Hery everyone I just want to say thanks for the reviews, I really enjoyed reading them. I just want to give everyone a heads up about my story "Absolute Zero" is going to be the only story I work on for right now since I am starting school in a month and I have to work too. Now this doesn't mean I am going to stop when school starts, I will write, but when it comes to release them it will be much slower. Anywho that is weeks from now so let's get on with it!
Disclaimer: I do not own anything, but the Ideas for my story.
Absolute Zero
Chapter 2: Exhibition Tournament Part 1
It has officially been one week since Naruto came back to the village and found out about his parents. A lot of things have changed, but it's nothing too serious. While he doesn't have anything against the Sandaime he is still mad that the old man kept his parentage a secret, but as time pass he'll forgive him soon enough. First he has to move on from Haku which is easier said than done and get stronger. As soon as he found out about his parents he moved into their house immediately. Though house is an understatement, clan compound would be the most appropriate, it turns out that his mom wanted a bigger home in order to revive the Uzumaki by taking in survivors that survived the clan's destruction, but sadly she didn't live long enough to see that dream aside from giving birth to him. Another plus is that his bond with his team improved, Kakashi became more of a sensei and taught him the true meaning of the Shadow clones and have his clones up his chakra control, he has now fully mastered Tree climbing and is halfway to mastering water walking. He also had his team start practicing their affinities, but sadly Kakashi had no knowledge of wind, Yin, and Yang and had to go to Asuma for some information on it. Luckily Kakashi had knowledge of the water, while his parents library had Ying and Yang.
Sasuke has decided to become more sociable towards him now after finding out about his parentage and his reason for getting stronger, they ended up becoming great training partners/rivals. It also turns out that their mothers were best friends and wanted them to become best friends. The last one to change was Sakura and it was a complete surprise to him. The day after they reported the mission Kakashi gave an eye opening lesson to Sakura. Kakashi told her to drop her fangirling stage or else he'd be forced to drop her from the program, to explain further he told her numerous things like: Sasuke doesn't like weak women, to not believe the lies her parents been telling her, that she will not only get herself killed, but her teammates killed in the field, and to quit having a diet.
From then on, Sakura pushed herself further and has been not only a better kunoichi, but a better person. She even started to get closer to Naruto and respect him. While everyone else change that doesn't mean he didn't. He decided to eat healthier so he has been ordering healthy food from the Akimichi's restaurant and delivery, with his body getting the nutrients he missed over the years because of always going to Ichiraku he started to burn some of his baby fat thanks to the Kyubi's chakra. Though having a bowl of ramen wouldn't hurt him too much surely. He also has been having half of his clones stay home and read everything his family library had to offer….starting with the basics of course, no need to jump the gun a little bit. He began to have a better understanding of the fundamentals of chakra control, nature chakra, ninjutsu, taijutsu, genjutsu, handsigns, and fuinjutsu. Though there has been one problem he hasn't been able to overcome and that was his ability to use that ice again, no matter how hard he tried it just wouldn't appear. Maybe after he finishes his affinity training he will be able to do that.
What was most interesting of all was the scroll he got from Zabuza, it was a list of Water jutsus, Water Nature control, Kenjutsu, Haku's clothes and dairy(though just seeing the clothes makes him sad), and last but not least Zabuza's sword the Kubikiribocho. There was also a note saying that he rather give the sword to the man who his surrogate daughter loved who will use it for good instead of him using it for mindless bloodshed and to keep it a secret. Naruto did just that and hasn't told anyone.
The sound of an alarm clock rang breaking Naruto out of his thoughts. Looking at the time he saw it said eight o'clock. Around this time they usually start training at their usual training grounds, seems like he's late this time. Summoning a couple of a clones to pick up where he left off on reading he headed towards training ground seven.
Standing outside of the gate of his home, he bit his finger so blood will leak out and pressed it against the gate. 'Blood seals are so useful, I really need to learn them.' Naruto thought as he gave his home one more look.
His clan compound was in between the Yamanaka's and the Inuzuka's. It was also three blocks away from the Uchiha. He always wondered why the Uchihas decided to have their home far away from the main clans. He can figure that out another time.
Training Ground 7
On his way to the training ground so many people didn't recognize him because of his clothing so they didn't give him the usual glares. He can understand why, within those three months at Nami he did a lot of endurance training and grew two inches so now he stood at 5'5 and his choice of clothing changed drastically. Naruto now wears a light blue sleeveless shirt with three orange stripes across the bottom, black anbu style pants, black high top shinobi sandals with medical bandages up to his ankles underneath, and medical bandages covering his right arm(like at the end of shippuden). He also wears a green scarf with thin white stripes going across every couple of lengths and has a set of studded piercings one in each ear with the Uzumaki spiral. His hair also grew out quite a bit giving him a wild look.
He was brought out of his musings from a cry of shock from multiple people. Looking up he saw Team 10 and Team 8 along with another team he didn't know of. Gazing at the team he didn't know he noticed one of the genins looked like he was related to Hinata while the jonin and another genin looked like carbon copies both with a bowl cut and huge eyebrows. They also wore the same clothing….weird. The last was a girl with buns 'Hmmm she seems more capable than Sakura-san, but then again she did improve.'
"YOU'RE LATE NARUTO-KUN!" Sakura yelled grabbing his attention.
Scratching the back of his head he gave her an apologetic look. "Sorry Sakura-san, I seemed to have gotten lost on the road of life."
Tears of joy came down upon Team 7's sensei's face as he gave him a thumbs up. 'I'm so proud.'
"God damn it Kakashi-san, don't start teaching them your antics or else our whole shinobi force will be a joke." Team 8's sensei Yuhi Kurenai stated.
"Leave it to Kakashi to somehow corrupt his genin." Team 10's sensei and the son of the Sandaime, Sarutobi Asuma sweatdropped.
Before anyone else could reply they were interrupted by Ino and Kiba.
"WAIT YOU MEAN TO TELL ME THAT'S NARUTO, THE DEADLAST!?" Kiba said in shock.
"YEAH THERE'S NO WAY NARUTO COULD TURN THIS CUTE." the blonde blurted out.
Noticing what she said Ino began to blush and turn her head. Everyone else(except Team Gai and the Jonins) snapped their head towards her in shock. The first one to get over the shock was Shikamaru.
"You really think he's cute?"
"S-Shut u-up you lazy bum!" Ino responded hitting him on the head.
"O-Ouch what was that for you troublesome blonde."
Ignoring what was going on Naruto began to greet the sensei's and the other team. Getting praise from the doppelganger sensei claiming stuff about 'youth' along with his mini me agreeing causing him to sweat dropped. He found out that the person who looked related to Hinata was actually her cousin and the girl with the buns was named Tenten. The two clones were Maito Gai and Rock Lee. Going up to his sensei he asked why are the other teams are here.
"They are here because we are doing some team evaluation to see how far our own team has gotten and see where we need improvement." Kakashi said eye smiling.
"Let me guess you guys made a bet on whose team is better." Naruto said with a deadpan stare.
"Yup!"
'Man no shame at all with him.' All the genins thought.
"Sorry sensei, but I rather keep on training my affinity and Chakra control. I already gotten passed splitting the Leaf I just need to cut the waterfall." Naruto said apologetically.
Giving his infamous eye smile again he waved at him "My My, you don't have to worry about that, after all that's what your clones are for and seeing as how you have kage level reserves it won't feel like you wasted anything."
Silently cursing Kakashi for ruining his plans he gave a sigh. Before he can ask about the rules he was interrupted by Kiba.
"What you don't want to fight knowing you'll lose deadlast."
Naruto stared at Kiba for five minutes without saying anything, making everyone wait in anticipation for what the blonde will say. Muttering 'loud mouth' Naruto turned towards Kakashi and asked him what are the rules. Everyone had different reactions, Sasuke and Neji smirked, Ino, Sakura, Hinata, Kurenai, and Tenten giggled, Shikamaru muttered 'troublesome', Choji kept munching on chips, Asuma and Kakashi laughed, Gai and Rock Lee yelled about 'youth' and Shino sighed while Kiba grinded his teeth in irritation.
"Who're you calling a loud mouth, deadlast." Kiba demanded.
"You since you're the only one who is talking. It's always the loud ones that are the weakest." Naruto said with a deadpan stare.
'Though I am one to talk since I was a loud mouth before "that" happened."
Right before Kiba could speak Kakashi defused the situation and summoned a box with paper that had numbers on it. "Alright the rules are simple they are tournament style, you all choose a number and the winner advances, after this we will also host another match, but it will be three V. three your team versus the other. Now come in line and pick your number.
So no one could cheat Kakashi put the numbers in the box and shook it. Seeing as all the numbers are mixed he told everyone to come one by one. Deciding to go last Naruto noticed he wasn't the only one seeing as how Shino went with him.
"It has been a while Naruto-san." the Aburame heir simply stated.
"Indeed it has Shino-san, how is your hive?"
"You're interested in my hive?"
"Of course, the Aburame clan are one of the top most important clans in the village, you guys not only are great for tracking, but for capture as well. If it wasn't probably for your clan's help we would probably much weaker as with every other clan too." Naruto simply explained.
Giving Naruto a nod of what seemed of appreciation Shino replied. "Thank you Naruto-san not many people view our clan in such a light, most of the time they are disgusted by us or tried to avoid us because of our kikaichu."
"They are fools to push away one of our greatest protectors, your clan is too valuable to lose."
Not being able to see Shino smile, he took his silence as a form of happiness. Seeing Shino being called up he sighed in annoyance that he had to go next. Hearing his name called next he pulled out the last number being 5 he looked to see who was facing. 'Great i gotta face the loud mouth now.'
Here are the fights
Round 1: Ino vs Hinata
Round 2: Shino vs Rock Lee
Round 3: Naruto vs Kiba
Round 4: Sakura vs Tenten
Round 5: Shikamaru vs Sasuke
Round 6: Neji vs Choji
"Woohoo we get to fight the deadlast, Akamaru!" Kiba shouted in glee.
"Arf" Akamaru barked.
"Looks like we get to fight each other, Hinata-chan." Ino smiled.
"H-Hai." Hinata stuttered.
"Yosh! Shino-san I wish you a great fight! If I don't win I will run around the village 100 times while doing handstands." Lee declared with flames of 'youth' burning in his eyes.
Everyone except Gai who cried tears of joy about 'youth' sweatdropped at the mini me's declaration.
"R-Right Lee-san." Shino said in confusion.
Coughing in his hand to get everyone's attention Asuma told everyone, but Ino and Hinata to move out of the way. Standing across each other Ino grabbed Hinata's attention. "Hey Hinata-san how about we make this interesting, whoever wins gets to take Naruto-kun on a date!"
Hinata's face grew red in embarrassment, but her eyes began to narrow. "Wait this bitch wants to take Naruto-kun away from me before I could confess. Wait she wants Naruto-kun for his looks not because of his heart. I'll win this."
Nodding her head in agreement Hinata got in the jyuken stance while everyone else's eyes widened except Naruto who twitched in annoyance, Kurenai and Tenten who sighed, Sakura who face palmed, Asuma who inhaled his smoke wrong, Gai who screamed about 'youth' and Kakashi who giggled.
Raising his hand in the air Asuma brought it down with a shout of 'BEGIN' the two kunoichis started. With a shout of 'Byakugan' Hinata immediately went for the jyuken fighting stance of the Hyuga clan. With a burst of chakra Hinata went charging towards Ino. Thinking on the fly Ino pulled three kunais and threw them towards the pale eyed girl hoping to slow her down. Seeing the incoming kunai Hinata dodged each one adding an extra amount of chakra to increase her speed after each miss. Cursing that Hinata still didn't slow down she pulled out eight shuriken and threw them all in different directions to prevent Hinata from dodging. Sadly to her misfortune Hinata predicted this and chakra jumped high in the air. By her distance she should be able to land right in front of the blonde so to prevent her from running Hinata pulled out some shurikens and kunais of her own tossing them towards Ino. Luckily for Ino she pulled a kunai and deflected them all except four kunai's that missed. Using this opportunity she took a step back only to find her legs caught in ninja wire. Cursing once again she realized the kunai missing her were to constrict her movement. Seeing Hinata about to descended right in front of her she went through handsigns.
"Doton: Practice Brick Jutsu!"
A large and wide wall of earth appeared between them stopping Hinata from attacking her immediately. Though even with this wall in front of her, it wasn't gonna stop Hinata so charging chakra through her hands she began to furiously chakra palm the wall creating a small dents and cracks every hit. Ino gulped at the furiosity that Hinata began displaying and thought maybe she went to far, but decided to shrug it off and cut herself out of the ninja wiring stopping her movement.
With the others
All the guys began to sweat profusely while giving Naruto looks of pity. The three women watching sighed. "HEY! Why are you looking at me like that!" Naruto shouted.
"What do you mean why? Hinata's gonna kill Ino and then you are going to have to be with Hinata. Aren't you going to terrified of being on her bad side!" Shikamaru yelled.
"Why should I be afraid when I didn't agree to any of this. No matter who the winner is, I am not going to date them."
Hearing Naruto state this Kurenai and Tenten snapped their head towards him with a glare.
"So you're just going to play with their hearts like that?!" Kurenai asked or more like demanded an answer.
"It's their fault for deciding something like that without asking how i feel, besides I promised myself I wasn't going to love another woman again…...I'm not going to do that to her…" Naruto said looking sombered.
Before anyone can speak up Sakura beat them to it. "Something personal happened to him, it is best to drop it."
Naruto looked towards Sakura with a grateful look and muttered a 'thanks'. Seeing Sasuke and Sakura put a hand on his shoulders he felt another hand on his head that came from Kakashi. Looking back at the fight they finally saw Hinata break through that earth wall, seeing her dash forward before the falling pieces can land on top of or in front of her.
"I can tell you this though I know who is going to win." Naruto said.
Raising an eyebrow Kurenai was interested in what he was going to say. "Oh? Who do you think it is going to be."
"Ino obviously, don't get me wrong Hinata is remarkable to break that wall down, but there's one things that is going to have her mess up in the end and that's her anger. Since it seems Hinata is infatuated with myself, she is too focus on wanting to hurt ino for in a way toying with her feelings and for spilling her secret. Remember even if Ino doesn't have a remarkable taijutsu from the Hyuga clan she still has her clan's mind techniques, she doesn't even have to beat Hinata down she just needs her to give up." Naruto explained, his eyes still glued to the match.
Listening to his explanation Kurenai had it satisfactory, she took too much into consideration that he was going to say she is a terrible kunoichi and was going to defend her. This kid isn't so bad from what she heard.
Back to the fight
Seeing Hinata break through the wall surprised Ino even though she saw it coming, but just like she planned Hinata fell for her trap. 'Kill Kill Kill' was all that Hinata was thinking she didn't notice the ninja wire that her feet touch until the last minute.
'Gotcha!' was all that Ino thought as she pulled one of the ends of the ninja wire close to her as she formed her clan's signature hand sign for one of their many clan jutsus.
"MIND TRANSFER JUTSU!"
Seeing her own body slump from the eyes of Hinata she raised her hand and gave up. She didn't deactivate the jutsu until someone carried her body out of their and restrained Hinata. After Asuma grabbed Ino's body he immediately took her away. Smirking to herself she dispelled the jutsu and returned to her own body just in time to see Hinata look around confused.
Raising his hand Asuma announced the winner "The Winner is Ino!"
"I won Hinata and as our agreement still stands, Naruto-kun is mine." Ino stated giving the peace sign with her tongue sticking out.
Both girls looked at Naruto to see what he said only to see him turn his head away in annoyance. "I didn't agree to any of this so you both betted for no reason. I will say congrats to you Ino. Hinata don't let your anger cloud your judgment other than that you were great."
Hinata was happy that her crush wasn't going to go out with Ino and that he complimented/noticed her(A/N:SENPAI!). She was also downtrodden that even if she won she still wouldn't have dated her precious. Ino on the other hand was upset and demanded a date as she held onto his arm. Seeing Ino getting close to her crush she grabbed his other arm both fighting for him.
While this was happening Asuma called Lee and Shino to the 'ring'. Before they could start Naruto stated he was going to take a leak and to let him know what happens.
"Let me help you with that Naruto-kun." Ino said with a sly smile.
Puffing her cheeks in annoyance Hinata saw this as a challenge and wouldn't back down. "No let me help you Naruto-kun, she only wants you for your looks and not your heart!"
"Both of you shut up you're annoying." Naruto irritatedly growled.
Seeing that they weren't letting go Sakura grabbed both Hinata and Ino by the collar of their shirts with chakra enhanced hands and pulled them off. "Get off you leeches! Let him use it so he can watch the match they already started! And Naruto next time use a better word other than 'Leak' when ladies are present."
Grumbling a 'yeah' and 'thanks' Naruto immediately rushed to the woods while his two new fangirls were crying 'Naruto-kun~!'.
Settling himself into the forest he summoned a thousand clones having half of them complete water walking and the other half to split the waterfall in half. He would leave two clones one from each half to summon more clones once the ones practicing the exercise figured it out. Summoning a couple of more clones he began to initiate his plan.
Shino vs Lee
As soon as the match started Lee started screaming about 'youth' and rushed Shino. Performing a 'Leaf Whirlwind' Lee swung his leg hitting Shino only for him to disperse in a swarm of bugs. Jumping back only to see some bugs on his legs Lee began to flick all the ones he saw. The bugs that were part of the bug clone all swarmed lee, backstepping from the swarm Lee tried to get away only for Shino to grab Lee's shoulder only for more of his kikaichu to crawl on to Lee. Noticing this too late Lee elbowed Shino causing him to stagger back and let go, but that only proved to be futile as the swarm of bugs behind him began to consume his chakra. Using his speed to make it look like he substituted he felt half of his chakra get depleted as he hid behind a tree.
"It's already over Lee-san I already planted a female Kikaichu on you when i grabbed you so all the males know where you're at and currently sucking out more chakra. You were foolish to think you flicked all of them off when you kicked the clone. Falling to his knees everyone saw Lee behind a tree. "I give up."
Recalling his kikaichu he heard Asuma announce his win. Walking up to Lee he helped him up as he praised him with his speed saying even he was surprise. Even though he lost it still lifted his spirits. Asuma called over Kiba and Naruto as everyone was except Neji and Sasuke congratulating them on their fight. Asuma called Naruto's name one more time and at that exact same moment he appeared in front of Kiba.
Naruto vs Kiba
"Ready to get your ass kicked deadlast? I won't even need to use Akamaru for this." Kiba arrogantly asked.
Narrowing his eyes Naruto scoffed at his arrogance. "Do not think of me as weaker than yourself, it is disrespectful to not only me, but to my Sensei and teammates. Arrogance will also get you killed."
Looking over towards the two Kakashi leaned his head towards Kurenai. "I'm telling you this now since we are friends, you best command him to use Akamaru or else Naruto will destroy him."
"Kiba I demand you use Akamaru, he is not to be trifled with!" Kurenai commanded.
Looking at shock he was going to protest until he saw her eyes narrow promising pain. "Alright, let's go akamaru!"
Hearing Asuma yell begin Kiba took into action. "Beast Human Clone! Four Legs Jutsu!"
Akamaru turned into an exact copy of Kiba as they both turned feral. "Prepare to get beaten!"
"Fang Over Fang!" Both Kiba and Akamaru spiraled towards Naruto.
Seeing the man and canine duo spiraling towards him he went through a couple of hand signs while charging a large amount of chakra. "Futon: Great Breakthrough!"
A great force of wind blew towards the duo sending them flying towards different directions and disabling their jutsu. Seeing that the duo made no attempt at confusing him to see who the real Kiba was, Naruto immediately chased after him. Somersaulting in the air Kiba regained his footing when all of a sudden a fist was sent crashing towards his face. Not stopping there Naruto sent another hellmaker punching him in the gut. This wasn't good he felt the air knock out of him his feet had yet to touch the ground, looking over he sees Akamaru spiraling towards them. Looking at Kiba's eyes he figured there was too reasons 1. Was he was trying to fake him out and 2. Was that Akamaru recovered and is spiraling towards them, not taking any chances Naruto gave Kiba a chakra enhanced spin kick to the side sending him barreling towards his canine. Seeing Kiba in danger Akamaru immediately stop his jutsu to catch Kiba which was not only the right thing to do, but a mistake. Naruto threw two Kunais that hit Akamaru on the arms.
Summoning a clone in the air Naruto was tossed by his clone towards Akamaru and Kiba, before any of them could react Naruto was already upon them and gave a overhead smash to Akamaru sending him and Kiba crashing down. Free falling down Naruto used his chakra to cushion his descent. Looking bored of the battle he told Kiba to give up. Hearing Kiba say no, Naruto casually walked towards them as they scrambled to get up. A smirk graced his lips as he thought of a way to prank him, summoning his killing intent he began to cause Kiba and Akamaru to freeze in fear. Naruto stopped behind Akamaru and in front of Kiba, he immediately pulled the two kunais embedded in Akamaru out and held it at the dog's neck. A look of insanity began to grace Naruto's face.
"GIVE UP! IF YOU DON'T WANT YOUR DOG TO DIE THEN GIVE UP! GIVE UP! GIVE UP!"
"I-I g-give u-up!" Kiba stuttered out.
A small smile appeared on his face as he let go of Akamaru and began to apply ointment to the dog's wounds.
"The Winner of the match is Naruto!" Asuma announced.
"Sorry I was rough with you Akamaru!" Naruto said apologetically.
The pup whined and response, but suddenly barked 'If only you give me a big juicy steak'.
Naruto blinked and laughed "Okay a big juicy steak for you."
Kiba just sat there and asked if they were going to do anything about Naruto threatening him. Only to find out Naruto never threatened him before he could deny their claims Naruto admitted to using KI and deducted that what Kiba saw was a byproduct of being subjected to it.
"Wow Naruto-kun you were amazing!" Ino declared
"Thank you Ino-san."
"She was right Naruto-kun you were pretty awesome out there." his pink haired teammate agreed.
Scratching the back of his head in embarrassment Naruto began to slightly blush. He wasn't used to this sort of praise. His raven haired teammate stuck out his fist with a smirk.
"Good job Naruto, you've improved since the last time."
"Thanks Sasuke-san and it seems I have.
Kiba felt it was time for him to talk now. Standing in front of the supposed dead last he was feeling nervous and ashamed. "N-Naruto….I'm sorry for how I treated you, but this doesn't mean I am going to let you win next time!"
Naruto gave Kiba a small smile as he extended his hand towards the young Inuzuka. "Apology accepted and I am looking forward to it bud."
Happy that the conflict was resolved Asuma began to announced the next match.
Round 4: Sakura vs Tenten!
"Begin!"
To be continued!
That's it for this chapter I just want to thank everyone for reviewing I have received a lot of positive reviews lol and finally got that one person that says I need a beta reader haha I know!
Some Info about the story: I did not put a pairing because I feel that if someone knew the pairing then they would not want to read it, I don't want my story to just be about the pairing and for those that ask no I am not saying the pairing. I am saying this though Ino did NOT fall for Naruto she thinks he's cute, but saying all that stuff to him and Hinata was to not only trick her in order to win, but to also help her break out of her shyness somewhat. Sakura didn't fall for him either she just respects Naruto a great deal now and is actually much closer, but just because I say that it doesn't mean that none of these girls aren't eligible for the pairing. I have a pairing I want that I know that I want, but it could change to a Harem idk. Naruto hasn't gone that far in life and the relationship with Haku seemed short, I know, but there will be flashbacks or reminiscences of his time with her. The Rock Lee and Shino fight, I know the fight was the shortest because it is mostly how I expect it, Lee doesn't have Ninjutsu so that's the best he could do in my eyes. Now for Zabuza's sword, Naruto doesn't have the strength to wield that sword not yet, he will have ways to use it in some future chapters, but he is mostly working on chakra control, techniques, build muscle and how to learn the Ice Release, just continue reading and wait for more chapters this week, I am off a lot for work this week so expect almost a chapter a day this whole week
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