"I do not own Naruto. This is only a Fan Fiction based off the Characters from the Anime/Manga."
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'Thoughts'
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As seen in the Summery the Main Pairings in the Story Will Be Naruto x Ino x Female Kyuubi. And OC x Female Haku x Temari x Kurenai. In this story Naruto will gain a close friend, manage to find love, and begin an epic adventure with friends.
Main OC's Name is Ken Kenshin. Others will be added as the Story Moves Along. There will also be three OC Jinchuriki's a vote later will decide their gender.
I am starting the poll on what the Genders of the three OC's will be.
All Female.
All Male.
Two Female, One Male.
Two Male, One Female.
Chapter 11: Bonds of the Soul!
As the teams move into the forest they all have different thoughts.
"Great it's started five days in the forest with enemy ninja everywhere, man what a drag" Shikamaru.
"Mother are you ready, I am going to get you blood" Garra.
"Oh man he has that look in his eyes I so do not want to be near him right now" Temari and Kankurou.
"At least I have enough food to last me a few days" Chouji.
"Man I was right this forest is creepy, but not as bad as Zabuza-sensei" Sakura.
"This rules, I can't wait to find another team" Kiba.
"From the way my bugs are acting it is only logical to think that we don't want to go in this direction" Shino.
"Now who wants to be the first to help me become more powerful" Sasuke.
"Fate has already decided that I will make it past this exam" Neji.
"I cannot wait to show everyone my flame of youth!" Lee.
"Knowing Lee he is going on about his flames of youth again, man" Tenten.
"I hope everyone else is still alright" Hinata.
"Find and kill Sasuke, I wonder what our lord is planning" Dosu.
"Finally I can blow some chumps away" Zaku.
"I still have a feeling that we are being used" Kin.
"Soon you will me mine Sasuke" Grass Ninja.
"I still have this bad feeling that I can't shake" Ken.
"I wonder when Karia is going to wake up" Naruto and Ino.
"So its started, be careful all of you" Kurenai.
"I wonder if I am one of the two girls" Haku.
About a minute in team eight stops to get a layout of their surroundings.
"So what do you think we should do now?" Naruto asks.
"I can sense a faint charka source that might be another team we should move slowly" Ken says.
A few meters away a team from the Rain village is planning they move. Suddenly a Kunai comes out of the forest forcing all of them the dodge. Naruto runs out of the forest followed by Ino.
Naruto making hand signs shouts Wind Style: Drilling Air Bullets. Shooting out balls of air at the ninja. Dodging the ninja make their own hand signs shouts of Water Style: Water Dragon and Water Style: Crushing Wave is heard. A Water dragon slams into Naruto throwing him into a tree while the wave throws Ino into another.
"Hah look at them thinking they could get the jump on us" one of the ninja's says. They all get a surprise when both Naruto and Ino disappear in puffs of smoke. Seconds later when two bolts of fire come out of the forest burning two of the ninja to death. The third is backing up when he is knocked out by Naruto from behind.
"Well that went better then I thought it would, that was a good idea to use shadow clones Naruto" Ken says walking up.
"Well since most ninja in here can't use shadow clones I figured they would think they were normal clones or really us" Naruto answers.
"Yeah well at least since they had an earth scroll we are set to head to the tower though we should take it slow just in case" Ino says.
"I wonder how the others are doing right now" Naruto says.
"Lets get moving and then we can worry about any other leaf teams" Ken says.
Meanwhile in a different part of the forest team seven is currently fighting a team from the mist.
"Damn Kiba you and your big mouth, now look what you got us into" Sakura says and she dodges a Kunai from one of the mist ninja's.
"What this is great, why should we hide in the shadows when we can just knock them out" Kiba replies as him and Akamaru finish off one of the others.
"Well you acted without thinking and thus we got into a fight when all we needed was to get a scroll safely and get to the tower" Shino says as his bugs return from another of the ninja.
"Well if we need a scroll, what was wrong with my hit and run approach anyways?" Kiba says.
Sakura who had managed to knock out the final ninja looks for the scroll before saying "Well this is why Kiba they had the same scroll as us now we are more tired and no closer to finishing, when we get out of here I am so going to kick your butt"
"How was I to know they had an earth scroll like us?" Kiba says.
"Never mind we can deal with that later right now I suggest we leave the area before more people come" Shino suggests.
Meanwhile team ten is hiding in a cave after watching Garra kill a team of rain ninja.
"Man that guy is scary, I mean he didn't even seem human, we are lucky his sister managed to calm him down or we would be dead too" Shikamaru says.
"He did seem really scary and he seemed to be using chakra that had a real foul feeling about it" Hinata adds.
"Man at least I still have all my food" Chouji says getting a groin from his two teammates.
"And this is only day one of five, how did I get myself into such a troublesome spot anyway" Shikamaru says.
That night team eight had found an empty cave to rest in.
"Your clones are out so we will know if anyone is close right Naruto?" Ken asks.
"Yeah I have around fifty of them all over the area so we should know if anyone is close at all" Naruto answers.
"Alright good, I'm going to scout around I should be back by morning" Ken says before disappearing.
"Are you sure he will be alright out there by himself?" Ino asks.
"It would take a lot more then almost any team here has to take Ken down, relax Ino-chan" Naruto replies.
"Yeah I hope your right Naruto-ken I'm still getting a bad feeling about all of this" Ino says.
"Yeah me too, all we can do is wait for Ken to get back and hope nothing happens" Naruto says.
Meanwhile Ken is currently a few meters away sitting in a tree. Sensing a few charka signatures off to the west moves off to check it out. About ten meters later he comes upon Sasuke fighting a Grass Ninja.
"Hummm that ninja is giving me a bad feeling their charka level is way higher then is should be, and wait snakes oh man there are only two people who use snakes and this is not Anko" Ken thinks, before calling out in his mind to Kurenai. "I think we might have a problem here I need you two to get some high level ninja I'm pretty sure I just ran into Orochimaru who is fighting Sasuke"
Kurenai who was currently sitting with Haku outside the Forest of Death jumps and turning to Haku says "We need to inform Lord Hokage; Ken says he ran into Orochimaru in the forest fight Sasuke"
All Haku says is "Ken-kun!" before jumping towards to forest.
"Wait Haku! Come back we have to get help" Kurenai says running after her.
"No I have to get to Ken-kun where is he" Haku yells back.
Damn Kurenai thinks so much for getting help before thinking to Ken "Ken it turns out Haku ran into the woods and I had to follow her where are you in the western forest anyway?"
"Damn it oh well it can't be helped I guess I'm section A-4 right now" Ken thinks back.
"Haku he is in section A-4" Kurenai yells.
"Ok let's go then" Haku says and starts to move faster.
With Ken Orochimaru had just knocked Sasuke down when he was forced to jump away when Ken sent a ball of wind at him.
"Well who do we have here?" Orochimaru says turning.
"You're Orochimaru, just what were you going to do to Sasuke anyway" Ken says.
"Well I was just about to give him a little taste of power, and allow him to pass this exam" Orochimaru replies.
"And just why do you care if Sasuke passed this exam?" Ken asks.
"Well let's just say that for the good of the village that he not is taken out of the exams for any reason" Orochimaru replies.
"Well that's just great, I don't think I want to have you do that" Ken says before having to dodge as Orochimaru charged at him.
Orochimaru smiling points his arm at Ken and sends snakes at him.
"Oh yay, it just had to be snakes" Ken thinks before drawing Winona destroying all the snakes with a blast of wind.
"Well now I see you have more skill then I thought" Orochimaru says before summoning a large snake forcing Ken to dodge.
"This is bad I won't be able to hold against him for much longer" Ken thinks as he dodges another attack.
Suddenly a shower of ice needles comes from the trees forcing Orochimaru to jump back. Seconds later Kurenai and Haku land in the clearing.
"Well it seems that more pray has arrived" Orochimaru says.
"I won't let you attack Ken-kun" Haku says before yelling Ninja Art: Demonic Ice Mirrors making a dome of mirrors around Orochimaru.
"Do you think that will work?" Kurenai thinks to Ken.
"It might slow him down, but the chance that she can beat him is really bad" Ken replies.
"Well this is truly an interesting jutsu" Orochimaru says looking up at the dome of mirrors.
"For trying to hurt Ken-kun I will kill you" Haku says and starts to fire needles from the mirrors at Orochimaru.
Orochimaru slumps after being hit with around a hundred needles.
"Did I get him?" Haku thinks before he leaps at her and runs his fist into her stomach leaving her with a huge hole before throwing her away.
"HAKU-CHAN!" Ken and Kurenai shout. Kurenai runs over to Haku and uses Light Element: Vital Healing on her.
"Ken it's not helping all I can do is keep it from getting worse" Kurenai says.
"That little Ice Brat is as good as dead and you are going to be next" Orochimaru says.
"Well that just did it" Wata says in Kurenai's mind.
"What do you mean that just did it?" Kurenai asks.
"Just look at Ken" Wata replies.
Looking over she sees two huge tornados's circling around Ken.
"Wata is that what I think it is" Kurenai asks.
"Yes, it is the second level of the Elemental Circle"
When the tornado's die down Ken stands there with a new Tattoo on his left shoulder.
"Well now I wonder what all that was?" Orochimaru thinks.
"Orochimaru you have pissed off the wrong guy, Duel Wind" Ken says.
"I don't know what those tattoo's do but it won't help you" Orochimaru says.
"Well we will just see about that" Ken says drawing both Winona and Fara before calling out his attack Duel Element: Flaming Cyclone Jutsu sending a huge Tornado with flames running all throughout it at Orochimaru.
"Well that was a really powerful attack I would love to stay and chat but I have to run" Orochimaru says before biting Sasuke and leaving his own scroll next to him.
"Remember what I said about not taking him out of the exam" Orochimaru says before sinking into the ground.
Running over to where Kurenai is still trying to heal Haku Ken says "Well here we go this is going to take about all my remaining chakra, Duel Light" and then Light Element: Transfusion, followed by Light Element: Vital Regeneration.
Slowly the huge hole in Haku's stomach begins to close.
"So you gained that by unlocking the second level" Kurenai says.
"Yeah, and I'm glad I did this move had the power to heal this bad an injure, while the first level can just hold it from killing the person" Ken says.
Meanwhile Anko is moving towards them after having found the three dead Grass Ninja.
"Damn you Orochimaru what are you up to?" Anko thinks.
A minute later she arrives in the clearing to see Ken and Kurenai still healing Haku with Sasuke lying still out cold.
"Where's Orochimaru?" Anko says walking over.
"He's gone after leaving Sasuke here with a bite on his neck and a scroll" Ken replies.
Ken then releases the Transfusion jutsu before fainting.
"Is he going to be ok?" Anko asks.
"He should be fine other then being almost out of chakra, Haku will make it thanks to him, and we should get Haku and Sasuke to the tower" Kurenai says.
"Why not just take all three to the tower? And we need to take Sasuke out of the exams to get that mark fixed" Anko says.
"Well for one we can't take Ken I need to get him back to his team so they can finish as a group, and Orochimaru said that we were not to take Sasuke out of the exams for the good of the village" Kurenai says making a few shadow clones to pick up Haku and Ken.
"Alright I guess" Anko says picking up Sasuke and the scroll and following Kurenai and the clone holding Haku towards the tower, while the other clone moved off holding Ken to find Naruto and Ino.
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As morning breaks on the Forest of Death Naruto and Ino are getting worried.
"Where is he? He said that he would be back before morning" Ino says.
"I don't know, but I'm sure he has a good reason for not being back here" Naruto answers.
"You don't think something happened to him do you?" Ino asks.
"Well all I know is that he has never left us out to dry and I don't feel he is about to start now" Naruto says.
"I wonder what could have happened I mean all he was going to do is go out and scout the area unless he ran into another team, and if he did I would think he would find someway to call us" Ino says.
Before Naruto can answer Kurenai's clone appears holding Ken.
"What happened to Ken?" Ino asks.
"Nothing really he just used up all of his charka and needs to rest for a while" the clone answers.
"Did he get into a fight with one of the other teams to get like this?" Naruto asks.
"No, he got into a fight with someone far more dangerous then one of the other genin teams, he got into a fight with Orochimaru" the clone answers.
"Is that why you brought him here Kurenai-sensei?" Ino says.
"Well I am just a shadow clone, Kurenai is at the tower with Haku" the clone says.
"Wait did something happen to Haku?" Naruto asks.
"She was badly injured while fighting Orochimaru with me and Ken" the clone says.
"So is she going to make it?" Ino asks.
"Yes, thanks to Ken who used all of his chakra to heal her" the clone says.
"Was anyone else hurt during the fight?" Naruto asks.
"Well Sasuke got some weird bite mark on his neck from Orochimaru" the clone answers.
"So what happens now?" Ino asks.
"Well wait for Ken to wake up and then come to the tower, I have to go now I will see you three there" the clone says before disappearing.
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Meanwhile at the tower Haku is asleep in the medical ward.
"Where am I anyways?" Haku thinks.
"You are in your mind, you were hurt by Orochimaru and are at the tower right now" a voice says.
"Who are you?" Haku asks.
"We are you in a way, I am Icesana"
"Wait you're my Rapier how is it that I can talk to you now?" Haku asks.
"I thought you would at least have some clue by now at least" another voice says.
"You would be Meela my other Rapier unless I am mistaken" Haku says.
"Right, now as to why you can talk to us now I think you would know that" Meela says.
"From what I know you can only take to your weapons if you have the Elemental Circle bloodline active, so if I can talk to you now then that means that I" Haku says before it really hits her.
"That's right the Elemental Circle bloodline is active in you. You got it when Ken had to use the Transfusion jutsu to save your life" Icesana says.
Meela is about to say something but is cut off by a high pitched squeal of "YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS" by Haku.
"Well it looks like someone is happy about all of this" Icesana says with a chuckle.
"Yes you don't know how I wanted to have the bloodline like them" Haku says.
"Well now that you are awake I guess we can call Icey here then" Meela says.
"Who is Icey?" Haku says.
"The head spirit for the element of Ice" says a young woman with blue hair and wearing a pale blue dress.
"I heard that you each have your own kind of test that you give to see if the person is worthy of using your strongest jutsu's and techniques" Haku says.
"That is correct, my test is just like the ones for the wind and water element, the fact that you can talk to Icesana means that you pass the test, the jutsu I am going to teach you is called the Icicle Lance. It makes a lance made out of Ice that you can control with charka. The amount of Lances is based on your level in the bloodline, first level is one, second level is two, and third level is three. The technique is called the Ice slide is allows you to state on the top of water by freezing the water right under you" Icey explains.
"Alright is there anything else I should know about?" Haku asks.
"Other then the fact that in the next few days you will gain the second level as will Kurenai" Icey says.
"And why would our level of the bloodline go up anyways?" Haku asks.
"Because as one of the many effect of the bloodline the level is shared by all members with the person who unlocked the level" Icey says.
"Alright" Haku says.
"Now its time for you to wake up" Icey says.
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Back in the forest Ken is still out while Naruto and Ino talk about what to do.
"So you think we should wait for him to wake up or carry him and head for the tower?" Ino asks.
"Well since it's only the second day we might want to wait for Ken to wake up no reason to rush in" Naruto says.
"That's a good a plan as any, so do you know anything about that Orochimaru that Kurenai's clone talked about" Ino asks.
"I know about him if you want to know" Karia suddenly says.
"Oh Karia-chan I didn't know that you had woken up" Naruto says.
"I just did so tell me what was been going on since I was asleep" Karia says.
"Well we are currently on day two of five on the second exam in the forest of death, the first part was a written test with a focus on the tenth question, also there was a guy that Ken said knew any too much about each of us so he burned the cards" Ino says.
"Then while we have been in here me and Ino-chan beat a team from the rain and got the scroll we needed, then we set up camp in this cave and Ken went out to scout, one of Kurenai's shadow clones brought him back here like this an hour ago, said he got into a fight with Orochimaru and that Haku was hurt, and that Sasuke got some weird bite mark on his neck and that's it" Naruto adds.
"Well I know that Orochimaru was once one of the three Legendary Sannin, along with Tsunade , and Jiraiya. I know that Orochimaru hold the summon contract for snakes, at one point he left to leaf village and has not been seen since" Karia says.
"How strong is he really?" Ino asks.
"Well at this time he would probably be stronger then Ken's Grandpa the Third, the mark on Sasuke's neck sounds like the curse mark that Orochimaru can use, it gives the person more power at the cost of corrupting their soul" Karia says.
"So you're basically saying that it would be like asking to die to go and fight Orochimaru?" Naruto says.
"Well not fully, we can see that Ken went up against him and lived then if he did have help from Kurenai and Haku, but he is not someone you want to run into if you can help it" Karia says.
"So how come you had to sleep for over two days anyway?" Naruto asks.
"Well for the last twelve years I have had to stay awake to make sure you don't go and get yourself killed" Karia says.
"Well I guess, I can't say that you are wrong about that, so now that you are finally out does that mean that you are going to be sleeping all the time" Naruto says.
"No in fact I will be at the tower to watch the prelims that is if you make it there" Karia says.
"Well as soon as Ken wakes up when can get moving" Naruto says.
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Back at the tower, Haku has woken up and is talking with Kurenai and Zabuza.
"So I see you gained the bloodline" Kurenai says.
"Yes, and I found out that both of us will gain the second level within a few days. It seems that the level of the bloodline is shared between all the members of the generation" Haku says.
"So your soul is now bound to the kid's" Zabuza says.
"Yes and I couldn't be happier right now" Haku says.
"So did you find out anything else that might be of use?" Kurenai asks.
"Well I did pass the test of the head Ice spirit if that's what you mean" Haku answers.
"Well that does help that only leaves the head spirit for the element of Darkness" Kurenai says.
"So how are you doing" the Third says walking in.
"I'm good now Lord Hokage" Haku says.
"That's good to know I heard that Orochimaru said to not pull Sasuke out of the Exam" the Third says.
"Yes, and I hope who ever fights him in the preliminaries, if we need to go to that will beat him" Kurenai says.
"Well I wouldn't worry too much about that Ken said he had a plan if it came to preliminaries" the Third says.
"Well if that's the case then all we have to do is wait for Ken, Naruto, and Ino to arrive at the tower" Kurenai says.
"Well all there is left to do is wait I guess" the Third says.
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Later that day Ken starts to wake up.
"Ugh, I feel like crap" Ken says shaking his head.
"Well Kurenai did say that you got into a fight with Orochimaru and then used up all your chakra to heal Haku" Naruto says.
"Is she ok?" Ken asks.
"Kurenai said that she was going to be fine and that as soon as you woke up that we should head to the tower" Ino says.
"Well if you give me about fifteen minutes to fully wake up then we can get moving my charka is back up around normal after that rest" Ken says.
"Seeing as how its starting to get dark outside we might want to wait until morning to get moving" Ino suggests.
"That's a good idea besides it still leaves us with two days until this part of the exam ends" Ken says.
"Ok I guess we sit here tonight then move out at first light" Naruto says.
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By noon the next morning team eight had reached the tower and are standing inside.
"So now what are we suppose to do?" Ino asks.
"I don't know but I think it has something to do with the scrolls that we had to get" Ken says.
"I say that we should open the scrolls now that we are here" Naruto says.
"That sounds like a good idea, might as well try it" Ken says.
Naruto opens the scrolls to reveal a symbol.
"What is that?" Naruto wonders.
"That sign stands for the word Man I think it might be a summon better throw them onto the ground" Ken says.
As soon as Naruto does Iruka appears with a puff of smoke.
"Well I see that you three made it though the second exam" Iruka says.
"Well of course we did I am going to be Hokage so I can't fail a test like this" Naruto says.
"Well that's good to know the second exam won't end for another day and a half so you all can go and rest up" Iruka says.
Well that's it for the Eleventh Chapter. I hope you all stick around for the next chapter called Preliminaries!
Note I don't own any characters from Naruto except Ken Kenshin who I made and any other OC's that come up in this story.
If you want to comment feel free to but I don't want to hear people just complaining about my story.
If you enjoyed the Eleventh Chapter I would love to hear what you think about it.
Till Next Time.