NARUTO -ナルト -伝説
"Naruto, this is the only favor I'll ask you...Please, bring Sasuke-kun back!"
"I'll bring Sasuke back for sure!"
If only I hadn't asked him that, none of this would've happened...
A pink-haired kunoichi by the name of Haruno Sakura bolted her eyes open. She looked around to she where she was at. "The library...of course,"she thought. She pulled herself up from the table as she smacked away the medical documents on her right cheek. She wiped the dry drool on the corner of her mouth. "Haruno Sakura, you're pathetic! You're 19 and you're still drooling? C'mon get a grip, shannaro!"she exclaimed to her self.
She flattened her long, tangled raccoon hair as she was walking towards the Hokage's office. Before she stepped into the office she looked out the window. Her eyes grew more forlorn as she was thinking about him, "Happy birthday,". She sighed and walked in the office with a straight posture.
Uzumaki Naruto didn't know what to do. He was heaving, almost running out of his chakra. Sweat was running down his upper half. But he couldn't give up-it was his nindo, and he desperately wanted to surpass his father, the fourth Hokage, and his former master, Jiraiya. He put his hand out in posture, but grunted as his hand was sore. "I have to go on! I've been here, training for at least 2 years, I gotta stop him!" he scolded to himself. He slowly stood up, "Here I go!" he shouted putting his hand in position once again.
"Yo, Naruto!" a low voice called out. Naruto's hand suddenly released an enormous amount of energy. "Gah! Duck, Gamakichi!" Naruto ordered as he jumped on the toad. The ball of energy was whisked into thin air.
"Crap, not again!" Naruto said disappointed, "So Gamakichi, what 'cha doing here?"
The giant frog gave the whiskered ninja a look of surprise, "Never mind that, the Great Toad Sage wants to see you! Hurry!"
Naruto hurried towards the temple forgetting to put his shirt back on.
The female toads gasped as they saw a shirtless Naruto. "So, what did you want, Toad Sage?"
"..." The sage didn't answer.
"Toad Sage! Oooi~"
"Wake up, ya old toad!" Shima, another old toad shouted.
"Be respectful!" Fukasaku, her husband scolded.
The wrinkly toad twitched. He looked down at Naruto, "Who is this young fella?"
"That's Naruto-chan, ya old geezer!" Shima shouted.
"Don't talk like that to him!" her husband said back. The two started bickering...again.
"Sh...Silence, a married couple shouldn't bicker!" the wise old toad said. The two arguing toads stopped.
"Naruto-chan! You've grown quite alot since I last saw you! Where is your shirt?" the sage said laughing quietly.
Naruto looked down to make sure, his eyes widened in surprise, "Heh, no wonder I felt a breeze!"
The sage shushed the giggling toads. "Naruto, today is October 10th, your 19th birthday; I have a special present I want to give to you..." he said as he shifted in his seat.
"Go right ahead!" Naruto answered smiling with a serious look in his eyes.
He chuckled lightly, "Very well. I will give you a prediction of you. In my vision I see you walking out of your village with a pale man and a pink haired young lady." Naruto nodded, engrossed on the sage's prediction. "You'll meet an old friend, and fight an endless bloody battle; you're actions will decide if the friend will trust you or destroy you. That is all,"
Naruto's eyes were still focused on his prediction. Think it over and over. Shima, Fukasaku, and Naruto had stepped out of the sage's hut.
"So, Fukasaku-san, Shima-san, I can return to Konoha?"
"Yeah, that's what he said."
"...Well, I guess this is a goodbye for now!" he said as he waved at the two elder toads. He poofed to his home village.
"Kakashi-sen-I mean, Lord Hokage, I have the medical documents!" Sakura announced as she ran into the Hokage's office. The masked jonin-err, Kage turned around to see his former student. "Oh, Sakura that's good! And you don't have to call me Hokage, just call me sensei like old times, OK?" he asked chuckling. She nodded.
"Today's his birthday, right?" Sakura asked her former teacher as she looked out the window.
"Yeah, the day where everything happened. The Fourth Shinobi World War ended, and alot of Shinobi died: Tsunade-sama, Madara and his army, even Sasuke and his team were defeated..." Kakashi answered. His voice was sad. "I wonder when that knuckle-headed hero will return..." he sighed.
A little girl had just bursted in through the door laughing and smiling, "Daddy!" she called out. Kakashi smiled underneath his mask, his saddened eyes were replaced with joy. "Why hello, Momoko! What are you doing here?" he asked he gently picked her up. Momo had silver hair tied in a pony tail and violet colored eyes. Her voice had a laid-back tone like her father, Kakashi's. Her cheeks were pink and plump.
"You know Momoko, you really shouldn't bother your father like that," a woman said sternly.
"Mommy!" the little girl cheered. The woman walked to her husband as she waved and greeted Sakura. The woman had long wavy black hair and elegant violet eyes. Her cheeks were pink like her daughter, but weren't as plump. Sakura respectfully bowed to the Hokage's wife, "Good morning, Lady Hanae!" Sakura hurriedly said. The woman laughed quietly and walked towards her. "Sakura-chan, you don't have to be so respectful! Just call me Hanae!" Hanae exclaimed slapping Sakura's back. "Ugh, this woman's so-called 'pat' is the most painful thing in the world," she thought. As soon as Hanae put her hand down, Sakura immediately straightened up. Hanae pried Momoko off from Kakashi and left the office.
Sakura heard foot steps running towards the office, she quickly moved away from Kakashi's desk as Captain Yamato ran in the office. Yamato's breath was heavy and his face was soaking wet from running. "Naruto has returned!" exclaimed the wood-styled ninja. The two stared at him in shock. '
"Your kidding, right?" the two said simultaneously. Yamato only shook his head, still breathing heavily, "He's...out...by...hah...Ichiraku...!" he said laying face-down on the desk. "Sensei, we better greet him!" Sakura said smiling excitedly. Kakashi nodded forgetting his collapsed underling.
*SLURP~*"Like always Teuchi-san, you're ramen's the best! You might've gotten old, but you still haven't lost your touch!" Naruto said as he slurped the noodles quickly.
"Well I'm glad you like it Naruto! All your ramen's on the house!"
"Kya! Lucky-ttebayo!" he said as he finished his tenth bowl of ramen.
Outside the ramen shop a group of people were surrounding Ichiraku. Seeing the size of the huddle, the word must have been going around that the Hero of the Leaf-no the whole Shinobi world has come back to his home. "Excuse me, please let us through!" Kakashi said trying to talk over the crowd. Sakura was talking to them quietly but after a villager had pushed her, she snapped, "People! Move already, SHANNARO!" she yelled out bursting into the shop. "Naruto!" she exclaimed as she ran towards the blond shinobi.
"Huh? Who are you?" the man said. Sakura stared at him. He had blond spiky hair like Naruto's but his face was different. "Oh, I'm sorry! Wrong person, please excuse me!" Just then Kakashi had walked in the shop, "Huh? Teuchi-san, Ayame-san, where's Naruto?" he said shocked not to see his blond student not slurping on noodles. Teuchi looked back as wiped his sweat, "Oh, Naruto? He said he's going to the forest to see someone. I wonder who?" he finished as he scooped up the cooked noodles. "Thank you!" the two yelled out and ran out of the shop.
"Tell me, Kakashi-sensei; who would Naruto be visiting in the forest?"
"Who knows, Naruto's a strange kid...but it never hurts to be sure!" Kakashi finished as he poofed into thin air.
"What? No fair! Kakashi-sensei, you know I hate it when you do that!" she scolded the air and ran towards the deep forest.
"Heh, you can't run from us!" a masked, white haired man shouted. He was running in the woods, nothing but a sinister atmosphere filled the air.
"Please, spare me! It was a mistake!" a frightful ninja answered running away from the masked man. The masked man swung around a sword as he ran snickering. Just then, a blind-folded man appeared in front of the panicking ninja, "Oh thank heavens! God had sent me someone who'll protect me!" The blind-folded man frowned even more. He lifted up part of his blind-fold to reveal his right eye. He slowly opened it.
"Your kidding, it can't be you're-"
"Die, weakling!" the man said casually as blood trickled down his pale complexion. The ninja had dropped to the ground as his eyes rolled back.
The masked man lifted up his mask half way. It revealed his mouth, he had animal-like teeth and a devious looking purple eye, "Oh come on man! I had that dude cornered!"
The blind-folded man's right eye glared at him as he took of his blind-fold, "Shut up, Suigetsu! You were taking to long! What, were you trying to test my patience?" he said coldly wiping the blood off his cheek. "You know, people shouldn't call you Sasuke the Reaper anymore; they should call you Mr. Sasuke-Stiff-the genin!"
"What did you just call me?" Sasuke asked him viciously. His eyes slowly turning red.
"Yeah, like that's gonna scare me!" Suigetsu scoffed.
"Watch who you're talking to, or you're gonna die next!" Sasuke shouted as his hands dug more and more in to the tree.
"Guys, come down! We need to go back to the hide-out!" a tall red head informed the two arguing shinobi from the ground.
"Hn, fine Juugo!" Sasuke answered. Suigetsu growled at Sasuke as he headed down the tree.
Naruto was standing in front of a stone with the word, "teacher" engraved on it. He sighed and laughed quietly.
"I know I should've visited you first, but you know how I am! I was hungry to death!" he said as he scratched his head. He stared at a bouquet of paper flowers laying beside the stone. Naruto's eyes closed as his hands were coming together; he was praying. Just as his prayer was ending his eyes bolted open. He took out a kunai from his kunai pouch and got in position-even though he was a genin, he had battle experiences and training like a Jonin. His kunai was firmly on his palm. He stared at the shadowy figure. "You, come out!" he commanded with a hard tone.
Behind the tree the shadowy figure revealed himself. A young man had stepped out, tall and pale, with a creepy yet gentle smile plastered on his face. "Well, if it isn't my old friend Naruto!" he exclaimed slowly walking towards him. "Sai!" Naruto shouted as he put down his kunai. He ran up and gave him a fist-bump.
"What's up, old buddy?" Naruto asked him with his usual bright smile.
"So Sai, what are you doing here?"
"I should be asking you the same thing!" Sai answered. The two laughed like old men.
Kakashi smirked as he looked back to see an angry and tired Sakura. He became wide-eyed as Sakura took a swing at him, purposely, she missed, hitting the tree, almost making it fall to the grassy ground.
Over the three years, Sakura trained herself to increase her strength without using any chakra, and her Spartan training kind of worked. Her strength sometimes worked, but other times she had to use her chakra to increase it. She was pretty proud of herself because she learned to increase her strength without the help of her former teacher, Tsunade. Some had named her Tsunade II, but others had nick-named her Ordori Hanabira Sakura(Sakura: The Dancing Petal) because of her beauty and swift yet monstrous battling styles.
"You know I hate it when you do that, Sensei!"
Kakashi only chuckled nervously, "Sorry, sorry! Just a habit!" he said,"she could've killed me!" he thought as he gazed over at the tree. The two ran into the woods.
After running in to the forest, immediately Sakura saw Sai and Naruto laughing and talking. She smiled brightly and ran over to give him a back-breaking hug.
"Naruto, you're back!" she yelled choking him.
"C-can't b-breathe!" he tried to say. Sakura immediately let go of him as she apologized to the now-blue ninja.
"Well, the Hero has comeback, huh?" Kakashi asked slightly amused by Naruto's blue face. Naruto stared at Kakashi wide-eyed.
"Whoa! Kakashi-sensei, you're actually the Hokage?" Naruto said excitedly feeling his robe. He stared at his face, disappointed that Kakashi still covered it.
Kakashi chuckled, "Now, now Naruto, pouting won't get you anywhere! Now, why don't we go back to my office?" The three nodded.
"Just let me say good-bye!" Naruto said stepping back towards the stone.
"To who?" the other three asked. Staring around to find someone.
Naruto only grinned, "Well, Ero-senin, the Hero has come back!" he exclaimed at the stone. His hands had balled into a fist of encouragement, "Wish me luck!" Naruto slowly backed away from it, looking to at it from time to time. He ran half-way out. The other three just simply stared at the stone and smiled.
"Wish him luck, Jiraiya-sama!" Sakura whispered. She then followed Naruto. Sai and Kakashi bowed at the stone in respect and followed the other two.
As they ran out of the forest, the Memorial for Jiraiya seemed to show a smile as the sun shined on it.
AFTER WORDS-This has been the first chapter of Naruto: Legends. I was pretty pumped when I wanted to write this, but some parts of this chapter gave alot of the future plans I was going to write. BTW: This series is after the fourth shinobi world war!
Characters:
Hatake Momoko: She's 3, and pretty naive, I plan on making a cute little chapter for her! I don't really know why...but I just made her up for a gag-character.
Hatake Hanae: Kakshi's wife, yes, I know, but this story's taking place like, three years after the main plot! To be honest, I'm not making her appear in any of the chapters...maybe just a few times, but that's it!
Tsunde: She's dead, now all the sanins are...To tell you the truth, I'm kinda glad I got rid of her in this series-not because I didn't like her, but because I didn't want any Kakashi action...don't hate me, I love Kakashi and all, but I feel like if Kakashi's in most of the scenes...it won't be fun to write!
Taka: Okay, so Taka went bye-bye, but another group's approaching, I'll have a new member in that group (which is an OC) SHE will be a pretty important role in this series!