Month hiatus
Sitting by the pond in his clan compound watching Hana training some of the wolf pups who were old enough some basic chakra exercises and with the help of the elder wolves tracking and what not. When he felt a presence behind him and it wasn't a wolf, not bothering to move or anything he said "come out I know you are there", said person walked out from behind the rock and said "So you are as good as they say kid" came the deep voice of the man. Naruto turning and standing, he said "Jiraiya of the Sannin it is a pleasure to meet you but what do me and my wife owe the honour of your visit" he said smiling.
Jiraiya smirked and said "well truth be told I was sent on a mission long term just before the nine tails attack which was keeping my spy network going for security reasons, which stopped me from fulfilling my duties as your… godfather" he said finishing and all of a sudden finding the ground extremely interesting. Naruto was shocked but that would be like saying Tsunade wasn't an alcoholic, Hana who saw Naruto talking to lord Jiraiya walked over to hear the last part of what he said only to gasp and quickly wrap her mate in a hug. Naruto meanwhile was thinking he had to agree keeping the village informed was a top priority mission and could understand that Jiraiya would feel guilty but his mother he loved her and she sacrificed everything for the village and he didn't hate her, smiling he walked over to Jiraiya and said "well it may take some time godfather, but I'm sure we can catch up over the next couple of weeks, is it safe to assume old man Sarutobi explained everything to you about my Kekkei Genkai which allows me to speak with wolves and what not and causes me to gain certain appearance traits as well" said Naruto with a smile, Jiraiya for his part was extremely happy that Naruto was willing to give him a chance, he then remembered what Sarutobi said in a letter about Naruto's wolf Kekkei Genkai and his amazing prowess in medical ninjutsu and skill not seen since the first Hokage, he remembered from his hidden spot in the preliminaries arena how he took the Tsuga and didn't even flinch and that the wound was sealed almost instantly. He then replied "Yeah Sarutobi sensei told me all about it and that you are an aspiring medic ninja with combat capabilities just like princess Tsunade."
Naruto nodded at that and said after getting an elbow to the side courtesy of Hana "Ah where are my manners, Jiraiya kyofu this is my mate/lover/wife Hana Inuzuka, and these seven who just turned up are…" he said indicating to his wolves and Hana's triplets, causing Jiraiya to look and splutter a bit at seeing 4 abnormally large wolves looking at him "… starting on the left we have the eldest to youngest well that makes things easier, Shomei, Senko, Odorukage and Misutoashi my wolves and the Ninja hounds are Arashi, Seishin and Sukoru" said Naruto while Hana giggled at Jiraiyas' reaction to them. Turning to her Naruto said "Hana koi you don't mind making up some tea for us" he asked giving her a peck on the lips, Hana smiled and said "sure my little Alpha-kun…" she said then walking back to the house with a plethora of wolf cubs following her she turned around and cheekily said "Play nicely boys"
Turning to Jiraya he said "so what did you want I can't see you wanting to come here just to tell me your my godfather" he asked as he tapped his chin, Jiraiya smirked and said "well seeing as you are more of a support type ninja I can't really take you as my apprentice as we have completely different styles of fighting so I thought I would help you with some basic ninjutsu and help you with your chakra nature when we figure out what it is" said Jiraiya with a little hope in his voice, Naruto when he heard that said "godfather you have a deal, train me in elemental ninjutsu this month before the finals" he said and held his hand out, Jiraiya seeing it grinned widely and clasped hands with him and said "we can definitely do that kid and I'll even help come up with a way to beat Neji Hyuuga"
Pulling out a slip of paper Naruto said "I read about that, it's a special type of paper that originally came from a tree that has been infused with chakra from the first hokage, when I channel my chakra into it I will get five reaction or more if I have a chakra orientated Kekkei Genkai, which I won't have since the Uzumaki clan didn't have one as far as the records in the village say and my mother's notes… seeing Jiraiya face he continued …I'll tell you later anyway fire the paper will burn, wind it will rip, lightening will crumple, earth will turn to dust and water will make it go soggy" he finished, Jiraiya smiled and said "Man Sarutobi sensei wasn't kidding when he said you were knowledgeable", Naruto snorted and said "when you have 3 shadow clones work their way slowly through EVERY single library in the village I would hope that I know so much" he replied.
Taking the offered paper he channelled his chakra into it but the strangest thing happened his paper charred and got soggy at the same time before the paper literally melted in front of them both. Looking at each other with confused looks Jiraiya handed him another only to get the same result as before. Standing there Jiraiya thought 'hmm so he got his father's boil release. Minato was never fond of using his nature transformation Kekkei Genkai preferring to use his fire style, but I reckon I will be able to find some old scrolls of his in the Namikaze compound at a later date, besides if he is as smart as sensei says he will figure out which clan Minato's mother comes from. But before he even thinks of trying this chakra bloodline he has to learn how to do fire and water manipulation first and at least two jutsu in each element before I give him a boil release scroll', Jiraiya then spoke "Kid looks like you have fire, water and the nature transformation of the boil release" said Jiraiya with a grin that was matched by Naruto.
Later that night
Sitting on the couch Naruto was looking at a scroll for fire manipulation and Hana was curled up next to him as well reading the same scroll since she might get some tips to further her fire manipulation. Looking out the corner of his eye he sees hana reading deciding to get a rise out of her he rolled up the scroll and started kissing the top of her head, that was until she had enough and pushed him over and straddled him and started kissing him on the lips and Frenching for around 20 minutes finishing they both look at each other and Naruto says "I know you want to go further but we can't not yet at least." He said, Hana knowing the reason smiled and cupped his face with her hand and said "I know because you're a Jinchuuriki it makes you more fertile than normal men, I told you I'm fine with it we agreed didn't we when you turn 16 we will go through with by that time you may have found a jutsu or something that is more powerful than the normal contraception jutsu, it's just it can be so frustrating at times you know." Said Hana as she pouted and folded her arms but stayed on top of him, Naruto sighed and said "yeah I know especially for me going through puberty with banging hot mate and all we can do is look and touch but not do anything" they then both laughed and got up embracing each other and then headed off to bed.
Two weeks before the finals.
Naruto was stood in his training field holding a small round rock in his palm channelling his chakra into it not a second later it was surrounded by flames, cutting the flow the flames disappeared leaving a partially melted rock while the rest was melted throwing the rock to one side he turned to Jiraiya and said "well how was that didn't even need to think godfather so you going to let me try the grand fireball jutsu and the phoenix sage fireball jutsu now." He asked wanting to know a couple of fire jutsu, granted he had his clones doing the Rasengan that would most likely be finished by the exams or just after which was probably the most likely, over the month Jiraiya had taught him all the stages of fire manipulation only moving on when it was like second nature to him and they did that in the mornings while in the afternoons they would do basic strategy and doing the Rasengan, Naruto found the jutsu reasonably easy considering his perfect control, but the three steps were very helpful even if a little childish at the start he had difficulty but when he figured he had to rotate his chakra in multiple direction at the same time to make the ball explode it became child's play, the next step was probably just as easy but it was a lot harder than he anticipated this step took a lot longer but he had completed it the week before now all he had to do was combine the two steps in one and contain it so it made a sphere in his hand but alas this was proving very difficult to do but he was making steady considering he limited himself to 10 clones. He was hoping that when he could do it in his right hand he could train his left hand as well but rotating in the opposite direction for maximum damage if he landed both but even if he didn't he could always use his free hand if blocked and launch a devastating attack on his foe, but enough of that, Jiraiya was about to give him two fire jutsu to learn.
"Alright kid here is the scrolls for the Grand fireball and the phoenix flower jutsu, now the hand signs for the grand fireball are snake-ram-monkey-boar-horse-tiger and the phoenix flower rat-tiger-dog-ox-rabbit-tiger, okay now try the fireball" he said stepping back.
Naruto went through signs and said "fire style: grand fireball jutsu" sucking in a huge amount of air he then released it spouting a medium sized fireball that was around the size of Jiraiya, cutting the flow he looked at his temporary sensei and smiled letting a little smoke come out, seeing this Jiraiya laughed but gave him the thumbs up and said good now do the next one, doing the same thing but taking rapid short breaths and exhaling smaller randomly aimed flower shaped fireballs erupted from his mouth hit some training dummies in the training field. Jiraiya smiled and looked over to see Hana clapping for his achievement, clearing his throat he said "Naruto continue until lunch time okay, once you become comfortable and perfect at doing the jutsu we can try and half the hand signs or slowly removing some of the intermediate hand signs for example for the fireball we would try and remove the horse, then boar hand signs and son on until we only have snake and tiger, the same for the phoenix flower" he said, Naruto nodded and went back to practicing after giving Hana a quick peck on the lips. Jiraiya walked over to the house and sat cross legged on the porch with a cup of tea he was soon joined by Hana and they ended up just talking about missions and stuff and watching Naruto progress, Jiraiya had to hand it to the boy his chakra control was like that of Tsunade's when she was younger or higher, add to the fact he had a demon chakra battery in his gut, he could for all intents and purposes create a jutsu that would give him the ability to send his chakra out and heal them from the inside out without even having to be there to do so the possibilities could be amazing if he had a vantage point they could send an army out and as long as they stayed in range any wound they suffered would be immediately being started to be treated, pushing those thoughts away he could see he was progressing well, moving his attention to Naruto's clones he saw they had successfully created the Rasengan even if they had to concentrate for about 3 minutes and even then it was successful 6 times out of 10 which for Naruto wasn't good enough, but then he saw a clone hold out both hands, curious to what it was doing he paid rapt attention, then his eyes bugged out and jaw hit the ground as two near perfect Rasengan's appeared momentarily before exploding dispelling the clone and passing the information to the others who all grinned before trying to do the normal Rasengan.
Day of the finals.
Arriving in the stadium Naruto saw all the other contestants as he was the last to arrive walking over to the others he stood next Shikamaru and let his gaze dance over the crowd.
Shikamaru thought 'he sure looks calm, as usual.'
In the stands
Sakura spoke to Ino, "Naruto is finally here" she said happily, Ino replied "well he just made it, should be interesting watching his matches"
In the Kage box
The hokage was sitting in his chair waiting for the arrival of the Kazekage he sighed and thought 'everyone has assembled.' He then looked behind and saw Jiraiya and Raido there as his body guards turning back to the Arena he sat in thought about the future, as he was thinking he was shaken out of his thoughts by the arrival of the Kazekage arriving he sat on his right he greeted him "Kazakage dono looking forward to the fights to come?"
He then turned to the Kazekage "I look forward to Gaara and Sasuke's match, as are many of the people." to this the Hokage just nodded in return.
Back in the arena
Genma spoke "hey everyone stop the fidgeting and stand up straight and present yourselves and the village proudly"
Doing so they all went silent and waited Naruto looked around 'hmmm I wonder where Sasuke is.'
In the kage Booth
Turning to an ANBU the Hokage said "any sight of Sasuke Uchiha" the ANBU in return said "none sir, but a team of ANBU are searching for him, sir he could well be already in Orochimaru's hands" the ANBU said whispering the last part, the Hokage sighed "I understand" before smiling at the other kage reassuring them.
Standing he walked to the edge of the booth and said "it is time for the finals of the Chunin selection exams to begin" projecting his voice with the help of Chakra he says "WELCOME ALL, AND OUR DEEPEST THANKS FOR ALL OF YOU MAKING YOUR WAY TO THE VILLAGE HIDDEN IN THE LEAVES FOR THIS YEARS CHUNIN SELECTION WE HAVE COME TO THE FINAL COMPETION BETWEEN THE 10 CANDIDATES WHO MADE IT THROUGH THE PRELIMINARIES WE ASK THAT NOO ONE LEAVES UNTIL ALL THE MATCHES ARE COMPLETED NOW EVERYONE ENJOY" hearing the Kazekage spoke up "you said 10 candidates aren't you missing one" the hokage just hmmd in annoyance
In the arena
Genma spoke "before we begin one more thing…" he pulled out a piece of paper outlining how the finals would go "… look it over there has been a slight change in the match ups since Dosu is no longer able to compete, but now it is set so take a good look at who you will be facing."
Gaara hearing Dosu's name thinks back to the night he killed him but dismissed it quickly
Naruto spoke up "what happens if Sasuke Uchiha doesn't show… will he be disqualified" Genma answered "In all likely hood he will be disqualified from the exams or his match pushed back"
In the stands
Sakura was sitting with Ino 'Sasuke where are you why did you leave without saying anything this is not like you.' Whilst the rest of the fan girls were thinking there Sasuke Kun was amazing.
In the arena
Genma decides to start with the rules "the terrain maybe different but the rules are the same there are none but I can step in to call the fight… the fighters for the first match are Naruto Uzumaki Okami vs. Neji Hyuuga, those two stay the rest to the waiting area now go."
In the stands
Kiba turns to Hinata "I have a feeling this is going to be an interesting match." Hinata just nodded in agreement.
With the jonin
Anko was walking around with a hat taking bets on who would win with the majority going on the Hyuuga as they didn't know what Naruto was capable of, Anko and the few jonin and Hana who did know were thinking 'chumps, ah well ignorance breeds failure'
Back in the arena
Facing each other, Naruto and Neji stare down each other. Genma giving the signal to start they don't move Neji speaks "so you got anything to say".
Naruto snorts and says "No not really" Naruto says glaring and spiking his KI showing he was serious, Neji just activated his Byuakugan "we'll see about that" said Neji doing the same as Naruto but his KI not on the same level, Naruto smirks and decides to taunt Neji playing on his Hyuuga pride "ohh the famed Hyuuga all seeing eyes well then if your serious then I'll get serious too." Said Naruto, activating his four legs technique, but with no intention to fight head on.
They both slipped into their Taijutsu stances Neji the Juken one arm facing out with his palm facing out, knees slightly bent and left arm bent and at hip height. Naruto got into his modified Inuzuka stance, Neji got a curios look and asked "what is that stance?" Naruto replied "I managed to modify the Inuzuka Taijutsu style." He said nonplussed.
Neji replied "No matter I as a Hyuuga branch member will be victorious today as fate has decreed" he said, "we'll see Hyuuga we'll see" said Naruto
They stayed in their stances waiting to see who would move first, deciding to do something Naruto vocalises "Ninpo: Tessayose no Jutsu" and two chains erupted either side of Neji who simply dodged the attack seeing it with his eyes. Sighing Naruto thought 'worth a shot'
The Jonin and Kage
Asuma when he saw this let his cigarette fall at the sight "Dad actually taught him some of his personal jutsu." Some ninja around heard him looked a little jealous.
In the kage booth
The hokage 'how much have you grown Naruto lately you cease to amaze me'
With Orochimaru/kazekage 'Bah what a mediocre jutsu this seems like it will be boring.'
In the stands
Hana 'you show them Naruto-koi what you learned.'
Back at the arena
Neji having enough charged and executed his attack with a flurry of blows at various nerve points and joints, aiming a stab at his shoulder but was dodged, then the joints of his arms and legs seeing these all successfully evaded by Naruto, Neji tried to go faster again aiming this time for his stomach however Naruto evaded and sent and attack of his own using his "Ninpo: Hiritsuku Kasumi no Jutsu"making Neji jump back a bit lest he be stung and have his skin melted slightly, Naruto then made his arms glow with the chakra scalpels as extra protection in case Neji got lucky, he then made a come hither gesture to Neji who obliged and charged him, Naruto continued to dodge Neji's swing at his head which Naruto ducked then another at his chest which he twirled around this went on for ten minutes of fighting only in Taijutsu twirling and weaving by Naruto with the odd lash out here and there the same. With Neji the fight was even, even though Naruto was kept on the defensive. Jumping away from each other Naruto goes through some hand signs then shouted "Dokugiri" as he said that a purple fog streamed from his mouth, engulfing Neji who used his kaiten to protect himself and disperse the poisonous fog.
Naruto then did the needed hand signs tora-saru-tora "fire release: phoenix flower jutsu" then multiple bullets of fire erupted from his mouth heading straight for Neji who jumps only to be nearly caught in the chest by one but saving it by using his Kaiten again.
In the stands
The main branch members can't believe that a branch member was able to learn one of their jutsu. The head Hiashi smiled 'little brother your boy is even more talented than you were'
Back in the arena
Looking on Naruto decides to try it hebi-saru-tora… "Fire style: Grand fireball jutsu" this time sending one giant fireball that Neji defended against with his Kaiten easily what he didn't notice were the hidden senbon needles that Naruto sent afterwards figuring out Neji could only hold the technique so long, by the time he realised it he already had three senbon imbedded into his arm, pulling them out Neji smirked and said "you're in my field of divination"
The Hyuuga merely gasped as did some of the higher ups
Neji then attacked sealing 64 of Naruto's Chakra points seeing Naruto's unmoving form Neji looked at the proctor "Call the Match he won't be moving" as he finished Naruto got up and flared his chakra coving himself in a light pink haze. Shocking everyone. Neji getting into his stance stared at Naruto, Naruto just held his hands by his side and started creating his dual Rasengan's, seeing them the crowd was left speechless including the kage, Charging Neji, Naruto lunged and then replaced himself with a clone that managed to move underground with an easy jutsu he learned just as Neji initiated his Kaiten, in the middle of the maneuvers Naruto appeared out of the ground and nailed Neji in the gut with one of them even though it was heavily powered down.
Walking over to him Naruto kneels and starts to heal any of Neji's minor injuries as the medics made their way over to them while Genma makes Naruto the winner.
After healing Neji for a minute he gains consciousness, looks and sees Naruto's blue eyes, Naruto seeing him awake says "you fought well Neji"
"Yes but fate, determined I would lose this day"
"No you are wrong, it wasn't fate it was the unlucky draw of facing a more skilled opponent, but to be honest you had me worried for a while during the fight."
"I see thank you, this was a good fight."
In the Kage booth
"That was very entertaining match a very good way to start off the exams." stated the third.
"My, you have a very competent shinobi Hokage dono" said the Kazekage
In the competitor's box
Walking in he stood between shino and Shikamaru who both congratulated him on the win, then they heard Genma announce "Due to complications and a valid excuse beforehand we are moving Sasuke Uchiha's fight to the last, could Shikamaru Nara and Temari of the sand village please come forward"
"Troublesome, oh well might as well get this over with" said Shikamaru as he watched Temari jump down and glide on her fan to the stadium floor, he then turned and walked away down the stairs.
Sighing Naruto decided to just see what happened
In the Arena
Temari was waiting patiently for the Nara to arrive, when he arrived he stood in front of her and said "why do I bother they are only here to watch Sasuke fight and to top it off I'm versing another girl" he drawled lazily.
"What's the matter giving up already" said Temari with a tick mark on her forehead
In the stands
A few Kunoichi, cough… Kurenai, Anko… cough all got slightly annoyed at the comment and started a little rant about no good men and lazy idiots
Asuma just sweat dropped "I knew he wasn't the most driven shinobi but this really"
Guy on the other hand just shouted "SHIKUMARU KUN LET YOUR FLAMES OF YOUTH IGNITE MY YOUTHFUL FRIEND"
Everyone around him backed away slightly.
Back in the arena
Temari getting agitated charges Shikamaru with her fan saying if you won't start then I will while Genma half-heartedly said "hey I didn't start the match yet" Shikamaru sighed and thought 'oh yeah I forgot this one is spunky' waiting at the last minute he dodges and stick to the wall looking at her "you know it doesn't really bother me if I become Chunin or not but I guess I shouldn't let myself be beaten by a female…" he got a growl from Temari "…so let's do it"
Temari opened up her fan fully and fired off a close range jutsu at him creating a lot of dust when it cleared Shikamaru wasn't there, turning Temari thought 'he's quick when it comes to running away'
'why do I always get stuck fighting girls it's so lame oh well better get this over with' thought Shikamaru as a shadow shout out from the tree he was hiding on trying to catch Temari.
The fight was more of a cat and mouse affair Temari would fire one jutsu Shikamaru would dodge and reply with his own but the whole time Shikamaru was luring her into a false sense of security until after a half hour of fighting Shikamaru caught her and then promptly forfeited claiming running out of chakra
Temari was named winner by forfeit.
In the stands everyone was shocked by what he said
Leaving the field Shikamaru went to the stands to be by the other Genin and Temari went back to the competitors' box to wait and recover.
Genma called for Shino and Kunkuro to come and fight. When he finished Kunkuro shouted "PROCTOR I FORFEIT" earning boo's from the crowd Genma then said "alright SHINO WINNER BY FORFEIT"
As he said it Sasuke and Kakashi appeared, Kakashi then asked "are we late", Genma deciding to play with him said "yes in fact you're so late we moved on to the other matches…" getting an angry look from Sasuke and a surprised look from Kakashi, Genma continued "…but the hokage pushed your match to the end and you turned up just in time your match starts when Gaara gets here"
In the competitor's box
Gaara said "I told you he would come"
Arena
On Que Gaara appears in a vortex of sand, with his arms crossed and his usual dark look. Staring at Sasuke. Sasuke getting a good look at Gaara for the first time sees he had pale skin and blue green eyes with red short spikey hair, he wore black full body suit with t-shirt-like sleeves, ¾-length legs, and an open neck. With this, he wore a white cloth over his right shoulder and the left side of his hips, and a wide leather band system over the left shoulder and right side of his hips. With this leather band, he carried around his gourd that contains his sand. He also wrapped his black forehead protector over the band.
Gaara too looks at Sasuke as he changed from the preliminaries notes a change longer hair and all black clothing instead of blue and white.
Then Genma says begin, the cork on Gaara's gourd pops off and with it his sand come out Sasuke seeing this creates some distance between them 'so this is the sand Kakashi sensei was talking about' he then pauses as Gaara clutches his head and says "please I beg you don't get so mad at me…." He then looks at Sasuke with his eyes and grin full bloodlust says "mother"
Sasuke in his head 'what in the world is he talking about', gaara then talks again while his sand is hovering above his head "I'm very sorry early on when I made you taste such awful blood I'm so sorry, but this time I'm sure it will taste oh so very good"
In the competitor's box
"His conversation has started already this is dangerous" said Kunkuro
"I know this is the first time I have seen him get like that before fighting that's how powerful an opponent Sasuke is… watch" said Temari
Back at the fight
Gaara hen gets a bad head pain groaning out his sand falls to the ground, then in the stand Baki says to himself "thank goodness he has finally calmed down"
Recovering Gaara looks at Sasuke and says "well come on"
Sasuke starts by throwing Shuriken at him which his sand blocks while he stands there with his arms folded over his chest. The sand then turns into a clone while Sasuke charges at gaara the sand gaara then explodes some sand at Sasuke who jumps in the air and throws more shuriken which are intercepted by the clone throwing back the previous one, Sasuke then kicks at the gaara clone destroying its hands then landing in a handstand flipping right way up back hands the sand clone in the throat, the sand then encircles Sasuke hand and wrist, using his free hand he destroys the clone leaving a hole in his defence Sasuke gets close but his punch is blocked he smirks and disappeared in a burst of speed getting a surprised look from gaara as Sasuke reappears behind him 'he's fast just like that other one' as he thinks that Sasuke throws a punch hitting Gaara in the cheek throwing him backwards only to be caught by his sand.
Sitting up Gaara looks at him while Sasuke says "so that's your sand armour hmm" he then motions for Gaara to attack and like Gaara says "come on" seeing Gaara not moving he says "if you won't do it then I will" he then takes off at gaara who attempts to block with his sand only for Sasuke to disappear behind him. Only to appear on the wall at the far end of the stadium, Gaara then cocooned himself in a sphere of sand.
In the stands
"He's not keeping to the plan he is trying to transform" said Temari worried about what was happening. Kunkuro nodded and 'Gaara got mess this up'
Arena
Sasuke did some hand signs and shout "Chidori" then a ball of lightening started to appear in his hand and start chirping like thousands of birds.
In the stands
Guy turned to Kakashi "you didn't that's a jutsu made to kill, for god sakes Kakashi this is only the Chunin exams not a war" said Guy very upset his eternal rival could be so careless, Kakashi just hmm'd and said "and you taught yours how to open the gates which is just as dangerous"
Arena
Charging the sand sphere he got close enough to plunge his hand in the sand, just as spikes of sand erupted outwards nearly skewering Sasuke.
In the dome of sand
Moving his hand to his shoulder Gaara felt something wet moving his hand in front he saw it covered in blood he then said "blood… my blood…ITS MY BLOOD AHHHH" screamed a blood crazed Gaara "YES PROVE MY EXISTANCE UCHIHA HAHA, MOTHER WANTS YOUR BLOOD"
Just then feathers started floating around everyone causing the majority to fall asleep. And an explosion in the Kage box happened. Then the roof of the stadium the Kazekage appeared with the hokage.
