I don't own Naruto or any of its characters, I'm just a fan I enjoyed the anime but I love the fanfics even more, they made me fall for the whole franchise.
Chapter 90
"You win, Na-ru-to-Kun." Hinata's soft voice reached my ears like a breeze on the shoresides. I looked down at her beautiful face that carried a smile that had my heart pounding in my chest a hundred miles per hour.
She was injured and tired from all the fighting she did from morning to afternoon. 'She must have woken up early to wait for me at the gates.' I realized as my mouth slowly began stretching into a grin as my chest heaved in and out in joy.
Hinata lay flat on her back below my form, her arms pinned together above her head by my left hand as I loomed over her with my knees on either side of her waist and my right hand supporting my weight, laying flat next to her left cheek. Her dojutsu was deactivated so I knew she could not see the grin to spread across my face at her words and the tone in which she said my name.
"Tststst I'm so badass." I boasted with a snicker and her eyes softened while she looked up at me with unseeing eyes that looked me straight in mine. I felt my stomach twist and turn as I thought I heard it make a sound but all I could do was look into those charcoal-colored eyes that loved me so much.
"Are you okay?" I asked her softly because I knew I did not hold back anything when fighting her and the trail of blood running down her chin was a testament to her strength because she took me on blow for blow.
She nodded while her chest rose and fell periodically, her mesh armor not doing a good job of hiding her breasts from my active imagination as she breathed in and out.
"I am happy." Hinata said in a whisper that sounded tired and my face inched closer to hers while my concentration became fixated on her moving lips. "I am so happy I knocked on your door that day." She continued while my face drew closer and closer to hers, my left hand still pinning her arms on the ground above her head.
'Our first day at the academy.' I realized what she was talking about. "I'm glad you did that." I mumbled softly, my hot breath licking her face because of the little distance between our visages.
"I am just glad you opened that door." My princess whispered with a smile that showed all her pearly whites while she closed her eyes and dropped a tear of happiness. I made the little distance between us nonexistent and gave her a soft kiss.
Our lips barely touched and yet I felt like it was the most passionate kiss we had ever shared. Why was my heart beating so hard in my chest, I won, didn't I?!
"NARUTO, NARUTO, NARUTO!!!" As the dust cloud settled around us, I began to hear my name getting chanted by the spectators. I broke the kiss and stared into my Hime's blind eyes promising myself I would do my best from now on to return her sight because this scene was just plain awesome!
I released my hold on Hinata's wrists and pushed myself up before taking her hand in my own and hoisting her up gently. She swayed on her feet and almost buckled under her weight but I was quick to catch and support that weight.
"Sorry Naruto-Kun, I'm just a little tired." She told me with a tired laugh and I nodded. I bent down, positioned my left arm behind her knees, and hoisted her into a princess carry.
"You are very strong Hinata-Hime, I'm proud of you" I told her and pecked her on the lips. she wrapped both her arms around my neck from my left side and snuggled herself into the crook of my neck.
"Thank you." Was her only reply and I felt It carried so many other 'thank yous' inside, that I could only laugh with an even broader smile before facing up at the spectators who stood from their seats, clapped, whistled, and chanted out my name all around! I don't know if I was imagining the confetti...
"Hey hime? I'm hungry, do you think…?." I paused in my inquiry when I looked down at my girlfriend's gorgeous face and found her fast asleep. I am so proud of her, I think I only won because she ran low on chakra, so we will have to do a rematch, Ohh like a fight date, 'TO THE DEATH!'
'Hime defeated Neji in the second phase and Choji in the preliminary rounds. She fought Rock Lee and injured him while he was using the third gate. Then she immediately rushed to fight a Jinchurinki drawing on his beast's chakra.' I looked at her sleeping face once more and couldn't help but smile down at her. After all those back-to-back fights she still had it in her to give me an awesome battle.
"I love you, Princess Hinata stay close okay." I told her softly just as she snuggled closer to me and smiled. I wondered if she heard me or if it was just one of those instinctual things.
"NARUTO…..!NARUTO……!NARUTO!" I looked up at the spectators and did my fear-inducing laugh.
"Mwahahahahaha Mwahahahahaha haaahahahahahaha!" Somehow they weren't scared shitless of me, I must be missing something.
'Money? Check. Power? Check. and with both? Infamy. Haa….life…...' I sighed out in glee.
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Sakura turned the block and jogged down the streets of Konoha, there was so much going on in the streets that Sakura knew for a fact she would not be given a second look. She couldn't think about the Chunin Exams at this point in her life. What she did was not normal, it was those kinds of things you would expect from Shino, but not her!
'Did Orochimaru do something to me? Was it when I absorbed his chakra? Did dying meet the condition to awaken this snake clan ability or something?' Sakura wondered and raised her left hand to her face, to stare at a small patch of skin in the center that was pale white and smooth to the touch.
She balled her fists, not ready for her mind to start coming to conclusions because it would.
'Mama and Papa should be home, I can't let them see me like this.' The pink-haired girl decided mentally. She was sticky and oily, she did not want to overthink the reason why she was so.
Sakura sighed in relief when she saw the window on the second floor open. She dashed up the adjacent wall of her family home and slowly climbed into her room. The Haruno stepped toward her dressing table and stared at her reflection in the mirror.
She found that she looked as exhausted as she felt but her face glistened with baby-soft skin and her eyes almost seemed to glow green. The Genin reached out with her right hand and grabbed her cheek before stretching. Her two fingers slipped due to the slippery substance covering her whole being and she gave that cheek a little slap at least happy she still felt the strike.
The teenage girl couldn't help but slide her hand down toward her neck and rub it to feel for any blemishes or scars. Thankfully she did not find any.
'Sasuke-Kun killed me.' The Haruno girl thought sadly as she slid to her knees and began sobbing with her hands covering her face. 'What did I do for him to hate me like this?' Sakura sobbed out in a whisper and couldn't find an answer, she slowly stood up and decided to head to the bathroom downstairs.
'I need to get out of these clothes.' Sakura thought In disgust while raising her hands, she slowly made her way down the stairs and thought up an excuse to tell her parents if they caught her sneaking inside the bathroom.
'After that, I have to report this to the Police.' Haruno got to the final three steps of the stairway and stopped.
The scene in front of her brought exaggerated horror to her glistening visage as she whispered.
"Papa?" Sakura called out to her father's body sprawled on the floor, the Haruno male lay on his back facing the ceiling above with open vacant eyes and a huge pool of blood under his form.
"PAPA!" Sakura cried out in shock and ran to her father's corpse, the thought of bathing long gone from her psyche. "Papa! oh no, PAPA!!" Sakura cried for her father as she got on her knees only to gasp when she saw the hole in her father's cranium that had stopped leaking blood a long time ago.
"Papa!!" Sakura cried out again while hugging the corpse that stared forward with wide open lifeless eyes. Sakura felt her heart rate increase as she cried and got drenched in her old man's blood, not knowing another corpse lay just a few feet away waiting to be discovered.
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Shisui stopped a few feet from the sound ninja with two heads as they got into a standoff. The Uchiha scanned his surroundings and found that the sound ninja had led him toward Konoha's memorial stone.
"State your business in Konoha?" Shisui ordered taking his job seriously and stepped to the right to circle the foreign ninja a couple of feet away.
"I'm here to rock your world." The sound Ninja said as black markings began to spread across his body in flame-like patterns while he spread his arms wide and laughed with clearly bad intentions.
"The life of your everyday street cop." The police officer mumbled while taking his interceptor fist stance, his black eyes piercing into the sound of the ninja's soul.
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Located on a rooftop a few blocks away from Konoha's Hospital were Izumi Uchiha and the female member of the sound four/five. The Uchiha found the foreign ninja harassing a merchant for something she was not privy to before they had relocated to the roof of a jewelry store.
"Girl, you don't wanna fuck with me. I will hurt you where you stand." The female Sound Nin threatened the female Uchiha officer who took it in strides and smirked.
"I'd like to see you try." The Uchiha police officer replied with confidence and the foreign ninja smirked back.
Izumi did not know what the markings spreading across her opponent's body were supposed to accomplish but she deduced they would not do her any good so she activated her dojutsu and took a ready stance.
"Come quietly and I won't have to hurt you." Izumi warned the sound Ninja who only scoffed as she twirled a flute in her hand before bringing it to her mouth with a menacing smile forming on her visage.
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Walking silently through a dark tunnel under the streets of Konoha with flaming torches to lighten their way. A platoon of 200 Shinobi from the ranks of Chunin to Jōnin marched forward with morale high and expectations made, leading them was Baki.
"Finally we will be able to cut ties with the leaf." Spoke a short man with black hair that hung over his right eye, a goatee, and dark eyes. He wore a standard Suna shinobi attire, including a faceguard that covered his cheeks.
"Second commander Yūra, our objective is to thin out Konohagaru's forces and catch them off guard with coordinated gorilla tactics using these tunnels." Baki dictated to his fellow advisor and counsel member of Sunagakure.
The Jōnin commander is a dutiful Shinobi who respects his Kage tremendously but Baki did have his reservations about the invasion that he would not voice. To trust Orochimaru was to sign your death certificate so Baki hoped his Kage had a fail-safe plan.
"Squads A and B follow every one of Second Commander Yūra's commands. Take a left here!" Baki gave an order once they reached an intersection in the tunnel. 75 soldiers separated from the platoon of 200 men including Jōnin Yūri before marching down a different tunnel while the main infiltration force went straight.
They continued their slow March down the tunnels with walls that were designed to resemble snake scales. Yūri with the aid of his 74 strong will attack Key locations quickly before returning to the tunnels to move to the next and so on while Baki and his men will attack the stadium to land their Kage and Orochimaru aid.
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Mikoto Uchiha was worried for her last born because she could not find him anywhere in the stadium's hallways after checking him in the infirmary and found him not there. Questioning the guards at the entrance of the stadium bared fruit as Mikoto was informed of her son's departure and subsequent return to the building a few minutes earlier.
As she walked down the wings of the stadium, Mikoto played with the idea of her son's character and what she could have done differently to stop his descent from grace. An Uchiha proverb says 'A mother births a child but not their heart'. Sasuke is not outwardly talkative, but the fact he spoke in his sleep as a child pointed out to a vocal subconscious.
'His head must be swimming with emotions and thoughts he feels he cannot share with anyone.' The mother of two thought sadly as she turned into another wing and looked around for her wayward son. 'Why does he act like he has nobody? Itachi adores him so much, Sasuke-Kun should at least be able to talk freely with his big brother.' Mikoto's worries were starting to make her stressed so she stopped and took a deep breath in to calm her sugar levels.
Mikoto did not notice as Sasuke turned into the same wing of the stadium she was in but as soon as he saw her. He dashed back and pressed himself against the wall before he peaked his head out again to spy on his mother's unmoving form.
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'Is she looking for me?' Sasuke wondered as he spied his mother standing in one place for a minute before walking forward and away from him. The Uchiha Genin watched his mother walk away before turning a corner and he came out into the hallway once more.
'I think Sasuke-Chan is jealous.' Mikoto told Naruto who hung off her like a scarf, the blonde blinked in 'faux' surprise having known Sasuke was in the room with them but when Naruto saw his frown, he smirked.
Sasuke wanted to murder Naruto a second later when the blonde kissed his mother on the cheek which had her blushing.
'She's my mother now.' Naruto told Sasuke while releasing his hold on Sasuke's mother and landed on his feet. Mikoto placed her right hand on Naruto's oily hair and rubbed it with so much affection in his eyes Sasuke thought the woman 'held affection for Naruto'. But that couldn't be true, could it?
Sasuke balled his fists in anger at the end of the memory and marched toward the spectator's section of the stadium with no plan of action only his anger taking control of the situation and what ever will get thrown his way.
Sasuke could hear it, the chants for Naruto Uzumaki, the applause for Naruto Uzumaki, the love for Naruto Uzumaki, they laughed along with Naruto Uzumaki. The anger was boiling and the intent to kill was spilling from Sasuke's every being as he approached the light at the end of the hallway, leaking killing intent so murderous he was leaking an aura.
'Enjoy it while it lasts dobe.' Sasuke thought with menacing red eyes ready to walk into the light.
"Sasuke-Chan." Sasuke grimaced and turned around to look behind him, In the distance stood Mikoto Uchiha with a frown on her face and a very determined look in her eyes.
"NARUTO NARUTO NARUTO!" The crowd continued to chant in joy and Sasuke loosened his fingers.
"Yes, mother." Sasuke responded and made his way to the woman at a leisurely pace trying to control his façade by pulling a cool frown on his face. Sasuke did commit murder a few minutes ago he had to play it natural.
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Hiruzen despite himself smiled when he saw the effect his grandson had on the populace of the elemental nations as a whole. Thinking of the fact that nobles, merchants, civilians, and foreigners alike were cheering the blonde's name made the third Hokage truly believe in the boy's future as the one to save the elemental nations.
'Once Naruto sees his peers accept him despite his status as Jinchuriki he will have no reason to defect from Konoha.' The third thought sagely while rubbing his white goatee with a hand.
'Naruto's affections for the Hyūga heiress will tie him down to the village.' Hiruzen was stretching but he would not know that. 'and with this performance, his journey to becoming Hokage looks promising.' Hiruzen stepped out of the comfort of his mind and placed his focus on the conversations of his fellow kages.
"Congratulations on your Genin's performance Hokage-Dono." Spoke the fifth Mizukage. "I enjoyed myself immensely." The Mizukage said giving Hiruzen a nod of respect and Hiruzen returned it.
"I must admit, the boy truly is his father's son. I wonder what jutsu he uses to walk on air? But it would not surprise me if it has something to do with fuinjutsu." The fourth Raikage said acknowledging Naruto's skills and strength with those words.
"I like the way you are raising this blonde Hiruzen, it is safe to say he won these exams by a landslide." The third Tsuchikage added with a wonderful smile that showed the joy he was feeling inside.
"What do you think Rasa?" Onoki asked, calling the four Kazekage by name. Rasa looked to the levitating old fool who broke him out of his thoughts, the man contemplative ever since Gaara was defeated and eliminated.
"Go Fuck yourself Onoki." Rasa growled out his response as he leaned on his seat and folded his arms, placing his attention on the screen above showing Minato's son body flicker to the top of the mountain to bask in the cheers thrown his way a little better. 'A successful Jinchuriki.'
There was an explosion heard in the distance before a red flare was shot up in the sky and sirens ran throughout the village.
'I will see this invasion to the end, we are not cowards, we are the sand that burry all under the earth!' Rasa thought with a determination to see a better Suna, walking into this invasion, Rasa felt like an incompetent man but he thought he learned his lesson.
'Orochimaru is very wise' Rasa admitted inwardly, why did they always resort to destruction and betrayal in the first place?
'Kazekage-Dono, Suna is rich in gold and other metals that should have made Suna an economical powerhouse.' Rasa again found himself lost in thought, thinking about his meeting with Gatō.