Uzumaki Aircraft
An Andrew Joshua Talon/TFF Production
Edited by: TheXenocide
Summary: He observed the hawk in flight. He watched as the wind danced across the moors. He saw the leaf float upon the currents. And then, he got an idea. A horrible, frightening, terrible, disturbing, and utterly evil idea. "What if I could fly?"
Disclaimer: The Hivemind nor AJT nor myself owns Naruto. If we did, it sure as hell wouldn't be the piece of crap it is.
Learn To Fly 1 By Ryo-Wolf
"Wings look good. Wind's nice. Got plenty of room." Naruto said, a smirk growing on his face as he shouldered his strange contraption and carried it to the other side of the roof, getting as close to the edge as he could. This was it. This was the day his dream would finally be realized. Naruto looked down at the 'device' he had put together in a mix of pride and self admiration before he set about attaching it to his body. In reality, it was incredibly crude, and was little more than a long piece of wood vaguely shaped in the way Naruto figured a wooden wing should look with a pair of straps nailed to it so that it could be worn like a backpack. There were also a pair of handles on the underside of each wing for Naruto to hold onto during flight.
"Countdown to test flight." Naruto announced, pulling his goggles over his eyes as he began to count down. He readied himself in a sprinter's stance, looking truly ridiculous with the wings on his back as he did so.
"5. 4. 3." Naruto tensed himself up, pressing his shoe into the gravel roof for leverage.
"2." He leaned his weight forward into his hands, preparing himself for the run.
"1!" And he was off. Naruto ran with everything he could muster, reaching the other side of the roof surprisingly fast as he planted his foot on the edge of the building and pushed off into the wild blue. Naruto felt a rush unlike any other as he soared out way from the building, laughing like a maniac. This is what he wanted! This is what he dreamed of! He was flying!
Well, for a few meters, anyway. Naruto quickly lost his forward momentum and became subject to gravity once again, much to his confusion. As he plummeted in a manner only slightly more graceful than a sack of bricks, Naruto couldn't help but feel that maybe his design was flawed.
"OOOH SHIIIIT!!!!!!!!"
Yeah, definitely flawed.
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This first test may have been a failure, but he wasn't going to give up yet. It'd take more than a 5 story fall to stop Uzumaki Naruto! He just needed a better design. In retrospect, the flaw in the old design was obvious. He needed a faster launch than he could get from just running. That's what brought him here, to the Ninja supply store. He wasn't a full fledged ninja yet, but he was in the academy, so he should be able to get some ninja tools.
"Aha, explosive notes!" Naruto exclaimed, spotting the prize he was looking for. Everybody knew that explosions could send things flying. If he could harness that power for his own means, he'd have a launch system way better than running!
"Hey, what are you doing in here?" The shop keeper asked, spotting that demon kid browsing around.
"Oh. Do you have any of these that only blow up in one direction?" Naruto asked, presenting the man with an explosive note.
"What the hell would you want that for?!" The Shopkeeper couldn't help it. He completely lost his composure and was looking at the boy with such suspicion that he was practically accusing him of wrong doing simply from the look on his face. There was no rational, legitimate reason he could think of for a prankster like Naruto to want a directional explosive. He had to be up to no good.
"I'm gonna put them on my feet and try to fly." Naruto replied with absolute seriousness. Honesty was the best policy in situations like this.
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"Jeez, I don't see what was so funny." Naruto mumbled, now holding a pair of directional explosive notes as he headed towards an empty training ground. The shop owner was laughing so hard he started crying, then gave Naruto the notes free of charge. He couldn't understand what had been so funny about what he had said.
However, Naruto didn't particularly care. He wasn't the type to look a gift horse in the mouth, and now he had everything he needed for his second test flight. He came up over the hill and spotted his Fox Wing Mark II (Mark I had shattered to pieces in the first flight) sitting where he had left it. The design was essentially the same as the last one, only Naruto had decided that he needed to round the edges on both sides of the wing to make it work, not just the front.
"Alright, here we go." Naruto exclaimed, picking up the Fox Wing and fixing it to his back.
"Now, I just charge the tags with Chakra...and stick..." Naruto recited the instructions and lifted his feet, slapping a now armed explosive note to the underside of his left foot, then his right. Now he just had to wait. With that in mind, he gripped the handles on the wings, pulled down his goggles, crouched down a bit and lifted his heals so that he was pointed more diagonally, rather than straight up.
Then, he waited.
After about 30 seconds, Naruto was suddenly struck with the sensation that he was doing something incredibly, remarkably stupid.
"Wait a minute, what am I doing? This is insa-" BOOM!
"AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!" As he soared through the air at a truly horrifying speed, Naruto was only truly aware of 3 things. For one, his feet hurt. In fact, he was pretty sure they were on fire. Secondly, he was flying far further than he had anticipated, which was actually pretty cool. And finally, he probably should have chosen a different test site, since he was heading straight for a large patch of trees that bordered the empty field.
Naruto grunted as he tore through a canopy of branches, getting whipped and beaten on all sides by the thin pieces of wood. At first, he thought it wasn't so bad, as this was probably the best he could hope for when it came to a soft landing. Then he came upon a pair of trees that were growing too closely together. Alone, he could fit through just fine. The 5 foot wing strapped to his back? Not so much.
Naruto smashed into the trees and kept going, vaguely realizing he left the majority of the Fox Wing behind him. He didn't get much time to figure out how much, since he plowed face first into a tree trunk and promptly lost consciousness.
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Naruto came to sometime later and stumbled to his feet. Oh, cool, he still had feet. It was a good thing those notes had been directional. It seemed like his shoes took all the damage from the close proximity explosion. He made a mental note to never try that again.
"I wonder how high up I got." Naruto mumbled, staggering through the woods with his hand to his head. His head really, really hurt for some reason he couldn't quite remember. It didn't take him long to come across the splintered remains of his Fox Wing, and Naruto quickly looked up the two too close trees. On each of them, a good 7 or 8 meters up, a pair of deep notches had been carved into the bark.
"Woo hoo, I did it! I flew." Naruto cheered, then promptly tripped over nothing and hit the ground while cradling his head. It felt like somebody had hit him upside the head with a sledgehammer or something.
"I think I'm gonna take a break for a little while. No more flying until I graduate." Naruto insisted to himself. He clearly needed to come up with some better ideas for how to go about this whole flying thing.
