ANBU Beasts
By
Ragnorokrising
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Chapter Four: Battles, Training, and Invasions
Haku and the sound ninja took their positions and prepared to attack. Haku and Kin each threw a senbon, but Haku threw hers harder and it split through the other senbon and slammed into Kin's neck, followed by another and another, until the fake death was done. She was moved to the medical wing and Haku came back up. The names shuffled again, and it came up on Kiba Inuzuka VS. Kankuro Sabaku. Kiba slowly walked down the stairs and waited for the prompter to begin. The sand-nin used his puppet and attacked the Inuzuka. Kiba easily jumped over it with a calm face and his hands in his pocket.
He dropped onto the back of the Crow puppet, slamming it into the ground. Kiba jumped into the air and stuck to the ceiling. Kankuro had to use four times as much chakra, and the puppets movements grew sloppy as it continued and Kiba dodged. He did his hand signs, ending on Tiger. "Fire Style: Canine of the Blaze." a huge dog head of fire bit into the wood, burning it. Kankuro forfeit without the use of his puppet, and Kiba was declared the winner.
"Okay Shino, Choji, Shikamaru, I won so you better too." they nodded and the names rolled again. The next two contestants came down. "I WILL WIN WITH THE POWER OF YOUTH!" said the first contestant.
"Why don't you go back to chasing forehead-girl bushy-brows." said the second contestant. Naruto and Kiba compared the fight.
"I know that Gai's student is a total Taijutsu master and Ino uses body switching, but Lee is very fast. I guess we should just watch to find out what happens." the fight began and Lee rushed at her. She threw a punch, but Lee kicked her into the air. He sped up and did an axe kick and slammed her into the ground. She blacked out and was taken to the medical wing as well. Next up was Gaara VS. Neji, Temari VS. Sakura, TenTen Vs Shikamaru, Choji VS. Hinata, Dosu VS. Hiaru Jinzo and Shino VS. Zaku. The winners were Gaara, Sakura, TenTen, Choji, Hiaru, and Shino. The most interesting was the one with Hiaru because his clan used their mind for jutsu and could move objects. He blocked the tunnels and ripped off the arm with the gauntlet Dosu used.
"Okay, in order, the fights for the finals are TenTen VS Choji, Gaara VS Sakura, and Haku Vs Lee and then Hiaru VS Shino Kiba will face the winner of the battle royal of these. Speaking of which, the winners of each fight will move up until it's the final two. You have a month to train, so meet at the coliseum at 9:00 after the month for the fights." said the prompter and they all left using Shunshin. Naruto and his teammates all went to Ichiraku and began to talk about what had happened during the coma when the old man came out. "Hey Naruto, haven't seen you in a few years. What happened?"
"I got put in a coma after I fought Itachi the day he killed his clan and just recently woke up. I got a genin team now as well, and Hana here," he said as he rapped his arm around her. "Is going to marry me. She also is pregnant with twins." before any one could get a reply out, Ayame, the owners daughter, let out a squeal and came up behind her and hugged Hana and Naruto. "Oh, are we invited Naruto? Please tell me we are!"
"Yes you are invited. After all, you guys fed me hundreds of times and you treated me like a normal person instead of the son of the fourth hokage. After we eat, I need to go find the person I want to be my best man."
"You aren't going to ask Idate to do it?" asked Hana as she slurped up her ramen.
"I was actually thinking Kakashi since Itachi is a missing-nin and all. Who is gonna be your maid-of-honor?" she finished eating two more bowls before she answered the questions.
"I was thinking Konia Nara, Shikamaru's sister, remember? Do you know what happened to her and Joshi Hyuuga Ayame?" she brought each of them there twentieth bowl of ramen and took the others back and then answered them.
"They got married last year while on a mission. I think they have a son now, name Itachi after there comrade. I think she would be happy to accept. Hey, here they come. Is that ironic or what." as the old class mates talked, Ayame said "Father, ever think we're in some kind of story?"
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RR: Shit, they're on to me!
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"I don't see how that matters." they group of class mates were chatting and showing some small jutsu and such, when Hana dropped the bomb.
"Konia, I was wondering if you would be my maid-of-honor for my wedding."
"Oh, I would absolutely love too!" they all sweat dropped at this. Konia was a rather active person and was considered the black sheep of her family because she wasn't laid back or ever said 'troublesome' like her father and brother. "Great, we start the planning in a month and a half so we can train my students." said Naruto once they had sat back down again. Joshi scratched his head and looked at Naruto in confusion.
"Since when do you have a genin team? Aren't your ANBU responsibilities taking up all your times?"
"Well, Idate took over Itachi's spot which freed me up to train my team with Hana. At the moment though, she can't do much training because of the pregnancy, but her dogs can help me with the jutsu that she knows."
"Will the dogs help Naruto out Hana? I thought they only worked with you." said Joshi as he marveled at how quickly the two finished four bowls of ramen.
"Yeah if this was an ordinary case, but since they consider Naruto to be my mate, they will work with him. Now, Naruto and I need to go home so bye." they took off as fast as possible, Konia following them closely as Joshi began to cry because he had to pay for the two hundred and eighteen bowls of ramen. Konia went home and Hana went to her house and made Naruto spend the night.
(Time skip)
It was the final day of the Chuunin exams and Naruto, Idate, and a few other ANBU were guarding the third as the disguised Orochimaru had his two guards, who were actually the sound four in wait for building the barrier. Zabuza walked down to the center and called out to every one. "Okay every one, the Chuunin exams are about to begin. Will TenTen and Choji please come to the center and the other contestants go up the stairs to the observation deck."
Every one followed Zabuza's orders as Choji and TenTen met in the middle of the arena and shook hands. "BEGIN THE FIRST FIGHT!" Choji flew back up the wall and TenTen pulled a small dagger out of her pouch. Choji did his hand signs and yelled "Meat Tank Jutsu!" he grew round and his arms and legs went into his body, followed by his head. He sped at her and ripped through the ground with the kunai knives he had attached to some wire and draped over him. TenTen jumped over him and sent some chakra strings down and attached it to his kunai. She picked him up and began to spin around and around and around.
"Good use of weapons Choji, but I'm a weapon mistress and using weapons against me is a big problem. See ya later!" she through him and he began to spin even faster, tunneling through the wall. It went from a wide tunnel to a small circle on with a notch on the side. She pulled a medium length sword out and began to move their gaze around. "A replacement jutsu huh? Come on out Choji. Or are you to fat to get out of your hiding place chubby?" everyone that knew Choji got up and ran to the back of the stadium as fast as possible.
"I. AM. NOT. FAT! I'M BIG BONED! PARTIAL BODY EXPANSION JUTSU!" a huge fist came up out of the ground and rapped around TenTen. Choji ripped out of the ground and threw her into the air. TenTen pulled both scrolls out of her pouch and began to spin with them as clones of her came out of them and pulled their own scrolls out. All of them did a twin rising and ten sets of weapons from the scrolls rained down and penetrated Choji's body. He screamed out in pain and gave up.
"Lady and gentleman, the winner of the first round is TenTen." a huge roar of applause was heard as TenTen and Choji were escorted out of the arena too the medical wing. "Okay, next up is Gaara and Sakura Haruno." the two came down and Zabuza signaled for them to begin. Sakura back flipped while doing some hand signs and tunneled into the earth. Sand followed her down and she dug deeper, making Gaara loose his only defense and offense. She made four Shadow Clones and they all did the Cyclone Digging in different directions. Three clones made a move for Gaara but the sand destroyed them. The sand went back down, and Sakura popped up and did a spin kick.
Gaara swung his hand around and grabbed her leg. He punched her in the chest and she disappeared in a puff of smoke. The real Sakura appeared and slammed her fist into his back, rocketing him into the wall. He became a large amount of sand and the real Gaara's voice echoed from the bottom of the tunnel. "Sand Style: Sand Dragon!" a howl came from the tunnel as Gaara came out on the huge head of a dragon version of Shukaku. He slammed his arm with the seal Naruto had placed into the head of the beast and did a one handed seal. "Fire Cyclone Jutsu!" the dragon opened his mouth and a cyclone of fire came out and went after Sakura.
"Hardened Cloud Shield Jutsu!" the water in the air turned into a huge white cloud and hardened in front of her. The fire and the cloud met, and the water in the cloud cooled the fire into steam. The dragon rushed Sakura and rapped its tail around her. "Zabuza, I can't get out of this…constriction. I give…give up!" Gaara backed up after letting her loose and began to head back up once he got all his sand back into the correct form. After Gaara went up the stairs, every one began to applaud for the teenager.
"Alright, next match is Haku Vs Lee. Please come down here." the two came down and shook hands before the fight began. Zabuza brought his hand down, and Lee shot forward and landed hit after hit on Haku. He jumped up above the unmoving Haku and did a flip into an axe kick that landed on Haku's shoulder. Lee began to shake as cracks appeared along Haku's body. She shattered, revealing her to be an ice clone. Senbon imbedded themselves in Lee's legs, revealing Haku's location atop the wall. Haku appeared in front of Lee and kicked him. She threw some senbon at his stomach, but he moved, making them hit his chakra line.
"What is this strange felling in my stomach? I can't help but wonder…" he did some hand signs and brought his hands to his mouth. "Fire Style: Grand Fireball Jutsu!" a huge fireball came out of his mouth and astonished everyone. Haku was just barely able to get out of the way before the fireball hit her. "You got rid of my chakra block! I am incredibly grateful for that, but I still wish to be a genius with only Taijutsu." he took of his weights and jumped into the air, making a crater.
"I respect that and all, but you won't beat me! Geyser Eruption Jutsu! Gigantic Ice Devil Jutsu!" a huge crater of water shot up into the air, followed by another and another, until the water filled up half the arena. Lee was apparently good with chakra control because he held himself on the wall with ease. Part of the water turned to ice and a giant devil with huge horns ripped through the surface and punched at Lee. He ran across the water and Haku began to run away from him. She made a Water Illusion Clone, and made it seem like she was running in a circle. Lee followed it and a whirlpool formed. Haku stood on the swirl, her chakra going in the opposite direction.
"Ah, what is this!? Why is a whirlpool here!?"
"You were running in a circle so fast that a whirlpool formed." said Haku as she did her hand signs. All the water flew above her head as she whispered the name of her technique. She pointed her finger at Lee and the ginormous ball of water turned into small needles. They shot at him and covered the floor of the arena. They merged together and a huge version of Zabuza rose up and drew his zanbato and slammed it into the ground, sending a giant earth wave at Lee. He dodged most of it, but his legs and feet were buried to where he couldn't get it out.
"Prompter, I give up. I can no longer move." Zabuza nodded and the ice Zabuza dug him out. The ground was moved back into place again and Haku went up the stairs. "Okay every one, the next match is Hiaru Jinzo Vs Shino Aburame. Please come down here and…BEGIN THE NEXT ROUND!" Jonji sent a hawk made out of energy from his mind out at Shino, but a huge wall of bugs blocked it. Shino dashed forward and slashed Hiaru with a blade of destruction bugs. They went into his body and sucked out all his chakra, ending the round.
"Good job Hiaru. I hope to fight you again someday soon." said Shino as he helped the other boy up and shook his hand.
"Same here Shino. Good luck in the next round." they went up the stairs and with a huge roar of applause and cheers.
"Alright, next fight is Gaara Vs TenTen. Please come down…BEGIN!" he back peddled and watched as TenTen sent a huge amount of weapons at Gaara. She pulled out a hidden scroll and threw its weapons at him. The sand blocked the weapons, but they exploded. She dashed through the smoke and punched Gaara. He pushed himself up and ran blood in a spiral around his arm. A huge flaming Shukaku arm appeared over his own and he swung out at TenTen, holding her in a cracking hold. "Give up or I will make the fire kill you."
"Okay, I give up!" Zabuza signaled and Gaara let TenTen fall down and released the arm, making every one relax a bit. "Good fight TenTen. You are really good." she smiled and began to violently shake all over her body. Naruto dashed down and caught her before she hit the ground. He took her to the medics and shot Gaara a look. Zabuza stepped back out and yelled.
"Next is Haku VS Shino." they came down and the fight began. Shino sent his bugs out, but Haku used the water on the ground to send the bugs into the hole in the ground. She jumped into the air and began to spin, her senbon turning Shino into a pin cushion. She appeared behind him and kneed him in the back. She held a kunai to his throat and slammed him into the ground, then used her weapons to hold him down.
"I'm guessing you lose Shino." she said as Zabuza dropped his hand. Shino called his bugs back up from the hole and they came back into his jacket. He shook Haku's hand and Gaara came down. They began to fight.
(Time Skip)
It had been twenty minutes and the battle ground was a war zone. Gaara sent one last fireball jutsu and knocked out Haku. She was taken away be the medics and Kiba came out of the stair way. He dropped a pill into Akamaru's mouth and a huge outline of a red dog appeared and disappeared. Kiba did his hand signs and grew his canine characteristics. Gaara stood ready and as soon as Zabuza gave the signal, A Fang over Fang burrowed through the sand and slammed into Gaara. He got clawed by Kiba and was shocked by the sight of his blood.
"This is…this is my…THIS IS MY BLOOD!" his eyes changed into Shukaku's and a huge orb of sand surrounded him. He began to chant his seals, and Kiba realized what was happened. Kiba jumped into his clone's arms and flew above the orb. He closed his eyes and snapped them back open with a Rasengan in his hand. He rushed the orb and split it up.
"Animalistic Rasengan!" he grabbed Gaara's shoulder and pulled him out, throwing him into a wall and cracking his head. His sand surrounded him, and Shukaku suddenly emerged. Haku came out of the medical wing and looked around for Naruto. He, Idate, Ibiki, Hana, and the third were facing Orochimaru. He did some hand signs and three coffins appeared. Haku turned her attention to the giant sand raccoon and knew what she would have to do. "Water Style: Reverse Waterfall Jutsu!" just like the name suggests, a huge waterfall came out of the ground and rapped around Haku.
She formed it into a shape and floated to the center, freezing the water. With in the three minutes it took for the process to finish, Gaara had just finished taking out the rest of the ANBU that had attacked him. Gaara, well Shukaku actually, turned to face Haku. "AH, Tora of Hyoton, the tiger of Ice. We meet again. Are you still a suck up to Kyuubi, or is your container sucking on his container?" Haku whipped all eight tails up and blushed at the comment about her cousin. She focused her chakra to the point of the tails, then merged the lines together into a huge orb. She shot a huge burst of chakra that disconnected the tail.
"Does that answer your question you bastard!?" yelled Haku from the mouth of the tiger. She crouched down and launched herself into the air. She rapped her tails around the limbs and sent the three remaining tails into his body and knocked Gaara into the air. Kankuro and Temari caught him and set him down on the ground. She turned to Naruto and began to slam all the tails into the barrier in an attempt to break through.
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Gaara went into the sand shell and Orochimaru revealed himself. The ANBU grabbed the Sound Four for a ride to the roof. Once Shukaku had been released and the barrier set up, Orochimaru had summoned three coffins. Naruto's eyes grew wide and he drew a fourth hidden blade that was sealed as a tattoo of a crocodile ready to strike. He drew it and swung it, but the coffin was open before he could get the chain to swing the blade out far enough. Naruto looked at Orochimaru and his eyes changed a fiery red. "Orochimaru, I'm gonna kill you! Only god should have power over the dead, so send the first, second, and my dad back!" his dad stepped out and the kunai went into his head. "I'm sorry for what I'm about to do Naruto, but I am forced to kill you."
Minato drew a sword with a green blade, a white bandaged rapped handle with a soft grip, and a crocodile head on the pommel. Naruto swung his sword out on the chain, hence the word chain sword, and Minato did the same. They met in the middle and Naruto drew Force Edge slowly from its sheath, his Mangekyou activating. He rushed forward and began to rapidly strike both swords against the family sword. Naruto slammed the blade down and jumped back. He smeared blood in a straight line down the tattoos and pulled the new sword out.
It was a huge cleaving blade with pattern of flames that seemed as if they were moving. The silhouette of Kyuubi was on the blade and an eye with the Mangekyou on each side. The Namikaze symbol was on the bottom of the blade intertwined with the Uzimaki symbol. "This sword is forged from the blood and the fang and a few hairs of the Kyuubi. I think it is stronger then Crocodialus Dad."
"We'll see Naruto, we'll see." they jumped in the air and met again. This made the other battles begin. Hana took on the first and Ibiki and Idate tag teamed the second. Orochimaru was sending all his chakra into the three former Hokages and his old sensei was rushing him. Naruto had copied the jutsu, and on seeing this, grabbed the sword from his father and sent a huge amount of Shadow Clones to get rid of him while he sent the chain sword at Orochimaru. The snake man lost control of the jutsu and the three Hokages became Kin, Dosu, and Zaku. Orochimaru glared at him as he began to spin the two blades around him.
"Attack the ones holding the barrier up and Sarutobi and I will hold down Orochimaru." the two headed man, the flute girl, and the fat one all fell to the barrage of attacks, but the six armed one was a problem. Sarutobi knocked Orochimaru out and Naruto disappeared to help the troops, right as Haku began to pound the barrier. He easily took out three platoons, but then a white haired man with a weird seal on his chest appeared and took a fighting stance. "Who are you, and why are you like that? I can kill you easy if-" he got cut off as two spikes grew from the shoulders of the man and he drew them out. They looked like ninja-to if you looked up close.
"My name is Kimimaru and I am Orochimaru's second in command. You can most likely guess what my clan is considering the bone weapons." Naruto nodded.
"I have a question for you. Did Orochimaru invoke the right of servitude on you?"
"No, he did not. Why do you ask?"
"In that case, I invoke the right of servitude on you. If I win, you will come join Konoha. If I lose, I will come join you. Do you agree Kimimaru?" he nodded and they drew their weapons. Naruto rushed in and sliced the bones to pieces. After fifteen minutes, Kimimaru was on the ground in pain and Orochimaru was fleeing the village. Naruto sent strands of red chakra into the wounds and smoke slowly rose from them as they sizzled shut. Naruto picked him up took him to the hospital after defusing and sealing his swords. He found some ANBU bringing in the Hokage and asked Hana what happened.
"He stabbed Orochimaru in the kidney, but he only got the edge. He might still be alive. We just wanted to get him here instead." Naruto nodded his head and checked in Kimimaru, then left to check on his students. Kiba was draped over the back of the largely grown Akamaru and Sakura was healing Haku and herself. He grabbed Kiba and took him away to the hospital to be treated. "Hana, he has six broken ribs and a partially crushed lung, and needs to be healed immediately."
"WHAT!? How could you let this happen Naruto!?" Naruto quickly backed away and handed Kiba to a nurse, then took off at a fast pace. He stopped at Ichiraku to make sure the two were alright then made an thousand clones, which turned into ten thousand clones, and everyone began to help around the village. The original Naruto was searching the village for injured. He found the girl, TenTen, coming out of the hospital. He waved a hand at her.
"Hey TenTen, you any better after the fight with Gaara?" she smiled at him and nodded.
"I'm doing a lot better now that the medics healed me. How do you feel Naruto?"
"I'm some what happy, but I'm pissed that Orochimaru brought my dad back from the dead. Sorry I wandered off for a minute. You need any help getting back home?"
"Yeah I could us some help." Naruto made a Shadow Clone and he carried her off. Naruto sighed in frustration. He was just too nice. He went to the jutsu store and helped the old man do inventory. He went to the clothing store once every thing was accounted for, and help re-organize everything. He got a new outfit in thanks. He had gray pants, a red shirt with the kanji for kitsune on the back. He wore a black trench coat with one sleeve so he had easy access to his swords, and had a dagger strapped to each side of the coat. "I look pretty good."
"Hey Naruto, you okay after that bout with your dad?" asked Kakashi as he walked over.
"Yeah, I'm kinda depressed by that pleading look he gave me, but I need to move on right?" Kakashi gave him a sympathetic eye smile and they walked down the road. Haku was sitting in the stands with Zabuza's sword next to her. He ran over her and asked what's wrong. She pointed a finger at the bloody body of Zabuza.
"It…it was…it was Riaga! He came in with the Invasion force and attacked Zabuza. I tried to help, but when I went into my transformation, he zapped me and Zabuza tried to help me. Riaga knocked his sword out of his hand and used Lightning Clones to cut him up. Orochimaru came and took him away then Zabuza called me over. He gave me his zanbato and said to kill Riaga with it as a last request. He's dead Naruto, he's dead!" she hugged Naruto and began to cry again. Naruto calmed her down then they took the body away.
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"Haku, are you sure you want to do this?" asked Naruto as they stood at an entrance to a cave.
"I'm sure Naruto. We'll keep the body here then we'll send him out on the flat side of the blade after I kill Riaga with it. It's the tradition for this kind of thing in the mist. Just promise me, when the time comes, I'll be the one to kill Riaga." she said as they walked back to the village.
"You really cared about him, didn't you Haku?"
"He saved me from dying, gave me a reason to live, even lead me to my family. I am forever grateful for him." she began to cry again, and it began to snow as they each remembered Zabuza, as if the heavens were weeping for her loss, or maybe it was something else. Maybe it was Zabuza sending one last 'your welcome' to Haku.
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A/N: Okay, that is it for chapter four, so tell me what you think. RR out!