Blue Moon Howling
Authors notes: To answer some of your questions I would like to say a few things. I got most of the story worked out, so regardless of how you feel about the necklace it stays. Trust me it will all work out for the better. He isn't going to kill any of his friends period, at least not willingly. As for the pairings I thought of a great Oc for later, so it will probably be her, however I might make this a story where he is with every girl pretty much. But still vote on who you prefer.
Chapter 3Naruto woke to the smell of fried fish, he turned his head and saw a white haired man cooking over a fire. "Jiraiya, how long was I out?" asked Naruto.
"Just the night kid." he replied. Naruto got up and looked down at himself, his clothes were completely shredded. "You may want to by yourself some new clothes a little later."
Naruto began to eat the fish in front of him by the mouth full. It was really good and he was extremely hungry. Everything was going fine until a certain voice spoke in his head.
"Hey kid how's it goin." said the Kyuubi. Naruto spit out all his food as he began to choke and cough.
"KYUUBI!" he shouted scaring Jiraiya. "Where are you?"
"In your head kid, you don't have to shout I can hear you just fine if you think it." said the fox.
"But how?" asked a nervous Naruto.
"I decided to do a little something extra while I was sealing off the wolf, its not all that bad now we can talk when ever I want." he said cheerfully.
"Are you serious, just great now I got a fox in my head." said Naruto. "Oh well, guess you could at least make yourself useful and help me train."
"Whatever, now listen and listen good." said the fox. "Since you are my vessel and now a lower demon I expect you to find something else to were then that atrocious orange jumpsuit."
"Hey fine by me if you can pay for it." said Naruto sarcastically. The only reason he wore that jumpsuit was because it was all he had, he couldn't afford to by more clothes then he needed, and that jumpsuit happened to be the cheapest thing he found.
"Ask that pervert to lend you some money." said Kyuubi. "Oh and one more thing by yourself a sword, have it made from silver."
"What why?" asked Naruto.
"Because kid, silver is a werewolf's one true weakness, while in human form it shouldn't harm you but it should help suppress your wolf-side so even if you start to lose control the silver should help stop you." explained the Kyuubi.
"Oh ok." said Naruto. Jiraiya who had been watching Naruto have a conversation with himself coughed to gain Naruto's attention.
"Not to interrupt or anything but mind telling me what's going on?" asked Jiraiya. Naruto looked at him embarrassed to have been talking out loud to Kyuubi.
"Well Kyuubi says I should find someone to make me a sword out of silver, as well as get some new clothes." said Naruto.
"A silver-sword is going to be very expensive how do you expect to pay for it?" asked Jiraiya already having a pretty good idea.
"Well you see I was kinda hoping you would pay for it." Said Naruto with a sheepish grin.
Jiraiya gave a loud sigh, he probably had more then enough money in his bank account and who was he to turn the boy down. "Fine, I'll pay but you're on your own for the clothes bud, and I expect you to find the smith for the sword." said Jiraiya.
"Ok." he said. I probably have enough saved up for some new clothes. He thought.
"Yeah I'll help you pick kid." said the fox in his head.
"Alright then kid, if its ok with you I would like to supervise the rest of your training, as well as observe you in your wolf form, is that alright?" said Jiraiya.
"Yeah it's fine I guess, so long as you actually teach me something." said Naruto.
"Fair enough now I suggest you go home and get money for new clothes immediately, you probably should look in a mirror as well." said the perverted hermit.
"You got it Ero-sennin." said Naruto running towards town to his home. He made it there pretty quickly. He instantly went to his stash and was happy to find a large amount of money waiting for him. He was about to leave when he remembered what Ero-sennin said. He went to the bathroom to look at himself, and gave a small yelp at his appearance. His hair was now white and it went up in neat spikes instead of the messy ones he used to have. His eyes were still the deepest sky blue but now he had slit-pupils. His baby fat was gone to and now was all lean muscle. Much to his surprise his whisker marks had faded out a little, you probably wouldn't notice them unless you knew they were there.
"Well now that's interesting." said Naruto.
"The wolf seems to be more dominate over your appearance then I am." said Kyuubi.
"Huh, that's weird oh well time to shop." he said as he went through his door. Walking down the street he received strange looks probably because no one recognized him and maybe because his clothes were all torn and you could see a lot of his skin. Finally he arrived at a clothing store and went inside where he was greeted by the clerk.
"How may I help you sir?" he asked.
"I need some new clothes." said Naruto.
"I can see that follow me." said the clerk.
Naruto specified what he wanted as the clerk measured him. He came back a little while later with a couple of sets of clouting and a blue trench coat. He went into the changing room and put them on. When he came out he wore a sleeveless black undershirt, black cargo pants, and normal ninja sandals. He had the blue trench coat on with the sleeves rolled up to his elbows and he wore black fingerless gloves on his hands.
He paid the clerk and left the store, on his was to find the smith he noticed even more stares, these ones caught his interest because it was mainly the female population staring as well as drooling. He had a silent laugh to himself at this. He came across and old shop with weapons of high-class design on display. This was the shop he was looking for.
"Excuse me sir are you the smith?" asked Naruto.
"Yes I am what can I do for you?" said a tall brown haired man.
"I was wondering if you could make me a sword." said Naruto.
"Sure no problem there what kind." he said.
"I need a high class katana with the blade completely made of silver." said Naruto. The shop owner just looked at him a little intrigued.
"With a material like silver, I'd have to find it, order it, forge it, clean it, as well as coat it so it doesn't rust, stain or age, all that can get pretty expensive are you sure?" asked the Smith.
"Don't worry I can afford it." said Naruto. "How soon can it be ready?"
"I'd say about two weeks or so." replied the smith. Naruto nodded.
"I'll come for it then with the money." he said. As he was leaving the store he ran into a girl with her brown-hair in buns, she was knocked over. "Sorry, I didn't see you." Naruto reached down his hand and help her up.
"No it's okay I wasn't watching where I was going." she said with a smile. He looked at her and nodded he then turned around to leave.
"Tenten, welcome home how was training?" said the smith from inside the store.
"Hard as usual, who was that boy in our store?" she asked looking at the retreating back of the white haired boy.
"A new high paying customer, he wants a high-class katana madeentirely of silver." said the smith. Tenten gave a low whistle. "Yeah that's what I thought."
Two weeks went by in a flash Naruto had been training non-stop in the forest the entire time. He tested his new limits to there maximum and found that he was maybe ten times stronger, faster, and over all smarter then he was before the transformation. He quickly got used to switching his form from wolf to hybrid. Kyuubi had been expanding his chakra pathways as well. He still had trouble controling himself fully in his werewolf state. A couple of times he took it to far and almost went on a rampage, luckily he was deep in the forest and the Kyuubi was able to seal it off with the necklace in time.
He was now on his way back to the store for his sword. Jiraiya had given him a large sum of money for it. When he arrived the same girl he knocked over when he first went there greeted him.
"Hello you must be here for your sword." said the Tenten.
"Yes, is it ready?" he asked. She nodded and took a wrapped bundle out from under the counter.
"Here you are." she said with a slight gleam in her eyes as she unsheathed the blade in front of the boy. It sparkled in the light and looked flawless. "My dad says it's one of the best he's made so take care of it." She handed the blade over to Naruto who admired it fondly.
"Thank you." he said giving her a smile. She blushed slightly at this as he left. She thought only one thing. Damn he's hot.
Naruto trained diligently with the blade ever since. Kyuubi new a few things about sword handling which he shared. Jiraiya had kept good to his word and taught Naruto to summon. With Kyuubi's help he could easily summon Gambunta. But as the Chuunin finals approached a thought went through Naruto's mind.
"Kyuubi, if I bite someone will they turn into a werewolf too?" hey he asked.
"Normally you would pass on the disease but since you got me I'll prevent you from spreading it to anyone you don't want to." said the demon.
Naruto was a little relieved by this he didn't want to be creating monsters every time he bit someone in a fight with his fangs. Only two more days remained until his fight with Neji, and Naruto was more then prepared for it. He couldn't wait to kick that guy's ass.
Two cloaked figures stood outside the gates of Konoha. One had black-hair and red eyes with slit-pupils. Beside him his companion with violet eyes also slit-pupils spoke. "You're sure you felt it here." said the voice that was obviously feminine.
"Yes I'm sure." said the red eyed one. "I wonder who it is that bit the one we're looking for?"
"It's likely someone out of the pack got to who ever it is we're trying to find." said the violet-eyed girl.
"Maybe, I guess will just have to find out." said the red-eyed boy. They then disappeared over the walls before the shinobi even new they were at the gates.
"Well today's the day." said Naruto getting up from his breakfast with Ero-sennin.
"Good luck kid you'll need it, and let me give you some advise on the Chuunin Exam." said Jiraiya. Naruto looked at him. "It is not a test of power but whether you show the maturity as well as skill to be a Chuunin." Naruto gave him a puzzled look.
"What do you mean?" asked Naruto.
"What I mean is out smart your opponent, take him down as quickly and as affectively as possible." Finished the perverted hermit.
"Okay." said Naruto as he left for the stadium.
Naruto was making his way through the trees the stadium in sight. He would be arriving shortly. He was about to speed up when he saw someone out of the corner of his eye. He jumped down behind the person.
"Hinata is that you?" he asked. The girl gave a jump and turned around to meet the person behind her.
She stared at the mysterious white haired boy. "Yes, I am Hinata, who are you?" she asked curiously to the strange boy. Even though he seemed nice he looked rather intimidating, she couldn't read his face.
"Are you serious its me Naruto." he said. She looked really shocked and disbelieving at him.
"What? Naruto has blonde hair, and he looks a lot different then you." she accused.
"Yeah, well I went through some changes in my training, but I don't think I'm that different." said Naruto.
Hinata gazed into his eyes and saw the same determination she always admired, and upon closer inspection she noticed faded whisker marks.
"Whoa, Naruto you've changed a lot." she said.
"Yeah I guess, but anyway how are you, I didn't get the chance to see you in the hospital, are you alright now?" he asked. She nodded.
"Occasionally I will have a little coughing fit, but other then that I am fine." she said.
"That's good to hear, are you on your way to the stadium?" said Naruto.
"Yes I am, good luck." she said.
"Thanks, well I got to get going, just wanted to stop and see if you were doing alright." he said as he turned around to leave. "You know it's a lot easier to talk to you now that you don't stutter." Hinata blushed at that and he left.
I didn't even realize I had stopped. She thought. He's gotten even cuter.
The arena was filled with spectators; the entire village was there, as well as many of the feudal lords. They all waited for the fights to start, many had come specifically to see the last Uchiha fight. Near the front row two cloaked figures sat watching the events with mild interest.
"Do you sense him?" asked the female.
"No who ever he is, he not only hides his scent but his power to, but I am sure he is still in this village." said the red-eyed male. "Have you gotten any leads as to who he might be."
"None really, but I have heard a lot about this Uchiha fellow that is supposed to be fighting." said the violet-eyed girl. "Apparently he is some sort of prodigy, and he seem smore like someone that could survive the transformation."
"Let's keep are eyes open then." said the male.
The competitors entered the ring in front of the ref; all were there except for Sasuke and Naruto. A pink-haired girl in the stands instantly took note of this.
"Where are Sasuke-kun and Naruto." she asked to the blonde girl beside her.
"I don't know." she replied. Many of the people in the stands wondered the same thing.
On the arena floor a certain pal eyed boy smirked. So that boy was all talk and ran, he must have realized it was useless. He thought But that thought as well as the entire stadium was quickly silenced as a mysterious white haired boy walked into the arena. He wore a blue trench coat and carried a katana in his hand. He made his way silently to the others. All the shinobi as well as the cloaked figures felt the chakra that the necklace around his neck gave off. He then stood with the others.
"Excuse me sir but only competitors are supposed to be here." said the ref.
"I know that, I am a competitor, I'm Uzumaki Naruto." said the stranger. The arena was so quiet at the time that everyone in the stands heard is declaration. The Hokage in the stands looked at the boy and was about to have him removed when a poof came from beside him. On his left he saw his former pupil Jiraiya.
"Jiraiya what are you doing here?" asked the Hokage.
"Just came to inform you that the person down there is Uzumaki Naruto, he was with me and I saw him change." said the Sennin. The Hokage looked shocked. "There are also a few more things I need to discuss with you about him." Another poof sounded on the other side of the Hokage the ref asked for his opinion on the matter.
"That boy is Uzumaki Naruto, let him fight." said the Hokage. The ref disappeared to the arena floor.
"Alright then Uzumaki Naruto and Hyuuga Neji please stay on the arena floor for your match." said the ref. Most of the crowed reacted to this in shock, that the boy who gave off such a powerful aura was in fact Uzumaki Naruto.
"Are you kidding me, that's Naruto." said Ino to Sakura. Sakura was just speechless as she stared at her teammate worriedly.
Why does he look that way does it have something to do with what happened in the forest? She thought.
That hunk is the blonde boy from the Chuunin Exams! shouted Tenten in her mind. Is he going to use the sword my father made to hurt Neji!
"Begin." said the ref. The two fighters took their stances.
"It doesn't matter if you changed your look a deadlast is still a deadlast." said Neji. "You were fated to lose this match the second I was picked as you opponent"
"Whatever, I don't really believe in fate." said Naruto. Neji became slightly angry at this and charged forth Byakugan activated. With out even forming the hand seals two shadow clones appeared and attacked him one slid in with a kick and the other attacked from the air. With his bloodline active he easily took care of the low clone and the high clone. But as the low one disappeared he saw an exploding tag under his feet. He barely got away as it blew, from the smoke another clone attacked he threw a kunai knife which hit the ground some feet in front of him, a complete miss. The clone then landed behind him and attacked with a kick. Neji was about to destroy it when he noticed the wire in its hand. The clone tugged on the string as it kicked and with his Byakugan he saw the kunai which was now to his back pick up and come towards him with and exploding tag attached. The clone in front of him then proceeded to throw more kunai while still in mid kick. Neji was about to doge when he saw kunai flying in from both his sides as well. Apparently two more shadow clones had appeared and threw them while he was distracted. The attacks where coming in from all sides no escape in sight
"KAITEN" shouted Neji as he began spinning like a top deflecting all the projectiles as well as the clone that was coming towards him.
The crowd was in shock at the battle that was taking place. The two Chuunin's who were judging were also impressed.
"That was brilliant strategy by Naruto, if the Hyuuga didn't know that technique this fight would be over." said one to his partner.
"Yes and even if the strategy failed he still forced the Hyuuga to reveal his trump card." said the other Chuunin. "It seems we found are first applicant for Chuunin."
Neji just smirked even though he had been forced to show one of his trump cards, he still hoped the display of defensewould make his opponent nervous. He was upset however to see the boy hadn't moved from his spot since they began.
"You see it is hopeless don't you, you will never get past my defense." said Neji. "You are fated to lose." He then proceeded to attack again, bringing his palm to his opponent's heart. He and everyone else in the stadium were surprised to see his target poof out of existence. A clone but when did he make that? Was the thought on everyone's mind. Neji blinked and suddenly twenty Naruto's that seemed to of appeared of out of thin air surrounded him. Ten of them completely surrounded him while the other ten stood from a distance on the stadium wall, or in the trees on the arena floor kunai in hand. They all started attacking at once. Neji quickly took care of four of the clones around him, but smoke bombs being thrown by the ones at a distance prevented him from getting to the other.
He felt the presence of several closing in on him he then began to spin in the Kaiten. The smoke was blown away and many of the clones vanished on impact. Immediately after he stopped spinning he threw his own kunai at the remaining clones making them all poof. The real Naruto came running at him with unreal speed before Neji could block. He was kick in the face, he skidded for a bit but then got his footing back. He jabbed outward hitting an advancing Naruto in the arm. He jumped back.
"There is no way I am going to lose to someone like you who blames everything on fate." said Naruto taking his stance.
"Shut up! You no nothing of what I've been through." yelled Neji taking off his forehead protector revealing a seal. "This is my fate to forever serve the Main Family, regardless of how strong I become I will never be able to escape the cage they put me in. I am to forever serve them even though they took my father. How could you possibly know what its like to have such a curse!"
"I will win this fight, it is fate!" said Neji. "You are within my divination field, 64 strikes!" he shouted as he began bombarding Naruto with his attack. "2 strikes, 4 strikes, 8 strikes, 16 strikes, 32 strikes, 64 strikes!" Naruto was sent flying backward onto the arena floor. Everyone in the crowd was staring with expectation in there eyes.
"Call the match ref, he won't be getting up." said Neji as he turned around to leave, but stopped when he heard a noise from behind him. He looked back and saw the white-haired boy standing. Once up he dropped his sword to the ground, Neji wondered why he had not used it. He then took off his blue trench coat.
"I know all to well what its like to have a curse you didn't ask for." said Naruto removing his shirt. Everyone in the audience gasped at the tremendous scar on his upper chest. He then took off his forehead protector and stared at it.
"What are you doing why are you removing your forehead protector?" asked Neji.
"Because, Neji I dare not ware that symbol with what I'm about to do." he said dropping it in the pile of clothes beside him. "I'll show you Neji my curse." He then reached to the cross-shaped necklace and yanked it off. Neji, the audience, the ninjas, the cloaked figures, even the Hokage stared at him curiously. They all sensed the necklace held some kind of power. Naruto then dropped the necklace to the ground.
Instantly everyone went wide-eyed as a small crater formed around the boy. He was breathing fast and heavily. Everyone jumped as they saw his clothes shred and his body start to change. He gave a low growl as he grew a dazzling white coat of fur. His body doubled in size and Neji could only stand still in freight as he took the form of a wolf. When he was done he let out a fierce howl that shook the whole arena. Neji was completely paralyzed with fear. The wolf stared at him with blue-eyes and disappeared in an instant. Neji was slammed into the wall by the force of the blow but remained standing, it could be because he was hit strait up before he had time to fall down.
The wolf-hybrid appeared beside him in the air and kicked him to the ground. He bounced as he skidded on the ground. He got up slowly to see the monster running towards him. He out of instinct thrust his hand out to hit the beast, but it changed into a complete wolf thus putting it under his strike. It bit onto his arm and kicked upoff the ground turning Neji's arm with its teeth. As the wolf was above him it changed back into the hybrid form. It did a back flip and kick Neji in the jaw sending him upward at an unbelievable height above the crowed. The audience watched as the beast turned back into the wolf form and ran up the side of the wall at shocking speed that many couldn't follow. It jumped from the top of the wall outward placing it above Neji. It turned back into the hybrid form. Everyone gasped as the sky turned pitch black, and the sun turned to a full moon. The hybrid came down and hit the Hyuuga in both arms and legs, before grabbing him and bringing him crashing to earth. Everyone turned away they knew the Hyuuga wouldn't survive the blow to the floor. The whole arena shook as smoke and debris rose from the where they landed. They looked forward at the smoke waiting to see the beast over the dead Hyuuga. The smoke cleared and the audience became speechless, what they saw was not what they expected. The wolf stood in the center of the crater he had just created holding Neji in his clawed hand. He had not finished the attack he never slammed him down into the ground, which would of finished Neji off. The hybrid let go of Neji who fell to his knees staring at the monster with shock, he couldn't move his arms or legs they were numb, most likely out of the joints.
The wolf then walked over to the pile of clothes that were his and picked up the silver-cross necklace. Everyone took note that when the beast touched it, it appeared to burn his hand as steam rose from it. The creature gave a low growl as he put the necklace on. The form shrunk back to the handsome white-haired boy, his pants where completely shredded but still enough covered. He put on his trench coat affectively covering him.
"I won judge, he won't be able to move for a while." he said facing the ref.
"What-what was that thing?" asked Neji on his knees, the whole crowed was silent waiting for Naruto to speak.
"We all carry a curse Neji, some of us more then others." said Naruto. "The only difference between you and me is I fight my curses with everything I have." The boy walked away without looking back leaving a stunned crowed behind him.
"Its him he's the one we were looking for." said the female cloaked figure. "Brother did you see his power was-"
"Yes I saw, we can't make our move now, there is something different about him." said the red-eyed male. "We should leave and get the pack then observe him."
The girl looked shocked. "The whole pack." she said.
"You saw his power, he was holding back, he is a white fur, the rarest of the rare, and more or less he's an Alpha." said the red-eyed male gritting his teeth.
Authors notes: Okay done with this chapter. A few things I just put the thing with the silver sword as an excuse to give him a blade. Next he didn't use it against Neji because he didn't want to kill a fellow leaf. Everything I write about werewolves I completely made up off the top of my head so no complaints about realism. If you are still confused about Naruto and his transformation or his abilities or the whole werewolf situation altogether, just wait and keep reading it will explain itself. A few more things could anyone give me suggestions for the names of the two cloaked figures the female is the Oc I talked about before. Also Naruto's power, he is only at about Jounin level and that is only in his wolf form which he only has for thirty minuites. The Sennin could easily beat him in his wolf form, a Jounin like Kakashi probably could too, but not with out getting a little banged up.