Author's Note: I'm back again, not much to say besides that thing are about to get fucking crazy, I hope you're ready for the adventures of Spiderman and cre-.. Shit wrong fanfiction, I mean Naruto and gang!
Sasuke sneered as he stared at Zako's teammates, "I hope you're ready to die" Sasuke's sharingan spun wildly as he shot towards the left where kin had jumped off too. He brought his hand down to his leg and pulled out a kunai before swiping up at the girl.
Kin screamed and put her arms out to try and protect herself, her right arm ended up getting sliced open. She fell to her butt holding her arm where the wound was gushing out blood, Sasuke's sneer turned more sinister as he was about to end the girl's life. Sasuke quickly brought his kunai up to the side and turned his body to stop Dosu's counterattack.
Dosu's eyes widened as Sasuke stopped his arm with no problem whatsoever, he quickly retaliated with a kick to the Uchiha's stomach which was caught by Sasuke's free arm. He then threw the sound ninja back and shot another fire jutsu at the boy.
"Now this is power, you are all weak little pieces of shit, First I'm going to kill you" Sasuke said as he looked at kin madly, drunk on power, "Then I'm gonna go back to you for hurting Sakura-chan then I'm gon-" Sasuke quickly stopped talking and fell to the ground by Naruto's fist.
Out cold, the curse mark started to recede, "Fuck this is going to be a problem, I'm gonna have to fix this soon." Naruto said out loud to himself. Naruto then looked over at the three sound Ninja "Ugh I really should kill you three, you have no idea what your boss has planned, but I don't feel like it right now. This one time, and one time only I will give you a free pass. Leave, run away and never come back. If I see you again…" Naruto tried to call upon of Kurama's power a bit, but it didn't work, it was at that point he realized that he had almost no chakra control. He was sealed again just like last time. So he did the next best thing, in a burst of speed that easily rivaled lee's he appeared behind Dosu with a Kunai to his neck, "I swear to end your life. But not before I rip out your insides and make you eat them." Naruto said trying to put fear back into this boy's body. Luckily for him it worked, as Naruto lowered his kunai Dosu grabbed his teammates and quickly left.
"Naruto-kun what's wrong with Sasuke-kun? Why… why was he like that? He seemed so happy and he was going to kill that shinobi. But that smirk he had.. It was so dark and twisted I don't want to see it again.. He seemed to relish in the fact that he was hurting that boy" Sakura said.
"That wasn't Sasuke." Naruto said, "He wasn't in control of his actions don't worry about it I'll handle it with Kakashi-sensei." Naruto said before saying no more. "How about you three get out of the tree" Naruto yelled out surprising Sakura and Team 10 who thought they were hidden.
"How'd you know we were up there Naruto?" Shikamaru asked landing on the ground in front of him.
"That was too easy, I could practically smell the perfume that Ino was wearing, and your chakra is easy to distinguish from how your family uses yang release jutsu." Naruto said as Shikamaru widened his eyes in surprise before not saying much more.
"So what scrolls do you have? We have two earth and 2 heaven" Shikamaru said as Naruto smirked.
"Well we don't have any actually, something happened and we ended up losing our scroll in order to save all of us. If you want to give us your extra we'll work together to the finish line" Naruto offered. Shikamaru sighed out a 'fine' tossing him the extras they had.
Shikamaru new better than to not take Naruto's offer. He knew that his team was hiding something, whatever it was made them dangerous, why not give him the extra's and get a guaranteed finish in the second part of these exams. Naruto grinned and grabbed the extra's before making a clone to get Sasuke, this actually surprised Shikamaru and his gang. "Since when can you make full fledged clones Naruto? In the academy, you could barely even make a regular clone that was just an illusion."
"Oh yea well ya see the bushin we learn in the academy doesn't work for me because of my high chakra reserve's I don't have the control to make one, but these shadow clones are easier for me because it requires a high level of chakra and not much control." Naruto answered forgetting that not everyone knew he could make clones yet.
Shikamaru just nodded before the small group of genin took off towards the center, the sooner they got out the better. Shikamaru didn't want to be in this forest longer than he had to and he was sure anyone would agree with him on that.
The two teams got together and with Naruto taking lead they quickly left, Naruto knowing his way around the forest decided to take the quickest route he knew to the tower and hoped they could avoid confrontation from group followed him as they tried their best to stay quite, what really surprised everyone was how well Ino and Sakura were being at not screaming and fighting.
It wasn't long before the tower came into view, but Naruto quickly stopped the group, and for good measure too. It was the stench that filled the air, everyone could smell it. Blood, and it was fresh which means a battle just happened, or was still going as the sound of fighting could be heard.
"Everyone wait here" Naruto spoke as he quickly made two clones who henged into Sakura and Sasuke and they moved onwards. The Sasuke clone henged his eyes to look like the sharingan just for looks and to look more believable. The trio moved onwards about four hundred feet before they were quickly intercepted by an enemy. Naruto jumped back into a tree with his clones following close by. It was just some more kids from Sound, he realized it was Kabuto's team. His clones realized too and without word they dropped their disguise. It was time to unleash his full power and end these guys quickly. He didn't need any obstacles in his way, and ending Kabuto's team kicks Kabuto out of the exam. He needs to stop him from gaining any further information from this years crop of genin.. He already knew too much, yes he warned Kakashi, but he has no doubt the snake had help eluding everyone to get the man in here. He did destroy his cards so Kabuto's undoubtedly making new ones to keep up with his information.
Naruto didn't know when he would have another chance, Kabuto saw Naruto and tried not to smirk. The two wanted to end the other for very different reasons. Naruto quickly charged the man on Kabuto's right forcing a Kunai through his neck. Kabuto was about to retaliate when the Naruto clone's dropped their henge and one charged Kabuto, the man stopped the attack, his other partner was killed though. Kabuto saw no other choice he quickly ended the clone's and left, he needed to report to Orochimaru.
Naruto sighed but he couldn't follow, he turned around and headed back to the group.
"So what was it?" Ino asked first, but with a quiet voice, Shikamaru probably knocked sense into her to be quiet at least for now.
"Nothing I couldn't handle by myself" Naruto replied, before wiping off some off the blood that was splattered on his jacket. Team 10 looked at Naruto in different ways, Ino horrified that Naruto killed someone, Chouji shocked, and Shikamaru worried, he also looked like he was thinking deeply. That could be a problem Shikamaru was smart, but even he didn't need to know to much yet, for now he should enjoy the good times. Naruto was getting ready to share his past/people's future soon with more people but he wanted to be careful with whom he shared it with. But he already knew who the next person was going to be, and hopefully the last person for a long time. "Don't worry about it too much, but now is our time to go and get to the tower before it's too late." Naruto spoke before turning around and slowly taking off so the others could follow.
The group once more headed towards the tower hoping to quickly gain entry, but they had to halt once more quickly because Sasuke started to wake up. Naruto jumped to the ground and everyone else followed as they set the boy down. "Wha-what's going on?" The Uchiha asked confused as to why everyone was staring at him. Sasuke looked over at Sakura and Naruto and then remembered what he did… or tried to do, "What happened? Did I kill him or..?" His voice trailed off.
"Don't worry duck butt, I knocked you out and finished the enemies off. You didn't kill anyone but you almost did, you seriously did a number on them. But there is no way they can continue so it's all good for now we shouldn't see them again." Naruto answered softly trying to help out his young friend.
"We're heading towards the tower now, Naruto and Sakura are working with us in exchange for a scroll so we can all get there quicker and with less chance of a casualty. We're nearly there it's just up past the treeline" Shikamaru said before Sasuke could even ask what was going on.
Sasuke nodded not having to say anymore and got up, "Let's get going than" was all he said. Naruto smirked and took back off with everyone following him quickly. The two teams didn't take but a couple minutes to get to the treeline, Naruto made some clones and had them just rush out, when the coast was clear they all quickly ran into the tower.
Chouji closed the door behind them and everyone sighed in relief at being safe. "So what do we do now guys?" Naruto asked, pretending to not know the answer.
Shikamaru was reading the poster on the wall, it didn't take long for him to decipher the hidden meaning. "Everyone back up" He said as he took out both scrolls and opened them making it an x formation over the middle of the room.
"Yo what's up guys… and team 7" a man said as he appeared in a cloud of smoke.
"Asuma-sensei? What's going on here!" Ino yelled in surprise and shock wanting answers.
"Well it seems like you all passed together, good job the whole point of this exam was to use teamwork to get through. By successfully getting through this stage of the exam you only have one more stage to get through, you have about a day before this stage is over, you'll learn more tomorrow afternoon. But for now go ahead and find a room and get some rest and gain back your strength. You just might need it" The man said before disappearing.
*Poof* "Yo" another sound was made and another man showed up. A certain loveable cyclops, "Good job making it through guys, go find a room and get some rest"
"Kakashi-sensei wait!" Naruto said before the man could leave, "Our mutual friend left a mark on our vengeful friend" Kakashi's eye widened for a moment before he nodded and left in a poof of smoke. "Well you guys heard Asuma-sensei, let's go get some rest I have a feeling we'll need it for tomorrow." The orange boy said walking out the door into the building.
The boys all split off into their own group since the rooms weren't coed for some reason, but everyone stayed together still. Shikamaru and Chouji went straight to bed and took a nice relaxing nap, Sasuke and Naruto left to shower. Get the smell of the forest off of them and clean up some at least. After cleaning up and changing into fresh clothes, they went to the dining hall where they were amazed. It was a full buffet, wall to wall filled with food. Naruto and Sasuke smirked and ate until there was almost no food left and their stomachs were filled.
Not many teams were there yet, Naruto found that out just looking around. A lot were gonna get in through the night and early the next morning. But Naruto didn't mind he knew his match would be a breeze and so would Sasuke's. Kakashi came back and took Sasuke, he knew it was to seal the boy up, and now they had more time to do it to. But even Naruto knew that seal wouldn't do much to help.
The seal was a strong one, but the evil sealing method could only do so much, for the straight seal itself it was a lot of help but Orochimaru's soul was also stored in the seal. Because of that little factor it made the seal extremely dangerous and wild which is why Sasuke lost himself it's like being a schizophrenic. Constantly hearing a voice in your head telling you that you aren't good enough and to be better will drive anyone insane, which is why Sasuke sought out the power. Thinking if he did the voices would stop but it never did, and never would until he finally was rid of the seal. Now if Sasuke was given that seal without Orochimaru's soul in it, that would be a powerful tool in his set because of the fact that the seal still brought in sage chakra from the world only a small amount though and it was safe enough for him to use. But that's why he was so powerful when using it, take away the factor with Orochimaru and there would be no limitations using the seal and Sasuke could be a lot stronger. But that's why the sealing method won't do anything but hinder Sasuke, because Kakashi isn't sealing away the soul just the seal itself, and it's not an evil seal so it really doesn't do much help.
"Oh hey what's up" Naruto said turning a corner and seeing a friendly face.
"You need to hurry with help… mother wants blood" Gaara said his face sunken from the lack of sleep, and very scary looking. "I'm sorry, Shukaku is growing stronger because he sensed the Kyuubi's power when you used it in the forest. We both know how he feels towards his sibling."
"It's all good once we get your seal fixed things should be better, Jiraiya should know how to help, if not I'll do something to make sure he can help." Naruto said with a smile, "Just remember to meet me at the hot springs, just wait to show up until after I'm alone with Jiraiya just shadow us until we're alone." Gaara nodded then headed off.
"It's better if I'm alone, I can try meditating and calming down Shukaku." Gaara said as he headed off to the roof of the building.
Hopefully Jiraiya-san can help me, if not then I don't know what I'm going to do Gaara thought to himself as he got to the roof and got into a meditative stance. He was quickly shoved into his mindscape where he saw Shukaku in front of him.
"Ain't gonna be long before I get to have some fun again, I don't care what happened before I'm stuck in this goddamn seal again and it's driving both of us crazy. So I might as well fucking enjoy it and bring you down with me!" Shukaku said in a manic voice.
"I stopped you before and I will do it again, and when Jiraiya-san helps maybe then you will calm down some… hopefully." Gaara responded before raising his hands, "But for now I will just suppress you the best I can."
Naruto looked up sensing chakra that he knew belonged to Gaara, it turns out that things were getting worse but at least he's fighting back against Shukaku until he can get help to stop him. But for now he needed to get to sleep it was only a few hours until the preliminary matches would happen, he had no doubt those would still happen. There were still a lot of teams that came in and he had no doubt a lot would slip through. Even if he managed to take out two teams himself. "Whatever I'm not going to worry about this it's time that I get some sleep I'll worry later about this shit." Naruto said out loud to nobody but himself as he flopped into his bed. It wasn't long until slumber took over his weary body and Naruto drifted off into the land of ramen as he slept.
"It's time now, don't let anyone else in" the elderly Kage said to one of his jounin as he stood up on a stage in a giant room that had a hand making the ram sign. Than the kage looked up, seeing a mass of genin who had made it so far to this point in time. He knew it would be unfair but he was about to break a lot of their hearts with his next words, "I have to congratulate all of you on making it to this point in the exam. A lot of you fought extra hard to get here and did things you may not be proud of, from deceiving people of your own village to killing one another. But that is what a ninja does, and even though I would love to have all of you go onto the next portion I cannot allow that, there are too many of you and so for now we are going to hold a 1v1 tournament to cut your numbers in half." At these words everyone started yelling out in complaint.
"Some of us just finished though! We had to spend days in there and have almost no energy while some people have been here and are rested up and at full strength how is that fair?" A genin shouted out while others shouted back agreements with him.
"It's not fair, and it doesn't have to be in the ninja world you won't always have time to recover before your next fight. But if anyone would wish to drop out now please take this next moment to raise your hand" Hiruzen said. Hiruzen smiled as he saw that no one was backing out, some kids looked nervous, others looked determined and the rest seemed pissed and ready to hurt someone. Hiruzen took in a deep breath, "Well since no one wants to withdraw than everyone please head up to the balconies where your sensei's will meet you. On this large screen you will see your name appear, when it appears yourself and your opponent will head down to the arena for battle." Before he could continue a jounin approached
"Lord hokage-sama if you will, I would like to take on from here on since I am the protector of these matches." Hiruzen nodded letting the man proceed. He jumped down to the middle of the arena. "I am Hayate *cough, cough* Gekkō, and I will be your protector of these preliminary exams. Behind me is the *cough, cough* computer screen which will randomly assign matches, when your *cough, cough* name is shown you will appear in front of me. I will begin the matches *cough, cough* and if need be end them, anything is aloud even killing, but *cough, cough* if I stop a match than you may no longer continue or you will be disqualified. Even though you may kill your opponent please remember *cough, cough* that this is still a friendly competition between villages to help unite these villages together and to show off each others might, not needlessly murder each other."
"Well put Hayate-san, now everyone prepare to fight the first two names will appear shortly" Hiruzen said as everyone looked towards the screen anticipating the first fight. Names flew across the screen at speeds hard to follow making every name appear to be a blurr, and then the first two names appeared.
Sasuke Uchiha vs. Steel
Sasuke smirked as he jumped down to the arena, hoping to quickly be done with this match. Steel, a ninja of the hidden rock jumped down smirking also, "So the great Uchiha huh? Probably just a cry baby bitch ready to get beaten down" The kid said out loud to everyone as he faced down Sasuke.
Sasuke looked down smirking as the boy shouted out more insults before looking up crazy eyed with his sharingan staring the boy down. Steel instantly became quiet as he stared at Sasuke's two tomoe sharinganed eyes. For the first time he felt pure fear. "Protector start this match please" Sasuke said never looking away from the boy.
Hayate sighed, "Hajime" He said before disappearing to watch the battle.
Steel quickly shot at Sasuke surprisingly fast, but with his eyes he easily dodged the boys punch and quickly countered with a knee to his stomach. "Don't even bother fighting me, you lost this match before it even started" Sasuke said.
"Shut the fuck up" he quickly did a few hand signs before shouting out, "Kajuu No Doro (Mud Weights)" and quickly shot out some mud at Sasuke that connected to the boy. Sasuke didn't think much of the move until it connected and that's when he felt his body get weighed down and a lot. "You thought you were so cool Uchiha, but now because of me you will all be extinct" the boy yelled as he screamed and charged down Sasuke and shoved a kunai through his chest.
Steel smirked thinking he had won, that was until he fell to the ground exploding in pain, and that's when the world came back to him, "Genjutsu.. But when" Steel said as his kunai was protruding from his own gut.
"The second you locked eyes with me I won this battle, I never had to move a muscle" and with that Sasuke walked away as Steel knocked unconscious and a medical team came out to get him. Hayate came down and nominated Sasuke the winner.
The computer started shooting names again everyone waited patiently to see their name pop up.
Shino Aburame vs. Kankurō
Shino raised an eyebrow but said nothing as he clamley headed down, meanwhile his Sensei Asuma Sarutobi looked onwards careful. His student was facing a ninja from sand and he knew this could get serious fast, but he had faith in his student nonetheless.
"You sure you don't want to back out now? Save yourself some trouble kid and make it easy on yourself." Kankuro said with a smirk. Shino didn't respond though, as he was already preparing for the battle with his bugs. "Whatever, don't cry to me when I hurt you treehugger" Was all he said as the two waited for the single to start.
"Both contestants ready? Yes? No? Well I don't *cough, cough* care, Hajime!" he shouted starting the match.
Kankuro quickly shot forward to attack the boy, but as soon as he made contact his body started to get covered in bugs, "Agh, what the hell" Kankuro shouted as the boys entire body disappeared into that of bugs which started to cover Kankuro's body.
"You won't face me with your real self but with this puppetry than I won't face you either" Shino said calmly as he came out from the shadows slowly.
"I'm surprised you noticed crow so quickly" Kankuro replied as he jumped out of the place where his puppet was. Untransforming his puppet to show what it truly was as he got ready to fight. But than Kankuro suddenly fell to the ground, "Agh, what the hell is this, my chakra..."
Shino smirked, but no one noticed through his hood and glasses, "You never stood a chance against me and my insects, while you've been trying to stall for time my beetles have been depleting your chakra, give up now or else I will have to end this for you harshly." Shino said not moving a step. But he saw Kankuro preparing for another attack, so he had his beetles give him the chakra they have stolen from Kankuro as he prepared his next Jutsu, one that surprised everyone. "Kuchiyose no Jutsu" Shino said as a giant spider appeared next time, a lot of girls in the building freaked out at the 20 foot spider that showed up. "I warned you, this is your last warning or Kafla here will end you for me" Shino said.
Kankuro said seeing he had no other choice, "Fine, Protector I forfeit"
Hayate came down once more from his hiding spot, " * Cough, Cough* by forfeit, Shino Ambure wins the match and will proceed to the next round" Shino smiled and called back his beetles and headed back up to the balcony with no more words.
Once more everyone looked towards the screen, anticipating the next match. The screen lit up green again and flew through names, and that's when it happened. Even Naruto couldn't have predicted this outcome for a match.
Naruto Uzumaki vs. Gaara
Naruto and Gaara looked at each other with wide eyes. Naruto smiled though, he knew they would have to fight eventually, but that time has come to soon because he wasn't signed with the toads anymore. He couldn't really use Kurama's power or else people might get scared… also the fact that he was currently sealed. He didn't see himself winning this match but you never know what was going to happen.
Naruto with pure speed came down to the arena faster than most people could follow, even Sasuke which surprised him and made him activate his sharingan so he could follow the match more closely. Gaara used a sand shushin to appear in front of Naruto and the two stared each other down, "You ready to get your ass kicked" Naruto said with a grin.
"Boy you better quit before he kills you" Temari shouted down to Naruto, a lot of other kids seemed to agree with her but Gaara held up his hand.
"This boy is worthy, do not meddle with this Temari, Prepare to die Uzumaki-san" Gaara said with an emotionless voice keeping up his façade. But even Naruto could tell that Gaara was excited.
"Let's do this thing" Naruto said getting ready to fight.
Author's Note: Hey guys, I apologize for the delay was stuck in the hospital sick for a while and alas did not have a computer with me and that set me behind but here's an early Christmas gift. Hope you enjoy this chapter and are excited for the next one! R&R
Updated 09/29/2019