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Betryal Chapter Twenty-Five: Plans Set Into Motion
(In The Streets of Konoha)
Naruto appeared in the middle of the streets and started walking like he didn't kill anything in the past six hours. Many of the civilians backed away from him fearfully, hoping he didn't make them his next target. Naruto just smiled at them, and even waved at a couple of people, he was just happy to be out of that forest, with all those overgrown spiders.
He felt countless chakra signatures indicating that ANBU were just now getting to him. He then felt them surround his position and move with him in a circle, slowly converging on his position, waiting for the perfect time to get him.
Naruto reached the "square" of the village, where there was a lot of space, being filled in by a lot of people. Mostly civilians going on with there day, and some Chuunins and Genins, just conversing with each other.
When Naruto entered the nearby people started scattering everywhere, trying to quickly get away from him, as they heard the stories of him killing an "innocent" civilian and ANBU member.
It didn't take long before the whole square was empty, and soon the ANBU appeared everywhere in it, some parted and the Hokage was seen walking toward him, and he didn't seem all that happy, as an angry aura was surrounding his person. Not to mention KI was settling in the area.
Naruto's face went from carefree to blank when he seen the Hokage walking towards him. His eyes then traveled around the area, looking at the ANBU surrounding him. He stood there in his cloak with his hood down, feeling a little out numbered, but not intimidated in the least.
When the Hokage was only ten meters away from Naruto he spoke, "Uzumaki, what were you thinking when you slaughtered a fifth of my ANBU force and some of my Jounins?" he said with an authoritative tone, as he demanded an answer to his question.
Naruto kept his face blank as he looked at the Hokage, his red eyes burning in withheld bloodlust. "I don't know Hokage-sama, like I told your ANBU before I killed them, maybe I needed to kill something… after all I am a demon." he said saying the word "sama" with a bit of covered sarcasm.
The Hokage showed no surprised when he heard this, he knew that one of these days the demon was going to crack and start randomly attack his people. He cursed himself for not killing him when he was born. He then thought of the perfect plan, the demon will die, but not now.
He showed a frown, "Your right a demon should be allowed to cut loose when his bloodlust gets to high. How about after the finals I'll give you a mission where you can release all the bloodlust you want, or you can do it during the invasion." he said turning around shocking his ANBU as he wasn't handling the demon like they thought he would.
"But Hokage-sama the demon needs to be put in his place, he killed our brothers in cold blood." one of the nearest ANBU said to his leader.
The Hokage kept walking, "Iguru (Eagle), don't you think I know that, but no leave him alone for now." he said not looking back as most of the ANBU's vanished from their spots in understanding of their leader. Three other ANBU's stayed not entirely like their leader's decision.
A smirk appeared on Naruto's face as he watched the ANBUs leave the area, it stayed on when three of them stayed, "Your going to kill them aren't you?" Taiyo asked from inside of Naruto's high collared cloak. Naruto just nodded his head and began to step back when the ANBU began to walk toward him.
Naruto backed into a shadow in an alley, and promptly disappeared from view of the approaching ANBU. "Where did the demon go?" one of them said with panic in his voice as he couldn't sense its demonic chakra anymore. At 6:30 p.m. the alleys of Konoha were in the stages of getting darker and darker.
"Don't worry about not sensing its evil chakra, we'll hear him eventually." One of the other ANBU said. Soon a gurgling sound was heard as both of the first ANBU turned around to see the third ANBU with his throat slit and on the floor trying to keep the blood in his neck, before dieing on the floor, a small pool of blood around his head.
They then heard the faint, sinister voice of Naruto, "One down." he said, his voice bouncing off of the walls all around the ANBU.
The first ANBU, panicked even more at seeing the third ANBU on the floor. He looked to the second ANBU but he didn't see his head on his body, a thud was heard to the floor, he looked down to see the head of the second ANBU on the floor. "Two down." the same voice was heard.
They both could hear villagers starting to walk back into the square and the ANBU tried to leave and join, but felt that he couldn't feel his own chakra. "Three down." the sinister voice said again, making the only ANBU left start running towards the mouth of the alley, but couldn't as he couldn't even move his limbs. He fell the to the floor with a thud, landing next to the dismembered head of his comrade.
He tried to scream but a sound didn't come out as a kunai connected with the back of his head. The whisker teen's face was seen coming out of the same shadow he went into, he shook his head, at the performance of the village's most elite ninjas, before he completely vanished from the alley and made his way home.
(Namikaze Mansion)
Naruto appeared in front of his door and entered. Yugito and Murasaki went to the hotel room of the Yondaime Raikage, Haku went to get her stuff ready for tomorrow, Akane, was most likely in his room waiting for him, Taifu was getting settled back into his room, after coming back to it a couple of hours ago.
Zabuza was in the dojo training with his cleaver. Kimimaro was in the kitchen sipping a cup of calming tea, while testing the speed at which his bones could come out of his body.
Anko, she was behind him trying to cut into his cheek to get some of his blood. He took a step forward, making her blade miss his cheek, he then heard her whine a little at not getting any of his blood. "Oh calm down Ko-nee-chan, how about I treat you to some dango, since I'm not giving you any blood." he said the last part when Anko tried again.
Anko squealed a little and grabbed Naruto's hand and they bolted out of the mansion, even though she just came from the shop, she was happy to be going back. Before they got to far from the mansion Naruto created three shadow clones to do something for him.
Naruto and Anko were now in the streets of the clan district, since they had to pass it to get to the dango shop and they didn't feel like body flickering there, as it was a nice night out. "Did I thank you for treating me to dango yet Naru-kun?" Anko asked her brother as she resisted the urge to just skip down to the shop in her current mood. "Well if I didn't then, thank you, you're the best little brother in the world." she said giving him a big hug from behind him.
Naruto shook his head, and felt her breast on his back, as she hugged him, he was used to this whenever she did this. He had felt a slight flux of chakra a couple of minutes ago, but paid no attention to it as they did live in a ninja village. But as they walked down the dirt pathway, they seen somebody on the floor in front of the Hyuuga Compound.
As they got closer to the body, the began to realize that it was Neji, that was on the floor. Naruto quickly walked and crouched next to one of his only friends in the village. "Neji are you alright, what happened to you?" Naruto asked lift the Hyuuga's head a little seeing his white blank eyes. He noticed from his eyes that he was unconscious and barely breathing, he then noticed that the seal on his forehead was beginning to dim, showing that it was in use recently.
Naruto cursed the seal, and picked the boy's body up and put him over his shoulder, "Sorry Ko-chan, but I have to take Neji to the house, and try to find a way to get rid of this seal." the blond said apologizing to his purple haired sister. "If you still want some dango, I'll give you some money." he said as they began walking back to their mansion.
She shook her head, as she followed him, also concerned for his little friend. "No I know how you are with finding a way to counteract a seal, and I want to be there." she said reaching up to her neck where her curse seal used to be, and smiled down at her brother, as they both picked up the speed.
When Naruto entered into his home, he set Neji on the couch, and Kimimaro looked up from what he was doing in confusion, as he witnessed this happen.
Naruto then began to intently looked at the fluctuating light of the seal on Neji's forehead, the whiskered demon's hand glowed red, as he put his hand on the Hyuuga's forehead, making the glowing stop and shut off. What he did was cancel the chakra going into the seal with his own.
When Kimimaro walked over to the couch to watch his master he, like the others, seen Neji take a deep breath and his labored breath began to regulate.
Naruto looked at the seal on his head, and seem to be studying for hours, but it was only two hours. He had been writing notes in a scroll as he overlooked the complicated seal, it wasn't as advanced as the Hiraishin but it was around the level of Orochimaru's curse seal.
Anko and Kimimaro watched in amazement as Naruto worked on the seal. Naruto took out a vial of ink and pricked Neji's finger and dropped some of the Hyuuga's blood into the vial. He then properly mixed it before he started drawing counter acting seals onto Neji's forehead.
Working carefully he didn't notice the rest of his crew come from what ever they were and watch this process. After Neji's whole face and some of his shoulders were covered with seals, Naruto did some hand seals and took a deep breath as he held both of his hands over Neji's forehead.
The same red glow appeared around the crimson haired teen, as all the seals started converging towards the, now glowing, green curse seal. When some of the seals connected with a certain part of the curse seal it and that part of the curse seal, exploded, and all that was left was a little cloud of smoke that rose up in the air a couple of inches. This continued until there was nothing else, and Naruto leaned back and brought the back of his hand and wiped the sweat off of his forehead, as he looked around at all the people, who were looking at him in total amazement. "What, do I have something on my face?" he asked with a playful smirk on his face as he looked back to Neji, and now replacing the curse seal was a little scar that will heal completely in time.
Before any of the audience could respond the three clones from before walked into the room, with scrolls in their hands. "We're done boss." they said in unison as they laid the scrolls across from him.
Naruto nodded at them, as they dispelled themselves, "Good." Naruto simply said as he sealed the scrolls in another scroll and sealed it in his blood seal on his arm.
The others were confused by this, "Naruto-kun, what were in those scrolls?" Haku asked her boyfriend. Akane had an idea on what they were but also wanted to know, as did everyone else.
Naruto looked at them, as if just noticing they were there, "Oh they were just my belongings, like the techniques from my father's library, everything in the armory, all of my clothes, and my mother and father's cloaks with the names they are feared by on the back." Naruto said standing up from his seat by Neji's side. "Something big is going to happen tomorrow, other than the invasion, and I want you all to pack everything you have because I have a feeling that we're not going to be in this village any longer." he said going into the kitchen to make him something to rejuvenate his body after the sealing before he went to sleep.
The others trusted Naruto's judgment and went to pack their things, some not liking that they had to be on the run again, but with a group of this size, then they had no problem. Akane stayed downstairs and walked up to her mate. "Naru-kun, your going to leave the village now aren't you?" She asked putting her hand on his shoulder, not stopping him from sipping some of the tea Kimimaro had prepared and nodding his head.
Naruto set the cup down, "Yes earlier instead of getting a punishment from the Hokage for killing some of his shinobi, he let me go free. When that happened I knew that he had something planned and now I just want to be prepared so I'm going to have some shadow clones do some things while I sleep." he said getting up and taking her hand in his as he guided her up stairs. "Come on we have a lot of planning to do." he said as they entered his empty room, save for the bed which the clones didn't seal since they weren't supposed to.
Neji stayed sleep on the couch as three shadow clones exited the mansion and went to do their jobs.
(The Next Day) (Finals of the Chuunin Exam)
The seats of the stadium were filling up and delegates from many countries were seating in their appointed seats as many of them made bets on the days fights. Some of them placed their bets on the Namikaze heir and some placed their bets on the youngest of the Sabaku family. Some also put their bets on the Hyuuga prodigy, who was now standing in the middle of the stadium with the other contestants with his headband over his head. He had been giving orders from Naruto that his strength was just beginning to replenish and that he should just forfeit the match, to save his energy for what was about to come.
Neji had also told Naruto why he was in front of the Hyuuga compound yesterday, and it was because he snapped on some of the main family and attacked Hinabi in the process, which he was sorry about, but he was still punished by most of the main branch that activated his seal. He was lucky that Naruto found him when he did, because another hour like that and he would be dead. Ironically Hinata nor Hinabi activated his curse seal, which he was further happy about.
Many of the teams were in the stands, like team seven, was in the stands, and even though Sasuke didn't make it to the finals he spent the last month training with Kakashi, Sakura spent the last month trying to find where Sasuke was and training when she wasn't. Sai had been doing secret missions for Root, not that anybody knew because it was a secret.
Shino of team eight was in the stands with team ten, who didn't even make it to the prelims. Shino had been training and gained two more hives inside of his body, Shikamaru had been playing shogi with his father and looking at clouds, Ino had been learning some mind techniques and Choji had been learning more of his clan's own techniques.
Rock Lee of team Gai was discouraged for not getting to the finals but was happy that he was able to watch the matches.
Nii Yugito and Murasaki were hanging around with the Yondaime Raikage, E, and his brother Kirabi, who was helping protect his brother. E was still a little peeved about the Nibi being released but after seeing her behave herself and not killing anybody then he guessed it was alright.
The Hokage was sitting between the Raikage and the Kazekage and was waiting for Naruto to get here so he could begin his plan. And speaking of the Kazekage he was waiting patiently for the matches to begin.
In the middle of the arena, Inuzuka Kiba, Hyuuga Neji, Sabaku no Gaara, Tenten, Hyuuga Hinata, Hibana Haiiro, and Hokari Kanari were standing waiting for the proctor to start the matches.
The proctor, Shiranui Genma, after getting a signal to begin anyway, began talking, "Congratulations to you lucky winners for making it to the finals of Konoha's Chuunin Exams." he said letting the crowd cheer and clap for the winners of the preliminary matches. "Now I give the stage to our Hokag." he said as the Sandaime stepped forward onto the balcony, overlooking the arena.
"Thank you, Genma, now I would like to personally congratulate those that made it to the finals and now let the Finals of the Chuunin Exams begin." he said walking back to his seat.
"The first match will be…" Genma began as a new screen appeared across from the crowd, so that they all could see, and began to go through names randomly. The first name was Hibana Haiiro, and the second was… Namikaze-Uzumaki Naruto. The crowd hushed as the sky became dark, as clouds drifted in front of the sun, soon it started to rain and lightning and thunder made their selves known as they flashed in the sky. The rain became a drizzle as strong winds blew across the arena. Flames licked the grounds in front of the entrance as people started walking through them.
They all were wearing cloaks and had their hoods on. There was six in total as they all stood on each side of the entrance in a straight line, three on each side. The first to take off their hoods was Momochi Zabuza, the crowd, gasped at seeing Zabuza with the group. Zabuza's cloak was black, like the others, and had the name 'Kiri no Akuma (Demon of the Mist)' with the design of his cleaver dripping blood and scattered mist surrounding the name and cleaver. And speaking of his cleaver, the handle was sticking out the top of his cloak. When he took off his hood mist covered his person a little.
The second to take off their hood was Mitarashi Anko, and again the crowd gasped, but not as much as when Zabuza did it, since they didn't really care about Anko. Anko's cloak was black, of course, and had the name 'Kage no Hebi (Shadow Serpent)' with the design of a snake going through and around the kanji of her nickname. It too had blood dripping from both of its fangs. When she took off her hood snakes came out of her shadow and slithered up her body.
The third was Akane, many of the people gasped, not because they knew her, but because of her beauty and wondered why someone of her 'caliber' would be part of such a group. Akane's cloak was a mix of black and crimson, it had the name 'Shinku no Ikari (Crimson Fury)' with the design of, well her, when she had all nine tails, and they wrapped around the name and she was roaring to the sky. Also under the kitsune, it had the kanji for 'Kitsune no Joo (Queen of the Foxes)'. when she took off her hood, a small geyser of white fire erupted under her and when it all fell to the floor it became fire, and circled around her.
That was it for the left side.
As this was going on Neji was smirking at the entrance of the group. Since he was told by Naruto that it was going to happen. But he was still amazed at the performance. The crowd was going crazy at the entrance, Gaara was smirking at the show offness of both of his brothers entrances.
Now for the right side, the fourth to take the hood off was Nihongo Taifu, and some gasped at seeing the strong teen. His cloak stayed the same. When he took off his hood wind circled around him, uprooting trees and pushing some of the boulders. The handle of his sword Kamikaze (Divine Wind), was sticking out the top of his cloak like Zabuza's own sword.
The fifth person was Momochi Haku, and many gasped because of her beauty also, and because they somewhat knew her. Her cloak stayed the same, and when she took her hood off the surrounding wind turned to ice and the ground froze around her and the drizzling rain became snow. The handle of her sword, Kessho Ryu (Crystal Dragon) was sticking out the top of her cloak like Taifu's own sword.
The sixth and final person to take their hood off was Kaguya Kimimaro, shocking only the Kazakage, as his eyes nearly popped from his sockets. 'So that's where you've been, you back stabbing traitor.' he thought keeping his KI to a minimum, hoping the other kages didn't recognize his signature.
The other kages, didn't notice the signature of the Kazakage, but they did feel the KI.
Kimimaro's cloak was black, duh, and had the name 'Bochi no Akuma (Demon of the Graveyard)' and his design was that of countless bones on the outline of his cloak. Under the Kanji was a tombstone that plainly said R.I.P. with a bony hand coming out of the dirt in front of it. When he took his hood off, bones stuck up from under the ground going to his knees, and it resembled that image of one's ribcage. But when the bones went back into the ground he began walking to the middle of the entrance and dug into this cloak, as his part wasn't done.
What he took out was a kunai, but it looked a little weird to the crowd, except for a select few. Kakashi looked wide eyed a seeing the familiar three pronged kunai, his late sensei used to use.
Tenten's eyes widened, and since she knew a lot of things about weapons, it wasn't surprising that she recognized the three pronged kunai the Yondaime Hokage used, for his legendary Hiraishin.
The Sandaime Hokage, Yondaime Kazekage, Yondaime Raikage, and the secretly concealed Gama Sennin's eyes widen at seeing the familiar weapon of choice, used by the Yondaime Hokage, whenever he used his Hiraishin technique.
Kimimaro held up the kunai, with the sharp tips facing the ground, before he simply dropped it to the ground.
As the kunai made its trip to the ground the weather became more chaotic and violent, winds blew stronger, fires became more intense in heat and turned black, the thunder in the sky flashed brighter and the lightning hit at the exact position of the kunai and in the small crater stood Naruto, with his hood on, before he took it off, causing another bolt of lightning to strike, but not on him, like some would have hoped, but near him.
Naruto's red eyes shined in acceptance at his teams entrance and he gazed over the audience in their silence.
Sasuke in the crowd was a little envious at the entrance of his short time teammate, Lee yelled about the flames of youth with Gai, Yugito and Murasaki mentally squealed at the entrance of their future mate, and other countless females in the stands outwardly squealed at Naruto finding him irresistible at the current moment, not caring about his status as a demon.
Haiiro smirked at the entrance of Naruto, and couldn't wait to fight him.
The Sandaime smirked as he stood up and walked to the balcony, "Its about time you came here, now I would like to announce that Namikaze-Uzumaki Naruto, Nihongo Taifu, and Momochi Haku, have been promoted to the rank of Jounin, and will not be fighting any of the Chuunin hopefuls in the arena today." he said smirking at the frown on Naruto's face. The crowd booed with the promotion of the demon, but he didn't stop there, "Now with that announcement I would like to say with his promotion Namikaze-Uzumaki Naruto would be executed…" he said shocking the crowd.
A/N: I'll stop right here, sorry for the cliffy, but I bet some of you already knew this was going to happen. Sorry for the long wait, I have a plan on how I'm going to write both of my stories. After this updates I'll start writing my other story 'Naruto: The Blue Eyed Uchiha' it's a pretty good story and you should read it sometime. After I update that story's new chapter I'll get back to this one and so on and so forth.
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