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Shadow leaf Ninja
Chapter one
The erased village
The night would not be forgotten for say as it went down, but more or less knowledge of the event was suppose to removed from all records as agree upon by all the kages due to it was one of greatest disaster they ever recorded. It was said on that day a great power dragon went on rampage through a large ninja village that was on good terms with all the other ninja villages. No one ever did figure out why it was so enraged, but most were to horrified by the dragons might as it incinerated, crush, soundly killed all but two ninja and one infant child. The kage and the jonin fought the dragon and were badly being thrashed as it demolished some of their best jutsus with a great blast of flame. It wasted no time following as it fatally wounded the jounin with on of its spikes. The kage had run out of options one way or another they were most likely was going to die. With heavy sigh the kage attack the dragon with a jutsu that he knew would claim his life in the end. When all said and done the kage couldn't destroy the dragon he only sealed the dragon within the infant that rested near by with a forbidden sealing jutsu. The kage collapse having using every little bit energy had said only one thing to jounin before he passed on "… take the child … to the village hidden in the leafs."
With silent nod he had done as he request and took the sleeping infant to the "village hidden in the leafs." He arrived at the village only to witness even more disaster. There were flames everywhere as he watched the legendary nine tailed fox was fallen by the hokage in a similar manor as he seen previous. Though the jounin never did see what happen after as he went to the nearest resident. He knock on the door as loud as he could. His vision started to blur as wounds were close to finally doing him in he saw a women came to door.
"… Please…take care of him…" The jonin collapse after handing the infant to the women and then finally died in small pool of his own blood. The women decided then and there that she would raise the child as her own. The only thing she found with the crying infant was on the blanket his name sewn in "Ranma Nanashi." As time passed the village recovered and the previous hokage was replace after his death. It was then that it was agree upon after finishing investigation of "Ranma's" village would be erased from all knowledge except the jonin and hokage himself because it was bad enough that had there own problems with their own disaster. Thus the village life returned to normal and time pass as the two special youths began their ninja training at the ninja academy.
Thirteen years past…
All was quiet in the village. Well actually not as two youths were seen being chase by a couple of chunin ninja, who were right on their tail. The two individuals in question was a spiky haired blonde with orange and blue jumpsuit, his name was Naruto Uzumaki one of villages biggest troublemakers. Further ahead was his number one accomplice in crime a black haired youth by the name of Ranma, who wore his black hair in pigtail, he wore teal silk shirt with a symbol of fire and under was the kanji for truth, and black pants.
"Hey Ranma that was so much fun seeing their faces as those stinks bombs went off. Lets ditch these guys and go get some ramen. Split up you goes that way I'll go this way it be easier to lose them." Naruto took eastward and used simple camouflage technique to blend in with the wall it would have work perfectly, but he didn't count on Irueka their teacher to come as well busting and hauling him back to class tied up. Ranma himself fared differently as he tried to escape westward part of the town. All the time he could only chuckled, as he knew only Naruto could think of Ramen a majority of time. Ranma was making good distance from his pursuer and with a little luck he could ditch him yet. Ranma used his chakra to cleverly cast an illusion jutsu to make them think he was not there even when they had passed by him too busy to look for him doing such.
He started to relax when he thought he was in the clear someone tapped him on the shoulder. Ranma fell back on his but letting go of the illusion. "What the heck you trying to scare me half to death. Who the heck are you?" There standing before him was what he could tell as an elite ninja by his green vest that held could hold scrolls ones only issued to a jonin. The guy had spiky silver like hair and all he could see of his face was one eye and the rest of his face was cover by both a masks and his leaf ninja headband. "I hope you had fun with ditching class, but it ends now because I don't have time to fool around and had the others been looking well enough they have noticed your amusing illusion."
Ranma no sooner had found himself bound and sitting next to Naruto as the teacher was about to resume the lesson as normal routine would have it both of them did this quite a lot just to get attention as thing would have it Naruto was look down because of the nine tail fox inside him and Ranma he just didn't have many friends because he wanted to befriend Naruto they assume he must be just as bad seeing no one knew a thing about him, but some jonin or the hokage. Right now everyone were laughing at them as the teacher spoke up.
"As I was saying now that these two decided to finally grace us with their presence we going to do a review the transformation jutsu today I want you all to transform into me and as reminder the final exam will be this Friday." Iruka informed the students. For the most part the class all performed it satisfactory well till Ranma and Naruto got up. "Alright you two why don't you both show us the basic transformation jutsu." Iruka drawled and waited for them. "Transform." Out of cloud of smoke was drop- dead gorgeous blonde haired female Naruto and red head female Ranma being rather indecent as iruka passed out with a nice nosebleed. After class let out both Ranma and Naruto decided to go get some ramen at the usual shop, where the usual eating contest at who could eat faster followed. It was no surprise really what happened Ranma finished first and then stole Naruto's ramen thus starting a hilarious chase around the village.
"Hey get back here with my ramen Ranma that's mine give it here. You always do this to me can't you just let me have a normal meal." Naruto continue bound of the rooftops after Ranma. "Yeah right and lose my major source of entertainment as if you're about the only person I like to hangout with because you are not like everyone else in the village. Tell you what if you catch me you can have your ramen back if I have not eaten it yet. Heck I might even make you something to eat if it comes down to it." Ranma easily retorted, as he was getting further away by the second from Naruto. Ranma grinned descending to the street with devious scheme to lose Naruto. He quickly channeled his chakra and performed a simple transformation jutsu taken on the appearance of one Sakura Haruno, a cute pink hair female student that he knew Naruto had a crush on for quite some time. Ranma sat on a bench eating Naruto ramen as he approached him.
"Hey Sakura did you see Ranma go by here just recently he stole my lunch and I have been trying to catch him for the awhile now. At this rate he is probably eating it by now." Naruto exclaimed as he tried not to stutter and embarrass himself as he might around Sakura. " Naruto what the heck are you doing ruining my lunch. He went that way now get lost." Ranma yelled at Naruto only barely holding in the laughter as Naruto fell for his excellent performance and ran off. Ranma finished of the spoils of ramen. Ranma walk off still holding Sakura's form just incase Naruto doubled back and he was so cocky that he didn't notice whom he bump into as he turn the corner. He got up and took a proper look at who he bumped into and he went as pale as sheet. It was Sakura in the flesh.
" hehe… it's not what it looks like Sakura… please let me explain… you see this was…" Ranma dropped his transformation jutsu and waved his hands in warding motions as he tried to put distance between them all while Sakura eyebrow was twitching and vein bulging to show she didn't appreciate Ranma impersonating her in such a way. She cracked her knuckles as she cornered Ranma. " I don't know why you impersonating…. this is something I would expect from Naruto… but you Ranma your just bad as Naruto." Sakura yelled hammered Ranma with nasty right hook and then she started dragging him back to the front of her mothers shop. Ranma landed face first on the floor of the shop.
"Hey mom I found you the extra help you needed for the shop today like you asked me to find. I know you wanted a girl well I'm giving you the next best thing Ranma Nanashi. All he has do is holding the transformation jutsu and the rest is no problem." Sakura stated giving Ranma a look that insured pain beyond doubt if he didn't do this. Sakura's mother, another pink haired ninja that ran a local café just looked and decided it was better than nothing. "Alright you heard her transform and put this on your going to be my waitress for tonight." Ranma used the transformation jutsu to turn into the beautiful red that he had transformed into to make his teacher get a massive nosebleed. He put the red body hugging dress and started waiting on customers no sooner had he started in walk Naruto walks in going right up to Ranma.
"Ah I see the rumors were true there is a new girl working have I seen you before… I guess not. Oh well I guess I will just take the picture like Sakura ask me to so I don't get beat up." Naruto took a picture of Ranma and then took off leaving him to fume. The time passed by with little else happening besides Ranma having to hit some perverts. He was finally was able to leave after the shop closed and resume his normal form as well attire. Ranma went straight home not bothering to yell out that he was home because it didn't make a difference anyways no one was home or would be as he been living alone since his foster mother died on a mission when he was five. He fell to sleep right away too tired from working.
The rest of the week was just a blur to Ranma seeing all it was some of same old boring lectures and small pranks one of which he convince Naruto to go into the girls bathing area through a clever deception of switching the signs on the door to guys and switching it back after that. Suffice to say Naruto came out all black and blue, but for the most part he got off easier than Ranma. As luck with have it Sakura was bathing at the time and let Ranma have in more ways than one. First she beat the crap out of him and secondly she forced him to work at her mother's shop from then on during his free time when he was not training/practicing, school, and anything else important. When he refused she threaten to expose the photos of him working there to everyone.
The day of the graduation exam came everyone was excited about it except Naruto, who had already failed before because he had failed to create any doppelgangers at all his worse jutsu. So he waited in his seat among the other students nervously as he waited for his turn and wouldn't you know it there it was the same dreaded jutsu. As more and more students passed it finally came to Ranma to show what he could do unlike Naruto he was completely calm about it. He know this was easily in the bag the only reason he didn't pass the previous exams was that he either intentionally failed to hangout with Naruto more and the last case being he had bad case of insomnia.
"Ranma Nanashi, your up and begin." Said the Mizuki the silver haired instructor who wore the same ninja uniform with scroll pouch vest sitting next to Irueka sensei. Ranma summon up a small amount of chakra and perform the jutsu making four illusionary duplicates of him. So it was no question that he passed his exam and got his ninja headband that signified he had reach the rank of genin a.k.a rookie ninja. Next up for the exam was Naruto himself. He walked up as nervous as can be to front and mentally preparing himself to attempt the jutsu. "You may begin when ever you are ready." Irueka said. Naruto concentrated his chakra to make a doppelgangers and came up with one messed up joke doppelganger. Thus Naruto knew what was coming next.
"You failed." Iruka replied and threw Naruto out where he was sitting watching all the kids with their parents celebrating passing their test. Naruto was heading back home when the silver haired instructor named Mizuki approached him for some reason. "I see you failed again Naruto I know how you feeling right now, but hear me out I know how you can get Iruka to change his mind. You see there this scroll that holds some of advance jutsu that Hokage has stored if you can get that and show some of jutsu on that scroll to Iruka he will pass you. The best time to borrow it is tonight. Good luck." Mizuki stated and left, but unnoticed to them Ranma happen to be listening near by found the scroll to good to pass up learning high level jutsu was always a plus even if he had to look out to make sure Naruto didn't get in trouble.
Later that night Naruto was raiding the Hokage stash for the scroll he was told about. He ran into the Hokage, whom he was prepared for as he performed his infamous sexy jutsu and transformed stunning blonde haired beauty. The hokage passed out with a nosebleed long enough for him to take the scroll and leave out through the window where he landed right in front of Ranma, who had been waiting. Naruto was kind of surprised that Ranma had been waiting there of all times or places. "Well its about time I was about to think that old man had given trouble, but you can't have thought of leaving me out of your plan especially seeing as I was listening in on your conversation you had earlier. Now lets get going before your caught and all this would be nothing because I want more than anything want to see you graduate. Plus it wouldn't hurt to learn a few killer jutsu." Ranma replied while jumping from tree limb to limb. "I still don't understand why you helping." Naruto scratched his head. "That's a dumb question we are friends and don't forget it knuckle head." Ranma and Naruto landed in clearing.
After landing in a clearing in the forest Naruto unrolled the scroll that he had on his back so they could get a good look at it. Ranma was quickly memorizing the scroll and started practicing the simplest jutsu on the scroll with Naruto. Neither got very far in mastering the jutsus before Iruka caught up with them in the clearing. They had just finished learning the first of jutsu. Both of them look a little beat up. Iruka walked up to them.
"Why am I not surprised to see you two here, but no time for small talk we got to get that scroll back to the Hokage immediately... get down both of you."
No sooner had Iruka said that a giant flying ninja star embedded itself in tree trunk behind them. A blur of figure stopping on a tree limb above gave away the culprit, who ambushed them. The figure was none other then the chunin instructor Mitzuki. Ranma scowled at him as the picture became perfectly clear he used Naruto to get the scroll. He never did trust him further than he could throw him and this just confirmed that he could not be trusted. "Think your so clever tricking Naruto into your dirty work. Naruto whatever you don't let him get that scroll." Ranma stood in front of Naruto.
"That is correct and it work perfectly now hand it here I'm the only one you can trust. Everyone here hates you with exception of Ranma. You two are both fear, you Naruto are the same nine tailed fox that slaughter member of this village and you Ranma are no better being the same dragon that destroy the village hidden behind the vale, in human forms." Both of them were shocked because they didn't have a clue about any of the information he just said and he took advantage of that trying to take them out with shuriken. It would have worked if Iruka didn't push them out of the way taking the hit for them. "Mitzuki has it all wrong I don't think of you two as monster you're my students now get out here you can't let him have that scroll." They took off after he said that only to get so far before he caught up to them. Not a big surprise since he was a chunin and an instructor.
"Come on hand over that scroll I'm the only one that you can trust not someone that probably hates you really deep down because those beast in you two. Now if you be so kind and hand it over so we can be done with this little game." Mitzuki right on their tails replied as he threw some more kunai trying to slow them down. Iruka arrived in time to watch both of the youths in question stop and turn on their pursuer with an eerie calm before he caught up to their spot. They nodded to each other before speaking.
"You got a lot of nerve to say that about Iruka sensei that's for sure. As far as we are concerned you are no teacher of ours. You lost that right a long time ago. A teacher is someone to be looked up to and be respected. Iruka is someone I respect since as far back as I remember he was one of the few that saw me or accepted for who I am as well Naruto. We are going to show you that picked the wrong people to cross. Lets do it Naruto. 'Shadow clone jutsu.' " Many flesh and blood clones of Ranma were scattered around clearing all ready in loose stance.
"Oh yeah I'm ready Ranma lets teach him a lesson on where to keep his loyalties. I repeat no one talks garbage about Iruka like that he is a lot more than just a teacher. You just watch sensei. 'Shadow clone jutsu.' " Like Ranma before Naruto created as many shadow clones. What followed was a total onslaught as Mitzuki try his best to fend off both of them only to find he was in way over his head. The end result was he was lying bloody, beaten with his face completely disfigured from swelling and was unconscious.
"Well done both of you I'm impressed. Naruto come over here and close your eyes I got a surprise for." Iruka motion for Naruto to come over to him and he closed them like he was asked to. He felt Iruka tying something to his head and open eyes blinking a couple times. There on his forehead was the leaf headband protector that those got a graduation.
"Congratulation you are now a full fledge ninja. You two get home now. Tomorrow all graduates with meet at the assembly hall and to be assigned to squads to further your training in your careers as ninjas. I will take care of him and explain this as well as put the scroll back." Iruka said. After some hugging from Naruto both boys went home and slept the night away having both worn from training. They both were excited never the less this was the beginning of their many adventures.
An: well that is it for the first chapter. I plan to write as I can though keep in mind it will be awhile as I'm my only editor unlike others that have pre-readers/editors. About the only thing stopping from continuing is I'm trying to decide whether to put him on as fourth squad member on team seven or possibly have him as an on and of team member of several groups. I think I'm going towards an exceptional fourth member of team seven as special request of the 3rd Hokage. I also want to point out that I started this cross over well before a similar one that I read which the name escapes me now. I'm trying to be a slightly different then some of Ranma crossover, but I will see how it goes. Also I will update other stories some day soon.