Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
I don't own Naruto,
And neither do you!
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Metal shrapnel flew as a fist slammed into the offending new alarm clock. Naruto sleepily opened his eyes, and yawned. He stretched, curling like a cat as he remembered where he was.
He stripped down and walked into the bathroom to shower. He lost himself in the luxury of the scorching water cascading down his back. There weren't very many opportunities to shower during wartime, so he took a long one, not a care in the world.
He shut it off after a few more minutes, and got out. He wiped off some of the mist from the mirror, and stared at his reflection.
Blue eyes, fine spun gold hair that defied all laws of gravity, now a bit darker when laden with water, tanned skin, whisker-like birthmarks, and happy-go-lucky grin permanently etched to his face that looked so much like his father's. He sighed, then wrapped a towel around his waist, and stepped out of the bathroom, turning out the light.
He got out the spare clothes from his bag. A black muscle shirt, black anbu-style pants, dark orange shinobi sandals, (XD) and his sage coat. The sandals were a gift from Jiraiya-sensei; he just didn't wear them because he liked his old ones. As he finished dressing himself, he heard a knock on the door.
When he opened the door he was greeted with the sight of a Baboon masked ANBU, the ANBU proceeded to hand him a scroll. Without a word the ANBU disappeared with a swirl of leaves. As Naruto was opening the letter, Misaki walked up to him.
"Hello, Uzumaki-san, how are you doing today?" Misaki asked.
"Good Kaito-san, I'm heading to the Hokage Tower, to see what the Old Man wants." Naruto greeted
Misaki looked abashed, "Uzumaki-san, I ask you to not disrespect the Hokage in my presence, besides, he isn't that old, merely in his mid-thirties." Misaki said heatedly.
"Sorry, Misaki-san, I forget that many don't realize my calling people by nicknames, you see, when there is someone I respect or admire, or if I see them as family, I give them a nickname, for example, the Hokage: Old Man."Naruto explained, chuckling.
"Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to snap, it's just that… I owe the Hokage a lot, and I get a little heated when someone bad-mouths him."
"Really? I know what you mean; he's given me a new chance at life, after I botched that assassination. I really admire him, hence the nickname. Ya know, the chance to redeem myself is something that I ever thought I would ever get, ever since the Uzumaki family took me in. For a while there, I thought I had a family but they just wanted another tool in their arsenal."
"You're an orphan?"
"Yep, I don't know where I come from originally, but I remember the Uzumaki family finding and adopting me. They found me in a harbor town on the outskirts of lightning country, or so I'm told."
"Wow, what a coincidence that you, an orphan would come to stay in an orphanage apartment building… You know, there is this orphan in the room to your right that looks just like you. I'd really like for you to meet him when you get back." She added.
"Looks just like me, what do you mean?"
"He has your hair color and style, and he also has your blue eyes. If you didn't have those funny marks on your cheeks, I'd say you were twins."She laughed quietly.
"Well, let me see what the old man wants and when I come back, we'll see this so called Mini-Me."
As Minato dressed, his mind went to his talk with Misaki, and his harsh words to her. He hadn't meant to snap at her, he just wanted a family really badly.
He stepped out of the front door, and as he finished locking the door, he bumped into Misaki.
"Hey, Misaki-san, how are you?" Minato greeted.
"Fine, Minato, just finished my rounds, what's on your agenda, more training?" Said Misaki.
"Yeah, I really want to try tree climbing, to get my chakra control up." Minato stated, excitedly.
"Well, when you get back, come to my office, and we'll meet your look-alike, okay."
"Okay." He left the building.
As Naruto walked away from his apartment he remembered the scroll that the ANBU had delivered. He quickly and swiftly opened and read the scroll. He threw it in the air, made a few hand-signs, and blew a small stream of fire, igniting the note, as he walked away the note quickly burned away.
It said-
Naruto,
Come to the council chambers, second floor, and third door to your left. We will examine your ninja skills, as to ascertain your rank. Remember your back-story; you will be grilled as to find any holes in your past. Fair warning: they're as fickle, cunning, and cutthroat as a snake.
Third Hokage,
Hiruzen Sarutobi
Naruto stepped into the dim chamber as he looked upon the ancestors of the Leaf Village's most prestigious clans.
A man in his thirty's with his sandy blonde hair in a mullet, a Yamanaka, obviously. A woman in her early forty's, her harsh lavender eyes glaring at all who dared to question her leadership, a Hyuuga, but a female clan head, huh. A young man in his teens, a smile on his face studying him discreetly, three tomoes in each of his blood red eyes. An Uchiha smiling, and not evilly, who would've guessed. Wait… OH MY GOD THE APOCALIPSE IS COMING! A man grinning ferally, showing off his elongated incisors. An Inuzuka, surprise, surprise. A female yawning boredly, eyes unfocused and openly wishing she wasn't there right now, three guesses, a Nara. A woman, (at least he thought it was a woman) her face covered by a tall collar, studying him carefully, an Aburame, he thought of Shino, shudder. And a large heavyset elderly male, munching on a piece of dango. An Akimichi, hm. Food...
The Third, eager to start, cleared his throat, getting everyone's undivided attention.
"I have called this council session, because, we have a young man here, wanting to join our village. His village banished him, because of a botching of an assassination. The reason for the failure was the assassination target was a pregnant woman, and he does not kill innocents, the target was to kill the woman to gain control of the daimyo, who was married to the target, the child was his. Allow me to introduce to you, Naruto Uzumaki-Namikaze, formerly, of the Uzumaki Family."
The Council muttered to themselves before the Hyuuga spoke: "Why so hesitant to eliminate the target, to be a shinobi is to kill your emotions and ethics, if you cannot do this, you're not worthy of calling yourself, Ninja."
"I am not murdering an innocent civilian, I am not a monster, I am a human, and I will not become a machine, killing all who I am commanded to kill. I will do as my emotions and instincts tell me. I listen to them all, my logic, my instincts, and my emotions work as a team. I will not ignore any of them, but they guide me, not rule me."
The council, again, mumbled to themselves.
"A very solid answer, however your emotions, when you let them 'guide you' can control you." The Yamanaka stated, eying him warily.
"Sometimes, your emotions need to be let go, however there is another side to that. Your emotions control you, as to not allow logic to override emotion. Balance is the key to a great shinobi."
Most of the council looked impressed, the few who didn't is, the Hyuuga, and a few on the civilian council.
"Now that Young Naruto has survived your interrogation, we will adjourn to the training grounds to evaluate his skill level."
Minato sighed as he dropped from the tree he was practicing the Tree-Climbing exorcise on. He had made some progress, but not as much as he had hoped. His chakra control wasn't where he wanted it, but he had six months until he joined the academy. He was confident he could get it where he wanted.
As he wiped his brow he decided to call it quits for the day, when he gathered his gear, he heard voices coming close to where he was. He recognized the Third Hokage's voice and a few others. Panicking, he quickly hid in a nearby bush.
"Training Ground #59 will suffice for our needs; it's out of the way, so we shouldn't disturb anyone."
As the council made their way to the edge of the grounds, the Hokage snapped his fingers and three ANBU appeared in a flash of smoke, they bowed quickly to the Hokage, and then snapped to attention.
The Hokage spoke with authority as he told the ANBU about their purpose.
"Deer, Mouse, Raptor, you are the best in your respective fields. Deer your taijutsu is unmatched, Mouse, your genjutsu skills are legendary, and Raptor, your ninjutsu skills make you a force to be reckoned with. Your mission is to evaluate Young Naruto's skills in each of your fields."
"HAI, LORD HOKAGE."
"Naruto, you will first face Deer in a taijutsu only match, then you will be subjected to Mouse's Genjutsu; he will subject you to an E-Rank, D-Rank, B-Rank, and finally an A-Rank genjutsu. Finally, you will face Raptor in a Ninjutsu Contest. You will display your best jutsu, and your affinities, if you've discovered yours yet." Sarutobi told him.
Minato's head was spinning as he heard what this 'Naruto' had to do for the Hokage. As he looked from the Hokage to Naruto, his heart skipped a beat. Misaki had been right, the man facing the Hokage looked just like him he was shocked he had his same hair, and everything. His heart started to beat faster and faster. This guy had to be related to him somehow. He would never guess just how right he was.
Naruto and Deer faced each other, as the council looked on excitedly. The Hokage looked around at the councilors and smirked at their faces.
As fast a Minato's future signature move, they were off, Deer started with an axe kick, aiming for Naruto's jugular, Naruto dodged, and followed up with a roundhouse kick that connected with a CRACK.
Deer flew twelve feet in the air before righting himself, and going back on the offensive. Naruto and Deer traded blow after blow, with sharp CRACKS when someone got hit. They became nothing more than blurs, matching blow for blow, not one landing a hit.
Then, deer hit his kunai pouch, and triggered a smoke bomb. Thick purple smoke surrounded them, and punches, chops, and kicks began breaking the sound barrier. There was a deafening CRASH, and a figure shot down to earth. The unidentified person hit the ground with purple smoke trailing behind him. The earth shattered upon impact, chunks of dark, moist earth flew in every direction, and the jounin/kage speculators had to use every bit of their shinobi skill to dodge the flying dirt. The young six-year-old, however, was covered by a tree, so he didn't get a thing on him.
Naruto sailed out of the cloud of smoke in the air, down to the crater he kicked Deer into. Subconsciously, he slipped into the Hachidori no Bara, The Hummingbird Rose. It was his own personal style that relied on unpredictable, quick, strong attacks that could vary from tenketsu points to broken bones. Knowing several Hyuuga had its perks, you know.
Deer was caught… Well he was caught like a deer in headlights. He tried to dodge the lefts and the rights that were coming but the unpredictability got to him as he ran into one hell of an uppercut.
Naruto threw a barrage of attacks; however Deer was able to narrowly dodge them all. As he threw punch after punch, he finally saw an opening in his guard: as Deer dodged his kick, he threw the mother of all punches. He heard the CRUNCH of his fist hitting the side of Deer's head, seconds later he dropped to the ground unconscious.
The council looked on as Deer was checked by the medic. Naruto walked up to the Third Hokage.
"So, what do you think?"
"Very impressive, Naruto, you have definitely shown Sennin level Taijutsu. Next up is the genjutsu portion of the exam.
One Genjutsu Exam Later
"Your ability to cast genjutsu is abysmal. It appears that you have too much chakra to cast all but the highest ranking genjutsu, and even then, you have to much range for anything except wartime. But you can't be caught inside a genjutsu; they just don't work on you." Mouse said flatly.
Harsh…
Naruto and Raptor stood side by side as Hyiana Hyuuga, with her Byakugan active, presided as referee. Raptor went first as he flipped through Hand-Signs he called out: "Fire style: Flame of the Apocalypse." A stream of white-hot fire erupted from his mouth and split into three streams and converged on an unsuspecting training dummy. Needless to say the dummy was ash, with a five foot radius of blackened earth around it.
Naruto made the sign for the Shadow Clone Jutsu, he held his hand out and the clones started to expel and rotate wind chakra and form it into a sphere. Seconds later, a fully formed Rasen-shuriken was launched at the dummy. The dummy was wood powder. Along with everything within a forty foot span of land and trees behind the dummy.
"What was that? I've never seen anything like it." Raptor
It's called the Rasen-shuriken; it is an S-Rank Ninjutsu, and my second strongest technique.
"Your second strongest, what's your strongest jutsu?" Hyiana asked,
It's a variation of the Rasen-shuriken, called Rasenhakai; however its event horizon is too big to demonstrate here. Let's just say that it can take on a bjuu and win hands down, …and destroy several miles of anything and have the same effect as… well, everything would look like Buster, over there." He pointed to the pile of dust.
Numerous cries of-"Impossible!" were heard around the training grounds.
"I REJECT YOUR REALITY AND SUBSTITUTE MY OWN; I CAN DO THE IMPOSSIBLE IF I WANT!" He yelled loudly, looking a lot like a child.
Minato was breathless, that jutsu was the coolest thing he had ever seen, he had seen the fire jutsu, and was impressed, and however, when he saw that Rasen-shuriken, he was blown away. And there was an even stronger version of it, his mouth was watering at the mechanics of the technique, Naruto had to be some kind of genius to create the jutsu.
"Next is the affinity demonstration."
Again Raptor flipped through Hand-Signs, and a stream of fire destroyed a dummy, a few more signs later the smoldering flame was doused.
After Raptor stepped off to the side, Naruto stepped up. Without hand signs Naruto lifted a river of water up from the stream, they formed crude shuriken and shredded through the training dummy. He flipped through Hand-Signs and a narrow plateau of earth rose from the ground and split into flat projectiles.
"All right-" The Third Hokage was interrupted when Naruto flipped through more hand-signs and blew a stream of fire out of his mouth.
Before Sarutobi had the chance to talk, Naruto started to fly through even more Hand-Signs and lightning gathered in his hand, he charged a dummy and impaled it with his lightning induced hand. Naruto held out his hand as if he were pushing something away from him, or getting ready to catch something.
Minato was just exasperated, this guy had four elemental affinities, while he didn't know much about them; he knew that many ninja only had one, this guy had FOUR! Suddenly, he started to feel something pulling him forward, he grabbed on to a tree next to him, trying not to fly away.
The council looked in awe as an invisible force started pulling debris toward him; suddenly a flash of gold came into their vision. They realized it was a child, before anyone could act; Naruto had the boy in his arms.
Naruto noticed that while he was manipulating wind, a blonde boy was pulled towards him. In the nick of time, he threw a tri-pronged kunai near the boy. Sorry, Old Man third. It's an emergency… And quickly caught him in a bright yellow flash of light.
WHEW! He had feared that he wouldn't be able to act quickly enough.
As he set the boy down he gazed at his face: the boy looked just like him, his breath left him as he looked into the boys eyes, and he uttered one word-
"Dad?"
AND THE PLOT THICKENS! DAH DAH DAAAAAAH!
See you next time on~
When the Dad Becomes the Son!
Mrs. Kitsune OUT SUCKUHS!
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