Naruto was staring at the man that had caused untold amounts of chaos, death, and destruction throughout his life, had fought toe to toe with the Hirashima senju, the first hokage, and summoned the Kyuubi to attack his village nineteen years ago, forcing his father to seal it in him, killing him in the process, that man was Madara Uchiha.
The ground around them was littered with craters, scorch marks, and littered with shuriken and kunai. They had been fighting for hours, and it was evident by all the wounds they had, they were both covered in bruises and minor cuts, the left side of Naruto's cloak was burnt, and the other half was nearly gone. Seeing as there was no use for it anymore Naruto threw it off his shoulders.
Madara had a fairly deep gash along his left side, and his orange mask lay in pieces a few feet away. Madara was furious, sure he knew the Kyuubi container was strong, but he had been fighting toe to toe with him for hours even he was getting near his limit, the last person to fight him to his limit was the first Hokage.
Naruto then shot forward, intending on ending Madara's life, once and for all, but Madara had other plans, he activated his Mangekyo sharingan, sent a massive surge of chakra to his eyes. Naruto's eyes widened, he didn't know what was going to happen, but anything that used that much chakra couldn't be good, but it was to late to move, and he found himself being slowly pulled threw a black spinning portal. Madara, laid there watching for as long as he could but passed out from extreme chakra exhaustion.
Naruto was tying to figure out what was happening, so he recalled his vast knowledge on the sharingan and it's techniques, then he remembered something, there was a forbidden jutsu, that was unique to the Mangekyo sharingan, it allowed the user to forcefully teleport the target anywhere, usually inside solid rock or something similar, but the downside, as there was with any technique, was that you had to remain conscious to keep the destination fixed. Or else the target could alter the destination with a relatively simple jutsu.
Naruto was slowly sinking into the portal to his demise, so he flashed through handsigns at such a speed even a seasoned jounin would only see blurs, then made one last handsign, and found out that Madara new he would lose consciousness, as he had set a double destination, it was directly under Konoha, twelve years ago. Realizing he was already in the time, he couldn't help that, so he focused on keeping his self from appearing in solid rock. He could feel himself about to appear, then it all went black, he could only hope he had made it.
Naruto awoke with a start, he sat up and looked around, he was in an apartment, not just any apartment, but the one he stayed in when he was a kid. It was a dark simple room apartment, one room was the bedroom, where he was, and the other was the kitchen/living room. And a bathroom.
He then realized he must of finished the jutsu, but if that was the case, where was his younger self? He got up and looked around the apartment, but all he found was a few empty instant ramen cups. He looked outside, and by the position of the moon it was about two in the morning.
After cleaning up the apartment a little, he went and sat down on the bed and tried to figure out where his younger self was. He couldn't think of any reason why, until he shot up and ran to the bathroom and looked in the mirror, he sighed with relief, he wasn't in his younger selfs body.
He slowly walked back to his bedroom and sat down on the messy bed. And thought some more, after thinking over all he knew about space time jutsu and theory, he realized that the only explanation was that two of the same thing cant exist in the same time, so he, wither because he was stronger then his younger self, or just because of blond luck, had replaced his younger self.
So after getting that out of his head, he laid down on the old, worn out mattress and closed his eyes, he thought about other things, such as weather or not he should keep his identity a secret, and live through his life as Naruto, or if he should make it seem as if Naruto had disappeared and assume a new identity, or just tell people what happened. Deciding he would think it over in the morning he fell asleep, but not before vowing to protect everyone precious to him, and not let anything happen to them this time.
Naruto woke up at six the next morning, he was amazed that he wasn't tired, normally after a fight of that caliber even he would be out a week, he just chalked it up as a side effect of the space-time jutsu Madara used on him.
"well better get going." he thought as he went to his closet and looked at what he had in it, he jumped back in shock as he was met with a wall of orange. He was holding his chest, "I forgot all I wore when I was little was bright orange jumpsuits." he said as he thought of a way to not have to wear them again.
He eventually decided he would go shopping, so he henged into a boy, about 19 years old, he had brown hair, and was about six foot tall, he was wearing a pair of black sweat pants, and a black t-shirt with a red swirl on the back of it.
He then set out to go to the Higashi Weapon Shop, it was a shinobi only store, do to the dangerous equipment they sold there. They also sold ninja-grade, clothes.
Naruto arrived, and saw that they were already open, so he walked in the door. "hello! Welcome to the Higashi Weapon Shop, what can I do for you?" a voice said, and a man, in his late 40's with long light brown hair, and wearing a pair of tan pants, along with a tan undershirt, and over that he was wearing a black vest came from behind the counter, not giving Naruto any trouble as he had put his headband on.
"well I was looking for some new clothes." Naruto said "well, then I'm sure we have what you need, just take a look around and if you find something let me know." the man said in a kind voice. "ok, thanks." Naruto said, then walked over to the clothing section of the store.
After looking around he had decided on a pair of black shinobi pants, with a lot of pockets on them. He had on a mesh tank top, and over that he had a blood red t-shirt on with black tribal markings on it, and over that was a black jacket with blood red marks on it swirl on the back.
He walked up to the shop keeper with four of the outfits, plus the one he was wearing. "well, did you find everything?" the shop keeper asked "yes sir I did." Naruto said as he laid the clothes down on the counter.
As the man was ringing them up he noticed the size, "umm not to pry, but aren't these clothes too small for you?" he asked. Naruto chucked, "yes they are, there actually for my nephew." Naruto said "oh ok." the man said smiling.
After thanking the man, Naruto walked out, he then made a clone and had it take the rest of his clothes to his apartment while he went to the academy, as it was almost eight o-clock.
Naruto was on his way to his class room, which was filled with noisy students, and a yelling Iruka trying to get them to quiet down with no success. But when Naruto walked in there was complete and utter silence. Iruka turned to see what they were all staring at, and saw Naruto standing there in his new clothes. Naruto walked in, and went to his seat.
Ino then said "you see Naruto, he's just trying to look cool like Sasuke!" and got a loud "yea!" from the Sasuke fan club. Naruto just sat there ignoring them, but it was grating on his nerves. Then Ino got up out of her seat and walked over to Naruto.
When Naruto didn't even look at her she got mad, "hey you look at me!" Ino said Naruto slowly looked up and said "what do want Ino?" with no interest in his voice. She got even madder, "why are you acting so different, just to try and be cooler then Sasuke?" she asked. When she received no answer she continued, "I mean, whats the point, Sasuke is the best, and all you are is the dead last?" she asked in a loud voice, but as soon as the words left her mouth, everyone in the room felt a crushing force in the room, and found it hard to breath, a few of the weaker students almost passed out, Iruka was even stunned for a second.
"first of all Ino, don't even compare me to him, I'm nothing like that emo, avenger over there, and second don't yell at me, and treat me bad, just to make yourself feel better." Naruto said, and when he finished he released his killing intent, and everyone sighed in relief.
Iruka seeing that all talking in the class was done, called every ones attention," ok now we are going to be taking the final exam, which will consist of shuriken and kunai throwing, the replacement jutsu, a taijutsu match against Mizuki, and finally the bushin jutsu." Iruka said. "now everyone outside for the first test." he finished.
When they got outside Iruka started calling names in no specific order (i'll skip most of them as they are of no importance) Sakura got 12 of 15 but also missed the bonus one, Ino hit 10 of 15, but hit the bonus one, resulting in a score of 12.
After all the rest of the students went all that were left were Sasuke, and Naruto. Iruka called Sasukes name and Sasuke stepped forward, he readied his shuriken and kunai, he hit 14 of 15, and also hit the bonus one, getting a score of 16. He smirked and walked back to where he was standing.
Then Iruka called Naruto's name and he stepped forward. "ha, I bet you don't get half as many as Sasuke did!" Sakura shouted, receiving shouts of agreement from the sasuke fangrls. Naruto smirked and threw his shuriken and kunai, he hit every target including the bonus one, he then walked back to his spot, and just as he reached it, all his equipment exploded. Everyone jumped at the noise. And Sasuke seethed at being beaten by the dead last
"a-alright, next will be the replacement jutsu." Iruka said, he then signaled Mizuki, who threw a rubber ball at each of the students one at a time, Sasuke received the highest score with a 94, Naruto only trailing by 3 points. "ok, now everyone have a seat next to the sparing circle." Iruka said, "now the rules are that you must last at least one minute against Mizuki, and a perfect score is three." Iruka explained. One by one the students came, and they all passed, then it was Sasuke's turn, he lasted the full three minutes. Receiving a perfect score.
Then it was Naruto's turn, but this time he received no jabbing from the Sasuke fan club, as they were busy fawning over Sasuke. "he, ill go all out on him so he'll fail for sure." Mizuki thought evily. As soon as the fight started, Naruto realized he wasn't going easy on him as he had the other students, but he didn't care, it gave him an excuse to beat the crap out of him.
Naruto smirked, as Mizuki threw a punch at Naruto's face. At this time Iruka looked up after putting down the Uchiha's score. He saw what Mizuki was doing and was about to stop the fight but just as Mizuki's fist was about to collide with Naruto's face, he leaned to the side, he then grabbed his arm, and spun around, throwing Mizuki over his shoulder.
Mizuki got up, and growled, he then charged Naruto and tried to give him a round house kick to the head, but Naruto ducked, the did a leg sweep, and knocked Mizuki's other foot out from under him, but before he hit the ground, Naruto stood up and spun into a round house kick, sending Mizuki out of the sparing circle, and into a tree, where several people heard a sickening crunch, as several of Mizuki's ribs were broken. Naruto then dusted himself off, and walked back to where he was previously standing.
Everyone just gaped at him, as that last encounter had taken less then a second. Iruka slowly wrote down Naruto's perfect score, not sure if he believed what just happened. Then after everyone completed the bushin jutsu, it was time to announce the rookie of the year. "ok everyone, first I just wanted to tell you all that you all did great on your exams today, and everyone of you passed." Iruka said. They all cheered. "and now it is time to announce the rookie of the year!" Iruka said, and was about to continue until Ino interrupted "whats the point? We all know that Sasuke is going to be the rookie of the year." Ino stated matter-of-factly. "yea!" Sakura and the rest of the Sasuke fan club said.
Iruka got a tick mark on his head, "JUST SHUT UP AND LET ME FINISH!" he yelled, they all instantly shut up. He took a breath to calm himself, then continued. "now as I was saying, the rookie of the year is…this is a first in the history of Konoha its…..a tie, between Sasuke Uchiha." at this point everyone in the Sasuke fan club erupted into cheers. "and Naruto Uzamaki!" they all booed that that the dead last was tied for rookie of the year.
"now to decide who will be rookie of the year we will have a spar." Iruka said as he lead them all outside.
Everyone was standing outside the sparing circle, with Sasuke and Naruto on opposite sides of it. "ok this is going to be an all out spar, you may use ninjutsu, genjutsu, and tiajutsu. Anything is allowed except killing blows, the match is over when one combatant is immobilized, gives up, or I call the match, clear?" Iruka said ,then asked. He received a nod from Naruto and Sasuke. "then begin!" he shouted
Sasuke immediately charged forward and went for a snap kick to Naruto's chest, but Naruto caught his foot, then twisted it, sending the Uchiha twirling, and landing on the ground. Sasuke got up and growled, he then went through a set of hand signs Naruto easily recognized, then started doing the same handsigns and finished at the same time as Sasuke. "firestyle grand fireball jutsu!" they both said at the same time. They both launched a large fireball at each other, and they collided, cancelling each other out.
Sasuke growled again and drew a kunai and charged Naruto, he swiped at his chest, but Naruto leaned back, he then tried to jab it in his stomach, but Naruto leaned to the side. Sasuke getting irritated slashed at Naruto's throat, but Naruto ducked, then kicked Sasuke in the chin, sending him flying into the air. Sasuke was stunned for a second, but then righted himself in the air, and landed on his feet.
Sasuke growled, he was getting frustrated, Naruto hadn't even moved from the spot he had been standing the whole match. "how can he be this much stronger then me, he was only the dead last. I feel like I'm moving in slow motion compared to him." Sasuke thought in frustration.
He then thought of something, it was a new jutsu he had been working on. "I could use, I have enough chakra left, but he might attack in the time it taked to do the handsigns." Sasuke debated in his head weather ot not to use, but he decided he should.
So he started doing handsigns, Naruto recognized them, they were for an rather advanced lightning jutsu, it was at least a chuunin level jutsu.
When Sasuke finished the hand signs he said, "lightning style release." he then pointed his hand at Naruto, while holding onto his wrist with his other hand, as a ball of lightning formed in his hand, it then shot at Naruto, too fast for any of the genin to follow.
When it reach Naruto, he held hid hand up, and caught it, much to Sasuke's surprise, and anger. He then reared his hand back, and threw it back at Sasuke.
Sasuke on reflex, dodged to the side, but he wasn't fast enough, the attack grazed his arm, numing his whole body. As he unceremoniously hit the ground. he tried with all his might,. But he just couldn't move.
"winner, Naruto Uzamaki." Iruka stated proudly.
"wait, he cheated!" Sakura screamed, much to the displeasure of everyone else.
"and please, explain how he cheated Sakura?" Iruka asked iritatedly
"well, umm…he…umm…I dont know, but he did!" Sakura stammered, but then finished out strongly.
"well I'm sorry, but if you cant prove it…" Iruka said
After everyone went back inside, "now, I will announce the teams." Iruka stated, then announced them. (they are the same as cannon)
One by one, all the senseis came exept for team seven, consisting of Sasuke Uchiha, Sakura Haruno, and Naruto Uzamaki. They waited for three hours, before their sensei came.
Kakashi walked inside the room, and said my first impression of you is….I hate you. Meet me on the roof in three minutes." he then disappeared in a swirl of leaves.
Sakura and sasuke got up and walked out and headed for the roof.
As soon as they were gone, Naruto disappeared in a swirl of fire, then reappeared on the roof, startling Kakashi.
"I wonder how he already knows the shun shin? And at such an advanced level he can use fire to cover his movement?" Kakashi asked himself.
When Sasuke and Sakura arrived on the roof, Sakura was visibly surprised that Naruto had gotten up there, Sasuke was surprised as well, but he hid it.
"I wonder how he already knows the shun shin? And at such an advanced level he can use fire to cover his movement?" Kakashi asked himself.
When Sasuke and Sakura arrived on the roof, Sakura was visibly surprised that Naruto had gotten up there, Sasuke was surprised as well, but he hid it.
"well I suppose we should start by introducing ourselves to each other." Kakashi stated with a very disinterested tone never looking up from his book.
"well mabey you should go first Kakashi sensei." Sakura asked
"he, some things never change." Naruto thought absentmindedly.
"well ok then, my name is Kakashi Hatake, I have many likes, and only a few dislikes, I have many hobbies, but I don't feel like sharing them with you, as for my dreams I haven't really thought of that yet." Kakashi said with an eye smile.
Sakura face falted "great, all we learned was his name." Sakura thought irritatedly
"why don't you go first, pinky?" Kakashi asked
Sakura fumed at the nickname, but didn't show it. "well my name is Sakura Haruno, my likes are." she said then cast a look at Sasuke and giggled "my dislikes are loudmouths, and Naruto." she said and cast a dirty look at Naruto.
"man, I forgot how much of a fan girl she was," Naruto thought
"my hobbies are.." she said as she looked at Sasuke, and giggled. "my dreams for the future are…" she said, then looked at Sasuke and giggled perversely.
"ok then. Your next." kakashi said as he pointed at Sasuke.
"my name is Sasuke Uchiha, I have very few likes, and a lot of dislikes, my hobbies are training, and my dream, no, my ambition, is to get stronger and kill a certain someone." Sasuke said darkly
"Sasuke is so cool!" Sakura thought as she stared admirably at Sasuke.
"ok then. Your turn." Kakashi said and motioned towards Naruto
"my name is Naruto Uzamaki, I like ramen, nice people, and the old man hokage. I dislike emo's…" he said and cast a look at Sasuke. "…and people who judge other without getting to know themand people who abandon there comrades. My hobbies are training, playing shogi, among other things. My dream is to protect all that is precious to me." Naruto said seriously.
"great, I have a banshe fan girl, an emo avenger, and a protective, serious ninja. I guess is could be worse." Kakashi thought with a sigh. "ok, well that's all for today, meet me at training ground seven tomorrow morning at 6, oh and don't eat breakfast, you'll just through up." kakashi said offhandedly, then disappeared in a plume of smoke.
The three members of team seven got up and headed home. "hey Sasuke, do you want to go on a date…" Sakura started but Sasuke was already walking away. She looked disshearted for a second, but then thought she was going to get to tell Naruto no, when he asked for a date. But Naruto just walked past her without so much as a word. So she slowly started her walk home, slightly upset at being ignored by both her teammates.
When Naruto saw both his teammates were out of sight he shun shined to training ground 44, the forest of death. He looked around nostalgically. "man, I havent seen this place, since the Akatsuki destroyed it a few years ago looking for me." Naruto said to himself. He then made a hand seal and said "shadow clone jutsu!" and 500 clones popped into existence. "ok I want 150 of you to work on chakra control, I want another 200 to work on the highest ranked jutsu you can, I want the other 150 to work on genjutsu." he stated, and was happy to see all his clones get straight to work.
"he then made a peculiar handsign and said "chakra clone jutsu!" and 50 more clones popped into existence. "ok I want 10 of you to do pushups, 10 more to start running laps, 15 to do pull ups, and the other 15 to do….some other exorcise." he stated and watched all the new clones get to work. "man, I'm glad I created these new clones a couple years ago." he thought.
Flashback two years ago
Naruto had just finished a new clone technique, it allowed anything the clones did physically do be transferred back to the creator. But in return, nothing they learned came back to the user as did with shadow clones, they also took twice the chakra then shadow clones did. But Naruto thought it was a fair trade off.
End flashback
Naruto nodded, then made a handsign and seals all over his boy glowed for a second, then faded away and there was no sign of them "resistance seal increase level 99." he was now at level 99 on his resistance seals. (To put this into perspective, level one was like walking in water, and level two was twice that.)
Naruto then proceeded to start his work out so his body would be able to adjust to the new level of resistance.
Time skip, 4 hours later.
It was now eight o-clock, and Naruto was trudging his way back to his apartment, he was beat, he had just done the equivalent to 4 days of straight exorcise in 4 hours. As soon as he got inside his apartment, he collapsed on the bed, and was asleep before his head hit the pillow.
Naruto woke up and felt nice and refreshed, like he had just slept for the past week, he loved his unreal stamina. He just thanked the fox for that. "speaking of the fox, I haven't heard from him, since the jump." he said as he got in the shower. "ill see whats wrong after breakfast."
After Naruto ate breakfast he sat down on the floor in a lotus position and concentrated.
He opened his eyes and found himself in front of a giant cage. He looked around and didn't see Kyuubi anywhere so he yelled. "hey kyuu, whats wrong, I havent heard from you since I fought Madara?" he then saw a pair of blood red eyes open in front of him.
"that's because when Madara sent you back in time, he stole a tail of my power, it might not sound like much, but having any amount of your power forcibly ripped out of you, tires you out. Now lwave so I can sleep." the Kyuubi said, then closed his eyes, not leaving any room for argument.
As Naruto was leaving he mumbled something about 'grumpy foxs' he then opened his eyes back in his apartment, he looked at the clock and it was 7:30, "well, better get going, Kakashi will be there in an hour or so." he said as he got up and grabbed his ninja bags and checked them. "hmm 400 hundred shuriken, 150 kunai, 100 explosive notes, and about 50 sealing scrolls, and sealing brush and ink. That should be enough, I didn't realize a ran my supplies down that much fighting Madara though." Naruto thought
Absentmindedly. He then shun shined to training ground seven.
When he arrived at training ground seven he walked out of the woods and saw Sasuke and Sakura standing under a tree.
When sakura saw Naruto walk up she took a deep breath. "WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN? YOU'RE AN HOUR AND A HALF LATE!" she screamed, making Sasuke and Naruto wince.
"well Kakashi sensei's not here, so I don't think I'm late." Naruto replied coolly.
"bu…well…hump." Sakura stammered then just stopped talking.
They then all sat in silence for the next hour, only disrupted by the occasional growling of Sasuke's or Sakura's stomach growling, or Sakura asking Sasuke for a date after they got done here, which was always met either with silence, or a grunt.
Kakashi appeared in a swirl of leaves and the first thing that happened was. "YOU LATE!" from Sakura
"yes, well I got lost on the road of life." Kakashi replied coolly.
"LIAR!" Sakura screeched making everyone else wince.
"well lets get on with your real genin exam…" Kakashi started, and would of continues, but was stopped by Sakura saying, "but we already became genin when we graduated the academy." Sakura said
"well no you actually didn't, that test was just to see if you might be able to become genin, this is the real test, and it has a 33% rate of failure." Kakashi said lightly.
Sakura started worrying that she might fail and not get to be with sasuke, Sasuke was thinking "humph, whatever it is, it will be easy." and Naruto was thinking "I really wish he would hurry up and start."
"now here is how the test will go…" as he pulled out two bells "…your objective is to get these bells from me, if you get one, you pass, you don't you fail. Really its pretty simple.
"but theres only two bells?" Sakura said questioningly
"very observant pinky, that's because one of you will definitely fail." he said.
Sasuke was thinking about what he said "but never in the history of Konoha has there been a three man team, its always three genin and a jounin sensei. I wonder if they changed it? Or if hes allowed to do that?" Sasuke thought
"oh no, what if I fail and have to back to the academy, wait, theres no way Naruto will beat me!" she worried, then finished off strong.
"oh, and you have till noon." he said as he pulled out a alarm clock, and set it down on a stump. "now if your going to have any chance of getting a bell, you must come at me with the intent to kill." he siad, getting shocked looks from Sakura and Sasuke, although Sasuke tried to hide it, and a bored look from Naruto. "begin!" he said and they all disappeared.
