What if Naruto had a hidden power that came to be when he fought Mizuki, a bloodline he never knew of? Then he would be known as the Kaze no Arashi, the Wind Storm!
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto. Those rights belong to Masashi Kishimoto.
Kaze no Arashi
Chapter 9:
Story of the Sharingan Eye: The Chunin Exam Starts!
Naruto looked ahead, entered the building where the Chunin Exam would take place, following his Uchiha teammate beside Sakura, his other teammate. Naruto looked seriously around as he looked ahead, seeing a group of various genin congregated. This puzzled Naruto as his team stopped to see a boy with a bowl-cut hairdo, wearing a green jumpsuit that clung to his body, was on the ground, his hand wiping his mouth before he got up.
Naruto heard chuckling and looked to see two shinobi standing in front of the door to the exam. They both had amused and fierce looks and their eyes. The first one to speak had spikey hair and wielded two giant kunais on his back.
"You think that you're ready for the Chunin Exams?" The shinobi laughed. "That's the best of your abilities, the power you wield?" He looked fiercely at the genin on the ground. "You're just a little kid, not even worth anyone's time."
"Indeed," the other one had his headband as a bandana with a bang of his hair hanging down his nose, smirking at the fallen ninja.
The girl with buns in her hair approached the two, "Just… please let us through."
The spikey haired one merely slapped the girl who fell onto her butt. One of the Konoha ninja spoke out fiercely in a mutter, "Horrible…"
"What was that," the spikey haired genin said looking at the Konoha shinobi, who shook in fear. The genin smirked.
The other one looked at the spikey haired one as he continued to speak, "Listen, this is out of kindness. This is our kindness that we are showing."
He looked seriously at everyone as he spoke yet he still held a fierce smile. "This exam isn't a picnic, it isn't easy at all. Even we have failed it three times straight. Some got through the exam and quit being shinobi, some die during these tests, we've seen it all. Chunins often become leaders of groups of military. The failure of a mission, the death of a comrade, it all weighs on your shoulders as a chunin."
He looked seriously at them all without a single smile, freaking people out. "That is a leader's responsibility yet you kids think you can pass; it makes me laugh."
He, then, adopted a fierce grin which shook people that couldn't stand the way he looked at them. "We're just thinning out those who will fail anyway. Nothing's wrong about that."
"I agree, but I'm not weak." Everyone turned to the source of the voice to see a smirking Uchiha Sasuke next to calm Uzumaki-Namikaze Naruto and attentive Haruno Sakura. "You'll let us through since we can see through your genjutsu. We're going to the third floor."
Everybody was looking at Sasuke, "What's this guy talking about?" "I don't know, don't ask me!"
"Heh," the spikey haired guy laughed as he looked fiercely at the Uchiha.
"So, you noticed the genjutsu, eh," the other one said as Sasuke smirked at him.
"Of course, all of my team noticed it, but first, was Sakura. Right?" This got Sakura's attension as she looked at Sasuke. "After all, your analytical abilities and knowledge of genjutsu is most improved of our team."
Sakura smiled as she looked at the two genin blocking the way that was to the exam, at least everyone thought it was. Thanks, Sasuke-kun…
"Umm, Sasuke… I don't know anything about genjutsu…" Naruto said outloud, scratching the back of his head, making everyone face fault to the ground.
"You dope, I was telling that to everyone so they wouldn't think we were easy pickings! Don't you understand?" Sasuke yelled at his teammate who nodded and blushed a little in embarrassment, hearing people laugh at him.
"Oh well, just let us through, since we are on the second floor." Sakura said as Naruto nodded, trying to seem smart when he already blew it.
The sign that said 301 changed to 201 instantly as the spikey-haired dude smirked and sent a kick Sasuke's way. "Can you see through this though?"
Sasuke sent up a kick only for the downed genin to get up and block both of their kicks, his eyes fierce. He let go of both of their legs as Sasuke looked at the boy's arm. He stopped my kick with just his hand… How was he able to do it?
Sakura was shocked, He's fast and he was able to see both kicks, go between them and block them from connecting. He's a lot stronger than he looked earlier on the ground.
Naruto looked at the guy with big eyebrows that looked like full-grown caterpillars on his face and his bowl-cut hairdo. He's a lot stronger than he looks… Bushy Brows…
The Hyuga teammate of the boy sighed in irritation, "What happened to the plan? You're the one that said we should draw attention to ourselves and you just did it right now."
The boy looked at Sakura and blushed lightly, unknown to her, "Well…" His two teammates caught this and sighed at what their teammate had done and for what reason.
Sasuke looked at the boy and the girl teammate and was shocked a little. What happened to their injuries from those ninja…
The boy with the bowl-cut approached Sakura, who caught the attention of the boy. "My name is Rock Lee and you're Haruno Sakura, correct?" She nodded and that's when the boy winked, put his hand into a thumbs up sign, and smiled brightly, a sheen coming off his set of teeth as if it was to blind everybody. "Will you go out with me? I'll protect you with my life!"
Sakura had a dead-panned look on her face when looking at him, but recovered enough to say, "No thanks…"
Naruto acknowledged the look of disappointment on Rock Lee's face as he put a hand on his shoulder and smiled when the boy looked up at him. "Don't worry, I've tried to get her to go out with me and I've seen her turn down people worse than she did you. Mainly to me…" He said sadly, though he hadn't really asked Sakura out as much as he usually did. He was more focused on the scroll and his family. He began to see Sakura walk toward Sasuke, her hair waving around with her movements. He smiled sadly at her back and Rock Lee focused on him, recognizing the whisker marks on the boy's face.
"Ah, you must be Uzumaki Naruto," Lee said, surprising Naruto as he looked toward Sasuke, "which means he's Uchiha Sasuke… Makes sense since you're with Sakura-chan…"
"How did you… know…" Naruto asked as the boy smiled, teeth gleaming which freaked Naruto out a little.
"My sensei is the eternal rival of your sensei, Hatake Kakashi! I've heard him speak of you guys before." Lee exclaimed before Naruto nodded. It made sense.
"Alright, see ya later, Bushy Brows!" Naruto said, waving at the ninja, who smiled and waved back.
Naruto heard that this Hyuga wanted Sasuke's name and saw the bun wearing girl blush at Sasuke as Sakura started to pull Sasuke away from them, but noticed that Naruto was not there. She looked back to see Naruto looking at the Hyuga and his girl teammate, his fists clenched. Sakura wondered what was going on as she looked at him. He looked up at Sakura, shocked to see a little concern in her eyes.
He smiled a fake smile, his mask covering his face as teams started to disperse. "Head toward where the exams are, Sakura-chan, Sasuke… I need to do something…"
This confused them as Naruto pulled out a paper tag and a pen with a container of ink. He dipped the pen into the ink and started writing symbols on the sheet before smiling sadly at the paper, putting the ink up and seeing Sakura and Sasuke still there, staring at him. "I told you guys you can go…" He pulled up his shirt a little, but couldn't get it onto his chest. He sighed before looking at Sasuke and smiling. "It looks like it's good that you're here. Can you put this on my chest?"
Sasuke sighed and approached his teammate, taking the seal and putting it onto his chest. "What does this thing do and what is it?"
Naruto chuckled and smiled lightly at his teammate. "A secret for later."
Sasuke glared at the blonde before approaching the confused Sakura. "Let's go, Sakura…"
"Okay…," she said, looking at Naruto before saying something to him. "Come on, Naruto!"
Naruto looked at Sakura and smiled at her as he chuckled. "Yeah, I'm coming Sakura-chan!"
He ran toward his teammates as Lee followed them, caught by the Hyuga teammate of his. "What are you doing, Lee?"
"Let me test something, go on ahead!" he said as he went toward Team Seven.
The two genin that did the genjutsu were smirking at each other. "So those were Gai's and Kakashi's students, huh? Well, they pass the first unofficial test." The one with straight hair said as the spikey haired one nodded before making a handsign and releasing their transformation, revealing their true, older selves as they wore chunin vests.
"These exams will be fun…" The spikey haired one smiled as he looked at his companion. "Right, Izumo?"
"For us especially, Kotetsu," the other one replied, smiling back. "I can't wait to see the results."
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"You with the duck-butt hairdo!" Rock Lee shouted as Sasuke turned annoyed.
"At least I don't have a bowl-cut like you!" Sasuke yelled back as Rock Lee landed on the ground before them. "What do you want?"
"Fight me," Rock Lee said putting up his hand only for Naruto to approach him. "I don't want to face you, Naruto. All I want to do is face Sasuke. After all, I'm the strongest genin of the Village Hidden in the Leaves. Just get out of the way."
"All people want to face is the Great Uchiha, huh?" Naruto mocked Sasuke, who glared at him. "I'll take him, Sasuke." Naruto's eyes were serious.
"What are you planning, dope? Why do you want to face him?" Sasuke asked while Naruto smiled back at him.
"Because he reminds me of myself." Naruto said, making Sasuke wonder even more. Naruto merely smiled to himself. "You'll see, Sasuke!" Naruto charged in, no wind surrounding him whatsoever. Lee merely stood there, looking at his rushing opponent. Naruto made a series of handsigns, getting everyone's attention as he smirked and he pulled out a kunai. He breathed wind nature chakra onto the knife as he did the same to a shuriken. He threw the kunai toward Lee and threw the shuriken a little afterward at where he thought Lee was going to run to.
He cheered inwardly as he stabbed Lee's arm with a shuriken surrounded by wind nature chakra. Lee's eyes widen at the mark before he rushed at Naruto. Leaf Hurricane! He hit Naruto's face causing him to land a ways off, standing up while Lee was shocked the boy got up so fast.
Good thing I sparred a little with Ero-sennin before the exam. My speed and taijutsu increased quite a bit even if they could be a lot better. And Bushy Brows is exactly what type of shinobi I thought he was, a pure taijutsu user that increased his speed with training in order to strike people down a lot easier and catch people off guard. Sasuke-teme might have trouble facing him since the Sharingan would be able to copy his moves as easily. Naruto thought as he decided to let Sasuke and Lee duke it out. Lee just wants to test his abilities against a genius and doesn't care about me. They're underestimating me completely.
Naruto smiled as he looked at the three ninja before him. That's perfect for me! I'll show them to never underestimate me!
"You can have a go, Sasuke," Naruto said, smirking, getting the Uchiha's attention. "I don't think I could beat him anyway." Naruto knew that was true, the only way he could beat Lee was with a little bit of Kyuubi chakra from what he heard from Jiraiya. "He wanted to face you after all." Sasuke smirked and charged into battle with Lee smiling.
"Show me the power of your clan, Uchiha Sasuke!"
Sasuke smirked, "You've got guts to face me when you know my clan."
Sasuke and Lee starting going at it with Sasuke relying on his Sharingan and Lee on his taijutsu as Naruto sat by the wall, sighing as he looked at the wall. He already knew Sasuke would lose; it didn't take an expert to see that. Naruto could tell that this Rock Lee was not a rookie like them and had to be training all day when he got a glimpse of his rough, trained hands.
Naruto looked up to see Sasuke in the air with Lee below him. Naruto smirked when Lee told Sasuke that he was using only taijutsu against him and was about to finish it with a toy windmill was thrown by a summoned turtle to stop Lee. Naruto looked curiously at the summon. Who summons turtles? He knew Jiraiya summoned frogs, Orochimaru summoned snakes and Tsunade summoned slugs since his sensei told him. He watched the turtle berate Lee and then found the answer. It must be Bushy Brow's sensei's summon!
Sakura and Sasuke looked on with a creeped-out look as Naruto approached them from behind, standing beside Sakura. "That must be Bushy Brows' teacher's summoning animal." He said outloud, getting his teammates' attention.
"How do you know that, Naruto," asked the two, wondering.
"It's acting like a sensei to him and I know of ninja's being able to summon creatures like the Fourth summoned a frog to help seal the fox and you know the Sennin used summonings too. I didn't see Bushy Brows summon him so that's the only thing I can… Dear kami, who is that?"
Sasuke and Sakura looked to see Might Gai and all his "youthful" glory. His teeth shined as Naruto's eyes widened and he shook with fright.
"Let's… get… out.. of… here…" Naruto whispered harshly, seeing the sunset, wave-crashing image of youth pop up behind the hugging and openingly crying duo, calling each other's name with passion.
They quickly rushed out of there and toward the testing area, leaving the youthful duo in their passionate hug displayed to all who passed there.
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"Few! I'm glad we got out of there before we saw more!" Naruto said, breathing heavily at escaping the two and saw Kakashi waiting for them at the door. "'Ey. Kaka-sensei, why are you here?"
Kakashi looked at his students and eye-smiled like he always did. "Yo! How are you guys? I just wanted to make sure you all got here as even this test involves teamwork at some points. I also wanted to tell you guys the story of how I got this Sharingan eye since it'll help you grow stronger individually and see a little bit of your own faults."
He sighed and had a far-off, melancholy look in his dark visible eye. "I had just become a jonin when we were sent on a mission. After all, it was a time of war, the Third Great Ninja War. I was like you, Sasuke, arrogant, but I was one to stick by the rules and I thought that anybody that ignored the rules were scum because of my father dying. He ignored the rules and died for it. No… he killed himself."
This shocked the genin as Kakashi continued, "My father, the White Fang of Konoha, had a choice, continue the mission and risk the lives of his comrades that would surely die or flee and save the lives of his comrades. My father chose the latter and the village and the companions he saved cursed him for it. Because of that mission, my father's mind and body grew weak and he took his own life because of the pain of feeling everyone was against him. That's when I decided to go by the rules and nothing else.
"My sensei, Namikaze Minato, Naruto's father and the Fourth Hokage, told us to split after a while. He would fly solo on the frontlines to this bridge that we would destroy to not allow Iwa ninjas to gain supplies. I would command the group consisting of myself and my teammates, Rin and Uchiha Obito." Sasuke grew shocked at hearing his family name. Kakashi looked sadly at Naruto and Sakura. "Rin was a lot like you, Sakura." This drew the kunoichi's attention to the story more.
"She had amazing chakra control and was an adept healer, the support of our team as she stopped mine and Obito's fights. She even looked like you a bit; Sakura, but she had brown hair and bright brown eyes." Kakashi chuckled sadly at the memory as he looked at Naruto, who looked sadly back. Naruto could tell what Kakashi was about to say to him. "Obito was just like you, Naruto. My father was too. He always put his teammates before himself, saying he would rather save his teammates then follow the rules. He even said that saying you loved so much back at the training grounds when we did the bell test. 'Those that break the rules and regulations are scum. But those who abandon their comrades are worse than scum! If I'm going to be called scum either way, I'd rather break the rules! And if that's not being a proper shinobi, then I'll destroy that idea!' That's what he said when Rin was captured by enemy ninja when our sensei split from us.
"The ninja were looking for information about the village or our mission from her, but she had a strong will and never gave out information. While Obito being Obito went on his own to get Rin back, I stayed and thought about my father, Obito, Rin and this situation. That's when I decided to think for myself and not rely on the rules to think for me. I met up with Obito as we battled these Iwa ninja and I lost my eye in battle to one of these Iwa nin. Obito was able to awaken his Sharingan that he always boasted he would unlock and killed the ninja.
"We went on to find Rin and saved her only to be caved in by one of the Iwa ninja left. I was about to run away, but a rock hit my injured eye, knocking me down. Obito saw this, ran over and threw my body away from the rocks only for him to take the rocks full on, crushing the right side of his body. It was then that he gave me a gift for becoming a jonin like Rin giving me a medical kit and sensei giving me his special kunai. He gave me his left eye, his Sharingan… saying that he could see the future with me even if he wasn't there. More Iwa ninja came only for me to be knocked out right as I completed my jutsu, Chidori: 1000 Birds or Lightning Blade, with the aid of Obito's Sharingan.
"Minato-sensei saved me and Rin after I heard Obito tell me to promise him to protect Rin for him. After all, he loved her… just like…"
"Sensei!" Naruto yelled out, shocking everyone, his eyes pleading. He noticed them all looking at him, looking at the boy whose mask was starting to tear apart from these simple words. He started to cry intentionally and for real. After all, it made him wonder if that could happen to him and his teammates. "That's a very sad story…"
Kakashi knew why Naruto stopped him. It was so Naruto didn't have to deal with Sakura and her harsh rejection or pleating words, apologizing just because he loved her and she did not. That her words and punches tore at him and his face, causing him to put up a mask to not take the pain full on. It still hurt, but he could fake it for a while. He had to fake it for all of the villagers after all. He could keep it up for a few years.
Kakashi sighed sadly, drawing the attension of his genin students, "Yes, after all, all those precious to me are gone like I said when I met you guys. I couldn't protect Rin and Minato-sensei died protecting the village from the Nine-Tails." He looked at his students hardened and sad expressions as he sadly eye-smiled at them. "But," he drew their attention, "you guys are turning into people precious to me." He eye-smiled happily as his team gasped and smiled at him and he, their teacher, went up to each of them, ruffling their hair with his hands before he left. "Good luck on your exam, guys!"
"I'm going to pass, believe it, Kaka-sensei!" Naruto exclaimed causing Kakashi to chuckle as he looked back as they entered the door. Show them what you can do, Sakura, Sasuke… and Naruto. He turned, pulled out his favorite book and walked as he read.
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Naruto and the other two looked into the room as they entered to see a horde of ninja of all villages looking at them, glaring fiercely. They stood there, looking for anybody they knew. Little did they know, someone was approaching them at a fast pace, ready to pounce on them…
"Sasuke-kun!" The voice was none other than Yamanaka Ino, a worshipper of Uchiha Sasuke, whose neck she was hanging on, much to the 'kami's' displeasure. "It's been so long! I've missed you so much! Have you missed me!"
"Back away, Ino-pig! He's mine!" Sakura yelled causing Naruto to sigh. Sometimes Sakura could be worse than a hoard of bulls seeing a red all over Konohagakure, causing an endless rampage of destruction and madness. Naruto put his hands in his pockets as he saw Shikamaru and Choji approach him and he smiled lightly.
"Hey, you guys, how have you been?" Naruto asked, catching the attention of the female Yamanaka.
"Forehead, is that really Naruto?" Ino asked Sakura, pointing at Naruto.
"Of course, it is pig! Why did you think it wasn't?" Sakura said to her friend as she got off Sasuke's back, much to the Uchiha's pleasure.
"He just seems… smarter and calmer… How the hell did he change from that loudmouth, orange and ramen obsessed academy student to a calm yet playful shinobi?" Ino asked her rival in love as she pointed at Naruto, who was hearing the conversation while catching up with Shikamaru and Choji.
Naruto turned toward Ino, shocking her and making her blush under his intense gaze. "Ino-chan…"
"Naruto…" Ino said softly as he approached her, a serious look in his calm cerulean eyes and a light-hearted smile hung on his face, making Ino blush a little more.
Naruto then broke into a wide grin and yelled out, "How have you been, Ino?"
Ino was shocked and confused. He was suddenly a serious, charming… (Did she say charming?) shinobi and then a happy-go-lucky ninja then next. It was like he had multiple personality syndrome!
"I've been… okay… Naruto…" she said quietly as she was still shocked by Naruto, who changed to his serious side, lightly smiling at her, unknowingly charming her and other kunoichi that looked at his face as it resembled the Fourth Hokage's.
"Good," he said softly at her, causing her to blush lightly as he turned away and Sakura grew angry.
Why did Naruto do that to Ino? It was like he was Sasuke-kun, being all calm and charming! Sakura thought as Inner Sakura appeared and said something as well. Shannaro! He can do that to me anytime! This caused Sakura to blush like she was Hinata and to her luck, no one caught her blush.
"Yahoo, looks like everyone's here!" Kiba exclaimed with Hinata Hyuga and Shino Abrurame as he approached the rest of the Rookie Nine.
Shino just stood quietly not talking while Sasuke smirked at Kiba. "You seem raring to go, Kiba…"
"Of course, I get the chance to show the world whose alpha around here!"
"Who, me, Kiba? It most certainly isn't you."
Kiba glared at the culprit who spoke those words until he smirked at him. "Heh, so you think you're all that, Naruto! You have to remember back in the academy; you were the deadlast!"
"Kiba-kun…" Hinata said lightly, twiddling her fingers.
"I was," Naruto said calmly with a smirk. "Doesn't mean I can't whoop your ass!"
Kiba glared and was about to punch Naruto until he felt Hinata tug his sleeve and tell him not to. "We'll see, dope… We'll see…" He snorted and turned from the rookies, setting against the wall.
Naruto merely watched a ninja from Konoha approach wearing glasses. "You guys might want to quiet down. Can't you see all the ninja glaring at you? They absolutely hate arrogant and annoying rookies."
Sasuke eyed him cautiously, "Why are you coming to us if we're so arrogant and annoying? What do you want from us?"
The ninja chuckled as he pulled out a deck of cards. "I'm Yakushi Kabuto and I know this exam pretty well since I've failed it a few times. I also have these… Ninja Info Cards."
Naruto smirked at Kabuto, looking at the cards. "So, you stalk ninja so you can write down their abilities. You're such a creeper."
This got most of the rookies to laugh and Sasuke to smirk.
"You're the kind of ninja that gets killed first," Kabuto said, eyeing Naruto, "the one who jokes and irritates everyone. That's all that you are, Uzumaki Naruto."
"If you know info on shinobi taking the exam tell me the skills of Sabaku no Gaara and Rock Lee." Sasuke said, calmly looking at the shinobi.
"You know their names; that's no fun!" Kabuto said as he looked and revealed the cards, Sasuke looking at them secretively. His eyes widened when he looked at Gaara's and then gave it back to Kabuto.
"What else do you contain in those cards?" Naruto asked.
"Just how many people are taking the exam like how Otogakure, a small, unknown village only has one team of ninja at the exam. Though most of the ninja here are from Konoha since the exam is located here." Kabuto answered Naruto.
"Apparently, we're from some minor village," Dosu chuckled evilly. "Let's show that four-eyed freak how strong the Oto-nin can be so he can record that data!"
His two teammates nodded as they zoomed through the crowd and reached Kabuto, shocking almost everyone there. Dosu struck as Kabuto dodged the attack, smirking until his glasses broke and he puked, shocking everyone there.
What kind of attack was that? Kabuto thought, feel nauseous. He must be using sound waves somehow through that thing on his arm.
"Quiet down, you fucking maggots! The first exam is about to begin!" Ibiki Morino shouted as he appeared with a bunch of chunin and jonin spectators surrounding him. "A written test!"
A man held a bunch of tests causing Naruto to freak out on the inside. A written test?
"You'll be given a number where you'll sit as you enter the room. Other than that wait until everyone is seated and I will say go when we're ready to start. " Ibiki said as everyone picked a number and Naruto ended up next to Hinata.
"Good luck, Hinata." Naruto said while Hinata lightly blushed.
"You too, Naruto-kun…" The Hyuga girl whispered to her crush as the proctor told them to start.
The test was full of people gaining the answers by their secretive means like Sharingan, Byakugan, a summon, anything at their disposal. When the tenth question came around, a lot quit in fear of being a genin forever until Naruto had to shout out his thoughts about the question and made people gain a backbone and leading the rest to pass the First Exam.
This led to the self-proclaimed sexy mistress Mitarashi Anko to fly through the window like a demented banshee and led them loudly to the Forest of Death, the location of the Second Exam.
AN: The reason I shorted the First Exam is because it will play out exactly like the manga and anime so I decided instead of stating the whole thing in a few hundred to a thousand words to shorten it to not bore people more. I also wanted to get into the Forest of Death for the Second Exam. Hope you didn't mind and sorry if that made anybody angry that I rushed past it and basically summarized the whole thing. The next chapter will be the first part of the Second Exam! Review and tell me your thoughts! Thanks for reading once again!