Rivaled Experience Chapter 3: Meeting the Teams, a naruto fanfic

Chapter: 3 Meeting the Teams

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As Naruto jumped roof to roof to the Hokage tower, the two Oar nins were doing the same, as snow fell around them, as quiet as the dead.

Naruto got there first, and was surprised to see all the jounin sensei's, even Anko, there with their teams. Anko was sitting in one of the chairs, in a relaxed state, as she talked to Kurenai, who was standing beside her, her three students quietly beside her.

As Naruto walked farther into the room, he was met by his team. "Hey dobe, do you know why we're here?" asked Sasuke as Sakura also held that question in her eyes. Kakashi turned towards Naruto to know the answer as well.

"Well, actually--" Naruto was interrupted as the door opened again, revealing Zen, who held it open for Dante. Silence fell upon the occupants of the room as Dante came into center of room, Zen beside him. "Nasikama-san, if you don't mind, I would like to tell the shinobi in this room about the topic." Tsunade stated and Dante looked towards her.

"Of course, I don't mind." He spoke with an amused voice, as his golden eyes peirced Tsunade's. Remembering his earlier words, Tsunade swallowed before continueing.

"But first." Dante interrupted before she spoke. All eyes were on him, as if they were angry at him for interrupting the Godaime. Tsunade nodded to him, signaling it was safe for him to speak. "I don't think I introduced by escort, Zen Kagaruu." Dante aid as he gestured to Zen, the latter bowing.

"Continue." Dante somewhat commanded. Tenten narrowed her eyes at Dante, how could he command the Hokage? She would do something about the insult to the object of her fandom.

Dante adjusted the chainsaw strapped to his black dress shirt, causing some to stiffen.

"Nasikama-san is here on official village business, his village, Rogakure, is planning on starting a war with the Leaf. He is spending time here, as our gracious guest, to make the final decision on whether starting the war, or ending it before it starts." Tsunade explained and some jonin frowned slightly.

"What? Some little kid?" asked Kiba and immediately there was a dark aura around Dante, who was at least three inches taller than himself. "Er, forget I said anything." Kiba said as he laughed nervously, the dark aura becoming concealed once again.

"Know this," Dante started, a voice as cold as the winter rain, "If I do decide to start a war, Konohagakure, will surely perish." he finished and looked up at Team Seven, smiling wickedly.

Naruto gulped and stepped forward. "Konnichiwa, Nasikama-san, I am Uzumaki Naruto." Naruto said as he held his hand out. Immediately, some doubts were thought.

"What is that loser doing? What a dobe, can't he see that someone like that won't even want to talk to him?" Sasuke thought as he exhaled.

"Baka, apparently, Nasikama-san has no time for people like Naruto" Neji thought with a glare at Naruto through his powerful white eyes.

To the shock of some, Dante shook Naruto's hand heartily. "Konnichiwa, Uzumaki-san." Dante said as the handshake ended. After seeing the greeting, some of the chuunins in the room started to gain some courage to talk to Dante.

"Please, call me Naruto." said blonde shinobi spoke and smiled foxily. "Alright, Naruto-kun, as long as you call me Dante." Zen rolled his eyes at this as looked to his side. He saw Anko looking at Dante and his heart stopped for several seconds. 'Whoa.' was all he thought.

Zen was shook from his reverie as the Elekt member snapped his fingers in front of his face. "Now that we've been introduced, I was wondering when the Chuunin exams began?" asked Dante as he turned towards Tsunade once more.

"Hm? You're both still genins?" asked Tsunade, not believing. Zen coughed some, embarrassed. "Yes." Dante responded, voice not losing any commanding tone.

"But, surely you should have taken the exams back when you were twelve, right?" asked Sakura. "I failed." Dante stated simply and everyone sweatdropped.

'Damn guy, acting so tough, makes me want to punch some sense into him!' Kiba thought angrily. "Well, the next one is in one week, Naruto will be attending it as well, maybe you three could be a team?" Tsunade suggested as she moved some paperwork around.

Dante and Zen nodded, the former adjusted his forehead protector. "Okay, if there's no further business, everyone but Team Seven, is dismissed." Tsunade said and everyone team left, including Dante and Zen.

"Eh? Do we have a mission or something?" asked Naruto, looking hopeful. Tsunade grinned. "Yes, you are to venture to Sunagakure and bring the sand siblings to Konohagakure." Tsunade said as she handed the file to Kakashi.

"Hm? The Kazekage and his siblings? Why?" asked Sakura as she was oblivious. (AN: When is she not?). "Their going to help us, incase the Oar does decide to attack, since our alliance with the Sand village, we should at least have three nins from their village ready on hand." Tsunade explained.

"But, why Gaara, I mean, won't his village be lost without him?" asked Kakashi, looking up from the file in which he hid his 'Icha' book. "They'll be fine." Tsunade waved off the concern. "But since Sasuke has to stay, I'll place Hinata on this mission." Tsunade stated as she asked for Shizune to tell the Hyuuga.

"You have three hours to gather your things for this mission. Dismissed!" Cell seven disappeared and went to pack in their respective homes, or lack there of.

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The two Oar nins were now in the park, Zen up in the tree whle Dante lay in the snow. "Hm, what should we do? I mean, we should have some fun, after all." Dante said as he sat up, shaking the snow out of his hair, and pulling his crimson jacket closer to his body.

Zen's emerald eyes scanned the boy, and then grunted, jumping from the tree. "What do you suggest we do?" he asked as he stretched. "Hm, that 'Rock Lee' guy seems to have the right idea, training hard during the time before the winter solstice..." Dante trailed off as he saw Gai and Lee run by, probably on laps around Konoha.

Dante then looked at Zen, er, looked up at Zen, seeing as how he was younger. "Take the day off." he said, his commanding tone making the older man frown slightly.

"But, I'm supposed to protect--" Zen cut off when Dante glared at him from the corner of his golden eyes.

"I don't need anyone to protect me, I am capable of doing this myself." Dante said, and walked towards Gai and Lee. Zen watched him, before stumbling back and sitting down on the snow.

Deeply exhaling, half from the cold, and the majority from the fear he felt when in Dante's glare, Zen stood and walked in the other direction.

"You're so hip, Gai-sensei!" Lee yelled when Gai had agreed that Dante could train with them. Said boy exhaled as he sweatdropped. 'Maybe I had the wrong idea...' he thought as they started to jog.

"Hey, this really warms you up." Dante stated after a lap. "Of course, even on the coldest days, your springtime of youth will heat your spirt!" Gai yelled and Lee cried, a genjutsu of a sunset and an ocean behind them.

"Er..." Dante examined this genjutsu with curiousity. 'Springtime of Youth, huh?' Dante thought as he began to create his own phrase. As they began to run more laps, Dante was really getting to like these two weirdo's.

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As Naruto walked with his backpack tightly fit with as much cup ramen as he could bring, he saw Sakura and Hinata, but no Kakashi, already at the gates.

"Now it's time to wait for hours on end." Sakura said and placed her backpack beside her, fishing around to check if she had all the necessities.

"L...looks like we'll be to...together for some time..." Hinata stuttered to Naruto as she held a strand of her long hair, innocence in her voice. Naruto smiled at her, scratching his cheek, as snow fell around them. "Yup, guess so!" he said and laughed. Hinata blushed and pulled her coat tighter.

Naruto ruffled his hair, making the snow that had been building up there fall to the ground. Sakura then zipped up her pack and stood. She looked around before something caught her eye.

"Hey, isn't that the shinobi from Rogakure?" asked Sakura as she pointed to where Gai and Lee were standing, crying as Dante yelled out something.

"WINTER SOLSTICE OF LOVE!" they heard and Naruto raised an eyebrow as Gai and Lee hugged each other, a genjutsu sunset strating up.

"Winter solstice of love?" questioned Sakura as Hinata blinked confusedly. "It does have a r...ring to it." Hinata said and Naruto agreed. Sakura screamed as Kakashi poofed right behind her, making her jump into the air.

As she landed five feet from their sensei, who seemed unphased, Gai had rushed up to them, Lee and Dante behind him.

"Kakashi! My eternal rival! Do you remember the score?" Gai asked as he pointed at the copy ninja, teeth sparkling. Kakashi sighed from behind his mask and put his Icha book away. "Yes, it was 163 to 163." Kakashi said and Gai nodded. "Can we please settle this rival game later?" Sakura asked as she was annoyed with waiting.

Kakashi looked only to happy to nod quickly, signaling the guards to open the giant gates. Gai, and the two young men watched Team seven sprinted out into the world outside Konohagakure.

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Tsunade sat in her chair, waiting patiently for that blonde little ball of energy. It had been three days since they had departed, and now they were expected back at any time. Shizune had left to watch the gate, to escort them to the Hokage's office once they arrived.

Dante and Zen sat before her, waiting with the same patience, just not the same ammount. "Hm..." Dante shattered the silence, thinking as he looked at the files for the three sand siblings.

"Temari? A ball of embroided thread? Heh..." Dante started to laugh quietly to himself. "That's quite a, ano, interesting name..." Dante said and smiled. Tsunade smiled as well and the door to her office opened.

"Tsunade-obaachan! We're back!" Naruto shouted, walking in. A bonk was heard and a bump formed on Naruto's head. "Respect the Hokage!" the statement was automatic for young Haruno Sakura.

The rest of the entourage walked in, Temari being last. Dante rose from his seat and glared at Temari, using an extreme ammount of killer intent.

Everyone seemed to notice this, and Hinata almost fainted from the killer intent seeping from Dante. Temari glared right back with the same ammount, or more, killer intent.

They seemed to move closer, until their foreheads were touching, and then they glared sharper, their killer intent molding into one, making the shy Hyuuga faint. Naruto quickly caught her and everyone was shocked at their behaviour.

"Temari-san, Nasikama-san, what's the matter?" asked Sakura as she walked up to them, the two still glaring and emitting a deadly aura. "You're not weak like some of the others..." Dante remarked and he pressed his forehead harder to Temari's, making her glare and press back.

"Why are you two so mad at each other?" asked Naruto and they didn't respond. "You're not so weak yourself." Temari said as she glared at the dark haired boy.

They leaned back, almost examining the other. 'Huge fan, weird hair, blunt attitude...' Dante thought as he examined the sand kunoichi.

'Weird weapon, weird markings on his face, only a single glove...' thought Temari as she looked at the oar shinobi. They both gasped as something mentally clicked.

"I'm going to make you my rival!" they both yelled in unison, pointing at the other. Everyone in the room sweatdropped, including the now blushing awake Hinata.

As Naruto helped Hinata stand, the two new rivals crossed their arms, looking smug. "Well, little genin, I think this will be fun." Temari said as she smirked at the younger boy. He stuck his tongue out at her as she smirked.

"Ahem." and with that, every eye went to the Hokage, who looked ticked. "Gomen nasai, Hokage-sama." Temari said, bowing. "Gomen, Tsunade-dono." Dante mimicked the bow.

"I'll leave it to you to tell them, nice to meet you, wind girl!" Dante said and he waved, jumping out the window. "Eh?! Dante-dono, wait!" Zen yelled, jumping after the Elekt member.

"Who was that?" asked Gaara and Kankuro nodded. Everyone sweatdropped and Tsunade sighed. "Well, it all began with this village..."

(AN: I was sooo thinking about ending it here, but...It's only two days away from the Chuunin exams...hm...continue???? Yes.)

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After Tsunade's looong explanation, the three siblings nodded slowly, understanding. "So, my new rival was the kid who is supposed to be deciding whether to start a war or not?" asked Temari, and she received a nod from the Godaime.

"Well, two days from the Chuunin exams, I better start training a bit more!" Naruto said and laughed as he scratched the back of his head. "First the written exam, next the forest of death, then the preliminaries." Naruto counted the three events off with one hand.

"Everyone, dismissed." Tsunade said and they left the Hokage tower.

"We are burning with the passion of youth today, Gai-sensei!" Lee yelled as he sparred against Dante, making the latter fell very tired.

"Hey, I feel tired, Speed demon." Dante said and Lee stopped punching. "What did you call me?" asked Rock Lee, blinking confusidly. "Oh. I make up nicknames for people, and you're Speed demon, if you allow it." Dante said and Lee thought for a minute.

"I think it's a great nickname! Have you chosen one for me?" asked Gai as his teeth sparkled. "Yup, sparky." Dante flashed them a thumbs up.

"Dante-kun is so youthful!" Lee shouted and began to cry, Gai agreeing through tears. Dante smiled nervously as he adjusted the chainsaw, scratching his jawline where the black marks were.

"What about Neji or Tenten, what are their nicknames?" Lee asked, pointing to the two in question who were sparring. Neji was doing the Jyuuken with no chakra.

"Oh, I didn't find one for Tenten-chan, but Neji is either 'screwball' or 'the dancing queen', I mean, it looks like he's dancing." Dante said as he laughed nervously.

"Those are so hip!" Lee yelled, making the two sparring ninja jump up. "I gotta go, seeya, Speed demon, Sparky-sensei, Dancing queen, Tenten-chan!" Dante yelled and jumped away.

Neji began counting people off from his hand. 'Lee is fast, speed demon, Gai is a sensei, Sparky-sensei, Tenten-chan...' It clicked.

"Hey!" Neji yelled as Tenten began to laugh. "Well, 'dancing queen', care to bust a move?" asked Tenten as she laughed. "I'm going home." Neji stated, a semi noticable blush on his face.

"Hooo..." came a thoughtful sound as a certain white haired Sannin spied on some innocent hot spring girls. As he began to laugh, quietly but perveresly, he failed to notice the footsteps behind him. "Hey, Ero-sennin, don't forget to train me for the Chuunin exams!" yelled Naruto, scaring Jiraiya.

"Kyaaah!" yelled some of the girls as they ran out of the springs in fear. "You brat, you scared them off!" Jiraiya scolded. "Like I care." Naruto retorted as they started to train.

As Kakashi read his Icha Icha Paradise book, walking along a misty path, the mist turned a crimson. Kakashi stopped walking, as he studied his surroundings.

He sighed, pulling a kunai out and unleashing his sharingan eye. "Okay, whoever you are, come out." Kakashi said quite lazily. A figure walked out into the bloody mist, wearing a white mask with eye holes.

Taking a huge item from his back, the figure pulled a string and it began to roar with life. Kakashi sprang at the figure, only to be blocked with the chainsaw. The figure pulled back the weopon, and Kakashi charged chakra into his index and middle finger, attempting to block the giant item.

As it connected, Kakashi's eyes widened as his fingers were cut off. The figure took the time to also cut off the copy ninja's hand. Making a hand signal, the figure spoke with a deadly tone.

"Chikiri Kusai no Jutsu!" the bloody mist suddenly began sharp spikes that rained down upon Kakashi, who was still stunned. A peicing scream filled the path.

AN: Heh, that was cool. Cliffhanger.

Chikiri Kusai no Justu: Blood Mist Spike Jutsu, turns blood into spikes.

Well, anyway, RnR if you care enough XP!