Thank you all for making this fanfiction so popular! The poll is going good- so far there are two votes for the Hydra, one vote for Toad, and one vote for Dragon, and thank you all for the positive reviews you give me. I will try my best to make the chapters longer, but do keep in mind this is my first fan fiction I've written so I am doing my best. Anyway, here is chapter 3!
We find our blonde hero on his way through the dark, cold forest. The forbidden scroll on his back, he makes it to the clandestine meeting spot he planned with Mizuki. Naruto arrived at the old gnarled tree that had been their chosen rendezvous spot before Mizuki, so he decided to do a little reading while he waited for the other to show, and pulled out aGenjutsu scroll. After about 15 minutes he put the scroll away, wondering what was taking Mizuki so long. With another five minutes of foot tapping Mizuki finally showed up and coolly said "Good job Naruto, now just give me the scroll and you pass."
"Why do you want the scroll to begin with Mizuki," Naruto queried, " and why does it look like you're about to leave the village?"
Mizuki was starting to get annoyed- he thought the boy would just hand over the scroll at the thought of getting his headband, no questions asked. The underhanded ninja decided that it'd be easier to just kill Naruto so he cannot tell anyone about what he already knows, then deliver the scroll to his master. To try and get the scroll from Naruto without a fight, Mizuki says "If you give me that scroll I'll tell you why everybody hates you" This has to work, he doesn't know that he's the host of the nine tales!
He was broken from his thoughts when the boy said "If you're talking about the nine tales, I already know- my mom told me about him when I was five."
Mizuki thought Well damn it! I can't use that to have him give me the scroll so I can kill him. Guess I'll have to do this the old-fashioned way… but first- "Okay, you got me, I was going to tell you about the nine tales, but since you already know that point is quite mute. To answer your earlier question Naruto, I'm going to bring the scroll to Orochimaru. Now that I've told you though, I can't allow you to live," he said as his hands reached slowly behind his back, "so now DIE DEMON!"
Mizuki quickly throws one of the giant shurikan off his back at Naruto, who goes through a quick series of hand signs and says Earth style: MUD WALL. A large, dirty, thick wall of mud comes up just in time to save Naruto from the weapon. He then goes through another set of hand signs, bites his thumb to draw bit of blood, and says Summoning Jutsu: Nine Tailed Demon Fox! A huge puff of smoke appears, and once it clears, the nine tales is standing there in all his red glory.
Mizuki looked at the beast and began to shake involuntarily. The Fox looked straight at Mizuki, and his evil gaze brought Mizuki to his knees. "How… I… How? Wh-" But he couldn't get out any coherent sentence as the Fox took a step towards him and bared its wicked yellow fangs, salivating slightly. Mizuki's jaw dropped as he stood frozen in fear at the beast Naruto had summoned.
"Hey Jack, how about we show this guy why you don't mess with the nine tales." Naruto smirked and continued,"But we can't kill him yet, we still need the third to pass judgment on him".
Jack replies in Naruto's head "Ha! That just takes the fun out of the fight. But fine, if I can't kill then let's scare hell out of him, break him down, and make it easy for the third to interrogate him after I beat the shit out of him." A slight smile crossed Naruto's lips as he looked Mizuki in the eyes to reply to Jack with one word. "Yep."
One gruesome butt kicking later (that was really more of a horrible whaling on Mizuki than a true fight), Jack returns to his seal while Naruto takes the forbidden scroll and a black and blueMizuki with him back to the third Hokage's office. When they arrive Naruto tells the third about his confrontation with Mizuki, start to finish. The third then declares that Mizuki is to be put to death, and gives Naruto permission to kill him. Naruto pulls out a Kunai and swiftly slits Mizuki's damaged throat, killing him on the spot. After killing the traitor, Naruto says to the third, "Now I'll tell you about my eyes, since you seemed curious earlier. They are the Dōjutsu called the Rinnegan, which are even stronger than the Sharingan from what I've learned. These are the same eyes that the Sage of six paths had, but so far I only have one path unlocked, which is the animal path that allows me to sign multiple summoning contracts. Aside from that, I also have control over all the elements, including fire, water, wind, earth, lightning, nothing, Yang, Yin, and finally Yin – Yang.
I'm trying to gain control over sub elements as well, but noticed through research that despite the elements I have already, I am missing the ability to control the force of gravity, but I'm guessing I'll obtain that at a later point on my journey to unlock all 9 paths of my eyes- in fact, it might be another path I need to unlock altogether. I have a sneaking suspicion based on when I talked to Jack, the true name of the nine tales, that the remaining paths are unlocked with the other tailed beasts. I think that there might be eight other paths to unlock, although I don't know what all of them are yet. As to how I got these eyes, it happened during the Uchiha massacre- the same night I lost my mother…." Naruto shook his head and finished with "I won't be participating in the CRA."
The third then thinks about all he's been told and says "Thank you for telling me my boy, this will make things a whole lot easier in the future with this knowledge. As a reward for catching stopping a traitor and being so honest with me, I hereby give you, Naruto Uzimaki, the rank of Genin. Be at the Academy in one week for team assignment."
"You're welcome old man, and thank you for the advancement to Genin." Naruto began to leave but stopped in the doorway to turn around and say "By the way, why don't you try using shadow clones for your paperwork? Might make things faster." The third looks at Naruto dumbfounded- how had he never thought of that before?! Irritated with himself, the third goes over to a nearby wall and starts banging his head against it, saying " So stupid, stupid, stupid!" Naruto laughs and walks out, returning home to get back to training in the morning.
Naruto awakens the next day and jumps out of bed, invigorated and ready to make more progress. He starts by making 4000 shadow clones and divides them into 15 groups: 14 of 250 and one of 500. He tells the group of 500 to go practice Fūinjutsu, nine groups of the 250 to practice the nine elements, and the last five groups of 250 to practice Ninjutsu, Taijutsu, Kenjutsu, Genjutsu, and Senbon (with Shuriken and Kunai skills thrown in as well), respectively. As his clones do that, the original Naruto needs to train his body, so he starts off with 200 punches and kicks per limb to get loose and limber, then does 500 laps around the yard with 250 push-ups, sit-ups, and crunches per every 5 laps. He repeats this routine for about six hours, disbands his clones, then goes to bed, so heavy with the combined exhaustion of everyone that he almost doesn't make it there.
The next morning he repeats everything. Now determined to do this routine of clones and body building for nine hours every day, Naruto vows to himself to work tirelessly like this for the entire week until his time for team assignment at the Academy.
*********************************************************************************************************************One week later
Iruka walks into the class of excited students and says "Quiet down everyone." That didn't work so he tries again, louder "Quiet down everyone!" Again it doesn't work, and with no patience his eye twitches as he yells "QUIET DOWN AND TAKE YOUR SEATS!" This time the class looks at Iruka, somewhat freaked out by his facial expression and tone, and listens to his words to stay silent for a moment.
"Today we are getting a new transfer student who will be joining you on your teams. She was homeschooled, so this is her first public training as a ninja, so I expect all of you to treat her with kindness and show her patience. Her name is Yuki." They hear a knock at the door, whereupon Iruka responds sweetly "Come on in, Yuki, and tell us about yourself a little."
The door slides open, and in walks a tall, slender girl in a white and lavender floral dress with long purple hair that falls down to the tops of her ankles. She has no bangs on her lavender colored head, but is adorned instead with dark, intimate amethyst eyes and a fresh, lovely smelling white orchid in her hair. She has a presence about her that tells you that she is powerful, confidant, stubborn, and headstrong. After she walks to the middle of the room she says in a high, sweet voice, "Hello everybody. My name is Yuki. I have no surname, so please don't ask. My likes include nature, training, and animals, and I just loveflowers! All kinds, all colors, all scents! Oh, and I hate perverts and think they are absolutely disgusting, plus I despise anyone who thinks women are weak."
"Ummm thank you, Yuki. Why don't you go take a seat next to Hinata" Iruka says as he points to the blue haired girl sitting at the back of the classroom with an open seat next to her by the aisle, "so that we can begin team assignments." She nods and sits down as Iruka begins going through the teams.
After listing off the first six teams, Iruka continues. "Team seven will be Sasuke, Naruto, and Hinata. Team eight will consist of Yuki, Shino, and Kiba. Team nine will be Neji, Lee, and Tenten. Team ten will be Ino, Choji, and Shikamaru. That's it everyone, those are your teams. We'll have several Jōnin sensei arrive after lunch, which you will go to now. Dismissed!"
As the ninja all left the classroom and were walking out of the building, Kiba insults Yuki's feminine appearance by loudly telling Shino how no one that looks so girly like her could possibly be strong. Yuki hears his comment and immediately gets pissed. She runs out in front of Kiba, whips aorund, and punches him hard in the nose. Kiba cries out in surprise and pain, the force of her punch bringing him to the floor. As he holds his bleeding nose, Kiba tries to trip Yuki by swinging his legs furiously underneath hers, but Yuki was too quick- she jumped in the air and landed point blank on Kiba's chest. Now smashed into the ground, Yuki places her foot on his cheek and slowly starts to smash his head further into the dirt floor as she says "That's what you get for judging a book by its cover, Kiba. I may like some delicate things, but that doesn't mean I'm a frail flower myself. Remember that for the future unless you want another ass whooping." She kicks him somewhat hard in the back of his head so that he winces as Kiba struggles back to his feet to watch Yuki leave. Even after she had turned the corner and was long gone, he could still smell her flowery scent in the air, and could tell what way she went by her aroma because of his strong nose. Although he was still in a lot of pain, Kiba could not help but feel a newfound respect and admiration for his new teammate, and found her smell surprisingly calming and sort of theraputic. He smiled to himself as he vowed on his way to lunch not to insult his girly new team member.
After all the ninjas returned from their break, they found that the Jōnin sensei had all arrived and were waiting for them in their classrooms. Now the question that stuck in everyone's mind was which sensei would become theirs?
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