Merry Christmas everybody!

To the story, I'm stumped with the pairing; I want to pair him with someone from canon but I also want to create an OC. What do you guys think? I'm flexible.

Thanks for all your reviews:

I'm sorry if I got my message confused when I asked for your opinion. I don't think it's possible (it is) for a 9 year old to have sex with a 30 something year old. I don't mean to insinuate anything but it wouldn't be comfortable or easy for either of them. What I meant to say was that if I should make an omake lemon of the two (Naruto and Anko) since the Naruto I've painted in this story would in no way go for Anko's type.

I deeply apologise if what I asked was in any way offensive to anyone.

Coduss: thanks for the romaji name Yo! I'll start using it from the next chapter,

Asia1990: I appreciate your opinion but what I said at the top is my response. I can't think of any circumstance that'll push Naruto to do 'the dirty' that doesn't include her somehow slipping something into his drink but if that happens then the teams trust in their sensei would be destroyed. I'll think about making it into an omake where the Naruto would be a lot different (and, of course, older) if I find the time to write smut.

(BEFORE I FORGET I CAN'T WRITE SMUT, SO IF ANYONE READING CAN THEN PLEASE HELP ME OUT!)

Guest: no, no, no. The friend I'm talking about hates his real parents, not Minato and Kushina. I won't tell you the reason why.

Another Guest: 'GARB'? If that's what I think your saying then fuck off, let others enjoy it if you don't want to.

Draconic Reborn: no I'm not colour blind dude, it was an honest mistake, don't kill me because of someone's hair colour. My computer autocorrects Bijuu to bijou, I've corrected the mistake (in the computers autocorrect that is). Do you know that clones are just like their 'boss'? I mean, do you think that they have a separate personality or something. If they want to act different they can but they mostly take after their summoner, I'm guessing. He doesn't have more chakra than Kisame; I said he has denser chakra than most ninjas, like a bijou but not as dense. I blame the fact that his mother was a former jinchuriki. Good enough for you?

Greer123: I am doing well, what's new dude?

geist: remember I said that she screamed before she moaned when he was removing (or altering) her seal. Yeah, that sort of thing, the brain would try and find out who or even what is making the body feel so good! I swear if it was the Sandaime, Sarutobi Hiruzen, there then Anko would chase after him. Or heck, if she saw Gai first then she'd be chasing after his freakiness.

Note: I was listening to 'Danger' by Marshmello & Migos…among other songs when I was writing this chapter, so the fight scenes may be a bit too action-y.

CHAPTER 11

Shimura Danzo dismissed the ROOT ANBU team he had sent to scout out Kiri. They had reported that the reign of the 'bloody mist' was ended by a masked boy, the locals guessed the person to be a teenager, that went by the name 'Kumo' or 'Spider'. It was very suspicious because the Mizukage was a veteran of war and for a rumoured teen to come and kill the great man was preposterous. Factor in the fact that the man had the three tails in him and he was a power house no one wanted to face and a child ended him, he had to look into it.

The bandaged man wrote down a command for his prime investigation team and tracking team to look into 'Kumo' and his whereabouts, whether or not he could induct him into Konoha or better yet into ROOT. If he did not agree there was always 'katoametsukami'.

There was a sharp knock on his office door and the spy he put on the Yondaime's child's team entered the room and bowed to him lowly. Though he didn't remember summoning him,

"What is it you want, Sai?" he asked the pale boy without looking up, he continued writing his letter and patiently waited for the boy to speak.

"I wish to speak about my target Namikaze-Uzumaki Naruto freely, Danzo-sama," the man stopped writing to buzzed in a random ROOT operative to take the letter and give it to the named teams. He looked back at the black haired boy with his lone coal black eye and silently nodded, "I believe he is not a threat to ROOT sir, he only fights those that block him."

"What are you trying to say?" Danzo said stoically, the man was waging an intense internal war; he suspected what the boy was about to say and he did not want one of his most promising operatives to start losing his touch before he could firmly grip it.

The boy shuffled on his feet uncharacteristically and the man's eyes widened minutely, and the edge of his lips twitched downwards, "Naruto would better serve Konoha as he is than as a ROOT ANBU, sir. I don't think it is wise to force him to be inducted in here. I wish not to offend, Danzo-sama and I say this in the most honest way possible that he would be most effective away from here."

Sai stepped back and bowed deeply to his benefactor while the man slightly clenched and unclenched his fist, "who are ninjas, Sai?"

The boys kept his eyes on the ground, perfectly hiding his disappointment, "they are their village's tools, Danzo-sama."

"Who holds the village's tools, Sai?"

"The Hokage, sir."

"Which is better? A blunt and defective tool or a sharp and precise one?"

"The latter, sir."

"Which do you think Naruto is, boy?"

"The latter, sir."

Danzo breathed out calmly from his nose and folded his fingers under his nose; he fixed the boy with a hard look and said, "Who do you think should control the village's tools?"

"You, Danzo-sama."

"That's right, boy. Naruto has potential that only I can bring out; he is already a sharp tool that should be in my grasp and my grasp only. Why bring the matter to me if you know I wouldn't change my mind?"

Sai gulped and clenched his fist nervously, "he-he is my friend and I read that a person looks out for his friends." He stiffed under the almost palpable air that his master exuded; the man kept his face blank and unreadable.

"I did not give you this mission to befriend him, I commanded you to gain his trust. It seems you're losing your touch; a day in the 'Conditioning Chamber' would rectify that." He ignored the boy's almost invisible twitch and waved him out of the room, "report to Fu Yamanaka right away." The boy stood up and bowed before he marched out of the room, the man looked at the closed door for a full minute, mulling over what the 9 year old had said in full honesty, but he (sadly) didn't see the logic in not having a hold on Naruto. He hummed and stood up, his eye caught a twinkle on a shelf near his desk and he swiftly ignored the reminder that he still wasn't Hokage, and he walked out of his office to the underground training ground for the newly inducted rookies he took from the orphanage.

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A week later

"Hello, Naruto." A voice said from behind the blonde. He was in training ground 43 with Shin yu working on another project he had found for himself, he wasn't afraid of the other competitors in the chunin exams spying on him because the training ground was less used and since it was near the forest of death people usually swerved away from it, plus he had clones Henge'd into fierce animals guarding the entrances and exits. The voice sounded old and weathered, it was the Sandaime Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi. The boy smiled at the old man and bowed to him. The man then nudged over someone that was hiding behind him, the boy had brown hair, wore goggles on his forehead and a long scarf that trailed on the ground around his neck. "Konohamaru-kun, say 'hi'"

The boy looked to be about 6 years old, "hullo…" he bowed to the older boy and wriggled back behind the former Hokage. "Ji-san says you're strong, Naruto-san, is it true?"

The boy scratched his cheek and laughed nervously, "I try my best, Konohamaru." You could quite literally see the stars in the younger boy's eyes. Naruto nudged over the girl that hid behind him, she slide off his back and blushed nervously. "Sarutobi-oji-sama and Konohamaru, this is Shin yu. Shin-chan this is my jiji and his grandson, Konohamaru." She waved at them and slide back onto his back.

"Nice to meet you, child. Konohamaru-kun, why don't you show Shin yu-chan how fast you can run."

It was like a light switch flickering on and all the confidence in the world had poured into the boy's little body, he stood in front of his grandfather and grinned at the girl. Naruto's mouth twitched in amusement at the next words to come out of Konohamaru's mouth, "yeah, Ji-san says I'm fast for my age. I bet I'm the fastest six year old in the whole of Konoha." The blonde could feel the glare from the girl on his back, those who knew shin yu-which weren't very many-could attest to the fact that she was as competitive as a contestant for Miss Konoha and a race horse combined. She leapt over his head and landed a foot in front of the brown haired boys face, he didn't even look startled.

"Oh yeah? Wanna put your money where your mouth is?" the girl nasally challenged while the girl's best friend scratched his chin in question, wondering where she learnt those words from. "'Cause Naruto-san says I'm the fastest in my age group!" and thus a friendship/rivalry was born. They ran off in a random direction all the way yelling incoherently at each other.

Sarutobi watched them go with a smile on his face; his first mission has been accomplished. "What are you doing here, Naruto-kun?"

His answer was a small brown furred beaver scampering to him. it stood up and the war veteran could see that it wore a green flak jacket with a spider badge on the right chest with the a large leaf symbol on its back, it had green eyes and silver tinted large teeth in a surprisingly spotless mouth and small but deadly sharp claws on his hands and feet. It wagged its strong, flat tail around in 'joy' from the man's silent scrutiny. He would have said the small creature was a summons if not for one small fact: it wasn't breathing. He looked at Naruto and caught his own green eyes looking at him unfocused ever so slightly and the green almost invisible string of chakra that came out of the base of his neck.

The beaver saluted to the man and crawled up the boy's body till it reached his shoulder. "I'm practising how to move around and if necessary fight and at the same time looking through this little guy's eyes."

"You can see what the beaver can see?"

"Hai, I just need to connect a small part of my brain to its own. It doesn't even pinch so don't worry, Ji-sama."

"How far away can it be and still be connected to you?"

"I'm haven't tested that yet," he looked to where he presumed the younger children were and was not surprised to see them rough housing on the ground, thankfully Shin yu wasn't channelling her seal. It also wasn't serious so he looked back to the elderly man, the beaver jumped off his back and dashed out of the training ground to the forest of death.

"I'll have to leave you now, make sure you bring Konohamaru-kun back to the compound by sunset." After saying this he poofed away to kami-knows-where to do kami-knows-what.

"Naruto-san! He bit me!"

"No, she's lying! She bit me!"

"Shin-chan, stop biting."

"Naruto-san!"

"Ha! He believed me!"

He shook his head and made a clone to spar with. They settled into their stances before they shot at each other. It was to be expected that the clone would know his taijutsu style and the way to counter it, plus the fact he was still controlling the beaver and seeing what it sees made it on a level harder than before. The clone gave a jab and he met it with his own, kicking the other blondes feet from under him, then the clone went for an axe kick as he was down but he rolled away in time. Naruto puffed out some air from his nose and lunged at the clone, he feinted a right handed punch and delivered a well concealed left handed hook, he followed that with a kick to its side, which it blocked. Fighting like this was like fighting with something fragile on one hand but of course there was nothing in his hands so he had to constantly remind himself that his hands were free. He ducked a kick and jabbed the thigh and cleared the clone's feet from under him, the clone flipped and was about to land but was caught in a wicked punch to the neck and a following left heel kick to the side. It fell on the ground gasping for air I didn't need. He used the small space to instruct the beaver to enter the water and swim to the other side of the bank, it did so and encountered a particularly hungry tiger…just when his clone had recovered and shot at him.

He grits his teeth after the kick to the jaw and subsequent kick to the chest.

He caught a punch and viciously kicked the clones shin, ignoring his bug eyes, and punched his stomach five times; he followed the clone forward after each punch. He grabbed the clone's neck and hauled him over head, choke slamming him on the ground. He didn't stop though; he axe kicked the down clone two times and kicked its side so that it ploughed through an unsuspecting rock. The beaver had been running and dodging the tiger, it hid inside a hollow tree and Naruto breathed a sigh of relief when it passed but groaned when a snake-python-tried to wrap itself around it. The beaver jumped out…and caught the tiger's attention again. The small brown creature displayed abilities that left the larger creature baffled; it climbed the tree and was jumping from branch to branch, it kept spitting out green goo whenever its attacker kept getting close, not to mention that it could run over water.

Naruto slapped away the right hook and gave his own ground shattering upper cut, when the clone was airborne he jumped and drilled a few more punches on his doppelganger's chest and ended the chain with a chop to the front side of his neck. He landed gently and as calmly as an adrenaline pumped child could manoeuvred the semi-aquatic creature to climb a tree to the highest point but didn't expect an eagle to swoop down on it when it got there. It used its flat tail to bash the airborne animals head till it was released, the blonde had it spread its limbs as wide as possible to slow its descent down but there was only so much it could slow down. He abandoned the idea and wrapped its tail around himself when he cleared through the treeline and luckily landed in a hole in a tree, he ignored the scorpions that stung its body and padded up the trunk and looked out to make sure the coast was clear.

The blonde ducked under a surprise snap kick and the subsequent one, he rolled out of the way narrowly from the last one. He kept slapping away the blows as he made the beaver scamper down the trunk and dash into the forest in a random direction till it reached a cave, it clicked its teeth and ran inside the pitch black opening. Though it had to claw the ground to stop it from running into a sleeping bear…and its sleeping cubs. He cautiously slinked back, slowly and quietly but bumped into a large furry mass that growled gutturally, it looked up and surprise! Papa bear. Naruto cursed audibly, ignoring his clones gaping face, he and the beaver simultaneously gulped.

The noise from the creature woke its family up and the subsequent chase around the cave ended with it lying under the mama bears paws. It struggled against the hold but it wouldn't let up, so he did the next best thing: he bit the paw with its augmented steel teeth and added a bit of his chakra to wear through the hair till it reached her pink flesh. The bear roared and released him; she nurtured her paw, which was rapidly becoming limp. Her four cubs surrounded her and licked her, while the papa was debating whether to allow the small intruder to go or to go and attend to his mate. There was no saving the bear so he made a mental note to go and retrieve her body later.

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Third round Chunin exams

"What's wrong with you Sai?" Ami muttered to her out of character but still in character team mate, "why aren't you calling Naruto 'dickless'?"

"I do not think that would be beneficial to my health, Ami-san,"

"You didn't care before, what made you start caring now?"

Sai furrowed his eyebrows in frustration and his spine chilling smile wavered to a small frown, "I-I don't know," Naruto looked at him from behind his glasses with a bit of interest, "I just remember going home and that's it,"

The team were in the competitors' box with their sensei, Anko, who looked down at the boy with both worry and mild suspicion, "what do you mean you don't know?" she leaned down to his height and squinted into his eyes, "think deep," Sai tried to look away but a firm hand and he couldn't move his head, "Sai, we're your team; there aren't any secrets among the four of us,"

"Yeah, like I told you guys I'm bisexual," Ami piped up from beside Sai, she grabbed his hand as a sign of uncharacteristic encouragement; this was one of the only times she could take something seriously. It was a good thing the only team present was the vengeful-now two man-team from waterfall that were too busy talking amongst themselves and sometimes hissing at them. Though there was only one genin and her sensei present most likely the other one was still at the psychiatric hospital either in Konoha or in waterfall while the other was in the crowd 'cheering'. "I even gave you guys my diary to read,"

"I-I-I-"

"I told you guys about my puppets and even about my spy network," Naruto said from Sai's other side, his arms were folded in his dark green hoodie sleeves with the hood up to hide his hair but his glasses were on his forehead to reveal his piercing green eyes, "I literally put my ass on the line and risked my career as a Konoha ninja by telling you those things."

"We're all friends here," the purple haired girl interjected, giving the blonde a strong look not to comment,

Sai was now visibly shaking. He swallowed thickly and was about to look away again but Ami gave his hand an encouraging squeeze, "what I'm about to-to say would get me killed," he looked around, "the walls have ears, sensei,"

"Blondie, do you have any safe hiding places anywhere?"

"Of course I do. I've rehabilitating a place by the forest east from this arena," his purple haired team mate looked at him curiously, "I was about to tell you guys after the exams,"

"Sensei, can we talk about this after the exams?" the woman looked uncertain, "I swear on my art that I won't bolt," she smirked and nodded before she stood up. After a few minutes Sai had gotten his composure back and was grinning widely at Naruto who rolled his eyes and flicked his glasses on as he looked around the spectators section that was rapidly filling up. He spotted Mito coming in with Shin yu and a whole flock of giggling female classmates, "say, dickless," he made a displeased grunting from the back of his throat, "a little birdie told me you're into older women, is it true?"

Naruto looked sharply at the smug Sai and glared darkly, "I don't know what you're playing at Sai but I am warning you. Stop," he turned back to the crowd, "a little birdie told me that you were into grandmas'. Is it true?" the only response he got was Sai's loud laugh.

Half an hour later and the third round of the chunin exams were underway.

(Just like my last chapter I won't write all the matches, only the ones team Anko would star in. so that means there would be OC characters)

Kakashi was literally booted into the centre of the arena. He grudgingly stood up and gently put his porn back into his pouch. The Hokage had already said the welcoming speech for the exams so he didn't have to do much, "first match of the third round of the chunin exams! Ami of Konoha vs. Mita Saito of Suna! Fighters please come down to the arena!"

Mita stood on the railing of the competitors' booth sticking on with his chakra, he waved joyfully to the crowd and did a dextrous back flip into the arena where he landed softly on his feet. He bowed to the Kazekage, who was in the Kage's booth, and then to the crowd the he tripped on his feet when he made to bow to his opponent. Ami was taken aback when the chameleon summoner stumbled to her and kissed her hands, "such beauty and innocence my eyes have ever seen. Hear me, sweet maiden, what is your name?"

"Uhm…" she looked at her sensei that too was very much confused by the act, she shrugged and rolled her wrists, telling her to go with it, "Ami. My name is Ami,"

He peppered her hand with kisses but when he slipped past her elbow he was kicked back, "such a woman should never soil thy hands by touching me for though my looks are dashingly irresistible I am still not worthy,"

"…Uhm…ok?"

"Wave thy hand, good proctor, so I shall prove to my fated that I am worthy enough to hold her hand to my heart,"

Kakashi tried to piece what the obvious drama queen (or king, in this case) had said and had it not been for Ami telling him to "start the match so I can fight get away from this creep," he wouldn't have snapped out of his daze. He called the match and leaped away.

Mita's composure took a complete change; he flicked his scarf to cover his nose just as he flashed through some seals. Ami glared at him when he shimmered out of sight, "kai!" nothing. She clapped her hands together and smirked when the chameleon summoner stumbled and left some foot prints in the ground, "purple illusion: you see-" a sharp tail slapped her hands away and the same tail cleared her feet from under her.

"No can do, beautiful," she heard his voice bounce around the filled up arena, as well as his ragged curse, "what did you do to me!" his foot prints stumbled all over the fighting area,

"seal less disorientation illusion is a specialty of mine," she rolled back to her feet and drew half a dozen kunai, "now stand still," she threw the weapons and flashed through some seals, "shadow kunai technique" the 6 knives turned to 40 knives that pelted down at where she assumed the Suna genin stood, none stabbed clean through him but she caught a splash of blood to her right and she capitalized on it, "purple illusion: you see-" she was again cut off but by a solid punch to her unprotected belly that threw her a few feet back.

She growled angrily and bared her teeth at the levitating bloody sleeve. She abandoned all tact and ran over to him; she pulled out some shuriken and sent them over immediately. The shuriken were dodged but that was part of her half thought out plan; she cast another seal less disorientation illusion and had his control over his camouflage waver till it eventually fell.

Mita stumbled dizzily to the wall and tried to use it to keep himself up, his legs wobbled and his eyes were seeing quadruple. He was in no way tired but he wasn't used to being dizzy. A drop kick impacted his chest that bounced him off the wall and a rib shattering kick struck him when he struggled to his feet. A sharp right hook to his half protected jaw spun him till he again slammed into the wall.

"I'm not giving up, darling," his green hair frizzed up and his chameleon tattoo glowed with a sickly green. A poof of thick smoke covered the two fighters. In the smoke Ami cast another disorientation illusion but that didn't save her from a tail swing to the midsection, she grunted and spat out some blood that had come up. She grit her teeth and tried to see into the smoke but a tail to the side of her head and she was shot out into a tree. The girl groaned and pushed out of the tree, falling onto the ground when she got out.

Her eyes blearingly caught sight of a long tailed creature storming to her and she made a last ditch effort, "purple illusion: you see-" she cried out in pain when a tail slammed her back into the tree and held her there,

"Why can't you see that I won't let you cast that genjutsu, babe?" Ami shook her head tiredly and glared at where she thought Mita was talking from, she again spat out some blood from her mouth. Said boy slinked over to her and stroked her cheek tenderly, "feisty little chick, huh?" she growled at him and struggled against his tail, "no use. Please give up,"

"fuck you," she spat into his eyes and when the predictable happened-he released her and fell away to clean the bloody gunk out-she steadied herself on her feet and mustered all the strength she had in her as she zipped to him, she pulled her hands back and savagely axe punched Mita at the top of his head. He grunted from the chakra augmented blow and wobbled away when she added another axe punch. He wildly swung his tail around and luckily clipped her shoulders, dislocating the limb.

She crawled away and leaned against the wall as he stood where he was, still frantically cleaning his eyes out.

Ami snarled and wobbled to her feet defiantly. She swallowed and ran back at him again, ducking under a tail swing, then another till she was in front of him. She jabbed his throat thrice and flipped away when he tried to grab hold of her, when she got far away enough she threw shuriken, that he still couldn't see, that punched into his arms. Mita roared in outrage and his eyes literally bugged out, they stretched out of the sockets and glared at her, he tore the weapons out and…

Collapsed onto his face.

The purple haired genin sighed to herself and fell on her knees, trying to catch her breath. Kakashi looked at her worryingly, "relax, fast acting paralysis poison. It'll clear out of his system in half an hour," he called the match in her favour and waved for the medics to head in. She closed her eyes and allowed her shoulders to slump tiredly just as a female medic came over to her,

"Your match was very impressive, Ami-san," the medic said to her as she shouldered her out of the arena,

"Thanks," was all that could come out of her mouth; she was in a world of pain. She kept her eyes closed and her breathing even, just like what her sensei instructed her team to do if they were grievously injured. She wasn't too used to being injured this much.

"Is she going to be alright?" she heard Naruto ask as the medic laid her down on a bed in the medic ward,

"Just a few sprains, cracked ribs, a dislocated collar bone and a mild concussion but nothing I can't remedy, Naruto-san," she heard the blonde hum and then she felt him pat her hand,

"That's good. I don't feel like hearing her groan about forfeiting the exams until the next one," the medic giggled to herself and went through some seals for her medical jutsu, "you have very good chakra control to be able to do that,"

"It took me 3 years of chakra control exercises and meditation but I've finally got it," even with her eyes closed she knew the medic was tucking a strand of hair behind her ear,

Ami heard Naruto sit down by her bed and guessed he was facing the medic as she slowly waved her hands over her body, "I can't seem to get my control high enough,"

"You want to be a medic?"

"no, no, I want to be a hiding in the shadows and kill you while you sleep sort of person but knowing medical jutsu would still be good," it felt strange hearing Naruto talk this freely; he only opened up a little bit with his team, his sister and his best friend. Maybe he was trying to make more friends. She groaned quietly when she felt a rib snap back into place and the bones slowly clicked back together, "my apologies, I never got your name,"

"Call me Sami, Sami Endo, Naruto-san,"

"Nice to meet you Sami-san,"

"quit flirting with the medic, dickless, my match is about to start," she heard Naruto sigh in frustration and the medic giggle a bit louder, though still not too loud.

"I was not flirting with her; I was just having a conversation to pass the time," still though Naruto stood up, "I guess I'll see you later, Sami-san. Later, Ami," she waved to him with her eyes still closed.

"The Yondaime's son seems nice," Sami said when the boys left, "nicer than how I pictured him to be,"

She couldn't stop herself from asking, "How did you picture him?"

"I first saw him when I was twelve carrying these huge pieces of wood with these tiny green strings, his face was so cold, so…you know that I thought he'd be one of those leave-you-in-a-crater-with-tigers-and-not-give-a-crap kind of person,"

"oh he is, it's just that he only really talks to his friends," she sighed when she felt a bump on her head reduce, "maybe he's trying to make more, I think that's why he was talking to you. My advice: don't think too deep into it." Sami nodded and went back to fixing the purple haired budding genjutsu master up.

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"How's she?" Anko asked the ROOT ANBU agent,

"she's fine, a bit banged up but she'll be as good as new when she has to fight again," Sai said as he waited for his name to be called for the next match, "oh and dickless here was flirting with the medic, what was her name again?"

Naruto's expressionless face twisted up in mild irritation, "her name is Sami and I was not flirting with her,"

"Oh yeah? Then why was she blushing?"

"I don't know? Maybe allergies or something," he smiled at his sister and Shin yu at the spectators section, "the question I have is whether or not you'll confirm you're into grandmas' or not,"

"I'm actually seeing this girl from my yoga class," Sai said matter-of-factedly as he adjusted his forehead protector, "I can introduce you to her after the exams if you want,"

"…you're a good liar Sai but I can see right through you; you don't do yoga or know how to talk to girls,"

"And you do?"

Naruto stepped back from the sharp response and smirked proudly, "more than you, I'm sure,"

"Prove it,"

"I'm not in the mood to toy with a girls feelings," he rolled his eyes when his waterfall opponent hissed at him…again, "you're up, idiot"

Sai punched his shoulder and leaped neatly into the arena while his opponent calmly walked down the stairs. Ito Yamato (I apologise; I mistakenly repeated 'Ito Yumi'. I'm replacing 'Yumi' with 'Yamato') was almost the same as his brother, Yumi, but he wore steel silver trench coat that was zipped up and sandals with a grotesque scar that ran from the corner of his hair to the right, across his nose, down to his chin. The scar just lightly touched his right eye with the eye being covered by an eye patch. He, too, was as pale as his brother.

As he got to the where his other opponent stood with the proctor he blinked slowly then he looked at Kakashi, "start the match, proctor-san,"

"Whatever," the copy ninja cleared his throat, "Sai vs. Ito Yamato. Begin!"

Neither fighters made a move, "I don't see how my brother lost you," Yamato said, his face plain and bored, like Naruto when he was fighting. Yamato put his hands behind his back, "It'd benefit both of us if you forfeit this match,"

"How so?"

"I'd rather not end a kid's career as a ninja,"

Sai didn't even blink at the threat, he just took out his pad of paper and brush in preparation for the fight, he lightly squeezed his brush and a short tanto shot out of the end while at the back of the pad flashed a barely visible seal, "I'd take my chances,"

"So be it," Yamato threw his arms out to Sai, two kunai in their grasp. The hands shot out of his wrist and impacted the ground with a sound boom when Sai narrowly dodged them. The pale boy observed the severed limbs and mentally cursed when he noticed some steel silver chains connecting them back to Yamato's wrist. He drew an ink lion and sent it out of his pad to his opponent.

The ink creation bounded over to Yamato, who had pulled his fists back, and bit down on his leg. Yamato didn't wince even the slightest, he looked down at the surprised ink creation and raised his right hand above his head, he then brought it down and jammed his fingers clean through the lion's neck, effectively dispelling it. He dusted himself down and threw his hands at Sai again, who leaped out of the way again. The ROOT ANBU swung his small blade at the silver chains connected to Yamato's wrists but the metal only sparked dangerously and gummed his blade to it, forcing him to abandon it.

He winced slightly his he saw his half severely singed up arms. He cradled them to his chest and dodged another fist, "can't you see? There is no way you can beat me," Sai was now running through all the single formation plans he and his team and devised if they were ever in a sticky situation without help. Sadly, none of them outlined if the threat could electrocute you with his detachable hands. His mind went abuzz went he started losing feeling of his arms.

He looked at his paper pad and steeled his gaze. He threw it like a Frisbee and at the same time channelled his chakra into the small seal at its back, it spun madly to Yamato, who had already raised his hands to catch it, and the corners of the pad spouted out curved blades (like a boomerang), before Yamato could catch it Sai pulled the a thin wire connected to the pad and yanked it a bit back so that Yamato caught thin air and the boomerang pad still whizzed past his face half a second later, lightly skimming his left cheek.

The man silently held his face in pain as he bent down. Sai yanked it back and spun around before he allowed the pad to draw a thin line of blood from Yamato's left ear. He pulled it back to him and caught it before he unsealed another brush. He flipped open his pad and drew a whole pride of lions before he sent them out of the paper and to the silently writhing Yamato.

The lions clamped down on any piece of flesh visible but the man still didn't scream. Sai limped to him and tapped a kunai at his neck, at the same time looking at Kakashi who had called the match.

"pride comes before a fall, Yamato-san," Sai said as a medic attended to his singed arms, he looked at Naruto, who had jumped down to his side, "I don't feel so good, dickless,"

"You were electrocuted idiot," Naruto looked at the medic, now a male, "would he be fine?"

The man pulled him away, out of Sai's earshot and whispered, "if he had broken some ribs or fractured a bone I would have said 'yes', but he was shocked by kami knows how many volts of electricity. His heart beat is irregular and his eyes aren't responding too quickly. We have standard procedure for this kind of thing so I can stabilize him, I don't know if it will be in time for his next match,"

Naruto sighed as they walked back to Sai who was now flat on his back on a medical stretcher, "I don't care if he doesn't make it for the next match, just don't let him die. Got it?" they were now in Ami's room, where the girl was still blissfully keeping her eyes closed,

"Perfectly," the medics in the room ushered the Yondaime's son out so they could begin treating him but Naruto still had the time to exclaim.

"Don't die, idiot!"

"Dickless, I thought you knew me; I don't do die,"

The blonde puppeteer shook his head in exasperation and strolled back to the competitors' booth, "he'll be fine, sensei,"

She broke character (you all know what I mean when I say this Anko broke character) and looked down at the boy with worry. The boy was the last member of his team that was not in the medic ward being treated. Right now she didn't care if her team lost the match; she hadn't bet much in the third rounds because she had enough money as it were. She was deeply worried for their health. She knelt down in front of Naruto and squared her shoulders,

"Sensei?" her behaviour had him forget to set his senbon launchers,

"Naruto, I want you to know that forfeiting a match isn't at all that bad," she put her hands on his shoulder without the limbs shaking, "I'll still be proud of you, all of you all the same,"

"Sensei?"

"If you go for your match and you see that you can't go on don't be ashamed of throwing in the towel, ok. Promise me Naruto,"

"I promise, sensei," he shook her hands off his shoulders; still not used to being touched by the sex driven woman, "they'll be fine,"

"I know, kid,"

"Next match: Namikaze-Uzumaki Naruto of Konoha vs. Sistene of Taki. Fighters please come down," Kakashi shouted,

Kage's booth

"It seems all the members of team Anko are injured," Mei Terumi the Mizukage of Kiri muttered to her fellow Kage's present,

"it seems so, but you have to admit that they all put in showings worthy of being chunin," Rasa the Kazekage of Suna said a bit louder, he sat up straighter and looked down at the arena as Naruto walked down the stairs, "don't you think their fights had them worthy of being chunin, Hokage-dono?"

Minato too looked down into the arena, "yes, I believe they are, but we have to see where this all leads to," he scratched his chin in thought, "you know that whether they fail or they pass they are still eligible for a promotion,"

"That is true," the turban covered Kazekage said, "Who do you think will win in this match?"

"Both fighters have shown unseen advantages in their former matches but I still have to go with Naruto,"

"Why is that? Have you forgotten the summons Sistene wields?"

"No I haven't forgotten. But have you forgotten that Naruto has so many secrets even you don't know them," the Yondaime Hokage didn't claim offense; only nodding his head slowly, "who are you rooting for, Kazekage-dono,"

"I can't go against Gaara and his siblings by rooting for somebody else. Even still he is a very strong boy with so much up his sleeves it isn't even chuckle worthy anymore," he let his eyes briefly trail to where his children sat in the spectators section beside the Hokage's child, Naruto's close friend and Mei's sword wielding subordinate. "What of you, Hokage-dono?"

"I'm going with my son," 'even if I don't know who my son is anymore,' he mentally added.

Arena

Sistene of Taki was a beautiful girl in her mid-teens making all wonder how she ever got on the same team as the two dunder headed males. She wore a white battle kimono that was constantly flapping in the non-existent wind with an orange scarf around her neck that trailed down to her ankles. She had frizzy brown hair that glinted in the light with permanently red rosy cheeks on her pallid skin. The way she smoothly walked down the arena made most men and women alike wonder whether or not she was floating in the air or gliding.

As she 'touched down' beside the proctor she sniffed haughtily at her blonde and bored opponent. Naruto's hood was up as well as his black glasses so his reaction to her facial expressions could not be discerned. She scowled at him, she was about the same height as him, and walked so close to him that he could practically smell her minty breathe, "what? Not going to go into the usual chunin exams pre-match banter,"

He raised an eyebrow, "I didn't know there was such a thing,"

"Some genius you are; you aren't even observant,"

"I just choose to ignore some things and focus on other things. Like the fact that I can't have my personal space being destroyed so easily; could you please step back?"

"Why don't you make me," she flicked his nose and didn't miss how his entire right arm twitched dangerously, "all bark and no bite,"

"If you two lovers would excuse me, we have an exam to run," Kakashi interrupted before Naruto could lose his cool, which wasn't happening, "Namikaze-Uzumaki Naruto vs. Sistene. Begin!" he leaped away and so did Naruto.

"there's one thing you need to know about me, Blondie, and that is…" she snapped her fingers and Naruto's nose felt like it was on fire, "never allow me to touch you," Naruto was now frantically scratching his nose, praying to anyone that could hear to let the pain subside but it was for naught. He rolled away from a kick and sprinted into the forest to think over what she had done to him. He slumped against the tree and his whole face was red and itchy, his mind was panicking while his body was stony. His hands fumbled over a seal on his arm and when he managed to unseal what was inside he shakily pushed the needle into his neck, half a minute later he felt the pain subsiding. He allowed himself a sigh and a brief moment to relax against the trunk. "Found you," Sistene thrust an epic palm strike to Naruto's unprotected chest that flung him into the main arena. He shakily stood up and idly looked down at the hand burned onto his chest.

His mind went into a daze on how she could easily sneak up on him when his hearing was as good as an Inuzuka ninken's. He hadn't planned on using them until later but he didn't want to go anywhere near this girl. Naruto strongly kicked the girl back to where she was before he unsealed the puppet in his spider tattoo.

Kumo (or Gumo) stood in Naruto's place as the smoke was swept away. Naruto was inside, injecting himself with a different needle, with a different solution inside.

The spider-man puppet combo snarled at the wide eyed girl across the arena and skittered blazingly over.

Kage's booth

"He's a puppeteer?!"

"You didn't know?"

"No, he never told me,"

"That's strange; Mei-dono and I knew,"

The Hokage watched with wide eyes as Kumo pummelled the Taki genin into the ground, "he-he is so talented," Rasa too watched the match as the Taki girl, out of desperation, too pulled out a trump card. "How did you find out, Kazekage-dono?"

"Naruto once came to me with a peculiar request. He asked me whether he could use seals on puppets joints. Of course I didn't know but I told him what Chiyo-obaa-sama once told me 'puppets are an extension of a puppeteers mind'. If seals can help extend his mind into the puppets then yes, he can use seals in puppet joints,"

"And what of you, Mizukage-dono, how did you find out?"

"Naruto and I are pen-pals. I'm sure he doesn't know that 'Emi Rumite' is the current Mizukage."

'Naruto can confide more into a stranger than with his own parents,'

Arena

Kumo slapped away a kick and grabbed the leg before she could be thrown to far away; he used the leg and slammed her into the ground. She made to roll away but Naruto used a spider leg and pinned her in place so that he could drill blow after blow on her.

He stepped away when she went limp but instantly regretted his decision when she blew up like a party balloon and disappeared.

"I didn't want it to end like this but you've forced my hand!" he heard her voice echo around the arena, 'Secret art: Sistene's sonata!'

The air in the arena thickened and the first sign of trouble were the tiny, translucent blobs that appeared from the forest and circled around the puppet. The blobs joined together and formed bigger blobs, when the blobs were only three in number curtain-like tentacles fell down from under them as their bodies turned into an upside down sort of cup. A beady eye formed on each that glared down at him.

Jellyfish.

Angry jellyfish.

Jellyfish angry at him.

Naruto gulped a little and when the floating sea creatures opened a cavity where their mouths were meant to be the pressure on the spectators of the fight lessened while the pressure inside the triangle tripled. Their hollow song was pressing down on his spider puppets joints in more ways than he would ever admit. The legs finally gave up and he made to crawl away but his hands and feet were pinned straight into the ground.

The blonde grit his teeth to keep in the yell of pain as a long tentacle burned through the trunk and across his back. The pain numbing injection he first took was wearing down and the poison in his system was too much for the injection that controlled his heart rate to slow down to be fully effective anymore.

His saving grace was that he had an ejector seat in an…unsavoury part of his puppet. He couldn't care less so he pumped in as much power into the fail safe seal to shoot him out of the butt while his first puppet exploded into shards of wood and shrapnel that peppered the floating killers, forcing them to dispel.

He shakily got to his feet and sank underground just as the jellyfish summoner landed a ground shaking punch into his former position. Sistene summoned a small group of the killers to search for him but it was all for naught.

Naruto had used his escape to enter deep into the forest and unseal his beaver spy and his mummy puppet. He shakily gave his prized scythe to his puppet and commanded both to run out and fight while he lay down and injected himself again with a pain numbing solution. His beaver was connected to a tenketsu at the base of his neck while the mummy was connected to his weak right hand. He let it twitch so that the cackling puppet could slice through the killers and dispel them so that he could take on the, again, wide eyed summoner.

The taijutsu puppet was too much of a match for the girl, so it came as no surprise that the puppets superior speed knocked the girl out after a swift chop on the neck. The mummy puppet didn't even waste a minute before it blazed into the forest and out again with the barely limp Naruto.

All he could remember before he passed out was someone yelling for the medics.

Authors note

Has anyone ever been stung by a jellyfish? If you at least know the danger they pose then it's understandable how Naruto could be so easily manhandled. He has antidotes for most animals he is aware of; he didn't know that he would ever be stung by those killers least of all prepare for them. I hope I didn't suddenly under power him. But you have to admit, Sistene was pretty strong.

Also take into consideration that any summons in Naruto is over powered. Like a slug can spit out acid, a toad can spit out oil, a salamander can level a country! Do I need to go on? In here a jellyfish can burn through most materials with a swipe of its tentacle. But they can be easily dispelled as seen when the mummy puppet killed the group of small jellyfish with a scythe swipe.

Some might yell that Sistene took a cheap shot or something but that's what I call being a ninja; taking any advantage possible as long as it's not after she lost, nothing like how most other fanfic authors would say that a scornful Sasuke would try and 'chidori' some poor fool through the back.

Yo and guys, I don't see or remember any girl from canon that can match Naruto's personality well enough. Need I remind you I will not write an incest fic or a harem fic! Help me with helpful names that you know would be compatible with the little dude. If not I'll just create an OC to pair him with, easy as that.

Ami seems to be cooling down huh? Not as stir crazy after her first beating huh? Yes, she's strong for her age, it's just that she was a bully; she is used to giving the pain, not receiving them. The teams training would get her hurt but not as hurt as fracturing a bone, breaking some ribs, getting a mild concussion and/or spraining most of the things in her body.

Sai, too, is understandable. He was electrocuted and survived! Look up what happens to you after you're shocked; you might be amazed or whatever.

I want to know what you think: Opinions, thoughts, ideas, criticism, etc.

Review!

B.j.