Alright Guys I'm sorry that I gave up but here's my third attempt at a Naruto FF, but you know what they say third time's the charm. Oh and the pairing for this story is Naruto/Tenten
'It's true, it's true, it's all true! I'm a monster!' A boy of twelve thought with tears pouring down his young face, while running through the trees of the forest around his home village. Well, could it really be called home? The boy suddenly dropped down from the branches landing on the ground and taking a hard left behind a tree clutching the giant scroll to his chest like it was his only life line. Sweat poured from his face and clung to his golden blond spiky mop of hair, the front of it held up by a pair of goggles, the sweat he was exuding made his orange jumpsuit clung to him like a second skin in some places, it had tears along his arms and legs from his run through the trees. His heavy panting suddenly hitched in his throat as he heard two crashes from behind the tree he was hiding in.
"How did you know?" The blond boy recognized the voice as the man the who tricked him and revealed the truth to him; Mizuki... What was his last name again?
"Because… I'm Iruka..." The blond boy peeked around the as he heard the tell tale 'poof' of a henge ending, to see the smoke dissipating around the one of the only people who recognized him for him. Iruka was sitting against the tree straight across from his and saw as he clutched a wooden log to his chest.
"WHY! Why do you protect that demon!? It killed your parents Iruka!" The boy's eyes widened as he heard this. He killed his teacher's parents?
"Your right!" Iruka yelled. The boy turned back not wanting to see anymore, it was a lie, Iruka didn't like him, he was just like all the rest. His tears started anew with a more ferocious vigor.
"The Kyuubi did kill my parents, and I hate it for that! But Naruto isn't that demon!" The now named Naruto's tears stopped falling and his eyes widened.
"Naruto is my best and most precious student! Sure he might not be the best at everything but he always tries his hardest and never gives up! And I admire him for that! Naruto IS Naruto Uzumaki Future Hokage of the Hidden Leaf Village!"
Naruto's eyes widened more before he started crying again, but this time with happiness. His eyes suddenly hardened and he wiped his tears and snot away on his tattered sleeve. Iruka was in danger!
Mizuki suddenly laughed hysterically "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Is that right!? Well that's too bad Iruka; we could have been partners, no matter, now YOU DIE!" Mizuki yelled as he raised a kunai to kill off the immobile Iruka.
Naruto suddenly dashed out from the tree running towards the bastard that threatened his precious person. But… He was too far to make it… 15 feet still left and the kunai was an inch away from stabbing Iruka in the head.
Naruto suddenly threw his hand out and screamed. "NOOO!" Time stood still for a second to those there, as the ground shook slightly. Then a large red crystal grew out of the ground looking to impale Mizuki it had black lightning moving around on the inside and the outside, spinning around it as well.
Mizuki jumped back in surprise, but not fast enough as the crystal caught and shredded his chunin vest and the black lightning vaporizing it.
"W-what is this!?" He yelled in surprise a slight cut on his chest from the tip of the crystal catching him. The crystal shattered into million pieces and slowly falling to the ground a beautiful sight actually if Mizuki wasn't so scared.
Naruto appeared in front of Iruka with the Forbidden Scroll strapped to his back, looking at Mizuki with a surprising amount of anger and hate, Black Lighting spun around his clenched fist and looking even closer his fist was covered in a layer of the red crystal. "Don't you ever THINK about touching Iruka-sensei again, or I'll beat you so hard your ancestors will feel it!" Naruto growled.
Mizuki took a step back, stepping back and sneered evilly, once recognizing who it was. "Hahahahahahahaha you think you can take me on Naruto?! I'm a chunin; you're nothing but washed out academy student! You think you can take me on? I bet you won't even scratch me!"
"Fine, I'll show you how much I learned in an hour!" Naruto sneered; he put up a single hand sign in the shape of a t, his hands still covered in red crystal and black lighting.
"Multi Shadow Clone Jutsu!" The forest clearing was filled with smoke, but it quickly dissipated to reveal a sea of orange. Literally thousands of Naruto's filled the clearing, on the ground, in the trees, everywhere; all having a red crystal coating on their fists with black lighting surrounding it, Mizuki and Iruka's eyes widened comically to what they were seeing.
The clones all talked in unison. "So I'm just a washed out academy student huh!? Well let's see how you do against all of us!" And they swarmed him, all throwing kicks and punches and some even bites.
"W-wait! I-I AHHHHHHHHHHH!" The forest was filled with Mizuki's screams, even causing the searching jonin and chunin to stop and shiver at the horrifying sound, before they got the order to cease searching by ANBU throughout the village.
Back to the forest: Naruto was standing in front of Iruka, who was still sitting down his back leaning against the tree, with his trademark grin and pose of his hands behind his head and his smile as wide as it can be.
There was a quivering mess of flesh behind him that used to be Mizuki, bruises and large burns could be seen all over his now deformed body… Could it still be called a body?
"Hehe, so how was that Iruka-sensei?" Naruto asked.
Iruka was knocked out of his surprised and just smiled softly at the blonde.
"Naruto, come here." He waved over the blonde to him. Naruto moved forward wondering what was going to happen.
"Close your eyes." Naruto did just that. He felt Iruka take of his goggles and replace them with something else.
"Ok open your eyes." Naruto opened his eyes to see his sensei holding his goggles but something else was amiss. Naruto's face scrunched up in confusion before he realized it, Iruka wasn't wearing his headband! It was on his head!
Iruka chuckled as he saw Naruto figure it out in his head.
"Congrats Naruto, you're now officially a shinob-Oof!" He was interrupted as the blond tackled him into a hug as he cried into the man's vest. Iruka winced in pain but also smiled as he hugged his favorite student back, and held him there until ANBU arrived.
30 minutes later:
Naruto and Iruka were standing in front of the Hokage as he looked at them both while smoking on his pipe. The old kage then raised his hand and waved it in a dismissing manor, signaling his ANBU to leave the room, and some of the tension left signifying they did, but one appeared next to the Hokage's desk. They were wearing a cat mask and had long purple hair, and a women's figure signifying the gender of the ANBU.
"Yugao-nee-chan!" Naruto practically yelled it out. The now identified Yugao removed her mask and smiled at the new blond genin.
"Hello Naru-chan, congratulations on your graduation." She said softly. She then turned to the old Hokage. "Forgive me for disobeying your order Hokage-sama but, I believe that with my connection to Naru-chan here that I may be here for this discussion."
The Hokage closed his eyes, thinking the request over, before he nodded, signifying his acceptance. "Yes, that is fine Yugao-chan."
Yugao nodded with a small smile.
"So Naruto, I know that Mizuki tricked you into stealing the forbidden scroll, and you're not in trouble for it but what we really want to know is; what was that crystal you made?" The Hokage continued.
Iruka's eyes widened in remembrance. "Yeah what was that Naruto?"
Naruto looked down, his hair shadowing his eyes. "I-I don't know, I just didn't want Iruka-sensei to die, and I was just so far away, I knew I wouldn't make it in time so I just tried to stop him like I wanted a wall to separate them and that crystal appeared. But I know I can do it again; now that I know what it feels like, watch!" Naruto looked up with excitement at the end and opened his hand, channeling chakra through it. And before everyone's eyes, a red crystal grew from his hand, into the form of a misshapen shuriken.
The Hokage leaned over his desk, wide eyed, to get a closer look, Yugao took a step closer and bent down to look at it better, and Iruka just bent at the waist to get another look at the crystal that saved his life.
"Well I'll say this, in all my years I've never seen something like this… Crystal Release." The Hokage said as he leaned back in his chair. 'It might have to do with his Uzumaki bloodline.'
"Hokage-sama." Iruka said gaining the Hokage's attention.
"What could this be a new bloodline? What about the black lightning, surely Naruto didn't activate Kumo's famed Black Lightning, it could only be taught not gained through blood."
The Hokage blew out a few rings of smoke in thought. "Naruto, can you call upon that black lighting again?" Sarutobi said gaining Naruto's attention who was giving the crystal shuriken to Yugao as a present.
"Yeah, I think so." Naruto closed his eyes and focused on his right hand again, looking for the slightly 'tingly chakra' he felt when he used it… He found it and black lighting sparked to life around his hand.
Again the room's other occupants were entranced at the spectacle.
"Hokage-sama, how can this be?" Yugao spoke this time.
"Well I can tell you this; it looks like Naruto here has such a strong affinity for lighting that he's able to call upon the famed Black lightning. As for his Crystal release and Black lightning and Crystal release combination, I believe is from his mother's side of the family. The Uzumaki bloodline is said to be very unstable and many different abilities could be derived from it, his mother and her chakra chains are one example." Naruto, Yugao and Iruka's eyes widened, for Naruto it was hearing about his mother for Yugao and Iruka there was only one shinobi in Konoha's history that could use chakra chains.
"Hokage-sama do you mean Naruto's mother is Kushi-" Iruka started but was interrupted as Naruto ran up and grabbed onto the Hokage's robes desperately.
"Jiji! You know who my mother is!? Please! Tell me! Is she alive?"
The old Hokage smiled down sadly at his adoptive grandson. "Her name was Kushina Uzumaki… and unfortunately she is no longer amongst the living, she died in during the Kyuubi attack protecting you. But she was one of the most temperamental kunoichi, brash, loud, very rash in her decisions, loved pranks in fact you act just like her.'
Naruto sweat dropped, 'I got all of my traits from my mother.'
"But she was the most caring, loving, beautiful, strongest, kunoichi Konoha has ever produced, and Naruto you should have seen how happy she was when she found out she was pregnant with you. So don't ever think that you weren't wanted, you were loved unconditionally." The Hokage finished and saw Naruto was crying.
He smiled and stood and hugged the still crying Naruto who was still latched onto his robes. After Naruto finished his crying he looked at his grandfather figure. "Jiji, do you have a picture of her? And what about my father? Who was he?"
The Hokage flinched with Naruto's last two questions.
"Naruto, for your father I can't tell you, it's for your own safety. BUT before you get down, I will tell you when you reach the rank of chunin and lucky for you the chunin exams are being held here this year." Naruto looked up in sadness then happiness.
"And as for your first question, I can do better than give you just a picture." The Hokage detached Naruto from his robes and walked over to the wall with the all the hokage's pictures on it. He took his own painting off and channeled chakra into a seal in the wall revealing a safe which he opened with the combination.
He came over with a couple scrolls several normal sized and one huge scroll about three fourths the size of the forbidden scroll. He smiled as he handed them all to Naruto.
"These were left for you from your mother. And here is a picture I have of her." He said as he walked behind his desk and opened a drawer pulling out a small photo, one of Kushina in her maternity dress, smiling at the camera, hands lovingly placed on her 5 month pregnant stomach.
Naruto took the photo with trembling hands, his tears came anew.
Naruto studied the photo for a bit before looking up at the old kage and smiling his genuine smile, not his fake one. "Thank you Jiji, thank you so much, now I know I wasn't just abandoned, that I was loved and wanted… Thank you."
The Hokage smiled and hugged Naruto again.
"Anything for you Naruto." They let go and the Hokage was serious. "But now we have to talk about your new abilities, as a shinobi and possible new bloodline the shinobi council will need to know of this. And you need to master them as much as you can. I will help you along with Yugao here; you have a week before team assignments so you have a week of training to yourself."
Naruto nodded sternly and seriousness swirling in his eyes. "I will Jiji! I'll train my hardest out there, before the week is over."
The Hokage smiled again. "That's good Naruto, now meet Yugao and I at training ground 7 tomorrow morning at six am."
Naruto flinched at the time. "But Jiji, that's so eaarrllyyy!"
"Naruto."
"Ugh fine."
"Good now go home and read those scrolls but don't stay up to late, remember training at six."
"Ok!" Naruto replied happily before he ran out towards his apartment with his scrolls in hand.
"Yugao, call in the council for an important meeting."
"Yes Hokage-sama."
Council Chambers, 1 hour later:
The council room was basically abuzz with conversation by both the shinobi side and civilian side, most of it though was just grumbling about waking up so late at night and wondering why they were summoned.
The chatter hushed as soon as the council room's door opened and walked in the Hiruzen Sarutobi the 3rd Hokage nicknamed the God of Shinobi and the Professor. He walked up the steps to his chair. As he sat he looked to his right which was the shinobi side of the council. They were all sitting in bleacher style desks were there were rows set up for the different major clans. The first row had three seats missing, set for the Senju, Uchiha and Uzumaki, all waiting for their next clan head to take them. On his left is the civilian side of the council set up the same way as the shinobi side but only filled with more people at the bottom row was sitting only three people; the most influential civilians in Konoha, Danzo, Shimura and Homura, the two former mentioned were his old teammates. The old Hokage stood up, causing the now chatty whispering to cease.
"I've called you here so late at night, to discuss something that happened tonight and will most definitely benefit Konoha in the future." This caused the chattering to pick up again but only this time it was about what could have happened, the shinobi side though had a clue to what it was, a certain blonde academy student.
"Hush! Now today an academy student's test was sabotaged by a teacher and he was failed because of it. Now that teacher tried to trick this academy student into doing an alternate exam to become a genin. He told the student to steal the forbidden scroll and the student succeeded."
This confirmed the shinobi council's thoughts as the civilian side except for a select three to start a noisy chatter about stopping the person and who did it.
"Silence! The teacher then went to meet the student at a location he told the student to meet him at. And before he could the student was met by another teacher looking for him. The traitorous teacher then tried to kill both the second teacher and the student and take the scroll of sealing. Under the stress of the situation the student as able to unlock what I believe is to be a new bloodline limit an-."
The Hokage was interrupted by the shouts from the civilian side. Shouts of 'can it be passed down', and we 'should breed it' and the like.
"Silence! I do not know if it can be passed down, and as I was saying before this new bloodline is something I have never seen before, and we have named it Crystal Release. The student is able to grow, manipulate and control crystals at will. BUT that's not all, the student was also able to unlock another ability and fuse it with his Crystal Release. The student has such a strong affinity for lighting that the student can use Kumo's famed Black Lightning."
More shouts from the civilian side ensued again and were the same as last time except with more vigor. The shinobi side of the council were just wide eyed and stunned. Another yell of silence and a bit of KI into it quieted the civilian side quickly.
"This Traitorous teacher is Mizuki and the other teacher is Iruka, while the student who stopped Mizuki was none other than Naruto Uzumaki." Shouts of 'kill the demon' and 'the demon is getting too powerful' ensued from the civilian side quicker than anyone could react. But were silenced quickly by Sarutobi again.
"Enough of this! Civilians leave this room you are banned from this meeting, I don't even know why you are here, this is a shinobi matter!"
Homura stood up at this point. "Ahem- I believe we do have a right to be here Hokage-dono, as you said Naruto Uzumaki is an academy student therefore he is a civilian therefore we are allowed to be here."
The civilians all smiled smugly thinking that they won and got to stay. Boy, were they wrong.
"No it is not! If you would have shut-up and listened to what I was saying I was going to say that because of Naruto Uzumaki taking on and DEFEATING Mizuki he was sought fit to graduate by Iruka, and was given a headband, which therefore states that Naruto is no longer a civilian matter. Now as I was saying before, LEAVE ALL OF YOU!"
The civilians could only gape in shock before they were ushered out by AANBU, including Danzo, Shimura, and Homura.
Once the doors closed behind them Sarutobi started again.
"Now where was I?"
ANNND THAT'S ALL FOLKS! Ok guys that's Chapter one of my new story; Naruto: The Lighting Crystal of Konoha! PLZZZZZZ Review if you don't I won't write anymore and I'm being serious. I'll try to keep up with reasonable up dates but don't expect the next chapter anytime soon, probably update within 5 weeks from now sooo yeah. Thanks for reading