Chapter 4

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No matter what Minato or Byakko told Naruto, he was going to ask Kakashi to help train him. He'd always helped Naruto before right? He wasn't expecting Kakashi to outright refuse him though.

"Naruto, I can't help you, I'm busy." Kakashi stated, his eyes never leaving the book in his hands, which pissed Naruto off to no end.

"Don't give me that crap!! You're training Sasuke right?!" Naruto yelled out, pointing his finger at Kakashi for emphasis.

"Don't be that way." Kakahi commented, putting his book back into his shinobi pouch, hoping to placate Naruto a little. "I found someone to train you as well."

Naruto had a bad feeling about this, but he nonetheless asked,.

"Who?"

"It is I!!" An familiar obnoxious voice yelled out from behind Naruto. Naruto winced, he recognized that voice. He turned around, slowly, hoping against hope that he would not see that man behind him. When he turned around, he saw an man standing there. The man was about a few inches taller than Kakashi and wore an long sleeved black shirt with black pants. On top of his head he wore a bandana completely hiding his hair from view. His eyes were covered by sunglasses. Naruto shuddered. Of all people, why bring this one?!

"What the hell are you two on?! This bastard's weaker than I am!!" Naruto yelled out. Seeing Kakashi apathetic stare he carried on bravely. "It's true!! One time he even got beat by my-mphff!!" Naruto cried out as Ebisu put him in a headlock, his arm covering his mouth.

"It's nothing." Ebisu stated, once he was sure Naruto couldn't say anything. He then leaned closer to Naruto and whispered so Kakashi couldn't hear. "Don't mention that incident, and I'll buy you whatever you want later!!"

"Swear on it!!" Naruto whispered back fiercely.

"You two know each other?" Kakashi asked curiously. He wasn't aware that Naruto had that many adult friends.

"We've met." They both said flatly in unison, making Kakashi sweatdrop. 'Okay, maybe not friends...'

"What are you going to train me in." Naruto asked, turning his attention to Ebisu, who had released him.

Ebisu launched into a rant about chakra control and how Sakura and Sasuke were so much better than him at it. Ignoring Naruto's scowl he went on to explain how Naruto squandered his chakra whenever he did a jutsu. "Now what we will be training in..."

"Forget it." Naruto interupted flatly. He noticed Kakashi leaving earlier, and didn't comment on it. "I have my own plans on what to train in. And I don't want or NEED your help" Naruto added, enjoying the look on Ebisu's face.

"Hmph! Fine then!! How about we strike a deal?" Ebisu asked, losing his patience with Naruto.

"I'm listening."

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Sasuke sat on top his bed, absentmindedly twirling a kunai. He was thinkning over what Kakashi had told him.

Flashback

"What were the matches?" Sasuke asked as soon as he noticed Kakashi enter the room.

"Nice to see you too." Kakashi joked, eye curling into its U shape. Seeing Sasuke's stare turn into a glare, Kakashi sighed and proceeded to tell Sasuke the matches and explain what happened in the preliminaries.

"If we're going to prepare you for your match with Gaara, we'd better get started right away. Meet me at this location tommorow morning." Kakashi told him, handing him an piece of paper.

"Don't be late." He added over his shoulder as he walked out. He chuckled to himself. He could just FEEL Sasuke glaring at him with that last statement.

Flashback end

'Might as well get going' Sasuke thought, slowly standing up. He flexed his arms, testing them to see if he really did need to stay here. Then he tested the rest of his body for the same thing. Seeing no problems he couldn't deal with. Sasuke proceeded to exit via the window. 'Gaara huh? Can't wait!!' Sasuke thought, a familiar smirk appearing on his face.

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'This isn't that hard' Naruto thought to himself as he leapt from roof to roof. He and Ebisu had come up with a simple agreement. If Naruto could avoid capture till sunset, Ebisu would leave. If he got caught, then he'd listen to whatever Ebisu said, without complaining. 'Sunset's in half an hour' Naruto thought to himself, staring at the sky.

"I've avoided him this long. How hard can it be?"

"Yes. How hard?" A voice answered from behind him.

As soon as Naruto heard Ebisu from behind him he shunpoed as far away as he could. 'You'd think he'd learn by now.' Naruto thought happily.

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Ebisu couldn't help but to curse himself. He shouldn't known that Naruto would do that. He did it whenever he thought Ebisu was getting close. He didn't no what that move was, but it was obvious that Naruto couldn't use it well. He could move far in a certain direction, but it looked like he couldn't control HOW far he went. And the brat knew it too. And he was using that fact to his advantage. He was getting REALLY tired of tracking Naruto through the village. Maybe playing pranks helped him increase his stealth abilities. 'Either way this is getting old' Ebisu grumbled in his mind.

He spotted Naruto, (Again.) standing on top of the roof of the ninja academy. He warily approached Naruto, knowing that Naruto had heard him coming. "Kage-bunshin no jutsu." He muttered, watching as 7 clones of himself poofed into existence. He groaned internally when he saw Naruto counter by summoning his own army of clones. Each one proceeded to then Shunpo into random parts of the village.

Ebisu stared at the site, before checking the sky. "There's no way that I can find him again in time, let alone capture him." Ebisu muttered to himself. "You win, Naruto-san." He couldn't even tell which one was the real one to inform him. He decided that he didn't care, and left for his own home.

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"Heh, told ya I didn't need your help." Naruto said to himself vindictedly.

'Yeah yeah, now where are we?'

Naruto looked around, noticing the area around them. He studied each building in particular. Finally, Naruto reached his conclusion.

'I have no idea.'

'No idea!! Then why the hell did you run in this direction?! You could've ran towards your home, or somewhere you DID know?! What were you thinking?!'

'Where's your sense of adventure?' Naruto thought, tuning the rest of Minato's rant out. He absentmindedly wondered where Kushina was and why she was so quiet, but then decided not to worry about it.

Suddenly, Naruto felt an darkness come over him. It was a dark and deadly feeling, forcing him to stumble forward as he walked. Naruto quickly righted himself and stood up.

'W-what was that?' Naruto asked shakily.

'A hollow' Minato told him flatly. 'And it's presence is fading quickly. Follow it!!' He ordered, feeling the hollow's presence begin to fade away.

'Why would I WANT to?!' Naruto questioned, but nonetheless followed. Naruto weaved in and out of the waning crowds, before deciding to take to the roof tops to improve his speed and time.

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Naruto found himself standing in front of what looked like an abadoned ware-house. The hollow presence had risen and disappeared, but Naruto was almost positive that he felt the presence coming from here. Naruto stood at the door, debating with himself, before deciding he didn't care. He was going to find out who was in the damn ware-house even if he had to burst his way in.

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"URGAAAAAA!!" The sound made Naruto unconsciously flinch as soon as he heard it. He noted that the hollow presence returned AND increased in its power. The first thing he noticed that it was ALOT bigger on the inside than it was on the outside. It looked like someone took and mountain, and all its rocky terrain, and shoved it inside this ware-house. It was layered, and the space increased the further down you went.

He looked down in the hole to get a glimpse of his first hollow. The first thing he noticed was the mask he was looking at. It was had an long horn sticking out just above where a human's forehead would be. Underneath the horn where an black diamond pattern going from one side of the mask to the other. Other than that, it looked like an human skull, with an chin pointing outwards. Next he noted the size of the hollow. It looked smaller than him, but he'd already learned not to judge by size. It's back were covered in black and white ridges as it hunched forward. It's tail was forked, and larger than the hollow itself. All over it sides were the same diamonds that were on it's forehead, only randomly thrown about on it's body.

It looked like a cross between a rhino and a turtle. Naruto decided. He then quickly changed his mind as it suddenly stood up and sprouted claws, which it pointed randomly and fired...something.

'Mind explaining this?' Naruto asked confusedly.

'Your guess is as good as mine'

"Who are you?" What shocked Naruto the most was that the voice came from BEHIND him.

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Shinji wouldn't admit it, but he was worried. At this rate Hiyori would lose to her hollow and would have to be killed. The vizards were an newly formed group, and lacking in members. They couldn't afford to lose what little members they had. He watched detachedly as Hiyori became more and more like a hollow. He was shaken from his increasingly dark thoughts by Hachi interupting.

"Someone's bypassed the barrier I put up." He stated, shocking everyone present. It seemed like no one in this village could even sense hollows, let alone their unique signatures! Who could've wandered in their domain.

Shinji extended his senses, trying to pick up something and was pleasantly surprised. He felt what seemed like an newly formed vizard stumbling into their wake. It felt like a vizard anyway. Shinji shrugged, he could just go and see who it was and solve the problem.

He stood up, annoyed already and addressed the 6 ex-shinigame in front of him. "If Hiyori hasn't conquered her hollow in 10 minutes...you know what to do." He waited till he recieved reluctant nods before shunpoing up behind the person who wandered into their warehouse. He was shocked to see that it was a kid, maybe about 11 or 12 standing there. Now even closer, he could feel what felt so strange about him.

'His hollow's reiastsu, is stronger than his shinigami's. What does this mean?' He thought to himself as he studied the boy. He had bright blonde hair, brighter than Shinji's own bright hair that spiked upwards. He wore an orange jumpsuit. 'That'll have to go' Shinji thought, already deciding to train the kid. They couldn't afford to have an vizard running rampart killing people. It'd give Soul Society the excuse they need to eliminate them, as opposed to their current out of sight, out of mind approach.

"Who are you?" He asked.

The boy turned around so fast, Shinji winced.

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Naruto whirled around to see an blonde standing behind him. The guy looked to be an teenager, with dark blonde hair that had fashioned into a page-boy cut. His eyes were brown, and narrowed in what looked like suspicion to Naruto. He wore an open gray jacket, with and black t-shirt underneath it. His pants were brown, and on his feet were brown boots.

"I felt something funny here." Naruto said cautiously. This guy gave off an strange feeling.

He sighed. "You felt the hollow huh?" At Naruto's nod he muttered to himself. "That was a crappy barrier. From now on, only Hachi's going to make them."

He hopped down the layers, motioning for Naruto to follow. Naruto did so, and landed on his feet in the bottom layer. He immediatly spied the hollow as it was attacking an green haired girl, who was deflecting her attacks and making it look easy. The girl locked eyes with Shinji, who nodded. She immediatly turned her attention to the hollow, who had suddenly stopped. It began to convulse, looking like something was happening to it. Naruto was shocked when it shedded, and revealed a girl inside it. She wore an red sweatsuit, with flip flops. Her hair was an sandy blonde, and done up in pigtails. He couldn't see her face, as it was covered up by the hollow mask he saw earlier.

Naruto heard an sigh of relief come from Shinji, as the green haired girl helped the blonde haired girl over toward them. Naruto took this time to study the other people around him. The first one he noticed was an gray haired man wearing a black sleeveless shirt. He wore dark brown cargo pants along with brown combat boots. He was glaring at Naruto suspiciously, but Naruto was used to this and shrugged it off. Next he saw an tall man with an spiky afro wearing an blue jogging suit. His eyes were covered by sunglasses, and he was smiling at Naruto. Next he saw, a girly looking man with wavy blonde hair, and a frilly looking black shirt. He appeared to be sighing to himself. Next he saw the biggest man he'd ever seen in his life. He had tan skin, with bright pink hair done in a buzz cut. He wore an green tuxedo, with a yellow tie. Next he saw an pretty girl with long braided black hair. She wore glasses along with an fuku. (I'm getting lazy.) She was walking over, with an familiar book in hand, that made Naruto twitch.Finally, he turned his attention to the green haired girl. On top of her head were goggles, like the ones he used to wear. She wore an white one piecesuit with an orange scarf. Her boots were also orange. He forced himself to listen as the blonde startedt to introduce them.

"The green haired girl is Mashiro Kuna. The girl next to her is Sarugaki Hiyori. The guy with wavy hair is Rojuru Otoribashi. The big dude is Hachigen Ushoda. Call him Hachi. The guy with the afro is Love Aikawa. The gray haired man is Kensei Muguruma. The girl is Lisa Yadomaru. And I'm Shinji Hirako." Here he turned to address the people who had gathered around him and Naruto. "This is..."

"Naruto Uzumaki." He supplied.

"What are you doing here?" Kensei said irritably.

"Nice to meet you " Hachi replied, nodding his head.

Lisa didn't say anything, her eyes never leaving the book.

"Fishcake huh? Nice to meetcha." The Hiyori replied.

Kuna and Love didn't say anything, just smiled at Naruto. Rojuro nodded and gave Naruto and thumbs up.

"I'm here for..." Naruto trailed off. Why HAD he come here? He just sensed a hollow. The girl his mind ammended, and came running.

"He's here for training." Shinji replied, placing his hand on top of Naruto's head. "He's a potential vizard" He admitted, answering their unasked question.

"Vizard?" Naruto asked confused. "Is that like a shinigami?"

"Allow me to explain." Hachi said, coming forward. "A shinigami is a spirit that comes to earth in order to vanquish evil spirits, otherwise known as hollows. They also send regular spirits to the Soul Society, which is basically heaven. Following me so far?"

"Normal spirits?" Naruto asked.

"Regular dead guys" Kensei supplied.

"So what's a vizard?" Naruto asked, wishing he'd get to the point.

"I was getting to that. A vizard is an shinigami that has been...gifted with hollow abilities. As opposed to an arrancar, which is an hollow with shinigami abilities. Understand?"

"Yeah...but wait! If you guys are shinigami...vizards." He corrected, noticing the looks he were receiving. "Why aren't you in Soul Society?"

"We were exiled." Shinji said simply.

"They see us as hollows, and would like nothing more than for us to be killed." Hachi added gravely.

"So I'm...a vizard?" Naruto asked, pointing at himself.

"We don't know what YOU are." Shinji said, steering the conversation away from their exile. "We'll have to test this, seeing as how you're not a shinigami."

"What if I don't want to be "tested"?" Naruto asked catiously.

Kensei stepped forward, beckoning the others to move back. They backed off, but not before warning Kensei to take it easy.

"Naruto, you've got it all wrong." Kensei stated, pulling out his zanpakuto. It seemed to look like a normal katanna, only with an H shaped hilt.

"You might have some real power, and we're going to see if we should add you to our team or not. The choice..."

"ISN'T YOURS TO MAKE!!" He cried out, charging forward. He managed to slice through Naruto, before "Naruto turned into a block of wood. "A ninja, huh? This is going to get annoying"

He thought about that for a second, before locating Naruto and showering him with attacks. Naruto did his best to block with his own zanpakuto, and what he couldn't block was avoided.

'I'm pumping chakra in every part of my body...and it still isn't enough!!' he raged in his mind, as he narrowly avoided a blow that would've taken his head off.

"That could've killed me!!" Naruto yelled at Kensei, who just stood there, Kensei merely looked at Naruto throught half lidded eyes. "That's the point. Either something interesting happens...or you die. I'm hoping for the latter." He added as an afterthought.

"Kage-bunshin no jutsu!!" He cried out, summoning four clones. Kensei paused momentarily, which Naruto took advantage of, as the four clones slid forward to land an savage kick onto his stomach each. The force from the blows forced him upwards where the real Naruto was waiting, sword drawn. He swung his sword down, just as Kensei twisted and lashed out with his own sword, leaving them deadlocked in the air. Kensei growled, and pushed Naruto off, forcing him even higher up in the air. "I'm getting sick of this." he muttered as he began his descent onto the waiting clones.

"Blow it away! Tachikaze!!" He yelled, as his reiatsu spiked wildly, destroying the four clones surrounding him. Naruto watched, through his own descent, as his zanpakuto shrank down to the size of an overly large kunai. Kensei seemed to be doing nothing as he stood there, clutching his knife. He waited till Naruto was back on the ground, before seemingly firing a blast out of his knife. Naruto had no way to avoid it, due to its speed and was blown backwards from the force of the blow.

"I'm aiming to kill now Naruto. If you're going to do something...now would be the time." He warned, slowly stalking forward. Naruto eyed him from his crumpled position, wishing he could hurt this man that was pissing him off so much.

'Where'd that thought come from?' Naruto thought idly. He knew he was getting angry, and could feel SOMETHING happening to him, but he didn't know what. Naruto was oblivious to the slightly curved white horn that was growing out of his forehead. Kensei wasn't, he noticed the horn as soon as Naruto attempted to jam his new horn into one of his eyes. He immediately put some distance between them to study his opponent once again. He watched as a mask slightly began to form, covering the left side of his face. His reiatsu skyrocketed, and shifted to a darker nature. Naruto's mask was covering the entire left side of his face now, and he could see the details of his mask now. There was two jagged lines, starting from his forehead and cheek respectively, that intersected and formed an X over his left eye, which had changed to an pale yellow color. Strangely, it looked like the mask was forming sharper ears to cover his own ears. He waited till Naruto's mask had formed completely, before waiting for him to attack.

"This is new" Naruto stated, shocking everyone present. They knew that the hollow was in control now, but he seemed so...calm. Completely different from a normal hollow. "Roar Byakko!!" He cried out, summoning Naruto's sectioned zanpakuto. "Now then," Minato stated, his eyes showing an malicious glint. "Let's begin!!" He cried out, holding his blade forward.

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Sasuke sighed. Why was he doing this? he kept asking himself. Ever since he left the hospital, he felt...strange. He couldn't put his finger on it, but something inside him had changed. He had successfully managed to avoid his rabid fangirls, and was brooding in the comfort of his own home. He was cut out of his thoughts by an strange dark pressure being put on him. He sensed that it felt like killing intent, only lacking the killing. Sasuke debated between going to find out where it came from, but decided that he didn't care. Now that Sasuke's senses were extended, he could feel something similar coming from inside his own house! It was weaker, and nowhere near as dark as whatever he sensed before, but it was there. Sasuke tried to track this...thing down, but was disappointed when he found himself facing a wall.

'What do I do now?' He asked himself, before smacking his head. Genjutsu! Of Course! He flashed his sharingan, and confidently strode into the room. He was shocked by what he found. In the room was...whiteness. This room looked much larger on the inside than the outside. And it was so white! He spied a lone shelf sitting aboard the wall and approached it cautiously. He WAS a ninja after all. He noticed an assortment of different items, each giving off and strange feeling. He noticed an scroll added along with the items, and opened it up to read.

As with the Uchiha, and the Hyuuga, we of the Kuinshi have a bloodline limit of our very own. Unlike most bloodline limits in Konoha, ours is not Senses based. Our bloodline is known as Spiritual Awareness, or the ability to use spirit particles in the air. We are able to use the energys in a variety of ways, usually as an bow, or an blade, to battle what is known as Hollows, or evil spirits. Due to the way we deal with the hollows, the shinigami in turn decided to eliminate us. As a result, the Kuinshi clan is scattered around the world, not knowing of it's spiritual origins.

Mikoto Kuinshi Uchiha

Sasuke stopped reading there, and skimmed the rest. If what he read was true, he might have been sensing a hollow. It'd make sense that he was becoming spiritually aware. If he could learn how to wield these weapons along with his abilities, he'd be able to easily destroy Itachi. His curse mark twinged, and Sasuke clutched it, willing it to quiet down. He briefly wondered why his mother never told him about these abilities, but then reasoned that it was unlikely that he'd even develop the awareness needed.

'Forget training with Kakashi. This is so much more intresting.' Sasuke thought to himself a smirk. His mother had left that explanation of his blood, along with an detailed description of each item on the shelf. She obviously wanted him to use these abilities to destroy hollows, (whatever those were) and his brother and he'd gladly oblige.

"Get ready Itachi. I WILL destroy you. Wait and see." Sasuke muttered, before leaving the room, promising to come back and study it in detail tomorrow.

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I am not sastified with this chapter at all. I tried rewriting it a couple of times...but this was the best I could do. I wasn't really thinking to put the vizards in the story at all, or making Sasuke into a quincy...but plans change. Oh yeah, and the results look like it'll be Naruto developing his hollow abilities first. Since i wasn't planning on adding the vizards in this story, the pairing might change. It might still be NarutoXSasame, or it could end up being NarutoXHiyori. I'm not really sure yet.

You know the usual. Review, tell me what ya think. And point out any mistakes you see and i'll do my best to correct them.