Uzumaki Naruto Chronicles Rewrite
Chapter 33
Prelims
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When Naruto finally woke up it was day five of the second exam, the last day. Naruto looked around himself still dazed. His chest hurt, really he felt like he had been hit by a train, then that same train had rolled over him, and then reversed and ran right back over him, it was not a good feeling, but he guessed it was just a good thing that he was currently breathing, however labored it was. It was better than the alternative. Naruto looked around and saw Shikamaru and Kakashi.
"Hey uh where am I?" Naruto asked the two as they currently had not noticed he was awake.
Kakashi looked up from his book and grinned, "Well you guys passed the second exam, and word is that you put up a pretty good fight against a Sannin."
Naruto nodded it was all coming back to him now, "Last thing I remember is that jackass Sasuke shoving two chidoris into my chest. After asking Sasuke to help me fight the fucking snake asshole, and he turned on me. I am going to fucking kill him."
Kakashi chuckled, "Don't worry I will talk to the Hokage and the council about his actions."
Naruto squinted his eyes slightly angry, "The council won't do anything and you know it. They suck him off because he is the last Uchiha."
Shikamaru just nodded. But Naruto continued, "Anyways what happened with Orochimaru?"
Kakashi sighed, "It is an S class secret so don't tell anyone, but Itachi showed up and saved your ass, quite literally."
Naruto nodded, "Well that will be two that I owe him now. Wait, if we passed where the hell is Hinata?"
Shikamaru sighed, "Naruto she is with Kabuto, you are going to hate this, but he saved us as well. While both you and I were out cold Kabuto came and saved her from a sound ninja team. Took the entire team out himself, apparently it was brutal, he then healed myself as well as you. Apparently he is responsible for all of us being alive. So now he is back in her good graces." Shikamaru sighed again, "Sorry man, it's tough I know."
Naruto shook his head, "Are you fucking kidding me?!"
Shikamaru shook his head, "Sorry man, wish I could tell you otherwise. She was here sitting with us but after a while Kabuto came and got her, saying he wanted to talk with her."
Naruto sighed, "Well that sucks."
Kakashi chose now to speak up, "It will be okay, don't worry about it. You both need to get ready, you are to meet the Hokage in 10 minutes, Naruto, can you even stand?"
Naruto laughed, "I can sure as hell try." With that he stood up, but grunted in pain when he took a step. He took a deep breath and hobbled out the door using his sword in the sheath to help him walk.
He and Shikamaru walked out, and saw Hinata. Hinata ran over to them.
She hugged Naruto, "Naruto, I am glad to see you up and walking around, if only barely." Naruto nodded and hugged her back, sighing slightly as she pulled away, he really wished the embrace could have lasted longer.
That is when Kabuto walked up behind them, "Naruto, I am glad to see you up and about."
Naruto nodded, "Thanks to you I hear, thanks for the help." Naruto couldn't believe he had to thank that asshole.
Kabuto nodded, "I hope you and I can put away all the animosity between us."
Naruto nodded, "It's a good start." He growled out.
With that they all got in line as the Hokage explained the preliminaries. Then called out the first match.
The preliminaries went on Gaara beating Lee, in a brutal hardcore fight. Then Kankuro beat a leaf ninja that seemingly had no bones. Then Sasuke beat another leaf ninja that could absorb chakra. Next Kabuto fought, he beat a guy from a mist team with ease, Naruto growled, he really had wanted to see Kabuto get his ass kicked, but no such luck, he would just have to beat him in the tournament if he could. A rain ninja then passed beating another mist ninja. Sakura fought Ino and they tied in a movie style finish, both landing the knockout punch at the same time.
Then up came Naruto's name, he was up against Kiba, he sighed, this would not be an easy fight while he was recovering from two holes in him. Kiba jumped into the ring laughing merrily. While Naruto hobbled down the stairs into the ring and sighed. This was going to suck, big time.
The procter yelled fight and Kiba was instantly on top of Naruto slashing at him repeatedly. Naruto created a few clones and jumped back. He released his weight seals, he was going to need to fight without them if he was going to be able to beat Kiba in this state.
Kiba broke through the clones and slashed at Naruto. Naruto disappeared dodging the attack and shot a blast of wind through his sword at Kiba blowing him into the wall.
Akamaru showed up behind Naruto and slashed only for Naruto to bat the pooch away with a large swing from his sheath.
He bent over hands on his knees breathing hard. Kiba laughed at him approaching him slowly this time.
"Naruto looks like you should just drop out, there is no way you can beat me loser. A no name loser from a forgotten clan just can't compete with the alpha dog that I am. I mean you couldn't even hold on to Hinata, and she was head over heels for you. You are such a fuckup Naruto, just quit now why don't you." Kiba laughed at him.
Naruto was pissed, did the fucking mutt really just say that to him, and bringing up Hinata was just too far. Naruto had hoped that one day him and Kiba could actually be friends, but it seemed like that could never happen at this rate.
"Kiba are you trying to piss me off?" Naruto asked the dog boy.
Kiba grinned throwing Akamaru a red pill. The dog caught it and began to transform, his fur turning a blood red, as he grew even larger fangs. The dog then transformed into a clone of Kiba and laughed at him as well.
"What are you going to do about it loser." Kiba asked him confidently.
Naruto's glared at the boy, "Bad idea. I am going to embarrass you now."
Naruto did hand seals and yelled, "Fire Style: Flaming Fists!"
With that Naruto disappeared, he reappeared behind the Kiba clone and punted him into the wall before he landed and disappeared again, appearing in front of Kiba. Blocking the haymaker Kiba threw with his left hand Naruto then threw his own at Kiba's face nailing him and knocking him back, Naruto then hit him in the stomach, speeding up. He hit him in the face again, followed by a left hook, followed by a right jab, by this time Naruto was going so fast his arms were a blur, nobody could tell how many times Naruto hit Kiba with those punches. Naruto then push kicked the mutt boy backwards.
Naruto disappeared again, reappearing behind Kiba and grabbing him before throwing him over his shoulder using the boy's momentum and Kiba hit the floor hard, bouncing up.
Naruto punted Kiba up high into the air, before a clone appeared next to Kiba and hit him down to the original Naruto.
Naruto was going through hand seals before yelling out, "Fire style: Great Abyssal Flare Jutsu" The giant purple spiraling fire jutsu shot out from his hand engulfing Kiba.
When it cleared Kiba was on the floor, burned in multiple places, from Naruto's fists as well as that last jutsu.
As soon as the procter called the match in Naruto's favor, Naruto swayed, before he fell, his legs no longer able to hold his weight. Before he could hit the ground though, Kakashi caught him and walked him gently back up the stairs to watch the rest of the matches.
Naruto looked up to his sensei, "Guess I may have overdone it huh?"
Kakashi laughed merrily, "You may have Naruto, you may have, but you did win!"
Naruto nodded, "The crack he made about Hinata, made it personal, he pissed me off."
Kakashi laughed again and took Naruto to the top deck to get him some healing while they waited for the next round to start.
The next round was Shikamaru vs. Kin the girl from the sound team that had attacked them. Shikamaru grinned, this was the bitch that had hurt Hinata, his teammate, a girl that he saw as his sister, his best friend's girl, well not at the moment but still.
He jumped down into the ring and waited for the start to be called. As soon as the proctor yelled start Shikamaru had to dodge senbon needles that were thrown at him. He drew his staff and extended it while dodging, spinning it and deflecting the rest of the senbon that had come his way.
Shikamaru grinned, the girl had thrown senbon with bells on them, he knew this trick she would throw these with bells then some without bells mixed into the next round, he was ready for this. She threw the next set and he dodged them all, but then he heard a bell ring from behind him, he spun around to see where it was coming from.
He immediately saw the threads attached to several of the bells, he cursed turned back and spun his staff deflecting the senbon heading for him. He grinned, he wouldn't fall for that again. However he then found himself facing an army of Kin.
He cursed, genjutsu, he thought really quick about it as he was bombarded by senbon. He spun his staff not letting any of them through. He grinned as he sent his shadow along the thread catching Kin.
Her genjustu stopped as she couldn't move, caught in Shikamaru's shadow. He grinned he let the staff disappear into his storage seal, he pulled out a shuriken and threw it at her while she was forced to do the same. They both bent backwards and Kin hit her head on the wall knocking her flat out.
Shikamaru grinned and jumped back up to where Naruto and Kakashi were. Hinata was over with Kabuto, rubbing some of her homemade wound cream on some of his wounds.
Naruto was leaning against Kakashi still breathing hard from his fights and his wounds. He was barely able to keep himself conscious through the pain he was in. He wasn't sure what was going on, his body hurt so much. Too much, something was wrong, he didn't know what was going on, but he sure as hell wasn't missing Hinata's fight. He had a bad feeling about it. The next fight was Tenten vs. Temari, Naruto sighed he had some time to figure out what was wrong with him. He let himself slide to the ground into a crossed legged meditation pose. He closed his eyes and went to his mindscape. Kurama was lying on the ground at the stream exhausted.
"Kurama what is going on with me?" Naruto asked her.
"Naruto, I have been trying to talk to you, but too tired, poison is coursing through your body, I have been fighting it since the forest, it started sometime after your fight with Orochimaru, that's why you are in so much pain. I am doing my best, but you need a hospital."
Naruto nodded sitting down next to her, "Kurama, I can't yet, I need you to keep it going until after Hinata's match, I have a bad feeling."
Kurama nodded, it is easier with you in here. In this pose focus your efforts and try to help. Focus on the poison and keep it from moving further into your muscles and paralyzing you."
Naruto nodded and sat next to her trying to help himself.
Outside of Naruto's mindscape Temari had wiped the floor with Tenten, it was not a good match up. Next Choji lost to Dosu in a humiliating defeat. Then Shino defeated Zaku, blowing his arms up with his bugs by clogging the holes in his sound device.
Next it was time for Hinata vs Neji. They both jumped down into the ring as Neji yelled at her trying to convince her to quit.
She looked up towards her team and saw Naruto meditating, he was in a lot of pain though. She could tell, she wasn't quite sure why he was still here.
Shikamaru yelled down to her, "Hinata, you can do this! Don't listen to that jackass! you know damn well the only reason Naruto is still here, is so he can be here for your win!"
Hinata grinned, he was right, plus Kabuto would be rooting for her, she looked up at him and saw him grin at her and nod.
She looked at Neji, "Neji I have to do this, I can't just give up. It is not my way!"
Neji glared at her and charged her when the proctor said go. Neji charged Hinata and the two threw palm strikes at eachother, Neji was the first to make a mistake as he over extended a little too much and Hinata jabbed his arm closing a chakra point. Neji jumped back and Hinata grinned confidently as she released the weight seals that she had on. She shot forward at Neji hitting him multiple times with palm strikes only for him to turn into a piece of metal from the railings.
Hinata cursed, "A substitution." She angled her head slightly to see him, he had jumped at her from her blind spot. He thrust a palm strike out at her and she twisted her torso out of the way, and using a throw Kakashi had taught her she grabbed his arm using his momentum to pound him into the ground. She jumped back and grinned. Neji got up and dusted himself off while smirking.
"Hinata, I am surprised, Kakashi has made you stronger, though not nearly strong enough. You will always be a weak main branch whore. It is your destiny. You can't fight fate."
Hinata shook her head and charged, she threw a palm strike but Neji grabbed her and pulled her in firing a palm strike into her stomach letting her fall back. She cringed as she slowly stood back up and coughed up blood before she jumped back.
Neji quickly followed striking hard, but Hinata was ready for him, she blocked everything she could, noticing that her strikes were doing no good, as soon as she would close a chakra point on him he would open it back up. She cursed and started to use the other forms of taijutsu she had learned from Naruto and Kakashi. She threw a punch but he blocked it and hit her chest again knocking her back. She coughed up more blood. She looked up determined though. She got into a new stance. It was similar to the gentle fist stance but different. It was her water fist stance. She sat there waiting for Neji to charge, he ran at her striking at her but she bent around him kicking his side and knocking him away. Neji was shocked, angry he charged again, but every strike he threw Hinata flowed around his strikes hitting him in different places around his body and she dodged every strike he threw fluid like water she looked unstoppable. She knocked him forward with a double palm strike to the back. Neji stumbled forward and looked at her in shock. She wasn't hitting him with enough chakra to actually damage him. She was taking pity on him. Now he was pissed. He turned and charged again. But again Hinata moved around his strikes flowing again around him. He couldn't hit her and every time he would miss she would strike him in another place sending a jolt into his body, she should have been releasing more chakra if she actually did he would be downed by now.
Neji cursed, she was right next to him, it was time to let loose his special weapon, he was saving this for a more important battle, but he had to show this bitch up.
He set up and started spinning, she was so close to him, this would do serious damage to her. "Eight Trigrams: Rotation" He yelled shooting chakra out of every chakra point while spinning. The chakra shot into Hinata like thousands of blades cutting across her as she shot away from him and impacted the wall creating a crater. She stumbled out of the crater and Neji was right there in front of her.
Neji snarled in disgust, she looked pitiful, she was bleeding in multiple places, blood coming down from her head, and her left arm was twisted at an unnatural angle.
Neji got into another stance, "Eight Trigrams: 64 Palms!" Neji shot into her as he blasted her chakra points destroying her, he broke her left arm even more, he grinned a sick grin as it snapped. When the jutsu ended Hinata just stood there for a moment before coughing up blood and falling down.
Neji started walking away saying smugly to the proctor, "Call it, she won't be getting up."
However to his dismay, he heard her, "Neji, brother, I am not done yet, Do not turn your back on me." She struggled to her feet, as he charged her. Just as she stood he hit her with two more gentle fist attacks, striking her lungs.
Hinata dropped to her knees as she coughed up more blood, her entire jacket was soaked in her own blood at this point. Her arm was still bleeding profusely. Still she looked up at Neji defiantly as she struggled to her feet again.
Kakashi was gripping the railing tight, as was Shikamaru, this was brutal, they weren't sure if she would live through this, yet she kept it up, she refused to go down. Kakashi was so proud of her, yet so worried at the same time.
Hinata got to her feet again, only for Neji to strike her stomach with two palm strikes. She dropped again, and Neji again walked away.
The proctor was about to call it, when Hinata again climbed to her feet, she held her stomach with her right arm, her left arm hung useless next to her. Neji turned around and screamed at her to get on the ground. He was becoming irrational now.
Hinata was done though, she was limping forward. The proctor called the match over, but Neji was still charging. He aimed a shot at her heart.
Kabuto jumped over the railings heading to her, he couldn't let her die. He needed her for Orochimaru.
Naruto's eyes shot open and he disappeared. He reappeared in front of Hinata right as Nejo struck. Naruto took the strike in heart. He screamed in pain and coughed up blood, but he grabbed Neji's wrist and squeezed.
Neji screamed in pain as his wrist snapped.
Naruto growled at him, "If you ever try that again you piece of shit I will snap your fucking neck instead of your wrist."
Neji pulled a kunai, but was stopped by Kakashi throwing a kunai with pinpoint accuracy disarming him and then the Copy Ninja was on top of him, holding him by the neck his lightning blade ready to pierce through Neji, until Guy took Neji from him, knocking the boy unconscious. Guy apologized to everyone and disappeared with the boy.
Naruto turned to look at Hinata, Kabuto was already there healing her, he breathed a sigh of relief she would live.
Naruto then dropped to his knees holding his heart, as he faded into unconsciousness, going into cardiac arrest.
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