The art of the shadow
A/N: this takes place a couple of days after naruto came back to konaha, after getting tsunade to accept the role of hokage
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ch1: finding a teacher.
That was it, naruto was leaving, he had had enough of the villager's despising him. As he was going out of the west gate, he made a promise, that one day he would exact his revenge on the village hidden the leaves. He would destroy every last person that ridiculed, despised, or hurt him in any way.
The first thing he needed to do was to get some new clothes, his trademark orange would be a dead giveaway. He went to one of the smaller villages and there he got an all black suite. While he was there, he did some research, and found the whereabouts of a rouge Nin from konaha by the name of aku kage (evil shadow), who was currently in the land of fire, looking for a job, usually as a hired assassin, or bodyguard. That night, naruto devised a plan to get the rouge Nin to be his apprentice. When he first ordered the room in the inn, the lady had asked him for his name, since naruto would give him away, he made up a new name, "m...my…my name, its Jigoku Gekido (hell's fury)." He stammered. The lady gave him some suspicious looks, but finally conceded and gave him the room key.
As aku kage along the forest, a boy dressed in all black, and with a konaha Nin headband with a slash through it on appeared in front of him, he said, "hay, kid get out of my way." The boy just stood there, then finally the boy said, "Would be my sensei, aku-san?" The man busted out laughing and said, "what gave you a crazy idea like that!?!?" The boy replied, "I need to get stronger so I can exact my revenge on the village hidden in the leaves." He stated. The man replied, "You are not worthy." Angry now, the boy shouted, "Want to bet, ill fight you right now!" the boy said as he launched a couple of kunai at the man. Aku kage caught the kunai in mid air and sent them back at the boy. They hit him, but he turned into smoke. Before he could analyze what happened, he heard "kage no bushi" and all of a sudden a hundred kids in black surrounded him, then together they said, "kage no bushi!" all of a sudden there was a thousand kids in black in the tree and on the ground, then one walked up to him and said, "want to reconsider that proposal?"
'Holy crap!' he thought 'this kid is pretty good, but not good enough' he thought. "Shi no kage!" (Death shadow) he shouted. All of a sudden he stepped into the shadow of one of the clones and vanished. The shadow clones started talking amongst themselves when aku kage suddenly appeared in the middle of the group. The second he appeared, the clones disappeared simultaneously, all of them destroyed. The real naruto jumped out of a tree while he was trying to figure out how he destroyed them all of them instantly, and without effort, when felt the cold steel of kunai against his throat. "Crap!!" he thought. "Where did you learn that jutsu, you aren't that old, and only jounine level have enough charka to create ten clones, let alone a thousand, but still you aren't good enough for me to train. "before naruto could protest, the kunai slit his neck, but to his surprise, his knife just sank into a piece of wood, before he could realize what happened he had four clones in front of him, four behind, and one on each side, all ten had a rasingan . "Bad idea kid, shi no kage!" he yelled, but nothing happened. "What the…" but naruto cut him off, "the sun is directly over our head, so I don't have a shadow, and since you have to use my shadow to suck the life out of me, you're jutsu won't work. " "All right, what do you want?" he asked. "all I want is for you to take me in as you're apprentice, and to teach me in the art of shadow, so I can exact my revenge on the village that scorned me for so long. "Ok, but what do I get in return?" he asked. "Well first of all," he said, "I wont give you disfiguring swirl-shape scars all over you're body, and second, I will offer my complete services in anything you do. He considered these to reasons, especially the first one, and finally said "ok."
A/N my first fanfic, please, constructive criticism, no flames. Not sure how many chappies this will be
