Strength, Power and Victory
Naruto/Temari fic
Darksider82
"Speech and Jutsu"
"Bijuu and Bijuu techniques!"
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The crunching sound; was Naruto's ribs after they had been partially crushed by Gaara's Sand. Naruto's chakra was already healing his wounds as he hit the floor. As he hit the floor Naruto saw a green genin flash onto the scene shortly followed by two others at a more sedate pace.
"Kankuro, Temari, leave him. We head to the tower." Stated Gaara and he turned to the Green boy "The one on the floor he's strong...as are you...Your name?" The genin grinned "My name is Rock Lee..." He was about to carry on but the Sand Team had vanished.
Tenten dropped to the floor as Naruto was getting up "I'm okay. I'm okay." Tenten looked at him "You just got crushed by that kid...Where's your team?" Naruto shrugged "Being honest; I don't particularly care but I need them...Anyway I need to find them since we got separated by the Sound Team."
Tenten nodded "We encountered them. We still need to find a Heaven Scroll. Naruto nodded "I can help with that. Providing my team aren't dead yet I'll get you a scroll or I'll give you one of my spares."
Tenten stared at him "How do you have spares?"
"What do we do as Shinobi?"
"Lie, Thieve, Cheat, Steal, Assassinate, Poison, Seduce." Tenten responded almost robotically and Naruto grinned "You've already said it." Tenten stared at him "You stole some scrolls."
Naruto nodded "Correct." By now the pair scaled back up the tree. Tenten nodded "Follow me."
"Why are we helping him Tenten?" Asked Lee if Naruto's memory served "I concur with Lee."
"He'll owe us and payment has been arranged." Tenten said, Naruto forced his chakra into the seal underneath his forearm and out popped three items. Two more flip swords and the required Heaven Scroll "Tenten...catch." The bun haired girl stared at him as they clattered towards a tree.
Sitting in the hollow wielding one of his blades was Sakura "Sakura!" Shouted Naruto as he formed six clones which made their way across the clearing checking for traps. She looked up "Is that you?" Naruto smirked "I used to always ask you out for a date and you'd crack me over the head for no damn reason."
Sakura snorted "Because you are and always will be weaker than myself and Sasuke-kun." Naruto rolled his eyes "Grab him and let's go." Sakura stared at him "I'm in..." Naruto groaned jumped down and crossed the clearing himself.
"I am not in the mood for moaning, whining and bitching. If we meet in the finals I will crush you. Now give Sasuke and get fucking moving." Naruto growled as he hoisted the Uchiha onto his back and he grabbed his blade off Sakura and they were off.
Naruto ended up summoning a Kage Bunshin to grab Sakura as she evidently couldn't keep up with his blistering pace which he was surprised that he was able to going at despite his new seal. Eventually the two teams made it to the tower and after watching a team from Ame that had miraculously survived the exam got skewered on a brilliant ninja wire knife drop did Naruto allow Sakura to guide them through. Or rather Sakura guided Sasuke through but Naruto nearly got killed three times.
"All the more reason to break her." He told himself. The trio made it too the tower and Naruto deployed the scrolls only to be met by Iruka, the Proctor and two ANBU "Uzumaki Naruto; the Council wish to see you." Naruto nodded "What did you do Baka?"
Anko looked at Naruto "This happen normally genin?" Naruto nodded "Usually worse. Punches are sometimes thrown...Which council wants to see me? I want Hari-sensei with me."
"Not Kakashi, Naruto?" Asked Iruka curiously getting a bark of laughter from the young jinchuriki which Iruka could only peg on Uzuki Hari "That man taught me nothing and yet Sakura and Sasuke got everything. I can trust Hari-sensei because he and I can't trust the Elders."
Anko nodded "You're not alone in that. Anyway Hokage awaits." Naruto nodded and he slowly moulded his chakra wincing as he did so, followed Anko in a shunshin. The four of them materialised in the Hokage's quarters in the tower. Naruto staggered and almost tripped over his feet only to be caught by Hari "You should do better than that..."
"Orochimaru...He was in the Forest...Did something to all of us." Grunted Naruto pulling off his clothing on his chest revealing the twin seals. Hari's eyes widened as he observed the master piece of sealing that the boy's father had placed on him "Looks like someone hit you with five elemental seal atop of your Uzumaki Eight Trigram 32 Death God Reaper…I know seals your mother did ingrain me with some knowledge of them as well as the sharp end of a sword."
Naruto snorted "Can you undo this?" Hari shook his head "Unfortunately whoever did this is well out of my range…Who was the fucker who did this?"
Naruto was about to reply but the doors to the Office opened and Miterashi Anko stood there with the Clan Heads and the Hokage Himself and at the back was a giant of a man with a massive mane of silver hair. "Uzumaki Naruto do you know why you are here?"
"No Hokage-Sama." The Hokage nodded "You were brought here because there have been accusations of foul play in the Chunin exams."
Naruto cocked his head "Foul play? These exams represent war; the first one is scouting information, 2nd transporting a package and due to circumstances I do not trust my team, I dislike my team. In fact I filled in several complaint forms and yet none of them reached you. I decided screw it what if the information or package we were given is inaccurate or even false. Get it myself…I Chunin with ease and probably Jonin unless they were playing games with me."
"Some of them, Naruto-kun. However the Jonin-sensei could catch you as could Alpha and Beta Squads in ANBU…Anyway we have been following you since the start of the exams and do concur that you do not fit with your team." Droned who Naruto could only describe as an adult version of Shino.
"Thank you…What is the next plan? Am I out of the exams? Am I promoted?" The tall man at the back snorted "You gotta complete the exams but so you know depending on how you perform we are casting some good votes and recommendations. Naruto nodded and winced "Fucking seal, fucking snakes."
That caught the big man's attention and Naruto didn't even see him move and the guy was in front of him "Let's see what my teammate did." The man whistled "I can technically remove this but that's it." Naruto winced as pain rushed through him as he felt the second seal peeled off "Attacked by Orochimaru, he put something on me and gave Sasuke something…Got captured by a Sand Team and they mentioned something about a surprise or attack on Konoha and were going to make me give information. But intercepted by another genin team someone with massive eyebrows and bright green jumpsuit."
"Rock Lee, under training of Maight Gai easily the best Jonin-Sensei in Taijutsu. Anyway we need to be in the arena." Naruto entered the arena to some filthy looks from his two team mates and together they completed the ranks of the surviving genin.
"Welcome you successful genin to the Tower and the completion of the Second Task, however due to circumstances we need to hold a preliminary round."
Kiba couldn't keep his frustration hidden "But we deserve…" He stopped as Naruto withdrew a seal and chucked it onto the Inuzuka's back "Silencing tag…" He stated as the Hokage nodded and explained the state of play which was the top ten would be the ones to fight in front of their respective village leaders.
"The first bout will be between Akado Yoroi vs Uchiha Sasuke."