Back again, hope everyone enjoyed my first chapter. Just to inform everyone this and any other story I do will have a very random update schedule. This is because I am by far the biggest scatter brain ever and my work is all on call so some weeks I don't have a chance to write anything and some weeks I will. Okay so just like Mathias' story, Naruto's first disciple will be Kisara because she is the easiest to take out of the story without mucking up the plot too severely.

Disclaimer: Really? Refer back to chapter 1 because I am not typing it again.

Chapter 2: The First Student

Ryou 'Habuki' Ma strolled in relative silence with his grandniece Renka Ma behind him. The very mention of a meeting with her father had her foaming at the mouth to come along. The recent goings on in Chinatown had spurred on the visit. The rumors that had surfaced surrounding the takedowns of several mob bosses needed investigation. Rumors spoke of a masked master of martial arts wielding a large sword and supposed supernatural abilities. He stopped without warning causing his grandniece to bump into him; she looked at him crossly before catching sight of the massive doors of Ryozanpaku.

Kenichi came into the main hall his mind adrift with thoughts. Just yesterday he and Miu had rescued Ukita and Takeda from Valkyrie of Ragnarok and her thugs, when he had to be bailed by Niijima and his newly created Shinpaku Alliance. He was pulled from his thoughts by an odd sight, and two people he had never seen before in the dojo. His masters Akisame, Sakaki, Elder Furinji, and a rather nervous Kensei Ma were sitting with two people an elderly man with a beard and a young girl about his age, maybe older. "Good evening sensei who are our guest?"

"Ah Kenichi these are some relatives of mine; my uncle Habuki, and my daughter Renka." That caught his attention, his eyes grew to the size of saucers and his jaw hit the floor "DAUGHTER!" Kensei looked at him strangely "Yes daughter is it that surprising?" Kenichi choose that moment to keep his mouth shut. Turning back to his uncle Kensei asked what was on everyone's mind "What brings you here uncle?"

"There have been some strange events going on in Chinatown as of late. Several local mob bosses have been taken down in the last few weeks. Rumor has it that all of these gangs have been taken down by one man, and each gang is taken down in a single night with brutal efficiency." That caught everyone's attention, "The man is said to be a master of both unarmed and armed combat. The man always described the same way; a man at least 6' tall wearing a white cloak, a white porcelain mask of some sort of animal and wields a 5' long zanbato type sword with a large hole near the tip of the blade and a cut out in the blade near the hilt with the ease of a bokken." At this Shigure lowered herself from the ceiling scaring Kenichi in the process "I have no knowledge of... such a blade… but to wield such a blade… this man must truly be a… master." With that said she disappeared back into the rafters. "Thank you for that Shigure-san. The man is also noted to be faster than the eye can see, flashing in and out of sight as he decimates hordes of mafia goons."

Elder Furinji nodded and summed up the information "So we have an unknown master of multiple disciplines cleaning up the streets of Chinatown"

"That's not the half of it from what little has been seen of the man behind the mask the man is only estimated to be in his early twenties," Habuki informed them. "maybe about 4 years older than young Kenichi here."

The whole time nobody noticed the small fly sitting upside down on a rafter over the table, nor did anyone notice it disappear in a small puff of smoke.

The next day

Naruto sat atop the abandoned building his first potential disciple had claimed as her 'headquarters'. He had been scouting the city for a couple weeks looking for potential students. Kenichi was one of the first he had considered but that was quickly dismissed for now. Several members of a local gang also caught his attention; Thor, Siegfried, Hermit, Berserker, Valkyrie and a few of her underlings. For now his focus was on Valkyrie, or Kisara Nanjo.

Kisara had impressed him with her skill at taekwondo and her drive to prove herself. With a proper teacher she could flourish, and that's just what he would provide. Seeing his hopefully future student approaching Naruto flew through a short series of hand seals, and with a whisper of Hidden Mist Technique, with a grin he leaped off into the thickening haze. Just because she was a potential student didn't mean he couldn't have a little fun first.

Kisara Nanjo was still fuming over her loss three days ago. Now all she wanted was a rematch and teach that damn dairy cow a lesson, show her how it feels to be humiliated. She was heading back to her little headquarters for a little stress release, namely beating her heavy bag into a new shape. She noticed a hazy fog rolling in and shivered a bit from the new chill in the air. Two minutes later what had started as a thin hazy was now a thick blanket making any sort of navigation impossible. She was trying to regain her bearings when a voice rang out from, what seemed to be, all directions. "Good Evening Kisara Nanjo or should I say," Then the voice whispered directly into her right ear "Valkyrie?"

She whipped around to find nothing there. Her frustration evident she shouted into the mist, "Alright who are you, show yourself! Before I find you and beat it outta you." For a moment all she could hear was a slight chuckle from the mist. "While I highly doubt you could do that, but I shall show myself. It is hard to have a conversation with you shouting like that." Kisara felt the wind pick up and start whipping around her, clearing the thick mist around her. She saw a shadowy figure around 6' 4" step out of the mist.

The man wore a white porcelain mask depicting a grinning kitsune with three red horizontal stripes, like whiskers on each cheek. Through the eye holes she could see that he had deep blue eyes. The man wore a hooded white cloak with red flames along the bottom that covered most of his head and torso, though she could see he had a mane of spiky blond hair with sideburns that framed the porcelain mask. His pants were simple black cargo pants that were taped up around mid-calf showing his feet which had a simple pair of wooden geta. Though the thing that really caught her attention was the massive blade he had strapped diagonally across his back. The blade looked about 5' long and about 1' wide and had a 1' handle. It also had a semi-circle cut out of the blade close to the handle and another circle cut out of the body near the top of the blade (Kubikiribōchō)

To be honest the giant sword unnerved her a bit, she always hated weapons but she wasn't stupid. Anyone who carried around a blade like his either; was compensating for something or was a master of the blade, and she was leaning towards option two. "Alright now who are you, and how the hell do you know who I am?" The man just chuckled "Now, now, relax Kisara. I am a man of many means and I know many things, your name being one of them. Now as for your second question," Though she couldn't see it, just from his tone she knew he was smirking, "Why would a man in a mask give his name out so freely? Now, if I recall correctly you intended to 'beat it outta' me. Well then come at me." With that he fell into a loose stance; his right hand held out with and open palm, his left behind his back, his right leg forward pointed at her slightly bent, and his left leg sideways bent at a roughly 120 degree angle.

Incensed by his attitude and words Kisara launched herself forward launching a violent kick towards the man's chest. The man stopped her kick, to her horror, using only his finger! Shoving down her fear, she launched herself into a flurry of kicks and the occasional swipe with her hands to no avail. He stopped her every strike with the same damn finger. She quickly realized she was way out of her league. The masked man was a master; the man hadn't shifted his stance at all, the bastard only moved his right arm, and the whole time his eyes had the same infuriating mirthful twinkling.

After about a minute of this he finally responded pushing back against one of her kicks sending her stumbling back, when she had finally righted herself he was right in front of her delivering an open palm strike to her stomach. She landed with her back against the wall and quickly found herself pinned against the wall and the man's blade, with her neck caught in the cut out near the handle. Her eyes wide as saucers she looked up at the, man his eyes no longer had the mirthful twinkle. Now they had a cold glacial edge them, he was now being serious. "Now do I have your attention, or do I have to show you how wide the gulf between our strength truly is?" She could only give a small nod and the man removed the blade from her throat. Kisara looked at him with slightly fearful eyes "What do you want from me?"

=Insert music "Auron's Theme" FFX –Don't own=

"I want nothing from you; I am simply here to offer you an opportunity." Kisara could only let out an unintelligible "Huh?" The man let out a small chuckle, "I see in you great potential, but just potential alone is simply that, wasted potential." He turned around walking away from her showing the back of his cloak; it showed a pale purple circle with 5 concentric rings and a dot in the center, the circle was surrounded by 9 red magnatama. "I am looking for a disciple; I want to help you bring out your full potential. I will show you the world of the warrior, what I intend to teach you is not martial arts, it is a new way of thinking, a new way of life." He turned again facing her "You asked me before what my name was, as a sign of trust I will tell you." He reached for his mask taking it off showing that he covered half of his face with a face mask that looked to be attached to his shirt, covering from his nose down. From what she could see she could tell he was young the lack of any signs of age around his large blue eyes. "I am the Rikudo Sennin, I am Naruto Namikaze." He reached into his cloak and pulled out a piece of folded paper, "If you wish to follow me on a new path, where you can truly flourish, come to this address in one weeks' time, I will be waiting" He placed the paper into her hand that had been laying limply at her side and turned to leave.

End Music

Finally finding her voice she weakly called out to him "Why? Why me?" He gave her what could only be called an eye smile "As I said before, I see in you potential, but also," he paused for a moment "You are a strong woman and a good soul, someone who could follow my ideals." With that he vanished and with him the mist, leaving one very tired and confused Kisara Nanjo in his wake.

Naruto watched with his mask once again back on his face as Kisara headed of towards her headquarters, "And now we wait." He said as he vanished once more into the night.

End Chapter

Well what do you think I am trying to keep parts of it close to Mathias' version but written it my way. As always read and review give me some feedback I have this plotted out to the end of the Ragnarok Arc. I plan to have Naruto make appearances during several events interfering either directly or indirectly. Shoot me a pm for any ideas for the Yami/YOMI Arc. I need people to bounce ideas off of. On a side note I almost have the prologue for my Naruto/Negima story ready, though I am kinda saving that story for when I stall out on this one. Now off to reread the Yami/YOMI to refresh my ADHD addled memory.