Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Crimson Rogue ❯ Chapter 2
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By: Zagger the Bloody Angel 
Anime/Manga: Naruto Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Thriller / Suspense / Adventure / Action | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 06.22.2011 | Pages: 4 | Words: 6.2K | Visits: 472 | Status: Work In Progress
Anime/Manga: Naruto Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Thriller / Suspense / Adventure / Action | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 06.22.2011 | Pages: 4 | Words: 6.2K | Visits: 472 | Status: Work In Progress
I Do Not Own Naruto
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"Damn, what is her problem?" Naruto grumbled as he massaged his forehead as he waited for both Karui and Samui to show up as he waited outside Konoha's Academy as it was designated to be where the first test would be taken.
Of course he was talking about Yugito. Ever since he had became a gennin, she had instantly become extraordinarily critical of him instead of being happy of all the progress he had made. Up until that point, she had been very caring towards him yet now she verbally assault him every time she could.
It wasn't that she was afraid that he was usurping her and become the Head Ninja. He honestly didn't care for the position or becoming Raikage at that. It was honestly too bothersome to become and he would rather protect his village while having the capacity to still provide for it and move about instead of being cooped up in an office for most of the day.
To make things worse, his hand throbbed as she had decided to strike out after he told her such. He had stopped her strike, but she instead gripped his wrist and shattered the bones. That was really going to make his day especially if this happened to be a damn written test as he was right handed.
All of it started with him waking up and accidentally knocking over her coffee, spilling it on her tuna tekkodan. It then escalated out of proportion, despite apologizing seven times. Kirabi eventually broke it up, but not after the damage had been done and Naruto had quickly left, stating he was heading out.
"Fucking ignore the cat bitch. I wouldn't be surprised if Nibi was involved somehow and causing her sudden shift of personality. The cat and I loathe each other and would do anything to get back at the other." Kyuubi pitched in, bored of having nothing to do and annoyed because his vessel was moping around and thinking about the damn cat vessel.
Naruto simply shook his head before adding another layer of tape onto his wrist before pulling on his trench coat and buckling it. 'It has to be more then that. While she has a symbiotic relationship with the cat, she can and has been ignoring the cat's blind hatred towards you. But I do agree it is fueling her anger.'
Thinking for a moment, the fox puzzled his vessel's conundrum before responding. "It could be that while she isn't afraid of you taking her position, she is afraid for other reasons. If I may be so bold, I believe she has some attraction towards you but seeing you separating from her so quickly her first-most action is to push you away so she doesn't feel so hurt."
'What?' Naruto jumped when he heard attraction, but what most of the fox said was rather plausible. 'Okay, that makes some sense but I doubt that is all that there is involved. Besides, she is way too old and not to mention she is almost like a mother to me."
Giving his vessel a growl of agreement, Kyuubi sighed before scratching the gate in a chance it just might open. Seeing it was sturdy as ever, the fox sighed again. "Probably so and attraction is too strong of a word. I don't think you two would ever be like that, mainly because of their and our symbiosis."
Agreeing with his demon, Naruto noticed that both Karui and Omoi were walking towards him. Waving with his left before gripping his wrist gingerly, he grinned. "About time you two got here. Now we can get going..."
"Naruto, let me see your wrist. We heard what happened." Karui stated before walking over to him and gripping his arm.
Wincing in pain as she forcefully made him extend his arm, Karui sighed as she sliced off the bandages before examine his wrist. The fact that it was glowing red didn't really bother her. "It is broken alright, but the fox is taking care of it. However, your bandages were actually hindering the process and making it heal incorrectly. So..."
"I have to break my wrist again." Naruto growled out, knowing exactly what she was going to say as he had studied a little of medical procedures, mainly mending bones as he did tend to break them often.
As she nodded Naruto pulled off his coat before taking out a wooden gag he kept, having a feeling he would need it just for this occasion, he bit down into it and closed his eyes.
Seeing how quickly he prepared and was ready, Karui didn't waste a second before with two quick snaps, she had reset the arm. Of course Naruto hollered from the pain, but the gag had muffled it to a loud curse to anyone that saw what happened.
After using two splints and wrapping them around his wrist, Karui shook her head as Naruto put his coat back on. "Next time, come straight to me if you break a bone if possible. I know more about healing then either of you."
"That's because I never paid attention and Naruto is constantly breaking something." Omoi stated before pulling out a lollipop from his pouch and plopping it into his mouth. "So how bad was it this time? We only heard a little bit before sensei put Miss Nii in her place."
"I don't want to talk about it... I just want to get this day over with, alright." Naruto growled out from both the pain he currently was in and did not want to talk about that subject.
Waving his hands peacefully, not meaning anything about it, Omoi shrugged his shoulders. "Just wanted to know what happened. Never seen Miss Nii that out of breath... Then again I haven't seen sensei get a black eye before."
"It got that bad?" Naruto said shocked, not believing it would have come to blows. While he knew Kirabi was getting very pissed at Yugito's obvious lack of respect, something she was renowned for, towards him but was letting it slide and only reprimanding her.
Glaring at Omoi, Karui shook her head. "It is not as bad as he made it sound. Yugito was still pissed after you left and she was mostly ignoring sensei so he gave her a warning then tried to get her attention to keep from chasing you down by grabbing her. Out of sheer instinct she punched him before she started apologizing immediately."
Getting a better picture, Naruto understood what had transpired after he left a little more. Yugito was extraordinarily tough, able to keep up with E in hand-to-hand combat for five minutes and her instinct was top notch. No one else could boast that except maybe Kirabi on a good day...
Shaking his head, Naruto sighed before rubbing his temple with his good hand. "Okay... Well, we still have the first exam. Shall we get to it?"
Both nodded. Nothing else needed to be said as they headed in, ready to take care of this test.
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Groaning as the first test was mostly over, Naruto wanted to snap the desk before him in two. 'Why? Did it have to be a paper test, honestly? I so hope that this is graded on the espionage more then the actual papers otherwise I'm screwed as no one could read this.'
Much to Naruto's dismay, the first test had indeed been a written test. But, there had been some interesting rules to the test that made him immediately catch on to what was going on. One such rule had been that they wouldn't have been thrown out if they were caught cheating, which was the norm if you did cheat.
However, his prowess when it came to spying on others wasn't as good as he would have liked it to be. But it seemed like no one had noticed that he used a simple bottle of water to look through and figure out the answers. The only reason he had it out as he asked before if he could take out a bottle of water. While it was unclear, he could still make it out. Barely.
But what annoyed him was the events before this test had even started. Not as soon as the last Konoha gennin team had arrived, which happened to be Konohamaru's team, they all broke out into talking. While this wouldn't have bothered him, the grey haired gennin whose name he didn't quite get did.
'How the hell did he have that much information, especially what he had on me?'
(Flashback)
"You have information on everyone that entered the exams?" The feral boy with the dog asked, Kiba if he heard correctly as he listened in on them, not liking what he heard.
Frowning, he closed his eyes and focused his chakra to his ears to listen to what he was going to say. "Of course. If there is anyone that you want to know about, I have information on them whether it be mission stats and sometimes even a personality profile."
Getting even more thrown by this, Naruto was ready to strike as that was too much information for a GENNIN to have. And even if he wasn't, to offer it to the gennin of this village was unlawful as no village was allowed to support their gennin to that extent.
But before he could do a thing, Sasuke, as there was no way he hadn't heard his name between the banshees' wailing, stepped forward and practically demanded the silver haired gennin. "I want to know of Uzumaki Naruto, the blonde of the Cloud ninja."
"Oh you couldn't have made that any easier. There are only two guys from the Cloud anyways." The gennin stated before pulling out a card before looking shocked. "Wow! I know almost nothing of this guy! The only thing I know was that he was born here in Konoha but due to events caused by Danzo thirteen years ago, he was given away in order to placate them. ...Must have been of some importance as it indeed worked."
Calming a little, as that was common knowledge, Naruto still frowned as this guy threw him off. But before he could get any further in his thought, the proctor decided to suddenly appear. "Everyone shut up! The first exam shall now commence!"
(Flashback End)
The said proctor, Ibiki, looked over the crowd of gennin one last time before finally speaking out. "Alright, pens down. Now before we get to the final question, there will be a few rule changes for it."
"If you wish to leave now, but know that you can make up for this as all of those questions are now meaningless. If you stay here, however, you will be risking you career to further yourself as a ninja. I say that because... if you miss this next question, you WILL be banned from taking the exams again for the rest of your lives." Ibiki punctuated with a firm voice that held no lie within. He was dead serious.
Everyone was dead silent in their surprise. Many wanted to say something; however this guy was a jounin and held serious power here in Konoha. It was possible that he could have the pull to make such a thing happen. Even Naruto, to an extent was caught of guard by this.
But as soon as he was, he twitched slightly as he knew that couldn't be the truth, at least for those outside of the village. He also detected the killing intent laced with his words which was why mostly everyone was silent until a blonde pig-tail girl from the Sand shouted out. "You can't do that! You don't have that kind of power!"
"I have the consent from all the powers may be for this so therefore I can. If any of you fail, you WON'T be taking this exam again. So think it over. If you can't stomach that, I suggest you leave in the next five minutes. However, if you do the rest of your team must join you. The five minutes start now." Ibiki responded flawlessly as if he had rehearsed that answer, expecting it to be asked.
This time he could sense the lie in his voice, but he doubted many people could. He, after all, was trained in it. E did not hold anything back in his training and truthfully, he thought this to be below him outside of it being somewhat challenging.
It also didn't matter that he noticed many of the others were dropping like flies after Ibiki finished. As long as Karui and Omoi didn't, he was fine and he could see that they weren't going anywhere as they were quite confident, being held back after Samui advanced to chunin on her first attempt and trained with Naruto for two years.
However, he did notice that Konohamaru was extremely nervous and he should be. The shock of never being able to advance could make any young ninja stop their actions. He also noted that his pink hair team mate happened to be raising her hand to forfeit her team. Not wanting to go into the next round without the kid as he kind of liked him, he was about to say something when Konohamaru suddenly jumped up.
"You aren't going to scare me! I might just be a kid, but no one is going to tell me what I can't do! I'm going to become Hokage one way or another, so bring it! Nothing you have can stop me!" Konohamaru yelled out, catching a lot of people's attention.
Naruto couldn't help but smirk like he did the day before. Just like yesterday, the boy seemed on the verge of breaking and yet he gathered his courage and stood up to his attacker. 'Hmp. That pipsqueak has some brass... And one hell of a fiery will. He also gathered pinky's confidence too, it seems.'
"You always did like those with fiery passions. They seem to bring the best out of you no matter the situation." Kyuubi commented as he too was somewhat impressed by the boy, somewhat reminded of his vessel.
Nodding in agreement, Naruto brought his attention back to the proctor as he spoke once more. "Are you sure about that? Your dreams could be shattered if you fail. Could you live with yourself if that were to happen?"
"He said he doesn't care, so get on with the damn question already! It's been five minutes." Naruto firmly stated as he put his feet onto the desk before crossing his arms over his chest.
Seeing it had indeed been five minutes and noting that no one else was leaving, Ibiki shrugged before a small grin appeared on his face. "That it is so... Everyone here has passed!"
Everyone was startled by this. Even Naruto as he flipped out of his chair and hit his head on the floor. He hadn't been expecting that. Sure, he expected all those that were left would have passed, but he still expected to be some sort of question as he weeded out the rest that were unfit. Groaning as he got back up, he tried to rub the back of his head with his injured arm only to cause himself more pain.
Ibiki simply chuckled at everyone's reaction, none more so then the blonde Cloud gennin's, he shook his head as he was bombarded by questions, most of them being why the passed. "As much as I want to answer all of your questions, this test was quite simple. The first nine were to test your espionage skills to see if you could fine one of the three chunin posing as gennin."
As the three raised their hand and showed who they were, Ibiki continued. "As for the last question, it was meant to display those who had the courage to act in a lose-lose situation. There are times that you must sacrifice in order to gain and those unable to won't be able to make it in our vicious world. ...I know that too well."
Before he could go on about how he knew that, a black blur smashed through the glass before a banner sprouted with a purple haired woman in a trench coat jumped before it. The problem was, no one knew what the banner said as it was backwards.
Seeing this, the woman cursed before kicking it. "Dammit! I fucked up my entrance again! How many times is that going to happen today?! First my date and now this! What else can go wrong?!"
"Anko, you're early by ten minutes." Ibiki threw in. He was a little annoyed that she interrupted him; however he always had a blast when he made fun of her as she made it so damn easy.
Groaning as she slumped over, Anko quickly regained her chipper spirit and jumped up with enthusiasm. "Well, that doesn't matter! I want everyone to go to training ground forty-four in an hour! If you don't know where it is, tough luck maggots! You're own your own!"
And just like she entered, she exited as a black blur breaking the glass making Ibiki groan. "Oh crap... I have to pay for those windows! I rented this room out for today!"
Deciding not to stick around any longer despite the situation being quite funny, Naruto decided it would be best to follow one of the Konoha gennin team that passed. The problem was... None of them knew where the stated training ground was.
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"Goddammit... I swear if one more bad thing happens today I'm going to kill someone. Omoi, you're first on my list." Naruto growled out as he took a scroll from one of the extra proctors before giving it to Karui as she was the best at hiding things.
Karui only looked amused while Omoi looked horrified. Naruto had been mostly ignoring the purple haired proctor and only paying attention to what he needed to know, which pissed her off. So she threw a kunai that scratched his cheek, which he really didn't mind too much. It was when she appeared behind him and grabbed his right wrist things went overboard.
Naruto had begun screaming obscenities at her as she messed with his wrist and accidentally broke it yet again which then had to be broken back into place. He was also very, very pissed that she happened to reveal that weakness to everyone so once the exams came apparent, he knew his wrist was going to be a target.
"Oh lighten up. Don't forget that Omoi and I have been here before. We'll get through this easily and then we'll get to the third exam, which is normally a tournament. That should cheer you up." Karui chirped as she patted Naruto on the back as they reached their gate and waited for the signal so they could start.
Feeling slightly better as a tournament always cheered him up, watching people bash each other's brains in or in this case bashing them in himself, Naruto still winced. "While that is all and good, look how many freaking people made it to this exam. Even though this is meant to eliminate many teams, there was around fifty teams that advanced."
"Shit... There could be prelims and we could get a bad draw. But, we don't need to worry. There is five days so we need to prepare to steal someone's scroll." Omoi caught on before changing his focus as that was in the future. They had to make it that far first.
Nodding in agreement, Naruto adjusted his sword so he could draw it with his left. He happened to be ambidextrous in almost everything except writing or anything related to regular motor skills.
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Hours after they entered the forest they had spent it seeking out another team to liberate them of their scroll. The only problem was they weren't finding anyone. Either they had gotten ahead of everyone or they knew they were coming and were running away. But that still didn't explain why they couldn't hear them around.
All three slapped their forehead nearly simultaneously before they all looked at one another and nodded in unison. "Genjutsu."
"Shall I do the honors or shall we just wait till they decided to come after us to pummel them?" Naruto questioned as he wanted to know what the others thought as he really wanted to get some of his pent up frustration out.
Knowing this, Karui shook her head before she flickered through a few hand seals. The next moment, the illusion around them seemed to break but it was difficult to say as the area looked exactly the same.
"Wow, that was a pretty decent genjutsu those guys used. They got the background perfect and everything." Omoi stated with a whistle, impressed that there was someone with that impressive of a genjutsu for a gennin.
Naruto rolled his eyes before sighing as he turned to their opposition. Omoi could be really stupid at times...
However, Karui wasn't as forgiving as she slapped him upside the head. "The genjutsu was to hide them idiot! I wish it was you that graduated last time instead of Samui! At least she had a brain and we would be rid of you!"
"Knock it off." Naruto commanded as he calmly looked towards the three gennin, identifying them as Rain ninja from their insignia while his hand crept to the handle of his blade. The masks really didn't help their case either as it seemed a good few of the rain seemed to wear those kind of masks for some reason.
Doing as he commanded, Karui and Omoi were ready to strike. Well, Karui seemed ready to launch. Omoi was seemingly evaluating his opponent before he made a hasty decision.
Seeing this, Naruto's attention was fully upon the three ninja before him before he spoke in a deadly calm voice. "If you would, just hand us your scroll and make this easy. I rather this not get violent as I would hate to see your three bodies being dragged out of this forest."
The way he spoke made the Rain ninja rather uneasy. His demeanor was confident, despite having his injury advertised by the proctor and it seemed he was ready to use his blade. Either that meant he could use it with his left hand or he was bluffing. If he was, the fight would be easier as it would only be two on three. If he wasn't...
So attempting to call his bluff, the leader stepped forward. "Unlikely. We're here to advance as well, so don't think for a moment you will easily get out of this."
Sighing as he couldn't end this peacefully, not that he really wanted it to end peacefully; Naruto dropped his hand from his blade. "Ah, oh well. I guess this was inevitable."
Before they could act, Naruto appeared behind them, stomping the leader into the ground. Before the others could react or use their genjutsu to hide, a katana was placed at both of their throats as Karui and Omoi were on them quickly.
Placing his foot on the back of his head, Naruto put some pressure as he forced his face into the dirt. "Now, give us your scroll or I may accidentally crush your skull."
Before he could do such a thing, his head suddenly disappeared and was replaced by a log as was his team mates. As soon as this happened, they began to reappear however in mass. "Tch, mist clones. This should be easy."
All of the clones were gone in a swift moment, Naruto pulling his blade of his back and cutting them down in an instant. Sheathing the blade again, Naruto became a blur of red. In the next moment, the three rain ninja were thrown into the clearing before Naruto reappeared before them.
"This is too easy. Even with one arm disabled, you aren't worth our time. Now give us your scroll before things get serious!" Naruto all but ordered them to do as his eyes bled red and a slight aura of crimson surrounded him in a haze.
The look in his eyes promised swift death and none of the three gennin wanted to die. Giving up a scroll for their life seemed to be a good offer and they could always get another."
Pulling out a white scroll, Naruto almost groaned as they had a heaven scroll. Still, he took it nonetheless before Karui and Omoi quickly chopped them on the back of their necks, making sure they could follow. "Well, we might be able to negotiate with another team. Who knows, they might have two earth scrolls."
"True enough, but that fight was rather pathetic. These guys didn't even stand a chance." Omoi complained as he kicked the dirt near one of their heads.
Karui simply shrugged before rolling her eyes. "Well, you and I have been at this for four years now and been training our butts off. Naruto has practically been trained since he could walk, so it really wasn't fair. We're only here, mostly so the old Hokage can see how Naruto is growing up and if he's happy."
"Which I am... Except of recently." Naruto admitted before stretching his shoulders. "Well, let's get a bit further ahead before we break for the day. I want to be able to fight at full capacity soon and a quick rest should heal my arm."
"If you don't keep getting it broken." Karui smirked as she knew before they got to make camp he would some how break his wrist once more.
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It was hours later, Naruto had taken off on his own to scout the area as Karui rested as they were going in shifts. His wrist was finally healed, but still a weak spot as it could break again with moderate pressure. So the cast would be necessary till it was back to a hundred percent.
Something was off and was why he was wandering off on his own. Of course he did wander away from his mission as such the nickname given to him by E himself was the Crimson Rogue. Strangely enough, it found its way in the Bingo book but only for the Mist. He had a feeling that the new Mizukage was the reason for that.
That was when he found himself in what he knew was a recent battle field. The amount of destruction obviously clued him off to that, but the coordination was what got him. There obvious had to be summons involved by the tracks he was noticing. Not only that, the tracks were odd as they had to be something that dragged its belly.
Frowning, not liking what he was finding so far, Naruto decided to follow the carnage a bit further before he noticed something odd. There happened to be an Anbu stationed in the area, investigating what happened. There was only one reason for this so Naruto made his presence known. "Is there an intruder?"
Having seen the boy a while before, she had to commend the boy as he managed to keep his presence unknown to her far longer then any gennin she knew of could. Even though he was a ninja from an opposing village, she could tell his worry was more on the fact that his team could be in danger. "Yes, there is an intruder. That is all you need to know."
Narrowing his eyes, he wanted to ask more but knew he would get anything out of her as it was her job to keep secret and he was an opposing shinobi. Still, why hadn't the exams been canceled if there was an intruder... unless there was something at play here? Did the intruder have the power to actually threaten a hidden village? If that was the case...
Not liking this outcome in the least, he noted that not too far from them was Konohamaru's team. The odd thing was the pink haired girl was on guard while it seemed both Konohamaru and Sasuke were out cold. Having a feeling that they were the one attacked by the intruder, Naruto quickly closed in on them.
While he didn't like the idea of pouncing on a weakened team, he was an opportunist and he saw a profit in this. If they indeed had an earth scroll, they could quickly get out of this as he doubted the pink haired girl was a good negotiator.
Jumping down into the clearing, he made his presence known. The girl, Sakura he believed her name was, jumped up and was ready to defend her team mates. "W-What are you doing here?! Are you here to finish us?"
"Maybe, yes." Naruto answered honestly as if she didn't give into his demands he would have to put her down. He also knew the Anbu was watching him now that he made his move, probably not trusting him in the least. "I, however, am here only to make a trade if possible. If you have an earth scroll, I will give you a heaven and I will be on my way."
Narrowing her eyes, Sakura did not like this. This guy had appeared within the hour after their team had been attacked and now he was trying to cash in on their obvious weakness. "Why should I trade with you? Obviously if I give you the scroll you will have both as you wouldn't trade if you didn't. And what kind of person are you, picking on us when we're weak."
"I am a shinobi." Naruto answered her questioned before unsheathing his sword and pointing it straight towards the pink haired gennin. "Now, I will ask again. We can either trade, if you do indeed have an earth scroll, or I can take you out and take your scroll leaving you with none and no guard."
Sakura was at a cross road. She knew she stood no chance against this opponent. Just from the way he lifted his sword effortlessly made her believe he had skill and it with his injured hand no less. Both Konohamaru and Sasuke were out and wouldn't be awake any time soon, so risking that they could get out alive with no one keeping guard was something she couldn't do.
Having no choice, she reached into Konohamaru's pouch before throwing the earth scroll towards him. "Take it and go!"
Catching it effortlessly, Naruto sheathed his sword before pocketing it and pulling out his extra heaven scroll and tossing it to her. "Thank you, I hope to see you in the next round."
Turning to leave, he stopped before turning back to her. "And I wish I was here to help. It looks as if you could have needed me."
Before Sakura could fathom a response Naruto was gone in a crimson blur, purposely racing past the Anbu.
The said Anbu wasn't sure what to think, but she did know one thing. If there was anything that could leave an imprint on a young ninja's life, the young Konoha gennin had just gone through it. She just had a face to face encounter with a real ninja.
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"Finally! Why was this place so hard to find?!" Karui complained as they reached the tower within the forest, their destination point. However, to their surprise they weren't the first there.
"Um, we got here in ten hours right... So how did these guys get here before us?" Omoi questioned as he looked over towards the Suna team with a red headed boy along with what seemed to be a wind mistress and a puppeteer if he analyzed their weapons correctly.
Naruto's eyes were solely on the red head, ignoring the other two completely as they didn't matter. The aura surrounding the red head was murderous, yet it felt so much like his own when he was angered. There was very few reasons for this and while he was unable to determine which was true, he had a gut feeling.
Not even hesitating as he stepped forward to the chunin that was summoned by the Sand team, he showed him the scrolls. His eyes never left the red head as he spoke. "It is nice to see another group of gennin that takes their job seriously. The name is Uzumaki Naruto."
The red head simply gazed at Naruto uncaringly as the chunin examined the scrolls to make sure they were real. He was mildly surprised that his gaze never left his and he in fact looked him in the eyes without an ounce of fear overcoming him despite the blood lust he was oozing.
This blonde, was interesting to him. He would humor him as he went to extend his arm and shook his hand. "Sabaku Gaara. May the next time meet, is when I kill you."
"Looking forward to it." Naruto responded immediately as he shook his hand, as it was his right, his eyes glistening before a flash of red glazed over for a millisecond before fading back to the blue.
Gaara wasn't intimidated in the least by either his surprisingly sturdy wrist or the flash of his eyes. It simply added to his interest of this Naruto. This one would be fun to watch suffer.
Releasing his grip Gaara turned and walked into the tower as his team had been beckoned in.
Watching them go forward, the chunin nodded as the scrolls were indeed correct. "Well, I'll be damned. Two teams in record time. If you would just follow them, you will find there are plenty rooms and you can rest for the duration of this portion of the exam. Your team has deserved it."
Smiling and nodding, Naruto slowly headed in the direction Gaara and his team and went before stopping just around the corner. Not even turning to tell his team why, he spoke swiftly yet commanding to make sure they knew. "From this point on if you are to face Gaara at any point, you will concede. There is a high probability he is the demon container of Shukaku of the Sand. Do not risk it to find out."
Before they could even speak, Naruto walked ahead effectively eliminating any chance for them to talk back. He knew he was the one tail vessel, so he would be damned if his friends would get hurt facing him.
However not too far away in the room they had chose to stay in for the duration; Gaara spoke in a ghastly, blood lusting voice scaring his siblings. "If either of you are to run into that Uzumaki... I want you to flee. He is... too strong for either of you and he is mine to kill."
Looking at one another, neither of his siblings were going to say a word. If that guy had set off Gaara's blood thirsty nature without worry, they didn't want to try and battle him. He was too much of a freak as when Gaara said he would kill you, you were dead.
Always.
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"Damn, what is her problem?" Naruto grumbled as he massaged his forehead as he waited for both Karui and Samui to show up as he waited outside Konoha's Academy as it was designated to be where the first test would be taken.
Of course he was talking about Yugito. Ever since he had became a gennin, she had instantly become extraordinarily critical of him instead of being happy of all the progress he had made. Up until that point, she had been very caring towards him yet now she verbally assault him every time she could.
It wasn't that she was afraid that he was usurping her and become the Head Ninja. He honestly didn't care for the position or becoming Raikage at that. It was honestly too bothersome to become and he would rather protect his village while having the capacity to still provide for it and move about instead of being cooped up in an office for most of the day.
To make things worse, his hand throbbed as she had decided to strike out after he told her such. He had stopped her strike, but she instead gripped his wrist and shattered the bones. That was really going to make his day especially if this happened to be a damn written test as he was right handed.
All of it started with him waking up and accidentally knocking over her coffee, spilling it on her tuna tekkodan. It then escalated out of proportion, despite apologizing seven times. Kirabi eventually broke it up, but not after the damage had been done and Naruto had quickly left, stating he was heading out.
"Fucking ignore the cat bitch. I wouldn't be surprised if Nibi was involved somehow and causing her sudden shift of personality. The cat and I loathe each other and would do anything to get back at the other." Kyuubi pitched in, bored of having nothing to do and annoyed because his vessel was moping around and thinking about the damn cat vessel.
Naruto simply shook his head before adding another layer of tape onto his wrist before pulling on his trench coat and buckling it. 'It has to be more then that. While she has a symbiotic relationship with the cat, she can and has been ignoring the cat's blind hatred towards you. But I do agree it is fueling her anger.'
Thinking for a moment, the fox puzzled his vessel's conundrum before responding. "It could be that while she isn't afraid of you taking her position, she is afraid for other reasons. If I may be so bold, I believe she has some attraction towards you but seeing you separating from her so quickly her first-most action is to push you away so she doesn't feel so hurt."
'What?' Naruto jumped when he heard attraction, but what most of the fox said was rather plausible. 'Okay, that makes some sense but I doubt that is all that there is involved. Besides, she is way too old and not to mention she is almost like a mother to me."
Giving his vessel a growl of agreement, Kyuubi sighed before scratching the gate in a chance it just might open. Seeing it was sturdy as ever, the fox sighed again. "Probably so and attraction is too strong of a word. I don't think you two would ever be like that, mainly because of their and our symbiosis."
Agreeing with his demon, Naruto noticed that both Karui and Omoi were walking towards him. Waving with his left before gripping his wrist gingerly, he grinned. "About time you two got here. Now we can get going..."
"Naruto, let me see your wrist. We heard what happened." Karui stated before walking over to him and gripping his arm.
Wincing in pain as she forcefully made him extend his arm, Karui sighed as she sliced off the bandages before examine his wrist. The fact that it was glowing red didn't really bother her. "It is broken alright, but the fox is taking care of it. However, your bandages were actually hindering the process and making it heal incorrectly. So..."
"I have to break my wrist again." Naruto growled out, knowing exactly what she was going to say as he had studied a little of medical procedures, mainly mending bones as he did tend to break them often.
As she nodded Naruto pulled off his coat before taking out a wooden gag he kept, having a feeling he would need it just for this occasion, he bit down into it and closed his eyes.
Seeing how quickly he prepared and was ready, Karui didn't waste a second before with two quick snaps, she had reset the arm. Of course Naruto hollered from the pain, but the gag had muffled it to a loud curse to anyone that saw what happened.
After using two splints and wrapping them around his wrist, Karui shook her head as Naruto put his coat back on. "Next time, come straight to me if you break a bone if possible. I know more about healing then either of you."
"That's because I never paid attention and Naruto is constantly breaking something." Omoi stated before pulling out a lollipop from his pouch and plopping it into his mouth. "So how bad was it this time? We only heard a little bit before sensei put Miss Nii in her place."
"I don't want to talk about it... I just want to get this day over with, alright." Naruto growled out from both the pain he currently was in and did not want to talk about that subject.
Waving his hands peacefully, not meaning anything about it, Omoi shrugged his shoulders. "Just wanted to know what happened. Never seen Miss Nii that out of breath... Then again I haven't seen sensei get a black eye before."
"It got that bad?" Naruto said shocked, not believing it would have come to blows. While he knew Kirabi was getting very pissed at Yugito's obvious lack of respect, something she was renowned for, towards him but was letting it slide and only reprimanding her.
Glaring at Omoi, Karui shook her head. "It is not as bad as he made it sound. Yugito was still pissed after you left and she was mostly ignoring sensei so he gave her a warning then tried to get her attention to keep from chasing you down by grabbing her. Out of sheer instinct she punched him before she started apologizing immediately."
Getting a better picture, Naruto understood what had transpired after he left a little more. Yugito was extraordinarily tough, able to keep up with E in hand-to-hand combat for five minutes and her instinct was top notch. No one else could boast that except maybe Kirabi on a good day...
Shaking his head, Naruto sighed before rubbing his temple with his good hand. "Okay... Well, we still have the first exam. Shall we get to it?"
Both nodded. Nothing else needed to be said as they headed in, ready to take care of this test.
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Groaning as the first test was mostly over, Naruto wanted to snap the desk before him in two. 'Why? Did it have to be a paper test, honestly? I so hope that this is graded on the espionage more then the actual papers otherwise I'm screwed as no one could read this.'
Much to Naruto's dismay, the first test had indeed been a written test. But, there had been some interesting rules to the test that made him immediately catch on to what was going on. One such rule had been that they wouldn't have been thrown out if they were caught cheating, which was the norm if you did cheat.
However, his prowess when it came to spying on others wasn't as good as he would have liked it to be. But it seemed like no one had noticed that he used a simple bottle of water to look through and figure out the answers. The only reason he had it out as he asked before if he could take out a bottle of water. While it was unclear, he could still make it out. Barely.
But what annoyed him was the events before this test had even started. Not as soon as the last Konoha gennin team had arrived, which happened to be Konohamaru's team, they all broke out into talking. While this wouldn't have bothered him, the grey haired gennin whose name he didn't quite get did.
'How the hell did he have that much information, especially what he had on me?'
(Flashback)
"You have information on everyone that entered the exams?" The feral boy with the dog asked, Kiba if he heard correctly as he listened in on them, not liking what he heard.
Frowning, he closed his eyes and focused his chakra to his ears to listen to what he was going to say. "Of course. If there is anyone that you want to know about, I have information on them whether it be mission stats and sometimes even a personality profile."
Getting even more thrown by this, Naruto was ready to strike as that was too much information for a GENNIN to have. And even if he wasn't, to offer it to the gennin of this village was unlawful as no village was allowed to support their gennin to that extent.
But before he could do a thing, Sasuke, as there was no way he hadn't heard his name between the banshees' wailing, stepped forward and practically demanded the silver haired gennin. "I want to know of Uzumaki Naruto, the blonde of the Cloud ninja."
"Oh you couldn't have made that any easier. There are only two guys from the Cloud anyways." The gennin stated before pulling out a card before looking shocked. "Wow! I know almost nothing of this guy! The only thing I know was that he was born here in Konoha but due to events caused by Danzo thirteen years ago, he was given away in order to placate them. ...Must have been of some importance as it indeed worked."
Calming a little, as that was common knowledge, Naruto still frowned as this guy threw him off. But before he could get any further in his thought, the proctor decided to suddenly appear. "Everyone shut up! The first exam shall now commence!"
(Flashback End)
The said proctor, Ibiki, looked over the crowd of gennin one last time before finally speaking out. "Alright, pens down. Now before we get to the final question, there will be a few rule changes for it."
"If you wish to leave now, but know that you can make up for this as all of those questions are now meaningless. If you stay here, however, you will be risking you career to further yourself as a ninja. I say that because... if you miss this next question, you WILL be banned from taking the exams again for the rest of your lives." Ibiki punctuated with a firm voice that held no lie within. He was dead serious.
Everyone was dead silent in their surprise. Many wanted to say something; however this guy was a jounin and held serious power here in Konoha. It was possible that he could have the pull to make such a thing happen. Even Naruto, to an extent was caught of guard by this.
But as soon as he was, he twitched slightly as he knew that couldn't be the truth, at least for those outside of the village. He also detected the killing intent laced with his words which was why mostly everyone was silent until a blonde pig-tail girl from the Sand shouted out. "You can't do that! You don't have that kind of power!"
"I have the consent from all the powers may be for this so therefore I can. If any of you fail, you WON'T be taking this exam again. So think it over. If you can't stomach that, I suggest you leave in the next five minutes. However, if you do the rest of your team must join you. The five minutes start now." Ibiki responded flawlessly as if he had rehearsed that answer, expecting it to be asked.
This time he could sense the lie in his voice, but he doubted many people could. He, after all, was trained in it. E did not hold anything back in his training and truthfully, he thought this to be below him outside of it being somewhat challenging.
It also didn't matter that he noticed many of the others were dropping like flies after Ibiki finished. As long as Karui and Omoi didn't, he was fine and he could see that they weren't going anywhere as they were quite confident, being held back after Samui advanced to chunin on her first attempt and trained with Naruto for two years.
However, he did notice that Konohamaru was extremely nervous and he should be. The shock of never being able to advance could make any young ninja stop their actions. He also noted that his pink hair team mate happened to be raising her hand to forfeit her team. Not wanting to go into the next round without the kid as he kind of liked him, he was about to say something when Konohamaru suddenly jumped up.
"You aren't going to scare me! I might just be a kid, but no one is going to tell me what I can't do! I'm going to become Hokage one way or another, so bring it! Nothing you have can stop me!" Konohamaru yelled out, catching a lot of people's attention.
Naruto couldn't help but smirk like he did the day before. Just like yesterday, the boy seemed on the verge of breaking and yet he gathered his courage and stood up to his attacker. 'Hmp. That pipsqueak has some brass... And one hell of a fiery will. He also gathered pinky's confidence too, it seems.'
"You always did like those with fiery passions. They seem to bring the best out of you no matter the situation." Kyuubi commented as he too was somewhat impressed by the boy, somewhat reminded of his vessel.
Nodding in agreement, Naruto brought his attention back to the proctor as he spoke once more. "Are you sure about that? Your dreams could be shattered if you fail. Could you live with yourself if that were to happen?"
"He said he doesn't care, so get on with the damn question already! It's been five minutes." Naruto firmly stated as he put his feet onto the desk before crossing his arms over his chest.
Seeing it had indeed been five minutes and noting that no one else was leaving, Ibiki shrugged before a small grin appeared on his face. "That it is so... Everyone here has passed!"
Everyone was startled by this. Even Naruto as he flipped out of his chair and hit his head on the floor. He hadn't been expecting that. Sure, he expected all those that were left would have passed, but he still expected to be some sort of question as he weeded out the rest that were unfit. Groaning as he got back up, he tried to rub the back of his head with his injured arm only to cause himself more pain.
Ibiki simply chuckled at everyone's reaction, none more so then the blonde Cloud gennin's, he shook his head as he was bombarded by questions, most of them being why the passed. "As much as I want to answer all of your questions, this test was quite simple. The first nine were to test your espionage skills to see if you could fine one of the three chunin posing as gennin."
As the three raised their hand and showed who they were, Ibiki continued. "As for the last question, it was meant to display those who had the courage to act in a lose-lose situation. There are times that you must sacrifice in order to gain and those unable to won't be able to make it in our vicious world. ...I know that too well."
Before he could go on about how he knew that, a black blur smashed through the glass before a banner sprouted with a purple haired woman in a trench coat jumped before it. The problem was, no one knew what the banner said as it was backwards.
Seeing this, the woman cursed before kicking it. "Dammit! I fucked up my entrance again! How many times is that going to happen today?! First my date and now this! What else can go wrong?!"
"Anko, you're early by ten minutes." Ibiki threw in. He was a little annoyed that she interrupted him; however he always had a blast when he made fun of her as she made it so damn easy.
Groaning as she slumped over, Anko quickly regained her chipper spirit and jumped up with enthusiasm. "Well, that doesn't matter! I want everyone to go to training ground forty-four in an hour! If you don't know where it is, tough luck maggots! You're own your own!"
And just like she entered, she exited as a black blur breaking the glass making Ibiki groan. "Oh crap... I have to pay for those windows! I rented this room out for today!"
Deciding not to stick around any longer despite the situation being quite funny, Naruto decided it would be best to follow one of the Konoha gennin team that passed. The problem was... None of them knew where the stated training ground was.
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"Goddammit... I swear if one more bad thing happens today I'm going to kill someone. Omoi, you're first on my list." Naruto growled out as he took a scroll from one of the extra proctors before giving it to Karui as she was the best at hiding things.
Karui only looked amused while Omoi looked horrified. Naruto had been mostly ignoring the purple haired proctor and only paying attention to what he needed to know, which pissed her off. So she threw a kunai that scratched his cheek, which he really didn't mind too much. It was when she appeared behind him and grabbed his right wrist things went overboard.
Naruto had begun screaming obscenities at her as she messed with his wrist and accidentally broke it yet again which then had to be broken back into place. He was also very, very pissed that she happened to reveal that weakness to everyone so once the exams came apparent, he knew his wrist was going to be a target.
"Oh lighten up. Don't forget that Omoi and I have been here before. We'll get through this easily and then we'll get to the third exam, which is normally a tournament. That should cheer you up." Karui chirped as she patted Naruto on the back as they reached their gate and waited for the signal so they could start.
Feeling slightly better as a tournament always cheered him up, watching people bash each other's brains in or in this case bashing them in himself, Naruto still winced. "While that is all and good, look how many freaking people made it to this exam. Even though this is meant to eliminate many teams, there was around fifty teams that advanced."
"Shit... There could be prelims and we could get a bad draw. But, we don't need to worry. There is five days so we need to prepare to steal someone's scroll." Omoi caught on before changing his focus as that was in the future. They had to make it that far first.
Nodding in agreement, Naruto adjusted his sword so he could draw it with his left. He happened to be ambidextrous in almost everything except writing or anything related to regular motor skills.
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Hours after they entered the forest they had spent it seeking out another team to liberate them of their scroll. The only problem was they weren't finding anyone. Either they had gotten ahead of everyone or they knew they were coming and were running away. But that still didn't explain why they couldn't hear them around.
All three slapped their forehead nearly simultaneously before they all looked at one another and nodded in unison. "Genjutsu."
"Shall I do the honors or shall we just wait till they decided to come after us to pummel them?" Naruto questioned as he wanted to know what the others thought as he really wanted to get some of his pent up frustration out.
Knowing this, Karui shook her head before she flickered through a few hand seals. The next moment, the illusion around them seemed to break but it was difficult to say as the area looked exactly the same.
"Wow, that was a pretty decent genjutsu those guys used. They got the background perfect and everything." Omoi stated with a whistle, impressed that there was someone with that impressive of a genjutsu for a gennin.
Naruto rolled his eyes before sighing as he turned to their opposition. Omoi could be really stupid at times...
However, Karui wasn't as forgiving as she slapped him upside the head. "The genjutsu was to hide them idiot! I wish it was you that graduated last time instead of Samui! At least she had a brain and we would be rid of you!"
"Knock it off." Naruto commanded as he calmly looked towards the three gennin, identifying them as Rain ninja from their insignia while his hand crept to the handle of his blade. The masks really didn't help their case either as it seemed a good few of the rain seemed to wear those kind of masks for some reason.
Doing as he commanded, Karui and Omoi were ready to strike. Well, Karui seemed ready to launch. Omoi was seemingly evaluating his opponent before he made a hasty decision.
Seeing this, Naruto's attention was fully upon the three ninja before him before he spoke in a deadly calm voice. "If you would, just hand us your scroll and make this easy. I rather this not get violent as I would hate to see your three bodies being dragged out of this forest."
The way he spoke made the Rain ninja rather uneasy. His demeanor was confident, despite having his injury advertised by the proctor and it seemed he was ready to use his blade. Either that meant he could use it with his left hand or he was bluffing. If he was, the fight would be easier as it would only be two on three. If he wasn't...
So attempting to call his bluff, the leader stepped forward. "Unlikely. We're here to advance as well, so don't think for a moment you will easily get out of this."
Sighing as he couldn't end this peacefully, not that he really wanted it to end peacefully; Naruto dropped his hand from his blade. "Ah, oh well. I guess this was inevitable."
Before they could act, Naruto appeared behind them, stomping the leader into the ground. Before the others could react or use their genjutsu to hide, a katana was placed at both of their throats as Karui and Omoi were on them quickly.
Placing his foot on the back of his head, Naruto put some pressure as he forced his face into the dirt. "Now, give us your scroll or I may accidentally crush your skull."
Before he could do such a thing, his head suddenly disappeared and was replaced by a log as was his team mates. As soon as this happened, they began to reappear however in mass. "Tch, mist clones. This should be easy."
All of the clones were gone in a swift moment, Naruto pulling his blade of his back and cutting them down in an instant. Sheathing the blade again, Naruto became a blur of red. In the next moment, the three rain ninja were thrown into the clearing before Naruto reappeared before them.
"This is too easy. Even with one arm disabled, you aren't worth our time. Now give us your scroll before things get serious!" Naruto all but ordered them to do as his eyes bled red and a slight aura of crimson surrounded him in a haze.
The look in his eyes promised swift death and none of the three gennin wanted to die. Giving up a scroll for their life seemed to be a good offer and they could always get another."
Pulling out a white scroll, Naruto almost groaned as they had a heaven scroll. Still, he took it nonetheless before Karui and Omoi quickly chopped them on the back of their necks, making sure they could follow. "Well, we might be able to negotiate with another team. Who knows, they might have two earth scrolls."
"True enough, but that fight was rather pathetic. These guys didn't even stand a chance." Omoi complained as he kicked the dirt near one of their heads.
Karui simply shrugged before rolling her eyes. "Well, you and I have been at this for four years now and been training our butts off. Naruto has practically been trained since he could walk, so it really wasn't fair. We're only here, mostly so the old Hokage can see how Naruto is growing up and if he's happy."
"Which I am... Except of recently." Naruto admitted before stretching his shoulders. "Well, let's get a bit further ahead before we break for the day. I want to be able to fight at full capacity soon and a quick rest should heal my arm."
"If you don't keep getting it broken." Karui smirked as she knew before they got to make camp he would some how break his wrist once more.
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It was hours later, Naruto had taken off on his own to scout the area as Karui rested as they were going in shifts. His wrist was finally healed, but still a weak spot as it could break again with moderate pressure. So the cast would be necessary till it was back to a hundred percent.
Something was off and was why he was wandering off on his own. Of course he did wander away from his mission as such the nickname given to him by E himself was the Crimson Rogue. Strangely enough, it found its way in the Bingo book but only for the Mist. He had a feeling that the new Mizukage was the reason for that.
That was when he found himself in what he knew was a recent battle field. The amount of destruction obviously clued him off to that, but the coordination was what got him. There obvious had to be summons involved by the tracks he was noticing. Not only that, the tracks were odd as they had to be something that dragged its belly.
Frowning, not liking what he was finding so far, Naruto decided to follow the carnage a bit further before he noticed something odd. There happened to be an Anbu stationed in the area, investigating what happened. There was only one reason for this so Naruto made his presence known. "Is there an intruder?"
Having seen the boy a while before, she had to commend the boy as he managed to keep his presence unknown to her far longer then any gennin she knew of could. Even though he was a ninja from an opposing village, she could tell his worry was more on the fact that his team could be in danger. "Yes, there is an intruder. That is all you need to know."
Narrowing his eyes, he wanted to ask more but knew he would get anything out of her as it was her job to keep secret and he was an opposing shinobi. Still, why hadn't the exams been canceled if there was an intruder... unless there was something at play here? Did the intruder have the power to actually threaten a hidden village? If that was the case...
Not liking this outcome in the least, he noted that not too far from them was Konohamaru's team. The odd thing was the pink haired girl was on guard while it seemed both Konohamaru and Sasuke were out cold. Having a feeling that they were the one attacked by the intruder, Naruto quickly closed in on them.
While he didn't like the idea of pouncing on a weakened team, he was an opportunist and he saw a profit in this. If they indeed had an earth scroll, they could quickly get out of this as he doubted the pink haired girl was a good negotiator.
Jumping down into the clearing, he made his presence known. The girl, Sakura he believed her name was, jumped up and was ready to defend her team mates. "W-What are you doing here?! Are you here to finish us?"
"Maybe, yes." Naruto answered honestly as if she didn't give into his demands he would have to put her down. He also knew the Anbu was watching him now that he made his move, probably not trusting him in the least. "I, however, am here only to make a trade if possible. If you have an earth scroll, I will give you a heaven and I will be on my way."
Narrowing her eyes, Sakura did not like this. This guy had appeared within the hour after their team had been attacked and now he was trying to cash in on their obvious weakness. "Why should I trade with you? Obviously if I give you the scroll you will have both as you wouldn't trade if you didn't. And what kind of person are you, picking on us when we're weak."
"I am a shinobi." Naruto answered her questioned before unsheathing his sword and pointing it straight towards the pink haired gennin. "Now, I will ask again. We can either trade, if you do indeed have an earth scroll, or I can take you out and take your scroll leaving you with none and no guard."
Sakura was at a cross road. She knew she stood no chance against this opponent. Just from the way he lifted his sword effortlessly made her believe he had skill and it with his injured hand no less. Both Konohamaru and Sasuke were out and wouldn't be awake any time soon, so risking that they could get out alive with no one keeping guard was something she couldn't do.
Having no choice, she reached into Konohamaru's pouch before throwing the earth scroll towards him. "Take it and go!"
Catching it effortlessly, Naruto sheathed his sword before pocketing it and pulling out his extra heaven scroll and tossing it to her. "Thank you, I hope to see you in the next round."
Turning to leave, he stopped before turning back to her. "And I wish I was here to help. It looks as if you could have needed me."
Before Sakura could fathom a response Naruto was gone in a crimson blur, purposely racing past the Anbu.
The said Anbu wasn't sure what to think, but she did know one thing. If there was anything that could leave an imprint on a young ninja's life, the young Konoha gennin had just gone through it. She just had a face to face encounter with a real ninja.
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"Finally! Why was this place so hard to find?!" Karui complained as they reached the tower within the forest, their destination point. However, to their surprise they weren't the first there.
"Um, we got here in ten hours right... So how did these guys get here before us?" Omoi questioned as he looked over towards the Suna team with a red headed boy along with what seemed to be a wind mistress and a puppeteer if he analyzed their weapons correctly.
Naruto's eyes were solely on the red head, ignoring the other two completely as they didn't matter. The aura surrounding the red head was murderous, yet it felt so much like his own when he was angered. There was very few reasons for this and while he was unable to determine which was true, he had a gut feeling.
Not even hesitating as he stepped forward to the chunin that was summoned by the Sand team, he showed him the scrolls. His eyes never left the red head as he spoke. "It is nice to see another group of gennin that takes their job seriously. The name is Uzumaki Naruto."
The red head simply gazed at Naruto uncaringly as the chunin examined the scrolls to make sure they were real. He was mildly surprised that his gaze never left his and he in fact looked him in the eyes without an ounce of fear overcoming him despite the blood lust he was oozing.
This blonde, was interesting to him. He would humor him as he went to extend his arm and shook his hand. "Sabaku Gaara. May the next time meet, is when I kill you."
"Looking forward to it." Naruto responded immediately as he shook his hand, as it was his right, his eyes glistening before a flash of red glazed over for a millisecond before fading back to the blue.
Gaara wasn't intimidated in the least by either his surprisingly sturdy wrist or the flash of his eyes. It simply added to his interest of this Naruto. This one would be fun to watch suffer.
Releasing his grip Gaara turned and walked into the tower as his team had been beckoned in.
Watching them go forward, the chunin nodded as the scrolls were indeed correct. "Well, I'll be damned. Two teams in record time. If you would just follow them, you will find there are plenty rooms and you can rest for the duration of this portion of the exam. Your team has deserved it."
Smiling and nodding, Naruto slowly headed in the direction Gaara and his team and went before stopping just around the corner. Not even turning to tell his team why, he spoke swiftly yet commanding to make sure they knew. "From this point on if you are to face Gaara at any point, you will concede. There is a high probability he is the demon container of Shukaku of the Sand. Do not risk it to find out."
Before they could even speak, Naruto walked ahead effectively eliminating any chance for them to talk back. He knew he was the one tail vessel, so he would be damned if his friends would get hurt facing him.
However not too far away in the room they had chose to stay in for the duration; Gaara spoke in a ghastly, blood lusting voice scaring his siblings. "If either of you are to run into that Uzumaki... I want you to flee. He is... too strong for either of you and he is mine to kill."
Looking at one another, neither of his siblings were going to say a word. If that guy had set off Gaara's blood thirsty nature without worry, they didn't want to try and battle him. He was too much of a freak as when Gaara said he would kill you, you were dead.
Always.
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