Gearing up.
A big thanks to everyone that read this as we have broke the 3,000 mark Great going Thank you :). Also I have taken the position as a beta-reader for basugays Naruto story it's really good and you should check it when you can and you all would be doing me a favour by doing this thank you *Bows*. Now on with the story :).
Kurama talking
sounds
'thoughts'
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Naruto pulled Anko along the streets of Konoha as they ran their coats blew out behind them. People knew of Anko but were surprised by a man leading her along the streets some women gave a happy sigh as the mostly blonde man pulled the purple haired woman along. They looked like a fascinating couple.
The man shone off his very muscular chest while the large blade stayed firm on his back. His deep blue eye ensnared all the women that gazed into it. His unmarred face captivated them even if he did have what looked like whiskers the women were entranced by his good looks. Then they saw that his headband was covering his left eye, either he was ashamed of what lay beneath or it was a fashion statement. Whatever it was created mystery and the women of Konoha wanted it solved.
Naruto and Anko had to run faster to escape the horde of women behind them but they managed to reach the Hokage tower just before the first woman's fingers touched the smooth surface of Kubikiribōchō.
After walking up the stairs the secretary was awestruck to see Naruto using the door then she saw who was next to him. 'So he's with the snake bitch still?' she thought to herself as she smiled and let them in.
"Hey Jiji it worked like I said it would!" Naruto triumphantly announced as he strode into the office.
"Is this true Anko?" Hiruzen asked her.
"It's true and Naruto just knows where to put his fingers to make me fell bliss." Anko said in her usual seductive manner pulling the boy in close while she said it. Both Naruto and Hiruzen had to cover their nose as blood came out- more for Naruto as he was the one who done it.
"W-we-well Naruto I will list this as an S-rank mission after all 'He' is an S-rank criminal." Hiruzen said just managing to compose himself long enough to get the sentence out.
"I will get you-" came a voice from a young boy who ran into the office and then fell flat on his face. Naruto, Anko and Hiruzen tried to hold back a laugh but it was failing. Badly.
"You! You tripped me up!" the boy yelled as he pointed to Naruto. Naruto twitched is visible at at the chibi who blamed him for his own damn fault.
Naruto walked over picked the brat up and threw him out the office and locked the door.
"You were saying about an S-rank?" Naruto said as he turned round to face Hiruzen who looked shocked at what he just done.
Bang! Everyone turned to face the door. "Someone must have thought it was open." Naruto said with a smile so devious the Hokage himself was worried for his life.
The trio just waited to see who ever was attempting to pick the lock would notice that the key was still in it. They didn't.
Sighing Naruto walked over to the door and unlocked it quietly. He then swung the door open and a Jōnin fell into the office and landed on his face.
Everyone just laughed at the sight the man had his rear high in the air while his face was buried into the wooden floor.
He quickly flipped up and scanned the room for the one who threw the child out of the office. His eyes meet him as he stood right next to him.
"You insulted the honourable grandson of the Hokage and will pay dearly for it!" he proclaimed. Naruto wasn't buying it so he walked over to the Hokage's desk and sat down in the other unoccupied seat.
"Who's this crack pot Jiji?" Naruto asked while pointing to the man in the doorway.
"That is Ebisu he's." Hiruzen stopped and lifted two fingers up with each and bent them while saying "Training" "My grandson. Although all he does is run after him." he admitted with a sigh.
Naruto summoned a Shadow Clone and nodded the clone ran off and returned about thirty seconds later with said "Honourable Grandson" under it's arm.
"I can scare him into shape." the Clone said with a feral smile.
"I don't want him scared for life!" Hiruzen bellowed at the Clone who just shrugged.
"Put the honourable Grandson down this minute!" Ebisu yelled. The Clone ignored him but still replied "Yeah, Yeah crack pot."
"So about the S-rank?" Naruto said again getting a little pissed about all the interruptions that were happening.
"Ah yes you will be paid by me for all S-rank missions that you complete and seeing as you have completed two already I think you would like paid." Hiruzen said loudly as the loud bunch at the back went mute.
"Yes I would like that however could I replace one of the payments with a new apartment seeing as me and Anko are no longer staying in the Hatake residence." Naruto said confidently.
'He refereed to Kakashi by his surname what did he do I wonder?' Hiruzen thought to himself.
"I will but first you must tell me why you are moving out of Kakashi's house." Hiruzen announced. Naruto didn't vocalise why he just sent a lot of hate when the name Kakashi was mentioned.
"On second thoughts that's none of my business." Hiruzen said as he got glares from Naruto and Anko.
The loud ones at the back then left at the feeling of fear that the two sitting ninja would kill them because they were beginning to annoy them. They did start arguing again.
"RIGHT for the fourth time S-rank how much?!" Anko yelled at Hiruzen.
"It's usually around 1,000,000 ryō." Hiruzen replied quickly.
Anko fainted there and then at the thought of Naruto raking in all that money for correcting all her masters failed experiments.
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Naruto was walking down the street after he returned the unconscious Anko back to her apartment that they would be staying in for another few days before the Hokage could get one for them.
"Hey watch where your going!" a voice yelled out. This caught Naruto's attention and he wanted to check it out.
"Hey what are you doing to that kid?" Naruto shouted as he turned the corner to see a guy in a purple jumpsuit holding a kid up by the front of his shirt. The kid turned round to see who it was that was helping him. He wish he didn't.
"Oh it's you ya little shit busting in during my meeting with the Hokage and just because your the old man's grandson doesn't mean you can do what you like!" Naruto yelled at the kid who was put down. He chose to hide behind his previous attacker for safety as Naruto began to draw Kubikiribōchō.
"Oh hell no you are not hiding behind me." the jumpsuit guy said as he moved aside. The kid bolted as soon as he did that.
"You guys are Suna ninja right? What are you doing in Konoha?" Naruto asked the two before him.
"We're here for the Chūnin exams if this idiot doesn't get us kicked out!" the blonde haired girl said hitting the jumpsuit guy in the head.
"Well I'm Naruto Uzumaki and it's nice to meet you but could you tell your team mate who's in the tree that no matter how hard he stares he won't see through my headband." Naruto said as he looked up at the tree.
"I'm Temari this idiot with the make up on is Kankurō and the one in the tree is Gaara." the blonde haired girl introduced them all.
"It's war paint not make up!" Kankurō shouted at Temari. Naruto walked over and sniffed the boy's face.
"Sorry dude that's make up." Naruto said with a smile.
"OH and how would you know." Kankurō retorted.
"The nose knows just like tree sitter is a Jinchūriki." Naruto said flatly.
Gaara landed next to the others as sand started to gather around Naruto.
"I wouldn't do that if I was you." Naruto said calmly as he tapped his foot off the ground. Gaara's sand kept advancing. Temari looked from Gaara to Naruto with fear in her eyes.
"Chains." Naruto muttered.
Chains then shot out of the ground and wrapped around Gaara tying his arms to his body.
"Told you not to." Naruto said as he advanced towards the now bound Gaara. Naruto withdrew Kubikiribōchō and cut the boy's shirt just at his stomach.
"Fuck man who ever done your seal was either shit faced or nearly dead!" Naruto thought aloud.
The other sand ninja wanted to help Gaara but they were scared. Gaara's own eyes were wide seeing the boy approach him with no fear what so ever he knew he was a Jinchūriki but he stood before him staring at his seal.
Naruto looked at the two Suna ninja beside him. "If you like I can fix his seal." Naruto said with a smile.
"Why would you help a Jinchūriki you know the damage that they can do don't you." Kankurō said aloud but got hit in the back of the head by Temari which knocked Kankurō out. "Why would you help?" she asked.
"Because I know what it's like." Naruto said looking up from the seal and straight into Gaara's eyes. "So do you want me to fix it?" he asked looking at Temari then to Gaara. Gaara didn't do anything bar show hate in his eyes. Temari however nodded.
Chakra then came to Naruto's fingertips and he began work on the shit seal. The only thing it done was hold Shukaku who according to Kurama was " A self centred little shit."
Five minutes passed and Naruto had finished he didn't need both eyes for the sever upgrade to the seal.
Gaara had passed out. "Oh god he's going to go berserk and kill everyone!" Temari cried out Kankurō who woke up fainted hearing his sister cry out.
"Don't worry he won't. I've made it almost identical to my seal now so you won't have any trouble with him. At least not more than normal." Naruto said as he was about to leave them behind.
"Naruto, right, I just wanted to say thank you for doing that I mean you could have just left but you didn't. Thank you." Temari said with a bow.
"You know your too cute to cry like that." Naruto said as he wiped the tears from Temari's eyes. Temari didn't even know she was crying but she liked it that Naruto took an interest in her and not her relation to Gaara.
"Tell jumpsuit to buy war paint this time and not make up. He doesn't look that intimidating wearing make up." Naruto said as he stared back at an unconscious Kankurō.
"I will Naruto. Ja mata ne (see you later)." Temari said with a smile.
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Naruto arrived at the usual training ground and was the last to turn up.
"Finally Naruto your here I take it the meeting with the Hokage went well?" Asuma asked the now present, mostly, blonde squad member but as he turned to face him the cigarette fell from his mouth. The girls turned to see Naruto who wasn't wearing his mask and they had one thought on their minds 'CUTIE!'.
"...Mask?" Asuma asked after returning to a kind of normal state.
"Oh I got rid of it don't ask." Naruto replied to the open mouthed team that stood before him. "So what are we doing today sensei?"
"Oh right in a week I want you to take these forums to the academy room 301. I have entered you all in for the Chūnin exams because I think you are ready for it." Asuma said with a smile as he handed out the forums.
Naruto stared at the forum then at Asuma and smiled. "What's the pot at now?" Naruto asked innocently.
"What? How..." Asuma asked before remembering he stayed with Jōnin. "20,000 ryō." Asuma told them with a sad looked in his face and in his voice.
"Four way split and you have a deal that none of us will fail!" Naruto smiled deviously. Both girls faces light up at the idea of 5,000 ryō for passing no way they would pass that up.
Asuma let Naruto go home but wanted to train the girls more. The difference between Naruto and the girls was roughly a high Jōnin skills and Naruto was learning more with each day thanks to the training in Kenjutsu with the Cat masked ANBU. Kubikiribōchō now felt completely weightless as Naruto swung it around. His style appeared random as hell to anyone who didn't know him but to those that did it was insane.
He could twist his body and release it to increase the force of his hits. His acrobatics were insane using minimal movements to evade and escape only to counter with extreme force that could shatter a boulder. Gai wasn't happy when his training boulder was smashed. Naruto was very grateful for all the evasion training Anko gave him while he was younger.
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"I'm back!" Naruto announced as he walked into the apartment. It was quiet so Naruto decide to take off Kubikiribōchō and sit on the couch. Pulling out a blank scroll Naruto thought up an idea to help with his current predicament. He was struggling with getting Kubikiribōchō in and out of it's holster that was underneath his trench coat.
Naruto thought of a simple yet effective transfer seal. One that would swap out his coat for Kubikiribōchō at a moments notice. He had managed to complete the seal and it was only a D-rank seal at a guess. Naruto placed the receptor seals on his coat and Kubikiribōchō to be able to swap them out all he needed was someone to place the seal on his back.
One person came to Naruto's mind. Anko.
Yawn. Came from the side as Anko trotted through wearing her usual attire.
"Hey sleepy." Naruto said softly as he walked over to Anko with a smile on his face.
"Hey Naru how are you?" Anko asked still in a sleepy state.
"I'm okay but I have two questions for you if you'll hear them out." Naruto said shyly.
"Shoot." Anko said in turn as she walked to the fridge to see what food was available.
"First one is can you transfer a seal onto my back don't worry it's a D-class seal nothing dangerous." Naruto said with a defeated tone in his voice.
"Sure what's the other one?" Anko asked popping her head out of the fridge to reply before returning it to rummage some more.
"Well...w-w-would you like to be my girlfriend?" Naruto asked quietly. Anko popped her head back up and the dango stick in her mouth fell out.
"What did you just say?" Anko asked wide eyed at what she had just heard.
"I asked if you would be my girlfriend." Naruto said with his face slowly turning red due to the embarrassment of Anko's reactions.
"I can't believe you are asking me this Naruto." Anko said with shock written all over her face. "But yes I will be." Anko's face turning from shock to happiness. Anko slammed the fridge door shut and jumped at Naruto. The pair fell to the floor, Anko stroking Naruto's whiskers as the pair's lips connected as they lay on the ground fingers running through each others hair.
"I take it we're dating now?" Naruto asked just in time before he was pulled into a long embracing kiss.
"Does that answer your question?" Anko said in a sultry voice. Naruto nodded.
"Before we go any further could you place the seal on me?" Naruto asked in a pleading voice.
"Fine turn round and take your coat and shirt off." Anko said wearily.
Naruto did and as Anko was applying the seal Naruto was in heaven Anko's slender yet strong fingertips caressed his muscular back. Naruto turned his head to face Anko and smiled at the woman behind him.
Anko looked up and smiled in return before leaning forward and placing her lips delicately against her own. "Done." Anko mentioned quietly.
"But we have only just began." Naruto whispered into her ear before turning Anko pulling Anko into a close hug. The two began to kiss passionately. They never noticed the sound of their door opening.
Splutter! This foreign noise broke the two apart as they glanced over to see something white standing in the doorway to the living room. As they turned their heads up to look at the figures face theirs matched the shock on his. The Hokage was standing there watching them kiss.
"I'll come back later." Hiruzen said as he turned to leave. Naruto and Anko glanced at each other before darting to the doorway and yanking the Hokage back into the apartment.
"Why are you here?" Anko glared at the Hokage who was thrown into the couch.
"I was here to talk about matters that maybe Naruto shouldn't hear." Hiruzen said glancing at the shirtless boy.
"Anything you want to say to me you can say in front of Naruto!" Anko said glaring at the now trapped man.
"Fine then. I want you to be the proctor for the second exam now as Ibiki is taking care of the first one with that 'test' of his." Hiruzen said staring straight into Anko's eyes.
'I'll pay Ibiki a visit then' Naruto thought to himself while keeping a straight. "I'm off to Ichiraku's for some ramen and to get out while you talk about this stuff." Naruto said as he got up. Walking to the door Naruto stored Kubikiribōchō into the seal and wore his coat leaving his mesh shirt behind.
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"Hey Teuchi-san, Ayame-chan my usual please." Naruto said as he walked in.
"Okay Naaaruto..." Ayame froze as she turned around to see a half naked Naruto walk into the stall. "Oh! My! God! Naruto is that you?!" she screamed.
"Yes it's me, arrgh my ears." Naruto said in a quiet, pained voice as he clutched his ears.
"You are so hot!" Ayame yelled again as she began to drool.
"Ayame-chan your drooling." Naruto told her before he dug into his first bowl of ramen.
"Want to go out with me?" Ayame pleaded just as Naruto was starting his second bowl. God knows where the ramen goes that quickly?
"I'm taken. Sorry Ayame-chan." Naruto said as he inhaled the ramen.
"Where is the bitch I want to know." Ayame said with anger ringing in her voice.
Naruto's eyes widened to the size of the ramen bowl. "Take it back Ayame." Naruto said plainly with a touch of fear.
"Fuck no I want to see the bitch that took you from me!" Ayame was yelling by this point. Naruto had sweat dripping down the back of his neck.
"Who's a bitch?" came a very familiar voice. Naruto began writing a will just in case things went pair shaped.
"Naruto's girlfriend is and when I find her!" Ayame yelled completely managing to piss Anko off in one swoop.
"Hey old man, leg it!" Yelled Naruto as he and Teuchi ran very fast and far from the stand as it somehow disappeared into the distance. For a civilian Teuchi-san could RUN. Hell he was keeping up with Naruto although fear and desperation took hold of the man and he didn't want to die.
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"What are you doing here Naruto?" Asuma asked the very scared looking blonde.
"Anko...girlfriend...lost...angry...ramen...gone" Naruto panted out as put his hands on his knees to support himself.
"Wow slow down." Asuma said resting a hand on his student's shoulder.
After a few lengthy breaths Naruto stood upright and breathed out. "I asked Anko to be my girlfriend, she said yes. Hokage needed to talk to her about Chūnin exam stuff so I went to get ramen. Ayame called my girlfriend a bitch and well... she showed up..." Naruto summarised.
"One well done. Two leave and don't drag me into this." Asuma said with worry as he disappeared in a poof of smoke.
"Fuck you sensei!" Naruto yelled a bit to loud as it gave off where he was so he quickly flashed back to the apartment and hid from a furious Anko.
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The night before the day of the Chūnin exam Naruto decided to 'visit' Ibiki and 'unfortunately' he was out so Naruto being a sneaky bastard copied all the answers for the test and slid them into his Hitai-ate (headband) before leaving through the window.
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The day of the first exam Naruto couldn't contain himself, his forum was signed and ready to be handed in. The only thing he needed was his team mates to show.
Naruto had to wait nearly twenty minutes before they showed up but when they did they looked nothing like they used to.
They both had shortened hair. Tactful as they wouldn't get their hair grabbed. Ino had a slim looking dark shirt while she wore a pair of black under shorts and a combat skirt, she wasn't giving up all her female traits by the looks of it. Sakura however got rid of that awful pink dress thing she wore, how she could move about in it Naruto never knew. Sakura had a similar attire but chose to have a combat shirt as well as her combat skirt.
"Finally I've been waiting for ages." An annoyed Naruto said as he rolled his eye.
As they climbed the stairs to the room 301 the girls were about to proceed seeing the start of the 300 numbers on the doors in front of them. Both girls felt something on their shoulders and spun around. It was Naruto and he was staring at them hard.
"What is it Naruto?" Ino asked the only male Genin of their team but Naruto didn't respond with words instead he motioned with his eye to the stairs. The girls then walked over and looked down they were on the first floor yet the numbers said 3.
"Genjutsu?" Sakura said very quietly and Naruto nodded Ino hit herself for being so stupid it was a ninja test of course they were going to test them.
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They had reached room 301-the real one- in no time thanks to Naruto making them pay attention to their surroundings.
They walked into the room and quickly headed to the left side after seeing others from their class. They were all shocked at the 'new' team ten. One unmasked, slightly red headed, blonde male and two very different girls who didn't even pass if it wasn't for the boy in between the two girls.
"Naruto." Shino said with a nod.
"Hey Shino got any new bugs for your hive?" Naruto asked without thinking it, was what they talked about most.
"Yes." Shino replied.
'He's still the same.' Naruto thought to himself.
"What are you doing here?!" came a loud annoying voice.
'Shit "he's" here.' Naruto sighed and turned to face the loud mouth. Funny how he was only loud to him.
"What do you want?" Naruto asked the Uchiha.
Before Sasuke could answer someone ran over and clasped a hand over Sasuke's mouth. "Shh your to loud and attracting to much attention." The specks wearing Konoha ninja said.
"I've been in these a few times so I can help you out if you like, with my ninja info cards, after all we are from the same village. Oh I'm Kabuto Yakushi it's nice to meet you all." Specks said with a small bow.
"Okay Naruto Uzumaki, what have you got on him?" Sasuke asked.
"Okay Naruto Uzumaki." Kabuto flipped the top card over and channelled some chakra into the card. Stats and a photo showed up. "Okay Naruto Uzumaki, orphan, no family."
"Thanks for reminding me." Naruto said flatly.
"Sorry. Ermm team ten team mates are Ino Yamanaka and Sakura Haruno. Taijutsu: unknown, chakra levels: Off the charts. Genjutsu: High Jōnin. Ninjutsu: unknown." Kabuto looked up and stared at the blonde mouth open. "Impossible my cards should know everything nothing should be unknown" he said aloud this got a whistle from Kiba. "Missions. Two S-ranks, One A-rank, Four C-ranks and wait that cant be!" Kabuto looked at the blonde who nodded. " Over a thousand D-rank missions and climbing and one unranked mission." Kabuto said with amazement.
'This guy smells like Orochimaru.' Naruto thought to himself.
"Alright kiddies I'll be your Proctor for the first exam now FOLLOW ME!" Ibiki shouted as soon as he arrived in the room.
Everyone sat in their appointed seats as Ibiki stated "If anyone is caught cheating you will be thrown out with your team. You will need to wait an hour before you get the tenth question so start NOW!"
Everyone instantly started writing but Naruto just looked around Sakura was behind him while Ino sat in front of him. Naruto flipped over his paper and wrote all the answers that he 'borrowed' from Ibiki the night before.
The hour was so boring after finishing the paper in five minutes. Naruto looked out of the window and started smiling at what he saw. Anko was hanging a sign off the side of the building which had "congrats on passing the first the first test!" written on it.
"Times up maggots now I will tell you that if you fail the next question you AND your team will NEVER become Chūnin and will have your ninja rank revoked! If any of you want to leave now you can." Ibiki announced. Roughly all of the Genin left bar about sixty.
"EVERYONE who stayed...PASSED!" Ibiki shouted with a smile just as something crashed through the window and set up a sign congratulating everyone on passing and as she landed she bowed. Naruto pulled a sign from somewhere that had a giant 10 written on it.
"Aww thanks Naruto-kun. Right everyone for the next test we are going to training grounds forty four or as we call it 'The Forest Of Death' now if you don't know where it is follow someone that does." and with that Anko jumped out of the window, only Naruto copied her the rest walked out through the doors.
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Okay this took the longest time to write thanks to my college stuff and being back at said college. Now I want to say that although Naruto does sound a tad op it kinda sounds like that because he is but judging from what he had while growing up it makes sense especially when you have a friendly and very powerful intellectual bijou sealed inside you. If anyone wishes to talk to me or ask me any questions that aren't to offensive (hey ask me them even if they are) send me a pm and I'll get back to you.
Now for what everyone is waiting for the new arrivals ( I love this bit ) those that followed the story are as follows :Vegitunks1, Alice-Italy-Haruhi, BigA1994, ToiletBrushCat, and animeawesome thank you all for doing this. Now for the favour's ToiletBrushCat, and BigA1994.