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, Gaara and the group of genins made their way towards the edges of Konoha. Their destination, Earth country. Everyone was still a bit edgy from Sasuke's outburst towards Naruto a few minutes before, but what made them even more edgy was the fact that Naruto stopped Sasuke without breaking a sweat. This was not the loud mouth annoying person they once knew and that was bugging them.
Naruto had ordered all of them to walk surrounding Shikamaru in a loose formation so that it would not attract attention towards Shikamaru but allowing them to protect him with the box if the need arose. Everyone complied silently except for Chuichi who grumbled a bit, but a glare from Gaara shut him up. The journey to the Earth country usually took 3-4 days depending on the method of transportation but for a group of trained shinobi's this journey would take 2-3 days, depending on how many times they stopped to rest, and now they were reaching the end of the first day.
Naruto signaled everyone to stop when they reached a clearing in the forest that they currently traveled through. Gaara then ordered everyone to do specific duties, such as getting water, setting traps and such. Soon all of them were chatting animatedly around the fire when a rustling sound sent all of them into a defensive position. Everyone was holding a kunai waiting for the intruders to show themselves, but before they could do anything Naruto stop them.
"Sit down, it's no one dangerous."
Everyone glanced around skeptically before 2 foxes and their 3 of its kits appeared out of the nearby trees. The foxes looked menacing but Naruto just waved his hands asking his team to sit down. Everyone sat while never taking their eyes off the foxes that were heading towards Naruto and Gaara.
The foxes stood in front of Naruto and started licking his face in a playful manner, and the kits started to climb on Naruto and Gaara biting and pulling at their clothes as if to ask to be played with. Naruto patted the 2 adult foxes before they each rested their heads on Naruto and Gaara's lap. The cubs were still climbing around them while Naruto played with them Gaara just sat there ignoring the kits although he was fond of them. After all he had to keep his cold exterior up in front of the others.
The girls in the group were giggling with each other saying how cute the kits were while the boys were curious as to why 2 untamed and usually very aggressive foxes were snuggling up to Naruto and Gaara, it was as Naruto was playing with his pets. The girls really wanted to come and have a closer look at the kits but they were too scared to approach Naruto while 2 ferocious looking black foxes were there, not to mention Gaara. Naruto saw this and called them.
"Hey Sakura-chan Hinata-chan come over here. They won't bite, I promise."
Sakura and Hinata took a few seconds before they managed to gather up enough courage to approach them. Soon they were patting and playing with the cubs without any incident, seeing this the other girls soon joined sakura and Hinata.
"Naruto how come these foxes did not attack you?" asked sakura
"Ah.um... AH! I saved them a couple of months ago from hunters. That's why they know me." Lied Naruto
The real reason was of course, now that Naruto had control of the Kyubi fully, all foxes and wolves now looked at Naruto as their master.
Everyone seemed to believe Naruto's explanation as no one questioned him anymore, everyone except sakura and Hinata who were eyeing Naruto suspiciously. Naruto shifted uncomfortably under their gaze but he was spared further questioning as both the girls kept their suspicions to themselves. However they silently made it their mission to find out what Naruto was hiding form them.
Soon everyone fell asleep after the boys also decided to join in the activities. Everyone slept quietly except for Naruto and Gaara as they sensed faint chakra signatures all throughout the night.
Once day broke everyone resumed their journey towards earth country. Everyone was very happy as they had not encountered and Tsunade stated enemies as. However Naruto and Gaara were wary as the faint chakra they felt the night before was currently getting stronger. The others could not feel it, as it was masked very good, but not good enough.
With just a few more miles to reach their destination it happened. The genins were attacked by shinobi's from Hidden Cloud village. Immediately all the genins went in to fighting stances and made Shikamaru get in the middle of the formation. There were 15 attackers, and from their dressing the genins identified them as 7 jounins and 8 chunnin's. Gaara ordered Shikamaru's and his own team to remain with Shikamaru. The rest of the genins were to engage the enemy. Lee immediately took on one of the jounins and managed to push him back from the others, their fight was carried further as lee needed an open space to fight properly. Everyone seemed to have picked an opponent; Sasuke, Neji, Shino and Kankuro each picked a jounin to fight while Temari, Chouji, Akemi, Akihiro, Chuichi, Hinata Kiba and Tenten each took on a chuunin while sakura and Ino shared taking in a chuunin. Naruto and Gaara opted to look after Shikamaru. The moment the fight started Naruto and Gaara took an interest as to how some of the genins handled themselves in a life and death fight. Neji, Sasuke and lee seemed to be holding their ground while Kankuro and Shino seemed to have some problems. The rest of the genins actually were holding on very good by themselves.
However, soon Shino was getting pushed back and attacked very badly. He almost got killed when the jounin did a fire type ninjutsu to counter the bug shield Shino used, however Shino got lucky as Naruto interfered.
"Blood wave!" the huge the huge red tails swung around and wrapped Shino in its protective chakra. To say the jounin and Shino were surprised was an understatement, as both of them have never seen such a technique, let alone someone with so much chakra at their disposal. What was even more shocking was the killing intent emitting was unbelievable. However it was only directed to the cloud jounin and while Shino felt the killing chakra it was not as scary as it was meant to be. It was as if the chakra was telling him everything was going to be ok. All the current fights were stopped as everyone felt the powerful chakra. The cloud shinobi's did not want to take a risk and regrouped while the leaf genins also did the same.
"Hey you dumb ass ninja's. The mighty Naruto is here. And if you don't want to get your Asses kicked you better leave." Yelled Naruto.
Everyone's sweat dropped and the could ninja's could not believe that someone so stupid could have actually produced so much chakra.
"Hey kid that's what we should be saying to you. Leave the box here and we will let you leave alive. We don't want to kill you." replied one of the jounins.
"Heh you actually think we would do something like that? What's wrong with your brains? If we wanted to do that we would not have accepted this mission." Replied Naruto while the rest of the genins got ready to fight again.
"Very well don't say we did not warn you." the moment those words left the jounins mouth he tried to take a step to launch an attack, but he found himself unable to move. Soon all of the cloud found that their feet were trapped by sand that was slowly spreading towards covering their body. What was more surprising was the fact that Naruto and Gaara appeared behind them.
"Kage Bunshin?" asked lee as he kept looking back and fourth between the Naruto and Gaara that was with them and the Naruto and Gaara that had just appeared.
"No, I call this chakra Bunshin. It's similar to Kage Bunshin but it's almost as strong as the original. Plus it can retain more chakra within it self. As for Gaara he call his desert clones. Ask him if you want to know more." Replied Naruto.
"WHAT!!! When did you create the clones? We were keeping and eye on you since this morning and during the fight. You could not have created something that strong without us knowing about it?" yelled one of the enemy chuunin.
"Who says were created it today? We created it last night when we sensed your chakra. We then hid ourselves waiting for the right moment to kill you." stated Gaara simply.
Everyone could not believe what Gaara had told them. Now one could have maintained a clone for so long. Unless they were at jounin level and above. And here Naruto and Gaara were doing it like it was the easiest thing in the world.
"Enough talk now you die!" Gaara said while slowly clenching his fist tightening the sand around the could shinobi's. Usually a jounin would have been able to break free from this technique. But these shinobi's were weak for their level.
"No!! Please No !!! AHHHHHhhhhhhhh!" yelled one of the ninjas the moment the sand crushed them.
"Desert graveyard"
The sight before the genins was something they would never forget. Ino and Akemi ware throwing up at the sight of blood pouring down like rain while Gaara's sand was absorbing it like it had a mind of its own. The scariest part was the way Naruto and Gaara looked. The look on their faces was something none of the genins has seen before. They looked like the death was nothing to them, and their eyes were so mystifying that you could get lost in them.
"Let's go" said Naruto without looking at any of the genins faces. Everyone nodded before silently proceeding towards earth counties gates, while in their mind the scene kept playing over and over again.
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, Gaara and the group of genins made their way towards the edges of Konoha. Their destination, Earth country. Everyone was still a bit edgy from Sasuke's outburst towards Naruto a few minutes before, but what made them even more edgy was the fact that Naruto stopped Sasuke without breaking a sweat. This was not the loud mouth annoying person they once knew and that was bugging them.
Naruto had ordered all of them to walk surrounding Shikamaru in a loose formation so that it would not attract attention towards Shikamaru but allowing them to protect him with the box if the need arose. Everyone complied silently except for Chuichi who grumbled a bit, but a glare from Gaara shut him up. The journey to the Earth country usually took 3-4 days depending on the method of transportation but for a group of trained shinobi's this journey would take 2-3 days, depending on how many times they stopped to rest, and now they were reaching the end of the first day.
Naruto signaled everyone to stop when they reached a clearing in the forest that they currently traveled through. Gaara then ordered everyone to do specific duties, such as getting water, setting traps and such. Soon all of them were chatting animatedly around the fire when a rustling sound sent all of them into a defensive position. Everyone was holding a kunai waiting for the intruders to show themselves, but before they could do anything Naruto stop them.
"Sit down, it's no one dangerous."
Everyone glanced around skeptically before 2 foxes and their 3 of its kits appeared out of the nearby trees. The foxes looked menacing but Naruto just waved his hands asking his team to sit down. Everyone sat while never taking their eyes off the foxes that were heading towards Naruto and Gaara.
The foxes stood in front of Naruto and started licking his face in a playful manner, and the kits started to climb on Naruto and Gaara biting and pulling at their clothes as if to ask to be played with. Naruto patted the 2 adult foxes before they each rested their heads on Naruto and Gaara's lap. The cubs were still climbing around them while Naruto played with them Gaara just sat there ignoring the kits although he was fond of them. After all he had to keep his cold exterior up in front of the others.
The girls in the group were giggling with each other saying how cute the kits were while the boys were curious as to why 2 untamed and usually very aggressive foxes were snuggling up to Naruto and Gaara, it was as Naruto was playing with his pets. The girls really wanted to come and have a closer look at the kits but they were too scared to approach Naruto while 2 ferocious looking black foxes were there, not to mention Gaara. Naruto saw this and called them.
"Hey Sakura-chan Hinata-chan come over here. They won't bite, I promise."
Sakura and Hinata took a few seconds before they managed to gather up enough courage to approach them. Soon they were patting and playing with the cubs without any incident, seeing this the other girls soon joined sakura and Hinata.
"Naruto how come these foxes did not attack you?" asked sakura
"Ah.um... AH! I saved them a couple of months ago from hunters. That's why they know me." Lied Naruto
The real reason was of course, now that Naruto had control of the Kyubi fully, all foxes and wolves now looked at Naruto as their master.
Everyone seemed to believe Naruto's explanation as no one questioned him anymore, everyone except sakura and Hinata who were eyeing Naruto suspiciously. Naruto shifted uncomfortably under their gaze but he was spared further questioning as both the girls kept their suspicions to themselves. However they silently made it their mission to find out what Naruto was hiding form them.
Soon everyone fell asleep after the boys also decided to join in the activities. Everyone slept quietly except for Naruto and Gaara as they sensed faint chakra signatures all throughout the night.
Once day broke everyone resumed their journey towards earth country. Everyone was very happy as they had not encountered and Tsunade stated enemies as. However Naruto and Gaara were wary as the faint chakra they felt the night before was currently getting stronger. The others could not feel it, as it was masked very good, but not good enough.
With just a few more miles to reach their destination it happened. The genins were attacked by shinobi's from Hidden Cloud village. Immediately all the genins went in to fighting stances and made Shikamaru get in the middle of the formation. There were 15 attackers, and from their dressing the genins identified them as 7 jounins and 8 chunnin's. Gaara ordered Shikamaru's and his own team to remain with Shikamaru. The rest of the genins were to engage the enemy. Lee immediately took on one of the jounins and managed to push him back from the others, their fight was carried further as lee needed an open space to fight properly. Everyone seemed to have picked an opponent; Sasuke, Neji, Shino and Kankuro each picked a jounin to fight while Temari, Chouji, Akemi, Akihiro, Chuichi, Hinata Kiba and Tenten each took on a chuunin while sakura and Ino shared taking in a chuunin. Naruto and Gaara opted to look after Shikamaru. The moment the fight started Naruto and Gaara took an interest as to how some of the genins handled themselves in a life and death fight. Neji, Sasuke and lee seemed to be holding their ground while Kankuro and Shino seemed to have some problems. The rest of the genins actually were holding on very good by themselves.
However, soon Shino was getting pushed back and attacked very badly. He almost got killed when the jounin did a fire type ninjutsu to counter the bug shield Shino used, however Shino got lucky as Naruto interfered.
"Blood wave!" the huge the huge red tails swung around and wrapped Shino in its protective chakra. To say the jounin and Shino were surprised was an understatement, as both of them have never seen such a technique, let alone someone with so much chakra at their disposal. What was even more shocking was the killing intent emitting was unbelievable. However it was only directed to the cloud jounin and while Shino felt the killing chakra it was not as scary as it was meant to be. It was as if the chakra was telling him everything was going to be ok. All the current fights were stopped as everyone felt the powerful chakra. The cloud shinobi's did not want to take a risk and regrouped while the leaf genins also did the same.
"Hey you dumb ass ninja's. The mighty Naruto is here. And if you don't want to get your Asses kicked you better leave." Yelled Naruto.
Everyone's sweat dropped and the could ninja's could not believe that someone so stupid could have actually produced so much chakra.
"Hey kid that's what we should be saying to you. Leave the box here and we will let you leave alive. We don't want to kill you." replied one of the jounins.
"Heh you actually think we would do something like that? What's wrong with your brains? If we wanted to do that we would not have accepted this mission." Replied Naruto while the rest of the genins got ready to fight again.
"Very well don't say we did not warn you." the moment those words left the jounins mouth he tried to take a step to launch an attack, but he found himself unable to move. Soon all of the cloud found that their feet were trapped by sand that was slowly spreading towards covering their body. What was more surprising was the fact that Naruto and Gaara appeared behind them.
"Kage Bunshin?" asked lee as he kept looking back and fourth between the Naruto and Gaara that was with them and the Naruto and Gaara that had just appeared.
"No, I call this chakra Bunshin. It's similar to Kage Bunshin but it's almost as strong as the original. Plus it can retain more chakra within it self. As for Gaara he call his desert clones. Ask him if you want to know more." Replied Naruto.
"WHAT!!! When did you create the clones? We were keeping and eye on you since this morning and during the fight. You could not have created something that strong without us knowing about it?" yelled one of the enemy chuunin.
"Who says were created it today? We created it last night when we sensed your chakra. We then hid ourselves waiting for the right moment to kill you." stated Gaara simply.
Everyone could not believe what Gaara had told them. Now one could have maintained a clone for so long. Unless they were at jounin level and above. And here Naruto and Gaara were doing it like it was the easiest thing in the world.
"Enough talk now you die!" Gaara said while slowly clenching his fist tightening the sand around the could shinobi's. Usually a jounin would have been able to break free from this technique. But these shinobi's were weak for their level.
"No!! Please No !!! AHHHHHhhhhhhhh!" yelled one of the ninjas the moment the sand crushed them.
"Desert graveyard"
The sight before the genins was something they would never forget. Ino and Akemi ware throwing up at the sight of blood pouring down like rain while Gaara's sand was absorbing it like it had a mind of its own. The scariest part was the way Naruto and Gaara looked. The look on their faces was something none of the genins has seen before. They looked like the death was nothing to them, and their eyes were so mystifying that you could get lost in them.
"Let's go" said Naruto without looking at any of the genins faces. Everyone nodded before silently proceeding towards earth counties gates, while in their mind the scene kept playing over and over again.