A loud crash echoed throughout the forest of kunai clashing there stood a Leaf jonin and what appeared to be his apprentice, fighting against three Rock ninja which seem to be getting best of the two leaf ninja. A fatal strike came upon the leaf jonin. As he fell the three rock ninja turned to his young apprentice. The young leaf ninja retreated back deeper into the forest towards the mountains, and the rock ninja gave chase and quickly caught up to him. But the boy ran into a run down mountain cottage. The boy hid by a barrel close to the wall in a dark corner. The rock ninja came crashing threw the door making all kinds of noise, an unknowingly waking the residents of the cottage.
"What's the meaning of all this noise", said the voice of man that had been awaken by the rock ninjas. The rock ninjas each took a step back as the man came down the steps.
"What's the meaning of this? Why the hell are you in my home? Answer me now", the man yelled in a rage. The old man started moving toward the three rock ninja.
"Hold it old man! You take one more step and you'll feel the wrath of the Iwa three. All we want is the boy, we find him we'll leave", one the three said to the old man.
"Iwa that's the rock village what business do you have in the fire country. I'll give you to the count of the three before I destroy you rock ninja", the old man said singling out the biggest of the three ninja. As he continued to move toward the Iwa three the young leaf ninja stood up. Then two of the rock ninja dashed towards the boy only to be knocked out by the old man.
"What the ………… who are you old man", asked the last rock ninja. As the old man turned he tied his head band with a leaf on the forehead protector. The lone rock ninja started backing up towards the door.
"A retired leaf ninja", said the old man as he charged at the ninja, knocking him back into a tree outside of his cottage.
As the ninja was regaining consciousness he saw the old man standing over him with his two team mates tied up on his shoulder, not noticing that he was tied up himself. The old man grabbed the last ninja dragged them all to the nearest road and tie them all to a tree.
As the man started to make his way back to his cottage, the young boy came to the man asking him to help save his jonin sensei. When they arrived at the place where the young ninja left his sensei, he was there out cold with what appeared to be a broken arm. The old man brought the ninja back to his cottage.
"He'll be out for a couple days. When he wakes you two should go back to Konoha". Stated the retired ninja
"Excuse me sir if you were a Konoha ninja who did you learn under", asked the young ninja.
"Why do you ask me things like this? You should be resting". Replied the man as the two sat by the fireplace in the cottage.
"What are you a genin? How well do you know your history? Well I first studied under…….. You won't know anyone I studied under". The old man said as he sat back in his chair the young ninja sat with a puzzle look on his face. And then laid down to rest for the night….
The next morning the kid was awaken by a loud crashing sound. The boy jumped up ready to strike, incase the crash was those rock ninja from before. But it was from up stairs where the old man sleeps, so the boy softly crept up the steps to checkout the noise. There was the old man fast asleep on the floor with one leg still on the bed.
After the boy found out that the noise was the old man falling out of bed. He started looking around in the cottage, then he entered a room full of pictures all seemed to be from years ago. But the boy noticed three pictures out of all them. One was the old man as genin and his team, because the old lady that runs hospital was on the same team as him. The next was a picture of the old man holding a child that looked like him. The last was the old man and his team of genin he was standing over two young boys and a young girl.
The boy picks up the last picture off the wall. He gave a long sad stare at the picture and turned around and there stood the old man.
"What's your name son?" Asked the old man as he looked over all the pictures
"Dengaku of the Funeno clan" was the reply of the young child.
"So you're from the Funeno clan…….. What happened to you guys that those ninja where after you two." Asked the old man
"Well Sarutobi sensei was training me for the chuunin exams and suddenly we seen seven rock ninja attacking a caravan on there way to the Konoha. We fought them to give time for caravan to get away. We battled them Sarutobi sensei caught four of them in his genjutsu. The three that you saw yesterday where able break out of jutsu and teamed up on sensei when he realize I was in danger he told me to run. But I wanted to help him I stayed and one of them tried to attack me and at the last minute sensei pushed me out the way and took the attack. It knocked him out I knew I couldn't beat them so I ran through the forest till I seen your house but I thought it was abandon." Explained Dengaku
"Well, all is well for now. What training where you guys doing?" Asked the old man
"He was showing me a new jutsu but we never got started. Can I ask you a question? What the name of this guy in the middle of this picture?" Asked Dengaku
The old man took a look at the picture and looked at he boy with a childish grin on his face and said
"How about we see what you got, let's spar!!"
He totally forgot the question he asked and ran outside behind the old man. Suddenly the old man tossed Dengaku a kunai holder and told him to put on his forehead protector as he was tying his own.
There they both stood ready to spar. And then the young boy moved first trying a kick that was blocked followed by another kick that was dodged by the old man. Then the old man threw Dengaku back about ten feet. And told him
"You have to come at me with the intent to kill or you're wasting my time kid. You want to become strong like you sensei right? You want to be strong like the elders in your clan right? You want to be able to protect yourself, your friends, and your family right? Then show me what you got kid"
Moved by the speech Dengaku got back up on his feet and started stringing together hand signs and yelled at the top of lung
"Ninja art steam blast"; and he took deep inhale as if was doing a fire style technique and let out a huge blast of steam that knocked over the old man. As the old man was getting back up on his feet and the steam was clearing Dengaku charged in at the old man kunai in hand. Right as Dengaku was about to strike the old man…..pooof a shadow clone.
Dengaku stood there in shock then he felt a hand on his shoulder, it was the old man "lets get something to eat" he told Dengaku with a smile on his face.
"OK"
"Let's head to the local ramen shop."
"Hey chef two bowls of ramen one with extra pork". The two sat in the shop enjoying there meal, when suddenly Dengaku stopped and look up at the old man and asked
"Sir how old are you? Cause I've never seen you in town before"
"I'm 70, and stop calling me sir I know I'm old I don't need you to remind me." The man replied with a mouth full of ramen.
"I never knew your name… mister. So what is your name?" Dengaku asked
"Mister is good enough for now. How old are you?" The Old man said in response to the Dengaku question.
"I'm 11 I'm the youngest person taking the chuunin exam this year. But my grandpa told me my father took it when he was 9."
As Dengaku told this to the old man two men came into the ramen shop and demanded two large bowl of ramen. The men appear to be ninja but neither had on headbands of any village
"Ok kid lets get going". The old man told Dengaku due to that he had a bad feeling about of the two ninja who came into the ramen shop
While the two where walking back to the cottage, the old man noticed the three ninja rock he tie up to a tree where gone and the rope was too. So he took a shortcut through the woods to his cottage. The whole time think that those ninja found there way back to his cottage. To make sure Dengaku didn't catch the bad vibe the old man. He spoke
"I knew a lot of your elder clan members; I see you have inherited a very strong kekkei genkai to be able to do that steam jutsu at your age is amazing. Your clan should proud of you. But what do you want to do with you life, what are you goals?"
"I want to be the leader of my clan like my father was. But I got to be stronger then my cousin she only 17 and is a member of the anbu blackops." As Dengaku rambled on about his dreams, they came to the mountain side cottage that the old man called home. The old man took off running towards it and heard a sound from inside he slowly opened the door, only to see the Konoha jonin moving around.
"Sarutobi sensei your ok", Dengaku yelled as he rushed into the cottage pass the old man
"Yeah I'm ok but my arm is pretty messed up", replied the jonin
"Hey can you throw a kunai with your other arm", asked the old man. Sarutobi just shock his head yes
"Good cause those three that knocked you out yesterday are still out there and I believe that there are more then just them heading here. I have a couple extra things laying around here you two take what you think you'll need for a battle. I'll be right back". Stated the old man, then he went up the steps to his room
Dengaku and his sensei found what couple thing the old man had laying around, and started getting ready to head out. The old man had changed into something different; he had a black Konoha rag covering his gray and blonde hair. A black long clock with orange flame at the bottom, with a large scroll hanging on his back
As the old man was coming down the stairs the jonin looked at him as if he knew or had seen him before somewhere. The young genin looked at him in amazement.
Konohamaru and Genzou let get moving. Ordered the Old man
That's my father's name. Both the genin and the jonin told the old man at the same time