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Rebuilt; a story by Null.
Orochimaru was livid; this brat had given him a slight challenge, and most importantly, had almost ruined his plans. But that is no longer a problem; he had just sealed the Kyuubi's power away. Well, there was a slight pulse of chakra before the boy fell unconscious. Now all he had to do was mark his new container, and he could be on his way, yes, this was just some entertainment, he decided.
Rushing the stunned snake-basket-to-be, he punched him in the stomach, before leaping back and doing some quick hand seals, then extended his neck
And bit down, giving the boy the Ten no Juin, yes, this was a marvelous day, first he beats on the Yondaime's legacy, and then he claims his container.
Kyuubi was pissed, that damn snake dare strengthen his seal! Not wanting to be left vulnerable, he reached out with the chakra remaining outside of the seal, and copied the DNA from his jailor's teammates, and fed it to Naruto's regenerative ability. The boy's body would do the rest, the boy would no longer need to rely on him, and he would be strong on his own with this gift.
Sakura was scared, tired, and sweaty. Her teammates were just decimated by some weirdo dressed like a girl, which had a fetish for snakes and little boys. Sasuke-kun had a fever, and appeared to be having a nightmare, and Naruto-baka, well he seemed about the same. She sighed, if only she wasn't so weak, her team would be done with this part of the exam, even Naruto, the dead-last of the academy had fought against that snake weirdo, and had done better than Sasuke-kun too.
That's when she sensed it, a presence behind her, turning with amazing speed with a kunai ready to throw, she paused, and her eyebrow began to twitch, 'Just a squirrel…' She thought, before she let her kunai fly, scaring the rodent away. Then the three sound-nin from early rushed into the clearing. Her eyes wide with shock, then she smirked.
That smirk didn't last long as the Oto-nin disarmed all of her traps, now she would have to face them head on. Well, maybe not, that weird spandex kid, Lee had just shown up.
What the hell had happened? His head felt like he fallen from the Hokage Monument, head first. His chakra felt. Wrong. And there was this raging buzz in the back of his mind, and his stomach burned, where that Snake-Teme had hit with that purple-no-jutsu thing, what did the snake call it? 'GO-G-YU-U? No… GO-G-YO-U? Gogyou Fuuin Yeah, That sounded right!' He thought.
And who the hell was fighting? Making all that noise! Sure as hell wasn't helping his headache that's for sure! Scowling, and opening his eyes as he sat up, he looked to his left, to see his teammates, team 8, bushy-brows, and those Oto-nin. Sasuke was kicking one of the Oto-nins' ass, with a sadistic grin. That Teme was always showing off. But what was up with that awful chakra pouring out of him? Trying to focus more, so he could see through all that chakra, he felt a small tingling feeling in the back of his eyes, like when you sit on your leg too long and it 'falls asleep', then all of the sudden it was gone, and he could see more clearly, and everything moved slower. He could see chakra being molded throughout Sasuke's body, and he could see chakra being molded in the Oto-nin's arms and shoulders. Why was the Oto-nin molding chakra to those areas? And why was Sasuke molding chakra throughout his body?
Concentrating, trying to remember where he had heard what that does. He closed his eyes trying to block out all the distractions so he could think, it hit him, in the Academy, Iruka-sensei had talked about using chakra to dampen impacts, pain, and physical damage, and it could be used to augment muscles for added speed and strength. 'Well, that makes sense I guess. The Oto-nin is getting his arms ripped off so he's molding chakra to them, to strengthen them and lessen the pain. And Sasuke-baka is molding chakra throughout his body for added speed, and strength.' He analyzed to himself.
Why could he see chakra? Going back to Iruka-sensei's lectures, he remembered him talking about Konoha's Kekkei Genkai, specifically; Doujutsu, eye techniques. The Byakugan could see chakra, among other things, and the Sharingan could see chakra. The Byakugan could see through objects in near 360 degree vision. He couldn't see behind him, so it's definitely not the Byakugan. The Sharingan allowed the user to see more clearly, see things in slow motion, could copy nearly any Nin-, Gen-, and taijutsu. He remembered that these Doujutsu require chakra to work, so if his eyes are pulling chakra, then perhaps, he had a Doujutsu. Feeling his chakra he found that there was, in fact, chakra being molded in his eyes, and in a few places in his head, now just to see his eyes so he knew what Doujutsu it was. How was he going to do that?
His hitai-ate! He could see his reflection in his hitai-ate! But he couldn't feel it on his forehead, where was it? Looking down, in the area he had been lying in, he found it, folded, and cleaned with a damp rage lying beside it. Grabbing it, he looked at his eyes in it. They were red, with a single tomoe in his left eye, and two in his right. 'So, the Sharingan, that would explain the chakra being molded in my brain, probably needs more energy to process all of the information, and to help copy things to the memory.' He realized, 'Perhaps, if I focused on a particular thing in my vision, I could copy it.' Looking up, he noticed that the fight was over, and Sasuke was smirking, as the Oto-nin ran off. He focused on the smirk. Then concentrated, there, he smirked the Uchiha "I'm-better-than-you-are" smirk, as he cut the chakra from his eyes, noticing that the chakra molded in his brain stopped as well.
Standing, and tying his hitai-ate to his forehead, he glanced around as the smirk was released, Bushy-brows' female teammate was collecting him so that they could leave, and Ino was helping Sakura with her hair, witch was shorter he noticed, 'She's still beautiful with short hair. Actually, I like it better.' He though as he smiled a shy smile, Chouji, as always was munching on his chips, and Shikamaru looked bored. Sasuke was brooding, again.
Team 7, with both scrolls, made their way to the tower, at top speed. Their second scroll was an easy steal; they had found an Iwa team, with one unconscious team member. Naruto and Sasuke had taken the other two out rather quickly. As they approached, Naruto realized that they were trapped in a Genjutsu. He stopped, and flashed his Sharingan to make sure, he had deactivated it before his teammates saw.
"Ne, doesn't this look familiar?" He asked his teammates, as they had stopped as well.
"We're in a forest dobe, it all looks the same." Sasuke answered.
"Yeah, Naruto, it's not like we have been going in circles or anything." Sakura agreed.
"So then, why hasn't the tower gotten any closer yet?" He asked, with his eyes closed, "We are trapped in a Genjutsu. And I'm suppose to be the stupid one." Naruto scoffed and frowned.
"What are you talking about dobe?" Sasuke asked, looking at him strangely.
"Ok, genius, take a peek with your Sharingan." He stated, "Or, does that thing on your neck hurt too much?" He asked smugly.
Sasuke's eyes flew open in shock and then turned a glare at Sakura. "No, genius, she didn't tell me. I figured it out on my own. Don't automatically assume we're the weakest link in this team Sasuke, just because you're an Uchiha. Your arrogance is what makes this team fail, when we fail. You Sasuke are the weakest link." He finished, looking up at Sasuke and Sakura's shocked faces.
Sasuke's shock quickly turned to rage, and he charged. "Point and case, fool." He mumbled, as he side stepped at the last second, putting Sasuke off balance. Naruto dropped low, into a reverse sweep, and took Sasuke's legs out from under him.
"The Uchiha have fallen far, if this is all they have to offer." Naruto stated blandly.
Sasuke's Sharingan came to life, as he lifted himself off the ground, and glared murderously at Naruto. "So this is how Itachi must have stared at his clansmen as he slaughtered them. I'm so glad you intend to follow his path, the path of a genius Uchiha." Naruto drawled. Naruto's words however, fell on deaf ears, fore Sasuke had already started his charge. Naruto sighed, and closed his eyes. When he opened them again, Sasuke stopped dead in his tracks. Naruto smirked.
"No, I'm not an Uchiha, and I did not have the Sharingan until that Snake bastard hit me with that seal. From what I've been able to figure out is that, that malicious chakra I had been using to fight him, had copied DNA from you, and probably Sakura-chan as well, and that my natural regenerative ability, altered my body using that DNA. My Sharingan activated while you were fighting those Oto-nin." Naruto informed smugly. He sighed, and closed his eyes.
"Let's just finish this exam, get some rest, and we can get a few spars in after this part of the exam." He stated, with a smirk. Sasuke smirked right back, and continued down their previous path. Naruto looked to Sakura as she was right next to him and whispered, "I like your hair like this Sakura-chan." He paused, "It makes you 10 times as beautiful as you were before, I hope you keep it this way." He finished, with a gentle, though shy smile. Sakura blushed, and gave a shy 'Arigatou', and smiled back.
Naruto got a mischievous grin, then in a slightly louder conspiratorial whisper, he said, "You know, Sasuke still hasn't realized we're trapped in a Genjutsu." Sakura giggled softly, and he smirked when he saw Sasuke pause when he had heard him.
Team 7 made to the tower relatively easily, with a minor annoyance known as Ame-nin, and they had gotten another heaven scroll from them. So here they are, trying to figure out the meaning of some hanging scroll. They had realized that they needed to open their scrolls.
"Wait, before we open them. Don't tell anyone about my Sharingan, I'll tell Hokage-jiji and Kakashi-sensei myself, after this part of the exam is over." Naruto said, looking to his teammates, who both nodded, he nodded in thanks, and opened his scroll.
Sasuke opened his, and smoke began to raise from the scrolls, thinking fast they dropped them and jump back, as the smoke cleared, a figure came into view.
"Iruka-sensei!" Naruto shouted with happiness.
"Hello, Naruto. It's good to see you, all of you. Congratulations and completing the second part of the Chuunin Exams." Iruka greeted, causing team 7 to beam, and in Sasuke's case, smirk.
"Well, you're just in time too, if you had come any later, you have been disqualified. Follow me; you need to get to the meeting with the other contestants." Iruka informed, before he turned to leave, with team 7 following behind.
The preliminaries went smoothly for the most part, Naruto almost used his Sharingan, just so he could knock Kiba out of his stupid spin, and Sasuke almost used his Curse Seal, to royally beat the shit out of his opponent, and Sakura knocked Ino out, while getting knocked out by Ino. After Sasuke's match, Kakashi took him to a separate room, to seal his curse seal. Where Sasuke told Kakashi about Orochimaru using some sort of sealing technique on Naruto's stomach, he received an eye-smile as a response. (an. Not gonna write out the prelims, waste of time! It's the same as canon.)
After the Preliminaries, Kakashi took Naruto to the Hokage's office, where they are now. Sarutobi was watching Naruto with concern, as he smoked his pipe, and Kakashi was reading his book, nonchalantly, while Naruto fidgeted, uncomfortably.
"Naruto-kun, why don't you tell use what happened, when you were fighting that 'Snake-teme' as Sasuke had called him." Sarutobi suggested and Naruto nodded.
"Well, there was a Fuuton jutsu that blew me away, while Sakura and Sasuke were close enough to the trees to get cover. When I landed, there was this giant snake, which ate me." He grinned, "Guess he bit off more than he could chew, because when I used Kage Bunshin no Jutsu, he exploded." Naruto chuckled lightly, Sarutobi smiled, and Kakashi looked up from his book, and eye-smiled.
"Then, I figured, if I had gotten attacked by that snake, it probably wasn't coincidence, so I ran as fast as I could to Sakura-chan, and Sasuke. When I got there, Sasuke was about to give our scroll to that snake guy, trying to buy our freedom with it. This if you ask me, was stupid, from what it looked like the guy had been playing with Sasuke, giving him our scroll would just mean he had gotten paid to keep playing with us." He paused, "So I caught the scroll as Sasuke threw it, and I decked him in the cheek and told him he was an Idiot. Then the snake guy attacked again, I got enraged, this guy was going to hurt my teammates, and he had been playing with Sasuke, like he was a puppet. Something inside me snapped, and Kyuubi's chakra filled my system, and I rushed him. He was still stronger, and faster than me, but not by much, I got the feeling I was nothing more than an annoyance. Then he sent a snake after a defenseless Sasuke, apparently, as a distraction, because as soon as I stopped the snake, the guy grabbed me with his tongue, and sealed off Kyuubi's chakra with a Gogyou Fuuin." He paused, and looked up. Sarutobi was scowling, and Kakashi had put his book away.
"But before the seal was complete, Kyuubi's chakra pulsed outward. Then came back, my theory is that, Kyuubi, thinking I'm useless without his power, which isn't far off I realize, wanted a way for me to protect myself, and him by proxy, while he was sealed. When I woke up a day and a half later, I had the Sharingan." He paused, and activated it, getting a collective gasp. "Kyuubi must have collected DNA from Sasuke, and Sakura-chan, and using my regenerative ability, yes it's mine, my body developed it from Kyuubi's chakra, so when my regenerative ability, realized my body didn't fit this new me, with the added DNA, it got to work. Now I have the Sharingan, I most likely have better chakra control, and my mind seems to function more smoothly, quicker, and I seem to be a bit calmer." He finished.
Sarutobi took on a thinking pose, while Kakashi closed his eye in thought. Sarutobi 'Hmm'd' then spoke, "We will have to run some medical tests to collaborate your theory, but most of all, you will need some training with your Sharingan." He paused, and looked to Kakashi, "I'm sure Kakashi would be willing, though he has already been ordered by my former teammates to train Sasuke, one on one." He finished.
Kakashi stepped forward, "It would have been my wish to train the 2 of you together, because of Sasuke's instability, especially now, after he had received the curse seal, but orders are orders. Though, I will leave a number of scrolls, and some instructions with Ebisu, and he can train you. Don't give me that look, Naruto. Ebisu is an Elite Tutor, he would be able to teach you more than I, because it's his job to teach, and I will leave him technique scrolls, and some Sharingan training techniques as well." He finished.
"Hmm. I agree, this would work best, and since my former student Jiraiya is in town, he will be able to remove the Gogyou Fuuin, and allow you to sign the Toad Contract, Yondaime-dono wanted you to inherit his jutsu, for saving Konoha from Kyuubi. This would mean you would have to become Jiraiya's apprentice, because he, being Yondaime-dono's sensei, is the only one who knows his techniques." Sarutobi nodded to himself, as he finished.
"Now before you go, let's find out what your chakra affinity is, so your sensei's know what to teach you, Hmm?" Sarutobi asked, as he fished something out of his desk.
Holding up a small, rectangular piece of paper, "This is chakra sensitive paper; it will react to the nature of your chakra in a unique manner. Just focus some chakra into the paper." He informed, as he handed the paper to Naruto.
Naruto raised a brow and then shrugged, and passed some chakra through the paper, it split in two, then crinkled and turned to ash. Causing Sarutobi's pipe to fall from his mouth, and Kakashi's eye to go wide with shock, followed by an eye smile.
"It would seem Naruto-kun, that you have three chakra affinities, Wind, Lightning, and Fire. This is quite rare; Ebisu will teach you more about affinities, when he starts your training. Now, you should go find Jiraiya, you should find him peeking on the women's bath, at the bath house, he has long white hair, and, well you'll know him, when you see him. Just ask him to remove your Gogyou Fuuin, and tell him to come speak with me." Sarutobi said, as he went back to his paperwork.
Vote for parings, I'm leaning towards a Naruto x Sakura x Ino with a little Naruto x Temari on the side. This is my story, so don't get mad if I do something you don't like, but I will try and work with everyone's suggestions. For parings just tell me who you like to see with who.
Null.