A Helpful Hand
Now I'm back after a bit of a break, not really I had other things to catch up on and I had an idea for another story from which I'm working with someone on it. I want to say that thanks to greveosiris for an idea that will be put into effect for my Ino character. I would have had this out earlier but I was hardly home because of work. Now onto the story.
Same again don't own Naruto but I do the jutsu and OC characters that I use.
Kurama talking/ other bijū
sounds
'thoughts'
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AU. Update brought to my attention by user Twillightfairy saying "I don't know if this has been mentioned to you before or not (it hadn't), but right after the girls, Sakura and Ino, use Kage Bunshin for the first time the chapter is only in italics." Thanks for brining it to my attention as I didn't know the site had changed it. So thanks for the update although I don't know how I can't see your review on the sight so I'm doing this by email copy of it. Also can't seem to reply with my thanks either.
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A day had passed and Ino was watching Naruto train in the giant hall that was being unused. She watched him for hours memorised by how he could keep going at it non-stop. His movements seemed to flow effortlessly as he switched stances from some basic Taijutsu to a more heavily complex version of a style that was completely alien to her. But what impressed her the most was that Naruto was doing all these movements with a boulder on his back and Kubikiribōchō in his right hand.
Eventually she sighed 'It's amazing how he can keep going as if nothing would ever stop him. I wish I was even a quarter as good Naruto is then I wouldn't need to hide behind him.' Ino thought to herself as a saddened expression took residence on her face.
"What's up Ino-chan?" Naruto's voice came from behind her. She spun her head to look at the boy who had managed to sneak up on her. She sighed knowing that Naruto would keep pestering her till she gave in so she told him straight up.
"I want to be able to help the team but all I'm good for is a radar." Ino said solemnly as she looked at her feet.
"Well train then. Your parents own a flower shop right?" Naruto said with a hint of excitement in his voice.
"Yeah... why do you ask?" Ino replied not sure where Naruto was going with it.
"Then you know what flowers can be deadly right?" Naruto asked again, a small smile crossed his lips.
"Yeah I do but what does that have to do with training and getting stronger?" Ino asked completely befuddled by what Naruto was getting at. Naruto sighed and pinched to bridge of his nose and stared straight into her eyes waiting for the cogs to turn. Two whole minutes passed before it clicked. "Poison!" she screamed aloud and Naruto nodded.
"Poison, where?" Sakura cried as she ran out of a side room. Ino and Naruto laughed at her response to the statement.
"Alright follow me Ino I've got something to show you if you want help in that path. Sakura you can come along too if you want." Naruto said as he walked by the pink haired girl. Ino grabbed Sakura by the hand and took her along- more liked dragged.
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The group had left the tower wearing a orange headband signalling that they had already passed. Naruto took the girls to a deserted part of the forest that not even the animals ventured into. The place was covered in flowers that were incredibly beautiful, but like everything in the forest they were deadly.
"Wow they are really pretty Naruto." Sakura said as she moved closer to touch a purple flower.
"No don't touch that!" screamed Ino, Sakura with drew her hand as fast as she could. "It's a Belladonna or also known as a deadly nightshade it's highly poisonous... That's why you brought me here wasn't it Naruto. Because of my background." Naruto smiled and nodded.
"Okay you've impressed me with that and to help you, both of you, I'll teach you a jutsu that will help tremendously with the training that you will take." Naruto said with a smile as he brought his middle and index fingers of both hands together in a cross formation. "I want you both to do this formation with your fingers and channel as much chakra into the jutsu as you can without passing out." both girls nodded and copied Naruto's finger placements.
"Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!" Naruto said aloud for the girls, he no longer needed the hand signs or the vocal command for it just like most of his jutsu that were now in the scroll of sealing. With that command thirty Naruto clones popped into existence.
The girls blinked at the number of clones that Naruto made, no matter how many times he done it they couldn't get over it. "Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!" the girls cried out in unison and Ino made three clones then fell to the ground panting heavily while Sakura had made two before she done the same.
"Well done girls now I'll tell you about the clones. They have a special ability before they dispel they will send back all memories they have made back to the original. Ino clone go with mine and play Janken then dispel and tell us who won okay?" Naruto said to a Ino clone who nodded the walked off with one of Naruto's clones.
Ino and Sakura had managed to stand back up, their breathing returned to normal they asked Naruto "What can you teach us to make us stronger?" Naruto looked at each of the girls closely. Raising their arms, checking how their muscles were strength wise even the re-activeness of their pupils.
It was a while before Naruto spoke again as he had a face that was planing out different and ingenious methods for training the girls. He first looked at Ino, bit his thumb formed the Hebi hand sign before pressing his hand to the ground. There was a large puff of smoke and a giant snake appeared out of it. "Snake!" the girls cried out and backed up.
"Hey Aona I need something from you." Naruto said calmly ignoring the screams from the girls.
"Anything you need masster." Aona responded then glanced at the girls who were still backing away from her, she shook her head. "Your team matesss are cowards."
That made both girls forget their fear and walk straight up to Aona and glare at her. "We kunoichi are not cowards, Hebi." Sakura said as she cracked her knuckles.
"Could have fooled me." Naruto said with a sigh before looking at Ino. "Ino you will train with Aona if she deems you worthy I'm sure she will teach you something about poison, am I right?" Naruto asked now looking at Aona. She nodded. Ino then left with Aona, the remaining clones followed suit.
"Great that's you sorted, now for you Sakura."
One of Naruto's clones leaned into his ear and whispered something that made him smile. He nodded to his clone who dispelled returning the memories of the plan to the original.
"I've got a plan for you Sakura thanks to that clone. You are good with your chakra control however can you cover your hand in it?" Naruto asked. She nodded as she covered the tip of her index finger in a blue hue.
"Excellent now how is your eye sight?" Naruto asked again.
"It's good." Sakura replied not sure where Naruto was going.
"I mean can you follow your enemies position and do you know about the human body?" Naruto continued asking.
Sakura nodded before saying "I can follow Asuma-sensei's movements now and I have some knowledge of the human body because sensei told me to read up on it because he thinks I could be a good field medic when I get older." Naruto smiled and jumped into the air slightly.
"This, I couldn't ask for anything better. Okay if you like I can give you something that might get you some hate from a clan." Naruto said with a sigh. Sakura looked confused but that was to be expected. "What I'm about to show you is an S-class secret if you tell anyone I will kill you and them. Understood?" Sakura nodded vigorously. With a sigh Naruto raised his Hitai-ate to reveal a scar the ran up his face and over his eye. Sakura let out a small gasp at the scar everything on Naruto was, to an extent, perfect bar that scar she could see why he hid it. Naruto then opened his eye to reveal a three tomoe'd red eye that was known as a "sharingan". Sakura gasped again and brought her hands to her mouth.
"Don't worry it's a fake but it does the same as a real sharingan without the drawbacks because it's made from seals, that broke slightly when I got this scar." Naruto said as he pointed to his eye. "Now I have made a copy of the Hyūga bloodline the 'Byakugan' it allows for the user to see their opponents chakra points and disable them. Now I'm not in the best position with them because of this. If you want it it will be on your head." Naruto said as he pulled his Hitai-ate back down over his eyes.
"I want it if it will make me stronger I will bare the burden of it." Sakura said proudly not wanting to let Naruto down. He showed a sad smile but nodded.
"I wont pull the full seal onto you." Naruto said with a smile but held up a hand when Sakura was going to say something. "Even if you say that you will bare the responsibilities if you get hit in the eye you might not ever be able to deactivate it...like me." Naruto said sadly. "I wont put the imitation seal on your eyes that way if you do get hit your eyes wont change." Knowing she wouldn't be able to change his mind she nodded and Naruto pulled a scroll from his palm and told her to keep her eyes open.
A hour passed and Naruto had finished applying the seals to her eyes. With a sigh Naruto stood up and cracked his back. Sakura then stood up and blinked repeatedly. Who knew keeping your eyes open for an hour would hurt so much. Naruto beckoned for a clone to come over and he turned to Sakura. "Sakura to activate those seals channel some chakra to your eyes then turn to the clone and tell me what you see."
Sakura closed her eyes and then channel some chakra to her eyes and when she opened her eyes her world changed from colour to back and white, she looked at the clone and was surprised to see a blue shape in the form of Naruto. "Your blue Naruto." Sakura said with a shock.
"Good now concentrate on the clone and tell me what you see then." Naruto continued glad that his seals were working the way they were meant to.
Sakura did as she was told and concentrated on the clone even harder eventually the blue was reduced into thin channels of blue that spread around the body. Sakura realised what she was seeing was the chakra network of Naruto and it was huge the chakra coils were so large and dense it was insane. She could see the flow of chakra surrounding the organs and how it moved around the body of the clone. "I see your chakra network, it's huge." Sakura said in an unbelieving tone.
"Now channel some chakra to your hands as well and strike the clone." Naruto said calmly. The clones head turned to the original and glared at him and mouthed "Fuck you." the real Naruto just smiled back. Sakura then done as instructed chakra surrounded her fingertips and she started hitting the clone who was crying out in pain thanks to Sakura laying waste to his chakra points. The cry made Ino and Aona rush back to the two to see Sakura attack a Naruto.
Aona was ready to lunge at her when the Naruto dispelled leaving the real one at the other side of it. Aona sighed realising that her master was alright. "Did I worry you Aona?" came a voice from above her she looked up to see Naruto above her she looked back down to where Sakura was and that Naruto was gone. She smiled and nodded. Naruto then jumped from the tree and landed softly before the two girls. "Sorry I worried you Aona and Ino. Did you learn anything?" Naruto asked softly.
Ino began jumping and clapping her eyes in anticipation at telling Naruto what had happened, Aona saw this behaviour and shook her head. "I was nice to see a human know about poisonous flowers at least. You humans don't known a lot but you claim you know everything." Aona scoffed and Naruto gave a big chesty laugh.
Ino's original mood was now shattered at how Naruto and Aona had treated her. "Sorry Ino but Aona is right about us humans well I'm slightly a tailed beast after all." Naruto said with the same laugh as before.
"Naruto-kun do you have anything that will help with strength training?" Sakura asked Naruto while she walked over to them. Naruto seemed to be in thought about what Sakura had asked him.
"Yeah I do but it's not anything that you would be able to handle but I will tell you something. Seek out a green spandex wearing Jōnin he will help you with your strength training." Naruto then turned to face his summon. "Aona would you be able to help Ino out with poisons over the next few days?" Aona responded with a nod then dispelled. The trio then headed back to the tower for some rest and food.
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The following three days were like hell for the girls Naruto had told Ino that a true poison master would be immune to poisons so he had asked Aona to inject them both with a drop of her venom. Ino fell to the floor due to the paralysis in Aona's venom while Naruto still stood. This shocked Aona and the semi-aware Ino he explained that as he grew up with Anko she had a tendency to allow her snakes to bite him thus raising his immunity to virtually all types of poisons.
Sakura was having a hard time fighting off the Naruto clones over the days as it was a constant barrage of attacks but thankfully she had started to get used to the new vision that she could use as well as the "Chakra Knives" as she called them. It was admittedly deadly with her Genjutsu. Naruto noticed this and decided to throw her into a nest of Hunter's. Luckily for Sakura Aona had cleared most of them the day before in order for Ino to have a verity in poisons and anti-venoms. Sakura swore that she would kill Naruto someday even if it was him on his dead bed it would be her that ended him.
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The fifth day had came and team ten walked down to the gathering hall to see who had all made it. The other four Konoha teams had along with the Suna and Sound village team. They all stood before a massive statue of two hands in the Ram hand seal. The Hokage stood before them with Anko on his left and another Jōnin on his right.
"I want to congratulate everyone who has made it thus far with the exams however there are still to many of you to progress into the final round and therefore there will be a preliminary fight to see who will pass onto the finals." Hiruzen announced in a loud and booming voice.
All the Genin looked at each other before the unfamiliar Jōnin walked towards them. "I'm Gekkō Hayate and I will *cough* be your proctor for these fights. There are only two rules. First, the match will be stopped if you concede or are unable to continue. Secondly, killing your opponent is allowed so if you don't want to die *cough* give in. *cough**cough*."
"Hey man are you alright?" A Genin from Kabuto's team asked.
"I'll live, but if you wish to withdraw put your hands up now." Hayate said as he coughed into his hand once again. Kabuto then raised his hand and Hayate nodded in allowing Kabuto to not participate. Kabuto then turned to leave.
"Where do you think you're going?" Naruto called out as a tail shot from his lower back and surrounded Kabuto dragging him back to the group. "Hayate-san said you could skip it, he never said you could leave snake." As Naruto said that last word kabuto's blood ran cold thoughts ran through his head trying to identify how the boy knew he was related to Orochimaru. His thoughts came up empty.
"Naruto what are you doing?" Hiruzen called out oblivious to the comment Naruto had just made.
"I thought that Orochimaru was an S-class missing Nin and that anyone who worked with him would be the same?" Naruto said aloud shocking of those who had been gathered.
"That's true but where is your evidence Naruto show me." Hiruzen said angrily as he approached the boy and Naruto pointed to his nose. "Scent?" he asked curiously as he didn't fully understand what Naruto was getting at. Naruto nodded.
"Do you still have his work on you?" Naruto asked and Hiruzen nodded. "Kiba come over here." Naruto called and beckoned him over with a wave. Kiba slowly walked over to Naruto not to sure what was happening.
"Why do you need my help Naruto?" Kiba asked cautiously, he knew how Naruto could be.
"Hokage can I get that document?" Naruto asked and Hiruzen handed it over. " Kiba can you smell this then tell us if Kabuto smells the same?" Kiba then nodded slowly and sniffed the document along with Akamaru. They both then sniffed at Kabuto and nodded in agreement.
"Yeah they smell the same." Kiba said dryly. As soon as Naruto got confirmation his tail encased Kabuto in a furry red orb.
The Hokage then called for some ANBU to come and collect Kabuto and his team and take them over to Ibiki for some information gathering.
Half an hour passed before Kabuto was taken away.
"Now that that is over with we will proceed with the tournament." Hayate announced and a board appeared from the wall and it spun through all the candidates names before resting on Yamanaka Ino and Akimichi Chōji. Everyone then walked up the stairs to the balconies above. Anko walked up with Naruto as they started talking about how things had been for each other during the past five days.
Ino and Chōji stayed down on the floor with Hayate in between them he looked from Ino to Chōji before dropping a hand which signalled the beginning of the fight then he disappeared in a puff of smoke not wanting to be caught in a cross fire.
Ino drew a kunai but stopped when Chōji didn't "Don't you have a kunai?" Ino asked him ans he shook his head. "Take one of mine." she said as she tossed it into the air Chōji caught it and they prepared to fight.
Ino dashed to the right of Chōji and he leapt to the left to avoid her attack, however it was a feint. Ino pushed down hard on her back leg which spun her body so that it was now facing Chōji again, using the same leg Ino released the tension within it and rocketed towards Chōji.
The Jōnin and old class mates of Ino's were surprised at how she was handling herself. 'She had failed the exam but how did she get this good?' Sasuke pondered to himself but kept a close eye on her.
As Ino rocketed towards Chōji she made a small hand sign and whispered " Kage Bunshin no Jutsu," and with that a second Ino came to life travelling at the same speed as the other. Chōji was caught off guard he could only block one attack so he chose to block the new Ino's attack. The real Ino cut Chōji just above the hip then retreated backwards some distance.
Everyone was puzzled at what was happening, bar her team mates. Chōji then punched the new Ino causing the clone to dispel then he turned to Ino. His body became unresponsive he took a step forward but his leg had no strength and he fell to the floor, his body twitching.
"Proctor get in here quick and call the match!" Ino shouted some people looked at each other and wondered what was happening. Hayate appeared next to the boy and felt his pulse, it was slowing down.
"The winner is Yamanaka Ino!" Hayate shouted then Ino ran over to him and gave him a small vial which had anti-venom written on the label. He nodded then gave it to the medic ninja who had ran to the boy as soon as the match had been called.
Ino walked up the stairs to her team mates and sensei who were all smiling at her. "I didn't know you knew about poisons," Asuma said with concern. "Just don't use any powerful ones on comrades okay?" Ino nodded but soon got a smile and pat on the shoulder from Naruto and a hug from Sakura.
"You taught her poisons then huh Naruto-Ai(Love)?" Naruto paled slightly but had a small laugh to himself as his team mates and sensei stared at them.
"Ino knew about poisons I just helped her along Anko-Koibito(Sweetheart)." Naruto responded playfully. Now Asuma was really confused why were they being so lovely-dovey? It was beyond him but they looked happy so he left it.
The next set of names came up and it was Haruno Sakura against Kinuta Dosu. Ino cheered for Sakura as she walked down the stairs towards her opponent who had jumped over the railing.
Hayate once again stood in the middle of both of the combatants and dropped his hand signalling the start of the fight. Dosu instantly charged at Sakura who had to flip over Dosu to get out of range of his attacks. As she was over Dosu she activated her seals on her eyes and channelled chakra to her fingertips she began a barrage of attacks onto the man's neck and upper back hitting exactly the pressure points and relative chakra points to render the man's arms useless. Dosu swore under his breath that he got so caught off guard. Sakura had jumped back and copied the the same type of stance Zabuza had used for his silent killing technique.
Dosu was about to charge when Sakura leaves pass before his eyes and the girl was gone he looked left, right, up and finally down she was completely gone. All trace of her gone. Dosu couldn't even hear foot steps or breathing. A sharp pain came to his legs forcing him down onto his chest, Another strike came and he could no longer move his neck.
Sakura then dispelled the Genjutsu that she had cast and sat on Dosu's back before pulling out a kunai and pressing it against his throat. "I give!" he shouted as he began hyper ventilating this girl showed no remorse at what needed to be done, and it scared him.
"The winner is Haruno Sakura!" Hayate shouted out as more medic nin came to Dosu's side and lifted him onto a stretcher before taking him away. Sakura then ran up the stairs to meet her team mates and received a hug tackle from Ino who was congratulating her at a break neck pace. She then walked over to Naruto, after being released, and bowed saying "Thank you for all the help you have given me Naruto-kun I will never forget it."
Naruto was off put by the fact that his team mate had just bowed to him. "Get up that's what team mates are for, helping each other." Naruto said with a smile as he ruffled Sakura's hair. She instantly swatted his hand away then proceeded to sort her hair. "Some thing's how ever don't change." Naruto said to himself.
"But others do. " Anko chimed in as she pulled Naruto into a hug and kissed him. The Konoha Jōnin instructors were taken aback by that action especially Kakashi who couldn't believe what he was seeing.
"Anko what are you doing your twice his age!" Kakashi shouted as she released Naruto from her kissing embrace.
"And your a pervert." She stated flatly which earned him looks from the girls in both Naruto's group but also Kurenai's and Gai's who backed away from the man.
The conversation was shot down as soon as it began after that remark. Everyone's eyes turned to the board to see who would be fighting next. Two names appeared and everyone looked at them in disbelief : Hyūga Neji versus Hyūga Hinata.
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Hey there sorry for the gap but I had some work to do after my exams like collecting, building and lighting up a stage that my sisters musical group are doing. Aren't I a nice brother... most of the time. The show was a hit however sold out most of the shows that were preformed. So that took up my time and I forgot about this...sorry.
Anyway here's the new additions to our stories family : Freeze15 and Batgirl27.