Feral

A Story of Naruto

Chapter 9

Naru/Sasu: 4 (still beat by the "no yaoi" as well as most of the het pairings...)

Naruto/Hina/Tayu/Tema/Anko: 3

Naruto/Anko: 3

Naruto/Anko/Tayuya/Hana: 1

Naruto/Harem: 2 (Mmm, porno. I don't think allows lemons, though.)

Naruto/Badass Hinata (Coz she is badass already, all votes for Naru/Hina have been moved.): 21

Naruto/Hina/Tema/Tayu: 16 (Lawl.)

Naruto/Tema/Tayu/Anko: 1

Naruto/Anko/Tayuya: 2

Naruto/A good pairing: 4

Naruto/Temari: 2

Naruto/Tayuya: 2

Naruto/Hana: 1 (lol owned)

Sasu/Saku: 1

KibaxNaru lol: 3

NO Yaoi: 5

Any Yaoi: 1 (wtf?)

AN: We may very well have a winner. Unfortunately, Hinata has an advantage over people that have not appeared yet in the story.

If you want to, keep voting. It doesn't make me angry or anything.

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The many groups of Genin were gathered together in the main room of the tower after the testing time was complete. Only twenty-one test-takers remained – seven teams.

The third examiner stood before them, and the Hokage sat behind him on a raised viewing platform.

He began. "We are going to have... a preliminary before the final exam. There are too many left. First... does anyone want to forfeit this final exam?"

"Forfeit?" Naruto said, quizzically.

"Some genin do not feel ready for the final exam... single combat. It's possible you might die." Then, the examiner coughed a single time.

"Ha, I can kick anyone's ass. Bring it on." Naruto said, but he was interrupted.

"I'll forfeit." Kabuto said, and walked out the back door after Hayate, the examiner, nodded.

"Very well. Get to the raised platforms on the sides of this arena and we'll randomly generate the preliminary rounds."

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"Alright." The examiner coughed, "The first fight will be..." He looked up at a screen with two names. "Uchiha Sasuke... versus Inuzuka Kiba."

Sasuke grinned and leaped into the center of the arena, then walked over to one side. Kiba tried the same, but had to go to his knees to land properly.

Sasuke cut a terrifying figure, his hair tangled and sticking up, his body covered in dark patterns, and his eyes glowing red.

Kiba looked at Sasuke, eyes wide. "You're like Naruto, now?"

Sasuke smiled. "You could say that."

Kiba raised his arm, and looked at the examiner. "I give up."

Sasuke growled, but leaped back to his place on the sidelines. Kiba walked slowly up the stairs, mumbling to himself. "Why'd I have to face the powerful guy? There's enough people here I could beat..."

The examiner looked at the screen again. "Gaara of the sand versus Yoroi Akado."

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After the blood-covered bits of Akado had been removed from the arena, the examiner called another match. "Zaku Versus Shino!"

Sasuke was lead off into another room by Kakashi, and Naruto followed silently.

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Sasuke finally turned off his cursed seal at Kakashi's command, and Kakashi began the boring and repetitive process of sealing it up.

"This will only work if your willpower is behind it. Otherwise..." Kakashi said.

Sasuke interjected. "In other words, it won't do anything, but my will is strong enough to control it. Why are you telling me things I already know..." Sasuke trailed off as a massive killing intent entered the room.

"You!" Kakashi said, and turned around, holding one wrist with his hand.

"See how he uses my cursed seal so naturally?" Orochimaru gloated. "He is already mine, Kakashi."

"I'm no one's. I belong to me." Sasuke said, and flared his cursed seal back into life.

"How excellent... unlocking hidden potential in the seal that even I didn't know of... you will be a great ninja under me..." Orochimaru cackled.

Kakashi began to form a ball of lightning in his hand. "Orochimaru! I'm killing you even if it is my last action on this world!"

"You can't." Orochimaru said simply, and the killing intent froze Kakashi in his stance.

Orochimaru then turned. "Ah, and you seem to be here also. A good chance for me to kill a pest I should have taken care of in the Forest of Death."

Naruto moved unexpectedly, flaring demonic chakra and managing to land a shove on Orochimaru that pushed him into the room in front of Kakashi, who was still stuck in the beginning of his chidori. Sasuke sat and watched, thinking.

Orochimaru snarled. "You aren't getting any mercy! No more playing around, as fun as it was..." He began to form hand seals, faster than even Naruto could follow, and threw himself at Naruto in the blink of an eye, connecting with Naruto's neck...

For Naruto, everything went black.

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Naruto blinked, then blinked again. "Where...?"

He looked around. Gone was his foe, gone were Kakashi and Sasuke, gone was the small room covered in seals. Instead, he now stood ankle-deep in some sort of brackish water, in a sewer-like maze.

"What the fuck?" He said, then, hearing no answer, growled and began trudging forward.

"I'd better... figure out where the hell I am and what happened." Naruto tried to draw demonic chakra to light up the tunnel, but it was more difficult than normal. He got a small red light, and, seeing nothing important, chose a path at random.

When he heard labored breathing in the distance, he began to run, It was eerily familiar, though he knew no voice so deep.

When he saw a red glow, he stopped, worried about what he would find, but curiosity spurred him onward, into a large room with massive bars, covered by a fraying seal. Red light spilled forth from the bars like smoke, billowing around the floor before rising slowly to the ceiling.

"Who... who..." the breathing began to become a panting. "Who dares enter the presence of the Demon Lord Kyuubi?" Show yourself!" the bars shook, and a roar issued forth between pants. "Show yourself! Who dares?"

Naruto began to sweat. "No. no. It isn't, it can't be. I'm..."

When his eyes became adjusted, he saw it. No noble fox this, but a wounded beast, lying in a cage. Caged.

"No... No!"

"Who dares speak... to the great Kyuubi! Show yourself! Where am I? Show yourself! I can't see!" The beast roared and moaned, trying to appear terrible and powerful but failing.

Naruto stumbled forward, up to the bars. "No. It's a lie. I'm the Kyuubi. I'm me."

The Kyuubi raised its head, looking for the source of the voice, and Naruto immediately saw its eyes. White orbs, sightless. Red energy leaked from its body, pooling around the floor before flowing out of the room.

Naruto knew, somehow, that this flow was going to him.

"Who dares harm the Kyuubi! I'll find you, though you have somehow trapped me! I'll kill you!" The Kyuubi sounded more and more desperate with each word.

"You're not the Kyuubi!" Naruto said, beginning to draw more and more of his demonic energy. The pace of the red light increased, and the Kyuubi roared in pain.

"Who dares... AaAagh!" The Kyuubi snarled as one of his many tails was torn off into a particularly large chunk of red light.

Naruto mentally counted. Only seven. One had been gone since before he had entered the room.

"You lying wretch! You have only seven tails... and... they are all mine! Mine! I am the Kyuubi!" Drawing with all his might, the light went even faster, and with the rush of power flowing into him, the light sped so fast he could barely see the fox in the cage at all. The fox roared, lamely, the pitch and the pain increasing with each passing second.

As the light began to slow, Naruto looked in the cage again. A limp, single tail remained on the once tremendous beast now the size of a normal fox. Broken, blinded, and bleeding, the fox roared one final time in pain before weakly trying to stand.

Naruto tried to enter the cage, but was stopped by the fraying seal flaring into life.

"You dare... to impede the demon lord Kyuubi, wherever he chooses to go?" Naruto said, and with a flexing of his arms, now a thousandfold stronger and coursing with demonic evergy, he blasted through the frail paper seal, demolishing the bars and standing before the fox.

"You! How dare you attakc the Kyuubi!" The fox whined pathetically.

"You aren't the one to be asking questions. You aren't going to be doing anything, anymore."

Naruto crushed the fox between his hands, and the world flashed into red.

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"RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH" Naruto screamed as Orochimaru's hand broke his skin. Orochimaru was laughing, Kakashi was frozen, and Sasuke barely had time to react before a wave of red engulfed the room, blasting Kakashi and Sasuke to the ground.

Naruto stood in the doorway, pristine and perfect though perfectly naked, his clothing replaced by conveniently opaque swirling red chakra. Orochimaru knelt, writhing in agony from burns all over his body. Orochimaru snarled in pain.

"I'll get you... for this!" Orochimaru then formed a seal and slid through the stone floor, escaping into the ground below. Naruto smirked in victory, then, without warning, the red chakra wavered and vanished, leaving him to fall to the ground and lightly start to snore.

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Naruto groggily returned to consciousness. He sat up, noticing that he was sitting on the raised platforms by the arena once again.

"How'd I get here? What happened to Oro—-"

Naruto was interrupted by Kakashi. "Shh. You missed two fights... Shino beat Zaku and Kankuro used puppets to beat Misumi... that's one of Kabuto's teammates. Hmm, that boy was right to quit... his whole team is dead but him..."

Naruto smirked. "Which match is next?"

Kakashi pointed. "You're just in time. It's Sakura against Ino..."

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"Begin!" And the two girls stayed still, staring each other down.

"Ino! It's not like how it was when we were little!" Sakura yelled, confidently.

"You're still weaker, Sakura! I'll get Sasuke yet!" Ino said, smirking.

"If only... you knew what he is really after..." Sakura said, a spike of sadness hitting her fighting spirit. "I may be the weakest person on my team... but my team is the strongest! And we are all strong!"

Ino paused at that. "You're admitting that you're weaker than Naruto? In front of Sasuke?"

"It's... obvious to him, anyway. I'm not sure... that he is even as strong as Naruto."

"But Naruto fainted just watching that match?"

Sakura giggled. "I guess you might think that. You never were as good at sensing as I was. And now... I can run circles around you in terms of skill. Your team is lazy... and mine? Mine is the strongest for a reason."

Ino growled. "Stop talking down as if you're some big-shot! You're just a genin!"

Sakura smiled again. "Let's get this over with. I'll show you that I'm not a little girl anymore, for you to protect and boss around."

Ino charged at Sakura, fully expecting her to charge as well, but Sakura leaped to the side, gracefully dodging at the last minute. Ino turned to face Sakura, who had drawn a kunai.

"I made this technique just to show you... to show everyone just how dedicated I am to becoming a strong kunoichi. To show you all how I have changed in focus from petty, young girl pursuits to serious kunoichi goals." Sakura held her long hair in one hand, and her kunai came down, severing it into a short cut.

"Special Technique... Sakura." Sakura's voice echoed as she dropped the strands of hair, which fell in a mesmerizing pattern. As Ino watched, Sakura faded into invisibility, and the hair on the floor seemed to grow, becoming transparent and bursting into the air (AN: I'm trying to describe some sort of genjutsu drug-trip here, so don't worry about the strange descriptions!).

Ino looked around, frowning. Suddenly, she heard a noise, and began to make seals. Sakura flashed into existence, throwing some kunai which Ino dodged. Ino's hands moved to the familiar family jutsu.

"How are you going to win with that technique?" Sakura asked, curious. "You can't even his me with it."

Ino snarled again. "I'll show you I'm just as dedicated as you are!" Quickly cutting her own hair, Ino smiled, tossing it to the ground. "It was getting in my face anyway!"

Sakura laughed. "How will that help you, though?" Then she gasped, as the blond hairs scattered on the floor began to bind her legs.

"I can hit you now!" Ino cried, then shot her jutsu at Sakura, tranferring her mind.

"I give up!" Ino said, in Sakura's body, but then the world flashed into different colors, and Ino was standing in her starting position, hands in the air. The examiner marked something on a clipboard, then spoke. "Ino forfeits. Sakura wins."

Ino was dumbfounded. "What... how?"

Sakura smiled. "When I cut my hair, I cast a genjutsu. When you thought you were in my body, you surrendered. Then, I released you. You've been fighting a phantom of me for three entire minutes." Sakura smiled, then jumped back up to stand beside Sasuke.

Ino's mind shook when Sasuke smiled at Sakura and said...

he said... "Nice one."

Ino walked slowly back to her team, the beginnings of a tear in her right eye.

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AN: WOW. That took way too long! I'm so sorry! Voting may continue, as nothing actually really actually happened relationship-wise this entire chapter! Savagely, I'm not doing the whole chart but- well I forgot what I rated people before and in fact it's been a while so I'm gonna just do what feels right.

Kabuto's Teammates: DEAD

Sakura: Finally, a real shinobi! Almost. B MINUS

Sasuke: B+

Naruto: Scared of what he has discovered, and his beliefs shaken! B OMG well he'll be back to normal soon no worries!

Orochimaru: A+ EXCELLENT WORK 101 HE EVEN GOT THE BONUS POINT!

Kiba: B+

Kakashi: B

Ino: D+

Chouji's Potato Chips: C+

AN: AGAIN! And that's all for now, sorry for not giving a cliffhanger but I'm out of ropes and those little spike things you use to climb cliffs anyway. And let's not forget harnesses, boy you'd be dead if you forgot those things!