I'm amazing, two chapters in two days! Anyway, my muse finally got 'er sweet ass in gear and my ideas are comin' in...Just for this story for some reason(What the fuck, people wanna read my other Naruto story!). Naruto's about to use 'is own version of the Sen'eijashu, the Kakusareta. Sorry 'bout the missing letters, I use my school laptop every now and then, this laptop's keys weren't mad right or were pushed too hard by the last owner of it. So, on with the story.
"Yo" speech of people
'Sup' thoughts of people and or quoting
"Waz up" demon speech
jutsu
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Naruto woke up to the sounds of girlish giggling, when he looked for the source, there was Ino standing in front of him. "Good morning, Foxy-kun!" The information didn't sink in right away, it took him a few moments before he bark/screamed in alarm at the intruder. His yowls caught the attention of Anko, who was right underneath the slowly backing up fox, "Hey hey, easy! I'm trying to sleep, what's the matte-Oh, yes. Ino decided to watch you sleep."
Her nonchalant attitude really set Naruto off like a firecracker, he kept yowling in protest and distrust at the Yamanaka. Said kunoichi was not appreciating the negative attention, "Stop that racket, Foxy-kun! No one's going to hurt you, you're safe and Anko-san's making sure I don't do something stupid." She said this while holding his snout closed, so as to prevent an interruption and stop anymore noise from escaping the anxious vulpine. In the other of the young woman was a book Naruto had been reading for a few weeks now, 'Seals for Dummies, that's you genius'.
His struggles resumed, with much more energy than before, irritating the two women in the room. "Naruto!" Anko rarely used his name, instead leaning towards the pet name she gave him, and when she did it was when she was unhappy with him. "Stop squirming and relax, your book's fine and the exams won't start until noon!" She then put her sleeved right arm over her eyes and went back to sleep, to the unspoken chagrin of the fox in the room.
Ino, on the other hand, was ecstatic that she had Foxy-kun all to herself. 'Finally, he's all mine!' And she made this clear to the kitsune-incarnate by grabbing him and holding him close, not too close but close enough to get her point across. Naruto wasn't too pleased with the arrangement at all, so to combat this he dropped the henge. Naruto's fangirl didn't realize, until she heard him groan, that he wasn't a fox anymore.
When she looked down, there was a red-faced Naruto smothered between her developing breasts. The aftermath was immediate, "Ero-Foxy-kun!" With that, she pushed him onto the couch, knocking it over with Anko asleep. Ino just then saw the consequences of her actions when she saw Anko hit her upside the head and into the floor, " I said that I was sleeping!"
At that moment, Naruto got up and started gathering scrolls with the kanji for 'kitsune' on them. He gathered them all up and slid them, along with his arms, into his makeshift flak jacket with long sleeves made of mismatching fabrics. "Foxy-kun, what are you doing with the scrolls and what's with the wannabe flak jacket?" He gave her a glare that said, 'What's wrong with it?!' He answered her after she seemed to relax and get her thoughts together, "The scrolls are for the exams. While the 'wannabe' flak jacket, is my first creation in the ninja department of life! I couldn't buy fabric or clothes without being kicked out, or overpriced. So I gathered all the loose fabric material I could get my paws on and learned to sew the hard way, good times!"
His last remark was honest and held a nostalgic air to it, that was ruined when Anko spoke up, "Those for the-" "Yep," "Are you going to-" Yea!" Each time he interrupted, Anko would get a little more irate and Naruto would get more cheeky looking and giggly. "Will you-" "No," "Can't you-" "Probably! HAHAHAHA!"
Ino was lost as to what they were talking about, the sentences were either cut off or one word answers. "What are the scrolls for? Why do they each have 'kitsune' written on them? Aren't kitsune evil?" The answer came as a growl from Naruto and a smack upside the head from Anko, who then put her in a headlock. "Ino, remember how I said that there are things we just don't talk about," She had a sickly-sweet voice that sent a shiver up Ino's spine and made Naruto smirk mischievously.
"Y-yes..." Ino's response was diminutive and frightened, "Then why are you do the exact opposite?" Her tone took on a more angry than 'sweet' one, getting Ino's nerves to calm down a little bit. "I-I was always told to avoid kitsune if I came across any, why are you-Ahck!" Anko's headlock got tighter around Ino's neck, shutting her up for awhile. "Because, nothing starts out evil and nothing is evil if evil is in the eyes of the beholder!"
The headlock was removed and Naruto gave a glance to Anko, to which she nodded, as he jumped out the window. Naruto came back through the window, got the book from Ino's hands, gave a sideways hug to Anko, and then left again. Ino was now perplexed, 'Why did he come back for the book? Is it important to him, or is it for training?'
She would've asked, had Anko not picked her up, fireman carried her out the window and went back inside to shut the window. 'Well that was rude! She must really be tired to boot me out of her apartment like that!' Her musings were broken when a chuckle came from a tree in front of the apartment, ironically where she waited to get in the living room of Anko. She looked, and saw Naruto in his self-created flak jacket of a mottled grey, green and black. "You rally know how to make a good impression on people..." With that, he bijuu shunshin'd away.
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Training Ground 7 was peaceful; Sakura and Sasuke were sparring, Kakashi was reading his reacquired Icha Icha, and everything seemed right in the world. Until an inferno of colors burst into life on top of the middle stump. "Hey," Was all he said, irritating the three present, especially Sakura. "Hey?! That's all you have to say for appearing in a rainbow inferno, looking like a badass?!" Sasuke nodded affirmatively and Kakashi glared at the condescendingly smirking Naruto for stealing his book.
"Yea! Badass, is the shit! Like me!" His declaration made the three face-fault and sweatdrop. Naruto's next move sent the alarms blaring in the minds of the other three shinobi. "Well, let's see how all three of you can beat my improved technique!" He sent his right arm towards them with his left hand on his upper arm like he was bracing himself for an aftershock.
Before Sasuke, Sakura, or Kakashi could speak, six foxes with kitsune masks on emerged from Naruto's makeshift flak jacket sleeve. They landed on the ground and ran in convergence for Team 7's other three members. The 'kitsune' seemed requiring of orders from Naruto, much to the terror of his teammates and Kakashi, "WHAT THE FUCK NARUTO?! WHY ARE YOU TESTING IT OUT ON U-Oh, I see what this is..."
The tone in Kakashi's voice was no longer strong and defiant, it was weak and defeated. He was taken down by two of the 'kitsune' after he said anything. The kitsune were making quick work of the jonin, much to the horror of the two genin 'survivors'. Kakashi was now restrained and hogtied on the ground with a look of 'I fucked up in life somewhere'.
The next to be 'taken out' was Sasuke, he was literally jumped and knocked around like a rag doll, much to his embarrassment. The two who took him as a target; leaped over his head, landed, and began to headbutt, scratch, bite, kick and body-bash the Last Uchiha. Sakura was zeroed in on by the last two.
"N-Naruto, what's this about?!" He just leveled her with a glare. Before she could take hr jab back, Naruto recalled his kitsune into his sleeves except one. This one stood next to him before henge'ing into, "A scythe?! Since when are you a weapon expert in combat?!" Her only answer was a charge at her with the scythe, with a fox's head open releasing the scythe's blade. Her reaction, was a simple "eep" and she was out like a light.
"N-Naruto," Sasuke's almost broken voice caught the attention of said blond, "What...WAS THIS SET UP FOR?!" He was given a chuckle as Naruto's kitsune return returned to his sleeve, joining its 'brethren'. The answer was a simple one, one that pissed Sasuke off, "Well, I was bored!" Sasuke was now irritated with his blond teammate, now more than ever.
"And to alleviate this boredom, you come at YOUR OWN TEAM?!" He asked incredulously. "Um, Yep." Naruto chirped with an innocent smile playing on his lips. Sakura woke up around this part of the conversation with a loud groan, "Why did I have to be teamed up with the bipolar prankster from Hell?" Her voice was over-dramatically pitiful, getting Naruto to start busting his lunges.
"Oh, it gets better," His evilly mischievous tone promised Kakashi, Sakura and Sasuke nothing but pain. "We're supposed to be getting to the academy in about an hour, I'll see you three there! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" With that said, he ran off to the Academy. Leaving a hogtied Kakashi, a beat and bruised Sasuke, and an emotionally confused Sakura at Training Ground 7.
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Naruto was already at the academy by the time his teammates and jonin sensei began their trek for 'vengeance'. By that time, Naruto was a fox on Temari's shoulder, much to her irritation. "Why are you on my shoulder?! Go bother someone else, like your friends!" She received a bored yawn from Naruto-fox and a smug tail wagging. Her eyebrow twitched irritably as a vein popped on her forehead along with a tick mark appearing, Why me?! What is so amazing about me to you, that you have to bother me?!"
She got the fox equivalent to a 'shh', although he didn't need to hit her head so hard that she almost lost her balance. "What the fuck's with this kid?! You're trying to piss me off aren't you?!" A few feet away, Kankuro was snickering up something fierce while Gaara seemed preoccupied with looking for sacrifices to his 'mother'. Temari was half-tempted to just throw the mongrel that had dared cross her, "You don't get off, and I'm throwing you! You litt-Ow!"
His claws sank into her shoulder, eliciting a yelp from Temari and an amused fox-purr from Naruto. "You little shit! That's it, I've been nice! But you've pissed me off on to many times!" And so, while the Suna team made their way to the academy,Temari was failing horribly at ridding herself of the fox on her. That is until, he jumped off and Temari was tackled be a raving Ino after Naruto.
"Foxy-kun, you get the Hell back here!" Her demand was met with yowls in defiance, and growls from the girl underneath her. "Huh? What's your problem girl?" Ino said upon noticing the glare from Hell Temari sent her way. "My problem, bitch, is you tackling me to get to the mongrel!" Ino seemed to take offense for Naruto at the mongrel comment, "Foxy-kun's not a mongrel! He's kawaii! See, he's rolling around in the grass!"
And true to her words, there was Naruto rolling around in the grass and something else. "Yeah, but why's he look like he's high?!" She sounded somewhat scared of the answer, which came from Shikamaru and Choji, "NARUTO! WHO LET HIM GET FOXNIP?!" The two of them had yelled this, getting Kiba and Akamaru to run to them looking scared for his life!
"Please tell us*scared whine* you didn't say-!" The answer was an overly-happy bark from Naruto, eliciting yelps and sudden disappearances from the drop-outs. The fox's next actions sent the two girls into a fit, he jumped on them and took their weaponry then ran off with the fan and kunai pouch. "Hey! Furball, give me back my fan!" Her sickly-sweet voice did nothing but encourage him to keep playing, and Ino's glare made him fox-purr amusedly.
Ino's words were trying, keyword there trying, to compromise. "Foxy-kun, give us back our things and you can stay on her shoulders!" Temari nodded, then looked to Ino like she was crazy for using her as a bargaining chip. Naruto, on the other hand looked contemplative, his tail thumping every now and then in thought. The girls saw this and took the initiative to attempt to steal their things back.
It was fruitless endeavor, because the moment Naruto saw them, he bolted for the academy's training field. He ran fast for a fox encumbered by a large battle fan and kunai pouch. He would've made it to a place for burying things he finds/takes, had he not seen his doom and skidded to a halt(Scooby-Doo's 'rrrr' when he hits the breaks on running). This doom, had dango in one hand and a predatory smirk on her face.
His doom, was Mitarashi Anko, and was she pissed. Not with him so much as the person or persons who let him get into foxnip. "So," Her sickly-sweet voice promised any and everyone who crossed her pain. "Who gave Brat-kun, foxnip? Hmm? ANSWER ME YOU LITTLE SHITS!" Her shout sent Ino and Temari into a corner with anime tears, while Naruto just looked at her with an 'I'm so fucking high right now' look in his eyes.
"W-We didn't. I leaped at him, he jumped and landed in it!" Ino's voice screamed, 'Do not hurt me'. Anko caught onto this, 'This should be fun, I haven't been able to play with children in a while.' "Then you better catch him, before he gets away with your shit."
Timeskip, 5 hours
The written exam was almost over. Naruto was off his high and was experiencing the fox equivalent of a hangover. He was able to cause trouble, as always. When the exams were half-way through, Naruto quietly released his kitsune, to the chagrin of Ibiki. "Uzumaki! Get these foxes out of here! I know you can speak to them, now get them out of my class room!"
Naruto saluted seriously, sending alarms off in the heads of those who knew him, until they saw that the kitsune had his eyes behind the mask on each of them. Naruto walked down the stairs without any supervision from a chunin or jonin, 'Big mistake, Scars! I've got an ace-in-the-hole; when it comes to infiltration, sabotage, espionage, deceit, and the like...There's none better than a kitsune, or a close-second through the means of an experimental seal, henge, and kage bunshin.'
Ibiki, felt a pang of anger, he felt that way when someone addressed him by a stupid nickname. When Naruto walked back in, he had a look of unadulterated smugness which rubbed Ibiki the wrong way. Hinata was sitting next to the now reseated Naruto, she looked over to him and nearly burst out laughing her tits off.
Naruto had written the answers his kitsune gave him and afterwards wrote Ibiki a note that read, 'Hey Scars, great job of mind raping the kids here and also, you're beginning to lose your touch. Big Red's laughing at the mindrape of the kiddies!' Hinata was of course confused, 'Who's Big Red and what does he mean by mindrape? We're all fine mentally and there are no problems, so what does he mean?'
Naruto on the other hand, was now thinking on his seal and how it could be bettered, 'Kyubi, any ideas on how to strengthen my hold over the false-kitsune?' He was answered by the kitsune daiyoukai's deep and intimidating voice,"Possibly, they aren't true kitsune so they are easily managed, but they lack the intelligence on their own. So I'd suggest you remove the masks and allow your kage bunshin to learn before returning to their kitsune forms." 'Hmm, that might work, but they could become too intelligent and become unmanageable...' "True, but that will have to be tested then. The benefits outweigh the risks either way, Ningen. Now, you should focus, I don't need a vessel who can't rise within the ranks of a village."
The moment Naruto's conversation ended, the written exam ended with a shout of, "THAT'S IT MAGGOTS! YOU'RE DONE!" The genin all stilled, worried that Ibiki-san would gut them like fish. "The tenth and final question will test your very soul! Anyone who doesn't want to take this question can leave and graduate next time!" After he said this, several hands were raised and their owners walked out of the room.
"Now! For those who've stayed, the tenth question is..." The genin who stayed looked apprehensive, "You pass!" There was a collective, "WHAT!" And Naruto burst out laughing his ass off, to the amusement of Ibiki and Kabuto after he hit his head on the desk. "Hey, Ibiki, was that record? I'll pay!" Ibiki just laughed throatily before speaking.
"Yes we did record that, and no you can't have it." Naruto groaned in until Ibiki looked him in the eyes, sending an unspoken message, "Done!" After saying this, Naruto put his hands in a cross-shape and the air in the classroom started to shimmer in a genjutsu. "Boys and girls of every age, wouldn't you like to see something strange. Come with us and you will see, this our town of Halloween. This is Halloween, this is Halloween! Pumpkins scream in the dead of night. This is Halloween, everybody make a scene. Trick or treat 'til' the neighbors go and die of fright!"
Those near Naruto heard his voice distort into the demonic one he used every now and then after that. Hinata looked and she saw blood red eyes looking back at her, 'Red eyes?! His eyes are blue! And since when is he profound at genjutsu?!' All over the classroom, the things that people were afraid of started to appear. Naruto's voice echoed all over the room, distorting to different voices. "It's our town, everybody scream! In this town of Halloween."
The combined voices that the genjutsu made sang in unison, merging with Naruto's demonic voice and terrifying those gathered. The chunin and Ibiki weren't scared so much as waiting for the screams of the genin and for the recording. "I am the one hiding under your bed. Teeth ground sharp and eyes glowing red!" Naruto drew the attention of everyone gathered. His genjutsu made his teeth like a fox's and his eyes were glowing brighter.
The genin were starting to swat and worry about their survival, what the fuck was he doing? An illusion resembling Anko with snakes for fingers and a spider instead of her palm-tree ponytail, stepped forward. "I am the one hiding under your stairs, fingers like snakes and spiders in my hair!" "This is Halloween, this is Halloween. Halloween, Halloween,, Halloween, Hallween" The chuunin weren't phased by his blatant disregard for the sanity of the genin still in the exam.
The genin couldn't break out of the genjutsu, they were gripped with fear of what would speak next. "In this town we call home, everyone hail to the pumkin song." The second voice was like a child's, soft. But the voice wasn't human, they could tell because of how hollow it was. A loud booming voice broke through their thoughts, "In this town, don't we love it now? Everybody's waiting for the next surprise!"
A new set of voices entered the scene, two voices that were the same but different. One more masculine and the other more feminine, they were at the same decibel but they were so similar and different. "Round that corner man, hiding in the trashcan. Something's waiting now to pounce and how you'll...SCREAM!" The next set of voices weren't anything alike. One was high pitched, one was scratchy and rough, and the last one was very deep.
"This is Halloween, red'n'black, slimy green. Aren't you scared?!" Then two feminine voices became apart of the mix, "Well that's just fine. Say it once, say it twice. Take a chance and roll throw dice, ride with the moon in the dead of night." What appeared to be a hanged choir and an executioner sang next, "Everybody scream, EVERYBODY SCREAM! In our town of Halloween!"
A clown appeared, it resembled Orochimaru as it sang. "I am the clown with the tear-away face. Here in a flash and gone without a trace!" A breeze came through the window whispering, "I am the 'who' when you call 'who's there'. I am the wind blowing through your hair." A shadow appeared throughout the room that sang, "I am the shadow on the moon at night, filling your dreams to the brim with fright!" "This is Halloween, this is Halloween. Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween!"
Two children's voices rang out softly, "Tender lumplings everywhere, life's no fun without a good scare." Then two adults picked up where they left off, "That's our job but we're not mean. In our town of Halloween." The song was almost finished when Anko and a tarp flew into the classroom, scaring the Dejesus out of most of the genin.
The chuunin, Naruto, and Ibiki were laughing at the genjutsu's premature end. All of the genin who were scared to near death by Anko's ending of the genjutsu, screamed. Anko, of course, had known of the genjutsu and its affects on its victims so she broke it early. "I haven't even done anything yet, and they're already scream! Well done Brat-kun, you've outdone yourself this time! Now let's-!" "Anko-chan!"
Naruto sent kitsune at Anko, as he soon joined them, ultimately tackling her. Everyone, except the jinchuuriki and older ninja, were still shaken from the genjutsu; so seeing Naruto act so happy was a little off-putting. "Brat, get off me. Right now." "Mm mm!" His blatant disregard for authority was showing again, bringing Kotetsu and Izumo's faces that their favorite live-wire was recuperating from his traumatic past.
"Brat..." Anko's growl was clearly a threat, but the now henge'd Naruto made no move to get off of her, he was too comfortable. The kitsune were ordered to hold her down, to which they did with gusto, they were sleeping on her arms and legs like it was normal. Before much else could be said, Naruto-fox began to run in a circle a couple meters away from Anko.
"Hehehe, he's still high, huh? Not surprising, he's never had a high tolerance for the stuff. Oh well, now Kitsu-Brats, off now!" The kitsune looked at her with unseen eyes, staring at her like she was the most enrapturing thing on earth. This annoyed her to no end and entertained the chuunin and Ibiki to new heights, "HAHAHAHAHAHA! SO ANKO, HIHIHIHIH! HAVING FUN WITH THE LAST KNOWN UZUMAKI?!HAHAHAHAHAHA!"
Ibiki's jab hit home, a little too well, actually. "Why yes Ibiki-kun, I'm having loads of fun with Brat-kun! So how 'bout you make yourself useful and get him and Kitsu-Brats, off of me?!" Ibiki's face suddenly paled, he knew that if Anko sounded that calm...He was screwed if he didn't fix it. With a bit of reluctance, he shooed the kitsune-imitators off of her, only for Naruto-fox to come over and begin sniffing all over her.
"What's with him?" Anko groaned as she got up, away from the curious fox, "He gets like that whenever he's high." She had a slight blush on her cheeks, confusing Ibiki. 'What makes her blush? Uzumaki isn't doing anything that is giving her a bad name or putting her on the spot with something extremely personal. So what's he-oh Oh OH!' Ibiki suddenly busted a lunge with Kotetsu and Izumo following, as they figured it out and Anko blushed more.
Naruto-fox was chasing his tail again, getting 'aww's from Sakura, Ino, Hinata, and the Otonin, Tsuchi Kin. His actions were cut short by his doppelgangers, the kitsune-imitates 'foxpiled' him. His running didn't stop though, it reminded them of what he did in the room where Ibiki got them from.
Flashback, 3 hours earlier
Naruto-fox was running in circles...There wasn't much to be said about it. Kiba and Akamaru held him still while one of his kitsune got Temari's fan from the training field he buried it in. Shikamaru got chalk out and Choji was getting ready for Naruto's inevitable escape from the Inuzuka pair. The kitsune came back in, carrying the fan in his mouth like it was a mouse, and the pouch on his back.
"Thanks kitsune." The little thing nodded in acknowledgement before it turned to smoke, leaving the mask behind on the ground. Shikamaru picked up the mask and put it away for in case he needed it for whatever, while he used the fan as a balance for drawing a hexagon. The hexagon complete, he turned to Gai's team, "Hey, do any of you have weights on?"
The answer came as an affirmative nod from Tenten as she pointed to Lee's arm and leg warmers. "He wears them, I just carry spares for when he runs out of them. Why?" Shikamaru looked to her, then to the struggling Naruto. A look of understanding came on Tenten's face, while she got a set of weights to hold the squirmy fox down. She went to give the weight that Lee had as a spare for any of his which weighed 170 lbs. then thought better of it.
She walked over to the Inuzuka duo holding the vulpine down and lightly tossed it on top on his head, resulting in a chirp of surprise from him. They let him go, thinking he was down until they had ninja wire, they were wrong. He popped up like a fucking daisy and ran around the room, eliciting Lee to try and catch the furball. The other occupants of the room were then ran under and ran over by the forces of nature that are Naruto and Lee.
Rock Lee finally caught the fox, and took him back to a stunned Tenten and drop outs. "What shall I do with him now?" Choji responded for the other three, "Give him to Shikamaru, he's got ninja wire to hold him still for awhile." The spandex cadet nodded and gave the bundle of joyous sadism that is Naruto to Shikamaru, who held him still and tied ninja wire around the red fox's shoulders so as not to choke him and to not let him get away.
Th fox ran around the hexagon like it was the most incredible thing he'd ever seen. Temari came over and took her fan from the relieved drop outs.
Present time
Anko just glared at Ibiki, who stared at Naruto-fox's antics, for a few more seconds. She turned to the genin, the jinchuuriki were calm while the others were calming their nerves. "29...30. Ten teams made it Ibiki, you're not doing your job. You know what that means..." Her cheeky display didn't go unrewarded. Ibiki paled and the chunin all stared at her like she was going to murder them in cold blood.
"I know, right? If Ibiki doesn't do his job better, I'm getting his position and that means he becomes my subordinate! We're going to have so much fun when that happens, when you get cocky." Her emphasis sent Naruto-fox into a fox-purring fit of amusement and sent Ibiki into a corner anime tears in his eyes.
"Well, time to see who survives-I mean, time to thin the herd! That's not much better, but who here gives a fuck?! No one? Good! Damn it, I hate it when I'm on my rag!" Her pure unbridled nature made even Gaara blush in embarrassment. She led them to Training Ground 44. "This is my playground, Training Ground 44. More commonly known, as the Forest of Death! Sign these wavers, get your scroll of heaven or earth, don't open them, get to your assigned gate, and good luck! You're gonna need it!"
The genin were quick to do just as she said. In the time it took for all the teams to get their scrolls and waivers signed, Naruto came down from his high and was experiencing a true hangover. "Ugh! This hurts! Why does something that taste so good, have to hurt later?!" Anko was standing near him as he lay down on the ground in pain, "HAHAHAHAHAHA! NOW YOU KNOW HOW IT FEELS WHEN I HAVE TO BE CARRIED BY YOU WHEN I GET HUNGOVER! HAHAHAHAHAHA!"
"Mmmmm...Don't yell Anko-chan, it hurts!" His voice was diminutive and pained, Anko was still laughing like all get out. "HELL NO! HAHAHAHA! THAT'S WHAT YOU GET FOR YELLING TO WAKE ME UP! HAHAHAHAHA!" Naruto was covering his ears futilely trying to make the 'hurt stop hurting' as he put it. His teammates were trying to sympathize with him, but Ino decided to add onto the pain.
"FOXY-KUN, YOU'RE MINE! I'M NOT LETTING YOU GO NOW!" Ino was unaware of the hangover apparently from Shikamaru's strategizing. Naruto started to have tears in his eyes from the pain on his naturally sensitive ears that were now amplified by the hangover. "I-Ino, that hurts...Don't be so l-loud...It makes the h-hurt keep hurting..."
His words weren't lost on deaf ears this time, Ino heard the pleading in his voice and didn't yell. All she did was smother him in her chest, and hold him like he was a blanket. Naruto struggled, but not enough to escape, he knew she was trading loud for closeness. He was okay with the trade for now, until he couldn't breath he'd deal.
The teams got to their respective gates, each team's resolve steeled. Fuu, Naruto, and Gaara were charging their bodies with chakra to make their exit intimidating.
Timeskip, 1 day
Naruto, Sakura, and Sasuke were running a plan together for their inevitable run-in with the other teams, "Okay, so when we run into which ever team, what's the plan?" Naruto was no strategist, he was clever and smart. He wasn't intelligent, he was a frontline fighter. Sasuke and Sakura looked between each other, they hadn't a clue yet. They'd only about a week to get an earth scroll and get to the tower, all the had done so far was get used to the situation. Naruto was out of his henge at the moment, something he preferred not to be when in a forest or anywhere heavily nature-oriented.
"Well, we'll need you and your kitsune at the frontlines. Sakura's more of a medic or support unit in combat. And I'm a precision fighter and semi-strategist." His assessment was met with a groan from Naruto that he just summed them up and didn't come up with a plan. "I'm getting to it. If we run into a heavy assault team, Naruto you're going to be at point since Sakura and I can't take heavy hits or land heavy blows. If we run into a assassin-like team, I'll be at point since your attacks are mostly heavy on chakra and your blows are never for quick, easy fights."
He took a breath after that, he'd said all that in one breath. "Sakura, if we run into anything we can't heal from than you're going to have to heal us to the best of your ability or to the point where we can heal. Also, if Naruto or myself are unconscious for a period of time, take care of us until we awake. That's the best I can come up with, I'm no Nara and I'm certainly not Shikamaru." Naruto nodded and returned to his henge, that's when a gigantic snake suddenly came out of nowhere.
The great serpent looked to Naruto, he was snarling like nobodies business. It made eye-contact with him and a stare-down resulted. Naruto's eyes were wild and bloodthirsty, the snake's were calm and coherent. This didn't bode well in the minds of Naruto's teammates, a snake didn't just come out of nowhere and not try to eat what it finds if it's edible. The next minute, the snake made to eat them, to which Naruto prevented with a larger henge.
His appearance was literally blown away, he leaped out of the dust cloud at his comrades, ultimately pushing them out of the way. He was immediately swallowed by the anaconda-like snake before them, Sakura looked like she would cry. Sasuke was looking stunned at his loyalty, 'H-He hardly knew us properly! And he, he sacrificed himself for us? What kind of teammates are we?!' Before he could continue his internal rant, the serpent's belly distended to an unnatural length.
Out of the snakes stomach came a two-tailed henge of a fox. It was about the size of a Boxer and its fur looked like fire when the breeze blew it. The stance it had was almost regal, it wasn't truly regal because the two who saw it knew who was 'wearing' that skin. The fox then looked on edge, 'This large serpent isn't Anko-chan's. There are so few snake summoners and the one who taught Anko-chan was...Orochimaru!' His ears were turning all over the place as if he were expecting an attack.
"Naruto?" Sakura's query wasn't taken notice of, to be honest it seemed like Naruto forgot about his teammates. "NARUTO!" She finally got through to the boxer-sized fox, although his ears were ringing. "What's wrong?!" He sniffed the air and then turned to the snake, hunger in his eyes. They could tell he was hungry, if his clearly visible ribs were any indication. 'He must have used a lot of chakra to change henge forms while still in one. How far can he go I wonder?' Sasuke looked to the focus of his musings, the pleading eyes broke his steely resolve.
"Fine fine. Eat the snake, but save some for us! We need to stay strong as well, you know!" Sakura nodded, then looked to Sasuke. "WHAT?! WE'RE GOING TO EAT THAT THING?! WHY?!" Sasuke looked to the horrific but captivating display that was Naruto eating the snakes heart in one bite. "We need to eat too, and that snake will feed us for the whole week. We'll take the leftovers with us through the week and if there's more left? We'll bring it home." Sakura was watching with disgust and interest with Naruto's display of gory snake pieces to eat. That's when it hit the, 'He's eating all the parts that humans can't stomach!'
This in mind, the two very human genin held a new respect for their more-than-likely bipolar teammate. He had eaten the appendix for some reason or another and stopped abruptly before he could finish his meal. He looked to some bushes at his right and leaped past them. He landed and started to fight something, or someone. Sasuke and Sakura went to see what was rubbing Naruto's fur the wrong way and they saw a man fighting 'their' boy.
The man was a sickly white, he had makeup on the sides of his nose that was purple, his clothes were held up be a purple rope tied in a bow behind him, but his most defining feature was his dark chuckle that outcreeped Naruto and Anko-san's. "Kukuku, my my Naruto-kun, you've grown up. Your father and I were reasonably acquainted, he'd be proud of how you've grown as a young man! Now, how about you drop the henge for your teammates to see the real you, hmm?" Even though he was being smacked up, he had a respectfully condescending vibe to his words.
Naruto did as asked, his teammates were now boosted morally for reasons beyond them. He had on mottled grey and green pants, his shirt was an orange that didn't draw their attention as much as the old Naruto's jumpsuits, and his hitae-ate was now split into two fingerless brass-knuckle gloves with a piece of the leaf symbol on each finger per hand.(On each hand there's a symbol of the leaf split into pieces for on a finger like a brass-knuckle) His appearance made the man step back, 'He looks more like Minato than before. His appearance is more mature than I'd expected, I might have trouble with this one.' His sandals were now boots, most likely steel-toed, and the already shaggy head of hair he had was shaggier than before, he reminded them of the Yondaime Hokage for some reason.(I wonder why?)
"Well well, you've really grown Naruto-kun. More than I had anticipated, oh well, I'll be taking Sasuke-kun now." He turned to the two other genin with a sadistic smirk and powerful aura around him. Naruto looked calm, this didn't bode well in the minds of his teammates. Their favorite blond, was so calm in front of a powerful shinobi. "W-WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO TO SASUKE-KUN?!" Sakura's outburst was met with a lick of the lips from 'Personality-san', his sadistic smirk never leaving his face.
"I'm going to bestow a gift upon him and then, I'm going to DESTROY THIS VILLAGE! KUKUKUKUKU!" Naruto let loose so much killer intent it could be felt throughout the forest, those he'd touched at some level responded by returning the favor and released all the killer intent they could. In the end, it was an amount of killer intent the whole village could feel from each and every building. The emotions were strong and kept growing, there was so much killer intent that those who didn't respond with killer intent, were seeing their deaths in the worst ways possible.
"You say you're going to destroy this village, eh?" His voice was unnaturally calm and it sent the strange man into a fit of goosebumps, "I'm not strong enough to do it yet, but...This village is mine, my territory, My Responsibility, MY Trouble and finally...MY ENEMY AND YOU, OF ALL PEOPLE WILL NOT TAKE THAT FROM ME! I WILL REPAIR WHAT WAS RUINED BY HUMANITY AND ITS ARROGANCE, TOBIRAMA-SAMA AND ASHINA-SAMA'S DREAM WILL BE FULFILLED BY ME, AND THOSE WHO CHOOSE TO MOVE FORWARD WITH ME YOU'RE PETTY REVENGE OR WHATEVER IS NOTHING TO WHAT I WILL COMPLETE! I, UZUMAKI NARUTO KYUU-KITSUNIN, WILL REPAIR THE DREAM THAT WAS BROKEN OH SO LONG AGO!"
The teams who were friends of Naruto could feel his killer intent rising, so they upped the power in kind. Kiba, Akamaru, Shikamaru, Choji, Fuu, Gaara and the now present Anko raised their killer intent with Naruto's to let him know that he had their support if he needed it. His killer intent and theirs fused together, they could feel each others' emotions and everyone who was adding on could tell that Naruto was thankful as well as that he was about to cancel the badass moment.
All of a sudden, for those who weren't adding to the killer intent, the killer intent was gone. The man was surprised when he felt a boot to the face. The shoe size was indiscernible, but if he had to guess...'I'd say he's about a size six and a half or a seven. This could help me make traps for him to get caught in, kukukukuku.' Naruto was now fighting alongside Anko, she had snakes going at him like there was fire in her clothes being put out and Naruto was letting kitsune loose left and right. The army of snakes of all kinds and kitsune was ridiculously big, it was about the size of an entire prison assembly on a rioting streak.
The man was being thrown every which way; getting bit, scratched, head-butted, kicked, body-bashed, rammed, and all in all, murdered with extreme prejudice. He walked out of the 'carnage' that was his old body, fresh as a daisy. He had a condescending smile on his face and a maniacal gleam in his eyes. Anko and Naruto glared like he was the source of all evil, for Anko he was and she had told bad things of him to Naruto, and then the area where her neck connected to shoulder began to burn.
"AAAHHH! DAMN IT! I'VE NO CHOICE!" Her body began to darken, her hair became a coal grey color, on her arms and back there were sharp spikes protruding from her bones, and on her face were three diagonal whisker marks on each cheek. She carried herself without that cheeky, playful, and sadistic 'adorableness' anymore; instead of cheeky there was coldheartedness, in place of playful there was murderous, and the sadism became her only original trait, but even that was tainted with bloodlust. Her hazel eyes were clouded and grey, they were almost empty except for the unending desire to kill.
Naruto's eyes turned red, the two of them were thirsty for blood. Sasuke and Sakura were trying to leave, but their bodies wouldn't move an inch. Naruto's demonic voice was their only wake up call, "If you stay, than you won't be able to look at us the same way and you'll probably never want to affiliate with us again. If you leave, than don't you look back! Don't you dare look back, or risk losing your innocence of mind to the horror that is our life!" His direct approach brought the desired effect, the two of them made a split second decision, Sakura and Sasuke would leave after they left the attacker a little gift.
"Katon:Goukakyuu no Jutsu!" Sasuke called out, breathing a large fireball at the pale man. Sakura saw her chance and and threw a kunai with her chakra flowing through it like it would blow up. They ran after bestowing their 'gifts' and didn't look back, per Naruto's orders. The fight began, and it was with a bang.
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Cliffhanger, I'm a horrible person...Don't worry, I'll start writin' the Orochimaru vs. Naruto & Anko chapter as soon as my muse kicks mine and her own ass into gear. R&R please. SEE YA!