"January fourteen, the day of my first outing in a C-rank mission, hopefully successful.
"I admit though, that I may have made a mistake when picking this mission, as I only took into account that we would be in an island, and not that the island would be full of scientists.
"This would not be a problem if I were a totally normal, eighteen-year-old ninja, but I have ADAM running through me, and if that was not enough, I'm probably the only kid that had a jinchuriki for a mother and is a jinchuriki himself, if they could study me, if I told them that, if they get even a slight clue of what I am, then I would be poked and prodded while I sleep.
"I get enough of that shit with my fucking forced bi-monthly examinations; I would destroy the hospital if it wouldn't get me branded as a criminal.
"Though getting rid of the needles and all those samples they've taken of me would be nice.
"Meh, I'll sneak in to the vault where they keep that shit and destroy it, it's not like I can't create an alibi.
"I do wonder if I will find what I am looking for in the floor of the sea."
-January 15-Campsite-one day of chunnin-speed travel to the sea.
"Alright, Naruto, you man the fire, Hiyori, you go hunting, bring three rabbits if you can, big game is good too, but not too big, Ami, start packing up the tents, I'll see what's ahead," Aoba gave the instructions to his team, only Ami complaining of doing what had taken the three genins two hours to do.
"Right, come on, Aomaru" Hiyori and her dog disappeared between the trees almost immediately, and waited until no one was looking to light up the firewood, using that to light up a cigarette.
'Remind myself to buy another pack' he thought as he felt only three more cigarettes in his pocket pack, 'I think we're going to pass by another town soon'
That was the problem with chain smoking, even worse when you had a Gene Tonic in your body that made it so that your chakra was replenished and your overall health every time you smoked a cigarette; you never had enough packets in your pockets, not even when you could seal up a hundred packs in your storage seals, each pack only lasted one week.
"You know, I could throw you the still smoking butt if you keep glaring at me" Naruto muttered as he felt the glare of Ami on his nape.
"I find it annoying that you're probably going to cause a forest fire with that" the dark-haired girl snapped.
"Now that's irony in all its glory," Naruto shot back, "just imagine the radio: Fire of the Forest of Fire, just to give a literal sense to the name of the country" 'Not like I'm patriotic anyway'
"Naruto, don't threaten the wild-life, the bears don't like that" Aoba said as he walked down the tree he had climbed to watch whatever he had to see, "anyway, there's no bandits nor a predator's den in the way to the sea, just a coast town," he had a pair of binoculars hanging from his neck, and Naruto could distinguish augmentation and image clearing seals on the side, and was that an infrared vision seal?
Not the best quality; he could say, confidently, not arrogantly, that he could make a longer-lasting pair with seals that would not eventually harm the eyes of the user, but it was good enough that if not used constantly it would take decades for the eye-sight of the user to deteriorate noticeably.
That was a project he would have add to the list; now that his iPod was working, all the voice recorders could record hours of speech, his clothes were equivalent to what Delta called Kevlar and his cave had lighting that would last longer than any light bulb in Konoha.
All he needed was a seal that could transform chakra into EVE so he could evade the horrible taste of Soldier Pills and a seal that could make his earphones totally soundproof and harder, to use them as a weapon in deperation times, the former would take longer, but it was priority, and so the proper binoculars were second in the list.
"Great, I'm about to run out of smokes, I'll have to a buy a couple of boxes to last me the month," Naruto said in response to what Aoba said.
"Yeah, um Naruto, the mission scroll said that no smoking or drinking would be allowed in the facility" Aoba explained to the ginger, who only stared at him, as if he was at fault for regular rules throughout all science labs of the world.
"You mean to tell me, that I have to sit through scientific talk, arrogance that goes up the roof, people with sticks so far up their asses that it comes out of the mouth, people that will want to open me up when they see my seals, no hot women walking around, probably no onsen, all without a single cigarette to stand it?" Naruto looked at Aoba, who only stared at him from over his shades, doing a pretty good glare for a guy that was known throughout the village for his good humor.
Aoba nodded, "yes Naruto, as awful as it sounds, and trust me, it sounds as awful to me as it does to you, you will have to live through it" the jonin rummaged through his flack-jacket pockets, only lightly touching whatever what's inside and finally taking something out of one of the pockets over his navel, "here, my friend Genma gave me this, said that he had them covered in something to give them flavor, it's what keeps him calm in his battles" Aoba held out a senbon, a needle usually used by medics in acupuncture or by torturers when interrogating someone.
Naruto took it hesitantly, poking the fire with his free hand and silently cursing Hiyori for taking so long, even though it had only been ten minutes.
Putting it on his mouth with the same care of someone who knew that the food was too hot, Naruto tried it and decided that three weeks without smoking wouldn't be so bad, as evidenced by the fact that he spit it out and scratched his tongue to get the flavor of whatever had been in it.
But now his lips were on fire, as was his tongue, the roof of his mouth, his throat and the inside of his cheeks, "Next time you see your friend, tell him that covering a senbon with wasabi is not something nice"
Aoba and Ami laughed until Hiyori and Aomaru came back with a rabbit and two birds, nearly another twenty minutes later.
After finishing their breakfast, team fourteen took to the trees and continued towards the sea.
-Four days later-International seas
If anyone were to look at Naruto, they would probably question his sanity, as he was currently speaking to a large, box-like, brown device with what could have been a microphone stuck to it on one side and a common tape recorder in the other.
"Another thing of what I failed to take into account is that the Elemental and Nature continents are what used to be Asia and Africa and Europe combined, Water Country is most likely the result of an eruption of the volcano in Hawaii, as described by the geography books Delta left behind, Sea country matches with New Zealand and the Underworld continent may be Australia, though comparing maps of past and present, it shows a great difference in size, so it may not be so.
"ADAM slugs were found near Iceland and Greenland, what is currently the Land of Ice, Snow and Iron, a cold weather, with cold waters may have been the natural habitat of the ADAM slug, so unless it evolved drastically, I doubt I will find it in the waters between the Land of Fire and the Land of Iron, waters that while not tropical, are most definitely not icy."
The ginger stopped the recorder and took a cigarette, the last of his last pack, and lit it, as according to the clock on his wall they would be docking in the research island in no more than half an hour, just enough time to relax before the impending boredom.
Just in time, unfortunately, they docked and he was forced to leave the confines of his cabin, as he had come to call it in the, almost complete, week they had spent on board of the boat.
The crew of the boat left it along with the shinobi, as they were employed as a fishing crew to supply the research crew with fresh fish, probably leaving once a week, meaning that they were tasked with picking the ninja up when they showed up at the port town.
The head scientist, a man with only some spots of gray hair along the top and back of his head, wearing the stereotypical white robe and thick glasses, stepped forward from the group of nearly fifty people and held out his hand to Naruto, who, even if not the older, or most important of the group, was the more imposing of the team, with his seven feet and near-permanent scowl, "Welcome to our island, shinobi-san, it is good that you responded to our call so soon," the old man said.
Naruto looked at the man in the face, lowering his head eventually so that he could see the hand stretched out in greeting, but the ginger just shook his head and pointed at Aoba, "you got the wrong man, the leader is him," this was accentuated by a jab of his hand towards the jonin, who looked amused at the situation, "talk to him, I only want to take a look at your job and then look in the sea for pearls for my girlfriend"
For some reason, he wasn't sexist, it was just what he expected, there were more than sixteen women along with the forty other men, counting the fishing crew, and Naruto smirked at some of the looks in the women's faces when they heard he had a girlfriend back home.
Damn, did that stroke his ego, he was just THAT hot.
While Aoba and the old man, who, now that he noticed, also had a hunched back, Ami, Hiyori and Naruto decided to get a look at the people of the facility: most were also stereotypical scientists, with either brown or black hair, goggles on their heads and lab coats either open or closed over their bodies and an air around them that they had only felt when dealing with the research department of the Intel division of Konoha.
On woman, though, stuck out from the crowd, or to Naruto she did, for he was the only one of the team that could see her.
It was a woman with blood-red hair, the same shade of red that he saw every time he went into the Konoha records, the shade of hair that only a special person could have.
"OI, YOU!" the ginger shouted, his voice louder than normal, a volume that his teammates had only heard during the cloth test, "NO, NOT YOU BALDIE, THE GIRL," he kept shouting, "get out of the way, I have to get to her, let me through" he grunted, cursing the idiots that decided that standing in the narrow, wooden dock was a good idea.
Finally getting to the back of the crowd, where the woman that had caught his attention was standing, Naruto grabbed her by the shoulders, keeping her in place even though she had been petrified with fear, "What is your name, girlie?" he asked the woman.
"H-Ho-Honoka" the woman answered, her voice shaking just as much as her body.
"Your family name" Naruto barked out, not wanting it to be a dream or anything else other than reality.
"U-Uzumaki" she managed to get out.
Naruto searched her face for any kind of deception, for anything that marked her as a liar, but as he found nothing, his arms leaving her shoulders and moving so that they were squeezing both her arms and her ribs at the same time, Naruto's face burying itself in Honoka's hair, "I thought I was the last one" he whispered happily.
Ami and Hiyori, having arrived just in time to hear the surname of the woman their teammate had run towards, were both surprised to him crying over the woman, who was petrified for a reason different to the first.
Naruto separated, once again moving his hands so they were once again over Honoka's shoulders, only this time it was in a comforting way rather than the threatening kind it had been before.
The ginger smiled, "I'm Naruto Uzumaki, pleased to meet you"
Honoka blinked in confusion, her brain trying to make sense of what Naruto had said, but once it did her face lit up before falling again, "how do I know you're not lying?" she asked with a serious face on.
Naruto frowned and looked around, to the faces of every scientist, both male and female, and the faces of his teammates, finally looking at the beach, "Let me take you for a walk," he said, his voice lacking the lecherous tone it took with most women, "I'll explain my parentage with no one around."
Honaka searched his face, just as he had done, and eventually nodded, turning and stepping forward.
Naruto followed her, looking back long enough to say, "We'll meet you at dinner time, or not, depends really," and he ran to catch up with Honoka, who was now off the dock and on the sand.
-Two hours later.
"So your mother was Kushina Uzumaki," Honoka started.
"The Princess of Whirpool, yes," Naruto said.
Continuing as if Naruto had not interrupted, the red-headed said, "and your father was the yondaime of Konoha."
"But as far as I know, only me, the Old Imbecile and whoever my parents were close to know, but since most of them died…" Naruto trailed off, his face darkening.
"So you are basically the prince of not one, but two places, but mistreated because you hold the Kyubi, something only a thick-blooded Uzumaki can do" Honoka finished listing, turning to face Naruto, who had moved so he could see the sea and Honoka at the same time, "how have you not snapped?" she asked, amazed.
Focusing back on Honoka, Naruto answered, "I snapped when I hit sixteen, if Konoha were to burn to the ground I would just get popcorn and a seat by the Hokage monument"
"You are probably the most interesting person I've ever met" Honoka told him, smiling.
"I would say the same, but you're in second place" Naruto shot back, also smiling.
"January nineteen, the day I met someone from my clan.
"If I am entirely honest, I expected that I would never meet someone with the surname Uzumaki, whether I traveled the whole world or not, I thought that only my mother had survived the invasion of Whirlpool, and only because she was not there.
"But to find Honoka, the daughter of a survivor of the Eddie, is something I thought impossible.
"It makes me wonder; are there more of us out there? If so, then where?
AHHHHHHHH, So I bought Borderlands 2, yes just now, not my fault I live in Mexico, as much as I love the country the new vidogames arrive half a year after they come out in the US.
So far it's been an awsome game, though I've had more than one 'OH HELL NAH, I AIN'T FIGHING THAT' (the glutonous thresher and Blue the volatile cristalik, to name a few), also, I picked the siren, her ability is the one that worked out best for me, since the assasin, which I used in the original, did not have a skill akin to Mordecai's bloodwing, and her phaselock is pretty good when ovewhelmed.
I also love that you're Clap Trap's 'minion'