Jiraya made good time, though he was nearly caught by Terry Bogard numerous times. He immediately reported to the Hokage Tower to report to his sensei, Hiruzen Sarutobi who greeted him with a smile and said, "Ahh, Jiraya, I was about to send for you."
"You have, why," The toad sage replied with puzzlement.
"Why Naruto of course passed the first two stages of the Chunin exam and is waiting to be trained."
"Naruto is in the finals, how?"
"He defeated one of the top taijutsu fighters in hand to hand combat, Neji Hyuga in the preliminaries."
"Then that begs the question, who is he fighting in the opening match of the finals."
The third hokage then looked grim, "Sasuke Uchina."
The words make Jiraya spit out his sake and a certain book fell to the floor, "his own teammate? Why? Aren't there any redundancies in place to prevent that sort of thing from happening? We are not mist after all."
"Sadly, I could not control the draw of the lots."
"Where is Kakashi?"
"He is training Sasuke in blatant disregard of my orders to train no one."
"Then who is training Naruto?"
"Kakashi saw fit to have him train himself for the month, or so I was told by the council."
A sake cup fell to the floor in shock. "Does Kakashi just want to kill Naruto?"
The question was left unanswered as the secretary to the hokage interrupted the meeting, by saying "Lord Hokage, there is a few people to see you. It concerns Naruto."
Hiruzen Sarutobi then turned to Jiraya, "Is that why you reported in early?"
"Yes, Hokage-sama," Jiraya said, knowing that tone of voice, "There are outsiders trying to train Naruto."
Hiruzen then inhaled his tobacco. 'Is that all,' he thought as he caught a sight of blonde hair. 'Minato', he questioned internally. There were a few who knew the truth. "Don't be rude;" he spoke aloud, "you may come in."
The Lonely Wolves entered the small, but quite spacious office and took their places in front of the Hokage in a two by two formation and bowed. "Hokage-sama," Mai spoke for the group, "we are travelers from a distant land and were attacked by ninja bearing this mark." Joe Higashi showed them the Iwa-nin's headband as Mai continued, "before we can precede any further, do you know of a man known as Tung Fu Rue?"
Jiraya's face lit up in recognition, "That was Minato's master before I became his JunÃn sensei. He taught him a few techniques that formed the basis of the hummingbird style that he used."
Terry finally mumbled, so my brother was here. Mai, hearing the mumble as well as the ninja, spoke up quickly, "do you know where Minato is? The two blond headed people were his brothers before Minato's disappearance twenty years ago. The blonde in the red jacket is Terry Bogard, and the other blonde is Andy Bogard." The two blondes bowed again as Mai continued, "We believe that the reason that the ninjas that attacked us is because they discovered that Minato is a Bogard and decided to attack Terry and Andy out of retribution."
Joe then decided to speak up, "Does Minato have any living relatives besides these two?"
Hiruzen then looked around the room and said, "Clear the room." All of the hidden ANBU left except one, which Terry quickly sensed. Before the hidden ANBU could get away, Terry crouched and did a headstand and said, "Rising Tackle", tackling the hidden ANBU to the ground outside the tower. Surrounded by actual ninja, the fake ANBU relented and unmasked, but bit something. He was dead before he could even stop foaming at the mouth. Hiruzen walked out of the tower and spoke to Mai, "I had trouble with that one, thank the blond headed one for rooting him out for me. As for your question, I will retrieve little Naruto for you, he should be finishing up the second exam right now.
"Exam," Joe questioned, "you have to go through exams?"
"To be promoted, yes, you do. How each village handles them is a bit different, but for now, I hold some of the cards, if you are willing to train him here for now." Terry gave a curt nod. "Very well, you are free to use any training ground that you wish, but I will request that Jiraya watch over the training."
The agreement all but signed, the Bogard twins and Jiraya decide to greet Naruto at the second exams.
Author's Notes and Glossary:
Nothing to extravagant this time because the next chapter will be a time skip to the Third exam. The bulk of Naruto's training chapters will take place in Southtown, which are one or two chapters away if everything goes according to plan.
The overall goal is to have Naruto compete a KOF tournament (Probably KOF Maximum Impact) in Terry's place.
Glossary:
1. Fatal Fury is a video game series that is part of the foundation of the King of Fighters series (the other being Art of Fighting). It follows the adventures of Terry Bogard, his brother Andy Bogard and his friend Joe Higashi as they try to rid Southtown of the tyrant Geese Howard, who rules the city underground. (Think Gato from Naruto, but actually a fighter.) Every year, Geese organize the King of Fighters tournament, but one year, the Bogard brothers and Higashi enter to take down Geese, and succeeded, to a fault. Fatal Fury was adapted into an anime by director Masami Obari, which adds a couple of things to canon (though not acknowledged until the anime King of Fighters Destiny). One is that it added a motive to the three's quest to take down Geese, another is that it added a love interest for Terry who was ultimately killed by Geese, thus making Terry's quest that much more personal, finally it adds that Geese is related to Wolfgang Krauser. This story directly picks up 12 hours after Fatal Fury: The Motion Picture, the third and last of the Obari trilogy.
2. Terry Bogard is one of the main protagonists of the Fatal Fury series. As a child, he witnessed his adopted father's murder at the hands of Geese Howard, who was quickly rising through the organization of Mr. Big. After the murder, the brothers split up, vowing to return in ten years to take down Geese. While Andy went under the tutelage of Hanzo Shiranui, Terry stayed in Southtown, training in the Hakkyoseiken style of his father. When the brothers are due to meet, Terry encountered Joe Higashi in a bar brawl at the Pao Pao Cafe. Eventually, the brothers learn from Jeff's mentor Tung Fu Rue that there was a secret technique of Terry's style that wasn't written down, and that one of the brothers would learn it. That man ended up to be Terry, who used it to defeat Geese. Six months later, Terry encounters Kim Kaphwan, a fighter from South Korea, but injures his leg in the fight, which ends up costing him as he was accosted by the Earl of Strohiem Wolfgang Krauser, who learned of Geese's defeat. Before Krauser would kill him, one of the witnesses to the fight yelled at him saying that Terry was not at 100% due to his prior injury. Krauser laughed it off, and told him to have Terry meet him in his castle in Germany. But rather than training, Terry hit the bottle enough to be thrown in jail only to be bailed out by Joe Higashi, who managed to slap enough sense into Terry to train again. His sparring partner? Andy Bogard. During the fight, Terry developed the Power Geyser technique and uses it to defeat Wolfgang Krauser once and for all. Six months later, Terry en route to Japan to see Joe fight for his championship, encounters Sulia Gaudamus, a descendant of the Gaudamus line who once ruled Rhodes Island. Her brother, Laucorn, is attempting to reunite the famed Armor of Mars, the armor that Gaudamus used to defeat Alexander the Great. Terry was sent to Antakya, Turkey while his brother Andy was sent to China under the advice of Jubei Yamada to recover parts of the armor. Separately, the brothers failed and went to Jerusalem to stop Laucorn to reuniting the armor. While the brothers failed to stop the reunification, Sulia discovered a way to defeat Laucorn, and that was through suicide. Ultimately, the armor reacted to Laucorn's defeat and it took Terry to defeat the monster behind the armor.
3. Andy Bogard is one of the protagonists of the Fatal Fury series.
4. Joe Higashi is one of the protagonists of the Fatal Fury series.
5. If you don't know what Naruto is, then you really shouldn't be here.
6. It is currently unknown how many Namikazes there are due to clan law on reproduction, but unofficially, Konoha knows of two.
7. Kakashi knowing about the Namikaze's clan law is an intentional design choice. While I want to say that canon handcuffed me, I find that Rin and Obito's ultimate fate is something that will later be covered. (Hint: It won't happen quite like canon, but close)
8. Tung Fu Rue knowing about the Elemental Nations was also an intentional design choice. The fact that the nations are closed off to most of the world except for those who knew how to get there is also a design choice. Unlike my other fan fiction that puts the Elemental Nations in the real world; I have no intentions to reveal the nations to the real world.
9. One last Kakashi note. Kakashi's secret will be told in a bunch of flashbacks.
10. There are three Bogard brothers (Andy, Terry and Minato) in this story because of the fact that in Fatal Fury, you are supposed to have a team of three to enter the KOF tournament.
11. Though this is Anime based, and thus the woman in question who is already dead to be Lilly McGuire, I could open the door for Angelica (the canon love interest for Terry) to appear in some capacity. I am currently weighing my options.
12. Sorry harem fans, the pairing is already decided for Naruto, but you will like the results.
With that, all I have to say is Excelsior.
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