Well well three chapters in the span of maybe a week and a half or two? I keep telling myself to stop, I'll burn up but I can't help it. I can't get to any of my notes for the other stories because you know, my other computers got a bug and i gotta fixe it but damn it i like this story. Some one asked how did Neji come about coming back and I decided to give you the first part of it, but now we get to see the start of Naruto as he becomes a guardian. I hope you guys enjoy still looking for a beta reader, but please leave a review. Kakuzu do the disclaimer!
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Because I'll pay you
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Ch 3 - A split perspective
"I'm sorry could you repeat that for me?"
"I thought it might come as a shock to you, but you were never supposed to die, though noble as your sacrifice was, it was Hizashi who was supposed to take the attack and die protecting Hinata and Naruto. You were to live and marry Tenten, have a daughter, help get rid of the cage bird seal."
"I am not sorry for what I've done Kami-sama."
"I don't expect you to be sorry Neji. You did what you did to protect those you held dear, just as Naruto did."
"Wait what did Naruto do?"
"To put it bluntly young one, Naruto blew himself up, killing Kagyuya in the blast."
"WHAT?"
"Yes, that is what happened, his plan worked, he manage to take Kagyuya with him, Shinigami however had other plans. We sent him to the past, to the day before his final year in the ninja academy, because of your noble sacrifice, and the fact you died to young I would offer you a choice, will you go back in time to help Naruto prevent the unsealing of Kagyuya or would you like to stay here in Heaven with your parents?"
"Wait, you're giving me the option to help Naruto change history?"
"Yes I am, though the road will be hard and periless, and you won't be able to save everyone, you could however-"
"I'll do it."
"You didn't let me explain the other option thought."
"I am sorry Kami-sama, but I don't want to hear the other option, I'm a fighter, my place is out their helping make a difference!"
"Well spoken Neji, go say good bye to you're parents, I will be waiting." Then Kami seemed to fade away, as Neji turned towards the delicately designed red oak door, that made up his old home. The one he lived in with his father and mother, before one sacrificed them self and the other...used a lot of rope in desperation and grief. Neji grimaced as old childhood memories surfaced up.
He gently opened the door and walked down a hallway, going into his father's study. The man in question was laughing with his wife on the couch. "And then I told Hiashi to shove it. He may be my brother but I'll be damned if I let him push me around. Hahahaha." Neji smiled sadly, he did enjoy the small amount of time he got to spend with his parents. Seeing them again, telling him all about his life. He coughed roughly to get their attention.
"Oh hey son" his mom, Kami he missed her terribly, after Hizashi...made his decision, she tried to be so strong, for both Neji and herself. One day it just became to much, by then Neji was a full fledge Genin and able to take care of himself, but he stilled missed her.
"Hi mom, dad, we need to talk."
"Oy Neji, earth to Neji, you in there?"
Neji was cut off of his musing by Tenten, who was poking his headband. Neji shook himself, his mind going from heaven to his training ground, with his team. He stood up, "I guess times up?"
"Uh dude it's been up, you were meditating pretty hard their, look" Neji paled slightly, as he saw the evening sky, "yeah Guy-sensie thought you were ignoring him and Lee, and they did their thing and they've been running laps around the entirety of Konoha, on their hands, with boulders tied to both feet. For the past two hours."
Neji had the decency to look a little ashamed. "Sorry Tenten, had a lot on my mind."
Tenten leaned against the tree Neji had been under. Now that he had a chance to stretch, Neji realized how stiff his muscles were. "So Neji what's on your mind?"
Neji frowned, in the future he had never tried for romance, always said he'd get around to it after he could settle, down. Hell he died a virgin who had never kissed a girl before. He'd try things differently this time around. "How about we discuss this over some hot food, I have a feeling that Lee and Guy-sensei are going to be at this a while, and I for one have no intent on being here when they finish."
Tenten blushed, caught off guard by Neji's sudden boldness. he'd never shown so much as a passing interest in the brunette, and now he was asking her out to eat? "O-oh yeah sure I know this great burger joint just a few blocks away from here. Follow me!"
And she quickly rushed off, trying to get her beating heart and blushing face under control. Neji was actually having difficulty trying to keep up with her, 'so this is what women are like when they get flustered. Imagine if they could utilize this power in the field, they truly be a force of nature.'
Later that day
"Look Iruka I know you're upset but-"
"Upset Hokage-sama!? I am beyond upset, my own students were helping to kill Naruto! I know you've done everything you can to try and make him safe, but he could tell a mob was forming to hunt him just by the attitude change in a small Ramen bar! That's not something an eleven year old should do, hell most seasoned Anbu can't do that!"
"Iruka that is enough!" Hiruzen blasted the room with a small amount of KI wich only marginally worked to try and get the furious Teacher under control.
"No Hokage-sama it is not enough! You need to do more for him!"
"What more can I do Iruka? I placed Naruto in your class because i thought you an exceptional judge of character, I gave him his own house in the quietest part of Konoha that would still allow him to get to the academy at a decent time, I have a whole Anbu squad on an assignment to routinely make sure the boy gets to that home at night. There's not a lot more I can do because the council will not allow me to. What more would you have me do Iruka?"
Iruka glared at Hiruzen, "Really Hokage-sama, must I be the one to remind you that a ninja village, no matter how diplomatic, no matter how benevolent, is a dictatorship? That you are our sole leader? That no matter how high and mighty the pompous pricks on the council think they are, their only roles is to be your ADVISOR'S?!"
"No you do not Iruka." Hiruzen sagged in his chair, looking his elderly age for once, "but the civilian council has only grown more ambitious, ad I will admit I have have been complacent while they gather their strength, and I fear if i try to take that strength a way they will cause a mess."
"Then you set an example Hokage-sama."
Of all the things Hiruzen was expecting to come out of Iruka's mouth, that was not one of them. "I-m sorry could you repeat that?"
"You set an example, You're the Hokage, every choice made in this village is approved by you, whether it be a new building being made, and old one being torn down, or for instance who sits on the council. You're known as the professor, the man who trained under Tobimara Senju himself, and in turn trained the Legendary Sannin. Who are they to tell you what to do, in you're village?"
"You are right Iruka, I have let them order me around for too long, It's time they remember just who their dealing with. The first thing I am going to do is get Naruto someplace safe, he shouldn't have to live in fear of a mob breaking down his door in the middle of the night."
Iruka smiled as with every word, Hiruzen' confidence reflected in his eyes, showing why he was the Hokage. "Do not worry about that Hokage-sama, with your permission I have an idea."
"Oh really Iruka what did you have in mind?"
An hour later
"This may work Iruka, no I'm the Sandaime goddamn Hokage and I don't need their permission." With a mighty roar Hiruzen Sarutobi stamped a piece of paper, the word 'approved' written leering bright red. "Now go attend to the boy, make sure he grows into a young man over this year and remember if I am not satisfied with what I see then you will lose this privilege, understood?"
"Hai Hokage-sama!" Iruka bowed at the waist before leaving the Hokage alone in his office, he took out his pipe, lit it and took a deep puff. He motion with his finger and an anbu appeared, bowing at his side.
"Yes Hokage-sama?"
"Call an emergency council meeting, it's time I set a certain amount of fools in their place." Hiruzen, with a hard stare stood up and started walking out of hi office.
"Yes Hokage-sama, and for what it's worth" the anbu said, hope in his voice "it's good to have you back!" Then he shunshined away in a swirl of leaves.
'I'm putting oil in a flame, I'm to old for this shit, and damn it, it's time I started acting like the Kage I am!'
"Then he hit his finger! Hahahah!" Tenten's loud laughter could be heard throughout the entire restaurant, as Neji sat across from her, a small laugh escaping his lips. This was fun, he'd never actually gone on a date before, so he didn't know what to expect, or how to act, but this was going better than he'd hoped. tenten was just finishing some story from the blacksmith she apprenticed at. "Well that was interesting Tenten, he looked out the window as he thought he saw a familiar blonde pass by the window.
"Ah Tenten, please excuse me one moment, i need to go relieve myself."
Tenten rolled her eyes, and started digging into a plate of food that had just arrived "Fine" she said through mouth full of delicious food "but don't blame me if there's no food when you get back."
Neji quickly headed to the bathroom , doing the correct hand signs he said "Byakugan!" He looked through the walls of the food joint into the adjoining alleyway, where he was surprised to see Naruto, in what appeared to be some sort of face off. 'Shit now I remember what today was, a mob formed and attacked a lot of different shelters, didn't Naruto say once that they had been looking for him?' He looked at the near by window, before looking towards the door were he could here the sound of people talking, and having a generally good time. 'Tenten is gonna kill me for this.'
He snuck out the window and hurriedly made his way to the roof, overlooking the alleyway where he saw some sort of civilian students blocking Naruto's escape. It was Naruto's voice he heard when he came into sound range. "Oh so eager to impress mommy and daddy you failed to realize one very important fact."
The girl scowled "and what' that dobe?"
Naruto backflipped and put his back to a corner, pulling out two kunai and getting in a defensive position. "You'll be busy carrying your injuried away to take me anywhere."
Yemura pulled out his own set of kunai and grinned "I don't think so dobe. Keep in mind the only reason you can keep up with any of the shits from clans and their fighting style is because you have a lot of stamina. but no style that's it, and you're even worse using throwing weapons, I think this won't take more than a few minutes."
Neji watched on ready to jump in and assist Naruto if the need arose, but fortunately for him, hi Byakugan saw Iruka making a quick entrance to the scene, unfortunately his Byakugan also saw Tenten leave the building, tears falling down from her face. 'Oh shit Tenten I completely forgot!' Seeing that Iruka had things well under control, Neji jumped from the roof to the main entrance, the bill had already been paid for, by him, so he didn't need to worry about that.
'Ok, so if Memory serves Tenten's house is down that street, where she ran off to, and Ino's shop shouldn't be to far from here.."
Tenten had never felt so ashamed, once she realized Neji had left her, she felt the betrayal as tears stung her cheeks, she made a quick exit and almost sprinted to her house, where she vehemently ignored her dad, slammed the door, and locked herself in her room. where she curled up on her bed and started wailing her grief.
She had genuinely liked Neji, he was cute, strong, determined, everything she was looking for in a guy, it didn't matter that he was a side branch member, she liked Neji for who he was. The soft side of him that he didn't let anybody see. She'd seen it once, when an orphan kid was being bullied he stepped in and swiftly dealt with the attackers, before making sure the boy was taken back to his home. It was then she decided he was the one...or so she thought.
This had hurt her, leaving her alone when he was the one who asked her out. Was she not good enough? Not many people knew, and by that basically no one but her dad, Tenten suffered from a minor inferiority complex. Was she not pretty enough? 'I mean yeah I'm not as busty as some of the other chicks from our graduating class, but at least I can defend myself! Right?'
More tears came through her eyes, and Tetsuwa, listening from the other side of the door, his pleading falling on deaf ears, sighed and slid down the door. She was just a young chid, one who was expected to kill and die for Konoha, but that was a different matter. She sound;t have to be dealing with the thoughts of a broken heart, let alone dealing with her own. 'Who ever this boy is, he really has made an impact on her.' Than he heard knocking coming from the door. Probably clients. The hefty blacksmith got to his foot and made his way to the door.
His eyes narrowed as they landed on the Hyuga of her team, and mostly likely reason for her present of being. Though the flowers in his hands were interesting. "Neji-san, can I help you?"
"Yes Tetsuwa-san, is Tenten here? I fear there may have been a misunderstanding, and it personally affected her."
'So the young boy is indeed the reason she's so heartbroken' his hand twitched and started going for the cleaver blade he kept near the door before stopping himself, 'no Tetsuwa you are better than this. If something has happened then the only reason he's here is to apologize. Yes that's it.' Though having no outward indication his thoughts had strayed to murder, Neji got the weirdest feeling he just dodged a bullet.
Tetsuwa nodded and stepped back to allow Neji inside the house, "I don't know what you've done boy, but I only pray you can fix it"
Neji grimaced as he could hear her wails from here. He really needed to find the right words to say that could fix this situation. He was in front of her door, normal save for the sign that said "Intruders beware armed, trained and very dangerous." He gulped, and then he knocked loudly saying "Tenten, it's Neji I think theres been a-" years of trained instincts saved him as he took a step back and half a giant shuriken went through the door. Then he had to roll to the left as not half a second later, a barrage of senbon, regular shuriken and kunai followed into the wall behind were Neji had been standing.
By now Tenten's crying had stopped, and been replaced with heavy huffs. If one were to look through the hole in the door, they would see a dark aura surrounding her form, and her eyes glowing red, as all woman do when severely pissed off. "OH Neeeeejjjjiiiiii" she aid in a sing song voice, "let's play, I made some new toys JUST for youuuuuu!"
Neji winced as one shuriken managed to cut his arm, Tetsuwa quickly stepped in to help him up. "Right, she's done lost it now boy. I'd suggest running as far from here as you can while I try and calm her down."
"No Tetsuwa-san, I'm the reason she's like this at the moment so I will fix this, I've sparred with Tenten long enough to know how she fights, I'll wait till she tires herself out and'" *SMASH* Tenten' door shattered into millions of tiny wooden shards and the girl in question stepped out holding a giant hammer. With which she quickly locked onto Neji and through it at him. He ducked and it went halfway into the wall at the end of the hallway. "But first, I'm going to get her away from here. You want me come get me!"
And then Neji did the most honorable thing a man could do in this situation, he ran. Tenten gave chase, but stopped by her father's side and smiled saying "sorry dad I'll fix it when I get home." And she was on the hunt again. Tetsuwa for his part just shook his head , and went about collecting all of Tenten's thrown weapons she had left behind.
'She's more like her mother than she realizes. I do hope she manages to fix things with that Hyuga boy, I like him.'
"Hiruzen what's all of this about hmm? Why have you called this meeting?" Koharu was in the middle of a nice meal when he had received this message, in fact most of the civilian council seemed upset at the urgent meeting, when their didn't appear to be anything urgent to discuss about. The Ninja council however, seemed different, the veteran ninja were eying Hiruzen for some reason.
Danzo was the first to spot it. The glint in Hiruzen's eye, the way he held himself, broadening his shoulders instead of slouching them, how his head was held higher, more proud. 'Has the Professor truly returned to us, has the Sandaime Hokage finally found his steel?'
"I have called this meeting to put fools in their place, namely the civilian council." His eyes turned cold a he stared at Koharu his old teammate, who looked shocked.
"Hiruzen what is the meaning of this?"
Hiruzen snapped his finger and immediately Two anbu appeared behind Koharu, their blades at his throat. "You Koharu are under arrest for conspiracy, attempted murder, and threatening the safety of Konoha. Immediately taking his place as my direct advisor is.. Danzo Shimura."
He didn't like Danzo, but the man had resources, and trouble was coming to Konoha, and Hiruzen would need those resources. Hiruzen looked to the rest of the council, as Koharu was taken away, with no small amount of displeasure which he made known. "To the rest of of you, I may have gotten complacent in my old age, but no more. This is Konohagakure no Sato, The Village Hidden in the Leaves, Tobimara Senju in-trusted it to me when he sacrificed himself to save me during the Second Ninja World War. This Village falls under a Dictatorship, and I am the sole ruler, no official decisions get made unless I give it a yes. Is that understood by everyone?"
Most were staring at Hiruzen with wide eyes, he was standing at his full hight by now, but most bowed and said "hai Hokage-sama."
"Good, then you all are dismissed, except for you Danzo, stay, you and I need to talk."
The entire council room was emptied in record time, leaving Hiruzen with Danzo, a war hawk who decided to speak first. "It's is good to see you have finally found your steel old friend."
"Yes, and to think it took a school teacher to remind me who I am, what I was. I made you my advisor for one specific reason."
"And what would that be Hokage-sama?" Danzo had a pretty good idea but he needed to hear Hiruzen say it.
"You're ROOT anbu. I told you to disband it, and you haven't. But now I plan to use them."
That had not been what Danzo was expecting, but it wasn't the worst case scenario. "Let's say this is true Hiruzen, what would you have my men do?"
"You should know as well as I that spies from Iwa, Kumo, Kiri, have manage to infiltrate our village, I have reason to believe they were blackmailing Koharu, and are blackmailing other members of the council to further the agenda of their own village. You are to use whatever means necessary to find these spies and bring them to me, alive or dead does not matter. In return I will make your ROOT Ninja an ANBU Black Ops program."
Danzo thought over it, he had always played by the shadow, in the dark but this, acting out in the open. It would work for a while. "Fine Hiruzen you have a deal Would I remain the leader of ROOT?"
Hiruzen laughed, "Do not try and fool me Danzo. I know that the only one they are loyal to is you. You will remain their leader and you will report to me every action your ninja take. I want a full dossier of your ninja, who is in ROOT. By sundown, Danzo do not fail me. We've been enemies for a long time, even now I know you have some hidden agenda, as you know I have one. But right now we need to work together."
"We have always worked towards the same objective Hiruzen, peace for Konoha, we just go about it with different ideologies. But you are right, the time for differences needs to be put aside, war is coming to Konoha and we need to work together, on that we are agreed. You will have your list" he held out his good hand to Hiruzen "here's to a prosperous relationship Hiruzen." Hiruzen took the offered hand and shook it. "Then I will be on my way, Hokage-sama."
Just as Danzo left, Shikaku entered, and Hiruzen did a few hand seals, and a seal array appeared on the floor beneath him and Shikaku. "Did you get all of that?"
Shikaku nodded his head, "Yeah I heard everything."
"And what do you think?"
"Danzo definitely has something planned, I wouldn't be too surprised to find out later that he conveniently forgot to place a few names on that list, or how wide spread his operations really is. It's a risk we're going to have to take though if this information of yours is correct."
"Thank you Shikaku that will be all."
Hiruzen was playing a dangerous game, but when you were the head of the leading superpower anything you did was a dangerous game. 'I only hope I make the right choices.' If he messed more lives would be lost, but he needed to get control of his own village again. And that means dealing with the first pair of spies that came to the village, that I know of.'
And then Hiruzen shunshined away, appearing in front of what looked to be an ordinary Ramen bar.
Neji was on one knee, his clothes torn to shreds, and there were. a multitude of scratches littering every corner of his body. None were very deep, and only a few were causing any serious damage, but he was almost out of chakra. He was at his teams training ground, and struggling to catch his breath. "Man Tenten, you are one tough opponent when you're serious."
The training ground in question was in the same shape as Neji, heavily damaged with different weapons laying everyone, in the trees, in the dummies, which ones were even still standing anyway, and all over. Across from Neji was an equally exhausted Tenten, on both knees, her scrolls behind her, her fingers bleeding at the joints from controlling her weapons the way she did. "Yeah I know, I train and train and train."
"It is rather impressive actually, to be able to wield and control so many different weapons. You must be a savant."
"Stop trying to butter me up, now that I don't have pure murder wanna tell me what the hell happened?"
"A situation was happening outside the restaurant ... I went to handle it, by the time I got back inside you were gone." Neji looked at the completely ruined bouquet of Gardenias, to his right. "I bought those in an attempt to apologize to you, but then you threw a dozen paper bombs at them."
Tenten had the decency to blush and look away. "Well I thought you asked me on a date and ditched me. What else is a girl supposed to do?"
Neji gave her a blank look, 'never forget Tenten's a very blunt person'
"Well Ten-chan" Tenten's blush furthered at the Nickname "most girls don't wield weapons like a surgeon. And to be frank I did ask you out on a date, it just went horribly wrong and I'm sorry."
"Oh...how the hell am I supposed to respond to that Neji? You've never been so...open before, what the hell's gotten into you, not once today have I heard you say anything about destiny and fate?"
Neji laughed before falling on his back "oh nothing Ten-chan, a poor boy with no clan and I got into a fight yesterday. He was weak, but held his convictions strongly to his chest. He beat me, and called me a genius. It was a humbling experience."
Tenten stared at Neji in disbelief someone from no clan actually beat Neji? And that news wasn't spread around the entire village by now? What the hell?
"So what does this mean now?"
"Now? I take you on another date, one which I see to completion, and then like a proper gentleman I escort you home."
"Oh really? And whose to say I want to go on another date?" By now Tenten had fallen on her back to, and was staring at the dwindling sun, in the evening sky.
"Is that a no then?"
"Fine, I guess you'll have the honor of taking me to Takumi's BBQ tomorrow."
Before Neji could cry out his outrage at such an expensive place, he a voice said "dear Kami what happened here?" *CLANK* *CLANK* *CLANK* *CLANK* Guy and Lee walked over to the tired Ninja. "It looks like you two did some heavy sparring in mine and Lee's absence."
"These new bodies are pretty solid" A young well muscled man in maybe his mid thirties, reddish yellow eye grinning over fanged teeth. "This one knew how to wield a sword, and use the lightning style, a rouge from Kumo huh? How about you Jezebel?" He turned towards his companion. The identified Jezebel, a busty fair skinned woman wearing some sort of battle kimono, with blue eye and equally blue hair shook her head.
"This one will do for now, but her boobs are gonna be a distraction. Their entering E cup at the moment, shit. But she seemed to be well versed in ninjutsu and genjutsu. A rouge from Iwa actually. Do you remember the mission Alastair?"
Alastair laughed as his honed ears picked up on the sound of a moving caravan near them, "yeah kill the boy, go to heaven. Haha that should be a piece of cake, but before that why don't you and I try and see how good our new bodies our?"
Jezebel grinned and pulled out some senbon, "I think that's a good idea for once."
Twenty minutes later
Alastair was wiping the blood off of his blade, a nifty looking blade, running about five feet, before meeting a white leather-bound handle. It was sharp, if the multitude of dismembered bodies were anything to attest to. he whistled "Man this blade is sharp, I'd hate to be on the receiving end of it, how about you Jezebel?"
Jezebel wa licking some blood off her finger and giggled, "these babies" she cupped her breast "aren't gonna be as big a problem as I thought, she's not good up close in a melee, but damn does it feel good to rip these apes apart with my hands."
"Hey now, no eating the bodies, we want people to find these, spread a little bit of terror." A small rustle from the caravan caught both of their attention, Alastair grinned and held on finger to his mouth, leaping to his feet he started sneaking to the caravan and with a sudden movement he ripped off the sheet.
He startled a dark skinned eight year old who started scrambling back. "Now now" Alastair grinned, showing off all of his canines "we aren't gonna hurt ya, no you're gonna tell a story. See my and my friend here, we're hunting someone, and more people are gonna die until we find them. You tell whoever finds you that this stops when this kid is found." Alastair threw the boy a picture.
On it was some kid, maybe a few years older than him with blonde hair and blue eye, his most distinct feature were three whisker marks on the sides of his face. "Who-" He looked up and the scary man and woman were gone.
Iruka walked to his house, it was getting Late but there was still things he had to get , to prepare for the new school year. 'Man the life of a teacher is a lot harder than one would imagine, but it's worth it."
He was at the door, when he smelled ... fish? Delicious cooking if his nose was correct, but the only person who should be at hi house was Naruto and it was Naruto ... He quickly ran in, kunai at the ready. "NARUTO!"
"What?" Naruto poked his head around the corner, a trial of smoke following him, and the sizzle and pop of a salmon after that.
"You're cooking? Wait you know how to cook?"
"I live on my own, and I do eat things other than ramen, it's just cheap and good. I rarely get the opportunity to cook with anything other than egg noodles."
"Oh, well that makes sense I guess, did you run into any trouble on your way here?"
Naruto shook his head "Nah getting here was fine, didn't take long until i found your pantry, wanted too cook something i can actually make to say thank you."
Iruka blushed slightly, and laughed scratching the back of his head. "You didn't have to do that for me Naruto, especially after the ramen bar, but thank you."
"Well you're letting me spend the night Iruka-sensie, so I figured it's the least I can do."
Iruka chuckled nervously as he held out another scroll. "actually this is for you Naruto, The Hokage and I had an agreement he's getting you a new house and you're staying here for the time being. I um..hope you don't mind, but I took the liberty of going to your house, if you'd even want to call it that, and sealed up anything I thought you'd you think is worth keeping."
This time Naruto didn't even try to stop the tears as they came to his face. "Iruka-sensei.."
Iruka smiled brightly "I am a teacher above all else Naruto, I philosophize putting you're students above all else. And you are never going to achieve you're full potential if you're stuck trying to provide for everyday life. There is a catch to this however."
Naruto's eyes narrowed ever so slightly "and what's that Iruka-sensie?"
iruka walked over to a stack of books, "I am to catch you up on all of the material and work that the academy has unfortunately neglected you. So when I said if you'd want to pay me back graduate at the top of your class, well apparently now you have to."
Naruto was speechless, nodding his head. "Yeah Iruka-sensie, I can do that."
"Good, now Naruto I need you to do me a favor."
"Yeah Iruka-sensie?"
"Go change into those clothes I gave you and give me that horrendous jumpsuit. I plan to burn it to ash, and then burn the ashes."
"But Iruka-sensie-"
"No but's Naruto, remember what I said about taking things serious? Now's the time to tart, bathrooms down the hall third door on the right. Now hurry up, I'll keep you're salmon from burning up."
He was grumbling as he walked down the hall, but Naruto grabbed the scroll and up opened it up and pushed a little chakra into it, the scroll went *Poof* and five sealing scrolls popped out, labeled: School supplies, ninja supplies, Clothes, ninja clothes, and one labeled surprise. in order of appearance. 'Wow trust the teacher to keep things methodical. Works for me though, he grabbed the one marked ninja clothe and brought three sets of the same suit, which was a fish net shirt made out of an iron like tactile, a grey shirt, with dark, pocketed cargo pants, and a black jacket, with the Leaf emblem on the right sleeve and the Whirlpool emblem on the left sleeve, with darkish grey combat boots. What also came out were a set of kunai and shuriken holsters which he kept strapped to his waist and legs.
He reached down and grabbed the scroll marked surprise, "hm...might as well see what this is while I'm at it." What he got was the biggest surprise of all, a shortened Katana, just longer than a wakizashi, a navy blue blade met a pure white handle gaurd before extending to an equally blue handle. the gaurd was actually the whirlpool symbol, where the black was replaced with white. "Wow, now I've definitely gonna have to learn, maybe even impress Bee whenever i see him next."
*THUMP*
That caught Naruto's attention, because that sounded and awful lot like a body hitting the floor. Sheathing the katana, Naruto brought out a kunai and crouched peeking his head around the corner. He couldn't see the kitchen or the adjoining living/dining room, but from what he could see, Iruka was out cold, his feet jut visible leading into the kitchen.
"Come out Naruto it is only me."
At the sound of Kami's voice Naruto rushed into the room, her form less glowing than the last time he saw her. He immediately got into a bowing position. "Kami-sama!"
"Rise, young one, I apologize for putting your comrade here to sleep, but I felt what we were discussing should be in private. He will awaken once I live I assure you."
"No, it's ok Kami-sama, something tells me Iruka had a long day."
"You are enjoying you're first day being back I take it?"
"It's all the same, yet so many different things are happening. Like I'm going to be staying with Iruka until the Hokage can get me my own private place. He even got me these cool new clothes."
"Yes I would believe so, they look nice on you by the way. I assume you already know about Neji?"
"Yeah you sent him back in time too, why did you do that? Not that i'm complaining mind you, it's just I'm curious?"
"He was never supposed to die protecting you and Hinata, that was supposed to be Hizashi. But I digress, I came here for more than to get your opinion, I came here with a warning."
"A warning?"
"Yes, it seems my brother has let some lower level demons into this world with the prime objective of hunting you."
"What why would he do that?!"
"He believes, I imagine, that you being here with all of your future memories will make things to easy on you. I can not kill them, I'm not allowed to be here on this realm, I am only able to talk to you by giving a devote follower a fraction of my power, the best I can do to assure your safety is to warn you. I am still trying to figure out what they look like. I only know he sent two, and what their mission is."
"Oh great, well I guess I shouldn't have expected things to be this easy. Thank you Kami-sama. for letting me know is that all?"
"Yes, I do believe that is all, a word advice before I leave I recommend training as hard as you can. You will need to be prepared for tough times a head. Now I must be off, before I depart from this world, there are things I must attend to. Good bye Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze"
And she left, Naruto watching her as she left, the moment she closed the door, Iruka shot up taking a deep breath. "Ah Iruka-senseu you're up."
"Naruto?" He looked around in confusion.
"Yes? Is everything alright Iruka-sensie?"
"Sorry, I must have fallen asleep waiting on you, it's been a long day after all. Oh I see you found the surprise I bought you."
"Yeah, thanks but why did you buy the sword?"
Iruka smiled sheepishly, "well Naruto, everyone in your class, at least those who have the highest chance of passing, have their own unique thing that gives them an advantage, Kiba for instance has Akimaru, Hinata her Byakugan, Choji's an Akimichi, so on and so forth. There's only so much your high chakra reserves can do for you, so I thought I would help give you and Advantage over them."
"Well thank yoU Iruka-sensei, I promise to learn as much as I can."
"Oh don't worry about that part Naruto, I have a friend whose willing to teach you some techniques on wielding a blade after class's. An old friend who owes me favor really. Now let's not worry about school for the night, we have this lovely Salmon you cooked up to eat after all, and it'd be a shame to let it get cold."
Naruto nodded and started cutting up the fish a smile playing on his lips.
And that' a cut, I wonder how long until chapter four is out huh. Anyways hope you guys liked it, introducing major players as well as finally giving Hiruzen the spine he should've had all along. That's all I gotta say Ja Ne!
