Author: nothing new.
T.O.B: When you do make a story, i'll be happy to read it. Though your title is...to be blunt...it sucks. That, and dragons are overrated in Naruto fics. They've been used so many times that dragons are to comman.
I can tell you now, the Naruto in this fic will NEVER have a dragon summoning, oh hell no. There maybe ONE dragon in this fic, but besides that, screw them...
but, i'm interested in the story. So tell me more please...
Zexion72: Damn straight. thanks for telling me about the gates, by the way...
Cormalin: Sure, it's already been decided.
Lillian-is-Fickle: What can I say, i'm not the best speller in the world, but if you enjoy the fic, dose it matter? Thanks for reviewing.
midnight-angle-of-darkness: Thanks for reviewing...damn, you have such a kickass name...
Anime-Boy07 : Squirrels shall rule some day...thanks for reviewing...
BooTheGhost: A little late, but at least i've pratically rearanged who Hinata acts...so we don't have to put up with her shyness anymore...thanks for reading.
loaned: Damn straight, Lee is the man. NAruto being rapped won't in this one...unless I get bored anyway.
Fluffykogome: thanks for reviewing.
Blue Bargon: Probably, in a sense...though he still has 'it'.
Hope master: Actually, it was longer then the chapter before it...so, yeah.
Dragon noir: Thank you for the information on the gates, it was a big help. think you could tell me where the fanart with lee and the squiirel is?
disclaimer: I do not own naruto
Enjoy the fic.
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Hidden in the grass...
The afternoon sun was shining brightly above, as a breeze past by Hinata. It felt so good to her, being out in the hot sun and all. She glanced around the area from the cliff she was standing on, admiring it's beauty. It had been a few day's since the beginning of the field exam, and nothing had really happened. Hinata and her team had managed to get three points so far, taking care as to who they attacked. It would have been stupid and reckless to attack just anybody after all.
To tell the truth, it had been very dull for Hinata. She had not scene any of her friends ( minus team mates.) Since the beginning of the exam. Which could be a good or bad thing, depending on the situation. Since Hinata was so bored at the moment...it would be a good thing. She was able to find something that could slightly keep her interest, which was the beautiful scenery of the area that the exam was taken placed.
" Esuna would like this." Hinata thought, as she looked around the area. It was breath taking for Hinata, to see so many different areas in on spot. It looked, at the same time, both man made and natural. It was awkward when she stared at the area from the cliff, seeing all the different area's together, but it was something that she wouldn't turn up. Hinata knew that she was an easy target while standing on the cliff, but the scenery was just so good...
...speaking of easy targets.
Hinata wiped out a kunai and deflected some shuriken into random directions. Hinata stared lazy at the forest behind her, as she waited for whoever threw the shuriken to come out and attack her. That's if they ever got the chance anyway. Hinata went back to looking at the scenery, as she heard screams coming from the forest. A second later, both Shino and Kiba dropped down from the tree's, Arkumare following them down a second later. Kiba grinned at her, while Shino kept his stoic expression.
" Hinata-chan! We've got four points now!" Kiba yelled to her, as Hinata smiled and took one last look at the scenery, before going over to her team mates.
She'd have to give up looking at the scenery...for now...
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"Aikusa-chan, these guy's have two points. Come get yours." Naruto said, as Aikusa walked over to Naruto. Aikusa had been traveling with them for the past few days now, helping them from time to time and them in return helping her. Naruto even gave her any excess points that they found. Naruto's team now had three points, while Aikusa had two. Your probably wondering, why the hell is she still collecting points if she doesn't have a team, quite simple.
This isn't the chunin exam, so the same rules don't apply. She was able to complete the test as long as she had a device and it had five points. On higher rank missions, your team mates have a higher possibility of dying. Meaning that you have a higher possibility of having to complete the mission by yourself. So during the jounin exam, you had the option of complete the test on your own. Which Aikusa was.
Aikusa had abandoned her suit awhile back, having switched it for some other clothes. She said that she didn't want to wear the same damn thing as her idiot team mates. She was now wearing dark brown baggy pant's and a black sleeve-less shirt. Wearing black fingerless gloves and sandles as well. The only thing that really stood out was her having two large pouches instead of one. She was apparently not only the medic-nin, but the leader of the group. So, basically, her other two team mates were fucked without her.
Those sad, strange little men.
Aikusa was quite grateful to them for allowing her to tag along, after all, she also would have been fucked without their help. Sasuke didn't like the idea, as Sakura took it as an opportunity to take to someone else, much to Naruto's happiness. Don't get him wrong, he had nothing against Sakura, no, he actually somewhat respected her. But, he could only take so much bitching, even though it was part of a Uzumaki's life style. Seriously, it was.
Okay, let's start from the beginning. The Uzumaki's were/are one of the most powerful clan's in konoha , we know this, but what make's them powerful. It's, more or less, their training skills and ability to adapt to any situation. It's not a blood limit, but more of a hormone ( artifically made, of course ) that flows through their body, allowing them to figure out any and all ways to escape the situation. To be blunt, you could never catch a Uzumaki...alive anyway. But that's getting off point on why they put up with bitching on a daily basis. The truth is that the Uzumakis are mostly...females, well they were until the clan was destroyed due to the third war. Jiraiya was one of the few survivors of the clan, and was in all terms a pervert, so most females tried to stay away from him. Naruto still doesn't know how he managed to marry Tsunade...he really doesn't.
It's very rare, for someone from the clan to have more males then females, so you can imagine everyone's surprise faces when Jiraiya ended up having two son's and only one daughter, adopting another son later on.
Beside's that, the Uzumaki's didn't really specialize in anything really. They branched out into all aspects of the shinobi world. Taijutsu, ninjutsu, genjutsu, weapons (ect). They were genius's that came up with some of most powerful skills in the world, some of which people could only dream of.
The Rasengan...for example.
Naruto himself rarely used the technique...since his father made it. It's not that he didn't care for him, it's just with how Naruto looked. If he were to take on a group of leaf-nin and charge at them with the Rasengan, they would mostly likely think that he was the yellow flash. Seriously, that's how attached they were to him. He stood out like all of the Uzumaki males, one way or another. Naruto didn't want anyone to see him as his father, but for him and who he was. Which would be hard, considering that he would either be described as a hero or demon in this village, never something normal, never an average person.
Life for Naruto...sucked.
Naruto sighed just thinking about it, before looking over at Aikusa. She was blushing...again. She had been for the past day or so for some reason. Every time she came close to Naruto she would blush furiously and keep somewhat quite. He wondered why her attitude took a 180 turn from what she was the first time he meet her, but he would find out eventually.
Until then, he was going back to his mental world of ramen and monkeys...
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Three grass-nin ran through the forest at high speeds towards their objective. The leader slightly out ahead of the rest. They had failed the first time, only managing to mark their prey, but not capture it. They all agreed that this would be the time that they succeeded in their goal, they didn't have much time left anyway.
It was all or nothing...
They would have succeeded last time, if not for that boy...oh how they hated that boy. He was dead now yes, but he was the one that gave their target the power to over come them, even if it was for only a small period of time. What he became be the is what puzzled them, since the boy seemed to have some primitive form of a blood limit that transform him into that thing, but it didn't matter. As long as he was the last of them, they wouldn't have to worry. And if there were any...
They would kill them.
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Irvine sneezed, as he rubbed his nose. He was busy looking for something to eat in the forest section of the area, trying to see if there was anything worth eating. Everyone stayed in the area that best fit them. Leaf in the forest, cloud and rock on the mountains, mist by the lake (ect). So ,of course, his team was still in the forest section or 'zone'. They had split up for a couple of hours to look for food, but were a bit reluctant to let him go...why, he was considered the weakest.
On one of the few occasions that Irvine ever did this...he snorted at the thought.
Weakness or strength can not be used in that way. Every person has a weakness and every person has a strength. They just happened to find their strength faster. That...and people consider a lot of the time that if you can't do what they can, then your weak, regardless. Besides, thinking someone is weaker then you is arrogance and thinking someone is stronger then you would have a lack of self-esteem.
Or that's what he read out of a book once...he didn't believe a word it said.
Anyway, back to the subject at hand. Irvine was currently moving through the forest, trying to find any food at all. He had been searching for three hours straight and found nothing that 'they' could eat. He did kill a few over sized bugs, but Okami doesn't eat bugs since she use's them and Hanabi...doesn't eat bugs. In this place, it could cost you to be picky, but oh well. He at least found some giant tigers awhile back and was able to get something off of them. They were annoying to kill, but well worth it.
Irvine continued to search a little more until he found an interesting sight. A little weasel was caught in a bear trap. The weasel was white and, believe it or not, was wearing a small black vest. It had a little black bandage covering it's left eye. Irvine wondered why it was wearing clothing but let it slide, figuring that it belonged to someone.
Then why would it be out here?
he walked towards the creature, as it continued to try and pull itself out of the trap. Irvine was careful not to make a noise, as he approached it. That was until he stepped on a twig, causing it to jerk it's head towards him. They just stared at each other for a few seconds, before Irvine took another step.
"Easy, I just want to help you out." Irvine stated, as he reached down towards the trap. After a minute or two of tinkering with the trap, he was able free it. The creature scurried away from the trap as fast as possible and into a bush, while Irvine smiled as he watched it run away. Irvine turned around and was about to continue searching for food, when he heard a 'poof' sound coming from behind. He looked back over at the bush to see a large puff of smoke coming form behind it. Irvine raised an eyebrow, as he walked over towards the bush and made his way through it. Their wasn't a sign of the creature at all, while Irvine wondered what was going on. He took another step forward and stopped, noticing that he had stepped on something.
Irvine looked down to see that it was a small yellow scroll with some words on it.
He picked it up and began to read what was on it, his eye's widening when he finished.
" Summoning...contract..."
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" Kin-chan, are you done using the bathroom yet?" Duso yelled out to Kin, who was continuing to stuff her face with chips from behind a few dozen tree's. She said that she needed to be that far, because she wanted to have her privacy. Beside's, no one wanted to piss her off, hell no, that was the last thing that they wanted to do. They just decided to give her space so she could finish taking a crap.
Kin had already been pissed off today when duso tried to take a piss in front of her. He ended up getting sent through a tree. The good thing was that he already had bandage's on his head, so they didn't have to stop to treat it. They had already wasted enough time as it is. It had been quite some time since they started the exam, and they had only gotten three points. They were being careful, deciding who to attack and who to leave alone. So, that limited them, instead of others who would just rush in and kill mindlessly, which where quite a few actually.
Kin sighed, as she finished off a hand full of chips and stuck the rest of the bag into her pouch for later. That guy-Choji, really was a genius. She hand gotten to enjoy a lot of junk food because of the seal he put on the pouch. She now hand hundreds of pounds of junk food stored in it, and she loved every aspect of the bag.
She wondered if she would see Choji again, maybe he would have another humongous bag of chips that she could have. Kin drooled at the thought of it. Choji himself wasn't that bad, he seemed like a good guy, even with how large he was. He, for someone that she thought would also be mostly concerned with food, was a actually gentlemen. Even though in Konoha that may not seem like much, but where she comes from, that would be a HUGE plus. Especially with how arrogant the people in her village were.
Either way, if she really wanted to see him. Then she could always just try and eat the last chip...
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Three figures swept through the forest, as their shadows could be briefly seen on the ground. They were so close now, it had taken them a few day's since the beginning to traverse the 'zones' to find them, but it would soon be worth it. They would soon have the prize that they had been searching for, they would soon have the person that escaped them so long ago. They passed by several teams on the way to their target. Of course they had no interest in them, in what they came for.
It started to annoy them when the other teams got in their way, even though they quickly disposed of them, it still slowed them down. They were running out of so much essential time, every second they needed. If they didn't get their target before their time limit was up, then they would lose it for quite some time. They need to get it before 'those things' showed up. After that, it would all be lost.
The figures continued to jump from branch to branch, as they soared through the tree tops at unimaginable speeds. They were close, they could feel it. A few minutes later they stopped on a large branch and looked down towards the ground. All three of them smiled...
They had found they're target...
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