Bang for your Buck

by Dailydour

Kyuubi wants revenge, not against the village, but those who wronged him. Naruto's sick of being mistreated and agrees to hunt down his enemies, but it won't be a walk in the park. Naru/Harem.

11. The Invasion

"Speech"

'Thought'

"Demonic Voice"

'Bijuu thoughts'

Justu

(A/N: Author Note)

Flashback

Disclaimer: All rights reserved by the original creator this is a fan production.

Chapter 11: An Invasion

The day of the final matches of the chunin exam had finally come, and the excitement could be felt throughout the whole village as people took their seat at the stadium to watch the finalist compete for the rank of chunin. Of course not everyone could go and have a good time as many teams were placed on guard duty to protect the diplomats and feudal lords.

Fortunately this was not the case for squad 7 along with Tomoko and Mei as they were out in the streets enjoying their day off and eating the delicious food of the many stall vendors that were hoping to make a killing. The squad had been run ragged as they had been mission after mission to compensate for their fellow ninja who were injured in the exam and with the appearance of Orochimaru the Hokage thought it best to beef up security not liking how easily his old student had breached the village's walls.

After they had come back from killing Atsuo the second half exam had ended and they had been surprised by how many foreign shinobi had passed. They had visited their friends who had been hospitalized and had been told by Ino, who came along with them what happened. In the first match it had been Shino against one Kabuto's teammates who had a surprising ability to drain chakra from his enemies. However he got a nasty surprise when Shino revealed his clans ability to use the Kikaichu insect and promptly showed his opponent who was better and sucking away chakra.

The she talked about the next match, which had been Kankuro against a mist shinobi name Takashi. The match had been impressive as the mist ninja had appeared to be winning at first using water justu and taijustu to pummel Kankuro but was caught completely off guard when Kankuro reveal that it had been a puppet taking the damage while Kankuro had been resting and wearing down his opponent. Taking advantage of the situation Kankuro had quickly dispatched Takashi with his puppet.

The next match had been Shikamaru versus a female member of the grass village. The match ended fairly quickly as Shikamaru dropped a smoke bomb when his opponent attacked and using the cover he place down explosive tags around her and used his Shadow Imitation Justu on her. He forced to forfeit by saying he would ignite the tags if she didn't. She refused and he ignited them scaring her into forfeiting however the tags went off anyway and turned out to be duds. When Naruto asked him about it Shikamaru replied by saying, "Hurting a girl would be too troublesome."

Ino said she had been beaten by a red haired foul mouthed grass kunoichi named Tayuya who captured her in genjustu caused by her flute and then knocked her out. The girl had cursed the leaf kunoichi calling her quote "a blonde bimbo bitch."

Kiba had lost against the other grass ninja Kaido who had used a kusarigama to keep both Kiba and Akamaru at bay with wide unpredictable swings then when Kiba used a smoke bomb on him and tried to get in close Kaido had used Raiton: Electromagnetic Murder and fried Kiba. Still not wanting to give up Kiba tried to get up but was smashed by the iron ball of the kusarigama knocking him out.

Chouji had tied with Takaedo Akita from Mist whose water justu were ineffective against Chouji's Ninpo: Rolling Meat Tank and Chouji couldn't get close because Takaedo had set up minefield of traps. In the end Takaedo had tried and was rolled over but Chouji suffered the same thing changing back to normal and setting off a trap, the blast causing him serious damage.

Hinata had ended up facing her cousin almost losing her life to him apparently there was some bad blood in the family and Neji , her cousin, had decided to take out his frustration on her. Fortunately the jonin had stepped in to stop Neji before Hinata lost her life, now the shy girl was currently in stable but critical condition. Sakura had gotten angry that her friend had been hurt and promised to pound Neji into the ground.

Ten Ten, another leaf kunoichi, had gone up against Temari of the sand. It was a good match Ten Ten showing incredible skill with many different weapons and incredible accuracy. Unfortunately, Temari was a wind user and had blown away all the weapons stopping all the weapon girl's assault before finishing her off with her Futon: Hurricane Wall. Not stopping there Temari let the Ten Ten fall on her fan injuring her back, which had angered Lee to the point of attacking Temari, but he was stopped by Gai.

Then Lee went next against the remaining Mist shinobi Tsuki Soga who made the mistake of underestimating the bushy brow genin and was decimated by his high speed taijustu. Lee was a bit disappointed of the match being over so quickly but still congratulated the girl on a great match earing an odd look for his behavior.

The final match had been Gaara versus the remaining member of Kabuto's team. At this point Ino shivered remembering the feeling the girl gave her, "Gaara of the Sand, she's terrifying, that other guy never stood a chance."

"What happened Ino?"

"When the match started Gaara was angry for some reason and said she would have a good time tearing him apart, she wrapped sand around his arm and tried to crush it, but the other guy laugh it up saying he could turn his body to rubber," Ino took a shaky breath recalling the events, "the she smiled and wrapped sand around his entire body…"

(Flasback)

"Lets find out how far you can stretch," Gaara said a sadistic smile on her face, raising her arm she commanded the sand to wrap around his chest and legs, then she pulled…hard.

"AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH GOD STOP PLEASE AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!"

She smiled wide the screams music to her ears looking up a her opponent she could picture Uzumaki's face there screaming, begging her to end his existence. 'Soon Uzumaki I'll find you and take everything from you, you will prove my existence, you will see that you are nothing compared to me nothing!"

"PLEASE I GIVE STOP UWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH NO NO NOOOOOOOOOOAAAARRGH!"

Pulling hard she could see his body tearing.

"PROVE MY EXISTENCE!"

"AAARGH!"

CRACK

SHLUCK

PLOP PLOP

"oh go-oack h-help-ackuack-uuuugh…."

The leaf shinobi had been torn in half his spine torn apart, his entrails falling on the ground in a heap before his body followed. What was worse was that the sand seemed to be consuming him soaking his blood in, crushing and grinding his body then the sand withdrew into her gourd the body gone.

"Winner Sabaku no Gaara…"

(Flashback end)

"I would hate to be the one facing her in the exams," Ino muttered. Kiba who was in the bed had woken up, "Uuugh what the fuck hit me…"

"A iron ball, dog boy," Ino said as Naruto checked up on the Inuzuka clan member. "From what Ino told us you put up a pretty good fight Kiba."

"Really, feels like I got my ass handed to me."

"Don't be so hard on yourself dog boy at least you didn't go up against that Gaara girl."

"Guess I should be grateful, I've seen what she can do, my team and I ran, well hid from her squad, when they ran into some rain ninja she had been looking for you, Naruto, in the forest."

"Yeah we know she attacked us in the Forest of Death, she's the one that killed Sasuke," Sakura informed the other genin.

"Poor Sasuke-kun," Ino said, "Most of the village is a bit upset over his death, mostly from losing the Uchiha clan."

"I don't see why, the village has done well without them for a long time and he had barely unlocked his bloodline," Naruto said crossing his arms. "But enough of that I guess you and Shino better get ready eh, Shikamaru," Naruto smirked at his lazy comrade.

"Jeez, don't remind," Shikamaru said, "My mom won't let me hear the end of it, how I better not shame the clan, ugh, what a drag."

"Come on Shikamaru you made it past the preliminary round you should be pumped about this!" Ino shouted trying to get her teammate psyched.

"What about you Shino?" Sakura asked the quite bug user.

"I will be well prepared for my enemy Sakura," everyone just sweatdropped as they heard Shino's plans for the exams.

"Well this has been fun," Naruto said, "but we gotta go Kakashi-sensei wants to brief us on the next mission come on you guys."

"Later Ino, I'll see you around, good luck in the exams you guys," Sakura said waving to her friend.

"It was nice to meet you all," Haku said politely saying good bye.

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It was also during the pause between the examthat Naruto had come across an interesting man near the hot springs. Naruto had been walking around trying to find something to do as Haku and Sakura both had things to do, both at the hospital so he was on his own. He couldn't train either because Kakashi was also busy with his jonin duties, whatever the hell that was, so he couldn't learn something new. Thinking he of what he could do in this afternoon, his stomach rumbled so he decided to get something to eat first and see where the day went. Deciding to take the fastest route there he went past the hot springs.

As he was passing past the springs he heard someone giggling. Following the noise out of curiosity he found a large man crouched in front of a wall giggling and muttering to his self. Quirking an eyebrow Naruto wondered what this weirdo was up to until he noticed that it was the woman's side of the hot springs. "Hey what are you to old man."

"What?" the old man stood and turned to the blond hair teen.

Getting a good look at him Naruto was a bit confused by his attire, waist-length, spiky white hair tied back into a pony tail, with two shoulder-length bangs that framed both sides of his face. He also had red lines that ran down from his eyes and wore a horned forehead protector with the kanji for 'Oil', a green short shirt kimono and matching pants; under which he wore mesh armour that showed out of the sleeves and legs of his outfit, hand guards, a simple black belt, traditional Japanese geta, and a red cloak with two simple yellow circles,. "I said what are you doing?"

"Just a little research for my next book," the man said proudly.

"Uh huh," Naruto said as he walked around the man and unsurprisingly he found a peep hole, "Seems to me like you're a pervert."

"Hey I'm not a pervert," the man exclaimed, before grinning, bringing up his hand and wiggling his fingers "I'm a super pervert."

"You know that doesn't seem better," Naruto said a deadpan expression on his face, "I really should just let the woman know you're here and let'em deal with you."

Now the man started to get a bit nervous, "Aw come on brat don't do that."

"I should," Naruto said as turned back to the wall and crouched to the hole, "but it's not my business what other people do," a grin, and blush covered his face as he looked through the hole 'observing' women on the other side then giggled a bit himself, "beside nothing wrong with admiring the female form."

Gaping a bit at the kid before shaking it off and grinning at him, "Hahaha atta boy, say kid whats your name?"

Turning from the lovely sight in front of him Naruto turned to him, "Naruto Uzumaki, and you are?"

The man smirked, "Men shake in my presence, children stop crying when I pass, and women cannot resist my charm," then a cloud of smoke enveloped him, "I am the toad sage of Mt. Myoboku, Jiraiya!" and he appeared on top of a giant toad, Naruto just stared at the man.

"…That was kinda cool."

'Haha I knew I liked this kid,' the toad disappeared in a burst of smoke and Jiraiya hopped in front of the kid, "You remind me a bit of myself kid."

"Is that so," Naruto said then his eyes widened as he remember who this guy was, "Wait a minute you're Jiraiya of the Sannin."

"Oh, I see my reputation precedes me, so kid what brings you here, doing some 'research' of your own?"

"No I was just going to get something to eat; this was just a weird little stop," Naruto said still looking through the hole, then a grin split his face as he saw two people enter the springs.

"It sure was nice of Shizune-sempai to give us this time off," Haku said as she entered the springs with Sakura.

"Yea we've been run ragged by all this work, this'll be great," Sakura said as she slipped her towel off and entered the water giving Naruto a brief but good view of her nude form. Haku slipped her own towel off and slipped in next to Sakura, seeing both girls this way made blood trickle down his nose.

However like most things involving Naruto the situation deteriorated, quickly.

"Hey what is that?"

"What?"

"That," and the girl pointed at Naruto, well his eye, "Kyaa! Pervert!"

'Oh shit!' Naruto looked over his shoulder at Jiraiya, 'Bingo!'

Naruto ran behind Jiraiya and shoved him towards the wall and loudly proclaimed, "Hey old man why are staring at the wall!"

In the nick of time to, because they were soon joined by a group of angry towel clad females. He covered his eyes with his hands so the attention wouldn't turn to him.

"Get the pervert!" Jiraiya cursed the brat as the women beat him to the ground, "No ladies please! Not face, AAAIIIIEEEE, alright! The face! The face! Hit me in the face!"

"Naruto?" Haku asked as she saw her friend, well not friend, but something.

"Haku? Is that you?"

"Yes what are you doing here?"

Naruto started removing his hands, "Keep your eyes covered!" Haku exclaimed blushing a bit as she remembered her state of dress. His hands snapped right back into place, "R-right sorry about that."

"Naruto what are doing here?"

"Sakura you're here to," Naruto turned to face her which looked odd with his hands covering his face, "I thought you were both busy."

"Not there! Not there!"

""Yeah but we came to the springs to relax, what about you?"

"Just going to eat lunch when I ran into the old guy," Naruto said looking weird with his eyes covered. Of course what they didn't know was that Naruto used his Fox Mask to cover his face in a genjustu his eyes were actually uncovered enjoying the view.

"Oh god why!" Jiraiya screamed as the women finished left leaving him him in a battered heap.

"Let's get back Haku, the pervert got what he deserved," Sakura said uncomfortably as being out in a towel wasn't exactly a good thing.

"Yeah I'll see you around," Naruto smiled as he saw them walk back into the hot springs. The he walked over to Jiraiya, "You alright old man?"

"J-Just peachy…"

"Sorry about that but it was you or me, and you seemed like a better a choice," Naruto said laughing to himself.

Jiraiya stood up and dusted himself off, showing no sign of being beaten, "You brat I outta teach you a lesson," glaring at Naruto, "but I cannot harm a fellow admirer of the female form!"

"…Well I'll be leaving now," Naruto said missing Jiraiya's depression at being ignored, "Thanks for the free show."

A hand landed on his shoulder, "Wait a minute what was going on between you and those two girls?"

"You saw that?"

"Gwa ha haha, who do you think you're talking, I'm one of the Sannin and a spy master, so what was going on between you three."

"Why all the questions?" suspicious of this man's intent Naruto made sure to be on guard.

"Why? because I'm an author and I need inspiration for the plot of my next book," he said smiling.

"What books?" Naruto asked curiously, he had a feeling he had seen Jiraiya's name elsewhere but couldn't quite place it.

"Why this book," he pulled out a small orange book, "This book is known across the land."

"No way you're the author of that book," Naruto got a glint in his eye as he bowed to him, "You. Are. A. Fucking. Genius."

"Flattery won't get you anywhere, the selling of this book to minors is prohibited," Jiraiya said crossing his arms

"It may be prohibited but that doesn't mean I can't get a copy of the book," Naruto said pulling out his copy of Jiraiya's book. "Being a shinobi has a lot of perks."

"Hah, well what do you know," Jiraiya rubbed his chin in contemplation, "Alright kid tell me your story."

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, if I'm giving you, your ideas, I'm going to need compensation," he said crossing his arms.

"Like what?"

"Well you're a Sannin so I'm sure you know some high level justu teach me a few," Naruto said smiling at the thought of learning some moves from a high level ninja like Jiraiya.

"How many is a few?" Jiraiya asked not wanting to teach a kid too many dangerous things

"5"

"No, 2"

"5"

"2"

"5"

"3"

"Deal," Naruto said shaking Jiraiya's hand.

"Alright," Jiraiya said taking out a notebook, "Now give me the details."

"Alright so this is what's happening…"

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In the end Naruto had told Jiraiya the whole story, at which point the old man was tempted to beat the kid or 'lucky bastard' as he called him. Then Jiraiya taught him the three techniques he promised him, teaching him Katon: Dragon Flame Bombs, Doton: Swamp of the Underworld, and to Naruto's surprise and joy the Yondaime's justu Rasengan.

Now they were in the stadium waiting to watch the matches. "First up Gaara of the Desert vs. Tayuya of Oto."

'What the hell this wasn't part of the deal!' Tayuya thought as the other contestants left living her with the psychotic girl. "Hey Sand girl try to make it look good," she said as she walked next to the girl to take her position.

"Orochimaru has told me to kill you as he has found someone more capable of taking your position."

'Damn you Orochimaru, you fucking snake!' Tayuya immediately took out her flute to end the match quickly and possibly survive. "If you think I'll die so easily your wrong bitch."

"First Round, Begin!"

Gaara went on the offensive first launching sand at Tayuya who rolled to her left to avoid the wave of sand and threw down a smoke bomb and tried to run for the exit but it was blocked by Gaara's sand, 'Fuck she won't let me leave and I can't fucking kill her,what the fu- wait she's a jinchurikki, and unstable as hell if the reports on her were right, if I can place her under one of my genjustu the bitch will go crazy, and I can escape…and she'll ruin that son of a bitch's plan, fuck but I'll need the curse seal.'

Tayuya kept running around and dodging the sand, then she threw an exploding kunai at Gaara that was blocked by her sand shield, but created a smoke screen for Tayuya to take cover behind a tree and activated her second stage Curse Seal where no one could see her. "Alright you crazy bitch let if you can handle a bad dream," she whispered to herself and brought the flute to her lips and soon a haunting tune began to play though the arena, 'Magen: Hannya'

Gaara starts rubbing her eyes something making them itch and when she opens them she is in a dark room, nothing but blackness except for a mirror in front of her showing her reflection. Then her face in the mirror morphs into a terrifying mask with sharp teeth. Staring closer at the mirror she screamed when the reflections hands reached out of the mirror and grabbed her face. "Poor Gaara so alone, so very alone, no one to love, no one who cares, can only kill, what a cheap thrill, so full of anger, nothing but hate, Gaa-ra, Gaa-ra, no one to love, Gaa-ra, Gaa-ra, not a friend in the world…" The voice kept repeating the word over and over again as Gaara covered her ears to block out the motherly voice, but it only got louder. "GAA-RA, GAA-RA, ALL ALONE, NO ONE TO LOVE, NOTHING BUT HATE, NO ONE WHO CARES, WHAT A SAD STATE, GAARA,GAARA, WHAT A MONSTER, WHY DON'T YOU DIE!"

The voice kept getting louder and louder bringing back memories of her child hood, driving her deeper into madness. For the first time her sand could not help against this, she had no power, she was weak and it terrified her.

Tayuya stared at the girl as she broke down; sighing in relief as she thanked whatever deity let her survive this fight. Tayuya looked to the proctor as he observed the fight hoping he would call it but almost had a heart attack when Gaara fainted, remembering what had been told to her about the jinchurikki.

She bit out a curse, "Ooh fucking shit," and then turn and ran.'Your damn problem now cocksuckers!'

"Hey where are you going!?"

(Up in the Kage Box)

'Damn that girl, she kills Sasuke-kun and now she's ruining my plan!' Orochimaru thought angrily as he signaled for the attack to start.

"Kazekage-san I believe it best you get your daughter under control," the Hokage said looking at him.

"No I don't think I will Sarutobi-sensei," Orochimaru said removing his mask, as his guards attacked.

"Protect Hokage-sama!" the two jonin attacked Orochimaru's henchman cutting them in half. This victory was short lived as four people popped out of the bodies and attacked the guards. They overpowered the konoha ninja as Orochimaru grabbed Sarutobi and leapt onto the roof.

Sarutobi looked on as his village's walls were rocked with explosions letting, "Orochimaru how far have you sunk."

"Kukuku, Now, now sensei, no need to be so melodramatic," Orochimaru said pushing a kunai to his neck, "I simply want to see this thrice damned village burn to the ground."

(In the stands)

Everyone looked up in the air as feather began to fall from the sky, all the jonin's quickly dispelled the genjustu while the civilians and some of the geninand chuninwere caught and knocked out.

Kakashi leapt into the air and kicked an Otonin into a wall, "Protect the civilians and wake up the rookies!" Kakashi pulled out two kunai and blocked a blade, pushing the ninja away he parried a strike and then stabbed his blade into the ninja's neck.

"Dynamic Entry!" Turning he saw Gai kick away three attackers that were coming up behind him, "That makes 28 for me Kakashi, you?"

"29."

"Curse you my hip rival, if I cannot beat you I will-"

"AAAAAAAAARRRRRHHH!"Kakashi and Gai, along with the now awake genin courtesy of Sakura, Haku, and some chunin,and everyone else looked down into the stadium as Gaara stood up sand beginning to gather around her body then exploded outward, creating a cloud of dust, as it cleareda shadow fell over the crowd as they looked up at a massive tanuki,"RAAAAAAARRRGH! I'M GONNA TO KILL EVERYBODY!"

"Kakashi-sensei what the hell is that!?" Sakura shouted

"This isn't good," Kakashi said taking a step back as the released demon looked down at them.

"Oh, looks like everyone's here!" the tanuki raised up its giant paw, "IT'S KILLIN TIME!"the swung its massive appendage towards the stand, not caring if it crushed the sound ninja the sand ninja had left as soon as they saw Shukaku. The konoha shinobi tried to help as many civilians as possible to escape but their end was inescapable.

But that end never came.

"WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU IDIOTS DOING? MOVE!" all eyes looked towards the voice to see a red mass of chakra with two tails covering Naruto. The crowd stood shocked as he held back the monstrous arm with his own two chakra arms. Naruto looked at the crowd snarling, "ARE YOU FUCKING DEAF! MOVE!"

Snapping to attention the ninja began to evacuate the area immediately, and fight the sound shinobi. Naruto heaved and pushed the arm away. A group of sound nin rushed Naruto hoping to catch him off guard. As they leapt at him two were stabbed by Kakashi and Guy while the third slipped by.

With a cry the ninja swung his blade, "DIE!"

Naruto's tail lashed out and grabbed the man around the midsection, "Fuck you!" then slammed him into the floor and threw him into the sky. Turning he addressed Kakashi and Guy, "Thanks for the back-up sensei."

"Naruto?"

"Yeah it's me, don't worry I'm in control."

"Are you sure?"

"Yes now- WATCH OUT!" Naruto grabbed them both and threw them away as a fist pounded him into the stands.

"Naruto!" Kakashi looked on as the fist rose to reveal Naruto with a few bruises but unscathed.

"I'll handle Gaara sensei, you clear everyone out!" Naruto barked out then leapt towards Gaara.

"Kakashi do you think he can handle that beast?" Gai asked as he saw Naruto punch Shukaku in the chest knocking it back.

"Which one?" Kakashi asked turning away from the fight and leaping into the stands, Gai on his tail, "Shukaku or Kyuubi?"

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"Stand still you cockroach!"

"Screw you," Naruto shouted back as dodged another swing of Shukaku's tail, then he ran up the tail. He regretted it when Shukaku flicked his tail and threw him into the sky. Shukaku turned its maw towards Naruto, it belly expanding with air before he pounded his stomach and launched his attack.

"Drilling Air Bullet!"

"Aw shit!" Naruto ran through through hands signs, "Katon: Dragon Fireball Justu!"

The air and fire crashed into one another creating an explosion the smoke concealing Naruto as he launched his claws atShukaku, Then he pulled himself towards Shukaku's face like a rocket, "Eat this!"

He slammed his feet into Shukaku's face, sinking into the beast's face, not through yet Naruto planted his fist into the sand beast delivering a demon charged justu, "Blast Palm!"

The beast's face caved in to sand but it proved to be useless as the crumbling sand shot towards Naruto and pulled him towards the reforming maw. Before he could be eaten his claws stretched forward and sliced through the sand holding him.

Falling down he threw his Smiley Bombsat Shukaku's left leg, once he hit the ground the bombs went off. He looked on as the blast didn't even trip the beast its sand just reformed.'How the hell do I stop this thing?!'

"The girl you fool, you need to wake her up that will stop Shukaku!"

'Where the hell is she?' Naruto had lost track of the girl as soon as the giant tanuki appeared, he had to keep hopping around leaping from spot to spot to avoid the sand. "Doton: Swamp of the Underworld!"

Shukaku sank to its waste giving Naruto a chance to breathe, "Now where the hell is she," looking at the beast Naruto was able to make out a figure sticking out of the beast's head.

"Got you, Katon: Grand Fireball Justu!"

The mass of fire shot towards Gaara only to collide with a wall of sand that protected her. "Damn it!"

Unfortunetly for our hero Shukaku could still attack despite being stuck, as it slammed its arm down on naruto's position. Naruto thanked whatever god looked after him, as dodged the attack…barely. He quickly changed his tune however when the arm that missed swung towards him, and deposited him into the stands. "Sh-Shit, I won't be able to take another hit like that."

Standing up, he looked up at the beast, at Gaara, "Justu are out, so that leaves the hard way," he began running at Shukaku, at Gaara, "Always the fucking hard way."

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"Cat got your tongue, sensei?" Orochimaru chuckled standing next to two men.

"How dare you Orochimaru," Sarutobi snarled out, summoning his beast, "Enma transform, today I correct my mistake!"

"Good it's about time."

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Happy New Year everyone! Hope you enjoy the chapter.