Chapter 63 - Chuunin Exams Third Phase [1]

Land of Fire, Unknown Location.

A figure could be seen training madly as sweat dripped down his body, drenching his clothing with it ''Naruto Uzumaki! One day, I'll take revenge at you and kill everyone you love, I'll avenge my brother!'' as if reassuring his determination, the man said, his voice filled with murderous intents.

The man is the so-called Zin, the older twin that owns the True Dark Release, around him, the entire area was filled with darkness, one that came from the environment itself, though.

He was swinging a sword continuously as a transparent-like, dark aura covered it, a dangerous aura seeping out of it, just then, from the shadows, two figures came out.

''Kuro Zin, I heard that you have grudges against Naruto Uzumaki, hm?'' One of the figures said in a high-pitch, playful-like tone, he was one of the Akatsuki members and is using their usual dark-colored robe with red-colored clouds, his face was covered with a mask.

The other figure is a man with blonde hair tied in a ponytail, a big strand of it is covering his left eye, he's also using the usual Akatsuki robe.

Noticing their presence, Zin said with narrowed eyes ''Yes, what about it? And who are you? What are your intentions?'' unconsciously, his hands were already covered by a dark aura.

''Scaaaary~ Deidara-san, he's so scary!'' The masked man screamed while moving his body strangely before hiding behind the blonde man, now known as Deidara, the blonde man frowned before saying ''I'm Deidara, this coward here is Tobi, we're from Akatsuki, we're here to recruit you.''

''Why should I join you?'' Zin felt that he should hear their intentions before deciding if he was going to attack them or if he wasn't.

Tobi smirked under his mask, even though he was hiding behind Deidara, his eye didn't have an ounce of fear ''It's like that, Zin-san, our objective is collecting the Tailed Beasts, what does this have to do with you? It's simple, Naruto Uzumaki is the host for the Kyuubi, our objective aligns with yours, you hunt and kill him, we get the Tailed Beast, how?'' Tobi said in his ''usual'' high-pitch tone, playful tone.

A cold glow passed through Zin's eyes after hearing Tobi's speech.

Land of Fire, Konohagakure.

Since Naruto was taken as Jiraiya's apprentice, one month has passed, the Third and last phase of the Chuunin Exams was going to happen in a mere forty minutes.

''Brat, I can understand why that brat Kakashi doesn't have anything to teach you anything, you're just a complete monster!'' Jiraiya despaired, everything he was teaching Naruto was being absorbed like a sponge, mainly the Taijutsu part because Naruto had many Jutsus already mastered, including the Summoning Technique.

Naruto scratched his head ''It's not my fault that I can master these jutsus so easily, ok? Nii-san said that I'm both talented and hard-working, it just means I have both qualities.'' he said.

'Both qualities your ass! I have one of the qualities and so did Minato but he wasn't even near you in that part!' Jiraiya thought indignantly.

Over the month, he focused the training of Naruto on Taijutsu, Jiraiya noticed that compared to his Ninjutsu, Naruto was worse on it, not because of his body, rather because of his fighting style - he didn't have one.

''You're a Master at Kenjutsu and Ninjutsu, has an extremely strong body and so on, you also are advanced at Genjutsu even if extremely worse compared to monsters at it like Uchiha Itachi and Uchiha Shisui.'' Jiraiya said seriously before continuing

''Your body strength is also terrifying but you lacked a fighting style, in that month, I've taught you a fighting style named 'Frog Kata', since you don't have any known anything about Senjutsu yet, it is incomplete but you already have the hang of it.''

Naruto nodded, over the month, he was learning the incomplete version of the 'Frog Kata', though he wasn't able to use it perfectly as someone with Senjutsu, the blonde teenager was sure his attacks would be faster and stronger compared to before, even though his base, full strength wasn't improved to the level of a Kage yet, it was already at the border of it.

Jiraiya was proud of Naruto improvements in the last month, he was also sure that the blonde teenager is the Child of Prophecy, even if in the start Naruto was rather cold to him, he noticed the difference after a month passed and it pained his heart ever so slightly, seeing that his disciple had put such a tough barrier for his feelings.

'Now go and show the world what the disciple of the Great Jiraiya-sama is capable of doing!' Jiraiya thought before he shouted to Naruto, that was already walking towards the Great Arena of Konoha.

''Oi, you brat! Don't forget that after the Chuunin Exams is over, we'll leave Konoha and go through the world to train and hone your skills! Remember to pack all the necessary things! Now, I'll go to ''research'' more, hehehe!''

Naruto nodded without looking back, he was thinking about all opponents 'My first fight will be against Shikamaru, Sasuke will be against that Dosu Kinuta, Sakura will be against Kankuro and Haku against Hinata... I'll ask him to take it easy, if he injures her heavily, our ''training'' session will get heavier too...' he thought.

The blonde teenager only knew his Team fights, he didn't pay attention to the rest.

Then, he went on towards the Great Arena of Konohagakure while humming happily, one of his good habits was to do so, Naruto always did it when he was either bored or excited.

Along the way, he met with Shikamaru ''Yo, Shikamaru! We weren't able to play some Shogi this month but if we think in a positive manner, we'll fight today! We can just treat the fight as a Shogi where the stronger or the most intelligent one wins!'' Naruto said with a small smile.

Shikamaru also smiled slightly as his lazy eyes looked over Naruto ''Fighting you seem troublesome but I wish you good luck, Naruto.'' he said lazily as the rest of the way to the Great Arena was filled with a peaceful, enjoyable silence.

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