X-Ninja
A/N: This is just an idea for a story I had. Really it's my first attempt at writing so I'm hoping for positive results. Please don't flame me as that will only discourage me to quit writing; I will accept legitimate constructive criticism. Well I hope you read and enjoy.
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or any other influence to my story. The only thing I own is my idea and this story in itself.
Summary: Ninjas are strange enough as it is, what with bloodlines and all. What if some ninjas had something more; that even a fellow clan member won't have? Follow Naruto as he finds out.
A five year old boy ran through an alley. Dirty, blonde hair framed whiskered cheeks and blue eyes that contained fear. Torn clothes revealed wounds that were healing shut as he ran. The boy went to round a corner when a kunai rocketed into his knee causing him to crumble and crash into a wall. Tears started pouring down his cheeks from pain and fear as he saw three men walking towards him. "Please, just leave me alone. I didn't do anything to you."
The one in the middle laughed at him. "Tonight you atone for all the sins you have committed, demon." The three of them unsheathed katanas and stood around the boy trapping him. "With the hokage busy with the delegation from Kumo, we have all the time to make it as slow and painful for you." They started to walk closer when a figure landed in between them and the boy. "Remove yourself so that we can eliminate this taint from the village." The person in front of them chuckled and they heard the sound of the person inhaling and saw a ring of orange by the persons head. "What is so funny?" The leader asked.
"You bub, I don't know what this kid did to you guys but I won't let you lay a finger on him." The boy's heart started pounding. Someone he had never seen before was protecting him. They all heard the sound of metal being drawn from the man and the men all tensed. "Now you guys can walk away now; or I can painfully remove limbs and gut you. Your decision." His answer was the three men charging him. The leader was shocked when the blade he sunk into the stranger's chest made a sound like hitting metal. His confusion quickly vanished when a trio of blades from the man carved his head into three separate pieces. The man on the left swung his katana at the mystery man's head only to have it caught between two blades he was holding. The stranger growled and twisted them sharply snapping the trapped sword. He then lunged forward and sunk three blades into the person's chest and ripped them upwards shredding him into ribbons. He turned around to the last person to see him shaking. "Not so tough when fighting an opponent who can fight back are you bub?" The man dropped the sword and turned to run only to have his abdomen erupt into pain. He looked down to see six blades sticking out of his stomach.
"Why are you protecting this demon?"
"He aint no demon. Those of you trying to harm the little squirt are the demons." That was the last thing the man heard before the blades carved him into different pieces. The man turned and started walking towards the boy. The blonde gasped as a sliver of moonlight showed three metal blades sliding into the skin of the man's hands and disappearing. He stopped in front of the boy and kneeled down extending his hand out to him. "Come on squirt, let's go see the hokage." The boy relaxed at the fact that this stranger knew the old man. He took the man's hand and was lifted onto his shoulders. He walked out of the alley ignoring the four shadows that entered from the roof. They quickly walked through the streets towards the hokage tower. Naruto observed the man's features when they got into more light. The man had shaggy black hair and his face was very rugged. In the man's mouth there was a strange object that looked like a giant version of one of those cigarette things he had seen Asuma-san smoking. They quickly arrived at the Hokage's building and the man walked straight up the stairs and into the man's office ignoring the secretary who tried to stop him. He shut the door and placed the boy on the ground.
The boy quickly ran towards the wizened leader and hopped on the desk jumping up and down. "Hey old man! This guy here did these really fancy tricks and saved me from three bad men! It was really cool and it happened so fast! He is probably some super ninja huh? I wanna be just like him!" The hokage and the man just chuckled at this.
"I am just happy you are safe Naruto." He set the boy on the ground. "Why don't you go play with Keiko outside while I talk to your new friend?" Naruto smiled and ran out the door to see the secretary. When the door closed the smiles faded and instead of a kind old man in his place was a veteran shinobi and protective grandfather. "Tell me exactly what happened." The man sat across from him and kicked his feet up onto the desk and leaned back.
"I was going around the city keepin' an eye on things when I picked up the scent of blood. Deciding to investigate, I quickly headed in the direction of it. As I got closer I heard one guy talking to something and it wasn't a good talk either. So I got up onto the roof above the alleyway and looked to see what was going on. I saw three people standing around the squirt with katanas drawn. So I did the only thing I could; I got in between them and gave them the chance to leave. They charged me so I dispatched them." The hokage nodded his head. "Might I add hokage; if that is the abilities of three elite jounin; I would be a little tougher on the ninja standards. Make the academy tougher because honestly; those guys were pussies." The hokage frowned.
"They were jounin?" The man nodded.
"They held the composure of one and had the vest and gear. They weren't green horns either; they have been ones for a while." The old man shook his head.
"That's no good. I'll see what can be done; I can't have ninja dying because they aren't properly prepared." The man nodded. "Thank you for saving Naruto; you know he is like a grandson to me."
The man shook it off. "You told me to keep an eye out for him if I was around the city so I did. Followed your orders sir. Plus the kid just has something about him I don't know what it is."
"You can go for now; I'm going to call for you tomorrow along with a couple others to discuss something of importance." The man nodded and stood up walking towards the door. He was about to leave when the hokage stopped him. "Again, I have to say thank you for saving Naruto Kuzuri." The man just grunted and walked out as a blond blur ran past him into the room.
-(The Next Day)-
The next morning the man named Kuzuri stood in front of the hokage with four other people; two males and two females. "Now I have called all of you here today to discuss something of vital importance to our village." They all nodded their heads. "Everyone is this room has certain abilities that are not classified as a bloodline or ninja trait."
"We all know this old man. We need to know why you called us." Kuzuri said. The female to his left smacked him in the back of the head.
"Show some respect Kuzuri. If it wasn't for Hiruzen you would still be wandering around snow country." She had long red hair and a stunning body. She stood at the same height as Kuzuri.
"Calm down red; I'm just a little tired from patrol last night and want to take a nap."
"Jingure, Kuzuri; please don't bicker. It isn't becoming of you two, well Kuzuri it is, not you Jingure." The man next to the now identified Jingure said. He had a very large build and was extremely muscular, but he stood hunched over with his knuckles resting on the ground. The very odd thing about him was that he was covered from head to toe in blue fur.
"Shishi is right; I was going to explain before Kuzuri interrupted me." Said man just grunted and crossed his arms. "Now, I'm sure that you must realize that we are not the only ones with these abilities." They nodded their heads. Hiruzen pulled out a stack of folders and placed them on the desk. "These are profiles on everyone in this village with strange abilities." Jingure walked up to the desk and started looking through them all. "A majority of these are just children." Hiruzen nodded his head. "Yes, and now for why I called you all here. I thought about the information that you told me yesterday Kuzuri about the ninja standards. And to fix that I am introducing a new academy for all who wish to become ninjas. The construction of it will be finished in two years. I will be increasing the criteria and requirements for graduation and you five will be some of the included instructors." The cigar in Kuzuri's mouth fell out and landed on the floor. It lay there for a couple seconds before it started to float and eventually went back into his mouth and his jaw closed. He brought his hand up and picked it out.
"Hell no am I teaching a bunch of brats' old man." He snapped. Jingure smacked him in the back of the head again.
"You will because I said so." The man shut his mouth. "Now the first year class that is in the academy now will continue through the academy. One more class will enroll, but none will follow in the old academy. They will continue through the old academy and when they graduate it will be burnt down. I plan on when the new academy opens up; there will be a massive registration of first years. So they will be divided into separate classes. That's where you being the instructors comes into play. We will be separating those without potential powers from those who will develop them, and you guys will be teaching that class up until they graduate. And it will go like that throughout every class and so on." Kuzuri just grunted.
"From the stack on your desk there are a lot more than just thirty kids who have this. What about when the schedule is worked to the point where we can only teach five classes?"
"I only said that you five would be included as instructors. I plan on having jounins teach the classes as well. You five will be considered the headmasters. I will get others to help teach the other classes. Mainly I want you guys to be there for when these powers make themselves known." They nodded their heads at this.
"So do we know what specifically we will be teaching?" The other man asked. He had dark skin and stood at the same height as Kuzuri and his head was shaved. The most distinguishing feature about him was the large 'M' tattoo over his right eye. The hokage leaned back and put his hands together.
"Well Bishoppu, I was planning on sending a dossier to your personal residences informing you of such positions. I won't know for sure what each one of you will be doing until later this week. I first have to meet with the council in order to tell them of these changes first."
"What if they disagree with these changes? We all know that how soft the academy is now is because of the council in the first place." The final person asked. She appeared to be the youngest of the three people. She was shorter than the rest with long brown hair.
"That was in the wake of Minato's sacrifice to seal the Kyuubi. I was distraught over the loss of him and let the council do what they wanted and I saw no need to change it as I didn't see the changes as detrimental to the ninja forces. But as Kuzuri here pointed out to me the standards need to change. And as hokage and leader over the ninja forces I can make any changes to how the ninja are trained without the council having any say in it. Rest assured Shadoukyatto, they will get changed." The five people nodded their heads at this. "Now, Shishi, I need you to go get Foji and have him come here as soon as possible. He will be the one to create the blueprints and schematics that I will present to the council for the new academy." The large furred man nodded his head and performed a seal. In his place stood a man the same size with no fur but instead short brown hair.
"I'll go get him quickly." He rolled across the floor and leaped out of an open window running off across the rooftops.
"Anything else hokage?" Kuzuri asked.
"Nothing that I can think of. If anything comes up I will call for you." The four remaining people nodded their heads. "Don't forget, I will be sending you a dossier detailing your jobs; it's up to you to come up with what the lesson plans will be. You can go now." With that the four people walked towards the door. "Actually Kuzuri, I need you to stay here." The man just grunted and sat back down in front of the desk. Everyone else left and the hokage activated a seal making the room soundproof. "I need to talk to you about what happened last night."
"What about it? I told you everything that happened. I don't know what else I could contribute to my report." The man gruffly replied.
"Not necessarily the incident; more about the victim."
"Did something long-term happen to the squirt?" He asked.
"No he is fine; his neighbor prevents his body from lasting pain and wounds." The hokage leaned forward and rested his elbows on the desk. "I took him to the hospital last night to make sure everything was fine with him. While he was getting checked I went to his apartment." Kuzuri raised an eyebrow. "Yes he lives by himself. The orphanage wasn't caring for him properly so I gave him a place he could live and I give him 20,000 ryo a week for living expenses. When I got to his apartment I was shocked and appalled at what I found. The room was vandalized and all his furniture was old and rotted out. When I looked at his food; I discovered you couldn't even call it edible. Everything was at least a week past the expiration date. I left at that point and went to see Naruto. When I talked to him at the hospital and asked him about everything I became very angry at what I heard. Naruto told me that every weekend people would come and trash his house. The only reason they never harmed him was because he would escape through a loose floorboard. He quit locking his door because they would break it. When I asked about the food he said he didn't know it was expired because that's what they sold him; at very expensive prices to. The entire 20,000 ryo would go to an amount of food that would last a person 3 days and it was all expired to." The old man jumped back a little bit when a loud snapping sound came from the man in front of him. He looked at him and saw he was holding a piece of the chair he sat on in his hand.
"Thos fuckers would dare go to those lengths to make the squirts life miserable?" He stood up and kicked the chair away. "I am the furthest thing from being a saint; but even I would never make a child go through anything like that." He was now moving menacingly from side to side.
"What are you going to do about it?"
"I'm going to hunt every one of those people down and gut them like a damn fish. The ones I don't kill; I'm going to make them wish they were dead." A slight screech came from Kuzuri's hands and the hokage looked at the six blades that sat between his knuckles.
"While that sounds like a legitimately wonderful idea, one I have thought of doing many times might I add, I have a much better idea than that." The man still enraged quit pacing and another screech came from his hands and the blades disappeared. He signaled for the hokage to continue with what he was saying. The old man pulled out a stack of papers and placed them on the desk and waved the man back over. He read the first page and his eyebrows rose as he looked at the hokage.
"You gotta be shitting me."
"No I am not. He has the gene in him." The hokage said. "As for my idea; read the next couple of pages." Kuzuri put the first paper down and started reading through the papers. When he finished he threw the stack on the desk.
"No way. There is no way it's gonna happen." He exclaimed.
"And why shouldn't it? I think it's a wonderful plan that will work out for everyone involved."
"I'm not qualified for that shit bub. I'm the wrong person for it. You could get Jingure or Shadoukyatto to do it. Hell even Shishi and Bishoppu are better for that. I'm not doing it." The hokage fixed him with a glare that halted his tirade.
"I'm getting a little tired of you always being so argumentative Kuzuri. You will do this because you're the only person I trust with it." The man grunted and sat back down in his chair. "Now, all that is required is your signature on the bottom of the last paper." Kuzuri pulled out the last page and looked at the bottom where a line with an x next to it sat. He sighed and grabbed the pen the hokage was holding out to him and signed it quickly handing the paper to him. The hokage briefly looked at the paper and smiled at the man as he stamped it with his seal of approval and filed it away. "Congratulations Kuzuri; you are now legally the father of Uzumaki Naruto." The man rested his head on the desk in front of him.
"This is gonna be a fucking nightmare." The man growled out.
"Nonsense, now you better go pick up your son from the hospital. I believe he is getting discharged within the hour." The hokage chuckled and put his pipe in his mouth lighting it. Kuzuri stood and scowled at the hokage. The leaders smile disappeared when after two quick screeches and movement from Kuzuri his pipe fell into multiple pieces onto his desk. The lit tobacco quickly lit the rest of the papers on the desk on fire. The hokage scrambled to put the fire out. "KUZURI!" He yelled.
Said man was walking down the street towards the hospital. "Serves that old asshole right." With that said he continued on his way.
A/N: Well I hope you all liked it and I hope to hear your feedback. 20,000 ryo may seem like a lot of money, but it's translated to 200 dollars American. I am just using a rounded out Yen-Dollar ratio of 10-1. Please review