Here it is!!! And I still have my poll up, it has about eight to nine days left before i close it for good!!! So please, please, please vote for one!!! And I thought of adding something to it... the top two votes will be the ones to be the musical type and will be a duo, kk? Okay! On with the chapter!!!!!!!!!! ^-^
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Naruto woke with a start when Kyuubi roared feriously. "What!" He cried, jumping to his feet a look of irritation mixed with surprise as he looked around wildly.
"What is it Naruto-kun?" Kimi asked, looking in through the door.
"It's Kyu-chan! She's upset about something!" He groaned, messaging his head ache.
That's none of your concern flesh bag! Now get to training! Kyuubi snarled at him.
He looked out the window, it was about five in the morning. He frowned, she usually has him up and about by four thirty. He quickly got dressed and set a few clones to do more with his water and fire, he was going to learn to use them because he had the tenant that demanded he train to his fullest. He sighed, he really didn't want to learn all this, this soon. He set more clones to practise kenjutsu, a few to practise medical ninjutsu, a few to study the seal books he had, and then began his morning exercises.
--- six hours later ---
Naruto wasn't feeling too hot, in fact, if his head hurt any more, he's explode. His temper was at its limit and beyand as he refrained from meeting the glares of the villagers with his own. He winced and gained some looks of sympathy from all of them when they saw the blood drip from his hand. They didn't know that that was self inflicted as he continued to clench his fists so hard that his finger nails were a half a centimeter into his skin. And he didn't wince from the pain, he didn't even notice it above the growing pain in the back of his head as Kyuubi growled and roared about sand and water. Whatever that meant.
He looked down and scowled. The one look Naruto hated more than anything out there- pity. He didn't need their pity, or their sympathy, the only thing he needed was their damned respect. To be accepted by his village.
He tightened his fists as he entered the training grounds that he was to meet his team. He was more than four hours late to meet his team, and he could care less. He walked so quietly, even in pain, that his team didn't even notice his aproach until Kakashi looked up at the sky with a sigh and saw some blonde hair. He looked down and nearly took a step back from the look and condition the blonde seemed to be in as he walked towards them.
Sakura and Sasuke, noticing their sensei's discomfort, looked up and did take a step back. Naruto was scowling, glaring at nothing but his feet, looking exhausted and feral and he had blood dripping from his hands, his knuckles were white. His eyes weren't blue, but dark, midnight blue tinged red.
"Naruto?" Kakashi asked wearily.
"What?" Naruto bit out in a pained voice.
"Are you okay?" He asked in concern.
"No. But I don't feel like resting either. One way or another..." He winced and looked ready to keel over. "...I've got to figure out why it's upset." He closed his eyes and winced in pain as he tried, once again, to get into his mindscape. But, again, failing as she sent heat into his body to get him out. He let in a sharp intake of breath and swayed slightly.
Kakashi cought him before he stumbled on an over grown tree root. "Maybe you should go home?" He suggested.
"No, I could cut out on training, but I've got to figure this out." Naruto groaned, falling to his knees and staring into nothing as he shook his head nearly hurled up his breakfast. He stood once more, glancing up for the first time getting there.
"Naruto..." Sakrua said, did she sound worried? Naruto couldn't tell.
"Yes, Sakura?" He replied.
"I think you should go home and get some rest." She said sternly.
"No thanks, but at least you care, for once." He said sarcastically.
"She's right Naruto." Kakashi sighed. "You don't train today, if you don't want to go home to rest, go relax someplace else." He told him.
"Okay..." He sighed before walking away.
"And what happened to your hand?" Kakashi asked his retreating back.
Naruto unclenched his fist and glared at his palms that now had deep gashes in them. "My fingers." He replied stiffly before walking faster to avoid more questioning.
He was walking when he felt a presence above him, slightly to the left. He turned his head and the pain seemed to intensify ten fold as he stared into cold, lifeless eyes that glared back at him. The boy infront of him had blue hair, and green eyes, he wore a honey Hiate and stood there with out expression. Naruto wasn't fooled, he knew masks like the back of his newly bleeding hands. He felt Kyuubi stir slightly and heal his hands with a growl.
The boy was lonely, in pain, and all around sad, but didn't show it, he kept his expression point blank and took in the blonde's attire. Orange, what Shinobi, in the right mind, wore orange? He stared and heard something in the back of his mind growl and he nearly groaned and winced at the pain as he stared into the life filled, eyes that kept fluttering in pain from something unknown.
"Need something?" Naruto asked painfully.
"No." The boy replied. "What's your name?" He asked coldly.
"Naruto. You?" Naruto replied. Slowly, the Kyuubi began to calm.
"Shinsei." The boy replied bitterly.
"What brings you here?" Naruto asked, staring right back at the glare as villagers seemed to avoid the stress both boys felt as they looked at each other.
"The Chunnin exam is in a week." The boy explained to him.
"Really? It's only a weak?" Naruto asked.
"Yes. What is it that you seem to be in pain from?" The boy asked, stoic. He winced when something in his head lashed out at him, telling him not to bother, the boy wouldn't tell.
"I'd tell you, but then I'd have to run from an angry mob that hates me already. And saying it now, would most likely lead to a mob on account that I'm not even supposed to know about it." Naruto shrugged with a sigh as he put his bloody hand behind his head, the blood almost dry.
Shinsei blinked, stoic as ever before nodding in understnading, he'd gone through the same. "I look forward to fighting you in the Chunnin exams Naruto. Until then, I'll be anticipating it." The boy disappeared in a burst of bubbles.
Naruto sighed. Feeling the Kyuubi still seath, but letting her anger pass finally. He still had a massive headache, and Kyuubi was growling about sand still, saying something about at least that Rokubi wont me a problem. He sighed once more and disappeared himself in a swoosh of wind. He and Hinata both knew sunshin, but he and her had worked together to add their affinity to it in less than a week.
Many of the ninja glanced at the spot he just was in shock.
--- a little bit later ---
Hinata was waiting, where she always did, for Naruto to show up, sitting at the base of a tree when he showed up in a gust of wind. She looked up and frowned. "Something wrong Naru-kun?" She inquested.
"Just some huge head pain from Kyu-chan. But, other than that, I think I'll be find now." He shrugged. "Want to start out with a taijutsu spar?" He asked.
"Sure!" She nodded with a smile. She and Naruto always had a beginning spar to start out the evening. So far, the score was about twenty-three to twenty-two, in Naruto's favor.
They were almost tied, she needed one more win and it would be so. They fought for a long, long time before they both landed in a heap, her under him and them both grinning at each other. "You're groing out your hair." He commented.
"You hate it?" She frowned.
"No, I like it." He grinned and she couldn't help but follow suit. "It's a draw." He said, getting up before pulling her to her feet as well.
"Thanks." She said shyly, with a giggle.
"You are so very welcome Hinata-chan." He said with a mock bow. He looked up when she laughed and they both started their long training, Naruto only stopping a few times from the head pains.
--- later that night ---
When Naruto got back to the cabin, Kimi asked how he was feeling. "Better." He smiled.
"Why's there blood on your jacket?" She raised an eyebrow.
"My finger nails dug into my skin so deep, they were nearly stuck." He shrugged, kicking off his sandals. He fell onto hi bed before groaning as the Kyuubi started up again. 'Will you shut up and cut it out!' It wasn't a question, and she was taken back a bit from how quick his temper was o flare if he was uncomfortable.
She found her resolve and growled. Who are you to tell me what to do?! It's not my fualt that I'm trying to get you away from any potentail danger that may be approaching! She howled. Find that blasted Shukaku so I can tear him to shreds and feed the remains to the other foxes of my realm! That boy, Shinsei, is lucky that Rokubi didn't try anything funny and was actually respectful enough and calm enough to not be a threat, but that Shukaku! I'll kill him!!! She roared hystarically.
Naruto sighed, this had something more to do with than just Shukaku, whoever that was, being dangerous to him, and he had to uncover it, and quick, too. He opened his eyes and took out a brush, already on the last book of sealing out there, and dipped it in an ink bottle that was randomly littering the desk he'd built. He, surprisngly, had great carpenter skills. He took off his jacket and began writting a seal on his arm, if he had to block off his chakra, than so be it, he'll block off his chakra. He was almost done when he stopped and a devious smirk spread across his features, he removed the seal with a simple hand seal and lifted his shirt.
Kimi bit her lip in confusion as he began molding chakra and the seal that held the Kyuubi appeared. He did a few symbols around it and made a chakra seal, he closed his eyes and winced as the pain of the seal took its toll. He'd done the seal on a random Shinobi, using a piece of paper infuse with chakra to send it there, the man had fallen over with a yelp.
He'd quickly took away the seal and hightailed it out of there as the man began shouting at whoever had done it. Saying he'd have their heads and be making them eat their own hearts. He blanched at the thought of it before shuddering and feeling the Kyuubi fight the seal. The seal would last for at least a few days, enough for him to find this Shukaka at least, and get to the bottom of things.
"What did you do?" Kimi asked curiously.
"I sealed most of Kyu-chan's chakra away, it wont hold long, but should at least be good for three days." He sighed, going into the small ittle bathroom to get dressed for bed.
"You sure that was a good idea?" She asked nervously. "I mean, wont she be mad and try to take over or something?" She asked.
"Yeah, I know, but for now I need to find Shukaku for her or she'll be even pissier when she breaks the seal!" He sighed and slumped on the bed and he knew no more.
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The next few days was hell, searching for this Shukaku container, training, putting up with his two annoying teammates' comments and then training with Hinata. He and her had evened the score and when one won a match, the other would win the next, and boy did her strikes hurt!!! He could almost reopen the blocked points all the way, but it took many minutes to do so.
He sighed as he walked through the village, Sasuke and Sakura following him to get to the bottom of things. He put his hands behind his head and looked at the sky in annoyance, why wont they just leave him alone? He silently begged, he knew they were following him, and he didn't like it one bit.
He felt them before he saw them. The square 'rock' was after him again. He sighed as he walked past it and it followed him. He walked this way and that, it kept following him. "Okay you three, what do you want today, yesterday it was training, the day before it was tips on your homework, what could you possibly come up with today?" He sighed, man could these three get any more annoying?!
The whole intro was the same as last time, and the time before that and the time before... and so on and so forth, you get the idea. "'What do you want?' was my question, not 'who the hell are you?'" He sighed.
"You promised yesterday to play ninja with us today." Moegi pointed out.
"Hmm...... Did I? I can't seem to remember." He said in mock thought.
"Naruto-Niisan!" They all whined.
"Relax guys, I was only joking." He chuckled as Saskuke and Sakura let themselves be known.
"What kind of ninja 'plays' ninja?" Sakura mocked.
"The kind who like to actually play with friends." He retaliated.
"Hey Niisan?" Naruto looked at Konohamaru.
"Yes?" He raised an eyebrow.
"Is she your..." He raised his pinky and moved his eyebrows.
Both Naruto and Sakura flushed in rage. "No!" They shouted.
"Why?" Konohamaru asked. "She's pretty." He commented.
"I would never go out with a person like her/him!" They shouted at him. Naruto wanted to slap the little brat, and Sakura was advancing in to punch him in the skull. Her fist nearly connected when Naruto grabbed her wrist and flipped her to her back. Sasuke watching with pure amusement on his face.
"Don't touch him!" Naruto growled before whacking Konohamaru in the head himself. If anyone was going to hit Konohamaru, it would be him.
"Naruto-Niisan!" Konohamaru cried.
"Shut it Konohamaru!" Naruto said sternly before glaring at his female teammate. "Touch him, and I will not hesitate to shove you in a chakra infuse box and send you the other side of the world where random animals will find you and tear away at your flesh." He threatened, letting her up.
She gulped and nodded, the way he said it, he meant it. Naruto turned and glared at Konohamaru. "What in hell's name is wrong with you?!" He demanded. "Why would you even think that me and Sakura could be together!" He shook his head furiously. "Okay..." He sighed. "I'll give you your assignment when we get to the meeting spot." He groaned.
They nodded and ran for the tree they used as theiri meeting spot. The kids rounded the corner, Naruto walking at a steady and slow pace, Sakura and Sasuke following close behind. He sped up when he heard Konohamaru shout out and a voice say, "Watch it kid!" really angrily.
He rounded the corner to see a boy with face paint and cat pajamas on, lifting Konohamaru by the shirt with one hand, shaking him. "Does this hurt? Does it?" He teased, lifting up then down again.
"Konkoru! Put him down!" A girl hissed, she was to his right and had sandy blonde hair that was in four pig-tails. The most noticable feature was the gigantic fan strapped to her back.
"Come on Temari! He wont be here for awhile, why don't we have fun with these kids?" He smirked.
"Suit yourself, I'm not going to risk it." She said, taking a slight step back.
"Hey make up boy!" Naruto shouted, letting his presense be known. "Put him down or I'll-"
The boy grinned. "Or you're what? Bite me?" He laughed. "Kid, you're way out of your lead."
He raised his arm as if to punch Konohamaru. "I wouldn't do that if I was you." Naruto warned.
"Pf. You can't do anything to me." He brought his fists down and his fist neverconnected as Naruto and Konohamaru were in eath other's places and Naruto had grabbed Konkoru's hand.
Naruto smirked before his other hand grabbed Konkoru's other hand and forced him to release, in one swift movement, Konkoru was on his back. "Can't do anything to you ey?" He grinned. "Next time, don't mess with a man's friends, it may be your life." He said, releasing Konkoru.
Konkoru raised and took the bundle of cloth off his back. "You want to go there punk!?" He demanded.
Naruto got into a stance. "I released you and warned you, what more do you want?" He asked sarcastically, the two were about to jump at each other when a cold voice stopped them.
"Konkoru, knock it off, you're a disgrace to our village." They turned to see a red haired boy with a goard on his back with the kanji for 'love' on his forehead.
Temari was stiff as a board. That boy had taken down Konokuro in less than a minute, and now he was staring Gaara down. Did this boy have a death wish?!?!
Sakura's eyes were wide with shock and she was shaking like a leaf. Was it really him? Did he forgive her? She knew that she didn't forgive herself.
Gaara glared at Naruto and Naruto glared back. Naruto knew the eyes from himself, he knew what this boy'd gone through, but he knew this boy wasn't much but a monster at the moment. He was going to have to change that. His eyes narrowed and he realized something as Kyuubi shouted at him. He contained the Shukaku.
"What is your name?" Gaara demanded.
"My name is not important." Naruto replied. "And you?" He said in a lazy voice as he yawned and just stared with out the glare.
"Sabaku no Gaara." He replied stoicly, suddenly reappearing next to his sibblings.
"Naruto." He sighed, looking up at the sky. "Are you guys here for the Chunnin exams?" He asked casually, this boy seemed no threat much, he just needed to make sure he kept his guard up at all times until he could change the attitude of the red headed Genin.
"Yes." Gaara smirked. That's when he saw her, the girl he thought he'd never see again. He knew those green eyes and pink hair anywhere. His eyes seemed to widen slightly and he stared at her. "Konkoru, Temari, we're going." He said quickly, in the softes voice they'd heard theri brother speak in years.
They nodded and followed. Naruto glanced at Sakrua and Sasuke and the Konohamaru corpse. "Sakura?" She looked up shikily. "Do you know that guy?" He asked quietly.
"He..." She swallowed hard. "He and I... we used to be really close." She looked down and let a few tears fall. "I'm sorry... but I have to go." And with that she turned and ran all the way home.
Sasuke grunted and walked past Naruto and the trio, leaving them to wonder. After a while, the trio found their voices. "Niisan? Can you teach us what you did?" They asked as one.
"When you're older." He replied nonchalantly. "Until then, lets finish playing ninja." And they continued the day without incident.
--- the next day ---
Naruto awoke with a yawn and looked down at the seal, Kyuubi was upset to no end when he released the chakra seal he'd placed on her, saying she wanted to do it herself and then rip him to shred, of course, she was slightly upset about the incident with the sand sibblings, and told him that if he trains ten times harder, she wont bother with it. Naruto had nodded and took out a bunch of scrolls, making two hundred clones study at once and three hundred clones learning new techniques or making other ones stronger.
He, himself, was practising his kejutsu and making sure it was perfect. One of the ten clones he'd left to learn poped out of exsistence and he smiled, making a new one to take its place.
His clone had mastered the lightning exercises. He made the fire, water, lightning and earth clones disappear, one at a time. He got the memories and made forty clones once more, telling them to do the same as the forty before them.
He went through his kenjutsu stances some more and began adding force to them, making sharper swings and slices, adding his Uzumaki taijutsu into it and fighting invisible enemies. He seemed to go into a trance as he started to turn and jab, and move with his sword. Kimi watched the whole thing in amazement, tranfering looks towards the original, to the elemental using clones, to the studying, to the taijutsu users and so on and so forth.
At the time about ten minutes before he had to meet his team he took off his shirt and went under the waterfall to clean off the sweat before walkingo ut, drying off his clothes and body he went inside and got changed as one clone at a time disappeared. When Naruto walked back out, there was a different aura about him, he still had his cheery grin and orange clothes, but he seemed to have a sense of power to him, but he didn't seem any different, and Naruto just felt normal and then stonger and smarter before it was like normal again.
He shunshined out of the meadow after a quiet good bye to Kimi and showed up at the training grounds, right one time, in a gust of wind at the same time Kakashi showed up in a poof of smoke. His 'sensei' didn't miss the aura either, but he didn't seem much different. He sighed and wondered what the blonde did the night before.
"Okay team! Today I'm here to tell you that I nominated you three for the Chunnin exams. If you choose to participate, it's in three days at the academy at three o'clock, on the third floor, room 303. You have today and tomorrow to rest and I'll see you at the Chunnin exams on the third. Ja na." And he disappeared in a puff of smoke.
"Well that was why I was supposed to get here on time." Naruto shrugged and disappeared in a gust of wind. He appeared at Ichiraku ramen and ordered his food.
--- the night before Chunnin exams ---
Sakura was on her roof, fighting back tears as she remembered her trips to visit her grandmother and grandfather in Suna, where her father was born. "Gaara." She whispered into the darkness. Unknown to her, Gaara was staring into space on the roof of the hotel he and his sibblings were staying at. He fought the lump in his throat as he ,too, began to reminince.
FLASHBACK
A girl with pink hair was being picked on by a bunch of sand children. "Why don't you go back to your own village you leaf child." One sneered.
"Yeah, we don't want you here, go home." Another agreed.
"I don'y have to!" She cried at them fiercly, dispite a bruise on her right cheek and a cut on her arm, she was pretty fine. "I don't have to listen to what you say! Get away!" She screamed as they beat on her some more.
"What are you doing?" A voice behind them asked. They turned and sneered.
"What do you want you monster, we're getting some fallen leaf to leave." The oldest quiped.
Sand had his hand and Gaara tightened it. "Go home." He said, releasing the older boy, who nodded and he and his friends left. He began walking towards the pink haired girl. She was shaking and her eyes were swallen shut. "Are you okay?" He asked, touching her arm, she flinched before nodding with a sob.
"Yes. I'll live anyway." She sniffed. "Who are you?" She asked, trying to see past the swelling.
"I'm Gaara, and you?" He asked, feeling more accepted as the conversation went on.
"I'm Sakura. Could you help me? I can't see." She pleaded.
"Sure, come on." He lead her by the hand, no one was around, so no one saw them.
He went into the hospital. "Yashamaru! I need help!" He cried.
A man with sandy blonde hair and deep purple eyes came around the corner. "What is it Gaara? Something wrong?" He asked, his eyes widened slightly at the sight of Sakura, she was the only grand daughter of the two elders.
"She's hurt, some kids were beating her up. Can you help her?" He asked hopefully.
"Of course. Come on Sakura-chan." He said, lifting her into his arms.
"Yashamaru?" She asked.
"Yes. It's me." He smiled.
"Yashamaru!" She clutched him and sobbed.
"When I'm done healing you, why don't you and Gaara tell me what happened." He sighed, glancing down at Gaara. "Gaara, can you wait here until I come get you?" He asked.
"Yes Yashamaru." He said, going over to sit on a chair.
When Yashamaru came back, he stood and followed him to a room. Where a fully healed Sakura was looking at her feet, snifling. She looked up and stared at Gaara. She took in his appearence and remembered her grandparents telling her not to go near him and to run if she saw him, but, she didn't care. He helped her, he was a good person, not a monster.
"I wanted to thank you, Gaara." She said quietly.
"You're welcome, Sakura." He looked down.
"Do you guys want to tell me what happened?" Yashamaru asked as Gaara sat on the bed next to her. They told him the story and he sighed. "Some kids these days have no respect for anything outside this village." He shook his head. "Gaara, I'm proud of you. You helped the grandaughter of the elders." He nodded at the red haired boy and turned to Sakura. "And, you, Sakura-chan. I'm proud that when you saw what he looked like you didn't get scared or run. You knew what the boy with the demon sealed away looked like, but you didn't run or hide, and I thank you for that." Gaara was shocked and Sakura looked down.
"My grandparents always said he was a monster, but I always wondered, if a demon was sealed inside you, does that make you the demon. Then, when he helped me, I knew he wasn't the demon, he was Gaara, a lonely kid like me." She looked at Gaara with a smile. "Do you want to be my friend?" She asked.
"S-Sure." He stammered. He'd made a friend, his first friend.
"Great! Do you want to go to the park or something?" She asked shyly.
"Okay!" He said, a true smile on his features as she hopped off the bed and pulled him along.
--- two weeks later ---
Gaara and Sakura have become great friends, she told him about her life back home, and he did the same. So when her grandparents confronted her about it, she was royally pissed. They talked to her and told her to stay away from him, like they had when they first met. "Gaara is not a demon!" She shouted at them when they finished. "And I'll play with 'my' friend all I want!" She scream.
After a long talk and shouting and screaming and a gentle yet firm slap across the face a knock at the door and her already forming tears increased ten fold at what she was about to do. She opened the door to see Gaara smiling. "Good morning Sakura-chan." He said, he frowned when he saw the tears. "What's wrong?" He asked.
"Get out of here!" She cried at him. "I never want to see you again, Gaara! Never again!" She shouted.
"What? I though that..." He trailed off.
"I was wrong about you, Gaara. You're nothing but a dangerous, blood thirst monster! No get away from me!" She slammed the door and fell to the ground, sobbing uncontrolably.
Gaara stared at the door in shock and felt his own tears falling from his face as a few sobs escaped his throat and he turned and ran all the way to the hospital.
About a week later, Yashamaru tried to kill him, and the cold, heartless Gaara was born.
ENDFLASHBACK
Gaara swallowed the lump in his throat and Sakura let out a sob as the tears flew freely from her face. "I'm sorry... Gaara." She whispered, jumping down and into her room, where she laid in bed and cried herself to sleep.
--- the next day ---
Naruto was training again, pushing himself. It's not wise to train like this right before the exams, kit. Kyuubi sighed.
'I've got to be at my fullest.' He sighed, focusing earth chakra to his hands, thus destroying the huge stone in his hand, turning it to dust.
He sighed and sat down, agreeing with Kyuubi after she growled at him. He felt Hinata's presense as she entered to meadow. "Hey Hina-chan. What's up?" He asked.
"Not much, I've just been looking for you. I figured you'd be here, is all." She said, sitting next to him.
"Well you figured right Hina-chan!" He grinned at her. "What did ya need?" He asked curiously.
"I wanted to know if you were going to be in the Chunnin exams, since we didn't meet yesterday, I never got the chance to ask. And what have you been doing in the past few days?" She asked, noticing his body was ten times as toned and muscular then a few days prior.
"I'm going to be in the Chunnin exams, and Kyu-chan's making me work a thousand times as hard as before. I've upped all my physical training up, she put another five hundred pounds into my chakra pounds a few days ago, I've made two hundred clones study all the sealing books twenty times, play Shogi to help with strategy, study other techniques and history of many things. I've made tons of clones work on new techniques and now I know them like I know the shadow clone jutsu. In the three days since I last saw you, I've got twice the amount of chakra I had since our last match. I need to be ready because there's this guy, Gaara, I told you about him, but the Kyuubi wants me to train in everything for every second of everyday until she thinks I can go up against a sannin. And now she's telling me to rest so I have energy for the exams. She says I could probably go up againt a sannin and not get killed, but I could never win without someone's help, and she prefers you out of everyone in the village." He shrugged and she blushed at the Kyuubi prefering her over everyone in the village.
"Well, she's right, you should rest up for the exams." She nodded. "Do you want to go to the hotsprings, I'll pay for it?" She suggested.
"Sure. We'll stay by the wall that seperates the women's and men's baths so we can talk." He agreed, and the two shunshined away, landing in front of the hotsprings. After paying and going to the locker rooms to get dressed, and get towels.
Hinata sighed as she got to the baths. She got in and swam to the wall. "Hey Hinata!" A voice behind he said. She turned to see Ino relaxing to her left.
"H-Hey Ino-chan." She stuttered. Retreating to her shyness.
"How's it been since the thing in the resteraunt?" She asked.
Hinata blushed lsightly. "It's b-been good." Hinata leaned against the wall.
"Okay." Ino shrugged and closed her eyes as she replaxed.
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Naruto sighed and lowered himself into the water, where only one other person was. He had blue hair and green eyes, Naruto remembered him. "Hey Shinsei, nice to see you again." He greated the boy.
"Hm. Nice to see you again, too." Shinsei said dismissively.
Naruto swam over to the wall and knocked on it twice. "Hinata-chan." He said.
"Yes, N-Naruto-kun." She replied softly.
They talked for a while and then Naruto sighed. "You're too modest Hinata-chan." He sighed. "You're strong Hinata-chan, you don't have to retreat into your shyness mask." He sighed again.
"Okay, Naruto-kun." She sighed back.
They leaned against the wall and relaxed. Naruto began talking to Shinsei and Hinata went over and talked to Ino. That was when the boys heard a perverted giggle. Shinsei said his good byes and then got out of the water, going to meet with his team. Naruto put a towel around his waist as he got out and went to the source of the noise.
There was an old man with white hair, dark eyes, red marks going down from his eyes and ending in the middle of his cheek. "Hey! What are you doing?" He demanded.
"Go away kid, I'm doing my research." The man said, scribbling in his notebook and giggling perversively.
"Hetai!" He growled. "Stop spying on the women." He glared at the man.
"I said get lost." The man said dismissively.
"Who the hell are you!?" Naruto demanded.
"Keep it quiet and I'm glad you asked. "From the north to the south to the east to the west, make's women cower and cover their chest, makes baby smile with just a grin, the all powerful, Jaraiya the toad sage!" The man said, landing in a pose.
"Eh, why are you spying on the women?" Naruto demanded.
"I'm researching for my next book to the series 'Icha Icha'!" Jaraiya explained, looking up and going pale as he looked like he saw a ghost.
"Eh, Ero-sennin, are you okay?" Naruto asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Yeah, but I'm trying to do my research Naruto, get lost." He said, waving a hand at the boy.
"I never told you my name." Naruto said in confusion.
"Yes, but I knew your father, now get lost." Jaraiya said sternly, turning and blushing as he gazed at a certain black haired one.
'Man, I hate perverts!' Naruto shouted in his head as he glared at the man.
"The black haired one will be so hot when she's older." The old man muttered to himself and Naruto felt his face heat up in a rage.
"That's my girlfriend you hentai!" He shouted, making Jaraiya turn to him. Jaraiya had only turned in time to see a red faced Naruto before a bone crunching fist slammed into his face and his nose broke with a satisfying crunch as he was plunged through the wall and into the water on the women's side. All the girls scream and called him a pervert, Naruto turned his head away with a blush as he went to get dressed as all the girls and women attacked Jaraiya. Hinata blocked his chakra points before going to get dressed. She and Naruto got outside intime to see Jaraiya limping away as fast as he could.
Naruto felt his face heat up in rage once more and Hinata was found wondering why Naruto was so upset, granted, she was upset too, but he was even more upset than her. "Naruto-kun, why are you so upset, I mean, sure he was peeping on us, but what's wrong?" She asked.
"He was looking at you spacifically before I punched him through that wall." Naruto explained.
"Oh," She blushed so red she felt faint for the first time in a while.
"Hey Ero-sennin!" Naruto called. Jaraiya looked up and quickly turned to run. "Hey, come back." He said, pulling Hinata behind him as they grabbed him.
"What do you want?" Jaraiya cried. "Haven't you done enough? First you interupt my research, then you break my nose and your girlfriend and the other women go and beaat me up, now you use that incoherent nickname in public?! What did I ever do to you?" He cried as Naruto and Hinata pulled his by the back of his shirt, towards the tower.
"You were spying on my girlfriend, and I hate perverts. Now, shut up or I wont heal your nose hentai." Naruto growled.
"You know healing jutsu?" Jaraiya asked.
"Yeah." Naruto and Hinata replied together. They stopped in a dark ally and tied Jaraiya up. Naruto went through some handseals and one hand started to glow while Hinata adjusted Jaraiya's nose so it wouldn't be oddly shaped as Naruto healed it, much to Jaraiya's pain and annoyance.
Naruto and Hinata grabbed the perverted sage and pulled him along, down the street. Many people looked at the three of them in shock, confusion, and rage. The demon brat captured Jaraiya of the sannin!?
They entered the tower and stalked past the receptionist and up the stairs. They knocked on the door and after a soft 'come in' they entered.
The third was in the middle of a meeting with a few ANBU. "Naruto? Hinata? I thought you were someone else, what is it you two?" Old man Sarutobi sighed.
"This." Naruto walked back out and came back, dragging a struggling Jaraiya. "Stop stuggling Ero-sennin." Naruto said nonchalntly. "Is this who you were expecting?" He said, holding Jaraiya up to the third, using Jaraiya's colar to do so.
"Yes." The old man face faultered. "Why is there blood on you face Jaraiya?" The old man sighed.
"That kid is so mean!" Jaraiya sniffed. "Interupting my research, breaking my nose, calling me Ero-sennin in public, and then he healed my nose in the painful way! And now he brought me here against my will!" He wailed.
"I'm not mean Ero-sennin. You're just a wuss." Naruto chuckled. They all sweat dropped.
"See!" Jaraiya cried. "He's nearly as bad as Minato and Kushina-chan put together in the same room!" Jaraiya sobbed.
"No shit sherlock!" Naruto rolled his eyes.
"I take it back, he's worse than the two put together! He's like the two of them with Kimi and Jock!" He wailed.
"You realize that both me and Anko-Neechan are right here." Naruto raised an eyebrow and Jaraiya's eyebrows furrowed.
"You mean they found her?" He asked.
"Yep!"Anko, in a snake mask, said.
"Oh, now what did you want Sarutobi-sensei?" Jaraiya said as Naruto and Hinata began untying him.
"I need you, Anko, and Cheero to keep an eye on those sound nin that have arrived for the Chunnin exams." Jaraiya sighed and the two ANBU nodded.
"Fine!" Jaraiya groaned as Naruto and Hinata walked out. "I think I found myself an apprentice though." He said with an evil grin. "And if Tsunade was here, the two of us would have to fight over him." He chuckled and old man Sarutobi frowned.
"What do you mean?" He asked.
"Well... He's got excilent skill from what I can see, and he's got excilent healing abilities." Jaraiya shrugged. "If Tsunade wasn't so afraid of blood, and learned to get over Nawaki and Dan, she'd want him as an aprentice, hands down." Jaraiya nodded.
"If you say so." Old Sarutobi sighed.
--- the next day ---
Naruto sat on the gorund near the door, he stood out like a sore thumb in his outfit that he chose to wear for this very occasion. He wore a pair of black pants that had orange strips on the side and wore an orange, long sleeved shirt with a black vest that had orange trimmings. The only thing was, he was sitting there, using his expert stealth skills so if they looked at him, they'd see him, but unless they were searching for him, they wouldn't find him.
"Naruto." Sakura greeted hotly.
"Sakura." He replied.
"Naruto. Sakura." Sasuke said, showing up.
"Sasuke." They replied. This had started after Gaara. Sakura's still annoying, but has started taking her training more seriously, so has Sasuke.
"Let's go inside." Naruto sighed, jumping to his feet. He noticed the looks they were giving him and frowned. "What?" He asked.
"Are you really sure you want to wear something like that, in an event such as this?" Sakura scoffed.
"Yes, yes I am." He nodded with a grin.
Naruto followed his teammates as they walked up one flight one flight of stairs. As they got to the second landing they noticed a crowd forming around a door. Naruto saw a sign that said '303', and yet, they were on the second floor. He was about to tell his team not to do anything, but they had already made their move towards the crowd. Naruto sighed and followed them. That's when Sasuke made the biggest mistake since the wave mission. While it did help ease Sakura's nervousness, it would have been better to ignore it and keep going.
"Great work idiotic wonder, now we have twice the competition." Naruto muttered sarcastically.
"What did you say Naruto?" Sakura asked with a glare.
"You heard me!" He snapped back.
"Yes, I meant what you meant baka!" She screached at him.
"It's obvious that we're on the second floor, not third. This was clearly a way to weed out the weakest from the strongest. So much for being on a team with the smartest girl of the graduating class and rookie of the year. And with me being the dead last and getting like this, it all just proves that titles mean jack shit." He snorted. "I'll see you guys up stairs." And, with that, Naruto left to got to the third floor, leaving two pissed off teammates, and about twenty four other pissed off teams.
--- -- ---
Naruto stuffed his hands in his pockets as he neared the double doors. He saw several Jounin sensei along with Kakashi. They all looked up when he walked up and sweat dropped. Who would want to wear that much orange with so many things going on?! He smirked and leaned against the wall next to Kakashi and Gai. A few minutes later, Lee, Tenten, and Neji showed up.
"Hey guys." He greeted them before they got inside.
"Naruto." Lee and Tenten nodded, following Neji, who ignored him. Kakashi and Gai looked at Naruto, who ignored them, with a grown. They were about to say something when Sakura and Sasuke showed up. Sasuke didn't look too good and he had a bruise on his cheek and was holding his wrist in pain.
"Wow, looks like you got your ass kicked." Naruto said, clearly amused.
"Shut up Naruto!" Sakura screeched, "If you would've been there than that green spandex freak wouldn't have done this to Sasuke!"
"I thought you thought I was weak." Naruto smirked.
"But you're the guys friend!" She screeched.
"He got lucky. Next time, I wont lose!" Sasuke said looking up with fierce determination before he winced.
"Get your butt over here Sasuke." Naruto comanded. Most of the Jounin looked at them.
"No!" Sasuke retorted.
Naruto sighed and walked over to him instead, grabbing Sasuke by th wrist, making him gasp in pain. "Your wrist is broken. This is so typical, I leave you alone for five minutes and you end up breaking something." He muttered to Sasuke.
"Aw shove it." He said, trying to pull his hand free, only to take in a sharp intake of breath from the pain. Naruto release momentarily before flashing through handsigns with insane speed, not even Kakashi saw what he did. His hands were glowing green as he grabbed Sasuke's hand and placed it befor alowing the chakra to heal it.
He let go of Sasuke's hand and looked at Kakashi, who stared at him in shock with the rest of them. "can we go in now?" He asked, only serving to make them even more shocked. Sasuke and Sakura looked confused and Sasuke was still glaring at Naruto as he showed his confusion.
Naruto sighed and walked past Kakashi and towards the door, after a second, Sasuke and Sakura followed.
The room was packed with a bunch of Genin from different villages. Each of them looking meaner than the next. They all glared at them as they entered. Sasuke stiffened slightly and Sakura shook with fright as she hid behind Sasuke. Naruto led them to a corner and waited for the exams to begin as he leaned against the wall. Suddenly there was a woosh and Sakura was thrown to the ground. Naruto looked up to see Ino on Sasuke's back, cooing and whispering sweetly to him.
Sakura was up in an instant and in Ino's face. Naruto groaned and glared at the ceiling, wondering what kami he upset to be surrounded by dumbasses. That was when he felt two pairs of eyes on him, one was a glare, the other was a curious stare. He looked around and found Gaara glaring at him, and Shinsei staring at him in curiousity.
He glanced at the two of them and they stood there, the two staring at Naruto, and Naruto looked from one of them to the other.
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