Chapter 7
Two weeks later, Naruto could be found stepping out ramen shop, waving bye to the ramen shop and his daughter, Ayame.
He pulled out a cigarette and lit it, letting the smoke fill his senses until a piercing shriek shattered his good mood. He saw Sakura, stomping her way towards him. Naruto pondered the thought of leaving her alone to vent her frustration on the ground below her, but he decided to crush her before the urge to kill her was prominent.
'Considering that the Hokage never liked senseless violence and only a few close saves from being caught.'
"Naruto-baka!" She snarled out
"What is it, Haruno?"
"You're smoking? You idiot, are you trying to act like Sasuke-kun?"
"I'm trying to be like your emo, Sakura. What do you want? Unlike you people need to prepare for the exams."
"Have you seen, Sasuke-kun?"
"No, I haven't seen your precious Uchiha. What the hell do I look like his keeper? If you are done bugging me, I'm leaving." Naruto said, turning his back
"Don't you turn your back on me, baka!" She raised her fist and made to smash it into his head, but Naruto moved, making her tumble into the ground.
"You baka! I spent hours fixing my outfit to make Sasuke fall for me! You are going to pay."
"Please, Haruno. I'm pretty sure the Uchiha wouldn't look at you unless you have a cock dangling between those anorexic legs of yours."
"How dare you?!" She tries to hit him several more times, but they were avoided until she started panting.
Naruto blew out a puff of smoke in her face causing her to cough and hack.
"Listen Haruno. I never loved you, I actually loathe your weak ass. You are the definition of weak and if wasn't for all the three people on the team who actually train then you would either die or be someone's bitch." He said, coldly
"W-what? But the academy, all this time-"
"That I loathe your damn existence you, weakling. I thought your massive forehead could actually have the ability to think."
Sakura's eyes dulled and she stared up at the boy who shattered her view of the world.
'No, it's not true. He has a crush on me. He's always had a crush on me. I don't believe it! I won't believe it.'
She chuckled and looked at Naruto's bored face. "I don't believe you. It's just another plot to get me to go on a date with you."
"So, she's delusional now?"
'Apparently, it will be funny as fuck when she breaks out of her delusions, though.'
"True..."
"Whatever helps you sleep at night. Go masturbate about the limp-dick Uchiha, Haruno and don't bug me again." Naruto then flashed out, leaving the pink-haired girl alone on the street.
'I don't buy your lies for a second, Naruto. You have been my loyal puppy since I have met you and I'm going to remind you of your place underneath me.' A malevolent Sakura thought as she trudged back to her house. Plans running amok in her head.
The time for the second part of the exams were upon us, everyone filled the stadium and soon the first match. Everyone went to the box where the opponents who won their match from the last month.
Sasuke actually arrived early with Kakashi at his side, sneering at the box where he should have been but, he smirked thinking he would have many new jutsu to snatch especially from the dobe.
Too bad for the Uchiha, everyone inside the box remembered his match and how he copied the move from one of his own comrades and they made sure to hide their hand signs or shadow themselves from the Uchiha using their abilities against them.
Soon, it was time for the first match and Hinata and Rika went down to the arena.
"Can Rika Red and Hinata Hyuuga come down to the arena?" Hayato said
(Present)
Hinata Hyuuga vs. Rika Red
The two girls faced each other and looked at Hayate to start the match.
Hinata got into her own fighting stance and Rika got into her own, their chakra pouring out of their pores surrounding them.
"Both opponents ready?"
A sharp nod from both was his answer.
"Fight~!" He said, moving out of the way
The two stared at each for a second longer then they rushed towards each other, Rika pulled out two kunais, slashing Hinata, who avoided it and tried to get into close range.
Hinata was able to hit her hand but was shocked backwards when the chakra she forced in, rushed back out, burning her, causing her skin to turn a shade of red.
"You have to do better than that, Hinata," Rika said, tightening her gloves
Hinata made her chakra cover her hands and said, "I plan too."
The pair rushed forward once more attacking each other, chakra-enhanced weapons vs. Hinata's chakra scalpel.
Hinata struck Rika's stomach, causing her to spit out a glob of bile, Rika stuck with her enhanced kunai causing a bleeding cut on her side. Chakra surrounded the two of them, but they made sure to keep their secrets hidden, the jutsu-stealing monkey with the red eyes and duck butt hair was watching the two of them.
Rika was then caught off guard when Hinata finally managed to disable her two of her four kunai, tossing them away from her. Rika punched the earth, causing a fissure, making Hinata lose her balance, which Rika took advantage from and punch her in the face.
Hinata wiped the blood of her chin with her sleeve and managed to give a palm thrust to Rika's stomach, shocking her at the same time, making her twitch sporadically.
Rika fell on one knee as her body shook and spasmed from the excess lightening.
*Cough, cough!* "A lightning element? You're full of surprises..."
"I aim to please. Don't tell me that's all you got."
"Not even close." She said, going to shortened hand signs that couldn't be copied, and yelled out, "Fire Dragons Roar!"
A large flash of flame came out of her mouth, forcing Hinata move. her blackened jacket was left on the scorched earth.
She panted before returning into sight, only in her fishnet shirt and singed pants.
'So, that's why she wears the jacket...' Most of the genin and ninja thought.
Hanabi looked wide-eyed at her sister, 'I wonder if mine will be like that...'
"You aren't going to make this easy."
"Life never is." She said, gathering more chakra for one last attack.
"Of course not," Hinata said, gathering her chakra into her fist, creating a lion's head
"Have at me, then," Rika said, fire covering her arms.
The two rushed towards each other in a final charge, before striking out, hitting their opponent's solar plexus, forcing the opponent away from them, stirring up dust and rocks.
Rika's attack burned away Hinata's fishnet shirt, showing a burning bruise on her stomach. Hinata's attack wore away Rika's shirt, showing a purpling bruise on her stomach and light bleeding.
Both opponents coughed and hack, struggling to get up, but their bodies, not heeding their commands.
"H-Hinata?"
*Cough!* "What?" She asked, struggling to keep her eyes open
"You win. T-too much damage. I expect a rematch soon."
"Okay. Just wait a couple weeks."
"Fine." Rika finally fell unconscious.
"Rika Red is able to continue. The winner is Hinata Hyuuga!"
Cheers ran amongst the crowd above as Sasuke glared at the fainted Rika, for having a better fire jutsu than he did.
'I will find out how she did that. That move belongs to the Uchiha! It could help me kill Itachi!'
Naruto rushed down before anyone could do anything. He took Hinata into his arms, being careful not to jostle her so her wounds don't get any worse and then he went towards the unconscious Rika.
"You were fantastic out there."
"T-thanks Naruto-kun."
"You can sleep if you want."
"Y-yes." She started to close her eyes and fell into the weary form of sleep. Naruto took Rika on his back and made his way towards the infirmary. Hiashi made his way down to take his daughter from the demon as Kakashi looked at Naruto, planning to have a talk with him.
Hiruzen looked at Naruto with a sad smile, 'Even if doesn't like Konoha, at least he has people here who actually give him a chance.'
'So, he's attached to those two girls.' Orochimaru though, planning with the strange, malevolent Kyuubi container.
-Infermery-
Naruto took both girls and had a nurse, who actually did her damn job whenever he had to be brought to the hospital.
She placed them on the hospital beds as the doctors took care of them. The nurse informed him that would awake within the hour, to which Naruto thanked her. Naruto flashed back to the stadium just seconds before Hiashi speed walked down the hallway where he was at.
He looked at his conscious daughter with interest, but at the same time deep inside of him, he was weeping for his daughter and for the state she was in and he then he returned to his seat, looking as every bit of a cold heart as he was taught.
Shikamaru Nara vs. Kristopher Blue
"Can Shikamaru Nara and Kristopher Blue come down to the arena?"
Shikamaru went down to the arena as Kristopher went down the other way, facing each other when they arrived in the arena. Both of them got into a ready stance and waited for the protractor to start the match.
"Both opponents ready?"
"Fight~!"
Kristopher went to attack him, but Shikamaru caught him in his shadow, however before he could pin him, Shikamaru felt his hold on Blue slipping away from him. He removed his shadow and made space between him and the chakra sucker.
"What's a matter? I thought you were going to knock me out? Isn't this battle for your fat friend who shouldn't even be a shinobi?" He smirked
"I wouldn't really be talking, you troublesome bastard," Shikamaru said, throwing a kunai, but he avoided it laughing.
"Is that all you got?"
Another kunai grazed his cheek and he made to avoid flying knives that were mostly aimed at lethal points. However, if you looked closely, you could see the thin, chakra wire attached to the kunais, when Shikamaru threw the last kunai hitting the ground, where it could have been lethal if stabbed.
"Finally run out? Good, so now I can-What?!" Kristopher's footing was off from a fissure in the ground and Shikamaru's trap was sprung, the wires finally made their appearance, and latched onto Kristopher, stabbing into his skin. Pinning him in place.
"Aaaah! You bastard!" He snarled, blood dripping down his limbs, the wires holding him in place.
Shikamaru placed a kunai at his neck and said, "Surrender, now."
Hayato made his appearance and called the match, "Kristopher Blue is not able to continue, Shikamaru Nara is the winner!"
The crowd cheered and at the good match, Shikamaru went back to his team who congratulated him, along with Ino who was still a bit sore about her match with him. Kristopher was taken to the infirmary as everyone waited for the next match up.
Temari of the Desert vs. Naruto Uzumaki
"Can Temari of the Desert and Naruto Uzumaki come down to the arena?"
'Now, it's my turn.'
Temari flew to the field on her fan and Naruto jumped from the railing and landed safely on the ground.
"Both opponents ready?"
Hayato got a nod from both of them.
"Fight~!" He got out of the way and Temari didn't take any chances and wrenched her fan to the side and went to blow a massive gust of wind in Naruto's direction, causing cracks in the Earth, but Naruto avoided the attack and used the dust she stirred up to make several hand signs to make his jutsu that made her attack once more.
Gusts of wind and pieces of earth rocked the stadium as the two wind users attacked each other. Sasuke grits his teeth as his eyes wide and twitching as he tried to search for Naruto and steal his jutsu.
"Sky Dragon Claw!" He yelled, a claw of pure wind, hit the side of the stadium, making a large gash appear beside the Hokage box.
"Holy shit!" Kiba yelled the trembling could be felt from where he stood, holding on to Akamaru.
"Naruto..."
'I need to have him or he needs to be eliminated.' Orochimaru thought, nearly salivating at the thought of the jutsu he just witnessed
'I need to end this. If that attack caught me, it would have ripped me to bloody chunks!'
"Is that all you got, Suna-nin?"
"No! Wind Release: Wind Cutter Technique!" The dust that hung in the air, suddenly split from the slice of wind, releasing it into the air and making it disappear.
*whistle* "Impressive!" He said, avoiding the slash, "But, I'm going to wrap this up quickly."
Naruto rushed towards her tired form, but before she could put up a decent defense and stabbed her side, causing her to fall unconscious in Naruto's arms. He looked at the examiner who came down from his position.
"Temari of the Desert is not able to continue. The winner is Naruto Uzumaki!"
Several boos filled the stadium, but the clapping and cheers of others who cared more of Konoha winning or Naruto's choice of attacks, especially the large one near the Kage box.
Danzo looked at Naruto with a critical eye along with several others, Kakashi was shocked and promised to find out how Naruto got that large attack and Sasuke looked like he was about to pop a blood vessel. Sakura put the battle out of her mind, she still believed that Naruto was doing this for attention, but when he got on the second floor, he greeted Hinata and Rika who came back from the infirmary, not sparing a glance at Sakura.
Gaara of the Desert vs. Rock Lee
"Can Gaara of the Desert and Rock Lee come down to the arena?"
Gaara appeared in the arena in a gust of sand and Rock Lee jumped down, he wasn't in his green leotard, he took to heart when Gaara crushed his opponent to death. Mighty Gai called in a favor from a friend to teach his student how to protect himself from Gaara's crushing technique with his sand.
It was armament Haki, it would protect him along with his speed, he could probably beat him.
He wore a karate gi top with no sleeves and pants and ninja shoes. His ninja headband tied around his forehead.
"Both opponents ready?"
Gaara nodded, which Lee saluted.
"Fight~!" Hayate left the two to fight and Lee went to attack first as Gaara crossed his arms waiting for the attack.
Lee started to punch and kick, but every time he tried Gaara's sand would prevent the attack from reaching, as Lee would speed up his attacks and had two pairs of kunais to cut away the sand Gaara started to attack him with, but Lee moved to get some space between him and his opponent.
"Lee, you can do it!"
Lee looked at Gai and undid the straps on his pants, removing them and some people thought it was just a little weight, but when he released them, they fell with a loud smash on the ground.
After that, he disappeared, making Gaara finally react for the first time since he reached the arena, showing his surprise, when Lee attacked him, breaking through his defence, leaving him to turn around to find nothing there.
Lee kept up this series of attacks, much to the crowd's amazement as Sasuke could only watch with his bloodline, trying to copy his speed and his attacks. He kept getting closer and closer until he unleashed a spinning kick that caused a cut on Gaara, forcing him away from Lee.
"He managed to cut Gaara?" Kankuro whispered
The battle continued with Lee chipping away at Gaara and then finally pushing him against the wall, his sand was withering around him, malevolent chakra surrounding him causing Lee to retreat, giving him so space.
Gaara lifted his head, a large, manic smirk filled his face, until an explosion rocked the stony silence and the feeling of drowsiness overcame most of the crowd.
The invasion has started...
Ending it! I am ending the chapter! Sakura wants her fanboy back, too bad Naruto would rather tear out his own liver with a rusty spoon first. She will have two strikes before Naruto tears her apart. I want you guys' opinion, should Hiruzen survive, should he die? Should Tsunade come back to the village, if she doesn't should Naruto leave and take those who care about him. Rather mentally or literally, depends on how I feel when I write it. The Invasion will start next chapter! Sorry for the long wait. Laters
~Kourtney Uzu Yato