Just up and I already have the second chapter coming out... wow, why didn't I just put it as one whole chapter? Oh well, I couldn't just allow me to put them in the same chapter, cause I never stop before 7 pages, and I do not stop till I reach a significant cliff hanger, or till I feel like stopping oh well... on to the chapter
===the academy===
"alright class, we have someone joining us for the next week, and he was off on a training trip for the past several years, so don't ask me questions about him"
'how did he know we wanted to ask questions?'
A boy now entered, he wore a sleeveless, orange long coat that went down to his lower back and split at the middle, the flaps heading down to his knees, the orange slacks covered his legs, the light weighted, black boots seemed to just fit him, his black under shirt seemed to match with his outfit, he also had spiky blond hair, and walked with his cane, which raised eyebrows... one was brave enough to ask
"what is with the cane? Have trouble walking?" too bad the dog boy didn't ask nicely
so when he received a nice smile, he also got hit in the back of the head, by no one...
"how did?"
"you were rude, so I hit you in the head, got a problem?"
Sasuke Uchiha did not like it when people showed more power than him, so he did what ever he decided was best for the situation, he demanded answers
"how did you do that" it was not a question, plain and simple, the Uchiha demanded to know, and it annoyed Naruto
so the simple answer was a one finger salute... leaving everyone in shock, and several fangirls pissed off... poor souls... which souls that is aimed at is totally up to you... Naruto has his friends, but who wants to fuck with a room full of fangirls? Not me...
"alright class, Naruto, please take your seat so we can continue our class"
===meanwhile Hokage office===
"he has been able to learn to give accurate readings without fail, he can command up to thirteen shadows from his friends, and he is a human lying detector, also, he can consciously make his staff extend to about 20 feet"
Hiruzen was now intrigued, being able to detect lies was a challenge, for any ninja, even the Yamanaka required to use their jutsu to do it, but this boy could tell with just the flip of a card
"he unlocks these powers by giving his friends on the other side, souls, though if he has to kill them anyways, why call it a bad thing?"
that was true, as a ninja, you were expected to kill, and if you have to kill them, might as well get as much out of it as possible... right?
===back to class... damn===
Naruto learned fast he hated school, especially when everyone glared at him, Sasuke caused he ignored his demands for answers, Kiba cause he was hit by him and didn't know how, the girls cause he insulted Sasuke, the boys out of fear of the two top taijutsu experts, one knowing a fire jutsu... but one girl was looking at the boy with admiration, she remembered the spiky blond hair, and the powerful staff, and Naruto remembered her by her lavender smell and her lavender shaded byakugan eyes, mainly cause normally, Hyuuga had paler eyes, while her's were a shade brighter than the rest, and only someone who truly looked would see it, and he found them beautiful
and so Naruto decided to take the seat next to her, seeing as the only one who would sit next to her, was the other class weirdo, the bug boy, Shino Aburame, girls thought his bugs were creepy, boys hated his logical attitude, the boy never went overboard, he did the bare minimum that allowed him to be average, he never showed off, and he was always by the book, never broke or even bent the rules... boring
but today, things were gonna change
"alright, today, marks the beginning of the exams, today is physical exams"
two boys gave out dark chuckles
"just remember, tomorrow has the mental exams for you, then the jutsu exams the day after"
I am gonna skip the mental exams, which is the written tests, there are five, their village history, the other village's locations, and their ties to them, weapons, cause you need to be able tell the difference between the many weapons used by different villages, so you can tell who killed your partner, then it's lunch time, they come back and do a test about jutsu and their types, that they should know by then, then they go into legendary figures, and I have less knowledge than Naruto does with tests... I would go brain dead from Ibiki's test... poor me
and so Iruka took them all outside, was ordered around
"Iruka-sensei" the demanding voice of an Uchiha became rare after the massacre, and so, now a days, when you hear it, it is always Sasuke
"what is it Sasuke?"
"i want to have my match against Naruto"
"alright... Kiba Inuzuka, please come and spar with Sasuke"
"i said Uzumaki"
"i know what you said... and you speak as if you had a choice in the matter, you could have asked nicely if you could spar Naruto, but you tried to demand that I, the sensei, should just let you spar Uzumaki as if you decided, and so, for demanding your superior to do something, you don't get to have your way, the first lesson you should have learned from me, was you take orders from those of higher rank, I am a chunnin, while you are a student. So, till your either a. a junnin, or b. incharge of a mission with me on your team, you take orders from me"
Sasuke looked pissed, and so, to defuse the situation, Naruto stepped up
"if you would Iruka-sensei, if you do not allow Uchiha to fight me, then he will just stalk me till I fight him, besides, this way, you can keep things under control"
Iruka sighed "fine, get into the ring" Kiba refused to move though "Kiba, did you not hear our compromise?"
Kiba growled as he left the ring, but at least he could watch the new dope get killed by the Uchiha
Naruto tossed his cane to Hinata as he walked into the ring, while Sasuke walked in right after him, and so with both looking at each other, Sasuke in his clan taijutsu stance, Naruto, with his hands ready to block any attack
"you should have kept your stick dope, you could have used it" Naruto smiled a friendly smile and nodded to Iruka, Sasuke nodding as well
"begin"
and with that, Sasuke jumped at Naruto, but what happened shocked a lot of people, Naruto had not moved at all, but Sasuke was stopped, then he lurched back, as if he was uppercutted, and Naruto stood up, straight, and his cane floated over to him from Hinata, and he just stood there, both his hands on his cane as he stood there smirking at Sasuke(you know how he is, think Ficilier, when he is just standing there in front of Naveen and Lawrence, as the fat one calls him a riffraff right before his song)
"how?" Sasuke wanted answers, and all Naruto did was look down, the few that followed his eyes, saw his shadow flipping Sasuke off, and Sasuke was one of them,
Sasuke was pissed off, so he rushed Naruto again, and in a burst of adrenaline, Sasuke was behind Naruto, what a certain Nara did, was get down on one knee and make a strange sign with his hands, and he knew, you could not outrun a shadow, but, if that shadow had a mind of it's own... it was impossible to stay away from as well, for every Nara knew about shadow manipulation, due to it being their bloodline, and now, Shikamaru was at an obstacle that he wanted to look over, the first answer was if this Naruto Uzumaki was actually a Nara, but if so, how could he manipulate his shadow to that degree, considering the limits it was breaking...
Nara could use their chakra to manipulate certain perimeters of their shadow, speed, length, and size, the direction was how focused they were, it didn't use their chakra, the faster, bigger, and more directions all raised the required chakra, the more chakra you had, the larger the limits, but the shadow always lead straight back to you, it was your shadow, and as your shadow connects to another shadow, it gives you a bigger shadow, allowing you to add that shadow to your own, and as it goes, the bigger your shadow, the greater the distance with using less of your chakra, also explaining about his father's body builder Nara joke, intelligence does not help your humor, and logic seams to hurt your humor...
but Naruto's shadow seamed to not even stay next to him, allowing him to fight Sasuke at a distance, and it didn't even look like he was focusing
while the Nara was going over his and Naruto's jutsus, Sasuke figured out to fight the shadow, he had to use his shadow, which he figured out after he punched the ground for the fourth time, and got kicked in the ass three, the fourth he managed to block, but he kicked the shadow back, and to try to end the fight, he rushed Naruto, too bad Naruto didn't just focus on his shadow's power, but when the shadow gave the equivalent of a smirk, as it took on the pose Naruto just got out of, the shadow decided to watch the show, confusing the Nara further, considering, it was as if the shadow was a sentient being, rather than the blonde's shadow
Naruto saw his shadow relaxing when Sasuke rushed him, so he let his staff go, and as it sunk into the ground, forming into a shadow of a snake, Naruto grabbed Sasuke's fist with his real hand, and sending a kick right to the Uchiha's jaw, needless to say, Naruto was no more a pushover than his shadow
"my shadow gains in strength as I gain in strength" that info shocked everyone, while making Kiba a bit angry
the Inuzuka pride themselves on their tracking ability, as well as their powerful nin dog partners, they worked hard in order to allow both human and animal to be powerful, they have to spend half of their time training with their dogs, and the other half on their own physical strength, but here was someone with a partner, that increased in strength as he did, if Akamaru gained as much strength as he did when he trained his own body, then he and Akamaru would be on the top already, he would be able to dance around everyone here, but it wasn't like that, if he focused on himself, then Akamaru would become weaker than him and they would not be in synch, but if he focused on Akamaru's training, he would not be strong enough to keep up with him, so being pissed off about that little fact is quite reasonable... I think
"the only real difference between fighting me and my shadow, is my Shadow is easier to hit, but harder to see, I'm easier to see, but harder to hit"
"as if, it was a pain in the ass to even get one hit on your shadow, and as long as I can see you, I can hit you"
suddenly, Sasuke had to jump back as Naruto came down with a kick. Jumping forward Sasuke tried a drop kick of his own, but was shocked when Naruto just twisted to the side, avoiding it, and followed by a few flips, allowing Naruto to land next to his shadow, then a voice that surprised everyone spoke
"while Naruto-san's shadow moves along the ground in an almost 2-D fashion, Naruto himself is able to move in a full 3-D fashion, it's easier to see Naruto to fight him cause you only have to look at him, but when fighting his shadow, if you lose sight of his or your shadow, you will be unable to hit it, although, as long as you can keep an eye on both shadows, you can aim at it with your own, and plant a hit, but it's speed allows it to be able to keep from being in the same place for too long, Naruto-san on the other hand, does not have the speed or the distraction that his shadow does, but he does have more room to move in, is that right, Naruto-san?"
"that's right, as long as we live in the 3-D world, I will be able to move out of the way of your attacks, and as long as my shadow can move freely throughout the field, it is almost impossible to keep track of, and now that we have seen our separate powers, how about our combined powers?"
Sasuke began to sweat, he should have let the loudmouth Inuzuka fight the dope first, at least Kiba had Akamaru to help him, Sasuke had no help at all
so when the dope and his shadow moved in to attack, Sasuke did the only thing his mind could think of at the moment
"fire style: grand fireball!" the reasons Iruka had not stepped in when Naruto had his shadow helping him, was because Naruto's shadow was not using chakra, meaning, it was part of his style, he could not call using the shadow a jutsu because of that fact, and he did not use hand signs, so he could not declare it as a jutsu for that fact as well, but, Sasuke was using hand signs as well as chakra to use a jutsu he proudly claimed to know, and has proven to know several times, bragging about knowing it even, but ninjutsu were not allowed in a taijutsu test, but when the jutsu was used, there was no stopping it, and as Naruto looked on as the jutsu came at him, he smirked, and several of the more observant ones, were the only ones who saw it
the fire from the jutsu surrounded Naruto and Hinata screamed his name, while everyone else looked to see a scared Sasuke with dull eyes and breathing hard, averyone noticed, Sasuke realized he bit off more than he could chew, and he panicked, and when the fires died down, there was nothing but burnt ground, and Sasuke was shaking, everyone saw he looked shocked, when Iruka sighed in relief, someone spoke
"i guess I should have expected you to panic huh?"
everyone slowly turned to see Naruto standing on the edge of the ring, in his starting position, both hands on his cane and everything, everyone was shocked, and then curious
"how?" Sasuke had to know, he thought he killed him, but now he's standing behind him as if everything was just a stupid genjutsu, and by the looks on everyone's faces, and the tears on Hinata's, it effected them as well
"my shadow dragged me into the shadows, and allowed me to get out of harms way in time, it has more useful powers than just kicking your ass you know"
Sasuke had found a whole knew level of hate, he hated his brother for what he did to their family, but he hated this boy just as much, cause Naruto seemed to have powers and abilities to be able to fight and most likely beat his brother, Sasuke needed the powers this boy had, and he asked himself who he had to kill to obtain them, wondering if he killed this boy, if his shadow's powers would transfer to his own
"but this match is yours" that surprised everyone, until they all looked at Naruto's feet, and saw he overshot, and had his foot out of the ring
"no! You are gonna tell me how you got your strength!"
"my friends"
"what friends?"
"my friends on the other side"
"so their dead? Then you give me your power"
"i cannot, I don't have the ability to give you the power"
"i need that power to avenge my clan"
"not my problem, if you want to use my powers, then you will have to talk to my friends, and I don't have a means to communicate with them yet, so go play with your stick that you keep up your ass"
"i am not gay, I just hate fan girls, and the only girl here that is not a fan girl, is the Hyuuga, and she wouldn't even give me very powerful offspring"
every girl looked hurt at those words, but then again, they were ninja so they could prove they were worthy to bare his children... but it still hurt... but they all thought Sasuke was so cool when he said it...
Hinata didn't give a damn about the Uchiha, she was however crying tears of joy that her Naruto-kun was safe...
Iruks smiled "i guess i'll call this one a tie" he got curious looks "Naruto may have stepped out of the ring, but Sasuke was disqualified for using a jutsu, and before you ask about Naruto's shadow, I sensed no chakra, that and without using hand signs, it can't be concluded as a jutsu, also, it was more like him fighting Sasuke with an unknown fighting style, or since I said it was a full battle experience, than Sasuke could have had help from a partner if he had one, but Naruto's shadow is more like a ninja tool, like his staff, instead of a partner, and tools were allowed, and any fighting style was allowed as well, so I would say that Kiba would have been more suited to fight Naruto than Sasuke"
as Kiba grinned and Sasuke scowled, Naruto had to burst Kiba's bubble
"unless I called on the help from my friends on the other side" as he got curious glances, and one scared one that seemed to be slowly walking away from him "my friends have more shadows to allow me to use, mine is just always with me"
Shikamaru was now wide eyed, Naruto was no Nara, there was no question about it, having your shadow do what Naruto just had his do was one thing, but being able to summon multiple shadows that could do things like that was just unheard of, and Shikamaru did not see a way to defeat that kind of power(tells you how much power Facilier had huh?)
====back to the Hokage office====
"i might also mention something else, the boy is at a level I only dreamed of when I was his age, he is a hidden prodegy, if he had stayed here he most likely would have lost it to insanity, forced to lose it from all the beatings and then the stubborn idiots that you call teachers, would have hindered him further by not teaching him properly, he learned the rasengan in a week for crying out loud"
"you taught him the rasengan? He learned it in a week? How could anyone even learn it in a month, let alone a week?"
"he also wrote three of my books..."
Sarutobi looked at Jariya with a raised eyebrow
"he wrote out the story, and when he finished, I went through and added all the adult scenes, we split the money from them, and it has been that way ever since the first time he did it, although thanks to him, I have a whole new type of books, they are romance novels"
"i wondered where those came from"
"well he has one of all the romance versions, while I have a copy of both the romance and the smut versions, he even started going through and creating romance versions of my old books, he is quite the romantic, though he had the best teacher there is"
"well no matter, he has a way to make money, and he has an apartment, when you give him these keys" Sarutobi threw Jariya the key ring with two keys(one is a spare) on it
"well, I am gonna go check up on my old teammate"
"which one?"
"the teme, and don't worry, Naruto knows how to get the books he writes to me, and then I go and get both his and mine published"
"alright, good luck"
===back to school===
Naruto was bored, he had been sitting through who knows how many pathetic fights, and they all went on for about ten minutes, it was like watching two male nerds fighting... I mean slapping towards each other, and I say male nerds, cause no matter what, when females fight with no rules, there is hair pulling, biting, and even the occasional clothes tearing, and it gets hot, but the females here weren't allowed to do stuff like that, mainly cause of their age, but come on, this was getting pathetic, especially when one of the clans fought, being Shino, Kiba, Hinata, and even Chouji. He had no chance to be entertained by the Uchiha, considering he fought him
"so which chick you gonna hunt little buddy?" the voice surprised everyone, and when Iruka stuttered, and fell over on his ass, everyone was curious
"the one I told you about is the one standing next to me"
"she's cute, and now, as you all probably wondering, I am the Gallant Jariya! The envy of every man, the desire of every woman, and the famous author of the famous Icha Icha series, and co-author of the famous romance novel series Heart's Fortune, as well as the current toad sage of Mount. Mokyobu"
several girls looked at him curiously, and there was a puff of smoke, as both Jariya and Naruto were on a frog in strange poses(think Jariya's pose, with both them back to back, and Naruto has his can in his right hand, Jariya is facing the left, while Naruto is facing the right(from their point of view))
"and I am the Shadowman, Naruto Uzumaki, fortune teller, shadow master, co-author of Icha Icha, and author of Heart's Fortune series, I also am the second in line toad sage of Mount. Mokyobu"
everyone raised their eyebrows at the ridiculous duo, and Sasuke had to ask
"did you two rehearse that?"
"well yeah, why?"
"it looks ridiculous"
both Jariya and Naruto were now off in the corner, moping, yet no one saw them move, until they were already over there
"i thought you did great with it" Hinata decided to try to cheer them up "but it did seem a little cheesy"
Naruto and Jariya both stood up, turned around, and Naruto hugged Hinata, and Jariya pulled out a Heart's Fortune book, it was orange, like Icha, but instead of the circle with a line through it, it had a red swirl, but like the Icha series, it had it's number on the side(in here, the Icha series, as well as Naruto's book has it's series name, as well as it's volume number on the side, I don't think there is anything on the side in the anime though, so just go with it)
"for actually liking our little performance, you may have the latest release from Naruto's series. If you were grownup and a guy I would have given you one of mine, but this is signed by both of us, and it even has gold pages(one of the ones that looks gold when it's closed, my mom has a Harry Potter one like that, I can't remember which one it is though) pretty huh?"
Hinata took the book, and opened to the first page, she didn't put that book down all day, she was hooked, she even had tears in her eyes several times
after the whole scene with the orange book and the introduction, Naruto handed Jariya several folders, everyone assuming it was for their books
later that night, when Hiashi asked Hinata about her choice in books, when he assumed she was reading an Icha, he was scared of his daughter when he tried to take it from her, reasons?
a. women in general, are scary, when you try to take their romance novels
b. when you are hit in the groin with a brick that came from nowhere, that alone scares a guy
c. having your manhood threatened for going after something, is even more scary with the byakugan active
so Hiashi would talk to her the next day and find out then, as he walked her to the academy, with Hanabi, and Neji, maybe embarrassing her would get him some answers, and when Hanabi agreed to help, he knew he would know where she got the book, and considering he knew about the little orange book, considering he had a couple, actually he even had one of each himself, that he read every now and then, he had one of the branch family go buy them, and they are sworn to secrecy, but as a reward, he also allows them to buy a copy for them as well... didn't that member mention something about a new series?, he couldn't recall due to telling him he didn't care about anything but the Icha Icha, so he would just simply ask his daughter to tell him, and if she didn't, she would be embarrassed every morning for the rest of her academy days
====next morning at the academy====
Hinata had been annoyed, Neji was pissed off, and even Hiashi was having a bad time, Hanabi on the other hand, was the cause of all three their stress, Hiashi's problem? It's his fault
"so big sis, what was that book you had the other night?"
Hiashi was mentally laughing, if Hinata would not let him see it, then why would she talk about it
"it's a side series to the adult smut series Icha Icha, it's called Heart's Fortune, it is co-written by the author of Icha, but it's actually written by my new classmate, I was nice to Jariya-sama, and Naruto-kun yesterday, and to say thanks for complimenting their introductions they worked so hard on, they gave me this book, and it is just a romance novel father, Naruto-kun explained that he writes a romance novel, and Jariya-sama takes them, writes a smutty version, and has both books get published under both their names, he explained he did it that way cause he doesn't have the connections Jariya-sama has, and he has no way to get his own book published, he also is not allowed out of the village, and who would mess with a sannin's mail?"
"another sannin?" Neji had a good point
"they would just assume it was smut, especially if it was to or from pervy-sama" the blonde in the strange jacket and cane caught them all by surprise, none of them sensed him "allow me to introduce myself, I am the author of the hit series Heart's Fortune, and toad sannin-in-training, glad to meet you, father, sister and brother of Hinata Hyuuga, I assume?"
"i am her cousin, Uzumaki-sama" Neji sounded more like forcing himself into saying that, but when Naruto frowned, he was getting angry on the inside, figuring this boy thought it below him to talk to a side branch member
"i hate the caged bird seal, and I apologize to you for having to deal with all those sick, twisted, pedophile, perverts"
"excuse me?" Hiashi was boiling, Hanabi was in shock, Neji was surprised, and Hinata seemed scared of her father
"would you not call old men who want to force their own cousins, nieces, and nephews into slavery, anything else?"
Hiashi had no comeback
"i mean, why the control, there is a seal that does the same thing without the killing braincells thing"
"what seal are you talking about?"
"pervy-sage said he made a seal with the help of the fourth, that sealed up the byakugan after death, the only difference with the two seals is the fact that the current one fries the braincells when a main branch member activates it"
"if you have a copy of this seal, I shall converse with the clan elders about it"
Neji did not get his hopes up, why? He agreed with Naruto, about what he called the main branch family...
"since you were so kind to hang out with your nephew, I will go ahead and assume you are not a pervert like the rest of you adults"
Hinata and Hanabi both giggled at their father's expression, while Neji almost smirked at the man, poor Hiashi was getting picked on by kids everywhere he went
===end of the chapter===
alright, according to the open office . Org that I use for these fictions, this chapter is ten pages long, and I would like to inform you all, that the next chapter will start off on the third day of the gennin exams, also, I would like to thank you all who reviewed this fiction already, although when your the first one to do something, and you do it good, it's impossible to not be the first one to do it good... I like the compliments, and I appreciate the support, but I have a question, yes or no, should Naruto get an Orange top hat? I like top hats, but Naruto's main features are his eyes, scars, and his hair, should I hide any of them? I shall let you all decide, and this time, actually give me a vote, should I leave his outfit how I have it, or add and/or change it a bit? I do think it doesn't matter, so I seek your advice