Naruto: The Pride of the Leaf

Chapter: 6

A/N: Just to let everyone know my brother is home now. He's having trouble getting around and he's on crutches but he's feeling fine and he's still being the same son-of-a-bitch he's always been. Haha.

Thanks to everyone who messaged me or reviewed about that and wished my brother well. It means a lot. Again I'm sorry about that long update time but hopefully this chapter makes up for it. I'm really excited to be back to work and back to writting.

So just a quick explanation, based off what I found online and have read from the manga there are requirements that need to be met for a team to participate in the chuunin exams. A curious reader asked a couple of questions about them and I want to take a moment to answer them.

#1. Time- from my understandig there is a time requirement but it is wavable based on the skill and missions completed by the team.

#2 Missions- they must have completed a certain number of missions. The number is vague and agrue-able from the informtion attained from the manga so I'm just gonna make a number up that sounds reasonable.

That's it, no age reqirement or any ability requirements. Those are left at the discretion of their jounin-sensei.

Thank you for presenting the question properly :)

Please everyone, Favorite/Review/Whatever just let me know what you think.

Disclaimer:

I don't own Naruto. But if I did, it would've been drawn with stick people.

On to the story!

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Obito stood outside of the Namikaze compound with a mildly puzzled look on his face. Naruto was currently leading Lee and Hana through a few D-Ranks Obito had picked up that morning while he was here. Kushina had sent a message through Naruto that she wanted to speak to him. He had feeling it was gonna be a talk about not letting anything happening to Naruto, but with Kushina he never knew what to expect.

He steeled himself as he walked in. He saw Kushina making some tea as she greated him.

"Hello Obito." Kushina said. It was in that all too familiar tone that shook Obito to his core.

Oh, shit...

"Hello Kushina." He replied as he took a seat at the table.

"Would you like some tea?"

"No thank you." He didn't trust it at this point. She's pissed... The only time Kushina ever made tea for anyone was when she was absolutely livid with the person she offered it to. It was their guaranteed signal to keep her calm.

"So Obito," Kushina started off i that same sweet, but evil tone, " Why hasn't Naruto been coming home until late a night? He's tired, sore and usually just collapses into bed."

"He's getting ready for the chunin exams." Obito stated but upon seeing Kushina's expression he needed to defend himself and quick. "He's definately ready! I mean, you know he had to help bring down Donzo and Mizuki to become genin! He's more than able to handle himself!"

Kushina saw red, from her understanding Naruto graduated because Minato pulled some string and let him take the standard test. Minato had lied to her to protect himself. And. She. Was. Pissed. The enitre village heard the next words that came out of her mouth, and al cringed in fear, but none more-so than two blondes who shared the exact same thought. Shit..

"NARUTO DID WHAT TO BECOME A GENIN?!" Kushina screamed.

I really wish I hadn't let that slip... Obito thought as he fled from the house with an extremely pissed off Kushina right on his heels.

"MINATO! NARUTO!" Kushina yelled a she chased Obito through the village streets, "AS SOON AS I'M DONE WITH OBITO I'M COMING AFTER THE TWO OF YOU!"

Sorry Minato-sensei! Obito thought as he ran. He didn't notice it at the time, but while he was running he happened to pass three people who looked onto the scene and laughed. Well two of them laughed. One of them was being kind-of a buzz kill.

"Kinda takes you back to the good ol' days, eh hime?"

"Indeed it does."

"This is no time for reminising you two! The hokage is waiting on us!"

Meanwhile, elsewhere in the village, three genin where chasing around a cat that seemed to have a personal vendeta against a certain blonde haired ninja.

"Damn that cat!" Naruto shouted with scratch marks all over his face. They had been chasing Tora around the village for about twenty minutes now. Madame Shijimi had reported her cat as being lost for the fifth time in under a week and yet again they had been assigned to catch the poor thing and bring him back to the Daimo's wife. They felt bad for the little guy but it was still a job that they had to do.

"If you keep on scaring him like that of course he's gonna run!" Hana yelled at Naruto.

"Idiot! He's running because of your damn mutt!" Naruto shouted. Naruto instantly regretted his decission. Lee stood there shocked. He had never heard Naruto say anything like this and everyone knows never to insult a ninja dog of the Inuzuka's.

"She's not a mutt, idiot! She's a fully bred ninja dog! A dumbass like you couldn't see that though!" Hana yelled getting right in Naruto's face.

Lee just stood there watching and trying to calm everyone down but was completely unsucessful.

"Or maybe she just takes after her master and is a total bitch!" Naruto shouted as he got right in Hana's face. He regretted picking the fight but he wasn't about to back down now.

This was one of only a few time's Lee had ever seen either of the two frustrated, but neither of them had ever been this angry. And neither of them had been angry at the same time. Damn cat...

But Naruto had made the mistake Hana was going to let him get away with. She reared back and punched him square in the jaw. Naruto started to fall backwards and Lee just stood there in shock becuse he was definately not prepaired for what happened next.

"Naruto!" Hana shouted at the top of her lungs as the blonde boy she just punched disapeared in a cloud of smoke. "You are so dead when I find you!"

A few moments earlier, in a tree beside the village gate

Naruto, the real one, was sitting beside Ayame on a branch. They were watching people as they entered and exited the village. She was restng her head on his shoulder while the held hands and talked. He was his usual happy-go-lucky self. She had no idea Naruto was supposed to be doing missions right then so when Naruto suddenly jumped out of the tree repeatedly saying "Shit" while walking around frantically it had her paniced as well.

"What's wrong?" Ayame asked, trying to figure out what caused Naruto's sudden change.

"She's going to kill me! Why would I say something so stupid?" Naruto was now pacing back and forth now while face-palming.

"Who's going to kill you?" Ayame asked. Naruto was just about to answer until he saw something that seemed to frighten him to his very core. Ayame turned to see what had scared her boyfriend so badly. She really wished she hadn't.

Kushina was walking up with an unconcious Obito thrown over her shoulder. She had a sweet, motherly smile on her face but you could still tell she was pissed from the veins popping out of her forhead.

"So Naruto, how exactly did you become a genin?" Kushina asked as she dropped Obito to the ground with a thud.

Kit... Run!

"Don't let her catch me!" Naruto shouted as he ran away. Ayame was only a few feet behind him. Both were running frantically through the village with an extremely pissed off Kushina right behnd them.

"GET BACK HERE NARUTO!" Kushina shouted as she chased after her son.

Naruto tried to round a corner and accidentally ran into someone. He started to appologize until he saw who it was.

"Hey Naruto." Hana said in a tone that reminded him of his mother's. "Where have you been all day?" She was smiling and cracking her knuckles.

Naruto ut his hads up and backed away from her slowly. "Oh hey Hana!" he said in a shakey, terrified voice, "I was just on my way to -"

He was cut off by Kushina sreaming while running up behind him "GET BAK HERE YOU LITTLE!"

"Later!" he yelled as he ran off, trying to avoid them at all costs.

Ayame was now confused, she joined the other two so she could chase him down and get him to explain what was going on.

This can't possibly get any worse...

No sooner than he finished the thought in his head did he run into someone, an older man in his 50's with grey hair carrying a giant scroll on his back and a blode woman with a diamond on her forehead and massive boobs.

The three fell to the ground in a small circle.

"Watch where you're going you damn brat!" the woman yelled at Naruto. "By the way you dropped this." She picked up a small, orange, paperback book off the ground and was about to hand it to Naruto until she realized what it was.

"Jiraiya! You idiot!" Tsunade yelled as she punched the toad sanin and sent him flying into near-by building. "Now for you." She said as she tore the book in half while facing Naruto. She cracked her knuckles and charged at him.

Naruto through a smoke bomb at his feet and jumped up to the roof. Why'd she have to tear it in half!?

He jumped from rooftop to rooftop and soon every woman in the village had heard of Naruto's mischief. He found himself being chased by a mob, dodging jutsu's, kunai, and he was certin that a kitchen sink had flown past his head at some point.

He ran from the mob all day until he finally found quiet alleyway to duck into to rest for a moment. He sat there, leaning against a wall for only few minutes before someone else came down the alley.

"So why is everyone in the village chasing you?" Ayame asked as she walked up to the blonde.

Naruto sighed. He knew he'd messed up and needed to fix it, but he didn't really know how. So he told her everything that had happened today, from ditching missions with kagebunshin to the book that fell out of his pocket.

After he finished the two just sat there for a while. Ayame didn't know whether to rat him out or not. She figured he'd learned his lesson from it, but she wanted to really drive the point home. She stood up and hugged Naruto.

"I won't tell them where you are, dont worry." She coo-ed into his ear. He relaxed a bit until her grip suddenly tightened up. "I've got him! He's right here!" She screamed as loud s she could.

Naruto tried to get free but before he could three figures led an angry mob down the alley. He instanly recognized all three as Tsunade, Hana, and his mom. All three of them were cracking their knuckles as they walked up. Ayame let go of Naruto and walked right past the mob. "See you later Naruto!" She said as she blew him a kiss.

Naruto's screams for mercy could be heard anywhere in the village and terrified anyone who heard them, none more-so than a certain blonde ninja who was hiding under his desk in the Hokage Tower.

Please forgive me Naruto...

Meanwhile in a cave

The ten members of the Akatsuki stood waiting for the answer that for the question Donzo had just asked. He was known to be a very patient man, but in his time with them he had been anything but. He was always trying to press forward on his revenge. It had become particularly tiring for Pain, and everyone realized that it wouldn't take much more for Pain to snap and kill Donzo.

"The longer we wait, the stronger Naruto will become! Right now is our best chance to act!" Donzo shouted, his voice echoing in the empty cave.

"Enough!" Konan shouted, "We don't have time for you to waste on petty revenge! We have other targets besides the Kyuubi!"

"This will be the last time I tell you this Donzo." Pain started, shifting his gaze to the elderly man, "Because if I have to tell you again, I will kill you instead."

Donzo gulped, he hadn't heard Pain directly threaten anyone before. Normally he was calm and composed, like he used to be but since he had been exiled by the very people he was trying to protect he had thrown caution to the wind and was only looking for results.

"We will continue to bide our time, Donzo. We don't need to forget that the Yondaime Hokage will defend his son. They will know pain when the time is right." Pain said with finality.

"Hai, Pain-sama." Donzo said as he bowed.

"Good, now we need to discuss our plans for the Ichibi. Deidara, what do you have in mind?" Pain asked the blonde with long hair.

"I'll go show them what true art is all about." The blonde replied, with a sinister smile on his face.

A/N So what do you guys think? Be sure to leave a review and follow/favorite me or the story. I'm open to feedback if anyone has any writting tips for me as well. I feel like I put too much emphasis on dialogue right now and I'm trying to work on it, but don't worry. I'll figure it out. Also quick note, Gaara is at the age where his mental break down began. Should he be crazy like he was in the chuunin exams or should meeting Naruto curb it? Send me anwers!

Until next time!

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