Disclaiming any ownership of either series and characters except my possible own.
Well I can say is this Mizuki sucks.
Chspter 7: Seven Lances of Heaven's Metatron
Naruto stuck his tongue towards the brooding Sasuke who ignored him. But if someone looked really close he or she would see the scowl had lessened slightly. One could say that the antics of Naruto was calming to Sasuke. One could say the boy was somewhat more relaxed to have Naruto back. But one can only assume.
Naruto sat in his seat feeling somewhat disappointed by the reactions his class gave him. He thought his associates would at least care he was back but instead they acted like he had never really left. Shikamaru and Choji weren't really all that curious of where he had been off to and what he was doing. Kiba was the same way, it was like they didn't care or something.
Oh, well Iruka -sensei said he would take him to Ichiraku's after the exams which both he would absolutely ace. But still he had expected at least something positive with his return. His more unfamiliar classmates felt really too distant to have more than 'at least he's not dead' type of reaction. Naruto may be thought as a pain but no one around his age wanted him to die. He didn't even want to think about Sasuke's legion of girls that glared at his direction just for sitting next to the pretty boy-teme.
Iruka was equally disappointed as he administered the exams. These brats didn't even acknowledge Naruto existed at times but he already knew it was the parents who made these kids like this. Still his little surprise at Ichiraku's would brighten Naruto's mood at least.
'That boy must really had been expecting a happier welcome, but my plan will make him smile at least.'
"Okay next is Uzumaki," the silver haired man wearing the same chunin flak jacket as Iruka with a black long-sleeved shirt, black pants and blue shinobi sandals. He wore a bandana with the leaf's symbol plate instead of the headband.
"Okay so what do I?" Naruto said appearing right behind Iruka making the man yelp in surprised, Naruto couldn't help but chuckle.
"STOP SCREWING AROUND AND GET SERIOUS DAMMNIT," Iruka with his head growing several times lager yelled into Naruto's ear.
After Naruto recovered from having his eardrums destroyed he stood in the middle of the room facing the examiners with confident smirk. "Okay all that's left is for you to perform the basic bushin jutsu and you pass," Iruka stated hoping that a repeat of the last two times Naruto took the exams was not going to happen. Iruka already knew that Naruto was going to be the bottom of the class since his attendance was so low he could only pass with the bare minimum. Iruka already knew that the written exam was a absolute pass for Naruto, so he had nothing to worry about there.
Naruto formed the seal and put all his focus into making the justsu work, it was just like all the other times during his training with Bernkastel, it was all like that. But this time he felt it like a person was trying to break his chakra control. A jutsu to interfere possibly genjutsu to break his control. This type of attack would have worked on him before, but now with his new found control over his chakra is what's going to get him through this test. That and the fact Bernkastel would turn him into a juice when she puts him through a compressor if he failed.
"Bushin no Jutsu."
With those words Iruka and the other proctors to the test stared with jaws on the floor as a the room was filled to the brim with exact copies of Naruto. The clones poofed out of existence with a grinning Naruto.
"So do I pass?" Said the blond.
Iruka just nodded dumbly signaling Naruto to get his headband. Once Naruto swiped it from the table he strutted out of the room while tying the head band to his forehead as he walked out of the room.
The still gaping proctors stayed like that for anther moment before Iruka said," Sake after this anyone."
"I can't believe they let him of all people pass, especially after just getting back from kami knows where."
"I know don't you think the hokage should detain him or something because you know that kid hol-"
"Shh, did you forget we can't talk about it."
Naruto's eye narrowed as he sat in the swing he was so used to sitting on. He stared at his classmates as the kids were congratulated by their parents. Naruto often wondered what ever happened to his parents. Maybe they abandoned him, maybe they were shinobi and got killed on a mission, or they were casualties of the Kyuubi attack. Who knows, Naruto never thought much of it he had more important things to think about. Like becoming a shinobi then becoming the strongest hokage in history.
"Hey Naruto."
Naruto looked behind him to see the silver haired examiner that sat next to Iruka. "Yeah Mizuki-sensei," Naruto said hiding a strange feeling of suspicion from his face. Reading auras was something Naruto gained from being around Bernkastel who kept all emotion from her face except when she was amused or angered. So to survive the heartless training that she put him through Naruto had to learn how to read not just the minimal twitches on someone's face but also the feelings around them.
"Well you see…"
As Mizuki spoke Naruto couldn't help but inwardly narrow his eyes. The scent of deception coming from the silver haired academy teacher was strong. Especially with that bright kind fake smile.
Iruka was waiting just outside Ichiraku's Ramen shop. Naruto was surely on his way by now. The boy always stayed on the swing watching as the kids were picked up by their parents, probably hoping that one of the adults would one day come pick him up. After all one of the few things Naruto ever wished for was just to have his parents, his real parents pick him up from classes.
There was a rustling sound making Iruka turn towards the shop a shushed at the shop loudly as he ignored the passerby's stares. He sighed hoping that they would keep it quiet for the surprise to actually be a surprise.
"Hey, Iruka-sensei."
Naruto ran to his academy teacher waving a greeting. "Yo, Naruto, you ready?" Iruka asked.
"Of course I am but," Naruto said with a fox like grin that made Iruka smile nervously," is your wallet ready." If Iruka could get a ryo for all the times he wasted a weeks paycheck just by getting Naruto lunch or snack he'd actually be able to pay his small fortune of a tab for once.
"Come on let's go in," Iruka said resisting the urge to hit a grinning Naruto in the head as they entered Ichiraku's.
"WELCOME BACK NARUTO."
The witch of theater going Feathrine Aurora Augustus was sitting in her rocking chair calmly with her eyes closed. She felt the intruding presences coming from the distance.
Whoever they were she could tell that whoever they were they were very new. Younglings were always too curious and innocent just like children. That was how they got so hurt and twisted in the first place.
Just like the cat that was so curious that it ended up making a logic error. Then that same cat spent centuries walking on a keyboard until it spelled miracle.
Featherine chuckled at the thought.
But there was no time to think about that, she opened her eyes to see the space around her surrounded by yellow and crimson butterflies.
Naruto just stood there dumbstruck as the narrowed eyed man and the shoulder length brown eyed girl wearing the same cooking uniform stood there with a cake and several bowls of ramen around.
"Yo," Shikamaru waved from a corner with Choji stuffing his face next to the pineapple shaped haired boy.
'WOOF WOOF.'
"Hey Naruto," Kiba said looking up from a bowl of his own.
"What is this?" Naruto asked a bit confused. He thought naively that they didn't care that he was back at all.
"Just a little a welcome back party," Iruka said putting a arm around Naruto's shoulder as the boy broke out into a huge grin. Naruto then immediately ran to the bowls of ramen and started to shoveling the ramen into his mouth. "Mmm, I almost forgot how good Ichiraku's could be," Naruto said in between gulps.
The brown haired girl named Ayame couldn't but ask what most where wondering," so have you been without giving us a goodbye." Naruto just laughed nervously as he felt Ayame's intuitive glare. "Um well to tell you the truth I really didn't have much of a choice when I left," Naruto said rubbing the back of his neck.
"What, you didn't even time to stop in for final bowl?" the narrowed eyed ramen chef named Teuchi asked.
"Uh, no to tell you the truth Bern-sensei said that the chance of me and her meeting was .00000000000987214141%," Naruto answered then gulped down the broth in his bowl. Then he continued, "not just that but because the place where we actually was way farther from Konoha in the first place that dropped the percentage of that chance to .%." Naruto's attentive audience just watched as he consumed another bowl in during his explanation," Bern-sensei said that she was impressed with the fact that I just popped up out of nowhere and decided to investigate which got her even more interested in me." Naruto then grabbed what seemed to be his fifth bowl," then she decided to teach me one of her basic techniques just for the hell of it and got even more interested in me just because I got it down in about two tries, then she decided that I would be a good apprentice for her sense I did way better than her old one."
"What happened to her old one?" Iruka asked with a raised eyebrow.
Naruto paused to think about Bernkastel's old apprentice Erika. Bernkastel didn't acknowledged that the girl ever existed. The only reason he even knew the girl had once existed was because of a old game record that Bernkastel let him look through for examples of how to create games and how are games played.
"Um, well apparently during the final stage of the old apprentices training her chest got shot with a Winchester bullet that left a hole where her heart was," Naruto answered as he started on his eighth bowl. Naruto ignored Iruka's sudden concerned look not realizing that he just hinted that his own training wasn't as secure as the academy teacher thought.
"A winches- what?" Said Kiba who had lost his appetite while watching Naruto shovel down ramen.
"It's a type of bulky to handed weapon that fires out a few shots then you needed to pull a lever built on it to reload," Naruto said finishing off his tenth bowl. "Some thing like a needle launcher," Iruka who was a step away from losing his own appetite said. Naruto nodded as he finished his eleventh bowl with a content sigh. Choji had already ate more then him so all that was really left was the cake.
Naruto sliced a piece of cake before noticing a stray bowl that was left uneaten and Choji hadn't noticed it yet. " Can we see one of these techniques you were talking about?" Kiba asked. Like everyone else he was also curious of what Naruto could do now.
Shikamaru stayed quiet throughout the entire conversation. He analyzed what Naruto had just told them, it sounded to him like this 'Bern-sensei' just appeared and took in Naruto. But this 'Bern-sensei' couldn't have just taken Naruto for just the heck of it. There was always something underneath every action and there had to be some other reason 'Bern-sensei' would just take in Naruto.
But before Shikamaru could continue his thought Choji noticed a unmanned bowl of ramen that was left on the counter. Just as Choji reached out to grab it the bowl disappeared a in a cloud of red butterflies then reappeared into Naruto's hands. Kiba, Akamaru, Ayame, and Teuchi looked at the bowl then back at the frozen Choji whose hand twitched at the place where the ramen bowl had disappeared then to Naruto who ate the ramen full of mirth that was almost mocking.
Shikamaru, knowing his friend's gluttonous habit of loving food, got up from his seat and stepped just outside the shop. Shikamaru counted three, two, one…
…
…
"NARUTOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO." There where sudden shouts coming from the ramen shop of struggling, choking, gagging, and pain.
Shikamaru just said something that sounded correct in this situation," troublesome."
Naruto was heading back to his old apartment that the hokage had been keeping open for him. Naruto was grateful the Sarutobi cared about him enough to make sure he wouldn't be homeless. But Naruto wouldn't had mind, to tell the truth he had entertained the idea of finding a new place to live.
"A-a-a-an-nn-o."
Naruto turned around to see Hinata standing there with bento that had a note taped on it. The girl fidgeted under Naruto's confused stare. Hinata gulped as she took a step towards him. " What is it um," Naruto stopped talking when he realized that he didn't remember the girls name.
"Ah, sorry but I-" before Naruto could even ask her name, Hinata shoved the bento into his hands then ran the other direction with her face a deep tomato red blush, Naruto just stood there kind of stumped as to what just happened.
He ripped the note taped on the bento off. He read 'welcome back- Hyuga Hinata.'
'So that's her name,' Naruto thought but what he didn't get was why she gave him a bento. Curious he opened the box and immediately felt his stomach growl just from the smell.
That night Naruto decided he'd thank Hinata in the morning.
Sarutobi was just finishing of the last of the devil called paperwork, when Naruto appeared in front of him in a cloud of red butterflies.
Sarutobi was still getting used to the butterfly thing. Sarutobi was about to ask Naruto what was wrong but was stopped by the grim look on Naruto's face…
"LOCATE UZUMAKI NARUTO IMMEADIATELY," Sarutobi shouted at the droves of shinobi that quickly went to look for the boy. Sarutobi was actually impressed by Naruto's idea.
Flashback
"Mizuki told you to do that huh?" Sarutobi asked with a seldom face.
Naruto nodded, he had been through many scenarios in his mind of what Mizuki told him to do. It just seemed so odd to him, why would there be an extra exam where they had to locate a scroll from the hokage's own stash. Bernkastel had told him that there might be a few times he would have to encounter people that would betray him or the village. He couldn't leave this to chance, he noticed somehow he was considered an asset. An unliked one but necessary one none the less.
"Oji-san," Naruto said with his usual determined look that made the old man suddenly filled with dread," give me the scroll and let me go get Mizuki-sensei."
The hokage just stared at the boy," Naruto there are others more quali-,""I don't care old man Mizuki tried to use me and I want to get him back, besides you have nothing but my word for it."
'hm," Sarutobi saw Naruto's point, if he just accuse a respected academy instructor with just the village paraiah's suspicion for him. He could always do a sting operation with a trusted jonin henged as Naruto. But Sarutobi knew that the boy would send the operation to hell by appearing to take care of Mizuki himself. Still it was tempting to send Naruto. All he had truly seen of Naruto's skills were that strange teleportation, that just couldn't be called a shushin, and the ability to transport things with a thought.
'Just like space time ninjutsu,' Sarutobi thought.
Sarutobi just stared at the boy but just for a second the image of a purple eyed long crimson haired girl with the same fire in her eyes overshadowed Naruto's form. 'The next generation must always take charge away from the old,' the third thought with smile.
"Ok Naruto I'll put my trust in you just don't disappoint me."
Flash back over
Sarutobi looked at the full moon wondering if he had made the right decision.
Naruto even when he decided to do this, wanted to at least one thing from the scroll. That was part of his plan to he just never told the hokage.
Naruto chuckled at his clever little stunt, he takes out Mizuki and gain a new jutsu on the side. And that jutsu name is-"NARUTO!"
And there came Iruka finding him in the woods. 'He always was the only person who ever caught me,' Naruto thought scratching his cheek with a nervous smile on his face.
"Naruto what in kami's name are you doing?" Iruka asked with a very strained look on his face. One day back out in the open and Naruto already pulling something.
"Um, well Mizuki-sensei said that as a extra assignment I had to do," Naruto stated thinking fast. He didn't think of Iruka actually finding him, now Naruto had to figure out what to do about this problem.
With honest surprise at what Naruto just said Iruka thought, 'why would Mizuki…'
Both Iruka and Naruto's senses snapped at the feeling of killer intent. Just as a barrage of shuriken almost binned into them they dodged to the side. "Who…" Iruka trailed off as he spotted Mizuki crouched down on a tree branch with a large shuriken strapped to his back. "Mizuki you…" Iruka couldn't help but get quiet. This was Mizuki one of his friends, but Iruka knew one thing that Mizuki had turned traitor.
"Naruto good job now give me the scroll," Mizuki ordered with a fierce smile on his face. Naruto grimaced at the order then said, " I don't think so Mizuki."
"Eh, is that how your supposed to speak to you sensei?" Mizuki said with a glare.
With a 'che' Naruto put the scroll on his back then said with a feral fox like smile, " If you want it come and get it traitor, believe it." Mizuki's eyes narrowed, " so you figured it out, huh brat?"
"Not as smooth at you thought you were?" Naruto said feeling a bit smug.
"So you really have turned on us?" Iruka said getting into stance.
Mizuki gritted his teeth, he believed he could take Naruto out easy, but Iruka just made things complicated. Then a idea struck him," hey Naruto had you ever wondered why everyone hates you?" Iruka froze making Mizuki smirk inwardly but Naruto just stared at his former sensei. It was tempting to know why everyone was so off around him, why they hated him so deeply?
Naruto had to know," why."
Mizuki grinned as he exclaimed loudly, " because you are the Kyuubi no kitsune." Naruto stared at the traitor in shock as he thought,' that makes no sense.' In history he learn the fourth hokage had defeated the fox… but they never said how. Naruto's mind was moving a hundred miles per second as he tried to work out what Mizuki just said. He was so busy it wasn't until he heard a loud slicing noise. Naruto looked up seeing Iruka cough blood with the large shuriken Mizuki had protruding from Iruka's back.
"You…are Uzumaki…'cough'…Naruto not the fox," Iruka struggled to say. The chunin flak jacket was made from a tough material, enough to keep the shuriken on his back from hitting something fatal but he still had a severe wound that could be fatal if left alone for too long. 'Thank god ninja train their bodies to be able to last in horrible conditions,' Iruka thought as he resisted another cough.
Naruto grabbed hold of Iruka and calmly set the man down on the ground careful not to aggravate the wound on Iruka's back.
A freaky cold look appeared on Naruto's face. But the most frightening thing was the red shine coming from Naruto's pupils.
"Neh Mizuki how about I introduce a friends of mine to you?" Naruto stated with a smirk that made chills on Mizuki's spine.
Naruto bit his thumb drawing blood. 'Summoning?' Mizuki thought as he threw several kunai at Naruto only for them to disappear in bursts of red butterflies then reappear in another bursts of red butterflies again heading towards Mizuki who was forced to dodge. Just as Mizuki landed from his dodge a drop of Naruto's blood hit the floor. Seven floating white magic circles appeared. Naruto closed his eyes and whispered," appear yee seven fabled lances of heaven."
From the seven magic circles appeared beautiful silver spears with white markings on them.
"Metatron can you please get the traitor," Naruto said. One of the lances was then was covered by white butterflies. The butterflies dispersed to reveal a sunglasses covering her red eyes pretty girl with long brown hair with two bangs roughly framing her face, hugging her legs in mid air. She wore a blue long sleeved tail coat suit with silver and gold trim that had cuffs silver with silver and gold buttons. a white tie with a collared white long sleeved shirt with matching white gloves. On her legs were white leather shorts that stopped just above her knees with blue stockings that stopped below her knees with white shinobi sandals that had a silver one inch heel.
The girl unfolded her arms from he legs then landed with a swift exaggerated bow. "Metatron of diligence present," the girl stated.
Mizuki stared at the girl in surprise, in his years as a shinobi the closest he had ever heard of a human base summons were the monkeys the third could summon. But as he took another look at the summon he laughed, "is that your great technique, bringing out a little girl to fight your battles for you."
Metatron just stared at the man behind the sunglasses as she asked," orders my master."
Iruka found the cold look of the girl very familiar, it reminded him of one boy in particular,' shino?'
"Take him alive, but loping a limb or two wouldn't be a bad idea," Naruto said with a smile. To say that Naruto wasn't affected by Bernkastel's sadistic nature would be a lie. but Naruto had one thing that Bernkastel didn't, a limit to brutality.
Metatron calmly pushed her sunglasses closer to the bridge of her nose. She flicked the wrist of her right hand causing a white intricate sword design to appear just above her hand.
Mizuki stared at the blade noting that it was at the length of a normal katana in the shape of a broadsword. "as if I'm going to lo-" he was cut off as Metatron almost bisected him by the waist making the silver hair traitor dodge.
Before Mizuki could recover the girl moved at amazing speed at him with a swing towards his head. He ducked to the side as the sword trimmed a few of his hair. Mizuki could only continue to dodge for his life. It was like the girl named Metatron, no this thing named Metatronwas beyond his skill of survival.
"Hey Metatron I said alive."
Metatron paused allowing Mizuki to jump back to make some distance between him and her. Mizuki landed taking out a kunai, only to feel pain as he reached for the knife. Mizuki looked at his hand or lack of one.
With widened he stared at Metatron who had just retracted her blade. Then the pain from having a limb removed as the blood flowed gushing out of his bloody stump. Before he could scream Metatron punched him in the solar plexus knocking him out in mid scream.
Metatron dusted off none existent dust from her thigh as she pushed the sunglasses closer to bridge of her nose as she said," how frail."
Naruto just stared deadpanned wondering why he should have expected a better fight from a guy who had to use a newly graduated genin to get a scroll of forbidden techniques. "Now that I think about wouldn't the jutsu on the scroll cost way too much chakra for Mizuki-baka to handle in the first place?" Naruto said making a point that made Iruka just had to stare at the boy still wondering if Naruto was really as stupid as everyone believed.
"Naruto-dono," Metatron said getting Naruto's attention as she dragged Mizuki by the stump of his hand," should we not get the traitor and that man to a hospital for treatment of some sort."
Naruto looked at Iruka who still had the shuriken in his back and just said," Yeah let's do that."
Okay I have spent too much time . But does anyone have the freaking list of the seven Archangel and their virtues and I swear if someone puts in
baby angel one represents cutenessbaby angel two represents hugabilitybaby angel three represents cuddleabilitybaby angel four represents playabilitybaby angel five represents holding handabilitybaby angel six represents lovablenessbaby angel seven represents warmness
Or
if you study religion you will find the number 7 represent completeness or this is about balance
Chastity-LustTemperance-GluttonyCharity-GreedDiligence-SlothPatience-WrathKindness-EnvyHumility-Pride
While there are demons associated with the Seven Deadly Sins, there is no such association between specific angels and virtues.
I will type very colorful words that will get me kicked out of fan fiction because I just couldn't take rereading this crap any more damn it.
