Summary: Naruto is kick out of Konoha and left for dead at a young age. But who else would find him then… female Haku and Zabuza. Watch Naruto become a swordsman that will rival any of the seven swordsmen of the mist.
'thoughts'
"Speaking"
Justu
"demon speech"
"Summon"
I do not own Naruto or any aspect of it.
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"Hello, Maggots!" The scantly clad woman yelled. "Anko Mitarashi! Second Examiner of the Chunin Exams!" the woman stared down the remaining genin.
'Dear kami, why are all higher ranked ninja so messed up?' Kenji leaned back and thought about all the weird ninja that he knows. 'Sensei had a thing for , Kakashi is a massive pervert, the first guy is a masochists, and this one's a freaking skank. That is why I'm happy I'm not a ranked ninja.'
"Ibiki, what the Hell? You left twenty six teams? You better not be getting soft on me." Anko stared down the taller man.
"We have some real exceptional ninja this time, they might surprise you." The scared man told her.
"What ever no matter, I'll cut them in half at least!" she glanced back at the genin and struck some fear into their tiny little hearts. "Follow me if you want to continue" she took off back out the broken window that she came through. The genin took off out the window also.
After about ten minutes of running they landed at a fenced off piece of woods. "Welcome to The Forest of Death!" Anko shouted. The genin let out an audible gulp. "this is where you will take the second part of the exams. You will spend five days in there…"
"FIVE DAYS?" a large boy yelled. "WHAT ABOUT FOOD?"
"There is plenty of things to eat in the forest, and if you want you can eat the dead bodies that will pile up in the forest." Anko smirked. "Now you have to get two scrolls and get to the tower in the center of this area." She pulled out two scrolls and showed them to the genin. "You need both the Heaven and the Earth scrolls. Each team will be given a single scroll and then let out into the forest."
'So that's what she meant by only half of the teams making it to the next exam." Every genin thought as Anko explained what will get you disqualified. "It doesn't seem that scary…" Kenji dodged the kunai that was thrown at him and grasped the handle of Korihime.
"Wow, you dodged my kunai. I was hoping to draw some blood" Anko now stood behind him. In another second a tall grass ninja stood behind the proctor.
"Your kunai, miss" the tall long haired ninja held the kunai in a long tongue.
"Word of advice if you want to live, don't sneak up behind me." Anko flipped the knife around and pointed it right at the grass ninja.
"You know, don't talk about sneaking up on someone when your in just as much danger yourself." Kenji's hand had never left the hilt of his sword. "my sword it poise to slice you in half" Anko glanced down and saw the blade of the sword slicing into her already tiny skirt. "No go finish explaining the rules" Kenji laid the blade flat against his back and stepped away from Anko.
"Now the last thing you have to do is sign a form saying that it not my responsibility if you die in this exam. You have to have three forms to get a scroll." Anko smirked again and handed out a pile of papers. "Mow for my last piece of advise, DON"T DIE" with that statement she walked over to the registration tent.
As Kenji and the rest of team eight collected there earth scroll and started walking towards a gate. As they stood there in front of one of the proctors, Hinata and Shino were utterly silent.
"Look, if we want to make it through this exam then we need to find a scroll and fast than get to the tower." Kenji pulled out a scroll and opened it, releasing a set of armbands. "These armbands are marked with a seal that will change the color when chakra it applied." Kenji gave a little demonstration changing his from black to a blood red. "each person has a different chakra color so if we get separated we know who is who."
"Uzumaki, what are you planning to do?" Shino gave what Kenji would call a serious look if he could see his eyes. "We should stick together, we have a greater chance of surviving." Hinata stood next to him and nodded.
"The Uchiha is going to come right after me, and he will most likely hurt anyone who gets in his way leaf ninja or not." Kenji stood back up and put the scroll back in his carrying pouch. "we're going about a mile into the forest them you two are going a different direction, and are going to try and find a scroll, no matter if we have it or not"
"Why would we do that?" Shino asked.
"We need to make sure that we have a back up scroll. Between your bugs and Hinata's Byakugan you should be able to set a trap for any coming team" Kenji informed them of the rest of his plan.
"Hey, the test had begun." The chunin there kicked the door open and the three genin took off into the dense forest. 'those three are going to be alright.'
As team eight made their way into the forest team seven was making their way towards them.
"Come on this way" Sasuke yelled at his two teammates. He leaped off a branch and sped off in a different direction.
"Sasuke-sweety wait for me" guess who? She took off in the same direction as Sasuke. Sai just let out a breath and followed suit. As team seven traveled through the forest they didn't realize that they were being followed.
"I need to find him and beat him, if I can't beat him then how an I going to beat Itachi!" Sasuke revealed the Sharingan and kept a look out. As he approached the clearing that Kenji stood in he slowed down and waited for his teammates. "Keep out of the way." Sasuke jumped down from his branch kunai ready.
Kenji stood in the clearing waiting for the dumbass to show up. He heard them land on the branches and was waiting for Sasuke to make his move. He turned just as Sasuke landed on the ground next to him and charged at him. The red eyed boy made a slash to Kenji's wrappings on his face. That was answered to by a kick to the gut, Sasuke rebounded and made another head on charge. This was easily side stepped as Sasuke went past Kenji he turned and threw the Kunai at his back. As the blade stuck into his back Kenji's eyes widened and he slumped over and fell as well.
SPLASH! The falling blonde turned into a puddle of water. 'Crap' was all that went through Sasuke's mind. Another kick got him in the back, Sasuke landed face down on the ground, and a foot was planted on his spine keeping him froom getting up. "Tisk, tisk dumbass, I thought you would have gotten better than this." Kenji pressed harder against Sasuke's spine.
"I'll kill you for this! Do you know who I am?" the emo started spouting off. 'where are those lame teammates?' he thought to himself.
"Those two in the trees are a bit preoccupied to help you." Kenji smirked under the blood red bandages that covered his face. Kenji began reaching into his pouch to dig out the scroll that they had, knowing that Sasuke was cocky enough to not let one of his teammates carry it.
"KU KU KU! How amusing, a random ninja taking down the great and powerful Uchiha with a simple clone." The grass ninja from before stood in front of the two fighting genin. With a quick flick of her wrist two more splashes car raining down from the trees above them.
"I have to say good aim, getting rid of both water clones. Now the question I have for you is, are you coming after me or the three leaf ninja that have come after me?" Kenji slid Korihime off his back just to be safe.
"How observant of you little leaf ninja." The woman stood straight up and pulled her sleeve up a little. She bit her thumb and slid the blood over the tattoo on her wrist. "Now tell me why Naruto Uzumaki is attacking his fellow leaf ninja?" With a plume of smoke a snake the size of the Hokage tower apperared ready to strike.
"well you made some mistakes, one I'm not a leaf ninja and secondly my name is not Naruto. It's Kenji Uzumaki, apprentice of Zabuza Momochi, the Demon of the Bloody Mist!" Kenji jumped at the grass ninja. "Aerial Slash!" Kenji swung Korihime in a wide but powerful arc. The chakra that was stored in the blade of Kenji's sword was released a wave a power that was tinted with blue flew at the grass woman.
"Oh such power form one so young, you have trained hard, and under one of the Seven." The grass ninja laughed and ducked . "But Naruto, you are not the person that I'm after." The blonde swordsman growled at the taller woman. Sasuke stood up and stared at the woman. The other two members of team seven landed next to him, and tried to pull him away only to be caught in the gaze the enemy ninja and freeze up themselves. Three of the four young ninja there saw the last few moments of their life.
"That little move won't work on me, you crazy bitch. Sensei used to do that to me when I was training." Kenji stood there waiting for the ninja to make she move. "Before you go tell me who you are? No genin would be able to dodge that attack."
"Yet again another great observation, I'm Orochimaru, of the sannin." The woman pulled off her face and revealed a pure white face with the slit eyes of a snake.
Sasuke somehow was able to pull himself out of the fear induced state and pulled out the scroll that he had. "Here, take it and leave us alone." The scroll was thrown into the air and was quickly caught by a second Kenji.
"Thank you, you have saved me so much time." The clone handed the original to Kenji and them melted away. "What? I can't make less then eight clones two much chakra. Now, good bye!" After a few quick hand signs "Suishouha" a wall of water appeared out of not where and when it died down Kenji was gone leaving team seven to their fates.
"WHAT? WERE DID HE GO?" the pink headed one started yelling.
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Back with Hinata and Shino….
"Hinata, can you keep a look out for Uzumaki?" the bug lover asked his teammate. Getting a confinate nod from her Shino turned and allowed a few of his bugs to be released onto his fingers. After commanding them to scout ahead for enemies and the best way to the tower he turned back to the lavender haired girl.
"Any sight of him yet?" Hinata shook her head.
"Do… y..you …think…that..he's…alright?" Hinata stuttered out.
"It will take quite a bit to kill off Uzumaki." Shino placed a hand on her shoulder to comfort the girl.
"Damm right it will." Kenji landed next to the rest of team eight. "You two get a scroll?" Shino pulled out a heaven scroll. "great, now we got an extra to barter with."
"You mean you took team seven's scroll?" Shino was shocked that he took a scroll from another leaf team. "We need to get to the tower" Shino took off having his bugs lead the way.
"K..enji…wha…what…is…the …ma…matter?" Hinata stuttered out.
"There is a really deadly ninja in this forest and I really don't want to run into him again." Kenji picked up the pace and started talking to Shino. "About another mile you say?"
Shino gave a quick nod and kept running, looking back to make sure that Hinata was still with them. Seeing that she was he turned back around and pushed more chakra into his limbs.
Kenji came to a stop right before the small clearing that surrounded the tower. "Wait, this place is probably covered in traps and hidden teams " After doing two hand signs he uttered "Mizu Bunshin" eight Kenji's sprang up and ran towards the tower setting off traps, Hinata fainted from seeing this many Kenjis. After three of the Bunshins got there Kenji walked out into the open and was quickly attacked by ninja.
"This is not your lucky day is it punk?" the ninja from the Hidden Rock Village. "Now give us your scroll and we may let you live."
"We lost our scroll to a team on the way here. My teammate was bitten by a snake and we are trying to get her to the medics." Shino heard this and made his way out into the opening carrying the knocked out Hyuuga. The two awake members of team eight pleaded to the three Rock ninja.
"If you go in that direction for about half a mile you will find the team that took our scroll." Shino pointed back to the spot where they had come from. The three Rock ninja took off to make sure that they got the scroll. Shino and Kenji let out a sigh of relief, and walked into the tower.
They walked into an empty room and sat down trying to catch their breath. Shino pulled out the heaven scroll while Kenji pulled out their original earth scroll.
"Well might as well see what these are for" Kenji popped the seal on his and Shino followed suit. As the scrolls were laid on the ground Kenji jumped back and pulled Korihime off his back. "Shino, grab Hinata and pull back those are summoning scrolls." Just as he said that the scrolls gave off a puff of smoke and Kenji attacked placing his sword tip at the throat of the person summoned.
"Holy…" Kurenai stood there with a very sharp sword at her throat kind of confused. "KENJI! Remove your sword!"
"Kurenai-sensei" Shino gave a quick bow to his teacher. Kenji slowly removed the cold steel from her throat. "Can you wake Hinata up she seems to have fainted again." Kurenai nodded and went over to wake up the lavender haired girl.
Once Hinata was awake, Kurenai congratulated them on making it through the second part of the exam. She told them that they have to stay on the tower until the end of the exam.
"Kurenai, where is the Hokage?" Kenji asked. Kurenai had a thought about what the blonde wanted to ask the Hokage but she nodded and told him to follow her. They walked up the tower and into a room that was marked as a temporary office for the Hokage.
"Lord Hokage, Kenji wished to talk with you." Kurenai had a sad look on her face. She wanted the blonde to stay in the village, it could use a strong ninja like him.
"Kenji, what can I do for you?" the wrinkled Hokage stared at the boy. 'Minato, I'll do what ever it takes to see that your son stays in the village'
"Orochimaru is in the village. He probably is going to try something later on in the exam." Kenji had removed the wrappings from his face so the old man could see that he was completely truthful.
"What do you mean?"
"Orichimaru, your former student, the snake Sannin is here in the village. I know it is him I have seen his photo in the bingo book and it matches perfectly." The old man was still not convinced. "I saw him summon a snake bigger than this tower." At this the Hokage knew that he was serious.
'This can not end well' the wrinkled Hokage let out a long sigh and started to try and think about what his old student was planning.
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YEA I DID IT! I know I said that I would take one of the goddamm sharingan eyes from Sasuke but I decieded against it for this chapter. I thought of a better place to have that happen. If I could ask you guys, could some one do a quick picture of Kenji and Haku together? I just want to see if my description was what I thought of in my head.
See you during summer break.
Will Rayne
