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 14:
Clashes in the Preliminaries: The Fights That Lead To the Main Event!
Zaku glared at Sasuke as Hayate coughed and told them they were the next match and fight. Zaku stood there for a moment, glaring intensely at the Uchiha, who had a calm expression as he backed toward the wall and made a series of handsigns. Zaku went ahead and charged at his opponent as he was ready to blast Sasuke away like he was Team Rocket.
Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique! Sasuke blew out a giant ball of fire as Zaku merely dodged the ball rather quickly and thrusted out his palm, air pressure about to be released as he was close to Sasuke.
Decapitating Airwaves! Zaku smirked as his waves of fierce air struck Sasuke into the wall, blood spitting out of his mouth as he hit impact onto the wall. Zaku smirked and even laughed as Sasuke rose up fairly quickly and rushed at him with pretty high speeds. "You saw my technique in the forest and you couldn't even dodge it there!"
Zaku was no longer laughing as Sasuke fiercely appeared before him and kicked him up into the air roughly. He was behind Zaku in mid-air as the Sound ninja's eyes widened in realization. "You're using the same thing that eyebrowed freak used on Dosu!"
"Eat this," Sasuke smirked as he threw a kick at Zaku's side and then appeared above the falling Zaku to do a dropkick right into the genin's stomach. Lions Combo!
Zaku spat out blood at the impact while having trouble getting up as Sasuke landed on the ground lightly and locked at the genin. Zaku got up, feeling weak and angry, as he stared at the Uchiha.
"You think just because you're from a famous clan and are beloved that you are strong, eh, Uchiha Sasuke?" Zaku yelled at the boy in pure rage as he remembered Orochimaru finding him when he was young. He was a mere orphan with no reason for living, scavenging and stealing to live until Orochimaru took him in. He was going to persevere and move on and become strong. He would never give up and he would win! He had power! He could destroy the Uchiha's world with his air pressure! He would destroy the Uchiha!
"I will not lose!" His supposedly broken arm was released from the sling, shocking everyone except Dosu and Kin. He smirked at his plan to show he had a handicap and blast Sasuke with all he had. He rushed toward Sasuke and made a series of handsigns as his grin of arrogance grew until it was covering his face. "Take this, Uchiha Sasuke!"
Extreme Decapitating Airwaves! A colossal burst of air collided with Sasuke, busting into the arena in Zaku's anger. It was Zaku's anger and drive, thrusting into the boy with power and fury. He grinned when he saw nothing there and laughed.
"Looks like you're nothing special, Uchiha!" He spat out the word "Uchiha" in rudeness as everyone was shocked that Sasuke had lost.
"Sasuke-kun!" Sakura yelled out, fearing he was gone forever as Naruto put a hand on her shoulder and she looked up to his face, a grin of reassurance of what was happening. "Naruto?"
"Sakura-chan," Naruto said, a grin still in place, "you know Sasuke enough to know that he wouldn't be done in like that. Look closely."
Sakura quickly looked and gasped at what she saw behind the laughing and cheering Zaku. Sasuke stood behind Zaku with a smirk on his face with everyone gaping at him.
"Zaku, you baka! Look behind you!" Kin yelled but it was too late.
Sasuke took his hand and chopped fiercely at Zaku's neck to make him pass out into unconsciousness as he fell down roughly onto the arena's floor. Sasuke looked at Hayate with a smirk. "Looks like I won, eh, proctor?"
Hayate slightly smiled and coughed, "Winner is Sasuke Uchiha!"
Ino smiled and called out, "Great job, Sasuke-kun!"
Shikamaru sighed as she was yelling this near his ear. "Could you not yell that into my ear?"
"What did you say, Shikamaru?"
He sighed again, finger rubbing the inside of his ear. "Nothing…"
Sasuke approached his team, getting an eye-smile from his sensei, a grin from Naruto and a smile and hug from Sakura.
"You could have lost from the air blast of his, you know," Naruto said with a grin still on his face and Sasuke had a light smile on his face before it changed into his usual smirk.
"Shut up, dope! You still have a match to do yourself." Sasuke said as Naruto looked to the screen, grinning in anticipation.
"Alright, I hope I'm next!" Naruto said, his hand extended out into a fist as the names started to rotate through.
"It seems that Kakashi was able to repress the Curse Mark with the Evil Sealing Method. We will still have to keep watch on him and any weird movement since Orochimaru is around." The Third Hokage spoke as Anko nodded in agreement beside him.
"The next match will be…" Hayate spoke as the names started to slow down and show the first name
ABURAME SHINO
Shino looked at the board and merely waited patiently for who his opponent would be. Hinata gasped at who was revealed to face Shino as he merely went down to the arena and Hinata silently wished him luck with Kiba as Shino nodded.
He looked as his opponent merely looked at him calmly as Shino once again looked at the board as Hayate merely said for them to begin and the opponent got into a stance, a confident stance that he would win and once Shino had seen his teammate use many times before. Shino just stood there, thinking of a plan because he would need one for the board told him his opponent would not be a piece of cake at all.
It read:
ABURAME SHINO
VS.
HYUGA NEJI
Neji smirked at his opponent, cockily planning to taunt Shino. "It is fate that you and I would fight. After all, you are Hinata's teammate."
Shino could hear the non-existent respect in Neji's voice for Hinata. Shino knew about the whole main house of Hyuga and the Branch house of Hyuga and how they were treated to each other. Shino merely stood and lifted his hand as he waited for Neji to strike him to release his chakra-feeding bugs. After all, Shino mainly had strategy and his clan's techniques to use as he never had much tact for anything other than that.
Neji rushed at him with intense speed, but Shino dodged the first few palm strikes until Neji surprised him by tripping Shino with an elegant movement of his foot and striked his chest with a Gentle Fist palm. It was revealed shortly after though, as Neji felt his chakra being eaten and drained, that this was an insect clone as the bugs began to cover Neji's arm. Neji sent a burst of chakra out of his arm that was deadly enough to kill the overflowed bugs since they had too much chakra inside them.
Shino was sideways in Neji's blind spot, after knowing where Hinata's was and sent his insects there specifically. Neji heard the insects coming and his eyes slightly widened when he figured out where Shino was targeting him. Neji grew focused as he rotated with a dome of chakra surrounding him, destroying the bugs that tried to strike him down. Neji slightly glared at Shino, who just stood there silently.
"I should have known that since Hinata is on your team that you would figure out my blind spot in the Byakugan. After all, you seemed like a more calculating person compared to your teammates. I figured you would be the strongest on the team."
"Hey!" Kiba yelled out at what Neji said.
Neji looked seriously at Shino as he figured that Shino wouldn't know of the Eight Trigrams Palm Revolving Heaven since Hinata didn't use this technique and would barely know of it and decided to use another technique Hinata couldn't use and would barely speak of since Shino was in the right distance from him.
Eight Trigrams: Sixty-Four Palms. Neji thought as he got into stance and looked calmly at Shino.
Neji surprised Shino as he rushed and started to do many Gentle Fist strikes onto him, killing some of his chakra-feeding bugs while blocking up some of his chakra points as well. Neji ended with a strike near Shino's chest as the Aburame flew back and hit the wall, falling onto his butt lightly before rising slowly to his feet.
That technique sealed some of my chakra points and killed some of my bugs… Shino thought as he breathed heavier than usual from the strikes Neji hit onto his body. I don't think I'll be able to last too many more strikes before I collapse and my bugs would probably be repelled by that defensive jutsu he used earlier. He might be able to use it once or twice more before becoming exhausted and do more strikes to my bugs and chakra points. I can't defeat him in the shape I'm in since I knew only a little of his skills.
I could barely keep distance from his speed and his strikes were deadly, fast and precise with those eyes he holds. I just can't beat him at my abilities right now but I gave it my best and there's always next time anyway. Sorry, Kiba, Hinata, Kurenai-sensei… It looks like I won't be able to pass. Shino stood up and looked at the collected Neji as he sighed a little.
"It seems you have me beat, Neji. Your strikes killed some of my bugs along with blocking some of my chakra points as well. I fear if I continue our match that I would end up losing anyway. I can see you being exhausted but still winning while I most likely will be unconscious from all the strikes. It was a nice strategic battle overall though."
Neji actually felt like Shino could potentially have beaten him if he knew exactly what Neji had as far as techniques. Shino was actually more about strategy and thinking ahead than actually fighting technique for technique. Neji actually applauded that approach since that's how he thought.
"You did a very nice job for a rookie to get me down this far, but you still lost like fate would have it." Neji said as he went back up to the upper stands and Hayate told everyone he was the winner.
"Yosh! My youthful student beat his opponent!" Gai cheered as everyone sweatdropped at his actions. "Let's see if your students can beat mine in passing, eh, Kakashi."
Kakashi peeked up at Gai in confusion. "Huh? You say something, Gai?"
Gai was fuming as he turned away. "Curse you, Kakashi, and your hip attitude!"
Shino went up to the stands as Kiba laughed a little at his teammate. "Ha, at least I won't lose in this exam."
"I only lost because I knew I would lose anyway. I avoided what could potentially be a big injury on me to just a few of my chakra points being temporarily sealed. So don't go laughing at me when you will probably lose as well."
"Hey," Kiba yelled, shaking his fist at his bug-using teammate. "I will win and then you'll be sorry you even said that."
"Then do that." Shino said calmly as looked at the screen. "You are next after all."
Kiba looked shocked until he looked at the screen to see his name.
INUZUKA KIBA
He waited for the next name to reveal itself and when it did, he grinned at who he had to face.
INUZUKA KIBA
VS.
YAMANAKA INO
Kiba went down from the upper floor and Ino did as well. Hayate Gekko told them to fight as Kiba quickly punched Ino to the ground, Akamaru was beside him. Ino got up and used clones to distract them before using her Mind Transfer Technique against Kiba. She was about to raise Kiba's hand until Akamaru growled and bit the hand, causing Kiba to regain consciousness and Ino went back to her body. Kiba hit her with Passing Fang and knocked her out, making him the winner easily as he bragged to Shino.
Naruto was getting impatient, "Come on! Let me fight already!"
Lee said, "Yes, let me go next!"
The screen began to go through names at an increasing pace before stopping at one name and then quickly revealing the other.
HARUNO SAKURA
VS.
TSUCHI KIN
Kin smirked and went down as Naruto, Kakashi and Sasuke in their own ways wished Sakura luck. Kin quickly went and launched out needles, but Sakura maneuvered enough to not be caught by the needles as the bells attached ringed. Sakura quickly used chakra on her feet and focused it into her hands that were made into fists and forced the Sound kunoichi into the wall, knocking her out and winning the match.
The next match was beginning to start as Naruto barely focused on the board, congratulating Sakura on her win.
The board then read:
TSURUGI MISUMI
VS.
TEMARI
Naruto just saw the sand kunoichi decimate Misumi with her fan and wind techniques, yawning at the boring match-up as he hoped with Lee that he was next up. As the board went, Naruto sighed in disappointment as the next match was not him, but another two people as the board read:
NARA SHIKAMARU
VS.
AKADO YOROI
Shikamaru surprised many with his tactical strength with quickly using the wall and his shadow techniques to avoid Yoroi's chakra absorbing technique and cause him to be knocked into the wall like Kin in the earlier match with Sakura. Naruto was growing even more bored as the next match revealed itself on the board.
YAKUSHI KABUTO
VS.
HYUGA HINATA
Kabuto showed off surprising skills with using chakra scalpels quickly on Hinata's arms, cutting off her using them temporally.
"I know you Hyuga use your techniques by your hands using a taijutsu style of Gentle Fist, so cutting off access will lead to you losing the fight instantly." Kabuto stated as he walked away once Hayate declared him the winner and he put his glasses more up on his nose.
Orochimaru, hiding as the Sound ninja's sensei, looked at Kabuto as he rose up the stand. Kabuto slightly looked at Orochimaru, remembering giving information to him on Naruto and Sasuke during the exam as he spied on them. He was allowed by Orochimaru to participate as long as he didn't reveal too much of his skills.
The Third looked at Kabuto, still wondering about the boy who was the son of a famous medical ninja that was found at Kikyo Pass. The Third just got rid of the feelings of dread he got from the genin, knowing the boy could have learned them easily if he had a father that was a great medical ninja and doctor.
The board began to spin around names until it stopped once again with:
TENTEN
VS.
AKAMICHI CHOJI
Ten-Ten used her paper bombs and exploding tools to cause Choji to get out of his expanded form and used kunai, shuriken and other items to inflict enough damage to cause him to faint, leading her to be the winner as she used her speed from Might Gai's training to avoid the rolling ball that was Choji.
Again, Naruto complained that he didn't get to fight at all yet as he looked again to finally see a fight that interested him a little, even if it wasn't him fighting.
UTSUKISHI HIKARI
VS.
BUSHIDO KISUKE
"I forfeit," Hikari said, knowing that Kisuke would beat her easily and it allowed everyone to not know of Kisuke's abilities, an advantage for her teammate/friend.
Naruto finally looked at the screen hoping that he was next since it was down to four people, him, Gaara, Lee and Dosu. The first name appeared and Naruto grinned fiercely at what he saw and widened his grin when the other name appeared.
UZUMAKI NARUTO
VS.
KINUTA DOSU
Naruto jumped from the upper level immediately, ready to finally step into action. Dosu walked down as he looked at his opponent.
"Let's see what you can do," Dosu said, raising his hand with the amplifier on it as Naruto grinned at him, raising his fist up in confidence of his ability.
"You'll see that you'll lose," Naruto said, hearing the cheers of Sakura to whoop his ass as Hayate coughed.
"Match 12: Uzumaki Naruto vs. Kinuta Dosu, begin!" Hayate said jumping out of the way as Naruto made a handsign.
Multiple Shadow Clone Jutsu! Naruto produced nine more of himself, causing Dosu to see ten of the navy blue shirt wearing ninja as the clones each pulled out a kunai with a weird tag on it. Half of them threw them at Dosu only for him to rush and dodge.
The clones smirked as Naruto had the five rush Dosu. It seems it's time to reveal a technique I secretly found in the scroll.
Naruto grinned at what he had planned for the fight. Time to show no one to underestimate me! He did a few handsigns and waited as his clones surrounded the confused Dosu in the circle, throwing the kunai at him. Dosu barely dodged two of the kunai knives, leading to three of them hitting him. Dosu's eyes widened when the paper tags began to burn.
Paper bombs, Dosu thought as he removed the kunais and threw them only for the paper bombs to not explode, but sent out little embers at Dosu, burning a little of Dosu's bandages. Naruto smirked as he breathed out many slashes of wind that were rushing toward Dosu. Dosu jumped over two of them, only to be hit by one of them into a wall of the battlefield.
Naruto had his fingers extended as chains began to unleash from his fingertips, shocking Dosu as he was wrapped by the chains and was tugged by Naruto to force him in his direction. Naruto had wind chakra surround his hand as he hit Dosu releasing him from chains and shocking a few people there.
When did Naruto get this strong? Some like Kiba and Ino thought as Kakashi and Sakura merely smiled along with Sasuke, surprisingly, at what Naruto was showing them.
"People usually underestimate me," Naruto spoke to the rising Dosu. "Now you know to never underestimate me ever!"
The Third Hokage chuckled and smiled as he looked at Naruto. Show everyone what you can do, Naruto-kun.
It's time to reveal one of my techniques I got from that scroll; the one that I completed. Naruto had chains coming out of his fingers and had something coating them. "Time to show everyone who's the dead-last now!" He grinned, ready to end this match and show everyone what the Kaze no Arashi can do.