Kunai and Chain Chapter 1
Iruka gave Naruto his first bit of real world advice telling him that as long as he was underestimated, he could always come out on top. Add to the mix Naruto's neat ability as an Uzumaki to form chains and a lot of stuff happens. Featuring a Naruto with the attitude of a champion and the brains of a rock. You never know what will happen when dealing with the village idiot.
o.o.o
It was a week before the graduation exam from the academy, and Iruka gave the students the entire week off beforehand in order for them to get more practice in on whatever they needed to.
This was fortunate for Naruto because he really needed to work on his clone.
The blonde was quite confident in his abilities expanding past the simple clone. He had a better henge than everyone in the class. He even created his own pervert slaying jutsu using only the henge that seemed to work wonders on a target audience.
Naruto was just as good with the kawarimi if not better. Most academy students could only pull a few replacements at a time before completely exhausting their reserves but Naruto could go on for hours without feeling strain. He actually once went to a training ground and replaced himself with the same piece of wood hundreds of times in a row to see what his limit was at. As soon as Naruto breached the 300 mark, he lost interest, not even feeling a significant drain on his chakra.
When it came to clones though, he was shit. There was no nice way to put it. Clones were his downfall. His one worst jutsu. The bane of his existence. Clones had already stalled Naruto's graduation from the academy by two whole years because he couldn't make a single lifelike clone.
He struggled more than all of the other academy students combined. He was an orphan, he had no money, and for some reason all of the villagers of Konoha hated him.
Everyone else had a family or at least some resources to learn from, but Naruto only had the academy.
That was why he treasured his relationship with Iruka. The instructor basically was Naruto's only source of information on the shinobi arts.
That meant the whatever Iruka said, those words were law. And Iruka said he was absolutely awful at the clone technique.
Naruto focused his mind to remember what his instructor had told him just the previous day.
"What was that Iruka said? I need good chakra control to make a clone. Okay, so let me think. What are some good chakra control exercises. Didn't Iruka-sensei say something about sticking to walls and trees to climb them?" Naruto mumbled as he made his way to the training field.
Naruto reminded himself of what he heard in class a couple weeks ago and applied himself to figuring it out.
Naruto just finished going over the basics of the exercise in his head when he entered the designated and approached the edge of the clearing where the forest began.
Naruto approached a tree in the training ground thinking to himself. "What if I start by trying to stick my hands to the tree instead of my feet. Start small."
He placed his hand against the bark of a large oak tree and focused on getting control of his internal chakra system.
Naruto knew he was going to need barely any chakra to do this so he applied the bare minimum…
And his hand didn't stick to the tree at all.
"Oh, a little more chakra I guess" Naruto mumbled, attempting to fix his miscalculation.
He applied a little more chakra to his hand, this time it stuck to the tree, but not firmly enough stop him from pulling it off with ease..
"Still too little chakra, Hmm" Naruto decided to pull out all the stops.
He placed his right hand against the tree and made a half ram seal with his free hand in order to channel his chakra with some more control.
'Wow, that's actually sticking really well.' Naruto thought.
He stopped channeling the chakra and tried to pull his hand away, but it wouldn't budge.
'What the hell is going on.'
Putting his entire body weight behind him, Naruto began to tug to pull his hand off. The harder he pulled, the more his arm ached, but it didn't budge.
Naruto had nothing to fear, so he decided to put all his force behind one last yank.
With his legs up against the tree, doing all he could to free his hand Naruto pushed with his full might. Suddenly his arm freed itself and he was sent sprawling from the force of his detachment.
'That's the last time I try that exercise' Naruto groaned.
He opened his eyes, ready to dust himself off only to find a golden chain linking him from his hand to the spot where his hand was only moments earlier, with the tip being a golden kunai embedded in the bark.
"Huh. I made a chain. Okay. That's actually really awesome! Dattebayo I made a jutsu!" Naruto shouted to no one in particular.
Unbeknownst to Naruto, there was currently a massive chakra entity in his gut throwing a louder tantrum than any mortal had witnessed before. Kurama had just discovered that his second consecutive container had the power to restrain him and there wasn't a thing he could do about it.
'How the FUCKING SHIT did I manage to be sealed in another brat that can use those DAMN CHAINS. Guess it's time to start getting on his good side.'
Naruto was looking at the chains, confused, but a little bit excited. He had no idea what they were, so it was time to experiment.
Naruto was having a blast. Twirling the chain and studying it closely. It was evident that it came from the chakra he applied to the tree so he did the only logical thing he could think of. Since it was made of chakra, Naruto tried to pull the chakra back into his body.
If he could make the chain then there was no reason to think he couldn't make it go away? Right?
So Naruto focused his chakra and attempted to reel the chain back in through his tenketsu, but he did this a bit too well.
For the second time in minutes, Naruto sent himself flying. This time though, he launched himself headfirst at the tree he was attached to, the chain retracting back into his palm at an extremely high speed. Naruto's head hit the trunk and with a resounding crack and Naruto passed out at the foot of the tree.
o.o.o
Naruto regained consciousness in a in a dimly lit and dank sewer. Slightly light headed and dizzy, the golden haired boy pushed himself off of his hands and knees to find himself facing an enormous fox behind monstrous metal bars.
"Damn my head hurts. Wait. What the fuck… is that…?" Naruto spoke to himself, not expecting a response from the large orange animal.
I am Kurama, the Kyuubi no Kitsune, the nine tailed bijuu the chakra entity growled.
"Ohh shit. You died like twelve years ago. DAMN IT DOES THAT MEAN I'M DEAD TOO. I didn't even become a genin." Naruto wept with anime tears streaming down his face.
The kyuubi would have facepalmed right then if he had a palm in the first place. 'Why do I always get stuck with the village idiot.'
Listen up gaki. You're not dead. We are in your psyche because you're dumbass knocked yourself unconscious playing with the adamantine chains. And i'm here because I was sealed in you minutes after you were born.
"You call me the dumbass but you're the one sitting in a cage. Hah. Wait. What?"
You heard me. I am made entirely of chakra, meaning I can't be killed. Not even by the damned yondaime. I can only be sealed away. And the yondaime decided to seal me into you.
"Wait… so you're telling me that the kyuubi, the enormous monster that decimated part of Konoha twelve years ago, was stopped by me? As a baby? DATTEBAYO! I knew I was awesome. I'm a damn hero." Naruto replied, already full of himself for completing the task that the yondaime had entrusted him with.
You're an idiot is what you are.
"Why so harsh kyuubi-chan?" Naruto cried with fake anime tears.
I AM THE KING OF THE BIJUU YOU WILL RESPECT ME.
"Alright alright, calm down furball. But you're seriously a king?"
Umm. Unofficially, yes, I would say that I am.
"Hah, king my ass." Then Naruto's demeanor changed as he thought of something. "Wait. Kurama. I have a question."
What?
"Why did the fourth seal you in me and not anybody other kid off the streets?
Well, there's the fact that only an Uzumaki has strong enough vitality to survive the sealing. Your genes are perfect for restraining a bijuu.
"Oh wow."
It could be because I was sealed in your mother for a couple decades so he was certain you could take the strain.
"Wait. M-my m-mother?"
But it was probably because he trusted his son to hold me more than any other kid off the streets.
Naruto just stood there with a blank expression on his face, his mind refusing to put two and two together. "Huh?"
Do I have to draw it out for you gaki... Kurama asked, with a continued blank expression as a response. Why do I even ask… Your father was the one to seal me into you, meaning yes, your father was the yondaime hokage, Minato Namikaze.
Naruto's eyes widened at this revelation. All orphans spent countless days and nights imagining who their parents were, and pretending that they were great people.
But Naruto just learned that his father was the fourth Hokage, the hero of the leaf, and frequently thought of as the most talented shinobi alive in his time. Not even in his wildest dreams did he even think that it could be possible.
"T-the Yondaime was m-my father?" Naruto said, barely able to contain his emotions.
Kurama wasn't sure how Naruto would react to this. Normally, a child should be angry at whoever placed a burden upon them, but Naruto's face was clouded by so many mixed emotions, none of which seemed to be anger.
The fox watched as the blonde boy in front of him began to tear up at the thought of having a father. Naruto took a seat on the flooded ground of the sewer, maintaining silence for a while as he processed. It was a lot to process.
"If you knew my father then do you also know my kaa-san?" Naruto spoke up after a couple minutes.
Yes. Your mother was Kushina Uzumaki, my previous container and the only other shinobi to have dense enough chakra to create Adamantine Sealing Chains, the chain you produced on that tree.
The emotions on Naruto's face were a jumbled mess for a bit as the giant entity watched his container, attempting to get a read on him.
After a short while, Kurama started noticing a few emotions showing more and more prominence. Happiness, followed by determination were the main two that shone through.
"I have a family. A real mom and dad. I have a legacy." Naruto suddenly broke the silence, his voice being a little scratchy betraying how emotional he really felt at the moment. "Mom, Dad, I'll make you proud. I promise." He whispered to himself before turning to the enormous orange fox that had been observing him up to this point. Naruto's eyes scanned over the fox, as if he was assessing him, taking in every detail.
How Naruto could have not known that there was a couple story tall chakra monster sealed in his gut was beyond him, because now that he was face to face with the fox, it seemed as if it were the most powerful and most significant thing in the world. Nothing that Naruto had ever felt in the outside world compared to the sheer power that radiated from the beast, but he refused to flinch under the fox's gaze.
"Thank you, Kurama." Naruto finally said, surprising the beast.
Don't thank me for this boy. To me it is just meaningless information.
Nevertheless, the kyuubi found himself astonished that Naruto would talk to him as an equal of sorts.
Finally recovering from the life changing news that was dumped on him minutes before, Naruto set his resolve.
He had a legacy to live up to, and therefore he wouldn't let them down.
"Kurama-san, I won't ask you why you attacked Konoha all those years ago, but my father entrusted me you keep you sealed so I won't be able to help you out if that's why you're helping me." Naruto said to his tenant, his voice filled with purpose and strength now.
Listen kit, I actually don't remember that day at all. I just remember being restrained in my previous container, your mother, when a man in an orange mask appeared. The next thing I remember, I was being pulled into you. Apparently I had freedom for some time outside of the seal, but I didn't even get to experience it because of a damn genjutsu by that masked man.
Naruto thought about the kyuubi's answer for a moment and nodded.
"Fair enough Kurama-san. In that case, I'll talk to you later." and with that he disappeared from his mindscape to leave the fox alone once more in the flooded sewer environment.
o.o.o
Naruto got up from the ground where he had passed out hours ago. The kyuubi had explained to him about his mother, his father, and the masked man that had set him upon the Leaf village twelve years ago. Naruto learned a lot in the talk he had with the fox.
'Thanks furball. Now back to work.'
Kurama had mentioned the chains in their encounter.
"Solid Adamantine Chains. Huh."
Naruto thought over why he wasn't able to produce these before. If he was really stumped about any details of how to use the chains, he could always ask Kurama. He seemed to recognize them and be pretty familiar with them. He even sounded a bit… fearful?... when he mentioned them.
Maybe before he never had enough chakra to produce the chains. Or maybe his chakra was just never dense enough to make solid chains. Whatever the reason was, it didn't stand in his way now.
Naruto spent the next four hours experimenting with the chains, and how they reacted to his chakra.
He noticed that in order to produce the chains in the first place, he had to almost pulse chakra out of his hand, as opposed to channeling chakra normally through his hand which he found he could still do without any issue.
The chains were actually really amazing.
After the initial hour of just experimenting with creating and drawing in the chains, Naruto discovered that he could control their motion as if they were an extension of his arm, but he had to concentrate and channel chakra into the chain. Naruto was having trouble keeping the chain from laying limp on the ground so it would still take a lot of practice before it had any real applications.
After the first hour, Naruto tried to test the properties of his chain. He tossed one end over a tree branch, grabbed the other end, and tried to pull himself up. He was happy to find that it could easily support his own weight. After finding that out, Naruto replicated what he did to the tree earlier by connecting the chain directly to a large boulder and dangling it from a heightened tree branch.
Naruto kept attempting with heavier and heavier boulders and found out, to his delight, that his arm would sooner get ripped off before the chains snapped.
Although he wasn't sure if that was a good thing or bad.
By the end of his four hour period, Naruto had figured out how to create, retract, attach, detach, and slightly control his chain.
Overall it was not a bad training session.
o.o.o
Naruto walked up the steps to the Hokage's office after training himself.
Naruto decided not to tell the hokage about his talk with the kyuubi or about discovering the Adamantine Sealing Chains. He wanted to hide his skills so that one day he could shock the world with his ability. He knew he could trust the Hokage, but he also wanted to surprise him one day with how awesome his shinobi repertoire was.
Before he could enter the Hokage's office, he was stopped by the secretary in front yet again.
"Do you have an appointment with Hokage-sama?" She asked, knowing full well that he didn't. Whenever he actually tried to make an appointment with jiji, the dang secretary always said that his time slots were all filled up.
"Jiji said that I could visit him whenever I wanted." The boy responded to the woman.
"Learn some respect gaki. It's Hokage-sama to you." She hissed at him just as the double doors behind her creaked open.
"Oh, it's quite alright Sina-chan. He is welcome whenever he sees fit. Just send him up whenever he is here." Hiruzen told his secretary.
"Sorry Hokage-sama, it won't happen again."
"Please don't apologize to me. And Naruto, come on in. What brings you by." The old Sarutobi asked Naruto as the doors closed behind the two.
"Nothing in particular Hokage-jiji. It's been awhile since you've taken me out for ramen though. I was getting worried that old age finally got to you." Joked the young prankster.
"Naruto, if anything is going to kill me, it will be mental degeneration from all this paperwork."
Naruto let out a little chuckle before getting to the point of his visit. "Actually jiji, I was wondering if you could help me out with something. I need kunai and shuriken for the academy, but stores are overcharging me for everything. I was wondering if you could come with me to make sure they are charging me a fair price."
"I wish I could but I'm stuck in this office for almost fifteen hours a day. I won't have time to go buy supplies with you today but I'll gladly come by a shop with you tomorrow. You're a registered academy student so you are allowed to buy from the shinobi shops. I'll show the place where I used to stock up on equipment."
Hiruzen couldn't help but smile when he saw the boy's face light up. Naruto reminded him so much of the yondaime in that his optimism in the face of hard times never wavered.
"Jiji if that shop is where you used to buy kunai then it has to be absolutely ancient now. Should I be scared my stuff will start falling apart on me?"
The old hokage only smiled and shook his head.
Naruto would grow up to be a fine shinobi some day.
o.o.o
Sasuke was glad for the break from the academy. He actually didn't learn anything at the place other than pointless history and other things of the sort. Instead, he would use this time so he could improve and impress the hell out of his sensei when the time came. The faster he moved up in the ranks, the more he could learn and the faster he would be able to catch up to Itachi.
Sasuke sat down, taking a break from his training. He spent all evening running through taijutsu katas and frankly he was exhausted. Not that he had time for exhaustion. He took a sip of water and looked over the jutsu scrolls he picked up from his clan library. He pretty much mastered the Katon: Gokakyu no jutsu (great fireball technique) and he could cast the jutsu multiple times in a fight without tiring out. The next jutsu on his list was the Hosenka no jutsu (phoenix flame technique).
Sasuke looked over the hand necessary hand seals and molded his hands into the seals, slowly at first then picking up the pace.
Rat, Tiger, Dog, Ox, Rabbit Tiger
"Hosenka no jutsu" He muttered under his breath. A hot tingling appeared at the back of his throat as chakra was built up, similar to how the Gokakyu no jutsu built up. Sasuke released a fireball, but the chakra remained in the back of his throat, so he continued spitting up fireballs, each the size of a watermelon from his seated position onto the field in front of him. He didn't even bother trying to aim for the practice dummies, knowing that first he had to feel out the jutsu and how it worked. After spitting out five successful fireballs, the built up chakra was all spent.
"Hn. No problem."
Sasuke felt a little light headed, but he was happy that he could successfully do the jutsu. While training this morning Sasuke had used the great fireball technique multiple times so it was no wonder that his chakra was running a bit low. He was at about a third of his chakra capacity, which according to his calculations was still much more than the average genin.
All the elemental jutsu training had significantly bolstered his reserves. Of course he couldn't simply spam jutsu. Nobody could do that. Not even jounin, or so he thought. But Sasuke was way ahead of the curve. He didn't have anyone to train him because his clan was gone so until he got a jounin instructor, Sasuke would do what he knew how to do best. Improve on the basics.
He drank a couple sips of water to rehydrate and got back to work.
Running low on chakra? Then he would just train his body to be stronger and faster. No jounin instructor necessary to teach him to do pushups and crunches.
Sasuke got to work again, putting on a weighted belt to increase resistance to his movements. That way he got stronger faster.
Nothing was standing in the way of his goals. Sasuke would be the strongest, not because he wanted to, but because he had to. He had to kill Itachi. That wouldn't bring his parents, his friends, or his clan back, but it was necessary in order for him to restore his clan.
And it would also feel damn good.
o.o.o
Sasuke finally called it quits after his evening workout. He had gone through all of his family taijutsu katas at least a hundred times today. He was still a bit rusty on his taijutsu, but no amount of practice could change that. The Uchiha taijutsu style was such that relied on predictive movements and pivots to block attacks while expending the least amount of energy. The only fault with this was that half of the proficiency of the stance came from the use of the Sharingan. Without it, using this style of taijutsu was actually a handicap. The fact that Sasuke could still beat everyone in his Academy class with such a disadvantage showed just proficient the young prodigy was.
He entered the house in which he lived, at the center of the clan compound. The house was large, even for that of a clan head. The Uchiha clan was the most prominent clan in Konoha back before Itachi had decimated them all, and so Sasuke could guess he lived in one of the largest houses in the village. The clan council room was at the front of the house where the clan elders would meet and discuss various topics ranging from their status in the village to their monthly expenses on weaponry. This particular room hadn't been in use since many years ago when Sasuke was six. The entire room was covered in dust, not touched since before the massacre.
Actually, the entire house was covered in dust except for Sasuke and Itachi's childhood rooms. After the massacre and hundreds of counseling sessions the civilian council forced Sasuke to sit through to ensure he wouldn't lose his mind, the young emo had an outburst and set Itachi's room ablaze with the largest gokakyu no jutsu he had ever used.
The other room that wasn't covered in dust was Sasuke's room, and only because he needed a place to sleep. Sasuke spent his nights in his room but as soon as morning came, he refused to spend any more time in the house. It reminded him too much of his clan and how it used to be that it became unbearable if he was there for too long.
Sasuke walked into his kitchen and pulled some leftover food from his refrigerator and began to eat. As he ate, he also pulled out a scroll with the Uchiha insignia etched into the outside.
Sasuke unrolled the scroll expecting to find more katon techniques that he could learn but instead found it to be labeled Basic Chakra Control. Knowing you could never have too much of the basics, Sasuke opened the scroll and dove into the information. Tree climbing and water walking were under the basic chakra control exercises with a couple more easy manipulation exercises.
Sasuke's face broke into a confident smirk as he read into each of the exercises, determined to get started on it as soon as the next day.
o.o.o
The Yamanaka clan had thrown a get together of sorts with the Akimichi and Nara clans today. The party was held on the Yamanaka clan grounds. The Akimichi provided the food for the party. Nothing was expected of the Nara clan because frankly everybody was happy that they even decided to show up rather than sleep the day away.
Five hours after the start of the party, the drunk Nara and Akimichi clans began to leave one by one.
"What, everyone's leaving, troublesome. Choji, you should go home. I'm calling it a night too." Shikamaru said before rolling over on his side and closing his eyes. He was outside on the hill, meaning when he woke he would have a clear view of the clouds. What more can a man ever ask for.
"Alright Shika, I'll see you tomorrow I guess."
"I'll be here." The pineapple headed boy said to his best friend, praying that this would be the case tomorrow. His mom would probably come find him and make him train up a bit for the academy graduation exam.
'Hopefully that troublesome woman won't look for me here.' Shikamaru thought before doing what he did best. Falling asleep.
Choji stood up on the grass and walked back to his father's side, who was very drunk at this point and making a scene. Choza was walking out the front gate, with his left arm still in its large form from a arm wrestling match he participated in a couple hours back.
The Nara patriarch was being dragged out of the Yamanaka compound, his wife pulling him by the ear. It should be mentioned that Shikaku, despite being dragged by his ear, still appeared to be asleep. Many Nara males have aspired to reach this level of lethargy but it is said that only one or two every generation can perfect the art of sleeping to such a degree.
As the remaining members of the two clans filed out the gates, Inoichi stood at the entrance waving away their guests.
"Now time to clean all of this up." Sighed the patriarch, despondent upon the fact that he had to clean up after his lifelong friends.
"Daddy. I was wondering," The young blonde girl approached her father.
"Yes my princess?"
"Well, I was hoping you could start teaching me some new clan techniques. I mean I'm about to graduate the academy, I think I'm ready." Ino asked. "Besides, shintenshin no jutsu is useless in an actual fight." 'and it won't help me kick Sakura's ass in any spars' she added onto herself.
"Are you sure? Why are you bringing this up now?" The man questioned.
"No real reason, I just want to be a strong kunoichi!" She lied to her father with a smile on her face.
She's lying. The patriarch could easily tell. He was an interrogation specialist as a Yamanaka. It was basically his job to be able to tell when people lied.
'She just wants to get stronger so she can impress that Uchiha boy that she's been going on about. It's a shame I could never say no to my princess.' He concluded before responding to her. "You know that I need you to master shintenshin before I can start teaching you something else."
Ino visibly deflated at his statement.
"I'm sorry, but I won't teach you any offensive techniques until I'm sure you have enough chakra and mental control. These techniques are mentally draining and can leave you a soulless husk if misused. I would do anything for you but it's just too dangerous without proper control."
Ino's frown deflated even more after hearing this, disappointed with the wall she was hitting in her training. She wanted something flashy, that she was sure would get Sasuke -kun's attention.
Inoichi actually felt pained to see the look of disappointment on his daughter's face. That was one thing he never wanted to see. She was his princess and he spent his entire life spoiling her. Kami be damned if he stopped now.
"Ino- hime, how about I teach you something different. I was never that proficient with this, it was your mother's specialty, but I think you are ready to learn it."
Inoichi could have sworn that his daughter started glowing after hearing that statement, and he couldn't be happier that he had allowed her this happiness.
"Ino, I'm going to teach you the Yamanaka clan's signature sensing technique."
Ino face faulted after hearing this. 'That's not flashy at all. What on earth could I use that. Wait, I could use it to find Sasuke whenever I have free time. Then we could finally go on that date together! I'll always be one step ahead of forehead!'
Ino's frown turned into a grin in a split second and she hugged her dad.
"Yes daddy that would be perfect!
He really could never deny her of anything.
"Thank you thank you soo so so much tou-san, you won't regret this, I promise! We can start tomorrow!" Ino practically yelled before she gave Inoichi a quick hug and dashed off to her room.
"Wait, aren't you going to help clean up?" Inoichi shouted, with no response from the girl. "Ahh whatever, it's not like she would have helped anyways." Inoichi muttered to himself before he began to clean up.
o.o.o
At around noon the next day, Naruto headed out to the Hokage tower in order to get the Sandaime to purchase his new equipment.
Hiruzen immediately set out with Naruto in tow for the weapon shop he mentioned on the previous day.
Many civilians and shinobi alike gave Naruto and the Hokage questioning glances, many of them undoubtedly thinking that the leader of the village was taking the brat to be disciplined. Naruto did what he often did best, and ignored every glance that was cast his way.
The civilians did not have the balls, for lack of a better term, to say anything hateful toward the boy so they just returned to what they were doing after Hiruzen and the boy passed.
Hiruzen stopped at a door waiting for Naruto to catch up to him. "Alright, here we are. This place is the best when it comes to shinobi supplies. I guarantee it. Come on in."
The bell connected to the door chimed as the two stepped inside the shop.
"H-hokage-sama. Welcome to my father's weapon shop." said the young girl with buns that stood behind the counter. She appeared to be only a year or two older than Naruto was, and she seemed to be in awe of the hokage showing up at her doorstep.
"Ahh, Tenten-chan, I see you've taken over woking at the your father's shop. How is he doing?" The hokage asked, engaging the girl in conversation.
"He is well Hokage-sama. Thank you for asking. May I ask what brings you by?" She responded, getting over her brief stutter.
"Well, I came here often when I was still an active shinobi and your father took really good care of me. I was hoping that you could be so kind as to give young Naruto-kun here the same treatment." The Hokage replied, pushing the young academy student in front of him.
"Of course Hokage-sama. Naruto, if you would like to follow me. I'm assuming you're here to purchase some kunai and shuriken."
"Hai." Naruto responded, not really sure what else he should say as he followed her to one of the back rooms.
Naruto was surprised with Tenten because she was being nice to him. Actually, she was being very nice to him. Naruto thought back for a moment and was disappointed to conclude that no shopkeeper had ever been this kind to him before.
Then again, most owners didn't even let Naruto into their shops so there weren't many left to consider.
It took only a few moments for Tenten to find a nice set for him, and Naruto was more than happy when she let him remove them from the case and try them out. As he was inspecting the kunai and shuriken, Tenten asked him about his connection with the Hokage, which was followed up by a nice conversation. He told her about being an orphan and how the villagers treated him poorly, so Jiji helped out when he could. In turn he learned that she was also an orphan and that she was a year out of the academy.
After he was satisfied with the kunai, Naruto and Tenten returned to the counter where the Hokage was waiting for them.
"Alright old-man, I got them." Naruto told him with a large grin on his face.
Tenten was absolutely shocked that Naruto would be so blunt and informal with the Hokage, and her facial expressions showed it.
"Haha, umm so Naruto-san. Could I interest you in any other weapons than the standard shinobi set?"
Naruto's face twisted from an ecstatic smile to a slight frown when Hiruzen cut in before he could express his approval of her idea. "No that's quite alright Tenten-chan. Naruto needs to work on one thing at a time. No point in learning something new if you haven't yet mastered the basics."
Naruto let out an exasperated sigh and looked up to Tenten behind the counter. "Yeah so I guess that's it. How much is it gonna cost me. I've been saving money in gama-chan for months for these." Naruto said, looking very apprehensive as he pulled out his toad wallet.
Tenten read off the price displayed on the register, "560 ryo for that set please."
Naruto was extremely surprised with the price, but before he got bewilderment at how little she was charging, the Hokage tapped his arm signaling to put it down. "I'll take care of this one for you Naruto-kun. Consider it an investment in the future of Konoha. Now I have to get back to my office as soon as possible so I hope you can find your way home Naruto-kun."
Hiruzen pulled out some bills and handed them to Tenten before she stored them in the cash register. Afterwards, he immediately turned around and headed out, mumbling about 'damn paperwork' and about how 'no amount of money, fame, or respect would make the job worth it'.
Naruto exited the shop soon after the Hokage, happy with his haul from the weapons store. He made a mental note to return to this store as often as possible if only to visit Tenten.
She was genuinely nice, and Naruto could not afford to miss out on making a friend.
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Guys, I fucked up.
I literally rewrote the beginning of this fic entirely because I realized it was shit and it didn't fit into where I was planning to go with it.
The one big change in the storyline is that Naruto has chains… which if you haven't noticed are the baddest most terrifyingly dexterous ability out there, other than shadow clones of course.
Also, he's a dumbass. No amount of circumstances can change that. Naruto has no brains whatsoever except for when he flies by the seat of his pants. That's the
only time Naruto has any semblance of a brain.
Hardheaded as ever, Naruto will be stronger in this fic than he was in the manga/anime. Then again it's pretty damn hard for him to be weaker than in the manga.
It's as if kishimoto wanted to make him an underdog or something… nahhh.
Anyways, here comes chain Naruto.
Glory be to the log.
DATTEBAYO MOTHERFUCKERS.