Taijutsu by Lupine Horror
Naruto panted for breath as he glared across at his current opponent.
He, he know who the red-haired boy was, and he also knew full well just why he was facing him.
It was the Chunin exam preliminaries, and anyone who thought the matches were randomly selected needed to check what they were smoking.
Every village did it, they wanted to look good after all, and when one of the other villages had put an insane jinchuuriki into the exam, there were only two ways of dealing with it.
The first way is to 'sacrifice' a ninja that's not likely to amount to anything.
The other? Well, that was to send out someone even stronger than they were.
Someone like another jinchuuriki.
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Orochimaru licked his lips in delight as he watched the fight going on in front of him.
True, his plan kind of relied on the Ichibi going wild and slaughtering masses of people in the third exam, but the Kyuubi host . . .
Oh, there was a genin after his own heart!
Fast.
Strong.
Talented.
Naruto Uzumaki had it all, and it looked like he put it to good use.
He even considered trying to get a curse seal on the boy, and he really wanted to know how the boy's 'shiki' techniques worked too.
Now though, he was facing Gaara in the preliminaries, and Orochimaru wanted to see if the blonde had the power to punch through Gaara's 'absolute defence'.
As the boy's fists and feet started crackling with electricity, in some sort of strange parody of the Hatake's chidori, it looked like he just might.
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Naruto knew his taijutsu sucked.
He had all of the speed and power needed to get it to work, and he even knew where the human body's weak points and pressure points were.
Intellectually, he knew how to use the Juuken, as even medical texts pointed out where the tenketsu were.
However, no matter how much he practiced, no matter how much effort he put into it, he never seemed to become particularly skilled at it.
Heck, Ido was his team's genjutsu specialist and even her taijutsu was a lot more refined than Naruto's.
So instead of making it better, he made it dangerous instead.
Wrapping his hands and feet in lightning meant that even a grazing hit would be dangerous, and give him an opening to take advantage of.
As Gaara's sand defence was earth based too, lightning also had the penetrative advantage over it.
Of course, he wasn't just going to use his fists and feet though, and as much as he'd have preferred to use lightning arrows, his shiki-bow had been destroyed in the forest, when his team had come across Orochimaru facing off against team seven and they tried to help.
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Kakashi was somewhat startled to see Naruto's fists erupt with electricity so easily, and for a moment he wondered if the blonde was trying to mimic his chidori, before he dismissed the thought.
Naruto's technique looked to be a lot weaker than his Chidori, but a lot more stable and cheaper on chakra as well.
In fact, it seemed more of a taijutsu enhancement rather than an execution technique like his own lightning technique was.
He was then further surprised as chains reared up over Naruto's back, though they weren't the Uzumaki adamantite sealing chains.
No, these looked to be regular chains wrapped in numerous chakra strings, with each link having some sort of set of seals on them as well.
The chains 'stabbed' themselves into the ground, and when they rose a blade of compressed stone was attached to the end link.
A moment later, these stone blades began to glow orange as they were coated in some sort of combination of elemental chakra.
It actually looked like Scorch release, a combination of wind and fire, with a little lightning mixed in for good measure.
Kakashi wasn't the only one who leaned forward to watch this battle closely.
Naruto might not be able to do anything particularly large scale with his skills, but he could definitely use them effectively!
(P.S. Happy 4th of July! - roughstar333)