Strength, Power and Victory
Naruto/Temari fic
Darksider82
"Speech and Jutsu"
"Bijuu and Bijuu techniques!"
VII
The Sandaime called the finalists and they assembled into a line. The Sandaime saw that Naruto and Sasuke were near each other and the hatred between the two was almost visible to the naked eye.
Due to how Naruto and Sasuke were standing, in the background were Kakashi and Sakura. Sakura it seemed recovered quickly from her unconscious state and for one moment the Sandaime saw Himself with a young Tsunade and young Orochimaru and Jiraiya.
The Sandaime went on to address the finalists. Most of it Naruto tuned out but he learnt that he had a month to prepare and it was a tournament style and he would be fighting either Sasuke or Gaara in the final. His first match was against Neji.
"Dismissed."
Kakashi vanished leaving his team to leave make their own ways out of the tower. "Dobe…" Sasuke
Naruto smirked "Nope. Not teaching you a thing." With that Naruto vanished in a swirl of smoke.
He arrived at Hari's house, due to the fact he was being trained by Hari it made sense to be nearby. When he entered the house, he saw two people sitting at the table.
"Naruto-kun…What have I said about knocking?" Asked Hari a grin on his face.
"To check you're not busy. Anyway I need to ask you something, can you…"
Hari sighed "I wish I could but I can't. You see, I had to inform your true sensei about your level. Your trainer wasn't happy and thus instructed me to train whatever, I deemed useful and he'd take over. I thought he would've done so after this chunin exam but he's turned up early. This is Jiraiya-Sama of the Legendary Sannin and your Godfather. He's also the spymaster of Konoha. He's your trainer."
Jiraiya looked at Naruto. "He seems rather solid…I would send you on some perverted errand but due to this guy training you. We begin early."
Naruto nodded and headed upstairs to have a shower whilst Hari had a shower and changed.
(Sasuke)
Sasuke opened his front door to find Kakashi standing there with a bowl of Tomato's and a carton of Tomato Juice "I figured we could talk about the training regime I'm going to put you through to fight Gaara."
Sasuke nodded and let Kakashi in, thanks to the Sharingan he could tell if someone was impersonating his sensei. Soon enough he was plating up two plates of Japanese tomato salads. "I wasn't expecting this?" Kakashi said with a grin as Sasuke sat opposite him.
"I wasn't expecting you…Anyway you wanted to talk."
Kakashi nodded "What did you observe about Naruto's fight with Sakura and Ino?"
Sasuke sighed, he hated talking about the dead last "Skilled for a Genin with the Shunshin no Jutsu, pretty good with some sort of Bunshin, Seals as well and okay with kenjutsu again good for a Genin and pretty good for the Dobe. Nothing couldn't handle."
Kakashi smiled "Good observations but I think you're missing a few things…Mainly because Naruto was holding things back from you. It's evident that he knows about your bloodline otherwise his threat wouldn't have been taken so seriously. What else do you remember?"
"He's stupid, stubborn and able to keep going." Kakashi nodded again.
"He uses a Jonin version of the Bunshin. Due to who his parents were his legacy wouldn't allow him to use anything less than elemental Bunshin and solid ones."
Sasuke's eyes widened "His tactic is quite likely to practise with his Bunshin and use them for me to tire myself out on and then he picks up the win. But won't…There's something you're not telling me about his parentage. I'm assuming by the time we get to fight, I'll be on barely any chakra reserves or halfway full whereas Naruto is likely to be running on full chakra or looking like he is."
Kakashi nodded "In straight up chakra levels there are very few people who can stand up to your team mate in a straight jutsu fight, that is involving Chunin as well. I could beat him but it's likely to ware me out. You also need to remember the Council has a grudge against him so it is hard for him to find a tutor whereas you have me. Prepare for the worst and hope for the best. I'm going to increase you chakra levels, speed and strength and teach you possibly three jutsu."
Sasuke grinned the dobe was going to lose "One of those has to be the Shunshin. I want Naruto to panic when he sees me using one of his own techniques.
(Naruto)
Naruto was up at the break of Dawn and was at Training Field Thirteen, one of the last normal training fields before the scenario based ones for teams.
True to his word, Jiraiya was sitting their meditating "You're…early…Good and bad." With speed, strength and joviality of a much younger man he jumped to his feet.
"This is how your days are going to be: chakra control, breakfast, taijutsu/ninjutsu/kenjutsu, lunch, Fuuinjutsu/Jutsu Learning, Dinner, and Run through of days learning. Hari's given me a good foundation and now I'm going to teach you a few things. I have an understanding of supiajutsu (spear techniques) and kenjutsu so I will be getting you tutors in that. My specialities are taijutsu, ninjutsu, summoning jutsu, fuuinjutsu and Toad techniques."
Naruto nodded "One more thing…What is a Godfather? Why weren't you around when I needed you if you were my Godfather?" The only reason Naruto wasn't screaming at the man it was because Hari had ingrained into him to listen to answers to his questions.
"Godfather's are meant to look after children if they have no next of kin. As for why I wasn't around; Konoha's spymaster, a Member of the Sannin, I have enemies of my own, coupled with your parents on enemies, I was more effective being away from the village. I've lost count of how many infiltrators, hired knives, assassination attempts and plots I have bungled to keep you alive. Your allowance that the Hokage gave you, it had the orphan's stipend and my money as well. I'm not going to ask you to forgive me but…"
Naruto nodded "I understand. I get it now that you've explained it to me. You can make it up to me by getting me to Chunin rank."
Jiraiya nodded and beckoned Naruto over. With that training began.
Naruto progressed quickly and was developing rapidly. His control was now down to what should be acceptable for a Low Jonin, with this done it meant he could now exercise far greater control over his existing jutsu which although were fairly chakra intensive, Naruto was still wasting too much on them.
In the process his explosive, restraining, smoke and elemental tags had developed nicely. Due to the conditions of the arena, Jiraiya had informed him it was fairly hard for suiton users to demonstrate their skill with the element so Naruto had spent the better part of an evening practising sealing water into scrolls. He didn't know how much he was going to need and considering his tags had a limit of half a gallon of water, he had filled up eight tags.
His other elemental seals were mainly for absorbing katon and futon jutsu.
(Sakura)
Sakura woke up, the last thing she remembered she had just walked in to the living room of her house when the world spun and she knew no more.
"Sakura! You're awake!" Sakura looked around but found her eyesight wasn't a good.
"Kaa-san, I can't see you. How long was I…"
"You've been out for three days Sakura-chan." A wizened voice said it was the Hokage, he seemed…upset.
"Ho-Hokage…Hokage-Sama…What's…"
"Orochimaru…He poisoned you in the Forest of Death. We didn't detect it then and we didn't check it after your fight with Ino. If we did you might have had a chance."
"A-a chance…Chance for what?" Rasped Sakura.
"To survive…Orochimaru was a brilliant student. One of the best. As were Tsunade and Jiraiya…All three could have done so much for the village and they did, have and in the case of Jiraiya still does. But Orochimaru, he gave the T&I department almost all of his knowledge on poisons. To be honest I had forgotten his talent with them and as a result of my hubris and age you're paying the price."
Sakura's sightless eyes filled with tears "Is it going to be painful?"
"I don't know."
Sakura nodded "Can you send word to Sasuke-Kun, Kakashi-Sensei and Naruto."
Sarutobi didn't have to say a thing and two ANBU were running across the village.
(Naruto)
Naruto deflected the blade strike, grabbed his attackers wrist and kicked him in the stomach before placing his tanto to his opponents throat, only to find it had been replaced with a log.
Naruto dissolved in a plume of smoke and reappeared just off the ANBU's right hand side and caught the operative square in the mask. Naruto stopped and found that it was Hayate Gekko.
"Gekko-sensei? Are you okay?"
The sickly looking man grinned "Yeah. Didn't realise that you that unorthodox…"
"I thought…"
"The cough isn't a fake, it's just an exaggeration of an inherited condition my family has. Our longs are fractionally smaller and deformed meaning that we become short of breath really quickly."
Naruto nodded "I won't tell anyone…Need a new mask?" Hayate shook his head and pulled out a new one, his evident spare.
"I won't now but will when I leave. I have to say that you're really good…for a Genin. If Jiraiya-Sama hadn't claimed you for an apprentice, I would have."
"I've got nothing against you doing an extended apprenticeship. It classifies as a mission and you both get paid so that's a bonus. However, you've got to be sponsored each by three shinobi. No, anyone who has been in contact with you over a period of time like three years can provide references…However…Due to Naruto's status, it's unlikely he's going to get the references." Said Jiraiya.
Gekko grinned "I could, Yugao-hime could and probably Asuma. As for me; Hari, Kurenai and Anko…Though that one will be interesting." Jiraiya grinned.
"I'll add one…They'd be idiots to refuse me." Said Jiraiya. Just then said Kunoichi, Uzuki Yugao materialised.
"Gekko-kun, what happened?"
"Uzumaki Naruto, kicked me in the face." Yugao snorted, she had heard of similar things happening amongst other sword users, Jiraiya had asked to assist him.
"Uzumaki Naruto, the Sandaime asked me to bring you to the Hospital. It's about Haruno Sakura."
Naruto's eye twitched "Lead on. I'll follow." Yugao vanished as did Gekko and Jiraiya.
Naruto appeared and walked into the hospital. The receptionist fixed him with a glower "Get…"
Before anyone could retaliate Naruto flipped a blade and held it to her nose "The Hokage summoned me. Want to take this to trial about why you delayed a Kage's summons? As reviled as I am, I am a shinobi what do you think the outcome will be?"
"That's enough Naruto." It was the Sandaime and his eyes were cold, he had just seen the entire scene unfold "Someone take her to T&I and find out who else is doing this."
Naruto followed the Sandaime where he found an ANBU escort outside of a room. He took a peep inside and Kakashi and Sasuke were there, he sighed. He needed to put a face on and show some unity.
"I'm here Sakura." Naruto called walking into the room.
Sakura tried to raise her arms but it didn't work "Where?"
"By your right hand side." Naruto replied sitting in the chair next to the bed.
"You're going to be alright Sakura?" Asked Sasuke.
"No…I'm dying. I just wanted to say my good byes. Thankyou Kakashi-sensei for teaching me, Sasuke-Kun, Naruto thanks for being my team mates."
Naruto chuckled at that "Be honest Sakura. We weren't ever team mates. Hell we weren't even close but it was an honour to serve alongside you. We may not have been friends or anything but you were a comrade. Rest assured I'll kill the bastard that did this."
Sakura smiled "It was…Orochi…maru."
"Well, we'll do it…somehow." Naruto said before standing up to leave.
"You're not going to stay?" Asked Mebuki Haruno her eyes narrowing.
"You're on the council aren't you? Civilian side?" Naruto replied his eyes flickering.
She nodded "Look up the bills allowing shops to use their discretion on who to serve and how much things cost. Use your brain. See you."
"Not saying good bye to your sensei and team mates?" Asked Kakashi with an eye smile.
"Teach me something and actually act like a team then maybe. Sakura, I will see you whenever I next see you. Hopefully it'll be after killing Orochimaru." With that Naruto walked out.
Kakashi and Sasuke left afterwards after saying good byes to Sakura as the other graduates walked in. It was Ino who was with Sakura to the end. In the end as Sakura died they had resolved their animosity and the pair ended up as the friends they had been before puberty hit.
Naruto appeared back at his training spot to find Jiraiya unrolling a scroll "Back already?"
"Back already…What's next?"
"Summoning."