C4, Pirates of the Chunin Exams
"Talking." 'Thoughts.'
XX
Naruto walked along the deck of his ship observing his crew going about their duties as they sailed to the Land of Fire, he then however heard groaning coming from his newest crewmember, "Oh suck it up fish face."
The man in question was as blue as the sea itself with what looked like gills on his cheeks and shark like teeth, he then looked up at him in in almost pleading manner, "How much longer do I have to do this?"
Naruto then made a face and turned to look at some of his crew and asked aloud, "Gentlemen and Ladies how much longer does he have to do this?"
The men and women who were busy repairing a section of the ship's railing looked at the blue skinned man with contentment and then said, "We will be done in a couple of hours Sir."
Naruto then turned back to his newest crewmember and Sensei and then said with a smile, "Well it looks like you'll be done once we reach the Land of Fire by this evening Kisame."
Kisame felt like groaning as he then said, "You do know it was an accident right?"
"Tell that to my crew that has to fix the damage you did fish face, and besides I warned you to watch where you point that sword of yours and as we all know you didn't listen to me." He said.
The blue swordsman as he walked away could only be haired complying that it was an accident and that he had no intention of doing it again.
Once Naruto reached the command deck over his quarters he noticed his cousin fighting back the laughter at the scene before her as one of the most feared swordsman doing deck hand work aboard the Black Vixen.
"Karin if you're going to laugh just get it over with already, his embarrassed enough as it is."
As soon as she heard this she just couldn't hold it in anymore and laughed after about a minute she stopped herself and then looked over to the Black Vixens sister ship the Faulkner and wondered about the other Seven Swordsman member they had a board, "How do you think Zabuza is doing over there cousin?"
Naruto looked over at his vessels sister's ship and then pulled out his spyglass and looked over and just smiled as he then said, "A lot better than ours."
XX
Tayuya, Isaribi and Haku were fighting together as a team against their new Sensei Zabuza Momochi who was now a newly reinstated member of the Seven Swordsmen of the Mist, the crew of the Faulkner watched the practice battle with astonishment.
Zabuza then motioned for them to stop as he caught his breath and was actually quite impressed since this team would require the most work, he then watched as the team took a much needed break as they observed him looking out upon the small fleet.
Tayuya then locked up alongside him and said, "You look deep in thought Zabuza?"
He nodded his head to her and then said, "I am, I was so concerned that this plan will not work at all but I'm happy to see that I was wrong about that."
"That's good to hear Sensei, can I ask you another question?" she then saw him nod his head.
"Do you know how to sail a ship?"
"One of the requirements for being a good Mist Shinobi especially one of the Seven Swordsmen is that you both know how to swim very well and how to sail a ship, needless to say I got very good at swimming at that part and of course being a swordsman." he stopped for a moment as if reflecting on his past.
"But I unfortunately never got the some level of experience to be a good sailor I am afraid, I know what I'm doing I just don't have the necessary experience I would like to be proficient at it." He said with a sense of both pride and disappointment at the last part.
She then nodded to him and had to ask a question, "Do you think we have a shot at passing the exam?"
"I do, just don't let your desire for revenge against both the snake and whoever was responsive for your mother's death cloud your judgment my student." he said to her.
"Believe me I know how you feel since I had to watch so many of my friends with blood lines are murdered by the Fourth Mizekage, even though I have planned for months I was still unable to kill and had to flee but what really makes me angry was find out later that she was nothing more than a puppet for someone to use just because what he held." Zabuza said with a bit of anguish in his voice.
Tayuya could only nod her head as she remembered what her tenant had told her and then said to him, "Well if their original plan was to try to take the Three Tailed Turtle they failed."
"What do you mean?"
"When Mei me and my brother fought him we were able to defeat him and unfortunately led to his death however we resealed old three inside of me so they won't be to get a hold of him two and half years from now." She said to him.
Even behind the bandages he just smiled as he knew that there was no way for the stranger with the redeye to control an Uzumaki, their only option would be to forcibly remove it from her and her brother which would be a very difficult operation in the future and he did not pity them one bit.
XX
The Grand Fire Nation Navy fleet yard and base known as Phoenix Nest was as calm as could be they had already welcomed several foreign ships that were here for the Chunin Exams into their harbors with absolutely no problems whatsoever, one of the tenets look out only to see eight ships off in the distance and pulled out his spyglass and took a look only to run to his commanding officer with a look of both shocked and potential fear upon his face at what he had just seen.
The young officer then ran into the officer's lounge and quickly shouted out for all to hear you, "Sir a group of Water Country warships have just entered the outer areas of the harbor."
The young officer watched the room become a site of action as the senior officers made a mad dash to the upper observance areas of the Fort and quickly pulled out their spy glasses only to be surprised to see three heavy warships and five frigates that look like they could do some serious damage.
One of the officers who was known as a Master of Arms we begin to observe the ships and their armament as well as their country of origin and then spoke to his commanding officers, "Sir I have never seen ships like these before, they have got to be packing at least over 60 guns on just one broadside alone."
"Are you saying that they are even more well-armed then them are Men of Wars?" the commander asked.
"These ships look like they have seen battles Sir and yes I do believe they are more armed than us, however it is the five smaller ships that are of the frigate class I'm concerned with more."
"What do you mean?" the commander asked with curiosity in his voice.
"I believe they are the Pirate Lord vessels Sir, and I managed to see his name on one of them Sir. It's his ship Sir, it's the Black Vixen." The master of arms said seeing the look of shock on everyone's face.
One of the other officers had his spyglass trained on the ships and then noticed that they were signaling the Fort, "Sir, they are signaling us."
The commanding officer quickly pulled out his spyglass and pointed towards the Water Country ships and was surprised by what he was seeing, "I think they're here for the Chunin Exams."
The Master at Arms read the message and said aloud for all to hear, "Phoenix Nest, we are the protection and diplomatic party representing the Water Daimyo of water country here to reopen trade negotiations with your land as well as for our Shinobi to compete in the current Chunin Exams and request permission to negotiate may we come ashore?"
The senior officer then turned to one of his men said, "Do we have an ambassador here?"
"Yes sir he is currently in the town."
"Informed him to immediately come to the board as there will be diplomatic matters to be discussed and grant them permission to come ashore with full military honors as well." He said as his officers immediately signaled back to the water ships and went to work preparing everything for their arrival.
XX
Mei Jack and the Water Daimyo herself all exited the long boat entering the Phoenix Nest Fort for the negotiations to take place alongside them were a group of highly trained water Marines as well as the two ambassadors who looked as rough and tough as well as they were presentable, they then entered a small well lit room with many fire nation sailors presenting their swords in a show of respect.
The small group then approached a table and sat down with both Mei and Jack taking up positions directly behind them in case of any trouble, the ambassador for the Land of Fire had already been briefed on certain factors including the matter regarding The Black Fox and decided to take things very carefully, "First of all I would like to thank you for coming to our country and to compete in the exams, but I must ask out of curiosity why do you choose to, and now when you could have waited for another exam to occur later on?"
The two Water ambassadors and the Water Daimyo herself were actually quite experienced in the realm of negotiations and were not surprised by this question, "That is actually quite simple really your Stadium as well as this time of year or perfect to host the exams and is considered one of the best times for any nation or village to compete in the exams and despite just coming out of a war we are still quite experienced in the Shinobi areas if you get my meaning."
"So you have a team entering the exams?" the Fire ambassador asked.
She just smiled at him and then said, "No we have two teams entering the exams it would have been three but there since he felt they were not yet ready and wait for the next exams later this year but we needed these two teams would not want to wait as they are quite experienced and should have received a field promotion but this was much more efficient and would promote more interaction with foreign ninja."
The Fire ambassador was surprised by the statement but continued on knowing that this might actually help their own country as well, "Very well I see no reason they can't not eat however what do you mean by opening trade negotiations?"
"I mean just that as you know the Land of Water is made up of many different islands both he and snow and our economy has recently begun to boom and we are in need of customers sell our wares to, we would also like to open trade with other nations for some of their exotic materials and things and knowing how many people come through your land we are hoping that you would allow us to set up a trading post here in fact I have already sent someone had to buy the very large plot of land to act as our trading and export embassy for our many businesses and jobs until they can purchase land and ports as well." The Water Daimyo said to them with a clear intention that they had already put a lot of thought into it and had quite a bit of fun with their reactions.
"Well if you wish to build your embassy on those lands that you have already purchased there is nothing we can do to stop you but would also like to know if we can help in any way?" the Fire ambassador said hoping to get an opening he could use later.
The two Water ambassadors and their Daimyo looked at each other and then turned back to the fire messenger as one of the water ambassadors then said, "not at this time Sir, we have brought plenty of supplies to begin building both the embassy and the ports necessary for our livelihood but we thank you for the offer."
The Fire ambassador was little taken aback by this but went on to the next subject that he knew what needed to be discussed, "Very well I can understand that however is one area of expertise I would like to discuss with you about a particular individual."
"I know that you are referring to Capt. Naruto Uzumaki, what matters do you wish to discuss with him?"
"We wish to try to convince him to return home here in the Land of Fire." The fire ambassador said.
Jack world his eyes and then spoke under his breath catching the Fire ambassador's attention who then asked him, "I was unaware that this matter would be any of your concern sir?"
"My name is Capt. Jack Webb Sir, Pirate Lord of the Water seas and a good friend to Capt. Uzumaki."
The Fire ambassador then turned to the Water Daimyo and asked her, "I was unaware that a Pirate Lord like yourself would even be in her services Sir?"
The Water Daimyo then gave the Fire ambassador a rather cold look, "I would be very careful about your next words if I were you ambassador, Capt. Webb has recently been reinstated as a Water Country Officer in our meeting and will silk team to hold his position as a Mariner Lord or as you call them Pirate Lords."
The fire officers as well as the ambassador felt the coldness and eight in her voice and realized that the Pirate Lords were a touchy subject with them, the investor quickly changed the subject back to Uzumaki, "And we will remember that my lady, however we must have an opportunity to speak with Lord Uzumaki?"
"It is not my decision if he will talk with you but his own, and just to let you know he is also a Mariner Lord as well and has diplomatic immunity thanks to his years of service to the rebellion and the new Water Country Government." She said to him catching his reaction that things have not gone as planned for them and that these talks would go on for a little bit.
XX
It had been almost an hour when the Water Daimyo and her escort party returned to the Water Nation Ships to deliver the news about the negotiations, Naruto Tayuya and they sensei's watched as she walked up to them with a clear bit of news, "Well you two I have some good news?"
The two of them looked at her with curiosity as Naruto then asked, "And what would that news be?"
"Well first off the Chunin Exams will begin tomorrow morning at 10 AM at the Villages Shinobi Academy, now here are your headbands and the papers to dissipate in the exams please sign them and have your teammates sign theirs as well and then present them when you enter the exam at the front of the Academy," the Water Daimyo said as she then handed them their papers and then decided to explain more about her negotiation.
The Water Daimyo then sat on one of the railings of the ship and then said to the two Uzumaki's, "The two embassies have been agreed to so we will need to unpack all the cargo from the ships to begin construction on the harbor embassy first, however allow me to inform you two of the wishes of the Fire Government."
Naruto could only imagine what this was about and just had to ask, "What do they want?"
"They want you to return to the Leaf Village; however they are unaware of you Tayuya."
Naruto looked at his sister and then gave a devilish smile and then said, "It will be nearly impossible to keep this quiet once we enter the exam, we will deal with them when the time comes but I would recommend getting the Shinobi ambassador and the embassy constructed as soon as possible to prepare for the fallout."
Tayuya nodded to her brother and then said her mind as well, "I agree will do with it when it comes but for the moment we should get back to our ships and get everything ready for tomorrow."
"It would be a 40 min. journey to the village if we walk by foot so I recommend we go before sunrise." Naruto said to everyone as they nodded their heads and went about their business to prepare for the next day.
XX
The sea air was cool and comfortable the morning of the Chunin Exams were to start, with still two hours before sunrise the crews of the Water Nation ships were still busy offloading the cargo for the construction of the embassy.
Inside his cabin Naruto was busy finishing his outfitting for the exam this morning but couldn't help but what was going to happen to this day as he heard a knock at his cabin door, after opening the cabin door he saw his cousin Karin and first mate Suigetsu walked into the cabin and instantly saw him putting the finishing touches on his outfit and equipment as he then turned to them and said, "I hope you two are prepared for this?"
Karin nodded her head and said, "Yeah I'm outfitted for an entire week, why may ask you had us do this?"
"Because if they have not changed too much of the exam then second part will take place in the Forest of Death and should take up to about five days to complete." He said to them.
Suigetsu couldn't help but feel excited about showing off his skills against other Shinobi, he then noticed his Capt. walking forward and motioned for them to follow him out of the cabin and onto the main desk and said, "She will be here when you get back Naruto."
He gave a nod to them as he lightly touched the rail and then put his hoot back up and walked over to their sensei who happy to no longer be doing manual labor aboard the Black Vixen, Kisame then positioned himself to walk down the side of the ship into the longboat with his students following right behind him.
Despite what many might have thought about him Kisame had in fact trained all three of them at one time or another without his former organization knowing about it as well as giving the rebellion pieces of information to use against the rogue Water Government, however he would not willingly tell anybody that he was quite in fact scared of the Black Fox after accidentally seeing the man's cousin and sister in the bathhouse that one time.
The human shark as some have called him still had nightmares about that day; he turned to look at the three of them as though Longboat moved quietly through the early morning with another longboat with four people in it as well heading towards the beach to begin their journey to the Hidden Leaf.
XX
The two Chunin had arrived early for their shift at the guard gate and couldn't help but feel that today would be one of those days, and any thought about how boring this day would be for them being friends saw eight people walking up to the gate and presented papers for the Chunin Exams.
Now while this was not unusual in itself the fact that the two senses were members of the seven swordsmen of the Mist were, the fact that they saw both Zabuza and Kisame walking right into their village on their way to the Academy was more than enough to surprise them to know end, "Did you just see that?"
His friend could only nod in disbelief as he watched the Mist group walk deeper into the village, even the ANBU who were in hiding could not help but stare in disbelief at who had just entered the village and looked at one another wondering what was about to happen and how bloody would this year's exam really be.
The first destination for the two teams was the Silver Leaf hotel where all the foreign dignitaries and competitors in the exam would be staying for the duration of the Chunin Exams, after securing their rooms they then made their way to the Shinobi Academy and ran up the tree that gave them in excellent view of the teams that will be entering the exams.
Naruto and his team as well as his sisters watched as many groups entered however it was when the sand team entered that he felt something was wrong and especially as he looked at an old friend and quickly activated his Eagle Vision to look at the back of her neck and let out a small curse that his sister installing knew something was wrong, "What is it?"
He turned to face her and said, "It's Gaara Sis, she has a personality seal on the back of her neck that is making her act like an homicidal maniac again, and I can tell from the crude work that it's the snake freaks."
Tayuya let out a small curse as she did not want them discovered by their potential enemies, they had seen many potential problems come and go but had also seen two teams that made up the Rookie 9 as they were known recognizing one of them from Wave Country, a little while later they then saw the Sound team enter the Academy and right behind them was none other than the snakes own Master spy Kabuto and his team had to forcibly restrain several members of the team from going to kill him because of past encounters, "Not yet you 4, I know how much you want to kill him but just went okay?"
The four of them just nodded but really wanted to rip him apart for what he had done to them alongside Orochimaru, they then saw two more teams enter including one with a strange green spandex wearing young man enter the building as with his team.
At this moment in time their sensei's decided to enter the building and wait for them as it was getting close to the time for the exam to begin, the three crew members of the Black Vixen then noticed the other team they had seen in the Wave mission now entered the building and decided that it might be a good time to enter as well.
(For Whom The Bell Tolls By Metallic starts playing in the background as they entered the building.)
Rock Lee and his teammates Tenten Neji were getting ready to enter the exam room only to stop dead in their tracks seeing the Mist teams walking by and coming to the realization of just they were, Tenten could not believe who she was seeing again after all these years.
"Guys… That's him!"
Neji looked at her and asked, "Who are you talking about?"
"That guy who just walked by is Naruto Uzumaki also known as the pirate Lord The Black Fox!" she said to them only to see them both looked at him with a mixture of fear and excitement facing someone of his caliber.
Guy's team watch them walk up to the exam room and watched as the Fox and one quick motion brought his foot up and slammed it into the door sending the door flying into the room.
XX
Sasuke had just asked Kabuto for information on both Rock Lee and Gaara of the desert when the door to the classroom suddenly flew in words nearly hitting several of the Chunin hopefuls, everyone was exceedingly angry at who had just done that only to go pale white scene who was standing in the doorway slowly walking in like he owns the place.
(The song stops at this moment.)
As soon as Sasuke and Kabuto to get up the look over only to see one of the most notorious people in the entire elemental nations standing before them, Sasuke quickly tur back to Kabuto and demanded to know everything about the Black Fox, "All right let me see if I've got something here then, oh here it is."
Kabuto turned around to look at the wall where the door had stopped only to see that it had been embedded in the wall from the force of the kick alone and became very concerned has just about everyone in the room was now looking at the ninja information card.
Name, Naruto Uzumaki
Status, Clan Heir
Known alias, The Black Fox, Pirate Lord
Known Jutsus, unknown at this time
Known Swordsmen Skills, is known to have been trained by the seven swordsmen of the Mist
A to S-Rank Shinobi
SS-Rank Sailor and Mariner Lord
Is known to have fought the Fourth Mizekage alongside Mei Terumi, and is a Water Country war veteran.
Everyone in the room was shocked to see this kind of information on someone who was competing in the exam.
Sasuke was once both shocked and happy to see them since it meant that he could quite possibly gain not only this man's fighting style but also his weapons as well, but before he could even demand anything of the Black Fox they were interrupted by the appearance of the exam proctor.
XX
Kakashi was currently standing in the teacher's lounge waiting for news on his students only to see the face of two of the seven swordsman of the Mist standing in the room drinking coffee as if nothing was wrong and talking, "So do you think they're both going to succeed?"
Kisame took a drink and then said, "Yep, I mean, we trained for crying out loud Zabuza."
"Good point."
Kisame then smiled and said, "I wonder how long it's going to take for them to figure out. He's in the exam?"
"Let's just wait and see?"
All of the Leaf ninjas were curious about what they had been talking about and had totally forgotten about the time when a young Chunin came into the room to inform them that the next part of the exam was about to begin but also decided to make an announcement, "Oh just to let everyone know the Black Fox is representing the Hidden Mist."
Every single one of the other exigencies in the room just looked at the two swordsmen as they just made a posting motion with their coffee mugs and big smiled upon their faces.
XX
Naruto and Tayuya had already given their teams codenames, his team was known simply as Black and her team was known as Red.
Sasuke saw an opportunity to try to obtain the hidden blades from the Pirates only to receive a strong kick to his reproductive organs courtesy of Tayuya who then revealed her own hidden blades and have them at his throat as Naruto walked up to him and said it is more dangerous voice which was the same one he use the day he killed Gato, "You should think twice about walking up on us, men have been killed for less."
Tayuya then removed her Hidden Blade from his throat allowing him to get up; however he decided to still be his arrogant self and demand things from people he should know better than doing that to, "You will give me those Hidden Blades!"
Naruto let out a small laugh as he then said, "Is that so?"
"Yes!"
"And how would you know about these weapons if I might ask?"
Sasuke then pointed at Tenten and said, "Because her father said he would make me a pair of them if I got him the designs, but I think I want you're more."
Naruto just laughed at him and said, "Sorry but that's not happening on either front and I'm going to have a little talk with her father later."
Tenten walked up to him surprised and said, "Do you remember me Naruto?"
His personality and voice changed as he looked her in the eyes and said, "It's been a longtime old friend, but I am going to have to talk to your father about certain things?"
She gave him the nod and was happy to see that he still considered her a friend; he then noticed the pink haired teammate of the Uchiha looked rather angry at him however she could do nothing as their Proctor arrived to start the next part of the exam in the Forest of Death.
End of C4
I want to hear what you all think about this latest chapter and hope to have action in the next one, I'm also doing more research on the next assassin's Creed game and hope as many of those elements to the story as well.
I will admit that it's going to be hard doing things for both teams black and red chapter but that also might make it a bit fun please read and review.