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 17:
The Demon Awakens: The Training for the Exam!
Naruto walked with his teammates to his sensei, who was eye-smiling at them.
"Yo," he said, as they smiled at them, "I've already got people to help you with your guys' training. Sasuke will train with me, Sakura," Sakura looked at Kakashi saying her name, "I got Kurenai to help you train with her team and Naruto," Kakashi looked as the Third approached them with a smile, "I'll have the Third tell you who your teacher is."
The Third chuckled as Team 7 turned to the Hokage, "Yes, Naruto-kun, I already have someone helping with your teaching. You've already met him too."
"Then, where is he?" Naruto asked, until he heard someone crashing into the room of the tower that they were in, long, spikey hair flowing from the tall man that appeared. Naruto sweat-dropped as he looked at who appeared before them. "Don't tell me…"
"Now, stand, young tree leaves and saplings as I appear to dazzle your lives with how graceful…" The man tripped on his sandal right then as everyone stared at him, sweat-dropping. The man quickly rose up and started to do a dance, his sandals clashing with the floor. "I am the great man that causes women to swoon, men to be jealous of my skills, I am the great…
"Ero-sennin, just stop," Naruto said with a dead-pan expression as Jiraiya glared at the blonde.
"Gaki," he roared at the genin, "I already told you not to call that!"
"Then, stop doing that thing you call research and then I'll stop," Naruto yelled at the sennin.
"Never, you little twerp, I will continue to do my research until the day I die!" Jiraiya cried out, laughing in joy as Sakura wondered what Naruto and this sennin were talking about.
"Naruto, what's this 'research' you two are talking about," Sakura asked while Jiraiya was ranted about his precious "research."
Naruto merely whispered, "Oh, he peaks at women in the hot spring, that's all."
Sakura grew mega pissed right as she heard this, chakra going into her hand, clenched into a fist as she slowly approached the ranting Jiriaya.
"Oh, what do you want, Miss," Jiraiya asked as he saw her approach.
"Pervert!" she exclaimed as her fist went right into Jiraiya's jaw and he flew back up toward the ceiling and then to the ground, grunting in pain.
Kami, she's another Tsunade… Jiraiya thought as he rose up and looked at the scowling Uchiha, the angry Haruno and bored yet kind of interested looking Uzumaki-Namikaze. This team is reminding me of Tsunade, Orochimaru and me all the more.
"You just had to do that, Jiraiya," the Third said, sighing out of his pipe.
Jiraiya grew serious, "Sarutobi-sensei, when did you get here?"
A tic mark appeared on the Hokage's face, "I was here the whole time!"
"Oh, right," Jiriaya scratched the back of his head as he approached and looked at Naruto. "Are you ready to train, Naruto?" Jiriaya held a grin there as Naruto perked up a little, but looked seriously at Jiraiya for a second. "What is it, gaki?"
"If you don't peak at women and concentrate on me, I'll train, alright?" This made Jiraiya angry at his disciple.
"Oh, no, you don't, gaki! You are my pupil for a while and you will follow my orders!" Jiraiya roared as the two began to argue.
Kakashi sighed, "I'm glad that I'm not Jiraiya right now."
Sakura smiled lightly at the arguing duo, "It seems like they know and are happy as they argue though."
Sasuke scoffed at Sakura's comment, "Yeah, sure…"
As the two argued, the rest of Team Seven just watched at the argument, knowing that the two of them would get along after a while.
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Kisuke looked at his sensei, masked as always. Kisuke scowled at his master, Hikari and Washimura beside him.
"Keep the end of your deal, sensei," Kisuke said, seriously and coldly at his sensei as Hikari and Washimura just stood there, shocked at Kisuke's emotions showing through. "Show me who you really are."
"It seems you did pass through the prelims, not the totally exam, but I'll reveal myself since I thought this would happen anyway." Their sensei took down his black hood, revealing the mask samurai wore. The man crushed the simple mask as Kisuke glared in rage at the man before him. His long, black spikey hair flowing down to his waist, his manly face holding his fierce black eyes and the two katanas that were held on his back. The man smirked at Kisuke, who glared even more at the man. "So, you figured it out, eh, Kisuke?"
Kisuke held his hands into tight fists, fingernails poking at his palm as he looked at the man. "Just shut up, Bushido Takeshi!"
This shocked his two students as they looked at the two. Kisuke began to walk away to let out his anger and his teammates just watched him leave.
Washimura looked at his sensei, "Why did you not tell Kisuke who you were?"
Takeshi sighed, "I had a mission from Onoki, the Tsuchikage, to become a liaison for other villages and I came back just to become a jonin-sensei immediately after I came back. I thought Kisuke would hate me for leaving him like that, so I hid my face and identity. I will tell him as soon as he…"
"No need, sensei," Kisuke said listening in. "I thought you would have something like that to say. I forgive you slightly, but it'll take time to regain trust. After all, we had little with you to begin with since you hid your identity from us the whole time. Our training with you for the exam will help us grow closer hopefully."
Takeshi understood and nodded, and with that he began training his three students.
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"So, since Lee is recovering from his serious injuries, I'll have to push you guys to the limit! I'll have to take you to the path of youth! How magnificent this month will be!" Gai said, crying rivers of comical anime tears; the only thing was that no one was laughing at all.
Neji looked freaked out as Gai forcefully, youthfully he would say, dragged him to the training ground with a scared Ten-Ten. "Please!" He cried out to the passing people that pretended to ignore the sight of the crying Hyuga. "He's kidnapped me! Help!"
Gai looked at Neji and frowned, "Neji... calling me a kidnapper is very unyouthful. Extra training for you! By the time the Third Exam rolls in, you're going to be as youthful as me, sporting this classy attire that I wear today!"
Ten-Ten sweat-dropped. "You wear that jumpsuit every day..."
Neji began to shiver before crying out a "No!" before the world.
Gai laughed as he ran at hi-speed to reach the training grounds, his youthful train grounds so he can youthfully train his youthful students. It's just so much youth!
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Sakura dodged the strike Kiba tried to get her. She did a few handsigns, putting a minor genjutsu on Kiba and quickly, before Akamaru could get him out of it, landed a strong punch on the dog ninja, launching him across the training grounds, still shocking Kurenai, Hinata, and Shino, even though he didn't show it, at how much strength the Haruno had in her.
Shannaro! Bring on the next thing! Inner Sakura cheered as Sakura smiled.
Kurenai wondered secretly how much fun it would be teaching both Hinata and Sakura genjutsu. She always wanted a student that had great chakra control and while Hinata was not close to Sakura's control, the Hyuga could still learn some minor genjutsu. She watched as Kiba rose from the ground with Akamaru in tow as always.
"Kiba, go on to your home and train since I'll be busy with Sakura and Hinata after all. Your family can teach you more for the third exam than I can." Kurenai said as Kiba looked at her and nodded.
"Alright," Kiba said, grinning at Akamaru, "lets go, Akamaru!"
Akamaru backed happily in reply as Kiba raced home.
Shino departed as Kurenai began teaching the girls genjutsu.
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"You know the plan during the exam," Baki said to his students as they nodded. "Remember that as it'll be important for this to be a success to show our feudal lord our power as Sunagakure!"
They nodded again and went to trainin except Gaara who went to his room. Baki sighed as he saw Kabuto approach and give him the plans, though there was no one to overhear their discussion. I just hope this runs smoothly...
Baki went into his room to look at the plans. And to start to prepare for the Invasion of Konohagakure.
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Sasuke was huffing, exhausted from training in increasing his taijutsu and speed for Kakashi's technique, the Chidori: 1000 Birds. He just hoped it wasn't just 1000 pecking birds in the end. He heard the close of a book and turned to see Kakashi eye-smiling at him.
"That'll be all for now, Sasuke," Kakashi said, patting his shoulder. "Take a break for a while and, then, you can train some more."
Sasuke cursed, but nodded in understanding as he dropped and rested for a bit. After all, this technique could help him defeat his opponents in one strike. He smirked slightly, knowing he was going to become even stronger.
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Naruto snickered at the deal he made with Jiriaya as he saw the Gama Sennin write out Naruto's lessons for the month while giggling. Naruto told Jiraiya could peak all he wanted if he gave Naruto a scroll to go by and brought him ramen every day for the month of training. Little did Jiraiya know how much ramen Naruto could eat in a day...
Naruto gladly took the lesson plan and went to work as Jiraiya hid in his bushes and actually turned invisible for a second as Naruto wasn't paying attention. Naruto merely did what the lesson plan said, Make many clones, battle royale, fall off of cliff, Kyuubi appear, become scared, talk arrogantly to the fox about rent, summon giant frog since you signed the contract, come back, big hero, many ladies for Jiraiya! Naruto sweat-dropped at the plan, but decided to go with it.
He did Multiple Shadow Clone Technique and did as Jiraiya told him to do, beat the crap out of his clones until he was left. Eventually, he was standing, not looking too terrible but not terrific either.
Damn it! Naruto thought to himself. I just want to get to see that damned fox!
He saw the cliff and felt someone behind him. He turned to see Jiraiya appear instantly behind him in a flash and felt the Sennin push him into the cliff. Wait! He wasn't there a moment ago! Naruto had more things to worry about as he began to fall into the cliff.
Well, at least Jiraiya is taking this a little seriously and wanting to get it done. Naruto thought as he went through the handsigns, but sending felt something pull him into his mind, something pulling him into himself.
Naruto opened his eyes to see himself in a dark sewer as water dripped onto the ground, making a splashing sound as Naruto moved toward where an opening was. Like he thought, the narrow passageway he was going through began to widen and widen until he reached an opening, He looked at the giant cage before him with a paper labeled "Seal" on where the lock would be. He saw movement and suspected that to be the fox.
Flickering eyes with slits in the middle almost like a pupil of a human eye looked at him, tails moving back and forth as a growl emitted from the beast's lips. Naruto gasped at the being before him for a moment, entranced by the huge, powerful feeling the fox emitted from its body. Kyuubi no Kitsune…
The Kyuubi stared at his host, malevolence radiating from the fox's body. "So, my host finally comes to see me…"
"Kyuubi no Kitsune…"Naruto said, silently in awe of the creature.
"What purpose are you here, boy? I know you didn't come to just chat merrily about life to me. What is it you want, ningen?"
Naruto smirked as he imagined chains and they began to constrict the Kyuubi, causing the Nine-Tails to widen his eyes in fear and recognition of what the boy held at his disposal.
"Kushina…" The fox whispered in anger, recognizing the chakra chains restraining him. They're weaker than Kushina's but can still hold me down for a while. Is the boy just planning to chain me down instead of using the wide open cage? I'd rather be in this cage than chained like Kushina had me. "What do you want, boy?" He growled at the genin.
Naruto just stared at the fox fiercely, "Just pay me some rent and I'll let you stay in the cage instead of chaining you down! How about that? After all, you're using my body after all!" He grinned fiercely at the fox, almost as if it was the kitsune's smile instead of his own.
This made the Biju laugh, "You have guts; I tell you that, kid. Just for that, I'll let you borrow my chakra for once. Be grateful, brat!" Red chakra swarmed Naruto as the kitsune laughed inside his cage and Naruto awoke to reality.
This feeling… Naruto thought as he bit his thumb and went through the handsigns until he felt chakra surround him and his extended hand, reaching for survival. Summoning Technique!
A giant puff of smoke appeared as Naruto felt himself land on something huge. Gamabunta appeared, roaring about where Jiraiya summoned him. Naruto awoke on the big toad and smiled at what he accomplished as he cheered. The thing is that his cheering got Gamabunta's attention as the boss toad grabbed Naruto by his tongue and looked at the boy.
Gamabunta gasped while Naruto looked in awe and surprise at the huge toad before him. The Fourth… This boy must be his son that has Kyuubi sealed inside him. That would explain why he summoned me and not Jiraiya. He must have been put into the scroll. "It seems you were able to summon me, boy."
Naruto noticed the way Gamabunta spoke to him, in familiarity, "You know who I am, big toad."
The boss toad sighed, "My name is Gamabunta, kid, the boss of the toads of Mount Myoboku. Next time you summon me, we might be able to share some sake, eh?"
Naruto had a comical expression on his face, "I'm not even close to be that age, Boss Toad Gamabunta!"
Gamabunta looked at the boy, "Well, I'll be going, kid. I'm going to fling you here in a second so watch where you're going."
"Eh," Naruto said smartly as he was flung into the air by Gamabunta's tongue and crashed into the bathing area of the women, causing Jiraiya to reveal himself, bloody nose included, cheering that he was in nirvana and thanking his disciple and the toad. The women looked at Jiraiya, put on towels and raced after the pervert as Naruto rose from the debris of the wall of the bath. He made a few clone and quickly repaired it.
Naruto suddenly saw his master disappear like he was invisible from the angry women and appear before him, the women rushing to the repaired bath to finish up and not worry about the pervert for now. "You've got to teach me that jutsu, Ero-sennin!"
"Eh," Jiraiya replied, not really listening, "Teach you what, brat?"
"That technique you used to become invisible!" Naruto exclaimed as Jiraiya smiled, his student wanted to know his special technique that he used to peak on women.
"You mean my Transparency Technique! Alright, I'll teach it to you!"
Naruto grinned in happiness, "Yes!"
Jiraiya chuckled at his excitement, "Let's get to it then!" Perhaps you can even learn that as well… After all, it was your father's jutsu…
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28 Days Later…
Naruto was going to the hospital to check on Rock Lee, after all the training he was doing. He walked after remembering the talk with Jiraiya yesterday.
"Alright, Naruto! That is the last training you have before the exam in two days. I want you to be able to relax and be ready for the exam the day after tomorrow. I don't want you exhausted from training for a month after all I taught you." Jiraiya looked proud of Naruto, he learned everything quicker than he thought the boy could.
"Ero-sennin?"
"What is it, gaki?" Jiraiya yelled, irritated with his student.
"Thanks for everything you've taught me as my sensei." Naruto smiled sincerely at his teacher, who grinned and ruffled Naruto's head of blonde, mountain range styled hair.
"It was my pleasure, Naruto…" Jiraiya said, patting Naruto's back before Naruto raced off, waving at Jiraiya. The Gama Sennin chuckled at the departing Naruto. That boy will be something great…
Jiraiya turned and departed himself, going toward the Hokage's office to tell him about the Akatsuki, Orochimaru's Invasion and Naruto's progress. The man sighed, The exam might be when I have to finally deal with you, rival…
Naruto burst into the hospital and went up to the desk as he looked at the receptionist and asked what room Lee was in to get an answer of Room 333. Naruto rushed up the flights of stairs and heard noise from Lee's room, three voices from the closed door. Naruto approached the door and silently opened it, glad he didn't wear his orange jumpsuit and pants today to get caught, opting for a black shirt with an Uzumaki swirl and black pants. He listened in through the crack of the door, his ear perked up to the crack.
"In order to make me the world's strongest shinobi, my father used ninjutsu to implant an incarnation of sand, the Shukaku, inside me." Naruto recognized the voice as Gaara's cold tone.
"To go that far is crazy; that kind of possession art used on you by your father, that's some tough love." That was Shikamaru's voice.
"Love?" Gaara's voice said in coldness. "Don't talk of this "love" and judge me by your standards. 'Family,' let me tell you what that means to me… A mere huddle of flesh held together by murderous intent and hatred."
Naruto shook as Gaara spoke that sentence and felt that Shikamaru and whoever else was in there with Lee and Gaara shook as well.
"My mother sacrificed herself for the sake of me becoming a weapon for the village and being born the Kazekage's son. My father handled me with care like I was a blade that could turn and cut him at any moment. At first, I thought all of this was this love of which you speak, but I knew this wasn't when it happened…" Gaara spoke, growing silent.
"What happened?" Naruto recognized this as the voice of his female teammate, Sakura.
"The accident…," Gaara spoke almost to himself, seeing his uncle and how he was going to kill him. His father sending his gold dust to defeat and suppress the Shukaku after Gaara went crazy.
"Tell us already!" This voice Naruto recognized as Kiba, finally noticing Akamaru's whining. Why are these two here with Shikamaru, to see Lee and how he's doing?
"When I turned six, the Kazekage sent assassination attempts at me, one after another!" Gaara said in a crazy psychotic voice, shocking everyone to the core.
"But you said your father spoiled you rotten earlier." Shikamaru said, shocked.
"A weapon begins to be held in contempt and held with care." Gaara spoke, looking fiercely at the trio. "My father began to fear what I was becoming. Since all that happened, I kept asking myself, 'Why do I live? Why do I exist?' Everyone has to have a reason to exist or there is no point in them living at all. So I decided that I will live for myself, love only myself and I will live to kill those who try to kill me. That way I can continue to exist for as long as there are people on this earth…"
Naruto shook as Gaara's sinister smile became a wicked, demented grin "…I will not cease to exist."
He's just like me before I found Iruka-sensei, Kakashi-sensei, Sakura-chan, Sasuke, Ojii-san, and even Ero-sennin. Naruto thought with a chuckle at mentioning the sage before looking at Gaara sadly. He has that look in his eyes, the eyes that I used to wear, the eyes of hatred. I even saw them inside that damned fox as well, though I shouldn't be surprised by that. He's lived in the darkness for longer than I have; I'm in the light now. Will his darkness… Naruto gulped in his thoughts. …conquer my light, my love fade at the sight of his hatred? Can I even hope to defeat him? Can anybody hope to defeat someone like this?
Naruto and the others shook until the blonde looked and saw as Gaara's sand surrounded the room, ready to strike Shikamaru, Kiba and Sakura. No!
Shit! Shikamaru thought with Kiba as Gaara looked even more crazed and diabolical.
"Let me feel alive!" Gaara screamed as Naruto barely noticed Gai behind him as he stormed in, wind blazing around him to attack the sand.
"What are you doing? Just wait for the exam tomorrow." Gai said, getting in there before Naruto, causing the genin to stop his wind and look at Sakura, Kiba and Shikamaru. Naruto saw Gaara, his sand shifting back to his gourd, gripping his head as he moved to the door, looking back at Gai, Naruto and the others.
Gaara spoke these words before heading out: "I'll kill you all… Just you wait…"
Naruto saw Gai wish them all luck and be very youthful in the exam tomorrow with his usual Nice Guy pose before heading out as well. Naruto sighed, turned and smiled at Sakura, Shikamaru and Kiba."Hey, guys."
Sakura lightly smiled at her teammate, "Hey, Naruto, how did your training go?"
Naruto grinned at her, "You'll see tomorrow."
Kiba grinned, "Naruto, Kiba grinned, "Naruto, you may have improved, but me and Akamaru are going to wipe the floor with you!" Akamaru barked happily in reply in Kiba's jacket.
"We'll see, Kiba." Naruto said with a smile and he bumped fists with Kiba as the Inuzuka left and Naruto turned to Shikamaru with a smile. "How you doing, Shikamaru?"
Shikamaru sighed and lightly smiled, "You should know that already, Naruto." Naruto chuckled in reply.
"Well, I've got to go get me some Ichiraku's before I head back home for the night. See ya tomorrow, guys!" Naruto said, smiling and waving at Sakura and Shikamaru as he departed.
"See you tomorrow, Naruto!" Sakura said, smiling at how much he was going to show Naruto, Sasuke and Lee what she was capable of.
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Naruto raced home after talking to Iruka about his training with Jiraiya, which caused Iruka to spit his soup into Ayame's unlucky face. Iruka apologized multiple times to the waitress, only for her kindly tell him it was okay and that she would wash it off while her dad watched the store before it closed. Naruto was grinning, definitely knowing he could beat Kiba. Hyuga Neji might be a problem that Naruto worried about, but for now, he needed to relax and get a lot of sleep.
The next day would be way longer than anyone thought it would be…
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Naruto cursed, searching through his clothes, wearing a pair of froggy boxers and a black t-shirt with a red Uzumaki spiral. He grabbed a pair of his orange pants and put them on his legs. If he didn't get out of his apartment and rush to the arena, he would be late! He grabbed his orange jacket and put it on his chest as he held his forehead protector and rushed out of his apartment.
His headband was being wrapped by his hands onto his forehead as he ran, his hands fettling with the ends of the headband and tying the parts of fabric together. He rushed onto the roofs of the buildings in the village, knowing that it would be a close one. He kept going until he saw the arena in sight, having his wind chakra make him go even faster. He stopped right as he hit the arena and went inside. He sighed in relief when he saw the clock say that there was still a few minutes before the exam started.
Naruto walked confidently into the line of people facing the crowd, placing himself between Shikamaru and Sakura. He smiled at the two, who smiled back, but Naruto could tell something was worrying his crush.
"Sakura," the pink-haired girl looked at Naruto, "what's up? I know something's up with you. You can tell me; I'm your teammate." Naruto grinned at her to show her he would understand and tell her what he thought.
"It's Sasuke-kun…" she said to Naruto, causing Naruto to notice Sasuke wasn't in the line with the other competitors. "He's not here at all. Where could he be? I bet it's Kakashi-sensei holding him back by reading his book, making Sasuke-kun late."
Naruto got Sakura's attention and smiled at her, "I'm sure that Sasuke will get his butt here. He wouldn't let Kakashi-sensei hold him back from this. He would rush pass Kakashi, grunt in displeasure at what Kakashi was doing to him, and run all the way here to compete."
Sakura smiled, "Yeah…" Thanks, Naruto…
Hayate coughed as he got their attention, "Just look at the stands proudly, guys. After all, you are the shinobi that represent not only your clan and family, but your country and village. Show them what you can do in these exams."
They all looked at the stands. The people in the stands looked back in anticipation for the matches, the shinobi that would be shown today that could become leaders tomorrow were looking at them, showing fire in their eyes.
AN: Yeah, this chapter does feel a little like a filler type chapter with a little progress with the training. I felt like I would just show what the genin competing learned once we get into the Third Exam itself. So, tell me what you think by a review and thank you for reading the chapter and story! I should have the next chapter out in a little bit.