Jinchuuriki of the Reibi
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Chapter 6 – Preliminaries
Naruto! Orochimaru was after Naruto! Why would Orochimaru be after Naruto. Minato who heard this dismissed the teams to rest for the remaining days, the strange thing was the report says he got two different curse seals placed on him but nothing was there. Minato thought about why Orochimaru would be after his son, then it hit him, Naruto had the Uzumaki genes in him making him live a lot longer than most people probably live at least to 150 live like Mito Uzumaki-Senju, since Mito had the Kyubi sealed within her removing her as a host for Orochimaru's immortality jutsu and he can get a Sharingan or Byakugan whenever he wanted. Minato called the shinobi side to warn them and to prepare for anything.
"Hokage-sama why are we here?" asked Shibi Aburame.
"This shinobi meeting is about Orochimaru" Minato calmly stated freaking out most of the clan heads. "He attacked a Konoha genin team in the second stage."
"Why is Orochimaru here?" asked Fugaku Uchiha "Is he after Satsuki?"
"Is he after Hinata?" said a worried Hiashi Hyuga.
"No" came the reply of Minato
"Mito?" both Hiashi and Fugaku said which Minato shook his head.
"Then who?" asked Inoichi Yamanaka. Minato looked up.
"Naruto…" he said with a hint of sadness. "…Shikaku prepare our ninja forces for anything Orochimaru might try, Jiraiya will be here after the preliminaries, we have to play along while gathering our forces, dismissed" Hiashi and Fugaku stayed behind for their friend.
"Why is he after Naruto" asked Fugaku concerned for his friends son.
"Since Naruto has Uzumaki genes that will allow him to live a lot longer than most people that would be a reason since Mito is a Jinchuuriki, you two better watch out for Orochimaru as he could go for you doujutsus." Minato paused before mumbling "It's all my fault."
"Huh why is it your fault?" Hisashi said
"Well since we trained Mito to control Kyubi's chakra. We…forgot….about him and he grew cold towards us and since his first kill he got even colder." Minato said before slamming his head against the table. Fugaku and Hisashi were shocked and didn't know what to say so that stayed quiet.
Two days later in the tower the Konoha 15, Suna Siblings, the Oto team, Iwa team and Kabuto's team. Minato gave a short speech and then the proctor of the preliminaries spoke up.
"I'm *cough* Hayate Gekko and since *cough* we have too many people we will have preliminaries to cut the numbers, and there will no *cough* backing out due to numbers but one match will be a with three people." Hayate said making Kabuto curse. "The matches will scroll through randomly." The machine scrolled through the names before ending on the first match.
Sakura vs Ino.
This caused the Konoha teams to sweat drop along with the Hokage. The match itself was very short and only lasted around five minutes. "Well that is two people out of this" mumbled Naruto and the match generator scrolled through the remaining names.
Shikamaru vs Kin
Shikamaru won his match with the use of his Kagemane no Jutsu. The names started rolling again.
Temari vs Tenten
Temari won the match using her battle fan blowing around the thrown weapons from scrolls Tenten carried.
Kankuro vs Misguru
Kankuro won the match with his two puppets, Misguru had an interesting ability that allowed him to become rubber like.
Dosu vs Choji
Dosu won the match, Choji almost won as well.
Hinata vs Neji
Neji won the match almost killing Hinata when Mito and other jonin stopped him. Naruto just watched the scene before him "Neji you idiot" He thought.
Shino vs Zaku
Shino won the match by sending his bugs into Zaku's melody arm.
Gaara vs Yoroi
Gaara used his sand to get to the arena stage while Yoroi jumped down, Gaara looked up to Naruto while Naruto looked at Gaara then the match began.
Yoroi rushed Gaara trying to drain his chakra just like Naruto's Haisui Richi but Gaara's sand caught the Yoroi but the leg.
"Sabaku Kyu (Sand Binding Coffin)" Gaara said capturing Yoroi. Yoroi screamed in pain at the next attack performed by Gaara "Sabaku Soso (Sand Waterfall Funeral)" leaving a bloodly corpse that was Yoroi. All the genin froze at Gaara killing someone while Naruto watched Gaara closely taking notes on his seal.
Kiba vs Akatsuchi
"Okay Akamaru let's show them what we can do" Kiba said jumping down with Akamaru.
"Show him up Akatscuhi" said the Iwa Kunoichi. Akatsuchi nodded and jumped down onto the arena. As the match began Kiba charged Akatsuchi.
"Tsuga (Passing Fang)" shouted Kiba as he attacked Akatsuchi.
"Doton: Doryuheki (Earth Release: Earth-Style Wall)" Akatsuchi said, an earth wall rose from the ground stopping Kiba. Kiba looked at Akamaru and nodded.
"Gatsuga (Fang Passing Fang)" Kiba shouted when he and Akamaru both spun around the earth wall, and hit Akatsuchi. Akatsuchi then said another jutsu.
"Doton: Goremu no Jutsu (Earth Release: Strong Servant Warrior Technique/Golem Technique)" A giant rock golem emerged and swiped at Kiba who got hit by the technique was sent towards the wall. Being the stubborn fool he is Kiba rose and went for another attack, only to be swatted away by the golem a couple of times before falling unconscious.
Sai vs Aoitsuchi
Sai walked down to the battle arena with Aoitsuchi wearing the standard Iwa outfit with a similar bandanna like Akatsuchi. "Ready to lose" Aoitsuchi said smirking to Sai. Sai's reply was a creepy smile.
Hayate looked between the fighters and said "HAJIME" Aoitsuchi dashed towards Sai. Sai pulled out a scroll and sent ten ink lions without the kanji for explosion on them, Aoitsuchi dodged six of the ink beasts before being hit by the remaining four.
"Damn" muttered Aoitsuchi, Sai went through handsigns.
"Katon: Gokakyu no Jutsu" A fireball went towards Aoitsuchi who dodged to throw kunai at Sai. Sai created an ink elephant to take the kunai, Sai created two ink dragons to attack.
"Doton: Doryudan (Earth Release: Earth Dragon Bullet)!" shouted Aoitsuchi as a dragon-like head made of mud shot multiple bullets mad of mud at the two ink dragons and Sai. During the midst of the chaos Sai snuck up on Aoitsuchi and delivered a quick chop to the neck winning the match.
Satsuki vs Kurotsuchi vs Yakumo
"The three person match will begin, now" Hayate said
Satsuki activated her Sharingan and fired the a fireball at Yakumo. "Suiton: Mizurappa" Yakumo said as a stream of water at the fire ball. Kurotsuchi went towards the Uchiha and engaged in taijutsu. Satsuki and Kurotsuchi saw they were in a genjutsu when they were being hit with fireballs.
"Kai" they both shouted only to have the burn marks stay on them as the other fireballs disappeared.
"Doton: Doryuso (Earth Release: Earth Flow Spears)" Kurotsuchi said as multiple spears of earth flew at both Satsuki and Yakumo, they both dodged only to see that it was a trap. "Yoton: Sekkaigyo no Jutsu (Lava Release: Quicklime Congealing Technique)" Kurotsuchi said before large quantity of quicklime came out.
"Katon: Hosenka no Jutsu (Fire Release: Phoenix Sage Fire Technique)" Satsuki yelled as a volley of small fireballs were shot out of Satsuki's mouth after both she and Yakumo dodged the quicklime.
As the fireballs hit Kurotsuchi, Satsuki spun around to Yakumo. "Suiro no Jutsu (Water Prison Technique)" She said as Satsuki was trapped in a sphere of water. Kurotsuchi saw this as a perfect chance to act. Kurotsuchi chopped Yakumo's neck releasing Satsuki. Satsuki engaged in taijutsu again, with the Sharingan Satsuki dodged most of the attacks but when Kurotsuchi crumbled into rocks Satsuki felt a punch to her gut and saw the real Kurotsuchi there.
"Winner Kurotsuchi of Iwa" said Hayate. Naruto and a Kage Bushin helped Yakumo and Satsuki back to where the teams were.
Mito vs Lee
"My turn" grinned Mito as she hopped down.
"YOSH! IT IS MY TURN TO SHOW MY FLAMES OF YOUTH" Lee shouted.
"SHOW THE FLAMES OF YOUTH LEE!" Guy shouted back at his student. Everyone sweat dropped at this.
"Hajime" came the voice of Hayate. Both Mito and Lee engaged in taijutsu as that was the only thing Lee could do.
"Konoha Daisenpu (Leaf Great Whirlwind)" Shouted lee dispelling Mito. "A clone!" Lee then got kicked by Mito.
"Lee take them off" said Guy
"But sensei"
"You have permission Lee"
"Yes Guy-sensei" Lee said before dropping his weights shocking most of the people there. Mito smirked however as she released her gravity seals. They engaged in taijutsu again until Lee had to step it up a notch. "Kaimon!" shouted Lee.
"Guy, you taught him to open the gates?" questioned Kakashi, while Guy just nodded.
Lee gotten behind Mito and shouted "Omote Renge (Front Lotus)" Lee went on to the perform the move with Mito wrapped up in the bandages before getting smashed into the floor, Mito then dispelled again.
"Rasengan" shouted Mito as the Rasengan hit lee knocking him into the wall and winning the match.
Naruto vs Kabuto
"The final match of the preliminaries will now begin." Kabuto looked towards the man disguised as Orochimaru stared at him.
"Come on Kabuto-senpai, no going easy on me" Naruto said coldly. Kabuto then made a chakra scalpel, as soon as Kabuto got close Naruto then shunshin'd behind Kabuto and used his Haisui Richi to dislocate Kabuto left arm.
"He just used a plain shunshin, the only one who mastered it to that was Shisui Uchiha" thought all the jonins, the hokage and Satsuki.
"You can heal your wounds quickly Kabuto" Naruto said before engaging Kabuto. Kabuto's chakra scalpel was drained and Kabuto's right arm was dislocated as well.
"You do have a unique fighting style Naruto" Kabuto said
"Sensei, what was that fighting style?" asked Lee
"I don't know I never seen it before, Naruto most likely created it" shocking the genin and jonin.
"HIS FLAMES OF YOUTH ARE BLAZING!" shouted both Guy and Lee.
"I can't copy it" said Kakashi pulling down his forehead protector.
"Neither" said Satsuki smiling "He found a way to stop the Sharingan copying."
"What do you mean found a way?" asked Mito.
"Since only a few of us like me, Itachi and Kaa-san don't use our Sharingan to copy people's move, he knew that during the finals that the Uchiha clan would be watching with their Sharingan." Shocking the jonin.
"...A prodigy…" Minato said softly after hearing what Satsuki said.
Kabuto was losing chakra fast due to this Haisui Richi taijutsu and with the fact that Naruto kept dislocating his arms and legs, forcing Kabuto to heal which his chakra was being taken by the taijutsu style. Naruto pulled out a seal and activated it on Kabuto making him crash into the ground. Naruto remembered what Yamato said to him before the match began.
Flashback
"Naruto, we believe Kabuto might be a spy as he showed Lee's, Neji's, Gaara's and your stats" Yamato said
"And what do you want me to do sensei?" Naruto asked, Yamato sighed at what he had to say.
"We need you to kill him" Yamato sadly said expecting to hear a protest.
"Consider it done" Naruto said coldly.
Flashback End
"Come on Kabuto, I expected more from a veteran" Naruto harshly said.
"Well I guess it's time to get serious then Naruto"
"You took the words right out of my mouth, Kai" leaving a crater larger than Lee's where Naruto was standing leaving people shocked to see that Naruto trained with more weights than Guy, Lee and Mito combined. Naruto disappeared to hit Kabuto multiple times before going into ninjutsu. "Be proud to see my own creation." Naruto said.
"Futon: Supiapiasu (Wind Release: Piercing Spear)!" said Naruto coldly as his arm covered in visible wind chakra showing like a large spear as it pierced Kabuto's heart killing him.
Naruto stood over the corpse of Kabuto with cold eyes before a team of jonin picked up the body. Hayate then called the winning genin down to call out their numbers.
"One" said Mito.
"Three" said Naruto.
"Five" said Kankuro.
"Six" said Shino.
"Two" said Neji.
"Four" said Kurotsuchi.
"Eleven" said Gaara.
"Troublesome…Seven" mumbled Shikamaru.
"Twelve" said Dosu.
"Nine" said Sai.
"Eight" said Temari.
"Ten" said Akatsuchi.
"One month from now the official stage 3 will commence, dismissed" said the Hokage. When they all left Naruto handed a note to Gaara who read it. "Gaara I can fix your seal so the Ichibi can let you sleep" the note said with directions on where to meet him. After reading the note Gaara decided to go to the location on the note.