The path to immortality-1
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The town of Konohogakure, the Hokage's holy sanctum with a bit more noise than most. Hokage is a name you inherit by becoming the town's strongest shinobi warrior. (Shinobi-An elite ninja with supernatural powers). "Your bottom student; Aoshi defeated Sasuke. That is not a great thing to hear considering Sasuke is your top student," exclaimed Hokage "Master how is that bad? My guess is he is skilled but for some reason chooses not to show it," Hokage threw him a baffling look "That may be it but it is terribly doubtful. I think he has some kind of hidden skill, it appeared in my opinion that he had the enchantment of the death lotus. Iruka I am surprised that a shinobi sensei like you didn't even notice; very naive," (Death Lotus-A skill in which you are born with, the effects are phenomenal. If you target and hit the opponent with any part of a rose, all techniques in the opponents skill vocabulary will be copied permanently into your mind).
"Aoshi has that? How can you tell?" "Have you ever noticed that his eyes are getting lighter and lighter? How do you think he beat Sasuke? It wasn't his own skill that he took him down with, mostly it was his wit," noted Hokage "Are you saying he copied Sasuke?" Hokage's face grew rather grim and he tilted his head down to intensify the moment "The boy has nearly grown more powerful than me and now because of his copied skills from Sasuke he now possesses a sharingan. I just hope Naruto doesn't pick a fight with him last thing we need is another fox incident," (Sharingan-A gift hidden in your eye, it allows you to copy techniques by watching them. A skilled sharingan user can go far enough as to read the other persons mind) "I guess we will have to execute him then" Said Iruka in a low voice "Give him some time, graduation is soon let him get through that first."
Two Weeks Later (graduation day)
Aoshi laid his head down on the desk in boredom 'Since that fight everything in this class has become so dull,' he thought to himself. Sasuke had it easy in the class having known everything since nearly the beginning. Aoshi wondered why all the girls liked Sasuke but unlike Naruto he didn't care too much. There was only one girl he was affectionate for but she was the one that liked Naruto, her name is Hinata. Of course love is a weakness, but Aoshi isn't the one who can be himself around a beautiful girl. She was rather shy too she was as
anti-social with Naruto as Aoshi was with any girls really. It was rather pathetic for their ages them both being thirteen. Hinata had dark purple hair and kind of scary extremely light purplish eyes. A few words caught Aoshi's ears while the teacher Iruka-Sensei was speaking "Today you have your finals, as your test you will have to create three doppelgangers," Of the whole day the worst doppleganger by far was Naruto's. Iruka's assistant Mizuki tried to convince Iruka into not failing Naruto but failed. (Doppelganger-An Illusion that creates multiple figures of yourself). At last it was Aoshi's turn he stepped to the front of the class and put his fingers in the correct position so that only two were sticking up and the rest were folded over each other. He put all of his chakra into his fingers and three puffs of smoke popped out of nowhere next to him. He watched them fade away and he hoped that there would be figures there. (Chakra-Spiritual energy that is needed in order to access your shinobi powers.) Stress was relieved as the first puff of smoke disappeared.
There stood a perfect figure of himself, as it bowed the second puff began fading. There stood another perfect figure Aoshi knew he did this 'Heh all too simple,' the smoke disappeared and on the ground laid a pathetic transparent form of Aoshi. "Failed." proclaimed Iruka putting a stamp in some ink but before he could mark it on his paper Aoshi yelled "Stop! Watch I'll show you how its done," Iruka opened his mouth to object but before he could say anything eight marvelous figures appeared around the room four on either side all on steps. One began to walk down and it's shoes made sound on the floor Iruka's eyes widened as he thought 'My god, he couldn't even conjour up three then out of nowhere came eight solid figures! This boy is amazing, but It is ridiculous that Hokage said that this boy is almost as powerful as him,' "Well Aoshi it appears that for that I will have to pass you. That was magnificent."
After class all the kids were being praised by their parents and having fun while Naruto sat on a swing hanging on a nearby tree. Aoshi knowing how it is to live life alone and fail at so many things noticed this, along with Naruto's admirer. They both heard some boys nearby laughing at him and mocking him. "Do you have no heart? That boy has lived alone all his life with no parents almost everybody hates him and you are mocking him! I am so astonished I don't even want to see your faces!" all the boys started laughing as Aoshi and Hinata realized that they both just shouted that at the same time. They both blushed and slowly walked away. 'That was odd, I can't believe someone besides me even really would protect Naruto like that,' Hinata thought to herself. 'I like her even more, but that was way too long for us to both say it,' thought Aoshi.
As Aoshi was walking home he saw Hinata up the road buying something. He saw her turning and he looked for somewhere to hide. "Aoshi?" she shouted. He popped up from behind a box "Yeah. How did you see me?" Aoshi asked nervously "You were standing there for quite a while before you jumped back there." "Oh," he replied dully "Well I guess I'll see you at school tomorrow," "Yeah... ... ... Wait!" he shouted while thinking 'Stupid stupid stupid well lets see what we can do,' she turned around "Yes?" "I was thinking about walking up to the woods and was wondering if you'd like to join me," he slightly blushed from embarrassment as so did she "Umm sure," she responded 'Wow I guess stupidity does lead to happiness'
As they arrived on the top of the mountain they decided to look over the town and carry on conversations. Aoshi must have gotten more comfortable with her by this time, he decided that really why need boys be shy around women they are just like everyone else, they are everyone else, really boys are half of everyone else and women are the other. As every man fears to say the wrong thing though "Have you ever...kissed?" He asked as she began blushing deeply "Well I don't mean it like I'm asking you if you want to," he said hastily she still just blushed and said nothing "Sorry," he put his head down "Is that personal?" "No; not really, that was just kind of unexpected, but no I have never kissed," the blush began to settle down "Neither have I," Aoshi stared into her eyes wondering why they were so light "How exactly are your eyes so light?" he asked "I might ask the same thing for you," she smiled the most beautiful smile he had ever seen only to be broken by a shuriken that zoomed by and scratched his face.
Aoshi spotted an adult on a tree "It's a jounin run!" she didn't object and began her way down at abnormal speed (Jounin-A full shinobi warrior, the class directly below a hokage.) Three more shurikens went speeding through the wood but made no contact except for Aoshi catching them on each finger. (Shuriken-A small throwing star.) Aoshi threw all three of them back at the jounin. The jounin jumped away and lost sight of the genin. (Genin-The lowest class shinobi, usually a shinobi being trained by a jounin) "Where is he?" The jounin said quietly to himself "Right here," he heard by his ear as he felt a sharp pain in his back and felt the warmth of blood go pulsing from his body. The jounin jumped from the tree and was flying through the air, He looked back at the branch he was on and saw that the child was not there. His eyes widened as he realized what was going on. He back flipped in mid-air and hit a target. As he landed on the limb of the tree he saw the young boy falling 'Heh he was just lucky I guess, but he is fast,' he thought to himself then he felt someone grab him by the neck. "Look around," he heard the voice of the child "This may be your last encounter with the land of the living; Smell the light air of the forest observe the green trees. I pity you, I do so much I might let you go," the grip loosened and the jounin's fright went down. Aoshi started again gripping extremely tight as the jounin started squirming for air Aoshi then let go a bit "I hope you said your goodbyes," a tear ran down the shinobi's cheek then he fell to the ground blood still slowly erupting from his body with a broken neck. A rose fell on top of him and the young shinobi was gone.
Hinata was at the bottom of the hill waiting for him. She spotted him slowly walking down the hill with blood on his shirt. She ran towards him "Are you okay?" she asked quickly "I'll get some help," before she could run off he grabbed her hand and began laughing "Don't worry, this is not my blood," she took a step away "You killed him?" "Well, yes I had to. It was him or probably you and I. I'm glad I made that choice. He was a just made jounin on his first mission," "How do you know that?" "Well only an amateur would have been beaten so easily." her face got a bit red "Are you saying that I'm amateur with my shinobi skills?" "Well sort of you are," he smiled and made a small chuckle "I'll show you!" she began throwing punches at him only to be blocked "You sure have warmed up fast," he said laughing. She jumped with her foot in the air making contact with his face. He flew up a few feet and as he landed she heard from right next to her "Nice kick," she turned toward the voice to find Aoshi standing there then looked back to where he had landed to see he was gone.
"How did you?" "Shh that isn't important," He said to her "Now weren't you attempting to hit me and failing miserably?" he mocked her, "You jerk!" she began the attempt again and still had no advancement. She gave up after about five minutes and began panting. "How can you dodge and block so well?" she managed to let out between the panting "Well practice makes perfect," Aoshi responded "But you couldn't of have practiced that much, we have only been in shinobi school for a year," she noted "You do have a point there, sometimes I wonder myself," "Do you know what time it is?" she wondered "Well I'd say about six o'clock," Aoshi responded "Sorry I guess I have to go then, my mom must be worried," She gave him a quick kiss on the cheek and ran off. Aoshi rubbed his cheek in yet another blush 'I didn't see that one coming' he thought 'Wow did I just do that? Well he has gotten kind of cute," She thought to herself at the same time. Aoshi began to walk to his lonely home no one there to help him love him nothing really. He was playing with a kunai a he walked and practiced warding off shurikens. (Kunai-A small dagger with a hole on the back of the handle, also a weapon capable of throwing,)
Aoshi walked into the door of his small apartment and sighed. "Killing a man is never easy," he said quietly to himself as he walked toward the fridge and pulled out some juice. His apartment had no luxuries, not even a couch really; he did have some chairs set though. His boring white walls did nothing for him, he didn't particularly like them, He heard a knock on the door. "Iruka sensei. Is there something you need?" Aoshi asked "Well of course there is, why else would I make a home trip," Iruka replied "Well we need to talk," Iruka walked inside "Not much furniture eh?" "No I don't get paid for doing nothing," Aoshi responded. They talked about anything that came about their heads for abut ten minutes then Iruka's face grew grim "Aoshi, do you know what death lotus is?" Iruka questioned "Yes," Aoshi replied, "I don't know how to tell you this but master Hokage told me you have the enchantment," Aoshi's eyes widened 'No; they found out!' "The master told me we are to execute you next Tuesday. I am telling you this because I like you a lot. My suggestion would be run, but if you don't and decide to test your powers on fifty shinobi it is your choice. Heed my warning though that many shinobi could kill nearly anything or anyone on the planet." Iruka bowed and left. 'This is really bad," thought Aoshi. Iruka spoke again "Aoshi; exactly how many people have you copied?" the teacher wondered "Three. The only one still alive is Sasuke. I can guess what else you want to know the other two men were Hayakagi Mitono and Kogashi Shitake." Iruka was astonished to hear this, those two were possibly more powerful than any of the Hokages but both of them were independent. Hayakagi specialized in extreme speed and illusions and Kogashi created the most astonishing jutsu, the last one he was working on was a technique in which you get four swords from one, Each sword is either on a foot or in your hand. (Jutsu-The title of a shinobi magic type. Referance:If you do the water dragon technique it is called Water Dragon jutsu and its type is water jutsu.) "Those two men were extremely powerful how?" he felt kind of sick knowing the worlds two most powerful shinobi had fallen by the hands of this thirteen-year-old "Well they were the first people to see that I had the death lotus being as skilled as they were. Hayakagi lead me around told me who he was and then attempted to defeat me but he could only dodge he roses so many times. Kogashi was practically a father to me, he took me in no matter what the circumstance was. He knew about the enchantment but it seemed like he didn't care until the day that had been destined for a while. He knew about that day how it'd come sooner or later. I think he let me hit him with the rose though to pass on all his knowledge he wanted me to continue my life."
Iruka stood up "I see; so you had to do it in order to save yourself, not to kill and gain power. I'm sorry I got the wrong impression. I came by just to tell you that but now I must go," he opened the door and walked out. 'That was good to know," Aoshi stated in his mind. Aoshi walked into the bathroom and washed his face from the sweat that was growing from fear of what would happen next week. As he dried off his face he looked in the mirror in front of him and there stood two light silver eyes brown sticking up hair and a tan face, but between all this he saw what he was capable of; there stood himself towering over a massacre of a city corpses of shinobi warriors flooded the dirt road and standing there next to him was Hinata? He looked behind him but no one was there then back at the mirror but there was nothing there but his face and the reflection. He walked away from the sight he had just beheld. He had never even thought of destruction or killing innocent people. Aoshi took a quick bath and decided to go to bed.
A/N: The first chapter is out and I am happy as hell. Please review, if there is a flaw tell me. I need some advice. Any mistakes tell me.