AN: Hey guys, this is the third chapter that I had promised and also this begins to shows how the rest of the story will pan out.
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or its characters.
Chapter 3
It was mid-morning by the time Naruto woke up. The sun was streaming through his window and across his face. A constant knocking was heard in Naruto's bedroom, he turned his head and saw a shadow that looked oddly like Kakashi...Suddenly a plume of smoke was covering everything in Naruto's apartment and Kakashi was standing in the center of his living room with a solitary hand raised in greeting, "Yo." Kakashi said with an eye-smile.
Naruto rolled over and looked at his frog alarm clock and groaned. It was 7:03 A.M., with a sigh Naruto sat up in his bed and glared at Kakashi, "What do you want sensei?"
"I was wondering if you were in the mood for some training?"
"Sensei I have a lot I need to get done before I leave tomorrow." Naruto replied.
"I know, but these are your Father's jutsu that I wanted to pass on to you..." Kakashi looked down as if he was slightly worried Naruto would turn down the jutsus. Predictable as ever though, Naruto perked right up and agreed to the training. He started running around his apartment getting ready for his now even busier day. "I have to do some shopping for my journey though Sensei."
"That's fine, I'll come with you, after all Naruto, everything that you'll be purchasing is already covered." Kakashi said with another eye-smile.
Naruto paused as he heard what Kakashi said, "What do you mean?"
"Tsunade has opened the village treasury for you, everything that you spend, or rather what I would spend, will be charged to the village instead." Kakashi explained.
Naruto smiled at the idea of Tsunade spending the village's money for his supplies; after all that they had ever done to him this was kinda like their own personal "fuck you" to the village. Naruto finished getting dressed and grabbed his sealing scrolls. He looked towards Kakashi and nodded that he was ready to go. Naruto and Kakashi headed out of his apartment and walked down the short flight of steps to reach the street. As they headed down the street Kakashi noticed the other Jonins with all the party equipment and food as they hurried to get to Ichiraku's. Kakashi steered Naruto to the clothing shop and wrapped his arm over Naruto's shoulders, "Hey Naruto," Kakashi started, "you should really change your outfit. Kumo doesn't really look too kindly to bright orange."
Naruto looked down and mumbled, "If they'll let me buy anything other then this bright orange..."
"What do you mean Naruto?"
"The store owners only sell me what no one else will buy. Still, after everything that I have done for the village, they still treat me like a demon. But it's ok Kakashi; I came to terms with it a long time ago."
Kakashi was furious as he heard Naruto tell how the store owners treated him. He fought Pain and saved the village for them, he fought and killed Madara to win the war and restore peace for his village and all the nations, and he fought everyday to keep the Kyuubi at bay inside his body, and yet they still treated him like a lousy piece of shit! Well at least that was going to change, he would be leaving for Kumo tomorrow morning to start a new life and hopefully someone to finally grow to love him like he deserved.
When they arrived at the clothing store Kakashi directed Naruto over to the Jonin style clothes. He pointed out that seeing as how he was there he could buy whatever he wanted. Naruto browsed for a few minutes by himself and then came back with a pile of clothes in his arms. "Where can I try these on Sensei?"
"There is a fitting room over there in the corner of the building Naruto, and don't worry, I'll stand outside of it to make sure that no one bothers you."
Naruto hurried off to the fitting room to try out his selections, as he ran through the store he saw a flash of silver hanging on the wall. It was a katana, and from the looks of it, a very nice one at that. "Kakashi-sensei, can you grab that katana and bring it to the fitting room; I think I may be interested in learning kenjutsu." Naruto yelled behind his back.
"Sure thing Naruto," Kakashi replied.
Katana in-hand, Kakashi walked over to the fitting room to find the store owner waiting for Naruto. Felling his ire rise Kakashi hastened to the owner to give him a piece of his mind. "You there!" Kakashi yelled, "What the hell are you doing?"
The owner jumped in surprise and turned to find Kakashi with a kunai at the ready. "I won't have him in my store! He is not welcome here, he shall not make any purchases in my store!" the owner exclaimed.
"Well the thing is, he isn't, I am." Kakashi said, "No actually that isn't true either, Lady Tsunade is, so if you have an issue with her buying one of her ninja some mission clothing, I think that I can find the time to take you to her..."
"Ah now see, that won't be necessary." the owner managed to say, "she can buy the lad whatever she wishes, and I'll make her day too, he can get everything for 50% off!"
"Now you're being more reasonable," said Kakashi, "however, I still think that I shall speak to her about the way you treat the ninja of the village."
The owner was outraged as he realized what Kakashi had said. He pondered over charging the kid but that would be over charging the Hokage herself! That was a death sentence if he didn't know any better. Sighing in defeat, he told Kakashi that anything the kid wanted was free, and to leave his store as soon as he was finished. Kakashi smiled and continued on to the fitting room, as he got there Naruto was coming out fully dressed in his new clothing. Kakashi was surprised when he saw Naruto; all he could think about was how he was a spitting image of his father. Dressed in all black Naruto was awe inspiring, he had a tight muscle shirt on which was tucked into black cargo pants, on his feet were black ANBU boots with hammered steel in the toe and sole, like Kakashi, he had fingerless gloves that had a seal in the palm so he could summon shuriken and kunai quickly in battle. And finally he had on a black Jonin vest and a long black trench coat.
Kakashi handed Naruto the black katana and he slid it into place on the back of his vest. Thanks to the trench coat it was completely concealed but still able to be accessed quickly. "What do you think Kakashi-sensei?" asked Naruto.
Kakashi felt tears well up in both his and Obito's eye as he thought of his sensei. Pushing past the lump in his throat Kakashi wiped his visible eye and told Naruto that he looked great, and that he looked just like his father. Naruto smiled and put his arms behind his head. "Well we should get going Naruto; we have a lot of training to do." Kakashi said. After grabbing multiple sets of his new outfit, the duo walked out of the shop and headed to the training fields.
As they neared the fields Kakashi handed Naruto his father's scroll which had the jutsus on it that he was going to be learning. Kakashi explained that since he had seen every jutsu that was on the list and could do a few of them, that it would be easy for him to teach them to him. "We're going to be doing the shadow clone method again Naruto; they will work on the element jutsus while I help you with the Hirashin. I'm no Jirayia, but I'm a good enough fuinist to know how to help you right the seals."
"Ok sensei." Naruto said as he made the seals to make shadow clones. After a rough count Kakashi was awed to see around a thousand clones of Naruto all standing at attention and waiting for his orders. Kakashi took the scroll from Naruto and read out loud the jutsus and a short description of each.
"First we have Futon: Harikén Dengeki, this uses both wind and lightning chakra, so being named Hurricane Shock is a good name," Kakashi said with a laugh, "second we'll be learning Raition: Kurayami Inoyama, thanks to the Kyuubi as we discovered during the war, you can control the lightning affinity, however given his malevolent nature it's pitch black, however the jutsu launches senbon like tendrils of lightning at whatever you aim for. Third we have Raition: Supāku Hammā, this cloaks your body in a lightning field and is like Pein's all mighty push, however, this thrusts the lightning field around you at your target. And lastly we have Futon: Kurikato Boryuku, this is rather like Neji's "rotation" technique, this unlike for rotation, you don't have to spin for it, wind chakra is gathered throughout your entire body and you release it out of every chakra point in your body."
With several hundred heads nodding in his general direction he formed a few clones of his own and had a group of clones go with each. Naruto stood and thought about all the jutsu that he was going to be learning, no longer would he just be a one trick pony, sure the rasengan was great but really there were several other jutsu that would've be so much better in other situations he'd been in. After all the clones were gone Kakashi turned to Naruto and held out a wrapped box.
Ripping the paper off the box, Naruto was wondering what it could possibly be. After prying off the lid he pushed aside the orange tissue paper and saw a kunai with three prongs, one of his father's old kunai.
"Your dad gave me this as a present when I became a Jonin Naruto. He said that if I ever needed him that all I had to do was throw this kunai and he would be drawn to it because of the seal spell that was the secret to his Hirashin." Kakashi explained, "I wanted you to have this because you don't have anything else of your dad's, while I have all the memories of being his student and friend."
With shaking hands Naruto took the kunai out of the box and examined it. Turning the knife over in his hand he gave a yelp of surprise when the point pricked his palm. Naruto smiled at the care Kakashi had taken of one the last remaining items his father had touched, looking at the handle Naruto could clearly see all the seals that were required for his father to use Hirashin.
"Kakashi-sensei would the seals be the same for me as they were for my father?" Naruto asked.
"Unfortunately no, given the fact that while you do have half of your father in your DNA you also have half of your mother. The combination of seals is for a particular set of DNA and only if you have a corresponding set will Hirashin work, your father explained it to me once as this; basically the seal set is that of a sealing scroll and the kunai is the person carrying the scroll. Well given the fact the seals are for sealing it has to be able to seal what it has to and to do that it has to match your genetic coding, or DNA."
"Oh so basically part of dad's will work but it will need other kanji because of mom?"
"Correct Naruto, very nice job." Kakashi said with an eye-smile.
"Ok well let's get cracking sensei!" Naruto yelled as he hopped up and down.
"*sigh* some things never change."
~Meanwhile across town in the Hokage Tower~
"No! No! No!" yelled Tsunade, "there is no way in hell that you are going to give Naruto his own private show Anko, I'm sorry but it just isn't happening!"
"Aww come on Tsunade-sama he has to figure out what a women is like sooner or later and plus look at it this way, maybe my "persuasion" will turn him off of Sakura." Anko laughed, though truth be told she was rather hurt that Tsunade wouldn't let her have a chance with him. Maybe she thought the same about her as the rest of the damn village. In a turmoil of her emotions she turned away from Tsunade and continued hanging decorations for Naruto's party, his going away/birthday party, he was coming of age and she couldn't even have a chance to try and be with the person who actually treated her like a women, like she mattered.
"Anko wait..." Tsunade called after her.
"Yes Hokage-sama?" Anko asked.
"You like him, don't you?"
"Tsunade, after he saved me from Kabuto he has only continued to make sure I was ok over the past couple years. Whenever I would get depressed he would come over and cheer me up, not even do anything really, just listen to my problems and let me cry it out on his shoulder. He is truly the greatest friend I've ever had and it breaks my heart to know that he's leaving me and I'll never be able to tell him how I feel about him."
Tsunade was surprised at Anko's unexpected answer, from what she had told her, she was falling for him. Thinking fast Tsunade bit her thumb and flew through hand seals. After a puff of smoke in her hand was a small slug with a pair of goggles on its head and a messenger bag on its back. Grabbing a piece of paper from her desk she wrote a quick note and dismissed the messenger.
"What was that about Tsunade-sama?" Anko asked.
"That Anko was a message to the Raikage asking him if someone who really cared for Naruto could also be accepted into Kumo." Tsunade answered with a smile.
AN: This concludes this exciting chapter of Kumogakure's Lighting Fox! On a more serious note this chapter explained a lot about Naruto's new style of jutsu and what he has planned for himself.
