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Okay your favorite writer is back in his first ever update, thank you, thank you. But really over 300 hits in about a week, really I never expected my first attempt would be such a success. Now so far I have basically kept the Naruto universe more or less the same as in the actual show but in this chapter things are going to change and more than a bit. If you don't like it give me a review that says so. I already have an idea for an alternate Fanfic that might have the same basic first chapter that will be a little more traditional to please some of those who hate cutting and pasting Naruto and other Animes together. Personally I think that what I have done is to create a rich blend of his world and my own, but that's up for you guys to read and decide for yourselves anyway, but please don't hassle me until you read through the entire thing okay? Because writing another Fanfic would make it so I would take even longer to update and so yeah, think before you start hating my adaptations to the old anime, okay? On the bright side this chapter is longer than the first one and I have truly put my heart and soul into writing it, so enjoy!
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Chapter 2
Revelation
Naruto stared open mouthed at Bain, still trying to comprehend the world changing fact that the man claiming to be his grandfather had just thrust upon him. Finally he was able to speak once more.
"You're joking right? Naruto asked his look of shock still frozen on his face. "Just tell me it's a joke already!"
When Bain remained silent and unmoving he knew he had his answer. His fist clenched open and closed unconsciously and he closed his eyes for a few seconds as he tried to regained control of his body for a few seconds. Naruto shook his head refusing to believe it
"They told me that all my relatives and family were dead that they were killed by the Kyuubi! They said that there was no one left, you hear me? No one!"
Bain sighed, "I swear on my honor that I would never make such a sick joke, I think I'd rather die before torturing anyone with such a cruel lie and you least of all, grandson."
In the back of his mind he heard a snicker and he mentally reinforced the cage holding It at bay.
When he heard that last word Naruto's eyes snapped open and in their depths Bain saw anger, a cold fury that made even his sky blue eyes look menacing.
"Why then," Bain sat there waiting patiently for Naruto to finish. "If that is really true, then why. Why did you leave me to suffer alone!"
To Bain's eyes a slight red aura was leaking out of the boy in front of him and as he looked into his eyes he saw them change from a deep blue to blood red silted evil eyes, eyes filled with rage and hate. He shuddered, knowing that the boy was unconsciously drawing on the power of the very thing that had made him all that he was today. A poor teenager who had not only just been though a very harrowing experience, but one who was hated and feared around the village of his birth for a thing that until now he hadn't even known existed. Not only that but he had just made it worse by turning his world on it's axis once more and so he could only give him the time he needed to process everything he was learning. Well he thought I hope he's not that angry at me but considering what happened he needs a target to take his anger out on luckily I am a better target than any of the villagers that might have him killed. They would say he was out of control and that it was foolish to let the "demon" live in the first place.
Therefore he was not surprised when he saw Naruto's attack and he knew that in here he could easily have stopped the attack from connecting. He also knew that if he did so he would destroy any chance he had at having a regaining his trust and having family again. So instead he merely sat there when Naruto drew his fist back and nailed him in the jaw hard with a powerful haymaker. The blow, enhanced by Kyuubi's chakra, was strong enough to send him flying back, shattering the glass and he landed only a few inches away from the Koi pond. The ridges and seems of his armor digging into the ground uprooting the grass making a large furrow in dark brown earth. In an instant Naruto was before Bain, his hand cocked as though ready to beat Bain into the ground, but when he looked into his eyes something stopped him. For in those eyes he saw the same thing that he had seen when he had looked in the mirror after a particularly bad birthday, pain. Not from the attack he had just inflicted upon him, but deep soul wrenching pain, a pain he knew all too well. Loneliness.
The red glow faded from his body and his eyes turned back into their usual blue, though he still glared at the man before him. Great grandfather or no, he still owed him one hell of an explanation. As he got up rubbing his jaw, Bain looked at Naruto, pity in his eyes for the teenager before him. Who by no fault of his own had been denied the chance to have a happy childhood. He knew also that no excuse, even if it was the truth, would excuse his neglect in Naruto's eyes, but he still had tell him the truth and he had to know his heritage and his possible destiny. He was surprised though, at how Naruto didn't attack him further when he was done he had half expected him to try and kill him but when he stopped he looked sad for a moment before reverting back to scowling.
Naruto scowled as he looked down at Bain as he offered his hand to him. "Don't think that this changes anything you still owe me one very convincing story."
Bain took the offered hand and nodded, he already knew that he would owe him that and much more for his past neglect and it was a debt that he was well able to clear.
"I
understand it is time that you know everything." Bain dusted his
armor off and motioned for Naruto to follow him back into the
glass-walled study. When he reentered it he closed his eyes and
concentrated for a second, and the glass of the shattered wall
reformed without a speck of glass out of place. He then looked back
at Naruto as he sat down for the second time opposite him. This time
he sat with arms crossed, still glaring at him and his scowl still
etched deeply on his face. He knew that he had one chance to regain
his trust, he just hoped that what he was about to show him would do
that very task. Bain sighed, he really couldn't blame Naruto for
his reaction but he knew that it would take some doing to convince
him that this was the truth. He decided to show him what he had been
working on for the past few years.
He reached over to the
bookcase and withdrew a large green book with a gold dragon, the
exact same one on the front of his armor, on the cover and opened it
and showed it to Naruto.
"This book is the product a full year of work to trace my family line that I started over 450 years ago. After numerous dead ends and much sorrow I finally made it to Konoha."
Naruto blinked and then the significance of the number hit him. Four hundred and fifty years! That would make this guy ancient but he didn't look that old only about in his early thirties. Curious to see what this guy was trying to pull he took the book and looked at the picture on the very first page. It was of a man and a woman the man was the exact picture of Bain and the woman had shining blue eyes and long brown hair. Her stomach was swollen in what looked like the last month of pregnancy, and Bain had his hand on it as though rubbing gently. He was smiling at her as she looked back at him and it was easy to see that they were deeply in love.
"Odd how many people long for immortality but when those with even a shred of conscious have it can become a kind of curse."
Hearing that Naruto looked up into the stony features of Bain trying to see if he had just admitted to being immortal or not. When he saw that he was being truthful once again Naruto had to wonder why he had never heard anything about this bloodline, or whatever it was, before.
Meanwhile Bain's memories were in an uproar, for every time he had looked at that picture he couldn't help but to remember what had happened long so ago. He couldn't help but feel like he had failed in his duty as a husband and a father. That he abandoned his wife to die lonely and alone without him by her side and his son to never have known his other parent. But he knew that he couldn't allow his emotions to run freely, not now, not when Naruto was probably feeling a million times worse. So he took all the pain and stored it for later remembering that pain can be turned into power.
"Naruto, a long time before you were even born I was ready to settle down for good and I had finally found the perfect person to do it with. I loved her with all my heart and so that is why I fought with everything I had to protect her."
"I
thought I had failed and she was dead long ago it was only four
months ago that I found out she had survived the cataclysm and still
lived."
"The story is a long one and I will tell you what
you need to know but there is far more that will need to be told."
Bain gestured to the outside of the room. "This place is a
dimensional plane I have made that time flow faster here than in the
real world, and it comes in handy for when you need to obtain some
extra time to heal or rest, but even here time is limited and you are
still not ready to know all that I have to tell you."
Naruto's scowl was still in place despite Bain's story and it deepened further upon hearing that. He was in no mood to have things sneak up on him and bite him later, but he decided to listen first and ask more questions later.
"The sad truth of the matter is that up until now I did not know that this planet still existed. Had I known I would have made sure that you would have never known the pain of loneliness like you do now," Here Bain sighed and his face took on an old look of such pain and defeat that Naruto couldn't help but feel sorry for the man before him. So he calmed his rage and decided to listen to his story. He was curious when his grandfather reached over and pulled out another book from a nearby shelf. Much to Naruto's surprise he did not open it but looked back at Naruto as he began his story.
"Long ago before you were born or chakra was even discovered the universe was in great peril. The last of the Starcrafters were fighting against as force of unspeakable evil." Bain smiled bitterly. "Many had fallen in battle to him and many of my friends before I had unlocked the secrets of this armor and gathered the remaining 'crafters together for one final battle to end either him or us."
"Were it not for a lot of luck and this armor that I have on we would have lost but as it is I am one of the last of my kind."
He looked up at Naruto "Until now."
"You have the potential to become a Starcrafter like me and my own ancestor was so long ago."
Naruto blinked and gave Bain a look that was so confused that if it wasn't for the gravity of his last statement the elder walker would have started laughing. As it was he couldn't blame Naruto as many others had, in the past, been put in this situation with the same basic response pattern.
"First of all what is a starcrafter and how come I've never heard of one before?"
"There are many things that can describe us but there are three major differences between starcrafters and normal people. One we are immortal, or at least we are unless our brains are damaged or destroyed. Two we can draw strength from our memories and form the very land around us. Lastly we can use our energy to travel at the speed of light shifting across the bounderies of space."
Naruto sat there as he tried to absorb all of this and Bain sighed, and gestured and yet another book flew off the shelf and soared over to Naruto.
"This is a text that contains information on what we were like before the great disaster, and I believe that it will help you to understand more later."
"All shall be explained to you but first I think it would benefit you to see the birth of Chakra and the reason for my assumption of your world's demise."
He then opened the book on his lap and fell silent, Naruto looked over at the book, curious as to why he stopped talking. So he got up and walked over to the elder walker. After flashing his hand in front of his eyes a few times he looked down at the open book before him.
When his eyes made contact with the first page he felt an odd sensation, as though his mind was being drawn out of his body and into the heart of the book. As he looked at the book he saw that it had no words in it just a swirling blue substance that seemed to be beckoning to him, calling him to come and see the memories of the past. At first horrified he resisted, but then he saw that though Bain's head was slumped down, a white ethereal spectral version of him now floated before him one hand pointing to the book the other held out for him to clasp.
"Don't fight the call, this is the quickest for you to see the events in that happened in the past. In this book I have stored some of my memories and it is there that you will learn the truth about your world."
Intrigued by his words Naruto reached his hand out to Bain and clasped his hand as soon as he felt Bain's hand touch his he felt odd. Light and unbound by gravity and he looked down to see his body head slumped still sitting where he had left it. Then he looked down and got sucked into the in the blue swirls of the book.
Two powers clashed in the middle of a field of star studded darkness below the two was a beautiful green and blue jewel-like world that took Naruto's breath away. On one side was a creature of fire and darkness and tendrils of the stuff lashed out at out the other figure trying to entrap the golden figure and draw him in, but was unable to. Though it wasn't like he was really focusing on just him for there were about a dozen other crafters were also attacking him and dodging making it very hard for him to focus on eliminating just one. It was in part thanks to the five blades that were hovering in mid air that formed an impenetrable barrier of shining crystal that gave Bain enough of an advantage as to confront him directly. Suddenly from the darkness a blue ball shot out and it was so odd that for a moment Bain just stared at it and then he flew to the side getting out of the range of the attack just barely in time! For the ball exploded and turned into a wailing vortex and Bain could only watch helplessly as a few of his comrades were pulled into it along with the planet that they were above. Bain just stared at where the planet once was and he breathing hard and his entire body started to quiver and suddenly he let out a roar of pure rage and pain. H closed his eyes and Naruto though he could see tears leaking through his closed eyelids. Suddenly all the swords disappeared but the red and black ones which when he grabbed and the pulse of energy that flowed though him twisted his armor when it was finished it made him look like a living weapon, dark and powerful. Spikes of red and black could be seen though the black mist that covered his head and armor, and his wings too had visibly changed. They had turned blood red, and their edges gleamed as though every feather had been sharpened to a diamond-like edge. Besides the spikes and the wings the rest of his armor was hidden beneath a cloud of darkness. Still the changes weren't complete until he opened his eyes, and Naruto gasped at what he saw. Gone was the calm golden color and in it's place were glowing black eyes with flaming red irises that could be seen even through the mist. Dancing black and red flame erupted from the spikes on Bain's armor and then he was gone leaving an afterimage in his wake as speed increased drastically. Where before it looked as though the dark one had been playing with him, now all he could do was defend for rage had empowered Bain to new heights of speed that enemy couldn't possibly keep up. Bain was moving even faster than in his battle with Mizuki as he slashed at the extensions of the dark shroud and his flames ripped at his enemy even his wings shot clouds of red feathers that cutting quivering pieces of darkness off of the main body. Suddenly both the blades vanished and Bain stopped clutching at his head as though in some sort of immense pain. The black mist faded and the armor reverted back to it's original gold color as the horrible transformation receded. Naruto gasped as the remaining tendrils lashed out in victory and grabbed Bain drawing him in where a gaping red maw of sword-like teeth opened up ready to devour him. At that moment one of the few remaining lighted figures blasted at the darkness with a beam of intense white light. The horror his concentration lost for a moment turned his head toward this new threat and blasted the walker with a burst of black flame. Through all this is Bain had done nothing to try and free himself, instead he smiled, as a beam of golden light appeared before him and took on the appearance of a sword. Before the darkness shrouded figure could mount any sort of defense, a beam of intense golden light shot from the end of the sword and impacted the shroud of darkness. The light ate through the maw and as soon as it reached the head of the figure he exploded in an explosion of black and red flame and Bain was flung back.
At that point Naruto was again in the swirling vortex and in a second he found himself looking at his body from on top of the, now closed, book. He saw Bain's spirit reenter his body and it began shuddering as he became used to having a body once more. Naruto felt a pull toward his own body and so he turned and reentered hi own body. Naruto felt the slight burning sensation as his soul reentered his body and realigned within it. He opened his eyes and looked at his grandfather questioningly, the story had been interesting but it had done little to answer his question.
"Why are you showing me this?"
Bain looked back at him and he put away the book before he spoke once more.
"I want you to know the history of where chakra came from and the reason for why I didn't know of your existence, no this very planet's existence up until a few months ago."
"In the battle with the Oblivioncrafter named Bloodwraith he used the technique you saw in my memory, a technique that seemed to be some sort of black hole summoning. We had no idea of what it was until we had dodged it and then to our horror saw the planet and a few of our comrades below us get pulled into it's maw."
Naruto nodded, "And somehow this event gave birth to chakra"
Ban hesitated before answering "I'm not sure I think that some form of radiation hit the planet in the vortex and that gave birth to Chakra somehow. For in my many years of life I have never seen anything akin to that. Except for him."
Bain suddenly roared out in laugher and between howls of it he managed to speak, "Oh the irony of it all! He goes and turns his back on his own kind to pursue this ability and when he finally has a at least a slight mastery on in he goes and does this! Now in his recklessness he has inadvertently made a whole planet full of people that can use the exact same energy as he can. Oh man the irony of it all is just horrible."
He then sobered like someone had slapped him in the face and continued grimly.
"However that is the only humorous part of what happened. For at the time I had no chance to see what had happened to that planet and it is a miracle that any part of it survived that apocalypse. The worst part was that my wife was here when it happened." Bain buried his head in his hands, and for a minute Naruto thought would be the end of his explanation, but again he suppressed the pain of that loss the loss. In a minute he straitened once more and began again, "I had no time for mourning though, for that last explosion was not part of my technique but from his. Somehow he split himself into many smaller pieces and sent them all across the universe in an attempt to try and save himself."
Bain smiled a humorless gesture that was more like a snarl than anything else. "so even in defeat he still manages to be a royal pain in the."
"Over the course over 449 years I had found and destroyed enough pieces of his soul and power to account for only about ½ of his power at the time of the battle. Then I found this planet. My heart leaped I knew that there was a chance that at least some of my family had survived and that maybe I was not the last of my kind. However while searching for the descendants of my dear wife, I found that I could discover no trace of any of the four crafters that had also been entrapped by Bloodwraith's technique."
"The only way I found you in the forest was because you used mana for the first time. I have heard of people accidently using it to heal, or to levitate things but never have I heard of an untrained heir to use such an advanced attack before."
Naruto puffed out his chest in pride here and Bain smiled down at him.
"Yes, you certainly are very gifted. I just need to make sure you don't beign to like that particular type of attack too much."
"Hey what is wrong with that attack" Naruto spoke up annoyed at baing complimented and then tod that his new ability was now going to be off limits. He wanted a family but he didn't want to have restrictions placed upon him. "I see no problem with it and it gave me an edge in helping to save Iruka sensei and myself form getting cut to pieces so what is so wrong with it."
"Do you remember the transformation that occurred after this planet was "destroyed" Naruto?"
"Yeah it was awesome! Except you became like a wild animal, powerful, but feral."
"Well feral is a mild way to put it for at the time I was using my armor to amplify the powers of rage and pain and you saw the result," Bian shivered. "I don't what would have happened if Bloodwraith hadn't been there for I wasn't sure I could even stop what I was doing."
He looked over at Naruto "You too used black and red mana if I am not mistaken, and luckily you did not lose control or have any anger left over from it. I have yet to determine why but for now I will teach you how to use those abilities in moderation to prevent what happened to me to happen to you."
"Anyway the choice is now up to you now I can leave and just give you scrolls and other tools in order for you to learn how to use these new abilities or I can stay here and teach you myself." Bain stood up and walked over to the newly repaired wall facing the pond and his voice seemed to waver as he spoke his next words. "I can understand if you still hate me and I won't force you to become my pupil, but I owe you much already and I can at least repay you by helping train your new abilities, but as it is the choice is up to you."
Bain stiffened unused to having such contact for as soon as he had finished his speech Naruto had given him a hug from behind.
"You idiot I finally get a family and you think I'll stay mad at you for things done in the past? You may be older and wiser than me, but what you said was just plain stupid!"
Bain broke his grip then and turned around and gave him a bear hug tears also in his eyes. He had a family once more and to him right now that was all that mattered.
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As they exited the excited the portal he saw Iruka laying on the ground he knew what he had to do. Bain had went over exactly how he had modified his memory, and so he knew exactly what Iruka thought he had seen. He saw Bain disappear but he knew he was around watching to make sure that Iruka didn't remember exactly what happened. A second later Bain flew back to him and deposited the Fuuma shuriken that Mizuki had used on Iruka. After carefully wiping away the blood from it set it down right by Iruka's side. He then went and completed his preparations by taking out a black blade and stabbing it into the wounds that were left from the shrapnel and then he opened up Mizuki's hand and deposited a kunai in the right one. Then closing his eyes and a slight blue glow was seen emanating form Mizuki's body. As he watched Bain complete the preparations for the cover up Naruto thought back to what Bain had told him about the technique he had used of Mizuki. The thing that startled him most about Bain's attack was that he hadn't really meant to kill Mizuki. He had used a technique that caused great pain to those filled with hate and corruption though. The technique that Bain had used was a very strong one, but it was one his that usually didn't kill unless the individual was almost pure evil. For the way it worked was that it took all the memories of hatred, pain caused and vengeance stored up in the victim and then it used those memories in order to feed the fires left on the victim by the cuts of Bain's two blades. But those fires didn't just burn his body, but also his mind and soul. Bain had assumed that Mizuki would live but he would probably be considered insane for the rest of his life, for as he had told Naruto he had never killed any normal human with it. He was brought out of his musings by a groan from Iruka and Bain froze and then disappeared, but Naruto had expected this no other than the Hokage could know of these new abilities yet. Just as they both had agreed earlier. So Naruto got up and leaned against a tree with his arms akimbo. So far it was all was going according to plan.
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Iruka woke up with a groan with a splitting headache courtesy of the giant ninja star that Naruto had deflected coming down on his head. The last thing he remembered before he had passed out from pain had been Mizuki shrieking as a multitude of miniature fireballs raced towards him. Seeing the blackened body of Mizuki lying in a circle of scorched grass, Iruka winced. He hoped that Naruto had taken out all his anger from the discovery of his prisoner on Mizuki. He had no idea that Naruto had mastered the Goukakyuu jutsu that he had shown him.
---Flashback no jutsu!---
Iruka looked up as a snore interrupted him just as he was explain the basics for using ninja wires in conjuncture with a shuriken or kunai. He heard a few quickly stifled giggles and a few hasty chuckles as he looked up trying to pinpoint the person who had interrupted his lecture. He expected to see Shikamaru with his head on his desk with Choji elbowing him in the side trying to wake him up. Instead he saw that Shikamaru was actually still awake with his usual bored look on his face, as he stared toward the true culprit. So he looked where Shikamaru was staring and saw the only other person in class who fell asleep so often.
Naruto was sleeping in class, again!
Iruka grabbed an eraser and threw it nailing the culprit with enough force to wake him up as the class stopped trying to hold in their laugher. Naruto looked up still groggy with sleep and saw Iruka glaring at him.
"Naruto this is the fourth time this week you have fallen asleep in class and that earns Detention afterschool today!"
Naruto nodded as though that didn't surprise him and then put his head back on he arms, just this time he didn't go back to sleep.
"So Naruto, why were you sleeping in class today? That is more the kind of thing that I'd expect from Shikamaru," Iruka asked as he watched Naruto clean the desks.
Naruto's smiling face went dark for a second and then he turned back to Iruka and to his eye the smile that he now wore seemed a little strained.
"I'd rather not talk about it for now,"
Then Iruka remembered what had taken place yesterday and smiled. He knew what had happened, but he didn't see why that would be a tender subject or anything.
"Ah I bet that you just stayed out too late at the festival didn't you."
Naruto stopped cleaning and his smile disappeared completely, giving him a serious look that made Iruka wonder again what he had said wrong.
"Yesterday wasn't just the festival it was also my birthday," This mystified Iruka, as anybody else would have been happy that it was their birthday. He nodded as Naruto continued.
"Every year I have to hone my shinobi skills by hiding from the mobs that form to "hunt the demon" on that day. This mean staying up and practicing, and sneaking around the village trying to memorizing as many hiding spots and escape routes as I can."
Iruka's eyes widened surely the Hokage would have provided bodyguards or something but considering how it was one of the few holidays that that ANBU got off work he supposed that that was the one day of the year that he and to fend for himself. He looked back at Naruto and was hit once again how his normally loud and energetic student was so grim and his heart went out to him. Iruka decided to so something nice for Naruto, and so walked over to his desk and took a scroll rack form inside it and pulled out on that had a red border around the edges and then carefully slipped it into his kunai pouch. He turned to look at Naruto watching him with curiosity and spoke.
"Naruto I think that the desks are clean enough I want you to come with me." Naruto followed curios to see where they were going. Then Iruka took out the scroll and presented it to him it to Naruto saying words that the young blond hadn't heard in a long time.
"Happy birthday Naruto!"
"A jutsu scroll! Thank you Iruka sensei!"
Okay I am going to show you how to do this jutsu. Now first you do the seals then you concentrate Chakra in your lungs and focus to change it into fire as you breath out. Here let me show you.
He walked over until he was about 10 or so feat from one of the practice dummies. He went slowly through the seals making sure that Naruto could see them well instead of flashing through them.
"Katon Goukakyuu no jutsu!"
A stream of fire expanded forming a ball of fire around one of the dummies and when it dissipated Naruto could see that the dummie was toast, literally. Iruka then had him stand back to another dummies and asked him to repeate the seals. Slowly he went through them and nodded when he got the sequence and the seals correct. He then looked to Naruto and backed away slightly. "Okay Naruto now you let's see you try it."
After a few hours of practice Naruto still couldn't get the Jutsu. Iruka looked at his watch and saw that it was already late.
"Hey Naruto, I have to go grade some papers before class tomorrow. If you need some help just look at the scroll."
Naruto looked up form his latest failure to dot eh Justu and smiled his trademark smile.
"Okay sensei and I promise you that I will learn this Jutsu soon."
Then he thought of something and his smile widened, "Iruka sensei I have an idea just let me try one last time."
Iruka sighed and turned back to his student and nodded but decided that this time he would stand a bit further back. He didn't know what he was going to try but when watching someone experiment with a Katon jutsu it's a very, very good idea to be a safe distance away from them. So when he was about 5 feet to the side he nodded for Naruto to try once more. He was glad that he had stood back. For somehow this time Naruto actually managed to make a midsized stream of fire, just before it all blew up in his face.
Luckily with the amount of power he had put into it all that happened to him was that his face became blackened with soot. Iruka really tried to not laugh as him but it came out. First as a snicker next a slight chuckle and lastly as full blown laughter as Naruto blinked and shook himself like a dog trying to get the soot off his face. Iruka shook his head he hadn't expected anything like this! He had an idea of why this had happened but he had to do a simple test to be sure. So he controlled his laughter and went over to where Naruto was trying to wipe the soot off his face.
"Naruto I'm just curious but you were absent when we were learning what our primary element is right?"
"Primary elements?"Naruto had a confused look on his face that told him that he had no idea what he was talking about.
Iruka took out a small white card and channeled a bit of chakra into it and it burst into flames.
Naruto watched with wide eyes as Iruka slipped into his lecture mode.
Yeah so you take one of these cards and put a bit of chakra into them and depending on what happens to it show what your primary element is. Primary elements are the ones who's jutsu you have the least difficulty mastering, and also when you use them they take far less chakra use so many shinobi focus on their primary elements to give them an edge. My primary element is fire and so I try to learn as many fire jutsu as I can. Now let's see what yours is.
He held out another card to Naruto and he took it and after channeled a bit of his chakra though it, it sliced in half.
Iruka nodded because after seeing the result of the Goukakyuu jutsu he had expected this but it still was a surprise.
"Naruto it seems that you have wind as your primary element and that explains why the fireball exploded before you could complete it. You must have unknowingly channeled a bit of wind chakra into it and that made it expand beyond the original parameters of the jutsu causing it to explode."
Iruka held up his hands in defeat, "I'm sorry Naruto but I don't have many non-elemental jutsus that you could learn yet and I have no wind justu whatsoever. This is unfortunate as fire is the opposite of wind and so using that jutsu will be very, very hard for you. I'm just sorry that my present is not that useful."
Naruto blinked and then smiled a real smile this time
"What are you talking about?"
"That's the first real present I have gotten in years!"
The first in years, thought Iruka, Naruto must have been like he was being an orphan and all but he couldn't help but admire him for the his unending positive attitude. For he knew the pain of being an orphan all too well. It was the little things that hurt the most like watching other kids on their birthdays with proud fathers complimenting their sons or mothers kissing the cuts and scrapes to make them better. It was the last and worst feeling that stung the most though, the knowledge that no matter what how hard you tried, you could never gain or regain the same bond as you once had with your true family. Yet here he was still smiling despite the pain and moving forward looking toward the future. He decided that he should change the subject a bit and maybe get him another present to go with the jutsu scroll.
"Just being able to use it like that was pretty Amazing Naruto how about we go celebrate with some ramen, on me."
As they were going to the ramen stand another question hit Iruka and as they were sitting down to eat he decided it couldn't hurt to ask.
"Hey Naruto, before me who was the other person who gave you a present for your birthday?"
"Old man Hokage."
"Really and what did he give you?"
"My key to my own apartment, but more than that he also gave me my freedom."
"You see he pays the rent on the apartment and gives me a modest allowance to buy food and other things and so without his help I would still be stuck in that orphanage."
Naruto's eyes took on a distant look for a second and the next words he spoke were laced with emotion.
"When I asked him why he would do that for me he smiled and replied "It's my job to look after this village and make sure the people in it are happy."
"And that is when I decided that I was going to become the next Hokage! Because I want people to look up to me and respect me as I help make others feel happy."
Iruka smiled despite all he had been through he really did want to have the respect of other and to help them. Naruto he thought you truly are one in a million. He came back to reality as Naruto finished his fourth bowl of ramen and while waiting for another bowl said in almost as an afterthought.
"Imagine what I can do if I can learn how to make that accident into an actual Jutsu! I wouldn't need to use exploding tags to blow things up I could just learn to master that!"
If Naruto learns how to make a jutsu like that, then imagine what he could do in regards to pranks, Iruka thought, Oh dear I believe that I may have just created a monster.
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"I see you are awake."
Iruka looked up from where he was sitting and saw Naruto leaning against a tree with arms crossed not knowing what mood he was in. Iruka decided to be look at him for any clues as to his current mood before engaging him in conversation. Considering how he had just gotten his first kill he seemed pretty, well, normal. There was no reading him though for his face was expressionless. Or at least it was until the corners of his mouth twitched and his usual grin appeared once on his face.
"Why so glum Iruka-sensei? We did manage to get him after all"
Iruka breathed out a sigh of relief and Naruto cocked his head to one side curious.
"Naruto I'm just glad that you aren't freaking out about what Mizuki told you or about your first kill."
"What you mean this traitor?" and here Naruto nudged the corpse with his foot. "I didn't actually kill him just almost disabled him and put him in great pain, but then he took out a kunai and stabbed himself and then died shortly after. So I think he poisoned himself."
Iruka looked at his hand and saw that he was indeed clutching tightly to a kunai. Iruka shook his head Naruto had performed better than anyone could have predicted tonight. Who could have predicted that Mizuki was a spy, it was too bad that Naruto didn't stop him from committing suicide. However it wasn't like something like that had been covered at the academy. But he was pretty lucky, for Mizuki had obviously been overconfident going up against a teenage civilian who was not even a ninja. Thanks to that and the near perfect tactics that Naruto had used setting up the ambush with his clones Mizuki.. Wait, clones? Not only that, but when Mizuki had ignored them at first one of them had hit him in the back of the head and when he had turned to deal with that clone assuming it to be the real one but then all the rest of the clones and Naruto had hit him with a barrage of fireballs. It was a good thing, he thought, that Naruto didn't put too much chakra into making those clones otherwise he could have started a wildfire. How did he have the chakra to something like that though? Tonight Naruto had pulled off something that few jounins could manage let alone a boy not yet a gennin. Looking at him he realized once more that Naruto's dreams for becoming Hokage might just become reality someday. That is if he still wanted that job of course. Depending on how much he had overheard from the conversation between himself and Mizuki he couldn't really blame Naruto if he wanted to leave right there. He truly wished that he knew how much he had actually heard of that conversation just now. Iruka felt for the slash in his back and was surprised at it's lack. Instead he felt the slash in his chuunin jacket and a scar to add to his collection. When Naruto saw him rub his back he started explaining.
"While you were out I gave you a soldier pill that Shikamaru gave for helping him sneak out of a "troublesome" class without being noticed," Naruto paused seeing Iruka's eyebrow twitch, "He said that it would speed the healing process, but that it always left a scar."
"Well sensei I have to admit that was the first time that that justu ever worked most of the time all that would happen is that I would get burned from it backfiring."
Looking at him now Iruka realized how long it must have taken Naruto to get past that hurdle and he had also learned a technique from the forbidden scroll in less than 4 hours! That was better than some chuunins could do!
He may not have passed the test, Iruka realized, but Naruto had worked very hard and he deserved to be a ninja.
"Naruto I want you to close your eyes."
After a few seconds Naruto started to get bored and asked him
"Sensei can I open my eyes yet?"
"Okay Naruto you can, now."
"Congratulations you graduate"
Naruto looked shocked for a few seconds then noticed Iruka's lack of a forehead protector and realized what he must have on then. He rushed and tackled his sensei in a flying hug yelling joyfully. "Sensei!"
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Behind a cloak of illusion Bain watched as Iruka's removed his Hiate and tied it around his forehead telling him once he opened his eyes the news of his graduation. He smiled though this would makes things more complicated he was happy for his grandson. It meant that he was one step closer to achieving his goal. He was surprised to find out hard much he still cared for his village even knowing that the truth about his prisoner. Everything had been perfect and it seems that the memory mod had been successful he was glad because that wasn't really his specialty. He might tell him someday about Naruto's gift, but for right now he was better off being left in the dark. For some reason it made him want to try even harder to earn the respect and admiration of the village that hated him. Bain shook his head, he would do everything in his power to help him accomplish that goal but earning the respect and trust of a village that not only hated but also feared him would be difficult. Especially since they refused to open their eyes and believe that he wasn't the demon sealed inside him. All in all it was a goal that might take a lifetime to accomplish. . He just hoped that Naruto wouldn't turn to revenge later if his goal proved impossible from the prejudice and hatred of the villagers. With the powers he would gain someday the destruction of the leaf village would be assured if such a thing came to pass. Also he wouldn't really blame or try to stop him if something like that came to pass. Shaking that grim thought from his head he decided that he had a meeting long overdue with the Hokage and now that the crisis was over now was the best time to accomplish it.
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In an alleyway near the Hokage tower Bain appeared in a slightly more muted blue flash. He smiled sheepishly wondering if he should modify the receptionist's memory so that she forgot about his abrupt departure. He decided against that, he decided that it would enhance his reputation in the eyes of the Shinobi community as they would most likely think of it as a unique form of the Shunsuin jutsu. So he shrugged and, after summoning another cloak, he strode off toward the tower. He knew anything about the famous Professor, then the Hokage had already seen the truth of what had happened today and he now would have to talk to him personally. It didn't bother him too much but he knew that he had to have more than a few allies in place in order to be in any position to better help Naruto. Besides getting the Hokage on his side was a goal of the highest importance. With his help he could become a "Shinobi" of Konoha and then make Naruto his apprentice. Considering how Naruto had just become a ninja, he should have no problem securing that, but he also didn't want it to seem that he was any different from the rest of the graduating genin. He knew the situation with the older generation and they were no doubt poisoning the minds of the younger generation against him. Any further special treatment would only serve to further isolate from him and worse still it would make it even harder to get friends. Besides, he though, as a dark tendril of thought inserted itself quite forcefully into his head. He would need friends to support him in order to maintain his sanity in order to overcome the many trials he would face in the near future. So he would request that he still be put on a team as usual, but he would train him when he was not on missions. He smiled, he had never had the chance to be a father before let alone a grandfather, and so he was looking forward to spending time training him and watching his growth.
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Well that marks the end of my second chapter. Sorry if I gave any of you an information overload there, but I had to explain a whole lot of things in order to not over the suspense. Don't worry there are still many surprises yet to come. Now to everyone who is about to turn away in disgust from their monitor, I have a message. I do have some very good ideas for the other Fanfic mentioned earlier and I will make it, if I get about 50 people who all can give me some good reasons why they dislike this story. I personally don't think it's that bad, but hey it's your call. Even if I do start doing that other Fanfic I will still continue this one. I have worked far too hard and already have far too much time invested to let it gather dust in the back of everyone's Fav list. So anyway next time the infamous first meeting of team seven. How the meeting with his grandfather has changed Naruto, and lastly Bain's initiation into the ranks of the Konoha shinobi!
