Here's the latest chapter. And here's a timeskip! I hope jumping Kin's confession is okay... since I didn't know how to bring the confession in during the one month duration, sorry about that, even if the time after they met is short, but hey, anything could happen when it comes to relationships, especially when a girl from a village where females are looked down upon and always abused, meets a nice guy. Oh, and note, I'll be making the Naruto vs Gaara match the third one, Haku vs Kankuro the 2nd one.
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A month later.
The participants were standing in the Chunnin Exam Stadium. All stronger than they were a month ago. Well... most of them. Shikamaru, with 'encouragement' from his mother, trained under Asuma and Shikaku, going to mid chunnin level in terms of power, chakra and speed, his intelligence going even higher.
Temari, Kankuro and Gaara decided they only needed to fine tune their skills given they took B to A-rank missions all the time and were more than ready. Haku trained under Hizashi alone and furthered her Juuken training as well as her Suiton and Hyoton jutsu.
Samui trained with Anko and Yugito, both helping her increase her strength, stamina and speed, since she was going against a Jinchurikii and a Hyuga/Uchiha. The torturer gave her the knowledge of poison, pain points and helped adapt the flexibility of the snake style to her own style. Yugito helped Samui learn more on fighting a Jinchurikii by making her sister fight her in Bijuu form. And Samui now had a fighting chance.
Tsuki trained under Hiashi, Hitomi and Kakashi with Hinata's help after she was cleared from the hospital. She had better control of her wings, learned the Raikiri and other Raiton jutsu, learned more Juuken moves and improved her SharinByakugan, not to Mangekyou yet though. Fuu trained under the Nanabi since her sensei refused to train her but she also became stronger than ever with the jutsu from Choumei's knowledge.
Finally Naruto. The blonde trained under Belial, Jiraiya and Kasumi. From the dark colossal summon, he learned many things of his Kekkei Genkai, including using his chakra and energy purely without handseals or anything as a dark summon also forced the blonde to fight him, resulting into Naruto's power skyrocketting, and according to Belial the next evolution would be near. From Jiraiya, he improved in the Rasengan and Hiraishin. He also improved his Fuinjutsu to the point he is the best in Konoha. Kasumi basically did what she did all these years, except on a larger scale.
During the one month duration, Naruto also asked Belial permission to have the summons help Konoha during the invasion and the dark summon more than happily agreed to it. Samui and Yugito asked their father for help and he saw no reason to help the village his daughters were in. Naruto also told all other Jinchurikii to leave Gaara to him, to settle his score with him all out, with Kasumi assisting Hiruzen, Jiraiya and A against Orochimaru, also to get Tayuya.
It would also seem the real Kazekage was dead and Orochimaru would pose as him in the Chunnin Exams. Hiruzen had pondered if he needed to tell Suna that but decided not to since Suna was basically under Orochimaru now.
Back to the Exams, the stadium was already crowded with people. Naruto's girls who weren't in the finals, with Kin who confessed and got accepted into the CRA during the month, sat in the middle rows of the stadium with most of their friends, parents and relatives. Most in Konoha knew of the coming invasion and were ready to face it, well, besides the civilians anyway. It's not big secret the civilians loved to gossip and news like this would reach even Tsuchigakure in a few days.
This time in the arena, in front of the examinees, instead of Hayate, a man with a bandanna stood there and a senbon in his mouth. The man spoke, "I'm Shiranui Genma, I'll be the proctor for the final exam. Now, the first match would be Nara Shikamaru vs Sabaku no Temari yes? Everyone else go to the stands and wait." Everyone complied and moved up to the stands.
At the Kage box, Hiruzen, Ay and the Fourth Kazekage (Orochimaru) sat there. Jiraiya stood beside Hiruzen as Bee stood beside Ay, a mud clone of Orochimaru, not that anyone knew, acting as the guard for the Kazekage (Orochimaru). The Raikage commented, "So four from Konoha, one of whom is my daughter, three from Suna and one from Taki. Hmm, not bad. Too bad Bee's team didn't get through."
Hiruzen nodded, "Yes, though I'm curious as to why Taki's leader Shibuki-dono or anyone from Taki isn't here." Ay nodded, "Indeed, but then again, the only participant from that village is their Jinchurikii, most likely she's hated by them. But whatever, let's see the others. That Uzumaki kid, he seems stronger now though." Jiraiya laughed, "Of course he is, I trained him for the month after all."
Ay smirked knowingly, "You have a knack for training blondes don't you?" Jiraiya grinned, knowing full well Ay also knew of Naruto's heritage. Hiruzen gave a small smile while the Kazekage nodded outside, but was seething inside. The snake Sannin thought, 'That damn brat damaged my body so much I had to change bodies as soon as I reached Oto. But then again, its because of him, and those two Namikaze girls I found a while back I cracked the bloodline. Hmm, I wonder if I should give Kabuto that as well. Kukuku.'
They then noticed only Temari, Shikamaru and Genma were left in the ring. Jiraiya grinned, "Finally its starting." Ay nodded, "I hope they show us a good fight, for Chunnin anyway." Hiruzen chuckled, "I doubt they'll fight at just Chunnin level. During the preliminaries, most of them fought like Jounins going at it, most of them. And after this much time, I can say I look forward to this." Inside however he thought, 'Yes, I look forward to righting my mistake all those years ago.'
Back to the arena, Genma asked, "So you two ready?" Shikamaru sighed, "I'd rather watch the clouds, but yeah, I'm ready." Temari merely nodded. Genma nodded, "Okay, so Nara Shikamaru vs Sabaku no Temari. Hajime!"
Genma backed away immediately as Temari quickly opened her fan and swung it hard several times, "Fūton: Kakeami!" At each swing a wave of wind came out and the waves of wind combined into the shape of a large net, only barely seen from the ripples in the air. Shikamaru knew he wouldn't make it in time to dodge and flashed through several handseals, "Katon: Gokakyu no Jutsu!" He then immediately went through another set of seals and said, "Katon: Hosenka no Jutsu."
Temari seeing the fireballs growing with the help of her wind jutsu, apparently not strong enough to blow the flames out, she swung her fan again, "Kamaitachi no Jutsu!" She shot a huge whirlwind at the flames and Shikamaru. The Nara leaped away since the jutsu had a smaller range than the wind net just now, but this one packed more power obviously.
Temari grinned as the Gokakyu faded away, but her eyes widened as the mini fireballs were still there, racing at her. Having no time to dodge, she tried to leap away before using the Kawarimi but didn't leave unscathed. Her clothes were burned a lot and she herself was burned as well, not enough to lose yet though.
Shikamaru meanwhile was hiding behind the trees, more specifically in the shadows of the trees. His mind was racing through all the possibilities as he knew the trees would fall soon since if what he knew was correct, and he mostly was, Temari would use a massive AoE jutsu to flush him out. While having raised his chakra reserves, the jutsu he had used large amount of chakra and all of his plans involved jutsu requiring massive amount of chakra as well. Plus there was the invasion later. He sighed, 'So troublesome.' He made up his mind to play a bit longer.
Just in time, Temari yelled, "Futon: Kaze no Maki!" She swung her fan again and unleashed massive gusts of wind that pulled the trees off the ground, causing Shikamaru to be pushed out of the shadows onto the ground. He sighed before he slammed his hand on the ground, "Doton: Kazaana." A hole appeared on the ground that linked to another hole that formed behind Temari, unknown to her.
The kunoichi raised an eyebrow at the vague jutsu for making a hole but brushed it off. She went to swing her fan again but suddenly found herself unable to move. SHe then noticed SHikmaru had his hands in another seal, a small line of his shadow extending into the hole. Temari asked, "How?" Shikamaru said nothing, instead turned his head so she could see the other hole with the shadow.
Temari's eyes widened when she saw it. Then she heard Shikamaru say, " Kage Nui no Jutsu." The shadows that were attached to her legs started to move up her body and soon wrapped her up. Her eyes widened as she turned to face the Nara heir again, by the jutsu. Shikamaru said, "Yield." Temari's mind raced through anything she could do but found none. She sighed, "Fine, I yield."
SHikmaru looked at Genma who nodded, the lazy smartass then let his hold on the jutsu go as the shadows returned to their original state. Genma then announced, "Shousha, Nara Shikamaru." The crowd cheered. Shikaku smiled proudly with Asuma while Yoshino cheered loudly. Shikamaru thought, 'Man, if it wasn't for Kaa-san forcing me to train I wouldn't have pulled that off, but whatever, I can watch the clouds later without her screaming at me now.'
SHikamaru let a small smile hang on his face before he went up to the participant stands. He could go to the audience but he didn't want to deal with his parents and sensei yet. Temari stared at Shikamaru for a while before she went to the stands as well.
Genma then said, "Hyuga Haku and Sabaku no Kankuro, please come down." The puppet user gave his sister a small grin before he went down. Haku meanwhile gave Naruto a kiss, "Wish me luck." Naruto smiled and nodded as Haku jumped down to the arena.
Genma asked again, "You two ready?" Haku and Kankuro nodded, both already reaching for their weapons. Genma then nodded, "Good, Hyuga Haku vs Sabaku no Kankuro, Hajime!" He then leaped away as the match began.
Haku drew her senbon and threw them at Kankuro before she made several handseals, "Suiton: Sensatsu Suisho!" Water condensed from the atmosphere into a hundred needles before they too shot at Kankuro. The puppeteer leaped away while pulling out his puppet. He dodged several of the needles but he made Karasu block the rest. He then skillfully manipulated the puppet and fired a smoke bomb from the puppet followed by a wave of blades.
Unfortunately for the the Suna nin, Haku had her Byakugan active and saw through the smoke easily. She dodged a few of them before using her palms to redirect several of the blades back at Kankuro. Kankuro's eyes widened at the comeback before he used this puppet to grab the blades from the air. He then sent the puppet to fight Haku at close range.
The puppet extended several blades on its wrists and started slashing at Haku, who with the Byakugan saw through the moves easily and dodged them. Choosing to go close range with the puppet was a big mistake given Haku used the Juuken, and severed the chakra strings that were connected to Kankuro. Instantly the puppet fell limp and Haku charged forward, much to the Suna nin's horror.
She then bombarded the puppeteer with combos of Juuken strikes, giving Kankuro a really hard time trying to dodge them. Kankuro tried to attach his strings to Haku but she saw them easily and cut them off immediately. Then Haku muttered, "Hakke Rokujuuyonsho."
Immediately Kankuro felt pain all over his body as Haku unleashed one of the greatest attacks of the Hyuga clan on the poor puppeteer. Having his chakra network shut down by half, coupled with the damage from the technique, Kankuro was limping trying to stand. Haku decided she had done enough and gave him a Juuken strike that knocked him out cold.
Genma sighed, he felt for Kankuro given he had lost to many Hyugas in the past, more to the female Hyugas than the males. He announced, "Shousha, Hyuga Haku." AT this, Baki who was at the audience and Temari cursed. It was part of the plan for Kankuro and Temari to protect Gaara while he went Bijuu mode and wrecked havoc. They prayed the puppeteer would wake up in time, unlikely but not impossible, especially if the invasion started, Kankuro would have a really high chance of being caught as a prisoner.
Haku jumped back to the stands as Tsuki, Samui and Fuu congratulated her. Naruto hugged her tightly and said, "Nice fight, Haku-chan." Haku beamed at him while Tsuki and Samui pouted, both saying in semi-unison, "So we don't get hugs?" Naruto chuckled and hugged all three of them tightly, causing them to blush since Fuu, Gaara and Temari were there as well. The Nanabi JInchuikii chuckled but inside she was a little envious of the girls for having Naruto. Temari and Gaara ignored them, the former thinking of the invasion while the latter meditating to get rid of Shukaku's voice.
After having Kankuro sent to the infirmary, Genma said aloud, "Will Uzumaki Naruto and Sabaku no Gaara come down?" (Note, while the civilian council knows and the villagers know, they are not making it public to other villages yet)
The two Jinchurikii complied, Gaara vanishing with a Suna Shunshin while Naruto threw a kunai down to the arena and use the Hiraishin to teleport down. The sight of the legendary Hiraishin shocked many people who were there. Genma grinned at Naruto, since he was part of the Gooei Shotai and knew a lotta stuff about the Hiraishin. Naruto grinned back as he faced Gaara.
The blonde really wanted to kill him, but he had promised HInata not to, so he won't. But he WILL beat the shit out of him. Gaara, meanwhile, was trying hard not to show fear, Shukaku was making matters worst by shouting at him to kill Naruto. Genma looked between them for a brief moment before he announced, "Uzumaki Naruto vs Sabaku no Gaara, HAJIME!"
Naruto instantly threw and dropped a kunai at Gaara and onto the ground before he flashed to the Suna nin. He slammed his palm on Gaara's chest before the sand could react, marking the Ichibi Jinchurikii immediately. But Naruto knew should Gaara shed his Sand armor, his marker would fade as well. Then the sand started to coil around him, Naruto instantly flashed away to the kunai he dropped previously.
Grinning, he transformed into Exia Gundam. After all, why go all out immediately when you can fight at a much lower level but still win. He flew forward and gave a slice with his GN Sword that ripped through the sand easily. Gaara leaped back just as the sword sliced through his sand armor and his clothes, leaving a huge opening in his shirt, showing off the redhead's chest.
Gaara frowned and remade his sand armor, closing the opening that showed his skin. He then sent a stream of sand at Naruto. The blonde merely focused on his telekinesis and took over Gaara's control of the sand and sent it back at Gaara, sending him into the walls of the arena.
At the Kage box, Jiraiya and Ay raised an eyebrow at the move, Hiruzen had learned that Naruto could do just about anything by now and didn't find it so strange or amazing anymore. Orochimaru however, was panicking, cursing the blonde and racing through his mind to find ideas to make his plan successful. Hiruzen and Jiraiya were laughing inside as they could practically see the panic in the disguised Sannin's eyes after seeing Naruto's telekinesis.
Naruto released his hold over the sand and decided to take things up a notch, or two. He went into 00 Gundam Seven Sword G and drew his GN Sword II Blaster and unleashed a condensed blast of energy at Gaara. The son of the Yondaime Kazekage instinctively raised a wall of thick sand to defend himself, not used to dodging anything thrown at him.
The blast collided with the sand and for a few moments the sand seemed to hold against the beam as the beams were redirected behind Gaara into the walls. Then Naruto poured more power into the blast and the shield of sand instantly burst into pieces, the beam striking Gaara hard again.
Gaara shakily got up from the blast. He knew he wasn't supposed to transform now, but he didn't care. He wanted to transform, the Ichibi was urging him as well, and he didn't want to die against Naruto. He immediately made the thickest and densest dome of sand he could conjure and began unraveling the seal that held the Shukaku in.
As soon as this happened, Kasumi told Naruto, "Naruto-kun, he's going into Bijuu mode. And because Gaara's Shukaku's Jinchurikii, he can only go partial transformation and full Bijuu mode because of the one tail. Be careful." Naruto nodded mentally, "Got it."
The sand dome then exploded as a huge sand arm came out at Naruto. The son of the Yondaime Hokage used his GN Sword II Blaster and sliced through the sand before he shot a beam of energy towards where Gaara was, creating even more smoke and dust. The dust then cleared, and revealed Gaara partially transformed.
The audience was shocked at the transformation. Civilians were fearing that another 'demon' was in the village while shinobi were shocked and surprised to see the transformation, preparing to do anything if things went bad. Hanabi asked, "What is that?" Hiashi answered, "Hanabi, that is what we call a Jinchurikii, a partially transformed one."
Hanabi blinked in confusion, "Jin-churikii?" Hiashi nodded. Before he could continue, Hitomi said, "They are people who have Bijuu sealed in them, Hanabi-chan." Hanabi blinked again, "Bijuu? Like the Kyuubi?" Hiashi nodded, "Bijuu cannot be killed, so they are sealed away into humans, creating Jinchurikii."
Hanabi then asked, "So someone in Konoha has the Kyubi sealed in them?" Hiashi and Hitomi paled seeing their youngest daughter reveal one of the S-rank secrets of Konoha and immediately covered her mouth. Hiashi chuckled nervously since the other clan heads were looking at them, "Hanabi, please do not talk about that, its a secret and people will die if they talk about it."
Hanabi asked again, curiosity filling her, "Why?" Hitomi and Hiashi tried to keep her quiet but her questions seem to increase every second. Hinata, Kin, Ino and the other rookies couldn't help but laugh slightly at the sight before Hinata said, "Hanabi-chan, I remember an ice cream stand outside, you want a banana split?" Hanabi nodded rapidly and yelled before standing up and dashed towards the exit, "Yes! Come on Hinata-nee-chan!" Hinata giggled and followed her little sister out while Hiashi and Hitomi gave their daughter a thankful smile.
At the Kage box, Orochimaru cursed. Gaara had transformed before the signal and he was forced to move it earlier. He nodded at his 'guard' and the clone vanished in a Shunshin away to give the signal. He then made a discreet handseal and unleashed a destructive Futon Jutsu that thrashed the whole box as everyone leaped out onto the roof.
Orochimaru smirked and yelled, "NOW!" Instantly four shinobi jumped down surrounding them. They slammed their hands down onto the ground and yelled, "Shishienjin!" Two barriers instantly rose, one covering all of the shinobi while the other blocked the four shinobi from being attacked to maintain the barrier. Hiruzen took off his Hokage robe while Ay discarded his Raikage robe. Jiraiya readied himself as Orochimaru took off his disguise.
Orochimaru chuckled darkly, "Hello, Jiraiya, Sarutobi-sensei, and Ay. Its been such a long time." Hiruzen frowned, "Cut the shit Orochimaru, its time I corrected my mistakes." Jiraiya grinned, "You seriously don't think you can win against all three of us?" Ay commented, "He must be cocky, last I checked I kicked his ass last time."
Orochimaru laughed, "Indeed, but I'm not alone now am I? Kuchiyose: Edo Tensei!" Then, four coffins arose from the ground, one had the kanji for 'ONE', another with the kanji for 'TWO', the third with a kanji for 'Four' the final with a spiral on it. The three kage level shinobis' eyes widened as the lids fell open to reveal four familiar faces.
With Naruto, he glanced around and saw many ninja had started fighting. He was sure the girls were fine since they were also fighting the enemy in the arena. The blonde glanced at the crazed Gaara before looking at the stands where Temari and Baki, were fighting Tsuki, Fuu, Samui and Haku, the Suna kunoichi and jounin both having a hard time fighting them.
He then looked at the huge barrier on the roof. The barrier was probably semi-see through but at this distance even with his Inovator eyes he wouldn't be able to see what was happening inside. Though he frowned when he felt four large chakra signatures suddenly appear inside the barrier, two he was really familiar with.
Naruto then looked at Gaara who was glaring at him. The blonde said to his Bijuu, "Kasumi-chan, can you go help Hokage-jii, Jiraiya and my future father in law?" Kasumi nodded and red chakra leaked from his seal to form the body of Kasumi. The bijuu kissed Naruto on the cheeks and said, "Have fun Naruto-kun, just don't kill my little brother."
Naruto chuckled, "Sure, no promises though." Kasumi smiled before she leaped towards the barrier where several Anbu were outside the barrier looking inside at the battle. At the sight of his sister, Shukaku instantly raged at Gaara to kill Naruto and get his sister for him. Gaara held his head in pain before he roared and shot his sand arm at Naruto.
The blonde raised his GN Sword II Blaster and sliced through the sand arm as it retracted to Gaara. He said, "Its a little small here, why don't we go somewhere wider?" Without waiting for an answer, he shot off out off the stadium towards the forests with the Shukaku-fied Gaara hot on his tails.
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Done. Next chapter, Belial and Naruto vs Gaara and Shikaku. Then MAYBE the Kage fight.