This is the Chapter I have been wanting to write since I started this story! Yay, this is my Christmas gift to me.
I have Combined Chapter 5 & 6
I got my first real FLAME!!! *CRIES* I am SO HAPPY!!!!!! and inspired. (Go figure *-.-) so a special thank you to Flame on (I think it a Fantastic Four inspired name don't you?)
Sorry Sasuke fans... but there is something I have been meaning to point out...
Said- SasGAY Spelled- SasUKE... XD
I have come to a conclusion... I HATE THE DUBBED VOICES!!! I was watching the dubbed Naruto so I could copy some of the monologue and I hate Gai, Naruto and ESPECIALLY Itachi's voices. I heard Itachi's voice and nearly screamed (which would have gotten me in big trouble, cause it is 2:30 and it would have woken everyone in my house up). I swear that if I hear Itachi's voice dubbed like that again I am going to kill someone... probably someone who works at 4kids!
Merry Christmas!!!!! And a Happy New Year!!!
WARNING: will contain Attempts at Torture scenes, extreme Sakura/Sasuke bashing. We will see about lemons. One marshmallow down 29 to go... this could take a while... NEED MORE FLAMES!!! :3
Disclaimer... I am developing a plan *evil cackle* NARUTO WILL BE MINE!!! (AKA I still own nothing... damn I need a job)
VOTE FOR THE POLL, DECIDE WHO ELSE IS IN THE HAREM. IT IS ON MY PROFILE!!!
Harem NarutoxItachi/Hinata/Kyuubi/???
Characters Talking.
Characters Thinking.
Demons/Summons Talking.
Demons/Summons Thinking.
Authors Note, important information.
Chapter 5
As Naruto rushed toward the grey shadow, even the seemingly emotionless blob of matter seemed to sense that something was very wrong. Kakashi was a very experienced ninja and had seen men's attitudes, personalities and even appearances change when confronted by a real threat for the first time. But he knew this was something different, although Naruto had always been confident, usually over confident, this was a different feeling. It was unnerving the KI, Chakra, and over all confidence flowing from the kid, it was as if it was impossible for him to lose, yet not in a cocky way. Kakashi almost believed it was impossible for him to lose. He looked over to Sasuke, Sakura and Ichiha, Sasuke and Sakura seemed rooted in place, as if unable to move, while Ichiha had a look on her face that said she saw this kind of thing everyday, but he knew behind those eyes there was a great fear. But by far the strangest thing of all was the chakra itself, it looked strong and menacing, but felt the opposite, it was almost a soft kind chakra if there was such a chakra.
The world was so bright and new, everything seemed clearer, but unfortunately Naruto had no time to stare in wonder at the hidden beauty around him. He once again began to focus on what he was doing, fighting the ash demon in front of him.
The demon had clearly recovered from the shock of this newfound power. Naruto ran at smoothly shifting his weight from one foot to the other with an almost inhuman grace. Naruto's hands were shaped like claws, and if you looked at the cloak around him close enough, it looked as if it was fur rippling in the wind.
Naruto pulled back his arm then straightened his fingers in imitation of a Kunai, thrusting it forward into what he assumed was the chest of the thing. Naruto was surprised when his stab was met with a semi-solid object, the Kumori had obviously sensed the danger of being run though with hands covered in Natural Chakra. Even tho the creature had successfully knocked away the blow, he had still had contact with the dark Chakra. The monster reeled back in shock and pain, Naruto felt the Chakra being drawn from the cloak, he felt power being drained from himself as well. It was not a dangerous amount, but enough to make him a little weary and blur his vision. The monster seemed to have taken more damage than he had, but just barely. In the time it took Naruto to recover the monster had already backed off, and was giving the appearance of staring at Naruto, as if trying to decide it's next move.
Naruto stared as the creature started heading in his direction, weather it was running or now was lost in the fact that the creature had no legs. This was the first time the Kumori had moved in the offensive and Naruto was a bit taken aback. As the cloud of ash moved towards him he saw it start to solidify, a spear looking thing formed in the area where the arms should be, and this spear was pointed straight towards Naruto's heart. Naruto knew he had to get out of the way of the spear or he would die. There is no way the exhausted Kyuubi could heal a spear thought the heart, even if she had some chakra it would be nearly impossible. Naruto threw all of his strength into a dive to the left just before the spear hit him.
Despite his efforts the spear made a large cut along his right side, his side started to spew out blood, pooling all over the pavement of the unfinished bridge as he fell. He landed in a puddle of blood, luckly on his left side, tho it still sent a shock of pain through his body. The pain was not that bad, he had some much worse, but on those occasions he had Kyuubi healing the wound. He was losing blood fast, if he didn't act quick he would pass out from blood loss, and all his and Kyuubi's efforts would be lost, and his friends would die. He managed to hold the Cloak, and with his last bit of energy he grabbed the creature. Reaching his hands around the cloud of ash, he heard many moans and wails as if the gates of hell had opened for him. His vision blurred and was surrounded by blessed blackness.
They all watched as Naruto fell, and the Kumori fall into a pile of ash, the ash seemed to repel the blood for a while. Then the invisible barrier was broken and the blood covered the ash and turned it to mud. There was blood everywhere. There was so much that some was dripping off of the one side of the bridge. Ichiha finally collected herself up, the man she loved was dying, and if she didn't hurry up, she would lose him forever. She didn't even notice that the mysterious man, Kyapuraikoon, had mysteriously disappeared. She had eyes only for Naruto she ran to him, tears running down her face. She ripped off the bottom of her tank-top turning it into a sexy belly top, which made Kakashi drool into his mask (Eew...). She quickly channelled some Chakra into it making it waterproof, and applied chakra to it like you would for climbing trees, except much gentler so it would stick to Naruto's wound. Kakashi watched with interest, he had never thought of something like this, it could be very handy for the Medical Nin.
Ichiha picked Naruto up bridal style and carried him gently back to the house careful not to injure him further. Once She had finished and made sure Naruto was safe, she went into town, sharingan blazing she demanded to know where Gato lived. The villagers trembled pointing the way to a tall tower located on the other side of the island. Ichiha took off no longer paying any attention to the villagers behind her, but instead focussed all her attention on the task ahead, killing Gato.
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Inside Kyuubi's cage, Kyuubi was awaken by a strange aura. She instantly realized how hurt Naruto was, and began feeding him a small supply of chakra. She did not have enough to heal him, but enough to stop him from getting infections and seal up his wound. His body would have to do the rest, until she had Fully recovered her Chakra. After she had done all she could, she once again began trying to identify the strange and menacing Chakra. After a moment of thinking she began to laugh, having been cured of her curiosity she was once again able to fall asleep. She transformed into a small fox and curled up in the back corner of the cage, tail and ears twitching every so often, in a peaceful sleep.
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After Placing a quick Genjutsu on everyone inside the tower, she slowly walked forward. Cutting the un-suspecting guards. She thoroughly enjoying causing pain for all those unfortunate enough to work for Gato. There were no innocent in her eyes, they were all guilty because they worked for HIM. She started walking up the stair she came across another guard, like the ten on the ground level, she pulled out her small sword, the one that labelled her one of the Seven Swords 'People'. (She refused to call them the Seven Swordsmen because she was a woman. Fighting for equal rights!)
She made a quick jerking motion, thrusting the sword into the mans eye socket and out of the other side of his skull. Blood began to drip as she held it their for a second, as she removed the sword the blood came rushing around it. Having been held back by the sword, the warm wet blood began to trickle down the stairs. The blood created a dangerously slippery staircase, but she paid no notice, she was on her way up. After walking over the corpse of the unfortunate man, she once again took to the winding staircase.
After finishing off the rest of the guards, she released the Genjutsu, she wanted Gato to see his death coming, and to feel every second of pain that she could squeeze out of him before he died. She was on the top level of the tower. She opened a door at the end of the hall, she spotted Gato right away.
He had two more guards with him, but she paid no mind to them, quickly pulling 2 kuni out of her pouch she threw them at the men with such force that it cut through the dead centre of their chests, them like a hot knife though butter. Her eyes did not move from the fat little man in front of him, he was now blabbering about rewards and bribes and other reasons to let him live. Ichiha took no notice. She grabbed two more kunai from her pouch, grabbing Gato by his neck she lifted him above the floor. Taking the kunai and stabbing it through each of his hands so he was hanging in a cross form, feet hanging above the floor.
Gato's face began to loose all colour, weather because he realized she was not going to bargain with him or because she had activated her sharingan, or because he was hanging from the wall by three kuni sticking into his skin she did not know or care.
After putting him through 2 hours of gruesome torture in the Tsukuyomi, she left him with no other cuts except the ones holding him to the wall, promising him many more hours before he would eventually suffocate.
As she walked back towards the camp, her anger subsided and she was left with a fire burning deep in her soul. It was one of those feelings, that when you tried to pinpoint the feeling, it slipped between your fingers. Disappearing into thin air. Something had awakened...
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Time Skip- Returning to Konoha
Naruto was getting used to being stoped upon entry into Konoha. It seemed that every time he came back he was bringing in another S-Ranked Ninja. They Eventually got through although they had several Anbu Escorts and were told to head straight to the Hokage tower. After passing though several hundred layers of security, they finally made it to the Hokage's Office.
After another couple hours of paper work saying that Zabuza and Haku were under the protection of the Uchiha and Namikaze clans. If anything were to happen to them it was their responsibility blah, blah, blah, Zabuza and Haku are now Konoha's Newest Ninjas.
After a tough day of arguing with the old farts on the council, Naruto and Ichiha went home and got some much needed sleep.
Chapter 6
While the children are dreaming, some people are scheming...
In a Dark Cave... In the middle of the Night... Somewhere
"It's Alive ITS ALIVE!!!" shouted a Mad Scientist from inside the cave. It was a wet cave filled with all kinds of scientific junk, most of which didn't work. However there was some equipment that did work, and this equipment was about to make him famous. He had not only created life, but a nearly indestructible life form at that. With this he could make himself an indestructible army, to take over the world. The scientist sucked in a large breath, ready to let out another barrage of loud, psychopathic laughter. Before he could let out another laugh, a dark shadowy hand reached out to grab his throat. With a quick *Snap* there was silence. The only sounds that could be heard was the sounds of a distant thunderstorm and the sound of heavy boots hitting the floor, as two shadowy figures emerged from the darkness of the cave.
In a Dark Castle... Somewhere
"Are the preparations ready?' the Paedophile asked his four-eyed henchman. The two were in a large room underground. The room was mostly empty except for a large throne like chair and some pillars. The whole room was a dark gloomy brown, the same colour as the rock it was made of, why waste paint to colour a temporary hide out.
"Yes" the henchman replied, "Are you sure you don't want the blonde kid? They say he has the ability to copy ANY Bloodline."
"I want Sasuke, but there is no reason I cannot keep my eye on them both. This boy, Naruto, he might become a bargaining chip, I have heard that him and my Sasuke have come quite close. Konoha, be prepared, It's time for the great return of Orochimaru!" the Paedophile said before laughing maniacally.
His four-eyed henchmen joined in with his own snort of a laugh.
"And will someone turn the damn lights on!" the Orochimaru shouted.
In ANOTHER Dark Cave...
In the cave there was a statue, this statue had ten eyes. In front of this statue of the ten eyes there were two enormous hands sticking out of the ground. On each of the fingers there was a man, there were eleven men in total, and one of them was sitting in front of the hands looking up at the rest of them smiling like an idiot underneath an orange mask.
"We are going to make our move, we may be down one member, but we have gained two." Said a man covered in shadows as he . "Now we have put the names in a hat, you will each pick out a name. Now this person is your target, and your responsibility." He finished
"Like a Secret Santa??" asked a young and joyful orange character.
The leader sighed "Yes Tobi like a Secret Santa"
And that is where we leave the secret organization to its plotting...
"Yay! I got Naruto Uzumaki!" yelled Tobi
Back in Konoha
After Naruto lead his team past the fake door and up to the place of the real Chuunin Exams. They entered the room, they noticed it was not that much different from the rooms in the academy. It was a pretty small room filled with desks, and of course each desk had a chair. Up at the front of the room there was a chalk board. It was neat and tidy with not a speck of chalk on it. There were also a couple of chairs stationed around the room all facing in towards the other desks. Each of these chairs held a check board and a pen. Behind some of the chairs there was a window, which was open allowing a wave of fresh air into the hot, sticky, and muggy room. It also provided light for the whole room, seeing as the sun was shining in though the windows on to the chairs. Excluding the windows and the chalkboard, all of the walls were plain and had nothing on them. It was a pretty plain and boring room
There were a mix of Ninja from all of the villages. They were immediately approached by a four-eyed Konoha Nin "Hey guys, I'm Kabuto. You are from the Rockie nine right? Fresh out of the academy?" Kabuto was wearing a thick pair of glasses and a Konoha head band. He was had a grey loose t-shirt on with an even looser purple sleeveless shirt under neath.
"Be careful, the chuunin exams make everyone tense, and you defiantly would not want to rub them the wrong way right now. Especially those rain village nins they are really touchy. Look guys, this is my seventh time taking the exams, I know how it works. I can help you guys out a little, with my Yu Gi Oh cards... Just joking they are my Ninja info Cards. They have been Chakra encoded with everything I've learned over the last four years of taking this test. I have more than two hundred of them, so you see I haven't been completely wasting my time. They may not look like much to the naked eye, in fact they look blank, don't want just anyone seeing this stuff. But once I infuse my chakra into them they reveal their secrets. Is there anyone you want to know about?" He finished.
"No thanks" Naruto said. Kabuto looked confused. Sasuke looked about to say something when Naruto turned around and gave him the look of death, then motioned him over to the corner of the room. Once Naruto, Ichiha, Sasuke and Sakura were out of earshot, Naruto whispered, "I don't know what it is, but something about that man just doesn't seem right. Keep an eye on him."
After a couple minutes the atmosphere started to calm down and some gossip was spreading around the room. "Hey did you hear that the Hokage's grandson was beaten up by some sand genin today?"
"The rotten punks, almost as bad as those fools from the sound village"
"What did you say?" The sound Ninja lunged at the unsuspecting Leaf ninja. Who just so happened to be Kabuto. Kabuto gave the appearance of dodging the attack, but after a few seconds his glasses shattered and Kabuto was lying on the floor woofing his cookies.
"What just happened" one genin asked.
It was not until then that anybody noticed that Naruto was clutching his right ear. In
between the fingers on his right hand and flowing down his left there was a trickle of blood. Naruto was grimacing, showing of his white clenched fangs. He made a mental note, 'watch out for the Sound Ninja' It took a while before he recovered enough to talk to his team.
Naruto who was right beside his team whispered through his teeth.. "Just in case you didn't catch that, they are from the SOUND Village, and I'll bet my right arm that, that thing on his arm releases sound waves to low for any normal human to hear." by this time Kyuubi had already healed his ears but their was still a small smear of blood running down his neck and arm. Ichiha quickly pulled a handkerchief from her pocket and wiped the blood off of his neck.
Seconds later a Man appeared, "Alright you baby-faced degenerates! Pipe down and listen up! It is time to begin. I'm Ibiki Morino, your proctor, and from this moment, your worst enemy. First you candidates from the Village hidden in the Sound. Knock it off! Who told you, you could fight? You want to be failed before we have even begun?" He yelled
"Sorry, It's our first time, I guess we are a little jumpy. Sir" the Sound nin said not bothering to hide the mocking tone to his voice.
"Hm! I'll say this once, so listen up, there will be no combat between candidates, no attacking each other without the permission of your proctors. And even then the use of fatal force is strictly prohibited. Anyone who even thinks of messing with me will be disqualified immediately. Got it?" Ibiki paused for a moment.
"No fatal force? Well that is no fun!" said one of the sound Ninja
"Now if we are ready." Ibiki continued "We will proceed to the first stage of the chuunin exams. Hand over your paper work, in return you will each be given a number. This number will determine where you will sit. We will start the written test once you are all seated."
"Huh, a written test, this is going to be a peice of cake." Naruto laughed.
After everyone had been seated, Naruto noticed Hinata sitting beside him. She was acting her normal self when all of a sudden a bomb shell dropped "Naruto" Hinata stuttered "Would you l-like to go t-to the m-movies on Sunday!" she finally managed to get out. Naruto sat their in a semi-shock and was about to reply when a piece of chalk smashed against the board.
"Everyone! Eyes front. There are a few rules that you need to be aware of, and I won't be taking any questions, so you better pay attention the first time around. Alright rule number one is this, the written test is based on a point reduction system. Contrary to what some of you may be used to, you will begin the test with at perfect score of ten points. One point will be deducted for every question you get wrong, so if you miss three, your final score will be seven. Number two the team will pass or fail based on the score of these three numbers."
"WHAT!!!" shouted a random genin "You mean we all get graded as a team???"
"Silence!" Ibiki yelled "I have my reasons, so Shut up and listen. Rule number three the centennials you see positioned around the room are there to watch you carefully for any signs of cheating, and for every incident they spot they will subtract two points from the person's score. Be warned, their eyes are extremely sharp and if they catch you five times they will dismiss you before the tests are even scored. Anyone fool enough to be caught by the centennials doesn't deserve to be here."
Then one of the Shinobi watching the genin let out a intimidating "I've got my eye on you guys" Naruto coughed a laugh.
Ibiki began to finish his rant "If you guys want to be considered Shinobi, then show us, What exceptional Shinobi you can be. One more thing if any shinobi should get a zero on the test, then the entire team fails." Shocked faces ran throughout the room "The final question won't be given out until fifteen minutes before the end of the testing period. You will have one hour total. Begin!" He said.
The teams began tearing through the tests, those who weren't so sure of themselfs flipped thought the book looking for questions that they could answer. The smart ones started to cheat, the smartest ones and the planted chuunin began to answer the questions. Naruto, of course had discovered that this was a test was planned so that you had to cheat decided to play along with their game, that and it was easier than answering the questions himself. He noticed tentens mirrors, that one of the proctors was a fake and had no chakra signature, a cute red headed girl was playing around with his eye and some sand. It seemed like everyone else was cheating. So Naruto activated his Shikotsumyaku (Dead Bone Pulse), with the Shikotsumyaku you can not only create bones but sense the movement of the other bones, using this it was a simple matter of coping the answers of one of the obvious plants in the room. The two hours passed slowly after Naruto had finished writing his test. So he decided to take a nap.
"Alright!" Ibiki shouted shocking Naruto awake "Listen up for the tenth and final question. Alright before I tell you the tenth question there are some rules that you need to be aware of... These rules are unique to question ten, listen carefully and try not to let them frighten you. Ok, First off, each of you has the choice not to be given the final question, it is your decision."
"Well! What is the catch? What happens if we decide that we don't want to answer the tenth question!" asked Temari
"If you decide not to take the tenth question, you will fail, despite your answers on the other nine." Ibiki answered "In other words you fail" he said coldly "And that means of course that your other two teammates fail as well." a large gasp ran though the room followed by other comments about how 'unfair' this test was. Along with how stupid you would have to be to fail this test on purpose or chose to fail. "Not so fast" Ibiki interrupted "You didn't let me finish, If you do accept the question but answer it incorrectly, you will not only fail, but be barred from taking the chuunin exam ever again!" He ended dramatically.
"That is a SHIT rule! I mean what the Hell kind of rule is that? If that is true then how come there are people here who have taken the test before?" Kiba shouted out.
Ibiki laughed "I guess you are just unlucky! I wasn't making the rules before! But I am now! Of course if you don't want to take it, you don't have to. If you are not feeling confident, then by all means, skip it. You can come back and try again next year." Ibiki laughed again. "Now then, if you are ready? The tenth and final question, those who don't want to take it raise your hand. Your number will be recorded and then you are free to go."
As the seconds passed many teams raised their hands and left the exam room. The seconds passed and everyone was getting tenser and tenser, even Naruto could feel the sweat begin to gather on his neck. After ten minutes was up Ibiki knew that all the teams who where going to drop out, had dropped out. There were forty-nine people left, 18 teams most of them where Leaf Ninja and Sand Ninja. Ibiki then called out to all of the Genin, "Are you sure none of you want to quit? This is your last chance!" when nobody raised their hands or left, he happily called out "Congratulations! You all pass!" After several minutes of explaining how the first nine questions were to test their ability to gather information. And the tenth was to see if they were brave enough to sacrifice themselfs to allow their teams to excel they found themselfs staring at a beautiful woman named Anko.
After launching herself though the window wrapped in a banner, which she preceded to pin to the walls and floor. "Heads up boys and girls, this is no time to be celebrating. I'll be your next proctor Anko Mitarashi. Are you ready for the second test? Good! Lets go! Follow Me!"
"You are early" Ibiki sighed. The whole room sweatdropped.
Anko was wearing a metal fishnet shirt, with a nice almost skin coloured shirt under neath. She was also wearing a lovely black skirt with pair of fishnet shorts under it. She was also sporting a long light brown long coat, the coat had a little bit of a collar and several pockets. If you looked around the collar carefully you would see three marks on the side of her neck, they looked like curse marks or the marks of a seal. She had short purple hair, which was held up into a tight pony-tail. It seemed as unruly and spiky as Naruto's, however she may have styled it that way. She had purple eyes, which upon first look held a challenging, fearless look. However upon further inspection, Naruto noticed a deep pain beneath the facade, the kind of pain that came with a deep burden, one that noone understands and everyone shuns. The eyes of one who had seen no love. Naruto gave her a sad smile, as he was suddenly filled with the pain of his past. The same kind of pain she was now experiencing.
Anko looked at Naruto, seeing the sad, understanding look, she turned away embarrassed it was like he had looked into her soul and seen her pain, and somehow understood. It was a kind of creepy feeling. Yet it filled her with hope, and a happiness that she had not felt in a long time. She stood their in a trance for a moment then shook herself awake. Turning back to the Genin she said "Well it doesn't matter. Everyone! Meet me at forty fourth battle training ground in ten minutes or you fail!" and with that she disappeared.
The room was quiet until Naruto stood up and said "Well, I guess we better get going..." and then he shunshined away in a swirl of leaves.
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Time skip at the Forest of Death
Naruto was in a large clearing, the ground worn down from the many feet of ninja gone by, that had either taken the test in the forest of Death or had come their to Train, many of them never to return. There was a desk near a Giant gate with a large sigh saying 'Forest Of Death, Authorized Personal Only. Enter at your own Risk. Gate Number 1'. There were also many seals and locks preventing the gates from coming open on their own or to keep unauthorized personal out. The security was very tight, meaning the Forest of Death was not named for its looks.
There were Ninja everywhere, and not only those taking the test, there were also a couple parents coming to congratulate their kids in passing the first test. There were also some Jonin and Chuunin their making sure that nobody started a fight before the test started. All in all the clearing was very busy. Naruto was looking through the crowd and finally spotted the person he was looking for... "Hey Hinata" He said "did you really mean it when you asked me to go out on a date with you?" he smiled encouragingly.
"W-well, ah..." Hinata stuttered.
"Ok" Naruto smiled "but can we do it after the Chuunin exams? That way we can both celebrate becoming Chuunins together!" Hinata smiled at his confidence.
"S-sure!" she smiled again blushing, then turned around and ran towards her comrades.
"Listen up! Some Shinobi are handing out some wavers. In order to participate in this exams you will need to sign these forms. It is no big deal really, all it does is make sure that when one of you dies -and trust me, someone will die- that your family can't sue Konoha, or the Ninja who killed you." Anko laughed.
"WHAT? You mean that we can kill each other, but Ibiki sai..." Shouted a young genin.
"I don't give a rats ass what Ibiki said, this is my test, my rules. After all we don't want to many of you to pass. We don't need any half-assed Chuunin running around. The Hokage has other things to do, he doesn't need to be baby-sitting a bunch of Chuunin. If you have a problem with that, feel free to leave. Any other complaints?" she waited for a moment "None? Good! Now here is the deal, Each team will be given a scroll. You will either get a heaven scroll or an earth scroll, the point of this test is to get both scrolls and reach the tower located in the middle of the grounds before the time is up. Once you get to the tower, you will open your two scrolls. You will have five days, now I will warn you this forest is filled with lots of gastly creatures, like carnivorous leeches. You can use whatever means necessary to get the other scroll. Be warned, do not open the scrolls before you get to the tower. If you open them... well, it is would be best if you didn't open them. Once you have signed your wavers go up to the desk and hand it in, once you have you will receive a number, that number is the number of the gate you will enter to get into the forest of death. There are a total of 44 gates around the perimeter of the Forest of Death."
Once everyone had handed in their forms and were positioned at the gate, there was a *Bang* the second exam had started. As some of the teams started into the gate full speed, some stopped to organize a plan.
With Naruto's Team
Naruto's team were flying though the trees when Naruto signalled them to stop. They were in the middle of an old part of the forest, a part that seemed not to have been touched in many years. The trees were very old and covered with dry moss, so that every step you took rubbed off some of it and sent a green cloud floating through the air. It was a calm and quiet place. Perfect for a team meeting. "Ok you guys, we can take on any team we come across, after all we have two setts of sharingan and... well I have at least another dozen bloodlines. This will be cake" Naruto said holding up their earth scroll, looking at the other three members of his team.
"What about me?" sakura asked, Naruto ignored the question because, he really could not find anything she was good at, that would really count in this test.
On the second day, they had gotten their heaven scroll as well as two other earth scrolls. They were walking on their way to the tower, Naruto stopped, "Do you hear that?" he asked.
"Hear what?" Ichiha asked.
Suddenly the wind picked up and they were in the dead centre of gale force winds. Using chakra to plant their feet in the ground they managed to stand firm looking into the winds. Three grass ninja appeared in the clearing.
"Alright you two fan out into the woods and keep your eyes open. I'll handle this alone." said the feminine looking grass nin in the middle. The other two immediately nodded and left to fan out in the woods as the girl asked. At that moment her gaze shifted and she took a second to look at each of her victims in the eyes, it was a gross, dissecting sort of look, looking into her eyes was like looking at your own death. Needless to say she was creepy. She seemed to stare into Naruto's eyes the longest, for it seemed her eyes had little effect on him. Sure he was scared but not nearly as scared as he should have been.
Naruto pinched himself to keep himself from falling under her trance. He looked over and saw that the rest of his friends were completely lost in the panic. He quickly threw some kuni at them, so they would graze their legs. Just as Naruto suspected the pain partially awoke them from their traumatic trance. After making sure that everyone was able to move on their own, he drew his sword and attacked. "Akumateiru" He called activating his sword.
Rushing forward to meet the new threat Naruto felt his sword flow through the movements, Heron Spreads Its Wings, Whirlwind on the Mountain, Lizard in the Thornbush, Arc of the Moon, all of which were smoothly avoided by the snake like woman. Naruto kept up his barage, the snake woman was looking at him, as if pondering something. Suddenly it came to her, "You are the Kyuubi brat! You are aren't you! Haha!" she laughed. "I knew you would both be here, but on the same team. It doesn't seem fair really. Man your team must be a powerhouse!" she smiled. " but for now," she said, she held up her hand, her five fingers glowing a fiery purple. "This shall take you out of my way." she slid past his sword with an inhuman speed, slamming her fingers threw his black shirt, around the seal of the Kyuubi. This caused Naruto to go into shock, after years of having a slow flow of the Kyuubi's chakra flowing though him. It was suddenly cut off. Naruto's dark grey eyes rolled into the back of hid head, and he fell. Thankfully Sakura thought fast and saved Naruto by pinning him to the tree.
"Sasuke" the snake-like woman called. "You are mine" she said in a sickly sweet voice. Then she lunged, or rather slithered across he tree branches towards Sasuke, Sasuke quickly jumped back trowing some kuni at the woman. She was about to catch Sasuke, when Ichiha jumped in the way to save him. This slowed her down for a second, but only a second, she quickly knocked her out of the way. Ichiha began to fall, but managed to save herself by grabbing on to a passing branch. Now that there was noone in her way, and noone left to stop her, but Sakura, who was frozen in place. She lunged at him, her fangs bare. There was a black streak, and then she hit the flesh on the neck, and instinctively bit down.
"Get up! You need to get up! Don't worry I'm working on breaking down the seal. It will be over soon, but you need to get up! Your friends need you!"Kyuubi shouted.
Naruto opened his eyes seeing Ichiha getting pushed out of the way. He would not make it in time, but he had to try! She was closing in on Sasuke now no more than a foot away. Naruto threw a kuni at the woman trying to get her to lose her concentration and look at him, so Sasuke could get away. Then something happened that noone could have predicted.
Naruto blinked to find himself in front of the snake lady, three pronged kuni in hand. She knocked into him, and bit his neck 'eww...' was the last thing he thought before a searing pain broke him apart.
Sakura saw it all, Naruto just appeared in front of the snake lady in a black flash, something in the back of her mind screamed 'YELLOW FLASH'. Only then did she see the weird woman bite into Naruto's Neck. All of a sudden the snake lady pulled back screaming "What is happening! Kabuto where are you! What is happening!" Sakura stood their in shock as a three black marks appeared in a triangle on Naruto's Neck. Then the snake woman screamed ripping off her face "I am Orochimaru! What have you done to me! You Demon!" he spit. Raising up a purple flare that which turned into a snake, a dark snake twisting through the sky. Hissing at every turn.
(Think of Lord Voldemort's symbol! You have to admit, they are both so alike!)
With that they were surrounded by Grass, Sound and Sand Ninja. "Take me back to the tower! The takeover is called off!" Orochimaru shouted. With that they all shunshined out of the forest of death, out of Konoha, towards their own Nations.
Sakura looked at her team mates, Sasuke was sitting on a log crying out of fear, anger and quilt. These two were ready to give their lives to save him, and what would he have done in their position. He understood what a jerk he had been, he looked to sakura. "Im sorry" he whispered.
Sakura looked to the two ninja, Ichiha was waking up, but Naruto was rolling on the ground in pain. Ichiha grabbed Naruto pulling him over her shoulder, she yelled at the others, tears treaking down her cheeks "We need to get him to a hospital, he may have been poisoned! Hurry we need to get to the tower!" and with that she started running. Sasuke and Sakura started to follow, they had a hard time keeping up. Even with her carrying another person she was still faster than them.
In Naruto's Mindscape
"Kit," she said to the figure of Naruto who was lying against the walls of the sewers clutching his neck. "I have some good news and some bad news. Good news is that I will be released from the seal.. Bad News is... you will become a full fledged Demon and well, take the pain of the first change and multiply it by a hundred. Also it will take longer than your first transformation, it may take more than week. Also when you wake up, you will be the new Kyuubi No Kitsune. This is a great Honour, especially for one so young. Also instead of having nine tails you will have ten." Kyuubi sighed. This kit was going to be the youngest Kyuubi in the history of Demons. That meant he was sure to get some resistance, why was nothing normal with Naruto?
In the Sand Village
"Gaara. Head back to Konoha. Now" said the demon.
"But I don't want to, I just came back from their. It is boring anyway." Gaara wined.
"I don't care if it is boring, besides something much more interesting is about to happen. I wonder what kind of havoc it will cause." Shukaku laughed.
In Konoha
"Head to the Forest of Death, Now" asked a demonic voice.
"Who the HELL are you. And who do you think you are! Ordering me around like that!" Haku yelled, the people around her were starting to look at her funny.
"Just do it. I will explain along the way!"
All over the globe people were having similar conversations with their tailed demon. All heading to Konoha, there the Next tailed King was being born.
Time skip, 10 days later
Naruto began to wake up, he was in a hospital room. The room was the usual hospital white. There was no equipment attached to him, so that was a good sign. As he looked around, he saw 9 other faces looking down at him, of the nine he recognized three, Ichiha, Haku and KYUUBI!!! He looked at her face in shock, pinching himself to make sure he wasn't dreaming. "Hello Naruto," Kyuubi said, "Thank you" she said before pulling him into a long and passionate kiss.
"Ehem... I hate to ruin this lovey dovey moment, but there are some things we need to talk about." said one of the nine around him. As Naruto's eyes drew to Ichiha, he was shocked, instead of the expected anger and pain that he thought he would see. She seemed pleased, like her plan had finally come to fruit. It scared him, and for a moment he wondered if she could see the future. He noticed that he and Kyuubi were in Hospital gowns.
"You ok?" he asked. For a moment she looked confused, but then she looked down.
"Came out naked... sure shocked the nurses." she replied.
Naruto nodded and laughed.
"Let me do the introductions" said Kyuubi "This is Gaara, the container of the One-Tailed Shukaku." the cute red headed girl waved. "This is Yugito, the container of the Two-Tailed Demon Cat. You already know Haku, she is the Three-Tailed Dragon Demon. Roshi, the container of the Four-Tailed Bird Demon. June, the container of the Five-Tailed Wolf Demon. Gouki the container of the Six-Tailed Whale Demon, you know Ichiha too, she is the container of the Seven-Tailed Weasel Demon. Kirabi the container of the Eight-Tailed Ox. Me the Nine-Tailed Fox Demon. This is the first collection of all the Demons in 10,000 years and it is all to welcome in our new King Naruto the Ten-Tailed Tiger Demon." Kyuubi finished.
"Nice to meet you, I am Namikaze-Uzumaki Naruto." Naruto said.
The red-headed girl, Gaara was the first to reply "Hello" she said in her soft silky voice.
"Now Naruto" Kyuubi said "When a new King comes along he will usually has to do two things. First is that he has to marry at least one of the female Demons. Another is that he will have to fight and defeat either one or all of the other Demons to prove he is worthy. Now there are only two Demons who are challenging you. They are Kirabi and Gouki the Ox and Whale Demons. You will go up against Gouki exactly one year from today, and Kirabi one year from then. But you don't need to worry about that for a while. Just so you know the Chuunin exams have been cancelled, they will continue in three months." she finished.
Ichiha leaned over and whispered in his ear "I have talked to Kyuubi and Haku they are very nice people, and I think that they are people that I could live to share you with. Besides Kyuubi has a major crush on you! And don't forget that promise you made to Hinata" she winked. Then focussed on getting everyone out of the room. "Ok, can talk to the King later. Time to go!"
Naruto sat their for a moment. This was all so confusing. Haku and Ichiha! Since when? It explained why Haku had that strange ice power, and why Ichiha was so powerful!
In Orochimaru's Castle
We find out villains hiding in Orochimaru's castle. They were down in Kabuto's medical room, the one in which Kabuto preformed most of his medical experiments and preformed healing Jutsu on Orochimaru's followers. It like the other rooms in the Castle were plain brown, but instead of the musty smell of most of them this one smelled sterile and clean. There were a few tables and cupboard for holding Kabuto's sterilizing and operating equipment. He currently had a stethoscope, needle and syringe out for Orochimaru. Kabuto had inspected Orochimaru's body, he had taken some DNA samples and was now looking at them underneath his microscope. The news looked bleak. "Orochimaru, I have some bad news, your body is deteriorating. You have to change bodies now, or you will die."
Back with Naruto
Naruto was bored with the white Room, he needed some colour. He waited until he was sure there was noone looking, then he got up and quickly shunshined to his house. Once he was in the Uchiha Main house he walked to his room and changed into some clothes. His clothes were a little tight, he would have to bye a new set of clothes. Once he had some clothes on he started walking to the one place he went when he needed to think. Naruto arrived at the Hokage faces a couple minutes later, jumping on top of his father, the fourths head, he got a wonderful view of the village. The sun was beginning to set setting a wonderful splay of colours across the quickly darkening sky. The clouds in the sky reflected the beautiful oranges, blues, pinks and purples onto the village creating a rainbow of a village that almost looked like it was on fire. People were rushing around looking like ants from where he sat. Some of their lights were coming on, and the families were sitting down to have their dinners. It was a peaceful sight.
As he was sitting their he felt a presence coming towards him, he sat still as the figure jumped up onto the rock beside him. "It is beautiful" Hinata said.
"Hmmm" Naruto replied still looking over the bustling city. They sat their for several hours, watching the sky turn from a brilliant orange to dark and stary night. After a couple hours, Naruto asked "Hey, do you want to go to Ichiraku's?" he asked. Hinata looked at him like he had just fallen from the sky, wearing nothing but his birthday suit. She blushed and nodded.
They walked to Ichiraku's keeping silent, Naruto was silent because he didn't want to scare her off. Hinata tried to start a conversation but the words stuck to her throat. Once they reached Ichiraku's Naruto ordered a miso ramen and hinata ordered a pork ramen. "N-naruto, are you o-okay? I-I heard t-that you were in the h-hospital earlier t-today." she asked.
"Hinata, I am going to tell you something, but you have to promise me not to tell anyone." Naruto whispered.
"I Promise" Hinata said.
"Hinata you know that there were 9 tailed Demons." Hinata Nodded "well, there are ten now." he didn't look at her, not wanting to see the shock and fear in her eyes. "Hinata, I am the Ten-Tailed Tiger Demon." He turned away. Waiting to hear her run.
"N-naruto-kun, I-i still love you!" Hinata shouted. Naruto felt his jaw drop, he turned around to look at her. "It doesn't matter what you are or what you do. I will always love you!"
They sat there like that for a while, finally Naruto asked "Would you like Me to walk you home?" Hinata nodded. They began to walk, when suddenly Hinata's hand shot out and grabbed Naruto's.
And so, Naruto and Hinata walked hand in hand until they got to the Hyuga Main house. "Well I guess it is time to say goodnight. Have a good night sleep." Naruto said turning around.
But before he could walk away, she grabbed his arm and swung him around, quickly wrapping her arms around his neck, she brought him in towards her. She jumped up at him, plunging them int a long, deep kiss. When they broke apart they were both gasping for breath. Hinata smiled. She turned around running into the Hyuga Compound, only pausing for a moment to yell back at the frozen Naruto "You still owe me that date, by the way". Naruto smiled turning around to walk home, it seems Hinata had been cured of her shyness.