The Legend of Naruto
Chunin Exam arc
Kurama no Kyubi: Welcome back guys. You know, I've been thinking, and I've decided that I will up this story to M. So by the time the chapter after this one gets uploaded, the story will be rated M. Also from this chapter on, I'll switch out "Weapons" in the character stats for "Items".
ImagineBreaker7: Awesome chapter I wonder what else Nayru's love can do. Also it looks like you brought back Zabuza and Haku I wonder what will happen.
Kurama no Kyubi: Who knows…
Naruto Obito Halliwell Uzumaki: Great job with this chapter, I can't wait to for the next one.
Kurama no Kyubi: The waiting's over.
Guest: well you could add the werefox ability around the time naruto starts learning how to concoiusly learns how to control kurama's power and power of his triforce via help from jiriaya training.
Kurama no Kyubi: Good idea, I'll think about it.
cybresamurai: This story is amazing I cant wait in till Naruto meets farore.
Kurama no Kyubi: That's not long from now actually. Though you'll have to wait a few chapters.
Guest: I know a weapon you could give Sakura, the sword Zelda uses in twilight princess.
Kurama no Kyubi: *SPOILER ALERT* Funny thing is that I saw your review just before I gave her the sword.
"Triforce." Normal speech
'Triforce.' Normal thought
"Triforce." Biju and God speech
'Triforce.' Biju and God thought
Aqua: Kurama no Kyubi only owns me and the other OCs.
Chapter 10: Gohma's Lair
"Yosh. Time to catch some fish." Naruto said as he walked towards a river in nothing but his trunks.
"You're going to jump in there to catch some fish?" Aqua asked as she was standing there in nothing but a bikini.
"Yeah… Why? Got a problem with that?" Naruto asked.
"No, not really. It's just that it'd be a lot easier to do it like this." Aqua said as she pointed at the water, and 13 spheres of water came up with one fish in each.
"Whoa! How'd you do that?" Naruto asked.
"It was easy." Aqua said before giving the fish to Sasuke who went back to where Sakura was.
"Say, Aqua?" Naruto asked.
"Hmm?" Aqua looked over at the blond.
"Why did you come here, dressed like that when you were only going to do that to catch the fish anyway?" Naruto asked.
"What? Don't you like it?" Aqua asked as she struck a sexy pose, causing Naruto to fall back with a nose-bleed "Or maybe you wanted to see more?" She then moved her hands towards the straps of her bra. (Kurama no Kyubi: She knows how perverted guys can be nor does she mind being naked around people.)
"WHOA!" Was the yell that could be heard throughout the entire forest.
It had been a day since the battle against the Oto-nins. After the battle, Neji and Tenten had shown up and took Lee with them, Ino, Shikamaru, and Choji had also left some time later. Sakura had decided to cut her hair since if it wasn't for it being so long, Kin wouldn't have been able to grab it so easily earlier.
Aqua, however, decided to stay for unknown purposes, and some time afterwards Naruto, Sasuke, and the Fairies woke up. Of course, Naruto, and Navi made quite the ruckus once they saw Aqua.
"This Tani-nin. Do you really think we can trust her?" Navi asked as Sakura finished setting up the firewood for the fire.
"Sure we can. Why would she try to save us if she was our enemy?" Sakura said.
"That only makes things that more suspicious." Navi said.
"Nayru-sama told me that there might be people among the enemy's ranks who might turn out to be good-guys, so I was thinking that Aqua-san might be one of them." Sakura said.
"I'm still not convinced." Navi said as Sasuke lighted the fire before Naruto and Aqua returned with their clothes on.
"Next time you're gonna go for a swim, just jump right into the river." Naruto mumbled to Aqua as he was heavily blushing while, and Aqua giggled.
"What? You can't say you didn't like what you saw." She said.
"That's not…!" Naruto said before sighing in defeat as he said "Forget it." (Kurama no Kyubi: Seems even Naruto knows that it's best to give up when quarreling with women.)
Soon after were all four of them seated around the fire while waiting for the fishes to be grilled. There were three fishes for each of them except for Aqua, Dimitri had also gotten three fishes, though he ate them raw, and Navi, Tael, and Tatl were sharing the same one.
"Aren't you gonna eat any?" Sakura asked as she looked at Aqua.
"I don't eat fish." Aqua said.
"You don't?" Naruto asked.
"Then what do you eat?" Sakura asked.
"Nothing. All I need to live is water, and I've already had my breakfast." Aqua said.
"So that's why you went out to swim?" Naruto asked.
"Mm-hmm. That's right. When I'm in the water, my skin absorbs as much of the water as it needs." Aqua said.
"So that's the secret behind your ability?" Navi asked.
"No. I've had these powers to turn myself into water ever since I can remember." Aqua said.
"But there's still a major flaw to them. If you're in a dry place, like a desert, you won't be able to fight." Sasuke said.
"… That's right." Aqua said.
"You're a Tani-nin, so how do we know that we can trust you, anyway?" Navi asked.
"Don't worry about what Navi said, she's only a little skeptical from time to time." Naruto said as he looked at Aqua.
"But it's true though, you can't trust me." Aqua said before rising to her feet "So I'll just leave you now, see you at the tower." She then walked off into the forest.
"Ah. Wait, Aqua-san." Sakura said as she rose to her feet.
"Just let her be. She's our enemy." Sasuke said.
"Maybe, but it's dangerous to wander through this forest alone, plus, I owe her for coming to save me from those Oto-nins." Sakura said before running off.
"Uh, wait, Sakura-chan!" Naruto called after her, causing Dimitri to look up from the fish he was currently busy with to see Sakura run into the forest.
Forest of Death, Aqua
Aqua walked through the forest before, and as she walked past a small ledge, she stepped on a loose rock, causing her to fall down into a large hole which was under a tree.
"Kyaaaaaaaaaaaaa!" She then landed on the ground with a loud thud before saying "Ouch. What happened?"
As she rose to her feet, she noticed that there was an entrance to a cave on the wall before she suddenly heard a skittering sound, causing her to nervously, and slowly look up to see a giant centipede crawling on the underside of the tree.
"Kyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!"
Forest of Death, Sakura
Sakura walked through the forest until she heard some rustling in the bushes behind her, and she pulled out a kunai as she turned around.
"Who's there?" She asked, but then she spotted something that looked like red scales before Dimitri suddenly came toppling forward.
"Dimitri?" Sakura asked as she knelt down "Have you been following me?"
"You said yourself that this forest was too dangerous to be walking around alone, didn't you?" Tatl said as she flew out of the bushes.
"Tatl…" Sakura said before smiling and nodding "All right, then. You two can come with me."
"Kyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!" Sakura immediately rose to her feet as she heard the scream before looking in the direction that it came from.
"That's… Aqua-san!" She said before running in the direction of the scream "Come, Tatl, Dimitri!"
Forest of Death, Aqua
Aqua was sitting on the ground, staring in fright as the large centipede loomed over her. It had now crawled down to the bottom of the hole where Aqua was.
"Aqua-san!" Sakura yelled as she reached the ledge.
"Sakura-san!" Aqua said.
"Wh-what is this thing?" Sakura asked no one in particular as she looked at the centipede.
"I think it's a centipede… a very big centipede." Tatl said.
"Um… That's an understatement." Sakura said as she wrapped an explosive tag around the hilt of her kunai before jumping off the ledge "Hey! Giant-pede!"
The centipede then looked towards her as she through the kunai, hitting it just above the mouth. Sakura then landed as the explosive tag blew up, killing the giant insect as green blood spilled everywhere.
"Ew. Gross. I hate bugs." Aqua said as she rose to her feet.
"You all right?" Sakura asked as Tatl came flying down, and Dimitri came rolling down.
"Y-yeah." Aqua said.
"Good. Then we can…" Sakura said as she looked up to see that the top of the hole had been covered by a giant spider-web "A spider-web?"
Suddenly, a large spider – which reached up to the torso of the two Hylians – landed on the ground in front of them, followed by smaller spiders of many different sizes. Though what Sakura thought was strange was that the spiders only had one eye each.
"Kyaaaaaaa! Spiders! I hate spiders!" Aqua screamed.
"It's an army of Gohmas! Their weak-point is their one eye." Tatl informed.
"Thanks for the tip." Sakura said as she pulled out a kunai before throwing it into the biggest Gohma's eye, killing it. However, this made all of the other Gohmas mad, and they all charged forward.
"Kuso. I can't fight all of them." Sakura said before looking over her shoulder at Aqua "Aqua-san…" The blunette didn't reply, however, as she seemed to have been paralyzed with fright, but Sakura also noticed the cave entrance.
She then turned around before grabbing Aqua's hand while yelling "Come on!" And the two of them along with Dimitri ran into the dark cave while Tatl flew after them, and the Gohmas weren't far behind.
(Dungeon #2: Gohma's Lair.)
The four of them ran through the dark cave as quickly as they could with an army of Gohmas on their heels, though Tatl was flying. They didn't really bother looking where they were going, as long as they could escape the spiders, but then they suddenly a dead-end.
"It's a dead-end." Sakura said, before the four of them turned around before stepping backwards, pressing their backs on the wall before the Gohmas came, charging at them.
One of the larger Gohmas jumped at Sakura as it injected a paralyzing poison into her, causing her to fall down, seemingly dead.
"Sakura-san!" Aqua exclaimed before another one got her.
"Oh, no. They got both of them." Tatl said as she tried to fly backwards, but the wall got in the way. Then, one of the smaller Gohmas got her.
Dimitri on the other hand was faring a little better, having a stomach which could take any kind of food, he just gobbled the smaller ones up, though in the end he was paralyzed too. Not from without of course, since his scales were too hard, but he got paralyzed by one he was in the process of eating. (Kurama no Kyubi: Dodongos should have been at the top of the food-chain, human cannibals got nothing on them.)
The Gohmas were then about to encase them in cocoons of web, just as a light suddenly illuminated the cave, and one by one, the Gohmas suddenly died from no apparent reason.
A person then walked over the bodies of the Gohmas, and towards the two Hylians, one Fairy, and one Dodongo.
Later
When Sakura woke up, she found herself in a small room which seemed to be inside the cave, though the room was illuminated by a pair of flames that were on either side of the middle of the room. She also noticed that there were a lot of books in the room, so many in fact that there weren't really room for much else.
Looking over to the corner of the room, she saw an old man, sitting on a chair who was holding Dimitri like a baby, and even feeding the baby Dodongo a bottle of milk.
"I'm glad to see that you're finally awake, Princess." The man said.
"Sakura!" Tatl exclaimed as she flew over to the pinkette and hugged her cheek.
"Tatl…" Sakura mumbled before looking around "Wait, what happened? And where's Aqua?"
"Don't worry. Your friend's just fine." The man said as he gestured towards another bed where Aqua was lying.
"We were paralyzed by the Gohmas' poison, but this man came and saved us." Tatl said.
"He did?" Sakura asked before looking over at the man "Well, thank you."
"Don't worry about it." The man said.
"Who are you, anyway?" Sakura asked as she placed her feet on the ground before rising up.
"My name's not important, though everyone calls me Ji-san." The man said as Dimitri got done drinking from the battle, and the man sat him down on the ground so that he could run over to Sakura.
"Ah! I see that you're friend's waking up." Ji-san said as he rose to his feet while grabbing a staff which was slightly taller than himself.
"Oh! Aqua-san." Sakura said as she walked over to the bed where Aqua was waking up.
"Sakura-san?" She asked before getting out of bed "What happened?"
"Princess, Tani-nin." Sakura and Aqua then looked towards Ji-san "This cave have been made into a lair by the Gohmas, and it'll only be a matter of time before they've infested the entire forest."
"Then what can we do?" Sakura asked.
"There isn't much you can do… except…" Ji-san said.
"Except-what?" Sakura asked.
"No, it's too dangerous." Ji-san said.
"Don't worry. We're ninja, whatever it is, we'll handle it." Sakura said.
"All right, then." Ji-san said before walking towards the door "Follow me."
Sakura, Aqua, Tatl, and Dimitri then followed the old man out of the room and into the Gohma infested network of caves. After some time, they eventually reached a door.
"This door leads to an exit of the cave which is pretty close to the tower at the forest's center. However, beyond this door is also the place where Queen Gohma makes her nest, if you can defeat her, all of the Gohmas will perish." Ji-san said before holding out a key "This is the Master Key, it can open any lock. Be sure to return it later."
"Thanks." Sakura said as she grabbed the key before unlocking the door, but before she and the others could pass through, they were stopped by Ji-san.
"Wait, Princess." He said.
"Huh? Is something wrong?" Sakura asked as she turned around.
"It's dangerous to go alone. Take this." Ji-san said as he pulled out a bow and arrows.
"A bow?" Sakura asked.
"A Gohma's weak-spot is its eye. But against Queen Gohma, kunai and shuriken won't be enough." Ji-san said as Sakura took the bow "This bow was once held by a great hero, also – with the use of magic – you can use a variety of different types of arrows."
"Different types of arrows?" Sakura asked.
"Just flare up the chakra in your hand and brush said hand over the tip of the arrow, and you'll see what I mean." Ji-san said.
"Well, thank you again." Sakura said as she put the arrow holster on her back before she and the others passed through the door.
They then walked into a wide room before the door suddenly closed behind them before being covered by spider-webs.
"I guess they don't want us to leave." Sakura said as she looked over her shoulder before looking around the room.
The room was rather dark, but they were still able to see what appeared to be a bunch of cocoons made out of web that were spread out all over the room.
"What are these?" Sakura asked.
"They look like some kind of cocoons." Aqua said, and Sakura knelt down before pulling apart the web on one end to reveal a completely pale face, causing her to jump back.
"It's a person." She said before recognizing the man, and she then pulled apart the webs over the faces of two others before saying "These are… those Ame-nins. The ones from before the first exam started."
"Sakura-san… I don't like this place… let's just get out of here." Aqua said as she looked over all of the cocoons there, it had to be at least 42, and if all of them were partitioning Genin…
She then noticed that the pinkette was searching through the cocoons holding the Ame-nins.
"Wh-what are you doing?" Aqua asked.
"I'm looking for their scroll. They might have the heaven scroll that we need." Sakura said, before she found something which caused her to smile and she pulled out a heaven scroll "Found it!"
"Ah! Sakura-san, watch out!" Aqua yelled as she saw something large land behind Sakura.
"Huh? What is it?" The pinkette asked before she looked over her shoulder to see a giant spider – even for a Gohma – standing there, about to attack.
Sakura then jumped back just in time to avoid the Gohma's fangs. She then looked over at Aqua to see that she was more or less paralyzed by fright again before looking back on the gigantic spider.
"What… is that?" She asked no one in particular.
"Queen… Gohma." Aqua stuttered out.
(Boss #5: the Arachnid Queen, Queen Gohma.)
"That's Queen Gohma?" Sakura asked before looking towards Dimitri and Tatl "You two, find some place to hide, me and Aqua-san'll take care of this." She then looked towards Aqua who was still paralyzed by fright "Aqua-san?"
Queen Gohma then charged at Sakura before pushing said girl into the wall, as she attempted to eat her. Sakura was in the meantime holding onto the large arachnids fangs, trying to push her away from her.
"Sakura!" Tatl yelled from the hiding place she and Dimitri had found.
Queen Gohma then did the mistake of pushing Sakura upwards, and the girl then brought her foot down on the arachnid's eye, causing the large spider to shriek in pain as Sakura managed to run over its back before jumping down on the ground.
"Aqua-san, I'll need your help to beat this thing!" Sakura said as she grabbed the bow and prepared an arrow, but there were no response "Kuso!"
Queen Gohma then managed to regain her bearings as she turned around, which didn't go unnoticed by Sakura. The pinkette then aimed her arrow at the arachnid's eye and fired, but said arachnid just closed her eye-lid, causing the arrow to simply bounce off.
"Nani?" Sakura said in surprise.
Queen Gohma then charged towards Sakura again, and as she ran past Aqua, she knocked the blunette to the ground.
"Aqua-san!" Sakura yelled before she noticed that the arachnid had gotten too close to dodge, but that also meant, that she wouldn't have time to close her eye-lid before a second arrow would reach her eye, so the pinkette then grabbed a new arrow before firing it at Queen Gohma's eye, this time hitting it dead in the center.
Queen Gohma then collapsed to the ground, skidding forward due to the speed she was going at, so Sakura had to jump backwards. However, the battle wasn't over as Queen Gohma got to her feet again before running towards the wall, and up to the ceiling.
"What's she doing?" Sakura asked.
"Sakura, watch out! She's going to give birth to more Gohmas!" Tatl yelled.
"N-nani?" Sakura yelled before looking up to the giant Gohma as eggs started falling down from her rear end "Ew, that's gross."
Shortly after the eggs had landed, however, they hatched into new Gohmas before charging at Sakura. She then threw the bow to the side before grabbing a kunai and wrapping an explosive tag around it before throwing it straight into the horde of the tiny arachnids, blowing them all up.
Then, however, Sakura heard a shriek from above and she looked up to see that Queen Gohma didn't look too happy, as she seemed to be about to jump down.
"Ah, you got to be kidding me." Sakura said before running away as she grabbed her bow just in time to avoid being flattened. She rolled over the ground before coming to a halt in a crouching position, aiming an arrow straight at the large Gohma's eye before firing, however, the giant arachnid then rose to her feet, causing the arrow to hit her in the mouth instead.
"Kuso!" Sakura said before glancing towards Aqua out of the corner of her eyes to see said girl still lying unmoving on the ground "Come on, Aqua-san! I need your help here!"
Queen Gohma then charged at Sakura again, but this time, she kicked the pinkette into the wall so hard that it caused her to cough up blood. The large arachnid then ran towards her where she continued to punish her. Apparently Queen Gohma was so mad about Sakura killing her children that she weren't just going to settle for eating her. And all the while, Sakura cried out in agony, her only hope at this point being someone who's scared to death of insects and arachnids.
Forest of Death, tower
Three teams had made it to the tower, the first one was team Gaara, then shortly after came team Terra, and finally a few hours later team 8 showed up.
Terra suddenly looked towards the window and out over the forest as he was getting a strange feeling.
"What is it, Terra-san?" Ray asked.
"My "Damsel in Distress" senses are tingling." Terra replied.
"Yeah, right. It's probably just your imagination." Chilly said.
"Yeah, I hope you're right." Terra said.
Forest of Death, Gohma's Lair
As Sakura was getting beaten to a bloody pulp by the angry spider, Aqua was finally starting to rise up to her feet, as her fear was temporarily over-written by rage. After all, no one could just stand by and watch as a friend is getting beaten up.
"Hey, you. Step away from my friend, this INSTANT!" She said – yelling the last word – as she thrusted both arms forward, forming a vortex of water which shot towards Queen Gohma, knocking her away from Sakura.
"Aqua-san? A-arigato…" Sakura said as she rose to her feet. Aqua looked her over, she was a bloody mess, deep wounds and cuts on several places of her body, her clothes had also been ripped in several places, and her Hitai-ate had fallen to the ground.
"Can you still fight?" Aqua asked.
"Y-yeah…" Sakura said, moving to grab an arrow.
"All right, I'll create an opening, and you go for the finishing blow." Aqua said before creating a bow of water.
"Right." Sakura said as she pulled out an arrow before recalling what Ji-san had said earlier.
"This bow was once held by a great hero, also – with the use of magic – you can use a variety of different types of arrows."
"Just flare up the chakra in your hand and brush said hand over the tip of the arrow, and you'll see what I mean."
She then flared up the chakra in her right hand before brushing it over the tip of the arrow, and just then, the arrow-head was lit aflame.
"Fire?" Sakura mumbled.
"Sakura-san, focus!" Aqua said, as she aimed an arrow of water at the Gohma "Water Arrow!" The arrow was then fired off and it hit the large arachnid just under the eye, as Aqua formed another arrow.
Sakura then moved off to the side as she was looking for a chance to fire, and after about a minute she found it, as Queen Gohma wasn't even paying the slightest bit attention to her, so she aimed at the arachnid's eye, before firing.
The arrow hit its mark, and thanks to the flame, Queen Gohma started burning as she writhed in pain.
"You know, I kinda feel bad for it." Sakura said.
"Me too, but we've got to find the exit, then get back to your teammates. There shouldn't be any more Gohmas in the cave now that the queen's been taken care off, making this cave a safe shortcut to the tower." Aqua said.
"Good idea." Sakura said before Queen Gohma suddenly rose to her feet and charged towards the two "Ah! She's still alive?"
"Not for much longer." Aqua said as she prepared to attack the Gohma, but just then, three kunai imbedded themselves into the arachnid's eye before Sasuke appeared, jumped into the air and weaved a series of hand signs.
"This'll finish it! Katon: Goukakyo no Jutsu!" He said as he fired a large ball of flame at the Gohma, burning her to cinders.
"Sasuke-kun!" Sakura exclaimed.
"Hey, don't forget about me!" Sakura and Aqua then turned around to see that the one who'd thrown the kunai were none other than Naruto.
"Naruto!" Sakura said.
Just then, the burning corpse of the Gohma blew up to reveal a Heart Container.
"What's that?" Sakura asked.
"A Heart Container." Everyone then turned around to see Ji-san standing there.
"Ji-san." Naruto said.
"Princess, I suggest that you take it. It will heal your wounds as well as making you stronger in the process." Ji-san said.
Sakura then did as he said and walked towards the heart-shaped container, but as soon as she touched it, it vanished before all her wounds were healed and she also felt a rush of energy coursing through her body. Though the blood and tears in her clothes remained.
"Now, then, Princess. There's something else that I've got to give you." Ji-san said as he walked forward towards Sakura.
"Something else?" Sakura asked.
"Indeed." Ji-san said before pulling out a scabbard with a sword in it out of his robe "This sword once belonged to a great queen, your noble ancestor. Your battle with Queen Gohma proves that you're worthy to wield it." (Kurama no Kyubi: It's the same sword as the one Zelda has in Twilight Princess.)
Sakura then took the sword and looked it over before putting it on her left hip.
"But wait. How can a sword – held by someone who lived thousands of years ago – still be of use to anyone?" Aqua asked.
"It's one of four magical weapons which were forged by the Spirits; Ordona, Faron, Eldin, and Lanayru." Ji-san said. (Kurama no Kyubi: Those four magical weapons were my own idea which I just came up with right now.)
"By the way, Ji-san. Your key…" Sakura said as she pulled out the Master Key, but when she looked towards where Ji-san had just been, there was no one there "He's gone."
"How'd you guys find us, anyway?" Tatl asked as she came over with Dimitri.
"We got worried when you didn't show up, so we went out to look for you." Navi said.
"Then we found this cave, and Sasuke burned down the web blocking our path before we entered." Tael said.
"And that's when we ran into Ji-san who told us where you were." Sasuke said.
"All right, then. Let's get out of here." Naruto said and the others only nodded.
Forest of Death, outside the tower
"Where is that girl, anyway? We've been waiting out here for HOURS!" Flare asked as he and Ventus were waiting outside of the tower. They'd been waiting there for hours now, Flare had been lucky enough to run into some guys with an earth scroll, and had gotten to the tower first. Ventus came about an hour after that, of course, Flare was quite surprised when he saw that Ventus had been badly injured.
"She's coming." Ventus said his first words since replying to Flare's question when he first reached the tower.
Just then Aqua came out of the tree-line, followed by team 7.
"It's about time, Aqua-chan! Where've you been? And what're you doing with them?" Flare yelled, though she just ignored him for now.
"Huh? Ventus-kun, what happened to you?" She asked as she reached them.
"Nothing." Ventus said.
"That's the same thing you told me!" Flare yelled.
"Hey, Sakura-san." Aqua said as she turned around and held out her hand which Sakura took.
"Once we pass through these doors, we'll go back to being enemies." Aqua said.
"Yeah, I know." Sakura said.
"You know, Uchiha's kinda cute. So you'll have to step up your game before someone steals him from you, like me for instance." Aqua said.
"You can forget that. I'm not going to be giving him up to anyone." Sakura said as she squeezed Aqua's hand so hard that it burst into water.
As this small exchange was going on, however, Naruto and Flare were glaring at each other, and Sasuke and Ventus were glaring at each other.
'That guy, I've got a score to settle with him.' Naruto thought.
'Heh. So, little Courage Boy's supposed to be the almighty hero, right? Then he's gonna be the first one that I'll kill.' Flare thought.
'This guy… I'm getting a strange feeling from him. It almost feels familiar, like I know him from somewhere.' Sasuke said.
'Uchiha Sasuke, wielder of the Triforce of Power, bearer of both the Sharingan as well as the Mangekyo Sharingan, and he's got a curse mark like me… Seems like a worthy opponent.' Ventus thought.
Aqua then turned around before she started walking as she held up her arm in a "see ya" gesture as her hand reformed.
"Ventus-kun, Flare. Let's get going." She said.
"Huh? Since when're you the boss of us?" Flare asked.
"Just shut up and follow her." Ventus said before the two of them walked after their female teammate.
Land of Valleys, Tani, Tanikage Tower, throne-room
Veran walked into Ganondorf's throne room, and as she had gotten about half way over to him, she kneeled down.
"Ganondorf-sama, I'm afraid that I have to report of Queen Gohma's defeat." She said.
"Oh? Is that so? Well, I had expected as much. Was there anything else?" Ganondorf asked.
"Yes, it seems Orochimaru-senpai did indeed sneak into the exams, also that water girl of the Element 7 seems to have made friends with the Wisdom child." Veran said.
"Aqua? Well, I had suspected something like that might happen. After all, she never really made any friends her own age around here." Ganondorf said.
"Should I inform that light woman of this? She would need to know that one of her subordinates might turn traitor." Veran said before smirking as she added "And while I'm at it, I could beat some disciplinary methods that she could use on those brats into her."
"Don't bother, that woman would wipe you out in less than a second. Plus I've got a feeling that she already knows." Ganondorf said.
"Well, then. There is one more thing that I need to tell you." Veran said.
"And what's that?" Ganondorf asked.
"It seems that at long last, he's appeared." Veran said.
"him? So he finally decided to show himself, did he? The wizard said to be as old as the land itself, who knows all of the secrets in this world, and has supposedly seen the future; Mudora." Ganondorf said.
Chapter preview
Hayate "Uhhh… Before we start the exam… cough… I must ask you all to do something for me… cough."…"Ummm… You see… there are some preliminaries to the exam proper, and whether you proceed to the main exam is contingent on how well you manage those."
Ventus "Aqua, are you gonna be all right? You're up against an Aburame."
Aqua "Don't worry, Ventus... I... I'll be just fine."
Lee "All right! It's finally my turn!"
Terra "So he's my opponent."
Hayate "Next time on The Legend of Naruto: Exam 2.5: Preliminaries."
Neji "Those Tani-nins sure are powerful. Even I would hate to be paired up against one of them."
Character status
Naruto: Level: 13
Hearts: 4 3/4
Chakra Level: Divine.
Techniques: Henge, Kawarimi, Oiroke, Harem, Kage Bunshin.
Items: Hakko Chakura To, kunai (max 15), shuriken (max 15), explosive tag (max 10), vine-whip, wallet (max 999).
Race: Hylian.
Triforce: Courage.
Sasuke: Level: 15
Hearts: 5 2/4
Chakra Level: Divine.
Techniques: Bunshin, Henge, Kawarimi, Katon: Goukakyo, Katon: Housenka, Katon: Ryuka, Din's Fire.
Items: kunai (max 15), shuriken (max 15), explosive tag (max 10), Din's Fire, wallet (max 999).
Race: Hylian.
Kekkei Genkai: Sharingan, Mangekyo Sharingan.
Triforce: Power.
Sakura: Level: 10
Hearts: 4 2/4
Chakra Level: Divine.
Techniques: Bunshin, Henge, Kawarimi, Nayru's Love.
Items: Queen's Sword, kunai (max 15), shuriken (max 15), explosive tag (max 10), Hero's Bow (normal, fire) (max 15), Nayru's Love, wallet (max 999), Master Key.
Race: Hylian.
Triforce: Wisdom.
Aqua: Level: 18
Hearts: 6 0/4
Chakra Level: Divine.
Techniques: Water Shield, Water Spear(s), Water Arrow, Water Pulse, Water Cannon, Water Vortex.
Items: wallet (max 999).
Race: Hylian.
Kurama no Kyubi: And that's that chapter. Also in case you're wondering, yes that was the Old Man from the original "the Legend of Zelda", and as you can see, I decided on having him be Mudora, since a name was never really given to him.