OK here's chapter four I would like to thank you peeps for working with me. I'm gonna try to work more on my writing style now and get more descriptive
So basically here are the things that are going down
The clothes are the same as what the manga has… for now.
So on with the changes I've made so far Kakashi has been much better with training his students evidenced in Naruto being able to take down the rain gennin on the first day & Sakura knowing a little genjutsu and is better in taijutsu. Sasuke got it beat into his head that teamwork is the key…(pffft Kishimoto says that but everyone who goes out on their own becomes awesome whereas team workers aka. the rest of the konohana 11 pretty much suck after the time skip. Sorry haters)
Anyways Sasuke is focused on building his relationships with those around him to make him strive to be better. Example… the tree climbing exercise completed within a week. So it stands to reason that with a rival pressing him he'll become better in no time at all .?!
Sakura is a still a fan girl… because she annoys me I can't stand girls like that honestly… sorry V_V but she will be improving during the month off training in ninjustu by a female kunoichi but not Kurenai not sure yet who I'll take suggestions though or maybe start up a poll.
Naruto is becoming a hyperactive sadist enjoying inflicting pain on those whom he deems worth the effort. His goal now is to become strong so he can protect the weak… by any means necessary honestly don't know what'll push him over the edge yet… and yet as I type this, a wonderfully evil idea pops into my mind. Thank you brain. He is still holding out hope that if he proves himself in the chunin exams the actions against him will stop. He will keep the façade of the "happy go lucky kid" going, in order to keep the seals off of his memories… for now.
Everyone's skill levels are up from the manga…. From this point on referred to as "Naruto Prime"
Chapter four
The Ending. The Beginning
"Graahhh I will die of old age before my name is picked… why me? Am I that unyouthful? Gai sensei?" Rock Lee had tears streaming down his face as his sensei punched him, sending his student flying through the air and landing by Sasukes feet "YOU FOOL! Never doubt your youthfulness again do you understand me? Now as your punishment you need to-"
"You have another student you should be instructing now." Kakashi pointed towards Tenten who was making her way to the arena with a confident look in her eye she made her way to the sand kunoichi who just stood there with a bored expression.
Temari was well aware of the tactic that making your opponent think your overconfident was a big help in psychological warfare.
"Tenten Temari if you are both ready to start the match… begin" Hayate had gotten used to waving his arm and stepping back when he said begin because the gennin would usually just rush each other.
When Tenten jumped back she took a defensive stance while Temari just grinned at her opponent waiting for some attack to happen.
When Hayate discovered that the two kunoichi were just staring at each other he got confused maybe he didn't say begin "What are you waiting on? I said begin."
"I guess she's waiting on me to make a move. Big mistake because my first offensive move will be the last of the match" Temari said as she gripped her Battle Fan to prepare.
Tenten just decided to go with it. She jumped into the air and threw a handful of shuriken at Temari who flickered visually but stayed in the same place. When the shuriken landed on the ground beside Temari she was shocked as was her teacher and teammates. Tenten had always been known as a perfect marksman always hitting dead center of whet she was aiming at.
"What was that you cramp up on us?" Temari was now just trying to see if the girl was just a ranged weapons ninja.
Tenten deciding not to waste anytime pulled a scroll out of her pouch and set it on the ground vertical resting it on its spine running through some hand signs she stood straight as there was a stream of smoke in the form of a dragon spiraling towards the ceiling. Being revealed as a sealing scroll Tenten unsealed multiple weapons and threw them at Temari hoping to defeat her with the sheer amount of weapons inside of the scrolls.
After the volley is complete Temari simply unfastens her Battle Fan and opens it slightly revealing a purple circle, simply called the moon with her fan open slightly she swings her fan and blows back the weapons with relative ease.
'at least I know that the fan is causing me to miss she must be blocking me somehow with it' Dismayed Tenten decides to pull out all the stops. She stops in front of Temari and pulls out two scrolls setting them in the same way she puts more effort into the technique [Sōshōryū] as the two towering scrolls shot up into the air they spiraled each other. Tenten begins to throw the entire contents of each scroll ranging from kunai to sickles. Temari simply unfolds the fan to reveal the second moon and blows away the weapons once again.
"I'm not finished here" as Tenten pulls back with invisible strings she launches them at Temari once more.
With a chuckle Temari reveals her 3rd and final moon on her fan blowing the rest of the weapons away and knocking Tenten out of the air who lands on her feet.
"That's the third moon you're done" with a flourish of her fan Temari vanished from sight. Frantic now Tenten stands to brace herself from an attack looking around "she must be using a genjutsu to bock her presence 'Release'"
That's when [Kamaitachi no Jutsu] a giant vortex of wind picked up Tenten slicing her with the invisible blades.
A few moments later Temari folded her fan and Tenten fell out of the vortex cracking her spine along the hard metal spewing blood from the damage.
"Winner by knockout Temari" Hayate pointed to the winner
Temari smirked as she threw her foe across the arena which had been littered with sharp weapons.
"NO!" Lee jumped down and caught Tenten before she was impaled on her own weapons.
"That is no way to treat an opponent" lee said as he jumped back up to the balcony
"Hmph… like I care get out of my face and take that piece of shit with you" Temari said as she made her way back to her team.
"Well that was rude" was Narutos only comment for that match he was aggravated that a shinobi would try to further injure an already defeated opponent.
When the names started and then stopped so quickly the gennin were once again reminded that only a few matches remained.
"Could Nara Shikamaru & *COUGH Kin please step forward." Hayate was hoping that he would be able to end this soon.
"What a drag I've got to fight a girl?" Shikamaru was hoping that even if he won, his friends wouldn't think the only reason was because his opponent was a female.
"Ok *COUGH you may begin" Hayate stepped back to avoid the senbone that were thrown by Kin almost as soon as he ended the sentence
"Jeez a feisty one that's just great" Shikamaru dodged the needles with ease noting the bells attached to the end of them. "Oh come on that's such an old fashioned move next you'll throw senbone with no bells so I don't know it until it's too late huh?"
"Not quite"
Shikamaru was shocked to hear the bells again that were now implanted in the wall. When he heard it again he turned and noticed strings attached to the bells leading back to Kin
"you see while that is normally used as a distraction my Jutsu relies on the bells themselves in order for me to get you in my Genjutsu" with that Shikamaru's world started to spin making the young ninja fall to his knees to get better balance.
"First you'll be paralyzed then you'll start hallucinating" Shikamaru started to worry as he saw fifteen Kin with senbone ready to throw at him
Kin threw her senbone at Shikamaru and hit him in the arm she did this four more times slowly taking the cloud watcher down.
"Why don't you get it over with alright quit wasting my time" in fact Shikamaru was trying to buy time for his next move
"Nah I don't think so I like killing slowly hehe-Hey what the hell? I can move my arms!" Kin was about to throw her last batch of senbone when the genjutsu dropped and she was standing within two feet of the wall.
"Heh, looks like my [Kagemane no Jutsu] worked" Shikamaru stated as he stood and pulled the senbone from his arms. "Ok my turn now" Shikamaru reached in his pouch and Kin did the same both pulling out a Kunai as he threw the knife Kin did the same "are you crazy? Well both die!" Kin said with shock for one she didn't want to die and two she didn't know why this loser would kill himself in a match like this.
"I dunno you feel like playing a game of chicken?" Shikamaru very matrix-esque dodged backwards without moving his feet when Kin did the same her head met the wall behind her with a loud *CRACK. Knowing there was probably a skull fracture on the kunoichi Shikamaru picked up a senbone and moved towards kin who was now unconscious not wanting to finish her but because he knew the proctor would stop the match.
"The winner by knockout Nara Shikamaru!" Hayate was finally feeling a bit better and didn't cough as much as when the preliminary's started.
"Nice work Shikamaru!" Ino was happy that one of her teammates made it through to the finals now she focused on Chouji. "C'mon Chouji your turn will be up soon there's only three matches left you could be next I hope you win!"
As the names flashed a few times it stopped on an unpredictable site.
"Would Hyuga Hinata & Hyuga Neji please step forward?"
"Hmph" well this was unexpected the main and branch families fighting in the preliminary matches. Neji jumped to his spot as Hinata slowly made her way down the steps.
When she arrived she was met with Neji's glare "I did not expect this 'lady Hinata" Neji's eyes became active and carefully observed his opponent hoping to take advantage of her timid behavior
Looking down and to the side Hinata sighed "nor did I nee-san"
Lee was concerned "Naruto are you feeling ok? Sakura told us what had happened in the second exam." he saw Naruto as a potential rival and wanted to prove his strength against him.
"I feel fine." Narutos eyes flashed crimson knowing Sakura had spoken out of turn and he gripped the hand rails "COME ON HINATA. STOP LISTENING TO WHAT THAT JACKASS HAS TO SAY. UNTIL YOU FIGHT YOU WONT KNOW THE OUTCOME"
Sasuke surprised at the outburst knew his friend was just trying to change the subject off of him. "Come on Naruto your not fine you've been acting weird since the second exam first with that sound guy then with Kiba you didn't have to use that much force"
"Maybe I was just sick of playing the weak act I've had plenty of strength but I held back myself but now I just don't feel like it." Naruto had now dented the hand railing on the balcony causing Kakashi to step in.
"You know Naruto using anger can indeed help in battle but you need to focus too if anger takes control a weaker opponent can defeat the stronger one."
"Then it's a good thing that I have a both a source of great anger and great focus" Naruto trying to get the others off his back turned to see Hinata, barely standing now arms limp blood dripping from her mouth, defiance was etched across her face as she was trying to break down the wall of hatred Neji had put up.
That's when Neji charged in a fit of rage attempting to end her life. "Neji stop I ended the match!" Hayate could see it happening and was about to react when a knee collided with Neji's nose breaking and drawing blood from it the wound everyone saw Naruto with his knee raised apparently he had used his unusual style to knee Neji with what looked like a left hook with his knee.
Naruto slowly brought his leg down and Hinata fell to the ground in coughing fits blood coming from her mouth as Kurenai rushed to the aid of her student who was going into cardiac arrest.
"That was most unwise"
"Why are you butting in? The main branch gets more favors eh?"
As the medic ninja rushed in to aid the Hyuga heir Gai jumped down from the balcony and grabbed Neji by the shoulders "I thought you weren't going to let this main branch stuff go to your head?"
With a sasuke-esqe "Hmph" Neji turned away and jumped back onto the balcony.
Watching Neji Jump back to his spot Naruto glared at him for his actions Narutos mind was brought to all the times those with power attacked him while he was down. Most of the time Naruto blacked out from the beatings because either Kakashi was off on a mission or the third Hokage was not around to protect him. Neji should use the power he had been blessed with to help those who need it not to pick on the weak.
Across the arena was a Tokubetsu Jonin clad in purple armor and wearing a sound hiyate. He was pale indicating he spent most of his time indoors away from the sunlight his eyes shown green with snakelike slits for pupils. He had been watching the matches with little to no interest until his students came up to battle. He had been disappointed that Zaku had been so brash and kin did not remember her surroundings. He still had uses for them though but his real anticipation came when Narutos fight came about. He was surprised that the boy could draw on so much chakra even with the seal he had placed on him. Oh yes this boy possessed at least two unique talents that Orochimaru wanted more than anything. But patience was the key now.
As Kurenai watched her student get carried to the forest towers medical unit for emergency aid she saw Naruto looking at the blood on the ground that was Hinatas.
Slowly Naruto put his right palm on top of the small puddle. Bringing his hand back up he clasped his palms together letting the blood cover both palms he then glared at Neji "You have no place trying to say what peoples fates are when it doesn't exist. You may be the one to cave in but I will never. I will rise above you and show you a better path to walk. This I vow."
Jumping back to the others Naruto calmly stood awaiting the preliminary's to be brought to a close. Kakashi had notices the fierceness in Narutos eyes it was the same look the fourth had when he wanted to protect those precious to him.
As the numbers were again scrolling they were going way to fast for only four names. When they stopped you heard two distinct gasps
"last im last"
"oh crap maybe I should just quit now."
Lee & Chouji were both stricken lee because he didn't want to be last and Chouji because he didn't want to face any of the three left.
"Dosu Kinuta & Chouji Akamichi get down here." Hayate wanted the prelims to be over so he could relax at his home.
"Come on Chouji go for it I'll take you for all you can eat BBQ after the match how that sound?" for miles around the only sound that was head was intense joy over the offer.
"Hehe that guy you could get him to do just about anything over good food." Naruto was thinking back over one of the few good memories of getting Chouji in on his pranks all he had to do was offer a bag of chips and Chouji couldn't contain himself. This brought a chuckle from the gennin and Jōnin around.
Sasuke leaned over and whispered to Naruto "Sorry Naruto I know you didn't want the others to know what happened a few days ago… but I couldn't stop Sakura she was insisting on telling kakashi what happened. heck I don't even know what happened I checked your vitals you were dead but a few hours later you were up and managed to beat the sound team with no effort at all."
Naruto didn't know why Sakura had blabbed to his sensei about his "death" he quite honestly felt fine whatever the grass ninja did to him made it harder to use his regular chakra and Kurama's chakra but he figured whatever it was he would take full use of it kind of like doing pushups with a boulder on your back. He knew he could gain focus because his control had been increasing over the past few days. Heck even during the fourth day whenever the team took to the trees he went upside-down sticking to the bottom of the branch rather than the top. But he was still getting used to the pain it caused. While thinking of that the seal reddened and sent waves of pain through Narutos abdomen. It was like someone taking a red hot blade and slowly dragging it across his stomach something he had the unfortunately high level of bad luck of knowing what that felt like first hand. Spewing blood on the ground before him Naruto doubled over gasping for air. When kakashi moved to steady him Naruto jerked up and made up a story of some weird moss he ate the day before.
"The winner by knockout, Dosu Kinuta!" Hayate was relieved as the final preliminary match was upon them. "Gaara & Rock Lee you're the last ones up come down."
Gaara vanished in a cloud of sand while rock lee simply jumped over the balcony onto the ground the same time Gaara reappeared in the arena.
"I am glad we met sooner rather than later." Lee had an air of confidence about him while Gaara just looked at him the bloodlust growing by the second.
With an audible *POP the cork that was on Gaara's gourd rocketed towards lee who caught it with ease "why are you in such a hurry?"
With no response aside from the increasing bloodlust Gaara simply crossed his arms "Well then if your both ready, Begin."
Lee determined to make the first move count rushed Gaara with [Konoha Senpū] and unleashed a series of kicks and punches all were blocked by Gaara his sand exploding from the gourd without even moving at all. Gaara then went on the offensive and moved his sand to attack Lee. He saw the sand start to surround him and brought out a kunai to slice through it so he could keep attacking. Gaara pressed Lee making him roll to the side however Gaara grabbed lee by the foot with his sand and slammed Lee against the wall of the arena. Finally le broke free of Gaara's grasp and threw a couple of shuriken that Gaara's sand caught.
"Well is that all? I hope you're not done 'entertaining' me yet… we haven't had enough blood" Gaara eyes were wide as his bloodlust grew even higher towards the green clad ninja. Lee was jumping and dodging the shifting sands until a wave looked like it would overtake him lee flashstepped and jumped on the statue of two hands holding the ram sign.
Knowing he had few options Lee looked to his sensei who simply nodded in approval. Most of the gennin were stifling a chuckle as Lee took leg weights off of his ankles. Usually leg weights were about four or five pounds at the most.
"Ahh that is much better now I can move freely!" lee held his arms out and let the weights fall about twenty feet to the floor. All giggling stopped however when the weights landed on the ground with a earth shaking *BOOM which the floor caved in around the two spots. With a wisp lee charges Gaara again this time punching right past Gaara's head before he or the sand could react now Lee pressed his advantage with a flurry of punches he barely missed Gaara until his punch connected. Knocking Gaara back a few feet Lee followed up with a spinning heel drop slamming his foot on top of Gaara's head with such force it could be felt around the room by all. While Gaara was stunned Lee followed his kick with a right hook knocking Gaara back ten feet landing on his back.
While lee looked on in pride as he had struck some mighty blows on his opponent Gaara stood slowly the sound of intense breathing was heard almost as if someone could barely hold their excitement. Lee eyes widened as Gaara looked up at him the lower half of his face looked perfectly fine no sign of injury at all but the rest of his face was falling in pieces as sand was crumbling. Gaara looked at his opponent with excitement in his eyes and a look of extreme pleasure across his face along with a smile that foretold pain. When his sand finished fixing itself to his body Gaara wanted to know how much more fun he could have with the bowl cut standing ten feet away.
With a gleam in his eye Lee heard his sensei merely grunt in approval seeming to read his students mind. With a smirk Lee loosened the bandages on his arms and held them horizontally in front of his face. With a sudden boost in speed Lee charged Gaara and tried to kick the sand user into the air. Succeeding in only getting him about 2 feet of the ground Lee unleashed and intense series of kicks when he felt Gaara was high enough he kicked one last time for good measure squinting from the pain. He then threw his wrappings around Gaara and spun him towards the ground like a drill [Omote Renge]. Lee jumped away at the last second letting Gaara slam into the cement ground leaving a sizable crater.
Hayate stepped up assuming the match was at a close, he was about to raise his hand when Gaara's face cracked several times until it revealed that the 'Gaara' in the crater was just a shell made from sand. With a insane grin on his face Gaara stood behind Lee ready to strike his opponent down but then Lee sensed the attack but was unable to protect himself against Gaara's pressing attack unable to dodge he was beaten into the ground until Lee got a second to relax then with a smile lee flashstepped in between two of Gaara's attacks. As Gai was explaining the effects of the Lotus and the chakra gates lee took this opportunity and eased himself. "The one condition is…"
"I don't know what you're planning but this match is over." Gaara was calmer now having reduced the blood lust in the air.
Bringing his fists near his face in a crossing pattern the area around lee started to charge with chakra "You are right it is over one way or another!" the charge becoming stronger lee started to exert more energy.
"I am not going to be the only one to lose here Gai sensei please let this work it is now or never!" Lees hair became statically charged but the immense chakra surrounding him and his skin started to change red.
Lee straightened his arms feeling the third gate break free "…To protect and maintain one's own ninja way!"
… [Seimon]
Kakashi revealed his sharingan to look at the immense chakra coming from the boy "He's opened the third gate now he'll attack."
"Oh no just watch"
… [Shōmon]
Kakashi couldn't believe his eyes as Lee opened the next gate "incredible no one can do that with just willpower the boy is clearly a genius"
By dashing foreword Lee tore up the cement flooring in the arena and used a straight kick to launch Gaara into the air.
Using his intense speed Lee jumped off of various walls kicking and punching Gaara in different directions. With sheer velocity and power Lee was ripping the armor of sand right off of Gaara's body. With a final punch Lee sent Gaara towards the ceiling and jumped landing on the ceiling Lee kicked off with all his might calling out "[Tomon]"
As Lee made his way towards Gaara he glanced towards Neji silently telling him this ace was for intended for him.
[Ura Renge] extending his right arm and leg Lee drove his attack into Gaara's stomach and chest effectively cracking a few ribs past Gaara's armor. But as they made their way to the floor Gaara broke his Gourd making the sand on his back a gigantic pillow.
The result of the impact destroyed what was left of the arena floor crushing the cement into pebbles. As lee skipped away he felt the after effects of releasing the fifth gate and it was tearing his muscles to shreds. As lee sat the panting Gaara with a fit of rage extended his arm and the sand followed his movements locking onto Lee who was unable to evade the deadly mass. With the sand making its way up Lees left arm and leg Gaara simply called out [Sabaku Sōsō] with a loud *CRUNCH Lee cried out in pain as his arm and leg were completely crushed immobilizing him so Gaara could finish him off.
As Gaara's sand further encased Lee the sand erupted ending the Jutsu standing next to his fallen student Gai had steeled his eyes towards the sand user.
"But why? Why save him? He failed." Gaara looked at the strange green beast with confusion
"Because he is my student also because he is precious to me." Gai explained to Gaara's rising confusion.
"I Quit." Gaara began walking towards the balcony and Hayate was about to declare him the winner due to interference when lee stood up.
With bones creaking against breaks in a sickening way Lee stood in his taijutsu stance.
"No Lee its over you've alread-" with a sharp breath Gai had realized that Lee was unconscious only standing though will alone.
"Oh Lee what have I done. Look at you not even conscious and still determined to show the world what you can do. Lee you've proven yourself you are a splendid ninja" as Gai embraced his student Hayate Gekkō raised his arm towards Gaara declaring him the winner and that this was the final match of the preliminary exams.
As Naruto ran towards Lee to check on him Gai had laid him down as the medics were coming. Naruto wasn't surprised at his injury's knowing what Kakashi and Gai had explained to him and the others about the Lotus and its effects on the body. Blood was now seeping through the wrapping on his left arm and ankle. That's when he overheard the medic explain that Lee would undoubtedly never be a shinobi again.
Naruto knew that he needed to gain even more power than the Hokage had knowing Lee opened the Gates making him have the ability to become as powerful as one. Glancing up at the sound Jōnin Naruto gave a slight nod and jumped back to the balcony along with Gai and Kakashi.
The third Hokage stood amongst the rubble that used to be the arena floor and called everyone down for an explanation on the final round of the exam. As the nine contestants jumped to the arena floor Hayate started with
"I would like to commend all of you who made it to the final round of the chunin exams."
That's when Sarutobi spoke up "and now I would like to begin the explanation on the final rounds."
Not too far away Kabuto Yakushi and 'Orochimaru' were speaking of their plans "…for that very reason I think well both take a part in the young boys training during this month. You being a friend of sorts the only leaf ninja except his team, sensei and that blasted old fool who didn't abuse him. I'll take more of a hands off approach to not arouse suspicion. Here take these scrolls… blood seals are indeed pointless if all you need is to steal a sample wouldn't you say?" 'Orochimaru' was smirking at his ability to grab the fourths Jutsu and sealing scrolls. "I think well train him to the point where the leaf will be in awe of his power but the unintelligent ones will fear the fox has taken hold and plot to destroy him once and for all that way he'll come running to me for power."
Back in the arena the third Hokage was continuing his explanation "accordingly the final exam will be held one month from now to give you time to rest and recover also to develop new Jutsu as your opponents have seen what you can do. So the one month period also will give us time to summon dignitary's throughout the world to see you battle this will ultimately determine if you will be able to move on to bigger better positions in life. Now there is one final thing you all must do in order to continue to the final rounds. Anko." He gestured to the proctor who began walking around with a box with papers in it after everyone received a piece of paper. Everyone was reading off numbers on their respective pieces of paper Naruto realized he would be paired against Neji "Nice don't waste any time at all." After the paring was completed Sarutobi with a gesture stated "Now I wish you all luck. Dismissed!"
A few hours later at Narutos apartment
"Ok I need to find Kabuto and then he'll show me how to gain access to the scrolls that my family has." Naruto was lying on his bed letting his wounds from the past five days heal up. Sasuke had to go to the hospital from almost dying twice. "That's it Kabuto's a medic so I'll go to the hospital to find him"
As Naruto made his way to the hospital he kept to the rooftops away from the civilian populace so they wouldn't try to corner him. When he arrived he saw kakashi and knew the smut reader was going to focus on Sasuke for his training so Naruto started to look around for Kabuto that's when Kakashi walked over "Hey Naruto I wanted to discuss your training for this month off" Kakashi lazily smiled at the scowling young boy knowing what was coming. "Ok so you're going to focus on Sasuke during this month I'll probably have to fend for myself right?" Kakashi nearly fell over to Narutos guess and lack of bouncing with anger. "Not quite I have arranged for a Jōnin instructor to assist you oh here he is his name is Ebisu."
As Ebisu walker over Naruto rolled his eyes 'Closet perv' "gee thanks Kakashi sensei."
Ebisu could barely contain himself but Kakashi informed him earlier that ANBU would be paying attention to what was going on during his training. "Ok Naruto were going to be working on your chakra control so let's get to work follow me please."
A few miles away Ebisu stopped in front of a stream that fed the hot springs in the village. "Ok now I'm going to show you the advanced way to work on chakra this is called the water walking Jutsu." Narutos eye twitched 'ok Kami' "here I better show you how it's done" as Ebisu stood he put his hands to form the ram sign to build chakra to his feet. He then started to walk on the water like he was walking on the ground a few feet before.
Intrigued Naruto tried to follow Ebisu's training but kept sinking under the water. After about a half hour of this Naruto was finally starting to get it he was about ankle deep in the four foot deep stream. But that's when he heard Ebisu shouting something about disreputable behavior and Naruto lost focus falling into the boiling stream. Crawling out of the stream Naruto had just enough time to see his 'teacher' get slammed to the ground by a toad. Seeing a white haired old man that looked familiar sitting on the toad turned back to his peeping Naruto decided to teach this perv a lesson he put his hands to the ram sign and ran towards the perv shouting [Sennen Goroshi] the toad man had only enough time to get a nervous look on his face as Narutos attack hit its mark propelling the perv over the wall and into the women's bath.
Naruto walked away smirking as various sounds of chaos ensuing from the bath house which included the old perv getting beat to within an inch of his life shouting something about research.
As Naruto made his way to a secluded area he saw Kabuto standing by a stream in a forest area. With a smirk Kabuto tossed a scroll that looked like it was wrapped in yellow caution tape. Catching it Naruto was slightly confused. "Hey Kabuto I've been looking for you I made it to the final rounds like I said I would…" looking at the scroll it said [Kage Bunshin] for dummies a guide to the Bunshin technique. Deadpanning at the hidden insult Naruto glared at Kabuto "I already know the shadow clone Kabuto…"
"Yes I know you know the technique but you don't know its purposes I want you to use it to accelerate you training for these." Kabuto threw another four scrolls that looked kind of dusty Naruto comically juggled them till he was able to hold all five scrolls he saw the one scroll was a golden yellow color while the other three were red with the numbers one two and three on them respectively. With a dawning he looked at Kabuto with a shocked and curious gaze.
As if to answer the questions in Narutos head he simply stated "I saw your skill at the exams so I figured I would save you the trouble Naruto. The [Kage Bunshin] will help you with your training because whatever mental experience it gathers will come to you so you can train techniques and chakra control at the same time. It's supposed to be a recon technique." As he started to open the one scroll Naruto was hit on the head with something causing him to drop his scrolls he looked around to see a fairly large scroll that was purple with wave patterns on it. Opening the scroll he saw [Kuchiyose no Jutsu]. With a chuckle Kabuto explained"hmph another gift I see he sure is spoiling you… that is the scroll for the snake summon. What you do is sign your name in blood and put each of your finger prints on the scroll at the bottom like every other one. Naruto picking the nearest available slot picked the 5th slot down bit his finger drawing blood so he could write his name. After it was done Kabuto told him about the seals for the jutsu and told Naruto to put as much chakra into it as possible. With a cry of [Kuchiyose no Jutsu] Naruto drew on as much chakra as possible drawing on the summon with an explosion and a large poof of smoke Naruto stepped back to see what it looked like.
Once the smoke cleared the summon revealed itself to be a 50 foot long python it was about as thick as the snake that tried to eat Naruto days prior, about as big around as a tree, midnight black scales formed around its body looking as smooth as glass his eyes were a strange mixture of bright green and red. The snake was coiled in a relaxing position tough flickering muscles bulging and rippling underneath short thick scales "who are you boy?" the snake asked in a bored tone but Naruto could have sworn it was pissed about something "I am Naruto I summoned you here. This is the first time I summoned any snake. It is a pleasure to meet you."
The snake looked surprised because this boy had enough power to summon him on his first try. Chuckling the snake spoke again "Very interesting boy my name is Damian I am a nephew to boss Manda chief of the battle summons. I suppose nothing was explained to you about us." Naruto just nodded. "Well we snake summons have a large variety of skills we are mostly adept in trickery and surprise attacks. We have many types of summons ranging from anacondas to copperhead snakes we also come in a very large variety of sizes we can transform ourselves to be smaller for concealment. Our summons also have a few different species aside from snakes we also have komodo dragons and a few snapping turtles but we don't particularly get along since Manda became the boss demanding sacrifices for summoning us I could care less as long as I get out. Any of our species can also assume a human form if we wish."
With a poof Damian stood before Naruto with full snake like eyes showing no sclera his skin pale and scaly his short silky hair that was messy was black. He had two short blades about as long as his forearms tied to his back he wore battle armor that looked like a combination of traditional samurai wear and ninja armor also black with red accents and a green sash like belt. He stood about six foot two inches tall and looked like he weighed about two hundred and eighty pounds of solid muscle.
"Wow that's really impressive will you be able to train with me so I can learn to fight with you on my side?" Narutos expression was sincere and held excitement.
"I will be able to train you but only a little bit you have to pass Manda's test for you to be able to summon us freely. Usually it something ridiculous like fighting him without justu or riding on his head without falling off while he thrashes around…" Damien deadpanned and thought aloud "not quite sure why he likes that one so much maybe it's a requirement of being a chief or something…"
Naruto thought for a moment as Damien poofed back to his snake form "Hey is that your normal size? I fought a snake in the jungle a few days back and he was a bit shorter than you but not by much."
"Oh?" Damien thought and then he started to laugh. "Oh yeah Brutus or Ben or something ye that guy was a huge toolbox hahaha thanks. No I can become smaller than this actually my normal size is about the same as Manda." Damien then let his laughter subside and looked at Kabuto behind him then back to Naruto "But anyways Kabuto why don't I go inform the boss we have a new summon while you help him get ready ok?"
"Sure thing Damien-sama Ill train this boy till he drops well summon him twenty five days from now I'll try to get him ready by then and I'll have him summon you as well so you can work with him a bit." Kabuto adjusted his glasses and turned around to Naruto.
"Ok Kabuto see you later Naruto ill expect you to be stronger by the time you're ready to fight Manda for the right to summon us. Don't worry from what I've seen you have what it takes… who knows maybe you'll be able to talk Manda out of sacrificing for summoning us."
"Ok thanks Damien I'll see you later." With that Damien vanished and Kabuto walked up to Naruto. "Ok Naruto I want you to make fifty three [Kage Bunshin]."
"Ok sure but why?" Naruto was quizzical about what was going on.
*Sigh "ok make one and have it follow me." Kabuto started to walk towards the woods and Naruto made a clone and it followed Kabuto into the woods while the real Naruto waited nearby.
As Naruto stood there his mind suddenly had a memory of Kabuto reminding him of his explanation of the recon use of the [Kage Bunshin]. "ohhhh yeah now I get it when the clone dispels I learn everything it does." As Kabuto walked back into the clearing Naruto waved him over and crossed his fingers "thanks Kabuto sorry i forgot about that. [Kage Bunshin no Jutsu]" Kabuto smirked as fifty four Narutos stood in a large group. "Ok Narutos I want three of you clones to spend the rest of the day reading these scrolls and studying them." Kabuto was holding the Bunshin for dummies scroll, the golden scroll, and the red scroll that had the kanji for one on it. "Then I want twenty five of you to work on tree climbing so you can do it without running and the rest of you practice the water walking exercise I'm going to work with the original on his body. Ok Naruto I want you to put these on." Naruto looked at the strange monk beads Kabuto was holding.
"Nah I'm not into jewelry." Kabuto almost fell over at Narutos frankness. "Naruto these are sealing beads they work like Rock lees ankle weights only you can use them on each of you limbs making your arms as strong as your legs."
Getting the point Naruto became exited "Oh ok that was so cool. Lee became faster than ever using those if I train with those maybe I can get stronger with just taijutsu and make my shadow clone better too so I won't need to waste 'em." Naruto had sparkles in his eyes he couldn't wait to get stronger and he was happy Kabuto proved himself in being a good friend.
Off in the woods observing in the distance over the bodies of a few ANBU operatives stood a Tokubetsu Jōnin clad in purple battle armor that had pale skin and green slitted eyes. "Yes Naruto. Become stronger your body will become one I can use for many more years than the ones in the past." With a cackle Orochimaru turned back to the leaf village he had one gennin to work on that was an important piece in his plans for the leaf.
Ok peeps that's it for the fourth chapter I hope you enjoyed it I will be taking more suggestions also if anyone is interested in being a type of sounding board for upcoming chapters PM me and let me know sorry it took so long I'm working on a few other story ideas right now. Hopefully I can get a creative boost I plan on this story going past shippuden but how it gets there remains to be seen. Especially when I don't use notes when I write. Yes I know bad kooloo bad you should always have notes with you. Also I'm going to be starting another fanfic about another AU story called "Yūgure". I also have a third I'm currently writing, about an OC but I won't post that one till its halfway done so I can just weekly update it.
ALSO I WOULD LIKE FOR ANY IDEAS THAT ARE ORIGINAL (OR IF YOU MUST REFERENCE WHERE YOU GOT THE IDEA FROM) FOR SASUKE TO MATCH NARUTOS ONE TAILED CLOAK DURING THE NARUTO RETRIEVAL ARC I LOOK FORWARD TO YOUR SUGGESTIONS THANKS AGAIN!
