Naruto and Keyote: "No one asked you, EMO ASS!"
A/N: If anyone is wondering why I have Naruto always getting kissed by other girls besides Hinata (and in fairness, they have had their fair share of kissing moments both happening during the story and implied kissing as was the case in chpt.4 when Shikamaru realized Naruto and Hinata had a makeout session prior to leaving for Wave) but let me ask you this, which would you prefer, Naruto being kissed by many girls or Naruto being kissed by Sasuke. I rest my case.
Last chapter, the Grass ninja (aka Orochimaru) gave Sakura his scroll as opposed to destroying Team 7's scroll as he did in the manga/anime. The reason for this is because if he did destroy the scroll in this version, then there would only be enough scrolls left for the teams that did pass in canon to pass here too. And since I want Coyote's team to make it as well and not remove another passing team from canon to do it, it was the only way it would work.
Chapter 11 of Precious Bonds will be out on Dec. 22 as long as nothing comes up in my personal life that interfer's with my writing time (I have a rather nasty infection in my right leg and I don't know how I got it. One of my friends joked that I might have to get it amputated. If that does happen, I'm going to have it bronzed so I can beat the hell out of said friend for jinxing me). This chapter is pretty important cause it will conclude the preliminary round of the chunin exam and who will be fighting who in the third round during chapter 13.
Also, next chapter will have the results of the Hanabi poll. Will she come to live with Naruto and Hinata and what will her relationship with Naruto be. Based on how the poll currently looks, its safe to say what I knew would happen will happen. I will also tell you about the Kiba poll that will be started on the 22nd as well. What fate will you choose? You'll find out the details next chapter. And finally, I will reveal the name of the story about Naruto and Hinata's first christmas together. Thats alot to look forward to so be ready.
Notice: The next chapter of You're Not Alone act 1 will not be out this weekend. There was too many things going on that kept me from writing it plus this story is currently my priority. The next chapter should be up next weekend unless I have more delays occur.
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Chpt.10 Solitary Tower
Anko raced through the forest looking for her old mentor and crush. It has been years since she last saw him and feeling the power of the curse seal. She believed she'd finally be able to put both him and his insane ideals behind her. Her brain had told her to go warn the Hokage about this but her desire wanted to comfirm his presence in the flesh and besides, she wanted to finish old business with him.
She soon saw a person ahead of her standing on the tree branch as if waiting for her. She landed and looked at the man standing in front of her. "It's been a long time hasen't it, Anko dear?" asked the man has he slowly turned around and let her see him.
Anko growled in anger at the sight of him. "Orochimaru. I had hoped I would never have to see your face again. Yours is a part of my past I'm trying very hard to forget." She spat at him. He grinned as he gave her a surrprisingly sweet laugh. "What's wrong Anko. Aren't you happy to see me again? I know I left under less than admirable terms, but with our history together, I thought you would have forgiven me and be willing to give little old me a second chance."
"I'll show you how much I've forgiven you. Striking Shadow Snake" she yelled as several vipers shot out from her trench coats sleeves. The snakes raced torwards their opponent ready to kill, but he simply smiled as with a wave of his hand, he cut their heads off. Before Anko could make another move, she found herself pinned against the tree with him on top of her.
"Don't worry, I'm not her to force you into joining me again. Your a grown woman now who's free to make her own choices in life." he said. Then why are you here then?" she asked with anger in her voice. In truth her anger was actually from the fact he hadn't come back for her and the fact she was actually liking him being over her, which made her even more angry at herself. 'Get ahold of yourself Anko, that was a long time ago and you were both young and naive and this bastard knew how to make you do what he wanted.'
"It's simple. I came here looking for a worthy successor to my power. And as luck would have it, I found the perfect person. Would you believe me if I told he was of the Uchiha clan?" He grinned viciously at her reaction as he continued. "Let me guess, your going to tell the old man about this, huh? That's fine. Be sure to also tell him that I've placed one of my curse seals on his body to make him more capable. How ever, before you go, I think we should spend a few minutes getting.
reaquainted." He couldn't help but laugh at the sight of her as a look of horror and disgust came onto her face as well as what appeared to be longing, need, and desire as well.
Elsewhere, Hinata and Shikamaru raced through the tree line looking for Naruto. It had been over 12 hours since he had chased after the man who had sent those things to attack them. Shikamaru didn't know what to say to Hinata. He knew she was worried sick for Naruto and ever second that passed where they didn't find him was like an eternity to her. Just as he was about to ask her if they should try a different route, they spotted a figure ahead. At first, Hinata thought it was Naruto, but looked down saddly when it was not. Still, they stopped by the person anyways.
"Hey guys, is something wrong?" Coyote asked. Hinata couldn't take this anymore as she started to cry. Shikamaru placed his hand on her back for comfort as he talked. "Naruto's missing and we're trying to find him. Have you seen him by any chance?"
"Actually, yes I have." he said with a smile. Before he could continue, Hinata was right infront asking shakily "Where. Where is he?" Coyote turned and pointed to his right. "He was heading in that direction several hours ago. He looked to be in a rush. I tried to call to him, but I guess he didn't........hear me?" He looked around and saw Hinata had vanished and he just caught Shikamaru moving away, obviously chasing her. Coyote sighed to himself. "Hmm, what a rude girl. Didn't even let me finish talking before running off. She reminds me of Mana. When it comes to the boy they like, neither can think straight."
As Shikamaru caught up to Hinata, he asked "Don't you think we should have listened to him more before leaving. Just taking off like that is rather rude ya know." Hinata kept her focus ahead of her. "Right now, finding Naruto is number 1 on my to do list. After that and then the next time we see Coyote, I'll appalogize."
"There's no need Hinata. I understand the rush." They both looked back to see Coyote coming up beside them. "Would you like another pair of eyes?" he asked. They both nodded as the continued onward. "Hey Coyote, where's your Team at?" asked Shikamaru. "They went to find the other scroll we needed. They insisted I stay behind and save my strength for the next round. So what about you guys, got both yet?" Shikamaru nodded. "Well, thats good. At least I know the next round will be fun." The three continued looking for the blonde.
Sakura, Kiba, and Akamaru were in a jam. They're being attacked by the sound ninja, they were nearly out of chakra, and both Sasuke and Naruto were still out of it. Yup, it was deffinately a jam. The leader Dosu just stood there watching as his teammates did the fighting. Sakura was having a Kunai fight with Kin while Kiba and Akamaru were fighting Zaku. Kiba tried to use Fang Over Fang, but Zaku's sound attack flung him off course. Akamaru ran up and bit his leg. That was met with a powerful kick from Zaku that knocked the little puppy out.
"Akamaru." Kiba yelled. Turning to Zaku, he yelled "I'm going to make you pay, you bastard." He launched into another Fang Over Fang and shot torwards his opponent. Zaku tried another sound blast but Kiba dodged it and got close enough to leave a rather nasty scratch on Zaku's face. Enraged, Zaku fired off a sound blast at point blank range, sending Kiba flying into a tree, knocking him out. Zaku then moved to join Kin. "Face it pinky, there's no way you'll win this alone now. Give up the Uchiha and we'll let you live." Kin said.
"Never, I'd rather die than give up Sasuke. He means everthing to me." Sakura shouts back. She's then hit with a sound wave that sends her flying. "Well, if she want's to die that badly, lets give her what she want's." says Zaku as he stands by Kin. As they both prepare to attack, a flash of green appears before them and with two speed kick's, the two sound ninja are knocked back. Sakura looks up and says "Rock Lee?" The boy turns around and says "Yai, it is I fair Sakura, the Leaf village's handsome green devil hear to save you." He takes up a battle stance, preparing for battle.
Dosu lauches a sound wave, but Lee dodges and appears before Dosu, kicking hin into the air. Grabbing him, they spin rapidly as they shoot for the ground. Zaku uses his own sound attack to break the fall. Dosu gets up and says "That move of your's is pretty impressive. I'll admit your attacks are fast but nothing can beat sound attacks." Lee tries to move but his use of the Lotus leaves him to tired to move at the moment. Dosu activates a sound attack so strong, it causes Lee to fall unconcious from it's intencity. Seeing how her team, Naruto, and even Lee fought hard to help her, Sakura decides to return the favor and protect them.
Before she can move though, Kin appears behind and grabs her long hair and hold her to the ground, chiding her on spending more time making herself look good for a boy as opposed to actual training. To escape as well as to prove to herself that she can grow stronger, she pulls out a kunai and slices her long hair off. Surrprised, Kin is caught off guard when Sakura punches her and actually knock's her out. Looking down at the sound kunoichi, Sakura says "Looks like I'm not the only one who needs more time training now, huh?"
Just then a wave of negative chakra is felt as the spot where Naruto and Sasuke were at explodes. Sasuke appears from the smoke, his body covered in glowing markings. He looks at Sakura and ask who did that to her. When Zaku says it was a group effort on their part. In responce, Sasuke shoots at him and with one swift motion, breaks Zaku's right arm and is about to escape when Sakura stops him telling him its enough. Sauke calms down. The sound ninja are about to attack when Neji and Tenten arrive followed by Hinata, Shikamaru, and Coyote.
Realizing they can't win, the sound ninja pull out. Neji grab's Lee and takes off while Hinata seeing Naruto half buried by the remains of the tree, runs to him in a panick. As Sakura is about to go and help, Sasuke calls to her and tells her they're leaving. He grabs Kiba while she picks up Akamaru and they leave. As they move away, she looks back one last time to see Shikamaru and Coyote free Naruto from being pinned to the ground and Hinata holding him and crying her eyes out and thinks 'Thank you Naruto, for helping us back there. I owe you one and I alway's pay back my debt's."
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Hinata cradled Naruto's head in her lap as her tears fell onto his face. Her sobbs made Shikamaru unsure of how to help. He then noticed that one of her hands was stroking his face while another was clutching something hanging around her neck. "Hey Hinata, whats that your holding?" he asked hoping it might distract her from her pain a little. She sniffled as she let him see it. He was amazed at what he saw. It was an opal stone carved into a heart shape and above it was a small gold bar that said in silver letter's 'N&H 4ever'. "This was the first christmas present Naruto gave me. Since then, I have never once taken it off and the chain it hangs on is always long enough so it can rest against my heart." she said looking at her boy with unending love. Shikamaru couldn't help but wonder how Naruto could of afforded that.
Just then Coyote walks up and kneels before Hinata and Naruto. "May I try to see if I can wake him?" he ask. Hinata nodds as Coyote places his hand over Naruto's head as a wavering wisp of smoke like light begin's to dance between his hand and Naruto's head. After several moment's, he say's the word "Wasauna" and at that Naruto shoots up, ramming Coyotes hand and sending Naruto back to the ground. Hinata hug's Naruto with all her strength while Naruto tries to tell her he can't breathe (and fails miserably). Shikamaru and Coyote laugh as Naruto passes out again from lack of air and Hinata panicking again, thinking she killed Naruto.
Elsewhere, Anko was found and taken the the 3rd and tells him everything that happend with Orichimaru (with the exception of about 15 minutes worth of....stuff). Though tempted to cancel the exam, Orochimaru's warrning can't be ignored so it's allowed to continue. (The warrning came as Maru left Anko to meet his men)
Team 8 got a chance to see the Sand Ninja in action as they violently killed Cloud Ninja.
After about 12 hours of rest, Naruto was back to full strength for the most part and was ready to move to the tower. Coyote decided to go find his team. Before he could leave, Hinata stopped and asked him "Umm, would you mind telling me what you did to wake Naruto up and what does "Wasauna" mean?" "Well, in order to insure we're ready for any unexpected eventuallity, my team decided to learn both offencive, deffencive, and medical jutsu. I'm naturally the fighter, Gaf is the defender, and Peatra's the healer. But, for example, what if we're in a situation where we need healing and Peatra is either absent or the most in need of healing and can't do it herself, then me and Gaf would use med jutsu to do the job."
She nodded and he start's to leave, but stops and looks back and says "And Wasauna means "Healing Mind" where I'm from." He jumps into the trees and is gone. With nothing else standing in their way, they head out as well. They soon arrive at a small stream and decide to make camp for the night. With two nights left they should arrive in time. The next morning, they run into Kabuto who informs them of the danger's around the tower. Plenty of enemy ninja who will take advantage of a tired party and try to steal a scroll from them. Since he's sappose to meet his team there, he decides to go with them.
Hours later, Team 7 arrives at the tower. As they try to enter, a man appears from the forest and approach's Sasuke. Sakura jumps torwards him telling him to stay away, but she's swatted aside like a fly. The man stands before Sasuke and bows as he pulls a scroll from pouch and hands it over. "For you Lord Sasuke, from your ally on the inside. It is urgent you read this and only you." he says. Sasuke takes the scroll and reads it. Kiba and Akamaru try to sneak a peek, but the man stop's them. Finally, Sasuke is down and hands the scroll back to the man.
"I understand. Tell your boss I will do as he wishes. I'm actually looking forward to the pain I'm going to cause that dope."
The man bows again and takes off. Sasuke enter's the tower with Sakura right behind him. As Kiba enter's, he can't help but think 'He was wearing Anbuu armor, and yet, I don't think he belonged to the standard Anbuu sqad's.'
Team 10 and Kabuto soon came within site of the tower, but no matter how hard they tried, it never got any closer. Several hours later, night had fallen and they realized that they had been placed under a genjutsu that kept them running in circles. It was then that three Mist ninja attacked using saw water clones. Naruto surrprised them with a mass attack of Shadow clones that beat them silly. Since Team 10 had both scrolls, Kabuto took the scroll as it was what his team needed. They soon arrived and parted ways. Team 10 entered the tower.
Inside the room, they followed the instruction's written on the wall scroll and opened both heaven and earth scrolls. Asuma appeared before them and informed them of the meaning of the scrolls as welll as warned them that the rest of the exam won't be as easy, so they must be prepared for what is coming. They entered the next room which was massive, they saw the other teams qho had also passed. They chated with team 8 for awhile. Finally, the last team to pass arrived and it was the Light Ninja. With all possible ninja teams that could pass have arrived, the time had come to start the next round.
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The third was standing near the back of the room looking upon the young Genin before him. He was amazed that all three rooky teams had passed. It goes to show just how skilled they truly were. Now it was time to tell them.
"Alright everyone. I'd like to congradulate everyone who made it this far. You have all shown remarkable abilities that will make both your sensei's and home village proud. However, before we can proceed to the third round, there is something I must inform you of. Do to the number of passing teams, there are to many of you to go on to the third round. To rectify this, we will be holding a special preliminary round where each of you will fight in one on one combat with each other. The winners will be the ones to move on to the third round and a chance to make chinin, but we'll talk on that after the matches are over."
Seeing no one with any questions, he continued "And for the nessessity of time, the preliminary round will begin right now. If any of you feel that you can't go on and fight, it's best to drop out now as the only break you'll get is the one you'll have waiting for your turn to come up." At this, only two hands were raised. And those hands belonged to Coyote's teammates. Without saying a word, they turned and walked out of the tower. Seeing as no one else was going to leave, the 3rd turned to the Jonin present and started to talk.
"Kabuto, what's the deal? I thought you were planning to drop out again as ussual?" asked Yaoi. Kabuto smiled and said "I was, but for some reason, the group of Genin taking part this time has made me feel the urge to stick around."
"Hey, Coyote. Why did your teammates leave?" asked Naruto. "Well, I would guess they didn't feel they could last through this round and decided to walk while they can." he said with his usual smile.
The 3rd mentioned something to an Anbuu nearbye. The figure nooded before dissapearing in a blast of smoke. He then turned to the Genin again and said "Ok, now allow me to introduce the procter for the third exam, Hayate Gekko." A sickly man stands out and nodds. "Now look torwards the screen above you. The names of the first combatants will be displayed. Everyone else id to proceed to the stands and wait your turn."
The screen came to life as a series of names flashed across the screen. After a few seconds, it stopped. Hayate Gekko stepped forward and said "The first match up is......Kabuto vs Coyote."
As everyone but Kabuto and Coyote moved to the stands, the 3rd asked one of his Anbuu to go watch the other Light ninja and see what they do. Hayate explained the rules to the two fighters before starting the match. "Try not to hold back or anything Ok." said Coyote. Kabuto smiled and replied "I doubt I'd need to use my full strength against you, Light ninja.
The two charged each other as fist clashed with each other. Kabuto's hands started glowing as he made a strike torwards Coyote's feet, but he managed to jump out of the way. Kabuto moved in again and Coyote sent a spinning kick torwards Kabuto's face, But Kabuto dodged and managed to get close enough to hit Coyote in his left shoulder, rendering his left arm usless. He then went for his right shoulder, but Coyote managed to grab his right wrist, flinging him into the air. Before Kabuto can recover, Coyote jumps up and kicks Kabuto in the stomach, then flips and kicks his back, sending him into the ground hard.
Coyote lands and walks torwards Kabuto who quickly stands and lunges forward, hitting Coyote in the throat. The light nin falls to his knee's as he struggles for air. "Sorry about that. But my attack has made it difficult for you to get air into your lungs. You'll pass out in a few moments but you'll live." says Kabuto who then turns and walks away. A grin crosses Coyote's face as he ask "I thought I told you to take this seriously, didn't I?" Kabuto looks back and ask "What makes you think I haven't. And even if I have, your in no condition to be asking for serious now are you?"
"I was just wondering cause now I'm going to get serious." says Coyote as he quickly stands, no longer breathing hard and his left arm is moving again. "This will be over quickly." says COyote who then vanishes in a vamp of smoke. Kabuto looks to see him only to find him appear next to him, his leg flying at Kabuto's face. Kabuto tries to block it but us sent flying. Kabuto quickly recovers and is about to counter when he see's Coyote rush him, jump and land on Kabuto's shoulders, and flip/fling's him into the wall, leaving a nice dent in the thing.
Kabuto coughs up blood as he wonders were this came from. He looks up to see Coyote who has brought his hands together and a wave of red lightning is serging between them. Coyote smirks dangerously as a ball of red lightning forms at the center and grows big quickly. Kabuto tries to move but finds himself stuck for some reason. As the ball reaches it's full size, Coyote says "Don't worry, it won't kill you, but it will leave you unconsious for a few hours and will really hurt like hell. Now, Crimson Lightning Dragon." He pushes the ball torwards Kabuto and everyone watches as it shifts from looking like a ball to looking like the head of a dragon made out of the red lightning.
The attack hits and the sound of the lightning which sounds like a dragons roar easiley covers Kabuto's scream of pain. When the attack is over, Kabuto's body falls to the ground. Hayate examines him and is relieved to see he is alive, just unconsious. He looks bak and says "The winner of this match is Coyote." The medic's rush out and collect Kabuto while Coyote goes to join the other's. The Sound Jonin (aka Orochimaru) is impressed with that attack and wonders if he could get Coyote to teach it to him. Sasuke is angry because for some reason, his Sharigan wasn't able to copy it to his memory for his own use.
The Anbuu returned and talked to the Hokage and what he reported only made things more troubling. As Coyote joined Naruto and the others, they asked about his technique and his sudden attitude change from passive to serious. "Well, I'm usually passive whenever I'm happy and calm, but if needed, I can be very serious and that is usually trouble for my enemies. And as for the Crimson Lightning Dragon, it was created and taught to me by my best friend Nami." "Who's Nami? Your girlfriend maybe?" asked Ino. Coyote laughed and said "No, no. Nami is a guy, not a girl. And Nami is just my nick-name for him, one he hated very much before he.....died." said Coyote as he looked away as a tear ran down his cheek.
The others wanted to ask what happened, but they felt it might be to personal a question for him to ask. "And sorry Naruto, I can't teach you, or anyone, the technique. Nami was the only one who could ever really do that as well as the only one who could get it in its true form." said Coyote. Shino cocked an eyebrow and asked "TRUE form?" "That's right, what you all saw was the dragon's head. The full powered version was a full sized, full bodied dragon made of red lightning. Only Nami could ever take it that far and at it's strongest, the attack could turn a hiiden village into a giant crater, or so he claimed."
Before anymore question's could be asked, Hayate called everone's attention as the next two names were revealed. "Kiba vs Yaoi" Hayate says. "Hmm, an easy prey. Looks like I'm going to really one-up you to day Kabuto." Yaoi says as he enters the arena. "Alright, did you hear that Akamaru? We got ourselves an easy win." exclaim's Kiba happily. Akamaru barks in agreement. "Maybe now Hinata will notice me and forget that idiot huh?' Kiba says with determination. Akamaru just groans and think's 'Get a clue Kiba-doo, she won't ever like you.' [Sorry, had to do it]
The match had barely begun before it was over. Kiba and Akamaru used their man/beast clone technique and tried the Fang Over Fang, but Yaoi caught them and drained all the chakra from their bodies forcing Hayate to call in favor of Yaoi. "Kiba, you IDIOT. Why are you such an embarressment to Sasuke's team, CHA." screams Sakura. Sasuke had to admit, that was pretty lame. Even Kakashi was put off by this.
As the board started shuffling again, everyone watched in anticipation. When it finally stopped, Hinata pailed, Naruto clenched his fist in anger, Asuma sighed in disbelief, and Shikamaru stated this was bad. Hayate called for the fighter's.
"Hinata vs Sasuke."
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DumDumDum, don't hate me, at least until the next chapter anyways.
Next time: Byakugan vs Sharingan and Reikigan
A/N2: About Anko and Orochimaru. It has been hinted at that they may have had a relationship deeper than sensei and student and the manga and anime (more so in the anime) so I thought I'd have some fun with that. Don't worry, Anko isn't going to turn traitor, but umm ok I don't know. Sorry. It just seemed like a good unexpected idea and I ran with it.
And about Coyote's power, it might seem to great for him to have (and it looks be considering he's OC created by me) but he is an ally and Naruto is going to need plenty of allies much later on down the road. I mean, look at Pein. In chapter 429 of the manga, the guy turns the whole freakin' Leaf Village and everyone in it(?) into a giant, smoking crater with just one attack. Trust me, Naruto will need powerful allies like Coyote when the time comes, especially with what I got planned later into the act 2/Shippuden era stories. And as for his teleportation/body flicker move, imagine it looking like Nightcrawler's vamping teleportation from X2: X-Men United. The way the smoke occur's when it happens.
Sorry if anything felt rushed. I was kinda jumping back and forth with this chapter and in order to insure it came out Dec.20, I decided to only mention certain events with little details given. Noy much needs to be said about those anyways as they more or less happen the same as the anime/manga just with different genin on the Leaf teams. Plus I need to start working on chpt.11 as sson as possible if I expect it to be ready by Monday and the Christmas one-shot to br ready by Wensday.