Scorpion of Konoha - Chapter 1.
Hello all. If you are a first time visitor of this story, hi! If you read the first draft of this story, welcome back. I'm rewriting this, because, the first draft well, blew... a lot. I'm rewriting this from the ground up. I'm opening up a new poll, it will depend on how the story will start after the Chunin exams. Darker, edgier, or happy and less depressing. It will have quite a few differences. Well… on to chapter one of Scorpion of Konoha
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A young blonde haired boy jumped through the streets of Konohagakure no Sato, the Village Hidden in the Leaves, a ninja village. The boy looked to be about seven, was wearing a white t-shirt with a spiral on the front, and orange pants. He looked happy. The keyword there being looked. He was not happy, he was angry. He was downright pissed.
His teacher at the academy had kicked him out, again, for answering a question wrong. No one seemed to care, except old man-Hokage, the strongest ninja in the village, and the leader of all of the ninja in the village.
He couldn't go to old man-Hokage now, that would be the third time this week. Naruto didn't know why everyone in the village seemed to hate him, but almost everyone did. Naruto didn't really care all that much about the pompous merchants and such because they were fools and didn't deserve his respect. The glares and insults that hurt him were from the ninjas. The protectors of the village treated him like trash, and he actually respected most of them.
The ninja were the most respected and revered people in the village. They protected and helped the village prosper.
'Fuck them! If they don't want to teach me, I'll teach myself, and when I'm the Hokage, they'll have to listen to me!' He thought angrily.
He went around the village searching for scrolls and the such in the trash. He found the scrolls for Doton: Tsuchi Bunshin no Jutsu (Earth clone Jutsu), Fuuton: Renkuudan no Jutsu (Compressed Air Ball Jutsu), and Suiton: Teppoudama no Jutsu (Water Bullet Jutsu)
He went to his favorite training ground and began to work on them.
About four hours later, he realizes it's getting dark. He grunts in frustration, he only got a leg out of the Tsuchi Bunshin no Jutsu. He began home with a whisper in his mind saying "Less chakra..."He made it to his apartment at about 10:30 and promptly went to sleep
Naruto woke up saturday morning and decided to cave and talk to old man-Hokage about an new teacher. Ketsunoana-sensei was like all the others, when Naruto raises his hand, he gets ignored, but when doesn't raise his hand, gets called on and kicked out for not knowing the answer. Even Mesuinu-Sensei wasn't that bad. All she did was make fun of him when he was wrong.
He walked up to the Hokage's office and was waved in by the secretary. After Naruto was forced to wait for an hour because old man Hokage was in a meeting, the secretary had an enjoyable conversation with the boy, and as the boy walked in he was positively elated that the secretary didn't hate him.
"Hey old man-Hokage!" Naruto said as he walked into the office, seeing the Hokage working on his evil paperwork.
"Naruto, what can I do for you?" He asked, although he had a pretty good idea already. Naruto had changed classes four times now because his teachers hated, no abhorred the boy. If they didn't outright dislike him, they ignored and neglected him.
"Well, uh, Ketsunoana-sensei is just like all the rest! He kicked me out of the room for getting a question wrong. No one knew the answer either. How was I supposed to know the rank system of missions?"
The Hokage just sighed. "Naruto, you weren't. The genin get taught that by their team leaders when they start taking missions. I'll put you in Iruka's class. He's praised as one of the fairest and kindest teachers we've had."
Naruto just scoffed "Just like Juubun-sensei was praised as "perfect"?"
"Naruto, please just give him a chance."
"Fine, but if he's an asshole, he's getting pranked."
The day after next, he walked up to room 107, swallowed, took a breath, and knocked. A man wearing standard chunin apparel, a forest green vest over a blue long sleeved shirt, blue pants, black ninja sandals, and a leaf headband on his forehead, opened the door. He had a large scar across his nose and his brown hair in a short ponytail.
"Iruka-sensei,? I'm-" Naruto began
"I know who you are. And your late, sit down, we're discussing the first Hokage"
Naruto sat down with a grin. Sure the teacher interrupted him and called him out on being late, but he was late.
"Who knows anything about the first Hokage?"
Naruto raised his hand. Naruto was shocked when he was called on.
"The first Hokage, Hashirama Senju, was the strongest ninja in the village, and one of the founders. He held the powers of mokuton, wood jutsus, and grew the forests that make up Konoha."
"Good, anything else? Sakura."
"The first Hokage was also the Second Hokage's older brother."
Naruto tuned out everything else, he was called on when his hand was up, he got to answer the question, and Iruka even said good afterwords.
Maybe, just maybe, he could actually learn in this class.
At the end of class Iruka told the class that tomorrow class was canceled because of the festival celebrating the defeat of the Gobi no Sasori 8 years before. "Naruto, can I see you for a moment after class?" Iruka called.
Naruto was devastated. 'Iruka-sensei must hate me, just like all the others. What did I do to them? Why am I treated like this? It's not fair!' Instead of voicing his thoughts, he just walked up to Iruka Sensei and asked in his most stoic "Ninja" voice, "Yes, Iruka-sensei?"
Iruka just looked down at the boy and sighed. The boy must have thought he was like the others. "I know that you don't like the festival because of how you are treated, but how about I go with you and deter any attacks?"
Naruto was flabbergasted. Not only was Iruka-sensei not mean, he was outright nice to him.
Naruto walked home, the happiest he had ever been in his life.
He decided to go to the training fields, and work on his ninjutsu. As he began working on his ninjutsu, he kept hearing "Less chakra..." just like he did last night. He worked well into the night this time and passed out after using to much chakra.
He woke up in a sewer, up to his knees in water. He heard "Come here boy. Let me look at my prison. I want to see how I will be represented" The voice was deep and gravelly. The voice also, sounded oddly fatherly, as if the voice was telling the boy to clean his room or take out the trash,. Things Naruto had observed, but never experienced.
He made it to a large gate with a seal on the front. Behind the seal, was a large black scorpion with glowing blue eyes and 5 tails above him.
Naruto was overcome with awe at the creature. The creature was enormous and radiated power.
"Hello boy, I am the Gobi no Sasori, and you are my prison." the creature stated so matter-of-factly Naruto almost laughed.
Then it registered, the Gobi no Sasori, the entire reason the festival was held was because this creature was dead.
"What do you mean? The fourth Hokage killed you! And if you are the real scorpion, why the hell are you inside of me?", Naruto yelled.
The creature sighed. "Naruto sit down, I have a story for you... or stay standing now that I think of it" he noted looking at the water filled sewer that was the young boy's mind. "Let me finish before you ask any questions. Most humans think all demons are evil, which is not true. Humans believe anything more powerful then them, which they can not control is evil. There are evil demons, but there are also kind demons. I am of the latter category.
However, I was on my way through your forest when something exploded against my side. I was irritated but not particularly angry. I am extremely large and intimidating to your species.
I turned towards where the thing came from and saw two boys staring at me. They fled and fetched many more one's dressed like them, and also ones dressed in all black and with masks. I was attacked by many things. I later learned that they were jutsus, shuriken, and kunai. Enough of these started to hurt to I began to fight back. It wasn't so much as a fight as it was me killing them. I wasn't really in a large amount of pain, but I was getting fairly angry."
About three hours into the fight, a man on top of a toad used a jutsu and vast array of seals to summon the shinigami. In doing so he died and sealed me into you.
To say that Naruto was stunned was like saying the Hokage was a ninja, true, but a vast understatement. Naruto promptly passed out.
Naruto woke up Tuesday morning, with a massive headache. He remembered all he had learned from the Gobi, and went to the Hokage's office.
He walked in and yelled "Old man-Hokage!" in such an angry voice, the Hokage was almost frightened.
I'm sorry this took so long but a girlfriend and not having a computer tends to make free time to write hard to come by. I'll try to get updates out more often but I make no promises. AP english and two math classes are going to beat my ass.
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