Land of Fire, Konohagakure, Chūnin Exams Arena, Battle Arena
With Sakura in his arms, Naruto slowly lowered himself to the ground, his voice urgent, "Sakura, what are you doing?" as Gaara walked over.
"Why did you intervene in our battle?" Gaara demanded, his eyes shifting between Sakura and Naruto. Without a word, Sakura pointed upwards, causing both boys to look up in surprise at the ongoing fight.
"So they went ahead with the plan," the holder of the one-tail said as Naruto's eyes widened in shock, his brow raised in disbelief. "Father worked with Orochimaru so that they could take down Konoha," Gaara told the two of them as Suna ninja landed behind the three of them.
"So you tell the enemy the plan monster," A kunoichi asked Gaara, who turned to her.
But the boy said nothing as sand arose around the Suna ninja, "I no longer work for Suna, and I ally with Konoha and Naruto Uzuamki," He said as he turned to Naruto.
The blond responded by stabbing his sword into the ground and using Ōjo no Ōkami, "Then it's time to hunt a snake," Naruto said as he sent his wolves at the Suna ninja before they exploded.
Gaara looked at the Suna ninja on the ground before turning to Naruto and nodded as the sand rose, and the two started running up the ramp the sand made.
Sakura followed slowly behind them but kept her eyes on Naruto as the blond jumped onto the viewing gallery and found the ninja that threw Sakura off.
Who turned to him in shock, "Suprice bitch," Naruto said as he took hold of the man's head, "Hebi Kōshō," He called out as he applied pressure to the man's head.
A crack was heard before the men fell to the floor, not breathing.
"What the?" Another Oto ninja asked as Gaara held out his hand. Sand tendrils moved across the air and wrapped up the ninja while Naruto springboarded off the Oto ninja he had taken out and landed in the middle of three Suna ninjas.
"Good afternoon, gentlemen," Naruto said as he spun around, his blade cutting down the ninja around him while Gaara crushed the Oto ninja.
"Why not kill them?" Gaara asked as he sent out small sand bullets that pushed through a Suna ninja heading their way.
"Informaion," Naruto said as the red-haired boy nodded and started to trap his targets within his sand.
An explosion from above caused every one to see one of the buildings with smoke billowing smoke.
It had the Kage Booth.
Roof Above the Kage Booth
Hiruzen and Jiraiya stood across from Orochimaru as both Konoha looked at the snake Sannin, "So my former student, it seemed that you have falled quite far," Hiruzen said as he looked at Orochimaru.
"Now, sensei, is that any way to talk to a student?" he said as she smiled creepily at his former teacher and teammate. I mean, I was always your favourite," Orochimaru said before seeing Jiraiya rush forward with his arm out and stick him.
"That is where you are wrong," Hiruzen said as he looked at Orochimaru before removing his Kage robes, showing battle armour under them, "Out of the three of you, it was Jiraiya who was my favourite, as he sot to learn from the other lands, and build briges, while you I saw as my own child," The Hokage told him as he joined the fight between the two former teammates.
Hirzen went at Orochimaru with open-handed strikes while Jiraiya attacked with punches.
And the snake Sannin was countering them with ease. "Oh my, it seems that you have gotten slow in your old age," Orochimaru told the two of them before Jiraiya hit the man's face and sent him tumbling back. "So it seems that you picked up some of your wife's movements," he said as he stood back up.
"Ex-wife," Jiraiya said as he scowled at Orochimaru, who looked surprised.
"Oh," He said as Hirzuen looked at his student.
"She asked for a divorce when she found out about my children, and those children were when we were not married to her," Jiraiya said as both Hokage and Sannin looked at the toad summoner.
"Before we return to the fight, I have to ask," Hiruzen said as he turned to the white-haired man. "How many children do you have?"
"Three, and I did not know it then, but one of them was the blue haird girl that I met in Ami," Jiraiya said as both Orochimaru's eyes shot wide, "And the other two are dead as people found out they were my childeren," He said as both of them nodded and the fight started once more.
Viewing Gallery
Naruto met Kakashi as everyone took out the Suna and Oto ninjas who headed their way. "So, where did you get that sword?" Kakashi asked his student as he kicked someone away.
"My grandfather," The blond said as he breathed out a fireball that was dropped onto a bunch of Oto ninjas heading their way.
"Oh," he said as he watched sand wave across the ground and started to aid the Konoha ninja. "Thank you, Gaara," Kakashi said as he threw a kunai into the chest of a Suna ninja.
"I am aiding you as Naruto is right now the only person alive that I have aligned myself to," He said as his sand rose and trapped some Suna ninja to a wall.
"I see then," Kakashi said with an eye smile as a message was sent to all Konoha ninjas.
"Reporting a message from Inoichi-sama, it seems that a group of Oto ninjas plans to summon a large snake at the west wall to breach into Konoha. Those with large summons head the wast wall," the message railed to everyone.
"Shit," Kakashi said as he looked up at the fight between the three on the roof, "With Jiraiya-sama dealing with Orochimaru along with Hokage-sama we can't ask him," Kakashi said as he took out an Oto ninja.
"The snakes will not aid me in this fight, as they do not want infighting," Anko said as she snapped the neck of an Oto ninja.
"I have large summons, but if I summon them here, we all will be crushed," Naruto said as he released a thin blade of air.
"I see," Kakashi muttered as she watched the battle before getting an idea, "Gaara, can you give Naruto some breathing room, Guy the roof," He called out as the red-haired boy looked confused as the man in the green-body suit jumped up and punched a hole in the roof.
"Oh, I see," Gaara said as he made a wall of sand around them and started pushing the attacking ninja away.
Seeing an opening, the blond cut his thumb on his sword and jumped to the roof, "Kuchiyose no Jutsu," He called out as a massive puff of smoke formed.
When the smoke cleared, it showed a gigantic Dragon whose bodily majority was covered with dark, red scales with the lower body, specifically its stomach, the inner portions of its long tail, and legs, being beige. The dragon also has noticeable scars on his stomach and neck, the largest being X-shaped and located around the centre of his body. His back has numerous black spikes reaching the end of his tail. It had a triangular head with horns, a pair of large, round eyes with yellow sclera and a sharp horn pointing upwards just above its nose. It also sports very sharp canine teeth and has claws with long, sharp, red nails. The dragon's large, bony wings resemble a bat's, with rippled tips. Additionally, it has four legs.
The dragon looked around before spotting Naruto on a roof below them, "Naruto, why have you summoned me," They asked the blond in a male voice.
"There is a large snake summon on it's way and I need you to take it out of the fight," The demi-god said to the dragon as he turned his head and saw a three-headed snake slowly make its way toward the western wall of Konoha.
"Got it. I'll go deal with that while you deal with that," the dragon said, pointing to a purple barrier that had formed around the three on the other roof.
"Okay," Naruto said as he jumped to the others while the dragon flew over to the three-headed snake, "We have a situation," He said as Kakashi looked at the blond, who pointed to the roof and saw the barrier.
"Shit," He cured as he killed an Oto ninja within reach, "And if I'm sensing right, that means that Orochimaru has allied on the same level as Hokage-sama," Kakashi said as he looked over.
"Genin Uzumaki," Yūgao said to Naruto, who turned to her. Get up there with Gaara and two others of your choosing to see what is happening and see if you can aid both." She told him, and Naruto nodded.
"Understood," He said as he looked at Shikamaru, who smiled at him.
"Alright you trublesome blond," He said as he stood beside Gaara.
"I'll go as well," Sakura said as she looked at Naruto, who closed his eyes and nodded.
"Alight, Gaara how many can you carry with you sand," Naruto asked him.
"Two, as I did not have much practice with it," He told the blond, who nodded.
"Alright then, you and Shikamaru head over there to get a grip on the situation while I take Sakura over," he said. The two nodded, and sand rose to form a platform for the Jinchūriki and Nara before it flew over to the roof.
"How are we getting up there," Sakura asked him as she watched in confusion as Naruto put his Zanpakutō in his mouth.
She then watched in amazement as Naruto's form started to change. His blond hair turned white and into fur; as more grew out of his body, his clothes disappeared underneath the coat.
His body started to get down to all fours as paws replaced his hands and feet, and his face began to elongate into a snout with two ears forming on his head, long with a tail.
Everyone watched as he turned into a majestic wolf. With a nudge of his head, Sakura nodded and jumped onto his back as the ninja-turned-wolf started to run.
And when he jumped in the air.
He started to run in the air.
"When," Was all Kakashi managed to say.
Naruto moved through the air and caught up with Gaara. "How are you?" Shikamaru asked as he looked at the wolf and saw its eyes. "Naruto?" he asked.
And the wolf nodded.
The four moved across the air as Sakura looked around. She was amazed by the world around her. "Did Naruto get to do this when he was training?" she asked herself before looking down at the wolf she was riding. "Why is he being so cold to me? Before he went off to train, he always added chan to my name, but now," Sakura said as she looked at Naruto.
"Do not worry," she heard in her head, but it was not her inner voice that she heard.
No, it was another voice, one darker and deeper.
"Listen, vixen, I'm going to put it plainly for you: the kit loves you, so much so that he does not want you to be dragged into something that you do not want," The voice told her as she looked around before seeing a bubbling red substance come out of Naruto and was covering her hand.
"Wait he loves me, how do you know that it's not a crush and I love Sasuke," Sakura told the voice before her vision shifted.
She was now in a sewer with two large red gates.
But what scared her was what was behind them.
Kurama stood in front of them as a woman with wolf-like features.
"I thouht-" Sakura said as she started to back away.
"That the kit's father killed me," Kurama asked as Sakura nodded at him, "I'm a beast of pure chakra; I can't be killed, I only disperce and then reform," He told her as he looked down at her.
"Wait 'kit's father' who is this 'kit' you keep talking about," Sakura asked him as the wolf girl walked over.
"He means the one that wealds me; we are currently inside his soul, his inner world, and the place where Kurama is sealed," she told Sakura, looking at the girl in confusion. I'll give you a clue: When my cains break, I swallow the sun, and when I howl in anger, I hunt the moon," she told Sakura, whose eyes shot wide.
"Your the spirit of Naruto sword," Sakura asked the girl.
"That's right, I am Ōjo Ōkami Senshi, and the fox is right; my king loves you, but he has fear in his heart, and that is why I do not run in the forest outside this cave," Ōjo Ōkami Senshi told Sakura as she looked confused before she turned around and saw rain pouring down into a forest, "My king's soul is hurt as he must push you away from him so that you are not forced to do something that he dose not want for you," The Zanpakutō spirit said to her.
"But I love Sasuke," Sakura said as Kurama laid his head down.
"So you have said, but when the kit awoke, his spiritual powers enabled him to find his Soul Mate," Kurama said as Sakura looked at him in confusion. "And it is rear for someone to find their soul mate, mind you, but there is a tell-tale sign that one has found them, and I have seen it," the fox said as Sakura looked confused but walked forward.
"And that is," She asked him.
"When watching through the kit's eyes, I saw your eyes gain a ring of pink around them, and I saw a ring of pink around his, that connection is when two soul mates, it is otherwise known as a zing," Kurama explained to the pink haired girl.
As she looked at the fox, Sakura had nothing to say before returning her gaze to the forest with the pouring rain. "Is there a way to stop the rain?" she asked the two as they looked at her.
The sword spirit smiled gently at the girl. "You will know what to do in time, but right now, it's time for you to return to the real world," Ōjo Ōkami Senshi told Sakura. The girl blinked and saw she was once more on Naruto's back as they ascended onto the roof.
When they arrived, they found Anbu helplessly standing outside the barrier, and they turned to the Gennin running to them. "So little hunter lets you ride his back," an Anbu with a Bor mask said to Sakura as she got off Naruto's back.
"It's nice to see you too," Naruto said, changing back into a human. Cat sent us up here to give aid," he told the Anbu, who nodded as they all turned to the barrier.
"I don't know what aid you can bring but all is welcome," Boar said as everyone looked at the barrier.
"What barrier is this," Sakura asked as she looked at it.
"Shishienjin is a Barrier Ninjutsu that requires four people to create, and we need to take it down, but we are unable to reach any of the four to do so," a bird-masked Anbu said as Naruto looked at them.
"Have you tried taking down the section of the roof that one of them is standing on?" he asked the Anbu, who all looked sheepish for a second before shaking their heads. "Boys," Naruto muttered with a roll of his eyes, and everyone who saw that thought that if Naruto were a girl, that look would have been perfect.
"Rabbit, Monkey, head down and hit the floor beneath the girl," Boar called out as he turned to Shikamaru. Can you link your shadow with hers and lead her away from here?" he asked.
"Yea, I can lead her towards Kakashi-sensei so that he can deal with her," he told Anbu, who nodded before he turned to Naruto, who stabbed his sword into the ground, held out a hand, and gripped the arm that was out.
"Heavenly thunder cloud gather thy bolt, dragon of dark scales spark now in the clouds and roar; bolt of the gods stolen from this task beak and repeat the sky in the form of the blast from a cannon and descent from hell and arise to heaven," Naruto started to speak the incantation. The Anbu looked shocked as a small orb of lighting gathered before Naruto's hand.
"Now," Boar called out as the roof suddenly shifted. The girl holding up the barrier stumbled and dropped the hand seal, and the barrier started to fall.
"Hadō #88. Hiryū Gekizoku Shinten Raihō," Naruto called out as the orb of lighting turned into a gigantic beam of electrical and spiritual energy that burst forward.
