Woo Hoo! chapter 20!! Thats one more than last time!! Hehe. Well, chapter 20 is very special, mainly because it's the second multiple of 10 but anyway I think I'll just spot rambling and write the story now...
All hail the Great and Mighty Goddess of Chocolate and Cliff Hangers :P(Poet Bucky)
Also, special thanks to animeguurl for the longest review I think I ever got!
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Kiba stopped in his tracks. He looked around to all the smirking Naurto's and tried to sniff the air. All he ended up smelling was the lingering scent of the stink bomb. He looked back to the Naruto that was being held down by Akamaru and growled. "Well there's only one way to find out!" Kiba began charging again as the Naruto just stood there smiling. Just before Kiba collided with Naruto a pop was heard and it poofed out of existence.
Akamaru fell forward no longer having Naruto's leg to gold on to and Kiba tripped over him. "Damn." He mumbled as he got up and looked at the surrounding Narutos. "How? Akamaru was holding onto it." Kiba said to the Naruto army.
"Simple. These aren't normal clones." One said.
"They're shadow clones!" Another continued
"And, they're solid." Said one directly in front of Kiba "Which means we can do this!" they all shouted in unison.
As the Narutos charged, Kiba called Akamaru and began to store up chakra. "Getsuga!" Kiba screamed as he and Akamaru attacked together eliminating all but one Naruto who went flying. "Found you! Getsuga!" Kiba attacked the lone Naruto as he was falling, throwing him into a wall. Upon impact, Naruto poofed and was gone. "Another clone?! Damn! Where is he?!" Kiba looked around for a bit before he turned around to see the Naruto army was back.
The Narutos quickly surrounded Kiba and Akamaru. Kiba looked around and Akamaru crouched in preparation. Just as Kiba was about to attack again, all the Naruto's fumbled until they made a hand sign. One that Iruka knew all too well. "Oroke no Jutsu!" They all called, and they transformed in a burst of smoke. A few seconds after the smoke cleared, Kiba stared. As did almost every other male in the room.
Akamaru looked confused while Kiba made a perverted face as his whole body twitched. Instead of being surrounded by male narutos, he was now surrounded by women. All of whom had smoke just barely covering the, umm... womanly areas... "Kiba-kun! Won't you please give up?" One of the she-narutos, said batting her/his eyelashes. "Kiba-kun!!" another one called. "Kibaaaa!!" Another one went close and placed a hand on the side of his face.
"NARUTO!! WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?!" Everyone turned to the person who yelled, expecting an enraged Sakura. When they saw Hinata, everyone went wide eyed. Hinata, realizing all eyes were on her, quickly retracted into her shell and blushed a bright red. More so out of a new image that popped into her head then out of embarrassment of what she had just done.
Sakura just looked at the shy girl and pouted slightly wanting to be the one who yelled at the blonde. Kakashi, after adjusting his voice box, making sure it wouldn't fail him, then spoke. "You know, if you think about it, that's an effective way of pinpointing Kiba to make sure he attacks him instead of Akamaru. After all, I'm pretty sure Akamaru isn't the one getting a slight nose bleed down there..." Shikamaru looked up to the silver haired Jounin, analyzing what he had said before looking back down to the match. Sakura had been inching away from Kakashi and slowly towards Sasuke, who was watching the match with interest.
Kakshi smiled behind his mask as he looked down to Naruto. 'He's really hamming this up.' He thought to himself, watching Anko out of the corner of his eye.
Kiba blinked a few times before going back to focus on the female Narutos, who were swarming Kiba trying to get as close as possible. Akamaru had tried attacking a few but ended up barely making a dent in the clones. Because the she-narutos were so close, he was finding it hard to make any moves. Kiba had started using kunai to fend off the Narutos, however one thing made him stop dead in his tracks. There was a she-Naruto clinging to his neck. "Kiibaaa-kuuunn!" And as Kiba turned his head...
Everyone sweat-dropped or face-vaulted. Akamaru stopped clawing his way through the clones to turn eyes wide. Hinata's eye was twitching violently as everyone inched away from her. Sakura didn't know what to make of what she saw down below her while Kakashi tried to hide a laugh. Shikamaru blinked before shaking his head quickly, trying to clear the image. Tsunade giggled; after trying to hold it she gave up and burst into a full blown laughing fit. Sasuke shuddered and a slight blush of embarrassment met his cheeks. Haku on the other hand began to giggle as the sight before him, brought back to a very entertaining memory.
Kiba screamed. The she-Naruto blushed and giggled. "Oh Kiba-kun! I knew you loved me!" The she-Naruto said in a flirty and happy way, although its eye twitched.
"WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU!?" Kiba screamed spitting in between words. "KISSING YOUR OPPONENT IS NOT A VALID WAY TO ATTACK AN ENEMY!!" And with that he threw a shuriken at the giggling female Naruto. Poof. "Oh thank god..." Kiba sighed in relief. He hadn't actually kissed Naruto after all. As Haku's fits of laughter became louder and louder he was joined by Kakashi and Tsunade. Soon, almost every person in the room was laughing.
Sasuke twitched and looked away from the scene below him, the blush of embarrassment creeping onto his cheeks even though he tried to keep it at bay. Kakashi slowed his laughter enough to breathe "Well, they don't call him the most surprising ninja for nothing..." And with that he began laughing anew.
"That's one way to catch your opponent off guard..." Shikamaru managed to laugh out, having given up on holding back his giggles at the look on Kiba's face. "Troublesome idiot..." He snickered further.
Kiba looked around utterly embarrassed and as he was distracted, he was attacked from behind. He was sent flying into Akamaru, who poofed back into his little dog form. As the pair hit the ground the Naruto's went back to normal, leaving a cloud of smoke blocking everything from view. Kiba was attacked and Akamaru was held down. No one really saw what happened, but everyone heard it. There were the sounds of punches being thrown and a few explosions. When the smoke cleared, Naruto stood with a foot on Kiba and a clone holding his puppy. Naruto smirked and puffed out his chest panting as best he could, trying to fake being tired.
Kiba laid face down, looking completely dazed but otherwise okay. Although, when he tried to get up Naruto held him firmly down. "Well well well! Who's top dog now?" Naruto smirked. "Time to take this puppy to the vet." The clone said, holding Akamaru up for unnecessary emphasis. Akamaru just growled at the Narutos. The clone hissed through his teeth, effectively shutting the dog up. Kiba tried to move again but once again fell down, unconscious from exhaustion.
"Umm, you won Naruto. You can let him up now..." He heard a voice say and turned to look at the examiner and nodded. The clone put the dog down and poofed away. Naruto then began to make his way up the stairs with his hands behind his head.
'Well, at least he lost with a little more dignity this time...' Naruto thought, smirking at the memory of Kiba's embarrassing loss last time. 'Although he did end up kissing one of my clones... Guess he was always meant to lose some dignity in this match.' Naruto had to hold back a laugh.
"You really pounded him!" Kyuubi smirked. "Put the old dog to sleep!"
'Not again...'
"Ahh, but you got to make lame puns. Why can't I?" Kyuubi argued, somewhat dejected.
'Because I'm the only one who can hear yours...'
"Have I got you barking mad?"
'Stop now...'
"No fun..."
As Naruto reached where his team plus Shikamaru was he was greeted with multiple hits to the head. "YOU IDIOT!" Sakura pounded his head in. "WHAT THE HECK IS WRONG WITH YOU?!" She hit him again.
"OW! What was that for?!" Kakashi asked, rubbing the new bump on his head.
"For corrupting your student and teaching him your perverted ways!!" Anko said as she hit Kakashi again. As the two assaulted men began to run, the women huffed and fumed.
Shikamaru inched his way away from them. "Geez, I hope I don't have to fight a woman..." Shikamaru began to watch the screen again. His name came up and he looked down to the arena, his very female opponent already there waiting for him. "Damn..."
Naruto came to a stop beside Hinata who turned bright red as soon as she saw him. Naruto turned bright red alongside, her realizing what she was probably blushing about. "Umm... So... Hi!" Naruto started cheerily. Hinata twiddled her fingers and refused to meet his gaze
'Bad thoughts bad thoughts bad thoughts' Hinata turned a deeper shade of red as she looked up at Naruto. "Um, m-maybe when this is all... umm over we c-could... umm go to... somewhere..." Hinata said awkwardly shifting her gaze back to the floor.
"Umm, sure!" Naruto said happily. "But what's the matter? You're acting all fidgety." Naruto said bending his head so instead of the floor Hinata saw him. Hinata eeped and backed up a bit before looking at Naruto again. Her gaze shifting steadily downward. "H-HIN-HINATA!" Naruto screamed instantly realizing what she was doing. He blushed and backed up, bumping into Kakashi.
The older Jounin looked down as the blonde looked up blush still on his face. Kakashi smiled "Ahhh. Naruto, so this is the girl that you-" He never got to finish because Naruto jumped at his sensei, knocking him backwards. Fortunately, there was a nice flight of stairs to break their fall. Hinata watched the two go tumbling down and blinked before looking up at the screen and realized it was her turn.
"Sooo..." Kakashi started smirking once they had reached the bottom of the stairs. He was laying on top of Naruto who was trying to kick and punch his way out from underneath him, despite Kakashi having him pinned. "Am I right?" Kakashi continued looking down to the blond's face, not bothering to move.
"Not the time or place, Kakashi." Naruto said again, attempting to push the heavy Jounin off him.
"Oh but it is, because I've got you in a position where I can squeeze anything I want out of you." Kaksahi's eye turned into a U.
Naruto looked disgusted. "Again, wrong thing to say, considering the position we're in!!"
"Well, best answer then, no?" Kakashi was clearly enjoying himself.
"FINE! YES! NOW GET OFF!" Naruto screamed. As Kakashi shifted his weight, Naruto shoved the Jounin off him, sending Kakashi sliding a bit.
"See? Now was that so hard?" Kakashi asked rhetorically, standing and patting the blonde on the head as he sat up.
Naruto just stared at the Jounin, trying to figure out if he was trying to make a pun or not. Naruto just shook his head and ran up the stairs to see Hinatas match had begun and was about one-thirds through. He screamed encouragement, but Neji still ended up overpowering her. Although, to her credit, Hinata had left a few more injuries and got away with a few less major injuries then last time. "You are nothing but a failure and a loser and you will never be anything more!" Neji declared as he was about to finish her off. Naruto jumped down and took the hit. Grunting, he fell to his knees as Hinata fainted.
His left arm fell uselessly to his side glad it was only his arm and not his or Hinata's heart. He stood up to face Neji. "Why were you going to kill her?" Naruto demanded harshly.
"Because her fate is to die, so I'm just helping along the process." Neji replied simply before he turned to leave.
"I'll wipe that smirk off your face, you bastard!" Naruto said to Neji as Hinata was carried away. Naruto went back up to the balcony giving off a slight killer intent. 'Stupid arrogant Neji... I gotta turn him into good not-so-bastard-y Neji...' As Naruto took his seat beside a slightly bruised Shikamaru he continued to fume.
Across the balcony, Garra picked up on the slight killer intent that the blonde was giving and smiled maliciously. His sister and brother took one look at the smiling Garra and knew instantly they had better be somewhere else. 'Garra only gets that look when he's about to kill, maim or is just thinking about blood...' Kankuro thought as he moved away from the red head along with his sister.
Naruto stopped his rant when he felt killer intent being directed at him and realized he was leaking his own. Even though it was too subtle to be picked up by even the most experienced Jounin, Garra felt it. As they locked eyes Naruto realized with a pang of sympathy what the Genin had gone through and wished he could help him without beating him to a pulp. Unfortunately Naruto knew the only way to get anything through to him would be to beat it into him. As their gazes broke Shikamaru's stayed locked to Naruto, having seen him glaring at the sand nin across the balcony.
Naruto looked over to Shikamaru and sighed. "As much as you stare, you're not going to get anywhere." Naruto said quietly, locking eyes with the brown haired nin. Shikamaru's eyes narrowed as Naruto looked away.
'So he knows I'm studying him eh? Troublesome... But what he said just now; he knows I'm trying to figure him out, and what he just said proves he's got something he's hiding...'
'That line should give him something to think about. He'll probably stalk me along with Sasuke when this exam is all over now.' Naruto smirked at the thought of his ever growing 'fanclub' as he looked up at the screen. He paled slightly and instantly gulped.
HAKU
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And there you have it: chapter 20, crafted made wrapped and shipped. I tried to make it longer in honour of it being number 20 and all... I'm not sure how well I succeeded though... Anyway please R&R reviews are nice bats eyelashes and yes i know some of you hate me for the HUGE cliffie but oh well! Hehe, well I'll try get the next one up soon... or not... snigger cliffie snigger