Naruto:Legend of the Armor Ninja
Chapter 2
Rising From the Ashes
"Normal speech."
'Normal thoughts.'
"Demon/Boss summon speech."
'Demon/Boss summon thoughts.'
"Jutsu!"
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Naruto sighed as he sat on the bench outside of the Hokage's office next to him was his friend Byakuen a large white tiger, today had been a blur for the teenage blond. First he had been dared by Kiba to go into training ground 44 which unbeknownst to him was also called the forest of death and for good reason, in there Naruto had almost been eaten twice found these strange armors and met Byakuen. That had been the good part …. well at least meeting the tiger had been good, but it was on his way home that had him sitting here looking at the floor.
Someone had lit his apartment building on fire and by the time he had arrived it was an raging inferno, Jiji and a squad of ANBU shown up a few minutes later just in time to see the building collapse into it's self. The only things that he had left was the clothes on his back but in their condition they wouldn't last much longer and the head band that he received from Iruka-Sensei.
While it wasn't much the apartment and the contents was his, the photos he could get copies from Iruka,Teuchi and Jiji so that wasn't a big loss. What was are his clothes equipment and money, because the banks wouldn't let him open up an account he had to keep his money at home so it went up in flames with everything else.
So he had no money no place to stay and no way to replace his possessions, sighing again Naruto felt something warm rub up against him. Turning to see Byakuen trying to comfort his friend, Naruto started scratching between the tigers ears thinking 'At least I am not alone.' as he waited for the Hokage to finish the meeting.
Inside the Hokage's Office
The gathered Jonin could tell that one Hiruzen Sarutobi was not happy, they could tell it from the way he was puffing on his pipe like a smoke stack to his chewing on the stem.
Yes the Kami no Shinobi was not a happy man someone no less than half an hour ago had burned down the residence of Naruto, the boy had lost all his worldly possessions only keeping the nearly destroyed clothes on his back and his head band. What was worse all signs pointed to arson, meaning that someone had wanted to kill or harm him.
But no one had tried to stop it and there was no clues to who had set the fire making the case a dead end. This left him with another problem of where Naruto could stay, that apartment was the only place the teen could afford and he had no one else to stay with. The Sandaime would have been happy to allow Naruto to stay with him but that would have the old harpies that were his former team mates crying favoritism, he had to find a place for him to stay in the mean time since his more permanent solution would take time.
Pushing that off to the side he had to see to this meeting to decide which graduating Gennins would be assigned to a team together.
The elderly man gazed at the assembled Jonin wondering what the new generation of Shinobi would be like, shaking his head to clear his thoughts Sarutobi put his mind on the task.
Clearing his throat to gain the attention of the chatting Shinobi the Sandaime began speaking "Now that your all here we can start, the teams have been decided for this years graduating class your requests were considered. This a list of all the Gennin teams for this year." said the man as the paper was passed out to the Jonin some of them had smiles on their faces as they read who their team were.
This went on for a few minutes until one of the Jonin spoke up "Hokage-sama if I may be so bold to why the Uzumaki is on this list under team 7 did he not fail?" the person who spoke was man of above average height wearing a black bandanna covering his hair along with small pair of black sunglasses, his outfit was standard black Jonin uniform.
Hiruzen sighed at Ebisu's question the man was a fine Jonin but he could be a bit pompous and he was one of the people that didn't particularly like Naruto.
The person that answered Ebisu question was a tall man with dull sliver hair that almost stuck straight up "It's not surprising that you don't know Ebisu you were out on a mission when it happened, an academy teacher Mizuki tricked Naruto into stealing the forbidden scroll. Naruto stopped him from taking it by using a A-rank jutsu that he learned in a few hours, as a reward he was made a Gennin of Konoha pretty impressive huh?" said the sliver haired man as he turned a page in his book.
Ebisu's eyes widened behind his glasses but only for moment as he recomposed himself "Of course Kakashi it is." said the embarrassed man as he stuttered.
Deciding that Ebisu had enough the Hokage came to his rescue " Good now that it's cleared up those that have teams are to show up at the academy in five days at 11'0 clock and be on time." when Sarutobi said this is gaze was boring into Kakashi who had his nose buried in his book "For now your dismissed.".
As the Jonin were leaving the Sandaime noticed the person who he wanted to speak with "Ah Anko I was hoping to speak to you." stopping the woman before she left.
The woman in question turned around to face him, she was person of average height standing only at 5'4 with purple hair up in a short spiky ponytail. She wears a tan trench coat with a mesh body suit and a orange miniskirt that shows off her fit and lean body. On her shins are gray shin guards, around her neck hung a snake fang on thick cord her head band was on her forehead.
Anko stopped right in front of the Hokage's desk saluting him "You wished to speak with me Hokage-sama." asked Anko in a respectful tone that sounded odd coming from her.
"Anko you can drop formalities." Anko was never one for the formalities unless she had to.
"Okay old man what do yea need?" asked the special Jonin in her normal playful tone.
Shaking his head at the way the Jonin addressed him being one of the two people to in Konoha that called him that and meant it as a form of endearment "I do need to inform you of one thing and ask a favor of you.".
Raising an eye brow if the Hokage was asking for a favor then it didn't involve Shinobi affairs since he could just order her then "Well I'll hear the first one then I'll think about the second one." to be fair she did the owe the old man a lot when he took her back in the ranks when Oro-teme tossed her aside, most other Kage would have killed her on sight for even associating with a traitor like him so she'd probably end up doing the favor.
"The first is that a person not cleared to enter training ground 44 was seen going into the forest today."
"Huh so where the body bag?" asked the interrogator with dark humor.
"Luckily they were able to survive and were caught leaving the forest by a passing ANBU, apparently it was a newly graduated Gennin who had sneaked into the forest on a dare from one of his former classmates. I have already decided their punishment and it involves you." this got her attention how could anything involving her be considered punishment? "It was decided that the two will be your personal assistants for two weeks.".
"Really?" asked Anko her eyes got big and sparkly as she though of all the things she could have the two do "So who are the lucky minio- I mean personal assistants of mine."
Giving the woman a deadpanned look he went "They are Kiba Inuzuka and Naruto Uzumaki."
"Hana's little bro and the blond gaki oh yeah this will be fun." her mind running rampant with the things that she would have the two do to amuse her.
Cutting the purple haired woman off at the pass so to speak Sarutobi brought out a sheet of paper handing it to her "Before you even think about it Anko I have here a rules of what you are allowed to order the two to do you are to follow these rules is that understood?" his voice serious as he looked at his top interrogator.
Anko read the rules seeing that about a quarter of her ideas were shot down flat by a these rules, some of them she could understand like not being able to interfere with their duties as Gennin of Konoha if they passed the true test and not letting them into classified stuff.
"Yes I understand Hokage-sama, you also wanted to ask me a favor right?" wondering what the man would possibly want.
The elder man nodded seriously "Yes a little under an hour ago the apartment of Naruto Uzumaki was burned to the ground luckily Naruto was not in the building while this happened."
"And what does this have to do with me?" asked Anko, she knew about the brat not being well liked right up there with her actually.
"Ah yes that I was wondering if you would be able put Naruto up at your place until he is able find another place to live, since you are one of the few that I trust and would not hate him so will you do it?" his voice hopeful as he didn't have too many other options.
Anko's eyes narrowed to slits in thought all she had to do was put up with the kid for a little while and the fact that brat was hers to order around for the next two weeks so not really having any objections to it "Eh why the hell the not." she said shrugging her shoulders.
A smile broke out on the weathered features of the Sandaime "Good Anko he's right out side we'd best go tell him." with that the two Shinobi headed to the door.
Several minutes later.
Naruto was walking down the street next to Anko with Byakuen following behind them a little ways, it had been pretty funny to see the purple haired woman's reaction to Byakuen since she had come through the window to Hokages office she hadn't seen him before. After calming down the irate woman and assuring her that the large tiger was harmless the Hokage explained the situation to teen about where he was staying, he had also given the teen a bit of money from his apartment's insurance to replace his equipment and clothes.
When the old man had introduced Anko to the blond now that he had a face to go with the name had utterly freaked out, this had made Anko very happy since this meant her reputation preceded her and if half the stuff was true that he had heard about her Naruto feared for his life.
The trio was on the way to a Shinobi outfitter to purchase new clothes for the blond along with replacing his ninja tools. He had taken up Anko's advice of where to go since he wasn't very welcome in most stores.
As they walked down the street Naruto couldn't help but feel the stares on him and the group, he noticed these stares weren't just on him but also on Anko and nervous looks at Byakuen since it wasn't everyday one sees a massive tiger walking down the street.
When the two Shinobi and tiger reached the weapon shop Naruto immediately went in search of something orange to wear but was stopped by Anko.
"No way in hell brat." said Anko as she put her hands on her hips and gave the young man the 'look'.
"What why not?" wined Naruto as he held up a bright orange shirt with an equally blinding pair of pants "And your wearing some too." not allowing his gaze to travel down to the mentioned article of clothing.
Seeing the brat was smart enough not look down at her mini skirt or at least had enough survival instincts not to "True brat but this is dark orange not 'holy shit I'm right here' orange and I am badass enough to handle any attention it gets me plus I look good in it." giving her rear a shake to emphasize her point.
Damn he couldn't argue with the fact that mini skirt did just that he was teenager dammit "Fine but you had better not make me dress like an emo.".
"Right, so stay away from where the Uchiha shops." apparently she had the same view of the last Uchiha.
Several clothes changes later.
The blond had to admit that his new outfit was both functional and made him look good, Naruto was now wearing something that actually looked like it belonged on Shinobi. His shoes were a pair of black combat boots with steel toes, his pants are a black pair much like the ANBU wear with burnt orange tape around his ankles. On his torso is long sleeved shirt that looks to be variation of the chunin uniform it is in what the owner called 'Uzumaki red, under his shirt is top of fishnet armor that can block mostly small blades. Over the shirt is black flak jacket vest much like the Chunin wear but without the neck guard and has a red swirl mark on the back, on his fore arms and shins are red guards much like Anko's own, his look is completed by a pair of fingerless gloves backed by metal also in red.
"Wow I can actually look directly at you with being blinded." came the snark response from the Jonin to his side.
Giving the woman a deadpanned stare "Smart ass.".
"Yep and a fine ass to if I don't say so myself." quipped Anko making Naruto blush oh the fun she'll have with embarrassing the brat.
After paying for the several copies of the clothes and his new equipment Naruto had used up more then half his money as the two outcasts walked out of the store Anko had to ask the question.
"So brat you know how to cook?"
"Not without poisoning us both with it."
"Great."
Scene break.
Since neither of them could cook worth a damn they were forced to eat out, Anko had wanted to get Dango but her favorite restaurant for them was all the way on the other side of the village it was decided that they would go to the closer and in Naruto's opinion better Ichiraku Ramen.
As soon as Naruto stepped through the entrance of the ramen stand he was nearly knocked on his ass by worried Ayame who began hugging the teen hard enough that his face was turning blue. Apparently the girl and her father Teuchi had heard about his home getting burned down but they hadn't heard anything about him which caused them to worry, he of course assured them that he was fine and he hadn't been in the building at the time.
The two had met Byakuen tho for the first couple of minutes the chefs were tense about the white tiger until they found out he was totally tame, while he and Anko were waiting for the ramen to cook he told his story of meeting the feline. This gained Naruto a soapy frying pan to the cranium for his stupidity and Byakuen a large pork bone for saving him from getting eaten.
Upon hearing that Naruto would be staying with Anko, Ayame had become very suspicious of the Kunochi who dressed very provocatively and was giving the woman the stink eye. Teuchi was wondering if it was time to give his unofficial nephew 'the talk', Naruto wasn't sure why but he had just gotten a massive shiver down his spine.
After saying good bye to the two chefs the two humans and feline began heading where Anko lived, since the place was so far away they had to roof hop to get there before night fall. Naruto did began to wonder where this place was since it had been about 10 minutes since they left the village and started to head towards the training grounds.
The blond's unasked question was unanswered when the group stopped in front of chain link fence that surrounded a massive forest, immediately recognizing the area as the forest of death Naruto's reaction was expected.
"What the hell are we doing out here? Are you planning on killing me and hiding the bod-"his slightly hysterical rant was cut short by Anko slapping him in the back of the head.
"Brat if I wanted to kill you then you wouldn't be asking me that right now, the reason we're out here is because I live in the tower at the center of the forest." said the purple haired woman matter of factly.
"Um I hate to say this but there is no way I am going back in there today since I almost got eaten TWICE when I was in there." his stance firm because there was no way in hell he was going through the forest that almost gotten him killed.
Rolling her eyes Anko started to talk in a nonsense tone "Look brat even if I had to knock you out and drag you bare ass naked through there I would but lucky for you we don't have to going through the forest takes too long. We're going in the access tunnel."
"Access tunnel?"
"Yeah it was built for when people didn't want to go through the forest to get to the tower for maintenance or something like that." explained the Jonin as she dragged Naruto over to a boulder.
When she reached the large rock Anko placed her hand on it and begun to channel chakra into it, the instant she did that a large and complex seal in black ink spread over it. After a few seconds the seal disappeared and a quite rumbling sound filled the air as the rock split down the middle separating to reveal a set of stone stairs.
"Only those that are keyed into the seal can u this up." said Anko.
Naruto followed Anko down the stairs with torches lit as they approached, when they reached the bottom Naruto saw what looked to be a mine cart with a two handle pump to propel it.
"Start pumping brat." said a grinning Anko.
Scene break
"You are no fun." pouted Anko as they traveled down the tunnel on the cart.
"I agree you cheating bastard."
"Yeah boss your just lazy."
"Shut the hell up and work faster!" ordered Naruto to his two clones that were manning the pumps "Just remember your replaceable and I don't consider this cheating this is just thinking outside the box." Naruto grinned as he lay against Byakuen who took up most of the cart with Anko sitting next to him.
The clones grousing continued until they reached to end of the tunnel with Naruto dispelling the two irate copies, grabbing his things as he and his animal partner followed the Special Jonin up to the tower.
They had to pass through a small portion of tower until they got to the living area, the lounge like area wasn't fancy but was still pretty nice. It was spacious with comfortable couches and chairs around the room, it was separated from the kitchen by bar along with at least six doors that looked like they led to bedrooms.
"Pick a room just not the one with my name on it." shouted Anko as she walked into the kitchen.
Doing just that Naruto picked the room right next to Anko's which just had a closet, a bed and dresser, taking his few possessions which were mainly clothes and weapons he placed them on the dresser then headed back out to the lounge.
Once there he found Anko sitting on a couch with her feet resting on a table in front of her, Anko had removed her trench coat, shoes and head band. The only thing keeping her decency was her mesh top, tho it wasn't much, wearing a grin that he saw in the mirror before pulled a prank.
"Alright brat since you'll be staying here for the foreseeable future I'm gonna lay down some ground rules, you already know that you and the chuckle head Inuzuka are going to be my personal servants for the next two weeks that includes here but don't worry I am a fair master." her smile said the exact opposite.
" The rules are simple so listen up because I won't be repeating myself, number 1is that you peek on me I make sure you remain a virgin for life got it?" Naruto gulped but nodded at that "Good number two you are to leave any and all dango alone if you eat any of mine I will kick your ass, and final rule is you are not to go into my room for any reason other then if I ask you to I will hang you outside this tower naked and covered in honey for the animals, you got all that brat?"
"Yeah yeah I piss you off I'm a dead man." stated Naruto.
"Good now that's done I got your first assignment." said Anko who stretched her arms above her head which did interesting things to the already tight mesh "I've had rough day I think I could use a rub down." her tone sly and sexy at the same time.
"Your an evil, evil woman you know that." said the blushing Naruto.
"Ah you know me so well! Hahaha."
Later that night.
After Naruto had finished giving Anko he massage, he was still blushing about that, he had gone to bed tired from his hectic day. He was only dressed in a pair of frog boxers that were orange black with a cover only up to his waist.
Byukuen was at the foot of his bed also asleep curled up in a ball letting a soft growl out every once in a while smacking around panthers in his dreams.
Unnoticed by both sleeping occupants in the room was the door opening a crack to reveal eye that had twinkle of mischief in it directed at the person on the bed.
At the Hokage tower.
Hiruzen Sarutobi yawned as he finished the last of the infernal paper work that he knew there would be more tomorrow, standing up as his back cracked from sitting at the desk too long he walked over to the book case on the far wall pulling a rather large tome from it.
Taking the book back his desk one could see that the book was bound in leather that was cracked and worn from age or use, on the cover was a depiction of man with in shadow with spiky hair dressed in robes with a necklace of magnatama. The most unusual feature was the figures eye which looked to be in ripple pattern around the pupil, the title just above the picture was Compilation of the Tales of the Rikudo Sennin.
This was an extremely rare book probably the last of it's kind, it was the gathering of the stories of the man who was supposed to have discovered the power of chakra and starting the age of Shinobi. The old man began to flip through the book as if looking for something, around half way through the book he stopped seeming to have found what he was looking for.
On the page was what looked like a picture of an armor that the Samurai from iron country would but it looked far different from the cookie cutter models they wore the armor was more unique looking, as he turned the pages of the book he saw nine more armors with each looking different from the others. At the beginning of the of drawings the title of the chapter was displayed.
"The Legend of the Nine Armors." read the Hokage as he seemed to consider something that he encountered today "Could Naruto have possibly found them?" this would require further study to prove.
Back with Naruto.
The owner of the eye turned out to be Anko who was tip toeing through the blond's room dressed in only her mesh body suit, making sure not disturb the tiger who was sleeping only a few feet away.
'This is going to be so good!' excitingly thought Anko as she sneaked up a foot away form the sleeping blond, the blond teen was too much fun for her to tease so she was about to pull a prank on him. The prank involved her sneaking into his bed dressed like this so when the brat woke up he would either freak out or he would pass out from a nose bleed.
Sadly for Anko she had under estimated two things, one the teen being a light sleeper and the other was his instincts. In his sleep Naruto sensed some that shouldn't be in his room and reacted with out thought.
The blond shot up to kneeling position drawing his right hand back as if holding a weapon when a dim flash came from said hand and he struck.
Luckily Anko wasn't a Jonin for nothing upon the movement from the teen she drew a kunai that she had hidden on her, as to where I'll leave that up to your imagination, blocking what ever the brat had and not moment too soon.
When the two attacks met a horrible screeching noise filled the air that sounded like metal in metal, when Anko was able to see what had impacted her kunai her eyes nearly bugged out of her skull at the sight. Cutting half way through the thickest part of her kunai was a katana, the Katana was of masterful craftsmanship even to Anko's untrained eye. It was simple yet beautiful at the same time, it wasn't like a sword one would see hanging on the wall of rich man's house but hanging at a Samurai general's side in battle and where the hell had the kid gotten it.
"Huh Anko what the heck are you doing here and why the hell am I holding a sword?" asked Naruto who was still half a sleep and just as confused as Anko was.
Chapter 2 end.
An:Yes I have finally finished the second chapter of this story, I know this took me a while to write I can only write when inspired and that is touch and go which is why I don't have any solid update schedule. This chapter you have seen the tip of the ice burg of something that Naruto gained from the armor and there is more coming.
Two quick things, the first being pairings which I am happy to take suggestions on the pairings since I have no clue about them, the only thing I ask is that you DON'T ask me for Sakura or Ino I don't like that pairing. The other is that no Hinata I know you fanboys are pissed but I don't think I can do a good NarutoxHinata, but other then that is free game.
The other thing is that I have a poll up on my profile for if I should post a new story from the ones I have a first chapter ready to go so vote or be thrown into pit of yaoi fangirls! So until next time good bye.
