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CH 30: EXAMS
Even if the first impressions were bad between him and Konohamaru was shaky at best, after an impressing amount of pestering from the young Sarutobi Naruto gave up and learned the boy's story over sitting on a tree trunk with him. Turns out it wasn't that the young boy was spoiled – that spoiled at the least – it was just that, they were in different places of the same spectrum; opposite sides. He was the unknown son of the Yondaime, Konohamaru was known grandson of Sandaime. He was hated, Konohamaru was loved. When at his age he would love to be acknowledged, Konohamaru would love to spend a day alone. He had to work hard for things to go the way he want, Konohamaru was getting them in a silver platter. Konohamaru wasn't even a gennin..,
He could destroy Konoha any time he wanted,
Cast Ninjutsu that would destroy armies in moments,
Easily overpower Tsunade's chakra enhanced monstrous strenght,
His genjutsu would enslave even the best ninja specialised in genjutsu, Uchiha or even Hyuuga with their doujutsu...
Madara would be the prime example...
He was brought back to the real world when the 'rock' bumped his leg.
"Oh a rock! With shape of a box and last i checked wasn't here but i ain't complaining." He exclaimed loudly and sat on the 'rock' "Aaah! and i was getting tired, this did the trick..." He grinned and started to wait. He knew Konohamaru couldn't be counted as a patient person and it won't be long before he will try to wiggle away from his current dilemma. He didn't had to wait long as the 'rock' started to shake.
"What? Is this a living rock?" He decided enough is enough and got up from the 'rock' and lifted the carton from the trio of academy students.
"You need to get better on your sneaking skills, Konohamaru" he exclaimed in a smug tone, the boy grinned sheepishly and rubbed back of his head.
"Thanks for the tip boss! I wanted to say if you wanna play ninja with us?" the young Sarutobi asked. Naruto sighed inwardly and shook his head. The kids were going to ninja academy and still playing ninja and thinking the job is all rainbows, daisies and rescuing innocent people from evil ones... still, they were children and still can be children. He put a soft smile on his face.
"Forgive me Konohamaru, maybe later" he ruffled the boys hair and chuckled at his pout.
"Catch ya later then boss! Lets go guys!" The kids sped away and waved at him. He responded with his and resumed his way to their team meeting spot. Kakashi said he had something important to tell them. A yelp he recognised as Konohamaru's stopped him on his tracks and he hurried to the place it came from... only to came to the sight of a... maked up boy with a cat-like costume holding Konohamaru by his neck and a 4-pig-tailed blonde girl with mostly white battle kimono watching them in a half disinterested and half exasperated mood.
"Let him go Kankuro, the boy even apologized for running into you." the girl called to the boy, Kankuro, but the boy didn't showed any sign to do that.
"Don't worry Temari, this little punk just needs to learn to be careful. I am just going to teach him that." He pulled his fist back but couldn't punch the little boy. He turned with a startle to see Naruto holding his wrist with an unimpressed gaze.
"You need to think twice before assaulting a civilian in a foreign country, Sand ninja... and even more than that if that person is the grandson of the Third Hokage." He raised his Kunai armed hand to the hand holding Konohamaru. "I suggest you let the boy go before you lose a hand" He threathened coldly, Kankuro dropped Konohamaru and the boy ran back to his group. Naruto's eyes flickered to his left and he flinged the kunai to that way. A wall of sand rose and protected its user by swalowing the projectile. The sand spit kunai back to Naruto, who simply caught it and pocketed it back to his ninja pouch. His gaze moved to a red haired boy with a black battle kimono. There was a kanji for 'love' tatoo on his eyebrow and there was black circles around his eyes. He also spotted Sasuke sitting on the branch beneath the one Suna boy standing.
"Be carfeul Naruto. He has my brother, Shukaku" Tsukimaru warned from his forest. He narrowed his slitted red eyes and a thoughtful frown appeared on his mouth. "He is the least powerful of us but i sense a great deal of pain-induced madness. Something is not right here, he wasn't the most stable of us but never actually mad and his status right now may cause some problems." the bijuu analysed,Naruto hummed thoughtfully.
'Maybe i shall take a look at his seal then. There is probably a malfunction at it... if it wasnt the intention at least...' He replied and mentally noted.
He let the tension left his body and let Kankuro's wrist go. The black haired boy rubbed it a little before went back to his sister, all the while his eyes didn't left Naruto. The blond acknowledged Sakura's presence by lazily raising his hand to her general direction. His eyes fell at their 'teacher' above an apartment, suppressing his chakra as much as he could to sneak-watch them. He snorted at the man's attempt and returned his attention to the sand team. The red haired boy had shunshined to his teammates, at least the blond guessed they were his teammates. He threw a nod towards Sakura to Sasuke, telling him silently to join her.
"You are disgracing our village, Kankuro." the red head reprimanded his teammate coldly.
"But Gaara, it was the boy-"
"Shut up or I will kill you." Kankuro's mouth snapped shut. Gaara turned to the blond.
"I am sorry for my brother's brashness." He apologised. Naruto waved his hand
"No harm done."
"I guess we will compete in Chuunin exams..."
"Uzumaki Naruto"
"...Uzumaki Naruto. Try not to die, mother wants your blood." Naruto grinned.
"Are you calling Shukaku your mother, Gaara?" the sand trio stiffened from the little implication. Naruto chuckled.
"I will have to dissapoint but..." He let loose some of his killing intent and treated to the red head. "Your 'mother' will not get what he wants this time" he touched the boy's shoulder and all sand fell down for a moment before spiked around and only thing Gaara could hear was his mother's screams. He fell down to his knee and held his head. Naruto joined his team while the red head was reeling from the migraine.
"Later." Naruto threw a wave over his shoulder and resumed his way to their meeting spot. Sakura and Sasuke following him after a neutral look towards Suna team from Sasuke and a worried glance from Sakura. Gaara recovered before long and Suna team had different thoughts on the incident but there was one line they all shared...
'Uzumaki Naruto... just who are you?' they thought simultaneously.
End of chapter
I am sorry for the long wait but i wanted to have some time to relax and unwind. I didn't had much time with the summer school, still continuing btw, but i get what i can. You know the drill, review/follow/fav if you like the story.
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