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Naruto: Rebirth of Vongola! Chapter 1: Son Of a Gun!
Right now, our hero Naruto Uzumaki is reminiscing over memories of the last four years after failing the academy test yet again for the third time, at the age of 14.
"Son of a gun! I know I can pass this test but why won't you let me Kyuubi-Sensei??" Naruto asks in his mind. And, yes, Naruto knows of Kyuubi.
"Simple, your Sensei had a sinister aura and from his eyes, I can tell he has a evil plan involving you." Kyuubi lazily replied.
"I swear, I will never figure out how you can read a person just by looking at their eyes." Naruto grumbled, as he reminisced how he found Kyuubi in his mind.
"FLASHBACK WITH LONG WEIRD COUNCIL INTRO START"
Naruto was yet again bolting as fast as can away from the mob. He was only 9; he didn't know why everyone hated him. But this night he would. Normally, only civilians got in mobs to beat on him, there were almost never a shinobi among the mob that would try to beat on him, but this time, there were so many shinobi after him, they made up half the mob! It was the day before Naruto's birthday, and fire was constantly blasted out of the mouths of ninjas at Naruto. There were no ANBU like there were normally to stop the mob, as all the ANBU were guarding the conference room, where the Sarutobi, the third Hokage and the Council were having a meeting, which lead to no clan heads to protect him as well. Naruto knew all these facts, and was content with escaping. He saw a giant fence looming ahead of him, and seeing the ninja's get scared of what was beyond it, Naruto figured with his rather ignorant brain that if it scares the ninjas from going after him, then he can avoid another bi-weekly beating.
You would think that with the ANBU always protecting him, the mobs would stop forming. You would think wrong. As much as the hokage wants you to think there are always ANBU watching you, there are really far less than you imagine. They are not godlike beings, second in power only to the kages. They are just stronger than normal people, with more skill than most of the people who are stronger than normal people. Most ANBU's are only low to mid jounin overall. And they can't be everywhere in such a giant village. Not to mention that at the very least at any given time, 50% of the village's ANBU will be on a mission of some sort. Trying to keep at least five ANBU with mid-jounin power levels on watch for possible mobs 24/7 is like getting the kages to finish paperwork in a snap of their fingers. IT'S NOT POSSIBLE. That is why mobs form. Although they are very dim people, they do notice it takes about 10 minutes for the ANBU to track them down and break them up. They are willing to go to jail just to beat up on a child for not even the full 10 minutes. Bitter jerks, all of them. But, Naruto does not know he has someone else watching out for him, most of the shinobi jounin and higher, and all of the clan heads, even the Uchihas. The clan heads themselves always show up when the ANBU fail to show up and Naruto is about to get hurt even worse than normal. The clan heads don't trust their clan to stop the mobs for them after the incident with Shisui Uchiha and the genjutsus of being tortured then being revived, then being killed again over and over. After that, Shisui was as good as erased from existence after clan head of the Uchiha clan Fugaku found out. Many people would bash the Uchiha and Hyuga clan for being uptight arrogant douches. While there are exceptions, many vetran shinobi see through that and know that they are wearing a mask. A mask to deal with politics and to set an image for the civilians to see that their clans will not take bull from anyone and they can beat you any day.
Now then for Danzo, he was actually a good person deep down. But after the Nidaime's sacrifice and his appointment of the third hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi, he was overcome by jealousy. From that day on, he changed. He became colder hearted after that brief moment of weakness in front of the Nidaime that most likely cost him the chance to be hokage. He began to obsess over being the perfect ninja, who do their missions flawlessly and by the book, never straying from it. This obsession led to the formation of ROOT, to create the perfect soldiers. Soon, he had the perfect soldiers, but they weren't strong enough. He started to experiment on children to make them better fighters, but that was put to a stop by Sarutobi. Danzo was beyond angry at that point in life 11 years ago with Sarutobi. Danzo didn't understand why he would stop his research to make strong soldiers. He thought that the stronger the soldier, the possibility of the soldier dying would lessen. His view of Sarutobi was one of a respectful rivalry, where Danzo knew that Sarutobi in terms of ninja skills was stronger than he would ever be, as Sarutobi respected Danzo for being the one to take on any mission and finish it with passion, knowing he has helped his home. What they argue over is about the way they protect the village. Sarutobi, while a god in battle, was what many would perceive as a pushover in politics, where he would believe talking can stop wars from even starting. While Danzo understood where Sarutobi came from, Danzo agreed with Sarutobi, saying if words and treaties can stop wars from hurting Konoha, then that is good, but what if it doesn't? Danzo believes no matter how "peaceful" it is right now, always prepare for the worst. That is why he created ROOT, to make the village prosper by making them take missions impossible to most, making money and for when they are attacked, they would be the first, the last, and the best line of defense of Konoha. Danzo would never purposely destroy Konoha, because that would be treason to him, and he would never assassinate Sarutobi, because while he may be old and senile with peace, he is still one of the strongest ninja in Konoha. To kill him would be to cripple their strength and the morale of the village. While the ROOT ninja's allegiance would never be truly Sarutobi's, and he knew that, he also knew that they would do their best to protect Konoha if it was ever in trouble, led by Danzo, who is not a cripple. He respected the power of the Fourth hokage, and never doubted his sealing power, but just in case, he protected Naruto from being killed, because he feared the Kyuubi might return and kill them all.
The Elders and the Civillian Council however, were always against Naruto, seeing him as the Kyuubi incarnate because they are just stupid fools. They thought that Naruto was gone and Kyuubi took over his body, therefore, they made him as miserable as possible. There were exceptions, some seeing him as he truly was, like the Ichiraku family, but most were indifferent to him, despised him, or followed the crowd when they formed mobs. While they could not say anything about ninjas, Naruto was not a ninja yet, and goes under their jurisdiction. Essentially, Naruto was given the stuff worse than crap from the civilians, and the Ninja part of the council can't do anything to help, while Sarutobi could barely do anything to help.
ANYWAYS, as Naruto climbed up the giant fence as fast as he can, he saw the ninjas were not chasing after him and the mob were jeering and walked away, knowing they could do nothing if the ninjas couldn't. Naruto jumped down to the inside of the fence and walked around.
"Wow, this place is huge!" he thought. What he didn't know was that he just jumped into the Forest of Death. Where all the giant tigers that can give jounins a hard time one on one. Where they were all awake hunting for food. Naruto as he walked around didn't notice anything ordinary until he got slashed by a tiger. Naruto was very lucky; he just ducked down to look at a flower closer. Still, he got a giant gash on his shoulder, and then he panicked and ran. Naturally, the tiger chased after him, alerting other tigers of the chase and following Naruto as well. Once he started climbing, he has got about 12 tigers after him, each giving him 3 slashes on his body. Needless to say, he was bleeding badly, and he finally got over the fence and fell over, exhausted and soon to be dead by blood loss.
Of course, Kyuubi was there to save him, as 10 years was more than enough for him to gain human like personalities and change to become more compassionate and kind and at that brink of death the seal holding in Kyuubi managed to crack a little. It was just enough to talk to him in his mind. As Naruto was walking around in his mind of sewers, he finally encountered Kyuubi, where he explained everything he knew to Naruto, and in return, managed to allow Kyuubi more freedom in his mind, such as changing how his mind looks, allowing him to change his body to be more lean and strong, a higher regeneration rate, enhanced senses, etc. Essentially, Kyuubi just made his body more enhanced in every way. Harder skin, stronger bones, night vision, the works. However, Kyuubi knows nothing of the ninja world, only what he sees through Naruto's eyes. He knows no ninja tricks, his conscious fully evolved from his primal state when Naruto was eight, but he can teach Naruto everything about the wild, and what he did know of the wilderness beyond Konoha was mind-blowing.
When Naruto awakened after his talk with Kyuubi, he woke up in a hospital, with the Third Hokage, Sarutobi asking him if he was ok. Sarutobi was one of Naruto's most trusted people. Sure he condemned his life to misery, but he tried his best and kept him from getting killed and he did nothing to break Naruto's trust with him. Naturally, Naruto told Sarutobi about everything that went in his head, and asked for a full body mirror to see what happened to his body while asleep. Naruto was just a few inches taller than normal, his face was more angular, and he didn't look malnourished anymore. After he got out of the hospital and Kyuubi made contact outside of sleep, he knew his life just got better, despite the hate around him.
"FLASHBACK END"
Naruto learned about how to survive in the wilderness, saving his money for the future, only occasionally eating ramen as he now knew how to kill game, prepare it, and eat it. With his mind enhanced and Kyuubi mentoring him in what he knew, he grew out from completely ignorant, to knowledgeable in many aspects, but in some areas, such as romance, was sorely needed. As he continued to go through memory lane, Mizuki walked up to Naruto and proposed his alternate exam graduation test. And things went through like it normally did in the show until it reached to what he learned from the scroll.
As Naruto opened the scroll, Naruto whipped out his own scroll and started copying the whole thing to use later. As soon as he was finished, he read the first one, which just happened to be the shadow clone jutsu. Now then, if Kyuubi wasn't helping him understand how the shadow clone jutsu worked, such as it's abilities, it's limits, it's use as a training tool, etc. Now then, Naruto was a true genius when lead to the right direction. Give him motivation, an hour and a half, and BOOM. Naruto learned a new skill, when many others though that topic would be too hard for him. Ino learned this the hard way when she bet Naruto could not hit the kunai target 121m away, in a triple bull's eye. Naruto showed her, to disbelief how he nailed it, not once, not twice, but three times in a row. Ino to this day never made a bet against anyone ever again. So, to no surprise, after an hour and 30 minutes, he got the shadow clone jutsu down and combat ready. It was by no means mastered, but he can pull it in battle and do some serious damage with it. So far, he had the scroll of forbidden jutsu for about 2 and half hours. He spent one hour copying the scroll, with another hour and half spent on learning the shadow clone jutsu. As he was going to go back to the scroll to learn another technique, Naruto, in true anime fashion, tripped. He fell on the scroll, causing it to unravel, leading to him touching a special seal labeled, Relics of Ancient Times. Naruto just released the seal holding the Vongola rings and boxes that have been scavenged from deep within the earth to get. Now, in a flash of light, four rings flashed away from the seal. One landed into Naruto's hand, two other rings flew to a training area a kilometer west away from Naruto, and the last one landed two kilometers away south. As the ring landed into the person's hands, each fell over in a trance, as a new spirit, locked away for generations, has now made a home in the respective mindscape.
With Naruto
"Ughh what happened??" grumbled Naruto. He then looked around to see himself in his mind, so he ran towards Kyuubi's cage to ask what happened. When he got there, he saw someone in front of the cage talking to Kyuubi. He had spiky hair wearing a tuxedo with flaming gloves on. Then they realized that Naruto was there and turned and faced him.
"So you are my successor?" asks Tsuna, the now identified man in spiky hair in a tux with flaming gloves.
Naruto replies, "Huh?" Tsuna sighed as he walked up to him and points at the ring on Naruto's middle finger.
He then says, "The ring you are wearing is known as the Sky Vongola Ring. It is the symbol of you becoming my successor, and you are the new leader of the 11th generation Vongola family, or in your case, the Vongola Clan. Now then, since you are my successor, you will need to learn everything about your duties, and what challenges you will face in the future. You will also need to learn how to use your new weapons and find strong people to join your family. I will be your tutor for all of this, and I can speak to you like Kyuubi can to you in your mind. Right now you have an opponent to deal with. I will explain everything to you later, and always remember, you are the only one who can control your power to do what you want to do."
Now then, after that long spiel without Naruto getting the chance to say something, he left his mind to see a crazed Mizuki asking for Naruto to give him the scroll. Now then, the following events are the same as the one in the legit manga, up until the reveal about Kyuubi, where Naruto laughs as Mizuki looks surprised. He was expecting him to become a emotional wreck.
As Naruto stops laughing, he says, "I knew about Kyuubi after I was nine! And trust me, after talking to him, I'm the one mainly influencing him, not the other way around!" Iruka was beyond surprised, but he was proud of Naruto, for dealing with this. Mizuki just sneered, and got ready to throw his second giant shuriken, while Iruka can only stare in horror, as he could not do anything due to his serious injury. Thankfully, Naruto started to spam shadow clones and beat Mizuki down, until Mizuki had it and took out all the Naruto's around him with a wind jutsu and roared as he released the gift Orochimaru gave him a decade ago. Naruto and Iruka stared in awed horror as black claw marks started to wrap around his body, revealing Mizuki in his cursed seal form level 1. After that, Mizuki became a blur, and all the shadow clones got destroyed. Soon, the real Naruto started to get a beating with Iruka doing nothing, except for watching and hoping someone will find them. As Naruto was taking his beating, Tsuna and Kyuubi were yelling at him to fight back and yell powers of Sky, release in his head. With Naruto unable to retaliate due to the speed Mizuki had, which was mid-Jounin level, decided to follow Tsuna and Kyuubi's advice.
"POWERS OF SKY RELEASE!!" Roared Naruto, amid a nasty punch to the back from Mizuki, and with a flash of orange light, Mizuki got blasted away as he was blinded by the light emitting from Naruto's Vongola Ring. As the light stopped flashing, it reveals Naruto, with a giant orange flame emitting from his forehead, and flaming gloves that end in vicious claws on his hands. Then, Four more claw like blades began to grow just in front of the crystal in the middle of the glove right on his knuckles. (Think Tsuna's gloves except with claws at the very tip with Suigetsu's claw hand weapons on top of that. Suigetsu is from Inuyasha. When the claws grow out, think Wolverine from X-Men and how his claw blades appear from his hands.) Iruka was looking more surprised than he ever had for the last seven years. Mizuki was just angry that he hot hurt during his beating of Naruto, and immediately rushed in to punch him in the nose.
When his hand was about a meter away from Naruto, Naruto raised his hand and shouted, "FIRE PULSE." And with that, Mizuki got hit by a beam of fire that emitted from Naruto's right glove in the face. When Mizuki tried to hit him again, Naruto simply pointed his gloves at the ground, and fire blasted him into the sky as Mizuki ran into the tree. As Mizuki just basically gave himself a concussion, Naruto gathered all his energy in his claws, and rushed at him intent on attacking him. In a flash, Mizuki was in the air, with nine deep gashes all over his body with Naruto on the ground on his knees panting heavily, as the flames representing his energy dimmed. However, Naruto made a huge mistake, he assumed his enemy was taken out. As Naruto carried Iruka out of the forest, the few minutes they took to get away from the scene of battle was more than enough for Mizuki to heal his injuries thanks to the powers of the cursed seal back to 80% of his fighting ability. As soon as he got to 80%, he bolted after Naruto and Iruka, intending to kill them for harming him so badly. With a loud roar, Mizuki ran into Naruto, forcing him to drop Iruka in the process and ram him into a tree. While Mizuki started beating on Naruto once again, Iruka lay on the ground finally unconscious due to the blood loss from his injury. This time when Mizuki was beating on Naruto, Naruto managed to get a few more hits in due to his increased speed from the dying will flames on his gloves, because the flames increase momentum of his punch, therefore increasing speed of punch.
They did enough damage to enrage Mizuki even further, and he threw Naruto to the air, where Naruto was too battered to do anything as Mizuki prepared his final attack.
"FIRE RELEASE: FIRE TIGER EXPLOSION!!" hollered Mizuki. As Naruto closed his eyes, bracing for impact, he heard a boom, and then opened his eyes, surprised to be unharmed. In front of him were his two closest friends, Rock Lee, with boxing gloves on, and Garra, now of the Leaves, with his trademark sand surrounding him, however, his sand was engulfed in a deep red flame.
"Burning Sand Funeral." Garra uttered without emotion, as he crushed Mizuki in burning flames, effectively killing him. Garra turned his back as the blood exploded everywhere while Rock Lee used his Sun activation ability in his gloves to start healing Iruka and Naruto after catching Naruto from the air.
"Say, how did you even know where I was, and where did those powers come from??" Naruto coughed out while Lee was healing him.
"We were training so our Flames of Youth would be stronger, about a km away from here, before a bright light hit the both of us knocking us out, and I saw a youthful man, talking about his power in Taijutsu and training to the "extreme." I believe the to the extreme is the next level of the Flames of Youth! Anyways, the man told me seriously that the ring on my finger is the Sun Vongola Ring, making me the Sun Guardian to the Sky leader. He also told me the special property of the Sun Flames is the ability to activate, releasing someone's limits and make natural processes happen faster, such as growing crops or healing from injuries. When I woke up, these flaming gloves were on me, and the man said that the boss was in danger, and we saw an explosion so Garra and I ran to where it was and saw you about to be roasted alive, then Garra blocked them for you. The rest is history!!" Lee replied excitedly.
"The same with me Boss, but the man who I saw had hair like an octopus, and he used something called "bombs" and "dynamite." Apparently, they make things explode and they set stuff on fire so it has to be good. Anyways, he said I was the Storm guardian, and the Storm flames special property is destruction, so the flames are perfect for demolition, He also noted that I am to be your right hand man like He was for his boss, Tsuna. Now, I am supposed to call you boss and make sure you are not hurt. I saw Lee starting to run towards where a giant pillar of flames appeared, and I followed." Garra said.
"That's nice and all, but now to finish what I started! FIRE RELEASE: FIRE TIGER EXPLOSION!!" Mizuki screamed from the mess a bit away from where the small group of Naruto and his two guardians were. As the jutsu name suggests, a giant tiger came running at them, and then went boom. Rock Lee managed to carry Iruka out from the blast radius with his amazing speed while Garra used his sand to protect himself and Naruto.
"Son of a gun! Here we fucking go again!!! Naruto grumbled.
A/N: That's a wrap. I'm kinda disappointed with the amount of reviews… and for those who did review thank you!! Now then, looking for suggestions and what not in reviews, and tell buddies of this story too! Next Chapter will be the end of the Mizuki incident (hopefully!) and the revealing of the Cloud and possibly Lightening Guardians. How Rock Lee, Garra, and Naruto met will be explained next chapter along with why Garra moved from the Sand Village to Konoha.
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Guardians revealed:
Sun: Rock Lee. Youthfulness and going to the extreme go hand in hand. That and they are both people who use their fists to get the job done. Enough said. Weapons: Boxing gloves covered in Sun flames
Storm: Garra. Of the Funk… I mean Sand. He was chosen to be the Storm guardian because if Sasuke wasn't there, Garra would be his bestest friend. That and I find it amusing how powerful he would be with his piercing, burning, already powerful sand. Weapons: Sand on Fire.