Strength, Power and Victory
Naruto/Temari fic
Darksider82
"Speech and Jutsu"
"Bijuu and Bijuu techniques!"
III
Naruto grinned a foxlike smile as he worked his way through the nine questions. Just before the Genin Exams had begone, he had gone to the bathroom and created fifty reinforced shadow clones and had them transform into bugs and dispersed them into the room at the exact same time as Aburame Shin, an unlucky Aburame Genin who made it to the last round last time around only to be trashed by an Grass Shinobi.
Shin looked at the flies and could detect fifty that weren't his. He smiled a secretive grin that was concealed behind his grey high collared shirt which he wore beneath a dark green trench coat (Shino from Shippuden).
The Genin had been allocated seats and he passed Naruto, discreetly placing a note in the boys pocket simply saying 'well done'. On another note the smoke had been considerably reduced when Naruto created his shadow clones.
'What would I have done if it wasn't for Hari-sensei? Oh yes just panicked and tried to wing the last question. Thank you sensei for actually taking a chance.' He thought as time clicked to the last fifteen minutes.
Over in the Jonin Lounge, Hari, Yugao, Hayate, Kakashi, Asuma and Kurenai were all either occupying the couches or the walls. The Uzuki twins were taking it in turns glowering at Kakashi before Kurenai snapped "Yugao, you've been glowering at Kakashi-San ever since you and your brother have gotten here...I want answers."
Yugao looked at her brother who nodded and turned to the young Jonin "You're a new Jonin ain't ya. My dear sister is giving filthy looks to Kakashi because he's broken his own rules and his sensei's wishes. I'm going to face my sensei's wrath but that's because of Shimura Danzo and because of what he's done to me he's going to die."
Kurenai pulled a kunai on Hari and Kakashi and Asuma had to fight smirks as Hari cocked his head "It's not treason if it's common knowledge. Danzo fucked up my Shinobi career and consequently from grace and my student on Kakashi's team is quite frankly my ticket to the top."
Kurenai stared at him "Make some sense! WHAT HAS KAKASHI DONE! WHO WAS HIS SENSEI!" Hari cackled "His sensei was the Yondaime Hokage. My sensei was the Yondaime's wife. They're going to kill Kakasi for what he's done to their kid."
Asuma and Kakashi's eyes hardened "You're playing with fire Hari. You're risking the Sandaime's law." Hari let out a barking laugh as his eyes flashed. "The Sandaime trusts me. We all know who the kid is because it's fucking obvious. Kakashi you fucked up training only the Uchiha and the Banshee. Now Ibiki's going to pickle this lot and I hope your banshee and Uchiha don't fuck up."
"You're saying that in the hope Naruto isn't he's the dead last." Said Kurenai absolutely convinced in the numbers. Hari grinned "He trained under me for eight hours a day on top of Kakashi's five hours?" Kakashi and Asuma nodded, five hours was about right for new Genin.
With that Hari went into detail of what he taught Naruto. As for the teen himself he was meditating and sending chakra pulses to his teammates with enough success that Ibiki wasn't going to penalise him but enough to notice them.
"Well done. You have completed the first stage of the Chunin exams." Stated Ibiki after be had given them a massive monologue on why the exams were so important and revealing the scars beneath his headband. Naruto's eyes widened this is a guy that his sensei could have been if he hadn't been so lucky.
The window disentegrated causing genin to freeze, Naruto pulled out and released three kunai and grabbed his folding sword whilst forming a clone seal "Kunai Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!" Anko's eyes widened slightly but effortlessly deflected the kunai "Well done to the gaki who launched that jutsu. Anyway tomorrow morning at 09:00 bring all your kit assemble at Training Ground 44."
Naruto quickly evacuated the classroom with his team before vanishing in a shushin no jutsu or body flicker to appear Hari's forge. Hari was waiting for him and nodded as his apprentice appeared in a swirl of leaves "Decent control over that jutsu. It is another that once you've mastered will make you dangerous. I know I haven't given you any 'flashy' jutsu or 'Sasuke' style jutsu and I'll tell you why."
Naruto sat down. His sensei explained why he did things to Naruto, taught him some things but not others "I'm not teaching you elemental jutsu because all the elemental jutsu I know have been incorporated into my own sword style for one. For two the more chakra one has the longer it takes for their affinity to be revealed. You are the only one out of your class that does not know your affinity but don't worry I've trained you to avoid elemental jutsu. Three your next sensei will train you with jutsu that I could never learn and he'll kick my ass with one half his body no sweat."
Naruto stared his sensei was known to be strong and he had confidently said he could take Kakashi and Might Gai in straight up brawl/spar but that was before his fall from grace. These days he could hold against one at a time but his old strength was coming back every day. "Have you got a plan?"
Naruto nodded "Lots of clones. Clone henging to find the quickest path through the forest. Stealing and making replacements of our objectives and getting them before the test begins if possible." With that Naruto set the table and joined Hari in finishing up in his forge and preparing dinner.
The next morning dawned bright and early. Naruto prepped his kit thanks to a couple of tricks Hari had taught him, he had been able to slide a few days of emergency food into his kit pouches along with a tinder box and some emergency blankets. He had restocked his kunai and shuriken and honed his four blades. His two spring blades and tanto's were honed to sharpness and he headed off to Training Ground 44.
He arrived there just as Sasuke and Sakura turned up. 'Just over a month now before I can leave these assholes behind.' He thought to himself as he created several kage bunshins and shifted into several non-discreet animals. There orders were to investigate the proctors and to give his team any advantage.
It was roughly ten to nine if Naruto was reading the son correctly and the majority of the Genin Teams had assembled. Naruto stared down Aburame Shin and his two new team mates, Naruto couldn't but wonder what tricks the elder Aburame knew. Training under Hari-sensei he had been informed of all the clans and their skills or kekkei genkai. He had also learnt that their were exceptions to every one of them.
As far as he could tell no-one from Konoha except for maybe aformentioned Aburame no-one was being an exception to their clan. His clone listened to the Proctor talking about the second exam. The real Naruto had henged into mouse and scurried into the booth behind two chunin. If they had been sensor's they may have detected the transformed Naruto but they didn't. Both assistant proctors left with arms full of scrolls bearing the kanji for 'Heaven' and 'Earth'. High above them the Sandaime observed the genin through his crystal orb.
He was joined by his shinobi council. Yamanaka Inoichi stared as Naruto peeled off his henge, snagged three pairs of scrolls. Henged back into a mouse and scurried into the forest. "Hokage-sama."
"Yes."
"Did he just..."
"Yes he did."
"Are you going..."
"No. Shikaku-san."
Inuzuka Tsume grinned "He reminds of when Minato did something similar." The council snickered at that when Hyuga Hiashi who didn't snigger as it was deemed 'inferior' had allowed a fond smile of his former team mate "Except Inuzuka-san that he swapped some with scrolls made by one Uzumaki Kushina which were rigged with blinding light and explosion tags."
The gates opened and the genin rushed in. Sasuke and Sakura looked at Naruto who was flagging and suddenly burst into smoke "Kage Bunshin!" Exclaimed Sakura and squealed in fright as Squirrel dropped in front of her and shifted back into his normal form. "Let's go." Sakura and Sasuke could only stare as they bounded into the forest.
"Where were you dobe?" Growled Sasuke as he looked at the 'Heaven' scroll they were given. Naruto grinned "Doing the job. Our mission is to get an 'Earth' scroll if we had 'Heaven' and 'Heaven' if we had 'Earth' yeah? Well I've just done that."
Sakura looked at him "We are meant to grab information from another team and take it to the tower." Naruto snorted "No...We are meant to get two packages to the tower. That is it. So Sakura, you wish to kill a few people that's fine. But all that matters is that we have the scrolls needed."
Sasuke was about make a demand when he landed on some wire, followed by the unmistakable sound of shuriken and kunai came pelting through the air at them. Sasuke kawamaried as did Sakura. Naruto smirked and vanished into a plume of smoke as six rain genin charged into the clearing.
Naruto struck first, after replacing himself with a squirrel bunshin dropped down releasing his blades and drove both of them into the back of the head and the blades erupted from the duo's mouths. With a crunch, squelch and a tear Naruto ripped the blades free cutting the heads roughly in half before launching himself into a roundhouse kick which connected savagely with the now sole suriving genin of Naruto's targets.
"What the...UNDER ATTACK!" Screamed the genin to his comrades. Unfortunately his comrades were too busy falling back from a fireball that Sasuke had launched into the clearing. "Son of a BITCH." Snarled Naruto as he swiftly replaced himself with a corpse.
The fireball didn't get any of the genin but it did force the genin to bunch together. Another one died unceremoniously by running into Sakura's kunai. He ran into the kunai ten times. Sakura screamed attracting the surviving three, Naruto rugby tackled one of them and formed a half tiger seal and Sakura gulped "Bunshin Daibakuha!" Two of the genin had no chance as the clone revealed it had strapped several exploding tags to itself and then exploded as it was a detonating clone. Sasuke finished the last one with a very neat and precise neck breaker.
"Sasuke, we really have to work on communication." Naruto groused as he retrieved an Earth Scroll as did Sasuke. "You were in the way. I'm an Uchiha and you are to work to my tune. I do not work to yours." The boy replied before turning to Naruto "What did you actually do whilst we were being briefed?"
Naruto grinned "What do we do as shinobi. Think about what this exam emphasizes and what the first exam did..." He stopped talking when he felt a colossal chakra pressure emerge and it dwarfed his "...We need to go. NOW!"
Naruto grabbed Sakura because she was closest and jumped onto a branch as a snake effortlessly splintered the branchest they had just been on. "Come now little genin I only want to play a game."