Kyuubi no Yoko: The Second
Chapter 7: The life of a genin
AN: To you the truth I was not pleased with the last chapter, I always think the genin test is incredibly boring, especially since we know exactly what will happen, I tried to mix things up a bit, avoiding the god-dammed bell test, but I'll have to do better for the rest of the fic. Oh yeah, a couple of things:
So far most people that have given their opinion on Hana, have asked for her to be added to the harem. So that's what I'm planning.
I'm not sure what I'll do with Hinata, but I'll not pair her with Kurama, wouldn't make any sense with his personality.
And as per daveoo mangeoo's request, nicknames at the beginning.
Nicknames:
Neko-aniki = Uchiha Itachi
Inu-nee-chan = Inuzuka Hana
Manako-chan = Yamanaka Ino
Heihou = Nara Shikamaru
Kegawa-chan = Oonishi Noriko
Fundo = Uchiha Sasuke
Niku-kun = Akimichi Choji
Mugon-san = Hyuga Hinata
Tsumeato-sensei = Umino Iruka
Subaku-san = Aburame Shino
Nevertheless, disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or any of it's original characters. Anything other then that can be used without asking for permission, but I would like if you let people know where you got the idea.
Well, shall we?
"This is Princess, in position, west of target" called the radio.
"This is The Inquisitor, in position, east of target" dammit, she wanted to call in before Ino.
"Good, this alpha, I want you to move in from the sides, send him north!" came the orders.
"Copy that!" answered the girls in unison.
And out of the trees jumped two young girls, a blonde and brunette, from either sides of the target, Ino maneuvered a bit to make the south opening smaller then the north. And sure enough Tora bolted right where they wanted him to.
"This is demons brat, closing from the north, moving in for the kill." almost as soon as he said that.
"STOP CALLING YOURSELF THAT!" no one in his team shared his sense of humor...
Tora was worried, he had only seen two humans chasing him, there were always three, must be some kind of ambush, he decided to change directions when a young human male dropped in front of him, that human was dangerous! Too dangerous! He couldn't move, he tried to play dead, his heart was racing.
"Naruto-kun! Cut it out, you'll give him a heart attack!" Hana didn't like any cats, especially this one, but they needed the little monster alive.
Kurama just walked calmly towards Tora and picked him up without any complains, he had unleashed so much killing intent the damn thing went catatonic. 'Huh, doubt you'll be trying to run for a while' the Kyuubi was smirking, it had caught this cat three times now, enough was enough, if he had to do it again he was going to kill the little demon.
There's a first time for everything, whenever Tora was returned to the Fire Daimyo's wife, he would try to get away while being crushed by her hugs, but this time, the cat was hugging her back, like what ever was out there was more dangerous then the former bane of it's existence.
"Ohhh, I missed you too Tora-kun! Come on, let's go home!" she left without saying a word to Team 4, not that they cared, but that was just rude.
"Well, congratulations on your successful mission. Will you be taking another one today, Hana-san?" asked the chunin that was handing out missions today.
"Nah, we'll get some more training done, I think that soon enough they'll be ready for a C rank!" she answered grinning. Before they could walk away, Team 7 walked in.
"Team 7, Hatake Kakashi, reporting a mission successfully completed." he then turned to Hana "Ah, Hana-kun, how is your team doing?"
"Well enough, Kakashi-sempai." she answered politely "We're off to do some training now"
"Good, it's important to balance training and missions so that they gain strength as well as experience." Kakashi gave her a smile, from behind his mask "Why don't we do some inter teams sparring? It's best that they fight different opponents then the one's they are use to."
"Ok, when can we schedule it?" Naruto-kun always held back against the girls, she wanted to see him go all out.
"How about..." He mussed, with his hand on his chin "Right now?"
"Sounds good! Let's kick Kakashi-sempai's team's ass!" Team 4 grinned, and Team 7 frowned, except for Shino, he just waited.
"Ok." Began Kakashi, from behind his little orange book "We'll have tree one-on-one spars with the losing team's sensei treating everyone to dinner, the rules are: No rules, do whatever you want and we'll stop when someone has won. Don't bother arguing, if we had to stop the fight, you lost. Now, who want's to go first?"
"I do, and I want to fight the second place." declared Sasuke, pointing at Naruto, receiving three low growls from the boys teammates and sensei, and three loud growls from the Haimaru Brothers.
"Sounds fun, can we Inu-nee-chan?" Kurama turned to Hana, who lost her frown immediately.
"Sure, otouto! Go kick his ass!" she gave him a thumb up "Say Kakashi-sempai, I know my students better then you, and you know yours better then me, so what say I save mine if he needs and you take care of yours?"
"Ok." Kakashi giggled from behind his book.
Sasuke and Kurama stood in front of each other, the Uchiha took his stance and Kurama just ready himself, but didn't move. "Begin!" declared Hana, out of the corner of her eye, she saw Kakashi putting his book away.
The Uchiha wasted no time, charging at the Kyuubi and trying a flying kick, Kurama side steeped, jumped a couple inches, turned his body sideways and spun, landing an elbow at Sasuke's ribs, sending the boy back to the ground. He jumped again as the Uchiha tried to sweep his legs, and back flipped away. When he did, the Uchiha saw his chance, running through the hand seals, he took a deep breath and yelled: "Katon! Gokakyu no Jutsu!" spitting a massive fireball, easily twice the size the first one he showed Kurama.
The Kyuubi just rolled out of the way, and did something that shocked everyone but Hana. He shoved his hand into the fire and it was covered in flames in a second, after another, Kurama was completely covered in flames, Kakashi was about to move in, when Hana put a hand on his shoulder "You can't move yet Kakashi-sempai, your students life is still not in danger" she said smirking.
'What is she talking about, Naruto is going to...' that's when he saw, the flames where gone but Naruto was... Different, first off, he no longer had his fangs, claws or whiskers, his red eyes and the roots of his hair where now orange, both seemed to move, like they where on fire. Naruto's mouth was open so you could see a glow coming from it, like there was a fire lit in his throat, and to add to that impression, every time he released a breath, it came out as smoke. Finally, he had a single tail, made completely of fire.
"What the hell is that?" demanded Sasuke.
Kurama just shrugged "Kekkei Genkai... Now, why don't we try that jutsu again, Fundo?" he smirked.
Sasuke complied, making the seals, and taking a deep breath, he yelled "Katon! Gokakyu no Jutsu!", unleashing another fireball, the same size as the first
Kurama's smile grew wider, making single seal, the tiger, 'Katon! Gokakyu no Jutsu!', he spit another fireball, easily larger then Sasuke's, the battle of jutsu lasted a few seconds, and Kurama's won. All the Uchiha could do was stare, wide eyes as his favorite jutsu moved to obliterate him.
By the time the fire hit the ground Kakashi had already gotten the Uchiha out of the way, he turned to Hana "What the hell was that?"
She answered "You know what it was, his Kekkei Genkai." her tone serious.
"He can stole my jutsu!" growled Sasuke.
"You do realize your clan got famous because of the Sharingan, right teme?" came Noriko's voice.
"Shut up, you bitch! He'll be punished for this! I'll get the council to lock you up and trow away the key." smirked Sasuke.
"You're an idiot Fundo, the Gokakyu is not a clan exclusive jutsu, sure it got famous because of the Uchiha, but they didn't invent it." Kurama stated, clapping his hand as if praying, and going back to his original form. "Besides, I learned it from an Uchiha."
"Bull shit!" yelled Sasuke "No Uchiha would teach a clan less orphan one of OUR techniques!"
"Well, Neko-aniki was never really proud of being an Uchiha, was he?" he smiled at the thought of his brother. And that was enough to send Sasuke over the edge, but when he tried to move, Kakashi knocked him out with a chop to the back of the neck.
"Naruto-kun, please don't mention Itachi when talking to Sasuke, you know how he gets" said Kakashi shaking his head "Well, why don't we have a fan girl clash? Yamanaka versus Haruno?" he asked with a smile, ignoring his first student on the floor.
"But Kakashi-sensei! Sasuke-kun needs to go to the hospital!" Sakura cried.
"Well, I'll take him there if you beat her, but if I have to pay for dinner then it will take him a loooooong time to get there." he nodded "Yup, you know how easily I get lost..."
In clear panic she stood in front of Ino and took a basic taijutsu stance. 'Huh, time to show off to Naruto-kun' thought Ino.
She performed the hand seals and yelled "Doton: Gansetsukon!" creating two staffs out of stone, she grabbed one and rushed Sakura, she was, however, not very skilled at using a staff so the pink haired girl was able to dodge quite easily, when she moved to attack however, she pulled her fist all the way back and got hit in the forehead by the other staff. "Out of sight, out of mind huh, Sakura?" Ino stood smirking.
"Your students are very skilled, Hana-kun." said Kakashi, who was once again hidden behind his book "Well, it's all up to you Shino, please avenge your comrades."
"Yes, sensei" answered the boy hidden by an overcoat and sun glasses.
"Good luck, Kegawa-chan!" smiled Kurama.
"Why didn't you wish me luck, Naruto-kun?" pouted Ino.
"Because you didn't need it, there was no way you would lose to that" pointing at the unconscious pink haired girl "You're too strong. But Subaku-san (Hive-san) is strong too." he turned towards the last match. Ino didn't, she was just grinning like an idiot 'Naruto-kun says I'm strong!'.
Shino's bugs where forming clouds around Noriko, with a few hand seals, she yelled "Hea Hebi!" and her hair grew and reached for Shino, but he was too fast and his bugs where closing in, after a few more seals "Hari Jizo! (Needle Jizo!)" and she was hidden inside a cocoon made from her hair. The bugs however just landed and Kurama could fell them sucking Kegawa's chakra, before he could yell out to her, they heard a very low voice "Hari Haretsu! (Needle Explosion!)", and from everywhere in the cocoon chakra enhanced hair strands flew out, leaving no place to hide, but when Shino was hit he just exploded into bugs. "Mushi Bunshin no Jutsu. (Insect Clone Technique.)" called Shino from behind the cocoon, he couldn't attack her, but he didn't need to, in a few seconds her hair returned to normal and she fell down, Kurama went and picked her up, bridal style.
"I'll take her home. Inu-nee-chan, can we leave the dinner for another date?" both Ino and Hana were hard pressed to say no and tell him to just leave her there, or at least demand a ride as well. But Hana new better, and was faster, but that didn't mean she was going to let the girl be carried around like that by her Naruto-kun.
"Don't worry Naruto-kun, I'll take her home, it's my responsibility as a sensei. If you'll excuse me sempai." she bowed a little to Kakashi, who just nodded.
Both jonin picked up their unconscious students and used Shunshin to leave, when they were gone. "That was very impressive, Subaku-san, I'm also glad you didn't hurt her." Kurama said, but through clinched teeth.
"Don't worry, Naruto-san, she's perfectly fine, I even stopped my insects before she reached true chakra exhaustion. I wouldn't risk angering you. If you'll excuse me." he turned and left. Kurama was hard pressed not to rip his head off, but he knew he was overreacting, he just didn't know why, before he could figure it out, Ino grabbed hold of his arm and called his name, and although his worry for Kegawa-chan was still there, his anger was gone.
"Naruto-kun! I'm talking to you! Do you want to go eat somewhere?" Ino shook him awake.
"I would love that, Manako-chan! Uh! I want to try this new place that opened in the main street, they sell something called 'takoyaki'" he then used Henge to turn into Heihou. "Shall we?"
"Not with you looking like that! I want Naruto-kun!" she pouted.
"But if I don't Henge then they wouldn't service us." Kurama explained.
"But it's just a stand, so I can buy everything and meet you somewhere else" she countered, feeling a small victory when he dropped the Henge.
"Silence! Inuzuka Hana, you will explain this new found 'ability' of Naruto. As best as you can." declared Sarutobi, succeeding in quieting the council, there weren't a lot of people pleased with this development, the previous host could barely use the Kyuubi's chakra now this boy was sprouting tails.
"Very well." began Hana "When Naruto-kun comes into contact with a jutsu, he can copy the type of chakra in the jutsu, like when he touched the Gokakyu jutsu his elemental affinity became fire, after copying a chakra type he can call on it at any time. I don't know if there are limits to the number of chakra types he can copy, but so far he can call upon Katon and Doton, this... Ability however, does not allow him to copy a jutsu, like the Uchiha accused him, it works just like a normal elemental affinity, making jutsu of his 'element' stronger."
"Why didn't you inform the council when you first learned of this?" inquired the Hokage.
"Because secrecy is the strongest weapon of a shinobi, and Naruto-kun has enough enemies who are dangerous without me taking this weapon away from him." she never broke eye contact, it was not an excuse, it was the truth and she would do it again.
"Be that as it may, this situation is not normal, from now on, you will report on any developments on this ability and any similar ones. Is that understood?" his room left no room for any answer that wasn't...
"Yes, sir" but lying is easy.
"I have another concern regarding the... Uzumaki boy, Hokage-sama" began Koharu.
"He defeated the Uchiha in a supervised sparring match, he will not be punished, anything else?" asked the Hokage.
"That wasn't the problem I wanted to talk about" that got his attention "I have ran into Team 4 the other day, when they were going to receive a mission and I noticed something that might be a problem in the future. The... Boy does not where his hitai-ate."
Everyone was a little surprised at this "Hana, what is the meaning of this?" demanded Tsume.
"He thinks it's... Stupid for a shinobi to wear a symbol of his village, he feels that it's like warning his enemies where to retaliate." that's what he told her, but she knew it was a lie. "He's just a genin, let him rebel, he'll give up soon enough." she pleaded.
To everyone's surprise, Sarutobi answered "Very well. I don't think he is exactly pleased with the village, as a whole, at the moment. Forcing him to comply to something that won't get in the way, for now, isn't the best way to gain his loyalty." most shinobi agreed to this, but the civilian council was ready to demand more "You are all dismissed, this meeting is over, and this topic closed, everything regarding Naruto and his new found abilities is now an S-Rank secret. A leak of such a secret without permission from me, him or his sensei will be punished with execution."
