once again looked at Naruto with incredulous expressions.
"You WHAT!" Naruto looked around and shrugged his shoulders, grinning and blushing like mad. He scuffed his foot into the ground.
"It-it wasn't much." Sasuke almost blew him to bits simply with a death glare.
"Naruto, as much as I hate to admit it, you did save us." Sasuke walked up to him and stared him in the face.
"So, dead-last, when did you get so good, what trick did you use" Naruto just smirked and began walking to one of the entrances to the tower. Sasuke curled his fist in anger, he would not be ignored.
"Answer me dammit!" Naruto stopped and answered Sasuke's question without turning around.
"Sasuke, have you ever asked yourself why people are who they are?"
"What are you talking about Naruto." It was more a statement than a question.
"You, Sasuke, are a genius. The almighty Uchiha. Everyone knows you; everyone knows what you can do. People will never underestimate you, for they know just what you can do and accomplish. Neji is the Hyuga prodigy, the best one in generations, lots of people fear him. Lee cannot use Ninjutsu or Genjutsu, yet his taijutsu is off the charts. He runs around proving to everyone that he can be a ninja, showing them what he is capable of."
"Stop beating around the bush!" The others all looked on in interest.
"They call you geniuses, whether of hard work or natural talent. You are all simply idiots," Naruto looked at Lee, "Sorry Lee. The world knows what you can do, so they will find something to counter it. I am the idiot, the fool, the dead last. Nobody expects anything from me and that is exactly what I wanted." Now everyone was confused.
"For all your life, you have never truly seen me. Only two have ever seen me. You have not seen Naruto, only his mask. This mask is my greatest weapon and will be the downfall of anyone who underestimates me. If you do not believe me, ask Hinata. She shares my mask. " With that, Naruto entered the tower.
O.o
One month later
'I can't wait for my match against Sasuke!' Naruto was sitting in the contestant's box at the chunin exams. With him were Hinata, Sasuke, Gaara, Temari, Kankuro, Shikamaru and a ninja from the land of Iron.
The boy wore a white, open V-neck silk top with the sleeves rolled up just under his elbows. He had black cargo pants that flayed open at the bottom and wore nothing on his feet. He had a massive golden long sword strapped to his back, with the tip of the sword coming to an abrupt point. The hilt was a two headed dragon, with one head resting along one side of the blade, its snout facing the tip of the sword. The necks twisted around each other and merged into the body. The body was long, acting as the handle, and then tapered off into a slightly curving tail. At the end of the tail was a golden pointed gem that was the brilliant colour of pure honey.
The boy was slightly shorter than everyone else in the room, and the sword looked way too big on him. His hair was white like Jiraiya's and tied into a ponytail that fell to his mid-back. One thin strand of hair fell to his cheek across his left eye and another fell just above his right eye. The tips of his hair were a green the colour of fresh grass, with a strip the same colour running straight through the middle of his hair. He looked kind of lonely, so Naruto walked up to him. He stuck out his hand for a handshake.
"Hi, my name's Naruto Uzumaki, what's yours?" The boy looked startled, but recovered quickly, shaking Naruto's hand.
"Elijah, Elijah Kagelupo." Before either could say more, the proctor called out the first match.
"Would Hyuga Neji and Hyuga Hinata please make their way to the field?" Hinata looked at her cousin as he descended the steps. She turned to follow him, but was stopped by a pair of gentle arms wrapping around her waist. Naruto rested his chin on her shoulder.
"Beat him, but don't get hurt, okay. Show them the strength of a true genius." She returned his embrace and he leaned in to kiss her lightly. He whispered against her lips, "I love you Hina." She smiled and whispered back. "Love you too, Naru-kun." He let her go and watched as she gracefully descended the steps. He sighed softly, a smile gracing his lips as he placed his hands in his pockets.
Somewhere behind him, Elijah and Kankuro roared in laughter as Shikamaru muttered something about being troublesome. Ignoring them, Naruto leaned on the rail and watched his girlfriend intently.
'I know you're good Hina-chan, but please don't get hurt.'
The proctor's arm rose into the air and chopped down.
"Let the first round of the chunin exam tournament begin!"
o.O
'Why can I not hit this measly failure?'
Neji and Hinata had been fighting for the past four minutes, and neither one had hit the other. Neji had been on a full-out frontal assault, but could not hit the extremely evasive Hinata.
"Give in to fate, you cannot defeat me." He continued his assault on the younger Hyuga. She sighed at her cousins actions.
"Stop underestimating me Neji." Her fierce tone of voice and lack of Nii-san at the end of his name caused Neji to falter slightly. Hinata took her advantage and closed of every single tenketsu point in his arms at a speed much quicker than any could see. As his arms hung helplessly at his sides, Neji growled.
"You will still lose, a failure like you will always lose to fate." Hinata closed her eyes and formed her hands into a seal. "I'm sorry Neji."
Before Neji could think, Hinata yelled out a strained 'Kai' and was in front of him in a flash. The following kick shattered two of his ribs and sent him straight into the air, thirty feet above the ground. At the apex of his flight, Hinata reappeared above him, spinning like a top. She lashed her leg out and, still spinning, hit him in the jaw. There was an audible 'crack!' and seconds later, there was a Neji sized crater in the arena.
Hinata landed gracefully on her feet and turned to where Neji had been plowed into the earth. She gave a curt bow and walked off, heading for the contenders box.
A stunned proctor yelled out to an equally stunned crowd.
"Winner of the first match, Hyuga Hinata!" The crowd erupted into cheers.
Up in the box, the Konoha genin were slack-jawed.
"When did Hinata get so strong?" Then, Sasuke, Kankuro and Shikamaru turned at a groan from Naruto.
"Aw man, why'd she hold back so much." As the boy mumbled to himself, the three others looked ready to have their eyes pop out of their sockets.
Hinata chose this time to emerge from the steps and dashed into Naruto's arms.
"I did it!"
"Yeah, and you held back… a lot!" Hinata blushed lightly. "Naru-kun, I – well, he's family." Naruto smiled and kissed the top of her head. "Yeah, but I wanted to see you beat him up a little more." Naruto's slightly whiny voice made Hinata giggle lightly while she whacked his chest slightly.
"Well, now you get to give Sasuke a beating even earlier." Naruto smirked as the proctor called for him and his duck-butt haired teammate to get ready for their fight.
Naruto jumped from the contestants box and met his friend in the center of the arena.
"Don't embarrass yourself too much, dobe." Sasuke smirked.
"Don't go cut yourself after I whup your ass, emo-teme." Naruto returned Sasuke's smirk. The proctor raised his arm straight in the air and announced, "et the second match of the chunin exams between Uchiha Sasuke and Uzumaki Naruto begin!" He dropped his arm and jumped out of harm's way.
The two tensed in preparation for a charge, when they were interrupted by gasps flying through the crowd. Both stumbled slightly as they looked up towards the Kage box to see the Kazekage get blasted through the glass and into the arena. Two black blurs followed him and landed to stand in front of the man, who could now be identified as Orochimaru.
The two men wore black cloaks with red clouds on them. One had spiked blue hair and looked oddly like a shark, while the other had long black hair in a ponytail and eyes that reminded Naruto of Sasuke.
Within moments of impact with the ground, Orochimaru was consumed by black flames until only his ashes remained. Naruto turned as he heard a gasp from his side. He turned slightly to see Sasuke's fully matured Sharingan glaring at the man with black hair.
"ITACHI!" In a blind rage, Sasuke ran towards his brother, Chidori blazing. The man calmly grabbed the younger Uchiha's wrist and twisted it, dispersing the Jutsu. Less than five seconds later, Sasuke let out an anguished scream and fell to the floor, limp.
Naruto could hear two thumps behind him as Itachi pulled out a Kunai and dropped it. The moment it touched the ground, a barrier appeared between the arena and the crowd, leaving the five figures to fight it out without interruption. The barrier created, however, was transparent. (Think of the barrier that the sound four used, but it`s cylindrical and transparent, so that the outside world can see what`s happening inside.)
The two figures behind Naruto walked forward and he identified them as Hinata and Shikamaru. Being slightly confused, Naruto decided he wanted answers.
"Who are you and what are you doing here!" The blue haired man laughed.
"My name is Kisame, and my partner here is Uchiha Itachi. We, my enthusiastic little friend, are from the Akatsuki. We came here, for your hidden friend." He gave a sickening smile that made the three Genin's insides churn. Then he charged.
"Shika, Hinata-chan, take fish-boy, I'll handle Emo-teme senior." Kisame smirked and dove at Naruto, planning to shave him to bits. He was caught very much by surprise when his blade was blocked by a blade easily as massive. He did a double-take.
"Where did you get that sword!" Naruto smiled.
"A souvenir from my fight with Zabuza-san." For indeed, Naruto was holding the blade of the demon of the bloody mist. Kakashi had retrieved the blade from their fight, and Naruto had taken a liking to it. He had Ero-sennin place a storage seal on his right palm so that Naruto could summon the blade without having to carry it on his back.
Kisame couldn't ponder with thoughts of the blond for much longer, as he had to dodge a Jyuuken strike from behind and a quick moving shadow from the side. Naruto took this opportunity to charge at Itachi, who took out a katana to defend himself from the massive sword held by Naruto.
The Uchiha was slightly impressed with the Genin's ability to wield the giant weapon. Itachi knew he was fast, yet this boy matched his speed with a sword easily four times the weight of his katana. He decided not to delay any longer and activated his Mangekyou Sharingan and stared the boy straight in the eye.
Moments later, the scream of pure emotional pain that ripped through Naruto's throat stopped all movement, whether inside or outside the barrier. The boy stabbed Kubikiribocho into the ground and leaned on it heavily. His whole body was shaking heavily, his eyes wide as tears streamed from them freely. All who knew Naruto, and even a few of those who didn't, were in shock, as they had never seen the boy cry, under any circumstance.
As a drop of blood found its way into the stream of tears and onto the ground, Kisame looked to his partner.
"Itachi, what did you do to him?" Itachi frowned when he noticed Naruto's shaking slow down and eventually cease, completely ignoring his comrade's question. The tears ceased with the shaking, but another drop of blood emerged from each of his eyes. The boy slowly stood straight, his hair covering his eyes. The blood stopped and the boy pulled his sword out of the ground with only one hand.
Kisame suddenly noticed that the female genin wasn't paying him any attention and was within reach of Samaheda. He failed to notice the tips of Naruto's hair become a dark red, similar to Gaara's and become slightly longer and spikier. Some in the stands could swear that the Yondaime had come back from the dead.
One moment, Samaheda was on a crash course for the Hyuga and the next, the boy was in front of him, holding off his weapon with a single hand. On the other side of the arena, a crash was heard as Kubikiribocho slammed into the wall, Itachi's throat millimeters from being cut by the half circle and being held there by the shadow clone.
Just as Kisame moved to shred the boy, everything seemed to slow down. The boy ducked backwards and pushed Hinata out of the blade's path, then swung his sword upwards with one hand. To Kisame's utter horror, his blade was ripped from his grasp and sent flying towards the wall of the arena on the opposite side of Itachi. Naruto continued to spin, using his momentum to kick Kisame a good ten feet into the air.
He stabbed his blade into the ground once more and began to perform a set of handseals so quick that only Itachi could see his hands, and even to him they were blurring. Almost all shinobi in the crowd took note of Itachi's gasp of surprise as Naruto completed his hand seals.
The blond crouched on all fours, his body curling in on itself as he called out, "Secret Aura Technique: Roar of the Heavenly Lion!" Naruto arched his back and let out a roar that some thought made the Kyuubi's roar sound like it was merely purring. The ground around the boy completely shattered and tore apart in a ten meter radius and from his mouth, a lion made of chakra emerged. It shot towards the still flying body of Kisame and went right through him. When it emerged, there was a transparent form of the man being held in the lion's paws before it was absorbed into the lion's mouth.
Once fully absorbed, the lion curled up in the air and imploded, leaving no trace of it having existed. Kisame's body suddenly turned a sickly shade of grey and fell limply to the floor. Everything was deathly quiet as Naruto turned to Itachi, who gasped in surprise for the second time that day.
Everyone could hear the words spoken by Itachi.
"This is not possible, you cannot have a Doujutsu!" Itachi dispatched Naruto's clone and he took a Taijutsu stance.
"Nothing is Impossible." Itachi charged at Naruto, looking to take advantage of the blond's newfound cockiness. He began a controlled flurry of punches and kicks at incredible velocity's, but he could not hit the boy. Naruto simply weaved in between the attacks, not even removing his hands from his pockets.
As Itachi sent a straight-armed punch at Naruto, the boy crouched and spun under it, then leapt onto the outstretched arm, spinning once more to deliver a spinning axe kick to the side of Itachi's head, while Itachi simultaneously brought a lightning covered fist to Naruto's stomach.
The two slid apart and nothing happened for a moment. The Naruto knelt down and coughed up a large amount of blood. Itachi stepped forward for the finishing blow, when he too stumbled to his knees and vomited as blood began to seep from his ears.
"What did you do to me?" Naruto stood up and grinned, the Kyuubi having already healed his grazed lung, and wiped the trickle of blood from his chin.
"When I kicked you, I sent a blast of chakra into your brain, completely scrambling your brainwaves." Naruto stumbled forward a few steps and ripped the seal off of the kunai embedded into the ground, releasing the barrier. Just as the ANBU unit descended into the arena, a man with an orange mask popped into existence next to Itachi. He grabbed Itachi's arm and the disappeared just as quickly. The four turned at a mumbled 'damnit' from Naruto. He closed his eyes and fell forward to be caught by Hinata, but none of the ANBU failed to miss the change in the boy, and it shocked them all exponentially.
For his eyes had been a deep, pure golden colour with five, small thin blue rings dispersed evenly throughout his iris.
WOW! Over four thousand words! In one chapter. BTW, to any of you who may think this seems rushed with all the time skips, Arc I of Uzumaki Reborn is merely a long prologue leading up to after Naruto leaves the village with Jiraiya. Also, Naruto has unlocked the second stage of the Imozogan, the first being completely blue eyes, the second golden eyes with the five tiny blue rings. I plan on having two more chapters after this, making this story about eight to nine thousand words, but once I start Arc II there will be fewer time skips. Also, Naruto`s Doujutsu will be explained in Arc II, maybe two to four chapters into the story.
If you cannot explain it simply, then you do not understand it well enough.- Albert Einstein.
