"Naruto-niichan, dont do this,this isnt the way it was supposed to turn out!"
The now identified Naruto was surrounded by a light blue ribcage that began to expand and expand until it was a medium sized Ethereal Warrior.
"It's you who couldn't realize that this would happen, I have seen to much evil, darkness and hatred to be the same person you once knew me as, I will bring peace to this world. The cycle of hatred that is prolonged by this shinobi system's existence."
Naruto then stopped before pulling out his gunbai. "If you are not with me, then you are my ENEMY."
"IF you truly hold any love for me, then you will do your duty as a Konoha shinobi, and as my sisters and put me out of my misery."
With that said, Naruto charged forwards.
"Sorry Naruto but your sisters need the training more than you do, if they don't get good at controlling their powers they could hurt themselves and others at the academy," Namikaze Minato, the Yondaime Hokage stated.
"But, I still don't understand why I can't also start training to be a ninja early like them too.."
"Trust me Naruto, I'll train you when you are ready."he said as he and Kushina went back to training the twin girls.
"Today at the birthday party I plan on getting Akako and Amaya to sign the toad contract" Minato told her. Kushina looked at him in shock..
"Don't you think that it's a little too soon for her to sign the co-"
"It'll be okay, I think they are ready. They definitely have the chakra for it and it would be great for them to have a fallback just in case they are in danger." Kushina smiled.
"Well I'm sure you know best."
"As a matter of fact, I've been thinking of making one of those two the heirs of our clan. They definitely show great leadership skills already and they are intelligent enough especially at the rate they learn jutsu." Kushina gave him a puzzled look.
"But what about Naruto, since he is the eldest, shouldn't he be heir?" Minato's expression hardened.
"Naruto doesn't show any promise as a shinobi by his grades in the academy nor does he a leader...I just think Akako or Amaya would be the best choices." said Minato as he thought long and hard. Outside their bedroom door stood a young blonde listening in with a pain in his heart.
xXx
Iruka yelled at the group of boys, telling them to sit down knocking Naruto out of his musing. They all made their way back to their desks with gloom expressions on their faces. The Namikaze girls seemed to be paled and drained of energy but all the more angry as they gave a glare to Naruto sitting in the far back corner. He glanced at them and back out the window only barely listening to Iruka's words as he began his rant on what it meant to be a shinobi of Konoha.
Every student and their parents gathered outside the Academy congradulating their children on their graduation and their promotion as genin of the leaf. A crimson haired woman stood outside standing in the front of the academy with the rest of their parents until she heard a voice catching her attention.
"Hey Kaasan!" The older woman turned to see a blonde haired girl run up to her and hug her tightly while a red hair girl followed suit walking with a smile on her face.
"Ah Amaya, Akako! How was it?" Uzumaki Kushina asked as she added the red hair Akako into the hug.
The to girls released the hug from their mother. Amaya pointed to her hitai-ate on around her head and gave an energetic grin.
"We passed, it was easy!" The red haired Akako nodded in aloof agreement with a small smile graced on his lips. Kushina smiled at her daughters .
"I'm so proud of you two, if only your father could be here to see you but he had important business to tend to at the Hokage Tower today. I'm sure he'd love to hear about this tonight over dinner." The girls beamed as they loved to see their father's reaction to their promotion to genin. Kushina smiled brightly but it dropped when she noticed something out of place.
"Have you girls seen Naruto? Did he do well?" Amaya shrugged.
"I saw him walk that way towards town, probably going to that cheap Ichiraku place. He passed but I think just barely, knowing him. But enough about him, can you show us some more moves we can do with our demon chakra?" Kushina was a bit upset with the fact that Naruto wasn't there to meet with them. Lately the boy has been growing distant with the family but she was sure that he'd be back for dinner at the least. Akako saw the look of worry that was on her mother's face when Amaya mentioned Naruto. The girl scowled.
Akako always thought of Naruto as a bother. He was annoying and sarcasistic at the least. A weak guy like him being of relation to her was an insult in her opinion and that was the main reason she disliked her brother. She was actually okay with the fact that he rarely showed when the family would eat breakfast every morning or when their parents would train her and her sister or go on walks around the village. He was a nuisance and a guy like him making her mother upset made her upset as well.
'That weakling upsetting kaa-sama...why did he have to become a ninja. He'll disgrace our name.'
Kushina smiled at the girls and nodded. "I'm sure I can show you girls a thing or two with your yokai chakra to better your control over it. But first lets head somewhere to have a bite to eat."
"Okay!"
Kushina and Amaya began walking off into the green light district of the village but stopped to look back at the remaining Akako who stood still looking off into the distance as the other families began ushering their children away from the Academy.
"Aka-chan? Are you coming?" Akako looked to her mother.
"I think I'll go look for dob- I mean Naruto..."She said with cold voice before journeying in the opposite direction. Kushina and Amaya just stared in confusion.
"Well uh..be sure to fetch him back home before 6. I don't want you kids missing dinner."
"Okay kaa-sama' Akako stated in the distance as she leeped onto a nearby building and began hopping from roof top to roof top. Kushina and Amaya turned and began walking in the other direction only to be stopped by a group of villagers asking for their autographs.
xXx
Naruto wearily laid down underneath a nearby tree watching the leaves fall as he breathed in heavily. This training ground was the only spot that he could train by himself without interuption since no team of genin or higher ever used it. And it had trees so it was perfect, not as if any other training grounds didn't have trees...but...you know. He watched as the leaves fell from the tree above. Holding out his hand as if reach for a high up branch he held it out and open. A leaf floated gently into his grasp.
He closed his hand slightly and brought the leaf to his face to get a closer look. He could see the rich green color that it had. The roots that spread from the stem through out its body. It was a beautiful one. He sighed as he begn concentrating chakra into it. The leaf grew bright blue as was completely engulfed in chakra. He stood to his feet steadily. Carelessly, he threw the leaf and as if it were as sharp as diamonds it impaled a nearby tree.
"Konoha Kunai no Jutsu...thats' one for the records..." He sighed as sat back down and leaned against the tree he was under. Training like this was his best option to build his reserves. If he kept doing this then he would one day be able to have large enough reserves to keep up with his sisters and their yin and yang bijuu chakra when they used it. Even if that were their only trump card..it was a big one. He sat there some more.
Naruto had a natural affinity for air but with his liking for plants and trees he quickly began having interests in vegetation and began forming jutsu based around such. It was one of the things that he thought at the time would set him apart from his family and his two bratty younger sisters. He'd probably be able to develop a title seperate from being the older brother of Konoha's Heroes or The Son of the Yondaime although people sometimes forget their relation.
No.
Naruto was a young man who wanted his own title...his own way. Naruto gazed fell to the sky and the passing clouds.
"You can come out now Akako." A moment of silence can be heard before a figure jumped into the clearing and began to proceed forward. She stopped 10 feet away from the blonde boy and just stood staring at him with cold eyes. Naruto shifted his position and stood to his feet, dusting off his clothes.
"What do you need imouto?" Naruto stated with a bored voice as he placed his hands in his pockets.
"Why must I be of kin to someone like you?"
"I don't know...same parents maybe? That might be it right there...I think...I don't know, what do you think?" Naruto said sarcastically. Today was just lovely. Akako formed a fighting stance that he recognized quite quickly to be the kata for the taijutsu that his father used. His face darkened at this.
"Huh...so that's how its goinna' be eh Aka-chan. I truly don't want to hurt you." Naruto said as he too got into his own kata which surprising wasn't the same. It was a weird stance. It resembled Maito Gai's Strong Fist but it was lighter and lazier as if the boy was drunk or about to fall over.
"Don't worry because a dobe like you can't touch me." With that she charged her brother with swift movements. Her first strike was aimed to Naruto's face which he easily dodged in a lazy droopy manner. Akako sent a swift kick below to Naruto's legs which he then hopped over in a somersault like manner.
The red haired girl took this time to send a strong right kick to the boy suspended in air. The kick connected with Naruto's side but before Akako could be sure to claim her short victory, Naruto exploded into leaves. She grimaced as the leaves began cutting at her.
Naruto appeared behind her with a leaf to the girls throat and a dull voice in her ear.
"Hi." Akako growled as she elbowed the boy in the stomach. Naruto stumbled back a few feet before returning to his stance as if like water in a plastic bag. Akako charged the boy with more strikes. Naruto stood back and formed some hand seals.
"Konoha Bunshin" 20 clones formed around the red haired girl. Akako scowled at this.
"Coward."
"Awww adorable, you're upset because you're losing." Akako began expelling one clone after another with powerful strikes. Each began disappearing into a poof of razor sharp leaves that she found hard to avoid. She formed a series of handseals.
"Tsurugi Ogushi no jutsu (Hair Blade technique)" Akako shouted as her hair sprouted a life of its own and began spinning uncontrollably destroying any clone in her facility. Each clone dispelled after another and the leaves slowly began falling to the ground. Her hair dropped back to her shoulders and she began looking for the blonde boy who was no where to be found. She paused when she heard a chilling voice.
"Hey there." She turned slightly to see a kneeling Naruto behind her with his hands clasped together as if ready to perform a katon jutsu. He stared at her with dull cold eyes and in the moment she was sure that her brother was going to kill her.
"You need a lesson in respecting your brother...you'll learn it now though..." The boy stated as maniacal grin reached his face. Akako eyes widened in horror.
"Konoha Taijutsu Ougi Sennen Goroshi." With that Naruto's hands shot far up a place where the sun doesn't shine. The red haired girls face went from horror to confusion to an awkward twist of pain to seething anger as she was pushed into the air, landing in the trees. Naruto stood to his feet and chuckled to himself placing his hands into his pockets. As if anticpating what to happen next, the boy watched as an unstoppable force came rushing from the forest. The very trees began falling down at the sheer power this force displayed before it reached the clearing to be revealed as very very...very angry Akako whose face was both red from embarrassment and anger.
"You...you...you..YOU!" She seethed as she rushed Naruto. She tightened a fist to be aimed at her brother's face. From out of seemingly no where a figure appeared blocking the fist. Naruto and Akako were both shocked to find a tall blonde man who shared similar facial appearances as Naruto. He smirked as he brought the young girl's fist down to her sides.
"I think that's enough."
The two young pre teens both stopped their violent spout to focus their attention on the tall blonde man. He wore a long white trench coat that head designer red flames on the hims and written on the back of said trench coat were kanji for 'Yondaime Hokage'. Under his trenchcoat was a standard konoha jonin vest and navy blue shinboi shirt, pants, and sandals. He had an all-knowing small plastered on hsi face with his eyes gently closed. Akako seethed at her brother Naruto before looking out to the taller blonde with a worried face.
"But tou-sama, he...started it." The young Hokage looked between the two youngsters.
"Hmm...is that so. Well..." He turned his attention to Naruto who held an overall cold and indifferent expression to the current situation.
"I'm sure he is sorry...isn't that right Naruto?" The blonde boy in questioning said nothing as he looked up to his father with his dull saphire eyes.
"I didn't do anything so I have nothing to apologize for...she was the one that wanted to fight, I was just training alone..." Naruto stated pointing with his eyes to his crimson haired sibling who stared him down coldly with no remorse. The Blonde Hokage looked between his two children with a sheepish expression as he could fully see their little stare off taking place. Bringing them into a tight hug muchto their surprise and relative reactions, he chuckled lightly.
"Come now my children, no need to fight-"
"Yeah, no need to fight Akako you bully."
"Shut it you dobe!"
"Calm down you two."
"Yeah calm down Akako."
"I am calm, being near a doofus like you jus-"
"Shut up you two!" The two kids paused at the outburst by their father as who seemed to be rather agitated with their behaviors.
"Now I will have no more of this when we get back home to the estate. I heard from your mother that you two along with your sister have passed your exams and become shinobi in the ranks" The two stared at the man, Akako out of somewhat fear of her father and Naruto with dull disinterest. "Now how am I suppose to allow shinobi who childishly bicker with one another over minial things to even protect with actually matters...the village?"
The two stayed silent.
"Akako, I want you to stop antagonizing your brother...and Naruto..." The blonde man turned to his only son who stared back coldly.
"I want you to act more mature. You are the eldest, act like it. I can only assume by how you usually do in the academy that you only passed by the skin of your teeth which leaves no room for you to behave childishl-" Naruto glared at the man. Unconsciously his eyes formed into his Mangekyo Sharingan, resembling a bladed shuriken with a swirl in the middle. Minato looked on with his mouth resembling an O, as he stared deep into his eyes. He couldn't make any noise for that matter, since when did his son have a sharingan? Since when did he have a Mangekyo Sharingan? Thinking back Minato hadn't been a very good father to his son for a long time, ever since he neglected him for training and made the twins the clan heirs. But now Minato took the time to actually
study his son, and saw several things that worried him, his eyes that used to be so bright and full of life looked to be a little dull. But what really worried him, was Naruto's chakra. It was so dark and malicious, he had never felt such chakra like this. Not even the Kyuubi's chakra was this bad.
If he would have been paying more attention he would have known that boy had gradually improved through hard work over the years since the first year of the academy, without his help. The blonde boy was trying his best to control his anger while his father seemingly chewed him out. He could already feel the light blue glow of his Susano'o beginning to surround him.
"You know so little, tou-sama. You simply see the forest for the trees."
With that said Naruto turned away and began walking back when he seemed to vanish with a swirl of air.
