Yo! This is the Fic I am going to focus on. Like I said in chapter 5 of my time travel Naruto fic, time travel fics just don't flow right in my opinion when writing them. Reading some are good but they just aren't going onto the page for me right now.
This fic will my focus like I said. It won't be cannon after wave, but then again it won't be before really either. You'll see. Sorry for the part where a certain jutsu name and the sentence after is all mucked up but Microsoft word had a rebellious phase with that part.
Also this is a bit of a crossover with multiple things, but only elements of them.
This chapter mostly sets the story, introduces some characters and sets up something important in the future. Take a guess.
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, things from other series I may put in, a car or the version of the Elemental Nations my Fic is based in.
Credit to Moons-Blood for the map here minus the spaces: http:/ moons-blood. / art/PoF -Naruto-World-Map-103608820
"Speech"
'thought'
'Telepathic speech'
"Demon/ demonically enhanced/ extremely angry speech"
'Demon thought'
There was a young blonde child around the age of eight running through the streets of Konoha as if his life depended on it. His name was Naruto Uzumaki, orphan and container of the great Kyuubi no Kitsune. For once, however, this wasn't the cause for his running. The reason for his running today was excitement. He had every reason to be excited. He could get out of Konoha for a while and maybe make some friends. And the reason for all that was also the reason for him running towards the Hokage tower.
Flashback
The brown haired teacher stood at the front of the class. He was this year's teacher for the newest generation of shinobi hopefuls.
"Okay class. This is the first year we are doing this but you all have the chance to go on a trip to the beaches on the east coast of the fire country. You must get your parents or whoever is responsible for you to sign these if you want to go otherwise you just get some time off school." This was one of the first times the class actually paid attention to him as a whole this year.
He started handing the forms around class to the overly excited children, smiling as he did it. His smile turned to a sneer as he reached a certain blonde member of this class. He was about to skip this member of the class before a thought popped into his head.
'The look on his face when no-one will sign it for him. The demon deserves to suffer.'Not a very nice thought to most, but to someone who lived in Konoha it was common.
He shoved a form down on Naruto's desk before carrying on.
Flashback end
That was the reason for Naruto to be currently running towards the Hokage tower while trying to ignore the glares of hate. As he got nearer to the tower the looks of hate got worse. How dare he, the reason for so many deaths, even go near their leaders tower. It was a spit in the face to a lot of them.
As Naruto got into the tower the security were planning on kicking him out and beating him a voice stopped them. The Hokage's secretary.
"Hey Naruto! The hokage will see ya in a bit, he's just finishing up some work. What got ya so worked up?" She was a young blonde woman around 18. She had been the secretary for a while and was one of the few people always nice to Naruto. The fact that she was blonde also showed that she was a Yamanaka, although she wasn't past chunin in rank she was at low jonin strength, which was required of someone to be the main secretary.
Naruto just waved the form up at her with his grin looking like it should be hurting but it obviously wasn't. She smiled and waved him into the Hokage's office before getting on with her work again.
Naruto dashed into the office startling the old man.
"Jiji! Jiji! Can you sign this? Canyoucanyoucanyou!" was what anyone able to decipher the torrent of words would hear before the kid started panting.
The old kage mentally sighed. He hated what he had to do but he didn't have a choice. There were just too many people close to where the trip was that might now about the nearby ex-country.
" Come here, take a seat Naruto." Said Hiruzen in his grandfatherly tone. Naruto did as he was told but didn't think he would like it.
"I'm really sorry Naruto but I cannot let you go on this trip. You have to trust me on this" Hiruzen himself sounded a bit sad himself at this, but some things had to be done.
"But whyyyyyyy?" whined out Naruto, like kids do.
"Trust me Naruto".
"But whyyyyyyyyy?" Whined out Naruto again in an increasingly annoying tone.
"I'm sorry Naruto but you will understand when you are older." Sighed the aging man.
" You understand right?"
"Yes" said the youngster with a downcast tone.
" I will take you out for Ramen though?" The youngster's face seemed to lighten up at this, but in truth it was at the small trick he had played. There had been a small pile of papers and scrolls on the side, with the top one having the kage's signature on it. He had slipped the pile into his school bag as he got up and hoped he could copy what he needed.
As Naruto left the office the secretary saw his slightly downcast look.
" What's wrong Naruto?" she questioned.
"Stupid Jiji won't sign it saying I'll understand when I'm older." At his sad tone the secretary felt bad for the boy and came up with something to help. She quickly took the paper off of him ignoring his protests.
"Here. I've seen the geezers signature enough to copy it. You know I could really get in trouble for this but it will be our secret, okay?" she whispered with a smile as she handed the paper back to him.
A smile broke out on his face before he leapt up and hugged her before shouting "Thank you Ayumi-nee-chan! Thank-you thankyou thankyou!."
That night she took him for some Ramen, smiling at him continuously chatting about how he would build a sand kingdom and see all kinds of fish with mermaids.
A few days later, Konoha gates
The Academy teacher scowled at the list. He couldn't believe that the Hokage would let the beast leave the village, but he supposed it would give him a window to dispose of the boy.
Most of the children were chattering animatedly about the things they would do with their friends or saying goodbye to their parents, who in return told them to behave, be safe and stay away from Naruto.
They had a few people coming with them for protection. There were a few extra academy instructors, along with a couple of spare genin, their instructor and the current head of ANBU, Kakashi had to have good protection after all, there were a lot of prominent clan heirs and heiresses on the trip which meant a possibility of foreign seek-and-capture nins.
Finally everyone had arrived and all the parents had left.
" All right brats! Listen up. We have some horses and carriages but we want you to try and walk as much as you can. We don't want to overtire the horses and it will be good stamina training for being a ninja." A groan of troublesome could be heard that sounded more like they didn't want to even put the effort into the one word than anything. A blonde girl sarted scolding whoever the voice came from after that.
" Okay we will set off soon. By the way stay with the main group and don't leave the main group or where all the guards are. We have a group of chunin, some genin and the ANBU leader Kakashi Hatake guarding us." All the guards mentioned gave a wave, but most people's attention was on the famed ANBU captain. This caused most of the other guards to glare at the perverted captain.
A few hours later they had all set off and were walking. A few kids had gotten tired rather quickly and were resting while the others looked like they would need a rest soon. Naruto was the exception who was still looking like a ball of energy thanks to a certain fox.
As they went the instructors and guards would point out anything interesting or talk with what they saw to the kids, explaining what some of it meant. A lot of the kids were directing questions at Kakashi, asking what you would expect kids to ask. The boys asking about amazing battles and what they were like, to which he happily talked about some he was involved in, toning them down of course. The girls asked if he had rescued any princesses and if he had any romantic missions, to which he also happily talked about;He also retold a lot of times when he saved or was saved by friends a lot, hoping to get the kids thinking saving your comrades was essential.
Eventually a lot of the kids started to complain about being bored and the possibility of dying of boredom. At this the group decided to take a break.
A lot of the kids pulled out lunches of some kind and started to trade foods. The only ones separate from the main group were Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha. The blonde, seeing Sasuke not having any food and being on his own, decided to join him.
"Hi, I'm Naruto Uzumaki and I saw you don't have food. Want soma mine?"
Seeing the grin on the blonde's face, Sasuke knew this was a kid who wasn't bothered by the fact that he was an Uchiha.
" Yes please, thanks. And by the way I'm Sasuke Uchiha. Pleased to meet you." With that the two started chatting while Naruto shared out his food with the black haired kid. Any of the guards or instructors who didn't like it couldn't do anything, as it seemed the Uchiha enjoyed it and couldn't risk making the son of the clan leader mad.
After they had all set off again Naruto and Sasuke were walking together.
"So do you have a family?" asked the young blonde. With that Sasuke started telling Naruto about his family.
"I have a whole clan but the ones in my family are the nicest. My oto-san is the leader of all the Uchihas because he is one of the strongest and best. Then there is my oka-san. She is really nice and always loves and helps me, she's never mean to anyone. Next there is my ni-san. He is already in ANBU but he's only twelve. He's always so cool and strong, he helps me train and learn my cool jutsu. He's yucky though, he has a girlfriend called Ayame. Her dad owns a Ramen shop or something. It's yucky when the kiss though." Naruto suddenly butted in on Sasuke's explanation.
"Hey I know Ayame. Her dad owns Ichiraku Ramen. They make the best Ramen ever and they are really nice. I go there every day." Exclaimed the blonde.
They spent some more time talking about Sasuke's family.
"Must be nice to have a family." Muttered Naruto.
"What don't you have a family?" asked Sasuke.
"Nuh-uh" replied Naruto while shaking his head.
" The old man says they died in the Kyuubi attack and he doesn't know who they are, but he's lying about it. I can tell he knows something but he won't say." Said the Uzumaki with a sad look.
Sasuke instantly felt sorry, before whispering something in Naruto's ear. "Come and look at this, it's really cool." And with that the two snuck off from the main group.
A few minutes later the two boys came to a stop in a clearing with a small lake.
"This is perfect!" exclaimed Sasuke.
"What?" the blonde of the duo had a confused look on his face.
"Watch" Sasuke said with a smirk. He had just perfected it the night before.
He ran through some hand seals before yelling "Katon: Gokakyu no Jutsu!" and with that he finished the last handseal. He then kept his left hand in the left side of the final seal while making a ring with his right hand, raising it to his mouth and blowing out a massive fireball. The fire ball ran across he clearing at a slight downward angle before disipitating against the water.
"Wow" was the simple word that excited Naruto's mouth. His friend looked towards him and smiled. It felt good to be praised in anyway bay someone who wasn't family.
"How did you do that!" yelled the blonde.
" Its chakra, do you know how to use it yet? My family told me but the academy don't do it for a while." Said the black haired kid.
"Wait! If they use chakra then that means it's how you do these! Jiji taught me to use chakra but nothing else." As Naruto rushed this out he pulled out a couple of scrolls he had taken a few days before.
A few hours later both boys were stood panting a little. They had both learned on jutsu each and were extremely proud.
"One more time?" asked Sasuke, to which Naruto simply smirked and nodded before yelling "Futon: Senpuken!"(Wind release: whirlwind fist) and punched his fist forward,which resulted in a large horizontal tornado burst from his hand and tore across the clearing.
At the same time Sasuke used his jutsu "Katon: Hosenka no jutsu!" (fire release:phoenix sage fire technique. He did the same motions for most exhalation fire techniques, resulting in a small multitude of fireballs launching out in front of him. Sasuke's eyes widened as the two techniques , being next to each other from the beginning, were about to touch sides. He was about to tell Naruto to move, but stopped when he saw what the techniques did, and stared in awe along with Naruto.
The techniques brushed sides, and because of the air pressure all the fireballs were sucked into the whirlwind. All the fireballs grew to twice the size and got caught in the whirlwind resulting in them going with the flow and spiralling while travelling forwards at twice the speed before impacting on the water and making masses of water launch upwards.
The two boys looked at each other before smiling. "Hell" started Naruto."Yeah." finished Sasuke. With that the two boys started to fall backwards, before Kakashi flickered into the clearing and caught the duo. He had been watching the whole time, and admitted they would probably make a good team and had massive amounts of chakra for their age. Naruto had good control after the old man taught him but he realised the old man probably didn't have time to teach anymore so Naruto's control would have gotten bad, especially with the rate it increase with the fox.
He let out a sigh and decided he would say the two boys fell asleep. He tucked the scrolls back into Naruto's bag. If they learned more techniques they could be a formidable pair rather fast. He would ask the Hokage when they got back.
After spending the remainder of the day travelling, with Kakashi carrying the two boys, everyone decided to stop for the night. People asked a few questions about why they were unconscious and Kakashi, being a lie master, told the simple yet believable lie he came up with.
The next morning everyone woke up early, or was woken up by Ino and Sakura screaming about being woken up so early. After that the instructors cooked a simple yet delicious stew for everyone. After the horses were fed everyone was off again.
Naruto and Sasuke were happy to walk and talk about how they did yesterday and how good they were to learn those techniques in a day. They were both geniuses, but needed the right conditions. Being with a friend just happened to be an ideal condition. Naruto also found out early on that Sasuke's favourite food was tomatoes, which led to Sasuke finding out Naruto liked to garden and had a small tomato plant at his apartment.
It was when everyone stopped for lunch that the first eventful thing happened. They were told they should arrive by night so decided to get lunch at that moment. As everyone started eating Naruto and Kiba, a Inuzuka which is a clan close with dogs which gave them better senses, both said they heard whispers and footsteps around. Most of the other students just laughed it off, but the instructors and Sasuke believed them, Sasuke after being told by Naruto always having better senses.
And that was what led to the current trouble. Rather rapidly a group of bandits reaching nearly two hundred had charged into camp and started attacking. A couple of chunin got all the kids into the carriages but had to go and help with the main attack. The chunin left guarding them was taken out by a rouge nin around chunin rank that was with the bandits. Most of the kids were terrified but Naruto and Sasuke realised they had to do something or die.
"Hehehe. All the clan heirs in one go. Kumo is gonna pay some goddamn fine money for this. Oooh Yeaah." The missing nin said in a menacing and cocky tone as he walked towards the carriage slowly for effect.
At this Sasuke and Naruto jumped out of the carriage and stood defiantly in the way.
"Heh. You think I'm really afraid of two lil' punks? I'd sooner run from a at you, the blonde hiding behind the Uchiha." The nin spoke again.
"We won't let you near any of them! Get away! We'll kill you, we will!" Fear was in Sasuke's voice but so was determination. Kakashi saw the nin approaching but decided to wait until last minute, suspecting the boys would fight and show him what they could do.
The man changed his body language to seem more menacing and walked slower.
"You two run! He'll kill you!" yelled Kiba from in the carriage. He'd seen his mom sparring and knew the power of a ninja.
"Sasuke!" Yelled Naruto in a signal sort of way. Sasuke ducked and started hand signing at the same time as Naruto. With Sasuke ducked right in front of Naruto it meant that their jutsu would merge instantly.
"Senpuken!" "Katon: Hosenka no jutsu!"
The horizontally whirlwind and the barrage of fireballs merged to make their new jutsu, though childishly named. They yelled the name at the same time.
"Super ninja power: super fist of the phoenix flower sage whirlwind!" It's name was just a combo of the original names with super in them, but that's what they made.
The unsuspecting nin was launched back and carried by the whirlwind while having multiple large, fast fireballs smashing into him before getting smashed through two small trees and against an old wall with the last fireballs hitting into his chest. He was crushed against the wall with most of his torso blackened, along with small amounts of blood.
Kakashi saw this as he was slashing and beating multiple bandits. They were trying to avoid the gore and go for knockout to avoid the kids seeing it, but the bandits didn't have those limitations.
After a few seconds someone shouted Kakashi's name and within minutes the bandits retreated realising they didn't have a chance against them with him there.
After this all the kids were pretty shook up but the managed to keep them from seeing anything so most of them were just jittery from the surprise. All of the students however had seen Naruto and Sasuke's combination jutsu. Most of them kept asking the two questions about how they did it, why they did it, how they learnt it and why they were so awesome.
Sasuke and Naruto weren't too shaken up about what they did to the man after Kakashi gave them a quick lie about the man being knocked out.
The rest of the travelling day went rather uneventfully, apart from a few girls freaking about a dead squirrel.
As they walked Kakashi was deep in thought.
'Hmm. Those two are more than they seem. They worked so well together and they had determination to stop that chunin. If they had a third member he would say they had a next generation of sannin, or maybe a whole new term and level if they could double team that chunin at eight.'
Naruto and Sasuke spent the day a little shaken up but happy that they could do this much together. They continued to talk about the things expected of eight year olds, but they had a certain uneasiness shared between them, they felt like something would happen soon.
A lot of the other ninja also felt this and were ready for anything.
Come evening they had gotten into the town they were staying at. They were staying at a large five star luxury hotel right near the beach. When they saw the town most students felt a lot easier. It seemed like a nice seaside town with a lot to do in a small town but not as crowded as some, making it seem cosy. The beach had golden yellow sand that seemed just right, fine enough to feel nice but thick enough to build sand structures.
They couldn't tell much about the water at night though as there wasn't much light.
Everyone let out a sigh of relief when they got to the hotel. It was a large six story building that could probably hold a few hundred and had polished white walls along with a lit up area. There were palm trees surrounding the building as well as a luxury garden and massive pool. As they neared a man in a white shirt with a black waist-coat exited the building.
"Hello!. You must be the school booking from Konoha this week. You all look very tired so if it's okay I will take the carriage and have your things delivered to your room."
Everyone thanked the man as he did what he said. They all entered the doors and found themselves in a large dome-shaped room with polished white marble walls. In the middle there were polished black chairs and coffee tables which suited the reception area nicely.
Then there was the polished dark marble desk, at which a young dark haired woman sat behind with a smile on looking at them.
"Hello! You must be the group with the academy in Konoha. I don't doubt it but I will need your verification code to log you onto the system." The woman had a very cheerful tone and seemed to radiate a happy aura.
Kakashi spoke up. "Yes that's us. Our verification code is 473251."
They heard a tapping behind the desk and the woman looked up with a smile again.
"Ah yes, there it is. You have the entire third floor. In the morning through those doors over there is the dining hall where we have and all you can eat buffet at breakfast, lunch and dinner."
A few people's eyes lit up at that.
"And we also have fulltime access to the swimming pool and Jacuzzi, though I would refrain from going in either if you don't know how to swim. The third floor is just up those stairs there and I'm sure you can sort out who gets which room. Have a pleasant stay at hotel speeding flash."
After half an hour with some complaints everyone was upstairs and had their rooms sorted. Each room had space for four people, but some people wanted to be separate. It ended with Chouji, Shikamaru, Kiba and another boy in one room. In the next was four other boys. Next was three boys and then there was Naruto and Sasuke in a room. At the end was all the male instructors and guards. Next was all the female instructors and guards. The next room was Sakura, Ino and two other girls. Then there was Hinata and another girl. Then finally there was three other girls.
As Naruto walked into his and Sasuke's room he dropped his bags by the door before collapsing on his bed as Sasuke did the same. Their room looked very nice. The first room was about the size of Naruto's apartment back home. It had four king-size beds, a large TV, a few draws, a clock and a sliding window with a balcony view of the ocean and a few chairs on the balcony. Connected to this room was a small kitchen with everything essential to that type of room. Past that was a white-tiled bathroom with a shower, a bath tub and a sink with a mirror above it.
Most rooms would probably be like this except the top ones. After looking around it bit they had collapsed onto the beds where they were now.
And it was like this that they drifted off.
A quite, raspy, deep snarling voice sounded in Naruto's head.
Boy. Something will happen soon. Be ready and be strong, for if not, we will both die.
Naruto shot bolt upright in a cold sweat before noticing it was morning, but early because everyone was still asleep. He quickly got up and got in the shower, hoping the heat would get rid of the cold feeling he had. As the shower relaxed his tense muscles he thought over the past few days. He had a friend! A real life friend! He had also learnt and awesome jutsu, giving him use for the chakra training and then made a combo jutsu with his new friends. They had spoken a lot and knew a lot about each other. They had also 'knocked out' a man and saved their classmates. He was in a luxury hotel which was better than his apartment had ever been.
He kept scrubbing himself, not feeling free of the horrible feeling he had since his first kill, even though he didn't know the man was dead he had a horrible feeling since them.
By time he finished his shower and got dressed in his brown shorts and white top with a red swirl no-one was in the room. He figured everyone had gotten up and gone for breakfast so went downstairs.
When he saw everyone already eating he went and filled a plate up before sitting next to Sasuke.
"Took you ages, slowpoke" Was Sasuke's morning greeting.
"You heard the shower sound? It was me being awake before you." Naruto retorted, and the both stared for a second, before letting out a laugh.
A few of the guards glared at the demon for being happy, breathing and living.
Ino, having already developed slight anorexic tendencies, was complaining about time already.
"Come ooon guys! You take too long to eat and I wanna get to the beeeaach!"
A few of the adults chuckled and shook their heads at the girls whining.
After everyone had finished eating they all headed off to the changing rooms. All of the young girls wore one piece bathing suits while the boys wore baggy trunks.
Naruto was thankful that Sasuke found out about his predicament and bought him a pair of trunks with his spending money. Everyone charged to the beach before stopping at the water's edge. The silence ended when Naruto mumbled "Um. I don't know how to swim." With that most people burst out laughing at him, but Sasuke stopped them.
"Shut Up! Just because he hasn't had a family to help with everything doesn't make him stupid! He hasn't had anyone to teach him!"
"Hey what's that?" Naruto had suddenly ran off after something he had seen get thrown onto the beach by a wave, trying to hide the tears in his eyes.
He saw a body on the wet sand of a boy about his age, and without a thought, he grabbed the boy's arms and dragged him up onto safer ground.
He was about the same age as him, rather tall and extremely skinny. He had rather angular, slightly cat like facial features with shaggy brown hair, just long enough to get in his eyes and cover his ears. He didn't have a top on, though the marks on his skin seemed to suggest it had been torn off. He had long, brown baggy trouser that were pretty ripped up and no shoes. Around his neck was a necklace, which was a full dragon (AN/ when I say dragon I mean European style with four legs and wings.) which had its claws extended. In each claw was a small circular crystal with one on the chest. The one in the back right leg was orange, the front right blue, front left red and back left was yellow, while the one on its chest was dark purple.
The young boy seemed very pale but seemed to have a bit of an eerie glow to him (sorry another AN/ don't you dare think vampire. The glow will be explained/ easy to work out soon) and looked rather peaceful.
As everyone got to the scene they took in what he looked like, looking worried at what could have happened to leave the boy like this.
Everyone, including Naruto, let out another gasp when the boy's head lolled to the side and his hair moved. His ears were pointed!
A ball landed next to Naruto, but remained ignored. They heard someone shout for the ball a distance away, but they were focused on the boy, who hadn't opened his eyes, but had burst into a fit of coughing.
Suddenly a large, muscled man walked up to Naruto and lifted Naruto with his hand grasping the entirety of the small boy's chest. Naruto started struggling but no one dared do anything because of the man's size.
"Who the hell do you think you are brat! Ignoring me! I'll show you ya damn punk!" screamed the man with rage before lifting his other fist. One that was clenched in a fist slightly bigger than Naruto's head. Before the fist could impact though, the coughing boy on the sand sat bolt upright before shouting in a voice that seemed to echo with power.
"Letta!" (stop) The air seemed to ripple slightly around the man.
The man's fist had stopped, but was shaking slightly. The boy yelled again.
"Thrysta!" (Thrust/compress) and the air seemed to ripple again. The man was suddenly let go of Naruto and was launched forty foot down the beach before rolling another ten leaving a small puffed up trail of sand in the air. The man scrambled up before running off in fright while screaming something about freaky kids.
The boy broke into another fit of sputtering and coughing again while holding a hand against a previously unseen deep cut in his stomach that was leaking blood. He looked at the wound and gasped before moving his hand about an inch away from the wound. He seemed to wince slightly before speaking in the same powerful tone.
"Waise heill" (be healed) Before their very eyes a glow emanated from his hand before the wound knitted together, the drying blood being the only sign of the wound existing.
He turned his attention to everyone around him. He immediately seemed to shrink back under the gazes of so many inquisitive people. Luckily his abilities were considered to be jutsu thanks to them being from a ninja village.
Meanwhile all the teachers and guards had seen the man get launched out of the crowd and thought it was just Naruto using his new jutsu. A few of them changed their opinions after seeing what he did with Sasuke. They decided to treat him as a child they never met, which before now they hadn't, instead of a demon.
All the youngsters seemed to remain silent still, too shocked by what he had done and his prominently pointed ears.
"Thanks for saving me." Was the quite yet sincere thanks from Naruto.
"No one has ever saved me from someone like him before. Thank-you."
Before the newcomer had a chance to speak Kiba decided to get a word in.
"Who the heck are you anyway!" he exclaimed.
A look of confusion crossed the boy's face, before he said something disturbing in a quite tone.
"I don't know." His voice sounded sad, confused and shocked.
During all this Sakura had ran off and got Kakashi while explaining everything that had happened without changes, him being the most experienced and highest ranking there.
Kakashi ran into the group and started firing questions.
"Is everyone Okay? Naruto? New kid?"He shouted while pushing through all the kids. Somewhere someone snickered something out.
"Hehe. Idiot doesn't know who he is. Talk about stupid." At that Kakashi whirled around to stare at Naruto and the boy Naruto had found.
"Go! Scatter and go play or something." As soon as they finished most of the kids lost interest, like they do, and ran off to play around the area.
He was only left with Naruto, Sasuke and whoever the new person was. He looked at the boy and started trying to help
"Okay. I need you to tell me your name. You gotta name?" Kakashi looked at the boy. If he could remember his name then that could lead to everything else.
"A-a-a. Um. I think its Azeal sir" The young boy was looking down with a depressed look at the fact he couldn't remember most of who he was.
"Okay. Azeal, not a common name. In fact I never heard that before. Now can you remember anyone? Family?" He was saying things in a way of trying to make the boy feel safe and able to go at his own pace.
Naruto suddenly butted in " Hey you know what helps me remember? Try feeling all calm and stuff while breathing and letting your chakra flow."
The boy just looked at his hands before mumbling to himself "Hmm. Chakra. Feels different to others, but which energy is it? The life energy? And it can flow?"
The boy suddenly raised his arms straight out to his sides and sat upright, before a strange energy seemed to roll off of him. Slowly the energy receded, before another strange energy took its place. This one too receded before blue chakra began to flow gently around him but not going more than an inch.
The chakra slowly receded as well before the boy let out a sigh.
"Thanks. I dunno who I am but I remember bits of it. I remember a giant forest, lots of screaming and dark shapes. I remember most things I was taught. That's about it though." Kakashi nodded
"That's typical of amnesia victims, you remember things you have learned but nothing personal to yourself."
Sasuke was the next to speak up.
"What was that you did to save Naruto, it seemed weird." The boy smiled at this, happy to show off, as most boys are. With a smirk he picked up a pebble from beside him and held it on his outstretched palm. "Jierda!"(break, hit) and the stone suddenly shattered into hundreds of tiny, jagged pieces on his palm.
Kakashi gasped at this. If this strange boy could shatter rocks with just one word then the possibilities could be endless.
Of course ninja chuunin or above or taijutsu gennin worth their salt could crush a rock that size with one hand. But an 8 year old?
These three kids that all seemed like good people, had their morals in the right place and had this much potential was like the gods picking out three kids and setting their fate for them right there.
He decided there and then that this was the team he wanted when they graduated.
It would mean leaving ANBU, but hey, a change of scenery might be good. These three together could do great things. He even made up his mind on asking if he could get a head start on training the three.
Then he regained focus on the task at hand. He came out of his thoughts in time to hear Naruto's question to the boy.
"Why are you glowing? And why are your ears all pointy?" Naruto's voice couldn't hide the curiosity.
" For me to say first you gotta say 'my oath' in my language. Say iet ren (My oath) when I finish 'kay?" The boy seemed cheerful again. He then spoke for around thirty seconds in a strange language that none of them understood.
They then said as they were told. As they said it Kakashi felt a strange tingle go through his body.
"What happened?"
"It's a special language I know. You can never ever lie in it so when you said what you said it made sure you promise not to tell people." They both nodded.
" My headache has gone I think I remember some things. My ears are pointy because I'm an elf? Is that the word? Yeah I'm an elf. I don't know why I glow, maybe so I can see at night? Also I'm from across the sea. I remember a boat and hanging in a forest with a lot of wolves and other elves. That's all I know but now you do too."
The child tried to smile but failed, obviously shaken up about not knowing who he was.
Later on after explaining as much as was allowed Azeal, Naruto and Sasuke were in their now shared room after everyone agreeing that the elf (his ears hidden in his hair) should rest and those two would stay with him. For now he just wore one of Sasuke's spare white T-shirts along with the shorts he had earlier and some plain brown sandals.
The three kids were chatting about random things when Azeal suddenly perked up.
"Hey" he leaned forward as if setting up for a good story. Sasuke let out an inquisitive "hmm?"
'I'm telepathic' Naruto and Sasuke were about to yell a predictable no way when they noticed he hadn't moved his mouth.
'How did he do that?' was the thought that hopped into the human's minds along with
' Anyone can do it, I'll teach you some time.'
Now most would probably wonder why he was telling his new friends that he didn't know well this fact. He was a kid, and like most kids, wanted to show off to his new friends. That and he had seen enough of their memories to know they were good people.
That set off the abilities train of conversation and started them chatting about what they could do. As kids were prone to do they exaggerated a lot of their abilities before the chat lead on to action they had seen, and thus to movies and their heroes and due to Azeal not knowing any of them he learned a lot about Konoha when they told him all about it; he was extremely confused by what movies meant and played along and hoped to ask a grown-up the next day.
Azeal woke up in a cold sweat, the tortures of the night had started to haunt him. He felt he was supposed to do something, but couldn't remember what.
After washing himself and getting dressed he puzzled over what to do. While the other two were asleep he gazed out the window looking for anything that caught his eye. The forest was calling to him, he could see the forest in the distance and felt he had to go there.
He slid the window open and braced himself as the rush of cool air hit him. It was late spring but the sea-side night was still chilly.
Elsewhere
Kakashi and a bunch of the other ninjas were out on the deck having some drinks, snacks and generally a night of companionship.
He was the only one facing the direction of the hotel, and he saw a window open on the third floor. Their floor.
"Sorry guys I'll be back in a bit just gotta take care of something."
He started slowly jogging over to the area below the window, but sped up when he saw a figure crouched on the edge. The figure dropped off the edge and fell through the air. He wouldn't make it.
Azeal
He relished in the feeling of the air engulfing him. It had to end.
He thudded into the ground and grunted slightly, feeling the strain on his legs. He heard someone running towards him, took a glance at the pool next to him, grabbed a cleaning pool and spun towards the footsteps holding the long hooked stick in a basic staff position.
"Azeal! What the heck do you think you're doing!" Kakashi looked a little angry, but mostly relieved.
"I'm going for a walk in the forest. That okay?" Azeal didn't sound cocky, but a bit over confident. He thought he would be perfectly safe. Kakashi knew that across the sea that this might be the case and judging by what the boy could do he could manage a couple of bandits and maybe a cocky overestimating gennin if he was lucky, but better safe than sorry
"But… Whatever I'm coming with you to make sure you stay safe.
Back up in the room Sasuke lay awake thinking about the last few days.
He had two new friends, a new jutsu, and one of the said friends was some kind of elf.
At that thought he pulled out a book he had with him. It was a sort of factual story book, with multiple linked stories from the points of great ninja, or ninja making great sacrifices, starting before the villages and ending with the second hokage's story. It jumped points of view when the ninja currently focused on died or shortly after all their adventures. It detailed a lot of the adventures without changes because the book was actually passed on but it wasn't yet full. It was given to his father as a child but he never wrote in it and Itachi wasn't interested so it was given to him. It assured him that at least his brother thought he could be a great ninja.
He flicked to a certain part he had read early in the book, about an Uchiha from before the villages formed he met someone with pointed ears that was a great warrior. They travelled together until they had to part ways. When it was time to pass the book on he travelled searching for the youngster with pointed ears but couldn't find them, and after he passed the book on to another person they met again on a battlefield as he died he noticed that the pointy-eared person hadn't aged, that was written by someone who met the elf another ten years on to see them still looking young.
He spent a good few hours reading up on every detail about the elf, including his origins and abilities. He was completely shocked.