Naruto Fanfiction

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Author's Note: Yo!

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Sasuke activated his Sharingan and saw a massive amount of Chakra being gathered in the distance. He gritted his teeth and pumped lots of Chakra into his feet, leaving Sakura to eat his dust.

Sakura, in the meantime, didn't worry about catching up, but what to do when she got where Naruto and Sasuke were. 'Why is Kakashi-sensei never here when you need him?!'

But about half a minute later, she saw Sasuke next to Naruto's unconscious body, and a tall guy in front of them. 'What? That guy knocked Naruto out that quickly?!'

"Oy, you two these kids friends?" The man spoke up.

Sakura and Sasuke both noticed that the man was not being threatening to them in any manner. "Uhh… yeah." Sasuke managed to get out. 'Shit, this guy is way too powerful for me… Even from what I remember from Itachi… This much Chakra…'

"Well, I can see you three are still Genin." The man continued. "Perhaps you could teach this teammate of yours some manners. Freaking hothead attacking from out of nowhere. Be glad I didn't kill him right here and now, huh!"

As he turned to leave, Sasuke stopped him. "Wait! Who are you?!"

The man turned around and gazed at Sasuke and Sakura. "Oh? You want to know? I'm surprised you don't recognise me! I am the Legendary Toad Summoner Jiraiya, one of the Great Sannin!"

"Jiraiya-sama!" Sakura let out surprised, while Sasuke was shocked. "Ah, so sorry this happened!" The pink-haired girl continued.

'Jiraiya? So this is how the Chakra of one of the Legendary Ninja feels like?' Sasuke thought. 'He's a lot stronger than Kakashi…'

Jiraiya watched their reactions. 'These must be Kakashi's students… This one's definitely Uzumaki Naruto… Man, he looks so much like Namikaze Minato. And the other one has a Sharingan, so he must be Uchiha Sasuke.' Without warning, Jiraiya simply left.

"Ah… we're so lucky to have seen one of the Legendary ninja!" Sakura admonished. "If only we could've seen Tsunade!"

Sasuke frowned. 'A female legendary ninja? Impossible.' He then gazed downwards and picked Naruto up. "That guy was definitely strong, to be able to deal with Naruto this easily… We'll drop him off at the hospital."

"I wouldn't do that." Someone suddenly spoke up from somewhere above them.

Sakura and Sasuke both looked up to see Kakashi seated on a tree branch. "We'll bring Naruto home. After that, I'll be able to train you two for a while, so look forward to it!"

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Melancholy's Smile

-Chapter 5: Seal Revelations

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Sasuke narrowed his eyes at the suggestion given to him by Kakashi. 'This is ridiculous. She doesn't stand a chance against me.' He thought as Sakura stood a few feet in front of him. 'What does she plan on doing, anyway? She should know better than this. Tcheh, Kakashi should know better than this…' He grumbled inwardly.

Sakura was nervous. She had to fight her crush with everything she had, according to Kakashi's words. 'Sasuke-kun…'

Sasuke closed his eyes, fully intent on letting Sakura make the first move. 'Naruto was knocked out unconscious and it takes a lot to do so, since… even I am unable to manage that. He should be incredibly injured, so why didn't Kakashi want us to send him to the hospital?' He opened his eyes as he felt Sakura gather Chakra. 'Tcheh, I'm not even going to bother with my Sharingan…'

Sakura rushed forward, while Sasuke braced himself. 'Kakashi taught her how to gather Chakra in her fists to enhance her strength, so I'd better not allow her to hit me…'

As he jumped away from the approaching Sakura, he suddenly felt a massive blow from above him, straight in the face. 'What?!'

Sakura winced as Sasuke landed hard into the ground, creating a small crater. "Ah! Sasuke-kun, are you alright?"

"Not bad, Sakura." Kakashi complimented. "Perhaps activating that Sharingan of yours will help you dealing with Genjutsu, hm?"

Sasuke crawled out of the crate with anger in his face, but that vanished as he saw the nervous look on Sakura. "Fine, that was a lucky shot." The Uchiha then grinned. "Now I'll turn a bit more serious…" And the Sharingan was on.

Kakashi smiled underneath his mask. "Show me how much you two have grown thanks to this Chuunin Exam."

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Naruto walked out of his apartment, still a bit confused on how he ended up home the other day. At this time of the day, six in the morning, he started his daily training with Sasuke and Sakura, as they had made agreements a week ago. Kakashi would join them now and then, but usually they were on their own.

He didn't really care either way.

But today, there was something different. He stopped a few feet away from the entrance to his home as he sensed someone close by.

"Oohh? You can sense me?"

Naruto wasn't shocked of the sudden voice behind me, because he simply lacked that certain response. He wasn't scared or angry either. But he WAS enthusiastic as he saw who it was who was standing behind him.

"You… You're the powerful one!"

Jiraiya chuckled. "Now, before you try to fight me and I knock you out again, why don't you let me introduce myself" As no reaction came from the blonde boy, Jiraiya continued. "The name's Jiraiya, brat. I'm one of the legendary Ninjas from Konoha."

Naruto's enthusiasm died down at this person's aloof character. "Legendary. Proof to me then, that you can kill me. Being a Konoha Shinobi and being capable of it, you should do it."

Jiraiya shook his head. "No, I don't kill kids, brat." He grinned. "I torture them!"

Naruto frowned. "That's boring. Torture is lame."

Jiraiya frowned back. "Hm. Weird response right there… Anyway, the old man, you know, your Hokage, asked me to train you for a bit, while your Jounin sensei trains the other part of your team… 7, was it?"

"Train me? What for? So it becomes even more difficult to kill me? Or so more powerful enemies will try and kill me?" Naruto questioned. "I find myself to be quite strong already."

"I can knock you out easily."

"But you can't kill me, so it doesn't really matter."

"Damn it, kid, you're impossible. Look here."

Naruto watched as Jiraiya moulded some Chakra in his right hand and a ball of blue Chakra soon materialised in his palm. Naruto even now seemed a bit bored. "So… what does it do?"

"Man, you'd think seeing the Rasengan would drive you crazy, but…" Jiraiya then rammed the Rasengan into a tree and Naruto watched intently at the damage displayed in front of him.

"Now do it again." Naruto half-ordered. "This time, hit me instead of the tree!"

Jiraiya turned away from the spot where the tree was and gave Naruto an incredulous look. "Uhm… I won't. I'll teach you, but don't bother attacking yourself with it, because it's your own Chakra, your own body will repel it!" Jiraiya made up.

Naruto sighed and was clearly disappointed. "So that's the only thing you'll teach me?"

Jiraiya chuckled. "I've got something else. A Summoning Contract!"

Naruto offered a blank stare.

Jiraiya almost got mad because of this emotionless kid. "Damn it, kid, what do you want, then?!"

"I know a lot of Forbidden Jutsus, but none are sufficient enough to kill me. Do you know of any?" The blonde Genin asked.

Jiraiya gave him a bored look. "Kinjutsu, hm? Let me ask you, what does not kill you?"

"A lot. Simply talking to me does not kill me, either." Naruto sent him his 'all-knowing' look. Jiraiya ignored it. "Slitting my throat is no use, as many have tried that before." Jiraiya inwardly winced as Naruto continued, while his hatred for the Village was slowly building up from the inside. "Hurting me and hoping to kill me because of too much blood loss is a no go either. Poison for some reason does not work at all… Kunai, Shuriken, simple knifes and even spoons don't work either."

Jiraiya frowned. 'Spoons? What the hell?'

Naruto continued. "Genjutsu doesn't work at all and the closest thing that came to actually killing me were the last three Kinjutsu in the Forbidden Scroll of Sealing."

Jiraiya narrowed his eyes. 'The last three? So he knows the Shiki Fuin at such a young age. He's quite the prodigy. And quite dangerous as well if not even the Death God can seal him away to his death… That's only possible because there's already something sealed inside of him. Every trade he makes would be unfair, and the Death God has its honour, after all.' Jiraiya smiled. 'Who would have thought? Naruto has the power of a God behind him. He can use the Shiki Fuin on everyone without worrying about himself. If only he knew that…'

"Well? Are you thinking of more ways to kill me?" Naruto questioned. "You've been awfully silent."

Jiraiya coughed. "I don't know of anymore ways, Naruto. The one with the spoon is even new for me."

Naruto didn't respond to the lame joke.

"Anyway, I'm off. The Jutsu you just saw was the Rasengan. Try it. If it doesn't work, seek me out, if I'm around. Oh yeah, if you can, stay away from the rest of your team, I'm supposed to be training you, you know." With that. Jiraiya left Naruto to his own devices.

Naruto didn't say anything and walked towards one of the forests surrounding Konoha. "Damn old man…" He muttered.

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Naruto was bored.

Even as he was tired from Chakra exhaustion, fell unconscious, and finding himself in a whole other place, he was still bored. Dreams were never his best friends as they reminded him of the fact how people always failed to kill him. And in some dreams, he even died, but it was all too disappointing to find himself alive as he awoke.

He hated dreams.

"This is no dream, human."

Naruto looked up, not at all amazed of the terror and horror present in that booming voice. He seemed even more bored actually.

"Come here…"

Naruto followed the voice and ended up in front of a huge cage. "So, I'm here." He spoke up to the cage. "What do you want?"

A deep, dark chuckle came as response. "You don't know where you are or who I am, huh, human?"

Naruto frowned. "I suppose."

"I am the Kyuubi no Kitsune, and this is no dream! I've been wanting to speak to you!"

Naruto's eyes widened and he actually smiled. "You're the Kyuubi!! Finally I can see you instead of only hearing you!" The little Naruto, compared to the humongous Kyuubi, ran inside of the cage without fear. "You can kill me, right?!"

The legendary Fox Demon was amazed at the lack of fear inside of this human and simply chuckled. "You are the only human I can not kill. For if I do, I'd be killing myself as well. No, I did not bring you here so I could kill the both of us. I came to offer you more power."

Naruto sighed as he sat in front of one of the Kyuubi's claws, not at all impressed at the seemingly iron nails. "it seems everyone is interested in giving me more power lately. I don't understand. I am already powerful thanks to Kakashi and I'll become even more powerful thanks to that Jiraiya person." He whispered. "And you are more powerful than both of them, and even you give me power…" Naruto sighed again. "Why does no one want to kill me lately?"

"Oh, you will get killed, human. And by none other than me, as soon as I get out of here!" The Kyuubi chuckled. "But until then, you will get packed full of power by me, understood?"

Naruto nodded with disappointment. "Fine… I just hope you'll get out of here sooner."

The Kyuubi then turned silent. "Hey, Uzumaki Naruto… Can you climb up there and remove that seal for me?"

Naruto looked up from his position. "What will that do?"

"Just do it!!"

Naruto frowned, but complied. Climbing up the bars, he started removing the Seal and the Kyuubi started roaring in pain. "Stop it!! Put it back, put it back!!"

Naruto's frown deepened. "You are pretty annoying, Kyuubi."

"Shut up!! Oh I wish I could kill you right now!!" The Kyuubi roared in extreme anger. "Damn that Fourth Hokage! That genius thought things through this far ahead!"

Apparently, removing the seal would force all of his essence away, into Naruto, which would kill both of them as Naruto was this young still. "Never remove that seal again."

Naruto landed on the ground, or rather, in the water. The Kyuubi then gave him a bit of his Chakra and burned a strange seal onto his right upper arm. "That seal represents my agreement with a Summoning Contract."

"Oh, that again?" Naruto was extremely disappointed.

"You insolent human! No one has ever received this one! No human has had this privilege! You can now summon Foxes, and they will all follow your orders, as they can immediately sense my presence inside of you! Be grateful!!"

Naruto simply sighed and turned away. "Can I go now?"

The Kyuubi cursed all the way to Naruto's awakening.

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"Had a nice nap?"

Naruto opened his eyes to see Sasuke and a…blushing Sakura? "…"

"We've been looking for you for two hours now. Usually, we can feel your Chakra from miles away, what happened?" Sasuke asked. "And put something on, since when do you train without clothes on?"

Sakura was looking away and he also noticed Sasuke wasn't looking at his direction either. "I… see." It didn't bother him at all being naked. He didn't know Chakra could burn his clothes away.

'Actually, that happened because of the almost-removal of that seal on my cage.' A voice resounded inside his head.

Naruto nodded his head, but his teammates didn't see, as they were looking away from him. "Let me go home first, then we will resume training." Sasuke and Sakura nodded their heads.

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"Uh, Naruto?"

Naruto didn't turn towards her as she spoke up. Naruto was changing clothes in his apartment.

It was a complete mess, clothes were scattered and there was shattered glass everywhere. "Don't concern yourself with this place. Cleaning up is futile, as people throw stones inside every day anyway." He continued putting a vest on and turned around, fully dressed again.

"Actually, I saw… when you were…" Sakura blushed.

Sasuke sighed. "What she's trying to say… You have seals. On your stomach and on your right arm."

"Y-yeah! Are they… tattoos or…?" Sakura uttered.

"As Sasuke said, they are seals." Naruto didn't explain further as he opened the door. "Let's go."

Sasuke and Sakura both frowned, not satisfied at the lack of details in Naruto's answer. Naruto wasn't surprised at all as he stepped outside and saw Kakashi and Jiraiya stand outside.

Sasuke and Sakura wouldn't be either, if Jiraiya wasn't standing there. 'Shit! Is Naruto going to attack him again?!' Both of them thought.

To their surprise, Naruto stayed calm and faced Jiraiya. "You need to explain, old man." On which Sakura and Sasuke face-vaulted.

Kakashi simply nodded his head in understanding and turned to Sakura and Sasuke. "You guys… You know who you have to fight in the next and final test of the Chuunin Exams, right?"

Sasuke grinned. "Sabaku no Kankurou."

Sakura nodded her head, but she didn't seem happy at all. "Sabaku no Gaara."

Kakashi turned to Naruto. "Who do you have to fight, Naruto?"

"Hyuga Neji." Came the simple answer, as he seemed busy talking with Jiraiya.

"Well, I'm not really worried for Naruto or you, Sasuke. But Sakura, you are probably facing the strongest Genin, leaving Naruto and Sasuke out." Kakashi said and lied, since he knew Gaara was stronger than Sasuke, but he didn't want to put a dent in the Uchiha's pride.

Sakura nodded her head nervously. "He's… he's too strong, Kakashi-sensei!"

Kakashi put a hand on her shoulder. "Don't worry. You already have super-human strength, all you need now is super-human speed."

Sasuke narrowed his eyes. 'She would become an even more difficult opponent, then. Sakura is actually growing pretty strong.' Sasuke snorted. "So, you're going to be training Sakura?"

Kakashi nodded his head. "Yup. But you as well. You don't need my help as much, since you'll probably defeat that puppet user easily."

Sasuke smirked. 'Well, that much is true, I suppose.'

"You've mastered all the Fire techniques that exist, so… I think it's time you master your true Chakra affinity." He then turned to the talking Jiraiya and Naruto. "The same goes for you, Naruto."

"Don't worry, Kakashi." Jiraiya responded in Naruto's stead. "I'm covering it. I'll even be using that genius idea of yours, with the Kage Bunshin."

Kakashi nodded his head. 'Sasuke, Sakura and Naruto… They're becoming stronger a lot faster than I anticipated…'

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A month later…

Uchiha Sasuke was grinning at his opponent, while his opponent was doing the same thing.

"You're lucky your teammate rescued you in that forest, bastard." Kankurou said. "I hope you realize there's none of that luck surrounding you now!"

"Keep talking, Suna weakling. I'll be sending you back in a body bag…" Sasuke taunted. "You're a fool for believing you know about the Sharingan."

Kankurou chuckled. "Referee, you better save that kid before it's too late!"

Sasuke watched as Kankurou put two big packages in front of him. 'Two puppets, this time? It won't matter even if he has hundreds of them!'

The referee, still Gekkou Hayate, coughed once and called for the start of the match.

Sasuke activated his Sharingan and immediately performed seals. "Let's burn those puppets of yours!! Katon, Housenka no Jutsu!!"

Kankurou snorted as he jumped backwards, left and right, making the puppets copy his movements.

Sasuke followed his movements, but noticed that the two puppets seemed to move individually. His Sharingan eyes narrowed as he started observing Kankurou's hands and even seeing how the Chakra strings were attached to the puppets. 'Heh, if I can cut those strings…'

Sasuke dodged the attack from both above and below buy kicking both puppets away. His Sharingan noticed the liquid on several parts of the puppets' weapons.

'Must be poison.' Sasuke thought as he dodged Shuriken coming out of one of the puppets' mouth.

And then, the entire clearing was filled with poison smoke. Up in the stands, Sakura and Ino panicked for their beloved Sasuke-kun.

"It's silly, really." Kankurou gritted his teeth as he moved away from his position, as Sasuke's voice came from behind him. "But you would never target anything close to yourself when using poison." Sasuke then smirked. "My Shunshin's pretty good, don't you think?" He let out arrogantly.

The poison cloud cleared away. 'Damn, this Uchiha is pretty good…' Kankurou thought. He felt his confidence slipping away as something strange suddenly happened.

"Want to know something else about the Sharingan, Kugutsu user?" Sasuke started. "It copies."

Kankurou watched in fear as Sasuke now also had Chakra Strings attached to his puppets. "Impossible! It takes ages to get this kind of control!!"

Before he knew it, Sasuke was in front of him with Kunais pointed at his neck. "Consider yourself lucky that I can afford to be so easy-going with you. This gap between us is just too big."

Kankurou glared. "I give up, referee."

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Temari's eyes were widened greatly as she watched the result of the battle. 'Damn, that Sharingan's powerful! To think he could copy Kankurou's skills just like that!'

"It was to be expected." Baki suddenly commented. "Kugutsu no Jutsu is no Kekkai Genkai. So the Sharingan should be able to copy it. But I never imagined it would be able to do it so quickly."

Gaara simply snorted. "So pointless."

Baki and Temari almost jumped as a Konoha Shinobi appeared behind them.

Gaara's eyes had widened. "Uzumaki Naruto."

Naruto sighed as he stood next to Gaara. "She has grown a lot, but… she won't be able to beat you, Gaara. However, should you kill her… then I will kill you as well."

With that, Naruto returned to his previous spot again. Baki glared at Gaara and demanded an explanation without voicing so, but was completely shocked when he heard Gaara say…

"I understand."

Temari was panicking now. 'I don't think the plan's going to work anymore…'

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Yo Yo!! It's been a long time and I know it's a short chapter this time around, but… I'll promise to make the next one a bit longer.

For people waiting for the NaruSaku moments: I'm trying to make Sakura's feelings for Sasuke die first, for her to realize that he's a cocky SOB who knows nothing, and I want her to see and understand what Naruto's life was like… Next chapter, the war erupts!! This time however, the Legendary Snake Ninja's going after Sasuke instead of the Third!!!!

It'll all come!!

Ja na!!