Xyru's plotbunny reserve.
A.N.:Greetings.
Here we go again.
There are a few (coughahundredcough) stories where Naruto lose his masks during any event, usually after the forest of death, in wave and at the valley of the end.
This…. is not exactly the same thing.
Well, not exactly.
Here it goes:
Konohagakure no sato. The shinobi was currently hosting the chuunin exam, where gennin from every village could try their best to advance in ranks.
Today was the third part of the exam consisting of a simple tournament.
People were in awe at the skill of the genin, the clients definitely hadn't lost their time here.
Actually, that was a lie…..
It started with a somber note when the Last Uchiha had been late which force the Hokage to postpone the match until the boy arrived.
Then, Sabaku no Kankuro decided to give up before the match even begun.
Yeah, the audience was not happy.
The third match almost ended the same way if not for one Uzumaki Naruto who pushed his friend Nara Shikamaru in the arena.
Face first over a railing to be clearer. But still, at least there had been one match and even if it wasn't the most interesting showdown, it provided a bit of entertainment.
Then came the second most anticipated match, source of also quite a number of bet.
Hyuuga Neji, the prodigy of the Hyuuga clan against…..
Sabaku no Gaara, youngest of the Yondaime Kazekage and Jinchuurriki of the Ichibi.
In another reality, the Hyuuga would have face against Uzumaki Naruto, a fight that would provide most of the excitement of the day. He would have learned that fate was not what dictate a person's life.
Here, Naruto got to fight his teammate.
And Neji barely escaped with his life.
And now, in the arena, the blond whiskered blond was waiting for his late teammate and, more importantly, for the chance to prove himself.
The audience were starting to get reckless, wondering what the Uchiha was doing, some thinking that the Uzumaki boy might have done something to him.
The boys' teammate, Haruno Sakura, was blaming her sensei.
"Where is Sasuke-kun?" Her best friend and 'Rival in Love', Yamanaka Ino asked from her right.
She had no idea.
"Excuse me, is this seat taken?" She heard from her left.
The two girls turned to answer and were quite surprised. Ino went completely silent.
It was a girl older than them with blond hair the same color as Sakura's orange wearing teammate. She had the good person look, an innocent face accented by her closed eyes and gentle smile. She was wearing civilian clothes, of a very high quality similar to the clothing nobilities wore. What she was wearing was only stressing her beauty. She was also holding a plate filled with baked sweet.
Sakura noticed something that stood out more than anything: the whisker marl on her cheek that she had associated with only one other person.
"Naruto?" She asked wondering if the boy had decided to do another prank.
The older girl blinked in confusion. Then she understood what Sakura was thinking.
"Ara? No I'm" "Ruto-sama!" The answer was not given by the blonde but screeched, in a perfect fangirl way, by Ino.
"Ara? Yamanaka-san? It's been a while…" Ruto's gentle aura went another notch up.
A few men were looking at her, wondering how they could win her heart.
"Ino, you know her?" The pinkette asked her friend.
"She's Ruto-sama."The other blonde said as if that answered everything.
"Ruto-sama?" She asked getting excited nodding from Ino.
"She often comes to my shop; she's the reason why I wanted to become a Kunoichi." The last part was said more and more softly as if she did not want the older blonde to hear.
Fortunately, her model was busy accepting flowers from one of the surrounding men.
There still was the root… And a bit of dirt too but she just smiled and thanked the blushing ninja.
"She's your model? Why exactly… Isn't she a civilian?" Sakura asked.
The platinum blonde shook her head with vigor before answering.
"She was once annoyed by a group of man, she asked them nicely to leave her and never bother her or any other woman ever again." She started to explain.
"And?"
"They ran, as if they the Yomotsu Shikome after them!" Ino said with admiration.
It was then that Kakashi and Sasuke decided to arrive.
Cue cheers from the audience.
The fight was about to start and Kakashi went to find a place.
He gave an eye-smile to Sakura and then he saw Ruto.
He immediately got a worried look and went to her.
"Ruto! What are you doing here? You know you.." He started but was interrupted by the girl.
"I know, I'm sorry but she insisted on coming herself. You know I couldn't let her go by herself." She explained with a gentle but clear authority.
Kakashi sighed, muttering about how that wasn't a good idea.
"Do you want a cookie?" Ruto suddenly asked undeterred.
The jounin and the blond genin immediately accepted but Sakura declined.
And then the older girl kept looking at her smiling that gentle smile of hers.
Sakura immediately accepted as a shiver went down her spine.
Meanwhile, in the arena, Sasuke was getting angry.
No matter how much he hit the blond, no matter how hard he hit the blond, his opponent keep getting back up.
The unstable Uchiha refused that, it was how he thought it would happen.
So he changed tactics and sent a Goukakyuu to the whiskered prankster.
Right when the boy was in the air having dodged a few shurikens.
The fire ball hit its target head on.
A burning corpse fell on the ground.
The entire crowed, safe a few shinobi, gasped.
And Ruto's eyes opened, her green eyes showing a slight amount of cruelty and amusement for something that was to come.
"Ara ara…" Her voice had a darker edge as well. "Uchiha-san really shouldn't have done that. She is going to be so angry; it was one of her favourite." The two younger girl were curious about the significance of those words.
"You broke it…" A voice said, right from behind Sasuke.
Everyone looked there as a girl became visible, as if a cloak of invisibility was falling of her.
She went to the 'corpse', ignoring Sasuke's question about her identity.
She was wearing simple clothing. Light pants, no shoes, a belt with numerous scroll attached and bandages to cover and hold in place her sizable bust.
No, what directly attracted the attention were the seals covering almost every part of her arms as well as her long red hair, the eye-patch on her right eye and, more importantly, the whisker mark on her face.
She took one of her scroll and sealed the fire of the Uchiha's attack within it.
Without the fire, everyone could see that Naruto's remains were a metallic bone structure covered in seals. Underneath this artificial skeleton, muscles and organs, was pooling a melted plastic like substance.
"What is that? Who… Who are you? What happened to the dobe?" Sasuke asked the unknown girl.
She took a part of the corpse, which seemed to be the 'heart', turned to him and started to talk.
"My name is Uzumaki Naru." This caused quite the surprise in everyone but the Hokage, a few jounin and Ruto. "After our parent's death, me and my sister Ruto were kept safe in an hidden house. I studied sealing and puppetry. When I was seven, I asked the Hokage if I could join the academy so I could meet other people. He refused."
She glared at the old man at that before continuing her answer.
"I created the Naru-T-0-unit so I could still experience life outside my golden prison. The old man accepted this." Before she could continue, she was interrupted by the dark-haired boy.
"Wait, how could you experience through a puppet… And why would you make a boy puppet?" Her left eyebrow rose at the second question.
She pointed to her missing eye.
"I lost an eye but it was necessary to experience life through my Unit. As for why Naru-T-0 was a boy…. There are two reasons." Everyone was waiting.
"The first is that the Kunoichi-only lesson sucks. The second is that I…. prefer…. girls…" Back in her seat, Sakura panicked.
"Wait, does that mean she likes me like that? I don't like girls like that…." But Ruto put her fear to rest.
"Don't worry, Naru just thought you were cute but after you hit Naru-to, she decided to do it just to annoy you. She's got her eye on someone else…" She looked at Hinata for a few second before returning to watching the 'show'.
"And now," Naru continued her story. "I decided that I refused to hide anymore. I do not care to discuss this anymore let us fight."
She unsealed another Unit, this one looking like the Yamata-no-Orochi.
It was as tall as her but it didn't mean that it wasn't dangerous.
She sat on what appeared to be a seat made of pure chakra as two sphere of the same energy appeared in front of her. She placed her hands in the two circles and closed her eye. She started to talk, the voice coming from her mouth and the Unit as well.
"Kido…. Kido…. Kido…. Kido….(loading) Susanoo-Unit, kassei-ka(activated). Jiristu-modo… kido( self-mode loading)." The voice was still hers but speaking strangely.
Ruto let a giggle out.
And the fight started.
Well, it wasn't much of a fight truth be told, Sasuke was trying to attack the puppeteer and the Unit would send him flying in another direction, or it would throw a lot of weapons poisoned or not, chakra blast or elemental jutsu in his direction. Each time with a comment of 'Muda desu'(It's useless).
Never really trying to hit him though, she was, after all, only trying out her work in a real fight.
After a while, she was getting tired and decided to take it up a notch.
"Alright, that's quite enough. If you truly insist on fighting be directly, I'll give you your wish." She got up and moved next to her Unit.
"The way I manipulate my Unit is the Ultimate form of Kugutsu and Fujijutsu. But now, now I'll show you the true purpose of my art." She said the last part with a proud and sadistic grin.
"Susanoo-Unit, Kishin-Modo, Kassei." She said her voice sounding as strange as before.
The Unit separated, the parts moving and placing themselves on Naru's body, forming an armor of sort.
It was completely white safe for two red spheres on the shoulders. The helmet was completed by a mask that left no way for her to see. Her hair was put in a ponytail coming out of the headpiece. The last part of the armor was a sword actually that was place in a sheath on her back. The blade was as long as she was tall and the sheath was a brown.
She took out the blade in one smooth move and held the white blade in front of her. Now she just needed to focus her chakra in the Unit to be able to use fully. Unfortunately it took time and release quite a lot of power. (Though it was immediately recuperated.)
She grin behind her mask as she found how to gain some time. Keeping the blade in front of her, placing her right hand on the blade while holding the handle with her left, she spoke.
"Ware wa kuu, ware wa kou, ware wa jin." The air around her started 'shaking'.
"Wara wa, hitokuri no tsurugi ni te, subete no tsumi wo karitori, aku wo metsuru." A white aura started to be seen around the armor
"Waga na wa Hakumen. Oshite mairu!"
That is done.
So, what did you think? A good Idea isn't it. And the armor inspired by Hakumen is awesome isn't it?
You want to adopt this story don't you?
Are there even people reading these one shot of mine?
Meh….
Anyway, I'm going to bed now. Good night.