VERY IMPORTANT AUTHOR NOTES! PLEASE READ TILL THE END!
I know for a fact that people tend to ignore author notes as some are quite long. But pls read this one as it's important. Anyway...
Sorry for the late update. I've been reading a lot of Naruto fanfics to see if somebody had the very same idea as I do... luckily, none of them did. A lot of those fanfics sucks balls... yh... Though some were very good like "advent of the flash" but now we're off topic. I assure you that this story won't follow cannon except for vital missions that made Naruto who he is. Some errors in the first chapter though (major mistake on my part).
I forgot to describe how Naruto's teammates look like... so I'll be doing that now.
Shirone Saegusa:
She has long dark Blue hair that reaches her mid back with one long strand of hair going through the middle of her face. She has Emerald green eyes that sparkle in childhood innocence. A small button nose and cute lips. A chubby round face and a bit of baby fats. (Results of not training) she wears a dark violet short sleeved shirt that leaves her shoulders bare. She also wears a white short skirt with black biker shorts that covers most of her thighs underneath. Adorning her feet were blue ninja sandals and she also has a shuriken pouch strapped on her belt. Underneath her shirt is a fishnet shirt
Regalia Reimi:
Has Long silver hair that's done in side buns cause it's otherwise to long. With this, her hair would only reach just under her shoulders. She has Heterochromia. ...meaning, she has different colored eyes. Her left eye is Baby Blue and her right eye is electric yellow. A small button nose and pouty lips. Pale white skin and a gothic outfit. She wears a black tank top that leaves her midriff bare. Matching black hot pants with a kunai pouch strapped on her belt. On her arms were white arm warmers similar to that of Sasuke Uchiha and Ino Yamanaka. She also had her knees wrapped in white medical bandages and wore black shinobi sandals.
That's it for now . Have fun reading! Oh and if you have questions. I'll make sure to answer them in the next Author notes.
"Human speaking"
"Demon speaking
'Human thinking'
'Demon thinking'
Priority words/jutsu
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto since if I did, I wouldn't be living off of instant ramen and student food.
Behind Naruto was Mother nature at its finest.
Naruto then dramatically opened his eyes. "Now why did you brought us... to the Sandaime Hokage's training grounds?" His teammates eyes widened as they looked at their teacher. Naruto couldn't fault them... he was just as shocked when he found out. "Ohh... I'm impressed that you know about this place. I see that you're not what you seem. May I ask why?"
"I'm sorry sensei, but I would like to keep that for myself"
"Hey hey! What are sensei and Naruto talking about?" Reimi said trying to get their attention
"It's nothing important... I just want to start with whatever you're planning" Naruto answered, discretely asking his sensei a question. Her answer didn't dissapoint.
"Well, I would like to start as well. But first, Introductions are in order. My name is Uchiha Izumi."
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The Girls were flabbergasted. There was another Uchiha apart from Sasuke!?
Naruto narrowed his eyes in thought.
"U...Uchiha? You're an Uchiha sensei? But I thought Sasuke-kun was the last?" Saegusa asked rather confused as well.
Reimi stood beside her nodding her head in agreement. Nobody noticed Izumi's eyes Darken a bit.
"Well... I was on a mission that night so I am very lucky to be here, besides... there are more Uchiha left than you believe" she said in fake cheerfulness.
"But enough interruptions. I want you cuties to sit down and introduce yourself!" She enthusiastically ordered.
They made themselves comfortable and waited for the other to speak. They fell into an awkward silence that was broken by their teacher.
"Well... If nobody's gonna go first then..." She hummed and looked at her genin.
"You!" She suddenly pointed at Saegusa.
"Introduce yourself" she grinned. Saegusa a bit shocked, took a deep breath to calm her beating heart. She started her introduction quite meekly and looked incredibly bashful.
"My name is Shirone Saegusa and uh..."
Not knowing what else to say, Saegusa just started talking what came up to mind...
"...Wellisn'ttheweathernicetoday? someonetoldmeaboutanewicecream shopneartheacademythismorningand..."
...which was incoherent gibberish.
"Woah Woah Saegusa!" Izumi tried to get the young girls attention who was still in her own little world. Whilst Izumi tried to get her students attention, Reimi was cutely looking at everything to see, in this specific training ground. She even tried to snatch a butterfly.
"..andtherewasthiskidthatlikedsushiandiheardfromareliablecontactthatsomeonefromourclasslikestomatoes..."
"Saegusa..." Naruto wasn't really interrested at the scene but had to admit, it is kinda amusing.
"...shesaidthatthenewboyinherclassis cuteandallbutIstillthinkSasuke-kunis cuterthanallboyscombined..."
"SAEGUSA!"
Izumi's scream startled the girl who was now breathing deeply and trying to hide her blush if embarrassment.
Izumi chuckled. "Take a deep breath Saegusa. Now.. follow my example...
My name is Uchiha Izumi, my likes are battle fans, my clan, the Village and food. My dislikes are traitors and perverts. My dream for the future is to make my clan proud and have a family."
Once Saegusa calmed down, did she finally introduced herself.
"My name is Shirone Saegusa...
Umm I like my family, sweets, reading and Umm
A boy..." she blushed at this part since it was quite obvious which boy she liked and Saegusa knew that the others know about it too. After all, she and every other girl in the academy had a crush on him ever since the get go.
"I don't like perverts and those who slack off..." she glanced at Naruto to which he just raised his right eyebrow.
"My dream for the future is to be stronger than Senju Tsunade herself!" She said resolutely with a determined expression on her face. Something Izumi and Naruto both respected. The silverette though, was still trying to catch the butterfly, so Izumi decided to ask Naruto to introduce himself first.
"Your turn to introduce yourself scarecrow"
"Oh goody, the facemask boy is gonna talk" Reimi said in absolute delight as she clapped her hands. 'Looks like she's given up catching that butterfly' Naruto then thought about what to say, maybe he should do it without giving any information about himself other than his name? Nope. As much as he would like to see the reactions he would get, he still wanted to make an effective squad with his teammates... and a little insight about himself would do wonders for their teamwork. Last he checked, only Hokage-jiji knew something about him. A few ANBU as well but that didn't concern him too much.
"My name is Uzumaki Naruto... I like weapons, ninjutsu and most things associated with the word 'Shinobi'. There's nothing that I don't like that I can think of right now. My dreams for the future..." at this Naruto became quiet. His only dream - after his quick change of personalities 4 years ago when he was 8 - was to become Hokage. But now... he didn't know. "My dream is I guess ... to become strong?"
Izumi only nodded. "How about you, silver sunshine?" She asked nicely whilst noticing that the silverette looked rather happy and excited, ecstatic even.
"Yay! Time for Rei-chan to introduce herself" Saegusa sweatdropped at her teammate. The others were surprised though. 'She's really soft-spoken if she wants to be' were the collective thoughts of Team 3 excluding the silverette. "Rei-chan likes to play a lot and she also likes fire and music and she loves mama a lot! She also likes a black haired boy from school... and his name is... Sasuke-kun!"
The people around her raised an eyebrow.
Nobody asked her more about this person she liked. It was painfully obvious... even for Izumi.
"Rei-chan doesn't like bugs cause they're creepy and yucky and small and dirty and slimy..."
Everyone sweatdropped at her hate for bugs... she will not get along with the Aburame's... that's for sure.
"Did Rei-chan mention creepy?"
Cue sweatdrop
If someone were to describe this girl and tell that she's a nutshell through and through... They would be very correct. But it was kinda cute. 'at least she's not crazy' were the collective thoughts of the rest of the team.
"Rei-chan's dreams are burning butterflies and eating cupcakes!"
No comment
The silence in the training ground was maddening! Apperently, the girl seems to have a stroke of insanity here and there "Ok~... Well... now that introductions are over, let's go to the main and exciting stuff!" Her smile at that moment had given Saegusa and Reimi the chills. Naruto experienced worse and wasn't as affected as his teammates.
"Through out the years... never before did the next test pass more than 45% of academy graduates. Which means that... you three... only have a 33% chance of passing the next test." The woman laughed like a mad man after saying what needed to be said.
"Next test? But I thought we already passed the genin exams?"
Saegusa asked bewildered.
"That's true but that was just to weed out those who were never meant to be shinobi." Saegusa looked at Naruto and Reimi... who was trying to burn a butterfly by staring at it.
How rude... thinking that her teammates weren't cut out to be shinobi because of some unbiased opinions.
Naruto was tempted to roll his eyes. He was switching from being the overly idiotic moron... to one of the most intelligent kids in his generation 4 years ago! One would think that they would at least see that he wasnt a dunce... though that was basically still his fault. 'Well... I guess I'll just have to show them some skill in this test' Naruto mused.
"But instead of standard procedure, We'll be doing a standard D-rank mission. Why? Because you three are the first,... ever since the sannin to form a genin cell with the set amount of skill which I will explain later. But as of right now, you're all dismissed. Come back here tomorrow at 8am.
Ja ne!" With that, their brown haired sensei left the training ground.
"So... what now?" Asked Saegusa. She looked at her female teammate for some answers buy just found her humming in what looked like 'innocent happiness'. Saegusa groaned softly. Naruto just turned and was about to leave when he heard a sudden "wait!" From Saegusa.
Naruto turned around and looked at her quite bored if one might ask. She bristled at his total uninterest for her. "Is there anything you need from me, Shirone-san?" She reigned in her anger enough so that she could ask him her question. "How can we go back?" Naruto was tempted to just shunshin out of her face as a little revenge. After all, as a still hyperactive child that started the academy, Naruto tried to get a lot of friends... and Shirone had been one of his targets. He was brushed of quite easily that time so he was hard pressed to do the same. A big part of him though wanted to help her and leave old grudges behind. Naturally, Naruto listened to that part and... shunshined away.
Saegusa was shocked. He didn't! That blond bastard just puffed out of existence on her. She puffed out her cheek in obvious anger.
'I can't believe it! He just... wha. ..?' Her thoughts about the injustice of it all was inturupted once she saw a piece of paper on the ground where Naruto once was. She picked it up and looked around, relatively sure that Naruto was still around. She didn't see him anywhere so she decided to look what the piece of paper entailed. 'A letter?' She thought.
The Bluenette tried to open it but was inturupted by an overly excited girl named Reimi. "What does Saegusa have in her hands?" Reimi asked politely. Saegusa just looked at her in exasperation. Seriously... did her parents drop the girl right after she was born or something? (1)
"It says 'Go south as you are on top of the Hokage Monument' hm" The girl was contemplating if she should believe the information or not. Naruto did Prank a lot after all. She couldn't give it a second thought though as Reimi decided to drag her away from the clearing and enter a path through the forest. "Alright let us go into the unknown" her voice surprisingly having a soft and melodic tone to it than when she introduced herself.
"But wait! This isn't south, you're going the wrong way!"
XXX
A soft knock on the door was heard by the Sandaime Hokage. He was currently taking a break of the tremendous amounts of paperwork aligned in stacks on his desk.
"Come in" he said calmly. Naruto entered his office a few moments later. Hiruzen looked up from his paperwork and gave Naruto a smile to which Naruto softly returned.
"Hello there Naruto. What brings you to my office today?" The man asked. He normally wouldn't ask why Naruto was here cause it wasn't really something new. Hiruzen remembered it as if it was just yesterday when a cute four year old blond was running around his office whilst wearing his Hokage hat and robes. Today would be different than his past visits. The aged Hokage sighed. 'Whatever happened to that cute little blond running around with my hat' the man thought
"I have a question that's been nagging me for quite some time now Jiji" He said while taking a seat infront of the Hokage's desk.
"Oh... and what would that be?" Hiruzen asked. It wasn't all that often when Naruto came to ask for something. He'd normally do it by himself until he got what he wanted. Naruto was independent like that.
"Well... I was kinda wondering... exactly how much Chakra do I have Jiji?" Hiruzen thought for a moment, trying to get a feel from the boy in front of him.
Naruto was a special boy. His skills were nothing to scoff at... much less when you compare his chakra with some common ninja. While quality and control was what the Senju frequened, density and quantity was what the Uchiha had. Naruto was nothing of the sort.
The amount of pure chakra the boy infront of Hiruzen had was mind bogling. The density of his chakra was unbelievable. It's as if you compared a half full glass of rotten milk with a glass filled to the brim with a delicious looking orange juice.
Which would you take? Of course the orange juice.
"The amount of chakra you have now Naruto..." he paused. Amused at the fact that Naruto seemed to squirm in his seat. Itching to find out.
"Is equivalent to that of an elite Jounin" Naruto knew he had a lot but he didn't expect to have that much.
"That much? But how..." The Hokage was nervous and didn't seem to want to answer that question. Naturally as Hokage, he was able to hide his nervousness from the young blond. Luckily enough, Naruto answered his own question. "Kyuubi... it's because of him right" Naruto felt a slight pain from his abdomen.
"Yes Naruto... as you may or may not know, the seal that prevents your... tenant to be free is slowly and surely taking a bit of its chakra and mixes it with yours. Of course all the malice and hate from the bijuu's chakra was flushed out as to not further harm you" Naruto nodded at the question. They talked for a bit more like about his current predicament with his team and sensei. Naruto also helped the Hokage a bit with organizing the mission scrolls and a bit of paperwork around the desk.
It was also around the time when someone knocked at the door. With an audible "come in" from the Hokage, did the man enter.
It was a tall and muscular man wearing a trench coat and bandana. Scars adorned his face... a very intimidating sight if one were to ask. This was the second in command of the TI department.
"Mizuki Touji is being held at one of our torture rooms just like you asked Hokage-sama." The man said while looking at the notes, not noticing Naruto at all. 'Mizuki.!?' Naruto thought as he narrowed his eyes. 'so the man was not dead after all. But possibly a rogue that was captured.
"It would do you well to remember that this is classified information Ibiki-kun" The Hokage said calmly. Ibiki looked up from his notes confused but not for long, for he has finally seen the other occupant of the office. "I apologise Hokage-sama. I didn't know that you were busy at this time." The Hokage supposed that Ibiki wouldn't know about Naruto's timely visits whenever he had free time. Well, free time in the sense of no other visitors to his office except for the dreadful paperwork.
So Hiruzen just opted to nod in acceptance to the mans excuse.
"Now you must excuse me Naruto-kun... but this is rather important."
Naruto nodded and left with a "bye jiji" and went on his merry way.
After Naruto left, Hiruzen turned his full attention to the torture and interigation specialist.
"Report" The aged Hokage said.
"Well as you've asked sir... Mizuki is currently being held captive in one of are cells. Though he still hasn't spilled the beens... so to speak."
"Oh...and why is that?" The Hokage asked smoking peacefully on his seat.
"We've decided to let the recruits interrogate him so that they could get more experience" Ibiki answered. Hiruzen stayed quiet, opting to take another drag from his pipe.
"Would that be all Hokage-sama?" Ibiki asked.
"Actually... I do wonder what you have to say towards young Naruto..."
"Well... He's a one of a kind... like the perfect mixture of Anko and Orochimaru."
"Ah...and what about his chakra?"
"I don't get why you're asking this of me, this. ..."
"Please just answer it Ibiki-kun"
"Well... in terms of capacity... the boy already far outstrips everyone else in the village... including you Hokage-sama. In all other aspects like control and density... I do not know as I'm not well versed in sensing chakra precisely"(2)
"With whom would you compare young Naruto in terms of chakra capacity?"
"To be absolutely truthful... he has more than Hoshigaki Kisame ever had when we met 2 decades ago. And the man was a year away from being dubbed, the tailless beast."
Hiruzen nodded at the man and dismissed him. The aged Hokage was then left to his thoughts once Ibiki left the office. Naruto... a mix of Anko and Orochimaru...
Even he, the Hokage... shivered at the thought.
XXX
Naruto was currently sitting at his work table in his apartment. He was thinking about the Mizuki problem. He found out that his once upon a time academy instructor was in fact, a traitor. He was apperently being held captive and interrogated. On the way back home, Naruto heard a few rumours go by, that Mizuki somehow managed to steal the forbidden scroll of seals. 'If they had some trap seals placed on the tower then this never would have happened in the first place... well, atleast he was caught' Naruto thought
Ever since his interrest in the field of sealing, Naruto would always learn a bit of fuinjutsu after his physical training. Normally, this always happens in the evening when he has exhausted his body at noon. He may have been interrested in fuinjutsu but actually only started 2 years ago when Naruto was 10. Training in sealing was always scarce and he rarely made decent progress. Today's different though. It's still morning after all. Sealing had been one of the subjects he enjoyed in life and thus was quickly becoming his main focus. Of course he won't neglect his other skills but for now, it's fuinjutsu time.
Naruto was currently at the 7th level going on 8th level of sealing, which means, combining 7-10 Kanji Characters with a moderate seal design. It basically means, being able to create trap and barier seals. The sixth level was more on things about explosive tags and sealing scrolls. Another thing you need to have is perfect handwriting. Something he learned at the first level of fuinjutsu. One doesn't start with actual seals until the 5th level from a maximum of 20, even then it's not really usable. The first 5 levels are just necessary steps to prepare a fuinjutsu practitioner. You see, sealing for beginners goes like this...
Lvl 1 perfect handwriting
Lvl 2 Mathematics
Lvl 3 seal designing
Lvl 4 physics and universal laws
Lvl 5 Kanji, Hiragana, Katakana
(3)
Naruto was just finishing his studies to finish the 7th level and go on to the 8th level of fuinjutsu, which was the three different ways to write seals. In other words, combine Kanji and Hiragana characters to at least up to 10 characters in one seal. He continued to try and finish the 8th level of fuinjutsu. The first part, Kanji, was pretty easy since that's what everyone in the elemental nations use to communicate via paper. An example of a level 8 seal tag would be Sealing jutsu: Fire seal. He was halfway through Hiragana when he noticed that it's already past 12. He sighed but was inwardly happy for his progress in the arts of fuinjutsu. Naruto chuckled 'Most beginners stop at lvl 2' he thought.
'Well... might as well get some lunch'
XXX
"Do you wanna eat Saegusa-chan?"
"hm...!"
"Oh... are you still angry at Rei-chan for dragging you the wrong way"
"Hmph!"
The two girls were currently walking down the busy streets of the market district. It almost took them 2 hours to finally leave that training ground of theirs, which is also why Saegusa is annoyed with her teammate
"Oh...! Isn't that our other teammate Uzumaki-san?"
At this, Saegusa looked to where her teammate was pointing. She was right! Naruto was in fact just a few blocks in front of them. "Let's go greet him." Said Reimi.
"Why should we do that!? People will think that we're on a date!" Saegusa countered.
"Yeah but as a team, we need to get to know each other... and as much as Rei-chan doesn't want to, we must get to know him better." Her tone surprisingly final and didn't let Saegusa talk as she dragged her over to where Naruto was.
XXX
Naruto was currently looking for a place to eat without being thrown out... again. His mind wasn't quite focused on food though. Now that he had the time, Naruto could think about his elemental affinities.
'Mhm... Wind style is definitely out.' Naruto thought. There aren't many people with wind affinities in the world altogether. Most of them being listed in Sunagakure (Village hidden in the Sand) and even then, there are a few. 'Lightning style as well. That leaves Earth and Water style Jutsu. Mhm... water style is very versatile. It can be used to both attack, support and defend' Naruto deduced. 'Earth style on the other hand, is mainly used for defense and support. There aren't many earth style jutsu in konoha to begin with... so earth style is out... that means...'
"Uzumaki-saaaan!"
Naruto looked sideways, trying to find the one that called him. He easily found them though as they're currently running towards him. Or at least one of them is and the other is being dragged along. Naruto raised an eyebrow once the two reached him. Saegusa was on the ground and was currently glaring up to her female teammate.
"Can I help you Regalia-san, Shirone-san?"
"Actually yes! Would you mind accompanying Rei-chan and are other lovely teammate for lunch?"
XXX
Naruto iss currently sitting under the shade of a tree at training ground 7. He just finished his daily exercises and sat down for some much needed rest. His stomach growled in hunger though. Hearing this made Naruto remember the catastrophic events that happened at the restaurant his teammates decided to enter. But no matter. It's time to up his chakra control once more.
Naruto stood up and went to the nearby river. He picked up ten pebbles from the shore and began to balance them on his finger tips. He walked to the middle of the river and created 10 shadow clones with no hand signs. Naruto nodded to himself. 'Good... pretty much mastered the technique'
The shadow clone jutsu was something he picked up even before he entered the academy. Something which he mastered to the point where it's almost second nature to him.
The clones then began to attack Naruto. Two clones went in for a punch whilst one decided to leg sweep him from behind. Since he was technically fighting himself, it was easier to deduce where they planned to attack him. Naruto jumped and leaned back, horizontally hovering above ground. This enabled him to dodge the attacks. He then spun and kicked the 2 clones that attempted to punch him. While one was dispelled, the other blocked the downwards kick with his forearms. The clone that tried to leg sweep the original used the momentum and speed of his missed attack to jump up and attempt a roundhouse kick. Naruto barely avoided it by using his foot to push offof the clone that blocked his kick. He got no rest when he landed as he was kicked on his back. He almost lost control over the pebbles on his fingers but just managed to hold it still. He then looked around. '9 more to go... this is gonna be a long chakra control exercises' Naruto sighed, before going back to observe his clones.
XXX
It didn't take to long for him to finish Chakra control for the day. After that, it was him doing physical exercises and summoning 500 clones to study... stuff. He split them into 8 groups. 100 would start training on his water affinity and another 100 would read more about the other Villages and basically gather more information about the 'outside world' so to speak. Things like the bingo book and geography of other major nations like Suna and its deserts or Kumo and its mountains. The third group of hundreds would then train his usage of jutsu's and try to lessen the handsigns for them... Though he must admit, he wasn't getting far like that. Most of the clones would run out of chakra after 5 C-rank jutsus at most. The fourth group of 100's are training in his disastrous yet possibly effective taijutsu... yeah... Naruto needs a sparing partner. The last hundred are split into 4 groups of 25. Each group would either train in the use of the Naginata, Nodachi/Katana, Yari or the Bo. He was inspired to learn all different kinds of weapons by watching some Anbu he stalked in his youth.
The original though, is training his body. Doing either sit-ups, push-ups and or wearing weights. He's using both methods though. He already has 75 kg on each arm and 95 on each leg.(4) While doing his push-ups, Naruto usually has blindfolded himself and had 5 clones throw kunai or shuriken at him. He would then strain his hearing to locate the weapons and dodge acordingly. Sure he got stabbed a lot at the start but it was worth it. He can now do things that even his sensory skills couldn't help him at. Things like, hearing a weapon in coming at 25 ft away. Sure sensors can feel organic beings since all living things have chakra, that doesn't aply to metals though. He didn't just train his hearing though.
He would sometimes cut himself with a kunai and give it to a clone, which he then throws at the original from a distance. What would that accomplish? Ok... maybe some would think he was suicidal with the way he cuts himself but really... it's all according to plan. You see, Naruto would try to smell his blood from the kunai that's sent to harm him, and then track the kunai with that. It's a slow process though and very hard. It's at times like this where he envied the Inuzuka's.
Naruto stopped training when the sky took a pink and orange hue. He went back to his appartment and continued to study on fuinjutsu before taking a shower, dinner then falling asleep on his bed.
XXX
"NOOO! Please stop!" Said a surprisingly young voice. It looked like a six year old and he seemed very skinny.
"Yeah, as If you stopped when I begged that night"
the young voice that belonged to a boy ignored the weird comment in favor of watching the mans hands. Or rather, seeing the throat that's being crushed in his hands. He felt the pain... but other than that, he felt numb.
"NO! NO NO PLEASE STOP"
The boy begged. His answer was in the form of a highly pitched scream. The boy gasped. It was suddenly so hard to breath. He couldn't believe what he was experiencing. His own survival didn't matter anymore. All he felt now was exaggerating pain with a mix of absolute hopelessness. It's as if he felt the pain the man was inflicting on him... in a different way. It felt like... like Hell on mortal realm.
"NOOOOOOOO"
XXX
Naruto woke up gasping for breath with blood shot eyes. Slowly calming down, he tried to calm himself. 'C'mon Uzumaki! It was just a dream... yeah.. just a dream.' It's been awhile since he had a dream like that. Maybe a bad omen for today's luck? Naruto anyway stood up and went to eat breakfast. He geared up with his trusty face mask on his face... even when sleeping. He was supposed to meet his team at training ground 3 for a meeting at 8. He looked at the clock and saw that it was 7:40. More than enough time.
XXX
"Crap! Not enough time! I'm sooo dead" said a bluenette girl.
XXX
"Yes! Burn little butterfly. Your evil isn't needed in Rei-chan's world" said a silverette.
XXX
(Training ground 3; 8:15am)
"Why are you two late?" Izumi aske, glaring at the 2 girls kneeling in front of her. Naruto was at the back, leaning on a tree with his eyes closed, just listening to nature. "Umm well, I uh... I overslept?" It was more of a question than a statement but Izumi just sighed. "Just make sure it won't happen again" she said sternly. Saegusa bobbed her head in agreement, glad that her little interigation was over. "And you Reimi? What's your excuse"
"Rei-chan watched as butterflies burned. She was so fascinated that Rei-chan forgot to look at the time" Reimi said as she playfully hit her own head whilst sticking her tongue out. Izumi sighed in exasperation.
'This girl is going to be the death of me!' She thought. "Well, I guess it's time for your test!" She perked up once her would-be-students gave her their full attention... well, not exactly all of them. "Reimi! Put that lighter away and pay attention!"
"But... but..."
"No buts!"
"It's evil! It needs to burn by Rei-chan's hands!"
"Reimi... put that lighter away now!"
"But...but why!?"
Izumi sighed, but quickly smiled at the girl. " would you listen for now please? You and your teammates wouldn't want to go back to the academy now would you?" She said with a devilish smirk on her face. "Wait, what? Go back to the academy!? But why?" Saegusa said.
"If you kids can't listen to me bow then you won't even be in the academy and dropped off the shinobi programme entirely!" She said deathly serious. She used their silence to continue speaking.
"Now as for your test. All you have to do is find a cat named tora"
"Well, easy enough right? Reimi-san?"
"It's Rei-chan!"
Naruto nodded in reply. "But~~ I only really have time to teach one of you so the one that brings me the cat back here... will become my apprentice and the rest will go back to the academy" she said in a sing-song voice. Naruto looked over to his teammates to see Saegusa with a determined look on her face and Reimi smiling like an innocent child.
"Well... what are you waiting for? The test begins now!"
"But how does the cat look like?!"
"It'd be to easy if I told you right? This a test to see where your skill lies in Information gathering, espionage, tracking, coordination, minimal subterfuge and... I'll explain the last part after you pass the test and that's a big 'IF' so go along now"
With her part said, she disappeared in a leaf shunshin.
"So Umm. ... where do we start? Rei-chan needs to be home by lunch"
So... how'd you like it?
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Anyway, to the numbers and stuff.
(1)
Well... I'm seriously considering to make that Reimi's reason for talking in 2nd person. Tempting but nah. Was just a little joke.
Maybe not. ..
Read to find out ;)
(2)
The Hokage obviously lied to Naruto to make sure that he doesn't get a big head.
(3)
My take on Fuinjutsu and it gradually gets harder with every lvl he passes. The easiest being, perfect handwriting which is hard in itself.
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I know that's heck of a lot but look at Lee! Besides... I'll be writing a story parallel to this naruverse where he is, but an infant till he reaches his golden age. Basically a story about his childhood after I finish this one. Plus~ Naruto should by all rights, be stronger than anyone in his age group. He has the heritage but dumb teachers. He also has the Kyuubi to help his already accelerated healing. So 80 kilograms on each limb isn't so farfetched.
And that's basically it... cya y'all next time . peace!