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Naruto: The Fox Sage
Chapter 8: Chunin Exams Part 1
It was a nice, sunny day in Konoha. The day after Naruto and his team had been entered into the Chunin Tournament. Naruto later found out that Hinata's team and a few others had been entered as well, making him excited. Right now Naruto was topless, doing some push ups to finish his training. He was focusing on the physical stuff as he was in no situation to learn new techniques at the moment, outside the Fox Summons home, and he didn't want to risk anyone finding out some of his secrets before he wanted to reveal them
'Come on kit, you're just about there, only ten more to go.' Kurama encouraged
"Only ten? Give me a challenge." Naruto snarked as a blue haired girl walked onto the training field only to freeze and blush
"U-Um...N-Naruto-kun?" Hinata mumbled as she blushed, staring at his sweaty naked upper body as he exercised
"Huh? Oh, hey Hinata." Naruto smiled as he looked up "Just give me a sec and I'll be finished, okay?"
"O... Okay." She stuttered
"Thanks." He smiled "What's up, by the way? Did I forget a date or something?" He asked, actually a big worried about that fact
"A-Actually...I wanted to know if you would like to...go for a walk." she got out bashfully.
'Ah, I see what she really wants kit, she wants another romp in some bush to see if anyone will notice you two, kinky.' the fox laughed
'Shut up old pervert, Hinata is not like that.' Naruto chastised mentally, smiling in the physical world "Sure." He nodded, getting his shirt on
"Thanks." she smiled with slight disappointment seeing his body get covered up.
Naruto took her hand in his, chuckling as he saw steam shooting from her ears as she walked into the village "So, think you are ready for the exams?" Naruto asked
"Y..Y...Y...Y...Yes." she squeaked out.
"Any luck with those tips I gave you?" Naruto asked. What he was talking about was his discovery from their training the other day, that the Gentle Fist's normal style was not fit for someone of her body type, and most likely for someone with a fire or earth affinity when Hinata most likely had a water or wind affinity from what Naruto could guess, as it kept the body and arms as still/stable as possible while the arms are what do the fantastic sweeping movements. So he suggested to her to try and adjust the style, to make it fit a less 'grounded' style of body movement and instead a more 'flowing' one
"It-it is harder than you think Naruto-Kun." She admitted "I-I have to fight my own instincts because of h-how I was trained."
"You're right. I didn't think of that." Naruto groaned "I might have just wasted your time."
"N-No!" she spoke up quickly while gripping his hand tighter. "I-It means a lot to me actually."
"Really? Then I'm glad." Naruto smiled widely "I'm sure you'll work out the trick one day."
She nodded while feeling butterflies from his smile 'Nauto-Kun.' she thought happily as they walked through the village seeing new stalls being set up and the streets being busier than normal while a cardboard box designed to look like a rock, and by that it was painted to have a rock pattern on it, was following them "Er... Naru..." Hinata began but was interrupted
"I know Hina, its fine." Naruto smiled while giving her a wink as they kept going. "Just pretend you don't notice it."
"Okay." She blinked in confusion while they kept walking as the box followed them.
The two soon rounded the corner, hiding and saw it walk out and looked around in confusion with Naruto snickering "Hey Konohamaru." Naruto smirked, pulling the box up revealing Sarutobi's grandson along with two other kids making them go wide eyed.
"Big Bro! How'd you know?!" The boy gasped
"Rocks aren't box shaped." He joked
"I told you it wouldn't work." muttered the girl with orange hair in two pigtails.
"Who are your friends?" Hinata asked
"This here is my own team." he smiled before gesturing to a boy with a runny nose and glasses. "This is Udon."
"Hi." The kid sniffed
"And this is Moegi." he gestured to the girl.
"Hello." She waved gently
"Not bad, but mind telling me why you were following us?" Naruto smiled
"Who's this, bro? Your girlfriend?" Konohamaru asked, dodging the question
Said heiress blushed while Naruto chuckled seeing her face light up "Yeah, she is." He smiled
"Wow, isn't she one of the clan heads?" asked Udon curiously.
"H-Hello. I'm Hinata Hyuuga." She bowed, clearly very nervous
"She's really shy." chuckled Naruto.
"She's cute." Moegi said making Hinata blush more.
"Yeah she is." He laughed as they rounded a corner with Konohamaru walking head before he bumped into someone and fell.
"Omph!" Konohamaru flinched as he was sent to the floor "Hey! Watch where you're going!" He glared up at a teen with paint on his face and in some black suit that made him look like a cat.
"Watch where you're going, brat." The kid snarled, lifting Konohamaru off the ground by the shirt
"Hey, put me down!" Konohamaru yelled
"Time for you to pay brat." The black clad guy snarled
"Kankuro, put him down." The blonde girl with a fan on her back glared
"Calm down Temari, I'm just gonna teach this brat some manors." The now named Kankuro laughed
"Hey! Put him down!" Naruto glared and charged towards the guy
"Hmm." Kankuro thought with a grin, pulling a single finger and a seemingly invisible wire tripping Naruto
Naruto's eyes widened as he tripped, falling towards the floor... However the second his hands touched the floor, he disappeared in a burst of speed. Kankuro's eyes widened as Naruto was suddenly behind him, Kunai to the neck while using a simple arm thrust to force Konohamaru from his hand "Sneaky bastard." Naruto snarled gently
"What the hell?" Kankuro muttered, he didn't even see Naruto move
Temari, Moegi and Udon's eyes widened while Naruto smirked 'Wow.' they thought
"Didn't anyone ever tell you it's impolite to pick on kids?" Naruto scoffed, looking at their headbands "... You do know that this is the Grandson of the Hokage, Sand Ninja, don't you? You could have caused a war. Who are you anyway? And why are you here?"
Kankuro frowned and scoffed. "Can't you tell? For a leaf shinobi you're pretty dumb."
Naruto frowned and kicked him in the back of the knee, forcing him to a knee while pressing the Kunai closer to his neck "You should remember your situation." He warned, his eyes flashing for a second before turning to Temari "What about you, pretty girl? Want to be polite and answer the questions?"
Temari was surprised at the compliment before clearing her throat. "We came here on account of the chunin exams."
"I see." Naruto nodded, kicking the make up wearing male away "See, was that so hard?" He mocked the strangely dressed teen before turning to Temari again "I recommend keeping him on a leash."
That got Temari to smile and make Kankuro glare while Hinata felt a little irked slightly "Good idea." Temari commented lightly
"So... Want to get your friend out of the tree? He's being creepy." Naruto said casually. Temari and Kankuro went wide eyed while Naruto turned to a nearby try while putting his kunai away "If you stay up there I'll start thinking you're making weird faces to your pretty teammate, and not make up boy, I'm not talking about you." Naruto mocked
"IT'S WAR PAINT!" Kankuro snapped
"They are my brother's!" Temari said at the same time, feeling a bit disgusted. In a flurry of sand a red haired boy appeared in front of Naruto, frowning
'... Oh god no.' Kurama thought in annoyance
'What is it?' Naruto thought
'This child is the host of my little brother.' Kurama thought 'The One-Tails.'
'And I take it that's bad?' Naruto questioned
'He's completely nuts, and I'm guessing from the rings around the boy's eyes he's been keeping him up with no sleep whatsoever.' Kurama explained simply
'... That's it, we are dealing with this.' Naruto thought in annoyance, smiling "Hey man, I'm Naruto Uzumaki. Nice to meet you."
The boy just stared at him without moving or flinching which made Kankuro and Temari seem to look more nervous with Hinata feeling scared for Naruto's sake 'He is dead.' Kankuro and Temari thought
"Nice to meet you little brother, I'm 9." Naruto nodded, walking up and patting the red haired boy's shoulder
Gaara's eyes widened slightly while in his head he could hear his 'mother' gasp in shock.
"And he wants to say something." Naruto added, putting his hands in his pockets before he backed up. Suddenly the sky turned black and red, the three Sand siblings looking around in shock and confusion while no one else seemed to react like they didn't see anything. And then Kurama appeared, standing giant over the Leaf village, however his fur was rougher and looked wild. His teeth was bared, snarling.
Again, the Leaf didn't even react while the three Sand Ninja looked on in terror
"Shukaku..." Kurama snarled before he let out a giant roar "LET THE BOY SLEEP!" he roared with enough strength to rip trees from the ground, the world returning to normal seconds later
All three were stiff from shock and fear while Gaara could hear his 'mother' whimpering in his head…... And then Gaara's eyes rolled up, falling to the floor asleep
"Oh shit! What have you done?!" cried out Kankuro while Temari ran over near Gaara while putting an ear to his chest.
"What?" Naruto asked in confusion
"Are you trying to get us killed?" he glared while moving to take the bundle off his back.
"Please, that over stuffed sand-bag won't try anything now that he knows I'm here." Naruto waved off "He's scared of his big brother. And he and I are in good terms, heck he is basically a father to me, so he has a right to be scared. Meaning YOUR little brother can have a peaceful sleep FOR ONCE in his life. If what 9 is telling me is right, the seal that Gaara's 'friend' is locked behind is very badly made. Might want someone to have a look at it."
Hearing that really blew them away AND made them nervous while seeing Gaara's chest slowly rise and lower while he started snoring with the young kids and Hinata confused about it all "He... He's sleeping? Peacefully?" Temari whispered as she stared at her brother "He... He is ACTUALLY sleeping? He's safe?" She was actually crying a bit as she smiled
"That's right, and when he wakes up let him know if he tries anything underhanded during the exam then 9 is gonna make it clear to cut it off." Naruto smiled only for his eyes to widen as Temari suddenly grabbed him and pulled him into a tight hug
"Thank you!" She said happily while now Hinata knew she felt a little irked, but at the same time saw the girl was close to tears from joy and didn't say anything.
'Wow kit, you're gonna owe me big time for getting you another vixen.' Kurama laughed
"Oh shut up you fox." Naruto mumbled before he smiled at Temari and rubbed her back "It's okay Temari. Everything should be alright now."
She held him close before hearing Kankuro clear his throat and blushed before moving back. "Uh, thank you, but we should get going."
"Sure, I'll see you later." Naruto nodded and smiled as they carried Gaara off and turned to Hinata. "Sorry about the little interruption."
"It's okay." Hinata whispered, trying not to be jealous "You alright Konohamaru?"
"I'm fine!" He smiled "Wow boss, you are awesome!"
"Thanks, it's all natural." he smirked while Kurama rolled his eyes.
"Those Sand Ninja seemed all weirded out for a bit." Moegi blinked
"Yeah, and scared about something." remarked Udon.
"Oh, that was just an illusion. They were seeing what I wanted." He assured
"But what were you talking about with the numbers?" asked Konohamaru.
"... That's something to talk to your grandfather about. It's his choice if you're old enough." Naruto smiled, flinching lightly "Now why don't you three go off and play? Me and Hinata are on a date."
"Fine." Konohamaru pouted, walking off in annoyance
"Man, all of that happening is NOT what I wanted for this walk Hinata." Naruto apologised with a smile
"It's okay." Hinata nodded gently "... You seemed to like that blonde sand ninja."
He blinked while suddenly tensing up. 'Crap!'
'Oh boy, sounds like your vixen is getting annoyed like the snow vixen before.'
Kurama snickered
"Hinata... Yes Temari is pretty but I JUST met her! I don't even know her!" Naruto assured nervously, a bit scared at what the bluenette would do "It was just me helping her brother and she hugged me first, I swear!"
"I believe you." Hinata nodded without hesitation
"I mean I...wait what?"
"I said I believe you." Hinata said, smiling "I know you are not trying to get every woman you meet to sleep with you. You are not trying to do a power play, or messing with people's minds into loving you while still saying you are a good guy. You are just a nice guy. That's why I l-like you." She was blushing at the end of it, but she never looked away from his eyes "And that is the same for Anko, for Haku and for both Ino and Ayame. And if this Temari falls for you, it will be for that reason as well."
Narutodropped his mouth while swearing he heard celebration bells in his head due to Kurama.
Inside his cage Kurama was throwing a small party, celebrating his containers luck "Way to go kit! You'll be a dad by the time the exams are over!"
"And Naruto... I know about him." Hinata smiled, putting a hand on his stomach
His eyes widened while sighing. "How?"
"My Byakugan." She smiled "I see a strange influx of Chakra at your stomach area. Plus your birthday being on the day the Kyubi attacked... You confirmed it when you kept mentioning 9 just now."
He blinked and stood still...before facepalming. 'I can't believe I didn't think of that.'
"Trust me Naruto, most people would not realise that unless given a clue. Because no one will connect the dots unless they know there is something hidden there." Hinata assured
"Wait, if you can see in my body, then...have you been using that for something else I should know about?" Naruto asked
"W-w-w-what? N-N-N-no! I-I-I just s-saw it when I s-saw looking at p-people's Chakra networks!" Hinata stuttered in complete embarrassment while Naruto swore he could see a little blood leaking from her nose.
"Hey, it's okay." Naruto smiled and rubbed her neck "You can look however much you want." he joked. That made her face turn bright red with steam coming out of her ears. Naruto smiles, catching her as she fainted "Maybe I should ease up on teasing her...nah."
*elsewhere*
With Haku, she was busy training against her father Zabuza with said man blocking a kick with his sword before swinging at her face "Come on Haku, you can do better than that!" He grinned. She narrowed her eyes and wiped the blood from her mouth before forming a hand sign before a mist began moving in. "You think you can hide in my own environment? Seems like you're getting sloppy." he taunted.
"Or maybe you are just getting cocky?" she smirked while going through more hand signs before various ice needles formed from the water vapours and shot out at him from every direction. Zabuza's eye twinkled softly, using his sword to block and deflect the attacks while a few scratched his arms but when he looked down he saw Haku had run up close and held a kunai directly in front of his chest "I win." She grinned making Zabuza chuckle.
"Not bad, you played on my pride and used it against me. You've improved."
"You taught me well." She smiled while standing up and putting the kunai away.
"I'm proud of you." He nodded, patting her shoulder "You will pass. I know it."
"Thank you Zabuza-sama." Haku smiled, bowing gently
"Now go on and say hi to the gaki, just don't get TOO relaxed." Zabuza frowned "You need to be able to walk tomorrow."
"I'll just go and visit him for a little bit." Haku mumbled, blushing before walking off and hearing Zabuza chuckling.
'I need to give that kid a talk.' he thought simply
*Later*
Ino was walking home late at night, holding a batch of flowers, when a figure wearing a black cloak landed in front of her. The figure slowly pulled two kunai out making Ino go wide eyed and back up. "W-Who are you?"
The figure was silent and charged
Ino flinched and backed up, pulling out Kunai to battle her attacker while dropping the flowers as she couldn't see the person's face behind the hood. Their small blades clashed, Ino able to tell quickly that she was no match for this person in brute strength 'Damn it! I need to find help!' She jumped back, preforming a few quick hand seals "Flower Jutsu: Petal Fog." She said, the flowers she had brought with her springing to life. The petals flew off and began to spin around, obscuring her from view. The cloaked figure frowned before throwing the kunai in Ino's direction. When the petals fell to the floor once more, Ino was nowhere to be seen. The figure gripped their hands before turning and raced off as fast as they could.
The figure ran through the village, soon arriving at a house and ripping the hood off revealing a head of pink hair
"Damn that bitch Ino pig!" cursed Sakura clenching her hands enough to draw blood. "If I had just one more second to get in close she would be choking on my kunai!" She began to punch her wall, snarling "I was so close! Then there'd be one less threat to Naruto-Kun and my future!" She walked up to her room and turned the lights on to show several pictures of Naruto stuck to the walls and picked up the pushy before hugging it and sat down on her bed "Naruto..." She mumbled, seeing the pictures of Naruto all over the room. ALL over the room. Like there was no ceiling or wall visible from how many pictures there where She kissed the pushy and smiled. "Don't worry, I'll make sure you're safe and sound from any seducing sluts and ensure you get through no problem. But that ice bitch will be trouble if she tries anything." "Don't worry Naruto-Kun. We will be happy."
"Thank you Sakura." She heard the toy say in Naruto's voice "I love you so much."
She blushed and leaned back while hugging it tighter "Oh Naruto-Kun I love you to." she whispered
*the next morning*
Naruto was waiting outside of a tall building, waiting for his team mates while keeping his breath steady and relaxed 'Stay calm. You can do this.' he thought
'Relax kit, you can breeze through this easy.' Kurama encouraged
"Yeah yeah, I know." Naruto grumbled "Still, nerves."
"Naruto!" two voices yelled
"Huh?" He blinked, looking to the source of the voices and saw Haku and Sakura running over from opposite streets "Hey girls." He smiled
"Hey Naruto-kun, did you get plenty of rest? Eat a filling breakfast? If not I know this nice place for a quick bite." smiled Sakura before Haku could get a word in edgewise.
"Wow Sakura!" Naruto blinked "I'm full right now, thanks, had breakfast with some of my siblings. And I got a good night's sleep, Haku and I had a picnic under the stars before we went to bed separately as we didn't want to risk staying up too late. Speaking of, did you get that thing you mentioned Haku?"
"Yep, Zabuza-Sama's present." She nodded, showing a sealing scroll she then put away
"What is it?" He asked curiously
"Tell me all of your tricks." She grinned making Naruto frown
"Meanie." He grumbled
Meanwhile in the background Sakura's eye was twitching as steam came out of her ears 'Picnic under the stars? A date?! Oh that ice bitch is gonna get it! And acting like she's so cool with some scroll, Naruto-kun is already amazing so whatever she has is nothing! I'll have to get him alone and try to show him I can make him any meal he wants when the time comes.'
"We better hurry up inside, don't want to be late." Naruto smiled, dashing in. The other two followed with Sakura making sure she got ahead of Haku as the team made their way through a hallway with other genin around. They saw a lot of Genin trying to get through a large pair of doors, but two Genin inside where keeping it closed
"Come on, let us in!" spoke one before getting shoved to the ground.
"No way, we don't want too much competition." One of the Genin keeping the doors closed smirked
"But even with all of you, there won't be much to worry about." remarked the other with his arms crossed.
Sakura glared at them with her hand twitching. 'Those two want to keep Naruto-kun from actually participating? I'll gut them like fish!'
"Sakura, relax." Haku said calmly "Look at the floor number."
The girl glared at Haku before looking up at the number and noticed something was off "Wait... This is..."
"It's a Genjutsu." She and Haku said at the same time
Naruto noticed and smiled while leaning in near their ears. "Follow my lead and don't say it out loud." Both girls shuddered at the feeling, one from intimately remembering it and the other wanting him to lean in and whisper dirty words to her, before they nodded and the threw quietly walked to the stairs. The two 'genin' at the door noticed and smirked while not saying anything as they kept up the act.
"What was with that Genjutsu?" Sakura whispered
"What they were saying was part of an act." Naruto whispered back. "They're probably there to try and weed out any teams who can't handle it and want to see just who CAN. I spotted it the second we walked in.
"Same." Haku agreed "It was a rather weak Genjutsu. Most of those Genin probably haven't even seen one before if they are being that naive."
"Wow Naruto-kun, you're so cool and smart." praised Sakura ignoring what Haku said.
"Not really." Naruto shrugged "Just being with my siblings, I look out for tricks all the time." The team were walking past a walkway with stairs leading to it before Naruto stopped making the other two do the same. He sniffed the air slightly and grimaced "Ok, whoever you are, you need to really cool down with the training, you're sweating too much and the exams haven't even started." he glared
Jumping down was a Genin with black hair in a bowl cut wearing a hideous skin tight green jumpsuit suit "I'm impressed, the rumours I've heard about you are true." he remarked standing up with a serious expression.
"Which would be what exactly?" Haku asked suspiciously
"How your skills and senses are above a natural genin." he replied while holding out his hand with his palm out and facing the ceiling with his thumb down and his other arm behind his back. "I am Rock Lee."
"... Okay... And?" Naruto blinked
"I wish to challenge you to a fight." the weird guy called
'Good Kami! How much green can a human wear? And with orange?' spoke Kurama with a groan.
"Maybe later." Naruto frowned "We have an exam to get to."
"If we fight now it might cause a disturbance." spoke up Haku.
"Yeah! Out of the way Moron!" Sakura snapped. Rock Lee watched them go while blushing a little when he saw Sakura with said girl shuddering.
'Wow, I'm amazed he could even stand with those eyebrows.' remarked Kurama.
'Yeah, they do look like they are made with lead.' Naruto laughed mentally. The three soon reached a door with Naruto pushing it open...only to see most of the teams inside turn with frowns on their faces while looking dead serious. Naruto frowned, letting his companion pour out a small amount of Killer Intent that easily over powered the room. The teams looked away quickly making him smirk and Kurama chuckle
'Yeah, back off you pussies.' Kurama thought
"Naruto!" Ino cheered as she appeared out of nowhere, hugging him from behind making him blush with Hinata and Haku watching with cool expressions. Hinata had a cool expression because her team and Ino's team mates where all standing there as they had arrived before Team 7 Haku though internally felt annoyed, but Sakura...
Sakura wanted to murder someone!
A certain blonde ponytailed someone!
"H... Hey Ino." Naruto greeted, the delay being because her tackle knocked him off balance lightly
"Looks like you guys made it, what a drag." sighed Shikamaru with Choji munching on barbeque chips.
"What? You don't want the competition?" Naruto smirked
"Nah, but Ino got us to join in by saying we needed to do this, said something else about getting to see you or something too." he remarked making Ino blush and frown at her teammate.
"Shikamaru!" She glared before she looked down at Naruto and smiled "I missed you and we never did get that date."
"Heh, sorry about that." he chuckled embarrassed. "Been busy getting ready for the exam, but I'll make it up to you later, promise."
"You better!" She grinned and kissed his cheek
"That's... Surprising." Shino said casually, with no real emotion
"Ino..." Hinata and Haku whispered in annoyance, getting her attention
"Huh? What's wrong?" Ino blinked
"We are Naruto's girlfriends. You need our permission before trying to get dates from him." Haku stated casually
That instantly made Sakura nearly foam at the mouth while Shikamaru's eyes widened, but not as much as Kiba who looked between them and Naruto with bewilderment.
"HOW THE FUCK DO YOU HAVE THREE GIRLS AFTER YOU?!" Kiba snapped/yelled in a mix of shock, jealousy and amazement
Naruto casually shrugged making Kiba face fault while Akamaru barked and patted his master's head as sympathy. Ino got off his back, Naruto noticing the Sand siblings and smiling "I'll be right back." He nodded before running over
Said siblings didn't notice, but what was noticeable was Gaara had his eyes closed and seemed close to dozing off against since yesterday felt SO GOOD! He slept, REALLY SLEPT, for what felt like the first time in years. And suddenly the world felt more vivid, his body felt more responsive. Although it also made him want to sleep just a bit longer, but things needed to keep going for what was about to happen if they passed "Gaara... Are you okay?" Temari asked, concerned
"Yeah." he nodded before feeling something and turned to see Naruto walking towards them with a smile. "He's here."
"Hi everyone." Naruto smiled, sitting on a table with a wide grin "Who missed me?"
Temari sighed and shook her head, although she admitted he WAS cute 'He is crazy.' she thought with a smile
"How was your little sleep?" He asked Gaara, smiling
"It was... enjoyable." He nodded while still retaining a frown. "Are you prepared for this exam?"
"Yep." Naruto smiled before tapping the kanji for love that was tattooed on Gaara's forehead "The old sand bag causing problems?"
"No, mother let me rest and has been more quiet since we met." Gaara nodded
"Mother?" Naruto blinked, the Kyubi laughing his ass off in his mind 'Poor guy must think Shukaku is his mom!'
'Oh god that bastard is pretending to be a girl, hilarious!' Kurama laughed
"Well I just wanted to come over and say hi, and maybe get to see you again." he teased to Temari.
"What?" She blushed while Kankuro rolled his eyes.
"Of course you'd get a Leaf Ninja interested in you before the exams even start." Kankuro said mockingly
"Shut up." frowned Temari.
"Relax, I'm sure you'll find a nice guy with all that make up you have, but you don't have to be jealous of Temari here." Naruto said with a smirk Temari froze before she grinned while her brother got pissed
"IT'S WAR PAINT!" he yelled with an eye twitch while a team was watching them from a distance with serious expressions.
"Thanks." Temari smiled gently
"Well I'll see you around." he smiled before heading back to his team while Sakura could feel her teeth grinding together.
"... He does have a nice butt." Temari said suddenly as she watched Naruto leave
'Bitch! Bitch! Gonna kill a bitch!' Sakura thought enraged
'... I suddenly have the urge to hurt Naruto.' Gaara thought, feeling brotherly over-protection for the first time
'Great, another one.' Haku thought with a sigh 'Why does he have to be so lovable?'
'Another blond, double the fun.' Ino thought proudly
"Seriously?! So you have pheromones in your pants?!" Kiba snapped loudly
"You know, you guys shouldn't be so loud." A leaf ninja a few years their senior with silver hair said as he walked up to the group "You are all making yourselves targets. I'm Kabuto by the way, and these exams are no joke."
"These guys? If they can't handle a little glare back they're not much danger." remarked Naruto.
"Don't be so cocky." Kabuto commented "I have failed this test six times."
"Six?! Bahahaha!" Kiba burst out laughing "Oh man, you're such a looser!"
"I guess you could say I'm a glutton for this kind of thing." Kabuto commented as a ninja who's headband had a musical note on it walked over arrogantly
"And someone who should just drop out if he knows what's good for him." said sound ninja glared/threatened
"Hey man, back off." Naruto frowned
"Oh yeah? Give me one reason I should." the ninja pushed Naruto gently
Naruto frowned, sparks shooting between their eyes
'This mummy bastard better step off!' thought Sakura.
The sound ninja punched, Naruto easily dodging... Before he was sent flying from some unseen force
"Naruto!" The others yelled and ran over
"Dosu, lay off." A girl with black hair, a music note head band and army camp pants scoffed
"Relax Kin, I say Dosu helped getting an amateur out from something he couldn't handle." The other Sound ninja scoffed
"Yeah, but he's just bullying a kid. It's sad." The named Kin waved off
"Naruto are you alright?" Hinata asked
"Yeah, I'm fine." Naruto frowned, trying to work out how that guy did that attack He rubbed his ear while hearing a ringing sound '... Sound?' he thought, blinking
"Alright you brats, knock it off." A tough voice snapped, a heavily scared leaf ninja walking in "Anymore rough housing and I'll kick your asses out of here." Everyone looked around and sat down cautiously "I'll be your examiner for the first part of the chunin exams, Ibiki Morino." Everyone was silent, almost scared "For this part of the exam, you'll be taking a simple test." he spoke as they noticed the face down papers on the desks. "This is going to help weed out any teams who don't have what it takes to go on, and the aim is to get the most points for each right question. But here's the downside, if any of you are caught cheating, you AND your whole team will be disqualified."
"You can't do that!" One snapped
"I can and will." he glared making the genin flinch. "And keep in mind, if even one of you ends up failing bad, then the whole team fails. And if you fail, you can never take these exams again."
All of the teams were shocked while Naruto felt that one make glance at where Haku and Sakura were sitting. He and Haku shared a look, already getting to work as their instructor continued listing off the rules
"Now, you'll be told when the time limit is almost up, so I'd keep your eyes on your own paper and you might have a chance." Ibuki explained "Answer the nine questions on your paper within the time limit. After that I shall ask the tenth and final question. Begin." Everyone flipped the papers over and began while Naruto looked at question one... It was gibberish he had no hope of understanding
'What the...great, if I knew it was gonna be a boring written test I would have at least TRIED to study.' Naruto thought, glad for his and Haku's plan. Haku had used her Ice Release to make ice mirrors all over the ceiling while Naruto had used his fox illusions to hide them, by making the constructs if Haku's chakra invisible. He discretely glanced at the jonin on the side of the room and looked up at one mirror before seeing the reflection of a few papers being filled in on it. He focused in on Sakura's paper. He knew she was smart and hey, team work right? He slowly jotted down the answers while being careful not to do it too fast or he'd look suspicious.
Haku was doing the same, although some answers she knew the answers to already. Looking around the room she saw most people where cheating 'Hmm, something feels off about all this.' Haku thought but even then, not much she could do
With Sakura she glanced at the ice mirror over her and frowned that she had to help the ice bitch, but knew it would help HER Naruto-kun and smiled. 'Maybe I can put down a small message to ask him out later after this part is over with, but I need to make sure that whore can't see it.' She thought, trying to think of a code while a kunai suddenly shot out and hit a boy's paper making him jump.
"Third time, you're out." Ibuki glared
"What?! But I didn't do anything!" the male ninja yelled
"Out." Ibuki growled without missing a beat. "Don't make me repeat myself."
The guy and his team left, sadly
'Damn, this guy's ruthless.' thought Naruto. 'Got to be careful.'
All the while others were doing their own forms of cheating "Pencils down." Ibuki ordered seconds later. Everyone put their utensils down while keeping silent "Now it is time for the tenth question." Ibuki continued "However if you get this question wrong, you fail. You fail, you never get to take the Chunin Exams EVER again."
"Say what?!"
"That's unfair!"
"We did all this work for nothing?!"
"QUIET!" he roared making them flinch. "If you're this whiny here then you'd shit yourselves the first sign of trouble out on the field." Everyone let that sink in, looking somewhere in thought "Now then, if you choose to drop out you and your team have a chance to try again next time, but if just one person on your team raises their hand, then the whole team goes." Ibuki explained "Any who wish to leave are now free to do so." All of them were silent before teams started to drop out one after another. More and more teams left, everyone looking at their own teammates
'Damn it! There's no way I'm leaving Naruto-kun alone and disappointing, but now if that ice bitch does then he'll lose his chance to be a chunin! Wait, if that happens, he'll be angry at her and I can swoop in to console him!' Sakura thought happily
'As if I'd run away.' Haku thought with a frown 'It takes more than a threat to scare me.'
Naruto's hair shadowed his eyes before his hand started to raise up making Hinata, Ino, Haku, and Sakura go wide eyed...before he quickly slammed it down on the desk and smirked at Ibiki
"Are you pulling my leg?" He glared as he stood tall "You expect ANY of us that not only do you have authority to stop us from EVER becoming Chunin, your authority somehow stretching over MULTIPLE villages and our own Third Hokage, but that we'd actually run away, scared, just because we MIGHT fail? If we were that scared we wouldn't take this exam in the FIRST place! And we all know we could DIE in this exam! Death seems much worse than failure to me, don't you think?" With that Naruto sat down... And then disappeared into nothing... and then a bucket full of water crashed on Ibuki's head, Naruto walking past him and taking his seat
Everyone there gasped and were stunned this kid had the BALLS to do something like that.
Naruto sat back, relaxing
Ibiki took the bucket off his head while his eye twitched... before he laughed softly making the teams confused and scared. "Well, looks like we got talent here who isn't gonna crack under the pressure. Anyone else wanna drop out?" No one made a move to raise their hands. "Then congrats, you all passed."
"... What?" Was what every Genin left thought at once
"I said you all passed the first part of the chunin exams." Ibuki said "The tenth question was if you WOULD take the tenth question."
"...eh?"
"It is psychological warfare." Shikamaru explained simply
"Exactly, this was to see if any of you would take the chance for you and your team to go forward or drop out and give up without having a chance to talk it over because in a battle, you don't have the chance most of the time." Ibuki explained "And now for your..."
He was interrupted as a window shattered and a woman jumped through. She stood tall and proud, a stick of dango in her mouth and behind her was a handmade banner that said 'INTRODUCING THE SECOND ROUND EXAMINER! THE SEXY, SINGLE, ANKO MITARASHI!' in black ink. However between the first comma and 'single' there was a clearly hastily written 'no longer' in red making the sign read, instead: 'INTRODUCING THE SECOND ROUND EXAMINER! THE SEXY, NO LONGER SINGLE, ANKO MITARASHI!'
Anko just grinned, looking around the room while Naruto groaned and Hinata blushed "Hey there pipsqueaks! I'm here to take you to the next part of the chunin exams!" Aiko said before turning to Ibuki "Wow Ibuki. You let a lot pass this year. You must be losing your touch." She grinned and mocked
He pushed the banner up slightly and sighed. "Couldn't you have done this without being so flashy?"
"Hey, I'm me." She scoffed "Besides I almost forgot about it and realised I hadn't gotten a new one, had to modify it in a rush." She rolled her eyes "Alright brats! Follow me and I'll show you where the next part of the exams are taking place!" She said, locking eyes with Naruto and winking before she jumped out the window again
'Your vixen is crazy... I like her.' Kurama laughed. Naruto groaned before the teams slowly got up and Sakura noticed Anko winking at HER Naruto.
'SLUT! KILL!' she thought in rage, forgetting Anko was a Jonin
"... FIVE?! SERIOUSLY?!" Kiba yelled
*With Sasuke*
Our resident emo was finally out of the hospital... At his wedding. It was taking place at a small building in the Uchiha district while two of the fathers were helping him get in a suit. "Get off me" He snapped while fiddling with the sleeves. "I can do this on my own."
"Nonsense son, you are still getting use to your lack of eyes." One man encouraged "You wanna look great for your wedding don't you?"
Sasuke glared, not even caring if he was looking in the guy's direction. HE had tricked him into marriage, he had no choice
"There! You look perfect for them, let's get going." The other father smiled, the two now pushing Sasuke down the hall
He grumbled, but complied and went in the direction. Soon he was just... Waiting 'I might end up married but I'm NOT going to let them do everything for me.' Sasuke thought 'I'm not some old crone, I can look after myself.'
"Hope you're ready son-in-law, here they come." spoke one of the father's at the altar.
"Huh?" Sasuke blinked, music filling his ears. He heard the sounds of footsteps on the floor moving towards him and inwardly sighed. Soon hands grasped his, the ceremony beginning. After some words that were traditional it came down to the 'I dos' part. Sasuke have his 'I do' VERY reluctantly, still trying to come up with a way to restore his eyes... And failing. So with a defeated sigh he gave his vow
"I now pronounce you man and wives, you may kiss the brides." the priest said happily
Sasuke's eyes widened as he was suddenly kissed five times in a row in quick succession
"You are now officially wedded, good luck on the honeymoon."
"Thank you!" The girls grinned and dragged Sasuke away
*with Naruto*
The Genin had arrived outside a giant fenced off forest, a training ground dubbed the Forest of Death "Alright maggots! Here is where the second part starts." spoke Anko with glee on her face. "Your teams are going into here, my own personal playgrounds. You will all be given a scroll at random, either a Heaven scroll or an Earth scroll. To go to the final round of the exams you must get both scrolls and then get to the tower in the middle of the forest in three days. And be warned, some of the plants in there are poisonous and there are some rather dangerous animals in there to."
"How do we get the other scroll?" A random Genin asked
"That's simple." Anko grinned "You steal it from another team by either being stealthy or beating them in a fight! Or you could be sneaky and trap them, or kill them! You just need to sign a waiver before you enter, saying if you die in this part of the exam onwards it is not the fault of the Hidden Leaf."
"What do we do about food?" called out Choji.
"Simple, learn to forage for it on your own, either that or be real quick and get to the other scroll and reach the tower before any other team can stop you." Anko laughed lightly, throwing a kunai at Naruto. Said genin quickly caught it before it hit and felt Anko appear behind him "Hmm... You have to be quick like Foxy her if you want to survive." She grinned leaning on him while licking his cheek making him blush and the other girls frown who saw that, before Anko kissed Haku deeply for a few seconds "And you should be ready to use any tactics." She grinned. Haku blushed while others who saw this felt jealousy at the boy, lust at the moment, while others felt creeped out and nervous. Anko then disappeared, reappearing in front of the forests fence again "Right! Now sign your papers, select a member to collect your scroll and go to an entrance way. You have half an hour before the gates open."
All of them went off while Naruto and Haku blushed and Sakura was gritting her hand so much she was drawing some blood 'My list keeps growing!' she thought in rage
When they got to the tent they got an earth scroll which Naruto took "If I hold onto it then they'll focus on me and give you two a chance to take them out." he told them in a whisper before they walked out.
'Sentimental fool.' Kurama smirked
"Great idea Naruto-kun, as always." praised Sakura.
"Well... not always." Haku smirked, pulling his pants leg up lightly to show a yellow stained white shirt "Mix your colours and your whites again 'foxy'?"
"Uh...hehehehe." he chuckled embarrassed.
"Kankoro..." Temari started sadly "I... I think we should tell Naruto about the plan. Warn him to leave the village to save him."
"What?" Kankuro looked at his sister like he was crazy. "Temari have you lost your mind?"
"LOOK AT WHAT HE DID FOR OUR BROTHER!" She called while pointing to Gaara who jolted and yawned.
"You barely know him! You know damn well we need this to go on without a problem, and you're gonna blow it over some guy?"
"Gaara is finally at peace!" Temari snapped "He can sleep without any worry! He isn't being driven mad anymore! And it... It is all because of Naruto! Heck, you heard him! He is in the same situation as Gaara, this village must have him! I'm sure he'd be happy to leave if we tell him! We..." Temari clenched her fists, looking at Gaara "... We can finally be a family... And you want to treat him like everyone else when the plan starts?"
Kankuro went silent hearing that before looking away and gripped his hands. "No, I honestly don't, but if we told him then it would be a mess, for dad and the village."
Temari just mumbled softly, shaking her head "I just... Don't know what to do. And I can't think of how else to thank him... Except for THAT way, you creep." She explained before she glared at him
"What? What'd I do?" Kankuro argued
"I know you wrote suggest 'why don't you just sleep with him then', you pervert." She frowned. He went wide eyed and glanced away while she crossed his arms and Gaara blinked his eyes.
'Don't sleep too much or else you're gonna end up dead in there!' The sand made single tailed beast warned with a growl
"Yes mother." he spoke making his siblings turn while he rubbed his eyes. "We need to stay focused, or we'll die in there."
"Oh no." Temari mumbled in worry, having heard that
Each team stayed at the openings while Hinata and Ino prayed Naruto would get through it safe and sound "BEGIN!" Anko called as the chunin at the gates opened them, making each team jump right in and start sprinting into the forest while the woman smiled. 'Good luck in there foxy.'
"Come on, sender to find another team quick." Naruto encouraged as the three ran through the trees
"Right." They nodded. They kept running until they found a clearing, Naruto summoning a few tracked foxes
"You guys spread out and see if you can keep an eye on any team you spot." Naruto explained
"Right big bro!" They nodded and ran off
While that went on, they were unaware of a certain team with the leader letting out a hissing sound. The grass ninja quickly moved, killing her team mates. Both let out choked gasps while the leader looked like a woman with long black hair and who looked ahead while licking her lips "Time for some payback." She hissed, following a scent
Meanwhile with Naruto's group, they stopped at a branch to take a second to catch their breath. They were all eating some fruit that Naruto had picked as it had been a while since they had eaten, and living in a forest for years helped Naruto know what was good and what was bad to eat "Mmm, this is really good Naruto." hummed Haku.
"Well you do like sweet." Naruto shrugged with a smile, finishing his fruit "Yours okay Sakura? Sorry if it's bitter, wasn't sure on your tastes."
"It's ok, I love it." she smiled while internally growling at Haku, but happy this fruit was given to her by Naruto-kun which helped her ignore the bitterness. She actually rather hated the taste but because Naruto gave it to her it was perfect
That's when one of the tracking foxes came back. "Big bro! I got some great news."
"What is it?" Naruto asked
"There's a team just a few feet from us staying low in some bushes, they didn't see me and don't look like they know where you guys are at." The fox grinned
"Sweet." Naruto smiled "Let's get that scroll!" All of them were about to move before a huge wind suddenly hit them from out of nowhere. They all gasped in pain, crashing into trees while trying to hang on as the fox poofed away "What was that?" Naruto asked
"Someone's making the first move." spoke Haku.
Sakura pulled out a Kunai, snarling as she looked for whoever was attacking them "Come out you coward!" she snapped
That was when the female grass Ninja jumped from the trees, landing on a branch facing the two with crossed arms "My my, a rather interesting team we have here." The ninja commented before she frowned "Now... Time for some revenge."
"Huh? For what? We just started." spoke Naruto.
The ninja was silent and charged forward, her body moving almost snake like as she fired a fire Jutsu
"Spread out!" Haku yelled, the three jumping out of the way. All of them found a branch and pulled kunai's out.
"How cute." The grass ninja hissed, unleashing a barrage of snakes as she charged at Sakura
"Snakes?!" Haku gasped, flashing through some hand seals quickly "Ice Style: Winter Wave!" She called, blowing as hard as she could and unleashing a blue mist. As the snakes entered the blue mist they quickly froze and fell to the floor
"That's weird." Naruto frowned, cutting the necks of the snakes
"You robbed me of my prize!" The grass ninja hissed as she blocked Sakura's punch and hit her in the gut as hard as she could
Sakura gasped before getting backhanded off the branch with blood coming out from her mouth "What... the fuck?" She gasped
"Ice Style: Certain-Kill Ice Spears!" Haku called, shooting ice spears at the Grass Ninja
"Wind Style: Air Bullet!" Naruto called while summoning two foxes
"Water Style: Water Bullet!" One fox called, launching blasts of water
"Lightning Style: Static Chains!" The other called, shooting a chain of electricity that linked both Naruto and the other foxes attacks making a swirling almost drill of shocking wind and water
The grass shinobi twisted her body under the branch and went towards Haku "Wind Style: Great Breakthrough!"
"Crap." Haku's eyes windows, yelling as she was sent flying back
"Haku!" Naruto yelled while the grass nin grabbed one of the foxes by the neck and threw it into the other one making them poof away. "You bitch!" Naruto snarled, quickly flashing through hand seals "Fire Style: Great Fireball Jutsu!" Naruto called, blasting the fire into the ninja's face
The ninja managed to jump back, but wound up getting engulfed by the flames when she hit the back part of a tree. The flames soon dissipated, revealing that under the feminine skin was a white as snow skinned person who had a yellow eye
"Holy shit." Naruto gasped "W... Who the hell are you?!"
The being slowly grinned while grabbing the edge of the skin that wasn't white and began ripping it off "My name is Orochimaru, the Sanin."
"... What?" Naruto gasped, his eyes widening while Sakura and Haku managed to get back up near him.
"Now Little Jinjuriki, it is time I take you out of the equation." Orochimaru hissed, ripping the rest of his fake face away
Haku and Sakura froze, slightly scared... When Naruto started laughing
"What are you laughing at boy?" Orochimaru glared
"Oh, nothing." Naruto grinned, an orange aura swirling around him "It's just that you are super powerful meaning..." He opened his eyes, showing they were now red with slitted pupils "... I have to go all out." He snarled
