I'MNOTCRAZY1- What the heck do you mean by Naruto's entire hand being scarred? That doesn't make any sense whatsoever. If it is made up of scar tissue, it would not be able to be used as a hand. It would be without musculature and would be just skin. If Naruto is able to regenerate the muscle, then there's no reason why there would be scar tissue. it would, though, be a lot more pink (temporarily) than the rest of his arm/body.
Ok, first, I said his hand would be scarred, not a scar. And second, how do you know that having a lack of chakra control due to nearly infinite reserves wouldn't make the fox accidentally turn some of the muscle into scar tissue? I'm just saying, because it's from a Anime/Manga, we don't fully know everything about chakra. It could work differently then we think it does.
Tristan76- I would imagine that Naruto or Minato would either completely remove the seal while integrating that chakra of the Cursed Seal into Sasuke's own, and in the process, kill the piece of Orochimaru's Soul that was in said seal. I think it would be pointless to remove the seal and Sasuke gets no benefit from having it put on in the first place.
Hell, maybe with Naruto using Kyubi's chakra, he could destroy the seal and give Sasuke a power boost. Same with Anko. Oh! Here's an unusual pairing for Sasuke, him and Anko! I think it be rather unique. Since if Sasuke's which is more advanced than her own, can be removed and him gaining a boost of power; the same should apply to her, no?
Until then, Later.
OK, so maybe one of them will integrate the chakra while destroying the seal. I never said they wouldn't… not that I was planning on it. So, I might do that. Do you really mind if I use these ideas? Tell me in another review if you don't want me to. And as for the Anko and Sasuke pairing, that's another good idea, but the Sasuke pairing is already filled at this point.(Check the mid-story A/N's and you'll find out who.)
Sharpy-san - Excellent fic do far. I'm excited about the next chapter!
I think you are makong Sasuke a bit too OOC. I realise you want him to be good, but you have to tone it down a bit. Make him unsocial and a bit hostile to people. Not too much, just a little to make him 'Sasuke'.
Other than that extremely small problem (which might
I add is totally just an opinion) I only hope you don't give Naruto the scars. The concept of that is a bit lame and scars are for people like Deadpool; I hate scars too.
Again all the issues stated above are merely opinions. It's your story. Never let a reader dictate a story.
Lastly, add lemons. They are great for practicing imagery, and are great devices for character development if use properly. Don't worry about offending people with them; ask them to skip over the lemon if they whine.
You have a valid point, and I kind of realize that Sasuke is OC now, and I'll try to patch that up a bit after this. Also, I'm kind of regretting that whole scar thing now to, so I'll fix that as well. Also, thank you for understanding the whole "The writer owns the story" Thing. Thanks. Oh, and one more thing. You might be the only person who actually has a valid reason to put lemons in. I never thought I'd see the day.
A/N: Sorry about the REALLY long delay between updates. I got a Trojan virus and I had to delete everything on my hard drive, including my nearly finished chapter 4… about 3 times. Somehow the virus managed to stay on my computer, so it took me a while to get rid of it. Thanks for waiting! Now to our feature presentation.
Chapter 4
Chunnin Exams part 2
Naruto awoke on the third day after his and his team's arrival at the tower. He got up and got dressed in his usual attire, then walked down stairs to the room where they had talked to Iruka. All of the other teams had already arrived and were standing in line. Naruto fell in line with his team, behind Hinata. He looked around at the other teams. There were five teams, including his, that were in the room. There was his, Yugito's, Garra's, Team Ten, and one team standing off to the side. The team that standing away from the others only had two members left. One was still unconscious and therefore they could not complete the second part of the exam. One wore a black mask that covered everything but his eyes. The other was wearing large round glasses that he kept adjusting.
"Alright, maggots, listen up. Hayate will explain the rules of the third exam!" Anko called out.
"*Cough* I'm *cough*Hayate, and I'll be your proctor for the third *cough* part of the Chunnin exam." He said. "Here's how *cough* the third exam will work. *cough* It will be an elimination tournament. There will be six first round fights. You will each draw a number that will *cough* determine who you fight. The winners will move on to fight in the semi-*cough*finals. There will be three semi-final rounds. The winners of these rounds will move on to a final *cough* three person free for all round. Now, will all of the remaining teams *cough* come up and draw a number out of this bowl."
All twelve of the contestants walked up to the bowl that Hayate held and blindly picked out a slip of paper with a number on it.
Once they had all gotten a slip and returned to their original spots, Hayate spoke up. "*cough* ok, now that you have your numbers, here are the *cough* matches.
Shikamaru Vs. Tamari
Naruto Vs Sasuke
Choji Vs Kankuro
Henjin (Yugito's Tall teammate) Vs Ino
Garra Vs Damu (Yugito's other teammate)
Hinata Vs Yugito
"Alright, now that *cough*you have your fights, you will all have one month to train and rest. *cough* Good luck." He finished before he and all of the other proctors disappeared in various forms of body flickers.
The different teams went their different ways, most towards the door they came in.
The Next Day
Naruto awoke the next morning to the sun glaring in his face. He looked at the clock. It read 5:30.
'When did the sun start drinking coffee?' Naruto thought. He reluctantly got up and got dressed, then went downstairs. He quickly smelled his favorite food, ramen. He ran, following the smell, to the kitchen. He slid in, and found his dad standing over a stove cooking ramen.
"Good morning, son." Minato said, "How'd you sleep?"
"Pretty well, until I learned that the sun likes his morning caffeine." Naruto replied. Minato just chuckled and returned to cooking ramen. After a few minutes, he pulled the ramen off the stove and served it into three bowls.
"RAMEN!" The fourth called. Before Naruto could ask why he called that, Kushina was in the kitchen, fully dressed and practically drooling over the ramen. Naruto just shook his head and grabbed a bowl, sat down and dug in.
"So, do you need someone to train you for the chunnin exam finals?" Minato asked Naruto halfway through the meal.
"uhh, how'd you know about that?"
Naruto asked with his mouth full. Kushina hit him on the back of the head and spoke up, "Don't talk with your mouth full."
Minato chuckled and answered Naruto's question, "I had to take the chunnin exams too you know."
"Oh, right… But I guess so. I thought Kakashi was going to train me."
"Most of the time ninja's who take the final part of the chunnin exam each get their own teachers. It helps incase teammates fight each other, that way they won't know how each other fight."
"Oh, ok. So, ya, I guess that I do need a teacher."
"In that case, I'll be your teacher for the month."
"Really?" Naruto asked, his eyes shining.
"Of course" Minato replied, chuckling.
Later that day
"Alright," Minato began, "I want to find out how strong you are right now, so I'm going to fight you, but I won't go all out." They were standing in the middle of training field seven, by the wooden poles.
"Ok, but don't expect me to win." Naruto said.
"I don't." He replied. Before Naruto could respond, Minato disappeared. Naruto just managed to bend backwards as a fist flew over his head. A leg appeared swiping at his. He continued his backward motion and did three back flips, skidding to a halt. He sidestepped another punch, and then grabbed the arm grunted and threw his father. Minato twisted in midair and landed on his feet, skidding.
Before he could turn around he heard Naruto yell. "Dual Release: Pressured Great Dragon Fire!" Minato jumped, releasing a burst of chakra from his feet. He cleared the dragon by ten feet and landed behind Naruto, and ducked as a fist flew over his head. He punched Naruto in the stomach and chased after him as he flew across the ground. He started running even faster when he saw his son start going through hand signs.
"Tri Release: Vacuum Volcano!" He yelled. Lava shot from the ground all but the leading foot being instantly cooled by water. Before he could do anything all the air was sucked out, flying through the rapidly closing hole in the top. The dirt under him suddenly turned to mud, making him lose his balance. The top of the cone closed and left no air inside the structure.
Naruto had finished the seals for his final jutsu and pulled out a slip of paper from his tool pouch, just as his dad flew out of the cone of lava rock, his hand stretched out with a spiraling blue ball on it. He skidded to a stop and stopped to breathe in air and catch his breath. He looked up when Naruto called out his jutsu.
"Tri Release: Exploding Pressured Great Fire Dragon!" The huge dragon of fire had a large chunk of rock in its head. Still slightly out of breath he could only jump to the side, dodging the fire by only a foot. Suddenly he felt a strong, dry wind, and the dragon turned and circled around him. Its head melted into its tail and after the half second to took for him to jump the dragon started to fade.
'I guess he doesn't have enough chakra to keep up an attack like that.' He though, just before a blinding explosion ripped the air apart from the stone that was in the dragons head. He was thrown violently away, landing sixty feet from where he stood a mere three seconds before. He got to his feet and shook his head, only to see Naruto charging at him. He disappeared and reappeared behind Naruto, who wouldn't dodge the punch to the back of his head. As soon as he hit the ground, he found his hands and feet bound by ninja wire.
"Wow, you did better than I expected, but I still didn't go anywhere near all out. Nice job son. So what was that attack that you did before? The one that exploded?"
"First can you untie me?" Naruto replied. After his dad untied him, he continued, "It's the same thing as the Dual Release: Pressured Great Dragon Fire, but I have that stone in its head. That stone has three layers. The middle one is filled with pure liquid oxygen. It takes a lot of chakra, but it makes the explosion a lot bigger. The Inside layer is made of incredibly dense rock to keep the explosion of the explosive tag pressurized from the point that the tail touches the head. The very pressurized explosion releases all of the pressure at once, which is held by the amplified by the oxygen, then held for a brief second by the outside layer to make the initial part of the explosion the most powerful. It makes the target take the most of the attack combined instead of being thrown away by only a fraction of a blast."
Minato just stood there with a dumbfounded look on his face. "…What?"
Naruto just laughed and then clarified, "It makes the explosion a lot bigger."
"Ok..."
"So, what was that attack you used to break out of the rock cone earlier?"
"That, is an attack I will teach you eventually. It s called the rasengan."
"The spiraling sphere?"
"Yes. Ok, we'll get started on that tomorrow, I need some things for that. Today I'm going to teach you something else. It's called summoning."
"I learned that a couple of weeks ago."
"From where? Does the academy teach summoning now?"
"No. You remember Hotaru right?"
"Yes, was he a summoning animal?"
"He used to be, but he got banished because he wasn't very good at fighting."
"Oh. So how's your genjutsu?"
"I only know I few. For pranks and stuff like that."
"Alright, I guess we'll work on that."
The Next Day
"OK, now I'm going to teach you how to do the rasengan. First, take this water balloon." Minato instructed, then continued, "Then using only your chakra, burst the balloon. I'll show you." He held out the water balloon. For a second nothing happened, then all of a sudden, the balloon started to stretch in every direction, creating large bumps on the surface, then it burst.
"Now you try." He instructed. Naruto grabbed a balloon out of the bag and started to swirl his chakra inside of it. He kept moving the water in it faster and faster, but it stayed whole. Minato nodded and walked away.
"Hey, where are you going? Aren't you going to tell me how to do this?" Naruto called after him.
"This is something that's better learned by yourself." Ex-Hokage replied. Naruto returned to his concentration on the balloon. He looked at it for a second then started again. After an hour of trying to pop the ball, he finally took a break. He slid down the trunk of the tree and looked up to see his dad leaning against a nearby tree watching him.
"So you're not going to help me?" He asked.
"I told you, you need to learn this by yourself." Minato replied, "But I did bring you lunch." He help up a bowl of ramen and watched as Naruto practically teleported to the bowl. Before he could even tell him to slow down, the bowl was half empty. Once he had finished, Naruto picked the balloon back up and was about to begin again when he stopped.
'Why did his expand in almost every direction when mine doesn't expand in any?' He though. He thought for a few more seconds he began again. He began to concentrate again, but this time the ball expanded in multiple directions, like his fathers. He strained harder as the water balloon stretched even further. When it looked as if it couldn't stretch any further it burst, showering Naruto with water. He grinned at his father, who was looking at the space the water balloon had previously filled with wide eyes.
"It, it took me a month to figure out how to burst that balloon." He said, with astonishment clear in his voice.
"We'll it helps that you showed me first." Naruto replied.
"I guess so. We'll I guess we'll get to work on genjutsu again, and I'll get what we'll need for the second part of the jutsu tomorrow."
Naruto looked at where the balloon was a second ago. "Maybe I should have taken longer to pop the balloon." Minato just chuckled and began to instruct him on genjutsu.
Training ground Eight
"Just take this piece of paper and push some chakra into it, and it should tell you your affinities. If your fire it will turn to ash, lighting will make it crumple, earth will turn it to dust, wind will cut it, and water will make it damp. Try it." Kakashi instructed. Sasuke took the paper and channeled some chakra into it. Most of it crumpled, but a fourth of the paper turned into ash.
"OK, lighting and fire. Well, because you have a lighting affinity, there's a move that I want to teach you. It's the only original move that I have in my arsenal. Chidori." Kakashi continued.
"Ok, so how do you do it?" Sasuke asked.
"Well, first we need to teach you to use your element. To do that I'm going to teach you another jutsu. The shadow clone jutsu." Kakashi showed him the special hand sign for the jutsu, "And just make a clone like normally but use more chakra. And remember, once you master this, don't teach it to anyone without my consent. It's a forbidden jutsu and should be treated as such." Sasuke just grunted and tried the jutsu. The air next to him poofed into smoke, but when it cleared, there was nothing there. He tried again but had the same result. He narrowed his eyes and tried again, but this time pumped a lot more chakra into it. The entire clearing they were standing in exploded into smoke, and Sasuke collapsed onto one knee. Kakashi's one visible eye widened as he looked around and saw what had to be three hundred clones of Sasuke.
"Well… I guess that you got that down. Maybe you should take a quick break."
Leaf Village Market
Hinata walked through the leaf village market just looking at all of the food and goods that were for sale. She wasn't really here to buy anything, she was just thinking and wandering around the village and ended up here. She glanced up and saw Kushina buying fruit from a stall. She considered talking, but decided that she still needed to think about how to find a teacher for the chunnin exams. There was of course all of the Hyuuga members, but she wanted to train on something else aside from gentle fist.
She kept walking with her head down until she bumped into someone.
"S-sorry." She stuttered. When she looked up she noticed who it was.
"Hello Hinata." Kushina greeted.
"Hello." Hinata replied.
"So what are you here for?" Kushina asked, motioning for Hinata to follow her as she started walking to another stall.
"I-I was just thinking."
"Ok, though I can't really imagine why you would come to the market to think. It's so loud I here."
Hinata blushed and replied, "W-well, I was j-just wondering around and ended up here."
"Oh. That makes sense." Kushina paused to buy something from a stall. "So have you started to train for the chunnin exam finals yet?"
"N-not yet. I was trying to think of someone to help me train."
"Oh… You know, I could train you."
"B-but, don't you want to spend time with your family. You just got back."
"First of all Hinata, you are family." Kushina said, causing Hinata to blush, "And Minato is already training Naruto. So what do you say?"
After a few seconds of thought Hinata replied, "O-ok."
"Alright. I'll meet you at training ground twelve tomorrow morning." With that, Kushina walked to another stall, and Hinata home.
Training ground twelve
Hinata was awoken from her short nap when Kushina walked into the training ground. She immediately jumped to her feet.
"You got here early Hinata?" Hinata just nodded slightly and said nothing. "Alright, so because you're a Hyuuga, I assume that you already pretty proficient at taijutsu?"
This time Hinata spoke up, "Yes, but I don't know very much ninjutsu or genjutsu. That's why I was looking for another teacher."
"Ok. Hmmm… The first thing that I'm going to do is to see what your elemental affinity is. Take this piece of paper and channel some chakra into it. If your affinity is fire it will turn to ash, lighting will crumple, water will dampen, wind will split, and earth will turn it to dust. Here."
Kushina handed Hinata the piece of paper and watched as she channeled some of her chakra into it. Half of it turned to dust and the other half dampened.
"Earth and water. Well, that's good considering that I know mainly earth jutsu. The first jutsu that I'm going to teach you is Earth Release: Landslide. Here are the hand seals." Kushina paused to show her student the hand seals to the jutsu, "Now, let me show you." After performing the hand seals, Kushina called out the name of the jutsu "Earth Release: Landslide!" A large amount of dirt and rock shot forward, destroying trees and anything else unlucky enough to get caught in its way.
"Now you try." She commanded.
"O-ok." Hinata replied, still looking at the huge scar the jutsu had left in the earth that was almost ten feet wide and thirty feet long. She performed the correct hand seals and called out the jutsu, "Earth Release: Landslide!" Dirt and rock moved forward at half the speed of Kushina's jutsu, and only half the size. Hinata looked on in dismay as the rock and dirt slowed to a stop after only going ten feet.
"Good job Hinata." Kushina congratulated.
Hinata got a confused look on her face and looked at Naruto's mom. "B-but it wasn't nearly as good as yours."
"I don't know what your family tells you Hinata, but doing something right at first isn't easy to do. It takes some time. The first time I tried this jutsu, mine was even smaller then yours."
"R-really?"
"Yep! Now, keep practicing. After all, practice makes perfect!"
A/N Alright, I'm going to cut this chapter a bit short for the sake of posting this chapter before labor day. Sorry for the incredibly long delay.
