Author's Note: Hey all, sorry about the time it took to update, this chapter took a while to get ready, from reading all of the reviews that I've received I have decided to 'expand' the couple a bit, it's going to be a mini Harem with two more girls yet, and since some people were asking for the 'heat' to pick up with the relationships I pretty much reworked this chapter to have a bit of 'action' and not the fighting kind :).
Since I know you've all been dying to meet her, my OC gets revealed here, along with Kyuubi's name. Long chapter so get ready, it's the entire Chuunin exams start-finish. Hope ya'll enjoy it. And a side note, updates will be farther apart from now on, sorry but I'm pretty much re-writing everything from here on out, and it takes a lot longer to do it then just reading it and fixing errors, right well the third person of the now harem should be easy enough to figure it out, and if you can't figure out the forth member either, well you probably can lol. Ok I'm done, Enjoy!
Naruto Path of the Hanyou Chapter 7!
Naruto met up with his team at the Academy and the three went inside, they went up the stairs and came before a huge group of Genin's standing before two Chuunins in Henge, they weren't even on the right floor, Naruto felt like helping out the little Genins and walked up to the Chunnins with his huge blade hung on his shoulder, Sakura and Sasuke following behind him.
The two 'boys' held up their hands and told them to get lost, they weren't letting anyone into the room for the exam or else. Naruto laughed darkly in response to their 'threat' in less then a blink the sign over the room fell from the wall and Naruto settled his cleaver back onto his shoulder, he snatched the sign from the air and showed it to the Chuunins "If you're keeping us from the exams, why are you guarding the wrong door? Or did you two get fooled by such a simplistic genjutsu too?"
Naruto turned his back to the guards "Maybe you should go back to your guard duty guys, you can't even hide a henge well"
The two Chunnin's sputtered and turned back to their real forms "How did you see through our Henge's and know who we are?"
Naruto chuckled darkly again "No matter how well you Henge, it won't mask your scent, I knew you two were in here from outside"
The two Chunnin's grumbled under there breath and left the Academy, then all the Genin's rushed the stairs and headed upstairs. Sasuke turned to Naruto "What gives man? Why did you help all these weak Genin that couldn't see through it?"
Naruto shrugged "It doesn't really matter, now we can use them as cannon fodder during the rest of the exam, plus they will distract other teams and the proctors better"
The three then went upstairs and walked through the large double doors into room 301, before them were well over 100 genin, and directly before them were the rookie nine, some mist nin across the room called to Naruto.
"That blade! It's Momochi Zabuza's! Demon of the Hidden mist, How did you get it!?"
Naruto found the person who yelled to him and yelled back, well he kind of snarled "How do you think I got it? I killed him!" It never hurt to have a badass rep right?
The same stupid nin yelled back "Bullshit, no Genin could kill him! He wiped out an entire genin class before he was even a Shinobi, and he plotted to overthrow the Kage and Council of Kirigakure!"
Naruto whipped the blade from his shoulder and in an instant it was leveled straight at the nin "If you doubt it so much I will be glad to send you along to ask him yourself!"
Naruto officially had the attention of everyone in the room, along with the rookie nine, Kiba had to come and ask questions "Oi, Sasuke who's the freak? And where's Naruto? Don't tell me the idiot got killed and replaced already?"
Naruto heard Kiba perfectly and turned around, "You talking about me, dog boy?"
Kiba glared at him, "Yeah, you the freak that replaced that idiot Uzumaki?"
Naruto pulled off his entire cloak, hood and all, revealing all of his features, minus the ears and tail which he kept hidden. "I am that 'idiot' you dumb mutt, now watch who you insult before I neuter you"
Kiba laughed "Oh yeah? And what's an idiot like you gonna do about it?"
Sasuke jumped between the two "That would be an incredibly stupid last thing to do Kiba, the day after we got out of the Academy Naruto put Sakura in the ICU of the hospital for a week when she wouldn't stop insulting him, and you're a guy I imagine they wouldn't find your remains"
Kiba shivered and noticed that Naruto's slit crimson eyes were glaring at him, he gulped "Uhh, alright I'm sorry I guess"
Naruto continued to glare at him "You're damn right you're sorry"
Just then a man walked over to them, he was dressed in purple shirt and pants, he had white hair and round glasses on "You guys should keep it down, since you're the rookies I'm gonna give you some help"
"And how's that?" Sasuke asked
The white haired nin whipped out a deck of cards "You see I have these cards, on them I have information about every single candidate here, from mission stats to areas of expertise, you guys got anyone you want some dirt on?"
"Gaara of Suna" Naruto said, someone else called "Naruto Uzumaki"
"Alright, first Gaara. He pulled out a card and started channeling chakra into it "Lets see, I don't have a lot of info on him, he specializes in Ninjutsu, he's done 75 D-ranks, 15 C-ranks and whoa 2 B-ranks, and get this he's never gotten a scratch on him"
Shikamaru called out from the group "The dude's done two B-ranks and never been scratched?, troublesome"
Kabuto pulled out another card "Naruto Uzumaki, specializes in Ninjutsu and Taijutsu. He's done 57 D-ranks, and WHOA an A-rank, It says that his team broke the record for most D-ranks done in a day, the old record was 10 by the Yondaime himself, his team did 30 in one day. It also says he has two Aliases 'Demon slayer' and 'Demon of Konoha'"
"It says that during the A-rank mission his entire squad was incapacitated, including Hatake Kakashi and he single handedly took out Zabuza Momochi, and a 200+ man army of armed thugs and mercenaries, Hmm seems he also-"
Just then there was a large plume of smoke at the front of the Room and a man appeared, and behind him 20 more men appeared, The man had a long black leather trench coat on, and he had a black bandanna on his head "Alright! My names Ibiki Morino, I'm the proctor for the first exam and for the next 90 minutes you're mine!"
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Time skip, 90 minutes that test is boring as shit, everyone cheats, Naruto uses his superb vision to cheat off people multiple rows ahead of him.(Sorry, I just hate writing a page full of useless shit)
Right as Ibiki was explaining the purpose for the exam a black blur smashed through the window and a banner was pinned to the ceiling with two Kunai, and Mitarashi Anko appeared before them all.
Naruto was flabbergasted "Anko! You're the second proctor?" Right as he said it Anko flung a Kunai across the room that sliced the side of Naruto's neck, causing a small spurt of blood, Naruto for his part didn't move the tiniest bit when she threw it
Naruto chuckled "You know, the point of all that target practice was so you could actually hit the target"
Anko cocked her head to the side "Oh, Was it?" She flung another Kunai straight at Naruto, it speared through the air at high speed, Naruto brought his hand up in one swift move and snatched the Kunai out of the air, and threw it back at Anko without anyone in the room, short of Sasuke, seeing his arm even move, all they knew was one second the Kunai was heading for Naruto's heart, the next second Anko jumped to the side and that same Kunai speared into the wall handle deep, splitting the wood in the wall decently. .
Naruto grinned, "You didn't think I was trying my hardest in all those fights, did you?" Naruto glanced around and noticed everyone in the room was staring at him, open mouthed.
"Hmm, seems I have something on my face or something. everyone seems to be interested in me. Perhaps you should continue with what you need to Anko"
Ibiki gave Anko a questioning look "You know him Anko?"
Anko nodded "Ya, he's my new best buddy! And sparring partner!...Right, I'm Mitarashi Anko, proctor of the second exam, follow me to the forest of death, get there in 10 minutes or you fail!" Anko took off out the window, some kids following, some kids taking the door. Naruto followed her, And caught up pretty soon.
"So, you were never even trying your hardest?" she asked
Naruto shrugged "Well that's not true, there were definitely times when I was trying pretty damned hard, it's just...you're no Zabuza, no offense"
"None taken, that man was a beast, why did you stop that second Kunai though? I thought we could make a good show, I figured all that blood and violence would help weed out the scardy cats, and if not the way you didn't even flinch at the Kunai was great, I'll bet every Genin is scared to hell of you!"
Naruto turned to the side and looked at Anko "I don't think I needed a Kunai in my chest or neck to make them scared of me, I mean if I remember correctly even you were a bit scared when you first saw me"
Anko frowned "Well no shit! You look like the damn Kyuubi!"
Naruto grinned "Aww, thanks for the compliment"
Naruto and Anko arrived at the forest fencing way before anyone else, and they had a good few minutes before anyone got there. Anko shrugged "So, whatcha wanna do while we wait for the others"
Naruto gave her a knowing smirk "Dunno, I know you probably wanna cut me up some more, but I think I'm covered in the scars department..."
Anko gave him her best puppy dog eyes "Well, there's only three things I'm a big fan of, since you don't want to get cut, and I don't see any Dango around here, that only leaves one thing, men. The only man I see around here, is you, Naru-kun"
Naruto suddenly found out he was capable of blushing, and his eyes also widened considerably "You want to get into that stuff? You do realize I'm thirteen, right?"
Anko smiled, all to seductively at him, "You're the one who said it, that means your thinking it, which means your interested, and I know you're only thirteen on the outside, bet the only thing thirteen about you, is your height"
Naruto frowned at Anko "That doesn't change the fact that you're a lot older than me"
Anko stifled a mock gasp and slapped him upside the head "I'll have you know I'm only twenty three, don't even think about calling me old"
Naruto laughed "Exactly! You're a flat ten years older than me, you don't think thats weird?"
Anko laughed "You say that as if you and I aren't the weirdest two people in this village, who cares if what we do is weird?"
Naruto sighed, despite his better judgment, he couldn't come up with anything to stop a willing women, who was HOT! "Fine, but nothing past making out, not like we have more than a couple minutes before people show up"
Anko mentally cheered 'Hah, knew I would win him, now to keep him...' She grinned at him and leaned in and planted her lips over his.
Naruto's eyes widened in shock for a second, then went back to normal, and closed, taking in the feeling. Sure, he knew her lips would be soft, but damn, he was not expecting this, he liked it, and he liked it a lot, and he wanted more, he needed more.
He wasn't sure how, or why, but he seemed to know exactly what to do, whether it was Kyuubi sending him mental knowledge, or his new demonic instincts (Lets say animals kiss and have foreplay, kay? Cause I don't have shit to explain this)
Naruto growled hungrily into Anko's mouth, she gasped slightly at his forwardness, but parted her lips anyway, and granted him the all access pass(lol) Naruto instantly seized the moment and dove into her mouth with his tongue, and at the same time backed her up against the large fence surrounding the forest, he pressed her back against the fence and started to explore her mouth with his tongue, despite never ever being hugged before, he seemed to know every little thing to do, and Anko was not complaining, his tongue danced around hers, the two twisting and turning in a battle of lust, Naruto made a mental note that surprisingly, Anko's mouth tasted not of Dango, but of mint.
Their battle of the tongues continued, changing which mouth it took place in every few moments, and Naruto's hands began to roam, they had been behind her neck, and they slowly dropped, to her shoulders, then a bit further until they landed on the sizable breasts that lay under her trench coat and fishnet shirt.
He began to message her breasts through the trench coat, slowly kneeding the soft flesh in his hands, he felt her nipples harden through her coat, and he maneuvered his hands and brushed the front of her trench coat open, revealing her small dark pink areola(s?), and protruding nipples, Naruto's hands again went back to her breasts, cupping them from below while rolling her nipples between his thumb and forefinger, which earned him an incredible moan from Anko.
Naruto's instincts were just about to take his hands further south, to enter the forbidden land, when Sasuke and Sakura arrived, they saw the two, and realized just what they were watching happen, and Sasuke showed that he was in fact hetero, he got a sizable nosebleed, that he quickly hid with a henge. Sakura on the other hand, gasped and fainted on the spot.
Naruto and Anko quickly stopped what they were doing, regrettably, they were both enjoying it A lot and lost track of time and location. Anko quickly pulled her trench coat back in place and attempted to will her nipples back into a non excited state, and failed, leaving her trench coat with two new decorative additions, which she was forced to hide with a henge.
Naruto didn't really have much to redo, or get rid of, besides the trail of combined saliva down his chin. He went over to see if Sakura was okay, and was glad to see she had only fainted, he took off his jacket and put it under her head for a make shift pillow.
He then turned to Sasuke, who still looked fairly shocked. Naruto chuckled "So, you really are straight after all, you had me unsure for a while there Sasuke"
Sasuke narrowed his eyes at Naruto but said nothing, more kids started to show up, and most gave them strange looks, seeing as they had a passed out Kunoichi before the exam even began.
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
After about five more minutes Sakura finally stirred and opened her eyes, she didn't expect to see the burning crimson eyes of Naruto staring down at her, and a destinctly 'sakura' eep escaped her lips.
Naruto smiled down at her "Welcome back to the real world Sakura, sorry about that, that wasn't supposed to go that far"
Sakura's eyes widened in realization that what she saw wasn't a dream, then narrowed "Naruto, why were you doing that with her?"
Naruto shrugged "I honestly don't know, we had nothing to do for a few minutes, she suggested it, and well it just happened"
Sakura wasn't exactly pleased with his answer, but before she could respond Anko declared the waiting period over.
"Okay The ten minutes are up! Any team who isn't here yet is disqualified! Now then, the second part of the Exam is a survival test! You have 5 days to get the scroll you need from another team, then you have to make it to the tower in the center of the forest. Each team will be given either an Earth or Heaven scroll, you must find the one you need to complete your set of both scrolls to go to the tower!"
Anko walked throughout the Genin's while handing out papers "You must sign these papers to get your scroll, they wave us of any fault if you die in this part of the exam, Killing is allowed from here on out!"
Everyone signed their forms and handed them in, and all the teams were given their scrolls and went to the starting gates. Anko got an evil glint in her eye "One last piece of advice for all of you. If you want to live through this, don't fight Naruto-kun"
Naruto yelled from his gate "What the hell Anko! don't scare them away" just then a green light lit up above all the gates and they slammed open, all the Genin flew from their spots into the forest, beginning the second exam.
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Forty five minutes into the Exam Naruto had already tracked down and beaten a group of mist nin, the idiot who said he couldn't have beaten Zabuza. Much to Naruto's pleasure they were also carrying the scroll Team 7 needed. They immediately began heading for the tower in the center at top speed.
After sprinting for about an hour they were suddenly blasted by a huge gust of wind,which blew Sasuke into a tree, knocking him out. A moment later a grass nin came out of the woods.
"Kukuku, I've been waiting to meet you, Naruto-kun" The ninja spoke in a creepy voice, and had an even creepier laugh.
Naruto sniffed the air, "You smell familiar, like Anko..." Realization slapped Naruto in the face "It couldn't be, could it!?"
The Grass nin laughed again "Have you figured it out already Naruto-kun?"
Naruto took up a fighting stance and turned to Sakura "Sakura take Sasuke and leave, NOW get to the tower and wait for me, I'll catch up to you before to long"
Sakura looked at him with concern written all over her face "But Na-" "NOW! Get out of here!" he yelled
Sakura jumped over to Sasuke's limp form and picked him up and jumped away throwing one last concerned glance at Naruto over her shoulder. Once they were far enough away Naruto spoke "So, Orochimaru what the hell are you doing here? And what the hell do you want from me?"
Orochimaru laughed evilly and pulled off the fake face he had on, revealing his own pale skin and yellow eyes "I'm here for you Naruto-kun, your body is immortal, it is the perfect vessel for me to complete my immortality jutsu"
Naruto growled deeply at him "That so? Come and get it, pervert snake" Naruto brought Kubikiri Houcho out in a defensive stance and got ready, though deep down he knew he was completely screwed if Orochimaru wanted to. Even with his one tail of power he was no match for a Sannin.
Orochimaru shot a handful of snakes at Naruto from the sleeves of his shirt, they rocketed towards Naruto but never made contact, Naruto chopped all of their heads off with one large sweep off his blade. "Kukuku, it seems you're fairly skilled with that blade Naruto-kun"
Naruto smirked "Care to come closer and find out how good I really am?" Orochimaru nodded 'Well fuck, I was hoping he wouldn't say no...'
Orochimaru was in front of Naruto faster then he could blink, he knocked the Zanbato from his hand and into a nearby tree, he lashed out, with his tongue of all things and wrapped it around Naruto's neck and lifted him a few feet off the ground.
"Kukuku, You may be skilled Naruto-kun, but no matter how much training you have, you can't hope to match me, now I will give you a parting gift that will bring you to my side in the future" Orochimaru replaced his tongue around his neck with his left hand, still holding Naruto off the ground, he then moved his jacket out of the way and sunk his fangs into the back of Naruto's right shoulder.
Naruto was instantly hit with the largest wave of pain he'd ever felt in his life "What the hell did you do, teme!?"
Orochimaru just laughed more "I just gave you a parting gift, I'll see you soon Naruto-kun" He then disappeared into a plume of smoke and disappeared.
Naruto grit his teeth and fought his way through the pain and headed towards the tower in the center 'Kyuubi, what the hell is this thing! And why does it hurt so much!?'
"It's some kind of curse seal, It's designed to give you great power, and at the same time corrupt your mind so you become Orochimaru's completely loyal subordinate. And it hurts so much because right now it's attempting to root itself into your chakra coils and mind, but I'm not going to give it the chance. Snake bastard wants to toy with us does he!?"
Naruto grimaced 'H-how exactly do y-you plan to stop it' The pain caused him to stammer
"I'm flooding it with my chakra, completely destroying everything about it, it will be completely gone in just a while"
Naruto grunted in pain and started off towards the tower
Naruto ignored the pain as best as he could and pushed on towards the tower, he got there and landed next to his teammates, standing outside the doors "It's good to see you're awake, Sasuke" Sasuke nodded back to Naruto, "Good to see you didn't die"
Naruto chuckled, and then grimaced in pain again "You ain't getting rid of me that easily, now lets get in there and get this shit over with" Team 7 walked through the doors and opened their scrolls, and Iruka of all people appeared.
"Ok Iruka, what the hell are you doing here?" Naruto asked, and once again grimaced in severe pain
Iruka looked over at Naruto and nearly had a heart attack, after he steadied himself he spoke "I'm here t o congratulate you three on completing the second part of the exam, and you completely smashed the old record of twenty three hours, forty two minutes. You guys got here in 2 hour and 18 minutes"
Naruto shrugged "We would have gotten here like forty five minutes sooner if Orochimaru didn't decide to pop up"
Iruka's eyes widened and he gasped slightly "R-right, well you guys can go through those doors behind me, you have the rest of the 5 days to rest and get ready. If you'll excuse me I have to go" Iruka then disappeared in a plume of smoke.
Naruto spent the next three days in incredible pain while the curse seal was being broken down and removed, on the morning of the fourth day Kyuubi finally finished working on it and the pain ceased.
"Naruto-kun it's finally done! The curse seal's been removed!"
Naruto mentally thanked kami for the pain stopping 'Oh good, I was beginning to think I was going to go crazy from the pain'
Naruto grunted and went over to the mirror in the bathroom and lowered his jacket from his shoulder, just to double check for himself, and sure enough the seal was gone, only two scars from the bastards teeth remained. 'I'm just glad the damn thing is gone'
"We both are Naruto-kun, that damn thing wanted to try and lock me away from you"
Naruto, happy with his lack of pain and new seal-less shoulder lounged for the last two days waiting for everyone to get there. On the afternoon of the fifth day all of the teams that could pass had arrived.
Everyone gathered in the central arena at the center of the tower, when they were there a Jounin came out and made an announcement.
"Since we still have too many participants to start the third exam we are going to hold preliminary matches to thin the numbers enough for the third exam, your name will be picked at random and displayed on the score board, the two called will come to the arena and fight until one or the other is unable to continue, or is dead"
The first match came up as Shikamaru versus Sakura, which ended up becoming a battle of the brains. Sakura ended up getting beaten by Shikamaru by him using his Kage mane no jutsu to hold her own Kunai to her throat and forced her to surrender.
The next match was Temari of Suna versus Kin from sound, the battle was extremely one sided as Kin's Senbon with bells couldn't even reach Temari with her wind jutsu's, she just blew everything she had back at her and eventually sent her flying into the wall knocking her out.
The third match was Kiba versus Ino. Ino did much better then people were expecting her to do, she ended up tricking Kiba long enough to use her Shintenshin no jutsu on him, but once she took over his body Akamaru jumped over to Ino's body and was ready in a moments notice to tear out her throat, and Ino had a Kunai to Kiba's throat, eventually Ino started running out of chakra and had to end the jutsu and she lost, the battle wasn't nearly as exciting as it sounds.
The Fourth match was Hinata versus Neji, Neji toyed with her mind and broke her down slowly, tormentingly and then knocked her out, it was less of a match, and more of a torture session.
Naruto was hoping against hope that he would get to fight Gaara, and was less then happy when he was paired up against Zaku from sound.
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Naruto jumped down into the arena and smashed into the floor leaving a large crater from all the weights he wore, Zaku took his time and slowly walked down to the arena, he was gonna blow this kid into next week, regardless of his 'reputation'.
Zaku arrived and stood before Naruto, who looked very unhappy. Naruto took off his bracer weights and then threw them to the side, and they promptly smashed into the ground again, creating another crater, Naruto, now with a lot less weight on him cracked his neck and glared at Zaku.
"So, The sound genin...you three are pathetic, to be manipulated by Orochimaru so easily, it sickens me, I'm going to enjoy the day I kill him, but first I'll enjoy removing his taint...you" Naruto said in a monotonous voice, which was the unnerving part.
Zaku looked startled for a moment that they were found out as Orochimaru's genin, but grinned. 'This kid is so dead' "You're going to die, freak!" He lifted both arms and pointed them, palms out at Naruto, revealing two small holes "Great decapitating sound wave!" A huge blast of wind blew across the arena, smashing into Naruto and sending him into the wall, where the air started to dice up everything before it, leaving huge gashes in the concrete walls, and Cutting the hell out of Naruto.
By the time the jutsu ended Naruto was covered from head to toe with cuts, ranging from shallow scrapes to deep gashes that poured blood. Once the wind died down Naruto fell from the wall onto his feet and looked his body over, and Zaku laughed "You fool, you lose, and now you're gonna die from all those wounds!"
Naruto merely looked over all the wounds and disappeared in a plume of smoke startling Zaku, he reappeared next to where his clone dispelled and picked up Kubikiri Houcho from where he dropped it.
"Is that really all you've got punk? I see Orochimaru does his best to find shitty help, he was a lot more powerful then you, but your one shot is up, I hope you enjoy your afterlife, because your time on this world is up"
Naruto lifted the blade up above his shoulder and charged at Zaku with unseen speed, only Sasuke could truly see him with his Sharingan, even the trained Jounin among them couldn't track him clearly.
Naruto appeared before Zaku and swung his heavy cleaver like an axe straight down and across in a diagonal slice. The sound was one to be forever engraved in all those in the room, the sound of bones snapping under force, and flesh being cleaved and shredded to pieces, but worst was the blood chilling scream of Zaku as his body was cleaved clean through, blood sprayed out from his split body in all available directions, forwards, backwards. It was everywhere, in a violent flower shaped splatter on the ground radiating from his body. The two lifeless halves of his body hit the ground with two separate 'thuds' Naruto sighed at the site "Fools, everyone who sides with Orochimaru is a fool, and will come to pay with the dearest of prices, death"
He flicked his zanbato at high speed, sending all the blood on it flying off into a spray on the wall, he then picked his weights back up and put them on, then walked slowly back up to his team. Sasuke turned to Naruto "That was pretty gross, don't you think that was a bit overboard?"
Naruto took note of the horrified looks he was getting from all the genin and shook his head "No, in the real world battles are to the death, the one who kills quickest lives to kill another day"
Once Zaku's body was removed the next match was called, Sasuke versus Chouji, It was a pretty close fight...for a minute or two. Chouji became his meat-tank and started to roll around like crazy, Sasuke just dodged around waiting for him to tire, and once he dropped his meat-tank form Sasuke closed in and knocked him out with one a single punch to the temple.
Everyone else then went through the various few fights left, Shino beat Dosu and Kankuro beat Akada Youri(Chakra absorbing guy). Despite putting up a valiant effort, Rock Lee ended up getting beaten and almost killed by Gaara.
The proctor made a speech about how the third exam would be a tournament in one months time, he then held up a sheet with the matches and who would fight who.
Naruto Vs. Neji
Kiba Vs. Tenten
Sasuke Vs. Gaara
Temari Vs. Shino
Shikamaru Vs. Kankuro
Naruto grumbled something about not getting to fight Gaara and how Sasuke was a lucky bastard, then all the teams left to train for their one month of time. Naruto decided he didn't want to have Ramen again for dinner tonight, he was in the mood for violence, he craved flesh. So he walked up to the proctor of the exam "Hey, do we have to leave the forest now? Or can we hang around for a while?"
The sickly proctor looked at him like he was crazy "You want to stay here?"
Naruto nodded "Yeah, I bet the animals here taste great, so do we have to leave?"
The proctor shook his head "No, you don't have to leave, though the majority of, if not everyone here is leaving, good luck is all I can say"
Naruto grinned like a maniac and left the tower, once he was out of site from everyone he turned back into the largest fox he could, which was about two and half times larger then his horse version, then he started to stalk through the forest looking for some nice juicy prey, that fight with Zaku got him excited.
After a few hours Naruto was done with his fun, after he finished eating the large bear he had tracked down he stalked off towards the entrance of the forest, he almost forgot to turn back into a human when he reached the edge of the forest. Right as he was about to jump the thirty foot high fence that surrounded the forest he noticed just how late it already was. "Hmm, maybe I'll just sleep here, it's pretty nice, plus no one will bother me here" Naruto turned away from the fence and walked back into the forest as his full sized fox, he found a nice place to sleep and curled up and was swept away into his usual nightmares and dreams.
Naruto woke up the next morning after a night of restless sleep, he shook his head to rid himself of his sleep induced haze, then his ears caught some branches breaking and swiveled to better catch the noise in the distance, he focused on it and he could hear heavy breathing and more branches breaking, he sniffed the air to try and find more clues to what was happening, Mint and snakes...Anko. Naruto got up and stretched in a very feline manner and then walked off towards where the sound was coming from. (NoteL, He's still a giant fox)
Naruto arrived at the scene and Anko was throwing Kunai and kicking and breaking trees, being her usual strange self. Anko didn't know Naruto was a Hanyou, or that he could become a fox, so he decided to try and scare her, He growled loudly and deeply at Anko, She immediately froze in place and turned around, and saw nothing, so she turned back to her target.
Naruto slowly emerged from the trees behind Anko, he bent down so he would be at head height with Anko and barred all of his razor sharp teeth, then he growled again, this time it was almost more of a snarl.
Anko whipped around again, and this time she was face to face with a giant fox's barred teeth, it was big enough to bite her in half, it's tail was lashing around behind it angrily "Oh...Shit" Anko jumped back from the giant fox, and threw a Kunai at it's head, the fox merely moved it's head and dodged the Kunai and growled at Anko again.
"Hmm, gigantic, mean, angry looking fox...what should I do..ah yes, RUN!" Anko turned and booked it as fast away from Naruto as possible, Naruto followed right behind her, Anko was dipping and dodging around and between trees, Naruto was just smashing through everything he could, and dodging what he couldn't, and he was gaining on Anko fast.
Before long Naruto was right behind Anko, and then they burst into a clearing and Naruto made his move, he took his front right paw and swept Anko's legs out from under her, Anko spun through the air and landed flat on her back, knocking the wind from her lungs. Naruto instantly pounced and landed with a paw on either side of her head, then he lowered his mouth right to Anko's head and stared her straight in the eyes."You should have seen your face! You looked horrified!"
Anko for her part was still looking like she was about to have her face eaten by a huge, Talking fox..wait "You can talk?"
"That and you lost our bet Anko, you officially have to do whatever I want for one day when I want"
Anko's fear was now instantly replaced with fury, "You, you son of a bitch! that's you Naruto?"
Naruto stepped away from Anko and bowed, "The one and only"
Anko was now both pissed, and confused "What the hell, why are you a fox?"
Naruto turned back into a human and sat down next to Anko, "Ok, I guess I should tell you a little more about myself..." fifteen minutes later Naruto finished recalling his tail of the wave mission and how he was turned into a Hanyou.
"So let me get this straight, because of Kyuubi you're now an immortal demon that's going to eventually become a nine tails?"
Naruto nodded "More or less, that's the gist of it all"
Anko shook her head in disbelief "And here I thought you were just a weird kid and looked that way because of Kyuubi being in you"
Naruto chuckled "Nope, I'm just your everyday demon" In Naruto's mind Kyuubi was bugging him "Come on ask her already! It'll be good!" 'Fine, but if I do, and she says no you have to stop bugging me about it alright?' "Deal"
Naruto rubbed the back of his head "Umm Anko, Kyuubi has been nagging me to go to the hot springs for a while now, and well, you wanna go with me? It would definitely be more fun with you there"
Anko laughed "Sure why the hell not, I haven't been to the hot springs in ages anyway, I could use a good soak"
Naruto smirked, his hormones were definitely getting the better of him as of late, Kyuubi cheered in his mind "One for Kyuubi, zilch for Naruto-kun!""Umm, alright...say at...one?"
Anko got up and nodded "See you then Naru-kun!" she then bounded off towards the fence surrounding the forest
Naruto groaned and headed towards his apartment to take a shower, there was no need to go to the hot springs smelling like he just spent the night killing and eating things.
Multiple hours later Naruto left his apartment, with his cloak back in place and Kubikiri Houcho slung on his shoulder, no matter where he went he always brought it with him no matter what, by order of Zabuza.
He stalked through the streets towards the Hot springs, people parted for him, no one wanted to incur the wrath of the 'Demon Slayer' as he was known as throughout Konoha, he got to the Hot springs just before one, and Anko was already there waiting for him, "I thought I said meet me at one, it's ten to one and you're already here waiting?"
Anko shrugged "Better to be early then late"
Naruto shook his cloaked head "Not always, shall we go in?" Anko nodded and the two walked in, Anko had a reputation of her own throughout the village and when she said "Leave" everyone left in under a minute. Naruto headed for the mens section...and Anko followed.
Naruto turned to Anko once they had both entered the mens side "You know Anko I don't think this place is Co-ed"
Anko shrugged and continued walking over towards the water "Oops" She started taking off her clothes and Naruto wanted to be polite and turn away, but his hormones once again got the better of him and his sight stayed glued to her chest, once she finished getting settled in the steamy water Naruto turned and started getting undressed himself, he glanced over his shoulder and noticed Anko was staring right at him "You're not gonna turn around are you?"
Anko grinned at him evilly "Nope, You better get used to attention from girls Naru-kun, once news gets out about the body you've got, phew you are gonna have em hanging off you in groups"
Naruto continued to get dressed, ignoring Anko's analyzing gaze, and when he took off his boxes Anko had to stifle a gasp, he wasn't equipped with just a hot bod, he had the weaponry to back the front lines! Naruto walked over to the water and slipped into the water across from Anko and sighed in sweet bliss "Kyuubi was right, this does feel great"
After about fifteen minutes of relaxing in the hot refreshing water Naruto heard some unnervingly familiar giggles coming from the wall of the Women's hot spring, Naruto sighed and got out and put on his pants "I'll be right back Anko, it seems The women's spring has an unwelcomed observer" Naruto put on his cloak and put up the hood and picked up his zanbato, then he disappeared.
He reappeared behind the source of the giggling and was happy to find it wasn't Kakashi, but he wasn't happy because he'd never seen this guy before, and he was good to hide his chakra signature so well, Naruto tapped the guy on the shoulder "Oi, stop peeping on the women, you pervert"
The guy turned around to look at Naruto, or at least what he could of him. Huge blade, and a cloak, not a lot of descriptive clothing. "Mind telling me who you are?"
Naruto shrugged "Maybe, you mind telling me who you are?"
The mysterious guy got up and started a very strange dance while describing himself as Jiraiya, the great Toad Sennin. Yep, he was definitely a weird one, the guy wore a olive green body suit with a red vest over it, he had on strange wooden sandals and had red markings on his cheeks.
Naruto shook his head "Is the third member of the Sannin as...eccentric as the first two?"
Jiraiya smiled "Oh, so you've met Tsunade before?"
Naruto shook his head again, "Nope, Orochimaru decided to play some games with me in the chuunin exams and give me a curse seal, ignorant fool, like I would let that pervert try and take over my body, I can't wait until the day when I get to kill him"
Jiraiya's playful expression was instantly replaced with a rock hard determined outlook "Show me the seal, Now"
Naruto put his hands up defensively "Whoa there, calm yourself. I've already removed the seal, or well my friend did"
Now Jiraiya was curious, no one but Orochimaru himself knew how to remove his curse seals "Ok, I've said who I am, now. Who are you?"
Naruto laughed darkly "Well, if you ask the people of this village my name ranges from 'Demon scum' to 'Demon slayer' depending on what description you give, but my real name is Naruto Uzumaki"
Jiraiya's eyes widened at the mention of the name, 'This is Minato's child?' "Would you care to remove your hood?"
Naruto sighed "Fine" He leaned Kubikiri Houcho up against the wall and took off his hood, when Jiraiya saw his face he did what most people do, he gasped "Oi, kid come with me, I've got some things I want to talk with you about"
"Umm, No. I'm currently having a good time with my friend in the hotspring, and hell I might get some tail if I stick around"
Jiraiya tapped his chin for a second, and then a little light bulb went off over his head "Hey, you're in the Chuunin exams right? How bout I train you for the finals then?"
Naruto was about to tell him no thanks and that he had a trainer already, two in fact when Kyuubi spoke up "Oi, That guy was the sensei for the fourth Hokage, he might be able to teach you some really useful stuff, take the offer Naruto-kun"
Naruto sighed, "Ok fine, but gimme a minute I need to go explain to my friend" Naruto disappeared in a blur and reappeared back at the springs "Anko, sorry to do this to you, but Kyuubi is making me leave, one of the Sannin offered to train me for the exams, and she's making me go. So I'll see you around Anko"
Anko frowned "Damn it Naru-kun, we've only been here for a little bit! Can't you stay a little while longer?"
Naruto frowned "Sorry, she's being a pain about it, I owe you okay?"
Anko frowned "Fine" She then stood up suddenly, Naruto wasn't expecting it and he was gifted with a full frontal view of the stark naked dripping wet Anko. Despite his mental screams to turn around his eye's were glued to Anko. Anko, noticing this pressed her breasts together with her arms, "Aww Naru-kun likes? Maybe when you have time for little old me you'll get to meet them more then earlier this week" Anko then put her clothes on and disappeared.
Both Kyuubi and Zabuza were literally rolling on the floor of his mind laughing their heads off "Welcome to the world of hormones Naruto-kun, and so you know, now that you're a demon you're going to be giving off powerful pheromones, you are going to be in the spotlight for the women of your village in no time"
Naruto paled 'You're shittin' me right?'
Kyuubi was laughing again "Nope, for demons age is meaningless since we live so long, as soon as the body is capable of mating it instantly gets to work on attaining a mate, whether you want one or not"
If possible, Naruto got paler 'I'm so fucked'
Zabuza pitched in his two cents "No, you got it wrong, You're gonna get fucked" That sent both Kyuubi and Zabuza back into rolling laughter, and Naruto cut the mental link with them and then picked up his weights and jacket and put them on, then went back to Jiraiya. Once he got to him Jiraiya lead Naruto a decent bit outside the village, then stopped in a clearing.
"So, why did you bring me out this far from the village"
Jiraiya turned to him, with a emotionless expression "Open your jacket, I'm going to check the Kyuubi's seal"
Naruto frowned 'I don't want anyone to know about the seal being halved' "Umm...no I'm good thanks though, Kyuubi's locked up as tight as need be"
Jiraiya walked up to him "It wasn't a request, Open your jacket"
Naruto frowned further "Fine, but you are not to report any of this to the Hokage, understand? I don't want him freaking out about it" Naruto reached up and opened the zipper and pulled open the jacket, firstly Jiraiya gasped at his scar covered torso "What are all these from?" Naruto chuckled "Oh you know, training...playing with Anko"
Jiraiya refocused "Fine, channel some chakra so the seal appears" Naruto did so, and wasn't the least bit surprised when Jiraiya gasped again when half of the seal's symbols were missing. "Naruto, what happened to the Kyuubi's seal?"
Naruto cringed at the tone of voice he used "Uhh, I kind of removed half of it"
Jiraiya paled, then turned red, "YOU DID WHAT!?"
After every wild animal within a mile ran away Naruto motioned for the ground "You might want to get comfortable, this is going to take a while to explain, in fact I'm going to relax a bit myself" Naruto changed into a horse sized fox and lay down, rest his head on his front paws, Jiraiya was incredibly freaked out by it but contained himself and sat down as well, and Naruto started his tail of how he became a Hanyou...for the third time since it happened, and most definitely not the last time.
Jiraiya actually took the news very well, which surprised Naruto. Once Naruto finished his story and all of his explanations he wanted to know what exactly Jiraiya could teach him for the finals, so he turned back into a human and asked "Oi, now I know you only said you'd teach me so you could find out more about me, but you said you would. So what kinda things can you teach me for finals"
Jiraiya tapped his chin for a moment "Umm, I could teach you how to summon toads"
At the mention of summoning Kyuubi barged in on the conversation "Thats a great idea Naruto-kun! But instead of toads, I'll have you sign the fox contract!"
'What? Fine ok' Naruto nodded to Jiraiya, "I would like to learn summoning, but Kyuubi tells me she wants me to sign the fox contract instead, and I have to agree with her, they are my kind after all"
Jiraiya nodded "Fine, I suppose that's do able, but where is the fox contract? I've never even heard of one" Jiraiya watched Naruto's facial expressions as he talked with Kyuubi, he finished his inner speech and clued Jiraiya in "Kyuubi tells me that you've never heard of it because no human has ever signed it before, and it's been hidden by Kyuubi herself for the past 600 years, she told me where it is, now I just gotta go get it"
Jiraiya nodded and got up, "Great, lets go get it!"
Naruto held up and hand and shook his head "Sorry Jiraiya, she doesn't want anyone knowing where it's hidden" Naruto, deciding he wanted to do this as fast as possible he turned into his largest fox form and took off at incredible speeds in the direction Kyuubi instructed.
After an hour of running at full speed Naruto arrived at his destination, it was a gigantic cave where Kyuubi once dwelled, Naruto walked through the entrance, even in his full size he was tiny compared to the vast opening. Naruto slowly walked inside, it was a fairly standard cave, aside from it's size. It had the standard stalagmites, and stalactites, and a good number of rock outcroppings here and there.
Kyuubi directed Naruto through the cave and told him where and when to turn and so forth and Naruto eventually came to a large room with a large pedestal, on top of the pedestal was a large rolled up scroll, 'Kyuubi, is that what I think it is?'
"Yep, turn back into human form and sign it in your blood"
Naruto mentally nodded and walked up to the scroll and turned back into a human, he rolled the scroll open and wasn't surprised to not find any signatures of past summoners, since he was to be the first person to sign it. Naruto quickly cut his hand open with one of his claws and signed the scroll with his name, once finished the scroll instantly snapped shut and disappeared 'Uhh what the hell happened?'
"The scroll just went to the Foxs' realm to inform them of the new fox summoner, and future king"
'Wait wait wait, I thought you said being the leader of the foxes is a power possibly gained by a certain number of tails?'
"Yes, normally but because you are already destined to be a Kyuubi like myself, and my chakra was that which turned you into a demon, you are already officially Kitsune royalty, and you are more or less my heir to the throne"
Naruto nodded 'But wait, If I'm already set as the next king, doesn't that mean I have the ability to get an additional power? Since one of my tails wont be the power to lead the foxes.'
Kyuubi mentally nodded "Yes it does mean that, you have the potential to be the most powerful Kitsune ever, and I have no doubt that you will succeed in filling that potential"
'So...I guess I should go back to Jiraiya to learn the summoning technique huh?'
"Yep, and so you know, once you establish contact you will be given a familiar that will travel and fight with you until you take up your position as King"
'So what, I'm gonna have a fox follow me around everywhere I go?'
"Yep, pretty much, it will likely be a young fox, that way it can bond with you, it will likely have anywhere from one to three tails, anyway get going"
'Right' Naruto turned back into his full sized fox form and took off at full speed back to Jiraiya.
Another hour later and Naruto had arrived back to the clearing he and Jiraiya were at earlier, he was surprised to find Jiraiya still there, he was fully expecting him to have left to seek out some 'Research' while he was there, he was also asleep leaning against a tree, Naruto decided a proper wake up was in order, he loved to scare people.
Naruto walked slowly up to Jiraiya and stooped down to be right in front of the sleeping man, he then drew in a deep breath and roared as loud as he could, right in Jiraiya's face. He almost knocked himself out when he smashed into the tree branch above him from jumping so hard from Naruto's roar.
Once Jiraiya finished rubbing his head, and Naruto finished rolling in the grass laughing Naruto turned into a human. "So, Jiraiya. Care to show me the summoning technique?"
Jiraiya mumbled something about troublesome foxes and nodded. He bit his thumb and went through some hand seals and smashed his hand into the ground before him. "Kuchiyose no Justu!" A large black seal spread out from his palm along the ground, and a second later a small orange toad appeared in a cloud of smoke.
The toad looked around and saw Jiraiya, he wave a webbed foot "Yo, what's up Jiraiya?" He asked
Jiraiya shrugged "Nothing much Gamakichi, I was just showing the gaki here how to summon" He said while gesturing towards Naruto.
Gamakichi looked over to Naruto and frowned "Oi, you look, and smell like a fox"
Naruto grinned evilly and chuckled "That would be because I am one"
The little toad cocked his head to the side "Nani?" Naruto just grinned further and turned into his full sized fox version and towered over Gamakichi, he then bowed down so he was as low to the ground as he could without touching it "Heir to the Kitsune throne, at your service"
This was a first for Naruto, he had completely baffled a supernatural being, and he laughed his ass off at the look the toad gave him. Once Naruto finished laughing the little toad cleared his throat "Well, this is big news indeed. I need to tell pops about this, I'll see you around Jiraiya" Jiraiya tossed him a half-assed wave and the toad disappeared in a puff of smoke.
Jiraiya turned his attention back to Naruto "Come with me for a second Naruto" Naruto turned back into a human and followed Jiraiya, he led the two over to a very large, very deep looking cavern in the ground, Naruto gave Jiraiya a questioning look "So, why did you bring me here?"
Jiraiya turned to Naruto with a grin on his face "Now that you're done fooling around, I want you to try the Kuchiyose no Justu in a life or death situation" Jiraiya then kicked Naruto square in the stomach launching him off the cliff. Naruto's eye's widened as he realized what Jiraiya did, and with a very calm look on his face he spoke a few words as he flew backwards that made Jiraiya very nervous "You're going to die when I get out of here" He then plunged into the depths of the chasm, and then a thought hit Jiraiya "Hmm, I wonder if there are any foxes big enough to save him if the Kyuubi is locked inside him?...uh oh"
Naruto was falling through the earth at an incredible speed, the entire side of the opening was lined with huge razor sharp spikes, and Naruto was getting far to close to some. "Come on! What were the damn handsigns! I wasn't even watching that closely when he did it the first time! I'm so gonna kill him If I get out of here!"
Eventually a switch clicked in his head and he remembered the hand signs Jiraiya used, and he went to bring his hand to his mouth to bite his thumb. But right before he got his hand to his mouth he hit the wall of the cavern and his entire midsection was ripped apart by a large spike, Naruto yelped from the vicious injury, if the feeling of hitting the wall at some one hundred and twenty MPH wasn't enough, he now had the pain of his stomach being shredded to bits, and pieces of him were flying out of the still gaping wound. he swiped his hand through the blood that was now pouring out of his stomach and ran through the seals "Kuchiyose no Jutsu!" he yelled while pushing a whole lot of chakra into the jutsu.
Then something appeared below him in a huge puff of smoke, and then Naruto smashed into the top of whatever it was, somehow Jiraiya didn't plan that even if he summoned something he would still smash into the top of it just as hard as he would the bottom of the cave(Honestly, I never get the logic behind stunts like these. Once you fall a certain distance you hit terminal velocity, 120MPH, from then on distance no longer matters, you could fall three hundred feet, or five miles, you will hit the ground just as hard all the same), fortunately Naruto wasn't a Hanyou for nothing. Naruto knocked on what he assumed was the head of whatever he was now sitting on "Hey, there a Fox down there?" Sure enough a voice answered from the now dissipating cloud of smoke.
"Yes, there is Naruto-sama, it's a pleasure to meet you so soon after signing the contract"
"And it's a pleasure to meet you, you saved me, my jackass of a teacher threw me off a cliff to teach me how to summon"
"Would you like me to 'take care' of him Naruto-sama?"
Naruto chuckled "No thanks, but I would like you to get us the hell out of this cave, if you don't mind"
" I would gladly do it, hold on tight" Naruto held onto the fox using chakra and the fox jumped extremely high, straight up out of the 'ditch' as it was compared to the fox, and up into the afternoon sun revealing the fox in all it's glory. The fox was absolutely huge, it had 7 tails fanned out behind it, and it's fur was a mix between a deep orange and a fiery yellow, the fox almost looked as if it was on fire, it was truly majestic in all rights. The fox landed on the ground outside of the cavern and bowed down so Naruto could jump off, and he did.
He landed on the ground with a groan and a 'splat' as more blood splashed out from the rapidly shrinking wound onto the dusty ground, turning it a muddy brown/red, he turned to the now waiting fox and addressed it.
"Hey I was wondering, You guys have names too right? I know other summons do, but you guys aren't like regular summons are you?"
The fox nodded "You are correct on both accounts Naruto-sama, we do have individual names, and we are different from summons, unlike summons we don't live in the summons realm, we live in the demon real. They are almost the exact same, except for what lives in them"
Naruto nodded, taking in the information given "So, what's your name then?"
"My name is Kaen, Naruto-sama"
Naruto smiled "'Blaze' huh? It suits you well, Kyuubi mentioned me receiving a familiar, do you know anything about that?"
"I do Naruto-sama, your familiar will arrive once I am dismissed, would you like me to leave now ?"
Naruto shrugged "I suppose, I mean it won't be very good if Konoha looks out their windows and sees a giant fox in the woods. Haha"
Kaen bowed to Naruto once more "Very well, I will see you around then Koutei"
Before Naruto could say anything about being called Emperor Kaen disappeared in a plume of smoke, a moment later there was another distinctive 'poof' and another, much smaller fox appeared, though it was still large, it was only slightly smaller then Naruto's full size, and it had two tails waving lazily about behind it, the fox was a picture perfect fox impression, it had bright orange fur, with white tips on it's ears, tails, and a white underbelly.
The fox walked up to Naruto and bowed low like the last fox "Greetings Naruto-sama, I am Kouken, and I have been designated to be your familiar" Unlike the last fox, this ones voice was softer and more gentle, and yet still held that powerful demonic edge. Naruto sighed
"You're a girl, aren't you?" Kouken nodded "That's correct, why, is that a problem?"
Naruto shook his head "No, I was just a little caught off guard, I just wasn't expecting a female to want to be a bodyguard"
The fox managed to chuckle "Naruto-sama, there are many powerful females in the world of Kitsune's, you of all should know this, you've known Kyuubi-sama for quite a while now, and she was the last Koutei"
Naruto nodded "That is a very good point Kouken, I'm sorry if I seemed a bit sexist, Umm you can change size like all foxes right?"
Kouken nodded "Why, would you like me to become smaller?"
Naruto shrugged "While I personally don't care, you would probably get attacked on site in Konoha, so how small can you become?"
Kouken thought for a second before answering "I can become as small as a baby kit, my shape shifting prowess was one of the reasons I was chosen to be your familiar, it was assumed that I would need to be inconspicuous"
Naruto nodded "You can hide your second tail too right? Again, it's like a kill on sight thing in Konoha, sorry"
"You know Naruto-sama, if my being inconspicuous is so important, why don't I just assume my human form?"
Naruto's eyes widened and his jaw dropped "Nani? You can do that?"
Kouken smiled, which managed to not look predatory "You aren't the only one that can do it Naruto-sama, all foxes can assume a human form, it's part of our ability as shape shifters"
Naruto smiled and was about to respond when he had an incredible idea, one that could possibly change everything. "One moment please Kouken" she nodded 'Kyuubi, that means you can become human right?'
"Yeah...so what's so important?"
'Kage bunshins! You know how I can switch my consciousness between clones? Well why couldn't I also have my alternate personalities switch between clones? Both you and Zabuza have the ability to 'control' me if I allow it, so why couldn't you occupy a clone and henge it into your human form!?'
Kyuubi was silent for over a minute, and then screamed in a very girly way, despite the deep voice "OH KAMI. Naruto-kun you're a complete genius! How come I never thought of that before?!"
Naruto decided to be an ass 'Cause you're not as good as me' "Oh shut it, now make a bunshin, NOW! I'm getting outta here! Zabuza, you coming?"
"Yeah sure, whatever, make me a clone too"
Naruto went through the hand seal quickly and two clones appeared, one on either side, then both clones poofed again, and one turned into Zabuza, and the other turned into the most beautiful woman Naruto had ever seen.
She had the same glowing crimson slitted eyes that Naruto had, she even had the deep whisker marks like Naruto, she had mid-back length hair that was blood red like Naruto's, she had a to die for body, and her breasts were the perfect size for her body, they didn't seem out of place, just perfect.
She had long toned legs and a flat toned stomach. She was wearing a black and red top, somewhat similar to Narutos, except many sizes smaller and instead of a fox head on the back it had a blood red Kyuubi, also her top left her entire mid-drift bare. She was also wearing a short black skirt, that went to about mid thigh, it had crimson flames dancing up from the bottom hem, she looked like she could kick some ass and look drop-dead gorgeous doing it. Finally her wardrobe was finished off with a pair of long black open toed boots that went up to just past her knees.
She leaned back and cracked her back in a very non-feminine way "Ohhh god it feels good to be outside, twelve years. I wasn't sure if I could last forever in there!" Now that she wasn't a giant terrifying fox, she had a powerful, yet gentle voice.
Zabuza was in a similar state to Naruto at the way Kyuubi looked, and he also recovered before Naruto "We are so playing strip poker when we get back inside his mind!" Naruto bopped him on the head, but since he used way more chakra then normal on the clones he didn't dispel.
All the attention focused on Kyuubi seemed to irk Kouken, because once the boys recovered from Kyuubi's new look she transformed into her human form.
From the cloud emerged a young girl, she looked to be Naruto's age, she too like Naruto and Kyuubi had glowing red eyes, but no whisker marks. Her hair was a fiery orange, and was tied up into a bun on the back of her head, she also had quite a to-die-for body She had on a purple and black vest, over a short sleeved blue shirt. She had on a white mini skirt over black spandex shorts that went to a bit above her knees. She too was wearing open toed black boots, but hers only went to mid calf.
She walked over to Naruto and gave him her best puppy-dog eyes "How do I look Naruto-sama?"
Naruto paled 'ooh crap if these two are going to start competing over me I'm going to die' "You look beautiful Kouken, you will definitely stand out among the people of Konoha, but seeing as I am who I am, who gives a damn lets stand out!"
Kouken blushed slightly at Naruto's blatant comment about her beauty, at this point Jiraiya, who had gone into hiding after he kicked Naruto off the cliff came out, and was both as giddy as a school girl and confused as hell, there standing over with Naruto were the two most beautiful women he'd ever seen, even if one was under aged, and Zabuza, who was know to be dead since Naruto killed him himself. He also didn't fail to notice the now almost closed wound in Naruto's abdomen, which was still leaking blood out alarmingly.
Jiraiya walked out into the clearing and over to Naruto once he got close enough Kyuubi bashed him on the head. "Oww, what was that for?" he asked from where he was now sitting on the ground rubbing his head.
"That was for throwing my Naruto-kun off of a cliff as training! You could have killed us you baka, and look what happened to Naruto-kun!" she grabbed Naruto and pointed at the huge blood soaked rip in his jacket.
"As a matter of fact, I want you to pay to fix my jacket Jiraiya, or Kyuubi and Kouken here will have some fun with you while me and Zabuza have some popcorn, and no it won't be fun for you" Naruto said, with a completely straight face, despite the implication of what else 'having fun' could be construed as.
Jiraiya's eyes grew larger then dinner plates "K-Kyuubi? That sexy thing is the Kyuubi?" he asked pointing to Kyuubi.
Naruto and Kyuubi both nodded and Naruto spoke "Yes, she is. after you threw my ass off the cliff I thought of a way to let Kyuubi, and even Zabuza here out to 'play'"
Jiraiya was near hysteric "You let the Kyuubi out? WHY!? And another thing, I thought you killed Zabuza, what the hell is he doing here?"
Naruto frowned "I let Kyuubi out because she's not gonna do anything bad, And yes I did kill Zabuza, Kubikiri Houcho is Sentient and absorbed his soul and bam, here you go, Zabuza"
Jiraiya nodded, though still a bit confused "You know if any news gets out that you willingly let the Kyuubi out 'for a stroll' you will probably get banished, if not executed"
Naruto shrugged "If it happens it happens, Kyuubi didn't choose to get locked up in me, she had no choice in it just like I did. So I'm gonna let her spend as much time in the real world as possible, and If I get banished, or they try to execute me, I guess Konoha's gonna have some real trouble once I become a full fledged demon."
Jiraiya nodded then pointed at Kouken "Ok if that ones Kyuubi, who's this one?"
Naruto made a gesture towards Kouken "This here is Kouken, she is my familiar, sent from the Kitsune realm to protect me until I become a full fledged demon"
Jiraiya nodded once more "Care to tell me how you plan to explain two very feral looking women appearing out of nowhere? And a famous Missing-nin too?"
Naruto grinned evilly "Simple, two foxes sent to protect me as the Kyuubi's container, it's half true, and Zabuza I'll tell the truth, he's a representation of his soul in my mind. Now then, if you're done with the interrogation lets go back to the village" Naruto took off his cloak and tossed it to Zabuza, "You might wanna put that on so people don't know who you are just yet"
Zabuza nodded and put on the cloak and drew the hood over his head hiding his face, Jiraiya sighed and disappeared in a plume of smoke, Naruto and his now four man group headed back towards the village with Naruto in the front Kyuubi behind him to the left, Kouken behind him to the right, and Zabuza in the rear.
Naruto's group jumped the walls deciding they didn't want to deal with the two guards, then the four man cell started to stalk through the streets towards a certain Ramen bar Naruto hadn't visited since he got back from wave. Naruto was walking through the streets uncloaked for the first time, and he was drawing a huge amount of attention, along with the two women by his sides. The general look was pure hatred and in many cases fear, even. Naruto noticed, with a hint of nervousness that a lot of the younger women were sending him hungry looks and his two companions hateful glares. While he understood it was the pheromones causing it, it still made him uneasy.
Everywhere they walked the streets cleared for Naruto's group, one specifically stupid drunken villager decided to make a show of himself though. "Tch, Look the demon got himself a couple of demon whores" The second he finished his sentence Naruto moved in a brief blur.
He whipped Kubikiri Houcho around like a bat, smashing it into the mans ribs, definitely shattering a few, and sent the man flying across the street into a small stand of goods being sold. Naruto merely put the blade back and spoke in a voice that was no less than bone chilling "If anyone dares to insult my friends, they will meet a fate worse than his" They then continued on their path to Ichiraku's.
The group arrived at Ichiraku's with no more insults from the villagers, and most of the hateful glares were now replaced with fearful ones, they entered through the curtain and took their seats, Naruto took the center seat and each girl sat on either side of him, and Zabuza sat next to Kyuubi. Once they were settled Naruto called out "Oi, Tsuchi-san are you there? I got some more customers for you to feed!"
Tsuchi came around from the back and nearly had a heart attack when he saw Naruto and his female companions. "Naruto, is that you!? What happened? And who are these ladies, or that strange man?"
Naruto groaned "Yes it's me, seal problems, and this is Kouken" he said motioning to Kouken "And..." he said while motioning to Kyuubi "Megami" She finished. Tsuchi paled "So your names are Guardian and Goddess? They are definitely unique names, for unique ladies"
Naruto nodded "Ok, you three pick out whatever you want, I myself will have my usual, Tsuchi-san"
Tsuchi nodded "Coming right up, I'll give the rest of you a few moments to decide"
After a few minutes everyone had decided on what they wanted and placed their orders. Not to long after that Tsuchi came back with everyone's food, after Tsuchi went back into the back of the store Naruto turned to Kyuubi "Is your name really Megami, Kyuu-chan? Or did you make it up on the spot?"
Kyuubi laughed "It really is my name Naruto-kun, You didn't think that Kyuubi was my real name did you? It's just a title"
Naruto frowned "Why didn't you tell me sooner? I've known you for over two years and you just now decide to tell me your name"
Megami shrugged "I dunno, I've been called Kyuubi for so long now it kind of became my name, I never really even noticed the fact that you weren't calling me my real name"
Naruto sighed "Alright lets change the subject, we've got a while before the finals, how much can you guys teach me before then?"
Megami(As she will generally be referred to from here on) tapped her chin for a moment "Well, I could teach you demonic jutsu's, but most of them would kill your opponent instantly so that kind of rules them out...oh kami I cant believe I forgot about it! I could teach you how to use the Kitsune Doujutsu"
Naruto picked his jaw up from the floor "I have a doujutsu?"
Megami smiled at his reaction "Yeah...I can't believe I forgot about it this long, all Kitsune have it, but since you're only a Hanyou for now you probably can only use the first stage"
Naruto nodded and turned towards Zabuza "Ok, doujutsu training it is, Zabuza anything you can teach me?"
Zabuza grinned like the madman he is "Of course kid, I could teach you water jutsu's and more Kenjutsu Katas"
Naruto grinned back, then turned to Kouken "Kouken, there anything you could show me too?"
Kouken frowned "I wouldn't know anything more then Kyuubi-sama does, sorry Naruto-sama"
Megami reached over and bopped Kouken over the head "baka, don't call me Kyuubi-sama out here, call me Megami. Do you want to give us away?"
Kouken rubbed her head and frowned "I'm sorry Ky..Megami-sama"
Kyuubi smiled warmly "It's alright, everyone makes mistakes just be careful about it thats all"
The rest of the meal was more or less eaten in silence, once everyone finished their chosen dishes Naruto paid the bill and they all headed off towards Naruto's 'private' training ground, they made it there without another incident, once they arrived there Zabuza and Kouken just lounged out under a tree while Naruto and Megami went towards the center of the field.
Megami stopped and turned back to Naruto "Alright Naruto-kun, first I'm going to explain what exactly the Doujutsu can do, then I'm going to tell you how to activate it"
"Alright, so the doujutsu's name is Naiteki Boushi, and as the name suggests it lets you see inside of people, but not in a relative sense, the first stage allows you to see peoples emotions. The first stage is likely all you can use until you become a full demon, so I wont bother to explain the rest until then. Now, to activate it you merely have to concentrate your chakra to the backs of your eyes, go ahead and try it now"
Naruto nodded and closed his eyes, he then focused his chakra to the backs of his eyes, which made his eyes tingle and itch slightly. He opened his eyes a moment later and was a bit startled, Megami was giving off an aura of different colors. "Uhh, Megami...you're glowing"
Megami smiled, and her aura changed color slightly "Yes, I should be, you see the Aura that is given off is the emotions of the person, and it's color coordinated for the different emotions"
Naruto smiled brightly at Megami "Care to explain which colors mean what?"
She smiled sheepishly "Hah, oops that would help wouldn't it? Very well, here we go,
Pink is Love/affection
Blue is Confidence
Red is Lust or Fury, you have to be sure which it is, though both could be dangerous, haha
Green is Calm/Prepared
Yellow is Shame
Purple is Fear
Black is Anger/hate, and in large amounts Rage, another one to be careful of, it can quickly turn to lust or fury
Orange is Jealousy
Teal is Sadness
These emotions show up in different amounts in a person's aura, by judging from which colors are preset and in what amounts you can tell almost exactly how a person is feeling in certain situations, Take for example back the first time you fought Zabuza, Sasukes Aura would have been Blue, Purple and Orange. Blue because he was confidant he would do what was needed, Purple because he was a little scarred of what could happen, and Orange because he was jealous of you doing so well"
Surprisingly Naruto just absorbed all of the information Megami threw at him and understood it all on the first shot, Naruto then noticed what the colors of her aura were, and what it said about her, There was a large amount of pink and blue, a bit of red, and about as much yellow as red. He opened his mouth and spoke quietly "Megami, your aura what are you shameful about? What do you have to be shameful about?"
She instantly regretted teaching him about the Doujutsu, there was no hiding her feelings now "I'm shameful because I like you Naruto-kun"
Naruto frowned and looked down "You're ashamed that you like me?"
Great, now she made him feel like shit! "No Naruto-kun, I mean I really really like you, I love you, not like a son or student"
Naruto looked into her eyes and smiled "This is bad for what reason?"
For her part she was completely stunned with the way he was reacting "What do you mean? We've known each other for the past two years, and up until you turned into a demon we've been acting like mother and son, don't you think it's weird!?"
Naruto shook his head "Nope, you were there for me when I needed someone the most, so you acted like my mother for me, you did it because you cared for me and wanted to protect me, and wouldn't anyone who loves someone do anything to protect them like a mother? You only acted like my mother, you weren't actually her. So what's wrong if we love each other?"
Megami caught the last sentence and the way he worded it "Did you just say you love me Naruto-kun?"
Naruto looked straight into her eyes and smiled warmly "I guess I did Megami-chan"
In one swift move, that completely caught Naruto off-guard Megami wrapped her arms around Narutos shoulder's and planted her lips on his, Naruto was surprised, but kissed her back, with all the fury he had with Anko, they didn't move past a simple liplock, but they both enjoyed it quite a lot.
Once they broke the kiss to get some air they just sat there and held each other in a loving embrace for a few minutes, After a few more minutes of holding each other Zabuza came over and interrupted their moment, "Right well I know you two are having a moment and all, but we do have things to do, like you know training for the finals, and I'd like to get this training done sooner rather then later"
Both Naruto and Megami sighed and stood up, Megami walked off to sit with Kouken, though in reality she wasn't even on earth anymore, she was up at cloud nine, and she was renting a hotel there for a while.
Naruto and Zabuza trained in more Kenjutsu Katas for a while and Zabuza showed Naruto the Water dragon jutsu, he didn't master it but he was able to get the dragon to form, which was incredible according to Zabuza.
The rest of the time before the finals was spent similarly, Jiraiya had disappeared after the first day, So Megami and Zabuza trained Naruto, and Naruto and Megami grew closer and closer. Naruto also started becoming fast friends with Kouken, but he knew she liked him too from his Naiteki Boushi, he knew he couldn't get too close to her though or tons of bad shit would start to rain on him. He already didn't know what was his situation with Anko was, and now he was technically with Megami, and now another girl liked him too? He was all to unsure of exactly what he should do with everything, he was new to the whole 'love and romance' scene.
It was the day of the finals before Naruto knew it, he wasn't worried in the least about his fight, he could have beaten Neji without any kind of new training, but now he had a small arsenal of water jutsus to use too, and he was much better with his Zanbato, again not that he needed it.
Once everyone was set and ready the 'crew' as they had come to be known throughout Konoha headed out towards the stadium, as per the norm now the people in the streets parted for the group, no one wanted to face the wrath of the demon, or his concubines now, let alone the strange cloaked figure in the back who almost never spoke. They arrived at the stadium before long, After a bit of an argument Naruto convinced Kouken to go with Megami and Zabuza and watch the fight without interfering. The three of them went up into the stands while Naruto went down into the arena to stand with the other combatants.
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
They spotted Naruto's female teammate and went and sat next to her, she immediately turned to them and started talking "Are you guys friends of Naruto's? I saw you come in with him, and the talk of the town is well...that you're his...um...whores"
Megami smiled evilly "You could say we're 'friends' of his, This is Kouken, and Zetsumei, And I am Megami, We're Naruto-kuns' best friends, and bodyguards"
Sakura nodded "You sure have some interesting names, Guardian, Goddess, and Death"
Megami smiled "You're one to talk, you're name isn't all that normal either, spring cherry blossom"
Sakura's eyes widened "H-how do you know my name? I never told you it"
Megami chuckled "We're friends of Naruto-kun's remember? He does speak of you sometimes"
Sakura got a slightly hopeful glint in her eye "Naruto talks about me? What does he say?"
Megami smiled warmly 'I knew she was interested in him' "He doesn't say much, but generally he comments on how smart you are" while technically it was a boldfaced lie and Naruto never talked of his teammates, she needed something to cover her ass
Sakura looked as if Sasuke had just said he loved her(in Canon that is). "Does he really compliment me like that?" Before Megami could respond Zetsumei/Zabuza interrupted, "Naruto's fight is about to start, you might want to focus"
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Down in the arena
All the other combatants had left up into the stands to watch the fight, leaving just Naruto, Neji and the Proctor, "Are you two ready for your fight? The rules are the same as in the preliminary matches, last man standing wins, killing is allowed but I will stop it before that if possible, now Are you ready?"
Naruto and Neji both responded with a "Hai" Neji had an emotionless mask on, while Naruto was grinning like a fiend.
The proctor nodded "Alright then, Hajime!" The proctor jumped back to leave Naruto and Neji room, Naruto focused chakra to his eye's and took a look a Neji. 'So, he's confident, calm, sad, and angry...hmm, that sure is a strange combination'
"So, Neji you're confident that you'll win in this fight?"
Neji smirked "It is your destiny to fall before me today in this fight, everyone has a predetermined fate, and yours is to lose here"
'The mystery thickens' "Really? So what clued you in to everyone having predetermined fates?"
Neji's smirk faded "As a member of the branch family of the Hyuuga clan it is my destiny to serve the head family, this was proven to me long ago"
Now it was Naruto's turn to smirk "That so? What pray tell proved this fact to you? What stops you from living your own life and creating your own fate?"
(Lets just say we skipped the fifteen minutes of emotional banter between them from canon, Naruto's a hardass after all)
Neji reached up and took off his head band, revealing a green seal on his forehead that was disturbingly close to a Swastika Neji pointed to the seal "You see this seal? It is placed on all members of the branch family, the moment I received this seal my fate was sealed as a servant to the head family"
'Seals? Now this is getting interesting!' "And what is so special about that seal that makes it rule your destiny?"
Neji's face contorted into a full blown scowl "This seal allows any head family member to kill any branch member on a moments notice for disobeying orders, my father was killed using this very seal when I was 5 years old"
Naruto face was now nearly morphed into a full fledged grin "So, you don't really believe in a predetermined destiny do you? You use fate as an excuse to be a coward and hide from the power of the seal, merely because you lost your father to it, correct?"
Neji was furious "You know nothing of what it's like to have your life controlled by a seal that was placed on you by another, or too lose your only family to the seal"
That was it, Naruto broke down into a full blown laughing fit, once he caught his breath he responded to Neji's accusation "Let me clue you into something Neji, I know more about how a seal can change your life then you could ever hope to"
Neji scowled at Naruto "Just how is that?"
Naruto reached up and unzipped his jacket, he then took it off and tossed it to the side, where it smashed into the ground making a large crater. Naruto channeled some chakra and the large seal of the Kyuubi could be seen, if you were to look closely, and to know what to look for you could see many parts of the seal was missing, indicating it being only half there.
Naruto gestured to the seal "Do you see this seal Neji?" Neji nodded. Naruto motioned all over him "Now do you see all these scars?" Again, Neji nodded. "This seal is the cause for a vast majority of these scars(well, it was for the old scars) This seal that you see before you is the reason the entire village hates me just for being alive"
"Tell me something Neji, have you ever had an assassination attempt on your life?" Neji shook his head.
"Have you ever had a mob of drunken villagers attack a 4 year old you with knives and clubs and broken bottles" Neji again shook his head
"Guess what Neji, I have. I've had your worst nightmares happen to me, all because of this seal. I've never had a family, and I've never had a single real friend, and you know what?"
"What" Neji responded
Naruto chuckled "I still make my own destiny, nothing will stop me from making my own life, especially you, and you know what? Those villagers can go to hell with their beliefs, I find the people that like the real me, and they become my family"
Neji frowned "I suppose I will need to show you that you cannot change your destiny then." Neji dropped down into a low Jyuuken stance and motioned for Naruto to come.
Naruto grinned and jabbed Kubikiri Houcho into the ground, after all his goal was to beat his ass silly, not kill him.
Naruto flared his chakra slightly and ran through a long series of hand seals, he ended the chain and called out his jutsu "Suiton(?): Doragan no jutsu!" all the moisture in the air around Naruto condensed into a large sphere of water, the sphere then slowly stretched out into a long tube, and slowly shaped into a vicious dragon with large teeth, the dragon coiled up a bit near Naruto, Naruto raised an arm towards Neji "Attack". The dragon instantly launched itself at high speed across the arena, flying straight at Neji with it's gaping dagger filled mouth heading right for Neji's chest, right as the dragon was about to impact on Neji he suddenly started spinning rapidly and blue dome of chakra formed around him and obliterated the dragon, Neji yelled out "Kaiten!"
Naruto grinned evily "So, you have an 'absolute' defense huh? Tell me something Neji, how useful will it be if you cannot see your enemy?" Naruto flashed through some more hand signs "Kirigakure no jutsu" a very dense mist settled over the arena, completely concealing Naruto and Neji, Neji called out to Naruto "I am a Hyuuge we have the Byakugan, A simple mist wont help you"
Now it was time for Naruto's sinister chuckle to flow through the mist "Don't you think I know of the Byakugan? I've changed this jutsu into my own, I've surged my own chakra throughout the mist, no doujutsu can see through the mist, because it's a mist of chakra"
Neji was suddenly a bit worried "Byakugan!" he looked around and sure enough it was like he was surrounded in chakra, he couldn't see anything through it, the unsettling thing about it was that the chakra was red, not blue. "What are you!?" Neji called out to the mist
The sinister chuckle returned "I am the one who will change your destiny." Naruto created 20 Kage Bunshins and had them position themselves around Neji, while Neji didn't know where Naruto was, Naruto could smell Neji fine, and hear his breathing.
20 voices from every direction around Neji spoke almost simultaneously "Give up Neji, you cant hope to beat me, give up and we wont harm you"
Neji laughed coldly "Don't think your silly game can scare me, mere Bunshins cant hurt me"
An evil dark laugh pierced the Mist "If only they were regular Bunshin eh? Have fun Neji" All around Neji the 20 clones started hand seals, each one slightly after the other, each clone finished their signs and called out "Suiton: Dangan no jutsu!" but with the delay they each fired about half a second after the one before it, just how Naruto wanted.
The first water bullet launched though the mist straight for Neji, Neji heard the clone call out the jutsu and started his Kaiten to block it, it worked but Kaiten is short lived and only blocked 3 of the bullets, after he stopped spinning another water bullet slammed into him, then another and another, after the remaining 17 water bullets finished smashing Neji around the mist rose from the arena.
The crowd were completely stunned, down in the arena were 20 'demon brats' surrounding a bloody and beaten Neji Hyuuga, prodigy of the Hyuuga clan, the boy looked like he just went 15 rounds with Rocky himself, yet he was slowly leaning forward to get up to face the demon. Naruto saw this and walked up to Neji and planted a foot on his chest and pushed him back onto the ground.
"Give up Neji, I have altered your fate here in this fight, to prove to you that your life is in your hands. Sure you cant control everything that happens, but ultimately it is your choice that determines what happens to you"
Neji scowled at him "No, I am destined to beat you, I will beat you" Neji then started leaning up again, Naruto sighed and walked away from Neji. He reappeared a moment later with Kubikiri Houcho in hand "I really didn't want to do this, surrender or I will remove your head from the rest of you" Naruto leveled the blade at Neji's neck.
Neji frowned "I will never surrender to the likes of you, I will defeat you, It is my destiny!"
Naruto sighed deeply "Have it your way then, Naruto swung Kubikiri Houcho back and wound up a powerful swing "Good night Hyuuga, sweet dreams!" Naruto swung his giant blade at the Hyuuga's head, the entire arena was silent as the blade drew closer, then at the last possible second Naruto turned the sword and smashed Neji across the head with the flat of the sword, the impact was still vicious and sent Neji flying across the arena where he landed in front of the proctor.
"Oi, you might want to take him to the medics, he's probably got a cracked skull, and he's gonna have the migraine of his life, if he wakes up" Naruto reattached his Zanbato to his back using chakra after he put his jacket back on. As he walked past the proctor he mumbled just loud enough for the proctor to hear "Here I was hoping for something fun, nothing more then a academy lesson"
The proctor smirked and called for the medics to get Neji, they came and carried him out of the arena on a stretcher, once he was gone he called down the next contestants, "Kiba Inuzuka and Tenten Kurasuke(Never knew her last name, so I made one) please come down into the arena" Both of them walked down into the arena, Kiba was incredibly overconfident in that he was fighting a 'weak' women, and Tenten was planning how many times she should stab him before finishing him.
They both met in the center of the arena and stood face to face about 5 feet apart, the proctor walked up between them "Alright then, are you two ready?" Kiba smirked "Ready as I can be to fight some chick" As his foolish words left his mouth a venomous grin crawled across Tentens' face "I'm plenty ready to deal with this trash"
The proctor nodded "Alright then, you two know the rules, Hajime!"
Kiba immediately jumped back, as did Tenten. Akamaru jumped from his position on top of Kiba's head and landed next to him "Lets make this quick Akamaru! Man-Beast transformation!" Akamaru disappeared in a plume of smoke and turned into a feral clone of Kiba, Kiba himself also turned more Feral and was on all fours, "All right! Gatsuuga!"
Both Kiba and Akamaru dove at Tenten and started to spin very fast, they charged at her while spinning and went to take her out with one shot. Tenten wouldn't have any of that and back flipped out of danger, at the apex of her flip she flung 2 Kunai, one at each 'Kiba'.
With her expert marksman skills she easily hit both of them in the right thigh, Kiba landed on the ground on his knee while grabbing his thigh. Akamaru turned back into himself and bounced across the ground with the Kunai stuck in his hind leg.
While Kiba was busy with his injury Tenten dashed over and lifted Akamaru up by the scruff of his neck, then she put a Kunai to his throat and whistled to get Kiba's attention "You really should pay better attention to the battle going on around you, fool. Forfeit the match or I kill him" Kiba turned and saw her holding the blade to Akamarus' throat, and he mentally swore for letting them get separated.
"Bullshit, you don't got what it takes" He really hoped she was bluffing.
Tenten pressed the blade a bit harder into his throat and he started whimpering, Kiba frowned "Damn it! Fine I forfeit, let go of him!"
Tenten put the Kunai away and put Akamaru down, who limped back over to Kiba. Kiba held him in his arms and limped off to the medics. "Winner, Tenten Kurasuke"
Tenten sighed "That was too easy" She turned and walked back up to seats to join the other Genin.
Naruto had been watching the fights' emotions with his eyes and he had already expected Kiba to lose, he was overconfident and he had a disturbingly high amount of lust directed towards Tenten. Naruto had also noticed some other things about peoples emotions with his eyes, namely people close to him and it was making him uneasy, when he sat down he noticed Sakura had a fairly large bit of pink in her aura, and also some red, along with a bit of purple. Ino had a lot more red, no pink and a lot purple.
'Great, Sakura might like me and thinks I'm hot, and shes scared of me. Ino just thinks I'm hot and wants me and is terrified' Naruto mused to himself, then the proctor called the next contestants, the fight he and everyone else had been waiting for, "Sasuke Uchiha and Sabaku no Gaara, please come forward for your match"
Gaara appeared in the arena in a cloud of sand, Sasuke merely jumped down into the arena from the stands, they both walked forward and met each others eyes. Sasuke grinned, and Gaara remained emotionless. "Ok, are you guys ready?" they nodded "Ok, you know the rules, Hajime!" The proctor jumped back from the two, and Sasuke jumped back as well, Gaara remained motionless, he didn't so much as uncross his arms.
Sasuke's grin turned into a smirk "So, you're not gonna make the first move huh? Guess I'll show you the power of an Uchiha" Sasuke disappeared and reappeared behind Gaara, his hard right punch just barely being blocked by Gaara's sand. Sasuke disappeared again and appeared on the opposite side swinging in with a hard left roundhouse, which was also blocked by the sand, Sasuke frowned and decided to step it up a notch.
He jumped back a few feet and started to run around Gaara at incredible speeds, kicking up dirt and sand all around the two into a mini tornado, then he started to throw feint attacks at Gaara to draw the sand away from his true attack. He appeared behind Gaara and threw and incredibly hard haymaker, Gaara turned to look just in time to receive the punch full on in the face. He was sent flying for about 8 feet before he landed and slide to a stop.
Gaara slowly stood and frowned, he formed a hand seal and all of his sand started to form around him in an incredibly dense ball. Sasuke tried attacking the ball, only to receive bloody knuckles and sore shins.
"I guess it's time to bring out the new technique then" Sasuke jumped backwards, all the way up the side of the arena wall, he ran through a string of hand signs and unbuckled the restraint on his left arm, He began to focus his chakra to his palm, where it collected into a bright burning ball of electricity, it crackled like the chirping of a thousand birds, Sasuke threw his arm out behind him and ran at full speed down the wall, ripping a deep gouge in the wall with his fist, he leapt across the field easily once at the bottom and slammed his fist into the sphere of sand and called out "Chidori!"
Then, a blood chilling scream rang out from within the sphere of sand, and something clamped down onto Sasuke's arm, painfully. Sasuke knew he was in trouble if he didn't do something about it. He increased the charge to his Chidori briefly and ripped his arm free of the sphere and jumped back.
At this moment a large explosion echoed from the Hokage's box. At this same moment Naruto noticed feathers were falling slowly in the air, and he noticed everyone in the stadium was slumped over in their chairs, asleep. Well everyone except a few Shinobi, like Sakura who was next to him. Naruto furrowed his brow for a second in thought 'What the hell, everyone was hit by a Genjutsu but it didn't affect me, I didn't even release it' Kyuubi perked up through their mental link.
"It's because you're a demon, and because the life you've had. It will take a stronger Genjutsu to affect you, and an even stronger one to actually influence your mind"
'Cool, back to the action, thanks Megami' Naruto refocused on everything around him and noticed battles were now raging all over the stadium, Sound Shinobi were everywhere battling the leaf nins, he also noticed there was now a gaping hole in the arena wall and Sasuke and Gaara were gone.
Naruto and his 'crew' jumped into action and started to take out sound Shinobi left and right, but before they could take out more then 7 Kakashi and Gai appeared with Sound Shinobi under their arms, unconscious. "Naruto, You, Sakura, and Shikamaru follow Sasuke and bring him back to the village"
Naruto nodded "Sure, two things though, I'm not bringing Shikamaru's lazy ass, and I'm leaving my guards with you to help clean up these guys, I can handle the Ichibi alone, Shika will just get in the way, or ask questions"
Kakashi sighed, but had no real other option "Fine then, get going I'll summon Pakkun to track him for you" Kakashi went to bite his thumb but Naruto grabbed his hand "No need Kakashi, I'm me remember? My sense of smell is better then any dogs" Kakashi nodded and mentally slapped himself for forgetting Naruto's new senses and powers "Ok, get going then, you don't have long before Sasuke catches up to him"
Naruto nodded and grabbed Sakura and they followed through the hole Sasuke had left through, and in no time they were jumping from tree to tree hot on Sasuke's trail. While they were jumping Kyuubi contacted Naruto.
"Naruto-kun, I think I should tell you this, it will be very important in the coming fight, all this time you've been using your own power. When you hide your ears and tails you also suppress almost all of your demonic chakra and strength. So there is a good chance you will have to release your features for the fight."
'Ok, is that all though?'
"No, it's about the Bijuu's they are different from your everyday tailed beasts or demons, they are much more powerful then the standard tailed animals, such as Ichibi, even though he only has one tail, he would be more then a match for a 6 tailed fox, so be very careful, If Shukaku somehow comes out you have to find a way to remove or kill him as soon as possible or you will most probably die"
'Thanks for the pep-talk Kyuu-chan, you're great at this you know'
"Sorry Naruto-kun, this isn't about telling you will win, this is telling you what you're up against and what you're dealing with"
'So, that it then?'
"Yeah that's it Naruto-kun, just be careful and don't forget to reveal your features and full power"
Naruto mentally nodded and closed off the communication and refocused on the outside world, and just in time as he almost smashed face first into Sasuke, who was squaring off with a very grotesque looking sand covered Gaara. "Sasuke, we're here to take you back to the village, Let me take care of this guy"
Sasuke shook his head and never looked away from 'Gaara' "No, this is my fight and you will not interfere until he loses, leave me fight!"
Naruto sighed and jumped off to the side with Sakura, "Great, now we have to wait for him to get knocked out to interfere, stupid pride."
Gaara caught sight of the new arrivals and swung out at Sasuke incredibly fast, whiping him against a tree knocking him out, then he instantly lashed out and launched a giant hand of Sand at Naruto and Sakura. Naruto dove out of the way but Sakura didn't, it slammed into her and slammed her against a tree, and instantly started to squeeze her tighter against the tree.
Gaara roared with a demonic laugh "Ahahahah, Now that will slowly get tighter and tighter and the life will be crushed from her! Mwuahahahaah!"
Naruto frowned and glared at Gaara "Like hell it will you fucker!" Naruto released his Hanyou features and jumped over to Sakura's branch, she was squirming under the crushing sand trying to get free as the sand slowly got tighter and tighter "Damn it, Hold on Sakura!" Naruto grabbed the sand hand-thing and the tree and started to pull off with all of his strength. Gaara just laughed "You moron you could never rip that off, no one is strong enough to stop it!"
Naruto just grunted in response and redoubled his efforts. His muscles bulged under his clothes and strained his jacket to and beyond the breaking point. As his muscles continued to bulge more and more with his effort the seams of the jacket started to separate, the shoulders ripped apart, The biceps of the jacket ripped in half and peeled away while the forearms split in half, only staying attached by the elastic wristbands of the sleeves.
Naruto continued to try and pry the hand from Sakura, he further redoubled his efforts and started to pour all the human and demonic chakra he could into his muscles to further strengthen them, the incredible strain Naruto was putting on his muscles was literally ripping the muscles themselves apart, and they were rapidly healing as they ripped up, Naruto roared with all his might and continued to pour every ounce of strength he had into removing the hand as it slowly crushed his teammate.
Naruto was suddenly overcome with a gigantic wave of pain that we could only compare to when he was set on fire once, except it was from the inside out. He felt a horrible ripping and tearing sensation in his lower back, and two tails ripped out from his tail bone, Naruto then felt himself surge with power far beyond what he was recently wielding. He redoubled his efforts to free Sakura once more and focused all of his new strength into removing the hand, and slowly the hand-thing was being slowly ripped from the tree, the bark was being ripped away as the hand inched farther off. In one last giant burst of strength Naruto ripped the hand away from Sakura and caught her when she fell. He jumped over and sat her next to Sasuke's unconscious form, then he turned his gaze to Gaara, who had until now been watching Naruto's freakish strength demonstration. "Wh-how did you remove it? No one should ever be strong enough to remove my sand!" he roared
Naruto smirked defiantly "Well, good thing I'm not everyone, I am future nine tailed demon king!"
Gaara suddenly looked fearful for a moment, then it passed and he laughed like a maniac "You are nothing but a freak! A human could never become a Kyuubi!"
An evil grin grew across Naruto face, and it unnerved Gaara "I suppose it's a good thing I'm not a human!"
Gaara looked fearful again, before schooling his expression and laughing again "You are a fool, Here, I will show you what a true demon is!" Gaara suddenly exploded into a cloud of smoke and sand and shot up into the sky. Naruto frowned.
"Well, this cant be very good" The smoke cleared to reveal Shukaku, in his full form. But something was off, he didn't seem demonic, he seemed like he was still Gaara "Now I will kill you! Look upon a true demon!" Gaara/Shukaku waved his arm and Naruto was covered in sand, which began to constrict him, Naruto bit his thumb and quickly ran through the seals and plowed a lot of chakra into it, "Kuchiyose no Jutsu!" The sand was immediately blown apart as Naruto rocketed up into the sky, and ended up on top of a very large 7 tailed fox.
Naruto recognized the chakra signature of the summon immediately "Kaen, is that you?"
The large fox nodded, almost throwing Naruto off "Indeed it is Naruto-sama, what do you need?"
Naruto pointed out towards Gaara/Shukaku, "We have a bit of a Raccoon problem to deal with, think you can help?"
Kaen looked out towards Shukaku and frowned "Yes, but we need to wait for Shukaku to fully take control before we can do much against him, once his host falls asleep Shukaku will fully emerge, then we can wake the host up, or kill him and Shukaku will fully disperse, at this time attacking wont do much but to anger him."
Naruto was about to ask how long until he would fully emerged when the small form of Gaara appeared on the forehead of Shukaku and then slumped forward, apparently asleep. The form of Shukaku immediately broke out into a much to high pitched laugh. "WHAHAHAHAH! I'M FREE!" He looked over at Naruto and Kaen "And I've already found my first victims!" He slammed his fist into his stomach and launched a ball of air at Naruto/Kaen, who easily dodged to the side.
"Right Kaen, if you can get close to him long enough I'll jump up and smack the crap out of Gaara"
Kaen nodded "It should be easy enough to get close to him, hold on Naruto-sama, we're going in fast" Naruto channeled chakra to his feet and stuck to Kaen's head and he took off at Shukaku.
Shukaku launched 2 more air balls at them, one of which was dodged the other was blocked with a handful of trees Kaen grabbed with his tails. Kaen and Naruto continued to get closer and closer to Shukaku as they dodged more of his attacks, eventually they got close enough and Kaen latched onto Shukaku and Naruto ran up his face and up to Gaara, he got right up to Gaara and slammed a full force fist downwards right into Gaara's sleeping face, the force of the blow from Naruto's new found strength smashed Gaara's face into Shukaku's body, the impact from both his body and the fist gashed his face open in multiple spots, the injuries finally got through to him and Gaara opened his eyes and awakened, and the form of Shukaku roared and crumbled into sand below them.
Naruto and Gaara both started to fall, and Kaen swooped in and caught Naruto, and left Gaara to smash into the ground below. "Thanks for the help Kaen, I guess you can go now"
Kaen bowed "Ok, I'll see you around then Naruto-sama" He poofed away and Naruto jumped down to the ground. Gaara's two siblings were over next to Gaara looking him over and Naruto walked up after hiding his ears and tails He looked down at the two kneeling and at Gaara's prone form, the two looked up at him, with a hint of fear in their eyes.
Temari looked up at Naruto "What are you gonna do?"
Naruto shrugged "Nothing, get out of here and take care of him, I know what he is and what he's gone through in his life, he's had it easy, at least his village couldn't hurt him." Naruto ripped off the rest of his jacket and dropped the heavy shreds on the ground revealing his scared body.
Temari's eye's widened, they hadn't seen his scars in Neji's fight, they were preparing for the invasion "What happened to you?"
Naruto smiled "Unlike Gaara here I had nothing to stop the hate of my village for what I am, like him I'm a Jinchuuriki, and my whole village hates me rather then fears me, so until I could defend myself I was beaten everyday, standard stuff to me really. Gaara has had it easy compared to me. Tell him that when he wakes up if you could."
Temari nodded and she and Kankuro picked up Gaara and quickly left the scene. Naruto went back and picked up Sakura and Sasuke under each arm. Then he ran back to the village as fast as he could.
Naruto arrived back at the arena shortly there after, he jumped in through the hole and looked around, there were sound Shinobi everywhere, dead or incapacitated. Naruto looked around and he spotted Kakashi, Gai, and his 'crew' they were finishing off the last couple Shinobi and Naruto jumped over to them.
"I got him Kakashi, and I took care of Gaara, he won't be back for a wh-" Naruto was hit with a wave of pain like nothing he'd ever felt before, his skin started to rip open all over him violently sending spurts of blood off, the wounds would instantly close back up then more would rip open elsewhere. His skin also literally burning to ash in some places and crumbling away, only to regenerate a second later, Naruto dropped to his knee's and lay Sakura and Sasuke down as his arms were ripped apart and repaired instantly.
Kakashi was pretty much freaking out, and Gai was not looking much better "Oi, Naruto what's going on!?"
Naruto just coughed up a large amount of blood onto the floor and collapsed forwards in response, his body continued to tear itself apart and repair it self as he lay there unconscious. Megami ran over to him and looked him over. "Kami! Naruto what did you do to get this powerful of a reaction! It's not supposed to happen this fast!"
Kakashi was incredibly concerned and curious now "What's going on with him?"
Megami more or less shrugged off his question "Kouken, Zetsumei, get over here we need to take him back to his apartment, this is gonna be hard on him" the 3 members of the group quickly picked up Naruto's body and jumped away.
Kakashi and Gai looked at each other with puzzled glances then shrugged and took off to continue fighting the invasion.
I have another confession to make, when I originally wrote this chapter I was low on ideas for things for Naruto, and I did some more idea stealing, at the time I didn't care about it, but now I feel shameful for stealing someone else's ideas so ruthlessly, so I admit, I stole the idea for Naruto's Doujutsu, though I changed around Color/Emotion scheme a bit. I wish I remember the name of the Author who came up with it, though he didn't use it much, I'm going to hopefully make more use of it. Thanks again for reading my BY FAR longest chapter to date, phew 19,000 words+ almost three times longer than my previous chapters.
