Jacen – Well, I'm back. I've got a comical chapter for you today.
Akira – Please tell me I'm not going to have to deal with the group of Perverts, making snide remarks throughout this entire chapter.
Jacen – I won't make any promises. All I'll say is "Hell hath no fury, like a woman's scorn."
Akira – Fuck me. I'm so dead. [sits down and writes an apology letter to Miharu.]
Miharu – What are you talking about? "Hell hath no fury, like a woman's scorn."
Jacen and Akira – Nothing!!! [innocently]
Miharu – [giving them a death glare. You know what that looks like…] You better not be spreading lies about me.
Naruto – [enters, looks around and then flees] And I thought Nii-san was scary. His girlfriend is worse.
Miharu – [chases after Naruto, throwing kunai and Shurikens] I HEARD THAT!!! YOU ARE SOOO DEAD, WHEN I CATCH YOU!
Naruto – [Running for his life!!] Fuck!
Shikamaru – [enters and sighs] Women are so troublesome…
Akira, Naruto, and Jacen – You said it, Shikamaru. Now do us the favor of the disclaimer.
Shikamaru – [sighs] Jacen does not own Naruto. This is too troublesome.
Naruto sat up and looked around his messy room. His face scrunching up as he heard the screaming alarm clock coming from the living room. Why is nii-san's alarm clock still going off, shouldn't he have destroyed it by now? I'd better go check on him. He yawned as the thought traveled through his mind.
He got up and got dressed in his usual clothes, the neon orange and blue jacket, a white tee shirt, and neon orange pants. A pair of goggles rested on his forehead. Cracking the door a little to make sure 'Scary nii-san' wasn't waiting for him. Naruto's face scrunched up with a look of confusion. Nii-san isn't in the living room? Maybe he's in the bathroom, taking a shower.
Stealthily creeping over to the door, he placed his ear to the door and listened. Silence was his reward. He's not in the living room, the kitchen, my room or the bathroom. That leaves…a mischievous grin appeared on his face.
Silently crossing the carpet, his hand on the doorknob.
Akira had a horrified look on his face. Possibly because of his imagination of Miharu's reaction when she wakes up and see him lying next to him. Oh Kami, please don't let Naruto find us here.
His eyes widened as he noticed Miharu's sleeping form move. Shit! I'm going to die. I'mgoingtodie.I'mgoingtodie.I'mgoingtodie.I'mgoingtodie. Miharu is going to kill me when she wakes up.
Suddenly the door to the room opened up revealing a neon orange and blue figure in the doorway. I'm not going to hear the end of this…
"Miharu-chan and Nii-san, sitting in a tree K-I-S-S-I-N-G…" Naruto began chanting loudly. Akira noticing Miharu sitting up, yelled:
"RUN YOU IDIOT. RUN!"
Miharu sat up and began walking towards the brightly colored intruder. Naruto saw his whole short little life flash before his eyes. I'm dead…It was a good life. He swallowed air and said a short prayer.
Meanwhile at the Ninja Academy, Iruka the teacher was in the process of calling roll.
"Shino Aburame?" Iruka called from the front.
"…Here." A dark-haired boy wearing dark glasses and a heavy coat called from the back of the classroom.
"Chouji Akimichi?"
"I'm here, Iruka-sensei." A portly boy said with a large pile of potato chip bags resting on his desk, the boy sat there and continued munching through-out the rest of the class.
"Sakura Haruno?"
"Present and ready to learn! Iruka-sensei." A voice called from around the middle of the room. It belonged to a green-eyed girl with long flowing pink hair, wearing a red Chinese style dress and blue shorts underneath. I've got to study hard, to win Sasuke-kun's affections. The girl turned to face a blond girl, named Ino and glared at her. Iruka sighed as he felt the tension raging between the girls.
"Hinata Hyuuga?" He said as while looking at his list of students.
"I'm…here." A tiny voice called from the back. It belonged to a petite blue-haired girl with large pupil-less lavender eyes.
"Kiba Inuzuka?"
"Akamaru and I are present!" A dark-haired boy with two violet markings on his face, wearing a blue wool coat with fur in the hood called out. A small white dog barked from its resting spot on top of his head.
Iruka nodded his head and continued down the list.
"Shikamaru Nara?"
A dark-haired boy with a hair-cut in the shape of a pineapple yawned and said:
"…too troublesome." And then fell back to sleep at his desk.
"Sasuke Uchiha?"
"…Here." A dark-haired boy with a haircut like that of a duck's behind, called from the back of the class. He wore a dark blue tee-shirt with the Uchiha Clan symbol on its back and a pair of white shorts.
"Naruto Uzumaki?" Iruka called, looking around the room. "I guess he's absent again today. Oh well, Ino Yamanaka?"
"Present sensei!" The blond haired girl that Sakura had been glaring at called from the back of the room. Her crystal blue eyes, and long blond hair, a lot of the guys in the class found her to be attractive, but the way that she and Sakura screamed trying to win Sasuke's affections, turned the majority of the boys off of them. She wore a purple sleeve-less shirt that formed a skirt and white body wrap formed a pair of shorts to her knees.
Suddenly, the Kiba kid's dog started barking up a storm, his owner looked up at the dog and said:
"What's that Akamaru? You hear the sound of someone screaming heading this way?"
"Maybe it's the dobe, realizing he's late." Sasuke muttered coldly.
Suddenly as if fate had decided to mock him, Naruto flew through the window and crashed into him before impacting the wall on the other side of the room.
"Na-Naruto-kun!" Hinata cried out seeing her 'secret crush's' ill-fated flight.
"Sasuke-kun!" came the chorus of Sasuke fangirls as the mass moved together with the purpose of checking on Sasuke.
Iruka blinked a couple of times making sure that he wasn't just losing his mind. Naruto just flew through the window and hit the wall and Sasuke…
"Nice of you to join us, Mister Uzumaki. Do you need getting down?" Iruka said as he walked over to Naruto's imprint in the wall. "May I ask how you got here?" Naruto muttered something like 'Nii-san's girlfriend hit me.' Which caused a drop of sweat to roll down Iruka's brow.
Back at Akira's apartment…Miharu stood in the doorway of her room, right arm fully extended and a large hole in the ceiling marking Naruto's exit point. Sweat poured down Akira's brow, as he foresaw a second hole with his name on it. She's going to kill me next.
Miharu brought her hand back and put it underneath her chin and with a cute face, she said while laughing.
"I guess I overdid it…" Akira fell over from shock. "Well, arigato Akira-kun for staying with me last night, thanks to you I was able to get a peaceful night's sleep." Miharu said with a polite bow. She went from being extremely scary to polite and innocent…Women are so confusing, Akira realized from his prone position. "I'll hop in the shower first, that'll give you time to wake up and do your morning routine." She said as she grabbed her towel, washcloth and robe from the closet and headed towards the bathroom.
Akira just sat on the bed and sighed. What have I gotten myself into…
Iruka stood in front of the class and began to trying to get everyone calmed down, after the fiasco earlier. I'm getting to old for this job, he thought before calling to class to their next assignment.
"Ok everyone, I want everyone to pick a partner. We are going to be going outside for some sparring."
After a few minutes everyone had paired up, much to everyone's surprise, Sasuke had paired up with Naruto. This might be trouble. Iruka wondered as he led the students to the courtyard.
Naruto and Sasuke took their positions within the circle. Naruto adopted a poor attempt at the opening stance of the Academy's style (Picture boxing without training and not guarding anything…) while Sasuke adopted the Uchiha's Interceptor style's opening stance. (Right arm partially extended facing opponent, left arm by side, hands in a knife-hand position, right leg stretched, weight is on left leg.)
Sasuke attacked with a right hook which caught Naruto in the jaw. Naruto leapt backwards as he worked his jaw over in an attempt to fix it.
"You know nii-san's girlfriend uses a similar stance as your and her punches hurt worse. I wonder if you two are related." Naruto said both as a taunt and an observation. Sasuke's eyes narrowed as he attempted a low sweep kick followed by an uppercut. Both connected.
"I don't care who this nii-san of yours is nor his girlfriend for that matter. I must get stronger to kill a certain person." Sasuke said as Naruto went flying. Naruto caught himself before he hit the ground and smiled.
"I'm not through yet." He said charging into battle fists flying and Sasuke dodging.
After several minutes of sparring, Iruka called out:
"Time's up. We are going to resume our lessons on the Hokages."
(TIME SKIP – Because I hate fillers as much as the next guy. 2 Months – Ninja Academy)
"Ok class. Today is the final exam. Since we completed the written portion before lunch, you have free time, until your name is called, when your name is called you are to proceed next door and perform the jutsu that we specify. If you complete it to our, instructor Mizuki and my, standards, you pass and become genin tomorrow, otherwise you must wait six months and try again. Does everyone understand me?" Iruka said standing next to a silver-haired man with a bandana on his head. None of the students said a word. Iruka looked down at his clipboard and read of the first person on the list, "Ok first up is Shino Aburame."
The dark-haired kid with the heavy coat and glasses followed the two teachers out of the room.
It took Hinata several minutes to gather the courage to stand up and walk over to sit next to Naruto. But when Shino walked into the room holding a brand-new blue forehead protector, everyone just swarmed over to him to ask him about the test. (Get it 'Swarmed'…I know lame joke.)
"Chouji Akimichi." Iruka called as he came to get the next student.
I've got to go wish Naruto-kun luck before my turn comes up. Hinata thought as she walked over to the subject of her affection, who was trying to start a conversation with Shikamaru, who was asleep again…
"Nar-" She started to call his name to get his attention when Chouji came in wearing his new forehead protector and Iruka came in to call the next person on his list.
"Sakura Haruno." Iruka called beckoning the pink haired girl to follow him.
It's now or never. Hinata swallowed hard to kill the butterflies that had suddenly appeared in her stomach.
"Na-Naruto-kun." Hinata said, causing her secret love to face her. "I-I-I just want-ed to w-wish you l-l-luck." The butterflies in her stomach seemed to grow in intensity with each syllable she spoke. She started to fidget as she continued, "I believe in you."
Naruto just smiled sheepishly and said:
"Arigato Hinata-chan. You too." Causing her to blush excessively. Iruka and Sakura appeared and Iruka began reading his list. Sakura was taking out the red ribbon and replacing it with her new forehead protector.
"Hinata Hyuuga."
"Yes." She said turning to look at the teacher.
"You're up."
"R-r-right." She ran towards to the door pausing once to look back at her love. I believe in you, do your best.
Naruto spent the rest of the class waiting for his name to be called. Everyone seemed to be passing and getting their forehead protectors. Well, he wasn't going to be taken down without a fight. I'm going to pass this test.
"Naruto Uzumaki." Iruka called from the front of the room. Naruto leapt out of his seat and headed towards the door. Naruto, sure has enthusiasm today. Iruka followed after him.
Iruka opened the door and walked inside. The room itself was small maybe fifteen by fifteen. Instructor Mizuki sat at the small table with a notepad taking notes. Iruka sat right next to him.
"Naruto, can you please show us your Bushin no Jutsu, please." Mizuki asked with a serious look on his face.
Naruto nodded and made the three hand seals, before saying:
"Bushin no jutsu!" Chakra poured out of him as he initiated the technique. When the chakra disappeared next to him, was an emancipated, sickly albino clone of himself, passed out on the ground.
Everyone in the room felt a bead of sweat run down their brow.
"um…Okay. I'll let you try that again." Mizuki said as jotted down something on his clipboard.
Naruto nodded again, looking a little bit disheartened as he made the same three seals again.
"Bushin no Jutsu."
This time the reward was a slightly off-color, emancipated, sickly, not quite so albino copy of himself lying on the floor.
"I'll give you one more chance." Mizuki said once again looking at Naruto with understanding and compassion.
This time I'm going to do it. Naruto vowed, I can't allow myself to fail this test again.
Making the same three hand-seals that have been the bane of his existence for three years, unfortunately one finger was out of place. He envisioned himself standing next to him.
"Bushin no Jutsu." He yelled enthusiastically, once again an insane amount of chakra poured out of him creating a puff of smoke. When it cleared it was a full colored version of Naruto.
"Congratulations." Iruka said right before the colored version fell over revealing that it was a two-dimensional copy on a piece of cardboard, the clone moved like Naruto did which made it an amusing piece of art more than a usable battle technique.
Mizuki just laughed at the 'paper' clone. This is definitely one of the worst attempts at Bushin no Jutsu, that I have ever seen, although it is definitely the most amusing.
"Unfortunately, I cannot pass you, with this." Mizuki said mockingly as he walked over and picked up the cardboard clone. "Maybe the life of an artist is more of your calling than that of a ninja." He walked over to the blackboard and placed the cardboard clone against the back wall, before walking back and sitting in his chair. The cardboard clone was now swearing in text bubbles and pointing in all of its two-dimensional glory.
Iruka walked Naruto back to the classroom, while carrying the cardboard clone in his arms, much to Mizuki's dismay. (Iruka took Mizuki's new toy.)
"Ino Yamanaka. You're up." Iruka said as he entered the room, everyone turned to look at the cardboard cut-out he had in his hand.
He tacked it to the wall which caused everyone to burst in to laughter. When he looked at it the cardboard clone had transformed into an animated picture of himself. Now that I'm looking at it this is one of the coolest techniques that I have ever seen. I mean it's flat but it can use the 'transformation' jutsu too. I've got to learn how he made it.
"What's that?" Someone in the class asked in awe of the living picture.
"That was Naruto's attempt at Bushin no Jutsu." Iruka said, causing everyone to laugh. When he turned around and noticed the cardboard clone was employing 'Sexy no Jutsu' he passed out from blood loss.
Immediately, everyone swarmed over to Naruto trying learn his ridiculous painting clone.
Mizuki entered the room to see a growing collection of cardboard clones, the prone form of Iruka and a rather pissed off Ino.
"Well, Ino show me Bushin no Jutsu." Mizuki said trying to relieve the pissed girl's frustrations on being last. She performed it perfectly, and he handed her a forehead protector.
Everyone was having a blast with Naruto's cheesy cardboard clone technique. Especially once they figured out that they could control the images with their thoughts.
(Sorry about that it came to me too easily and I figured that it'd be amusing. Now to be serious.)
When the parents of Naruto's classmates, he found himself alone on the swings. The hate-filled eyes of the citizens glared at him even on such a happy day such as this.
Why does it always have to end like this? He thought as he sat there on the swing. At least I created a cool jutsu, that earned me some respect. He looked at the last paper clone that he had and laughed it seemed to be making up and acting out its own story. This really is a cool technique.
Suddenly he heard a voice behind him, it was Instructor Mizuki.
"Hey Naruto-kun. I'll make you a deal." Naruto's ears and eyes perked up at the sound of 'deal', "If you can show me how you made these, I'll tell you about the 'Secret' Second Graduation exam."
Naruto shook his head in agreement and began explaining to him the secrets of the Paper clone techniques. When he finished Mizuki, nodded and he began to speak.
"To pass the 'Secret' Second Graduation exam all you have to do is, sneak into the Hokage's Tower and steal the Forbidden Scroll. After you do that you must take the scroll and learn one technique from it." Mizuki explained, Naruto nodded his head in understanding, before running off. Stupid kid, you played right into my hands, although you did however create an amazing jutsu. Mizuki thought.
As luck would have it, Squad Five was given the task of protecting the forbidden scroll, tonight.
"Hey guys, I'm going to go grab drinks, I'll come back in a little bit." Ryouji said as he got up and headed to the door.
"You mean like the last four times that we have been given this assignment. Seriously, what kind of moron assigns children to babysit the all-powerful 'Forbidden Scroll'?" Miharu said irately as the Third Hokage walked past.
"Are you disappointed with your assignment, Miharu-chan?" The elderly Hokage said smoking his pipe.
"No Lord Hokage, We'll just a little confused as to the reasoning that you are having us guard such an important object of the Village." Akira said as he appeared from near the door.
"Well, there have been rumors that someone is convincing academy students to steal priceless treasures to pass the graduation exam. I've placed you three here to find out who the traitor is." The Third explained. Everyone perked up at this revelation. "All that I've figured out is that he uses a technique that makes the person forget their mission in the event that they are caught. I have one of my former ANBU captains posing as a teacher to help root out the traitor." The Third turned towards Ryouji, with a serious look on his eyes. "Oh, and Ryouji, please don't drink sake when on missions, especially when you are in the Village. The Janitorial crew has filed some complaints about having to clean up your vomit off the floor. Act like a ninja."
Ryouji stiffened, under the harsh words of the Third Hokage.
"Oh geez fine. I'll stop getting plastered during missions. You don't have to try and guilt me into it." Ryouji said rolling his eyes, and reaching for the small bottle of sake hidden in his obi sash. The Third just smiled as he walked away.
"I'm going to leave things here under your control, Ryouji. Don't let anyone past you." Akira ordered. He had been placed in command by the Third Hokage himself, and Kami be damned for him to fail anyone's expectations. Ryouji just smiled, as he took a swig from his flask.
"You can count on me, boss." He said raising his flask in a sort of salute.
"I'll come with you Akira-kun." Miharu said as she chased after Akira.
Meanwhile, in the Hokage's basement, the Third watched the three genin watching over the scroll. I wonder if Akira has figured out that the scroll that I placed there for them to watch over is a fake. The only thing on that scroll is different forms of Bushin techniques. I wonder who the traitor has working for him this time. He stared deeper into his crystal ball and saw a little blond-haired boy in orange and blue. This is an interesting turn of events.
Naruto ducked into the shadows of Hokage Tower, he wasn't sure how he was going to steal the precious scroll for Mizuki. But he wasn't going to give up. As he stealthily approached the Third's Office he noticed a single guard. Ryo-san. (Can't fault Naruto for being forgetful, he called Chakra, Chatora in the Anime.)
"Ryo-san!?!" Naruto asked to the guard.
"I don't want any damn Girl Scout cookies. But I'll take some girl scouts." Ryouji said drunkenly and apparently horny.
I wonder if 'Sexy no Jutsu' will incapacitate him? He crept ever closer, and Ryouji began snoring softly. Nevermind, he's already incapacitated, from…He sniffed around the drunken genin. Rubbing alcohol? Yup, that's what it smells like. It should be a piece of cake. Quietly, he snuck into the Hokage's secret storage room across from where Ryouji was guarding. Piece of cake. He thought as he spotted the all-important scroll sitting on a box. Just as he was about to grab the scroll, his stomach growled angrily.
Ryouji leapt up with his Naginata out and extended, drunkenly yelling:
"Who's der? Sho urself! I can stup yu! I'm not Ryouji Kurosawa, the sexist beast of the Hidan Leaf Village People, for nothing." He said slurring his words so much that the meaning became almost comical.
The Third Hokage burst out laughing at the drunken rants of Ryouji Kurosawa. Oh Kami, how I wish that I could have taped that for blackmail at some later point in time.
Naruto just stared at Ryouji while a bead of sweat rolled down his brow. You're kidding me right?
Suddenly Naruto's eyes grew bright as an idea entered his mind. With his state of mind it just might work. Quickly making a series of hand-seals, he whispered.
"Sexy no Jutsu." Transforming himself into a very naked, pretty blond girl with two large pigtails. Smiling he did another series of hand-seals. "Bushin no Jutsu." Causing a nude, emaciated, sickly, albino copy to appear on the floor. Making one more series of hand-seals, he transformed into the Third Hokage, but with a big nose. It'll take a miracle to pull this off. The 'Third Hokage' ran out into the hall and said: "Ryouji, I've found an intruder in the storage room, she seems to be sick and naked." Hearing the 'naked' part he booked it over the 'bushin' and began trying to revive it. He turned his back on the 'Third' enough for him to grab the scroll and run…
The Third just laughed at the devious plan that Naruto had pulled on Ryouji. If that boy had only listened to my advice, this wouldn't have happened. I wonder what Miharu and Akira are up to. The Third switched focus on his crystal ball…
"Akira-kun, are you sure the thief is going to come this way?" Miharu asked as they hid in the tree near the entrance to the Tower.
"Positive otherwise they would draw a lot of unnecessary attention. If it were me, I would have transformed into the Hokage, grabbed the scroll and walked out. And in the case I got caught, I'd spin a story like 'I'm just moving the scroll to prevent its theft.' or something like it." Akira explained, before seeing movement coming down the stairs. "That looks like the Hokage, but with a bigger nose. It looks like we have our thief. Let's follow him." Akira said as he stealthily ran after the 'Third Hokage.'
"Wait for me, Akira-kun." A beat of sweat ran down her beautiful brow. "Why does he always have to run ahead and leave me behind?" She muttered to herself, before following Akira's lead.
Naruto just smiled, the hardest part of the test was over. Once he made it into the forest, he had plenty of time to study the scroll, and teach himself a new technique. Iruka-sensei will be so proud that I learned a technique from this scroll. I just have to learn a technique from here before Mizuki-sensei shows up, to pass.
Mizuki watched from his hiding spot on the roof of his apartment complex, with a happy grin on his face as he saw little Naruto sneak off with the forbidden scroll. It's about time to get out of this place. Oh Lord Orochimaru, I will have that scroll for you this time. An evil glint appeared in his eyes. I'm going to pin this theft on you, Kyuubi and be paraded around town for killing you. He just laughed evilly at the thought. I'd better wake Iruka and the others and inform them of the Scroll's theft. He wondered as he ran off to wake the citizenry.
Ryouji was in the process of trying to get the 'Sexy Bushin no Jutsu' to breathe. He was slowly burning off the alcohol in his system.
"Breathe bitch, breathe." He said attempting the Heimlich maneuver on the illusion. "Don't die on me, DAMNIT!"
Iruka was awakened by a loud knock on the door. There had better be a damn good reason for waking me up!!! He quickly walked over to the door in his blue and white striped dolphin. He had a horizontal scar running across the bridge of his nose, from an accident when he was studying his father's kenjutsu with his friend, Mizuki.
"Who is it?" He called behind the door.
"Iruka-san, let me in." Mizuki called from the outside. Iruka's eyes widened, as he quickly opened the door.
"Mizuki-kun, what's wrong?" Iruka said as his friend stopped to catch his breath.
"Naruto-kun stole the forbidden scroll. I don't know why or for what purpose, but we've got to get it back." Mizuki exclaimed, causing Iruka's eyes to widen. So my true mission, Lord Hokage is to find him and catch the traitor, as you wish.
Iruka tapped a seal on the back of his neck and his dolphin pajamas instantly transformed into his normal combat attire. The Dolphin's back for his final mission. (I thought that Iruka should be kicked up a few notches, I mean geez, he's probably one of the most pathetically weak characters in the series. I mean Genin Naruto could beat him.)
Akira and Miharu had followed the 'Third Hokage' back to a clearing near a shack in the woods. Hiding in the woods, they watched as the 'Third' disappeared leaving only Naruto.
"I can't believe that he would steal the scroll." Akira said as tried to walk out there and beat his little brother to a pulp. "I'm going to make him regret stealing it."
Miharu tackled him, knocking him to the ground and preventing him from revealing their position.
"Remember our true mission, observe and report to the Third." She said with a serious look on her face, while pinning him underneath her. "Control yourself, Akira-kun. We'll get the bastard that tricked aniki."
Tears of joy ran down Akira's face at her solemn promise. Arigato, Miharu-chan.
"Fine, but if that bastard tries to hurt Naruto, I'll kill him. No one hurts my family." He said releasing a little bit of chakra into the environment.
Miharu nodded in agreement.
Naruto was eagerly opening the scroll wondering exactly what would be on the 'Forbidden scroll.' His eyes grew wide when he read the first technique. NANI!!! Why does it always have to be a Bushin no Jutsu. He almost broke down in tears, as he continued reading. Every single one of these techniques on this scroll are a different type of Bushin no Jutsu.
"Since I need to learn one of these to pass, I might as well start at the first one." He said shaking his head and performing the hand-seals. "Kage Bushin no Jutsu." Suddenly a solid clone stood next to him, only it was slightly off-color. "Damn, I almost had it." Doing the necessary hand seals, and summoning the necessary chakra, he said: "Kage Bushin no Jutsu."
Iruka was the first to arrive at the scene, I've got to play my role well, if the traitor is going to buy, my false weakness. Naruto looked up at him as he rolled up the scroll.
"Naruto, you are in serious trouble. Why did you steal the 'Forbidden Scroll?"
"Aw man, Iruka-sensei. I just finished mastering one of the techniques. Mizuki-sensei said that if I took the 'Forbidden Scroll,' brought it here and then mastered one of the techniques written on it, you'd make me a Genin." Naruto said sheepishly.
"Damn, I knew I should've used the 'Hidden Mission' technique on the demon." Mizuki said from a tree-branch, across from Akira and Miharu's hiding spot in the clearing.
"Naruto, don't give him the scroll." Iruka said to the blond boy.
"Naruto-kun, please give me the scroll. Iruka, just hates you." Mizuki said.
"He's lying Naruto, don't give him the scroll." Iruka countered. This is bad.
Naruto stepped back in disbelief, he wasn't sure who to trust at this point.
"I'll tell you why he hates you, Naruto-kun. He hates you because you are like me, a monster who only wants power to destroy." Mizuki said. Causing Iruka and Naruto's eyes to widen.
"Lord Hokage commanded everyone to never speak of that." Iruka yelled at Mizuki. Naruto tripped and fell back as he stepped back.
"Like I care. Everyone hates you because you're a demon, the Nine-tailed fox, the Kyuubi." Mizuki explained as he pulled out one of his giant shurikens, and begun spinning it around his finger. "Die Kyuubi!" He yelled throwing the giant Shuriken with all of his might.
"Kazekiri!!!" A voice cried out as a dark shadow appeared in front of Naruto, the two sections of the impacted the ground on both sides of the shadow. "Naruto-kun, run I'll deal with him myself. I won't let anyone hurt you, aniki. Go with Miharu." Miharu appeared next to Naruto, with a concerned look on her face. Naruto nodded his head and ran off into the woods.
Akira was standing in the middle of the field, in a basic Kendo stance.
"This is must be my lucky day, I get the honor of killing the two demons in one night. The Kyuubi and the Moon Child." Mizuki laughed as he pulled out his second Giant Shuriken and began spinning it around his hand like a saw blade.
"You picked the wrong person to fuck with, Mizuki. The penalty for breaking the laws involving the Kyuubi and the Moon Child, is death. With the blessings of the Third Lord Hokage, I shall carry out your punishment." Akira said with a darkened look on his face, he quickly spun his black sword around his wrist disappearing from sight. "Dance of the Bloody Harvest Moon." The sword fell into the ground, leaving a thin gash in the ground.
"What in the world?" Mizuki said only to feel a sharp pain on the back of both legs and arms, causing him to drop to his knees and drop the Shuriken.
"Mizuki, you have been judged and found wanting. Good-bye." Akira said from behind him, his second sword charged with wind chakra quickly and effortlessly passed through, Mizuki's neck and the body fell to the ground and turned to dust. Akira sighed as he flicked his sword to remove any impurities. "Damn Earth Clone."
Mizuki looked in dismay, as he saw his earth clone being executed. Damn, that kid really is a demon. I've got to find that girl and the other demon, his brother. He leapt into the woods and began pursuing the pair.
Iruka watched in horror as Akira dispatched the traitor with the ease of an elite ANBU Hunter-nin. Holy shit! I'm a former ANBU Captain, and I don't think that I could stop that technique. His face turned a pale white. Akira walked over and retrieved his other sword from its position in the ground.
"Don't look at me like that! I studied kenjutsu under Hayate Gekkoi. I need you to help me find and protect my little brother and Miharu-chan. Come on." Akira said as he sheathed his black swords.
Iruka nodded in understanding, he followed the boy. This kid understands that you must protect those that are precious to you, even if you must dirty your hands to do it.
"I've found you, demon." Mizuki said twirling his giant shuriken at Naruto, Miharu leapt in front of it, using her twin kodachis as a shield, for the boy. "Looks like you want to die first, girly." He said releasing his grip on the spinning blade and delivering a kick to her stomach.
The force of the Shuriken and the kick sent her crashing into a tree. Giving Naruto a chance to hide with the scroll. Her grip on his kodachi gave out as she hit the tree.
"Fuck!" She cursed as the giant shuriken flew past her face. Her eyes widened as she saw the man pull out a second shuriken and spin it in his hand.
"Where is the Kyuubi boy?" He asked walking slowly to Miharu the giant shuriken spinning like a saw blade.
"I don't know." She replied trying to think of a way out of this situation. "Fuck, even if I did know, I'd die before telling you. I'd die before betraying my friend." She yelled causing, Naruto's eyes to tear up.
Miharu-chan, Iruka-sensei, and nii-san are fighting to protect me. They are fighting because I trusted this bastard. I refuse to let them get hurt because of me.
"That can be arranged, girly. DIE!!!" Mizuki said flinging the giant shuriken with all of his might at her.
Miharu saw her entire life flash before her eyes as the Shuriken flew towards her. My only regret is not telling Akira-kun that I like him, Good-bye Akira-kun.
"Are you ok Miharu-neechan." Naruto said standing in front of he as the Shuriken hit his back. Her eyes watered as she looked at the boy.
"You idiot, you are supposed to protect the scroll, not me." She yelled as the tears rolled down her face.
"If you died, how could I look nii-san in the face?" He smiled as he pulled the shuriken out of back.
"You idiots! I still have one left!" Mizuki said as he launched his last giant shuriken. Only to have Iruka leap into the path of it to protect Naruto, grabbing his face to hide his embarrassment and anger. "What is it with self-sacrificing fools, leaping into harm's way, to protect someone!"
Naruto looked at Iruka, with a look of confusion on his face, tears running down his face.
"Why did you save me, I thought you hated me."
"I never hated you, Naruto-kun. I know the difference between the prison and the prisoner. Now go hold him off until your brother gets here." Iruka said with a wink.
"I'm still here. I mean this is just sad, that I can't kill three children and a weakling chunin." Mizuki said as he pulled out a pair of kunai from his pouch. Naruto stood up and dropped the scroll.
"I'm going to kill you for hurting Iruka-sensei, and Miharu-chan." He said as he made a single hand-seal and said: "Taijuu Kage Bushin no Jutsu!"
An insane amount of solid copies of Naruto appeared surrounding Mizuki, who as the sight of it began screaming.
His screams soon stopped a few hours later, after Naruto was finished with him.
Iruka limped over to Mizuki's broken body, which resembled more of a blob of skin then a man.
"It's a shame that you were the traitor, Mizuki, you were such a powerful shinobi." Iruka said before making a series of hand-seals, and breathing in some air. "Fire Element, Funeral Pyre." He exhaled, releasing a concentrated blast of fire, completely incinerating his former friend.
Iruka gathered his strength and limped over to Naruto and said:
"Close your eyes, Naruto."
Naruto closed his eyes as Iruka began taking off his headband. He then tied it around Naruto's forehead, which caused Miharu and Akira to smile. Taking the boy's goggles he said.
"Naruto, you can open your eyes." Iruka said with a smile.
It took Naruto several seconds to realize what was going on, but then he was estatic and dancing for joy. It's going to be a good day.
The Third Hokage decided that this was a good time to call off the search parties. Walking out of his house and to the group of shinobi awaiting orders.
"You can stop looking for Naruto, he never betrayed the Village." The old man said causing the shinobi to look concerned, but before they raise any concerns, "Naruto Uzumaki was working under me for a STING operation, along with Iruka Umino, Ryouji Kurosawa, Miharu Uchiha and Akira Aijigetsu. They were working to uncover a traitor within the academy, and that's why you were searching for him, so that the traitor would be captured and executed by ANBU Special Forces." The shinobi present disappeared to relay the messages to the search parties.
"Don't die on me damnit!" Ryouji continued yelling at the 'Sexy Bushin no Jutsu' as he continued trying to employ the Heimlich Maneuver. Suddenly someone walked into the closet and said:
"What the hell are you doing?" The person asked. Ryouji turned to the man and said:
"What does it look like I'm doing, man?"
"It looks like you're trying to resuscitate a poorly made Bushin no Jutsu."
Ryouji looked down at the 'Sexy Bushin no Jutsu' and yelled loud enough to be heard for miles:
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!"
(So did you enjoy the chapter. The next chapter will be Naruto-centric. Next chapter is "Team 7 Assembled.)