Sorry bout the late chapter, i had homework and lack of inspiration for a while but i finally got ideas and there you have it! The next chapter should come along soon.
Naruto arrived at his house with Sasuke.
'Kit. In my time when I was free, I came across a book, it has information on the Akurei, but I cannot open it, it has some sort of lock, I'll materialize it for you, hold on a sec.'
A large tome that was pretty damn thick appeared in Naruto's hands. It had many runes and odd looking designs, but what was noticeable, was the fact that there were chains, bounding the book closed.
"What's that?" Sasuke asked.
"Kyuubi said this has information on the Akurei, but we have to figure out how to open it. Though I've never seen these runes before, I can somehow read them..." Naruto tilted his head.
"Your right..." Sasuke muttered as he looked at the cover of the book.
"Hmm...Let's see..." Naruto mumbled and transferred some of his spirit energy into the lock. A projection appeared from the lock, there were 13 symbols, and each one was different. There is a bear, a wolf, a stag, a pray mantis, a boar, a snake, a falcon, a snow leopard, a tiger, a panther, a 3 headed dog, a lynx, a raven, a raptor, and finally a dragon. The colours were faded and dull, and also transparent.
The dragon symbol was in the middle while the others surrounded it in a circle. The dragon suddenly glowed and regained its vibrant colours, and looked almost alive.
"Whoa...look at all these symbols...when I put my spiritual energy in, the dragon looked like it came back to life...hey Sasuke..." Naruto started.
"yeah?" Sasuke said, looking at the different animal symbols.
"Try putting some of your spirit energy into the lock." Naruto told him. Sasuke nodded and did what he said.
The tiger symbol then regained all of its colours and seemed alive, just like the dragon.
"I get it, each symbol represents one of us! And in order to open it, we have to get everyone here." Naruto nodded. "I'll summon them right now."
Sasuke nodded.
Naruto then put chakra into his tattoo.
I need you guys here, I have some very important information you guys might want to hear.
Just then the entire ranks of team Tairei appeared in a puff of smoke in the large living room.
"what's up Naruto?" Kakashi asked.
"Kyuubi gave me a book on the Akurei we ran in to." Naruto explained, shock evident on their faces. "There's a lock on it, and from what I could tell, I need everyone here to put a bit of their spiritual energy to completely unlock it, as you can see, only the dragon and the tiger symbols are lit up. They represent me and Sasuke."
"Hmm..." Sarutobi said and put his hand on the tome and transferred some energy. The bear symbol lit up. "ahh I see, each one represents one of us."
One by one, each of them placed some of their energy in. The lock shattered into spectacles of light. Naruto opened the tome and flipped through the pages, he then found a picture of the Akurei that they ran into on the bridge.
"Hey! This is the demon we killed on the bride...it's called a Devil Flayer." Naruto said and showed them the picture.
"It says it's a B-ranked Akurei." Itachi read off the page.
"B-rank? I wonder what an A or S-rank is like if that was a B-rank." Kiba said.
"Yeah...it wasn't that hard killing it since there was so many of us...but if we come across more by ourselves..." Naruto shuddered.
"Yes... well, keep a good look out, if you guys encountered one, there might be more appearing now. I'll send a message to all villages warning them about the Akurei." Sarutobi said.
"But we must be careful with that information Hokage-sama, the other villages might demand the same power we all have, possibly go as far as to kidnap Naruto for the power of the spirit beasts." Hiashi warned.
"Yes, that is another thing to take into consideration. But it is possible if Naruto finds one whom he truly trusts from other villages that we give that power to them, though of course they have no way of spreading that power anyway. More so if that person happens to be a jinchuuriki." Sarutobi said.
"I really don't want to give one to Kumo." Hiashi sighed.
"And I don't want to give one to Iwa..." Kakashi also sighed.
"I'm siding with Kakashi on this one, they could use that power against us, we're still hostile with Iwa and Naruto is the son of Sensei, the Yondaime. They are most likely take Naruto's head before they take his special power, or worse they could capture him and turn him into breeding stock." Obito said.
They nodded.
"I just remembered, Empyrea said that there was one guardian for each country, so...where's ours?" Naruto asked.
Now that they thought about it, only the Wave guardian was freed, so where was the fire countries?
"Hmm...let's see...Empyrea was freed when you fought off the Devil flayer, maybe the boss Akurei of a group of them lets you free them, if we kill the boss, then we free our Guardian, but none have shown up or have been reported, maybe the one in Wave was the start of a big cycle that will happen..." Shikamaru suggested.
"That makes sense..." Neji nodded.
"Yeah..." Chouji remarked.
The secret meeting between the beast holders ended sometime after the discussion and they started to get ready for the chuunin exams.
'Hey kit, you have enough spiritual energy to have me as a partner, and I already made the bond, so don't hesitate to summon me, I need some outside time once in a awhile.'
Okay, thanks Kyuubi
Examination room
Team 7 just entered the room.
"Sasuke-kun!" Ino shouted and glomped him.
"Umph!" Sasuke grunted.
"Get your filthy hands off Sasuke-kun!" Sakura screeched at Ino.
They continued to argue and Sasuke managed to sneak away by using his assassination training from Kakashi.
"Will you guys keep it down? You're just a bunch of brats fresh out of the academy and you're already making enemies." A grey haired man with glasses said and pointed at the other genins.
"And who might you be?" Shikamaru asked.
"My name is Kabuto, and if you want information, I'm your guy. I got these info cards; just tell me who you want to look up." Kabuto grinned.
"No thanks...though a mere genin like yourself shouldn't have things like info cards...unless your not who you say you are?" Naruto looked at him suspiciously.
Kabuto was feeling slightly nervous.
"ALRIGHT! SHUT UP YOU MAGGOTS AND GET TO YOUR SEATS!" Ibiki shouted.
Skip the test
"And you all...pass!" Ibiki grinned.
"What! What about the tenth question!" Temari shouted.
"There was no tenth question, you just wanted to see if we had the guts not to abandon the mission." Naruto deduced.
"Correct!" Ibiki smiled.
Team Tairei sudden felt a presence near them.
A bundled cloth with kunai smashed through the window and unravelled, the words stated 'The hot, sexy, and single Mitarashi Anko! Proctor of the second exam!'
Everyone sweatdropped.
"Alright maggots! Get to training ground 44 pronto! Late and your disqualified!" Anko grinned and leapt off. Team Tairei followed her with their teams.
SKIP TO WHEN THEY ENTER THE FOREST
"Did you feel that? That grass nin felt very evil..." Naruto whispered to Sasuke.
Sasuke nodded.
'I recognized that vile chakra anywhere, that's orochimaru!'
What! Are you serious!
'No joke, I'd know that snake scent anywhere, Orochimaru is here, and I think he's after your sharingan teammate for his bloodline'
Damn...
'I feel a presence west off here, and they're not your other teammates...see if you can grab a scroll off them'
Alright
"Come on out, I can sense you 3." Naruto called out making Sakura confused.
"What are you talking about Naruto-baka! There's no one here!" Sakura screeched at him and tried to punch him but Naruto merely side-stepped out of the way.
"No he's right, there is someone there." Sasuke said after checking out Naruto's assumption.
"Oh...you're good..." Then a group of rain ninja came out of the trees.
"Sasuke!" Naruto called out, Sasuke nodded and they both stood by eachother.
They started weaving seals at a pace that rivalled most jounins.
"Fire Style: Grand Fireball!" Sasuke shouted and blew out a massive ball of fire.
"Wind Style: Great Breakthrough!" Naruto yelled out a second later and the wind clashed with the fireball, making it go white hot and sped up impressively. Only two off the rain nins dodged in time but the other couldn't completely make it out and his leg was severely burned.
"You'll pay for that!" And they charged them. They both took out some ordinary Katanas and slashed them.
Sasuke and Naruto brought out their weapons that Naruto himself forged. Kyuubi sent him the knowledge and all Naruto needed was the practise, soon he made very high grade blades, especially when he used a rare combination of metals that resulted in a metal called Elementium. It was much better to use than the other metal that could channel chakra. Though Elementium was harder to forge with, the results were incomparable with normal chakra blades, Elementium could channel elemental chakra way better than other metals. The metal was a silvery blue color.
Naruto brought out his sword (Master sword from LoZ, make the hilt and guard your choice of design) and Sasuke's was also a Katana like sword(His sword from shippuuden).
They both used their weapons to guard against their enemies, but the enemies' blades...well to be blunt...they sucked. So Naruto and Sasuke easily broke them and slashed at their tendons, rendering them from movement. Kyuubi had taught Naruto the Dragon Style and Kitsune Style of Kenjutsu. Sasuke learned the Uchiha clan style from his brother.
"Give us the scroll and you won't die." Naruto commanded.
The rain nin whimpered and tossed him the scroll. Team 7 dashed off when they checked it was the scroll they needed.
"That was fast..." Sasuke said.
"Sasuke-kun you were amazing!" Sakura squealed.
"Next time, be useful instead of standing there." Naruto sighed.
Sakura glared at him then went back to ogling Sasuke.
They kept running toward the tower until a huge snake came crashing in, heading for Naruto. Naruto quickly unsheathed his sword and channelled his wind chakra into his sword, making it much sharper and deadly and cut the snake in half, making it go up in a huge puff of smoke. Sakura screamed.
A summon? Sasuke and Naruto thought.
'It's Orochimaru!'
"Orochimaru! Come out! I know your there!" Naruto shouted.
"What are you talking about?" Sakura stared.
"Kukukuku...how did you know Naruto-kun?" Orochimaru grinned and slithered from his hiding spot and ripping off the face he stole off the poor grass ninja.
"No one besides Anko can use snakes...are you stupid or something?" Sasuke looked him his dumbly.
Orochimaru was irritated he was called stupid, him! A sannin!
"You're mine Sasuke-kun." Orochimaru looked at Sasuke greedily.
Sasuke shuddered with Naruto.
"Sorry, I don't go for people that are 40 years older than me, now that is just wrong. Are you some kind of gay pedophile?" Sasuke asked half serious.
Naruto just started laughing and Sakura giggled at bit.
Orochimaru was seething.
'Summon me kit, I can handle him'
So...summoning a 250ft tall nine tailed fox is going to solve our problems?
'No you idiot! I have a human form, I'm not idiotic enough to use my fox form!'
Oh...i see...sure.
"Come on out...Kyuubi." Naruto grinned and dark red fire exploded from Naruto's chest and took the form of a handsome red headed man with fox ears and 9 fox tails swaying behind him. Kyuubi looked to be dressed in a samurai type armor (Like what Madara used to wear) that was blood red. He also had a red Katana.
'Hello there snake scum...time to play!' Kyuubi grinned and rushed forward at a gaping Orochimaru.
"You can summon him?" Sasuke whispered to Naruto.
"Yeah, though since he's so strong, he constantly drains my spiritual energy when he's out since he needs so much energy to stay out. The energy he gets from the environment isn't enough to sustain him for long, so he has to draw the energy he lacks from me. I can only have him out for 10 minutes tops before he drains too much." Naruto explained while Kyuubi was having fun pounding the crap out of Orochimaru.
Sakura had already fainted.
"She fainted again? I didn't think the presence of the Kyuubi was that bad coupled with Orochimaru's K.I." Sasuke said.
"Well, I guess it's cause we're used to it more than her, though it's better this way. She doesn't need to see this and spread it for all of the elemental countries to know." Naruto sighed.
"Good point." Sasuke nodded.
Orochimaru was about to flee then suddenly bit Sasuke on the neck, shocking them. Kyuubi didn't think he could slither out of his grasp, but then again, he's Orochimaru, slithering around is what he does.
"Come find me for power Sasuke-kun...what?" Orochimaru said and noticed that no mark took place.
"He bit me! He bit me! Get the disinfectant! He gave me a hickey! YOU PEDOPHILE!" Sasuke shouted at a surprised Orochimaru.
"Why? Why don't you possess the curse mark!" Orochimaru demanded and Kyuubi punched him in the gut.
"It's for us to know and for you to find out." Kyuubi grinned and pounded on Orochimaru's broken body before he fled. Kyuubi retreated back into Naruto, relieving him of his burden.
Naruto applied first aid and used his healing ability to close the wound.
"There, all gone." Naruto rolled his eyes though was sure he would act the same way as Sasuke if he were in that position.
They quickly picked up Sakura and got on the back of Kurogane and flew towards the tower.
AT THE TOWER
"Hey!Gaara! Can I talk to you for a minute?" Naruto called out after the whole explanation thing about heaven and earth that I didn't care to write about.
Naruto called Gaara out to a private room and got Shukaku all sorted out when Naruto made Shukaku a spirit beast but Bijuu spirit beasts can only be summoned forth by the summoner themselves unless in mortal danger. Aparantly the seal that was used to seal Shukaku in Gaara was constantly giving Shukaku great pain, making him very irritated and causing Gaara to slowly go insane by mistake.
Next up! The Prelims and the Invasion!
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