Yay, we had an actual review. I guess I'll go ahead and get to answering.
MudaMudaMudaMuda: To answer your question or statement, rather, My bio says that I pretty much started on a whim. I haven't read a Naruto fanfic in a while, so my knowledge of how things are normally portrayed is a bit off. The reason why Sasuke isn't being doted on is that I have yet to get to it. The chapters will be extended as you wish. I do have a plan, and I don't plan on discontinuing this story. I may rewrite it as I'm playing with ideas, but the reason of the mind wipe seems pretty clear. I'm trying to prevent making two OG Sasuke. Not to mention, Gon is the Kyuubi's container. It applies to the story that I'm writing and is not insignificant. Thanks for the constructed criticism. Also, I think your name is a JoJo reference which I greatly enjoy.
That about does it for the Author Notes.
I don't own Naruto
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Gon wakes up at around 6 or so. He eats his basic breakfast and goes out the door. He starts to head to the training ground that he used with Itachi. He's pondering on a few things as he's walking. It's been a few months since he started school. It's not gotten any more exciting. Gon doesn't hate Iruka as a person, but his teaching style is awful. It's so run-of-the-mill that he's bored. He wants to get to the ninjutsu and hard combat lessons, not this stuff. The sparing has gotten a bit exciting though. Gon didn't know about this, but Sasuke was in his class. He seems pretty popular too. The girls want to be with him, but he seems more interested in training. Gon can completely understand this as training had become an essential part of his life. He couldn't live without it, and he can't live without his only family member ever. Which makes Gon sick to his stomach. Sarutobi-Jii told him that right after Mikoto and the others left. Some unknown ninja killed all of the Uchihas. HIS Family. He curses that person and will see them dead. He'll do this of his own volition with hard work and nothing else. To cheat for strength, he would sooner die. That would greatly disgrace their memories. The thoughts of his family thoroughly pissed him off. Luckily, he just stepped onto the training field. He came up with a new training regiment. He goes on a five-lap run around the village, then he does an hour of ninjutsu training. He goes through and does katas on trees for an hour; and, to end it, he does some tree climbing for chakra control. This is a more advanced version of Itachi's training regiment, but Gon is proud of it.
o-o-o
4 hours later
Gon is laying down on the ground out of breath. He feels great after that training session. Looking at the sun, he sees that it's about noon. So, he gets up and starts heading to school. On his way, he sees a grocery store and decides to get some lunch to take with him. After buying his lunch, he starts on his way again. While he's walking, a man is laying on the ground crying. Gon notices that the man happens to be a Jounin and is sobbing over a book that's been torn into shreds. Gon decides to help him out as he seems to be in distress.
"Ano, excuse me, sir. What's the matter; is the book important to you?" asks Gon, trying his best to sound friendly.
"What do you mean what's wrong? This is the greatest book in existence, and that bitch, the Ice Queen, tore it up. Damn it!" yelled the man, now looking at the sky. Gon can now see his hair, and it's a stark white that naturally defies gravity. Gon thinks that this man is a little strange, but he decides to help nonetheless.
"What book is it? I could get it for you if you wish? asks Gon.
The man's eyes widen. "You could get me another copy?" he asks.
"Yeah, I can. What's the book called, so I can get it."
"It's called Make-Out Paradise."
"Alright. That's a weird title, but I'll get you one." says Gon.
Gon heads to the bookstore and stops in an alley beside it. He then henges into an adult with brown short hair. He then heads inside to buy the book. Hmm, he said it's the best book ever. I should probably buy one as well. Gon buys two of the books without a problem. Besides the lady looking at him funny, anyways. Gon heads back to the man and gives him the book.
"Here you go."
"Thanks, kid. You're a life-saver. This'll be my 51st backup. Here's some cash for getting me one."
"Why did you want me to get you one if you already had 50 more?! That's beside the point though. What's your name, sir?"
"The name's Kakashi, kid."
"Mine's Gon. Now I gotta get to school. See yah."
Gon runs off while eating his lunch. Iruka was gonna be pissed.
o-o-o
Academy
"GON! WHY ARE YOU THIS LATE?! THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE." yells Iruka, giving the same old spiel.
"I woke up late and had to help some people. It's fine Iruka. I'll do the work at home." says Gon.
"Iruka-SENSEI. Now come on. We're heading outside."
o-o-o
In the courtyard
The throwing test went the same for Gon which is perfect as always. The others are getting better as Gon has seen, but they still need some work. That doesn't include Sasuke which had similar shuriken and kunai training he had. Now time for the interesting part. The spars. Gon had been waiting for this since yesterday. He's gonna get to fight Sasuke again.
"Alright, Gon and Sasuke, come up and begin."
"SASUKE, WE LOVE YOU!" yelled pretty much every girl in the crowd. This wasn't unusual, but that didn't make it any less disheartening.
Gon steps to his side and prepares his stance which is a casual-looking stance. He's been using this style since ever, but now he's added a few moves to it. This will definitely pull him out a victory.
"Begin."
With that, they shoot at each other. Sasuke feints with a right hook into a roundhouse. Gon redirects the kick and hits him in the ribs, getting a grunt out of him. Gon goes for a sweep, but Sasuke hops over it and lands an elbow in Gon's face. Gon reels and Sasuke gets in a body kick. That knocked some sense into Gon as he closes the gap and gets a jab feint into a right straight that stuns Sasuke. Gon takes the opportunity to hit Sasuke with a forearm to the face. Sasuke uses the momentum and sweeps Gon. Gon plants his hand and uses his momentum to deliver a kick to Sasuke's face, but is blocked and pushed back. Gon's foot slides, slightly out of bounds after stopping. He's about to rush forward again, but Iruka stops the fight. "Sasuke wins."
Gon felt a mild pang of disappointment for losing, but he knew it would make him better. They're tied now. The score is 42-42. He just has to train a little more.
o-o-o
2 years later
(Big time jump, but I can't really think of anything else to throw in except chance encounters. Those are kinda awkward to set up, though.)
Iruka is waiting in his classroom. The kids have grown so much; he's happy for them. He may see some of them again after the second exam, but he knows a few that won't be coming back. One of them has always been at the bottom of the class. Iruka doubts that he'll ever be able to forget about Gon. The door slides open revealing a disheveled looking teen. He has long blood-red hair that covers his right eye. His eyes are a deep blue. He's wearing a dark red shirt with a completely black jacket along with standard black jounin pants.
"I'm sorry I"m late Iruka-sensei. I can still take the final exam right?" asks Gon.
"Yeah, you still have time. In fact, you're up next," said Iruka.
Before Gon heads in for the final exam, he glances around the room. He sees that a few of his classmates are missing, but some are still there. He sees the cute Hinata in the corner near the top row, Sasuke with his fangirls googling him, and the other clan children chatting about. He turns and prepares himself for the exam, not that it'll too much of an issue. He comes through the door and meets an empty room with a desk facing him.
"Alright, Gon. Let's get this exam started. 1st justu is Shushin, 2nd is Henge, and third is the clone. Please perform them in the order given." said Iruka.
"Yes, sensei," says Gon, enthusiastically.
He disappears in the standard swirl of leaves and taps Iruka on the back. Iruka turns only to see Sasuke, then Sasuke disappears into a flock of crows. Iruka looks back around to see Gon standing there with a huge grin on his face.
"Did I pass Iruka-sensei?" asks Gon, rhetorically.
"Yes, you did Gon, with flying colors might I add," said Iruka, impressed. "Be here tomorrow for your team assignment." Iruka then hands Gon a headband of his color choice, which is black. He hangs it loosely around his neck and walks out of the classroom to go home after training.
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The next day
Gon got up early this morning to make it to team assignments on time, but he woke up too early and decided to train a little bit. Gon made five clones and readied his stance.
The clones rush forward at him, sliding behind each other and back out. The first one reaches Gon and tries to hit him with a right straight, but Gon tilts his head and the fist fly's past. Gon grabs the shoulder and blocks another clone trying to hit him from behind. The clone pops and Gon does a throw and effectively gets the clone on the ground. Another clone feints a right and throws a roundhouse kick. Gon ducks and pops up to do an ax kick, which gets blocked. The clon holds him there while the other two go in for a chakra-infused right hook. Gon kicks the clone holding him in the face and he pops, then Gon ducks the two hooks and grabs one of the clones' arm then delivers a strong blunt strike to the elbow to snap it. The clone pops and the crows obscure Gon's sight and surprise him. The clone gets a straight kick into his stomach; which Gon grabs and pulls him into a chakra elbow to the nose effectively shattering it before it pops.
"That was a good workout. Time to head to the Academy."
o-o-o
The Academy
Gon gets to the academy and heads to his classroom. When he arrives, he sees there isn't really anyone around. He knows he isn't late though, so he goes and takes a nap under one of the desks.
o-o-o
Later
*Thud* "Ah, what the hell?"
"Who's down there?"
Gon gets up and makes his way onto the bench. He sees that Ino is the one who kicked him. "Oh, hey Ino. I was just taking a little nap."
"Yeah, I can see that. Why don't you sleep somewhere else, deadbeat?"
"Yeah yeah. Shove it."
"Why don't y..."
"Alright, class. Time to start announcing team assignments." Iruka walks in and effectively cuts off Ino. Gon silently thanks him for it.
"Team..." Gon, while thankful, doesn't really care except for his team. So, He tunes Iruka out until he hears his name called.
... Gon Inkou, Sakura Haruno, and Sasuke Uchiha." Gon perks up. He gets to be with his brother. That makes him happy; he hasn't really talked with Sakura. He just knows that she's a fangirl. (As for why I chose to have the name not be Uchiha, it fits his name in the sense of the relation between trigrams, and Sarutobi doesn't want it to get out that there is another Uchiha. Which will be mentioned later.
Gon signals over to Sasuke after Iruka says something and tries to get his attention and not succeeding. So, he just waits for Iruka to finish up.
Not too long after that, Iruka finishes talking, "Alright that's about it for the team assignments. Your jounin senseis will now lead you to your next destination."
A good amount of jounins come through and pick up three kids apiece. One of which looked pretty fine to Gon, but that's beside the point. Gon walks over to Sasuke and asks him for the details of the team. "Hey, Sasuke. What's our team number and sensei's name?"
"We're team 7 and his name is Kakashi. You need to start paying more attention, Gon. You'll end up dead if you don't."
"Yeah yeah. I'll pay more attention when we start going on real missions."
o-o-o
Two hours later
"Sorry, I'm late. I got lost and..." Kakashi's voice stops after he sees two boys playing a game of shogi and a girl impatiently watching them.
"Hold on Kakashi we're almost done here." says Gon, "and that's game."
"Gah, what the hell is this? That's the third time." spouts Sasuke, in disbelief.
"We're meeting on the roof be there in two minutes," says Kakashi in a deadpanned manner.
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On the roof
"Alright, we'll start by introducing ourselves. I'll go first. My name is Kakashi. There are things that I like and dislike. I have a few hobbies. Now you with the black hair." says Kakashi
"My name's Sasuke Uchiha. I like a few things; while, I dislike fewer things. My ambition is to kill the man who killed my clan." says Sasuke, getting a little serious at the end.
"You with the pink hair."
"My name's Sakura Haruno. I like *giggle*. My dream is to have kids with *giggles then proceeds to faint*."
"Ah, I see. You with the red hair."
"My name's Gon Inkou. I like training, Icha Icha, and foxes. I don't particularly dislike anything, yet. My dream is to be the strongest ninja ever, but I don't think I'll get that far. I'm okay with becoming a Sannin." said Gon, relaxing.
"Alright, that was great. Meet at Training Ground 7 for your Gennin test at 7 am. Oh and don't eat breakfast or you'll be sick. Bye." he shushins away after dropping the hammer on Sasuke and Gon.
"Guess we should tell Sakura? Nah, I'll just leave her a note," says Gon. He writes on the note,'Go to training ground 7 at 6 am. Don't eat breakfast. -Gon', then he puts it in her headband and walks away snickering.
"Is that a good idea?" asks Sasuke.
"Probably not, but I don't really care," Gon says, getting pumped up for tomorrow.
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Tomorrow
Gon got up at about 7 and made some breakfast. He thought some eggs and sausage would be nice. So, he made so for three taking into account that the others would probably not eat, and Kakashi is always late to things. After preparing the food and packing it, Gon starts heading to the Training Ground.
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Training Ground
Gon arrives at 7:30 to see the best site ever. A pissed and miserable looking Sakura and a slightly miserable looking Sasuke.
"Hey, guys. How's it going?"
"Shut up, you dick. I've been here since 5:45 because I wanted to be early," yells Sakura.
"Tone it down there, Ms. Siren. I'm standing right here. Anyways, I brought lunch to apologize so eat it." says Gon cleaning out his ear.
Sakura's face lights up and they all start eating. After about thirty minutes, Kakashi shows up and gives the usual. "I'm sorry I'm late. I got lost on the road of life."
"Yeah yeah, you lazy bastard. What's our test?" asks Gon.
"It's a pretty simple test to be perfectly honest. You just have to take these two bells from me and the one who doesn't get a bell will be sent back to the academy. You have until 12, so we can eat lunch. Begin."
The three scatter, and Gon tries to rationalize the point of this test. He's never heard of a genin team with just three people. There's always three genins and a jounin, so there's gotta be a catch. His eyes light up. The test revolves around teamwork; he's got to find the others. He's searching around and happens on Sakura in a hole.
"Hey, I know how we can beat this. I got a plan lets go find Sasuke." Gon says as he's helping Sakura out of the hole
"Alright, let's go then."
Gon finds Sasuke relatively close to the starting point.
"Yo, the point of this test is teamwork. We gotta work together. I'll grab the bells; while you two distract him, then you two can have the bells, sound good?"
"Sure."
"Of course!"
o-o-o
A few hours later
'Hmm, they seem to be taking a lot longer than I expected. They only have about half an hour left.' Kakashi observes.
Then a sound alerts him to something he'd been focusing on for about five minutes. Sasuke jumps out of the trees and shoots off a fireball. Kakashi counters with a water dragon and a small bit of steam cloud his vision. Sasuke comes in for an elbow, which Kakashi blocks. Sasuke then kicks at Kakashi's head and gets blocked again. Sakura goes for the bells and Kakashi rotates his body, so Sakura grabs Sasuke's upper thigh instead. She blushes and smirks. Kakashi's eyes widen as her smirk seems more victorious than mischievious. He hears the bells jingle, but he's too late. Gon snatched the bells while he wasn't paying attention.
"As promised, you two can have the bells," he throws them to Sasuke and Sakura. "Did we pass, Kakashi?"
"Yeah, you did. A little too well I might add, but you passed nonetheless. Now, who's ready for lunch? We're going to this ramen place." says Kakashi and he starts walking away.
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At the stand
Gon tries the first bite and immediately starts devouring it. He eats ten bowls before stopping. His companions only ate one. "Thanks for the ramen, Kakashi. It was really good," says Gon as Kakashi starts complaining about his wallet is empty.
"Hey chef, this is really good. What's your name?" asks Gon.
"My name's Teuchi Ichiraku. My daughter helps out around the stall. Her name is Ayame. I'm glad you like it, kid." says Teuchi.
"How can I not? Anyways, I'll be back. Count on it pops." says Gon as he leaves to go train.
"I'll hold you to it, kid," yells Teuchi.
o-o-o
At Gon's apartment
He lays down to sleep after training. He forgot about the time and ended up training for several hours. He's slowly drifting to sleep and notices a difference.
"Ahh, it's been a while, Kyuubi."
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This is a good cliffhanger of sorts. Hope you enjoy my longer chapter.