I Don't Own Naruto
"Winner Gaara No Sabaku," declared Hayate looking at the destruction the two genin caused the arena. Looking to the Hokage for instructions the old man stood.
"With the arena destroyed we will take a five minute break for repairs," declared the old man.
Naruto walked down the stairs deciding to take a short walk into the forest to get some fresh air.
"Uzumaki can I have a word?" called a voice stopping him dead in his tracks. Turning around Naruto saw that it was the proctor for the previous stage Anko who called out to him, shrugging he moved over to her as she lead him away from the arena.
"She had been watching you since the end of your match she might have figured out it was you who helped her," declared the voice of Akane from within Naruto. The young ice wielding shinobi mentally shrugged it's not like he had been hiding it.
Within a few moment the two were on the roof of the tower, and were looking out over the forest and its deadly creatures.
"It's so peaceful here don't you think?" questioned Anko.
"Yeah it's quite peaceful out here," replied Naruto looking out over the forest before turning back to Anko. "But I'm sure that's not why you brought me here," continued Naruto with a knowing look.
"You're right I didn't bring you here to show you the view, I came here to relax myself when I ask you something," declared Anko looking very nervous.
"Whatever it is Anko-san just ask it, I won't judge you," said Naruto with a reassuring smile. Anko closed her eyes and took a deep breath not sure why she was so nervous.
"You showed of quite the skill set in your match, you seem to know your Fuinjutsu," spoke Anko gingerly.
"Yes it's one of my best skills I have trained very hard with it," declared Naruto proudly.
"I was just wondering if you know anything about curse marks?" questioned Anko not getting directly to the point she was trying for.
"Why? Do you have one on you you'd like removed?" asked Naruto, Anko shook her head.
"No that's the thing, I had one, but after a night of getting drunk someone saved me from a pair of rapists and then removed the mark," said Anko.
"So you're trying to find this person?" questioned Naruto getting a nod from Anko.
"I have talked to everyone in the village who knows Fuinjutsu and they all tell me that they have had nothing to do with it," said Anko.
"Why are you trying to find this person?" asked Naruto.
"Stop torturing her Naruto she is obviously uncomfortable talking about the mark just tell her it was you," berated Akane from within Naruto's mind.
"I just want to thank them, they removed such a burden from my shoulders," said Anko.
The two stood in silence for a moment Anko looking at Naruto who slowly closed his eyes before nodding.
"It was me, but … I didn't save you or remove that mark for a thanks Anko-san. Hence why I took you to the hospital and didn't stick around, I saved you because I hate rapists, and I removed the mark because I recognised it as an evil mark and I removed it," declared Naruto looking over the railing out at the forest, Anko looked at him shocked.
Once more silence overcame the two. Anko looked at Naruto before looking once more out over the forest before she spoke again.
"I made a promise to myself about that mark you know. I promised myself that if it ever got removed I would thank the person who did it in any way they wanted, be it treating them to a meal, giving them as much money they wanted or even my body for a night is there anything you want from me as a thanks?" asked Anko looking down at Naruto.
"No Anko-san seeing you smiling is enough of a thanks," said Naruto smiling at the woman who smiled at him rolling her eyes.
"Cheesy line kid," spoke Anko with a smirk and small shake of her head, Naruto smiled winking at Anko.
"Anyway I should head back the five minute break is surely up by now," declared Naruto before turning around and walking back towards the door back inside.
"Thank you Naruto," spoke Anko softly as the blond himself stepped back into the building.
Naruto dawdled back down the stairs to the arena, by the time he got there the next match had started.
Ino Verses Sakura. Naruto almost wanted to roll his eyes at the match.
Sakura was running at Ino, as fast as she could, barely faster than an asthmatic five year old with a sleeping drug in their system, with her fist cocked back. Ino sidestepped the punch grabbing Sakura's arm as she threw herself passed Ino.
The platinum blond then slammed her elbow into the back of Sakura's neck knocking the pink haired woman forwards.
"YOU BITCH" screeched Sakura stopping herself from being thrown into the ground, before spinning around and once again running at Ino.
"I finally see how pathetic you are Sakura," spoke Ino harshly, as she backhanded Sakura, causing the pink haired Kunoichi to spin around Ino who barely moved from her starting position.
"YOU SLUT HOW DARE YOU CALL ME PATHETIC," yelled Sakura pulling a kunai out of her pouch before running at Ino.
"How dare I? No Sakura, how dare YOU, how dare you even call yourself a Kunoichi, I bet you haven't trained so much as an hour since you left the academy," began Ino grabbing Sakura by the wrist she was holding the kunai in forcing the weapon out of her hand. "Not that you trained there anyway, you 'diet' so you don't get 'fat', any reasonable Kunoichi would eat what you do in a week, in a day and still be as skinny as you," declared Ino pulling Sakura forwards by her wrist, throwing her forwards into her awaiting arm clotheslining the pink haired banshee. "Because of that you don't have any muscle so any Taijutsu you do actually use pathetically weak, not that you do any Taijutsu simply relying on everyone else to save you," continued Ino as Sakura dragged herself to her feet.
"You, you, YOU BITCH," screamed Sakura running at Ino again. However this time Ino herself ran forwards, easily ten times as fast as Sakura sliding along the ground, using chakra to coat her legs to slide using one arm to catch Sakura's feet. As Ino slid past she kicked off the ground still with her arm wrapped around Sakura's legs, before slamming her free hand into Sakura's back slamming her into ground face first cracking the floor a little.
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"Consider any friendship we may have still had over," spat Ino beginning to walk away from the clearly unconscious Sakura.
"Winner Ino Yamanaka," called Hayate. Naruto watched as Sakura's sensei, Kurenai Yuhi if he remembered correctly, sighed walking down the stairs picking her unconscious student up before Shunshining to the hospital.
Naruto used the opportunity to once again climb the stairs to the balconies above the arena, noting that the randomiser was running while he did to declare the next matchup.
"Nicely done Ino," spoke Naruto as Ino moved passed him.
"Thanks Naruto," replied Ino stepping around her blond teammate and taking a seat next to her team.
"Could Shino *cough cough* Aburame, Fu Uzumaki *cough cough*, Kin Tsuchi and Za-*cough cough* Zaku Abumi please come down here," ordered Hayate.
Naruto smirked as the four requested nin descended to the ground floor. The blond knew that the fight could go either way and was intrigued by the match and who would actually emerge victorious.
"Are all combatants ready?" questioned Hayate as the four young shinobi stood in ready stances on the arena.
"Yes," confirmed Zaku bringing his arms up ready to attack.
"Let's go," agreed Kin narrowing her eyes as she reached towards her weapons pouch.
"Ready," declared Fu bringing her hands together to begin moulding her chakra.
Shino said nothing but nodded to the proctor as small bugs began to emerge from his skin.
"Begin," called Hayate before jumping backwards.
"Zankūha (Decapitating Airwaves)," called Zaku pointing his hands at Shino and Fu sending out a wave of air the second the match started.
Fu leapt in front of Shino as she flipped through a short chain of hand signs.
"Kichin Yoroi (Chitin Armour)," called Fu bringing her arms up into a cross formation in front of her as he normally mocha coloured skin turned a dark blue just as the air wave hit. Fu stood strong against the wave as it pushed her back a few inches but nothing more, not even a nick on her arms, however as she dropped her arms to the side they returned to their normal mocha hue.
Kin threw a handful of senbon at the ground around Fu.
"You missed," commented Fu with a smirk, however Kin matched Fu's smirk with her own immediately setting the green haired girl on edge however she couldn't concentrate on Kin for long as Zaku began to run forwards.
Shino ran off towards the side throwing a pair of Kunai towards Kin but she nimbly dodged, before plucking the wire attached to her thrown needles, making bells chime.
Zaku smirked as he went to punch Fu knowing that the green haired girl would be under his teammate's genjutsu however as he went to punch the stationary Fu she smirked before delivering a powerful uppercut to the young man's jaw knocking him skywards.
"Impossible you should be under my genjutsu," growled Kin once again plucking at the wires on her senbon making the bells chime, however this time Fu ran straight at the girl with a kunai in hand.
leaping into the air Fu decended upon Kin who quickly drew a kunai of her own to defend against the falling kunoichi.
"Sorry but i can't be put under many genjutsu," declared Fu with a smirk.
"Well then," replied Kin with a smirk pushing Fu back before jumping back twitching her hand before it became engulfed in smoke.
Zaku recovering from the punch to his chin ran towards Shino who quickly jumped back from the oncoming enemy nin and threw his arms forwards sending out a swarm of bugs.
Zaku stopped dead in his tracks before jumping backwards and quickly going through hand signs.
"Katon Honōnonami (Fire Style Flame Wave)," called Zaku shooting a wave of flame out from the tubes in his hands towards the bugs.
The swarm of bugs split in two flying above and bellow the wave as Shino spun to the side to avoid the attack, Zaku used the repositoning to his advantage and ran towards Shino avoiding the bugs as best he could.
As Zaku drew close to Shino he twitched his hand creating a cloud of smoke around it however a short straight glimmering silver blade pierced the cloud of smoke headed towards Shino, however the cloaked Konoha shinobi followed Zaku's lead twitchng his hand before in a cloud of smoke a wooden bo staff appeared in his hands to block the tanto blade.
Alright people chapter over...
once more... i apologize for this taking so long to update...
anyway... the chapter recap.
so the begin we have Anko confronting Naruto about his role in the removal of her mark
before the 'match' between Sakura and Ino
and then the beginning of Shino and Fu V Kin and Zaku.
anywho...
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