What's good Fanfiction, I love the support for the story and I want to thank everyone that sent reviews. This has to be my best story on this website and i'm glad you have supported my work. I think i'm finally cementing pairing now, currently they are Kakashi/Tsunami: Rare pairing, and I want Natio and Inari to grow up and become ninja alongside the Konohamaru Korps.
Sasuke/?: While the Uchiha brothers are my favorite Naruto characters I can't find an appropriate pairing for Sasuke, I was thinking Ayame, or Ino.
Naruto/FemGaara: I love this pairing, while I'm a NaruHina fan if Gaara was female that would have been my supported pairing and I think it would have beat NaruHina IMO.
Sakura/Lee: This nigga Lee, liked Sakura since he seen her, and she shot him down instantly for looks. I don't plan to rush this pairing but the end result will be SakuLee
Hinata/Kiba or Hinata/Shino: These pairing could work the Hyuuga follow a old custom like how the princess couldn't marry a commoner. These two are from noble families and Heir of said families. They are teammates which gives them time to grow feelings for eachother and for Shino's case Hinata is understanding and wouldn't be frightened off by his Kikaichu, and Kiba could use someone to keep him from being brash.
Chapter 7: Chunin Exams
Naruto was gasping for air as he looked around the forest, the wind whispered through the tree leaves as the lone Genin stood in the clearing waiting. He heard the whistle of shuriken flying through the air, quickly he jumped to the left avoid the projectiles only for a fist to appear in his face. Yveltal's laughter bounced around his head as the bird watched his container get owned time after time. "You've gotten better Naruto, but you can't beat me." Leele said as she looked at her brother's former student. She opened her fist and offered him a hand up, "In my advice, I say take up a another craft, your are a powerhouse, chakra monster; but fighting against an opponent with superior taijutsu will give you a disadvantage." the Anbu smirked at the boy as he cursed at the laughing bird.
"To think that a few months ago he was my student, at that the deadlast of the academy, Le-chan do you think he will truly become Hokage?" Iruka whispered as he rose from a nearby tree. Leele looked at the boy who was now doing the leaf balancing exercise, she smiled slightly and turned to Iruka before giving him a quick peck, "I guess that means yes." she nodded happily her eyes glowing with excitement as she looked at what could be the next Hokage. The boy and his team continued to surprise her, to think they went from the two last Uchihas and a fangirl to a squad that is being compared to the Densetsu Sannin.
"So that's where he was," a lazy voice drawled out as Kakashi slowly walked forward his nose buried into his book. Leele growled lightly at her former subordinate, or rather the book in his hand, which he quickly hid. "I need Naruto to find Sasuke, and Sakura since they have hidden themselves somewhere."
"Or rather, you are too lazy to pull your nose out of Lord Jiraiya's stupid book and find your students," she scoffed. Iruka laughed nervously, here he was a mid-chunin in the middle of the rivalry of two of Konoha's strongest ninja. Yea, he was ready to shit bricks, "Naru-chan, that's enough training for today, go with Kaka-baka." Kakashi eye twitched at the name but gathered Naruto and began their search for the Uchiha and their young Kunoichi partner.
Sakura & Sasuke (Training Ground 7)
"Prime!" the feral yell of the pig monkey pokemon howled throughout the training field, as it threw its fist around in a mad thrash. Currently the objects of his ire were Sasuke and Sakura who looked worse for wear, "Ape, Primeape!" he rushed forward his fist glowing showing he was readying Mega Punch. Sakura readied her own and charged her secondary teacher ducking under the cuffed fist and driving her fist into his stomach. The pig monkey pokemon flew back into a tree while Sakura began cheering.
"Oh, she shouldn't have done that." Darkrai said to Sasuke who rose an eyebrow at nightmare inducer, "Primeape shares an ability with the Tauros family, Anger point." Sasuke saw the Primeape rising a red aura surrounding him that leaked hate and anger. More pressure vein were exposed on the pokemon forehead as he looked downright pissed. "When you hit a pokemon with a Anger point with a critical, their attack is completely maxed out." Sasuke sighed as he looked at the shocked Sakura. Primeape bolted toward Sakura in a mad thrash knocking the Kunoichi into a nearby tree. "She's gotten better, at the most she is high Genin to low chunin level, still surprised you beat the demon brothers though?"
"They underestimated us, that's why we won." Sasuke said as he watched the Primeape pose while he stood on Sakura's back one of his feet keeping the pink haired girl's head on the ground. "Makes you wonder why, after Kakashi, she is the team strategist." he thought smiling to himself before he got the celebrating pokemon off the girl. Sakura huffed as she glared at Primeape who returned it, each looking into each other's eyes. Now normally Primeapes would chase all who look them in the eye, but Sakura was a rival to this one, and it respected her...slightly. "Test eachothers will later, we got company."
Kakashi walked slowly out of the treeline with Naruto who looked on blankly a sheet of paper in his hand. "Yo, I've been looking for you two?" Sasuke deadpanned 'we weren't even hiding our chakra, lazy ass.' Sasuke and Sakura walked over to their teammate nodded. "Look you three, the Chunin Exams are coming this year and I think you have the potential of making chunin right now, but are you three just as confident or do you want to grow more as ninja first?" Kakashi remembered the dangers of the exams, and this brats were like his kids he wouldn't send them in their without being sure they were ready. "Hokage-sama has informed the Jounin that Genin form Suna, Kumo, Iwa are participating; are you ready to face foreign enemies you know nothing about?"
'Itachi advanced to Chunin so much faster than me, I know that I'm ready, but is Sakura?' Sasuke thought of his brother with disdain, and worried for Sakura who could very well be underprepared for these exams.
'Foreign competition huh? I wonder if I will meet a decent challenge?' Naruto thought and Yveltal nodded.
'I-I can do this, I trained harder than ever to reach this level.' Sakura spoke to herself, 'Maybe, but only recently, the other ninja have trained hard since they were in the academy, even Ino-pig trained more than we did' Inner-Sakura said crushing sakura's hope, 'That doesn't matter; Sasuke and Naruto are ready, and I can't hold them back because I was lazy.'
Tree of Origin
'You are really growing as a person, young cherry blossom'
BACK WITH TEAM 7
Kakashi passed the Genins a form, "That the consent form, think it over, if you accept the challenge then go to the Academy." the team nodded and Kakashi turned only to look into a pair of amber eyes. The temporarily forgotten Primeape glared into Kakashi eyes.
"Kakashi-sensei, you should begin to run!" Sakura yelled as Primeape let out a primal battle cry before pouncing at the Copy ninja only for him to substitute away. Primeape's nose twitched picking up the copy ninja's scent and went on the immortal chase. "Well, at least Primeape will be preoccupied." sakura sighed as Naruto laughed loudly.
Village Gates Next day
Kakashi stood at the main gate with Kotetsu and Izumo who talked to the laid-back Jonin, he received message from Tazuna that an ambassador for their country will be living in Konoha. Kakashi had no idea who it was but he and Natio stood waiting for whoever it was. The black haired boy began to take after Kakashi while they lived together, even adopting his constant bored expression that drove Kurenai up the wall. After their arrival from Wave they took the kid to the hospital and they found traces of not Uzumaki blood, but Senju. This itself rose the council into a riot about the Senju being reborn through the child, they also didn't like the black fox that traveled with him. Danzo asked that the boy be given to him for training, and to see if he somehow manifest any particular abilities that the Senju were know for, this was shot down by all the clans as they didn't want the Senju blood anywhere near Danzo's taint. There was also the problem of him having nowhere to live as Tsunade left Konoha as the Senju heir and they couldn't allow anyone into the Senju compound or accounts without Tsunade's consent. Now as Hokage, Hiruzen could annul Tsunade's right as heir because of her inactive ninja status, but that could potential hurt his former student. Then there was the fact of who would care for the kid, and teach him to fight; the Inuzuka clan were the first to offer since with Zorua they could teach him to fight alongside the fox, but with further information on the pokemon they learned it was more suited for espionage than front-line assault. The Kurama clan offered next, but since the kid showed no interest towards Genjutsu they politely withdrew. Finally, they decided to have Kakashi raise the kid, Kakashi had shown potential in bringing the best out of his students with Sakura Haruno, and the boy was comfortable around the team.
"So Tou-san, who exactly are supposed to be coming?" Kakashi shrugged as he saw two silhouettes come out of the treeline, Natio began beaming as he saw his friend from wave and Zorua yipped happily at the sight of the two Wave inhabitants, "Inari!"
"Hey, Natio, Kakashi-sensei!" Inari yelled happily. The two friends ran up to each other and began talking animatedly. Kakashi was looking at the beauty that traveled with Inari though,'Tsunami-san, so you've come to Konoha.' Tsunami smiled brightly at Inari and Natio as she hugged the boy who returned it.
"Kaka-tou-san, can I show Inari-nii around the village?" Kakashi nodded as he watched the two run off into the into the leaf. Tsunami looked at Kakashi a slight blush on her face as he sent her a eye-smile.
Natio P.O.V
Natio ran through the Village showing Inari the many buildings, and people of Konoha; though Inari was having trouble keeping up with the young ninja in training. "Zorua, could you transform into something to carry us?" the Illusion fox tilted its head before it began to glow and a soft melodic trill filled the air as a Lapras appeared, "Hm...nice, but I think that thing requires water to move around well." a sweat drop formed on the Lapras' head as he glowed again and turned back into Zorua.
"Whoa, that was awesome!" a voice said as smoke filled the area and the kids began coughing, "I think I used to much pepper again," one voice whined as two other people coughed. When the dust cleared three people stood in front of Natio and Inari. "Hi, I'm Konohamaru and these are my partners."
"Hi, I'm Udon, I like math."
"I'm the sassiest kunoichi in the academy, I'm Moegi."
"And together we are the Konohamaru ninja squad, or Konohamaru Corps for short." Konohamaru said smirking, Inari looked amazed while Natio looked skeptical. Zorua was still paw at his nose because of the pepper. "I, Konohamaru, offer you an invitation to join the Corps; we were just going to meet the boss about some training." now Natio was interested, Konohamaru was the grandson of the third, so any teacher he had was bound to be the best. Inari began remembering the bridge how Team Seven trained, and decided he'll try and become a ninja.
"Okay, I'll bite, you in Inari?" the boy nodded and picked up the sneezing Zorua, who slumped over in defeat, and put him on his head. the two followed the three and Natio quickly found he and Konohamaru didn't mix well. His laid-back attitude didn't co-exist with Konohamaru exuberant atmosphere. "There he is, hey boss!" Natio grew a deadpan look as he saw Naruto, and Sakura. He respected Naruto, but he thought that Konohamaru was having a better teacher than some Genin. Inari smiled a he saw Naruto and sakura as he and the corps ran up to the ninjas.
"Sakura don't feel pressured to join, if your not ready than we aren't, this is a team function." Sakura nodded and looked up in surprise as she saw four kid run up to her and Naruto. "Really Naruto, you're a genin now and you still play ninja?"
"Hey don't look down on the boss, but you probably can't help it with that colossal forehead." four things happened that day, Natio lost his cool and began to tremble in fear, Naruto swore to never talk about Sakura's forehead, Konohamaru swore the Shinigami himself was in front of him, and Sakura was going to kill a kid.
"Konohamaru, run!" Natio, and Naruto yelled as Sakura's aura became more deadly and violent.
"You're DEAD MEAT, brat!" Sakura yelled as she chased the boy throughout Konoha. Naruto sighed as he chased after the two, he found Sakura about to punch a ninja that was holding Konohamaru by the scarf he wore. 'Those are Suna nin, this is gonna be violent.'
"I suggest you release the grandson of the Third Hokage, or I will be in every right to pummel you, and throw the dust into the winds." Kankuro growled as he released Konohamaru and went to the bundle on his back. The girl that was with him gasped and moved to grab the fan on her back only for a kunai to rest at her throat.
"Normally, I wouldn't threaten a girl, but you are making yourself a threat." Sasuke's voice spoke out coldly, Kankuro looked at her sweat traveling down his forehead his hand still resting on the bundle. "Your teammate will be eliminated if you don't desist." Kankuro growled as he lowered his hand, a look of pure hate in his eyes.
Suddenly a stream of gold moved towards Sakura catching everyone off guard, and tightening around the pinkette. "Sakura!" Naruto pulled out a kunai keeping Konohamaru behind him, slowly a young girl stepped into the light from a tree branch. She had dark red hair that rested messily over her head. Dark rings were around her eyes creating a raccoon-like mask and a kanji for love was written above her eye. She wore a black jumpsuit like apparel with a brown harness that kept a gourd attached to her back and some white cloth wrapped over her shoulder as an extra harness. Her cold teal eyes locked with Sasuke's.
"You have my sister; I have your teammate, and mother has wanted blood for a while now." Temari sighed in relief as she saw Gaia. Sasuke snarled at the redhead who showed no outward reaction, but her thoughts were different, 'Those looks, even here, I'll enjoy spilling all their blood for mother.' Naruto nodded to Sasuke who released the Suna kunoichi who quickly ran behind Gaia. "You two are a disgrace to Suna, I expected more from my siblings." they flinched at her tone as she looked to the Konoha nin.
"You have your partner, now release Sakura." Gaia smirked as she laughed.
"I don't remember saying I'll release her if you gave me Temari, at that I didn't ask for Temari; my mother wants blood and her blood should please her for now." Sasuke and Naruto's eyes widened as Gaia said this and they both moved to attack the kunoichi, only for her to dodge a blue fireball. Five ninja phased into place all bearing Kumo's headband.
"You retched woman, this battle had nothing to do with Kumo," Naruto heard the man with the weird black mask say. He heard Yveltal begin to mumble but ignored the bird in favor of watching the opposition. 'Where the hell is ANBU?'
"Maybe, but she was going to kill her." Yugito said while Samui, Kurai, and Omoi all sighed as their senseis argued...again.
"She's right Raikou-sensei, it would not be cool to let her die."
"If we let her die than the Hokage would be pissed at us, and would wage war on Kumo, and in order to bring peace I would have to marry some random Konoha girl, who would get kidnapped at the wedding-"
"Shut the hell up, Omoi!"
'Did she say Raikou, crap.' Naruto thought as the sand fell from Sakura who scooted away in fear, 'So this is the power that will be at the Chunin exams.'
"Kit, they are jinchuriki, the sand girl is holding Shukaku the Ichibi, and the blonde is holding Matatabi the Nibi." I nodded
"Hello Ichi, Ni, I'm Kyuu." Naruto said, confusing Sasuke, and Sakura but the message got to the two jinchurikis. Yugito narrowed her eyes, while Gaia smiled viciously and the sands began to swirl.
"Yes, mother demands your blood, she begs for-" she stopped as she noticed a shadow flying above her. Quickly a dragonfly like creature flew next to Gaia and looked directly at her. "Vi-Vibrava-Vi." the creature spoke and the sand stopped. Gaia grew a calm look as she petted the dragonfly's wings, "Very well, he'll live for now, come Kankuro, Temari, Heiwa (Peace) is hungry." the siblings nodded and followed the pokemon and girl. Yugito looked at Raikou who was staring at Sasuke and Naruto.
"Darkrai, Yveltal nice to see you again; come on woman we are moving." Raikou began walking and Yugito screamed at him about calling her woman again, their team close behind. Naruto turned to Sakura who face was stained with tears as she was curled up, "Sakura you aren't weak, Gaia is just...different...like me." she looked up at that as Naruto walked off.
"Sasuke, warn Hinata, and Neji about the Kumo ninja; be sure to watch Neji as well he might attack them." Sasuke nodded as he helped Sakura up and walked with her to the Hyuuga compound.
NEXT DAY (ACADEMY BUILDING)
Naruto sighed as he waited for Sasuke and Sakura, after reporting his findings to the Hokage he was told to be careful, and that measures would be put in place to subdue any threat present. 'Gaia huh, I want to see just how strong you really are.' He glanced up as he saw Sasuke, Sakura, and Team Gai approaching. Naruto and Neji nodded to each other while Hinata gave a more warm greeting. "So you are joining us Sakura?"
She nodded and Naruto smirked, Rock Lee yelled happily as he embraced the girl in a tight hug earning a blush from her. "Yosh, Sakura-chan's youth has inspired me to new heights, I will run around the village twice before this exam starts!" Ten-Ten sighed exasperated pulling Lee by the ear towards the academy Neji following behind in amusement.
"Alright let's go, and be careful." the other two nodded as we went inside the building.
What's good FF, sorry about the extreme delay but I've been working on another project as well as this one, the next chapter will be up as soon as I write it, and have my brother go over the grammar for me, Until then; you know me FF, I'm out!
