Chapter 3

Trials of the Uzumaki

(listening to Tokyo Hotel - Noise)

The room was quiet...too quiet. The curtains drawn blocking the light of the full moon. The floors were bare and covered in layers of dust, a single monitor hung in the center of the room. Floor boards were broken and sticking up as if someone or something had shot up from below the surface. In a far right corner there was a body chained to the wall. Stripped of all weapons and clothing lay Naruto. Stirring awake, his vision was cloudy, his head stung like it had been struck by a blunt object repeatedly.

As he tried to focus on his surroundings, the monitor flickered on with ear splitting static. Surprising the boy as his senses still hadn't come back to him. "Welcome back to the land of the living" a distorted voice spoke. It was deep and full of base yet had a undertone of immense power. "You have been selected to play a game...Uzumaki Naruto. Should you wish to accept, you will find that the keys to your freedom are well within your grasp. Only your actions will change the course of the game."

"This room is filled with an oderless nerve agent that is slowly shutting down your senses. The first stage is loss of eyesight, the second is loss of feeling, the third is your loss of hearing...but the forth, my favorite, will be the complete shut down of your nervous system. To better phrase it, once you lose your feeling, the agent will mutate inside of you and destroy your organs systematically. You have 5 minutes to free yourself and leave. The key to your shackles is directly in front of you. Kukukukuku...do make this interesting for me" the mysterious voice spoke before the screen died out.

And with that, the room was consumed in darkness. The young teen panicked, not being able to see, he fumbled around the room as far as his chains would allow and swept his feet out in a counter clockwise motion. Counting down the seconds in his mind as he struggled to find the key. Just as he was thinking of giving up, his pinky toe brushed against hard cold steel. Immediately grabbing hold of it with his feet, he slid it back before picking it up. Rolling it around in his hand, he found that it was a senbon. Instantly working on picking his shackles, he bagan to panic as he could no longer feel the cold steel or his shackles.

With Naruko

Hugh...hugh...huuuh. Naruko was running from an abandoned warehouse. Having woken up strapped to a pole surrounded by barb wire coated in lemon juice, she was relayed a similar introduction like Naruto. Escaping her bindings easily enough she traversed through the barbwire to her freedom only to find herself in a maze of broken abandoned homes and stores. Running to cover, she saw a note that she quickly snatched up. 'It seems that the task was too simple for you. How about a riddle.'

"Fuck your riddles...I need to find Naruto. He'll know what to do." Naruko spoke to herself, crumpling her only possible clue to his whereabouts unknowinfly. Dashing off as she searched for his faint chakra source. It grew weaker by the second but she had no clue why.

3 1/2 minutes later

Naruto lay on the floor as he slowly pulled himself across the floor. Having lost nearly all feeling in his body, he used his chakra as his eyes and ears. Pulsing it weakly amd reading the waves bouncing back to him from the walls. Hazily picking out a door and a window, he tried to stand. Stumbling a couple times before tossing his body at the window repeatedly. 'Have to get out of here...need to find Naruko...' Throwing himself one last time, he burst threw the glass and fell for what seemed like hours.

It could have been days, as he had lost all feeling. Taking a shuddering breath as he passed out on the ground. Blood pooling around him as shards of glass dug deep into his skin.

Back with Naruko

The girl ran and jumped roof to roof searching for her brother's chakra. Pain making itself known through her many wounds. It was unbearable. Each step was like fire in her veins, each jump more agonizing than the last. The wind beating against her form did nothing to soothe the pain, only agitating the cuts that covered her head to toe. Her vest was ripped in several places and her pants were in tatters. She had been jumping for nearly 5 minutes when she heard a crash echo over the deserted town.

'How did we end up in this situation...'

Flashback

"Naruto, Naruko...it's time you two took the Uzumaki initiation. Each trial is different for those participating. I will warn you though. People do die in these tests. Every child is put through life and death situations, for siblings, almost always there is a death. One of you will be knocking on Shinigami's doorstep before the end of the night. If either of you make the wrong decision...I could lose one or both of you." Kushina spoke neutrally.

Flashback End

"Dam trials, these are worse than the bloody mist. How the fuck am I supposed to choose my life over my brother's..."

Flashback

"Hello young Uzumaki. Let's play a game. You have 8 minutes to free yourself and find your brother. In your pocket lies the cure to save his life. If you are late, the cure will detonate killing you and he still dies. Or you can escape and leave the cure here. When it detonates, I will find you and free you from this place. The choice is yours. But can you reach him in time? That is the question you should be asking yourself"

Flashback End

'You better not die on me baka' Naruko thought as she jumped over six more rooftops before catching sight of the body laying in a pool of blood. "Naruto! Oh Kami, don't be dead." Naruko shouted, tears in her eyes as she jammed a syringe into his arm, injecting the cure directly into his bloodstream. Noticing that his breathing had stopped, she applied chakra to her hands and placed them over his heart and lungs.

Keeping her hands firmly placed, she smashed her lips onto his and breathed. Leaning back as she pressed down on his bare chest, faintly noticing how hard his chiseled abs were. She burned his body into her memory. 'Woah woah woah...I did not just check out my brother's body.' Ignoring the blood rushing to her face, she went back to force more oxygen into Naruto's lungs when he looked right at her.

"You can...let go...you...know. And don't you ever kiss me again. I was saving that kiss for the mother of my children" Naruto said between heavy sighs. Sarcasm dripping over enery word. "Oh hardee har har. Like anyone would kiss you baka! I was trying to save your life you...you...oooooooo!" Naruko yelled in outrage as she stumped off.

(listening to READY, SET, GO- Tokio hotel)

Naruko and Naruto made their way back to the village, summoning a fox that specialized in tracking they had it follow their mother's scent. On the way, Naruko would glance at her brother out of the corner of her eye occasionally. Wondering to herself what lay in store for them once they made it home.

In Konoha

"Start talking now, so help me Kami, if you're lying to save your own ass Danzo I will skin you alive, pluck each and every nerve and stab you like a pin cushion with poison coated senbon. When I'm done with you, you'll be begging for Anko or Ibiki to put you out of your misery because I won't let you die. I will torment you day after day. I'll break you like your mindless NE and continue to do so. You will be nothing, have nothing, just a faded legend forgotten with no one to even give a dam. So for your sake she better be alive." Minato said with a deathly calm, flinging the man to the floor and sitting in his chair.

Moving to sit back godfather style, he put his hands together on his lap and with a straight face, eyes narrowed and as cold as a glacier. "Now, tell me everything. Do not lie to me old man, my patience is thin..."

With Kakashi, Rin, and Obito

Kakashi and Obito stood at team 7's training ground. The three jonin were sparring in a free for all match. Kakashi had his white chakra sabre out, using it as he defended against Rin's chakra scapels and Obito's chains. The three had been at it for hours pushing each other to their limits.

"Let's end it here...I don't think I can keep up with you two anymore" Rin stated as she caught her breath. Stopping the flow of chakra to her hands, she wiped the sweat from her face and walked to the river that ran by their training field. "You know Rin, we could always test that theory...it wouldn't be the first time heh-heh" Kakashi teased.

Rin ignored her silvered haired friend as she fought hard to keep down her blush. Obito came to her rescue by changing the subject, wiping a stream of blood that dripped from his nose. "So Kakashi, when are you going to leave anbu and take on a genin cell? You know sensei and the council want the village's prodigal genius to take on a team. Hell even Itachi has a genin team and he's as socially awkward as Maito Gai." Obito questioned.

(Sigh)"...I won't be taking a team, I promised sensei that I would one day teach his child as my genin student...but sense he has yet to have any children, that's nipped in the bud." Kakashi lazily droned, whipping out a book of Icha Icha makeout paradise. 'Perverted giggle perverted giggle, Oh Miyako you naughty naughty girl. Don't tease Tobi like that, he's a good boy'

Face planting, both Rin and Obito jumped back to their feet and drug Kakashi to the kage tower, they would get him a team if it was the last thing they would do.

Uzushiogakure

A random uzumaki background character burst into Kushina's home bearing news. "Kushina, the trials...they are finished...your children...they...they" the random woman said, stopping for air as she wheezed from running all the way from her post out near the village's whirlpools. "Well out with it dammit, what happened to my children!" Kushina demanded as she snatched the woman up and stared into her eyes. Panic and fear were evident in her eyes as she could only wonder what horrors befell her children.

"They passed, Kushina sama. They both made it back alive...the first time in years that both siblings of a family survived and returned toghether." The poor nameless background character sputtered out. Rushing out of the house the moment Kushina dropped her.

"Natzu, come quick! Our children are back in the village." Kushina yelled down the hall. After a ton of curses and crashes later, the man in question left the back room with a choker around his throat and a submission mask on his face. Chain still attached to the choker as he was covered in chocolate sauce and left over whipped cream.

"Oh fuck it, the kids can wait. Now get that ass back in the cage you filthy bastard. You still need to satisfy your master" Kushina spoke in a dominatrix like tone. Dropping her genjutsu revealing that she was dressed in skin tight purple latex and stilleto heels. A leather whip strapped to her thigh that dangled back and forth as she swished her hips seductively with each step.

"You'd think mom would give us a big welcome home, I mean it's not like we just went through the uzumaki right of passage or anything. Ooh maybe she's making us a big feast to celebrate." Naruto complained as he hasn't seen their mother anywhere in sight. Scene flashes to Kushina riding Natzu's face while she sucked on a chocolate covered strawberry. Food scattered on the kitchen table as he brought her closer and closer to climax. "Yeah...how about we stop and get some ramen, huh Naruto? It's been a while since we've had any. I'm feeling like Miso or Shrimp ramen would hit the spot." Naruko suggested, not at all in the mood to be around her mom at the moment. Still confused on her thoughts and reactions to her brother during the trial.

Her mother could read her like an open book, so she wasn't too keen on seeing her just yet. "Well...yea I guess I could go for some ramen, you're buying though. I'm not treating your big ass appetite. You eat more than a Akimichi, I'm suprised you're not as fat as them haha" Naruto joked about his sister's ungodly love for the dish. It's not like it was poki or dango.

End of chap #3