Shunpo Chapter 7
On to the story (Wait no A/N note OMFG O_O!!!!)
Time Skip 3 months
Naruto woke up early that morning. And as per usually walked toward the kitchen groggily. He Took out his pan and started frying 6 eggs and 12 bacon. He put the pot on and put in leftover Miso soup. Naruto also put his new coffee machine on and set up for at least 5 cups. Naruto then made 4 Kage bunshin to watch each frying food and clean up the place. Naruto's house had become the 'hub' for the meeting place for some reason.
Kurenai and Anko just decided to show up in the morning instead of meeting at the training grounds a couple months back and team 8 just rolled with it. Naruot got in the shower and started to wash himself. Even through his shower he could hear Kiba getting up messily and cursing that his limbs sores. He even 'sensed' Shino getting up and going to the window to let out his Kikai so they could get some food from plants.
Naruto got out of the shower and put on his clothes. He reapplied his bandages and walked out. Kiba brushed past him muttering something about bad CHIKEN?!
Naruto just shook his head and saw that the Kage bunshins were serving the plates. Naruto sighed and walked towards the door and braced himself. There was a light knock on it. Naruto reached and open the door.
WHAM The door was opened so fast that it made Naruto smash against the wall.
Naruto heard the call of his psychotic sensei "BRAT I SMELL FOOD" he also heard the voice of his more reasonable sensei "Anko its in the middle of the morning"
Naruto got up and shook his head. This was routine so Naruto was used to the 'exciting' morning. Akamaru bounded up and started running around Kurenai's legs.
Naruto looked at them and nodded "Breakfast is ready" he said in a tired voice
Anko and Kurenai raised an eye brow and followed him into the kitchen. Anko questioned Naruto "What's up with you"
Naruto looked back and yawned "I finished applying the last seals to my projects and they are in every way perfect I double checked while the others were sleeping."
Anko and Kurenai nodded that was a reasonable excuse
"HEY KURENAI-SENSEI AND ANKO-SENSEI" Kiba yelled while putting his shirt on.
Anko eyes brightened "HI to you too … and " Anko turned to Kurenai "SEE at least someone is energetic in the morning"
Kurenai just rolled her eyes
"Kurenai sensei … Anko sensei…"Shino said while doing his signature jutsu dubbed my Naruto 'The silent cool pushing up the glasses technique'
Kurenai nodded back and then gave a pointed look at Anko, who grumbled something about stupid silent people.
They all sat down and started eating.
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"Kiba eat with your mouth closed" Kurenai reprimanded
"But why" Kiba asked, food still In his mouth
All of a sudden Kiba's hand was almost stabbed by a Kunai.
"BECAUSE SHE SAID SO" Anko yelled
Naruto sighed "can we not destroy my table"
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"Anko sensei can you not steal my bacon" Shino asked
After a few seconds "Nevermind Anko sensei go ahead and have it" Shino said sweating
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"BRAT REFILL ON COFFEE" Anko yelled
"GET IT YOURSELF" Naruto yelled back frying getting the miso soup
A few seconds later "F&CKING D&MMIT FINE I'll GET YOUR D&MN COFFEE" Naruto said while limping to the Coffee machine
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Kurenai snuck Amakaru a piece of her bacon…
A few minutes later Kiba did the same thing…
A few minutes later Anko gave Akamaru some of her egg…
A few minutes later Naruto gave Akamaru a whole slice bacon…
A few minutes later Shino gave Akamaru the rest of his Miso soup…
A very satisfied Akamaru smiled under the table … humans were so easy to use…
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"Can you help me with the Plates Kurenai sensei" Naruto asked
"Sure Naruto" Kurenai said collecting the plates.
"Wait give me a sec" Kiba said. Kiba grabbed all the plates and then put them infront of Akamaru who licked them all.
The occupants of the room (except for Kiba) eyes all widened … The plates were all licked clean
"Well that helps" Naruto coughed.
Akamaru just barked happily… oh yes these humans were easy to use.
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After they had finally finished eating they were outside and walking towards the Hokage tower.
Naruto stared thinking about the tournament they had been training for. "Sensei what kind of tournament is it"
Kurenai turned to him and smiled "It has 2 'divisions' to it The Team division which is team versus team or the single combat division."
Shino asked his question "What are we participating then?"
Anko decided to answer "it is predecided by the Hokage but either way you'll be able to win in both. Though I think the Ino Shika Cho might give you a run for your money cause I heard Asuma was working with Genma and Hayate to get them into shape."
Naruto raised an eyebrow "Hayate as in the sword master"
Anko looked at him and nodded "Yea you know him?"
Naruto shook his head "Kitty-chan is his girlfriend"
Anko and Kurenai froze… this was NEWS. Their inner gossip was giggling in delight… they had something over that kunochi. but then again she probably knew about their boyfriends as well…
"Sensei's what are you stopping for"
"Oh nothing" Kurenai responded.
And they continued their walk to the Hokage tower.
Hokage Tower
As team 8 entered the room they saw Three other teams. Team 10 and Team 7 were present and another team…
The Hokage smiled at them "Come in we were about to start the briefing"
As they entered they stared at Kakashi.
"Hey Ji-ji why is Kakashi early"
Sakura screeched at him "NARUTO-BAKA DON'T DISRESPECT THE HOKAGE" She made to hit him but it was blocked quickly by his bandaged hand and immediately another hand went to Kunai. Luckily Naruto stopped himself from drawing it.
Sakura noticed his arms "Hey what's with the bandages"
Naruto smiled "It's a testament to my hard work"
"YOSH" A boy from the other team said "IT IS GREAT TO SEE ANOTHER PERSON READY IN THE WAYS OF YOUTH."
Naruto stared at him… 'Were those eyebrows…REAL!!"
Naruto shook his head to get himself out of shock and held out a hand "My name's Uzumaki Naruto pleased to meet you"
The boy in the green… Whatever that monstrosity was … shook his hand "MY NAME IS LEE"
Naruto's arm was abused as it was shook vigorously.
"Heh heh uh… Yea"
"Ahem" The hokage coughed. Immediately Naruto broke free and faced the Hokage … it was all business now.
"I am sending you all to the tournament. Team 10 you will be participating in the Team unit I hope you live up to your parents legacy"
Team 10 nodded and Ino yelled "Of course Hokage-sama"
Naruto looked them and raised a surprised eyebrow. It seemed that Team 10 had put on some muscle… Naruto saw that Ino and Shikamaru had developed a firmer frame and Choji was more… solid. He also noticed the relaxed presence they had around each other… just like team 8 had.
"Team 9 " Naruto assumed that it was Lee's team. "I am sending you also on the Team division… " The leader of the team looked uneasy…. Naruto just looked at the team leader right now and stared… HLY SH&T…
Lets not go there shall we….
The Hokage noticed this "Something wrong Gai"
Gai nodded and said in a serious tone that surprised his team and the jounins in the room "Is my team …not youthful enough to participate in the Single's tournament"
The Hokage shook his head and sighed "My advisors influenced my descision."
Gai nodded he understood what happened.
The Hokage turned to Team 7 "Sasuke you out of your team will be participating in the tournament"
This made the gennins raise eyebrows… Hinata decided to speak out "Hokage-sama why-"
"Because the advisors didn't want to endager you both so only Sasuke was allowed"
With that Naruto saw the bigger picture and his faced darkened …more special treatment for the Uchia…
Kaashi sighed "Don't worry you two I'll train you when we are there."
Sakura nodded a bit down trodden.
Finally the Hokage turned to Team 8 "Now team 8 All of you will be participating in the Singles tournament I expect great things from you"
Team 8 nodded.
Now the Hokage leaned back and addressed them all "You will be meeting with a team from Suna who is participating in the single tournament. Then you'll head over to Kusa…"
Then the Hokage's face darkened at he looked at them. Each of the nins in the room stood straighter "I expect you to be on your best behavior DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES START FIGHTS OUTSIDE THE TOURNAMENT. THIS IS FOR THE FUTURE OF KONOHA… "
Each of the gennins nodded solemnly.
"Good you leave in a week"
With that Team 8 Disperssed to say good bye to their families for a day. Then for the next five days they ate, slept and trained at Training ground 27 and for 5 days straight they practiced the mother of all skills Repition and more practice. (A pun if you really get it)
Konoha North Gate
Team 8 minus Anko was waiting at the gates. They were snacking on wrapped Omelets Kiba had shown them how to make. Surprisingly, Kiba's Mother, Tsume taught it to him because she didn't have anything else to teach him. Kiba couldn't do the more advance Techniques since Akamaru wasn't ready and Kiba's body wasn't at its best condition.
Shino was actually developing his own techniques and Naruto had taken the liberty of making him a blood scroll so he could keep the scroll to himself. Shino told him that his clans techniques were outdates and needed replacing. Naruto thought that was harsh but Shino only said it was logical.
Naruto himself had been working on a way to shorten the amount chakra necessary to 'push' off so he could use it more often. Naruto sighed this was going to be one hell of a day.
"Hey guys" Team 8 turned to see Team Gai with the girl with the 2 hair buns. Naruto raised a hand "Hi I think we never got introduced The name's Uzumaki Naruto"
The girl gave him a smile "Call me Tenten" The boy a next to her had long hair in a pony tail and wait eyes 'A hyuuga eh' Naruto thought
"My name is Neji" The boy said Naruto just smiled again…
Kiba and Shino noticed this …. This wasn't the usual smile Naruto had it was a face smile one used when he was either bored or annoyed.
'Whats wrong with him' Kiba thought
Naruto talk casually with team Gai for awhile before turning to returning to his team.
As he was walking back to his team Team 10 and part of Team 7 showed up. Naruto's eyes twitched and he greeted Team 10 with the same smile.
Kurenai went to talk with the other jounins to see what they knew so they knew what to train during the trip.
As Naruto talked with the other teams Kiba and Shino Naruto's fake smile once again and his eyes twitching. Of course The other teams couldn't see through hthe disguise of the happy and carefree boy Naruto had put up. Shino also noticed that Naruto wanted to get away but was having a hard time since they kept continuing the conversation. Shino bumped Kiba lightly.
"Kiba get him out of there" Shino said
Kiba nodded "Hey Naruto can you come check on my Right Hand the thing feels funny."
Everyone turned to stare at him except for the members of team 8 who knew what he actually meant.
Naruto walked over "Let me see maybe the reactor buffer is acting up again"
Kiba rolled over his sleeve to show a ring of flame tattoos all around his wrist.
Everyone looked at it with interest. Kakashi appeared on the seals next to the jounins and walked near Kurenai and whispered "Is that seals"
Kurenai nodded "Yea Naruto created them a while back for the whole team"
Kakashi raised one lazy eye brow "Interesting is it That"
Kurenai chuckled at his joke "No he made a different version to fit them"
Kakashi nodded.
Sasuke looked with interest at the seals "Hey dobe what are the seals" (He is talking to KIba)
Kiba and Naruto ignored him since Naruto was explaining once again how to operate whatever he had on.
Sakura for all her fangirlness grew angry "Hey Sasuke-kun is talking to you pay attention!" She moved to hit Kiba but her hand was stopped once again.
Sakura looked at Naruto about to yell at him to but stopped…
Naruto looked her dead in the eye the annoyance clear on his face "Sakura-san it would be best if you did not try to attack my teammates"
Sakura took a step back and Naruto shook his head and sighed. He turned back to Kiba.
"OK it looks fine but remember it there is any burst that doesn't go it do not use that hand until the chakra un jams it should only take a couples seconds to do so…"
Sasuke looked in annoyance "Hey I'm talking to you"
Naruto just waved his hand like Sasuke was annoying and should go away.
"Now Kiba make sure you be careful don't overdose it like you usually do"
Kiba nodded "Yea yea I got it"
Naruto looked Kiba dead in the eye "I'm serious"
"Fine I get it man…"
"Ahem" Everyone turned to see Kakashi standing their waiting with the other jounins.
"YOUR LATE" Sakura screeched. Everyone else winced at the loudness.
Team 8 sighed incluiding Kurenai it was going to be a LOOOONG day….
2 days later
Naruto wanted to commit Seppuki right there… OH KAMI WERE THEY ANNOYING..
Team 10 was just fine. Ino was just talked around with her team and sometimes team 10 would talk amongst each other. Team 9 or Gai's team wasn't bad either they were actually good fighters so they got some tips on some moves. For example Tenten would show them how to make a Kunai's path bend or how to make it fall sharply at a certain point. Team 8 and 10 drank it like hot chocolate.
Rock lee Started to spar with them in Taijutsu… He was better than Shino in it but Kiba was giving Lee a run for his money. Shikamaru would play Shogi with Naruto but Naruto would lose because he always started freeze and reach for a Kunai when Shikamaru made a move… d*mn reflexes.
Now the team that made everything go bad was good o'l Team 7… Hinata wasn't that bad only she was really quiet. BUT Sasuke and his fangirl Sakura was annoying as hell. Sakura would just cheer on Sasuke and do jack sh*t and Sasuke would keep challenging everyone. Neji and Rock lee continued to put him in his place. When Sasuke gave up and started team 8 They just ignored him. Then Sasuke started to jeer at them trying to provoke them. Of course they were able to take it but Kiba and Naruto oh so wanted to smash in that pretty boy's face.
The only problem was is that they made a promise with Kurenai not to cause any fights or they would have a 3 day training session with Anko. They were good fighters but none of them were suicidal enough to even face Anko.
And now they were in the hot dessert oh excuse me desert… Naruto was hallucinating
Naruto looked and thought he was hallucinating again. "hey kiba"
Kiba looked up weerily "Yea"
"Is that Suna"
Kiba looked up and saw the village "probably not must be hallucinating"
"yea maybe"
"Actually it is the village" Shino said with his signature Silent cool pushing up the glasses jutsu.
Naruto was about to use Shunpo to get into the village but Kurenai read his mind "Oh no you don't Naruto … If you even try it I'll make sure I lock you up with Anko in one of the cells."
All the jounins and Team 8 winced. Sakura looked around questioningly "who is Anko"
Team 8 sighed "Our other sensei only Psychotic" They said in unison.
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Anko was working with a 'patient' who was quite difficult to break and suddenly sneezed.
The 'patient' screamed "NO germs no I HATE GERMS AAAAAAAH"
Anko smirked and reminded herself to thank whoever made her sneeze….
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As they entered Naruto and Team 8 looked around. It was quite different from Konoha and was dusty… Like an old town.
"Maa Maa guys don't go running off" Kakashi drawled out
"HAi HAi" Naruto replied than he saw the Kazekage's Tower.
Naruto turned to Kurenai "Do we reply to the Kazekage"
Kurenai nodded "He'll give us our room and the team will be traveling with."
Kazekage Tower
Konoha's team entered the tower. Team 8 who had more 'experience' with foreign Kages bowed in respect. Team 9 and 10 followed suit but team 7 remained oblivious.
Kurenai decided to step forward "Kazekage-sama we are from Konoha-"
The Kazekage raised a hand "I know"
He then took out a note and passed it to Kurenai "This is were you will be staying and I'll let you meet my team. Come in" The Kazekage called out.
In entered 3 gennins not much older than Gaara. The first one to enter was wearing a hooded out fit with some make up… Naruto didn't judge… everything paled when compared to Lee's and Gai's get up. He had a pack on the back which suggested he was a puppeteer… Team 8 had researched heavily on all the countires 'nin' types. The second was a blond with two piggy tails. She had a battle fan on the back suggesting she was a wind user.
Finally The last one was the red haired boy with a tattoo with the Kanji love. Naruto looked over him carefully and zeroed in on his eyes… He could usually find something about a person through their eyes. Naruto froze as he looked at his eyes. Though it seemed that the boy was staring at them he wasn't looking at them directly …this red headed boy was afraid what he might see in their eyes. It was so similar to Naruto's eyes a long time ago. Naruto knew this pain he had seen it once when he was young… he saw it in his mirror as he was washing his face.
"This is-" The kazekage started "Gaara"
Naruto looked into Gaara's eyes and He stared back into them. There was no hostility, no blood lust, just curiosity. Just interest in what was before them. Was it a mystic forced that make them suddenly interested in each other, was it some kind of act of Kami? Who knows but one thing were sure what happened next would be very strance.
Naruto watched as Gaara allowed a swirl of sand to travel towards Naruto. It was invisible to everyone else in the room but Naruto knew this feeling, it was Yokai. He had felt this chakra, so foreign yet apart of him every time he used his Flaming sky Lark Seals. It held malevolence, anger, and power, so much power. Gaara's sand reached Naruto's back hand and pressed against it. Naruto eyes widened slightly as he understood what was going on.
'Are you … like me?' The sand wrote against Naruto's palm. The sand would press against Naruto's hands forming letters.
Naruto closed his eyes briefly and then opened his eyes quickly. Only Gaara saw what Naruto's eyes had become. They had become red.
Naruto blinked once more and his eyes turned back to their regular shade of blue. Gaara heart was now in his throat, he had this tingling feeling, it was so different. So strange, what was this feeling? No he had felt this before, but when was that? It was so long ago…
This interaction had taken only 14 seconds and no one in the room other than the Jinchuuriki kenw about it.
They had made their greetings and all the nins left the room.
Naruto walked slowly with his team towards the hotel.
Kurenai had noticed that Naruto was very silent, way too silent. "What is wrong Naruto."
Naruto looked up with a pensive look. "I am going to go out for a while, Kurenai sensei… I have an acquaintance to meet."
Kurenai nodded slowly… she trusted Naruto to not do something stupid.
With that, Naruto disappeared.
The Next day
Naruto once again returned late at night… Though The other teams looked at him strangely the team 8 didn't bother because he usually did that…
As the Konoha teams waited at the gates for a couple minutes before they saw the Suna team. Their jounin instructor Baki was leading them. Naruto waved and to the surprise of the Suna teams Gaara nodded back.
Naruto nodded to the other two "Temari right" Naruto pointed at the piggy tailed girl nodded.
Naruto turned to the puppeteer "Kankarou" Kankarou nodded a bit confused about how he knew their names when he wasn't introduced…
Baki cleared his throat "come let us go before the sun gets really hot."
The teams nodded and they started to run forward.
3 days later.
They were finally out of the desert. Gaara had been more open well in Gaara's terms because he didn't open his mouth just to tell you he wanted to kill you… which was scary as hell to the Suna team. He answered questions politely and not once threatened to kill anyone which really creep-ed everyone out.. When Sasuke asked for a fight, Gaara politely declined. When Sasuke tried to ask again Kakashi stopped him and made him shut up for the rest of the trip.
Naruto introduced the Suna team and the teams became friends. When Shino started asking about the Puppet mechanics Kankarou took out a manual scroll which showed the basic inlays. Naruto admitted the puppet was extremely complicated and it was only one part of true puppet show.
All in all the trip was quite uneventful… And they ahd finally reached Kusa. Naruto looked at it and raised an eye brow… Sure there were huge mushrooms and Gigantic blades of grass… but the village was just a mass of buildings with a tower in the middle and a sement wall around it. Nothing intimidating… nothing that catches your eye just plain boring…
Hell even Konoha had the Mountain, Suna had the small pocket of lakes and Kumo had high mountain ranges with buildings attatched to the side. These things made the village look impressive but this place was just …boring.
They walked in and were greeted by two Kusa Chunnins
"Hello Konoha and Suna nins your rooms are ready … we are sorry you cannot see the Kusakage (I'm not sure whether this is right or not so please tell me) He is busy at the moment. But you will see him at the start of the tournament 2 days from now. Your hotel is here." The Chunnins handed each of them a very good map that they could easily follow from anywhere in the city.
Kurenai turned to her team "Lets put away our stuff and explore hmm"
Team 8 cheered (Shino did a slight nod which was good enough for Kurenai).
"We'll go with you" Baki said …
Kurenai nodded "Alright."
With that the two teams left the other ones…
After putting away their stuff
"Hey Gaara wanna come with us to explore" Naruto asked
Gaara looked up from his pack and nodded.
"Alright come on." Naruto motioned him to follow.
Gaara followed silently to the lobby where Kiba and Shino were standing …next to them were Kankarou and Temari. Naruto raised an eye brow "You guys comin' too"
Kankarou and Temari nodded
"Yea I wanna see the city." Temari answered
"Alright lets go" With that the gennins left the building.
They walked around for a couple hours looking around at shops not finding anything eye catching.
Naruto yawned "Man this city is boring"
The others nodded in agreement. By this time the streets where bustling with people so one could pick up random conversation.
Temari overheard a conversation in the restaurant
"Oh stop complaing"
"Man I knew I should've brought some mayonnaise to put on my fries"
Temari whipped her head around and said out loud "Mayonnaise on Fries??"
Her group stopped and turned to her. Naruto asked in a quizzical tone "Mayonnaise on Fries"
Temari nodded "Yea some person over there is complaining about not having Mayonnaise on Fries"
Naruto's eyes lit up and he turned to Shino and Kiba "You think.."
Shino nodded "We only know one person who would do it"
Kiba nodded "I can smell em too."
Naruto smiled "C'mon…" then Naruto turned to Gaara "Wanna meet the another side of the coin"
Gaara's eyes widened and nodded. With that They walked towards where Kiba led them.
They entered and saw a familiar sight. A girl with red hair was yelling at another boy who was eating Fries while dipping them in a jar of Mayonnaise he had found. A blond haired girl with a pony tail was eating a plate of Sashimi calmly ignoring the two.
Kiba and Shino chuckled quietly at the sight while Temari and Kankarou looked at the scene while sweatdropping.
Karui had grown out her hair a bit longer and Omoi now was sporting a small scar on his arm. Yugito had grown her hair out too but she looked the same.
Naruto walked up and said "Can I have some"
Omoi dipped three fries in the Mayonaise and held them out without looking "here ya go Naruto…"
There was a pause… Karui, Omoi, and Yugito Froze…
"NARUTO!!" They all cried . Karui and Omoi jumped up and waved at Kiba and Shino
"Hey guys when you get here."
Kiba laughed "A few hours ago"
Omoi got in his thinking pose "we came here early like 3 days ago"
"NARUTO-KUN"
Naruto was tackled by another blond. Naruto barely kept his balance "Hey Yugito chan"
Naruto pushed Yugito backed and smiled.
"Naruto"
Naruto turned and saw Gaara staring at Yugito.
Naruto palmed his face "Oh yea Gaara this is Yugito … Yugito this is Gaara… we're all the same"
Yugito's eyes widened and her face grew brighter. She held out a hand "Hi"
Gaara slowly reached out and shook it. They stared in each other's eyes… looking and seeing the pain… looking and seeing that they understood each other… looking and seeing that they both knew they weren't alone anymore…
Naruto introduced the Suna team to team Samui. The greetings were polite and they all sat down to order some grub…
It was a … fun dinner… lots of yelling, Kiba crying in pain, Kiba running away because he accidently touched some things he wasn't supposed to because Karui bonked him on the head, Well lets just say Kiba was running fast while Karui and Temari chasing after him… Yugito and Gaara just watched this and laughed… well Gaara gave a faint smile…
In two days the start of Tournament would begin and the lives of these gennins would change ….
With war
A/N: Alright this is a just a pumped out chapter for the real fighting. I'm gonna tell you right now I will only do a summary of some of the fights and really explain what happened in some of the important ones. There will be about 2 time skips in the next chapter… very short ones but still time skips nonetheless