The village of Konohagakure no Sato was unusually busy, the streets that normally had enough space to allow a horse through them were instead filled to the brim with temporary stalls and countless visitors all here for one thing, the Chūnin exam finals.
"Ooh… that looks nice," came a call from a certain redhead as she looked at a silver bracelet on a small jewellery stand that had been set up by a merchant looking to take advantage of the traffic caused by the biannual Chūnin exams. The bracelet possessed shallow etchings in the design of a trellis of roses while it fit loosely around her wrist but tight enough to prevent it from falling off. "Naru-kun, please can I buy this?"
Said blond proceeded to walk closer to the temporarily emerald eyed woman and look at the piece of silver and more specifically, the price tag.
"(sigh) fine… but that's all we can afford okay Kouka-chan," came the defeated tone of the child as the kitsune proceeded to give him a serene smile when he pulled out his wallet and paid the merchant, a certain sense of horror present in his mind as he realised he would have to do without Ichiraku's for awhile. It wouldn't have been so bad if Kouka was a good cook but the last time she tried making him something to eat she nearly burnt the apartment down so he had to cook their meals while she spent most of his money on foods that weren't ramen.
If it wasn't for the help he had received from the bijū he wouldn't have considered paying for the jewellery, however the amount he had improved over the past month would've been impossible without the help of the vixen and he couldn't help but feel like he owed her something for all her help… though he wasn't prepared to give her what she really wanted.
Even after nearly an entire month he couldn't help but feel that his situation was strange, having to put up with the nine tailed fox that refused to sleep with clothes on, or in a different location to him had proven to be one of the most difficult parts of the month. It had taken him nearly the whole month to get to a stage where he could sleep normally despite the vixen's antics.
Of course Jiraiya hadn't helped when he had given him homework… a few books labelled 'Kama sutra', which made his month even more unbearable. He was still waiting to get back at his godfather for doing that to him. Of course he had to do so when Kouka wasn't there, which was pretty much never, since she was actually taking the white haired perverts side for once.
"Hey, you two hurry up or Naruto is going to be late," the very pervert Naruto had been thinking of killing called out, causing the duo to leave the stalls and follow the man towards the stadium where the exam would be held in front of a crowd including several socialites, politicians and even Daimyo's.
"So Ero-sennin, are you going to be watching me today?" Naruto asked the older man after catching up, he knew that the man hated being called that… the only thing that made it even sweeter was that Kouka addressed him in the same manner causing the man even more humiliation when walking through the streets.
"Yeah, I want to see how my new apprentice deals with the Hyūga prodigy," the white haired Sannin said with a smirk, happy when he saw the reactions of the few people that were actually listening into the conversation, "and another thing, I don't want you holding back, you are to go full out right off the bat ya got that brat?"
"Fuck you, I'm not going full out unless my life is in danger ya damned pervert," the simple response immediately confused several onlookers, apparently Jiraiya wanted the Kyūbi jinchūriki to go full out during the exam but the boy didn't want to… well it was his loss.
"Naru-kun, you know you don't need to fear showing your real power, plus don't you want to make an example of that white eyed prick for trying to kill his cousin?" Kouka asked him sweetly as she wrapped her arms around his neck once again, taking great pleasure in the blush on his face as she pressed her chest into his back.
"Y-yeah but I-I don't want to show off my real power," he said, stuttering a couple of times when the vixen began to nibble at his neck. If it hadn't been for the fact the citizens had seen this sight several times over the past month they would've been shocked at the audacity of the woman to… taste, the demon brat.
"Look Naruto, I know you might not like the idea but people will find out sooner or later and letting them find out sooner can give them time to adjust to your new state," Jiraiya tried to explain to the blond who simply looked away from the man while the crowd took a confused look on their faces at the man's wording.
"Dammit, don't say that so loud," the whiskered child said with a hint of anger at his godfather for raising suspicions among the civilian populace.
"Don't worry Naru-kun, if they try anything they'll have to get through me first," the red headed vixen said, earning a blank stare from her mate.
"That's what I'm afraid of," the muttered response was quiet enough that only the two he was walking with could hear him, honestly he didn't want there to be any trouble and he was certain that if he dropped 'his henge' there would be all sorts of hell to pay.
"Aw… come on, I won't kill anyone… intentionally," the currently green eyed demon said softly, adding the last part quickly upon seeing the blonds disbelieving stare, though it made the civilians listening in to the conversation shudder at the nonchalant tone she made her claim. It made it sound as though she didn't really care if they died or not… of course that was because she didn't but they didn't need to know that.
"Look, people don't need to know what you are," he tried to reason with the woman currently burying herself in his back.
"Look gaki, sooner or later people will start asking why you aren't aging normally and then you'll have all sorts of hell to pay when they finally do find out what you've been hiding," Jiraiya said, he understood where the blond was coming from but he knew that it was better to let the secret out the bag sooner and let people know he isn't hiding anything than hide it and have them ask why he hid it when it eventually got out later.
"D-dammit ero-sennin! Don't say stuff like that out here!" of course he was still easily heard by the crowd courtesy of the silence created by the white haired pervert, the mere idea that the villages jinchūriki was trying to hide something didn't really sit well with them. The only real comfort they could find was that the only truly loyal sannin didn't seem to consider it a threat even if he was trying to get the boy to reveal whatever secret he was keeping.
"Fine, fine, just think about it gaki, is it really worth keeping such a huge secret and limiting yourself when there's a chance that people will accept it?" once again the white haired sennin tried to let the boy understand where he was coming from. There was another goal with speaking like that in public though, with the number of people listening in, it was almost guaranteed that a rumour would start and the boy would soon be pressured by the crowd to reveal his secret… and a crowd can have much more of an impact than two people.
He was also secretly enjoying the pictures he got in his mind of what would happen when the boy finally released 'his henge' and let the women see the new and improved Hanyou Naruto, though he was certain there would probably be some blood spilt when that happened.
"Fine, I'll think about it. Anyway, I'll see ya later Ero-sennin, Kouka-chan," the boy said calmly as they reached the entrance to the arena where they would go their separate ways.
"Yeah, just make sure you kick the Hyūga's ass, I got some good money riding on you and I expect to see a return on it," the white haired pervert stated earning a blank look off the young boy as he contemplated the fact his godfather was using him to make money and if it would be worth forfeiting just to see the look on the man's face when he lost all the money he bet.
The blond was knocked out of his thoughts as he felt a pair of lips press against his own in a tender kiss that lasted several seconds before the emerald eyed vixen gave him her standard serene smile and a single sentence, "have fun Naru-kun."
"H-hai…" was the blonds only response as he regained his senses and turned towards the fighters entrance, ready to face the first match against Hyūga Neji.
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"Wow, the stadium sure is packed, I never even knew we were missing this every time we were in the academy," a young girl with short pink hair said with an awed tone as she sat in a front row seat overlooking the arena. Her name was Haruno Sakura, genin of Konohagakure no Sato and a teammate of one Uzumaki Naruto. She was wearing a red, one piece dress with a pair of black shorts visible underneath while a hitae-ate was visible being used as a hair band.
"Yeah, it does seem pretty busy but at least we got good seats," another girl replied to Sakura's statement with a grin as she watched over the contestants. Unlike Sakura this girl possessed blond hair tied into a bun while a single bang fell in front of her right eye that possessed a slightly less radiant version of Naruto's own blue while an orange t-shirt helped show off her (lack of) figure, "hey is that Naruto?"
Almost immediately the pink haired genin looked towards the entrance of the arena to see a mane of waist length spiky blond hair that caused her to look closer, eventually simply accepting that he had simply decided to grow out his hair and change his attire, though a voice in the back of her mind was wondering how the boy had managed to grow his hair that much in a month when it had taken her several years to get hers to that sort of length before she had been forced to cut it during the second stage of the Chūnin exams.
"I think it is, I guess I should be grateful he's ditched that damned jumpsuit," Sakura said with a small grin before voicing her other thoughts, "though I wonder how he got his hair to be that long… and why?"
"So he can use a specific jutsu," a voice said from the aisle causing the duo to look at the owner, their eyes laying upon the sight of Jiraiya and Kouka for the first time in their lives, "hello Asuma, Kurenai, how are you kids doing?"
The recipients of the old perverts greeting looked at the man with surprise clear on their faces as they watched him take a seat with a beautiful redhead that appeared to be so perfect that no one could come close to her.
"Jiraiya-sama? What are you doing here?" the chain smoker known as Sarutobi Asuma asked. He was a middle aged man with spiky black hair held up by his hitae-ate while the rest of his face was framed by a thick dark beard. He wore the standard Konoha ninja uniform, a set of dark blue pants with a matching shirt covered by an olive green flak jacket. However he possessed an addition to the standard attire, a white sash with the kanji for fire (火) in a black circle indicating that unlike most ninja he was once a member of the daimyo's personal guard.
"Wait! Jiraiya as in Jiraiya of the Sannin? The man that taught the Yondaime!" Sakura almost shouted upon hearing the Jōnin's statement concerning the man that had decided to sit in the same area as her and her friend.
"Haha, so you've heard of me, the author of the legendary," the white haired man started before finding his face impacting with the floor courtesy of a fist from the redhead that had arrived with him.
"No self respecting human being cares about your crappy porn novels," Kouka's statement earned a pair of sweatdrops from the two genin sitting next to them while simultaneously reminding the other beauty in the area why she hated the man.
Her name was Yūhi Kurenai, a young woman with wavy black hair, startling red eyes that possessed and extra set of pigments that were rarely seen anywhere while her perfectly proportioned face was completely unblemished. She wore a strange ensemble that consisted of a mesh shirt with a crimson sleeve covering her right arm while most of the mesh was hidden from view by a strange dress that looked like several bandages layered on top of each other and decorated with what could easily be described as rose thorns. Under her unusual dress she wore bandages to hide her more feminine area while more bandages covered her forearms and ankles with a regular pair of shinobi sandals protecting her feet from the harsh floor.
"Hey, that's not fair, my novels are bestsellers so that means lots of people enjoy them!" the white haired Sennin said indignantly causing the vixen to look at him blankly for several seconds before making her next statement.
"You do realise the people that do buy your book have to buy several copies because of their wives finding and burning them right?" the tone she made that statement in earned an unholy silence as the old man proceeded to enter the blessed state known by many as denial.
"No, it's obvious more people buy my books than you think, everyone is a pervert some of us are just more open about it than others," the toad summoner said in a completely serious tone causing everyone sitting around him to go wide eyed at the man's belief.
"Hey, Hinata, everyone's over there!" came a voice that everyone recognised as belonging to Kiba and sure enough the young boy walked over to the group before making his greetings, "hi Kurenai-sensei, Asuma-sensei, Sakura, Ino, Kouka-san, ero-sennin."
"DON'T CALL ME THAT!" the second oldest of the group shouted angrily upon hearing yet another person call him that god forsaken nickname his godson had come up with.
"Sorry, I promised Naruto I would call you that unless on a mission with you," the Inuzuka said with a shrug, though he didn't sound even slightly sorry for his disrespect, "so I take it you two are here to cheer him on right?"
"Not really, he doesn't need cheering on, we're just here for the show," Jiraiya admitted causing several eyes to focus on him as he sat with his eyes firmly fixed on the arena.
"What do you mean he doesn't need cheering on?" Ino asked, she had to admit she wanted to know why one of the sannin appeared to have an interest in the blond idiot and even more importantly, who the redhead was.
"He's strong enough to kick the Hyūga's ass no matter what he does and I'm pretty sure he can overcome that Gaara kid if they fight, I should know, I trained him," immediately the group except for Kiba and Kouka started to splutter in shock, Naruto had been trained by the man that trained the Yondaime.
Hyūga Hinata was a young girl with short dark blue hair in a hime style, pupiless lavender eyes and a petite frame that was covered by a large beige jacket while she wore regular blue shinobi pants. At the moment she was wearing a small smile upon hearing that a man with a reputation such as Jiraiya had seen the potential within the determined blond she had admired since she first lay eyes upon him.
"Wait, what do you mean 'no matter what he does'?" Kurenai asked the more experienced ninja with narrowed eyes, it was obvious there was something they didn't know about the blond that the man before them did.
"What I mean is if he reveals his secret or not," now that statement caught the attention of everyone except Kouka who already knew what the man was getting at, "if he chooses to keep it a secret I'm sure he'll win though it will be a long and difficult battle… if he reveals his secret though, Neji will lose in an instant, the power gap would just be that great."
Upon hearing this the two Jōnin immediately brought a single thought to the front of their minds, 'he couldn't possibly have learned how to harness the Kyūbi's chakra at will could he?'.
"EVERYONE, THANK YOU FOR COMING TO THE KONOHA CHUNIN SELECTION EXAM!" came a bellowing call from the large booth set aside for the Kages, currently it was only housing the Hokage and Kazekage with their personal guard. The Hokage took a second to let everyone turn their attention to him before continuing, "WE WILL NOW START THE MAIN TOURNEMENT MATCHES BETWEEN THE EIGHT PARTICIPENTS THAT MADE IT THROUGH THE PRELIMINARIES, PLEASE STAY AND WATCH TILL THE END!"
"Damn, that has to be the lousiest speech I've ever heard and I've heard a lot," Jiraiya said with a grin causing several eyes to focus on him at his blatant disrespect towards the Hokage.
"Huh? Wait, Sasuke-kun still isn't there!" Sakura suddenly shouted, causing the group to look towards the arena before a quiet snort was heard from the white haired pervert.
"Come on, he's been training with Kakashi, there is no way that gaki will let him be on time," despite the seriousness of the situation, there was not a single person that could deny what the legendary ninja said, after all Kakashi was almost as legendary with his tardiness.
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"Alright, would everyone except Uzumaki Naruto and Hyūga Neji leave the arena," the brown haired proctor said calmly with the end result being five participants leaving the large arena for the waiting area.
The arena was quite simple, a large field with a few trees littered around the area giving the Chūnin hopefuls a minor amount of cover to use should they possess the skill to take advantage of it.
Naruto looked towards his foe, the pale eyed boy with waist length black hair tied at the end. His attire consisted of a beige jacket much like Hinata's, though instead of wearing dark blue shinobi pants he settled with wearing a set of dull brown shorts with one of his legs wrapped in bandages. His feet were protected by regular blue shinobi sandals while he wore his hitae-ate on his forehead.
"The first match between Uzumaki Naruto and Hyūga Neji, HAJIME!" the proctor stated before taking a jump back and preparing himself for what was to come.
The dark haired genin faced the hanyou without a hint of emotion playing on his features before he opened his mouth to start his verbal assault on the boy.
"It looks like you have something to say," the statement was simply an opener to a dialogue that he could potentially use to make his opponent angry and therefore more likely to slip up in combat, it was a tried and true practice for the Hyūga prodigy, one he was sure wouldn't fail now.
Naruto for his part simply stood there, fixing his glare on the boy that had literally tried to kill his own family member for doing nothing more than refusing to give up. Eventually he gave his response, "I told you Neji, you're going down for what you did to Hinata."
"Do you honestly care for that failure that much?" Neji's harsh response came, picking his words specifically to get under the blonds skin, unfortunately his attempt failed.
"Failure? I'll admit she isn't much of a fighter but have you ever considered how good she'd be as an iryō-nin? I have no doubt she'd be one of the best around and unlike a normal ninja her compassion would be a benefit to her there," the long haired blond said seriously, earning a sneer from the 'genius' before him.
"A Hyūga, an iryō-nin? That would be an even greater disgrace than simply being a failure," this statement caused the younger boys eyes to narrow dangerously as the slightly older boy insulted one of the most important sections of the shinobi forces.
"And why is that Neji? It's the iryō-nin that heal you when you're injured, they're the ones that keep Konoha fighting fit so why is being one a disgrace?" he asked the pale eyed genin who schooled his expression back to being neutral.
"Because the Hyūga are the foremost taijutsu fighters in the elemental nations, for one of us to not take the front line is inconceivable," upon hearing this statement, Naruto couldn't help but remember what the boy had talked about during the preliminaries and he said the first thing that came to his mind.
"Are you afraid of the idea of choosing your own path?" the former jinchūriki asked, earning an intense glare from the prodigy, "during the prelims you kept talking about how it was Hinata's 'fate' to be a failure and now that you've been told a path she could choose where she wouldn't be a failure you immediately say it would be a disgrace to follow it? It almost feels like you don't like the idea of free will, as if you don't want to accept responsibility for your actions!" what started off as a quiet question had escalated into a full blown rant directed towards the Hyūga who was for the second time in the past month losing his cool despite his usual level headedness.
"Shut up, unlike me you weren't born into a clan were you are branded with your fate," a look of confusion passed over Naruto's face upon hearing the boys statement before their conversation was cut short.
"Look, the audience is growing restless so would you two just hurry up and start your match already," the proctor ordered the duo who immediately got into their respective combat stances.
Before Neji could dash into the blonds guard the younger genin clasped his hands together while saying something the Hyūga prodigy recognised immediately, "Ranjishigami no Jutsu!"
Immediately the dark haired boy jumped to the side as his opponents hair extended at a rapid pace, forming what looked like a mouth filled with razor sharp teeth that charged straight towards his previous location, easily taking a bite out of the ground in a display of raw destructive power.
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"What the hell was that?!" Sakura shouted in the stands upon seeing her teammates hair suddenly take on a life of its own while the two Jōnin looked at the sannin sitting with them.
"That Sakura was the Ranjishigami no Jutsu, a jutsu that Jiraiya-sama created himself, it also explains why he grew his hair like that during the break," Asuma stated as he returned his attention to the battle going on in the arena.
"W-wow… he actually learned a jutsu like that in a single month?" Ino said upon hearing that the jutsu being used was created by a legendary ninja like Jiraiya.
"Yeah, gaki actually does have some talent, he's just too du- sorry, I mean, uneducated to figure out a lot of things," the gama sennin said seriously, stopping himself from calling his godson dumb courtesy of the murderous glare a certain nine tailed vixen sent him, though he wasn't the only one to notice it.
Thinking about the reaction the old pervert received from the strange woman that was with him, Sakura began to go through several different possibilities, eventually deciding that there was only really one possibility even though she was certain the boy was an orphan.
"Excuse me uh… was it Kouka-san?" the pinkette started, earning a nod of confirmation from the older woman, "are you Naruto's mother?"
As soon as she finished her question she heard a certain tattooed boy start laughing, beginning to cause problems for Akamaru who was struggling to keep a good grip on his head.
"No… I am not his mother," the people who didn't already know her began to grow confused upon hearing that statement, "I'm his lover."
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Neji couldn't believe the situation he was in. He was considered the prodigy of the Hyūga clan, he should've crushed this clanless orphan in a minute however as it currently stood, he actually appeared to be losing.
He was constantly being forced to dodge the blond mane that chased him through the arena and every time he succeeded in getting close to the blond he used another hair based jutsu made famous by the legendary Jiraiya of the Sannin, Hari Jizō.
This meant one thing, he would have to find a way to trick the blond into letting his guard down long enough for him to strike his tenketsu and lock him off from his chakra so he would be unable to use these damnable jutsu anymore.
"I see you are too much of a coward to try fighting me in my own range, perhaps I was wrong about you," the pale eyed genin said upon evading another strike from the blonds' hair.
"Coward? Sorry Neji but I'm just following the plan my new sensei came with for me, besides, there is nothing wrong with keeping an enemy out of their range, it's one of the basics of fighting," the azure eyed blond stated seriously as he aimed another strike towards his agile opponent.
Once again Neji dodged the attack, his form hidden by the length of hair for a fraction of a second. As soon as he was no longer hidden from view, Naruto noticed something on the ground at the boys feet, or rather a lack of something.
"He doesn't have a shadow, that means that's a bunshin out there, if so then where is he?" the blond thought to himself as his eyes darted around the arena in an attempt to find his foe.
Preparing his chakra to perform the Hari Jizō at a moment's notice, Naruto noticed the bunshin rushing towards him, deciding to ignore it in favour of locating the real Neji.
Suddenly he felt a sharp pain erupt in his chest as the 'bunshin' hit him and he suddenly lost control of his chakra. His eyes went wide upon seeing his opponents shadow shimmer back into existence before he was assaulted by finger strike after finger strike, each hit disrupting his control more than the last as one thought passed into his mind.
"My Henge!"
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Up in the stands a certain group was silent, they had been ever since the redheads statement since their brains seemed to find it hard to process the fact that the picture of perfection in front of them was the deadlasts lover. Well, all except one who was simply cursing herself for not speaking to the boy when she had the chance.
Jiraiya, Kouka and Kiba on the other hand were simply focusing on how the match was playing out.
"Hey, ero-sennin, why did Naruto ignore Neji like that?" the Inuzuka asked the man with confusion in his tone, causing everyone else to snap back to reality and check out what was happening in the match.
"It was a simple plan that could trick most people. He saw that Naruto wouldn't let him get close and predicted the gaki would detect a bunshin so instead of making a bunshin and trying to catch him from behind, he used a genjutsu to hide his shadow so Naruto would think he was a bunshin and focus on finding the 'real' him," Jiraiya stated, genuinely impressed with the simple tactic, sure it wouldn't work against a high level opponent that could detect subtle genjutsu via the traces of chakra in it but it was effective against nearly everyone else.
"So that means Naruto's lost?" Sakura asked the older man, from what she could see Neji was closing off all of Naruto's tenketsu, however her mind grew slightly more confused upon seeing the man shake his head to indicate she was wrong.
"No, all it means is that Neji is forcing Naruto's hand, with his chakra disrupted like that he will be unable to hide his secret anymore," once again confusion entered everyone's minds as the author made his statement with a knowing grin as the blond was finally knocked away from his opponent before a burst of smoke covered his form, "and now Neji has lost."
Immediately the group turned their attention towards the arena, wondering why the white haired pervert had said that.
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Neji couldn't believe his eyes as they peered into the smoke that had covered his opponents form. His eyes had been fooled by a simple henge? It didn't seem possible, the Byakugan was supposed to be all seeing, there was no way his foe should've been able to trick it but he had.
"W-what the hell are you?!" the boy considered a genius almost shouted, his voice for once showing a hint of the emotion known as fear.
"What am I? What I am is pissed off! I was trying to hide this for a reason and you just had to go and disrupt my henge!" came the significantly deeper and obviously angry call from within the smoke cloud as it slowly drifted away from the blond.
The stadium sat in silence as nearly everyone got their first look of the new and improved Naruto. Now standing at 6foot 2, with muscles that looked like rocks even under his t-shirt and of course, his vulpine ears and tail that made it obvious he wasn't human.
"Damn… he's hot!" came a random call from the crowd causing the boy to change his expression from angry to confused, out of all the reactions he could've gotten he hadn't been expecting that one.
Soon the arena burst into a frenzy of noise that began to grate on the blonds extra sensitive ears as he picked out people saying things such as 'I wonder if he's single', 'look at those Pecs' and the classic, 'I wonder what he's like in bed?' of course all these were coming from the women, the reactions of the men were completely different, consisting of 'he has a TAIL!', 'the demon is escaping!' and the classic, 'we're all going to die!'
Letting out a small sigh at the headache he was beginning to develop, Naruto decided to deal with the noise. Placing his hands in a seal familiar to anyone that attended the Konoha shinobi academy, his head proceeded to grow to several times the normal proportions as he shouted at the crowd, "EVERYONE SHUT THE HELL UP!"
The effect was immediate, it would appear that the academy teachers standard jutsu he had managed to get Iruka to teach him once worked against more than just school kids and the silence was a blessing.
"Alright, where were we Neji… oh yeah, I was about to kick your ass for disrupting my henge wasn't I," the blond stated before he started to channel his Youki to the front of his brain and muscles before making his move.
Neji didn't know what had happened, he had been standing against the changed blond and the next thing he knew he was sailing through the air with a compacted stomach before he literally smashed through a tree and hit the wall with enough force to lodge him in it.
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Up in the stands a certain redheaded vixen was seething, from what her less sensitive than normal ears could tell, nearly every woman was drooling over her mate. As it stood it was taking all her self control to not release the henge Naruto placed on her and start tearing these little women to pieces.
Of course Naruto wouldn't have been happy with her if she did that so she would try her hardest to stop herself from harming anyone.
"Wh-what the hell is going on with Naruto?!" Sakura finally managed to ask as her brain continued to try and process the sight she was seeing down in the arena.
"He became a Hanyou," Jiraiya stated calmly with the end result being the attention of everyone around him focusing on the man that appeared to know exactly what was going on.
"A H-hanyou? As in a half Youkai?" Ino asked in shock, the idea of one of them being a demon was quite a shock to her.
"Yeah, his little growth spurt, his rapid hair growth and his raw strength and speed are all by-products of his Youki," the sennin stated calmly as everyones attention remained fixed on him.
"What do you mean by that?" Kurenai finally asked the self proclaimed super pervert, her mind focusing less on Naruto's new state of being and more on wondering what happened to Kyūbi for him to have changed like that.
"Youki is very specific," Kouka started, causing everyone to turn their attention towards the woman as she started explaining it to them, "every demon has Youki however the properties differ from demon to demon, for example the Ichibi's youki can only control sand, the Yonbi's Youki can only manipulate water and so on. Normally Youki takes one of two types of property, direct destruction and manipulation, Naru-kun's Youki falls under manipulation, more specifically, a property best described as 'invigoration'."
"What she means is that Naruto can use his Youki to accelerate his healing, supercharge his muscles, brain and chakra, or he can even use it to give his comrades a temporary boost. It was by supercharging his chakra that his henge became impenetrable by the Byakugan, though it was also so powerful that it essentially made him a normal human while it was active, hence his sudden increase in raw power," Jiraiya further explained to the group as they stared at him blankly.
"So, how did he become a hanyou in the first place?" Asuma decided to ask the obvious question that was being asked at the back of everyone's mind.
"Sorry Asuma, I can't tell you but I'm sure you'll find out soon enough," the old pervert informed the man seriously before turning his attention back towards the match.
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Neji remained in his place in the wall as he coughed up several droplets of blood, proof of the force that the whiskered blond had hit him with, though how the boy had managed to hit him was a mystery to the pale eyed genin.
"Are you planning on sitting there all day or do you intend on fighting Hyūga Neji?" came a far colder and unfeeling tone from the blond as he simply stood with an impassive expression decorating his face before the slightly older boy turned his hands and with a strained push, managed to separate himself from the concrete wall, only to be forced to steady himself as his legs nearly gave out beneath him.
Taking several deep breaths while the blond hanyou waited patiently, Neji finally managed to find the right words for the situation, "it looks, like I underestimated you, Uzumaki."
"Yes, it would appear you did, now are you ready to actually try fighting back against me or would you rather just forfeit the match?" Naruto asked before seeing the so called prodigy enter the stance he recognised as the Hyūga taijutsu style, Jūken.
"Good, I hope you will at least try to guard this time," the azure eyed blond said without a trace of emotion before vanishing from the Hyūga's sight, that is until his fist smashed into the dark haired boys face, the telltale noise of bone breaking being all the evidence anyone would need to tell that the impact shattered the victims jaw as he flew back and into another section of the surrounding wall.
The silence was deafening as all of Konoha watched the genius of the Hyūga clan rendered completely defenceless against his opponent, the favourite to win with odds of 1:378 had just been completely dominated by the boy known by many as the loser prankster.
Naruto stood calmly as the proctor jumped over to the fallen child, giving him a quick once over before making his decision, "Shousha, Uzumaki Naruto!"
Almost instantly the arena was filled with the cheers of women and children as the newly objectified child was declared the winner, of course this resulted in him gaining an immediate headache at the volume though he refused to let it show, if everyone knew he was sensitive to sound then it would be an easy thing for an enemy ninja to take advantage of.
Walking towards the waiting room, Naruto calmly passed the team of Iryō-nin moving towards the currently unconscious boy, the team taking noticeably longer than they normally would, he didn't blame them, Neji had practically insulted them during the fight so it wasn't that surprising.
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"W-what just happened?" Kiba asked as the group that failed to make it to the finals sat in shocked silence, though Jiraiya wore a shit eating grin knowing that he would probably bankrupt the bet takers with the amount of money he put on the blond.
"The Byakugan may be able to see everything however unlike the sharingan the Byakugan does not actually improve the user's ability to follow movements, so in other words, Naru-kun simply moved too fast for Neji to see," Kouka explained to the group, "don't get me wrong, reaching that sort of speed isn't something most people ever achieve but courtesy of Naru-kun's Youki it is quite easy for him to do."
"You seem awfully knowledgeable Kouka-san," Kurenai stated with slightly narrowed eyes as she looked at the redhead carefully.
"I have a lot of experience Kurenai-san," the vixen responded calmly before she turned her attention back to the arena, if she was right then watching the Nara fight would be entertaining, he actually used his head more than anyone else in the exam.
She knew the Inuzuka was watching her for some reason, though she wouldn't hurt him for it, his gaze didn't hold any sign of perversion, instead he seemed to be more concerned, almost as if he was trying to determine if she was a threat or not.
It would prove interesting to see if he really was as smart as she thought he was.
Now as I said before this story will not be updated, it may be rewritten at some point however that is dependent largely on a poll I set up on my proper profile.