Chapter 4
Naruto stood in the Kumo team's path, not caring if he was outnumbered. One of them walked forward and snarled, while pouring out killing intent, "What do you want, Suna shinobi?"
"Ooh, nice killing intent. Too bad it has to go to waste, although, I think I'll give you a taste of what real killing intent can do!" With this, Naruto let out a massive wave of killing intent that made all the genin in the forest freeze for a second, not being close enough to really be affected. The Kumo nin in front of Naruto however, were a different story. They fell to their knees and shook violently. Naruto released enough youkai to make himself look like a demon, and then eased up on the killing intent just enough that they'd be aware of what was going on, but unable to do anything but scream.
Naruto stepped forward slowly, taking his time. When he reached the front one, he stooped down and stared him in the face. "Who has your scroll?" The leader trembled but refused to answer. "No answer eh? Too bad, your teammates could have lived if you had told me. Oh well, more fun for me!" Naruto stepped in front of the girl, "As they say, ladies first."
Naruto reached forward and placed his hand on her right breast. He stayed his hand there before ripping with his claws, in and down. She gave a bloodcurdling shriek of pain before Naruto got tired of hearing her and ripped out her throat. He picked up her hand and slowly, but deliberately, broke each finger before ripping it off. He repeated the process with her other hand before noticing that she was dead. "Oh, that's too bad, she died before I could finish." Naruto turned to face the other boy and growled, "I hope that you can give me more enjoyment."
The boy's face paled and the leader shouted, "Stop! I'll tell you where the scroll is! Just don't kill us!" Naruto turned to the leader with a pitying expression on his face. "It's too late for that. I'll just kill you all and retrieve the scroll from your remains, that is, if I leave any."
Naruto turned to face the boy he had chosen as his next target and pressed some of his youkai into him. He turned away and faced the leader. He looked hopeful that Naruto wasn't going to kill all of them but froze when Naruto sat down next to him to enjoy the show.
The genin screamed in agony as various parts of his body disappeared in violent, bloody explosions throwing up massive clouds of dust. Naruto just grinned as the boy's blood landed on him. When the dust cleared, the boy wasn't recognizable anymore. He was just a bloody pulp. Naruto turned to the leader and growled to himself, "Damn it, I'm bored now." Naruto put his hand the lead Kumo nin's head and squeezed. The nin's head exploded in a shower of blood and Naruto picked through their bodies. He picked the scroll off of the girl's body and grinned when he saw that it was an Earth scroll. 'How convenient.'
Naruto released the youkai he was using and pressed it back within himself, not wanting to draw too much attention to himself. Once that was done, Naruto took off for the tower and arrived soon after Gaara and the other's did.
Temari took one look at Naruto and exclaimed, "Great… who did you kill Naruto-kun?" Naruto shrugged and looked around. "You don't know? Did you at least see the sigil on their haiei-teis?!" Naruto nodded and said, "Yeah, Kumo." Temari sighed in relief and said, "Good, don't want allied countries to get mad at us."
Naruto spotted a message on the far wall. He read it and realized what it was asking him to do. Naruto pulled out the scrolls and started opening them.
"Oi! Naruto! They said not to open them!"
"No, they said not to open them until we get to the tower. Look underneath the underneath, Kankuro."
"Oh." Kankuro pulled out their scrolls and they all opened them together. Smoke started coming out and Naruto dropped the scroll, backed away, and got ready incase whatever was summoned was unfriendly. When the smoke cleared, Baki stood in front of them along with a tall brown-haired man with a gourd on his back.
"Sagaru-sensei, it's good to see you," Naruto bowed and Sagaru inclined his head in recognition. "Why are you here? Didn't you wish to remain unknown?"
"Yes," Sagaru said in deep baritones, "But they sealed a summoning of each team's sensei into these scrolls, as such, I could not avoid being brought here." Naruto nodded in understanding.
"We are supposed to tell you the nature of the message behind us," Baki murmured loud enough for everyone to hear. Naruto glanced at his teacher before saying, "Understood, but I understand the gist of the message, so Sagaru-sensei, you may leave if you wish." Sagaru said nothing but vanished in a swirl of sand. Naruto ran further in and found a map. He looked at it before discovering that the showers were nearby.
Naruto walked into the showers and stripped out of his clothing. He edged into the bath and relaxed. Minutes later, he heard someone else enter the bath but thought nothing of it, until the person spoke. "Is anyone in here?" Naruto froze and turned his head stiffly to the origin of the voice. It was Temari's voice, so that could only mean one thing. "Ano, Temari-chan? I think you're in the wrong bath."
"Arigato, Naruto-kun." Naruto heard some splashing and assumed that she had left to go to the right bath.
He was sorely wrong when he felt someone press up next to him. Naruto looked in the direction of the pressure and his eyes widened considerably. "Te-Te-Temari-chan!" A wild blush spread across Naruto's face and he turned away, trying to both ingrain the image of Temari naked into his mind and mentally berate himself for even thinking of that. Naruto felt the pressure leave and some more splashing of the water.
Naruto, thinking it safe to relax again, turned back to face forward and opened his eyes. This turned out to be the worst thing he could have done. Temari stood in front of him, showing off her assets to him. A jet of blood rushed out of his nose and he promptly fainted from blood-loss, as even the mighty Kyuubi no Kitsune no Youkai, could not replenish enough blood fast enough to keep Naruto awake.
Naruto awoke a couple hours later, to see Gaara and Temari concerned faces hovering over him. "Wha… what happened?" Naruto managed to mumble out. Temari shot Gaara and glare that said quite clearly, 'OUT.' Temari leaned over Naruto and whispered in his ear, "You fainted from blood-loss when you saw me naked, remember?"
Naruto paled, as he was starting to remember now. Temari noticed Naruto's change in expression and grinned. "Now, I think you need a fitting punishment." If it was possible, Naruto paled even further. "Now, seeing as how we're in the middle of the exams, I'll let you off easy for now, but I'll be coming to collect when it's over." Temari walked out and Gaara walked in.
"Women… are scary, scary creatures, Gaara-onii." Gaara nodded and sat down on the stool next to Naruto. "How, how long was I out?"
"There's just a few minutes left until the end of the second exam, come on Naruto-otouto." Naruto tried to get up, but couldn't so Gaara picked him up and Naruto slipped into unconciousness.
In Naruto's mind, Naruto glared at the giant fox behind the cage. "Oi! Kyuubi! What's the matter? I should be just fine, right? It's only been four days!" Kyuubi growled and said, "I don't know what's the matter boy, take one of those damn soldier pills until I figure it out."
"But that means that I'll have to rely on my own chakra!"
"Then use your own chakra, gaki! It's good practice for you!" With that, Kyuubi forced Naruto out and growled, "Why is this seal here? It's not one that the gaki or I put on!"
When Naruto woke up, he glanced around himself and noticed everyone looking at him. "Sorry! I'm tired, okay?"
"Well, now that everyone is awake, we can begin!" Gaara's sand carried Naruto up and the other Sand nin just jumped up.
"Kankuro, can I borrow a soldier pill?"
"Why? Doesn't he usually fill you up faster?" Naruto nodded but said, "Yeah, but I can't get any chakra from him."
"Oh, here." Kankuro tossed him a soldier pill. Naruto popped the pill in his mouth and chewed. "Ugh, terrible flavor." Naruto swallowed it and felt a small boost of chakra shoot into him, barely recovering 10 of his chakra. "Eh, not much, but it should do for these weaklings, just remember, if we are set to face each other, forfeit. We can't afford to waste chakra." Gaara, Kankuro, and Temari nodded and looked at the screen.
Two names flickered up, "Uchiha Sasuke VS Akado Yoroi"
The two combatants walked into the arena and Naruto paid just enough attention to get a gist of their fighting styles. The Uchiha won, hardly showing any of his preferences. The screen showed two more names, "Sabaku no Kankuro VS Higuri Misumi"
Kankuro walked down and won the fight quickly by using his puppet to snap his opponent's neck.
Several more fights flashed by until finally, "Sabaku no Naruto VS Yume Genkaku"
Naruto walked lazily down as Yume jumped from his place in the ring. "Alright bastard! I'll win this fight and show everyone just how strong I am and how weak you are!" Naruto's eyebrow twitched, then he disappeared from sight. Yume took on a serious face as he disappeared as well, though his disappearance was due to genjutsu.
Naruto reappeared and Yume appeared behind him with a kunai to his neck. Everyone gasped as Yume said, "Forfeit the match or forfeit your life."
Naruto turned to face him with a grin before saying, "Neither!" The clone started to swell before a voice that seemed to come from all around said, "Bunshin Daibakuha!" Yume leapt away but was caught in the shockwave and hit the wall hard, knocking him out.
"Winner, Sabaku no Naruto!"
Naruto leaped up to his place on the wall and settled down to sleep, if, by what he saw earlier, none of these genin would be a challenge to him. Naruto woke just as the last fight finished. "Now, would all those who have won their fights please come down and pick a number."
Naruto walked down, pulled out a number from the box they were offering, and called out, "6" The other genin each called out their own numbers. When all the numbers were called, the examiners turned around and wrote on a board. When they faced the genin again, there was a tournament style layout written there.
'Hmm, so I'm against…'
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Yeah, I don't usually do this so… here's a poll to decide who Naruto fights…
Naruto VS Sasuke
Naruto VS Gaara
Naruto VS Temari
Naruto VS Neji
Naruto VS Shikamaru
Naruto VS Kankuro
Naruto VS Shino
All the votes end by Christmas.
All of the other fights ended how they were supposed to…
Ja ne,
Yume no Okami