Uzumaki Naruto Chronicles
Chapter 21
Authors notes: Hey guys, I hope you are liking the story thus far. A little note on the last chapter, for those of you who wanted more on the first part of the exam, I don't think its that important at all, so I didn't write much about it.
The second part of the chuunin exams was about to Naruto and Shikamaru had gotten an heaven scroll and were about to begin. *Naruto* Hinata called out through their mind links,*Good luck on this next part, from what you told me it should be pretty tough, but you and Shikamaru should have no problem getting through it. Just come back to me unscathed please.*
Naruto chuckled in their mind, *Hinata, I will do my best to get both Shikamaru and myself out of there unscathed, but we both know that might not happen. I sent Gamakichi and Gamatatsu to keep you company, they are on their way. I gotta go now though, I need 100% focus right now. I'll talk to you while we sleep though.*
*Ok Naruto, I will talk to you later.* with that Hinata shut off her mind link to Naruto and waited for the two toad summons, she had become good friends with lately. She enjoyed their company however, she just wanted to get out of this rotten place and go see Naruto train, or go home even. But life wasn't going her way, she was afraid of everything now, she couldn't deal with people, the only people allowed into her room, bar nurses, were her team, and her father, plus now her toad friends. She was also withdrawn, she couldn't stay focused on anything, and she would often be caught just staring into space very vaguely, clearly not there at all. No she retreated into herself, into her thoughts, torturing herself with thoughts of what ifs and how comes, and so on. She would think to herself, if only I was stronger, I could've prevented all of this.
Or in other cases, while she retreated into herself, she would be tortured, by seeing the faces of the demon brothers, forever engrained into her thoughts, she feared she would always see the horrors of what they did to her every time she closed her eyes. Yet she didn't see fit to blame the evil bastards, she blamed herself, she hated herself for what they did to her. She felt dirty, she felt like a whore, a slut to the trash of the universe. And if she was a slut for the trash of the universe than that made her worse than them did it not. She confused herself with all the thoughts, but she came out to it being her fault every time. No matter how she looked at it, it was her fault that she was raped and tortured, she was to weak to stop them. She was unable to stop them from violating her in front of Naruto and she was unable to save herself. Hinata figured, she would always feel like a weak little whore, no matter what.
However another thing that really got to her wasn't just that she was dirty, but how could Naruto ever want her now? She was a weak dirty whore; it went against everything he was for. He was her pillar of strength, he was strong, he was pure he was clean. He stood for loyalty.
While she retreated into herself and thought about these things, she still had nightmares, every time she went to sleep, until Naruto would come and rescue her and bring her into his dreams, sometimes they would be alone and just talk about whatever came to mind, sometimes they would just sit and not talk at all. They would sit in companionable silence, while Naruto held her. Or other times they would go and talk to Kyuubi, Hinata was supposed to start her training with Kyuubi as soon as she got out of the hospital, and had recuperated enough to handle any training whatsoever. She was in pretty bad shape and she still could barely move a muscle. As it turned out the demon brothers thought to leave her with another parting gift, poison, she had been injected, she guessed while she was knocked out in the cave before they tortured her, the poison stayed off the radar on the standard tests, you had to be looking for it to find it. And to make matters worse, there was no antidote, she had to wait for it to run its course and leave her body, which was guessed to take another week at least, then her body would start properly healing.
She was pulled out of her thoughts by Gamatatsu, jumping onto her lap and saying, "Hinata how are you today?" she was startled at first but quickly calmed down and started talking to her toad friends.
FOREST OF DEATH
Naruto and Shikamaru jumped through the trees at a medium pace, Shikamaru had already devised a plan, plus about a hundred back up plans, only a few of which he shared with Naruto. They would travel a little ways in, then when they found a good spot they would set up camp, and go from there. They found a spot and Shikamaru started setting out intricate traps all over the place. He went through hundreds of different scenarios and set up traps for each one. While he was doing this, Naruto and clones were gathering fire wood and fishing, and hunting for edible fruits and plants. Since living with Kakashi, his aloof Sensei had taught him better survival skills and such, so this was no biggie for him.
When both of them had finished they sat together and cooked the fish and had themselves a feast while about 100 Naruto clones were surrounding them hidden in the trees standing guard along with the traps that had been set.
Before they went to bed Naruto created another 100 clones and sent them to patrol the area, so no one could get in without Naruto knowing, with that said they were both able to sleep and didn't need to stand watch at all.
When morning came the two team mates gathered their stuff and headed out into the forest hoping to find a team in which they could battle for their scrolls.
They finally came upon a team of rock ninjas and Naruto asked, "Hey which scroll do you guys have?"
The team of rock ninja replied, "We have heaven, and you?" however as they said it they attacked. Two of them charged while one hung back to fling kunai, shuriken at them as well as firing ranged jutsus. The leader broke off and ran at Naruto throwing a kunai at him.
Naruto waved his hand emitting a weak fuuton:gust jutsu, (He has trained with it so much he doesn't need hand signs to mold the chakra, or need to say the name of the jutsu, consequently its much weaker, but still strong enough to deflect a kunai.) the small gust of wind knocked away the kunai and Naruto yelled out, "Hey we both have heaven scrolls, there is no need to fight, we both have the same scroll there is no advantage."
The leader of the rock team replied, "Haha, just like a weak leaf ninja to say that, we want to take all the leaf teams out. In fact out here, there is no one to stop us from killing you weaklings."
Naruto had heard enough, he was pissed, he was no weakling, he didn't care who this guy was, he was going down. Naruto sped towards him taking out a kunai and blocking the assault of thrown ninja tools from the range attacker on their team. He dodged the last kunai and created 3 clones to keep the last ninja busy while he dealt with the first one. The leader shouldn't be to hard to deal with but Naruto never underestimated anyone. He threw his kunai and then increased his speed to high levels though with his weights on he couldn't go nearly as fast as he would have liked, they had increased his training weights to 200 pounds on each arm and 250 pounds on each leg, it was shocking he could move at all, let alone go as fast as he still could. Though Shikamaru was pretty sure the only reason he was able to add weight so often was because he would pump chakra to his muscles when he got more weight so it affected him less. It helped him double, it helped increase his chakra supply, as well as build his muscles, speed, and power.
Naruto sped towards the leader and threw 2 kunai at him, he followed up by jumping into the air and aiming a snap kick at his opponents head. The rock leader raised his arm and tried to block it but the energetic blond ninja's kick powered through the block, the arm barely slowing down the kick as it plowed into his head. He was forced back as Naruto landed and flipped away immediately. "You know," Naruto said, "You really should have dodged that one, but you got cocky, you think I am weak and decided to try to block that kick, let me tell you, if you underestimate me, you will lose this battle, no matter how strong you think you are!"
With that said Naruto charged again, he jumped up and attempted the snap kick again, only to have the rock ninja dodge it, and his yelled Doton: stone spears jutsu. Spikes shot up from the ground around, where Naruto had been but he was already gone. He had jumped into the trees and then flipped down in front of the range attacker, going into a series of kicks and punches so fluidly it was amazing, Naruto flowed from kicks to punches flawlessly, he would lash out with a kick and end the kick in perfect position for the next attack. He hit the poor guy so many times before he jumped away from the kunai the leader had thrown at him. The leader charged him. Naruto got into a defensive stance and waited. The leader threw a punch which Naruto blocked and countered, he punched the ninja in the face before grabbing his arm and pulling the ninja towards himself and right into his elbow, he elbowed him once more, before grabbing the stunned ninjas head and pulling down while bringing his knee up into the leaders head, effectively knocking him out.
Shikamaru was having an easy time with the rock ninja he was facing, he had already captured him in his shadow after tricking him by throwing an explosive note to his left while his shadow waited to the right, when the ninja jumped right to avoid the explosion, his shadow was already there waiting for him. Shikamaru then knocked him out by walking him towards a tree and making him bash his head into the tree.
With the rock team taken care of, Shikamaru found the heaven scroll they had, and took it. With that the two of them left and continued on towards the tower.
It was another couple hours until they saw another team. It was a team from the mist village, and they looked rather ruthless, however Naruto was confident they could take them.
"Naruto, if I can get them with my shadow jutsu you can just walk up and steal the scroll, but I am willing to bet that it will miss, and they are prepared. If that happens one of them will probably substitute over here, don't even look at him though, you immediately attack the other two that will still be across the river. Do you think you can take two of them?"
Naruto grinned, "Yeah I should be able to get two of them."
Shikamaru nodded and they put their plan in motion. As the genius Nara expected, one of them substituted over near them and Naruto charged the other two. The first one fired a kick at Naruto's head, and while he ducked he had to spin out of the way of the low kick sent by his teammate. Naruto jumped backwards flipping out of the way of kunai as they hit the ground. He landed and threw two kunai while following them, the two teammates started throwing Kunai at him only for him to take out a kunai and deflect them all. However once he got to the two, they again watched eachothers backs, and while he couldn't get a hit in neither could they. So Naruto flipped back again and decided on a different approach. He did hand signs and yelled Katon firewall jutsu and pushed his hands at the two and a wall of fire came at them at high speeds. They weren't expecting this and it knocked them down and they lost sight of Naruto. That is until 4 Narutos came flying through the fire wall at them, "Block this!" they all yelled. With his fuuton hand blades activated on each of them they attacked and tore up the two ninjas.
Shikamaru was finished as well, he had won his battle easily his opponent had fallen into his trap immediately. , "Alright Naruto good job, you get their scroll?"
Yeah I did they had the earth scroll, I took it and gave it to a toad summons along with the heaven scroll, Just like you told me to."
"Good now lets head towards the tower. " Shikamaru replied, then continued, "Keep your guard up, my gut is saying something bad is about to happen." Naruto nodded, did a couple of handsigns, that Kyuubi consisting of a handsign that was unknown to Shikamaru, Naruto told him it was the demon handsign and used it for demon jutsus, he whispered, "Demon style: Fox ears." With that his hearing increased to 500 times better than his normal hearing. He then activated his fox eyes and had his guard up completely.
They were jumping through the tree tops when all of a sudden they hear Katon: fire ball jutsu, Naruto turned around towards the oncoming fireball and yelled Doton:Stone wall jutsu! And a giant wall came up from the ground blocking the fireball, Naruto then pushed the wall at an incoming Sasuke.
Sasuke jumped over it and threw kunai at Naruto, Naruto waved his hand emitting a small gust of wind knocking the throwing weopons out of the way. "Shikamaru whats the plan?" he asked Shikamaru looked at him and asked him, can you take Sasuke and Sakura and I'll take Kiba." Naruto nodded and rushed his two opponents, Sasuke rushed at him as well, with Sakura launching weopons at Naruto.
As Naruto and Sasuke battled they got deeper and deeper into the forest, Naruto had already incapacitated Sakura, by breaking her arm and taking away her weapons pouch and adding her tools to his own tool set. Which had infuriated Sasuke, because apparently the two evil idiots, were madly in love with eachother.
All of a sudden a snake comes out of the ground directly under Naruto and swallows him whole. Sasuke was in shock when a man riding the snake attacked him. The man was so fast that Sasuke was unable to see him hardly at all, all of a sudden his snake started expanding and blew up. Thousands of Narutos were in its place. Naruto attacked him and the man laughed, he was much faster than Naruto, and was destroying him. Naruto had enough and took off his weights, he had to. He charged now much faster and stronger.
But it still wasn't enough, he jumped away and next to Sasuke, "Sasuke as much as I hate saying this, we have to work together if we want a chance," Naruto said. Sasuke nodded but when Naruto turned around Sasuke powered up a jutsu, Double Chidori he yelled and shoved two lighting covered hands through Naruto's chest. Naruto coughed up blood and turned to him, Sasuke smirked and Naruto passed out. That's when Orochimaru attacked with a powerful jutsu, Doton, earth tent, with that two wedges of rock surrounded the two, Orochimaru yelled spikes, spikes emerged from the rocks, the evil snake then clasped his hands together and yelled converge. The rock formation started converging onto the unconscious and close to death Naruto, and the bastard Sasuke.
To be continued…
End chapter 21
Sorry it took so long to update guys, here are my excuses, I have been practicing so much golf lately, on top of that working, on top of that I was grounded for a short time, on top of that, school papers and projects took their toll and my time and finally I got into a car accident and had to fix her up myself, had to remove the front struts, off my 2000 mustang gt, my baby… and put new ones on, then when I got it fixed finally, I turn it on to see service engine light, take her to the auto store to get a check run and find out it's the airflow system and stuff such as that so I spent hours taking apart the airflow components, air filter, idle air control valve, throttle body, massive airflow sensor and so on. Didn't work, car runs amazing now, bless her engine, but light is still on, im going to need new hoses for the airflow, and have a buttload of body work and painting to do b4 she is back to knew, im serious, I fell asleep in the driver seat while taking a break like three times…. During summer and such, I should be able to update a lot more I hope, again I am so sorry for the long wait, I really didn't want to do this to yall I will try to update more often! Yall keep me honest if its been a while send me a PM and tell me to get my arse in gear and write for my fans haha