Foxfish
Disclaimer- I don't own Naruto
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Because it's been such a long time since I last updated, this will be an extra long chapter!
So enjoy!
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Ages:
Naruto and Isaribi and the Rooky Nine: 12
Anko: 22
Yamato: 24
Kakashi: 26
Third Hokage: 70
Gin- 15
Hyuuga Haran- 23
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'Thought'
"Speaking"
"Jutsus/Demon speaking"
"Fish speaking"
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Previously
Nodding their heads, Naruto and Isaribi followed Kabuto into the tower to compete the second part of the chunin exam.
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Now
Naruto and Isaribi stood side by side looking at the score board, waiting to see who would be up first.
Just a moment ago, Kabuto dropped out of the exam, claming to be too tired and injured to fight any more. Naruto could see that the guy looked beaten up and dirty, but to have to drop out?
'If he thinks he's not up to it, no point in pushing it.'
The first contestant name appeared, followed by the second.
"Ok, Uchiha Sasuke and Mako Isaribi remain on the floor. Cough, everyone else get up to the balcony" announced the proctor.
Moving up to the balcony, Naruto said to Isaribi, "Good luck."
Isaribi didn't responded verbally, but the grin she put on her face said it all. She was going to win, and enjoy it too.
Getting up to the balcony, Naruto found himself standing next to Team 8 with Haran joining him to watch the fight.
Down on the floor the two were glaring at each other.
Sasuke had on a confident smirk that showed just who he thought was the better of the two, while Isaribi had a grin on that showed through all the bandages on her face.
Looking at the two contestants while raising his hand, the proctor let it fall down fast with a shout of "Begin!"
Sasuke leaped into action first, unleashing two shuriken that were dodged by Isaribi. But they were never meant to hit. They distracted Isaribi long enough to allow Sasuke to get in close for taijutsu.
If anyone was watching Sasuke's face closely while he was running, they would have seen him wince in pain as he fought to repress the curse seal on his neck.
Reaching Isaribi he threw a punch right at her midsection. But instead of the satisfying feel of his fist hitting his opponent, all Sasuke came into contact was her coat.
Quickly ducking, he was able to avoid the fist aimed right at his head, but was caught by her knee strait to his stomach.
Reeling backwards, Sasuke had the roll to avoid Isaribi's leg as it came crashing down onto the floor. An audible crack filled the room as the tiles where Isaribi's foot landed cracked and lifted up a little.
His eyes went wide, reflexively activating his sharingan as Sasuke saw the damage Isaribi just caused. This proved to be a fatal error as the moment his sharingan was activated he was griped with pain as the curse seal activated.
Using is lack of concentration to her advantage, Isaribi slammed her fist strait into Sasuke's jaw, cracking it and sending him flying into the wall.
Suddenly she felt a dark and malevolent chakra erupt from Sasuke and as he stood up she could see black flame like marks covering his body.
Moving too fast for her to follow, Sasuke smashed into her and they both went flying across the arena inches above the ground. While they were in the air, Sasuke had his right hand around Isaribi's throat and repeatedly slammed her into the ground, causing them to bounce as they flew.
After the third bounce, Isaribi was able to bring her legs up and kick Sasuke off of her and used her hands to push off the ground and send herself flying into the air.
Tracking her with his sharingan, Sasuke's face was split with a maniacal smile. He only saw Isaribi in front of him, and missed that the proctor and the different Jonin Instructors were preparing to intervene should they need to.
Hitting the ceiling, Isaribi pushed off where all her might to nail the still grinning Sasuke.
Confidently, while he couldn't dodge her in mid air, Sasuke felt sure he could block her attack. True she showed considerable strength from the punch and the kick, but that was most likely due to her using chakra to enhance her strength, and with the sharingan he barley saw her use chakra.
Giving this overconfidence, Sasuke was completely surprised when Isaribi slammed into him with all of her enhanced strength and a vicious snarl on her face.
Blood escaped from his mouth as first both of his arms where broken as she smashed into them, followed by a couple of ribs, and them even more ribs and possibly his pelvises as he hit the ground, just missing landing on his spine.
Standing up over the broken and bleeding Sasuke, red could be seen seeping from the corner of her mouth and stain the bandages near her face red and Isaribi looked at the proctor.
Kneeling down he confirmed that Sasuke was still alive before announcing, "Winner, Mako Isaribi!"
No one in the audience made a sound. The instructors were able to relax a little, knowing that they didn't have to step in on the match anymore, the genin from Konoha (minus Naruto) were shocked to see that happen to Sasuke with Ino and Sakura barely restraining themselves from running down to the floor to check on Sasuke.
Reaching where Naruto and Haran were standing, Isaribi was greeted by the smiles of both Naruto and Haran. But before either one of them could congratulate her or ask if she was alright, the next match started up.
"Temari no Sabaku vs. Tenten" the proctor called out.
Jumping down into the arena, both girls squared off at each other and waited for the proctor to start the match.
"Begin!"
As soon as the match started, Tenten unleashed a barrage of weapons of all shapes and sizes at Temari, only to miss every shot.
"Was that all you've got?" smirked Temari from where she stood, her fan partially opened behind her.
Girtin her teeth, Tenten attacked again.
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Up in the stand, Gai watched as his student was attacks were deflected time and time again.
'Tenten, you must change your tactic. It won't work on a wind user. At this rate you're going to loose' he thought grimly.
True enough to his prediction, once Temari had her fan opened all the way she quickly decimated the now tired Tenten. But right when the girl was about to kick the unconscious body of Tenten off her fan after the fight was called, Lee jumped down into the arena and rescued her.
This put a smile on Gai's face, 'Trust Lee to do the honorable thing.'
This smile didn't fade from Guy's face even as Shino caused Zaku to blow his own arms off in the next match.
The next match only made his smile grow even larger.
"Sai vs. Rock Lee!"
"LEE, SHOW THEM WHAT YOU'RE MADE OF!" Gai shouted enthusiastically.
"HAI GAI-SENSEI!"
'Show the the power of your youth Lee!' Gai thought giddily to himself.
Jumping down into the arena Lee smiled at Sai, "Let's have a good match!"
Sai said nothing but just smiled back, waiting for the proctor to start the match.
After looking at both contestants, he yelled "Begin!" before backing up against the near by wall.
Sai immediately pulled out his scroll and unleashed three ink creatures at the now charging Lee.
Two of the ink animals were tigers and Lee was forced to side steep their attacks before doing a back flip to avoid the talons of the one bird ink creature.
Kicking up with his right foot, Lee caught the back end of the bird, causing it to dissolve back into regular ink, before he unleashed a swarm of shurikens at Sai and the two remaining tigers.
The two tigers took the brunt of the attack, allowing Sai to escape but causing them to revert back to blobs of ink. Keeping his scroll out, he summoned another tiger, along with a bear, a snake, and two more hawks.
These new animals quickly attacked Lee, forcing him to go on the defensive while Sai got around to his side.
Running through some hand seals, Sai breathed in deeply before letting out a spray of fireballs at the distracted Lee.
From where he was, Lee already took out on hawk and the tiger when he caught sight of the incoming fireballs. Quickly he tried to jump, but the snake latched onto his legs.
It was destroyed due to the force of Lee's jump, but it slowed him down enough that the fireballs were able to singe Lee's legs and set his orange ankle warmers on fire.
All of Sai's remaining ink creatures were also destroyed, but with Lee's legs burnt, Sai believed that he would be able to handle the rest on his own.
Landing away from Sai, Lee quickly ripped off the burning leg warmers, revealing the weights underneath. They had absorbed the heat from the fire, so Lee quickly threw them off before they burned his legs.
Sai frowned to himself when he saw the weights under the leg warmers. He was hoping that Lee's movement would have been seriously impaired, but his legs were protected by the weights. His frown tuned to shock when the weights hit the floor causing to tiles to crack and break where they landed.
As quickly as he could he summoned his two largest ink creations, a dragon and a griffon, but as soon as they were brought out, Lee disappeared from in front of Sai.
Without warning the two ink monsters exploded into globs of ink, and as Sai turned to track a green blur, he was met by Lee's fist hitting him squarely in the jaw.
He felt the bones break and teeth crack from the force of the hit as he went sailing through the air to land on the ground.
Fighting back the black spots at the corner of his eyes, he was about to try to get up when Lee placed his foot on the back of his neck.
"You fought a good fight, now please give up" smiled Lee not even winded.
Sai could only nod quietly and the proctor called the match.
"Winner, Rock Lee!"
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From his position in the stands, Kakashi watched Lee's victory. The boy had greatly improved and it was supprising to see someone how used no chakra in his attacks cause so much damage and move so fast, at least for a genin.
Kakashi looked up at the scoreboard.
"Haruno Sakura vs. Kin"
'Now lets hope Sakura fairs better than Sasuke' Kakashi thought grimly to himself.
A little nervous, Sakura jumped down to the arena floor and looked at her opponent, the girl from Oto. Her face hardened. She had a score to settle with this girl due to their last encounter in the second exam.
As the match started Sakura flung a handful of shurikens at Kin while Kin threw senbon needles at Sakura. Both girls were able to avoid the attacks, and as the needles flew by, Sakura noticed that some had bells attached to them while others didn't.
This confused Sakura, but she had other things to worry about as Kin sent another barrage of needles at her.
Dodging out of the way, Sakura noticed Kin making a pulling jester with her hand. For the briefest of seconds, Sakura saw the stings the bells were attacked to before they rang and Sakura's world became disorientated.
'Genjutsu' Sakura thought to herself and smile 'a weak one at that.'
Taking advantage of the genjutsu, Kin sent another barrage of needles at Sakura and hit her dead on.
Kin thought she won, but suddenly Sakura disappeared in a cloud of smoke and in her place was a shuriken.
'Substitution!' Kin thought, 'Then that must mean!' Kin thought as she twirled to face the wall behind her, only to have Sakura's foot hit her squarely on the nose and sending her flying.
Sakura followed through on her attack, pumping her chakra into her fists and intending to pummel the girl until she couldn't move.
Seeing that Sakura was almost on her, Kin rolled out of the way at the last minute.
Sakura slammed her right hand into the ground were only moments before was Kin's chest. The tiles shattered under her blow, but that wasn't the only thing that broke. Giving out a cry of pain, Sakura pulled her bloody and now broken hand to her body.
Distracted by the pain, Sakura left herself open for a kick sent by Kin strait to her chest that sent her flying back.
Both girls looked at each other with murder in their eyes. Kin's nose was broken and blood covered her face, while Sakura's right hand was broken and bleeding, hanging uselessly by her side.
Pulling a kunai out of holster, Sakura charged at Kin, who began to form hand seals. Right before Sakura was on her, Kin finished sealing and clapped her hands together.
A shockwave of sound blasted Sakura back, rupturing her eardrums.
"How do you like my Funeral Applause no jutsu?" taunted Kin. "I bet you're having a mighty hard time standing up right now! HAHA!"
Her laughter only increased as Sakura tried to stand, but only collapsed back onto her knees.
Pulling out a kunai Kin confidently marched towards Sakura still on the ground. From her point of view Sakura was as helpless as a newborn baby, but she failed to notice Sakura's left hand.
Hidden behind her back, Sakura began to furiously trying to form one handed hand seals. She was told that Haku was able to do it and she had tried to do it unsuccessfully before, but it was do or die now.
Up in the stands, Kakashi's eyes widened. If she pulled this off, his worst and somewhat neglected student would become one of his best.
Kin pulled on the remainder of Sakura's hair and saw the girl take a deep breath and hold it.
"Breath for last breath bitc-"
Kin never got to finish her taunt as Sakura unleashed a fireball strait into the girl.
With an unearthly scream Kin flew backwards, her entire body covered in flames. Falling to the ground her screams died and she lay there, unmoving.
Moving quickly, the proctor quickly put out the flames on the girl, but it was too late. All that remained of Kin was a bunt and blackened corps.
"The winner, Haruno Sakura!" he called out.
A pail face Sakura tried to stand up, but stumbled a little.
But instead of falling to the ground, she was caught by her sensei. "Good job Sakura-chan" he said with a smile in his eyes as he took her to have the medics to look at her wounds.
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The assembled genin were quiet. No one, not even the senseis' or even the Hokage had thought that match would ever end that way.
As Kin's body was removed from the arena floor, Ino was shocked. She had never seen Sakura so, so, vicious. And to win the match in such a manor…
Ino knew killing was allowed, but she never thought that it would be Sakura who would kill the first person on the arena floor.
She was brought out of her thought as the proctor called for the next match, causing her blood to drain from her face.
"Yamanaka Ino vs. Gaara no Sabaku"
Barely containing her shaking, Ino climbed down into the arena at looked at Gaara. She couldn't help but shiver when she saw into his eyes. There was blood lust and insanity there, along with a desire to kill.
Gulping, Ino knew she had only one chance to win.
As soon as the match started Ino formed the hand seal and cried out, "Mind Body Transfer no jutsu!"
Slumping to the floor Ino look like she went unconscious as she went diving into the mind of the unmoving Gaara.
"She didn't, did she?" asked an incredulous Kankuro.
"She did" replied Temari
"Poor girl"
"Indeed"
"Ten bucks says she comes out crying"
"You're on, but I say she will piss herself too"
The two siblings tuned back to the events below them.
In Gaara's mind Ino found herself surrounded in darkness. It wasn't supposed to be like this. She should have been able to find his brain to control him, not an empty void.
Suddenly the darkness began to fade, but instead of reaching Gaara's mind like she wanted, she came face to face with a monster.
Visions of pain, madness, and death flashed before her eyes and screaming she forcefully canceled the jutsu.
Stumbling backwards with tears streaming down her face, she cried out, "I give up! I GIVE UP! He's a monster! A jinchuuriki!"
Instantly all the jonin senseis were on alert and the proctor quickly called out, "Winner, Gaara no Sabaku!"
Clutching his head, Gaara said, "No! You will suffer! Mother Demands BLOOD!"
The sand around him began to flow in and out, surrounding him.
"Baki-san" the Hokage said calmly, "Please control your jinchuuriki."
Jumping down into the arena, Baki faced Gaara, "Gaara-san, control yourself! You must contro-" Baki didn't get to finish as an arm of sand sent him flying across the room and into the wall.
"Naruto-kun" the Hokage said is a calm voice, "Subdue him."
Ripping off his jacket and face wraps, Naruto landed in the arena on all fours, directly facing Gaara.
There were gasps of surprise from the Genin as well as some of the Jonin senseis at Naruto's appearance. Most had heard about, but never actually seen the green scales that covered Naruto or his other inhuman features.
Standing up from where he landed, Baki looked at Naruto and realization dawned on him. 'They have a jinchuuriki too!'
With Gaara's intention focused solely on Naruto, the Hokage ordered everyone to evacuate to tower.
As they gathered in the surrounding woods, Anko made her way to where Isaribi and Haran stood near the Hokage.
"Will he be alright?" Anko asked no one in particular.
"He'll be just fine" replied the Hokage.
"And if he looses control too?" asked Baki who came to stand next to the Konoha shinobi.
"Then it will be the job of Isaribi here to calm him down again" replied the Hokage, still as calm as ever.
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Inside the now evacuated building, the two stared each other down.
"You are like me" stated Gaara.
"And you're like me" replied Naruto.
"Mother will LOVE YOUR BLOOD!" cried Gaara.
The floor ties cracked, and Naruto realized his mistake. While the two had been staring each other down, Gaara had been converting the rocks that made up the foundation of the building into sand.
A wave of sand shot up at Naruto and he was forced to take refuge on the ceiling to escapee.
Sand continued to whip around the arena, tinted with the gold of Ichibi's chakra. In the center of the man made sandstorm, Gaara began to gather the sand around him, covering his upper half to resemble to the Ichibi.
With a blood curling cry, he sent waves of send at Naruto and as Naruto dodged, Gaara went diving in for the kill. There is no escaping the Ichibi in a sandstorm.
The entire building shook as the two neared each other. Naruto's eyes were blood red and an outline of a fox could be seen covering him. And when they met, and explosion rocked the building, causing it to crumble and collapse.
From outside, the surrounding shinobi were shocked. Two insanely powerful chakra signatures were just felt, and now the building just crumbled and blew up!
From out of the top of the smoke, a figure covered in red chakra was seen flying up. Suddenly from where there was one figure, there were literally hundreds of shadow clones and they all dived down back towards the dust cloud.
"Everyone, retreat!" cried the Hokage and as the shadow clones descended, tendrils of sand rose up to meet them.
Where they met, explosions and battle took place. Some shadow clones made it through while others were destroyed.
"You have to attack the host directly! Attacking the sand is meaningless. Do not be fooled by the fact that the Ichibi has only one tail! Even I am cautious when fighting him in the desert!"
"Then how should I beat him! His sand is covering everything!"
"Then get to an environment that suits you! I've made you a creature of earth and water, so use earth and water to defeat sand" -1-
Bouncing off a shadow clone and dodging a tendril of sand, Naruto dived head first into the river.
"Is he running away?" said Choji staring in disbelief as Naruto dived into the water before looking back at the mass of moving sand, still taking out the remaining shadow clones.
"No…he's probably just needed the water for an attack…" Asuma was saying when Naruto made his move.
From out of the river banks came a massive fox head, made of mud, water, and held together with red chakra, it unleashed a torrent of high pressure water at the mass of sand before ripping into it with its massive jaws.
"That's just like Kushina's jutsu, but with the fox instead" said a shocked Kakashi with his sharingan exposed and watching the fight. "The Mirror Ring Hand no jutsu…" -2-
"You haven't taught him any of her techniques, have you?" he asked looking at Anko.
"N-no I haven't. It must have been the Kyuubi."
Naruto's attack destroyed the surviving forest surrounding the ruined tower as well as severely hampering Gaara's ability to gather all the sand in the area. But it was a failure. From out of the dust the massive figure of the Ichibi no Shukaku stood there, towering over all.
With a massive blast of wind, it scoured away a huge portion of the forest and the river where Naruto was waiting.
The surviving Shinobi from the tower were already outside the forest of death when the blast destroyed much of it. Already, the entire shinobi force of Konoha was on high alert, and if Naruto failed, then hopefully their combined force would be able to take Gaara down.
As they were speaking, Yamato was rushing back to Konoha from a patrol mission, having just received a report on what was happening. If all failed, he would be the best chance to stop the rampaging monster.
In the middle of the devastated area, Naruto got to his feet, two chakra tails already out and a third one growing.
He could feel his control slipping. All he wanted to do was to kill the Ichibi in front of him. Kill, kill, kill!
Launching himself, a crater was left behind due to the force his take off and as he raced towards Gaara, two waves of earth and mud formed next to him.
These waves soon took on the form of two massive fox heads, held together by red chakra.
Reaching Gaara, the fox heads moved ahead of Naruto and erupted from the ground on pillars of rock.
Gaara was able to destroy one of them before it landed, but the second, bit directly into the massive sand body of the Ichibi, holing him in place as Naruto made his attack run.
Racing up the body, leaving a trail of destruction, he made his way to the sleeping form of Gaara.
Right as he was about to strike, A wall of sand encompassed Naruto and he let out a blast of red chakra.
From the edge of the forbidden forest, the gathered shinobi saw and felt the explosion that encompassed the Ichibi before they heard it.
Sand sprayed everywhere, coming down over the destroyed landscape like rain and the observers lost sight of the two combatants.
"Report" commanded the Hokage to the nearest ANBU with a set of binoculars.
"Lost sight of the two" said the ANBU member. "But it appears that Uzumaki was successful in destroying the sand body. Whether or not he killed the opposing jinchuuriki or disabled him is still unknown."
Before he had a time to consider his moves, another ANBU member, this time in a tiger mask landed in a crouching position in front of him. Clearly out of breath, Yamato struggled to control his appearance in front of the Hokage and other shinobi.
His squad had already left Konoha and he returned as quickly as he could when he got the summons to return.
"Your special skills are needed Tenzou. We have one, possibly two jinchuuriki out of control. You will take ANBU squads one and five and retrieve the two" said the Hokage looking at the shinobi in front of him.
"Hai, Hokage-sama" said Yamato before taking off towards the area of destruction with the ANBU in tow.
Arriving at the center of the destruction, they climbed over piles of sand, uprooted trees and ragged mounds of exposed earth before they found Naruto and Gaara.
Gaara was on the ground, bleeding from slashes and cuts all over his body and Naruto was walking up to him.
His cloths were torn and he likewise had cuts all over his body. Looking up as the ANBU approached, he let out a weak smile before collapsing to the ground.
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-1- When the series started they mentioned that the Kyuubi could cause landslides and title waves with a flick of his tail. I'm taking this to mean that he has a certain control over them.
-2- Reference to "Yondaime Gaiden" by kunoichi-san on DeviantArt, go read it if you haven't yet!
Sorry it took me so long to update. College started again and I couldn't find a time to write.
So what do you think of this chapter. I wanted to try to change the way the end of the second exams turned out instead of following the cannon which so many stories do.
Love it? Hate it? Have any suggestions? Please tell me, I'm all ears!
Ja ne!