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"Talking"
'Thinking'
"Jutsu/Kurama Talking"
Chapter 37
Naruto stared with disinterest at Gaara as he scratched his ear while Gaara kept yelling at him.
"I'm gonna kill you Uzumaki!"
"Mother wants your blood!"
Gaara's psychopathic yells were gaining the attention of both Shigure and Füka who had stopped their fight to stare at Gaara with questioning looks on their faces.
"Come on Senju! Entertain me!" Gaara yelled once more.
Naruto's eyebrows started to twitch in annoyance as he stared at the shortest participant of the chuunin exams trying to intimidate him.
"I'll kill you and everyone whose close to you" Gaara yelled "All to prove my existence"
Gaara waited no further to make the first move as he raised his hand and at the same time sand flew out of the gourd he carried on his back. Gaara controlled the sand moving it towards Naruto, he split it up into countless of sharp sand shurikens "Suna Shuriken" (Sand Shuriken)
Naruto who looked as if he was busy daydreaming with a dumb look on his face barely managed to dodge by jumping high up in the air at the last second. "You trying to kill me, teme!?" Naruto yelled out comically.
Gaara answered by launching his next attack this time with the sand in one big clump moving it towards Naruto up in the air. The sand surrounded Naruto preventing the audience to see him.
"This is it Uzumaki! I will enjoy seeing your blood pour down from above as you die!" Gaara yelled with a crazy laugh.
"Sabaku.."
"Shunshin no Jutsu!"Gaara was interrupted as Naruto appeared in front of him.
"You talk too much" Naruto said with a grin as he gripped his sword. Naruto whispered "Senju.." as he moved fast to get in front of Gaara "Ittoryu Iai: Shishi Sonson" (One Sword Style: Draw and Re-sheath Technique: Lion's Song) Naruto's attempt to slash Gaara was easily blocked by Gaara as he had used sand to block it.
"Pathetic!" Gaara mocked Naruto who raised an eyebrow before two clones appeared behind Gaara.
"Jinchüriki, huh?" Naruto said slowly in a low tone.
Gaara ignored him "A clone or two won't matter, it will still be the same, your death" Gaara laughed maniacally as he ended his sentence.
Naruto's clone spoke simultaneously as chakra chains appeared from their arms "Kongō Fūsa" (Adamantine Sealing Chains) meanwhile the real Naruto in front of Gaara was charging up chakra in his right hand preparing a "Rasengan!"
In the audience
Kushina smirked as she saw Naruto use the technique she had taught him. This was the perfect opponent to use it on as well, she was a bit worried about Naruto going overboard however. Kurenai and Tayuya stared in disbelief at the technique.
"Is that a kekkei genkai?" Tayuya wondered out loud.
"I'm wondering the same myself" Kurenai added.
"Uh-huh" Kushina answered "It's the kekkei genkai of the Uzumaki clan"
"Whaat?" Tayuya asked "So it is possible for me to learn it as well?"
"It's not impossible" Kushina answered with a smile.
The three of them turned their focus back on the battle as they heard Gaara's screams of pain due to Naruto having slammed the rasengan in his gut. As Kushina expected Naruto was about to go overboard..
With Naruto fighting Gaara
Naruto grinned as he turned towards his clones who were still holding down Gaara with the chakra chains "Alright release him"
The clones nodded and did as they were told. They then moved to form a triangle surrounding Gaara. The first clone did a series of hand signs "Doton: Doryūheki" (Earth Release: Earth-Style Wall) the clone created four walls surrounding Gaara creating a square formed cage.
As the other clone prepared another Jutsu the real Naruto decided to payback Gaara for the trash-talk before the fight "Is this all you got, runt of the Sand Village?"
"I'll kill you!" Gaara yelled and sand exploded out of the cage moving in all directions.
"Arara.." The clone said with a bored laugh before using a strong water technique that most jounin would have trouble using at an area with no source of water around.
"Suiton: Suishōha" (Water Release: Water Colliding Wave) the clone was controlling a giant spiraling vortex of water above Gaara. The clone released the water sending it down like a huge wave into the earth cage bringing all the sand with it back in.
The real Naruto jumped high above the cage and did a series of hand signs "Raiton: Sandāboruto" (Lightning Release: Thunderbolt) Naruto had extended both of his arms charging up the lightning bolt in both hands before throwing it down into the cage.
Gaara's loud screams of pain was all that was heard for a few seconds until it became deadly quiet in the arena. One thing was sure and that was the victor of the fight, Gaara had for the first time been defeated in a very one-sided battle.
With the kages
The raikage pointed at Naruto with his right hand in an open palm "What the hell?" he asked the hokage who's jaw was on the ground 'Just how much did you improve in a month, Naruto?' he thought.
"Very impressive" Mei said.
"Yes but back in my day there was never a genin that.." Ao added but was interrupted once again by his leader "Shut up Ao or I'll kill you" Mei said with a glare then turned towards the Hokage with a kind smile "I must meet with this Naruto after the exam has ended"
The Raikage nodded "I want to meet him as well" while Hiruzen snapped his head back and forth between them thinking 'What are they after?'
Back with the competitors
As the kage's spoke they witnessed a fight that looked to be even more one-sided than Naruto and Gaara's. But as Shigure and Füka were both swordsmen who relied on their speed and skill and less on their strenght their fight was decided in one single strike. Shigure stood behind Füka who was sitting on the ground with a large cut covering her stomach with blood pouring out.
"How!?" Füka yelled "How are you this strong!?" tears formed around her eyes as she the thought 'I have trained every day and I'm still not close to her or Kenshin'
The medics rushed the Arena ground to pick up both Gaara and Füka as Shigure answered "Because.. I have.. people to fight.. for"
Füka snorted "Tch.." before she closed her eyes and rested as the medics carried her out on a stretcher "It won't be the same next time" was all she said as the audience erupted into cheers and applauded the two winners.
Naruto looked around the arena In confusion "OI" Naruto yelled then pointed at Shigure "We're not done yet!"
Shigure turned towards Naruto and answered "This.. is what.. we decided upon"
"You don't want to fight?" Naruto asked squinting his eyes at Shigure in confusion "You chicken?"
Shigure frowned "I don't.. want to fight.. Instead.. I have.. a proposition.. for.. you" taking a long time between words as she always does.
Hiruzen was happy with ending it here as well before Naruto do anything more crazy and most importantly before he shows the visitors any more of his skills. "Winners of the chuunin exam, Uzumaki Naruto of Konoha & Kosaka Shigure of Kiri!" Hiruzen announced to the audience who once again cheered for the winners.
As the audience cheered Shigure was whispering into Naruto's ear who was listening with interest. What Shigure told him and what she offered sure was interesting.
One hour later
Naruto had returned home to his apartment where Kushina was waiting. He and the other participants of the final exam had been told to meet in the hokage's office tomorrow morning. In that meeting all of the kage's & acting kage's would be present to announce who did and did not get promoted to chuunin.
When Naruto arrived at his apartment he immediately got starting on important matters. He emptied all of his scrolls containing ramen so that he could hide it somewhere else. Hiding it in scrolls was futile due to Kushina being a far better seal user than himself and would have no trouble opening the scrolls.
While Naruto was busy taking care of business Tayuya, Ino & Kushina had almost the same thing on their mind. Tayuya and Ino had decided that now was the time for them to strike. Today was the day they were going to defeat Yuhi Kurenai. Kushina had a different reason why she wanted to meet Kurenai. She wanted to find out just who exactly Kurenai was to Naruto. She was only looking out for her son after all, it had nothing to do with those dreams she had had recently.
Flashback – Kushina's dream last night
Kushina stood in the kitchen of Naruto's apartment wearing her regular clothes a green dress that went down to her knees. She also wore a white shirt under the dress and underwear. Currently Kushina was cooking dinner and to no ones surprise today's meal was ramen. Kushina heard Naruto's voice as he stood behind her in the door to the kitchen "Is that my ramen, dattebayo?"
Kushina turned around to face him "So what if it is, ttebane?" she responded. Kushina face turned red as Naruto frowned and moved towards her "You never learn, do you?"
'Oh no' Kushina thought 'Is he going to spank me? Humiliate me, ttebane!?'
Naruto stood right in front of Kushina facing her with the same frown on his face "You have been a bad onna.. ttebayo"
'Here it comes' Kushina thought as she bit on her lip.
Naruto put both of his hands on Kushina's shoulder and pushed her down on the ground. Naruto pulled down his pants and his underwear while Kushina yelled "Naruto what the hell are you doing ttebane!?"
Naruto grinned at her as his dick poked her lips "Stop acting the fool mother, you know you want it" before forcing his dick into her mouth.
That was when Kushina woke up
End flashback/dream
Kushina had had similar dreams for the last two weeks of training. She would wake up and ask herself "What is wrong with me?" before crying into her pillow.
As Kushina was heading towards the front door of the apartment she walked pass Naruto who was standing with his back to the wall staring at her with suspicion.
'He is looking at me as if I'm some piece of meat' Kushina thought and bit her lip as she passed Naruto. Naruto was thinking 'You know about my ramen, don't you? GHOST!?' he still did not believe that his mother had come back from the dead, that woman was just a ghost, a ghost after his ramen & sake.
When Kushina closed the door behind her after walking out of the apartment Naruto remembered something important. He had still to pay back that 'Baka-onna' for deceiving him during Anko's training before the exams.
Naruto grinned as he sat down in his sofa. In front of him was a table with a bottle of sake that Naruto wasted no time to open and take sip from it as he thought out a plan to get his revenge.
With Kurenai
Kurenai is currently sitting on her balcony sipping on some wine she had just poured for herself. On the table was a photo of Naruto that she stared at talking to herself "Good job today my love" she took another sip as she touched Naruto's whiskers on the photo "Tomorrow I believe it's time for our third date" and Kurenai knew what was expected to happen at the end of the third date.
Kurenai heard a loud scream causing her to drop her glass of wine in surprise. She exclaimed "Eh?" in surprise as she saw Tayuya and Ino coming flying towards her from above.
"Die bitch!" Tayuya yelled.
"We'll get you this time, Kurenai-sensei!" Ino added.
Kurenai ignored them as she heard someone knocking on her front door and moved aside as Tayuya and Ino landed missing her completely.
"Nice moves old hag" Tayuya said crouching on the floor of the balcony next to Ino. Kurenai just shook her head and walked to open the door where she was surprised to see Uzumaki Kushina standing with a mysterious smile on her face "Hello Kurenai-san.."
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