Brothers in heart
Chapter 2 is here. Enjoy yourselves.
"..." talking
'...' Thinking
"..." Kyuubi
"..." Spirits
(...) Creators note
RECAP
Naruto just sighed getting off his own board making it disappear soon after. "Can't you two be with out arguing for a day," he asked. "Don't look at me. He's getting on my nerves," Dark said pointing at Scayth. "Right back at u wing-boy," Scayth shot back. Naruto just sighed. "What classroom are we in?" he asked. "Room 103," Dark and Scayth said in unison. "Great. We're in the same classroom," Dark and Scayth just glared at each other and started to walk inside. 'This is going to be a looooooong school year,' Naruto thought to himself. "It can't be that bad, Naruto-kun,"Kyu said inside Naruto's mind. 'Yes it can, Kyu-chan. Yes it can,' Naruto replied and started to walk after Dark and Scayth who we arguing again.
END RECAP
Chapter 2
Team selection day
"Man, it's finally that day," said Dark as he, Naruto and Scayth walked towards the academy.
They each had an Umikagure headband on. In the past few years while being in the academy Dark and Scayth had become good friends. He and Naruto now treated him like a brother and vise versa.
"Yeah. Now we'll have a chance to become full fledged shinodi's," Naruto replied with one of his famous fox grins.
"Yeah. I can't wait. I wonder who are in our teams," Scayth said exited.
They kept walking towards the academy chatting happily and occasionally laughing.
"Do you guys hear something?" Dark suddenly asked Naruto and Scayth.
"You mean that rumbling sound?" Scayth asked.
"Yeah and it seems to be getting louder," Dark replied.
"Ummm... Guys. I think we better run," Naruto said as he pointed behind them looking terrified.
Dark and Scayth looked behind then and soon there was fear on their faces.
"Oh crap! FANGIRLS!!!" Dark yelled as he saw a large group of girls running towards them.
"RUN AWAY!!!" Scayth yelled as he started to run as fast as he could.
Naruto and Dark ran after him with the group of girls right behind them.
"Why does this have to happen every single day?" Scayth said while running.
"It's not our fault that the three of us are popular among the girls," Dark replied.
"Besides this great way to train speed," Naruto said.
"Hehe. I guess you have a point, Naruto," Scayth said as he looked behind him.
"How's it looking?" Dark asked.
"Looks like their getting tired. Should we speed up or slow down?" Scayth asked.
Naruto and Dark looked at each other and nodded. They then increased their speed lifting some dust from the ground. Scayth ran right next to them.
At the academy
Naruto, Dark and Scayth were walking towards their classroom.
"Is it just me or have the girls gotten slower these past few years?" Dark asked his brother and friend.
"Could be or maybe we've just gotten much faster," Naruto replied.
"That's probably it," Scayth said as he opened the classrooms door and walked in with Dark and Naruto.
They sat on their usual places and talked with each other ignoring the other students. Soon their teacher walked into the room and everyone went silent.
"Today we'll put you on teams. Once your team is said it can't be changed," the teacher told to the class.
"Keep your fingers crossed that we'll be in the same team guys," Dark said and crossed his fingers.
"Let's begin. Team 1..." the teacher started and this kept going until finally... "Team 9: Kaito Dark, Kaito Naruto and Yakuma Scayth." the teacher announced.
Scayth, Dark and Naruto did high five to each other completely ignoring the tenth team.
"That is all the teams. After lunch you will meet your teams jounin instructor." The teaches said and walked out of the door.
"Man, I can't believe we're in the same team," Naruto said happily.
"Yeah. Talk about lucky," Scayth said.
"I can't wait to meet our sensei," Dark said smiling.
Meanwhile in Konoha
A girl with light purple hair tied back into a ponytail with a thin light blue ribbon was looking around the class room.
"Something wrong, Rain-chan?" a dark blue haired girl sitting next to her asked.
"I don't see Kiba or Shino in here," Rain replied.
"Now that you mentioned it I haven't seen those two either. Do you know where they are Yaz-chan?" the dark blue haired girl asked from a pink hair with something sticking out of her hair that looked like cat ears.
"Yeah. I heard they failed the genin exam," Yaz replied.
"I bet your relieved Hinata. Kiba always tried to hit on you," Rain said to the black haired girl.
"I am. Even though Akamaru is cute I don't like guys who smell and act like dog," Hinata said.
Just then Iruka walked into the room.
"Okay everyone. Take your seats and we'll place you into teams," Iruka said and everyone took their seats.
"I hope we'll be on the same team. Right? Yaz-chan, Rain-chan?" Hinata asked as she looked at two of her best friends.
"Right," the two girls said in unison.
"Now the. Team 1..." Iruka said as he started to put the teams together. "Team 7: Haruno Sakura, Uchiha Sasuke and Izawa Nabushi. Team 8: Kara Rain, Hyuuga Hinata and Lied Yaz. Team 9 is still in duty from last year (This is Team Gai). Team 10: Nara Shikamaru, Yamanaka Ino and Akamichi Chouji," Iruka read from his paper.
Rain, Hinata and Yaz hugged each other happily. Nabushi let his head hit on the desk.
"Why do I have to be on the same team with the Uchiha?" he muttered to himself.
Sakura had hard time keeping in his skin. Sasuke just let out an irritated sigh. Ino was almost tearing out her own hair. Shikamaru and Chouji didn't really seems like they cared.
"After lunch you will meet your teams jounin instructors," Iruka said as he left the class room.
Back in Umikagure
"Where the hell is that sensei!?" Naruto yelled frustrated.
Team 9 was the only team left in the classroom.
"Calm down bro. The sensei's only 15 minutes late," Dark said while laying on one of the desks.
"Yeah. Besides, it'll give us some time to think what to tell about ourselves," Scayth said while trying to meditate.
Few minutes later they heard running footsteps and soon the door opened to reveal a panting woman. She had long blond hair with several black highlights in it. She also had blue ninja sandals, dark blue pants, black short sleeved shirt, the standard jounin vest over it and her Umikagure head band around her right arm.
"Sorry, I'm late. Just got back from a mission," she said panting as she sat on one of the chairs in the classroom.
"Here," Dark said handing her a glass made from ice with water in it.
"Thanks," she said as he took a sip of the glass. "You three are Team 9 right," she asked after finishing her water.
"That's us," Scayth said as he started to stand up.
"Why don't you guys introduce yourselves. Name, likes, dislikes, dreams, stuff like that," their sensei told them.
"Why don't you go first. To show us how it's done," Naruto said.
"Okay. Well, my names Ina Iukri. I like quite a few things. I dislike slackers and those that are always late from something important. I don't have any dreams worth mentioning at the moment," she told them and then pointed at Naruto.
"I'm Kaito Naruto. I like ramen, hanging out and training with my brother Dark and my friend Scayth and the rest of my family. I dislike those that think their better than others. I don't have a specific dream for the future at the moment," Naruto said.
Ina nodded and then pointed at Dark.
"Names Kaito Dark. My likes pretty much the same as Narutos. I dislike those that think their better than others and think that if their in a team their teammates will slow them down. As for my dream... I just want to have someone to protect and accepts me as I am." Dark told their sensei who nodded and looked at Scayth.
"I'm Yakuma Scayth. I like hanging out with Dark and Naruto, ramen and hardworking people. I dislike fighting people that don't even try, self-reliant people, people who treat someone less of themselves and people who think their strong. My dream is to show no remorse to anyone at any point. Even if I have to beat that person up to prove my point and to find as much about my past as I can," Scayth told her with a stern face.
"Okay. Now that the introductions are done you have the rest of the day off. Meet me at the edge of spirit forest tomorrow morning at 9 A.M. sharp," said as she walked out the door.
"She seems nice," Dark said while heading towards the door.
"So, what are we going to do for the rest of the day?" Scayth asked as he started to walk towards the door.
"What else. Train," Naruto said as he ran after Dark and Scayth.
Next morning at the edge of spirit forest
Team 9 was on the edge of the spirit forest waiting for their sensei.
"What time is it, Dark?" Naruto asked with a bored voice.
"It's 8:58 A.M," Dark said as he looked at his watch.
"That means Ina–sensei should be here soon." Scayth said while meditating.
"Yeah. So, Naruto. How is training with Kyu-chan, Umi and Mizu is going?" Dark asked as he looked at his brother.
"Kyu-chan has taught me so much and Umi and Mizu have unlocked ten forms already." Naruto said happily.
"Wow. Same here." Dark said surprised.
Dark looked at his watch.
"Ina–sensei should be here in 5… 4… 3… 2… 1… now," Dark said.
As he said now Ina was standing in front of then.
"Right on time, sensei," Dark said with a smile.
"I always am," she replied with a smile.
"So, why did you want us here, sensei?" Scayth asked as he stood up.
"To give you three the REAL genin exam," Ina said.
"What do you mean the real genin exam? I thought we already were official genin," Naruto said.
"The academy exam was just to see who had the skill to become genin," Ina explained to her team.
"Okay. So, what do we have to do?" Dark asked.
"Go to the spirit forest and get yourselves atleast four spirits," Ina said.
"That's all?" Scayth said in disbelieve.
"Yeah. If you can get that many then your good enough to be shinobis," Ina said smiling.
"Well what are we waiting for lets go," Naruto said enthusiastically.
"Hold your horses Naruto. We do this slowly so we don't mess up," Dark said with a serious tone in his voice.
"Dark's right Naruto. We can't be to hasty. Or impolite," Scayth said.
"We do this as a team," Dark said he walked towards the forest with Naruto and Scayth.
'Dark seems to have good leadership skills. Naruto however seems a bit too rash…' Ina thought to herself as she sat down to wait for her team to come back.
Few minutes later in the spirit forest
Team 9 was walking the forest path looking around for spirits.
"Where are those spirits?" Naruto asked irritated.
"Naruto. Try to have patience. Dad said that there are nine summon spirits in this forest. If we can find one that one can call the other eight," Dark said.
"So, any idea where to look?" Scayth asked.
"We could try for the summon spirit of water: Undine. Since she's a water spirit there should be a lake somewhere," Dark said while holding his chin.
"So, how are we going to find that lake?" Naruto asked.
"Did you forget? We have better smell that normal humans," Dark said as he started to sniff the air.
"Oh yeah. Silly me," Naruto said smiling as he started to sniff the air.
"This way," Dark said as he started to run deeper into the forest.
Naruto and Scayth ran after him. After few minutes of running they arrived on a lake shore.
"This is the place. Undine should live in this lake," Dark said.
"So, how do we talked to her?" Naruto asked.
"I don't know actually. Guess we have to jump into the water," Dark said as he got ready to jump.
"Stop," came a woman's voice from the lake.
"What was that?" Scayth asked.
Just then a blue skinned woman rose from the lake. She had ocean blue dress, purple hair, ocean green and light green shoulder guards and a sword made of water on her hand.
"Undine," Dark said as he looked at her.
"Who are you and why have you come here?" Undine asked.
"We have come to get ourselves spirits as the final genin exam from our sensei. My name is Kaito Dark and these are my teammates Kaito Naruto and Yakuma Scayth," Dark said.
"You three wish to make a pact with me?" Undine asked.
"You and the other eight that live in this forest," Scayth said firmly.
"You do realize that only one can make a pact with one summon spirit at a time," Undine said.
"Yes and we already solved that. Each one of us takes three summon spirits. But we have yet to decide who takes who," Naruto said.
"Very well. I shall call the rest of the spirits and discuss about this with them," Undine said as she sank back into the lake.
Few minutes later
Undine rose from the lake and eight other spirits appeared beside her.
"We have decided to let you form a pact with us. Each of you gets three spirits," Undine said.
Team 9 nodded.
"When the pact is made the body part you choose will gain the main color of the spirit you choose," a guy that had the upper body of a devil and the lower body of a snake said.
"Then I will go first and I choose my left eye for all three," Dark said and stepped forward.
"Very well. Who do you choose?" a girl sitting on a 1/3 of a moon asked.
"I choose the summon spirit of lightning: Volt, summon spirit of darkness: Shadow and the summon spirit of ice: Celsius." Dark said with a firm voice.
A ball of electricity with eyes, pitch black guy with an eye on the middle of his body and a girl with light blue skin, black hair, dark blue skirt, some bracelets and yellow boots shot as beams of light towards Dark. As soon as they hit him Darks left eyes color changed. 1/3 of it became black, 1/3 turned to light yellow and 1/3 turned to icy blue. Dark then turned to his teammates.
"Three down one to go," Dark said smiling as he pulled his headband over his left eye.
"So, your team needs four spirits each," an old man holding two books said.
"Yeah. Except for Naruto. He already has the Kyuubi no kitsune sealed inside of him," Dark said pointing at his brother.
"Then I'm going with this kid. Haven't seen Kyu-chan in three decades," the spirit that looked like a devil said as he rushed towards Naruto.
"Right eye." Naruto said quickly before the spirit could hit him. As soon as he was hit his right eye turned fire red.
"Wow. Efreet sure was in a hurry." Undine said.
"Don't you know. He and Kyu-chan used to date," three girls with different kinds of wings and hair said in unison.
"Sylph, why do you always talk in unison?" a spirit that looked like a giant mole asked.
"It's simple Gnome. It's because their soul and minds are bound to each other," the old guy said.
"Maxwell's right. In fact we were her closest friends," Sylph said.
"I'd like to choose now," Naruto said.
"Right sorry about that," Sylph said a bit embarrassed.
"Anyway, I choose Sylph and… What's your name?" Naruto said pointing at the girl sitting on the 1/3 of a moon.
"I am the summon spirit of light: Luna," Luna replied.
"Right. On top of Efreet I choose Luna and Sylph. And I choose my right eye," Naruto said firmly.
At that Luna and Sylph shot at him as beams of light. When they had hit him his right eye became 1/3 fire red, 1/3 light green and 1/3 white.
"Well my part of this exams done," Naruto said as he pulled his headband over his right eye.
"I guess that leaves me with Undine, Maxwell and Gnome," Scayth said as he stepped forward. "And I choose my right eye" he added.
When he had said that Maxwell, Undine and Gnome shot towards him as beams of light. When they hit him Scayths right eye turned 1/3 earth brown, 1/3 ocean blue and 1/3 gray.
"Well Scayth, looks like we still have to find one more spirit for each," Dark said.
"Yeah. Lets get going," Scayth replied as he pulled his headband over his right eye and started to head deeper into the forest.
Hour later
"Well took you guys long enough," Ina said as her team walked out of the forest.
"Well me and Scayth had a bit trouble to find the fourth spirit. Naruto was done after the first three spirit," Dark said while walking towards their sensei.
"How was Naruto already done after the first three?" Ina asked confused.
"Well I've had Kyuubi no kitsune sealed in me since I was little," Naruto told her.
"I see. Well since it's another spirit it's counted. Anyway, team 9 starts doing missions tomorrow. Meet me at the Umikages tower at 9 A.M," Ina said as she started to walk away.
"Well let's go home guys. Man, mom and dad are going to be so proud," Dark said as he started to head home.
"Dark, what day is it today?" Naruto asked.
"Let me see..." Dark said as he took out his pocket calendar and looked at it.
"So, what day?" Scayth asked.
"Awesome! It's that time of the month again," Dark said exited.
"You mean..." Naruto started.
"Tonight we hurt," Dark finished and Narutos and Scayths faces lit up.
"Well lets head home guys," Dark said and walked towards his house Scayth and Naruto behind him.
Few minutes later
"Mom! Dad! We're home!" Dark yelled as he opened the door.
"Welcome home you three. So, how did it go and why do you have your headband over your eye?" their mom asked.
"Because of this," Naruto said as he lifted his headband revealing his multicolored eye.
"It's the sign that we have a pact with summon spirits," Dark said revealing his eye.
"So, I'm guessing that Scayths eye is the same," Miko said.
"Yeah. But we're an official team now," Scayth said smiling as he lifted his headband to reveal his eye.
"That's great. Me and your mom have couple of gifts for you three," their father said as he walked into the room.
"What are they?" Naruto asked excited.
"First is new clothes," Miko said as she handed each of them a pile of clothes.
"Now go put those on and I'll give you your next gift," Dark, Naruto and Scayth looked at each other and ran to their rooms.
After few minutes Dark came out of his room wearing black shoes, black jeans, dark purple T-shirt, a golden arm bracelet on both arms and a purple vest with his clans symbol on the back. His headband was on it right place and there was a bandana over his left eye.
"How does it look?" Dark asked and both of his parents smiled at him.
Naruto came out of his room few minutes later wearing gray shoes, blue jeans, black skin tight T-shirt, a golden arm bracelet on both arms and a dark green vest with Darks clans symbol on it along with his own clans (Naruto already knows that Darks his half brother). He also had a bandana over his right eye and his headband was on his forehead. Scayth came out of his room soon after wearing a black snow jacket with a white undershirt, long black pants that covered over his black steel toed shoes. He was also wearing a pair of rough black gauntlets that covered over his hands but not his fingers, the knuckles were metal.
"The three of you look really good," Miko said.
"I have to agree with her. Now for the second gift," their father said as he took out three silver wrist bracelets that had seven slots in them. "These are chakra bracelets," he said as he handed Naruto, Scayth and Dark one of the bracelets. "The slots are used to gain energy from these," Tenma said as he took something out of a pouch on his belt. "These are know as chakra shards. They are formed by placing an element into a high chakra pressure," he explained as he hold a small green shard in his hand. "So far I've managed to make seven different colors of them. Whenever your using more than one chakra shard at the same time you must never use two of the same color. The result is dangerous," he said as he placed the shard back into the pouch.
Scayth, Naruto and Dark had already placed the bracelets on their wrist.
"Understood," they said in unison and nodded to Tenma.
Tenma smiled to them and handed each of them a pouch which they then placed on their belt.
"Now let's have some dinner," Miko said.
"By the way mom. It's that time of the month again," Dark said happily.
"Already? Wow. Time sure goes by fast," Miko said smiling.
"I'm gonna take a nap so I'll have enough energy to hunt. See you later," Naruto said as he ran towards his room.
"I'm gonna take a nap too. Bye," Dark said and ran to his room.
Scayth disappeared into his room soon after.
"They've really grown as brothers. Even though their only half brothers," Miko said smiling.
"Their brothers in heart, Miko-chan," Tenma said as he hugged his wife.
"Why don't we go set the camp up. We'll come back for them when we're done," Tenma said as he headed to the door.
"Sure. That'll also give us some alone time," Miko said smiling a cat-like smile.
Well that takes care of chapter 2. Stay tuned for the next chapter.
