Yo people, people please hold your excitement. Yeah I know that was one fast ass update huh. That's because I'm getting serious…now if you guys actually believed for that split second that I would EVER get serious about anything then y'all just got played. Lord, Jesus and any other deity that's exists knows I'm lazy as fuck. When do I ever take things seriously unless something depended on it? That is a fact that you all just learned about me, today. I honestly can update faster than what you're use to seeing. The reason why I haven't is because I don't want to.
Writing is a hobby for me, nothing else, although all the positive reviews are encouraging me to write more. I'm also trying to make sure the time gaps when I update aren't overly long like they were before. I'm just not good at finding the right starting points for a story/chapter. This problem is the reason on why I haven't updated my second story, although no one is reading it. I mean I know it doesn't look like much now but in time it hopefully will. I also have ideas for three other stories but I don't want to start those up yet.
Another thing I wanted to say is that it is possible to crossover anything with anything. You just got to have the right materials, plot, characters and all that stuff. Just make sure that the idea isn't too Farfetched (Pokémon Reference). Remember this when you see a crossover and you start thinking there is no way those two things could ever come together. Reading the story may prove otherwise. Also if you're writing a crossover don't repeat the same thing that's been done multiple times before. I can not tell you how many times I read a Naruto crossover and he got sucked into a fucking portal at the Valley of The End. I guess as long as the story is good it doesn't really matter, but be spontaneous and original damn it. On to the Q&A then.
Crow of the butterfly: Hell no is Naruto in any way related to Kuo. He's COLE'S descendent and Cole and Kuo aren't related to each other, unless they fucked and I'm sure that didn't happen. Naruto is not gonna have any of Kuo's abilities because of this fact. Remember Cole can use ice too.
The Cursed Prophet: Yep, it will be a while before Naruto get's another Ray Core so I think I can give him a couple ice powers as a substitute. Maybe find a way besides a Karma boost to give him new powers.
Yukicreger2: Naruto is the only conduit in the entire Elemental Nations. Even if there were more there isn't anything akin to a Ray Sphere (since no one has that kind of technology here) to unlock anyone else's power's. Haku just had an element that worked in tangent with Naruto's powers.
Codyskater31: I know that you know that would have been a serious plot hole, but to understand how serious you need to consider the facts sometimes, even in a fan fic. I had given Naruto his power's the way that I had because a Ray Sphere being sealed in the scroll would have been impossible. The reason is because in Cole's time there were only 2 and both had detonated. The first sons were either killed or disbanded so no one could have made a third. Even if somehow a Ray Sphere did find its way to Naruto and it detonated, fuck the powers it would be a restart of 'The Plague'. 'The Plague' is Ray Field Radiation which is caused by a Ray Sphere Blast. Since there's no RFI who ever get's infected won't be able to get cured. Then it's gonna spread all over the Elemental Nations. Besides the Ray Sphere alone would kill a hell of a lot of people because it drains their energy and goes to the nearest conduit. That's why you got to be carful when doing crossover stories because no matter what there will be times where you have to tend to the facts, even in a regular story sometimes. Just find a way to make them make sense.
Apcalyptian Scribe: Even we guys can be emotional sometimes. Don't expect too much of it though. Any way love what you're doing with "Of Lightning, Flesh, and Swords." So far it's the best InFAMOUSXPrototype story I've ever read.
Well with all that out of the way lets… (Ending Transmission)
Newcomers and the Start of the Chuunin Exams
Team 7, were standing at the entrance to the bridge that Tazuna had finally finished. Since it connected to the mainland there was no need to travel by sea, again. All of the villagers from Wave were at the bridge as well seeing them off, with Tazuna, Tsunami and Inari in the front.
"I wish that you didn't have to go. It was such a pleasure to have you all here." Tazuna said to the leaf ninja.
"Please do be careful." Tsunami said. Kakashi looked at her and said "We will and thank you for everything."
"Don't worry everyone. I promise that we'll visit later on." Naruto said. Inari looked at him and started to get teary eyed. "Do-do you really mean that? Y-you promise?"
"Yep and you know it's good to cry Inari. There's nothing wrong with it so go for it." Inari quickly wiped away the tears that he was building up and retorted "Yeah right, I'm not gonna cry. I'm tired of crying and I decided to start carrying my own weight and get stronger to."
Naruto felt nostalgic at Inari's sudden revelation. It was like seeing an image of himself as a kid. Naruto walked over and rubbed Inari's head. "Good to hear. Now don't make me come back here if you gotten yourself in another rut."
Inari laughed and looked up at giving Naruto one of his own goofy smiles. "I won't, I'll start doing things to help everyone from now on." Naruto gave Inari a thumb's up and then turned around to leave with his team behind him. Inari forced himself to not cry when he saw Naruto leave. Even though they both new they were going to meet again it was still sad, to see friends go. Inari ran out in front a little and cupped his hands over his mouth, yelling as loud as he could.
"NARUTO, WHEN I GET OLDER I'M GONNA BECOME A NINJA TOO, SO I CAN PROTECT EVERYONE! AND WHEN I GET STRONG ENOUGH YOU'RE GONNA BE THE FIRST PERSON THAT I BEAT!" Naruto who was still walking away just waved his hand as a signal to tell Inari to take care and he'll see him later. Inari started to cry a little but didn't wipe the tears away, for they were tears of joy. He took pride in that he was happy and how Naruto brought courage back into everyone. He walked back over to his family while Tazuna put and hand on his head.
"That boy is something else. He's changed you Inari made you stronger, and you made us stronger. It was thanks to him we had built a bridge to a place where we had found our courage and fulfilled our dreams."
One of the workers from the bridge said to Tazuna, "Say speaking of the bridge now that it's finished, uh shouldn't we name it?" Tazuna cupped his fingers on his chin. "Yes of course and I know just the name. We'll call it 'The Great Naruto Bridge.'"
Tsunami chuckled at the name that her father had decided to pick. "Yes that's a very good name." The same worker from before said "Hehe, are you sure that's a good name Tazuna?" Tazuna turned to him "It's a name that brought us good luck. I'm sure that it will do the same for the bridge."
Hidden Leaf Village: The Next Few Days
'Naruto! Naruto! Are you listening to me?! (Sigh)HEY BRAT WAKE UP!'
"AAAUUGHAA!" Naruto violently jerked up from the sudden wake up call that he was greeted with from his ancestor. Naruto had squinted his eyes and covered them, when they were attacked by the suns rays. It wasn't fully in the sky yet but it was high enough to agitate Naruto.
"Cole what the hell was that for, you don't wake someone up like that. Were you trying to give me a heart attack or something?" Naruto tried to take an angry tone but it sounded more like complaining since he was still tired.
'What, I always used to wake Zeke up like that.'
"I'm not Zeke."
'Well you sleep just like him. Besides you broke your alarm clock last night so I decided to do the job for you.' Naruto looked to his right and sure enough saw that his alarm was smashed to pieces. It seemed that he had hit it so hard that a good majority of the pieces were covering the floor.
'You were going to miss meeting up with your teammates, if I didn't do what I did; so I guess that it was for the best.' Cole said chuckling.
"Ooooh I wouldn't say that McGrath." Kyuubi said out of nowhere startling the lightning users. Kyuubi was giving Cole a glare that practically spelled 'death', even though Naruto couldn't see it. Cole on the other was slowly backing away from the demon fox.
"Hey Kyu you're up early, what's the occasion?" Naruto asked since he knew that Kyuubi wasn't really much of an early bird, except for when all three of them watch the sun rise together. So seeing him up at this time was new.
"There isn't one kit. I'm only up because Cole doesn't know how to keep his damn mouth shut. I was abruptly woken up by his crazy shouting. Kit if you don't mind I'm going to have a little uh, 'chat' with my 'roommate'. " The thing that was creeping Naruto and Cole out the most was that Kyu was doing the thing where someone gently talks to you but hidden in their voice promised pain. Lots and lots of unimaginable pain. Cole put up his hands and shook them side to side frequently. 'Hey wait a sec man; can't we just talk about this?'
Kyuubi stared at him as if he was an idiot, then gave Cole a really heated glare. "I told you before that under NO CIRCUMSTANCES UNLESS IT'S AN EMERGENCY ARE YOU TO WAKE ME FROM MY SLUMBER! NOW I'LL MAKE YOU PAY THE PRICE!"
The sleepy look from Naruto's eyes had completely vanished when he heard explosions and screams coming from his mindscape. If there was one important lesson that he learned was to never interrupt Kyuubi when he needed his private time. Naruto swung his legs over to get out of his bed and…
'NARUTO! KIIID, HEEELLPP! HE WENT ALL 50 STORIES ON ME! GOD DAMN HE'S BIGGER THAN THE FUCKING BEAST!'
"THE KIT CAN'T HELP YOU MCGRATH! I'M GOING TO SHREAD YOUR FLESH TO RIBBONS!" More explosions and things getting destroyed can be heard and they sounded more intense than before. Naruto shook his head at both of them.
"I'm sure Cole will be fine."
'I HEARD THAT! HOW CAN YOU BE SUCH A DOUCHEBAG?!'
"FOUND YOU, NOW TO FULFILL MY PROMISE AND RIP YOUR ARMS OFF!"
'YOU WEREN'T SPEAKING METAPHORICALLY?!'
Shutting them out from his mind Naruto went to the table to go get some break feast for him self. He got some eggs and made some toast, making sure it was nice and buttery. Naruto picked up his milk carton, put it to his ear and shook it a few times. He heard clumping sounds which signaled that the milk was bad. He sighed and threw it in the trash. When he finished his food and threw on his Infamous 2 style clothes; complete with the Amp of course and walked out of his house, while locking the door. Naruto reached up to his head band and tightened it. He turned to the village and started doing stretches.
"Okay, wake up. Here we go. Rock and roll." Naruto then took off and headed off to meet his team at their respective training ground. He Induction Grinded the majority of the way there so he could gain all the lightning that he used up, since he was to tired to remember to get some, when he returned home. Grinding was also really fun and quick. He jumped off the power line when he was at the edge of the village and started to run the rest of the way. He saw Sakura and Sasuke at the bridge, where they sometimes meet up. Sakura turned to Naruto when she heard his footsteps. She gave a small wave to him. "Hey there, Naruto." She said.
"Hey good morning Sakura." When he and Sasuke looked at each other they were throwing glares left and right, looking absolutely disgusted with one another.
"Dead Last."
"Bastard."
They both then sharply turned away from each other while Sakura sighed. 'Really I thought at Wave that those two would at least learn to tolerate each other. Why did I have to get stuck with two kids?'
About 10 minutes later Kakashi had arrived a few minutes later and gave his signature wave. "Hey, sorry guys but I..." "LIAR!" Naruto and Sakura exclaimed. Kakashi had a moderate sized sweat drop on his head. "But you guys didn't even let me finish what I was going to say."
Naruto and Sakura looked at each other for a second, then Naruto transformed into Kakashi. He had the eye smile and the wave perfectly. "Hey guys good morning. Sorry I'm late but I got lost on the path of life." Naruto then dropped the transformation leaving a smirking Sasuke, a giggling Sakura and a stupefied Kakashi.
"Wow Naruto that was completely perfect. You even got the tone of voice right." Sakura said. "Even I got to admit that was pretty spot on." Sasuke said. Kakashi looked at his students then gave a sad sigh. "You know you can be such a kill joy when you want to be Naruto. It also doesn't help that THAT was exactly what I was going to say. Shouldn't you know your teammates a bit more than your sensei Naruto?"
Naruto and Sakura couldn't help but laugh a little at the statement. Naruto didn't know that his sensei was going to say anything like that actually but it just seemed so Kakashi-like.
"Anyway what do you say that we go see what missions are active today." Kakashi said looking at his team. Naruto nodded eagerly hopping to get another C-rank mission while Sasuke just walked on ahead. "Hey wait up Sasuke." Sakura went ahead to try and catch up to Sasuke.
Naruto could only shake his head to her and followed after his team. Suddenly Naruto crossed his arms and held them as he started to shiver out of no where. To him it felt as if the temperature had just dropped by a substantial amount. Then as quickly as it came, the cold feeling had vanished. Naruto let go of his arms and was confused about what had just happened.
'What the heck was that? Why did I feel so cold all of a sudden? It felt as if it was ten degrees outside.' When Naruto saw his team ahead of him he ran up so that he wouldn't get left behind.
'Maybe it was just nothing.' He thought as they started to walk back to the village to get their mission. Naruto's thought was thrown out the window because the cold feeling came back later, multiple times. It was at the worst times to when he was doing all of his missions, which were D-rank, which wasn't amusing to Naruto.
Today when he and his team were assigned to walk a civilian's dogs and Naruto picked the biggest one. They had to take a detour through the forest since the original path was under construction. Naruto had the dog by the leash no problem until he felt another cold spell, and he let go of it. He was so busy trying to keep him self warm that he didn't realize the dog was going into a mine field, until he looked up and ran after it. After the many explosions the dog turned out okay but Naruto was extra crispy.
The next day Naruto and his teammates had to get trash that was thrown into a local river bed. Naruto felt another cold sensation that was twice as cold as before, thanks to all the water. Naruto exhaled a little and got a bit scared when he saw his own breath clear as day. He started to walk to shore to get out of the water until he slipped and fell. He was getting dragged away by the current and almost went over the waterfall if it wasn't for Sasuke who saved him. That made Naruto both angry and embarrassed.
The day after that was probably the worst one yet. They had to go catch Tora again. Naruto found the cat first and had to subdue it until his team arrived. Let's just say it's not easy to keep yourself warm and protect yourself from a crazed claw happy cat. He was even sporting a scar on the right side of his face like Cole did. Like ancestor like descendant they always say. (A/N Assassin's Creed reference, Ergo: The scare on the lip)
Later that day Team 7 was returning from the Hokage's tower with Naruto nursing his wounds from the hell spawn of a cat. Sakura looked at him and sighed.
"Look at you, your hopeless Naruto. How can someone who is able to take on chuunin and jounin injure himself, on a few D-rank missions? It's a little sad really."
"You really can be just one big problem Naruto. Some super ninja you are. You're such a joke." Sasuke said.
Naruto growled then turned to Sasuke with fire in his eyes. Naruto started to stomp to Sasuke who had his back turned walking away. "Sasuke you are such an a..." Naruto stopped mid-sentence when Sakura put a hand in front of him and raised her fist.
"If you keep this up Naruto I swear that I'll finish you off myself." She growled making him back up a bit. Kakashi who was watching his student's antics sighed in hopelessness. "Well so much for trying to work on teamwork. It's actually getting worse instead of better."
Naruto turned to Sasuke and pointed a finger at him, accusingly. "You hear that Sasuke? Our teamwork's messed up because of you. You never want to cooperate with anyone. You think you're better then everybody else?"
Sasuke stopped and talked without turning around. "I don't think I'm better than everyone, just you. It's a fact that I'm stronger and faster than you are. If you don't like it" Sasuke turned his head to look Naruto in the eyes "Then why don't you try and prove me wrong."
Naruto glared at Sasuke as hard as he could. "I don't need to fight you to prove you wrong. It's obvious I'm stronger than you are. I beat three chuunin and held my own against a jounin. With Zabuza you just stood their shaking in your boots. When you fought Haku you were the one that was getting your ass kicked while I took care of him." Sasuke's eyes widened slightly as he fully turned to face Naruto, who was smirking as if he won the argument. Sasuke gritted his teeth as he spoke.
"Don't talk so high and mighty about yourself. Okay I'll admit that you may have beaten the Demon Brothers but that claim that you held your own against Zabuza doesn't mean anything. That was a water clone that was only 10% as strong as him.I also could have beaten that fake hunter ninja if it wasn't for that ice jutsu he used against me. Even then Sakura said that you wouldn't even have been able to catch him by surprise if it wasn't for her. We all also saw that it was Kakashi who finished him off. So why don't you learn to give credit where it's due you loser."
Naruto's smirk was whipped from his face while Sasuke's face grew one. The rage that Naruto was feeling was so intense that he wanted to lunge at Sasuke and beat him within an inch of his life. But he knew that wouldn't have solved anything so he just stood there, with clenched fists. Sparks were starting to jump from random places around Naruto's body due to his frequent emotions.
For Sasuke even though he knew he had beat Naruto at his own game he was right about being able to hold his own against an advanced chunnin and a jounin, longer than he ever could. Haku and Zabuza's faces had flashed through his mind making Sasuke inwardly growl.
'I don't have time to waste on Naruto and these lame missions. There are still many ninja that can out fight me. I need to be able to hone my skills so that I can beat them.'
A hawk overhead gave a loud cry making Kakashi look up at it, with a bored look in his eye. He turned to his team where Naruto and Sasuke were still glaring at each other. Sakura was looking between the two like a frightened puppy as she guessed that they were going to actually fight.
"All right guys I'm going to go report today's mission. You can beat each other up some other time." Sasuke scoffed and started to walk away. "Whatever I'm out'ta here." Kakashi then disappeared in a puff of smoke heading straight to the mission office. Sakura then ran after Sasuke having to want to go with him.
"Good riddance, arrogant Uchiha."
Naruto was surprised at hearing the voice of his inner demon since it had been a while since they both had spoken to each other.
'Hey Kyu what's up? It's been days since we last talked. I kind of missed you man.'
Kyuubi chuckled a little. "Aww you missed talking to little old me? Well I do spice up your boring excuse for a life, so I guess it's understandable."
Naruto huffed and faced another direction. 'Oh be quiet you. So anyway now that we're talking again what did you do to Cole?'
Even though he couldn't see it Naruto swore that Kyuubi was grinning like a madman. (A/N Or maybe a mad…fox; yeah, a mad fox.)
"Oh nothing really, I just made sure that I was able to get my message through to him. I don't know where he is but I'm sure he'll pop up out of nowhere. He's probably nursing his wounds, the baby."
Naruto sweat dropped at the comment. 'Right, he's a baby because he's healing his injuries from getting mauled only by the king of demons.'
"See, that's what I was thinking. I don't know what McGrath was complaining about." The Kyuubi said who completely missed Naruto's sarcasm by the choice of words, which made said blond face plant. Naruto got up from the ground and watched as Sasuke was telling Sakura off. He didn't know what it was about considering the distance but by the look on Sakura's face it must have hit her really hard. Sasuke then walked off leaving Sakura to wallow in her own little puddle of misery. Just then Naruto heard shuffling behind him and turned to see a…uh…a square…rock? A square rock with…eyeholes?
'Fake rocks? What the hell?'
Naruto's eyebrow twitched at seeing what was possibly the worst disguise, in the history of the ninja world. Naruto used Radar Sense on the box and picked up three signatures. The first one he easily recognized. 'God damn it Konohamaru.' The other two were a mystery to him though so he decided to end this little escapade. Naruto crossed his arms and closed his eyes.
"Konohamaru…" Naruto's eyes shot open as he pointed at the fake rock. "That is the worst disguise that I have ever seen! Come on kid who is that supposed to fool?"
Naruto heard Konohamaru laugh a little. "Wow amazing, you've seen through my awesome disguise. I can't expect anything less from my greatest rival."
The paint covered box started to glow a little before completely going up in smoke. When some of the smoke cleared it showed Konohamaru and the two other kids on the ground, coughing.
"I think that we used too much gun powder guys." Konohamaru said. The little ninja's in training looked at Naruto and started to introduce themselves. The only girl of the group went first. "I'm Moegi the sassiest kunoichi in the village, check me out."
The second kid who had some snot dripping from his nose, which made Naruto look at him in disgust went next. "I love algebra so call me Udon." And then you know who. "And I'm the number 1 ninja in the leaf village, Konohamaru. And when we're all together were the 'Konohamaru Ninja Squad.'" The three of them said in unison.
Naruto looked at the kids and gave an exasperated sigh while throwing his head back. "I just met you and the three of you guys are already killing me."
Konohamaru gave a big smile and put his hands behind his head. "Come on don't act like you aren't happy to see me boss. Also how did you know that I was hiding in that box?"
Naruto put his own hands behind his head. "It's just one of my cool powers, called Radar Sense. Gives me better senses than a sensor type ninja, because I can find people weather they have chakra or not. I'm almost never caught off guard because of it, especially since I can sense 360 degrees. "
"Wow, that's pretty reliable." Udon said in a quiet voice. Konohamaru had sparkles in his eyes and looked up to Naruto.
"Amazing boss, that's just so cool! Do you think that you can teach me how to use it?" Naruto smiled at the kid's enthusiasm and shook his finger. "Sorry squirt but that ability's kind of on the bloodline tip."
Konohamaru looked dejected at the information but he lit up again at what he processed what Naruto said. "Cool a bloodline! I didn't know that you had one of those? What else can you do? Can you turn invisible? Can you fly? Can you turn into fire or have super speed?"
Naruto gave Konohamaru a deadpanned look. "Konohamaru you should slow down before you hurt yourself. Besides the Radar Sense is just a passive ability from my real bloodline trait. Also don't tell anyone else that I have one okay? I want to keep my Kekkei Genkai a secret. So what do you three want anyway?"
"C'mon boss you said that you would play 'ninja' with us today. So let's go already." Konohamaru said.
Naruto started to scratch the back of his head. "Did I honestly say that?"
Konohamaru put his hands on his hips and leaned forward a bit. "Yes, you told me that you would yesterday."
"Seriously, damn my head must not have been in the game yesterday. I don't remember that at all. Besides I don't have time to today anyway."
Moegi walked up to Naruto and gave him puppy dog eyes. "But why not Mr. Naruto?"
"Yeah, what's so important that you're trying to blow us off, huh!?" Konohamaru yelled.
Naruto smirked and gave them a thumb's up. "Well I have to go train. No offence but that's more important than hanging out with you guys right now."
"AW, WHAT?!" Konohamaru shrieked.
"How does a ninja play 'ninja'? That just sounds so twisted." The four turned to see Sakura who seemed to be dragging her body as slow as a tortoise. Her face seemed like she was on the verge of dying but her eyes seemed completely soulless. Naruto sweat dropped and wondered what Sasuke had said to her to make her act like this.
"Oh, uh hey, Sakura. I want you to meet Konohamaru and his friends, Udon and Moegi." The three kids introduced themselves to her but Sakura didn't pay them any mind. Her eyes sight was still focused on Naruto who was starting to get a bit scared at her behavior. Konohamaru noticed this to and started to give Sakura his own glare.
'Why the heck is this girl looking at the boss like that? It's as if her eyes are daggers.' Konohamaru's eyes then lit up and he started to elbow Naruto.
"Oh~, I get it now boss. Haha it's pretty obvious to me that she's your…girlfriend." Naruto and Sakura both sharply turned their heads to look at Konohamaru. Sakura started to get angry and Naruto was trying to make him see otherwise.
"Konohamaru don't-don't be ridiculous! Sakura's not my girlfriend! W-why w-w-would you say something l-like that?" Konohamaru started to pat Naruto's back.
"I don't know why you're trying to deny it boss but it's pretty clear to me that's what's going on here. She wouldn't stop looking at you and you're starting to stutter. Guess she's pretty crazy about you huh?"
"No she's just crazy in general." Naruto said without thinking. He then mentally smacked himself at his own comment.
"Nice choice of words kit." Kyuubi snickered
Naruto was about to retort until he heard the sound of cracking knuckles. He gulped and slowly turned his head to see Sakura who had an ominous green aura around her. "Naruto, you and those kids are dead, especially the one with the scarf." She growled. Sakura slowly stomped to the group making the ground crack underneath her feat. Naruto who had experience in what was about to happen made the most rational move at a time like this.
"EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF!" He screamed and he took off, with the kids not far behind. Konohamaru looked behind him to see Sakura running after them and by her pace she would be upon them soon. He yelped a bit and ran ahead of the group. Konohamaru rounded the corner but crashed into someone making fall back words. He looked up to see a guy in a black suit. He had face paint and some mummified looking thing that was wrapped on his back. A girl was standing next to him who had a small scowl on her face. She had blond hair that which had four ruffled looking buns and some sort of weapon on her back.
Naruto, Udon, Moegi and Sakura caught up to Konohamaru while also staring at the new comers. The guy looked down at Konohamaru with a scowl on his face.
"Hey you little twerp watch where you're going?" Konohamaru look frightened at the teen that was walking to him. Konohamaru tried to scoot away but was abruptly picked up by the scruff of his shirt.
"Konohamaru." Naruto said full of concern as he watched the kid get manhandled by some stranger.
"So does this hurt, punk?" The teen said as he tightened his hold on Konohamaru making the little ninja wheeze.
"Put him down Kankuro or else you'll be in trouble for it later." The girl said to the teen. The newly addressed Kankuro looked at her and said "Don't worry Temari. We got a few minutes before he gets here so let's mess with these punks for a while huh." Kankuro griped Konohamaru's shirt tighter making him cry out in pain.
"You better put him down or else I'm gonna fry your ass." Naruto put a hand on his Amp and was ready to draw it out. Kankuro looked at Naruto and noticed his headband. 'Oh so these are the Leaf's gennin.' He thought with a smile.
"You know, I hate it when wimp's like you run their mouths. It gets me really angry. So when someone like you likes to talk big, I just one to break them in half." Udon and Moegi were scared stiff. They were crying for both Konohamaru and themselves. Nartuo griped the handle of his Amp tighter in anger. Sakura put her hands to her mouth and backed up a bit. 'What's this guy's problem and where did they both come from. Who are they?' She thought. Sakura looked at the headpiece that Kankuro wore and knew that she hand seen that symbol from before. Sakura thought back to her academy days when Iruka was teaching the class about the hidden villages and the insignias they bore. She looked at Kankuro's insignia and tried to place which village it resembled most. It looked kind of like an hourglass. The only thing about an hourglass was that they were used in old times as stopwatches. Sand helped to regulate the time. Sakura's eyes widened at the revelation. 'So these guys are from the Sand Village. But why are they in the Leaf Village? Are they on a mission or something?'
"First I'll finish off this little brat, and then I'm taking care of the blond one." Kankuro drew back his fist, getting ready to slug Konohamaru. Naruto saw this as an opportunity to charge. He drew his Amp and ran at Kankuro as fast as he could. He stopped when Kankuro yelped in pain and dropped Konohamaru.
'What the heck?' Naruto stopped charging his Amp and like everyone else wondered what just happened. He looked down and saw a rock on the ground, which must have been thrown at the black clad ninja. 'But who...' "You're a long way from home and you're way out of your league."
Everyone turned around and looked up to see Sasuke sitting in a tree. He had another rock in his hand and was repeatedly throwing it up and catching it.
"SASUKE!" Sakura cried. Naruto looked at him with beaded eyes. He was ready to show Kankuro what he was made of but Sasuke just had to get in the way. Temari looked up at Sasuke and blushed a little with a smile. 'Well, well local hottie.' She thought.
Sasuke caught the rock again and crushed it in his hands turning it to powder. "Why don't you do us a favor and get lost." He said to Kankuro. Sakura and Moegi had hearts in their eyes while Udon look really impressed. Konohamaru looked at Naruto and pointed a finger at him crying anime tears. "Hey how come you're not cool like that, huh!?"
Naruto didn't even look down at him. "Kid if you had seen even half of the stuff that I had went through then you would take that back." Naruto used a bit of Kyuubi's chakra just to change his eyes to red and looked at Konohamaru. The little ninja looked intimidated at first but was soon mesmerized by the unique shift. Naruto dropped the chakra and his eyes changed back to their natural blue and looked at Sausuke again.
'That looked a little like that Sharingan thing that grandpa told me about, but it was different. What was that?' He thought. Kankuro who like Naruto didn't like how he was shown up called up to Sasuke. "Hey punk, get down here." Sasuke stayed silent and continued to look at him. Kankuro glared at him and pulled of the bundled up thing that was on his back.
"Wait, are you seriously going to use Crow? Right here and now of all things?" Temari said surprised. Naruto charged his Amp again at the sight of Kankuro taking off what he guessed was a special weapon, like his Amp.
'It probably something only this guy could use, like my Amp.' Naruto thought as he held his Amp at the ready. Just when Naruto was about to charge again his Radar Sense unintentionally went off as he picked up a huge amount of chakra and on overdose of killing intent. It felt 3 maybe 4 more times heavier than Zabuza and it made him a little nauseous. He looked up at a branch that was behind tree, behind Sasuke.
"Kankuro, back off." Everyone else looked up at the tree where Sasuke was who looked behind him, to see a newcomer standing upside down from a branch. He had red hair, black rings around his eyes, light blue eyes and a really big guard on his back. His headband was on a sash but had the sand insignia on it.
"Kankuro, you're such a disgrace to our village, picking petty fights like this." Kankuro laughed nervously and gulped. "Oh hey there Gaara. What's goin on?"
Sasuke was eyeing Gaara suspiciously. 'Who is this guy? I didn't even know he was behind me. He didn't make the slightest amount of noise. Only jounin that are on Kakashi's level can be that smooth.'
Scene Change: The Hokage's Tower
All of the jounin in the whole Leaf Village were standing before the Hokage in his tower. They all knew had a feeling that they knew what their leader wanted to tell them but they wanted to here it from Hiruzen.
"I have summoned you for a very important purpose. Seeing all of your fellow jounin here, I'm sure that you realize what this is about." Hiruzen said, eyeing everybody.
"So soon? I thought that we'd have a little more time." Kakashi said. Some of the jounin had nodded their heads in agreement.
"I take it all of the other lands had been notified of the coming event." Asuma said. Asuma is the sensei of Squad 10 which was this year's Ino-Shika-Cho trio. He's also the son of the Hokage. He also smoke's just as much as Kakashi reads porn. "I also know that some of their gennin had already arrived in the village."
"And when do we start?" Kurenai who was one of the few female jounin present asked. Kurenai had is the Hidden Leaf's genjutsu mistress. She's the sensei of Squad 8 which consisted of Hinata, Shino and Kiba.
Hiruzen looked up at the ninja. "We are going to begin in one week." Kakashi opened his eye a little bit."That's pretty short notice." He said.
"Take heed, exactly 7 days from today. The gennin will be gathered and tested. Only the very best can be selected as chunnin." Hiruzan announced. All of the jounin nodded and disappeared in a puff of smoke. Seeing as everyone was gone Hiruzen took out both his pipe and his own copy of 'Make Out Paradise.' He smoked his pipe and giggled like a school girl as he started to read a really juicy part in his book.
Scene Changed: Random District
"Have you forgotten the reason we came all the way over here, Kankuro?" Gaara questioned. Kankuro's breath started to quicken as he looked into Gaara's eyes. He pointed at the Leaf gennin, plus Konohamaru and friends.
"I-I know, b-but they challenged us. They started the whole thing Gaara, like see, here's what happened…" "Shut up Kankuro. Or I'll kill you." Kankuro started to sweat a lot at Gaara's threat. They way his eyes bore into Kankuro's made it seem like he wouldn't have a problem going through with it.
"Uh yeah right, sorry. I was totally out of line there. I promise that it won't happen again Gaara." Gaara turned his head to look at Sasuke, who was getting weary just by his presence.
"I'm sorry for all the trouble that my brother had caused." Naruto, Sakura and the 'Konohamaru Ninja Squad' were all taken aback by his statement. They were siblings yet Gaara spoke to Kankuro as if he was the enemy. He even threatened to him and by the sound of it he probably would have done it, without a second thought.
Sasuke shifted his eyes to look at Gaara. 'He has an evil look in his eyes.' He thought. Gaara was also thinking about a few things. He looked to Sasuke.
'He managed to stop Kankuro with just a pebble. He made it look easy, I better watch out for him. Then there's that blond one. He was able to detect my presence before I even made myself known. He's one to look into as well.' Sand started to surround Gaara as he disappeared from his place on the branch and was now standing in front of the other Sand Ninja.
"Let's get going already. We didn't come here to play any games." Gaara said. The three turned and started to walk away. "Hey hold on." Sakura said trying to catch their attention. They stopped and Temari spoke. "What do you want?"
"Well it's obvious that judging by your headband that your from the Sand Village. It's forbidden to enter another village without permission so what's your purpose?"
They turned around and Temari lifted a passport with her information on it. "Where have you all been? We know the rules and we do have permission. Were here for the Chunnin Exams, understand? It's going to start in one week." Naruto looked confused and a little upset. "The Chuunin Exams? Why didn't anybody tell us about that? Well you can count me in, I am so there!" He exclaimed.
The Sand Ninja finally took their leave but was stopped again by Sasuke. "Hey you, with the guard on his back, identify yourself."
Gaara turned and looked at Sasuke. "My name is Gaara of the Desert. I'm also curious to know who you and the blond one are though." Naruto was surprised that the redhead wanted to know who he was but was glad that he was seen as a potential rival.
"I'm Sasuke Uchiha of the Uchiha Clan." Sasuke said with a smirk. Naruto pointed his thumb at himself. "And I'm Naruto Uzumaki the most Unpredictable Ninja and the Prime Conduit of the Leaf." Everyone wondered what Naruto was talking about. Gaara only nodded his head though content with the information. The Sand ninja then jumped away to an unknown location.
"Hey kit I want you to watch out for that Gaara character."
'Why's that Kyu? I mean he did seem really creepy and everything but he can't be all bad, right.'
"No kit he's worse than that. You need to watch out for him because he's just like you. A jinchuriki." Naruto gasped a little but was thankful that no one had heard it.
'Wait are you sure? A jinchuriki, how could you tell?'
"I wasn't sure at first until I saw that Sand Body Flicker. There aren't any ninja that can use sand, not even ones that are most affiliated with Earth Style ninjutsu, unless they find their own way to modify it. This Gaara just used sand freely, so if I had to guess I would say that he has my youngest brother Shukaku the One-Tailed Tanuki sealed inside of him."
'Quick question, I know that there are nine Tailed beasts and you're all different animals but how can you be siblings? I mean you're a fox and you say that Shukaku is a Tanuki.'
"That's a story for another time kit but I promise to tell you later. But I'm serious Shukaku was always the wild card in the family. A bit psychotic to boot and if he's sealed inside that boy who you might have to fight against in the future than you're going to need all the training a week can give. I'm going to find Cole and discuss the issue with him. Playtime is officially over."Kyuubi then cut the connection and went to find Cole while Naruto headed back to his house. He stopped mid walk when Konohamaru called out to him.
"Hey boss what was that thing that you said just know?" Konohamaru asked Naruto. The blond looked down at him. "Huh, what are you taking about?" "You know that thing that you just said you were. The prime…uh…it started with a 'C' right?" Naruto realized what Konohamaru was trying to say.
"You mean a conduit, right?"
"Yeah that's it, so what is it boss?" Sakura looked at Naruto and put had her own very confused look. "Yeah Naruto I was wondering the same thing. I've never heard that term before." Sasuke who didn't seem to be paying attention was also all ears as he wanted to know the meaning of the term 'Conduit.' Naruto scratched his head and wondered if he should tell what a conduit was, or decide not to, until he felt more comfortable being around his team... He really didn't want another massive head ace from his team. Or more specifically Sasuke. How can you tell your teammate who doesn't like you that much and thinks that his bloodline is the shit, when compared to yours it's only just joke. So he decided to do option 3: Give a lazy answer and just b-line it.
"I'll tell you some other time." And he jumped away straight to his house, leaving a shouting Konohamru and Sakura, and an upset Udon, Moegi and Sasuke. Seeing as he was not coming back everyone went their separate ways straight to their own respective homes, never noticing the six pair's of eyes that were watching them from above.
"So what do you think Dosu." Said a male voice.
"Just more gennin brats nothing special. But we should watch the Uchiha and the desert rat. Maybe the blond one just to be safe." Another voice replied the three disappeared in puffs of smoke, heading to their own destination.
Oh shit things are getting JUICCCCYYYYYY! Well we are finally into the Chuunin Exams arc so you all know that the real fun begins. There going to be more lightning, more fighting, different techniques and Naruto's starting to develop ice powers. You'll see some more of that in the next chapter though. And I know that you guys are eager to see Sasuke get put in his place by Naruto but damn. Wait until the Valley of the End. I am gonna promise you though that Naruto's gonna learn a bunch of incredibly new lightning and ice moves. Imagine the look on people's faces when they think he can use ice style. I'm dying to see that, but anyway I talk enough. Rest in pieces and… (End Transmission) (Bzzt) LOOK I DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT IS BUT YOU BETTER CHILL THE FUCK OUT! 'END TRANSMISSION' THIS A'INT A FUCKING MESSAGE…Oh wait.