Hi guys... Nixcluster here upload my first Naruto story. Chapter 2 will be out some time soon.
Enjoy!
A/N I dont own naruto...
The sounds of small feet could be heard running along the street. The sounds coming from a young red haired boy, who was about the age of 5. The boy had a big smile on his face, and the sound of money could be heard jingling in his boy ran up the street, into a small store at the end. The sign on the store said, Kenta's Candy Store.
"Mommy, Mommy can I have some candy?" The young boy asked with a huge grin on his face as he held out a small amount of change in both hands.
A Red haired woman smiled down at the young boy, a smile on her face as well. "You've been helping your father out today haven't you?" She said, the smile not leaving her face.
The young boy's smile only got wider as he giggled and held out the money in front of her.
"Well then what would you like?" The red haired woman asked.
The boy jumped up and down and pointed to a sweet on one of the shelves.
"Now how did I know that is what you would pick," The woman said, her hands on her hips.
The boy just laughed and put the money down on the counter, and waited impatiently for his mother.
The red haired woman then picked up the sweet and handed to the boy.
"Now run along and go play," The woman said as she pushed her son towards the door.
"Okay thanks mommy!" The boy said as he went to the door. But he stopped when he heard the sounds of screaming and fighting.
The red haired woman went over to the door and looked outside, only to see wounded men and women coming back from the forest.
"Mommy," The boy said scared to death.
The woman looked down at her son and she leaned down and placed her hands on his shoulders.
"Honey, I want you to run straight home and lock yourself in your room. No matter what happens don't come out. Remember that your father and I love you very much," The woman said a serious tone in her voice.
Tears were now starting to develop in the corner of the young boy's eyes, " Mommy what's going on?"
"Do as I say! GO!" She yelled.
Tears now flew from the boy's face as he flew out the door and back down the road where he came from. Blood curdling screams and fighting could be heard behind the boy as he ran.
He ran into the front door of his house and went into his room. He locked the door just as his mother had instructed.
The boy grabbed his teddy bear off his bed and hid under it, unsure of what was going on.
He then heard the entire roof of his home get blown off, the boy clutched his teddy bear as the roof came down around him, collapsing on top of him. The boy was struck by a piece of wood and was promptly knocked out.
When the boy awoke he couldn't see a thing. There was wood stacked on top of him everywhere.
The boy struggled and tried to move the piles of wood off the top of himself. It took a good 15 minutes, but the boy finally struggled out of the hole of where he was stuck.
What the boy saw would haunt him for the rest of his life. The entire street was in ruin, his home had been completely destroyed, along with every other home in the street.
The boy looked in horror as bloody bodies littered the street, some were civilians and some were ninja.
"Mom!" He called out tears now flowing down his blackened face, as he desperately searched for his mother, but he heard nothing.
"MOM!" The boy screamed out in a desperate hope, silence answering him again.
The boy looked around, praying for his mother or father to come and take him away from the graveyard in front of a figure came in front of him he had yellow spikey hair. The boy just looked at the man with tears now streaming down his face.
"I'm sorry," Was all the man said before promptly striking the boy, knocking him into unconsciousness.
A boy jolted awake from his sleep, sweat pouring down his face from his hair, as he took in his surroundings. He sighed to himself once he realized where he was.
"Hey you all right Nakashima," A spikey haired blonde boy called out from beside him.
Nakashima turned to see his best friend, Naruto Uzumaki, awake in the bed on the other side of the room.
"Yeah just a bad dream," Nakashima said, wiping some sweat from his forehead, throwing the blankets off him and standing.
"Same dream again?" Naruto asked, now lying back down with his head on the pillow.
"Yeah," Nakashima said, walking over to the drawer and getting out a change of clothes from his drawer.
Nakashima had shared his dreams with his blonde haired friend before, he had also seen the Hokage about it. And the Hokage had told him that it was dreams of his haunting past. He also told him to go see the Medic's to get some sleeping pills.
Usually the sleeping pills did the trick, and he would get a good night's sleep. But at least once or twice a week, the nightmare's came back to haunt him.
Nakashima grabbed his usual clothes for the day, and headed for the shower. He placed his clothes on the side on the sink, and turned on the hot water of the shower. He stepped out of his now sweaty pajamas and headed over and locked the door. He then stepped into the shower and let the hot water run over his body.
"Damn these dreams I'm having. I wish I just knew more about them," Nakashima thought to himself. The boy didn't really know why he was having these dreams. He had come to terms with the fact that his mother and father had been killed by an evil man named Orochimaru. He didn't know anything else apart from that.
Nakashima sighed, trying to forget about his horrible past, and remembered today was the day that the boy would get to graduate from the ninja academy. The thought put a much needed smile on the boy's face. He quickly washed his messy red hair in the shower, letting the shampoo he had previously applied earlier wash out, and then he stepped out of the shower. He quickly put on his clothes and straightened his hair up in the mirror
Nakashima then took a bit of time to look at his face, his red hair was now neatly combed over so that it looked neat, his deep blue eyes stared back at himself and he noticed that the small scar he had on the left side of his cheek was disappearing more each passing day. He wiped the sleep from the corner of his eyes and then put on his necklace.
Nakashima had what you would call a good luck charm. According to the Hokage the necklace was some sort of family heirloom, and all the old man could tell him that it was a symbol for his family. When he questioned more into it, he was simply told to "wait until you are older". He didn't really know what to make of it, but he did know that the necklace was something special to him.
After making sure the necklace was securely round his neck he unlocked the door to the bathroom and walked out, only to laugh at the sight of his friend
Naruto had fallen back asleep, he was hugging his pillow. In his sleep he was moaning the name "Sakura" to himself, also some drool from the corner of his mouth and was dripping onto the pillow he was holding.
Nakashima walked over to the couch, and picked up one of the pillow's. He then threw it at his friend, smacking him right in the face causing him to jolt awake.
"Huh, What, Who?" He said, looking around completely dazed earning a laugh from Nakashima.
"Wake up you lazy bastard or were going to be late," Nakashima said.
Naruto yawned and looked over at his alarm clock.
"Yeah, yeah I'm getting up," He said and slowly got up out of bed.
Nakashima went over to the cupboard next to his clothes drawer where his ninja gear was kept.
His picked up his basic gear, shurkien ,Kunai, Smoke bombs and other things. He then grabbed his ninja pack off the desk and placed the weapons inside.
While Nakashima was doing this Naruto had finally gotten out of bed, and went over to the clothes drawer. Repeating the same process as his friend, he got his clothes from the drawer and headed for the shower.
Nakashima, who now had finished packing his gear went over to the front door and stepped outside, where he promptly leant against a wall and waited for his blonde friend.
After a few minuites of waiting, Naruto came out the door of the apartment.
"Ready to go?" Nakashima asked.
"Yeah let's do it," Naruto said. And both teens headed off towards the academy.
As the two teens walked through the street's Nakashima couldn't help but notice how busy the street's always were in the mornings. Men and women littered the streets, some shopping, some with small children and other's with husbands or wives. Shops and market's tried to sell their goods to the people. Entertainers were also commonly seen. Some were people with instruments, trying to make a bit of money. Others were putting on magic shows. All to earn a bit of money.
The two were getting various glares from people as they walked through the town. This of course was normal for the two teens, they didn't know why half the town hated them, but they did.
After a few more minutes of walking, they finally reached the academy.
"Naruto, Nakashima, hurry the hell up or you're gonna be late!" Iruka called out from the front door of the academy.
"We aren't late are we?" Nakashima quietly asked his friend.
"I don't think so," Naruto replied.
But neither questioned there teacher as the two quickly ran past him and into their classroom.
Nakashima took his usual seat in the top corner of the room, with Naruto beside him. He looked around at the classroom and sighed. The class was the same as any other day. Every girl save for one, was as close to the bottom corner as they possibly could be, The reason being the black haired "Emo" as Nakashima called him sitting in the corner. Sasuke Uchiha, top of the class, Nakashima was just behind him. And all the girls adored him. Of course he paid no attention to them, that only seemed to make things worse for the Uchiha.
Nakashima knew he was better than the Uchiha. But he really didn't want the drama of fangirls and being top of the class. So he under preformed. He made sure the Uchiha wasn't too far out of his reach, a point here and a point there kept Sasuke in the lead, but Nakashima knew damn well he could leave the Uchiha for dead if he wanted too.
The only girl that wasn't all over the Uchiha was a girl in a white jacket, who was staring over in his direction.
Nakashima knew damn well it wasn't him she was staring at. It was Naruto.
"Poor Hinata," Nakashima thought to himself.
Then Nakashima heard the door slide open and two girls walk into the room together.
The one on the left had pink hair. Nakashima would have found this weird, except he thought his own hair being red was completely weird. What stood out on this girl in particular was her forehead. He knew that she hated it, and she got a lot of ridicule over it, but apart from that she was a pretty girl.
However who stood out to Nakashima the most was the blonde haired girl on the right.
"Ino Yamanaka," Nakashima thought to himself, staring at the girl he had a major crush on.
Nakashima had for Ino what Naruto had for Sakura. He couldn't stop thinking about the girl.
"Why does she have to have that stupid crush on the Emo over there?" Nakashima thought.
That was the main reason he hated the Uchiha. Although he really knew he shouldn't. Sasuke didn't really do anything except for get good grades.
Nakashima watched as the two started bickering with the other girls about who would sit next to Sasuke.
"Alight class settle down," Iruka said walking into the room. This caused the girls to stop bickering and quickly take their seats.
"Remember class, today is the day for your final exam. The exam will consist of three main parts that will last over two days,"Iruka announced.
This surprised a lot of the people in the class. "Hey sensei I thought the graduation exam was just a simple test?" A student called out.
"Yes normally that would be the case, but I have just been told that the exam will be different. According to our statistics too many genin are going off underprepared and dying. So the decision was made for this year's graduate's to try out a new exam system," Iruka explained.
"So what's different about the exam now?" Nakashima asked.
"Well there isn't a difference as much as an addition. The first exam will be the main one you have all prepared for; we will take you off into a room and test your jutsu. But, you only need a two out of three score to pass. So for example if someone failed the jutsu exam they could make up the points in the last two exams," Iruka continued to explain.
Naruto instantly perked up at this, and Nakashima knew why. "He's got a good chance this year," he thought to himself.
"Okay so what are the two additions to the exam?" Sakura asked.
"Well after the first test you will all be taken to the Kohona forest, where you will undergo the survival part of the exam. You will have to survive one night in the forest with very limited supplies. That's all I can tell you for now," Iruka said.
Nakashima and Naruto looked at each other and smiled.
"Piece of cake man, we go out there for days at a time," Nakashima quietly said to his friend.
"Yeah I know right, Dattebayo!" Naruto said chuckling slightly.
"Hey you two up the back quiet down," Iruka yelled out startling the two teens.
"Sorry Iruka-sensei," The two said simultaneously.
"Alright the first part of the exam will begin now. When your name is called please proceed to the testing area. And by no means are you to discuss your grades until the exam is over," Iruka said.
Nakashima watched as students disappeared from the room one by one, all that was left after a few minutes was Nakashima, Naruto and Sasuke.
"Alright Sasuke Uchiha, you're up!" A woman in a teaching uniform called out from the door.
The black haired Uchiha stood up and walked out of the room, his hands in his pockets.
"Man they couldn't have changed this program at a better time, you can pass now man for sure," Nakashima quietly said to his friend.
"I know I won't be kept back because of my damn large chakra reserves," Naruto said.
Naruto and Nakashima had figured out quite early why Naruto couldn't preform some of the more technical jutsus because of the sheer amount of chakra that Naruto had, not to mention his chakra control was horrid.
Mind you Nakashima had a fair amount of chakra as well. Nowhere near as much as Naruto, but even Nakashima had found technical jutsu's like the clone jutsu difficult.
But Nakashima and Naruto improved their chakra control quite a lot. They did their own exercises to try and direct charka to certain parts of their body. After they did that they tried it in certain amounts. But after they had mastered the two, they never really knew what to use it on.
"Alright Naruto Uzumaki you're up next!" the woman called out.
"Good luck man," Nakashima said.
"See ya on the other side Dattebayo!" Naruto yelled out and headed through the door.
Nakashima sat in complete silence for another 5 minutes before the woman poked her head back through the door.
"Alright Nakashima, come on through," The woman called out.
Nakashima stood from his desk and headed out the door to the classroom.
He walked down a long passageway to the end and turned in the door on the left.
The room was a simple one, a desk at the front where Iruka and another teacher sat, he knew the other teacher as Mizuki. He didn't like the guy, because he always had a distaste for Naruto.
"Alright Nakashima we need to see you perform an acceptable Clone justu, a transformation jutsu, and another jutsu of your choice," Iruka said.
"Of my choice?" Nakashima asked.
"Oh of course you weren't here for that lesson, each student had to learn one of their own jutsu to pass this part of the exam. It gives out student's a bit of variety," Iruka said.
"Ah right-o," Nakashima said and smiled.
"Let's begin then with a clone jutsu," Iruka said.
Nakashima placed his hands together in the sign for a clone jutsu "Clone jutsu" he called out.
Two exact replicas of Nakashima appeared either side of him, causing him to smile.
"Very good, you've come a long way with that jutsu," Irkua said writing something down on the piece of paper.
"Alright let's do a transformation. I want you to transform into myself and Mizuki here" Iruka said.
Nakashima placed his hands together for the substitution jutsu but this time with no words spoken he turned into Iruka, then Mizuki.
"Wow impressive, you didn't need to even say anything," Iruka said writing something down on the piece of paper.
"Alright now we need one more Nakashima, and please nothing too dangerous." Iruka said.
Nakashima thought about it for a moment then decided on what jutsu he would perform.
He then remembered the jutsu that he had found be complete accident one day when messing around with Naruto.
"Erm this jutsu doesn't really have a name…I think I invented it.," Nakashima said.
Iruka and Mizuki watched as Nakashima formed three hand seals and then put his right finger on the side of his head.
"Mizuki come here and try and touch me," Nakashima said.
Mizuki looked at Iruka who just shrugged; Mizuki stood up and walked over to where Nakashima was standing. When Mizuki got about half way, with his left hand Nakashima threw his hand forward for an open palm strike. The result was that Mizuki flew backwards about 2 feet and came crashing down on the ground.
"Oh shit sorry I'm still learning it!" Nakashima said, taking his finger off the side of his head and walked over to Mizuki, offering him a hand.
"That jutsu, that's one of the telekinesis jutsu's of the Kenta clan. He shouldn't know any of them," Iruka thought, looking on in shock.
"Nakashima where did you say you learnt that jutsu?" Iruka asked.
"Well when me and Naruto found out that we both had pretty big charka reserves, we started training in chakra control. Another thing we did was try out various hand signs. We literally just went in the order of a book out of the library, and then we messed around trying to combine them to see what would happen. With no luck of course but I stopped to scratch my head and pointed at something, which fell over with a massive crash." Nakashima said.
"He figured out one of his clan's jutsu on complete chance, Kami must have plans for this boy," Iruka thought.
"I thought it was a coincidence at first, so I repeated the combination of hand signs, and it happened again. Then I narrowed it down to the last three, and that's how I got the jutsu," Nakashima said scratching his head.
"Well... um Very good," Iruka said, marking down something else on a piece of paper, and making a mental note to go and see the Hokage about the jutsu.
"Alright, you will get your score tomorrow, for now please go out and join the rest of the students." Iruka said.
Nakashima nodded and headed out the door, leaving a surprised Iruka and a very dumbfounded Mizuki behind.
"Was that what I think it was?" Mizuki asked.
"Yeah, Telekinesis jutsu, this boy is definitely a Kenta," Iruka said.
"I thought they were wiped out when Orochimaru escaped," Mizuki said.
"Apparently not," Iruka said, looking out the window at the boy who now joined his friend Naruto.
Back with Nakashima
"Hey Nakashima I heard the crash, what happened?" Naruto asked. He and the rest of the students were looking at Nakashima and whispering things to each other. Well Naruto wasn't whispering he was talking to Nakashima.
"My signature," Nakashima said and smiled to his friend who just went into shock.
"No way, they passed you with that!" Naruto exclaimed, clearly shocked.
"Yeah, I knocked Mizuki on his ass with it," Nakashima said quietly, so only his friend could hear.
However Naruto decided not to be quiet, he started laughing loudly earning the attention of everyone in the group
"Keep it down ya loser," Nakashima said.
"Alright well, let's get this next exam done," Naruto said after calming himself down.
They went over and joined the group, and Iruka and Mizuki came out a few minutes later.
"Alright everyone listen up," Nakashima said.
The group stopped whispering and talking and all faced iruka.
"Alright now for the second part of the exam. This will be a survival exercise, you will have to stay out in the forest for one whole day. That is one part of the exam and will be 40% of your grade for this exercise," Iruka said.
"Alright easy enough," Nakashima thought to himself.
"The second part of the exam is an information gathering exam. To pass this part of the exam you must gather information about a certain event that is going to happen today. You will each get one clue. Some clue's your teammate's have, and others are hidden in the forest." Iruka said
"Why does this all sound so familiar?" Nakashima thought to himself.
"You may get this information any way you like, but no lethal force is to be used. If we see anyone trying to kill another person, you will be instantly failed and kicked out of the program for the rest of your life," Iruka said with a serious voice.
A few students looked a little nervous, not because of the test, but the way Iruka spoke.
"Hey Iruka, this is a modified Chunin exam isn't it?" Nakashima asked.
Iruka just smiled, "Very good Nakashima. Yes that is the way this program was designed." Iruka said
"For the event you must try to get, a time, a place, a list of attendants and a location. For each piece of information you gather, you will get 15% on your score." Iruka said.
"So what do we do once we have all the information?" A student asked.
"If you get your information within the first day you can retire early and accept a 60% score, or at the end of the exam tomorrow you will all gather back here. There are chakra boundaries set, you must not go past them, and if you do you will be instantly disqualified." Iruka said.
Mizuki then lent over and whispered something to Iruka, who simply nodded.
"Mizuki has just reminded me of one other thing. Throughout the forest there are camera's placed so we can monitor performance, and for violence. If these cameras are damaged, and we will know, the culprit will be instantly disqualified and barred from the exam for a set period of time." Iruka said.
"Well they have to have some way of watching us," Nakashima thought.
"Alright when your name is called follow the exam leader here for your starting position," Iruka announced.
The group was slowly taken off just like before, and lead to different sides of the forest.
After a few minutes one again only Naruto and Nakashima remained.
"So this is going to be interesting," Naruto said.
"Yep," Nakashima said back.
After a few minutes the exam leader came back and called out for Nakashima.
He followed her for a few minutes until he got to a small part of the forest.
"Alright Nakashima a small flare will pop up and signal when you may start," She said leaving quickly.
"Alright then, all I gotta do is get the information and survive," Nakashima thought to himself.
He then waited patiently, until he saw the red flare fire up into the air, and then flew into the jungle at high speed.