A/N: Well fuck I wrote something alone, thats new. Well I guess any feedback would be great. So yeah. This is why One does these stupid author notes. He knows what he's doing.
TangentOne: Where did this story come from?
TangentTwo: One, you silly goose! It came from my brain.
TangentOne: Why do I bother?
TangentTwo: Because you're forced to. The Almighty Tangent can't be denied, One. Sorry bud.
TangentOne: What are you even on about?
TangentTwo: Don't play coy with me, princess!
It was a dark night for Konohagakure, the ANBU barracks was silent with all members either not on duty or scrambling. Tonight was the night that the Nine-Tails was unleashed on the unknowing village, wreaking havoc and slaughtering all who got too close, neither civilians nor ninjas were spared. I dart towards the barracks, previously I had been in the town, with the other off duty ANBU shinobi.
"Fuck, how did this happen?" I ask myself, a worried expression covering my face.
I run at full speed across the ninja highway and leap through the ANBU barracks window. I quickly put on my gear and grab my mask, the mask was shaped like a wolf which symbolizes my ability to work in a group but also alone. After I was ready I jumped out the same window I left and zeroed in on the Third Hokage. He was the one organising the counter attack, or defence, it was a messy affair and I couldn't tell which it was.
"Lord Third what is happening here? Is Minato-sensei okay?" I ask Lord Third, he could tell I was extremely worried, and I had the right to be. The Nine-Tailed jinchūriki was after all my family.
"Ah Yūichi my dear boy, I don't know what has happened or where Lord Fourth is, but we must stop this beast before we don't have a village to protect." Lord Third explains, barking orders to the shinobi attacking the Tailed Beast.
Joining the Ninja Academy
It was my first day at the academy, and I was as nervous as could be. I have been training since I could walk, but still, finally joining the academy was an honor I had long awaited. Once I was inside the building I walked to the signup room. Inside was the head Chūnin along side the Third Hokage himself. At the back of the room, lingering in the shadows was a figure, around five foot eight inches in height, but I pushed that out of my mind and moved over to the chair in front of them.
"Name?" The Chūnin asks, picking up a pen and a clipboard.
"Mizuno Yūichi of Uzushiogakure." I respond, sitting nervously in my seat.
"Hm, Minato-san, is this your apprentice in fūinjutsu?" Lord Third questions the lingering figure at the back, quietly as if it was its own conversation.
"That he is, Lord Third." The figure answers.
"Interesting." Lord Third mutters to himself, deep in thought.
"So, Yūichi. Why do you want to join the academy?" The Chūnin continues ignoring the conversation between the figure and the Third Hokage.
"To further my skills and protect my village." I explain to him.
"Good, next, do you believe you can endure all that comes with being a shinobi?" The Chūnin asks next, while still writing down my first answer.
"Enough," Lord Third orders, stunning the Chūnin next to him. "Yūichi is the apprentice of Namikaze Minato, he has already shown he has all the qualities we ask in applicants."
"Yes Lord Third," The Chūnin went about finishing the paperwork and getting up to work the camera. "Please stand in front of the camera Yūichi."
I stand and walk over to the camera, standing on the designated spot, glancing out of my left eye at the Third Hokage.
"May I take my leave Lord Third?" The figure asks.
"Yes, I'm sure you have somewhere better to be." Lord Third states, waving the figure off.
"We're done now Lord Third, is there anything else he needs to do before he leaves?" The Chūnin asks, walking back over to the table where The Third Hokage is sat.
"No, he has a training session to attend, we have taken enough of his time, right Yūichi?" Lord Third winks at me, guesting for me to leave.
It was not what I had expected, but I was overjoyed to be admitted into the academy and even more so the praise given to me by Lord Third. The praise was not direct but given the parts of the conversation I could hear, it seems he expects a lot from me.
I'd best not disappoint him or Minato-sensei.
"I understand Lord Third. What would you have me do?" I want to know how I could assist in any way, this was my village to protect and I couldn't fail.
"You are the only one other than Lord Fourth who can be everywhere quick enough to help each front of the defence. So I want you to asses the situation and go where you think you can best help." Lord Third left me on the rooftop as he jumped into action to directly face the Nine-Tails.
"Yes Lord Third." I acknowledge his orders and left to get a better view of the battlefield.
I throw one of my unique kunai, with a seal on it, to the top of a building as just as it past the top of the roof, then teleport to it.
Flying Thunder God Jutsu, a useful tool on and off of the battlefield.
I land softly on the roof, I stuck the kunai, used to reach here, into the ground as a easy way to get back here should I need to. I survey the battlefield looking for either an opening in the Nine-Tails defence to launch an attack or someone to help away from the battle. I quickly notice a burning building, the local orphanage, was about to collapse with some civilians still present inside. The orphanage was near an ANBU lookout, so I used the Flying Thunder God jutsu to teleport to my seal inside of the lookout, jumping out of it once I arrived to assist with helping evacuate the building.
"Water Release: Water Gun" I flew through the hand seals for the jutsu.
Upon finishing the hand seals a stream of water shot from out of my mouth onto the burning building, extinguishing the flames and making it easier for the few shinobi nearby to enter the building to finish evacuating.
"Thank you Wolf-san." One of the ninja present says bowing towards me.
"Don't worry about it." I respond, again teleporting to the roof I was once at.
The battle continues to rage on and there was still no sign of Lord Fourth, causing me worry and a need to find him. I knew I couldn't and pushed myself back into surveying the battlefield. At that second, it seems that a counter attack was coming from the Sarutobi clan, I decide to help them with my own jutsu. I threw a marked kunai towards them and it landed behind them a few seconds later. I then appeared behind them boosting their moral.
"Ah Wolf-san, you've come to help us?" One of the Sarutobi clansmen asks, readying his jutsu along with the rest of them.
"That I am," I started to ready my next jutsu, again flying through the hand seals. "Fire Release: Great Dragon Fireball."
As I announced my jutsu, so did all the Sarutobi clansmen, launching around fifty fireballs into the air, led by my dragon shaped fireball. All of the attacks land hitting the left flank of the Nine-Tails, furthering its rage and also causing it a slight amount of damage.
It's slowing, but the Nine-Tails still has a lot more fight left in it.
The Nine-Tails, recoils slightly after the attack, roaring into the air and pushing itself onto it's hind legs. It's tails start to point to above its maw, which was pointed towards the sky. A small ball starts to form at the end of it's tails, growing in size with each second, fear now overcoming all the ninja in the village.
"Oh shit, this is not going to end well, retreat further into the village." I order the surrounding ninjas, trying to organise something in this mess.
As I ordered a retreat, the Nine-Tails finishes preparing its attack and proceeds to fire it a Hokage Rock. The ball shot through the village, ripping up the ground and buildings below as it passed over them, but before it could hit Hokage Rock something awe inspiring happened. A Seal appeared around the ball, sucking it into a time-space dimension.
Lord Fourth is here.
The Fourth Hokage appears onto the battlefield, saving the village from a devastating attack, and turning the tide somewhat. The entire village's moral had been renewed and any who could launched further offensives against the Nine-Tails doing so. With the likes of the Akimichi Clan using their body manipulation jutsu to attack, the Inuzuka Clan with their animal partners attacking in waves and the Hyūga Clan using their Byakūgan to hit the beast in its weak spots.
I decide I would be of better use elsewhere in the village and teleport back to the tower I planted my sealed kunai into, surprisingly it was still standing after being so close to the passing Nine-Tails attack. The battle seems to be going a lot better now, both Lord Fourth and Lord Third are now on the battlefield which has boosted moral to a fever pitch.
Once atop the tower I start to observe the battle again, doing my best to see where my skills would benefit most. A few moments passed, I stayed perched atop the tower not finding any weak point in our offensive.
"I guess I'll report to Lord Third again, he'll know what I should do." I mutter, preparing to teleport to him, via the sealed kunai I had given him a few years ago.
I hope Lord Third has it on him or else I'll have to take the long way there.
Luckily he had the kunai and I appear behind him, kneeling down to ask for my next orders.
"There are no weak points in our offensive Lord Third, what would you have me do?" I ask.
"Find Lord Fourth, it seems he's no longer in the village and we'll need his abilities to end this fight." Lord Third states, preparing his next attack.
"Yes, Lord Third." I teleport to behind Lord Fourth via the seal he asked me place on him.
"An interloper?" A man clad in a cloak spat out, anger dripping from his tone.
"Yūichi? What are you doing here?" Lord Fourth inquires, in a deadlock with the cloaked man.
"I'm here to help you, as per the orders of Lord Third." I explain, readying myself for the ensuring battle.
"Hm? Interesting, but it does not change the outcome of this battle, you have already lost." The cloaked man, darts towards Lord Fourth, with a chain attached to both of his arms trailing behind him.
"Yūichi, formation two." Lord Fourth calls out to me.
It's been awhile since we've fought together like this.
Training with Minato-sensei after fūinjutsu practise.
"Okay, Yūichi, it's time I taught you some battle formations that we could use in battle if we are separated from the rest of our team," Minato informs me, as he started to get up and ready put on his combat gear. "As you are the only one, other then myself, capable of using the Flying Thunder God Jutsu, we can formulate specific formations to gain an advantage in combat."
"So, you want to teach me formations for battle using the Flying Thunder God Jutsu as the centre point?" I ask, wondering how it would work.
"Well, it's more than the centre point, it's the entire backbone for it, without it we wouldn't be able to perform the desired formation I am about to set out," Minato continues opening the door and guesting to follow him. "I'll explain further at the training field, all you need to know right now is it will further your fūinjutsu skills."
"I understand Minato-sensei." I respond, following behind him.
Minato and I take the ninja highway to the training field, the quicker we arrived the more time left to train. We head over to training field twenty nine, a large open plain.
"Yūichi, now that we are here, it's time I taught you the five formations I have created for us." Minato explains, guesting for me to take up my stance next to him.
As I did, he readies himself and pulls out his unique kunai.
"Now the first formation I'm going to teach you is formation two, Thunder God Pincer Crush," Minato describes. "This formation will be used to gain a perfect flank, a set of attacks and the perfect counter attack to most jutsus."
"Okay, so how does it work sensei?" I ask, copying Minato and readying myself with my own unique kunai.
"Well, I'll be the flanker for this test. The flanker throws a set of seal marked kunai onto the field of battle. The attacker, in this instance you, throws their kunai directly at the target, and prepares a jutsu to use once teleported to the kunai," Minato starts his explanation of the formation. "The flanker will then move to the most appropriate kunai depending on the outcome of the first attack, then if needed perform the killing strike or a counter attack to force them into submission."
"So it's an ensured victory when used right?" I query, now ready to practise it.
"No jutsu is an ensured victory, Yūichi, but it's a good way to deal with certain enemies." Minato finishes, now too ready to practise it.
After a few hours of practise we stop.
"Well it seems you have the basic concept down." Minato said praising me.
"So, there are four others?" I question.
"That there is and after we rest I'll teach you the next one." Minato confirms.
It's going to be a long day.
As soon as Minato calls out the formation, I littered the battlefield with my seal marked kunai, waiting for the first strike to be dealt so I could act accordingly. The masked man had not stopped and Minato had launched his kunai at the man. To my surprise the kunai was passing through him. I was ready to teleport to the closet kunai to catch him off guard. Minato was a step ahead already holding a fully prepared Rasengan, a jutsu he created.
The kunai finally flew through the man, which Minato appears above and used to hit him with his Rasengan, instantly ending the fight without my intervention. It was all a distraction, Minato didn't need me, just my kunai.
"Well, it seems you are done. Flying Thunder God Level Two." Minato declares, planting his seal on the man.
After a moment or two the man jumped to a nearby piece of debris, holding his arm which seemed to melt away. Minato then teleported to him and used a contract seal to break the man's hold over the Nine-Tails. The masked man recoils and jumps back.
"I shall rule this world. There are plenty of ways to go about it." The man exclaims before warping away.