I Don't Own Naruto, Any Other Anime/Manga or Its Characters.
All Characters Appearing In This Work Are Fictitious. Any Resemblance To Real Persons, Living Or Dead Is Purely Coincidental.
Main Event Match Up:
In Kumogakure
Now that the preliminaries were over it was time for the Raikage to speak
The Raikage stepped forward and said "well done all of you, those of you that have won will be moving on to the next round and as for those who lost train harder and try next time, but remember this all of you.""To be a shinobi you must remember two very important lessons, never become so arrogant that you fail to see the true strength of your opponent and never ever give up hope, because when you give up hope you have lost not only the battle but also the war."
"Now then it's time to see who will be facing whom in the main event tournament, now everyone look up at the screen above you and you will see your names and your opponents":
Kenpachi Zaraki of the leaf village vs. Inuyasha of the Sand village
Moegi of the Leaf village vs. Kagome Hakudoshi of the Sand village
Kenshin Morino of the Leaf Village vs. Nakajima Atsushi of the Cloud Village
Masayuki Mori of the Cloud village vs. Hanabi Hyuuga of the Leaf village
Hirako Aburame of the Leaf village vs. Kawaguchi Isoroku of the Cloud village
Konohamaru Sarutobi of the Leaf village vs. Noitra of the Rock village
"This will be a tournament style battle in which the winners of each match will progress until only 1 remains, However that does not mean that there will only be one progressing towards the Chunin rank, no whether you win or lose does not matter what will matter is HOW you win or lose meaning to say if you show the qualities a chunin needs then you will progress onto the rank of chunin."
"Remember being a Chunin is the equivalent of being a military captain, which means you have to be able to make decisions quickly and effectively, you must also be a skilled leader. Completing a mission is not the only thing about a ninja, think about your previous exams. In the first part you had to collect information in a manner so as not to alert the proctors, in the second exam you had to deliver your scrolls to the tower without looking at the contents this is a way of knowing if you are able to handle confidential information."
"Now you all know who your opponents are so you have 1 month to prepare and relax for the battle. The reason for this is twofold; many of you have already shown some of your jutsu and talents and that of your opponents. So this month will give you time for you to prepare and this will also allow time for the different leaders and other guests to arrive such as the Daimyo and the Kazekage and Hokage respectively.
Remember when you fight you fight not only for yourself but for the Village you represent. Many of the people who will come to this tournament are also our clients. So the village that seems to have the more powerful ninja will get more business and vice versa."
"Now are there any questions?" The Raikage asked
There were none.
"Very well you are all dismissed for those who need or want medical attention at any time during this one month period you are welcome to use the services of our fine hospital and medical ninja." "However for those of you who are not of our village remember to follow our rules properly. For those who wish to train can do so freely at any of our training grounds available, or any other place so long as you are careful of the civilians in the area."
The Raikage chuckled and said "remember not everyone is a ninja so your techniques may scare them or hurt them, so please take care." "Well that is all I have to tell you all and I will see you all in a month good luck to you all and may Kami watch over you."
As the participants took their leave along with their sensei, The Leaf Ninja were also leaving to go to the hospital and see to their own wounds as well as checking up on Chiruku's condition when the Raikage caught Naruto`s eye and nodded. Turning to Kiba and Chouji he whispered " hey guys you two go on ahead and take my team along as well I have somewhere to be." The two Jonin nodded, turning to his team he said: "Hey guys you go ahead I have something to take care of."
"Where you going boss?" Konohamaru asked "don't worry about that kid, hey Moegi chan take them all to the hospital and get yourselves checked out, then relax for the rest of the day I will meet up with you guys later alright?" "Uh sure sensei" Moegi said confused. With a quick hand sign Naruto had disappeared in a shunshin of leaves. "Alright pups lets bounce I want to know about Chiruku's condition." "Yes, let's go he should be out of surgery now" said Chouji a bit worried about his young clan member."
In the Raikage's office
Naruto was just entering the Raikage`s office when he saw his P.A. Mabui. "Hey Mabui what up" Naruto asked in a friendly voice. She turned to see who it was that had greeted her, she smiled when she saw Naruto, "why hello Naruto how are you, did you come all this way to ask me on a date" she said flirtatiously. Naruto laughed his good-natured laugh and said "afraid not Mabui I am taken you know my heart belongs to Hinata-Chan" and besides your ten years older than me. "So that doesn't matter I am not asking for your heart anyway" she said looking down towards his waist, "I can show things only a woman of experience can." She said with a naughty smile on her face. "No, Mabui I will not go on a date with you."
They looked at each other for a moment then hugged each other and started laughing loudly, "man I must say Mabui every-time I am here you always seem to out-prank me I mean this time I was sure you were going to just use your binding jutsu and have your way with me." Mabui laughed and said with mock surprise "do you mean to tell me that one of the great Nisei and Shadow clone sage of Konoha has admitted defeat."
Naruto bowed his head and said "yes, yes, I do I can't compete with you anymore, so how are the hubby and the kids?" "Oh fine little Fujiku is now 3 years old and wants to be a great ninja just like his father the great Killer Bee, he has even started rapping like him." "My god sometimes I wonder why I even married him" she said with a hand on her face. "Ha ha so where is that octo-guy now anyway I didn't see him when I came here a week ago." "Yeah he was on a mission he just got back a day before, he is in A's office now." Oh by the way I heard two of your team passed the prelims so congrats are in order." "Heh, thanks Mabui so can I go in now or what? Naruto asked, "Sure go right in." Naruto knocked and then entered the Raikage`s office.
He entered and saw A and his brother having a discussion, about something. Naruto entered the office and stood at attention he then bowed deeply and said: "Raikage-sama, the Hokage sends her regards and her thanks for allowing the Chunin Exams to be held here she has also instructed me to give you a scroll that is for your eyes only."
The Raikage lifted an eyebrow at Naruto's behaviour but just said "at ease Naruto-san please have a seat and give me the scroll that your Hokage sent for me." Naruto nodded and reached inside his jacket and extracted a scroll and handed it to the Raikage who accepted it and opened it and read after 5 minutes he put the scroll away and said "is that all Naruto-san?" Naruto bowed again before saying "yes, Raikage-sama." "Alright then, well now that business is out-of-the-way, have a seat and relax, you too Bee."
Both ninja sat down on the couch opposite the Raikage and relaxed, "so what's up guys" Naruto said relaxing and putting his feet on the small table before him and taking a swig from a bottle of water.
"Oh nothing much same old same old" said A, "but tell me something what was with all the formalities and stuff I know you are not one for formalities so what's up." Naruto shrugged and said "before I was an envoy representing my village to a foreign nation leader so I had to do that but now I'm just a shinobi visiting some friends." "Ha, who knew you had manners Yo," Naruto laughed and said "well that's just how things are today." "So I heard you guys had some trouble while coming here" the Raikage said. "Yea we had some "rogue" earth ninjas after us, they wanted to kidnap Konohamaru and kill me, but we took care of em,"
"Anyway so Bee what's up with you man how is things?" "Not bad man." "Oh yeah A, I heard some rumours that Kabuto has been sighted near the land of Earth and from what I hear he is looking for revenge on you for almost killing him during the war," "heh, damn snake is lucky I only managed to injure him with that poison that was made by the Hokage."
"Yes, I know that A from what I hear the fact is that he only has a few months left of life left around 3 months is what Tsunade-sama said although it's a wonder how he stayed alive this whole time." "Heh, don't worry A if I meet him I will make sure I finish the job this time." "Look it's my job to warn you so just keep an eye out ok? Anyway I got to go check on my team so I will see you guys later alright Ja ne?"
Back at the hospital
"So is Chiruku going to be ok" asked Kiba with a frown on his face, the doctor seemed very tired and exhausted and rightly so after 4 hours of operation. He sat down next to Kiba and with a smile on his face said: "yes he is out of danger and will survive, everyone breathed a sigh of relief however, he will still need lots of rest and will need to stay in the hospital for at-least another two weeks maybe as long as a month because of the severe injuries and chakra drain on his system, even after he is discharged he will need to take it easy for a couple of weeks." "So all in all it will take him 2 months to recover fully and once again resume life as a shinobi."
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief and thanked the doctor. Chouji came forward to the Doctor and bowed deeply before him in respect and said "thank you doctor I owe the life of my clansman to you if there is any way to repay you please do not hesitate to say so."
The doctor smiled and said no need I just did my job." "Alright fine then but how about this Doc why don't you let me and my pals here buy you and your surgical team a big bottle of the finest sake that your village has to offer?" Kiba said putting an arm around Chouji. "Please Doc consider it a matter of honor and personal debt, and in my clan we always hold the belief that if there is no other way to thank the person who saved a member of our pack we should buy said person a bottle of sake, so please allow me and my friend here to uphold that tradition." Kiba said earnestly."
"Sigh" fine alright I accept if it is a matter of honour and personal debt than I accept your gift. Tell you what why don't you come back tomorrow with your gifts and then you can see him tomorrow. Because at the moment he is under sedation and resting and as a result he won't regain consciousness until tomorrow, now I think I will go home and rest, if you don't mind."
By the time everyone had been checked by a medic Nin and cleared night had fallen and the 3 leaf Nin teams made preparations for bed with the girls having a separate room from the boys for obvious reasons. When all the genin were asleep the 3 Jonin met in Chouji's room to discuss the day's events. "So Chouji how's your cousin doing?" Naruto asked "sorry I couldn't make it I had some work with the Raikage."
"It's ok Naruto we understand, Chiruku is doing fine he is out of danger and is under sedation at the moment the doctor said its going to be at least 2 weeks before they are ready to discharge him and at-least a couple of months before he can resume duty again due to his injuries."
"I see, well anyway the Raikage gave me an interesting bit of titbit, he confirmed the rumours that Kabuto has been sighted again and near Iwa no less." said Naruto. "Damn that bastard is still alive?" ""but something makes me think that it has been almost 3 years since the war occurred and during all this time he hasn't been sighted, despite many attempts by Anbu black ops don't you think that weird guys?" Chouji asked his friends and fellow Jonin.
Kiba spoke up and said "You're right it is Chouji but there is no point worrying about it the way I see it is this: fact that Kabuto has reappeared and the Rock Village Council is looking to kidnap Konohamaru." "I have a feeling the Chunin exams are going to be a lot more exciting this time around." "So Naruto I have an idea since none of our cubs are fighting each other in the finals why don't we have them train together?" "Although that may not be a bad idea Kiba you're forgetting that they might end up fighting each other in the semi-finals." Naruto pointed out.
"I know that idiot but if we are going to be expecting an attack like it seems, it would be a good idea for them all to do some training together and even Chouji agrees with me don't you Chouji?" Chouji simply nodded his head thoughtfully. "Alright fine we all train together tomorrow."
Little did Kiba know how right he was and how interesting the Chunin Exams were going to be?
Somewhere in Iwa
"So everything is ready I assume." the, Iwa councilman Yagiro Hokumara said to Kabuto "oh yes, everything is ready if your sources are correct they say that the Hokage and the grandson of the Third Hokage will also be there in the finals, however there is a problem."
"Oh and what is that?" The councilman asked Kabuto, "well it seems that his sensei is none other than the cough* *cough* famous Nisei: Shadow Clone Sage Naruto Uzumaki son of the Yondaime and host of the Kyuubi, not to mention the container of the Hachibi and wielder of the great blade Samaheda as well will also be present, *cough* *cough*, you and your allies will deal with the Hokage and Raikage and Kazekage when the time comes and as for the two Jinchuuriki I think I will let my men and I handle them." "I agree to your terms with this strike we will be able to take revenge on Konoha and if Kumo falls as well then all the better" said Yagiro. At that time both men were thinking the same thing that after the job is done the other would also die. "It's obvious that the old fart of a Tsuchikage won't listen to me so I will have to eliminate him."
In Konoha
The Hokage was reading the report of a messenger hawk from Kumo stating that of the original 9 leaf genin who entered the exams only 6 genin would be going on to the finals. Konohamaru and Moegi from team Naruto. Hanabi Hyuuga and Kenpachi Zaraki from team Kiba. Finally Hirako Aburame and Kenshin Morino from team Chouji. Shizune entered through the door with the newest set of paperwork for the Hokage, "milady Ibiki san is here with the Anbu squad as you requested.""Send them in."
When the Anbu squad entered the room and stood at attention Tsunade addressed them and said: "your mission is to go to Iwagakure and observe the habits of Councilman Yagiro Hokumara and if possible assassinate him but don't take unnecessary risks.
This mission is totally voluntary and black. There will be no written reports. All reports will be oral if you are caught the village will not acknowledge you, those are the mission parameters. How you go about it is your concern and up to you, again this mission is voluntary so if there anyone of you who does not wish to take part you may leave without any repercussions to you or your career." Nobody left the room.
"Alright then, you have anything else to add Ibiki?" the Hokage asked: yes, I do milady, listen up, you are no longer part of root and you no longer serve Danzo because he is dead you serve the Hokage of this village and I expect you to act accordingly if I find out anyone of you betrayed my trust or milady's trust, you will regret it dearly." said Ibiki with a smile on his face.
Despite themselves the Anbu shivered, the lead Anbu who was wearing a crow mask came forward and knelt on the floor and said "we will not betray your trust Ibiki san neither yours Hokage sama on this I make a blood oath, he and his whole team promptly took out a kunai and cut their hands and said together by our blood and our deeds we pledge our loyalty to the Hokage of Konohagakure and to all the Hokage's of past and present. Alright fine I accept your loyalty and pledge and shall honour it." The Sanin nodded her head in acknowledgement
"Shizune please heal their cuts for me please," "yes milady" Shizune said and went to work on their wounds, "alright now I want you to coordinate your information with Ibiki, any questions?"
There were none.
"Alright then dismissed," the Anbu disappeared in a flash, "alright Ibiki as I said they will send all the info to you and then I want you to organize it and give me a report weekly but remember I don't want any written reports on this all information must be orally reported to me, is that clear?" "Yes milady."
"Now on another note Ibiki I have another special job for you if you choose to accept"
"I accept milady what kind of job?" "Lately councillors Homura and Koharu have acted very strange and have shown a lot of animosity towards Naruto and me, and they have also been visiting the Hyuuga elders recently that in itself is not really anything but from what Hiashi tells me the Elders are not happy with the relationship between Naruto and Hinata not to mention some of the changes she has proposed for when she becomes Head of the Hyuuga clan."
"So when two parties who hate Naruto and me meet often it gives me cause for concern not to mention that Naruto is a Highly skilled Jonin, and I love him like a grandson which he kind of is seeing as Kushina was my student and that he calls me Tsunade-baa chan. So I want to track their movements and whereabouts I have a feeling that those two are implicated in the recent skirmish between the 3 genin teams and the earth nin incident,"
"Now I want you to personally select a squad of Anbu you can trust with this information I want detailed written reports on anything they do I want you to personally oversee this case I have a bad feeling they are going to try something funny and I want to stop it from happening, so Ibiki I am handing this investigation over to you, you will oversee it and give me detailed weekly reports, the reports will be classified as Hokage eyes only. I don't think I have to say that this must be kept discreet, do I?" "No, milady it shall be as you say."
On a training ground in Kumo.
All three Leaf Nin teams had gathered with their sensei on a training ground at 7 a.m.
"alright guys it's time to train" said Kiba first let's start with some basics the first thing I want you guys to do is spar against us with the aim of trying to take our headbands come at us with the intent to kill us, you are allowed to use any and all skills you want to try the reason being is that we want to see what and where your over all skills are and where they lie the time limit for this will be 1 hour. Alright guys start." So they did just that. They went on for an hour but didn't manage to get any of the headbands, finally after an hour the genin were panting loudly and a bit worse for wear but still able to fight, alright good work everyone, now take a few minutes to relax." said Naruto.
"Alright guys good job" said Chouji
"Ok pups time for rest is over I want all of you to work on your chakra control for 30 minutes by walking on trees and water." "Hey boss we already know chakra control so why do we have to do it again?" Konohamaru asked almost whiningly.
"Care to answer him Moegi" Naruto said "The reason we are doing it is because chakra is the basics of training Kono-kun and we have to do the basics before we will be able to train, no matter if we know it or not it will be practice."
"Oh ok I get it now thanks Moegi Chan" said Konohamaru.
Moegi simply blushed at him and said "no problem Kono-kun but you need to be better at controlling chakra Kono-kun because unlike Naruto sensei you don't have an unlimited chakra supply, look at it this way the better your chakra control the better and powerful techniques you can learn.""Alright pups get to it" shouted Kiba. The genin went about doing their chakra control. Meanwhile the 3 Jonin were making plans about the training methods to use.
30 minutes later.
"Alright guys now that you have practiced your chakra control its time to train. remember the reason we want you to work on your chakra control is because the better control you have over your chakra the more effective your attacks and the less chakra you waste, remember today you might be sparring with us or in the finals where there is someone to put a stop to the fighting if it gets too far but in battle there is no proctor, no time out."
"If you leave an opening your enemy will kill you without mercy. each and every one of you have to know this fact very properly, because most of the time you will be fighting with people either like Kenpachi who live for the fight and battle and will slaughter you in the blink of an eye or you have people who will be able to kill you with a single strike or at the least leave you paralyzed isn't that right Hanabi" said Naruto. "That's right sensei."
"Now this is what we are going to do we are going to have you guys spar with each other fist up will be Konohamaru and Kenpachi. alright Kenpachi and Konohamaru I want you both to fight each other but this match will not be a spar in this match I want you two to fight with everything you have including summons said Kiba and I mean your summons too Kenpachi so go ahead and call him out you too Konohamaru, you guys need to learn to fight alongside your summons and know their abilities and strengths and weaknesses. "OK? Good get to it said Kiba?" "Alright next I want Udon and Hanabi-Chan to spar against each other you guys go a little further ahead and spar together ok?" Said Naruto
The genin made to leave when Naruto stopped them he went over to Udon and whispered something in his ear. He then faced Hanabi and said "now Hanabi I want you to treat Udon as a worthy and honourable opponent and don't be overconfident is that clear" he asked her? "Sigh" "fine I will treat Udon with respect and honour while fighting him."Hanabi said. "Good" he created a shadow clone and had the clone go with them.
"Hey Chouji you pick the next pair" said Kiba "Alright Kenshin and Moegi I want you guys to spar with each other specifically Kenshin I want you to help Moegi with her genjutsu and I want Moegi to help you with your endurance so Moegi I want you to come at Kenshin with everything you have Ok?"
"Hai Chouji sensei" the genin said, they both then went over to an empty part of the training ground and started to spar. "Alright so I guess the last pair is Hirako and Tatsuki, alright now guys I want you guys to spar, however Hirako I want you to fight Tatsuki using mostly your taijutsu skills because while your ninjutsu skills with and without your bugs is good your taijutsu skills leave something to be desired and Tatsuki I want you to practice your poison jutsu on Hirako and try to make them better and more potent also I want you to practice taking less time to create your poisons and use them/ I also want you to vary between your ninjutsu and taijutsu."
"Now do you mind telling me how the hell Kenpachi has a summoning contract which clan and how did he get it?" Asked Naruto surprised. "He got it in grass country when we on a B rank mission we were attacked by some rogue mist ninja nothing impressive 3 former chunin and a former low-level Jonin, they wanted to rob the caravan we were escorting so we ended up fighting them and Kenpachi here managed to fatally kill one of the mist ninja who also happened to be a swordsman. The guy was so impressed with him that he gave him his summoning contract," "he soon died of his injuries."When we got back home after verifying it and discussing it with the Hokage she allowed Kenpachi to keep and sign the summoning contract so we went to one of the training grounds with the Hokage where he signed the contract and summoned the Matriarch of the Bear clan, after hearing what happened to her earlier summoned she allowed Kenpachi to become their summoned, because he had won their contract in a rightful way by defeating the ninja in battle and as such agreed to pledge their loyalty to Konoha and The Hokage."
"Wow that's cool" said Naruto; he had a sad smile on his face as he remembered how he had gotten his own summoning contract. "Yeah that is cool but holds on a minute I remember my dad once told me that when you sign a contract with an animal summoning clan, you have to pass a test."
"That's true Chouji, but more specifically they test you and your abilities to see if you are worthy of their summoning contract, most animal summons do it anyway. I remember mine did." Naruto said
Kiba nodded his head and said "yes, he did have to pass a test; you see the Bear Clan is famous for its skill in swordplay, so Kenpachi had to fight against the Matriarch of the bear clan herself. However the point of it was not to see if he could win which he barely did the point was to test his honour or so they told me I didn't really understand it all but that's what they told me anyway." "So, what summoning contract does Konohamaru have, is it the Toad Summoning Contract like you?" Chouji asked,
"No, he didn't sign the Toad Contract Gamabunta didn't allow him to sign it because he doesn't have the chakra capacity to use the toad summoning contract among other reasons. I mean toads are large creatures not to mention powerful and well you need to have a large chakra capacity like me to summon a warrior toad that could be useful in battle."
"So, I was actually talking about it with Grandma Tsunade one day, saying that Konohamaru wanted a summoning contract and I asked that since his grandpa was the Hokage and most Hokage having a summoning contract if he had one as well."
Tsunade said: "yes, there was, he had the Monkey summoning contract, she then looked around for his will in the Hokage vault, and she found in his will that he had given the summoning contract for monkeys to Konohamaru when he became a Chunin, or when he became 15 years old, whichever came first. And since it was a day after his 15th birthday Tsunade called the kid in and told him that his grandfather had left him a special gift and that the gift was the Monkey summoning contract which was to be given to him a day after his 15th birthday or when he made Chunin whichever came first."
"So grandma Tsunade, Shizune and me and his team went out to training ground and had him sign the contract in blood and then summoned him, he ended up using all his chakra and ended up summoning none other than Monkey King Emma who was a bit confused to say the least seeing as his last summoned had died almost 1/2 a decade ago, but when he saw the Hokage he recognized her as one of the Sandaime's students, oh it was an interesting day to say the least."
Flashback
"Ok Konohamaru now use the hand signs I taught you and use your chakra to summon a monkey." Naruto said, after cutting his finger with a kunai Konohamaru did the hand signs and said: "Kuchiyose no Jutsu" ("Ninja Art: Summoning Jutsu.") A large poof of smoke appeared and when the smoke had cleared who was standing there was none other than the Monkey King himself Enma, "alright I summoned a monkey I'm so cool" said Konohamaru almost out of breath and chakra. Tsunade and the others just looked on in shock at the monkey King who at the moment seemed confused knowing that his summoner no longer lived, he looked around him and saw a group of people consisting of the Hokage her two Anbu bodyguards, Shizune, Naruto and Konohamaru and his team. He roared and said "who dares summon me here, it can't be Hiruzen seeing as he died by the hands of that snake Orochimaru's, who is in charge here give me some answers or ill kill all of you" and with a poof of smoke a staff appeared in his hands,
"That will not be necessary Enma sensei, allow me to explain." Tsunade said taking charge of the situation, King Enma turned at the sound; he looked at her for a long moment and then finally said "is that you Tsunade-chan" his voice becoming kinder, when he saw one of his old friend's students. "Yes, it is me Enma Sama" she said bowing deeply, "please allow me to explain." He nodded at her and sat down as she told him her tale from when she had become Hokage to this day.
30 minutes later.
"So let me get this straight" he said a pipe in his mouth, after Hiruzen died you became Hokage and took charge of this village, while Jiraiya took Naruto under his wing as an apprentice. Afterwards he went off to fight this Pain character that had the Rinnegan and he died in battle?"
"This Pain guy then came to Konoha and after turning Konoha to rubble he got his ass kicked by Naruto, there was a huge war afterwards with Madara and Akatsuki and Asuma also died in the conflict with Akatsuki earlier."
"This was all 3 years so now this kid he pointed at Naruto is a Jonin sensei to Konohamaru, Hiruzen's grandson who has just turned 15 and according to Sarutobi's will he wanted him to inherit our contract at the age of 15 is that all?" He asked of the Hokage. "Yes, king Enma that is correct, the question now remains will you accept him as a worthy apprentice and summoner."
"Hey what's that mean he has to accept me I'm the super cool ninja Konohamaru I summoned him I'm his boss not the way around in fact I..." Naruto clamped his hand over Konohamaru's mouth and said "kid, you really don't want to piss of the boss summon or else you are in for a world of pain. Enma looked at him with anger on his face, "so you think you can order me around eh kid who the hell do you think you are maybe I ought to kill you now and get it over with" he said releasing a high killing intent , Konohamaru got scared and started to stutter "a-a-alright fine sorry you're the boss."
"well let's see how much spunk you have I tell you what its now around noon, if you can keep up with me for an hour I'll let you become my apprentice' he said. They then sparred with each other for an hour both of them tired but Konohamaru more so who seemed to be on the verge of chakra exhaustion, while king Enma seemed to be breathing a little heavily, he then looked at Naruto and said "I assume he learned the kage-bunshin and Rasengan from you" he asked Naruto nodded, he then said to "Naruto come here boy let me speak to you for a second." When Naruto went to him the monkey king led him into the woods and said:
"Listen, Naruto I know who you are and who your parents are , I knew about the kid getting my contract when he was 15 Hiruzen told me about it, and I am impressed with him and I will accept him as my summoner, but let me tell you something when I say I know who you are I mean I see you as Naruto Namikaze the hero who saved the village from the Fox I was there with the Sandaime as well when your father was up against the fox and let me say this from all that I know and all that I have learned I find you worthy of my respect and that is something very few people have earned." "I assume he knows about the "Fox" the monkey asked the man, Naruto nodded "I told them all about it when I became their sensei and their ok with it a bit surprised at first but then who wouldn't be?"
"Ok then I shall accept him as my student let's go." They both walked back to the group of shinobi who were awaiting his decision especially one young Sarutobi Konohamaru, the monkey king looked at Tsunade and nodded and then rising to his full height he said to Konohamaru, "Before I give you my decision let me ask you some questions, first what do you fight for?"
"I fight for my village and my friends and loved ones. I fight for justice." Konohamaru said, the monkey king nodded and asked his next question "to whom do you pledge your allegiance, I pledge allegiance to the Hokage of Konoha and to my sensei and friends."
"What is your goal in life and why?" "My goal is to become Hokage after my sensei Naruto and protect this village with all that I can just as my grandfather and uncle Asuma did." "Would you sacrifice your life for this village and its Hokage? Yes, I would lay down my life in service to my country and village if I need to."
"Good last question your sensei holds the Kyuubi no Kitsune greatest of the tailed demons within him what do you think of that?" "I believe there can be no one better suited to be the jailer for the Kyuubi not to mention he uses its power to protect his precious people so got no problems with it and even the Kyuubi's kind of cool once you get to know him." "The monkey king looked at the young genin for a minute and then said "alright kid I accept you as my apprentice and will accept you as my summoner, but just for future reference don't summon me unless it's an emergency, if you want to summon us for something else like training or sparring summon one of my sons."
"Now in acknowledgment of you as my pupil and apprentice I present to you this monkey staff," there was a poof of smoke and a monkey staff appeared in his hand he gave it to the genin and said "this staff is not an ordinary staff it has many properties that will show itself when it feels you are ready so train with it to learn its secrets but for now I shall unlock two of its basic abilities." He made a hand sign and the staff glowed then orange then stopped, "The ability I have unlocked gives you control of the size of the staff with a thought you will be able to shrink and make the staff grow as you want." The second ability I will unlock for you will make this staff as hard as Adamantine. However its strength depends on your will to fight, as long as you have the will to fight and to never give up, this staff will serve you well. But the moment you lose your will and give up this staff will disappear and return back to our realm is that understood?"
He asked the genin handing him the staff. Konohamaru accepted the staff and nodded and bowed to King Enma he then gave the gave staff a mental command and it suddenly grew six inches and with another command it shrank down to its original size of 4 feet he then swung the staff at a boulder and the boulder crumbled into pebbles. The monkey king handed over a scroll as well to the genin and said.
"That is the sealing scroll for the staff when you are not using it you can store it in here it's a blood seal so it will require your blood to unseal it." "That is all I have for you now my pupil until the next time we meet." "Remember my words young one "Monkeys signify intelligence and strength; we use not strength to win a battle but intelligence."
Konohamaru nodded and then promptly fainted from over exhaustion and chakra loss, but was caught by Shizune and Naruto in time; Shizune then began examining him and restoring his chakra levels.
He turned to Tsunade before leaving and said "It is my privilege and honour to serve Konoha and its Hokage again once again, is there anything you need of me Hokage Sama?" He asked respectfully. The Hokage shook her head and said "no King Enma Dono." "Very well then now that business is over its time for personal time."
He then walked up to Tsunade and said "Don't I get a welcome hug" he asked Tsunade who smiled and hugged him with tears of happiness and sadness in her eyes, putting his hand on Tsunade's cheek and said "you have grown into quite the Beautiful woman Tsunade chan." causing her Anbu bodyguards to react however Tsunade had them stand down saying "don't even think about it while you two are no doubt skilled King Enma could kill you both with a single finger before you even have time to make a hand sign."
King Enma looked at Tsunade and said "it's been a long time since I have been back home care to have a drink with your old sensei and show him the sights?" He said offering his arm to her Tsunade smiled and said "it would be my pleasure Enma sensei" Tsunade said giggling like a schoolgirl and hugging the monkey before accepting his arm and started walking towards the village telling him of events of past and present.
End Flashback
"That's how it happened" said Naruto, "after he got the staff he was so happy and he thought it was so cool that he went to a weapons and accessories shop and bought a case for his monkey staff it was interesting, but that kid spent hours on end training with his staff and the monkeys he even learned some of their taijutsu and incorporated it into his own style."
"Anyway alright it's time for us to train as well Chouji I want to spar with you in sage mode while you spar with me in giant mode I want to increase my training time in Sage Mode, and what about you Kiba?" "What are you going to do?" "Well I was kind of hoping to fight against some of your toads so how about it I have a new jutsu I want to try out and your toads will be the perfect training method because I developed it specifically for summoned animals, so if you don't mind could you summon two of your toads please?." "Sure no problem Kiba, but first let me make a couple of clones to keep an eye on the kids," he made a hand sign and said "Kage Bunshin No Jutsu" ("Shadow Clone Jutsu") and made 10 shadow clones 1 for the kids and two to gather natural energy. "Alright then Kiba you sure about this because my pals aren't going to take it easy on you," "heh I can handle them" said Kiba. "You just summon them."
alright fine but if you get hurt don't blame me," he went through a series of hand signs and said "Kuchiyose no Jutsu" ("Ninja Art: Summoning Jutsu.") and slammed his hands on the ground when the smoke cleared Gamakichi and Gamatatsu were sitting in front of him both of them as big as a three-story house (Gamabunta is as big as a 10 story house just to put things in perspective) "Naruto what's up man" said Gamakichi giving his summoner a high-five you brought us out to play or train?" Cool it's been a long time since I have come out" said Gamatatsu do we get some snacks?" "Hey guys, what's up guys I'm afraid I don't have any snacks now but I'll give you some later alright and in answer to your question Gamakichi it's a bit of both we are going to be playing and training a bit," "but not with me my pal Kiba here wants to train with one of you guys he says he has a new jutsu to fight large summoned animals directly so he wants your help with that, meanwhile I'm going to spar with Chouji and the kids are sparring with each other, that ok with you guys" ? "Kiba sparring with you I mean," "Yea sure no problems we don't mind do you Gamatatsu "No, I don't mind."
"Ok cool then, Kiba you and Gamatatsu you go ahead I need to talk to Gamakichi for a minute." Gamatatsu followed after Kiba without a word while Naruto jumped upon Gamakichi's head and sat on it while gathering natural energy, Gamakichi sat silent and still while Naruto gathered the natural energy and his thoughts. "What's up Naruto you look a little worried," said Gamakichi finally after Naruto entered Sage Mode. "yea Gamakichi I am I fear there is going to be a big battle coming soon so I need you and the other toads to be ready if I call you guys and I don't mean only your dad." "I mean you guys too because although I have a feeling I will need the chief toad's help I might need yours as well so can I count on your guys help?"
"Of course Naruto we would be happy to help I mean you are dad's favourite henchman after all and you're like a brother to us man. I give you my word that if the time should come you may summon me or any of my kin without hesitation and we will fight side by side like brothers in arms." Naruto let out a big sigh of relief "heh thanks Gamakichi he said from atop the toad's head I just wanted to make sure you know?"
No problem Naruto, anything else? Alright then let's go I need your help in fighting with Chouji so let's go have some fun" said Naruto. "Heh no problem I am always up for a good brawl let's go." They set off at a pace until they saw Chouji. "you ready Naruto" he asked Naruto nodded alright then let's get it on with a hand-sign and phrase "super size expansion jutsu" he literally became the size of a giant Naruto jumped onto the head of Gamakichi and stood face to face with Chouji both of them now at the same height. Both ninja took out their weapons and ready to strike
Chouji unsealed a very heavy and durable mace with spikes protruding from its large head and a pair of Bisento Blades in the shape of Fuma shuriken blade swords for the sage. When the giant saw the unusual weapon in his friend's hand he stopped and said hey what kind of weapon is that he asked his friend. Naruto looked at him and said "huh? oh this weapon it's a weapon of my invention you see a couple of months back I was thinking about getting myself a weapon you know like how you have a mace and stuff," so I thought about it and I thought a blade would be a good choice so I went to Tenten and spoke about it with her and she told me that with my fighting style a blade wouldn't be a good choice."
"So we brainstormed for a while and then when we were sparring she took out a Fuma shuriken and hit me with it but it was an old weapon and the ring holding the blades together broke, so when I saw the weapon broken I had an idea, I thought to myself: if you take the blade from a Fuma shuriken and make it with the same material that chakra blades are made out of, and add a handle like a kunai it would be the perfect weapon for me, so I had two blades made and engraved it with my initials and had a sheath in the form of a frog and the nine tailed fox made and so when I tried it out it fit perfectly with my fighting style." Naruto said throwing the blades toward the Giant who remarked on its thickness and sharpness he could see from the thickness of it each blade was made from a Fuma Shuriken, meaning each blade was essentially four blades thick.
"What about your mace Chouji" he asked taking the mace in his hand and almost fell of his toad the mace was so heavy and that was saying something since he was in sage mode. "well a couple of months ago I was on a solo S ranked mission and I came across a wild but crazy elephant that had been put under a very complex genjutsu to kill me and unfortunately due to the complexity of the genjutsu I could not break it so I had to kill the poor animal and hid him in a cave after completing my mission I came back and buried the poor animal but not before taking its tusks from it as a reward, I then went to Ten-ten's weapon shop The Rising Twin Dragon and spoke to her dad Takashi."
Flashback
Chouji entered The Rising Twin Dragon weapon shop and saw Tenten behind the counter putting a beautiful Katana in the showcase she looked up to see the kind Akimichi giant, "hey Chouji what's up how is Ino doing, can I help you with something?" The attractive weapons mistress asked
"Hey Tenten Ino-Chan is fine actually yes, I need your help is your dad around by any chance?" "By the way Tenten if I may say so you are looking very beautiful today it seems your smile is competing with that of Rock Lee." she blushed and smiled and said "thank you Chouji that was very kind of you." "The reason I am so is because Neji proposed to me last night" she said showing her ring, "oh really wow congratulations," Chouji said "so how about a hug and a kiss for the bride to be" she said. "Sure Tenten" he came around by the counter and gave her a big hug and a kiss on the cheek and said "I wish you the utmost happiness Tenten may your lives be filled with happiness, anyway I need to speak to your dad is he here."
"Yeah he is in the back ill call him for you, hey dad you have a customer looking for you" "Coming sweetheart" Takashi called from the back. a few moments later a 7 ft tall man with many burns and scratches on his hands and face came slightly limping out with a rag in his hands "what is it baby what did you call me outside for?" He asked his daughter." "Its Chouji dad he wants to speak with you."
The man looked toward Chouji with something akin to a soul-searching stare, Chouji couldn't help but be awed in his presence for before him was a man who had seen many a war and many a death of both friend and foe.
Although he was not as young and active as before he was a wealth of knowledge when it came to weapons he still commanded respect even among the Shinobi. Although never a Shinobi himself he was more than your average civilian after the third ninja war he came to seek peace and a life in Konoha where he opened a weapons shop and settled down by making and selling weapons to civilians and ninja alike. Two years later while on a trip he found a little girl of two years old abandoned on the side of the road, feeling sympathy and love for the little toddler he picked her up and took her home where he taught her all of his skills of a marksman especially those of throwing and creating weapons, the name of that little girl was Tenten. "Oh it's you Chouji so what can I do for you my boy" he said.
"Well first thing I guess is to say that congratulations are in order sir I just heard the good news you daughter is engaged to be married." "Yea I am glad my daughter finally fell in love but heh the man she chose Neji Hyuuga heh..." "you know the first time I met him all those years ago I thought he was a woman with skin so fair and his hair that long, bah not to mention he had a stick up his ass so long it came out his mouth, spouting all kinds of nonsense about destiny and shit, he looked like a babbling idiot first time I saw him and full of hate too."
Tenten looked at her father with a stern face and said "dad don't say those things about Neji-kun it's not nice." Chouji meanwhile was trying his best not to laugh and failing miserably in the process. "What, its true princess, I mean I saw him at the chunin exams that time with that Naruto kid, felt himself to be superior just because he had noble heritage and a blood-limit, heh I will tell you the truth I was glad to see him get his ass kicked at that match, anyway listen to me going on about the past as long as my daughter is happy so am I and I saw how the boy changed after his defeat. I saw true love in his eyes for my daughter and so I gave my permission."
"Anyway forget all that you came to me for a specific reason tell me how can I help you my young friend?" Chouji took out a scroll and unsealed it, when he did a pair of elephant tusks came out, he showed them to the man and said "I got these on a mission I won't say how, anyway I was wondering if you could make them into a chakra mace for me, I have a special request though I want you to make it to respond to my chakra which is earth nature and I would like for you to make it so that it increases or decreases in size and weight proportional to the amount of chakra I put into it. Is it possible sir?" He asked the weapons master smith. Takashi was rubbing his chin thought fully and said slowly "yes, it can be done however... it will take a while around 3 months it will be a bit expensive around 25,000 ryou but ill cut you a deal I am going on a trip for two weeks and I need an extra hand in the store so if you agree to help out Tenten for the two weeks that I am gone ill make you your weapon for 20,000 ryou."
Chouji thought about and said "alright fine but I can't pay you the amount all at once how about I pay you 5000 ryou each month in instalments how is that is that ok with you?" The kind giant asked. "that will be fine my boy , "I don't mind, however I will need 5000 ryou upfront for costs and supplies and the weapon stays with me until Payment is complete." "No problem he said" and took out his check book and wrote out a check for 5000 ryou and handed it to the man.
END FLASHBACK
"And that was how I got my mace" Chouji said "whoa that is cool so shall we continue my friend?" "Oh absolutely comrade."
Elsewhere
Both Konohamaru and Kenpachi were sweating profusely they were now in full battle mode along with their summons Koenma and Kumashiro they were really having fun with it they had even stripped down to their boxers and shoes and were fighting both had many wounds on them but all of them were shallow. "alright good job guys now I want you guys to relax by doing some tai-chi for an hour, and then you guys can meet us at the centre of the training ground is that clear?" The Naruto clone said
"Hai sensei."
"Good now you guys can either return to your own realms or you can practice tai-chi with them said Naruto to the two summons." "Nah we are tired and I think we are going to leave so see you guys later." And with a poof both the bear and the monkey disappeared. The two Genin still in their boxers started to practice their Tai-chi.
Meanwhile
Kiba and Akamaru were practicing their double wolf head technique on Gamatatsu with the exception of that their fur was red and as they were spinning they created a fire jutsu that was engulfing their body as they performed the twin wolf head fang over fang making it seem like a flaming tornado was coming at you, Gamatatsu barely dodged it and got a bit burned in the process finally both the summon and the Jonin were exhausted. "Wow that was fun, so what do you think Gamatatsu" asked Kiba.
"For you maybe" said the young Toad he then turned serious and said "it is a good technique especially for large summons the form in itself with the red fur is very scary and will unnerve the opponent and when you spin and create a Fire jutsu along at the same time it's a double hitter because if they dodge the drilling attack they will get burnt by the fire because when you spin you create sort of a vacuüm when so when you are spinning the wind adds to the fire jutsu and creates a larger fire and is able to hit the opponent, however I would say it would be best to use this either as a surprise attack or use it as a combo attack with someone else."
"What do you mean asked the Inuzuka?" "What I mean is that it would be better if used with another summoner meaning that while your ally is attacking him head on you can attack from the side or from the back.""Oh I get it sort of tag team thing eh. Yea that could work, but what about the jutsu itself is it effective against a summon of your size or one of the other big summons such as your dad?"
"Against my dad maybe if you got in a good hit yes, then you could hit him but my dad would probably just dodge and kill you after a while. you see the thing is that as a summon you have to read patterns so if you can get a couple good hits in the beginning then you can maybe win if not then you lose you have to realize something many summons are tough and very strong, and while you are also strong the main thing is that you do not have the chakra capacity that a summoned creäture would have."
"For e.g. if you are only able to use that move 5 times and you hit 2 times but miss 3 times then you're going to be in trouble that is why I say it's better to either use it as a surprise attack or as a tag team attack. Look at it from another angle when you have to go into that form you use a lot of chakra to maintain and attack in that forms while the summoned creäture is still fresh." "Oh ok I get it thanks. He then withdrew some snacks from his pouch for him and his dog when he asked the toad hey you want some dude."
"Wow, snack thanks I was hungry." "You are always hungry Gamatatsu said Gamakichi hopping over to his brother with Chouji and Naruto on his head." "Well I can't help it I am a growing toad and i need food."" "The two Jonin got off the toad's head and went to sit next to Kiba and Akamaru Naruto was lying down with his head on Akamaru body and Chouji sat with his arm around Kiba. "Alright, I'm out of chakra how about you bro Gamatatsu asked his brother, yea I'm almost out of chakra as well we should be getting back." "Later Naruto" the two toads said "Yea see you guys hey Gamakichi tell your dad hi from me and tell ma and pa toad to take it easy alright?" "Yea no problems see you later." "Alright now who is going to check on the rest of the genin" said Kiba "and it isn't going to be me because I am beat."
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