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"That was very reckless, boys."

"We're used to doing it, sensei" Naruto replied, before he looked at his other team mate "you can keep it if you want, I have plenty." The girl just sat down-bravely-beside him, took out some medical ointment and rubbed it on his swollen face, "thanks."

"since you two don't seem to want to stand up again team training is over for the day, tomorrows free so come back here the day after that, same time." She waved and walked off the training ground. Hinata, finished rubbing the ointment on shino, sat back down beside her crush and shrugged on his coat. They were silent, watching the clouds passing over them, bathing in the small moment of peace that was until Naruto said nonchalantly.

"kaa-sama's cooking ramen this evening," he put his hands behind his head and breathed in deeply, "…ramen." His eyes trailed to Hinata, "you like ramen right?" the girl nodded timidly, he looked back up and sighed like a boy with a crush "ramen's awesome." He stood up and helped Shino up as well, "we don't want to be late." Hinata padded back to where she hung Shino's coat and threw it to him, the boy hung it over his shoulders, gave Naruto a firm punch to his shoulder and walked back to their clan compound, "damn it, Shino!" he made to run away but looked at Hinata uncertainly and waved, "see you later, Hinata."

She waved as he left the training ground, still wearing his coat and walked back to her clan compound, a smile on her face, his smell in her nose and a song in her heart.

Now…

CHAPTER 4

Time skip: Chunin Exams: Forest of Death

There comes a time in everyone's life that he has to prove his worth to all who know and do not know him. To show that all they invested in him was not in vain, this was what was happening right now in the forest of death. Albeit this particular thought wasn't going through team 8's heads', because one thing that they could all audibly agree on was that the chunin exams were…

"Boring," Hinata half yelled, half groan. Shino looked at her in shock, wondering why the girl was getting bolder by the day but summed it up to the trench coat she was wearing, Naruto's. They were all sitting on a tree counting the earth and heaven scrolls they have collected from the other unfortunate competitors. They were currently had 3 earth and 4 heaven, "I thought sensei said the exams were supposed to be hard." Naruto raised a finger to respond but the girl answered her own question, "I know right! I think sensei lied to us," Naruto, whose finger deflated at her self-reply, raised his finger again but it deflated at her reply, "I mean, why give us a written test then threaten to never become chunin again if we don't agree to answer the 10th question of the same test! Ridiculous!"

This time Naruto cut her off before she could say anything again, "I think the third exams would be more challenging, Hinata, besides we're a track and capture team, nothings supposed to be exciting for us." the formerly bold and confident girl broke down into a blushing, stuttering mess when she noticed her crush was talking directly to her. They then felt a weight settle on them, well on his brother and Hinata but not on Naruto, Naruto could only describe the feeling as 'meh…' he saw Shino and Hinata teeter on the branch so he caught them by the shoulders and steadied them on it. Hinata was turning green by the minute and Shino was perspiring on his forehead, meanwhile his queen hornet, who had felt a more malevolent feeling, only sighed. 'Do you think I should go there?'

'Maybe…maybe we'd get another variation of my children.' He didn't miss the eagerness in her voice. He still feared that one day she would feel chakra that would be more evil than Kyuubi's and she would leave for it with her hive. As if she read his thoughts, which she had, she said 'we've already made you home, Naruto, moving would be too troublesome and I don't think there is a more evil chakra than Kyuubi's. Besides I swore to stay with you and that's what I'll do.'

He looked at his team mates and his decision wavered, "all in favour of checking that out." They both looked at each other uncertainly, so he added "if the person spots us, I can…you know, sick my flesh eating hornets on them," he shook Shino's shoulder when he felt another blast of the heavy chakra in the air, Hinata was gripping the branch for dear life. "c'mon guys, what do you say?" he heard the distinct sound of buzzing in Shino's coat and knew his hive was revolting, not willing to go anywhere near that oppressive feeling, "or I could go on my own and meet you guys at that clearing a few feet from here." This time Shino gripped his arm and murmured,

"I promised not to leave you, Naruto."

"I-I know, bro, but you're at risk of your hive attacking you, I know you guys can't go there but I can. Anyway, I don't think it's both physically and chemically possible for me to leave you, Shino." That got a chuckle out of the struggling boy, Shino squeezed his arm tighter then he let go and hauled Hinata onto his shoulder.

"Don't die…idiot"

The white haired boy gave a small smile, "I also think that's impossible." The black haired boy shook his head and took off toward a clearing somewhere in the forest. Naruto lifted his head and sniffed the air, and then he tree jumped in the general direction of the oppressive feeling. 'This dude sure is intimidating.'

'You're not afraid right. The chakra doesn't feel natural, it feels…evil, you know, not near Kyuubi evil though. It needs more salt.'

'Salt?'

'You'll understand when you're older.' Naruto rolled his eyes and hid behind a bush, took a deep breath before he looked over at the other side and stifled a gasp when he saw the person.

Orochimaru of the Sannin.

The man was stood a few feet away from the quivering pink haired girl, Sakura, who was on the verge of passing out. Though she stood strong and held her kunai firmly in her hands, Naruto pursed his lips in thought, what could she hope to do against Orochimaru. The rogue Sannin was well known for killing without remorse, according to his Tou-sama. He briefly wondered what he could do against him but threw the feeling away when he and the queen went over what he and his hornets could do. His taijutsu was high genin level but it rose to mid jounin when he incorporated his fire hornets or even his Terminets. Genjutsu were impossible against him. You couldn't sneak up on him, no matter how well stifled the persons chakra was, as well known by both his kaa-sama and his sensei's friend, Mitarashi Anko because he had a habit of spreading his Eyenets around when he was training or just taking a walk, like now.

He jumped out when he noticed the man stretching his neck to Sasuke. His intentions were obviously not good.

If there was one person he disliked more than anything it was Sasuke, the pompous prick. But no one deserves to be bitten by a snake summoner, nevertheless the snake Sannin himself.

He twirled and punched the air towards the snake Sannin's head and a small red blur shot out and impacted Orochimaru's head with a sickening thud and a spine chilling sizzle. The man screamed in pain, retracting his neck and grabbing his burning head with his hand. The boy ran to the frozen Sasuke and lightly slapped him back to reality. The boy blinked in surprise when he noticed Naruto looking at him and the rogue Sannin writhing on his knees behind him. His saviour pointed at his passed out female team mate and towards a caved in path in the forest where he could only guess Orochimaru had his summons distract the second strongest in the team. The last Uchiha wanted to push the boy away and deal with the threat himself, he really, really wanted to but the sensible part of his brain bonked him, if the boy could take down-albeit temporarily-the man that was mopping the floor with him, then he could hold the man back while he and his team retreated. It was cowardly, yes, but Naruto was the one who advised them to run anyway. He nodded, scooped Sakura up and dashed into the forest.

Naruto looked at the Sannin and was amazed to see that instead of a head burnt to crisp; the man was in the process of up chucking himself. Disgusting.

When he appeared to be finished regurgitating himself, the man sneered at him "who do you think you're messing with, kid?" he stood up and looked at where he thought his target had gone, "think hard on your answer because I am not happy." He rolled his shoulders and smirked when he heard a sharp crack.

The boy cocked his head sideways, "you wanted to bite Sasuke."

The man hissed back, "yes I know that. Why did you interrupt?"

The white haired boy ignored the question. "You aren't supposed to be here." He took a stance and the man laughed loudly.

"What do you think you could ever dream of doing to me?"

"I plan on finding out." He flicked his wrist and the Sannin crumpled onto the ground then melted into a pile of burning mud, he side stepped when a kick shattered where he stood. He rolled away from a punch but was hit by a savage second punch to the neck but he exploded into a swarm of hornets that brandished their nail long stingers at Orochimaru and impaled him but the man again fell into a pile of mud. The hornets converged in the middle of the clearing and formed our stoic main character, he fell into a stance and air punched at a tree and once again a red blur escaped his arms from his hand and burnt the tree half a second later, he punched again behind him and the same happened, he kept doing so till the trees immediately surrounding him were charred black.

"I see you're a sensor, kid." He jumped back from a kick, the man clapped his hands, "and a very good one at that." Naruto didn't even bother trying to correct him, "I'll give you a chance to surrender and leave before I will be forced to kill you." The boy stayed silent, so the more experienced man blurred out of sight and before you know it he used his right leg to kick Naruto's neck and his following leg to kick the boy's chest into a tree. He pummelled the bloody boy till he was sure he wouldn't move again before he took out a kunai and lobbed off the boys head, it thudding on the ground with a sickening squelch.

He pouted a bit, wondering why a boy with so much potential allowed himself to die so quickly. "Be proud of yourself, child, I had to restrain myself to use only jounin level of strength." He didn't feel the Eyenets crawl into his shirt and secure itself there. He assumed Sasuke had already gone to the tower or was too far away for him to catch up to so he gave a last scathing look to the boy who had interrupted his hunt and melted into a tree. Said boy scattered into a swarm of hornets, head and all, and converged under the same tree he was 'killed'. He winced and rubbed his neck, 'thank kami for clones.' He sat at the base of the tree to catch his breath, all the while holding back a yell of pain as he cracked his neck. He substituted himself in time to avoid the full brunt of the kick but was still unfortunate to catch a portion of it. He then swore to himself 'I need to get faster.'

'And I'll help!' the queen nodded resolutely before she froze, 'a team's heading this way, the forehead protector says they're from hidden…sound?' Naruto grunted in response and made himself comfortable under the tree, his eyes open but the team would most likely think he was sleeping. The sound team were an odd bunch, well more like the apparent leader, he wore bandages covering his face, leaving only his left eye uncovered, he was hunched over wearing a brown cloak that covered most of his body, he also had a sort of holed gauntlet on his right arm. His other two team mates were relatively generic looking except the boy wore a 'Yamato style' hitaite and the girl wore hers normally.

"Look her guys," the leader ignored the sole female's glare, "some idiot thinks he can just sleep alone in the forest during the exams." Under his bandages he smirked cockily and looked at his male team mate, "let's rough him up, Zaku." He walked forward but stopped when the female held his shoulder, "why are you touching me, Kin?"

The girl took her hand back and rubbed it on her shirt as if to remove the dirt on it, "I don't think that's a good idea, Dosu. Think for a minute, why would he be alone in plain sight if he wasn't confident in himself?"

"Bah! You're just scared," the boy called Zaku exclaimed, he padded forward with Dosu and levelled his hands, which strangely had hollow tubes in them at the 'sleeping' boy. Since Naruto had no intention on finding out what that could do he commanded some normal hornets to swarm out of his shoulders and hover above him. He stood up slowly and looked at the leader.

"I was resting. You disturbed me." He sounded bored and tired. The sound ninjas were surrounded by the flesh eating insect, buzzing furiously anywhere they looked. They seemed to get sort of control over their arms and legs and began shooting air winds at Naruto from their augmented body parts. The obvious Aburame rolled away from their attacks and mentally gave them permission to eat, 'leave the girl.' The hornets seemed to even grin at the command, they stopped moving, brandished their uber long stingers and shot at the unfortunate boys, their weapons stalling the attack but they could not keep the little demons away from them forever, though their fight was valiant it was clearly not enough. The creatures clung onto them and ate while some dug into them and ate. It was a gruesome sight, to kin, who had tried to run away but a wall of buzzing (and drooling) hornets blocked her path. When the large wasps were done feasting they flew back into Naruto and chuckled when the queen squealed. 'Something good?'

'Yeah something good! One of those idiots had a secondary affinity for earth, I've already started breeding them. They should hatch soon, maybe in a day's time.'

He nudged the metal gauntlet still attached to the arm bone in thought. He then looked at the captive female Oto nin and was taken aback when he saw her kneeling, "what are you doing?" he droned.

"Please have mercy. I'll tell you anything you want, just please don't kill me!" He blinked in shock and was about to tell her to relax but stopped when she stood up abruptly, "in fact…" she unrolled her scarf and was about to take off her shirt but he grabbed her wrists, effectively stopping her motion; she still kept talking "I can be your sex toy or your slave, anything you want!"

"Chill out, I'm not going to kill you." She sighed in relief but her shoulders still slumped in defeat. He gently let go of her wrists but grabbed them again when she made to remove her shirt again, "and I'm not having sex with you. Understand." She nodded. He let go again and took a step back, "my name is Aburame Naruto. What's your name?"

"My name is kin Tsuchi, Naruto-sama." He pinched his nose in irritation at the honorific but chose to keep quiet. He silently watched her, his presence alone intimidating her and the huge wasps that buzzed behind her added to that fact. "d-don't you want to know why my f-former team were here?"

"I only let you live because you were smart enough not to be deceived by my trap." Naruto raised an eyebrow, "…so you weren't here just to become chunin?"

"No, Naruto-sama" his eyebrow twitched, "my village's leader sent us here to test Sasuke Uchiha." He motioned for her to continue, "I don't know why, he just told us to test him."

"Who is your leader?"

"Orochimaru of the Sannin." He then turned around and started walking into the forest, his remaining hornets flying into him, "wh-where are you going?"

"I'm going back to my team. You should go to the tower." He bent down to jump but halted again,

"Wait! U-uhm, can I follow your team to the tower, Naruto-sama?" he shrugged and told her to follow him. They tree jumped till he dropped into a clearing where he saw his team mates around a fire roasting a rabbit, he grinned at the memory of his first C rank mission.

"Naruto-kun!" Hinata tackled-hugged him, he steadied his legs and gave the now red faced girl a hug back, "I…I mean we were worried!" he looked at Shino who waved at him. Hinata growled lowly into his ear when she spotted the other girl behind him. "Who are you?"

The girl smirked confidently and rubbed into Naruto's side. She grinned when the girl turned purple and barred her teeth. Kin seemed to get even more confident when he didn't move away so she took his hand and stroked it gently, "I'm Kin Tsuchi, shorty. What's it to you?"

The next scene was utterly hilarious. Hinata got down from Naruto's embrace and slapped Kin's hand away from his. One could practically see the lightening passing between them as they glared at each other, baring their teeth and growling loudly. It reminded him of the time Sakura and Ino did the same thing in class over Sasuke, the boy just ignored them but it spurred them on. So he did the only thing he knew in this sort of situation, he looked at Shino, who was waggling his eyebrows at him and subtly giving him a thumb up. He looked back at the girls who were now foaming at the mouths and snapping at each other, then like a light switch they stopped and latched onto his arms. He looked at his brother for help but he still got waggled eyebrows and a thumb up.

The run-more like jog-to the tower was relatively peaceful, aside from the fact he had to separate more fights than he could count between the girls for one of his limbs, so he resolved to make two hornet clones and having them piggy back them back to them to the tower. The upside though was Hinata's funny attempt on being seductive. He bit his tongue to hold his amused snort when she trailed a finger on his-uncomfortable-clones cheek, she trailed her hands down to his neck and tried to gain access into his coat but the clone stopped her. Though kin seemed to have more experience in seduction; she hugged his other clones necks, her lips breathing on it, sometimes even giving it a feathery lick.

He just ignored her and his pleading clone to look at Hinata, who once again was trying to undo his coat. A laugh bubbled out of his mouth but he swallowed the rest. The girl was trying too hard, she looked at her competitor and tried breathing on the clone as well, though it was a good attempt, she couldn't restrain herself from giving the clones neck a firm lick. He glared at the clone, which planned on dispelling. At least Shino was trying his best in being understanding, that still didn't stop him from waggling his eyebrows knowingly at his brother.

When they finally reached the tower and were allowed to stay in one of the many rooms for the remainder of the three days, he let them dispel.

During those days, Hinata suddenly turned into a chatter box. She would glue herself to his side and chatter (read: stutter) anything that came to mind. From the colour of their room to the specific taste of the food being served in the tower. It was adorable really; she blubbered most of the things incoherently till she saw another random thing to talk about. Kin was more satisfied with 'accidentally' wearing his clothes or 'sleep walking' into his bed…naked.

When the opportunity came for him to escape, even if it were for 10 minutes, he jumped at it. He found himself in a room, specifically the team from sand's room. And he got another admirer. Albeit an aggressive one that at first wanted to 'crush him with her sand to prove her existence' but the red head froze and suddenly became docile and straight faced. From the way she kept glancing at him he knew he was in trouble.

'I swear, I think you guys keep spraying pheromones or something on me to attract these girls.' The queen giggled at his predicament. He was not 100% sure if the girl was attracted to him but one did not go from threatening to crush someone to silently watching him. Add in the fact that she wasn't very expressive made him all the more worried. 'Why can't these sort of things happen to Shino?' he wondered where the girls team was but answered himself when he checked the time, they should be at the mess hall. But why wasn't she there too? He slide out of the room towards any free training ground, the girl slinking out as well, following him quietly till he found one and sat behind a tree 'have the earth hornets hatched, queen?'

'Yes,' a rainbow coloured hornet jumped out of his sleeve and hovered in front of his eyes. He mentally asked what it could do and smirked in joy.

Camouflage.

They could literally blend in with its environment, no chakra trail, no smell, nothing. The Aburame summoned more and covered his body with them and sighed in relief when he successfully turned invisible, not in the real sense, more like he blended in with the tree and as he moved the scenery on his body changed too. Gaia was wide eyed in awe, internally, he was there a minute ago but now he wasn't. Awesomeness.

The girl was not one to know or interpret emotions but from the way her 'mother' kept screaming for her to be careful around him made her realize that there was still someone 'she' feared more than anything. It was a humbling feeling; 'mother' wasn't afraid of her father and he was the Kazekage. She made a decision the very day to find out why 'mother' was afraid of this mysterious boy that broke into her teams room.

She sniffed the air, trying to locate him but he seemed to have disappeared. Until he reappeared where he was before did she note one of the reasons her 'mother' was scared. If she couldn't detect him, he could bypass her ultimate defence and kill her easily.

The colourful hornets swirled around gracefully in the air and flew into his waiting sleeves. Those bugs alone made him high chunin level, was his realization. 'I have to work on my stealth.'

'And I'll help!'

'Thank you. Ne, queen, is there a way to combine my chakra affinities?'

'Now that you say it, I think there should be. I'm going to try it now.' And she buzzed to where the boys chakra was and separated the air, fire, earth and water affinities, took a small section of air and water and 'compressed'. She then instructed an ordinary male hornet to swallow the compressed chakra and…the baby making process began.

He looked at the stoic girl in front of him who looked at the equally stoic boy in silence. A leaf rustled by before Naruto picked his ear, "my name is Aburame Naruto, what's yours?"

"Sabaku no Gaia," was her simple reply. The silence fell back on them like a bag of stones, Naruto felt like it could even break one of his kunai, this time though she took the initiative and spoke, "why is mother afraid of you?"

"'Mother'?" he heard Kyuubi give a snorting laugh. This was the first time the evil force of nature had even bothered on communicating with its host. 'What does she mean Kyuubi-san?'

He patiently waited for the monster to get the laughter out of his system, 'that girl is also a jinchuriki. From my guess, I would say she holds the one tails. That idiot is what I call mad and if he gets her to call him mother then that fact is re-enforced!' He rolled around his cage, gripping his stomach and snorting another booming laugh, 'wait, wait, wait. Tell him I said 'hi' you're going to love his reaction!'

"…Kyuubi says 'hi'" immediately after saying this, the girl grunted in pain and held her head, muttering for 'mother' to calm down. This worked a full half hour later, "he also says that voice in your head is not your mother…"

Apparently, this was the wrong thing to say to the mentally unstable girl.

Authors note

I think I did well with this chapter. I hope you guys think so too.

Gaara here is female (Gaia) and she would not be paired with Naruto. Nor would I write a harem fic! I saw her picture from…somewhere…and I liked it enough to put her here.

Remember! If you expect me to make this a harem fic, you will be sorely disappointed. I can't share a girlfriend with someone, that's just all levels of wrong!

For the girls behaviour towards each other and Naruto was inspired by my experiences. I have three sisters and 75% of my friends are girls. Heaven forbid they fight over me. No dudes, they fight over some other unlucky dude. It always ended in a bloody (ketchup) mess, they banned I and my friends from 3 stores because of that. I don't even know why they carry ketchup around!

And despite all this, I am not GAY!

Keep on sending random names, this time from Narutoverse or even Avatar: legend of Aang-verse.

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