So, since I almost literally got no votes I have chosen the harem.
Temari
Kurotsuchi
Ino
TenTen
Fem-Haku
Fu
Rika
These seven are the chosen, six who received votes, and one who was already predetermined.
Without any further ado, welcome to chapter seven and the start of the Chunin Exams.
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'KAMI/OTHER DEITIES THINKING'
"Biju talking"
'Biju thinking'
"Talking"
'Thinking'
Naruto: The Crow of Konoha
Chapter 7: Chunin Exams Begin. Taggala Battle Royal
Previously….
"This boy will be the strongest opponent Konoha will ever be able to throw at anyone; I'm talking about S-rank by eighteen. He has four blades he shouldn't have: Thanatos, Armageddon, Ruin, and Nilfheim. These blades belong to three people, two of which are Taggala family members. He probably could take on most of us if he is as trained as we believe." Shihiro and Fayt stated alternatively.
And now….
Sasuke was training with Naruto and Sakura when he remembered something. "Hey Sakura, you do realize that I am going to be put under the CRA?"
Sakura suddenly looked up from the beating she was getting while trying to match Naruto and his nodachi. "Yeah I know, the fact was probably beat in to me on more than one occasion. Why, are you thinking of not accepting anyone from the village?" She then started to push back with her blade, almost causing Naruto to skid back. Before he did, he switched over to Samehada and started to swing it around like it was a stick. Sakura quickly locked blades with Naruto, her sword's ability to drain the life force of enemies negating Samehada's ability to drain chakra. Naruto then pulled back and put up half of the tiger sign.
"Taggala Forbidden Technique: Demon Seal Release." As his chakra suddenly multiplied Sakura noticed that Naruto grew wings, one similar to a bat's wing, the other an angel's wing. The slit in his eyes suddenly became clearer and sharper, his features suddenly seemed more foxlike, and he then seemed to randomly appear in the area before charging at Sakura with his sword dragging the ground. Sakura dodged and replied with a Futon: Diatoppa. When it hit Naruto he crashed and hit the ground. "So, Sasuke, are you scared that your fangirls will find out about your being in the CRA and try to rape you again?"
Sakura suddenly started to turn her head, "Again? What does he mean by, AGAIN?"
Sasuke suddenly looked down and grunted. "About an hour after the meeting yesterday I was suddenly surrounded and without the help of Naruto here, I would have been raped by the fangirls." Sasuke then noticed that everyone was hungry. "How about we head out and get some food? I know this really good tea shop nearby."
Everyone nodded and started towards the tea shop.
Evergreen Tea Shop…. (If this place is real, then damn I don't own either.)
At the shop four people were talking amongst each other. The four were Kaita, Otella, Shihiro, and Fayt. Their genin teams were spread out through the shop, along with a team that had a music note on their headband. The talking all stopped when Team Seven walked in and sat down; the Taggala family members recognizing the blades held by the boy with whisker-marks, the Oto team recognizing the Uchiha, and no one recognizing Sakura.
When Naruto started looking around he noticed the Iwa team and grinned dangerously. "Well Sasuke, look at this, we got ourselves an audience. I wonder, does Iwa, Kumo, Kiri, Oto, and whatever villages that showed up really believe that Konoha Team Seven is not gonna all become Chunin. I mean, our members are Uzumaki Namikaze Naruto, Uchiha Namikaze Sakura, and Uchiha Sasuke, our sensei is Namikaze Hatake Kakashi." He then noticed the ones who energy was similar to Hiroshi's. "Actually it seems that the Kiri teams might be a little bit of a challenge, especially the one with the green-haired sensei. Probably the one with red and green hair will be the hardest opponent to beat." He then notices Yugito's youki. "Ooh, and Kumo sends their little kitty to tackle Konoha's Crow. Too bad this Crow hunts with a fox." The other teams suddenly smirk when they feel that the guys talking shit about their teams have shitty levels of chakra. The Taggalas are the only ones who realize that his chakra is also currently recovering from usage of the Flow. Fayt walks over to him and sits across from him.
"Tell me little boy, do you know what family I represent?"
"Yeah, the Taggala family. You're Hiroshi-sensei's wife Fayt." Naruto replied, sitting down and lazily grinning. "He made sure that I knew everyone he thought could kick my ass, either by a slim margin or a complete ass-kicking. He had you labeled as a slim margin, Otella-san over there with a complete ass-kicking, same with Kaita-san and Shihiro-san. Suijin-sensei and Tomohiro-sensei made that clear as well. They drove into my head that any of the Crimson Fangs could kick my ass, except for Jervon." Naruto stated, all the while judging everyone's reaction. Kaita was smirking, Shihiro was laughing, Otella was happy, and Fayt was just surprised.
"Wait! You were trained by Oji-san and Tou-san, even Dani-chan?" with the last one a sudden flash of black lightning almost singed the red and green haired girl who had just spoken.
"Yeah, I suppose so, if Tomohiro-baka was the last name on that list." He didn't even blink as a Tomohiro suddenly appeared and hit him over the head before catching a glimpse of all the friendly Taggala family members that wanted to turn him into Swiss cheese. When the vampire disappeared Naruto suddenly ducked as a jounin was sent flying away from Rika's table. A girl with her dark hair in a bob cut, pale grey eyes, dark purple tank top, black shorts, standard shinobi sandals, and fingerless gloves complete with knuckle studs was standing where the man had been. Naruto suddenly noticed that the jounin was none other than Ebisu. The girl started yelling at Ebisu and calling him a pervert. Naruto suddenly stood up, grabbed Ebisu, and sent him flying out with a rasengan powered push. "Stay out ya damn pervert, I told ya time and time again. Next time, I'm sending ya out with a fucking Bijudama!" When he turned around the girl looked at him.
"Name's Fujiwara Ruka genin of Kirigakure and next in line to inherit the Fujiwara Tea Industry." She held out her hand.
Naruto shook her hand and then sat back down, but not before sending a glare at a civilian who didn't like him. The civilian suddenly stood up, and with practiced ease, threw two senbon at Naruto. The two senbon hit him and was dissolved almost instantly. With a flick of his hand Naruto sent out two Sonikkubaretto shots that immediately killed the civilian. "Sonikkubaretto, which is my fastest attack."
Fayt suddenly looked at him and noticed that he had his hand on the sheath of Armageddon. That was movement that Hiroshi did routinely, most often when he wanted to do something stronger but couldn't afford to. She also noticed that his gaze kept heading towards Rika, who was also glancing at the kid. 'Hm, I wonder if the two realize that they are acting almost like Hiroshi and I. Only this time there is no annoying mother that doesn't approve. What would Hiroshi say, besides the warning to not hurt his daughter? If the rumors are true, he is also under the CRA.' "Naruto-san, I suppose we all should head to our individual residences for the Exams start tomorrow." He nodded and all the people there suddenly disappeared in various shushins. Naruto, Sakura, and Sasuke all ordered some dango and tea and quickly ate.
The next day…..
Team Seven walked into the academy dressed in their grays, Naruto had all of his weapons sealed into his gloves. Sakura's nodachi was sealed into the inside of her glove. Sasuke had taken to having his chokuto in the small of his back. When they showed up Kakashi appeared and gave them a cheesy thumbs up. He then explained that if all three hadn't showed up they would have been disqualified before they even began. He then wished them good luck and sent them up. When they reached the second floor they saw two "genin" pushing Rock Lee back and taunting him about how pathetic he was. Sasuke was about to say something when Sakura and Naruto shook their heads. They waved at TenTen and walked through the Genjutsu. When they got to the top they saw the actual room and all nodded with identical smirks. On Sasuke's signal they all kicked the doors and caused them to slam against the walls. Everyone in the room turned and directed as much killing intent as possible at the three. All of a sudden they all hit the ground when the three released more killing intent then most Kage were capable of. A man with silver hair came walking up and grinned. "Wow, you three really know how to make an entrance. My name's Kabuto. Course you three might also draw too much attention to yourselves." Kabuto suddenly glared when he saw that Naruto was asleep. "You know, a lot of the people in this room could kill you while you sleep?"
Everyone from Konoha suddenly started laughing at Kabuto. "You're not really a Konoha genin if you think that someone can sneak up on him." Shikamaru said as he walked up. "Yeah, 'cause Naruto-nii could kick all your asses asleep." Hinata states as she walked up. The rest of the Rookie 12 file into the room. Neji looks at Naruto and scoffs, right before a crow lands on his shoulder and suddenly grows into a clone of Naruto. "Namikaze Naruto is finally here!" he shouts as the clone that was asleep disperses. Everyone suddenly looks at him in shock, a faint cry of bullshit coming from Kankuro who was slapped down by Temari. Unfortunately for our poor clown based friend Naruto heard him. "Who's the dead bitch that said that!?" Garra suddenly pointed at his stupid older brother.
Naruto walks up to Kankuro and pokes his chest and forces him back onto the ground, he then pulls out his wrapped blade and slams it down right next to his groin. "If you ever wanna be able to use it, then you really don't wanna call me a liar again. Next time I might not miss." With that he went to cuss some more people out when there was suddenly an explosion and a large amount of smoke in the front of the room.
"SHUT-UP AND SIT THE FUCK DOWN!" Ibiki yelled out as he and the other random chunin appeared. "My name's Morino Ibiki and I have the gracious pleasure of being your first proctor. If you are already pissing your pants you might want to get the fuck outta here. I will only say these rules once. Rule 1: if I say to do something you fucking do it. Rule 2: If you cheat, you get two points docked off your final score. You have ten points, so that means try not to get caught five times; otherwise your entire team is fucked due to your stupidity. Rule 3: no sitting beside someone from your village. Rule 4: you have one hour to finish, at ten till I will give you question ten, so don't piss me off. Rule 5: NO PLAYING POKER WITH THE ANBU THAT WALK BY THE ROOM!" the last rule had people going 'wtf' until they looked over and saw Naruto winning against some ANBU.
"Come-on Ibiki, one little game and you chickened out of playing again." Naruto said as he dealt out the cards.
"That's because Anko was there along with a few other kunoichi and you somehow convinced me to convince them to play strip poker. You never lost a damn hand either, hell I don't think you have ever lost a hand during a card game." He then noticed Naruto's triumphant grin. 'Damn gaki, he thinks that he is so smooth because he saw Anko, Yugao, Hana, and even Kurenai beat the shit outta me while they were naked. I do see why Jiraiya does what he does now.' "Either way, you shouldn't be playing poker during a test."
"Oh yeah, well I finished. I got the answers from the ANBU I was playing against. She was rather forward with the answers once you mentioned that I have never lost a hand. So thank-you for helping my legend grow." Naruto stated as he then kicked back in the chair and pushed some convenient shades up over his eyes.
As everyone finally calmed down some of the others were realizing what the test was about. Sasuke was using his Sharingan, Sakura knew most of the answers and was helping out TenTen, Neji and Hinata were using their Byakugan, Ruka was slowly sipping tea as she waited for Rika to use her ace in the hole, Kiba had Akamaru spying on others papers, Ino took control of a random person who already had the answers written and then possessed Choji to give him the answers, Garra was using his Third Eye technique, Rika activated the Flow and used the ability to stop time long enough for her to gather the answers and write them on her teammates papers, Samui used her looks to convince a pathetic chunin to give her the answers, Omoi passed his answers to Karui when no one was looking, Lee got the answers from TenTen, and the rest used a few of their favorite cheating techniques.
"Numbers 12, 78, 90, and 23 you and your teams are outta here." Ibiki said as the four teams left. He then grinned as he saw Naruto wasn't awake. 'Trust the brat to actually get the clue to the test, he openly talks with the Kyuubi, and from what I gathered he even gained a few new inhabitants. The Kiri teams are strange though, Naruto never directed any killing intent their way, almost as if though they were stronger than him. I wonder, the one with mixed hair color seems to be the unofficial team leader. The Iwa team is looking at Naruto like he stabbed their puppy, which considering he introduced himself as Namikaze Naruto right from the start, makes a lot of sense. Kumo sent the Nibi-no-Bakemono Jinchuriki. Suna sent the Ichibi-no-Tanuki Jinchuriki. Taki sent the Nanabi Jinchuriki. So four total Jinchuriki in the exams, three Jinchuriki were sent as sensei's to the other teams. Seven of the nine Jinchuriki in one village, what have we done to deserve this? Fortunately for us, Naruto holds the Kyuubi and is actually strong enough without using the youki; I think it might be overkill if he did. Oh look during my inner monologue I was subconsciously eliminating cheaters. Oh and it's time for the final question.' "Someone wake up sleeping beauty."
Rika, who was sitting next to Naruto, poked his side to wake him up. When he turned his eyes to her she pointed up at Ibiki. He nodded and said thanks. 'So tou-san and oji-san both trained him. He even has Thanatos. I must see if he is worthy of those weapons….. and to see if he might be boyfriend material. At least tou-san won't try to kill him.'
Ibiki looked around at the teams left, 100 teams left, time to drop the number. "Before I give you the tenth question I will give you one last chance to leave before I give it to you."
"Why would we do that?" a random useless peon asked from the back.
"Because of the fact that if you take the question and fail, you will remain genin forever." Ibiki replied with a sadistic grin. Someone shouted about how it wasn't fair and Ibiki suddenly grinned even more, "too bad boys and girls, 'cause this time I'm making the rules."
Naruto sat there as team after team had left. It was down to the Rookie 12, Iwa's two teams, Kumo's two teams, Kiri's three teams, the sand siblings, two teams from Taki, Kabuto's team, and the Oto team. That wasn't counting the other rooms, which could have a lot more people in them as well. Naruto remembered what Anko told him about how all the teams left would be brought together in part two. Naruto then realized what Ibiki had been doing and started laughing when it looked like no one else was gonna leave. "So, Ibiki the Torturer strikes again? Man, what a riot. You don't have the rank to stop anyone from being chunin. I went through harder training when I was 10, at least then I had the grace of not putting up with the bullshit of the world and the bastards who are too fucking weak to stay." Naruto then noticed that everyone was looking at him like he was crazy. "What, you try training against spiders large enough to devour you in one bite. The Forest of Death ain't a fucking joke." Ibiki then glared at him.
"As he said I do not have the authority to stop you, except for kicking you out of the room. However, for those of you still here….. you pass. The entire concept was to see if you could cheat without getting caught, either by using unique skills," he pointed to those who had Kekkai Genkai, "or you happen to be an extremely lucky bastard at cards." He pointed at Naruto this time who just laughed. "The second part of the test was to see whether or not you had the guts to be a chunin, because as a chunin you do not have the ability to say no about what mission you might receive. So I'm somewhat happy to say congratulations. However if you happen to be scared of spiders, be careful in the next test." As Ibiki said this a black ball burst through the window and unrolled with the words "Namikaze Mitarashi Anko, Sexy and Taken Snake Mistress of Konoha" displayed on it.
"Alright you maggots, as this sign says, my name is Namikaze Mitarashi Anko, I was adopted into the Namikaze family and I am your next proctor. Come with me to the Forest of Death, be there in 15 minutes or I will automatically fail you." Anko exclaimed as she suddenly disappeared in a shushin.
Naruto looked at his two teammates and they used their shushins to appear at the entrance to the Forest of Death. "Ah, Training Ground 44, my home away from other places that ain't my home." He walked up to the booth and kicked the door, causing the chunin who was supposed to be on guard duty to fall out asleep. "Oi, Renzo, wake the hell up before I put you into another spider nest."
The guard, Renzo, woke up and looked at Naruto, "Sorry man, but what the fuck did I tell your ass about waking me up?"
"Well, Anko is on her way and the Chunin Exams have started. If you're not awake what do you think Anko will do to you?"
"Like I give a fuck. Naruto, my friend, think about it like this: Anko knows she can't touch me until after the Exams, at which point I will probably be on a mission somewhere my skills won't be wasted. So she can't do shit as long as the Exams are going on."
"True, but I can." With this Naruto punts the chunin into the forest, where the screeching of tons of spiders is heard before a large explosion is heard, and Renzo comes walking out with a large Zanbatou made of clay in his hand.
"Naruto, what the fuck was that for?"
"You looked like you needed some help getting up."
Renzo then snapped his fingers and the clay slowly dissolved into his arm. "I should beat the shit out of you, I should, but I won't."
"You mean you can't."
"Go fuck yourself."
"Nah, I'll get ahold of your sister."
"My sister hates men."
"She doesn't hate me."
"Like I said she hates men."
"Renzo-teme."
"Naruto-baka."
"Renzo-teme."
"Naruto-baka."
"Renzo-teme."
"Naruto-baka."
"Renzo-teme."
"Naruto-baka."
"Renzo-teme."
"Naruto-baka."
"WOULD YOU TWO SHUT THE FUCK UP!?" Sasuke and Sakura both shouted.
The two stop arguing and look at the two. Naruto then brings out his Sin-blades and Renzo forms his sword. They are about to start a small spar when Anko and the other teams show up. Everyone gasps when they see the Sin Blades. Iwa was glaring at Renzo before he made the clay dissolve into his arm. He returned the glare when one of the giant spiders showed up and launched itself at the two who killed his entire family, even though it was the runt of the family. (Sound familiar to anyone else?) Naruto just turned his head. "Pathetic little arachnid. You don't have enough hatred to kill me." He then appeared behind it with his arms crossed as the spider's legs fell off and it gave its final screech ever. The screech sounded abnormally like a big spidery fuck-you. Everyone suddenly looked shocked; the spider had to be the size of a small house. "Damn Renzo, I think this is one of the runts from that nest we destroyed a few months ago. Look at it man, it's tiny compared to some of the others." Everyone suddenly felt a shiver go down their back when they heard more creatures screeching. "Hell yeah! It's cleaning time in the Forest of Death! Man I wish I knew that this is where the second part of the Chunin Exams was gonna be; I wouldn't have cleaned it a week ago then." Naruto was chuckling evilly while everyone was sweat-dropping at his actions and words.
Anko suddenly walked up behind him and then turned and looked at everyone else. "Listen up maggots, in this Forest there are enough scrolls for each team to have one. Your mission is to get three separate types of scrolls and get to the tower in the middle. You have five days or you automatically fail. Automatic failure will also result if you open any of the scrolls before you reach the tower. Also Naruto, you are FORBIDDEN from antagonizing the spiders during this test. The last time that you antagonized them like that they slaughtered an entire group of chunin." Anko then noticed that Naruto was looking at a Kusagakure kunoichi. The kunoichi was trying to get close to him, only for the automatic defense of his to suddenly kick in and blood flowed from his palm before he was surrounded by bubbles of blood. He then turned and looked at the kunoichi.
"Sorry, but I would prefer it if you didn't get so close. You see, each of these bubbles has a nasty surprise for anyone who gets hit by one." He then looked up at the forest. "Where are the waivers?" Anko pointed to a stack of papers and Naruto grabbed one as Renzo passed the rest out.
After signing it and collecting the information on where his team's scroll was located, conveniently close to the gate. Sasuke was shocked that theirs was that close to the gate.
"Sasuke it's like this, we are the sons of two of the most prominent clans in Konoha, as well as the strongest of our generation. We are important to the plans of the village. They are gonna make sure that we pass with little to no difficulties. We are just too important to not pass on to the third round." Naruto finished as he fished the scroll out of the trap infested river bed it was hidden in.
He looked down and noticed that the scroll had the kanji for crow on it. He then smirked when he looked at his teammates and pulled two more out from a pouch hidden by his coat. When they looked at him questioningly he pointed out that the two scrolls were the sakura scroll and the hawk scroll. "I pilfered these whenever I saw the teams that were supposed to get them fail. I merely did what was expected and confiscated them. He then sealed the three scrolls into a tattoo on his arm. "Let's head out and try and get to the tower as soon as possible.
On the other side of the forest…..
Rika wasn't happy; her team was on the opposite side of the forest as Naruto's and that Naruto apparently had home field advantage in the woods. While most of the creatures could sense that she was stronger than them the damn giant spiders wouldn't quit attacking whenever they got too close. If she hadn't saw Naruto take one out with blades made from his blood then she would have thought they were unbeatable to normal shinobi. As it was, she was using her grandfather's sword and loving it. Siren was a truly remarkable blade, she never actually used it's transformed for due to it not matching her style. She was the perfect match between her mother and father: strong enough to match her father and agile enough to evade her mother. Even so, Naruto was an enigma, he was powerful, and that much was obvious in his displays of strength. He was also humble; he knew he never stood a chance against a member of the Taggala family. She suddenly blushed when she realized that her thoughts were doing nothing but praising the man who she wanted to fight, as well as other things. She suddenly blushed as her thoughts took that sudden drop into the gutter and made its home there for the time being. She then noticed that her teammates were looking at her in shock. "What are you two looking at?" They just shrugged and continued on, her teammates smirking at her when she back was turned. She then turned around and glared at the two. "Would you two like to have an advanced training session back home?" The two shut up almost instantly. They then felt one of the most sinister killing intents that they ever felt, well for two of them; one simply does not forget the killing intent of a pissed of Tomohiro in full combat mode. That being said she then felt the flow being accessed in the same area. She suddenly took off in the direction. She came across the Kusa kunoichi attacking Naruto and his team, Naruto had used Thanatos and was using her transformed form to cut at the kunoichi who seemed to be moving like a snake.
Naruto's POV….
Naruto was pissed; of all the people he could fight it had to be a fucking Sannin. He had enough problems with Zabuza. Naruto then finally snapped and resealed Thanatos into the special seal on his palm. "Ketsueki to: Chimamire no Tenshi!" When Naruto took his winged form he suddenly started a long line of hand signs, before yelling out his most dangerous technique in this form: "Ketsueki to: Chimamire no Tenshi: Kushizashi no Chisei!" Orochimaru was suddenly dodging spikes made of blood, hardly a threat. He then noticed that he was surrounded by a large amount of the blood bubbles. "Sorry Hei-teme, but this your end. Ketsueki to: Chimamire no Tenshi: Tenshi no Bochi!" (Roughly blood style: bloody angel: Angel's graveyard.) Orochimaru noticed that he was surrounded by blood and even covered in it. "Katsu." The blood all exploded, taking Orochimaru's arm and causing him to flee. Naruto then dropped to the ground while waiting for his team to come and help him. He then noticed Rika looking down at him from a branch higher up from the ground then he was. "Sup, Miss Taggala." He then sat with his back to the tree he was in.
Rika was floored; this guy just did more damage than even she could. "What the hell was that?"
"That was one of my more deadly blood based attacks; it covers everything and then I use my ability to make my blood a bomb to finish off whatever I hit. The attack, like most of my blood based attacks, has the unfortunate weakness of using my blood as a weapon. However by being the Jinchuriki of the Kyuubi-no-Kitsune has its perks. Well looks like my team is here." Naruto said as Sasuke appeared next to him and helped him up. "See ya around, Miss Taggala." With that Naruto and Sasuke disappeared in a shushin.
And that is it for now. More of the Orochimaru fight will be revealed in flashbacks later.
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