LC; Yay! More Spiraling vixen!

Naruto; Last time she made her first kill.

Sasuke; What are you going to do this time?

LC; I am going to talk more on the chunin exams taking place in Iwa and her heritage!

Naruto; Your going to reveal it now?

LC; Most likely. But for now I type nonsensical words for my own amusement.

Sasuke; You realize that no one really gives a damn about your stories or ego right?

LC;...I reject your reality and substitute it with my own!

Sasuke; That answers my question.

Naruto; Where do you come up with this stuff?

LC; . Why?

Both; O.o There's actually a website for those kinds of things?

LC; Google can find some amazing things.

Disclaimer; I do not own Naruto or any of the aforementioned websites! I enjoy amusing myself with them, but that's it. I swear!

Chapter 8; To be a Chunin or Die a horrid death, that is the question!

"Yes." She was being persistent.

"Never." He was being stubborn.

"Yes times infinity!" She was being childish.

"Not on your life!" He was being silly.

They were fighting over her taking the chunin exams in Iwa. Kisu sighed for must have been the tenth time as he watched the argument continue.
Naru was downright determinned to enter the chunin exams, but since they were being held in Iwa and because of her heritage, Minato was downright reluctant.

Kisu didn't really understand the strategy of attacking the offspring of enemies. To him that sounded stupid and cowardly. Stupid because that drew the attention and ire of the enemy. Cowardly because it proved that they were too afraid to fight the enemy head on. It just didn't make any sense to his canine mind.

Naru glared up at her father with her hands clenched. She wanted to be a chunin and dang it she wanted a fair shot at getting the rank! No one was going to stop her from getting stronger and becoming hokage!

"What if they find out who you are?" Minato asked her. She knew she wasn't strong enough to defend herself if that happened.

"How will they make the connection?" She countered logically. Right now she actually wanted to just start yelling about how stupid he was being but she knew from expierience that would not work. Stupid Ebisu-sensei!

"Please! Please, pretty please!" She pleaded, throwing down the only genjutsu she knew. The Puppy eye no jutsu was truly a masterpiece.

Minato gasped when he saw the jutsu, and though he knew it was a genjutsu, he couldn't break it! It was just like that sunset jutsu that Gai was so fond of. No matter what anyone did it was impossible to escape or look away!

"No." He whimpered, trying to gather all his manly manforce to fight against the forces of womanliness and cuteness! Needless to say he was failing horribly.

"I am participating in the exams, it's my choice, and I made it!" She told him sternly, leaving no room for argument.

He knew she was right, and it was his over protective father instincts trying to get her to stay home and be a nice little genin who never leaves the village, but that didn't make it any easier. Unfortunatly he also knew he couldn't stop her, even though he really wanted to. It was her decision to enlist in these exams, since Ebisu had given that permission already and it wasn't a team exam.

Naru watched with unhidden glee as he finally signed that bothersome paper that would let her become a chunin in no time flat!

Leaving her father to the woes of a kage, she decided she'd look up that Neji guy again. He was really strong and she needed all the training she could get.
If she made chunin, then she'd be respected by just about everybody!

Walking through the village with Kisu at her heels, she noticed the looks she recieved from a good number of the villagers.
Most of them seemed torn between glaring at her for walking around a fox and shying away when she looked at them because she was walking next to a fox.

By the time she reached the forest her good mood had all but disapated. Why did they have to hate her so much for something she had no control over!
It wasn't like she volunteered to be a jinchuriki, it just turned out that way! She didn't even hold a grudge against her father for that anymore! And it had been years since the attack happened!

The least they could do is be a bit more discrete about their dislike. Seriously, how hard would it be to put on an emotionless mask when she was around and wait till she was gone to glare? It would be common courtesy, the jerks!

She shook her head and tried to put the matter out of her head. Eventually she would prove to them she was her own person, not a monster, not even her father's daughter.
She was Naru Uzumaki Namikaze and nobody was going to tell her different!

With this firmly established in her mind she grinned and started running. She was too excited to walk calmly down the streets anymore.
She needed to find that Neji guy and train right now! There was no time to lose!

Just when she was going to give up and head to the grounds on her own though, she finally found who she was looking for.
Neji was walking down the street just ahead of her, all she had to do would be to call out to him. She didn't though. Because at the moment something seemed wrong with him.

He had this sour look on his face, like he had tasted something bad and couldn't get it off of his tongue. He was walking stiffly, like he was in pain too.

Naru looked down at Kisu and recieved an encouraging nod. Neji was a friend, kind of, so she should help him.
She ran to catch up to the pale eyed boy.

"Why the long face?" She had managed to convince the boy to come with her to the hokage monument, and now they were sitting on the Yondaime's head.

"No reason." Neji had only accepted due to the fact he was supposed to be seducing her or something for his clan and he couldn't fight his fate.

"With all due respect Neji, if you don't tell me I will tickle it out of you." Naru said seriously. He raised a brow and gave her a side long glance, and his eyes widened as he saw her leap and begin to carry out her threat.

"Spill!" She ordered him as her fingers played over sensetive flesh. Neji gasped desperatly for air but was again interrupted by another swarm of giggles and a fit of laughter.

"Al-Alright!" He finally conceded. Naru let him back up with a smile on her face as she waited for him to catch his breath.

"Today is the anniversary of my father's death." Her smile disappeared and Kisu crept into her lap. When he finished telling the entire story he turned away, but kept an ear open. How would she react to his hatred of the main family.

"A seal to control someone's fate, and a seal to take away a choice." She muttered, thinking how similar they really were. Hey eyes clouded and she turned her gaze down onto the village below her.
He had given her something so personal, she should return the favor.

"Neji, what do you know about the Kyubi no kitsune?" As the sun set the two became closer until they sat back to back, just taking warmth in the other's presence.
They looked up into the sky, searching for an answer and searching for a sign. Neither saw the other's tears, but felt the heart wrenching sobs that shook their bodies.

"I'm going to be taking the chunin exams in Iwa in a few months." Naru told him.

"Let's meet up tomorrow at 3:00, and we can train together. I'll help you become a genin, and you can help me become a chunin." Neji nodded in acceptance, he was still trying to sort through this new information.

Neji Hyuga lay in his bed that night, not blinking. He sorted through both his facts and his feelings, his beliefs and the truth.
Did fate really give such burdens to whoever it saw convenient? What did people like he and Naru do to deserve these things? What about his father, what really happened that night?

Could he have done something to change things? Could there be something that he could do now to change things for others later?

He rolled onto his side and felt the bandage that covered his forehead, hiding his mark from the world. A feeling he wasn't familiar with rose within him, making him almost physically sick and he shot up and ran to the bathroom.

In front of his sink mirror he tore away the bandages and gazed tearfully at the Caged Bird seal that had been engraved onto his head on his fourth birthday.

"Maybe fate decided I would be the one to change it." He muttered. Seals, they were all so intricate, all of them held immense power, and they all locked something away.

That night he made his future change, he forgot his hate, and turned instead to seals. Tomorrow he would look up the seals that he was sure would someday free him and his family of this burden.

"Naru, thank you." He murmured before falling asleep, leaving off the bandages and letting the world know who he was.

Hokage's Office!

Minato yawned as he finished the last of that day's paperwork. If only he could somehow adapt the hiraishin to work on paperwork, he'd be set for life.
Oh well, with that not really an option and no time for him to explore it anyway, he simply laid the last paper in the out box and gave another yawn.

"Man, one of these days I have got to figure out a way to do this faster. It's exhausting." He got up and bid his ANBU goodnight.

Once inside his home he checked to see if Naru was sleeping in her room tonight. No such luck, she must be at her apartment.
He sighed sadly before going to his own room and crashing on the bed.

"Maybe I should get a dog." He considered. He wouldn't be as lonely and someone would always be here to welcome him at least. But then who would have the time to look after a dog? Not the hokage, that's for certain.

Iwagakure, two weeks later, Tsuchikage's office.

Onoki leaned back in his chair as he over looked the papers stating which genin from what village would be participating in the exam.
He paused when he got to Konoha, and growled under his breath about the Flash before opening the envelope.

It seemed some clan children would be coming. There was even an Aburame who was seven that would be coming along. But the only one that caught his eye was an orphan.

Naru Uzumaki, a blonde haired blue eyed little girl who was seven years old and a genin. She would be coming to the exam. Onoki studied her picture closely, trying to discern some unspoken meaning.

Konoha was too big on geniuses to send two of them to a village with open animosity. For two seven year old genin to be coming to the exam would be a scandal, the type that Konoha was pretty big on being the middle of.
Those arrogant bastards, sending children to do a shinobi's job! Making his village look bad!

He wished he could decline their requests to participate, but doing so would no doubt send the daimyos into fits and cause another war.
While he was no coward, their village was just finishing coming back after the third one. They still needed more time to grow.

He'd just make sure that their teams knocked the kiddies out before they could be embarrased in front of the entire world. That sounded like a master plan.

"Get me Ishizu!" He shouted at his secretary. There was no way he would let those brats show his village up! He'd never be able to live it down. As the last active kage of his generation, he had to do this.

Amegakure, God's Office.

Pein looked at the reports that his subjects in Akutsuki had sent him. Things were going well, they had already taken three jinchuriki and most of the others had been located.
The Kyubi would be especially difficult to attain though, with the protection of the Yellow Flash Minato Namikaze.

"I did not suspect he yet lived." He spoke aloud, glaring down at the report Zetsu had delivered earlier.

"We must tread cautiously and search for an oppurtunity." Perhaps this report that the nine tails was travelling to Iwa for the exams would aid him.

In another part of Ame, an orange mask wearing man stood in the prison, looking down on a boy who he had long since kept tied down.

"Obito, how are you doing today?" He asked conversationally.

"Just fine thanks, view's not too good." He said that everyday without fail. Obito opened his remaining eye and lifted his head to look at the man he had come to absolutely despise.

"I wonder how your beloved sensei will try to rescue you. No doubt Kakashi will be throwing a fit if he ever finds out where you've been all this time." A light was flipped on and Obito winced, snapping his eye closed.

He hadn't aged at all, Madara used the same technique on Obito that kept him young. As it were, it was a huge success and one he would be sure to capitalize on.

"Bastard, just, let me die already so I don't have to look at the butt ugly mug of yours." Obito muttered balefully, his spirit and fight draining, leaving behind a shell. He was too tired to fight Madara anymore, he just wanted to surrender now.

"Oh no, not just yet. I still have uses for you." The masked man stated before leaving him in the darkness again, for who knows how long this time.

He listened just beyond the door to the younger Uchiha's frame shaking sobs before walking away, an unreadable look in his eye.

Realizing he was alone again, Obito broke out laughing. His mind had probably been shattered beyond repair, his spirit too lost for redemption, but he didn't care anymore. Let Madara get his jollies from tormenting him day in and day out, see how he cared! Because this was still better than that Hell of being ignored by his entire family.

"Kashi, Rin, Minato-sensei, sorry." He gasped between outbreaks of laughter. The chains holding him down pulled taut as he lost himself in the throes of insane cackling but he barely noticed the bite.

"Sorry, sorry." He continued to apologize until he passed out some hours later.

Konohagakure, Memorial Stone.

Kakashi stood in front of the stone, gazing at a single name. Obito, his teammate who he thought was long since lost and who's eye he shared. It sounded impossible, but what Madara said, could it be true?
Could Obito really be alive after all these years? Trapped and waiting for them to rescue him?

"Obito, I'll find you!" He swore. His revealed eye closed as he sensed another's presence approaching. He sighed inwardly before placing his Inu mask back on his face.

"Inu-taicho, hokage-sama and Jiraiya-sama wish to speak with you." Ah, so they had sent Tenzo? Must be important.

He shunshined to the tower and was greeted by not only the latest ICHA ICHA, but sensei and Jiraiya-sama.

"Sensei, Jiraiya-sama." He nodded in acknowledgement, storing the new book safely into his pouch. He had long since mastered the art of paying attention to multiple opponents while keeping track of the goings on of the book, but not even ICHA ICHA could make him feel better at the moment.

"Kakashi, we think we know where Obito's being kept." Minato told him sternly. Jiraiya grunted before telling Kakashi everything he could about this organization, Akutsuki, and their base of operations.

It had been a complete accident for him to find that tidbit of information, but he wasn't going to tell anyone that. Let them believe that the gallant Jiraiya was just that good!

Three Months Later, entrance to Iwagakure no sato!

Naru whistled in admiration as she saw the many stone buildings just beyond the gate. She knew that each building was crafted from a special earth jutsu, so she admired the level of control it must have taken.

"Gotta say, when they say hidden in the stone, they really mean in the stone." She muttered to her ever companion, Kisu.

"It is only logical." Naru looked sideways over to where her fellow genin, Shino, was walking beside her. His sensei, a woman named Anko, was her acting sensei while they were here as well.
Shino's two teammates looked like they were about a sigh from a nervous breakdown. After being in Anko-sensei's presence for the entire trip, Naru could understand why.

Even Shino showed a lot of negative emotions, like panic, whenever the woman was near. Seeing the stoic Aburame so uncomfortable in his trench coat was an empty victory for the Uzumaki.
She had tried time and again to get some sort of reaction from the boy, but nope, it was an older woman who cracked his glasses! Darn!

"How do you think we'll do?" She asked him curiously. He hadn't really said anything about their individual chances since this trip began.

"Personally I believe it would be very surprising if one of us got to the final round." The boy admitted. His teammates were older and admittedly stronger than he was. It couldn't be helped though. There could only be so much muscle mass that a seven year old could get.

"Naru-sama, we're being watched." She was carrying Kisu half in her arms and half of him leaning over her shoulders.

"Yeah I know!" She said boisterously. They had gotten into the habit of trying to make their conversations sound unimportant so enemies wouldn't know that they knew that they were being tailed! Did that confuse you as much as it did me?

"We're gonna rock!" She decided, not noticing the pun nor caring. There is a fine line between ignorance and apathy. Although she didn't know it and she didn't care anyway.

"I think there is three of them, appearing to be around genin level." Kisu reported, making it look like he was trying to wriggle out of her arms.

"Hold still for three minutes Kisu! Your excited too huh?" Anko looked down at the extra gaki she was escorting and wondered why the three minutes had been so enunciated.
She thought about the meaning and only then noticed the gakis following her and her gakis! Wait, there was way too many gakis! How would she keep track of which gaki?

Anyway, back on track! So that meant three Iwa gakis were following them. Who were they interrested in though? She looked at the two youngest members and cringed.
Get rid of the geniuses before they get too strong, it was a common enough strategy. She'd have to stay on her toes.

Next Day! Chunin exams!

Naru and Kisu took a deep breath before entering the building where the first stage was being held. She knew what this building was. This was Iwa's torture and Investigation department's HQ. It smelled the same as the one in Konoha, only stronger.

A wave of nausea passed over her and she did her best not to gag or show how the smell was affecting her. Kisu sneezed and buried his nose into her hair, trying to replace the smell of decaying bodies and blood with her shampoo.

She met their head of the T&I, a woman by the name of Ishizu who clearly had a higher level of sadism than the job required, and seemed to revel in it.

"Alright kiddies, for this stage you will have to prove that you are trustworthy. As chunin you'll be asked to carry secret documents, no doubt with important village secrets in them. In order to prove your valor, you will be given a password and taken to a room. In there you will be subjected to torture that only a demon could think of!" The woman broke off, laughing maniacally, for a second.

"Ahem. If you manage to stop yourself from giving away your password, then you pass. If not, sucks to be you." She finished, picking up a box with dozens of papers in it. Naru guessed that these papers held their passwords.

She accepted her paper and had it registered before being led to another room. On the way there though she managed to convey to Kisu to hide until she came out.
If he went in with her they might decide to use him against her and she wasn't sure she could take that. Not after almost losing him once.

She was strapped to a chair and then left alone for heaven knows how long. It felt like an eternity to her but she knew this test had a time limit of three hours. It was probably a genjutsu to make it seem longer than it really was.

She tried to release the genjutsu but summoning any amount of genjutsu sent electric shocks up and down her body. It came from the restraints.

"Chakra suppression?" She mumbled hatefully, glaring down at the restraints with all the fury a seven year old girl could call forth. It wasn't enough to make them burst into flames but she knew she was close!

"Naru Uzumaki, for the next three hours you shall be subjected to torture via genjutsu." An emotionless voice droned from the darkness. She tried to see who was talking, they were behind her, but the world went black.

Suddenly she was back in that forest facing those nin and this time Ebisu-sensei didn't come to save her.
She watched Kisu fall, then she watched as she decimated the three nin, and then went back to kill the other two! She felt their blood on her hands, she felt that insane glee whenever their heart stopped beating while she held it in her fist.

She was then pushed into another scene, one where she lost control of the demon inside of her completely! She couldn't control her body but felt everything that it did.
She felt the maniacal laughter bubbling within her, the blood raining thick. She felt people fall around her as her tails swished. She was a kyubi, no, she was the Kyubi!

She roared and lost herself in the slaughter, killing everyone one after another. Her father, Iruka-sensei, Ebisu-sensei, Shino, Neji, all her old classmates, the Ichirakus, everybody in the village!

"Make it stop!" She wailed, suddenly finding her voice. She logically knew it was a genjutsu she was seeing, but it didn't matter. She wanted those images out of her head and she wanted them out now!

Without any warning a haze fell over her, she felt the electrical suppression seals shocking her body but it was muted, they were shorting out. She heard herself screaming.
She broke through the restraints and the genjutsu literally shattered in the face of the demon's chakra.

She let the chakra flow away quickly. She didn't want anyone to know that she was a jinchuriki. The chakra had only been there for an instant before it vanished, but it was more than enough for her to break free of the torture.

The door burst open and an Iwa jounin rushed inside. The woman sneered at her before replacing the restraints. The genjutsu didn't return though, instead her tormentor turned to physical pain.

That was easy to ignore though, she'd had practice after all. The woman's nails raked her skin and the scratches burned and itched but she barely gave it any mind other than it was there.

"Come on gaki, you can get out if you just tell me your password." The woman purred into her ear, trying her best to sound motherly and kind. Failing horribly at it too.

"Piss off." Naru growled. She wasn't in the mood anymore for this stupid test. But she wasn't giving them the satisfaction of driving her away. No, she was going all the way in this death march!

Eventually the three hours ended and the remaining participants were healed before being released for the day. The next test would be in the morning.

Tsuchikage Office!

"What do you mean both the brats passed!" Onoki roared. He had given strict instructions that the two be given S-rank genjutsu but neither brat had given in? Where was the justice and who had he pissed off upstairs to deserve this?

"Sir, apparently the Aburame's instructor did not take into account the fact that the kikaichu are not affected by genjutsu. As for the girl," Ishizu paused, unsure how exactly to put it.

"The genjutsu was working perfectly, she was begging for it to stop, but then something changed." Ishizu would never forget the awful feeling of being dirty that the girl had given her. That insane amount of chakra that had burst forth had completely fazed all her defenses. She was ready for KI and even bloodlust, but she wasn't ready for utter loathing!

"It's difficult to explain except the girl was able to completely overload the suppressors." Onoki growled as he bid the woman leave before he vented his frustration by punching a hole through his desk.

Damn, that's the tenth desk this month.

He sighed before telling his secretary to bring in another desk. He got up to leave when he was struck by something. Ishizu's face when she spoke of that girl, was that fear? His brows merged together and his nostrils flared a little, making him look more than slightly intimidating to many people.

He walked home and set himself up for the night. His mind went over the happenings of the day, as per usual routine, with one difference. They kept focusing on that girl!
That stupid little blonde haired and blue eyed brat that had beaten an S-rank genjutsu with seemingly no special ability other than a vast amount of chakra!

The more he pictured the girl in his mind's eye, the more pissed off he felt for some reason. He normally didn't hold this kind of grudge against anyone, or at least not since that baka Minato Namikaze.

He shot straight out of bed and pulled his bingo book out from under his pillow. Flipping through the pages he stopped when he found the Ns.
Yep, there he was in black and white, or rather full color.

He went to his mini-office and pulled out a picture of that blonde girl, then looked at both of them. Oh no, this was just too rich!

"The Yellow Flash has a daughter!" He cackled, unable to stop himself from picturing ways he could dismember the girl to hurt her father. Because there was no denying it, that girl was his spitting image! Well...if the Yellow Flash had been female anyway.

Onoki pushed away that mildly disturbing thought of a female flash before he dressed and called his ROCKS. He had to be sure, and he knew just how to check.
After all, he was one of the only men in the world to have drawn the blood of that damned Namikaze after he finished his technique. Getting the girl's blood would be a simple matter.

Hours later he waited anxiously, only now realizing the consequences of this test. If it was positive, and he did kill her, what would stop the Flash from completely decimating his village, down to the last man, woman, and child? Nothing. And no one.

"Curse you Flash, curse you." He muttered anxiously, wishing he had something to occupy himself other than the various routes he could take in accordance with the answer. Funnily enough he never even bothered thinking of what he would do if the test came out negative. It was something that he just couldn't fathom, not after putting the two pictures so close together as to be scrutinized.

"Sir, the test results are in." He turned and accepted a manila folder from his most trusted ROCKS and did not protest when the man did not leave. He wasn't the only one with a grudge against Konoha after all, he couldn't be selfish.

With trepidition, he ripped open the folder and pulled out the papers. Just as he had both feared and hoped for. The test was a positive match.

"The Yellow Flash has a daughter." Rather than before, this wasn't followed by laughter and plots for revenge. This was followed by a paling and a fear gripping both hearts that neither were accustomed to.

"What do we do about this sir?" The ROCKS asked him.

"We don't know if she has one of those blasted kunai with her or not, or if she can use the damnable technique herself yet." Onoki pointed out, calming himself down by laying out the facts.

"She's obviously already strong, we can't afford another war, not at the moment. Not against two Flashes!" Dear Kami just the thought made his blood run cold!

It was then he was struck by an idea. Why risk a war, when he could do something even better. Since the Flash had a daughter she would most likely join with any clan she happened to marry into. If she married into one of their clans, she would be forced to move here to live with her husband!

They would be able to gain the Flash's technique for their own! They could mass produce it! Then destroy the entire Konohagakure!

Onoki suggested the idea to his ROCKS and when he was given confirmation that it would work, ordered the mask nin to bring him a list of suitable candidates.
It had to be someone near her age, who was already showing some promising ability. They had to work this just right too, or all would be lost.

END OF THE CHAPTER NOW YOU MUST WAIT WHILE I WORK ON OTHER STORIES! NYA!

LC; Yes! It's finished!

Naruto; Wow, out of all the chapters for this story so far it was hardest for you to write this.

Sasuke; What made it so different from the others?

LC; I wanted to get everything just right. This is how I picture it would happen.

Naruto; Is that really how Onoki acts?

LC; I have no idea but that's how I picture him. I don't read manga.

Sasuke; So you did nothing other than looking up a few things about him from wiki?

LC; Yeah that's pretty much it!