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(Some things explained, some things not)
Sarutobi was having a horrible day, he woke up after another one of his "Visions" as he called them. He had them before, dreams to real to just be dreams.
His first was of his sensei and then Hokage dying at the hands of kumo nins, he thought nothing of it until they were eventually surrounded by a group of high ranking ninja titled "The kinkaku force" and Tobirama sacrificed himself to let he, Danzo, his then teammates and a few other nameless chunin escape and fight another day.
The second time he had a "Vision" was the second day of his team training, when Jiraiya had witnessed him summon Monkey King Enma to show how weapons could be more effective than just hands and kunai. The vision consisted of Jiraiya growing up with the toads.
The third "Vision" was of a horrible underground laboratory which had all sorts of disgusting and revolting... Experiments... A laboratory that belonged to his then favorite student, his shining pupil. Though unlike his other visions, this one took months to come to full circle.
The fourth, was a terrible nightmare in which a giant fox destroyed the village, that one took years to come to pass. But at the end, things were even worse than his vision had told, half his ninja dead, his wife was killed by the fox, and he lost a dear friend and his successor, Minato died sealing the demon fox into his own son.
His latest vision had him very stressed out. He was at the chunin exams, he was watching Naruto, but he couldn't see his opponent. Then everything around him fell to chaos, civilians dying, ninjas being cut down, then everything went purple, he saw his sensei, but it wasn't him, it was some odd earth clone of him. The last thing he saw was a large explosion in front of him and a blade piercing his chest from behind and a cackling laughter he knew all too well, then... Nothing...
"Ms. Razana! Could you please bring the forms for a change of will?" asked Sarutobi in sad and defeated tone.
After a very long pause, she responded. "Hokage sama? Did you just ask for the forms to change your will?"
"Yes, I did. Could you please bring the forms." stated Sarutobi in a calmer and more commanding tone. "And also the forms I need to fill out to appoint a my replacement"
-Unknown hideout-
9 figures stood atop the outstretched stone hands of a very demonic looking statue, the statue was covered in chains and had nine eyes, though all of them were closed, and these men that were standing on the fingertips were anything but normal. The first and apparent leader had spiking hair and eyes of rippling purple. While 7 of these figures seemed to be no more than rainbow colored holograms, 2 were definitely there in person.
These two were the most widely known of the group, the first, was Kisame hogash, the tailed beast without a tail, know for his massive chakra capacity and blue skin, he was also known as the monster of the mist, he was one of the legendary 7 swordsmen of the mist and the wielder of Samahadea, the sharkskin sword. His reason to be classified as an S-Rank criminal were simple, the assassination of the Water Daimyo.
Next to him, shorter man, his eyes the eternal red of the infamous sharingan, was Itachi Uchiha. His trademark look was his ever present sharingan and the deep lines surrounding his eyes. His reason to be classified as an S-Rank criminal, now that was a complex tail not even he himself could fully explain.
"What do we know of the Jinchuuriki? Have they all been found yet?" asked the supposed leader, an apparently medium in height man, spiked hair and rippled purple eyes.
"We have found the one, four, five and nine tails. The rest elude us. We had tracked the 3 tails but it has apparently been sealed into another host. We don't know where the host is or even their appearance. Only that the host is between six and eight years old." commented a strange plant like man.
"Any news on their skills? I have heard that the one tail is very unstable" continued the monotone leader
"My spies in the village say that he was very unstable, but since he was last in Konoha, he seems to have stabilized quite a bit, he is even gaining some supporters in the village." stated a very short and stocky, hunched over man. "Even that stubborn old council are starting to side with him."
"This could cause problems, what of the others, are the four and five tails still in Iwa?" the leader asked.
"Yea, still there. They both live out of the village but still have the support of old man Onoki" stated another medium height, blond haired man, a bang covering his left eye and a pony tail on the back of his head.
"This will help us, they will be vulnerable for long periods of time. Finally, what we know of the Kyuubi's container?"
"He's, currently training away from the village. He's unexpectedly strong. At least high chunin level and improving rapidly, he's very intelligent, figured out one of my spies in mere minutes of contact with him. His teachers are Kakashi Hatake, Zabuza Momochi and now Jiraiya the sannin." stated the same short stocky man as before.
"My old teammate? Oh shit, that could be a problem." stated Kisame, getting a raised eyebrow from the whole group, save Itachi and the leader.
"Why, pray tell, could it be a problem?" asked a large man in a bandana with green eyes.
"Zabuza was arguably the best of when we were all loyal, but he just stopped working out one day, something about him losing his daughter. After a few years I finally overtook him as the strongest, but it was only because he was a shell if his former self, and he's still strong enough to go toe to toe with any one of us besides Leader sama. If he regains his old self, we're going to be facing a Kage level swordsman" finished Kisame for the first Time in a while with a look of... Fear?
"I see, Kisame, Itachi. In one week you will go to Konoha and find out everything you can." they both nodded.
"Take this next month to find the other Jinchuuriki. I want two tails found and get any information on the new 3 tail container that you can. I will call you when it's time."
-3 days later, Mt. Myoboku, 2 days till tournament-
"Gahh! This sucks!" yelled Naruto as he pulled himself out of a Naruto sized creator.
"C'mon Gaki! It's not that bad!" yelled Jiraiya from across the clearing they had been using a majority of the time they had been on the mountain.
"What? How can you say this isn't bad? You're using sage mode and not letting me!" yelled the blonde as he dropped back into his stance
"But how much do you think you're improving? I can honestly say you might even be able to go toe to toe with Tsunade right now, you would lose of course, but you could handle her. Now, practice entering sage mode with the shadow clones. You'll have to do this if you run out mid fight." commanded Jiraiya, Naruto nodded, made 3 shadow clones, and went after Jiraiya again.
Over the last 3 days, Naruto had changed somewhat. His old self was showing more and more, where his personality once had cold streaks, most likely from ANBU, now his happy go lucky side was coming though.
On top of that, Naruto was quickly becoming Jiraiya's equal in sage mode. He had found out that he could have clones gather nature chakra for him, then he would dispel them and gain it the same as he would gain memory feedback.
Also, the near constant use of sage mode in his training had allowed Naruto to overcome the 5 minute limit, 5 clone maximum and amount of high level techniques limit (2) of sage mode. He could now stay in sage mode for almost ten minutes, use up to 10 clones at the same time, and he could use up to four high level techniques before sage mode ran out. This, along with Sage modes healing factor/body strengthening factor, allows Naruto to use all 4 go his S-Ranked Kinjutsu, and suffer from little to none of the effects.
When he added his doujutsu to sage mode, he went through the roof. The slowed perception and enhanced reflexes added to sage mode made him almost impossible to hit. His chakra control boost added to sage mode allowed him to last 12 minutes as well as his sage techniques taking up less of his reserves. But the biggest upgrade that came from the doujutsu was from its fourth level. The strength and speed boost of his doujutsu along with sage mode was a truly deadly combination. During the spar with Jiraiya in which he let him use the doujutsu, Jiraiya was picked apart. Even with the ability to block Naruto's physical attacks, his body couldn't handle the god like force behind the blows. In one match, both of Jiraiya's forearms fractured, along with his hands being broken and a rib being broken. And that was just when he was able to block the blond, the speed at which the blonde could move was almost on par with his fathers Harashin. The drawback though was too much for it to be truly effective in combat though. After running out of sage mode, he would instantaneously lose consciousness from chakra exhaustion. It seemed that while the Maelstrom Eye worked increasingly well with sage mode, it wouldn't run off of nature chakra. So until he master the fourth stage, he couldn't use it in battle, though he could still use the first 3 stages no problem.
"Wait up Gaki, I have a better idea. Let's get a bite to eat, finish up the seals and head back a day early, after all, we've destroyed most of your clothing and I doubt that you want to fight in just torn up pants." laughed Jiraiya, Naruto then remembered that they really had ruined all his clothing during their time training.
"You got it... I think it's time to show the world the real Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze."
-training ground 25, one day till tournament-
"C'mon Gaki! If you wanna date my Haku, you've got to do better than that!" yelled Zabuza as he once again locked blades with the young Uchiha.
Over the month of training, Sasuke had improved by leaps and bounds. Under Zabuza's ridiculous training, he had improved in almost every department. His workout program was brutal, but held results that couldn't be denied. One thousand sit ups, push ups, pull ups and squats a day heralded results. He was now about as fast as lee was before he took his weights off, almost as strong as Choji, and could take a couple hits if need be. But that wasn't all he did, there was Ninjutsu training, chakra building and control exercises, sharingan training and the final piece, his Kenjutsu training.
He had learned the rising dragon Kenjutsu style, something he found in the vaults of the Uchiha library. It was based around incredible speed, excellent timing, and several airborne moves that would throw your opponent off balance and keep him there, but also allow space to use Ninjutsu and even genjutsu. This was especially helpful, as he had learned one handed seals from Haku during the second week, so he could through Jutsu and keep an opponent of his heals at the same time, making him a true threat.
Haku was a whole other matter. During the week he had trained with her, he had admitted that he liked her more than a friend, and to his shock, she liked him as well. He had asked her to go on a date once the finals were over, but Zabuza caught wind of it and...
"I'll do anything I have too! Fire style, great fireball Jutsu!" declared Sasuke as he shot the fireball, getting Zabuza to back off.
Zabuza charged back in, winding up for a powerful slash across Sasuke's right shoulder. Sasuke put up his guard, awaiting the inevitable slash from the monstrous Zabuza. However, the slash was a fake. Taking a page out of his blonde students handbook, he spun his left shoulder back, and bought the flat side of the head cleaver into the side/back of Sasuke's unprepared and unblocked head. Sasuke was launched about ten feet, landed roughly and was out like a light.
"Well, he lost... But then again, even Uzu-Gaki would lose to me in a pure Kenjutsu match... Maybe..."
-15 minutes later-
Sasuke was having the best dream, Haku was his wife, Itachi was back, but innocent, and he was surrounded by water... Wait... Water?
He opened his eye and found himself trapped in a sphere of water. A second later, the water disbursed and Sasuke hit the ground.
"Well Gaki, you lost, you know what that means." said Zabuza in an emotionless voice.
"Yea, I wasn't strong enough. But I will be, I'll get stronger and earn the right to date Haku, I'll get stronger so I can protect her!" declared Sasuke with fire in his eyes.
"That, Gaki, is the right answer, you may date Haku"
"Huh?" was Sasuke's intelligent response.
Zabuza sighed and sat next the Uchiha "You might as well know the hole story kid... I was once the strongest person in the mist, even stronger than the Mizukage, and he was a Jinchuuriki.-"
"What's a Jinchuuriki?" asked Sasuke.
"I'll tell you later. Anyways, I was the strongest. My life was great, I was well respected by my peers, feared by my enemies, I had a beautiful wife, and I had a wonderful daughter... But it wasn't meant to be, my daughter had Bloodline poisoning, back then there was no cure. She died on her 4th birthday. Me and her mother were devastated, I started letting my performance slip, my training plummeted, and soon I was no longer the strongest. Then, just as my life was getting back on tracks, the bloodline purge started. My wife was killed by her own team mate on a mission because of her kekkei genkai. That was when I rebelled, I walked into the office of the Mizukage and tried to kill him. Had I been at my best, I might have, but I was nowhere near my peak, and I'm still not. I had to flee, but on my way out of Kiri, I found a little orphan girl... Named Haku"
"I see, so that's why you're so protective of her" stated Sasuke with sad expression on his face.
"Yea, to me, she's the daughter I lost. And I'll do anything to protect her. That's why I'm allowing you to date her, you know her pain, and you said yourself that you would do anything to protect her." stated Zabuza, who then got up. "C'mon, it's time to go back to the village, plus you probably need medical attention. Your bleeding from the ears."
-Mount Myoboku, Naruto's room-
"So Gaki, what seal and where?" asked Jiraiya as he finished making his patented invisible sealing ink.
"The three sword containment seals, one on the back if each wrist and one on the back of my neck. The improved gravity seal goes in between my shoulder blades. Four chakra containment seals, one on each shoulder and two on my lower back. Chakra concealer on my right pec. Resistance seal on my left pec. And the 2 Universal storage seals, one on each forearm." listed Naruto.
"Boy Gaki, I know you picked up your father's talents for seals, but this is ridiculous. 13 seals on your body? I only have four, though I might add those chakra containment seals. "questioned/stated Jiraiya as he started on the four seals on Naruto's back.
"I know, but I'd rather be prepared, plus I already checked, all the seals I'm adding won't interfere with Kyuubi's seal." stated Naruto "You know you're really fast at writing seals?"
It was true, Jiraiya already had the two chakra containment seals done and was now working on the gravity seal. "Yeah, when you're writing all day it helps, plus sensei used to make me write something every time I did something stupid... which was often. That's the whole reason I got into seals."
"Huh, I didn't know that. I guess it's the same with me and stealth. I pulled so many pranks as an ANBU trainee, I just developed a sense of stealth." stated Naruto
"Haha, yea, I did too, but I did it to sneak into the women's bath house." laughed Jiraiya.
"Were you always a perv?" deadpanned Naruto
"Yep"
-Training ground 50, one day till finals-
"One more Sakura" came the naturally bored sounding voice of Kakashi
"Ugh" was the sound that came from the young kunoichi as she ran another lap around the training ground at high speed, around low jonin.
"Alright, that's enough, your training is complete" stated Kakashi as he closed his favorite book.
"Sensei, what do you think my skill levels are?" she asked in a tired voice
"Hmm, your taijutsu is mid chunin. Ninjutsu is your weakest area, around low chunin. Genjutsu, your best area, low jonin. Medical, I couldn't really tell you. Normal speed and strength are around low chunin, but with your ridiculous chakra control, your can get to low jonin and stay there for a while. Overall I'd say low to mid chunin, mid to high chunin when you chakra enhance" stated the cyclops.
"You think I could beat Sasuke?" she questioned
"As Naruto will tell you, anyone can beat anyone. But I think if you can get him a a good two or three layer genjutsu, and land a couple good hits, you should be fine" stated Kakashi with an eye smile "C'mon, let's get back to the village"
- Morning of tournament, 6 hours to start time-
Naruto and Jiraiya had made it back late last night after completing all the seals and crashed in Naruto's apartment. They had just woken up, and where now on their way to the weapons shop that was owned by tenten's dad.
"How are the seals working?" asked Jiraiya as they walked down the not so crowded streets.
"Fine, I managed to fill the first two chakra seals last night and I'm storing the chakra in the other two right now, I should be at full for my match." stated the blonde as he opened the door to the weapons shop.
"Welcome to... Oh hey Naruto, Jiraiya sama, what can I do for you this morning?" asked Tenten's father from behind the counter.
"I need 50 kunai, 50 shuriken, a refill on my sword cleaning oil and new pants, shirt, sandals and black fabric for a headband." stated Naruto
"Coming right up, go ahead and pick out what you like"
-two hours later, ramen shop, 4 hours till tournament-
Naruto and Jiraiya we're both wolfing down ramen, Naruto because he always did, Jiraiya because Ma had made him eat toad food the last day and was trying to get the taste out of his mouth.
Naruto was now dressed in black sandals, black ANBU cargo pants, a dark blue muscle shirt with a custom dark orange vest with blue stitching over it, and a sleeveless blue version of his father's legendary coat. Along the bottom was red lightning and on the back was "Konoha's golden sage" in gold kanji. On his right bicep was his golden Uzushio headband an on his left bicep was his a golden version of the Konoha headband. On his forehead was the same headband that Jiraiya wore, a horned customized protected with the kanji for oil on it.
"So Naruto kun, are you going to win the tournament?" asked Ayame in a rather seductive voice, catching Naruto and Teuchi off guard.
"Y-Yea. I'll will the whole thing, the only one that's trouble is Gaara" answered back Naruto
"Well when you do win, it's all you can eat ramen on me." she said with a smile
"Cool, well gotta get moving" stated Naruto with a foxy grin as he paid for his ramen and left.
"What was that about? Is someone attracted to out favorite blonde?" laughed Teuchi, making Ayame blush.
-Same time, Hokage office-
"What brings you here, Raikage-Dono?" asked Sarutobi as he looked over the three people in front of him. The first was a man named A, the Raikage and a very large and imposing dark skinned man with white hair and a goatee who was known to be the fastest in the world after Minato died. He was 6'3" and looked closer to a body builder that a shinobi. He wore black pants and a sash around his waist, large golden gauntlets around his wrists, no shirt and his Kage robes draped over his huge shoulders.
The second was another dark skinned man, though not as big as the Raikage, he was still muscular. He wore black pants no shirt, but a kumo flak jacket, white wrist braces, a bandana and had 7 swords on his back. This man was Killer bee, jonin and the Jinchuuriki of the Eight tails.
The last person was a young woman, blonde hair, dark blue eyes, black ANBU style pants, black tank top shirt that showed off her rather large, c cup breast, white chunin flak jacket zipped half way up, black fingerless gloves and bandages going half way up her arms. This was Yugito Nii, chunin of Kumo and the Jinchuuriki of the two tails.
"Well Hokage Dono, we heard that there were several highly interesting people competing in the chunin exams. I'd like to watch them. Afterwards I was looking to form an alliance with you" stated the very muscular man.
"Hmm, the first is doable, we have a spare seat where my student Jiraiya was suppose to sit in the Kage box, but seeing as he has a student in the tournament, he has asked that it be given to someone else. As for an alliance, it would have to wait I am afraid, as after the finals I am naming my successor, it is that person you would have to make a treaty with." stated the god of shinobi.
"A successor? Who might that be?and if I may ask, who is Jiraiya's new student?" asked the large man
"His name is Naruto, I was about to meet with him when you arrived. If you'd like to meet him, he'll be here in a few minutes. As for my successor, I'm afraid you'll just have to wait, as even they don't know yet" chuckled the third.
"Awe, I missed a joke?"
All four members in the room snapped their vision to the window, where a a blonde teen was sitting, this isn't what surprised A though, what surprised him was he had seen how fast and controlled the blonde had moved to get to the window.
"And who might you be?" asked Yugito heatedly as she stepped in front of the Raikage.
"Naruto Uzumaki, at your service." he said as he speed from the window and gently took her hand and kissed it "And you are?"
Yugito was shocked, he was fast and a charmer, she didn't even see him move from the window sill until he was holding her hand. "Y-Yugito Nii"
"Well its my pleasure to meet you miss Nii, I assume you're with the Raikage and his brother?" asked Naruto, getting a shocked look out of everyone in the room.
"So you know he's my brother? What else do you know?" asked A, but was cut off by his brother.
"Yo, he's like me, wild and free, as I hold mine, he holds nine." rapped Bee
"Hes right, i do hold nine. Which ones do you both hold?" asked Naruto, not minding the rapping, after all, he had spent years with Gai...
"I have eight and she holds two, and just who are you?" asked Bee.
"Oh right... Sorry about that. Genin Naruto Uzumaki." stated Naruto in his ANBU voice, shocking the 3 once more
"No way you're a genin! No genin moves that fast! Plus you have more chakra that I do and you're more ripped than anyone I've ever met besides A sama!" questioned Yugito, a blush as she just realized she had been staring at his arms.
"Hokage Dono, is this the Naruto you said was in the finals?" asked A as he noticed the Oil headband.
"Yes he is." said Sarutobi simply and with a smile on his face.
"How is that possible? I read the odds for the finals, he has the lowest chances of winning" stated Yugito
Naruto looked at the Hokage, silently asking permission to answer their question. Sarutobi just nodded, after all it was going to be public knowledge soon. "Go ahead, you can tell them everything"
Naruto raised an eyebrow "Everything?"
"I believe Raikage Dono already suspects..." stated the elder Kage
Naruto just straightened up and unsealed the fox mask of his belt, showing it to the 3 kumo nin, getting a gasp.
"Konoha ex ANBU captain and Second in command Naruto Uzumaki-Namikaze, code name "Fox". Son of Minato Namikaze and Kushina Uzumaki. Student of Kakashi Hatake, Zabuza Momochi and Might Gai. Apprentice of Jiraiya the sannin and Sage of Mt. Myoboku"
-3 hours later, chunin exams arena-
Eight chunin hopefuls stood in the center of the arena. These 8 where Gaara of the sand, Temari of the sand, Kankuro of the sand, Shino Aburame, Shikamaru Nara, Neji hyuga, Sakura Haruno and Sasuke Uchiha.
"Has anyone seen Naruto Uzumaki?" asked Genma.
"The failure probably decided to not even show up, it wouldn't matter anyway, fate has decided me the winner." stated Neji. Everyone who knew the blonde shook their heads at his denial.
-Kage booth-
"I'm confused Hokage Dono, where is Naruto? He left before us?" asked the Raikage. He had Bee on his left and Yugito on his right. Well, he was supposed to have Bee on his left, but he was off doing something else.
"Just awaiting my signal. He requested he make a flashy entrance, though I don't know what it is." chuckled both the old Hokage and the Raikage. A had taken a liking to the boy, he reminded him of his father, who he had fought against in the Third Great War, plus anyone as young as him that could give any jonin a run for their money in speed was an instant like for the muscular Kage.
"I can't wait to see, I'm sure it will be good." laughed A.
'This is the brat that made me shed my skin twice. If he ends up fighting Gaara, I'll make sure to watch him die.' Thought Orochimaru, who was disguised as the Kazekage
Sarutobi stood from his chair and walked to the railing of the Kage box. "People of the elemental countries! Welcome to the finals of the chunin exams!" this got a huge roar from the crowd. "Without waiting any longer, let the tournament begin!"
-Back in the arena-
"Alright, you heard the man, everyone but Naruto Uzumaki and Neji hyuga get to the competitors box." stated Genma in a bored tone as he walked away from the middle of the arena.
15 seconds later, a blue and black blur fell from the sky and impacted the ground in the middle of the arena, kicking up a huge dust cloud. After it landed, the blur stood up and walked out of his crater, which was a go 6 feet deep.
"Naruto Uzumaki, reporting for D rank mission "Kicking Neji's Ass"."
-Kage box-
A was laughing his ass off, that was the best entrance into a match he had ever seen, the "reporting for D rank mission" thing just added to it.
Suddenly, Bee was next to him. "Awe man, I missed his plan!" rapped Bee
"What, Were you the one that threw him?" asked Yugito
"Damn straight, I used the arm of mister Eight!"
"You never stop rapping, do you?" asked Yugito
"Sorry miss two, that's something I can not do"
-Arena-
"Nice entrance, but you shouldn't have come. Fate has declared me the winner" stated Neji
Naruto turned to Genma "Your names Fate? I thought it was Genma?"
After a short laugh, Genma composed himself enough to announce the match. "The first match of the Chuunin exam finals, Neji Hyuuga versus Naruto Uzumaki. Begin!"
(should i just have neji get his ass kicked? yes or no?)
(Sasuke and Haku? could it work?)
(Naruto the ladies man? why not?)
(will sarutobi survive? Will the Raikage help or is he with Orochimaru?)
(should Itachi come back to the village?)