Another Path

Chapter 15

Yeah, a bit late because yes, I do have college classes during the summer and I had finals. Of course a failed econ, but that was a suckish class. Oh, thought I should tell you what everyone's power was in the last chapter. Amaru: Riku's sword from KH, Sora got kyuubi's power, Sakura is Senbonzakura, Sasuke is a Chaos Angel, Choji has Chad's power, Shikamaru is a Shadow Wraith, Ino is a true Psychic, Hinata got Orihime's power, Kiba is Spirit Werewolf, Shino got the old man bout power, Neji has spirit claws, Lee is a Quincy, and Tenten has a mixed sword power, and Sai has the Exposure Path….Vemon from Spiderman.

The past two months have been pretty productive for Naruto and his new team. Amaru had gotten better in taijutsu and medical arts. It was a good thing that she started medical jutsus because was a protégé in it. Along with being a medic ninja, she gained an interest in curse seals. While she may have gotten rid of the Leech, she gained the power to not only use Dark Chakra but Light Chakra as well. She uses her Dark Chakra to use curse seals and she uses her Light Chakra in her medical jutsu. A good balance in Naruto's opinion.

Sora was his usual self, sarcastic and funny, but he did improve in his taijutsu. Hayate had directed the monk to a man named Guy. The experience of meeting the nut job had scared him for life. Sure he had gotten stronger but that gave him an edge in trying to kill the sick man for sending him to the crazy green spandex man. He often shuddered when he gets confronted by Lee, Guy's mini-me. The mini-me had made poor Sora his rival in taijutsu, but it was not all bad. Naruto got stuck being his rival in the spirit powers.

Like his teammates, Naruto had gotten stronger. He had finished his elemental training and created his elemental taijutsu styles. Sora had been stupid and challenges his teammate in using his Kajou Bouffu Ryu (Spiral Gale Fist). Sora got blasted across the field just like Kakashi did on the wave mission. Unfortunately for Sora, Naruto used him to test out his other taijutsu styles. Thanks to the power of his Uzugan and the Sharingan bloodline in it, he recreated his flame fist and created the Arai-Kaji Ryu (Wildfire Fist), only this time, instead of normal fire, it was black. His other styles were, Mizu-oshi Genkotsu Ryu (Water-pressure Fist), Seikai-yama no Ryu (Fist of the Living Mountain), and Tentou Nagare Hirate Ryu (Lighting Current Palm). Heh, Kakashi got a good shock with the last one when he showed it to him after man's team went home.

Now, however, Team Reaper as they were now called, were walking the streets of Konoha. The heard a scuffle up ahead and saw that it was Kankuro holding up the Hokage's grandson and Team 7 with the kid's friends were trying to get him back. The group met the kid on a mission to watch him for a day. He was not that bad a kid, especially with his two friends from the academy. In fact, they had a blast, even though Sora got annoyed half the time.

Naruto had a smirk on his face and Sora shivered in fear. "Naruto, I know that face….you are going to prank him aren't you?"

"Yep!"

"Just don't get hurt Naruto." Amaru said.

"Don't worry about that, Temari is behind him so she will keep quiet and Gaara is in the tree." Naruto said as he tip toed behind the puppet user. When Temari and the others saw him, he just put a finger to his lips and they all gave a barely noticeable nod.

Naruto smirked as he did a silent jutsu and in a poof of smoke, he was in his sexy jutsu form. Naruko then went up behind Kankuro and hugged him, making sure to put her fake breasts to his back. "What are you picking on my little brother for?" She whispered into his ear.

Kankuro froze before turning around and drooling as the girl back up. Naruko smirked before speaking in a male voice. "You idiot…." The in a poof of smoke, Naruto was back.

Kankuro paled to the extreme and yelled, "MY EYES! SOMEONE HELP ME CRAW THEM OUT!"

Everyone fell on their asses in laughter, including Gaara who fell out of the tree he was in.

"I will need counseling after all this." Kankuro grumbled as he leaned against a nearby fence.

"Well, I was just help the Hokage's grandson….can't have you beating on him." Naruto said.

"Of course not." Kankuro sighed.

"So let me guess, since you are here, that means the chunin exams are coming up." Naruto stated.

"Yep." said a voice that very familiar to him as the body of the person pressed itself to Naruto's back.

"Oh good!" Naruto smirked as he turned in the embrace and kissed Fu.

Team 7, except Sai, had their jaws on the floor. Two other guys approached from behind, looking very bored. "Yep and my team are going to be in it." Fu stated as she looked to Amaru and smiled. She then looked to Temari and smirked. Time to complete this harem. "So, you must be Temari." Fu said walking up to her.

"Yeah, that is me."

"Ah, then you must be the girl is Gaara's sister and the one who kissed Naruto." Fu said with a serious face.

Temari backed up a step before stepping back up to the green haired girl and they glared at one another. Everyone except Naruto, Gaara and Amaru were sweating profusely and was hoping nothing bad was going to happen.

"Yeah, what are you going to do about it?" Termai growled out.

"This." Fu smirked as he planted her lips to Temari's. The blond haired girl back up in shock as everyone else had their jaws on the floor, including Fu's teammates. "If you want Naruto, you're going to have get use to that as me and Amaru are with Naruto in a harem. What do you say?"

Temari struck a thinking pose after regaining herself. She did like Naruto and if she wanted to be with him, then she would have to deal with Fu and Amaru…..could she do that? She smirked and said, "I don't see why not." Temari went over to Naruto and gave him a deep kiss.

"Like Kiba says, 'some guys get all the luck'." Sora sighed out with an exasperated look on his face. "So Fu, who are you teammates?"

"Oh, these two are Taro and Maro. They are brothers who specialize in mass area destruction." Fu said nonchantly.

"Good to know." Sora deadpanned.

"WAIT A SECOND!" Screech Sakura as Sasuke and Sai cleaned out their ears. "Naruto, you have harem?"

"You just noticed that?" Naruto said with a surprised look on his face.

"Uh….yes." an embarrassed Sakura said.

"Come on Sakura, we need to get to the team meeting anyways. Kakashi will be mad if WE are late." Sasuke sighed as they left while Sai was actually chuckling at Sakura's dilemma.

"Uh…I guess we will seya later bro." Konohamaru said as he and his friends left. "Oh and nice use of the Sexy Jutsu!"

"Yeah, later." Naruto smiled as the kid left. He had not seen much of Konohamaru but it was nice to see him every now and then. He noticed that Fu's teammates were already walking away, probably to their hotel. He turned to the girls and said, "Amaru may know this village already, but let's take a tour."

The four lovers walked off, laughing, Sora, Kankuro and Gaara were left. "Gaara."

"Yes Kankuro."

"We have been forgotten…"

"I see that." Gaara commented as all three sighed in depression.

"Come on, I'll treat you guys to some ramen." Sora said. The two sand shinobi just nodded and followed the monk ninja.

Street of Konoha…

A group of five cloud ninjas were walking to the Hokage's tower when they noticed Naruto and his girlfriends. "Oh? What is this?" A blond haired woman said with a smirk, her cat like eyes glinting with mirth.

"Huh? Oh hi. My name is Naruto and these are my girlfriends, Fu, Amaru, and Temari." Naruto said as the groups walked up to each other. Naruto noticed that she looked like a sensei as shew as older than them, probably in her twenties. He then looked to the others. There was a big dark skinned man with an odd tattoo on his face. The then there was two dark skinned teens, one that had a sucker in his mouth and the other had red hair. The last member was also blond like the woman who spoke, only it was cut to her shoulder. They seemed ok so far.

"Oh, well my name is Yugito Nii and this is Killer Bee. We are the sensei for these guys. We were on our way to see the Hokage." Yugito stated. He looked to the three genin and they got the hint. Before they could however, Killer Bee spoke up.

"Nice kid, you're a little pimp, fools ya fools!"

Yugito sighed as she saw the confused looks on the Konoha ninja. "Yeah, sorry about him."

The one with the sucker in his mouth stepped forward, "Hello, My name is Omoi….OH SHIT! I FORGOT TO EAT BREAKFAST! If the Raikage hears about this, then I will be in the tank!"

While he was rambling, the red head wacked him in the head. "I am sorry, but he is a bit insane. I am Karui, nice to meet you." She said, giving Naruto a wink, who just rose an eyebrow.

"I am Samui." The blond haired girl said simply.

Naruto nodded before he looked to Yugito and Killer Bee. These two were like the other demon containers as he could just tell they were the last two he was searching for. He pointed to the two and said, "When you are done talking with the old man, come find me. I need to ask you something."

"Um….ok. We will find you then." Yugito said a little suspicious of the young blond.

"Thanks." Naruto said as he and the girls walked off.

Sunset…

After Naruto had gotten away from the girls, he was now on the fourth's head, thinking on how he should approach this with the two final demon containers. Fu, Amaru, and Gaara had been easy to change. He was not sure if cloud would like this. Soon he heard footsteps behind him. He smirked and said, "Was it hard finding me?"

"Nope, now can you tell us what this was about as he asked the Hokage and he just shrugged." Yugito said.

"Alright I will get straight to the point, I am Konoha's Shinigami and I have an offer for you."

"What is that?" Killer Bee said in all seriousness as he had a lot of thing about him and thought he was older.

"I know what you two are as I was one myself before I gained my bloodlines. I was the demon container for the Kyuubi and my offer for you is to gain a greater power then the bijuu. I only asked that when the time comes, you join me later on." Naruto said as he saw their confused expressions, he explained his story to them and what he was planning on doing.

After everything, Killer Bee laughed and said, "You know, the Raikage asked me to find you and help you in any way I can because he has an interest in you. But to be honest, I thought you were going to be older."

Naruto face palmed himself at that and said, "You do you want this?"

"I guess so." Killer Bee announced.

"Nibi is telling me to do this as well and the reign of the bijuu is over." Yugito said with a sad smile.

"Right." Naruto said as he began to put seals on for them. This was going to be a long night.

Two days later…

After their team meeting, which consisted of getting told they were going to be in the chunin exams and then they got the rest of the day off, they were not in front of the academy were the first part of the chunin exams were going to be held. They had to go to the third floor for their exams but when they entered the second floor, Naruto could not help but smirk as Lee and his team where faking being weak and weeding out the weaklings.

So Naruto and his team passed that floor and continue til they got the main room. Once inside, Naruto saw that the room was full of ninja from all over, hell some Iwa ninja were here! He didn't really know anyone from Iwa but he saw Killer Bee's team, Fu's team, and Gaara's as well.

They all nodded to him and after a few minutes, Team 7 came in. That was when the chaos started. Teams 8 and 10 came in and started talk loudly. Naruto sighed as he walked over to them. "So, all the rookies are here."

"Got that right! You and your team are here means that this is a true party!" Kiba yelled.

"Hey, keep it down!" called a teenaged boy with white hair and glasses.

"And you are?" Sora asked from next to Naruto.

"Ah, how rude of me. My name is Kabuto. Now, the reason you should keep it down is because, there are a lot of stressed out ninja and you have captured their attention." He said. The rookie genin looked around the room to see everyone staring at them. "Tell you what, I will help you out by showing you my ninja cards. They hold information on any ninja in this exam."

Sasuke, seeing this as a good time to ask for the heck of it asks, "Got anything on Naruto Uzumaki?"

Naruto rose an eyebrow at this and said, "Curious still?"

"Oh? That is fine." Kabuto said as he took out a card from his pocket. The only thing is that it was blank. He then added chakra to it and information appeared on it. "Let's see. Naruto Uzumaki is a genin of Konoha and is known as Konoha's Shinigami." At this a lot of people's jaws dropped at that a kid was the Shinigami! "Anyway, he is teammate with Sora and Amaru. He has been on all the required D ranked missions, 2 C ranks that have gone up to A ranks and a few B ranks. He has the power to defeat Hollows and he has beaten up to Menos Grande."

There was total silence before Ibiki appeared in the room with a lot of other proctors. "Alright, sit down and shut up. It is time for the exams. (Ok…I find this part of the exams boring as hell so I will skip to the end of it when Anko makes her entrance.)

"You all….pass." Ibiki said. There were cries of confusion and outrage but before he could answer them, a black ball crashed through the window. It opened up to reveal a cloth that said 'The sexy Anko is here!' with her standing before it. "Anko…you're early again."

"So." Anko pouted as she looked to see that damage this year. "Eh? Ibiki, are you losing your touch? There is still way to many people here!"

"Well, these are better than I expected." Ibiki shrugged.

Naruto was sweating bullets. Anko was a good person and all but she was scary as HELL! She seemed to like to train him a little too hard but she went easy on Amaru and Sora. Hell, Sora had a crush on her!

Anko smirked when she saw Naruto and said, "Well, I guess I know why so many passed. The Shinigami probably gave them some…courage." As she said this, she walked right up to the blond's desk. She then leaned in and smirked. "How ya doing brat?"

"Eh…..I am d-doing fine A-anko-sensei." Naruto stuttered out much to the shock of the other ninja taking the test.

"Oh GOOD! Now my exam can torture you now!" Anko announced with a crazy smile. "Now, you know were the forest of death is right." A nod "Good, now let's go…." She then gave an evil smirked and send her snakes at the blond just as he got up to leave.

"Ah!" Naruto yelled as he jumped out the window with Anko and her snakes hot on Naruto's trail. "NOT THE BALLS!"

The room full of ninjas all sweatdropped at this. "We're doomed." said a random genin.

"I know….isn't she great." Sora said aloud, making everyone look at him in shock.

"You have problems." Gaara said, walking out the door with the rest of the genin.

Forest of the Death Gates…

Once everyone was there, Anko stopped trying to kill Naruto with her snakes and announced the rules of the test. "Ok, all you have to do is get to the Tower in the middle on the area with both scrolls and you pass. Oh and you got five days. So….don't die!" She said the last part in a sing song voice, making everyone uncomfortable.

So, after everyone, signed their wavers of death and got their scroll, they each headed to an entrance, waiting for the signal to go. Along the way to their gate, Naruto and his team said good luck to the rookies, Fu's and Gaara's teams.

"READY? SET! GO!" Anko announced as the gates all opened and everyone rushed in.

Naruto, Amaru, and Sora were a good half a mile in when they decided to rest for a bit and wait if anyone came to them. "So Sora…..i gotta know, why do you like Anko-sensei so much?"

"Hmmm….i guess I am attracted to her personality. She may act crazy most of the time, but I am sure she has a whole different side to her." Sora said.

"And the fact that she barely wears any clothes adds into that I bet." Amaru smirked.

Naruto laughed at Sora's flabbergasted look before they heard a noise. They knew someone was watching them but stay in their conversation to lure them in. "Man, didn't you like the crazy ladies."

"This coming from the guy who has three girlfriends." Sora deadpanned. "My only problem is that I don't know how to ask her out."

Whatever Naruto was going to say was forgotten as a kunai came right at him and he caught it right before it hit him in the head.

"So, you are Konoha's Shinigami….i can't wait to beat you!" called out a heave set teen with a giant hammer. He had on brown pants and a brown shirt. His head band was on his 'belt' and it showed off that he was from Iwa.

His two teammates appeared on the scene, both with excited smirks. One was a white haired girl, who was eyeing Naruto, She had a black tank top on with a pair of black shorts. Her weapon of choice was a lance with a very sharp blade on the end. The last one was weak look guy with glasses, red hair with black spikes, a red shirt and black pants. He had no weapon on him.

"Now, I may not have a grudge on Konoha, but I do want to fight you after when the Tsushikage talked about you!" The fat kid said. "And I know we have the opposite scroll from you so…let's make this a good fight."

"Alright then man." Naruto said as he got into a loose fighting stance, not adding an element yet.

The two members of the Iwa team then rushed Amaru and Sora respectively. The fat kid however just walked over to Naruto with a smirk. "Name's Carl!" He said before bringing up his hammer before slamming it down where Naruto once was, where a large crater was now.

"Well, nice to meet you Carl. You have slammed some attention into me so I will take this seriously." Naruto said from a few feet behind him, getting into his Fist of the Living Mountain style. Of course nothing really happened….yet.

"I am not familiar with that style, but it does not matter, you are going down!" Carl charged at Naruto.

"Sorry to hear that….you should." Naruto said as he ducked from a swing of the hammer. He took that as an advantage and punched upward, planting a fist in the teen's face but Carl was unprepared for the earth to shake and giant fist came out of the ground and sent him flying out of the forest. A small scroll dropped next to Naruto and he smirked.

Amaru's fight….back to the beginning…

"You have a cute boyfriend there. Maybe when I done with you, I might get him." The white haired girl smirked.

"Doubt it." Amaru frowned as she then charged the girl when she did the same. "What is your name anyway?"

"Dana!" yelled as she swung her lance downward, but Amaru rolled out of the way just in time.

"I am Amaru." The orangish haired girl said as she got behind Dana and punched her in the back, in the lower spinal area.

Dana winced in pain but quickly got out of the way so she could get Amaru back. "Damn….that freaking hurt!" She growled and started spinning her lance a little too fast for Amaru to see. Amaru smirked when Dana suddenly stopped as her back was now killer her. "What did you do?"

"I hit you central nerve system but it did not take effect right away." Amaru said as she ran right up to the girl and with a glowing green hand, temporarily disabled her arms. At that exact moment, Carl was sent flying. Dana quickly picked up her lance with her mouth and ran after her teammate, knowing that her battle was lose the moment she lost control of her arms.

Sora's battle…beginning…

Sora eyed his opponent warily. He may look weak but he was sure the kid had a trick up his sleeve. "I am Sora."

"And I am Max." The boy spoke. "This is where you lose Sora! Earth Style: Armor of Earth!" Max was quickly covered in medieval style armor from the earth. After that he rushed Sora, surprising the monk with his speed.

Damn…this guy had speed and strength with his defence. There has got to be a weakness! Sora thought as he dodged the best he could. He got blast back right as he hit a normal human weak point. He got back and noticed that Max looked a little rattled at this. Smirking, the monk capitalized on this and struck every normal human weak point there was and watched in satisfaction as the armor crumbled to the ground.

Max had that deer in the head lights look before he noticed Carl get sent flying away. He started sweating profusely at then and started running for his life, yelling out, "Bye!"

Sora smirked as he and Amaru walked over to Naruto who was now holding the scroll that they needed. "That was easy!" Naruto said.

"Yeah, now let's get to the tower." Sora said. Naruto nodded and they took off.

Halfway there, they felt an enormous amount of killer intent, but it was not directed at them. So, doing the dumb thing, they decide to see what was up. What they saw creeped them out as it was Orochimaru, who was toying with team 7. Infact, they were doing horrible. Sakura was frozen in terror, Saiwas leaning against a tree for support as he looked severely winded. Sasuke was the worst. He had a look of pure terror on his face and he had a few stab wounds.

"Ku ku ku….Sasuke, you will be the perfect vessel." Orochimaru chuckled as he performed some hand signs and his neck stretched out so that he could get to Sasuke. Right as the snake bit the Uchiha on the neck, Naruto made his move and cut cleanly through the snake man's neck. Orochimaru's face contorted into shock and stayed there.

Naruto took the head and sealed it into a scroll for later. He then went to the body while Sora and Amaru when to check on the condition of team 7. Naruto drew a seal on the body and took out a scroll. He add chakra to the seal and the body glowed for a second before the scroll suddenly had a lot of writing in it. After that, it disintegrated into nothing, only leaving the scroll he swallowed before. He pocketed the scroll he made and walked over to Sakura with the other one. "Here, don't lose this next time."

"Thanks, but he bit Sasuke!" Sakura freaked.

While Amaru was healing Sai, Naruto and Sora went to the Uchiha who was passed out. He took one look at the seal and grimaced. "Curse seal….just like Anko. This should be easy to take off."

"Yeah…considering you got Anko's off."

"And what did that get me? A suffocating hug and her snakes coming after me?" Naruto said as he begun his work.

"I think that is how she thanks you." Sora said with a dreamy look.

"Thanks for helping us." Sai said as he and Amaru came up to watch.

Naruto nodded and while he was working he asked, "Sai, I need to ask you a favor…it is about your dad…" Sai nodded and explained what he needed.

Meanwhile, the spirit of Orochimaru was freaking out. "WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT I WOULD DIE IN THE FOREST OF DEATH!"

"Calm down my snake like friend." A woman's voice called out.

"Who is there?" Orochimaru yelled until he saw a very hot snake like woman. She had roman like clothes on with a single snake shaped scale made out of bone on her left cheek.

"I am Culebra(snake). I wish to offer to a deal." The snake woman replied.

"*sigh* not like I have a choice right now."

"Good. Then follow me." The woman said as she wave her hand and a black portal opened up and she walked in. Sighing once more Orochimaru walked in with her.

The chunin exams are HERE! Next chapter will have more fights so don't worry. Review!