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Thanks to all you people reading my story. You guys are great and I appreciate all the reviews. Time for chapter seven of Naruto: A New Destiny.
--By the Forest of Death--
Naruto saw who was the second test examiner and thought, 'No not her. Anyone, but her. She'll torture us all.' Then Anko said, "Okay you little brats, follow me." They all followed and one grass-nin looked very amused.
Naruto decided to pretend to be the overconfident kid who didn't know what he was doing. Naruto said, "So guys you ready to kick this exam's butt." Shikamaru slightly smirked as he realized what his blonde friend was doing.
Then he let his instinct take over as he swatted a kunai that was coming at him out of the air. Anko flashed up to him and said, "Oh you're able to stop a kunai in mid-air, are you? Anyone can do that this part of the exam is dangerous. The forest will take a cocky kid like you and kill you faster then you believe."
Under his mask Naruto smirked and said, "Bring it on." She scowled picked up her kunai off the floor and said, "The rules of the exam is simple, there are two types of scrolls, heaven and earth, each team will get one. There are twenty-six scrolls all together. You need both types of scrolls to get into the tower. If you open the scroll you're instantly disqualified. All your teammates must be present. You'll have three days from when the bell rings. Come get your scrolls and sign your release forms."
Team seven did just that and got a heaven scroll. Naruto decided to let Choji hold it because of his raw power. They went to a gate and waited for things to get going. When they heard the bell and the gates opened they ran in. They knew that they were going to be targeted because they were rookies.
After about five hours later Naruto sensed a presence and gave Hinata the signal. "Byakugan," She mumbled. The veins around her eyes popped out signaling it was active. She mouthed grass and gave a quick glance to where they were hiding.
Naruto yelled, "NOW!" The clones he sent around the perimeter went to the three locations and forced them out of hiding. The grass-nin were wrestled to the floor where Shikamaru caught them in a Kagemane (Shadow Possession). Hinata used her Byakugan to find which of them carried the scroll.
Naruto looted the one that did and he cheered, "Lucky, lucky an earth scroll." He knocked them out and as if on cue the three sound ninjas from earlier came out and said, "Give us your heaven scroll if you want to live." Instead of answering Naruto just cracked his knuckles. Dosu said, "You have chosen your fate and it is death, you little waste of space." Choji was charging towards him as he cried, "Bubun Baika no Jutsu (Partial Multi-Size Jutsu)."
His giant fist slammed straight into Dosu, who was sent flying through a tree. Choji angrily said, "Don't talk down to my teammate." Dosu got up, he had to admit that it was a good hit, but he said, "What's a fatass like you gonna do about it?" Naruto looked at him and said, "You're going to wish that you never said that."
Dosu doubted that until he saw this Akimichi firing rapid-fire punches at him. Choji was charging at him with speeds that were due to Kakashi's training screaming, "You insult my team, you underestimate me, and you call me fat. You're…Going…Down." The other two sound-nins weren't doing anything, amazed by the leaf-nin's raw power.
Dosu weakly said, "Enough games Kin-chan, Zaku-kun help me out." Kin started throwing senbons at Choji, but they were deflected by Hinata. Zaku was about to shoot a air attack until he was hit with Shikamaru's chain. Naruto expected Dosu to be the strongest so he decided to help out Choji.
"Oh the cute little rookie wants to fight ME," said an overconfident Kin. Hinata got into her Juuken stance and said, surprisingly confidently, "Don't underestimate me." She rushed her opponent striking her left shoulder gently, but it left a great sting. Kin reassessed her enemy thinking, 'Crap, how did I not see she was a Hyuuga before? It does not matter, I just can't let her get close to me.'
This task proved easier said then done. Hinata could get through any wave of senbons that she threw and she continuously got hit in various places. Her body was sore and in a few attacks she would collapse. Her chakra reserve was near empty from trying to counter the Juuken, with somewhat successful results. It weakened the effect, but took a toll on her chakra. Hinata was getting tired and she kicked Kin on the head knocking her out.
Shikamaru's battle was going just fine. He noticed that the guy named Zaku had altered his arm and it allowed him to shoot violent blasts of air through it. Shikamaru smirked as he said, "Don't you know the elemental chart? Fire beats wind, Katon: Goukakyu no Jutsu (Fire Release: Great Fireball Jutsu)." The air from Zaku's attack was quickly beaten by the fireball.
He was winded and burned, but he managed to survive. Shikamaru quickly knocked him out by hitting him on the head with his chain. Choji and Naruto were double-teaming the leader. Choji got hit by a sound amplified attack and Naruto went in and punched him. Since it was two on one the battle was over quickly, but the sucker did manage to put up a fight.
Shikamaru looked though their unconscious bodies and asked, "Hey Naruto-kun should we take this earth scroll of theirs?" Naruto looked at them and said, "No, we already have one we really don't need another." Shikamaru shrugged and decided to take some kunai and shuriken from them.
Naruto heard a loud scream coming from the west. He looked at Hinata and she said, "I-it looks like four shi-shinobi are taking on another one. Wait two of the fo-four are unconscious and one is completely still. I can't tell who they are, but jud-judging by their numbers it is probable from the "Rookie Twelve", r-right Naruto-kun." Naruto nodded and cursed that he would have to help now.
The group got there and saw it was Team Ten. Naruto silently cursed at his luck. He then saw who Sasuke was fighting. He was shocked and turned to his team and said, "Get these guys out of here go to our camp site. There is no way Sasuke-tebe can beat this snake by himself." Shikamaru caught this comment and asked, "You don't mean HIM, do you?" Naruto nodded gravely.
Shikamaru continued, "Then you should grab Sasuke-tebe and get out of there. If you fight him it is a suicide mission." Naruto said, "I need to, plus he won't drop a fight." Shikamaru looked gravely and said, "You heard our captain, we need to get these people out of here." They all grabbed someone and ran off quickly.
The ninja Sasuke was fighting noticed the sudden loss of prey. He thought it was just himself and Sasuke around, until Naruto punched him in his face. Naruto grabbed his arm and threw him. The ninja simply landed on a tree and sent several kunai at Naruto. Naruto caught them and threw them to the floor. Sasuke decided that he needed to help in order to save his Uchiha pride.
The battle was fierce and it seemed that the two ninjas from Konoha stood up to this ninja. Sasuke activated his Sharingan and tried to make an opening. Every blown threw was fired right back at him. Sasuke got kicked back and Naruto jumped over him and tried to get a roundhouse kick to the snake's head, but he almost got his leg broken in the process. He threw Naruto to the side and attacked Sasuke.
Naruto used his Kage Bunshin no Jutsu (if you don't know what this is look it up) and swarmed the sannin. He got a lot of blows on the guy before he drew his sword from his mouth. He decimated the clones with ease and grazed Naruto with the tip of his sword.
Naruto winced as he knew there was poison on it, but he heard his resident say, "Not to worry young kit, I will deal with the poison continue your fight with the enraging snake." Naruto decided that the Kyuubi would deal with it and went on fighting.
When the imposter grass-nin decided it was getting out of hand he bit Sasuke's neck forming a tattoo on it and said, "I have graced you with a small fraction of my power Sasuke-kun. Look up Orochimaru of the Sound village when you start to crave more."
Then Sasuke's Cursed Seal started to pulse and he went into a coma like state. Naruto was freaking out, he didn't know much about the Cursed Seal, but he knew that it had a small percentage of living. He carried the Uchiha boy over to his campsite and laid him down.
Sakura and Chinatsuhime went over to ask Naruto what happened to their Sasuke and who they could go kill. Naruto quieted them for a little bit and pulled out one of his emerald pills. He silently hoped that this would help the chance of survival and forced it down his throat. At first his body seemed to get an even worse reaction and Sakura was about to kill him, but then his condition stabilized.
Naruto said they could spend the night with them, but tomorrow they'd have to part their separate ways. Naruto and his team to the tower and Sakura and her team to get two scrolls. They agreed and had different people on watch while the others slept.
--The Next Mourning--
Naruto was still up as he had the last guard duty. When light came out he woke everyone up and had a talk with Team Ten. He said, "We have to get to the tower now, you might not want to move him around until he wakes-up. The Cursed Seal has a very small survival chance, but Sasuke-tebe is too stubborn to die. Peace."
Before either of the Sasuke fan girls could say anything Naruto and his team were already heading to the tower. Naruto was glad he told his teammates to be running when he started to speak to them because he really couldn't handle to hear a Sasuke is so great speech.
They were at the tower and were able to get in. Naruto noticed the riddle that was inside and he decided it was time to open the scrolls. He gave the scroll of heaven to Shikamaru and earth to Choji. They opened it and then they saw the same riddle that was on the door.
Iruka was behind them and started clapping. He said, "Congratulation, you have passed the second part of the exam." Naruto turned around and smiled, "Hey Iruka-sensei, are you here to wish us good luck?" "No, actually it was dumb luck that I was assigned to your group. Do you want me to tell you the meaning of that riddle?" They all nodded.
Iruka looked at the ones who were holding the scrolls and laughed, "The heaven scroll represents intellect and those who have it should work on physical strength and the earth scroll represents physical strength and how that those who have that need to work on intellect. When they're together you have harmony. I think it's kind of symbolic who you chose to open the scrolls." Naruto thought about it and laughed.
Iruka smiled and said, " There was actually a team before you guys, the Suna team. Well anyways you have a day and a half to wait you can do what you need to till then." Naruto nodded and said, "Okay, but I actually need to talk to Tousan, it's important." Iruka looked at the boy suspiciously and showed him to father's office.
Minato looked at his son and asked, "Is there anything I can do for you Naruto-kun?" Naruto looked at his dad and said, "I have some…information that you might want to hear." Naruto told his dad of his encounter with the Snake Sannin and his father took it all in. He looked at his son and said, "So…you put up a good fight?"
Naruto sweatdropped at this and said, "Yes, but that's beside the point. The Snake-tebe is inside Konoha and has his eyes set on Sasuke." Minato put on his rare serious face and said, "This is important. Sasuke has the Cursed Seal too?" Naruto nodded, "He should either get through it or die in a couple of hours."
Minato sighed and said, "Thanks for the information Naruto. I must now share it with the council. We have some matters we must discuss with this." Naruto nodded and left.
--Two Days Later--
It was the end of the second part of the exams and they were ready to start the third part. The teams were Team Eight, Team Gai, Team Kabuto, and Team Ten managed to squick in just in time. There was no sign of those Oto-nin around. Minato came in and said, "Yeah, um, it turns out that too many Genin made it through, so we're going to hold preliminary rounds before the third part of the tournament. So this is a fighting round, the referee won't step in unless it is clear who the winner is and they continue on."
Kabuto raised his hand and said, "I would like to drop out." Minato nodded and said, "That actually makes things easier for us. There weren't enough people to divide by two and I really didn't want to come up with a new system." Everybody looked up at him and thought, 'Is that lazy man really Hokage?'
The ninjas nodded and they went up to the catwalks with their teams. They looked up at the board as the names were shuffled and it had two names that were not what Orochimaru expected.
Uchiha Sasuke Vs. TenTen
Orochimaru was outraged, he rigged it so Sasuke would fight someone who would force him to access his Cursed Seal not some kunoichi. Sasuke jumped to the floor looking uninterested, but at least showed her his Sharingan. Tenten jumped down with healthy excitement.
A sickly Chunin came between them and said, "(Cough) Hajime." He jumped back and saw Tenten launch a ton kunai and shuriken at the uninterested Uchiha boy. Sasuke looked up did some quick hand seals and said, "Katon: Ryuuka no Jutsu (Fire Release: Dragon Fire Jutsu)." He melted all of the metal flying at him and the attack was traveling towards the weapons mistress.
Tenten was able to dodge it, mostly. She got several burns on her left leg, but all of them minor. She looked at the Uchiha's expression and thought, 'He's not taking this seriously. I'll show him to regret that.' She pulled out two small scrolls and unrolled them and twirled them.
She looked as if she was ready and then cried out, "Soushouryuu (Twin Rising Dragons)." It then, quite literally, started raining weapons of all sizes and shapes. Sasuke was still uninterested, slightly less so, but still uninterested. He looked at all the weapon opening with his Sharingan and quickly found a way through.
He quickly got behind her in a stance that Lee knew all to well. When Sasuke kicked her into the air he followed her and continuously kicked her until it got to the end where Sasuke used his foot to slam Tenten into the ground while calling out, "Shishi Rendan (Lion combo)." The sickly Chunin said, "Winner (cough) Sasuke Uchiha." The medics took Tenten to patch her up.
Lee was looking on and said, "T-that was most unyouthful Sasuke-kun. To steal my own move and use it against my teammate for the winning attack." Naruto saw his bush-browed friend and said, "If Sasuke-tebe took the time to copy it and if it was able to beat Tenten, it must be good." Lee looked at his friend now happy, "YOSH! YOU ARE RIGHT NARUTO-KUN, THANK YOU FOR REIGNIGHTING MY FLAMES OF YOUTH! YOU TRULY ARE ONE OF MY ETERNAL RIVAL!"
Naruto had a sweatdrop forming on the back of his head…and a headache, but he said, "No problem Lee-kun. Hey the next fighters are coming up." The names came up and he heard Kurenai say, "Crap, I can't stop them from fighting now. I just hope things don't get too bloody." Naruto looked up and saw the names.
Inuzuka Kiba Vs. Nyaki NekoyoshiAuthor's note
It's a little bit of a cliffhanger, but I like it. Kurenai's comment will be explained next chapter. It might be easy for people to figure out, but if you think of it please some might not and I don't want to ruin their surprise.
Voting time
Should the Yondaime have to have a battle with the Sandaime as a result of Orochimaru's sick jutsu?
In the actual third part of the tournament should Naruto have his first battle be against Sasuke?