Okay, here we go. Team Naruto can now work together to some extent so their fighting in sync won't be as unbelievable. I know I cancelled Naruto and Hinata's date, and the reason is very selfish of me. I really wanted to work on my fight scenes so I had them go on the survival trip. But, before you hate me for giving into my urges to write violence I will try to make up for it. In this chapter, blood will spill. That's all I have to say. I love gory stories, so I may make unnecessary detail on how people die. I apologize in advanced for this. And it hasn't been said in a while so here it is: I don't own Naruto. I do however own Yotchi Jammer, but that's it. Let's go!
Chapter 10
Naruto sat in the front row of the large classroom the chuunin hopefuls were in. Jiraiya had said that the first phase of the exam was similar to Konoha's, which calmed the blonde considerably. What he didn't know was that unlike Konoha's test, Kiri actually expected you to pass the written test!
'Naruto will you calm down.' He heard his sister's voice in his head. 'I found out who had all the right answers already. All of our friends got the right answers so just chill. You're making Konoha look bad.' Naruto simply nodded and tried to relax a bit. That is, before he remembered about Jammer's predicament.
'Ino,' Naruto called to his sister, 'what about Jammer? Did you give him the answers too?' The silence on the other end of the mental conversation meant the answer was a big fat no. Before Naruto could convince Ino to give the ex-Kumo nin the answers, the proctor called out.
"Turn in your papers. I'll grade them immediately." The surrounding Kiri ninja gathered the papers and handed them to the proctor. The man simply took the batch of papers and started sorting through them quickly.
"Pass. Fail. Fail. Fail. Pass." Naruto couldn't stop shaking. He was worried he copied the answers wrong.
'What if I hold my team back! I hate written tests!' Naruto grabbed his head and set it on the desk. Suddenly, he heard laughter in the back corner of the room. He wasn't surprised to see Kiba, Jammer and Kankuro all trying to stifle their laughter.
'Whoever aloud those three to sit together,' Ino's voice came into Naruto's again, 'Is a complete idiot.'
"Can I ask you three what's so funny?" The proctor asked from his seat. This just made Kiba start howling with laughter. Jammer started crying from laughing so much, while Kankuro was able to hold it in a little better.
"I'm sorry." Kiba breathed out, "I'm so sorry but he's like this big!" Kiba held his thumb and index finger about an inch apart and started laughing even harder.
The others in the classroom already guessed what the three were laughing at. Their proctor was…different to say the least. He was indeed a grown man, but he stood at about four feet tall. In fact, with his goatee and full head of black hair, the man looked like a cartoon character.
"Does he pop out of cakes in missions?!" Jammer exclaimed while gasping for air, which was actually difficult for him with his mask on (because there were teams from Kumogakure, he had to wear the cloth mask to keep his identity). At this point Kankuro was laughing outwardly as well. The proctor rose from his seat and walked over to the three genin.
"That's gotta be," Kankuro said while wiping tears from his eyes, "a really fucking good genjutsu." Jammer leaned back in his chair clutching his stomach. That's when he felt a kunai at his throat.
"I see you have the sense to stop laughing when your life is in danger." The proctor stood on the desk with the kunai pointing straight to Jammer's neck. "What's wrong? Scared to die? Its morons like you that get killed in a seconds notice. The idiot that gets his entire team killed because he decided to make a bone headed move."
Jammer looked straight at the man standing on the desk and burst into laughter again. Kiba started banging on the desk as he laughed himself to death.
"You…you look like," Jammer pointed at the man that was threatening to kill him, "you look like a one of those cheap carnival dolls that have the plastic kunai with them. Dude, go ahead and kill me, I'll die the happiest person in the world."
The proctor glared at the boy and stormed back to his desk. The comedic trio was still laughing as the man graded the tests they took. All of them were in agreement that if they did fail, it was worth it. There were other ways to become chuunin, this way was just more fun.
An hour later
"You are SO lucky we passed that test." Ino poked Jammer in the chest, "We could've failed because you just wanted to laugh at the man. What were you thinking!?"
"Maybe he was drunk off his ass like he was at the temple…" Naruto jumped into the argument.
"Why do we always have to bring up the damn temple?" Jammer stared at the blondes, "Can we not just accept that that was a very bad experience for everyone?"
"That little kid can't even stay outside in a thunderstorm anymore without screaming in fear!" Ino yelled at her teammate.
The three of them (along with everyone else that passed the written test) was heading toward the front gates of the village. Just about every Kiri genin was glaring at Jammer as they walked past him, which the boy completely ignored. It seemed that the ninja from Kirigakure didn't like it when you made fun of their own. Naruto began to look around the crowds.
"What are you looking for Ruto?" Jammer questioned the boy.
"He's looking for Hinata, idiot." Jammer waved Ino off as she walked away from him. "Don't get killed by anyone while we're gone."
Naruto found his target and ran to catch up with her. As he made his way to Hinata, he was caught by a pair of hands on his shoulders.
"Naruto. I heard you were here." Naruto turned around to see none other than Haruno Sakura. "I wanted to say hi earlier but you seemed preoccupied at the time."
"Oh, hey Sakura. What's up?" Naruto looked at the girl's teammates behind her. Chouji was eating a sandwich while the pale boy next to him was simply drawing in a book.
"Nothing much I guess. How is your team coming along?"
"Oh, it's great. Ino and Jammer are probably the best teammates I could possibly have." Naruto caught the girl's falling face and added, "Besides you and Sasuke of course!"
"Thanks Naruto. I-" Sakura began.
"Umm, Sakura? Can this wait til later? I was kinda in the middle of something." Naruto looked into the crowd of genin to try and find Hinata again.
"Oh, well sure. I'll see you later then?" She asked him with hope in her eyes. She honestly just wanted her friend back.
"Yeah, sure." Naruto ran to the Hyuuga heiress. Just when he was about to call for her, he was stopped again. This time by three Kiri ninja in yellow jumpsuits.
"Sooo. It's the little blonde kid from Konoha again." A Kiri ninja in the front said. "Where's the pink haired girl and the angry boy?" Naruto stared at the group of ninja. After a moment of deep thought he came to a conclusion.
"…I have no idea who you are." Naruto pointed out. He then walked passed the Kiri team and went to go catch up with Hinata. One of the ninjas reached for the blonde shinobi's cloak and retreated his hand back in pain. He looked to see a shuriken made of…sand?
"Can I help you three with anything?" Gaara glared at the Kiri team. Naruto looked back to see Gaara staring down the genins. That's when something clicked in the hyperactive boy's mind.
"I know you guys now! You're the asthmatic team from Kiri! What was it called again? Team Ororo? Sotoro? Horohoro?"
"IT'S OBORO! As in MY name! It's Oboro!" The lead ninja screamed at Naruto. "We battled each other at least three times now, right?" Naruto looked at the ninja in confusion.
"…Nope. Can't remember that much. Nice to see you guys though, I really have to be going." Naruto trotted off to search for Hinata again, but realized they had finally arrived to the spot for the second exam.
"Naruto! Over here!" Ino called to her brother. He caught up to her and noticed Jammer wasn't with her. She realized what he was thinking and said, "That dumbass said he was going to scope out the competition. If he has any scent of alcohol on his breath I swear I'm going to kill him."
"Alright! Everyone listen up!" The proctor from the first exam yelled at the mass of genin. "This is going to be a bit different than the other exams you have gone to. In my hand are ten red crystals. They are incredibly rare and one of a kind. These crystals emit a bright red light once night falls." The ninja then launched the crystals into the sky and away from the village. The rate they were flying through the air meant that they would be at least twenty miles out by the time they landed.
"Kirigakure only has two phases to their exams." The proctor called out, "The reason being is that this is the most brutal and bloodiest exam out of any of the villages. In order to pass this exam, a team is going to have to bring back two of those crystals to me. Meaning that at maximum, fifteen of you will graduate to chuunin level. The rest will more than likely die. I suggest you kill all of your opponents, or they just may come back to kill you. There is no time limit, the test ends when all ten crystals are turned in to me. Any questions?" The seriousness of the situation was erased when the snickering that was coming from the comedic trio could be heard.
"He's fucking standing…on a soap box!" Kiba fell to the ground as Kankuro and Jammer were laughing.
"His code name during missions must be Guppy!" Kankuro screamed out as the three began to roll with laughter. The proctor then glared at the three genin.
"I change my mind. Another way you can pass this exam is if you bring me one crystal, and the head of one of those three genin!" He pointed right to the trio, whom ignored him and went on with their jokes.
"I shall call him," Jammer put his pinky to his mouth, "…Mini me." The three continued their laughter as though they were the only three there. The proctor began to get frustrated.
"BEGIN!" Once those words were said, about every team shot off into the surrounding forest to find the crystals. The only remaining teams were Team Kurenai, Team Suna, and Team Naruto.
"Way to go idiot!" Temari whacked Kankuro with her fan, "Now everyone is going to target you to finish the exam early!"
"Ouch! Just chill Temari." Kankuro pointed to Kiba, "Team eight can find those things in a second. Right Kiba?" The wild boy gave his friend a feral grin.
"That's right! They all have the proctor's scent, so finding them will be easy." He looked over to Shino, "Can we help them out Shino?" The Aburame looked at the proctor then back to Kiba.
"Seeing how ninja will be wanting to kill you three, it's best we stay in contact some way or another." One bug flew out and landed on Naruto's jacket. "Follow that bug to find the female that I had pursuing a crystal. We'll follow Kiba's nose. That beetle you have one you will also alert me if your team is in danger. If it starts buzzing noisily, that means our team is in need of assistance and it will fly directly to me." Naruto nodded in understanding. There was no way he'd let anything happen to his friends this time.
"We'll just kill whoever has the crystals." Gaara began to walk towards the entrance. "These teams don't seem to be in such good shape. We'll pick them off as they come through. If you need an extra crystal, we should have some. Kankuro, Temari let's go." The Suna siblings headed to a good position outside the village gates. The other two teams followed suit and began their search for the crystals. Before going there separate ways, Naruto grabbed Hinata's hand and pulled her aside.
"Hinata, I'm really really sorry about our date getting cancelled." Naruto pleaded for forgiveness.
"It's fine Naruto, really." Hinata felt her cheeks getting hotter the longer she stayed around him. "Besides, Jiraiya-san was very nice about it. He said how you didn't want to cancel, but training is important."
"I know. Look, when we get back from this exam we're gonna go to this place Ino was talking about. It's not too fancy, but not too cheap at the same time. I'm sure you'll love it!" Naruto looked into the girl's pale eyes.
"As…As long as you're there…I'm sure I'll be just fine." The girl's face was beat red.
"Awwww. That's so sweet!" Jammer shouted from the trees.
"At least he actually tries to keep his promises!" Ino smacked Jammer over the head. The two began to argue again, which meant Naruto had to step in between them before they killed each other.
"Good luck, Hinata!" The Namikaze prodigy shouted.
"You too, Naruto!" The girl called back.
Kumogakure
Nemsa waited in his home, smoking every last cigarette in the house. It was rather embarrassing for such a high-ranking ninja to be nervous, but under his current circumstances it was unavoidable. It would seem that the weather was reflecting his mood due to the miserable rain that was pouring from the sky. The table he was sitting at had a single, lit candle burning which was the only source of light in the house. Because it was almost midnight, he didn't want to wake the woman sleeping in the next bedroom.
'This has to be the fourth cigarette in the last hour.' The man thought to himself, 'I need to calm down before he shows up. If he sees I'm nervous, he may back out of the deal.' Nemsa looked at the door when he heard two light knocks. Raising himself from his chair, he went to the door and opened it to reveal a hooded figure.
"I'm sorry I was late Nemsa-kun." The hooded figure said while letting himself in. It seated itself at the table in front of the candlelight.
"Don't be, I should be apologizing to you for not having a tea ready." Nemsa closed the door and sat across from the hooded figure. "I could get some if you'd like."
"Oh no, don't spoil me Nemsa-kun. I'm just here for a few moments." Nemsa could tell the man under the hood was smiling. He always had such a creepy smile. "So, we hear that your recruiting is going quite well." Nemsa nodded to this.
"Indeed. I have about forty Kumo ninja, twenty Iwa and the entire ninja population of Kibagakure." Nemsa added up all the ninja in his head, "So we're talking, one hundred plus are in for the cause."
"Very good Nemsa-kun. And you got all of Kibagakure? They are such savages indeed." The hooded figure paused and watched the flame on the candle dance. "It's amazing, isn't it Nemsa-kun? How a little flame can grow into a bonfire? This candle you lit has the potential to burn this entire village to the ground."
Nemsa shifted uneasily. He hated these meetings so much. The other man always creeped him out to no end. The fact that the man could probably kill him without a second's hesitation just added to the nervousness. Nemsa cleared his throat and looked into where he assumed the eyes of his companion were.
"Yotchi Jammer is no longer a concern."
"Yes, that's what you told the Raikage. Correct? Do you believe that we are as foolish as that pathetic leader?"
"That's not what I mean-"
"He's alive and traveling. We believe he already told Konoha of the impending war. That already ruins half of our plans. We wanted him dead a long time ago."
"I apologize Kabuto-san. We'll find him immediately and dispatch him."
"There's no need to be so formal Nemsa-kun. Besides, Orochimaru-sama said he'd take care of it personally." Kabuto reached into his cloak and produced a scroll. "Here's a list of other potential allies. You remember the deal. If you can gather an army, Orochimaru-sama will multiply your army by two. But we want container of the Kyuubi for ourselves."
"Understood Kabuto…kun?" Kabuto rose from his seat and patted Nemsa on the back.
"Very good Nemsa-kun. We're all friends here. Just as long as you don't fuck up Orochimaru-sama's plans." Kabuto approached the door. "One more screw up, and we back out of this. You currently have two strikes. Don't strike out. We're counting on you." With that, Kabuto left out the door and gently closed it behind him.
Nemsa shuddered once the man left. He grabbed the scroll and stared reading down the list of villages and clans that may join his rebellion. His mind then drifted over to Jammer.
'That has to be one of the most unluckiest kids I've ever known. To have Orochimaru personally target you is pretty much an automatic death sentence.'
Water Country
"All this violence and no one has a damn crystal." Jammer looked at all the dead bodies around them.
"On the upside, that's two teams down." Ino pinched her nose. The thick smell of blood was making her sick. "We should keep going, right?" She looked to her brother, who had become the leader of the team by default.
"I don't think so. I mean, when people see all these dead bodies, their gonna just move on. This is a perfect place to rest." Naruto sat down under a tree and closed his eyes. "None of my clones have been killed yet so I guess everyone is safe for now." Jammer began going through all the fallen shinobi's belongings while Ino sat next to her brother.
"How many clones did you send out again?" She asked him while playing with her ponytail.
"One behind our group, one in front of our group, one with Hinata's group and one back with Gaara's." Naruto leaned against the tree. "I think we're making pretty good time considering we only had to fight two teams so far." Jammer walked over to the blondes, carrying two kunai holsters and ten shuriken.
"If you can even call those fights. You got one and I got one so that means Ino gets the next group." He tossed the kunai holsters to his friends and sat down next to Naruto. "I mean, of course your not gonna win when you monologue your whole life in the middle of the fight." Ino laughed.
"And don't forget when they explain how their jutsus work, before they even finish." The three genin began laughing again, until Naruto stood up.
"Let's split up. We can take all these teams no problem." The boy looked at his teammates. "I mean seriously, they all suck."
"Oh no. We are so not splitting up. That's how people get killed all the time." Ino jumped up. "Besides, everyone is targeting the idiot because he made fun of the proctor."
"Hey!" Jammer jumped up too, "I think it's a good idea. We can meet up here by nightfall tomorrow."
"Come on Ino." Naruto pleaded. "I'll go east, Jammer go west and you go north. You can meet up with my clone that's up ahead so you won't be alone. Besides, if we leave now we can see the crystals pulsing red since its still night time."
Ino stared at her brother for a moment. He flashed his pedo-grin and she smiled back.
"Fine. But we all get here in twenty-four hours, no exceptions. If you're not here, the others will go searching for you." Naruto and Jammer nodded then ran off in their given directions. "I…didn't think we were splitting up now."
Four hours later
The sun was starting to rise and Ino had been jogging for the last hour, and was starting to get nervous. Not for herself, but for Naruto and Jammer. She would've talked to the clone that she caught up with earlier, but she destroyed it when it started to talk too much.
'Those two are just too damn stubborn to not fight anyone. And not to mention the fact that Jammer is a quick way to pass the test. Why did I let them talk me into this? The girl stopped running and listened to her surroundings. She could've sworn she heard something around her. She quickly drew two kunai in each of her hands from the pouch behind her back. Listening carefully, she found the source of the sound. The girl started laughing when she saw potato chips littering the forest floor.
"Chouji, get out here. I know it's you." Ino put her kunai back into the pouch as she walked towards the bush that was shaking. She stopped walking when she was about ten feet from the bush.
'Something's not right here.' She thought to herself. 'If that was Chouji he wouldn't still be hiding in the bush. He knows how my chakra feels.' The girl concentrated and tried to read the mind of whoever was behind the bush.
'Just a little closer and she's done.' Was all she heard before she pulled out an explosive tag that Naruto made her. She wrapped it around a kunai, jumped back and launched it toward the bush.
As she was descending backwards she saw a ninja leap at her with a kunai drawn. Ino wasted no time going through the proper hand seals before calling out "Hari Jizō!" The ninja couldn't stop his momentum and was impaled on the spikes. Ino then shook the body off and her hair returned to normal. She stayed out in the open with her two kunai held protectively in front of her. She focused as she tried to hear any more minds in the vicinity.
'That bitch! She burned my fucking face!' She felt this come from the bushes she just blew up. Suddenly she heard another one.
'As long as she doesn't move, she'll be toast just like that fat ass Konoha ninja.' That was all she needed to hear before she charged for the ninja in the bushes. She saw the place she was standing at earlier was encased in a dome of earth, which she guessed meant she was fighting and earth user. The burned ninja in the bushes stood up to be meet by Ino's fist. She then turned around, bit her thumb and started sealing.
"Kuchiyose no Jutsu!" She yelled as she slammed her hand onto the ground. When the smoke cleared, a boar with black armored plates on its sides and on top of its snout appeared.
"You must be the new summoner that Ganon was talking about." The boar stated calmly. "What is it that you were needing?" Ino never took her eyes off of the burnt ninja that laid on the ground.
"There's another shinobi hiding back over there. Can you track him?" She could hear the boar snorting as it sniffed the air.
"I found him. He reeks of blood."
"Attack him, but don't kill him. Not just yet." The boar snorted in what she guessed was agreement and charged into the foliage. Ino bent down to the burnt ninja she had knocked out and stabbed his hands with her kunai, successfully crucifying the genin. Once he was subdued she began to read his mind to find out what happened to Chouji. After a second or two her eyes grew wide from shock. She stopped reading the ninja's mind and punched him in the face, successfully waking him up. The boy screamed in pain as he regained consciousness.
"Who…what the fuck do you want!?" The ninja screamed at her out of fear. He was even more scared when he found out he couldn't feel his arms. Ino grabbed his head and looked straight into his eyes.
"Who killed Chouji?" The boy continued to try to move his arms and started crying out of fear. Ino took out another kunai and slammed it into the boy's leg. "Listen to me you pathetic shit. These kunai contain a special venom that was harvested from a very VERY deadly plant. You're going to die a very VERY painful death. I can make it less painful if you just answer my question. Which one of you killed my friend?" Ino began twisting the kunai that was in the boy's leg making him scream out in pain.
The armored boar came back at this point, with the unconscious body of a genin over its snout. The boar threw the boy's body next to the one that was screaming in pain. Ino looked to the boar with tears in her eyes.
"That's all I was needing…you may leave now." The boar snorted and vanished in smoke. Ino then turned her attention to the ninja underneath her. "Now tell me." The tears in the boy's face meant nothing to Ino as he shifted his eyes to his fallen comrade next to him.
"It…it was him! He killed your friend! He even tried to kill the pink haired one, but the creepy pale guy carried her away on a bird!" The boy started screaming in more pain.
"That's the venom reaching your heart. I'll end the pain if you tell me why you did this. Why would you kill a gentle soul like Chouji?" The boy's face was turning red from screaming for so long. Ino stomped on the kunai that was firmly placed in his leg. "ANSWER ME!"
"We…we were going to use them as leverage to get the other two Konoha genin. The ones that we could kill and end the exam early. But…but Toro thought it would be funny if we tried to see if the fat one would bleed mayonnaise. It was just a joke, and when we were going to capture the other two, the pale one made a fucking bird and grabbed the girl with him. He just left the fat one." The ninja finished explaining and coughed up blood. "Now please! Kill me!"
Ino took a kunai and threw it into the throat of the ninja that the boar brought back. She then reached into his pocket to find a red crystal.
"Please! You promised! Do you want to find the body? It's just a few yards from here going straight ahead of you! Plea-"
"I am NOT," Ino replied calmly, "going to keep that promise. If you want someone to keep their promises then its best to not kill their best friends. Enjoy the pain asshole." Ino sprinted to the direction that Chouji's body was supposed to be.
She came to a stop when she saw the body of her friend out in the open with his eyes wide open. Ino was still a few feet away from the body but could still see the large spike that rose from the ground that impaled her friend through the stomach. The hot tears that ran down Ino's face fell onto the earth beneath her. The strength she had seemed to leave her as she collapsed onto the ground. She was looking down when a red shimmer caught her eye. The shimmer was coming from Chouji's hand. Ino gathered her strength to see a red crystal in the boy's hands.
'Even when he was about to die…he made sure his friends would get the crystal. Which means those assholes didn't even kill him for a crystal, but for…for…' Ino looked into Chouji's cold eyes and closed them with her hand. She then looked into the sky and screamed into the air.
"…CHOUJI!!!!"
Twenty hours later
Naruto headed back to his team's meeting spot after his unadventurous recon. Not only did he not find any crystals, but he didn't see anyone to fight along the way. As he approached the meeting spot he was surprised that Ino wasn't already there, and Jammer was. Jammer seemed to read Naruto's mind when they made eye contact.
"You think something happened to her?" Jammer asked while leaning against a tree.
"I don't want to think that, but she made it a point to be here on time. It would be easier to find her if she hadn't killed my clone." Naruto looked into the direction his sister took off into. "This idea was awful."
"Hey, don't beat yourself up over it. Let's just go look for her. Besides, she probably has like four crystals by now." Naruto nodded and began running with Jammer right behind him.
"Hey," Jammer called to the blonde, "what happened to the bug Shino gave you?"
"I told it to go back to Shino since it wasn't helping me any." Jammer nodded in understanding and the two didn't talk again until they found Ino.
Later
"We've been running forever. Maybe we passed her somewhere?" Jammer looked over to Naruto, whom had a worried expression plastered on his face.
"No, I can feel she's around here somewhere. Just follow me." Naruto sped up in front of Jammer with his head looking down. He saw a red pulsing light and dropped down. "Ino?!"
The boy dropped down to see his sister with her knees to her chest and dried blood on her hands. She was staring at the body that was impaled on a large stone spike. Naruto ran to his sister and hugged her tightly.
"Where were you? Me and Jammer were worried." Naruto turned around and saw who the person was that was on the earth spike. "Chouji?" The boy let out a low whisper. He then turned and hugged his sister tighter than before.
"Naruto…they killed him for fun." Ino began crying on her brother's shoulder. She then shifted her attention to Jammer. Her sadness turned to anger in a split second. "This is all your fault!"
"The hell are you talking about? I didn't do this. Were you in a genjutsu?" Jammer walked over to the two. Ino wrenched herself free of Naruto's grip and drew a kunai.
"Just stay away from us! This would've never happened if you didn't make fun of that proctor." Ino's face was red from crying for so long. "They were going to use him as leverage! Don't you get it!?"
"No," Jammer glared right back at her, "This happened because he obviously wasn't strong enough to handle himself. I'm sorry, but this was bound to happen eventually." Ino had enough of her teammate's logic and sent a fist to his face. Jammer caught the fist and pulled her into a hug.
"Let me go!" She sobbed into his cloak. "Let me go you fucking murderer!" Jammer just held her and kept muttering he was sorry until she stopped crying and passed out from exhaustion. Jammer laid her next to her brother.
"I'm really sorry Naruto. She's right."
"No, you were both right." Naruto took off his cloak the Godaime gave him and draped it over his sister. "Let's give him a proper burial at Konoha. I should be able to seal him into a scroll for later…"
"And after that?"
"We just stay here for the night. She needs her rest, mental and physical. Tomorrow morning we'll head back to Kirigakure. My clone that was with Team eight sent me back its memories. They got lucky and got a crystal from two teams that killed each other. Kiba was injured so they had to head back to Kiri. Also lucky for them, Gaara's team harvested three crystals so both of them passed." Naruto finished making the kanji on the scroll. "Let's seal him up."
The next day
Gaara stood at the gates of Kiri for the past two days like a puppy waiting for its master to return. This is actually one of the many moments he was happy he couldn't sleep. He sensed the Hyuuga girl behind him. He felt the urge to say something comforting to her, but couldn't think of anything. Finally, he decided on what to say.
"I'm sure Namikaze Naruto is just fine. He's a very…talented ninja." Hinata jumped when she realized the red head was talking to her.
"Thank you Gaara-kun." She smiled to him. "I'm sure he'll be just fine. It's Ino I'm worried about. She doesn't know about Chouji yet. But I'm sure Sai and Sakura did all they could to bring him back. Right?"
Gaara turned to face the girl. He couldn't bear saying how he really felt about the boy they called Sai. The Suna nin simply nodded his head to the girl while he thought in his head how much he distrusted the pale skinned ninja. Gaara then turned when he felt a familiar chakra signature.
"They're here." Was all he said while Hinata let out a breath of relief.
Surely enough, Naruto was running with Ino on his back piggyback style. Jammer was running along side them with anger in his eyes. As the three came to a stop in front of the gates Naruto took out the two crystals Ino had collected. Seeing the proctor in front of them, he threw the crystals in the man's face.
"Here are your blood diamonds. Go fuck yourself." Naruto then walked off with Ino in tow. Jammer glared at the man and walked right behind Naruto. The two of them went to Jiraiya's home and put Ino into her bed. Leaving the two young men alone together.
"I need to get out of here." Naruto walked out the door of the house.
"I need a drink." Jammer went to Jiraiya's room and took a bottle of sake from under the pillow.
With Naruto
The blonde kept walking down the streets of Kiri with a look of death on his face. He wanted to release his frustration somehow. He wanted to make those ninja pay for killing Chouji, but Ino had already done that. He never wanted to see Ino like that again.
"Naruto-kun!" He turned around to see Hinata running to catch up to him. "I was looking for you. Neji's team passed as well…" The girl looked into her crush's face and saw a look on his face she had rarely ever seen. Pure anger.
"I guess," she started, "you already heard about Chouji…"
"I SAW Chouji." Naruto spat out. Hinata's face paled at the sound of Naruto's voice.
"Naruto-kun, I'm so sorry. And Ino?"
"She found him first. She killed all the assholes that killed him too. Lucky for them she did it and not me." Naruto's eye's turned to slits, "They would still be screaming right now if I had found them."
"Don't say things like that!" Hinata demanded. "That's not you. You're not the type of person to kill out of revenge."
"They killed him for fun Hinata. If that doesn't deserve death, what does?" Naruto's hands were balled into fists. His nails were growing slightly longer and began to break the skin of his hands. Hinata saw the blood that was dripping from his hands and put her hands on his. Naruto already lost the urge to kill, and that was just at the girl's touch.
"Naruto-kun, that anger will only corrupt you. That's what happened to Sasuke." The two began to look at eachother. "You mustn't use your anger like that."
"Then what DO I do about it Hinata?" He looked at the girl for answers. "I can't just ignore what has happened. I can't just turn a blind eye to this and act like everything is all right." Hinata smiled at the blonde. Her smile seemed to melt the last of Naruto's anger away.
"You should continue to become Hokage. I think that if you were Hokage, we wouldn't have this much chaos and disorder. If you become Hokage, you could make sure that things like this don't ever happen again." Naruto gave her a small smile.
"Yeah." The boy agreed with her, "And I could make a huge statue in Chouji's honor. Right in the middle of the market district. Around all of the restaurants." The two laughed at this. "Thanks Hinata-chan." Naruto leaned in and pecked the girl on the nose. She blushed deeply at the contact.
"Umm, Naruto-kun…" She looked down at her feet, cursing herself in her head as she did so. "We still have time to go to that restaurant if you want…" Naruto gave her a large smile.
"That's right! What better way to honor Chouji than to have a huge feast in his name." Naruto grabbed the girl's hand. "Besides, I owe you a date so it's a win-win situation."
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And that's where I'm ending this chapter. I'll go into detail over Naruto and Hinata's date in the next chapter if you want me to. I'm not against it, I mean I know I owe you guys a date so…I don't know. Anyway, I actually want a review for this one. I got stuck in the middle of it, but every road I tried to go down just didn't make sense. Then killing Chouji was my only out. So there, we had comedy, action, drama, and very little fluff at the end. That wasn't even fluff really, it was cute and all but that's about it. Anyway, how was Ino's killing spree scene? I felt kinda weird writing that part, but I plan to have some fun with the next chapter with a LOT of comedy. Compliments of my comedic trio of Kiba, Kankuro and Jammer. Also, what do you guys prefer, a long 6000 word chapter like this? Or a quick updated 2k to 3k chapter? Ugh I feel so bad for killing the poor boy. Anyway! Til next time!