NARUTO:The sealed shinobi.-Chapter 162: CH

As applause sounded out for Sakura's victory, Naruto looked at a very pleased Tsunade while giving the girl applause of his own, "Damn Sakura... Kami, you just had to go and teach her how to do that didn't you? From what I remember as a genin on Kakashi's team she already hit hard enough, though that never made its way towards fighting, just the back of my head really."

Tsunade applauded and turned her eyes to Naruto, "Hey, I have free-reign to teach my apprentice what I want. If Jiraiya could teach you the spinning blue orb of death and how to summon toads then I can give Sakura a little strength boost."

Naruto sweatdropped, "'A little strength boost?' I sincerely hope she never goes back to her old habit of trying to smack me one like when we were fresh genin. Getting hit every blue moon by you is enough." The Tsuchikage entered the conversation, forcing Naruto to subconsciously steel his features, "So if that girl down there is your apprentice Tsunade and you claim that this kid here has learned the Rasengan from Jiraiya and how to summon toads, does that mean he's Jiraiya's apprentice as well? That's curious." He got a look at Naruto, who until that point he had overlooked as a random bodyguard and almost had a PTSD flashback at the serious look in Naruto's eyes before settling himself, "You know he looks awfully familiar. I never forget a face, especially a face that caused so much impact to my village."

Naruto, Shizune, and Tsunade frowned inwardly, 'Here we go...' They all thought at the same time.

The blonde currently being scrutinized looked at his blonde leader, "Hey baa-chan can I just come out and say it? It's clear he already knows and just wants confirmation, and you know that I can't stand a badly kept secret." Tsunade frowned and nodded, "What's with the baa-chan brat? You started out calling me Hokage-sama."

Naruto shrugged, "When you let me speak freely in Gaara's office you never told me to shut up or reign myself in. I used that as a loophole to keep saying what I wanted." He admitted, getting a small sweatdrop from Tsunade for such a simple tactic. He then locked eyes with the Tsuchikage, as much as he could anyway with the man's hat obscuring them from full view, "As for why I look familiar, well I'm the son of Minato Namikaze. My name is Naruto Uzumaki and it's nice to meet you."

That brought looks of shock from Temari, Kankuro, and the Tsuchikage's two bodyguards. As the Tsuchikage allowed Naruto to look in his eyes he didn't see any real hatred, mostly amusement really, "I honestly believed they had resurrected the man from the grave for a moment when I first looked at you kid, but then I got a look at those marks on your cheeks, and that name. You're the jinchuuriki of your village aren't you?"

Naruto nodded, "Guilty as charged. You're not going to yell at me and tell me to die for my father or something? Because that's really what I was expecting the second you got a look at me."

The Tsuchikage looked back out at the arena, "Bah, I'm getting too old to hold grudges against dead men. You weren't even a screaming brat yet when all of that happened, so how could I possibly justify trying to take you out, it's not like Iwa is looking to fight with Konoha and you know Hiraishin or something."

"Man that would be so bad-ass..." Naruto grumbled to himself, "I need something cool like that. Every kage or famous ninja has something cool that nobody else can do. I don't have jack, I'm just a jinchuuriki, therefore if I am known, I'm known as the jinchuuriki kid, not 'Naruto of something', just 'Naruto the Jinchuuriki'." The girl that was guarding the Tsuchikage was in shock at how Naruto was casually speaking to her kage, "How can you just speak to the leaders of three of the Five Great Shinobi Nations so casually? Nobody ever talks to gramps like that."

Naruto turned his attention to her, "I hung out with the Sandaime Hokage all the time from the age of eight until his death. I call the current Hokage 'Tsunade-baachan' to her face, mostly because it's actually appropriate. And hey, Gaara." Naruto said, getting the Ichibi jinchuuriki's attention, "You remember that time you and your siblings spent the week at my house? You guys still owe me grocery money." Naruto smirked, "Unless I'm told to be meek and compliant to the honorifics that everyone uses for each other I won't use them. I hate being like that. Sometimes these guys just need someone that is willing to treat them like everyone else. You seem to be pretty familiar with the Tsuchikage to be calling him gramps so what does that mean?" The girl glared slightly, "Because he's my grandfather. What else would I call him?"

Naruto chuckled, "That's a better excuse then I have for why I call baa-chan what I call her. I was just being a bastard when I met her and called her granny, I had no idea we were actually related somehow, so now she has no reason to tell me to not call her that." Naruto was still somewhat wary, but was satisfied at the moment that the Iwa contingent didn't flat-out want him dead. He was very happy about that. As the contestants for the next bout entered the field he figured maybe he was being all paranoid about the chunin exams for nothing.

There was no way that he would go two for two in regards to catastrophic situations right? Nobody's luck was that hit or miss. He wasn't even in this one.

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"Sasuke-kun is this really what you would like?" Orochimaru asked, "Heading into Sunagakure just for Naruto-kun seems a tad over your head." Questioning Sasuke's abilities, no matter how seemingly suicidal his task was always the perfect way to push him into pretty much anything. freeωebnovēl.c૦m

"Hm." Sasuke grunted, "I'll finish him off and we'll be right out of there. It'll be so fast no one will even know we were there."

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"I can't believe Leader-sama told us to come all the way into the fucking desert just for the Kyuubi jinchuuriki." A man with slicked back silver hair cursed as he and his masked partner strode through the desert, "Isn't he Itachi and Kisame's mark? Where the hell are they for this?"

The masked man sighed, "Just deal with it Hidan and stop complaining about it. The sooner we finish this mission the sooner I can go back out looking for more bounties. Besides, this kid killed Sasori. Maybe he can do me a favor and finish you off once and for all."

"Heh." Hidan laughed, "If he can do it he's more than welcome to try Kakuzu. Unlike the rest of you heathens I'm Jashin-sama's chosen one. None of you fools can kill me."

Kakuzu shook his head, "Well maybe if we can get the Ichibi as well Leader-sama will give us a bonus?"

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