Capítulo 8: ch 8
In a large room with nearly no lighting, we find a large statue with nine eyes and a pair of hands. There were currently eight figures standing on the statues fingers, each barely an outline with glowing eyes.
Suddenly a ninth figure shimmered into existence on top of a finger. It looked almost human… if it wasn't for the strange protrusions extending from its shoulders, giving it the look of a Venus flytrap.
"Why have you called a meeting Zetsu?" a silhouette with metallic, ripple like eyes asked the strange creature.
"We have some good news and some bad news… the Kyūbi jinchūriki has met Orochimaru," the plant like man stated in two different voices.
"What is the good news?" the ring eyed silhouette asked.
"Orochimaru… is dead."
"And the bad news?" a man with red eyes with three tomoe orbiting the pupil, asked in a monotone.
"The Kyūbi's host is the one that killed him," the bi-tonal man stated nervously, causing several eyes to widen at the implications.
"So the Kyūbi jinchūriki is strong enough to kill someone of Orochimaru's level, how will Itachi fare against him?"
"We don't know, are you kidding me? Itachi doesn't stand a chance against that monster!, We don't know that, we don't know how the jinchūriki will fare against Tsukoyomi," the bi-tonal man argued with himself, resulting in several looks of confusion.
"Are you trying to say that Itachi's victory depends solely on Tsukoyomi?" a large man with spiky hair and an object strapped to his back asked.
"Yes/yes," both voices of the plant like man said in harmony.
"Show us!" the ripple eyed man ordered.
"Yes leader-sama," and with that, the strange man made several handseals, which quickly changed the surroundings to that of the forest of death, with Naruto and Orochimaru standing in a clearing, just after the snake had launched his Fūton technique, before the entire fight was replayed to the gathered group of individuals.
"…"
"So the Kyūbi's host is immortal, why not send the zombie combi after him? ya know, fight an immortal with two?" the man with something strapped to his back asked.
"Because although Hidan is immortal, he lacks the regenerative factor that the host does… and I'm not actually immortal," a large figure stated.
"That's enough, we will save the Kyūbi till last," the ripple eyed silhouette stated, "when we have acquired the other eight bijū, then we will proceed in capturing the Kyūbi's host."
"Hai leader-sama!" the other silhouettes stated before shimmering out of existence.
"So the Kyūbi jinchūriki is stronger than we anticipated…" a man wearing a black cloak with red clouds decorating it, and an orange mask with a single eyehole that had several curved lines radiating from it to the edge of the mask, said as he walked out of the shadows.
"Yes… it is most distressing, collecting all the bijū is vital to our plans, failing to retrieve the Kyūbi is not an option," the man with ripple like eyes claimed as he stepped into the light, revealing spiky orange hair and a face covered in piercings. He was wearing a slashed ame hitae-ate and a similar cloak to the masked individual.
"I'm uncertain of your decision to take the Kyūbi last, since we don't know just how much stronger it could possibly become, however… I won't order you to change your orders, but make sure Zetsu keeps an eye on the Kyūbi… if it becomes any stronger, we will strike sooner," the masked man stated before he disappeared like water down a drain, with his single eye being the focal point of his disappearance.
"Hai, Madara-sama."
The second test had finally come to an end and team 7 had not seen their temporary teammate since their arrival in the tower.
Everyone who had passed the second test were currently standing in the centre of a large, rectangular room. Half way up the walls were a pair of balconies, while a stage with a large statue of a pair of hands forming the ram seal protruding from the wall behind it.
Currently standing on the stage was the Hokage, the Jōnin sensei's and the exam proctors.
The teams that had managed to make it past the first round where the nine rookies, Lee's team, Gaara's team, Omoi's team and the Oto team that was spared for entertaining Naruto.
"Am I late?" team 7 heard directly behind them, prompting them to turn around and begin cursing their temporary teammate.
"Dammit Naruto-baka! Where the hell have you been!" the pink haired member of team 7 hissed out as quietly as she could.
"Shut up Haruno, it makes no difference to you where I've been, so keep your trap shut and listen to the Hokage's speech," Naruto responded, causing Sakura to pay attention to a long winded speech about how the Chūnin exams were an alternative for war, Naruto didn't really listen… he remembered officialising the first Chūnin exam thanks to Senju Hashirama's memories, so he knew the truth behind them better than the Hokage himself.
"Excuse me (cough) Hokage-sama, but (cough) too many participants have (cough) made it through the second (cough) round, so according to (cough) the rules, we need to have a (cough) preliminary round," a sickly Jōnin stated just as the Hokage finished his speech.
"Preliminaries?" Sakura asked in confusion.
"(sigh) yes preliminaries (cough), the finals will be watched by (cough) high ranking dignitaries and (cough) daimyo's, so we can only allow (cough) the strongest to participate, I will (cough) be the proctor for (cough) theses preliminaries, my name is (cough) GekkōHayate," the new proctor stated.
"Do we get to kill?" Naruto asked casually.
"Killing your opponent (cough) is frowned upon… but (cough) acceptable," upon the reply, both Naruto and Gaara gained psychotic smirks at being able to kill in this round as well, "anyway (cough) from here on (cough) it is a test of individual (cough) skill, so if you want to (cough) you can quit now and (cough) your team will be unaffected (cough), so does anyone want to (cough) quit now?"
After several seconds of silence, the proctor counted the number of participants before making another announcement, "since (cough) no-one wants to quit… someone will (cough) be required to fight (cough) twice… are there any volunteers?"
"I volunteer," came the immediate answer from none other than Naruto, bringing a frown to poor little Gaara's face at not being capable of killing more than one person.
"(cough) very well then… Namikaze Naruto (cough) will fight twice," Hayate stated before a panel on the wall behind the statue slid open to reveal a large screen, "the names of (cough) the two combatants will be shown on this (cough) screen," he continued as the screen began flashing through names, before landing on Uchiha Sasuke and Inuzuka Kiba, "will everyone except (cough) Uchiha Sasuke and (cough) Inuzuka Kiba please leave the floor."
"Heh, would ya look at that Akamaru! We get to prove ourselves straight off the bat!" Kiba shouted as everyone else cleared the floor.
"Do you really think a mutt like you can beat an Uchiha," the raven haired boy asked arrogantly.
"Alright, are you (cough) both ready?" Gekkō asked, receiving a nod off both contestants, "Hajime!"
Up on the balconies we find the contestants taking spaces, most sticking to their teams and villages… except one.
"Sorry about volunteering… but if you wanted to kill that badly you should have been quicker," Naruto stated as he appeared next to the redheaded jinchūriki .
"Mother wants your blood."
"And I want hers too, I would happily trade," the blond replied humorously.
"Mother will have your blood."
"And I'll have hers too."
"I will kill you for her," Gaara replied, earning a snort of amusement from the vampire.
"I'd like to see you try, anyway, I should go back to the Konoha side, see ya later," Naruto finished before vanishing back to his own side, leaving a confused Gaara and a pair of shocked siblings.
"NARUTO-BAKA! WHAT THE HELL WHERE YOU DOING OVER THERE!"
"Arranging for Gaara to kill you… he told me his mother didn't want your shitty blood," Naruto replied in monotone, earning several sweatdrops in the process.
"Now, now Naruto… don't be so harsh with your teammate," a certain one eyed pervert said while leaning on the wall.
"Shut up Hatake, that is… unless you want me to remove your other one," the blond stated with a smirk, confusing most of the occupants of the balcony, except Sakura and Kakashi himself.
"Remove his other what?" the Jōnin instructor for team 8 asked. She was a woman in her late twenties, with long black hair, piercing red eyes and wore a strange dress that appeared to be made of bandages with pieces of red cloth sewn in, with her hitae-ate located on her forehead.
"Do you want me to tell them Hatake… or would you rather tell them yourself?"
"Shut up!" the silver haired ninja growled out dangerously.
"What's the matter Hatake? Afraid of how your peers will react when they find out why you lost your precious sharingan?" Naruto asked with a malicious tone… before the masked Jōnin shoved a lightning encased hand through his heart.
"KAKASHI!" all the other Jōnin present shouted in shock, unable to comprehend why a sensei would kill their own student.
"It seems like I hit a nerve there Hatake," the blond stated completely unfazed, causing the eyes of all but the Hokage and Anko to widen, "you know… if you're going to use an A-rank assassination jutsu against me…" he continued before forming a spiralling ball of condensed chakra in his hand, "I'll use one against you!" and with a vicious smirk plastered on his face, slammed the ball into the Jōnin's arm, shredding the muscle before snapping the bone and further handicapping the man as it left him with only one arm… while the other was still piercing the black clad genin's chest.
Ripping the arm out of his chest, everyone could only stare in shock as they witnessed the gaping hole fill with a black substance, before transforming into new flesh and cloth, leaving the fedora wearing blond completely unscathed, and Kakashi clutching the stump that was once his arm in agony.
"You should have realised that you can't kill me Hatake… especially after you tried to in Wave," this comment shocked most of the people in the room, though that shock only increased when the blond took a bite of the silver haired Jōnin's amputated arm, "pfft, tastes like shit," he claimed before spitting it out and tossing the severed arm away.
"…"
"Proctor-san… the match has finished," Naruto stated. In reality there wasn't a fight, everyone was too concerned about the Naruto/Kakashi exchange and the 'last' Uchiha decided to take advantage of his opponents distraction and took him out with a single blow.
"Oh, shousha Uchiha (cough) Sasuke," the sickly Jōnin called out, eliciting a shriek off the pink haired banshee that had miraculously forgotten all about her sensei's condition as he was carted off my medical ninja to have his arm tended.
"Uh, Naruto?" Ino said cautiously as she approached the relaxed blond.
"Yes Ino-san?"
"…Why did you bite your sensei's arm?"
"He isn't, and never was my sensei… as for why I bit his arm… I felt like it," he stated nonchalantly.
"Okaay… anyway… how is your girlfriend?" she continued, making sure to put the extra emphasis on the word girlfriend. Of course this resulted in a certain lavender eyed individual turning ghostly pale.
"She's fine."
"You have a girlfriend? Please… what kind of stupid whore," a certain pink haired member of team 7 started… before EVERYONE felt the sheer raw power and fury the blond possessed as he erupted in a column of black chakra and started emitting enough killing intent to force the Hokage to witness his own death at the vampires hands… and it wasn't even directed at him.
After several seconds that seemed like an eternity for everyone, the blonds' shadow extended, until it enveloped the entire room, before countless sets of eyes opened from it, quickly followed by the absence of light morphing into strange, bestial appendages, with deformed claws and crooked teeth creating a vicious wall of death.
"Mother… why? Why are you so scared?" Gaara asked as he clutched his head, that alone further increased the fear the rest of the Suna team held… anything that can terrify a bijū is NOT something you want to fight.
Similarly the sensei of the Kumo team was having a conversation with the bijū sealed inside of him.
"Hey Hachibi, what the hell is that chakra?"
"Something I don't want to fight… it is significantly larger than Kyūbi's and MUCH, MUCH darker."
"So are you saying that brat is stronger than a bijū?
"… yes."
All the while, the pinkette that had started the whole ordeal could only stare into the blood red eyes of the person she had truly pissed off, and was closer to the point of having a nervous breakdown than she had ever been in her life and the only reason she hadn't was because of having a second personality to take most of the assault.
"I promise you Whoreuno… by the time this day is over, I WILL kill you, just like that traitor Orochimaru," Naruto told her in a distorted and demonic tone, earning several shocked gasps at the comment. The blond soon turned his attention to the screen that was still cycling through names for the next match up.
Namikaze Naruto vs Haruno Sakura
The sheer fact that the screen would stop on that was… surprising for all but one person in the room, the person who had just used a little bit of telekinesis to rig it, Naruto.
"Well come on Haruno… you WILL fight, whether you like it or not," he stated before walking down the balcony.
"H-h-ha! I-I'm n-n-n-not s-scared of y-you!" the pinkette stuttered out in a pathetic attempt at sounding confident,
"Then get down here and DIE already!"
"Come one Sakura… it's just Naruto-baka, he's still the deadlast… still that stupid lost puppy he always was, you can beat him, yeah, I'll beat him and make him realise just how superior everyone is to him!" the deluded girl thought as she walked down the stairs and into the ring, confident in her chances of beating him.
"Umm… the match between (cough) Namikaze Naruto and Haruno (cough) Sakura… Hajime!" Hayate announced before clearing the arena and vowing to not piss of the blond genin.
As soon as the match started, Naruto flicked his finger and something flew off it and into the pink haired banshee's mouth, before effortlessly going down the girls throat.
After a small coughing fit courtesy of the fangirl, Naruto proceeded to do what he really wanted to do.
Sakura couldn't believe it… her loyal puppy had just impaled her shoulder before literally ripping her arm off at the joint.
But he didn't stop there… he used her own arm as a club to smash her head with.
"You know you little whore… I'm currently so pissed… I think I'll use Jakkaru(1) against you!" he claimed before injecting a little chakra into the seal holding his gun, resulting in the firearm being released into his grip, where it was quickly aimed at the one armed girls foot.
Tenten was drooling… the last Namikaze had a weapon she had never seen before… and all he had to do was point it and pull some form of lever for it to work.
And the destructive power it had… not only had it completely destroyed his opponents foot… but it had also made a small crater where said foot used to be… she wanted to touch the weapon… to caress it… to own it.
However she wasn't stupid, she didn't know if he would kill her or not, so she decided to NOT risk it… yet.
"So little girl…" Naruto started as he crushed Sakura's remaining hand under his foot, earning a scream of pain off the pinkette, "are you still waiting for your knight in shining armour to show up? From the looks of things he's too scared to help you," to hit the fact home to the girl, he lifted her by the throat before forcing her to look at the horror struck eyes of the villages 'precious' Uchiha, which only shattered her resolve even more, "what's wrong? Can't think of anything to say? Oh well… I guess that means you don't need this!" he claimed mockingly before ramming his hand into the fangirls mouth and with a violent jerk, ripped her tongue out.
Just as she was about to pass out from the pain, the blond threw her to the ground before stomping on her stomach, effectively keeping her awake and inflicting even more pain on the girl.
Up on the balcony, one person was looking on in more horror than anyone else.
"N-Naruto-kun? N-no! t-that's not Naruto-kun… Naruto-kun was a kind and gentle person, he would never do anything like this!" a certain lavender eyed konoichi thought as she watched the person she admired for so long further mutilate his own teammate.
Eventually though, she lost it and shouted her mind for the first time in her life.
"Who are you and what did you do with Naruto-kun!"
"Who am I?" the blond asked incredulously at the question.
"Naruto-kun was a hard working, kind and determined person! You… you… YOU'RE JUST A MONSTER!" to put it bluntly, all the Konoha shinobi were shocked at the outburst.
"Pfft… I would've thought that everyone would figure that out from the simple fact that I survived an A-rank assassination jutsu to the heart," he responded calmly before leaving the beaten, mutilated and all in all, not pleasant girl that was supposed to be his opponent, while his shadow (finally) reverted back to normal.
"Shousha, Namikaze Naruto!" and with that call the contingency of medics that were waiting for serious injuries shot out into the middle of the arena and attempted to run diagnostics on the girl.
"Sir, our diagnostic jutsu aren't working!" one of the medics called over to the unit leader.
"Then just her visible injuries until we can get her to the hospital!" the head medic ordered, receiving nods of confirmation from the lower ranking medics.
A couple of seconds after the medics started treating the worst of the visible injuries, the pinkette started convulsing and choking… before suddenly letting loose a blood curdling scream of agony, which was quickly silenced… by the tree branch that erupted from her mouth, shocking nearly everyone in the room.
However the branch didn't stop growing, and other branches soon began to burst forth from every other place that they could push out of, including the gaping hole that once held her arm.
As soon as the branches stopped growing… their leaves opened to reveal that the tree was, in fact, a Sakura tree.
Every member of the audience was frozen in shock until…
"Well I think that's an improvement," Naruto stated calmly.
"That… was most unyouthful," the Jōnin sensei of Rock Lee stated in disdain.
"Yes… well I'm not exactly a very youthful individual Gai-san," the blond replied casually.
After the medics had removed the human garden from the arena, the next match was announced.
Hyūga Neji vs Hyūga Hinata
At the two names displayed on the screen, there was a tense silence, which was quickly broken by the vampiric blond.
"So Neji will win."
"You don't know that!" Hinata's sensei snapped back.
"On the contrary Kurenai-san, Hinata's skills don't even come close to Neji's and she is too kind to use the Hyūga's Juinjutsu, so she will lose…" he explained calmly as the woman's Killing Intent spiked at his (in her opinion) clear underestimation of Hinata, which caused everyone nearby to edge away from the furious Jōnin, "by the way… if you're trying to scare me with that attempt at killing intent… I've met squirrels scarier than that."(2)
"Look here Namikaze… Your may not realise it but Hinata is strong," the red eyed beauty claimed coldly.
"No she isn't… she lacks the drive to improve and the coldness to kill, she should have never become a ninja in the first place," Naruto responded completely unconcerned by the woman's scorn.
During Naruto and Kurenai's argument, Hinata and Neji had proceeded down into the arena, Neji cold and collected, Hinata… a nervous wreck that had just had her view of the world shattered.
Naruto, the one person who was always happy, kind and determined… the one person who could take everything the village threw at him and keep smiling… had become a cruel, cold, bloodthirsty monster… and not only that, but he was calling her worthless, just like her family did… it just wasn't possible.
"You should forfeit Hinata-sama, even Namikaze-san realises that you are worthless, just give up before I'm forced to hurt you," Neji stated coldly.
"No… don't forfeit… It'll be much more fun watching you get massacred," came the call of a certain blond.
"I-I-I… I f-f-f-for-f-feit," she stated quietly as several tears began to fall down her cheeks.
"Shousha, (cough) Hyūga Neji," the proctor called as he heard the declaration.
"See… as I said Neji won," Naruto stated with a smirk.
"Only because of you!" Kiba shouted in anger, "she admired you, hell she practically worshipped you! And you just go and put her down like that!"
"Hehehe, exactly… she admired the old me, just how pathetic do you have to be to admire the retarded deadlast?" the blond asked casually, causing Kiba to freeze in thought.
"You didn't have to be such an asshole though," the Inuzuka heir finally said.
"Would you have preferred her getting hospitalized because she was stupid enough to fight Neji? Besides… I've changed too much to be considered the same person, she needs to understand that and the sooner she realises that, the sooner she can move on," the black clad boy stated with a noticeable air of wisdom lacing his tone.
(Now since I'm not too concerned about most of the fights, I'll just do a brief rundown
Shikamaru Vs Kin = same as canon
Chōji Vs Dosu = same as canon
Lee Vs Gaara = same as canon
Temari Vs Samui = Temari wins by neutralising Samui's Raiton techniques with her Fūton techniques
Tenten Vs Karui = Tenten wins by keeping her distance from the kenjutsu user
Shino Vs Ino = Shino wins by draining Ino's chakra
Omoi VS Kankurō = Omoi wins due to a combination of skill and outsmarting the puppet user
Now for the last fight I will actually write it because it is Naruto's)
Abumi Zaku Vs Namikaze Naruto
"Well it looks like I'm up again" the blond stated calmly before taking a stroll down to the middle of the arena.
Once there he was greeted by the ice cold glare coming from his opponent.
"You claimed you killed Orochimaru-sama…" the spiky haired teen stated coldly.
"Indeed I did… do you want to see the corpse?" Naruto replied evenly before pulling out a single scroll and unsealing the body of the traitor for all to see.
Of course, not many had expected to see the decapitated body of the Kage level ninja, they all thought it was nothing more than a poor attempt at unnerving his opponents, now they were seriously questioning the blonds power… if he could act so nonchalantly about killing a legendary ninja, just what sort of power did he have?
Dosu and Kin couldn't believe their eyes, their master, one of the Dentetsu no Sannin, was lying in the middle of the arena… dead. It was not something they could process, the sheer idea that someone could kill their master… was unnerving.
However, they now knew that the Invasion that he was planning could NOT be carried through, Konoha was obviously too powerful to fall against a minor village like Oto.
Then there was the problem of WHO to follow now that their leader was dead… of course they quickly figured out the answer… who better to follow than the person who killed their old leader, after all, they were ninja, and as they had been taught, power was all that mattered.
"I… I'LL KILL YOU!" Zaku shouted before raising his arms and blasting the vampire with sharpened air, effectively shredding the blond.
"Then you'll have to try harder than that," came Naruto's reply as his skin melded back to perfect condition, "regardless," he continued before pulling a coin out of his pocket, earning confused stares in the process, "like many others before you, your fate will be determined by this coin… heads you live, tails you die," and with a simple flip of the coin, "tails, you die."
"AARRGHH!" and in an instant the homicidal genin had appeared in front of his opponent before ripping both of the boy's arms out of their sockets, causing him to fall to the floor in agony.
"Pitiful… I guess I should put you out of your misery," and with a simple stomp, the Oto genin's head had been turned into nothing more than a puddle of blood and chunks of flesh.
"…"
"Well that was boring."
"Shousha Namikaze Naruto," the proctor called as the surviving genin remained in the arena, leaving many who knew him before shocked at the sheer difference between the orange clad dobe and this… monster.
Soon everyone was back in the middle of the room, waiting to receive the instructions for the next round.
"Congratulations for everyone who managed to make the final round, now, you are all to pick a ball from the box that Anko will pass to each of you, the number on the ball you draw will determine who will fight who," and with that small speech from the Hokage, Anko passed a box round the remaining participants, before they each called out their number.
"1" Naruto stated calmly.
"7" came Gaara's voice.
"3" Omoi called out.
"2" Sasuke called out with a hint of anger in his voice.
"So the Uchiha is a number two in more ways than one," Naruto called out, angering the dark haired avenger and eliciting a couple of giggles from some of the less mature individuals in the room.
Before the duck butt boy could respond, "5" Shino stated in a monotone.
"9" Dosu.
"4" Shikamaru.
"8" Temari.
"6" Tenten.
"10" Neji.
"Alright then now that everyone has received their numbers we can announce the matchups," the Hokage stated before a random Chūnin pulled out a board with the matchups written on it.
Match 1: Namikaze Naruto vs Uchiha Sasuke
Match 2: Omoi vs Nara Shikamaru
Match 3: Aburame Shino vs Tenten
Match 4: Sabaku no Gaara vs Sabaku no Temari
Match 5: Kinuta Dosu vs Hyūga Neji
"Now that you know the match ups, you have one month till the next portion of the exams. Feel free to use this time to improve your skills and prepare for your opponents, you are dismissed," the aged leader informed them all before everyone left the tower, except for the Hokage and Naruto.
"I take it you decided to keep my old students sword," the old man called out.
"Indeed… the Kusanagi should not be used as a normal sword, it's true strength lies in its ability to extend at incredible speeds, Hebi-teme never took advantage of that ability," the blond stated with disappointment clear in his voice.
"Naruto, is there anything you aren't telling me?"
"Well, Danzō had an underground facility that stored countless blood samples from all over the world, including some from the former Hokages," at that news the old man's eyes widened at the implications.
"Why didn't you tell me?"
"I thought it was obvious… how could Danzō do genetic research without any material?"
"… I never thought of that… did you really kill people because of a coin toss?"
"Yes… though it was strange that the coin never landed on heads," came the reply.
"Naruto, may I see the coin you used?" shrugging his shoulders the blond pulled out the coin before handing it to the Hokage, who gave it a quick once over.
"Naruto… you do realise that both sides are tails?"
"…"
"…"
"I have a rigged coin?" the blond asked in confusion before looking at the coin himself and sweat dropping, "… I guess Vicky-chan must have snuck it in before I left… Damn, I was actually planning on letting luck decide if they died or not, oh well it's too late now… sorry Oji-san."
"Naruto, who's Vicky?"
"Kyūbi."
"…"
"What? She's actually pretty nice once you get to know her."
"I give up… when these exams are over, I am definitely retiring."
"Well don't expect me to take the title, I absorbed the blood of three former Hokages, so now I know what being Hokage is like and there is no fucking way I'm taking the job now," the blond informed his grandfather figure before disappearing in a colony of bats.
"…"
"…"
"FUCK!"
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