Chapter 2: training week and relooking

Hokage tower, the next day:

Naruto Uzumaki/Hiirohana was climbing the stairs towards the Hokage's office .Naruto after waking up this morning found a note saying that he was expecting in the fire shadow's office. Once he got on the floor he was greeted by a strange sight for him, a friendly smile by the secretary, Naomi. He walked up to her.

"Hello Naomi-san, is the Hokage in his office?"

"Hello Naruto-san, and yes, he is. He told me that once you're here you go directly in his office."

"Well thanks for the information Naomi-san. I better go now, I will say good day to you."

"Good day to you too, Naruto-san."

And with that he knocked at the door hearing a faint 'enter' he walked into the office closing the door behind him. Sarutobi at the sight of his surrogate grandson wore a proud smile. Naruto, sat down into the chair and talked first.

"Hello ji-san, what did you want to talk to me?"

"Today I have a meeting with the council were I'll be presenting you on your real name: Naruto Hiirohana. I hope it doesn't bother you that I will be presenting you in that name?"

"No it's perfect old man. I was planning on changing my name to that, hoping to make my clan proud by wearing it's name."

"I'm sure they are Naruto-kun. Now come with me, it's time for the meeting. I won't be going alone in this hell."

"I swear I'm already having a headache."

And with that they walked down the stairs into the meeting room. In here there was all the members already present: Inoichi Yamanaka, Chibi Aburame, Choza Akimichi, Shikaku Nara, Hiashi Hyuga, Tsume Inuzuka, Homura Mitokado, Danzo Shimura, Koharu Utatane, Aoi Haruno AKA 'the banshee', Jushiro Takeda a food shop owner, Takeshi Higurachi weapon and ninja clothing shop owner, and many others. At the sight of Naruto, one of the civilian counsellor said.

"Hey, why is the demon brat here? Are we finally going to execute him?"

At this many believed that the Hokage would have leaked large amounts of KI but instead of that they saw a smirk on his face and that made them worry.

"I'm affraid you all don't have the power anymore to execute him."

"explain yourself Sarutobi." said Homura.

"3 days ago, we dicovered that one of our chunin was a traitor and tented to trap Naruto here into stealing the frobidden scroll. Naruto, being a loyal ninja to Konoha, immediatly reported the situation to me and we made a counter-plan. The plan was going perfect until Iruka Umino appeared and protected Naruto from a giant shuriken aimed at him after Mizuki broke the law and revealed at Naruto the Kyubi sealed in him. After the fight, wich Naruto winned, my Anbu reported to me an interessant fact about Naruto and how he won over his opponent."

"and what is it Hiruzen, would you stop making us wait." asked Koharu.

"Naruto hit Mizuki with a scarlet lightning covered fist."

Many gasp were heard from the shinobi consellors while the civilians were all confused until the banshee spoke(yelled).

"And exactly what does that mean and why can't we execute him?"

"Let me present you Naruto Hiirohana, heir and clan head of the Hiirohana clan and wielder of the Benikanokosou." said simply Sarutobi.

"You're lying! The Kyubi brat can't be from that noble clan!" yelled a civilian who was going to regret his very words.

A large KI was emanatted from the Hokage and all was diriged towards the man who said this, the man was soaking himself before fainting from the pression.

"Any other objection because we have made blood tests and they are formal, he is from the Hiirohana clan."

"We must have him under the CRA!" yelled an unimportant clan leader.

And then, Naruto, who from the start hadn't said a word finally spoke his mind on this matter.

"That, mister, is none of your concern." said Naruto.

"How dare you, it's to the council to decide that!" yelled the man.

"I figured you would try to make yourselves more powerful than you actually are so I read the book of the Konoha laws about the council. And I found that if the heir or the clan head of a clan is proposed the CRA, he or she can refuse it if they want and the council has no saying in this."

"Lies!" yelled Aoi Haruno, reminding everyone why she was surnamed the banshee.

"You are accusing a clan leader of lying to the council for his personnal desire. Have you evidences other wise you'll be in deep shit Haruno-san."

And to the surprise of everyone in the room, Aoi did not respond at that nor yelled. Someone actually find a way to keep her mouth shut, the shinobi council had found their hero. Suddenly another council member spoke.

"But wouldn't you like to have multiple wives?"

"I loath the idea of having multiple wives, for me it's just an excuse for perverts. Once I found the girl I will call my wife she is going to be the only one because no other could capture my heart." said the blond gaki with an emotional look on his face.

"I want to train the young Hiirohana, with me he'll be powerful in no times." said Danzo.

"As much as I recognize that you're strong Shimura-san, as much I won't be taking your slave training based on your ROOT training. Sorry, but I won't be your weapon Danzo." said an indifferent Naruto.

"tch." scowled the war hawk.

It was then that the thing that Naruto and Sarutobi redouted happened: the propositions of arranged marriages.

"Naruto-sama, I would like you to meet my daughter and evantually we will be making an arranged marriage renforcing the bind between our clan." spoke a foolish clan leader.

"I know where you're going with that and I will say this only one time so listen good. I will never make an arranged marriage between me and a girl who won't even love me for who I am, so please keep your propositions where I think."

Again, Naruto stunned the council who was left silent after this declaration. The shinobi council was definetely starting to like Naruto as he was able to shut up the civilian council and much more, the banshee. Clearing his throat and attiring the attention of the council, Hiruzen spoke the end of the meeting and dismissed everyone.

Back at the Hokage's office, Naruto and Sarutobi:

"So Naruto, I assume you're here to receive your legacy?"

"hai Hokage-sama"

"come with me, I'll take you to your clan's estate."

And with that they were walking toward the clan estates part of Konoha. It was in the higher part of the village and it was secluded for more privacy. Inside this part there was the Hyuga clan, Uchiha clan, Inuzuka clan, Aburame clan, Akimichi clan, Nara clan and Yamanaka clan coumponds. When they arrived there, Naruto saw that almost everyone here was stuck up with a big pole in the ass apart from the Inuzuka, Akimichi and Nara clan. Sarutobi diriged Naruto towards the Hiirohana clan estate.

The Hiirohana estate was in the most secluded part of the clan part, il was in between the compound of the Inuzuka clan and the Uchiha clan. It was inside a little forest making Naruto happy because he would love the privacy that it granted. There was a small path that guided them to their destination. Once they got there, Naruto marvelled at the sight in front of him, here was a big estate protected by high white walls and a scarlet gate that was closed.

"Naruto, you need to desactivate the blood seal on the gate to open it, it was a security that your clan took to ensure their secrets were safe." said Hiruzen.

"And how do I desactivate it?" asked the blond heir.

"You just have to cut one of your fingers and then press it on the lock and if the seal recognize your blood it will open the gates and let us in." responded the monkey Hokage.

"Oh, that makes sense. After all its a blood seal." said Naruto feeling ashamed of himself for not knowing that even after hearing the name of the seal.

Naruto made his way to the gates and arrived there he cut open his index and then pressed it on the lock. While there seemed to not have any effect, Naruto started to panick. What if he was not a Hiirohana? What if everyone had been wrong? Suddenly there was a loud click and the gates opened themselves up and Naruto released a breath he didn't know he was holding. He was relieved that the gates accepted him and that he was really from a clan. When Sarutobi entered the estate, Naruto followed him enjoying the little walk towards the main house. It seemed that his clan loved the nature seeing there was vegetation all around.

Once they finished their walk they were in front of a marvellous two story house, dojo style. The walls were a light brown and the roof was in black tile, the front door was in dark brown high quality wood. Seeing there was no keyhole to open the door, Naruto cut open his index again and pressed it on the handle of the door. There was a click and the door opened itself revealing a long corridor with 2 doors on the right side and two other doors on the left side and at the end of the corridor there was a lone door. Also, on the right there was the stairs that were going to the second floor.

Deciding that he was going to explore the first floor first he walked in and opened the first door to the right revealing a small bathroom with toilet, a sink and a shower. He closed the door and then he opened th second door to the right and he walked in, it was a small living room with two sofa and a low-table in the center, there was also a small bar with drinks and a coffee maker. There was also a small bookshelf with books on history, politics, chakra control, chakra manipulation, and also there was small oranges books on a serie named as 'Icha Icha'.

In the first left room there was a small all equiped kitchen, in the wall there was a rectangular hole that allowed the cook and the guests to talk while he was cooking. There was also a door that relied the kitchen and the eating room. The second door on the left was leading to this eating room where there was a table where you can sit five. It was an enjoyable room where you can talk with others while enjoying a simple meal.

So far Naruto liked the house, he was, for the first time in his life, feeling home. He decided to continue the visit of his house and he opened the last door were he was completely awestruck at what he was seeing. This room was a large training room dojo style, there was a shelf were wooden swords were disposed and there were also training weights. Then there were training dummies with mark on it to point were to attack. The floor was in high quality wood and there was also a door that was leaing outside. Naruto opened the door and was once again awestruck at the beauty of the back garden, there were beautiful scarlet flowers and the grass was a splendid shade of green. There was also a bench in front of a little pond where there was someting that Naruto had never seen before: scarlet lotus. He knew they existed but they were super rare and hard to find and here he was in front of a dozen of these. In the garden there was also a weeping willow where a swing was attache at one of the branch of the tree. He remarqued that further in the garden there was a small training spot for exterior practice, in all it was a magnificent garden and he promised himself to take care of it.

He returned in the corridor to finally climb the stairs to the second floor. When he finished to climb he arrived in another corridor where there were six doors. The first on the left was leading to toilets so he passed it and went to the second on the left, it was leading a large room with big shelves. On the shelves were many books on all you wanted to learn, but the one that attired the gaze of Naruto was a lone closed shelf on the left of the room. He made his way to it and then he saw the same seal that was on the main gate and the front door so he did the same thing that he did to open the door and the gate, he pressed blood on the door of the shelf and when it opened he had the eyes opened like saucers. Inside the shelf were many technique scrolls that were scarlet, there was also an index on the door where the names of the techniques were mentionned and where they were positionned in the shelf. He closed the door and promised to take a look later at all those scrolls. In the room there was also a sofa where you can read while relaxing, there was also a lone table positionned against the wall oposite of the door. On the table there were blank scrolls to take notes, pen and pencil to write things and geometrical instrument and finally there was a lamp when the night was there. Naruto guessed that it was the study room.

He exited the room and then he went to the third door on the left and opened it. It was a majestuous bathroom, there was a big bathtub where 2 person can easily enter, there was also a shower and a two sinks. After that, he went to the first door on the right and opened it to reveal a guest room where there was a large bed, a wardrobe and a table. The second door on the right was also leading to a guest room based on the same design.

The last door was leading to a somptuous bedroom. Naruto guessed it was the master bedroom. The bed was kingside, the coverage was a deep scarlet while the sheets and the pillows were black. There was a large wardrobe and on each side of the bed there was a night stand with a lamp on. There was also a large table to study. There was a plate glass window, the blond boy opened it leading to a balcony where the view was astonishing. It was a view of all Konoha and his garden, he realize it now it was his house.

Once he finished his visit, he went down to find the Hokage. He searched him and found him in the living room reading 'Icha Icha Paradise' and giggling like a school girl.

"Enjoying yourself old man?" joked the blond gaki.

"Ah, Naruto. Did you enjoy the visit?"

"Yes, this house is really great and I love the back garden."

"Glad to hear it. After all, it's your house." responded Sarutobi.

"I've still one favor I want to ask you."

"And what is it?"

"Do you mind going with me shopping for new clothes?" asked Naruto.

"Are you afraid that the shopkeeper might still refuse to let you buy what you want?" He only got a shy nod as response.

"Alright, I'll go with you, after all I owe you that after your intervention with Mizuki."

"Thank you ji-san." said Naruto with a thankful smile.

After that they were returning to the commercial part of the village, it was Sarutobi that was leading Naruto somewhere. The blond was just following Sarutobi being sure that he knows where he is going. After 15 minutes of walking they were in front of a ninja equipment shop nammed "Takashi's Ninja Shop". It was simple yet inside you could find all you wanted from genin to jonin since it was an only ninja allowed store. Once inside they were greeted by a man behind his counter, he was tall and seemed to be in his late fifties. He greeted them.

"Hello and welcome into my humble store Sarutobi-san, Naruto-san." greeted the man.

"Hello Takashi, still in form from what I see." greeted the Hokage.

"Yes, I'm not gonna give in soon. Hey Naruto-san, I really liked how you put in place all those fools from the council."

"You were there?" asked the confused Naruto.

"Yes, and I must admit that you were great and you actually managed to shut up Aoi Haruno, and that, that was no small feet." praised Takashi.

"That banshee? She hurt my ears so much I tought I was going to become deaf."

"Ahaha, yes, I must admit that she yell very loud and high. So, if you are here then you must have business with me?" asked a grinning Takashi.

"Actually we are here for little Naruto here, he wants to change clothes." responded the fire kage.

"I understand, seriously, what ninja wear orange, it's like saying 'shoot me I'm a living target!'. I wonder why you wear this."

At this question, the mood of Naruto became much somber and Takahi regretted his words because he knows that he must have touched a sore point in the young boy. Then, Naruto said while being sad.

"This jumpsuit is the only thing that the stores were willing to sell me and even then they were surtaxing it. But I assume you must know why."

"Tch, those fools! Listen Naruto, I hold no grudges against you and I think you are very brave to hold the fox inside you protecting us from it. You can shop here whenever you want."

"Thank you very much Takashi-san!" said Naruto while bowing.

"So, what do you want kid?" asked Takashi passing to business mode.

"Alright, I was thinking of black Anbu pants, red sleeveless t-shirt and a black short sleeved jacket with a hood if you have because blond hair are not really discret. Also for the jacket, do you have one with pocket for scrolls. And with that black fingerless gloves and boots with steeled point. Please?" explained an excited blond genin.

"I will go see if I have that in stock, while I do that why don't you go see the nija equipment." said the old blacksmith.

"Sure Takashi-san, and thanks."

The old shopkeeper disappeared in the back of his store while Naruto and the Sandaime made their way through the store. The blond ninja seeing that his stock of kunai and shuriken was rusted and useless (thanks to the fools) so he took a new one, inside there was 100 kunai and 150 shuriken and it was at a moderate price but he had the money for it since the mission against Mizuki earned him an A-rank mission pay. He also saw sealing scroll, exploding tag and smoke bomb, he took 4 sealing scroll, 30 exploding tag and 10 smoke bomb. With that, he knew that he was ready to fight but he took one last thing and that was a ninja pooch since he would need an emplacement where he could store all this.

The Hokage seeing this was very happy for Naruto so he decided to make a present for Naruto where he bought all that Naruto took four times minus the sealing scroll. Like that, Naruto could have emergency supplies in times of need that he could stores in his sealing scrolls.

It was at this time that Takashi returned from the back of the store with surprisingly all that Naruto wished to wear.

"Alright, here, I found all what you wanted in six times like that you have change in case you need it. Why don't you go try to wear one while Ipack the others and what you took from the store."

"OK, and thanks again." said a cheerful Naruto while he was going to the changing room.

"And there is also this on my count for him, it's a present." said the Hokage.

"Alright Sarutobi-san." said Takashi while packing all of that.

5 minutes later, Naruto went out of the changing room in his new outfit and you wouldn't be able to recognize him. He looked like a veritable ninja and his outfit made him look great, also it was confortable so it was a big plus since it would allow him to move fast and easy. Seeing this, Sarutobi and Takashi were smiling at the new ninja that was born in front of them.

"So how does it look like?" asked Naruto while making his way to the counter.

"You look like a true ninja Naruto." said the Sandaime.

"It looks good on you." Said Takashi.

"Thanks, so I will pay for all of this, wait there is for set too much."

"This is a present from me Naruto, like that you can seal them in your scrolls and you have for set if you have emptied your original stock." said kindly Hiruzen.

"Thank you very much Ji-san."

After paying the Hokage said that he had paperwork to do so he part way with them.

"I'll be sure to buy all my equipments here Takashi-san."

"You better if you don't want me to kick your ass." said a laughing Takashi.

"Good bye."

And with that Naruto was gone to his estate to start his training since he did have catch up to do with the others graduated since all he was taught was crap. Once arrived in his house he stored all his equipment in a vault that he just found and he decided to go in his dojo to start the physical training. He retired his jacket and started on a serie of 100 push-ups, 100 squats, 100 abdos and stretching. After that he took the scroll that he found in the dojo, it was a scroll about his family taijustu style named the "Hiiro raiken"(scarlet lightning fist). It was a style that was focused on speed and precision since the blows were aimed at the sensible part of the body and the lethal part, it was also a unpredictable style since like the lightning you were able to change your attack at the last moment. So all the morning he did the katas of the scroll endlessly until he was able to do them perfectly. At the end of the morning he was exhausted so he decided to eat a healthy meal since the Sandaime furnished his refrigerator with ingredients for meals. Sure he loved ramen but he decided that if he wanted to be strong he needed to eat healthy otherwise he would never grow.

After eating he decided to go in his study to look for a book on chakra control since the Hokage told him that it was his greatest weakness due to his large chakra reserve. So he read the first exercis that was the leaf sticking on the forehead, in this exercise you must stick a leaf on your forehead for five minutes by concentrating the exact amont on chakra in your forehead to stick the leaf. So he did it for the first half of the afternoon in his garden under the summer sun. He made many mistakes and the leaf didn't stick for more than 1 minute so at the end of the first half he decided to go in his study to read how to master his bloodline.

He opened his special shelf and looked at the index to search for the right scroll, after his search in the index he found the right scroll intituled "Mastering Benikanokosou". He installed himself in the chair in front of his desk and started studying it, it said that for mastering it, it was like mastering raiton but it was much more developped with exercise much more difficult due to the high voltage in the lightning. The first step was using the statik electricity in your body to create an arc of elecricity between your index and the middle finger then between the middle finger and the ring finger and that until you were able to create an arc of electricity in between all of his fingers at the same time. It said that for creating it you must think that electricity is parcouring your body instead of your chakra and that you must concentrate it in your finger to create it. It was also recommended to do it while meditating since it allowed it much easily. So Naruto spend the last part of his afternoon doing that, at the end he could only create an arc between 3 fingers.

It was late when he stopped and the sun was already setting so he went in his kitchen and made a simple meal before going in his living room to relax. He made himself a tea and installed seated in the sofa before picking the first book of the serie "Icha Icha" since the old man seemed interested in it. The book was written by a certain Jiraya and Naruto was sure that it was one of the sanin since it was one of the lessons that he was actually listening. So after 15 minutes of reading Naruto was blushing red but a strange fact is that he was still reading. He watched the clock and seeing as he wanted to start training early the day after he went to bed and slept very well for the first time in years.

The next day, Naruto ate a light breakfast and went directly in the dojo were he did his usual warm-ups but this time with training waits of five pounds on each of his limbs to augment his speeds. He then did the katas again all the morning. Then he took a shower and ate lunch before doing again his chakra control exercice. He choose to meditate while trying to stick the leaf on his forehead and this was the great idea since after two hours he mastered the exercice and he decided to do the next exercice that was tree climbing. The exercice was about climbing a tree without his hands while concentrating chakra in his feet, allowing them to stick to the tree, the difficulty of the exercice was using the right amount of chakra to stick because too much and the bark exploded and not enough and the feet will slip on the tree. Saying that he was doing bad was an understatement because he was doing really bad since he was able to climb only 4 step before falling so he decided to do his bloodline training. At the end of the day he was finally able to master the exercice and he was really proud of himself. This night he decided to make a visit at Ichiraku to tell them what happened to him.

Once he arrived there he installed himself in a chair looking at them working since they hadn't noticed him, finally Ayame came to take his command.

"Welcome at Ichiraku ramen, what can I do for you mister?"

"I'm hurt Ayame-neechan, you don't even recognize me." said Naruto faking a hurt tone.

"Naruto? Wow, I didn't even recognize you with this new clothes. This looks good on you." said happily Ayame.

"Naruto? Man, I wouldn't tought it was you." yelled Teuchi.

"Thanks, I will take one large miso."

"It's on the house." said Teuchi.

So after talking about all happened to Naruto and 15 bowls of ramen, he went to his house. In his house, he was again in his living room drinking tea and reading "Icha Icha" while he started giggling.

The third day was the same apart he reussissed to climb the quarter of the tree in the climbing exercice. He also started learning his first jutsu named "Hiiro raikyuu"(1). He also started training with target practice with kunai and shuriken and he could say that his aim was very bad.

The forth day, he was finaly able to climb three quarter of the tree and he augmented his weights to 10 pounds. He mastered the Hiiro raikyuu and decided to start the second exercice to master his bloodline. The second step was to be able to magnetise certain parts of his body to be able to stick a kunai to any tenketsu of his body, then he would to be able to stick two kunai at different points of his body making it much harder. He was also starting to like the serie "Icha Icha" very much. He still struggled with the target training and most of his throws missed but there was also a little improvement.

The fith day, he mastered all the basic katas of his style and started learning the intermediate level moves and it was much more difficult and he was struggling with learning them. He also reussissed to climb all the way to the top of the tree and to hold down by the feet on a branch. He also mastered the kunai sticking exercice with two kunai and he could also say that he was loving "Icha Icha". His aim was starting to get better and half of his throw were finaly hitting the training dummies.

The sixth day, he was still struggling with the intermediate level katas and he decided to master the tree climbing exercice by climbing the tree all the way to the top and to climb it down several times. He decided to learn another technique that was the Hiiro Bunshin(2) and he found it much easier than the conventional Bunshin(3). His aim was much better than at the start so he was able to touch the dummies with most of his projectiles.

The last day of training, he was learning a little easier the katas but was still struggling with them, he finally mastered the tree climbing exercice and he could also say that his chakra control and reserve were better. He started a new exercice that was the kunai levitation exercice, it consisted of placing a kunai in his hand and to release a continuous stream of chakra making the kunai levitate, it was easy at first but he realized that it was hard to make the kunai stand still so he was truggling with it. He mastered the Hiiro Bunshin and could make 6 of them in a day before starting to have a chakra exhaustion since he still had to master his bloodline and he there was still a long way before he mastered it. His aiming was practically flawless now and there were just a few kunai and shuriken that were missing but that was on a unmoving target.

The night before the teams distribution, Naruto was a little stressed because he didn't know how the others would react about him having graduated and about his new style. But there was one thing he was confident about, he would drop his emotionnal mask from now on because he wanted to be himself and not lying to his team about himself. So it was a long time before he was able to sleep, he was having many questions in his head about who were going to be his teammates, who was going to be his jonin sensei, what were they gonna do now they were ninjas. So it was with this questions that he slept preparing to the next day where his life would be changing forever but that he didn't know.

And here is the second chapter and I hope that it pleased you. Sorry about the extra long part of the description of the house but it was necessary. I hope that you liked how I dressed Naruto since I tought it would be looking goud on him. Also I didn't described the katas since they are going to be used in the next chapter. Finally, I tought it would be fun to make Naruto an "Icha Icha" fan also because it would be hilarious to see him giggling like a schoolgirl while reading the little orange book.

(1)Hiiro raikyuu (Scarlet lightning ball): D-rank jutsu. This jutsu create a little ball of scarlet lightning in the hand of the user and with a boost of chakra, the ball is being fired in the direction of the enemy. If it touches, it electrocute the enemy making them paralyzed during about 3 seconds.

(2)Hiiro bunshin (Scarlet clone): C-rank jutsu. This jutsu create a scarlet lightning clone that is an exact copy of the user. It can fight but if it is hit, it explode in a ball of scarlet lightning electrocuting the enemy.

(3)Bunshin (Clone): E-rank jutsu. This jutsu create illusionary clone made of a little chakra and it is used as a diversion. It is very weak and against an seasoned ninja it is useless.