This is my first FanFiction and all reviews are welcome. I hope you enjoy. R&R.
First for reference, I have no idea how the Naruto map relay goes or where the land of Demons is relay on the maps so I will be going with my best guess which would be on the other side of the Land of Wind. And for my guess about the Land of Iron its North of the Land of Demons closer to the land of Earth.
Last time: Naruto has revealed himself to the Hokage and Anko, but what happened to bring him to that point?
Last update 6-21-15
And "I Mc-Crashland do not own Naruto"
'Thinking' "Talking" "Demon Talking" 'Demon Thinking' {A/N} Word Expanded at the end
Chapter 4: It's a First Meet
4 Months and 16 Days After Leaving February 21
It had been a long 4 months for Naruto having crossed the border to the Land of Demons after 3 weeks of walking and hiking through the woodlands and valleys that made up the Lands from Fire all the way to the rocky mountains and redwood forests of the Land of Demons. Most of his time was spent just staying alive, Hunting and fishing using his ninja tools and following the roads leading him away from his former home. He had passed through several small villages where he was sure that he made the right dissension when he talked to people and visited shops where there was a distinctive difference between them and the people of his supposed home.
There were plenty of ways he could go once he entered the Land of Demons, the first of which was to stay in one of the small villages that made up most of the Land of Demons and make him some spending money. The other option was to keep moving to another land until he found a place he liked. So he decided to go with option three and go a slow pace moving through lands hunting and then selling most of his caches to the villages he passed through. Of cores buying some game meat from a 7-year-old boy was out of the question even Naruto knew that, but thanks to a stolen academy book and a few lessons of the transformation and plenty of practice It ended as not such a big problem as it would have been.
And that's how Naruto had been living up to this point, at first he had been lost for words at how much one could make selling meat and hides but he wasn't one to complain about getting paid and he had himself a nice stash building up. His location now was just south of the Land of Iron in the country side of the Land of Frost which he found as an understatement considering he was trucking through a foot of snow luckily for him he had, had the for-sight to buy winter clothing when first entering the country.
But as such he continued on his path following parallel to its border by about 10 miles focusing on where the nearest town was, which according with his maps was another 20 miles from his current location. Just focusing on getting around in the thick snow he was snapped out of his inner dwellings by a load *Crack just to be followed by another *Crack 'What the hell is that there shouldn't be anything out hear' he thought as he reached into his back pouch to produce a Kunai. He moved forward tracking the noise, had this been 3 months ago he would have been heading the other direction but after a month he realized that no one was going to be fallowing him in an attempt to return him to the village.
*Crack *Crack the closer he got the louder and more frequent the sounds of wood hitting wood like someone beating a tree with a stick. But as he approached the sound was accompanied by another the sound of a man grunting and breathing heavily. Continuing to move closer to reveal an open space in the thick redwoods to reveal an area clear of snow and ice, filled with small stones and in the center several wooden dummies one tied to a posed clearly beaten. But standing in front of the dummies was a tall man long dark gray hair tied into a high ponytail going down to his shoulder blades, covering his back a pure white cloak flowing all the way down to his ankles. He was standing with both hands on his right side a plain Bokken held close to his hip.
The man seemed to be having a staring contest with the standing dummy only to burst forward in a speed dash pulling the Bokken from his right hand with his left and cracking it across the abused wooden doll and in a single motion adding his right hand and bringing it back down to its neck snapping its wooden head from it's still standing body. Only for it to fly in his direction hit the tree he was standing next to where it was add to a collection of wooden heads that were in a semi pile to his right.
"Who are you?" a voice redirected his attention from the pile back to the man with the wooden sword. "Well kid are you just going to stand there and not answer my question or are you going to tell me who you are?" he asked leaning to his left to resting on the Bokken.
"I don't know what's it looks like my name is." Naruto retorted not quit trusting the man. Now getting a better look at him, the man's dark brown eyes locked with his blue ones.
The older man squinted looking deep in thought, if Naruto were to guess his age he would say about early 40s. "OK how about Mijikai." the man standing up some looking at his reaction only to get a glare from the boy. "Alright not that how bout MAI?"
"Do I look like a girl to you?" Naruto said glaring at the man that had the nerve to call him a girl's name. "Besides I thought it was common curtsey to state your name before asking someone theirs. You do know what manners are, don't you. You did almost hit me with that." He further stated pointing at the wooden doll head on the grown.
"Oh I'm sorry little Hime did I heart your feelings." He retorted in a mocking tone. "I should remind you, you were the one sneaking up on me from my bad side. How about I not tell you my name and I call you whatever I want Nikkō. Or you could tell me your name first and I'll tell you mine after is that good Kinpōge." The man stated, each time Naruto gaining a tick mark for every time he was called one of those ridiculous names.
"Fine my name is Naruto now who are you." Naruto replied pointing the Kunai at the man while attempting to make himself bigger.
Raising an eyebrow with a deadpan look the man replied. "I don't like it, sounds like a ramen topping Gaki, how bout I just call you Michio it seems to fit you." Naruto gained a tick at being call Gaki but at least Michio wasn't a girl's name in truth to him it sounded pretty cool, and as far as knew he thought he was name after a ramen topping. "Furthermore my name is Ono Yoshimitsu and I live and work around here that's what I'm doing. Now what are you doing here I've never seen you before so you don't live in either Oshu or Tome, so what are you doing here." The man asked taking a step towards Naruto looking him up and down with his brown eyes.
"You can say I'm on a walk of sorts and where I started doesn't matter anymore. As far as I can say for myself it's a one way trip with an undecided locating." Naruto stated standing tall with full determination.
"So you ran away from home, isn't anybody worried about you. Your Mom, Dad, siblings?" Asked Yoshimitsu his eyebrows scrunching a bit into a frown.
"I don't have any family, never did. Lived in an orphanage until I was 5, then they kicked me out on my birthday. After that I lived on my own only being supported by my villages Kage until I decided I had enough of it and left." He replayed a little more solemn than before.
"Enough said. So how old are you Michio, from the way you look you can't be older than 10. And from that Kage comment I'm going to say Iwa it being the closet after all you obviously haven't been gone that long by the way you act. What's it been for you like 2-3 weeks?" Asked the man wondering what could make a kid like him want to leave a hidden village they were said to be the best places to live.
Naruto stared intently at the man who refuses to call him by his name. "I'm 7 and I left my village 4 months ago, it don't matter which one. Not anymore."
"Huummm" Contemplated Yoshimitsu 'The kids got guts I'll give him that, 4 months on the run can be thought on anybody let alone someone so young. I'll most likely regret this.' Yoshimitsu closed his eyes and sighed. "Alright then how about this, I treat you to lunch at my home you get some food, and I get to learn what happened. A fair trade I think, and when where done you can be on your way."
Naruto stared at the man questioningly, sure he had met nice people but very few ever offered him anything in exchange for something as trivial as his life story. But not being one to turn down free food he answered. "Seams fair to me."
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Bokken a wooden Japanese sword used for training.
Mijikai Google translates for short.-MAI Japanese girl name meaning "dance."-Hime Japanese for princess
Nikkō Google translate for sunshine-Kinpōge Google translate for buttercup-Gaki Google translate for brat
MICHIO Japanese name meaning "man on the correct path."
Ono Yoshimitsu real Japanese sword-smith look him up.
Oshu and Tome both cities in Japan {Google Earth} I might use them some time further on and just using the names.
The lovers Poll as it stands go to my page to vote. As of 1-10-13
Kurotsuchi: 26
Shion: 14
Karui: 13
Fu: 12
Mist Village OC: 3
I would love this to be a Narhina anyway. Please: 3
Non or other Village OC: 2
Non mention characters form canon. PM me must fall into category: 2 - Samui 1: Younger Yugito:1
Rock Village OC: 1