Yo, I'm back! Here's the next installment of Shinobi of the Ebon Blade. I introduce two new OC's in the chapter, hence the chapter title. Now just a quick announcement, I'm out of school on June 10th so I'll be on summer vacation soon. I'm going to do a new thing, on June 20th I'm going to have a new chapter for all my stories, so get ready for a CaptainPrice story marathon back, to back, to back, to back. Now without further delay, here's the new chapter! Read and review when done please.
Disclaimer- I do NOT own Naruto, or World of Warcraft (WoW), I do however own the OC's Grimes, Gaz and Mac, and the idea of the story and the story itself!
Bold-Kyuubi/ Inner Sakura/ Death Knight spells/
Bold Italics- Kyuubi saying something to Naruto in his mind " "/ Kyuubi thinking ' '
Italics- Thoughts/Letters/Flashbacks
--Scene change
Naruto stepped into the living room, stretching from a good nights rest. He walked over to the kitchen and opened the fridge. He pulled out some milk and some cereal, setting it on the table before sitting down. A small creak met his ears as a door opened, revealing Grimes yawning. He sat down across from Naruto, holding a cup of coffee. Naruto looked at his older brother to see his slouching state.
"Bad night?" Naruto asked, already knowing the answer.
"When do I never have a bad night?" Grimes replied, sipping his coffee.
"Sorry, standard question,"
There was a tap coming from the window. Naruto looked up and noticed a messenger bird with a letter attached to its leg. He moved apace to the window, opening it to retrieve the letter. Naruto yanked the letter off the bird, sending it away. He opened the letter and read it before walking back to the table.
"What's it say?" Grimes asked.
"The old man wants to talk to us later today," Naruto informed.
"How soon?"
"Probably when we finish breakfast here,"
The two of them finished their meal, cleaning themselves up quickly before leaving their house.
A few minutes later, the pair of them stood in the Hokage's office. The Sandaime turned around and gave a grin. He motioned for them to take a seat, which they did.
"Did you both have a good sleep?" the Hokage asked, puffing out smoke.
"More or less," Grimes muttered.
"I suppose you're wondering why I summoned you here?"
"Yeah, we were wondering if it was something about Mizuki," Naruto replied.
"No, nothing is of concern regarding to Mizuki," the Hokage noted. "Early this morning I received a note from Highlord Mograine,"
"About what?" Grimes asked, sitting up abruptly.
"Well, you are both aware that the team selections are today at the academy, right?" They both nodded, clarifying that they did.
"Well, Darion wrote to notify me that he was sending to death knights to join the shinobi teams,"
"What are their names?" Naruto inquired.
"He says they were good friends of yours, Mac and Gaz,"
"So the two rabble-rousers are coming to join the teams, eh?" Grimes said with a smirk.
"Suffice to say, yes they are," the Hokage replied.
"When are they supposed to be here?"
"Momentarily,"
Sure enough a purple portal materialized in front of them. Two figures stepped out of the portal before it vanished in a whisp of smoke. Both of them looked around 13 years old. One was about Naruto's height, he had auburn hair, brown eyes, pale. He was wearing a blue linen t-shirt, black cargo pants, brown fingerless gloves, a brown belt wrapping around his hips and slinging up over his shoulder and a green sleeveless vest. To top it off, he carried the same sword Grimes did, except it was red.
The second boy was about half a foot taller than Naruto and the other. He had green eyes, pale, and brown hair. He wore black cargo pants, red linen t-shirt, black sleeveless vest, grey plated fingerless gloves, combat boots, and a green skull cap (A/N: Think Genma's bandanna).
"It's been a while, Naruto," spoke the boy with the hat.
"It's only been a week, Gaz," Naruto replied.
"Oh yeah,"
"Baka, do you constantly have you're head up your ass?" asked the other.
"Mac, shut-up," Gaz hissed.
"You three better head down to the academy, teams are going to be announced within the hour," the Hokage voiced.
"Okay, see you later," Naruto spoke, shunshining away with Mac and Gaz.
"Grimes, I think it's time for you to meet your fellow jounin senseis," the Hokage said, puffing out some smoke.
"Okay, where are they?" Grimes answered.
"They'll be here in a few minutes, so sit and wait."
At the academy, the rookies sat waiting for Iruka and Mizuki to enter the class. Naruto, Mac and Gaz appeared outside the door. He glanced at them before getting a confirming nod. Naruto opened the door and entered the room, his companions trailing behind him. As they entered the class, some of the rookies stared at them briefly before turning away. The three of them walked to a desk behind the Uchiha and sat down. They sat in silence until Naruto broke it.
"So what news is there about the recon back in Icecrown?" he asked.
"Not much, all we know is that Tirion and Darion's forces are still stuck at Crusaders Point," Mac whispered back.
"Not much progress has been made because they aren't sure how much land is behind each gate beyond the rally point," Gaz added. "Not to mention there is probably a substantial amount of scourge at each gate,"
The door to the class opened up again and two kunoichi burst inside. Both of them yelling, "First!" The two girls began to argue before turning to the seats to find someone. Eventually they ran right to the Uchiha and sat on either side of him. The three of them chuckled at the Uchiha's posture when the girls sat by him. Neither of them could imagine that brooding could go further than the Uchiha just showed.
"Hey Naruto, who are the three in front of us?" Gaz asked.
"They're both fangirls, the blond one is Ino, the pink haired eyesore is Sakura, and the raven haired guy is the emo, Sasuke," Naruto replied.
The door opened a third time, and Iruka entered the classroom holding some paper. He glanced at the class, noticing that there were two new faces. Iruka then remembered what the Hokage said about two more rookies entering. He shrugged before clearing his throat.
"Good morning all," Iruka greeted. The class gave grunts in reply, causing Iruka to sweat drop at the scene.
"Good lord, these kids need some social skills," Iruka thought.
"Now, as all of you know, you are now shinobi and are going to be serving the village until you either retire or if you're unlucky, die." Iruka said, causing some kids to gulp.
"But in order to become better shinobi, you must become familiar with teamwork and training, that is why there will be teams of shinobi under a jounin sensei to help you with your future," Iruka continued. "Now, I'll begin announcing the teams. Team one consists of…"
Naruto, Gaz and Mac tuned Iruka out and began to doze off. It remained like that until they heard another team being announced.
"Team seven is, Uzumaki Naruto," Naruto raised his head. "Haruno Sakura," Sakura groaned, Naruto was itching for someone to just kill him now. "Uchiha Sasuke," Sakura cheered and Naruto began to twitch in anger muttering, "Fuck me," over and over. "Gaz Zanovich, and Mac Compton,"
"Iruka-sensei, why is billboard brow paired with Sasuke-kun!? And why is team seven filled with two extra people!?" Ino yelled. Others began to voice their opinions but were silenced with Iruka doing the big-headed jutsu.
"That's just the way the Hokage listed it, now shut the fuck up!" Iruka bellowed. The kids instantly quieted and shrunk back into their seats.
"That was awesome," Gaz muttered with a smirk.
"Wow, I actually like this mentor," Mac added.
"Team eight is, Inuzuka Kiba, Hyuuga Hinata, and Aburame Shino," Iruka continued.
"Team nine is in circulation from last year. Team ten is Akamichi Choji, Yamanaka Ino, and Nara Shikamaru," Ino began to mutter curses under her breath while thumping her head against the desk repeatedly.
"As for senseis, team seven's senseis are, Hatake Kakashi and Grimes Wollcroft. Team eight's sensei is Yuuhi Kurenai, and team ten's sensei is Sarutobi Asuma," Iruka finished. "You are to wait here for your senseis to come and retrieve you, good luck," Iruka left the room causing students to converse again.
A couple minutes past before the door opened, revealing a man with a black beard smoking a cigarette.
"Team ten, let's move out," he spoke. Ino, Shikamaru and Choji got up and followed the man. Next came a woman with red eyes, "Team eight, follow me please," she said before leaving.
Slowly but surely, all the other teams left leaving team seven remaining. Naruto, Gaz and Mac were chuckling while looking at some sketches Gaz had drawn earlier.
One sketch was a fish with its rear fins stuck inside styrofoam floating upward. The caption under it read, "Embedded in styrofoam 'shoes,' Carl is sent to, 'sleep with the humans." Another one had three men in it, two of them wearing hats, the taller one holding a bat, were looking at a man with glasses reading, "Still no money, eh? Well, let's see if Rudy and his wiffle bat can help encourage you," and under that panel it read, 'Innefective tools of persuasion,'. The last one reduced them to tears from laughing so hard. It had a jungle village with the tribe sitting outside looking at an explorer with a humungous head, the caption read, "Unwittingly, Palmer had stepped out of the jungle and into head hunter folklore forever," (A/N: Now these cartoons are from the cartoonist Gary Larson, creator of the Far Side, whole bunch of funny cartoons. These are not mine, I just wanted to put them in because they're funny, so I do not own these!)
The door opened and two men stepped inside, one was Grimes, the other had gravity defying grey hair, his hitai-ate slanted over his left eye, wearing a standard jounin uniform. The five turned to the two men just noticing them. They were glaring at them because of waiting for two hours.
"Sorry we're late, I was trying to find this guy," Grimes said indicating to his comrade.
"My first impression is, I hate you five, meet us on the roof," the cyclops spoke, shunshining away with Grimes.
"Come on you losers-," Sasuke began, only to see the three vanish via a shunshin. He clenched his fists, seething at the sight of seeing his teammates do something he couldn't.
"How can those three losers do that!? I'm an Uchiha!" he thought with malice.
Sasuke and Sakura worked their way to the roof. Sasuke was becoming irate from Sakura's constant attempts to ask him out. Once they reached the roof, he silently thanked kami he wasn't alone with Sakura. Sasuke sat down between Mac and gaz, folding his hands under his chin. Sakura sat by Gaz, stealing glances at Sasuke every now and then.
"Well now that we're all here, why don't we introduce ourselves?" the cyclops said.
"Um, why don't you go first sensei and show us what you mean?" Sakura replied, unsure of how to do it.
"Okay, my name is Hatake Kakashi, I don't have any likes and dislikes, my hobbies are none of your concern, and my dreams I don't feel like telling you," Kakashi finished.
"All we learned was his name," thought the five students.
"My name is Grimes Wollcroft, my likes are training and my little brother, my dislikes are the nightmares I have every night, my hobbies are training my little brother, and my dream is to hopefully retire with a wife and two kids," Grimes said looking at the five.
"You next, pinky," Kakashi said, pointing to Sakura. Sakura growled at being called, 'pinky' but shrugged it off.
"My name is, Haruno Sakura. My likes are," she looks at Sasuke and giggles, "my dislikes are people who are creepy, annoying, and Ino-pig!" she said looking at Gaz, Mac and Naruto, "My hobbies are," she giggles, looking at Sasuke again, "And my dream is," she looked at Sasuke for what seemed to be the hundreth time that day and squealed loudly.
"A fangirl, kami must hate me," Kakashi thought.
"Alright you're next, blondie," Kakashi said looking at Naruto.
"My name is, Uzumaki Naruto. My likes are ramen, my friends, training, music and a certain girl. My dislikes are arrogant pricks, fangirls, perverts and people who hurt my precious people. My hobbies are training, my older brother, my friends here, and playing my guitar. My dream is to surpass the Fourth Hokage in skill and become Hokage," Naruto stated.
"Seems like he's the only normal one so far," Kakashi thought.
"Alright, you dark and broody," Kakashi said, looking at Sasuke.
"My name is, Uchiha Sasuke. I have no likes and dislikes, I have no hobbies, and my dream. No, ambition, is to kill a certain man and revive my clan,"Sasuke replied. Sakura looked at him as though he just said the coolest thing in the universe.
"An avenger, I'll have to knock that out of him," Kakashi thought.
"Okay, you're turn," Grimes said, looking at Gaz.
"My name is, Gaz Zanovich. My likes are training, my friends, and music. My dislikes are fangirls and arrogant people. My hobbies are training, drawing, and playing the bass guitar. My dream is to be a great soldier like my dad," Gaz finished.
"Okay Mac, your turn," Gaz said turning to Mac.
"My name is, Mac Compton. My likes are training, music, and my friends. My dislikes are arrogant people and fangirls. My hobbies are training, sparring, and playing drums. My dream is to have a wife and raise a family," Mac said grinning widely.
"Well, me and Kakashi here will do our best to help you achieve your goals," Grimes said standing up.
"Okay, meet at training ground seven tomorrow morning at five for your test," Kakashi voiced.
"But sensei, we did the graduation test already," Sakura said, looking a little confused.
"True, but that wasn't the real test, this test is to see if you are capable of being shinobi." Kakashi said, with his trademark eyesmile. "It has a 66% failure rate, if you fail you go back to the academy. Now get some sleep, and don't eat breakfast tomorrow if you plan on throwing up." Kakashi turned and shunshined away.
"Well, why don't we go home?" Grimes asked looking at the three death knights.
"Yeah, that's not a bad idea, I'm hungry and tired," Gaz commented.
"Allright we'll walk home, it's a nice day today so let's enjoy it," Mac added.
The four death knights hopped off the roof and began walking down the road. Sasuke and Sakura were alone. Sasuke mentally began counting down the seconds till Sakura would ask the question.
"Sasuke-kun, do you wanna go on a date with me?" Sakura asked with a smile.
"No, you're annoying," Sasuke replied. He hopped off the roof and began to make his way back home. Sakura hung her head dejectedly, but smiled and shook it off.
"I'm sure he's just tired, that's all," Sakura told herself. "Shannaro! He'll definitely will take our offer tomorrow, and then he'll be all ours!" Inner Sakura cheered. Sakura got up and began to make her way home.
Okay, that's the chapter! Remember to read and review when done, and don't forget the CaptainPrice story Marathon on June 20th! See you, I gotta get to work!- CaptainPrice.
OC's
Name: Gaz Zanovich, also referred to as "Zano"
Age: 13
Shinobi Level: High chuunin
Death Knight Rank: PFC (Private First Class)
DOB: 1/17
Death Knight Spec: Frost/Unholy
History: Unknown
Weapons: Greatsword of the Ebon Blade (Looks like Grimes' just black), Duel Wields: Unknown
Name: Mac Compton
Age: 13
Shinobi Level: High Chuunin
Death Knight Rank: Pvt
DOB: 8/14
Death Knight Spec: Frost/Blood
History: Unknown
Weapons: Greatsword of the Ebon Blade (Same as Grimes' just red), Duel Wields: Unknown
