Strength, Power and Victory

Naruto/Temari fic

Darksider82

"Speech and Jutsu"

"Bijuu and Bijuu techniques!"

II

(This is set somewhere just after the apprenticeship begins and before Chunin exams)

Uzuki Hari grinned to himself as he pulled on his flakk vest. The Hokage had come through for him and for that Hari's faith in him was returned in the manner of should a shinobi need aide and the Hokage provided. It irked him that it had taken the man so long to realise that assistance was needed but he chalked it up to the Civilian's Dozen Year Slander Campaign against his apprentice.

The Hokage himself had delivered the forehead protector, flak vest and his debit card for his bank accounts and explained that he had bought the property Hari was living in and turned it into his name. Hari grinned and bowed deeply to the Hokage and pulled his vest on leaving it open much like during his jonin days the first time around.

The Hokage grinned, he had one of his finest back. He had through the use of an ANBU dropped a paypacket in the 'Rusty Kunai' a pub that he had frequented during his shinobi days and first tenure as Hokage. Hari entered the pub and there at the table to the side, where he used to sit was his dear twin Uzuki Yuugao.

Yuugao looked up and a grin crossed her face at the sight of her twin back in the flak but she couldn't help but think about when she had disowned him. "May I join you nee-chan?" Hari asked sitting down in front of her.

"Nii-san, gomenesai. Gomenesai for not coming back to you when you dragged yourself back into Konoha after being captured by Iwagakure no Sato. I'm sorry for not being by your side at the tribunal when you were denied the right to defend yourself against the Elders and Danzo...I don't know how you feel about it but would you mind please talking to me. What did you tell Iwa? How did you escape? Why did they keep you alive?"

Hari grinned at her "Told Iwa about the old Uchiha Fortress that was built in Silk Country. The one that's always abandoned." Yuugao nodded "When captured and you need to give a location, tell them something on their borders which you know is highly likely to be abandoned.

Yuugao nodded she was eager to find out how her twin had escaped, Hari grinned "Escaped right? Well they took me out into the exercise yard where they keep all the POW, yes Iwa kept prisoners of war especially those with Kekkei Genkai or extremely useful techniques. They had some Futton users from the Mist, Yoton from the Cloud although that's more like rubber rather than actual lava like the Mist. They also had three members of the Swift Release from Konoha and finally they had some Suna Kekkei Genkai. She didn't talk much. The four of us of bit the kunai and we began to formulate a plot to get out, I was fine with being the sacrificial lamb as I was the only one without a Kekkei Genkai and you know how the higher powers here are in court cases of Kekkei Genkai's to none."

Yuugao snorted the bias and preference to the Bloodline Shinobi was all to apparent. "You all escaped but how?" Hari shrugged "Some would call it divine intervention, sheer dumb luck or something. Be greatful that Iwa's the second shittiest country when it comes to fuuinjutsu so the chakra drainage seals were really internal barrier seals so don't ask me how they contain their jinchuriki. Anyways we overloaded the seals killed the guards and subsequently broke parole they were expecting it and thus we began dropping like flies as we began our escape. I got out the walls but I took three kunai in the back narrowly missing my spine so I collapsed in the Metal River which took me down river, over four waterfalls until I was marooned sinking through the water in Hi no Kuni's northern samurai training camp. Fished out, patched up and sent on my way. Got picked up by Namikaze Minato...Tribunal two days later and fifteen minutes in dishonourably discharged from the shinobi corps."

Yuugao stared "Just so you know there are several laws around Uzumaki Naruto." Hari snorted derisvely "I'm not stupid nee-chan. I'm just as observant as you it's clear as fucking day who Naruto's fucking father is. It's quite frankly the worst kept secret since Weasel-San allegedly slept with the Fire Daimyo's fifth daughter." Yuugao inhaled her sake wrong "Uchiha Itachi slept with the Daimyo's daughter!"

"So it was little Itachi. They grow up so fast. What happened to him? What happened to the Uchiha in general?" Hari responded remembering he hadn't seen any of the Uchiha for a number of years.

"They were wiped out to Sasuke, Itachi killed them." Stated Yuugao and Hari snorted "Itachi was talented according to his father, according being the operative word. Everyone says their kid is talented its well known bias. I believe you in the fact that the Clan was wiped out as the Hat himself told me. I don't believe Itachi did it alone, someone else assisted with the massacre. The Uchiha's were what? Three hundred strong and say hundred of them had the sharingan fully matured and twenty or so had something above that add the fact it activates when life is on the line so, Itachi may have been able to kill at least fifty before going down this is all depending on how old he was when he did it...I'll ask the hat. Anyways what have you been up to? Found anyone?"

Yuugao blushed "No...Not found anyone." As she said that images of Hayate Gekko flooded through her mind. Hari grinned, he could detect happiness directed at Hayate Gekko. Yuugao was good at decieving people but she couldn't hide everything from him and neither him from her. "ANBU stuff. ANBU babysitting for Uzumaki Naruto."

Hari grinned "Kakashi-san screwed up big time in his half year focusing solely on the Uchiha and Haruno. He was a veteran of exploiting loopholes but he failed to see the loophole in giving Naruto decent instructions and left him to his own devices. But instead left him for me to train."

Yuugao turned to him "You trained Naruto-kun! What did you teach him?"

Hari smirked "Nothing that he didn't already know. Kage Bunshin, Taijuu Kage Bunshin, Kunai/Shuriken Taijuu Kage/Kage Bunshin, Bunshin Daibakuha and Basics of Kenjutsu and Kenton."

Yuugao stared "Kenton?" Hari grinned "Elemental Sword Jutsu. Katon and Futon most effective combative kenton styles that's why I stayed alive in Iwa they wanted my Katon Kenton." Yuugao nodded "Your fighting style you created for your jonin exam, I forgot to ask what rank did you get?"

"Tokubetsu. Better than what I thought but then again I had no idea what I was going to get, I just wanted to be back in the flak and corps."

(With Naruto)

Naruto sat calmly against the wall finding and controlling his Chakra Nexus, it was an extremely advanced chakra control exercise that the Uzumaki clan normally practised instead of the Leaf Forehead exercise. "What are you doing baka!" Exclaimed Sakura, Naruto opened a cold blue eye "Trying not to kill you. Sampai says killing teammates is bad for buisness though the teammate is interchangeable with dead weight and arrogance for you and Sasuke."

Sakura bristled "At least Sasuke-kun has more jutsu at his disposal than you and can use them. Naruto snorted "But whose the one who can become everything, anything, anyone at anytime or place. Plus which one of us is known to leave swimming pool craters in our wakes when you set off my traps."

Sakura's fist balled, Naruto reached into his pocket and pulled out what looked like a civillian bicycle break, flipped and clicked it and it folded into a blade with his four fingers underneath the release guard mechanism. "I really wouldn't. Besides the proctors are watching, the proctors are everywhere."

Sakura unclenched her fist and stalked off "Really nessessary Naruto? Ever since Kakashi more or less ditched you you've become well badass and intolerant to your team. Care to explain?" Asked Aburame Shino approaching his fellow ostracised colleague. One was ostracised for unknown reasons and the other by choice but together despite the look of aquaintances to the unseen eye the duo were relatively close friends.

"My team Shino is less of a team and more of meat shields for the precious Sharingan. We've survived without it, I hate them and they hate me or is despise a better term? They won't stick their neck out for me so I shouldn't but I want to become Chunin with that I should hopefully be able to move along my intended career path." Naruto said pressing a small button on the left of the guard just above his thumb and pressed the guard causing the blade to compact itself again.

By now most teams had assembled and the Konoha twelve were clustering around a purple clad teen called Kabuto who was giving out information on all the main competitors/killers. "Anything on Uzumaki Naruto?"

Kabuto's eyes flashed behind his glasses "Uzumaki Naruto, Dead Last, Pathetic Bunshins, Kawamari potentially use it on another human being, Henge quite literally be anyone so pretty decent for academics. Heritage is redacted in fact most of the stuff I deal with is redacted. Mission ranking: 2- A ranks, 2 C-ranks and 45 D-ranks. One of those C ranks became an A-rank and guess what redaction on the other. Supposedly has a jutsu in the Forbidden Scroll, trained by Hatake Kakashi and Kenton no Uzuki Hari a disgraced shinobi."

"A disgraced shinobi yes. But a dishonourably disgraced one pal...Watch your mouth." Growled Naruto, already protective of his sensei. Naruto knew that Hari-sensei knew more about him than he was letting on but Naruto wasn't going to push as the man told him about his mother with that small tidbit about his mother, clan and burden of being the container for the fox, he was content. What made him awesome was that Naruto didn't have to worry about food.

He got up to intervene with his team and a team from the Sound when the Proctors entered the room.

"ALL RIGHT MAGGOTS! STAND TO ATTENTION AND SHUT UP! MY NAME IS MORINO IBIKI AND THE CHUNIN EXAMS HAVE BEGUN!"