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Ch.9 Chunnin Exams-First Stage
Naruto had just exited the training grounds after having had his little talk with Yuugao about grief. He had left the training grounds feeling that he had really helped her a lot with his advice.
He decided that he should head over to Ichiraku's to meet up with where he knew his wife would be, and maybe he would be able to sneak in a couple of bowls before Temari showed up using her 'husbands-health' senses.
So he started walking towards the small bar. Normally, he would just Hirashin there easily, but since it was such a beautiful night out, why not savor it with a midnight walk in the night. He approached the ramen bar, and sure enough, he saw a familiar blonde ponytail sitting at one of the stools.
He sat next to her and saw that she had already devoured her fair share of bowls, and looked over at Ayame and Teuchi and saw that they had money signs in their eyes, probably from thinking about how much more money they were going to make that night since the first night he had brought Yugito and Rei, they left enough money for them to buy a whole new restaurant.
Yugito saw Naruto sit next to her and order his own bowl and she smiled knowing that he had done right by whoever that Anbu was.
"So what happened?" she asked, Naruto slurped up his noodles and then answered "Well, the Anbu that was there was Yuugao-chan, you know? the one I told you about ,with the purple hair."
"Oh! the one that lost her boyfriend in the Suna-Oto Invasion?"
"That's the one, well as you could guess, with the Chunnin Exams so close, it's bringing up old memories, so I held her as she cried and gave her my advice on the matter."
"What kind of advice?" Yugito asked curiously.
"The same advice I gave you and the others when you were all in that hard spot." Naruto replied in between mouthfuls of ramen.
"Oh, the whole thing with the night sky in Ame, I loved when you said that to me." Yugito said nostalgically, the day that Naruto had given her that advice, she had just failed her first mission and her team she had been assigned to had all died, except for her, leading her to go into a pretty bad depression, then Naruto came and comforted her and described to her what he had seen in Ame.
Before that moment, Yugito had considered Naruto one of her best friends, among Killer Bee and a few others, but she hadn't thought that he would be dating material just because his attitude seemed to be a little to similar to Bee's for her tastes, but after that, she knew that he could be as serious and indifferent as her friend: Samui, and it was at that moment that she started developing feelings for him.
"Yeah, she told me that her special thing was a full moon. She said that her boyfriend and her would spend a full moon night laying down in the grass on the training grounds and just lay there, sometimes in complete silence."
"Oh that is romantic, but I must admit, it is no Raikage Monument." Yugito said with an expression on her face that Naruto saw quite often, the face of Pride, he assumed that he saw it so often because she had the Nibi in her and Jinchuriki do take on certain traits of their bijuu. Naruto just rolled his eyes as he thought 'of course it couldn't compare, because that's your special place. Though I do have to admit that the Raikage Monument is pretty spectacular.'
"Well, what did you guys do after that?" Yugito asked.
Naruto took another bite of his ramen before saying, "Well, after tha-." He stopped talking as he suddenly froze and his expression changed from happiness, to fear.
"What is it Naruto-kun?" Yugito asked, wondering what was going on with her husband. "Well, to put it lightly Yugito-chan, it seems that I'm about to die right now." Naruto said with a heavy sweat drop.
As soon as he said that, they felt a massive amount of KI, when Yugito looked, she saw Temari looked at Naruto with a 'I'm about to beat you to death' face. "H-h-hey Temari-chan, do you want some?" Naruto asked as he stared at his wife with a face of pure fear in his eyes. "Naruto" Temari said with the all too sweet tone that Naruto had learned to fear, for good reason, but underneath you could tell that she was beyond pissed, "What did I tell you I would do to you if I caught you eating too much ramen again, hmm Naruto?" She asked rhetorically. Naruto gulped, all the while thinking 'I'm gonna die, I'm gonna die, I'm gonna die!' really fast in his head. He saw Temari take out her fan off her back, and Naruto took out money from his pocket, put money down on the counter, and then used the Hirashin to get away from his wife. Making Temari all the more pissed. She focused her eyes on a spot in the village and shun-shinned after her blond baka.
"You would think he would have learned not to anger Temari, wouldn't you think Yugito-san?" Ayame said to the blonde. Yugito nodded and added "Yeah, but this is Naruto were talking about, he's always been a bit of a slow learner."
Naruto had teleported himself away from the Ramen Stand, to the one place he thought he could be safe from his wife's wrath. Sadly, this was also the first place that Temari would look for him, a thought that did not occur to Naruto until he felt her Killer Intent right outside his door.
He turned around and there she was, Naruto knew that no matter where he went, how far he ran, how many times he Hirashinned away from her, he had learned from years of experience that she would eventually hunt him down.
"Are you done running Naruto?" Temari asked in the same tone as before. Her fan still in her hand, ready to end up on the blondes skull. Naruto just let loose a breath and answered "Yeah." Temari smiled a bit at that and raised her fan up and Naruto braced himself for the beating he was about to receive.
Yugito was right about to enter the Hokage's Tower when she heard a screeching "AAAAHHHHHH!" 'It seems that Temari found Naruto-kun.' Yugito thought as she entered the building to pick up her daughter from Shizune's care. Though the Kunoichi seemed to be very reluctant to let the 'most beautiful baby in the world' go. After prying her daughter out of the Secretaries arms, she exited the building and felt that Temari should be just about done with her beating. She started walking to her and Naruto's apartment so that she could help Temari bandage Naruto up.
On her way there though, she felt someone approaching her. She recognized whose chakra this was, so she immediately made a hand seal and with a big POOF, three lightning clones appeared beside her, she handed her baby to one of the clones and told them to go to her and Naruto's apartment. She stopped where she was, and said "You can come out here now bitch." And out of the nowhere, a girl with blue hair and lavender eyes appearing right in front of the Jinchuriki.
"Alright bitch, what do you want?" Yugito asked, with venom laced into every word. The Hyuuga scowled at the blonde and said, "What did you do to him?" Yugito narrowed her eyes and replied, "What the hell are you going on about now bitch?" Hinata stepped forward to the Kumo nin.
"You know what I'm talking about you whore! The Naruto-kun I know would never do what he did to me, the day he came back, to the ones he loves! Now what did your village do to him!" She shouted at the Jinchuriki. Yugito stepped forward as well, while subconsciously putting a hand on a seal on her arm where her swords were hidden.
"You want to know what I did you Hyuuga bitch! I actually gave a damn about what happened to him! Me and everyone else in Kumo actually gave him the time of day and cared about him!" Yugito shouted at her, Hinata activated her bloodline to show how serious she was, "LIAR! Somethings happened to Naruto-kun, and I know you were behind it!" She shouted back, Yugito unsealed her sword and said "Maybe you are right, maybe Naruto has changed, to be honest, the one I am married to would never treat someone precious to him with cruelty, no matter who they were. Do you want to know what happened to him?" Yugito said while bringing her sword up, ready to strike if she needed to. She saw Hinata narrow her eyes as she asked her, showing that she did indeed want to know. "I think, all that happened to him, is he realized just who the enemy was. It is natural that when someone attempts to murder your own child, you start seeing that person as an enemy, I know that I do." Yugito said, Hinata was about to attack the Jinchuriki with her Jyuuken, but decided against it. Only for one reason.
"When the tournament happens, you better attack me with the intent to kill me. Because I will not hesitate to finish you off permanently." Hinata spat out at Yugito, instead of the Kumo Kunoichi narrowing her eyes and growling at her like Hinata had expected, Yugito actually started to smile instead.
"Oh don't you worry about that, because I won't be the only person that will be trying to kill you, you can count on that." Yugito said, and to top it off, she focused on a kunai that she had in her bag in Naruto's apartment and disappeared in the same yellow flash that the Yondaime was known for, signifying that she had used the Hirashin to top off her threat to the Hyuuga, making the Heiress widen her eyes in shock at what she had done. 'That whore has more secrets than I thought she would, I'm going to have to kick my training up a notch if I'm going to beat her in the tournament, I need to talk to Neji.' Hinata thought as she started heading toward her home.
Yugito appeared in the bedroom of their apartment and was greeted to the sight of her baby girl sleeping contently on the bed. She exhaled a breath of relief as she saw her daughter home safely. That was the bad side of using lightning clones, they didn't give her their memories when they dispelled like Naruto's Kage Bunshins did, but she needed to get her daughter away quickly and that was the fastest jutsu she knew. As she stared down at her daughter sleeping soundly with a wide smile on her face, she felt that the anger was leaving her body from talking to the Hyuuga bitch. Though, the frustration and stress was still present and she knew that the only way to get rid of that would be to either train or to talk with someone.
She walked out of the bedroom and saw Naruto sleeping on the couch with bandages all over his body, mostly on his head, while Temari was next to him, applying more bandages onto him. And though Naruto could be healed by Kurama's chakra, she knew that when it came to his wives, Kurama liked to stop the healing ability so that he had to suffer through the beatings. "How bad is the damage this time?" Yugito said as she saw the Suna Kunoichi treat her injured husband. "I'd say that I gave him about 35% of my power." Yugito whistled at that, she knew that each of Naruto's wives were powerful in their own right, while she was the second most powerful without using her bijuu's power, second only to Mei. And she saw Temari use her fan, which in all cases was one of her greatest strengths.
"Don't you think that's a little overboard?" Yugito said, Temari stopped applying bandages to Naruto and shrugged her shoulders a little. "The strongest beating I gave him was around 70%, compared to that, this is nothing." Temari said, Yugito immediately grew curious as to what Naruto had done to deserve a beating like that, "What did he do?" She asked, "He introduced ramen to Gaara. Ever since then, he's been almost as bad as Naruto is. I don't know what it is with jinchuriki's and ramen, it seems that's all you guys eat, and now Rei is obsessed with it." Temari said, while Yugito laughed a little at that. It was true, Kurotsuchi had even told her the story of when Naruto brought Han some ramen, needless to say, a bond was immediately formed with that action.
"Well, it is the food of the gods, but onto a different topic." Yugito said, and with that, the nibi jinchuriki told Temari everything that had happened between her and Hinata only moments before. By the end of her story, Temari found herself thinking of intricate ways of killing the girl, in ways that would make the sadistic Gaara proud.
"So, what do we do? I mean, she's pissed off all of us by attacking Rei, so we can't just let one of us kill her, it would seem unfair." Temari said as she looked over at the sleeping form of her husband. She knew that he wanted his revenge probably the most out of everyone. "I'm glad you asked, because I thought of the perfect way for her to pay for her crimes. I just came up with it while I was talking to her and it seemed perfect for all of us to get our revenge, but there is one drawback, Naruto told me what happened in your Chunnin Exams, so I don't think that this will be you cup of tea. You seem to be the kind of girl that wants to win or loose in a fair fight, or your pride won't allow an unfair fight, am I correct?" Yugito asked, while Temari gave Yugito a slight nod after she thought about herself for a bit. Yugito then grew a sort of sadistic smile on her face, while she caressed Naruto's hair, almost like a cat would with yarn. She then proceeded to tell Temari of the plan she had for the girl, and by the end of it, Temari was frowning somewhat at the downside to the plan. "But Yugito, if we do this, than we won't be able to fight any farther in the tournament than we want. Mei and Gaara might be able to, but we won't, and besides, she will only brag to us later like a bitch if we do this."
"That is true, but after we're through with her, I'm sure that she will be looking at each of us in a different light." Yugito said. Both girls smiled as they pictured the Hyuuga after they were finished with her. As she finished her statement, they saw Naruto stirring on the couch. They saw him open his eyes, then widen them in fear as he glanced at Temari. "Don't worry, you're beating is over, as long as I don't catch you eating more ramen than you should be eating." The wind mistress said. Naruto relaxed at that, and all three of them started thinking of how soon it would be until Temari caught Naruto eating ramen again.
"So, what did you two talk about while I was unconscious?" Naruto asked, Temari and Yugito both got a smile on their face as they told their husband of their new plan. At the end of it, Naruto was showing his usual grin that showed that he was up to something, which he usually was whenever he had that grin on his face. "It sounds perfect, but this will only work if one of us is up against her, though we do have a lot of people that should agree to this after they hear it." Naruto said, while thinking of each person that would love to attack the Hyuuga in the tournament after they hear about what she had done. Mostly, all the people in Kumo that was close to Yugito.
"But what about you guys? I know that you guys want to have a chance at winning this." Naruto asked again, while both of his wives smiled at his concern for them, "Well, I think we can agree that if you're going to be in the tournament that we aren't going to win." Yugito said, "True, but you guys are probably the only ones that can keep up with me." Naruto replied, and they all laughed a little at that since it was mostly true. There were not a lot of people that could keep up with Naruto's speed or strength. The only ones that could put up a fight were the Kage's that had trained the blonde.
"Well, if we're doing this, then let's get the word out." Temari said.
1 week later
Orochimaru was currently sitting in one of his hidden bases that no one knew about. He was just smiling over the news that had just been delivered to him. 'I know that Tsunade will suspect that I am up to something, but destroying that puny leaf village is hardly a concern of mine anymore, though I would like to kill that blonde gennin who stopped my plans in the first place. What was his name again?... Boruto or something like that. I don't know, all Sasuke calls him is dobe so I don't remember what his name is at all.' The sennin thought to himself as he waited for the arrival of his number one student.
And sure enough, he saw the Uchiha appear right in front of him. wearing his usual attire of a navy blue sash that is wrapped multiple times around his head, which tied his spike hair. A black high-collared shirt, with a midriff-exposing black flack jacket that was similar to those worn in Kumo. His pants were a tattered and colored light blue, while his sword was hung over his back. "What did you call me for now Orochimaru? this better be good." Sasuke called out as he appeared in front of the snake sennin. "ku ku ku, Sasuke-kun, you should be more polite to those that do you favors. As for why I called you here, it seems that Konoha has accepted our self-invite into the tournament, which will be taking place in about two months, plenty of time for all of us to get ready. Now you will be able to see if you are strong enough to face Itachi ku ku ku." The snake like man said as he smiled in that pedophile like way.
Sasuke on the other hand, was shaking his hands in excitement, much like when he was doing his first C-rank mission, at the thought of facing Itachi and proving to him that he was the more powerful of the two and that he had finally gained enough hate and despair to take him down. He was about to walk away when he heard Orochimaru say "You know Sasuke-kun, if perhaps you don't end up winning this tournament, you know there will have to be... certain measures taken to assure that that never happens again." And with that threat hanging, Sasuke shrugged his shoulders and walked off into the darkness to go and finish taking his nap.
One week had passed since Yugito told Naruto and Temari her plan for the Hyuuga girl, and in that time, they had managed to tell only Gaara and Kankuro so far. They planned on telling everybody else that was close to Naruto when they arrived for the last stage of the Chunnin Exams, they had yet to tell Tsunade or Jiraiya because they knew that neither of them would have allowed Naruto or his family to follow through with their plan. Even if they hated Hinata, there was no way they were going to let them do something like what they had planned, to her.
Naruto, Yugito, Rei, and the Suna Siblings were currently gathered around the teachers lounge of the academy, surrounded by the Jonin of the teams in the exams, looking at monitor screens that showed the first exam of the Chunnin Exams. Naruto and the Suna Siblings were currently wondering if it was going to be anything like their first Chunnin Exams with Ibiki. Heck, they even spotted some Gennin that participated in their Chunnin Exams. Though they looked far older now, but it was still no less said.
And sure enough, the interrogator appeared in front of the classroom and told every Gennin to come and take a number and sit down accordingly. After everyone had sat down, Ibiki presented the tests out to everyone and explained the rules, which were the same rules that Naruto and the others had to follow. "Alright everyone, listen up. This test is out of 10 points, a point is deducted for every answer you get wrong, now, if you were here a couple of years ago, I said that if someone were to get a zero, then their entire team fails, now the rules have changed slightly, now, even if you don't have any points, that doesn't technically mean that you have failed, you can pass with flying colors, if you do the test correctly. I've had someone pass this test before and the guy didn't even write anything down on the paper, but that person knew how to take this test correctly. But remember this, you will be graded as a team, not on your solo work. Also, contrary to past tests, if one of your teammates has no points whatsoever because of lack of answers, then the team can stay, however, if the teammate gets caught cheating five times, then the whole team fails. And with what I said about being graded as a team, that just might be the hint on how the guy did it." Ibiki lied at the last part with a smirk as he recalled collecting one Uzumaki Naruto's paper, while Naruto sweat dropped as he realized that the person he was talking about was in fact him.
"Who do you think he's talking about Naruto-kun?" Yugito joked, she already knew Naruto was that kid just from his facial expression. "I-I-I don't know Yu-Yugito-chan." Naruto said trying to play it off cool. "It was you Naruto, I saw your paper when I was copying off the proctor in disguise that was in front of you. Besides, you were the one that spoke out that you knew the entire purpose of the test the whole time, which I'm sure made everyone realize that you hadn't gotten even one answer." Gaara said with a smirk as he recalled that memory. Naruto sweat dropped again and started mumbling something about "stupid tests" and "suicidal redheads with sand eyes."
When they turned their attention back to the monitor, they saw that everyone had already started the test. Naruto spotted that a lot of the students had already caught on to the fact that they needed to cheat in order to win. While the others, that were like Naruto, were shaking in fear as they knew that they couldn't answer any of the problems that were on the test. And then, there was the crowd that had bought Ibiki's lie about the student who passed by having his team do better than him, and they felt that their team could get all of the other test questions right, so they sat there with their hands over their heads and relaxing while their teammates did all the work.
After the hour was over, somewhat of a large portion of the classroom was empty because of the cheaters that had gotten caught. Ibiki stood before the class and cleared his throat to signify that time was up. "Alright, now is time for the tenth question, but before I ask it, I am going to go over the specific rules for this question." Ibiki said, causing all Gennin to rise in their seats to pay more attention, not wanting to miss a thing. "He's doing this again, why doesn't he mix it up a little bit, I mean if he's been using the same technique for over 15 years, than I'm sure people have caught on by now." Temari said as they all watched the T.V's, "I'm sure if people had caught on, there wouldn't be so many Gennin that look seconds away from getting up and leaving right now. So I figure if it isn't broken, then don't fix it. And he did sort of change it, I mean, he did include me not having any answers yet passing anyway so that he could weed out any Gennin that rely to much on their teammates." Naruto said, and sure enough, as soon as Ibiki said the rules for the tenth question (I'm sure all you guys know the rules) most of the Gennin had a look on their faces that screamed uncertainty.
"What I want to know is if there will be another you of these exams Naruto, because if they definitely seem to need it right now." Gaara said. And his words seemed true, considering that at least half of the class had already left. Leaving only around 48 students in the classroom. But if the kids kept leaving like they were, than that number would drop real fast. "Oh, I'm sure there will be someone like me out there, I am 100 percent sure about it. I have faith in them." Naruto said while watching one area of the room that had more Gennin than others.
Ibiki seemed to be drawing his attention to that area as well, and saw that the Gennin seated their had confident looks on their faces. He decided to see if he could thin out the herd and try doing some more mind games on them. He approached on of the students that had a Kumo headband on, "Are you sure you're ready to take a question like this? Knowing that if you fail, you will never take the Chunnin Exams again." He said in a somewhat low tone, but loud enough so that the other students heard him. "No." Was all the student said. "
"And why are you so sure that you are going to pass?"
"I'm not sure I'm going to pass, but I will be sure to meet my goal head on, not take the easy way out and try another day, every decision has consequences. And if I want to achieve my goal, than I'm going to take the risk." As the Gennin said that, his team, along with the other Gennin around him nodded their heads in agreement. While the other Gennin nodded at his words and sat back in their desks.
Ibiki grew a smirk at that, again remembering Naruto say something kind of similar 15 years ago. "Well, in that case...you all pass." He said with a smile on his face. All Gennin than grew a look of confusion, but as the pieces started to come together in their heads, they grew smiles on their faces and soon enough, they started cheering and celebrating about passing the first part of the exam.
But their celebrating turned silent as they heard a someone scream "DYNAMIC ENTRY!" And the window broke, revealing a man with a bowl-haircut with bushy eyebrows and a green spandex body suit with a green Jonnin vest. All Gennin had a look of shock on their face as they saw his eyebrows and some girls even started shivering at the sight of them. "Hello, I am going to be the proctor for the Second Exam, and my name is Gai Might, so if you Gennin are filled with half as much youth as my student, than you will have no problem surviving my Exam!" Gai shouted, all the while, Ibiki stood in the corner thinking 'I can't tell which is worse, having Gai as proctor or Anko, Gai at least shows up on time and not fifteen minutes early and doesn't pin a banner every time she enters. But then again, Anko doesn't have as much enthusiasm as Gai does, and she doesn't scream about the burning power of youth all the time. This is such a hard choice.'
"Alright slow-pokes!, see if you can catch up with me to Training Ground 44. However, if you are not youthful enough to make it their in under 30 minutes, I must disqualify you. Now, all you youthful Gennin FOLLOW ME!" Gai shouted as he raced out of the Academy through the window again. All students just stood their in shock at what had just happened. It wasn't until Ibiki checked his watch and said "28 minutes left, I suggest you hurry up." And in a flash, all Gennin had left the room in a speed that almost rivaled Gai's. 'Damn, they must really want that promotion, another interesting group we have here.'
"So how did you know that one of your kids was going to say that?" Kankuro asked, "Oh, let's just say that I helped train those kids pretty damn well if I do say so myself, especially after I showed them what I could do, would you say so Yugito-chan?" Naruto asked and Yugito rolled her eyes "You are never going to let me live that spar down will you?" She asked, and Naruto nodded his head with a laugh, while the Suna group looked at them with a confused look at their little inside joke. "Years ago, back when I was still getting acquainted with Yugito-chan, I showed her up in a spar." Naruto said, "And why would that matter exactly? I bet you already knew he was stronger since he could defeat those Akatsuki guys." Kankuro asked the couple. Yugito grumbled something that no body could make out, "Could you say it a little louder Yugito-chan?" Naruto teased a little, "It mattered because he beat me in front of my own Gennin team, the same kids you just saw." She said without looking at anyone, even Rei who was sleeping peacefully in her lap. As Yugito said that, everyone, including Gaara, grew a smile on their faces and had to hold back their laughter for a little bit. They all knew how prideful Yugito was just from the first few times they had met her, and to say that she lost a spar to some no-name ninja from Konoha at the time, in front of her own students no less. Now that was just gold.
"Oh (haha) that is just rich." Temari said in between laughing. Naruto and the now awake Rei were also laughing with them, but that soon stopped when Naruto felt the Killer Intent coming off of his wife and directing it at him. He saw that Yugito was giving him a look that said 'If you weren't the father of my child, you wouldn't see the light of day ever again.' He immediately stopped and with him stopping, Rei did as well. Once they stopped laughing, Yugito readjusted herself on the couch and said "So what do we do now? They won't be coming out of the Forest of Death for some time." "Why don't we go and meet them there at the tower? I mean, aren't you their sensei, so you should be the one that's going to come out of the scroll that they gather." Gaara said with his usual monotone voice. Everyone nodded a little at that and gathered around Naruto, who was starting to feel more like a taxi service than a ninja.
He focused on the tower and tried to find his chakra signature, but do to it being years since he had been there and there being so many others with it in that time, he was having a hard time concentrating. He got it down however and then Hirashinned them to the middle of the tower, surprising the Green clad Jonin who was in the middle of doing his daily routine of training himself to death.
And that is chapter 9, hope you guys like it, Review and Share if you wish, If you have any questions on Yugito having a team of her own. My argument is this, she IS a jonin, so why should she not have a team. It's only logical. I will be publishing my new story after the next chapter, thank to lockdown00 and NarutoKushina who helped me work out the kinks that I had with the story. The story will be called "A Bond Between Siblings." Down below is the preview to the first chapter that was suppose to come last chapter but I forgot. Oh well, better late than never.
Ch. 1 Two Jinchuriki
Two figures could be seen walking towards the gates of Konoha, one appeared to be female and had her arm wrapped around the neck of the second figure. Both appeared to be small, showing that they weren't all that old, early teens at best. The two also appeared to have been through some sort of massacre, given that the one carrying the girl was covered in a red liquid that smelled of blood.
The other figure however, didn't look like they had taken a beaten, just a little dirt on her skin, but she appeared to be in a lot of pain. Which only seemed to get worse and worse as they got closer and closer to the Village Hidden In The Leaves.
'Come on!, we're almost there, just a couple more feet and Kushina-sama will be able to help us. This seal on her is getting worse and worse, and it still doesn't help that we don't know what it's doing. Add to the fact that I'm almost out of chakra, so if we get attacked, we are screwed.' The one covered in blood thought as he kept dragging his feet onward toward their home, while the girl kept cringing and breathing heavily as they kept moving to signify her pain.
She tried thinking of anything to block out the pain, but all she came up with were recent memories of how they had gotten to that moment. While Kakashi was been doing the same thing, though he was still in shock over what had happened.
