A/N: …Wow, that was a lot longer wait then I intended, it has been two months now. Anyways, the reasons for the delay are twofold. The first is that shortly after the last chapter, I started working back at my old job for the summer, and so I have been busy working there. The second and main reason for the delay is that I just had a difficult time coming up with ideas for this particular chapter. Anyways, while I am on the note of update speed, I am telling you all right now that demanding that I update will not make me update any faster. If anything, it might make me wait longer to update just to spite you, so don't bother demanding updates, I will update when I am ready, so piss off.

And on an entirely random second thought, I have decided after seeing the episode where Sasuke beats Yoroi that the characters of the Naruto world are entirely stupid. Everyone marvels over how great Sasuke is because of one freaking move. "It's amazing, Sasuke used his bloodline that copies techniques…to copy a technique. Sasuke truly is a genius." But even better is Kakashi's reactions to multiple things. Now I know that the show is trying to make a point about Kakashi's favoritism, but come on. When Sasuke copies a technique with his bloodline and modifies it to come up with the shishi rendan, Kakashi mentally praises him as a genius. Next, although I haven't seen the episode, from what I understand, When Naruto manages to copy and modify the shishi rendan to make the Naruto rendan without a bloodline, Kakashi merely deadpans about how he copied the technique from Sasuke…idiot. Well, anyways, enough of my babbling, I have made you wait long enough as is, so on to the story.

Shadow Fox

The month to train for the finals of the Chuunin Exams had come to a close and it was now time for the finals to begin. Naruto and Kin found themselves waiting with the rest of the finalists for the finals to begin. That is, all of the finalists except for one. Naruto looked around the room in search of Sasuke, but was unable to find him. His match was the first match and he was nowhere in sight. Soon, the time had come for Sasuke's match and an announcement was made.

"The match between Uchiha Sasuke and Gaara will be pushed back until after the other matches, the next match will be Tsuchi Kin against Temari. Will the two contestants please enter the arena."

Kin made her way down to the arena where she stood facing her opponent, the blonde kunoichi from the sand village. She knew that this match was going to be much more difficult then her last match. Temari was a serious kunoichi, one who took her position very seriously. She knew from watching her last match that fighting her from a distance was a bad idea, one that would probably cost her the match. As she was deciding on what would be the best course of action, she heard the voice of her opponent.

"This will be easy, your nothing special, the only reason that you made it to this round is because you had an easy opponent last round. Now I'll show your hottie teammate what a real woman is like."

'No…oh hell no…she did not just say that. She just made this fight personal.' Kin thought to herself. There was no way that she was going to lose to this girl who was after the boy she loved. That's right, she said she loved him. While spending the month training with Naruto, she realized that she had never been as happy as she has been since Naruto had arrived. In the short time that she had known him, she discovered that it was beginning to become difficult to imagine life without him. It was then that she began to realize that she may be falling in love with him, but it was not the right time to bring it up to him. The two of them needed to focus on the exam, so she decided that she would tell him after the exam, and see where things go from there. She took a deep breath to calm herself down. She would give Temari one chance and hope that she was talking about Zaku, but if she wasn't…

"Zaku? You can have him."

"No, not him, the other one, the one with the bandages around his head, though I have no idea why, he is gorgeous. He shouldn't hide a face that good."

… … …That was it, now there would be no forgiveness for the bitch, she was going down.

Meanwhile, up in the stands, Zaku could be seen with his head hanging down mumbling something about how none of the girls were ever interested in him.

Genma started the match and as soon as his hand dropped, Kin rushed forward with her scythe. She did not want to give Temari any time to open her fan, so she attacked off the bat in hopes of being able to defeat Temari when she doesn't have the use of her fan. Kin swung her scythe in a sideways slice, only to have it meet with Temari's closed fan. She continued to launch various attacks, only to have all of them blocked by Temari's fan. She hadn't counted on her being so good with her closed fan as a weapon. She wasn't sure what to do, neither of them was getting hurt, but she was exerting energy to attack, while Temari was hardly exerting any energy from simply blocking the strikes. However, if she backed off, then she would have a chance to open her fan.

She continued to attack so that she could have a chance to think about what she should do when suddenly she got an idea. If her plan worked earlier then she anticipated, then so be it, but if it took as long as she thought that it would, then she would probably end up taking a beating to accomplish it.

Kin suddenly jumped back from the exchange and threw some senbon needles at Temari and formed some hand seals. The senbon needles were easily deflected as Temari opened her fan and blew them away where they were imbedded in the wall. She looked around to see that Kin was nowhere to be found. She looked left, then right, then up, which only left down. Kin emerged from the ground, only to meet with…nothing. Temari was floating above the ground on top of her fan. She then proceeded to launch a kamaitachi blast at Kin, knocking her down to the floor.

Kin rose up again and threw more needles at Temari, only to have those deflected into the wall as well. She proceeded to once again form hand seals, this time causing pieces of the ground to rise up and form spikes which were launched towards Temari. However, these were blown to pieces by another kamaitachi blast, which also hurled Kin into the wall.

Kin rose up yet again and proceeded to throw even more senbon needles at Temari, only to have them deflected into the wall yet again.

"This is starting to get old, haven't you realized that strategy won't work." Temari told her opponent, only to adopt a look of surprise when she saw that she was talking to not one, but twenty. She looked around and noticed the strings with bells on them attached to all of the needles that had been blown into the wall.

'She was setting me up with all of those attacks.' Temari thought to herself when she saw the 20 Kins preparing to attack. They all jumped into the air and came down towards her position, ready to strike with their scythes. In a moment of panic, Temari jumped to avoid the attack, only to realize her mistake, as she was now trapped in the air, unable to dodge as the real Kin was above her, and poised to attack with her scythe to end the match.

Temari suddenly came up with an idea to save herself. She used her fan to help give her momentum to roll over as she launched one final kamaitachi blast towards the ground. The added speed caught Kin off guard as Temari rammed her shoulder into Kin's gut. She then grabbed a hold of Kin and rolled over and placed her feet on Kin's stomach while holding her shoulders. As they approached the ground Temari pushed off of Kin as she hit the ground. The force of the blow knocked Kin unconscious.

"Winner, Temari." Genma proclaimed.

Kin was carried off to be treated while Temari gave a wink to Naruto, who simply cocked his head to the side in confusion while Zaku groaned and slapped his forehead at his friend's obliviousness. The next match of the tournament was to begin between Shino and Kankuro. The referee called both fighters down to the ring.

"I quit." Kankuro yelled.

"Kankuro has forfeited, will Neji Hyuuga report to the ring to face Shino Aburame." Genma proclaimed.

Neji walked down to the ring and stared down Shino as he began to give a speech about fate.

"You should forfeit this match, fate has dictated that I shall win this match, for I am a genius, and you are only some average shinobi." Neji proclaimed as he tossed his hair back into the wind. 'That's right, I am the king of dramatic posing.'

"…really?" Shino responded in his usual stoic manner.

"You sound unsure, no one can defy fate, give up now and save yourself the trouble."

"Well…Destiny dictates that I will win."

Neji was completely floored by this revelation, what would be the result of this situation.

"…It seems that we have a conundrum. Which is the stronger force, fate or destiny?" Neji thought aloud.

"Destiny is stronger." Shino proclaimed.

"And how did you come to that conclusion?"

"Fate said so."

"Oh, well, who am I to defy fate? I forfeit."

"Winner, Shino Aburame." Genma declared.

As Neji walked to where his team was seated, he thought about everything that had just transpired. "Aw damn it, I just threw the match. That's it, I am quitting with this whole angsty fate bit."

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During the match between Neji and Shino, Izuko pulled Zaku and the recently reawakened Kin aside to an empty room where they came face to face with Orochimaru himself. Izuko left the room while Orochimaru began to address both Zaku and Kin.

"You have both had some disappointing losses in this exam, haven't you?"

The two of them looked downward in shame, both upset for having disappointed Orochimaru.

"Come with me, I have a way to make you both useful." Orochimaru stated

Both Zaku and Kin were having similar thoughts that to be made useful would mean to make them stronger, though both of their thoughts were along slightly different lines.

'The last time that I followed Orochimaru-sama, he gave me power, he gave me these air tunnels in my arms. I wonder what power he can give me now. I need to be stronger.' Zaku thought to himself.

'To be more useful to him, then we need to be more powerful, so he must have some way to make us stronger. I need to be stronger. I lost to that sand girl who is interested in Naruto, what if he starts to like her because she is stronger. I have to get stronger so that Naruto will notice me, so that I won't slow him down, so that I won't lose him.' Kin thought to herself.

So the two of them followed Orochimaru in hopes of becoming stronger.

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"The next match will take place between Nara Shikamaru and Dosu Kinuta, not Uzumaki Naruto as previously stated, that was an error on our part and we truly apologize to all of you for the confusion." Genma stated.

Meanwhile, a random man in the audience could be seen mumbling something about "nit-picky bastards understanding what he meant."

"Will both participants please report to the ring."

Both Naruto and Shikamaru made their way down to the center of the arena to prepare for their match, neither really having any words to say to the other.

Naruto looked through the stands for his teammates, only to notice that they were both missing. This caused him to be a bit depressed, he thought that his teammates would stay to see his match. He then tried to shake his mind of such thoughts, there must have been some reason that they weren't here for his match.

"Let the match begin."

Naruto wasted no time as he quickly launched a punch with his right hand towards Shikamaru's face. Shikamaru blocked this punch, only to see Naruto spin around and launch a backhand strike with his left fist that connected with his head. Naruto then continued by quickly raising his right knee into Shikamaru's gut with no pause in between. This was immediately followed by another spin into a roundhouse kick with his left leg, knocking Shikamaru off to the side.

Shikamaru thought about this style of attack that his opponent was using, wondering about the sudden change in style. In his match against Kiba, he seemed to have a style that focused on defense and countering, but this new style was completely different. From what he could tell, the style seemed to be one that focused on speed to launch an all out offensive attack. There was no blocking in this taijutsu style, only continuous attacks.

Shikamaru was brought out of his thoughts as Naruto attacked once again. Naruto launched a kick with his right leg. Shikamaru dodged the kick, only to be met with a backwards kick as Naruto planted his right foot and kicked back with his left foot. Shikamaru barely had time to recover as a right handed punch came at his face. He decided that he simply needed to attempt to attack him in some way, since his style had no blocking whatsoever. He dodged the punch and lashed out with his right arm, only to have Naruto spin around the punch and pull his arm behind his back. He then proceeded to hook his right leg around the front of Shikamaru's left leg and pull back, driving them both forward and slamming Shikamaru's face into the ground.

'So that's what he did. He trained this past month in a taijutsu style with no blocking, and then combined it with his old style so that he counters instead of blocking.' Shikamaru thought to himself as he slowly got up from off the ground.

"So how do you like my new fighting style? I call it the Shadow Blitz style." Naruto said.

"It is an impressive style, you caught me off guard there. But enough of this taijutsu exchange, I am not much of one for taijutsu anyway. I want to see which of us is the better shadow user. I didn't spend this last month training for nothing." Shikamaru replied with a lazy smirk.

Meanwhile, up in the stands, the other members of team 10 could be found on the ground, having fainted at the revelation that Shikamaru actually trained.

Shikamaru suddenly proceeded through some hand seals which caused a shadowed claw to emerge from the ground as it snaked its way around Naruto's body on its way towards his throat.

"Do you really think that this technique is going to beat me?" Naruto asked his lazy opponent.

"No, but I figure that if you don't get out of it very soon, it is going to cause quite a bit of damage."

Naruto looked down and discovered that there was an explosive tag on the clawed hand. Shikamaru must have dropped it onto the ground while he was being attacked, planning for this ahead of time. The hand had picked up the explosive tag when it came out of the ground and he was now running out of options. It would take too much time to melt into the shadows, he had to find some other way to escape. An idea suddenly popped into his head how to escape this situation. He quickly pulled out his chain whip and lashed out towards Shikamaru. The chain wrapped around his waist as he was pulled towards Naruto until he was right beside him.

"You might want to get rid of this explosive tag, unless of course you want to see which of us can take an explosion better."

Shikamaru struggled to get away, but the chain was latched onto itself and held him in place. He could get away from it, but not before the explosive tag went off. He had no other choice as he grabbed the tag from the shadowed hand and threw it into the air. They had escaped the explosion, but the blast was still close enough for the two of them to be thrown back from the force.

Naruto was the first to recover and he began forming seals. Soon, a dome of shadows was forming around Shikamaru, the same way that Naruto had taken care of his opponent in the Forest of Death. Shikamaru was surrounded by the shadows and couldn't see a thing. Both Naruto and Kyo had popped out of the shadowed dome to attack, only to pull back at the pain from connecting with something hard. The dome began to disappear and in the center could be seen a shadowed mass in the shape of a human. The shadows began to peel back and underneath Shikamaru could be seen.

"Not a bad technique, but it provides me with plenty of shadows to work with, even enough to make a shield all around my body like this."

Shikamaru knew that dragging this fight out was not a good idea as he did not have the highest of chakra reserves. He had thought about this fight for a long time during his month of training and he determined that he had three trump cards to use, one attack, one strategy, and one last resort. He needed to end it quick so he decided that he would try the attack, then the strategy, and then if all else fails, then on to the last resort. He began to quickly form hand seals and before Naruto could interfere, the last seal was completed and a dome of shadows began to form around Naruto. The dome continued to expand around him and eventually became a full sphere. The sphere began to rise into the air as a large shadowed claw emerged from the ground and grasped the sphere.(1)

"Surrender or else this claw will squeeze the sphere until it bursts." Shikamaru called out.

"Hell no I won't surrender." Naruto replied.

Naruto smirked as he looked at the technique around him. It was quite an impressive technique he had to admit. However, Shikamaru still did not realize that Kyo was able to use the shadows as well, and between the two of them, they could easily escape by each creating a shadow hole to travel through. He trusted Kyo enough to know that he would have taken the opportunity to sneak behind Shikamaru and open a shadow hole there, so he formed a hole for himself to escape this sphere.

Shikamaru sighed, he would have really preferred to not have to kill somebody, but his opponent refused to surrender, and this move only resulted in death, there was no injuring, merely killing. He gave another sigh as he completed the jutsu, clenching the clawed hand and crushing the sphere, causing it to burst. He looked to the referee to announce his victory, but found it difficult to speak. It might have had something to do with the chain whip wrapped around his neck. Naruto moved forward and moved his grip higher on the chain whip until he was right behind Shikamaru. He kicked the back of his knee joints, driving him down to his knees as he pulled back on the chain whip, making it difficult for him to breathe.

"Do you give up?" Naruto questioned.

Suddenly, Naruto released his grip on the chain whip as he got down on his knees and then stood up again along with Shikamaru.

"I practiced over the month to get my kagemane to travel behind me to capture people by surprise." Shikamaru explained as he made a few random motions that Naruto mimicked.

"Didn't we already see the result of this in the second part of the exam. This jutsu can't hold me."

'Actually, I am counting on that for trump card number two.' Shikamaru thought to himself.

Naruto began to melt into the shadows to escape the kagemane. Once he was completely gone, Shikamaru pulled out a special tag, one which instead of causing an explosion caused a bright flash of light. The bright flash temporarily removed all of the shadows from the area.

"Now he is trapped traversing through the shadows, call the match so I can hurry and get him out of there." Shikamaru told the referee.

Before the referee could declare Shikamaru the winner, Naruto emerged from a shadow hole in front of Shikamaru.

"How did you get out of there?" Shikamaru asked.

Naruto smirked as the hole once again took the form of Kyo, Shikamaru stared with a look of disbelief on his face.

"What the hell, that fox can use shadows too, what the hell kind of fox is that?"

"It doesn't matter what he is, the fact of the matter is that he can use shadows, and you are running out of options, just give up now."

This was it. There was no other choice for Shikamaru now except to use his final trump card, his last resort. He really did not want to do this to him, but he couldn't lose to him, even if it meant that he had to win this way.

"You know, I have been thinking about this match a lot over the past month, thinking about some things that I have seen during the earlier exams and I have a bit of a theory regarding you." Shikamaru took a second to pause before he continued, "The obsession with keeping your face covered, wearing a mask in addition to having your face wrapped in bandages. The reluctance that you had when we saw your team attacking team seven in the Forest of Death, the things that your teammate said to Sakura, the things that you said to her when you knocked her out, the reaction of Sasuke when he looked into your eye, the looks on Sakura and Sasuke's faces when we asked them about Naruto…"

Naruto was getting a bit panicked by this point, did he know? No, there was no way that he could know, but all of these points that he was making, they seemed to be leading up to one thing. He needed to calm down, breathe deep, there was no way that he could know. His breathing unconsciously sped up as he waited for Shikamaru to finish.

"I admit that the hair threw me off for a while, but it is easily explained. I suppose that I should welcome you back home…Naruto."

At that moment, a number of explosions could be heard from within the city of Konoha.

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A/N: Anyways, I am sorry again for the wait. While I can't promise anything, the nest chapter should be a lot less of a wait as I have most of the ideas for it already, it is just a matter of how much I have to work, and bringing myself to write.

Also, as a mini contest, if anyone can identify where the technique that has the (1) by it (minus the shadow focus) came from, then I will answer any one question that the person has about the plot, assuming that they want to ask a question and not be surprised later. Also, if the correct answer is in a review, then the contest will end with that person because then anyone can see the answer.

Lastly before the rant, for all of his promoting of my story in his profile, I will recommend the story All for One by Vesvius no Gobi Doragon (was it really that hard to just leave it as Vesvius, this one is just so complicated.). It is a fairly good Naru/harem story, probably rated fifth on my list of Naru/harem because the others are just so dang good. On that note, I might as well recommend the whole list of the top 5 Naru/harem stories.

1&2(I can't decide which I like more). From Ramen with Love and With the Heart and Underwear of Fire

3. Trouble with a capital T (updates very slowly)

4. Single Ninja on the Town (the ending bothers me)

5. All for One

And now, on to chapter 2 of "The adventures of Naruto and Super OC."

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A few months had passed since Naruto had begun his training with Super OC, and he was getting far stronger. He had increased his weights to 6 times what he had started with and had learned over 50 jutsus from Super OC, as well as 10 demonic jutsus from Kyuubi. It was at this point that they found a strange man in the forest and they wondered who he was.

"Hello, my name is Itachi."

"Hello Itachi." Naruto replied.

"Uchiha Itachi, prodigy of the Uchiha clan and the murderer of his entire clan, though I feel that is not the whole story." Super OC replied, because Super OC has an unnatural insight into all of these matters, he knows everything.

"You are correct unnaturally powerful newcomer, the murderer pf our clan was really Orochimaru using a henge, because as we have seen before, nobody can see through a genjutsu cast by Orochimaru. It's almost like some kind of bloodline ability. Hell, while we are at it, let's blame Orochimaru for Kisame's murder of the mist daimyo, and let's blame him for Shukaku being sealed in Gaara, and for all of Akatsuki's crimes, because no one can see through a genjutsu cast by Orochimaru, and it is easier to just have one bad guy in all of this."

"Who are those people?" Naruto asked

"Not important right now."

"Anyways Itachi, why don't you stay and train with us take make Naruto even stronger." Super OC asked.

"Yeah, stay with us Itachi-niisan." Because Naruto has to see Itachi as an older brother, it's just better that way.

And so Itachi stayed with them to train.

A few more months had passed and Naruto was stronger then ever. His weights had increased to ten times what it was mentioned earlier, and he learned 150 jutsus, in addition to the rasengan which Super OC somehow knows. It was at this time that Super OC has a discussion with Naruto.

"Naruto, did you know that you have a bloodline?"

"I have a bloodline, really? What is it?"

"Your bloodline is very special, it is a very special doujutsu with all of the abilities of the Sharingan and the Byakugan."

"So does that make me half Hyuuga and half Uchiha?"

"No, it just means that the author realized that coming up with a useful doujutsu is harder then it seems, so they copped out and combined the two given to them."

"Who's 'the Author.'" Naruto asked

Suddenly, the author appears out of no where.

"No more questions Naruto. Hey everyone, look, I put myself in my story, isn't that funny, ha-ha…ha-ha…Please laugh…ha-ha…ha-ha…I'm lonely."

The three of them oddly stare at the disappearing person and go back to training.

Next chapter: Kyuubi interactions.

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…that's all.