Team MicroKage
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or Big Hero 6
Summary: During the Wave Mission, Naruto found something amazing. As a result, an entirely different Team Seven enters the Chunin Exam. What as Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura take the ninja world by storm with a new kind of weapon: Microbots. Strong/Close Team Seven, using Microbots inspired from Big Hero 6.
Regular Speak
Thoughts and Flashbacks
Demonic or Animalistic Speak
Demonic or Animalistic Thoughts
"Huh? Hey, Old man, what's this?" Naruto asked curiously as he and his team stood on the now-finished bridge, soon-to-be named the Great Naruto Bridge. Tazuna, surprisingly sober, was holding out a small metal cylinder, suffering from age and a bit of rust, but decorated with intricate markings.
"It's something I fished out of the water when I was a barely old enough to call myself a man. I planned on making it a family heirloom, but I think you and your village might have a bigger interest in it," Tazuna explained, getting the interest of the rest of the team.
"What makes you say that, Tazuna?" Kakashi asked curiously.
"After seeing the seals on some of those papers of yours, they seemed like the markings on this thing," He explained with a shrug, "If it turns out to just be a decorative thing, consider it a memento or something," He suggested with a grin.
"Well, in either case, thanks a ton," Naruto said with a grin, rarely turning away a gift as he took the item.
"I'll take a look over it when we make camp, Naruto," Kakashi offered, a bit curious himself now, as were Sasuke and Sakura, even if they didn't say as much.
"Thanks, Sensei! Maybe it'll be something cool, like a secret weapon no one has ever seen before!" Naruto theorized enthusiastically.
"Yeah right, Naruto. What are the odds of that?" Sakura pointed out with a roll of her eyes, "And even if it was, you probably wouldn't know how to use it..."
End of Flashback
Three short figures stood in a training ground, the shortest being four foot-seven and the tallest being five feet tall, and all were in near identical outfits that were reminiscent of the ANBU: Black cloaks covering most of their bodies, with arm and shin guards made of a dark metal. The only notable differences between the three were the masks and the location of the headbands.
Each mask was identical in design, but different in color scheme. Each mask had, unlike most ANBU, colored lenses over their eyes and markings for a more menacing appearance: Each had black lining around the eyes and for 'eyebrows', but each mask had a different color for curved lines that went under the eyes and curved up over the forehead, along with another curved mark on each cheek.
The tallest had white eyes with blue markings and a headband tied on his left arm, the medium had green eyes with red marking and a headband around the waist, and the shortest had orange eyes with black markings and a headband on the right arm.
They all sat in a circle with their legs crossed. Although they were each as silent as the grave, they looked from one another, tilting their heads at one point or another, making gestures and reaction as if they were somehow having a conversation. Orange Eyes would slap himself on the knee and shake with laughter while Green Eyes would shake her head in exasperation, and White Eyes would just sit there with his chin resting on one hand, seemingly bored until Green Eyes would flick the top of his mask to make sure he was still listening, getting more laughs from Orange Eyes as White Eyes leaned forward and seemed to glare at Green Eyes, who just crossed her arms in response.
They all settled down and each suddenly pulled out a tiny, black metal item. They were smaller than a thumb and even skinnier. In the center was a spherical shaped segment with the two eight-sided rods on either side. The three pieces floated between them, spinning around in the center. The rods moved around the spheres as the pieces came closer. One piece moved smoothly and steadily while another shook a bit erratically as it tried to maintain the same speed and the last moved too fast and hard in any direction. Nonetheless, the imperfections of the other two steadied out as the first sped up to meet their pace. As the gap between the pieces closed, they formed a perfect triangle, the three spheres at each point.
It floated there, gently spinning counterclockwise, as they all became as still as they were silent. Orange Eyes shuffled a bit while White Eyes crossed his arms and gripped them. The triangle shook a bit, but it did not break or swivel off. Green Eyes seemed perfectly fine, at first, with her hands on her knees and her posture relaxed. That was until the triangle began to spin on its side. Orange Eyes leaned in as Green Eyes' chest fell and rose a bit more sharply. The triangle tried to steady itself, only to start spinning on its x-axis.
White Eyes quickly leaned back a bit as the triangle just started to twitch in random directions. Orange Eyes just shook his head and leaned back, causing Green Eyes to grip her knees and jerk her head in his direction. He glanced in her direction, staring at her for a moment before shaking his head, the triangle falling apart into its three pieces. Green Eyes hit her own knee as she rose to her feet in apparent anger and stormed a brief distance away. Orange Eyes looked between her and White Eyes for a moment, before White Eyes face-palmed his mask. With a momentary slump in his shoulders, he pointed at Orange Eyes then to the now-angrily-pacing Green Eyes. Orange Eyes jerked, as if startled, while White Eyes just jabbed his finger in Green Eyes direction again. Resigned, Orange Eyes rose and headed over to Green Eyes, White Eyes watching from his seat.
Orange Eyes stood to the side for a few minutes, watching Green Eyes storming back and forth a few times before reaching out to touch her shoulder. The instant he did, she rounded on him, marching towards him as she leaned forward and poked him in the chest, causing him to make a retreat and lean back as her mask glared into his. White Eyes watched the exchange for a moment before realizing they were going to run right into him. With that in mind, he quickly rolled out of the way, standing as they marched by him.
He looked down and shook his head briefly before moving after the two, making a move to grab Green Eyes' shoulder as well. The result was the same, except Green Eyes settled for just rounding on him and poking White Eyes' chest angrily. He, unlike Orange Eyes, held up his hands in a gesture of surrender the minute she rounded on him. Green Eyes seemed to pause before letting her hand fall limply at her side as her whole form sagged a bit.
The three stood in silence for a few moments, the wind blowing through their cloaks gently. Orange Eyes scratched the back of his head nervously as White Eyes looked at him expectantly. Orange Eyes remained unmoving before snapping his fingers in realization. The action and noise got Green Eyes attention, who turned to her comrade with a tilted gaze, White Eyes watching curiously...only for Orange Eyes to bonk Green Eyes on the head lightly. She didn't flinch, but her body posture perked back up as he rubbed her head in an almost praising manner. White Eyes looked between the two of them before shrugging, engulfing them both in a bear hug, causing Orange Eyes to elbow him in the gut and Green Eyes to kick him in the shin, forcing him to release them, but the heaving of his chest suggested laughter at their reaction.
All of them looked sharply to the side as a fourth masked figure appeared, this one standing at five-foot nine, his mask barring silver-grey eyes and purple markings. Another alteration was that he had no headband and instead had the Konoha symbol engraved on the forehead of his mask. The three smaller cloaked beings walked over to him, as Orange Eyes waved his arms in frustrations while Green Eyes crossed her arms and started tapping her fingers on her upper arms, and White Eyes just leaned back calmly to enjoy the show.
As Orange Eyes finished his fit of annoyance, Silver Eyes just waved his hand dismissively, causing Orange Eyes to clench a fist and resist the urge to use his sensei as a training dummy. White Eyes just patted his male teammate on the back as Green Eyes calmed herself down at her sensei's usual behavior. They each perked up as he held out three pieces of paper. To be exact, passes to enter the Chunin Exam.
Orange Eyes perked up immediately, high fiving with Green Eyes. White Eyes just cocked his head curiously at Silver Eyes, who nodded assuringly. Orange Eyes than proceeded to loop his right arm around White Eye's neck, waving his left arm in a grand manner out in front of them. White Eyes turned to him for a second before Orange Eyes slumped and dropped his arm, pushing White Eyes to the side in mock annoyance as he headed off with a wave. He stopped to look at White Eyes who tapped at his own mask in amusement. Orange Eyes seemed to perk up in realization as he pulled his mask off...
"I forget I'm wearing this thing half the time," Naruto muttered as the others removed their mask as well, turning to glare at White Eyes, or Sasuke rather, "And seriously, you're no fun Sasuke! Why can't ya take this like me and Sakura are?" He asked with a mock glare.
"As a chance to risk life and limb over a quick promotion?" Sasuke asked blandly.
"No, as a chance to give these things a proper test run," Green Eyes, or Sakura, retorted with a grin of her own.
"You two just want to scare our old classmates, don't you?" Sasuke asked knowingly.
"And the great Uchiha crosses the finish line," Naruto called mockingly.
"Think of it this way, Sasuke," Silver Eyes, or Kakashi, said with an eye smile, "You can use this as a way to expand your list to be multi-village," He suggested light-heartedly.
"The "People to Defeat before Taking on Itachi" list or the "Potential Girls/Women to Restore Clan With" list?" Sasuke asked with a raised eyebrow.
Kakashi, Naruto, and Sakura shared a look before shrugging and turning back to him, "Both?" They suggested.
"...Okay, point taken," Sasuke said with a small smirk.
"That's the spirit!" Naruto said with a grin as he pulled off his cloak and put it in a seal, "Now, I'm going to go get the next batch. Teme, don't sucker out on us. Oppai, stop beating yourself up. Trust me, I've done it plenty, and it's not fun," Naruto said with a grin as he headed off, "And Sensei, for the love of the gods, do NOT be late registering us!"
"I already gave you your pass," Kakashi pointed out simply.
"Yeah, and I don't know how these exams work. For all I know, you have to give us the passes, than sign us up, or something else stupid like that!" Naruto said, leaving without another word.
"...You know, he has a point," Sakura pointed out, looking up at her silver-headed Sensei, "I've heard how things like that can be a bureaucratic nightmare times."
"Not in a ninja village. We go for speed and efficiency," Kakashi assured with an eye smile before turning serious, "Keep an eye on Naruto in the exams. He means well, but he could go overboard with those things if the right buttons are pushed."
"That's what teammates are for," Sasuke said with a shrug.
"Watching your back, even from yourself," Sakura finished confidently.
Kakashi smiled under his mask as he looked at two of three students. Team Seven had come a long way since they first formed…since wave mission. And all because of one decision by that unpredictable, hyperactive, knucklehead ninja...
"Say, Sakura? Sasuke?...Would you guys like to try them?..."
Meanwhile
"Yah know, I still don't get what you want with all these tiny metal things," Tenten said idly to a customer that had become more and more frequent over the past month or so to her family weapon store. Well, it was really a blacksmith shop, where they worked with anything metal, but weapons and armor was the main thing they ended up dealing with, with the occasional repairs for miscellaneous objects.
Naruto took the offered storage scroll with a grin, "Eh, something of a hobby I made up," He answered vaguely.
"Oh? You make something out of them?" Tenten asked curiously.
"Something like that," Naruto said with a chuckle.
"Sorry, I really shouldn't pry, it's bad for business," She said with a sheepish smile, a habit she picked up from this Uzumaki customer of theirs. "You keep paying, we'll keep sculpting as many of those things as you want," She assured proudly before chuckling, "Hell, Dad might give you a discount at this rate."
"I'll hold you to that," Naruto said jokingly, "The 'I keep paying, you keep making' part, not the discount." He added on with a chuckle before heading out, waving goodbye over his shoulder, Tenten smiling and returning the gesture.
"Uzumaki, eh? Can't help wondering what the tiny things are for," She mused with a shrug. She was only curious because, unlike other things she repaired, she couldn't make a good theory on what they were for, "Maybe it's an art thing..."
Naruto hummed to himself as he leapt across the rooftops, eager to get home and screw around with a few of his ideas for the Microbots. After all, besides his plants, there wasn't much to do at times, 'Oi, maybe I need a hobby or something for when I can't train or hang out with the others.' Naruto thought with a sigh.
He blinked as he caught sight of a few familiar faces down below. Namely, Ino was chasing after Konohamaru for some reason. Shikamaru and Choji, along with Moegi and Udon, were all running after their respective friends. Naruto followed them with a grin from the rooftops, idly wondering what Konohamaru did to bring about Ino's wrath. Sexy Jutsu? Insult? Who knew, it was a kid that was probably still getting over the cootie stages of his young life.
Naruto tensed as he saw Konohamaru run down an alley into somebody that, judging by the headband, obviously wasn't from Konoha. Said person also seemed a bit temperamental, "Hey watch it, kid!" The war paint wearing boy with a large, wrapped up item on his back, yelled as he reached down to pick up Konohamaru by the shirt...
He never even got a chance to touch the child. Just as Temari was about to reprimand her brother for causing a scene, something grabbed the young Sarutobi's scarf, pulling and nearly tossing him backwards as a black figure appeared right where he had been.
"What the-!...Wow," Konohamaru said, looking upset before going wide eyed at his 'savior'.
Kankuro, who had been leaning over to grab the punk, looked up sharply, only to meet the orange eyes of a yokai mask with black markings staring in his face. He went wide eyed and backed away quickly, reaching for his puppet instinctively, "W-what the hell!?" He asked in surprise.
"Who's that?" Ino asked in surprise from the alley entrance. The mask man's gaze snapped towards them, and Ino swore she heard a lion roaring in the background as she looked into those orange eyes, putting her and her teammates on edge.
"Kankuro, stop!" Temari warned in alarm, "I...I think he's one of their ANBU," She pointed out in worry.
"An ANBU?" Shikamaru muttered to himself as he examined the person, "He looks short enough to be our age..." He mused, eyeing the leaf headband on the man's, or boy's, arm, 'And I don't think that ANBU wear headbands over their uniforms like that...'
Kankuro realized then that this person did in fact look like what they heard Konoha ANBU looked like. He gulped and removed his hand from his weapon as Orange Eyes turned to look at him once more, "Lo-look, we're not here for any trouble! We just got here for the Chunin Exams and this kid bumped into me before I could get some rest!" Kankuro tried to explain, not wanting to get arrested by another village, allied or not, for attacking a civilian.
Orange Eyes just stared at them, rather ominously, as his gaze slowly shifted between the Sand Siblings, as if deciding what to do with them.
"...Shika, what is he doing?" Ino asked curiously.
"He's looking for their teammate," Shikamaru answered evenly, watching as Orange Eyes slowly looked to a tree off to the right of the path, "I think he just found him..."
No sooner had Shikamaru said this, a swirl of sand appeared between the two foreign ninjas, a red headed male appearing between them, "Ga-Gaara?" Kankuro said in surprise and a good amount of fear.
"Shut up," Gaara said quickly as he stared directly at Orange Eyes.
"But we-" Temari started, only to be cut off sharply.
"I said quiet," Gaara shot evenly, never breaking eye contact, "I'll remember your mask...and when I pry it off, I expect to learn your name before I kill you," Gaara said lowly, the tension in the alley growing. Orange Eyes didn't react, not so much as a flinch. He was so silent that Gaara couldn't even hear him breathing. The redhead glared a bit harder before turning on his heel, "Temari, Kankuro, we're leaving," he ordered as the two siblings followed him, sending looks of intrigue and nervousness to the masked ninja their container of a brother fixated on.
Orange eyes turned his attention to the two trios of Genin and academy students, who were staring at him, wary and curious, "Umm, thanks, ANBU?" Choji said sheepishly, trying to break the tension, only for Orange Eyes to tilt his head.
"Really not much of a talker, eh?" Ino asked, a bit annoyed by the silent treatment.
"You ever think he might be a mute, Ino?" Shikamaru suggested with a raised eyebrow at his blonde teammate
"An ANBU that is mute and a midget? No offense, but what are the odds of that?" Ino asked skeptically.
"Very low, but he might just be young." Shikamaru countered with a shrug.
"Please, he'd have to be our age," Ino pointed out.
"So?" Choji asked, "I've heard of kids getting into ANBU. It's rare, but it happens," He pointed out.
"Are you ganging up on me now?" Ino asked with a twitching eyebrow.
The argument was cut off by the snickering of Konohamaru, Udon, and Moegi…making the Genin realize the supposed ANBU was long gone, "Damn he's good," Ino said, impressed. Shikamaru, meanwhile, looked down at the students and found that they were looking at them with goofy grins and taking glances at a piece of paper. At his raised eyebrow, the Sandiame's grandson handed over the paper without a word.
Shikamaru sweat-dropped at the words "Winner: Nerd! Loser: Bimbo!" with rather crude, chibi drawings of him with an enlarged and veiny head, and Ino with a rather...enhanced chest. Ino's drawing was crying in defeat while his was standing triumphantly...on said enhanced chest.
"What is it?" Ino asked curiously at Shikamaru's long pause, Choji tilting his head in interest as well.
Shikamaru looked between the note and his teammate about three times before wadding up the ball and throwing it away, "Troublesome, it was nothing," He muttered in annoyance, not wanting Ino to blow a gasket over this one.
Unseen by anyone, a few tiny black things fell off of Konohamaru's scarf, crawling into the bushes nearby and up a tree, where Orange Eyes watched them leave...and promptly got hit over the head, making him whirl around to see Sasuke and Sakura standing behind him, "Dobe, what the hell are you doing!?" Sakura asked in annoyance.
Naruto smirked as he took his mask off, "Making strong first impressions?"
"You're just lucky those sand ninja didn't actually try anything, or we would have had to jump in," Sasuke said with a sigh.
"Then we would have all made wonderful first impressions!" Naruto reasoned with a grin.
"I thought we wanted to surprise and spook them in the Chunin exams?" Sakura reminded evenly.
Naruto chuckled as he looked back down where his little appearance had taken place, "I'd say they were plenty spooked."
End of Chapter
And there's first chapter. First off, that title is the best I could think of. Was originally NanoKage until I remember they were called Microbots. Second, these Microbots work very much like the Big Hero 6 Microbots, but on different princibles. Don't worry, they'll all be explained later. Thirdly, NO, Team Seven is NOT telepathic. How they're talking to each other will be revealed eventually.
Now that tha'ts out of the way? Yes, Naruto got the Microbots as a gift from Tazuna. I thought about him getting them out of the scroll, but i kind of like this route better. And, obviously, Team Seven has mellowed out some. Sasuke is friendlier and is planning out the Itachi thing a bit better, taking on smaller opponents until he's ready, Sakura is actng like a fangirl and is actually getting along with Naruto more, and Naruto...not even sure what the word for him is. Devious?
But, yes, the team has bonded well over trying to use the microbots. We'll see more of their early attempts in flashbacks. However, each one of them has their own unique style to using them. And these Microbots have several applications to chakra that you'll get to see later.
Also, I was tempted to have Team Micro make a sneak peak reveal against the Sand siblings in the alley, but it felt more natural for Naruto to just happen across i find it funny that a lot of people thought he was ANBU.
Also, for the "Silent Acts" when the characters are refered to by the color of their eyes? That won't happen all the time when thier wearing masks, but it will be fairly common. Its parto f thier thing.
Pairings are largely undecided. Sakura, while still having a thing for Sasuke and Naruto for her...well, they're more interested in enjoying life and getting stronger right now. Don't worry, romantic/crush humor will happen from time to time.
Hope you all enjoyed this!
PS I don't have plans for anyone else getting the Microbots, but I also don't have plans for anyone else not to get them.