Chapter 2: deception revealed
Naruto walked down the street with his team mates Sakura Haruno and Sasuke Uchiha along with there sensei Kakashi Hatake. he had graduated from the academy on his second try with flying colors. Since then a lot of things had happened, they had completed 84 d-rank, 2 c-rank, and even 1 a-rank mission that had gone bad and they had a run in with Kisame Hoshigaki which they barely got out of. In reality Naruto's ninjutsu and taijutsu was jonin level, his genjutsu was somewere between academy and genin level since he only knew how to dispel chuunin level genjutsu's.
Now a 12 year old Naruto had to act like he was just good enough to get into the chuunin exams, which they were just informed that they were attending. Naruto looked over at sakura who hadn't really improved since the academy and in reality was just a burden to the team. Sasuke on the other hand had become much stronger and had 2 tomoe in each eye now. Naruto looked at his team mates and said "well i'll see you guys tomorrow, and make sure that your ready for tomorrow". Sasuke gave him a sideways glance and said "what ever dobe", and with that he disappeared and Sakura left as well and with out a word.
On Naruto's way home he thought he recognized a tall man with long white spiky hair from a book he read, but brushed off the thought. When Naruto got to his house he did his daily work out of 100 push ups, 200 sit ups, and then started his beginer taijutsu forms, but then stopped and thought 'if tomorrow i'm going to start showing everyone my from strength i'll have to practice my advanced forms'. And with that he started going through a complex series of taijutsu forms, slowly speeding up his movements until he was moving at a very fast pace.
By the time he was done Naruto was sweating heavily, and said "thats enough for today, i think i'll take a shower". When Naruto was done with his shower he decided to go to ichiraku's so he put on his orange jumpsuit and was about to head out when he thought 'i guess there's no harm in starting to wear those clothes tonight'. And so Naruto switched into his new shinobi outfit. He now wore a long sleeve red shirt with a storm grey short sleeve shirt over it, and black shinbi pants and sandles, finally he attatched his kunai holster to his left leg. But decided not to wear his anbu blade, thinking it might be suspicious.
When Naruto got to ichiraku's he noticed that someone new was sitting at the restaurant eating a bowl of ramen. So Naruto sat down next to the the girl who he realized was about his age, and looked over at her 'wow she's beautiful' Naruto thought. Then Naruto realized that he was staring at her and now she was staring back. "Hey, why are you staring at me" the girl asked. Naruto blushed and said "oh, um sorry" and turned away. The girl blushed then went back to eating.
Just then Ayame appeared and said "so Naruto what will it be today". Naruto grinned and said "1 miso-pork ramen please". Ayame nodded and said "coming right up" and walked away. Naruto looked back at the girl and said "so um, whats your name". The girl looked at him and said "the names Tenten, whats yours". Naruto gave a wide grin and said "Naruto Uzumaki". Tenten nodded and then narrowed her eyes and said " you wouldn't happen to be entered in the chuunin exams would you". Naruto frowned and said "yeah i am, wait dont tell me your entered as well".
Tenten nodded and they both ate there meals in silence. Once Naruto was finished he left with out saying another word. That night Naruto couldn't sleep, all he could think about was Tenten and how beautiful she was. When he finally fell asleep it would be the first time in months he was haunted by his first kill. When Naruto awoke he thought, 'this is the day i show my true strength', and he put on his new shinobi outfit and attatched his kunai and shuriken holsters to his right leg. When he was ready he set out for the location of the first part of the chuunin exams.
While Naruto was walking down the street, people were looking at him confused. Naruto just continued to stare ahead, and thought 'hn, wait until they see me fight'. When Naruto made it to the building he saw that Sakura and Sasuke were already there waiting. When Naruto reached his team mates both of them thought 'looks like Naruto ditched the orange jumpsuit'. Sakura smiled and said "hey Naruto, good choice of clothing", and Sasuke just nodded his approval. Naruto just walked pass them and said "yeah whatever, lets go" causing Sasuke and Sakura's eyes to widen with shock.
Naruto knew he had just been very rude to his team mates but also knew that he needed to be serious for the exams. That meant no jokes and no fooling around. Naruto and the others were on there way to the location of the first exam when out of no were a kid with the bigest bushy eye brows landed 10 feet in front of them. The kid looked the 3 of them other and stopped at Sasuke then said "you, fight me". Sasuke looked at the kid with disgust and said "you the hell are you".
The kid looked at him and said "my name is Rock Lee", and with that he got into an awkward battle stance. Lee's battle stance had Sasuke and Sakura confused but Naruto knew the stance was used for people with extreme speed. 'Hn, guess those weights paid off, i'll bet you i'm faster then he is', and Naruto stepped forward. Sasuke looked at Naruto stepping forward and said "what are you doing Naruto". Naruto just smirked and said "i get him first".
Sasuke just shruuged and said "whatever", then Sasuke gave smiled 'i can tell this guys good, Naruto's gonna get whooped'. Naruto just stared at Lee and then said "you ready", and Lee nodded. Naruto moved faster then Sasuke, Sakura, or Lee could see and in the blink of an eye Naruto landed a vicious punch to Lee's gut. Lee dropped to the ground unconcious and Naruto said "done". When Sasuke realized what had happened he thought, 'how is this possible, i couldn't even keep up with him'. Sakura was just in shock and was thinking aklong the same lines as Sasuke, Then Sakura looked at the clock and realized that they only had 15 minutes to register fort he exams.
Sakura looked at both her team mates and said "hey guys we got to hurry up and register". They both nodded and then Sasuke said "what should we do about that Lee kid". Naruto's answer to Sasuke's question suprised Sakura "just leave him, it means less competition". Sakura gulped and thought 'is this really Naruto, when did he get so cold'. And with that the 3 team mates left unknown to them an older man identical to Lee appeared to wake Lee up.
Shortly after Naruto and his team registered, they arrived in a room full of people registered for the chuunin exams. Naruto looked over all the other contestants, after a quick analysis he concluded that the only 2 that could be a problem were a kid named Neji Hyuuga, and some other guy with red hair. The kid with red hair had a look on his face that clearly said: i want to kill everyone in this room. Naruto looked over at the door when it opened and saw that Lee kid walking in, with and older exact copy of him walking behind him.
Guy looked at the blond hair genin and frowned, 'i cant believe that kid is as fast as Lee, wait isn't he Kakashi's student'. Lee walked over to his team while holding his stomach. Tenten gasped when she saw Lee and said "Lee what happened to you". Lee looked up at Tenten shame written all over his face and said "i lost in a fight". Tenten gave Lee a confused look and said "who did you fight", Lee pointed to a blond shinobi near the other side of the room.
When Tenten saw Naruto she gasped and thought 'thats the kid from Ichiraku's', then turned to Lee and said "did you find out any of his abilities". Lee just shook his head and Tenten said "why not". Lee looked down and said "because he beat me with one punch". Tenten gasped again and thought 'he's got to be good if he beat Lee in one punch'. Just then the door opened again and a man with a black trench coat on and a bandana covering his head appeared and said "all right you whimps, my name is Ibiki Morino and i'll be your proctor for the first exam now follow me", and he walked out of the room.
When the genin got to the room they all noticed ninja seated around the room, and soon after Ibiki handed out slips of paper with assigned seats on them. Once all the genin were seated Ibiki's voice ran through out the room "alright the first part of the exam is a written one, as you can see there are papers in front of you, each with 9 questions". Ibiki paused to let this sink in then continued "here are the rules, first each question is worth 1 point, second no cheating is allowed and if you're caught cheating 2 points will be deducted from your school, and if your caught cheating 3 times you automatically fail". Ibiki paused again then continued "third you will be graded as a team, so if one of you fails then your whole team fails, and finally you have 45 minutes to complete the test and when you do i will give you the tenth question".
Ibiki looked around the room to make sure that everyone was ready then said "begin", and with that everyone began the exam. Soon after the rookie nine an some of the others realized that the exam was meant to be cheated on, and so the cheating began. After 35 minutes Naruto successfuly answered 5 out of the 9 question with out cheating and decided to cheat to get the rest of the answers. So Naruto quietly took out a kunai and used its refection to see the answers of a kid in front of him who hadn't stopped writing since the start.
Naruto had just gotten the last answer when Ibiki said "alright pencils down", and everyone obliged. Ibiki looked them over then said "alright heres the tenth question, but before i give it to you theres a catch, if you get it right you automatically pass, but if you get it wrong you will be stuck a genin the rest of your life". At this Kiba said "thats bull, you can't do that and i've seen plenty of people take the exam twice". Ibiki laughed then said "thats because i wasn't the proctor then, anyway you all have the option of leaving and taking the exam next time, but be warned if you do your team forfits as well".
After Ibiki said that genin began to leave left and right taking there teams with them. Then when Ibiki saw that no more teams were forfitting he thought 'hn, looks like this batch of runts has some backbone, theres more then usual'. Then Ibiki smiled and said "you all pass". Everyones eyes widen and he ellaberated "to put it short and simple this was a test to see how much backbone you all have, so once again you all pass".
Right when Ibiki finished four kunai strapped to some cloth smashed through the window. The four kunai went in different directions revealing that the cloth said "Anko Mitarashi, proctor of the second exam", and a woman with purple hair, a tan trench coat on, and a fish net skirt under it appeared from through the window. Anko looked around the room and then at Ibiki and frowned "Ibiki are you getting soft on me, why did you pass so many kiddies".
Ibiki smirked and said "maybe there just a better batch of runts this year". Anko grinned and said "i'll be the judge of that, now all you kiddies follow me to training ground 44 aka the forest of death". At that everyone regrouped with there teams and followed Anko to the forest of death. On the way to the training ground 44 Sasuke looked at Naruto and said "hey dobe how many of the 9 questions did you get". Naruto just kept looking ahead and said "i got all 9". Sasuke's eyes narrowed and he looked back ahead and said "whatever".
When everyone was at the training ground Anko explained how each team had a heaven or earch scroll and had 5 days to find and take the scroll they didn't have from another team by any means nessesary and get to the tower in the center of the forest. Then she explained that if you open the scroll you automatically fail the exam, and so Anko handed out the papers to sign saying that you agree to the risks of getting killed.
Then when everyone had signed the papers they were all sent to there respective gates to await the start of the exam. Then all of a sudden a wistle sounded and all the gates opened. The second part of the exam had begun, and everyone raced into the forest. Naruto and his team mates raced through the forest, with Naruto holding there teams earth scroll. Naruto looked at Sasuke and was about to say something when a kunai with a paper bomb attatched flew in front of him.
Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura leaped away from the kunai and hid behind tree's. All 3 of them looked for there opponents, but none of them could spot anyone, 'they hide well' Sasuke and Sakura thought. Naruto coming up with a plan created a shadow clone and sent it into the clearing as bait. Sasuke and Sakura noticed Naruto moving out of the shadows and thought 'shit, what is he thinking' but before either of them could move 2 grss ninja appeared in front of Naruto. The first punched Naruto in the gut and the second kicked him in the side of the head. But what happened next suprised everyone, the shadow clone exploded slamming the 2 grass ninja into tree's and knocking them out.
Just after this happened the real Naruto walked out from behind the tree's and said loudly "shadow clone explosion jutsu, success". Sakura just stared at Naruto in shock as he started to search for something in the unconcious ninja's clothes. Sasuke on the other hand was getting irritated, 'were is he learning this stuff', he thought as he jumped down with Sakura to join Naruto.
"Ah ha, i found it" Naruto said as he pulled out a heaven scroll from the second ninja's pocket and showed it to his team mates. Naruto looked ahead and said "now we can head to the center and then move on to the third part of the exam". Sasuke made a mental note to ask Naruto how he learned that stuff later then said "yeah lets go".
The rest of the trip was uneventful and by the morning of the third day they were basically at the center of the forest. That was when it happened, 3 Amegakure ninja's appeared before them. All of them wore tan body suits, with breath masks covering there mouths. The one in the middle stepped forward and then said "make this easy on yourselves and just hand over your heaven scroll". Naruto looked at the kid and said "hn, fat chance".
The one in the middle sighed then threw a kunai at Naruto which Sasuke blocked hiding Naruto's hand sign for his shadow clone. The clone Naruto ran out from behind Sasuke who was perfectly hiding the real Naruto's body with his own. The clone Naruto engaged the middle ninja in taijutsu, and it was immediately clear that Naruto's taijutsu style far out classed the Ame ninja. Soon the clone Naruto overwhelmed the ninja and sent him back in line with the others with a punch to the face. At this moment the real Naruto jumped into the air reavealing himself, threw a single shuriken at the middle ninja, did some hand signs and then said "shadow shuriken jutsu", and the single shuriken turned into 200 shuriken.
The grass ninja immediately realized that the range of the shuriken barrage was so great that they wouldn't be able to dodge in time. So they each tried to deflect the shuriken only for each to be impaled with atleast 20 shuriken killing them. Sasuke couldn't stand it anymore and said "Naruto how the hell did you learn all this". Naruto who had been expecting this said "don't worry about it teme", and with that Naruto headed off to the building in the center of the forest which was now visable, while Sasuke was glaring daggers at Naruto.
When the trio stepped inside the building they noticed that only one other team had arrived, the team with the guy who had red hair. Naruto was about to ask what they were supposed to do when Sakura said "hey guys this sign says we can open the scrolls now". Once hearing this Naruto looked at his team mates who both nodded, so he opened both scrolls. Right when both scrolls were opened Kakashi there one and only sensei appeared in a puff of smoke.
Kakashi looked at his 3 students and said "good job, but you now must wait here for the ramaining two days, then you will be summoned to the next exam. All 3 genin nodded and Kakashi disappeared in another puff of smoke. The remaining 2 days were boring to say the least, since so practicing was aloud and they weren't aloud outside. But by the time the 2 days were up everyone who made it before the fifth day was well rested.
Now the remaining canidates stood in a medium sized indoor arena before the Hokage and the jonin sensei's waiting. Then a man appeared and looked at the hokage who just nodded, giving him permission to start. The man coughed then said "my name 'cough' is 'cough' Hayate Gekko and i will be 'cough' your proctor for this part of 'cough' the exam. Every single genin was thinking the same thing 'is he okayed to be a proctor in his conditon'.
Hayate coughed then said "now since there are 'cough' too many canidates as of 'cough' right now we will be having a preliminary tournament 'cough' to weed out the 'cough' weakest links, which will begin right 'cough' now". Hayate looked at them all then said "but if there is anyone who is not feeling up to it please speak up now. At this and kid with glasses and grayish hair in a ponytail raised his hand and said "i quit this is too much for me".
Hayate nodded and said "ok, Kabuto wasn't it, your jonin will escourt you out". Turning back to the rest of the kids Hayate said "the preliminaries will begin now, will every one head to the balconies and you will be called down when its your turn to fight", and with that all the genin went to the balconies. Then a screen behind were the Hokage was sitting began switching through names rapidly. When it stopped 2 names were on it, Zaku and Shino.
Naruto watched Zaku's and shino's match with boredom, the matches he really wanted to see were Neji's and Gaara's, and although he wouldn't admit it to himself he also wanted to see that Tenten girls match. And so Shino beat Zaku, and next Dosu beat Misumi (Kabuto's team mate), shikamaru beat kin which Naruto is when Naruto realized just how smart shikamaru was. Then Kankuro beat Yoroi with his puppet. After a long wait on Naruto's part there was finally a match he wanted to see: Gaara vs Lee.
Naruto had too admit that he did take Lee by suprise when he knocked him out and that Lee was a good ninja. The match had begun and Naruto noticed how Gaara's gourd contained sand which moved on its own accord to protect him from any attack. But Naruto had already figured out the sands weakness, water, if he soaked the sand it would be too heavy to move fast enough and Naruto could easily beat Gaara with taijutsu.
Then Naruto noticed that lee was standing on a statue and had just dropped some weights that were on his legs. But what suprised Naruto was when the weights hit the ground they each made craters 5 feet in diameter. And now Lee was moving so fast Naruto could barely keep up, 'he speed surpasses mine by far' Naruto thought, and he was even landing most of his punches. And then Lee kicked Gaara up intot he air, appeared behind him, wrapped the bandages on his arm around Gaara, and they both started spinning and falling to the ground at high speeds.
When they hit the ground Gaara turned into a sand clone, and then the real Gaara appeared and Lee looked like he could barely move and was in pain. Lee got hit by Gaara's sand multiple time, then finally Lee had had enough and everyone in the arena heard Lee say "Guy sensei, please let this work". Then Lee started to turn red and veins appeared on his forehead, and finally chakra started to pour out of Lee's body.
'He's opening the inner gates' naruto thought recalling reading about them. Once Lee had opened 5 of the the inner gates he started to attack, his speed was so great that he was just a blurr to everyone in the room. Then Lee performed the hidden lotus on Gaara, but Gaara's landing was cushined by the sand, and Lee's muscels were now torn to shreds. The match Naruto thought was one of the greatest he'd ever seen finally ended when Gaara crushed both Lee's left arm and leg and Guy interfeared. Lee had to be taken off the arena by a stretcher.
Next up was Sakura and ino, who both ended up knocking eachother out. Then Tenten and Temari of the sand fought, and Tenten won by transforming a kunai into herself and having her real body sneak up behind Temari and stab her in the back with 2 kunai. Then Neji beat Hinata using the Hyuuga style taijutsu called 'juuken'. And sasuke easily beat Choji. Now the only people left were himself and Kiba his childhood friend.
Hayate looked up at the screen then said "will Naruto Uzumaki and Kiba Inuzuka please come down to the arena". Faster than anyone but Sasuke and Sakura had seen him Naruto was next to Hayate in the blink of an eye. This didn't go unnoticed by Kakashi and the Hokage who both Narrowed there eyes. Once Kiba was standing about five feet away from Naruto with Akamaru on his shoulder, Hayate looked at both of them and said "begin".
Kiba looked at Naruto and said "why don't you just quit now, you know your going to lose". Naruto smirked at that and said "we'll see about that", then disappeared and reappeared so fast Kiba didn't have time to move as Naruto's fist slammed into his face. Kiba clutched his face with his hands and groaned only to have Naruto's knee drive into his gut making him cough up some blood.
Naruto waited for Kiba to recover he didn't want this to end to quickly, after all this was fun. Akamaru whined and after a moment Kiba said "its alright Akamaru i'm fine" as he looked at Naruto. Naruto smirked again and said "ready for more", and Naruto made a single handseal and all of a sudden there were fifty Naruto's. Kiba looked around at the army that had now surrounded him and said "hn, solid clones not bad Naruto, but not good enough". Kiba then through Akamaru a pill and he started to grow and his fur changed from white to red.
"Lets go Akamaru, beast mimicry: man beast clone", and with that Akamaru transformered into another Kiba. The original Kiba went on all 4's and the clone Kiba hopped on the originals back. Naruto chose this time to have his clones attack and gave the signal for his clones to attack. The Naruto clones ran at Kiba 5 at a time, only to be slaughtered by Kiba's now sharp nails and ferocious attacks. But when when Kiba went after the last clone Naruto made a handsign, and right when Kiba was about to destroy the clone it exploded sending Kiba flying back 20 feet.
Kiba coughed up some blood, stood up and looked at Naruto who said "Kiba, you should no that i'm just toying with you". Kiba snarled and said "well get serious, atsuga", and then both Kiba's jumped at Naruto and started spinning at high speeds forming 2 mini tornado like blurs. Naruto used his speed to jump into the air evading the attack. This continued until Naruto got tired of it and when Kiba landed said "time to end it". Then in then using his superior speed appeared underneath Kiba, kicked him in the jaw, and sent him flying into the air at the height of the balcony. While Kiba was still in the air Naruto quickly went through some hand signs then inhaled and said "wind style: air bullet", and sent a blast of compressed air at Kiba which when it his its mark exploded and Kiba fell and hit the ground with cuts and blood covering him. Hayate walked over to Kiba and after confirming he was unconcious said "winner, Naruto Uzumaki".
end chapter
sorry about the cliff hanger its probably really annoying, but i will try to get the next chapter up soon
-until next time, your truely :)