"Hey brat, whatcha doing?" Jiraiya asked as he approached Naruto and his army consisted of 100 Shadow Clones.
"Oh nothing, I'm just trying to make a new nature transformation Kekkei Genkai." Naruto replied casually. Jiraiya nodded.
"Oh yeah yeah, sounds cool—Wait what did you just say?!"
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Meanwhile, at an unknown location far from Konoha, Satsuki was panting heavily. Her entire body was dripping with sweat and she felt as if someone had put her through a meat grinder. She was feeling pain in places she didn't even know existed.
Kakashi is a slave driver to say the least, and the Uchiha expected no less than that. They have been working on Satsuki's speed, her chakra control and elemental manipulation.
Her proficiency with the Sharingan has improved tremendously under the cyclopean jonin's teachings. She also has improved in her proficiency with the blade a lot since Kakashi who was in the Anbu before he became a jonin sensei, used the katana a lot too.
All and all, Satsuki was confident that she could defeat Lee. Lee won't activate the Gates to defeat her, it isn't worth the pain.
But if he does, then she'll also fight back with the technique she's currently training in. The sounds of birds chirping could be heard all around the location they were training in, but it wasn't coming from birds.
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Sakura cracked her knuckles as she looked at the absolutely devastated and overturned landed in front of her. She smirked to herself.
Kurenai was watching from the side while nodding to herself. 'It seems I was right to suggest Sakura to train in the Chakra Enhanced Strength Jutsu that Lady Tsunade uses.' She thought to herself as Sakura walked past her to take a break.
Hinata and Shino were training with their respective Clans, so Kurenai had free time to train Kiba and Sakura.
Sakura was training in a special type of Taijutsu that uses the refined chakra control and concentration required in medical ninjutsu to enhance one's strength to monstrous levels.
This is done by storing chakra into one's hands or feet, and releasing it onto the target with pinpoint timing. With this strength, the user can decimate the ground or even kill opponents with a single strike.
The training for the application is quite arduous and Kurenai gladly fought Sakura with full force to help her get better with the technique. She also pushed Sakura's physical strength tremendously.
If you ask Guy, Sakura would probably be able to open the first Gate, the Gate of Opening with a couple of months of more extremely intense, close to bone breaking training.
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Naruto was sitting silently beside Jiraiya who was unpacking a popsicle. The popsicle was special, it had two sticks meant to be separated in half so that you could share the other half with someone else.
Naruto grabbed the other half of the popsicle Jiraiya gave him and started eating it. Most of the month had been spent with Jiraiya who was training him to the ground repeatedly.
He would wake up in the morning, get ready, make five hundred clones to train in various ninja aspects, then he would go spar with Jiraiya and lose every time.
Jiraiya explained to the blonde that if he doesn't feel exhausted after training then it isn't training. Often times Naruto would be so exhausted after training that Jiraiya had to carry him back to his apartment. That was not the only thing they had done.
Jiraiya had taken to helping Naruto with several seals the blond Jinchuriki had been working on. And he had to admit, he was very impressed by the teen's genius when it came to Fūinjutsu.
He had also studied a lot about his opponents during training. Naruto knew that if he wanted to not only win in the final exams, but have a 100% chance of making Chunin, he would need to know more about his opponents and make a plan to defeat each and every single one of them.
And so Naruto had picked Jiraiya's brain on what the super pervert knew of the people he would face. It was not much, but the Toad Sage had a lot of general knowledge that would benefit him.
Under Jiraiya's guidance, Naruto was confident that he would smash the final exams. But what he was more confident and also a little nervous about was that he would succeed in the S-rank mission Hiruzen gave him.
And soon enough the day had finally came for the final stage of the Chunin Exams.
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In his office, Hiruzen watched with an impassive expression, not letting any hint of his weariness show as the carriage bringing the Raikage of Kumogakure entered the village.
While it was perfectly normal for an allied nation to attend the Chunin Exams to watch their shinobi progress, it was a rather rare and unusual event for a non-allied village's leader to do so.
The Village Hidden in the Clouds had in fact been one of their worst enemies during both the second and third war, second only to Iwa in the Third Great War.
It did not help matters that Kumo had attempted to use the peace talks after the Third Shinobi War to make an attempt at stealing the Hyuuga heiress in order to gain the Byakugan. By all rights, the old man should have immediately deny the Raikage to have the chance to come to Konoha.
However there were a few reasons he had not. The first was that the Fourth Raikage, A, was fairly new, having only been in his position for a few years.
The one to temporarily replace the Third Raikage had been ousted for the debacle he had created when attempting to steal the Byakugan. A however did not seem to care for the Byakugan and had in fact sent a formal letter of apology.
Though due to the body being destroyed when the temporary successor to the Third Raikage had been ousted, he had not been able to send the remains of Hizashi Hyuga, Neji's father.
The second reason was Hiruzen's hope that having an extra Kage would serve as a deterrent for Orochimaru's planned invasion, but deep down he knew that Orochimaru would still start the invasion despite having the disadvantage.
A beep on his desk alerted him to a call from a secretary. Pressing a button on the intercom he spoke. "What is it?"
"The Raikage is here to see you sir." His secretary replied to him. Hiruzen nodded and cracked his knuckles before taking his seat.
The door opened and in walked A, the Fourth Raikage. A has dark skin with a large muscular build, blonde hair combed back and a small moustache and goatee.
His face has pronounced cheekbones and tear troughs under his eyes, and a prominent crease across his forehead. He has pointed canines and his top lip also has a darker hue than the bottom one; traits he inherited from his father.
A often wears a white haori without a shirt underneath and occasionally the traditional Raikage hat. He has black Fūma Shuriken tattoos on both shoulders and wore large, golden vambraces on his wrists.
He also wears a gold belt around his waist with a boar's face engraved in the centre, black pants with torn ends, Kumo-nin shin guards, and shinobi sandals. All of these aspects combined give A the appearance of a professional wrestler.
"Lord Hokage." A greeted Hiruzen gruffly. Hiruzen smiled at him.
"Lord Raikage, a pleasure to meet you. Please take a seat." Hiruzen greeted him back politely. A grunted before he took a seat in front of Hiruzen. Hiruzen looked at the dark skinned man seriously.
"You may want to get a little more comfortable. I had not been able to send a message for fear it would be intercepted, however something has come to my attention that I feel you may wish to know before the Chunin Exams begin."
The Raikage raised an eyebrow, interested yet also weary of what the much older and experienced Kage wanted to tell him.
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It was a beautiful day in the Village Hidden in the Leaves. The sun was shining down upon the village, children were playing in the streets as they made their way to their academy classes while a gentle breeze ruffled the many trees in the village.
Over all of this the sounds of loud energetic cheering could be heard as people from all over gathered at the Stadium for the Chunin Exams to begin.
People from all stations of life, from shinobi, to civilians, nobles and Daimyos all had come to watch the Shinobi fight in the finals.
From his place in the arena Naruto watched as people cheered, crowed and placed bets on who they thought would win. Many he knew were here to cheer on the rest of the competitors to win, something that caused him to scowl a bit.
Naruto smirked. 'Whatever, these idiots will lose big time.' He thought as Satsuki appeared beside him with a Body Flicker. Kakashi patted her back supportively before he disappeared, reappearing beside the rest of the jonin senseis.
Up in the booth for the Kages, Hiruzen was looking down at the contestants. He looked at his two guests.
"Ah, Lord Kazekage, Lord Raikage, good to see you both." Hiruzen greeted them.
"Yo." A greeted back before taking his seat on Hiruzen's left.
"Good to see you Lord Hokage." The Kazekage replied in a deceptively soft spoken voice as he took the seat on the old Hokage's right.
'I can smell the snakes Orochimaru, don't think you have this old man fooled.' Hiruzen's thought while clenching his fists tightly, controlling himself from lashing out at Orochimaru disguised as the Kazekage.
"Lord Raikage." A woman greeted A as she appeared beside him. A looked at her and smirked a little.
The woman is Yugito Nii, a jonin and the jinchūriki of the Nibi, the Two Tailed Monster Cat Matatabi.
Yugito had long, straight, blonde, hair bound with taut bandages, dark eyes and she wore red lipstick. She wore a short-sleeved black and purple blouse and black pants, both of which had a design similar to clouds on them, purple fingerless gloves and a chain of blue beads wound around her left hand.
She also wore the standard Kumogakure forehead protector, sandals and a kunai holster, which was strapped to her right thigh. Yugito also wore bandages around her arms and legs as well as a red belt around her waist.
"Hey, Yugito. I thought I told you to call me dad." A whispered to Yugito who blushed in embarrassment a little.
"Give me time to get used to it d-dad, you've adopted me for only a few months." She whispered back to A who sighed and sat properly on his seat.
Oh yeah, aside from being a Jinchuriki, Yugito is also the adopted daughter of the Raikage. Naruto raised an eyebrow as he turned to look up at where she was.
He looked at Yugito who coincidentally looked back at him. She widened her eyes as she heatd a voice in her head.
'Holy crap! Kitten! That's Kurama!' Yugito widened her eyes even more, hearing what Matatabi said.
"Kurama? The Kyuubi?" She whispered as A looked at her.
"What did you say?"
"Oh! It's nothing, Matatabi is talking with me again."
"Hm...."
To be continued.....