Whaz up ladies, gents and other! Let's see how the kiddies are gonna feel after they get to Kirgakure no Sato, MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Psycho moment overlooked, let's get shit done.
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Honestly! These kids were hard to help. Here he was, telling them where, what and how they were going to train and all they did was stare at him! The nerve of these kids! In their defense, they were paralyzed with terror. Naruto's training set up was basically suicide for even some of the most experienced Jonin, and Anko's temporary students were being sent into it as Chunin.
"Uh...," Naruto turned his slitted, cerulean blue eyes to Kiba curiously and 'innocently', "Yes?" The Inuzuka heir's skin crawled and he felt fear at the fact that the man before him with eyes that could give Tsunade-sama issues at times, was once his classmate and a dobe for three years going around. "...You're not still made about me asking out your student, are ya? Hehehe, 'cause you shouldn't make my teammates suffer in training 'cause I made a little mistake, right?"
A vein threatened to pop on the jinchuuriki's face as he placed a hand on Kiba's head firmly while raising a fist with a menacing smile, "I was actually starting to forget about that 'little mistake' and kinda starting to forgive you, but now that you brought it up...I think this calls for a new change of tactic, Kit, what do you think?" And there it was, the very voice they didn't want to hear while he trained them. They'd seen and heard about what Naruto's other self was like, but they didn't want to experience the cruelty it encouraged in the already merciless Uzumaki Naruto.
"Yeah, I agree with you, Pal, but what are we gonna do, Datteboyo?! We've already got some of the worst things I've done as a sensei, and then some, but what else could we-We could always..." Naruto's face portrayed his agreement as he cackled in sick amusement, making the four students he had for the day have concerns for not only his sanity but theirs for letting Kiba be allowed to speak. "Yeah, We'll use 'that' for these kids this time, Pal. I was kinda hoping to save it for later, but...SCREW IT, LET'S GET YOU FOUR BEATEN INTO SHAPE! WHOO!"
Pumping his fists into the air really showed how much he enjoyed causing harm for his students, his or not, "U-Uhm, Naruto-sensei-kun...?" His attention on her now, she shrank into her shirt slightly and blushed so much that it looked like she'd drop dead from blood loss to her body. "You okay, Hinata, it looks like you've got a fever. This may seem weird, but trust me here, 'kay? Okay, I'm gonna check your temperature." And with that, he placed his lips to her forehead as a better way to check her temperature. (This works ladies, gents and other. I know it seems really weird an' all, but it's not failed my family every time we've used it)
Kiba's hair bristled, Akamaru had a face that asked 'the fuck', and Shino's glasses slipped down his nose to reveal to anyone who looked that his entirely black eyes were wide. (Aburame are sensitive to light, so I made their eyes all pupil, sorta like a seal's) Hinata was stunned into stillness for a moment before it registered, Naruto-kun's...k-k-k-k-k-kissing me!(Sorta, Hinata, sorry but it ain't the real thing) Her blush deepened, if that were even possible, and a few drops of blood actually trickled from her nose at the images she pictured of what Naruto would do to her now that 'they had shared a kiss'.
(Cue: Basshunter-All I Ever Wanted) She then proceeded to squeal in a fangirlish manner, making Naruto back up and take a pose in the process, and then faint from the loss of blood to her body. Naruto just stared at her, "Well for starters, we're gonna work whatever the Hell you've got in your system to stop that from happening every time you see someone." His remaining three students facefaulted at that, How...doesn't he know if he's...a Jonin?! While those three racked their brains for a reason behind Naruto's ignorance of Hinata's feelings, Naruto was punched out of the blue by one irate Haruno Sakura.
"What...The...Hell SAKURA!" He had caught her fist again, making the sound of bones breaking and healing resound as he dug his feet deep into the ground, mid-shin high in the dirt. "WHY'D YOU SAY YOU WEREN'T GOING TO TRAIN ME AND YET TRAIN EVERYBODY ELSE, NARUTO-BAKA-SENSEI!" A slight smirk appeared on Naruto's fist as he opened one eye while the other remained closed from the pain, "Still as feisty as...when you were a...toddler, eh...Beri-chan?"
Sakura's eyes widened, "H-How...How do you know my old nickname?! ONLY MY PARENTS CALL ME THAT!" Naruto chuckled, "What about Hige, Koton-chan, Farukon-neechan, and Yunikon-san, Beri-chan? What about them, huh, Datteboyo?" The knowing smile he wore made Sakura's already wide eyes seem to become wider. Kiba, hating being left out on something, asked, "'Hige, Koton, Farukon and Yunikon', who in the Hell's that? And who the fuck named them?!" Naruto turned and glared at Kiba with his piercing blue, slitted eyes, shutting up the dog loving Chunin in an instant.
"H-How...," Sakura choked out with tears brimming in her eyes, "How do yOU KNOW ABOUT HIGE-NIISAN AND THE OTHERS?!" Naruto's knowing smile became a loving one as his eyes softened and he said, "So I was 'Hige-niisan' to you at the time then, huh? I guess it's to be expected that you don't remember me that vividly since you were only a toddler when Mebuki allowed me anywhere near you as a child. Anyway, Beri-chan, it's me. I, the one you used to want nothing to do with, am Hige."
"I was only three when you were born, and since Kizashi was usually busy with work, Mebuki needed someone who could help her and keep her baby girl safe from harm by putting their life on the line. Although her reasons for getting me to help around during your early years were altogether a little far fetched, she got me seeing as no one in the village would care if I kicked the bucket." He said this with a nostalgic glint in his eyes, "I was unwanted, unloved, the village's most hated pariah. Who better than the waste-of-skin-child to help a new mother with her child, since said mother lived in a village of shinobi she expected their to be dangers and needed someone who wouldn't be missed when he died protecting an infant."
The surprise in the pinkette's eyes was unmistakable, she'd no knowledge of what he was talking about. "W-Why are you telling me these things?!" Naruto's eyes didn't waver, even as he let remorse leak into his slitted, cerulean orbs. "I'm not going to let secrets that shouldn't be, kept secret. Didn't you ever wonder why whenever I asked you out in the academy that I didn't get overexcited about it or go overboard with my attempts? I did that to give you the moral boost you didn't naturally have, seeing as everyone made you feel inferior and sad, I couldn't get too involved without making it worse for you. The only answer my younger, kinder self could think of was to act like a lovesick kit towards you. That way, you'd be given someone to take your aggression out on and you wouldn't feel unwanted or unloved by someone 'in' your age group. This course of action also gave me the chance to watch over you without alerting your parents or get you involved in my problems."
One of Naruto's hands found its way on top of Sakura's head, rubbing his hand affectionately while his other hand rested laxly on his hip, just like Minato's chakra echo did when he was away on the training trip with Jiraiya. The caring smile on his face was knocked right off by a single, bone crushing punch to the stomach from the bubble-gum haired young woman he called 'Beri-chan'. "Yep," He grunted out as he removed himself from a tree the punch had thrown him into, "I deserve that. I really, really do...Oh, Tsunade's kept you busy while I was away, damn!"
All he received was an, 'owwww!', from the pinkette as she held her fist in minor pain from his cloak-hardened skin, "Sorry, 'bout that, Beri-chan, but I'd like to have most of my body intact before I train you and 'Sai'. Anyways, I'm sorry I never told you beforehand, but if I told you you'd have been targeted by the villagers for being my 'servant', as stupid as that sounds. I know you want the reason I'm hated, but I can't tell you otherwise you're going to have to be executed." Before he could he could continue, Sakura yelled at him, "WHY'D YOU LEAVE ME ALONE ALL THAT TIME?! I WAITED FOR YOU, ASKED WHEN YOU WERE COMING BACK FOR MONTHS! WHY DID YOU HAVE TO LEAVE ME WITHOUT SAYING GOODBYE?! YOU TOLD ME I WAS YOUR BABY SISTER AND THAT YOU LOVED ME, BUT YOU LEFT ME ALONE!"
Her words made Naruto wince, each word carried such pain he'd caused and he hated seeing any of his precious people emotionally hurt. "IF I'D STAYED YOU, MEBUKI AND KIZASHI WOULD'VE BEEN KILLED!" The silent Shino, Kiba and Akamaru had wide eyes as Sakura's wide, tear-filled eyes shot open from being shut closed in her shouting fit. "I'M HATED FOR LIVING IN THAT VILLAGE, IF ANYONE GOT TOO CLOSE TO ME THE VILLAGERS WHO HATED ME WOULD'VE GONE AFTER THEM. I KNOW HOW STRONG MEBUKI IS, SHE BEAT ME TO NEAR DEATH IF I GOT TOO CLOSE TO YOU OR WHENEVER YOU TRIED TO HAVE ME READ TO YOU, THINKING I'D TAKEN CONTROL OF YOU! I COULDN'T LET MY BABY SISTER AND HER PARENTS DIE BECAUSE SHE WANTED ME TO HOLD HER HAND, DATTEBOYO!" He took a deep breath before continuing, guilty and angry tears at the edges of his eyes.
"DO YOU'VE ANY IDEA, HOW MUCH I WANTED TO KILL THOSE TEMES FOR MAKING FUN OF YOU?! HOW MUCH I WANTED TO BE THERE FOR YOU AS YOU GREW UP FROM MY HALF-WARD INTO THE FANGIRL YOU BECAME?!" His shout made Sakura, Kiba, Shino and Akamaru feel immense amounts of guilt for putting him down as he pressed on, "EVERY TIME YOU CRIED 'CAUSE SASUKE REJECTED YOU, I WAS AN INCH AWAY FROM GOING RABID ON HIS ASS! I could never, never hurt you without seeing the little girl who practically begged me to read to her while I was just learning to count or understand what letters meant...The little girl I watched smile for the first time, I helped crawl, I stopped from getting killed by those burglars..."
A sad smile crawled its way onto his face as he let the tears he'd never shed from years of neglect and abuse flow. "I could never let her know it was me who helped her learn to read while I was just starting, she'd have never believed me and told on me to her parents, and putting them in a painful position they couldn't save you from. I had to watch as you changed from that adorable, happy little girl who gave me my first positive nickname turn into a bratty bitch who's only concern was getting a boy when she should've been focusing on her work. I..." He held his face in his hands as his guilt and self-disappointment were heard by his students, "I had to endure the sight of the baby girl turn into an eternally-crying child, and when I learned and saw Ino-chan become your friend..." His tears and face changed from pain to sad happiness, "I-I literally danced for joy knowing that you, the girl who became like the baby sister I never had, gained the first friend in a long line of them in her age group. The times you hit me, I let you so you could release your pent up aggression while remaining under the arrogant village's radar. The times I asked you out, I always came back so that you could feel that at least one boy liked you more than a friend."
The sadness returned as he said repeatedly, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I'm sorry I left you alone. I'm sorry I didn't try harder to guide you from the background! I'm sorry I failed!" Unable to take it anymore, Sakura rushed over to him and embraced him like he was going to disappear, "I'm sorry I let him slip away, I'm sorry I couldn't stop you from traveling down the path you did, I'm sorry I was forced to leave you behind..." Sakura's hold on him tightened as she said, "It's okay, niisan, just don't leave me alone anymore. I don't want my niisan to be dead! Bring him back! Bring back Hige-niisan!"
(Uncue music)The first thing Hinata, finally finding the capacity to regain consciousness, saw was Sakura hugging her Naruto-kun too lovingly. Getting up and throwing a kunai at Sakura's throat in a threat, she was surprised when Naruto lunged his head forward and caught the kunai by the ring on its hilt in his teeth, "Kife aim, spick feeaction, wong pawfet Scinata!" Sakura, Kiba, Akamaru, Shino and Hinata all had dinnerplate-wide eyes as Naruto maneuvered the kunai around his mouth so that it was resting with its ring around one of his canines, "I'd suggest aiming at a better target, one that can defend itself if you're gonna be trying to aim to kill, like me for example. Go ahead, take a free shot, Datteboyo!"
Removing Sakura from himself, he took a step into the center of Hinata's aim, arms outstretched and a mischievous grin on his face as he adjusted the kunai so that his front teeth were biting into the grip, "Fake ya beft fhot, Gimata, Datteboyo!" Although hesitantly, Hinata did as instructed and threw several kunai at her not-so-secret crush. The grin on Naruto's face grew as he bounced two of the kunai away with the kunai he had in his mouth, the rest he let hit him as they bounced off his low-chakra-draining cloak around his body.
Spitting out the kunai, he smiled at her, "Yeah, your not gonna pierce my hide for the next few weeks we're on this trip..." He closed his eyes before opening them violently, revealing that they'd turned blood red, and his grin turned from teacherly to bloodthirsty. "HERE COMES HELL WITH TEETH, DATTEBOYO!" Taking a small step back, he launched himself at Kurenai's students, intent on shaking them up a bit. They were in for a great deal of pain. While no one noticed, as it was slow and gradual, Naruto's hair changed from sunshine blonde to habanero red...
Timeskip: two weeks, gates of Kirigakure no Sato, nearly sunset
(I don't wanna make several chapters 'bout the trainin' they underwent like canon does, so I'm skippin' to the part y'all're wantin': Jonin Exams)
"Kuchiyose no Jutsu!" Naruto said after going through the appropriate handseals and slamming his bloody hand onto the ground, making a string of kanji and unfamiliar symbols spread around him in a diagram. A cloud of smoke appeared in the center of the circular diagram, revealing Tsunade, Shizune, Tonton, Yamato, and-"Hey there, sensei!"
Right next to the Hokage's assistant with the piglet stood Naruto's student, Isaribi. "What's going on that Tsunade let you come along? You're not even a Chunin, so you're not supposed to be here!" His foster daughter only chuckled nervously as she rubbed the back of her neck, "Well, uh, hehehe-" "She's," Tsunade cut in rudely, "here because I needed her to see what she's going to experience while her sensei is temporarily demoted." The last word made Naruto, Anko, Gai and Kakashi go pale and rigid, Please tell us she's joking! They thought as one, fear in their eyes as the Chunin who'd signed up for the exams soon after paled.
"Hehehehe! That's funny and all, Ro Fujin," He said, ducking under a punch from the buxom blonde. "Sensei, your hair's red, why's that?" The change of topic made everyone look, and true to her words, Naruto's hair was indeed red. "The amount of youki I use on a regular basis and my level of power causes minor changes in my appearance. Like how my eyes are permanently slitted instead of having pupils, that's 'cause I've grown stronger and my body's changing to accommodate for the amount of youki I've been saving up so I don't blow up. Now, don't change the subject! Why's my student here when she should be back in Konoha training?!"
His stern glare was reciprocated by the Godaime Hokage, "Like I said, she's getting a sneak peak to what she's going to endure when she takes this exam and you're going to be a role model by being demoted to Chunin, that way she can have the determination to surpass you and become Jonin! So suck it up and deal with it!" A vein threatened to pop on Naruto's face as he growled, "And what, may I so kindly ask, brought about this decision?!"
"Jiraiya gave you an unofficial method to becoming Jonin," She said seriously, "so I'm sending you through the proper way, hand over your vest." They had a short glaring contest that ended in Naruto's vest turning into individual, shredded pieces of string as it fell off his now bare chest. "Fine, I'll do the whole thing shirtless if I have to! Just promise me one thing..." Her right eyebrow rose in curiosity as she asked, "What?"
"Keep their eyes closed when the final round starts," He said, gesturing to the younger Chunin and his foster daughter, "I don't want them to see what I can do anymore than you do, Tsunade, so promise me they won't see the final round. I've a feeling I'm going to meet an old opponent at that time...!" Out of the blue, an icy-blue senbon flew through the open gates and flew straight for the heart area of Naruto's exposed chest before it was deflected and caught mid-spin in Naruto's clawed hand.
"I know this type of senbon, isn't that right, Haku?!" From the misty forest stepped a young man, his hair held back in a braid and wearing a tight suit. His eyes were glowing icy-blue with power, his suit was covered in patches of spikes at the joints and his body was covered by a hooded, icy-white cloak. "It has been sometime now, hasn't it, Naruto-san? Ever since we fought on the bridge named after you, I couldn't stop thinking about confronting you again. And here we are, equals in rank and power in the Jonin Exams held by the Godaime Mizukage, Zabuza-sama."
Naruto grinned good-naturedly, "Oh, Kage is he? Well, good for him! And I see the years have treated you nicely, as well, this is turning out to be a pretty good time I'm gonna have here! It's good to see you again after four years, I trust the villagers have been treating you well?" He maneuvered himself around the others and stood there, arms crossed, in front of the Last Yuki like they were old friends. "Yes, they had a few misgivings at first about allowing a member of a clan back into the village, but they came down from their high horse and have accepted me. It is nice, not having to worry about people trying to kill you just for being alive, is it not?"
Naruto nodded slightly before he said, "Well, I wouldn't know. Being what I am has its risks, so all I've ever known is bloodshed, but otherwise I'm sure it'd be nice." Before they could start getting to into a conversation, Yamato called out, "HIT THE DIRT!" Just as everyone did as told, a familiar cleaver embedded itself into the trunk of a tree and was stood on by a familiar figure, "Long time no see, Yujin Kira, Kitsunin!" The man on the sword was none other Momochi Zabuza.
His attire was basically the same, with a few touch ups to his old attire like the Mizukage hat he had behind his head and the Mizukage cape as a trenchcoat. The hat was hanging lackadaisically around his neck by a string tied at the front, somehow not causing any wind resistance, while the trenchoat had metal weights at the bottom of the hem and at the cuff-links. The words 'Godaime Mizukage' were sewn into the back of the clothing article, proving what Haku said right.
"Nice to see a friendly face around here, when I last checked there was so much hostility here the last time you guys were around!" The joking smile on Naruto's face made most of the group pale, when Zabuza burst out laughing heartily, "It was at one point, but once we came back we found the Yondaime Mizukage had been in a Genjutsu for most of his career and had stepped down as he found out. Now he's working his way back up the ranks from Genin to Jonin, it's surprising really and caught me right the fuck off guard. Haku here's gotten along well with Yagura and Ukatakata ever since we got back, although it was weird having to pay for the damages they caused when they sparred...!" Zabuza shivered and started at the memories that brought up, making Haku chuckle nervously and scratch the back of his neck while Naruto burst out laughing.
"So," Inu started with a cautious and suspicious look in his one visible eye, "the Ryuketsu no Misuto is no more?" The voice of a young looking, pink eyed man was heard, "Yes." The closest one to him, Kakashi, jumped and turned with wide eyes, "Where did you come from?!" Yagura just gave him a confused look, "From the gate, where else?" A man wearing a kimono dropped next to the short man from the treetops, "We're the village's jinchuuriki, I'm not surprised he reacted like that. And I'd say the red head's theirs." Done talking, Utakata began blowing bubbles from his pipe calmly.
Naruto got off the ground and nodded to the two of them before he stopped to take a few whiffs of the air, "Huh, I could of sworn I smelled-BALLS!" He was then punched in the face, into the ground by one proudly smirking Fuu, "HAHA, I GOTCHA NARUTO! I GOTCHA GOOD!" She sat there, straddling his chest, pumping her fists into the air like she'd done some amazing feat. "Nice...to see you too...Fuu. Damn, you've grown from being puny-!" The comment of being puny rewarded him with a punch in the throat, making him gasp for air.
The two of them were then engulfed in a ball of sand, making them yelp(And yarp) in surprise, "I see we're all ready and accounted for, Naruto, Fuu?" In response to his question a fist burst through the large orb of sand above the ground. Fuu was pushed out harshly, making her land on her stomach while the ball tightened around Naruto, forcing him to dig out of the ball. Landing on top of Fuu, he shook his head and spit sand out of his mouth, "Great, we've got everybod-!"
The sound of a groan came from behind the Konoha group, "Hey, Naruto, nice to see you again...!" Naruto growled at that, "So we've got most of the jinchuuriki, what's next? Sora no Kuni comes back from the dead and reveals it has or had a Hidden Village?!" A red headed young woman landed on his head, literally, making him release a fox-like whimpering of self-pity.
Fuu, tired of being underneath the Kyuubi jinchuuriki, bucked the two off of her and glowered at the red headed twenty year-old, "DON'T JINX SHIT, NARUTO-KUN, OR IMMA GONNA KILL YOU!" The sound of hissing directed everybody's attention to the red head sitting on Naruto's face, "WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING, TEME?!" She flipped off of his face, making him breath in deep, grateful breaths when the young woman bitch slapped him back and forth.
It was several minutes after she started that Naruto grabbed her by the wrist and released a vulpine snarl from his throat, "Vessel of the tailless one...From where do you hail?" The other jinchuuriki released their own animalistic sounds. Yagura released a reptilian hissing, Utakata made a gurgling sound, Yugito growled, Fuu let out a buzzing sound, Gaara growled like a tanuki(Raccoon-dog if ya didn't know) and Naruto gekkered irritably at the hissing red headed girl, "Soragakure no Sato, Sora no Kuni. I'm Amaru, medicnin and soon-to-be Jonin of my village!"
Naruto began cackling good-naturedly while the other jinchuuriki relaxed and smiled disarmingly at the confused girl, when the other redheaded shinobi wrapped an arm around her neck and gave her a playful noogying, "Rei, Ichi, Ni, San, Roku, Shichi/Nana, and Kyu, reunited again!" Letting go of the indignant girl, Naruto gave her a toothy smile, "Today just got a whole lot more interesting, wouldn't you say, Datteboyo?! Six of the nine and a bonus, Akatsuki ain't coming anywhere near here without feeling a serious blow to their ranks! LET'S GET SHIT DONE!" Everybody the jinchuuriki had forgotten about were kind of scared at the moment, even the two Kage and man who could restrain jinchuuriki.
Gaara, realizing his sister was there, strolled over to her and started a conversation. It was then that everyone noticed that the other two competitors Naruto had faced in the Chunin Exams had changed from their old attire. Fuu didn't wear her old white two piece, now she wore a black corset that had only one piece of fabric in the shape of a 'y' that covered her now busty chest and reached down to her crotch, where it connected to her underwear. The rest of the corset was in fact fishnet that went up to her neck, where her hitae-ate was made into a choker that held her fishnet-corset up. Her skirt was replaced with what looked like a hoodie tied around her waist, but was actually the drapes of a cloak sewn to her belt and allowed perfect view of her toned, skintight-suit-covered legs. She had rings pierced into the outside of her ears that went down to her lobes which had earrings with Taki's emblem as the dangling parts. Her red cylinder was foregone and replaced with what was a metal, cylindrical hive for her beetles. There was a cowl over her shoulders, lower face and head, but the odd thing about it was that it was made of a material the others had never seen before.
"Hey Fuu, why'd you choose to wear something so provocative? I mean, really, what purpose does it serve besides making you out to be a...Ahem!" Not even wanting to say it, Naruto stopped, but Fuu was now 'curious' to know what she made him think of. The innocently curious expression on her face was hard to see through, even for the most skilled Jonin like Zabuza and Kakashi, as she asked, "What do I look like to you, Naruto-kun? I hope nothing inappropriate like those hookers you had to bed for that mission you and I got stuck on a few years ago-Oops, did I say that out loud?"
She covered her mouth like she didn't mean to say what she did, and the way she said it was very believable to all of the other shinobi, but the other jinchuuriki could see through it plain as day. They'd seen too many fake smiles, heard too many false promises, and felt too many heartbreaks to be fooled by the antics of their own. Naruto, seeing he wasn't going to get out of this one like he did against Kakashi when he 'disappeared' all those years ago, decided to go down with an ounce of pride, "Alright, I'll tell you, but you're gonna hate me if I-UNGH!" Not needing anything else as incentive, Fuu kicked him in the stomach with her armored shin. "Thank you for being honest with me, Naruto-kun!"
Gaara had changed as well. His clothes consisted of a knee-length, red coat, a pair of brown trousers with laces on each leg, and the sand gourd he'd had since they were Genin and Chunin. The major changes were were that he had black metal covering his chest and arms. And the metal seemed to shift every time he moved, just like Fuu's cowl did every time she turned her head or rolled her shoulders. The metal was covered in markings similar to Shukaku's that seemed to move with each motion Gaara took. Naruto, being the idiot he is, asked, "What's with the chestplate and gauntlets? Are they made of sand with metal grains or...?"
"No," Gaara said with the slightest ghost of a smile on his face, "Jinton. Shukaku's abilities are focused more around the iron sand in his markings, allowing him more defensive and offensive capabilities than the others. That's why I've got this on." Just to emphasize his point, he tapped the armor-like sand, making a ringing resound. "Neat!" "Indeed."
Tsunade, having heard the stories of Sora no Kuni's destructive power, cautiously got wrapped up in a conversation with the Reibi jinchuuriki. Zabuza watched silently, a smile appearing on his half-wrapped face, They've had such little human interaction that they're chatting up a storm with everyone in sight as long as they feel they can trust who they're talking to. Fuu, having shared missions with Naruto during his training trip, leaped onto his back and wrapped herself around him, toppling him over.
"AH!" And, as if by some 'cruel' twist of fate(*I wiggle my eyebrows mischievously, before I'm clawed in the face again*) Fuu's tackle got her target and herself rolling, rolling right into Temari's breasts. "Mmph!" "Whoops, hehehehe!" "...!" Fuu, being the smart and daredevilish young woman she was, flipped of Naruto's back and over the sandy blonde's shoulders just before Naruto was hit over the head with her fan. Temari's angry and hasty actions had an adverse effect however, as she found out soon enough as Naruto was slammed harder into her larger-than-average chest, "...ow...!" Ino, unknown to everyone else, was glaring at Naruto for being 'such a pervert', is what she'd tell anyone if she had any idea why she was so pissed at the sight of her friend being smothered by another woman's breasts.
Naruto, forever suicidal, decided talking while remaining in Temari's bosom was a good idea, "Mm mmm Nn ggg tt td!" The vibrations from Naruto's 'chatter' was enough to get Temari blushing and moaning slightly, getting the blonde-turned-redhead out of the pliant pillows he'd unintentionally buried his face into with haste, "GOMENASAI!" Suddenly, Naruto was kicked in the groin by a wooden, monkey's foot. "Messing with my big sister's a bad idea, even for you, Uzumaki!"
A miffed Kankuro walked out of the fog, chakra strings attached to the monkey puppet that had taken a cheapshot on Naruto's 'family jewels'. "Why's...everybody...hitting me today...?!" Seeing an opportunity, Ino caught him in a headlock and smothered him into her own breasts, all the while tightening her hold around his neck. "Naruto-kun..." And he knew he was fucked, "Why were you 'conveniently' shoved into the woman Suna had sent to get you hitched?!"
"Ahck! Ino-chan...I fas't heash...!" Ino's smile became all the more sickly sweet, really taking after her role model in Anko, "I'm sorry, Naruto-kun," She wouldn't! He thought, "I can't understand you, speak properly please. But I've the sneaking suspicion you'd like me to keep it up, right...?!" NAruto's struggles weren't great, just minor enough to get it across that he couldn't breath, Should I stay here or...Should I stay here? I think I can live without air-NOPE, BURNING LUNGS HURT! I NEED OXYGEN! Seeing no other way out, the new redhead did what he knew how to: Cause trouble. He dispersed into nine foxes, but one was kept in Ino's chokehold, preventing the others from regrouping into their origin and making the one Ino had in a chokehold nip her on the breast.
"Ow!" She yelped, letting go of the fox and allowing him to regroup with the eight other foxes. "Sorry 'bout that, Ino-chan, but I didn't have many options and that was the only one that seemed appropriate, unless...You know what, nevermind, let's go get shit done!" Naruto dispersed again and the foxes ran into the village, causing the sounds of screams to be heard by everyone. Gaara and Fuu shared a short glance before calling to the foxes, "WAIT UP, NARUTO/NARUTO-KUN!" Gaara separated into sand tanuki while Fuu turned into a cloud of beetles, the two(?) of them then went after the nine foxes, intent on causing mayhem.
Tsunade's head slumped in resignation and embarrassment when Zabuza started laughing like crazy, "HAHAHAHAHAHAH! I FORGOT HOW MUCH FUN THAT KID IS!" A girl screamed in terror all of a sudden as Naruto's voice carried over to them, "I can kill things really really hard!" Some random adult asked, "How hard is that...?"
The sound of bones breaking, metal bending, wood splintering and flesh ripping was all too clear, "LIKE MY DICK HARD!" Everyone's eyes widened as Amaru chased after her fellow redhead, intent on-"DON'T LEAVE ME OUTTA THE FUN, UZUMAKI-SAN!" Konoha's shinobi had wide, pale eyes as they realized what they'd done, they'd given their psychopathic boy a new playground.
Yamato ran after the kyuubi jinchuuriki, being the only man currently alive who could contain any of the Bijuu. He was soon fox-piled and dragged away dramatically, making everyone else chase after him to find he was trying to use the wood around him to catch each fox individually. Shaking her head amusedly and maternally, Anko stood next to the stressed Yamato and brought two fingers to her mouth in a whistle. The effect was immediate as the nine foxes stopped whatever they were doing and ran back to sit excitedly at Anko's feet, staring at her expectantly like she was the one in charge.
Anko smirked at the rigid, shocked shinobi around her, "You just have to know what you're doing, who you're talking to, what you're dealing with and learn to train them! Simple, really." One of the foxes barked at her, as if telling her to give them an order, "Go have fun-" They went to run back to what they were doing before, "BUT!" They turned back around and looked at her questioningly, "Behave...!"
Each individual fox barked affirmatively, making Anko nod approvingly as they disappeared into the surrounding alleyways, hole-in-the-walls, and any other passages they found interesting. The screams of surprise and mild fear subsided slightly, not entirely as the other three jinchuuriki who'd gone after the Konoha 11's boy hadn't stopped causing chaos. Zabuza sighed heavily, "The villagers are going to be bitching for days about this...Ah well, might as well let them enjoy themselves while they've the chance, right?!"
Tsunade, having seen a single woman contain an on-the-loose jinchuuriki without any (Wo)manhandling or any restraint, was stiff with shock and jealousy. The Godaime Hokage was also somewhat scared, as Amaru had told her what Soragakure no Sato could do and that they were trained in jutsu unknown to the rest of the world. Inu looked to Anko thoughtfully, pondering if he could worm out her secrets of control over Naruto, when she turned and gave him a playful wink that said, 'Not on your life, Buster'.
Gai and Lee were going on about their Flames of Youth to the village at the top of their lungs, making most of those nearby either pale in surprise or hide their faces in embarrassment. A single fox flew past Anko, getting her to grab it by the scruff out of midair, scaring everyone around her with her nonchalant badassedness as well as her ability to nab a technically flying fox out of the air without even trying. "What are you planning to do during the Exams, Gaki? I need to make sure it's legal."
The fox squirmed, flailed, and altogether tried to escape for a few minutes before giving in and barking rapidly at his surrogate mother/sister like she understood him. "Gotcha, Gaki," Everyone who didn't know(Or remember) that she could speak fox looked at her like she was the scariest thing in the world, "go play, but don't pick fights with the other kids. At least not until you're allowed to, got it?" A happy yowl was her answer as she lowered the energetic critter back to the ground, a motherly smile on her face as Naruto tried to run even before he was nowhere near touching the ground.
Zabuza turned to the shinobi who had arrived not too long ago with a relatively chipper attitude, "The Exams start tomorrow at seven A.M.," The Chunin from Konoha paled dramatically, they hadn't even gotten a place to stay let alone a place to get ready for the Jonin Exams, "Don't be late and be ready for anything, everything and nothing. See some of you later!" He vanished with Utakata, Haku and Yagura. Yugito had vanished as well after she caught sight of some of her teammates from Kumo.
Naruto suddenly landed on top of his 'baby-sitter', Yamato, "Damn, last time I make a joke about Fuu being underdeveloped as a kid, Jesus...!" A groan from beneath him alerted him to the fact he was on top of someone, "You should watch where you're standing there, buddy-" That's when he saw who it was, making him growl, "Oh, it's you, nevermind. I'm gonna find a place to sleep, all of you can find your own beds, right?"
He transformed and went to leave the gateway, but Tsunade caught his five-tailed ass by the scruff tightly, "No you don't, Ass, you're sleeping in the same place as the rest of your group. We need to keep an eye on you, the Akatsuki's finally started moving and we need to keep our jinchuuriki safe from whatever they've got planned. So you're not going anywhere without Yamato nearby or without us, got it?!" She had said this through gritted teeth, making Naruto snarl at her in defiance and getting Tsunade to flinch in fear from the power behind it.
As an act of extreme defiance, Naruto batted away her arm with all five of his tails and rammed Yamato in the stomach before splitting up into several foxes that ran off into the village. (All of Tsunade's focus was in holdin' Naruto's scruff, not in havin' a firm arm to prevent her grip from bein' lost. I dont want shit 'bout that) The Mokuton user got off the ground with a groan of pain, "That bastard's got quite the hard head for someone with his build-ngh-I'd have thought all of the sturdiness would've been in his limbs or spine, not his head...!"
Isaribi looked at the man like he was an imbecile, "So Root not only makes its operatives emotionless, useless and worthless, it also makes them stupid, huh?!" The words she snarled out made Sai pull out his tanto, making Isaribi elbow him in the ribs, punch his sword-arm's elbow inward enough for it to break, take his sword and hold it to his throat without breaking a sweat.
"Don't test me, scum, I've been trained by a jinchuuriki, not even your leader, Danzo, can top that! So don't think me weak because of my rank, I'm stronger than you and trying at my life is going to get you killed," She kicked his knee in, making a snap resound as Sai knelt to the ground in pain with the tanto still at his throat, "Capiche?!" Her eyes held nothing but very deeply buried hatred in the guise of a blank stare that explained how much she cared whether or not he lived or died.
"Isaribi, that's enough!" Said blunette dropped the sword to the ground and walked off nonchalantly, as if she hadn't threatened a young man's life or broken aforementioned young man's leg and arm. Tsunade glared at the retreating back of Naruto's student, "I hate what he must've done to that girl, to make her turn into that heartless, yet polite, little bitch!" Isaribi heard her however and glared Hell's daggers at her superior, "Well excuse me, Hokage-sama, if I'm a little harsh after being at the receiving end of innumerable death threats. Endured insufferable insults and lived through neglect my entire life! And survived torture that has left a permanent mark on me! I can never live a normal life because of people they're lead by," She pointed an accusing finger at Yamato and Sai as she continued her rant at the wide eyed Hokage.
"I was once a normal little girl, before your teammate decided to fuck with my life and made me a fucking freak! I was happy before he came into my life. Because of him I can't eat foods that most people enjoy everyday or risk my stomach killing me, because of him I can't walk among people without these bandages for fear of ridicule," She spat each word out, making Tsunade's eyes widen and the Hokage's heart break at what she could've prevented, "BECAUSE YOU COULDN'T KEEP HIM WHERE HE SHOULD'VE BEEN, I AM FORCED TO LIVE IN A WORLD WHERE I WILL NEVER BE ACCEPTED UNLESS IT'S BY OTHERS LIKE ME! I WATCHED COUNTLESS CHILDREN GO INTO OROCHI-TEME'S LABORATORIES, MOST OF THEM NEVER CAME OUT! I WAS ONE OF THE LUCKY ONES, ABLE TO SURVIVE THE TORTURES OF BEING EXPERIMENTED ON AND ALLOWED TO WALK AMONGST NORMAL PEOPLE BUT CURSED TO BE INSULTED AND THREATENED FOR BEING DIFFERENT! DO YOU KNOW WHAT THAT FEELS LIKE?! BECAUSE YOU WERE BEING FANGIRLY, I AND AN UNKNOWABLE NUMBER OF CHILDREN HAD TO SUFFER! OROCH-TEME'S FIRST TEST SUBJECT IS ONE OF YOUR BEST JONIN, AND YOU TAKE NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR ACTIONS!"
Tsunade's eyes watered at the fact that had she acted prior to Orochimaru's experimenting, she could have saved who-knows-how-many children the torment Isaribi had endured. Anko looked to Isaribi sadly, no tears being shed for they were pointless and would only make aforementioned blunette feel ostracized. The Konoha no Juichinin stared at Naruto's student pityingly and tryingly to put themselves in her boots, but she wasn't finished, "I'm fine taking responsibility for what I do, I'll justify it, but I'll at least own up to what I've done. One of the first things my sensei taught me, was to never shift the blame unless it was a part of the mission. 'If you do something, good or bad, own up to it', is what he told me and I live by that to this day. And here I, a sixteen year-old, am, lecturing a Kage, Sannin and adult abOUT RESPONSIBILITY! NO ONE'S INNOCENT! INU-SENSEI'S FIRST TITLE IS 'FRIEND-KILLER' FOR FUCK'S SAKE, AND HERE HE IS TAKING RESPONSIBILITY AND ATONING FOR IT! I still hate Orochi-teme, but I at least know that this world isn't black and white, unlike you apparently. The jinchuuriki, Anko-san and Kami know's how many others are a perfect example of the greys on this spectrum, because you can't seem to see that there's more to this world than good, bad, black, white, night, day, pure and corrupt!"
Everyone who heard her, friend or not, with them or not, had tears in their eyes, even Sai and Yamato. "So don't you dare, accuse me of being in the wrong, because I at least can own up to it and have pretty fucking good reason behind it...While you've no reason besides being stuck-up and ignorant to what's around or said to you...!" Isaribi returned to her exploration, leaving a seriously demoralized Konoha no Juichinin, teary-eyed Godaime Hokage, guilty-hearted Yamato for all he'd done before leaving Root, and silently crying Jonin senseis for what they'd seen and done.
Naruto-as-a-five-tailed-fox, Fuu's beetles, Amaru's leeches and Gaara's sand tanuki heard everything and felt their heartstrings being tugged. The redheaded Naruto-as-a-five-tailed-fox landed next to his foster-daughter and nuzzled his head against her side compassionately, making the once assuredly ranting Isaribi collapse onto him in tears at the pain Tsunade had dug up by being stuck up. Naruto sat there, patiently waiting for his daughter to calm down, nuzzling her head caringly all the while.
Everyone from Konoha, at that moment, swore to right the wrongs humanity has done to the world's pariah. That's when a little girl said giddily, "Look, Daddy," Everyone who was nearby turned to see the father and daughter who'd been at Konoha's gates when Naruto arrived, "It's Fluffy-san!" The little girl ran up to an irate Naruto-fox, hugging one of his bushy tails and receiving sighs of 'awww' from the nearby ladies. To get the child off his leg, Naruto nuzzled his snout to her face and began to lick her, making her squeal out giggles before she ran back to her father with a very happy smile on her face.
"Gomenasai, Uzumaki-san. Little Paninia keeps asking for me to take her where, and I quote, 'the swirling fox shadow travels', as strange as that sounds." Naruto transformed and looked to the man with surprise, "How does your daughter know of my heritage and my status?" The man stared at the redheaded Uzumaki questioningly, "What do you mea-Wait! Uzumaki...As in Uzu no Kuni's Uzushiogakure no Sato, right?!" He received a nod, making the man burst out in joyous laughter, "My ancestors came from Uzu no Kuni! My daughter must've picked up on that, Haha! There's still hope for the Uzumaki, Hanakero, Uzuki, and Amagaki's!"
The eyes of everyone nearby who knew what he was talking about, widened. Isaribi's tears subsided, Naruto's eyes held his own tears, Anko had a hand over her mouth in shock, Tsunade now saw that her only living relative wasn't just Naruto, and everyone else saw a mass hallucination. This ghostly image was of several families, each carrying a crest of a clan, but all stood behind on family and its flag. Its flag was of a spiral that went in on itself, looking like an eternal whirlpool as the flag waved in the setting sunlight. Many of those in these families had red hair, or at least some color rarely seen in other countries. Some had dark pink, others orange, a few colors of camouflage and some even a regal purple.
Paninia ran up to Naruto and said happily, "Uncle Fluffy-san!" Naruto just chuckled with tears in his eyes, "My kindred aren't extinct, we're not going out anytime soon...I found a Hanakero, I know of an Uzuki and now I've found a pair of Amagaki..." He picked up the little girl with brown, black and green hair into his strong arms, he held her against his bare chest before yowling to the sky with happy tears, "WE'RE NOT DEAD YET, SO DON'T SELL US SHORT, WORLD!" Paninia made several whoops of joy while her father clapped and laughed happily. The setting sun seemed to remain there as dust clouds picked up at the feet of the three relatives, a now standing Isaribi and the hallucination of the Uzu no Kuni clans.
Two faces stuck out to the group, two people they'd seen at least once. Both were women, but they walked different paths. One had royal purple hair, brown eyes that held warmth, a red shade of lipstick and wore standard Anbu armor with a porcelain neko mask on the side of her head to show her face. The purplette stood at Paninia and her father, Morton's left, standing with her arms crossed as she stood in a sideways angle. The other young woman was Hanakero Tayuya, standing at Isaribi and Naruto's right with her cap turned forward as she smirked with kind confidence and a serene, loving look in her eyes as she backed up. Tayuya's apparition took her(Its?) place next to Isaribi, arms crossed and her flute in hand as she tilted her head to her left, letting the group see her confidence while also feeling her sense humility.
Behind Naruto and Isaribi stood a woman with Habanero-red hair and a sweet smile on her soft, motherly face. As the sun set, the image faded into nothing, revealing Naruto and Isaribi talking to the Amagaki pair, "-So you're heading back to your home village then, knowing why Paninia was so fixated on me?" Morton nodded with a smile. "Hai, we've work to be done back home, we spent most of our time following you and have to get back before they have a funeral for the two of us!"
Isaribi held Paninia in her arms like an older sister or aunt would as she tickled the little girl into tears, "Be good for your Tou-san, okay Paninia-chan?" Said camouflage-haired four year-old giggled out, "Hai, Isa-anne!" The foster-daughter of Naruto nodded approvingly and hugged her technical-cousin close one, last time before giving her back to her father. "See ya some other village, Morton, Paninia, you take care now!" The two of them disappeared in a whirlpool that appeared at their feet, making Naruto chuckle as he saw the jutsu with his eternally active Kitsugan.
The full moon rose slowly, causing one redhaired young man with the word 'love' written in blood on his forehead to turn into a tanuki of sand and metal dust. Naruto looked to the full moon with a primal smirk as his body changed. His already claw-like nails turned into actual claws, his bare chest grew orange and red fur, Naruto's ears grew from pointed to rabbit-like and his mouth opened up in a snarl, letting his jaws lengthen and become a furred snout. Five tails sprouted from Naruto's tailbone(Yep, play on words an' the real place that a tail grows from), his legs bent and grew somewhat longer, and the moment he finished transforming, he roared to the moonlit night. There he stood on two vulpine legs and shook his head, making the snout return to normal so he could speak, "Let's..."
Nearby, Fuu underwent a similar transformation. Her pupilless eyes became multi-lensed, two plates of chitin covered her mouth and grew mandible-like pieces in front of her mouth. Four insectoid wings sprouted from her back, a thin, whip-like tail grew from her tailbone and any and all areas of exposed skin were covered by chitin-like armor. The plates of chitin over her mouth folded back into themselves, letting her say, "Get..."
Amaru's legs fused together, turning into a leech's body or 'tail'. Her teeth shrank and became sharper, while many more grew from her upper and lower jaw between her real teeth. Patches of black, silky soft skin appeared on her already flawlessly soft skin. The three who'd transformed hadn't transformed against their will, they'd transformed to help each other 'spar' with a temporarily rabid Gaara. Even though her mouth had several more teeth, making it seem she'd have a lisp or something, she said in a clear, demonic voice, "This..."
As one voice, the demon-touched young adults roared out as one voice, "SHIT STARTED, SHALL WE?!" Amaru, Fuu and Naruto slithered, flew and loped through the village as they zeroed in on Gaara. The resulting fight was one that would be carried over into the early morning until the moon had set. It was going to be a hard night to sleep for some of those gathered, when three more demon-touched individuals came to the scene...
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That's a motherfuckin' wrap ladies, gents and other! I'm sorry that I haven't posted in a while. I've been caught up in work with my uncle around town and summer's almost over an' school's just around the corner, so I've been kinda preoccupied. No complainin' 'bout the fact I skipped over most of the time the group had for trainin', I can't think of anythin' that hasn't been done at the moment, an' I know that if I drag out the trainin' like canon then most've ya are gonna get bored. I left somethinn' in the 'mirage' the Konoha group saw if any'f y'all can figure it out. I can't think of any questions y'all might've come up with, so as usual: R&R, no flamin' my ass, constructive criticism, and SEE YA-GOOD NIGHT!