Disclaimer: Don't own Naruto and no profit is being made off this story.
Summery: After defeating Mizuki and learning about the Demon fox sealed within him Naruto awakes to find another presence in his mind but this one offers him the deal of a life time if he would fight for her in a war between the Gods but wait, if he accepts his body will be changed into that of the Thunder Goddess.
A/N: Thanks for waiting everyone! Chapter 2 is out and I hope you all enjoy reading it as much as I have writing it.
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Thunder Queen
Chapter 2: A Heavenly Touch
Nariko looked toward Hinata and saw that she was exceedingly nervous as she watched her poke her fingers together and stare at the ground. Taking a glance toward the sun she estimated that it was early afternoon and they had several hours before sunset. Turning her mind in on itself she called out to her godly tenant.
"Hey Kaminari are there any tracking jutsus or skills that I can use with this new body?"
She didn't have to wait long before Kaminari replied in her tranquil voice, "I am afraid not as I have only ever trained in using my Thunder element for offensive purposes. You should ask your teammate and see if she can make up for this short-coming."
Giving the equivalent to a mental nod Nariko turned to Hinata who was still fidgeting. She startled her as she called out to her. "Hey Hinata, I do not have any skills in tracking or techniques that could help find Shikamaru and Anko-sensei. Do you know or have anything that can help us with that? If you do then I'll take care of subduing Anko-sensei."
Hinata nodded her head hesitantly before motioning to her eyes. "My families Byakugan can see in t…three-hundred and sixty d…degrees as well as see t…through solid objects and at l…long distances."
Nariko looked amazed at Hinata after listening to her description, reverting to her Naruto mannerism she got right in Hinata's face as she looked closely at her lavender-colored eyes. "That is really amazing Hinata, those eyes are wicked sweet!"
Hinata turned a deep shade of red as her white haired teammate breached her personal space to stare into her eyes. With a silent gasp she took a few steps away from Nariko, stuttering terribly in her embarrassment. "T…t…they a…aren't t…that g…good."
Nariko straightened after Hinata had backed away and looked off toward town, before whirling back around to face her teammate.
"Yes they are! Now take a look around and see if you can find them, then we can go kick Anko-sensei's butt for taking our teammate" Nariko called out enthusiastically.
Hinata nodded numbly as she put her hands together in a standard hand seal that helped concentrate chakra and closed her eyes. After a second of concentrating she snapped her eyes open as the veins around them became more pronounced. Putting her hands down she concentrated on looking around her greatly increased field of vision for any sign of her missing teammate or sensei.
Finding nothing of interest on the boarders of her vision she began to bring her focus in closer to their current position when she noticed Nariko standing off to her side. In fact it was very hard to miss her as her chakra coils shined so brightly it was painful to look at her.
Hinata gasped slightly as she looked at her teammate that seemed to be overflowing with a kaleidoscope of silver, blue and red chakra that all seemed to swirl together in a turbulent maelstrom within her body. Usually when she looked at a person's chakra coils it resembled blue blood vessels that coursed throughout the body but Nariko looked closer to a pure chakra entity with the sheer amount of chakra that flowed through her body.
Nariko took Hinata's gasp as a sign that she had found what they were looking for and prepared to head off after them as she called out to her shy teammate. "Did you find them Hinata?"
Hinata shook herself slightly as she broke her focus on her mysterious teammate and continue looking for their sensei and fellow companion. "N…no, I can't seem to find them in my c…current field of vision. Sorry."
Nariko gave a reassuring smile as she placed a hand on Hinata's shoulder, "That's ok; they must be in town or further out in the training grounds. I say we run through town looking for them then come back and check further out in the training grounds. That way we can search town twice, just to make sure."
Hinata silently nodded her head as she took off after her white haired teammate into town. They moved quickly through the crowds of people who were going about there everyday lives. Nariko ran in front of Hinata as they wove through the crowds, while Hinata followed close behind trying to use the full capacity of her Byakugan to both search for her missing team-mate and sensei as well as avoid running into any of the civilians on the street.
The pair had made it through the town and were now standing in front of the gates to the Hyuga compound which made up a large portion of the edge of town. Turning to Hinata Nariko saw that she was out of breath and having a hard time standing up straight. Looking up at the sky she guessed that it had only taken them about half an hour to run their zigzagged path though the town. Guessing that her new changes kept her from noticing the fatigue she should probably have had she called out to her tired teammate.
"Hey Hinata how about we take a short break before we head back." Hinata just gave a silent nod before sitting down against the wall to her compound, while Nariko leaned against it casually. About five minutes into their impromptu break someone calling out broke them from their individual thoughts.
"Hinata what are you doing sitting outside the compound, should you not be with your new team?" Looking over at the person who spoke Hinata quickly got to her feet and bowed. "F…father, I a…apologize if we a…are causing a…any t…trouble. We a…are just t…taking a t…test from our new s…sensei."
Hyuga Hiashi raised an eyebrow in slight interest before it fell back into his stoic expression. Turning toward the white haired girl standing with his daughter he gave a very slight bow before speaking. "I take it that you would be one of the new members on Hinata's team. May I ask what your name is and what sort of test your sensei is giving you?"
Hinata looked side-long at her father with a slightly confused expression as her father had never shown any interest in the people she associated with; although she had a sneaking suspicion that she knew why he had bothered to personally leave the compound to meet her new teammate.
Nariko looked the guy in front of her over slightly before she gave a slight bow and introduced herself. "My name is Namikaze Nariko and Anko-sensei decided to kidnap our other teammate Nara Shikamaru and make us look for them."
Once again Hiashi's eyebrow rose in interest before returning to his normal expression.
"I see, it seems as if you were given quite an interesting sensei for your team Namikaze-san. I do hope that my daughter has not inconvenienced you in your search for your teammate."
Hinata's head fell in disappointment as her father put her down once again. Nariko on the other hand scowled slightly before bursting out with her usual enthusiasm. "No way would Hinata be an inconvenience! Without her there would be no way we could find Anko-sensei and Shikamaru before sunset, which reminds me. We need to continue our search."
Turning toward Hinata she asked if she was ready, after receiving a nod Hinata activated her Byakugan and headed off back into town behind her teammate, a new sense of determination burning within her.
Hiashi watched with his own Byakugan active as his daughter faded into the distance following the massive glowing beacon of her teammate. "Namikaze-san was it?" was all he said before heading back into the compound to ponder this newest development.
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Nariko and Hinata were nearing the training fields again having gone almost completely back through town while looking for their teammate and sensei. Hinata was starting to get desperate when she finally spotted a familiar looking person in a trench coat. Stopping she focused her eyes on the person and realized it was Anko sitting at the local dango stand talking to a completely depressed looking Shikamaru who was seated across from her still wrapped up in a snake.
Nariko having noticed that Hinata had stopped following her stopped as well and turned to her teammate who was looking off further into town.
"Hey Hinata did you find them?"
Hinata gave a short nod before replying "Hai, they are at a d…dango stand over there." She finished while pointing in the direction she was looking. Smiling brightly Nariko ran up to Hinata and gave her a hug which in turn made said girl blush incredibly bad.
"That's great Hinata-chan! Just lead the way there and I'll give that crazy snake lady what for!"
Still blushing Hinata gave a short nod before heading off toward their sensei, with Nariko following closely behind. They made short time getting to the dango stand, when they arrived Nariko jumped down next to Anko.
"Anko-sensei we have finally caught you so hand over Shikamaru now and I'll go easy on you!"
Hinata looked on worried from the corner of the building as Anko just licked her lips after finishing off the last of her dango, before standing and looking at the white-haired girl in front of her.
"Think you can go about ordering me around genin? I think I'm going to have to teach you some humility about respecting your superiors. Tell you what though, since you found me so fast I'll give back Shika-kun to help with trying to subdue me, but remember if you fail to do so by sun down I'm sending you all back to the academy!"
Anko gestured in Shikamaru's direction and her snake-summon disappeared causing Shikamaru to fall out his chair. He however recovered quickly and tried to use his Shadow-Capture Technique on Anko only for her to leap out of the covered eating area of the dango stand and into the street, before taking off towards the training grounds.
Nariko turned quickly toward Hinata while asking, "Hinata which way is she headed?" Hinata came out from behind the corner as Shikamaru walked over to where Nariko was standing. "She is h…heading back t…to the training ground she f…first took us to."
Nariko nodded firmly before taking off after their sensei faster then she or her teammates expected she could go. She failed to hear Shikamaru calling out to her to wait as she faded into the distance, a trail of dust following her.
Turning to Hinata he called out to her, "Troublesome, but we need to hurry up and help her out before Anko hurts her."
Shikamaru headed off to the training ground they were at earlier while Hinata hesitated slightly before going after him.
Nariko arrived at the training ground far faster then she ever expected to, as she came through the trees into the clearing she saw Anko standing in the middle of the field with her hands on her hips and a smirk on her face. "Your fast Nari-chan, but don't be in too big of a hurry to receive a beat-down."
Flinging her long braided pony-tail behind her she gave her sensei a smirk before replying. "I have more tricks then you would believe, so be ready to be amazed!"
Forming a hand seal that she had learned before she had met Kaminari and was turned into her current self, she began the fight by yelling out "Mass Shadow Clone Technique!"
Over a hundred copies of herself exploded into existence, easily filling half the training ground.
Anko whistled loudly before her grin became even larger. "That IS impressive Nari-chan but still no-where near enough to subdue me!"
Without saying a thing all the clones attacked at once, quickly surrounding the snake-summoner, however as each one attacked using the standard academy style which even Nariko would admit she was never good at, and even with her enhanced speed and reflexes Anko's Serpents Strike style was easily picking her clones apart.
Nariko almost palmed her head when she realized that even though she knew hundreds of new techniques she did not actually know how to perform them yet. Delving into her mind she called out desperately to her godly tenant. "Kaminari-sama, I need help and fast! I need something that can help me defeat Anko-sensei so I'm not sent back to the academy!"
Nariko suddenly found herself standing in the sewers of her mind only they seemed cleaner and brighter then they were the last time she was here. Turning around she looked up at the red eyes of the Kyuubi, then she heard Kaminari's voice behind her.
"Thank you Kyuubi for bringing her here. Now Naruto or Nariko which ever you prefer to be called the reason you are not able to use the full capacity of my abilities is because we have yet to train your body in the use of these techniques and abilities. Now since you are currently in combat with your sensei I had Kyuubi bring your consciousness in here so we can touch up on some basics. Because time moves much slower in here then out in the real world we have about three hours before your sensei picks apart the rest of your clones, in that time you will be learning the beginnings of my Thunder Boxing fighting style."
Kaminari walked up to Nariko before reaching out and taking her hands and moving then up into a standard boxing position, before proceeding to walk around her student positioning the rest of her body in the proper positions. As she did this she continued to inform Nariko about the basics of Thunder Boxing.
"Now Thunder Boxing in its most simple form is not very different from regular boxing except from the fact that it uses a coating of Thunder element chakra to coat the fists and cause kinetic damage when contact with your target is made. This is useful for fracturing bones, rupturing blood vessels and causing organ damage as the sound wave passes through a body. Of course the amount of chakra you put into an attack determines the amount of damage you cause, ranging from deep bruising all the way to being able to potentially put a hole clean through someone."
After positioning Nariko into the starting stance, she walked in front of her and took up the exact same stance. "Now I want you to follow me through the different kata's until you have memorized them all."
Nariko nodded and began copying her godly look a like's movements as Kaminari continued telling her about Thunder Boxing. "Now Thunder Boxing in its complete form starts to blur the line between kick-boxing and Tae-Kwon-Do, a similar style to it would be the Iron Fist style that some ninja's use. Now you might be thinking that Boxing would require a great deal of strength and normally you would be right but in Thunder Boxing the strength of your hit is augmented by chakra and more specifically Thunder element chakra. Imagine a thin disk of chakra floating against your knuckle. If you will begin forming the disk by creating a line of chakra similar to the second hand on a clock and rotate that line of clockwise until it reaches completely around, once that is done simply release the chakra disk upon contact with your target by pushing it out from the center of the disk."
Kaminari watched as Nariko attempted to form the disk of chakra in front of her fist, she seemed to understand the concept but the execution was difficult to grasp for her. Kyuubi was also watching his jailor try to perform the technique with little success from behind his bars but said nothing at the failed attempts. Kaminari walked to a wall and sat down while calling out to Nariko.
"Keep trying to form the disk, you have one hour to complete it and once you do we will move on to the next stage."
Luck was smiling on Nariko as she was able to complete the disk within forty-five minutes. Seeing her student's accomplishment Kaminari stood up before motioning to the Kyuubi across the room. "Can you make something out of chakra that we can use as a training post while we are in here?"
Kyuubi's eyes narrowed slightly as his grin revealed his large sharp teeth. "As you wish." Red demonic chakra seeped from the dark void beyond the bars and started to form a spinning mass in front of the pair that was roughly human sized, as the chakra began to dissipate it slowly revealed the form of Sasuke Uchiha glaring at them in his brooding mannerism.
Kaminari and Nariko both looked at the Sasuke clone then to the Kyuubi who was still grinning then back to the Sasuke clone. Kaminari looked to Kyuubi with a raise eyebrow before speaking "Using a former classmate of Naruto's as a training post, now that's just cruel." All she received in reply was dark heavy laughter.
Nariko's eyes narrowed on the Sasuke clone as she got a closer look at it. She became startled and jumped away from it and into an attack position when it spoke. "So dope I see that my mere presence is enough to scare you out of those pretty little hot-pants of yours." He finished speaking with a perverted leer in her direction.
Nariko instantly became enraged and disgusted at the same time as she ran at the Sasuke clone, fist raised to give it the beating of a lifetime. Kaminari however quickly caught her fist and prevented her from hitting the Sasuke clone who only smirked and wiggled his eyebrows at her.
While holding Nariko back Kaminari began explaining the second part of the exercise. "Hold on there Nariko for a little before you lay into that clone, as that was what we were going to do in the first place. I just want to make sure that you have the concept down about Thunder Boxing first. Now, after you form the chakra disk you want to be sure to release it right at the moment of impact or it won't work properly. Too soon and you will actually push your opponent away from you and to late and it will push you away from your opponent. Now go back and start again, this time do it properly."
Nariko walked back in front of the Sasuke clone before sinking into the stance Kaminari had shown her earlier. The Sasuke clone winked at her and blew a kiss in her direction which caused her to rush toward her target. "Go be flirty with someone else IN HELL BASTARD!"
As her fist connected with the Sasuke clone in the left shoulder, the result was easy to see. First a loud thunder-clap echoed within the chamber, then the back on the Sasuke clone seemed to indent outwards as a fist sized hole blew out of his shirt over the back of his left shoulder. The Sasuke clone bent backwards, before doubling over forwards and coughing up some blood. After about three seconds the hole in the shirt reformed and the clone stood back up smirking arrogantly at Nariko. "Is that all you got cutie?"
Nariko was about to punch him in the face next when clapping behind her made her hesitate. "That was very good Nariko, you got him right above his left lung causing organ damage and breaking his shoulder blade. Now return to your original location and until Anko takes out all your clones we will be working on varying the strengths of your bunches so you don't go killing everyone you hit with one punch. Kyuubi if you could, have the clone fight back that would be great."
Nariko sank back into the beginning stance for Thunder Boxing while Sasuke took up the Serpents Strike stance that Anko had been using on her clones. Nariko smiled widely, only speaking one word before rushing at the Sasuke clone.
"Perfect"
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Anko was having a great time; she had been absolutely slaughtering the clones of her student and was rather happy about it. Even though she had already figured which Nariko was the real one she held off going after her until she had dispatched all the clones first, just to prolong her fun some more before her other students showed up to help their teammate. She realized not long ago while there were about sixty clones left that one of the Nariko copies was making circular patterns among the mass of clones. She would move forward to attack with a group of clones but back off before she was is range and then do it again with another group of clones. It didn't matter really though, the academy style was widely ineffective against most ninjas and was one thing she planned to break her Genin of first, except for the Hyuga girl who more then likely used the Gentle Fist style.
With only ten clones left Anko decided to end it a little flashier then she had been doing previously. Going through a few hand sighs she began her Shadow Snake Hand Technique and nine snakes shot from the sleeves of her coat striking nine of the Nariko copies, easily dispelling them as their fangs sank into them. The real Nariko stopped moving after her clones were destroyed and as Anko approached her, she could see that her student's eyes seemed to be clouded over with a slightly distant look to them, but she wrote it off as fatigue.
"Tired already? Thought you might have had more in you then that Nari-chan, though I don't blame you really I can only create twenty shadow clones tops before I feel drained. You are quite the impressive girl; unfortunately I think I am going to have to send you guys back to the academy if this is all you can do. Guess I better knock you out before the others come to your aid, nighty-night Nari-chan."
When Anko was within striking distance, she cocked her fist back and prepared to render her student unconscious. As her fist shot forward the sharpness returned to Nariko's eyes before she seemed to faze out of existence right before the fist connected. Anko turned around quickly in surprise to see Nariko standing a distance behind her while she released some tension by cracking the bones in her neck and knuckles.
Anko smirked as she watched her student, "Seems like you have some fight left in you after all, good, good I wouldn't want to become bored with you to quickly."
Nariko's gaze hardened and her eyes seem to smolder with determination. "Like I said, I have a few tricks up my sleeve." Sinking into the Thunder Boxing stance she prepared herself to fight her sensei.
Anko chuckled amusingly as she watched her student take up a Boxing stance. "Are you seriously going to be using Boxing? I was thinking you might have something better then the academy style but not such an inferior style such as Boxing!"
Nariko's fists tightened and she began to form the disks of chakra over her fists. "I wouldn't nock it just yet sensei." Rushing forward she applied chakra to her legs to increase her speeds to three times her normal, but still traceable to Anko's standards. Her first right hook was dodged completely as was her left, but Anko decided to block her third swing, a task she would regret doing later.
As the fist contacted with her arm a loud thunder-clap resounded through-out the entire training ground, the amount of kinetic damage caused a deep bruise to form on the place of impact and Anko believed their might be some hairline fractures in her arm. Quickly jumping away Anko placed some distance between her and her student, while favoring her arm.
"Crap that hurt! There seems to be some power to those punches girl, but unfortunately you won't be able to lay another hit on me at all."
Nariko narrowed her eyes as she prepared to charge her sensei yet again, while Anko was preparing to counter her student and finish her off quickly. By some unspoken single both kunoichi rushed each other, or would have if Anko had not been frozen in place by Shikamaru's Shadow Binding technique. Anko felt her eyes widen in surprise as Nariko rushed her, fists up ready to throw a quick one, two punch, while Hinata landed in the training ground behind her Byakugan activated and already in the Starting form of the Gentle-Fist style.
Anko knew it was going to hurt to be on the receiving end of Nariko's attack as well as Hinata's. She was confident that she could break out of Shikamaru's Shadow Bind technique but not before her two students reached her. With a cringe she tried to brace herself as best she could, but was surprised when the attacks never came.
Opening her eyes she could see Nariko standing in front of her, fist out only inches from her face, she could also feel Hinata behind her at an extremely close distance no doubt ready to lay a quick Juuken strike should she try anything.
With a wide smirk Nariko called out to her sensei, "I believe we have captured you Anko-sensei, will you pass us now or do we have to knock you out first?"
Even though she could not move her body Anko threw her head back and gave a deep, heavy laugh, before sweeping her eyes over her new Genin team. Suddenly a thought crossed her mind. "Yes, these are MY Genin. Finally my very first team and they are all diamonds just waiting to be polished!"
With a deep feral grin that made both Nariko and Shikamaru gulp from the sight of it, Anko voiced her decision in a way that had the three Genin second guessing themselves about wanting to pass. "Alright brats you all pass my test if only barely! HOWEVER, don't start thinking that you can take it easy from here on out. As my very first official Genin Team I am going to run all of you into the ground so hard with my training that you WILL become the best team of ninja that has ever set foot in this town, and this I promise you!"
After a tense moment of silence Nariko burst out in a cheer while jumping up and throwing her fist into the air. "YEAH, we are all finally ninja! I bet we are going to kick so much ass that everyone will know our names!"
Shikamaru just groaned as he let his form slouch causing his Shadow Bind to disengage, letting Anko loose. He had been dreading this team since the second it was announced, with it being a reverse setup to normal teams with two female members and one male member. Not to mention topping it all off with THE most sadistic chick imaginable as the Jonin sensei. He knew just how sadistic she could get too; he had to spend over an hour listening to here regale stories about her time in Torture and Interrogations, as well as all her favorite moves to get the most "entertainment" out of her victims.
For a brief moment Shikamaru considered committing seppuku right then and there, at the very least his could live the rest of his existence in peace. But, as he looked over to his two teammates and watched as Nariko tried to get the extremely shy Hyuga to give her a jumping high five, he could not help but give a small grin and think that no matter how troublesome this will be for him it would certainly be interesting.
Anko cleared her throat loud enough to get the attention of her new students. "Since you three finished my test in such a short time we will use the remainder of our time holding mock fights between each other. I want to see your entire arsenal and accumulation of knowledge from your time in the academy. Tomorrow I will report to Hokage-sama that you three have passed my test, so I will allow you guys to have that day to yourselves, but be prepared come sunrise the following day as your training to become the best will begin. NOW, let's get this party started!"
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A/N: Chapter 2 is officially finished. It actually amazes me really that I had written more then three fourths of this chapter the same day I posted the first one but it took me this long to finally finish it. Ah well, I will continue to writing into chapter 3 after this is posted and hopefully it won't take me as long to get it out as a lot of the intro fluff is over. Not all but a lot.
Next Chapter: Anko will give her new team the nickel tour of hell, while Nariko's name is echoed through Konoha and beyond.
