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Orochimaru's near death experiance:
The mostly dead sannin waved at where he could see the shinigami and Kami watching him with sympathy in their eyes.
As the sannin got dragged back to the living world to his transformed body, Shinigami looked at his brother and stated, "I'm the god of death and even I still think that bastard would of gotten off easier if he was allowed to go to hell."
Kami nodded sagely and stated, "I have to agree and by this time next week I bet you five souls that he's gonna figure that same thing out."
Shinigami snorted and retorted, "That dumbass won't find that out until a month or so has passed at least."
The pair shake on the bet and watch the weresnake trail along behind Reok.
One week later:
"I WANT TO GO TO HELL. PLEASE SOMEONE KILL ME!" the snake man wailed and up in heaven Shingami started cursing violently as he handed over five souls, one of which was the fourth hokage and another was his wife.
Kami grinned at his brother and the death god pointed at the god of heaven and growled, "Not a word you all seeing bastard, not a damn word."
Kami just continued to grin as he sent the souls to their new home.
Chapter nine: Training
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Reok appeared in her base camp with Hinata in one arm and Naruto still gripped by the scruff of his neck with the hebi behind her.
Baring her teeth slightly, Reok whistled shrilly to get the attention of every lycanthrope in her army and bellowed out, "Alright I'm calling Naruto on slacking off with his training and you all know what that means!"
"BOOT CAMP!!!" the army thundered in unison, turning not so friendly grins on the blond before their attention went back to their general.
"That's right, also, everyone this werecobra used to be Orochimaru, now I want you all to keep an eye on him to keep him from doing something that reveales we're here," Reok called out and listened to the collective 'hai' before Roaring out, "Now let the Boot Camp...BEGIN!!"
Naruto struggled to free himself from Reok's grip but failed miserably as he was carried away by a group of lycans towards their training grounds.
"NOOOOOO! I WANT TO LIVE!!!" Naruto screamed trying to get free so he could run like hell but then gave on of the werebears a cold look and demanding, "You're all just pissed because no one can beat me at poker."
The lycans just grinned and began mercilessly drilling him in basics after strapping on weights to his ankles, wrists, and waist all of which were about a ton in wieght.
Reok watched in amusement as she walked over and set Hinata down in her throne since it was the closest place to put her, than walking into a nearby hut to grab a replacement cloth for the one Naruto snatched from her in the forest of death.
"Now it's time for things to get interesting," the beast lord rumbled with her eyes narrowed, making even the hebi behind her shudder at the look on her face.
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Tona appeared in the lava field that was her base camp and tossed Sasuke over to where Ruto was perched and saying, "You may be the one that revealed that Naruto was slacking but that doesn't mean you're going to get off easily either."
"Hey we had a deal, I told you if Naruto was training like he was supposed to and you didn't put me through intense training," Sasuke protested, inching backwards until his back was pressed against his phoenix partners legs while the young fire bird lowered his head to touch the boy's shoulder with the tip of his beak.
The phoenix master gained a thoughtfull look before she shrugged and stated, "Who ever you made that deal with didn't inform me about it."
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Elsewhere with Ania and Vam
Both lords sneezed and looked around briefly before looking at each other and saying in unison, "Tona must have gotten a hold of Sasuke...oh well."
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Anyway, back with Tona, she had a feeling it must have been the two humanish lords but they must've been drunk...
Shaking her head Tona lifted a hand to her mouth and whistled to get the attention of her army before screaming, "BOOT CAMP!!!"
The fire birds turned vicious expressions on the boy and his partner as they paced closer even as Tona began listing rules, "Alright since he doesn't heal like Naruto, no burning, maiming, or throwing him into the lava alright."
Nodding the group of phoenix pounced even as Sasuke screamed like a little girl and tried to fly away on Ruto, who was just as terrifyed. Didn't work out very well as the Uchiha was put through his paces learning the pheonix methods for chakra control...walking on lava, holding onto a flame without getting burned...
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Brea appeared in her camp with Sakura, who stood firm in order to show some of her newly found confidence making the dragon lord raise an eyebrow even as two screams were heard for miles.
Sighing Brea covered her eyes and stated, "At least you're not acting like Naruto and Sasuke and trying to run away like cowards. Come on let's introduce you to your teachers."
Sakura followed with Gem still on her shoulder as the dragon lord led the way into on of the many caves scattered around the mountains that the dragons resided in or around.
The pinket looked around in awe at the sheer number of dragons, with scales glittering like polished gems in all color imaginable.
"Wow," Sakura muttered and Brea smiled knowingly.
"You know Naruto had the same reaction when he first saw my army, though he was a little more vocal about it...this way please," Brea stated kindly turning into a large side cavern that had two huge dragons occupying it.
The dragon to the right was bulky and stood back on his hind legs while arm like front legs were held up for him to examine closely for any wear and tear and to see if he needed to file them. He was a ruby red color with a white underbelly and giant wings large enough to lift his battle ready frame.
The dragon on the left was more serpant-like with two small arms and legs, she was a deep shade of blue with white highlights on her scales.
"Sakura this is Humir and Mizui they are siblings and have agreed to teach you, now have fun," Brea stated and the dragons nodded at their names as the lord backed quickly out of the room.
'Why do I get the feeling this isn't going to end well,' the pinket thought as a boulder was rolled in front of the cavern entrance.
Turning back to her new teachers the girl paled at the looks she was getting and smiled weakly.
"Now," Humir started.
Mizui continued for her brother, "Let's"
"BEGIN"
"Oh hell..."
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Week one:
Naruto went through hell physically, four gravity seals were put on him even as Reok ordered Hebi to remove the seal on Naruto when he was unconscious. This led to the blond getting chewed out by everyone's favorite fox demon for being stupid enough to go head to head with a sannin.
With Kyuubi unsealed Reok intensifyed the training and Naruto felt like he was in hell, he'd rather challenge Ania's entire army to a drinking contest, he'd most likely die of alcohol posioning but at least he'd have fun doing it.
Hinata had woken up and after some explaining had been placed in the care of Mou, the head doctor for the lycans. The Hyuuga heir was learning various healing arts as well as confidence from the happy go lucky medical team.
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Sasuke lay panting with an equally tired Ruto flopped forward beside him, the boy was covered in ash and only his pants remained intact from the random fire jutsu's that were being launched at him when ever one of the pheonix's felt like it as he trained in controlling fire like it was second nature.
'Itachi is so going to pay for killing the clan and MAKING ME GO THROUGH THIS SHIT!!' Sasuke screamed mentally. He wasn't really hell bent on vengence anymore but that doesn't mean he was going to walk up to his brother and give him a hug either.
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Sakura groaned from where she had been knocked into the rock wall of the cavern by Humir, who snorted even as Gem was put through her own paces by Mizui.
The pinket was being drilling in knowledge as well as strength in order to make sure she would be able to keep Gem in check when she hit that 'teenager' stage in her development and tried to rebel and do what she wanted to do.
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Week two:
Naruto lay drifting in and out of unconsioucness while his 'sparring' partner leaned over him to check to make sure he was still alive. The blond smiled drunkenly and waved at the wereleopard before trying to pet him without getting up making the lycan sweat drop and call out for a medic.
The blond had been having back to back spars with any lycan that stepped into the ring, even Reok took a swing or two.
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Sasuke stood holding his ribs from a kick he just recieved from a phoenix in human form, it was one of the ancient fire birds that had managed this trick. And she was mercilessly beating tactics and team attacks into the head of the stubborn Uchiha and the equally stubborn Ruto, who had become a little more independent of Sasuke but still didn't go very far. The Uchiha had also unlocked his sharigan but had been told that if he use it to cheat Tona would rip them out.
Gravity seals were placed on the Uchiha's back with the warning that it would increase and decrease at random.
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Sakura was so going to beat the hell out of Naruto later for giving her a dragon hatchling and leaving her at the mercy of the dragon lord, who had decided to also take part somewhat in her training as gravity seals were placed on the pinket.
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Week three:
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Naruto was learning how to control his new beast, Reok had forbidden Kyuubi from putting chains on it under the reasoning that doing so would just make it harder to control in the long run while Hinata was getting really good at treating wounds due to the lycans not knowing the meaning of the phrase, 'don't use lethal force.'
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Sasuke was now learning how to move with Ruto when the pheonix was flying, Tona was flying above him watching closely and every so often would motion for some of the other fire birds to start blasting the pair with fire balls.
He was also allowed to work on his bloodline after retreiving scrolls from his clan compound.
In short they were working on mid air manuvers high enough to give Sasuke a real good reason to not screw up and do something stupid.
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Sakura sat meditating with a now wolf sized hatchling laying behind her with the extended neck and tail wrapped around to rest in the pinket's lap.
The older dragons and the lord merely watched, as the pair tried to communicate mentally with each other so as to not have to make a sound when attacking.
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Final week:
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Reok sat Naruto and Hinata down in front of her throne and gave them a calm look that calculated the two teens in front of her before speaking, "Now, as it is one week before your exam I am going to give you one final test, if you fuck up you will have another round of hell, Naruto, or I will send you to be under the care of Mou's sister, Hinata."
Shuddering the teens nodded and Reok grinned as she stood, "Your test is..."
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Tona smacked Sasuke upside the back of the head and yelled, "Focus you idiot!"
Sasuke grumbled and once again resumed jumping through the fire rings breathed at him by the circle of Pheonix around him while in the air Ruto was doing the same.
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Sakura stared at Brea like she was nuts before taking a deep breath and saying, "Let me get this straight you want me to run straight through Reok's camp without getting caught...are you nuts she'd kill me!"
Brea smirked and pointed out, "It's either Reok or Vam."
The pinket paled at the mention of the master vampire before glaring at the dragon lord and saying, "You're trying to kill me aren't you. This is revenge for me sneaking out to watch that clutch hatch yesterday isn't it."
"No of course not now which camp do you want to run through," Brea stated but her tone wasn't being honest about that first part.
Sakura glared at the dragon lord and hissed, "I really hate you sometimes you know that."
Brea just grinned.
Naruto walked up to the main gate looking a little worse for wear just as Sasuke and Sakura arrived as well, all three had been dropped off by the lord that had been training them while Reok also took Hinata to see her father to explain where she had been for the last month.
The members of team seven looked at the apperance of each other and grimanced in sypathy, all plotted revenge on each other forgotten.
Sasuke was in the shredded remains of his pants with his shoulder and arm gaurds being the only things remaining of his outfit, mostly healed burns were scattered across his body and Ruto hoovered above him just as tired but knowing he couldn't be seen.
Sakura was a little better clothing wise but they were no less shredded from her training as Gem clung to her back perfectly still like an odd looking backpack, the pinket barely noticed the wieght.
Naruto was worse, he had on only a pair of deer skin pants borrowed from one of his lycan friends.
Both guys looked more physically different as Naruto had become more broad shouldered with compacted muscle, gravity seals were plainly visible on both of his shoulders, the center of his chest, and his lower back; Sasuke however wasn't as bulky, he was leaner, more like a runner or gymnist but also had gravity seals on the center of his chest and lower back.
Sakura had more compact muscle on her body that didn't show as much as her teammates did, sporting a single gravity seal on her stomach.
"Nice to see you three survived," a new voice drawled and three pairs of very pissed eyes swung to lock onto their sensie.
"WHY DIDN'T YOU COME AND GET US YOU ASSHOLE!!" the three genin roared and even Gem and Ruto were glaring at him.
"Well you see when ever I tried I was stopped and chased off by-"
"BULL SHIT, YOU JUST DIDN'T WANT TO STOP READING YOUR PORN!"
"Now now, I wasn't allowed to leave Konoha because of-"
"ERO-SENSIE DO YOU REALIZE WHAT THEY PUT US THROUGH!"
The gate gaurds watched in amusement as one of the villages best jounin was given the run around by his genin team before the three lunged. And so the painfull beatdown of the famed Copy nin by his own genin team began, who after they were finished, snatched his wallet and walked off to get new clothing for themselves.
Looking down at the twitching lump that was Kakashi one gaurd asked, "Should one of us help him."
The older of the two thought about it before saying, "Naw, he must've done something pretty bad to get that kind of beating. Last time I saw something like that was went the women of the shinobi only bath house found a white haired pervert writing down what he saw in a note pad.
Shuddering the gaurds went back to their duty and ignored Kakashi as he crawled into the village with his one good arm, crying over the ashes of his Icha Icha.
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The members of team seven walked into the first ninja store they came across and began hunting for new clothes.
"Hi welcome to- woah what happened to you guys?" Tenten greeted before cutting herself off.
Grumbling curses and threats at the respective lord that ran walked them down into hell and left them there, noone answered and the bun haired girl huffed at being ignored as the three wandered around the store.
Sakura decided first, getting a pair of dark pink shorts, a black longsleeved shirt with a dark pink jacket over it all with the kanji for Firecracker in the center of a palm sized yin yang symbol.
Naruto choose a ninja net shirt to show off his seals, a pair of black shinobi sandles, black ANBU pants, a pair of black fingerless gloves with metal on the back of the hand, and finally a replacement for his old jacket.
Sasuke just got replacements for all his clothes, keeping his outfit the same since the return to wave.
Naruto pulled the money out of Kakashi's wallet, giving a two hundred dollar tip to Tenten as they left with a cheery wave, they had a couple days before the finals so they headed off to sit under a tree somewhere and exchange horror stories from their training.
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Reok sighed as she stood between Hiashi and Hinata, the clan head was attacking her because she had taught his daughter something besides the Hyuuga clan stuff.
Hiashi stopped after continusously attacking for the last thirty minutes and Reok inquired, "Are you done yet? And by the way were those little chakra pokes supposed to do something other than tickle a little bit?"
The clan head was stumped, this person in front of him was immune to the Gentle Fist style of the Hyuuga, he could ses her chakra points in some places but his eyes were blocked by her armor.
"My armor in gaurded against chakra just as a heads up and even then my chakra is denser than yours, you'd have to kill yourself in order to just close one of my chakra points. Now as I was saying, Hinata is about the level of an experienced medical nin, not up there with Tsunade or anything but she's getting there and if you so much as stop her from using these skills and I catch wind of it there's going to be hell to pay, got me you hairless ape," Reok stated, ending with a snarl that raised the hairs on the back of everyone's necks.
Shuddering Hiashi nodded slowly, something about this person just screamed 'dangerous' the thought of 'do not feed the animals' also came to mind for some reason...oh well.
Reok turned to Hinata and put a hand on her head as she stated, "Alright I'll come and check up on you when I can and even then don't hesitate to find me if you need anything alright cub."
Nodding shyly, Hinata gave Reok a soft hug and waved as the lord left before turning to glare at her father with a little bit of KI in her eyes, a trick she learned from Mou when it came to getting what you wanted when they were being stupid or pig headed.
"Now what is this I hear about the counsil being stuck in the past," Hinata inquired dangerously and Hiashi raised an eyebrow and followed his daughter to the cousil chambers, he had a feeling this was going to get good.
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Day before Finals:
"Oh yeah I can top that, my final test was to pick a lord to run through their camp without being caught, I finally went with Ania since she seemed like she wouldn't kill me outright," Sakura exclaimed and the boys laughed.
"No way my final test was way harder, I had to jump through rings of ring thrown at me by a circle of fire birds around me and Tona attacking me at random," Sasuke claimed and Sakura winced at the thought, though it did explain the burns...
Naruto laughed and stated, "Bull shit, I can top that easy, my final test was a combined test with Hinata, I had to fight Reok and try to land a solid blow on her while Hinata had to heal every wound I got within five minutes of it being inflicted while I continued to fight the lord of Beasts."
That made his teammates wince but they all had stories that would make jounin cring at the thought, they had swapped stories for a day and Naruto had possibly the worse training since Reok knew he would survive, Tona and Brea had to tone it down just a little to make sure Sasuke and Sakura survived to see the next day without perminant scaring that would gain them attention from Konoha.
"Well after going through that hell at least we know almost for certain that we can kick the ass of anyone participating in the chunin exam," Sasuke stated and Ruto lifted his head from where he was laying down behind his partner and voiced a tired sound.
Rubbing the pheonix's head Sasuke turned to pay attention to Sakura who commented, "Yeah, if they are as normal as this profession allows. For all we know one of them could contain a rabid raccoon demon."
Naruto sweatdropped at that comment, they didn't know about the Kyuubi yet but they just hit the nail on the head for Garra which made his laugh nervously and say, "Yeah that would be a little wierd wouldn't it."
"Hey as long as the guys not a blood thirsty pycopath I'm cool," Sasuke stated with a shrug and Naruto looked between the two wondering how their guesses were so head on...
"Yeah but what if he is you never know, it's always the silent ones that you have to keep an eye one cause their usually plotting something," Naruto pointed out and his teammates thought about that for a second.
"Well...than I guess we kick his ass first before we go hang out with him," Sasuke stated and Naruto sweatdropped again and sighed.
'I give up,' the blond thought before steering the conversation in a different direction as the three got up to head to a bar that they found the name of in Kakashi's wallet, apparently he went there often, meaning about three-four times a week.
"We got one more day to relax and chill, lets go check this shinobi only bar out and play some pool or something," Sasuke stated making both his teammates look at him, though Sakura was more confused, Naruto was accusing.
"You've been hanging around Reok, Ania, or Vam when I wasn't looking haven't you," Naruto accused and the dark haired boy looked away from his teammates and began to whistle absently as he walked, "That's what I thought, Ruto, Gem you can head to my place and rest."
The two mythical animals crooned and flew away, Gem finally had strong enough wings to fly on her own but for some reason she liked clinging to Sakura...
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Team seven laughed, pool sticks in hand as Asume took his turn. The jounin were surprised that a genin team walked into the building but they just looked around and joined a pool game while having fun with the older ninja that were there.
Anko walked up behind Naruto as he moved to take his turn and wrapped him in a hug from behind as she whispered, "I still need to pay you back for the embaressment you caused me during the exam."
Naruto got that familiar look in his eyes that made his teammates sigh, he was planning something and they figured out what it was as the blond wrapped an arm back behind and pulled Anko around in front of him even as he dipped her into a passionate kiss.
Cat calls and wolf whistles came from every ninja in the bar as the blond twirled the snake mistress back to her feet as he walked around the pool table to take his shot, knocking two balls into the pockets before he missed.
Anko shook herself out of her daze and wandered over to sit with Kurenai, who had a sly smirk on her face.
"Not a word," Anko stated but her friend just smiled wider.
"You went over to teach him a leason but it seems to me he's a better fox than you are a snake," the red eyed woman commented her friends ear before watching as the snake mistress blushed scarlet and put her head down.
"Schooled by a genin how embaressing," Sasuke stated as he passed, a bottle of sake in his hand, which he put down next to Anko, "Curtisy of Kakashi, who's wallet The Prank Master swiped."
Anko grinned weakly as the boy walked away while avoiding Naruto's smirk and soul peircing blue gaze that held a new kind of beast within their depths, like an animal was lurking just under the surface of that tanned skin.
"Anko, your blushing and glancing at Naruto out of the corner of your eye," Kurenai muttered and ignored the glare that her friend shot her.
"Shut up," Anko grumbled before looking at her friend and asking, "Is it me or is their some kind of feral presense in his eyes now that wasn't there before the forest of death when that beasly general chick showed up."
Kurenai raised an eyebrow and looked over her shoulder at the blond in time to catch his eye, but turned back when he winked at her.
"Yeah, its not just you, its like there something lurking under the surface that's looking out through his eyes, but it's not the fox, its some kind of beast yes but there's no malice there," Kurenai stated and then both women went stiff as an arm was drapped across their shoulders.
"Don't you know its not nice to talk about people, come on join the fun," Naruto chidded before guiding them off their seats by the bar towards the pool tables where a majority of the jounin with genin teams had gathered.
"Where's your sensie anyway, we haven't seen him since yesterday," Kurenai inquired.
"That asshole, he's probably mourning over the loss of his beloved book after Sasuke torched his and Naruto stole his wallet, we're still wondering when he'll show up," Sakura stated and than watched as the Uchiha was high fived and got his hair ruffled by several of the ninja.
"Enough, its my turn," Sasuke exclaimed with a laugh waving off some of the other ninja in order to take his shot, getting three balls in before he missed.
The day wore on the the three genin finally waved and laughed as they left, promising to hang out after the exams even if they didn't get promoted.
And there it is chapter nine.
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