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Second chapter! Got this one out quick - just nine days! I had nothing to do, so I decided to write. I'm not sure this chapter's that good, though. I'm not quite that pleased with it, but it'll have to do. It's shorter, too, at 1085. Twenty-two words less then the first chapter!
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Title - A Couple Millimetres
Chapter - Two
Word Count w/o AN - 1085
Word count with AN - 1276
Summary - When Mizuki threw the shuriken at Naruto and Iruka, it landed a few millimetres to the side, and it actually killed Iruka. Watch as Naruto grows with grim determination to achieve his dream, and his fallen sensei's last wish.
A Couple Millimetres – Chapter Two; Kyuubi
Naruto woke up not to the sound of birds chirping as he usually would, but to a deep voice that seemed to come from every direction. "Wake up."
Groggily, the exhausted ninja got up and rubbed his eyes. Suddenly, everything from the previous night came rushing back to him. He jumped up, suddenly alert. He took a good look at his surroundings. "Where the hell am I? Let me out!"
The voice snorted. "We're in your mind, you idiot. Let yourself out." It paused, and then as an afterthought it added, "If you can."
Naruto just stood there pondering, before coming to a startling realization. "YOU! You're the reason everyone hates me! You're the reason my life has been a living hell! You're the Kyuubi!"
"Very good. Maybe you're not a complete mor-"
"I'm going to kill you!"
The Kyuubi sighed. He was a (relatively) humble demon, at least compared to some egotistic freaks such as the Ichibi, Shukaku, or the eight-tailed Hachibi. He enjoyed living quietly, eating meat raw and drinking the blood, maybe destroy a village once in a while. But no, that fucking Hokage had to seal him into the dead last of the Academy, the loudest idiot of the village, the stupidest ninja of history…
Well, you get the point.
So here he was, thinking that he could finally have a conversation with someone, talk, insult, have some fun with after twelve long years of sleeping and watching. But then that idiot Mizuki had to go and kill the other guy, and piss off the brat to no end.
He's the reason Kyuubi had a thousand blonde runts rushing into his cage punching, kicking, and biting him in anger, since the kid knew no real offensive jutsus, just the basics of the Academy and the supplementary Kage Bunshin.
He waited a few minutes, and decided that he had let Naruto have his fun. "ENOUGH!" He boomed, expelling a tiny amount of demonic chakra through his numerous tenketsu. The Naruto clones all flew off before dispelling in a puff of smoke, leaving the original at the inner edge of the cage.
"That was a stupid stunt, kid, coming into my cage."
"Whatever," was the reply as Naruto huffed and crossed his arms childishly.
"Listen. I hate this as much as you do, but it's necessary."
"Really?" asked Naruto semi-sarcastically, slightly interested.
"Here's the deal – I train you until I deem you satisfactory."
Naruto snorted and sarcastically said, "Why the hell would you, oh-high-and-might-Kyuubi, want to help me, a lowly mortal?"
"Two reasons, which are both for my gain. One, I refuse to have a weakling ninja as a jailor, and two – you die, I die. Got it?"
Naruto grumbled indecisively, leaving the cage. He paced around thinking.
"It would help you become Hokage. Don't you want to fulfill your sensei's last wish?"
At the mention of Iruka, Naruto's eyes hardened.
"I'll do it."
Sandiame rubbed his temples in a last attempt to clear his headache. For the first time in a while, he was at a lost for what to do. Iruka was no longer with them, he sadly noted, and the traitor Mizuki was nearly there as well. As for Naruto, he was just lying there, unconscious, after crying himself to sleep.
He noticed something rather strange, though. For a fraction of a second, demonic chakra, youki, had burst out of Naruto's tenketsu, before dissipating into oblivion once more. He frowned, and was slightly worried about the seal.
He could only hope that Naruto was alright.
"First, we need to make sure that you aren't classified as a nuke-nin."
"How do we do that?"
"You need to regain consciousness, for starters."
"Eh?"
"You fell asleep, woke up here, attacked and tried to kill me – which you failed miserable at, by the way – and your body is still over the corpse of the Academy instructor."
Kyuubi stopped to growl.
"Now piss off, you're annoying me," was all he said before Naruto's vision filled with darkness before he opened his eyes to the blue sky and tip of trees.
"Shit. What hit me? Aw, my head…" He woke up to find that his entire body ached.
"Making a thousand Kage Bunshin will do that to you," came the voice of the demon from his head.
"AH! What the hell!"
"I'm speaking to you from your mind. Now you might want to mentally send messages, lest your village think that you finally lost it."
"Shut it."
"My, what a creative response. Anyways, you need to tell that Hokage of yours you'll be gone for a week."
Naruto started off, but was stopped by his demon. "That'll take too long, brat. Can you control chakra yet?"
"Yes!" was the indignant answer.
"Well enough, anyways, I suppose. Take your chakra now and spread it out into a thin layer around you."
Naruto complied.
"Notice the small feeling you're getting from the dying silver-haired one?"
Naruto nodded. "That's his diminishing chakra as he dies."
He nodded again, surprised Mizuki was dying, but not remorseful. 'He deserved it' he thought angrily.
"Now take that chakra field and spread it out further, towards Konoha. It's usually extremely difficult to locate a specific chakra source, but your Sandaime's is easily the largest chakra there."
Naruto closed his eyes for a few seconds, and reopened them. "I found him."
"Good, now concentrate your chakra on his."
The boy did so, and he could dimly see the shape of the old man if he closed his eyes.
"Concentrate all your chakra onto his head, and think your message across the chakra line."
He concentrated, and thought, 'Old man?'
A few seconds later, he heard, 'Naruto?' It was distant, as if he was far away, which he was.
'Hey, old man, I'm going to be away for a week. Would you mind postponing the day the Genin get their teams until then? Oh, and have Iruka-sensei's funeral a week from now too.'
'A-alright, Naruto. But you have a lot of explaining to do when you get back. Report to my office at once when that time comes.'
'Yeah, yeah. Whatever. Just don't forget.'
'Good luck, Naruto. Farewell.'
'Later.'
The Sandiame Hokage sighed sadly, not for the first time that day.
'I hope you know what you're doing, Naruto.'
Hope you enjoyed it! I'm not sure it's up to scratch, and it's kind of boring, but it's required to get the story going. Which it won't be for a while, though. Sorry. I really need to fit in his training. Maybe I'll do a timeskip or two to pick up the pace.