(A/N First of all thank you all who reviewed my fic. I have nothing else to say expect to be honest with the reviews and review this. Now read I let you to read this.)
Chapter 5
It had been three weeks from the day when Kakashi and the others left from Wave. During that time Naruto trained and finished the seal for his change and found out how to make a seal to take Naomi from her prison inside him with both of them alive. Now he needed to find a place to do the sealing and make something to prevent the massive amount of chakra that comes with the sealing being noticed everywhere in the Elemental Countries.
"This is goodbye for now. I will come back to see you some time." Naruto said as he was leaving from Wave. "You're welcome here any time. You are the Hero of the Wave you know." Tazuna said smiling and patting Naruto's shoulder. "Nii-san d-do you have to leave?" Inari asked tears almost spilling from his eyes. "I'm sorry Inari but I must go. Remember I will visit you." Naruto said and turned around leaving to find a safe place for sealing.
He found a cave suited for the sealing after a couple days of searching. The cave was about 10 meters long, 5 meters wide and 3 meters from top to bottom. 'This will do nicely. Don't you agree Naomi-chan?' Naruto asked Naomi. 'Yes, now prepare the seals so that we can begin.' Naruto immediately set to work. He had to make the seals to drain the excess chakra and main seal and put them around the cave walls.
Sun had set when Naruto was finished. After looking at the stars for a while he went inside the cave to sleep. Waking up and doing what he normally did, he then started the sealing. 'Naomi-chan what perks comes with being a chakra construct?' Naruto asked just before the sealing. 'For one you cannot be harmed easily. You will feel the pain but nothing else. But the strongest jutsus usually S-ranked jutsus or high A-rank jutsus will do some harm your body. You will not die as long as your soul hasn't been destroyed. The downsides are that your chakra control will be shot to hell by the transformation because the chakra from me which you use as a template for your own chakra. You also will feel pain like never before because the sealing will change your soul to accommodate a body made from chakra and because of it there is a high chance of you dying. Are you sure you want to do this?' Naomi finished her list of things. 'Yes I'm sure and thanks for the info.' Naruto said and cut the link to prepare himself and then started the sealing.
The seals glowed red and when every seal was red, Naruto started to scream in pain. It was like Naomi said. The pain was something you can't feel anywhere else on the world or by anything else. Naruto's world started to change into black but he fought against it but ultimately losing.
'Am I dead…? What is this blackness…?' Came a thought from somewhere. 'I remember pain and world turning black… Where am I?' The person's thoughts continued. 'Naomi! Where is she…?' Those were the last thoughts as the world started to change. The blackness started to disappear as colors and light started to come from the edge of his vision.
Finding himself in a cave the person stood up and looked down finding his clothes torn up but still on him. Suddenly memories came to him and he remembered his name. It was Naruto. He went outside the cave to think clearly only to find himself surrounded by shinobis wearing hitai-ates with a sound notes on them. "So it was you who caused the explosion of chakra. Let's capture him for Orochimaru!" One of the shinobis said, most probably the leader of the group. Hearing this rest of the group cheered and charged Naruto.
Naruto dodged one of the shinobis punch and as the shinobi overextended his punch Naruto came close to him and punched him at the windpipe. Seeing one of their comrades failing to capture Naruto they took out their weapons and charged him. Naruto started to dodge their swings and thrusts and sometimes he redirected their attacks so that they hit each other.
Finally only the leader was alive. "M-m-monster!" He yelled as Naruto came closer and closer. "You don't know how right you are." Naruto said to him before closing the distance and snapping his neck. "Weaklings." Naruto stated to himself as he started to search their bodies.
He found five sets of kunais, five sets of shurikens, 5 meters of ninja wire and a sealed scroll. That he found intriguing. Shinobis from another country that isn't Konoha's allies inside Fire country with a sealed scroll 'Sounds like conspiracy or invasion to me.' Naruto thought as he did some seals to open the scroll.
While he was fighting the shinobis someone opened her eyes in the back of the cave. 'Ugh, my head. What happened?' She thought as she tried to stand up. 'What was that?' She thought as she heard voices and sounds of fighting. Finally able to stand up she started to make her way towards the sounds. Seeing Naruto sitting on ground with something on his hands she smiled and yelled while jumping on him
"Naruto-kun!" Naruto heard and turned around only to be pushed to ground by a hug. "Naomi-chan?" Naruto asked. "The one and only." Naomi said with a grin and hugged him tighter. "C-c-can't b-b-breathe." Naruto said as he was chocking by Naomi's hug. "Oh sorry. It's just that you look so gorgeous after the seal did its work." Naomi said and scratched the back of her head. Hearing this Naruto looked around to find something where he could look at himself. Finding a pond he looked down and gasped. He looked like he was around 20 years old and his clothes looked few sizes too small. His fully blond hair now had red and black streaks going through it. Also it wasn't as messy and spiky as it was before. Now it reached somewhere past his shoulders. Seeing this he decided to put it on a ponytail.
"I thought it would take time for you to reform?" Naruto asked after he had returned from the bond. "I don't know myself. Maybe your seals worked better than expected?" Naomi suggested. Naruto absentmindedly nodded. "What are you doing?" Naomi questioned him as she saw the items used for sealing. "Oh just breaking a sealed scroll." Naruto said and went back to breaking the seal.
Finally after a few hours of preparing the seals Naruto managed to open the scroll. Inside he found out orders from someplace called Otogakure to attack Konoha with Sunakagure who are Konoha's allies during the chuunin exam's final phase.
"Thank fully we have two months before the chuunin exam starts." Naruto said after reading the scroll. "What are we going to do for the two months?" Naomi asked. "I guess we could train the first month to get my control better among other things. After that we will go to Konoha and talk to Jiji." Naruto said already wanting to train. Naomi saw this and nodded. She rose up and started to help Naruto with his training.
The first month went rather quickly. Naruto trained in getting his control to reasonable levels along with learning some bijuu only techniques. Also Naruto's and Naomi's relationship was lightly romantic before the transformation and during the month their relationship only leaned more and more towards a couple. He also trained in getting used to his animal form and was now on his way to Konoha with Naomi along side him. "What are you going to tell Hokage when we meet him again?" Naomi asked as they neared Konoha. "I guess we'll tell him about the invasion and ask his permission to attend to the chuunin exam." Naruto answered as they were at the gates. "Halt! State you purpose!" One of the guards yelled. "We're here to give an important message to Hokage." Naruto said when they were in front of the gate. The guards talked to each other for a while and then called a squad of ANBU and told Naruto and Naomi to follow them.
Arriving outside the Hokage's tower the ANBU left and Naruto and Naomi went through the doors and up the stairs towards the Hokage's office. Naruto knocked on the door and opened it when he heard someone saying "Come in."
"Hello Hokage-sama." Naruto said and bowed along with Naomi. "Who are you and what business do you have with me." Hiruzen said with a commanding voice. "We have something to discuss and would you send the ANBU away so that we can talk I peace?" Naruto asked. Hiruzen thought for a while and with a subtle movement of his hand four ANBU appeared, bowed and left. "Even the one hiding in the ceiling Hokage-sama." Naruto said as he sensed someone there. Hiruzen was shocked when he heard this. "There isn't an ANBU in the ceiling." Hiruzen said. When those words left Hiruzen's mouth Naruto threw a kunai to the ceiling. Before the kunai could hit the ceiling it was deflected and an ANBU with a blank mask with Kanji for Ne dropped from the ceiling and jumped out of the window.
"Damn you Danzo." Hiruzen cursed under his breath and started to make some hand seals. When he finished the room glowed blue. "So what is it you two want to discuss with me?" Hiruzen asked them. "I'm hurt Jiji. Don't you remember me?" Naruto asked with mock hurt in his voice. "N-naruto." Hiruzen said with a shaky voice. "Yes it's me Jiji." Naruto said with a grin. "Where have you been? I, the Ichirakus and few else were worried about you." Hiruzen asked. Naruto just chuckled and said "Travelled to Wave, helped the people there, finished a certain seal and found out about an invasion." "An invasion? By whom?" Hiruzen asked. Naruto didn't say anything and just gave him the scroll he got.
After reading the scroll Hiruzen sighed and lit his pipe. "Now that is troublesome." Hiruzen said. Even though it wasn't a question Naruto still nodded. "Jiji did Kakashi give you my message?" Naruto asked. "Yes he did. I was surprised that you knew the law about the chuunin exam." Hiruzen answered. "Well, do you approve us joining the chuunin exam?" "Of course I approve." Hiruzen said with a smile and gave them the papers for joining the chuunin exam. "Thank you." Naruto said and was about to leave with Naomi when Hiruzen stopped him. "Naruto stop. Can you tell me who the lady with you is?" Hiruzen asked, curious about her. She heard everything they said but didn't comment anything. "Oh you remember Naomi-chan, don't you Jiji?" Naruto said with a smirk and left with Naomi, leaving a shocked Hiruzen behind.
"What are we going to do now Naruto-kun?" Naomi asked. "First we should find a hotel and then we could go to one of the training grounds and train there?" Naruto suggested. "Sounds good." Naomi answered. They walked around Konoha doing some small talk and generally enjoying being near each other.
Finding a hotel where they could stay had proven harder than expected. They didn't want any cheap hotel or anything really expensive. "Naomi-chan we don't need to eat right?" Naruto asked suddenly. "That's correct but where did that question come from?" Naomi said. "I just remembered that Ichiraku's ramen-bar is close by." Naruto said to her. "Well… We can eat it's just that we don't need to eat." After saying that, Naomi found herself being dragged towards the Ichiraku's ramen-bar by really happy Naruto. 'Even though he is mature most of the time, he still has that childish side of him.' Naomi though.
Taking a seat a girl came and asked "Hello sir. What would you like to order?" The girl was Ayame Ichiraku. She had long brown hair, eyes of the same color and fair skin. She wore a white robe with the sleeves folded, some kind of dark blue apron with ribbon ties at the top and a bright white bandanna. "Ayame-chan even you don't remember me." Naruto said with a pout. "Who are you…?" Ayame asked with a dangerous look in her eyes. "It's me Naruto." Naruto said with a grin adorning his face. Hearing the name Ayame was next to Naruto and hugged him tightly and then slapped him. "That's for leaving without telling us." Ayame said with an angry glare. "I'm sorry. I just couldn't come here before I had to leave." Naruto said while looking sad. Ayame accepted the apology and again asked their orders.
After they ate they asked Ayame where the closest hotel that has good quality for a reasonable price is. She told them that it was just a few blocks away. Saying their thanks and goodbyes they left towards the hotel.
The hotel wasn't anything special. Rooms had a reasonable price and they were quite nice rooms. Deciding to go for a walk to the forest they left most of their stuff behind and left. The forest they went was called the Forest of Death. The forest had a fence around it and had gates which told to keep out. They decided to ignore the signs and jumped over the fence.
They walked there for a while when a kunai flew past Naruto's head and imbedded into a tree. "What do I have here? Two people walking in my little den." Someone said with a bloodthirsty and, to some, scary voice while releasing a lot of killing intent. Naruto and Naomi looked bored about it and were like they didn't feel the killing intent. "You can come out now. We're not scared." Naruto said with a bored tone on his voice.
The one who attacked them was a woman. Naruto remembered her from her childhood. She had helped him by dealing with a few mobs that attacked him. Her name was Anko Mitarashi. She had light brown, pupil-less eyes. Her violet hair was done up in a short, somewhat spiky ponytail. She was wearing a tan overcoat, complete with a fitted mesh body suit that stretches from her neck down to her thighs. She also had an orange miniskirt. She had a kunai on her hand.
"What are you two doing here? Even the ANBU don't usually come here." Anko asked while keeping her guard up. "We just came here to have a walk and this forest looked like a great place for it." Naruto said chearfully. Anko was stunned by Naruto's answer. "Get out of here before I make you." Anko growled she was getting pissed because the forest was her unofficial home and they acted like the forest wasn't anything bad, like it was a normal forest.
"Anko-chan don't you remember me?" Naruto asked like he had done two other people already. Anko snapped because no one calls her Anko-chan without her approval and attacked Naruto only for Naomi to block her strike. "Naruto-kun can I fight her?" Naomi asked. "Of course you can Naomi-chan." Naruto responded and went to sit on a nearby tree's branch. "Shall we?" Naomi asked as she took her stance.
Anko threw the first punch which Naomi dodged and countered with her own punch to Anko's stomach. Anko flew couple meters and corrected herself on air. "Who are you two?" Anko asked when she fell to ground. Naomi didn't answer and just came to hit Anko again but this time Anko was ready. She dodged the punch and tried to kick Naomi to the chest. It didn't work and Naomi took Anko's leg and threw her to a tree. Anko turned in air so her feet would hit the tree.
Anko now wanted to finish the battle quickly and started to make some hand seals but before she could finish them she found a blade on her throat. "I win." Naomi said behind her. 'When did she manage to get behind me?' Anko thought and raised her hands in surrender.
Suddenly Anko heard clapping and turned to look at Naruto. "Bravo, Naomi-chan, bravo. It was a good fight wasn't it Naomi-chan?" Naruto said while clapping. "Yes though Anko could have been more of a challenge." Naomi said with a pout. "It seems you don't remember me Anko-chan. So allow me to introduce myself. My name is Naruto Uzumaki. And the woman you fought is my girlfriend Naomi."
Anko was stunned by this. The 14 year old kid who left Konoha after failing three times, was back after a few months and looked really hot 20 years old. "I-is it r-really you Naruto." Anko asked with a shaky voice. "The one and only." Naruto answered only to receive a slap to the cheek. "I think I deserve that." Naruto said while rubbing his cheek where Anko slapped him. "I was worried about you." Anko said with an angry voice.
After that little incident Naruto, Naomi and Anko talked about Anko's time in the village after Naruto left. "It's getting late. Let's talk some other time Anko." Naruto said deciding to drop chan from her name, not wanting to annoy her this time. Saying their goodbyes Naruto and Naomi left towards their hotel.
Rest of the month went quickly with catching up with Naruto's few adult friends and training. Naruto also went on a few dates with Naomi. Now it was the time for chuunin exam to start. Naruto and Naomi were both outside the academy talking for a while. There was no hurry to get to the first part of the exam. Their alone time was interrupted by three Konoha's gennin. Naruto remembered two of the three. Those he knew were Hinata Hyuuga and Shino Aburame.
Hinata had dark blue hair and a fair skin. She also had white eyes that were normal for her clan. Her hair was in a short and stopped above her eyebrows, with chin-length strands framing her face. She wore a cream-colored hooded-jacket with a fire symbol on the upper right and left sleeves and fur around the cuffs and hem, with navy blue pants. She had her hitai-ate around her neck.
Shino had dark bushy brown hair and pale skin. He had dark sunglasses and a gray jacket with a high, upturned collar. His hitai-ate was on his forehead.
The last one was male and had short jet-black hair, ink black eyes and very pale skin. He also had a small backpack. He wore a short black jacket. He also carried a tantō on his back. The rest of his outfit consisted of a high collared midriff shirt, black pants, shinobi sandals and gloves with his index and thumb fingers exposed most. He had an obvious fake smile on his face.
"Hello! Are you here for the chuunin exam?" Naruto said to them as they approached. "H-h-hai. W-w-who a-a-are you t-t-two?" Hinata asked. "You should remember me Hinata-san. We were in the same class before I left." Naruto said to Hinata. "N-n-n-naruto-k-k-kun?" "In flesh" Naruto said and thought immediately afterwards 'Or in chakra.' "T-t-that l-letter you send f-f-for m-me, w-w-was i-i-it t-t-true?" Hinata asked hoping that it wasn't true. "I'm sorry Hinata but it's true. I knew of your crush with me but I didn't have any feelings toward you other than a possible friend or as a sister. You should find someone who loves you and try your best. And remember that I always believe in you." Naruto said with a smile and went with Naomi towards the academy doors. "Good luck in the exam." Naruto told them before he went inside.
They went up the stairs and saw a large group of genins trying to get through a door which had room 301 on a plate over it. "Are they stupid or what? Can't they figure out that we're on the second floor?" Naruto whispered to Naomi. "Maybe they are." Naomi answered and following Naruto up the stairs.
Now they were in front of the real room 301 and next to the door was Kakashi, leaning against the wall and reading his orange book. "Kakashi what are you doing here?" Naruto asked. "Oh hello Naruto. I'm here waiting for my team to come and to make sure that all the teams have their permission papers with them. So show me yours." Kakashi said to Naruto. Naruto searched his pocket and found his paper and at the same time Naomi had done the same and they gave them to Kakashi.
Inside there were fifteen teams from Konoha one of which was from Naruto's class, three teams from Kiri, four from Suna, two from Kumo and dozen from the minor villages like Ame, Kusa and Oto. Naruto heard with his enhanced hearing that most of the genin where whispering about him. Most of them were about his 'age' and the whispers were "What kind of loser would he be? Over 20 years old and still a genin." And the rest were also like that.
Seeing nothing of interest Naruto and Naomi went into a corner to wait for the exam to begin. While waiting for the exam to start three teams from Konoha entered. First to enter was Hinata's team. Next was Sasuke's team and after that there was another team with two males and one female.
First male wore green spandex with orange leg warmers. He had a black bowl-cut hair and enormous eyebrows.
Second male had black hair which reached the middle of his back and was tied back a few inches above the end. He wore a black headband that he wore snugly over his forehead. He wore a khaki shirt, dark brown shorts and blue shinobi sandals.
The female had brown eyes and dark brown hair, which she wears in Chinese-style buns on either side of her head. She wore a pink sleeveless blouse and dark green pants.
After they had arrived an unremarkable looking genin with gray hair came to them and asked that do they need any information. Sasuke asked about a genin from Suna called Gaara and genin from Konoha named Rock Lee. The gray haired genin also told them that for the first time in a long while someone with no shinobi background expect training came to the exam. Naturally Sasuke made his thoughts clear that they wouldn't be able to match him. After that the gray haired boy said something about the minor villages and a few genin from Oto came and attacked him. Before they could attack again there was a puff of smoke and someone yelled "That's enough! Everybody sit down before you are disqualified!" Every genin sat quickly after those words.
"The rules for this part are simple and you will not question them. First rule, you all have one hour to answer ten questions on the paper that these chuunin will give you. Second, you start with ten points and every wrong answer you lose one point. Third, if you cheat you lose two points. And if you're caught cheating three times you and your team will be disqualified regardless of your remaining points. Fourth, the tenth question will be asked when 45 minutes have passed. Now let the test begin." The one who appeared in a puff of smoke yelled.
He was wearing a bandana over his head and a long black coat.
Naruto and Naomi looked at the test paper and noticed that the questions were beyond normal genin standard. 'It seems that he wants us to cheat. Not that I need to cheat' Naruto thought. He answered the questions in ten minutes and went to sleep.
The one with the bandana thought with a smile 'This one has guts.' Looking at the clock he saw that there was plenty of time left so he didn't say anything and just kept looking at the genin looking for any cheaters.
"All right times up!" He yelled. "Now before I say the tenth question I will put a new rule to play." This caused uproar with the genin. "Quiet! Now the new rule is that you must choose if you want to continue." He was immediately interrupted by someone yelling "Why would we not continue?" The one wearing the bandana put a sadistic smirk and answered "I was getting to that. If you don't want to continue your team and you will be disqualified. If you choose to answer the question and you get it wrong you can never take the chuunin exam again." Now that caused a huge uproar. "Silence! Now anyone that wants to leave, raise their hands." For five minutes many teams left leaving behind only half of the participants.
Suddenly a hand slammed to a desk. It was Kiba. "So what? What if we can't participate? We'll just find some other way to promote ourselves!" He yelled. "So anyone want to quit?" Bandana wearing said. No one raised their hands. "All of you that stayed… you… pass!" That caused another uproar from the genin. When the genin were quiet he said "Shinobi life isn't always pretty. As a chuunin you always can't choose your missions. Sometimes you get a mission where you must protect some sensitive information." At this point he took his bandana of and showed them his scars. There were slashes and screw marks on his head. "And you must also be able to gather information and defend it even if it costs your life." He would have continued but a black ball came through the window and opened in front of him. Also a banner was stuck on the wall. It read 'The sexy, single and deadly Anko Mitarashi.' From the ball came out, like the banner said Anko Mitarashi.
"Ibiki you're getting soft. Leaving this many teams. Well no worries after my part at most only half will remain." Anko stated to now identified Ibiki. "Maybe or maybe we have some good ones this year." Ibiki said. Anko looked at the genin and said "Follow me to training ground 44. Anyone late will be disqualified along with their teams." Anko said and jumped out of the window.
Naruto looked at Naomi and they both went to follow Anko.
(A/N. And done. Now as I said in the last chapter I can start working on the next chapter after next week for I will be on a week long holiday with my parents. So it will take a while for the next chapter to come.)
