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, on to the fic...
WARNING: THIS CHAPTER CAN BE OFFICIALLY CHANGED!!! That means I probably will be changing this chapter up after I post it. Depending on whether or not the reviews for this chapter are negative or positive. So do not be surprised if you see this chapter reposted several times.
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Chapter 14: Knowledge
Sarutobi looked at the picture of Minato. The man in the frame was wearing the hokage robes, but not the hat. He slowly handed the framed picture over to Naruto. "Here. This is him three months before Kyuubi attacked."
Naruto took the photo slowly. He looked at the photo with criticism.
'The same hairstyle. The came hair color. The same calm, and peaceful blue eyes. This is the same man I saw on the monument.' Naruto paused in his thoughts. He looked back up. "Thanks, Oji-san. I just needed to know." He gave the picture back to the hokage, who sealed it away.
Naruto turned to leave, but the hokage stopped him. "Wait, Naruto." Naruto turned back around, but he wasn't all there. "I'm sorry. I'm sorry I kept the secret from you."
"I understand." Naruto said slowly. "Iwa would've come for me."
Sarutobi picked his pipe back up. "Correct." He pulled out a tiny bag of tobacco. He put some into the pipe. "And now that you know, you can't tell anyone. This secret goes beyond that of kyuubi. I'm sorry, Naruto, but your father asked me..." He lit the tobacco with a small jutsu, and put the pipe in his mouth. He took a deep puff from the pipe. "... He asked me to keep you safe at all costs. I failed that mission the moment you got that gash on your throat."
Naruto placed his hand on the scar on his throat. It never went away, but it was faint. "You could've told me."
"Naruto, your father predicted your attitude." Sarutobi took another puff. He activated a seal under his desk, and the room became sound proof. "He saw so much of Kushina in you, he knew you would be a trouble maker. As such, he wanted to wait until you knew enough about life to be able to keep a deep secret. He asked that I give you a letter the moment you become a chuunin."
"Tell me one thing. Did he really love me?" Naruto had his back turned to the hokage as this point.
Sarutobi got up from his desk, and walked over to Naruto. He patted the boy on his head. "More then anyone else. Your mother and father wanted you to be seen as a hero in the village, and that you would live a happy life."
Naruto nodded slowly, but one more question burned his mind. "So why wasn't I?"
Sarutoobi's eyes got sad. "The council went behind my back, and told everyone that you were a jinchuuriki. I immediately acted to prevent further destruction of your life, and made it a law that no one of the new generation could be told, on punishment of death. But," Sarutobi went to a vault nearby, "The damage was already done. The villagers feared you would become the demon. The one they knew so little about." He dialed the last combination, and pulled out another scroll. "Kyuubi, as you know, is not really an evil spirit. Only called so." He opened the scroll, and placed it in front of Naruto. "Here is the law I had made, along with the terms and punishments. Please note the date."
"October 11. The day after I was born. So, you really did try, but they succeeded anyways." Naruto understood.
"I have one more set of pictures to show you. Will you be willing to look at it?" Hiruzen asked.
"Sure." Naruto said. He was a little sad at this point.
The old man nodded, picked the scroll up, closed it up, and locked it back up in the vault. He went back over to his desk, and picked up the other scroll from earlier. "There is a secret photo made three days after a hokage is inaugurated. It was a something that all the hokages did. It's an S class secret, but I think you have the right to know." He pulled 4 photos out of the scroll, and handed them to Naruto.
Naruto took them, and looked at them. Naruto gasped. In each of the 4 photos, the 4 hokages were depicted in their own photos. But they all had the same similarity. The all had a 9 tailed horse sized kyuubi in front of each of the hokages. The hokages were bowing to Kina!
"So, all of the hokages know about Kina? And why are they bowing to her?" Naruto asked.
"Yes. There is a contract that was made between the village of konoha and Kyuubi no Kitsune. The village would respect that the kyuubi owned the land of fire, and give her freedom to enter the village as she pleased. Also, we would leave her alone, and give her an offering of a festival every year. The people never knew what the festival was about, but they enjoyed it anyways. In return, the village would be allowed to prosper in peace. She would protect us from all of the unknown forces in the world." Hiruzen said quietly. "Now, we no longer have her full protection, and if she ever got free, I fear that she might just leave us anyways. She would never destroy us, but she wouldn't help us either."
"Why?"
"With the way the villagers treated you of course, just because you had her sealed inside of you." Sarutobi picked the photos back up, and sealed them up once more.
"Point taken, she hates most of the villagers now." Naruto said calmly.
Sarutobi eyed the boy. He sighed, he dreaded about what he was to ask, but he had to ask it. "Naruto, I'm sorry. Do you think you could forgive a foolish old man?"
Naruto smiled somewhat. "I have never known for you to lie to me. You looked out for me when I was in trouble, and I suspect you helped me out somehow when I was a kid. Plus the fact that all ANBU were told to help me, right?"
Sarutobi sighed in relief. "Correct, Naruto."
"Then I forgive you." Naruto said calmly.
Sarutobi saw something in Naruto's eyes. He smiled. "You know Naruto. I completely agree with Jiraiya. You might become stronger then even your father. Make this old fool proud, and I bet your parents, no matter how you turn out from here on out, will be very proud of you."
Tears formed in Naruto's eyes. "Thanks, Oji-san." When Naruto said that, Sarutobi knew he had Naruto's full respect still. "I needed to hear that."
"Now, one more thing. As I mentioned earlier, you have a letter from your father." Sarutobi started.
Naruto nodded. "And I respect my Father's terms. I'll prove that I'm a confident chuunin, and then I'll grab that letter from you."
The hokage smiled. "Of that, I'm sure you will, Naruto. Is that all you wanted from me?"
Naruto nodded. "I'll see you later, Oji-san?"
Hiruzen smiled. "Yes, come whenever you like, Naruto." He sighed, and looked at his desk. "Now on to this retched paperwork."
Naruto laughed, and reached for the door. Naruto turned around to see Sarutobi said, and Naruto didn't like that his Oji-san was frustrated. He quickly thought of something, and smiled. "Hey, Oji-san."
"Yes?"
"I have the answer to all your paperwork problems."At that, Sarutobi sprang over the desk and groveled at Naruto's feet. 'Wow... he seems fit for an old man.'
"Please tell me, Naruto!" Sarutobi said. "If you do, I'll give you anything you want!"
Naruto smiled some more. "Well... I was kind of short on elemental jutsus. You think you could get me some wind, water, and lightning type?"
Sarutobi was giddy. He quickly got up, and went over to a door that was sealed. He unsealed it, rummaged through it, and came back out with 4 scrolls.
"1 wind, 1 water, and 1 lightning scroll that almost no one uses. These jutsu all rank from C to A. One of the wind guaranteed to knock your opponents out."
"Thanks, but what's the last scroll?" Naruto asked.
"Well, that's elemental combination lesson. It'll teach you how to combine elemental affinities into an even more powerful one. It's a rarely ventured field though, but with your mind, you might be able to make something more out of it." Sarutobi paused. "Now, gimme." he said childishly.
Naruto laughed, and took the scrolls. 'Who said your inner child dies?' He sealed them away into a seal on his leg, and then stared into the hokage's eyes. "Two words. Shadow clone."
At that, Sarutobi simply nodded. He went back to his desk, and sat down. He rummaged through his desk until he found a letter from Jiraiya that said in bold words, 'Open when you figure out how to deal with paperwork.'
Sarutobi opened it up, and took out a piece of paper. On it, it said Bang head here. Inside a small circle that was in the center of the paper.
"Just one question, Oji-san. How come you have all this stuff here, and not in town?"
Hiruzen put the paper on the desk. "Well, this office is actually the original office of the hokage. Literally. It's kind of confusing, but this office is the one that actually has everything in it. The office down at the tower only has a spacial seal on it that allows all of the non-living things in here, be accessed in the office down in the village. I turn the seal off every night, and it's as if the office is completely empty. One more thing, everything placed in that office will automatically be transported here." Sarutobi said, knowing that it would give an idea to Naruto.
"That... was confusing." Naruto said, but knowing that seals can do that. Hell, from what he learned from Jiraiya, seals can do just about anything.
"Yes, I know. But learn a little bit more, and you could understand it completely. Hell, it was your father that made the system." Saurtobi said.
"Wow. I have my work cut out for me." Naruto said.
"Yes, you do." Sarutobi said. "Now go and rest. Today's the second day of the exam, and already 5 teams have passed. I have a feeling that there will be preliminary rounds before you leave the tower, and I want to see a good fight from you."
"Got it, Oji-san." Naruto smiled, and exited the door.
Once the door closed, Hiruzen then proceeded to bang his head on the paper repeatedly saying "Baka" each time he hit his head. (1)
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Final day of the exam, time: 1454 hours.
During the past two days, Naruto and Hinata couldn't even be in the same room without blushing at each other.
Now they had to stand near each other, as the last of the participants lined up in their teams.
All in all, 8 teams had passed. The remaining three teams had staggered in on thefinal day as none of the other teams came in on day 3 or 4.
Among them was team 7, team 8, team Gai, team 10, Team Kabuto, Team 3 from Suna, Team Sound, and a team from Amegakura, an unknown and Kageless village.
As the clock hit 1500 hours, the time that the exam started 5 days ago, The hokage came forward. "Welcome all who passed the second exam." He eyed all of them equally. "As with the tradition, I shall tell you all the true reason why we have the chuunin exams."
This had a majority of the gennin confused.
"Long ago, we had no way to determine which village had the strongest shinobi. Wars broke out many times, and many innocent died in their wake. After the third great shinobi war, the five great hidden villages made a contract." He paused. "The contract was to have the chuunin exam hosted by one of the five great nations, and members from each village would be allowed to join, as well as any minor villages. This had two effects. One, that each nation would be able to test their shinobi strength against others. Two, chuunins were selected from the best of the best." (2)
"So," Naruto said, "the chuunin exams are all mini wars between their own villages?"
The hokage nodded. "Yes, that is it exactly. So, in that regard. You are all representing your own villages. Make them proud of you." The hokage stopped. He paused to think. 'One Ame team. One sound team...' The hokage smiled. 'And 6 konoha teams. I hope we prove to be a more quantity then quality.' He looked over to team 8. 'Then again, that team might just show us a whole new level.' "One month from now..." The hokage was cut off from a little coughing.
"I'm sorry to interrupt you, Hokage-sama. May I please ask for the floor?" A sick man with a sword on his back asked.
"Yes you may, Hayate-san." The hokage took a step back.
"Hello. I am your proctor for the third exam. My name is Gekkō Hayate. Before we move on to the third exam though, we will be performing a preliminary exam, right here."
"WHAT!?" Sakura yelled out. "We just got out of the woods. You seriously can't expect us to fight right away!"
"Sorry, but those are the rules. If you don't like it, blame the two teams who got here on the first day." The man said as he gestured to both team 8 and team Suna.
Several teams looked at the two teams that were pointed out. Team Suna they understood. All of the members looked prepped and ready for a major battle. (Coughhinthintcough)
Then they looked to Team 8. All three member's hoods were up, so their faces were hidden. They looked secretive, but body language was still readable somewhat.
The easiest was the one in the dark blue trench coat in the middle. She was looking down at the ground, and he hands were holding each other at the waist.
The next was the one in the black trench coat, at the front of the line. His hands were in his coat's pockets, and his body posture screamed tense. 'Why did he have to say that in front of everyone!?' He thought.
The hardest to read was the one in the grey coat. He just stood there, but a few body language readers, a.k.a. Neji, Lee, and Sasuke, knew that the boy was slightly tensed.
"Anyways, Anko-san, if you would please." The proctor called out.
"Right, open it up boys!" She yelled at the observation deck. The man nodded, and flicked a switch near him.
A screen appeared. "This screen here will randomly select two opponents from the group. It will be a 1 on 1 fight until your opponent gives up, dies, or I call the match. Other then that, there are no rules. Now, before we continue, does anyone here want to give up, or you feel like you can't fight?"
None of the contestants raised their hands.
"Right, let the preliminary rounds begin!"
The screen flashed several names until two showed up.
"Tsurugi Misumi v. Inuzuka Kiba"
"Okay, will everyone but the two selected go up to the observation decks?" Hayate asked, but really commanded.
The two leaf ninja stayed behind as the rest went up to the decks above.
"You ready to get pounded!" Kiba yelled at his opponent, and put Akamaru down on the ground next to him.
"Hmph. You'll be the one that is beaten. Not I." The leaf ninja had on black pants and tank top with a white shirt underneath. He had on black fingerless gloves with metal protectors on them. The lower half of his face had a black cloth covering it. He had glasses on over his black eyes.
"Are both contestants ready?" They both nodded. "HAJIME!" He brought his hand down.
Kiba jumped back with Akamaru at his side. "Stay here buddy, I'll finish this off quickly." He got down into his dog stance. "TSUUGA!" He yelled out as he ran forward and then started turning very fast. His claws lengthened when he started spinning fast enough.
The swirling tornado went straight for the other leaf ninja. "That's fast." The ninja said. "But not fast enough." He quickly jumped out of the way, only to see the Tsuuga bounce off the ground, and the head straight towards him. This was not good.
He decided to play it safe, and let his opponent wear himself out. Unfortunately, that was easier said then done, as every time he stopped moving the Tsuuga would be right on him.
"Is this the only technique you know?" The man taunted. That worked. 'He's over confident.'
The boy stopped spinning, and landed on the ground with ease. He hopped back to his place next to Akamaru. "Not really. I do have something special. Ready Akamaru?" He held up two soldier pills.
'What's he doing?' Naruto wondered. He had heard that the Inuzuka worked with dogs. Hell, he knew the boy personally, but he had never seen Akamaru fight with him.
The dog barked, and Kiba gave one to his dog, and then took one himself.
"You think I'll give you time to get ready!" The enemy said as he ran at Kiba. He quickly latched onto the boy in a death hug. The man's arms wrapped around the boy even more. "Hehe, surprised? I got a special surgery that lets me bend my body beyond normal limitations. What do you have to counter this, huh?"
The dog boy didn't say anything, as his bones were being crushed bit by bit. The boy looked ready to pass out, but just as he was ready to go, Kiba smiled, and disappeared in a poof of smoke.
The man looked surprised. Suddenly, two Kibas appeared behind the man.
"Jūjin Bunshin!"(Man beast clone!) One of the Kibas yelled out, and slashed at the man.
The man jumped forward to avoid the claws, and then turned around quickly only to get a smoke bomb in his face. The smoke covered the entire floor, and the spectators watched carefully for any sign of something happening.
"GATSUUGA!" They heard kiba yell out, and after many hits to the ground, a gushy sound was heard, and a scream as well. The other shinobi was thrown out of the smoke with a big wound on his stomach.
'Hmm, smart dog. He switched with Akamaru the moment the attacker went at him. Akamaru was in no danger, as the dog was super powered with energy to keep him from getting crushed. Then he had Akamaru quickly change forms again, and well, the rest is history.' Naruto thought.
Hayate quickly approached the downed shinobi. He checked for vitals, the man was alive, but badly injured. He motioned a medic team in, and stood up to face the rest of the group. "By knock out of his enemy, Inuzuka Kiba wins." Hayate called out.
Ino cheered for him from above, and Shikamaru just went, "Woohoo." lazily waving his fist in the air.
After The medic team cleared out, and Kiba was congratulated by his teammate Ino. They looked to the board to see who would go next.
The board kept spinning.
And spinning.
After a full minute of the board spinning, Kiba lost his patience, and yelled out, "STOP ALREADY!"
And it did. No slow down, just plain stopped. "Well, that worked..."
"Yakushi Kabuto v. Akadō Yoroi"
They all looked to the two men. Kabuto raised his hand. "I forfeit. I was hoping for an easy match, but I guess I my luck was up. I'm too tired and injured to take my teammate on. Especially when he knows all my moves."
"Winner by forfeit is Akadō Yoroi." Hayate said.
"Sorry about that Yoroi." Kabuto said.
"No problem. I didn't really want to fight you either." Yoroi responded.
The board began randomize the names once more.
Naruto called out, "Round and around it goes. Where it stops? Nobody knows." Several people face faulted at that.
Three seconds later, the board stopped.
"Mubi v. Haruno Sakura"
"Finally it's my turn!" Sakura calls out. She skipped down the steps.
Naruto looked at the board, and the Ame nin that was slowly walking down the steps. He called out to the boy, "What? No surname? C'mon man, the rest of us have a family name!"
"Ah, shut it, kid. Information is very important in a battle. I wouldn't give away my family's name if it meant that you could figure my combat style out." The shinobi said as he finished walking into place. The Ame nin had a breather mask over his face, so it distorted his voice.
Eager to show off in front of Sasuke, she called out to him. "Sasuke-kun" (bleh) "Are you watching me?"
Sasuke replied with a 'hn'.
"If I were you, I'd watch your enemy little girl." The Ame ninja said.
"SHUT UP! Can't you see I'm trying to keep his attention?" Sakura asked.
"Proctor." The ame nin looks to the man. "Could you start the match. I don't think I can hold back any longer."
"You and everyone else." Kakashi whispered. The proctor nodded.
"Are you ready Haruno-san?" She ignored him in her attempts to get Sasuke's attention. A tick mark appeared on Hayate's head. He brought down his hand. "HAJIME!"
"Sakura-san. You might want to-" BAM! "-nevermind." Naruto tried to warn the pinkette, but she got hit over the head.
"OW! You hurt me!"
"Well, duh. It is a match." Mubi replied. "Now that you have your full attention on the battle, maybe we can start." He threw his kunai at Sakura. She dodged it, only to get a kunai in the shoulder.
"What the?" Sakura asked. She looked at the wound. It came from behind, but the enemy threw it from the front. 'What's going on here? I fought these guys back in the forest, but they left us alone in the last second.' She thought for a second over their battle. They had jumped them, and there were hundreds of them. The entire team attacked them, but they hit nothing. Every once in a while, they would get a random mark. Luckily for the three, the sun had risen, and the enemy nins had backed off. 'We couldn't figure out how to hit them then. Have to think. Genjutsu?' She held up her hand. "KAI!" She received another kunai in her back. She quickly turned around to see nothing. 'Where is it coming from?'
"Hehehe." A voice echoed through the room. "You can't touch me, but I can touch you." The Ame nin rushed her. They engaged in a light taijutsu. Sakura using kitten glove style, and the Ame nin using an unknown style. Usually, the Ame nin wouldn't engage in close range combat. But... Sakura managed to get a small opening in his attacks.
She reached out to hit him, only for him to dissolve. 'A clone?' She turned around quickly, only to get another kunai in the back. She now had three of them stuck in her back. 'C'mon think girl. Think. How is he doing this?' She turned again. She caught something. It was quick, but she still saw it. A second Ame Shinobi melting into the floor.
Naruto was watching the battle, and he knew who would win. Sakura was obviously going to get beaten. The Ame nin was a tactician. They don't like close range combat, but they can hold up until the enemy is warn down. And right now, Sakura was playing into his trap. 'She saw him melt into the ground, but it's too late. Her reaction time wont be enough.' Sure enough, she tried to catch him again, but she was always to slow.
"C'mon little girl. Give up. You can't win in a real fight." The Ame shinobi taunted.
"I'm not a little girl. I'm a full grown Kunoichi!" she yelled back, obviously losing it.
"What, with breasts like that?" The voice called out again.
She blushed. Ino also blushed, and looked at her own chest. Sakura yelled out. "Come out and fight me! I know I can beat you!"
"Alright." The voice didn't echo this time. "Give up." It was coming from behind Sakura. A kunai held to her neck. Sakura's eyes widened. Never had her life been on the edge like this. She was scared beyond her wits, and her mind couldn't process what to do. It was just like what happened with Orochimaru. Her mind was flying at a hundred miles an hour, yet it wasn't coming to a conclusion about what to do.
Kina shook her head slowly. She knew the girl would break the moment that happened. Nelrim was nearby. He quickly spoke to Naruto using thoughts.
"Look, Naruto. This is what happens when you fill your mind too much. It's a dangerous path to walk down the mind only."
Naruto thought for a moment. "Same with training the body only as well, correct?" "Correct. Now put this in perspective about what Jiraiya told you the day you came here."
"Proctor. Call the match. She's too out of it to do anything. Look, she even wet herself." The Ame nin said in disgust. The proctor walked over to the girl. He waved his hand in front of her eyes. She didn't respond. The proctor coughed a couple of times.
"Winner Mubi of Amegakura." The Ame shinobi pulled his kunai away slowly, and pocketed it.
"Hmph. I thought that Konoha was great, but this is just weak." He proceeded to walk up the stairs.
The proctor called in a couple of medics to tend to the girl. They carried her off. "Can I have the next match please?" He asked out loud, and the board had begun to spin once more.
"Tsuchi Kin v. Nara Shikamaru" (Please do not blame me, blame the randomizer. 4 out of 5 randomization tries had this match up.) 'Another brainiac. But this one is much smarter and more relaxed then the last one.' Naruto thought. 'Let's see how he does this time.' (The match goes exactly like in the manga)
"Winner by knock out Nara Shikamaru"
"So what about this time, Nelrim? As long as I have known the guy, he's too lazy to work out." Naruto asked.
"Ah, that's where the differences start working. You haven't seen it, but Shikamaru does train his body. Mostly due to his mother. He also has a calmer mind then anyone I know." Nelrim responded. "So, having a calm and relaxed mind can give you an edge?" "To be blunt... yes. And no. If you're too relaxed, you can be caught by surprised. You need to be calm, but also alert." Naruto nodded slowly, and then looked up at the board.
"Higurashi Tenten v. Sabaku no Kankuro"
"Can I have the two contestants come down please?" The proctor called. They both jump into the arena.
"Alright! My turn." Kankuro calls out. He pulls the wrapped up mummy off of his back, and lays it on the ground. "Too bad I have to fight a girl."
Lightning cracks through the air. "What was that, nii-san?" Temari called out.
"Ehehe, nothing."
"So, I have to fight a mime?" Tenten asked. Kankuro face faulted.
"WHO ARE YOU CALLING A MIME!"He quickly got back up.
"You."
"You know, she does have a point." Temari said. "Speaking of, you haven't gotten into my make-up again, have you?"
"Who's side are you on!?" Kankuro yelled out. "It's warpaint. WARPAINT!"
The proctor coughed a bit. "Um, could we get back to the battle here?" he asked.
"Sure, I'm ready." Tenten said.
"I'm ready as well!" Kankuro said.
"HAJIME!"
Immediately, Tenten threw several kunai and shuriken at her enemy. Kankuro responded with a dodge to the right. "Quick on your feet. Are you a clown instead?" Tenten asked, as she threw more weapons at him.
A tick mark appeared on his head. "THIS IS WAR PAINT GODDAMMIT!" He dodged again.
"Right." She held up her hands, and began to pull some thin wires with them. Kankuro noticed the wire, only too late. He got several kunai pulled straight into his back."Got you!" Tenten cheered. A weird sound echoed through the room. Kankuro was still standing up. "What's with you? You should be really hurt. Those were extra sharp kunai!" Tenten said.
Kankuro slowly lifted his head, and smiled. "Those don't work on me." He said slowly, and charged Tenten. Tenten reflexs kicked in, and she threw several weapons at the sand shinobi, and then moved to the left. The Kunai hit the boy dead on, but he didn't even flinch. She decided to see what was going on, so she aimed for his face. The boy didn't dodge, and the kunai hit dead center in between the eyes, forcing his head backwards. A loud thunk echoed through the room. Kankuro slowly brought his head back forward, only for Tenten to see that his face was cracked. Three more kunai hit his face in random places. The mask finally came off, only to reveal a wooden face underneath it. The disguise completely came off, and Tenten was faced with a floating puppet. "Now that's just creepy." Tenten said. She looked over to the chakra strings coming from the puppet. She followed them until she saw the mummified thing sitting against the wall. She smiled, and threw a couple at it. The puppet immediately put itself in between her and the thing."Found you." she said in a sing song tone. She threw a few kunai way off target to the right. The kunai then started turning in midair, and Tenten was using a wire once more. She made it go straight for the mummy.
The puppet attempted to move, but Tenten was holding a wire in her other hand. This one connected to the kunai in the puppet's body. The bandages slipped off the mummified thing, only to reveal that it was Kankuro. He quickly dodged the kunai heading for him. "Tch. I didn't think you would find out so fast." Kankuro said. "No matter, I'll beat you anyways!" The puppet quickly moved towards Tenten. Tenten attempted to move out of the way, but the puppet kept changing it's course.
'C'mon think. Agh dammit I can't think right now. I need to tie down this puppet before I can think... Wait. That's it!' She smiled, and threw several shuriken at the puppet. She pulled on the shuriken to move it in a way that would make them go around the puppet. The shuriken spun several times around the puppet, and then clinged to it. She threw several kunai at the wall nearby, and then charged Kankuro with kunai in hand. The puppet moved to intercept, but the wires were holding it to the wall. Kankuro started to sweat. He dropped the chakra strings, and then moved to get his own kunai. He blocked the kunai strikes from Tenten. Tenten then made a reverse grip with the kunai in her other hand, and slashed outward. Blood appeared on Kankuro's chest. He jumped backward, holding his hand to his chest. He looked at it. It was only a shallow wound. He stood up slowly. The girl was spinning a kunai on one of her fingers.
"Hehe. You're not good in close range combat, are you?" The kunai spinning on her finger was put into a reverse grip. "Then I win." She charged the boy once more, and Kankuro moved to keep out of her attack area. Suddenly, she stopped attacking. Both were a little out of breath, but Tenten was smiling.
"What are you so smug about?" Kankuro asked. "This." She brought her hand up, and pulled it backwards. Kankuro's eyes widened. He quickly thought to dodge, but that was overcome by pain. Several kunai entered his back. Kankuro's eyes widened in pain. Two more kunai entered his chest. Blood spattered Tenten's face. She looked over to the proctor as she let go of the kunai."Proctor call the match. If I wanted to kill him I would've done so just now." Kankuro fell on his side. That was a good thing. If he had fallen on his stomach or back, the kunai would've gone in even further. Or worse, rip the wound open even more. The proctor was going to stop Tenten after that anyway. He had seen the blood on the girl's face. Add that to her sweet smile, and it was just plain creepy.
"Winner by knock out Higurashi Tenten." Medics entered the floor, and picked up the fallen boy. They pulled the kunai out of his back, since they weren't that deep, and then carried him out. Tenten skipped up the stairs with a sweet smile on her face, not that it made her any less creepy.
She passed by Naruto, and she stopped to look at him."Are you going to join the Togatta any time soon?"
Naruto started to sweat, but no one could tell as his face was covered. "Um, still thinking about it."
"Think really well. You don't want to piss of Anko-chan, do you?"
"Point taken." (lame pun)
"Will the two contestants please come to the floor?" The proctor called out. Naruto missed the spinning board, and looked to see the names.
"Rock Lee v. Aburame Shino"
Naruto looked over to Shino, only to see that the boy had already gotten up. "Good luck, Shino! We're rooting for you!"
Hinata also called out, "Good luck, Shino-san!"
Kurenai was happy that her students were looking out for each other. She smiled, and waved at Shino. "Good luck, Shino!"
They didn't know it, but that warmed the boy's heart to know his teammates and sensei were rooting for him.
He walked the rest of the way down, and turned to face Lee standing before him. 'Close range combat specialist. Uses little amounts of chakra. This will be a tough match.' Shino brought himself up to a defensive stance. 'Hope I can last long enough.'
"Are both contestants ready?" They both nodded. "HAJIME!"
Lee rushed at Shino at a speed he hadn't expected. He brought his arms up to block, but somehow the kick sent him flying anyways. 'Blocking doesn't work. I think I should dodge more.' He got himself back up. Lee rushed him again. Shino dodged under a kick to his head. Lee kept pushing Shino, as the boy kept dodging. 'I don't see any tricks. This is pure tiajutsu. I don't think I have trained enough to keep up with him.' A kick to Shino's side was coming. Shino couldn't dodge it, so he reflexed his arms to block the attack. Shino got himself out of the whole in the wall that was made when he was kicked halfway across the floor. 'I have to hold him off a little more. He doesn't seem to be tiring though.' Shino was now confused. He had gotten up twice in this battle without the enemy attacking him while he was vulnerable. "Rock-san, why are you letting me get up?"
"I'm confused."
"Why do you say that?"
"How do you know that stance? It's a defensive stance that only Gai-sensei and I know."
"I got a taijutsu scroll from Naruto. He told me to train, and I'm glad I did." Shino was hoping for a delay. The longer the delay, the easier it will be to beat the boy. "I can see now, that was a good thing to train in."
"I see. Naruto!" Lee called out.
"Yeah?" Naruto responded.
"You look out for your comrades. For that, you have made this match a little more interesting." Lee said.
"Don't thank me yet. The fun is just starting." Naruto smiled.
Shino nodded as well. "Thanks to Naruto, I have been training day in and day out in taijutsu." Shino slowly put his hands together in a ram sign. "KAI!" He brought his hands back down to his side. "Now, come at me."
Lee smiled, and rushed the boy once more. Something seemed different this time. The boy was moving faster then before. Not by a lot, but the boy was no longer worried about dodging his kicks. Shino seemed to be dodging just fine, and even countering every once in a while. Lee backed off from the taijutsu battle. "How are you faster?" Lee asked.
Meanwhile, up in the stands.
Gai whispered to Kakashi. "You don't think."
Kakashi whispered back. "Yeah. Gravity seal. I didn't think they existed still."
"Me neither. Gravity seals usually require a very dexterous hand to apply them." Gai said.
Tenten spoke up. "What are you talking about?"
"Shino has a seal on his body that constantly weighs him down, but his actual weight wont change."
"Soooo, how is that significant?" Tenten asked. "Well, in perspective. It's like the weights Lee uses. Only more efficiently, as it works the entire body, not just his legs." Gai said. "It really depends on how many times the gravity seal was at."
Naruto, at this point got up, and walked over to the group. "He only had it a 2.5x gravity."
Gai looks over to Naruto. He didn't even feel his presence coming up to him. "Oh, and how do you know this?" They couldn't see it beneath the mask, but Naruto smiled. "I'm the one that applied it."
Back down on the ground.
Shino thought about it carefully. "A shinobi never reveals his secrets." Shino said. And then put his hands into a ram sign once more. "KAI!" 'That was the final set of seals. Now I can go all out.' Shino brought himself into a defensive stance. "Come. Let's finish this battle." Lee smiled his eye blinding smile, and then rushed Shino. This time, Lee was having trouble getting any attacks in. Every time he attacked, Shino countered it.
He brought a kick up to Shino's head. Shino hopped up, and wrapped his arm around Lee's leg. Shino then did a backflip, and threw Lee with it. When Lee got back up, both contestants were breathing hard. "Good. It seems to finally kicking in." Shino said.
"Wait, what?" Lee asked. He gasped for a little more breath. 'I'm tired this soon? What's going on?'
Up on the stands.
"So you're the one that applied them?" Kakashi asked. "Yeap." Naruto looked back down to the floor. It seemed Shino was holding on just fine. He noticed something then. "How much weight is Lee wearing?"
"Oh, about 2 tons." Naruto's eyes bugged out. "2 TONS!?"
Gai smiled, and turned back to the battle. "LEE! Take them off!" Gai called out.
Back on the floor.
"Really!?" Lee asked with enthusiasm.
"Yes!" Gai said with his trademarked pose.
Lee rushed backward until he was on the statue of two hands in a ram sign behind the hokage. Lee lifted his leg warmers, and took off a metal weight from each leg. He held them up, and then dropped them. Naruto watched the weights slowly fall to the ground. A large crater was formed from each of the weights. Several people gasped. At this point, Shino knew he was screwed. He was able to keep up just fine before hand, but now, he didn't think he could keep up. Lee moved to jump up, and then disappeared from sight. Shino looked around quickly, but couldn't see the boy. Lee appeared right in front of him, in a kick already moving at high speeds. Shino couldn't react in time. His head got pounded into a wall. The dust cleared to show a knocked out Shino coming off the wall. He landed hard on the floor. The proctor walked up to Shino to see that the boy was out cold.
"Winner by knock out Lee Rock!"
"SHINO!" Naruto called out, and hopped over the rail. He landed on the floor and rushed over to Shino's side. "You okay buddy?" The medics came into the room, and carefully picked the bug boy up. "Wait a second." Naruto called out. He walked over to Lee. "Lee, could you stand still for a second?"
"Sure?" Lee said. Naruto put his hand on Lee's shoulder, and then started to expel some chakra from his hand. Several bugs came to Naruto's hand.
"Thanks."
"Wait.. how did those bugs get on me?" Lee asked.
"Every time you touched Shino, he put a bug on you. He was waiting for the bugs to eat you out, but... well." Naruto walked back up to the bug boy. He put his hand with the bugs on it to the boy, and the bugs crawled off his hand onto Shino. "I'm not even sure if that was all of them. Shino never taught me how to sense his bugs." The medics nodded, and took the Aburame to a medical room.
"That was nice drama and all, but we have a match to continue here." The proctor said.
"Oh, right, sorry." Naruto said, and walked back up with Lee right behind him. The board had already stopped spinning by the time Naruto sat down next to Hinata. Hinata was sad that her friend didn't win. "Don't worry Hinata-chan. He did his best, and we should be proud that he could do so. That, and we'll have to train him ourselves later." Kurenai smiled. She was proud that Shino managed to make Lee take off his weights, and that her students were looking out for each other.
Hinata smiled a little at that. "Yeah, I have a few pointers for him." She paused. "Did you see how fast Lee moved?"
"Yeah, it was just below my top speed, and that means using MK in a straight line. He wasn't moving in a straight line." Naruto said slowly. They looked up to the board.
"Hyuuga Neji v. Sabaku no Gaara"
"Your cousin?" Naruto asked.
"Yeah." Hinata said sadly.
"What's wrong?" Naruto asked.
Hinata looked down. "He and I don't get along very well."
"Why's that?"
"He blames me for his father's death." Hinata said. On the floor The two contestants stared at each other.
"Are you both ready?" Neither of them made any movement.
"HAJIME!" the proctor called out.
Neji immediately went into Jyuuken stance, and flawlessly activated his Byakugan. The first thing he noticed was that there was a seal in the exact same spot that Naruto has it on. His stomach. It was much bigger then any other seal he had ever seen on a human body though. It covered the entire mid section. He put that aside as he had noticed that sand was leaking out of Gaara's jar. Gaara was uninterested in this one. He wanted to fight him. He looked up to Naruto, and sent a glare his way. Neji was curious as to why Gaara and Naruto were staring each other down, but right now he wanted to take advantage of the boy's neglect to stay on task. He rushed forward to attack the boy. 3 feet from him, Neji launched his attack, and a mere 3 inches from the boy's heart, sand stopped his attack. Neji immediately backed away. Gaara's full attention was on him now, and he wanted to see how this 'prodigy', they called him in the reports, would stand up to him. Gaara just stood there.
Neji rushed once more. He wanted to finish this match quickly, and show the main branch that they were all failures.
He would kill Hinata.
His attack was stopped once more. Every strike failing to punch through the sand. Neji was getting ticked. The suna ninja wasn't even breaking a sweat against the enemy's attacks. Neji then changed stances, and called out, "You are in my divination. Hakke: Rokujūyon Shō." (Eight trigrams: 64 palms) Neji rushed towards Gaara faster then anyone could keep up. Two palms hit sand. "Two palms. 4 palms. 8 palms. 16 palms. 32 palms." At this point some of the strikes were going through the sand and hitting Gaara. "64 palms!" the last strike hit home on Gaara's stomach. Gaara was launched backwards, and hit the wall hard. Luckily, his gourd dissolved to take the impact. Gaara slowly got up, and looked straight at the Hyuuga. Neji's eyes were twitching trying to figure something out. Why wasn't the enemy's tenketsu closed up? He clearly hit them, and he saw some of them completely close up, but afterwards Gaara stood right back up, the boy's tenketsu were open again. He saw some weird chakra flowing through the boy's chakra pathways now. It had a yellow glow to it, instead of the normal blue. When Gaara looked straight at Neji, he saw the face of the boy cracked, and fall off into sand.
"You. You might be able to fulfill my existence. By killing you, I might be able to prove I EXIST!" Gaara lifted his hand up, right as the last of the sand armor cracked off to show a sadistic grin. "Sabaku Kyū." (Sand coffin) Sand streamed out from near Gaara, and rushed towards Neji.
Neji moved away from the sand quickly, not wanting to find out what happens if he's caught in it. Suddenly some sand caught his arm. He flinched, and immediately started to let chakra stream out of his body. He spun on his feet, and then called out, "KAITEN!" (rotation) A big blue sphere enveloped around Neji as he spun on his feet. The sand was either split into tiny particles, or sent flying away. When Neji stopped spinning, he stared directly at Gaara.
Hinata was in disbelief. That was the Main family's best defense. Neji making it up on his own proved that he was a prodigy.
Gaara was still smiling. "You. Yes, you are way more interesting then I first believed. Try this! Sabaku Kyū." (Sand coffin) He used both hands this time, and even more sand then last time streamed out towards Neji.
Neji cursed, and moved as quickly as he could. With his eyes he would keep out for anything trying to approach him. He quickly looked to see that Gaara's sand was stretched thin. Neji rushed over to Gaara, and got close enough to make the sand fly up. Neji figured this would happen, and called out, "Kaiten!" (rotation)And made the sand shield split apart. Before the sand could come back, Neji then called out, "You are in my divination! Hakke: Rokujūyon Shō." (Eight trigrams: 64 palms) "2 palms." They hit the boy's body. "4 palm. 8 palm. 16 palm. 32 palm! 64 palm!" All of the attack landed, and Neji smirked. He confirmed it this time. All 64 targets were closed. There was no way the Suna shinobi would get back up. "Proctor call the match. He wont get back-"
"Sabaku Kyū." (Sand coffin) Suddenly Neji was completely wrapped up in sand. He was lifted into the air. "Sabaku Sōsō" (Sand Waterfall Funeral) Before the sand could compress, some of the sand exploded out from Neji. It still crushed his legs though. Neji fell down from the air. He pushed himself up, and looked to where the Suna shinobi was. Gaara was on his hands and knees. Blood coming from his mouth. "This warm liquid." He felt his mouth, and then took his hand away from it. "It's my blood!" He screamed, and the sand around him suddenly surged for Neji.
Neji was helpless. 'No! I can't die here! It was my fate to win this match!' Suddenly, a green figure intercepted the sand.
"Enough! Hyuuga Neji is down for the count."
"Why? Why do you protect him?" Gaara asked.
"Because, he's my student." Gai said slowly. Neji passed out from the pain.
"Winner by interference Sabaku no Gaara." The proctor called out. "Medics, hurry get out here. This boy's legs have been crushed." A team of medics rushed out to Neji, and get him on a stretcher carefully. A couple of medics wander over to Gaara. Before they could get to him, Temari gets in the way. "It's okay. I'll take care of him." The medics nod, and move to tend to Neji.
She wandered over to her younger brother, and spoke in soothing words. No one could here what she said, due to all the commotion coming from the medics, but Naruto could understand she was trying to calm the boy down. Suddnely, Gaara looked straight to Naruto. "I will kill you, Uzumaki Naruto." And then stood up slowly. He wandered over the the stairs and moved up them slowly.
"Now that the drama is over, can I have the next match please?" The proctor asks. The group looked up to the board to see the next contestants.
"Kagari v. Hyuuga Hinata"
"Hehe, this will be a cinch." Kagari said. He, like his teammate, wore a breather that distorted his voice. They Ame ninja wore a lighter color then his teammate though.
Naruto looked over to his teammate. "I know you can win Hinata-chan. Go get them."
"Oh, I will. I've been wanting to show you what I can do for a long time now." Hinata smiled. She hopped down to the lower levels. She stood to face her enemy for this round.
Kurenai wondered how Hinata would do. She knew that the girl had been training in private, but to what extent, she didn't know. "Are both contestants ready?" They both nodded. "HAJIME!" Hinata seallessly activated her Byakugan. Something was different about her stance though. She still stood in a horse stance, but her arms were lowered to her waist. Her hands were in half ram signs each. "Hm? Your stance is different then the normal Jyuuken. It wont matter, you wont be able to touch me." The ninja said. Hinata smiled.
"Come at me then." The ninja threw his kunai at her, but she didn't move. The kunai hit her, and then dissolved. Another kunai flew right above her head. If she had dodged, she would have been hit. That's the mistake Sakura made. Hinata then moved across the field.
She knew how the enemy was attacking."You better have some new tricks. You wont win that way." She stopped, and then slammed her fingers into the ground. Again, and again. She smiled even more, and then punched the ground. "Give up now, or you will suffer the consequences."
"Never." a voice echoed. Hinata knew that was coming.
"Okay, but don't say I didn't warn you." A wave of chakra was expelled from her hand, and a second later, Kagari was thrown into the air from out of nowhere. Before anyone could blink, Hinata was with him in the air. "You are in my divination. Yoken Ryuchouhigeki Shō!" (Foresight: Flowing strike) Her hands flowed over the enemy, but never touched him. "3 strikes. 6 strikes." Her strikes didn't go in and out like the Jyuuken's palm. Instead, her hands seemed to move like a stream across the enemy's body. The strikes sent chakra waves out the other side of his body. "12 strikes. 24 strikes. 48 strikes." The strikes suddenly got very fast. Faster then even Naruto could keep up. "96 strikes!" The final hit was a double slash across the boy's torso, and he was thrown backwards. When all was said and done, Hinata landed gracefully on the ground, and her enemy collapsed against the ground like a rag doll. "Proctor call the match. If he doesn't get help soon, he will die."
The proctor walked up to the boy, and saw that his clothes were torn up, and chakra burns all across his torso. He saw blood coming from the boy's mouth. "Winner by knock out Hyuuga Hinata."
The room was speechless. Suddenly Naruto yelled out. "THAT WAS COOL! I KNEW YOU COULD DO IT HINATA-CHAN!"
Hinata blushed a little. 'Praise from Naruto-kun.'
The medics rushed in. They were used to what Jyuuken can do to an enemy, but they weren't ready for this. The boy's chakra was leaking out at a rapid pace. Not to mention that the burns on his body were getting worse from over exposure to chakra. Also, it seemed that many of his major organs were ripped up, and would need extensive medical care. One of the medics approached Hinata. "Can you tell us why chakra is leaking out of his system at a rapid pace?"
"Well, that's easy. I destroyed his chakra pathways." Hinata said. The medic's face grew a little sad. "So, he wont be able to be a shinobi anymore?" Hinata shook her head. "I can repair the damage, but I just used up a lot of my chakra. You got any soldier pills?" She had some of course, but they were expensive.
"Of course." He handed one to her, and she took it. She bit down on it, and she felt a bit better. "Okay, give me a second." She walked up to the Ame nin. "Hold him still. He's going to want to move during this." The medics move to restrain the ninja. She put her hand on his heart. A second later, the boy was screaming. After several seconds, the screaming stopped, and Hinata got up. "His chakra pathways are fixed now. I don't know how to help his organs though." She said in an apologetic tone.
"It's okay. You saved us a lot of trouble." The medic answered. Truth be told, the boy would be in surgery for the next 8 hours, but that was the price of a shinobi. The medics moved the boy quickly to an emergency room.
"Now that the field is clear." The proctor started after Hinata went up."Can I have the next match please?"
Hinata approached to where she sat before the match. Suddenly, she was being hugged by Naruto. "Great job out their, Hinata-chan. You looked so amazing!"
Hinata blushed a bit, but managed to get out, "Thank you, Naruto-kun."
"Don't thank me, you deserved it."
Kurenai walked up to Hinata. "Great job, Hinata-chan. You outdid my expectations." She beamed at the girl.
"Would the two contestants please come down to the field?" The proctor asked. Naruto looked up to the board. He smiled underneath his mask. "Welp, it looks like it's my turn!"
"Good luck, Naruto-kun!" Hinata said back.
"I don't need luck!" Naruto said. Kina hopped down from Naruto's shoulder to emphasize the point. Kurenai smiled, and looked up to the board.
"Uzumaki Naruto v. Kinuta Dosu"
Naruto hopped down to the floor. Dosu did as well. It was the same shinobi that had attacked the snake smelling boy. What confused Naruto is that Dosu had a hint of snake as well. 'What's with all these people smelling like a snake. Is my nose off?' Naruto wondered. Naruto looked Dosu over. He had on a special device on his arm, and his face was wrapped in mostly bandages. (If you don't know who this guy is, he's the one that beat Chouji in the manga)
Dosu looked Naruto over. Black. That's all he could describe Naruto as. Black hooded trench coat. Black fingerless gloves. Black sandals. Black face mask. He couldn't see a single thing that defined this 'naruto'. He had remembered that the boy was a sage, but he could already counter it. "Heh, can this shorty seriously take me on?"
The rest of the room cringed waiting for Naruto to yell back. Everyone, except Hinata, was surprised. "Can this humpback seriously take me on?" Naruto countered.
Jaws dropped. For years, Naruto has always been yelling at people for calling him short. Now, he was calm and collected. Several of the remaining konoha ninja were calling out "KAI" to release a genjutsu that wasn't there. Even Kakashi was calling it out. Kurenai just laughed at the scene.
Of course, calling the sound shinobi a humpback was just like calling chouji fat. "WHY YOU IGNORANT LITTLE BRAT! I WILL KILL YOU! PROCTOR START THE MATCH!"
"HAJIME!" Naruto did three handseals. The sound shinobi rushed at Naruto. He punched the air before Naruto. (3)
"…"
Nothing happened. "What? Why isn't it working?" Dosu asked. He looked at his device.
Naruto smiled. "I know exactly how that little device of yours works. When you push chakra into your arm, it makes the chakra go supersonic, and then forces it out of your hand, creating a massive body destroying sonic boom. Unfortunately, sound needs to travel through air, and," Naruto was holding up one half of a ram sign, "that can't happen in a vacuum." This was one of the first techniques that Naruto learned from the scroll of the gods. "It's called 'Fūton: Mamori Kuuhaku no Jutsu.'"(Wind: Vacuum defense jutsu) "As you can see, your attack is now nullified."
Dosu got angry, "AGGH!" He threw another punch at Naruto. And another. And another. Nothing happened. "Arg, If I can't use my sound, I'll just attack you directly, weakling!" He rushed at Naruto. He fist made contact with Naruto. Or so he thought, until he saw that Naruto vanished from the point around his hand. Before he could react at all, he was thrown into a nearby wall. Standing five feet from where Dosu had attacked to the right of him, Naruto was standing there with his arm outstretched and a fist at the end.
Hinata saw this all. Naruto hadn't even touched the sound shinobi, and yet the boy acted like he had taken a direct hit from Naruto. The ground where Naruto had stood at the beginning of the match was destroyed. Naruto stood up, and moved closer to Dosu. He moved to four feet from where the sound ninja was stuck in the wall. Naruto lifted his hand up into a striking position. He punched the air, and a large impact sound echoed through the room. The wall cracked around Dosu. Naruto punched again. The wall cracked once more. Another punch, and Dosu's body was sent through the wall, and out of the building.
The proctor's jaw dropped. 'That was 4 inches of solid concrete. Naruto forced Dosu through 4 inches of concrete!' The proctor caught himself, and rushed over to the hole in the wall. He looked outside. 30 feet from the wall, lay Dosu's prone body. He walked outside, and checked the boy out. He nodded, and whistled. A medic team came rushing through the hole in the wall. He walked back to his spot in the building. He looked over to the hokage. He looked at the old man as he said, "Winner by literal knock out Uzumaki Naruto." He walked back to the medics who were checking the damage on the boy. "So what's the damage?"
"5 broken ribs, a fractured hip, fractured 5 vertebrae all next to each other, a fractured right knee, ruptured spleen, one of the lungs has been punctured, and his shoulder's are both dislocated." The medic responded.
The proctor nodded. "Carry on." He walked back to his normal spot. "Due to damage to the building, we are taking a break before the next matches. Please be back in 30 minutes. Would all jounin please stay here?" The jounin nodded.
Naruto looked over to Hinata. "Let's go check on Shino."
She nodded, and stood up. She hopped down from the railing, and landed next to Naruto. "By the way, you looked awesome yourself."
Naruto blushed a little. "Thanks, Hinata-chan."
Hinata's thoughts went up at that moment. 'I wonder if he realizes he's been saying my name more.'
Kurenai stopped them. "Be sure to be back in 5 minutes before the matches start. And remember, you can't leave the building."
"Hai, Kurenai-sensei." They both responded, and they walked out of the room.
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In the medic hallway They walked up to a medic shinobi. "Where is Shino?" Naruto asked.
The medic shinobi pointed to a door nearby. "He just woke up. Don't let him get up though. His skull took a nasty hit, and it will be a week before his collar bone will heal up." They nodded, and walked into the room. Laying down in bandages, was a shirtless Shino. Holes were all over Shino's body. Even his arms. Neither of them were shocked by the sight though. They knew about the holes being used to let the bugs in and out of his body.
"You feeling okay, Shino?" Hinata asked. "Other then my head feeling like it was dunked into acid, and my shoulder burning such an intense heat that it could rival hell... Yeah, I'm feeling fine." Shino said.
Both of the visitors sweat dropped. "Did... did you hear a sarcastic remark?" Naruto asked.
"Nope. I'm pretending not to hear that." Hinata said.
"Good." Shino said deeply. His voice returned to normal. "So, have you done your matches yet?" They both nodded. "They by looking at you both, I assume you both won?"
"Yeah. Both of our matches were pretty easy. Hell, Hinata here almost killed her opponent." Naruto said.
"At least I didn't punch my opponent through a wall." Hinata giggled. Shino raised his eyebrows at that.
"Hey, take it easy. I didn't think that I would destroy the wall." Naruto said. "Heck, I didn't think it would even crack badly."
Hinata lifted her hand up to Naruto's arm. "Someone doesn't know his own strength." Hinata teased. She squeezed the muscle to prove her point... or to feel him up, either will do.
Shino smiled, and then frowned. "Sorry that I lost my match." "Hey, it's no problem. You are weakest against taijutsu experts. Heck, after he took off his weights, even I wouldn't be able to keep up with him." Naruto said. "'Sides, all that means is that you get another 6 months to train, and surprise our sensei again."
Shino looked up at that.
"Kurenai-sensei was very proud of you, Shino-san. We're proud of you, Shino-san." Hinata said.
"Thanks. I needed that." Shino said, his voice softer then normal.
Naruto smiled. "What are friends for? So, you need anything, or are you comfortable?"
"Yes, I'm very comfortable at the moment, but I seem to be missing some of my kikai." Shino said. "I tried to get them off of Lee, but I can't detect them." Naruto said. "No problem." They felt a weak chakra pulse. "There. My bugs will be back in due time." Shino said.
Hinata tapped Naruto's shoulder. "Naruto we have to get back."
"Already?"
Hinata nodded her head. "It took us 15 minutes to find this part of the tower. We've been here for 6 minutes."
"Crap. Sorry, we gotta go, buddy." Naruto said. "No problem. You better tell me how Chouji does." Shino said. "Got it." He looked over to Hinata. "Let's go."
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Tbc...
1, I saw this in several fanfics, and I wanted to add it. Not original, I know, but hey, it's funny in my opinion.
2, Yes, I know this isn't what he really said, but it felt right writing it this way.
3, I was so tempted to cut off here, just to be a dick.
Soooo, what do you think? Were the battles okay? I mean this is my first time writing fight scenes that had no base to them. These were made directly in my head. Seriously, I need help making fight scenes, and if you could please help me out, I would appreciate it. I don't care if it's a rant or a rave. Sorry the battles seem kinda short, but for some strange reason, I just can't think of a way to make them longer. 'Sides, I don't like making battles seem long anyways. Always ruins the mood. I did give you guys a hint about what Naruto and Hinata can do at this point. I will say this though, I already have the chuunin exams all thought up. They'll be better then my mediocre fight scenes... hopefully.
Omake: Prank wars Part 3
1 month 6 days to chuunin exams
Naruto was lounging around. He already had his counter prank up, and he was waiting for Kina to finally unleash her next 'masterpiece'. Naruto just shrugged at that, but he had no doubt it would be a village level prank. Suddenly, he heard his trap spring. Naruto bounced up off the couch, and ran into the bathroom. Naruto laughed. "Got you, Kina-chan!" Naruto yelled out. Kina was currently hanging by her tail by a rope. All around her were signs that says, "Hit pinata here!"
Kina chuckled. "I already got my prank off Naruto." Naruto looked at Kina with narrowed eyes. He quickly went to his window, and hopped up onto the roof. He gasped.
The ANBU head quarters
"OH MY GOD! IT'S ALL PINK! GET IT OFF ME!" A random male ANBU yelled in the hallways. Of course this wouldn't bother the girls... nope they got tarred and feathered instead. Yeap, the women turned into chicks, and the guys turned pink. It was a day in hell. But it wasn't over yet. Yes, the entire building turned pink, yes ALL the ANBU stationed there got hit. But more was to come. A tick was heard throughout the headquarters. Everyone went wide eyed.
"GAAAAAAAAAH!" "EEEEEEEEK!"Screaming was heard throughout the headquarters.
Naruto snapped his fingers, and a couple of seals activated. Kina was suddenly on the roof. "Kina what did you do?" Naruto asked.
"Well, for the guys... do you know what a permanently locked on jock strap is?" Kina asked.
"Do I want to know?" Naruto asked slowly.
"No you don't... And for the girls... well... Let's just say they're giving the guys a good show." Kina laughed menacingly. Naruto slowly backed away from Kina.
End... ?
Omake: The "GET NARUTO ON OUR CLAN!" festival. Part 1
Naruto was running for his life. Why? You might ask. Well..
"GET BACK HERE NARUTO! IT WONT HURT AT ALL!" An overjoyed Tenten called out. She was chasing him with... well, a nice long wooden spear.
"No way! I don't want you near me with that thing!" Naruto yelled back.
"Oh, c'mon, Naruto-kun! You know you want to!" Tenten said. They were currently running on rooftops, and tree to tree.
"NO! I don't!" Naruto yelled back.
"I wont hurt you at all!" Tenten called out.
"I don't believe you, and I'm no pervert!" So how did it get to be like this?
Thirty minutes earlier.
Naruto was walking by the hot springs. He had wanted to enjoy a little hot bath to relax his aching muscles... and to get away from Nelrim. The bastard was running him down tp the ground, LITERALLY! He could still feel his chakra tunnels killing him. Naruto walked out of the locker room with nothing but a towel on. He tested the water a little. It was nice and warm. He slowly entered all the way, and sat back to relax. He threw the towel off to the side. About three minutes later, Naruto's ears twitched. He thought he heard some perverted laughter coming from a girl.
He heard words, they were faint, but they were there. "Oh my god, it's so long." A girl whispered. "Yeah, look at the staff portion. Isn't it nice?" Another girl said. "Oh, yeah. And I love the tip." The other girl said. "It's has a nice color." Another giggle.
Naruto was wondering what they were talking about. "Who's there?"
"Naruto, are you there?" He recognized Tenten's voice.
"Yeah. You girls having a Togatta meeting?" Naruto asked.
"Yeah, we were inspecting something. Want to join us?" Anko called out.
"I think I'll pass." Naruto deadpanned. 'When will they get the fact that I'm not perverted!' Naruto sighed. "What are you inspecting this time?" Naruto asked.
"Oh, it's a new spear Tenten got. Wanna see?" Anko said. "Sure." Naruto said.
A spear was thrown over the fence. Naruto caught it easily. The spear was 6 feet long with a 7 inch blade on one end, and a small 1 inch spike on the other end. It had a dark blue color on the wood, and the metal was painted black. Naruto whistled. "Nice spear. It's a bit heavy, but well balanced." He threw it back.
"Yeah, it's a nice long spear." Anko said. They went back to their whispering and giggling. Naruto got out after 15 minutes. Naruto might have endurance, but he always got a little dizzy staying in too long. He got dressed, and headed out the other side.
Just as he was about to cross the river, Tenten called out to him. "HEY, Naruto!" Naruto turned around to see Tenten in her normal clothes, and holding her spear. "Naruto-kun, I have an idea." Tenten cooed.
Naruto sweat dropped. "W-what is it this time?"
"If you let me cut your clothes off with this, I'll let you strip me." Tenten said in a seductive tone.
Naruto ran off in the other direction. And just like that, we get to the beginning of this little tale.
"GET BACK HERE NATUO!"