I am so sorry everyone. I have been reading a lot and I guess I got sidetracked to the point where I didn't feel like writing. But I am back now and I'm ready to write. I also have a few ideas to add to the story in regards to Naruto's sharingan, Sasuke, Sakura, the harem, and a few others. Like should I make Sasuke friendly at least to his team? Should Kakashi actually train his team? Should I give Naruto Chakra Chains? I will also probably rethink the harem. Please give me your opinions on these, I would love to hear them. Anyway, enjoy this new chapter, I will try and get back on the grind and set up a schedule.
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or Naruto Shippuden or any other anime I might have mentioned in this story.
Talking: "Hello"
Thinking: 'Aw this sucks'
Jutsu/Demon/Summon talk: "Hello, kit"/ "Rasengan"
Demon/Summon thinking: "Damn, he's strong"
Chapter 6: Birthdays and Starting School
It was 6:00 p.m. on October 10th and if one was looking, they would see a young boy with sun-kissed blond hair, 3 whisker marks on each cheek, and a very muscular yet lean build, walking down the street towards the Hokage Tower. He wore black shinobi pants with plenty of pockets, a black, zip-up, sleeveless vest, and a black scarf around his neck. He had his hands wrapped up in bandages and wore black and dark orange combat boots. In addition, he had a black and red sword sheath on his back with a red hilt and a black hand guard.
This boy was none other than Naruto Uzumaki. He tried to avoid the festival that was going on a couple blocks from him because it usually wouldn't end up well for him. But it looked like fate had frowned on him this day. As he was walking he heard yells coming from behind him. Curious, he looked over his shoulder and saw a few dozen civilians and some chunin level shinobi all yelling and pointing at him. He looked ahead uncaringly and kept walking at a normal pace. This seemed to anger the mob to where they all started running at him until he turned a corner and they lost sight of him. They quickly ran and turned the corner to see Naruto in the middle of the street staring at them.
"If you plan to attack me, I will have no choice but to defend myself to any extent. Think carefully before you chose your next action." Naruto spoke in a calm manner making eye contact with the leader of the mob.
"Oh yea, look who finally grew some balls." The leader spoke to the rest of the mob. "Just because you got yourself a new look and a shitty sword doesn't mean you scare me demon."
"Oh, this old thing?" he asks in mock curiosity as he pulls his sword hilt out making the mob tense slightly, only to show no blade attached to the hilt and a slit where the blade should be.
"Idiot doesn't even have a blade. It's just for intimidation." The leader sneers as he walks towards Naruto.
Naruto, in return, just holds the hilt up to chest level. The leader just smirks, his pace never slowing. Soon he was right in front of the newly 10-year-old and mockingly put his body against the hilt and raised his fist.
"See, you're nothing but a weak little de-…" he was cut off the suddenly blood spurted out of his back, opposite where the hilt is.
"I'm sorry, what were you saying?" Naruto asks with a smirk at the others' stunned faces.
"How?" one civilian asked.
"What happened?" another one asks.
"How did he get cut? There's no blade." one ninja said.
"Anyone else?" Naruto asks with a tilt of his head while he lets the body fall to the ground lifeless.
"He used his demon powers to kill that guy!" one brave civilian near the back called out. "We need to tell the Hokage!"
"Then go tell him, I'm on my way there myself, do you want me to give him a message?" he asks politely while putting his hilt back in the sheath.
"No! We will tell him ourselves." He replied.
"Ok, bye." Those were his last words before he poofed out of existence, showing himself to be a Shadow Clone.
Everyone's eyes went wide at this and the civilians started racing to get to the Hokage before the demon brat while the ninja Shunshin'd to get there faster. When the ninja got there they raced into the Hokage's office to see the Hokage sitting behind his desk talking to aforementioned demon brat. Naruto looked to be giving a report to the Hokage when they barged in.
"May I help you?" Hiruzen asked, irritation clearly in his voice.
"That demon brat just killed Tericho Shizuen for no reason!" the shinobi who entered first yelled.
"Naruto…" he said, emphasizing his name. "has been here for the last half hour."
"He used a Shadow Clone to kill him! And then he used a sword without a blade and killed Tericho with his demon powers." He yelled. He then realized his mistake a second too late as he looked down to see a sword through his chest. He fell forward to show an ANBU behind him with a neko (cat) mask holding the hilt of the now bloodied blade.
"Now that the idiot is dead, would you please tell me what happened Naruto?" Hiruzen asked his surrogate grandson.
"Sure." He said before telling him exactly how it happened. "…and then my clone pushed wind chakra through the hilt to form a blade of wind that killed him instantly."
"I see, you all may leave since only Tericho attacked him, but I do warn you that if any of you try this again, all of you will be Ibiki and Anko's newest torture test subjects." He said in a deathly tone making everyone widen their eyes and immediately leave.
"Now, Naruto, first of all, happy birthday." He said with a smile while picking up a small scroll from out of his drawer and handed it to his surrogate grandson.
"Thanks Jiji, what is it?" he asked while unrolling the scroll to see a low rank storage seal.
"Push chakra into it and find out." He said smiling.
Naruto did just that and out popped a ring. It was an all-black titanium ring with four Konaha leaf symbols on the cardinal directions of the ring.
"The leaf symbols are actually seals; they store chakra that can be pushed back into you during emergencies. It will also help your reserves grow although I'm guessing that's not a problem for you."
"Haha, yea. But thank you a lot Jiji, this means a lot to me." He said with a genuine smile gracing his face.
"It was my pleasure Naruto-kun. I just want you to meet me training ground 7 at noon tomorrow." He said with a knowing smile.
"What for?" Naruto asked confused.
"It's a surprise. So don't ask again and I expect you to be on time tomorrow, I'm serious." Hiruzen told him, knowing he gets caught up in his training.
"I promise I'll be on time tomorrow, Jiji. And I never go back on my word, dattebayo." (believe it)
"Haha, I know you don't Naruto-kun. And I want to hear more about that hilt you have tomorrow as well." The elderly Sarutobi said with a smile. "You're dismissed."
"Of course Jiji. Seeya tomorrow." He said with a smile as he left his surrogate grandfather's office.
Time Skip: The Next Day: 11:50 a.m.
Naruto was currently walking through the streets of the village towards training ground 7. He didn't want to be late so he left 11 minutes early. While he was walking he thought back on how he had gotten his special sword hilt.
Flashback: 6 months
Naruto was in his custom training ground working with his swords as part of his training regimen. He was facing several clones who were wielding swords of their own. After a few seconds there was only one left. They both charged each other, swords drawn. The next moment they were on the opposite sides of where they started. After a few seconds the clone poofed out of existence. The real Naruto stood up straight and was about to put his swords into his sheath when the blades broke off.
"Well that's just great. Now I have to order more swords from Ten-Ten's store." Naruto whined as he sealed away the broken swords so he can properly dispose of them.
"Naruto, that won't be necessary." Kurama spoke in his mind.
'What do you mean?' he thinks to his partner.
"Well I had foreseen that those puny swords would break eventually. So I had forged a sword for you with my chakra."
'Well how would that help me? You're in a seal.' He reasons with his tenant.
"Let my chakra flow through your hand. I will do the rest."
'Ok.' So he does just that and he notices that Kurama's chakra cloak was flowing through his hand and was forming a hilt. After a few minutes, the chakra receded and in Naruto's hand was a red sword hilt with a black hand guard and a slitted hole where the blade should be.
"How's this supposed to help me?! There's no blade on this 'sword'." Naruto exclaims when he notices it is missing the blade.
"Just channel your wind chakra through it." He says, a little irritated.
So, he channels his wind chakra through the hilt and he feels his chakra form a blade out of his wind chakra. The blade was invisible to even his eyes but he could tell it was there.
"Woah! How did it do that?" he asks, amazed.
"The hilt has no blade because it makes a blade out of whatever chakra you put into it. So any of your chakra natures would create a blade out of that element." He says proudly while puffing out his chest.
"That's awesome! Thanks Kurama!" he exclaims happily that his friend would make him such a great gift.
"Yea, yea, just think of it as an extra early birthday present." he says with a smirk.
Flashback End
Naruto smiled at the memory when he entered training ground 7 with 1 minute to spare, only to see no-one there. He walked to the center of the field when he felt his senses dampen. He couldn't sense anything past the tree-line anymore.
"Kurama, what happened to my senses?" he asked his tenant only to get silence as his reply.
Suddenly he realized that he was in a genjutsu. He quickly dispelled it and found himself in the middle of the same clearing but with tables around the field and a big banner that said 'Happy 10th Birthday Naruto'. He looked around in shock when he heard people yelling the same words as on the banner behind him. There he saw Hiruzen, Konahamaru, and Asuma Sarutobi, Ayame and Teuchi Ichiraku, Ten-Ten and her dad, Kakashi, Kurenai, Anko, Iruka, the Uchiha, Nara, Akamichi, Hyuuga (not sure if that's the right spelling), and Yamanaka clan heads and their children. They were all smiling and waving at him while singing happy birthday to him.
At that moment, Naruto felt incredibly happy. He started to cry tears of joy for his first ever birthday party. He ran up to Hiruzen and hugged him with all of his might.
"Thank you, thank you, thank you…" he cried into Hiruzen's Hokage robes.
"It was my pleasure Naruto-kun. And everyone here wanted to wish you a happy birthday." The aged Hokage said with a smile.
Naruto turned to the rest of the guests and bowed deeply, "Thank you all for coming. It certainly means a lot to me."
"We're happy to be here Naruto-san." Asuma said with a smile.
"Well let's get this party started!" Naruto yelled with a giant smile on his face.
Everyone laughed and went about mingling and catching up with friends who haven't talked in a while. After about an hour and a half of talking and meeting the clan heads and their kids, Naruto's attention was brought to the Hokage who was standing up and flicking his finger on the glass cup to get everyone's attention.
"Naruto-kun will now open his birthday gifts. Naruto if you would do the honor." He said while motioning to the table with gifts on it with his head. When he was done opening all of the gifts, he had ended up with: a new ramen recipe named after him at Ichiraku's, a scroll on a fire jutsu from the Uchiha's, a book on anatomy from the Hyuuga family, a book on fuinjutsu for novices from Jiraiya of the Sannin, a wind style jutsu from Asuma, a chakra control exercise created by Kurenai herself, some high grade sealing ink, scrolls, and brush from the Ina-Shika-Cho formation users, a water style jutsu from Kakashi, a chakra steel wakizashi from Ten-Ten and her dad, a drawing from Konahamaru, a book on poisons from Anko, and a book on Konaha history from Iruka.
It was the best birthday Naruto has ever had. He thanked them all for coming and for the gifts and after a couple more minutes it was just Naruto and Hiruzen in the field. They both cleaned up and Hiruzen sealed all of Naruto's gifts into a scroll for carrying purposes and then walked to Naruto's apartment together.
"Thank you so much for today Jiji." Naruto thanked his grandfather for the 100th time today.
"It's no problem Naruto-kun, it was fun. And remember, you'll be starting the Academy next week so make sure to get there on time and don't be a pest to your sensei." Hiruzen warned.
"I know, I know, don't worry so much Jiji. I will be a good student." Naruto said with a smile.
They hugged again and Naruto went inside and changed into his pajamas and laid down into his bed and went to sleep with a content smile on his face.
That's it for this chapter. I would love it if you guys would give me feedback on the stuff at the top that would be great. I will try to update my story once a week from now on. I will be rethinking the harem but only changing it a little bit so don't worry. I'm thinking of making Sasuke friendly and Sakura friendly or just not graduate the academy due to not training. Again please review and tell me what you think and if someone could explain how beta's work that'd be great. Thank you all for reading and I will see you guys next time, PEACE OUT!