Tremble Like The Earth

Author's Note: Hey Everybody! I'm back with another chapter and this will be awesome. The chapter will show Naruto's training month. Now I will say this, through out the training period, Naruto will in a way get a sadistic streak from being around Anko and it'll show during the fights. Also, I'm going to show some more Naru/Ten in the chapter. Anywho let's rock!

Disclaimer: I Don't Own Mortal Kombat or Naruto.

Chapter 9: So Fragile Part 1

(Training Ground 7):

Sitting on the ground leaning on a tree while Naruto and his clones trained on his current skills and thinking up new jutsus, Anko was looking over Tremor's scroll and the moves he had during his lifetime. "Gaki, your friend here sure had a lot of techniques in his arensal that we can use and we can think up of devastating and brutal ideas against the Hyuga pansy." Anko said with a smirk thinking of all the possible violence that can be cause in the finals.

Naruto and his clones stopped for a moment and look at Anko with a matching smirk. "Well let's write some ideas down and get started, I want Neji to beg for mercy when I'm through with him and humilate him in front of everybody." Naruto changing to Aftershock and punch the ground and jagged rocks rosed out of the ground. "Naruto... I'm starting to like your style showing no mercy to your opponent until they're nothing but a bloodsmear on the wall." Anko said with a smile.

"First things first, we're going to work on your taijutsu before we move on into the ninjutsu, I saw your match against that Iwa genin during the prelims and I can tell your style needs to be tuned." Anko explained. Naruto nodded and knew that needed work the most when fighting a Hyuga. "So looking through the scroll, Tremor had a style that involve strong flowing hits and high kicks as well, so we are going to mix his style with my Snake Style in order to counter the Hyuga's Jyuken." Anko said.

Naruto nodded and sat down with Anko to discuss ideas and stradegies. "How about I use my lava skin to summon a pillar of lava from the ground to the sky and it would rain lava on my opponent?" Naruto suggested. Anko thought it over and tap a finger on her chin. "Not bad, we'll work on that when we get through with the taijutsu." Anko said.

For the next few hours, Anko would show Naruto the basics in the Snake style, which involved feints and quick strikes to mix them together and they eventually dubbed the new style "Earth Snake Fist". They both practiced the style and sparred with each other to determined the flaws in the new style. After a couple hours of more training, they called it quits and scheduled the next training day at a secluded training ground. Naruto started to walk around the village minding his own business, dealing with the usual glares and whispers, but he didn't care about their opinions or acknowledgement since they always got something negative to say about him. He realize back in the Forest of Death that he should only get the acknowledgent from people that care about him and not from people that don't, sometimes he wonders if he still wants to be Hokage with the way people treated him.

His thoughts were interrupted when he bumped into someone and notice it was Fu of Takigakure. "Sorry for bumping into you Fu, I was just thinking about things." Naruto said. "It's fine , I was thinking about my opponent, and what I'm going to do against him." Fu explained. Naruto wasn't surprised being called by ' ' as he knew she was a demon container too when Kyuubi informed him about it the other day.

"I know what you mean, did you see the look in his eyes?" Naruto asked and Fu nodded as they started walking. "I haven't seen such bloodlust in my life and I've dealt with my village's hatred." Fu said and Naruto agreed. Sure he has to deal with the glares and whispers on a daily basis, but Gaara seem as if someone looked at him wrong, he would kill the person instantly.

"You just need to be careful Fu, you may have number 7, but that doesn't mean he'll care in the slighest to eliminate you." Naruto warned.

She thanked him for the advice and they talked some more until they arrived at the hotel she was staying at for the exams. "Well this is my place, thanks for the advice Naruto." Fu said and gave Naruto a hug and he smiled. "No problem, just know that your not alone in this world Fu. I'm your friend and I'll always be there for you no matter what." Naruto spoke and Fu had tears in her eyes as she never had anyone speak such kindness to her in her life, not even in her village in Taki. "Thank you Naruto-kun, thank you so much for the kind words." Fu said in happiness and hugged Naruto tighter. Naruto changed to his Crystalline variation and made a small shuriken out of the mineral and use a string he had in his pocket to make a necklace and gave it to Fu, who was overjoyed.

After that, she went up to her hotel with new found energy and joy that she never experienced. Unknown to her, the Nanabi saw the whole thing and had a smile on his face. 'That boy truly has a way to bring the best out of someone and he brought happiness and joy to Fu. Father, I believe this is the one you spoke of to us so long ago.' The Nanabi thought in wisdom.

Naruto felt good doing that as he continued to walk and head home to his apartment. He went inside and decided to take a shower to get rid fo the sweat and grime from today's training. After getting out and changing into a grey shirt and black shorts, he sat on his couch and was watching some television and the show was about a wandering samurai that had a bloody past during Feudal times. He continued to watch the show until he got tired and went to bed.

(Three Weeks Later):

Naruto was panting on the ground from practicing his new jutsus he created. He called them "Lava Release: Hell On Earth Jutsu, Crystal Release: Crystal Graveyard Jutsu, and Gold Release: Avalance Meteor Shower Jutsu" and also practice some Earth jutsus that Anko taught him.

He had came up with the Lava Jutsu as Anko came up with the Crystal Jutsu and both of them decided with the Gold Style and tested them at a secluded Training Ground 1 a.k.a. "The Dead Ground". The legend goes that the Nidaime Hokage, Senju Tobirama, would practice his World Impure Resurrection Jutsu at the training ground and soon after he died in the Second Shinobi War, the training ground had started to grow a eerie feel and there was still many coffins from the Nidaime's reign that no one dare to touch them or move them.

When Anko told Naruto they were going to Training Ground 1, he knew it was perfect as no body went there and it was secluded from all prying eyes of the village. He had perfected most of Tremor's techniques and was pleased with himself of the levels he reached since using the syringe in The Forest Of Death. He managed to create more pulses to the ground while using "Ground Pulse", he can summon rocks from the ground and make it land on his enemy and did the same whenever in his lava skin, and even he tested a grapple he saw in Tremor's on the training dummy by using his earth powers by hitting parts of the body; the face, the leg, and finally using brute force by pushing the body.

He got off the ground and left to head to the hot springs to relax and rest his body. Entering the water, he began to think of Tenten and it brought a smile to his face after the date he took her a week ago.

(Flashback One Week Ago):

Naruto was going to Tenten's weapon shop after training with Anko and decide to see if Tenten wanted to go on a date with him, though he was somewhat nervous hoping she wasn't too busy. Entering her shop, he sees her and couldn't help how beautiful she looked. 'I should've asked her out a long time ago, but my head was in the clouds for too long to notice her.' Naruto thought. Seeing the customer, Tenten smiled seeing it was Naruto and wouldn't lie, she found the blond very attractive ever since he arrived during the Preliminaries and her affection grew more for him after his fight with the Iwa Genin for defending her.

"Hey Ten-chan, how's it going?" Naruto asked with a smile. She replied. "I'm fine Naruto-kun, can I help you with anything?" Tenten asked. "Well... I was wondering if you wasn't busy, would you like to go on a date with me?" Naruto asked while scratching his cheek with a blush. Tenten as shocked, but wanted to squeal at how cute Naruto looked when he asked.

She nodded and told Naruto that she will be available after work around 6. Naruto was happy about the date and told Tenten that he'll make see her around and ran out the shop with a shit-eating grin.

She simply shook her head at the boy's antics when he left and blushed a little seeing his million-watt smile.'I wonder what I'm going to wear?' Tenten thought.

Naruto arrived at his apartment and look through his closet as well as making a mental note to burn all the orange jumpsuits he owned and get some better clothes in the future. After searching for about 20 minutes, he found something fairly decent in a black short sleeve shirt and some khaki pants with some regular shoes that hasn't been worn in quite some time and was glad his arms were able to get through the sleeves.

Naruto looked at the time and saw it was 5:45 and decided to head to her shop before it became 6. Before locking up his door, he went to the apartments of the former Sound Trio to let them know that he was leaving and the three notice how dressed he was.

"Where you off to Blondie?" Zaku asked. Naruto's right eye twitched at the nickname, but responded. "If you must know, I'm going on a date." The three was surprised by that and Kin asked. "Who you going with Naruto-sama?" Naruto was taken back by the 'sama', but let it slide. "Tenten, the girl that had the two buns in her hair." Naruto replied. "Well have a good night and make sure to be safe and protected." Zaku said with perverted smirk until Dosu slapped him upside his head.

"Gee thanks Zaku." Naruto said with a deadpanned face as he left for his date. It was 5:55 by the time Naruto got to Tenten's weapon shop and when he opened the door she was already ready and to him, she was stunning.

Tenten had a light green dress with her hair down and some black high heels with light make-up. Naruto was speechless and stood there staring until Tenten grabbed his crystal hands and pecked him on the cheek, which knocked him out of his trance. "You look absolutely beautiful Tenten-chan." Naruto said and Tenten blushed at the compliment. "You don't look too bad yourself Naruto-kun." Tenten replied and Naruto decided to make a necklace for his date, this time changing to his gold skin and making a small kunai and putting the string through the hole and tying the necklace around her neck.

She was mesmerized by the craft of the little kunai. "It's amazing, thank you Naruto-kun." Tenten said with a smile and kissed Naruto on the lips. Naruto smiled and held his arm out. "Anything for you, Tenten-chan, shall we get going?" Naruto said. Tenten nodded and they headed off to their date.

(Flashback Ends):

It brought a smile to his face seeing Tenten enjoy herself when they went to a sushi restaurant that just had a grand opening and didn't know about Naruto or his tenant. They mainly talked about their goals and about each other, even started to slow dance when the restaurant played some music. They also discuss about the Chunin Exam Finals, Naruto's training, and what he has been working on. Tenten mainly told Naruto to be careful when facing Neji in Taijutsu, which Naruto wasn't too worried about and told her he'll be fine.

The night was truly amazing for both people and Naruto walked Tenten home, enjoying the night by themselves. When they got to the door, Naruto made a golden rose and presented to her and kissed her on the lips. Tenten was amazed and soon started making out with Naruto at the door until Tenten's mom opened the door and clear her throat in amusement watching her adopted daughter making out with Naruto.

Naruto shook his head remembering how embrass both him and Tenten was that they decided to say bye with blushes on their faces.

"Well time to get back to training. Neji won't know what hit him once the Finals start and he won't have "fate" on his side to help him from the thrashing that's going to rain on his head. Won't everyone be in for a surprise at what a "dead-last can do." Naruto said to himself.

Author's Note: That's chapter 9 and part 1 in the books. Next chapter, Naruto meets the self-proclaimed "super pervert" Jiraiya and learns a few things from the Toad Sage and the Third Round gets started. I'm doing my best in making these chapters longer and taking my time with them. With that I'll see everyone later and look out for Chapter 2 for We Are Many. KF2 out.