Chapter 9
Chunin Exams
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto
Just a quick overview of people's personalities
Naruto-quiet, smart, calm, not overly friendly, doesn't like to be the centre of attention and prefers to be left alone, he takes most of his personality from his father (he looks a lot like his father but his hair is red and less spiky and his eyes are a shade deeper blue than Minato's)
Hitomi-loud, very friendly, out spoken, she takes much of her personality from her mother (she has long flowing red hair that reaches her back, a round face, and blue eyes: picture Kushina younger but with blue eyes)
Hikari-a tab bit less loud than her sister, out spoken, friendly, smart (she has short flawing red hair that reaches her shoulders, a slightly round face and blue eyes)
These three are triplets, with Hitomi being born first and Naruto being the last to be born.
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TIME SKIP: THREE MOTHS AFTER PRIVIOUS CHAPTER
Location: Hokage building; Jonin lounge
The Hokage stared silently at all the gathered jonin with his eyebrow twitching.
"Could someone please fetch Kakashi, tell him that if he isn't here within the next 10 seconds I'm going to demote him to genin for a month and ban the production and distribution of Icha Icha paradise in fire country" he said threateningly
'10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4,3 2-'
"Yo" Kakashi said appearing in the middle of the room. Minato just sighed and ignored his students antics and continued with the reason why he was here in the first place
Taking in a small breath "As you may all may or may not know, the chunin exams are approaching and this year they are being held in our village, if there are any jonin sensei who thinks that their genin team is ready participate in the chunin exams step forward now" he looked around the room looking at the many jonin sensei who all seemed to be having a mental debate with themselves
"I Hatake Kakashi jonin sensei of team seven would like to nominate my team for the chunin exams" several people started muttering to themselves
"I Yuhi Kurenai, jonin sensei of team 8 would like to nominate my team for the chunin exams" Kurenai said stepping forward, standing beside Kakashi.
"Damn and here I was hoping you guys wouldn't go for it 'sigh' I Sarutobi Asuma, jonin sensei of team 10 would like to nominate my team for the chunin exams" the lazy smoker said, he too stepping forward and standing beside Kurenai
"YOSH! I Maito Gai the beautiful green beast of Konoha would like to nominate my youthful students for the chunin exams" a man who looked like an adult version of Lee shouted excitedly, giving everyone a thumps up and a blinding smile.
'Beautiful in whose eyes' was everyone's thought
"I Namikaze Kushina jonin sensei of ehm Hitomi would like to nominate my genin for the chunin exams" Kushina said sheepishly rubbing the back of her head when she realised she only had one genin in her team.
Minato looked at the jonin sensei in front of him and nodded his head in approval "Very well then team s 7,8, 9, 10 and 11 will be allowed to participate in the upcoming chunin exams"
Finally having had enough Iruka spoke his mind "Pardon my intrusion Hokage-sama but I do not think it is wise to allow those genins to participate in the exams, they have only been genins for only 6-7 months now, they are not ready to participate in something like the chunin exams" he pleaded. He had taught all those students, to him they were like his little brothers and sisters and he would be damned if he allowed them to get killed for participating in something they were clearly not ready for.
"You have to realise something Iruka-san" Kakashi said seriously looking at Iruka right in the eye " they may have been your students once but they are now our genins, we have trained them, taken them on missions giving them the experience they need to survive the harsh realities of a ninja. You can't baby feed them forever Iruka-san, they are our genins now meaning we know what is best for them"
"But-"
"Kakashi is right Iruka, you can't protect them forever. There are their genins now they know what is best for them" The Hokage said with a hint of finality in his voice. Iruka was silent after that but everyone could clearly see the look of disapproval on his face
"On a final note since Hikari doesn't have a team to participate with and there aren't any open spots on any team, she will be allowed to choose which team to join for the duration of the exams"
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Naruto walked towards his private training ground in deep thought, earlier today Kurenai had told them that she had nominated them for the chunin exams. That had made his day; the chance to become a chunin was something he had honestly thought would not come until at least the following year. He couldn't help but smile a bit when he thought about the exams, it was an opportunity for him to test himself against other genins from different parts of the elemental nations, and a chance to become chunin and becoming chunin would have its many advantages, like taking higher ranking missions. So wrapped up in his thoughts Naruto did not realise that he was walking into someone until it was too late
"Hey watch where you're going!" a feminine voice shouted at him when he bumped into the person.
"Sorry about that, I wasn't paying attention to where I was going" he apologised looking at the person he had bumped into, it was girl who looked to be at least a year older than him, she was slightly taller than him by a few inches. She had long, straight, blond hair that was bound with taut bandages and had deep dark onyx eyes. For her atire she wore a short-sleeved purple and black blouse, both of which had a design of clouds on them. The last thing he noticed about her was that she had a Kumo forehead protector.
Whilst Naruto was looking at the girl from bottom to top she too was also checking him out. She noticed that the boy she that had run into her had deep dark red hair that had a few spikes in it and created two small bangs on the side of his face, he had in all honesty the deepest shade of blue eyes she had ever laid eyes on. He was wearing a white hooded jersey, with a blue long-sleeved shirt inside.
"Its fine, no harm done" she said lightly giving him a small smile.
"Again sorry about that Mrs?"
"Yugito"
"Naruto, it was a pleasure to meet you Yugito-san I hope we will get the chance to meet again but for now I have to be on my way" Naruto said bowing slightly
"Likewise Naruto-san" Yugito responded with a small bow of her own and the two continued on with their walk in separate direction.
'What do you think?'
'Something about him doesn't feel right'
'Is he strong?'
'From what his chakra felt like, I would say he is very strong not to mention handsome as well. A perfect match mate for you kitten'
'Nimbi I am in no mood for your perverted rumblings right now'
'I can see it now, you kidnapping that god of a man and taking off-'
'NIMBI!...stupid perverted cat'
'And ride him dr-'
'Nimbi! That's it I'm cutting off the contention'
'No wait-'
Yugito sighed tiredly, dealing with Nimbi was even worse than dealing with her sensei. She continued on walking till she reached a large hotel, entering the hotel she found her teammates lounging on the couch
"How was the walk" a blond haired girl with a bust that shouldn't belong to a girl her age asked
"It was refreshing" Yugito answered truthfully, Konoha was very different from Kumo, there were many trees and the most people she saw were civilians and there was a sense of happiness in the village, unlike her village were the most things you could find were rocks and mountains, the majority of people there are ninja and very few civilians.
"Find anything interesting?"Samui asked her face remaining blank as ever
She gave her friend a teasing smile "You could say that"
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The following morning with team 8
Team 8 walked into the academy building and were all surprised to find a large group of people shouting at two people who were blocking the door to the room where they were supposed to be in.
"Genjutsu" Naruto noticed instantly looking at the door number, it was written '209' and he knew from past experience that this was the second floor and the real room 209 was on the third floor.
"Should we do something" Shino asked when he saw a leaf genin wearing a green jumpsuit get punched in the face for trying to enter the fake room.
"No, they are using the genjutsu to weed out week teams if we were to tell everyone, it would only give us a bigger competition later on" Naruto explained walking towards the staircase, avoiding being seen by everyone.
"YOU MIGHT AS WELL DROP THAT FAKE GENJUTSU, YOUR NOT FOOLING ANYONE" A loud arrogant voice shouted, drawing everyone's attention
'Idiot' Naruto thought to himself turning around to see who was dumb enough to shout that out for everyone to hear, he was not all that surprised to see team seven standing there with Kiba in front giving everyone an arrogant smirk.
"So you noticed ha?" one of the teens who was standing on the door said before he too smirked and disappeared in a burst of speed, re-appearing a second later in front of Kiba with his foot raised in a kicking motion. A kick which never reached its intended target.
"That doesn't mean I'll let you pass!...what?" He said in shock when he saw a hand holding his foot, a hand belonging to the same kid wearing the green jumpsuit.
'I didn't even see him move' he thought
"Lee, what happened to being subtle?" A girl with brown hair tied into 2 buns, she was also wearing a pink sleeveless blouse with red sleeve trimmings and yellow fastening buttons as well as dark green pants, asked from behind.
"I'm sorry Tenten, but I could not allow him to hurt a fellow leaf comrade!" the now named Lee said giving her large smile.
"Idiot you've gone and blown our cover" she said in annoyance punching him on top of the head.
A second later Lee was standing up seemingly unhurt from the punch he had received from his teammate. The moment he saw Sakura his eyes lit up and in the blink of an eye he was standing in front of her
"Hi I am Konoha's upcoming Beautiful Green Beast Rock Lee, please go out with me! I'll protect you with my life!"He shouted passionately holding a horrified Sakura's hand.
"EWWW! Are those real!? Get away from me" she shrieked indicating at his rather large, thick eyebrows and removed her had from his as though she had been touching lava.
"B-But" Lee stuttered his heart broken. He looked down and started shaking with his hair covering his face, making everyone (especially Sakura) worried. When he looked back up again his eyes where shinning with determination and his fist was clenched and raised high in the air.
"I promise from this day forward that I will get Sakura's heart and if I cannot I will do a thousand push up, and if I fail to do that I will do two thousand push ups with one hand and if-"He was cut off from his insane promises that otherwise would be considered impossible by normal human standards, by his Tenten hitting him in the head again
"We get it ok, sheesh sometimes I think your worse that Gai-sensei"
"Naruto!" Hikari suddenly shouted after noticing her brother who was standing near the stair case looking back at her team.
"Hikari-chan, I'm glad to see you here, I was worried that you would chicken out and not show up" Naruto mocked playfully getting a glare and a mock punch from his sister
"As if I'd miss the chance to kick your butt and become chunin before either you or Hitomi can" Hikari responded back with a slight smirk on her face. A smirk which Naruto returned
"Are you Naruto Namikaze?" Lee asked appearing in front of Naruto. Naruto gave him a hesitant nod, uncomfortable with how close Lee was to his face.
"I've heard from my sensei that you're a prodigy and a genius! I challenge you to a fight!"
Naruto looked at Lee as though he had just grown a second head "I don't think there is enough time for that, maybe during the exams we will get the chance to do so" he refused politely.
"YOSH! Then I shall wait until then Naruto-kun!"Lee exclaimed happily in a nice-guy pose.
"Come on we have to go the second floor, the exams should be starting soon" Shino said speaking for the first time. Everyone nodded at that and walked up the stairs.
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"Hey Naruto, Hikari, Hinata, Sakura over here" someone shouted at the group of genins the moment they arrived on the second floor. Curiously they all looked the person who had called them and found one Hitomi Namikaze standing in front of a door waving at them, beside her was Kushina, Kakashi and Kurenai.
"Sensei?" Sakura was the one to ask, in response Kakashi lazily waved at her
"I see all my cute little genin made it after all" Kakashi said cheery giving his team his famous eye smile. That look was immediately broken by a fist to the head courtesy of an angry fuming Kushina
"Don't say it like that hentai!" she shouted at Kakashi, who lay on the ground twitching every now and the
"Ehm" Kurenai coughed loudly, drawing everyone's attention. "We came here to make sure that everyone in your respective teams attended the exams willingly, had one person not shown up we would have sent your team home, but since your all here, I would like to say good luck on the exams and do your best" she said going straight to the point, seeing as her fellow jonin sensei where too busy fooling around.
"Kurenai-sansei?" Hikari said lowly, breaking the silence that had settled in
Raising a delicate eye brow kurenai responded "Yes"
"What about Hitomi-chan, she doesn't have a team, does that mean she can't participate in the exams" she asked giving her sister, who was now standing next to her, a worried look.
"Since Hitomi doesn't have team like you said, Hokage-sama has given her the choice of joining any one team she chooses for the duration of the exams"
"Does that mean I get to choose which team I want to join?" Hitomi asked hopefully to which Kurenai nodded her head.
She was immediately about to choose team seven, after all that was the team where her sister and best friend were in but then she saw her brother and remembered that her brother was in team eight and her other best friend, Hinata, was also in team eight. She bit her lip, she was at a crossroads, on one had if she chose team seven she would hurt her brother and best friends feeling for choosing team seven over them and if she chose team eight the same thing would happen to Hikari and Sakura.
As though reading her mind, her brother gave her a confident nod and looked at Hikari; she instantly understood what he was telling her. He was telling her to join team seven, she gave him a grateful smile and with a confident tone she chose which team to join "I would like to join team seven then"
"Then its settled Hitomi will join team seven for the duration of the exams" and with that Kurenai vanished in a leaf shunshin, though not before she gave her team a wave and a look, a look that said 'I believe in you'
"Seeing as my work here is done I'll be off, ya ne" Kakashi said now healed from his injuries he had received from Kushina, he too disappeared in a leaf shunshin, upon his leave Kushina grumbled lowly
"Like he actually did anything, that lazy bum" she then turned to the genins and gave them all a large beaming smile
"Good luck and make sure you kick everybody's asses! I'll be cheering for you all!" she cheered loudly, driving her fist in the air, receiving a cry of 'Yeah' from Hitomi and Hikari in response to her little 'speech'. Everyone else though sweat drop at their antics
Sigh 'I can't believe I'm related to them'.
"Look out for each other ok, Hitomi-chan, Hikari-chan, Naru-chan" She said finally kissing her children on their foreheads, much to their embarrassment. After she had left Kiba started laughing
"Naru-chan!" He said laughing loudly, he blinked when he saw the world around him start to darken and the only person he could see was Naruto, who was glaring heatedly at him
"What was that?" Naruto asked and for a second Kiba swore he saw the outline of a white figure wearing a white robe with a sword in his mouth appear behind Naruto. He gulped
His legs started shaking"N-Northing, I didn't say anything"
Naruto gave him one last glare that almost made his heart stop "Thought so"
The world turned back to normal "What are you waiting for idiot, we are going to be late" Sakura shouted at him, Kiba looked around and saw that everyone had already entered the door whilst he was still standing at the same sport he had been standing since he had arrived on this floor.
"You don't have to yell so loud damn it, I can hear you just fine" he shouted back at Sakura as he rubbed his sore ears. Sakura just huffed and walked inside.
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Entering the room the two teams where instantly subjected to a small amount of K.I from almost person who was already in the whole way. Naruto just scoffed at the pathetic attempt of intimidation, he had felt worse, far worse.
"Naruto-kuuuuuun" a famine voice shouted and before the red herded boy could act, he was glommed by a girl with long platinum blond hair. A girl he had hoped not to meet during the exam
"Hello to you too Ino-san" He said not bothering to remove the girl from the death grip she had on his arm, it was futile to try and remove her when she had gotten her hands on any part of his body northing save perhaps the world ending could make her let go, even then he doubted she would let go.
"Troublesome, it seems all the rookies are here" A Lazy voice said in front of him, a voice he recognised belonging to Shikamaru and to the lazy boys side was Choji munching away on a bag of snacks.
"Shikamaru you lazy bum, I didn't think you of all people who show up" Kiba said.
"Believe me I wouldn't have showed up if someone hadn't blackmailed me into coming" he said sending a glare towards Ino, who stuck her tongue out at him
"Troublesome"
"So then all the rookies are here, this is so awesome!" Kiba said excitedly, his dog barking loudly agreeing with him.
"You rookies are making a scene, look everyone is staring at you" a new voice said from behind the group of genins.
"And who are you?" Kiba asked rudely at the teen who looked around 17 years old, wearing spectacles, he had onyx eyes and ash grey hair that was tied in a ponytail and extends to his upper back, with bangs framing either side of his forehead
"My name is Yakushi Kabuto" the teen said giving them all a cocky smile, a smile that put some of them on edge, mainly Shikamaru and Naruto.
"Is this your second time participating in the exams Kabuto-san?" Sakura asked curiously. Kabuto gave her a smile and pushed his glassed up with a single figure
"No this is my seventh attempt"
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"Seventh, man you must really suck!" Kiba laughed, getting a punch in the head from Hikari and Sakura. Kabuto waved his insult off unfazed by it
"His right, but don't be fooled these exams are not as easy as they seem...hey since we are all leaf nin how about I help you rookies out" he suggested as he took out a deck of cards from his pockets "These are chakra cards, on these cards I have information on every active ninja around" now that got everyone's attention
"Anyone?" Shikamaru asked curiously, Kabuto smirked confidently and took out a blank card
"As long as their names are on my cards then I have all the information on them"
"What can you tell me about Namikaze Naruto" Shikamaru asked, everyone looked at him in surprise
"Shikamaru!" Ino shouted at her teammate
"Do you have any information on Rock Lee and Yugito" this time it was Naruto who asked ignoring the shocked looks he was getting from everyone. He was curious about the Kumo Kunoichi he had met the previous day, there was something about her that made several alarm bells in head ring and as for Lee, had was curious as to how the bushy eyed eyebrows boy had managed to move that fast.
"Namikaze Naruto he is a part of team 8 under Yuhi Kurenai, he has completed 34 D-ranked mission and 1 C-ranked, taigutsu is average, high genjutsu and wow Ninjutsu is off the charts" he put the card back to the deck of cards and took out another one with a picture of Lee on the cover "Rock Lee he is a member of team 9 under Maito Gai, he has completed 87 D-ranked missions and 7 C-ranked missions" he paused " this makes no sense, it says here he has no affinity for genjutsu or Ninjutsu, his taigutsu is unbelievable though" everyone was shocked, a person who couldn't do any genjutsu or taigutsu? How was he even a ninja?
"And last but certainly not least Nii Yugito she is a member of team Karibi under the leadership of Killer Bee, she has completed 9 D-ranked missions, 12 C-ranked and 3 B-ranked , taigutsu is very high, Ninjutsu is also very high and genjutsu in nonexistent" he finished with a bit of sweat running down his face.
Everyone else gulped after Kabuto had finished reading the card, if someone like that was in the exams how many more like or even stronger than her were there, they all had one similar thought in their minds 'Avoid the team from Kumo at all costs'.
Naruto felt someone looking at him; he looked around and spotted Yugito giving him a challenging smirk, her teammates also looking at him. He returned the smirk with one of his own and turned back around.
"Shut brats!" A booming voice shouted from the door where everyone was supposed to be in a voice belonging to man wearing a large black trench coat. He cleared his voice "My name is Ibiki Morono proctor of the first part of the chunin exams, I want everyone to enter this room, you will each be randomly selected to seat on tables that will be numbered according to the number you receive as you enter"
A/N I'm sure you've read this part a thousand time already so I'm just going to skip it. Pretty much everything happens the same way as in canon expect this time it is Hitomi who makes the loud speech about not giving up with Hikari backing her up. And naruto is going to copy the answers from a person sitting in front of him using his sharingan to copy the strokes the person makes with his pencil as he wrote.
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Team 8 stood in front of a huge steal gate, looking at the massive trees and plants inside. They all shuddered slightly when they heard a very loud ferocious howl coming from within the dark forest.
"GO!" and with that steal gates opened, instantly they rushed into the forest. The exams were on the way.
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1 DAY LATER WITH TEAM 8
"I saw them heading here"
"Were are they, I don't see anyone"
"Shut you idiots they probably heard your voices and ran away!"
"What is this?"
"AHHHHHH!" their screams could be heard throughout the forest as monstrous, gigantic leaches dropped from the trees above them, devouring them all.
"Fire style: fire Ball jutsu" like the jutsu implied a large ball purely made out of fire sped towards the horde of leaches burning all of them.
"That was easier than I had anticipated" Naruto commented looking at the dead genin team. His teammates who where both standing beside him did not comment, they too agreed with him so far they had encountered 4 teams and none of those teams had proved to be any challenge for them.
"Do you see anyone else close by Hinata?" without muttering a single word or using any hand seals, Hinata's byakugan flared to life. With her bloodline active she could see for miles a head giving them an advantage over all the other teams.
She gasped audibly, making her teammates look at her expectedly "I can see someone heading straight for us, they are very fast!" she said with a hint of panic in her voice
"What else do you see?" This time it was Shino who asked as his mind thinking of what could be making his teammate react this way
"Their chakra, I've never seen anything like it, it's so dark and-"her breath hitched, her body completely froze.
"Hinata?"
"Kukukukuku" a silky chuckle rang from everywhere around the team, making Sino and Naruto tense up in preparation, Hinata though visibly started shaking.
"Kukuku, what do we have here, a lone genin team...how cute" the same voice spoke up again this time they could see and hear where it was coming from. They could see the shadow of a person slowly approaching them from deep within the forest.
When the person finally stepped into the light they all noticed it was a girl from the hidden grass village, the same girl who had given the creepy proctor of the second phase of the chunin exams her kunai back...with her tongue, the same girl they had all had felt a bad feeling from, the person they had all hoped not to run into. She looked at them in the eyes and at that very moment the world stopped moving.
Naruto had felt his fair amount of fear in his life, living with his mother and grandmother he had seen a good portion of things that would stop many hearts but nothing could ever compare to what he felt at that very moment. He could hear his heart pounding in his chest, his instincts, his body, his very soul was shouting for him to get away from the monster in front of him, to run with every ounce of his energy and never look back. He could see his death in many different ways and none of them any less terrifying than the other. He tried to speak but it felt as though an unbuildable weight had been placed on top of him, rooting to where he stood
'W-What I-I this, I-I c-cant m-move' Naruto looked at his teammates through the Conner of his eye and saw that both of them were in a similar state 'I have to do something'
"W-What do y-you want?" he asked drawing all his courage and willpower to utter that single sentence.
The grass Kunoichi smirked and gave them a predatory grin "I've come for one thing and one thing only...you!" what could only be described as the biggest snake all three genins had ever seen rose from behind the Kunoichi and as though being controlled by her, slid past her attacking the still frozen team.
Team 8 could only watch helplessly as the snake approached them, too scared and frozen to do anything. Thinking quickly Naruto grabbed a kunai from his pouch and without any hesitation stabbed himself in his right thigh; the pain from the stab shocked his entire body overriding the fear. He grabbed both his teammate's and jumped away, just in time to avoid the snake's massive jaws swallowing them whole.
"Using pain to remove your fear, impressive but still not enough" the grass nin mocked with another snake appearing from above the team, it's mouth wide open.
"Fire style: Fire Ball jutsu" the fire jutsu hit the giant snake head on and to Naruto's surprise, instead of being burnt like he expected it to be the snake disappeared in a smoke explosion.
"Shino! Hinata! Get out of here I'll hold her off for you to get out of here" both Shino and Hinata snapped their heads at those words, their fear momentarily forgotten.
"You can't fight that monster alone, she's too strong" Hinata pleaded
"I agree with Hinata, she's too strong for you to fight alone the only way you can hope to defeat her is if we all work together and fight as a team" Shino reasoned. Naruto looked at both of them and they both stared back showing that they were not backing down.]
"I suppose your right, if we are going to fight then we fight as a team"
"Kukukuku don't tell me you've given up already I honestly had expected more from you" the grass said appearing in front of them.
"Don't count us out yet, the battle has just started" Hinata responded back with confidence in her voice.
The snake woman just smirked cruelly, showing her very sharp canines, her eyes lit up with glee "Unfortunately I have no interest with you two, my battle is with HIM" faster than the three genins could blink the grass Kunoichi sent a powerful wind jutsu. Naruto with his sharingan saw the attack coming and managed to jump out of the way, unfortunately even though she could see the attack coming, Hinata was not fast enough to avoid it and neither was Shino.
"SHINO! HINATA!" Naruto shouted when he saw that his teammates had been caught in the attack, which sent both of them flying away. He wanted to run to them but knew the moment he turned his back against his opponent he would lose. So with great reluctance and anger he stayed.
"Now that those insects are out of the way I can finally see what I came all the way here to see" the grass kinoichi said sounding amused by the whole situation. Naruto gritted his teeth, his sharingan spinning madly
"Who are you and what do you want" he asked through gritted teeth
"Ah ah ah now that would be telling wouldn't it and for what I want, I thought I've made my intensions thus far clear...I want to test you!" she rocketed towards Naruto with kunai already in her hand. Seeing this Naruto blocked her attacks with his kunai
"Test me?" Naruto asked as he avoided her strikes only to receive an amused smirk in response.
'Damn it her strikes are too strong and fast, I'll have to create some distance between us and use long range Ninjutsu' with his plan in mind, Naruto tried creating some distance between them by jumping away but the snake woman would not let him, her attacks were powerful, relentless and could see that he was rapidly losing as her speed and strength seamed to increase with each strike.
"Is that all you have got to offer perhaps I overestimated you, maybe one of your sisters will prove to be more challenging" the snake taunted and the effect was instenious. Naruto's blood started boiling, his attacks gaining more ferocity with anger, if there was one thing that he hated the most, one thing that that really made his blood boil, it was someone threatening his family especially his sisters and with a battle cry he punched the snake girl with all his might, sending her flying. She stopped when she hit a large tree, sending a few splinters flying from where she had the tree.
Not even giving the snake girl a chance to recover, Naruto's hands waved through hand seals "Fire Style: Dragon Fire Jutsu!" adding as much chakra as he could into the jutsu, three large dragon head fireballs the size of a house made from white fire lounged at the girl, upon contact the dragon heads exploded in a fiery white hot fire explosion.
Naruto huffed "That will teach her to threaten my family", he panted slightly as he looked at the destruction caused by his jutsu, by adding thrice the amount of charka needed for performing a fire jutsu and controlling the size of the jutsu so not to make it too large or explode in front of him, he had realised that instead of the normal yellow-orange flames the flames were white and stronger than the normal flames, making the jutsu very destructive the only down side was that it drained a lot of chakra, but with his high affinity for fire and large chakra reserves he didn't waste or lose a large amount of chakra.
He was about to go and check on his teammates when he had someone clapping hands, he turned around and saw a sight that froze him. The same girl whom he was he had killed just a moment ago was standing there, the skin of her face melting off revealing a man with pale white skin, long black hair and yellow snake like eyes.
"Very, very impressive" The man uploaded clapping his hands "You have surpassed all my expectations but now it's time we end this little battle of ours, don't you think so Naruto-kun?" he said, his mouth opened widely and from within it a green snake came out, the snake opened its mouth and a sword slowly started to come out from the snake's mouth.
Naruto wanted to cry honestly he did, he knew the person who he was fighting against was, anyone with half a brain could tell who it was; Orochimaru of the sannin, S-ranked missing Nin from Konoha. Of all people in the world he met today it had to be him, why were things like this always happening to him, maybe he had done something a long time ago to piss Kami off or maybe Kami just enjoyed putting him in impossible situations.
Faster than he could react Orochimaru was in front of him, his sword stabbing him in the stomach, he blinked and found himself standing on a few metres away from Orochimaru and in his place was Shino
"W-What?"
"Kukuku sacrificing yourself for your friends how noble of you, but ultimately futile in the end I will have my price...after all the hunter will always find his prey" Orochimaru chuckled removing the sword from Shino's stomach and turning around to face Naruto, with a gleeful look in his eyes.
However Naruto was not paying attention to him, his eyes were focused on Shino, he did not hear his other teammate shout out Shino's name nor did he even see, watching as his best friend fall to his knees couching his stomach and coughing up blood. His body was frozen as though stuck in trance, which it was, his mind was blank refusing by all rights and logic that this was happening. Shino finally dropped to the ground he looked at Naruto right in the eye and said one thing "run".
He felt it, rage, anger, fear, sorrow, but most of all hatred, he felt a familiar burning sensation in his eyes, the same burning sensation he had felt when he saved his sisters a long time ago but this time it was different, the burning sensation felt more powerful, more painful, like someone was pouring magma right in his naked eyes.
"Yessss use that anger, embrace it don't hold back" Orochimaru said gleefully as he felt a large chakra spike from Naruto, chakra that felt cold and dark, darker than his own.
Hearing Orochimaru's voice, the mocking voice of the man who had killed his best friend, the voice of the monster that had attacked his team, something inside of him snapped. And for the first time in his life Naruto embraced his rage, his hatred, to be more definite...he let go!
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IMPORTANT
Originally I was going to pair Naruto with whomever you guys voted for the most (Yugito) but then I had an idea, a beautiful wonderful idea, an idea that would have me pair him with Kurotsuchi. I seriously, seriously want to try this idea out so please forgive me (Naru/Yugi) fans out there.
I know that right now it seems as though I'm rushing off and giving Naruto too much power; Mokuton and now EM, but believe me when I say this, everything I'm doing, I'm doing it for a reason, reasons that won't make sense now but will in later chapters.
lastly, someone asked me what happened to Sasuke, just clarify with everyone, Sasuke is dead. I honestly tried to come up with a way to intergrade him into my story but could not so...