"Demon speaking"
'Demon thinking'
"Human speaking"
'Human thinking'
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Disclaimer: I don't own the Naruto series, though the plot is mine.
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Chunin Exams Part 3
Normal POV:
Hoshabi couldn't take a break, apparently. She found a guy peeping on the women in the hot springs, then he ended up saying that he was going to train her! Of course, that wouldn't be too bad, if he didn't watch her all the time! Seriously, it was either he was peeping on girls or training her, training being more often cause she yelled at him/ exposed him whenever he starting peeping with her near! Not only that, she was also called in for Kiba's trial. Even though he came out more damaged, he was the one who'd attempted to assault one of his fellow Leaf ninja's, one of his year mates no less!
In the end, he was being sent to the Inuzuka punishment cave, and he wasn't allowed to be near Akamaru for the next 3 months. Apparently, now that one of Kyuubi's tails were out, as long as Hoshabi kept it in check, the Sandaime and the council agreed that it could remain with Hoshabi. This made is so that the civilians couldn't say that she was the Kyuubi anymore, which made the shinobi council happy as well as the elders. With the accumulated votes, Kyuubi was allowed to remain outside of the seal.
Now, it was time for the exam and Hoshabi was to fight that stuck up Hyuuga that hurt Hinata badly. "Bitch, you better be ready to get that ice spear ripped out of your ass." Hoshabi told him coldly. Kakashi and Sasuke shunshin in at that point to listen to the trash talking.
"It is your fate to lose against me. You are a loser, just like my weak cousin." Neji told her as the proctor told them to start. Sasuke winces as he gets a feeling of what is going to happen. (This pretty much went like it did in the anime, until Neji had closed all of Hoshabi's tenketsu points.)
"You think you can defy fate? Nothing can, it is your fate to lose! You think you know pain, yet you know nothing of the Hyuuga's history of pain!" Neji yelled as he prepared to tell the tale of his father's death and how horrible his uncle and the main branch of the Hyuuga were horrible.
Before he could continue, he was interrupted. "Wow, hypocritical much. Oh, did I say something wrong?" Hoshabi looked at Neji dead in the eyes. "You say that no one can change their 'fate?'" She sat down. "But isn't that what you're trying to do? Change your own fate? I mean, if you just surrendered to your fate, wouldn't you have let Hinata win the match? Wouldn't you be emotionless, a servant who is happy to do all the work? Though, you know, with every decision, your 'fate' or 'destiny' can change in my dictionary. You will never really defy fate, because fate is just what happens after the decisions you make, in my opinion." Hoshabi said calmly, still staring at Neji as she scolded him on the definition of fate. Some of the males whispered 'whipped' under their breaths.
Neji flushed as all the whispering was done, whether it was from anger or embarrassment was unknown."You know nothing, nothing of the pain that the Hyuuga branch house's pain and suffering under the iron fist of the main branch. We-"
"Have a seal on our forehead that forces us to succumb to the will of the main branch, which was seen when Hiashi was staring at his brother in horror as one of the elders used the seal on him, which you thought was him using it, blah blah blah, your father was killed instead of your uncle to satisfy Kumo cause he killed one of them for trying to kidnap his daughter, your cousin Hinata. You blame her for not being strong enough at the tender age of three to defend herself, blah blah blah. Anything I'm missing?" Hoshabi continued in a cold and detached tone.
Grudgingly, Neji nodded, though slightly shaken about his uncle not really using the seal on his father. "You may know the facts, but you do not know the pain. True pain, for I am nothing but a tool for the Main Branch!" Neji said with bravado.
Hoshabi laughed a cold and dull laugh. This caused the Sandaime, Kakashi and Sasuke to flinch. "You're lucky, it's only the main branch. You're lucky it's limited, and that they don't physically harm you! And yet, you are looking at me with contempt, saying that you had it worse." In an instant, she was standing, while the Hokage and Sasuke winced, knowing that she was exploding soon. "Here is something you never considered," She turned her back on Neji and took off her shirt, leaving the bandages that bound her bountiful chest. Scars littered her skin, some straight as though from a blow from a sword of some sort, some jagged as if from a knife with teeth, some looking new and some old, some appearing as though it was from a whip. She showed the whole arena her scars. "Most of us in this arena has faced just as much, if not more pain. I am only one." She glared at everyone in the arena save a select few. The gennins were staring in horror at all the scars that littered their friend's skin. "Shinobi walk the path of pain and death. We are to serve our Kage and protect our village, and if you can't put the past behind you, you are unfit to be a shinobi of the Leaf, and you are unfit to have the blood relations that you call family." Hoshabi stated.
"You said that I know nothing of true pain, but the truth is that I knew true pain, and the truth of this world by the age of three years. You want to know what they said?" She glared at the crowd as she continued. "They screamed at me 'Do us a favor and die, demon.' 'You should have died instead of the Yondaime.' 'You will pay for killing my brother/sister/lover/mother/father/uncle's dog's girlfriend's owner/ or someone else.'" She turned and glared at Neji. "I was whipped when I turned five. I remember all this because I have a photographic memory. I remember everything. The pain I felt, the tears I shed, the screams I released." Kyuubi started to descend from where he was soaring in the sky. "He is all I have had since I was born. I would have died one hundred fold without him. Starvation, blood loss, poisoning, illness, to name a few ways I would have died." Her eyes turned distant. "I recently learned that I was born a female, though I was raised a male. How much pain and betrayal I felt when I found out that the one I thought of as my grandfather had lied to me my entire life, granted that hasn't been a long time."
The look on her face broke the hearts of everyone there, even the ones that hated the Kyuubi. "And I nearly died right after that!" She screamed, as though all the pain that she'd been facing had been released. "I almost killed a Chunin from Kiri! I thought I saw my ssensei die! I killed some stupid bandits in a fit of rage! I returned and someone had broken in and vandalized my house! AGAIN! What am I supposed to say, that I never felt any pain at all?! You want me to lie about how I've felt for years? And then I piece together that I am the daughter of Kushina Uzumaki Namikaze and Minato Namikaze? You have got to be kidding me! I never felt true pain? I never felt true pain? You have never felt true pain!" With a sudden burst of speed she punched Neji in the face, then disappeared and reappeared behind him, tears apparent in her eyes. "Senbon Sennen Goroshi!" Hoshabi screamed. Knowing what was about to happen, Kakashi, Sasuke and Sakura were half tempted to laugh, though they couldn't as they saw what Hoshabi was doing. She was trying to humiliate him by using no chakra, purely taijutsu to mock him. She finished the move, Neji flying into the stands.
After that, Hoshabi just stood there, her hair covering her eyes. She was shaking, quiet sobs coming from her. "Shosha! Hoshabi Uzumaki Namikaze!" Genma yelled after a few minutes of silence. Kyuubi picked her up and took her to the Kage box.
When she got there, she didn't go to the Sandaime. "I know that's you Hebi-teme." She said quietly. "Don't go through with the invasion. It would just be stupid and illogical." She said, her eyes, usually so full of life, were dead.
"And why is that?" Orochimaru asked, not even questioning how she knew. He took off the disguise and a purple barrier was created around them, though the invasion didn't start.
"You would not succeed, as we have all of our able shinobi in the vicinity and I am more than capable of defeating you with Kurama beside me." She explained without emotion. She gave the aura of an experienced shinobi that had seen the wars rather than the innocent gennin she was supposed to be. The Sandaime was watching in shock that she had noticed that that was Orochimaru, not the Kazekage there, and pain because she looked much older than her years in that moment. "Also, it would be a waste to your village as many of your shinobi would die or be captured. It would be much more logical to rejoin Konoha or simply ally Oto with the Leaf." She said.
Orochimaru seemed to contemplate this. "Can I conduct tests? I still wanna learn how to not die, and your unlimited chakra idea is interesting to me."
"As long as it is with either prisoners or volunteers, we can not have everyone fearing for their lives, we can have other villages fearing for their shinobi if they send spies though." Hoshabi stated, looking at the Sandaime for approval. He nodded dumbly, watching these (basically) two legends converse about Orochimaru returning to Konoha.
"Then I agree. Well, I guess that means that the invasion is off-" Orochimaru started, right before the barrier came down and he saw that it had already started. "Oh. Well, I should probably call everyone off then... Kukuku..." He stared at the four that had been holding the barrier. "Well? Go tell them to stop and shut up!" Orochimaru ordered them. "We are going to be joining Konoha." The Sound four broke off and started to gather their shinobi and stop the rest of the fighting.
"Now I don't have to all that crappy paperwork!" Orochimaru exclaimed in glee. "Yes!" He started dancing as he thought about all the benefits of rejoining Konoha. "Oh yeah, I should probably put the real Kazekage back... That might be important..." He started mumbling all the things that he would have to, then he started mumbling about what he was going to do with all of his safe houses, experiments, and labs. "I should put them to better use... move that here... Oh! Where can I move in?" He suddenly asked.
Hoshabi was starting to look at her usual happy self again, though a section of her hair on the left side turned red. "You can move into the apartment building that I live in. Only these two guys and I live there and I own the building." They started talking about ways to prolong life and the apartment and other things as the walked away.
After all that, all Sarutobi could say was this: "What the fuck just happened?"
