It has begun! I have started my Naruto fanfiction, along with my My Hero Academia one. I have actually both of the character's powers bouncing around in my head for a while now. Also, don't get used to the long chapters like this one, this will probably be a one-time thing. This is set after Dawnbreaker in the timeline, just for a few things I'm planning to do later on.
Anyway, I hope you enjoy!
"Wait, before you go." I paused and looked at Truth. "In this next life, you'll have to kill."
"But I…"
"Yes, I know. That's why I'll tweak your personality a bit more."
"More?" I yelled loudly.
"Well yeah, you're tolerance of pain went way up in Remnant."
"I thought that was just a side effect of growing up with Yang." I murmured to myself.
"You had a much cooler head."
"Again with the Yang thing. I had to have a cooler to survive."
"Exactly." He smiled.
"I see what you mean. I feel terrible about having to kill people now, but I guess I won't after this. But, do I have to? I don't want to take another human life!"
"Human is debatable, but you will be taking lives."
"Can't I go somewhere else?" I asked.
"Next time. Goodbye."
"Wait no!" I yelled before I faded into oblivion.
I woke up to screams. This must be later in the pregnancy than usual. There was a female screaming, with a male yelling at her. Oh, what's happening now? "You can do it Kushina! You can do it Naruto!" I felt around for someone beside me. No, does that mean that…
After my birth, third time remembering it, it doesn't get any less traumatizing, I'm suddenly snatched away from my parents. "Back away from the jinchuuriki... or do you not care if you're son dies?" Okay, two things. One, what the crap is a jinchuuriki? And two, please get away from whatever is! I just got here!
"Hold it! J-just calm down!" The male said while the female screamed even more in the background.
"You should take your own advice Minato. I'm perfectly calm." Kidnappers are always calm in these situations.
"Naruto!" The female yelled as I was thrown into the air. Okay, why did you throw the newborn? That is not very nice. I was caught and felt a rush. I heard a voice murmuring to himself before I was laid down in a bed.
"You'll wait on your own for a little bit, Naruto. I've gotta go save your mom before it's too late." I assume the female who was screaming earlier was my mom. The bed was also very comfortable and I quickly drifted off.
I woke up to drops of blood hitting my face. Whose are these? "Naruto… don't be a fussy eater… eat a lot and grow up to be a big boy! Take your bath every day… go to bed early and sleep well. Make friends, it doesn't matter how many…" Oh, that's good. "just make sure they're real friends… people you can trust… even a few is enough! And study your ninjutsu… I was never good at it, maybe you will be… everyone has things they're good at and things they aren't… don't feel bad if you can't do it all. Make sure you listen to your teachers… at the academy. And remember, avoid the three vices of shinobi… don't borrow money if you don't have to. Save the money you'll get from your missions. No drinking alcohol until you're twenty, and don't overdo it or you'll ruin your body. And as for women… well, I'm a woman so I don't know what to say, but there's only men and women in this world and you'll want a girlfriend someday… just try not to pick a weird one… and try and find one like your mother." Which one? I don't want to date any of them! That's just weird. "And the fourth warning… watch out for Jiraiya. Naruto… you're going to experience a lot of pain and suffering. Remember who you are! Find a goal… and a dream… and don't stop trying until it comes true! There's… there's… there's… there's so much I want to say… to teach you about… I want to stay with you… I love you… I sorry… I took all our time Minato."
"It's okay." The man, who must be Minato, said. "Naruto… this is your dad." So I am Naruto. I thought so during my mom's speech, but this confirms it. Well, Truth did say I'm going to have to kill people. "Listen… to your motor-mouth mother." I felt something warm envelop me. "Eight Trigrams Seal!" It got hot really quick. I felt something hot and… hateful entering me. I was suddenly standing in a black void.
"Where am I?" I saw a large set of bars in front of me. A large fox head tried to smash through, getting as far as it could in between the bars. "Hello!" I waved.
"When I get out of here I will tear you limb from limb!"
"That is not very nice." I walked up to the bars and stood in front of the fox's head. I scratched under its jaw. It snapped at me.
"I am not a pet! I will destroy you!"
"Huh," I said, falling backward as I dodged. "I was going to try and make friends with you. I guess I'll have to wait until I get older and you get nicer." If the ninetales does get nicer. I don't know if that even happens.
"I will not get nicer! I am hate incarnate and I will take you over and kill everyone you love!"
"Ugh, stupid toddler body." I roll over and push myself up. "See you later, ninetales."
So you might think that being Naruto would suck, and for most people, it would. The orphanage wasn't really fun. Strangers changing me straight up sucked. It was bad when it was my parents, but even worse now that I have no idea who they are. Then there were people always around me. But once they moved me out to an apartment life became so much better. I got a weekly allowance from the Hokage. I only had to be at school and no one expected anything else from me. I've been at my house sticking pieces of paper to my face with chakra so that I can start training my chakra early. I get tired really fast. I remember that Naruto had a ton of chakra, but that must have been after a lot of training. Of course, that's after years of training, as I'm only like, five. I don't see why they moved a five-year-old to a five-year-old boy. Maybe because everyone hates me because I have the nine-tailed fox inside of me. Also, speaking of training, I am able to so much secret training. Nobody cares about me, as long as I go to school, so I get away with a ton of crap. My parents were irreplaceable in my first lives, but now that I am able to do everything, I don't really need parents. This sounds terrible, and I loved all of my parents, but it is true. I also know everything I need to about training. I am able to work on my physical training from what I learned on Remnant, and what I know from magic from Earthland has helped too. The magic I got from etherious particles is different from chakra, which comes from inside me, the control helps.
I've developed the ability to walk up my walls and hang off of the ceiling. I stopped doing the latter though, as I have nearly hurt myself badly a few times. These tire me much faster than sticking the paper to my face. I have dipped into chakra exhaustion a bunch of times. It feels pretty bad, but it isn't too bad compared to some of the crap I've been through before.
I've been able to stea- check some scrolls out from the library. They definitely let you take them out of the library. I've studied some preliminary ninjutsu. They're pretty much… useless. They basically only useful as party tricks for people who have never seen any jutsu. Though those people who have never seen jutsu before could probably do them. I can currently create sparks, stink bombs, slight breezes around my hand, and a single drop of water from the vapor in the air. I am convinced that some were developed by small children. Very small children.
School is… pretty boring. Taijutsu is essentially PE. They call it Taijutsu but I find few differences between it and PE. Except there is a lot more yoga-like stuff. I really like that and we did it… once. I hated PE. Taijutsu is a bit better though. Ninjutsu is a little more interesting. We've worked on the Clone Jutsu and a Body Replacement Jutsu. I can do the Body Replacement Jutsu fine, and it's really awesome. It seems like it will be very important in the future. But the Clone Jutsu is very difficult. I see why the original Naruto had a problem with it. It could just be us though. Something with our body.
One good this about school is I got to meet the twins again. They actually approached me. But something is very different about them.
"Hey!" I looked up from where I was reading a scroll about hand signs. Apparently, if you can figure out how the chakra moves for each sign, that's how you learn ninjutsu without hand signs. There was a guy in a black t-shirt, black pants with a black belt, and was wearing a black trench coat over that. The trench coat had some light blue lines on it for highlights.
When he got close I waved. "Hi."
"Hey! I heard that you are kind of a prankster. I've designed a really good prank, want to join in?" He asked.
"No, I'm not a prankster." I laughed. "But there was a book series written about me where they said that."
"Wait, what? How did you know about that?"
"It's because I'm Conner." I laughed. "Which one are you? Leo or Thomas?"
"Oh." He rubbed the back of his neck. "I guess it was obvious. I'm not sure how to say this… I'm both."
"Oh, he like fused your minds?" I asked.
"Something like that. I'm not sure."
"Weird," I said. "so what's your name here?"
"It's Raiu Raiden."
"Oh, that's interesting. Hey, after school, want to train a bit after school. We can catch up then, our break is almost over." I rolled up my scroll.
"Training?" He groaned
"Fine, just talk."
"Sure, that sounds great!"
"I'm home!" Raiu called out. I looked around his house. It was very clean, the kitchen was to the right, and to the left of the kitchen was a hall, which probably leads to the rooms. Suddenly a woman appeared in front of me in a puff of smoke. Oh, that's the flash step technique.
She was wearing a regular black ninja outfit, like the ones I saw on Earth, and has decently long black hair, tied up in a ponytail. "Hello, Raiu." She hugged him. When she let go she turned to me. "And I see you brought a friend!"
"Hi. My name is Naruto."
"Hello Naruto, I'm Inazuma." She reached out and shook my hand. I then felt someone flash step behind me. Wait no, flash step was Bleach. What was it called in Naruto?
Whatever, I spun around, jumping to the side in a way that I don't bump into Raiu and Inazuma. I look up at the very tall man. He was wearing black clothes with one of those ninja flak jackets. I reached down, pulled out a kunai, and held it in a reverse grip.
"Naruto!" Raiu interrupted. "That's my dad."
"Oh, okay then." I put away my weapon. "Sorry."
"No, no, it's fine." He rubbed the back of his neck with a big smile. "I just really like scaring people, I should've expected that."
"I know, scaring people is the best!" I smiled. "It is so much fun!"
"I know, last time during the first Hokage's birthday I tried to scare some ANBU by…"
"He was in the hospital for three days." Raiu's mom smiled. "For some reason, he loves that story. I assume you came over for some studying?"
"Kind of." I pointed down the hall. "So can we go do that?"
"Sure!" She… Body Flicker! That's what it was called. She body flickered away.
"See you son!" Raiu's dad patted him on the shoulder and body flickered away too.
"Wow, they seem to really like using Body Flicker."
"Yeah." He nodded. "They're really good at it too, they even taught me."
"Oh wow, that is impressive." I nodded, my eyebrows high. "Not only is that a very advanced technique, teaching you something is like pulling teeth."
"No, it isn't." He lightly punched me in the shoulder.
"Actually it is. I've been through pulled teeth, three of them, and the only bad thing is when it shatters, and piece just keeps spinning and it takes like, two hours to get that one thing out."
"Wow, did that happen?"
"Yeah. Let's go, I'll tell you about Earthland."
"You went to Fairy Tail? That is unfair." He protested.
"Nah, I died very fast."
"Oh."
I've figured out why the original Naruto was so obsessed with ramen. The guy that sells ramen is one of the few people who doesn't care that he is Naruto. Other than Raiu's parents. They were awesome. The ramen dude is really nice. Most people in the various shops refuse to even serve me. Though of course being nice to me could be a marketing ploy. But with the quality of that ramen, he doesn't need to do that, I'd go there pretty often anyway.
"Okay, today we are doing a test on the Henge No Jutsu. Transform into a perfect copy of me." He called the first group forward. "Very good! Next is Uzumaki Naruto!" Iruka called me forward.(1)
"Okay." I stood at the front of the class and made the hand sign. "Transform!" I held the picture of Iruka in my mind and felt myself transform. Going from short to tall was very disorienting. I looked at Iruka so he could grade me.
"I don't have a mustache." He said.
"Oh, but I thought it would be a nice touch." I started stroking the length of the mustache, curling it a bit more. "Yes," I said in a very pretentious and snooty voice. "I would like your finest glass of sake."
"Sit down!" He yelled at me. I started walking back to my seat, still stroking the mustache. "And change back!" At least it's better than what the original Naruto did.
"Idiot." The person next to me murmured.
"Please, I'm going to become Hokage and rule you all one day." I brushed him off.
"Now's for the graduation exam you will be doing the Bunshin No Jutsu." That's the clone one. I really suck at this one. But I'll probably be able to do better if I use more chakra. "Please go into the other room when your name is called. One by one everyone left, but eventually, I was called. It's done in alphabetical order, and because my last name is Uzumaki I'm very close to the end.
I walk into the separate room with Iruka and the other guy. I don't remember his name. They were sitting at the table with a bunch of ninja forehead protectors. I bring my hands together and bring up the chakra. Power flood my body and I yell out, "Bunshin!" I looked behind me. There was a normal clone in the same position and one that was at a weird inhuman position on the ground. Hey, much better than the original Naruto did.
"Fail!" Iruka said. He didn't have to be so harsh.
"Now, Iruka. This is his third time, and he did make two clones..." The other person said. "We could let him pass…" The person wheedled.
Iruka thought for a bit. "No, sorry Mizuki. Everyone else made three clones, and one of his is useless. I can't let him pass."
"It's okay. You tried." I said as I walked out dejectedly.
While I was heading home I saw the guy from earlier. "Oh hi M...M… fudge I can't remember your name!"
"Hey Naruto. I wanted to talk to you. Follow me." He jumped up to a ledge sticking out of some house. "Iruka is a very serious person." He explained. "His parents were killed when he was a little kid and he's had to do everything by himself."
"He sounds like me, then why does he pick on me?" I asked. I really was asking, I didn't remember much of Naruto, especially the beginning. I didn't watch too much and stopped once I got to one of the big fillers. I understand why they did that, to avoid an anime-manga split, but it was still pretty annoying.(2)
"Well, he sees himself in you and probably just wants you to become truly strong. Try to understand how he's feeling.
"Wish I had graduated though. That really sucked."
"Well then, let me let you in on a little secret." Mizuki smiled. "There's a special scroll in the Hokage's house that has difficult jutsu in it. If you are able to master any jutsu in there they have to make you a shinobi."
"Really? What does it look like?" I know this is a trap, but it's an important part of the plot so I'll just play along.
I unroll the scroll in the place in the forest that the dude told me about. He has a very forgettable name. I look through many different jutsu and one catches my eye. This one is called the Kuroi Tenshi No Shoji Jutsu. (3) I might be able to do this one.
Almost half a day passes and I've mastered it. The basic, at least, it's supposed to have multiple forms, but I got the weakest one. Suddenly Iruka appeared in front of me. "Hey Iruka!"
"Naruto what are you doing?" He asked.
"I'm setting something up! I just finished, let me show you." I looked and made the single hand sign. I haven't seen this one before. My middle and ring fingers of my left hand were over the same fingers in my right, with the pointer finger and pinkie of my right hand were over my left. These fingers, along with my palms, were parallel to the ground, while my thumbs were sticking out, perpendicular to the ground. "Kuroi Tenshi No Shoji Jutsu!" I yelled. I felt familiar black feathered wings growing out of my back while my clothes morphed into black robes.
"Where did you get the scroll Naruto?" Iruka asked.
"Mizzizzaz told me about it. I know that's not his name, but he told me if I showed you a technique from this that I would be able to graduate!"
"Naruto!" Iruka pushed me out of the way and was then hit with some kunai knives. I scrambled for the scroll, rolled it up, and secured it with a sash. I heard Mizipuka yelling so I hid behind a tree.
"Because I'm Naruto!" Iruka said.
Mizakone laughed. "You'd even transform into what killed your parents to protect him?"
"I won't hand the scroll over to you!"
"You're an idiot, Naruto and I are the same."
"The same?" Iruka grunted.
"If you use the skills on that scroll you can do whatever you want. There's no way the demon fox won't use that power. Unlike what you're assuming…"
"Yeah," Iruka said. "the demon fox would do that, but Naruto wouldn't! I have acknowledged him as one of my excellent students! He may not be the hardest worker, and acts like he doesn't care about other people," That's not really an act. "He already knows what it is to feel pain in your heart. He isn't the demon fox anymore! He is a member of the Hidden Leaf village! He's… he's Uzumaki Naruto!"
"Iruka, I said I would take care of you later, but I'm changing my mind! Hurry up and die!" He threw a large shuriken at my teacher.
I held my two arms above my head in an X. I swiped them down, which threw an X of my black feathers at the shuriken. They exploded on contact, throwing it off of its path.
"You shouldn't have done that." Iruka narrowed his eyes as I walked out.
"You shouldn't have tried to kill my teacher."
"You idiot!" Iruka yelled. "Why did you come out? Run away!"
"Shut up! A punk like you I could kill in one shot!" Mike originally yelled at Iruka, before turning his attention to me.
I laughed. "Try it, I'll destroy you!"
"Then do it, demon fox!"
I smirked. "Well, you asked for it." I channeled chakra into the air and black feathers appeared, circling around my arms. I thrust my hands out in front of me and the feathers flew at the chunin. They hit, and exploded, throwing him into a nearby tree, and I heard cracks when he hit. Why didn't he dodge that? "I think I went a bit far on that one. Sorry." I rubbed the back of my neck sheepishly.
"Naruto, come over here, I have something I want to give you." I walked up to him. "Now close your eyes." I closed my eyes and felt something being tied around my forehead.
"Should I open my eyes now?" I asked.
"Sure." I opened my eyes and saw Iruka smiling at me. "Congratulations on graduating Naruto! Let's celebrate, I'll grab you a bowl of ramen." I hugged him as he beamed at me. "Ow, that hurt."
"Oh, sorry." I stepped back. "Wait what should we do with him?" I pointed at the… corpse? Is he dead, I don't know how strong those feathers are. Though they did look pretty powerful.
"I'll take him back." Iruka stood up. "You go to Ramen Ichiraku. I'll meet you there."
"Okay," I said.
1 Literally, black angel possession jutsu... at least according to google translate
2 I won't be doing honorifics, as I don't fully understand them, and would probably mess them up. I do understand sensei, but it'd be weird to do one and not the others
3 I won't be doing any of the anime filler, I'll just be following the manga
