This chapter was beta'ed by ssaijin3.
Disclaimer: I DON'T OWN NARUTO
Judgement
Inside the building, Naruto frowned when all he saw was a single room and looked at ACE.
"What's the big deal?" Naruto asked, wondering what's going on.
The room had nothing special to show. In fact, all the room had were three bare brick walls that had nothing on them.
"Whoa there youngster, I haven't dispelled the Genjutsu surrounding the place yet." ACE replied.
"Why would you need Genjutsu?" Naruto asked.
"It's just an additional defense against intruders." ACE replied.
"Release!" ACE yelled.
Nearly an instant later, the walls on the left and right side began to corrode and soon transformed into hallways.
"Cool." Naruto said as he started to run off towards the right.
ACE grabbed Naruto's shirt right after he started to run off and held him up in the air as Naruto's legs and feet kept on moving.
"Slow down youngster. I'll give you a tour of the place later, but for now, we need to head the other direction." ACE replied as he used his free hand to point towards the left hallway.
Naruto stopped moving his legs and calmed down.
"Follow me and I'll lead you towards the others. I'll also give you a brief tour as we go along." ACE said after placing Naruto on the ground.
ACE started walking towards the left hallway while Naruto and Gaara followed close by. After walking for a minute or so, the trio soon came across three doors. One door was directly in front of Naruto and the others while that was one door to the left and one door to the right.
"The door to the left is the men's quarters. That's where the two of you, as well as all the men you're about to meet, sleep at. There's a futon already set up for the youngster. Since we didn't expect to pick up someone else, we'll find another futon for the squirt." ACE said as he pointed to the left door.
"Also under NO CIRCUMSTANCES are the two of you allowed to enter the right door." ACE warned.
"Why's that?" Naruto asked.
Gaara was curious of this also. He saw that ACE was about to reply when ACE moved into a thinking stance. A minute later, ACE gave his answer.
"That door leads to a room that is off limits. There's a seal placed on it to prevent anyone from entering. I don't know how to break the seal, but JACK should know something."
"Shall we get going then?" ACE asked a few seconds later.
ACE opened up the door in the middle and entered the door followed by Naruto and Gaara. The room looked like nothing Naruto's ever seen before. Inside the room, there were tons of books and scrolls ranging from A Ninja's Guide to the Real World to scrolls being used as notes. In the middle of the room, there was a table and on that table, it showed a royal flush of spades painted on it. At the table, three men were sitting down playing a game of poker when they noticed that ACE had returned.
"Alright then, I guess this game is over." one man said.
"Hey, that's not fair. I was just about to win." another said, in a somewhat angry voice.
"..." replied the third.
"Hey ACE, I thought that you went to grab Uzumaki, what's with the other kid?" the first man replied.
"The squirt is the container of Shukaku." ACE answered.
"Um, who are they?" Naruto asked, wanting to know the identity of the three strangers.
ACE looked at Gaara and saw that he was curious also.
"I'll introduce each of them started with the first person on the left, ending with the third person at the right." ACE said.
"First off, we have JACK. I mentioned a little bit about him before we entered, but he's our seal specialist. He is also known for mastering tons of jutsu, although not nearly as many as a kage or that copy-nin."
JACK was a man standing at 6 feet tall with long black hair set up in a ponytail and a small goatee. He wore black cargo pants, a red Chinese style silk shirt, and a bandana around his right bicep which was similar to ACE's except that JACK's had JACK written instead of ACE. Naruto noticed that this was the man who said that the game he was playing with the other two was over.
"Next we have Tien, although we call him TEN. He's our medical specialist and Taijutsu master." ACE continued.
TEN wore a crimson red kimono which has the kanji of 'strength' written on the back in black. He stood at 5 feet 7 inches. He also has the same hair color as his kimono but unlike JACK with his long hair, TEN's hair was short and untamed, similar to that of Gaara's. He too also had his name inscribed on his clothing, but unlike the bandana that JACK wore or the headband that ACE has, TEN's was located towards the right chest of his kimono. Naruto also noticed that this person was the one that was complaining that he was about to win.
"And finally, we have KING. He's our expert in stealth and information gathering. He was also once known as one of the legendary swordsmen of Kiri." ACE finished.
KING can be described as the strong silent type. Naruto and Gaara could feel the power radiating from the man. He stood at 6 feet 6 inches. Underarmour covered his body from neck to toe and over the underarmour, he had a set of black shorts and a black vest. He also wore a set of black gloves with metal plates etched on them. On the metal plates, the word KING could be seen.
"And you?" Gaara said after ACE finished.
"Well, I guess I never did give you a proper introduction. I'm known as ACE, and I'm a Genjutsu master and the quickest of the four."
"Hey, I remember hearing about this being an organization. What's it called?" Naruto asked after thinking for a minute after ACE finished.
"We're known as the Royal Flush Organization or ROFLOR for short." ACE answered.
Naruto was trying his best to suppress his laughter, but ultimately failed and fell down to the ground laughing.
"I told you we should've chosen a different name." TEN said to JACK as he watched Naruto laugh.
"Not my fault. Wasn't it your suggestion that we chose for the name?" JACK said to TEN.
"Now that I think about it, I never really had any say on what our name was going to be,' TEN replied back.
"It was none other than QUEEN who chose that name." ACE answered.
"QUEEN?" Naruto asked.
Everyone saw that Naruto was standing again, and was curious as to know who QUEEN was.
"If this is known as the Royal Flush Organization, shouldn't there be a fifth member called QUEEN?" Gaara asked.
"He spoke." TEN said quietly to JACK.
"Yeah, weren't containers of Shukaku supposed to be all quiet like?" JACK said back to TEN.
"Desert Coffin"
Sand started to envelop over JACK and TEN but luckily for them, KING interfered and cancelled the attack by using his sword that was instantly summoned.
"Slow down there squirt." ACE replied as he got in between JACK, TEN, and Gaara.
"Scaaaaaarreeeeeeee." JACK said quietly.
"JACK, why don't you deal with the incomplete seal that the squirt here has?" ACE asked, pointing to Gaara.
"Shouldn't we talk about QUEEN first?" JACK asked.
"We'll talk about her later. After you're done with the seals, the squirt should rest up until morning arrives. I'll give youngster here the rest of the tour and catch up with you guys later." ACE replied.
KING nodded his head and grabbed an orange book from one of the nearby bookshelves and started reading.
"Hey, isn't that a perverted book?" Naruto asked, remembering seeing the same book carried by a gray haired nin with a black mask back at Konoha.
"Forget about it Uzumaki." TEN said.
"But..." Naruto then trailed off.
"Gaara, if you'll follow me, I'll lead you to the room of sealing." JACK replied.
Gaara nodded his head and ignored the voice of the demon that was inside of his body.
"Well youngster, shall we follow? It's one of the first rooms we'll pass during our tour." ACE asked.
"Sure." Naruto said with his smile.
A minute later, Naruto, JACK, ACE, Gaara, and TEN (who said he had nothing to do and decided to follow) were back at the entrance and entered to the door which was towards their right. About ten steps later, a fork in the hallway was found and Naruto saw that JACK and Gaara headed of towards the left.
"At the far end of the hall, the room of sealing can be found. Anything that requires major sealing, like demons, power, bloodlines, etc. can be done in that room. There are also four rooms, two to the left with another two across the hallway. The ones on the left both lead to the first and second training areas where the landscape is different in each room. We'll be in there a lot. The two doors that are across from the first and second training areas lead to the kitchen and dojo. The dojo is where KING practices his sword techniques and such. Now if we look towards our right, you'll see that there are three doors in the vicinity." ACE finished.
Naruto looked to his right and saw that there were indeed three doors. One door was located to the left while two others were located at the right. Naruto looked back towards ACE and saw that JACK and Gaara were gone. Naruto figured that they were inside the room of sealing. Naruto looked back to what he was previously looking at and listened to ACE.
"The door to the left leads to the armory where we keep our weapons from shuriken to large weapons like katanas and scythes at. The door farthest from us to the right lead us to the basement level and at that level, a purifier is located which purifies our water. The door that's neared to us is the storage closet where we place items like additional food and other unnecessary items are held."
"Is that it?" Naruto asked a little disappointed at what he saw.
"Why don't we head toward-" ACE was then interrupted.
"AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH" a voice yelled out from the other side of the hall.
"Looks like JACK's about done with the sealing process." ACE commented. "Why don't we head towards the kitchen and get something to eat?" ACE said as he headed towards his left. ACE walked a few steps and entered the first door on the right which led to the kitchens.
"Yeah. Ramen ramen ramen ramen ramen" Naruto continue to say.
"Sure, we'll have ramen then youngster." ACE replied.
Naruto ran straight into the kitchen and soon made some instant ramen. After eating his fifth cup of instant ramen, ACE was feeling a sense of deja vu.
'Well, this kid can really eat his ramen.' ACE thought as he started to give Naruto another cup of instant ramen.
After Naruto finished eating his sixth cup of ramen, he felt really dizzy and passed out.
'We'll run out of food at the rate he's eating at.' ACE thought to himself. 'Besides, when he wakes up in the morning, he'll be ready to train.'
"What happened?" Naruto asked to himself when he awoke. "I remember eating and then I felt a dizzy sensation which..."
"Glad to see you can visit." Kyuubi said, completely scaring Naruto by using his fox form before shifting into his human one.
Naruto yelled out in shock and clenched his heart.
"You, what are you doing here? As a matter of fact, what am I doing here?" Naruto asked after his heart slowed down a little.
"ACE placed a sedative in your last cup of ramen to make you sleep." Kyuubi answered.
"How do you know?" Naruto asked.
"I know because I can sense what's happening inside your body." Kyuubi replied.
"You can do that?" Naruto asked.
Kyuubi sighed and responded.
"Yes kit, since your lifeforce is mixed with mine and vice-versa, I have the ability to sense what's happening within your body."
"Does that mean that I'll live forever?" Naruto asked.
"Forget it kit." Kyuubi replied as he sighed.
For the rest of the day and throughout the night, Kyuubi decided to start training Naruto in Taijutsu. Naruto's style of Taijutsu was going to be based on kicking attacks so that his upper body can focus more on creating seals.
The next morning, Naruto was fully revitalized and was ready to train. He thought that he would've felt exhausted as he trained with Kyuubi, but Naruto discovered that he needed to practice the Taijutsu style when he's awake so that his body could become accustomed to it.
Naruto looked around the room he was at and saw that KING and ACE were sleeping on hammocks while he, JACK, TEN, and Gaara were sleeping on futons beside his own. Naruto looked at Gaara for a bit and smiled since it was Gaara's first time sleeping without fear of Shukaku. Naruto left the room quietly and went into the dojo that ACE said that KING practices in. Naruto entered the dojo and saw that the place was virtually barren. There was nothing inside the room except for scrolls which hung on the wall which mentions things like 'anatomy of the human body' and 'special techniques to take out a man in a single hit.'
Naruto started to stretch for approximately five minutes before beginning the first kata that he was working on with Kyuubi. Whenever Naruto messed up, Kyuubi would reply mentally and tell Naruto where he was messing up and correct him to the best of his ability.
An hour later, Naruto finally mastered the first kata in his new fighting style when he noticed that TEN was in the room.
"Pretty impressive." TEN replied to the exhausted Naruto.
"Thanks." Naruto replied as he sat down on the floor.
"That style, what's it called?" TEN asked. The style seemed familiar to him, but he needed to make sure of what the style was called.
"I think it's called the kicking style of the fox." Naruto replied a little uncertain. "I don't really know. That's what Kyuubi told me."
"Hmm, I've never heard of that style, but the form you were practicing reminded me of this one person I fought against about ten years ago when the Third Great Ninja War was still going on. Rumor had it that the user of the style where he uses only his legs was supposedly invincible and was unbeatable. I decided to challenge him and found that it was a style similar to that of the Karuda School, but was without the special techniques."
"The Karuda School?" Naruto asked.
"An old school which is now extinct." TEN replied.
"You said that it was a powerful fighter right? What did he look like?" Naruto asked.
"He was a bald man that looks to be in his mid thirties. He wore a crimson red t-shirt and a pair of black pants. Other than that, all he had were tattoos of fox tails on each of his arms." TEN answered.
"Must've been Kyuubi," Naruto said quietly to himself.
TEN heard what Naruto said and was shocked.
"Kyuubi was the person I fought?" TEN asked.
"Kyuubi told me that during the Third Great Ninja War, he would change into human form and challenged the strongest fighters within the lands." Naruto explained.
TEN accepted the answer and remembered why he came into the dojo in the first place.
"Hey Naruto, it's pretty much past dawn now and breakfast is about to be served. I was supposed to come in and take you to the kitchen where we usually eat our meals." TEN said.
Naruto got up from the ground after hearing his stomach growl.
"Heh, heh, looks like I could use something to eat." Naruto replied as he started to head out.
TEN followed Naruto and the two of them were soon in the kitchen table waiting for breakfast. The kitchen table was round enough for six people to sit at with enough space for food to be spread. A minute later, ACE appeared carrying breakfast and placing it on the table before getting the rest of the breakfast in the kitchen. Naruto took the time to see who was sitting where at the table.
To Naruto's left, Gaara was sitting on his chair wearing a tired expression. The seat occupied beside Gaara was occupied by TEN who was playing a quick game of poker with JACK whom was located to TEN's LEFT. After that was KING who was watching the two who were playing poker and the seat to Naruto's right remains empty for it is the chair reserved for ACE.
ACE arrived a few seconds later and placed the trays of food that he had down on the remaining space of the table. Naruto frowned when he saw that there was no ramen but decided to eat what looked to be a delicious breakfast.
After Naruto and the other's finished breakfast, JACK and TEN gathered the dishes while KING grabbed a red book from his pocket and started reading. Naruto noticed that the book KING was reading this time wasn't like the one he saw yesterday.
"Yo youngster, squirt, I talked with the others yesterday about how we're going to train the two of you. Naruto, we need to work on your chakra control since that's what you really need to work on and with the squirt, he needs to build up his stamina." ACE replied.
Gaara nodded his head in agreement so far and Naruto frowned a little but nodded his head also.
"Also, I'm going to started teaching you ways to counter Genjutsu. I know that the two of your are not Genjutsu types, but I thought that it'd be beneficial that the two of you learn how to counter them. JACK will teach the two of you Ninjutsu as well as seals. TEN will train you guys in Taijutsu and medical techniques, and KING will teach you how to fight using weapons and to brush you guys up on your information gathering and stealth." ACE said.
"When can we start?" Naruto asked excitedly.
"We can begin now." JACK said as he entered the area. "The two of you will follow behind me as I lead you inside the first training area."
Gaara nodded his head while Naruto was basically bouncing, eager to learn new techniques.
Inside the first training area, Naruto was impressed at what he saw. The room was the largest he has ever seen. Inside the room, there were 2 different types of landscapes. At one part of the room, there was a miniature forest, while another area had rocky cliffs. Naruto and the others were in the forest portion of the room and in the middle of the forest, a small body of water was found which looked to be about thirty feet deep.
"Alright you two, here's how things are going to go. When we had our meeting last night, we tried to determine what fighting styles would suit the two of you the best. For Naruto, we've decided that he should focus most of his skills on transformation and replication. If you," JACK then looked directly into Naruto's eyes, "could master both the transformation and the different types of replication techniques, you wouldn't ever need the use of weapons like kunai or shuriken since you can create them by combining different versions of the replication technique with the transformation technique.
"Gaara," JACK then turned to Gaara, "we've decided that since you're now in control of the sand demon Shukaku, we thought that it would be appropriate that you take advantage of the sand abilities of the demon. When using the specialized sand that you have, you can use it to create nearly impenetrable defenses as well as creating offensive type weapons like swords, daggers, and shuriken.
"Right now however, we need the two of you to work on your chakra control and chakra reserves. Naruto, you may have the massive reserves that Gaara doesn't have, but Gaara's control is much better than yours. In order to fix this, I decided to start things off with water walking. If you can master water walking, it'll be much easier for the two of you to determine how much chakra is needed for techniques and so forth. So, who don't we begin." JACK said with a smile.
Naruto and Gaara started to work on water walking. Gaara almost had the exercise mastered after several minutes, but Naruto kept on sinking each time he attempted to walk towards the middle. By the third hour, JACK saw that Gaara was getting exhausted while Naruto was still working on moving on the water since he's now capable of standing.
"Alright you two, time for lunch. After lunch, you're to go with TEN and start practicing on Taijutsu." JACK replied as he started to head off for the kitchen.
After lunch, (in which Naruto had only two cups of instant ramen much to his dislike) Naruto, Gaara and TEN were inside the dojo.
"Naruto, since I saw that you've been working on a Taijutsu style, you'll stick to learning that style while I train Gaara in basic Taijutsu." TEN replied.
"'kay." Naruto replied.
Gaara nodded his head.
Naruto moved to the other side of the dojo while TEN started teaching Gaara some basic forms of Taijutsu.
After a couple months of training, Naruto and Gaara started to fall into a pattern. Each morning after breakfast, JACK would continue to train Naruto and Gaara. After that, was Lunch which was followed quickly by either Taijutsu/medical techniques or Genjutsu countering lessons with ACE or TEN. Dinner would follow soon after and after dinner; Naruto and Gaara would practice stealth, information gathering, or sword training. What was weird about those lessons was that KING never spoke and had to show what he wanted Naruto and Gaara what to do. KING had a system where if you spoke during the training session, you would be stabbed with five kunai. This shut Naruto up quite a bit (After being stabbed with a kunai over twenty times, only to be healed by Kyuubi). This system of training continued for three years.
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