Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Not Just Another Naruto Story ❯ Inside the Hokage's Office ( Chapter 3 )

“NOT JUST ANOTHER NARUTO STORY”

by bloodline_41

rated Y (just to be safe)

Action, Adventure, Martial Arts, Comedy, Romance, Hentai

 

I do not own NARUTO and ANY of its characters, places, and any other such thing. This is just purely for the enjoyment of the fans.

No Money is being made out of this.

 

Notes: Thanks for the additional review, DarknessReader and dragonkiller! Hope you like this!

 

 

Chapter 3: Inside the Hokage's Office

 

The Hokage stood up from her desk and paced around the room in deep thought. So was Jiraiya and Shizune. “I don't doubt Naruto's strength, Jiraiya. I'm just worried about Konoha.” she said as she stopped and looked out the window. “We have no control on what might happen even if we have the greatest shinobi on our side.”

 

“…I know. But this is important. If Konoha doesn't accept the Sand's request, Gaara will fall in the hands of Akatsuki. Even if Gaara can control Shukaku's power now, but without an army backing him up, he'll lose. This all falls in Konoha's hands.” Jiraiya said. “We cant let the Akatsuki gain more power that will make them more dangerous than they already are.”

 

“But Jiraiya-sama.” Shizune said. “What if we fail? What if the Akatsuki captures both Naruto and Gaara?”

 

“I'm not too worried about Naruto at the moment. He can handle himself against the Akatsuki, though I'm certain that he cant bring them down alone. The only way the Akatsuki can get Naruto easily is if they already have Shukaku. Given the fact that they don't, even laying a finger on Naruto will prove to be very difficult for them.” Jiraiya has his head on his hand, his elbows on his knees, thinking. “We really need to decide this as soon as possible so we could prepare earlier if it comes to that.”

 

Tsunade just sighed at his statement. She agreed about everything he said but she cant stop herself from worrying. She spent the last three years rebuilding Konoha and because of that, she cant bring herself to lead Konoha again to some war. “Alright… I think you right, Jiraiya…”

 

Moments passed in silence as both Tsunade and Jiraiya thought and planned things regarding their current state when the phone in the Hokage's desk rang which Shizune quickly answered.

 

“What?!?” Shizune gasped. “Tsunade-sama… Anko-san said there's something going on in the forest of death. (I think that was the name of the forest where they took the second part of the chunnin exam.) She said most of our former gennin teams are there, along with the Sand Nins!”

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Naruto accepted Gaara's challenge back at the Ramen stand without any second thoughts. On the contrary, he looked glad that Gaara challenged him. He only gave two conditions though before they fought, that no civilians must be harmed and neither of them should aim to kill. To everyone's surprise, Gaara agreed and even suggested that they fight in the forest were no civilians might get hurt.

 

Most of them were a little exhausted for trying to catch up with Naruto and Gaara on their way to the forest of death. The only ones that was able to even match the pace they were in was Lee and Kiba, which was the fastest in the group. But only by putting great effort on it. The rest however was a little left behind but was still able to follow. Being jounins and chuunins, they thought that they should be there if something gets out of hand. They even tried to stop Naruto but stubborn as he was, he just smiled at them and said that he can handle it.

 

When the last group arrived in a huge clearing in the forest, they found Naruto and Gaara facing each other. They were both just standing there with blank expressions on their faces as if they were just waiting for the right moment to strike, until Naruto smiled. “Ive always hoped that I can fight you when you've cleared your head about every bullshit you believed in before.”

 

Gaara just stared at him and a slight smile appeared on his face. He didn't speak however but rather began his chain of had seals and within moments, the gourd on his back began to release sand that swirled around him. Naruto on the other hand was still standing there without performing any jutsus whatsoever, which made his comrades a bit worried.

 

“W-Why doesn't Naruto-kun do something!” Hinata said nervously as they watched the two from the branch of a tree at the edge of the clearing.

 

All of them were watching intently as Gaara's sand began to swirl faster and faster around him as if he was shielded by a tornado. Naruto was still smiling but in an instant, they saw him rushing toward the swirling wall of sand and chakra as he performed his trademark technique. “Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!” he said as approximately a hundred Naruto clones appeared everywhere, all charging towards Gaara. Expecting Naruto to use that technique, Gaara performed a few more hand seals and shots of sand burst out all over his tornado-like shield and annihilated most of the Naruto clones. Gaara then concentrated more of his chakra on the sand tornado surrounding him making it faster and more powerful, virtually impossible to penetrate from the outside. When the rest of the Naruto clones charged again, Gaara obliterated them with the same techniques he used earlier, missing one. Naruto had leapt high above the tornado giving him a clear shot at its center where Gaara was, who was looking up at him, a rare smile on his face. Clearly, he enjoyed fighting Naruto this time, as rivals… as friends.

 

Naruto threw several kunai downwards inside the tornado which Gaara avoided easily before the sand nin made the tornado of sand higher and faster. With this, Naruto was thrown away with such force coming from the spinning wall of sand and chakra. But even before Naruto landed anywhere, there was a bright flash of yellow light that came from the place where Naruto was and inside Gaara's shield of swirling sand. It was very fast that all of them that were watching the fight didn't knew what happened. A quarter of a second after the flash, Gaara felt something hard connect on his stomach, driving him straight towards the inner wall of his tornado and through it. Gaara looked at where he was just moments before and saw Naruto standing there, holding one of the kunai he threw earlier.

 

“…I think I heard about that technique before…” Kiba said as they watched the fight.

 

“...My father told me about that technique before…its the Fourth's signature technique… Shunshin no Jutsu” answered Shino. Most of them were gaping at Naruto. Not only was that an extremely advanced technique, but it was also known that only the fourth can perform it.

 

Naruto charged again towards Gaara which was now performing a series of hand seals. When Naruto was just a few feet away from the sand nin, hundreds of solid balls of sand and chakra rose around Gaara and shot towards the yellow haired nin. Seeing this, Naruto quickly stopped and leapt back, not taking his eyes of the oncoming balls of sand exclusively bent on bringing him pain. As he leapt back, he drew all of the shuriken in his first holster and threw all of it in front of him before he performed the seal for the Kage Bunshin no Jutsu. With a “poof!” and smoke, the shurikens he threw greatly multiplied to match the balls of sand. With that, every single ball of sand was stopped by the shuriken, hitting each one with such accuracy that made Ten-ten, the weapons master, stare in shock.

 

“How the hell did he do that? That was supposed to be… impossible.” she thought.

 

By this time, both Naruto and Gaara was enjoying the match so much that they were having a hard time to restrict themselves.

 

“I really didn't expect that it'll be this much fun to fight you…” Naruto said with his genuine smile on his face. Earning him the same smile from his opponent. They just stared at each other for a couple of moments before everyone who was watching felt the increasing power and chakra radiating from the two. But even before the battle can resume, two figures landed in the middle of Naruto and Gaara.

 

“What the hell do you think your doing!” Tsunade shouted at a now really nervous looking Naruto.

 

“Ah….. Nice to see you again Tsunade baa-chan!” he said with a boyish smile on his face and both his hands on the back of his head while he took a couple of steps backward as Tsunade started walking threateningly towards him.

 

Jiraiya, who was the other person that stopped the bout, was looking at Gaara. “Hey! Sorry for ruining your little reunion party kid.” The sannin said to the expressionless Gaara. “But we really cant afford this place to be ruined right now.”

 

By this time, Shizune and Anko had arrived and was greatly surprised when they both saw Naruto and how hot he looked now. Also, the gang who were watching the match came down where Naruto and Gaara where fighting just moments before.

 

“Everyone is to return to Konoha and head straight to my office.” The Hokage said. “And no.. exceptions.” She added putting emphasis to Naruto who was steadily backing away from the scene sensing a great deal of Tsunade's wrath about to explode.

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Things were getting a little tense back at the Hokage's office. She didn't look quite furious now for she had a chance to calm down a little. Trust Naruto to cause such a ruckus in just a day of his return was the things the Hokage thought. She knew that Naruto nor any other Nin present for that matter didn't know how serious the fight could affect the state of Konoha right at this moment.

 

“All of you clearly have no idea how much trouble we might have been in if that fight continued.” The Hokage said clearly to group of Nins in her office. “Though I don't blame any of you. It is just because of the decision I made earlier today, when we were on the way towards the forest.” She continued. “And this decision is regarding the Sand's request.”. Turning to the sand Nins present, she continued “ I have decide to accept the request and from now, until this problem is solved, you three are under Konoha's command. A Konoha forehead protector will be given to you later so other Konoha Nins wont mistake for hostile forces, though you are still permitted to wear your old protectors.”

 

Tsunade then began to brief the two Jounins and the rest of the chuunins present about the sands request and current situation. “Which brings me back to why your fight earlier could have led to a serious disaster.” She said to a guilty looking Naruto and a still expressionless Gaara. “If we haven't stopped you earlier, you would have no doubt destroyed the major part of the forest, if not all of it. As all of you know, that forest is the second part of the chunnin exams. And if a great portion of it gets destroyed, we will be forced to let our gennins wait for another Ninja village to host an exam. And we cannot afford to waste time in that. If we are to succeed defending Konoha, we have to boost our forces as much as we can and as fast as possible.” The Hokage said seriously.

 

“Ha! Don't worry Tsunade baa-chan!” Naruto suddenly said breaking the stiff atmosphere in the room. “I can handle anything they throw at us!” he said as he crossed his arms in a cocky way, smiling that boyish smile of his which made some of the girls, and women, looking at him blush.

 

Tsunade just smiled at him. She had indeed missed him. Irritating as he was, Naruto was still Naruto, and she considered him as her son. Shifting back to her serious manner, she continued. “As I was saying, we need to boost our forces as fast as we can. Therefore, our new Gennins must be trained and be promoted to chunnins earlier. And because most of our current high ranking Jounins are on a mission, we need the best chuunins we currently have to be promoted to Jounins” she addressed the chuunins present. All of Konoha's twelve except for Shikimaru and Naruto took the Chuunin exam again a year after Naruto left. Naruto on the other hand participated in an exam a few months after they left, which was held in the hidden village of cloud. Naruto participated in the exam, with a permission from the judges, without teammates.

 

Chuunins (In this fiction) are promoted to Jounins if they have accomplished ten class-b missions and upon accomplishing the last one, they are then tested by their former Jounin instructors if they are ready for the said promotion. Those tests may range from just simple questions to fighting the jounins themselves. Shikimaru and Neji was promoted just four weeks ago, and all of the chuunins present has just one more mission left to complete the requirements needed for them to take their Jounin-sensei's tests.

 

“So… I order every Chuunin here to prepare themselves.” The fifth Hokage said. “I will assign your mission two days from now. I believe that time is adequate for you to prepare, and in your case” she turned to Naruto, “rest… not that I think you need it.” She said smiling to Naruto.

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Notes: I think that's it for now… I really do hope people wont get bored with this. As always… reviews will be greatly appreciated. I really need to know what people think about this. Please?

 

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