Chapter 4

The Chunnin Exam:Preliminaries

"they used your power to create monsters you know"

flashback

"saeko?"

flashback

"hey itachi how do you know when you love someone" Itachi was stunned the blond asked him a rather complicated question.
He had been tasked with taking care of the blond boy in case he was attacked by villagers that despised him. the boy was showing off to itachi his telekinetic powers. itachi was stunned to say the least the boy was able to slice,grab,fling things using his mind, with considerable force he was able to shoot a pebble through a soda can. he was able to slice things cleanly as if the sharpest katana cut through it. the boy was fairly imaginative regarding this ability itachi once watched as he ran out of matches so the boy compressed air to its flashpoint where it heated enough for him to light his stove. The ability did have its limit as it seemed to work only within a certain range but little naruto with concentration and practice extended that range frequently.

Back to the question the boy seems to like someone Itachi didn't want to pry but he couldn't let the goofball go in blind. the boy had somehow wormed his way into his heart something only his little brother had ever done.
"when you want them to be happy no matter what" Itachi answered it was a simple answer but that's all he could think of after all he hadn't had a serious relationship with that sort of feeling.
"ah then i guess i do love her" naruto seemed really deep in thought at just uttering those words,wondering who it was itachi smiled a bit at the boy some girl out there was about to be really lucky to have someone like naruto with a heart of gold.
"show her you love her"

flashback end

Itachi walked the corpse filled street of the uchiha district he had just killed his aunts,uncles,cousins,mother and father. He felt sick at himself he had killed infants,children, elderly and women if uchiha blood ran through their veins he cut them down without hesitation. His little brother sasuke was spared after all that was the deal he had struck ,himself and sasuke being the last of the uchiha clan.

he would leave through the more deserted area of the uchiha district where no one lived only old and uninhabited houses were there.
Naruto and Saeko had been cooped up in saeko's house all day watching/listening to movies,eating food and generally just hanging out for the remainder of saeko's birthday.
"naruto i cant thank you enough" saeko hugged the boy,naruto couldn't help but have his cheeks blush a twinge of pink at the contact from the older girl. "saeko its because i love you" naruto felt like his face was red and not being able to see saekos reaction he waited for a response. his nose was assaulted by the sweet fragrance only a girl can have and he felt lips connect to his. that was his first kiss "that was my first kiss Naruto,i love you too" if naruto would have been able to see he would have seen saeko's face turn a beet red color at the simple kiss,simple but it meant the world to him.

"ill go prepare some more tea" saeko quickly left to the kitchen she was incredibly happy she was able to see,naruto loved her,and she had kissed the lil goofball and meant it it was the perfect day for her.
Naruto thought a bit about what happened and an idea formed "ill give her a rose from the rose bush we planted" naruto navigated the darkness he was in now to the backyard to get a rose. he heard several things a scream and several things falling and breaking on the hard floor followed by a thud. He ran back inside as fast as he could.

"Saeko?"

Itachi had been on his escape route out when he saw the lights on in a supposedly abandoned house he remembered about his cousin saeko uchiha the disgrace since she was blind. he had no choice but to go and kill her after all she was an uchiha.
he had found her in the kitchen she seemed in a happy mood,almost feeling bad he waited till she turned to face him and drove his katana through her chest. Itachi looked at her as she seemed to look at him with terror tears falling from her blue eyes. "wait blue eyes?" itachi realized the girl was able to see him the tray with two teacups falling on the floor breaking she slid back on his katana and fell to the floor in a pool of her own blood then he hear it that all too familiar voice of the blond he might have to silence him.

"saeko where are you?" naruto reached his hands out trying to feel saeko,things clicked for itachi the girl naruto loved was saeko he gave her his eyes so she could see the world.
"Na...Ru...to" she managed to gasp out Itachi stood motionless in front of her else he would be found by the blind blond boy.
turning his head towards the source of her voice Naruto listened carefully

"i love you" her chest rose and fell one last time and did not rise again.

naruto managed to find his way to her body feeling the cold puddle of blood and smell of copper began to permeate the air holding her close he sobbed his eyes seemed alien as they were her eyes. Dark milkey clouded eyes tried to look at her face with no luck .Itachi watched the scene in silence he just murdered the blonde's love a small tear escaping his eye, he truly was a monster.
all that was heard was sobbing in the home itachi's tear drop fell to the floor, suddenly naruto stopped sobbing and looked in itachi's direction."he couldn't have heard that teardrop could he?" he stayed motionless as naruto's clouded onyx eyes stared at him he knew he wasn't seen but the blond reacted to something.

Itachi felt uncomfortable as those lightly clouded onyx eyes stared at him ,narutos face turned into a sort of squint his clouded eyes becoming a darker and darker onyx. Itachi felt it naruto was staring at HIM no doubt about it bloody katana still in hand.

"It...achi?" narutos eyes trailed to the bloody katana and looked down to the wound in saeko's chest she seemed almost as if she was asleep so peaceful.

"You did this!"

itachi dodged a piece of broken teacup it actually grazed him he would have to kill the boy.
"WHY!" Naruto screamed and unleashed a barrage of items flying at high speed at itachi who was actually having trouble dodging them they were faster than anything he had seen. Itachi activated his sharingan and found himself still in a bind there was so many items going at such a high speed the sharingan was able to see but his body was not fast enough.
Throwing kunai at the boy only for them to be stopped and flung back at him Itachi felt a pang of fear.

"i loved her"

Narutos onyx eyes bore into itachi's soul looking at saeko naruto's eyes softened for a moment . itachi used this opportunity to throw an explosive tagged kunai. he watched in as it exploded only to be compressed and contained in a perfect sphere. naruto threw it back and BOOM it exploded with a stronger force than the original explosive tag.
constantly in a barrage of high speed deadly debris itachi had very little options he had to end this quickly. itachi's sharingan morphing into its mangekyo form he thought he would trap him in his genjutsu and kill him.

naruto didnt let up and as soon as itachis sharingan morphed naruto's eyes turned into the signature form of the uchiha's sharingan with the slight difference of it being a clouded red almost pink fully mature. this surprised itachi and suddenly he was surprised once more this time a bit more fear crawled into itachi's heart. this pink sharingan morphed into a shuriken like form no doubt its own mangekyo form.

He was in trouble, he felt a slight tug and bolted from the vacinity as he watched the space implode on itself. "an invisible kamui?" itachi avoided only by instinct as he took bolted into the back yard to avoid the barrage of debris itachi jumped instictively and watched as the area seemed to burn with some unseen heat. "invisible ameratsu flames?" the boy ran after him jumping through the air effortlessly following him no doubt using his ability to move himself.

thinking back itachi knew the boy's range since the compressed explosive sphere he threw exploded once out of his range.
"8 meters" he had to get close enough so the blonde wouldn't react in time,in a swirl of leaves he appeared 9 meters away with an explosive tagged kunai ready. he felt an arm grab his leg before it was crushed to a mangled pulp "he baited me his range extended" itachi winced at the pain his vision going a bit black before he was swung around and thrown with force into a nearby building he coughed up some blood as he dragged himself out of the rubble and there he was the blonde waiting for him ready to kill him.
itachi didnt want to use it twice but his life was on the line so he stared at narutos eyes and uttered "tsukyomi" and naruto fell to his knees his eyes glazed over in a trance. itachi had no time lest the boy figure a way out he readied his katana and swung down at the blonde's head.

All the nerves in his body exploded into a myriad of sensations each telling him one thing,pain before he knew it he was already in the air and went through several buildings before coming to a painful stop. the boy was still unconsious in a trance but the dust cloud kicked up revealed the culprit it was massive looming invisible figure its bulk seemed to be coming from some sort of armor the dust blew away and it dissapeared from sight but he knew better.
"an invisible susanoo" itachi admitted defeat this boy gave him a run for his money while the boy may have won by a fluke and left itachi no choice but to run away itachi had managed to subdue him if only by a technicality he would soon die from the shock of being inside the tsukyomi world for 7 days. he hopped on one leg and sunshin'ed away as far from the child as he could if any child was going to kill him it would be sasuke.

the tsukyomi was nothing compared to the hell that was naruto's life. once itachi inside the illusionary world finished naruto was free, mere moments had passed but he had experienced days of torture. Naruto's onyx eyes looked around only finding itachi had escaped picking himself and dusting himself off he quietly sobbed and walked back to find saeko. She looked like she was sleeping but her body grew colder with the passing moments.

"you can save her"

naruto looked around finding no one said that.

"such love isnt found easily child,save her"

"h..how?"
"focous draw all the power you can to your eyes...her eyes and absorb her soul"
"what? thats stupid shes passed on already" naruto was beggining to question his sanity he was talking to himself ."Just fucking do it alright quickly people are coming" naruto winced at the tone the voice took it seemed to be losing patience,"fine".

Naruto focused all his strength into his eyes they soon began to turn pink before the sharingan began to manifest itself,focusing more they turned to their mangekyo form.
"Focus MORE!" the voice rang naruto's eyes were straining themselves veins began popping around them before turning into murkey grey byakugan.
Naruto was able to see through saeko's skin,muscle and was able to see her trace amounts of chakra in her system."More!" naruto Felt a sudden Jolt of energy flow through him he was encased in a blood red chakra cloak. the byakugan flashing into rinnegan.
"STOP its what we need!"

"now pull her soul and put it somewhere for safe keeping as long as we have her soul we can resurrect her" Naruto was beyond confused until he looked into a nearby shard of glass,his eye had concentric circles he had never seen such a thing.

"hurry people are coming!"
having no clue how to pull a soul out of a person naruto stared a bit into saeko's chest and noticed a pale blue orb inside her, staring into the orb he saw a sleeping saeko. he pulled the orb out with all his might and now that he had it had nowhere to keep it. "ill keep you with me...saeko" naruto held the orb to his chest and felt a small warm feeling as it disappeared inside his chest his eyes returning to normal. a strong gust of wind blew and saeko's body crumbled to dust before being blown away .

"oh goodie a roommate" before naruto could question the voice it yelled

"RUN!"

several ANBU ninja appeared and surveying the damage figured the boy had done it. Naruto tried to use his powers but he had over exherted himself and could not manifest any sort of power.
"we will take you to master danzo he will love a new test subject" Naruto was bonked in the head and knocked out completely, the anbu disappeared with naruto in a swirl of leaves.

shortly afterwards the hokage and a platoon of anbu had arrived to find the devestation caused by itachi's uchiha genocide. the uchiha clan was no more save for a lone boy found in the clan head's house sasuke uchiha was the last remaining uchiha.

itachi looked back at konaha as he used a thick branch as a makeshift was afraid,
"an mangekyo born from love" it would be insanely stronger than one born from the trauma of killing your best friend or watching him die."whats more it was an eternal mangekyo" there were no ill effects nor degradation."but those eyes were blind" itachi made no sense of it besides naruto's own system healing them.
"makes sense its abilities are invisible those eyes didn't see the world so it made sure the world doesn't see its abilities kinda ironic" itachi was actually afraid he was sure the child survived after all the boy was driven by made itachi really afraid was he saw it,fear gripped his heart the boy had what sasuke would never have and he would be a force to be reckoned with.

"Hatred"

flashback end

naruto awoke in a cold sweat in the the temporary room inside the tower he was staying in looking to the left was another cot kin sleeping soundly koyomi somehow made her way into his bed and was dead asleep. he never could detect her when she appeared but he enjoyed her company none the less, at least she had gotten along with kin. sasuke was taken away to be examined by a medic before he would be free to continue on with the exams.

last night it was announced that the last team of genin had arrived. several foreign genin never made it out of the forest of death and their families were notified. naruto thought for a while , had he perished inside the forest no one would mourn his death and those that did would not be mourning him but the naruto they had known for the past couple years. He had no family to mourn him he had a slave but he doubted she would mourn over him afterall she was a servant and not a friend.

Morning came rather quickly and the tower was abuzz with gossip it seemed that too many genin had passed the 2nd round of the chunnin exams and so a Preliminary round was going to be enforced. Soon enough a proctor appeared looking a bit sickly and coughing explaining and confirming the rumor they were going to fight each other and those who won would be going to the final round. Kin was disqualified and would be in the sidelines kiyomi was in the sidelines as well not that anyone noticed her watching the screen begin the first match everyone was moved to the side lines to watch the battle.

Naruto watched in extreme fascination his eyes following sasukes fight. his eyes briefly flashing a pink sharingan behind shino's glasses at times when the genin preformed amazing jutsu this went unnoticed by naruto and others. Naruto grew excited he had never seen a fight from a safe position, Sasuke won soon shiino won the second a puppet wielder Kankuro won the third. Facepalming at sakura and ino's fight which was insanely too chatty and resulted in a double knockout it was a bit embarrassing to have sakura on his team.

two more matches passed and naruto was a bit concerned his name showed up on the screen and it was flickering through the remaining chunnin hopefuls. Hopefully he didn't get someone insane,Kiba was his partner in this match just his luck kiba was a bit insane. Worst of all he couldnt reveal too much of himself lest he be discovered to be an impostor so he had to rely on jutsu ...which he didnt know much of.

he thought a bit he needed something flashy something unexpected to be considered stronger than he really was. thinking up an idea and with only a couple minutes to spare he went outside and scooped up a large handful of pebbles and stuffed them in his pocket.

"Kiba Inuzuka and Naruto Uzumaki please report to the arena" that was his queue to head over to the arena for his idea was insane but if he pulled it off anyone not smart enough would think he was insanely strong or stupid.

"so you ready to lose naruto?" kiba's face was full of confidence and arrogance "nah not really your mutt doesn't have a chance" this angered kiba a bit."akamaru is a purebred idiot" kiba's little pup barked in agreement.

"the match will end when one of you is unable to continue or forfeits outside interference means forfeiting the match"

both genin stared each other down.

"BEGIN!"

"i wasn't talking about akamaru " naruto quickly dodged a twister that kiba turned into soon kiba took out akamaru and transformed into a second kiba. Naruto would have to end this quickly as dodging two wild kiba's was worse than one. he was only able to get a punch in but he was thrown around like a rag doll when he was caught in kiba's fang over fang jutsu. kiba appeared in front of him ready to swipe at him with a kunai which cut naruto a bit on his arm.

"ready to forfeit?" Naruto was beaten up real bad but if you looked closely his small cuts were healing watched in mild surprised as her master was being beaten by a genin who was simply reckless unless her master didn't want to reveal his abilities. She watched as her master threw punches like a civilian this wasn't possible,for someone to even be nominated for the exams would mean they had at least a couple missions under their belt.

"Nah you get ready to lose mutt" Naruto hoped this irked kiba enough for him to charge in recklessly.
"POCKET ROCKS MOTHERFUCKER!" Naruto threw several handfuls of pebbles at both kibas flabbergasted faces some missed completely but now the arena floor had pebbles all over it. the sensei in the the sidelines were snickering at this completely idiotic thing to do, no respectable ninja would throw rocks in someones face. the rest of the genin laughed at the ploy naruto pulled.

"Naruto what the fuck man?" kiba was pretty pissed because it seemed like a desperate attempt to distract someone.
"What? it worked didn't it?" Both kibas shook their head and readied themselves for another devastating combo attack."its over naruto Fang over Fang jutsu!" the giant twister headed straight towards naruto who stood unmoving from his spot. Just as the attack was about to connect naruto disappeared.

several gasps were heard from the sidelines sensei's rose an eyebrow as the match just got a bit more interesting.

Both kiba's looked around trying to find naruto but one was met with a punch to the gut. the second one threw a kunai only for naruto to disappear again. Another Punch came out of nowhere this time the doppelganger doubled over in pain. pulling kunai both of them went back to back in order to not be surprised by another pop up. one kiba was kicked away naruto appearing and kicking the other one to opposite sides of the arena. trying to regroup was useless as soon as they moved a naruto appeared almost as if he gained inhuman speed. the people in the sidelines watched in interest, kakashi on the other hand was astounded .
"i never taught him just like sensei's" kakashi watched as the blond mimicked the famous hirashin jutsu the fourth was known for. it was still slow but it this showed naruto possessed inhuman chakra manipulation. he was using the substitution jutsu a very basic jutsu but everyone knew it took more chakra control to replace yourself with smaller objects than a log,let alone a pebbles.

Yet here naruto was doing it over and over something kakashi could probably pull off maybe once or twice if he really was in a bind but he would be exhausted. "when did he learn this?" kakashi watched with a critical eye something seemed Kept up his barrage of punches and kicks he felt his bones cracking from the force he was hitting kiba with afterall his body was not used to physical combat. He had to end it quickly he was snapped out of his thoughts as kiba used his own substitution and was face to face with a log along with an activated explosive tag. the onlookers gasped everyone knew it would be a fatal explosion at that proximity. "please be ok my friend" shino watched behind his replacement glasses worry evident on his face.

An Explosion rocked the arena followed by the scream "Naruto! NOOOOO" the lavender eyed hinata screamed tears forming in her eyes. Kin was very confused as she watched the hyuga girl from afar. "no way master would be taken down by some thing like this?" Kin's thoughts were cut short as the smoke cleared. There he was, unharmed and looking very pissed off somehow the explosion blew his glasses off and now anger was evident in his dark black eyes. Luckily he had enveloped himself in a dense telekinetic barrier at the last moment.

"whoa naruto you ok? didn't mean to almost kill you" kiba's animal instinct were telling him to run away from this person."You put an explosive in my face and that's all you say?" naruto walked slowly towards kiba akamaru reverted to his pup form and ran naruto poofed in front of kiba and punched with all his might straight to kiba's face knocking him out cold.

The Proctor walked over and called the match as Naruto's victory

there we go another chapter done and already working on the next chapter