Blood Lines and Fox Demons
Declaimer: Don't own Naruto.
A/N: Ok! SORRY! SORRY! SORRY! I know I haven't updated any of my stories in a while but I've have a lot of things going on in my head as well as hadend-o-year high school exams to deal with. Anyways, I hope you like my story so far as well as this chapter. R&R please.
"Talking out loud." 'Written things/Reading.' Thinking aloud/Talking to inner demon. Thinking silently/To self. "Demon talking/Demon talking to carrier in real world." Demon thinking. §Clone thinking.§ ¤Telepathic connection between clone and Naruto.¤ ∞Kyuubi talking through link.∞
Chapter 9
()()()(Last Time)()()()
"Gaara of the Desert. I appologise for my teammates, but I can assure you it wont happen again." He glared at Kankuro who still held Konohamaru and had his other hand held captive by Naruto. "Let him go Kankuro." The puppeteer dropped the boy who scampered over to Naruto. Naruto gave one last tug before letting go of the other's strings. With a nod the sand nin started walking away.
()()()(Continued)()()()
"Wait! What are you doing in our village?" Sakura asked.
"The chunin exam of course, forehead girl." Temari said as she showed their paperwork. By this time Kyuubi had gotten back to him about the demon in the host before him. Naruto walked forward, seeming to be heading off but he paused the briefest of moments next to Gaara who was twitching a little.
"Shukaku bothering you a little?" He continued on and picked up a pin next to Kankuro. He turned back and walked over to Konohamaru. "I think he dropped this of yours." He said as he handed Konohamaru his frowny pin. When he glanced at Gaara again he let his Demon eyes show for a split second, just to give some hints to the raccoon. The three soon left.
"That was totally awesome Leader!" Konohamaru and his friends shouted.
"How did you do that Dobe?" Sasuke asked.
"What?" Naruto answered.
"The thing with his hand. You pulled on it from here. How did you do that?"
"It's called long hard work with charaka strings. It took me over a year to finally get it down and even now I still suck at it." Really he had sucked when he tried normal ninja strings. They were so different from how you made the Uzumaki strings. But anything else that needed to be solid he took to with ease, both thanks to his Uzumaki blood, which worked great with solidifying charaka into a physical form, and Kyuubi's training that he was forced to do at age ten.
"Then how did you catch his?" Sakura asked.
"I put more charaka into mine because if I put less it falls apart. It seems my curse can be a blessing." The clone lied. Really it took less charaka to make the Uzumaki strings and even with half the charaka his strings would be twice as tough as a normal ninja's.
"Hn." Sasuke said before walking off. Sakura dismissed what he said for following Sasuke. Naruto looked at his 'gang'. "Hey guys, want to train again? But you have to promise not to tell anyone, and that includes grandpa, Konohamaru."
"Aye aye leader!" They shouted. He spent the rest of the day training them while training himself. At the end of the day they were all tired.
"Hey, want to see something really, really cool?"
"YEAH!"
"Ok but it has to be kept ultra secret, kay?" The three nodded their heads vigorously. Naruto let out a small laugh and formed a non lethal rasengan. They watched rampantly as it swirled and twisted slowly. The girl reached out and touched it. Because it was a non lethal version and meant for nothing more than show, it didn't rip her fingers to dust. Instead it felt like gentle swirls of water.
"Wow! This feels great."
"How did you make it?"
"Yeah, tell us Leader."
"Whoa, whoa, some other day. Let's go get some ramen." Naruto suggested and the three cheered, making him smile under his mask. Out of everyone in the village right now those three were the only ones he showed his real self publicly, though he said that they would pretend like he didn't, which they had for a while, now.
The next day Kakashi told them that they would be entering the chunin exam. Sasuke had the promise of fighting stronger people, Sakura was a little scared, and Naruto secretly wanted to see how much he could pummel some one else, though he just acted over hyper as always.
Soon enough it was the day of the exam and they all met at the academy. They headed inside and Naruto counted the steps. They stopped when they saw a crowd around two genin that were blocking a door that said it was room 301. Naruto activated his Apocalypse eyes and saw that it was a multi laired genjutsu, including one that mimicked damage on anyone aside from the two chunins guarding the door.
(A/N: In this next area Naruto acts like he does in the manga, though he doesn't challenge Lee in my story.)
Naruto kept his mouth shut while he saw them beat back a nightmare of his. There sitting on the ground with bruises on his face was a guy with bowl cut hair, really thick bushy eyebrows, and in green spandex. He froze there.
¤Sweet deities! Naruubi! Kyuubi! You won't believe this. You remember that bit about the spandex freak thing? I found a live one.¤
¤∞What? There really is such a thing. Oh god, we are going to have nightmares now!¤∞ Naruubi and Kyuubi said at the same time through the link.
The clone looked back in time to see the female teammate of the spandex freak get smacked back. Naruto watched as his team told everyone about the first genjutsu. He was impressed with how fast the spandex freak could move.
He then watched later when Sasuke nearly got his butt pureed. Finally with all the distractions they made it to the first exam room. He watched as the Kabuto guy got hit with sound waves. He watched as Ibiki gave his little speech. Finally it was time to start the test.
He looked over and saw Hinata. He jumped, as he had not even sensed her sit next to him. Naruto activated his eyes and watched the room for a few seconds before turning his test over. He read over some of them. Kyuubi could answer them, but no normal genin would without cheating. So that is what he did. He did some energy seals under the table.
§Spy of the mind no jutsu.§
The clone thought as he targeted a fake genin. An near undetectable ball of charaka went out and watched the man's mind for a while before returning to Naruto. He quickly jotted the answers down and decided to help Hinata. He did more hand seals under the table.
§Forgery copy no jutsu, printing style.§
Right before Hinata's eyes the answers started to write out in her own handwriting. She looked over to Naruto who was smiling.
"Th-thank y-yo-you." She whispered. He nodded. They both turned their tests over and waited for the last question.
"Ok you mutts, before I tell you the tenth question I will let you leave. The reason? If you fail this question you can never take the chunin exam again. If you get up now, your whole team fails, but you can try again next year." He showed them his head and talked about a few other things. As he talked Naruto caught a glimpse of something. He quickly pulled out a sticky note and wrote something down before making a challenge back at Ibiki.
Soon after Anko burst in through the window with a big display.
"Ok, everyone, follow me to round two!" She shouted before she looked at how many people were still there. She turned to Ibiki. "You've been slacking off."
"No, we just have a lot of good ones this year." He said in his defense.
"Fine, everyone get up and follow me!" She yelled as she walked out of the room.
Once everyone was gone Ibiki walked around and collected the papers. He noticed one of them had a blank yellow sticky note on the back of it. He pulled the note off and looked at the back of it.
'You should hide your friend better. I nearly saw him when you put your FP back on and you're lucky that the Hyuugas didn't have their byakugans on at the time. But that wasn't why I stood up to you.'
He flipped the test over and looked at the name.
Uzumaki Naruto. Ibiki looked around, making sure there was no one for the next hundred yards before reaching into his coat and pulling out an adorable pink stuffed bunny that had huge loving eyes and held a little red valentine in its arms. How did he see you Ms. Cuddlebuns? He thought as he gave the bunny a loving hug against his cheek, which let out a just as adorable squeak. He smiled at the bunny before tucking it away and dawning his outward gruffness once more. If that kid talks, I'm ruined. Huh?
There was a second note that was hidden by the sticky.
'Don't worry, I won't tell unless you do something like fail me just because I am me.'
Blackmailing an instructor? And me no less, even if he did see Ms. Cuddlebuns. That takes guts.
"I'm impressed. Uzumaki Naruto, it will be interesting and enjoyable to meet you again." He said with a brief smile.
"Welcome to the Forest of Death!" Anko shouted as everyone showed up. "First things first. In this test your team will get either a heaven scroll or an earth scroll. After you enter the forest you have to get the other scroll from another team to make a set. After that you have to go to the tower in the center. You have five days to do this. Also if you open the scroll before you are in the tower you will be incapacitated and become my new toy!" She ended in a gleeful tone.
"Psycho woman." Naruto whispered to himself. He didn't even dodge the kunai from her and acted as best he could when he realized how many freaks were here.
§This Psycho's LICKING My Cut! What The HELL! Is She Some Kind Of Sadist? I mean the last one was just cruel! But she's SICK!§
"You have good blood. Mind if I drink a few pints?" She was interrupted in her licking of the cut she had made on his cheek by a guy with a longer tongue.
"You dropped this." The freak said.
"Thanks, but sucking up won't you off easy. Having tasty blood might, but I'd have to get at least three, four pints to let that happen." Anko said, scaring half the genins right then and there.
"Now then, all of you have to sign these wavers so I don't get nailed when you die." She said with the gleeful tone again. Naruto shrugged and went to get the wavers for his team. On his way back he paced Gaara and his team. Gaara stepped in front of him.
"How did you know about my curse?" He asked.
"I will tell you after the tournament, but you have to get to the second round at least. If not, I won't tell you, and letting Shukaku try to eat me won't work." Without a second word the charaka clone continued on to his team.
Soon they handed in the wavers, with several not continuing. Team seven got an earth scroll and had Sasuke hold it, then headed to the gate they would start at.
With the whistle they all started. They rushed in for a bit and soon Naruto said he needed a pee break. He let himself be caught and be tied up while the nin made himself look like him. After the imposter was gone Naruto untied himself by burning the ropes with fire attributed charaka. He then made some darkness clones, had them henge into animals of the forest, which some were quite deadly and big, and sent them out to both spy and collect. He then rushed to where his team was just in time to see Sasuke beat the imposter, who ran away.
"Wow, that guy sure was a punk. As soon as he got stabbed once he ran." Naruto said as he landed in the clearing.
"And where were you while Sasuke-kun kicked that guy's ass?" Sakura asked.
"I got tied up by that guy while I was taking a shit. Turned out I needed to do more then have a good piss. At least we are up wind." He said with a laugh. The wind shifted and one of the most awful smells came to them. It was like five dead pigs after being locked up for a month.
"What have you been eating that would make that god awful smell?" Sakura asked.
"That is the past year's worth of food. Unlike normal shinobi who only dump once a month, I'm stuck holding it for a year. At least we don't have to worry about any animals for a while. Or other nins for that matter."
Thankfully the wind changed five minutes later. Soon they were attacked by a huge gust of wind that was obviously a jutsu. Naruto let himself be blown away, wanting to know who was behind it. When he landed he suddenly got eaten by a snake, which just so happened to be yawning its mouth as wide as possible where he would land. It took him a few moments to get over the shock of suddenly finding himself in something's stomach, so he made shadow clones. A lot of shadow clones. Soon it exploded from the inner pressure.
He dismissed the shadow clones as he stood up among the falling snake parts before he rushed off to look for another team. Soon he came upon two teams of Hidden Rain nins. They were traveling together in hopes of numbers over power. He smiled to himself.
§Too easy.§ He thought as he made his clan seal for shield while making one handed seals of his clan that went with the technique he was doing with the other hand. Once again he focused on one of Kyuubi's tail elements, once again he chose lightning.
When he finished the seals he grabbed the shield in his hand like a discus and spun, throwing the near invisible disk of electrical charaka. It zipped down and hit one in the back of the neck before ricocheting into another one. It bounced once more before disappearing. All three of the ones hit went down spasming. The other three looked around in shock but couldn't find him. He moved to another spot and told three of the nearby clones to change back and make some traps ahead of the group.
The three conscious nin were of the other team so they grabbed their 'friend's' scroll and looked around they didn't see anything but they also hadn't seen what knocked their fellow nin out. They ran when they felt a strong charaka behind them, courtesy of another clone. Soon they found themselves being the targets of swinging logs, kunai, pit falls, snares, and a few jutsu taps. Finally there was just two left and that was when Naruto showed himself.
"What? A short kid? Man, you are really low kid, I mean using all the hard work of another ninja team?" One of the rain nins said.
"I did this, just like I took care of the other team." He answered calmly.
"No way a punk like you could have done all that." Naruto just pulled out an explosive note that had a red dragon with black dashes along the edge of its body in the center of it. On the back was a metal shaft for support. He made a hand seal while holding the note.
"Never feed a dragon chili peppers." Upon the activation a red dragon shot out right in between the two nins who jumped to the side. Naruto smirked.
§Right where I want you.§ He thought as the dragon had thousands of needles stick out of its body and launch. With in minutes the two are dead. He looks through their stuff and found the two scrolls. Once he had them he ran off to find his teammates.
Soon he found his team with a gay looking man(Really I do think Orochimaru is gay. That or really gender confused in his insanity.) that felt a lot stronger than he let on. He decided that it was time for some of Kyuubi to show.
(A/N: The rest is what happens in the manga and I don't feel like doing all of that so I'll be a little vague. It won't be a complete skip though.)
§No shitten way! I am not letting him ruin this for us even if I do have a complete set.§ Naruto thought as he jumped in the way and caught the scroll that Sasuke was throwing to the fag. When Sasuke yelled at him he punched him.
"If your supposed to be so smart, why is it that you are handing over the scroll like a coward. Besides how do we know he won't take the scroll then kill us?"
"I…"
"Actually, the blond brat is right, I could simply just kill you and take the scroll if I really wanted it." The man said. "And since you liked my first pet so much how about another." Naruto charged at him and leapt into the air. The man finished a set of seals after wiping blood on a tattoo on his left arm. "Summoning no jutsu!"
"Oh cra-" Naruto started to say as the snake's tail rushing up to meet him. It smacked him up through a thick branch above before he smashed into another branch, making him cough blood.
"Naruto!" Sakura shouted as he fell.
"Eat him." The snake came closer, ready to eat him.
§Eat me? There is no way in hell, heaven, or the center of the earth that I am going to be eaten by a stupid snake again!§
"EAT SHIT FAG MAN!" He shouted as he pounded the nose of the giant serpent. The man's eyes opened in shock as he saw crimson eyes and slit like retinas.
As Naruto went for another attack the man used a powerful gust of wind to throw him against another tree. The snake then went for Sasuke.
§Oh no you don't.§ Naruto thought as he appeared before Sasuke and stopped the snake.
"Are you okay…you coward?" He panted. Suddenly the grass nin grabbed him with his really long tongue.
He did some hand seals while talking. Naruto didn't pay attention to his talk and was trying to remember what those hand seals did.
§Oh no!§ He realized what was going to happen finally but it was too late.
"Five elements seal!" He said as he rammed his fingers into the seal on Naruto's stomach. He screamed in pain before passing out.
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Else where in the world.
"Aw shoot!"
"What is it Naruubi?" Haryu asked. Haku had also come up with his own new name.
"Some snakeish fag just put a five elements seal on my charaka clone. And that means that he is going to be out for a while unless me and Kyuubi transfer our minds over to him and work on unsealing it. Could you watch my body for me while I'm distracted?"
Haryu nodded. They quickly went to a nearby inn and got a room. Naruubi quickly got on the bed and went to sleep while Haryu kept guard.
Inside his mindscape Naruubi saw his symbiot fox demon.
"Hey Kyu, ready to go?"
"I just can't believe someone put that on the clone. I mean, even if they thought I was in it, like I am in you, it would only screw up charaka control like no tomorrow."
"And the clone is nothing but charaka so it is effecting him ten times as bad as another type of clone, right?" Kyuubi nodded. They both turned into balls of pulsing light and shot into a cave that represented the link with the clone.