Toad Boy

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'Thinking'

"Talking"

Chapter 3: The True Test

Naruto walked into training ground 8 dead on seven o'clock. He saw Shino and Hinata standing in the shade of a tree off to the right of the clearing, he noticed their sensei hadn't arrived yet.

"Hey" Naruto called out as he approached the silent duo.

Shino only nodded whereas Hinata stammered out a greeting back at him.

The group quickly lapsed into silence with Hinata glancing between her teammates before playing with her fingers. Shino stood leaning against the tree, not that anyone could see he because of his glasses he was glancing at Naruto with slight unease. Said blond ninja decided to work on his meditation.

He quickly got into the lotus position before closing his eyes and only focusing on the chakra around him he could start to feel the chakra sources around him.

His brow furrowed when he focused in on Shino, he seemed to have thousands of different chakra signatures. He decided to investigate this later.

"Hey team nice to see that everyone is on time" Their sensei announced as she appeared to come out of the very tree that they were standing next to.

'A genjutsu that was high enough that I couldn't sense her? Impressive' the young blond mused.

"Now that we're all here I should explain the purpose of this text, it's to ensure that you'll be a suitable as you might have guessed already you guys are going to be a track and capture team, with Hinata and Shinos tracking abilities backed up by Naruto's offensive capability not to mention your two clan techniques are practically designed for capturing targets alive"

"So sensei what is the exam going to be ?"Shino asked

A small grin appeared over Kurenai's face "Simple catch me and then transport me back to this spot on my mark. Everyone ready?"

A chorus of hai sensei's

"Then begin" their sensei stated without moving.

Naruto leapt forward at the chance and tried to drive his fist into her gut, it connected and she slammed up against the tree.'A small smile developed on her face before she burst into water.

"Damn!" Naruto shouted before trying to shake himself off.

"I believe we should stick together and formulate a plan, Why ? because this test is not only about capturing Kurenai-sensei but doing so as a team."

"Alright so whats the plan then?" the blond queried

"I suggest Hinata attempts to locate our sensei through her Byakugan….

(1.2 Miles away)

'Well that should take them a little bit to find me, maybe I should go watch Asuma's genin test give them a little work out'

Kurenai continued through the forest's to where she knew Asuma would be.

She arrived and decided to stay in the tree line and watch the test, Asuma had just entered the clearing.

"Alright you lot I'm particularly lazy with these exams so I do the same one every year and it's simple" he proceeded to take a pack of cigarettes out of his top pocket

"This is a brand new pack and I'm gonna smoke them all today if you can make me drop one lit cigarette the you all pass this exam begins when I light the first one"

He took one out of the pack and lit it they all sprung into action with Choji assaulting him frontally trying to force him into Shikamaru's Shadow.

This continued on for a while before Kurenai heard the distinct whistle of kunai from behind her, she sidestepped them sparing a glance at them she noticed the explosive tags attached.'Sneaky shits' was all she could think before propelling herself backwards into the clearing, surprising the genin on Asuma's team before the tree she had just occupied exploded.

"Heh, looks like your genin are going for the kill eh?"

Before she had the opportunity to respond the blond sped into the clearing throwing a handful of shuriken attempting to get her to move but they were so far of target she didn't even have to move this resulted in him charging for an extremely vicious Taijutsu battle.

Kurenai, was of course, restricting her strength and speed to that of a low chunin but was surprised with how difficult she was finding it to deal with Naruto.

Kurenai decided to step her speed up even higher, to test how fast he could keep up with her.

After thirty seconds of clashing Naruto found both of his hands stuck in Kurenai's grip with his elbows pointing out the way.

"Now, now Naruto aren't we a bit too eager, you rushed the attack and now the rest of your team in a difficult position. If this was a real mission is your team supposed to leave you to die ? Or interfere and risk placing themselves in a life threatening situation?"

Kurenai was not expecting Naruto to slowly break into a smile.

"Neither, I'll just have to get my self out"

Only Kurenai's experience allowed her to dodge the next attack and it came from the last place she would have expected, she was anticipating a kick of some sort or a grapple, she was not expecting his mouth to open and a studded tongue to fly out at her right shoulder.

She released his wrists and tried to twist out of the way but the tongue still glanced her.

This lead to her surprise rising even more as she had expected it to merely bounce off her but instead it tore a gash into her shoulder.

"Shit" she bounced back to create more distance only hearing the twig snap behind her just in time to continue her movement into a hop, jumping over a charging Hinata, but she still managed to catch her ankle she felt a familiar tingle that her right foot would be useless for at least the next five minutes. As she landed on the branch she heard a hissing noise coming from her left.

Throwing herself into a smaller clearing adjacent to the current one she only had a second to realise there was something wrong before walls ofkikaichū to rise around her.

'Damn these kids are quite good, guess I should use some jutsu to get me out of this'

As the bugs closed in around her she formed the half ram seal and took a deep breath and exhaled a stream of fire in a 180 degree arc in front of her jumping out of the gap in the wall landing in the clearing, they second she landed her instincts screamed for her to move, she turned her head to see Naruto with two toads on his shoulders one was orange with purple markings the other a magenta coloured with black markings.

She started to move in time to hear Naruto shout " Wind Release : Toad Oil Raging Inferno"

She saw oil spew out of the magenta's mouth before hitting a blast of wind leaving Naruto's turning it into a fine mist, still moving she realised that she would be badly hurt if she didn't make it out of the clearing as she could feel it coat her as well as take up the whole clearing.

Just as she hit the edge of the clearing the orange one let loose a torrent of flame from his mouth and the surrounding forest was bathed in a bright light with the trees at the edge of the clearing catching fire.

She had managed to get out in surprisingly good condition her left arm and shoulder had minor burns which would make hand seals slightly more painful and slow her down a bit, but she didn't have time to evaluate her condition any more as she felt her right arm at the elbow go limp.

She turned and saw Hinata with her fingers poised ready to continue shutting off her tenketsushe saw a flicker of hesitation in her students eyes and monopolized it swatting her students outstretched hand away from her she used Hinata's chest as a springboard to send her backwards into a tree and herself through the air and back into the scorched clearing.

Unfortunately it seemed as though the Aburame was expecting this as before she had even landed she was being swarmed by kikaichū as the bugs stuck to her shoulders and legs she knew the fight was over even if the blonde couldn't beat her in taijutsu he could keep her busy enough that she would start to feel the drains of chakra exhaustion.

"Alright tests finished form up Team 8"

Straight away she felt the bugs fly off her back to their hive which had just entered the clearing he gave her a curt nod before sitting down a small bit away from her.

Next was Naruto who walked over and flopped down near Shino, she noticed how shallow his breathing was she guessed it took a lot of energy to muster up a jutsu like that she'd guess it would be an A rank due to its combination features.

The last to enter was the young Hyuga she seemed physically fine but from the look on her face she was bit more than dejected she stood trying to hide away from the group but in a large empty clearing that was quite difficult.

"Right well I'll start with your good points then your faults, but first a few questions who came up with the plan ? and who threw the kunai?"

The blonde responded "Well I came up with the initial plan but Shino fine tuned it and he threw the kunai"

"Well then I commend both of you for your planning, but I am curious what was your plan if you couldn't get me into this clearing ?" more than a few times she had been tempted just to shushin out of the clearing but decided it would be more fair to remain.

"To re-group and formulate a different plan, Why? As any plan we did come up with whilst chasing you down would be unlikely to work"

"Alright well on to the pro's Naruto whilst your taijutsu and speed is chunin level and your Ninjutsu is astounding, I take it thats not the only one you know ?

"No I know a few wind, and two earth"

"Impressive for a genin as well as that….. tongue jutsu" she said before suppressing a shudder.

"And know your faults, your shuriken throwing was… abysmal and thats being nice we are going to have to improve on that and due to your high chakra levels i assume you can't do genjutsu ?" this only got a nod "well i don't know if i'll be able to teach you to do them but I can teach you to dispel them, I noticed you have a tanto why didn't you use it ?

"I was taught the toad stance but its designed for, well toads and requires bending your knees at weird angles"

"Hmm well I can't teach you kenjutsu I know a friend who might be able to help as well as another with the kunai and shuriken but they're a bit … unique"

"Alright Shino first off whatever you done to tweak the plan obviously worked quite well and I could see that at each point that you tried to trap me you had a contingency plan these are all the qualities of a good squad leader, your aim is good and you have tight groupings, how are your clan techniques I didn't get to see much of them in this battle"

"I am proficient but not to an acceptable Why ? Because there is always room for improvement"

"Good, its good to see you know your own flaws and judging by the fact you hung back your taijutsu is weak and we'll have to fix that but your stealth is quite good"

"Ok Hinata first of your Jyuken and taijutsu were excellent impeding my move considerably after that first blow"the girl blushed and shied away at this"your stealth is good as I could not find you but it needs to be improved when you charge as that gave you away most of the time" said girl now looked so dejected she thought she might cry " Also"and kurenai felt terrible for going on "you could have ended it after you disabled my shoulder but you hesitated, I understand that you don't want to hurt people but this is the world of shinobi and we must to survive"

The Hyuga looked like someone had kicked her puppy but nodded.

"And with this i congratulate you, you are now all official genin of konoha meet in training ground eight tomorrow at nine and we shall begin your careers as shinobi, know who wants to go watch Asuma's team test.

With Asuma's Team

When Kurenai entered the clearing she was not expecting Asuma's team just to be lazing about.

"Fail them already Asuma ?"

When she was met with silence from the smoking jonin who was sitting a wee bit away from his team almost … sulking?

Naruto approached the three genin "So did you guys pass ?"

"Of course Gama-kun why would you doubt me ?" Ino responded sounding mock hurt, but apparently Naruto's upbringing had left him with few people skills when it wasn't to do with toads or fighting.

"ah crap sorry Ino-chan I didn't mean anything by it"

Shikamaru put him out of his misery "don't worry Naruto she was just being a troublesome blonde and messing with you "

"You know Ino-chan that isn't very nice and there's nothing wrong with blondes Shikamaru, anyway how did you guys pass?"

"Luck"

"Care to elaborate shika?" Naruto's sudden change in addressing the Nara raised a few eyebrows but no comment was made

"When your sensei used that insane fire jutsu it lengthened the shadows of the tree's for a small amount of time I used that to trap Asuma"

"Your explanation is wrong why ?It was not our sensei that cast that jutsu but Naruto"

Choji stopped eating, Shikamaru sat up and looked at the blonde and Ino's eyebrows attempted to fly off of her face.

"Wait Gama-kun caused that ?"

"Of course why would I lie to fellow leaf shinobi ?"

"Damn Gama-kun thats pretty impressive how'd you do that ?"

"The toads taught me about elemental manipulation when I was younger thats my own original jutsu" the boy stated with a huge grin on his face.

"Alright kids to celebrate you all becoming genin we're gonna treat you to lunch so where do you wanna go ?" Asuma interrupted their conversation, Naruto noticed a gleam in Choji's eyes "Don't worry Asuma-sensei I know a great BBQ place"

At The Akimichi BBQ Restaurant

"So Choji your family owns the restaurant does that mean I get a sensei discount ?"

"Sorry Asuma-sensei everyone pays full price"

"Even Akimichis ?" This only resulted in a laugh from the boy

"Especially Akimichis Ino have you seen how much I eat? thats not just me thats a clan thing.

They sat at an eight seater booth with the two teams facing each other and the sensei sitting next to each other. A young waitress approached the table as it got to Naruto's turn to order he suddenly found a hand across his mouth looking to his left he realised it was Shinos.

"Naruto shall have a miso ramen" this resulted in some raised eyebrows around the table including the waitresses but she only accepted the orders and left.

"So why did Shino order Gama-kuns food?"

"N-naruto has some o-odd e-e-eating hab-bbits"

"Why what does he do that is so bad ?" The Yamanaka asked

"Naruto is not used to eating socially acceptable foods why ? I believe that it is due to the fact he was raised by toads. Surely you remember his first day of the academy"

Ino visibly shuddered at the memory of Naruto's tongue shooting across the classroom and the noise he made eating the beetle.

"Although Naruto's uniqueness has proved an advantage why ? It has became apparent it can be used as a weapon"

The entire of team 8 froze at this Choji stopped eating, Shikamaru sat up and Ino's eyebrows flew up her face.

"A weapon?" the blonde asked, Naruto decided to explain

"Yeah its something the toads taught me, as you know I can use chakra to lengthen my tongue but the also taught me how to toughen and sharpen it so I can block swords and stuff like that" he stated rubbing the back of his neck sheepishly he was having to get used to so many new things he'd never seen this many people together at one time and even though there were no bugs the food still tasted nice.

"Wait so your tongue isn't normally that long gama-kun?"

"No how would it fit in my mouth ? its this long" and Naruto stuck his tongue out to show but it still surprised them his tongue reached to his adams apple.

Asuma just whistled "kami that is long what caused it ?"

"Constant use of the tongue stretching jutsu had some side effects.

The group continued to chat and get to know each other and by two O'Clock they were heading their separate ways.

"Now remember training ground 8 at nine o'clock"

It took until Naruto was half-way down the street that he realised that someone was shouting after him he turned round to see Ino jogging up to him.

"Hey Ino"

"hey gama-kun I need to go work at the flower shop so I thought we could walk together" she replied smiling sweetly at him, it was only when he just nodded and kept walking she thought to herself 'jeez how thick a skull has he got at least with sasuke you realised that you were being blown off its like this guy didn't notice, wait what was it they said raised by toads?' and then it hit her he really hadn't realised she liked him? But calling him kun, teasing him, sitting across from him, pretty much only talking to him ? and he still hadn't realised.

"So gama-kun how you liking Konoha?"

"Its nice, but theres a bit too many people and buildings"

this got him a small chuckle 'okay lets see how direct I need to be'

"And the girls ?"

"The girls?"

"Yeah are they prettier that on ?"
This left Naruto almost wetting himself with laughter but he managed to choke out before Ino stormed off "There were no girls"
"No girls?"
"Not just girls no other people just talking toads and Ero-sennin on occasion"

"Ero-sennein?"

"Oh yeah what was it he called himself again ? …. Jiraiya the great and wonderful toad sage" Naruto snorted before continuing at the shock on Inos face "but what he doesn't tell other people is that he's a pervert"
"No way Jiraiya of the sannin a pervert"

"Yep writes a porn series and everything"

"I don't believe it"

The flower shop and Naruto's apartment came into view.

"Oh yeah we still need to arrange sparring/teaching times"

"How about saturdays at six after team training and missions?" the yamanaka suggested

"Sure, see you saturday" the other blonde smiled as he walked away he heard Ino call his name, he turned in time for her to kiss him on the cheek before practically flying across the road into the shop.

Naruto threw open the door and bounded up the stairs once he found his stuff he started rummaging sending scrolls that Jiraiya had wrote for him with titles like 'So the gaki wants to try sealing eh?', 'Senjutsu training for blonde bundles of energy' and 'The idiots guide to toad summons' (which had so far been useless) until he found the one he was looking for. He opened it up and began reading.

If anyone had happened to look in his window they would have seen a young blonde boy surrounded by discarded scrolls filled with infinite wisdom and be reading on titled

'So A Girl Finally Kissed You, You Brainless Idiot'

A/N : Hi i would like to take this chance to apologize its taken me so long to update the three main reasons are i had a family wedding, my laptop broke and I've been flooded with ideas for other fanfiction i've been struggling to just sit down and right toad boy i have decided to fix this by starting another series alongside toad boy but i only have one problem i am unsure which one to write so after this and i will leave brief summaries of them and please let me know which you would prefer in the reviews but before that i'd just like to thank you all for reading and if you don't care about the other stories stop reading now.

Akimichi Naruto - Pretty self explanatory naruto is adopted by choza and is raised as an akimichi he uses clan jutsu and everything actual story will have better summary

Nara Naruto - again obvious but he will still be hyper and he will use the clan jutsu

The Jashinist - whilst on a trip to the land of hot waters with the hokage naruto runs into a still yuga nin hidan and join in the worship of the great jashin watch as the blonde jinchuriki grows up to be a morally Gray slightly psychotic nin..

The thread user - whilst on a trip to taki naruto accidentally comes across the earth grudge fear scroll and activates it watch as he deals with his new body and abilities guided only by the brief notes the first hokage made on it after his fight with kakazu

Swordsmen of the leaf - after Zabuza, kisame and ragia's defection from the swordsmen yagura orders the last remaining member to be killed believing he will turn on him as well Mangetsu's response is to butcher the swordsmen hopefuls and flee kiri with his infant brother and four of the seven swords watch as he re-establishes his once great group in konoha training his brother and two young children in the way of the swords one with spiky blonde hair and insane chakra levels and the other a brown haired Chinese buns girl who has already developed interest in weapons.

Narutos godmother - more uzumaki like naruto eg red hair taken outside the village by his godmother Tsunade he is raised to be a medic nin which should have been impossible but no one told him … or tsunade watch as he takes the world by storm with his chakra chains, insane strength and whats that diamond tattoo for ? also slug summons

Naruto of the fire temple - hiruzen believes that if naruto can grow up with complete control over his emotions then he should be able to harness the kyubis chakra and become the weapon konoha needs, he could just give him to danzo but that seems like a terrible idea, see a calmer naruto (at least to start) take on the ninja world with the ninja monks odd use of chakra

So pick your favourite or the one that sounds best and leave it in the reviews which ever gets most (even if its only one vote) i will write and hopefully this will keep me more focused.