The next chapter of Naruto, Heir to Frostmourne and Ashbringer is up.

I got a review asking what Hikashi Setsuna looks like. I based her off from Sakurazaki Setsuna from Mahou Sensei Negima. The only difference is that she wears samurai clothing, instead of the Class 3-A uniform.

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, Warcraft, or any borrowed materials that aren't original.

Chapter 21: The Preliminaries I

The Sandaime Hokage had ANBU to patrol the area and for one of them to notify the other Konoha jonin.

The moment the ANBU sent to notify the jonin returned, the door to the room boomed open to reveal the jonin senseis of Konoha.

Kurenai asked, "Where's Anko? How is she? Did someone do something to her?"

The Sandaime raised a hand. "Anko is just fine, Kurenai. It seems someone brought her here to heal."

"Who was that 'someone', Hokage-sama?" She asked; worried that this 'someone' did something…perverted to her while she was unconscious.

"This person's identity is unknown as of now, Kurenai. I had ANBU scouting the area for any suspicious people. So far, no one has shown up."

Kakashi asked, "What happened?"

"A group of chuunin found something weird at the edge of a gate at the Forest of Death. That 'something' was a group of genin who doesn't have any faces."

Kakashi's eye widened. Asuma's cigarette puffed out. Gai spouted some nonsense that I don't want to say. Kurenai had the same reaction as Kakashi.

"Anko told the chuunin to inform me of this. If my suspicions are correct, then, Orochimaru is here within the Forest of Death."

Their reaction's worsened.

"Unfortunately, only Anko here and Orochimaru know of the latter's intentions."

Kakashi asked, "What about the third party?"

"Well, I'll include him/her, too. For now, we have to wait until Anko here wakes up."

Naruto walked through the halls of the tower when he heard the sound of someone hitting a wall hard. It came from the room beside him. He opened it and saw a mummified guy hitting his girl teammate hard. They were the team that he dispatched during the written test. The girl, it seemed, was hit hard lots of times, if the numerous bruises were anything to go by.

"Dammit, if you weren't so useless, we would have defeated the Uchiha before their reinforcements came!" The guy shouted as he raised his armored hand to hit her again.

Naruto frowned as he rushed to her side. He grabbed the guys hand before throwing him towards his other teammate.

Naruto turned towards the female teammate. "Are you alright?"

The girl nodded. "Yes, thank you."

The males stood up and glared at him. "What are you doing here, Konoha shinobi," asked the mummified guy.

Naruto stood up as well. "You are teammates. You shouldn't hurt each other."

"She's a failure as a shinobi. She didn't help us with our fight. Also, she isn't your responsibility. She isn't a Konoha kunoichi."

The guy with the broken arms said, "Also, she didn't do anything when we attacked your Uchiha."

Naruto frowned. "She became my responsibility when you hit her. I'll be taking her away from this place now."

"Like hell you will!" They charged towards him.

Naruto pulled out Frostmourne and pointed it at them. He whispered to the girl, "Are they important to you?"

The girl whispered back, "No…they never were."

"Then, you won't feel hurt by this."

He stabbed Frostmourne to the ground and said, "Furostmorno Higi: Seikon Kyuushuu." The two people died before they hit the ground.

Naruto sheathed his blade before turning towards the girl. He held out his hand towards her. "Are you alright," he asked with a smile.

The girl blushed at the smile before she accepted his hand and stood up.

Naruto said, "I am Uzumaki Naruto. And you are?"

"I am Tsuchi Kin." Kin replied. "Thank you for saving me."

"It's no problem. Why were you being hurt anyway?"

"Well, we were ordered by Orochimaru to attack the Uchiha's team. When we arrived, said Uchiha was sleeping under the tree. His other teammate was asleep beside him. The only person awake is their pink-haired teammate. We attacked them but the girl had traps laid out around them. We avoided them easily but it gave enough time to get reinforcements. Then, the Uchiha woke up with Orochimaru's Cursed Seal active. He incapacitated Dosu and dislocated Zaku's arms. Then, we left. Dosu began berating me about not helping them. I can't help it. Their mind walker had me. In fact, when she threatened them, they tried to kill her and my body!"

Naruto frowned more. "Well, what do you want to do now?"

"Since I no longer have any allegiance to Orochimaru, I want to tell you about what Orochimaru's planning with Konoha. He plans to invade it along with Sunagakure no Sato."

Minato frowned. Why does Suna want to invade its ally?

Naruto asked, "Why does Suna want to invade Konoha? We're allies?"

"The Wind Daimyo cut off most of Suna's payload and directed it to Konoha."

"Oh, I got it. So Orochimaru made the current Kazekage think that Konoha is at fault."

Kin said, "Yes, he plans to initiate the plan by the finals."

"Why are you telling me this anyway?"

"Everyone except my friends treat me like a burden."

Naruto raised an eyebrow. "Who are these friends?"

"Oto's Sound Five are my only friends, although, only Tayuya actually spends time with me much. The others just save my ass whenever someone hurts me."

Naruto nodded his head. "I will save them when I get there."

Kin shook her head. "They have Orochimaru's Curse Seal on them to follow his every will."

Naruto smirked. "I have experience with Curse Seals. I just need Orochimaru to think that they're dead and I'll bring them to my house for Curse Seal removal."

Kin's eyes widened before she hugged him and shouted 'Thank you' over and over.

Naruto patted her on the back before letting go. Naruto did the same thing that he did to Fu's team, much to Kin's surprise, and he told them to act like her teammates, excluding the torture, much to Kin's relief.

Naruto turned to Kin. "Come on, we have to go tell jiji about this."

Kin nodded and left.

The Sandaime and the others waited for Anko to wake up.

Soon enough, Anko stirred.

Kurenai immediately went to her side. "Anko, are you alright? Did someone do something to you? Who was that someone? I'll kill him!"

Anko grabbed her head. "Nai-chan, please lower down the volume. I have one hell of a migraine and I'm on the verge of going berserk." Then, her hand dropped down and she shouted, "Orochimaru! Where is the bastard? More to the point, where is the guy who managed to fight Orochimaru at half-strength?"

That got everybody's attention. The Sandaime asked, "Anko, what do you mean by 'the guy who managed to fight Orochimaru at half-strength?'"

Anko slowly sat up. "After I told the chuunin to notify you, I entered the Forest. After a little while, I sensed Orochimaru. We had a little fight. I was about to use the Sojasosai no Jutsu," Kurenai began shouting protests, "when the Orochimaru in front of me turned to mud and the real one appeared behind me. Then, he activated my Curse Seal and I fell to the ground. Then, he told me that I should tell you to not cease the Chuunin Exams or he will destroy Konoha."

She took a deep breath and continued. "Before he activated the Curse Seal, he said, to my surprise, that 'the person who fought me to a standstill is almost here,'" Their eyes widened. Orochimaru has just acknowledged someone to hold his own against him, which is nigh impossible. "He was about to leave after he activated the Curse Seal when someone appeared with a high-level fire technique. The only thing I saw about him is his golden armor." The others frowned. They don't know anyone with that kind of armor. "The next thing I knew, they were fighting using swordplay. That's the last thing I saw before I fainted from exhaustion."

Kurenai asked, "Did that guy do something to you?"

Anko frowned in remembrance. "No, I don't think so. I don't feel any intrusion or anything, although, I do remember seeing a spiky-haired someone in my head."

Kurenai's eyes widened. "He mind-raped you," she exclaimed.

Anko shook her head. "Everything was a blur but what I remember is that after he left, my whole body felt good."

Kurenai turned livid. "I knew it."

Anko shook her head again before she turned pink.

Kurenai noticed and asked, "Is everything okay?"

"Yeah, I'm just feeling the same thing I felt since earlier." She moaned before she leaned forward and she grasped her shoulder.

The Sandaime grew confused. The Curse Seal was supposed to bring pain, not pleasure. Anko was giving the sign of pleasure, from the pink tinge on her cheeks and the moaning, instead of pain, which is supposed to have been gritted teeth and clenched eyes.

He was about to ask about it when there was an exclamation of 'There you are, jiji!'

Everybody turned to see Naruto and a black-haired girl beside him.

The Sandaime asked, "Naruto-kun, what are you doing here?"

Naruto replied, "Well, Kin here," he gestured towards the girl beside him, "wanted to tell you what Orochimaru is planning." He blinked twice at Anko's direction before asking, "Is something wrong with Anko-sensei?"

They turned back to her and saw that she was staring at him like he was someone that she admired from a long lost past.

Anko weakly stated, "Y-you…aren't you…just inside me head earlier?"

Everybody turned back to him. Some had skeptical looks. Some had calculative looks. Some had confused looks.

Kurenai looked at him with disbelief. Kakashi looked at him with confusion. Gai just spewed nonsense about 'flames of youth.' The Sandaime just stared at Naruto.

Naruto blinked. "I don't know what you're talking about. I wasn't anywhere near your head. The closest I…you, rather, got to me was that blood-licking at the entrance of the Forest of Death."

Anko had the decency to look sheepish at that. "Sorry about that, gaki. But, I couldn't resist. Your blood was the tastiest I ever tasted."

Naruto turned pink and looked away. "I'm flattered." He recovered and said, "Why are you pink and moaning, though? Surely, my blood wasn't that pleasurable?" He raised an eyebrow when Anko looked away, a slight pink on her cheeks.

Kurenai's dropped her jaw at that. "Anko, don't tell me that you do find Naruto-san's blood to be…that?"

Anko's head snapped to her and denied it. "No, I don't think of it that way!" She shouted. "Besides, I just said it was tasty! I didn't say anything about it being pleasurable!"

The Sandaime cleared his throat. "Anyway, what is this thing that your friend wishes to talk to me about?"

Kin cleared her throat and said to them what she told Naruto earlier. Needless to say, their eyes widened.

The Sandaime told the ANBU to prepare accordingly.

The ANBU nodded before disappearing via shunshin.

The Sandaime said, "So, where is this lovely young lady going to stay?"

Naruto spoke up, "She will stay with me at my home. I have plenty of room."

The Sandaime nodded his head. "I understand."

Naruto said, "Well, then, if you don't need us anymore, we'll be taking our leave."

The Sandaime, along with the clan heads and jonin senseis, appeared in front of a large stadium.

I'm skipping the speech stuff so I'm going to the fights.

Fight 1: Uchiha Sasuke vs. Akado Yoroi

(Canon Fight)

Fight 2: Haruno Sakura vs. Yamanaka Ino

(Again, a useless Canon Fight)

Fight 3: Inuzuka Kiba vs. Hikashi Setsuna

Kiba smirked. "Ooh, we got a girl as our opponent." He turned his head to look at her. "If you agree to go out with me, I could go easy on you."

Setsuna sneered. She drew her sword and pointed it at Kiba. "I would rather go with Uzumaki Naruto, than go with an arrogant person such as you."

Kiba's smirk descended to a frown. "Alright, then, I will show to you that I am the alpha!" He jumped down to the ground, with his dog Akamaru followed.

Setsuna blinked as she sheathed her sword and blushed as what she said earlier came back full force.

Naruto blinked before grinning and scratching the back of his head. "Well, Setsuna-chan, I didn't think that you actually feel that way about me."

Setsuna turned an even darker shade of red and looked away. "N-no, I don't."

Naruto chuckled. "Well, then, what say after you kick the mutt's butt, we go out for a bite to eat?"

Setsuna blushed more before immediately jumping through the rail and drawing her sword. "Come on. Show me what you could do."

Kiba snarled before charging towards her.

Setsuna dodged the first charge.

Kiba begun spinning fast and said, "Tsuga!"

Setsuna held her blade vertically before thrusting the blade forward and saying, "Jakuzankūsen (Lesser-Air Cutting Flash)!"

A large gust of wind focused around the blade and towards the target, the spinning Kiba, and sent him flying towards a wall. He fell to the ground with a loud thud.

Setsuna whipped her blade to her side before pointing it at the fallen Kiba.

Kiba snarled before shouting, "Lucky shot!" He threw kunais at her and following it with another Tsuga.

Setsuna raised her free hand and said, "Zankusho-San (Air-Cutting Palm, Scatter)." Chakra burst from her palm like bullets and shot the kunais from the sky. Setsuna then jumped over the spinning Kiba and landed a good distance from him.

Kiba stopped spinning as his dog appeared at his side. He took out a red food pill and gave it to Akamaru.

Akamaru turned red and his fur stood on end. Kiba dropped to all-fours as Akamaru jumped on his back and transformed into Kiba. Kiba announced, "Jujin Bunshin."

The main Kiba threw a smoke bomb towards Setsuna as both he and A-Kiba began spinning and the main Kiba shouted, "Gatsuuga!"

Setsuna put up her arms to her eyes to block the smoke that covered her.

Then, she was hit at all sides by drills. Seconds later, she was on the ground with bruises. She took deep breaths as she heard Kiba's voice.

"Now, will you give up? If you do, I'll take you to a more enjoyable date than that loser Naruto will give you." Kiba's voice said.

Setsuna's blood boiled at his insult. She stood up. "How dare you belittle me and insult Naruto." She gathered chakra into her blade and shouted, "Shin Raikoken (True Lightning Sword)!"

There was a large explosion within the smoke.

When it cleared, it showed a downed Kiba and Akamaru while Setsuna was standing triumphantly among them.

Hayate announced, "The winner is (cough) Hikashi Setsuna."

Medics came and carried the wounded Kiba away.

Naruto smirked at Setsuna as she came up. "Well, I believe I should live up to my end of the bargain."

Setsuna blushed. "It's not necessary."

Naruto chuckled. "Why not? If I didn't, then, that would make me a bad guy."

Setsuna scratched her cheek. "Well, if that's the case, then, I'll expect to be surprised."

Naruto bowed. "As you wish, milady."

Setsuna blushed more and looked away.

Hinata gave her a slight jealous look.

Naruto turned his head back to the stadium and saw the next match.

Fight 4: Sabaku no Kankuro vs. Tsurugi Misumi

(Canon Fight)

Fight 5: Aburame Shino vs. Abumi Zaku

(Canon Fight)

Fight 6: Fu vs. unnamed Kiri shinobi

(Long story short, Fu won.)

Fight 7: Uzumaki Naruto vs. Nii Samui

Naruto calmly walked down the stairs and onto the stadium.

Samui looked at Naruto with calculation.

Her teammates looked at her with worry.

Karui said, "Samui, are you going to fight him?"

Samui nodded. "I will see if my hypothesis is correct."

Samui walked down the stairs and onto the stadium.

Both combatants were quiet as they stared each other down.

Naruto looked at her. She had a slightly pale complexion, blonde hair, blue eyes, with a bosom that would put Tsunade of the Sannin's to a challenge. He looked into her eyes and saw coldness in them. She seemed to have little trust in men. From what he could see, she hated the fact that most men in Kumo would ogle at her with freaking lust. He, being the gentleman he is, stared into her eyes and kept quiet.

Samui took a look at her opponent. He had spiky blond hair, cerulean blue eyes, and still had that air of un-holiness. She looked into his eyes and saw that he faced pain when he was very young. But the pain he faced pales in comparison to the warmth that followed after that. Then, the aura of uh-holiness emerged. Regardless of that, however, she saw that he doesn't let anyone of his precious people get hurt.

Samui slowly pulled out her katana and assumed her stance.

Naruto stared her before putting his hand to Frostmourne and unsheathed it. He assumed his stance. Frostmourne's blade glowed blue as it hummed with power.

Orochimaru, hidden in the shadows, wondered. I sense immense power from that blade. I must have it!

Samui finally spoke, "Aren't you going to strike?"

Naruto said, "I thought that the saying was 'ladies first.'"

Samui raised an eyebrow. "Your manners are not supposed to follow you to a fight."

Naruto replied, "This is no manners. I am giving you a free shot." That got everybody shocked. Naruto lowered Frostmourne to the ground as the ground literally froze upon the blade's contact.

Orochimaru was frilly upon the sight. I must have it!

Samui's eyes were locked onto the frozen ground. Now, that's what I call cool.

Naruto raised his free hand and spread it wide. "Well, I will give you one free shot. Don't waste it."

The same thought went through everybody's mind. Does this guy have a death wish?

Samui's eyes narrowed. "Are you giving me a freebie because I'm a woman? If it is, then, I will show you how powerful a woman can become without your free shot."

Naruto's laugh echoed around the stadium. "Do you really believe that I am a sexist? That is a pathetic thought. As for me, I believe that both genders have equal merits. Without a woman, men would have no one to control them and the world will be nothing but a wasteland of decaying and rotten male bodies."

That statement got Naruto at a much higher level on the female populace's respect-o-meter.

"Without a man, women would have no one to turn to when another woman spits on her face, given that the latter woman has a boyfriend."

Naruto continued, "Moreover, both a male and a female are needed to breed. If either is absent, then, who the hell will populate this world? As ninjas, both genders have the same killing capabilities as each other." He became serious. "I am giving you a freebie because I feel like it. I am feeling quite bored and I want to have a challenge."

Samui gripped her katana and shook her head. "If you think that both male and female have an equal chance of killing, then, you should know that with this one strike, I could kill you. I won't use your free hit. I wish to fight you fair and square."

Naruto smiled at her. She raised an eyebrow at it. Naruto said, "You are an interesting opponent, Samui-san. I gave you a free shot. I know that most ninjas will use it. You fight with honor. Your sensei taught you well."

He went back to his stance.

Samui nodded in response and went to her own stance.

Naruto and Samui stared at each other before charging.

Naruto did a horizontal strike, from right to left.

Samui blocked it and did a kick to his face.

Naruto put up his hand to grab her leg and did some sort of move where he pulled her leg and tossed her to the other side.

Samui recovered and stabbed her blade on the ground as she made handseals. She finished her seal-making and said, "Raiton: Shomei Ryoken (1)."

She slammed her hands down on the ground where lightning gathered around her and formed into numerous dogs.

Samui commanded the dogs towards Naruto.

Naruto stared at the dogs without surprise or emotion.

Samui looked at him with slight interest. This technique is one of my strongest and he's not even surprised at me using it. At best, this is a B-Rank jutsu.

The dogs were about to circle him when he spoke, with an emotionless and cold voice that would make Samui's as hot as a supernova. "Come, knaves, Frostmourne hungers."

Her teammates cringed. Karui said, "Damn, and I thought that Samui's voice was cold."

Naruto swung his blade from left to right and the blade absorbed the lightning and it dissipated.

Samui was shocked. He…he just dispelled it easily! Who is he?

Naruto stabbed Frostmourne to the ground, made some handseals, and whispered, "Futon: Kaze Tenku Kara (2)."

The air above the ground began swirling around before Naruto manipulated it to go to Samui.

Naruto caused it to come at her from all directions. Samui made handseals and said, "Raiton: Kaminari no Awa (3)."

Lighting surrounded her like a bubble. Samui kept on supplying lightning chakra to the bubble since Wind could beat Lightning unless the latter was on a more powerful level than the former.

The wind kept on pushing on the lightning bubble.

Naruto channeled more chakra into the jutsu.

Soon, it was a battle of who is winning.

Samui was feeling tired since her chakra reserves are nearly empty. She was quite surprised when she saw that Naruto isn't even winded.

Samui began thinking of a plan. Her eyes darted from side to side.

Finally, she has an idea. She made fast set of handseals before pointing her hands to the sky and saying, "Raiton: Kaminari Seki (4)."

Lightning emerged from the ground surrounding her and created a large drill-like opening above her.

Samui, then, jumped high to avoid the wind attack and land a few meters in front of the supposed damage radius.

Samui slightly turned her head to look at her blade.

She ran towards her sword and grabbed it. She winced slightly at the remaining lightning that coursed through her body, since most of the lightning was grounded.

(A/N: I always preferred to have a Wind element beat an Earth element that beats Lightning element to beat the Water element which kicks the Fire element's ass that could defeat Wind element.)

Samui assumed her stance again.

Naruto removed Frostmourne from the ground and went to his stance.

Both charged at each other.

Naruto and Samui crossed blades. They separated and crossed blades again.

Their crossing blades were continuous. They crossed blades eight more times until Naruto found an opening at the ninth crossing and did a punch to her gut.

She gasped in surprise and pain as her grasp weakened.

Naruto disarmed her using his free arm and he pushed her via his knee, causing her to fall the ground.

Naruto fixed his hold on Samui's katana and lowered his two blades in the form of a pair of scissors towards the neck of the kneeling form of Samui (like Anakin Skywalker did to Count Dooku in Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith).

Samui slowly looked up and saw Naruto's blue eyes. She felt defeated…dominated by him and, somehow, she didn't have any qualms about this. Instead, she was aroused by it. This confused her. This never happened to any other people who won against her.

Naruto spoke in his usual monotone voice, "Forfeit, Samui-san. I don't want to have drawn first blood. I have no intention of drawing the blood of anyone in a non-serious fight, let alone a woman's."

Samui lowered her head in defeat. "You have both blades to my neck and one wrong move from me could result in my ruin. I forfeit."

Hayate coughed. "The winner is Uzumaki Naruto."

Naruto removed the blades from her neck and sheathed Frostmourne as he used his free hand to help her up.

Samui saw the hand and accepted it. She felt some sort of warmth course through her as soon as she accepted the hand.

When Samui stood up, she hastily let go of Naruto's hand.

Naruto smiled at her, which she felt her hands become clammy, as Naruto held out her katana.

Naruto said, "Here, take your katana. That was a nice fight."

Samui took her katana back and sheathed it. She replied, "Thank you. I appreciate the gesture."

They returned to their respective areas.

When Samui got there, she saw that Karui and Omoi were giving her weird looks.

Samui, irritated, asked, "What is it?"

Karui said, "He gave you a free shot and you didn't take it!"

Samui replied, "My honor is my life, both grows in one. Take honor from me and my life is done. As a ninja who is supposed to take all advantages possible, I should have taken it. However, as an honorable human being, I wished to fight fair and square and without any free shots on either side. Moreover, I could sense that he has a trick up his sleeve if I choose to use the free shot."

"Well, I suppose that Kirabi-sensei will not berate you too much for declining a free shot."

Samui didn't reply.

With Naruto, Shino walked over to him and asked, "Why did you plan on giving the Kumo-nin a free shot?"

Naruto whispered to him, "I wanted to see if she is anything like her Raikage, a person without restraint and honor to have the gall to try and kidnap Hinata from here. Besides, I never planned on dying by a free shot in a prelim. I had a plan in case she takes it."

Shino nodded.

Naruto turned to the board. "Know how to be content and you will never be disgraced; practice self-restraint and you will never be in danger. She was correct in rejecting it. Otherwise, she may have fallen to an explosive clone."

Shino's eyebrows rose. "You had an explosive clone in hiding?"

Naruto nodded. "Be careful then how you live, not as unwise people but as wise, making the most of the time, because the days are evil. Such is the life of a ninja."

That's done!

I hope you liked it. Forgive the lack of things. I wasn't in the mood when making this particular chapter.

( 1 ) Raiton: Shomei Ryoken- Lightning Style: Lightning Hounds- Gathers lightning chakra around the use. The lightning, then, shapes into dogs before it charges to the opponent.

( 2 ) Futon: Kaze Tenku Kara- Wind Style: Wind from the Heavenly Skies- Gathers air from the user's surroundings and the user manipulates it to surround the opponent before crushing said opponent with wind pressure.

( 3 ) Raiton: Kaminari no Awa- Lightning Style: Lightning Bubble- Covers the user in a bubble, much like Utakata's bubble technique.

( 4 ) Raiton: Kaminari Seki- Lightning Style: Lightning Barrage- Calls lightning up from the ground, destroying in the way.

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