In case it had been forgotten I dont own Naruto or any of the characters
Chapter 7: Genjutsu and the first task
It had been two weeks since Naruto had returned from the mission to wave, and Naruto was currently looking for his ever perverted sensei at the various women only hot springs around the village. And becoming more and more frustrated, that he was not at any of his favorite places.
"Damn that erosennin, where the hell is he. I need him to train me or at least get a mission, I haven't done one since last week when I had to go catch fish with team 8. And even then I had to stay on land after the first hour because Hinata kept passing out when I tried to take my shirt off to go for a swim to catch them" Naruto was brought out of his musings when he heard a perverted chuckle.
Standing behind him was Jiraiya writing in his notepad. Obviously something Naruto had said had given him 'inspiration'. The thought of being in one of his sensei's perverted books was not appealing to the blond and he quickly stole the notepad and ripped out the page before Jiraiya could respond.
"Stupid perverted sensei your not using me in your books. Now why didn't you show up for training today I'm still having trouble cutting the leaf I don't know what I am doing wrong" Naruto said.
"Damn it gaki you didn't need to tear the page out. And I was late because I was signing you up for the chunin exams, normally you would need a team of three to compete but because of who I am the Hokage allowed you in solo" the white haired toad charmer proclaimed.
"Yeah what ever you probably just promised jiji a signed copy of your next book before it comes out or something. Now help me with my wind manipulation" the blond whined.
"Fine gaki ok, well I'm a Katon and Doton affinity, Fuuton is rare even in Suna right now I can only think of two people who are wind users. And trust me you don't want to have anything to do with Danzo. You should ask Asuma although I would wait until after the chunin exams he will be busy getting his team ready, so just keep trying for now. Hows the rasengan going" Jiraiya said curious how the rest of his young apprentice's training was progressing.
"Ok I guess, I just cant focus on the rotation, power and stability it's like I start to get it then it just slips away I can hold it for about 15 seconds" Naruto said dejected that the final stage was proving much harder than the others.
"Well you could just use shadow clones to complete the training" the toad sage said.
"No I want to do this myself and beat your time in learning it…. … Wait that's it your a genius erosennin" the blond cheered.
"Um thanks... I guess" the sage replied, unsure of what he said. If he was still refusing to use shadow clones in training, what else could he have said that would give the kid a breakthrough.
Naruto created a single shadow clone next to him and it started to spin the chakra whilst the original focused on power and stability soon there was a perfectly formed rasengan in the blonds hand.
"YES I did it, see erosennin instead of using the clones to train I can split up the roles until I can do it perfectly but it's good enough" the excitable ninja said proudly letting the rasengan disappear.
"Well done gaki. Let's go get some ramen to celebrate" the white haired man said.
"Yeah ramen, ramen, ramen" the blond yelled happily as he walked with his sensei to his favorite ramen store.
(Ichiraku Ramen)
"Ok gaki excellent work on the rasengan, you have it so its usable although in hardly the conventional way but still well done now for the rest of the week we are going to focus on genjutsu" Jiraiya said.
"Why erosennin? I thought you told me I would never have any real ability at it because my chakra levels were so high" Naruto asked curious as to why he would be focusing the last week before the chunin exams on something he would never be able to do well.
"That's true you have about as much talent for genjutsu as my former teammate has in gambling. But at the same time you need to be able to recognize a high level one and dispel it. Otherwise the second you run into a genjutsu user in the exam you will be about as useless as a academy student faced with the prospect of facing Tora hyped up on catnip" the white haired man stated.
Naruto paled at just the thought of Tora on catnip, and he was rather confident he could hold his own against most chunin.
"Ok I get it, so how do we do this Kurenai sensei showed me some basic's" the blond asked still in fear of Tora the terrible hyped up on cat crack
"Well as you know, there are two ways. The first and easiest is to cause pain to yourself which is fine if your as sadistic as Anko. But in the highly likely event that you are not sexually aroused by blood what You have to do is disrupt your chakra flow by performing the required hand sign and saying kai this stops your chakra flow then bursts it out around you dispelling the genjutsu" the toad sage said.
"So when are we going to start I mean the exams are in just over a week" Naruto asked.
"Well start tomorrow I'm not good with genjutsu, so I will have to get some help" Jiraiya answered.
They ate happily, well happily until Jiraiya was given the bill and then went there separate ways Naruto was just happy to be learning a new skill whilst the old pervert was distracted by two women heading towards his favorite researching area.
(The Following Day Training Ground 2)
"Hey erosennin how are we going to learn this, I mean you said you weren't good at genjutsu either but I don't see anyone else here" Naruto asked curious to see how he would be training in his worst skill set.
Jiraiya wasted no time and summoned what looked like two elderly toads. One with a gray beard and hair, whilst the other had curly black hair and was holding a rolling pin and was not looking happy.
"Jiraiya-chan what did you call us for, I was in the middle of making centipede soup" the toad with the rolling pin said in a feminine voice indicating that the toad was female.
"Now Ma, I am sure Jiraiya-chan wouldn't of summoned us for nothing, now what do you need boy" the toad with gray hair asked.
"Uh yes Fukusaku-sama, Shima-sama this is Naruto Uzumaki and my new apprentice and toad summoner, Naruto these are the two toad elders" Jiraiya introduced the two.
"Nice to meet you elder toads" Naruto greeted respectfully.
"Well anyway Fukusaku-sama, Shima-sama. I was wondering if you would help me teach the boy to detect and dispel genjutsu, because if he can disrupt your jutsu he will be safe from almost all genjutsu" Jiraiya said hoping that the flattery of there skills would save him from Shima's rolling pin.
"Very well we can help the boy, but next time you call us it better be for something serious or else" the old toad Shima said, slowly patting the wooden object in her hand getting small whimpers from the tall man.
Naruto created a hundred clones to disrupt the genjutsu that the elderly toads were about to cast and by the end of the day he had only made a small progress it had proved it was going to take a bit longer than Jiraiya previously thought.
The week passed and Naruto had finally been able to dispel most of the illusions placed on him, and could detect them all. Naruto had discovered the genjutsu that he couldn't remove could be taken care of by channeling small amounts of Kyuubi's chakra but still found it difficult to know how much he could control as he didn't want to loose control. But he had discovered he could use it without side effects up until the Yokai cloak formed around him and the negative emotions fed the fox's power.
It was the day before the first task of the chunin exams and Naruto was currently amusing himself at the site of what appeared to be a perfectly square rock with eye holes cut into it following the young jinchuuriki around.
"Ok Konohamaru, you can come out now. I mean seriously a square rock you can do better than that" the blond said in amusement.
Suddenly the 'rock' exploded in a puff revealing three children about three years younger than Naruto who were coughing from what appeared to be too much smoke powder.
"Ah just what I would have expected from my rival boss" said the boy with a long scarf and brown spiky hair.
"Hi I'm Moegi and I am the prettiest girl in the academy" said the girl with two pig tales.
"And I'm Udon and I like math" the boy with glasses and a running nose said.
"Boss come play ninja with us, you haven't played with us in ages" the young Sarutobi said eager to play with his friend and rival.
"Playing ninja Naruto you are a ninja what kind of Baka plays ninja when they are one" a new voice said.
"Oh hey Sakura. Whats wrong with playing ninja there kids, and its a good way to learn how to be a real ninja.
"Hey boss is that your girlfriend" Udon asked curious of the relationship he had with the pink haired kunoichi.
"Nah I did like her when we were in the academy, but I grew out of it" Naruto said.
"That's good, that hair is like a neon sign. And that forehead looks like it needs two Hetai-it to protect it properly" Konohamaru said jokingly.
"Hey Konohamaru …. … We better run" Naruto said and got ready to chase after the young boy and the screeching banshee chasing after him in case he needed some medical attention to heal his ears when she caught him.
Unfortunately for the young monkey he ran into a boy wearing a black full body suit and hood.
"Hey watch where your going punk" said the older boy grabbing the younger child by the shirt and lifting him up to head height.
"Kankuro just let him go" said a tall girl with four ponytail's and blonde.
"No I'm going to teach this punk a lesson.
"I would advise you put him down" said Naruto seeing the Hokage's grandson was in trouble.
"Oh yeah and what are you going to do about it" said the boy turning his head to glare at the blond boy.
"Oh my god you must be the worst looking girl I have ever seen" said Naruto in horror.
"Hey what the fuck are you talking about I'm a guy" said Kankuro anger etched on his face.
"Then why the hell are you wearing all that make up" Naruto choked out causing a laugh from the girl.
"It's not make up its War Paint! Kami how come nobody can see its war paint. Thats it kid you asked for this" said Kankuro but before he could respond Naruto had run forward and grabbed his arm forcing him to wince in pain dropping the 'honorable grandson'.
"Konohamaru I think you better head home. You don't need to see some cross dresser make a fool of himself this close to the chunin exams" Naruto said not taking his eyes off the older boy or the girl as she readied her battle fan.
But before she could act a wave of killer intent froze both her and Kankuro behind them stood a boy about the same age as Naruto with red hair and black circles around his eyes looking intently at Naruto.
"Ga..Garra" Kankuro stammered in fear of his younger brother.
"Kankuro, you are a disgrace to Suna … I am sorry for my brothers actions I am Subaku no Garra
may I ask your name" the boy called Garra asked.
"Naruto... Naruto Uzumaki" the blond responded evenly, carefully observing the red haired boy as he released Kankuro's arm from his grip.
"A pleasure are you competing in the chunin exams" the redhead asked.
"That I am. I take it by the fact you are here with your team that you are also completing" Naruto responded.
"I look forward to testing my existence against you" was Garra only response before turning to his team "Temari, Kankuro where leaving come" and he turned and left followed by his team staying a good distance behind.
(The Following Day At The Academy)
Naruto arrived and headed to the third floor. But when he arrived on the second floor he saw a group of genin in front of a door with a genjutsu on it he was about to walk around when he noticed Sasuke and yell at the two gate guards Izumo and Kotetsu under henge to drop the genjutsu.
Naruto couldn't believe the stupidity of the 'last Uchiha' to give away what was an obvious pretest to weed out the weaker candidates. Shaking his head he moved on ignoring the resulting tussle in which rock lee had intercepted a punch thrown at Sasuke catching it easily.
Team 7 caught up to Naruto as he was about to head up to level 3.
"Hn looks like there letting everyone compete in this thing if your here dobe. This is a exam for the elites weaklings like you should have just stayed at home" Sasuke sneered upon seeing the blond.
"Hey and here I was thinking the same about you teme, wow small world" said Naruto slightly annoyed the Uchiha still considered him weak.
Sakura was about to reply in defense of her beloved Sasuke-kun but was cut off by the arrival of Rock Lee.
"Sasuke Uchiha you are this years rookie of the year and considered a genius I would like to challenge you" said Lee.
Sasuke smirked in arrogance before responding "you know this yet you still challenge me".
"Yes I do, I need to test myself against a genius to prove you can beat a genius with hard work" the green clad ninja said loudly.
"Sure why not, its not like you can beat me a Uchiha" Sasuke said confident this freak couldn't beat him.
"I wouldn't do it, teme bushy brows is incredibly tough. I don't think you can win. Hell I'm not even sure anyone from our graduating class could beat him" Naruto said in warning.
Naruto's warning was ignored tho and Sasuke charged Lee which the green clad ninja easily dodged and began what could only be described as one hell of an ass whooping on the poor Uchiha much to the horror of the pink haired harlot.
Unfortunately the horror was not quite over yet just as Lee was about to complete his final move he was stopped by the arrival of the sensei of team 9.
"Lee what were you doing I told you not to use that move" said the taller version of Lee.
"I'm sorry Gai sensei I just wanted to prove hard work could beat a genius" said a downbeat Lee.
"Lee"
"Gai-sensei"
"Lee"
"Gai-sensei"
"Oh shit, quick look away before its to late" but it was Naruto's warning didn't come in time to save team seven from a genjutsu that not even the sharingan could break the fabled demonic beach sunset jutsu.
Team seven just sat there unable to avert there eyes from the horror before them when it was over the group finally made there way upstairs into the exam room.
When Naruto arrived he noticed the rest of the rookie teams there so decided to greet them
"Hey guys good to see you all made it" Naruto yelled trying to ignore Ino and Sakura's arguments concerning what could only be considered the biggest brooder in fire country if not the world.
"Hey Naruto your here as well how come I thought you didn't have a squad that's why you spent all that time with the other teams on missions?" Choji asked.
"Yeah my sensei erosennin convinced hokage jiji to let me compete by myself" said Naruto stunning the genin in hearing range because of his lack of respect for the hokage.
"Troublesome" was all Shikamaru said.
"Well if we need to fight someone I know where I'm going the dobe doesn't even have a team to back him up" said Kiba.
"You should probably quieten down you don't want to paint a target on your back" said a tall boy with silver hair and circular glasses that looked two or three years older than the rookie genin.
"Who are you" said Naruto wary of the new arrival.
"Oh I'm sorry my name is Kabuto and seeing as you are rookie genin I assumed you could use some information on the exams I myself have taken them seven times" Kabuto finished.
"Wow seven times you must really suck" said Kiba.
"Well that or the exams could be a lot harder than they appear" the spectacle wearing genin said.
"What ever me and Akamaru are going to the finals isn't that right boy" the Inuzuka said getting a bark in agreement from the puppy in his jacket.
"Anyway I have these info cards, they have information on all the teams and even the individual members" said Kabuto.
"Ok then Rock Lee" said Sasuke "Sabaku no Garra" said Naruto "Uzumaki Naruto even tho its troublesome to ask" finished Shikamaru.
"Oh you know there names well that's not hard then lets see"
"Rock Lee here we go. It says here he has no skill in nin or genjutsu because he has a disease which has lead to underdeveloped chakra coils. But his taijutsu is off the charts team members are Hyuuga Neji and TenTen and his sensei is Miteo Gai hes done 42 D ranks and 35 C rank missions" Kabuto said before shuffling his cards.
"Ok next is Subaku no Garra well this is a shock I have really little on him all I can tell you is he has done 12D ranks 52C ranks and 1B rank mission and has never been injured" the silver haired ninja informed the Konoha rookies.
This shocked several of the rookies at thought of going on a all those missions and never picking up a single injury.
"Ok now for Uzumaki Naruto. He was ranked bottom of his class in the academy, wow his chakra and Stamina is off the chart with the only people in the village to rival his chakra levels are the Jiraiya of the sannin and the Hokage himself. Genjutsu is non existent but tai and ninjutsu are well above average he was not given a genin squad and was instead taken on as the apprentice of Jiraiya the toad sage and member of the sannin has a wind affinity, but it doesn't have information on what jutsu's he knows has completed 10D rank 12C 1B and wow 1A rank mission this is impressive I would suggest avoiding Uzumaki Naruto in this competition" the silver haired genin said noticing the proud look on the face of the blonde boy and the stunned look on the face's of those around him.
"Yeah what ever he probably just had a good team with him there's no way dobe could beat any of us" said Kiba.
"It would be unwise to underestimate any of your opponent's, even ones from the new village the sound could prove difficult opponents" just as Kabuto finished a member of a sound team with large gauntlets on each arm who had heard him jumped forward and attacked the silver haired ninja but he was able to dodge seconds later tho his glasses cracked from an unknown force.
'Hm he pushes air out from the gauntlets on his arms if you were to break the gauntlets his attacks would become useless' thought Naruto observing the attack and its effectiveness.
"Alright Maggots sit down its time for the first exam" came a voice as a large man with scars all over his face walked in and stood behind the desk "My name is Ibiki Morino, and I will be the proctor for the first test you will have one hour to answer the 10 questions you will not be given the final question until the final ten minutes if you are caught cheating you and your team will be disqualified. That said you can use what ever jutsu or abilities you want to get the answers you begin now!" he finished and sat down and smirked at the looks of horror on the genin's face when they saw the questions.
'These questions are far to difficult for a genin, hell I doubt most jonnin could answer them. That could only mean that they want us to cheat … Yes there are definitely several people placed in here who were given the answers. But how do I get them, oh I know' Naruto thought as he silently summoned a small toad and silently gave him orders before it puffed into smoke.
Twenty minutes later the toad returned handed Naruto the answers and again disappeared Naruto filled out the answers then sat back and waited for the test to be over, finally it came time for the last question which once again had a new set of rules 'So he wants to test if we have the guts to stick to the mission a very clever, test I'm glad erosennin gave me those books on psychology otherwise I may not have realized' the blond thought as he smirked.
"So blondie you look confident you know if you get the question wrong you can never retake the test" Ibiki said trying to intimidate Naruto.
"That's fine Ibiki-san I don't need to be a chunin for my dream to come true it would be nice to get better missions but I think I will risk it thanks" Naruto said with a small smirk indicating that he had figured out the test.
'Damn the kid figured it out, oh well I don't think I will get anymore now' "Well anyone else... … ok now the rest of you … … … Pass!" the scared man said. And was about to continue when a black blur came crashing through the window which turned out to be a woman with dark purple hair in a ponytail and looked like a pineapple had on a open trench coat and see through mesh top making the it obvious she did not wear a bra over her ample C cup breast's behind her there was a sign that read Anko Mitarashi Sexy and Single proctor for the second exam.
Chapter Complete!