The Aftermath
Hi Everyone and I am updating you all to tell you that I have now finished my college course and I'm now looking for paying work. SO I have less time to write, that and I've not been up to it as of late.
thor94
good chapter, naruto beat lee hard.
For my question, i will say if you plan naruto repare the seal in future, like before yugao incident and will able to cut off the false sharingan. Or naruto will be stay with same kakashi problem until the end of your fic.
Damn naruto is uzumaki, he could solve this problem.
Now to answer your question thor would be nice but I'm going to be the mean guy and not tell you although you should like what will happen in the future. Not sure if it will be in this chapter but it could be the next.
Kurama talking/ other bijū
sounds
'thoughts'
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Sasuke and Gaara were, at what looked like, the end of the fight. Naruto and Anko looked at each other quickly then to the two who were fighting before them. Gaara was smiling as his sand swirled around him as he slowly walked to the panting Uchiha.
Sasuke on the other hand looked like he was thrown through a few buildings after running against Gai. Sweat was pouring off of his body, cuts littered his visible body and possibly more of his hidden body, blood was mixed in with the sweat. Sasuke was down on one knee as he glared at the red headed boy with his own red and black eyes.
Sasuke stumbled to his feet never taking his eyes off of his enemy, as he did some kind of fire started to trickle over his body. Anko grew stiff realising what it was and she gripped Naruto's hand harder. Naruto looked over and saw the fear in her eyes and he had a feeling of dread deep down inside him it was like how he was when he got picked on only a thousand or maybe a million times worse. It was a feeling he hoped would never come again. Doing the only thing that he could he squeezed Anko's hand back and showed her a small smile that made her calm down ever so slightly.
Anko sighed and looked at Sasuke again and she watched as the small flames crossed to the centre of his face and stop. As the flames came to a halt the changed from a smouldering red to a endless grey, somehow fitting for him, and his left eye became purple whilst holding the sharingan in place.
The swirling sand stopped and paused briefly before blasting forward surrounding the Uchiha however Sasuke looked ready and jumped above the wall of sand to start his attack once more. His eyes widened when there was no one there. Something hard planted itself between his shoulder blades and forced him into the ground once again. Sasuke threw a look behind him to see a huge sand arm pinning him to the ground. "Mother wants your blood." came a voice from high above as the sand arm pulled Sasuke from the floor and into the air. The arm itself disappeared and became a pillar in the centre of the arena with Sasuke's face in the centre. Gaara walked down the back of the pillar and towards his own stand but not before raising a hand and closing his fingers whispering "Sand coffin,". In an instant the bottom half of the pillar contracted into a much tighter cylinder. Sasuke screamed out in pain as blood began to trickle out of the pillar and onto the floor itself.
Hayate quickly arrived and called out that Gaara was the winner and for an emergency medic nin come quickly to see to Sasuke. As Sasuke was dropped out of the sand pillar it was apparent why he had now fallen unconscious. Both his legs were basically destroyed they were now just bleeding everywhere and bone was showing in places. It was nasty all round. Kakashi was there to catch him though.
The Hokage took a step forward and called for everyone to come down to the, now destroyed, arena floor. Once everyone had assembled the Hokage announced "Well done everyone for passing the exam however there will now be a waiting period of one month before your final exam, which, will be done in the watchful eye of myself and two other Kage. Now before any of you butt in, yes it is usually one other Kage however there has been a new one in office so it is only right for them to see what it is like to witness the final part of the Chūnin exam after taking it some time ago."
And no one did answer back with a dip of his hat Hayate stood forward and shoved, pretty heavily, a piece of paper into all the Genin's hands. "This is a POSSIBLE line up for the final exam in a months time. So don't read into it to much now I will read off the combatants so at least read it as well." with that Hayate began his long intake of air and began to read the names " Yamanaka Ino against Sabaku no Kankurō, Haruno Sakura against Aburame Shino then it will be Hyūga Neji against Nara Shikamaru and it will round off with Uzumaki Naruto against Sabaku no Gaara with Sabaku no Temari sitting out of the first round."
After everyone nodded in approval they were allowed to finally leave the forest of death and the tower in it's centre.
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After finally getting to rest in his own bed Naruto couldn't help but smile at how the past few days had went and how he had somehow managed to get even closer to Anko while pissing off Kakashi in the process and to top it off Anko defended them. Finally when the mistress of sleep had snuck into the bed to rest alongside Naruto so did someone else. Naruto groggily opened one eye to see who it was and when his vision was purple he rolled over to allow her more room and she seemed very happy with the gesture by pressing herself against his back and also, slowly, wrapping him in her arms and resting her head against the crevice in his neck. "Thanks Naru-Ai," came a sleepy voice.
Naruto didn't respond he didn't need to he just placed his arms over hers and linked his fingers into hers as they both slowly entered the cool and calming embrace of sleep.
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As Naruto awoke he found it really hard to move every time he tried to get up it was like he was forced down by some unknown force. Snippets of the night before flashed into his mind and it made him smile a little. He cast a glance behind him and seen a sea of purple resting on his shoulder he smiled and watched Anko stir under the rays of sun that had managed to pierce the curtains.
"So this is where you ohohohoho..." came a all to familiar voice. Naruto froze instantly and Anko's eyes opened so fast that her that Naruto thought that her eyelids could have came off.
Anko jumped to her feet and pointed at the white haired man looking in the bedroom window "Why are you here?" she bellowed at the man.
Naruto's, and Jiraiya's, eyes went wide at what they saw. Anko stood there with not a shred of clothing on. Jumping to her defence Naruto leapt up off the bed and into Anko with the bed cover in tow to stop Jiraiya's peering, and still wide, eyes.
"Ermmm well first I was here to help train Naruto but now..." Jiraiya began but soon stopped with his mouth now open and drool coming out of it with a stupid grin adorning his face.
"Now?" Anko now had a tick mark on her brow and she readied her fists under the bed covers.
"Now I'm enjoying the view..." with that comment Anko darted at the old perv with fists charged with chakra and some how missed him, although he did fall from the window ledge to the street below where he landed with a thud and a very loud groan.
"I best see if Ero-sennin is okay." Naruto said dryly as he walked over to his cupboard and pulled out a pair of shorts and shoes. Anko let out a soft sigh which caught Naruto's attention he cast his attention to the woman in his life who was now sitting on his bed with the covers wrapped around her. With a shake of his head Naruto walks over to Anko and kneels down before her and places his hands on her hand, with a smile he looks into her chocolaty eyes and tells her "I'll only be gone ten minutes besides you have me every other moment of the day and night, when I'm not training anyway," the last bit makes Anko smile as she looks back into the endless blue and his shimmering red and black eyes. After seeing Anko smile Naruto takes a chance and leans up and plants a solitary kiss upon Anko's pale pink lips.
Seeing Anko startled is always fun for Naruto because usually she has this extremely high guard but it disappears around him so things like that happen constantly. Naruto then gets up and walks back to the cupboard and pulls out a random shirt that happens to be orange "Thought we got rid of all my orange stuff," Naruto says looking back at Anko who has a look of feigned innocence. With a small laugh Naruto forces it on and unfortunately rips parts of it. "Must have been an old one, oh well I can henge the rips." Naruto admits as he leaves the room via the window and lands next to the white haired man that is his god father. His very pervy god father.
Shaking his head Naruto looks at the at the ageing man that lay on the ground with that stupid grin still on his face, Naruto was very surprised that, with being surrounded by pervs from birth, he wasn't one. Stretching one arm down to help Jiraiya up Naruto couldn't help but smile at the man who had shown him his first and ungodly basic seal that was used by everyone, a simple storage seal. "Here lemmy help you up," Naruto stated as he grabbed Jiraiya's arm and heaved him up onto his feet.
With a sigh Jiraiya turn to face Naruto with some seriousness on his face. "Sensei has asked me to train you for your fight in the future month and to show you a couple more seals if I can * sighs* which I can't because your making your own. Did you fix that eye yet?" Jiraiya spoke with some seriousness but also with a bit of a laugh. He was one of the few people that Naruto knew that could actually do that with ease and not make a conversation awkward.
With a sigh Naruto responded glumly "No I.. I just don't know how to fix it as I cant even see what part of the seal matrix is broken and it could be a simple fix but because it's a seal of my creation others can't understand it, especially if you can't."
"How did you even apply those seals anyway Naruto?" Jiraiya responded in curiosity.
"I used my Shadow... Holy shit I'm stupid. Baka, baka, baka, baka!" Naruto yelled in frustration at his own stupidity while inside himself Kurama was laughing like nothing else could spoil this moment for him. That was until Naruto made his mind scape boiling lava which forced Kurama to stop laughing and start shouting abuse at his host (from which I will save your ears my lovely readers). "I'm going to go fix this bye..."
Before Jiraiya could say anything Naruto had vanished before his eyes, quicker than even his own father had been using the Thunder God technique that Naruto had somehow managed to perfect that better than his own father. "I should not have shown him that scroll." Jiraiya said with a sigh as he stood in the centre of a now busy street but as per his usual personality he managed to spy a pretty young woman in the centre of the crowd and began to follow her but not before uttering, under his breath, "120cm".
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Out in the training grounds twelve a bight yellow streak ground to a halt and skidded onto the waters surface due to the force behind his technique. With a small pause the glow began to fade to show the that it was Naruto who had flashed to the current location. Team 8 were stunned to see this happen right before their very eyes.
"N-Naruto-kun what are you doing here?" a very shy but familiar voice asked from the lake side.
Naruto spun around very quickly drawing a kunai in one swift movement readying himself in case anyone decide to try and attack him. After some time Naruto dropped his guard and returned his kunai to his pouch "I'm going to be doing..something." and with that Naruto walked off into the thick forest in order to get some peace.
After a few minutes running through the forest to make sure that no one was following him he unconsciously called forth an army of Shadow Clones and commanded them "Alright everyone we were so stupid to not try and check the seal on our eye using a Clone so we are to have no ramen until we get this sorted is that clear!"
"Hai!" the clones shouted back in unison.
Over the course of five minutes six clones committed suicide due to pure boredom although they did manage to see the parts of the seal that were fine.
But after a time un-know to for Naruto to be sitting still one of the few remaining clones dispelled after identifying what had happened. The problem lay inside the gathering seal when Cat-san had slashed his left eye the most of the brunt was passed into the gathering seal it's self and actually overloaded a small section of it that, unfortunately, was the limiter on the seals themselves so with the limiter overloaded the signal to shut it off was destroyed leaving the sharingan active for all this time.
It was a simple fix after finding it. After fucking months of suffering. "God. Fucking. Damn. IT!" yelled a very annoyed, to say the least, blonde Genin that after his Clone had repaired the damage to the seal Naruto de-activated the sharingan. Which stung. A lot.
"Fuck!" Naruto shouted as he grabbed his left eye as a small, faint trickle of blood ran from between the crevices of his fingers and onto the ground below. The Clone that had just repaired the seal instantly tried to make sure that their "boss" was alright after the sight of the blood.
With one quick swift movement Naruto pierced the clone's jugular with an activation of his middle fingers seal which was designed to allow for a short thin blade to be released for a fraction of a second before being with drawn back into the seal.
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A burst of yellow shook the tree that Jiraiya had settled into and was watching something through his telescope, while giggling like a little pervert. Noticing his arrival Jiraiya simply carried on watching and jotting down notes on sizes and attitudes of the women in the bathhouse bellow. Sighing Naruto sat down next to the old man but faced away from the bathhouse.
Not even glancing from, what he called work, Jiraiya asked "Got that fixed then?" Naruto nodded in response but tugged at his hi-ate so that it covered his now fixed eye. With a simple flick of his wrist the note pad fluttered shut and was quickly thrown into his satchel before jumping up onto the branch and turning to his godson with a smile. "Come on I've got something to show, and yes, teach you," that made Naruto brighten up slightly after what had happened earlier.
With a sigh Naruto got to his feet and looked at Jiraiya with a hint of curiosity which was set upon like a fresh carcass before hungry predators. "That's for me to know, Gaki, and you to find out," he said with a grin and saying that Jiraiya jumped backwards off of the branch and into the street below and was soon followed by Naruto. Landing Jiraiya couldn't help but jab Naruto in his side to try and get him out of his stupid depression.
"Look Gaki I'll get you ramen if you want it, okay?" Naruto beamed at Jiraiya and a devilish smile crept onto his lips and Jiraiya just then realised 'I've been played for a fool' and realising that he grabbed Naruto around the neck with his arm and proceeded to rub his knuckle into the top of Naruto's skull.
"Hey, hey, watch it," Naruto protested but to no avail. Wouldn't be surprising, honestly he did play Jiraiya for a fool.
As they made their way to Ichiraku ramen Naruto noticed Jiraiya looking back and over to a young woman dressed in a cyan kimono casually walking behind them. As they walked even Naruto would try and catch glimpses of the girl that Jiraiya had been watching.
"Hey Naruto, wait here." Jiraiya began and Naruto turned to look at the old man then followed his line of sight to the woman in the kimono however Naruto was able to get a clear look at her face and he knew who it was, first off she now had longer hair than before and Naruto was about to say something but Jiraiya darted over to her and took one of her slender hands in his and said "Dear you are the most gorgeous young woman I have ever seen."
The girl in question began blushing heavily but it soon stopped when Naruto walked over and waved to her.
"N-Naruto-san?"
"Hey Haku how are you? Is Jiji given you your shinobi status yet?" Naruto answered casually.
"Naruto, you know this young girl?" Jiraiya intervened quickly.
"Well, Ero-sennin, this was Zabuza's disciple Haku. She has been helping me with some jutsu and moves that Zabuza himself used with Kubikiribōchō." Naruto replied honestly and Haku nodded in agreement.
"So what are you trying to say, Gaki?" Jiraiya asked now that this had caught his attention.
"I'm a guy." Haku said flatly and with no hesitation in her voice at all. Jiraiya on the other hand had to grab his chest due to having a minor heart attack from hearing what Haku had said. Haku then looked to Naruto bowed then left with some groceries in a basket.
"Looks like you need ramen as well, old man," chimed Naruto as he strode away ahead of Jiraiya. 'She's still messing with people then' he thought to himself.
After composing himself Jiraiya soon caught up with his god son and they both tucked into some bowls of miso ramen however Naruto, as usual, eat Jiraiya out of all his money.
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After the eating of all of the ramen the pair went on a run into the forest some distance away from all the commotion of the busy area's of Konoha. To an area that was sufficiently supplied with trees, boulders and water.
Jiraiya turned to face the boy behind him with a level look on his face "Okay Naruto the technique I'm going to show you is called the Rasengan it-"
"Know it."
"What how?" spluttered Jiraiya as he had a hard time trying to keep his composure.
"It's based off a bijū bomb, Kurama taught me it before I stared the academy." Naruto retorted flatly.
"Fine I'll allow you to sign the Gama (toad) summon contract then how will that do?" Jiraiya said with a slight air of arrogance.
"I have the Hebi and Kurama summon contracts. Why would I need Gama?" Naruto asked innocently.
"You don't really need my help do you?" Jiraiya asked flatly Naruto just shook his head in response. "Let me see your Rasengan then."
Naruto then held out his right hand and used his left to mold the chakra into a sphere shape. It wasn't the usual blue chakra like how Jiraiya's was, Naruto's was black, pure and unimaginably black.
Jiraiya couldn't help but stare at the black orb that sat in Naruto's hand. "Naruto how much power does that have?" Naruto shrugged in regards to the power his jutsu held. Jiraiya demonstrated the power of his Rasengan by hitting it off a boulder. The boulder itself was only half remaining after the demonstration so Naruto walked over to a separate boulder of similar size and hit it with his own Rasengan. The explosion threw Naruto back and left nothing of the boulder and the ground surrounding it.
Jiraiya stood gawking at the sight before him. The bijū Rasengan was insanely powerful and down right dangerous. Naruto sat up coughing and spluttering as he tried to take some deep breaths. Walking over to the boy Jiraiya noticed something odd. His canines seemed to be growing longer. He shook it off as a growth spurt of sorts. Reaching down Jiraiya pulled his god son to his feet and hit him on the back several times.
"Oof thanks Jiraiya I needed that one." Naruto said as he had just coughed up a large amount of dust. "I.. I think I'm going to train with Kurama for the month that we're free."
"Anko won't like it." Jiraiya chimed in only to see a pained look on Naruto's face. "She means a lot to you huh?" Naruto nodded not trusting his voice to answer for him.
"I just.. I just want to make her happy but I don't know if staying with me will do that for her. I mean she's known me from birth basically and knows everything about me, what do I know about her. She likes dango, her job, she hates perverts and Kakashi almost as much as Orochimaru, and that's about it really." Naruto said as he slumped back onto the ground with his chin resting on his knees.
Jiraiya couldn't say anything about what Naruto was feeling, he never experienced it. The only woman he, truly, loved left the village years if not decades ago although he did try and keep tabs on her. "I'd best see if sensei will grant you access for a leave for the month." Jiraiya told Naruto who just mouthed "thanks," as he saw Jiraiya dart off.
Getting to his feet Naruto dusted himself off and summoned a Clone to tell Anko the news that he'd be in training isolation for a month and NOT to look for him.
'Kurama you there?'
"Naruto I'm always here, I'm stuck to you remember." Kurama spat back.
'Yeah, sorry. Hey Kurama I wanna try that with you.'
"You cant be serious are you that would mess you up." Kurama retorted.
'I still want to try, please?'
Kurama grumbled something before agreeing to help him with it.
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Sakura was running out in the streets of Konoha chasing the green spandex wearing Jōnin in an attempt to speak to him. 'Shit he's fast,' Sakura thought to herself as she pumped more chakra to the tips of her toes which resulted in her exploding forward at some speed to catch up to the man. In fact he had stopped and started looking into a store window when Sakura exploded forward. Her eyes widened as she was seconds from colliding with the man.
A flash of green past her eyes and the man was gone and she wasn't in the air any more. "You are very youthful to try and catch me. What can I do for this young kunoichi?" He said aloud from behind her. Sakura spun round to face him and stepped back after seeing how close they were standing.
"I was told to seek you out if I wanted help in building physical strength, is that right?" Sakura asked the Jōnin with the bowl cut.
"Ah you are young Naruto's team mate, the one Lee fell for, very well, I Mighty Gai will help you in your YOUTHFUL conquest in strength!" Gai yelled out as he struck one of his many poses. Sakura had a bead of sweat running down the back of her head, although she did wonder why this Lee person fell for her.
"Okay lead the way Gai sensei I will follow you." Sakura said politely. Gai grinned at the politeness of the girl. They walked into the store which was where one of his Genin stayed which happened to be the best ninja equipment store in all of Konoha.
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Ino decided to go to Shikamaru for help as he was, although lazy, very bright and able to come up with brilliant strategies for team work and other such things. It ran in his family.
Ino walked to the top of the Hokage monument and she found a lazy Nara and an eating Akimichi she couldn't help but smile. It had been ages since she had hung out with them, they had all became friends due to their parents being the famous Ino-Shika-Cho trio from the previous generations and she was the one to break that because of a guy. An asshole kind of guy she found out. "Hey guys!" she shouted and waved over to them only to get a grunt of hello from Shikamaru and a wave from Chōji.
She lay down next to Shikamaru and stared up at the clouds with him. "How'd you know we were here?" Shikamaru asked flatly.
"It's the best spot for cloud watching you said so a few years back before the academy even came into mind." she retorted easily not even looking away from the clouds.
"Are you here to ask us where 'he' is then?" Chōji said innocently in between handfuls of crisps. Ino gave off a small laugh and shook her head before answering Chōji's question.
"Nah I'm here to talk with shika-chan here and see if he can come up with a good strategy for me to train with considering how he did see me fight you." Ino replied but got quieter as she went.
"What do you say Chōji, we show her how WE do things now?" Shikamaru asked as he sat up and looked over at his friend with a smile on his face. Chōji nodded in agreement and was soon pulled into a hug by Ino. Chōji instantly turned red but hugged her back all the same. Ino tried to give Shikamaru a hug but he wasn't having any of it so he caught her in hisKagemane no Jutsu (Shadow Possession Jutsu).
Laughing he realised her and they made there way to a part that was kind of secluded for some training and in some aspects beatings.
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The Naruto Clone had arrived at Anko's place of work Gomon/Jinmon Butai (Torture and Interrogation force) he slowly made his way inside. It was as dark and depressing as he could remember. He walked to the office which was the desk at the front of the dark room.
A shinobi was sitting on a seat with his feet up. No one ever came in this way so it was an easy job. Good pay too. Although when he heard someone cough to make themselves known he fell off his seat. "Ermm yes what can I do for you." the man said quickly after righting himself. He cursed at himself inwardly.
"I'm here to see a Mitarashi Anko, it's important." The Clone said clearly.
The shinobi had heard of Anko, everyone had, but for someone to ASK for her was unheard of and say it was important. "What kind of 'important'?" he asked the blonde/red head before him.
"Boyfriend leaving kind of important." The clone clarified.
"So he finally got bored of her huh. Not to surprising she is a but of a nut." the man said from behind his desk and called down the comms for Anko to come to the front entrance.
After finishing the call the Clone grabbed the man by the throat and dragged him over the desk. "Okay shit head I'm the boyfriend and NO I ain't leaving her so this time you'll get this," The Clone punched the man square in the balls before grabbing his collar again "Next time I will slowly cut them off with a rusty old kunai then force feed them to you. IS THAT CLEAR!" Naruto bellowed at the man and then let him go and he fell to the ground in a pile.
Naruto the walked over and sat in one of the provided seats as he waited for Anko to arrive. She did five minutes later still trying to fix her hair. The Clone just smiled and got up and walked to wards Anko. When she looked up Anko stopped fixing her hair and let it fall as she ran to Naruto. At t he last second he side stepped out of the way with a saddened look on his face. "What's wrong Naru-Ai?" Anko asked immediately seeing as Naruto was acting very weird.
Sighing the Clone looked into Anko's deep chocolaty eyes then looked away. She wasn't his, she was the bosses girl. His feelings were the bosses as well but they felt real. Sighing again the Clone spoke "Anko, I'm a Clone, I am here to relay a message to you from the boss," Anko nodded giving him permission to speak. "for the next month the boss wont be in the village but he will be nearby. Somewhere. He will be trying to become stronger to face the other Jinchūriki from Suna. He also said that you shouldn't come or try and find him it could be a long time that he's away for or a short time I don't know the bosses plan for the training but I will make sure you get his message, if you have one." the Clone said with yet another sigh.
Anko didn't know what to feel here before her was her boyfriend but at the same time it wasn't. He would be gone for a month and she didn't know where he was going and the fact that he said not to try and look for him began to piss her off. "Yeah I have a message for my Boyfriend, When he comes back he better be able to beat the other Jinchūriki easily or he will be out on his ass. Another thing he better send clones with regular updates!" Anko yelled before punching the clone in the head.
Anko stormed back to the room she was in previously and set to work trying to get the man before her to confess information about a local bandit group by using the tip of a switch blade and his exposed skin. It was going to be a long month.
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And that's the chapter I sat and wrote this a couple of times before I got to this point. I have been busy with other things now that college has finished I have to find a job so that's taking up time and then there's the musical that I'm in. Sheesh I'm busy... anyway onto the newbies to the story. We begin with ellainaparker, HakuMomo, km1526, Grekonsz, DrzMarcelo, JonnyP86, azmuth, Master-Juan-X, maryam24ish, Arsanthania, Extreme Light 9, .Minna.-Sophia Isobel, The Gold Samurai. Thank you to all of you who read and do review and we have (as of when this is typed) 8,625 views on this story and just under 3,000 on the first chapter alone. Thanks to all of you and when we break 10,000 I'll do a special something for all you. Maybe a question answering chapter I dunno But if it is that I'll be 100% honest with y'all.
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