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Disclaimer: I do not own naruto
"Normal speech"
"Toughs and flashbacks"
"Kyuubi"
"InnerSakura"
"Kyuubi's thoughts"
(AN): authors note.
AN: did you see Zetsu's new nickname? 'alloe vera' hehehehehehehe
CHAPTER 12: the beginning of the second exam.
The other three people in the clearing were staring at Naruto intently, making him uncomfortable "well, what happened is that..."
Flashback starts:
It was a quiet night. And the blond was sleeping contently without a care in the world. As he was completely relaxed and enjoying the wonders of a calm, dreamless sleep. When he was savagely yanked of his warm, cozy, king-sized bed from what it looked and smelled like an inebriated Kakashi.
"Kakashi-sensei what the hell are you doing?" asked groggily what he got for response was a bunch of weird giggles and some nonsense before he was hoisted on the jounin's shoulder and trough the open window. In his mind only one thought.
"Just how the hell did he got pass the security seals?"
the next thing he knew was that he was at the hokage tower with an equally sleepy Fuuma Sasame, a completely hammered Anko and a clearly disgruntled hokage who was apparently reciting wedding vows to the couple whom were giggling and barely standing.
"And you Hatake Kakashi take this woman, Mitarashi Anko as your beloved wife, until dead do you apart?"
The jounin only sputtered some incompressible words in response.
The hokage's eyebrow just twitched before sighing "good enough, I now pronounce you husband and wife. You may kiss the bride"
The kiss was sloppy and wet, a testament of the state that the kissers where in, after that they 'politely' asked Naruto and Sasame to sign the papers in the place marked as witnesses.
Flashback interrupted.
Anko interrupted him before he could continue "and that's all it happened right?" hoping beyond all reason that it would be all.
This time the orange haired girl answered "actually..."
Flashback restarts:
After that the jounin dragged the old man and the two children to what it looked like a tattoo parlor where with the consent of the sandaime the owner of the establishment started making a really special pair of tattoos: shinobi marriage tattoos. the type that use chakra infused ink and the requester's blood to be made. The types that won't fade until all of the people that gave blood for the tattoo are dead; also the types that hurt like a bitch when applied.
"Anko-san, are you sure this is a good idea? It will be painful and it's permanent" said the tattooist.
"Hush sutp yuoer nutoh ash sartsrt sichning" (translation: just shut your mouth and start pinching)
"Okay you can't say I didn't warn you"
Flashback ends.
"Ha! Now I know you're lying I don't have any tattoos on me brat!" Anko declared proudly. After the cursed seal Anko was nearly impossible to mark with ink, when she was drafted for ANBU it took four people plus the tattooist just to put the thing on her arm.
The blond smirked at the unspoken challenge "oh really?" for some reason, neither Kakashi nor Anko liked the tone. "Then what is this!" he said as he lifted the back of her trench coat.
In the small of her back, underneath the chain-mesh shirt was the image of a sitting white wolf howling to an invisible moon (an: it was not tattooed) to its right were the characters 'Hatake' with an electric-blue snake wrapped loosely around them.
"See I told you that you were marked" and then he asked Kakashi to remove his shirt, when the man did as asked an almost identical tattoo could be seen in his right shoulder blade. with the only difference were that the characters said 'Anko's propriety'.
It was a pregnant silence the one that followed the physical proof of their actions, silence that the copy ninja broke with his amusing. if out of place comment "you know Anko I really don't mind the matching tattoos, but was really necessary to put that I'm your propriety?" he said as he scratched his masked chin.
At this Anko hmped before answering "I don't want some bitch taking claims on my man. or even trying for that matter"
"what I can't get is the fact that we didn't notice the marriage tattoos this morning" said the silver haired jounin.
"with a hangover of that size we wouldn't noticed the kyuubi even if it was passing in front of us" replied the snake mistress, then perked at a thougth that entered in her mind. meeting Kakashi's eyes with a seductive, if slightly dangerous smile she said " you know I would actually like to remember my wedding nigth, don't you agree Kakashi-kun?" saying the last part in that tone of hers. The tone that said she was about to do unspeakable things with the reciever of the tone.
Kakashi perked up before shooing both genins and saying " okay remember Naruto to be here on time tomorrow and be ready for test, bring your gear with you, now off with you two"
"now where were we?"
with Naruto and Sasame:
walking back to the clan area Naruto glanced to the girl walking next to him. she was still wearing the same outfit with two diferences: the fisrt was that the black ski mask was missing from the top of her head and the second was that a blue headband was tied around her neck as a collar.
" so Sasame-chan what rank did you get?"
the girl smiled before answering "they made me a genin"
"but why?" he asked genuinely curious, whaen it comes to down to it her skills in most areas where enough to grant her the rank of chunin.
At this comment the girl looked sad "they said that my combat skills are lacking," while it was true that in information gathering and Reconnoissance there was hardly any one without a bloodline that could match her. Her skills in combat where severily lacking, the only thing she had per se was mid-high skill in archery.
Naruto looked at her with a sincere smile on his face " don't worry Sasame-chan with training I'm sure you'll be really strong"
"You think so?" she asked a little surprised.
"Of course! If it worked for it will work for you!"
she smiled again, " arigato"
"Nah don't mention it"
The next morning Naruto, along with all the applicants who passed the first part of the exams were in the designated area, a deep, dark forest surrounded by a fence that had barbed wire on the top to prevent unauthorized entry.
The loud voice of the purple haired proctor boomed, catching everyone's attention.
"Arigth maggots, welcome to area 44 or the forest of dead. Where the second part of the exam will be held."
Usually Naruto would've said something to her attempt of intimidation, but thanks to the incident of yesterday he decided to just shut up.
Naruto started to look all the teams present, most of them were made of shinobi several years older than them and several of them were looking at the rest with distrust. He also noticed that the sound tema was eyeing his team with intent, and a team of iwa shinobis was looking at him with nothing but hate, making himwonder if they knew who his father was. He was interrupted when Anko started talking again.
"Arigth maggots I want each of you to take one of this blank scrolls and wirte in it with luxury of detail a non-academic, non-clan related technique that you have. I don't care the rank or nature of it, just that it can't be from teh academy or a clan, also sign this, These are waivers… there ARE going to be deaths during this part of the exam, and the responsibility will fall to me if you don't sign them" and started passing the scrolls.
Everyone looked confused but did as they were told.
Naruto wrote down the instructions for his most basic raiton jutsu: raikyuu (lightning ball).
Sasuke wrote down the instructions for his only doton jutsu: shinju zanju (inner decapitation)
Sakura, who outside the academy basics only had one jutsu, decided that writing down was dangerous and instead wrote down the water walking exercise.
Similar things were happening all around, and so in very short itme each genin had written down at least one of their techniques. In that moemnt Anko spoke up again.
"now Basically, everyone here is gonna be in a five-day survival test. The area is surrounded by a fence, and there are three main features: the Tower, in the center; the river, running through the forest and the tower; and the forest itself, running around the entire area. It's roughly ten kilometers from one of the 44 gates to the tower, and once you guys are in, the gates will be locked, and you can complete your assigned task."
At the confused looks she got, Anko drew out a brown scroll with the kanji "Tsuchi" on it, and a white scroll with the kanji "Ten" on it. "Each team will get either a Heaven Scroll or an Earth Scroll, and then it'll be an all-out scroll battle. Basically, you have to fight each other for a reversed scroll; like one team has to have both an Earth Scroll and a Heaven scroll, and on top of that each one of the teams must have adquired the scroll with technique from other team and you have to keep at least one of the original technique scrolls with you. But have in mind that once the scroll is in your hand you can do with it whatever you want, read, or burn it, I don't care, if it's in your hands then it's yours"
(AN: she is talking about the scrolls with techniques inside)
"I reiterate, you must get to the tower with both scrolls. Like I said before, you have five days to get to the tower. You'll be facing the same conditions any shinobi on a mission will face; hunting for your own food, constant threat of attack, lack of sleep, and great distance to complete your mission. So it's official… some will die inside."
She then went over the disqualifications; either losing a teammate, or not getting the scrolls within the time limit. "Another thing… don't open the scrolls until you make to the tower. Anyone who does… will get a big surprise. Now, exchange the three forms I gave each team member for a scroll, then move to a gate. Lastly… don't die."
As the teams got the respective scrolls and got into their respective gates, everyone was anxious for one reason or another to start the test, after a few moments the signal was given each team got into the forest. Not moments later the shouts of pain and surprise were heard.
"so it begins" Anko said with a smirk on her face.
Pretty soon, Team 7, in possession of a Heaven Scroll, heard screaming. "Looks like the carnage has started," Naruto, looking into the distance. "I'm gonna go check out the area."
Not a minute later 'Naruto' appeared with a smirk adorning his face "it's all clear that way"
As Sasuke and Sakura were passing 'Naruto', Sasuke spun on balls of his rigth foot and delivered a back-handed punch to the neck of his teammate, who staggered foward before being srrounded by a clod of ninja smoke, changed into an Ame-nin with an oxygen mask. "H-how?" the Ame-nin groaned, before loosing conciousness.
At this Sasuke smirked and said " the smirk" before rummaging trough the pockets adn taking his technique scroll, he would revise it later.
A sencod later Naruto appeared dragging another ame-nin while Carrying in his free hand another technique scroll "you two huh?" his temamates nodded "did he had the scroll?"
Sasuke and Sakura shook their heads "but at least we have the techniques scrolls" the kunoichi said "yeah but still"
Unknown to them another figure was watching them, waiting for a chance to strike. it would be sweet, he told himself to achieve his goals. To attain the sharingan and to get rid of that acursed reminder of one of his failures. Of how that man took what was meant to be his.
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AN: done!! I know, just a filler but it's used to answer some questions and put some surprises, now as for the voting, i asked you to give me a reason to decided who stayed in the harem Ten-ten or Temari, so far only twopeople have answered and of those two only one had given me a plausible reason.
I hope you liked the twist to the exams, it was made to solve the problem that in canon Naruto don't have a lot of techniques.
Now for the harem:
1)Haku obviously
2)Hinata (I'm not that sure on this one and I'll see if can make it work)
3)Ten-ten or Temari (tied, asking for reasons to decide who wins (reasons, no votes)
4) Sasame (you seriously did not see it coming?)
o yeah his nickname will eventually be konohagakure no kiiroi Arashi (the yellow storm of konoha)
again if for some reason I can't write harem Naruto stays with Haku (or change it's integrants)
Well that's it for now please review flames are not accepted but constructive criticism is.
JA NE.