This is my second shot at my first fanfic. i lost faith in my last one and needed to do a different story. So without further ado I proudly present Rookie Nine.
Warning: This will have a more serious Naruto. Not as carefree but still that to some extent.
A young blonde child lay quietly staring at the ceiling the events of the past hours going around and around in his head. In a mere few hours he had learned the biggest secret in Konoha. He was the container of the infamous demon the Kyuubi no Kitsune. And at the hands of a traitorous Mizuki no less. Not from the Hokage or his big brother figure Iruka. No from an evil man who tried to kill him soon after.
Naruto let out a mournful sigh and turned in his bed. He gave up on mulling his thoughts and tried to fall asleep. He had little success until he finally passed out.
Naruto awoke to the sun streaming through his window he turned and looked at his clock.
"7:42! Crap I gotta get to the Academy." He leaped out of bed and put on his cleanest jumpsuit and ran towards the Academy.
"Out of my way!" he yelled dashing through the streets.
He rushed into his classroom barely a minute before the clock said 8:00.
"Naruto," came Sakura's voice next Sasuke, "what are you doing here? Team assignments are for genin not academy failures."
Several people snickered at her jab at him. (I'm a bit of a Sakura basher.) He cast a glare at the new ninjas in the room and said "Where do you think I got my headband? I did gradute." He hated it when Sakura treated him like the villagers. With those cold glares and the insults the spat at him while they chased him down to try and rid the village of its "demon."
He went to the back of the class and sat down. Minutes later Iruka came in.
"Good, I see everyone is here. Well, we have your team assignments here. But first I'd like to introduce to you a new student, Enkou Ichida!"
A girl in baggy black ANBU pants and a dark purple tank top walked in. Her hair was black with a dark red tinge to the edges of it hanging down to her shoulders. Her eyes were a bright green and they seemed to almost glow. She had her kunai holster strapped to her left leg and a modified shuriken pouch on her opposite hip with two built in scroll pouches
"She recently joined us from Iwagakure as part of an agreement to help settle lingering animosity between the villages from the war from a couple decades ago. Because of this agreement two teams will be two man cells until the final team member arrives."
"Thankfully she was able to convince her parents to let her become a genin before they moved here. Well if you'll take your seat I'll announce the teams."
She nodded and walked to the back of the class and sat a desk away from Naruto.
"Okay, Team 1..." Naruto tuned him out instead looking at Enkou. Now that he looked closer her eyes seemed to be an almost shattered jade appearance. Piercing and sharp yet beautiful in color and her face seemed to be a complete match to her eyes. His musings of the new Konoha genin by Iruka.
Team 7: Haruno Sakura, Uchiha Sasuke,..." Sakura let out a shout of joy."... and Odoriko Ittou. Team 8 Hyuuga Hinata, Aburume Sjino, and Kiba Inuzuka. Team 9 Uzamaki Naruto, Ichida Enkou, and Ookami." Naruto perked up when he heard he would be on the same team as the new girl and he briefly wondered who Ookami was.
'Wolf. What a strange name.' He thought.
"And Team 10 Yamanaka Ino, Nara Shikimaru, and Akamichi Choji." Iruka continued. "Well you all have one hour before you have to meet your sensei so go have lunch." He smiled at his students and left. The new genin filtered out the class some meeting up with their teams and others (Sasuke) just walked out.
Naruto himself decided to lay his head down on his desk and take a nap to catch up on his missed sleep from last night.
"Hey, your Naruto right?" A voice said to his left. He turned to look and came face to face with Enkou Ichida.
"Yep!" He said throwing her a fox grin.
She smiled back. "Do you know of any good places to eat? Like a dango or ramen stand."
His grin widened impossibly at the word ramen. "I know the perfect place.
Enkou watched slacked jaw as Naruto ate through his eighth bowl of ramen while she was on her first bowl. "How can you eat that much ramen? I've seen Akimichi's who couldn't eat near as much as you are!"
He looked up from his now empty bowl and smiled scratching the back of his head. "I don't know how I can eat all the ramen that I do, I just do. Besides I love ramen, ever since Old Man Ichiraku gave me a free bowl when he found me on the street starving." He smiled in remebrance.
Enkou gave him a confused stare. "Didn't your parents take care of you."
His smile turned sad. "My parents died a long time ago. The day I was born in fact. The day the Kyuubi no Kitsune attacked the village. And the day the village hero the Yondaime Hokage gave his life to save his village."
"Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to bring up bad memories." She said sadly. Her face became sad and then confused again. "Wait. Shouldn't you have been taken care of by the orphanage?"
His smile became sadder and he sighed. "They kicked me out on the street. The Hokage gave me an apartment after he found out about."
"Why'd they kick you out?" She asked curious and concerned.
"I think it's time that we head back to the academy. I'll pay for the ramen." He stood, leaving money on the counter. "Let's go."
She stood and followed him sending him questioning glances all the way to the academy.
"Welcome back everyone. I hope everyone had a good lunch with there new teammates." Said Iruka smiling.
A mumble of yes was heard from the class.
Iruka smiled " Good well then I'd like to wish all of you luck on your ninja life and I'll see later. Your senseis should be here to pick you up soon." Iruka waved good-bye and walked out.
Over the next hour senseis came in and took their teams soon leaving Naruto and Enkou and Sasuke and Sakura.
The door opened and in stepped a woman wearing a black cloak hiding her body from view. Her face was the only thing revealed. Her hair was blue as were her eyebrows. Her eyes were a complete contrast to her hair, being a bright shining yellow.
"Which of you are Naruto and Enkou." She asked.
"Over here." Naruto called.
"Meet me at training ground number twenty-seven in five minutes." She said and dissappeared in a puff of smoke.
Naruto turned to Sasuke "See you later Sasuke." Smirking he walked out.
Naruto and Enkou walked into the large forest clearing that was training ground twenty-seven.
They looked around the area looking for their sensei. They noticed many training dummies and logs in the clearing and a large stream running through the far end of the clearing. Patches of the forest floor were missing any plant life some surronded by scorch marks.
"Where's our sensei? We're on time." Naruto asked out loud.
"Maybe she's still on her way here." Enkou guessed.
"Or maybe I'm right behind you." A voice said.
Naruto and Enkou jumped up and spun around. "What's your deal!? Why'd you sneak up on us." Naruto screamed.
"Simple, it's fun." She said and jumped over them. "Now then follow me so we can pick up Ookami." She said walking away.
Naruto grumbled about wierd senseis and dumb pointless trips into the middle of the woods, but he still followed along with Enkou.
As Naruto, Enkou, and their sensei walked through the village Naruto's expression changed from annoyed to one of confusion.
"We're here." Their sensei said simply.
"Are you sure this is the address?" Naruto asked
"Yes it is."
"Which floor is his?" Naruto asked.
"The second."
Naruto sighed."You sure?" She nodded "Let's go. He said sounding almost defeated he walked into the building.
The two others looked at him strangely and followed. As they walked through the building towards the room they came upon a busted down door on the second floor. "Demon" and "Murderer" were spray painted on the door.
Naruto sighed again. "Why do they have to bust it down every time? It wasn't even locked." He said.
"Naruto, what do you mean by that?" Enkou asked.
"This is my apartment." He said quietly. "Come on Ookami should be the new guy just down the hall."
"Don't you want to make sure your stuff's okay?" Enkou asked
"I don't have anything worth taking." He said shortly.
They kept walking down the hall and soon came to the door of Ookami's apartment. Naruto knocked on the door.
"I'm comin', I'm comin'." A voice said on the other side of the door.
The door opened to reveal a dark haired boy. He wore a dark variance of the Chuunin outfit minus the flak jacket. His eyes were a dark blue color and under his left eye was a red spot made up of upraised veins. He wore black combat boots with metal buckles on the front and he had an extra weapons pouch attached to the sides. He wore a dark glove on his right hand with red designs crossing the back of the glove.
"What do you need." He asked.
"Ookami?" Naruto asked.
"Yeah."
"I'm Naruto and this is Enkou were your new teammates."
"Come on back to the training grounds. We can get to know each other later." Sensei interjected.
"Fine." Ookami said.
(Back at the training ground)
"Okay, I want each of you to tell me about yourself. Name, likes, dislikes, dreams, those kinds of things." Sensei said.
"Why don't you go first, sensei. We don't even know your name." Naruto said.
"Fine. My name is Maliku. My dreams are none of your business. My likes are dango, my little orange book, and training. My dislikes are pranksters, paint bombs, and orange. I loathe orange." She growled "Now you blondie your turn." She said pointing Naruto out.
"My name is Naruto Uzamaki. I like ramen, Iruka-sensei and Old man Hokage, and Ichuraku's. I dislike people who judge others before they get to know them, the three minutes it takes to heat up ramen, and Inu-teme."He said.
Maliku gave him a confused look."Inu-teme? Who are you talking about?"
"Silver hair, wears a dog ANBU mask, reads those orange books you like. Giggles like he's on crack." Naruto muttered.
"Kakashi? What do you have against Kakashi" Maliku asked.
"I don't want to talk about it. Now then, my dream... I don't know what my dream is now. I used to want to be hokage, but now I don't know." Naruto finished looking at the sky.
"Okay you short, dark, and stupid." She said to Ookami.
"My name is Ookami I like the forest, running, and watching the stars. I dislike over large villages, cats, and other things. My dream is to become a great shinobi like the Kage's.
"Interesting and last you, queen clueless."
Enkou glared at her, "My name is Enkou Ichida. I like purple, training, and growing flowers. I dislike arrogant fools and fan girls and boys of any kind." She shuddered." Their just creepy. And my dream is to become a strong kunoichi like my mom."
"So we got a dreamer without a dream, a wolfboy, and the clueless kunoichi. Usually this is where I'd say: 'Now then tommorow meet me at training ground 27 for a survival exercise'blah blah blah' if you fail you will go back to the academy for another year of training.'"
"What!" Naruto screamed.
"Let me finish, but I have a score to settle with the Hokage so I'm just letting ou pass."
"What he do, steal your orange book?" Naruto joked.
"Yes." She responded sounding like a five year old.
Naruto face-faulted.
"Now then I want to know your techniques, all of them, since were not doing the exercise. Same order. Go blondie.
"I know kawarimi, henge, and Kage Bunshin. I also scored the basics of two other techniques: Kage shuriken and" he grinned maniacally "Bunshin Daibakuha." He said still smiling
Maliku's eyes widened almost imperceptibly. 'Kage Bunshin! That's a jounin level technique and those other techniques. If he's smart enough he could remake them on his own.' She shuddered at that thought.'I heard he stole the scroll but I didn't here he learned any techniques from it.'
Quickly she removed the traces of her surprise from her face."You, wolfboy."
"I know kawarimi, henge, and bushin and Doton: Kekkai."
"Uh-hu. You last clueless."
Enkou glared at her, "I know bunshin, henge, and kawarimi plus my families' secret technique: the Nintai Lotus. I've got the first stance down to an art form."
"Huh?" Came from the loud mouth.
"It's the Ichida's bloodline technique passed down father to son and mother to daughter. We manipulate our chakra ro different parts of our bodies and activate our jutsu that converts the released chakra from those points into one of the five main elements. I have the first stance, Katon: Ichida, mastered. It goes up from there to Doton, Suiton, Raiton, and finally Fuuton based on the power and skill required for each."
"Wow. That's awesome." Naruto said.
"Okay tommorow we go out and get supplies and new clothing for Naruto. And then we start exploring the wonderful world of D-rank missions." Maliku said. She then disappeared in a flash of gray lightning.
"Holy crap, what happened to Maliku-sensai?" Naruto screamed.
"Some flashy Shunshin with a stupid genjutsu to show of." Enkou said. "Well see you tommorow Naruto. Bye Ookami." And she walked off.
"See ya" Naruto said.
"Let's go." Ookami said.
"Nah, I got to go somewhere before I head home. I'll see you tommorow." Naruto said. Ookami shrugged and walked off in the vague direction of their apartment building.
Naruto watched him go making sure he didn't sneak back or something then dashed of in the general direction of training ground 44.
(Forest Around Training Ground 44)
Naruto arrived at the gates of the aforementioned training grounds and headed to the left following along the fence. At gate 27 he diverged from his path around the Forest of Death and jumped deeper into the forest where he wouldn't be disturbed.
He jumped through the surrounding forest and came to his clearing. It was small with targets and kunai on the trees and ground. He gathered his chakra and began training.
(SECRET TRAINING IN PROGRESS! NO PEEKING ALLOWED!)
At midnight Naruto walked straight home singed and smoking but grinning his most maniancal and fox-like grin ever seen. Make that three Kage Bunshin techniques he knew.
(Nearby)
Maliku watched from a distance as Naruto trained and stared slack-jawed. 'I thought he was supposed to be the dobe, but in one night he mastered the Kage Shuriken and Bunshin Daibakuha. Even I couldn't spend that long practicing such a draining technique but he did it without any strain on him besides simply getting blown up.'
She got up and leapt toward her house a dangerous smile playing across her features. "These kids are gonna be interesting."
End
I decided to combine chapters 1 and 2 because they were both so short. Chapter 3 is going to be the longest one ever involving some training, pranks, and weapons.