Disclamer: If I actually owned Naruto, he would be a badass in the cannon. The Ocs I do own ARE badass.
Okay.. so I need a vote from all you guys... This pertains to the three year training trip with Jiraiya and Naruto.
There are three choices.
One, Naruto and Jiraiya go on a training trip, and we time skip to the end of it.
Two, Naruto and Jiraiya go on a training trip, and we watch his progress along the trip.
Three, Naruto doesn't go on a training trip with Jiraiya, and he trains at home, but for three years. This will be a time skip.
The explanation for each choice in detail is at the head of chapter 12.
The choices will be on a poll at the top of my profile. If you have not voted yet, please do so. If you don't want to vote, then don't. It's your choice.
The poll will close once I get the last chuunin exam chapter up, which wont be for a couple of chapters. Maybe even three or four, depending on how long I drag out the prelim battles... Speaking of, I still need to do those...
Now, here's a confirmation to worried reviews and PMers.... NO CURSE SEAL FOR NARUTO! God, I hate that dinky little hickey. Oh, and I know some of you people are going to complain about it, but I hated the forest... too much Orochidickhead stink in it...
Now, on to the fic...
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Chapter 13: Lucky Number
"Everyone in their places?" Anko yelled out. She got a confirmation message from all the jounin at each gate. "BEGIN!"
The gates flew open, and all the teams ran into the forest, in hopes of getting a head start.
About 3 minutes later, team 8 stops on a tree limb.
Naruto let his seventh sense out. He's practiced it for a while now, and he's loved it. He created a few clones to search the perimeter. Not high value clones; only at 20 percent.
Hinata activated her Byakugan.
Shino let his bugs out.
After about 2 minutes of looking through these various methods, Hinata spoke up. "I found a team about 100 meters north by northeast. Class is kiri nin. They have a heaven scroll. Exactly what we need."
"Thanks Hinata-chan." Naruto said. "Shino, can you surround them with your bugs?" Shino nodded.
Kina was perched around Naruto's neck, watching wearily for anything that might ambush them.
"Okay," Naruto said. He created a clone flawlessly, and then popped it. "My clones will be getting into position as well."
They moved slowly to their targets. Shino spoke quietly. "My kikai are in position. Waiting for your mark, Naruto-san."
"Good, Hinata-chan, if they somehow make it outside of our attack area, I want you to sneak around and get them. We'll try to chase them in your direction." Naruto whispered.
"Roger." Hinata whispered back.
Any usual talk between them had disappeared the moment they enter the gate. Right now, this was the deadliest team mindset they had. And for good reason. With 25 other teams out there, you have to be calm, collected, plan ahead, and most importantly, never panic. Kurenai had beat this into them.
The group moved closer, till they were all in view of the targets. Naruto pointed to Shino and Hinata, and told them to spread out using hand signals. They nodded, and moved into position.
The 'targets' were three kiri nin. They had decided to make a headquarters and spread out traps in the area. Unluckily for them, Naruto, one of the greatest pranksters in history, got rid of them in a pass around them. They couldn't even feel his presence. Hinata, being a Hyuuga, also saw the traps, and maneuvered around them as well. Shino got assistance from Naruto via Shino's bug on Naruto's shoulder.
Shino felt his kikai bug on Naruto's shoulder get the signal, which was a tap on the bug's body.
Suddenly, the three kiri's, who were looking over a map made in the dirt got thousands of bugs rained down upon them. None of them escaped.
Shino appeared in the area slowly, and walked up to the three prone bodies.
Amazingly, one was conscious. "H-how did yo-you get ar-around the traps?" has asked.
Shino just walked up to the nin, and kicked him in the head to knock him out.
Naruto went down to the small set up as well, keeping his senses on high alert. He searched the group for anything they might need, as well as the heaven scroll. He pulled out a slip of paper from the female of the group. It read, team 13 special trap squad. Naruto chuckled a little, and handed it to Shino.
"My lucky number." Naruto said, and then proceeded to tie the nins to a tree.
Shino didn't react to the paper, but quickly let his bugs go out to patrol the area. It took Naruto a couple of minutes, but he finally managed to get the nin's tied up.
He made a random signal in the air, and Hinata came down. She still had her Byakugan on. "Let's move, it's never good to sit still."
"Agreed," Shino said.
Naruto nodded, and created three 100 percent clones flawlessly. "Get on them. I want to leave this forest ASAP. I never liked it here. Hinata keep your Byakugan on; you're going to love this. Shino, you might want to close your eyes, or else you could get sick."
They nodded, and climbed onto the clone's. "Okay, guys. Just like step three of MK. Releasing gravity seals completely."
The clones nodded, and stood in a racing position facing the direction of the tower.
Kina braced herself against Naruto's body, and then used chakra to cling on.
'Kai!' The gravity seals released. Naruto gathered a large amount of chakra in his back and in his legs. Myaku!' Naruto said in his mind.
One moment there was four Naruto's, Shino and Hinata, with a Kina on the middle Naruto. The next, A big cloud of dust was in the air all around the clearing along with a bang sounding off in the distance. When the dust cleared, none of team 8 was there.
Two ANBU hopped down into the field right where they were. The ANBU looked around carefully. In the direction of the tower, several scratch marks were on the trees, along with a small trail of destroyed brush right under it. She followed the trail. Her partner followed closely behind.
The female ANBU didn't have a normal ANBU style. The mask was a white fox, and painted more viciously red then usual. She had dark red hair, and a white suit. Where a symbol was supposed to be, there was nothing. It was blank. She had no village.
The male ANBU had black hair, and the usual black attire for a Konohagakure. His mask was a black wolf, and his forehead had no village symbol either.
Nelrim blinked out of existence nearby with a smile on his face.
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Next to the tower.
The four Naruto's, Shino and Hinata appeared out of nowhere exactly 23 seconds after he took off. The dust barely settled down behind them, as Shino and Hinata caught their breath.
Hinata and Shino were let down, and Shino proceeded to throw up in a nearby bush. Hinata just sat down, catching her breath.
Pant. "That was..." pant. "Amazing." Hinata gasped. "I've never been so fast in my life."
Shino came back from the bush. "Naruto, as much as I respect you as a leader," he panted a little, "I am NEVER doing that again."
Naruto chuckled. "Don't worry, that was a one time deal." He walked towards the door. "Let's head in. Today's been kinda tense, and I bet you two could use some rest."
"You think?" Kina said. "You just used your fastest technique with them barely holding on."
Hinata nods, and shakily stood up. Naruto caught her as she was about to fall, and a blush adorned on her face. She nuzzled up to his chest almost unconsciously.
"Come on. You two don't look well." Naruto said. And ordered his clones to help Shino get inside.
Once they entered the door designated for gate 12, Hinata giggled a little. "I think..." she caught her breath. "I think we beat the record."
"Let's hope. The smaller the amount of time in that forest, the better." Naruto then shivered at the memories he had of being in Training ground 44. (This will be an omake at the end)
They then looked at the wall in front of them. On the wall, a board was hanging up. The board had words on it.
Naruto read it aloud. "If you do not posses heaven, then gain knowledge and be prepared. If you do not posses earth, run through the fields to seek strength. If you open both heaven and earth scrolls, dangerous paths turn into safe paths. This is the secret of the shinobi. It shall lead your way."
Hinata spoke up, "What do you think it means?"
"Determining the words and the test at hand," Shino started, "It is logical to assume that we can open the scrolls now."
Naruto nodded, and waved his hand over his leg. The two scrolls appeared from the seals. He handed one to Hinata. "Okay, let's try it out."
They opened the scroll at the same time. He felt chakra in the air, and read his scroll. "Oh, I get it. Put yours down on the ground, Hinata-chan."
She nodded, and placed it down. Naruto put his heaven on top of the earth. "Now let the magic happen." (1)
Smoke popped up onto the scrolls, and a voice rang out from inside it. "Congratulations."
The smoke cleared, and both Jiraiya and Iruka was standing there.
Iruka went up to Naruto. "Good job, Naruto." He patted the kid on his head. "I knew you could do it. Just not so fast."
"Yea, gaki. You broke.. no wrong word.. shattered.. no there are still itty bitty pieces... ah I got it, OBLITERATED the record time. Just 19 minutes and 53 seconds. The old record was 5 hours and 37 minutes. How the hell?! I knew you were fast, gaki, but I didn't know that fast!" Jiraiya was almost jumping up and down at this point. He calmed himself down. "So, how did your friends take the speed trip?" If you didn't know, the training grounds has a 10 Kilometer radius, giving it quite a run of a little more then 6 miles from start to finish. (actual fact, provided by narutopedia) Given that it doesn't have flat terrain, and that it has dangerous plants and animals as well as other teams to be aware of, that's quite a feat. (2)
Shino spoke up. "It was the scariest moment of my life. Every time we would just nearly miss a tree. And I what I mean by that, I think Naruto pushed off the trees somehow."
Naruto spoke up. "Yea, even with my enhanced vision, going that fast can make ya go tunnel, so I kinda used a technique to help not hit trees."
Hinata spoke up. "I was wondering why we always had a near miss, and that scratch marks were appearing on the trees when we passed them." Hinata walked right back up to Naruto. "But it was fun, I wanna do it again!"
Naruto laughed nervously. "Sure. Maybe after the exams."
"YAY!" Hinata yelled out, she then caught what she was doing, and blushed.
Shino then looked at Jiraiya. "Who are you?"
Jiraiya looked to Shin, and then Hinata. "What's with the hoods? I mean, I know about Aburame, and Naruto explained his, because he's a sage. What about the Hyuuga here?"
Hinata turned around to let the man see the back of her coat. He gasped.
"Wh... which contract?" Jiraiya asked.
"Cat... Now can you please answer our question?" Hinata asked, as she turned back around.
"Cat contract... A Hyuuga... No seal right on your head, right?"
She nodded.
'Seal?' Naruto asked mentally.
"I'll explain later." Kina thought back.
"You're Hyuuga Hinata. Clan heir of the Hyuuga clan, and you know Hiruka-sama." Jiraiya said.
"Actually, I'm her holder." Hinata said. "Now, about Shino's earlier question.. Who are you?"
"Oh? So you're number 2 then?" Jiriaya asked.
Now Iruka was thoroughly confused. "What are you talking about?"
"It's best to stay out of it, Iruka-sensei. Besides, it's her secret to tell." Shino said in return.
Hinata nodded. "Yes, I'm number 2."
Naruto sighed. "He's avoiding your question, because he doesn't want his position in the village revealed."
"What do you mean?" Hinata asked.
"He's Jiraiya of the Sannin." Naruto chuckled.
Both Shino and Hinata looked back at the old man. "It's a pleasure to meet you, sir." Hinata said.
Shino spoke up as well. "It's good to meet you."
Jiraiya sniffed. "See, Naruto? This is what respect is. You should take a page from their book."
"Nope." Naruto said flatly.
"Anyways," Jiraiya growled, "I'm Jiraiya of the sannin. I've come here to congratulate you on passing the second exam. Please keep the fact that I'm in the village a secret. Iruka here will show you where your rooms are. There's plenty of food for everyone, so eat up."
Shino spoke up, "What about that saying on the wall there? It does seem to have a deeper meaning then just for this exam."
Iruka and Jiraiya smiled. "I guess you are beginning to learn how to look underneath the underneath. Yes, this board here means much more then just about the scrolls. It talks about the way of survival. If you have astrong body, but no mind..." Iruka started.
"Then you will be defeated in an enemy trap, or outwitted in a simple game of kunai." Jiraiya finished. "However, the same applies for the other way around. If you are smart, but not strong..."
"Any enemy could get close, and kill you right out." Iruka finished for Jiraiya. "This is something all chuunin must learn if they are to survive. They have also been known to lead teams of fellow chuunin or teams of gennin. If you have both strength and mental power, your chances of survival rate will go up substantially. If you can lead well, then your team will do well."
Jiraiya then spoke up. "I learned a saying from my sensei a long time ago. A country of fools lead by one smart person will destroy a country of strong people lead by a fool. Think about that one."
"So," Naruto spoke up. "It's good to be physically strong, but without proper skills to back it up you could be outwitted?"
"That's one way of putting it." Jiraiya said.
"Another way to put it," Shino started, "is that you could have all the power in the world, but if you don't know how to use it, it would be useless."
Jiraiya smiled. "That's another way of putting it. Come on you three. Think harder."
Hinata spoke up. "I noticed you said a country. Put it in context of what we learned just now. The country could mean a body. A person. Fools could mean man power. So you have some strength, but not over powered. The smart person could be how much the brain has learned. The other country has only worked their body, and never their mind."
"Oh, so close." Jiraiya said. "Iruka-san, you want to tell them?"
"Hinata-san was close. I would tell you, but that would be beside the point. The point of this one is to learn how to think and ask questions. Come back to either me or Jiraiya-sempai here, and tell us when you think you have the answer." Iruka said. "Meanwhile, I'll be escorting you to your rooms."
"Is there a training ground as well?" Naruto asked hopefully.
"No, sorry. And you can't leave the tower either until the second exam is complete." Iruka said.
"Damn.... can I at least stand on top of the tower?"
"Yea, you can stand on the tower's roof. Just as long as you don't leave the tower's perimeter." Iruka said.
"Sweet." Naruto smiled a bit. He would have SOME fun while he was here.
Kina stayed quiet for now. Iruka was in the room, and he didn't exactly know about her.
"Come with me, and we'll get you to your rooms." The gang nodded.
Jiraiya suddenly spoke up, "I'll give you guys one last hint. A smart person never knows a dumb question. And, Naruto, could I talk to you for a bit?"
The group stopped, and looked to Naruto. "You guys go ahead. I'll catch up later." Naruto said. They nodded, and left the room through a door. "You needed me, Ero-ji-san?"
Jiraiya sighed. 'WHY WONT HE STOP CALLIMG ME THAT!?' "Naruto, did you release the chakra seal?"
Naruto shook his head. "No, why do you ask?"
Jiraiya's face grew a little dim. "So why do I feel a huge chakra source in the forest?" Jiraiya pondered. "Only a jounin can have that much.... It is darker then usual." Jiraiya's eyes go wide. "Shit." he looked back to Naruto. "You can go now. Rest up, and eat plenty. I have a feeling that there will be a preliminary match this time."
Naruto nodded, and left out the door.
Nelrim appeared in front of Jiraiya. "You sense him as well?"
"Yes, Orochimaru is here." Jiraiya said.
Nelrim nodded. "By the way, I saw something else interesting in the forest. I thought you'd like to know. One of your red eyed spies is in the forest, and he brought a swirling female friend."
Jiraiya looked at Nelrim with a serious face. "What did they wear?"
Nelrim smiled. "A lonely wolf and a bloody fox almost never travel together. And what's more, they were following team 8."
Jiraiya's eyes go wide. "Today just gets more and more interesting."
"Indeed."
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A few hours later.
Naruto was happily chucking down ramen. He had found packages in a box designated just for him. He didn't know who did it, but he loved every bite. (3)
Gaara walked in at that moment. "So, you passed as well. I heard you beat our time by a little more then an hour."
"Maybe." He slurped up a bunch more. "But you beat the old record as well. An hour and thirty seven minutes is nothing to scoff at."
"True." Gaara said. "I wonder, Uzumaki, how much I can prove my existence in killing you." To say that Gaara doesn't watch his surroundings will get you killed by him. Gaara had felt Naruto's presence whisp right by him in the blink of an eye. That had startled him. "I look forward to our match." (4)
Naruto did a small laugh, "I'm looking forward to it as well." He picked up another bowl. "Now, if you'll excuse me, I have ramen to eat." And he started to inhale the sweet flavorful ramen down once more.
Gaara nodded. His opponent has been told of his doom. He could wait to kill him now.
Temari and Kankuro walked in a bit later. "Has Gaara been acting a little... more crazy to you?" The face painted clown asked.
"I don't know, but," Temari paused and looked at Naruto who was pretending not to listen, "Ever since he met that hooded kid, he's been acting kind of strange..er."
"I know what you mean." Kankuro said.
"You know, I can hear you." Naruto said. (You have to remember, with Naruto's trench coat on, his ears can't be seen, and they haven't seen his face due to a mask.)
They got startled at that. "Then maybe you can tell us?" Temari asked coolly.
Naruto got a sly smile, "That's for me and Gaara to know, and you to never find out... hopefully."
"Why are you so hopeful about it?" Kankuro asked.
"Because if you find out, then my friend will have to mind rape you and put you in a weird place." Naruto said. "And I can't stop it from happening."
Temari and Kankuro looked a bit green. The tone the hooded boy used was serious, and the room grew cold. He meant it as a serious warning.
The room grew warm again, and Naruto continued to eat.
Kankuro whispered, "Let's get out of here."
Temari though, wasn't as scared as Kankuro. In fact, she was perplexed. 'He gave off such a cold atmosphere, and then brushed it off like it was nothing. What is he? And that threat he gave us. He wasn't threatening us, just giving us a warning. Who are you?'
She quickly saw that Kankuro had left with his figurative tail between his legs. She cursed her brother, and then left the room as well.
Naruto smirked. 'Suna nins, 0. Naruto, 3. Keep it coming.'
Naruto finished his last bowl, and then went to clear his place from the table. The cafeteria had several tables, sinks, and serving lines. It was like the place was meant to serve an army during wartime.
Naruto registered the fact that it might have been a last resort stronghold used during the great shinobi wars. Hell, the S sector of the forest alone can kill of thousands of shinobi, and it wouldn't even put a dent in the forests weapons made of S ranked animals and triple S ranked plants. Don't even mention the fact that the tower looked like it could withstand any kind of attack, as well as the fact that the shinobi inside could dish out high powered attacks in safety.
Naruto shivered at one of his particular memories of the S ranked sector.
Flashback
During the month of hell, week three, day 2.
"Welcome to the most dangerous training grounds in the entire world." Jiraiya said. They were currently standing in a clearing. The clearing had two different sides to it. The normal looking trees that one would see in the forest of death. Large, big, old but true trees. Then the other side's, twisted sick, diseased trees in front of Naruto. It was almost like a line. A sudden difference in trees, and neither type wanted to mingle with each other. "Of course, you will be doing survival training.. against Anko here." Jiraiya said, with a sinister smile on his face as he pointed to Anko.
"Hehehe. Be careful, brat. I know this part of the forest like the back of my hand." Anko said.
"Oh, and why is that?" Naruto was genuinely curious. He was still scared out of his mind, but he was curious dammit.
Anko looked left and right. She looked right back at the two other people in the area, and smiled evilly. "I live there. And if you tell anyone, I'll castrate you both faster then you can blink. And I don't miss."
Both males gulped while losing some blood from their face.
"A... a-and on that note, Good luck, gaki!" Jiraiya turned and ran back into the C sector of the forest.
"Dammit you traitor. Get back here!" Naruto yelled out, as Anko slowly walked up to Naruto from behind. She grabbed him, and then threw him clear into the forest. She laughed maniacally. "Let the fun begin!"
End flashback here because Naruto would cry himself to sleep if he tried to remember any further.
Naruto thought, 'Anyone in the S ranked sector during this chuunin exam is royally screwed.'
In the S ranked sector
Kiba, Sakura, and Sasuke all sneezed at the same time.
"Someone must be talking about how great we are." They all sneezed again.
Sakura spoke up. "They say if you sneeze once, someone is talking about you. If you sneeze twice, then it's a bad thing about you. And," they all sneezed again. Sakura grew scared.
"And?" Kiba asked.
"And if you sneeze three times, someone is talking about your death." Sakura shivered.
Sasuke just 'hn'd' and started walking again. He intended to survive in this northern part of the forest just to show off to the dobe that he could live in this sector. His team be damned.
A sudden huge gust of wind then blew into the area, carrying Kiba and Akamaru along with it.
"What was that?" Sakura asked.
"Kukuku," A mist shinobi women laughed. "Well, well. If it isn't team 7 from Konoha."
Back in the tower
'Yeap, whoever is in that sector is dead meat.' Naruto finished his thought.
Naruto walked back to the room designated for Shino and himself. Naruto was a bit tired from using that many Myaku at once. Every time he pulsed, his body would feel a great strain on his body. He quickly discarded the thought of what it would be like to use a Myaku without the step one training. Even he wouldn't have been able to survive that.
He still hadn't gotten it down right. Nelrim had told Naruto that he would know that he had perfected the first part of step 3 once he didn't create any backlash to the area around him when he used it. Meaning no dust would fly up. The life threatening dangerous part was the fact that the sudden acceleration of Myaku, or the sudden decompression of the chakra in his body could kill him.
Naruto had to be realistic though. Even without perfecting it, the things he could use with what he has already learned would be amazing. He was hoping for a good fight soon.
The basic idea is that, like chakra hops, where you hop using chakra on your feet in different concentrations, you would create a massive amount of chakra concentrated into your tenketsu, and then launch it in the opposite direction that you want to go. The best part is, is that it worked on air just as easily as it does on ground.
Essentially, if he was in mid air, he could change his direction instantly.
The second part of step three was quite different. It used the Myaku in the same concept, but for offensive purposes. He was having a hard time learning it, and he almost blew the skin off his back from a screw up.
Naruto entered the room, and inside was two beds. They weren't fancy, but it beats living on the forest floor. On one of the beds, Shino was laying down, still a bit sick from the earlier adventure.
"You feeling better?"
"Yes, Naruto-san." Shino said. "Please warn me next time you do that speed thing. I want to see it happen from a third person this time, not first person."
Naruto chuckled, "Will do. Where's Hinata-chan?"
Shino lifted his head up. "She's in the room next door. She hasn't come out of her room at all."
"Cool, I'll go check on her." Naruto said.
He walked out the door, and went to the door next door. He knocked on it. "Hinata-chan? You there?"
No answer.
"Hinata-chan, if you don't answer, I'm coming in." he warned. He counted to three, and turned the knob, hoping that the girl was dressed.
Inside the room, a sleeping Hinata, still fully dressed, was lying face up. It looked like she came in, and then just fell on the bed.
'She must have used up a lot of energy using the Byakugan constantly.' Naruto thought. 'It doesn' just drain the users chakra, but also their mental power from what Kina told me.'
Sleeping on top of Hinata's chest, Hiraku was dosing in and out just like a normal cat would. She saw Naruto approach the bed. "Hello, Naruto-kun." she whispered. The fox next to her was in deep asleep.
"Hello, Hiraku-sama." Naruto whispered back.
"Please, just Raku-chan. I hate formalities." She whispered.
"I wanted to talk to you actually, but it seems Hinata-chan here looks like she needs tucking in." Naruto whispered, and smiling.
'Aw, so sweet.' Hiraku though.
Naruto took off the girl's shinobi sandals, and got maneuvered her under the covers. He was blushing about it the whole time. 'Why am I blushing? It's just my teammate.'
Naruto picked Hiraku up, and placed her on his shoulder. "I'll give your kitty back to you, Hinata-chan. I just need to borrow her for a bit." Naruto whispered to the girl.
He turned around, and left out the door.
If he had turned back before he left, he would have seen a smiling Hinata who was blushing madly, and a smirk on the fox.
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On the roof of the tower.
Naruto had walked up there by using a window and using chakra to get up.
"You needed to talk to me, Naruto-kun?" the kitten asked.
"Yea, it's about my bloodline." Naruto said.
"Oh, I take it Nelrim told you what I told him?"
He nodded.
"Well, I only gave him partial information."
"He said that might be the case." Naruto said.
"Can't lie to a Veral- uh... I mean... one of his kind easily. Even me." she sighed. "Well, here it goes. Your bloodline is called Kagedoushinkai, which literally means shadow reflex. The basics of the bloodline are as follows. Whenever you have an adrenaline rush; that is, whenever you are in a very stressful situation, or whenever you are extremely excited; the bloodline activates it's special chakra. Light chakra."
"Light chakra?"
"I'll explain later, for now your bloodline." The kitten said. "Your bloodline was created by an immortal father, a Triste, and a mortal mother, one of the lands greatest Kunoichi." She paused, knowing a question was coming.
"An immortal father?" Naruto said. "And what's a Triste, Nelrim only talked about them a little?" (Pronounced Tres-teh)
"A Triste is an Immortal human who has two parents that had a special gene. This gene essentially is the ultimate blessing and a curse." Hiraku said.
"He's already explained that part. You live forever and have mind powers, but at the cost of your humanity and you have to suck out people's souls." Naruto said.
"That's mostly true, except one part. You don't have to lose your humanity. It's how you grow up mentally after you change that makes it whether or not you lose your humanity. For instance, if you don't learn control at an early age, you suck everyone's souls around you dry." Hiraku said. "But that's off topic."
She paused for a moment gathering her thoughts. "From what I remember of the bloodline, it hardens your body's muscles and bone structure forcefully during the change period, which I guess you already have." Naruto nodded. "And after that, most of your Light chakra usually resides around the brain, constantly waiting for when you have a rush. When a rush activates, the chakra spreads out to all of your senses to help amplify the adrenaline. During the rush, your body will react faster then normal, and speed up to great amounts. Time might even seem to stop around you, which is normal. But this has it's limits. You cannot start any genjutsu or ninjutsu during those times that time seems to stop. The reason is, is that your chakra flow will be a bit erratic, due to the light chakra being in your system."
"That doesn't sound right." Naruto said.
"What do you mean, Naruto-kun?"
"Well, I don't know how to explain it, but ever since an incident on top of the hokage's monument, I've been able to feel and use the chakra freely. Hell," two Fox masked ANBU came down next to Naruto, "I created these two with the help of the light chakra along with the other three energies I can use."
The kitten quickly looked both of the twins over with a critical eye. The twins both had black fox masks, and standard ANBU gear for a konohagakure ANBU. They had their hair braided, which reached their feet. She didn't see anything special about them, but then she notcied something. Her eyes suddenly widened, "Holy!" she backed up from the two. The twins looked at the fox with a steady glare. The kitten gulped and went back up to Naruto. "Naruto, whatever you did, don't do it again! Got it?!" She was obviously scared of something.
Naruto looked confused. 'All I did was make clones using chakra, what could be so bad about that?' He nodded anyways. The twins disappeared. "Is that all about my bloodline?"
"Mostly, but from I can tell by what you told me, you can use the chakra for other things other then being an amplifier." Hiraku said, calming herself down. She would have to contact the shinigami later. "You're the first to do so, as far as I can remember. Try testing with the light chakra, you might be surprised what you can do with it. Also, one more thing. During those hypertime periods that I explained about earlier, those will only last for one second. It might seems longer then that, but it will only last one real time second."
"Can you tell me anything about the chakra?" Naruto asked. "And what do you mean about one second?"
"Yes, but what I know is a bit hazy, incomplete. Because no matter how many times I asked one of the bloodline users, they wouldn't tell me much." Raku said. "Essentially, they all said the same thing about hypertime. 'Time is a conception of the beholder.'"
That struck a chord with Naruto's mind. 'Time is a conception of the beholder.'
What happened in the wave country started to make sense. When he was being attack by Haku, and they were about to die. He didn't slow down time.
He simply sped up.
So much so, it was like it stopped. He was only in the small time frame for less then half a second, but he did about 5 seconds worth of work mentally.
Hiraku watched his eyes. 'The same look.' His eyes were deep, yet gone. Thoughtful, but not there. 'It's always that same look that the users give me when I ask them about the bloodline. Ooooh, what I wouldn't give to be a mind reader right now.'
Naruto seemed to come back. "So, what about the light chakra?"
"Well, as I said before, I don't know much. All that I know is that they said it feels warm and relaxing when used."
Naruto agreed on that feeling. A small smile was on his face. He would be the first to try and use the light chakra for something OTHER then just his bloodline. He would go experimenting later. "Thanks for all the info, Raku-chan. It really helped out."
"Anytime, Naruto-kun." Hiraku said, and ran off to go sleep with Kina again.
Naruto just sat on the roof, letting his mind process what he was told. He looked out to the west to see the sun set. It reminded him of the time on top of the Hokage's monument. He smiled calmly on that.
–
Hinata came back to reality slowly. The last thing she remembered was feeling wiped out, and fell on the bed. She felt a weight on her chest, and she opened her eyes to see both Kina and Hiraku sleeping soundly on her chest.
She smiled warmly on that. 'A fox and a cat. Sounds like a nice couple.'
She didn't feel all that sleepy, and she felt the need to move. She lifted both of the animals off her chest, and placed them on the bed. She heard a soft whine come from Kina, and the fox snuggled closer to the kitten. Together, they made a great big furball.
She looked over to the other bed, and she was surprised to see Temari sleeping. Hinata crept across the room as quietly as she could, and opened the door. She looked back, and everyone was still alseep. She moved out the door, and closed it.
Temari peeked out one of her eyes. She got up, and went over to the other bed, and picked up the animals smoothly. She went back to her bed, and laid down with the animals snuggled up right next to her.
–
Hinata walked around the grounds aimlessly. She knew that she couldn't leave the tower, but she needed to move anyways. She walked up to the upper levels, and peeked out a window. She looked east to see a quarter waned moon.
Her ears perked up. She heard a small flute tone coming from above her. It sounded soft, and lulling. Sad, yet caring.
She got out of the window, and used chakra to walk up the walls, toward the sound. (The guardian's song from pokemon. Of which, I don't own.)
When she neared the sound, she was at the top of the tower. She gasped to see that it was Naruto, standing on the very tip of the tower. His mask was down, to show his face for the first time in many months. Against his mouth, a metal flute shined in the moon's light. His hood was down, so she could see his silver hair flow in the wind, and glow in the moonlight.
The song seemed to flow through the air. Through her. He played so beautifully. She got up the rest of the way, and sat down on the roof. She closed her eyes, and listened to the song.
When the song ended, Naruto jumped down from the tip, and landed in front of Hinata. He was kind of surprised to see her out here.
Before he could speak, Hinata asked him a question. "Can you play that again?"
He smiled, "Sure. Anything for you, Hinata-chan." A licked his lips, and put the flute to his mouth. He started playing it once more.
The wind seemed to swing with the notes. It caressed her already cold cheeks. She closed her eyes again, just to listen to the melody.
When he finished again, Hinata immediately asked, "Can you teach me to play?"
He smiled, "Sure. Maybe after the exams?"
"Hai." Hinata smiled warmly. 'I get to spend time with Naruto!'
She suddenly shivered as the wind picked up. Naruto chuckled, and sat down. He patted his hand next to him. Hinata smiled, and got up to walk over to Naruto. She sat by him, and snuggled up to him almost unconsciously. Naruto didn't really know what to do, but he put his arm over here. "Isn't the moon beautiful?"
"Yes." Hinata answered. She remembered something then.
Flashback
"Look, my angel." A Hyuuga woman said, while holding a girl on her lap. Both of them were snuggled inside the same coat. The women pointed to the waxing moon. "Isn't the moon beautiful?"
"Hai, Oka-chan." The little Hyuuga girl said. She admired the moon. It always seemed so close, yet so far away. She loved how the moon would make everything shine so brightly. The little girl lifted her hands up to the moon.
The woman smiled, "Reach for the moon, little one. For it shall guide your future."
End flashback
"For it shall guide your future." Hinata said slowly.
"Huh?" Naruto asked.
"Oh, I remembered something about my mom just now."
"Oh, and what was it?"
"'Reach for the moon, little one. For it shall guide your future.'" Hinata quoted. She was sad at remembering these things, but her Naruto was here to comfort her.
"Somehow, I don't doubt that, Hinata-chan." Naruto said.
She snuggled even closer to Naruto, and he unconsciously held her tighter. 'She's one of my precious people. She's one of the few who see the real me.'
He lifted the flute up to his mouth once more, and played another song.
–
Kina slowly woke up. She looked over, and saw that Hiraku was as close as the kitten could get to her. Kina smiled. 'Always my darling little kitten.'
She looked back up to see that it was Hinata she was sleeping on, but Temari. 'Now that's not something I expected.'
She could feel the girl slowly waking up. Kina looked straight into the girls face, keeping a neutral, yet confused face on her.
The girl woke up, and saw that the fox was eying her. "Hello, fox-chan. Did you have a good sleep?" Temari would never admit it to her brothers, but she had a huge crush on small animals.
The fox seemed to understand her. No surprise there, since it was a nin-fox. The fox nodded her head, still eying the girl.
The kitten got up as well, but she already knew what had happened.
"Well, both of you seemed to have a nice nap." Temari said.
Both animals yawned a bit, and looked at each other.
A bigger cat popped into existence next to Temari. "Come with me, you two." The cat said, giggling like a mad man. "You have got to see this."
Then the three animals disappeared.
"What the..." Temari asked. "What just happened?" She asked the air. Nothing answered her.
–
On top of the tower
The three animals popped into existence.
"What did you bring us out here for?" Kina asked.
Nelrim was still giggling. "That." he pointed towards the center of the top of the tower. The sun was rising to the east, giving the three a clear view of the sight before them.
Sitting there, both asleep, were Hinata and Naruto.
Hinata and Naruto's heads were against each other, shoulder to shoulder. The funny part about it was that their lips were almost touching.
"Just a little more, and they would both have their first kiss." Nelrim said.
"Aaaawh. That's sooo sweet." Both females swooned. Suddenly all three got a sly smile.
"You thinking what I'm thinking?" Kina asked.
"Oh yea." Hiraku said.
"You get Hinata's head. I'll push Naruto's a tiny bit. Nelrim you tell us how to move." Kina said.
"Got it." They said.
The two female animals quickly and quietly moved up the bodies of there respective holders.
"Okay, Kina up a little. Hiraku to the left." Nelrim said.
The three worked quickly.
"There, now push the back of their heads a little."
Hinata's hood came down at that.
Kina and Nelrim gasped at what they saw.
Kina spoke quietly. "You gave her the cat ears and tail, didn't you?"
"How can you..." Hiraku said, as she looked at Hinata's head. "Oops. Eheheh."
They both glared at her.
"Well.... she wanted them. I told her she would be hated, but she didn't listen." Hiraku said.
"Well... the bluish purple shade of fur really does match her clothes and hair." Kina sighed. 'Oh the repercussions this will cause.'
"And the tips have a nice shade of lavender which matches her eyes. Good job." Nelrim said, not really caring about what will happen.
Hiraku looked baffled. "Why thank you."
"Now, if we can get back to the task at hand? We have two teenagers to embarrass." Nelrim said.
"Oh, right." They said, and slowly pushed the two head closer together. Their lips touched, and they unconsciously kissed each other.
The three animals snickered, and Nelrim cloaked them all under an illusion that even Hiashi can't break.
Hinata felt something rough caress her lips. It was sweet, yet salty. She loved the taste of it, and went in for more.
Naruto had never tasted something so succulent before, and had wanted more of this sweet soft feeling.
They both opened their eyes slowly.
When they realized who the other was, they both blushed madly, and quickly got apart.
Hinata went to push her fore fingers together, and Naruto just looked up at the sky.
Hinata's thoughts. '!'
Naruto's thoughts. 'That felt niiiiiiiiice. Wait, I just kissed my teammate! So why am I blushing about it? I mean. I like her, but I don't know about it in THAT way. But, she felt so smooth. No, bad thoughts bad thoughts! But she smelled soo niiiiice. BAD THOUGHTS BAD THOUGHTS! DO NOT GO PERVERTED ON ME! But she kissed soo gooood. GAH!'
Kina's thoughts right after Naruto's.'Typical boys.' She shook her head.
Hiraku's thought's regarding Hinata's. 'Hehehe, and the deeper she kissed him the first time, which was almost tongue, the more she will want him. Hehehehehehe.' [Put mentally laughing evilly here.]
Nelrim's thoughts. 'And so, the drama begins.' Nelrim disappeared, an evil laugh in his wake.
–
Kurenai was walking down the hallways to where her team would be sleeping. She had heard that they had passed the second exam, and she rushed up the river passageway to the tower as fast as she could.
When she turned around the hallway, she quickly went back around the corner. She peeked around it.
Walking down the hallway, both Naruto and Hinata were blushing, and looking down at the ground. Whenever they would look at each other, the blush would deepen, and they would look back down.
Kurenai's smile went sly. 'Well, well. It seems like the cat and the fox had a nice moment. I'll have to drag Hinata to the side for the gooey details later.' She left the two teenagers to their own devices.
Down the hall
"I guess I'll talk to you later, Hinata-chan."
She nodded, and went into her room, still blushing madly. There is one thing to notice though. She did not pass out. She was happy to herself for that.
Temari saw the blushing girl. "Soooo, it's not really my business, but how was he?"
Hinata looked up. And blushed even redder.
"Ohhh, was he that good?"
"He had lips made by kami." Hinata said.
"What about his... you know..."
"Huh?"
… "Did you do it or not?"
"Do what?" Hinata asked.
… "Did you have sex with lover boy over there!?" Temari finally yelled out.
"N-no." Hinata's blush was reaching critical. "W-we just kissed."
"Oh, kissing? Is that all?" Temari flushed. "You acted like you had done something bad. There's nothing wrong with a little kiss."
Hinata mumbled something.
"Huh? Speak up, I can't hear you."
"It was my first kiss." Hinata said a little louder.
"Seriously? I had my first kiss when I was 7, and here you are at the chuunin exams, and you're just NOW kissing?" Temari asked.
"It was my first kiss, and it was from Naruto-kun." she said a little louder.
"We get it."
"My first kiss taken by the love of my life." Hinata swooned. She stumbled a bit to the left, and then a bit to the right. She acted a tad bit high.
Temari blinked, and got up. She went over, and felt Hinata's head. "You don't seem to have a fever."
"What's that?" Hinata asked with drowsy eyes.
The kitten poofed in right on Hinata's shoulder. The kitten, with her tails, pushed Hinata's bed toward the bed, and thought to her, "Rest little one."
Hinata went over to the bed, and laid down. Temari covered her over, with amazement.
'I'm one of her enemies, and she's totally relaxed around me. Did Konoha get soft? Is this really a clan heir?' A frown appeared on her face. 'Konoha might die in the invasion. But,' She looked over to the girl, who was still blushing madly, 'She looks so happy.'
–
Naruto walked into the room he uses with Shino.
Shino looked up. He was currently sharpening his kunai. "Hello, Naruto-san. You looked a little flushed."
"Yea, I slept out on top of the tower." Naruto said.
"That wouldn't explain why you're flushed. You can't get sick because of something like that." Shino said.
Naruto cursed that fact. He had been hoping that would be that. "Well... I spent the night on top of the tower with Hinata-chan."
"Oh? But you two have been hugging. That shouldn't make you flush." Shino said.
"Goddamit all, and your logic. Alright, I kissed Hinata-chan." Naruto said.
A giggle escaped Shino's lips.
Naruto froze. "I'm going to pretend I never heard that giggle."
"You're first kiss?" Shino guessed.
Naruto blushed a little. "Yea."
"So, did you like it?"
Naruto looked down. "Yea."
"Sooo, why are you so flushed about it?" Shino said. "Logically, you wouldn't need to be blushing over a little kiss."
"Because, I kissed Hinata-chan!" Naruto yelled out.
"Oh. I didn't know you loved her." Shino said.
"Love?" Naruto asked.
"Yes, if you didn't, you wouldn't be making such a big deal about just a kiss, Naruto-san."
Naruto went into deep thought. 'Do I really love her? I mean, she does have a nice body. GAH! Bad thoughts! She is a sweet person. She's kind, and caring.' "I need some food." Naruto said, and walked right back out.
"I'll come with you, Naruto-san." Shino said.
The two walked out of the room, and down the hallway.
Kurenai saw that the two boys had left, and it was now safe to approach the door to Hinata's room. She opened the door, and snuck in.
"Who are you?" A female voice asked.
Kurenai turned around to see a Suna Kunoichi. "Hello. I hope you don't mind me being here. I'm here to look after one of my students."
"Oh, you mean high girl here?" She pointed at Hinata's bed.
Kurenai saw the flushed girl. She was biting down on the blanket, thinking deeply.
"Hinata-chan? What's wrong?" Kurenai asked.
"We've already been over that. Apparently, she had her first kiss with black hoody."
"Black hoody?" Kurenai asked.
"I know his name, but I've seen him wander around a lot wearing that black hooded trench coat." The girl said.
"Oh, you mean she had her first kiss with Naruto-san?" Kurenai said.
"Yeap. By the way, what's your name?" The girl asked.
"Yuuhi Kurenai. Sensei of team 8." Kurenai introduced herself.
"Subaku no Temari. Member of team 3." Temari introduced herself.
"Ah, so your the Kazekage's daughter."
Temari nodded. "So, what's with the fact that lover girl here hasn't kissed till last night? I thought it was standard for kunoichi to go through seduction classes."
"Well, you're right on that part. But Hinata-chan here is special. She's never had those classes because of her position in the village." Kurenai said.
"You mean clan heir of the most powerful clan in konoha village?" Temari asked.
"How do you know about that?" Kurenai asked quickly.
"Because, I've met her before with her father. Hiashi-sama and kazekage-sama meet often." Temari said.
"Oh, I guess you're right then."
"Still, I'm the daughter of the almighty Kazekage, and I went through them." Temari said.
"You still have proof of a virgin though, don't you?" Kurenai said.
Temari blushed at that. She mumbled a little while looking down.
"We tried to talk Hinata into the classes, but we never succeeded." Kurenai said. 'She would always run from them, or pass out.' "Eventually, we gave up, and she became a kunoichi that doesn't know how to seduce. Then again, she wouldn't have been good at it anyways."
"Huh. And you're telling me all this, why?" Temari asked. "I mean, I can use some of this stuff against her."
Kurenai smiled. "Because, we're allies, essentially. And you don't seem the type to prey on weaknesses."
Temari stiffened. 'This woman could tell how I fight just from a short talk? I guess they didn't get so soft.'
Kurenai went over, and put her hand on the girl's head. "She seems to have calmed down. Now all she has to get through her head, is that she's been kissed, and the drama will be over... for now." Kurenai got up quickly, and looked at the kitten on Hinata's chest. "Protect the girl. I know you can Raku-chan."
The kitten seemed to nod, and Kurenai left out the door.
Temari looked at the girl with jealousy. She wanted to have the kitten.
–
"Now to go bother Naruto-kun." Kurenai said to no one. "I know he's dense, but I didn't think he would go and kiss the girl." She reached the cafeteria, and slowly walked in.
Naruto and Shino had just sat down to eat.
They ate in silence for a bit, and Kurenai approached them. "So, Naruto-san. How was your first kiss?"
Naruto almost chocked on the piece of meat he was eating. "He-hello, Kurenai-sensei." Naruto said weakly, still blushing. His mask was down so that he could eat, but his hood was still hiding most of his face.
Kurenai made a sly smile. "So, how did you two end up kissing?"
"I-I don't know, Kurenai-sensei. I just woke up feeling something soft against my lips." Naruto said, still blushing.
Kurenai smiled. 'I think I know who did it. Raku-chan has always been the type for making embarrassing situations.' "So, answer my question, did you like it?"
Surprisingly, Naruto said this with confidence, "Like lips made by Kami herself."
Shino and Kurenai looked at Naruto seriously. The boy still blushed, but the confidence itself was staggering. Kurenai giggled. "Well, don't let this get in the way of our missions in the future."
"Hai, Kurenai-sensei." Naruto said. "So, what are you doing here?"
"I heard that my team came in first place, and, what was the word Jiraiya used, oh yes, obliterated the record." Kurenai said.
Shino spoke up. "I will never let Naruto give me a ride ever again."
"What did he do?"
"He used a new technique. Something called, MK?"
"Oh, yea. MK is short for Mizu Kanryuu. I used step three of what I know. Myaku, or pulse." Naruto said.
"Yes, Naruto-san, but did we seriously have to break the sound barrier?" Shino asked.
"No, that was just me showing off." Naruto smiled.
"What in the world are you talking about?" Kurenai asked.
"Well, you remember the month before the exams started?"
"Yes, you disappeared on us. We looked for you, but we couldn't find you." Kurenai said.
"Well, I was training with Kina-chan, Nelrim, and Ero-ji-san."
Both of them stare at him, and both asked. "Who's Ero-ji-san?"
"Jiraiya of the sannin."
Shino flinched at that. 'His blatant disregard for authority figures. Logically, that would be Naruto.'
Kurenai's jaw just dropped. "Why are you calling one of the most feared shinobi in the world, perverted old man?"
"Because I can, and it's true." Naruto said quickly. "Jiraiya is the biggest pervert I know of. Hell, he even calls himself 'The Super Pervert.'"
"I've heard that name somewhere before." Kurenai said, tapping her finger on her chin.
"He writes Icha Icha Paradise." Naruto deadpanned.
Sudden lightning strikes through the air. Kurenai is cracking her knuckles. "Where is he? I want to... ask for an autograph."
Naruto and Shino were scared shitless.
Naruto pointed at a corner in the room where the sannin was sitting at a table.
Kurenai walked over to the man, picked him up by his collar, and left the cafeteria.
"So, what type of casket should we get him?" Naruto asked.
Shino very calmly said. "Oak."
Naruto nodded, and they calmly ate food while screams of a dead man echoed through the tower and into the woods.
–
Kiba and Akamaru were doing guard duty, though painfully. They had several injuries, and they were mostly in bandages.
Sasuke, who was lying down on the ground inside a tree, was no better. He had several wounds on his body, and he was being treated by Sakura as much as she could hold out. She knew basic first aid, but not much else. What was even worse, is that the hickey that Orochimaru gave Sasuke seemed to make the boy thrall in pain.
"Shh, Sasuke-kun." she said as he thralled around for a bit. "You're safe for now."
A small squirrel was hopping forward, towards the group.
Kiba saw the squirrel, and threw a kunai at it before it set off one of Sakura's traps.
The squirrel got scared off, and three sound nin cursed up in the trees.
"He must've seen the exploding tag on the squirrel's back." said the bandage covered face nin.
The other male spoke up. "Ah, it doesn't matter. Look at 'em. They're weak. The only one combat worthy is that girl, and she looks really hopeless."
Said girl sneezed.
The female sound nin spoke up. "Then let's hurry up before someone else comes along."
They nodded, and hopped into the clearing.
"Hello." he said. "We've come for your scroll. If you hand it over, and we wont kill you."
Kiba growled. First he was blasted away by a big futon jutsu. Then he was almost eaten by a giant snake, then he was almost killed by a pedophile snake. He wasn't about to let some gennin get away with attacking him, too. He hopped up on two feet, and performed a Tsuuga despite his injuries.
All three sound nin dodged, but they ran into traps made by Sakura.
Two giant logs came down to kill one of the gennin. Said gennin, the one with bandages, lifted his arm up, and somehow, destroyed the log.
Several Konoha Shinobi, chuunin and up, suddenly felt sad.
"Very impressive, but not good enough. My name is Dosu, and I'll kill you here and now." The bandaged one said. Dosu lifted his metal covered right arm back, and punched forward towards Kiba. Kiba tried to dodge, but he felt something hit him anyways. He grabbed his ears in pain, and kealed over. "Heh, I guess dogs can here beyond what humans can. But that makes you very vulnerable to my attacks." He launched another one.
"KIBA!" Sakura called out.
Kiba was hit directly, and thrown unconsciously into a tree nearby. Akamaru, who was too injured to fight anyways, passed out from sheer ear pain.
(And it pretty much goes the rest of the way like in cannon. If you want to see it, I think it's like episode 28. If you haven't seen it what-so-ever, I commend you. The series can suck at times. Now, I'm not going to type out what happens, because it will bore the hell out of both me and most of the readers.)
–
Naruto was laying down in his room. He was thinking back to his parents, and why he wasn't allowed to know about his dad. From what saw back on the hokage's monument, he got his looks from his dad. The blond hair. The sturdy face.
The blue eyes.
Those eyes told him a lot about his dad. How he cared for Naruto, how kind he was. How he had felt safe looking into the man's eyes.
Then Naruto's thoughts turned back to Jiraiya the morning of the chuunin exams.
Flashback
"Naruto." The old man said.
"Yes?"
"I need to tell you something, it's also about your parents."
Naruto sat down on a chair. If it was anything about his parents, he needed to know.
"About me being your godfather. I need you to keep it a secret. I told you long ago, but I needed to remind you?" Jiraiya said.
"Why?"
"Because, I was linked to your father. I was good friends with him, and if word got out that you're my godson, they would learn, and even worse, your father's enemies would learn who you are. You might be strong now, but until you can prove that you're chuunin, you can't take care of yourself."
Naruto nodded.
End flashback
Naruto pondered back over what he had heard.
'"I was linked to your father. I was good friends with him."' Naruto thought that particular line over. 'Hmm, who did Jiraiya know historically that that could be my father?' He thought carefully. 'Blond hair, blue eyes, knew Jiraiya very well.' Naruto then connected that line to something else. 'Who was Jiraiya taught by? Sarutobi, the third hokage. Who were Jiraiya's team members? Senju Tsunade and Senunushi Orochimaru.'Naruto paused. 'Tsunade is a girl, so she's out. Orochimaru is a traitor, and has black hair, so he's out as well. Who was Jiraiya related to.. Wait... does Jiraiya even have a last name?' Naruto paused again. 'I'll ask later. Did Jiraiya have an apprentice? Yes, but the apprentice was killed early on. Did Jiraiya have a gennin team?' Naruto stopped for a moment. 'Now that I think of it, they had a nameless Uchiha, the current head of the Nara clan, Nara Shikaku, and...' Naruto paused. He got up from his bed. 'And the fourth hokage.' He started to get a hyper feeling in his mind. 'From the books I read about him, he had blond hair, blue eyes. The most powerful ninja in the village to date. He had an entire country cowering before him. Iwagakure. That could be the enemies. But a couple of problems with this theory. One, the councill would have treated me better if they knew. Two, he never married.' Naruto paused once more. He got up, left his room, and walked up the tower's stairs. He knew about a secondary hokage office being at the second top floor of the tower. He walked up to the door, and knocked.
Surprisingly he heard a voice on the other side. "Enter."
Naruto had not been expecting someone inside. He just knocked to make sure that no one was there. Naruto sighed, and entered the office.
Inside, Sarutobi was working on some paperwork.
"What are you doing here, Oji-san?" Naruto asked.
"Well, I over look ever bit of the chuunin exams. I need to take in official times for who passed, and in what condition." Sarutobi answered.
"Oh."
"So, you needed something, Naruto?" the wizened old man asked, as he put his pen down, and folded his hands in front of him.
"Well..." 'Should I ask him or not? Ah, to hell with it.' "Can I look at a picture of the fourth hokage? I mean, I'm sure you have one of him. All I know about him are descriptions."
Sarutobi pulled the pipe out of his mouth, and breathed deeply. "Why do you wish to see one?"
"Because, no matter how long I search my memories, I can't even remember one picture of Namikaze Minato in any of our history books. Then again, I wasn't such an astute learner of history." Naruto deadpanned.
Sarutobi chuckled. "That doesn't seem to be the reason you have in your head." Sarutobi read the boy's body language. The boy hadn't lied, but he felt something being held back.
Naruto sighed, and after a few moments of thinking he said, "I have a theory, but I can't prove it until I see a picture of him."
Sarutobi sighed. "Yes, I have one of him, Naruto." He breathed in deeply. 'He suspects it, anyways. Doing this will prove it, but I dare not lie to him anymore.' He breathed back out, and opened a drawer in his desk. He took out all the contents, and went to the two blood seals on the bottom of the drawer. 'No one EVER thinks to look in the war time office for anything special.' Sarutobi suppressed a giggle. He put blood on one of the blood seals, and let it unseal. He took out the scroll inside, and then opened it. He searched halfway through the scroll, until he found the one he needed. He unsealed the picture.
Sarutobi desperately hoped that the boy wouldn't hate him for this.
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tbc...
And cut.
The ending of this conversation will be next time. I decided that the chapter got long enough for now, and any further along this conversation, it will hop up to 15000 words in this chapter instead of the already 11000 words.
So the next chapter will also have the beginning of the prelims..
Oh, and, for the prelims, I'm thinking about switching up the matches. Hell, I'm not even going to decide who fights who. It's going to be completely randomized, because I can't figure out who should fight who.... seriously, I can't T.T So, with that said, if Naruto ends up against a crappy character, please do not blame me. Blame the randomizer I used.
1, I was so tempted to put down a naked Gai here, just like the one from the abridged series.
2, If you actually calculate, determining they went about 5 miles in 20 seconds, because they traveled easily a mile in that 3-4 minute run, it comes to about 900 miles per hour.... yea, think about it, and before you say, "That can't happen!" think about this. The human eye can keep up with objects going up to 100 miles per hour easily, untrained. For instance, ever watch a fast pitch on a baseball game? Yea, that's heading 90 plus miles an hour, you can watch it fly easily, and it's a small object. Trained, they can see even faster then that. It's how fast the brain processes that info, that makes us react to them. We see it coming, but we can't process it that fast. What about a trained ninja? So, on that note, how fast is Lee moving when he disappears during a fight? Oh, and the speed increase to that much will be explained later.
3, Okay, some of you might say, "What about poison, he could die!?" boo hoo... remember, Naruto is immune to poisons due to being a hanyou, and having Kina's yokou flow through him. So, he's never had to worry about them before, why start now?
4, I can't seem to get Gaara down. Any help? Please PM.
Omake: The Forest of Death week 3 day 6. 4 days to chuunin exams.
Naruto was currently running through the S ranked sector of the forest of death. He had almost 6.5x gravity on his seals, and almost all of his chakra is sucked out of him by 60 different chakra suppressing seals. (Remember, godlike amount of chakra.)
Anko was close behind him with 4 senbon kunai or shuriken in each hand. Sometimes a mix of all three was thrown. She quickly used several of her snakes from various positions around the sector to corner Naruto.
Naruto used one of his tails to grab a tree right next to him, and used it as leverage to fly over a snake pit. Naruto was sweating. A lot. At night, he was chased by constantly chased by creatures that possessed red or green eyes. Plants would attempt to eat his head off, and tangle him with prickly poisonous vines. Hell, he even saw a plant that looked like a dog, but made the sound like that of an elk, and nasty green dripped fangs. During the day, he was chased by Anko, snakes, carnivores, and many things with either sharp pointy claws, or long pointy fangs. Today was the final day of the month of hell. And he would be dammed if he would be caught today.
Naruto took out his last remaining kunai, and threw it at a nearby plant, dog, metal... thing.
The thing fell to the ground, dead. Anko hopped down next to it, looked it over, and then raised her head to the sky. "FLUFFY! NOOOOOOO! WHYYYY-" she quickly looked back down as the thing got back up. "Oh, hey, you're still alive. And I had a funeral planned and everything. Well, whatever, welcome back to the world of the living, mini-fluffy."
Naruto, when he heard 'mini-fluffy' almost shit his pants. The thing was taller then him in size. It had two horns, green over brush covering it's skin, and a few areas of it's skin had metal showing underneath. "Mini-fluffy?" Naruto asked.
"Yeap, this is only a one year old." She patted it on the head.
"So... where's the parents?"
"Behind you." Anko said happily.
Naruto froze. After a second, he frigidly turned around slowly. Behind him, two 50 feet tall monsters loomed over him.
"Mr. And Mrs. Fluffy, meet Naruto-kun. Naruto-kun meet the fluffy's." Anko said.
"H... hel.. ehh... hello." Naruto stuttered to get out.
One of them talked. "Hello, Naruto." Said one with a deep as hell voice. Sounded cracked, too.
"Yo... you're not mad that I threw something at your kid.... are you?" he almost squeaked out the end.
"Well... Yes, we are." The other had a more feminine voice, but still deep as hell.
"Sorry, I-I've been on edge for quite a few days now. What with Anko-nee-chan chasing me and all." Naruto chuckled nervously.
"Ah, well." The male one said. "Here's my answer to that." He picked Naruto up by the shirt, and then threw Naruto into the wall of the tower.. that was 4 miles away. "And let that be a lesson to you."
About 10 minutes later, Anko found Naruto on the wall. Still stuck in the crater he made in it. She calmly walked up to Naruto, and tagged him on the head. "Tag, you're it." And she ran off.
Naruto cried.
That's right folks, this was all a game of tag. And he had never won.
End.
Omake: Prank wars Part 2
2 months and 13 days to the chuunin exams.
Naruto slowly, but surely made his way to his door. The war had gone more and more upscaled. They were starting to take it to the next level, and now they were trying to outdo each other on village wide scales.
That doesn't mean there were no small time pranks here and there. No, by no means was that true. In fact, it was the opposite. No, they had to pull off a village wide prank and not get countered prank when performing the wide scale prank. And they would aim for where ever they would think the other would prank.
Naruto chuckled. Once he made it to his apartment, then his plan could unfold.
He walked up to his door, and checked the doorknob carefully. 'Is it trapped? It can't be, she's used it 13 times now. She wouldn't use it again, would she? Well, better to be safe, then sorry.'
He created a low ranked clone, and told it to go in. The clone walked straight in, and nothing happened.
'Well, I guess it can't be all that baaaAAAAAAD!' Naruto's thoughts cut off, as he had tried to walk in, and several traps went off.
He heard giggling come from above him. No, not the ceiling. He was currently hanging upside down by a rope. He had been tarred and feathered once more.
"You didn't think I'd have my traps go off on a mere copy, now would you?" Kina asked.
Naruto sighed. "I shouldn't be surprised anymore."
"Exactly.... Why are you smiling?"
"I still got the prank off." Naruto said. He pulsed a small amount of his chakra, and several seals went off in his room. "Go look outside." He was laughing evilly now. "Let all perverts remember this day."
Kina got a worried look, and approached the window carefully. Once she made sure there were no traps, she looked outside.
Kina almost lost her eyeballs she went so wide eyed. 'I didn't think of ANYTHING like this!'
Sure enough, it was wide scale enough so that the whole village could see it.
The hokage tower had been painted orange from the inside out. And I mean everything. Down to the very fact that the hokage was now smoking orange colored tobacco.
The orange Sarutobi slowly pulled the orange pipe out of his orange mouth. He put it down, on the now, ruined orange paper work on his orange desk, and got up slowly.
He walked over to a special seal in the orange wall, and opened it with his blood. When he looked inside, he started to cry. Why? His collector's gold edition of Icha Icha Make-out Paradise, first one EVER made, was now completely orange.
He called in two orange ANBU by a hand signal. "Damage report."
"The entire tower is orange, sir." Hawk reported. "We have yet to find out how, or why. We think it was done by remote seals placed all over the tower."
"How a gennin, of all things, managed to do this to the tower, is beyond me. But to get even to the most secret vault of the hokage's is down right saddening. Come on hawk. You're the best of the best, and you were told to watch this sacred book with your life. You failed. Look." The man held the book open, and it was colored orange completely on every page.
Hawk felt sad. The coveted book of every perverted man's favorite series was now ruined. Hawk fell to his knees. "I, leader of the ANBU squad, have failed you. As such, I will stand down as leader."
"No, you shall stay as leader, but all of you will go through ANBU hell week training once more." Sarutobi said. "Dismissed." Hiruzen pinched the bridge of his nose. 'Seriously, how does a kid manage to get by all my ANBU. First the forbidden scroll, now this? What will happen next? Wait, if I remember correctly, Kina and Naruto were having a prank war... Oh god... It's Kina's turn now.'
And Sarutobi started to sweat....
Tbc... (evil laugh)