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Chapter 19: The New Team Seven, A New Team Captain?
The next morning Naruto, Sauske, and Sakura all met at training ground seven. As Naruto arrived with Fuu in tow he smiled seeing his team mates waiting as usual for him
"morning guys! Did you sleep well?"
Sauske smirked "like a baby, did you guys remember to eat breakfast this time around?"
The three teammates chuckled at Sauske's joke from their previous encounter here. Sakura quickly walked over to Fuu "so what's it like staying at the namikaze estate?"
As the girls chatted Naruto walked over to Sauske and slugged him in the shoulder "so are you ever going to ask her out man? I've noticed you guys hanging out a lot more lately."
Sauske smirked "I asked her out when I was released from questioning, Naruto you really need to pay more attention to people around you."
Sauske pointed to Sakura's right hand, when Naruto noticed a small gold band across it his head snapped back "you didn't…"
For the first time in a long time Sauske laughed "it's a promise ring, just like the one you gave hinata, that way we both know were committed to each other. I trust you above all people can understand that" he said flicking the earing Naruto was wearing.
The blonde chuckled "yeah I guess, so any idea who our proctor will be? I'm really itching to show off a few new moves!"
Naruto quickly drew out some mini kunai and began to count them. As he did Sauske noticed a seal made into the handle just like the fourth hokage's.
"Naruto are those what I think they are?" Sauske asked taking one from him and looking it over.
Naruto's face broke out in his trademark fox grin "yup, the ones he used were too big and bulky for me to use so I bought a bunch of these minis and came up with a new move using these."
Sauske handed it back to him "you wanting to show it off today?"
Before Naruto could answer tsunade and shizune walked up "well now doesn't this bring back memories?" someone called from the back.
Low and behold it was kakashi speaking with asuma and might guy on both sides of him followed by shikamaru as well.
All four of the former students bowed to their now superiors "so I take it that this will be a four on four match?" Naruto asked strapping the mini kunai belt to his waist.
Tsunade nodded "you got it the team with the last man standing wins, shikamaru has been told if he goes easy on you that he will be punished so don't expect any help from him got it?
The four nodded as tsunade and shizune disappeared into the trees , the four students took their attack formation.
As the four proctors did the same, Naruto was the first to speak "Sauske you take kakashi, you can match him in sharingan and element as well, Sakura you take asuma since your both close range specialists, I'll take guy because I can keep up with him."
The two nodded as he turned to Fuu "you take shikamaru, he'll use long range attacks like you will and the shadow possession will be a good challenge for you, you ok with that?"
Fuu nodded as kakashi spoke up "solid plan Naruto but what happens if we switch opponents on you?"
Kakashi ran at Naruto only to strike air as when he reached where he had been standing Naruto vanished.
"then we'll just get creative" Naruto shouted as he came out from the tree line with and all to familiar hand form
"kohona secret technique: 1000 years of pain!"
Kakashi quickly back flipped away from where Naruto was striking only for Naruto to be captured by shikamaru's shadow possession. Sakura quickly jumped in pulling her gloves tight and slamming her fist onto the ground making the proctors scatter.
Sauske quickly dashed to kakashi slashing in a wide arc with his sword shouting "chidori blade!" a wide arc of lightning sprouting from where the sword slashed. Kakashi quickly countered "earth style: mud wall!"
A wall of clay quickly appeared in front of him, Sauske quickly leaped over the wall only to find kakashi waiting there with a chidori of his own
Sauske quickly pressed his legs against the wall and propelled himself towards the river skidding across the surface while making one of his own and colliding with Kakashi's in a blinding light,
Meanwhile across the field Sakura had her hands full trying to fight off asuma with his trench knives,
She wasn't really afraid of getting hurt she was just annoyed at having to go on the defense for so long! She wanted to fight not run!
Asuma stopped and took a deep breath "fire style: burning ash jutsu!" a thick cloud of smoke appeared all around Sakura stopping her dead in her tracks
Normally asuma would have lit the cloud on fire and finished his opponent, but with this being a subdue mission he was content to let her pass out and the tie her up.
As he put his knives away he turned back to the cloud only to find sakura come charging at him full force at about fifteen yards away, Before he could re-draws his knives he had to retreat from being crushed by her super strength.
As Sakura drew closer she quickly stomped a loose rock in front of her launching it in front of her and punched the stone straight at asuma. When he saw it coming he knocked the rock away only to be knocked silly by Sakura who was right behind it.
Asuma was sent flying into one of the three posts and was unable to move, sakura quickly tied the saurtobi to the post.
"sorry looks like you lose asuma sensei!" Sakura said smirking
Asuma chuckled "yeah but I think shikamaru is having fun toying with Fuu, right now."
As he finished his sentence Fuu came flying from within the forest hauling an unconscious shikamaru by the arm.
When she landed and tied him to the stake she threw some water on him and woke him up. Shikamaru stunned by the water sputtered and coughed "Hey! Easy with that ok?"
Asuma looked at his student slack jawed "what happened? You were in the canopy you should have had her"
Shikamaru grunted " she played me by letting me possess a clone and use up most of my chakra chasing it and snuck up behind me and knocked me unconscious. Just like a girl always so troublesome!"
Fuu smirked and high fived Sakura "well its girls two and boys zero, but I think we had it easy compared to them.
Meanwhile back with kakashi and Sauske the two were throwing everything at each other in terms of power, finally in a desperate attempt to win Sauske activated the mangeyko stage of his sharingan and opened his left eye.
Kakashi quickly dodged the black flame buy was quickly caught in Sauske's genjutsu, as Sauske brought kakashi back and tied him to the stake, he released the genjutsu and stepped back letting his teacher breathe.
Kakashi's head snapped up when he was released "when did you unlock the mangeyko Sauske?
Sauske grinned "when I thought I had killed Itachi, I knew something changed and I've been working on it ever since then."
Meanwhile off in another part of the field Naruto and Gai were busy staring each other down waiting for the other to make the first move.
Suddenly Naruto reaches into his back pouch and pulls out a small music player, might guy the ever cautious immediately reacts and jumps back expecting a shuriken.
Seeing what Naruto had pulled out stops and stares at the young genin. "Naruto what are you doing?"
Naruto smiles and turns on the small player, as the music starts playing (think ignite by Eir Aoi) Naruto tightens down on his hiate and smiles "well bushier brow sensei, it time to get serious and what better way to do that than with some serious tunes!"
Guy smiles and gives Naruto one of his nice guy poses "YOSH Naruto, the Flames Of Youth burn Bright inside you!" guys immediately reaches down and unbuckles the weights froim his legs with an incredible thud resounding from them.
Naruto gulps at little imagining what kind of weight guy carried on his legs remembering when lee had dropped his during his fight with gara.
Guy immediately disappeared and reappeared behind Naruto sending the genin flying with a roundhouse kick to the back.
Naruto gasped from the immediate pain and recovered mid-air drawing several kunai and throwing them all around him trying his best to keep guy from getting to close to fast.
Guy immediately retreated and as soon as Naruto touched the ground sprinted towards him. Not one to be out done Naruto summoned ten clones and began swinging as fast as he could trying to at least connect one punch.
Guy smiled and began to effortlessly dispatch Naruto clones until he was left standing in the field alone
"Yosh! Naruto you truly are Kakashi's student taking advantage of your clones as usual! But it won't be enough if you plan on taking me out!"
Naruto smiled and jumped out from his hiding place launching himself in the air with his mini-kunai drawn "SHURINKEN RAIN!" he shouted as he began mercilessly pelting the area around guy with shuriken while descending towards him.
Guy looked up and smiled "HA! You missed Naruto!" he yelled motioning at the kunai surrounding him.
Naruto smiled as he landed a few feet from guy and disappeared.
Guy sweat dropped when he sensed Naruto behind him. "I wasn't aiming from you" Naruto whispered before sending him flying with a chakra powered kick.
Naruto immediately began to rajin every time he hit guy in order to keep him moving and recovering. As he was fighting Naruto shouted "FLYING RAJIN: WRATH OF THE THUNDER GOD TECHNIQUE!"
As he finished and grabbed guy Naruto rajined himself over to were the rest of the team were and tied guy to a stake as well after collecting his kunai and music.
Seeing his eternal rival covered in bruises and beaten unconscious kakashi looked up at Naruto "alright Naruto, I know you're stronger than before, but did you have to beat him silly?"
Sauske stared down at guy and then quickly turned to Naruto "what did you do to him?"
Naruto broke out into a wide grin and twirled one of his mini-kunai on his finger "I told you I had something new to try out, worked a little better than I thought but I don't think an ordinary ninja would fall for it. I call it the flying rajin: wrath of the thunder god, if this was an enemy fight though I would be using clones and rasengan, but it wasn't necessary"
Tsunade and shizune both started back towards the students they were both shocked and amazed at what they had seen today.
They had selected they top shinobi they could find and yet they still couldn't hold a candle to their own students!
Tsunade chuckled as they approached "well done to all of you, not only did you pass but you also proved that you can work together as a squad and strategize as well, so as of now your all officially promoted to the rank of jonin, except for Fuu whom I will have to give the title of Chunin, but that can be changed if she shows as much promise as we have seen here today."
As the four teens celebrated tsunade coughed and gained their attention again "now since there are four of you I'm going to promote one of you to squad leader, and that individual will be…"
Tsunade paused as the four of them eyed her suspiciously waiting for her to finish. "Sauske Uchiha! You are now the new leader of team seven, report to my office in the morning to receive your first mission!"
Naruto smiled and threw his arm around his old friend congratulating him on his new position, while Sakura just smiled as she watched the small scene.
Sure Sauske was annoyed at his friend for such a display, but he was also happy, Happy to be home and surrounded by true friends. She had hoped for this the whole time he had been gone and now that her dream had come true she just hoped that this feeling would last.
Meanwhile after finishing up with Sauske and Sakura, Naruto quickly led Fuu deeper into the forest.
There they found hinata waiting for them, she and Naruto quickly Embraced and turned to face Fuu
"are you ready to begin? Naruto asked Taking his shirt off so he could freely manipulate his seal.
Fuu nodded, but blushed before turning away from Naruto "Naruto, I know this shouldn't be an issue but I can't really show you my seal" She said all the while staring at the ground in front of her.
Naruto turned and frowned at her "why not?" not catching on to what she was saying.
Fuu's face Turned even redder "because my seal is between my breasts"
Narutos eyes went wide as he realized that her entire chakra network could be compromised due to a bad seal in that specific area. "Fuu, I know your embarrassed to suddenly strip for me but listen very closely to what im about to tell you ok?"
She turned around and looked into Naruto's eyes hearing the seriousness in his voice and nodded
"if your seal is weakened at any point and ruptures because the seven tails tried to take over, with your seal being that close to your heart and the center of your chakra network , you will die." Fuu's eyes went wide at this statement.
She began to stutter for a second but then asked "but couldn't Tsunade help?"
Naruto shook his head "demonic chakra is deadly to ordinary humans; even jinnchuriki can be harmed by it. If it were to all of the sudden replace all the chakra in your body it would be like burning you alive from the inside out. I need to confirm your seal is still intact and that we can move forward with this training"
She nodded and Looked to Hinata "so that's why you're here, to help in case I need healing?"
Hinata nodded and smiled softly "not only is it that; but it's a little easier when there is another woman present to keep my perverted boyfriend in line" she said grinning as Naruto blushed at her comment.
Fuu turned her back to him as she removed her shirt revealing her lime green bra she wore, Taking a deep Breath she reached between her breasts and undid the front clasp and let the garment fall from her body.
The cool breeze quickly stiffened her nipples, though she wasn't as busty as hinata, she was proud of the fact she had grown to a solid B-cup now.
She turned around shutting her eyes as she did so, not able to look at Naruto in her current state.
Naruto on the other hand quickly leaned over and began to examine her seal as quickly as he could, the seal itself was quite small, no bigger that his thumb. But he could tell that whoever had put it into place had been sure to build it correctly.
He smiled and cupped the Girls cheek "You can open your eyes now, there's nothing wrong and your seal is strong so it won't fail.
Fuu slowly opened her eyes and looked up to see Naruto wasn't staring at her breasts, but rather was looking into her eyes, conveying that while he liked what he saw, it wasn't what he wanted most.
Naruto took up a Lotus style meditation position "ok Fuu, were Going to enter your mindscape and talk with the Naabi ok?"
She nodded as Naruto tapped her on the Forehead and they were both pulled directly into her mind. He was Surprised to find that the Naabi's "cage" was no ,more that a Giant Glass jar with holes at the top in the lid, in all honesty it looked like a child's butterfly jar .
As the two approached the low buzzing became more and more pronounced until it was a deafening roar.
" so little maggot, have you finally given up and decided to die? I will be forever grateful to you for freeing me!"
Naruto frowned and walked up to the jar delivering a swift kick to it and making the jar tumble several feet.
As the jar righted itself the Demon quickly flew down to face Naruto rage eminent on its demonic face
"Impudent boy! If I were free from this wretched place I would enjoy sucking the very life from your body as if it were nectar from a flower! How dare you mock me the king of the insects?! You will.."
All of the sudden as a mighty roar, the nine tails, still sealed into his cage appeared within the mindscape. "Chomei! Stop All of This Nonsense There is much work to be done!"
The giant bug was quick to face her brother "Kurama! What have they done to you! Was it this boy? Once I'm free I swear I will find a way to help you escape and then we can.."
Kurama roared once again "SHUT UP YOU DAMM BUG!"
Chomei was quick to quiet though it looked like she wanted to spout out in rage
"listen, you know as well as I do this team of ninja's calling themselves akautski are roaming around collecting out brothers and sisters as we speak. I you know how I feel about humans, but this kit " he said pointing at Naruto "has proven worthy of being my friend, more over than that he has proven worthy of my power, which is why in the last few years I have allowed him to merge himself with my chakra."
Chomei stared wide eyed at her brother. For centuries he had hated humans, so much so that he went out of his way to destroy their homes and villages just for fun. But now he was working with one of his own free will? She would have never dreamed it possible.
"I know of this group you speak of, but why should I help this maggot, she hasn't proven anything to me yet! All she has done is cower and scream in the face of danger. If you ask me she is weak."
Naruto's rage boiled over at this point and walked up to be bug jar and pressed his hand to the glass. Slowly a door came into being and he quickly let himself in and raised his open hand at the Demon.
Chomei was about to make for the boy when she felt something coming down above her and looked up and gasped.
Falling from seemingly nowhere were eight o red gates holing her body and wings to the ground, two more appeared and held her face and tail to the ground bringing her eye to eye with they boy.
He stared at the demon for a moment and then spoke "you of all things in this world should know that we can see what it is like to be feared and hated by everyone! Most of us that call ourselves Jinnchuriki are orphans so we are alone from birth! And what's worse is that people don't ever see us as people, just as demons, or Hell-spawn! We are beaten senseless for no reason, starved and left for dead! Not one person cares for us at first. And when we finally do meet someone there are so many people against us we have to work ten times harder just to be accepted! If you don't think that we can understand what is like to be feared and hated for just being alive think again you god-Dammed Bug!"
Naruto took a few Deep Breaths before exiting the jar to find Fuu staring at him with tears in her eyes. He had described her life in full and she hadn't even had to tell him. She quickly rushed over and crushed her lips to his, trying to express that she loved him, and that no matter what she wanted to be with him, now and forever.
He returned the kiss and then as it broke, smiled and pulled her to him letting her cry into his shoulder all while watching the Demon get up.
Though she was reluctant to do so, Chomei was considering what the young man told him, and came to the conclusion he was right, if anyone truly understood what they went through as demonic beings it was the ones who they were sealed inside of.
Chomei looked up and kurama "so what's the plan, we work with them and fight this group that's coming? Kurama im afraid that's a losing battle and you know it! Especially if the rumors of what the girl has heard are true."
Kuramas eyes snapped open and his head turned towards her "what are you saying, between Me, You, And Guuki. We have never encountered a human besides hashirama that could contain us."
Chomei Shook her head "that's not true, Remember Father?"
Kurama's Eyes Widened "Chomei He's dead! He has been for centuries, not even Edo-Tensi can bring his soul back!"
Chomei shook her head "not exactly, while she was traveling we heard that there is a man in amegakure that has awakened fathers eyes and has the power of the six Paths! He calls himself kami-no-Pein, and is said to be exremley ruthless."
Kurama nodded "then you've just given us even more reason to work with these brats! We need to help them if we are to succeed in taking him down, chomei will you partner with this girl, for the good of us all?"
Chomei thought for a moment and then responded "kurama in all the centuries we've been alive I've never seen you work with a human, I am skeptical but not blind I can see he is special. Maybe it was him that father spoke of so long ago before he passed. I will help in this endeavor if only to help bring about the peace that our father tried so hard to create."
Naruto spoke up "ok so how does this work? I mean do we just open the seals and let you guys out?!"
No sooner had the words left naruto's mouth than his father appeared next to him "For Fuu yes, But not so much for you Naruto, you see when I made the contract with the Shinigami spirit, I only had enough strength to seal the nine tails Yang half inside you, but with it was its will which means that it was more powerful than it yin spirit."
Naruto nodded "so what happened to the yin spirit?"
Minato smiled and suddenly his cloak and clothes burst into flames creating a golden chakra cloak around him; His eyes darkened until they turned black and his pupils turned red " I sealed the other half inside of myself, Naruto if I give the nine tails back its full power, there is no one on earth that could stop you if you work together. But I must know are you sure you're ready to handle the responsibility of such power?"
Naruto nodded his head "yeah, I understand; its like what pervy sage told me one time power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely."
Minato nodded "very well when I release the yin half I will return to the dwelling place inside your mind; then you will release the seal and your mother and I can finally move on into the afterlife."
Naruto's head whipped around "NO! I cant let you guy's go like this! We just met! There is so much more I want you guy's to be there for! Its not fair I…"
Miniato placed his had on top of Naruto's head and smiled "Naruto the past few months have been the greatest times of mine and your mother's lives. Not only have we had the chance to meet our son but we have also been able to teach him some vital skills. Now we can pass on in peace knowing that your ready to face the world with what we have taught you."
Tears began leaking from Narutos eyes as he watched he golden chakra stream itself from his father and into the Kyuubi; "Don't worry Naruto, We Will Always Be Watching over you from above. Waiting for the day that we can be together again."
As the golden chakra finished fading from Minato he bagan to fade away like a memory in passing; he reached out and pulled his son into his arms just before he was gone embracing him for the last time.
Naruto sank to his knees and wailed as the tears began to flow from his eyes. Never in all his life had he ever experienced pain as he was now; he had lost two of the most important people in his life.
Fuu knelt beside him and wrapped her arms around him; her mother had died in combat when she was only two so she had never really known either of her parents. She couldn't imagine the pain that he was suffering through. All she could think was to hold him and comfort him as he had tried to do for so many others.