Don't own Naruto, we've been through this before. Very sorry about my latest disappearance, I'm working on deploying possibly and that has taken up majority of my time but rest assured nothing is abandoned. In fact my wife has been threatening me to finish this story as she is trying to draw an accompanying doujin.
Last Time on Battlestar Galatica…
"Worried about your boyfriend Naruko?" Kakashi said as if asking about the weather.
"He's not my boyfriend Kakashi-sensei!"
"But you are worried about him, that you didn't deny." Naruko shut her mouth and Kakashi smiled.
'Kakashi - 1, Naruko – 0'
And now back to Bad Romance…
Naruko couldn't help but curse Kakashi in her mind for tricking her like that but she was more concerned about the Uchiha down on the arena floor. She didn't even notice she was clenching the guardrail so hard that she was leaving impressions of her hands in it. When she saw Sasuke's curse mark seemingly act up, she was just about to jump in until she felt Kakashi's hand upon her shoulder.
"Kakashi-sensei?"
"Ne, Naruko, I know you're worried about Sasuke but he's a tough guy, he can make it through this. Plus after the match is over, regardless of whether he wins or not I'm going to do something about that mark of his, yours isn't acting up is it?" Naruko shook her head.
"No but unlike Sasuke I haven't activated it so it hasn't bugged me at all." Kakashi sighed a breath of relief at hearing this.
"That's good, I guess Anko was right, as long as it isn't activated it shouldn't cause too many problems, I just hope it doesn't affect her ninja career like it did Anko's." Kakashi patted his blonde student's shoulder and did his signature eye smile.
"Well if it does bug you at all, you let me know immediately okay Naruko?" Naruko smiled and nodded, she wouldn't tell Kakashi about the curse mark or her mother, he'd think she was insane or something. She like Kakashi was surprised to see Sasuke withdraw the curse seal through sheer willpower and slam Yoroi into the arena floor with a sickening crunch.
"Oh look, Sasuke won, see Naruko? You didn't have to worry about your boyfriend after all." Naruko smiled.
"Yeah I guess you're right Kakashi-sensei."
Kakashi smiled and waited.
"Three…two…one"
"GOD DAMNIT KAKASHI-SENSEI! SASUKE IS NOT MY FUCKING BOYFRIEND!" Everyone in Naruko's immediate vicinity stared at her loud declaration making the blonde simply growl at her sensei.
"This is not over sensei." Kakashi simply chuckled, not threatened by his student at all.
"Hehe, sure thing Naruko."
"Kakashi-sensei – 2, Naruko – still 0" Kakashi would have stayed to tease his student a little longer but he had a curse mark to seal away. Naruko watched as Kakashi led Sasuke off the arena floor.
"Sasuke you asshole you better be okay, otherwise you'll have to deal with me." Naruko smiled as she watched the Uchiha limp away.
Shino was next in line ready to fight one of the Sound village ninjas and Naruko felt sorry for the Sound ninja, if there was one person in her age group Naruko could consider a true "badass" Shino had to be it, he the whole silent hitman thing going for him and while he didn't say much he didn't really need to.
"Actions speak louder than words hehehe."
"You say something Naruko?"
"Hmm? Oh nothing bubblegum, just Shino is gonna slaughter this guy."
Sakura looked surprised to see Naruko look…giddy about a fight.
"You think so?" Naruko smiled, her fangs gleaming in the arena's fluorescent lighting.
"I know so, Shino honestly scares me more than Kakashi-sensei, and not because of the whole he has bugs living in him thing but Shino is a true stone cold badass. He doesn't play around."
The sound of Zaku's scream as his arms both blew off echoed in the arena and Naruko smiled at Sakura.
"See? Told you Shino don't fuck around. Stone. Cold. Badass. Ha! Ha!" Sakura gave Naruko a weird look at how Naruko seemed so…reverent of the Aburame clan-heir's "badassery." Shino gave Naruko a nod of acknowledgement as he ascended the stairs and made his way back to his team.
Naruko and Sakura were surprised as Kakashi appeared behind them with a poof of smoke.
"Yo!"
"Kakashi-sensei! What do you mean by yo? How's Sasuke? Is he alright?" Kakashi waved his arms in front of him as if he were literally deflecting the questions.
"Hey hey, he's fine. Sleeping in a hospital bed."
"With Anbu protection though…" He added as an afterthought.
The scoreboard lit up and the next two names came up:
Tsurugi Misumi vs. Kankuro
"Kankuro? Oh right! That's that asshole that tried to hurt Konohamaru!" Naruko leaned over a section of guardrail she didn't damage as she wanted to see what the makeup wearing ass was capable of.
She was disappointed when the leaf nin fighting him snapped his neck like it was nothing.
"Well that sucks, so much for that…wait a second why is that bandaged thing moving?"
Naruko went from disappointed to surprised to see the real Kankuro erupt from the bandages.
"Holy shit! Isn't 2 on 1 cheating Kakashi-sensei?"
"Nope, it's just a doll so it isn't any different from a kunai or any other ninja tool."
"Naruko that's puppet jutsu. It's controlling a doll and using it as a weapon with your chakra." Naruko's smile grew with each word Sakura said.
"That is…SO FUCKING COOL! Kakashi-sensei! Can you teach me that? Huh? Can you?" Kakashi smiled at how eager his student was to learn anything she could.
"Just like her mother…"
"Sorry Naruko, that's a Suna-only technique so unless you switch sides or marry a puppet user from Suna, you won't be learning it anytime soon."
"Damn! Always a catch! Hey bubblegum it's your turn!" Sakura looked confused until Kakashi pointed at the board. Indeed her name was up there along with another name she did not expect.
Haruno Sakura vs. Yamanaka Ino
Sakura readied herself and with a huff she began to make her way downstairs only to be stopped by her blonde teammate.
"Naruko?"
"Hey Sakura, I know I get on you and tease you a lot but I want you to know that I support you one-hundred and ten percent!" Sakura's eyes teared up at her teammates heartfelt statement.
"Thanks Naruko, I mean it, thank you." Naruko smiled her foxy grin.
"No problem! Now go kick her ass and show her who is the head bitch in charge!" Sakura smiled and with her head held high made her way down to the arena floor.
"Yeah, I said I wasn't going to let Naruko take Sasuke-kun without a fight and I meant it! I'll show her who's the head bitch in charge!"
Ino seemed conflicted as she stared at her pink haired opponent.
"Sakura…never thought I'd be facing you." Ino looked surprised as Sakura took off her hitai-ite without a word and tied it around her forehead. Ino smiled as Sakura said everything she needed to say without a single word being passed between them. Ino tied her hitai-ite around her forehead and both assumed a taijutsu stance.
"YOU CAN DO IT SAKURA! KICK HER ASS!" Naruko shouted from the top floor nearly falling over and making Kakashi have to prevent his rambunctious student from falling. Sakura smiled and took off creating a few Bunshin, all the while her mind thinking about her blonde teammate.
"If I'm gonna be the head bitch in charge then I gotta fight like her don't I?"
Before Ino could react Sakura had grabbed her waist and lifted her up in the air though Sakura could feel her legs shaking from Ino's weight.
"Hey Ino, remember this?" Ino's eyes and the eyes of all the other rookies widened as they all remembered the infamous body slam Naruko had put Ino through. Naruko had a wide grin as Ino and Sakura's bodies came crashing down, Ino's head hitting the ground followed by Sakura's body.
"You want me to take you seriously Ino, then start getting serious!" Ino shakily stood up, she was not expecting Sakura to fight like her blonde teammate and shook the head damage off. Both blonde and pinkette grappled with each other for a moment before leaping away and initiating a charge that ended with both punching each other in the face.
"You think Sasuke is gonna want you Sakura?" Ino hoped she could mess with Sakura's head but something seemed different with the pink haired girl, she seemed more confident. She'd have to resort to drastic measures…
Sakura was surprised to see Ino cut off her well maintained hair though she didn't outwardly show it. She merely smirked and got into a taijutsu position she had seen Naruko use once. Of course she didn't have her teammates freakish strength but she could make something work. She nearly laughed aloud as she saw Ino prepare her shinten-shin no jutsu but she was less prepared for Ino to use her hair as a rope to restrain her and then hit her with the actual shinten-shin.
"Heh, too bad Sakura." Ino was now in full control, this was too easy.
Most waited with baited breath to see what would happen next.
"I…Haruno Sakura…would like to for-"
"DON'T SAKURA!"
"Geez, she's so annoying." Ino thought as she watched as Naruko screamed for her teammate.
"YOU'VE COME THIS FAR GODDAMNIT! IF YOU LOSE TO HER YOU'RE NOT A REAL WOMAN! I WILL STRIP YOU OF YOUR TITLE OF SECOND HEAD BITCH IN CHARGE!"
"Heh, it's usele—What? What's going on?"
Ino before she could do anything was forced out of Sakura's mind by a large black and white version of Sakura.
"Two…Two minds. What are you?"
"Oh don't you know? I'm the head bitch in charge." Both charged at each other and threw themselves into one last punch sending both flying. The proctor called the match a draw despite Naruko's curse filled claims that Sakura still had some fight in her and that was a diseased assbag...among other things.
The fifth match was set, with much whooping and hollering from both Lee and Naruko Ten-ten descended the stairs shaking her head at the two's antics and wondering where Naruko had the time to build a "KICK HER ASS TEN-TEN!" sign for both Lee and herself.
Sakura awoke feeling two things: one - sore all over her body, and two - a prescence next to her.
"So…you're finally awake, Sakura."
Sakura could see Lee, Gai-sensei, and Naruko creating a ruckus and waving signs around.
"Our match is already over…"
"I…lost?" Ino snorted.
"Ha! I'm the one who wants to cry, to tie with the likes of you." Ino handed Sakura her hitai-ite and smiled.
"You did make it bloom…a beautiful flower."
"Ino…"
"Plus next time I intend to kick your ass, I have no intention of handing Sasuke over to you or Naruko."
"…So you noticed too?" Ino's smile faltered.
"That Sasuke and Naruko seem a lot closer lately? Yeah, who would've thought those two huh?"
"Yeah…though I can see what he sees in her sometimes." Sakura shot Ino a confused look as her blonde rival extended her hand out.
"So should we put aside our rivalry and be rivals against Naruko?" Sakura smiled.
"The funny thing is…Naruko lays claims on Sasuke without even trying. She doesn't even realize how much he cares for her, or how much she cares for him." Sakura looked at her blonde teammate being held back by Gai-sensei, Kakashi-sensei, Lee, and Neji all the while screaming imaginative obscenities. Most likely her adopted sister figure Ten-ten had lost her match and Naruko was out for blood. Somehow despite two jonin and two taijutsu experts holding her down Naruko was able to escape and leap down to retrieve her older sister figure, but not before slowly walking up to the Sand-nin Temari and whispering something in her ear that made the Suna-nin pale with fear and Gaara smile slightly at seeing Naruko's eyes flash red.
"Uzumaki Naruko, you make my blood boil, I cannot wait to face you." Gaara watched as Temari slowly made her way back to them, her face still pale and her eyes wide with fright. Whatever the blonde leaf-nin had said to her had terrified her. Seeing his normally fearless sister pale with fear made Gaara interested in the blonde leaf nin even more.
"What is it about you that makes me drawn to you Uzumaki? What is it about you that makes my bijuu rage and this unknown feeling infest my being? I must find out."
Naruko brought Ten-ten back to her teammates and wiped her onee-chan's lip clean of blood. She stared at the bun haired girls bruises and wounds, committing them all to memory, completely ignoring Shikamaru's fight with the Oto-nin Kin. While Shikamaru was dodging needles and trying to get his shadow techniques to connect Naruko was focused on the past, namely the day she met Ten-ten.
Flashback
Naruko was once again sitting on the swing outside the academy building, watching bitterly as everyone was leaving and joking with friends while she once again was alone.
"Hey, you know a swing works more if you actually swing right?" Naruko turned around and saw that panda bun girl that had the highest score in shuriken throwing. She smiled and Naruko and walked over to her, putting Naruko on edge. Most people in class that approached Naruko did so to make fun of her…at least they did until Naruko's freakish strength sent them to the hospital.
"Yeah well I'm not in the mood for swinging really, never really have been." She hoped being mean would help the bun haired girl take a hint that she wasn't going to fall for any stupid tricks or anything.
"Well why's that? My name's Ten-ten by the way." She leaned against the tree and looked at the blonde haired girl. Unlike most of the class, she found the blonde's disregard for the rules and the consequences of not following said rules fun. But she noticed that no one hung around with her…ever.
"Well not like it's any of your business but I've never got to enjoy it really. Not like I had parents to push me…or friends."
"Well…what if I became your friend and pushed you on the swing? How's that sound?" Naruko's head whipped around so fast Ten-ten thought it would pop off.
"If this is some kind of joke it's not funny!" Naruko bared her fangs at the bun haired girl, someone else had done this trick to her before, he was currently nursing a broken arm and bruised testicles.
"It's not a joke, you seem like a cool girl to hang with and I'd like to get to know you better. Look we'll start this formally okay?" Ten-ten straightened herself out and stuck her hand out towards the blonde.
"My name is Ten-ten and I'd like to be your friend. Would you like to accept my offer of friendship?" Ten-ten really hoped the blonde accepted, she herself didn't have many friends besides that Rock Lee kid and she desperately wanted a female friend, Lee was nice and all but she needed a female to hang with.
Naruko eyed her hand like she was expecting it to shock her or something but after a few seconds she cautiously extended her hand and shook Ten-ten's.
"Fine, I accept, my name is Uzumaki Naruko." Ten-ten smiled.
"Cool, would you like me to push you Naruko?" Naruko still looked cautious but nodded and at first was expecting Ten-ten to betray her like that boy did but all she felt was her hands on her back pushing her up in the air and then pushing her when she came back.
From that day forward, Naruko and Ten-ten were best of friends.
End Flashback
"I swear onee-chan, I will pay that bitch back tenfold for you. You can count on that."
"Hey Naruko-chan?" Naruko looked up and smiled at seeing Lee look at her worriedly. Ever since she met him he was always there for her.
"What up Lee-kun?"
"Naruko-chan, you're up next! You're facing the youthful Kiba!" Naruko's good mood deflated at hearing that.
She'd rather face Zabuza again then deal with Kiba.
"This is out lucky break huh Akumaru? We can definitely kick this bitch's ass." While Kiba leaped over the railing to wait, everyone else has stopped breathing as the temperature around Naruko dropped. Kiba had broken Konoha's number one rule. Naruko slowly stood up and jabbed her fist at the wall causing a large web of cracks to stretch from the point of impact. Both Lee and Ino gulped knowing of Naruko's fierce temper.
"Hey Naruko hurry up bitch! I wanna get this match started already!"
Naruko without removing her fist from the wall turned it and pulled it out causing the cracks to widen. Kakashi looked at this surprised.
"As pissed as Naruko is she should have pretty much annihilated that wall. Either she's low on chakra or something is disrupting her chakra flow."
Naruko slowly made her way down to the arena floor, her steps making small impressions in the stone floor. Shino looked at his sensei and tapped her arm.
"Kurenai-sensei, I suggest you inform Kiba's next of kin of his untimely death. Why? Because Naruko is going to kill him."
"Why would she kill him?"
"K-Kiba-kun called N-Naruko-chan the B word…twice." Hinata knew that when that word was uttered there was no staying Naruko's wrath.
"Kurenai-sensei you remember the incident Naruko had with Ino back in the academy?" Kurenai nodded, everyone had heard of that.
"Well Naruko put Ino in the hospital and Naruko actually has no problems with Ino, Kiba on the other hand Naruko does not like at all. Now if she put Ino who she doesn't hate in the hospital just for calling her the B word once, what do you think will happen to Kiba, someone she does not like and has called her the B word not once…but twice? Think about it." Kurenai's face went pale as the realization hit her, if Kiba didn't win, or if Naruko didn't reign in her emotions Kurenai would be down a student by the end of this day. She quickly made her way over to Kakashi who was chatting with Gai.
"Kakashi, you need to reign in Naruko or else she's going to kill Kiba!" Kakashi looked at the genjutsu mistress like she was insane, along with Gai, Lee, and Sakura.
"Oh no, no, no, no, I am NOT getting in between THAT." He pointed at Naruko who now actually had small wisps of chakra swirling around her as she stood across from Kiba. The proctor himself looked scared of the blonde whose eyes seemed to flash red so fast most did not even notice it, Kakashi did though, and so did the Hokage.
"If she goes too far (and she usually does) then I will step in and stop her. But I will say this Kurenai, Kiba dug his own grave by calling Naruko that word, if he survives this then he's gonna have to learn to control his mouth around her."
"The seventh match! Uzumaki Naruko vs. Inuzuka Kiba! Begi—"
Naruko before anyone could see rocketed across the small distance and sent Kiba flying into the wall though Kakashi noticed Kiba was still alive meaning Naruko's chakra control was off…or she really was reigning herself in.
He prayed it was the second one.
Kiba could only groan as he pulled himself off the wall, his nin-dog Akumaru rushing over to see if he was alright.
"I'm fine Akamaru, damn she can hit hard, looks like we'll have to go all out from the get-go huh Aku-SHIT!" Kiba grabbed Akumaru and dodged just as Naruko came crashing down in the spot he was just in, her eyes were just like that Sand kid's from the forest, emotion-less yet filled with a bloodlust that needed to be sated. He could swear Naruko's eyes were red for just a split second but shook it off as adrenaline messing with him.
Gaara could only watch with small glee as the blonde leapt after her opponent, creating craters in the arena floor, her eyes having a look in them that made his blood boil. Gaara could only watch enraptured by the blonde's movements as she barely gave her opponent a chance to fight back, his hands were gripping the guardrail tightly which did not go unnoticed by his siblings or his sensei.
"Gaara's getting excited, is it the blonde that's doing it to him?" Baki only hoped Gaara controlled himself for a little while longer, no need to ruin things ahead of time…
Kiba had just enough time to activate his quadruped jutsu and was able to send Naruko flying with a well-placed knee to the stomach. The crowd was silent as Naruko lay there unmoving for a few seconds.
"She won't be opening her eyes for a while referee." But Kiba was forced to eat his words as Naruko began to move. Slowly she picked herself up, breathing heavily before she grabbed her shoulders. Kakashi's eyes widened at seeing this.
"I thought she said the curse seal wasn't affecting her?" Kiba knew he had to knock Naruko out before she could gain momentum again. He immediately had Akumaru transform into a copy of himself before they both charged towards her preparing to finish her with a single move.
"Ready Akumaru? Gatsuuga!" As Kiba and Akumaru charged forward, their bodies spinning like drills all the spectators watched as Naruko did nothing but clutch her shoulder, her form unmoving.
"Come on Naruko do something!" Sakura yelled in her head.
"Naruko-chan don't give up!" Lee almost refused to watch his friend be hit by the Inuzuka technique.
"Is this all you have to show me Uzumaki Naruko?" Gaara was beginning to get disappointed in the blonde until something extraordinary happened that shocked everyone there.
As Kiba and Akumaru continued their charge Naruko let out an earth shattering roar, her eyes ablaze with a baleful red light as several spiked chains tore from her back into the walls and floor of the arena and erupted from multiple spots, crisscrossing over and over until Kiba and Akumaru both could not move. The hokage looked like he was about to have a heart attack while Kakashi looked like he had just seen a ghost.
"That's the…it can't be!" Both thought as Naruko stood up, the chains releasing Kiba and Akumaru and retracting slowly back into her as she smiled at Kiba, her lengthened fangs gleaming.
"Hey Kiba…my turn."
And end of chapter 10, man good to write again, 10 pages for you all, need to finish Naruko and Kiba's fight, do Rock Lee's epic fight with Gaara then finish the Sand-Sound Invasion and continue with the rest of the story. Gotta say listening to Guile's Theme from Street Fighter while writing this does help lol. Anyway enjoy everyone!