Chapter 4 is up! Cool Beans!! LOL! I checked the polls, and it seems that Lightning Style: Thousand Spears won. Aw, I was hoping you guy would pick the other one. But just this once, I'll accept your request. Oh and here a hint about the upcoming fights: Naruto gets a sword!!!

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto. I wouldn't be doing this if I did!

Chapter 4: Love of the Outcast-Part 1

Naruto's POV

We were jumping from branch to branch, on our way to the tower. Before we started, I dispersed several Shadow Clones to search for enemies and traps. Out of the 10 clones I used, 4 were killed.

"They were all killed by animals. We've got to be careful." I thought as we stopped in a clearing underneath some trees. Sasuke was looking around while Sakura was checking her bag. I had a weird feeling in my stomach.

"I have to go to the bathroom. Be right back."

"DON'T DO THAT IN FRONT OF ME BAKA! GET THE HELL FROM OVER HERE!"

"Why you little bitch." I murmured. But then before I went to relieve myself, Sasuke stopped me.

"Hold on, Naruto? We have do something if one of us goes off without the rest of the group."

"Ok, what?"

"How about we use a phrase?" Sakura said. For once that wasn't a bad idea. Sasuke and I both agreed. Then I went off. The phrase was Rasengan. They didn't know what it was, and they were never going to find out. I wasn't really going to the bathroom. I was actually gathering info from my other shadow clones.

Apparently, two of them ran into a Grass team. Poor suckers were too easy. They only had two members though. I couldn't find number three anywhere. But I didn't care. They had the scroll we needed. After they had gotten the scroll, I told the remaining clones to come back with whatever they had. Two came back with etible berries in a container. Another came back with a sword.

"Maybe, Kyuu-chan could teach me kenjustu now that I have a sword."

Another clone came with a bow and a quiver full of arrows." And maybe archery even!"

"You know archery already. and Kenjustu. I just taught it to you now." Kyuubi said out of nowhere. Again.

"Really? How?"

"I make any memories I have on archery, or any skill for that matter, yours."

"And you couldn't do this with all of the other justu you were teaching me?"

"Who said that I couldn't, or didn't?" After that sentence, I froze. I was super pissed, but excited as well. I had the body for almost any justu, but I needed the knowledge. Now I have that from Kyuubi. I damn near unstoppable I thought.

The last shadow clone came back with an Earth scroll. 'Now all we needed to do was to get back to the-My thought were cut off when a giant snake attacked me.

"WHAT THE FUCK, MAN?! WHAT'S WITH THE BIG SNAKE?!" I screamed. This snake was huge. But fortunately for me, it was super slow. I dodged its attacks with ease. Then it caught me with its tail, and ate me. The damn snake ATE ME!

"OH HELL NO! THIS IS NOT HAPPENING!"

I was mad at first, but then I thought of something. If you were outside of the snake, you would be hearing laughter from inside it. I was cracking up because of how I decided to get out. I decided to use one of my favorite justu. "MULTI SHADOW CLONE JUSTU!"

Then the snake blew up. I couldn't breathe because I was laughing to damn hard. The damn thing just couldn't keep his food down I guess. Giggles. I didn't notice at that time, that I was (by luck I might add) flying back towards Sasuke and Sakura. I hope they didn't get themselves into trouble.

And how stupid was I to think that. It turns out that they did get into trouble. They had a run-in with a Rain ninja, but he went away. And then I come to see Sakura almost soiling herself and Sasuke, on the ground in front of a Grass ninja. That ninja was the one i saw earlier when I and Akno-neechan were talking. Why he was here, didn't matter to me.

Even though I hate both of them, they're my teammates and I couldn't just let them die. So I stepped in to stop the Grass ninja from doing anymore damage. I had used chakra enhanced wind to push me towards him, and then I tried to cut him with the sword I found, but he dodged in time. Then he tried to attack Sasuke by biting him, but I intercepted him with I justu I called Adamant Shielding. This Earth Style justu makes my skin as hard as diamonds, and he nearly broke his teeth trying to sink them into my arm. I flung hid stretched head away from me, and then he started to chuckle. He spoke,

"Well well, if it isn't Naruto-kun? Sorry, but I have no time for you. I have business with Little Sasuke."

Before I could anything, my stomach was in serious pain. I knelt over in agony. For some reason, Kyuubi was roaring her face off at this guy. I wondered why.

"Kyuu-chan, why are you so upset? Is it that guy?"

"GRRRRAAAAHHH! THAT'S HIM! HE'S THE ONE THAT KILLED MY FAMILY! HE REEKS OF SNAKES! I should've told you earlier, but I wasn't too sure. But now I know for a fact, that man is OROCHIMARU!"

"You mean the Snake Sannin Orochimaru?" Kyuubi growled to confirm my guess. She was super pissed. I was too. Not only was he a traitor, but he had killed Kyuu-chan's family, and were one of the people that had made my life hell by being part of the reason she was sealed inside of me. Both of us only had one thing on our minds…

"I'LL KILL YOU!" And with that, I rushed towards him, ready to rip his beating heart from his traitorous body! There was red chakra all over my body, just like during the Wave mission. But this time, it was different. This time, the chakra had taken form. I became a mini version of the fox, but with chakra made fox parts.

"Kuku kuku. It seems, that I did something wrong, now does it?"

"SHUT UP!"

I was going toe-to-toe with him. He had summoned another giant snake. But this time, it was purple and had horns. I think its name was Manda. He was getting desperate. He was getting tired, and I was as well. We had to end this fight now. So I decided to end it by using one of the justu I created thanks to Kyuu-chan. First I used Earth Style: Terra Shield to block the incoming kunai. Then I threw the block of rock into the air. Then I used Fire Style: Great Fireball. The heat had melted the rocks into magma. I manipulated that magma into super heated weapons. Kunai, shuriken, senbon, butcher knives, matchettes, spears, anything I could think of.

The newly made weapons were still hot, but had hardened. Then at the top of my lungs and a flick of my hands, I roared,

"Metal Style: Burning Rain!"

The millions of super heated weapons were then flung at Orochimaru and his snake, most of them hitting their marks. The trees, the ground, Orochimaru, the snake he summoned, and even the animals and unexpected ninjas that were around were given second to third degree burns immediately when these one hundred fifty degree heated weapons came into contact with them. I saw the Sannin staggering, leaning in pain from the barrage of hot metal. There were red shuriken still lodged in his arms and chest.

I held the last spear of still Siring hot metal, which burned my skin, even with the fox's chakra, and lunged towards him. I thought I had hit my mark, but it turned out to be a clone mad out of snakes. The damn fool was a running away. He was one of the Sannin for crying out loud, and he was running away from a Genin! But unfortunately, that Genin happened to be me, the Jinchuriki of the Kyuubi no Kitsune! Shit, after what I did, I would be scared too. Giggles. I was pissed was an understatement. I was too mad to think straight. All I wanted was his head, and he had gotten away.

"COME BACK AND FACE ME OROCHIMARU! FIGHT ME YOU DAMN COWARD!" I waited for a response and sure enough, I got one.

"You were a miscalculation Kyuubi brat! Rest assured I will come back to settle our little match. Oh and Sasuke, even though I still didn't give you your 'gift' you will still look for me. Especially if you want to kill your brother." Sasuke had just woken up from the genjustu when he had heard Orochimaru's words. He was angry at the least. So he cleared his throat and said,

"You're wrong, I did want to kill Itachi, and I still kind of do. I could never forgive him for what he did. Maybe that will never change. But I do know is that I won't come to you for strength and I won't let trash like you hurt my friends or bring harm to my village! Now leave, and never return." He had his Sharingan activated; waiting for the ninja to make a move.

He had changed, if only a little. He's trying to better his life. Maybe it wasn't long, maybe it'll change overtime. But the point is that he's trying. My compliments stopped after I heard an earsplitting laugh from Orochimaru.

"HAAHAHAHHHAHAHAHAHAHA! That was the best laugh I've had all day. But very well, I'll leave… for now. But remember Sasuke, you will always be weak, if you don't seek power. And my door, is always open." and with that, he left. Hopefully for good.

Kyuu-chan's chakra receded, and went down to help Sasuke and Sakura, who was unconscious at the time, thank god! She had calmed down and then started to cry. I was crying a little as well. After a little crying, we gathered ourselves, and I went to Sasuke to see if he was ok.

"You okay Sasuke?" I asked him. He caught his breathe, rubbed his eyes, and then answered me.

"Yeah, I'm fine. How about you?"

"You know me! I'm good to go! I Sakura ok?"

"Yeah, she's just knocked out. What was that red chakra you were using, and what was that justu." I thought he wasn't going to ask. Damn I hate when I'm wrong.

"In order, I can't tell you about the chakra because it a secret the Hokage told me to never tell. And that justu was of my creation. I had accidently combined an Earth Style, and Fire Style justu, and then boom, I got Metal Style! I didn't think that it would work though."

"Ok. That's crazy as hell. But, we're dealing with you. So now what? Do we still try to go after a scroll?"

We won't have to. And what does that mean? I'm not crazy!" I said as I pulled out the Earth scroll. Sasuke's mouth dropped open. I was laughing a little bit. I had also showed him all of the other stuff I snatched from other teams. He was surprised. We had woken up Sakura and told what had happened, and what we were doing. As of now, we just needed to get to the tower. Her mouth was still opened when she heard that I beat Orochimaru. But Sasuke backed me up on my claim. We were at the door of the Tower in about a day's time and boy was that day crazy!

Flashback,

We were asleep from battling that snake bastard. He had done a real number on us. Sakura was watching over me and Sasuke as we slept. Sakura was then attacked by Sound ninja.

"What do you guys want?!"

"We want the Uchiha boy and his friend. Stay out our way, and you will live, for a while."

"Never!"

"Very well then. I'm sorry it had to come to this. Kin, kill her!" and with that, Sakura had gotten her ass whooped! But she hung in there. She even managed to knock out the other female ninja. But she was overwhelmed by the two men. They were about to attack her When Lee came out of nowhere and fought them. But even he wasn't enough.

Then the area got more crowded when the young Ino-Shika-Cho trio came and helped. They lost as well. The genin never stopped coming. After Lee was found beaten, his teammates Neji and Tenten were getting ready to attack. Neji was mad.

"Obviously, you like beating on the weak. But when it's my own teammate, you have to face us as well!" Neji screamed with his Byakugan activated. The tension was nice and thick. The two men were scared shitless. It was thick enough for Naruto and Sasuke to wake up. Sasuke had Sharingan activated, while Naruto had Kyuubi's chakra in use, making his fox-like features appear. Together they said,

"Sakura, who did this to you?"

"That would be us. And if you don't want to look like the other pathetic Leaf genin littered around here, you both better come with us. Lord Orochimaru wishes to see you for something 'special,' he said."

Naruto was pissed as when he heard that traitor's name, but to his surprise, Sasuke was as angry as he was. For the first time, they were on the same page.

"You get the one with the bandages; I got the one with the holes in his hands. Ok Naruto?"

"Fine by me. Let's do this!" and with that they beat there ugly, Orochimaru worshiping ass back to holes they crawled out of. They said thanks to the teams that had helped them and then they continued to head toward the tower.

End Flashback

I thought we were never going to stop. We were greeted by medical ninja, checking for serious injuries. They didn't find any on me or Sasuke. But Sakura had a very mild concussion. She had to be monitored for the remainder of the test. We opened our scrolls to reveal Iruka-sensei. Apparently, he was to appear and explain the meaning of the scrolls, which I did not give a damn about.

I was too hungry to care about anything. Then I remembered that I had that container of edible berries. I went to eat them, but then I decided to share with my team. I mean, teammates look after each other, right? We went to our waiting room, and then we saw that the Sand trio were already here. Gaara was just staring at me. Like he was trying to see under me or something. I was worried about it until I had heard that Team 8 had made it. I was really glad that Hinata had made it. I ran over there to congradulate her, but Kiba was cock-blocking as usual.

"What do you think you're doing dead last? Why are you over here and near Hinata?"

"Well isn't obvious, BITCH?! I came to congradulate Hinata and you guys, on completing the test."

"Well, thank you." Said Shino. I'm beginning to respect him more and more. Hinata walked right in front of me. Kiba was enraged over the bitch remark. Shino had held him back as promised.

"Hi." I said. Simple enough.

"Hi, Naruto-kun."

"You know what? Can you please, drop the kun? I don't like it a lot. Just call me Naruto, okay?"

"Ok, Naruto." Hinata said. She had that cut smile again. it kind of makes me feel, different about her. I mean like good different. I couldn't explain it.

"But I can! You like her. Aw that's so cute!!" Kyuubi said. She always does this! WHY?!

"Shut up!" I was blushing hard. Hinata noticed and she was blushing as well.

"That means I'm right!"

"So, what if you are? How could she accept 'me'?"

"Don't ever talk like that again or I'll stop healing you for a month! You are a great young man. You're only human; you have flaws like everybody else. And I'm not one of them! Stop being afraid of something that you refuse to let happen. You don't know what she will think about you, until you confront her. Trust me, it'll work out."

"Are you sure?" I said. She nodded in approval. So I asked Hinata to follow me. I made a shadow clone to keep watch of ease droppers. (AKA KIBA)

"S-so what d-did y-y-you wanted to t-talk about?"

"Hinata." I said, grabbing her attention. Then without warning. Without consent, I hugged her. She froze at first. Scared as shit probably. But then she stopped resisting, and fitted into my body, like a puzzle piece. We stared at each other for about five minutes before she…kissed me.

Hinata's POV

Oh god! I just kissed him. I don't know why. My body feels feverishly warm but, it feels right. I can't seem to get away from it. Is it because of Naruto? Does he know?

Naruto's POV

"Hinata, I know."

"Naruto?"

"I know that you followed me around since the academy, I knew that whenever we would meet up, you were coming to talk to me, am I right? You were trying to find me for some reason. At first I didn't know why you blushed in front of me, or fainted whenever I was close to you, like this, like right now."

I said in a loving voice. She felt like rubber in my arms. Her legs were giving way but she stood. I knew from that kiss, that she knew that I knew. There was no holding us back anymore. Then she spoke.

"Naruto… I know. I've known for a while now. The way you talked to me, the ways you showed that you cared about me. The way you comfort me at times." She looked up at me. Crying. Was it tears of joy? Sadness? Or… once again my train of thought was smacked off the tracks by Hinata kissing me again. She was still crying. Then I realized, for the first time in my life, someone was crying for me. Me out of people.

"Ok. Ok. I get it. You know, you don't have to say it if you're not ready." I said smiling at her. She had stopped crying, and just stayed there, with me. Then, she said the words that I've never heard in my entire life. For that moment, time froze for both of us.

"Oh, but I do." Hinata said in a cute voice. I liked that.

"Ok. Say it."

"Naruto, I love you."

"Hm. I love you too, Princess." I said, kissing her again. This kiss was longer than the first. Her tongue was lodged into my mouth, but I liked it. I returned the favor. We walked back to the living quarters of the tower, after 25 minutes of 'talking'.

But things were different. We were holding each other's hand. We didn't want to, but we separated and went to our teams. I had used my Whispering Souls justu to give her a good night kiss on the lips. I allowed her to do the same. She said that the air felt warm. Like real lips. To be honest. I agreed.

I spent the last three days helping Sasuke and Sakura train, training with Kyuubi myself, and secretly making out with Hinata. Giggles were heard almost every day from somewhere inside the tower. On the fifth day, all of the genin that survived the test were lined up in seven rows of three. Then all of our senseis, the proctors, and the Hokage, appeared in front of the statue of a pair of hands doing the tiger sign. The Hokage then explained the meaning of the exams. It's to determine each village's strength, and it was an alternative to war.

Before he could finish, a sickly looking jounin by the name of Hayate Gecko interrupted him. He then explained that since there were too many genin, there was to be a tournament.

"If there any who want to leave, you will escorted out of the forest."

"Well then, I guess that I'm out." That voice turned out to be Kabuto. I watched as he walked out. I focused my killing intent enough to make him shudder in fear, but he kept walking.

Kabuto's POV

"That's the kid from the first exam, if he could drive Lord Orochimaru away, and beat him to the brink of unconcioness, (Yes, he was almost knocked out when I found him) then this Naruto Uzumaki, will be a major problem.

Naruto's POV

After my staring contest with Kabuto, (which I won) We all went up to a pair of balconies. He then told us to pay attention to the screen. It would project the names of the people who were going to fight. Those people however, would be picked at random.

The first match was Sasuke versus one of Kabuto's teammates. Sasuke went in for an early kill, using a fireball just. But the leaf ninja dodged barely every time. The ninja had a secret up his sleeve that Sasuke learned about the hard way. He used a fake right arm to steal Sasuke's chakra. But in the end, Sasuke owned his ass by using the Barrage of Lions combo to drive the poor guy into a 1 foot crater. I appeared before him, with Kakashi behind me.

"Not bad Sasuke." I said, helping him up.

"Doubt that you'll do better." He said in a way only rivals could understand.

"Hm. Just watch me." And with that, he was escorted to the infirmary by Kakashi. I don't feel like explaining the details of the other fights so I'll just go through the main parts.

Sakura vs. Ino-Tie

Shikamaru vs. Kin of the Sound-Shikamaru won us by using his Shadow Manipulation Justu to smack Kin's head onto a wall about five times. Giggles.

Kankuro vs. Kabuto's other teammate- Kankuro was trapped by the ninja's flexible limbs. But in return, Kankuro broke everything in the ninja's body but his neck.

Temari vs. Tenten-Temari shredded Tenten apart with her Wind Scythe Justu. Lee teleported in order to catch Tenten from her fall. Lee was mad and attacked, but his Leaf Hurricane was blocked by Temari's fan.

I jumped up when I heard the next two names: Kiba Inuzuka vs. Naruto Uzumaki.

Oh shit! I've been waiting to whoop his ass! After all of his advances on Hinata for the pass three day has been getting on my nerves. Now he'll pay. By the way, Part 2 of my plan will be complete after I pound his ass into the ground.

"Yahoo! We get the dead last! This it'll be easy!"

"Don't get cocky Kiba. Don't underestimate him." Lee said, his voice sounding concerned. He should be. Kiba could die here if I decide to go all out. Hinata stopped me when I was going down stairs.

"Naruto, don't hurt him, that much, ok?" she said, giving a kiss on my cheek. Everybody's mouth dropped at Hinata's show of affection. Even her sensei was surprised.

"Sure thing." I said, kissing her on her forehead. Then I disappeared. Kiba had jumped down to the center of the arena. He was still staring at us. He then started looking for me.

"Where's Naruto? He was here a second ago."

"Right here." I had Ryon mark Kiba with a Hirashin seal. I had teleported right behind him.

"So, Shall we get started?"

"The match between Kiba Inuzuka vs. Naruto Uzumaki will now, begin!"

Cliffhanger again. First fight scenes. Please tell me if they are ok. Next chapter is the end of the tournament. 2nd Poll: What move should I use to beat Kiba into the ground?

Earth Style Taijustu: Buddhist Palm

Or

Genjustu: Record of the Fallen. Please pick and help me correct spelling if necessary. Thank you.

The Cursed Prophet