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Anyway, welcome back to another chapter of Naruto: The Stormbringer, written by yours truly, and promptly beta'd by imortal333. This is pretty much all that I've got. Meh
A/N: Don't own Naruto. Like, at all. Relly, Masashi Kishimoto does. Trust me. It's the internet :)
A/N2: To clear up some things. This story has a large amount of references to Shinto Mythology (like, the entire plot is a reference :P), not the game Okami. Okami is ALSO largely based on Shintoism, so I understand where you guys are coming from, but my story is on the original myths, with a few interpretations on my own behalf. Just so we're clear. [See, you're learning things about other cultures by reading fanfiction. Ain't life just awesome (^_^) ] The motocons are real o.O #randomness :P
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Chapter 4: The heroes meet
Konohagakure no Sato, 3 years later (screw off, time skips ftw!)
Naruto Uzumaki, apprentice to the god of thunder, son of both the 4th Hokage, and the bloody red-headed habanero, was sitting in his classroom... asleep. Figures.
As an eraser struck him upside the head, thrown by an irate Iruka, Naruto groggily recalled why he was here.
2 years ago
"But why do I have to enter the Ninja academy?" Naruto asked his father as they sparred in his mindscape. Dodging a right hook, he gave his father a sad look. "I'm already ready to graduate by their standards."
Indeed, after a year of intense tort- er, uh... Training! Yes, lets call it training. After an intense year of training, one would say that Naruto was already around mid-genin level, according to the standard system. And Minato would know, he was Hokage.
"Be that as it may, son," began the dead Hokage, jumping over a leg sweep and landing an open palm strike upon Naruto's forehead, "You still need to go to avoid suspicion about being so powerful so quickly." As Naruto stood back up, Minato slid into the Goken starting kata.
"Can I at least sleep most of the time?"
"Are you sure that you're not a Nara?" A voice called out from behind Naruto.
Naruto shivered to himself. "N-no, Kaa-san."
Kushina stepped into view, grinning. "I thought so, kiddo. Now, DODGE!" she screamed, sending chakra chains after him.
Naruto shivered at that particular thought. 'It doesn't matter that it was in my head. It still hurt!'
"Naruto!" called Iruka, from the front of the classroom. "Can you tell me why we won the war with Iwa?"
"Uhh.. Cause my d- erm, hero, the fourth Hokage wiped out pretty much all of their army with one technique?"
Iruka gave Naruto a hard look. "Can you give me the name of this legendary technique?"
Naruto scratched the back of his head. "Eh he he. No, sorry sensei,"then he thought to himself 'Flying thunder god technique, used by traveling from one seal to another instantaneously, and ignoring distance as is the power of a space-time ninjutsu.'
Iruka sighed. "Can't you just pay attention, Naruto." he mumbled. "It's called the Hiraishin no jutsu, or the flying thunder god technique." He turned around to the blackboard again, and Naruto promptly dropped his head onto his arms.
After class, Naruto rushed to his house... and promptly created another clone, before dispelling himself.
Yeah, class is for shadow clones. Suckers.
Meanwhile, back at the Uzumaki temple in the middle of the woods, Naruto paused in the middle of his katas, to process the clones memories. Nodding to himself, he resumed learning the taijutsu style that his father created to use in conjunction with the Hiraishin.
Naruto was extremely excited that he was learning the prized fighting style of his father, but was a little disheartened upon learning one thing: He needed to use the Hiraishin, or at least the shunshin to use it excessively.
While he, the original was doing this, he had several groups of clones divided up into other training regimens.
One group was working on tree climbing. While he could do it, he had a tendency to fall of at the most random times. He needed to fix that.
Another group was practicing the use of kawarimi and henge. During the course of his training, he discovered that his use of the henge was awkward. He actually transformed during the jutsu. It was no illusion. Granted, it was more taxing, not that he noticed it, and could still be dispelled quite easily, in addition to being a giant chakra shroud that anyone with any chakra sense could detect. Not that they could see what was underneath the shroud, of course.
Due to his unique transformation, he was reading up on as much biology that he could handle... as a ten year old. which is pretty much limited to the human body. Male and female. He mentally shuddered at that.
Another group was studying up on kenjutsu styles, provided by his mother and Susano'o himself.
The final group was studying up on his most enthusiastic topic: Fuuinjutsu. When he found out about his ancestor's affinity towards sealing, Naruto was ecstatic. He was originally gonna put 110 percent towards it, but then he looked at everything else that he had to do. He simply sighed and accepted that he needed moderation.
Shaking his head clear of his thoughts, he resumed his katas with vigor. His dad said that if he was proficient enough, he could advance to the next set.
Hinata was doing something similar, albeit much more focused. Instead of chakra control, as she was already excellent at it because of her heritage, she was working on chakra capacity. Therefore, she was constantly expelling large amounts of chakra from her hands in an effort to block kunai being thrown at her by an amused Amaterasu. It didn't help that the chakra were scalding, yet unmelted. Ouch.
"Come on, Hinata." Amaterasu called out. "I didn't leave a clone of you in class so that you could get burned. Just block the kunai!" She threw another one, which was blocked, but the chakra coating on Hinata's hands faded out as she collapsed on the ground.
'Get up!' Hinata shouted at herself. 'Just get up already.' As she climbed shakily to her feet, she could feel herself sweating. Entering the basic jyuuken stance, she breathed hard, and steadied herself.
Amaterasu nodded. "Good, Hinata. But that's enough for today. Come, get cleaned up. You have a meeting today."
She nodded, then frowned as she made her way to a nearby spring. Amaterasu had been speaking about this 'meeting' for about a week now. Hinata had asked about the meeting multiple times, but the goddess just smiled and said nothing.
Sighing, she proceeded to go to the spring and take a swim, to clean up, and relax her tired muscles.
"And be quick about it. We have a small time window to fit, so chop chop!" the goddess called out.
Dammit.
As Hinata followed the goddess through the forest to their destination, wherever it was, Hinata thought about who they could be meeting. Since they were meeting with Amaterasu, it was clearly someone important, seeing as she was the goddess of the universe and all.
"Amaterasu, could you tell me why you gave me this necklace and mirror? I thought that you knew that I wasn't into this kinda thing." Hinata asked. Hearing nothing, she looked to where the goddess was, and nobody was there. "Amaterasu? Where did you go?"
As she looked around, she saw a temple like structure in the distance, and decided to look there first, seeing as she knew nothing about the forest that she was in.
When she got close, the trees rustled around her. Sliding into a jyuuken stance, she looked around, cursing the fact that she couldn't use her doujutsu. 'I need to get used to it again so that this doesn't happen!' she cursed Amaterasu's 'adjustments.' Sure, now she had no blind spot, but "sight" wasn't quite the right word anymore. More like perpetual knowledge. Which overwhelmed her. Leading to the current predicament.
Glancing around her, she timed her movements and threw a kunai into a bush. Before it could reach it though, a hand shot out and grabbed it.
With Naruto
After he caught the kunai, he lept out of the bush, and sized up his opponent. 'Female, approximately my high, lithe, and built for flexibility. No pupils, so a Hyuuga?'
"Hyuuga-san!" He called out "Why not use your byakugan?"
She flinched slightly, then called back. "Personal reasons."
He nodded, then threw the kunai back to her feet, and pulled out one of his own, holding it in a reverse grip.
She hesitated, then grabbed it, also in a reverse grip, and shifted her stance. Then waited.
He nodded again. She was smart, and acting defensively. Too bad she had the wrong kind of opponent for that to work. He had energy in spades.
So he charged forward and opened with a kunai slash to her mid-section, which was blocked. Using his forward momentum, he attempted a low sweep, to which she responded to by jumping back, then lunging forward with a palm strike towards his stomach. He backflipped away, noting the strike type and his knowledge of the jyuuken. 'Can't even block. How... troublesome.'
Elsewhere in konohagakure, a lazy boy was watching clouds when he looked around him. 'Hmm, must have been my imagination. What a drag.'
With Hinata
'He doesn't recognize me.' She thought. 'I suppose that's expected. My fake persona IS rather shy.'
As he went to punch her again, she tried to block the strike with a chakra laced palm, like how she'd been training. And like the training, his fist stopped. Unlike the training, however, he felt the pain. His eyes went wide, and he jumped back gripping his hand in agony. "Dear sweet Susano'o that hurts!"
Susano'o? Where did she hear that name...
Oh, that's right. Amaterasu's brother.
Oh, shit.
"Alright, kids. That's enough." A deep voice called out. Naruto and Hinata looked to the voice in question. Sure enough, Susano'o stood there with an amused expression.
Naruto grumbled something like "...stupid gods, stopping the fight..."
Hinata gasped. "Naruto-kun! How dare you speak to Susano'o-sama like that!"
Susano'o laughed. "Like I told the kid there, I really don't like honorifics. Also, he is to me what you are to my sister."
Hinata's eyes widened. "So he's... also a champion?"
"Also?" Naruto muttered. "So, wait. "You're a champion? Oh, to who?"
"Listen, gaki." Susano'o said, "You need to pay more attention to what everyone around you says. She's champion to-"
"Me, Amaterasu." A woman, now identified as the queen of the heavens said, walking out of the treeline. "How are you, dear brother. What on earth have you been up to?"
Susano'o grinned. "Oh you know, a bit of this, a bit of that." He looked at the children. "Go rest in the temple, kids. My sister and I are gonna talk."
"Yeah, yeah. Come on, Hinata." Naruto said, walking back to the temple.
Hinata opened her mouth in shock. 'He remembers me!' And promptly fainted.
And end chapter! Yes, she will still be like that around Naruto. It wouldn't be Hinata other wise. How'd I do? Remember, review please! It helps me write faster. Anything at all, from criticism to a "good job, Fireboy. Keep up the work!" is cool! Later, Fireboy19795 out!
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