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"NARUTO WAKE YOUR ASS UP!" came a shriek and a pounding on the door from none other than Sakura Haruno.
"Sakura leave him alone." came a familiar voice that stopped Sakura's useless screaming. The pink-haired banshee turned around to see the familiar face of Ino Yamanaka.
"Ino thank goodness you're here, help me wake this idiot up." Sakura said to her rival.
"I don't think you heard me." Ino said again, "Leave. Him. Alone."
"What's gotten into you?" Sakura demanded. "Ever since I heard about your C-rank mission from Kabuto-san you've been avoiding me. What happened?"
Instead of answering her question. Naruto's door opened revealing a very tired looking Naruto wearing nothing but gray sweat pants and a layer of medical gauze wrapped around his chest, and his right shoulder with a pissed off look on his face.
"Haruno what do you want?" Naruto asked.
"Sasuke-kun is missing from his room, help me find him." Sakura said drawing what the fuck looks from both blonds.
"That is why you woke me up at three o' clock in the fucking morning? Just to find the Uchiha?" he asked drawing a nod from the pink-haired girl. Sighing he said, "Look I don't want to know why or how you broke into his room, but he's probably fine. My guess is that he's in the infirmary like I was." he said indicating his bandaged chest, "Now why don't you go back to sleep like a normal person, or I'll make you sleep permanently!" and then he slammed his door into her face, only for his door to open again enough for his head to poke out.
"By the way Ino how has your training been going?" he asked the blond-haired girl.
"My training is going fine, in fact with a little more practice I got a good chance at becoming a medic's apprentice." Ino said happily seeing Naruto's mood lighten up a little bit.
"That's good every team needs a good Medical ninja. Now go to bed we might have to fight in less than two days, depending on how many teams make it to the tower." with that said he closed the door to get some much needed sleep, and to try and contact Kyuubi again.
"Ino-pig what the hell was that about?" Sakura asked only to see her walk back into her room.
Kakashi looked down at his work before nodding tightly, quietly pleased with himself. Sure, it had taken a long time, and the amount of blood he had lost was making him a little woozy, but the seal was finally ready. Now all he had to do was activate the damn thing and hope it didn't blow up in his face.
"Alright Sasuke, I need you to be perfectly still while I activate the jutsu and seal off the curse mark." he spoke up, carefully kneeling around the markings on the ground. Making sure the blood imbued ink was relatively dry, the famous Copy Cat ninja raised his right hand before carefully placing it on a single part of the large, circular seal spanning the area of the room, cool blue chakra slowly gathering in the palm of his hand.
In the center of the runic circle with nothing but a pair of shorts on to ward off the near unnatural chill, Sasuke nodded tensely, the slight tightening of his jaw the only indication of the anger and resentment about losing his new found power simmering just below the surface.
However, before he could further ponder the loss of such power, a small cry of, "Seal!" rang throughout the chamber-like room, followed by bright, nearly blinding flash of light before his world exploded in pain. It felt like his skin was on fire, and despite himself, Sasuke reared his head back and let out a scream of pain. This wasn't a type of pain he could just shrug off; it was unlike anything he had ever felt like before. The raw, burning sensation that slowly flowed down his neck and throughout the rest of his body making him ache in ways he never thought possible.
After what seemed like time standing still, the pain finally stopped and the Uchiha sighed in relief, every last bit of energy sapped from his aching body.
Beside him, his sensei crouched down to inspect the new seal, letting out a thoughtful hum while stroking his masked chin in the process, "Well, it looks like everything is in order, but I didn't think it would hurt that much. From the way you were screaming, people would think you were dying or something."
Instead of retorting Sasuke promptly fainted from the strain his body has went through from the past three days.
"Aww he's too tired to respond." Kakashi said like he was looking at a two-year-old who had a big day, and was completely exhausted.
"I must say I'm surprised Kakashi-kun, to think you can already use Sealing Justu now." a serpentine voice said causing Kakashi's eyes to widen, "You've grown Kakashi." it's voice was like pure evil.
When Kakashi turned around he was greeted with a six foot figure of a extremely pale-skinned man with silky black that went to the middle of his back. He wore his Sound hitai-ate on his forehead, a black long sleeved shirt with a gray Jounin flak-vest over it that had one pouch on the lower right chest, black cargo pants with white gauze wrapped around his right thigh with a black kunai holster, white gauze wrapped around the middle of his calves and went down into his black open-toed shinobi styled sandals. He wore odd purple earrings on each of his ears, and he had purple eye make up around his eyes.
"Why are you here Orochimaru, it can't be just to say hello." Kakashi muttered. Silently congratulating himself on keeping his voice calm and even.
Orochimaru merely smirked, his yellow serpentine eyes glinting with amusement, "Now, now Kakashi I'm not here to see you. I'm here for the boy."
"Why are you after Sasuke!?" Kakashi demanded.
The snake-like man only grinned, "Heh...you're lucky. You've already gotten your hands on it." he said getting a confused look from Kakashi, "You didn't use to have it did you? That...Sharingan in your left eye! That's what I want the Uchiha blood!"
Kakashi tensed, small bolts of lightning crackling over the metallic plate of his right gloved hand as he crouched, "If you get any closer to Sasuke I'll kill you! I don't care if you are one of the three legendary Sannin. Right now I can at least compete with you!" he yelled as bright lightning covered his hand.
Orochimaru just laughed at his statement, quite mockingly I might add.
"What's so funny!?" Kakashi demanded.
"What all you say and do is all meaningless." was all Orochimaru said.
"What?"
"That seal you did is meaningless. You understand to achieve a goal the heart will accept even the most evil power. That is something Sasuke will accept willingly." with that Orochimaru turned around to leave, "He will come to me, no matter how hard you try to convince him otherwise, Sasuke-kun will seek me out like a moth does a flame." the snake-like man said happily, slowly slipping away into the shadows that surrounded them, "And there is nothing you can do about it."
After he disappeared Kakashi was frozen in shock. He knew Orochimaru could have killed him anytime he wanted, yet he didn't, and for that he was relieved.
"To fight against him. What am I an idiot?" Kakashi asked himself, "I'll deal with this later issue later, come on Sasuke time to take you to the infirmary." he then lifted the Uchiha onto his shoulder and took him to the infirmary to get him properly treated.
A rude knocking awoke Naruto from his sleep.
"Go away!" Naruto managed to yawn out. But the knocking persisted getting louder and louder by the second, "Haruno I don't know where Sasuke is! Go the hell away!" he yelled out causing the knocking to cease.
"Naruto it's me Ino. Chouji and Shikamaru are here with me, we need to talk to you."
After a moment of silence Naruto called them in, "Alright you three what do you want?" he asked.
"We just came to check on you." Ino said.
"Yea you haven't left the room for quite some time." Shikamaru gave his two cents.
"Thanks for your concerns but I'm fine, just extremely tired." Naruto reassured them, "But I have a few questions to ask you, if you don't mind."
"Ask away we got nothing to hide." Chouji said holding his arms out wide.
"What time is it?" Naruto asked causing them to sweat-drop.
"It's one thirty in the afternoon, on the fifth day." Chouji answered.
"You've been asleep for almost two days." Ino imputed.
"What about the teams?" Naruto asked his second question.
"There are four teams from Leaf, one team from Sand, one team from Grass, and the team from Sound arrived yesterday." Ino answered this time.
'Looks like there will be preliminary rounds.' he thought to himself. "Now for my third question. Why aren't you wearing your weights?" he scowled at them.
"Before you get mad at us let me explain." Shikamaru said for them all, "We took them off for the exam, because they would slow us down. And we needed to be at one-hundred percent for the exams."
"...Makes sense, but you have to wear those almost constantly to get stronger. By the way what is your weight for them?" Naruto asked the three.
"Twenty-five for my arms, and forty for my legs." Shikamaru said.
"Thirty pounds for my arms, and fifty for my legs." Chouji grinned.
"I'm up to ten pounds for my arms, and fifteen pounds for my legs." Ino admitted sadly.
"Good job guys, and Ino don't worry it's normal for to your strength to increase slowly. Just keep working and you'll get stronger." Naruto praised them, and consoled Ino at the same time. "Now for my most important question, have you killed after our mission?"
"Yes we have." Chouji answered, however Ino turned a little green at him mentioning it.
Naruto noticed it and automatically knew that it must of been bad for her, "Ino why don't you step out and get some air." he told her.
She didn't have to be told twice and bolted out of there, causing Naruto to raise an eyebrow. "Alright you two what happened on that mission?"
Ino calmly walked out of the room and took a deep breath, she thought she would get used to the kunochi killing life style, but it was not the case for her. She sighed loudly a second later, 'Maybe Naruto's right I should be a Medic ninja, or work for the Interrogation Department. I don't know yet, but I know I can't keep living like this.'
However her thoughts were interrupted by none other than Sakura, "Ino I found out where Sasuke-kun is. Want to go see him?"
This caused Ino to sigh, "No Sakura I don't think so."
"What's with you? Why are you ignoring Sasuke-kun? Oh I see what you're doing, you're ignoring him to make him jealous."
This caused the blond-haired girl to nearly slap her forehead, "No I'm ignoring him because I don't like him anymore."
"WHY!?" Sakura shouted, "Why are you not interested in him? He's strong, and cute, and-"
"A total prick." Ino finished. When Sakura was about to protest, Ino put a finger to her lips to cut her off, "Sakura, I have to say this. Sasuke may be strong and cute I'll admit that much, but he's a total asshole. Naruto showed me that."
"Naruto I should have known that demon would have corrupted you." Sakura snarled at the mention of her blond-haired teammate.
"Sakura that's going too far Naruto's not a demon!" Ino protested.
"Yes he is! During our Wave mission he killed without mercy, and he enjoyed it! Didn't he do the same when he went on your mission?" Sakura smirked when Ino turned a little green after her question.
"While I'll agree that he's brutal," Ino admitted, "but he's a compassionate and kind person when he wants to be."
"Ino stop trying to defend him I know you're lying."
"I'm not lying! After I took my first human life Naruto comforted me when I had no one to turn to. Sasuke would have never done that for me!" Ino screamed at her former best friend, "In fact what has Sasuke ever done for you?"
"Well he has..." for once in her life Sakura didn't have anything to retort with.
Seeing her her like this Ino went for the finishing blow, "Sakura if you still want Sasuke, then be my guest you can have him. I'm finished competing with you over some stupid guy, consider this my last act of friendship with you." with that said Ino went back inside Naruto's room leaving Sakura to think, and come to the right decision.
'YES I WON SASUKE-KUN IS ALL MINE!'
'YES WE FINALLY WON CHA!'
...then again maybe not.
After the fifth day ended Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura were escorted down the hall by Kakashi toward a door that Naruto had thought led to the orientation room. He was right. It was a large, stone room with a computer that seemed to be there to announce something. There were balconies that all surrounded a large clear area at the base of a statue of two hands performing the tiger seal. There was already a large group of teams in that clear area. All three of them took their places with their respective teams.
A set of doors flew open and everyone looked up to see Hiruzen Sarutobi walk through them, surrounded by Anko, Ibiki, Zabuza, Gouzu, Meizu, Haku, Iruka, and various other Chuunin to Jounin level ninja's.
"Welcome!" Sarutobi greeted the teams, "All of you who have passed this part of the Exam have proven that you have the ability to service on an extended mission. Congratulations. Yet, this is not the end as many of you have most likely deduced. A Chuunin is only a temporary step before reaching Jounin or Special Jounin. You have proven that you have the ability to survive against the elements and stress. Now you will be tested to see if you have the ability to survive against your fellow ninja." he then stopped to let the information sink in. "I will tell you each something: the Chuunin Exams are not a way to help with foreign relation-"
"Excuse me Hokage-sama." a voice interrupted the Hokage making everyone look at the person, a person Naruto knew all too well.
Standing nearly six feet tall was a man wearing dark blue cargo pants with his kunai holster strapped to his right thigh, blue open-toed shinobi styled sandals, a blue long sleeved shirt, and was wearing the standard forest green Jounin flak-vest. He looked rather odd to most of the Genin. He had pale skin like he's been sick for a long time and the dark bags under his black eyes didn't help his image either. He wore his hitai-ate on a blue bandanna that covered his long dark brown hair not the few stray locks that covered a part of his face.
"I apologize Hokage-sama from here on as the referee will you please (cough) allow me Gekkou Hayate to continue for you."
The Hokage nodded, "By all means."
The man now known as Hayate then turned to the Genin and said, "Hello everyone, I am Gekkou Hayate(cough) before the third test there's" he suddenly started a small coughing fit, "something I'd like you to do. It's a preliminary for the third test (cough) to decide who gets to participate in the main event." he was interrupted by another coughing fit. "The final Exams are scheduled to take place in one month. This allows (cough) lords and nobles as well as business men from around (cough) the shinobi nations to arrive and know who is participating. However this year is a unique one, as so many of you (cough) have managed to pass. Unfortunately for all of you, there is a maximum number of (cough) Genin that can participate. There are far too many of you. As such, for the first time in years, we will be holding a preliminary round. (cough)"
"Preliminary? What do you mean!" Sakura yelled out.
Hayate coughed, scratched his right cheek sheepishly, "Because the first and second test may have been to easy this year (cough) we have a bit too many people remaining and according to the Chunnin Exam (cough) rules we must do a preliminary to reduce the numbers of the participants of the third test." he had another coughing fit and then continued, "As Hokage-sama said (cough) there will be many important guests here and the fights would take to much time out of their schedules for all of you to fight (cough) so if any of you want to quit now is the time."
No one quit.
Hayate looked around the room then sighed "Alright then will everyone but," he turned around to the board and waited for names to pop up, "Zaku Abumi and Shino Aburame leave the floor." everyone but the two mentioned and himself left the floor "As you know anything goes the fight goes on till one of you are knocked out, (cough) unable to fight, dead, or when I say it is over and declare a winner (cough) if you continue after I announce a winner you will be disqualified." he looked at the two fighters yelled out fight and then jumped away.
Zaku had what looked like a disabled right arm in a sling as he got down in a fighting stance with his left arm extended out with looking as if it was a claw and across from him was Shino with his hands in his pockets, "If you fight here you will be finished I suggest you forfeit." Shino said.
This caused Zaku to laugh, "One arm is enough to beat you!"
He then charged at Shino with what looked like a claw like stab to his right side but blocked it with his right hand causing Zaku's hand to grab Shino's right bicep, "You can't beat me with just one arm."
Zaku became angry and screamed, "SHUT THE HELL UP!" he removed his arm from Shino a little and faced his palm at Shino's face, "Splicing Sound Wave!" he yelled out as a burst of wind came from the tube in his right palm sending Shino flying and then rolling on the ground. Zaku then glared at Shino and growled, "Get up!"
When Shino shakily got up and his left cheek looked like hardened clay breaking and bugs started to come out of the hole causing Zaku to freak out and then when he heard bugs behind him he turned around and saw the floor covered with them, "These are my kakaichuu insects, they attack their prey in numbers and eat their chakra. If this many attack you as I said before your finished." Zaku started to look at the bugs behind him then at Shino, "If you don't want that then give up that's your best option if you use that left arms attack on me again you will be attacked by them from behind but if you attack them you will be attacked by me from behind."
Zaku was now beyond angry, "No! I won't lose to the likes of you!" Zaku yelled as he withdrew his other arm, with a sickening crack alerting everyone that it was back in place. "Ultra Splicing Sound Wave!" he continued as he aimed both his arms at Shino and his bugs. Only for his arms then blew off from the elbows in a bloody haze while Zaku didn't feel the pain for the first few seconds and just looked at his now useless arms. "W-what the?" Shino then ran at him then uppercut him in the jaw causing Zaku to blackout from the tremendous pain.
After Hayate announced Shino as the winner and carried Zaku off the field everyone waited for the next match up.
Temari of the Sand v.s. Tenten Higurashi
After the two came down and Hayate announced the fight it started.
Tenten wasted no time throwing four kunai's at Temari, only to find that she missed. And Temari's fan was slightly opened showing a purple circle inside the fan.
'Impossible! I never miss.' Tenten thought.
"Hehehe nice try little girl, but that wasn't even close. You already seen my first moon, once you've seen all three it'll be all over for you." Temari taunted.
"Dammit I hate to do this but you leave me no choice, man I was hoping to use this in the finals." Tenten said as she took out two scrolls. "Twin Rising Dragons!" she continued as she jumped into the air, her scrolls following her swirling like dragons. She then put her hands by the scrolls where she started throwing various kunai, shuriken, scythe's, mace's, and many other weapons. Only for Temari to open her fan showing off the second moon, blowing all her weapon's in different directions.
Suddenly Tenten pulled her arms back, and then her weapons came flying back towards her. She then threw her weapons again, only for them to be blown away again, and Temari's weapon showing off her third moon.
"Take this! Cutting Whirlwind!" Temari shouted as she swung her fan, creating a mini tornado capturing Tentenwithin it. The tornado then started cutting Tentenall over her body, after being hit by Temari's attack she passed out from the impact and pain then started falling to the ground where Temari now stood with her fan closed and extended out so Tenten would land on it and break her back. Naruto seeing this quickly jumped onto her fan and caught Tenten bridal style then looked at Temari, "Now, now, don't you know when enough is enough? She's already defeated."
Temari looked at the blond male standing on her fan that caught her opponent and snarled, "I know when enough is enough brat!"
"It appears you don't, and I would appreciate it if you didn't try to cause unnecessary damage to anyone I care about." he then jumped to the upper level where her team was and jumped back to his team ignoring the peeved looks from his teammates, the looks of astonishment from the Jounin's, and completely unaware that Tenten heard what he said.
After declaring Temari the winner and cleaning up the weaponry they awaited the next fight.
Takashi Shinomori v.s. Kiba Inuzuka
Kiba cheered quite loudly when he was picked and jumped into the arena. While the green-eyed Grass-nin now dubbed as Takashi quietly stepped down from the stands.
"Yes Akamaru we got an easy opponent, finals here we come!" Kiba cheered. Akamaru however didn't feel the same and barked in protest.
"What do you mean don't insult him? He's a freaking Grass ninja the weakest of the weak! Don't you remember that we had to save their asses during The Third Great Shinobi War?" Kiba boasted not noticing Takashi's left eyebrow twitch dangerously. Akamaru noticed this and ran back up the stands behind Kurenai where he could be safe.
Meanwhile Naruto palmed his face, "Idiot, he just signed his death warrant."
"What do you mean by that Naruto?" Kakashi asked looking up from his book.
"Kakashi you fought in that war, and you know that Grass Country fighters aren't pushovers." Naruto said in a matter of fact tone.
"So true." Kakashi then went back to reading his little orange book, "Kiba will be lucky to only be alive of not majorly injured." he muttered loudly making everyone know he was serious.
"What do you mean by that sensei?" Sakura asked.
"Grass Country might not have as many shinobi as the other Five Great Shinobi Nations, and while their forces are mainly consisted of samurai, they are more than a match for me and all the other Jounin in this room. But the reason they are so strong is that they practically train since the day they could walk. While it is well known that they assisted us in The Third Great Shinobi War, what a lot of people don't know is that they were one of the main reasons we even won that war."
Back in the arena Takashi's eyebrow finally stopped twitching and he eyed Kiba dangerously, "Dog-boy if you think we're so weak then why don't you prove it?" Takashi challenged Kiba when he sta rted treading dangerous waters about his family.
"Fine then I'll beat you without Akamaru!" Kiba boasted when he noticed his canine companion wasn't by him any more. With that said Hayate started the match.
"Ninja Art: All Fours Jutsu!" Kiba yelled, and he started to become more feral looking. His nails became sharper and his canines elongated. "Fang Over Fang!" he continued as he jumped forward and started spinning until he became a mini tornado, heading straight towards Takashi.
Takashi just stood there arms crossed not blinking at the technique, almost everyone was expecting Kiba to slam into the unmoving Grass Genin. Kiba was close, nearly a foot from Takashi when he raised his left arm straight out as in some form of feeble defense.
"You're annoying, buzz off." Takashi said before flicking his middle finger into the mini tornado. The results most people in the stands was something they did not expect. Instead of seeing a body part getting shredded to pieces they saw Kiba go flying across the arena, and embed in the wall completely unconscious.
Ignoring their shocked looks Takashi looked at Naruto's direction, smirked, and walked back to his team. Whoever thought that Kakashi was spouting bullshit that day learned better.
After snapping himself out of his stupor Hayate looked towards the board and saw Rock Lee v.s. Seto Hajime
"Yes! Gai-sensei it's finally my turn!" Lee cheered.
"Lee be careful you remember what happened to that Kiba kid." Gai replied, anyone who witnessed the scene soon sweat-dropped seeing Lee pluck a notebook out of nowhere and start writing what his sensei said down. Seeing this action Gai slapped it out of his hands, "Quit writing, you won't have time to look at it during the fight."
"Oh right." Lee saluted.
"All I am saying is be careful around him." Gai said seriously, but then he broke that serious image by being himself. "NOW GO OUT THERE AND BEAT HIM WITH YOUR FLAMES OF YOUTH!"
However at the same time everyone heard something equally disturbing: "NOW GO OUT THERE AND BEAT HIM WITH YOUR FLAMES OF JUSTICE!"
This caused everyone to turn their heads towards the Grass Genin and they saw the sensei that commanded the team. He was tall, nearly as tall as Gai at six foot three, and heavily muscular like Gai. Hell he even had Gai's taste in clothing by wearing a orange karate gi with a black sash wrapped around his waist, and white cloth on his feet with black string holding it together-how they didn't notice him before they would never know-. However what set him apart from Gai was that he was completely bald with only his thin black eyebrows over his brown eyes indicating his hair color. But what made the Leaf Jounin pale was the black tattoo on his forehead: The symbol of the Shinsengumi.
But that didn't mean anything to Gai who was surprised to hear the proclamation, "The Flames of Youth always prevail!" he shouted at the Grass Jounin.
This caused the man to look at Gai, "I'm sorry good sir but I disagree. The Flames of Justice will always prevail."
"No it's The Flames of Youth!" Gai said walking over towards the orange-clad Grass Jounin.
"Flames of Justice!" the unnamed Jounin said walking over to Gai.
"Flames of Youth!" Gai said again getting closer.
"Flames of Justice!" the Jounin said getting equally as close
"FLAMES OF YOUTH!" Gai practically screamed in the Jounin's face about a foot from him
"FLAMES OF JUSTICE!" the Jounin screamed back.
"FLAMES OF YOUTH!"
"FLAMES OF JUSTICE!"
"FLAMES OF YOUTH!"
"FLAMES OF JUSTICE!"
That argument went on for barely a minute before everyone in the room promptly told them to shut the fuck up, forcing them to jump back to their respective teams. But on the plus side it allowed the medic team to get Kiba off the field in record time, for obvious reasons.
"Lee-san I apologize for Musashi-sensei's behavior, he gets...passionate about fights sometimes." Seto apologized when he got to the arena, "But I can see that your sensei is the same."
In response Lee scratched the back of his head sheepishly, "Well most people say I'm as bad as him."
"I can see why." Seto stated eyeing the look-a-like teen.
Not even a second later Hayate started the fight.
"Leaf Hurricane!" Lee yelled spurring into motion flying into a roundhouse kick. Only for his kick to get blocked by Seto's arms, Lee jumped back and then went into a series of punches, which Seto dodged or blocked expertly. Lee threw a right handed jab which Seto caught in a vice-like grip causing Lee to wince in pain. If anyone were to comment on the match they would have compared this to a boxing match.
"Your strong." Seto said as he threw a left hook and Lee caught it in an iron grip. "Very strong, I think I'm beginning to like you." Seto then reared his head back and slammed it into Lee's face forcing the spandex teen out of each others grip, and then kicked him in a little bit below his chest sending him into the giant hand statue.
Lee immediately stood up, and put his right hand over his bleeding nose. Grunting in pain Lee put his thumb and index finger on the opposite ends of his nose respectfully, and a loud crack was heard. After blowing the blood out of his fixed nose Lee about to attack, until he heard Gai shout, "Lee take them off!"
"But Gai-sensei, you said to only remove them when my precious people are in danger." Lee replied.
Gai gave him the nice guy pose and grinned, "It's okay I'll allow it this one time."
"Thank you Gai-sensei." Lee replied sitting down and took off his orange leg warmers, revealing leg weight's with the black kanji for Guts on them.
'Weights?' the members of Team Ten thought, surprised that there was another Genin besides them who used weights.
'What an old style training method Gai.' Kakashi sweat-dropped.
'Lee's still using weights? I thought he got rid of them like the rest of us.' a newly awakened Tenten thought.
'Interesting.' was Naruto's thought.
After Lee took off his weights and put his leg warmers back on he announced, "Alright! Now I can move easier!" and then he dropped what looked like some light set of weights. And that resulting caused huge clouds of smoke and debris came from the weight's Lee dropped.
'Isn't that a bit much Gai?' Kakashi's sweat-drop increased even further.
'Holy shit!' was Tenten's, and Team Ten's collective thoughts. While Naruto just looked on interested.
Lee then disappeared and reappeared in front of Seto kicking him in the gut, making him bend over. He then circled around him and jumped nearly four feet in the air, Seto brought his head up just in time for heel of Lee's right foot to smack him in the head. Lee then got on his back and kicked Seto in the chin. He then jumped high in the air until he was above Seto, he quickly unwrapped his bandages and just as quickly wrapped them around, and then wrapped him them in a bear hug, he then then started spinning rapidly planning on pile-driving Seto into the ground.
"Primary Lotus!" Lee shouted flying off the falling body, sending Seto into the ground creating a shock wave of dust and debris.
Everyone saw the devastation and saw that Lee was barely standing, but smiling knowing that he won.
A sinister laughter that chilled him to the bones wiped the smile off his face when the dust finally settled it showed Seto emerging from the rubble. The upper left portion his shirt was gone, sleeve and all, and his black t-shirt was not looking so good either. His hair that was usually tamable now was messed up badly. Blood trickled down his forehead to his chin until it hit the floor, and twin trails of blood were coming from the corners of his mouth. He was holding his right side showing everyone that one or two of his ribs were either broken or cracked, he was leaning on his left leg a little more that he should have, and yet he was grinning.
"Hehehe you've managed to hurt me." he laughed before coughing up some blood, "Your only one of a few people to do that, you have earned my respect." after hacking up some more blood he continued, "But I'll have to finish this." he unsheathed his katana for the first time during the match then dropped into a partial crouch, both knees bent, left arm drawn back and right extended forward; he grasped the endcap of the hilt of his sword with his left hand and rested the tips of the fingers of his right hand on the blade near its tip.
He then ran at his maximum speed at the barely moving Lee, he struck his blade out having it dig into Lee's skin. It went completely up diagonally across his chest, from his right hip to his left shoulder. A spurt of blood flew out of the wound causing Lee to fall to his back in the worst pain he's ever felt in his short life.
This immediately caused Hayate to end the match and the medic team rushed to save the young man.
"You don't need to worry the wound is not fatal." Seto said as the Medic-nins put the man on the stretcher, "When my sensei said all that crap about the Flames of Justice, he was talking about the Shinsengumi Code: The Aku Soku Zan (Destroy Evil Instantly)." he proved his point by taking off his left glove to show the same tatoo his Jounin instructor had.
This caused every Jounin to pale seeing how young he was to be in that group.
"And from what I can tell he's not evil." Seto then looked at the barely conscious Lee, "Grow stronger and we'll fight again." and he then limped back to the stands.
While Lee was taken in for treatment Naruto was going over the match in his head. 'That Lee kid is strong, very strong. To be able to injure Seto like that takes a lot of skill. Maybe he can be of some use to me.'
Naruto was so deep in thought that he missed the next match of Gaara v.s. Kankuro with Kankuro automatically forfeiting saying he wanted to live. However he did snap out of his inner thoughts to see the next match and couldn't help but smirk.
Shikamaru Nara v.s. Chouji Akimichi
The two best friends were sincerely surprised when their names came up, and both looked at each other, both unsure what to do. Their thinking was cut short when Ino pushed both of them over the railing.
"Don't you two dare hesitate!" Ino shouted at the two, completely ignoring both their glares. "Naruto wouldn't so you shouldn't either." she continued causing the remaining contestants to become confused or angry in that respective order.
"She's right." Shikamaru sighed.
"Yea, Naruto wouldn't hesitate. May the best man win." Chouji agreed withdrawing his axe.
Shikamaru nodded and reached into his back pouch, and pulled out what most people would never expect him to ever wield. He was wielding two very odd knives, not like kunai knives though. The four inch blades went to the sides, while each of his four fingers on each hand were though four holes in what would have been the handle.
"Asuma you didn't!" Kurenai exclaimed.
"I did." Asuma said after blowing out some smoke from his cigarette.
"How could you teach a Genin something so dangerous, that's totally irresponsible of you!" the crimson-eyed Jounin scolded the man next to her.
"Kurenai don't lecture me on how I train my students." the chain-smoking Jounin said, "Watch and maybe you'll learn something."
After Hayate started the match Chouji ran forward and brung his axe down, Shikamaru brought his trench-knives over his head and stopped the axe. The shadow user brought his right foot up and kicked the axe wielder away from him. Chouji then slammed his axe into the ground and his right hand increased to three times its size. He brought it down on his best friend sending up dust and debris.
"You'll have to do better than that Chouji." Shikamaru's voice came from the dust. A shadowy line came from the dust, Chouji however saw this and jumped high into the air. Landing Chouji ran into to dust and a loud clang and a scream of pain were the result of that action.
When the dust finally settled it showed Chouji's axe cutting deeply into Shikamaru's chest. Shikamaru was barely holding the axe blade steady with his trench-knives.
"Give up Shika if this keeps up, I'll have to kill you!" Chouji grunted, trying to push his axe down further.
"I'm afraid that won't happen." Shikamaru said calmly.
"And why is that?" Chouji asked pushing his axe a little deeper.
"Because you fell right into my trap!" Shikamaru announced as Chouji's own shadow crawled up his body until it reached his neck, forming what looked like a hand.
"Shadow Neck Bind a success!" Shikamaru shouted.
"Damn you Shikamaru that was dirty!" Chouji yelled at his best friend.
"Hey Naruto said that a shinobi's life was dirty, anything goes." Shikamaru responded.
This caused Chouji to laugh, "Yea I guess your right, alright ref I give up." he said ending the match.
'It has only been a month, yet they improved very nicely.' Naruto thought to himself, 'But they still have a long way to go, their stances still had many openings, and it looks like Chouji still hasn't found the real power of Shukketsu. But what Shikamaru did show that he was willing to get injured to harm his enemy, there might be some hope for them after all.' after that thought he saw Shikamaru get a quick patch up by the medic squad and returned to his team. The next match up caused him to smirk.
Ino Yamanaka v.s. Sakura Haruno
But that turned into a frown when he remembered what Chouji and Shikamaru said about their last mission.
Flashback
It was their second C-rank mission it took two and a half weeks of intense training to get them ready for this. For this is when they would prove their worth as ninja of the Leaf, today they will raid a bandit camp and save any women within it. When they first came to the camp it looked to be a large expanse of at least twenty-three tents, various ill-hygienic and ugly looking men milling about doing various -but mostly pointless- things. Since it was late in the afternoon, there were many outside. All were either gambling, sharpening their weapons, or passed out on the ground. Trash littered the place along with what seemed to be the bones of various animals, and the smell was nauseating.
However that was not what filled them with the most incredible sickness in their stomachs, or the rage within their very souls. No it was the sight of seven scantly-clad women doing manual labor for these men, some were cooking while others were serving them. However, what almost blew their cover was when the normally level-headed Shikamaru almost ran into the bandit camp when one bandit grabbed a woman that was probably a year or two older than him after she finished serving a group of bandit's some food, ripped of what little little clothing she had, and proceeded to rape her in front of everyone with those men cheering him on. It took a whack on the head from Asuma to put him unconscious to prevent his from doing anything rash.
So now here they were hiding in different bushes near the camp, the sun was starting to set when everyone was about to head to sleep. And it was nearly time to attack.
Shikamaru looked from his hiding place to saw two archers near him. Knowing they would be trouble he put his hands in the rat hand seal, and three black tendrils sprouted from the shadow of the tree the first archer was on. Silently creeping up the tree the shadow user carefully maneuvered the shadow behind the man, concentrating Shikamaru aimed and then struck. The shadow went right through the top of his spine and into his skull, through his brain, and directed it to his mouth piercing his tongue so he couldn't make a one last second scream, the other two impaled him through the back and leaned him on the three to make him appear that he was relaxing. After using his shadow under the cover of near darkness he set the bow on the deceased archers lap and went to the next one.
"Tank, this is Shadow Master, there are archers in the trees. I already eliminated one and moving on the second...never mind both threats are eliminated, over." Shikamaru whispered into his communicator.
A few moments of silence passed, a burst of static came through. "Copy that I see three near me. What about you Mind Flyer? Over." Chouji responded.
"I'm in the tree with him and he's not waking up anytime soon, over." Ino replied wiping her bloody kunai knife on the deceased archers vest.
"This is Knife Master there's two by me. Be careful and wait for my signal, over." Asuma said to his students.
"Got it, over." the three replied.
After what seemed like countless minutes Asuma went through several hand seals, 'Fire Style: Burning Ash Accumulation!' he breathed out a steady stream of ash at the men. After spreading it in the middle of the camp, he brought out a kunai, put an explosive note on it, he then then threw it. The resulting explosion killed three men and wounded ten others, but it scared the living hell out of the bandits, this was the start of the ambush.
Shikamaru burst into action, reaching into his back pouch he pulled out his new trench-knives and slashed a frightened bandit's face. A second one snapped out of his fright and came at him holding a crude spear and tried to stab the shadow user, only for him to jump to the side and sliced the mans neck as he charged past him. The man immediately let got of his spear and grabbed at his neck to try to stop the bleeding, Shikamaru was about to finish him off when a arrow went though his head.
Surprised Shikamaru looked up to see Ino smirking at him, before she notched another arrow and fired it into a tree. Where a bandit fell from the tree quite dead with Chouji's head popping out screaming Kill thief.
During the start of the attack Chouji immediately jumped into the nearest tree, brought readied his axe and dug it deep in the surprised archers back. He then reached into his shuriken pouch and threw it, he smiled when it dug into the mans head, he then ripped his axe out of the bandit's back, and jumped on the tree where the last archer was. He brought his axe over his head and was about to bring it down on him, when an arrow pierced through the back of his neck until the tip of the arrow came out the front. The dead archer fell out of the tree and hit the ground with a sickening crack.
Chouji popped his head out of the tree and saw a smirking Ino with a bow in her hand. "Kill thief!" he screamed at her.
He then jumped down onto the dead archers back and looked down on the corpse he landed on and saw that his neck was broken. If the arrow didn't kill him the fall did, and if that didn't he certainly did, he didn't really care as a half-naked bandit came from behind him thinking him as a easy target, he reared his spear to throw smirking all the way.
Oh how wrong he was because Chouji suddenly turned around and threw his axe, the bandit didn't even have time to move as the axe embedded in his skull. Seeing more bastards that needed to be killed Chouji ran over to his latest kill, he grabbed the axe and tugged hard on it releasing it from the dead mans head. He then turned and went after his next victim ready to rid the world of these bastards.
Unlike the boys Ino however took a different approach, she knew she was no good at close quarters combat. But that didn't mean she was going to be useless. Searching quickly she found the bow of the dead archer. "I never one of these before, but now is not the time to complain." she muttered as she brought up the bow, took an arrow from the quiver and chose an easy target. She aimed at the bandit clutching at his throat and fired seeing it go through his head, making a surprised Shikamaru look at her. For this she couldn't help but smirk, seeing a bandit in a tree aiming for Shikamaru, she quickly notched another arrow and fired it into the tree causing the now dead archer to fall out of the tree.
She smirked again as Chouji's head popped out and screamed at her. Not even bothering with him right now she arched another arrow and fired it at another easy target.
Meanwhile Asuma already did his job, he took care of the two archers near him, started the ambush, and he created a shadow clone to infiltrate the camp to kill and clear the tents to rescue any women. So now he was sitting back and seeing how much his students have progressed in these last two weeks. And by his estimate they were doing just fine.
Shikamaru finished slitting the throat of another bandit when he spotted the bastard that made his lose his cool that afternoon. He would never forget the six foot tall man completely naked man -no doubt he just finished raping another woman, which just made him angrier- with a really nasty scar going across his forehead.
It would be his most enjoyable kill of his young life.
The bandit bent down and picked up a discarded dagger and twirled it in his hand grinning sadistically. Shikamaru didn't give a damn about his fancy knife skills, he just threw his trench-knives at the man for them to miss. The bandit laughed seeing him miss and was about to move to kill the shadow user when he found himself stuck in place.
"Now you weren't thinking of killing me were you?" Shikamaru asked walking steadily towards him, a sadistic grin forming on his face as his black chakra nature started leaking out from him. "Well I got some news for you that isn't happening because you're ensnared in my shadow." he indicated his two trench-knives behind the man with two black lines connected to the mans shadow.
"What are you going to do to me? Huh?" the man sneered.
Shikamaru simply took out a kunai and his tendrils actually sharpened at the ends, "I'm going to make you pay for your crimes."
"Yea right! Your in the middle of a battle, one of me buddies will kill you before you even git to me!"
"Look around you dumb-shit, everyone like you is dead!" Shikamaru said allowing the man to looked around and see the destroyed camp, most of the tents were set ablaze, the seven women were set free standing behind Asuma -all of them glaring at him with fear and hate-, and Chouji and Ino standing beside him.
"You're going to die here." Shikamaru said as one of his tendrils shot forward and pierced the mans shoulder, causing him to scream out in pain. "There will be no pleasure in it." a second tendril pierce his hip, "I don't care what you might say for me to spare your life." he sent his third tendril at the bandit's less than impressive dick and had it wrap itself around it. "Because frankly I don't give a shit!" Shikamaru willed his shadow to slowly pull, very slowly. It took fifty agonizing seconds with the squishy tearing sound and the mans blood curdling screams until the he was completely castrated.
This action caused the women to either faint or throw up, Chouji lost what he ate that day at the brutal display, Ino absolutely looked horrified, and Asuma was silently dreading hat he had to write this in the mission report.
Shikamaru willed his remaining tendril to go through the bandit's new hole causing him absolute agony, he willed the one to toss his useless 'junk' into a nearby fire, forever ridding the world of this rapist's 'tool' that he used on more women than Shikamaru wanted to think about. He then walked up to the man menacingly, took the kunai in his hand, and plunged it in his out of shape gut. He twisted the kunai and tore it across his belly causing a mixture of blood and fat to fall form it. As his entrails fell from his gut Shikamaru pulled the kunai free and slashed him across his face, accidentally causing his nose to fall off, not that he cared.
"I'm not done yet." Shikamaru said menacingly ignoring his bloodcurdling screams.
"Yes you are." Asuma butted in.
"This scum deserves much more than this. Don't interfere!" he retorted as his sensei.
"I'm sorry but this has to end now, I will not have you becoming a sadist under my watch!"
After glaring at his chain-smoking sensei Shikamaru finally sighed in defeat, "Fine I'll end it." he then walked behind the man and promptly shoved his kunai up the mans ass, enacting another scream from him. "But that doesn't mean he'll die right away." Shikamaru then went into a chain of hand seals with it ending on rat.
"Eternal Abyss!" Shikamaru's voice was colder than ice as the shadows around the doomed bandit started pulling him in, his screams of torment echoing throughout the camp and piecing their souls. "This jutsu was just made for people just like you, it takes you straight to the bowels of the abyss where you'll spend an eternity of torture. My dad said never to use this jutsu unless that person deserved it. And lucky for you, you fit the profile, may your never rest in peace." Shikamaru's eyes held no warmth as the last remains of the bandit sank into the abyss, never to be seen again.
'Naruto what have you done?' Asuma thought at what just transpired.
After the jutsu ended a very exhausted Shikamaru turned towards the group. "I'm sorry you all had to see that, but he deserved what he got." before he collapsed to his knees, Ino and Chouji quickly ran over to him and supported him on both sides.
"We don't blame you at all Shika." Chouji said.
"He deserved it like the rest of these bastards." Ino agreed.
Asuma's head suddenly perked up and growled angrily. Without any warning he stomped forward past his team and into the biggest tent inside the camp. Confused the Ino-Shika-Cho trio followed their sensei into the tent, as they entered they saw an absolutely pissed Asuma screaming at a beautiful woman tied onto a chair. The woman had violet eyes and black hair that was quite clean, and wore an elegant robe fit for a queen. However her eyes showed no emotion, and her smile reflected nothing but pure joy despite her situation.
"Asuma-sensei what are you yelling about?" Chouji asked, quite intimidated never seeing his sensei this pissed off before.
"This woman is the leader of this group!" the bearded Jounin retorted angrily, surprising the three Genin. Because Naruto always told them the leader of a bandit camp was always a man, looks like he was wrong this time.
Asuma quickly withdrew his own trench-knives, "Start talking why are you the leader of this abomination!"
"I don't have to tell you anything." her voice was smooth as silk, and her face innocent like nothing happened.
"Wrong answer." Asuma was about to rear his right fist back to punch her delicate face, when a soft, but firm hand clasp over his wrist.
"Asuma-sensei, I believe I'm more suited for interrogation than you." Ino said, stopping her sensei from doing anything stupid, "Please allow me to do this."
Asuma was about to protest, but the fiery look in her eyes brought him to a complete halt. Only once had he seen her eyes like that, the eyes of a true kunochi. "Fine, but I want answers from her. After that we'll take her into the nearest town for a trial."
"I understand sensei, but this might take a little bit. This will be my first time."
Nodding Asuma ushered Shikamaru and Chouji out of the tent before he went out a second later.
Thirty minutes later everyone who was left alive in the camp and heard an explosion. The remaining members of Team Ten ran in the direction, and saw that it came from the tent. Fearing that the bandit leader somehow pulled a kamikaze move on Ino. However when they got there they saw Ino standing outside the tent in a daze, she had blood covering various areas of her outfit, and tears running down her face.
"Ino what happened?" Asuma demanded.
After a minute of silence Ino snapped out of her trance, "She deserved what she got." and then fainted into Asuma's arms.
Confused as hell the three entered the tent only to regret soon after. The entire inside of the tent was covered in blood; it was littered with bones, bits of skin, organs, and body parts.
"Dear God what happened in here?" Shikamaru asked, only to get no answer.
After snapping out of his thoughts again he saw Ino beating the living hell out of Sakura. He looked over to Kakashi for questioning, the Copycat ninja answered by saying Sakura insulted him quite badly and Ino unleashed her fury on the pink-haired bitch. The masked ninja finished up just in time for them to see Ino knock Sakura's lights out with a wicked right hook. Then drag her up the stairs causing her head to hit the steps one at a time until she stopped next to Kakashi, gave Naruto a quick smile, and went to join her team.
Keno Udo v.s Dosu Kinuta
After the last Grass Genin now named Keno stepped into the arena everyone knew that this fight would end badly, Dosu however didn't care. He didn't care about the exams, being promoted, or Orochimaru for that matter. All he wanted was to defeat Sasuke Uchiha and nothing would get in his way, nothing.
After Hayate started the match Dosu dashed at the Grass Genin with all his speed to end this match quickly. He pulled back his arm with the sound bracer on it and threw a punch at him, Keno twisted to the side, dodging his punch and used the momentum to kick him across the face. He then landed but stumbled and brought his right hand to his ear to find out it was bleeding. "What the hell was that?" he asked.
Dosu just chuckled and raised he sound gauntlet on his right arm, "There's a little trick here. You can't just dodge against my attacks." seeing most peoples confused looks he went into more detail, "It's sound even if you dodged my fist, sound will attack you."
"What?" Keno asked.
"Do you know what sound actually is?" the mummy-like Genin asked.
"Vibrations?" he asked.
"Exactly." Dosu brought his left hand to his left ear, "Hearing sound means that your eardrum is catching the shaking of air. The human eardrum will break by sounds exceeding one-hundred and fifty miles per hour. And deeper in the ear lies the inner ear membrane when this is damaged, you lose your balance." he then went into a sinister chuckle, "You won't be able to move your body as you wish for a while."
Keno just laughed at the Sound Genin and shakily stood up. His what should have been defeated look was filled with defiance as he unsheathed his wakizashi. "I'm not going to be defeated by a measily ear bleed, I've endured tougher injuries that that." he said smirking behind his scarf.
Dosu just scowled underneath his bandages and dashed towards Keno intending on ending the match right then and there, after all he knew that no one could stand for long after their eardrum got damaged, and it looked like the Grass ninja was on his last legs.
Oh how wrong he was.
Keno looked at him and made direct eye contact. Dosu then found himself frozen and was helpless as a upwards slash went from the upper part of his lips, up his cheekbone, through his eye, and an inch above his eyebrow. Falling to the ground he screamed in pain at the loss of his eye, ignoring the pain through sheer willpower he stood up, and his gauze mask fell off revealing his face for the first time. His face was very good looking -if you ignored the bloody cut going down, err...up his right eye- almost like an older Sasuke, his dark brown hair flowed from his scalp in a wild yet tame fashion.
"You bastard!" Dosu screamed in rage as he ran at Keno, this time he was going to finish him off. He had to fight and defeat Sasuke, no matter what it took. He raised he gauntlet covered fist and made a punch for his heart.
Keno took one step back and threw his own punch into Dosu's torso. A loud cracking sound could be heard as the Sound Genin was sent flying back from his punch. He slammed into the ground hard and rolled a few times until he hit the wall knocking him out cold.
After the medics took Dosu out of the room the next match up showed.
Hinata Hyuuga v.s. Kin Tsuchi
Hinata was totally surprised that she was up next, while Kin started walking down to the arena Hinata looked unsure. After a second of thinking a strong hand rested on her shoulder, she looked up to see Naruto looking down at her.
"Now you weren't thinking of quitting were you?" he asked her.
"I-I I don't k-now if I can do it." She stuttered out.
"Hinata don't quit now when you've come so far. It doesn't matter to me if you win or lose, it matters that you actually tried." he said to the shy heiress.
After he said that Hinata felt inspired, and quickly went into the arena. A minute later Hayate started the fight.
Kin immediately reached into her ninja pouch and threw two senbon's with bells on them. Hinata easily dodged them by hearing the sound, Kurenai said something about this kind of trick where an opponent would throw you off by using one bell the next time, and the next thing you know you would get stabbed by the second one. She mentally told herself to avoid the needles. Kin then brought her arm in front of her to throw her senbon needles, the Hyuuga heiress prepared to jump away when the Sound kunochi pulled her left hand back causing the bells behind her to ring. Hinata then found herself trapped in her genjutsu causing her to hallucinate and see dozens of Kin's.
"I see you noticed my genjutsu don't worry this will be over soon!" Kin smirked as she threw her needles striking the Hyuuga heiress in her arms causing her to cry out in pain. "Is that the best you got? You're more useless that that pink-haired bitch, did you become a kunochi just to impress that Uchiha prick too you slut!"
This proclamation caused several outbursts: One from the pink-haired banshee screaming she wasn't useless and telling Hinata to stay away from her Sasuke-kun, a second was a hidden smirk from Sasuke thinking he could use her influence to make him all the more powerful; that and she wasn't that bad looking either, but the others thought otherwise...well maybe not the Sand Genin.
When she said that something inside Hinata snapped, like something that was holding her back all these years finally broke free. No longer was she cringing in pain, no she was smiling, a confident maleviolent smile.
"Maybe your right, maybe I'm not fit to be a kunochi like you." She said without a stutter, surprising those who knew her, "I thought that so many times I lost count, but someone changed me for the better. And thanks to him I'm not going to back down, not now, not ever." she said with a smile activating her Byakugan without the use of hand seals, expelling a large amount of chakra breaking the genjutsu that bound her, and she started to make hand seals not even a second after that.
"I haven't perfected this yet, but it's more than enough to beat you. Demonic Illusion: Tree Binding Death!" she announced as she suddenly disappeared. Before Kin had a chance to react, roots began to grow at her feet and completely constricted her movements.
"What the hell! I can't move!" Kin shrieked as she tried to break free, realizing that there was no escape when the roots became trees and began to wrap around her. Once she was captured, Hinata appeared in the tree trunk with a kunai in her hand, holding the sharp blade at the Sound kunochi's throat.
"The winner is Hinata Hyuuga!" Hayate announced stopping the match before it got too out of hand, however a few seconds later Hinata didn't dispel her technique. "Your supposed to (cough) undo your technique now."
"I'm afraid I can't dispel it by myself yet, I used up most of my chakra." Hinata said embarrassingly causing various people to sweat-drop. Sighing Hayate dispelled her technique, and told them to head to the the stands. As Hinata passed Neji he had to restrain himself from striking her, he read the files about the Wave Country mission, and he denied it at first. As a Hyuuga he knew that it was forbidden to learn anything outside the clan, hell that rule was practically drilled that ideal in their heads at birth. And he knew that as heiress Hinata would never do anything to shame the clan, but he just saw it plain as day, and knew that he had to complete this mission for the good of the clan. That's why he smirked when the next match up showed on the screen, just like the elders promised.
Naruto Uzumaki v.s. Neji Hyuuga
'Someone is trying to screw Naruto over, and I have an idea of who they are.' Sarutobi thought, as he scowled at the names being drawn, and knew this was far from random, with them being the last three people and all.
'Looks like the elders came through with their promise, Uzumaki will die today as promised.' Neji thought prepping himself for victory.
Naruto however just blinked seeing that he was fighting next, and this was one he couldn't wait to finish. After that he would have a good talk with the Hokage over this "random" match up.
Before anyone could say anything though the two immediately jumped down from the stands, standing across from each other. Both scowling.
"You should just give up." Neji said suddenly. Naruto made eye contact with the brunette Hyuuga who was looking at him with a bored expression. "Fate has already decided that I will win and that you will lose."
"I don't think so." Naruto said. "Fate is nothing but a crack of shit."
"That is were you are wrong." Neji said as he shook his head. "From the moment we are born, our fates are determined and set in stone. Fate determines everything up till our death. Take for example your desire to be Hokage, it will never happen. Only a select few every become Hokage and that is because they were fated to do so. It is impossible for you, an orphan with no clan to speak of, because you are only as strong as the family you are born into. Things like free will are only an illusion!"
After that, Neji was silent. Neither of them said a word. Slowly, Naruto closed his eyes as he remembered what a good friend of his once said, and then opened them, "First of all who the hell said I wanted to be Hokage? Seriously where did you hear that load of garbage? And second who said I don't have a clan to speak of? I'm Naruto fucking Uzumaki the last person you will ever see. And to prove it I won't use my swords." he said to the Hyuuga prodigy enacting a shocked look from everyone, because they clearly remembered a young Naruto shouting his lungs out that that he was going to be the next Hokage.
"They must be big." one of the Chuunin's said in the back ground.
"Huh...what?" Zabuza said, being the only one quick enough to answer him.
"The size of his brass balls, who'd be stupid enough to challenge a Hyuuga?" the ninja shuddered, remembering what happened to the last guy who insulted the prestigious clan.
"It's not stupidity it's guts and experience, watch and learn and you'll know what I mean." the Demon of the Mist said as the fight started.
Snorting in response Neji got into his Gentle Fist taijutsu style stance, and activated his Byakugan, while Naruto sprang at his with speeds that caught the Hyuuga prodigy off guard, expecting him to get into some sort of stance. He cocked back his right arm punching him in the face reeling back in pain Neji left himself wide open. Naruto took this opportunity and punched him in the solar plexus causing Neji to gasp as the punch drove the air out of his lungs. Neji threw a chakra powered punch, but it was brushed aside and he ate a punch to the face, and then a kick to the stomach, sending him back a few feet.
Neji trembled, and fell to his knees his legs were refusing to listen to him. He dry heaved a couple of times as he clutched his stomach in pain. These injuries were nothing compared to his shattering pride. In his head he cursed the Kyuubi Jinchuuriki, this filthy demon, not even worthy to breathe the same air as him. This filth was making a fool of him, no the entire clan! Gritting his teeth the Hyuuga prodigy struggled to get up.
"Stand down Neji I don't want to have to kill you." Naruto said cracking his knuckles.
"I will not be defeated by a freak like you!" Neji screamed as he quickly took out a kunai and threw it.
Naruto easily dodged it by stepping aside, he expected as much. But what he didn't expect was his wounds to act up, he clutched his chest as it was beginning to bleed through the gauze. While he was immune to most pain but he knew he wasn't immortal, and the Kusanagi sword was a special sword and some major damage, after all it belonged to a very powerful person. And he was not talking about Orochimaru. Neji saw this and grinned immediately.
He lowered his body and tilting it forward, and with his right arm stretched back, Hinata and Neji's team saw this and shouted to stop the match.
But it was too late.
"You are in my divine range Eight Trigram Sixty-Four Palms!" Neji shouted springing forward towards Naruto.
"Two palms!" the strike were met by Naruto's forearms.
"Four palms!" the strikes hit Naruto in the torso.
"Eight palms!" the strikes hit Naruto in the legs.
"Sixteen palms!" the strikes hit Naruto around the torso and his back.
"Thirty-two palms!" the strikes hit Naruto's entire torso
"Sixty-four palms!" the strikes hit Naruto everywhere, sending the blond crashing into the ground, sending up a cloud of dust and debries.
"Declare the winner judge, he won't be getting up ever again." Neji said turning around towards the stands, seeing the teary-eyed faces of Hinata, the ice slut as everyone called her, but he was surprised to see Tenten close to tears, and that Yamanaka girl as well. While the men he was always around were about ready to slice him to bits, which included Hayate, Kakashi, Ibiki, and especially the Demon trio.
Sighing angerly Hayate raised his right arm, "The winner is-"
"I don't fucking think so!" a voice echoed throughout the room, causing the spectators to to look towards the sound of the voice.
When Neji turned around he grit his teeth in fury as he saw the Uzumaki emerge from the rubble, his yakata was in shreds and barely handing off him, and his hakama pants were shredded as well, showing off a few scars on his legs. He was breathing heavily and was shaking badly, barely being even to stand.
"What were you saying about me not being able to stand?" he shakily asked, coughing up some blood.
"Why don't you listen to your betters, and stay down like the dog you are!" Neji raged at the blond.
"And how exactly are you better then me again?" Naruto asked, in a defiant tone.
"Because I'm a Hyuuga, the elite of the elite while you the Kyuubi incarnate are nothing!" Neji screamed reaching into his kunai holster, and threw it at the prone blond samurai.
Naruto's head went down, his hair overshadowing his eyes. He didn't have to look up to see their horrified faces, he knew his time in this village was at its end. But that didn't mean he was going to die here by some Genin. This was the last thing he wanted to do, but there was no chioice now. As the kunai came barely an inch from his face he muttered one word, "Release."
Neji was grinning he won, the elders would reward him, making him an honorable member of the Main House. Victory was his, he could taste it.
But the taste of victory turned into something rancid when Naruto exploded into a dome of chakra, it's light blue texture mixing in with the crimson red demonic chakra, creating something black as the night for a brief second before it exploded with a deafening boom sending the kunai away harmlessly. But that's not what filled him with inner and outer pain, no it was the shock wave that destroyed the ground, and sent him flying into the wall embedding him in there. Groaning in pain Neji and everyone else opened their eyes before they widened in shock and horror.
In the medical ward
The doctors and nurses selected for the exam finally sighed in relief as they finished up their latest patient.
Kanpou wiped the sweat off his forehead and looked at his partners Kitou, and Iashi. They have been the Medic ninjas for nearly a decade, they have healed some major wounds, but apparently Genin nowadays were more vicious and cruel than their generation. But they looked over the prone Genin and were proud of their work.
Zaku was in a jutsu induced sleep so they could work on his arms, while they weren't as good as Tsunade they managed to reattach both his arms. He was lucky that he was the first brought here when they were fresh, or they wouldn't have been able to save them. He woke up a minute after they brought Dosu in.
Kiba only suffered from a nasty concussion and a couple of bumps and bruises, but unfortunately they had to restrain him to prevent him from attacking the Grass Genin that whooped his ass. Kitou made the comment that the Alpha was now the bitch of the pack when he first got in, which resulted in a good laugh.
Lee refused to get fully healed he said he wanted to keep the scar as a reminder to get stronger, and then shouted something about the flames of youth. They complied on the condition that he doesn't talk or scream about anything Gai related.
And they fixed Dosu up a few minutes ago. His eye was a total loss, but they fixed up his ribs as best they could. That took the longest because it looked like he got into a fight with Tsunade and lost.
"Whew, that's the last of them. Man these Genin are vicious." Kanpou sighed as he took a soldier pill to replenish his strength.
"Uhh Kanpou you might want to look at this." Iashi said and pointed at the tv in the room.
"What is it?" he asked until he turned around, "Oh dear sweet God."
The seven people in the room saw what was happening on tv and couldn't believe it, Naruto the blond-haired swordsmen of the Leaf was different, and they didn't like it one bit.
After the dust settled the real Naruto stood for everyone to see.
The chakra explosion tore away the rest of his yakata leaving him naked from the waist up, revealing his true torso. It wasn't a pretty sight, for there were more scars on him than anyone cared to imagine. One scar went across his right collarbone and chest, another scar was on his left shoulder blade, and scar going across his six pack abs. On his torso he had one large scar going from his left shoulder to his right hip, and a scar going diagonally down his left peck creating an odd X shaped scar, as well as several more minor scars, crisscrossing his arms, especially the puncture wound going through his right collarbone. His hakama pants were badly torn showing a few smaller scars on his calves, and his gloves were gone showing his charred right hand. And on his back was a large tattoo that held the black kanji symbol for Demon
But what most were shocked about was his face, while it looked the same it was a little more chiseled and angular. But his trademark whiskers were lighter, barely visible unless you look at them in the right light, and the scar on his left cheek had another one making a distinguishing X shaped scar. But what was truly shocking was his hair and eyes. His hair was now pure white not blond with red highlights, but white as a ghosts. And his cold sapphire eyes held malice, rage, hate, and bits of insanity.
But what the Jounin saw made them question their eyesight, hell Kakashi even brought out his famous Sharingan eye to see if he wasn't mistaking. But he wasn't and that's what filled him with dread.
On Naruto's left shoulder blade plain as day was the black tattoo with the symbol of the Shinsengumi.
But Naruto didn't care as he eyed Neji with the most hate-filled glare anyone had ever seen, when Naji groaned and tried to get himself out of the wall Naruto quickly unsheathed the Mugenjin, and the Kiku Ichimonji Norimune and threw them. The sharp blades pierced the Hyuuga prodigy's flesh, through his muscles, and finally in between his shoulders blades, pinning him to the wall, making him scream out in absolute pain that was music to his ears.
"Let me tell you something Hyuuga." Naruto said clutching his right wrist, "I am not the Kyuubi incarnate, I'm only his container."
The sound of electricity sounded through the area.
"I am sick and tired of you miserable fucks blaming me for his attack. Blaming everything on the demon brat, and don't say I haven't suffered more than you. Because Hinata told me how you lost your father, and frankly your life was golden compared to mine. You had a clan to back you up when you were down, you had a home where you belonged. I didn't!" he said his voice spitting venom with every word as lightning engulfed his hand. "Here's a small biography of my life, at three I was kicked out of the orphanage by the bitch that ran it for defending myself, at four some drunk Chuunin tried to kill me and nearly succeeded, but I took out a defected katana sword behind the Higurashi Weapons Shop and stabbed him through the chest killing him. He was so stunned seeing a sword in his chest I knocked him into the metal bin behind the shop making everyone think he killed himself in a drunken stuperior! At five I was enrolled in the academy there I was picked on and disliked by a lot of the kids, you included." his breathing became ragged as blood started pouring out of of the corners of his mouth as the electricity started turning red.
"And at six I was nearly killed by a mob and was taken out of the village to die. There I was found by a man that took me to a place that I would call home. That lasted for two years before they were all killed. Since then I wandered around doing whatever I could to survive, and as you can see all of them were from fighting and killing. Do you know how stressful that is? Wondering if I would live to see the sun rise the next day, well the the stress turned my hair fucking white because of it!" Naruto screamed over the roar of the now black lightning with crimson around the edges, the lightning was emitting the screams of the damned making everyone, including the ever stotic Gaara and Shino cover their ears.
"I hope you enjoyed nearly killing me, because your going to be the second person to die from this attack. Very befitting for a Hyuuga to die with your fear of lightning attacks, shame I haven't come up with a name for it yet." Naruto said as his arm started smoking and detiorating from the attack.
"Die!" he whispered racing towards him not even hearing Hayate shout that he was the winner. He kept running using Three Steps Below Shukuchi before thrusting out his lightning covered arm at the prone Neji. His hand sizzling his chest as he got close, as he was about to pierce his heart the lightning suddenly dissipated leaving his hand smoking and blacker than ever with skin hanging off it revealing the muscles underneath.
"Heh, your lucky this time Hyuuga." Naruto sighed before collapsing drained of everything he had. Leaving a stunned audience, mad as hell teammates, and a Hokage that had a lot of explaining to do.
The Fifth Rider of Armageddon: Hey everybody long time no see I'm terrably sorry for the late update, but I hope it was worth the wait.
Now onto serious matters Naruto and Sakura in the manga, I did not see that one coming. The Juubi and Madara's plot to control the world, saw the world conquering part, not the Juubi. The Mizukage being extremely hot though I expected it to be Madara, and does every single member of The Seven Swordsmen of the Mist have sharp pointy teeth? And the Byakugan in the Ao dude, gives me an idea. And the Tsuchikage is a very old midget not what I expected, I expected a overly muscular battle scarred man in his forties.
Hmm that's all I want to say see you all next time.
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