The Shadow No Kitsune
By: Darksider82
Beta: Winged Seer Wolf
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Reviewer's Corner
Stallion6 of Deviantart:
That is a very good question. We (Winged Seer Wolf and I) have been lax in regards to the other characters.
rest assured that we will rectify this soon.
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Disclaimer:
I own none of these franchises. I don't own this idea.
This story is based on the genius of Winged Seer Wolf who allowed me to use some of his ideas for this story.
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Chapter VI
Chunin Exams Begin
The genin platoon entered the academy corridor where they saw two Jounin standing outside the door "Turn away now. You're all too weak." Harry smirked and walked up to the Jounin "You two...nice genjutsu let my lot pass. This actually the second floor we still have one more floor to go up."
The Jounin smirked and the five genin snuck past and ran up the stairs, they entered the classroom to find it was full of genin teams from across the elemental nations. Harry saw the sand trio, several groups from the rain village and to his relief the other rooky Konoha genin teams.
"You losers made it!" Declared Kiba, making the platoon's eyebrows twitch in annoyance.
"Hey Akamaru, you teaching your partner cleanliness and potty training?" Asked Harry curiously to the small ninken on Kiba's head. Akamaru yipped in conformation causing Kiba to flush red "I'm just pissing around Kiba."
"New guys? Please keep it down you are attracting a lot of attention from the other genin teams." Said a silver haired kid with glasses standing just away from them. He slowly stepped forward "The names Kabuto and let me tell you these exams are a killer but I can help you guys out."
With that he took out what looked like a pack of cards "These are my ninja info cards. I've created them from my experiences in the past Chunin exams." For a demonstration he pulled out a card channelled his chakra into it and spun it on the floor and it revealed a map of the elemental countries and the number of genins each country sent.
"I want information on Potter Harry, Uzumaki Naruto, Gaara of the Desert and Rock Lee." Declared Kiba. Kabuto grinned.
"You know their names how droll let's see. Gaara of the desert average taijutsu, genjutsu is shod and exceptionally high ninjitsu. Seven C ranks, 3 B ranks and wow an A rank and all of his team have not had a scratch on them." Everyone stared at the red haired boy who smiled a manic grin.
"Next Rock Lee, Dead last of the year above you no skills in ninjutsu and genjutsu average taijutsu. Team mates are Hyuuga Neji and Tenten and their sensei is Might Gai."
"Oh boy, I may as well do these two together. Harry Potter and Naruto Uzumaki, cousins and on the same platoon along with Sakura Haruno and Kai Inuzuka and one Amelia Haruno who was killed by Zabuza...pathetic genin taking on a jonin..." Kabuto was cut off as Harry sliced his palm and at jonin speed one handed shouted "Sword Summoning Technique: Kubikirihocho!"
In a plume of smoke the infamous decapitating carving knife materialised in Harry's hand as he positioned it over Kabuto's head and drove it into the wall. "Want to taste Kubikirbocho's tender kiss?" Kabuto paled.
"I'll pass. Anyhow both contain inhuman amounts of chakra. Both suck at genjutsu but both have unparalleled ninjutsu so far." The information carried on the Konoha genin stared at the cousins in a mixture of fear, angst and in Tenten's case lust for Harry's sword.
The rest of the waiting went well until Kiba shouted he would everyone's ass and Kabuto trashed the genin of the Sound causing them to attack and made Kabuto lose his lunch. Then a loud bang echoed throughout the room "ALL RIGHT MAGGOTS! SIT DOWN AND SHUT UP!" Bellowed the proctor, he was at least 6'7 and wore the full black garb of the Konoha Torture and Interrogation garb, this man was Ibiki Morino.
Morino glared at the teams of genin "First thing you need to do is interrogate a member of the T&I to give you three bits of information for the second exam. However you are doing it on your own."
Everyone gulped "You will all take a number and then it will begin. Oh and you only have twenty minutes to get all three bits of information before you are disqualified so you have an hour to get all the information. Harry and his team smirked they knew how to get everyone to crack.
Out of the 300 odd genin present twenty teams forfeited because they couldn't seem to get the information of their 'victims' another five ran out of time and now it was Harry's turn.
Harry entered the room and immediately released a bit of KI, the KI was so intense it temporarily shocked Ibiki Morino into the chair. The moment he landed in the chair Harry snapped "Incarserous." Thick steel cables sprung around the examiner. The examiner smirked "All you can do?" Harry shook his head "Just getting started. Now are we going to do this the easy way or the hard way?" Ibiki grinned.
"Let's see what the hard way is." Harry's eyes turned amber and a black tail of chakra emerged "Let's see how you resist the touch of bijuu chakra." Kursama and Harry said in unison, Ibiki gulped slightly as the chakra tailed darted towards his bound arm and touched it, he bit down a hiss as Kursama injected a tiny pulse of fire chakra into his arm. "Congratulations you pass the first test. The first bit of information is Area 44."
"Forest of death. Now the other way is this." Harry cut Ibiki free and blurred forward thumbs pressing into Ibiki's neck and fingers into his neck slowly strangling him, gathering his chakra Harry forced it into his mind and it became a battle of wills.
Ibiki was grinning psychotically not only was the genin a powerhouse with a willing partnership with his bijuu he was also wasn't afraid to try and hurt him to get what he needed. However the difference between them was Ibiki had much more experience and specialised in mental torture and shoved the boy out. Harry hit the ground and found himself unable to move as his 'prisoner' held him under his foot with a kunai at his throat.
"You did good kid. I'm impressed and I don't impress easily and as a result I'll tell you two of the five other piece of information. The first is three days at ten and then five days survival." Harry nodded and dispelled in a puff of smoke. Ibiki stared "What the hell?" He then crashed into the floor as Harry dropped onto him "Be careful of jinchuriki you never know which one is the decoy."
Ibiki growled in frustration what would his partner and sensei Yamanka Inoichi say about this. "Get out before I fail you." He growled releasing his KI causing Harry to fly from the room. I'll want you in my department in a few years. Ibiki thought.
The rest of Harry's group did quite well and by the end of the examination had been told they'd passed, the good news all the Konoha rookies had made it through the rounds and had three days to prepare what they needed. Harry and Naruto were loading up on shuriken, kunai, ninja wire and scrolls whilst the rest of the group were packing clothes and food.
It was the second day of their three days of preparation and Harry had just awoken is Suiton (water) tomoe and was absorbing jutsus from Hana and Kakashi at an astonishing rate. "Harry about that coffee you offered a while back. Offer still open for after the survival test?" Asked Hana as she dodged out of the way of a Water Shotgun technique.
"Sure." Harry replied before leaning backwards as a decapitating water blade shot over his head from Kakashi, who sensed a private moment quickly vanished in a swirl of mist and leaves.
Harry and Hana left the training ground with a pop and swirl of leaves and materialised outside one of the many tea parlours in Konoha. Harry and Hana ordered a pot of green herbal tea and sat down behind the table and began chatting about things like dislikes, likes. It was more or less the genin introduction but in more detail. Unbeknownst to the pair Naruto, Haku, Sakura, Kai, James, Lily, Sirius and Kakashi had surrounded the building and armed with cameras.
"Harry, several people are watching us and gathering blackmail." Whispered Hana to Harry who grinned and replied "Let's give them a show then." Hana smirked and suddenly kissed Harry full on the lips which Harry returned. This sudden action sparked nosebleeds in all the males save for James who turned beetroot red.
Harry and Hana broke the kiss "Hana, Are we a couple or you going to wait until I become a Chunin?" Hana thought and responded in less than a minute.
"Wait until you're a Chunin, I'll feel less guilty about doing that." Harry smirked "Yeah well how many can say they snogged their sensei." He then had to dodge a swat to the head.
"You better head home, I'll see you in five days." Hana replied. Harry nodded and apparated away.
The morning bright and painfully, Harry got dressed and shouldered his pack and met his team outside training ground 44 also known as the forest of death. "Morning brats. I am your proctor the wonderfully sexy but still tragically single Materashi Anko." Declared Anko standing at the front of the crowd of genins.
"You are going to have a five day survival/battle royal/escort mission. You will be given a scroll of either heaven or earth and your job is to get the other scroll and get to the centre of the arena to the tower. You will have 120 hours to get through the course as safely as you can. You will not only encounter your other ninja teams but also wildlife, poisonous insects and a force of Chunins that will try and intercept your mission to the tower. To be disqualified you must not lose a member of your team, may not open the scrolls and you can't surrender once you enter the forest." Explained Anko in a silky sexual tone.
Harry gulped and smirked as one genin mimicked Anko and received a cut. Soon enough forms were passed around and were quickly signed and Harry's team were given the heaven scroll. Harry then scanned the scroll with a detection charm and then quite effectively copied the scroll onto four other scrolls with one difference each of the copied scrolls was laced with a triangulating circular pattern of bomb seals which Harry had created with enough power to flatten a building. "Sakura, you take the original scroll because they'll expect the powerhouses to carry it." Whispered Harry to Sakura who grinned but then bopped Harry on the head. "Are you saying I'm weak?" She growled menacingly.
"Sakura...My cousin isn't saying you're weak, he is just saying that you lack the reserves of chakra that make you a powerhouse. You have the best control out of us all." Said Naruto calming the pink haired konochi down.
They surrounded gate number ten and the moment the gates opened the group hit the forest at a sprint. "We need an earth scroll. Or better yet we nick whatever scrolls we come across and help our lot out." Said Kai, receiving grunts from the team as they hurtled into the forest.
The moment the last team entered the forest the chunins entered hot on their tails carrying scrolls and weapons disguised as other genin teams. They weren't in the forest for more than five minutes when they were accosted by a group of rain nin all three were wearing wet suits and breathers. "Give us your heaven scroll and we will let you live." Harry smirked and tossed them a scroll. "Here."
The rain nins caught the scroll but didn't notice that surrendering the scroll seemed to easy. "Oh and lads...You should check the scrolls are authentic!" With that Harry's hand flashed through a series of symbols "Fuuinjutsu: Exploding scroll!" The explosion was deafening and flattened three trees causing the genins to apply chakra to their hands and feet as they leapt and clung to tree branches. The explosion shook the very foundations of the forest and well outside causing Anko and Lily (who turned up to help monitor the test) to drop their dango and sake.
"WHAT IN THE NAME OF KAMI WAS THAT?!" Shouted Anko, not worried about her dropped dango, Lily smiled "That would be one Harry's boom scrolls." Anko gave her mother figure a weird look "Boom scroll?" Lily sighed "Basically, it is a scroll made up of explosion seals and tags in a triangulating circulatory fashion. Because of the circles it becomes wider and louder and the triangles throw the explosion outwards." Anko began to salivate at the thought of boom scrolls. "Think he would make some if he got paid?" Lily nodded and they decided to wait before heading to the tower (and to inspect the damage.)
Everyone was speechless, the genin stared at Harry who stared at the devastation he had caused with his boom scroll. "Oops, it seems I overdid it there. Scavenge the remains, find the scroll and let's get the fuck out of here." The others nodded and they quickly sifted through the charred remains and found a slightly singed earth scroll.
Soon enough after a drink of water, everyone was back into the trees with Sakura in the middle of the formation due to her being their scroll carriers when they came across another problem. A team of five Iwa jonin to chunin rank nin emerged from the undergrowth holding two pairs of heaven and earth scrolls. Haku quickly formulated a plan which they quickly fulfilled in the following sequence.
Naruto and Kai rushed the Iwa nins, with a sudden increase in chakra to their legs Naruto and Kai sped past and yanked the scrolls from the Iwa nins. "THANKS!" They yelled as they shot off into the forest and hid in the higher branches of the trees. Harry and Sakura then surged forward, Harry unsheathing and throwing six kunai three from each sleeve before screaming "KAGE KUNAI NO JUTSU!" This was aided by Sakura unleashing several shuriken and Harry shouting "KAGE SHURIKEN NO JUTSU!"
Sakura and Harry exchanged high fives as the Iwa nins began to duck dodge and weave closer together. That was when the second phase came into play, yes the Fuuinjutsu release caused a big bang but when reacted to a fire the explosion was a lot more intense. "Naruto, strike the fucking fuse and let's get the hell out of here." Shouted Haku. Naruto pulled out a lighter (which he had ferreted from Uncle James.)
"Kage Bunshin No Jutsu!" He murmured and a swarm of clones appeared "Light the scroll and run." He commanded, with that the microscopic fuse was lit and Naruto paled "How long do we have?" He asked nervously. "About five seconds."
Naruto grabbed Kai "REPLACEMENT NO JUTSU!" He shouted and the pair vanished in a plume of smoke revealing two logs, Haku dived into one of his ice mirrors and flew to another a good three to five meters higher whilst Harry spun Sakura around and they vanished in a sharp crack just as a second earth shattering BOOM was heard. But this time the platoon had moved on leaving the carnage behind them.
Three hours later, it was around eight in the evening when they set up camp. Nestled high in the branches which were woven together by hand and magic curtsey of Harry and Haku everyone camped down and went to sleep with Naruto and Harry clones surrounding them for a six meter radius in concentric circles where each clone could see the two clones on each side and the three in front.
Harry couldn't sleep, his scar was burning, although he was naturally pale he was quickly turning sickly. He could smell snakes and he could only think of three things that could instil this much fear and terror into him. Voldemort, the Snake Sannin Orochimaru and Shinigami, he knew it wasn't Voldemort because Harry hadn't heard a peep from him since his arrival in the elemental nations. It definitely wasn't Shinigami, he would know as he had struck a bargin with the death god so it only left Orochimaru.
"Guys we need to move!" Whispered Harry, dispelling his clones before shaking Sakura and Haku awake and nudging Naruto and Kai.
"What's making you freak out?" Asked Haku tiredly.
"Orochimaru...Snake Sannin...Here." Everyone was awake and within three minutes they were hurtling through the trees...destination the tower...to alert the ANBU and Proctors.w
However their luck ran out as they cleared a clearing they noticed Ino, Shikamaru and their respective siblings cowering from one Kusa nin which coincidently had a gianormous snake curled around its neck making Harry think of Voldemort.
Uh Oh!
Looks like Harry has to face another Voldemort wannabe. Will all of the teams make it out alive or will the Snake Sannin get what he came for?
Find out in the next chapter of The Shadow no Kitsune!
Chapter 7: Speaker vs. Summoner
Harry and Orochimaru face off as Harry's 'saving people thing' kicks into high gear. How will Harry fair against someone stronger than Zabusa, the Demon of the Mist.