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Well, he was back again. Back to the past again. The familiar white plain ceiling, the familiar white walls, the familiar plain one-bedroom/bathroom/kitchen apartment. Compared to the island he had, this was a paradise. At least he had a bedroom.
He tentatively went into the bedroom, as not to believe he was here, but he was. Same queen size bed in the room, a dressier, and a closet.
And suddenly a wave of nostalgia hit him, as he seen the single orange and blue jumpsuit and pants combo on his bed, as if this was his available outfit for today. The jumpsuit.
Shit. It has been this long since he seen this. 13 was the last age he even had that orange and blue jumpsuit, as it was too destroyed and he decided to sadly part with it and go with a black and orange streamline version of it. This jumpsuit had memories definitely.
He smiled to himself, 'Home. I'm in Konoha.'
How that felt good to say.
Konoha was still her good old self, in great health and condition. He could remember he cried when she was destroyed by Sasuke Uchiha, who swore revenge on her and every inhabitant in it.
Sasuke Uchiha.
It brought so much venom out of him to the last day he was in that future. Gone, and dead was the Sasuke Uchiha he was probably still now. Cold from the beginning but still able to warm up to; try to keep from reaching out to anyone he thought would be hurt by him.
And as Sasuke Uchiha came to mind, Naruto had to control the immediate urge to go befriend him right away. This feeling he was ultimately ashamed of. How could he befriend the man who destroyed his future, how could he betray the memory of everybody who died for him and in front of him, looking at him with the hope to stop this? Suddenly he felt the urge again, and the powerful urge reckoned this.
'If we keep Sasuke away from Orochimaru and Madara's hands, we can keep him from going down that path and keep him here.'
Yes. That made sense. That kind of sense that didn't force its way to him.
He had the power to do so. The 500-hand seal technique took him to before it happened, and even possibly even before the Genin Exams, to which Naruto definitely wanted to do better in.
He could stop Sasuke Uchiha.
He could stop the future.
He grinned heavily at that, and then an uproar of laughter erupted from his belly.
This was laughter of determination.
Yes, he would do it, he would stop the future.
Stop The Future
Chapter 1 – Graduation
It felt weird going around Konohagakure. The stares and glares he was accustomed too all made him feel strangely wanted and gave him a sense of him being here. While he didn't like the heated looks he got from several of the civilians he passed, he got even more stares from some of them, who looked at him with a mixture of pity and even respect. Was it always like this? How come he never seen it?
Maybe being twelve at that time just wasn't a time where he sat there and pay attention to the other emotions some civilians sent his way, how some already respected him. He knew he was just too busy promising he would show this village to respect him and love him. That's all he wanted at this age. This was the main reason – at first – why he wanted to be Hokage.
Meeting one Haku from the Yuki Clan changed that.
Haku.
He... he was another person he could save! He could save Haku, Zabuza, create newer allies for what's to come. He could actually do so!
Yes, more things to do. More things to look for in this past.
He could not just prevent the future from happening, but he could also rewrite history. He could actually do so.
While he grinned to himself, pondering about how he could do so, the yellow man – now boy – bumped into another person of his past, Iruka Umino.
Iruka.
"N-Naruto. Ev-Even though I was ho..." Iruka stopped to let out a ragged wheeze as he chocked on the same blood he was leaking out. "Even though I always thought I could see you become the Hokage in my time, I always knew I would see you become one of the strongest ninjas I know. But it's time to get even stronger than that, stronger without me being here."
Naruto sobbed for his teacher. This would be the second teacher to die that he was greatly affected by.
Those last words, those last words Iruka uttered...
Iruka Umino was then tackled greatly by Naruto Uzumaki, whose initially was gonna scold the boy for something. Iruka stopped those thoughts as Naruto hugged the life out of him via midsection.
"Iruka-sensei!" Naruto said, happily pleased to see Iruka's face, much to Iruka's surprise as Naruto never really done so before.
"Naruto." Iruka started, but ended up smiling due to the infectious smile on Naruto's face spreading to him. Iruka couldn't help but feel happy and wanted as Naruto made it clear that his presence here was welcomed. "I'm glad you're glad to see me."
Naruto grinned, and rubbed his head in that sheepish manner he always did. "You have no idea."
"So," Iruka started as still astonished Naruto was easily packing down his second ramen bowl with ease. "You ready for tomorrow?"
"Tomorrow?" Naruto dumbly drawled out. "What's tomorrow?"
"The Genin Exams, Naruto." Iruka deadpanned. "You were spending on all week talkin' about how you would pass and get out of the Ninja Academy."
"Hehehe", Naruto childishly grinned. "Oh yeah, forgot for a sec."
Iruka shook his head, "What am I going do with you?"
"So, what do I need to do in order to pass?" Naruto legitimately forgot what was required. The Exams was so far away in a long time to him, but yet, it was coming now, right in front of him.
Iruka shook his head again, becoming exasperated with the young Naruto. "I would think with as much times as you failed the Genin Exams Naruto that you would know what was required."
"Alright, so what I forgot?" Naruto pouted. "I'll do much better this time around!" Naruto so loudly proclaimed. His yells did turns some heads, including the working Teuchi and Ayame. The two subsequently smiled at Naruto's yells of triumph.
Iruka smiled, "I bet you will."
"So what I gotta do again?" Naruto questioned again.
"In the exams there is a small written part-" Iruka ignored Naruto's small groan, "-About several historical topics, basic knowledge of the three main technique classes, and the explanation of chakra. It's about 30 percent of your grade."
"Eh. Written test?" Naruto groaned, with a small quirk of amusement on his part. "That sounds soooo boring! Why couldn't it just be the physical part of the test?"
"Cause it gives people the chance to pass even if they don't do good in some of the physical parts of the test, ergo, Naruto, you should brush up on some of the dusty books you got at home."
"Hey!" Was the indignant cry of one further embarrassment of Naruto Uzumaki. 'Geez, I wasn't that much of a slacker in the Ninja Academy was I? Sheesh.'
Iruka bit down the feeling to laugh in Naruto's face, but a part of him was being somewhat serious. "Then we have the Projectile Part of the test. It is about 20 percent of your grade. If you did very good on your written exams, you pretty much can do bad on this, and still overall pass."
"So, this is the throwing-kunai-and-shuriken-stars-at-the-target-part of the test?"
"Yes, Naruto." Iruka grinned. "Pretty self-explanatory. We give you eight kunai, and eight shuriken. Hitting four kunai and four shuriken on the target anywhere is passable. Hitting simply two kunai and two shuriken in the center is automatically passable."
"Sounds easy to me!"
"And finally, the Technique Part of the test. You must be able to do any of the Academy Techniques we give you, but a predetermined one we would give you is the Clone Technique, meaning in order to pass, you must do it."
"Eh? Again with this Bunshin no Jutsu crap?" Naruto barked at Iruka's response and sighed to himself. 'I couldn't even do a single freaking clone last time I tried that due to my huge-ass chakra level and abysmal control... But maybe with my current chakra control...'
"Sorry Naruto but if you can't do Bunshin no Jutsu and you have no acceptable medic reason on why you can't, then I'm afraid you can't be passed."
"Even if I do great on the other parts of the exams?" Iruka paused after he heard Naruto's question.
'That was actually a good question.' Iruka continued, "While yes if you do great on the other parts, this part of the test makes up the other 50 percent of your grade. Depending on how flawless you do the other techniques we request, you could still think you would pass, right?" Naruto nodded his head. "The Clone Technique is something we taught early in the Academy and if you can't even make a single clone – and many rookies still make mistakes with the Transformation and Body Replacement techniques – if you cannot do the Clone Technique correctly and can't do decently on your other parts of the test, why do you deserve to pass? That's why every time you did not too good on your history exams, Naruto, and did passable on the projectile test, your graduation was dependent on knowing the techniques."
Naruto grunted in agreement. It seemed to make sense anyway.
Iruka smiled, "But I have faith in you. I think you can pass." And then with an amusing grin, and a deadpan voice, Iruka said, "And get the hell out my class, brat."
Naruto laughed, "I can't wait to do such that! Don't worry, Iruka-sensei, I'm definitely passin' that exam!"
Iruka smiled genuinely to the boy, "Well then, you better get to it then." The brown haired man then stood from the table, left a generous amount of Ryo on the top for Ayame to pick up, and then move towards the exit. "You got daylight burning, young man. Train, study and sleep well. Sorry about not buying ya five bowls today, but I think you're better off without it. Plus it saves me some Ryo. You go through my money like nothing, Naruto. Surely the stipend of a Chunnin teacher isn't as stelluar as ANBU pay."
Naruto sheepishly guffawed at Iruka's jokes. "Sorry, Iruka-sensei. One day, I'll buy ya five bowls instead."
Iruka put his hands in his pockets, leaving with a small wave of his right hand before doing so. "Can't wait for the day. Later, Naruto."
And with that Iruka walked off, leaving Naruto to his thoughts again. Naruto left the stand too, after sharing some small talk with Ayame, who was teasing him of his small stature.
Naruto really could not wait until his growth spur kicked in, so he can teasing Ayame on how short she was compared to him.
Naruto growled to himself as he tested his chakra control out in an empty field trainees were allowed to use.
Forget the nostalgia he has been feeling all day.
Having chakra control barely chunnin-level sucked so much ass.
Naruto found out that yes, he could form the Rasengan, one-handedly without some much of a clone spinning or aiding him with chakra control, but he couldn't even do the wind release version without using two clones to spin and add the affinity. And the Rasenshuriken was definitely out if he couldn't do the Wind Release: Rasengan now.
Screw caring about the fucking Clone Technique. So the hell what he could that shit now? Now, he couldn't do the Rasenshuriken off the fly now!
It's not that he didn't have the ability to perform it, but it was just... why should he even try?
He could still probably do it and all, but since he had no chakra control to do it without clones, and no extra control to even throw it, it was useless trying to do without trying to suffer the damage he would receive from doing it. Even if he had the remnant of the Kyuubi's chakra, he couldn't heal anymore like he could before. The healing factor he had was higher than any regular human had, but none so incredibly fast like a regular Jinchurriki had. Then his chakra control wasn't adapt for medic jutsu, and he his advanced healing factor from Kyuubi was severely dampened, so...
The Rasenshuriken will probably not be usable for years until his chakra control was good – without using Sage Mode actually .
And then he decided to activate Sage Mode, and gasped in the five minutes as he collapsed from exhaustion. Good god, he couldn't even go a hour of using it anymore without even feeling fatigue anymore! His body shook in sweat and drench from it. He was actually tired out from it. His body wasn't his chiseled, hardened 23-year old self. His body was still young. Fresh but still young and weaker. He was seriously dampened. He wasn't even sure he could even par with Kakashi anymore! Damn!
And don't get him started on the Flying Thunder God Technique either! Hiraishin required excellent chakra control to the point it was crazy. Last time he heard, Jiraiya, Ero-sennin tried years doing it himself, and failed even doing it. However he wasn't Naruto; he couldn't, when he was alive, spam the Shadow Clone Technique like Naruto could to increase his train progress even faster to a few months.
The two yellow flashes died.
All those years he fermented his body, all those months honing it, all those weeks doing chakra drills from hour to hour.
All those days his sweat, blood and tears were what he was accustomed to.
Wasted.
They died when he decided to discard his present for his past in order to change the future.
This did nothing to soothe the yellow young typhoon.
Naruto then launched a single Rasengan to a nearby tree and watched the tree crumple to his distain.
He huffed, in a mixture of a scowl, a pout and a sigh. "Looks like I gotta do this over again."
Without even doing hand seals, Naruto summoned twelve clones to the left of him and twelve clones to the right of him. "Clones to the left, do water walking until dinner. Clones to the right, do tree walking until dinner."
"What ya gonna be doing, Prime?"
A single leaf dropped perfectly into Naruto's hand and was now placed on his head. "Do the Leaf Concentration Technique and study for my test tomorrow until I fall asleep."
After those words were uttered, all of the Naruto clones went to do what they were tasked to do, Naruto sighed, and watched the lead stick to his forehead, and then spun it with relative easy. "Time to study for my big test."
Unbeknown to him, Sasuke Uchiha also used from time to time the same grounds and see the destroyed that Naruto left in his anger. Not knowing the source, but knowing what he was feeling, Sasuke Uchiha trained harder to destroy four more trees in his path.
Next Morning...
Naruto woke up and looked at the blue and orange jacket he had and thought to himself. "You know I love you and all, and you were just basically my attire for battle when I was a genin but you really would set off a whole lot of traps for me. I need something a little less discreet. I'll go shopping whenever I can... in the stores than doesn't quit discriminate against me. Heh." Naruto for now, tugged on the warm orange jacket and didn't bother to close the jacket for the probably sunny weather that was gonna be in Konoha, like usual.
Very confident in passing the exams, and damn near probably destroying it.
No need to hold back. No need to worry about anything.
He wouldn't be just overlooked anymore.
He wouldn't be weak at all.
Not his past, his present, and certain not his future.
'Well, this is sad.' Naruto said, as he sat down in a separately class from everybody else, except five other people divided evenly in the size of the room. Naruto sat down, ready with pencil and looked at his test. And was disappointed.
Very disappointed.
Everybody got a separate room with six total people in the room, excluding the test examiner.
Everybody got the same test, the same time, and the same points for each, even him.
And he wonder would it have been more a challenge if he was discriminated against.
'"Number 1: What is Taijutsu? Wow, Iruka really wasn't kidding. This is extremely boring and almost useless.' Naruto quickly jotted down the test in his little own world in the back of the classroom. '"Number 2: Name The Five Elements", and for extra credit: "What are affinities?" Boring as hell.' Naruto again jotted down his answers, but then thought to himself again.
'Well, now that I think about it, even though this is easy as hell, I'm not having too much trouble with it at all. It would be bad if I did.' Naruto then finished off the six question of the test, didn't blink about the seventh and the eighth was done as soon as he knew it. By the time he realized he was on his twenty question, which ask something relatively interesting about what was Uzu no Kuni now present-day, he thought, 'Hmm, The Land Of The Whirlpool is know present-day Wave Country. The Land Of The Waves. God, that brings memories. Can't wait until I see Tazuna and knock some sense into Inari's little ass.'
Soon Naruto finished his test, and left the room, now learning he was the first out. The others inside were still struggling with their test. Naruto grinned, "Well, I bet they're mad the supposed dead-last finished before they did."
A Hinata Hyuuga looked at him as he confidently strode out the room, with a look of admiration and was tempted to run out the room to congratulate him... with a kiss, of course. Instead, she was given the desire to finish the test faster.
Naruto walked slowly to where he was suppose to go for his projectile part of the test, wondering if he would see Sakura, Ino, or even Shikamaru in passing. Shikamaru, knowing him, would rather sleep the test at the last minute, fill out the answers quickly and leave saying it was a drag. Ino, from what he remembered was the smartest kunochi in the academy, second to his former crush, Sakura only, of course. Ino had her licked in everything else. Sakura definitely was gonna ace the Genin Exams' written part of the test, she was decent in throwing projectiles and very good when it came in knowing the main techniques the Ninja Academy taught, due to her excellent chakra control and very little chakra.
He seriously wanted to see his good friend Sakura though. Not even out for a date. He long got over his crush for her, rather feeling simple platonic love for her. He missed her. Like everyone else, he wanted her death no faster than his own end.
But now he could prevent her from dying on him. She could even be stronger than before. And he could help her. He could.
Damn, being in the past, despite its cons, were eventually outweighed by its pros.
Putting those thoughts aside, Naruto took his time to get to the room for his projectile test.
When he got in, he gotten a seething glaze from the examiner. No doubt because he believe Naruto was Kyuubi-incarnate, which was even now extremely far from the truth but in the end, the man couldn't do anything to forge, or discriminate against the boy for the exam made him discard his hatred for Naruto for now.
This did not mean he would not try to launch the blades at Naruto.
The man threw all of the kunai and shuriken at Naruto but much to his surprise and further despise, Naruto flawlessly caught them.
The man grunted out, "Throw your weapons at the target and then get out, demon." Then the man smirked, "I bet you won't even hit the target at all with of them."
Naruto grinned back, and with a flick of his wrist, two kunai and two shuriken stars each hit the center, dead on. "You were saying, sir?"
Naruto then simply tossed the last of his projectiles, finger by finger and all of them unsurprisingly hit the center, further infuriating the chunnin teacher/examiner who glared hard at the target and then at Naruto.
Naruto's grin was the biggest pure shit-eating grin the man ever saw. "I'm finished. I'm guessing I passed that part of the test, right, sensei?"
Naruto then decided to turn away from the teacher, deciding to take his leave.
Oh, the boy would pass, alright, thought the teacher. 'But he won't live to tell the tale!'
The man launched the kunai in a speed an academy student wouldn't even be able to see, let alone dodge. However, Naruto simply brought his hand to his head, and grabbed the kunai before it even could touch him. And with speed even he couldn't see, the teacher watched the kunai now lob itself with all of the kunai and shurikens Naruto had. All 17 projectiles were now in the center red circle.
The kunai as it flew carried a deadly velocity and force as it collided with the target. The target board sailed to the wall, bouncing off as soon as it hit it.
The man's stared at the board, and started to sweat.
Naruto grinned viciously at the man. "Oh, sorry, were you trying to give me extra cred? My fault for being so hasty. Well, I think I'll leave now and get to the chakra part of the exam now."
The man sputtered, and then, trying to get some of his wits yelled out, "Y-YEAH! GET THE HELL OUT MY ROOM, YOU PIECE OF SHIT DEMON!"
Naruto practically slid out the room easily and walking past, without not really even paying attention to who was behind him.
Even though Naruto was practically a stupid idiotic pig who was had a perverse streak through him, Ino Yamanaka will never understand why the hell does everybody hate the shrimp.
Finally Naruto came in the room where his techniques was to be test by the ever so reliable Iruka Umino and... Mizuki.
Naruto did not like Mizuki. He never will like Mizuki and since this was his past and all, he would not ever like Mizuki.
It was because of Mizuki that Naruto came close of being stripped of being able to ever become a ninja. It was because of Mizuki Naruto learned the burden he once carried. And it was because of Mizuki that he learned only Iruka, Ayame and Teuchi truly cared for him, until Kakashi, Sakura, Jiraiya, Tsunade and a few more came around, of course but still.
Mizuki deserved his anger and he could not get over how much he despised the man, but Mizuki was not getting the satisfaction of making him out as a fool today.
Iruka breathed easily as Naruto Uzumaki came in, with a face of confidence for him. 'Come on, Naruto.'
"Good day, Naruto Uzumaki. Today, we will ask you to perform three simple techniques for us. Judging on how well you execute the techniques, and how much flaws we see in it will determine how we will pass you or not. First technique: show us the Transformation Technique. You can turn into either me, or Mizuki."
Not wanted to turn into Mizuki at all, Naruto easily transformed to an another Iruka, much to Iruka's smile. Naruto's size, and stature fit Iruka, and Naruto even got the direction of his scar correctly!
"Henge– excellent." Declared Iruka. And Mizuki grinned, adding in his agreement.
"Next, Body Replacement. Replacement yourself with the chair over there." Iruka pointed.
Naruto flawlessly again did so. Iruka smiled even brighter. Mizuki grinned too.
"Kawarimi –excellent." Mizuki said after Naruto ended the technique.
"I got word that Naruto did great on his projectile test too, so his taijutsu is passable as well."
'Better than passable,' Iruka prided. 'We actually can pass him even if he can't do the Bunshin no Jutsu correctly. Well, better not tell him.'
"Last technique: Do the Clone Technique."
"Alright," Naruto simply said and then did the necessary seals slowly for them to see, which was almost painful to Naruto. 'Hand-seals: they are much slower than before. Gotta also work on that.'
Much to the great surprise of Iruka, and possibly the surprise and probably anger to Mizuki, Naruto's clone was not dead and "lifeless" on the floor like he did in the past.
"Bunshin –excellent. Congratulations, Naruto Uzumaki! You passed the exams with... with flying colors!" Iruka grinned, and patted Naruto on the back. "Yes! You can now get the hell out my classes!"
"Hehehe! YES! Hahaha!" Naruto Uzumaki cheered, though the victory wasn't really very long as Iruka expected. Hell, Iruka expected Naruto to be hopping on desks, dancing like hell, but Naruto wasn't. Iruka grinned.
Iruka handed him his headband and watched Naruto take it and wear it with pride on his head. Iruka couldn't be even prouder.
'Naruto has finally matured.'
"Great job, Naruto. Let's celebrate with some ramen!"
"YEAH!" Naruto pumped. He honestly roared that – ramen was the food of the gods.
"Mizuki, ya can take over?"
"Sure, Iruka. Go treat him!" Mizuki said.
Iruka grinned at him as he took his leave and left the room.
Mizuki laughed at Naruto's cheerful yells, "Congrats, Naruto."
Naruto's pleased demeanor changed to a neutral tone with Mizuki, "Thanks, Mizuki."
Mizuki raised his eyebrow, "You know, Naruto, I think you could be rookie of the year this time around! Your scores were the best I seen well around, possibly even better than Sasuke Uchiha, and you scored flawlessly on the written test!"
"Yeah, I guess I did eh?" Naruto might had seemed to be sheepish and in happiness that Mizuki was praising him, however, Naruto's thoughts were more different. 'Of course I know what you are planning, Mizuki.'
"You know, even though Iruka's not here, I think you deserve to get extra credit."
"Extra credit! Hahaha, really? That sounds awesome!" Naruto wisely decided to play coy with Mizuki. "Extra Credit~! Extra Credit~!" Naruto sung.
Mizuki laughed heartily, "Settle down now!"
Naruto wisely listened to his teacher, "So how do I get this extra credit?"
Mizuki shushed him. "Shh! Now, Naruto, extra credit doesn't come if you shout it out now."
"Hehehe, sorry."
Mizuki grinned, "I'm glad for your enthusiasm. Now listen, this test will test your speed, timing and stealth. It's an extra credit quest that is administered by all academy teachers. All you gotta do is the following-"
'In the past and he still wants me to do the same thing. Too good. This is just too good.'
"Mizuki said what?"
"He said in order to receive extra credit, all I gotta do is steal the Scroll Of Seals, and bring it to him by 7 tonight!" Naruto innocently said, smiling up at Iruka.
Naruto instead of letting Mizuki have everybody scapegoat him for being tricked into stealing the scroll again, went straight to Iruka's usual spot – Ichiraku's – and told him what Mizuki's "extra credit quest" was.
"Mizuki, that..." Iruka seethed. 'I shoulda know he was a traitor. And he was trying to bait in an academy student so he could take the fall?'
"So... it's not extra credit that every teacher does?" Naruto asked, "confused" on why Mizuki would lie to him. "Why would Mizuki-sensei lie to me?"
"I really don't know, Naruto, but thanks for coming to me first instead of doing the 'quest' yourself." Iruka really sighed in relieve. 'I fear what woulda happened if he didn't come to me first to brag about the quest.'
"So... no extra credit?" Naruto sighed.
Iruka patted Naruto on the head. "The extra credit here is that you get five bowls of ramen today and next pay day comes, alright, Naruto?"
"YAY!" Naruto yelled, "Ramen~! Ramen~! Ramen~!"
Iruka laughed much more easier at Naruto's antics. However, keyed in when Naruto started talking again.
"Hey, Iruka-sensei?"
"Yeah?"
"You know, I haven't done pranks in a while now." Naruto said.
"Yeah, it's been a good two weeks since I last caught you." Iruka said, still priding himself as the only one, out of the jounin and the chunnin and even the ANBU to catch Naruto Uzumaki without even having trouble.
"Hey, can I do one more prank?"
"What? No! Are you serious? Last time, you tried blowing up the Yondaime's face with exploding tags!" Iruka bellowed.
"But it'll be the last one this time!" Naruto whined.
"No! Argh, what the hell you wanna do now, brat?"
"Play a trick on someone!"
"Oh, I feel bad for the soul who would get pranked then!" Iruka shook his head and dived back into his miso ramen.
"Well, how about Mizuki-sensei!"
"WH-What you say?" Iruka was surprised again.
Naruto grinned to himself, vicious. 'Gotcha.'
"How about we trick Mizuki-sensei like he tried to trick me! We can get him back for trying to get the scroll!"
"Naruto... that's-"
"Yeah, yeah, I know it's a bad idea, but we can still have-"
"Let's do it." Iruka suddenly said.
"Whut?" Naruto played surprised.
"Let's go and prank him." 'Can't believe I ever say the word 'prank' again and wanna do it to someone.'
"Awesome! And I got a plan too!"
"Oh? You? Planning!" As if him passing flawlessly today was a great surprise. A great pleasure to him, but still a surprise, nonetheless.
"Hey, shaddup!" Naruto yelled honestly annoyed. 'Geez, it's like everybody in this goddamn village thinks I'm too stupid to plan shit.' "Listen to my plan, dammit!"
Iruka chuckled. "Sorry, Naruto. Just playing a little. Now run that plan by me."
'You know, this ain't a stupid plan at all.' Iruka inwardly said as he was "searching" for one Naruto Uzumaki, knowing fully well Mizuki was on his way too. 'Actually, this is pretty damn slick.'
Naruto grinned, looking down at the Scroll Of Seals. Iruka swooped down.
Naruto gasped out, "Iruka-sensei..." He grinned and laughed, "So you caught me, eh?"
Iruka wrapped his knuckles on Naruto's head and applied some pressure, "You fool! You got the whole village looking after you! What the hell were you thinking?"
Naruto grinned, "It's all good though, Iruka-sensei. Don'tcha know? This is the extra-credit quest Mizuki-sensei said to do."
Iruka narrowed his eyes, "Mizuki-sensei said what to you? There's no extra-credit quest!"
Naruto blinked, "But, Mizuki-sensei said I can get extra credit if I steal the- Mi-Mizuki-sensei." Naruto called out, seeing Mizuki on the tree above Iruka-sensei and him.
Said man, with a Fuma Shuriken on his back grinned down at Naruto and Iruka, "This is just too perfect. Excellent work Naruto! Now, the Scroll Of Seals – hand it to me."
Iruka growled, "Traitor. No. Naruto don't hand him the scroll!"
"Huh? Why?"
"The extra-credit, Naruto!" Mizuki said once more.
"There isn't any!" Iruka bellowed. "Don't listen to him, Naruto."
Mizuki frowned at his former fellow teacher, and had an evil smile plastered on his face, suddenly. "Hey, Naruto. You know, I'll tell you something even better than extra-credit."
"B-better than extra cred? What? What?" Naruto energetically said.
Iruka frowned, 'Wait, what he would be telling Naruto? Unless...' His eyes widened, the prank being forgotten. 'Wait, no!'
"Naruto... want to know why everyone hates you in this village?"
Naruto blinked, playing the boy he once was when Mizuki first told him this. "Why do they hate me?"
Iruka's eyes widened. He was telling him that. "No Mizuki, you can't!"
Mizuki laughed. "Twelve years ago, the Kyuubi attacked the village and was told to be defeated and killed. However, the Fourth Hokage couldn't kill It. It had to be sealed into a baby. Around that time;"
Naruto blinked. "A law?"
Mizuki nodded, the evil smirk reaching the height on his. "Yes, brat! A law that said that nobody was allowed to reveal that Naruto Uzumaki is the Kyuubi no Kitsune!"
Iruka growled, "You bastard! You're a traitor and a liar."
"Iruka-sensei's right."
Mizuki looked back at Naruto with confusion. "What?"
"You said the Nine-Tailed Fox was sealed inside a baby." Naruto neutrally said back. This really didn't faze him. Mizuki was an idiot back then and now he was twice the fool.
"That's right, and-"
"So how could I be the Kyuubi no Kitsune, if it was sealed inside me?" Naruto defiantly argued back, ignoring Iruka's incredulous look. "You're a fool. A fool whose too stupid to realize that maybe me and Kyuubi are two separate entities" 'There isn't even a Nine-Tailed Fox anymore anyway.' He added himself at the end.
Mizuki sputtered, while Naruto rose with a kunai to his face. "It's over for you, Mizuki. You lose here."
Mizuki then laughed his shock off, "Just like a demon. Yes, accept what you are."
"You can't beat us."
"Hah, you and scar-boy here?" Mizuki sneered, "I can kill you in my sleep, Nine-Tails."
Naruto smirked, "There isn't anyway to beat you?"
"No, you fool, now die-Urh!" Mizuki then fell from the tree mysteriously.
A clone stood up from the tree, who simply chopped Mizuki in the back of the head.
Yeah, Naruto plays dirty.
Iruka looked in awe. "A clone can't do that! That-That was a Shadow Clone!" Then, he glared at Naruto, "You actually stole the Scroll?"
"Well, old man Sarutobi gave me a copy of the Scroll Of Seals and I figured since you were busy trying to 'find me', hell, I learn a technique or two." In all honesty, Naruto did make a copy, at least to cover why he had the technique but Sarutobi didn't know.
The plan went smooth.
Tell Sarutobi what happened.
Lead Mizuki to the spot.
Make him think that he had the upper hand.
Beat him.
Turn him in.
Go home, and train your ass off.
Sarutobi smiled, "Well, thank you for telling me this about Mizuki but wouldn't it be easier to simply let my ANBUs deal with him?"
Naruto grinned back, "Nah! I say we take care of him ourselves! We got this old man, no problem!"
Sarutobi laughed slightly, "Well, I say this is one of the only of your pranks I approve of you, my boy. You have my full permission to do what you see fit but do bring Mizuki back alive and in relative good health."
"Naruto."
"Yeah, Iruka-sensei?" Naruto was further greeted with a hug from his teacher.
"You're not a monster." Iruka said, tears brimming down his eyes. "You're Naruto Uzumaki, just the jailor of the Kyuubi. You're not him."
"I know." Naruto smiled. "Thanks, Iruka-sensei."
End.
Edit: Aww, I miss the power charts! =0
Moves And Abilities At Younger Naruto's Current Disposal/Will Be At His Disposal:
Shadow Clone Technique
Rasengan (One-handed without clones)
Wind Release: Rasengan (With Clones)
Wind Release: Rasenshuriken (With Clones, cannot be thrown; he decided he will not use it cause he has no more advanced healing from Kyuubi)
Sage Mode (Estimated Time Of Mode Ending: 5 Minutes)
Several Wind Jutsu That Do Not Require Huge Amounts Of Chakra Control
Several Seal Techniques That Do Not Require Huge Amounts Of Chakra Control
And anymore things I can think of...
NOTE: Naruto has no advance healing. However, his healing factor is still higher than most humans, similar to the Yin Healing Wound Destruction technique Kabuto wields. It's not enough to do the Rasenshuriken without suffering the damage. Naruto can also die quite easier in this fic but we both know that won't happen. Hehehe.
Hope you guys are enjoying this experimental story.