I don't own Naruto or any of its characters.
Pairings: Naruto x Sakura and others
Info: This story follows after Sasuke left leaf to join Orochimaru. Naruto and gang manage to get him back and I'm taking it from there.
English is not my first language; please inform me if there are any mistakes I'll correct them.
NOTE: in this fic I made it as Shikamaru never passed the chunnin test.
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Naruto just brushed himself off after Sasuke's attack while Gaara kept glaring at Sasuke with cold eyes. Sasuke however just stood away from his team and just watched Naruto ignoring Gaara. The next few fights were not anything special, as most of them did not involve Konoha only a few of the genins from the other villages were above average, unless they were hiding their true strength.
The only match after Naruto and Neji that was worth watching was Sasuke and Lee, as they both gave it all they got. Sasuke started the fight of with his kunai's, as he knew lee was a taijutsu specialist. He concentrated more on long range attacks before he was swiftly brought don't by Lee with a kick to his back. Sasuke quickly recovered from the attack and had no choice but to activate his sharingan. By doing so he also activated his curse seal, as Orochimaru's curse still resided in him. Lee had no choice but to use his Chakra opening gates, but before he could even open the first gate he was attacked by Sasuke's Grand fireball jutsu. But there was one difference in the jutsu this time. Its power was multiplied several folds and Lee had no choice but to stop opening the gates and get out of the fireball's way. Lee avoided the fireball but jumping up in the air but to his surprise Sasuke was already waiting for him. Sasuke immediately performed the Lion Rendan which lee managed to block. Sasuke followed the combo with a hand seal, which no one had seen before. The moment he finished his hand seal Sasuke yelled.
"Red Dragon Fire Strike"
A huge dragon appeared and it was made with fire. It looked like it had a life of its own when people looked at it, as it moved without Sasuke commanding it. It attacked lee without mercy but lee manages to avoid most of the damaging shots before he collapsed. The jounin ref rushed to stop Sasuke's dragon before it could do more harm. But instead of stopping the dragon, he ran towards Sasuke and punched him in the gut. That's when everyone realized that the dragon was not moving on its own, but Sasuke was controlling it with his mind. So the punch brought him back to his senses and he withdrew the dragon. The moment he undid his sharingan his curse seal disappeared and he joined his team back at the balcony above the arena. Everyone who did not knew about the seal thought it was another Uchiha bloodline ability. The genins who rescued Sasuke and Sakura knew better. But only one thing was going through Naruto's mind, and that was to teach Sasuke some respect and care for his friends. Sakura tried to approach Sasuke but she was stopped by Kakashi who told her to leave Sasuke alone for the time being.
Gaara did not even have to fight, as his opponent was Chouji. Chouji gave up even before Gaara went down to the arena. Sakura fought with a girl from Cloud and although it was a close call, the other girl fell prey to sakura's genjutsu and sakura ultimately won. The final results were Gaara, Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura, Shikamaru, Tenten, Kiba, Neji and Chuichi Idane who represented Konoha. Four shinobi's representing mist, 3 from cloud and 3 from stone also made it through the third test. Up to now no one knew each other's strengths as everyone clearly was holding back at the test. But in the final test everything will be revealed.
After Tsunade announced that the final test will be held a month from today. Everyone started heading out. But before the Konoha genins could head out with their teachers, Tsunade held them back saying she needed to talk to them. After the arena had cleared up of outsiders, Tsunade dismissed the jounins and told the genins to gather around her, even the ones who did not pass. She them told them that she had a mission for them and she wanted them to come to her office in 3 days to collect it. She then dismissed them and told them to rest up before the mission. Everyone was exited at the prospect of a big mission that required him or her to work together, but in Naruto and Gaara's mind they were wondering why they needed to be included in the current mission as the other would only slow them down. But they decided to ignore it and wait for 3 days when their questions would be answered.
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Everyone soon left the arena and all of the genins decided that they needed food. Soon they all arrived at a ramen restaurant and everyone was chatting happily, even Lee. He was not seriously injured by Sasuke and was jumping around after Tsunade gave him some treatment. Sasuke was not there as he left saying he was going to train, everyone tried to persuade him to join but he ignored them and left.
"Naruto, what technique was that you used to block your opponents attack in the forest of death?" asked Neji
Everyone immediately stopped talking and looked at Naruto wondering what Neji was talking about.
"Yeah Naruto Kun what was that technique?" added Lee
"Ah that was just a technique the pervert sennin taught me when I was training with him. It's quite useful, as you have already seen. Its saved my life more than once while I was traveling." Replied Naruto
"Well. What other techniques did you learn while you were traveling with him." Asked Neji
"Ah that's a secret. You'll see soon enough. Who knows maybe I'll show you some while were are one the mission." Said Naruto with a sly smile.
Neji just shrugged while Kiba added
"Well. At least the old man taught you some fashion sense."
Everyone nodded in agreement as they were staring at Naruto's new clothes. No longer was Naruto dressed in the orange jumpsuit, which were 3 sizes too big for him. The new Naruto was dressed in similar orange pants but this time it was just the right size and he was not using the usual shinobi sandals, he was now using a similar type of footwear but it covered his whole feet, like a shoe. Hell it was a shoe. And Naruto was also using a dark blue jacket, which was open in front, and inside he used what appeared to be a shirt made of bandages. Everyone asked him if he was injured but he laughed it off saying he liked using it, as it was comfortable. But them Neji said
"They why is it being held together with chakra, if it's just a normal bandage?"
Naruto flinched at this question, as the one person who knew about his tattoo was Itachi, Gaara, Kyubi, and Jiraiya. He did not want to tell everyone what he had underneath the bandage, as it would only lead to more questions.
"Ah it because its easier to remove to bandages to use when I'm injured. That's all" Naruto knew how stupid this sounded but he hoped that they would stop asking him question which at the moment he could not answer.
"Can everyone just shut up? Can't you see Naruto does not want to be asked these questions? He will answer all of our questions when he is ready." Yelled sakura
Everyone was shocked by this even Naruto. As he never expected sakura to defend him. Everyone just sighed and went back to eating and talking between themselves while Naruto turned to sakura to say thank you. She just said its ok while Naruto noticed that she was blushing. He dismissed it thinking that her face was red because she just yelled.
Sakura however was blushing because Naruto was looking directly at her and all the memories from the forest when Naruto carried her on his back came back to her.
Sakura finally realized it, she truly loved Naruto. She did not just love him because she felt he was lonely, she loved him because she cared about him and she wanted to be with him. Now all she had to do was tell him. And she decided she was going to do so after the mission.
3 DAYS LATER.
6 Genin teams from Konoha were waiting in the hokage's office. They were Naruto's team, Gaara's team, Neji's team, Shikamaru's team, Kiba's team and Chuichi's team. They were all there waiting for the hokage to give out a mission for them.
Soon Tsunade entered the room and greeted them
"Ok I have a mission for all of you. It's a B class mission to deliver something of importance to Earth country. This is a dangerous mission and you will be attacked but we can't send any chunnin's or jounins as they have other higher rank missions to attend to." She them proceeded to hand each and everyone of them scrolls about the mission details. She gave everyone one except Naruto and Gaara. The new rookie team of Chuichi just laughed and said to them selves that Naruto was just too incompetent to handle a B class mission. This remark earned them death glares from everyone in the room, even Tsunade. She them took out 2 different scrolls and handed them to Naruto and Gaara.
"Ok you to are going to do a different mission. You will be following the others and helping with the mission but once you reach earth country both of your mission objectives will change. Once you reach earth country your mission will be changed to an A class assassination mission. You 2 are to find a group of shinobi's who belong to sound country and eliminate them. Make sure your Headbands are clearly visible and let one shinobi live to take the news back to his village. Oh and everyone Naruto and Gaara will be in charge of this mission. So make sure you listen to what they have to say." Said Tsunade.
Everyone could not believe what they were hearing, when Chuichi exploded
"WHAT!!! How can someone like him be given an A class assassination mission? And why the hell are those 2 in charge? This is most probably the first B class mission for mist of us and now all of a sudden those 2 get and a class mission and they are in charge?"
"Shut up and listen," yelled Tsunade
"For most of you this might be your first of second B class mission. But for these 2 it's like their tenth. And they already have 7 a class mission to their names. Most of them assassination missions. SO they are stronger than you pus they have more experience than you. That's why they are given the A class mission and that's why they are in charge.' Explained Tsunade
Everyone was speechless at what Tsunade had said. Naruto had done assassination mission before? Plus he has also done more A and B class mission than any of them.
Naruto was given a box, which was to be delivered to Earth country. He took it and gave it to Shikamaru, as he knew Shikamaru was the smartest in the group. Sasuke was burning with rage inside him but he decided to hold it until they went out of the hokage's office before he confronted Naruto.
The moment everyone was out of the Shinobi building Sasuke lashed out towards Naruto and grabbed him by the collar. Naruto saw Sasuke coming but decided not to do anything.
"Tell me what has been going on with you? How did you become so strong and why are you doing A and B class mission for the hokage. Tell me right now or I'll beat it out of you." Hissed Sasuke
Gaara wanted to make a move to stop Sasuke but he was stopped by Naruto with a wave of his finger.
"You want to beat it out of me? Think before you speak. I'm not the same person you once knew." Said Naruto
Naruto was getting tired of Sasuke's attitude and decided needed a lesson. Before Sasuke could react, Naruto slipped out of Sasuke's hold and appeared behind him. Naruto then proceeded to kick Sasuke behind his knees making him kneel and Naruto quickly followed this by drawing a kunai and holding it to Sasuke's neck.
Sasuke and everyone there was shocked by what Naruto had done. Naruto them bent down and whispered to Sasuke's ear.
"I want to be your friend Sasuke, and so does everyone here. But keep this attitude up and soon you'll regret it. If you want to be strong this is not the way. Change your attitude and I'll help you gain the strength you need." Whispered Naruto
Naruto then released Sasuke and gave everyone a huge foxy smile before he said this was all a misunderstanding and then they should make a move. Everyone nodded in agreement before they set out to complete their mission with Naruto and Gaara leading them. While Sasuke was just thinking about what Naruto had said.
Pairings: Naruto x Sakura and others
Info: This story follows after Sasuke left leaf to join Orochimaru. Naruto and gang manage to get him back and I'm taking it from there.
English is not my first language; please inform me if there are any mistakes I'll correct them.
NOTE: in this fic I made it as Shikamaru never passed the chunnin test.
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Naruto just brushed himself off after Sasuke's attack while Gaara kept glaring at Sasuke with cold eyes. Sasuke however just stood away from his team and just watched Naruto ignoring Gaara. The next few fights were not anything special, as most of them did not involve Konoha only a few of the genins from the other villages were above average, unless they were hiding their true strength.
The only match after Naruto and Neji that was worth watching was Sasuke and Lee, as they both gave it all they got. Sasuke started the fight of with his kunai's, as he knew lee was a taijutsu specialist. He concentrated more on long range attacks before he was swiftly brought don't by Lee with a kick to his back. Sasuke quickly recovered from the attack and had no choice but to activate his sharingan. By doing so he also activated his curse seal, as Orochimaru's curse still resided in him. Lee had no choice but to use his Chakra opening gates, but before he could even open the first gate he was attacked by Sasuke's Grand fireball jutsu. But there was one difference in the jutsu this time. Its power was multiplied several folds and Lee had no choice but to stop opening the gates and get out of the fireball's way. Lee avoided the fireball but jumping up in the air but to his surprise Sasuke was already waiting for him. Sasuke immediately performed the Lion Rendan which lee managed to block. Sasuke followed the combo with a hand seal, which no one had seen before. The moment he finished his hand seal Sasuke yelled.
"Red Dragon Fire Strike"
A huge dragon appeared and it was made with fire. It looked like it had a life of its own when people looked at it, as it moved without Sasuke commanding it. It attacked lee without mercy but lee manages to avoid most of the damaging shots before he collapsed. The jounin ref rushed to stop Sasuke's dragon before it could do more harm. But instead of stopping the dragon, he ran towards Sasuke and punched him in the gut. That's when everyone realized that the dragon was not moving on its own, but Sasuke was controlling it with his mind. So the punch brought him back to his senses and he withdrew the dragon. The moment he undid his sharingan his curse seal disappeared and he joined his team back at the balcony above the arena. Everyone who did not knew about the seal thought it was another Uchiha bloodline ability. The genins who rescued Sasuke and Sakura knew better. But only one thing was going through Naruto's mind, and that was to teach Sasuke some respect and care for his friends. Sakura tried to approach Sasuke but she was stopped by Kakashi who told her to leave Sasuke alone for the time being.
Gaara did not even have to fight, as his opponent was Chouji. Chouji gave up even before Gaara went down to the arena. Sakura fought with a girl from Cloud and although it was a close call, the other girl fell prey to sakura's genjutsu and sakura ultimately won. The final results were Gaara, Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura, Shikamaru, Tenten, Kiba, Neji and Chuichi Idane who represented Konoha. Four shinobi's representing mist, 3 from cloud and 3 from stone also made it through the third test. Up to now no one knew each other's strengths as everyone clearly was holding back at the test. But in the final test everything will be revealed.
After Tsunade announced that the final test will be held a month from today. Everyone started heading out. But before the Konoha genins could head out with their teachers, Tsunade held them back saying she needed to talk to them. After the arena had cleared up of outsiders, Tsunade dismissed the jounins and told the genins to gather around her, even the ones who did not pass. She them told them that she had a mission for them and she wanted them to come to her office in 3 days to collect it. She then dismissed them and told them to rest up before the mission. Everyone was exited at the prospect of a big mission that required him or her to work together, but in Naruto and Gaara's mind they were wondering why they needed to be included in the current mission as the other would only slow them down. But they decided to ignore it and wait for 3 days when their questions would be answered.
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Everyone soon left the arena and all of the genins decided that they needed food. Soon they all arrived at a ramen restaurant and everyone was chatting happily, even Lee. He was not seriously injured by Sasuke and was jumping around after Tsunade gave him some treatment. Sasuke was not there as he left saying he was going to train, everyone tried to persuade him to join but he ignored them and left.
"Naruto, what technique was that you used to block your opponents attack in the forest of death?" asked Neji
Everyone immediately stopped talking and looked at Naruto wondering what Neji was talking about.
"Yeah Naruto Kun what was that technique?" added Lee
"Ah that was just a technique the pervert sennin taught me when I was training with him. It's quite useful, as you have already seen. Its saved my life more than once while I was traveling." Replied Naruto
"Well. What other techniques did you learn while you were traveling with him." Asked Neji
"Ah that's a secret. You'll see soon enough. Who knows maybe I'll show you some while were are one the mission." Said Naruto with a sly smile.
Neji just shrugged while Kiba added
"Well. At least the old man taught you some fashion sense."
Everyone nodded in agreement as they were staring at Naruto's new clothes. No longer was Naruto dressed in the orange jumpsuit, which were 3 sizes too big for him. The new Naruto was dressed in similar orange pants but this time it was just the right size and he was not using the usual shinobi sandals, he was now using a similar type of footwear but it covered his whole feet, like a shoe. Hell it was a shoe. And Naruto was also using a dark blue jacket, which was open in front, and inside he used what appeared to be a shirt made of bandages. Everyone asked him if he was injured but he laughed it off saying he liked using it, as it was comfortable. But them Neji said
"They why is it being held together with chakra, if it's just a normal bandage?"
Naruto flinched at this question, as the one person who knew about his tattoo was Itachi, Gaara, Kyubi, and Jiraiya. He did not want to tell everyone what he had underneath the bandage, as it would only lead to more questions.
"Ah it because its easier to remove to bandages to use when I'm injured. That's all" Naruto knew how stupid this sounded but he hoped that they would stop asking him question which at the moment he could not answer.
"Can everyone just shut up? Can't you see Naruto does not want to be asked these questions? He will answer all of our questions when he is ready." Yelled sakura
Everyone was shocked by this even Naruto. As he never expected sakura to defend him. Everyone just sighed and went back to eating and talking between themselves while Naruto turned to sakura to say thank you. She just said its ok while Naruto noticed that she was blushing. He dismissed it thinking that her face was red because she just yelled.
Sakura however was blushing because Naruto was looking directly at her and all the memories from the forest when Naruto carried her on his back came back to her.
Sakura finally realized it, she truly loved Naruto. She did not just love him because she felt he was lonely, she loved him because she cared about him and she wanted to be with him. Now all she had to do was tell him. And she decided she was going to do so after the mission.
3 DAYS LATER.
6 Genin teams from Konoha were waiting in the hokage's office. They were Naruto's team, Gaara's team, Neji's team, Shikamaru's team, Kiba's team and Chuichi's team. They were all there waiting for the hokage to give out a mission for them.
Soon Tsunade entered the room and greeted them
"Ok I have a mission for all of you. It's a B class mission to deliver something of importance to Earth country. This is a dangerous mission and you will be attacked but we can't send any chunnin's or jounins as they have other higher rank missions to attend to." She them proceeded to hand each and everyone of them scrolls about the mission details. She gave everyone one except Naruto and Gaara. The new rookie team of Chuichi just laughed and said to them selves that Naruto was just too incompetent to handle a B class mission. This remark earned them death glares from everyone in the room, even Tsunade. She them took out 2 different scrolls and handed them to Naruto and Gaara.
"Ok you to are going to do a different mission. You will be following the others and helping with the mission but once you reach earth country both of your mission objectives will change. Once you reach earth country your mission will be changed to an A class assassination mission. You 2 are to find a group of shinobi's who belong to sound country and eliminate them. Make sure your Headbands are clearly visible and let one shinobi live to take the news back to his village. Oh and everyone Naruto and Gaara will be in charge of this mission. So make sure you listen to what they have to say." Said Tsunade.
Everyone could not believe what they were hearing, when Chuichi exploded
"WHAT!!! How can someone like him be given an A class assassination mission? And why the hell are those 2 in charge? This is most probably the first B class mission for mist of us and now all of a sudden those 2 get and a class mission and they are in charge?"
"Shut up and listen," yelled Tsunade
"For most of you this might be your first of second B class mission. But for these 2 it's like their tenth. And they already have 7 a class mission to their names. Most of them assassination missions. SO they are stronger than you pus they have more experience than you. That's why they are given the A class mission and that's why they are in charge.' Explained Tsunade
Everyone was speechless at what Tsunade had said. Naruto had done assassination mission before? Plus he has also done more A and B class mission than any of them.
Naruto was given a box, which was to be delivered to Earth country. He took it and gave it to Shikamaru, as he knew Shikamaru was the smartest in the group. Sasuke was burning with rage inside him but he decided to hold it until they went out of the hokage's office before he confronted Naruto.
The moment everyone was out of the Shinobi building Sasuke lashed out towards Naruto and grabbed him by the collar. Naruto saw Sasuke coming but decided not to do anything.
"Tell me what has been going on with you? How did you become so strong and why are you doing A and B class mission for the hokage. Tell me right now or I'll beat it out of you." Hissed Sasuke
Gaara wanted to make a move to stop Sasuke but he was stopped by Naruto with a wave of his finger.
"You want to beat it out of me? Think before you speak. I'm not the same person you once knew." Said Naruto
Naruto was getting tired of Sasuke's attitude and decided needed a lesson. Before Sasuke could react, Naruto slipped out of Sasuke's hold and appeared behind him. Naruto then proceeded to kick Sasuke behind his knees making him kneel and Naruto quickly followed this by drawing a kunai and holding it to Sasuke's neck.
Sasuke and everyone there was shocked by what Naruto had done. Naruto them bent down and whispered to Sasuke's ear.
"I want to be your friend Sasuke, and so does everyone here. But keep this attitude up and soon you'll regret it. If you want to be strong this is not the way. Change your attitude and I'll help you gain the strength you need." Whispered Naruto
Naruto then released Sasuke and gave everyone a huge foxy smile before he said this was all a misunderstanding and then they should make a move. Everyone nodded in agreement before they set out to complete their mission with Naruto and Gaara leading them. While Sasuke was just thinking about what Naruto had said.