True Jinchuriki
Demons at the Exam
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto, and had thought that this would be quite obvious, but just to avoid lawyers and complaints about the dreadful lack of Sasuke kicking I decided to put in a disclaimer.
Well, my poll is quite a success and here are the most likely choices
Dragons 3 (cause of the name for the organization)
Foxes 6 (Kyuubi is not a summon)
Toads 1 (technically the amphibious mafia)
Wolves 2 (just because they're cool)
That is all
So far these are the most likely.
Before this chapter starts I would like to apologies for updating so much later than I had planed. I am a notorious procrastinator.
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"Now as I was saying, we shall be practicing stealth today."
"Hai Naruto-nisan" three voices coursed at once.
"Good, now meat me at the hot springs for your training"
"WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO MAKE THESE KIDS DO? PEEP ON RANDOM PEOPLE?"
"No, what kind of pervert would make his students go peeping as a stealth exercise?"
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Somewhere in a nearby town a strange man with white hair sneezed alerting his "research" of his presence.
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"As I was saying, I will be teaching you how to use some special concealment techniques from water country. The Kirigakure no jutsu (concealing mist technique) the hot springs are the perfect place to study it at first so you can get the basics down without using up all your chakra."
"Do you really think you are able to teach these children how to be ninja Naruto-Baka?"
"Don't insult Naruto-nisan, ugly, big forehead girl!"
"When I get my hands on you, YOU LITTLE BRAT!"
Konohamaru charged off down the street chased by an enraged Sakura.
"That's one way to practice your speed." The remaining three sweatdropped, and then left to follow the pair.
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"Hey let me go!"
"Damned annoying brats they make me so mad, I think I just wring this ones scrawny neck!"
Naruto sped up this was getting annoying. As he came around the corner he saw Konohamaru being held by the scarf by some guy in a black body suit with a lot of make up.
"Let him go Kankuro, we could get in trouble." Said a kunoichi in a lavender skirt, she had blond hair in four pigtails and a large object on her back, an oversized war fan.
"Aren't you a little old to be wearing 'footy-pajamas'?" Naruto just couldn't help saying it his inner fox was screaming at him to, literally.
"How about I just crush this little brat's neck and then deal with you."
"That would be very stupid of you. That 'brat' as you call him is the Sandaime Hokage's grandson." Naruto said in a calm monotonous voice.
"See, I knew we would get in trouble lets just go." The girl pleaded.
"Alright this one's more trouble than he's worth but what's stopping me from thrashing you?" the pajama boy, Kankuro said as though the girl behind him hadn't spoken.
"Kankuro you are an embarrassment to our entire village." A voice came from the tree near by.
"…hmm, that is a good point but I was going to say something different." Naruto deadpanned.
The three academy students with him snickered quietly. While Sakura had just noticed Sasuke standing on a tree branch looking annoyed at something and a little bit startled by the stealth of the person only meters away from him.
"What's wrong Uchiha-teme, did you want to save the day and make all the ladies love you." Naruto said in a condescending voice without looking at his teammate.
"Shut up dobe."
The red haired boy with circles under his eyes and red hair landed near Kankuro. "You seam strong, what's your name?" he said looking in the vague direction of the konoha ninjas.
"It is common curtsy to introduce yourself first before asking about someone else's identity." The Uchiha survivor said trying to look tough, Sakura was fooled.
"Sabaku no Gaara, and you?"
"I am Uchiha Sasuke."
"Not you, you are irrelevant."
"Shinkukaen no Naruto, it is a pleasure to meat you. You are ninja's of sunagakure; I take it you have come for the exams."
"We have, you are participating?"
"Our sensei has yet to give us the forms but I can assure you that we will be, the council will want to show off their prized Uchiha and I know that I most definitely meat the requirements for chunin."
"We shall battle in the exam; I look forward to proving my existence by killing my most powerful enemies."
"I think therefore I am."
"What?"
"It's an old quote from some old philosopher, if you think then that is proof that you exist."
With that the three sand ninjas left with very confused looks on their faces.
"He is the container of Shukaku, the ichibi no Tanuki."
'I noticed, he smells of sand and blood.'
Naruto came out of his brief talk with the Kyuubi just in time for Sakura to say "how dare he disrespect Sasuke-kun like that!"
Naruto sighed, "Ok guys, training time."
"Hai Naruto-nisan"
Naruto thought back about the trio that was following him around as he walked with the academy students towards the hot springs. It had been on one of the days off he took between missions recently, as he walked towards his favorite training ground he noticed three people trying to tail him, one was reasonably well hidden but the other to were awful, they were more obvious than if they had just walked after him. Finally after some time he stopped turned and said, 'Konohamaru, who are the other two?" Konohamaru had jumped out from his surprisingly good concealment and introduced his two friends, Udon and Moegi who wanted to also be trained by him. He had been giving them assignments and showing them techniques to help train them to be good ninja ever since that day. They were hard workers, resourceful and more importantly than anything else, they were sympathetic to his cause, they were good kids and they had once upon hearing him explain his dream sworn to help him. Good kids.
"Naruto-nisan, we're here."
"Huh, oh right sorry just thinking, alright now here is how you do the Kirigakure no jutsu."
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This was ridiculous; over twenty people were gathered together in the narrow hallway leading to the wrong class room. The genjutsu was simple, and yet so many people had fallen for it.
Naruto started to tell the Uchiha to keep his mouth shut and let these idiots fail, but he wasn't fast enough.
Just as the Uchiha and the chunin by the door were about to duke it out, they were stopped by a green blur.
"I am the youthful green beast of Konoha! Rock Lee! You are very beautiful would you like to go out some time? I swear that I will protect you with my life! My beautiful flower of youth." He announced.
Cue mass sweatdrop
Sakura looked in horror at the exuberant youth's giant, fluffy eyebrows. "No way, you're weird, get away from me!"
Most didn't notice it but those words hurt, they were familiar. Naruto looked at the boy thoughtfully, he has felt pain.
"Uchiha Sasuke the genius, fight me so I might see how my power compares to mine!" the green beast bounces back fast.
And so they fought…it was kind of one-sided.
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The fight began; lee was launching kisses at Sakura like some ninja throw Kunai.
Sakura was swooning over Sasuke.
And Naruto was watching for weak points in their defense.
Sasuke was good, for an academy student. His opponent was going easy on him. But that changed after Sasuke used the Sharingan.
Suddenly Lee was serious he came forwards with incredible speed and knocked the Uchiha into the air.
"Hmm, shadow of the dancing leaf, clever." Naruto muttered as he watched lee appear behind Sasuke.
As lee was preparing for his finally Naruto saw what he was about to do, he would send his opponent spinning head first into the ground.
Before the attack was executed a large turtle stopped it and began to lecture lee, then a man who looked like a bigger version of lee with even bigger eyebrows smacked him on the head and began some kind of strange hugging and crying ritual of describing what sounded like self mutilation to Naruto. Naruto was shocked to see a complex genjutsu of some sort appear in the background and create the image of a cliff being struck by waves in front of the sunset. Wow that is one strange genjutsu, he thought.
"We are going to be late for the exam you know," he said finally.
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Surprisingly they weren't late for the exam and arrived just in time.
They were informed at the entrance that the exams would be taken as a team, so they all had to be there together to enter.
Upon entering the exam chamber they were instantly set upon by a terrifying banshee.
"SASUKE-KUN," screamed the blond haired fangirl as she jumped onto the brooder.
She was shocked to realize a moment later that she was instead hugging a very pissed off pink-haired girl with an overly large forehead.
"Get off me Ino-pig!"
"GAH!"
"Hey there you guys are, I guess you're in the exam too." Team seven looked up to see the rest of the rooky 9 coming towards them, the one who had spoken was Inuzuka Kiba.
"You should be quieter, you are attracting too much attention to yourselves, there are many teams here and many of them would do anything to be the last team standing," Said a young man with silver hair, as he walked towards the rookies. "You are in luck though as I am willing to help you out, my name is Kabuto, I'm a veteran to these tests, and I have a special edge this year."
Naruto had separated from the group before the noise even began and was slowly walking towards the other end of the room in a relaxed manner as he surveyed the competition.
"You have taken these tests before?"
"This is my seventh time."
"So you mean to say that you suck."
"Yes, I suppose so, but this year I have my information cards on every ninja in the exam, would you like to see them?"
Sasuke stepped foreword. "show me Gaara, Rock Lee, and Uzumaki Naruto."
"hmm, alright, Sabaku no Gaara, the youngest child of the yondaime Kazekage, not much is known about his abilities but he has gone on 20 C-rank, 10 B-rank and even an A-rank mission. The scariest thing is that he has never been injured while on a mission."
The nearby Genin looked nervous, not many people could go on a B-rank without injury but no-one could avoid injury all together on an A-rank.
"Now, Rock Lee is also interesting, he is unable to use Genjutsu and Ninjutsu but makes up for it with his taijutsu. He has been on 30 D-rank, and 5 C-rank missions with his team." The boy continued. "Ok, here is Uzumaki…you requested your own teammate, hmm, I would expect you to know more about him than I do, but here it is, his overall skills are a mystery but he is considered a ninjutsu specialist, he has gone on 10 D-rank missions and 1 C-rank with his team, and…I guess this explains why you don't know much about him, he has finished 40 D-rank, 6 B-rank, and 8 A-rank missions alone with no back up, he has never failed a mission and there are rumors that he has returned from all his missions without a single scar. He is slowly becoming known throughout the world as Shinkukaen no Naruto; he is in the bingo book of cloud country and is considered highly dangerous."
Everyone in hearing distance was staring at Naruto in shock, this kid was considered a threat by another village, not just that but one of the big five villages that ruled the shinobi world.
"That is the, oh so scary Shinkukaen no Naruto that they talk about so much back home? No way, he is just a brat! Let's show him what it means to mess with the cloud!"
With these words a trio of cloud Genin jumped at the blond-haired Jinchuriki, to their doom.
As they came towards him Naruto pulled out three senbon needles from one of the pockets on his grey cargo pants and threw them at his attackers in one fluid motion. Two of the three Genin were hit in the neck and fell down unconscious while the third dodged the projectile and launched a kunai, Naruto caught the Kunai and spun around in one fluid motion dodging the follow up attack. Just as this was happening there was a large explosion of smoke and the examiners arrived.
"There will be no fighting unless the examiner allows it." Said the scar covered man leading the group.
"I apologies, Ibiki-san, the two I hit are alright they are simply unconscious, though I would like my senbon back."
The man looked from the relaxed-looking boy to the two Genin lying on the ground and at the remaining cloud Genin from that team. "this is your final warning, there will be no rule-breaking allowed."
"What if that means abandoning a comrade?"
"What if it does?"
"Those who break the rules are scum but those who abandon their comrades are worse than scum."
"You are Kakashi's student I take it." The examiner deadpanned.
"I am on his team, though he has yet to actually teach me anything."
"Alright everyone take your seats, not you," he said pointing to the boy from cloud and his now awakening comrades, "you are disqualified for attacking another examinee outside of exam rules, get out."
"WHAT? I'll get you for this Uzumaki!"
"You don't have to yell, I'm right here," Naruto said standing directly behind the boy, the tip of sharp metal object held against his back. "You dropped your kunai."
He gave the boy the sharp object, it was his kunai, or at least part of it, he had snapped it in half.
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This was ridiculous, there was no way he could answer these questions, no Genin could, well…maybe Shikamaru or Sakura. So what was the point, in the life of a ninja there is no such thing as an impossible task, so what was the trick?
Then it hit him, we only loose points if we get caught cheating, in the field a ninja may need to gather information for his village or client, without getting caught.
That's it! We are supposed to cheat without being spotted. So how am I supposed to do that, spying is one of my weakest skills, normally I would get Haku to do it for me and give me the answer…s, THAT'S IT!
Naruto sighed, this was a difficult trick he had designed for infiltration purposes, it was based on an explosive tag but it didn't explode, it did something else…it was perfect.
'I am so glad I took senbon throwing lessons from Haku-san.'
With that Naruto discreetly pulled out a special paper with a strange group of symbols and wrapped it around a senbon. He slipped the senbon into his hand and with a flick of his wrist launched it into the rafters not far from a very high-up window.
As the senbon struck the wall and got lodged, (he had put enough chakra into that throw to pierce solid stone) the note unrolled and in a puff of smoke a Kage Bushin appeared, it quickly hid and pulled a second note from under the first and tied that around the senbon and taking aim. He threw the senbon out of the slightly open window and proofed out of existence. Some of the examiners noticed this and grew confused, why did he do that?
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out side the window a chunin who had been assigned to watch the exam from outside to prevent anyone from helping the Genin saw a senbon leave the window and land in a bush, as he went to retrieve it, there was a large puff of smoke and twenty forms appeared around him looking like vague ninja wearing konoha hitai-ate. The man was startled, where did they come from, but before he could do anything they were gone with incredible speed. Wow, that was weird; I should tell Hokage-sama.
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A few minutes later in the village's ninja-library:
Iruka was walking past an isle when he spotted himself sitting in the middle of the floor greatly absorbed in paperwork. What was that, I never do my work at the library…wait I'm me, so who was that?
"Hey you! Why are you henged to look like me?" he practically yelled.
"Shh, quiet Iruka-kun it's me," the man puffed into smoke and turned into Kakashi, "I don't have a very good reputation with the librarians, and I needed to do some work on a confidential topic, sorry."
"May I ask…?"
"You may ask, and I may not answer."
"I see, just try to not ruin my reputation to much."
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In the Hokage's office:
"Ojiisan, can you help me with to answer this problem?" the elderly Hokage was shocked beyond words to see the complex mathematical equation that Konohamaru had just come to him with.
True to his name as the Professor he helped the boy learn the problem and how to solve it, after the boy had left Kakashi stepped in to the office through the window. "you know that was Naruto in disguise right?"
"It was an impressive disguise; it took me several minutes to realize that Konohamaru was planning to spend the entire day practicing stealth techniques."
"Hmm, he is quite clever to have done it this way, he sends clones to learn information and bring it back to him. He only asked you one of the questions so you had wouldn't realize that you were giving him answer for the first exam."
Just then Iruka arrived and stared at Kakashi for a minute, "how did you get here so fast? I just saw you in the library."
Before the two men could answer they were interrupted by a chunin from the exam entering the room with news of a group of unidentified ninja appearing near the exam room.
Kakashi could barely contain laughter as he explained the method that Naruto was using. "Some student has used shadow clones to gather information for him; he or she has sent clones in disguise around town to gather answers for the questions. I suppose there are two clones per question."
"But how is he going to get the answers? He would have to signal himself."
"Actually, shadow clones pass anything they learn to their creator after they are dispelled."
The four ninja stood and considered the level of planning behind this strategy, this kid really deserved to pass.
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in the exam room, Naruto noticed an odd coincidence, he was sitting directly beside a girl from his academy class, Hinata. She kept looking over at him quietly as though afraid that he might actually notice her.
He paused and thought about what he knew of her, it wasn't much.
She was a Hyuuga, one of the most powerful clans in konoha.
She was very shy, which was an uncommon trait for a Hyuuga.
She was the heiress of the clan but was not very popular with her clan.
She smelled strongly of pheromones whenever he was nearby.
"…wait…Pheromones? Does she…does she…like me? That's not possible, she is wealthy and powerful, her family would never allow it, and we have nothing in common, right?"
The more he thought about it the more it made sense, she was interested in him, but was too shy to say it, a crush. Well at least she wasn't as bad as Sasugay's fangirls.
"…Ano…Naruto-kun, do you need some help with the exam, I could let you copy…" she said so quietly that if not for his increased sense of hearing he wouldn't have noticed.
"Its ok, Hinata-chan" he whispered quietly, "I have it under control."
Just as he finished saying this he received the knowledge from one of his clones and quickly answered one of the questions.
As the examiners and Hinata watched in interest and confusion, Naruto wrote down one answer to an apparently random question and drifted off, and then with no warning he suddenly jumped slightly with an enlightened look of his face and answered another. This continued for several minutes until the first 9 questions were finished.
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It had taken twelve clones to actually get all the answers fully completed and that left eight clones and one question left. So what should the clones do for the last twenty minutes until the last question is given? What would Naruto do to pass the time?
PRANKING TIME!!!
One of the clones disguised as Kakashi went into the first bookstore he found, he made a bee line for the children's section and found a big pink children's book that he proceeded to reading, in full view of the window. Kakashi's rep would never recover.
Another clone took the form of Iruka and walked briskly towards the Hot springs this would be entertaining.
Still another clone chose the appearance of the strange man in the green spandex and went to a men's clothing store to try on suits.
"This would be amusing. Now what should I do," thought the real Naruto. "Oh, I know!"
Soon another three teams were disqualified as Naruto's senbon hit a mirror hanging from the ceiling causing it to reflect light directly into an examiners eye. Another shadow clone appeared in the rafters from the tag Naruto had thrown up there earlier. The clone changed to look like a random ninja with no village affiliation and his entire face covered then began to move through the rafters with great stealth until he found a spy camera. One of the Genin cursed loudly as his camera was made useless by some mysterious ninja who painted over the lens with ink.
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Soon the forty five minutes were up and the head examiner stood and told the Genin to chose whether or not they wanted to take the last question and risk staying a Genin forever.
After several teams surrendered he asked again, "is there anyone else who wants to quit while they're ahead?"
Naruto couldn't help it, he snorted loudly, this was all way too funny.
"How about you number 42"
"You know…this is actually quite funny, last time I was given this kind of choice it wasn't my promotion at stake…it was my life. Can you guess what I picked?" Naruto couldn't help but chuckle as he said it.
"I would guess that you chose to live," Answered the examiner as though it was obvious.
"Then you aren't qualified to judge this exam. I chose to complete my mission, they say that if you don't try you can't fail but really if you don't try then you have already failed."
"Hmm, an interesting way of looking at it, so is there anyone who still wants to quit?"
No one answered.
"Then you all pass."
Just then a large object broke through the window. There was a loud yelp of pain and a thud as the ninja that came out of the orb of cloth got struck by something partway through.
"Listen up -ow- kiddies I am, -ow- the examiner for the second -ow- exam -ow- Mitarashi Anko!"
"So does that mean you are not a hostile attacker?" a certain blond haired boy deadpanned.
"No, I'm not."
"Oh…so can I have my kunai back?"
The odd woman reached behind her and with a pained grunt and a hard tug pulled a kunai out.
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So do you like it, the exams have begun and Naruto is going to own all.
Don't forget to vote on the poll at the beginning of this page.
I have been working on deciding who Naruto will recruit for his organization in the future. I would like some ideas on who they should be and what kind of history they would have.
I have already decided about several already existent characters and I am mostly looking for original ideas.
If you have some ideas about new characters that would make good additions to the DRAGON'S TEATH please don't hesitate to send me suggestions.
Please note I am always looking for constructive criticism on my writing but please try not to send me emails filled with nonstop insults and swearwords. (Like the review by "Twizzer" by the way this review is for chapter 2 and is highly insulting and annoying)