I haven't had many reviews but I'm gonna put this up anyway, people have favourited the story and I feel I owe them for that
(time skip 7 years)
Naruto, now 14, stood at the gates of the scarlet temple, this was the day, the day his training had ended and he went back to konoha as the new ashbringer. Over the years naruto had grown his hair out so it now was tied back in a pony tail at the back, he also wore new clothes, the ones he wore now where sewn runecloth and mooncloth. The robes were red with the scarlet crusade symbol on the back and had white stripes down the sides, he had board golden shoulder plates with arcane markings on them forged from elementium ore. In many ways naruto resembled his father except for the whisker marks on his face. After he fused his soul with the ashbringer morgraine was forced into his mindscape to which naruto and mograine had made a few...adjustments. naruto stood at the gates remembering the great times he had had training
Flashback
Naruto was currently with rohtir, or as naruto called him, barley. Rohtir was teaching naruto how to make his famous triple malt brew
"now we add the hops and malt and let it sit for a while, the secret to this brew is getting the sugar to react as much as possible with the yeast to get the highest alcohol content but maintaining the sweetness" rohtir said
"barley, why does the future ashbringer need to know how to brew ale?" naruto asked
"come on lad, imagine the future ashbringer not being able to hold his drink!" rohtir laughed as he handed naruto a jug of ale
"now on three" rohtir said as he grabbed his cup "one...two...three!" naruto and rohtir chugged the ale and stared at each other, after 7 seconds naruto suddenly coughed and sputtered some of the ale
Rohtir laughed "I haven't had a lad who could yet withstand my ale! And I never will!"
"damn that was unfair! You've been drinking for decades and I've just started!" naruto said still sputtering from the ale
"don't worry lad, you'll learn to like this stuff" rohtir laughed
End flashback
Naruto how gave rohtir a run for his money when drinking, he could withstand 8 jugs of rohtirs famous ale without getting drunk or even stumbling
He looked at his teachers for the last time, he wouldn't see them again until he had defeated the new lich king. Naruto started saying his goodbyes. he turned to rohtir
"we'll ill be seeing ya lad" rohtir said "make sure to keep the dwarf sprit alive in your ale!"
"thanks barley, maybe you and your clan can come to our village one day" naruto said
"I don't think they would be comfortable with us cleaning out the bars each night" rohtir laughed
Naruto turned to landion
"some of those spells will defiantly come in handy landion, I hope ill see you again"
"may Quel'Thalas shine over you naruto" landion said
Naruto turned to jin
"thank you for the archery training jin, I hope you find your clan soon" naruto said
"thanks mon', now don't ya be gettin' yourself killed anytime soon" jin said
Naruto kneeled down nearl emil
"ill miss you emil, I could always count on you for a laugh" naruto smiled
"Ill miss you too mate, though I still haven't forgotten about that time you tossed me off the balcony" emil said
"hey what can I say, I had too much wine at dinner" naruto chuckled
Naruto turned to Richard
"hope you find your identity too Richard" naruto said
"thank you naruto" Richard said "and remember...if you gain power from someone's loss..."
"...be sure to honour their loss" naruto finished
Naruto turned to Tanya
"may you walk with the earth mother throughout your days naruto" Tanya said
"same to you" naruto said
Naruto turned to jane
"be sure to use your power wisely naruto, do not be tempted by evil" jane said
"after training with you I don't think that will be a problem" naruto said
Naruto turned to khadgar
"you are a fine warrior naruto, you have surpassed even your father in his teachings" khadgar said "Lok'tar ogar (1) naruto"
"dabu (2)" naruto said
Finally naruto turned to vanya
"vanya...i think I'll miss you the most" naruto said sadly "you were like a mother to me, always looking out and making sure I didn't hurt myself. You're the closest thing to a mother I've ever had"
Vanya looked at naruto through tear filled eyes, he reminded her so much of her brother who had died in battle. She hugged naruto tightly
"be strong naruto, don't let anyone stand in your way, I know in my heart that you can stop the lich king" she said "be strong naruto...be strong"
She let go of naruto and naruto began walking through the forest back to civilisation. They would not see him again for years to come
Naruto approached the gates of konoha, it was 7 years since he had set foot in this village, he wondered what had changed. He couldn't wait to see the hokage again. As he approached the gates one of the guards stopped him
"halt" the guard said "state your name and reason for coming to konoha"
"uzumaki naruto...but you can just call me...the ashbringer" naruto said
The guards looked shocked at this; the demon child was returning after 7 years of training, they just stared until one of them got his bearings
"stay here.." he said "I will inform hokage-sama of your arrival" he shunshined away. A minute later the hokage shunshined to the gates
"naruto...its good to see you" the hokage said
"hey ojii-san" naruto smiled
"so how was your training? You look like you've gotten quite strong over the years" the hokage said
"well it had its ups and downs but other than that it was great!" naruto said
"we'll talk more in my office" the hokage said as he lead naruto to the hokage tower
In the hokages office naruto and the hokage talked about what they had been doing over the years. The hokage was mostly completely flooded with paperwork while naruto was training with some of the greatest warriors of this time, it seemed pretty unfair that the leader of a village had to be cramped up in an office all day while this kid got to train and learn the ways of the arcane
"now naruto, we have decided to place you in a three man genin cell in order to hide your identity as the ashbringer" the hokage explained "you will be doing the same missions that your team does with the exceptions of special requests of the council"
"what! I have to hang around with some poorly trained brats!" naruto yelled
"I know your skill is well above genin, even well above mine but if news of your true identity should get out then there could be dire consequences, you know akatsuki is after the jinchuriki and if they hear about you the village would be in danger of attack"
Naruto sighed "fine then, so who are my teammates?"
The hokage pulled out a scroll and looked through it
"you are with haruno sakura and uchiha sasuke, your sensei is hatake kakashi" the hokage said
"hmmm...ive heard of the uchiha clan, apparently they have a huge ego but ive never heard of the haruno clan" naruto said
"the haruno clan isn't much of a clan at all, with only 20 members they are the smallest clan in konoha next to the aburame and inuzuka with 50 members, I'm surprised they managed to get onto the village council, but they have excellent chakra control and are often employed as medic nins" the hokage explained "your team will be briefed by your sensei at 10:00am tomorrow in the academy"
"well I suppose I could teach the haruno how to fight and bring the uchihas ego down a few blocks" naruto laughed as he imagined sasuke getting his ass blasted by fire bolts and frozen by ice blasts
"very well naruto, if you have nothing else to discuss then you may leave" the hokage said. naruto pulled a stone out of his bag and placed it on the hokages desk, the stone had arcanic markings etched into it and was giving off a faint green glow
"this is a teleportation rune stone, if you carry it around I can teleport to where ever it is at any given time" naruto said before he faded away from the room
"that boy is going create a mountain of paper work for me, I'm sure of it" the hokage sighed as he got on with his work, reviewing some clan disputes
The next morning all the academy students were meeting in the classroom, their teams being decided one by one
"and lastly team 7 is haruno sakura, uchiha sasuke and...uzumaki naruto?" iruka said, utterly confused "this must be a mistake...naruto left the village 7 years ago"
At that moment, a ball of shimmering light appeared in the middle of the room and slowly condensed into a human form, the light then shattered and naruto was standing in the room, most of the girls blushed at the sight of the new kid
"wow...that boy is HOT!" ino thought
"I think I know him from somewhere...but where?" hinata pondered
"yeah right, sasuke is way better than this guy will ever be" sakura thought
"hope I'm not late, I had a little run in with some...old acquaintances" naruto said as he took a seat beside hinata who blushed as she looked over at him
" just another dobe that I can beat the shit out of" sasuke smirked
"okay...team seven's sensei is hatake kakashi, your senseis should be along shortly" iruka said as he walked out of the room.
Most of the teachers came for their pupils a few minutes later but team seven had to wait about 3 hours before kakashi showed up, sakura passed the time by trying to convince sasuke to go out with her, sasuke just sat and brooded in the corner and naruto made little crystal sculptures of his teachers, each with their race and name on it. He even made one of sakura and gave it to her as a gift; she accepted it but not before naruto persuaded her that he wasn't trying to flirt with her. Kakashi shunshined into the room
"ohiyo..." kakashi said before a fire ball exploded in his face, leaving a black mark on his cheek
"serves you right for being late" naruto said
"my first impression of you...is that we have a fangirl, an emo and a demon" kakashi said as he narrowed his eyes at naruto "meeting on the room in 5 minutes" he said before shunshining away
"how did that dobe use fire jutsu without hand signs?! I must learn his secret" sasuke thought as he got up and walked out of the class with sakura close behind him
When they were all on the roof kakashi took out his book and started to read
"okay everyone, why don't we introduce ourselves, starting with your name, like, dislikes and dreams" kakashi said
"why don't you go first sensei?" sakura said
"okay, I'm hatake kakashi, I have many likes and dislikes and my dreams are none of your business" kakashi said while everyone sweat dropped "your turn pinkie"
Sakura stood up "I'm haruno sakura, my likes are..." she glanced over at sasuke "my dislikes are late teachers and annoying blondes!"
"you've known me for only 3 hours and you classify me as annoying? Talk about shallow" naruto said as she dodged sakuras punch
"and my dreams are..." she looked over at sasuke and blushed
"okay...you're next blondie" kakashi said
Naruto got up
"my name is namikaze uzumaki naruto, my likes are training, vanya sensei and magic, my dislikes are fangirls, egocentric uchihas and the scrouge and as for my dreams...you'll find out soon enough"
"okay, your next emo boy" kakashi said
Sasuke got up
"my name is uchiha sasuke, I don't have many likes and alot of dislikes, my ambition is to kill a certain man and revive my clan" sasuke said
"okay now that introductions are out of the way, we will meet at 9:00am tomorrow at training ground 5, and don't eat breakfast or you'll throw up" kakashi said as he shunshined away
Naruto started to walk away but sasuke stopped him
"how did you do that fire jutsu without hand signs? Teach me your technique" sasuke demanded
"that wasn't a jutsu sasuke, that was magic" naruto said "and I would never teach you the ways of the arcane for your selfish reasons"
"bullshit, magic doesn't exist, now tell me your technique!" sasuke yelled
"why should I?" naruto said
"its my right as an uchiha" sasuke said
"okay sasuke, surely someone of such an esteemed clan can beat someone like me, so if you can beat me in a spar then I'll teach you but if you lose..." naruto smirked "you've lost your chance forever..."
"deal dobe, prepare for an ass kicking" sasuke said
Naruto and sasuke walked down to the sparring area the academy had and they toom their postions at the ends of the field
"this will be an all out spar sasuke, you can use any ninjutsu, genjutsu, taijutsu, kenjutsu or doujutsu you want" naruto said
"fine with me dobe" sasuke smirked
sakura was on the sidelines watching them and being the proctor for the match
"and fight!" sakura said
Sasuke threw 3 kunai at naruto and then rushed at him, naruto raised his hand and a glowing yellow shield appeared in front of him, blocking the kunai, naruto then thrust his palm forward and sent the shield flying into sasuke who got blown back by the force. Sasuke got up and activated his sharingan and rushed at naruto again, naruto shot 5 arcane bolts at sasuke who dodged them, but sasuke dodged them and sent a punch towards naruto who blocked it and threw sasuke back. Sasuke made some hand seals
"fire style: phoenix flower justu!" he yelled as he shot 5 fire blasts at naruto who took them full on
"guess your not as strong as you think you are dobe" sasuke said but gasped when naruto walked out of the flames completely unharmed with a glowing bubble shield covering him
"behold...the power of the new ashbringer!" naruto yelled as he slammed his palm into the ground, the ground split and a blast of light covered the area, completely engulfing sasuke, sasuke screamed
as he felt his skin being burnt away. When the light faded sasuke lay on the ground, he looked at his hand, he was fine but his body was burning all over. Sasuke got up and charged naruto, naruto brought up his hand and was covered in light for a second before it disappeared, naruto blocked sasukes kick and punched him in the face, then the gut and kicked him in the head, as naruto attacked light sprung from his hands and burned sasuke, naruto kicked him back and held out his hand
"seal of righteousness!" naruto yelled as a hammer made of light shot from his hand as blew sasuke back against a tree, making a giant indent of sasukes body. Sasuke collapsed and coughed up blood before falling over
"sasuke!" sakura yelled a she ran to him and crouched by his body "what did you do to him you...you demon!"
Narutos eyes widened at these worlds, naruto snarled as the earth began to shake and blue light poured off him, burning anything it touched, the ground cracked and the trees shattered to splinters. Sakura found it hard to breath as her mind was bombarded with pictures of a small 4 year old boy being beaten and stabbed, narutos memories poured into her mind as she screamed and fell to the ground, the earth stopped shaking and the sparks around naruto died down. Naruto raised his hands and a light enveloped sasuke, completely healing him. Sakura was curled up into a ball on the ground sobbing
"now you know what it's like to really be a demon..." naruto said as he walked away, sakura looked up at him and he looked back at her with blood red eyes "its the worst kind of hell"
And with that he faded away
The next morning naruto got up and did his morning duties, he took a shower and got dressed into his robes and made his bed, he then headed out of the door and walked down the street to the training ground. He rounded a corner to be faced with a giant crowd of people, led by one pink haired woman
"That's the demon that attacked my daughter!" she screamed as the crowd charged at naruto
"frost nova!" naruto yelled as cold basted the crowd and froze their feet to the ground
"arcane explosion!" naruto yelled as he held out his hands, bursts of arcane energy surrounded the crowd and most of them collapsed from the massive burst of energy, a few jonin and chuunin remained standing
"earth style: earth bullet jutsu!" one jonin yelled as he shot 5 boulders at naruto, naruto punched each one and exploded them into pebbles
"mind flay!"naruto yelled as he assaulted the remaining ninjas minds, they clutched their heads and screamed as shadow energies tore their mind apart, they collapsed one by one until no one was left. Naruto stepped over their body's and continued walking down the street
When he got to training ground 5 he found sasuke and sakura already waiting for him, sakura backed away behind sasuke when she saw him coming and sasuke just glared at him. They waited for 2 hours before kakashi arrived
"sorry I'm late..." kakashi said before a fireball exploded in his face
"every time you're late I'm going to do that" naruto said
"right...well today I will be giving you your genin exams" kakashi said
"but we already did our exams" sasuke said
"those were just to see who was qualified to be a genin, only 33 of the class will actually become genin while the rest go back to the academy" kakashi said
"WHAT!" sakura yelled
"the objective of this exam is to get these bells off me before 3 hours is up" kakashi said as he attached 2 bells to his belt
"but sensei, there are only two" sakura said
"good observation sakura, this means the one who doesn't get a bell will have to go back to the academy while the rest will be put into action" kakashi said "and the one who doesn't get the bell won't get to have lunch" kakahsi said as he pointed to 2 obento boxes by the 3 poles in the training ground
"and...go" kakashi said as all 3 students leapt away, kakashi sat down and started reading his book "this is going to be a long test" kakashi said to himself
Sakura was sitting in a tree trying to contemplate here next move, she watched kakashi silently as he read his book
"why is he reading at a time like this?" sakura though "he must be up to something"
"behind you sakura" kakashi said as sakura turned around, sakura screamed and fainted
"well she's a confident one..." kakashi laughed
Naruto was currently jumping from tree to tree, covering his trail and attempting to find his teammates, they couldn't even see that the point of this test was to work together. He stopped at a clearing and looked around, using arcane magic to scan the area. Nothing. Naruto sat down and clapped his hands together, a green floating eye materialized in front of him and naruto bound his vision to it. He moved it out of the clearing and back into the training ground, kakashi was still sitting on that log reading and sasuke was buried up to his neck in dirt. Narutos concentration broke a he heard a scream. Naruto jumped up and disappeared; when he reappeared he was in another clearing. He looked around and saw sakura lying on the ground. He ran over to her and turned her over; she had tears in her eyes
"she must have been put under a genjutsu" naruto thought as he put his hand on her forehead and entered her mind
Most of the time spent in sakuras mind was completely spent reorganizing her chakra pathways along with making a few improvements on her chakra output. her chakra outlets seem to be extremely underdeveloped for someone of her age, she could use very small amounts very easily but when it came to large amounts for jutsus, her chakra pathways would seize up under the stress and fail. When he came out of sakuras mind she awoke with a groan and looked around
"sasuke..." she muttered as she looked around, seeing only naruto and being the fangirl that she is, she automatically assumed the worst
"what have you done with sasuke!" she yelled "I bet he's almost dead by now!"
"calm down baka, kakashi put you under a genjutsu and you saw an illusion of sasuke" naruto said "I had to go into your mind and reorganize your chakra outlets, I made a few improvements that should help with your genjutsu and ninjutsu abilities"
Sakura tried to slap him but he caught her hand
"why the hell did you go into my mind without permission!" she yelled
"because you were unconscious, you needed to be released from the genjutsu and your chakra was going berserk" naruto said as he got up "we should help sasuke, he's up to his neck in dirt"
When they found sasuke he was trying and failing to get himself out of the dirt he was buried in, naruto grabbed his neck and pulled him out of the dirt
"try and be more careful around someone with a higher skill level than you" naruto said "you'll get yourself killed one day"
"just stay out of my way baka" sasuke said as he walked off
Naruto sighed "he still dosent get it..." naruto said
"get what?" sakura asked
"this test isn't about who's the better ninja, its about team work and seeing how we work together" naruto said "if we want to pass then we have to work as a team to get both bells"
"but then only two will pass" sakura said
"that was a lie, there cant be a cell with only 2 genin, so he grades us all on teamwork" naruto said, his stomach suddenly growled
"but we cant do this on an empty stomach" naruto said, he started to wave his hands in a circle, slowly sparks built up around them and started t take shape, the sparks broke off it and naruto was holding 2 croissants, he gave one to sakura
"how did you do that!" sakura yelled
Naruto smirked "its magic..." he said
Although sakura didn't believe him she played along and ate her croissant.
"sakura, do the haruno clan have any special jutsu they can use?" naruto asked
"I only know a few" sakura said "we mostly use healing jutsus though"
"anything other than healing jutsus?" naruto asked
"there is one taijustu move that lets the user paralyze the victim temporarily, but we have to get close to them" sakura said
"that wont be a problem" naruto said "I can hold kakashi in place and you can use that to paralyze him before he can do anything"
Naruto went over the plan before teleporting sakura and himself the clearing where kakashi was, sasuke was yet again buried up to his neck in dirt.
"get ready to pass us kakashi" naruto said as he raised his hand and glowed for a second, kakashi just stood reading his book
"hmm, did you say something?" kakashi said
Naruto rushed at kakashi and punched him in the gut, making him drop his book and go flying into a tree. kakashi groaned as he got up, he felt like he had been hit by a herd of rhinos. Kakashi slid up his headband revealing his sharingan eye
"looks like this brat is serious" kakashi thought as he drew a kunai
"that was pretty good for a genin" kakashi said
Naruto smirked "if you think thats cool, watch this" naruto said as disappeared in a flash of light
"what the..." kakashi said before he was smashed into another tree, then kicked into the air. Naruto shot a ball of flame at him, the flame hit him full on but kakashi poofed into a log. Naruto looked around and saw kakashi coming from the right, naruto disappeared again and appeared behind kakashi and kicked him into the ground then shot 5 bolts of arcane energy into him. The ground cracked and exploded as the bolts of energy devastated the training ground
"flame nova!" naruto yelled as he landed, the ground around kakashi exploded as giant tongues of flame surrounded the area, burning everything in its path. Kakashi had disappeared from the area, he came up behind naruto and tried to kick him but naruto grabbed his foot and threw him away before shooting a blast of ice at him, it hit kakashi and froze him in place
"now sakura!" naruto yelled, sakura came up behind kakashi and pressed a spot at the bottom of his spine that made him collapse. Sakura grabbed the bells and naruto pulled sasuke out of the dirt again
"well kakashi, I guess we pass" naruto said as he applied heat to the ice around kakashi's legs, melting the ice
"you and sakura pass but sasuke fails" kakashi said, dusting himself off
"what!" sasuke yelled "why does that dobe pass and I fail!"
"because sasuke, they worked together to get a bell but you were stubborn and refused to work with them" kakashi said "the point of this test was not to get the bells but to work as a team to get the bells, you were too stubborn to work together so you fail"
"but sensei, sasuke deserves to pass! Naruto should go back to the academy! He's worthless!" sakura yelled
"I'm worthless?" naruto asked "you would give up your friends, you family and even your life for a bastard who has never even said a kind word to you; you would be worthless as a ninja"
"narutos right sakura" kakashi said "if you keep fawning over sasuke then you'll be useless a s a ninja"
"so what happens now?" naruto said "we can't have a 2 person cell"
"well I guess I have no choice but to accept this group, you've gotten the highest scores ive seen so far so ill take what I can get" kakashi said
"YEAH! WE ROCK!" sakura screamed
"report at 10:00 am tomorrow at the hokage tower for our first mission" kakashi said as he shunshined away
Naruto turned to leave but sasuke caught his shoulder
"I demand you teach me your techniques! Why should you have power that I need!" sasuke said
"sasuke, you lost the battle and so I'm never going to teach you my techniques, one with a tainted soul such as you could never master the light" naruto said
"ill take this to the council! They'll sort this out!" sasuke yelled as naruto walked away
"the council cant do shit sasuke, just because your the last of the oh-so-powerful uchiha clan they'll kiss your ass any day" naruto said "but know this sasuke, as long as you seek revenge you will be weak, and if you don't stop you will stay weak"
"shut up!" sasuke yelled as he charged at naruto, naruto grabbed him by the throat and held him up, choking him
"I should kill you where you stand uchiha but that would piss of the villagers even more" naruto said as he increased his grip on sasukes neck
"put sasuke down you monster!" sakura yelled
"fine" naruto said before throwing sasuke into a tree, sakura rushed over to him. Naruto walked away, all the while sakura was yelling obscenities at him for hurting 'her' sasuke
Well thats this chapter done
I will start working on NDM now since I have some more free time
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