True Jinchuriki
The Forest Of Death
Disclaimer: as you most likely realize by now, I don't own Naruto, if you think I own Naruto then you are an idiot, I WOULD NEVER MAKE MY MAIN CHARACTER SUCH A MORON! And there isn't nearly enough Sasuke-kicking in the regular manga.
So far the polls read
Dragons: 7
Foxes: 9
Wolves: 3
Toads: 1 (some have said that it should be his second summon, but I as the author have decided that you can only have one contract unless it's a bloodline trait. )
Personally I like dragons as his summon, because:
Foxes are overused, toads are just not right somehow, and wolves … well actually I was originally going to go with wolves but dragons are cooler.
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"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.
"So you're the wise guy who threw this at me!"
"You burst through the window during a NINJA exam and we were not informed as to what the exam will be so for all I know it might have something to do with testing our reflexes."
"I see." With that she whipped the kunai straight at Naruto's face.
He didn't even flinch as the kunai cut a tiny scratch on his cheek. To the shock of everyone on that side of him, the wound closed almost as quickly as it appeared.
"Thank you." He said as he picked the kunai from the desk behind him, as though nothing had happened.
The strange woman's face twisted into a maniacal smirk, "maybe there is some hope for this lot after all." She muttered under her breath, "or maybe not," she finished with a sweatdrop as she saw the horrified Genin staring at Naruto.
"Alright meet me tomorrow at the location your jonin instructors will give you tomorrow, don't be late."
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"NARUTO! What did you do?"
"I have no idea what you are talking about Kakashi-sensei?"
"You ruined my reputation; it took me years to cultivate that reputation!"
"Huh? Oh hi Iruka-senpai, what happened to your face?"
"I was suddenly set upon by a large number of angry (and wet) kunoichi while I was marking papers for my class. You wouldn't have any connection to this would you?"
"How could I? I was taking the exam all day." He answered thoughtfully, "or did this happen yesterday?"
Before Iruka could answer he was interrupted by a boy and his dog, "wait, how could you not know if it happened today or yesterday? We all saw Iruka-sensei yesterday night."
Iruka looked over at Kiba, "that was to test whether or not you were ready to take the exam; just to make me certain that you were strong enough. I already know that Naruto is more than good enough to do be a chunin."
Kiba and his teammates just looked at Iruka and Naruto in surprise, "so you weren't sure that we were ready enough but you have complete confidence in the dead last of our class?"
"There is one difference between me and you. You showed your true abilities in the academy."
"Actually, Kiba-kun…Naruto's final marks weren't at the bottom of the class, they were higher than several students, after that is Naruto got a perfect score on the final Genin exam."
The surrounding konoha ninja stared at him in surprise (no one had ever gotten a perfect score) as he continued, "Naruto's marks throughout the term ranged from 1 to 13 until the exam which bumped the final grade to 57 technically, the lowest mark was 54"
The observers were left speechless.
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"Welcome to the forest of death, this will be the location for the next exam."
"So… we are supposed to go in there?" asked Sakura with a nervous look on her face.
"Don't worry fangirl I wont let anything kill you; I have a feeling that if one of my teammates dies I will probably get disqualified." Naruto said with a cheery grin.
"Alright, first things first, I need you all to sign a consent form," the examiner stated, "From this point on people will be dieing."
As the forms were passed out she continued, "this is a map of the region," she held up a map of the region "in this limited area you will be doing a special anything goes survival test, you will be competing for these scrolls."
She explained the rules further but the moment Naruto heard the words anything goes his face twisted into a maniacal grin that sent shivers down everyone's spines. This was going to get interesting.
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"I'll be back in a moment; I need to…relieve myself."
Moments after he left, Naruto reappeared, saying "man, I must have peed two liters!"
As Sakura began to berate him about being rude, Sasuke struck.
His fist connected with Naruto's face and sent him into a tree, Sasuke followed with a kick that lifted his opponent off of the ground.
As Naruto landed he cried out, "what the hell was that you bastard!"
"You aren't a very good judge of character, the real Naruto may act like a clown at times but he wouldn't have behaved like that, also he didn't actually go to pee. For that mater your holster is on the wrong side."
"Oh you are good." Said the ninja as he dispelled the henge,
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Meanwhile a short distance away
Naruto landed on a tree branch, he was wearing his grey cargo pants and a black shirt with a spiral design on the front. His hitai-ate was tied around his forehead to keep the hair out of his eyes and he wore an orange jacket with no sleeves.
He stopped and discreetly moved the hem of his jacket away from the hilt of his sword.
As he jumped down onto the ground, four teams of cloud ninja came out from hiding, "so, you are the infamous Shinkukaen, I'm disappointed, you're just some kid." One of the cloud-nin said.
"And that is why you need twelve people to take me down?"
He went through several hand signs and smashed his hands into the ground. Spikes of stone exploded from the ground all around him, impaling five of the kumo-nin.
One of those that dodged threw a kunai at the blond, but he sprung from the ground into the air bringing his knees to his chest and doing hand signs in mid air, as he landed Naruto launched his hands out to his sides.
A wave of wind roared outwards in all directions knocking his attackers into the trees and rocks around them. Before they could recover he was moving, he made sure that most were unconscious and quickly disabled those that were not.
After tying them up, he searched through their belongings for some scrolls.
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Shikamaru dived into the bushes pulling his teammates after him, a team of foreign ninja arrived on the scene moments later.
The group looked around, they were about to leave when an orange blur descended upon them.
This blur was quickly identified as painful-death incarnate.
After landing on the head of one of the ninja, and in so doing snapping his scrawny neck Naruto stabbed the other two in the sides with kunai and proceeded to punch them each several times until they fell.
From their hiding place, team ten watched as their intended target made short work of three older shinobi.
After retrieving the scroll from the one he had stepped on, Naruto paused and looked at the potato chip in the forest floor. He looked around and his eye landed on the bush.
The three Genin tensed. "Hi Choji-san, Shikamaru-san, and you too fangirl number two."
"It's been a while Naruto-san, shouldn't you be with your team?"
"I had a bunch of kumo shinobi chasing me, so I led them away from the others, I'm sure Sasugay-kun can handle things until I get back."
"Hmm, I see, there are some dangerous people in this exam, your teem might need you."
"True…"he paused "good luck, look for those three rock ninja who wear a lot of metal spikes, they should be easy prey."
With that he left.
Choji and Ino just stared after him with open mouths; Choji absentmindedly continued to eat his chips.
"Well we had better get moving, you heard what he said."
"Wait what? What do you mean?" Ino asked.
"We need to scout out that team he mentioned. It's obvious that we can't continue that plan to target Naruto's team, considering how strong he has gotten." He answered bluntly.
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"Damn, where the hell did they go? Looks like there was a big fight here some time ago, I'd better go find them and make sure they're alright. Seriously I can't leave them for a second." Naruto muttered as he looked around the wrecked area for any sign of his team.
"Where could they have gone? I was only gone for a little while, and they managed to get themselves into trouble already." He stopped. "Well… what have we here?" he frowned and crouched down to examine the markings, "someone is trying to avoid being followed, but they aren't very good at it, Sasuke may be arrogant but even he is better than this. That leaves only one person, Sakura. Damn by the looks of things, Sasuke's been disabled and he's being looked after by a pathetic fangirl, crap,crap,crap!" with these words he was off, running like the wind.
Then he stopped. "This is going to be harder than expected, I can't follow this trail to fast, and I will have to stay on the ground, it'll take me hours to find them." He sighed, "Note to self, get Haku to teach me how to track people better."
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"I will protect you until I die!"
"What, but aren't we supposed to be enemies right now?"
"I said before didn't I, I will protect you."
"Hey, who the hell are you?" yelled the bandage wrapped sound ninja.
"I am the beautiful green beast of Konoha, Rock Lee!"
As the bandage covered ninja attacked, lee plunged his hand into the ground and pulled out a massive tree root to block the attack
"There is some trick to your attack, I've seen it before." He began to unwrap the bandages around his hands.
"That time is now Gai-sensei. Time to protect a precious person!" he burst into motion, leaving the visible spectrum.
He planted a kick on his opponents chin and followed with shadow of the dancing leaf, "I'm not done yet." His bandages began to wrap around the stunned sound ninja.
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As he arrived, Naruto saw Lee fall, this was bad. He was in a tree not far away looking at the scene.
He watched mesmerized as Sakura and team ten put up a valiant fight against much stronger foes but they were not going to win.
Completely ignoring the deadly chakra that began to pour from the downed Uchiha he charged, calling every bit of speed that he could into one attack.
"KIIRODENKOU!" (Yellow lightning: it's kind of like the dynamic entry)
The mummy boy from sound was just about to attack the assembled konoha Nins when he suddenly had to jump to avoid a golden streak that smashed into the ground where he had just been standing.
As the dust cleared, the Genin were left staring at Naruto, balanced on one fist, upside down, in a crater the size an elephant.
He flexed his arm for a moment then pushed himself straight up into the air, flipping himself over onto his feet, "don't tell me you were going to have a party without me." He said with a cheeky grin.
"Naruto-san, where were you! Your youthful teammates required your aid and you abandoned them!"
"Yes that's right, I should have stayed with the team and let the four teams that were following me join up with whoever attacked them. How foolish of me, I could have destroyed them on my own and save my team from having to fight such an overwhelming number of enemies."
"I see, in that case I apologies."
"Don't, I was being serious about the last part." He deadpanned.
"Ha! You think you could take on Orochimaru-sama? I'll show this clown a lesson, he may be fast but my attacks are even faster," Said the spiky haired sound Genin as he stepped forward to attack the new arrival.
Before anyone could react Naruto vanished, and reappeared with his fist in the boy's gut. He pulled back his hand and brought his foot up above the head of his doubled-over opponent. A powerful axe kick smashed the sound ninja's face into the ground just as Sasuke was waking up.
"What happened here?"
"SASUKE-KUN! YOU'RE AWAKE!"
"Oh, you woke up; well if you had woken up a few moments earlier I wouldn't have to fight your battles for you," was the comment from his male teammate.
"What the hell do you mean by that dobe?"
"These guys were sent to kill you, and since you were unconscious, Sakura had to fight them. You know perfectly well that she's useless in a fight! It's just a good thing I got here in time."
"So they are the ones who did that to Sakura," Naruto paused as he saw the strange markings spreading across the Uchiha's face.
"Hey, Sasuke-teme, what the fuck happened to you, your chakra has changed, and it feels…like…mine…" Naruto's eyes grew wide as realization dawned on him, "oh fuck, EVERYONE DOWN, GET AWAY FROM HIM!"
As the konoha nins looked on in horror, their precious Uchiha mercilessly attacked the sound ninja's, the boy that Naruto had hit was just getting back up when his shoulder was hit with enough force to shatter the bone and throw him into a tree some distance away.
As he continued his rampage he was stopped by his teammate, "calm down Uchiha, you can't let the rage control you, I know how it feels but you mustn't give in."
"you know nothing dobe, I have more power than ever before, I have been given a gift and I will wield it to destroy all who stand in my way!"
"That power is not your own, it is a corruption that will eat away at your very soul until there is nothing left! In the end it will destroy you! If you give in then you will eventually betray us all and be consumed by hatred!"
He had listened enough, this fool was trying to make him give up his power, he was scared that he was going to be defeated, he was afraid of this new power that Sasuke had been given. No, he would not be allowed to get in the way.
The class genius charged at his teammate, Sharingan spinning and dark energy swirling around him. But he was stopped, the dark chakra was thrown aside like so much useless trash, and his eyes could barely follow the movements of Naruto's hands as he struck with inhuman speed, and strength. His fists struck hard against Sasuke's stomach, chest and jaw, several times finally ending with a roundhouse kick that sent him flying headfirst into a tree.
"Sasuke-kun, please stop, please." He froze; there was a girl with short pink hair hugging him from behind.
Naruto sighed as he watched the marks recede. He turned his attention to the last standing sound ninja, the leader.
"Look, we are beaten, just take our scroll and let us leave." The mummy boy said in a pleading tone of voice.
"Scram"
The sound trio was gone.
"Hey, guys…thank for risking your necks for my teammates, I'd pay you back but…" he paused as though hit with a sudden stroke of brilliance, "say, what scrolls do you guys have?"
Team ten and the newly arrived team Gai just stared at him oddly, "why do you want to know?" Neji seamed to be the only person brave enough to speak.
"Well…I happen to have gathered three sets of scrolls…well actually I have two earth and four heaven scrolls, so…" he just drifted off.
"We can get our own, lee will be fine in a couple of hours and we just have to find a team to defeat." The Hyuuga would not accept handouts.
"We have an earth scroll, thanks."
"Shikamaru! What do you think you're doing?"
"As I said before, there are no teams here who are weaker than us and it would be troublesome to try and find one." The lazy genius strikes again.
"Please relax Ino-san, a ninja takes advantage of any opportunity and my offer is in no way an insult to your skills it is just payment for your help." He sad calmly, "it is your choice to not accept it Hyuuga-senpai, however your teammate risked quite a bit to help my team, I feel it is our duty to repay him somehow. The only other thing I can think of at this time is for Sakura-chan to go on a date with him for saving her life."
The aforementioned pink haired girl just stared at her teammate in shock, was he just using her as a prize of some sort. "I am not a trophy you Baka!"
He ignored her, "I'm sure I can find some way to convince her, like that time I got all the girls in our class to wear short skirts by spreading a rumor that Sasuke liked being able to see a girls legs." He said ignoring the looks he was getting from his classmates.
"Naruto-san, you are my hero." A certain big-boned ninja stated in a reverent tone.
This cost him some very angry stares from two kunoichi and Sasuke.
"So you're the reason that seventeen girls flashed me in one day."
"It was unintentional; I had a bet with the Hokage that I could use my prinking skills for good. After that incident nearly all the boys in the class started working harder and attendance improved."
Cue mass sweatdrop.
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"It's just through here, k just one moment." Naruto preformed a series or hand signs and bit his thumb, and then he pressed the blood to a reasonably flat part or the cliff face.
A mild rumbling shook the area as a door came into view directly in front of him.
"Good its still here." He opened the door with another group of hand signs. "Come on, I have medical supplies and emergency food rations in here."
Sakura and Sasuke just followed him cautiously as he lead them into a smooth tunnel into the mountain, ahead there was a door and a staircase going down. He went down the stairs and motioned for the other two to follow, "welcome to my training camp, it's also stocked as a bunker in case I have to hide out from someone; there are even a bunch of escape passages."
"You have a secret house in the forest of death, why?"
"Unlike you, Uchiha I was never very popular with the villagers, they even tried to kill me on a regular basis so after I started my training I decided to find a place I could go to train in peace. All the other training grounds had people who used them and always kicked me out, except this one guy in green spandex who was just kind of creepy. Then I found this forest, the perfect place for me. The villagers always called me a demon so I thought what better place for a demon to live than in the most intimidating place in town."
"So you built this place?"
"That's right Sakura-san; I used it as a training exercise for Doton Jutsu."
"So this is why you're so at home in this forest, you actually live here. Hmm, it would explain why your apartment looks like it hasn't been used in years. Does anyone else know about this?"
"Just Zabuza-san and Haku-san, they are actually living with me currently but they left for the duration of this test."
"THOSE TWO ARE LIVING HERE WITH YOU?" The pink haired kunoichi cried.
"It's quite big; we have a lot of rooms and everything."
"Isn't going to your house cheating?"
"A ninja uses everything at their disposal when on a mission; we have a safe house with medical supplies."
"So you think the examiners won't care?"
"We just need to treat your wounds and then we are off to the tower, its not like we spent the entire test in a hidden bunker. We completed the mission, that's all that matters."
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The third day into the exam:
"Well, there is the tower, just a few miles away. We can get to it just after we get out of this Genjutsu, can you see the people using it Sasuke-san?"
"Three of them, in the trees."
"I know that, but where exactly are they?"
"What, cant you find them yourself dobe?"
"I could but it would take longer and they might get away. So where are they?"
"Ten meters to the left, in the top branches of that big oak."
"Sigh, all the oaks are big teme." He said as he started doing hand signs, "this should teach them." He grinned maniacally as he finished the hand signs.
There was a massive explosion from the tree that Sasuke had pointed out. "Bakuretsu bushin no jutsu."
The trio continued on their path, Sakura was revaluating her life, Sasuke was seething in hatred, and Naruto was happily dreaming of the day he became a chunin and no longer had to work on the same team as these two losers.
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Sorry it took me so long to make this most recent update, I had a lot of trouble coming up with a way to still give Sasuke the seal, without having Naruto kick Orochimaru's ass all the way to Kazakhstan. If this latest chapter seams worse than the previous ones, please don't take this as a drop in the quality of my work.
Please keep voting on what you think Naruto's summons should be.
Foxes, Dragons or wolves oh my! (Or toads but they seam to be out of the running currently)
In case my reviewers haven't noticed, I try to answer most of my reviews if they are interesting, and I usually try to answer any questions that you ask, please feel free to ask me questions or just tell me what you think, constructive criticism is appreciated.