I don't own Naruto (or any references to bleach)
First off, review replies. If you don't feel like reading them, just go until there's a long mark in the page.
SuperSaiyan9: Yeah, to be honest, I haven't read many read many that have had my type of situation in a while, but trust me, the explanations will come by.
the Dragonbard: Same reaction, the explanations will eventually come, I have to build on plot, and thanks for the sp. Correction.
Volos: Tch' third one for Kushina and Minato. Trust me, the explanation will come, I have to build on plot.
gohan90: Thanks for pointing out my mistakes, I'm still a bit new to writing full length stories rather one-shots and such. I'll try to correct the things you pointed out, and also, just because it's a harem doesn't mean there won't be a build in the relationships, it just means there will be more chapters to read, or at least longer ones. And don't worry, I began the story thinking I might change quite a few genders, but I think Haku will be the only gender I change.
johnjohn: I'm starting to regret posting that part of the story, but I'll incorporate it into the story eventually.
Chapter 4
"Hello Naruto," said the Hokage in a calm voice.
"Hello Sarutobi-san. Who are all these people?" Naruto replied, looking around at all the assembled people.
"Ah, I believe it would be better if they introduced themselves, go ahead everyone, I hope your times as ninja has not impaired your social skills," Sarutobi said, motioning to the surrounding Ninja.
"My name is Hayate," said the man with no superior features beside his questioning glance. "I am a kenjutsu specialist, and I will be monitoring as a proctor at our Chunin exams in a few years."
"My name is Yugao Uzuki, little cutie! I specialize in stealth," said the lady with purple hair and the mischievous grin.
"YOSH! MY NAME IS MIGHT GAI! I SHALL BE TRAINING YOU AND IGNITING YOUR FLAMES OF YOUTH WITH MY HUGE WIND!" the spandex one yelled at the top of his lungs, giving the sparkly teeth smile and the thumbs up.
"My name is Uchiha Itachi," said the one on the side, giving no expression whatsoever.
"My name is Yuhi Kurenai. I am pleased to meet you," said the one with the curly hair and red eyes, flashing a smile at the end of her introduction.
"My name is Mitarashi Anko! Sexy snake mistress of Konoha!" Anko yelled.
"And I am Hatake Kakashi. There's a lot of things I dislike, and my likes are of no interest," Kakashi said while reading his book, turning a page.
"I am Zabuza, and I am a member of the Seven Swordsmen of the Mist."
"I am Haku. I like bunnies and snow."
"I am Keppi," said one of the demon brothers.
"And I am Aro," said the other.
(A.N.: I realize now since I searched it up, the demon brothers actually do have given names, but for the sake of the story, I'm leaving the names as Keppi and Aro)
"All right then, why don't you introduce yourself, Naruto." Sarutobi said.
"Right, my name is Uzamaki Naruto, and I am nine years old."
"Fair enough, now then, Naruto, these are most of Konoha's top jonin that will teach you are assembled, and these that are with you are the mist nin."
"If I may, Hokage-sama, we prefer the term; Former Mist nin."
"Of course. Anyways, I have called you all here as I did before with Itachi when he was Naruto's age because they both show great promise."
"Great promise? Excuse me, Sarutobi-san, but is he really the ah, person we want to be trained by our top jonin?" said a woman that appeared from the shadows.
"Yes, now leave, your place is on the council, not here." Sarutobi said in a stern voice to the woman who bowed and left.
"Anyways, as I was saying, Naruto has showed promise in a different way than Itachi when he was younger; his incredible endurance and energy. This boy ran with Anko all the way from district 14, and managed to make Anko have to catch her breath. I believe that if we teach this child, we will have another aspiring ninja to help the village."
All the konoha Nin nodded, and Itachi looked at Naruto as a bull would look at a calve.
"Naruto, your teacher's will be the following: Might Gai shall be your Taijutsu teacher. Yugao shall teach you the art of stealth on the side. Zabuza and Hayate shall teach you kenjutsu, although Zabuza will teach you more, Hayate still was taught by rather good kenjutsu specialists. Your Ninjutsu teacher shall be Kakashi and Itachi, as both are good due to their sharringan but both are also members of the ANBU, so thus will be out often on missions. Anko shall teach you speed and endurance, although it's obvious that you don't really need it much. And lastly, Kurenai shall teach you Genjutsu. This shall go on for a year and a half, until you start at the academy. Any questions?"
"Yes actually, how in the world is he supposed to keep up with all of us?" Kurenai asked skeptically.
"Well, the first technique I shall teach him is the Shadow Clone Jutsu, so he can train more," Sarutobi said.
"Wait, but that's a kinjutsu to his non-existent ranking!" Kurenai shouted.
"Don't worry bout it, Kurenai-san, I am sure that Sarutobi-san has a plan," Naruto said confidently.
"Boy, who said we were so friendly? Aren't you supposed to call me sensei?" Kurenai said, eyes flashing.
"Yes, but Kurenai-san, you haven't taught me anything yet, and yet we have been introduced, thus you have the suffix, -san right now." Naruto said with a cheeky smile.
"Yes, actually, for the next year and a half, Naruto shall be a sub-jonin. He will be able to access any jutsu you all learn. Think of it as an internship of sorts, as you all will be on a side A ranked mission for a year and a half, to teach Naruto."
"Right," said Kurenai blushing a bit that she, the "Ice Queen of Konoha," had been so easily surprised by the little kid.
"All right, then, as there is no time to waste, I may as well teach you, Naruto, how to use Shadow Clone Jutsu. Everybody else, stay and observe how he learns in order to help how you teach him. Now then, Naruto, the basic concept is-" Sarutobi started.
20 minutes later.
"Kage Bushin no Jutsu!" Naruto shouted. Fifty puffs of smoke appeared, and fifty Naruto's appeared.
"Incredible, he mastered an A rank jutsu in under twenty minutes!" shouted Anko.
Everyone else yelled something similar, although some of the others including Itachi merely looked on in curiosity.
"YOSH! THE FLAMES OF YOUTH BURN BRIGHTLY IN THIS ONE!" Gai shouted at the top of his lungs.
"Well now, that wasn't very much now was it…? One second, Sarutobi-san, lemme make two hundred or so…" Naruto said dead-serious.
"No, no that's alright. You get it now?" Sarutobi told the gaping Jonins.
"Y-yeah, I guess so. Well then, Naruto, I hope to see you soon. We are dismissed, right?" Hayate said.
"Of course, you are all dismissed, minus the former Mist Nin and Naruto of course," said Sarutobi.
All of the Konoha Jounin nodded, bowed, and left, either by shun-shin or simply walking out, until only Naruto and the former Mist nin were remaining.
"Alright then, first of all, Naruto, I have present for you for when you become a Genin rank," Sarutobi began, getting out of his seat and walking back towards a vault. He pricked himself with a kunai and, using the blood, opened the vault. Three glowing chains emerged, but didn't do anything. Then Sarutobi pulled out an enormous scroll, no doubt filled with incredible secrets.
"This is your future present, Naruto. The Fourth Hokage told me early on to give this to any particular aspiring ninja that caught my eye, and to teach them the Jutsu that are within this scroll. There are incredibly powerful Jutsu in here, Naruto, capable of completely leveling Konoha. That is why I haven't given you it yet," Sarutobi stated, seeing Naruto's jaw drop, rise to retort, and then drop again.
"Also, these Jutsu are incredibly taxing, and so I wouldn't wonder if you flat out passed out from using only one of these at your current chakra level. But think of getting to Genin rank a goal now, Naruto. Good luck," Sarutobi stated, grinning as he put the scroll away.
Naruto's first day with Gai
Naruto awoke the next morning with a grin on his face. He was ready for his training to become Hokage, to imagine! He was waaaay smarter than he was a week ago when he had that conversation with who his sensei's would be, and now, he would get much more powerful too! For the past few days, he had been creating shadow clones, and under the supervision of a clone of the Hokage, he had gone into the library containing all the known information on being a ninja, including clans and such. Naruto was going to dispel all of the clones at once, but the Hokage freaked out and stopped him, telling him that all the information consumed might kill him, and so Naruto dispelled them slowly, before finally collapsing from exhaustion.
The days after, he had gone with a clone of the Hokage again, this time, to the park, and Sarutobi had shown him how to walk up a tree. Naruto was astonished at first, then eager to try, and then depressed when he couldn't seem to get it for some reason. Sarutobi then said that he should continue practicing this simple exercise whenever he could, and to come back to him when he finally mastered the technique completely, to the point in which he could stay on the tree for an hour.
After his shower, he ran to training ground thirty-four, where he had been told to meet Gai. The guards outside of it were skeptical due to his age, but they allowed him to go in upon learning he was a sub-jonin.
He went in and his heart skipped a beat. The place was incredible!
Just in front of him was a fifty foot wide chasm with random weapons that seemed to drop from the sky, attacking anything that tried to get across. In the middle of the chasm stood an island type of place with a punching bag that had 10 x gravity Jutsu on it.
On his left were fifteen straw dummies that seemed to move around when attacked, and further than that stood a pole that was to be attacked. The numerous trees around all had huge punch marks on them from when previous people had punched them, and on his right stood Gai, clearing another fifty food chasm, although this one had explosive notes that fell out of the sky and an iron swinging ball that was in the middle of the island.
"Holy crap," said Naruto.
Naruto's first day with Yugao
Naruto woke up at noon from his slumber, it had been a pain in the butt to work with Gai on the first day, because for some reason, Gai thought that doing three hundred pushups was something anyone could do.
When Naruto finished showering, he looked outside and yelled, "Shit!"
At the stealth dojo, Yugao was pacing around, thinking consistently, what the hell is taking that kid so long? When a prank came to her mind, so grinning mischievously, she ran to get the supplies.
~15 minutes later~
Naruto ran to the doors, panting for breath, hands on his knees. He opened the door to the dojo and saw practically nothing. On his the sides of the room was shadow, making it impossible to see anything but the thing in the light. The thing in the light was a delicious looking bun, glistening in the sunlight that was peering through a single window.
Naruto looked this way then that, wondering where Yugao was. Finally, satisfied, he went up to grab a bun. As soon as his hand touched the bun, he flew into the wall on the side, and when he could see straight again, Yugao was there, holding the bun that he had tried to eat.
"Tch tch little baka. You weren't stealthy enough I'm afraid. Now then, you are to stay here the entire day in here, let's see if you finally manage to get a bun." Yugao smirked, making a hand seal making the door shut with a seal on the door. After she sealed up the door, she vanished again.
"Agh… What the heck?" Naruto said, staring at the bun's. Yugao appeared once again, and this time set up with a lawn chair and a bowl of miso and beef ramen.
"Well Naruto? You hungry or what?"
First day with Zabuza and Hayate
The next day, Naruto woke up early in the middle of the night with a starved stomach.
"Damn," thought Naruto. "Fricking Yugao sensei, starving me for a day while she ate ramen and bun's…"
He yawned and half-dragging himself, walked over to his fridge to get some food out. When he opened it though, he saw a note:
Hi Naruto-kun! Thought that you wouldn't mind if I took some food for training your stealth! Have a good day, (^-^)
From, Yugao
Naruto groaned, no wonder those chips and green beans she brought out eventually looked so familiar!
"Well, I guess there's no avoiding it: I guess I'm going to have to go out a fricking 2 am for food…" Naruto thought while he shuffled himself over to the door and opened it.
Outside his window, a ninja wearing a mask with a fog design on it disappeared.
Naruto wandered around Konoha, knowing full well that the ramen place he always went to was closed at such late an hour. Finally, he saw the local 24 hour supermarket, and it was the ONE supermarket that didn't care that he was the so called "demon", instead being particularly kind to him, especially the owner, a busty women named Chichi Toufu.
Anyways, as soon as he entered, he rushed to the instant ramen selling place, then at high speeds, grabbed a pork-flavored 24 pack (20% off with Ninjamart card!) and appeared at the cashier register.
Toufu's daughter, Tai was monitoring the cashier when, in her point of view, Naruto just appeared suddenly.
"AHH!" screamed Tai, before shutting her mouth and calming down a bit.
"How did you appear so fast, Naruto-san?" she asked, reminding herself that she was 14, not 10.
"Really? I appeared? Huh, well I've been taking some classes from tutors on ninja stuff…"
"Really?"
"Yeah, its fun learning the stuff, but the teacher's are waaay too tough…"
"Huh, that's nice, anyways, a pack of 24 pork ramen, right?"
"Yeah, that's it. How much for it?"
Suddenly, the door burst open and out of the smoke emerged the man from earlier with the fog mask.
"Who the heck are you! And you're going to have to pay for that door sir!" Tai yelled at the man.
"Quiet, civilian. I am here looking for a man by the name of Zabuza, if you know who he is, it would be in your best interest to tell me where he is," the ninja said harshly.
"Zabuza? I know him, what do you want from him," said Naruto in a strangely calm voice.
"I am here to kill him, as he is in the Bingo book for 200 thousand ryu, and I could really use that money." The ninja fibbed.
"Well sorry, but he is NFS, Not, For, Sale," Naruto replied, preparing himself in case the man attacked.
"Well then, do greatly apologize, but in that case, you must die as well," replied the nin, pulling out a katana. In an instant, his chakra surged, and the blade became imbued with a strange energy-like vapor that seemed to merge with the blade. The katana changed until the blade part shifted into a heavier, more durable form, and the hilt became larger as well.
The nin surged his chakra, bringing his killing intent high, and Naruto stepped in front of Tai to protect her, even though she had already fainted.
The nin grinned at Naruto, sure that he would be able to rip straight through him, grinning up to the point in which his head was completely cut off by a massive sword swung by Zabuza.
Naruto gaped at the efficiency that his sensei wielded the sword, which, as soon as the bounty-hunter's head flew off, returned back strapped onto his back.
"Hey, Naruto-san. How goes it?" Zabuza said casually, as if he saved his student from assassin's every day.
"W-who?"
"A bounty hunter, sent to collect my head for the mist no doubt. Idiot was no doubt high Chunin level on power, yet low Genin level on intelligence. You don't try to kill a Jounin level Nin as a Chunin level nin, and you don't sneak into other villages and have that much killer intent… Would you like to begin training?" Zabuza said.
"But, we can't just leave the store like this…"
"Ah, right, lemme take this out…" Zabuza grunted, pressing a seal on his left bicep that had the kanji for "money" on it, taking out a huge bag of ryu and throwing it on the ground.
"There, let's go now, unless you would like to flirt with your girlfriend?" Zabuza teased.
"She's just a friend, sheesh," Naruto replied with blushing cheeks, creating a clone to drop off his ramen packages at his apartment.
Zabuza led the boy to training ground 57, where there was, once again, a skeptical Chunin guard at the ready. Zabuza led Naruto into the area, which looked like nothing special; just normal pre-forest land and flat ground.
"This is training ground 57, the one I like the most, you want to know why, kid?"
"Why sensei?"
"Because of this;" Zabuza said, slicing apart the nearest tree's within 20 yards and returning to the spot again. He held up his fingers and counted down; 5, 4, 3, 2, 1: the tree's returned to normal.
"This is called the regeneration grounds, all that you can destroy here instantly repairs itself within five seconds, making it the perfect place to go all out at the terrain," Zabuza said.
"W-whoa… that's intense!" Naruto gaped.
"Now then kid, if you are to master Kenjutsu, you must know something that every aspiring swordsman knows-"
"But I thought I was a ninja, not a samurai?"
"Kid, there is a BIG difference between a swordsman and a Samurai, and if I was any other member of the Seven swordsmen, your head would be flying by now," Zabuza threatened.
"Anyways, as I was saying, every single person has their own DNA, their own Chakra fingerprint, their own element, and also, their own sword release."
"Sorry, sensei, but did you just say sword release?" Naruto asked, skeptical.
"Here, allow me to demonstrate," Zabuza said with a grin. He took his sword in both hands, and, pointing it at a tree, bellowed something that wasn't any normal language. In a flash, his sword changed, becoming smaller and condensing, the hilt and blade adopting a darkish brown color, eventually the hilt just disappeared and Zabuza was holding a blade that was about half as small as his original, with blue flames blowing off of it. "This, kid, is my release, and It is faster and stronger than my normal one, allow me to demonstrate," he said, disappearing. Zabuza slashed from top to bottom one tree and that, a mere blur while slashing apart this tree then that, until eventually he returned to where Naruto was standing, dumbstruck.
"See that is what a sword release is kid, a manifestation of your chakra that changes your blade in any way that suits you, and as I am naturally an assassin, my blade grew smaller, stronger, and faster, although yours will definitely look different. The only real drawback of releasing your sword is that it eats at your chakra, depending how powerful you're blade is. Now, in the Seven Swordsmen of the Mist, we can all release our swords, really, just most of the time, in order to keep up face, we don't use them, unless it's a last resort." Zabuza said, panting as he relinquished his blade from the chakra, turning it back to normal.
"Tomorrow Hayate and I will let you practice trying to manifest your energy into your blade, and eventually you will have a sword release, just I don't know when. Don't get your hopes up though, it took me many years to finall"
"Uhm, Zabuza-sensei, I do not have a katana…"
"Really? Well then, take this," Zabuza said, taking out a scroll and throwing a sword to Naruto. The sword seemed to only be half of an ordinary sword, with intricate carvings all over.
"That is a rune blade, it helps to channel your energies, if you are able to find the other half to this blade in specific, the dragon blade… well I really don't know what will happen, something good no doubt," Zabuza said.
"Oh, and so you don't get bored of kenjutsu, let me show you a move a have learned," Zabuza said, preparing his sword in a quick draw fashion.
"Kenjutsu! Air bullet!," Zabuza bellowed, thrusting his sword straight, firing off ball-like pressurized air shot, which hit the nearest tree and plowed through it and the one behind it before exploding.
"I left a scroll at your house with a shadow clone; I expect you will refrain from putting too much force behind it when using it on a fellow ninja?" Zabuza said, concluding the lesson by shushining away to leave Naruto to his thoughts.
Agh, this has been my longest chapter yet, and is a real draaaag to write, hope yall like it, those that are actually reading it…