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 11:
The Sound Ringing Through the Forest: The Beginning of the Clash!
Mitarashi Anko was rushing through the Forest of Death, finding the bodies of the grass ninja outside the forest gate, with the one she was most suspicious of having their face gone was the one who gave her kunai back. She scowled as she ran, knowing that this genin was really Orochimaru.
It's time that I finish him off… Anko thought as she landed on a tree branch with Orochimaru behind her. "Right, Orochimaru?"
"Impossible," the Hebi-Sennin said as he unleashed his tongue at his former disciple and Anko saw that it had wrapped around her arm. She grew a serious expression as she looked at Orochimaru.
Hidden Shadow Snake Hands! Snakes struck at Orochimaru's tongue as Anko pushed him from the tree he was merged into and bashed him into a branch on the tree she was on. Orochimaru go up and rushed at her, roughly pushing her into a tree. Anko winced before whipping around Orochimaru, holding Orochimaru's hand against the tree and stabbed both of their hands into the tree with a kunai. She made a handsign combined with Orochimaru's hand and he looked shocked.
"You're not…" Orochimaru said with wide eyes.
"We'll die together…" Anko said smiling as she looked confidently in her former teacher's eyes. Twin Snakes Mutual Death Technique!
"Sorry, but neither of us will die today, Anko-chan…" A familiar chuckle flooded Anko's ears as she turned her head furiously at the maker of the sound, Orochimaru the Great Snake. "That is but a shadow clone…" It vanished out of existence, shocking Anko and making her eyes widen in fear, but then, they gained their fury.
"Why are you here? To assassinate the Hokage?" Anko said furiously as Orochimaru removed the face of the dead Grass ninja, showing his sinister face.
"I was merely giving a parting gift to a genin here in the Chunin Exams, like the one I gave to you." Anko's eyes widened in realization of why he was here and what he did while Orochimaru chuckled madly. "He is an elite, an Uchiha, a beautiful body he has, perfect body for me!"
"The boy will most likely die, he has almost no chance to live." Anko said to Orochimaru.
"Or he could live like you did Anko…" Orochimaru said as he vanished from Anko's sight. "Don't spoil my fun or the village of Konohagakure will be nothing more than rubble and corpses." Orochimaru's light chuckle was all Anko heard before rushing to the Hokage, going to tell him what was happening.
Orochimaru was here!
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"God damn, where is Kisuke at?" A female voice yelled out into the forest, causing birds to fly from their homes into the sky overhead. "He only said he wanted to check out some Konohagakure crowd and hunt for a scroll! He's probably lost, that baka!"
"Well, it's nice to hear you care about me so, Hikari," the revealed Kisuke said with mock hurt and fake streaming tears, having a head of spikey black hair and cerulean eyes. His dual blades were in their sheaths, clothed after revealing themselves to the Namikaze he faced. "And I found out some good information on one of the Konohagakure ninjas and I was going to share too."
"Just tell me, you irritating baka!" She yelled again, her long blonde hair whipping around her like it was a whip that she held, angrily lashing at the wind.
"Should I?" Kisuke asked himself, turning his head in thought, finger on his chin. "You did insult me when I was just trying to help and see what kind of people were on the other teams."
"Just tell her, Kisuke…" A boy with thin framed, black glasses and slicked back spikey black hair appeared before the two, hands in his pockets and his coal eyes staring at Kisuke's intensely. "She won't stop nagging you until you do… Plus I'm curious of what you saw that made you want to go on and see the competition. It seemed like there was only one that mainly caught your eyes."
"You always were observant, eh, Washimura," Kisuke grinned at his teammate before changing into a serious face. "I found a member of one of the Konoha rookie teams that has a Namikaze in it."
This got both of them to gape at their teammate. "I thought that the Fourth was the only one left alive of that clan!" Hikari said, her silver-grey eyes widening in shock.
"It seems that the Fourth could have had a son or a daughter before he died at the hands of the Nine-Tailed Fox. He could have also sealed the Kyuubi inside the boy like how Roshi and Han hold the Four-Tails and Five-Tails inside of them." Washimura said, causing Kisuke's eyes to widen in realization.
"That makes complete sense! That Namikaze might be Konohagakure's jinchuriki, the container of the Kyuubi, and the son of the Yondaime Hokage!" Kisuke said, though inside his thoughts he knew because he saw the boy have the clever eyes of a kitsune when he started to transform.
"We'll keep an eye on him later," Hikari said as she looked at her teammates. "Let's get to the tower. Washimura got the Earth scroll that we needed. He can watch the boy over when we do the third exam if they pass. It seems his team has that arrogant looking Uchiha and that pink-haired civilian. I don't know their skill sets or the jinchuriki's but they seem like a team that butts heads often."
"You go on to the tower," Kisuke said, racing into the direction of Team Seven. "I want to see something before I meet you at the tower! I'll be there so don't worry about me dying!"
"I won't worry even if you die, baka!" Hikari yelled at his retreating form. "So get back here!"
"Let him go, Hikari," Washimura said softly to her. "Actually, I want to see this team that has interested our teammate as well. Let's go with him. It'll be better to be together anyway."
Washimura raced to Kisuke's location as Hikari sighed and followed. "I have a team of bakas…"
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Rock Lee was on a youthful walk as he and Gai, his sensei, would call it. That meant a furious rush through the woods at speeds that would make a certain blue, video-game hedgehog look like he was in slow-motion when he blurred across the screen. Lee stopped at a branch, wondering where other teams could be after he, Ten-Ten, and Neji gathered supplies for the exam to hold them together. He suddenly found a dashing squirrel with a blazing paper bomb attached to its tiny back.
Lee lunged from the tree and grabbed the squirrel quickly as he tore the paper bomb from its small furry body and crushed it up in his hand before throwing it on the ground.
"How unyouthful of someone putting a paper bomb on this youthful squirrel." Lee said, looking at the crying rodent that looked deeply into Lee's round eyes. The squirrel went onto Lee's shoulder and Lee smiled at it. "Alright, you can hitch a ride for now."
Lee's eyes blazed with determination. "Let's go!" Let's say the squirrel had to hand on for its dear life…
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Hyuga Neji looked slightly at the bush and smirked arrogantly. These rookies are pathetic, not even worth my time. They try to hide, but do they even know about the Hyuga's Byakugan? I could easily see them with that, even if they were hiding fairly well. So pathetic… "Come out of there."
"Damn it, this is troublesome… We got caught by the wrong guy…" Shiakmaru sighed in annoyance.
"Well, Ino, what are we going to do?" Choji asked, sweating in fear.
"It looks like we'll have to do Plan B." Ino said as Shikamaru sighed again.
"Fine…" Shikamaru said as they rose from the bush they were hiding from their "brilliant" plan ready to go into action.
"Oh! I didn't think we would get to see last year's No. 1 rookie, Hyuga Neji-sama here!" Ino exclaimed.
"Can I get your autograph, Neji-sama!" Shikamaru exclaimed while on the inside he was shaking in nausea at what he had to say. This is humiliating…
Neji had a dead-pan expression on his face, "Oh, you guys…"
Ino smirked at her plan. Time to pull out all the stops…
She undid her ponytail, looked sexily at Neji while the background somehow changed to a dazzling white with sparkles around the young kunoichi. "I've always… wanted to get to know you better…"
Neji turned away, "Get lost."
What? Why did my sexiness not work? This plan was fool-proof, damn it! Fool-proof, I say! The Yamanaka thought, shaking her fist in anger.
"So do you want a fight? Is that why you are shaking your fist in my direction?" Neji asked, not even turning.
"No, not at all!" Ino said, laughing. Does he have eyes in the back of his head or something?
"Then, get lost!" Neji said looking back at them.
"Yes, sir!" They said, rushing into the bushes. Neji sweat dropped at their display. They're like cockroaches… He, then, went on his way.
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Sakura was worn out, staying up for hours in order to keep Naruto and Sasuke safe. That squirrel earlier almost triggered her trap that she had set in case a group of ninja came. She then heard chuckling and a voice saying, "Up all night?" causing her to turn to the ninja to see the Oto ninja staring at her.
"It's no longer necessary to keep Sasuke asleep. We wish to fight him." Dosu spoke as Sakura quickly pulled out a kunai.
"I know someone named Orochimaru is pulling the strings around here! I want to know why he gave that weird mark to Sasuke-kun! What does he want! Why do you want to fight when you guys did this to him; tell me now!" Sakura yelled at them, causing them all to have widened eyes and step back a little.
"I wonder what he is planning… That Orochimaru…" Dosu said to himself, causing Sakura to look at him, puzzled.
"Hearing all that, it just makes me want to kill this girl and that Sasuke guy too. We can't let you go." Zaku said, staring at Sakura fiercely with an evil grin.
"Wait, Zaku," Dosu said to cause Zaku to stare at their leader angrily. "What?"
"You're not very good, girl." Dosu said as he approached the grass the squirrel was going to step over. "There's grass where it usually doesn't grow. Your booby trap is a failure." Sakura looked surprised which caused Dosu to grin in confidence. "This girl is of no use to us… Kill her." They charged in as Sakura had a hidden grin and swiped a string held down a hidden kunai behind her side, revealing a giant log before the trio, shocking them.
"Very smart, but you still are useless." Dosu made a handsign and put his other hand on the log. Sound waves tore through the log, causing a huge hole in it that the Sound shinobi went through. "You have no talent whatsoever; you have to work harder than most shinobi. A weakling like you should never mess with shinobi like us at all."
Sakura had tears starting to form in her eyes. I am weak after all…
Tree Leaf Whirlwind! Lee appeared, knocking the three Oto ninja out of the way of Sakura, surprising all who were there and up.
Lee went in front of Sakura. "Then, you guys have to work harder as well…"
"Who might you be…" Dosu asked, staring at the odd shinobi before him.
"Konoha's Beautiful Green Wild Beast, Rock Lee!" Lee said, staring fiercely at Dosu as he lowered his hand and let the squirrel go.
"Why are you here?" Sakura asked Lee.
"I'll always be here when you're in danger, Sakura-chan… I said that. I'm like the hero that arrives at the last minute." When Lee said this, he heard a chuckle from inside the tree, surprising both Sakura and Lee.
"You just had to steal my line, eh, Centipede Brows." The one who said this stepped into the open and caused Sakura to gasp.
"Naruto!" Sakura exclaimed as Naruto looked at the tired Sakura and frowned. Sakura caught this. "What is it, Naruto?"
"Thank you for protecting me and Sasuke while we were out, Sakura-chan," Naruto said, adopting a look of thanks and concern for her.
"No problem, Naruto...," Sakura said with a worn smile as Naruto looked at Lee and smiled.
"So, you're here on our side now, Centipede Brows," Naruto grinned in infectious joy as Lee smiled back.
"Yeah, Naruto-kun, I'm here to help you defend Sakura-chan and even Sasuke." Lee said, holding a thumbs-up.
"Then, let's get started," Naruto said, grinning at Lee before looking at the Sound shinobi with the fierce eyes of his father. "Time to go wild!"
An: Cliffhanger… The most frustrating thing that happens in reading something… I know this is shorter than usual but I wanted to put something up rather than nothing. The next chapter will be the battle between the Oto nin and Team Seven plus Lee since I have a plan that Team Ten might barely do anything in this battle. Review how you feel about the story or the chapter! Hope you enjoy the story!