Sup guys, girls and other. I'm havin' a bit of a depressin' week so far 'cuz I'm overwhelmed, so be patient with me if your patience isn't a skill set. I'm gonna keep the references a game of hide'n'seek. If ye take part, there's no reward if ye win, just the knowledge that you'll are probably gonna have a great life ahead of ye. I'm gonna develop the relationship between the Blonde Trio, hehehehehe.
Thoughts, emphasis, or exampling
'Quotations for when someone is quoting another'
"Spoken words"
"Bijuu speech or jinchuuriki when using Bijuu chakra"
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How did my day get so weird? First thing I knew, Ino was chasing my furry ass all over town for whatever reason. And the next thing I know, I'm being beat around with a mak-You know, it's probably just a fan. His thoughts were interrupted by the impact of a battle fan to the top of his head, ultimately knocking him out.
"FINALLY! Your head is thicker than one would think kid, now to get you back for stealing my fan you little mongrel..." She went to take his kunai pouch, when the body disappeared in a puff of smoke to reveal a masked fox that dispelled. "Damn!" Her statement was said through gritted teeth, until a certain fox leaped onto her head and started playing with her pigtails. "What the fuck?! Where the hell do you get the balls to stand on my head?!"
Naruto dropped the henge and was standing on her head while she tried to stay standing, "I've always had mine, what about you? HAHAHAHAHA!" He reapplied the henge and got back to playing with her pigtails, not a care in the world. Temari huffed in defeat as she strategized a new plan of payback, He's a kitsune at heart so that means that tricks aren't going to beat him. I need to think of something good, like...That Anko woman!
Naruto was enjoying messing with the Suna kunoichi's hair and then she got up with a haughty air to her, making him uneasy. He kept playing with her pigtails like there wasn't a problem while he thought on his likelihood of survival, Okay. Let's go over the info I've got; she's a kunoichi of Suna, she's a fan-user, and she's related to Gaara. What does that give us?...The only thing I can think of is that she's crazy or sadistic.
"So are you Kit." Why do people call me a sadist? "You are a sadist! I just said that!" The mental conversation ended when the voice of all torment spoke up in the crowd of people in the streets, "FOXY-KUN! YOU'RE MINE!" Ino landed and tackled Temari in an attempt to catch the fleeing Naruto, with a now pissed Suna shinobi under her, "Hehehehe, look out?" The awkward laugh and joking question were met with amused fox-purrs from Naruto on Ino's back, keeping them in the awkward position.
"And what's so funny, Mongrel? Are you enjoying your moment of genius, or are you planning the destruction of this village?!" The purring turned from playful to outright laughter, Oh that's right, it's a henge. The transformation dispelled to reveal a laughing Naruto on top of them, "HAHAHAHAHAHA! I'm having way too much fun for my own good! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, hey Ino. Don't flex your fingers..."
The two girls underneath him didn't get the joke until Ino did the exact opposite, eliciting a pleased moan and giggle from Temari that she immediately shut up. But it was too late, Naruto had won that round and was laughing his ass off which made everyone in the immediate area back away slowly so as to not elicit his wrath on them.
His laughter pissed off the embarrassed and slightly aroused girls (Differentiate the two between Ino and Temari if you want) even more the fact that they were in this sexually compromising situation. They were laying there with Naruto's laughter to accompany them to insanity for three whole minutes(Ab-solute torture) until Anko came to take her brat away, making the two flustered girls thank her in frantic bows and praying hand motions.
Naruto had returned to his fox form, but this time he was using two, making it difficult for Anko to hold him. He then tackled the girls, just to spite them, as he started to fall asleep. Ino's struggles ended after a few minutes of Naruto's fox-purrs lolling her to sleep, Temari on the other hand was struggling with much more fervor before slumber inevitably claimed her as well. The three of them look so peaceful...I'd hate to wake them!
Anko inhaled deeply, preparing to yell them awake, but thought better of it. "Gaki, wake up." He made no move that he heard her, making a vein pop on her forehead for being ignored. "Gaki, wake up or you're going to lose your girlfriends..." At that, he shot up, waking the other two awake with yawns from their very short nap. The tokubetsu jonin was rolling on the ground, holding her sides as she sprained a lung at the hilarious response.
Naruto, in vengeance, ungracefully fell asleep on top of his surrogate mother/older sister. And Anko was none too appreciative, Ino decided to pass out on top of Naruto because of the heat he generated and Temari tried to walk away but Naruto's tails caught her and threw her on top of him, where she soon passed out. Anko wasn't struggling anymore, she saw no point, and saw this as a chance to catch some winks.
30 minutes later
The large fox awoke slowly, so as not to wake the three ladies up. He looked to the sky and saw it was noon, and the civilians just ignored the pile in the middle of the street. He looked to Anko to see that she hadn't suffocated under his weight, She isn't a tokubetsu jonin for nothing! He looked to the two girls on his back with a compassionate light in his eyes, Temari must have been training, Ino's probably been looking for me and is tuckered out from the difficulty of the feat in and of itself.
He nudged Anko with his snout lightly and lovingly, not wanting to wake her up violently which would hurt him and then wake the other two up. She groaned softly, not enjoying the wake up call obviously, before Naruto took drastic measures. He started to lick her face, "Hehehehehe, Gaki stop it. Hehehehehe, that tickles...Knock it off!" She pushed him off, he held onto the girls with his tails to keep them asleep.
"...What's the big idea, buster?" She got up and dusted herself off while saying this. Naruto made light yips and yipes, Anko nodded in understanding. "You hardly know the Suna kunoichi, and the other one's your fangirl. Why are you so nice to them?" Waggling her eyebrows, she knew she won when he backed up a little and made a series of noises without any collation. She smirked in victory over her opponent and favorite brat, "Hehehehe, it's fine Gaki. You don't need to tell me your reasons for liking them..."
It took a few moments for the subliminal meaning to sink in, but when it did, it was a great deal of indignant barks and yaps. The oise he made woke up his passengers, Temari hit him in the head with her fan and Ino pulled Naruto's tail, eliciting a yelp of pain and surprise from the over-sized fox.
"Foxy-kuuunnnn! We were trying to sleeeepppp..." Her whining was cute, even Anko and Temari had to admit that much. Naruto, for his part, was shaking his head and trying to resist the cuteness. Must resist looking her in the eyes, must not yield to adorableness, must resist batting her in the face for making me resist! His battle was well fought for five seconds, before he gave up and let the girls down off his back, making Ino pout and Temari look irate.
Temari reached behind her head and grabbed her battle fan,with which she thwacked Naruto over the head knocking him unconscious. Ino held his head in her arms like he was a baby and fragile while he woke up to her saying, "How could you hurt somethi-someone, so cute and innocent?!" Naruto just laid there with an imaginary halo over his head, Yep, she's horrible for hurting me!
Temari and Anko had the same thought go through their minds, Innocent my ass! Naruto on the other hand(paw) was enjoying the ministrations f one Yamanaka Ino and was attracting a crowd of onlookers who watched the spectacle of a twin-tailed fox being tamed by a young kunoichi's scratches behind his ears.
The happy moment was ended by a man who hadn't attacked Naruto on the day he met Jiraiya, "Let's kill the demon!" He received cheers of affirmation and were about to charge, had Naruto not gotten up and ran past them. They stood there for a moment, making the people watching think they were in shock of his speed, when blood erupted from wounds that weren't there before and they slumped to the ground dead. Naruto's tails were slow moving ribbon-dancer's ribbons in the wind, his claws gleamed a reflective black with the blood of his attackers on them, his maw was in a snarl and his eyes showed anger that was barely bridled.
He turned to the three ladies, and disappeared into the streets of Konoha. Temari and Ino were stunned, this is what jinchuuriki had to deal with everyday of their lives? It wasn't a surprise they were bloodthirsty and antisocial, they were targeted and treated as enemy number one in their respective village. Why's Foxy-kun hated so much? He's a nice guy once you get passed his pranks and aggression... Temari's thoughts were different from Ino's, Gaara...I'm sorry, Kankuro and I have been scared of you since we were children but we never knew what you went through as a little boy.
They were interrupted by the sounds of fighting from the far side of the village. When they got there, they saw a twin-tailed Naruto, a fully chakra-armored Fuu, and a sand covered Gaara in the middle of combat. "Why do you defend this village Uzumaki? You know they will only betray you and make you suffer, so why do you act as if this place is innocent?! You said it yourself; We fight, we survive, we exist. So why will you protect the very place you must destroy and repair, you could start early, and yet you WAIT FOR THE TORTURE OF BETRAYAL!"
Gaara's voice spoke volumes of how he felt, he was doing his kin a favor and Naruto was rejecting the support. "Yeah, what Gaara said! We're only weapons to them, not humans! We can start these villages anew, right here and now, and yet you rebuff our help? Why?!" Fuu's voice was heavily laced with the pain from a horrible childhood and her feelings were the same as Gaara's if the chakra flowing in and around them was any indication.
Naruto's voice rang from the fox as he went into his one tailed jinchuuriki form, "Because! If I try early and fail, then it will have been all for naught! Which would mean I'm sent away from my friends, I hold them most dear. If I were to be forced away from my friends, in essence my family, I'd have no reason to carry on! I'm waiting for when I'm strong enough to destroy what is, when there isn't a shadow of a doubt I'll win, that's WHY I'M WAITING! WE'LL FIGHT IN THE FINALS, NOT BEFORE AND DEFINITELY NOT AFTER! GOT IT!"
Naruto's form was shifting to that of his one-tailed fox, making everyone as well as him confused. "I see...My power is now the exact same as his! I have the power of two tails in one, we'll wait for our fight." With that, the fox lost the ethereal light around him and walked away with a group of stunned individuals behind.
1 week later, Sasuke vs Fuu
The other fights were very one-sided; Kabuto had to be saved by Genma, Kiba and Akamaru were overwhelmed by Shino's kikaichu, Shikamaru had outsmarted Temari and made a tie. Sasuke was, in a word, anxious. Not for the fight to begin, not for the fight to be over, he was anxious trying to find an angle where he could survive. Fuu was already in the arena with a look of extreme boredom and she was looking around like Naruto would do when he got bored.
Sasuke's steps were tentative and unsure, while he was outwardly calm and collected it was clear he was scared for his life. Zabuza didn't scar him, the Demon Brothers didn't scare him, Naruto sometimes scared him, and Fuu? She scared him. Sasuke looked to the competitor's box and made a quick decision, "Hey Naruto," The fox-boy's attention on him he continued, "Can you use that musical genjutsu you used on Kakashi-sensei?"
Naruto nodded with a mischievous smirk on his face as he went through hand seals before he called out, "Kyoku Seizon no Jutsu!" The air in the arena shimmered as a few of Naruto's kitsune-imitators went to the top of the arena's walls, where they lifted their tails and stood on their forepaws to stabilize the jutsu. Sasuke nodded in thanks before focusing on his opponent. Genma looked between the two competitors as he said, "The rules are the same as the other matches; no kinjutsu, you win if your opponent dies or can no longer fight, and I will intervene if and when I deem it necessary. Hajime!"
Once he said that, Sasuke leaped away from Fuu for fear of her strength and to com up with a strategy. The air pressure changed for a second when music began to play even though there weren't any instruments being played or in the arena. (Cue Skillet-Last Night) Everyone in the stadium were listening intently or just half-listening, while Fuu called over to the competitor's box, "Nice choice Naruto-kun!" Naruto was sitting in the lotus position with his eyes scrunched closed and a scowl of concentration on his face, but he gave a thumbs-up to Fuu after sh addressed him.
Fuu then shoved her hands into the ground and pulled out a large chunk of dirt, she then threw the 'boulder' at Sasuke who dodged almost biting the dust. The air around Fuu seemed to make a small cyclone around her, picking up dust that prevented anyone from seeing her. When the wind dispersed, she stood there with a pair of insect wings on her back and what appeared to be a tail as well as chakra armor. The music changed to something much more dramatic and befitting of the circumstances. (Cue Skillet-Not Gonna Die)
When the words began to circulate the stadium, Fuu charged with speed that only the Sharingan or those with demonic influence could keep track of. Sasuke activated his Sharingan in surprise when he saw Fuu's foot nearly make a smudge-on-the-wall of him. "Shokyo dageki!" Her kick hit the chunk of earth she threw and it seemed to explode on impact from her kick and it wasn't from just the strength. The next moment, Sasuke was being tossed around and he was becoming a bloody mess.
While he was in flight, he was going through hand seals. As Fuu neared him for another punch, he called out "Chidori!" And a ball of bird-chirping lightning appeared in his left hand, and he struck at Fuu's fist to disable it when she was within range. The attack landed, and it did disable her arm for a moment, but she flexed her arm and a sickening snap resounded throughout the whole stadium. Her show of durability made the audience gasp in shock, fear and confusion.
Sasuke said in a shocked voice, "H-How di-did you..." Fuu just looked at him as he stood there like it was amusing, "I'm am the jinchuuriki of the Nanabi, the physically strongest and most durable of the Bijuu. No surprise, after all, he's lucky almost all the time and he's a kabutomushi!" Her wings fluttered and she flew at ground level at a petrified Sasuke. "GOOD BYE! HAHA!"
In the audience seats, Sakura called out, "SASUKE-KUN!" But it was too late, he was against the east wall of the arena, a bloody mess but still alive. Fuu removed her hand from his crumpled form without any guilt in her stride as she walked back into the competitor's box. Medics ran to Sasuke's downed form and took him to the infirmary. (Last chapter, Shikamaru was supposed to be six, sorry 'bout that) The genjutsu's song ended and Naruto breathed an exhausted sigh of relief, "Never done it on such a large area or that long!"
The Hokage's voice rang out in the stadium, "THERE WILL NOW BE A HALF HOUR INTERMISSION!" Naruto henged into his twin-tailed fox and laid there in exhaustion, where Fuu came over and scratched behind his ears as thanks. Kankuro looked terrified of the seemingly-benevolent fox, and he had no idea what to do. I can't back out or Gaara will get me and the plan won't work. And I can't fight him, or I'll die and the plan still goes wrong! What the Hell do I do?!
Out of nowhere, Ino came into the competitor's box and glomped Naruto's head which mad him lose balance and land on Fuu. "UNGH! OI, GET THE HELL OFF ME!" Not waiting for Naruto to try, Fuu lifted him off of her and dropped him on the floor, eliciting a yelp from him as well as Ino. "Geez, why do you let her do that to you? It's both annoying, and undignified!" Naruto just gave the fox equivalent of a shrug and tried to wait out Ino's smothering of his vulpine-face.
The other competitors were confused as to why Ino was trying to murder Naruto with her chest, until the human voice of Naruto spoke through the fox, "Why? Why? Why?" He said this word over and over in a friendly mocking manner, "I will never know Fuu, and for that I can't help you, I can tell you a part of it is training." The others facefaulted, Gaara and Fuu weren't on the floor this time.
Fuu spoke her confusion once more, "Training? What training involves letting some floozy smother you?!" Ino would've retorted had Kiba, Akamaru, Shikamaru, and Choji not stopped her. Choji had com down with her to talk with the others, and now he was helping his friends stop his friend, cruelty of the universe. Naruto continued, "Training...Never ends Fuu. There's always room to develop, always more to learn and become stronger: In other words, training never ends! I'm training myself for holding my breathe longer, Ino's reason for trying to kill me with her breasts isn't my concern and her antics are just a convenience."
When he tried to speak again, his voice was that of a large fox once more. Shikamaru saw what was going on and spoke his mind, "You used a short-term genjutsu on us, that way we'd understand! But I doubt you can use it again?" Naruto nodded, getting Shikamaru to sigh in relief, "At least we won't have your trash-talk all the time, so you can't use that jutsu again. Why is that?" Naruto traded in his fur coat for his voice as he said, "It's a strange jutsu that only works one time per user, each time we mold chakra our coils get used to it. This jutsu however doesn't require chakra, it requires youki and I'm not going to b lent that youki ever again..."
"Oh." The other genin from Konoha came in when he was explaining and Hinata asked the question, "Y-youki? What's th-that N-Naruto-kun?" Naruto's response was to transform back into his twin-tailed fox form, he didn't expect to be tackled by Hinata though. "You're mine!" His whines of disapproval were only answered by laughter from the other genin. Kiba then answered the earlier question, "Youki is a thicker and more potent version of chakra Hinata-chan, it's somewhat like a large build-up of it that takes time to fill up!"
The lie was met with snorts from Akamaru, Choji, Fuu, Gaara, Kankuro, Naruto, Shikamaru and Temari. "Hey, it's a better explanation than most of us could give, and it's simpler! So deal with it." Before anymore could be said, the Hokage came back into the Kage box and his voice went throughout the stadium, "WE WILL NOW RETURN TO THE FINALS!"
Kankuro suddenly tensed and almost mechanically turned around to see Naruto's foxy grin directed at him, "Oh Kami save me!" Naruto just chuckled, shook his head then grabbed Kankuro's arm and shunshind them both to the center of the arena. Before anything could be said, out of Naruto's sleeves cam nine foxes that went to the walls of the arena and joined the kitsune already there. When everyone directed their attention to Naruto thy saw his hands flying through seals and touching the ground at seemingly-random intervals. Genma and Kankuro were about to ask what he was doing, before Naruto's seals stopped and nine gigantic fox tails burst through the ground and made a dome before becoming transparent as a membrane of chakra and youki filled the gaps between the tails.
The Hokage spoke in fear for the villagers, "NARUTO! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" Naruto's response was maniacal and condescending laughter, "DON'T YOU GET IT?! THIS IS MY WORLD RIGHT HERE! NOW WATCH AND LEARN!" The area within the tails' dome changed from the stadium's arena into a scenery reminiscent of the Training Caves, the place where the Yondaime trained with Jiraiya.
"Genma," The bandanna-wearing shinobi looked to the Kitsunin at attention, "Please start the match!" The smile wasn't a subliminal threat, just a friendly request to his one of his dad's friends. "Ready...HAJIME!" Genma was suddenly outside of the dome, and the music started back up in honest. (Cue Skillet-Rise) Kankuro's puppet Karasu unwrapped and was then connected to chakra threads at the puppeteer's fingertips. He took a deep calming breath, steeling his resolve, before looking to Naruto.
"I'll make this quick!" Karasu opened its mouth and shot a large barrage of poison-tipped senbon at Naruto. The Kitsunin just gave the rain of senbon a feral smirk, "THIS IS GONNA BE PIC, DATTEBOYO!" Naruto's body was outlined by an orange cloak of chakra with a single tail, and his body returned to the single-tailed fox form he used often. His orange fur seemed to be on fire, but not a fire that hurt him, but a fire that was a sign of power. Foxes emerged from Naruto's fur and ran at Kankuro with bloodlust clearly in their masked eyes.
The rain of senbon landed on them and dispelled them before more foxes emerged from the puff of smoke that was the dispelled fox, "WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON! I HIT THEM AND THEY REPLICATE THEMSELVES?!" Naruto returned to his normal form, "Oh yes! They're kage bunshin with orders to create another one if they're about to be dispelled, they know that the instant they ran to you that thy'd dispel! So the split second they feel the senbon touch their fur, they create a clone of themselves! INGENIOUS RIGHT!" Naruto took his twin-tailed form and the transformation was that of a two-tailed fox stepping out of an inferno of its own creation.
Naruto ran at Kankuro, getting hit with senbon on the way but he didn't care. He then barked at his smaller doppelgangers, who then converged on him and jumped onto his back and became a type of armor for him, getting hit with senbon and creating a clone in an instant to take it and store it for later use. Kankuro was now waving his hands frantically, THIS KID'S CRAZY! HE'S USING KAGE BUNSHIN NO JUTSU AND HENGE LIKE THEY'RE THE ONLY ON EARTH AND MAKING HIS OWN JUTSU FROM THEM! I have to outsmart this kid, otherwise I'm dead!
"What do you specialize in?! You're a puppeteer, a kenjutsu user, a genjutsu expert, and now you're an assault unit?! WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU AS A NINJA?!" One of the fox kage bunshin traded places on Naruto's hide with another fox, then transformed into the normal Naruto, "I'm a Ninjutsu master! Mess with the enemies' minds, espionage, sabotage, infiltration, disguising oneself as an ally to stab them in the back while smiling in their face, using chakra to do things that aren't natural! THAT'S WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A LEGEND OF NINJUTSU!"
Kankuro was stunned, This kid's a master of ninjutsu and only that?! How's that possible? "LIAR! I saw you," The senbon barrage ended, allowing Naruto and his coat of foxes to relax for the moment, "You were using a puppet earlier, then you were using a sword, a genjutsu the next moment! There's no way that you're just using ninjutsu, you've used so much that isn't associated with it!" Naruto's clone started laughing hysterically and somewhat-maniacally.
"Don't you remember what I said to Dosu?! HAHAHAHAHA! I'm a kitsune! Trickster, prankster, infiltrator, saboteur, and master of deception; I AM A NINJUTSU NINJA! Tell me something Kankuro, 'cause I'm curious," Kankuro looked somewhat scared of the question coming up, "What's the difference between an Alpha and Beta of a group of animals?"
Naruto returned to his normal shape, the foxes still a cape on his back, interlocked in legs and claws as well as teeth. The cape was still on his shoulders because the foxes there were biting into his vest as well as keeping their claws in it. The lower foxes were being held there by the higher-up foxes wrapping their tails and legs around the heads of the lower foxes, with the lower foxes biting into the a band around the higher foxes' stomachs and the foxes were staying as one cape by stretching their forepaws to the foxes next to them where they inserted their claws into the neighboring fox's shoulder.
All in all, the cape of foxes looked badass and strange to see as the foxes weren't moving yet were alive in a sense. Kankuro looked to the epic image before him in silence, trying to figure out where Naruto was taking this. Not waiting for an answer, Naruto continued, "And I'm not talking kiddy stuff like One's a lower rank or One's a weaker animal. Shape, skill, and power! That's what's odd; if their shape, skill, and power is exactly the same, what makes one the Alpha who will lead them to victory and one the Beta who will do as told by the Alpha?! So what is the trait that differentiates these two creatures?!" The music changed to a violinist's work, it was so beautiful and yet it foretold danger and excitement if not listened to carefully. (Hollow Ichigo's lecture on instinct, the violin being played)
Kankuro was looking at him, trying to figure out his angle and what game he was playing at. "There's only one, simple answer: INSTINCT! For two identical beings to become stronger, they're required to develop a killer instinct and that instinct is forged mostly in combat and life or death situations. This instinct is most commonly portrayed as an insatiable thirst for blood and battle, but this isn't the case. Instinct is the capability to see what's underneath the underneath, the power to fight without using your normally depended-on senses, the gift to feel the smallest distortion in the air around you so that you may survive!"
Naruto continued, a maniacal and bloodthirsty grin playing across his lips, "You're trying to use only logic and reason, and it doesn't work when you're so dependent on logic all the time, does it?! To defeat me, or even survive me, you must have this killer instinct. The instinct to do what needs to be done, the instinct to fight with EVERYTHING YOU HAVE GOT AND MORE TO KILL YOUR OPPONENT AND LIVE TO SEE THE NEXT SUNRISE!" His voice calmed down to condescension and disgust, "Deep within our bodies lies the instinct to kill or be killed, the instinct to crash, slash and slay your enemies! But you don't have that, do you, Pal! And if you do, than use them to fight me! Yet you don't, so you will not see the end of today, you will die and I will grow stronger and reach my goals; whereas you will never see your brother's familial-defensive nature, never feel your sister's tender-loving care, YOU WILL NEVER EXIST AGAIN IN THIS LIFE!"
Kankuro was petrified, each word was filled with hatred and disappointment, and each declaration was an attempt to teach. Naruto kept talking, making any and everyone outside the dome hear him and his preaching, "And the funny part is that for all your big talk, for all your accomplishments: YOU'RE WEAK AND NATURAL SELECTION WILL TAKE PLACE BY MY HAND! FATE, AS NEJI PREACHES ON ABOUT IT, DOESN'T EXIST! NATURAL SELECTION DEFIES THAT, I SURVIVED MY HELL THAT WAS CHILDHOOD BY LEARNING WHEN NO ONE WAS WATCHING AND CHANGING GRADUALLY! I WON'T SAY THAT NATURAL SELECTION IS ON MY SIDE," He took a deep calming breathe and continued, " For it's not a thing, but a force that we can change. For at any moment, you may indeed kill me, but so too does the possibility exist that I will kill you and feed of your corpse while learning puppetry and puppet-making to continue on in my quest of survival and revolution..."
Kankuro was on his knees, the demonic chakra surrounding Naruto and being transferred to his fox-cloak so he didn't transform into a fox so he could speak, was killing the puppeteer. Naruto walked over to the gasping, black jumpsuit-wearing man, ready to end this game of stupidity and disappointment. Kankuro's eyes were getting heavy with each second and each breath, Instinct...The capability to kill or be killed...The will to survive at any cost and continue your spices or purpose in life...My puppets. Naruto reached Kankuro and took a few senbon from one of his fox's mouths, then began to tie the senbon he had together and onto a length of ninwaiya.
I won't let you take my puppets... Naruto was inspecting the puppet real quick, to make sure it was still usable for later use. I rally hope I got through to him, I like the idea of taking his puppets, but I don't want them. They're not mine and I didn't earn them through battle, plus I haven't let him hold any of my pain yet, I need a break from the torment for a bit and he's my ticket to that freedom. No matter how short... Kakuro's fingers stirred, chakra strings reaching to Karasu as he slowly got up while Naruto was 'distracted'. I'm the puppeteer here, you're just a kitsune playing a part! I will survive this, and I will be better!
Karasu was up in an instant, causing Naruto to jump back and get ready for the real fight. "Finally found it, have ya Kankuro?" In a silent answer, Kankuro looked to Naruto with a soft blue-ish silver glow in his eyes. "You're ready..." The music resumed itself, this time playing a song not hard often. (Cue: Hollywood Undead-I Don't Wanna Die) Music encouraging them, they sent their attacks full throttle at each other. Kankuro's hands were moving at a speed that would've made Lee proud to have known Kankuro had Lee not been incapacitated after trying to train while in the hospital.
Naruto had his cape disperse from him and he gave them magnets that he'd collected for something like this, as well as to hold up his trophy weapons. The foxes running all over the place, magnets in mouth (See what I did there?), Naruto took on his twin-tailed form and charged without any hesitation. Kankuro for his part was surprised at Naruto's forwardness, "Are you crazy?! Coming at me like that?" Before he could continue his interrogation, Naruto headbutted him in the chest. What's going on? My heart feels heavier, my muscles won't respond quick enough...What did he do to me?!
Naruto began to make amused barks at Kankuro's confusion. To clear it up, he transformed back to normal. "Hahahahaha, you look confused...Is it because I gave you my pain?" He said it in such an innocent and mockingly sarcastic tone that it made the audience cringe in the belief that the demon was going to try and guilt trip them and his opponent. All of a sudden, Naruto's foxes came back with poisoned senbon on the magnets he gave them. "Ah, thanks guys! This'll be easier with a weapon of some sort."
He got the ninwaiya and tied the sendon to it, creating a makeshift chain blade whip. He wrapped one end of the wire's length around a kunai and melded the two weapons together by heating his hand with his chakra. The whip-like weapon's hilt was a kunai and the wire was wrapped around the kunai's blade. "GOOD BYE!" He whipped the weapon at Kankuro, drawing blood and getting the puppeteer to pass out from the poison tips of the senbon.
The barrier dropped and the foxes all returned to the sleeves of Naruto's vest. Medics ran to Kankuro and Naruto applied a tiny bit of his chakra to his immune system, saving the doctors most of the trouble. When he got to the competitor's box, he was at first glomped by Temari who kept thanking him for not killing her brother and then she backed off and hit him in the head with her fan. "THAT'S FOR GIVING THE OTHER VILLAGES A HEARTATTACK! OTHER VILLAGES ARE WATCHING YOU KNOW!"
He was out of it for the rest of the day, the Hokage said that the next rounds would take place the next day to let the competitors rest up. One thing was for sure, the exams had turned very very interesting...
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Chapter 14 y'all. I'm sorry if this is later than usual, ironically since I don't have or give dates for each update. R&R please, and SEE YA!