1 Naruto: Ninja Design
GuardianSuSeGeBy23 does not own Naruto
Ch. 4 Kimmimaro and a Proposition
"Alright, first things first, Keiyu get the firewood, Naruto set up the tents, Hinata get the water ready for cooking," said Aunt Vivia.
"Hai!" the three now 10 year olds said before going off. They had all been excited about this trip and Hinata's family thought she was at a friend's house for two weeks and didn't bother her. It was rather hard to come up with a cover story for Naruto's absence, but they settled with the fact that he was grounded by the Hokage for some prank he did (which in a way was true as the Hokage's clothes were now sporting orange, unfortunately for him Aunt Vivia was adamant about Naruto coming with them on the camping trip.) Before they had left she had all 3 promise not to do any training or studying anything ninja, the only thing they were doing on this trip was relaxation and she was going to teach them how to camp the normal way without ninja techniques, which they didn't know how to use either, the Academy only taught the three basic jutsu, Clone, Replacement, and Transformation, and the rope escape jutsu.
Naruto carefully read the instructions as that is how Keiyu told him to do when he's doing something new, though he didn't read the directions for Transformation and came up with his own technique unknowingly as they hadn't reviewed much of the three after they learned them, except for the Replacement technique of course.
Keiyu made sure to stay close to the river they were camped next to and collected firewood along the way till she came to a spot where no firewood was, but there was a boy lying there and she cautiously but quickly came up to him and bent down to check his pulse.
Immediately she found a bone next to her neck that looked like a knife and the boy looking wary.
'Kaguya' she thought shocked, her aunt said they were wiped out a couple weeks ago after trying to raid a town.
"Who are you and what do you want?" the boy demanded but with a monotone.
"Mumichi Keiyu and I found you here, I was just coming to check your pulse because you were lying there so quietly, can you remove the bone knife please, I'm sorry if I startled you but I'm not going to harm you,"she said and he sighed before putting it down.
"Not like it would matter if you did, there's nothing left for me," he said.
"I heard about the raid, are you the last Kaguya left," she said and he nodded.
"Yes, but I'm not talking about my clan, it's not like they cared anyways, locking me up because of my bloodline," he said and she realized with a start why he seemed so pale if he's been outside for so long.
"Come on, you can come with me to my camp," she said and he looked up at her.
"Why are you trusting me," he said standing up to where he towered over her by a couple of inches.
"Because you're my age and while that's not a good excuse, I can't just leave you out here to starve to death, and I know you have no reason to kill me at all because there's not much to gain from killing someone who doesn't have a bounty on their heads," she said with a raised eyebrow and he stood there before nodding and she smiled brightly before leading him back to camp.
"I'm back, and I brought someone," she said as they entered the camp where Hinata was preparing the meat for the stew they were going to have the meat while Naruto had finished the tents and was reading a book about 'Go', a strategy game that Aunt Vivia thought he would like.
"Oh Keiyu, Naruto please help her with the wood, and what do you mean by someone," she stopped when she saw Kimmimaro and raised an eyebrow at Keiyu who shrugged sheepishly looking innocent.
"So what's your name?" asked Aunt Vivia as they sat down, waiting while she set the meat and vegetables in the stew pot.
"Kaguya, Kimmimaro, 10," he said in a monotone while demonstrating his ability at Keiyu's urging.
"Woah, that's so cool! I didn't know there was a bloodline that could do that," said Naruto with wide eyes while he was turned off at the monotone Kimmimaro used, he was interested that the boy didn't boast about his abilities and sneer at them like they were beneath them.
"Kaguya-san, when was the last time you've had milk?" asked Keiyu looking at the bone closely this time.
"Milk?" the Kaguya looked confused.
"Alright, from now on, I don't want you to use your bloodline until you've drunk enough milk and strengthened your bones without your bloodline," she said sternly and he looked surprised but nodded a little confused as Naruto almost snickered at how stern she was but stopped himself.
The rest of the two weeks was spent traveling along the coast and they even spent some nights at Tanzaku Town where a festival was being held and where the 3 10 year olds showed Kimmimaro how to have fun whilst wearing kimonos that Aunt Vivia had made for them and the one Kimmimaro wore was one she had with her just in case Naruto got his torn since she couldn't have him wearing a girl kimono.
Finally they returned to Konoha in disguise like they had gone out except for Keiyu and her aunt while Kimmimaro's Kaguya characteristics were hidden like the marks where his eyebrows were and his white hair was briefly dyed black while Naruto's was turned brown and his whisker marks were covered.
After a brief scuffle with the secretary who still refused to let them in due to Keiyu, they were let into the office where the Hokage was doing his paperwork again.
"Ah welcome back Vivia-san, I see you've brought back an extra visitor?" the Hokage asked noticing Kimmimaro.
"Hai, we found him along Wave," said Aunt Vivia taking out a piece of paper that she gave to the Hokage. He took it and after reading it his eyebrows shot up and he burned it with a simple katon jutsu.
"I see, call Hatake Kakashi in," he said pressing an intercom and the secretary's fake sweet voice sounded back before cutting off.
"Ugh I hate her voice, woah I need to get going if I'm going to make my appointment, bye," said Vivia before hurrying out the door.
An hour later a man walked in while the now 4 annoyed kids though Kimmimaro didn't show it stared at him making him sweatdrop.
"You needed something Lord Hokage?" the man asked.
"Yes, now that you're here," the Hokage gave him a brief glare to which he eye smiled at since he was wearing a mask that covered his nose and mouth and his headband covered his left eye, so the only thing showing on his face was his right eye and eyebrow, with the skin of course.
"This is Kimmimaro, he'll be your new charge from now on," he said as Hatake seemed at a loss for words.
"Lord Hokag-," he was interrupted as the Hokage raised a hand signaling that they would talk later, "Hai, I understand, Kimmimaro-san, after you," Hatake said and the white haired boy followed him after being urged by Keiyu.
"Well, I'll see you 3 later," said Sarutobi as he turned back to his paperwork.
"Are you coming Nee-chan?" asked Naruto noticing that Keiyu was politely standing there.
"I'll join you guys later," she muttered and they looked confused before they left, heading towards Icharaku.
"Did you need something Keiyu (tried to put chan but my stupid keyboard won't work on the slash sometimes)?" the Hokage asked her.
"Hai, I was wondering if you would allow me and Naruto and Hinata to graduate a year early if we prove we're genin material," she said bowing and hid her nervousness.
"While your request might be considerable, I fear the council might not like the fact that their Uchiha doesn't get the same treatment, may I ask why a year early?" he asked and she nodded.
"I read about the teams and found out that they only allow at least 3 teams to graduate and with the way things are going Naruto will end up with the Uchiha and possibly one of the fangirls of the class. But I thought that if we could somehow go under assumed names and make an excuse that the real us are out of Konoha for awhile, and if we could get some acquaintances in and out of Konoha, we could somehow become a team under our real names along with the others." she replied.
"Alright, if you can prove in one year's time that all 3 of you are genin materiel, I'll allow you to become genin under assumed names. Then we'll see what we can do when the time comes," he said and her face lit up with a smile before she bowed again and ran out.
"Wait, WHAT!" Naruto exclaimed after Keiyu told them in low tones what she was talking to the Hokage about..
"Sh! Your lucky we're in a secret room Naru," she said and he looked sheepish.
"You were able to convince the Hokage to let us graduate a year?" Hinata looked shocked.
"Hai, but we'll have to figure out what kind of team we're doing, so this year will be advanced training for all of us and we'll have to find out how to go to classes at the same time, I found this in one of the scrolls in the study room. It's suitable for Naru's chakra coils but Hinata and I need to somehow maintain it, possibly with some seals," she looked questioningly at Naruto who was in the intermediate level for seals right now as she handed him a scroll. He opened it and read through the instructions and the benefits and non benefits of the jutsu.
"Woah! Shadow clone jutsu, and I can also learn how to do the kunai shadow clone as well, cool believe it!" He said before thinking over Keiyu's suggestion with her and Hinata, "There is a seal that's mentioned to maintain chakra but I would have to look through the intermediate or advanced seals to find it. But it's a good idea, we can send our shadow clones to school while we do real training and when we come home we can deactivate them and gain whatever we experience at the academy," he didn't say learn but they heard the unsaid scoff at that.
"I think we should do a kunoichi magazine for the girls at the Academy and hope that they realize that they have to train seriously. I mean," at their surprised faces she blushed before continuing, "That we could question some of the kunoichi of our village like Yuhi Kuranei and put their words in the magazine, we can even set some sort of kunoichi fashion trend with weapons disguised as girl stuff," she finished.
"Wow! That's a great idea Hinata!" said Naruto and she smiled, pleased at the compliment.
"Yeah, and when we go to other villages on missions, we can start the magazine trend there," said Keiyu thinking on it.
"What about a ninja magazine?" Naruto muttered sulking.
"There is one Naru, but you can start your own magazine, hm, we need to get you some guy friends," at his protesting look she raised a hand, "Naru, there are some nice boys in the class, take Shikamaru and Chouji for example," suggested Keiyu.
"Hai, and Shino," said Hinata.
"And Shino, he needs some friends too, didn't you notice that he's made fun of as well because of his bugs?" asked Keiyu and Naruto brightened up at the word bugs, he was the one who voiced protest against his bug friends and had them put in a room, except for the termites, he put those in a metal room