Busted this chapter out fairly quick and I enjoyed myself writing this one, can anyone see where I enjoyed it the most?
...Does anyone know that feel when you cross 100K words on your story and you have now clue how the fuck it got that high?
Yeah that's my feel right now, complete and utter wut right now
Also 100K words and we're just now getting into the chunin exams...FML _
On another note I reached the 150 review mark. Feeling completely fucking amazing right now.
Disclaimer: Don't own Naruto, I don't make any money off it either.
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"speech"
'Thoughts'
"Kyubi speech"
'Kyubi thoughts'
Jutsu
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Chapter 15: Chunin exams start.
Anko's eye twitched ever so slightly as Naruto explained why Haku and Tenten were wrapped around the blondes arms, both of them looking quite pleased with themselves.
"So they're marrying you too then?" Anko deadpanned. A slight tingle went down Naruto's spine because even though she said that as a question he got the distinct feeling it was more of a statement.
"Uhh...yeah" Naruto laughed slightly as the two woman continued to hang off of his body like sexy Christmas ornaments.
Anko stared the blonde down, who was beginning to sweat under the snake woman awful gaze. A gaze which turned mischievous a few seconds later. "Alright, but I get to have a 'talk' with them."
"...okay?" Naruto nearly jumped when the pair grabbing him 'eeped' as the snake woman yanked them off him and dragged the two off to Kami knows where to do...things...to them.
Naruto shivered and said a quick prayer for the two doomed women.
-2 days later-
"Ok." Naruto coughed into his hand. "Let's see how far you two have gotten with your training."
Sakura held up her hand, a small somewhat squashed sphere sat gently in her palm.
Naruto nodded. "Good, as soon as that's perfectly round, make it twice as big."
Sakura nodded focusing on the opal of water in her hand to try an solidify the shape.
Sasuke held his hands together about an inch and a half apart, a thin but powerful charge of electricity arcing between his palms.
"Excellent. "Naruto clapped his hands together. "Now, make the arc bigger and continue to spread your palms apart."
"Right." Sasuke mumbled, sitting down next to a tree to do exactly that.
"Hey Naruto?" Kakashi spoke up, glancing from his preferred reading material to lay a questioning frown on the genin.
"Yeah Kakashi-sensei?"
"Just how far in are they with their training?
Naruto hummed in thought for a moment, staring at the level of progress his two teammates had achieved and compared it to his. "I'd say they're about a fifth through their second stage training. They were able to finish the first stage of their training before we left for wave." Naruto let out a evil little chuckle as he though back to the tor-training they'd gone through.
"Is there any chance for them to finish before the exams start?"
"Naruto frowned in concentration as he again compared his teammates growth with himself. "No." He spoke at length. "They just have too much on their plate to completely finish the second step. That doesn't mean they wont go in with a fairly good knowledge of the material. I also plan to teach and have them master both an offensive and defensive jutsu before the exams start."
"Well that's good to know, At least they'll have something before they go into the meat grinder."
Naruto's ears perked up. "Is the chunin exams really that bad?"
Kakashi just laughed. "Kid, the chunin exams are on par with ANBU level difficulty, at least comparatively."
Naruto paled slightly at that "Why would the chunin exams be that difficult?"
"Well." Kakashi tapped his chin idly with his book. "Special Jonin are assigned that rank by the Hokage and Jonin are either promoted through a written and practical's exam by a one-on-one battle, or through a field promotion. ANBU however are the villages black ops, the first and last line of defense. So it's only proper for them to have grueling training."
"And the Chunin?"
"Chunin make up for the vast majority of a villages militia. One of our spy's did a count on the five major villages and found an interesting parallel between most of the major villages military size. It's usually 30% active genin with an equal number both retired and in reserve, 40% Chunin, 20% special Jonin and 10% jonin."
"So they make the tests for the Chunin as relatively hard as a suitably comparable ANBU test so that they can weed out the hopeless cases and pass on the ones who can continue to rise in the ranks?"
"Correct."
Naruto shrugged. "Makes sense I guess. I know I wouldn't want an annoying emo and a useless fangirl watching my back..."
'Oh he's so dead.' Sakura and Sasuke thought at the same time.
As if reading their minds the blond maverick clapped his hands together loudly, breaking his two teammates concentration. "Alright!" He yelled happily, spinning in place to show his two teammates the absolutely predatory grin on his face. "Hands on practice time." An audible pair of gulps could be heard in the clearing, followed by an equally audible pair of girlish screams, only one of them being a girl...
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Hinata skipped happily towards Ichiraku's. Naruto had just invited her to the ramen stand to tell her something important. Hinata for her part could only hope that her father had agreed to the marriage that they were going to have. ...If he didn't then Hinata was going to have a few words with him... she had finally gotten Naruto to look at her like she was somebody and not just a nobody and she would be damned before Hiashi could fuck that up for her. The fact that she had to share with Anko didn't bother her in the least since she saw the other woman as like a big sister more than anything. Other women however...
With an uncharacteristic and possessive growl for the young Hyuga girl she stomped her way up to the stand to find her future husband.
And find him she did, sitting next to and talking with two other women to either side of him... One she recognized as Tenten but the other she couldn't quite place. She couldn't have known of Haku seeing as she'd been busy with her team for the past few days, so the fact that Haku was now living with Naruto, along with the fact that she along with Tenten were now her future sibling wives had not been explained to her.
So Hinata took things entirely the wrong way.
"Naruto." Hinata spoke quietly, too quiet for most people but with his superior senses the young Kyubi container could hear every syllable.
And he shivered hard, his entire spine going ramrod straight. That was Hinata's voice but laced with a threatening undertone. Hinata wasn't threatening, so if she did have that tone of voice...
She was beyond pissed...
Naruto turned around quickly to greet the angry woman. "H-hey H-Hinata." He stood up, walking robotic ally over to her.
"Who are they?" Hinata pointed a slightly twitching finger Haku and Tenten's way, clearly wanting an explanation as to why the blonde had been sitting between the two women and chatting so... familiarly.
Naruto in a rare moment of tact saw the oncoming shit storm and decided to cut as much damage as possible from the confrontation as possible.
"Before I answer that, I have good news Hinata-chan." He quickly wrapped the girl in a hug, hoping that the good news would blunt her anger at having been engaged with two other women on top of the two he already had. "Your dad said that he agreed and has giving his blessing towards our wedding." He whispered happily into her ear."
Hinata's eyes flew wide at that, almost all of her anger gone. She grabbed hold of the blonde and in a display that would have surprised anyone who had known the timid Hyuuga before, she brought her lips to Naruto's in a hard and passionate kiss, which lasted the better part of a minute, Naruto even felt the not so shy anymore Hyuuga add a bit of tongue to the mix.
Breaking the kiss with a triumphant smile on her face, Hinata dragged the boy to ramen stand and sat him in a chair just to one side of the two girls that Naruto had been sitting next to moments ago.
Naruto finally snapping out of the daze he'd been put under he sent a concerned glace to the two other women in the stand. "Hinata." Naruto spoke slowly. "I have some more news, depending on how you react to it... it could be good or bad."
Hinata's glow seemed to dim a bit as she glanced curiously at the blonde.
"These two women here." He pointed to Haku and Tenten. "You know Tenten. This." He nodded to Haku. "Is Haku Yuki Momochi." Now for the hard part. "And they're both going to be marrying me." Naruto gulped when he saw Hinata's face go blank for a moment. He really needed to divert her anger right NOW. "As you know Tenten is my best friend and had she known I was available, she would have dated me long before I saved you Hinata..." That seemed to douse the beginning fires behind Hinata's eyes as she stared at Tenten with a look that was almost...sad?
"And Haku over there is my cousin on my mothers side, she's been on the run for most of her life and she's finally moved here to Konoha to try and get her life back in order." Naruto was pleased to see the look of sadness in Hinata's eyes change to one of shock and then to what looked like a protective and motherly, if a little possessive look. Hinata quietly stood up and walked over to Haku, who was slowly leaning back in her seat, wary of the possibly volatile woman.
She shouldn't have worried, Hinata grabbed the girls face and in a daring move that stopped all movement in that tiny stand. Naruto, Tenten, even Ayame and her dad who had just come out of the back to serve Hinata openly gaped in shock as Hinata locked lips with the mistress of ice.
A full minute passed by where only the sounds of licking and sucking could be heard before the kiss broke. Seeing that Haku was now blushing heavily and in a daze the young Hyuuga turned to her other target and like Haku before her Tenten fell to Hinata's oral skills.
Naruto on the other hand was having trouble not passing out from a possible nose bleed, his brain telling him that this was something magical while his dick could only concur...one of the rare times the two ever actually agreed.
Hinata broke the kiss with Tenten and sat down next to Naruto, grabbing the blonde's tea and taking a slow sip, her eyes closed. After setting the cup down she fixed Naruto with a blank stare her lip twitching ever so slightly upward into a grin.
"Haku tasted like you and Tenten has a distinctly earthy and woody taste just like you Naruto-kun." She turned back to her cup of tea and sipped it again. "I accept them."
At those words Naruto let go of a breath he hadn't realized he'd been holding and turned to Ayame's father Teuchi. "Gimme a ramen old man...actually make that a double."
"Coming right up Naruto." The old man replied, wiping a small trail of blood from his nose as he disappeared back behind the flap of the kitchen.
"Soooo" Ayame broke in, strangely aroused at the sight of two women kissing in her ramen stand, decided a little change in subject matter was in order. "Naruto is marrying all of you?" Ayame asked curiously. She was one of the few people Naruto had trusted with the knowledge that he a CRA participant, mainly it was to let Anko have someone to talk to about it, seeing as her best friend Kurenai and the better part of Konoha's civilian and ninja population was unaware of this fact.
Seeing a way to play a prank on Naruto when she noticed the four genin nod, a devious little question came to the forefront, one that had been bugging her since Anko had told her about it the other day. "Sooo" She began again, this time a mischievous smirk twitched on her lips. "I heard from Anko that you're a demon in bed, is that true?" A loud thump signified Naruto smashing his head into the countertop. "So it's true then?" Ayame looked between the three younger women at the table who could only blush and nod, having heard the story from Anko herself the moment she got any of them alone. Ayame could only grin hungrily at that. "Hey, is there any more room in this relationship of yours?" Another thump joined the first one, this time coming out as a loud harmony and it signified that Naruto had raised his head and again bashed it into the table, The second thump however was of Teuchi passing out in the kitchen, his body twitching violently, foam forming on the edges of his mouth.
Ayame smirked. "Is that a yes?"
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"Naruto...do I even want to know?" Sasuke asked cautiously, passing the blonde in the street. The Kyubi jinchuriki again looking like he'd gotten into a fight with ladies beauty supplies and lost...
"Good things." The blonde mumbled as he walked by Sasuke.
"I don't know wether I should be jealous or not." The last Uchiha said numbly, faintly noticing a few markings on the back of the Blonde's ass which was just barely visible due to his disheveled state.
It said "Property of:" and there was at least 4 names that were somewhat visible to the Uchiha's eyes.
"Yeah, definitely jealous..."
-Inside Naruto's Head-
"Hmm, interesting..." A feral grin crossed the fox turned human woman's face as she felt out her hosts body. "Should I tell Naruto-kun...?" Feeling a little devious the fox woman turned away from her discovery. "Nah, let him figure it out himself." A loud, evil laugh echoed through Naruto's mindscape, sending a slight shiver up the genin's spine, despite his kiss inebriated state.
'Why do I feel like I'm going to be hip deep in something crazy soon?' The blonde wondered to himself and not for the first time...
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Kakashi stared out over the field that his three students had used for their training grounds for the last four days, Naruto sat quietly against a tree, Sasuke not a foot from the boy in nearly the same position with Sakura standing on the other side of Naruto, leaning against the tree casually.
Kakashi had watched the threesome over the past four days grow as a team, Naruto pushing his two teammates relentlessly, showing them both a defensive and offensive technique and then sicking a combined force of a hundred clones on the both of them to practice on.
In two days, the pair had managed to master both techniques enough to be a genuine threat on the battlefield.
Sasuke had learned the Lightning release: Thunder Lance that Naruto had showed them not a week before, and like the tazer the boy had taken to it like a natural. The defensive technique Naruto had taught him made use of the boy's new armaments, ones that Naruto had bought and upgraded personally for the Uchiha. A close inspection revealed the new equipment. A pair of metal gauntlets that had a guard similar to an ANBU's, unlike an ANBU's the metal had a small seal Naruto had concocted on it that Sasuke could store excess chakra into that allowed the last Uchiha to release a debilitating amount of electricity into his guards and anything striking them would be shocked, much like the tazer the boy was so fond of.
As for Sakura, Naruto had to be a bit more subtle with her, seeing as she didn't have as much chakra to burn as the two boy's. It didn't stop her from learning the Water Release: Syrup Capture Field. It wasn't much of an attacking jutsu but it did play a key part in Sakura's current attack style of bait and trap, which was shown by the girl's new equipment. Like Sasuke the girl had a pair of gauntlet and armguards, with the same pair of seals placed on both. However, unlike Sasuke, her left hand seal held a large amount of water, taken from one of the lakes of Konoha and the right seal stored pure chakra rather than lightning chakra like Sasuke's which helped the girl pull off her defensive jutsu, the Water Release: Hiding In Water Technique that the Demon Brothers had used against their team on the mission to Wave.
Naruto hadn't really needed the extra training since he was getting his training teaching the pair, however he did upgrade his arm guards like his teammates with the same seals on each, except both of his were chakra storage seals, since he could just create most of his jutsu from chakra alone.
As for the three's teamwork...well Naruto had a method to his madness when he chose to teach Sakura and Sasuke the elements they were currently working on.
It all had to do with assisting elements. Elements like wind and fire created an even more powerful blaze. While, elements like water and Lightning made for just as deadly a combination. With Sakura taking tips from Konoha's resident prankster and trapmaster, Naruto had gotten the pinkette up to running speed in utilizing those brains of hers and her Syrup Capture Field to pin targets in an adhesive liquid.
And like most liquids, it conducted electricity...
Naruto and Sasuke on the other hand worked on their taijutsu, both of them going against Kakashi in a 2 on 1 duel to try and get their tag teaming skills up to snuff, while Sakura held back, looking for an opening for her to pin their opponent with a Syrup Capture Field or hit them in the back with her Teppodama
Needless to say Kakashi didn't enjoy himself, the brats were just too damn devious to really take his eye off them for any length of time which made his battles with them rather hectic, the fact that Sasuke was using his Sharingan and Naruto was using his tail of all things to perform jutsu so that Kakashi couldn't copy it himself didn't have ANYTHING to do with his lack of enjoyment...
Though he'd by lying if he said he wasn't proud of his student's growth, but he did feel a bit left out of it seeing as Naruto was the one teaching them the most. When he voiced this concern to his team he was genuinely surprised and delighted that even though he was chronically late and a bit of a perv, they still considered him a valuable source of information and training. Naruto actually got him close to the heart when he said that his skills were more for learning and application of Gen, Nin and Taijutsu, while Naruto's skills were mostly on the theory of Ninjutsu.
It just so happened that theory taught alot more on HOW ninjutsu worked, which was why people used beginners books which mainly focused on theory to learn things rather than advanced books on application of certain techniques, which could be very dangerous if not lethal if they went into it without knowing the dangers.
His kids (And he wasn't ashamed to call them that) had tackled the poor man and told him without any shred of doubt that they were glad to have him as their sensei, even with all his quirks he was still a more sane teacher than Might Guy, whom the three had the displeasure to meet when he had shown up to challenge the scarecrow on more then one occasion.
Smiling ruefully at the three who were just now picking up his presence. He hopped down and joined his team, waving to the trio in a rather carefree and relaxed manner.
"So...you three ready?" At each respective nod the man could only fill with pride at how confident each of his students were. "You kid's will do great today, remember your training, and Sasuke?"
The Uchiha gently nodded his head. "Yeah I got it, keep a cool head and don't let Naruto run headlong into danger, don't worry I got his back."
Kakashi turned to the pinkette of the group. "Sakura?"
"Yeah, I'll keep an eye on the two idiots."
Kakashi's eye again went into its patented U shaped smile that told everyone around him that he was genuinely happy about something "Good you three, now get to the Academy, The testing area is on the 3rd floor." He tossed them a little salute before he disappeared in a shunshin.
"Well." Naruto shrugged. "Let's go then."
-10 minutes later-
"A kid's getting picked on by a Suna shinobi, what do we do?" Sasuke asked quietly, as the three genin watched a man in a black cat robe and face paint pick on a little kid that had bumped into him
"I say we save the kid" Naruto interjected. "He may have bumped into the guy but that guy is being a massive dick about it."
"We could just ignore it and go to the academy." Sakura supplied.
Sasuke shook his head "Nah, Naruto's got it right. Catman is being a bit of a dick about this."
Sakura sighed, she hated being outvoted by the two hot heads.
"Alright, what're we gonna use then?" Naruto asked quietly, watching as the cat man threatened the kid with a punch to the face. "Hurry, looks like cat boy isn't taking it too well."
"Arrow X formation?" The Uchiha asked.
The blonde nodded. "That'll do." Before he disappeared in a shunshin, Sasuke nodding and disappeared not a moment later.
Sakura shook her head, muttering "Boy's..." before sighing and following along at a more reasonable pace behind them.
Below, the cat man had reared back his fist to strike. "Prepare for you lumps kid." He chuckled darkly before he froze, feeling the cold hard steel of a blade at the back of his neck, not a moment later a kunai appeared on his throat, the two blades crossing in a scissoring x formation. Finally a last kunai appeared on the other side of his neck, point first and with a hand on the fist he had readied to punch.
"You know." A calm, gravelly voice spoke up behind him, holding what appeared to be a ninjato to the back of his neck. "It's not polite to hit people just for accidentally running into you."
Kankuro!" The pigtailed blonde woman behind the cat man (Now named Kankuro) gasped, preparing to grab a large war fan from her back.
"Don't move, girly." Sasuke growled, moving his kunai just slightly to place it even tighter against Kankuro's neck.
"Temari." Kankuro gasped. "Do what he says."
"Drop the kid." Sakura growled from her position opposite her two teammates.
Like the crack of a whip the sand genin's hand snapped open dropping the kid to the ground unceremoniously.
The kid got to his feet and scowled at the sand ninja. "You'll regret doing that to me, I'll tell my grandpa on you!"
"Kid, get lost." Naruto growled at him. "Your grandpa doesn't need to get involved."
"My grandpa's the third Hokage!" He yelled.
Naruto for his part didn't flinch, however his two teammates had a surprised look on their face, while the two sand nin looked pale. After all, they had nearly caused an international incident with one of the Hokage's family. That would have been bad. Very, very bad.
"Kid." Naruto growled again. "I don't care if he's your grandmother, get the hell out of here." Naruto focused a small bit of killing intent on the brat, which broke the kid out of his anger, his spine snapping taut as fear filled his eyes. "By the way brat. Learn to live off your own name instead of using your old man's for everything."
If the boy heard what Naruto said, he didn't show it, but that didn't stop Naruto teaching the brat a lesson. "Oh and learn to stand up for yourself or no one will see you for you, now scram" Naruto lessened his killing intent and the boy, in a fit of terror took off running. He would be spending the next few days thinking on Naruto's words, however and inadvertently change the young boy's beliefs for the better...not like the ankle biter really mattered much in this story anyway...
"Now." Naruto turned back to Kankuro. "What to do with you?"
Kankuro, for his part didn't even flinch at the cold tone the boy held for him, he did however flinch as a wave of killing intent washed over him from one of the nearby tree's.
"Kankuro." A boy, not much older than any of the three leaf genin droned, hanging upside down in the tree not a dozen feet away. "You're a disgrace to Suna."
"Wait, don't do anything rash." The cat man held out his hands placating to the red haired youth who had just hopped down to glare at him.
"Kankuro...shut up, or I'll kill you." The calm way the red head threatened to kill the older boy sent shivers down the spines of team 7.
"I'm sorry for my brother's stupidity." he nodded to the trio of leaf nin, staring intently at Naruto in particular.
"Not a problem." Naruto replied slowly, getting a really bad feeling about the redhead. He had felt that feeling before but couldn't quite place it.
"That's because the boy is a jinchuriki." Kyu spoke up in Naruto's head.
Outwardly Naruto kept his cool, only a slight twitch betraying him. Internally however...
'You mean that bastard is just like me!?" He nearly screamed at her.
"Not quite." She waved her hands gently to calm the boy. "From the feel of his power, he's probably the container of the one tailed Tanuki, Ichibi."
'...So he's the one tails container eh...?' Naruto grimaced a bit. "It's not much better but at least now I know he's the runt of the litter, still...I can feel the bastards bloodlust from here.'
"True, and I wouldn't pick a fight with him just yet. Though I would tell him you know what he is and you'll see him in the exams, that'll draw the bloodthirsty little bastard off your teammates and anyone else in the exams."
'Yeah, cuz we're the only ones who can really fight on his level.' With an approving nod from Kyubi the nine tailed jinchuriki leveled a small glare Garra's way. "If you three are here for the exams, we'll be seeing you there."
The red head nodded and turned to leave.
"Hey, guy with the gourd." Naruto called out to him as the red haired boy turned to regard him with a blank curiosity.
"Tell the racoon I said hi and let him know Kyu send's her regards." Naruto turned on his heels, feeling a sharp bloodlust behind his back as his teammates followed behind him.
Behind them Garra's eyes went wide for a moment as the Shukaku inside him started screaming obscenities at the Kyubi jinchuriki for calling him such a disrespectful name, then the Ichibi jinchuriki's face took on an almost insane and predatory grin as his bloodlust shot through the roof, his two siblings backing away from him slowly so as not to tempt his ire. "Wait!" the redhead yelled.
Naruto looked over his shoulder at the boy, tensing slightly incase the red head tried anything.
"What is your name."
"It's Naruto." The blonde jinchuriki replied. "Naruto Uzumaki."
"Well then Uzumaki." Garra growled evilly. "Know that Garra of the desert looks forward to spilling your blood later in the exams." Without saying another word the three sand ninja turned and left, going their own route to the academy.
"What was that about Naruto?" Sakura asked quietly, shivering slightly from the faint traces of bloodlust still apparent in the air.
"Just making sure the bloody bastard doesn't go for either of you in this test."
"What do you mean Naruto?" Sasuke prodded, staring at the backs of the sand ninja before they disappeared around a corner. "Just what the hell is he?"
"He's a jinchuriki." Naruto ground out. "He has the one tailed ichibi sealed within his body."
Sasuke and Sakura's eyes flew wide at that.
"He's WHAT?" Sasuke ground out, his body almost shaking in unrestrained fear as he remembered the sheer bloodlust the boy exuded. A shiver went up the Uchiha's spine, he had come very very close to picking a fight with the redhead himself if Naruto hadn't done it for him. Another shiver went up his spine as he looked back to where the sand team disappeared.
"He's a human who has a demon sealed within him Sasuke" Naruto spoke quietly, still walking along, nearly leaving his team behind. "And I just provoked him so that he'd go after me instead of either of you or the others in this test."
"Why in hell did you do that!?" Sakura screeched, momentarily going into her fangirl mode to bitch Naruto out.
"I did it." He rubbed his sensitive ears underneath his hat gently. "Because I'm the only one who can fight at the bastards level."
"And what's that supposed to mean?" Sasuke growled. He didn't like being considered weak, but Naruto almost did exactly that by claiming he was the only one who could take ...him... A thought seemed to occur to the boy for a moment, something about what Naruto said...
"Naruto..." The Uchiha asked quietly. "Why are you the only one who can face him? And who's Kyu?"
Naruto only tensed slightly, his shoulders coming up defensively. "I'll tell you both later Sasuke, let's just get to the academy quickly."
Sasuke for his part accepted that, knowing his theory was almost positively correct now. Naruto's birthday, his age, The name kyu... that and the fox bloodline he had pointed to something more than just a mutation from being in close contact with the Kyubi's chakra. That, and Sasuke never bought that half assed explanation back when Naruto first showed up with his fox ears and tail. But, like the somewhat patient ninja that he was, he locked that bit of information in the back of his head for later, no use in creating a split in group dynamics when they could talk about this after word.
The rest of the walk to the academy was uneventful and silent, Naruto standing just slightly farther ahead then the rest of them, immersed in his own thoughts at the moment. However he was shocked to find Sasuke had sped up right before they reached the door to lay a hand on the blonde's shoulder and spoke calmly.
"Whatever it is that you're hiding Naruto, we're still a team, and I won't hold any grudges against you." his grip tightened just slightly. "So get out of that damn funk, we have an exam to win."
Naruto stared at his teammate for a moment, his calculating gaze staring into the Uchiha's dark eyes. After a moment's thought the blonde nodded and placed a hand on Sasuke's shoulder as well.
The two broke apart a moment later when Sakura started tapping her foot in irritation.
"We're going to be late if we keep stopping like this." She told them pointedly, and while she hated to be left out of the loop, seeing as that's what Naruto and Sasuke seemed to be doing, she could still see that teamwork was more important that stopping to talk about it right now.
"Right." The two nodded and opened the door to the academy...to immediately be assaulted by the noise of dozens of people talking and milling about on the first floor.
"Kakashi-sensei said the test was on the third floor." Naruto spoke quietly. "Let's get by these idiots quickly. Passing by the main crowd of genin they made their way up the stairs, stealthily passing by a genjutsu on the second floor that had a number of participants stopped as they thought that it was the third floor. Team 7 ignored the obvious genjutsu, as did a number of other teams who just looked at the pathetic teams who got caught in it and snickered.
Since team seven completely passed the genjutsu by, they didn't notice Team Gai staring at their backs as they baited a number of teams into staying at the trapped second floor.
Tenten stared at the back of her soon to be husband quietly, while her two teammates sized up their possible competition.
Back with Naruto and the team, they had finally made it to the third floor where they met up with Kakashi, who was grinning like a loon.
"I see you three made it."
"Yeah." Naruto chuckled. "We did, though we did have some trouble from a team from Suna."
Kakashi's only visible eyebrow raised slightly. "And just what kind of trouble did you three have?"
"Well..." The blonde fidgeted slightly. "One of them was kind of picking on the Hokage's grandson and the redhead kid of the group is more than he appears."
The eyebrow that was raised lowered into a deep frown. Normally he wouldn't have said anything about the hokage's grandson seeing as the kid was a bit of a brat, but when Naruto sounded concerned about something like he did with the red head, then something was clearly up.
"More than he appears?"
Naruto nodded. "He's the weakest of the nine."
Kakashi's eye widened in worry. There was a jinchuriki in the exam's other than Naruto? and Suna hadn't said anything about it...yes, this was definitely a cause for worry.
"I see...Naruto, I'll tell the Hokage right away, go ahead into the exam room." And with a shunshin the jonin left, leaving the three genin alone in the hallway.
Naruto turned to his two teammates who were giving him a pointed stare.
He shrugged off the glares casually grabbing the door to the exam room. "Hey, I said I'll tell you later, lets just go inside." He noticed the two of them nod behind him and pulled the door open to reveal an entire room completely filled with ninja of all the various villages of the world.
A quick count put it well over a hundred fifty ninja, which set team 7 on edge as they walked quietly into the tension filled room, each of he participants giving them a cold and calculating glare.
"Naruto!"
'Fuck' Naruto grumbled mentally as a certain blonde fangirl latched herself around his neck from behind.
"Naruto-Kun." A calmer voice replied, this one belonging to Hinata as she grabbed him possessively, glaring slightly at Ino.
"Oy Naruto." Tenten chuckled behind the blonde, laying an arm on his shoulder.
"Still covered in women eh Naruto?" The condescending voice of Kiba spoke up behind him, chuckling at the blonde genin.
"And you're still covered in fleas I see?" Naruto cracked back a wide grin on his face as he raised a fist up for the two to bump.
"Good to see you dude, Shino and I been wondering where you been lately." A nod from the bug user behind Kiba was all the greeting Naruto needed from him.
"Same here." Shikamaru broke in, coming up behind the group, Choji munching on chips like he always did.
Naruto chuckled "Been training me and my teammates. You?"
Shikamaru nodded "Same, though it was a bit troublesome."
"So the gang's all here then?" Kiba asked. "The rookie 9."
"Don't forget Team Gai." Tenten cut in, waving at everyone as her two teammates appeared beside her.
"Hello Naruto-san." Lee waved at him, throwing a small wink Sakura's way.
Sakura threw up a little in her mouth.
"Naruto." Neji nodded politely to the blonde, though you could feel a deep tension between the two if you looked hard enough. That mostly had to do with Naruto knowing about the way Neji treated Hinata and Neji being an arrogant ass towards Naruto... but nothing else was said between them as a small coughing noise interrupted the groups greetings.
"You know, you guys should really keep it down." A young man in his early 20's approached the group, he was dressed in dark purple, his sleeveless shirt, pants and a long pair of gloves on his arm were all dusky purple in color, while he wore a regular whit T-shirt underneath the sleeveless shirt and a tan cloth wrapping around his waist. A pair of round frame glasses finished off the look.
Sasuke walked to the front of the group to get a good look at the guy. "And just who are you?"
"The name's Kabuto Yakushi, and really-" he pointed behind the group at the other applicant's of the exam, who were glaring at the group as if they were a nuisance. "-You should keep it down. Everyone here is on a really short fuse." He adjusted his glasses, the light catching the edges, hiding his eyes for a moment. "I wouldn't want to be the one to set any of these guys off..." He let out a low chuckle regardless. "But, looking at you noobies reminds me of my first time here in the exams."
"This isn't the first time you've been here then?" Sasuke asked.
"Nah." Kabuto chuckled. "It's my seventh."
Kiba snorted at that. "Dude you must suck."
"Maybe." Kabuto adjusted his glasses again. "But that doesn't mean I'm not well informed." He pulled out a stack of cards from his pack. "These here are my nin-info cards." He flashed the cards to the genin there. "And since I've taken this test so many times, I've built a large amount of information on just about everyone here. Ask away, who would you like to know about?"
Many of the genin in the room were curious but the only one to really say anything at first was Naruto.
"Garra of Suna" he grunted, eyeing the bloodthirsty red head across the way.
"He want's to know about you Gaara." Temari chuckled, having overheard the kid who was really only a dozen or so feet away. "The guy's kinda sexy in a rugged sorta way, especially when you look at him from behind," She eyed the genin's ass for a few seconds, licking her lips. "And judging by all the women around him he's a ladies man too. Interesting." Now that she really got a good look at the blondie she couldn't help but stare at him, his clothing doing little to hide his hardened muscles and well toned body.
Kankuro next to her shivered at the girls lust filled tone, he'd only ever heard his mother sound like that and that never boded well for his father.
Back with Kabuto, Neji had walked forward a curious gleam in his pale eyes. "I'd like to know about Naruto Uzumaki of Konoha " The Hyuuga sent a not so hidden glare Naruto's way, which was matched by the blonde.
Kabuto, not seeing any other takers quickly pulled out those two cards. "Aww it's a shame you already know their names, takes the fun out of it." Flipping the first card over he began to read out Garra's stats.
"Let's see. Gaara of the Desert: 8 C-ranked missions and 1 B ranked! Wow not many rookie shinobi get those." Kabuto hummed to himself in thought "Since he's way out in the boonies I don't have that much info on him besides the fact that his two teammates Temari and Kankuro are both his older siblings, no clue on their sensei. A rather interesting tidbit about the kid though is that he went through that entire B -rank of his without a single scratch on him."
A small silence went through the room at that as even the other applicants turned a wary eye on the sand user.
"Now let's see. Naruto Uzumaki...Kami..." The way Kabuto nearly dropped his info card immediately had everyone's attention.
"Naruto Uzumaki." Kabuto nearly shuddered. "Graduated two and a half months ago with the other rookie nine and in that time he's done 220 D-ranked." A shudder went through the nin's body as just about everyone in the room looked at Naruto as if he was insane. "44 C-ranked." Again the people in the room looked at him like he was crazy. "1 B rank and 1 C turned A rank." THAT got everyone's attention. Kabuto adjusted his glasses again and kept reading. "He is the current head of two clans. The Uzumaki and one currently unnamed clan. He also has the last remaining member of the Yuki clan under his protection and is therefore the protector and patron of the Yuki clan. Has four reported bloodlines, one of which is supposedly sensory in origin. The second and third bloodline are the The Yuki clan's Hyōton and the Senju Mokuton. The fourth bloodline allows him to use any bloodline elements consisting of any two of the five base chakra natures. Is attuned to all five base chakra natures..." At this Kabuto shuddered again and looked at Naruto as if he was a freak of nature. "Ninjutsu is off the charts... Taijutsu is high as is trap making and ninja tools. Kenjutsu and intelligence is above average. Low genjutsu. Supposedly has a decent grasp on Fuinjutsu. Has Kage level chakra reserves. Spent five years living under the tutelage of Special Jonin and assistant torture and interrogation specialist Mitarashi Anko. Teammates are Sasuke Uchiha and Sakura Haruno. Sensei Is Kakashi Hatake of the Sharingan eye."
You could almost hear a pin drop in the deathly silent room after kabuto read out Naruto's info card.
In that silence Kabuto looked back and forth from the card to the blank faced Naruto several times before he lowered the card completely and just STARED up at the blonde genin, shocked beyond all measure. "What the hell are you?" He gasped out finally.
"Well." The blonde stated, slightly disturbed that this guy knew so much about him. And everyone, including his teammates and the other konoha teams were staring at him in both awe, and in the case of the other village nin, outright fear. "Going by your info. I'd say I'm the baddest motherfucker in the room." He shot the slackjawed Kabuto a predatory grin, before turning it on the room in general. All but a few of the occupants flinched away from him.
"Damn dobe when the hell did you do all those other D and C ranks, We just got back from our last mission like a week and a half ago and you only had like 150 D and 5 C-ranks then."
Again it was almost deathly quiet. Several of the occupants in the room were nearly about to pass out from that information. While most of the others were thinking along the lines of 'That blond brat did 70 D ranks and 39 C-ranks in a week and a half!? ...He's not human.'
A certain grass nin tucked away in the back of the room licked her lips, a hungry grin on her face.
"During our time training, I took some time off and did a few missions...And hey." Naruto defended himself. "I needed the money to pay for those damn gauntlets of yours... besides, most of those C-ranks were in and out courier missions or clearing out a few bandits."
Still dude..." Kiba spoke in awe. "That's like major overkill."
While most of the men were planning to stay the hell away from the dangerous genin. Temari along with most of the women in the room were nearly salivating at the blonde. 70 D ranks came out to around 35,000 Ryo and C-Ranks were usually around four times as much as a D rank so 39 C ranks came out to around 78,000 Ryo (A/N 3,500 and 7,800 USD respectively) If blondie could make that much cash in a little over a week, just think how much he could make over the course of a year.
Even the women of other Villages were starting to think that the boy was less frightening and more husband worthy by the second. In fact a few of the all female teams were even plotting to try and kidnap the young genin for themselves and splitting him between them. None of their plans would work of course but it was a nice try regardless.
On the other side of the room a trio from Sound village were thinking along the same lines, but for entirely different reasons.
The spiky haired one turned to his mummified looking teammate "Hey Dosu, you think Orochimaru-sama want's us to go after that brat too?"
Dosu watched the blonde speak with his friends almost as if there wasn't a room full of ninja that could and would kill him at a moments notice. But Naruto didn't fool the man, he could tell by the way the blonde set his feet, and the way he held his shoulders that the kid was ready for an attack at any moment. A calm and ready stance fit for a warrior. Dosu shook his head quietly. "No Zaku, Orochimaru left specific instructions to go after the Uchiha. If he gives the order to go after Blondie later then we'll nab him."
"Shame really." The only woman on the team remarked. "He really is quite the cutie."
"Shut it Kin." Zaku hissed, causing the girl to flinch slightly. "Unless you want a repeat of yesterday." The dark eyed boy left that as the only warning.
Kin fumed, staring at her two teammates angrily, cursing her fate having been stuck with the two abusive bastards. Maybe after this mission was done, she could find a nice quiet play in Rice Field and stay the hell away from everyone. The scars and bruises on her back only serving as a sharp reminder of the 'hospitality' of her comrades.
"ALRIGHT MAGGOTS!" A voice yelled as a thick cloud of smoke appeared in the room, blocking the view of the blackboard at the back "Litsten up and listen well" The smoke cleared to reveal a dozen chunin and a tall scarred man wearing a large black trenchcoat. "The name's Ibiki Morino, Proctor of the first part of the chunin exams." Ibiki seemed to glare at everyone in the room until each almost shivered under the mans gaze. Finally after glaring at everyone in the room Ibiki held up a small tile with the number 1 on it. "This here is a seat number." He tossed the tile into a bag and picked up a stack of papers from a small desk off to the side. "You will come forward and pull a token from the bag. The number that corresponds to the seat in the room is where you will sit when we hand out the papers for you to take the written portion of the exams." He glared again. "Now get in line and get your shit."
A few minutes later we find Naruto in the front of the room, only a row behind the front most row, seated between Temari and Hinata with the rest of Team Guy and the rookie 9 spread out evenly around them.
Hinata could only smile at her good fortune. "It's good to see we're seated together Naruto-kun."
Naruto grinned beside her. "Yeah it's always nice to have a sexy lady next to you when you're taking a test." Naruto glanced over to the other side and was surprised to see the same blonde haired suna girl from before, he never really got a good look at the woman before seeing as he was too busy scaring the bujeezus out of her Catman brother or egging on her psychotic one. Now normally Naruto would have completely ignored the woman simply for the fact that she was the older sister of a mentally imbalanced and psychotic jinchuriki, that spelled Danger with a capital D for any interaction he had with her. But, he HAD heard her talking about him earlier with his enhanced hearing and the barely controlled lust in her tone had peaked the blonde's interest. A sly grin crossed the blonde's face getting Hinata's attention. When the Hyuuga girl glanced his way he nodded slightly in Temari's direction and mouthed 'Play along.'
Hinata giggled quietly and nodded.
"Yeah, always good to have a sexy lady next to you." He turned his head to Temari. "Oh look, another sexy lady to bask in their companionship."
Temari turned to regard the blonde curiously. "Are you hitting on me?"
Naruto turned to Hinata who nodded, smirking all the while. Naruto and her had a nice long talk after her little blow up after meeting Tenten and Haku and had come a to an agreement. As long as Hinata approved of the women, Naruto could flirt with them and pursue them as he pleased. So far Hinata was liking what she saw in Temari. She also smelled like dusty earth, which reminded her of Naruto after he trained all day, always a plus in her book.
Naruto turned back to Temari and nodded to the affirmative that he was indeed hitting on the sand kunoichi.
"Don't you mind that my brother is a psychopathic murderer who would probably kill you the moment he has the chance?" Temari asked blankly.
Naruto snorted at that "Nope, not in the slightest. I was trained by Anko Mitarashi. That woman get's her chuckles by torturing and maiming people, your brother's crazy doesn't even compare."
That was all the go ahead Temari needed. Her love life sucked because Gaara scared all her would be suitors off and even when people had the courage to ignore him they were still too afraid of HER to even get close. With a vicious grab that caught the kyubi Jinchuriki's collar, the sand Kunoichi crushed her lips to the other blonde's mouth.
Naruto's head spun as her lips smashed into his 'DAMN she moves fast.' The only thing the blonde could do was hang on for the ride, after a few seconds he got more into the kiss, and a few minutes after that Hinata surprisingly even got so bold as to join in, adding a third tongue to the mix.
Those around the trio could only watch in silent wonder at their daring.
In back by a waterfall genin Ino was rubbing her legs together gently, watching the three go at it 'Kami that is so fucking hot.' How she wished Naruto would kiss her like that.
To the far right Tenten was watching the trio with an almost predatory gaze. When Naruto had explained his situation to her after Haku had spilled the beans on him, at first the weapons mistress had been skeptical but after he had gone into more detail Tenten had started to see all the potential benefits having a large clan like what Naruto was shooting for... not to mention, seeing her future hubby going at it with two other women was surprisingly sexy...maybe it was just the blonde's pure animal magnetism at work. Whatever it was, Tenten neither knew nor cared, she was just enjoying the free show
A few rows in front of Ino, Kin was nearly choking on her own saliva, watching the three genin play tonsil hockey in front of the entire chunin exam, proctors and all was making the girl go crazy. 'fuck cute, that kid's sexy as hell and he's got balls as big as boulders to do that in front of a room full of shinobi.' The sound kunoichi's hand slipped down unseen, trying to relieve herself of some of the frustration those three had created within her. 'Fuck I need to get laid, Oto shinobi are so prudish and freaking abusive.'
Sakura who was on the opposite side of the room from most of the other could only stare. She wasn't moving, was barely breathing, she was practically dead to the world. Only one thought passed through her mind during the entire thing. 'Why is Naruto making out in front of hundreds of people...and why is that turning me on?' Sadly neither of those questions would be answered until much later...
While the women of the room were in various states of arousal from the show. All the men were in various states of jealousy at the blonde mavericks incredible luck with the ladies.
in the back row next to Shino, Sasuke was silent. He had been watching Naruto intently, still dead set on getting the blonde to answer his questions...though to a less homosexual degree he watched the three make out with a mild look of interest.
Shikamaru was below Sasuke's row ignoring it completely. 'Too troublesome...'
Kiba who was off in his own little corner of the room could only shake his head. 'That lucky son of a bitch...'
Directly behind the trio by several rows Neji just huffed indignantly. 'Have they no shame?'
Choji nearly choked on his chips but was resuscitated with a slap to the back by Shikamaru who had the good fortune of sitting next to his buddy.
Shino was silent, but internally... 'Jealousy? ...How illogical...'
Lee...well aside from his eyes going more bug eyed than normal, the young boy could barely contain himself as he nearly shouted out about the 'Flames of Youth.' But Gai had beaten a bit of restraint into the kid so he wouldn't get his team thrown out from him yelling too much.
Gaara who, like Kiba, was off in his own corner could care less as he was in his happy place, it just so happened that his happy place was in a lake of blood with ninja's begging for his mercy and not receiving any as he crushed the life out of them...charming fellow really...
Kankuro on the other hand only a few seats away from the lovebirds was seething in an almost unholy rage. He was about to walk over to Naruto's seat and geld the bastard himself and it was only the threat of them getting kicked out and his brother killing him that stayed his hand. Oh, but the blonde bastard would taste his puppets wrath soon, Ohhh so very soon.
The two other Sound ninja, having the good fortune of sitting together like Shikamaru and Choji could only watch, amused by Naruto's gal more than anything.
As it stood the two women were sitting in the Naruto's lap, making out in front of over a hundred well trained killers and despite that fact, no one in the room knew how to deal with it. Even Ibiki who had been explaining the rules of the test until the sounds of sucking and kissing got too distracting even for him.
"YOU THREE!" He barked, finally coming out of his shock, pointing to the offending trio. "WHAT IN THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING?"
Naruto removed his lips from the two women to yell at him. "Yo we heard you tall dark and gruesome. No asking questions, no cheating, 10 points, cheating takes two points off, not answering a question takes 1. We lose our points the entire team goes, final question 45 minutes from now."
"That still doesn't explain what you're doing!" He barked.
"What's it look like we're doing asshole? We're not cheating and we're not asking questions so fuck off unless you want me to take points from you for you asking us questions." Naruto turned back to his two babes as he flipped Ibiki off.
"2 points from your score!" The man yelled angrily.
Nobody could notice it seeing as Naruto was still sucking face, but the blonde had a delightful little grin on his face, they had gotten their tests a little while ago and Naruto had spent a few minutes going over a little prank he was going to pull on Ibiki Having heard from Anko-chan about the uptight head of I&T Naruto was practically chomping at the bit to screw with the guy the moment he showed up. With the two women right next to him, it was simple enough matter to pull off and it benefited the both of them. Now to just bait Ibiki. "And I care because why scar face?" Naruto shot back snarkily. "This point system is just a contrived way to make us cautious, but so long as I have one point , the rest of this shit doesn't matter."
The Special Jonin didn't have a come back for that, aside from kissing two women the kid hadn't really done anything wrong, So in a way the kid was right, the point's really didn't matter much and Ibiki had taken the kids points without any real reason besides him being a bit belligerent...It took a moment before Ibiki realized that the kid had actually gotten under his skin, a very hard thing to do when it came to the Head Torture and Interrogation specialist. That was when Ibiki knew to back off, he wouldn't have some snot nosed punk getting under his skin again. "Alright, ignoring those three, the test begins NOW!"
Ibiki turned to grab a clipboad from the table next to him when a loud slamming of pencils nearly made Ibiki smack his head into the nearby wall as he was turning away from the exam participants. Slowly turning back to the trio he noticed that the three troublemakers had their pages turned face down, pencils atop them and from what Ibiki could see on the back of the page there was definitely a large amount of writing showing through on each.
Ibiki's jaw dropped. 'That cheeky bastard set me up.' He realized in shock. 'The kid already had his done and the other two must have copied off him. That's why he didn't care about missing points...Papers done before the test even started just to make me look like a fool...' Ibiki was too shocked to say anything for a solid thirty seconds before a feral grin crossed his face. 'Kid's got some stones I'll give him that' Ibiki chuckled, nodding his head Naruto's way signifying the brat had won this round before turning back and to what he was doing.
Meanwhile in Naruto's head.
"Kit... that was awesome...I bow to your pranking skills this time, that look on Ibiki's face was priceless.
'Heh, he didn't know who he was fucking with. This test was easy compared to the shit Anko forced me to learn.' If this was what the exam was going to be like all the way through...A dark and evil laugh echoed through Naruto's head, the mere thought sending shivers down the spines of everyone in the room.
This was going to be fun.
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That's it for this chapter.
if you're confused about how the women are acting around Naruto...well that'll be explained later so just be patient ;D
Totally random and batshit insane, just how I like it. If you liked it too leave a review, it's like crack for me and I need my fix to continue to write this insanity.
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