Madara's Successor

by dkdc

A dying Madara decides that he is going to have a successor... Naruto Namikaze. Infused with the DNA of both Madara and Hashirama can Naruto rise to the challenge and surpass his 'forefathers' or is he doomed to forever follow in their shadows. Alive Minato and Kushina. Sharingan \mokuton Naruto.

10. Chapter 10

Chapter 10

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto

SPECIAL THANKS TO:

JJP123-For the mangekyo sharingan and susanoo suggestion (really appreciate it)

theman111-thank you for that great, wonderful, amazing plot suggestion

61394- thanks for the EMS suggestion

And thank you everyone else for reading my story so far

lastly ENGLISH IS NOT MY HOME LANGUEGE so please bare with me in some case ok.

On with the story!

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...he let go

Power, that was the only word for it, it rushed through his veins like boiling water, he felt stronger somehow, and his vision became even clearer. But Naruto was not paying attention to any of that, his mind too far lost in rage to realise all this, there was one thing he desired most, one thing that was ringing clearly and loudly in his anger clouded mind; the death of the man who had killed his best friend; Orochimaru

Orochimaru could clearly see and feel Naruto's rage and it excited him, the feel of bloodlust that Naruto was exiting was nothing short of amazing, were he a lesser man he would have started shacking under it. He licked his in preparation and excitement, so far he had not been disappointed not in the very least, he couldn't believe that at such a young age Naruto was this strong, grunted there were other before him who too where remarkably strong when they were young, Kakashi and Itachi being prime examples, but he had never seen such raw potential in one person, especially one so young. He could barely keep himself from just giving Naruto the curse seal and take his body right then and there.

But he kept himself in check acting upon impulse would not benefit him in the long run, it never did. He would wait; wait until Naruto's body was at its limit, when his power had reached its peak then and only then would he strike, with Naruto's body he would become a force not to be reckoned with, the sharingan would finally be his, imagine all the jutsu he would learn, the secrets he would unravel. The world will bow down to his might, no one, not even that snort nosed brat Itachi would be able to stop him!.

Naruto eyes shifted from the prone form of his dead best friend and settled to the monster that had killed him, he wanted to kill him so badly, he wanted to make him suffer so much till he begged for mercy, he wanted him to burn, to burn into nothingness, something, a small voice barely audible from the cloud of rage and anguish in his mind whispered to him, it was so silent he might have mistaken it for the wind. Normally one would question where such a voice came from after all it was not natural to just start hearing voices at the back of your mind, if you did people would definitely question your mentality. But that rationality had long since been lost to him

"Amaterasu" He felt a large drain in his chakra reserves but he ignored it, his eyes glaring so hard on Orochimaru as though he would burn, ironically that's exactly what happed.

Orochimaru never saw what hit him or rather what burned him, one moment he was planning world domination with Naruto's body and the next he felt the most painful burn he had ever experienced in his immortal life, flames, black flames latched on to his body with the heat of a thousand fire jutsu combined. He had never felt anything like it before, he tried extinguishing the flames by covering his body in wind chakra and pushing it out but they did not extinguish nor did they show any sign of even being put out.

The black flames were now spreading to his face the agonising pain making him want to just plunge a kunai into his heart and end his suffering.

But he did not dare do that, he was Orochimaru S-ranked missing nin from Konoha, he did not get to where he was by giving up at the first signs of pain. He would he had felt worse but truthfully he had not, northing could ever compare to this.

All the while Naruto was staring at the burning, screaming, Orochimaru with a great amount of joy and excitement, that was what he wanted, to hear he the man screaming in agony till he eventually dropped to the ground and burn into ashes. He felt something wet sliding down his face on his right cheek; curiously he reached for whatever it was and rubbed it, his eyes narrowed in confusion when he saw blood on his hand.

Was it his blood? He couldn't feel any wound on his head nor could he remember getting one, the only thing he could feel was a stinging sensation from his right eye, he chucked to the back of his mind for later, right now he had a snake to kill...or roast.

Seeing as the flames were not going to burn out and were actually spreading, Orochimaru did something that would make a normal person turns green in disgust and vomit all their insides. His mouth opened widely and a pair of hands came out, the hands continued coming out until a head could be seen, a head belonging to an unharmed slightly amused Orochimaru who proceeded to come out entirely from his mouth, a testament of how much a snake he truly was.

"What a remarkable fire jutsu that you have there" he commented looking at his now burnt body with the black flames still on it "To think you were able to force me this far, truly you are a prodigy of unparalleled talent" 'talent that will soon belong to me 'he licked his lips in anticipation.

Seeing Orochimaru come out not the slightest injured pushed Naruto's rage to new heights, without any regard as to whom he was facing Naruto attacked like a barbaric animal. His attacks were wild, fast, powerful but ultimately fruitless as they never reached their intended target, the amused smirk that Orochimaru had on his face as he easily dodged the wild attacks was not doing much to sooth his burning rage.

Getting more frustrated as his attacks were being easily evaded, Naruto created some distance between them by jumping away, whilst he was in mid air his hands were blurring through hand seals

"Fire style; Fire ball jutsu" he breath out a giant ball made of fire, Orochimaru made no move to avoid the attack, instead he stood there rooted to the ground with an all too eager smile on his face. "Fire Style; Great Dragon fire jutsu" Naruto continued.

Gathering more chakra, his hands he flashed through a few more hands seals "Fire style; Hellfire Clap!" a wave of destructive fire flow forth from around him engulfing everything anything that was in its path, which fortunately for him Orochimaru was in. He panted loudly sweat dropping from his forehead, his chakra reserves had considerably been drained from all the jutsu he had thus far used.

"Clap, clap, clap" the sound of clapping rang from where he was sure he had burnt Orochimaru, the smoke around the area cleared showing an unharmed, smirking Orochimaru "Yessss show me your power"

By now Naruto was shaking "Why won't you die" he whispered lowly, Orochimaru felt a charka spike coming from him "WHY WONT YOU JUST DIE!" what followed next was something Orochimaru would never forget, the air around him distorted in a spiral like portal that was sucking him in, he tried fighting it but it was too powerful, eventually he managed to escape the powerful jutsu but it cost him his right arm.

For once since the fight started Orochimaru was not amused, his right arm had been completely removed from its shoulder by Kami knows what jutsu that had been and he couldn't regenerate it, he would have Kabuto attach it later on but having your arm brutally removed from your person was not a desirable experience. It was time for him to claim his prize; he had seen more than enough of the boy's skill to piqué his interest.

That and he could feel multiple chakra signatures headed his way, he could easily take care of them, but he couldn't risk having the ANBU know of his presence just yet. "I'm afraid as much as I enjoy testing you, It's time I end our little battle...kukuku but don't fret my little test subject, I won't be leaving you without a parting gift" his smirk widened, his sharp snake-like fangs growing longer.

faster that Naruto could react Orochimaru appeared in front of him, his fist buried deep into his gut, normally an attack with such force and strength would make a person bulk over in a coughing fit...normally. What happened however made everyone, even Orochimaru gasp in surprise, Orochimaru's fist passed right through Naruto as though he was a ghost.

Surprised by this Orochimaru looked at Naruto and for the first time he saw his yes, they were different from the normal three tomed sharingan, (A/N i honestly don't know how to describe his mangekyo, imagine that his eyes look similar to Madara's mangekyo the only difference being that the three bladed wheel that looks like Itachi's is inside the inner circle). Orochimaru had a brief flashback of the time he had attempted to forcefully take Itachi's body, he would never forget the humiliating defeat he suffered from that boy, but what had drawn his attention was the weird but mesmerising three bladed pinwheel sharingan that Itachi had, those eyes he deemed, where powerful, powerful enough to trap him in a genjutsu for 72 hours and yet only three seconds had passed in the real world

He was sure that the black flames and the powerful vortex-like jutsu that Naruto had used earlier on were from his new awakened eyes. 'Those eyes, those beautiful dangerous eyes' and to think his soon to be host had already awakened them 'Truly he is a prodigy amongst prodigies' alas he really had to go now or else he would risk being discovered.

He reappeared again in front of Naruto, this time he managed to hit him on the back of his neck, Naruto immediately fell into his arm unconscious 'Interesting, I managed to touch him this time, so it seems he can't keep that ability for long' bringing the boy to his face he opened his mouth and was about to bite him on his open neck when something hard hit him in the face sending him flying a good distance away, crushing though several trees in the process.

"Get away from my brother!" A dark voice belonging to a girl snarled.

Orochimaru stood up from where he had landed and looked at his attacker, it was a girl with long red hair, sharp large canine teeth with claws for nails, the girl he noticed, had a red charka cloak surrounding her enter form, on top of her head were to large ears made from the same red chakra and lastly a tail was also forming behind her.

The girls was hunched over on all fours like a wild animal that was about to attack at any moment, her teeth were gritting together, her eyes a deep menacing red with a single black slit in the middle. A large amount of KI was being released from the girl and all of it was being directed at him.

Orochimaru scowled, things were not going according to plan he had hoped that by now he would have marked Naruto but the boy had proved to be too interesting with every second that passed thus the prolonged battle. And now the presence of his Jinchuriki sister, who was releasing a large amount of demonic chakra, would surely alert the ANBU and even worse, Minato.

He felt four more chakra signatures approaching one of which, which was then furthest, he recognised as his long ago apprentice. He looked at the Jinchuriki; who was glaring at him, waiting for him to make a move, and at his unconscious target, he could always get him sometime later on, for now he had to make a hasty escape, the opportunity to gain the boy will come again.

"As fun as it would be to play around with you, I'm afraid its time I leave...I will claim my prize later..." Orochimaru said as he sunk into the ground.

But Hitomi would not have it; she appeared in front of him with her clawed hand raised high "I'm not letting you get away!" She shouted bringing her hand down with the intent to savour Orochimaru's head from the rest of his body.

Orochimaru gave her a challenging smirk as she stroke him, her eyes widened with shock and anger when he burst into rocks the moment she touched him. "DAMNT!" she shouted punching the ground, she had let him get away.

"HITOMI!" Hikari shouted bursting from the tree tops.

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EARLIER WITH TEAM SEVEN

"Man this is boring"

"We know"

"We've been here for more than a day now and still haven't found a team yet"

"We know"

"I bet the others are having better luck than us"

"We know"

"Maybe we just-"

"Damn it Kiba would you shut up already!"

Silence...

"I'm bored"

"That's it!"

Kiba snickered at the fuming Sakura who was being held back from possibly killing him by Hikari and Hitomi, who also looked like they too wanted to do the same thing to him.

After they had all settled down or rather the three girls had calmed down, team seven had decided to take a short break they had been walking for a few hours now and were getting tired or in Sakura's case was about drop down in exhaustion. She unlike her teammates and temporary teammate was not from a ninja family or had any prior training before joining the academy.

Kiba was from a clan that specialised in tracking and taijutsu, his mother was the clan head so he defiantly had and still was being trained by his clan, so he had a larger than average amount of stamina.

Hikari and Hitomi were both part Uzumaki that alone was enough to boost their stamina to unbelievable proportions, they were also the children of the Hokage and Kushina Namikaze, which meant that their training must have been more intense than Kiba's.

And then there was Sakura, a girl from a civilian family with no previous record of any ninja in her family, the only training she got was from the limited time she was at the academy and a tad bit more from her lazy good for northing perverted sensei, she barley ate; wanting to keep her body as fit as she could and not gain any weight. So whilst her stamina was higher than that of the average civilian compared to that of an ordinary genin it was...pathetic.

"We have to come up with a plan" Hikari voiced out getting a nod of agreement from everyone. So far their plans had for them to just go straight for the tower and hopefully encounter some teams along the way, little good that had been as they had not encountered even a single team, and Kiba and his dog had not even picked up a single scent of any team since the beginning of the exams.

"I agree with Hikari-chan, we can't keep going on like this, time is running out" Hitomi added. The team was silent after that each trying to come up with the best course of action.

"How about we herd to the tower and wait in ambush for the other teams who are approaching it, they will be having both scrolls right" Kiba said surprising everyone that he had actually thought of such a sound plan

'I didn't even think he had enough brain capacity to know how to feed himself, let alone think of an actual plan' Sakura thought in surprise.

'He probably got the idea from Akamaru, bustard he's steeling the poor puppies spotlight' Hitomi fumed

'That can't be Kiba; he must have hit head on something...something very hard'

Unaware of his teammate's mental insults, Kiba mentally pet himself in the back for having come up with such a great plan.

"I think it's too dangerous" Hikari said finally, kicking Kiba down from his moment of glory.

Kiba narrowed his eyes "Why?" he felt his pride taking a heavy blow, coming from a clan where their lives was mainly influenced by dogs, being the only male in their team he felt like he was the alpha in their team. So when Hikari; a female, was questioning his 'order' and he couldn't do anything about it, that was a huge blow to his pride.

Hikari sighed "For one if you can think about such an idea it is clearly obvious that other teams are thinking of the same thing or already have" They all blinked at that reasoning, they had not thought about that

Catching on Hitomi continued on where her sister had left off "So if we were to go there we would either be ambushed ourselves or would never get the opportunity to do the same to other approaching teams because there will be too much competition"

"Exactly! That's why I think it's a bad idea" Hikari said cheerfully, too cheerful for Kiba's liking

"Well then what do you suggest we do then, we can't just sit around and do nothing!" Kiba said with a scowl on his face.

"I'm not saying we shouldn't do anything dog breath, I'm just saying we need to come up with a better plan" Hikari retorted back.

"Hey Kiba what's wrong with your dog, it's shacking" Sakura said cutting their argument and sure enough there was Akamaru lying on the ground shaking like a leaf. Instantly Kiba was by his side, all his previous anger and frustration gone and now replaced with worry.

"What's wrong boy?" Kiba asked worriedly taking his partner into his hands, he had never seen Akamaru act so scared before. The dog in question gave him a few barks and whines.

"What's did he say?" Hikari asked in concern

Kiba frowned "He says he can smell something very bad, evil, it smells like snakes". Akamaru barked a few time again, this time hiding himself inside of Kiba's jacket "Whatever the thing is, he says it's a stopped moving and (gasp) it's very close to team 8"

Hikari, Hitomi and Sakura whipped their heads to face him so fast it made a snapping sound.

"We have to help them!" Hitomi and Hikari said at the same time.

Kiba looked hesitant, he had never seen his partner act this scared before not even in front of his mother and that was saying something! Whatever was out there he did not want to face or even fight it, he trusted his dog with his life and if he was telling him not to go near that thing, then he definitely did not want go but, his friends/ comrades were in trouble and there is nothing more the Inuzuka clan valued more than comrades.

Getting impatient with how long Kiba was taking to make a decision Hitomi spoke up "Look if you don't want to help save them then fine, we will do it on our own, just point us at the direction where they are, we can't waste anymore time"

"No, I won't let you guys face whatever that thing is alone, they are my friends too and there's nothing I won't do to save my friends" even if he didn't know all the members of team 8 all that well, they had been in the same class for more than 6 years, as far as he was concerned they were distant friends.

"Well then what are you waiting for, lead the way dog breath" Sakura said. Kiba ignored the insult that was how his friends had always referred to him as; he didn't mind it anymore, after being called that name for so long it had kind of grown on him.

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Jumping from tree to tree, team seven hastily made their way towards the area where a whimpering Akamaru was telling them team 8 was.

"How far are they?" Hikari asked with a hint of frustration but mostly worry in her voice.

"Akamaru says they are not that far, 2 kilometres at most" Kiba responded back, looking down worriedly at Akamaru who was now shacking worse as they got closer to team 8. 'What's making you act like this boy?'

They all stooped in their tracks when they felt something, something cold, dark, it was filled with so much hatred and anger that it almost made them jump from their skin, the feeling was followed by a loud female scream that brought them back from their temporary frozen state.

"W-What is that" Sakura asked with wide eyes.

"Trouble, come on we have to hurry" Kiba shouted in midair already jumping towards it. Hitomi and Hikari followed soon after, Sakura remained where she was looking at her teammates as they disappeared into the forest.

She wanted to go the opposite way, her body refusing to move ahead, a memory flashed through her mind, a memory of when she had been left alone on the bridge in Wave country to guard their client as her teammates fought against the enemy, she remembered how hopeless she had felt at that time, the promise she had made to herself, the promise to better herself, the promise to never again be a burden to her teammates

'WE WILL NOT BACK DOWN SHANAROO!' inner Sakura shouted with fire blazing in her eyes.

s."Hey guys wait for me!" Sakura shouted following her teammate

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As team seven approached their destination they felt the overwhelming presence slowly start to drop. At their proximity Hitomi and Hikari recognised the chakra, more precisely who it belonged to

'Naruto?'

Mind you they were by far not trackers but they could always 'feel' each other's presence when they were near enough each other, maybe it was the bond that existed between the three of them as siblings or maybe it was because they were so used to each other's presence that they could easily identify one another from a far, whatever it was it had always been there and with it they could feel their brother's chakra presence depleting.

"We have to hurry" Hikari said, her speed increasing.

Then without warning the unsettling chakra that the two sisters had identified as belonging to their brother disappeared as though it was never there to begin with. Hitomi and Hikari felt their hearts freeze with worry and fear when the chakra disappeared. Their speeds drastically increased as fear overrode their minds.

Their minds were so caught up in their fear and worry they realise that they were leaving their teammates behind "Hey guys slow down, we can't keep up!" Kiba shouted a few metres from behind them unfortunately for him; his cries were ignored as the two sisters disappeared from his sight.

Hitomi and Hikari were worried, ever since the exams had started both girls had felt something bad was going to happen but they had ignored it and chucked it up as nervousness but now, feeling their brother's chakra filled with rage, anger and pain, their worry had reached new heights.

Naruto, from the time he was a child till now had rarely ever been angry, sure on some occasions he had fumed; like that time the two of them had hidden his supply of pocky, but then he would always quickly calm down and retreat to his normal cool, collected self. But just a second ago they had felt so much rage, anger and hatred coming from him that if they didn't know their brother's chakra sense, they would've confused it with some else's entirely. For their brother to be feeling such strong, dark emotions was something worrisome, more worrisome even was for his chakra to suddenly disappear like it did, they were afraid to think of what that meant

Unknown to Hitomi her high emotional state was making her unconsciously draw on a curtain power, a power that was sealed inside of her from birth. She didn't notice this but her nails had sharpened and turned into claws, her hair had become a shade deeper and gained a few spikes in it, her eyes were now red with a single black slit in each eye, but the most frightening thing about her appearance was the babbling red chakra forming around her.

She ignored the startled scream her Hikari had given off when she saw her new appearance, her speed skyrocketed so much that she blasted off the tree brunch she landed on, and leaving her sister and the rest of team seven in her dust...She was going to save her brother. He had saved them once now it was her turn.

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When she arrived to where her brother was, what she saw made her blood boil, a man with pale white skin, golden snake like eyes with sharp fangs and a one hand was holding the unconscious form of her brother in his single hand, just when the man was about to bite or do whatever it was he wanted to do to Naruto, she attacked

Using as much strength as she could muster she punched the man right on his jaw, sending him hurling away from the force of the punch. "Get away from my brother" she growled out, baring her sharp canine teeth in an act of animalistic intimidation.

The man who had attacked her brother came out from the wreckage of trees she had punched him through, walking in a very slow pace, the only sign to show that she had attacked him was a red mark on his cheek, which was rapidly healing, turning his skin back into its normal pale white.

Snake-like golden yellow eyes met deep bloodthirsty red, each glaring at each other. The snake-like man gave her a smirk and started sinking into the ground

"As fun as it would be to play around with you, I'm afraid its time I leave...I will claim my prize later..." His eyes looked at Naruto as he said those parting words.

Hearing the man claim her brother as his price and seeing that he was about escape, Hitomi acted.

In a burst of unnatural speed she disappeared from where she was crouched, and reappeared in front of him with her clawed hand raised high "I'm not letting you get away" she shouted ready cleave his head off from his shoulders, the snake man gave her a cocky smile as she tore through his head with her claws.

Instead of blood and open flesh that she had expected, the man dissolved into rocks and dust when she hit him.

"DAMIT!" she shouted punching the ground in frustration and anger when she saw that he had escaped. Seconds later Hikari came rushing at her, having caught up

"HITOMI!" Hikari shouted in startled surprise and a small amount fear.

"I let him get away!" Hitomi shouted in anger, punching the ground again, spider web-like crack marks appearing on the ground as she did so

"Yes but you managed to save Naruto! Isn't that more important?" Hikari retorted back, pointing at Naruto "Now calm down, anger is not to help us in this situation"

Hitomi looked like she wanted to say something back but the rational part of her mind kicked in, getting angry and frustrated in this situation would only make things worse. For the first time she finally realised how far into her rage she had lost herself. Her eyes widened in shock and fear when she saw her change appearance

Her mother had warned her about letting her emotions getting the best of her, how the Kyuubi would act upon those emotions and drive her into a mindless beast that would kill anyone in sight, friend or foe, with its power.

Seeing her sister's distraught state, Hikari tried to shake her out of it by holding her hand but the moment her hands touched the cloak of red chakra burned her, she quickly withdraw it with a small hiss of pain.

"Hitomi! Hitomi!" she shouted seeing as touching her was not an option. Hitomi looked at her, her eyes filled with bloodlust, anger, confusion and distraught "You have to calm down, remember what Kaa-chan said? The chakra reacts with your emotions"

Hitomi nodded her head slightly and took a small calming breath, she closed her eyes and cleared the raging tides of emotions in her mind, she could feel the dark, foul chakra surrounding her start to recede back into the seal until it was all gone, the last thing she heard before she opened her again was a deep dark growl coming from somewhere in the back of her mind.

When she opened her eyes she saw the relieved look on Hikari's face, she looked around and saw that the area around them was covered in burnt trees and ashes from burnt trees and grass. All in all it looked like a fire tornado had gone through the area

"What happened here?" Hitomi asked in surprise and shock.

"I think Naruto and whoever that man was did this" Hikari responded with the same amount of surprise on her face as her sister.

"Wow, they must've gone all out...come on we have to get Naruto-kun out of here and find his teammates, I don't see them anywhere" Hitomi said walking towards her brother.

A little while later the other two members of team seven finally arrived to the battle site, the moment they saw the destruction in the area they faces did the exact replica of a gaping fish

"What the heck happened here?" Kiba asked

"Naruto-kun and someone fought here...judging by the way this area looks he must have gone all out" Hikari said following Hitomi to where her brother lay, her teammates following behind

"How is he?" Sakura asked from behind, looking at the unconscious Naruto. From where she stood she could see how badly injured he looked, his clothes were torn in many places, she could see a few cuts on his hands and chest but the most noticeable injury though was the dried blood trail coming from both his eyes.

"Do you think they...?" she trailed off not wanting to finish her sentence, she knew that everyone knew exactly what she wanted to say.

It wasn't uncommon for people with doujutsu to have their eyes stolen and implanted into another person or to study the doujutsu. That was why many clans with doujutsu had come up with ways to prevent that from happening, a perfect example was the Hyuuga clan, they put a seals on the branch member of their clan the seal acts as both a sign to show that the person is from the branch part of the clan and also protects their eyes, should the person with the seal die, their eyes would be sealed forever rendering them unusable to anyone who tries to steal them.

Hikari and Hitomi refused to answer her question or rather they refused to acknowledge that she had asked the question in the first place.

"Where is Kiba?" Hikari asked changing the subject. Sakura noticed but made no move to comment

"He went looking for Hinata and Shino" Sakura responded looking around for any signs of her male teammate, a second later she spotted two figures headed towards them, upon closer inspection she noticed that one of them was carrying something that looked a lot like a person

"I think that's them over there" she said pointing at the approaching people.

"Naruto!" Hinata said in panic when she saw the state he was in and rushed towards him.

"Don't worry about him, he's just unconscious...I think he's suffering from chakra exhaustion" Hikari explained, putting Hinata's mind at ease

Hinata nodded her head before she saw something that made her heart skip a beat "W-What happened to his eyes?" She asked her voice quavering; she didn't want to think of the meaning behind the trail of blood coming from his eyes.

"I-We don't know" Hitomi answered her.

An uncomfortable silence settled in.

"What's wrong with Shino?" Sakura asked suddenly, breaking the silence, when she saw him being carried by Kiba.

"He switched positions with Naruto-kun when he was about to be stabbed and took the hit for him" Hinata explained sadly, both her teammates had been injured and she couldn't do anything to help them.

When the snake kinoichi had separated them, 2 giant snakes had attacked them, it was a long drawn out battle but they had managed to kill the snakes and moved to help their teammate. When the two of them had arrived back at the battle site they watched in horror as Naruto got stabbed in the stomach, somehow Shino had managed to substitute places with Naruto and had taken the hit instead.

After that Naruto had lost control and attacked the snake kinoichi with everything he had, seeing as she was no help what-so-ever, Hinata made herself useful and took the injured Shino to safety, away from the raging battle between Naruto and the snake kinoichi.

"Come on we have to find some place to hide so these two can rest and recover" Hikari said seriously.

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After almost an hour of searching, the group of genins finally found a cave for them to rest and recover in, it was a large hallow hole underneath the root of a very large tree.

Settling in the team proceeded to place the two wounded boys in the cave and took rotating guard positions, Kiba took the first watch then Hikari followed then Hitomi then Sakura and finally Hinata.

The following day

"Is that them?" a female voice asked

"Yes, I can see him lying in that cave over there" a male gruff voice responded back

"What are we waiting for then, let's go get this bastard and be on our way" this time it was a cocky male voice who spoke. Before the other two could do or stop him, the last member of the team jumped from their hiding spot and into the open clearing, where Hikari, Sakura and Hitomi were situated.

"Hey you!" the foreigner suddenly shouted, getting the attention of the three girls "Wake the Namikaze kid, I have something important to discuss with him" He said giving them a cruel, arrogant smirk.

At the mention of her brother, Hikari took a step forward "If you want to get to him, you're going to have to go through me first!" She said glaring at the boy, whom she noticed had spiky, black hair and dark eyes, he was wearing a beige shirt with two stripes and three prints of the kanji for death down the front.

The boy gave her a smirk "With pleasure, Decapitating Airwaves!"He brought his arms forward, which had two holes in his hands, and sent forth a combination of air pressure and sound that tore through the small clearing and hit the unsuspecting Hikari head on. Her sister and teammate managed to dodge the attack by jumping out of the away; Hikari managed to hold her ground and not sent flying away by holding onto the ground with chakra, though she received several cuts from it.

"Fang Passing Fang!" a loud shout was all the warning the sound genin got before two black spinning tornados appeared on top of him, he raised him hands to protect himself but to his surprise the attack never hit him.

Opening his eyes, he saw the two tornados being held by his teammate, Dosu, in each hand "Ha!" Dosu shouted, pushing his bandaged hands forward sending the attacks flying away. "Your too careless Zaku, you should pay more attention to your surroundings" Dosu said, giving Zaku a resinous look with his lone, uncovered eye.

Zaku grumbled something lowly and turned to look at his would be attacker, he saw a rather animalistic looking boy with spiky brown hair and purple canine markings on his cheeks, besides the boy he could see a small white puppy growling at both him and Dosu.

"I could've taken care of them on my own Dosu, now back off!" Zaku shouted back, Dosu looked at him with a narrowed eye

"I won't interfere with your battle as long as you don't mess up"

"Good, I don't plan on" he turned to look at the genins "Hey you brats, wake up the Namikaze kid, I came all the way to fight him!"

"We won't let you get to him!" Hitomi shouted in defiance taking a defence stance.

"Well that's too bad, because I'm waking him up right now, DECAPITATING AIRWAVES!"

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Naruto slowly opened his eyes to the sounds of shouting and some other loud noise he couldn't identify. He slowly stood up staggering as he did so. He blinked a few times to clear his blurry vision and looked around his surroundings the first thing he noticed was that he was in what looked to be a small cave, hearing more shouting he walked towards the exit and cringed when the bright light assaulted his eyes.

When his eyes adjusted to the bright light he saw the entire members from team seven, including Hitomi, facing a team from the hidden sound village. He didn't pay much attention to the enemy team his eyes locked onto Hikari, whose clothes were torn in multiple place and he could see the many bleeding cuts on her body.

Looking directly at Hikari "Who did that to you?" he asked coldly, his sharingan active, his voice cut through the small clearing, halting everyone in their tracks.

A boy from the Sound Village with black hair and dark eyes, he was wearing a beige shirt with two black stripes. The boy took a confident step forward "I did it, and now it's time to complete my mission!"

He brought his arms forward "Decapitating Airwaves!"

"NARUTO!" all he genin shouted trying to warn him but it was all for nought, a vortex of supersonic air blast come from the soles of his hands and hit Naruto straight on. The genin from konoha could only watch helplessly as their comrade/friend/brother get hit and possibly killed by the attack.

Zaku grinned happily when he saw that his attack had killed the red haired boy, their leader was definitely going to reward them for completing their mission so effortlessly.

"Come on Kin, Dosu let's kill the rest of these punks and get over with this fucking exa-"

"Amaterasu" a cold voice cut him off and what followed next was something he would forever remember in his entire life.

Pain, there was no other word to describe it, one minute he was boasting about his complete mission and fantasising about the reward he was going to get and the next, he felt pain, blinding unconditional pain. He could feel it everywhere, in his legs, his hands, chest, back everywhere, he dropped to the ground and started rolling in an attempt to sooth it but nothing worked.

Everyone gathered around were confused, Zaku had been speaking loudly giving orders to his teammates after killing Naruto but then someone said 'amaterasu' and Zaku had dropped to the ground screaming his lungs out in pain as black flames covered him.

"You should always make sure your enemy is dead before you start celebrating" the same cold voice spoke again, they all looked at the person to whom the voice belonged to and to their shock, there stood Naruto with a cold angry look on his face, there was not even a single scratch on him aside from the ones that he already had. Blood was leaking from both his eyes, which were not the sharingan anymore but a weird pattern instead.

Realising who had created the black flames, Hikari tried to stop him "Naruto stop it! Please!" Hikari pleaded.

Naruto blinked ignoring the stinging sensation in his eyes, truthfully he would have loved nothing more than the burn the pesky brat who had dared harm his sister but Hikari's horrified look and pleading stopped him. He willed the flames to burn out and just like that the flames disappeared from the screaming, now quivering, Zaku

"Take your teammate and get out of here" Naruto said coldly, the two teammates complied and took Zaku, who had several 3rd degree burn wounds, into their arms. Before they left, Dosu stepped forward and bowed down

"Thank you for sparing us but know this I will fight you and when I do, I'm going to kill you" With that he took Zaku's other free hand and the three of them vanished into the forest. Behind him he left an earth scroll on the ground, a scroll which Kiba quickly snapped.

The moment they were out of sight Naruto dropped to his knees panting hard, instantly his sisters were by his side, helping him stand up again

"Idiot, you shouldn't use flashy jutsu when you're suffering from chakra exhaustion" Hitomi reprimanded him, shaking her head.

"Dude that was awesome! What was that jutsu you used anyway, and how did you come out of that jutsu without getting hurt?" Kiba said with stars in his eyes.

Naruto could feel everyone's gaze on him as they were all expecting him to answer, he inwardly sighed "I don't know" he answered truthfully. He could feel their disappointment at his answer but he was telling the truth, he honestly didn't know.

"Hey Naruto, what's wrong with your eyes and why are they bleeding?" Hitomi asked worriedly taking a white cloth from her pocket and wiping the blood away.

Naruto blinked at the sight of the bloodied cloth "My eyes?" He asked in confusion, aside from a small stinging sensation he couldn't feel anything wrong with them.

"Yeah, there is weird patterns in them here take a look" Sakura said taking a small hand mirror from her pouch and giving it to him. Everyone gave her an odd look "What?"

"Did you bring a mirror to the exams?"

Sakura's cheeks reddened "Um well , I wanted to keep my hair straight?" she looked at Naruto and when she noticed that he was looking at her she quickly averted her gaze, the blush on her face increasing.

Everyones sweat dropped at her reasoning, taking the mirror from the blushing Sakura, Naruto looked at it and almost jumped in surprise it what he saw. He stopped channelling chakra into his eyes and watched as they turned from the weird new design to the normal three tome sharingan and finally to his crystal blue. 'What was that?' he wondered 'another stage of the sharingan? Maybe that was why I was able to use those jutsu, Amaterasu and Kamui, are there other abilities that-'

"Naruto!" a startled shout brought him back from his deepening thoughts

"What?" He asked looking at Hitomi who had called him

"Are you ok, you were silent all of sudden" she said looking at him worriedly. Naruto gave her a small smile

"Yeah I'm fine I was just thinking about something that's all" she held her gaze for a moment longer before she nodded her head

"Ok if you're sure"

Naruto blinked his memories from his previous battle rushing to him "Shino, Hinata "He whispered out but Hikari and Hitomi heard him.

"Don't worry about them, we found both of them alongside with you, Hinata was not badly injured only a few scrapes here and there northing too serious and Shino..." She trailed off looking at the cave

"What about Shino?" Naruto asked worriedly

Sakura was the one to answer him "Shino was really wounded, he had a large hole in his abdomen, he was bleeding heavily and was unconscious, we managed to cover the wound with bandages, his sleeping right now in that cave" She said looking at the cave.

Naruto inwardly sighed in relief, he looked around the small clearing they were in and couldn't find Hinata anywhere "Where is Hinata?"

Hikari raised an eye brow "She's in the cave, didn't you see her when you woke up?"

Naruto blinked, now that he thought about it he did hear a small gasp when he woke up but the gasp was so silent that he thought it was the wind so he had ignored it completely. He looked back at the cave his sisters let him go seeing as he could now support himself, he walked towards the cave and upon entering it he saw Hinata kneeling on the ground in front of a sleeping Shino, when he stepped inside she looked up at him, her eyes lit up with relief and faster than a bolt of lightning she bolted from where she was a appeared in front of Naruto hugging him with all her might.

Naruto almost cried out when he heard one of his ribs snap 'Kami her hug is more painful than my Kaa-chan's'. "Umm H-Hinata y-you can let go now" he squeaked out. When she realised what she was doing, she instantly let go of him as if she was touching fire.

"G-Gomen! I w-was just, just, just-"her eyes rolled to the back of her head and she dropped to the ground unconscious.

Naruto blinked not sure what to do or what exactly had happened "Well that's a first" he said lowly, rubbing his bruised ribs.

He kneeled down in front of Shino; he looked at the bandage around his abdomen and slowly undid it.

"Hey what are you doing?" Kiba asked from behind him.

Naruto continued undoing the bandages "I'm going to heal him and for that I need to see the wound" he finally undid the last of the bandages and held back a flinch when he saw the large cut from the blade. He closed his eyes to calm himself down, he could feel his depleted chakra reserves slowly being channelled into the palms of his hands, he could feel it as it was being converted to medic chakra, when he opened his eyes again he smiled lightly when he saw his hands glowing green.

Right before their eyes all the members of team seven watched in awe as the wound on Shino start to close making 'sphhh' sound like steaming water as the wound closed up until all that remained was a pink line on the otherwise clean white skin

"What was that?" Sakura asked.

"It's called medical jutsu, by converting your chakra into healing chakra you can heal almost any injuries, I'm not a fully trained medic nor do I want to be but I know a few medic jutsu that my grandmother taught me" Naruto said wiping a bit of sweat from his forehead

"Can anyone learn it?"

"Only those with perfect chakra control can learn to use it" Naruto saw the world around him start to spin a second later he closed his eyes and dropped to the ground.

Sakura pouted lightly at being denied the chance to know about the interesting branch of Ninjutsu she had just seen.

Hikari looked her sleeping brother and his two other teammates who were also sleeping and sighed "You know I'm tempted to kick him in the chest for being an idiot, honestly he just woke up from an intense battle suffering from chakra exhaustion and the first thing he does is use a jutsu, would it have killed him to wait a few more hours before he healed Shino?"

"What should we do now?" Kiba asked

For what seemed like the 100th time that day Hikari sighed "What else can we do, look after them and wait till they wake up" the other members of team seven nodded their heads.

Kiba walked out of the cave with Akamaru following behind him "Me and Akamaru will go hunting for some food and firewood" not even waiting for a response he walked out

"Wait, you should go with some...one" Sakura 'hummed' when she saw that he was already gone

"Save your breath, I doubt he will come back anyways" Hikari said sitting on the ground next to her brother

"Boys" Hitomi added sitting next to Hikari.

They were silent for a while staring at each other, well Hitomi and Hikari were, Sakura was well..

"You know your brother is very cute" Sakura said with a dreamy expression on her face, looking at the sleeping red haired boy.

"..."

"..."

"I said that out loud didn't I?"

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THE FOLLOWING MORNING

After Sakura's little 'confession' about Naruto, Hitomi and Hikari had made sure to keep a close eye on the girl, not that they didn't trust her or anything rather they were just taking necessary precautions to ensure that their brother maintained his innocence by the end of the exams or at least until he was back to full strength and able to protect himself again.

Naruto woke up to the smell of something being cooked; it smelled like chicken mixed with hot noodles, he recognised the smell from years of waking up to the same aroma in their house 'Ramen' he thought with a bit of distaste, he couldn't understand why his family were so obsessed with that salty broth of fats and noodles, now if it was Pokey that he could understand.

He slowly opened his eyes and looked around the cave he was sleeping in and sure enough there were Hitomi and Hikari scoffing down bowl after bowl of ramen. 'figures they brought Ramen on a survival mission'

"Morning Naruto-kun" Hitomi greeted him first, though the greeting was ruined by the noodles that were in her mouth and some hanging of her lips.

"Morning Hitomi-chan, Hikari-chan" he greeted back, grimacing at the big flashy smile he got in return, smiles which were covered in half chewed noodles. "You're doing that on purpose aren't you?"he asked with a bit of disgust in his voice.

The two girls gave him an innocent look "We don't know what you're talking about Naruto-kun"

He gave them a deadpan stare" Sure you don't". He looked around the cave and saw that they were the only ones in the cave, not even Shino was in the cave "Where is everyone?"

"They are all waiting for you to wake up outside" Hikari answered him

"And Shino?" Naruto asked, he wasn't sure how well Shino had recovered after he had healed him but he was sure that he wasn't supposed to up and moving around so soon after being healed from what was possibly a fatal wound.

"He woke up about an hour ago; I think he said something about finding a new species or something to add to his hive and then walked out of the cave...your friend is very weird Naruto" Hikari said with a small pout

"Just because you do not understand something or someone doesn't mean they are weird, it merely means that you view them differently just like they view you in a different way, the correct term to describe them is different not weird" Naruto said running his hand in his hair, he stood up and made his way out of the cave, leaving his be welded sisters to stare at his retreating form.

"What was that about?" Hitomi asked finally

"I think I hurt his feelings when I called Shino weird" Hikari responded with a frown her face.

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Walking out of the cave, Naruto was greeted to the sight of Kiba running around the small clearing with Akamaru chasing him, Sakura was seated on the ground under a tree chatting with Hinata, who was picking up a few herbs that were growing around the tree and a bit far off he could see Shino kneeling on the ground staring intensely to a leaf.

'Probably found a new species of insects or something' Naruto with a shrug.

Upon noticing Naruto, Kiba stopped playing with Akamaru and walked towards him "finally you're awake" he said approaching him with a confident smirk "Tired of your beauty sleep already?" he joked, laughing at his own joke at the end.

"Cut it out Kiba. Good morning Naruto-kun" Sakura said appearing behind Kiba with Hinata in toll.

"Good morning Naruto-kun" Hinata greeted softly, hiding the small blush she had in the sleeves of her long jacket.

Naruto gave them a small nod "Good morning Hinata-chan, Sakura-san...Kiba, (ruff, ruff) sorry I didn't see you there, good morning to you too Akamaru" Naruto greeted back.

"I see you've awoken" Shino said from behind Kiba, said boy jumped in fright

"AHHH! don't do sneak up people like that, you could've given me a heart attack" Kiba shouted holding his chest as his heart pounded restlessly from fright.

Shino merely gave him a blank stare "My apologies, I didn't think one could sneak up on an Inuzuka, after all you do pride yourselves at being excellent trackers"

Kiba grumbled something under his breath that no one heard "Ya well you just surprised me that's all"

"You shouldn't be moving so soon" Naruto said looking directly at Shino. Shino gave him a small nod in acknowledgement

"I feel well enough to move, though not all my strength has returned"

Naruto nodded at that be froe speaking "We should get to the tower soon or else we risk being disqualified" everyone nodded their heads at what he said, 4 days had already passed since the exams had started, and they only had a few more hours before time was up.

"Do you guys have your two scrolls already?" Sakura asked team 8, her own team got their final scroll yesterday from the sound team that attacked them the previous day and they had found team 8 only a day after the exams had started and since then they hadn't had time to find any other teams to take the scrolls from, she doubted that they had managed to get any scrolls in the one day after the exams had started.

In response to her question, Naruto gave Sakura a smug smile, a smile that both Hinata and Shino had on their faces. He put his hands in a release seal "Kai" he said lowly, a small explosion on white smoke appeared on the ground in front of him, when the smoke cleared; on the ground lay five scrolls, 3 had 'Heaven' writing on them and the other two had 'Earth' written on them.

All the members of team seven's jaws hit the ground, "H-How did you get so many" Sakura asked with wide eyes.

Naruto gave them all a small grin "We are awesome that way" he said looking at the gawking team seven.

"Enough showing off, we have to move already like you said, we don't have much time left before the exams start" Hitomi said with arms crossed, everyone could see the slight twinge of jealousy in her eyes.

"Hitomi-chan is right we have to get moving if we want to pass the second part of these exams" Hikari added.

"I think we should stick together that way we are less likely to get attacked by other remaining teams" Sakura spoke up, hiding the fact that she was afraid of going into the forest with her team alone besides safety in numbers right?

"Hold up, I might have a better form of transportation that will save us both time and energy" Naruto suddenly said drawing everyone's attention.

"You do? What is it?" Hikari asked curiously.

Naruto gave her a nod "Give me some space...I hope this works" he said the last part lowly to himself. Everyone took a wary step backwards, away from him.

He closed his eyes in concentration 'Only half my chakra reserves have recovered...that's more than enough'. He bit his thumb drawing some blood and his hands flashed through a few hand seal, "SUMMONING JUTSU!" He shouted slamming his hands on the ground, a complex seal array appeared under his hands and a second later a giant explosion of white smoke covered the enter clearing, blanketing it in thick blinding white smoke.

A loud screech the likes of which the group of genins had never heard before tore through the clearing, shaking the very earth itself. A strong gust of wind blow all the smoke away revealing two very large set of bird legs with razor sharp talons, attached to the legs was a massive eagle.

The eagle was dark brown, with lighter golden-brown plumage it its nape. The tail fathers was a beautiful white that seemed to glow in the sunlight, the same white colour was also on the wings, its eyes were golden with a black slit in the middle, around the eyes were what looked like black light golden rings. The last most peculiar about the giant eagle was a red cloth-like bandana, tied around its neck, with the word 'Queen' written in gold.

The eagle, easily towering over all the trees, looked down directly at Naruto. It lowered its massive head slightly and looked at Naruto as though seizing him up, after what seemed like an eternity the eagle finally spoke.

"You're our new summoner" its voice was loud, yet strangely it had a soft feminine sound to it "We've been waiting for a new summoner for many years now...and now we finally have one" it paused there and looked at him from head to toe making him feel uneasy, at that moment Naruto was tempted to activate his sharingan but he refrained from doing so, he did not want to appear as hostile or intimidated; first impressions are always the most important after all.

"Greetings young hatchling, my name is Aras, Queen of the Eagle summon clan and Boss Summon, I welcome you as our new summoner?"

"Namikaze Naruto and Iam deeply honoured that you'll have me as your summoner" Naruto said bowing his head in respect.

The eagle gave him something akin to nod and spoke "Maelstrom, a strong name for a strong summon, yes from now hence forth Namikaze Naruto shall be have the Eagle clan at your aid, what is it that you need help with?"

Naruto almost pinch himself to see if this was a dream, he had thought that he would have to do some form of test to see if he was worthy or something but instead it had been so, so easy it was almost unreal.

"Aras-sama I humbly ask that you take us to a tower in the middle of this forest" Naruto asked bowing his head., his friends who were all frozen in shock and awe broke from their frozen state and bowed with him.

"It shall be done, climb on and hang on tight" Aras instructed bending down to allow them to climb on her back. The genins climbed on and held on by flowing chakra to the sore of their feat, seeing as everyone was settled in; Aras spread her massive, beautiful, white wings and took off the ground with one flap of her wings.

"WHOAHHH!" Hikari, Hitomi, Sakura and Kiba screamed as they took off the ground at blinding speeds.

"Hold on tight I can see the tower" Aras warned, angles have a far superior vision that humans so it she could easily see the tower even if was 30 kilometres away. She hovered in the air for a moment longer before she took off towards the tower at speeds that made the giant bird look a small dark blur to the ground observer.

Almost half an hour later Aras started to slow down until finally she stopped and lowered to the ground. "We have arrived" She said and sure enough there was the tower a few feet away from them.

After getting off Aras the group of genin proceeded to show their gratitude to Aras for the very vast transportation they had just received.

"Thank you Aras-sama" they chorused bowing their heads. Aras gave them a nod and disappeared in a giant smoke explosion. After she had gone everyone was silent all their eyes turned to look at the person who could all the questions they had...Naruto

"Dude, .That?" Kiba was the first to ask.

"An eagle summon" Naruto replied coolly

"B-But h-how did you..." Hinata stuttered.

"How did summon it?" Shino pressed

"I signed a contract"

(sigh)" Come on everyone it's obvious that we won't get any answers from Naruto-kun right now, we can ask him later right now we have an exam to finish" Hikari said, giving Naruto a look that said 'You'll tell eventually, like it or not', the same look that Hitomi and surprisingly Shino and Hinata were giving him.

'My life is never easy is it?'

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End of chapter

I'm REALLY sorry for the late update guys, I tried finishing it earlier but school...oh, I'm afraid I'm going to have to put my other stories on hold for a little while longer. I promise to update them as soon as I can though.

So anyways read and review, tell me what you think.