This begins after the 2nd part of the chunnin exams
Summary: This begins after the 2nd part of the chunnin exams. Naruto reacts differently when denied training from Kakashi.
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto.
The Will of Fire;
Strength through Protecting;
Strength through avenging;
Chapter 4
Naruto walks into the Shinobi Library. From the entrance he sees fifteen rows of bookshelves. In order to reach these shelves he must first past by the librarian's counter. As he tries to avoid contact with any individuals he is suddenly called over to the counter. Choosing to avoid an encounter he overlooks the hostility displayed in the two librarians' eyes.
"What in the hell are you doing here, demon?"
The other sneers, "This place is off-limits to you, brat!"
Oh, how he wants to snap at them, but refuses to sink down to their level. He breathes deeply to calm his anger and readies to walk away when a voice behind him asks, "What is going on here?"
The two librarians turn to the speaker.
"This brat has the nerve to come in here."
The boy turns to find that the person behind him is a small overweight old man with strong lenses and a crooked nose. In a kind voice, "Oh, what is it you want, young man?"
"I need more techniques. I need more things on chakra control too."
The two librarians smirk in anticipation.
"Did you here that? He wants techniques."
The other sneers, "Who do you think you are demon? You deserve nothing but death, freak."
The boy clenches his teeth and fists in anger.
The old man replies, "Don't listen to them. They are clueless idiots that can't tell the difference between a hero and a murder." The librarians stare in astonishment. After some thought, the man smiles, "Wait right here, I have just the thing for you." He walks away and disappears from sight.
He returns fifteen minutes later with a scroll in hand. He extends it to the boy. "There should be some exercises and techniques inside."
The boy accepts it and asks, "When do I return it?"
The librarians continue to be frozen in confusion.
"It's yours. Keep it!" At the questioning gaze he explains, "It's an old scroll. We have plenty of replacements in better condition. We were going to throw it out anyway. So just keep it."
He watches the boy smile in thanks and leaves the building. The man's face transforms into a sneer.
One of the librarians asks, "I thought you hated the demon?"
The other frowns, "Yeah, and why did you give him that old valuable scroll?"
The old man chuckles deeply, "Do any of you know what that scroll is?"
Looking at their clueless faces he mumbles, "Figures!" He then explains, "That scroll has no title, because it contains nothing." Before they comment, he continues, "In the last 500 years there have been two results for when a person opens that scroll." He enlightens their curiosity with a sly smile. "The reader either most commonly finds a blank scroll or in some rare cases they end up dead." He cackles in glee. "Either way, the boy will not benefit from this." The three of them break off into mad laughter as the rest of the ninjas who happen to be visiting this library stares at them thinking what hypocrites they are for being loud in the library.
As Kakashi and several anbu search the village for Naruto, Jiraiya is in discussion with the hokage.
"No! I won't do it!" the toad hermit declares.
The hokage sighs, "Jiraiya, you have to do this!"
In irritation the sannin states, "Minato is my last apprentice. I promised myself long ago that there would be no others. I placed all my hopes on the kid, and he fulfilled them all but one. I will not go through that pain of loss again!"
"Jiraiya, be reasonable … "
"No, old man! You don't know what it's like. He had so much potential. But it's all lost because of some demon!"
The hokage frowns, "I never thought you would blame the boy. It's not his fault."
He slams hard on the armrests of his chair in irritation. "I know that, damn it! How can I blame him if I know he's his child." Then his face shows wariness, "But the boy, from what I've seen, he looks so much like him." He shakes himself. "No, I just can't do it!"
The hokage frowns in disappointment, "This is something I would have expected from Tsunade. But you? I never would have thought you would be so cowardly."
Jiraiya freezes, "What?"
"You're both cowards." He explains, "Tsunade is a coward because she refuses to face the past and has ended up hurting our village by denying us the talents of such a great medic nin." He holds his hand up to prevent Jiraiya from interrupting. "As long as you continue to refuse to become part of the boy's life, he will continue to suffer as he does."
Jiraiya arches a brow, "How does he suffer? Does this have something to do with what you said to Kakashi earlier?"
The old man gives his one time student a tired worn out smile, "If you don't already know, then I can only assume that you need to work on your information network, drastically, because it is really not too hard to see it if you bother to look."
Jiraiya looses himself in his thoughts.
The hokage resumes his paperwork thinking, 'Sometimes, I just love playing around with another's guilt and doubt.'
The sun is high, the sky is clear, and the air is humid. A hand rises up from the end of a cliff and is followed by another. They tense in stress to raise the rest of the body onto the cliff.
The Uchiha gasps in relief of finally reaching the top. His peace is short-lived as a voice comments, "You sure are slow and weak, aren't you?"
Sasuke huffs in irritation at his sensei.
Kakashi eye smiles as he gets his student's attention. He points to the side at a pile of weights.
Sasuke lifts a brow.
"Put them on your arms and legs. Before I can teach you any techniques to fight your opponent, you will have to increase your speed." He lifts a pair of weights and hands it over to the boy. "These will help increase it quickly." He summons several nin dogs as Sasuke finishes placing the last of the weights on.
Sasuke becomes unnerved at the wicked gleam coming from his sensei's exposed eye.
"What's next?" he asks cautiously.
The adult smirks, "Just a game of Tag." He whistles to his summons to grab their attention. "Seek him, boys!"
The boy watches as they show off their sharp pointy teeth. He gulps and takes off with a pack of dogs on his heels.
Kakashi smiles as they disappear into cloud dust. He conjures a shadow clone and disappears into smoke revealing to be a shadow clone all along.
Hidden somewhere in the seclusion of the forest outside of the village walls stands Naruto staring at a scroll that will just not open, no matter what he does. It is just so irritating. He flops on the ground and stares at the thing before he notices a seal. It is then he remembers a lesson in class.
Flashback;
An instructor from his early years at the academy is going over a lesson when a random student suddenly asks, "Sensei, what are seals?"
The instructor turns in puzzlement, "How do you know about seals?"
"I heard a ninja talking about making his sword stronger with a seal."
He nods, "Yes, a seal can strengthen a weapon. It is a design placed on an item and when activated will perform an act similar to jutsus that require chakra. But nowadays, they are more commonly used for exploding tags and storage seals."
"Sensei, what is a storage seal?"
He pulls out a scroll from his pocket and displays the seal. "This design is a storage seal." He opens it and places it on the floor and places a chair over it. He performs a few seals and the chair disappears soon followed by the closing of the scroll. "As you can see, the chair is now in this scroll." He passes it around the class. "And it is not even heavy."
"But sensei, if you lose it won't anybody be able to steal it on their own."
He smirks, "That's what blood seals are for. Only you and those of your blood can open it by placing some blood over the seal and channeling chakra into it."
End Flashback;
He shrugs, spills his blood on the seal, and channels his chakra. He unconsciously channels a little of the Kyuubi's chakra with his own into the seal.
A bright flash of light and he finds himself in the middle of another forest. What makes this unsettling is the lack of any noise from the wilderness. He suddenly hears a growl and turns to the side to find a sinister hungry red fox. It bares its fangs and lunges at him with claws extended.
okay, what do you think? oh, my knowledge of seals, hand seals, chakra, chakra control, and the pathways are perhaps more to the case of being nonexistant. so i may just make many things up in the coming chapters. oh, and incase you haven't figured it out, the fun i have been talking about since chapter 1 is just beginning. For those that have no idea what this story is about or what's going on, the true idea of this story should be more or less revealed in the next chapter.