Alright, I first want to say that I am so, so sorry for taking so long with this! I just really slacked, plus I also focused on playing NFS: Most Wanted and Ninja Storm 3.
NorthSouthGorem: I've read your crossover and I have to say I loved it! I do wish it as well.
Those miffed about the deaths of Zabuza and Haku: I did have my reasons, but I'm gonna be doing something special with them and a few others so sit tight! ;)
Enlace: While I'm not sure yet what bloodline I'll have Naruto give Ino (if any) I do write as I go so I'll think of something. And yes, Naruto is getting a helluva lot of kekkei genkai.
SUBJECT-XVI: Glad you like it, but I'm not very good at writing darkness. I'll try my best though.
roboguy45: Don't worry, all that chakra will play a part soon enough. Just be patient.
Kriegmane: To answer your problems: 1) I believe that was answered last chapter, but if not, Naruto learned it (and just about everything else he knows) from his father's library in his estate. Come on, his dad was the Hokage, how could he not write things like ROOT down? I also think he was the one who disbanded them in the first place. 2) The flashback for that happened last chapter. Instead of Itachi torturing the poor kid and making him froth at the mouth for vengeance, he actually explained it to Sasuke and left him with some understanding of how things went down during the Uchiha Massacre. 3) I hoped some people made the connection, but the ability for Tendrils came from the DNA of Kankuro, who mainly uses chakra strings. That's the connection I made, although, in hindsight, that's a pretty difficult thing to spot. My apologies. 4) I don't know about THAT, but I do know that I'm planning to make everyone around him as strong as he is in some kind of way. I actually did this to an extent in this chapter. More will come later. 5) Minato did say he was writing that letter on borrowed time, and he had the stuff he needed to seal with him at the moment.
wooden farts there on the go (love the name): Why is Haku female? That will come at a later time.
Konohagakure; Outside the building of the first part of the Chunnin Exams, 8:50 AM…
"Where the hell is he?!" The loud, banshee-like voice of Sakura Haruno cut through the air.
"Calm down, Sakura-hime," the voice of Sasuke Uchiha followed, his statement causing Sakura to almost immediately calm herself and blush at the same time at the way Sasuke referred to her, "He's probably on his way. You know he wouldn't miss the Chunnin Exams for the world."
Sakura looked at him and smiled. "Yeah, I know, Sasuke-kun, but I'm just annoyed. He's following up on our sensei's antics!"
Sasuke shrugged and just said, "Well, Kakashi-sensei would like one of his students to follow in his footsteps."
Before anything more could be said, they both saw a moving light maybe half a mile away. In barely two seconds, it had moved quickly in front of them, startling them both and causing them to drop into their respective fighting styles: Interceptor Style for Sasuke and the Academy Style for Sakura. A moment later, however, the light solidified into Naruto, causing them both to relax, if only slightly, and then gasp in surprise.
The reason being that this was the first time they had actually seen Naruto using his Kyuubi Rikudou form. Sakura had heard of it from Ino, and both had felt the chakra spike two days ago and didn't recognize it, so they assumed it was Naruto. But this… they hadn't expected this look.
"Naruto?" Sakura asked.
"The one and only!" Naruto exclaimed, cutting off Kurama's chakra and returning to his old self. For this occasion he was wearing an outfit he had worn once before: A red T-shirt with a white spiral on the front with black cargo shorts with four pockets for different things; a leather jacket that went down to his hips, had a red trim, and a red-on-the-inside hoodie; his black hitai-ate on his forehead; and sneakers on his feet. Kubikiribocho was strapped across his back.
"I like the look, dobe," Sasuke said.
"Thanks, teme," Naruto said, then looked at him in the eye, "So, how much training have you done in the last month?"
Sasuke smirked and, instead of answering him, activated his Sharingan. His eyes turned red, his pupil shrank to a dot, and Naruto counted three tomoe in his eyes.
"Wow," Naruto said, "You already got to the third level?" Impressive. How'd you manage?"
Sasuke shrugged and said, "Simple. I kept it activated for as long as I could. Didn't work well at first. I passed out from chakra exhaustion within a few minutes and Kami knows what would have happened to me had Sakura not been there at the time."
Sakura slugged Sasuke on the arm with a wink and a smirk and said, "Yup! Be glad I was there to save your life!"
Sasuke smirked at her and said, "Oh really? Yeah, save my life after trying to take a peek under my clothes."
Sakura went bright red at the sentence, and Naruto ended up laughing his ass off on the floor from the thought of that.
"I thought we agreed to never speak about that, Sasuke-kun," Sakura said in a low voice.
"Ahahahaha! That's priceless!" Naruto laughed. "But wait, you said 'trying'. Did you wake up beforehand?"
Sasuke blushed, Sakura blushed twice as hard, and Naruto began laughing again at their expressions.
"No, but seriously…" Naruto said, all mirth from his eyes gone, which startled his teammates, "I have a surprise for you, Sasuke."
The fact that Naruto called him by his name told Sasuke he was serious. Sasuke looked on as Naruto closed his eyes for a second before opening them again. He didn't see anything different in them, until he looked closer and saw that Naruto's pupil had elongated, and around the slit-like pupil were… three tomoe, spinning around his eye. At the sight of that, Sasuke stepped back in major shock and stuttered, "Is… i-is that…"
"Yeah…" Naruto finished, "… the Sharingan."
The group became silent for a minute.
"I'm guessing you're wondering how I got these eyes…" Naruto started. Sasuke's stiff nod was all he needed.
"It all started when a shinobi that looked like an ANBU appeared at my house." Naruto began. "He said that his boss would like for me to join the ANBU organization known as ROOT. Knowing the damn organization, I immediately said no."
"What's ROOT?" Sakura interrupted.
Naruto looked at her and said in a deep voice, "It's a separate faction from the regular ANBU, one that is run by Danzo Shimura, one of the Elders. Danzo believed that shinobi are nothing more that weapons and should have no feelings, kind of like what Zabuza believed. Except that Danzo beats, tortures, and demeans the ninja he has to make them totally emotionless weapons. And when a ROOT ninja can't complete a mission…" The hair covering his face fell a bit lower. "… He kills them, as if he were throwing away a rusty kunai."
Sakura gasped and Sasuke looked like he was going to be sick.
"But how do you know about them?" Sasuke asked, "If they're like the ANBU, shouldn't people know about it?"
"Yes, people would know... if it weren't for the fact that Danzo's most likely running ROOT deep underground. See, my father wrote down all he knew about the organization and left it in the library of my Estate. Once I read about it, I almost snapped in rage." Naruto explained, frowning. Sasuke nodded.
"Back on track," Naruto continued, "When I told that ROOT ninja that I wouldn't join them, he returned some time later with a faction of thirty other ROOT ninja and said I don't have a choice. In response, I stabbed him with my claws and absorbed him, unknowingly gaining this." Naruto then closed his eyes yet again, then opened them again. His pupil had become a sky-blue color, his pupil had disappeared, and the veins around his eyes had bulged, but only slightly. Sasuke immediately recognized it.
"The Byakugan!" he exclaimed.
"Yep," Naruto said, then stopped the flow of youki and deactivated the Hyuuga's all-seeing eyes. Naruto continued. "When I killed the guy, the rest of the ROOT ninja attacked me. I lured them to one of the training grounds around my Estate and killed them all, but I left the captain alive so he could tell Danzo himself that I had no intention of joining ROOT and I could carry out with my threat. Afterwards, I absorbed every ROOT shinobi that I killed. In total, I gained two more bloodlines. The Sharingan, as you know, and the Yōton bloodline."
"But... I thought that all Uchiha were killed because of a planned coup d'état. That's what Itachi told me..." Sasuke said, seemingly to himself.
Naruto nodded and said, "Yes, that's true. However, it seems that Danzo, knowing of the attack or even possibly ordering it, kept at least one of the Uchiha under his command with him. According to the memories I gained from one of the higher-up ROOT ninja I consumed, Danzo wanted to use the Uchiha, whose name is Haketo, as a baby maker, so that he could have his own Uchiha army always at his command."
Sasuke gritted his teeth in anger, and his Sharingan activated without his knowledge. Naruto, noticing this, immediately said, "Sasuke, calm down. Don't start thinking about trying to kill Danzo or something."
"So what do you expect me to do?!" Sasuke asked him in a frustrated voice. "Just sit back as the one who possibly ordered my niisan to kill my clan stays free?!"
"No..." Naruto said, "I want you to look at things rationally. In your current state, you can't do anything against an experienced war hawk like Danzo. Remember, you don't have to do this alone. I feel the same as you, that man shouldn't go free at all... and in the memories I gained from the ROOT ninja I absorbed, I think I know just why, and how to take him down. But for now, calm yourself. We're still here for you, right, Sakura?"
"Of course we are!" Sakura said.
Sasuke, deactivating his Sharingan and looking at the two, couldn't help but smile in appreciation. "Thanks, you two. You have no idea how much that means to me."
"Anytime. I'll help you get as strong as you can, considering I have to train my abilities as well." Naruto smiled.
"Speaking of that…" Sasuke began. "You have Claws, Tendrils (Naruto told and showed them a day before the ROOT battle), Kurama's chakra, the Byakugan, Sharingan, and a lava bloodline, right?"
Naruto nodded. "Yep, that's about the size of it. Oh, I also still have some Hyōton DNA on me as well."
The sheer number of abilities Naruto had made both his teammates feel rather small. Naruto, noticing this, tried to think of something to cheer them up.
"Don't worry, guys. I'm not planning on leaving you behind. Remember when I said I still have some Hyōton DNA?"
"Yeah?" Sakura said.
"I gave some to Hinata-chan. And now she can use Hyōton as flawlessly as Haku could." Naruto said bluntly.
Sasuke's and Sakura's eyes widened at that. Sasuke exclaimed, "You can give people bloodlines?!"
"Yup!" Naruto said, smiling. He then looked at the clock on the outside of the building. "Better save the rest of the talk for later, we're not gonna make it if we stay here!"
Sasuke and Sakura were startled out of their stupor and rushed into the building with Naruto. Passing by the second floor, they could see a few Genin trying to get past two other people blocking the way to a room that read '301'. The three of them immediately recognized the Genjutsu, but since they didn't see any of the rest of the Rookie 12 there, they discreetly continued upwards. Hey, the less competition, the better.
While walking up the stairs to the third floor, Sasuke couldn't help but think back to the night that his life as an Uchiha changed...
Flashback!
Sasuke walked up to his clan's compound, the whole while feeling that something was very amiss in the atmosphere. His senses were much clouded. He could hear, somehow, cries of pain coming from somewhere nearby, and he could just barely smell one of the strangest smells he had ever smelled. But it wasn't an unfamiliar smell… oh no… no it wasn't. It was the smell… of blood.
Quickly entering the Uchiha Compound, he couldn't help but puke at the sight that met him.
Everywhere he looked, he saw the sight of empty onyx eyes; of the blood pooling around the ground; and the cries of those who had not yet died but were bleeding… broken… or worse.
He couldn't stand the sight! He couldn't! Who could do this?!
Running towards his house, he got his answer.
There, with his ANBU armor on, his long raven hair tied back in its usual ponytail, his eyes in their Mangekyo state, with a three-bladed shuriken spinning in there...
"Itachi-niisan!" Sasuke yelled out, hoping beyond hope that what he was seeing wasn't true.
Itachi turned to him, and what Sasuke saw made him stop dead in his tracks.
His dear, beloved brother was holding their father, Fugaku Uchiha, by the throat. Blood was pooling under Fugaku, and Sasuke could see his father's Mangekyo Sharingan disappear and be replaced by his usual onyx eyes, which were bland and lifeless.
"Tou-san!" Sasuke yelled. Falling to his knees, he began crying in sadness, sadness that quickly became anger. "WHY?!" Sasuke yelled at Itachi. "Why did you kill them all?!"
Itachi walked up to Sasuke and looked him dead in the eyes. "I'm not supposed to…" Itachi said in his usual, emotionless voice, "… But I will show you."
Suddenly, Sasuke's world swirled, and he blacked out, only to come to in a world almost completely red in color. The color was so sudden that Sasuke had to shut his eyes for a bit until he got used to the bright red color.
Once that happened, he looked around, only to find Itachi standing a mere 2 feet away from him.
"Why are we here, Itachi-niisan?" Sasuke asked, a steely edge in his voice.
"This is my Tsukuyomi world. I assume you've heard of it." Itachi said.
"Yeah, I've heard about it. So, what now? Are you gonna torture me and kill me like the rest of our people?" Sasuke said with venom in his voice. He entertained the thought of getting up, but decided to simply sit and cross his legs.
Itachi's eyes softened, and he walked up and sat in front of Sasuke. "No, Sasuke. I came here to explain the reason as to why I killed our brethren. You see, I'm not supposed to speak of this, but I have bargained with the higher-ups to keep you alive, and I cannot simply leave you like this. I do not wish to have your hate."
"What do you mean?" Sasuke asked, his anger gone and replaced only with confusion.
"You see, Sasuke, our Uchiha brethren were planning a revolution." Itachi said bluntly.
"What?!" Sasuke yelled. "But why?!"
"I cannot hope to explain all the reasons as to why they wanted to revolt against Konoha, but I do believe, based on the meetings I attended, that they believed that Konoha did not trust them anymore. Not since… the attack of the Kyuubi." Itachi explained.
"What does that have to do with it?" Sasuke asked.
"I will not say. It is not my place to say so." Itachi said. "But I believe you will learn it one day."
"Okay…" Sasuke said. "… So why kill them all?"
"Because I am loyal to Konoha, and to the Sandaime Hokage." Itachi simply said. "If I had allowed events to take their course, then the Uchiha would, under the guidance of our father, have revolted and killed almost everyone in Konoha, innocent or not."
"What?!" Sasuke exclaimed. "No! They wouldn't!"
"I am sorry, Sasuke, but it is the truth." Itachi said.
Sasuke stayed quiet for a moment, then said, "So that's it then? You are more loyal to Konoha than to your own clan?"
"To be perfectly honest, yes." Itachi said, startling Sasuke with the bluntness of the answer. "I couldn't allow that to happen, because it would mean that Konoha would be severely weakened. And with that weakness, comes invasion from other nations."
Sasuke stared at his brother for a while, before saying, "No… no, I don't believe it!"
Itachi shrugged and said, "Believe it or not, that's your option… but I just want you to know one thing, Sasuke." Leaning in closer, he put two fingers on Sasuke's forehead and pushed lightly, and Sasuke's sight began to become black, the last thing he heard being, "I will always love you, little brother."
Flashback Kai!
Sasuke was shaken out of his trip down memory lane when Team 7 had the room in sight.
Upon arriving at the room, they found their sensei Kakashi outside, reading his regular Icha-Icha.
"Ah, my cute little Genin," Kakashi said, eye-smiling at them, "You guys ready for this?"
"You bet, Kakashi-sensei!" Naruto exclaimed.
Kakashi nodded, said, "Good luck," and the team went inside.
Naruto barely made it two steps in when everyone heard a double shout of, "Naruto-kun!" followed by being glomped by two rather busty 13 year olds. Some of the Genin in the room snickered, while others just looked on in shock or boredom.
"You know, you're gonna get killed if you keep this racket up." A calm voice called out, and the Genin all turned to see a silver-haired man standing there. He had on a pair of circular glasses, and was wearing a purple, high-collared shirt, and pants of the same color. He was also wearing fingerless gloves and a blue Konoha hitai-ate.
"And you are?" Naruto asked, picking himself off of the floor when his two girls got off of him, blushing furiously.
"Kabuto Yakushi," the now known Kabuto said, smirking knowingly at the blushing girls.
"So is this your first time, Kabuto?" Sakura said.
"Actually… it's my seventh," Kabuto said sheepishly, scratching his cheek.
"Damn… you must suck!" Kiba said, standing next to Shino and snickering.
"Ah, Naruto-kun!" Naruto heard a voice behind him and, turning, he found Rock Lee standing behind him. There was a major difference in him, however. Instead of the usual green suit with orange leg-warmers he used, he now had a black trench coat, very similar to the one the Yondaime used and the one Naruto took to using, which, if Naruto had to admit, actually made the entire image he had much better. Black and green. Next to him, his teammate Tenten Higurashi was wearing her usual pink-blouse-and-dark-green-pants outfit, and next to her, Neji Hyuuga was in his usual tan-shirt-and-dark-pants combo as well.
"Well, you're looking good, Bushy Brows," Naruto said, smirking at the boy.
"Thank you, Naruto-kun! I have tried to emulate you as best as I could, but…" Lee started.
"Dude, it's alright. I'm flattered," Naruto said, "But, back on topic, Kabuto, do you really suck?"
Kabuto looked miffed, and said, "Whether I do or not, these last six tries have allowed me to gather much information on other contestants." Pulling out a deck of cards, Kabuto said, "These are Ninja Info Cards. I just pump chakra into them and all the info I know of a subject comes on here."
"Can you look up certain people?" Naruto asked.
"Of course," Kabuto answered.
"Give me Gaara Sabaku from Suna."
"Add Rock Lee and Naruto Uzumaki-Namikaze to that as well," Sasuke spoke up. Naruto gave him a glance, but said nothing.
"Aww, you know their names. That's no fun. Oh well." Kabuto got down on one knee, set a card down, and spun it while pumping chakra. A second later, words appeared on it. "Alright, Gaara Sabaku," Kabuto began reading, "A Genin from Sunagakure. Can control sand very easily. Has done 9 C-ranks and 2 B-rank missions. Says here that he has come of every mission… untouched. Teammates are his siblings, Kankuro Sabaku and Temari Sabaku."
The Konoha 12 looked at Gaara with some wonder and fear, with the exception of Naruto, Neji, and Sasuke.
"Next, Rock Lee," Kabuto said, picking up another card. "Genin from Konohagakure. Terrible at Ninjutsu and Genjutsu, but his Taijutsu is off the charts. So far he has done 44 D-ranks, 12 C-ranks, and 1 B-rank. Teammates are Neji Hyuuga and Tenten Higurashi."
"And finally," Kabuto picked up a third card, and Naruto leaned in, his muscles tensing. "Naruto Uzumaki-Namikaze. Son of the Yondaime Hokage Minato Namikaze and the Red Hot-Blooded Habanero Kushina Uzumaki. Has an unknown Kekkei Genkai that allows him to change his body and absorb others. So far, he is able to use Claws and raven Wings. Gained Kubikiribocho from the missing Kirigakure ninja Zabuza Momochi. He's also able to use the youki of the Kyuubi as if it were his own chakra, meaning it had no repercussions. Also-"
Whatever he was going to say was cut off as Naruto had shifted his right arm to his Tendril ability, grabbed Kabuto, and slammed him against the wall, the tendrils holding him black and bloody red in color, and holding him around every joint: around both shoulders, neck, legs, and wrists. The other Genin were shocked at Naruto's attack, but Sasuke, Neji, and Lee immediately got into their signature stances: Interceptor, Jyuuken, and Goken, respectively. Naruto paid them no attention however. Instead, he walked up to Kabuto's restrained form and stared at him directly in the eyes.
"How did you know that?" Naruto asked.
"Kn-*gack*-know what?!" Kabuto asked, trying to free himself from the tendrils and failing, ending up cutting his hands instead.
"That I have mastered the Kyuubi's chakra." Naruto responded. "The only ones who know so far are my girlfriends Hinata-chan and Ino-chan, and my teammates Sasuke and Sakura-chan. So what's up? Are you a spy?"
Before Kabuto could respond, Naruto heard a yell of, "Die, Namikaze scum!" and a kunai was lodged into his neck.
Most of the Rookie 12 gasped in shock and surprise, with the exception of Sasuke, Sakura, Hinata, and Ino. The Iwagakure Genin that had lodged the kunai into the side of Naruto's neck was majorly surprised when, instead of releasing Kabuto and dropping dead, Naruto simply reached up with his free left hand, grabbed the kunai, and with a squelch, took it out of his neck. Some blood followed it, but the wound on his neck instantly healed. He added biomass into his left arm and, with a snap of his arm, he sent the Iwa Genin flying across the room, where he crashed on the far wall.
"You Iwa idiots never were able to forget the stupid War…" Naruto muttered. "Anyways, back on track…"
Before he could continue, however, there was a poof of smoke, startling many of the Genin, and a group of people appeared at the front of the room.
"Alright maggots, settle down!" The tallest one yelled. He was a tall, tanned man who had a few scars on his face. He wore dark blue pants, a black shirt, a dark blue trench coat, boots, and a bandana that covered his head. The man looked at Naruto and, while ignoring the tendrils coming out of his hands, said, "Drop him, Namikaze."
Naruto obliged and released Kabuto, his arm returning to its normal Tendril form before becoming a regular arm again.
"Yeah, sure… Who are you?" Naruto asked.
"The name's Ibiki Morino. Now sit your sorry ass down before I fail you and your team." Ibiki growled.
Naruto looked at him and asked, "So I can sit just about anywhere?"
Ibiki shook his head and said, "No, you can't. Everyone come up and grab a paper. It will say where you're going to sit."
After everyone came up, Naruto counted himself lucky. He was sitting next to Hinata, on her left. He smirked and kissed her lips quickly, making her blush before she returned it with a peck of her own. Naruto, hearing a grumble, looked forward and noticed that Ino was two rows ahead of them and looking back at the pair, pouting cutely. Naruto winked and blew her a kiss, and Ino responded with a blush.
"Okay, you worthless maggots! This will be the first part of the Chunnin exams." Ibiki barked out, while his assistants went around putting papers in front of the Genin, face down. "In this part, you're gonna be answering a test." There were a few groans from around the room, Naruto's being the loudest. He might be a mostly good tactician and thinker, but he was terrible in tests! "That's right! Now, when I give the order, you're to flip the papers around and start the test. The rules are as such. If you're caught cheating, you will lose two points. Each one of you has ten points in total. If you lose them all, you're out! Also, this is a team exercise, so if you fail, your entire team goes!" There were yells of anger and surprise almost immediately, but Naruto figured Ibiki must have taken lessons from Iruka, because his head suddenly increased in size and he yelled out, "SHUT THE FUCK UP!" The Genin immediately did so. "There are nine questions in the test, and you'll have 50 minutes to answer them. The tenth question will be given to you by me in the last 10 minutes. Ready? Well, too bad if you're not. BEGIN!"
Immediately, everyone flipped their tests over, and Naruto nearly had a heart attack at the questions. 'This shit is at least High Chunnin if not Jounin level! Damnit, I'm fucked!'
Naruto began answering the questions as best as he could, but he had plenty of trouble with them. Five minutes in, while looking through the questions, he went through the rules.
'Two points for every time you're caught cheating. Ten points total. So I can be caught five times before I get kicked out… That doesn't seem right. When in the Academy, if you got caught cheating once, you were immediately kicked out of the test. So… they're giving us five chances to cheat, eh? That's it… we get to cheat! No… we HAVE to cheat!'
Coming to that conclusion, Naruto decided to use his newly acquired Kekkei Genkai: the Byakugan and the Sharingan. First, looking at the people around the room, he discreetly used the Byakugan to look for a good victim to copy from. Finding it in one of the Genin in the room, he studied how confident he was in answering the questions before turning off the Byakugan, looking around discreetly, then activating his Sharingan and studying the man's hand movements. Moments later, he turned the Sharingan off and wrote his answers, then relaxed and used the rest of his time, which was about fifteen minutes, to look at the other Genin.
Hinata and Neji had the same idea he did, use the Byakugan to copy answers. Sasuke was using his Sharingan. Sakura had no need to cheat, due to her smarts. Ino had switched with Sakura and was copying her answers. Gaara was using a sand eye, which took a good part of two minutes for Naruto to spot, to copy answers. Kankuro was probably using one of his puppets. Tenten was using a cleverly placed mirror to show her answers to Lee, who moved his hitai-ate to signal her when to stop.
Finally, after some grueling tension, and plenty of teams walking out, the last question came along.
"Alright, maggots," Ibiki started, "Put your pencils down!" Everyone did so. "Now, this last tenth question has a little hitch. You have a choice to take the question or not!"
"And exactly why wouldn't we answer the last question?" asked Temari.
"Simple, really." Ibiki shrugged. "If you decide not to take the question now, you will be disqualified and can take the Exams next year." Some people looked at each other at this. "However," Ibiki continued, an evil smirk playing on his face, which set Naruto's inner alarms off immediately, "If you choose to take the question… and fail it… you'll never be able to take the Exams and will remain a Genin forever!"
A deathly silence followed this. Moments later, however, there was literally a rush for the door as a number of Genin left, their teammates following grudgingly behind. However, there were still plenty of teams left. Ibiki was about to say something else when something tapped his head and, when he looked, he saw a finger-like appendage attached to three long tendrils that were twisting around each other. The tendrils led to the outstretched left hand of one Naruto Uzumaki-Namikaze, who was currently whispering something into Hinata's ear that was making her blush increasingly red.
"Yes?" Ibiki asked irritably.
Naruto looked at Ibiki for a second, before saying, "Could you just shut the fuck up and give the question already? I swear, I could probably have made Hinata-chan pass out from the amount of things I could have told her. Like that when we were back-"
Before Naruto could go on, Hinata immediately slapped her hand over his mouth, silencing him. Her face was beet red.
"Naruto-kun, enough!" Hinata whisper-screamed, looking pointedly at Naruto but beginning to smoke at the ears when her imagination went into overdrive, and then her nose began to bleed.
"Alright, alright," Ibiki said when he saw that no other teams were leaving, "You got guts, kid. I like that." Naruto just shrugged and mumbled from behind Hinata's hand. Ibiki continued, "Anyways, to the teams that are still here… You pass!" The happy exclamation sent the remaining 20 teams into shock, before a collective "NANI?!" from 60 mouths was spewed forth.
"Yep!" Ibiki said.
"But… but what about the tenth question?!" Kiba exclaimed.
"There was none. Or I suppose you could say that your choice of taking the question was the question." Ibiki answered.
It seemed like some other teams wanted to say something, but suddenly, Naruto's sensed kicked in again. He looked to his left and saw what appeared to be a black ball coming towards the window. He activated Kyuubi Rikudou (Nine Tails Chakra Mode) for a brief moment, but did not feel any bad intentions coming from the blur. So he sat back and waited. Moments later, the black blur crashed through a window, startling a great many people. A banner was thrown up that said, "Single and Sexy, Anko Mitarashi!" The black ball bounced on the ground and up to the ceiling, but before it could go back down, something broke out from the ceiling and grabbed it, pulling it up against the ceiling. The ball turned out to be a kunoichi with purple hair in a similar style as Shikamaru's. She was wearing a very revealing outfit, which consisted of a fishnet torso cover, an orange skirt, and an open trench coat that perfectly covered at least half her assets, vertically. And currently, her arms, legs, and neck were being held by a number of tendrils.
"What the fuck?!" Anko yelled out, attempting to get free. "What is this shit?!"
On the ground, Ibiki, of all people, was on his back, clutching his stomach, and laughing like he just witnessed the world's funniest prank. This honestly startled many people, since he didn't seem like the guy to laugh like that.
Many people looked up to Naruto, who had his feet up on the desk and looking at the nails of his right hand. When he felt the stares, he looked up and said, "What?"
This caused another round of laughter from the people assembled, while Anko just looked at him with an annoyed glare.
"Gaki!" She yelled at Naruto. "Was this your doing?"
"Don't you mean is this your doing?" Naruto said, lifting his left hand to show that the hand was turned into Tendrils, which were pointing at the ground.
"Get me out of this shit!" Anko yelled. Naruto gave her a half-assed look, and she knew instantly what he meant. "Now!" she yelled, even higher. Naruto made no motion that he heard. He only continued to stare. Finally, when she felt the tendril at her neck tighten slightly, she said through grinded teeth, "… please?"
Almost immediately, the tendrils retracted through the ceiling, and Anko, not having expected such a quick response, fell to the ground in a heap. Most of the assembled Genin and Ibiki went through another round of laughter. Anko quickly got up, cleared her throat, glared at Naruto, and then surveyed the room.
"20 teams, eh? Seems you still got some of your touch, old man." She said, directing her speech to Ibiki.
"And a tough bunch they were, too." Ibiki said.
"Well, no matter. By the time I'm done with them, their numbers will be cut down by half," Anko said, rubbing her hands together and licking her lips. Many of the Genin gulped, some audibly. "Anyways! My name is Anko Mitarashi, as the banner states, and I'm the Proctor for the Second Part of the Exam! Meet me in Training Ground 44 in half an hour!" With that, she sent one last glare to Naruto, who stuck his tongue out at her and wiggled it up and down, causing her cheeks to redden, then jumped out of the window again and disappeared.
"Alright, Genin, get out of here." Ibiki said, sounding tired. However, when Naruto passed by him, he stopped the boy and shook his hand, saying, "Namikaze, that was priceless! I'll definitely be watching out for you."
Naruto smirked and said, "If that had been an enemy, we'd be dead by now. So I just did what I had to do." He continued walking, then stopped and looked back over his shoulder at Ibiki. "And by the by, it's Uzumaki-Namikaze, not just Namikaze." Ibiki nodded, and Naruto continued on his way out.
He found his teammates outside the Academy, and joined up with them.
"So, we got half an hour to get to 44," Naruto began, making his teammates look at him.
"So our second test is in that accursed place?" Sasuke said, his eyes getting an unfocused look.
"Yeah… just like our younger days…" Naruto said, lost in memory lane as well.
Sakura, looking at the exchange the two boys had, said, "Wait, what's Training Ground 44."
Naruto and Sasuke shared a look, then looked at the kunoichi in front of them.
"You might know it by its more conventional name, Sakura-hime…" Sasuke said.
Naruto nodded and, using biomass to change his vocal chords to one of the more deep-voiced ROOT ninja (almost as low as Madara's voice), said, "… The Forest of Death…"
It had the desired effect, and both Sasuke and Sakura shivered at Naruto's tone of voice, even though Sasuke had been there a few times before, with Naruto actually.
Naruto, though, broke the feeling by coming back to his regular voice and saying, "So! You guys wanna get some ramen before going there?! I'll pay!"
Both Sakura and Sasuke face-fell.
