Disclaimer: I do not own naruto.
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"How long do I have to do this? Its boring." exclaimed Naruto. A bead of sweat dripped down his chin, and onto the hard wood floor of the gym.
Orochimaru looked up from his clip board he furiously scribbling on. "Until you collapse from exhaustion. Remember this is a test, not a hobby." Naruto sighed and turned the page of the manga he was intently staring at.
Kidomaru curiously glanced at his watch and gasped. The blond had been running on a treadmill for an hour. The boy must have stamina of steel.
Kidomaru laid back on the rickety bench he was sitting on, and placed a baseball cap on his face to catch some Z's.
When he awoke, he sat up, the cap fell to the ground. He brought up his arm to check his watch. And for the second time that day he gasped. He'd slept for two hours. And Naruto was still running, with a bored expression on his face, reading a different manga.
He looked around and noticed he was joined by Tayuya on the bench. Her face held awe. Orochimaru's face held pure glee. Kidomaru was sure the otokage would blow up if his smile got any bigger. His snake like eyes shined brightly.
"Damn…" Tayuya spouted. "How much longer can you run like that?"
"A lot longer." answered naruto, not taking his eyes off the manga.
Kidomaru smiled. "I'm getting tired just looking at you." Naruto smirked, then turned around still running, until he was facing Orochimaru running backwards.
"Hey snaky, when can I leave? I could really go for a sundae right now." he said hungrily. Orochimaru wrote down a note on his clipboard and said. "Right now actually." he replied. Naruto smiled in delight.
"Finally. Lets go! To the kitchen!" he stepped off the speedy treadmill. The device slowed to a stop. He stopped just like the treadmill, when Orochimaru interjected.
"Oh, wait Naruto, I have information for you three." the snake man took three headbands from his robe. Tayuya, Kidomaru, and Naruto gathered in front of Orochimaru. The man stood and stepped closer to them. He held up the head bands for them to see a music symbol engraved into the metal. Tayuya was confused. The symbol was that of oto, the village Orochimaru ruled.
"What are these for." she asked as she grabbed one of the three headbands. Orochimaru gave the other two there head bands.
"These head bands symbolize the honor of the sound village. Shinobi wear them to show there respect to there village. But instead you three will wear them to bled in to the standard shinobi image." he replied. Naruto's eyebrows raised in knots of confusion. Why couldn't Orochimaru just answer the question bluntly. He repetedly tapped his foot in agitation.
"What do mean? What are blending in for?" he asked. Orochimaru smirked.
"You three will wear these head bands and pretend to be oto nins for the upcoming chunin exams, that are to be held in konoha tomorrow."
Naruto glared harshly, his eyes flashing in hatred. "Why would I want to go back there?" he spat out, and crossed his arms defiantly.
The sanin smiled his mouth muscles tight. "Because, I'm going to impersonate the kazekage, kill my old sensei Sarutobi, and finally destroy the leaf village." he laughed out loud.
The evil sound scared some guards in the hallway, and one even wet his pants. Naruto uncrossed his arms, and smiled a positively happy smile.
"I'm in." his smile morphed into a smirk.
"Me too!" Kidomaru exclaimed and pumped his fist in the air. "I could meet some strong opponents!" They all looked over to Tayuya, who in turn, sweat dropped.
"I guess I'm in too, I cant help but want to pummel some dumb leaf shinobi until they cry." she cracked her knuckles. They all smirked up at Orochimaru, and tied there new head bands on there foreheads. He smirked back. "perfect, the leaf village stands no chance." he thought. Little did he now that a certain foxes thoughts ran the same course.
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The next day Tayuya, Kidomaru, and Naruto gathered at the entrance of the base. Naruto used the extra time to examine the mold on the walls.
Orochimaru emerged from one of the many spiraling hallways. He was disguised as a black haired jonin. A oto headband secured firmly around the mans forehead. "Okay, before we go, Naruto you need to change your appearance, we don't want anyone to recognize you in konoha."
Naruto turned away from the mold, smiled and crossed his arms over his chest. In a flash of red, there stood a red haired teen with smoldering ruby red eyes. Naruto's black ski hat was still placed on his head. He now wore a black short sleeve shirt, and black jeans. He kept his striped long sleeved under shirt. But the black strips were now red. He kept his untied high-tops. His name tag was also missing. Orochimaru nodded in approval, and shushined(SP?) them to the village gates.
At the looming gates, two guards greeted them with there standard hello.
"Passports" one ordered in a commanding voice. The sound ninja ,except Naruto, flinched at his tone. This guy was a dead man walking for ordering Orochimaru around. To the surprise of Tayuya and Kidomaru, the sanin just smiled kindly, and pulled four passports out of his purple jonin vest. The guards emerald eyes scanned the papers, and handed them back. He nodded and signaled the other guard to open the gates. The gigantic gates opened dramatically and they walked through into the sunny streets of konoha.
The disguised Orochimaru led them through the busy streets that made up the village to the hokage tower.
They went inside the building and waited until the secretary called them to enter the office.
The strong smell of tobacco hit there noses when the headed into the old mans office. Naruto winced when he heard the aged hokage welcoming voice, Tayuya noticed.
"Welcome to the leaf village, for the chunin exams." the wrinkled mans voice boomed. Orochimaru smirked at the familiar tone.
"Greetings hokage-sama. My name is Akino, and this is my genin team, Tayuya, Kidomaru, and Renjiro." Orochimaru now dubbed Akino, respectfully bowed. Sarutobi smiled, and handed Orochimaru a piece of paper.
"Here's the address of the hotel you, and your team will be staying at." the hokage slid out of his chair slowly. "I hope you, and your team will have a great stay at konoha." he held out his hand, which Orochimaru shook.
"I'm positive it will be a very fun trip indeed." replied Orochimaru, and bowed. The hokage smiled and waved goodbye. The sanin in disguise then ushered they team out of the door, and into the street.
"I'm positive" he whispered once out of hearing range with the old man.
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The door to the sound nins hotel room slammed open. Having been kicked open by the one, the only, Naruto. Tayuya rubbed her temples tensely. Kidomaru laughed.
"You didn't have to kick it open fuckface!" she yelled angrily. Naruto looked back at her, a foxy grin placed on his face, and with the shiny red hair he really looked like a fox. He swiveled his hips in a alluring way. "Why yes, I did tayu-chan. It was locked." he grinned evan more and jumped on the first bed he had set his eyes on. Kidomaru followed after.
Tayuya glared at him from the doorway. "Why do I have to share a room with you losers?" Orochimaru emerged from the hallway, not unlike the way he did back at the base.
"Because, its cheaper to get only one room." he walked into the room and headed strait to the bathroom, to steal all the soap and mini shampoos. Because what's more evil than stealing free merchandise from a hotel.
Tayuya huffed and grabbed the bed closest to the window. Kidomaru ran to the glass and smashed his face up against it. "So, Naruto this is where you used to live?" the spider boy called out, looking over the people below the window. The blond nodded, his face taking on a weird look. He smiled and made his way to the window where Kidomaru was.
He unlatched the sliding window and opened it. His mouth twisted up as if collecting something. He stuck his head out and aimed. His neck craned as he hacked a loogy on some unexpecting villagers. He quickly yanked his head back into the window after hearing a disgusted yell from below.
"Ahahahahahahahahahah!..nice one!" Tayuya laughed, as she fell back onto the cushioned bed. Kidomaru smirked. And Orochimaru had yet to leave the bathroom.
They waited in silence before Kidomaru yelled out.
"I want to go sightseeing!"
"Fuck…you don't have to scream!" yelled back Tayuya. Her ears ringing.
"Well sorry for being excited to be in a new village." he defended. Naruto got up from his bed, and brushed off imaginary dirt from his pants. "We can go sightseeing. I know how to get everywhere." Kidomaru visibly brightened. "YES!" he excitedly pulled Naruto and a cursing Tayuya out of the door.
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Orochimaru emerged out of the bathroom, his eyes searched around and he frowned. "Where did those brats go." he bent down and checked under the bed, and behind the curtains, and under weirdly place rocks, but found no trace of them. Little did he know that they left the hotel already to go sightseeing. He continued to search the whole hotel.
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"ohhhhhh, ahhhhhhhhh,ohhhhhhhh,ahhhhhhhhh." Kidomaru exclaimed wildly as they walked through the streets of konoha. Naruto and Tayuya behind him dragging there feet, making loud scuffleling noises. They had been dragged around all of konoha twice. Evan Naruto with his incredible stamina was tired. But Kidomaru had yet to run out of energy as he continued onward.
"Why the fuck is he so excited about? Its just a bunch of trees and streets." Tayuya asked Naruto. He shrugged. "Maybe he's from mars. They don't have any trees there." he whispered back. She stifled a snort. Naruto smiled and unwrapped a tootsie pop, and popped it into his mouth.
"I swear if he makes one more sound I'm going to strangle him." she completed the statement by making choking motions with her hands.
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhh, ohhhhhhhhhhh."
"That's it! You're a dead man!" she yelled. And jerked forward to choke Kidomaru. But stopped when they heard a sound in the next deserted street.
"Hey kid you got dirt on my shirt! Your gonna pay." a male voice came from the street. A younger female voice talked next. "Please leave him alone. We were just playing around."
The sound nins walked around to see a suna nin wearing some kind of cat like garb and purple face paint, holding up a kid by his scarf. A blond suna nin with a big fan on her back stood behind him. On the other side was a pink haired girl wearing a red battle dress, and a boy with brown hair and yellow clothes, who was shivering as if he was cold.
"Hmm..I see a fight brewing." Naruto got a giddy look on his face. "I just love senseless fights."
Tayuya stared down at them with a scowl on her face. All these Children were genin by the head bands on their person. She added a glare to her intimating look. How did they pass the exam? They looked weak to her. Expesahaly the pink haired one. Naruto walked over to them, Tayuya and Kidomaru followed him.
The blond switched his lolly pop to the other cheek with his tongue. "hey I'sent that the hokage grandson?" he looked back to Tayuya. She searched her brain for the information.
"Yeah. It seems that the suna fucktards are threatening the hokages grandson." the pink haired girl looked alarmed at her language. Obviously she was taught how to drink tea and eat crumpets with her grandmother. Just like all good girls were. But Tayuya was not your average girl. Far from it.
The suna nin imminently set the boy down gently. And glared at the also glaring Tayuya. "And who are you?" he snarled.
Naruto smiled tightly, and held out his hand to the frazzled pink haired girl, completely ignoring the suna nin.
"Hello, my name is Renjiro, what's your name miss." he politely bowed. The girl blushed and shook his hand. "Sakura Haruno." she answered flattered, but still a bit frazzled. Tayuya's glare intensified.
"And you?" he turned to the brown haired boy. The boy gripped his hand gingerly. "M-Michio." he stuttered, but managed to get out. By now the male suna nin was fuming.
"Don't ignore us you oto trash." he spat. The female blonde behind him looked alarmed. "Kankuro, you better not start a fight, or you- know- who will come." her eyes searched the trees that lined the area.
The boy, Kankuro smirked back at her. "Don't worry Tamari, they started it not me."
He turned back to naruto and grabbed the foxy boy by his shirt and lifted his up off the ground. Naruto looked unfazed. "Hey punk, you cant go around making fun of suna." he said his face inches away from Naruto's. He was trying to look intimidating. It was cute actually.
"And why not?" the blond smirked. Kankuro raised a fist.
A pebble flew out of the tree line and smacked Kankuro's hand. The puppet user yelped and imminently let go of Naruto, who landed gracefully on his feet, like a cat.
Everyone turned to see a boy with a duck butt hairdo sitting on a branch. He was throwing a pebble up, and then catching it with his hand.
"Sasuke-kun!" Sakura squealed. The oto nins grimaced hearing the squeal. The boy, Sasuke crushed the pebble dramatically.
"You should pick on someone your own size." he said coolly. Sakura swooned. Naruto sweat dropped 'Someone your owe size? I'm not that small' he thought. Tayuya glared. Sakura was a fan girl. 'Eckk' she thought.
"Wait a minute here…sas-uke!" naruto laughed. "What kind of name is that." he completed. Kidomaru broke into fits of man giggles. Sasuke glared at them, but turned his attention back to Kankuro.
"You shouldn't start fights in enemy territory." he stated. Kankuro glared. "This kid knocked into to me, and dirtied my shirt!" he pointed at Konohamaru.
"Kankuro you're a disgrace to our village." a gravelly voice spoke from the tree Sasuke was on. The duck butt haired one turned his head to reveal a red haired boy, upside down on a tree branch.
'What? How did I not see him.' Sasuke thought in awe.
The red head disappeared in a swirl of sand and appeared next to the flustered Kankuro. "G-Gaara" was said boys reaction. Gaara turned toward them. "I apologize for my brothers behavior." his monotone voice unemotionally droned. Naruto smiled, his left cheek bulging out because of the lolly, and extended his hand to Gaara.
"Hello, my name is Renjiro, what's your name." he asked politely, even though he new the answer. Surprisingly Gaara took the hand, and red met aqua as they locked eyes.
"Gaara of the desert." the gourd wearing boy let go of Naruto's, not shaking it. Naruto's stayed extended for a brief and forgettable second, until he pulled back.
"Why are you in konoha?" Sasuke interrupted looking directly at Gaara. Tamari answer instead. "Haven't you heard, the chunin exams are being held here. Our sensei sighed us up."
"Us too" Kidomaru smirked when Sakura's eyes bulged when she noticed his extra arms. Tayuya frowned. This meeting was way too long for her tastes. And the girls pink hair was starting to blind her.
"Lets go. This is too boring." she turned on her heal, before she got an answer and started to leave. Naruto and Kidomaru followed her back to the hotel.
Naruto was lost in his thoughts. That kid, Gaara was a jinchuuriki just like him.
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Tayuya sighed when she leaned back onto the soft cotton sheets of the hotels bed. Her aching back and feet felt sweet relief from the pressure of the chunin exams. The first test was scheduled for tomorrow. But all those thoughts flew away from her when she laid on the comfy bed.
She turned over in bed and opened her eyes. An empty bed lay three feet next to her. Naruto was in the hotels arcade trying to pass the time. Apparently he didn't sleep, at all! the black circles around his eyes were from insomnia, not mascara. She was glad to hear that he didn't wear make up. She shrugged 'who knew'. Her eyelids drooped until she was carried away into a dreamless piece.
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Okay hopefully this keep's you guys at bay, while I get load on studying for tests. Stupid mathematics -.-
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