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Talking out loud "Speaking stuff" in Bold
Thinking something (Blah blah blah) will be in italics
Change in current setting-Random thing-
Naruto is raised by his family without the nine tails incident occuring.
So the container isnt Naruto and He still has his family. This will be a story
with Naruto growing with the village both accepting and caring for him.
Naruto will still be a prankster but he wont love
Sakura anymore its all Ino now. I hope you enjoy the story:)
The Tale of the Hidden Leaf Chapter 1
-Running through the forest-
(Finally I get to join a team. I wish dad hasn't taken so long with his annoying talks about woman. I think that pervy Hokage messed with him a little but still his advice seemed to click with information in his head.) The trees blurred by as Naruto rushed to training field A for the first team meeting. ("Ugh I hope I'm not late if mom hadn't taken so long with breakfast I wouldn't be in this situation. Now I hope I get Ino-chan on my team, she's so cute and my dad says I will grow to be a great man so she's got to love me".)
Naruto saw a break in the tree lining and started to push his body to get there a little faster. As Naruto burst through the forest and landed in the field, he noticed the surroundings. Off to the side were three wooden training posts and a large stone obelisk behind them, which caused a gloom to fill Naruto. (That's the Ninja wars memorial where the names of dead shinobi resided.) Naruto bowed my head and paid my respects and heard a voice behind me.
"Well you may be cutting it close to being late but at least you are a respectful youth" said a husky voice behind Naruto. Naruto turned around to see a man wearing a Jonin vest and had a cigarette hanging from his lips. The man was tall and had a strong jaw with a maintained beard.
"The other two are here so I'm guessing you are Naruto Namikaze. I'm a friend of your father's and my father is the man who gave birth to you. I'm Asuma Sarutobi and I will be your Jonin leader and instructor". He looked to his left to see both the Genin ninja standing awkwardly looking at each other waiting for their turn. "Okay everyone introduce yourselves. Say your favourite hobby and what your biggest goal is".
The one with the body suit that reached his nose stood straight up and spoke "My name is Hatake Kakashi and I enjoy reading. My goal is to be a great ninja and to earn the respect of everyone who knows my name". Naruto nodded at the masked Genin and inspected him closely.
("He's going to be a good shinobi one day and seems to carry himself well"). Naruto turned his attention to the other boy when the boy named Kakashi finished talking. The next boy stood slightly taller than Naruto but was slightly less bulky and he had an interesting mark across the bridge of his nose.
"Hi my name is Itachi Uchiha and I love to train. My goal is to bring honour to my clan and show we Uchiha are great warriors". Naruto realized then the boy was son of the leader of the Uchiha clan and probably heir to clan.
(This is one wicked team to have such cool members but still I miss Ino. I wonder if I could put a request to the pervy sage, he might transfer me). Asuma looked at Naruto to speak and the boys turned to stare at me and he realized it was his turn.
"Hello my name is Naruto Namikaze and I love eating ramen, looking up places that serve ramen and I love to read about ramen".
(Does this boy only think about ramen and we are going to have to do something about his getup. I can't be seen with someone wearing a bright orange jumpsuit).Asuma let out a heavy sigh and went back to listening to Naruto. "My goal is to prove I am a great shinobi without the help of my obvious resources. I want to prove that I alone proved I am strong through hard work and dedication. I want to be a Hokage that is worthy of the title without being spoon-fed help". Asuma and the two boy's eyebrows shot up when they realized just what Naruto declared.
(Such a will in this guy maybe he is as good as everyone in academy said)Itachi
(Hmph of course the crown prince of Konoha says that. His father is a warrior, famous for his skill and his godfather is the Hokage. No wonder he is spoon-fed but at least he is a hard worker)Kakashi
(This kid definitely grew up interesting)Asuma
Naruto didn't understand why they all stared at him till he shouted "Hey" and they all paid attention. "Okay students today I will do a simple test with you to test your abilities as Genin". Asuma lifted two bells to show the Genin the objects and continued "Now the goal of this is for you to grab the bells off of me before sundown tomorrow. I hope you ate hearty last night because only those with a bell can eat during each meal". Naruto drew a kunai and started to leap forward when Itachi's hand blocked his charge.
"Wait Naruto you need to wait for us to be allowed to start". Naruto interrupted in his charge, smacked away Itachi's hand and turned to face him with a very annoyed face.
"What to allow you two to get the bells HELL NO! Didn't you realize he said only those with bells will be allowed to eat. There are only two bells so if I let you two attacks I lose the chance to eat". Naruto felt a rush of wind fly past him and felt a chill creep up his spine. Naruto turned to see Asuma standing directly behind him when he was easily ten feet away not even moments ago.
"Good job Naruto, great observation but you guys should know. First rule of being a ninja is never let down your guard" and Asuma grabbed Naruto and Itachi by their clothes and flung them into a nearby tree and to finish kicked Kakashi in the stomach across the field into the tree line. As the Genin recovered from the attack, Asuma smirked and shouted "Begin" and disappeared in a cloud of smoke and leaves.
-Night time-
("Honestly it's been hours now and I'm starving. Asuma had the audacity to eat the food for all of us in the field where we all could see and when he finished shout about how great it tasted. I knew it was a tactic but it still made me boil on the inside".) The hunger had set in about five minutes after he said we couldn't eat till we got the bells. A few feet from the tree line where the monument sits, Naruto had started to make a general area of headquarters with a decent spot to look at all directions.
(I need a plan if I want to get a bell. How am I supposed to get food when he's a Jounin?) Naruto's thoughts had been travelling through this process for the better part of an hour till he spotted an area that could give him what he needed. It was a large nestling of thick trees and with a tree at the center that had vantage points from all angles. (Perfect!) thought Naruto with a smirk as he got to work. Naruto started to run his tripwire and set up smoke and paint tags to allow easy spotting and tracking of the person hit with a tag. The inner circle was different heights of trip wire that would allow for hitting the target even if he travelled by tree top. In the centre, Naruto used my scroll for emergency clothes to have another orange jumper available. Naruto filled the jumper with leaves and dug a hole and made a branch and leave cover to make it seem as if it covered the Genin with shelter for a night's sleep. Outside the tag circle were series of complex log and spike traps that were activated by pressing on a certain patch of dirt, hitting a trip wire or trying to land on certain tree branches. Naruto smirked away as he slowly worked his way through his masterpiece of tricks and traps.
Asumi hid from a distance watching Naruto work on his trap setup. ("Hmm impressive layout. Creative counter weight technique. Very good but this is to be expected of a master of pranks. I'm very impressed Naruto, I look forward to seeing you grow up. Now let's see how capable you are under pressure. Kage Bushin No Justu!"). The four clones looked to Asumi and he pointed to four different locations and then to Naruto and they understood what to do and leaped off to their locations. Naruto finished with a final log pressure trap that now stretched the entire circle around the decoy to 50 feet. Naruto smirked as he saw his plan coming together when he noticed Asuma land on the tree and took notice to the decoy hidden in the shelter. Naruto scanned his surroundings for the best position to surprise attack Asuma when he noticed another person in the shape of Asuma to enter the trap zone. As Naruto squinted he saw another at one edge and a fourth in the other edge. Naruto realized his trap was over and his decoy was discovered. He looked to his feet and lit the whisk and grabbed a kunai out of his pouch. He scanned his surroundings for a quick survey and stabbed his chest but inside of squirting blood disappeared in a poof of smoke.
Asuma had been approaching Naruto from behind when he realized Naruto had become aware of the clones. ("Good now start to look for me and attack the clone I have in the obvious spot watching you".) Asuma saw Naruto reach down and lit a whisk Asuma hadn't noticed earlier.
("Hmm I hadn't realized he put whisks around the location")And he followed the whisk line to see a bundle of explosive tags and at all the nearby trees within 200 feet. Asuma looked back to see Naruto stab himself in the chest and disappear in a poof of smoke. ("Shit! This child knows about Shadow Clone, Damn this kid is good").Asuma looked into the center of the field to see Naruto waving at him. ("What a good strategy again you impress me") and Asuma started to make his exit when he heard a crack and was attacked at all sides by kunai. Asuma easily blocked the kunai but was impressed at the length of traps Naruto went to. Asuma was about to head to the field to teach Naruto a lesson on why not to annoy a Jonin when he felt a presence and heard a roaring flame from his back, from no doubt Itachi using a fireball Jutsu. Asuma quickly dodged out of the way when he was struck from above by Kakashi with his white short sword whom was using the fireball as a distraction.
-Flashback-
Naruto was working on the finishing touches of his smoke tag trap and about to move on when he realized something. ("Asuma is a well-trained Jonin who probably already found me about five minutes ago. He is probably going to test me somehow".) Naruto fiddled around with the tag and knew what he had to do. Naruto set off the smoke tag and his little area of traps was engulfed in clouds.
Under the cloud of smoke, Naruto sent out a Kage Bushin to be an envoy for him. After a few minutes, the Clone-Naruto was pacing in the forest looking for the other genin when it heard a crunch and looked to see Kakashi and Itachi attempt to attack him thinking the clone was Asuma. After the genin listened to Naruto's plan, the Clone-Naruto disapated and the real Naruto got the information relay and smirked as his plan came together.
-Back to normal-
("Using the trap zone building as a distraction to go and contact Kakashi and Itachi to make an attack on me. These kids are going to go very far in the ninja world. Wind Cannon Jutsu!") Asuma used his far superior Wind Cannon Jutsu to create a gust of air to dispel the fireball and the approaching Itachi. Itachi started to rise, barely even hurt by the jutsu and Asumi used his special charka blade to block Kakashi's attack and kicked him away. The boys started to recover and Asuma disappeared in a swirl of leaves and smoke to reappear in the middle of the training field.
"Okay boys you can come out now, let's have a little taijutsu battle to get the blood flowing". Asuma heard a blade whistling sound and blocked in time to see Naruto charge at him with a kunai at hand. Asumi smiled at the boy and met his kunai and dispatched him with a blow to the stomach. "Now come on that was such great teamwork and yet, Naruto charges in with a frontal assault ". This time Naruto laughed and looked up at Asuma's curious face and said "Ohh no I'm the distraction, you made the mistake of appearing in an empty field and letting your guard down. That's first ninja rule remember". Naruto poofed out with smoke and Asuma looked around see Itachi gathering charka for his fireball, Kakashi draw his short sword and Naruto spawned ten clones at his side. Asuma heard the ground crack underneath his feet to see Naruto attack with a below ground uppercut aimed for his chin. Asuma dodged and slashed with his kunai and the clone dispersed. ("Wow that was close. A ground attack is a highly strenuous choice and usually only Chunin's would have that charka supply.")
Asuma focused from his thoughts to see a fireball slam him back. Luckily he used put his charka knives to help guard and but Asuma was pushed back. As Asuma dropped his arms,he smashed with an assault from Naruto's clones. Asuma dodged and kicked and punched dealing many blows but got hit a few times. Asuma finally kicked the final clone away to narrowly dodge a thrust from Kakashi.
Kakashi swung at him with ferocity on par with a Chunin and Asuma had to pay attention for the blade's arc. As Asumi concentrated, Naruto bolted to the back of Asuma and aimed a low kick to his knee. ("Good Kakashi keep distracting him so I can bring him down"). As Asumi finally stopped Kakashi with a punch through his guard he grabbed Naruto's attempted attack on his knee. Naruto's hand shot out like a viper and Asuma was unable to stop him as he ripped the bells from my pant leg. As his hand secured around the bell Naruto used his free leg to kick Asuma's shoulder and skid away from his range. As Kakashi kneeled leaning on his sword and Itachi was lying sprawled on the ground exhausted from the two Jutsu, Naruto jumped up and around shouting with glee as he had grabbed the bell. Asuma smirked happy with his Genin and did a release sign and poofed out of existence.
("No more charka for a fight") thought the panting Itachi
("How could he just be a clone, we all tried so hard and used all our power"?)
("I have a bad feeling about this") as Naruto felt a cold shiver creep up his spine. He looked around to see Asumi with his hand raised above his head. Naruto cringed but felt only a hand rest on his shoulder. "Good Job Naruto you did very well and you show such promise and potential that could be marked as genius".
Asumi raised his voice so all three Genin could hear "Now you all completed the mission to get the bells but I'm sure you are aware there are only two bells. Who will get the bells"? It dawned on Naruto that after all there hard work it was for nothing because one would still lose. "That is the true test isn't Asumi-sensei. This is to see how we Genin would handle if the mission required sacrifice. You want to see if we can accomplish what our mission required even if it meant we fought to the bitter end. You tested us on our will as shinobi and on our willingness to work as a team even if death of one of us is inevitable".
Asumi sighed as he realized this knucklehead portrayed an idiot but hide his potential ("Such a pity he doesn't be an all-round student not just a prankster") sighed the smoking Jonin. "Naruto that was the test and you all passed now I'm sure you would all like to be treated to some food seeing as how you all are probably starving and seeing as how Naruto has the bells I'm guessing we can eat ramen". Naruto leaped with joy and Itachi sighed and moaned "But sensei I hate ramen. Noodles are gross cant, we go get barbeque". Naruto stopped and stared at Itachi like he had some growth on his face "Are you insane Itachi. I thought we could be friends but come on anyone who doesn't like ramen has got to be messed in the head". Naruto smiled and helped Kakashi and Itachi up to start their walk back to get some needed food. Asumi walked behind his new team and looked to the Hokage Monument and smiled. ("Dad I know you died to protect this village and I guess it's my turn to train some great ninja. Maybe these kids have what it takes to protect the hidden leaf and inherit the will of fire".)
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