Naruto: Kitsune Tales

"Speech"

'Thought'

"Tear speaking"

'Tear thinking'

Jutsu/Bloodline

Chapter 11: Chunin Exam Finals and Aftermath

After waking himself up, Naruto thought to himself. 'Hmm, the Chunin exam finals are in a month. I need someone to remove this curse seal…isn't Kakashi-sensei good at seals?' With that, Naruto went to go find Kakashi.


Kakashi was at the bookstore, about to leave for the Uchiha residence when he ran into Naruto.

"Oh? What are you doing here?" Asked a surprised Kakashi.

"Hey Kakashi-sensei?" Said Naruto.

"How can I help you, Naruto?"

"Can you train me for the finals?"

"Hmm, I thought so…sorry Naruto. I can't train you. But I found someone better to train you. Why don't you go with him?"

"Really? Hey wait a minute…you're training Sasuke, aren't you?"

"Maybe…anyway, this person that I found to train you is even better then I am at teaching."

"Oh really? But who?" asked Naruto.

"That would be me…" Said a Jonin wearing a blue jumpsuit and shades.

"Hmm…? AH IT'S YOU! Closet pervert!" Yelled Naruto, pointing at Ebisu.

"Hmph, the nerve of this boy." Ebisu said as he adjusted his glasses.

'Closet pervert?' thought Kakashi. "Naruto, have you met this man before?"

"We've met before." Said Ebisu.

"Yeah, when I met Konohamaru. Kakashi-sensei, this guy is weaker then I am. How can you expect him to train me, when all that it took to beat him was a simple little harem…"

'Uh oh.' Ebisu quickly covers Naruto's mouth to make him quiet. "Yes, we've met, and your pupil is quite the stubborn one, even saying he beat me!" Ebisu whispers in Naruto's ear.

"Listen, if you shut up about that little incident, I'll treat you to whatever you want for lunch!"

"Fine, whatever." Responds Naruto abit quietly.

"Well, I must be off. Later Naruto."

Kakashi disappears in another puff of smoke, but accidentally drops a scroll. Naruto picks it up secretly.

"You pervert! I refuse to be trained by someone who is weaker then me!" Shouts Naruto.

"Like it or not, I'm training you, so too bad. Now as for our agreement, lead the way."

'I think you'll regret this…'


Ebisu leads Naruto to wherever he wanted to go for lunch, so naturally, Naruto leads him to Ichiraku, where Ebisu begins to lecture Naruto on his strengths and weaknesses, all the while, bowls of ramen piling up in front of Naruto. When the duo prepares to leave, Naruto has to stifle a laugh when Teuchi, the owner of the food stand reminds Ebisu about the bill.

"Oh yes, sorry…" When Ebisu turns around with his wallet out, he is shocked to find about 20 bowls of ramen stacked up. "N-N-NARUTO!" A sound of a cash register dings over to the Hyuga mansion. "Hmm? It seems that that ramen stand just made some money…" Said Hiashi to himself.

"Arigatou for the money!" Yells Teuchi.

Ebisu grumbles.


Ebisu leads Naruto to the Konoha Onsen, where he found an empty basin of water. Ebisu demonstrates how to walk on the water, as if it was solid ground. Naruto, while attempting it, falls into the hot water…over and over. Naruto comes out each time more red because of the heat.

"Why can't we do this exercise on a stream?"

"The hot water gives you incentive not to fall in!" Shouts back Ebisu, before he notices a white haired man near the hot springs. Upon closer inspection, Ebisu realizes that the old man is peeping on the girls.

"I WILL NOT HAVE ANYONE PERFORMING INDECENSY IN MY PRESCENCE!" Yells out Ebisu, before charging at the old man.

"Eh? Whatever…Kuchiyose no Jutsu!"

A large puff of white smoke appears under the white haired man, and a toad appears

"Nani?"

A tongue rolls out of the toad, wraps around Ebisu, and slams him into the ground. Ebisu is unconscious, while Naruto stares in wonder.

"Wow! You beat that closet pervert, but…why are you peeping on the girls bath, pervert?"

"I'm not just a pervert…I'm a SUPER PERVERT!"

'Geez, first the closet pervert, and now this super pervert, are all the males in this world perverted? I shouldn't talk…after all I made Oireke no Jutsu , not to mention Hārem no Jutsu…' (Ninja Harem)

"A super pervert eh?"

"Yes, but please call me Jiraiya, the toad sage!"

"Then call me Uzumaki Naruto! But it's Naruko in this form…Oiroke no Jutsu!"

A puff of smoke envelops Naruto. As the smoke clears, it reveals a butt naked, gorgeous female Naruto with two pigtails. Naruko (female Naruto) starts flirting with the pervert.

"Brilliant!" The toad sage gives the jutsu two thumbs up.

"So, will you train me?" Asked Naruko in a sexy tone.

'Uzumaki…Naruto? Could he be…'

"Only on one condition…you must stay in that form when you are with me!" Jiraiya adopts a grin.

"What! No way!" Yells Naruko, as she disengages the transformation .

"All right, I'll train you."

The toad sage leads him to a river, where he instructs Naruto to continue his water-walking exercise. After a while, the toad sage realizes that the blond haired boy has poor chakra control, after he strips his clothes because of the cold water. Jiraiya, on a whim,, asks Naruto to channel his chakra, revealing the Kyubi seal to the toad sage.

'Oh, so that kid is the container for the nine tails, so I wonder why he has such poor chakra control.' Standing up, Jiraiya notices the curse seal appearing. 'Oh, that explains it. The curse seal…only Orochimaru can give anyone that…this could be a problem unless I do something about it…'

"Hey kid, come here."

"What? Wh-why?"

"Because I can do something to suppress the curse seal." It was then that Jiraiya saw the error that his old teammate made in applying the seal.

"Oh really? This pesky curse seal affects my chakra output, so it might affect my chakra control." 'Not to mention…I'll be able to use the Key Blade again…'

"All right, gaki. Come here…this might sting a bit."

"Ok, whatever."

-A few minutes later-

"OW! That did hurt."

"Told you, now try walking on the water again."

"All right….hey I did it! Yatta!"

Naruto starts jumping on the water.

'I can communicate with you again!'

'Really? Then the suppression of the curse seal opened up our channels of communication again…anything new kaa-san that I should know about?'

'Actually, since I am queen of all kitsune, you can summon them for battle now!'

"Now, I'm going to teach you the Kuchiyose no Jutsu which I will now demonstrate…Kuchiyose no Jutsu!"

A toad about the size of the toad sage appears.

'Psh, kitsune are way better. Go ahead, try to summon one.'

"Pff I can summon something better then that. Kuchiyose no Jutsu!

A one tailed fox appears, and starts to chase the toad. The toad, afraid of foxes, dispels itself, after leaving the scroll.

'Kitsune? But…oh I see. He is the container for the Kyubi.'

"So, do you want to be able to summon toads too?"

'Since I am sealed within you, you being able to summon kitsune will not interfere with you signing another contract.'

"All right, I'll take it. First I sign my name in blood, right?"

"Right."

After signing the scroll, Naruto signs and calls out.

"Kuchiyose no Jutsu!"

A small toad about the size of a dog appears in front of Naruto. The kitsune starts to chase after the new toad, before he dispels both summons.

"Do you need anything else?"

"Maybe you can help me in deciphering this scroll that Kakashi-sensei dropped."

"Sure, let's take a look…"


At the end of the training month, Naruto decided to visit Hinata in the hospital. Hinata was free to leave tomorrow, which happened to be the exams day.

-The day of the Chunin Exam Finals-

Naruto wakes up late and checks his bedside alarm.

"Oh no, I'm going to be late!"

After quickly doing his morning routine, Naruto got dressed in his new Key Blade outfit. Just in case, Naruto checked his pockets before leaving.

"Th…this is…!" Naruto exclaims as he pulls out something from his pocket.


When Naruto had finally arrived, he found that he was the 7th to arrive. "Hey, where is that Sound Genin and Sasuke?" Asked Naruto.

"Dosu was killed. His body was discovered, so needless to say, he is out. As for Sasuke…no one knows." Said Gemna, the new proctor of the Chunin exams.

'Figures that Sasuke will be late…but he is with Kakashi-sensei…'

"Anyway, now that most of the combatants are here…it is time to begin round one. Would everybody other then Hyuga Neji and Uzumaki Naruto please enter the participants' box up there?"

As soon as the Genin entered, Gemna started the match. "Hajime!"

Naruto started the battle by raising the same fist as the bloodied fist a month ago. "I will win!"

Neji replied by activating his Byakugan, and made a "come hither" jester. Naruto quickly made a hand seal.

"Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!"

Over a hundred shadow clones formed. They all let out a battle cry and charged in. Neji assumed his Jukenstance, and quickly dispelled all who got in his way.

"Pathetic…"

Some of the Naruto clones attempted the Uzumaki Naruto Rendan, but like the first wave of clones, they were dispelled. The clones tried one last desperate offensive, but Neji simply spun while releasing chakra, creating a spinning chakra dome around him.

"Hakke Shou Kaiten!"


Most of the Hyuga clan were in the audience, including the head of the Hyuga main branch and his youngest daughter, Hyuga Hiashi and Hyuga Hanabi.

"Impossible!" Uttered Hiashi.

"Father…what is impossible?"

"That's a Hyuga main branch technique! How could he, a lowly secondary branch member, obtain it?"


Neji was left facing what he assumed to be the original Naruto. Naruto dug his right hand into his pocket, and withdrew something enclosed in his hand. He held out his left hand and summoned Hikari, the default form of his mighty Key Blade. He then unclenched his left hand to reveal…the crest of the Hyuga clan engraved in a flower petal. Naruto quickly replaced his key chains, and Hikari morphed into another form. The Key Blade's shaft displays two hearts, and its handle bears two angel wings. The teeth are fashioned in the shape of the Kanji for "light" (光).

"Oathkeeper…" Naruto held his Oathkeeper Key Blade parallel to the ground with his legs spread apart. "Blizzard!" Naruto shouts as a projectile of ice shot out of the tip of his Key Blade. Neji spun once more while releasing chakra. "Kaiten!"

Naruto made a handseal. "Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!"

Once again, twenty five shadow clones of Naruto appeared, and surrounded Neji. Each called forth their Key Blades. "Blizzard!" All twenty five Naruto shot an ice projectile at Neji, who evaded each one and ran to dispel the shadow clones, until only the real one was left.

"You're in range of my divination! Hakke Rokujūyon Shō!" (8 Trigrams: 64 Palms.)

64 palm strikes later, and Naruto was kneeling on the ground some distance away using his Key Blade for support.

"I have sealed off your chakra. There is no way you could win now."

'He doesn't know that I can supply you with my chakra.'

'Give it to me now!' Naruto mentally yelled as on the outside, he formed the seal of the ram and started focusing.

"It's no use…THIS WILL END IT!" Neji yelled, as he rushed into battle to strike a fatal organ…when Naruto exploded with light red chakra that stopped Neji in his tracks.

"What?"

Neji reactivated hisByakugan, and before his eyes, the weird chakra completely restored Nauto, before he disappeared. Neji's eyes narrow, before spinning to his left. Naruto was there, and threw some shuriken, which Neji caught and threw back at the airborne Naruto, who suddenly blurred away to the left, completely dodging the shuriken. Neji, out of desperation, drew a kunai, while Naruto did the same. They threw their kunai, which bounced off each other. While Neji grabbed his airborne kunai, Nareuto summoned Oathkeeper.

"Hey Neji…"

"Hmm?"

"I told you I would win."

Naruto started barreling toward Neji, who quickly initiated his Kaiten, but too late. Kunai and Key Blade met in battle, resulting in a flash of light, before a giant dust cloud came forth.

"I can't see a thing!" Tenten yelled as two blurs enter the dust cloud, one from either side.

The dust cloud eventually cleared, leaving two smoking craters.

"Who's in which hole?"

Eventually, one of the craters clear, and a hand is seen protruding from it. The hand lifts up the body to reveal a battered Neji with his Byakugan deactivated. Once the other crater clears, it reveals an unconscious Naruto.

"Hmm…what a dropout…" Said Neji, before a rumbling sound directly below Neji causes him to look down…only for Naruto to emerge with a firaga tipped uppercut with Oathkeeper.

Neji looks back at the crater, only to see Naruto dispelling.

"Shadow clones…I was careless."

"For the record, Bunshin no Jutsu was my worst jutsu, but look how I turned it around."

Gemna smirks, and declares Naruto the winner.


After that match was supposed to be the match between Sasuke and Gaara, but since Sasuke didn't arrive yet.

"Now then, the next match will be between Kankuro and Shino."

"No it won't, because I give up."

"Then would both Temari and Shikamaru come down?"

Shikamaru was about to give up when Naruto shoved him face first into the ring. Temari, who had ridden down to the arena using her fan, and wind manipulation, sweat dropped.

"Ok…" the proctor also sweat dropped. Shikamaru slowly stood up, cursing all dumb blondes. Naruto, Temari, and Ino got a tick mark on their faces.

'Oh he is so going down!' Thought Temari, Ino, and Naruto.

"Now, begin!"

Without wasting any time at all, Temari used her unfolded fan as a club and clubbed him on the forehead. A split second before the impact, Shikamaru whispered. "Troublesome…" BOOM

A large cloud of sand and gravel erupted from the point of impact. When the dust cleared, Shikamaru is gone, standing on two kunai embedded into the wall.

"I don't care whether I become a Chunin or not, but…I can't stand the idea of losing to a girl, so…I guess I'm in!"

"Hmph…" Temari unfolds her fan, and swings it in Shikamaru's direction to make a gust, only to find that he is gone.

'He's pretty good…at running away.'

Shikamaru is hiding behind a tree trunk. 'But…it's not like a boy can just clobber a girl, either…' thought Shikamaru.

"KNOCK HER BLOCK OFF!" yelled Ino. "SHIKAMARU! JUST HIT HER WITH A 16-PUNCH COMBO!"

"Is this seat taken?" Interrupts Choji.

"Oh it's you, Choji. Yeah, go ahead and sit."


'Man…why do I always fight girls?' Thought Shikamaru.

After Choji looks at Shikamaru fighting, he is confused. "Hm? I thought that Sasuke's match was next…"

"Oh! Be quiet." Sakura looks down, depressed at being reminded of Sasuke. "We don't want to remind her that Sasuke isn't here." Ino whispered to Choji.

"Huh…Shikamaru fighting in the finals…? It's kinda weird."

"Don't say that! Shikamaru may not be a superstar or anything, but…he's really good at strategy and stuff! That's why we all made it through the forest and got to the prelims!"

"You think…? Well…I bet he's going to give up and quit pretty quickly. He's so lazy."

"That's not true! You missed his dramatic leap down to the floor…" (A/N Ino didn't notice that Naruto shoved him off the balcony) "He seems unusually aggressive today! He's got a passionate side to him too!"

'Dramatic leap down to the arena? I bet that Naruto shoved him off…' Thought Choji.

"GO SHIKAMARU!" Yelled Ino.

Shikamaru is gazing above lazily, thinking to himself. 'Oh…how I envy the clouds…they're so free…I have absolutely no desire to fight. The whole reason I became a ninja in the first place was so that I could live my life the way I wanted…' Shikamaru stares at the tunnel made earlier by one of Naruto's attacks. 'But…it looks like it won't be that easy…'

'What's with that stupid expression on his face? Is he mocking me?' Thought Temari, before swinging her open fan again, and calling out a jutsu.

"Kamaitachi no Jutsu!"(Wind Scythe Jutsu) A stronger wind gust struck the trees and Shikamaru with wind blades.

"ARGH!" Shikamaru yelled, before dashed behind a tree to escape the wind damage.

'That's right…this is the technique that she used to deflect my weaponry…' thought Tenten.

After all the dust and smoke cleared, Temari had to leap back to avoid the incoming shadow. The shadow shrunk and stopped, just before it connected with Temari. She used her fan to draw a line in the dirt. 'I see…the Kagemane no Jutsu…revealed!'

"It seems that there are some limits to how much you can manipulate the size and shape of your shadow, hm? Even though you can stretch your shadow at will…you can't increase its overall size past its surface area…right?"

"Heh, right."

While Temari is thinking to herself, Shikamaru is also thinking, but in a weird hand pose, with his palms not touching each other, but with the tips of his fingers and thumb connecting, held upside down.

"What is that seal?" Kurenai asked Asuma.

"It's not a seal, it's an old habit of his, a thinking pose if you will. He makes that sign whenever he is in a jam. When he is stuck on a move in Shogi or Go, he does it. I haven't been able to beat him once! So, out of curiosity, I made him take an IQ test, convincing him that it was a game."

"Really? How did he do?"

"Heh heh, he's a true genius, with an IQ of over 200!"

"What! But that's impossible. When he was in the ninja academy, I looked at his test scores. They were about the same as Naruto's!"

"That's because he is lazy. He find's it too troublesome to lift up the pencil and write."

Shikamaru opens his eyes, and releases the hand sign.

"He's done thinking."

Another gust of gale force winds, and Shikamaru had to cower behind a tree again. He took off his vest, his headband, and a kunai. He tied it together and released it to catch the wind. He then activated another Kagemane no Jutsu. It stretched toward Temari, who ignored it at first, but then had to leap back when it passed what Temari thought was the limit.

'Clever, waiting for the sun to set, making a bigger shadow!' Temari kept on hopping back, until the shadow stopped. Temari sighed in relief, confident that his shadow can't stretch any further. Just then, her brother, Kankuro, called out. "Temari! Above you!"

"Nani?" She looks up, and sees…a parachute? Worse of all, the parachute was emanating a shadow, and the shadow possession jutsu stretched further. 'Shit!' Temari kept leaping back, until the shadow stopped. Temari used her fan as a barricade, and began making a plan.

'I'll use the Bunshin no Jutsu to distract him, than go for the kill!' Thought Temari, before whispering. "All right, this is it! Bunshin nowhat? I can't move! Impossible! His shadow shouldn't reach that far!"

"Heh, Kagemane no Jutsusuccessful."

"What? But how?"

"I'll let you look behind you." Shikamaru glanced behind him, and Temari had to also because of the properties of Shikamaru's jutsu. She saw his shadow…coming out of the hole that Naruto made behind her!

"What? No!"

"See Kurenai, Shikamaru is very good at strategizing. I think it's…checkmate!" Said Asuma, before smirking.

Shikamaru walks forward, as did Temari. Shikamaru and Temari raise their hands. Temari is anticipating what he is going to do next, but his next move surprises everybody.

"I'm done. I give up."

All the spectators are shocked, and then begin booing. Temari is confused. "What? Why?"

"Simple, I'm out of time and out of chakra. I can only hold you for about ten more seconds, so naturally, I thought of over 200 strategies to win, but times up." The shadow retracts back. "One fight is good enough for me."

"I hate to admit it, but you are a good opponent." 'But he's so lazy! I can't believe that he almost had me beat!'


"See? I told you that he would give up." Said Choji to Ino…who didn't reply, but was peeved.


"The final match of the first round…would Sabaku no Gaara and Uchiha Sasuke come down to the arena?"

When Gaara shows, there is no sign of Sasuke. Sarutobi decided that because most of the audience were here to see the last Uchiha fight, he would allow Sasuke to be tardy by up to ten minutes, but no longer. Whispering to a Jonin standing guard, the Jonin vanished and let Gemna know.

9 minutes and 59 seconds later, Sasuke appeared in a swirl of leaves back to back with Kakashi.

"It's about time…now the match between Uchiha Sasuke and Sabaku no Gaara will finally begin…right after Kakashi here leaves."

Kakashi gave an eye smile, then poofs away to where the audience is sitting.

"Now, the match between Sabaku no Gaara and Uchiha Sasuke…you know the rules…now begin!" Gemna calls as he leapt back.


Sasuke tenses into his stance, while Gaara pulls out his cork. Sasuke jumped into the air and threw some shuriken, which are intercepted by aSuna Bunshin (Sand Clone) of Gaara. The sand clone throws them back, but Sasuke deflects them with a kunai, and then punches the sand clone through the chest. The sand clone smirks, and Sasuke's hand is stuck. Not willing to give up, Sasuke kicks the sand clone in the face, dispelling it, and rushing to Gaara, fist drawn. Gaara's sand automatically protects Gaara. Sasuke smirks and vanishes in a blur to appear behind Gaara, but making everyone think that he just disappeared.

'He's fast…just like that other one…' Thought Gaara.

POW the fist connects, sending Gaara back a few meters.

"Come on!" Sasuke taunts.

"…" Gaara remains silent as he climbs to his feet.

"If you don't come, then I will!" Sasuke this time, speeds up. Gaara's shield of sand raises to protect him, while Sasuke is running circles around him. Sasuke zooms in on Gaara, and does a quick three hit combo and knocks Gaara several feet away. Gaara, getting desperate, uses all his sand and compacts it around him, just as Sasuke is about to connect with the sphere with a punch, spikes protrude out of the sphere. He narrowly dodges them, but his knuckles and one of his knee caps are bleeding.

'Don't tell me…Gaara is going to use that move?' thought Kankuro and Temari at the same time. After some time of pummeling the sphere, Sasuke realizes that it is impenetrable.

'So, nothing can break through it, eh? My new technique should be able to break it.' Sasuke unhooks a strap on his arm.

Kakashi was watching intently, as Sasuke used chakra on the sole of his feet to stick to the highest point on the arena wall. He makes some handseals, and grasps his right hand with his left, and slowly accumulates chakra.

"Kakashi, are you paying attention?" asked Gai.

"Oh, did you say something?"

'KAKASHI! WHY MUST YOU BE SO HIP?' An image of a wave hitting a rock on the beach appears behind Gai, with the sun setting.

"Just shut up and watch."

A familiar chirping sound meets Naruto's ears, and he smirks.

'So, Sasuke has learned it too?' Naruto thought, thumbing the scroll in his pocket which shows how to do the Chidori, (One Thousand Birds)and the strongerRaikiri. The weakness of the two jutsu were that since the user moves so fast, he or she gets tunnel vision, but since he was a Key Blade Master, he didn't have tunnel vision. In fact, his eyesight got better!

A grunt from Sasuke, and he had finally accumulated enough chakra on his palm but the chakra turned to lightning. Sasuke smirks with his Sharingan activated, which eliminated the tunnel vision, and runs straight down the wall. BOOM Sasuke's impact on the ground creates a shockwave, but Sasuke is still going with a scream. As he gets closer to the sphere of sand, he dodges the spikes and impales the sphere, with a shout of "CHIDORI!"

The impact was so powerful that it actually got a reaction out of Gaara.

"Is this-my blood?" Gaara realizes and screams.

Something grabs Sasuke's hand, and he quickly tries to get away. He struggles for a bit, and reactivates a bit of his Chidori. Gaara keeps screaming in pain, as Sasuke is finally released from his hold. Gaara's sphere of sand dissolves, and Gaara is seen panting, clutching his shoulder. Directly after that, a genjutsu is activated, and most of the Genin, succumb to it and fall asleep. The Jonin and ANBU stationed around the arena dispelled it around them. Suddenly, a large smokescreen covers where the two kages sit. The Jonin guarding the Hokage is killed by the two guarding the Kazekage. The ANBU black ops swiftly rush into the scene, and split the guard of the Kazekage into two pieces, a torso and the legs. But before they could do anything else, the Kazekage leapt into the air, with a kunai to the Hokage's neck.

"Do it!" he shouted to the corpses of the two fallen shinobi. Swiftly, a four armed man, a lady, a fat man, and a guy with two heads jumped out of the corpses and surrounded the rooftop, where the two kages land. The 4 sound ninja hastily activate a jutsu, surrounding the two kages in a purple flame barrier. "Shishienjin!" (Four Violet Flame Battle Encampment) They then activate the same jutsu again and surround themselves in the same barrier. ANBU black ops try to penetrate the barrier, only to burst into flames on contact. They begin to contemplate what to do when the Kazekage reveals himself by peeling off his face. "Orochimaru!" the Sandaime and the ANBU said at the same time.

-Meanwhile-

The village of Konoha is under attack. One of the Genin not affected by the genjutsu quickly dispels the genjutsu around her allies, the Konoha 12. Gaara snaps out of his hypnotism and joins their allies in battle (the Konoha nins are their allies) followed by two very confused sand nins.

"Help me to fend of the sound and sand nins…" Said Gaara.

"And betray our village?" Countered Kankuro.

"Shut up, or I'll kill you."

Temari and Kankuro gulp, and assist the Konoha nins.

-With the Konoha 12-

All of them prepare for battle by taking soldier pills to replenish their chakra. They then split up into their three man Genin teams. (A/N the enemy sand ninja are merely unable to battle, but the sound ninja are being killed)

-With team ten-

"Kagemane no Jutsu!"

A shadow extends from Shikamaru as Choji becomes a meat tank to crush all in his way. Ino unsheathes a kunai and starts slashing her enemies. Shikamaru uses his new Kage Kubi Shibari no Jutsu (Shadow Strangle Jutsu) and kills a majority of the ninja that he captured…by choking them to death.

-Team nine-

Neji keeps using Juken blows to the heart to kill off his enemies. Tenten grabs a shuriken from her pouch and throws it, having it multiply into several shuriken with a Shuriken Kage Bunshin no Jutsu. Rock Lee has crutches, so is severely handicapped, but nevertheless uses one crutch to hold off his enemies so that someone else can kill them.

-The sand siblings-

All of the sand Shinobi are shocked, as Gaara, Kankuro, and Temari ruthlessly kill their former allies. (Well, at least in Gaara's case) Kankuro uses his puppets to battle his enemies, swiftly killing them. Temari uses her fan like a baseball bat and swings her enemies like baseballs. "Kamaitachi no Jutsu!" She shouts as she swings her now open fan, blowing away her enemies and killing them more effectively.

-Team 8-

Shino's bugs envelope the enemies, draining them of chakra. Kiba and Akamaru attack with Gatsūga. Sakura uses the old fashioned fists and begins to pound some of the enemies into submission. Sakura also employs some genjutsu to confuse her enemies into attacking each other.

-With team 7-

Hinata was coughing up blood, so Naruto protected her. Sasuke uses his fire element jutsu to burn his enemies, but he was also using the taijutsu style known only to the Uchiha clan. Naruto makes at least a dozen shadow clones, all of which perform a giant Uzumaki Naruto Rendan. All of them are handling their opponents with ease, until some sand Jonin come. They all have a bit more trouble, but nothing that they can't handle, or so they thought.

All the Genin present shudder, as hell is about to reign loose on the poor Jonin. Naruto prepares to use a new attack, going through three very familiar handseals.

"My turn to shine! Chidori!"

A fist of supercharge lightning chakra surrounds Naruto's right hand, but he isn't done yet, as he puts more chakra into it.

"Raikiri…Storm Edge!" The basic form of the Key Blade, Hikari, appears while Naruto is performing the Raikiri, and the Key Blade changes form. All the Genin start thinking 'Oh shit…' Sasuke is twitching in anger. 'How dare he…? After all of that work…he is able to perform a stronger Chidori then I?'

Naruto raises his new Storm Edge Key Blade and unleashes hell on his opponent, ending with a downward slash. When the Storm Edge Key Blade strikes the ground, all of the Genin take cover, as a shockwave of chakra stuns all of the enemies near him. The Raikiri fades, his Key blade disappears, and a new keychain appears, the eye of the storm, as his own chakra was spent deflecting the multiple shockwaves on himself and Hinata. He falls into unconsciousness, while Hinata worries.

-The next day, at Konoha hospital-

'Am I dead?'

Naruto is dimly aware of his surroundings. He is lying on something extremely soft and warm.

'What's this? Is it…'

Naruto opens his eyes with great difficulty, and is shocked to find himself snuggling next to a mess of midnight blue hair.

"Hi-Hinata-chan?"

It is when Naruto stutters her name out that he remembers that at the prelims, he had said to Hinata, "I love you." And Hinata awakes.

"Na-Naruto-kun?"

After the two realize who they are in bed with, they relax, and both thought 'Gee, this seems familiar…'

Both of them snuggle deeper in each other's embrace, only to be rudely awakened by a voice.

"Naru-oh DEAR GOD!"

Naruto and Hinata unwillingly separate, to see a slightly flustered Sakura.

"NARUTO! YOU BAKA!" POW Naruto is sent halfway across the room.

"OW what was that for, Sakura-chan?"

"FOR SLEEPING WITH HINATA-CHAN! Hinata, did he do anything inappropriate to you?" Sakura seemed to have forgotten that Naruto had already confessed his love to Hinata.

"No no, you misunderstand; Naruto-kun and I are a couple now. Say, why are you wearing all black?"

"Oh, because it's the Sandaime's funeral today."

"NANI? H-how did he die?"

"Well, I don't know. All I know is that, because of him, Orochimaru can't use any more jutsu. Something about sealing his arms…well the funeral is in 20 minutes. I was sent here to retrieve you."

"Yeah, give us a minute." Said Naruto.

"OK, the burial site is at the memorial stone. See you there…"

-15 minutes later-

Attending the funeral in addition to the civilian populace are: The rookie twelve, the Jonin sensei's, Iruka-sensei, Haku (Who just came back from a mission), the Hyuga clan, and the Konohamaru corps. They all are paying their respects to the Sandaime, and each one places a white rose on the tombstone of the third Hokage.


The Chunin exams are finally over. That took a lot of my skill to write this. R and R. Laterz