-1The Plan for Hinata Hyuga
A/N: I am so surprised that people actually like this story, thus I shall continue it! I hope that the next chapters are as good as what people are expecting, though I cannot guarantee anything. Thank you, reviewers, and have fun with the new chapter!
Disclaimer: The owner of Naruto is Masashi Kishimoto I believe, and trust me in the fact that is not my name.
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Chapter Eight: Chuunin Entrance, Will it Happen?
Surprisingly, this time when I entered the Hokage office, I was neither bombarded with questions from demonic greeters, nor was I attacked by Akatsuki members that were tasked with the objective of capturing me. Instead, I just walked straight past the chuunin ninjas that were tasked with the most boring jobs ever and went into the Hokage's main meeting room.
"Sarutobi, are you there this time?" I awaited either the answer, a blade to the skull, or witty banter exchanged between enemies. "Sarutobi, where the hell are you, old man?" Then I heard a muffled voice coming from behind the Hokage's desk.
"Mmrrughm!" The voice was coming from beneath a sixteen foot high pile of paperwork. It all came together like a puzzle that was fused together with glue from lack of concentration.
"I have an offer for you Sarutobi, one that you cannot refuse because you will probably die from lack of air. If I pull you out from under that pile, and help you sign all of it, you will then allow me into the chuunin exams. Deal?" The answer came as a murmur that I assumed was either a "Hell yes!" or a "Please hurry!"
I pulled him out from the huge pile of paperwork. "Thank you for offering to help such an elderly man such as me. Your wish is granted, but only after you hold up your end of the bargain, and how will you do so in the next three days before the first part of the exam?" I then realized that I hadn't thought of that. 'Wait, three days to do all of that? OH HELL NO!'
Then it hit me like a ten ton brick. "I have it! Can you teach me the shadow clone jutsu in the next two days?" He nodded his head in the world-over gesture of yes. "Good, let's get started!"
-Scene Change-
Apparently I learn jutsu faster than Naruto can pick up on the fact that Hinata likes him. I had the technique near mastered in the next seven hours, about the time of nightfall. Perfect time to see Naruto about the plan. I power-sprinted, with chakra on the soles of my feet, to the apartment that me and Naruto shared.
"Hey, Naruto, are you back from your missions? HELLO?" After multiple times trying to locate Naruto, I could not find him. I was getting impatient, and he had to be in the village for the plan to work. 'I wonder if the sense of the winds can track, probably not, time for the new jutsu!'
-Scene Change-
"Okay everyone, we are looking for this person, Naruto Uzumaki. He has gone missing in action, and as we all know deserters must be found, or shot. This time, the answer is not 'shot'." I looked down upon the seventy-nine and a half clones that I made with the Shadow Clone Jutsu. Most of them nodded in understanding at my statements, but were confused as to why I was in a military uniform.
"Can we just go find him already? We know where to look: Ichiraku's, the training grounds, the mall incase Sakura took him shopping, your house, and maybe even the hospital." Wow clones are smarter than I thought. As I noticed, they were all looking at the ground in an impatient stance.
"Fine, this is nice training for tracking skills… Ready, set, go!" In a blur, we all took off in different directions, but mostly to go to the same areas. Later on in about four long and boring moments, we had found Naruto at the house.
"You weren't here earlier though! HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE?" It was very hard not to yell when you realize that your target was at the very house, and he was laughing his face off.
"I went to pick up some groceries, with Sakura." 'Curse that demonic witch of shopping, and her pink hair too!' Naruto then proceeded laughing again, followed by his more frequent look of thinking. 'Don't strain yourself, Naruto!' "Why were you so intent on finding me that you sent a miniature army of clones after me? "
I hadn't thought of how to cover that up, now I did. "I wanted to show you my version of the Shadow Clone Jutsu, even though I couldn't do the original version easily, I modified it!" That intrigued him, his face lit up like a neon sign in the middle of the night. (A/N: I got an overload of analogies somewhere in my mind.)
"Show me, please?" Got him now, didn't I?
"Okay, here we go! Army Wind Clone Jutsu!" With about seven hand signs that ended with a weird upside down triangle with my thumbs, which were all completed in less than three seconds, about fourteen clones appeared in the middle of the room.
"What are their properties?" With those surprisingly smart sounding words coming out of his mouth, I thought about that.
"Watch this." I punched a hole straight through one of the clones, who only regenerated it fully. "They can only be dispersed with chakra, seeing as how their bodies are composed of wind chakra that moves in certain directions, if one were to disrupt the flow the clone would disperse." The look of utter genius on Naruto's face said it all, it was a true work of art. 'If one could call it that…'
"That is awesome! Can you teach me that later, or right now? PLEASE?" I had his thoughts in a vice grip here. He fell into my trap.
"Only if you tell me which ninja in this village you like the most. If you don't then I cannot teach you." I saw as his face light up, then suddenly contorted into an inquisitive look.
"The most, eh? I think the answer is… Sakura!" He must have saw the look on my face, for he instantly started to flee from me. I started to fill my blood boil.
"I'm sorry but you think you like that pink-haired banshee that doesn't even reciprocate your feelings of acknowledgement? You prefer that wide-forehead, bubblegum-haired, useless girl with her only ability being able to screech you into submission over even the weapons expert Tenten, or even Ino Yamanaka! What repulses me even more is how you like that evil witch over the Hyuga heiress, Hinata, with her vastly superior strength and ability, not to mention her limitless beauty and grace." After each sentence I proceeded to throw something at him. 'I'm sorry Hinata, but he may not live from this. Forget the plan.'
Suddenly, Naruto stopped, barely dodging a thrown shuriken in the process. "Wait, you like Hinata." Oh no, he had turned the tables on me. "YOU TOTALLY LIKE HER!" 'Might as well yell it out to the world, why don't you, geez…'
"No, well, uhh, maybe…" The entire time I spent stuttering, Naruto spent it grinning like a fox. 'Maybe he is right, I do like her, but she likes Naruto, not me.' Okay, I was a standstill between my thoughts of whether I liked her or not. "Well, that is totally besides the point. Just forget about that and later on I will attempt to teach you my wind cloning. Deal?"
"Deal, although there might be slight complication with the fact that I yelled that to the world…" Then, he got hit by a lamp.
-Scene Change-
A day after that whole scenario, I had mastered the cloning jutsu. With that small step out of the way, I could finish that demonic creature known to many as paperwork, and join in on the chuunin exams.
After knocking on the door to the Hokage's main office, I proceeded in. Sarutobi was sitting there still working on some of the paperwork.
"Hey, old man, what's up? I finished the jutsu, so now I can hold up my end of the deal." Then I noticed that he had his reading glasses on and was staring intently at a certain piece of paper. "What's that say?"
"It states that only a team of three, and three only, may enter the chuunin exams. Your team has four, so you are not allowed in unless you find two others that will join in and are ninjas." He was right, my team had already signed up without me, and that leaves me on a team of one.
"Can I just do the paperwork first, and find a team later? Please, I will come up with the others before the end of the day." That would be hard, but possible, I could do it. 'Who else is a ninja that isn't on a team and is a genin?'
"Sure, kid. Just finish up the paperwork if you can, and how do you propose to do that?" With a murmur of "Army Wind Clone Jutsu" and the seven hand signs completed in quick secession, an army of seventy-five of me had littered the room. "Oh, I get it. Just keep the room in one piece until I come back in about ten minutes."
With the gathered confirmation of "If that's possible, then sure," we set to work. In about seven and a half minutes, we had finished forging all of the signatures. Forging, was actually part of the ninja training regiment and was something I had become a slight master of, which was attributed to the many years of my life spent helping my father complete his accursed Raikage paperwork.
As the door opened, I dismissed all of the wind clones, most of which had received paper cuts in the process of signing all the papers. "So how close are you to finishing? Holy gods on high, how the hell did you finish all of that?" Pleased at the fact that I could elicit such a reaction out of the old guy, I actually did a victory dance.
"Clones are such useful things, especially when you can motivate them into action." I added that part with a slight smirk as I recalled what I had used to motivate them. 'I shall never tell anyone what I had used, especially since it was that they could kiss Hinata.'
Slightly happy that I had completed part one of my journey into the chuunin exams, now all I had left to do was find two people that had yet to enter, and had the qualifications to do so.
-Scene Change-
After spending about two hours trying to think of who could possibly make it into my team and into the tournament, I had reached a dilemma. There was absolutely no one even left that could meet those qualifications.
"There is no way I can make it into the exams by my self, and the first part is taking place tomorrow. I am so totally doomed to have to wait another year to be a chuunin." Then I heard a couple of footsteps coming from behind me.
"Hey, Kail what are you doing all the way in the middle of town? Shouldn't you be training for the exams with the others?" It was only Shiro. 'The others, wait, that means he isn't entering!'
"Uh, Shiro, aren't you a genin here now?" He nodded slightly in approval, and had a quizzical look on his face as if wondering why I would care. "Thank god for that, I was wondering if you would like to be on a team with me for the exams. Please say yes."
"Sure. Oh, and I've got good news, I have been assigned to Team Gai!" I started wondering how that could possibly be good news when I realized I still had absolutely no third member for the team.
"I have a small problem still, we need a third member for the team or else we can't compete. Is there even anyone left that is a genin, yet not entered in on the tournament?" I was still perplexed on how that can be solved. 'No one is left, I am doomed to utter boredom in the form of D-ranked missions while the others get to become chuunin! NO!'
Another pair of footsteps came up, following Shiro's pair. "Actually, I am available at the moment, kid." Wait, the voice referred me as a kid, that is Kara!
"Uh, Kara, I'm sorry but you're a chuunin already." She surprisingly shook her head.
"I am a chuunin in Kumogakure, not here. Before we left the village, I found out that here I am no longer a chuunin, but a simple genin that just so happens to be so bored as to assist the Hokage." That, surprisingly, actually made sense due to the fact that we illegally left Kumogakure.
"Woohoo! That means that there is now three people on this team! We can enter, all we have to do is sign up in the next two and a half minutes." Shiro replied, actually showing emotion in his voice. "Wait, two and a half minutes is all that is left! Kail, use your teleport to sign us up, and hurry!"
I complied, and in less that a minute we were signed up as contestants in the chuunin exams. 'That is step one complete, now all we have to do is finish the three parts to the exam! That will be so easy compared to what I just went through!'
Little did I know that what I just said was quite contrary to what the fact actually is. The exam would stress the limits of my imagination, strength, and skills.
At least that was what it said in big bold print on the bottom of the sign up sheet for the exams. Now I know I should have read that…
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A/N: This chapter was incredibly slow to chunk out, and did not even fit what I thought the chapter would be like. This was straight down horrible in my thoughts. At least now we know that Kail, Shiro, and Kara will enter in on the tournament, and will start to take a bigger part in on the storyline. Oh, and I definitely hate Sakura more than anyone else in the entire manga so I may be hating on her in the story.
Just to ask, can anyone email or tell me the battles of the third part of the exams? I only know a few of the matches, like Gaara versus Lee, Naruto versus Kiba, and Hinata versus Neji. If anyone can tell me the first tier of matches and their winners I will greatly appreciate it, and probably ending up idolizing them like my savior.
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