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The combatants yelled at each other as they charged. Naruto swung at Orochimaru's head, only for him to duck and land a punch to Naruto's stomach. The hit sent Naruto flying into a tree. Dust rose as the sound of cracking wood filled the clearing. Suddenly, Naruto jumped from the tree, swinging the kingdom key like a baseball bat. Again Orochimaru dodged and sent the cloaked Genin into a tree.
"Surly, a Keyblade Master could do better?"
Suddenly, a red blur jumped from the smoke-screen-like dust. It landed to show Naruto, his cloak red, and in each hand, he held a Keyblade. "I do, when I fight with Valor." Naruto began swinging the Kingdom Key and Oathbreaker in the most impressive sword dance the gathered Genin had ever seen. Then Naruto attacked. Orochimaru, like before, dodged, only to be hit with Oathbreaker's pointed key, cutting small slashes in his cheeks. Before Orochimaru could react, Naruto attacked again, giving the snake Sanin a three hit combo that ended in thrusting the two Keyblades into Orochimaru's stomach. Orochimaru was pushed back a couple of feet.
"Impressive." The snake sanin said, as he drew a kunai.
Naruto charged, Orochimaru decided to meet him head on. Just when they were about to collide, Naruto jumped over the Sanin. When he landed, he quickly launched a "Firaga!" spell.
"Doton: Doryuu Heki!" Orochimaru yelled, spitting mud in front of him to create an earth wall. The huge fire ball Naruto made glanced off harmlessly.
"Time for an upgrade," Naruto said with a smirk. Suddenly, Oathbreaker was gone and his cloak changed from red to blue.
"Oh, a costume change, I'm so scared." Orochimaru taunted.
"As you should be." Naruto said before rushing Orochimaru.
The snake's eyes widened as he saw the blue blur approach him. He barely got out of the way in time, as a mighty wind rushed past. He turned just in time to see thousands of tiny grey spheres fly at him. He dodged all but one. "Ahg!" Orochimaru cried where the silver ball hit his arm, leaving a burning pain in his shoulder. "Ku, ku, ku," Orochimaru laughed, "You are a worthy opponent, I shall not underestimate you next time."
"Who said there'd be a next time?" Naruto said as they began circling each other.
"Well, normally, I'd take you up on that, but this time, I afraid I can't." He said, a smile on his face, suddenly he began to make hand signs. Naruto charged him. "Nan Kaizou!" Orochimaru's arm suddenly extended and rammed the charging Naruto in the face, knocking him out cold. Before any could move, Orochimaru's neck also stretched, and the head flew toward the Genin. Suddenly, Sasuke's neck exploded in pain. As it suddenly registered that Orochimaru had bitten it. Quickly, the snake retracted, and then he disappeared, leaving two team mates with two unconscious ones.
"Oh, what happened?" Naruto said as he awoke on the cold stain glass floor.
"Your wisdom form failed to give you enough wisdom to know to never charge a man while he's performing a jutsu." Kyuubi said anger in his voice.
"I thought I should try and stop him."
"You thought wrong."
"Yes, Kyuubi sensei."
"You are very wise to make the change, however. Wisdom form bullets drain chakra. He would have been able to take Haku and Hinata if you had not shot him."
"I didn't know that wisdom bullets drained chakra."
"Then you were very lucky to make the change."
"So Orochimaru's gone?"
"Yes, he left after biting Sasuke's neck."
"He did what?"
"Orochimaru bit Sasuke's neck so that a curse seal would be placed there."
"Is that a good thing or a bad thing? In the long run?"
"A bad thing. But you have two months before things become drastic, so I would recommend not removing it for a while."
"Ok. So when am I going to wake up?"
"In an hour, until then, I want to talk to you."
"About what?"
"Your life mission."
"Yes, Kyuubi sensei."
"Especially the Kairi part."
Things got really awkward for a moment, so we will simply leave them for now.
Hinata and Haku were able to find a good shelter, not far from a large lake. They were able to piggyback their teammates over there, Hinata blushing all the way for carrying Naurto, and were able to lay them down in shelter. "If I ever catch that snake, he'll have hell to pay!" Haku said as he paced.
"H-Haku, I appreciate your c-concern over your teammates, but we need to make sure that they'll b-be ok, so stop p-pacing and help me."
Haku sat down next to his teammates and began looking them over while Hinata checked their chakra flow with her Byakugan.
"Naruto seems to be fine. How's his flow?"
"I-it remains unhindered."
"Good, now let's check the teme." As they began looking him over, they both knew something was wrong. "He's burning up."
"And his chakra is fluctuating crazily."
They immediately began to tend to the sick Uchiha, Hinata holding a wet cloth to his head, while Haku went to look for herbs that could help the poor boy. When Haku returned, he took a small leafy plant, and boiled in a small pot. After several minutes, Haku turned to Hinata, "Tilt his head forward." He ordered. When Hinata had done so, Haku carefully poured the hot liquid into Sasuke's mouth.
As soon as the liquid touched his tongue, Sasuke began to spit the liquid out. Before most of it was out of his mouth, Haku closed the Uchiha's lips tight.
"It may taste horrible, but it's good for you." Haku spoke to the unconscious body.
Finally Haku was satisfied that he had had enough, and let him rest.
Suddenly a rustle was heard in the bushes. Haku quickly pulled out a senbon, and Hinata got into her Jyuuken stance. Suddnely, a head of pink hair popped out of the bush, followed by that of the rest of team eight. "What's going on here?" Sakura asked, then she noticed the sleeping form of her crush and began to bombard the remains of team seven with questions. "What happened to Sasuke-kun? Why are you here? Why aren't you helping him? What is going on here? Is Sasuke dead?" The last question was accompanied with worry.
"He's fine, relax." Haku said before Sakura began going rabid. "He's just a little tired, we made an ambush, but it didn't turn out so great."
Sakura seemed to buy it but she was slightly skeptical, after all, it would have to be pretty powerful to take out her Sasuke.
"However, your intrusion did bring up an important issue." Haku pulled out some senbons and Ninja wire, "How good are you guys at making traps?"
The Sound team slowly and silently crept up to the clearing. They were on a top priority mission from the Otokage; draw out Sasuke's curse mark. They had tracked Sasuke's team to a large clearing. When they arrived at the edge of the clearing, they were surprised to see two teams at the small cave created by the roots of a large tree. Zaku cursed, "Great, two teams now, that's four enemies, they out number us."
"It's five, nimrod." Kin said, insulting her teammate.
"Whatever, the point is we're out numbered."
"I don't care if were outnumbered ten to one, we have a mission, so we're going to finish it." Dosu told the two of them, harshly.
Kin and Zaku quit their bickering for now, and they made their way to into the clearing cautiously.
Suddenly, a pink haired girl looked over at them, "Sound nins!" She cried, before pulling out a kunai. She was quickly accompanied by two boys and two girls. One of the boys wore a big trench coat which covered his face and sunglasses; the other boy wore a large hoodie and was accompanied by a little white dog. One of the girls was wearing a grey sweatshirt which had a small flame on the shoulders. The other wore black pants, and a black shirt with a red vest.
Suddenly the girl in the red vest began making handsigns, "Hyouton: Sensatsu Suishou!" Suddenly, some of the water in the nearby lake launched from the surface, and froze as thousands of senbons.
Quickly, Zaku held out his hands "Zankuuha!" Suddenly, a huge blast of wind threw the icy weapons to the side. The sound nins renewed their assault. Suddenly, Kin tripped, and a groaning sound came from the right, they turned to see a huge log swinging towards them. Suddenly Dosu threw his arm up towards the log, "Kyoumeisen!" The log splintered.
"AAARRGGHH!" Kiba yelled, holding his ears. Akamaru whimpered.
Suddnely the Oto nins were upon them, Hinata was able to engage Dosu for half a minute before, Dosu was able to knock her out. Zaku had blown Shino out of the clearing, and was engaging Haku, "Normally I don't hit girls."
"That's fine," Haku said before punching him in the face, "I'm a guy."
Kin had Sakura soundly beat and was now holding her by the hair. "That's just sad." She said, taunting the pink-haired kunoichi, "You're supposed to be a ninja, not some pushover fashion model. Or do you even know the difference, Pinky?" She slapped her, hard.
Zaku had Haku pinned under some improvised handcuffs, and came over to Dosu's prey.
"You are so pathetic," Kin continued, "Seriously, you are dirt in the ninja world." She slapper her again, using her fingernails to cut her cheek.
Meanwhile, Zaku stood over the unconscious body of Hinata. "Stupid Hyuuga." He said before giving her a swift kick to the side. Suddenly, two chakras flared with malice and killing intent. It was aimed at two very unfortunate Genin.
They turned to see Sasuke; black, flame-like patterns covered his face and body. By his side was Naruto, bent over like an animal. In one of his hands was the Fox Tooth Keyblade.
"Who did this?" Sasuke said.
"Who do you think did it, idiot?" Zaku said, showing his IQ to be below 50.
Naruto growled a low, feral growl. Kiba was coming around, and Shino had just returned to the clearing. Suddenly, Naruto raised his Keyblade, and brought its key into the ground. The ground cracked and split, creating a fissure that headed for Zaku.
"Then you'll be the first to go, loudmouth." Sasuke said.
The fissure began widening until it was well over six feet wide. Sasuke rushed him, throwing the ninja off balance and into the fissure.
As Zaku hung for his life on the edge, Naruto was using magic "Terra!" he said, and the fissure began to close.
Zaku, seeing his predicament, began struggling to get out. He was able to save his life, at the cost of his foot, which was pulverized as the two earth plates joined back together. Suddenly Sasuke was on him, "You seem to like your arms." He grabbed both wrists and pulled them back behind the ninja's back, until they both broke with a sickening crack.
Sakura, cutting her hair to get out of Kin's grasp, ran to Sasuke, "Stop it, stop it please." Slowly, the black flame marks receded. And Sasuke returned to normal.
Naruto Ran to Hinata and began looking her over, relieved that she was fine.
Dosu looked at this and, having the most brains of the team, surrendered. "Please, take this," he said, placing their heaven scroll on the ground. He grabbed Kin, and the beaten and (luckily for him) unconscious Zaku and left the clearing.
Naruto calmed down enough to be rational, and he turned to Kiba, who had just finished freeing Haku. "Take the scroll." He told them.
After reassuring Sakura that Sasuke was fine, they left with the scroll, leaving Haku, Sasuke, Naruto, and Hinata.
After waking the bruised Hyuuga, team seven headed for the center of the forest. They made a quick trap and got possession of an Earth scroll. They quickly made it into the tower where Iruka debriefed them. They met up with Kakashi, and Haku told him about the meeting with Orochimaru and the seal that Orochimaru put on Sasuke. "Hm, this is not good. I can help, but-."
Suddenly the Hokage's voice rang out, "You're attention please." Then he began a long winded speech on how the Chuunin exams discourage war, promote peace, and so on and so forth. "However, there are too many of you, so if any of you wish to leave, do so now."
"We would like to leave." Two voices said from the back, revealing them to be Kabuto and one of his teammates.
"You may go."
The two left, leaving the rest ready to go.
"We will now have one-on-one matches to determine the eligible participants for the Chuunin exams."
"Then what have we been doing?" a voice said.
"Preliminary matches. Now before any more questions come up, our first match will be…" the Hokage turned to a large computer screen which read 'Sasuke Uchiha vs. Yoroi Akadou' "…Sasuke and Yoroi."
Kakashi silently cursed the computer, and hoped that Sasuke wouldn't run out of Chakra too soon.
Sasuke stood, eyeing the man in front of him. Finally he shrugged, and pulled out two kunai.
Yoroi grinned behind his veil. "This will be too easy."
The match began and Sasuke, being the almighty Uchiha he was put his best foot forward and his best kunai too. After engaging Yoroi in a taijustu battle, Sasuke began feeling weak.
Yoroi noticed, "Feeling weak, Sasuke?"
"What are you babbling about?"
"I have a special ability that allows me to suck up one's chakra."
"Is that so?" Sasuke said.
"'Is that so?' are we on the same page here?"
Suddenly he got a haymaker to the chin, then a quick punch to the gut. Sasuke then grabbed Yoroi's head gear and brought his nose to his own rising knee. Out cold.
"Winner: Sasuke." A sickly man said, the protector of the match, Naruto missed his name. Sasuke was panting hard, when Kakashi took him away to some unknown place.
The matches went by; some were long, drawn out wins while others seemed short and quick. Finally the next match came up "Haku vs. Kankurou."
"Finally," Haku said, he been itching for a good fight, and now he was going to get it. He jumped over the rail, gracefully, and landed on his toes. Kankurou didn't even try. "All right show me what you've got."
"Begin." The sickly man said.
"I would but I don't hit girls." Kankurou said.
Suddenly two senbons pierced his arms. "Good thing I'm a guy." Haku said.
Kakashi came back, just in time to see the match begin. "Hey, did you miss me?"
"Not now, Cyclops, I watching Haku fight."
Haku was dodging Kankurou's D-rank attacks, and was throwing senbons into him with expert ease. As he was going around, he noticed that Kankurou wasn't slowing down. He took note of this
"Stop moving!" the sand nin growled. Suddenly, kunai launched toward Haku, who again, dodged with the grace of a ballerina.
And he kept dodging, while slowly getting closer. Kankurou was too annoyed to notice until Haku was right on top of him. Suddenly, he got a kick to the gut, and then to the nuts, then the head, and then using an amazingly grace back flip, landed behind the sand nin, and yanked off the large package on his back. Haku looked down at the package, and saw three long chakra strings heading to Kankurou.
"I knew it." Haku said before landing the package a hard punch near the top. Kankurou fell like a bag of rocks, and the package in Haku's hands went limp.
"Game! Winner: Haku!"
Haku bowed low, reveling in the praise. "Thank you, thank you, I'll be here all week."
Naruto rolled his eyes.
When Haku came back up, Kakashi asked how he knew Kankurou was a puppet. "Quiet simple, Kakashi-sensei, He didn't bleed, nor did he tire, and those senbons I had were laced with a poison that amplifies pain one hundred fold, if he was in pain, everyone in this room would have know it."
"Good, then how did you know the package was the real Kankurou?"
"Well, after figureing out that Kankurou was a puppet, I simply had to figure out where the real one could be, he would have had to have been hiding since we entered the tower, since he was in everyone's company at the time. So he had to be in an inconspicuous place, and he had to be near his puppet, the best place to do that would then be the package."
"Excellent observations, Haku."
"Oh, it was nothing."
"Nothing, whatever." Naruto said, "You had it all planned out the second you were called to the floor."
The next matches came and went: Temari and Kiba, Temari won, Ino and Sakura, tie, Chouji and Dosu, Dosu. Then the next names came up on the screen, 'Naruto Uzumaki vs. Tenten.'
"All right!" Naruto yelled before teleporting to the arena floor. In a moment, Tenten joined him.
"You may begin." The match protector said between coughs.
"This is going to be fun." Tenten said, drawing kunai.
"I wholeheartedly agree with you." Naruto said, his Keyblade flashing into existance. The second he did, gasps were heard all over the audience. Each gasp came from the jounin. "A Keybade? Those don't exist!"
Suddenly, a voice echoed through the arena "Tenten! Back down!" Tenten turned in surprise to see her sensei, "Do not face him, back down!" Tenten was shocked, as were the rest of her team, "You are not nearly youthful enough to face him!"
Tenten decided to ignore him, it was very hard for her to take anyone seriously when they go on and on about youth, truth and justice. "He couldn't possibly be that tough."
"Don't worry." Naruto said to the worried sensei, "I promise to bring her back in one piece."
"I'm going to break your bones!"
"You couldn't even break wind."
Tenten didn't know how to respond to that, so she simply attacked Naruto. Naruto looked up at her, "Areo." Suddenly, a shield of wind came between Naruto and the kunoichi, and as soon as she hit it, she went flying to the wall. She hit it hard, but came back, throwing kunai, which also hit the air shield and bounced off. "I'm getting bored here, Tenten, surely you could do better?" Naruto said, as the air shield dropped.
She pulled out a scroll, and, after pumping chakra into it, a mourning star appeared in its place. She began spinning it over her head, and at the last second threw it. As it approached Naruto he simply raised the Keyblade, and swatted it to the side as if it were a fly.
Tenten's mouth dropped open, as did that of all the other viewers except those of Garaa, who kept looking cool and collected, but was silently feeling uneasy, Neji, who was not at all impressed, and Shino, who was being Shino.
"Now, it's my turn." Naruto said, he pointed the tip of the Keybalde at her, "Blizzaga!" She dodged just enough to keep herself from being totally frozen, at the cost of her arm. "Blizzaga!" He yelled again, catching her other arm, and freezing it solid. "Afterwards, I suggest a lot of blankets and hot chocolate." Naruto said before one more "Blizzaga!" froze her torso.
"Game! Winner: Naruto Uzumaki."
Naruto teleported back to the catwalk stands, where Haku, Hinata, and Kakashi congrajulated him on a good match, while medic nins armed with heaters attended to Tenten.
After she had been taken off the field, sneezing up a storm, the computer was asked for the next match.
"Well, well." A boy said, not ten feet away from where Naruto was standing, Naruto recognized him as the Hyuuga who was using his Byakugan to cheat the first exam. "Looks like fate has played into my favor." Naruto turned to the computer screen, 'Neji Hyuuga vs. Hinata Hyuuga' Naruto blinked, this was Neji? Hinata's cousin who was such a fate-obsessed pain? The Neji who's father went in place of Hiashi in order to appease Kumo?
Naruto got a bad feeling about this.
Hinata
and Neji stood on the field. "You are actually going to fight me?" He said, unimpressed, "why bother, fate has dictated that I am to win."
and Neji stood on the field. "You are actually going to fight me?" He said, unimpressed, "why bother, fate has dictated that I am to win."
and Neji stood on the field. "You are actually going to fight me?" He said, unimpressed, "why bother, fate has dictated that I am to win.""Oh, shut up." Naruto yelled from the balcony.
"Stay out of this, Uzumaki, this is Hyuuga matter." Neji growled. He turned back to Hinata "Do you want to know why I know fate is on my side, Hinata?"
She didn't answer.
"Because you are a loser. You were born a loser, you will die a loser."
Naruto wanted to go down there and slap him.
"A loser will alsways be a loser, he can be no more. No one can change his stars. So you will lose today, tomorrow and all the days of your life. You are weak, pathetic and useless. It's a wonder you lived through the first part of the exams."
Hinata's head dropped.
"Hinata!" Naruto yelled, she didn't even look up, "Hinata, look at me!" This time, she raised her head a little. "Don't you listen to a single word of that bull." He said, "You are the strongest person I know."
Hinata was shocked at that, "I'm the strongest person he knows?"
"Your heart shines so bright, that the sun itself is put to shame, and that's were strength comes from, the heart. No strength on this earth can face the strength of a strong heart."
"Pfft, that is the saddest thing I'v heard." Neji said, "A heart is an organ that pumps blood, strength can't come from a heart."
"No, Neji. It does." Hinata said, staring him in the eye, "I know it does, because I know of a man who lived in another world, his heart saved the w-worlds and all that was in them."
"And he was the greatest man who ever lived." Naruto finished, "Now show your cousin what it means to have a strong heart."
"You may begin." The protector said, and Hinata slipped into her Jyuuken stance and activated her Byakugan.
"So you are going to fight me?" Naji asked, "Very well, but I am not responcible for what will happen from here on out."
He also slipped into his Jyuuken stance. Suddenly, Hinata charged, and began hitting Neji with all of her might. Neji easily blocked her strikes, until she tried to kick his head, as he dodged, Hinata broke her stance and rammed Neji's chest with her two palms.
"Yeah! Show'em who's boss!" Naruto yelled from the stands.
Hinata, encouraged by Naruto's cheering, began to fight harder.
Neji kept blocking Hinata's strikes, even though he was slowed by Hinata's double palm hit.
Suddenly, he landed a blow to her stomach, which sent her skidding to the opposite wall. She didn't stay down long, before, Neji could react, she was back up and launching strikes at her cousin. She suddenly lashed out, while Neji dodged and grabbed her wrist, he suddenly pulled her sleeve back to reveal her arm covered in chakra burns. Hinata stared wide eyed at him, "Y-you closed my tenketsu."
"Like I said, once a loser, always a loser." Naruto began pacing, something wasn't right, it made him angry and restless.
Neji suddenly launched a strike to Hinata's stomach. Which sent her skidding away towards the wall again. She held her arm to her stomach holding it as she doubled over in pain. Neji turned to the protector, "Call the match, she won't get up."
As soon as he said the words, Hinata's shaking leg found solid ground. She slowly began to get up. Blood trickled from the right the corner of her mouth, her left cheek was swelling, but her eyes seemed to hold a fire that would not die. "I will not give up." She said. It made Naruto proud.
"Game! Winner: Neji."
Neji didn't hear him, he powered up a strike and charged the weakened Hyuuga.
"Game!" The protector called again.
Neji ignored him, coming in for the kill. Suddenly, something was in his way, it hit him twice in the stomach, and finished with an uppercut that caught him in the chin. He landed, to see Naruto standing, in his way. "He said the match was called." He seethed.
A moan sounded behind Naruto and he turned to catch a fainting Hinata. He then raised his Keyblade to the sky, "Curaga!" Hinata was covered in a green aura as bells flaoted above her.
She opened her eyes, "N-Naruto."
Naruto held her cheek, "Shh. Shh, go to sleep…" She closed her eyes, "…my angel…" Naruto finished, wiping the blood from her face.
"Aw, how cute, a loser has a crush on a loser." Neji said.
Naruto stood, and unleashed a killier intent that froze Neji where he stood. Naruto turned, and glared at Neji with ice-cold eyes. "You better hope that I will not face you in battle, Neji. For if we do fight, I promise you, on my Keyblade and on my Honor, I will beat you into the ground."
Naruto got home that night, eager waiting the month to pass by, so Hinata could be avenged. He stepped into his bedroom, and took off his cloak. He had one month to train, and get stronger, Naruto was going to take full advantage of it, there was only one problem, who could train him right? Kyuubi was good, but sometimes you need a physical being to help you. As soon as the thought left his mind, a voice sounded from behind him, "Hello, Naruto." Naruto turned, Keyblade shimmering in hand, when two figures in black New Organization cloaks stepped forward. "I hear you have a month." One said, pulling his hood back to reveal the face of a man Naruto had only seen in Sora's memories, Squall Leonhart.
"And that means we have a lot of work to do." Another voice said, revealing the aged face of Yuffie.
Hinata was released from the hospital that night, and she came to her room, to find a robed woman sitting on her bed. "W-who are you?"
The woman smiled, "My name is Kairi, and I have a gift for you."
Sasuke was staring into the darkness. He stood in front of himself, watching his onyx eyes. Suddenly, a black hand, blacker than the surrounding darkness grabbed the Sasuke in front of him. "You are mine now!"
Sasuke woke with a start, and, looking around, began to calm. Just another dream.
Alright! Another Chapter is down! Next Chapter, Naruto learns the Rasengan, and fights for something that makes his heart shine.