Edo Tensei: Resurrecting Gods

Chapter 9

Sorry for the infrequent updates, my weekends are spent working and im doing most of my homework during the week.

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The process of registering and reacting to something shocking was interesting as well as hilarious. At first, there was silence. Afterwards, a few mumbles and mutters, pointing and covered whispers to comrades and friends. Then the voices became louder, the volume began climbing and climbing till it came to a climax.

After all of that? Well then…

It was all out pandemonium.

Some of the candidates walked out the door on the spot, sending narrowed eyes at the other participants, daring them to try and make the leavers stay.

This was about a ninth of the Chûnin Examinees. 16 people. Well, 48, a few others were forced to leave with their teammates.

Around half of the room started screaming. Really, it was quite comical. More people began leaving, and the numbers dropped to around 100 or so. Team 11 were quite surprised by the courage of these people. These people that were trying against Uchiha Madara and Senju Hashirama.

Then Madara flared his chakra.

Cracks formed on the wood floor and a strong wind burst out from Madara in the wake of his potent chakra, the menacing aura from the dark blue fire that seemed to burn but not burn made a few people faint in shock. Others fell to their knees and the stronger of the lot - a mere 11 people - managed to stay on their feet. Although they were overcome with violent shivers.

"Madara! Stop scaring the little ones, its bad for business." Hashirama placed a hand on the Uchiha's armoured shoulder, making the waves of pure power stop and the room to return to normal.

Although it took a while for many people to pick themselves up from the floor.

Madara turned his head slightly to look at Hashirama out of the corner of his eye. "Just weeding out the weaker ones. They have no business here."

Hashirama sighed in disappointment, falling into his depressive state when he saw Naruto agreeing with Madara. "I'm surrounded by bloodthirsty idiots." he mumbled, poking a stick into the ground.

Naruto slapped Hashirama across the head, making the Senju fall over onto his face. "Stop acting like an idiot Hashi-Sensei. This is the chûnin exams, I will not let you hold me back because of your idiocy."

Hashirama sighed once again. "You were so much nicer a few months back." He said sadly.

Naruto gave a Hn in reply and went to stand next to Madara, who was looking at his adopted son proudly.

Hashirama scoffed and ran over to team 7. "Sasu-kun! Sakura-chan! Sai-kun! Mada and Naru are being mean!" The Senju flung himself over Sai and began sobbing. "What will I do? Now that my team has abandoned me!"

Sasuke began edging away, sending short glances at Hashirama to check that he wasn't watching. Sakura followed, but not to the great distance of Sasuke.

Sai... Well. Sai patted the Shodai Hokage on the head, like one would pat a dog. "Do not worry, Shodai-sama. As this book says." He took a book out of his pouch titled. 'How to make and keep friends.' "Friendships will go through some rough patches, but good friends will always get back together. It is certain."

Hashirama sighed and tried to peer around to look at the blurb of the book. "Really?" He asked.

Sai nodded. "Friendships like the one between you and your team have a...89.9978693% chance of getting back together.

Hashirama clapped enthusiastically. "Well then! Thank you Sai!"

Sai bowed modestly. "It was nothing Shodai-sama."

Hashirama grinned, showing a full set of gleaming pearl teeth that stood out starkly from his dark tanned skin. He ran back to his team and flung his arms around the two Uchiha's shoulders. "We're going to destroy this exam!"

Naruto shoved Hashirama's heavy arm off his shoulder. "Figuratively or Literally?" He asked, sounding a little interested.

Hashirama stood back up properly and looked up at the ceiling in thought. His chocolate brown eyes narrowed as he danced side to side slightly. "Well." He started. "I suppose we could do both... Maybe..."

Naruto and Madara looked at each other and gave identical dark grins.

"Welp." Hashirama pushed the two forward towards the Rookie 12. "Hello!" He greeted everyone enthusiastically.


Morino Ibiki. Head of the Torture and intelligence or better known as the T&I department, didn't know whether to revel or be angry in the fact that someone was knocking fear into the brats.

Looking through the hole in the Kakuremino no Jutsu (Disguise Technique) – A horrendously underused and underestimated technique that could fool most high level Ninja if utilized efficiently. Ibiki watched as the two above Kage level Shinobi and the high Chūnin/low Jonin level Genin terrorized the Chūnin wannabe brats.

He frowned in thought and held out a hand to the side. "Coffee."

A mug was handed to him instantly, he took a sip of the bitter hot liquid and smirked, scaring his subordinates half to death. He drained the mug quickly and held his hand out once more.

"Another! "

It took two minutes but another mug was handed to him, making him take a sip.

"Hmm." Humming, Ibiki looked contemplative. "Who made this?" He demanded.

One of the more brave chūnin stepped forward, "Me, Sir."

Ibiki looked him over and nodded. "You've been promoted. My personal coffee maker from now on. Better than running errands for Hokage-Sama anyway."

The chūnin slumped in relief and stepped back into the crowd. Taking friendly slaps on the back as he went.

Ibiki took another sip of coffee. "I love the smell of coffee and fear in the morning." He muttered darkly.

"Um, Sir? Its near enough three in the afternoon."

Ibiki gave a vague wave motion absently. "Shush, you'll ruin the moment." He sipped his coffee, watching as the Shodai Hokage made a fool of himself yet remained the most feared one in the room.

Life was good for Morino Ibiki.


A cautious "Hello." Was the reply to Hashirama's cheerful greeting.

Hashirama let the two Uchiha stand up straight and flung his arms over Kiba and Shikamaru, a wide grin on his face. "How is everyone?" He asked.

The teams looked at each other sneakily then back at the Senju. A few pointed looks and sharp elbow jabs made Ino walk forward and stand before Hashirama. "We are good, Shodai-sama."

Hashirama shook his head in exasperation. "Ino-chan! How many times do I have to tell you all to call me Hashirama? None of that Shodai-Sama nonsense, too much effort if you ask me."

"Nobody was asking you." Madara murmured.

Hashirama stood up properly and pointed a tan finger at Madara, a halfhearted glare on his face. "Shut up you... You bastard! Nobody was asking you either!"

Naruto laughed softly, blue eyes twinkling in amusement as he sneaked behind the ranting Senju. He shoved the man forward, making Hashirama fall on his face again.

Hashirama gave a small shout of surprise, his voice muffled by the thick wood floor. The former Hokage got up slowly, brushing off invisible dust from his armour.

"Naruto!" He whined. "Stop being mean like Madara, you're supposed to be the nice one!"

The blond genin smirked playfully, nudging the older man with his elbow.

Hashirama sighed and flung his head into his palms. He looked up at the grey haired young adult that was approaching the group slowly and narrowed his eyes imperceptibly. A glance to Madara and a nod in return confirmed his suspicions.

The man approached Team 7, who were standing on the verges of the group. They walked over and caught Sasuke shoving the man away, stating that he didn't need the help of a weakling. Naruto walked over to the other Uchiha and activated his three tomoe Sharingan.

"Is he bothering you, Sasuke?" The blond Uchiha turned his head slightly to glare at the grey haired man, who was beginning to sweat. "I'd be happy to take care of him for you."

Sasuke smirked and closed his eyes, opening them to reveal his Sharingan, which also had three tomoes. "No." Sasuke murmured. "I'm sure that he is just a little delusional... Thinking that me, an Uchiha! Would require the help of anyone else. The Uchiha are the most powerful clan in the world, we will easily destroy all here in this exam." Sasuke looked around the room slowly, his Sharingan seemingly challenging anyone who met his blank gaze.

Someone scoffed at the back of the room. The sea of people obscuring the way, parted quickly, revealing two teams of Iwa nin.

The one who scoffed stepped forward, her short black hair swaying as she strode forward arrogantly, pink eyes narrowed as she glared at the two young Uchiha.

"Watch what you say, Brat. You aren't worth the scum on my boots." She snarled. "Iwa, will be the only one who progresses through this exam with any success. All other opponents will be due to sheer, dumb luck. On another note." She leaned forward and spat at Sasuke's feet.

"The Uchiha are a dead clan, only three of you survive. The two brats I see before me, and a traitor to your village... The one that killed them all! You are nothing but the weak remains of what was an even weaker clan! You should be lucky that Iwa-" she was cut off by the faint scrape of a sword unsheathing and a small nick to her neck.

She turned her head slightly, looking down at the mirrored Katana that faintly touched her neck. The black haired girl looked up the length of the sword, only to meet glaring red eyes with three tomoe spinning wildly within.

"Don't. Ever. Insult the Uchiha clan." Each word was accented with small push with the sword, drawing it closer to her pale neck, it was close enough to draw a little blood.

The girl gulped and stepped back towards her team, her eyes narrowing as the two other Uchiha stepped behind the blond one.

She scoffed again and turned around, striding back with a glare thrown over her shoulder.

The silver haired man pushed up his glasses with a finger and shuffled through his deck of cards, taking out one after a few seconds.

"Kurotsuchi." The man revealed, looking up at the circle of Konoha nin that looked at him. "She's 15... Three years older than you and the granddaughter of the Sandaime Tsuchikage." Madara looked at the girl closely, yes the two looked similar. "She has the Yōton Kekkai Genkai, lava Style; all other skills are unknown. She has been on 8 D-rank, 45 C-Rank and 5 B-Rank missions! She is considered a genius back in Iwa, along side her teammates who are unknown." The man put away his cards and looked at everyone slyly. "She is a powerful opponent to be sure."

The three Uchiha scoffed and turned away from the man, walking over to Hashirama to stand until the Exam started. The room erupted into whispers after the confrontation, everyone gossiping over the Iwa/Konoha argument.

It wasn't long after that, that a large plume of smoke erupted from the raised platform at the back of the room. It cleared to reveal a bunch of Konoha nin.

"Shut up you Brats! The first test in the Chūnin Exam will begin now, apologizes for the wait." The scarred man turned to glare at everyone. "Well? Get moving you sacks of useless flesh! Hand in your applications and get a seating arrangement card... Now!"


Naruto ground his teeth nervously, looking down at the almost blank piece of paper in front of him with trepidation. He hated paper tests.

The exam had started half an hour ago and he had yet to finish the test. He had managed to do one or two but the rest eluded his mind. They were just too hard! The blond looked to the left and right, not seeing anyone that he recognized. Hashirama was in front, around four rows, and he assumed that Madara was behind him.

Naruto thumped his head on the desk in despair, groaning softly. He looked back to his paper and narrowed his eyes, Sharingan whirling to life. He stared at the paper for a bit, hoping for the answers to pop out at him.

Suddenly, a small pulsing started between his eyes, pushing something forward. He recognized it as a Genjutsu and stopped struggling, knowing that only Madara was strong enough to place a Genjutsu on his chakra, which was lined by the Kyūbi's. Ink spread across his page and formed into words, filling the empty answer boxes with what seemed to be the answers!

Naruto picked up his pencil and began writing over the ink, copying word for word in the same handwriting. He knew that by doing this, he would be left with the answers after the Genjutsu was dispelled.

Ten minutes later he had finished and the ink faded away, leaving being his copied answers behind. Naruto gave a small smirk and turned his paper over, feeling Madara's smirk behind him. He leaned back and watched as a few teams were thrown out in the remaining five minutes.

"Times up!" Ibiki shouted. "Get ready for the tenth question!" He looked around the room, taking in the variety of facial expressions. "Before we get to the last question... I'm going to add another rule."

The Suna nin that went to the toilet came back into the room, a wide smirk on his face.

"Looks like you're in luck kid. The time you've wasted playing with dolls hasn't been put to waste. Sit down and don't worry about it." Ibiki drawled, a sardonic look on his scarred face.

"This rule... Is absolute! You will choose whether or not to take the tenth Question." He continued, still drawling.

The room remained silent, all hooked on the words of the proctor.

"Let me explain for the more thick-headed of you brats. Take the question, and answer it correctly, you have nothing to worry about. Home free, as it were. However!" He looked around again at the room, taking in the nervous and frightened faces. "If you reject the question, not even attempting to give it a try... All points gained will be lost, and you, alongside your teammates will fail. If you take the question and fail to answer it correctly..." Ibiki smirked.

"You will forfeit all right to apply to any future Chūnin exams again... Ever!" Almost the entire room erupted in protest at the Tokubetsu Jonin's words, a few even standing up to shout at Ibiki.

"QUIET!" He roared, slamming his closed fist into the wall behind him. "I have been upfront with you idiotic children. Let me elaborate once more, for those of you who still remain. Take the opportunity to leave with a failing grade right here, try again later in another exam. If you are remaining doubtful, be smart, and leave now." Ibiki waited a moment for the Chūnin wannabes to take his words.

"Ready? Then let's begin... Those who choose to reject the question, raise your hands. When your number has been confirmed, gather your teammates, get their numbers confirmed and leave the room quietly."

The room went silent.

"I-I... I quit! I'm rejecting the question!" A Konoha ninja shouted, standing up with his hand raised. "Genna, Inaho, forgive me."

'Such a weakling," Naruto mused, watching as the man walked, shaking, out of the room.

"Number 50 Failed! Gather your teammates numbers 130 and 111, Konoha thanks you for your participation thus far." Two other Konoha nin stood up and left silently, patting the afraid genin on the back.

"M-Me too!" The wave of rejections began, ninja after ninja started leaving until only half remained.

"Is that everyone?" Ibiki asked ominously. The Special Jonin looked down with closed eyes and smirked slightly. "Well done to those who remained." He looked up and smirked wider. "You have just passed the first exam! All 54 that remain here, you just passed."

The room went silent before erupting into noise. Some were shocked, others relieved. Some were crowing in joy. In the overwhelming din of noise one could hear Sakura shout out in confusion.

"What do you mean 'passed'!" She screeched. "When did that happen? What about the tenth question?!"

Ibiki grinned. "There is no tenth question beyond the whole 'Accept or reject' thing."

'Heh,' Naruto thought.

"Hey!" A Suna nin protested. "Then why did we have to suffer through the other nine questions?! A total waste of our time!"

"No waste." Ibiki drawled. "The purpose of those questions have been achieved and if you haven't realized what that purpose was, then you're just an idiot with luck." Naruto inwardly snorted in amusement, this guy was a blast.

"Such as?" She queried.

"To test your skills in gathering information." Ibiki proclaimed.

"...Oh..."

Ibiki had went on about how the exam worked, how they were supposed to cheat and how there were fake plants to get information from. Afterwards the man had pulled his bandana off his head and showed his torture scars, scaring half the room. The Suna nin had asked about the tenth question again and Ibiki revealed that the tenth question was the real exam.

Then there was a rant about chūnin that Naruto didn't listen to, he was playing with his kunai, swirling it around his finger, bored with the proceedings.

After Ibiki had finished his speech, they had waited for 10 or so minutes before another man walked in the door, his hands in his pockets and slightly slumped over in laziness.

"Hello, Ibiki." The man greeted, giving a slight wave to his fellow special Jonin.

"Hello, Shikaku... Just in time, we're just finished up here."

The man, revealed as Shikaku, turned to the crowd and waved again. "Hello... My names Nara Shikaku, I am going to be your proctor for the Second exam. Nice to meet you."


Naruto, Hashirama and Madara walked through the forest sedately. Enjoying the peaceful atmosphere of the Forest of Death.

Well, peaceful for them. Who knows what everyone else in here thought about it.

Hashirama was touching every third tree that they passed, cooing and greeting a few like friends. Madara and Naruto walked behind him, Sharingan eyes on the lookout for anyone coming to attack them... Not that there would be any, but it didn't hurt to be cautious.

It was after an hour or so that two Naruto clones leaped down from the trees and handed the original a Heaven and a Earth scroll before dispelling.

"Hashirama!" He called ahead, making the Senju turn back. "We have the scrolls!"

The Mokuton wielder grinned and bounced back to the team. "To the tower then?" He asked.

Naruto nodded and ascended to the trees, followed by Hashirama and Madara. They were about to set out towards the tower but they were stopped by Madara's raised fist.

"Wait..." The older Uchiha murmured. The man dropped down to the ground and touched a single finger to the earth. A few moments later he ran up the side of the tree and off to the east. "Follow." Was all that he said.

Throwing confused glances to each other, Naruto and Hashirama took off after Madara. They easily caught up with him and pushed the pace faster, being only a rustle of leaves to any who took notice of their passage.

They ran for half an hour, crossing the entire expanse of the forest quickly.

Madara narrowed his eyes and dropped to a lower branch of the tree he was on, running his fingers over the black covered bark. He lifted his sooty fingers to his nose and sniffed. "Sasuke..." He murmured. The Uchiha looked up at Hashirama and Naruto. "Sasuke was here, this was his Katon on the tree here."

"Who else?" Hashirama asked dropping down next to Madara.

Madara closed his eyes again and slightly moved his head side to side. "The Nature chakra we sensed at the first exam. Dark and putrid, almost snakeish."

Hashirama touched the burned tree and frowned.

"What's going on?" Naruto asked, dropping down next to Hashirama.

"Sasuke was attacked by a Shinobi with almost Kage level chakra reserves. Nowhere near our own, but around Saru's level." Madara looked around, leaping over to a lower branch of an adjacent tree. "Sai and Sakura." He wiped a small drop of blood off a leaf. "Too late."

Naruto was about to ask further but he leaped back suddenly, drawing his sword in the air.

"Indeed." The... man? Hissed.

Naruto landed and took in the man. Eyes spinning into the Sharingan once he recognized the face.

"Orochimaru of the Sannin."

The snake man smiled widely and tongue came to kiss the edges of thin lips. "Uchiha Naruto. A pleasure to meet you finally, you who ruined my plans."

Naruto narrowed his eyes and readied his sword in one hand, his Uzumaki chains shooting out of the other, the black chains wrapped around a thick branch inbetween himself and the Snake Sannin and he prepared to launch himself over the wide expanse. Hashirama shouted just before he leaped.

"Carefull Naruto-kun! This is the guy who attacked Sasuke, Kage level reserves remember!"

Naruto nodded in response and leaped, swinging with the support of the chain. Reaching the highest he could swing he let go and allowed himself to fall, racing through a long chain of hand seals.

"Araware: Dashihoudai!" (Materialise: Free flow of water) Under his feet a large seal with the Kanji for Mizu in the center appeared and a wave of water appeared, flowing down in a waterfall-like arch.

Naruto landed on the water and began to surf down elegantly, small ripples circling out from his feet that moved across the water.

Madara groaned and glared at Hashirama. "This screams of Tobirama, though the bastard wouldn't look as amazing doing it." The Uchiha smirked.

Hashirama laughed and got on his dragon that emerged from the wood beside him. "Get on! The Susano'o is too big to use here."

Madara scoffed and ran over to the dragon, landing on the back of it while it flew forward. More wood forming from nothing where it met the tree trunk. Madara ran up the back of the dragon and stopped next to Hashirama, who was making the dragon circle around Naruto and Orochimaru, who were engaged in a fierce sword fight.

Madara grinned madly, blood pumping through his veins at the prospect of fighting someone who might give him a challenge. He looked over to Hashirama who had a small smile on his face.

No matter how he may say otherwise... Hashirama was the same as him, looking for a good challenge.


I think I've said this before but I'm going to say it again, because it matters.

I love you people. Seriously. The support I get from you... I don't know how to describe it, just that it makes me so happy to hear from you guys, ideas that you have and stuff, the complements and urges to update...

Well, you probably know if you're a writer yourself.

Review time.

ChoppedHige: Thanks for your review. Hmm, contradictory you say? I never noticed, it doesn't make the story bad does it? If it does could you point out the parts and I will look over them again. Thanks again!

Antex-the legendary zoroark: Thanks!

Rangrids: Thanks for the congratulations. Really? I don't really see any difference but if it seems to be getting better then hey! Not complaining. I liked writing the Tobirama part, he and Madara are characters that are so underused its unreal.

Madara's birthday present... Not telling! Not now anyway. For the Christmas scene... Well, next chapter... Hope you did OK in your exam.

Talon blu: I know right? Thanks for your review

Spooder: thanksagain!

Talonsen: Thanks for the review and the compliments, lifted my spirit it did. Right now this story with remain GEN(I think that's the term) no romance, I just have no experience in romantic relationships outside fanfiction, I won't be able to write it good.

Well this is the start of the Orochimaru/ NaruMadaHashi fight. It won't be the only one. The invasion as well will feature a fight. I will not reveal past the chūnin exams yet, so Tsunade will remain concealed.

Quinn1989: thanks. Yes there was a time skip, I didn't want to break the flow of the story by adding a timeskip line. Would it be better for me to do it?

thermalsnipern 7: thanks, was this funny enough for you?

Xerzo LotCN: thanks for the review I have plans for the revivals so wait and see :) I'm still not sure I want Naruto to have the Rinnegan tbh, it will probably be in a few years, 4 or so.

salasdaniel74(Chap 3): Hahaha! Loved your review! Hope you enjoyed my story so far. Thanks for the review.

25522f: Sorry but Naruto won't be related to Hashirama in this fic. There is a slight, SLIGHT possibility that he will obtain Mokuton but it won't be natural. Sorry. Thanks for the review.

Thanks to: bladetri, Noahendless, GamerNaruto, dspendragon125, Yay784, cathyscloud9, guest, Asmodeus45, shapeshifter340, Muzaka, Bluesnowman, Mano de paja, WhiteQueen1116, my 2 guys, karls Jr, Onishin Tsukitenshi and Black Doberman for their reviews!

To address some points made in the review. Not everyone will be revived! Some will chose to stay dead or it will be impossible for them to be revived. Apologies to those who wanted me to revive all the dead characters. Some may pop up time to time, but they won't have as much importance as Madara, Hashirama and Tobirama.

Thanks again everyone.

Ja ne

– Madara