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Song of the day: Song For Sienna by Brian Crain
Key:
Normal speaking: that looks weird.
Biju/summoning speaking: What do you want Gaki?
Normal thoughts: his eyes are wrong for his age.
Biju/summoning thoughts: I'm bored.
Ok so here we go.
Ghost child
Chapter 2
"So then what am I hokage-sama?" Naruto asked the man sitting in front of him. "If I am not reserves what am I? Considering Iruka said I have multiple senseis and I can only imagine you giving me to the other rookie senseis as back up on missions to earn mission credit on my file. If that isn't it what I am then what am I Hokage-sama?" Naruto whispered as he looked at the blonde man in front of him and red headed woman smiling at him next to the blonde man.
"Yes that is the gist of it. You will mostly be training yourself to fit in any situation but there is one technique I want you to learn first." The Hokage replied smiling at his son.
"Very well. What technique is it?" Naruto whispered with as always the quiet whisper like voice.
"The shadow clone technique. It will help with the time it takes to learn things and give you more yous to bond with teammates. To get to know them more and to plan things farther in advance, if you get that far with them that is." The Hokage added seeing his son's lost expression.
Naruto nodded then looked to him and asked, "When may I get started on training?"
"Now, Kushina-chan could you please go with Naruto to show him the shadow clone?" the Hokage asked as Naruto saw why she was here.
"Sure, Sochi-chan, we are going to training ground 11. Do you know the body flicker?" she asked, receiving a nod they both disappeared in a whirl of leaves.
"Bold move giving him the shadow clone. I'm not sure whether to congratulate you on finally noticing him or congratulate you on sticking one to the council's plea for him to be held back." A voice said from the right window.
"Was it that bad sensei?" Minato asked his sensei.
"You want the truth or a comforting lie?" the toad sage asked.
"The truth." He said knowing he might get chewed out worse than what his son did.
"You abandoned him to the village who hates him. I'm surprised that he's not raging and hating everyone in the village. If he went rogue I would be obliged to hunt him down but he would have every reason to go rogue. No amount of loyalty could keep someone in a village full of people who hate him and hates everything he does. And there were moments I thought I would have to as well. Thankfully he met the Librarian and is now probably going to be one of the strongest shinobi in Konoha. But I have no idea if he will ever call back his emotions though. He pushed them to the side knowing that if he kept them he wouldn't be able to not hate people. And the sad thing is I didn't notice it. The Librarian pointed it out to me. She pointed out a lot about him. If I didn't know better I would say Itachi would have a serious competitor for his potential." Jiraya said to Minato getting him to lower his head in shame.
"We couldn't leave Narumi alone Jiraya she is the Kyuubi's container. We had to watch to make sure it couldn't get out."
"And in doing so you left your son to deal with hatred." Jiraya said getting a flinch out of the Hokage.
"Enough about that for now. What I want to know is how does this librarian know so much about him when he is almost a ghost everywhere else?" Minato asked revealing a large curiosity of his.
"The Librarian is a 40 year old woman known for her intelligence and categorization. When the war ended she built a new library with two sections in it. The first section has many stories and novels used mainly by civilians. The second section is categorized into branches, with nin, gen, tai, iryou, ken, and other jutsu used by shinobi with scrolls meant for control purposes, and scrolls on fuuinjutsu as well."
"That doesn't exactly tell me how she knows my son so well sensei."
"Isn't that what you should ask him yourself? You already left him alone for twelve years. How much longer is he going to have to wait?" Jiraiya said looking at his former student seriously.
"If you're so worried about him why don't you ask him yourself?" Minato asked a little irked by his sensei.
"I tried. Let's just say it didn't work." Jiraiya said a little sheepishly. Remembering what happened.
Flashback!
Naruto was in his room when a knock came from the door. Walking over he opened it to see a big man with a large white mane of hair falling down his back.
"Hey Naruto, what are you doing all by yourself?" the big man asked.
"I apologize but I don't know who you are." Naruto whispered closing his door. But it was stopped by the big mans hand in the doorway.
"Hold on their Naruto, I am, Jiraiya, the epitome of manliness! I fall for no woman's wiles! When you're me, you only need to flash that sexiness to have women fall at your feet. The great toad sage of Mount Myōboku. Jiraiya!" He said introducing himself to the young boy. The sad thing was that Naruto had no reaction to his introduction only looking with an emotionless face causing him to cry on the inside. Being the manly man he was he moved towards the door again only to be stopped by the boy who asked one question in response.
"Why should I let you in my room when I just met you Jiraiya-sama?" he asked.
Jiraiya stopped. Most kids would be shocked into seeing a sannin and let them do pretty much whatever. This kid however was not impressed. "I just want to know what your doing kid." He said getting a simple, one word answer before getting the door closed in his face.
"Homework."
Flashback end!
"When was this?" Minato asked his sensei.
"Three years ago. The boy hasn't changed either. I asked a week ago and he gave a similar answer. 'I am busy Jiraiya-sama, there isn't much here for a sannin, I suggest you take your business to Hokage-sama.'" Jiraiya was a little peeved at the brats attitude but knew he wasn't getting anywhere with him so had left the child alone. Good thing he had too (not that he knew that of course) Naruto was moving things around that day. "Are you going to try to take your responsibility as a parent seriously now or still focus on Narumi?" Jiraiya asked looking at his student seriously.
"I don't know what to do with him Jiraiya. I tried to teach him the family styles of taijutsu but he denied that and asked why we were suddenly paying any attention to him. He even told us to our face he might move out, thinking he was an orphan and that we wanted to focus on Narumi. The scary thing is that he was right. I still want to focus on Narumi, just less because I know that I can trust Narumi's training in Kakashi's hands. But he is a total mystery to me. He is near emotionless it almost makes me think he is one of Danzo's agents." Here Minato shuddered thinking what the old war hawk would do with his son. "He deserved a better childhood. Thinking that we weren't his parents all the time and focusing on Narumi, I can't imagine what I would have done in his position. He still doesn't call us kaa-chan or tou-san either, only our names and very politely as well. Just stuffing himself in his room to do whatever he does when he goes in his room." Not that Minato had tried hard, or at all to find out what he was doing in there before the day before when Kushina and he were surprised by his grades and that he was nominated as rookie of the year. With as perfect scores as one could get. Only Itatchi Uchiha had gotten that high in this and the last generation.
"Well it's done now no use on lamenting on the past just keep an eye on him and if he shows any signs of… well anything let me know." Minato said to his sensei in hopes the older ninja would be able to catch anything new about his pretty much ghost of a son. Huh, ghost. Such a fitting word for him, seeing as we never notice him whenever we are in the same room or not, its like he isn't there at all. Minato thought a little depressed.
"I'll keep an eye on him Minato don't worry." Jiraiya said vanishing out the window and leaving his student to think and do paperwork.
-GC-
"So, I am an elite genin?" Naruto whispered looking at Kushina.
"That's what your father calls it. Your job from what he explained to me is to work with everyone for better results. If the jounin sensei were ever incapacitated then you would take over, and command the genin to safety or if it's possible then to finish the mission. You also will take over training if the jounin ever asks you to. You are pretty much training by yourself while helping the genin. Another thing, you will have to attend weekly training sessions with each sensei to get used to the teams. Does that make sense sochi-chan?" Kushina asked her son getting a nod. They had finished the shadow clone a while ago. Naruto had surprised her by making one to check the chakra cost of making the clones. After finding the cost he made five and sent them to another side of the training field with instructions to do something about a seal. "Sochi-chan, what seal are you having problems with? I'm a seal master myself I can help you with whatever you are having troubles with." Kushina said hoping to get closer to her son and wanting to know how advanced he was without their help.
Naruto stared at her. Blinking a few times he continued to stare for a few more moments making Kushina think that she had done something wrong again and was about to apologize but was stopped by Naruto when he started talking, "While your help would most likely get this project done much quicker I would like to say that I was the one to make the seal from scratch." He said making her lower her hopes of getting closer to her son. "However, there are a few things that you could show me that would speed the process up a lot if you would be willing to teach me?" Naruto asked seeing her plight in her eyes.
"What do you want to know Sochi-chan?" she asked brightly.
"I want to know more about Uzumaki sealing techniques. The Uzumaki were, are, and always will be known for their sealing prowess, I would like to think they made a technique to fasten the pace of writing seals out on the battlefield, but I have no knowledge on where I could find such a technique and was hoping you could teach me if they had one." Naruto whispered looking at Kushina who was more than a little surprised, but very happy at the outcome, and very proud of her Sochi-chan to ask for the Uzumaki sealing techniques.
"Gladly Sochi-chan. Just know, I will not be an easy sensei in teaching the Uzumaki sealing techniques." She said looking seriously at her son. If he could not do it… no, he can do it. I believe in him. She thought looking at her Sochi-chan's face of determination. Or is that how his face always is? She couldn't tell. Determining to take it as his determination she began, "Sochi-chan, what do you know about the density of chakra?" she began.
"Density of a persons chakra can affect multiple things, such as chakra affinities, reserve size, coil size and jutsu size, length or strength."
Nodding her head she accepted that answer though had more to add, "The density of a persons chakra does affect those things yes, but it can also cause it to become solid if one makes it thick enough. Like so," she said holding her hand out palm up while a signature chakra chain came out of her hand with the links being a deep bluish black (A/N I know they are different color I am just making them that color it does have a purpose.).
Walking closer Naruto looked at the links that looked to be about between 2 and 1 & ½ inches thick. "Are you consciously making the chakra thicker? It seems like the chakra is solid, not like a liquid that I imagined it would be in. though being a chain one would hope it would be solid." He said musing to himself.
"Very good sochi-chan! The chakra chains were the method of many Uzumakis to restrain tough opponents because of the surprise that comes with them. Getting the chakra chains to work you need to physically make your chakra solid enough to hold something down. That is what we shall start with before we can get into the Uzumaki sealing techniques." Kushina said as they got started on chakra chains with her son.
It had been two months and Naruto was getting used to the D-rank missions the Hokage kept sending him on. He had advanced in using the chakra chains and had found out what they were the precursor to when Kushina had told him about the real technique.
Flashback!
It was three weeks after graduation and only three of the teams had passed, Kakashi Hatake's team of Sakura Haruno, Narumi Uzumaki-Namikze, and Sasuke Uchiha, Kurenai Yuhi's team of Hinata Hyuuga, Shino Aburame, and Kiba Inuzuka, and Asuma Sautobi's team of Shikamaru Nara, Ino Yamanaka, and Choji Akimichi. Naruto had gone on multiple D-rank missions with each team. Though he had gone by himself quite a lot as well, using shadow clones to get the job done quickly and easily. He had just finished getting the chakra chains to work after studying Kushina's version more. It was more of an advanced chakra control method than anything else, as the user had to channel chakra through the chain to make it sturdy enough to grab something. Naruto had also figured out other uses of it as well. But Kushina was here to talk about the next step.
"Ok Sochi-chan, next after the chakra chains is the liquid chakra. While it is usually easier to use the liquid chakra for the real technique it gives you the right mind set and control needed to form the next step of the Uzumaki sealing. Use your chakra as a fluid. Let the ground be your paper and your chakra as your ink. Channel your chakra and control its flow on the ground to form whatever seal you want to write. Keep the image in your mind about what seal you are making to keep double checking your work as you go." She kept talking as she knelt down and channeled chakra for the real technique. The chakra leaked out and spilled on the ground looking a bit brighter than the chains were in color, now it was a sot of bluish green in color snaking along the ground as she formed a simple seal on the ground in front of her.
With a small bang the miniature exploding tag she 'wrote' on the ground went off.
Naruto watched Kushina and her chakra flow on the ground with interest and had many ideas of seals he wanted to try when he mastered this.
Flashback end!
He had enough D-ranks stored to try out a C-rank but knew he shouldn't in case something happened on it, which would need more than him on the mission. He was very cautious considering he gotten out of the academy only two months prior. He had done a number of training sessions with each team as well and found that each team had their faults and each team was a bit lazy. Kakashi's team only worked on teamwork that wasn't there because of the personality dynamics, he had sparred with them each and all together and only Narumi and Sasuke ever truly attacked him, though Sakura's screeches could count as an attack if it got to your ear. Kurenai's team worked harder in that they trained a little bit but Kurenai mothered her team more than train them and it showed when he sparred with each member, Shino was cool headed and could plan, Kiba was brash but had good take down jutsu, and Hinata had a very good advantage over him with her byakugan. Asuma's team was… lazy is the only good way to put it. Ino was the only one who truly tried against him and she had a tough time battling against him in his mind when she tried to possess him, Shikamaru only looked at him and planned, very well, but lazily, Choji was a very… squishy… person, he didn't like hurting his friends and he counted Naruto as one of them after Naruto helped them train and gave them each tips about training. Only Sasuke, Narumi, Shino, Hinata and Kiba were any true 'threat' to him, but each had a weakness. Sasuke was very overconfident and would start to rage after his first miss, Narumi was scatterbrained and had a hard time planning against him, Shino was a very repetitive once you figure out how to unravel the attacks it was simple, Hinata was a very shy girl that took a lot to get her to fight him and Kiba was extremely brash and would make mistakes constantly.
He had also kept up his appearances at the Library. Reading scrolls and writing notes on what he understood and what he got from the information. The library was a good place to him. It only really tolerated people who wanted to read or pursue knowledge, in all forms, opinions, fact, theories, and group resignation on some subjects. Most 'demon' haters never went to the library for anything so it was a safe haven for him. Plus the Librarian and the others at the library were always helpful if he needed to find something.
That day the hokage had summoned him though to his office while he was working on a medical scroll. Wonder why Hokage-sama needs me? He thought on his way up the tower. Walking up the stairway to the office he knocked politely.
"Enter." The hokage's voice came through the door.
Opening the door he saw Kakashi's team and Kushina behind the Hokage who was in his chair looking over mission scrolls.
"Ah, Naruto, good timing. Team 7 has requested a C-rank mission, I want you to accompany them is that understood?"
"What is the mission?" he asked.
"Guarding a bridge builder from wave. You are to stay with him until the bridge is finished. Okay?" he said looking at each of his shinobi in turn with his gaze landing on Kakashi last. Getting nods all around even if it was reluctant from the Haruno he continued, "Ok you will meet the client around ten am at the village gate tomorrow understood?" getting more nods he only had one more thing to say to them. "Everyone is dismissed."
The next morning found Kakashi by the gate with Tazuna who by the time he saw the team was less than impressed.
"This is my protection? A bunch of brats? The pink one looks like she would fall over at the first sign of trouble, the dark haired one looks like he couldn't do anything without help, the other girl looks weak and would fall over at the first hit, and mr. Silence looks like he could use a lesson on how to talk to people." He said listing them off.
Of course Narumi was never one to accept insults from anyone and tried to fly at the man only to be held back by her nii-san. Glaring at her brother for holding her back she only saw the neutral expression and his whisper of "It's not nice to attack someone just because they insulted you. Be the better person." He said looking at her.
Still glaring at her brother for being so neutral she went and stood next to her sensei, "Well when are we leaving?" she asked a little irritated that she not only had to stay longer but got lectured by her brother.
"Well are you ready Tazuna-san?" Kakashi said.
"Yeah just keep me safe until I get the bridge finished." Tazuna said.
-GC-
As they walked out of Konoha Naruto couldn't help but remember the warning given by the Librarian when he went there last.
Flashback!
"Uzumaki-Namikaze-san, please come with me for a moment." The Librarian asked him with a calm expression. Nodding Naruto followed her into her office where she usually kept a few hundred scrolls for personal use or for other seekers usage. He had the privilege of seeing a few of those scrolls and what they contained.
The room was lined with seals for privacy and storage in case she needed privacy or something she hadn't used in a while. Naruto knew she hardly ever used those seals mainly because they were absolute. No chakra or vibrations could leave the room once the seals were active. Didn't matter if the door was open or not, with those seals active nothing, no sound, and no chakra left the room until it was deactivated. No listening seal worked either. He helped design it, with help from other library members who were interested in the project.
Most listening seals were used as a microphone that sent signals to the other end of the seal, so in shutting off any chakra from leaving the room those seals were defeated. Also there were seals that only recorded sound and then played back what had been recorded after grabbing the seal and playing it in another secure room to tell what went on. The seal that was designed worked like a bubble around every person in the room connected, no sound could be heard from inside the bubble, or could any uninvited listeners spy on the meeting, this aspect defeated any recording seal anyone could bring into her office. In applying this seal the people within the seal bubble could accurately attest to the strength of the seal by the bubble of distorted area around them, like a heat wave passed through the area. The seal took a fair amount of chakra to use but it had a very, very large battery. Every time a seeker, writer or a reader entered the library they got their books and/or scrolls and started channeling chakra into the seals on the underside of the tables. The seals worked like a charm against anyone spying either, as it distorted a lot of things including the byakugan and sharingan. The byakugan couldn't get past the bubble of chakra to read the lips and the sharingan couldn't either again because of the fact that the office had no windows and once the seals were active no vibrations could be detected by ear or sight in the air around the door since the bubble hovered a few inches before the door to stop said dojutsus. So whatever was said could be said in almost perfect knowledge that they were safe from spying.
"So I'm leaving the village for a while. On a mission to wave." Naruto whispered.
Narrowing her eyes at the location she started instructing him in some things, "While you are there look for a girl named Teinga. She dropped off the grid a while ago after she went there. She is a seeker and a very good one. You would be doing the library a favor if you found her and brought her back. I will of course update your account if you find her. Do not underestimate anything there. Teinga is a chunin level seeker, be careful. If something happened to her it was beyond her capabilities of dealing with. I'm sure I don't need to tell you how wary you need to be when in that country. Also as a bonus if you are able to then please find the ruins of Uzushiogakure, view the scenery and place a library marker for future reference." She said finishing her instructions. The library marker was a beacon for library shinobi that was placed when someone high up in the library system had an interest in something and wanted to go there for future investigation, like the ancient forests in Iwa or the healing springs in Suna or maybe the insects and other strange flora or fauna.
Nodding his head in silence Naruto took everything in as the Librarian smiled softly at the child who had done quite a bit to help the library. They were in his debt for getting a few seals ready for use. He had been commissioned for a different seals by a many people for different use such as an invisibility seal or a chakra surpression seal to use for prisoners. He had a lot of work to do. He couldn't wait til he had enough saved to move out. Then he could whole-heartedly start working on his seals and what he truly wanted to work on.
Flashback end!
Walking along the road Naruto noticed the puddle on the road in contrast to the clear sky they had been having for the last few weeks and deadpanned at whoever was in there. Note, his deadpanned expression is very similar to his normal face; the only difference is the more annoyed expression in his eyes. Silently he substituted himself for a clone he had following them and kept watch over what happened.
It happened in a blur of motion for the genin excluding Naruto in the trees. Two blurs came up from the puddle with huge metal claws around different arms and a chain connecting the two. Moving quickly they dashed forward and wrapped the chain around Kakashi and 'Naruto' who were quickly sliced into pieces and killed. At least that's how team 7 saw it happen.
Naruto watched as the two missing nin went directly toward the guy they were protecting but Narumi and Sasuke reacted fast enough to deter them enough to save him. Sasuke used a kunai and shuriken to pin the chain to a tree pinning them together while still linked by the chain. They both released the chain simultaneously and charged the brats who dared attack them. Sasuke was having a rough time taking his opponent down, as he was faster and stronger than the genin. Narumi was having an easier time than Sasuke but still a rough time as she was trained by the hokage.
After a minute of fighting the two brothers were simultaneously knocked out by Kakashi, who head locked Sasuke's opponent, and Naruto, who merely chopped the back of Narumi's opponents neck. Naruto stood behind his opponent as he looked over the man and his sister. Seeing a scratch on his sister's hand he reached out for it looking at her in the eyes.
Giving her hand to her brother Narumi was completely unaware of what was going on, as it was just a scratch. Hey, what is that green stuff? She thought to her tenant. Yes Narumi knew all about the kyuubi except for unlike her mother who kept it locked up tight she got to know the beast actually trying to get to know him, he was still a jack ass but hey it was getting better. He tolerated her presence now instead of just shoving her out of the mindscape. He even accepted her compliments on how soft his fur was when she had climbed on his head one day. Strangely enough it was those compliments that had made the Kyuubi wonder about what his container truly was like. He was not pleased by her brother's act of neutrality when he could feel the pain but it was not his place. Kyuubi had kept most of what he knew to himself other than the useless tales he had told Narumi
It's poison brat. Looks like your brother knows what's going down at least. The kyuubi said as Narumi started to feel something different with her hand. Coming back to reality she looked down and saw her brother concentrating on her hand with a green glow around her the scratch. His eyebrows were furrowed showing just how concentrated he was.
After a few moments the green substance came out and Naruto used his medical chakra to take it off his sister's hand. Staggering back a few steps Naruto took a few deep breaths before regaining his neutral façade. The looks on the genin's faces were different however. Narumi looked thankful, Sakura looked annoyed at him… again, and Sasuke looked at him in contempt.
Why would he help someone who was weak enough to be hurt in the first place? Sasuke thought as he watched Naruto remove the poison from his sister.
Guessing Sasuke's thoughts by his face Naruto turned to him and spoke, "Sasuke, it is the job of the strong to protect the weaker as they grow, for they are the ones with greater potential. Self sustaining shinobi will only wilt as they stagnate in their skills." Naruto then turned to his sister and finished treating her poisoned hand. Finished with treating her hand Naruto moved away and looked at Tazuna. "I think you need to tell us why you are being targeted Tazuna-san. Enemy ninja don't show up during C-rank missions just thugs and bandits not shinobi. Who would want you so dead as to hire missing-nin?" Naruto questioned the man.
Sweating at the accusation Tazuna looked at the others and decided that they should know the truth. And so came forth the story of Gato Inc. in Wave. The monster that owned the corporation that controlled the Wave population.
"Since you lied about the mission I have no choice but to return to the village for the kids sake. They aren't ready for something like this." Kakashi said as he started to move back but stopped when he saw Naruto staying by Tazuna's side. "Naruto. Come on we're going back the Hokage needs to know about the mistake here."
Naruto just kept staring at Kakashi with little to no emotion. Sighing Kakashi looked at naruto and said, "Your going to keep going aren't you?"
Receiving a nod from Naruto, Naruto then turned and spoke back to the team, "You are the sensei of your team and hold power over them yes but I am a lone man cell with no sensei. An elite genin. Besides doing the mission is the best for the end of our shinobi records. How often do you get to help free a nation?" Naruto said looking straight at Kakashi.
Kakashi was now in a pinch. If he relented and allowed his team to go they could be in danger. However if he left then Naruto would be in much greater danger than they would be. Neither decision would come without consequences and pulling rank wouldn't work either because Naruto was a partner team in the mission meaning if anything happed to them he would be responsible to finish it and vice versa. Closing his eye he thought about the two situations and decided that he didn't want the Hokage's child by himself in another nation. That was just asking for trouble. Eye smiling at Naruto he responded to Naruto's stare, "We will continue with the mission." Causing a mental cheer through team 7.
The rest of the journey to the water was simple as they didn't really talk much, Sasuke was brooding as usual, Narumi was looking along the road for any more traps and Sakura wasn't paying anything besides Sasuke attention, and Kakashi was paying attention to his surroundings while reading his smut. Sakura had asked if there were any ninja in wave and was answered with a 'no' Wave didn't have ninja as only country with villages had ninja, Lightning, Rock, Wind, Fire, Water, Grass, Rain, and others had villages though the big five, Lightning, Rock, Fire, Water and Wind were considered the top five being the biggest and strongest with the kages as leaders of their villages. Naruto who already knew this and other facts about each country ignored it and kept looking at the road ahead. At least he did until Sakura tried to insult him again.
"WHY AREN'T YOU PAYING ATTENTION NARUTO-BAKA! THIS IS WHY YOU ARE SO STUPID YOU NEVER PAY ANY ATTENTION TO ANYONE!" she shouted successfully getting on his nerves for once.
"The reason I never paid any attention in class is because I already knew it. For example, did you know that the Raikage, said to be the fastest man alive because of his lightning armor, leads Kumogakure? Kumo also has a lot of lightning specialists being in the land of lightning which upgrades their already deadly kenjutsu?" Naruto whispered in a whisper like tone that had ice in it. "Furthermore what is more important to you, impressing the Uchiha, or becoming a kunoichi? You have no skills, loud as a banshee, and have no concept of stealth whatsoever." He said staring at the girl who was trying to uphold a strong front but was failing miserably. "You have chakra control but no means to use it, you have no genjutsu, no medical jutsu nothing but the academy three that you had to do to graduate. So tell me Haruno, who is more stupid, the one trying to impress someone not even interested in them or the one constantly improving himself giving tips and helping where he can?" at this point Sakura was in tears at his blatantly obvious points.
"Maa maa Naruto I think that's enough." Kakashi said ending the verbal abuse Naruto was doing to his student. Completely relevant and useful advice but she is still my student. Kakashi thought with a little remorse. Why did I pass this team again? Oh yeah, the council decided in its infinite wisdom that I had to teach this team. They had decided that after a bit of research looking who was going to train the 'last Uchiha' Sasuke had been the second golden child of Konoha with Narumi being the first. Naruto was little more than a ghost to most people. Not after some idiot leaked it that Naruto instead of Narumi was the jinchuuriki. There were only a few attempts at assassination on him both politically and on the streets after the announcement. Of course it was never proven who had done it. Kakashi mentally shook his head. He didn't need the reminder of how bad he had failed protecting his sensei's son from the abuse. As they walked along the road in silence Naruto was going through his finances and other seals that he knew while keeping watch to pass the time, Kakashi was still reading his smut though only flipping two pages every half hour showing his attentiveness, Sasuke was brooding as usual though had an inkling in the back of his head nagging him about what Naruto had said to him about the weak and the strong, Sakura was just looking at her crush hoping to get some attention though at the back of her head a voice started whispering things against Sasuke like his arrogance, pride, and selfishness.
As they reached the water a boatman sailed up and Tazuna talked to him and got them in the boat, Kakashi had to water walk a ways because the boat didn't have enough room for him, Naruto switched with him after a while so he could rest, he didn't have infinite reserves after all. The genin were quite surprised that the Naruto could do so much that they couldn't.
Why didn't tou-san and Kaa-chan teach me that? Narumi thought a little sad that she was still so far behind her brother.
How is he walking on water? Sakura thought towards the blonde. She still couldn't forgive him for embarrassing her in front of Sasuke.
How could that loser have such skill?! I need it to destroy him! Sasuke thought in fury.
Fufufufu… naughty kasumi-chan. Were the thoughts of thoughts of the leader of the team.
Ok so I have just enough for an apartment but not enough to keep me fed after that. I am going to have to either start taking more missions or selling some seals to the library, or a shinobi only store. Ok next is seals… and so Naruto's thoughts kept going through his finance options and possibilities of seals with the Uzumaki way.
Once they arrived at shore they got off and were walking to Tazuna's house when they walked by a near by lake and the fog seemed to thicken a little around the woods.
Suddenly Narumi threw a kunai toward a bush where a thunk was heard. Walking over to check it out Naruto saw a bunny with a white coat. Frowning he picked up the bunny by its neck and showed it to Kakashi staring meaningfully at the coat.
Widening his eyes Kakashi shouted out "GET DOWN!" with Kakashi grabbing tazuna and the genin hitting the deck. Not a moment later a giant sword flew over their heads slamming into a tree where Naruto saw just what he wanted to see. "An eyebrow less ninja with cow print pajamas. Oh joy." He whispered out.
Unluckily Zabuza heard and snarled at the brat who thought to insult him. "Quiet you! Your not so smooth yourself either are you? You can't be above genin at most." Zabuza shouted releasing his full KI on the group getting a passed out Tazuna, Narumi was quivering, Sasuke was shaking, Sakura was on the floor holding her head, a blank jounin and a miffed blonde. Said blonde just yawned at the KI and looked to where the pajama ninja was.
"Because I don't believe it to be worth my time either. Let's just cut to the chase shall we? You need Tazuna dead we need him alive. The same individual different states of being." Naruto whispered out a little annoyed. Bantering was, while fun, a waste of time right now.
"Excellent idea brat. Let's begin. Hidden mist technique!" as he said that thick fog rolled in and blinded the group (the conscious ones anyway). They got ready to counter whatever attack this monster could cause.
Well that was fun. Can't say I didn't have a little fun writing that.
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