Authors Note: Helloooo! (Zetsu voice) So this is it, 16 pages... the most I've ever written. Anyways this is my first attempt and I think it went well all things considering (I'm not gonna say that I'm an expert at writing or anything) however some of the stories that I've seen on the website... (Facepalm) Some are just awesome but some are ridiculous, either because of the plot (most of the time) characters so OOC that it's ridiculous, (goes hand in hand with bad plots) OCs (don't even get me started on those Mary Sue's...) and last but not least the absolutely amazing (KSI voice) (If you don't know who he is then check him out on YouTube, he's so funny.) Grammar and Spelling. Now I'm not English (Brazilian) but come on some of the mistakes are just painful to look at. It's even worse when they misspell names and places of the Story. I will endeavor to not fall to the dark side (not racist at all) of fanfiction i.e. all of those above and I hope that you will aid me in my quest.
Uhm... anyways!
Lets get started I guess... Oh right! I need to do a disclaimer huh... Well this is how it goes:
Disclaimer: No I don't own Naruto. I know - It sucks balls. But it's the truth. So please don't sue me. (Not that you would get much)
Well... I think everything is in order... So welcome to Change - Chapter 1 - A friend.
(You'll find out soon enough why it's called that...)
Oh for fuck's sake…
How had this happened again? Oh yeah. He was just having a late night training session. Absolutely nothing wrong with that. In fact it was something that Iruka-sensei would actually encourage, although reluctantly because everyone needed to rest and have a good night's sleep and tomorrow was the exam.
It wasn't even that late, the sun had gone down a few hours ago and if he had to guess it would be like… nine… something? Everything had been going so well too. He had finally perfected that technique and he was just resting peacefully on a tree branch, drinking water from his canteen and staring at the beautiful full moon. Nothing wrong with that. Sure, others might find it strange that a thirteen year old was out this late but it was still perfectly acceptable and fine.
Who was he kidding? Of course things couldn't stay so peaceful or right for so long. After all he was Uzumaki Naruto, even if he tried his best to stay away from trouble and not cause any it still always found him no matter what. Normally he would just shake his head in a strange sort of amazement at how things could turn out, even if he had no say whatsoever and it had absolutely nothing to do with him, however this just took the cake.
'And this bastard might just take my head!' Naruto ducked swiftly and jumped back as far as he could, throwing shuriken in a spread pattern meant to make his opponent back off. Thankfully it seemed to work and as he gripped a kunai in each hand he tried to get his breath back, his eyes never leaving the enemy.
Truthfully he was still a bit confused, however it all came down to this single fact: Mizuki was trying to kill him, he had no idea why, but that didn't matter. He was not about to be killed, especially since his graduation exam was tomorrow, not after everything he had done, not after all the effort , the time, the sweat, blood and in some cases even tears that he had shed, because it was all in order to make his dream come true.
He wasn't about to let Mizuki ruin it all because he wanted a live practice dummy. Fuck that. As if he could die now. There was no way that was gonna happen, which was exactly why he was fighting back. It didn't matter that this person had spent the last five years being his instructor; right now he was trying to spend Naruto's last minutes making him dodge Fuuma shuriken all over the fucking forest.
'Damn it! I need to think up a plan. Well… if things aren't going good then that just means you aren't using enough explosives right?' Truly, he would be forever grateful to that piece of advice. It was time to make a comeback, Mizuki was gonna regret fucking with him. He smirked before throwing a smoke bomb down and immediately turned and ran deeper into the forest. Normally he would keep a neutral expression in fights, but it was all a part of the plan.
Mizuki was clearly overconfident and Naruto was gonna make sure that it would be his downfall. By goading him and leading him on a chase, making Mizuki frustrated that he couldn't catch an Academy student, he would be more liable to making mistakes, which was exactly what he wanted. It wasn't that this was the only way to fight him, no; it was the smart way. Who knew what else he could have besides those Fuuma shuriken that he was so fond of? He would tire him out and then take him out.
Naruto hid behind some bushes and branches, up in the canopy, and tried his best to hide his presence. Mizuki was a Chūnin sure but he was number one in stealth in the academy. Too bad for Mizuki that he was also number one in trap making in the academy. He glanced around to make sure that everything was in place, and a kunai slid into his right hand from his long sleeved blue shirt. Putting it into a grip more fit for throwing Naruto waited until he heard Mizuki's voice.
"Come out Naruto-kun! This is only a friendly spar after all, there's no need to be afraid." He smoothly ignored the taunt and then when Mizuki was in range, sprang into action. He chucked the kunai in his hand, however it seemed to have missed Mizuki, but before the man could make a, no doubt, derisive comment a faint snapping sound was heard and Mizuki had to jump to the left to dodge the barrage of kunai, with exploding tags.
Naruto was already moving as soon as he threw the kunai and ignored the explosions below him as he sprung the next step. Mizuki had dodged to the left, where there was a big tree, and to protect him from the blast he had predictably hid around the tree but that was exactly what he wanted. Because of the explosions he wouldn't have heard it, the faint sizzling sound before the exploding tags that had been stuck above his head, on the tree, went off causing a good, decent explosion.
A few trees away Naruto crouched down and slowly did the seals, carefully moulding his chakra, he couldn't afford to screw up now, before he took out a few shuriken. He spun them around his finger and then blew on them and the wind from his mouth seemed to surround the already spinning shuriken, making them widespread lethal fan blades. It was a good thing that the now enhanced wind shuriken did not make much noise.
'Fūton: Shinkūjin!' He had only perfected it but he knew that he was going to be using this technique a lot. Standing on a tree a few yards away Naruto watched the smoke carefully. He knew that wasn't enough to take Mizuki out – the man was a Chūnin – which was exactly why Naruto was already making his new move. He didn't plan on giving Mizuki an inch.
From the smoke a slightly charred Mizuki flew out and Naruto struck. Giving the spinning shuriken a last spin he flicked them in his direction. But Mizuki was a Chūnin and he took the Fuuma shuriken off his back and with a flick of the wrist he sent it to combat the shuriken.
However this was done in desperation and instinct so he didn't even register the fact that the spinning shuriken (the one Naruto threw) was coated with Wind chakra which could cut solid rock. Had he known he would have probably ducked or dodged. Naruto watched with satisfaction as his shuriken grinded in to the Fuuma shuriken and then cut it in half before dutifully flying towards Mizuki.
'What the fuck-!'Mizuki barely had time to question as he hit the deck let the flying shuriken go past him and glanced back to see that it had cut half way into a tree. He shot a wide-eyed look at Naruto.
'How the hell did he do that?' Academy students weren't supposed to be throwing shurikens around which could cut his own Fuuma shuriken and half way into one of Konoha's trees. Then he sneered, it didn't matter – he had already wasted too much time here. The brat had put up a much better fight then expected but…
'It's about time I finish this. But I won't use that just yet… ' Mizuki said to himself. He looked around at the trees warily, this kid was good at ambushes and he wasn't about to let himself get almost done in like last time. Time to draw him out.
On another part of Konoha…
The Hokage paid the panicky rookie Chūnin no mind as they rushed around him, in the meeting room of the Hokage tower, trying to find their fellow Chūnin. The bastard had broken in to his own home and when he had gotten almost caught had used his grandson as a hostage. His grandson.
Mizuki was gonna pay, dearly. Thinking of his grandson a blonde grinning academy student popped up in mind, Naruto had sure grown up differently than he had expected, he had to give credit to the kid as well as a certain Jōnin, instead of Naruto being one of those kind of kids who just spouted big talk and didn't do anything Naruto talked big and ranked even higher.
The kid was number on in the academy at almost everything. That was one thing that you couldn't dismiss about Uzumaki Naruto, even if you didn't like him, it was that he was an absolute monster (for his age and in this age of peace) at the ninja arts. Even though he was in the class where all of the clan heirs were, he was still ranked number one. You could argue that he had help from a Jōnin but so did everyone else. Being a clan heir meant that your father/mother was the clan head, and all of the clan heads that were around were exceptional shinobi. While Naruto had help from a Jōnin, they had help from clan heads, some of his best ninja, but Naruto still didn't lose to them.
You could almost call him a model student; he just excelled at almost everything. Last he checked the only thing someone beat him on was academy theory, a Haruno Sakura, and even then he was second place. That girl just must have had brains the size of the Hokage Tower because she was absolutely amazing in theory. Some people called him a 'Genius' or even 'Prodigy' (some academy teachers did) but he and the specific Jōnin knew the truth; Naruto was just stubborn, determined and had shitloads of stamina. These three facts along with his dream made him almost unstoppable when it came to learning new things.
However... he hoped Naruto wasn't in trouble. Then he took that thought one step further i.e. Naruto was always in trouble. Most of the time it honestly wasn't his fault, the kid was just unlucky really. Really unlucky because he got himself caught in the most ridiculous (and dangerous) situations without meaning to. Kakashi glanced up from his book and paused at the deadpan look on the Hokage's face.
Then his hand came up and activated the mysterious jutsu that could let him look through the crystal ball and watch over Konoha. He put his book down as he watched the Hokage find a blonde and he felt some of the other Jōnin that were in the room concentrate on the Hokage. He was perhaps the wisest man in the village; there was no way that he would do something without there being a good reason. And a good reason it was as even the Chūnin stopped to watch a peculiar scene unfold in front of them.
The blonde boy, who most people immediately recognized as the village's Jinchūriki, was seen crouching behind some shrubs as he flicked a kunai and immediately jumped away from his (apparent) hiding spot. Was he in a fight?
And then Kakashi reached the same apparent conclusion that the Hokage had… If Naruto was in a fight, and using kunai, then there was a chance that… His train of thought was interrupted as the kunai struck the ground beside his target; Mizuki. Then a snapping sound was heard and a shower of kunai was launched 'A trap huh…' Kakashi thought interestingly, the kid wasn't aiming at Mizuki at all, it was a fake shot to get him. The kunai which had been launched from the trap struck the ground as Mizuki jumped away and then he hid around the tree (when they exploded) which was behind him, only for the next stage of Naruto's plan come into motion and the tree exploded.
'Clever… it was a two stage attack – he 'missed' with the kunai and sprung a trap, forcing Mizuki into the next stage of his attack. Most Genin would have probably not survived that, but Mizuki is a Chūnin, one that stole 'that' scroll…' Was the thought that ran through most of the shinobi present however any other thoughts were destroyed when they saw him do hand signs and blow into a shuriken surrounding it in Wind and then throwing it at Mizuki. Any other thoughts that could've have been formed were also destroyed when said shuriken tore through Mizuki's Fuuma shuriken and almost took his head off before lodging itself half way into a tree.
Genma summed up everyone's thoughts in the matter with a, "What the fuck…?" but it wasn't over. Far from it. Mizuki finally decided to stop playing around and everyone's stomach began to drop when they heard what he said next.
Forest – Mizuki vs. Naruto
"Come out Naruto-kun! We have so much to discuss… Oh! I know! How about I tell you a story hmm? You better listen carefully!" Naruto grimaced at the sweet tone of voice. Even if he wasn't trying to kill him he would still have his guard up just out of principle, that tone of voice on Mizuki just wasn't right.
"It's about you, you know…? There's this law that was created 13 years ago. But you don't know anything about that hmm? Of course you don't – it was never meant to be told to you!" Mizuki then burst into a laughing fit.
"Hahaha! Would you like to know? The law that everyone kept from you, the secrets that no one ever shed light on, the whole truth? I'll tell you…"
"Thirteen years ago, when you were born, October 10th, what happened hmm Naruto-kun? What happened on your birthday?"
Of course Naruto knew what had happened. How could he not? Everyone did; on his birthday the Kyūbi, a massive fox made out of pure chakra attacked the village. Somehow the Yondaime Hokage defeated the fox and saved the village. Naruto wasn't stupid - this law, the difficulties he had encountered, his massive chakra supply… Suddenly he felt his stomach plummet. Whatever Mizuki had to say… he felt like he shouldn't hear and yet at the same time… he had to hear this.
"Well if you won't say it then I will. The Kyūbi attack! That's what happened. The Yondaime defeated it but… you don't know how he did it do you? Do you want to know?" By now Mizuki's voice was a low purr which made him sick to his stomach.
Hokage Tower – Meeting Room.
'Oh no… Mizuki…!' The hatred that he already felt for the man just seemed to deepen.
"Fuck! At this rate he's gonna tell him!" Genma cursed as he chewed on his senbon worriedly. This was bad… really bad. If Mizuki told him… how was Naruto going to react?
"Mizuki… I've seen enough. ANBU!" Immediately four cloaked figures appeared out of (seemingly) thin air and kneeled down in front of the Hokage.
"Get him. Bring him alive and return the scroll. Go!" The ANBU then vanished as abruptly as they had come and some of the shinobi seemingly calmed down but a few didn't. The ANBU was good but there was no chance that they would get there before Mizuki blundered that secret.
"Hokage-sama..." Kakashi spoke as he stepped up to the table. He was about to continue when the door burst open and almost off its hinges.
"Hokage-sama!" The new arrival shouted as she flew towards the desk and stopped next to Kakashi.
"Anko…? What are you doing here?" She shot Kakashi an annoyed look before catching her breath.
"Where is he? I heard that Mizuki stole the scroll and-"She stopped talking when the Hokage put his hand up.
"I know Anko. I've sent the ANBU but… Mizuki is close to telling him that." He swallowed, almost nervously. It was not a good idea to get on Anko's bad side and for the most part almost every single shinobi in the room agreed, as they shuffled uncomfortably in the utter silence that had descended on the room.
"What?" It was a whisper but even Kakashi discreetly inched away from the clearly enraged kunoichi next to him. This was not going to end well…
(From now on everything that is in Italics while the scene is in the Hokage Tower will be the scene happening in the forest. They are watching through the crystal ball.)
"I'll tell you how… The Kyūbi was a natural disaster – something that couldn't be killed, so… he didn't. The Yondaime didn't kill the Kyūbi. Instead he did something else – he sealed it. That's right! In you! You are the Nine Tailed Fox which attacked Konoha and almost destroyed the village!" Mizuki burst into another laughing fit and doubled over as he continued, "Didn't you ever wonder why all the stares, the whispers, the difficulties?! It was because they hated you! Everyone hates you! Even her…" The grin by now was downright maniacal and he threw his head back as he cackled.
Most of the shinobi gaped at the crystal ball as they registered what he had just said. "Fuck!" Genma didn't know who said it but he was right on the money. Fuck indeed. His eyes almost robotically turned towards Anko and he flinched at the aura of death above her head.
She shot the most murderous look at Mizuki and then snarled. That fucking bastard. When she got her hands on him… Oh he would have wished that he had been just killed by the ANBU. However it seemed as if he was gonna get killed by something else. Almost everyone froze at the voice that spoke in the deadly silence.
"Oi. Don't screw with me…" Naruto spoke as another wind enhanced shuriken flew towards Mizuki. Snorting Mizuki ducked but then his eyes widened in shock at the second shuriken which was hidden in the shadow of the first. The shuriken tore through Mizuki but in a puff of smoke only a shredded log remained. Then Mizuki flew from the tree tops as Naruto gave chase, two shuriken spinning in his hands, as he blew on one of them.
"As if I'll let you!" Mizuki pulled out four kunai and chucked them at the mid-air Naruto but to his astonishment Naruto used the widespread fan blades and blocked the incoming kunai before chucking the enhanced shuriken and the other one that was in his hand. Mizuki barely had time to do the hand seals before both shuriken tore into him, once again shredding another log."
Anko's aura of death seemed to diminish at the display and she stared at the crystal ball, dutifully ignoring the stunned looks sent at Naruto. So he had perfected that technique hmm? He was already that adept at using it so maybe she should have a spar with him later. But then she was left almost gaping at what he did next.
"That trick won't work twice!" Naruto shouted as a Fuuma shuriken came flying from the canopy, clearly trying to dissect Naruto.
In mid-air Naruto did four hand seals before taking a big breath and spun around as he blew a wave of Wind.
"Fūton: Shinkūha!" Naruto shouted as he blew the Vacuum Wave, which batted the Fuuma shuriken aside almost effortlessly, and continued on to the tree tops cutting through them, which forced Mizuki to jump out. Naruto immediately gave chase and whipped out what seemed to be a nunchaku, made from a red metal, but then all three parts of it clicked together to form a bo-staff as he rushed Mizuki. He twirled it around his fingers and swung it around at Mizuki's chest. Mizuki grunted as he jumped above the bo-staff but it wasn't over it – Naruto let the staff run its course and as it struck the ground it became lodged.
'That was when those kunai exploded! Was that his plan all along?!' Mizuki thought as Naruto used the momentum behind his swing and twirled his whole body before letting a brutal back thrust kick at Mizuki which nailed him in the chest and sent him flying.
"Gah!" Mizuki coughed out as he slammed into a tree trunk. Naruto, using the last of his momentum, dislodged his staff from the deformed earth (because of the explosion it overturned the ground and Naruto used it to lodge his staff in between two piece of earth) and turned around.
It was at this point that everyone saw the murderous expression on his face and more than a few shot quick glances at Anko, no doubt comparing him and her, but she couldn't care less. He was kicking ass!
He watched Mizuki try to get back up again for a few seconds before rushing him again. Mizuki's head snapped forward and, for a second, his already pale face got even paler.
"Damn you! You don't even care that you're the Kyūbi?! Of course you wouldn't! You little monster!" Naruto ruthlessly slammed his metal staff on top of Mizuki's head and wasn't surprised that it was another log. He swiftly spun around and blocked Mizuki's thrust with a kunai with the staff.
He glared at the sneer on his face as Mizuki chuckled, "You're better than I expected you little shit!" He hissed at him and Naruto responded by breaking off his staff into its nunchaku state, ducking the kunai, because with no opposition Mizuki's stab 'broke through' and would have got him in the eye, and then just as swiftly fit it together again and thrust towards Mizuki's neck. Grunting in surprise Mizuki managed to grab the other end of the staff with his left hand and jumped over it, unleashing a thrust kick at Naruto's head.
To his surprise, once again, Naruto let his body fall onto the forest floor and pulled his staff back, jerking Mizuki off balance and towards him, and then unleashed a double thrust kick at Mizuki's chest. However, because Mizuki had a hold of Naruto's staff, he would have been pulled along so instead he let the staff go, rolled backwards, pushed off with both feet and finished the sequence of seals he had been making mid roll.
"Fūton: Shinkū Renpa!" This time Naruto took a massive breath and then let it out in several blades of wind, at different angles by rapidly moving his head in different directions. The result was a devastating series of wind blades cutting through various trees making them crash down in the direction that Mizuki had been sent flying in. Naruto stopped for a moment and made the Ram sign focusing. He wasn't about to let him-self get caught off guard.
"Holy shit…" Genma, once again, summed up what most people were thinking. Smirking Anko slid next to him and placed the senbon, which had fallen out of his gaping mouth, back in before picking his jaw off the floor and closing it.
"Pretty good isn't he? Of course he is, after all his trainer was none other than the amazing Mitarashi Anko!" She chuckled to herself as Genma snapped his head around to stare at her.
"You taught him that?! How in the world…?" Anko snorted.
"Of course I didn't, you idiot. Have you ever seen me do that before?" It was a rhetorical question because most ninja knew that Anko was a Fire and Earth user. She was most definitely not capable of doing something like that. But that brought the question. If she didn't then… How did he learn that? This time Kakashi voiced the question.
"Oh… is that so? Then how is he doing that?" There was an eye smile on his face and his book was nowhere to be seen. Looks like he had learned how to deal with her.
"No idea." Anko muttered to him nonchalantly before turning back to the momentarily paused fight, ignoring the mass face-plant behind her. It wasn't that big of a deal was it?
"He also didn't seem shocked or surprised at all when Mizuki told him that little secret." Kakashi continued on, not even bothered by the unanswered question. "What else does he know, hmm?"
Anko's eyes snapped to him and a frosty glare settled on her face. "Kakashi… are you trying to say something?" Sensing the incoming danger Kurenai, one of Anko's friends, stepped forwards and put a hand on her shoulder. "Calm down Anko. Kakashi, don't antagonize her." Anko snorted and turned back to the crystal ball. Briefly meeting her eyes with the Hokage she gave her answer.
"Naruto didn't know. About that little secret. I didn't tell him anything, because of the law. The thing is though… Naruto has daily spars with me. With me. He's long built an immunity to taunts and threats. He probably just discarded it as a scheme to get him off guard and ignored it. That's why he didn't freeze up. In a shinobi life, you can't afford to freeze up. It gets you killed." She finished bluntly. Kakashi hummed, before giving her a nod. She was absolutely right, of course. Kurenai squeezed her shoulder lightly and smiled. The Hokage puffed on his pipe and then spoke.
"Perhaps it would have been better if you had told him. The only reason that he hasn't frozen up is because he knows that he can't afford to, not in a fight. However…" He trailed off and puffed again.
A tall Jōnin stepped up and concluded for the Hokage, his father, "When the fight is over it'll most likely catch up to him. Then he'll go into shock, probably, and he'll go looking for answers." He took a drag of his own cigarrete and blew out, far away from both Anko and Kurenai, and grunted in greeting to Kakashi.
"Fancy seeing you here Asuma. Looking for someone?" Asuma shot a dirty glare at Kakashi's eye smile for the comment and gave a "Hokage-sama." in greeting towards his dad. Sarutobi nodded back and sighed. His son was right. Naruto would go looking for answers, answers that he wouldn't like. It couldn't be helped though; the 'fox' was out of the bag.
"I'll tell him. With your permission Hokage-sama, I would like to tell him. It's probably better that someone like Jiraya-sama tells him, because he knows a whole lot more about seals than me but I want to tell him. Sure, Jiraya would get the job done but…" Anko bit her lip as she watched the blonde haired genin-to-be stand there, his eyes never leaving the cloud of smoke, the 'enemy', just as she had hammered into his head. It had to be her. Everyone, even the Hokage, acknowledged the fact that Anko was probably the closest person to him. If she told him then he would listen and not get any strange ideas, she would make him understand.
"I agree Hokage-sama." She might have been a just instated Jōnin herself but she was gonna back up her friend. Shooting a discreet glance at Asuma, which made him grunt out a, "Me too." she then looked at Kakashi. Humming in thought Kakashi eye smiled at her.
"I suppose that's only appropriate. After all you have done a lot for him." The Hokage gave his consent. Then everyone's attention was brought back into the fight.
Forest – Naruto vs. Mizuki.
Naruto steadied his breath. Then his hands flew into the Ram sign and he focused. This was a little bit risky but he was tired of all the kawarimi's. He wanted to finish this. His eyes scrunched up a little bit as his technique went to work. So, that prick was hiding in the smoke huh? His chakra had also taken a bit of a dive. Looks like he had managed to wound him with the last combo somewhat. Then it was time to finish this.
From his sleeve a kunai slid into his right bandaged palm as he made a half Ram sign with his left bandaged hand. He still needed to make the half sign because even though it was the same jutsu the moulding of the chakra was different. Inhaling he brought the kunai up to his face. Then blew out and coated the knife with Wind chakra.
'Fūton: Shinkūjin!' He held the makeshift scimitar in his hands and then took aim before throwing it into the cloud of smoke that had been kicked up by his last jutsu. However he never let his guard down, even when he heard the cry of pain from inside the cloud of smoke. It could be just a trick to make him relax and then Mizuki would take advantage of that. His eyes widened however when Mizuki emerged from the smoke with the kunai firmly stabbed through his right shoulder.
"Fuck!" Mizuki cried as he fell to his knees. He ripped out he kunai and let it drop on the ground. This damn kid and his little tricks, if he hadn't heard it at the last second it would have stabbed him through the middle of the chest. But still, to push him this far… How the hell was he still an academy graduate? He sneered at the little shit. He could still take him. With what he had learned from the scroll he could take anyone!
Another two kunai slid into his palms and Naruto slid into a ready stance, kunai knives firmly held on in a backhanded grip, his kunai level with his chest. He didn't like that sneer. Then Mizuki started laughing.
"You think you can beat me you little shit!? Kufufu… Guess I have no choice. I'll show you what I learned from this scroll!" Naruto didn't know if whether his mind was playing tricks on him or if he had been so focused on not getting killed and instead trying to kill him, but he was surprised when Mizuki took off a massive scroll that had been previously strapped to his back and put it down on the forest floor. This only made Naruto tense even further.
Hokage Tower – Meeting Room.
"Oi, Oi isn't that the Forbidden Scroll? And what did he mean "What I learned from this scroll!"? He didn't actually try to learn a technique from that thing, did he? Is he insane?" Genma spoke up through his senbon and Anko responded, "Not insane – just plain stupid."
"The jutsu in that scroll – they are forbidden for a reason. They all have extreme consequences. Whether it is to the user himself or to everything around them." Sarutobi shook his head and puffed from the pipe in his mouth. "To think he would attempt something as foolish as learning and even use one of the jutsu from that scroll…" This didn't bode well. If he could actually pull off a jutsu from that scroll then Naruto would no doubt be overwhelmed. Where the hell was his ANBU?!
"Come on kid," Anko muttered to herself softly, "finish him off!" Kurenai sent her a worried glance. She knew Anko cared for the kid but she hadn't ever seen her this worried, unless it had something to do with him.
"Hahaha! This is the Scroll of Forbidden Seals, Naruto! It was with this that the Yondaime sealed you away, Kyūbi!"
Anko snarled at that, when she got her hands on him….
Forest – Naruto vs. Mizuki.
"Hahaha! This is the Scroll of Forbidden Seals! It was with this that the Yondaime sealed you away, Kyūbi!" Naruto's eyes narrowed at that piece of information. 'A forbidden scroll? What in the world is he playing at?' He didn't even register the taunt because there was no time to.
"Mizuki… that scroll has the word forbidden in it for a reason," He himself wasn't quite sure what it was but this would probably not bode well for him, "If the scroll is called that then you shouldn't have it. And you definitely shouldn't have looked into it. If you use a technique from a scroll that has forbidden in the title then who knows what could happen?!"
"Oh I know what will happen… It will be your death!" Mizuki popped about three pills into his mouth and then immediately did a hand sign Naruto had never seen before. It was like a cross…
Hokage Tower – Meeting Room.
The Sandaime had the distinct urge to face palm. Anko snorted and turned her head around as she snickered. Kurenai cringed slightly and Asuma chuckled to himself. Genma did face palm, after taking his senbon out of his mouth of course, and Kakashi just sighed. He had taken three soldier pills and made a sign like that? He wouldn't kill himself but still… he was about to be sorely disappointed.
Forest – Naruto vs. Mizuki.
"Kage Bushin no Jutsu!" Mizuki shouted in glee as he did the hand sign. It was clear though that the results were not what he was expecting as he blinked stupidly. In a puff of smoke three identical copies of Mizuki appeared.
'Three!? Even with those soldier pills all I could do was three!?' He took a deep breath to calm himself. Three was enough to deal with him. Naruto furrowed his eyebrows before they shot up. His chakra had skyrocketed when he had eaten the soldier pills but now it had nose-dived. No wonder he had taken those pills in the first place. If he had attempted to use that technique without the pills he would have probably either exhausted himself completely or even killed himself.
Then the pit of his stomach dropped. Those clones weren't illusions. They were real. He was no Hyūga but he would even bet money that those clones weren't simple constructs made of a little chakra. It made sense; if they were solid then they had to take loads of chakra to make. No wonder he took the soldier pills.
'In that case… I have to finish this quickly!' He doubted Mizuki could make more but that wasn't the point. Mizuki would also be trying to finish this quickly as he didn't have much time before the effects of those three soldier pills caught up to him. From his pouch he chucked shuriken indiscriminately, before jumping back while making hand seals.
One of Mizuki's clones hadn't had the time to deflect the shuriken and had been taken out because of it.
The most curious thing Naruto noted was that the shuriken had only scratched him, it wasn't a vital hit, yet the clone had puffed away.
'So there's the flaw! These clones might be solid but they can only take one hit! In that case…!'
"Fūton: Shinkū Renpa!" Naruto's head came from a low left to a high right, in a diagonal line. However because he was mid-air, the air that he expelled pushed him back, using this to his advantage Naruto continued on with the momentum and spun around, in a 360 degrees angle, blowing his wind waves everywhere.
Hokage Tower – Meeting Room.
Anko grinned, "Oho! That gaki's sharper than I thought. He already found out the 'flaw' in the jutsu."
"Flaw?" Kurenai muttered.
"Yeah, there's another downside to that jutsu besides taking a lot of chakra to make. It's that each clone will 'pop' when they're hit." Asuma answered her as he put out his cigarrete and slid next to her. Kurenai's eyebrows rose at that piece of information. What was the point of wasting all that chakra if they would just 'die' from one hit?
"That's also why he used the Shinkū Renpa. It's a widespread technique and since he doesn't need to score a fatal hit, he can afford to use chakra like that. After all, a glancing blow and the clone will 'pop'." Kakashi concluded as he slid next to Asuma.
"Smart kid ain't he?" Genma chuckled to himself as he chewed on his senbon and slid next to Anko.
"'Course he is. I trained him after all!" Anko proudly raised her head.
"Just what did you teach him anyways? You said you couldn't do Wind Ninjutsu, and that's pretty much all he's been busting out." Genma said thoughtfully as he glanced at Anko. Her head snapped around and she glared at him.
"Hmph! As if I need to tell you." Asuma chuckled at that and Kakashi eye smiled. Kurenai shot her an amused look and Genma snorted.
"However if you want to know so badly, I guess I could tell you. Sure, I didn't teach him those ninjutsus but that's not all a shinobi is about after all. How do you think he was keeping up with Mizuki and even besting him in taijutsu?" Anko asked Genma and before he could respond someone else did it for him.
"No wonder Naruto was so advanced in taijutsu compared to the class." A grimacing Iruka chuckled to himself. Anko blinked at him, "The fuck happened to you?" was her response.
"I had a run in with Mizuki myself. Forgive me Hokage-sama but I couldn't stop him…" Iruka trailed off at the worried look on the Hokage's face.
"Shouldn't you be in the hospital Iruka?" The Hokage frowned at the sheepish look on his face. Young ones these days… Anko gave him a once over before pulling him beside her and making him look at the crystal ball.
"Don't worry about it. That gaki won't let him get away." She said to him and pointed at the scene on the crystal.
Forest – Naruto vs. Mizuki.
Naruto crouched against a tree trunk, covered by the impromptu smoke screen that had been made by his technique. That jutsu was so awesome. He was never gonna get tired of it. But for now he had better pay attention or it was gonna cost him. Making a Ram hand seal he focused once more. He could feel only two chakra signatures which meant that he had taken one of the remaining clones out, both signatures were identical so he knew that it was Mizuki and a clone, but they were separated from each other. One was to his right, several yards away and another was to his left only a few feet away.
'The smart choice is to go for the closest one. If I go to the second one then the one near me might hear or sense me and give chase ruining any chance of an ambush. But this clone could be an ambush itself.' Oh well. He was gonna have to take the risk. Shifting as quietly as possible he jumped, vaulting over a tree branch, and then sprung up from tree branch to tree branch, making his way towards the Mizuki that was nearest to him.
However something caught his eye and he dropped down. Grinning Naruto picked up his staff and broke it into three sections, he put it into his pouch and then checked where Mizuki was to make sure he didn't move and then went back to tree hopping.
'I'm coming up to him…' Landing silently he looked around the tree trunk, from the canopy and if he didn't need to be quiet he would have cackled. The Mizuki that was on the floor had a wound on his right shoulder, which he was halfway through bandaging it, which meant that this was the real one. Next to him lay the Forbidden Scroll – he had to get that back.
Another thing that Naruto had noticed about the Kage Bushin was that none of Mizuki's Shadow Clones had his wound. The reason was obvious in retrospect. It would be contradictory for a clone to be made with an existing injury since if they were injured than they would puff away. So they didn't. Instead none of the clones had any injuries, which made it easy to identify the real Mizuki.
He was lucky that he had made the right choice and gotten the real Mizuki instead of another clone. If he hadn't been able to take out that one without causing a ruckus then Mizuki would have definitely either run away or come for him again. Naruto didn't like either of those courses of action; especially not the first.
After all; Mizuki had the Forbidden Scroll. He couldn't let him get away with something like that – no way. Naruto took a deep silent breath to calm himself and took the nunchaku/staff from his pouch, putting it in staff form. Time to finish this, once and for all.
That fucking brat! When he got his hands on him he was gonna gut him! 'Damn… I lost quite a bit of blood from the wound, along with the chakra to make that jutsu… I have to kill him quickly. I'm already putting everything into risk just by taking this long but that guy should have taken care of some of the problems. If I don't kill him as quick as possible I'll be in trouble.'
Tying the knot of the bandage with his mouth Mizuki was about to start looking for him when he had to jump away from kunai. Sliding away from where the kunai had struck he glared as he saw Naruto standing there. In his haste however he hadn't managed to grab the Scroll, and Naruto stepped up in front of it.
"Mizuki..." He hesitated on calling the man 'sensei', after everything that had happened, "It's over. By now the Hokage has got to know that you took that Scroll and almost everyone will be looking for it and you. I'm actually surprised that the ANBU hasn't found us yet. But that doesn't matter. Time to finish this…" He trailed off as he spun his red, metal staff with both hands before settling himself in a stance. He was sideways, with his right foot slid in front of him, weight resting in his left foot. The staff was held by his right hand in a backhanded grip, but it was angled up, going diagonally, reaching above his left shoulder.
"I just want to know one thing… What you said about the Kyūbi…" He trailed off again and narrowed his eyes at Mizuki. Chuckling said man sneered at him again.
"That's right you little monster. It was all true. Hahaha!" Naruto snarled at him. True? What the hell was he talking about?! How in the world was he…? How could he be? Swallowing heavily Naruto voiced his thoughts. "There is no way you can be right. The Kyūbi? No wonder you tried to do something as crazy as this Mizuki! You should be in an asylum!" However to his growing ire that only made Mizuki laugh even more.
"Hahahahaha! An asylum?! Idiot! What I'm saying is the harsh, cruel truth. No matter how much you want to deny it, deep down you already know it. Everyone lied to you. Even your beloved Sensei!" Mizuki concluded and his laughing fit turned uncontrollable. It was because of this that he missed the absolutely murderous look that had appeared on Naruto's face. But he carried on, unaware of his impending doom.
"Deep down she's just like me, even Iruka is! They all hate you, despise you and want you to die! No matter how hard you try no one will ever acknowledge you, no one will ever recognize you and no matter what you do…" He chuckled dementedly before shouting up at the sky, as loud as he could "NO ONE WILL EVER LOVE YOU!"
Hokage Tower – Meeting Room.
"Mizuki…" Anko snarled with a baleful look on her face. "That bastard…!" Kurenai could only squeeze Anko's hand. She wasn't particularly close to Naruto but still… that was a horrible thing to say, no matter who it was directed at, even if he was a Jinchūriki. She looked around and saw that most people agreed with her. Looking at Asuma she couldn't help but agree with the cold look on his face. Even Genma, someone who was usually really laid back had an angry look on his face. Hokage-sama was shaking his head sadly and Iruka glared at Mizuki. To her surprise though Kakashi only stared intensely at the crystal orb with an interested look on his face.
"What will you do now Naruto?" Kakashi seemingly asked himself but Anko picked it up.
"Kakashi…" She uttered. Did he not care?
"As a shinobi, and even more so because he is a Jinchūriki, Naruto will have to deal with hatred. He's already dealt with it all his life, of course it wasn't as strong as Mizuki's but the stares and whispers were still there. However now that he's confronted with something like this… how will you deal with it?" Anko gave him a strange look before her herself turned to watch the conclusion as did all the others.
Forest – Naruto vs. Mizuki.
"I'm not stupid. I've always noticed all the stare and whispers," Naruto began as he looked down, "how could I not? It was always there. Not outright hate like yours but intense dislike. Why do you think I choose to join the academy? It wasn't to become a shinobi and leave all of those things behind. It was so maybe… maybe people would change their minds. Maybe if I protected them, fought for them, then maybe they wouldn't look at me like they do."
"At first I thought of doing pranks, because I was so lonely. I wanted people to realize that I was there. To realize that I existed. Even if it was gonna be negative, it would still be attention, but one day…" He trailed off as he looked up at the sky and Mizuki was befuddled at the small smile on his face.
"One day I was practicing throwing shuriken and kunai; this was the first day after I started the academy, and I ran into her. She was rude and kinda mean but it was different from everyone else. She was only rude because I was too. And I was loud anyways..." he chuckled as he remembered.
"But anyways, she told me something that I'll never forget. So what if people don't like you? If they think that you'll never amount to anything? Prove them wrong. Show them who you are and what you can do."
"That was why I kept practicing and practicing sometimes she would give me some tips and even if it was just in the classroom, things got slightly better. She said that she wasn't gonna listen to a stupid kid so I proved her wrong. I studied and studied so I kept getting better. Eventually she started practicing with me and I started making my way up to where I am right now." Naruto eyes landed on Mizuki and almost like 13 years ago he froze.
"That's exactly why it won't work. Throughout all these years loads of people would always say 'You'll never make it!' And no matter what, I would always prove them wrong. I've come way too far to stop here. I won't stop here. If this is how you think then loads of people must think like you too. I'll keep moving forwards and even if I have to I'll prove everyone wrong, one by one I'll make the villagers, the shinobi, everyone see Uzumaki Naruto. Not the Kyūbi."
Mizuki only gaped at him before he realized something. "You… y-you knew…?" Snorting Naruto walked forwards.
"I didn't know. But I had my suspicions. It was hard not to be suspicious that something had happened, that it wasn't just because I had been born on October 10th," He shook his head, "There's no way that was the only reason." And then he reached for something into his pocket making Mizuki tense. But to his utter bafflement Naruto took a book out. It was an ordinary, leather bound book which had a red swirl on the front cover. He flipped up to a page, which the corner was folded, and Mizuki realized that it was the same book that he almost always saw him reading recently.
Then he turned the book around and showed him what seemed to be a strange diagram. There was a swirl in the middle with some kanji going out in eight directions and there was also some kanji interlocking the eight branches evenly spread out from the swirl.
"This is a seal. It's called the Hakke no Fūin Shiki. It's consisted of two Shishō Fūins, Four Symbols Seals. It's a sealing ritual based on the Fūinjutsu of Uzushiogakure, the land of whirlpools. This sealing ritual is used to seal great amounts of chakra. Two of them, making the Hakke Fūin, would only be used to seal massive amounts of chakra." A sliver of recognition slid through Mizuki's eyes.
"You don't mean-"
"That's right. Massive amounts of chakra. Like the Kyūbi. The Kyūbi is a mass of chakra, given physical form. There are other ones like it and they are called Bijū. They are living forms of chakra. This book says about it. If they are masses of chakra then you obviously can't kill something like that. It also says something else…" Naruto turned a few pages before stopping.
"This is what they call them. Jinchūriki. People who have had those Tailed Beasts sealed inside them." To his astonishment Naruto then smiled as he shut the book.
"The Hakke Fūin, a seal used to lock away masses of chakra – the Kyūbi, a physical manifestation of chakra that attacked the village on October 10th – October 10th, my birthday and the Kyūbi attack – the Yondaime Hokage, a sealing master – Jinchūriki, people who have had a Bijū sealed inside them. The looks, whispers, everything up until now… this fight, this law, your hatred…
It was all because of that. I'm not stupid – I couldn't know for sure but I suspected it."
Mizuki slowly crawled away from him before freezing – was he scared? Of course not! He couldn't be scared of something like this.
"So?" It was a small question but it had all the impact in the world. Mizuki's mind froze. 'So…?' That was all he had to say?!
Hokage Tower – Meeting Room.
"So?" It was a small question but it had all the impact in the world.
'So…?' That was all he had to say?!
Everyone froze in the room and it was deadly quiet for one heart-stopping moment.
"This… doesn't change much. Sure - I don't like the fact that I have a massive construct of chakra stuck in me but… I can't change that fact. That's something that I'll never be able to change. But there is something that I can change. People."
"People change. I know they do. In the beginning I could tell that even Iruka-sensei didn't like me. He was a bit like the villagers. But… he changed, I changed him. I worked hard; I studied more than anyone else and trained harder than anyone and the dislike – the hatred – eventually started going away. Eventually he began to see me for who I was – a stubborn, determined kid who didn't give up and tried his best. And finally he saw that whatever he had been thinking before was wrong."
"Naruto…" Iruka muttered as he heard his student say those things through the crystal. It was absolutely quiet in the room and everyone was looking at Naruto. 'They're all watching him. This is just a step Naruto but it begins now. Show them, show them who you are.'
"It was a bit different with Anko. I don't think she ever saw me for the Kyūbi, but she was still a bit annoying, always saying something like "As if you'll be Hokage… A shrimp like you who only ever eats ramen can't do it kid. The Hokage were the strongest men in the village. If you want to be Hokage then you're gonna have to prove it to me. Show me that you've got what it takes!" It kinda pissed me off, but I understand what she was doing now," He tilted his head to the left and narrowed his eyes at Mizuki, "It was as if it was her way of looking out for me. By helping me get stronger, because she knew that loads of different people would always say the same thing to me, no matter who they were.
"You'll never make it. Someone like you will never become Hokage."
Anko snorted and turned her head away as she felt the curious looks and stares. Stupid kid. She would never admit it to anyone in the room but he had nailed it. She rolled her eyes at Kurenai's smile before a small smile grew on her own face.
"Way to go kid…" Genma said with a small smile himself and to her surprise most of the people in the room unconsciously nodded with his words, in agreement.
"It's exactly why: no matter what you say, no matter what you do, you won't shake my resolve. I will become Hokage. And I know, better than anyone else that as soon as you start doubting yourself; it's over, before it could even begin. I'll show you, just like I'll show the village that Uzumaki Naruto will be the next Hokage! You won't stop me!" Naruto finished as he spun the staff and slammed it down in front of him before, for the last time making hand seals, and doing the Jutsu.
"Fūton: Shinkūjin!" He blew on the staff this time and Mizuki snarled as he lunged forwards at him.
Forest – Naruto vs. Mizuki.
He picked up the staff, which was coated in Wind chakra, and spun it around himself, before stopping in a different stance this time. He was holding the right end of the staff, behind his back horizontally with a backhanded grip with his right hand. The left side peeked out because the staff was long and around it a blade of wind, similar to the one that had enveloped a kunai, was wrapped around the end, turning the staff into a wicked looking scythe.
"Death Scythe." Naruto uttered the name before pivoting his left feet backwards and around him, his right shifting left and his head moving a few inches to the right to avoid the kunai in Mizuki's hand before his right hand slashed the scythe diagonally from right to left, cutting Mizuki across his chest in a spurt of blood, and letting himself be spun around by the momentum before finally stopping with his back turned to Mizuki who fell on his back, a stunned look on his face.
"It's over. You won't be getting up from that one. I made the blade slightly weaker than normal so you wouldn't be dissected, and so that you could be interrogated but you lost." He turned around and watched as Mizuki lay on the floor. Because of his Chūnin vest and the blade being slightly weaker than normal he wasn't even bleeding so much.
He dropped to one knee as the fatigue caught up to him. Man he was tired. But he had to make sure that Mizuki couldn't even move. He wasn't about to let himself get surprised by a sneak attack. He stuck the staff on the ground and absentmindedly noted that the wind blade had dispersed.
"Damn y-you…" Mizuki coughed blood. He couldn't even move an inch. The effects of the soldier pills had caught up to him, plus the blood that he already lost from the shoulder wound as well as Naruto's last attack had completely incapacitated him.
Naruto walked towards him slowly and pulled out a spool of ninja wire before getting to work.
Hokage Tower – Meeting Room.
All the shinobi watched as Naruto finished the battle and spoke to Mizuki. It had been a truly tough fight and just like a shinobi fight it had ended abruptly and ruthlessly. Anko nodded in satisfaction as they watched Naruto finish tying him up thoroughly before he went over to check on the scroll, never letting Mizuki out of his sight. Naruto sighed as he sat down, his back against a tree trunk, faced towards Mizuki, with the Forbidden Scroll on his lap. Then he shook his head in disbelief.
"How in the world is this thing not booby-trapped? It's actually amazing that you opened this thing and didn't, I don't know, get sucked in an alternate dimension or something. Or maybe you could have been locked in an utterly devastating and just sinister Genjutsu? Perhaps it could have just blown up in your face? Another thing I'll have to change when I get the hat huh…?"
Mizuki just snorted at that but surprisingly didn't make any comments.
"Hmm… I wonder… That technique you learned from the scroll… I wonder if Anko would teach me that?"
"…Are you insane? That's a kinjutsu. It's forbidden, idiot."
"Didn't you learn it? Besides, from what I saw, that jutsu must take shitloads of chakra to do. It'd be perfect when you think about."
A Mizuki's blank look Naruto just rolled his eyes before answering, "Kyūbi." Mizuki just blinked and went back to staring at the sky.
"Kyūbi… Man am I gonna punch some people in the face when I get back… How do you forget to mention something like that? Then again how do you say something like that to a kid? "Uhm… by the way… you've-got- a-fox-the-size-of- the-Hokage-monument-sealed-inside-you and it's purely made out of chakra… Good luck?" I really would have punched someone in the face if they did something like that. What am I even supposed to do with it? Should I do something with it?"
He sighed at the end of his rant before finishing off, "Yep, someone's definitely getting punched."
'Well…' Anko though to herself, at least he was okay. She didn't mind the getting punched part one bit. He was safe, the scroll was safe, and Mizuki had gotten his ass kicked. Yep, all was right with the world – for her at least. Sarutobi stared at the crystal orb with a blank look on his face, before almost robotically turning his head up to stared at them.
"I'm getting punched aren't I?" Everyone nodded solemnly and he sighed in defeat, to be honest this had gone much better than he feared. Oh well… sacrifices have to be made after all. At least Naruto had his answers, 'And at least he won't be questioning another little mystery…'
However he should have known, because it always happened with Naruto, without fail.
"Wait… why the fuck did he seal it inside me? Am I just that unlucky that I happened to be the closest baby at hand and he was like "Oh? Well… isn't that convenient?" Seriously… one day I'm gonna go to a casino and cash up all this god-damned awful luck. I'll probably be thrown out after cleaning the house and banned but I don't give a shit. This is just fucking ridiculous!"
Naruto just shook his head in distaste and scowled, honestly, why was it always him?
Anko couldn't help it and she just laughed, Genma just chuckled to himself as well as Asuma and even Kurenai smiled, while Kakashi gave his trademark eye-smile.
Then to their surprise the ANBU arrived. Four of them landed in the clearing, two keeping a perimeter around the site, one healing Mizuki's wounds so he wouldn't bleed out (Naruto had felt slightly vindictive and tied him up without bandaging, making the wires dig into his wound) and the last was coming up to Naruto.
Forest – Naruto and Mizuki.
"Uzumaki-san." The cloaked figure spoke in a toneless voice. Naruto blinked before hauling himself up on his feet and then extending his hand with the forbidden scroll. The ANBU nodded to him as he took the scroll carefully. "We were not able to assist you earlier because Mizuki had help. However we came across his Kage Bushin in the forest and tracked you here."
Naruto nodded back. It was all right, the fact that if those guys hadn't taken out his accomplice and that he would have helped Mizuki made his stomach drop. Damn, he was way out of his league wasn't he? At least that had been avoided.
The ANBU who had been checking on Mizuki's wounds came up to him next, "Do you require healing Uzumaki-san?" He blinked at the ANBU and then realized that he hadn't even checked himself for any wounds, man he was out of it…
"No, I think I'll be fine." He said after checking himself. To his surprise he actually only had a few scratches on his blue, long-sleeved shirt which had two red swirls on his shoulders. Then he looked down at his blue/blackish shinobi trousers, which were tucked in at the calves with bandages and his black shinobi sandals. Good, he only had a few scratches here and there; at least his outfit wasn't ruined. Thinking about that he remembered his dark red jacket that he had on. It was still probably in the clearing that Mizuki had first ambushed him in.
"This yours, Uzumaki-san?" Speaking of said jacket it was on the hands of the ANBU in front of him. He briefly fist pumped before gracefully taking the jacket, putting it on and bowing to the ANBU, "You are fit for travel?" The way the ANBU worded it sounded more like a statement but he still nodded in confirmation, "Then we are leaving. Let's go Uzumaki-san."
"Right… by the way, what will happen to Mizuki?" Blinking at his peculiar question the ANBU answered it as they got a move on, Mizuki on the back of another ANBU, no doubt sedated.
"He will be interrogated in order to find out who his accomplice was and who he was working for." Naruto nodded at that, it only made sense. Sighing he jumped from tree branch to tree branch but almost missed one when the same ANBU who had given his jacket to him spoke once again.
"Good work, Uzumaki-kun." He gaped at her, her because she had sounded female just now, but then he grinned.
'Hell yeah, I'm awesome!' The ANBU paid no mind to the snickering academy student; he had deserved it after all.
Authors Note:
Well... (awkward cough) So yeah... not much else to say, besides from the fact that I am shitting it and desperately hoping that you guys will like the story. So uhm... try to leave a review with your thoughts and critics, they do help, flames on the other hand will be used to cook my dinner (I mean the trolling type of flames.)
To be honest I'm really pleased with this first chapter. This was just one of those ideas that wouldn't leave my head, I've got a few others but I just scribbled them down (nothing like this one) and... yeah, that's it folks.
Jutsu Library:
Fūton: Shinkūjin! (Wind Style: Vacuum Blade!)The user exhales wind-infused chakra onto a weapon in order to increase its sharpness, range and lethality. For example, the user can infuse a kunai to resemble a makeshift scimitar or infuse shuriken to increase their range and cutting power.
Fūton: Shinkū Renpa! (Wind Style: Vacuum Serial Waves!) The user takes a deep breath and exhales several blades of wind at different angles, by rapidly moving their head in various directions.
Fūton: Shinkūha! (Wind Style: Vacuum Wave!) The user takes a deep breath and spins while exhaling, compressing the released air into a solitary blade of wind that covers a substantial area around the user, due to their circular motion. The resulting sharpened blast is large enough to slice through multiple targets located a significant distance from the user, causing grievous injuries to those hit.
Kawarimi. (Body Replacement Technique) (Don't actually think I need to do this one but whatever...) With this technique, users replace their own body with some other object, generally with a block of wood, the moment an attack lands. This creates an optical illusion, making the enemy think the attack was successful. From this, the user can use the lapse in the enemy's attention to attack or flee from the battlefield. Explosive Tags can be attached to the replacement for an added surprise. (Pay very careful attention to the last line, very careful, Kufufufu...)
By the way... I will try my best to use Japanese Translations for techniques, unless I think it sounds better in English (Very rare but it happens) so I will almost always have this Jutsu Library corner. Unless the technique has been already used and explained here, I will explain new techniques. Oh yeah! If you have a site or something in which you can either translate from English to Japanese and it's really accurate or where there are loads of Jutsus then please leave it in the reviews. I would appreciate it a lot.
Mugetsu Out!