Strength, Power and Victory
Naruto/Temari fic
Darksider82
"Speech and Jutsu"
"Bijuu and Bijuu techniques!"
VIII
The month passed in a blur for Naruto. For the past month all he could see was the back of his head for the amount of black eyes. His stomach and ribs were aching and he could barely feel his legs.
But aside from the numbness Naruto had learnt lots. More than he had thought he was going to learn. Jiraiya upon learning that Naruto possessed the shadow clone technique, the training had subsequently doubled.
Jiraiya had not been alone. Jiraiya had managed to acquire the experts of Hayate Gekko, Shiranui Genma, Namiashi Raido and Uzuki Yugao. Hayate had been chosen due to his skills with kenjutsu; Genma had skill with Fuuinjutsu and some skill with Katon jutsu; Raido possessed Taijutsu and some of the best chakra control outside the Hyuuga Clan and Suiton jutsu. Finally Uzuki Yugao, she was known for tracking and infusing long bladed weapons with chakra.
Jiraiya had assisted Naruto in refining the skills of his other tutors and had introduced him to his birth right of the Toad Contract. His hours under Raido had paid off because after two attempts of summoning; the first one summoned Gamakichi and Gamatatsu the sons of the Toad boss. The second attempt brought the Toad himself.
Gamabunta had accepted Naruto after, the boy had just about managed to hang onto him with chakra control. Jiraiya had set about having Naruto summon as many toads as he could and the ones that would listen to him. Naruto had inadvertently summoned one of the two toad sages, Fukasaku.
Fukasaku did not teach Naruto anything to do with the toads aside for teaching him how mediate and to focus.
It was the night before Chunin finals and Hari, Jiraiya and Naruto were in the small eating area with Yugao and Hayate. "Naruto, just want to say that these past ten months or so that I've been training you, have been the best few months in a while. Just so you know regardless of you becoming a Chunin it would be an honour and a privilege to train you even more."
Naruto had to fight back tears "You would teach me? Why?"
Hari grinned "Because it's what your mother would have wanted her team to do. Since Kakashi failed…I figured I'll tell you a bit about your mother. Her name was Uzumaki Kushina; Heiress of the Uzumaki Clan. They were known for large and dense reserves and a very potent life force. The wife of the Shodaime, died when Kushina arrived at the village when she was about nine…She would have lived longer but they needed to transfer the Fox into your mother."
Naruto stared at him "You mean I HAVE to hold the fox."
Hari nodded "You're the only one who could. Your mother got lucky generally Bijuu creation is done when the chakra coils are still being formed but then again your mother never intended to use its chakra so she had more leeway."
"As for the fourth, he was her closest friend. When she gave birth to you she told him to use you as you were the only Uzumaki with the capability to restrain the fox."
Naruto nodded and looked at them "You're botching the story slightly…why?"
"Your father's instructions and the Sandaime's. You have to be either a chunin or eighteen to learn everything…Your parents had enemies and a lot of them. Hell you now know about your mother." Said Yugao messing with Naruto's hair.
"What happened to the Uzumaki Clan?" Asked Naruto.
"Wiped out more or less. They got attacked by Kumo, Iwa, Kiri and Taki…The Uzumaki had no hope so they sealed off the archives and sent the scroll to the Hokage, the Nidaime who hid the thing. Anyway to fight the Uzumaki who are unprepared is bad enough but it can be done but to fight the Uzumaki who are prepared and knowing what is happening…welcome to hell. Kumo, Iwa and Kiri attacked blindly and just kept going straight but the sealed traps and ambushes wrought a heavy toll on them.
Taki although more subtle was punished far worse even though they did far less. Taki is a lesser village with possibly three quarters less of a fighting force than any Great Nation and the calibre of their shinobi need to be much more if they were too survive. They lost about a quarter of their attacking force and lost more due to injuries; they've only just recovered. As for Iwa, Kumo and Kiri between them they lost a good half of their forces. They only managed to defeat the Uzumaki clan because they unleashed their Bijuu. However they turned on themselves. Konoha was tied up with problems on all sides and we arrived just to see the last of the Uzumaki fall. That's why our swirl on our jacket is red."
Naruto nodded as they ate "So I come from a family of badasses…I'll make sure to honour them tomorrow."
Naruto slept well that night. It was the first proper night's sleep he had in a month. He quickly learnt why Shinobi relished true night's sleep whenever they could get them.
Naruto woke just before his alarm and Hari jerked awake as Naruto shattered the clock with a slam. Naruto entered the kitchen to find breakfast in a bento box and spare rags, grease and whetstones on the table along with fresh holsters of shuriken and kunai and scrolls containing explosive tags and large storage seals.
Harry sorted out his ninjato, katana and flip blades and his tanto and he placed them in seals which he placed on his body where would keep them upon his promotion. Naruto headed out of the house via the backdoor, jumped onto the rooftops and began to head towards the arena.
As he jumped from rooftop to rooftop, he heard some civilians murmur 'I've got the Daimyo's horses ready to go. My cousin has got roaming pickets ready to stop the demon brat from arriving. My cousin has wagered several thousand ryo to ensure he does not arrive."
"If he does arrive he's not going to make it past his first opponent."
Naruto grinned as he saw Tenten leave her families shop. He jumped down and walked up next to her "Hey Tenten-san." Tenten smirked, she like Naruto she thought he was a pretty decent shinobi but a little bit on the brutal side.
"Have you heard Naruto?"
"Civilians trying to make me late. Yeah. I'll see you later." Naruto split off and headed towards the participant's entrance of the stadium thankfully no-one had picketed it off yet so Naruto entered the arena.
It turned out he wasn't the last but one of them, as he arrived Gaara arrived shortly afterwards. As Naruto thought Sasuke wasn't present. He nodded to Shikamaru and Shino as he took his place in the line. Genma appeared "I am the proctor, Shiranui Genma and right now this is your moment."
Naruto smiled, he could not believe that he had made it to the final "Everyone here is going to be marked by the Shinobi in the stands. It is them and them alone who decide your promotion to Chunin. Any questions?"
"Are names going to matter here?"
"No. If you're not here by the time your name is repeated three times then you are disqualified and that comes from the Hokage himself."
Naruto grinned. Somewhere the clock struck eleven and the Chunin exam began "Everyone bar Uzumaki Naruto and Hyuga Neji please vacate the arena."
The chunin aspirants vacated the arena and Naruto took his place opposite Neji "Begin when ready." The Genin nodded to one another, settled into a fighting stance and Neji moved.
Naruto was fast but Neji had trained under the most physically Jonin-sensei Konoha had at her disposal. Naruto bent double as Neji's palm strike with no chakra behind it hit him in the diaphragm.
"It's over. You were destined to lose the moment you stepped into the arena with me." Stated Ninja. Naruto smirked and cracks began to appear around the hand strike.
"That would be true if I was Naruto. Bunshin Daibakhua!" The clone exploded with a slight fireball forcing Neji to expend chakra "Eight Trigrams Revolving Heaven!"
Naruto appeared above Neji. He had the moment he entered the participants stadium created an exploding clone and hidden himself above the participants. Something that hadn't been unnoticed by the Jonin and Chunin assembled.
Naruto reached into his pockets and pulled out four kunai and held them loose between his fingers, certainly reminding the Jonin of the boy's father. "Now that you have actually arrived dobe, maybe we can actually get this match started."
Naruto shook his head "If you think we've just started you are so wrong. We've already begun." Naruto flipped the kunai holding them in an unorthodox grip with one underneath his pinky and another between his thumb and fourth finger. With some skill he chucked the latter two kunai.
Neji looked unimpressed and activated his kekkei genkai "Two kunai?"
"Taijuu Kunai Kage Bunshin no Jutsu." The two kunai suddenly replaced themselves with two thousand. Neji managed to evade the kunai but took superficial cuts to his arms, chest and legs. He rushed forwards, he was slightly regretting his clans tradition only using the basic three…Wait use the substitution…Wait too damn many and he's made me use a good eighth of my chakra to survive his suicide clone.
Naruto readied himself and as Neji closed the distance "Eight Trigrams Thirty Two Palms!"
"Shunshin no Jutsu! Fuuinjutsu Kai!" Naruto dissolved into smoke just missing the attack and reappeared behind him, his break clips in his hands, Naruto squeezed them and flipped them and they unfolded into his traditional tanto/short blades.
"Fancy yourself proficient in kenjutsu? My teammate trained me extensively against it."
Naruto smirked coldly "You mean Higurashi Tenten, yes she's good. Possibly the best against TRADITIONAL kenjutsu but try this…Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!"
Seven clones erupted into existence. In the crowds the shinobi were impressed but were getting less enthusiastic. To them it seemed Naruto was a one trick pony but what happened next was impressive.
"Kenton: Futon: Wind Cage!" Eight interlinking blades of wind effectively trapped the opponent and inevitably shredded them.
"Kenton: Katon: Ignition!" Wind is weaker to fire but in Naruto's case, wind fuelled fire and what happened next was a colossal firestorm engulfing Neji.
There was a poof of smoke deep inside, Neji had replaced himself with a log and managed to get the drop on Naruto. Naruto spun and his blade at the cost of being separated from his hand temporarily blocked Neji's hand strike.
Naruto breathed a sigh of relief and lashed out with a roundhouse kick which forced Neji to move back. Neji darted back in and Naruto met him, Naruto had learnt in theory the utter devastating skill of the Hyuga Gentle Fist fighting style. Naruto executed another seal, this one had just been approved by Jiraiya.
To the Hyuga in the stands who were observing with Byakugan, suddenly saw excess chakra flowing out of the tenketsu spots. The actual thing was similar but different. Chakra is everywhere in a humans body, in the clothes, blood, sweat and tears. After washing clothes the residual chakra never properly leaves the body. Now Naruto had managed to stitch seals into his clothing that basically utilised the chakra in his clothing as additional but crude chakra armour.
"Eight Trigrams Hundred Twenty Eight Palms!" Neji struck as he took a vicious body blow that definitely compromised his ribs. But the over extension and supplementary use of chakra to make the strike do that damage left Naruto open.
The strikes struck home, the strikes disabled the chakra cloth protections with sixteen strikes and the remaining hundred and twelve slammed into Naruto who could not fall back as he felt like he had been stabbed.
(Stands)
The Jonin and Chunin were impressed. They weren't sure what Uzumaki Naruto was going to be able to do but from what they saw through good use of Fuuinjutsu and the Shadow Clone technique and two elemental sword release techniques had kept them entertained.
Hyuga Neji, like most Hyuga were three trick ponies. Substitution, Revolving Heaven and the Gentle Palm technique but for a branch house to be able to do the Revolving Heaven and the Hundred Twenty Eight Palms had won over the Head of the Clan.
"Naruto needs to show us something to get of this." Someone said. He was met with agreements.
"What do you think he's going to do?" Iruka asked curiously. He had cashed in a favour to watch the first round matches.
"I don't know. I don't think he can." The young chunin said, he had put money on Uzumaki Naruto winning the match, he had been drunk but he did put money on the brat.
Uzuki Hari grinned, the purple haired Tokubetsu smirked cryptically "He should be able to get out of this."
(Arena)
Naruto groaned, one arm, one leg and half of his body had been shut off from his chakra. He brought his uninjured arm up and flooded his body with as much as chakra as he could "KUCHIYOSE NO JUTSU!"
Gamahira appeared "Naruto-Sama are you okay?" Naruto grunted. "I need to get onto your back, need healing and I need you to activate this." He pulled out a roll of notes.
"Are those explosive notes?"
"Yes and no. Five hundred and twenty seals of five gallons of Toad Oil and one ignition tag."
Gamahira may have been a toad by form and healer by trade but his love for katon jutsu could warm the heart of any Uchiha. "Fuuinjutsu: Toad Oil Release!" The ravel of tags began to open and displaced enough oil to flood the arena up to Hyuga Neji's ankles if he had not been water walking.
"Fuuinjutsu: Ig…"
"I forfeit!" Neji called. He pulled out a flare bomb and chucked it into the air. Genma who had vacated the ring the moment Naruto had exploded made his way into the ring.
Gamahira landed on the oil "Gama Art: Chakra restoration!"
Naruto groaned as the toad slammed its chakra through his body reconnecting the chakra points.
"Winner Uzumaki Naruto!"