Chapter 010
The Proctor of the First Chunnin Exams, Morino Ibiki, watched as the test began, and many Chunin around the room were watching the various Genin like flies on... well, you know. Naruto yawned quietly and resumed his paper test, while left and white obvious cheaters started to drop. Information gathering was the key word for those who had picked up on it before the test began. Ibiki however was wondering about the blonde enigma, Crawford Naruto. The man had no qualms with the fox jailor, but this Naruto wore clothes that would make him more of a civilian than a shinobi. There was also the fact that this boy is being targetted by a group of people who called themselves the Kyuubi Hunters, and wanted to ruin the boy's life, and the life of his father who had cared of the teenager for thirteen years outside the village. There also was the fact that he and the Hyuuga girl wore those strange contraptions on their arms, which they currently have resting at their feet to not disturb the others.
He then noticed the blonde flip the paper to the blank side, pencil snapped silently to the desk, and then reaching into his pocket put on a set of small headphones, and then pulled out a small compact CD player. Ignoring the jib from a cocky Genin from the Leaf whom then gets a lecture, and booted out the door with his two team mates, he returns attention on the blonde who is now listening to that odd music. They were civilian items, and not many ninja had needs for them, since life was always filled with dangers of living your last life until death. The boy closed his eyes, and Ibiki returned his attention to gazing out like a hawk, waiting for his chance to finalize anybody that don't feel that they couldn't go on.
"Alright you brats, time for the tenth question!" Naruto chuckled mentally, as the guy yelled out his words and watched as the cowards were forced to leave, meaning three teams left. Before a fourth decided to chicken out, he then cleared his throat just as Sakura was raising her hand.
"What do you want?" Ibiki threatened.
Naruto yanked off the plug to his headphones, filling the room with the music of the next song that he's been listening to: Three Six Mafia - Late Night Tip. He opened his eyes and sat upright again, and leaned across the desk a bit. "I know..."
"Know what?" Ibiki questions.
A small smirk forms. "The truth."
The left eyebrow rose. "Oh, do you now?"
"Yeah, you remind me of Kaiba. He uses the same, if usual, tactics when it comes to dealing with the business world. Although he's a civilian and you're a ninja, I've heard it all. This is but a test, as usual... and if I'm wrong, may Kami strike me with thunder."
... Nope... nothing... no sudden bolt of lightning...
"Besides... you got a nice poker face, but when it comes to deceiving people... you're dealing with the master." He smirks now, standing up and challenging Ibiki while slotting on his Duel Disk and locking the clamp.
"Oh? And what if I tell you that you're wrong, and that you and your two team mates can never again enter another Chunnin Exam for the rest of your life?" This was news to the ears of the many Genin, however Naruto silenced them with a laugh that sounded... dark.
"Then I leave the village and return to my original life, which is enjoying duels, hanging out with my friends, taking care of some business ends with Industrial Illusions, and figuring out who the hell is leading the Kyuubi Hunters, and how I can prevent another, if not similar, evil criminal organization whom decides on the off-chance, to try and take over the world through means that most cannot explain."
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The leader of Akatsuki sneezes.
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"And if you think I'm bluffing..." The smile quickly leaves Naruto's face, and all there was is cold calculating eyes, "just try it."
"... Pass..." He glared back at Naruto for completely demolishing his plot, "you all fucking pass... though only because of this kid..." Naruto sits back down, looking smug.
Just then, before Ibiki could say anything else the window crashed open, and a banner got nailed, blocking the man from view as a sexy plum-haired woman shot to her feet with a snake-like grin. New music at this precise moment played, one that sounded of the familiar heavy metal rock of Motorhead's Rock Out. "Hello you sons of bitches! I'm Mitarashi Anko, your sexy Proctor of the next exams!"
"Anko, you jumped the gun again," Ibiki said from behind the large banner, which he ripped down. His Duel Spirit Kyuubi was laughing over the irony of the song that started the exact moment the female Jounin jumped gun, according to Ibiki.
"What the hell? Too many ninja!" She complained, "I would have thought there were gonna be less the amount than the last Chunnin Exams that was held in Ame."
"Naruto here ruined the entire thing." Anko turned to the blonde who had the compact CD player with built speakers along the side panels. For some reason, this song explained Anko completely; which is why he was grinning, tapping his index finger to the beat of the hard rock song.
"The Crawford brat?"
"That's Crawford Naruto, woman."
She grinned and leaned down over the desk, giving him an eyeful of her breasts. Hinata, seeing this, glares heatedly at the woman. "Feisty, aren't we? Little boys like you with arrogance die easily."
He got into her face, not noticing how many of the males in the room were extremely jealous of Naruto just then. "Oh yeah? Well too bad, cuz Bandit Keith tried it with a suicide bombing of the warehouse he trapped me in when I was at a younger age, trying to get revenge against my father hoping to take me to death's door with him." He then did something that even made Ibiki widen his eyes; Naruto flirted with Anko by dragging his index finger along her chest, dangerously close to her assets, "Though... if you can do something that can top a suicide bombing bringing down a twelve story high warehouse that is packed to the brim with high explosive content..." He runs his finger up along her neck to the underside of her chin, "I just LOVE to see you try."
"I like you. You got spunk..." Pressing two fingers against his chest, she nudged him into his chair. He just crosses his arms over his chest and smiles, "You brats got lucky because of Crawford here! However I now have you all to myself, kukuku... if you are not at the Gates to Training Ground 44 in fifteen minutes, you're disqualified!" And with that, she jumped out of the window and sprinted towards their next destination.
The song ended as she left and soon was replaced with another: Ladies and Gentlemen by Saliva, which is silenced by the plug getting placed back in, and the headphones placed back on his head.
"Hinata-chan, let's get going, hm?"
"Coming Naruto-kun!" She chased after the boy, and like that, the classroom emptied out. Ibiki just sighed.
"That brat is playing with death trying to mess with that crazy woman... this will be amusing." He smirked.
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"Glad Kaiba was able to craft the Duel Disks to take some damage," Naruto muttered.
It's been just a day since Mitarashi Anko had gotten everyone who passed to sign release forms, and then with a scroll each, released into Training Ground 44 for five days of survival. For weapons, Naruto had a supply of kunai, and on the off day, a deck of thin metal cards, with the bottom sharpened to a point to cause some great harm. That deck of killer cards was strapped to his right ankle in another deck case. For the accessory, they held a Scroll of Heaven, and would require a Scroll of Earth before going on to the destination that they were told of existed in the forest, in order to pass this test and advance. Just then, a blood-curdling scream echoed before it was abruptly silenced. Not that they knew of it, but somewhere in the forest, Gaara had just crushed a poor soul under pounds of sand.
Naruto shivered at the sound, and Sakura looked like she was going to faint. He then looked over at Sasuke who apparently appointed himself leader. He wondered why he had to be a ninja again... and then remembered why, and sighed mentally. As they trekked on, they had to run away from several big animals that lived in the forest, such as bears, and oddly enough tigers that are more in habit to the areas of Mori. They had tackled off against a Genin Team whom after Sasuke beaten after Naruto pulled off another "Freak out the locals" using his Duel Disk and this time Fushi no Tori, they held another Scroll of Heaven.
"We need a way to keep in contact," Sasuke told Sakura and Naruto.
"Oh, I know... it was in this novel I read before: If thou shalt not pay. That is what we say if we ever get split up. The answer we're looking for is: Thou shall not pass."
Sakura and Sasuke blinked, before the girl slowly nodded. "Okay... that sounds like a good way for communication..."
Naruto beamed, before he headed another direction.
"Where are you going?" Sasuke demanded.
"To take a leak," he replied, "or rather I just unzip myself and piss in front of the two of you?"
"Just go!" The Uchiha huffed, as he rather not see Naruto do his business out the open like that. Sakura thought the same thing.
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As Naruto found a place for him to go, he was unaware that someone was sneaking up on him... something huge, and reptilian.
Back with the other two, the bushes rustled, and Sasuke and Sakura pulled out a kunai, as Naruto came out.
"Hold on... If thou shalt not pay?"
Naruto smiled. "Thou shall not pass."
The kunai was thrown. "What's the big idea? You almost hit me!"
"Hmph! Nice try... you look like Naruto, but you're missing that contraption of his."
"Hm... very well Sasuke-kun," Naruto spoke lovingly, before poofing into smoke. In place was the pale-skinned girl from Kusa with the long tongue from yesterday.
"God damn it!" Naruto cursed as the snake lunged at him once again. Naruto after he had finished his business, suddenly jumped to avoid getting bitten by the giant snake. And ever since then, it had been trying to eat him, while pushing him back. If he wasn't a ninja, he could have been killed straight away. But since he IS, "get away from me ya blasted snake!"
It snapped the branch Naruto disappeared off from. The teenager shifted through seven hand signs, before he unleashed a spread of small fireballs and trying not to burn his throat. The serpent hissed angrily, and lunged at him, devouring the shinobi. But then, the snake felt funny, as its stomach began to expand and bulge outward. The snake blew up as Naruto and the fifty Kage Bunshin escaped, showered in blood and snake guts.
"Damn... gotta get back to the others!" He rushed back in the reverse direction. Hopefully, whoever tried to separate him from his two team mates are faring well.
As he finally gets through the brush, he cries out. "Sasuke! Sakura!"
"Oh no you don't, Naruto-kun! Fuuton: Daitoppa!" The Kusa-nin screamed, and a huge blast of wind rips through the area. Naruto gets picked off his feet and launched further backward, while Sakura was slammed into a nearby tree. Sasuke used his chakra to root himself to the ground.
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"Up kit... get up!"
"Ugh... wha...?"
Naruto opened his eyes, and groaned. He felt pain all over his body.
"C'mon, get up kit, we gotta get out of here."
It was Kyuubi's voice. The fox was trying to rouse the boy up.
"Kyuubi?"
His eyes open, and he stared into the eyes of the duel monster spirit.
"About friggin' time... c'mon kit, you gotta get going now, and use the energy locked in you."
"Energy?"
The fox smirked. "You weren't told, huh?"
"Told what?"
"I was but a young fox... not a demon as many of these ninja proclaim me as, no... I was a Duel Monster as well, managed to have enough energy to sustain myself in this world. However, I fell in love with a hot fox guy with white hair and cascading gold eyes. Years later I had a litter of my own to care for, when my husband, Youko, vanished... I never saw him again, but deep down... I knew something else happened to him."
Naruto was sitting upright, as the spirit before him looked back towards the teen.
"I attacked this village thirteen years ago because a white-skinned human used my children to perform inhuman experiments on other life... you see, kit, I returned to my cavern to see my children dead and mutilated, blood coating the cavern walls, the floors... I thought they would be safe when I left to gather food from the nearby ocean... and returned to see my life destroyed. I grew angry... enraged. I had picked up the scent of the human, which led to the village. It was then I attacked, and the reason I got sealed up inside of you by that man, the Fourth Hokage of the Leaf."
"Sealed up inside of me?"
"Yes... however, kit do you remember our trip to the other world? How you and your friends round up there?"
"Yeah...." Naruto was silent. "Yeah... I do... we got transported to that strange dimension... filled with Duel Monsters. I ended up separated from the gang, when I was surrounded, then chased by Lord Poison and his monster gang. I blacked out when Lord Poison landed a hit on me... and then Sho and Tyranno found me lying in a crater, and your card was right next to me."
The kitsune nodded. "I was the one who saved you. However, the dimension's energies changed me a bit. I had ripped through them using my energy to coat you in a veil of red with one tail of power. Summoned Skull tore his claw along your stomach, over the seal when I fought for your life, kit. It broke long enough for me to escape and I did... however, all of my energies are now locked inside of you, while I remained... I couldn't leave you, because I grown attached to you. I saw how happy you were growing up, surrounded by family. So I just fused myself into your Kyuubi no Kitsune card, and thus here I am... your duel monster spirit... the same spirit you talked to ever since."
"A seal on my stomach?"
"It only appears when you gather my demonic chakra, or so the humans will call it. It also appears if you channel chakra over the stomach, more so over your belly button. The seal had mended itself overtime of that incident, so you never knew. I would ask that old man about it. It's just energy that you can now utilize... and if you trained with it... Naruto, you can do something similar to what the magic of the Orichalcos does... bring your cards to life."
"Wait?" He blinked, "I can?"
"If you trained with my energies, yes... however... we cannot right now. Your team mates are in trouble... should go and save them, especially that Uchiha prick... I have to guess he's getting his ass kicked."
"Oh, shit! I forgot! That weird-ass girl used that wind jutsu to blow me away!"
"Other than the very weird way of that sounding," Kyuubi gets smacked over the head, "WAKE UP KIT!"
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Naruto snaps his eyes open, and launched a metal card from his ankle deck.
"Damn! Naruto wait!"
He had sliced the bag Akimichi Chouji once held. He was surrounded by him, Shikamaru, and Ino of Team Ten.
"Naruto, are you okay? Where's Sasuke-kun and Forehead girl?" Ino questioned the blonde.
"I got separated from them... that girl from Kusa used a wind jutsu to blow me into the air... if I have to guess they're fighting that girl right now."
The spirit appears next to Naruto, though the three Genin do not see the fox. Chouji helps Naruto up.
"Well, let's go and find them. We're all Leaf-nin, and we stick together." Naruto then began traveling with them when he was sure he was going to be fine.
"I just hope they're okay..." Naruto whispered.
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"It's too bad Naruto-kun isn't here... he could be a threat to me, but given his status... he's just like the rest of this village..." The girl, who had now revealed his true gender, grinned.
"Why is Naruto... so interesting to you?" Sasuke hissed. He was held prisoner by the Genin who was the Snake Sannin, Orochimaru.
"Well, he has people who call themselves the Kyuubi Hunters who are hunting him and wanting to destroy his life and the life of his father... he lived out of this village... and had things that are completely new to Konoha. And other than that, he is unaware of a power that has been sealed into him... that power would greatly influence him... a chakra source unlike any has ever seen before..."
"What chakra?" Sasuke hissed, only to have the hold on his arms tighten more by the large snakes.
"He has an ungodly amount of chakra, which would make a village of ANBU extremely jealous over. You see Sasuke-kun," he whispered, dragging his tongue along his neck, making the boy shiver, "if Naruto ever finds out about this chakra source... he would become stronger... and I dare say... stronger than Itachi."
Sasuke's eyes bulge and then rage swept through him at the mere mention of his brother, the Uchiha Slayer, as the young man was nicknamed. Orochimaru chuckles softly, watching as Sasuke kept screaming, before he is silenced when he bites him over the neck. Sakura screams out, however she is ignored. When Orochimaru moves away, a burning mark was left on his neck which transformed into a type of pronged seal.
"Now Sasuke-kun... Naruto may have power, but I can give you the same gift... if you desire it, come and find me..."
The surge of foreign chakra that entered his body through that love bite, mark, of Orochimaru, caused waves of pain to spasm through his body as he was released. Orochimaru chuckles before he looks behind him. "Hm... and they're none the wiser..."
"Sasuke-kun!"
The man smirked towards the girl.
"I have given him a gift... he'll come and look for me when the time comes, little girl... be lucky I spare your life... for awhile longer." And then he splatters to the ground in thick brown mud.
She gasps, and pushes herself onward, and pull the Uchiha up. He was out cold, and she felt sick all of a sudden. Naruto was somewhere in this forest, and Sasuke was now out cold, with this mark on his neck that man gave him when his neck was bitten into. And she was all alone. She was the weak link of the group because she would often fawn over her beloved Uchiha... she dragged the unconscious teen to a hollow-out tree, and managed to tuck him into it, before moving in as well. The only skill she was good in was casting Genjutsu, which was used to hide them into the tree. Weak, but would help her best for the time being.
Naruto? Where are you?
I just had to do that. When I had heard of Motorhead's song Rock Out, I was instantly reminded of Anko. So far, the pairings I got there are as follows (subject to add more as series progress):
Hinata x Naruto x Haku, Judai x Rei, Asuka x Sekai, Anko x Iruka
And I decided to go with Tarale's Sweet Apple's opinion on a love triangle with Naruto. That will be very fun to play with. And yes, I know what I have done back in chapter eight, but just... just trust me on this. I do know what I am doing; I've done weirder pairings that this before (one story I done as a one-shot not uploaded is Tsunade and Orochimaru secretly seeing one another, even though their villages are mortal enemies).
Even if Naruto had told Haku she could be like his sister or something, Haku sees him as something other than just a gained brother/sibling. And of course... she'll try everything to have Naruto think of her as something other than a sister figure, and would fight Hinata to gain his affection.
Judai and Rei... I just see them as a loving couple, better than Judai going with Asuka, though she is one of my favorite characters too... I'll try and work up a possible love scene with her and my OC Sekai. Iruka... gotta love the dolphin and the snake mistress. And I was wrong... there are so far what I found, two other Naruto fics whom tried to cross elements of Yu-Gi-Oh into the plot.... let's see if I can do better.