Knocking Master Naruto
The Exciting Beginning of a New Life
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or Toriko.
In the beginning, there was Earth. Home to any ordinary animal including humans who soon rose to the top of the world with their minds that brought out various inventions and knowledge. Then that day had caused everything to change forever.
A Meteor of a stone that will never be understood, only that it contained a strange type of cell that soon gave birth to a race of jellyfish where it grew natural to the atmosphere and seas of Earth. They were then called the Gourmet Jellyfish and they were then studied by one man. His name was Acacia. He saw that these cells interacting with every predator that tried to eat the jellyfish but the sea creature will just regenerate and keep swimming in the ocean; every single organism that fed on the jellyfish had improved and enhanced beyond normal limits.
After risking his life for more knowledge, Acacia injected some of those cells into his own body despite seeing a good number of those predators who tried to gain power but were on the unfortunate side of the stick and instead died. But Acacia didn't die, instead he became a superhuman, with abilities that even the ones closest to him will never reveal. Only that Acacia became the king of what was called the Gourmet World.
It was said that the Gourmet World was created along with the Gourmet Cells in the Gourmet Jellyfish. When the meteor landed, it dug all the way to the core of Earth. As a result, 70% of the landscape of Earth had turned and evolved into a different one entirely. It became hellish, with unpredictable and dangerous weather by the influence of the meteor; that was to be unfortunate for Humans because they were the only thing unaffected and the animals also evolved into monsters that make the Gourmet World their home and backyard included. The food also were improved and over 30,000 ingredients were created and born, either animal or plant. But that never created peace,
Instead it caused a war among the humans for the ownership of such fabulous food that went on for a century. That is until Acacia appeared to every leader involved in the war and shared just one single dish with them. He called it GOD and declared it to the ultimate dish, the apex and source of all ingredients in the world. The shear taste of the dish was enough to allow everyone to see what will happen if the war still went on; they will never enjoy the great dishes and tastes and no ever will. As a result, the attacks stopped and the leader had successfully created peace; the war that went on for a century had been stopped by one man and one dish.
But that man still wasn't immortal so he decided to raise successors with Gourmet Cells as powerful as his and train him in his way. Instead he had gotten three students who had become feared and powerful in their own right. One of them led the right path to create an organization to protect all ingredients and document even more. Another actually fallen from grace and suffered under the ultimate anger and grief; he created his own organization this one to rule over the all the ingredients including GOD.
You see, Gourmet Cells can enhance a living being to super being with extraordinary powers but there were still limits. There are the generic barriers which halt the growth of the Gourmet Cells but that is where the ingredients come in; their effect on the holders of Gourmet Cells is that the cells are super activated, enough to push through those barriers. Acacia had eight of those supreme ingredients each with their own power that only eating the first one can be able to eat the next and the next over again. It was called an Full course, the greatest achievement to any Gourmet Hunter and Acacia's one was the most difficult of all; The Hors d'Oeuvre CENTER, the salad AIR, the soup PAIR, the fish dish ANOTHER, the meat dish NEWS, the main dish GOD, the desert EARTH, and the drink ATOM. All of these ingredients can enhance those super beings near godlike in power.
But his students were not interested in obtaining those ingredients and instead went off on their own after Acacia disappeared, rumored to be dead. And one of them happened to be a hunter himself who became known as 'Wild Beast' after being called Jiro or Second Son by Acacia; it was from him that he was granted increased strength, speed, durability, reflexes and also superhuman longevity that allowed him to live for five hundred years. But he was also known by another nick name; 'Knocking Master' Jiro. His skill was never second best and he could use any type of Knocking perfectly no matter how dangerous or complicated it maybe. And the best part was that he had a grandson too who had his blood and Gourmet Cells as well so that young man under the name Teppei were shown to be the successor to one of the three most powerful people in the world.
But let me ask you, what if there was another successor? One who never knew and neither did his family. But all that is about to end and he will honor his great ancestor's name and power. That successor is an underdeveloped boy who was shunned and neglected by his village of Shinobi; and with him our story begins.
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Konogakure no Yoko, of the country called the Elemental Nations that were not afflicted with the IGO or International Gourmet Organization. That is because of their pride and their own version of the Gourmet Cells called Chakra which allowed a Shinobi who uses it to control the elements, summon massive beasts from faraway places to their aid and even control their functions and those of their surroundings. This one was to be the best and strongest of the villages that were like a mix of olden Shinobi type culture with power lines and telephones to be used.
Still it is in one of the dirtier places in this 'majestic' village. That was where a little boy was crunching on the way of an alleyway with the look of fear and dread on his face that had sun blonde hair, ocean blue eyes and whisper marks that were very realistic birthmarks. "N-no don't/ I don't want to die."
"Pitiful, the great Kyubi Demon is begging for life." A crazed and homicidal man was staring down on the boy. "I will become a hero for showing the world who you really are. A coward who is just wanting to kill everyone but you demon are not going to do it at all while I am killing you."
"I don't want to hurt anyone! I am not a demon! What don't you listen!?" The boy shouted before he was silenced by a harsh slap on the face.
"Shut it demon with your lies. I will kill you and become the hero I should be because everyone else is too cowardly to do what I am about to do." The man raise his weapon, an axe that was laced with poison that never affected his hand that was being covered by a black tight glove.
But then Fate showed up in a very mysterious way, the boy then launched his arm into the man's chest while not knowing what he was doing in his sadness and fear. "I am not a demon!" That caused a lot of impact as the man never moved from that spot and even looked like he was in pain but the boy was not done. "You are not a hero! Heroes don't kill!" The boy just pressed his appendages into the man's body caused the same impacts in different places. "You were be a bad man! A criminal for killing a boy like me! I am a human like you and I am not a monster!" The boy then went into a position that cause the man to sign before falling to the ground, a sad sack of broken bones.
Before the boy who cry about what he had done against with his body not listening to his mind when he heard clapping from behind. The boy turned to see an old man that was as short as he was with raggedy clothes and a sake saucer in his hand. His hair was gray like the stuff the boy found in a waster bin this morning in the shape of a pompadour. And on his back was a large container like where they stored wine and the stuff that made all those men attack the boy for what the latter has always seen.
"*hiccup* that was impressive young boy. I have never met anyone who performed that style of Knocking in their youth." The old man made no sense so the boy asked,
"What do you mean by…'Knocking'? Is that some kind of Ninjutsu, Taijutsu? What is it and are there other types of it?" The boy was as energetic as any other his age of five which made the old man chuckle.
"Sure little boy and I know every single one of them that can be used. That is how good I am and I dare say that I only see such potential in my adorable grandson before." The boy was excited by the very second as the old man talked him down for a change. Then the boy did something that no other five year old boy will ever do; he went on his knees and begged as if meeting an enraged lord and hoping to calm him down.
"Please teach me then. I hate it here and I hate that I am weak to defend myself. Please train me in your arts! I will train hard to learn as I can! Please accept me!" That boy was like a desperate man and the old geezer chuckled again.
"Only if you listen, clean after yourself and be able to catch up with me. I could use another one to learn my arts." The old man answered and the boy cheered to the very heavens themselves and from that day onward, no one had ever seen the blonde kid; they knew him by his pranks that were annoying as his bright orange jumpsuit that did no one justice.
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Seven years later, Konoha was quiet with no more pranks happening which actually got everyone on edge so hard that even mice can scare the cats and hardcore Shinobi. But that wasn't the problem. In a dark alleyway, there was some disgusting; two young girls of different ages were being held at knife point by a bunch of thugs who looked on them with bloodthirsty and lustful eyes.
"This pathetic small one maybe as flat as a dashboard but if we keep it then we will have her as our personal slut all the way to actually being a girl. She is disgrace for us to break." One of them taunted the girls who seemed to share bright white eyes with no irises. The others laughed manically as they could picture their revolting ideas of fun.
"Come one I am tried to waiting, I say that we get started right about now." The one who was close to the taller and older girl started to get even closer, too much for her sake as she tried to scream through gaga and break out of her bindings to no avail. That is until there was the sound of something screeching through the air and that same bandit fell to the ground like a dropped sack of potatoes.
"I finally come back and yet I see that thugs are doing what they want without the police actually knowing. They are the ones pathetic to talk loud about public safety and I see nothing of it." In the shadows that covered the alleyway like a dark cloak was a young man who stood nearly as tall as the bandits. When he approached them closer with a gadget that was handheld device with twin sharp steel needles on end, he shown to be wearing a heavy trench clock and bore a scar on each of his cheeks that made like whisker marks that were so sharp that had miniature teeth or claw marks. The rest of his attire was something of an adventure novel, with a gray undershirt, long hair that was wild that reached to the back of his kneecaps and blue pants with jagged ends near the feet that had sandals on.
The girls were confused to why someone like him was helping them and were feeling a little warm around the cheeks at his dashing appearance despite the circumstances upon them. The bandits however were a different story, they knew who he was and were white and pale about it. "W-why is someone like you doing in this village?" One of the tried to be bold and instead saw the young man's fingers in front of his eyes before he could see nothing as his head was missing.
"I have nothing to answer to scum like yourself." He said cruelly to the other bandits and including the headless body that dropped to the ground as if a tree with an animal on top. The bandits couldn't ask anymore, this was the genuine article of a feared hunter and bounty hunter at that.
"D-don't go a-any further!" The bandits tried to save their skin by rounding up their hostages and captured prey to use them as meat shields. "You will have to kill too to get us! You will never do that to~!" That same bandit tried to act in control when he felt numb and limp and fell to the ground.
Pretty soon the other bandits fell as well. The young man then released the girls from their bindings and gaga, allowing them to recover and take in a huge breath from the experience; and in the brink of the moment, they latched onto them like lost children to their found mother or father in this case.
"T-thank you b-but why d-did Ko-san c-come for u-u-us?" One of them, the older girl, tried to say in her remaining fear and fright that caused her broken voice.
"Maybe he is the one I found drunk out of his mind at the nearest Dango Shop I passed." The young man said to the gasps of the girls and then chuckling from another of the bandits.
"Yeah you got us. We have drugged that bodyguard's drink and that idiot never saw it coming which made it easier to get the girls for ourselves if it weren't for you, Knock~." The young man silenced him lie the second bandit to fall.
"You have said enough in the presence of precious girls like them. I couldn't let you in your self-righteous mind do what you wanted to them." He said to second headless bandit today like he was expecting the dead bandit to hear it. "Sorry you had to see all that but they were scum who thought you were different than toys to be broken on the first day they steal them. They make you look like the better crowd to hang out with." The young man comforted them with a bright smile that had caused them to blush despite their earlier fright after seeing murder with as much as an eye batting.
"Thank you again mister." The younger girl said, "My name is Hanabi Hyuga and this is my big sister Hinata Hyuga, the heir to the Hyuga Clan." This little one called Hanabi seemed more confident than Hinata but that was never a problem for a man like him.
"Nice to meet you all and a pleasure to know you two girls. My name is Naruto Uzumaki, the successor to my teacher, the original Knocking Master Jiro. I am also known as the Scum Beater as a bounty hunter while the 'Beast Whisper' as a Gourmet Hunter." The young man introduced himself as Naruto who had come a long way since he had meant that short old man in the alleyway all those years ago.
End of Chapter 1.
*Hey everyone! I am pushing myself again after mowing my house's entire lawn under the near 90s degrees with the sun not behind any clouds. I had to take too showers in one day when I just do one. It was worth it because I was tired of waiting for a day where it was cool and the grass was dry.
I have thought of this while practicing for a project in summer class so it is now very late as I complete this chapter. Please be mindful hat I am tired and cannot think clear like that when I am tired. Just tell me what you think and I will try my best to keep it up along with the rest of the stories. Have a good evening and hoped you had a good weekend!*