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 13:
The Training to Change: The Third Exam Preliminaries Finally Begin!
Naruto stood in a clearing, surrounded by his own clones by the tower in the middle of the Forest of Death, arriving there a few days early. That's when Naruto decided to train after seeing how weak he still was, even if he had not used many of his shinobi tools like all the different tags and seals he crafted and held in his pouch. He also learned that he had not one, but two bloodlines, the mastery of wind from the Namikaze and the Chakra Chains from his mother. When he talked to Iruka about it, Iruka immediately called down Kakashi and Hiruzen to find out what Naruto had now.
Naruto was still not a master at the chains like his mother, but he was gaining control and more thought into his wind techniques. That and mastering his chakra control better by cutting leaves with his chakra and walking on the nearby river way that went through the Forest of Death. Naruto stood calmly, his eyes focused pools of serious cerulean as thousands of shuriken charged at him and he smirked, making a handsign. The wind became his skin, a layer that protected him from harm as the shuriken bounced and flew to the ground.
Naruto cursed to himself; he still couldn't use the wind to grab the shuriken in midair and fling them back at his opponent. All he had was a slightly more powerful Eight Trigrams Palms Revolving Heaven technique since his wind could surround him completely. It was more perfect than that technique and Sabaku no Gaara's sand at being a defensive technique though Naruto's technique took a lot of chakra, even more than his Multiple Shadow Clone Technique. If Naruto used it too much and couldn't toss the weapons used against him back, then the technique would be less useful. It could also guard him from jutsu, especially Lightning Release ones. Fire Techniques took a lot more effort and could end up burning him when the touched the layer of wind and not get reflected back.
Full body burns = very painful!
His clones popped out in a mob, rushing at Naruto. Naruto decided to try out, sprouting chains from his body, imagining the shape of the links and then forming to make the chains. Naruto closed his eyes and concentrated.
Come on! Send out the chains! Naruto thought before opening his eyes as an array of chains sprouted out of his body, wrapping and holding done each clone, causing them to disappear into smoke, filling the area around Naruto.
Naruto felt his chakra start to get weaker from practicing his Kekkai Genkais and his body getting slightly weaker from practicing taijutsu and throwing his tagged weapons, showing their abilities. Naruto decided to call it a day. After all, it would be the Third Stage of the Chunin Exam tomorrow and he remembered what had happened before they got to the tower.
When he had talked to Kisuke…
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"What?" Naruto said shocked.
Kisuke looked at him. "You shouldn't be surprised. The Ninja Academy should have taught you all the wars Konohagakure went through."
Naruto remembered that. The Third Shinobi World War was a war that Konohagakure surprisingly won, thanks to Namikaze Minato, his nickname being Konoha's Yellow Flash after the war because of him using his Flying Thunder God Technique to decimate forces to help turn the tides in the war. It was, also, partly thanks to Hatake Kakashi and his teammates that the Kannabi Bridge was destroyed, turning the tables on the enemy as well since they couldn't carry supplies by the bridge anymore.
"Of course I remember," Naruto said to Kisuke. "I was just shocked at hearing my father killed all of your clan."
"Yes, my clan, the Bushido, was a mixture of samurai and shinobi, mostly shinobi that adopted the skills of the samurai. That's why I hold these two katanas on my back. I learned samurai skills along with shinobi skills. I follow my bushido just as much as my nindo. My way of life is a strange one. I wasn't exactly Mr. Popular in my village and still I'm not. They don't understand my clan very well as we had our own land inside Tsuchi no Kuni before it became part of Iwagakure, the land's ninja village.
"Our clan was very powerful yet small as I was my father was the one of the only survivors in the clan besides our clan's most powerful shinobi, Bushido Takashi, a friend of my father. Takashi became known as the Kuroi Akuma. (Black Demon) The reason was the cold fierceness he held in his eyes, the long, flowing, spikey black hair he had moved with him like a mane of a beast and the way he struck with his swords were as if they were just claws he had on his fingers, a part of him.
"Once the war ended, Takashi left the village, wishing good will and a bright future for my father. My father would come to marry a samurai's daughter and she would give birth to me, ironically dying while bringing me into the world. My father would shortly die after that by Sasori of the Red Sand and his partner of the time, Orochimaru on a mission he took that was an S-rank. I don't remember since I was quite young at the time of his death. I was left alone and unable to survive until Onoki granted me a small house about the size of a shack to live in and provided me with a sum of money and some money left by my clan and my family.
"Luckily, the accounts had quite a bit of money to survive on before getting paid on ninja missions. I still hold some money in the clan accounts and even put some into saving so I could gain more money as it sat in the bank. Many of the clan's scrolls are in the library in my living room. Not very many scrolls, so there was room in the living room to put them there."
Naruto was still shocked, wondering why this stranger was telling him all this when all the boy knew about Naruto was that he was the son of the Fourth Hokage. Was he merely telling him all this before he killed him, showing Naruto a person just like him, alone and isolated, only for that person to kill him. An avenger taking vengeance on his clan's and father's deaths on the son of the killer of his clan and waiting to take vengeance on Orochimaru and Sasori on a later date as he told his story to show Naruto that other people were like him, like Sasuke.
"Aren't you going to kill me now?" Naruto asked, staring at the other genin, who raised an eyebrow at what he said.
"Kill you? Nah, I won't kill you for vengeance on my clan. I've learned the paths of samurai and shinobi and both paths lead to death. There's no point in killing you for what your father did. No point in killing Sasori and Orochimaru for what they did. The only way I would kill any of you guys is if you threaten my village and the people that are important to me right now. I will protect the living to make sure they don't become the dead like my father and my clan, because once they are dead, they are gone forever. I've learn to appreciate the time I have with the people I hold important to me. By looking into your eyes, I can see you feel the same way."
Kisuke took out his hand, reaching toward Naruto like a friend doing a gesture to his best friend and smiling a true smile at Naruto, shocking the blonde once again. "It would be better to make friends than enemies. Even our villages have gotten along better over the years, but even that doesn't matter. No matter if our villages are allies or enemies or just neutral with each other like now, we will still hold a bond of people that have share a similar past and will make a better future. That's what I believe after seeing you."
"You hold no hatred toward me?"
Kisuke chuckled. "No, not anymore, now that I've seen what kind of person you are. At first, I blamed you for what your father did to my clan, my village, but I've learned from seeing what you are that it'll be better to be friends than become enemies and end up dead. After all, I think you hold the Kyuubi inside you and that would mean I would more likely die than me."
Naruto tensed at the mention of the beast he contained. "How do you know about the fox?"
"You had Kyuubi's influence on you when I first saw you and started to face you. After all, you had eyes like a kitsune and your whisker marks began to darken, which meant something was happening to you. I also know of other Jinchuriki like Han and Roshi from my village, containers for the tailed beasts like you. There are at least six others than you and Han and Roshi since those two hold Four-Tails and Three-Tails. Plus I remember discussing the Kyuubi attack in our Ninja Academy since it was the cause of the Fourth Hokage's death."
"I see," Naruto said as he extended his hand to reach Kisuke's until they met and wrapped into a hug, a handshake. Naruto smiled at Kisuke, who lightly smiled back. "I hope to see you in the next part of the exam."
"I do as well," Kisuke said, taking his hand back and turning away from Naruto. "Let's do our best."
Naruto smiled and jumped in joy and excitement of what the next part could be. "I will do my best! Believe it!"
Kisuke chuckled before departing, walking back to his team, knowing he made the right decision in the end.
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Naruto looked to the sky and smiled at the clear bright day as he rose his hand up as if trying to grab the sun from the sky and clenched it. I will show them how powerful I am. Wish me luck, tou-san, kaa-san!
He continued to smile at the sky as if it was his father and mother smiling down upon him. He stayed there, smiling for a while, until his teammate appeared from the tower.
"Naruto!" Naruto turned to the voice, seeing Sakura calling for him. "Are you almost done training? It's getting close to the next part tomorrow. You should rest for tomorrow and just come into the tower."
Naruto secretly wanted to train more, but knew with it being around four or five o' clock that it would be almost time to go inside and get rested for early the next morning would be the next part of the exam.
He looked at the sky once more and then rushed inside after Sakura went back in, ready for the next part of the Chunin Exam.
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Kisuke was up, looking at the wall of the room he and Washimura occupied as Washimura was preparing himself for the next part.
"So that's what you decided to do with the issue with the Namikaze?" Washimura asked to which Kisuke nodded. "I think that was one of the best decisions you've made in the exams."
"I know!" Kisuke stated proudly until he picked up on what his teammate said. "Wait a minute, dude! What do you mean by that being one of the best decisions I've made in the exams? All of my decisions were awesome!"
"Except when you decided for us to split in the Forest of Death as while you gained a scroll, your splitting us up caused me to lose our scroll to another team. Luckily, we were able to recover a scroll in the forest later." Washimura said to his teammate, who sweat-dropped at what his friend said.
"Yeah, I understand," Kisuke said, standing as he walked toward the door and opened it. "Let's just get to the arena for the next part of the exam."
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Naruto looked around the arena-like area, searching for people and teams he knew. He found that to his left were the other rookie teams with Inuzuka Kiba and Yamanaka Ino in front, Hyuga Hinata and Nara Shikamaru in the middle, and Aburame Shino and Akimichi Choji at the end. Choji seemed to be thinking about food and being hungry, Shikamaru sighing at how many were left after all this time and Ino smiling widely that "Sasuke-kun's team passed! (Insert heart)." Kiba was staring weirdly at Gaara, who was in front of Kankuro and Temari, as Akamaru was whimpering inside Kiba's warm jacket. Hinata was smiling and had her two index fingers poking at each other as she looked at Naruto, glad that he had passed. Shino, however, just stood, keeping to himself like usual.
Naruto looked to the right to see Hyuga Neji, Rock Lee and Ten-Ten beside his team, Bushido Kisuke and his team of Utsukishi Hikari and Washimura was next to that team, then Gaara's team and lastily, there was the Sound ninja team and, then, Kabuto's team. Sakura kept worrying after Sasuke when the Hokage announced what the next test would be, one on one matches against a random opponent. Even when Kakashi said he suppressed the seal and said that it wouldn't do harm, she still worried about him. She started to tell Sasuke to quit when the proctor told them they could quit right then and there. Sasuke, of course, told her not to ruin this opportunity of a lifetime for him as they began to generate the names on the board, names scrambling around until one appeared at first in big letters just saying "Read me, read me!" That name was:
WASHIMURA
Washimura looked calm as he saw his name being featured on the board as he waited patiently for the other name, his opponent to appear. When it finally appeared, he looked at his opponent, who looked to him.
WASHIMURA
VS.
KANKURO
Washimura and Kankuro went to the center of the arena as senseis went to their teams in the upper levels to the sides of the arena as the proctor stayed on the ground level and the Hokage and other proctors joined them. Hikari wished Washimura luck, who merely nodded, and walked up to their sensei. Kisuke stayed as he approached Washimura and whispered something in his ear.
"He looks like he's hiding something in those wrappings. You might want to watch yourself since he is from Suna. He could be a wind user or a puppet master. You never know." Kisuke looked at his teammate.
"I already thought of that and I've got an idea already in place, but I don't know his full capabilities yet. After all, he may show weakness and reveal his flaws in his rage of our village. After all, we are still bitter enemies with Sunagakure." Washimura said as Kisuke nodded and went to the upper level where his sensei with short spikey hair and coal black eyes was.
Kankuro glared at his opponent, knowing of Iwagakure and Sunagakure's deep hatred from the past ninja wars. He merely stood there, with a fierce look in his eyes, causing Baki to look at Kankuro with widened eyes.
Don't lose control of your emotions here, Kankuro! You may reveal more than what you should about your abilities since these are the preliminaries. Baki thought as Hayate Gekko coughed and looked at the competitors.
"First Match: Washimura VS. Kankuro… begin!" He said, lowering his hand to show that the match had begun.
Washimura took out a few kunai and shuriken and threw them at Kankuro while rushing forward toward him. Kankuro merely dodged the projectiles and looked at Washimura as the ninja did a series of handsigns.
Earth Release: Tearing Earth Turning Palm! Washimura saw as the earth began to rise and surround Kankuro and spiral into itself to partly bury Kankuro, only to reveal it was a puppet that rushed out quickly from the earth and grabbed Washimura. The thing in wrappings was revealed to be Kankuro as he appeared on the other side of Washimura, chakra strings on his fingers and a confident grin on his face. He had his puppet, Crow, crush Washimura until he was nothing but blood.
Kankuro grinned, "That was too easy…"
"Yes it was…"
Kankuro was shocked when he heard a familiar voice behind him and turned quickly. Washimura was before him, revealing that the Washimura he thought he killed was a mud clone, the blood being a more liquid mud. Washimura did a really quick set of handsigns as Kankuro grew furious and threw Crow toward Washimura, only for Crow to fall onto the ground, Washimura unseen once again.
"Where the hell are you?" Kankuro yelled until he felt something underneath him and his eyes widened as a hand gripped one of his legs pulling him down into the ground of the arena.
"It looks like I win." Washimura said as he looked down at Kankuro's head, who growled at his opponent and Hayate just coughed.
"Winner of the match is Washimura!" Hayate coughed as Kankuro was let out by his disappointed sensei.
"You were too cocky when you thought you had him beat and let your anger get to you and disrupt your fighting abilities." Baki lectured to Kankuro who glared at his sensei.
Gaara coldly told Kankuro, "He was a disgrace…," causing Kankuro to shake a little and then grow angry at how he was defeated.
"Let's get to the next match, shall we." Hayate said more than asked as the monitor started to scramble names as the many competitors looked to see who was next up.
The first name was revealed to be:
ABUMI ZAKU
Zaku looked at the screen, hoping that he would get Sasuke in order to get him back for what he tried to do to his arm, injuring one, but not breaking it. Zaku glared at Sasuke until he heard the screen finish with the name of his opponent. He smirked at who he had to face and jumped from the stand as his opponent did as well with his teammates wishing him luck.
The screen read:
ABUMI ZAKU
VS.
UCHIHA SASUKE