Storm Ch 10
The next day, Naruto flew through his apartment, trying to find the items he needed to train in using his new jutsu. He didn't have any ear plugs, but he figured that some bandages wrapped around his ears would work just as well. To cover his eyes he grabbed his old goggles, which had very dark lenses on them. He couldn't find any nose plugs either, so he just grabbed some more bandage material to stuff up his nostrils.
He then bounded out into the woods near where his team meeting spot. He picked a small clearing just in view of the fence surrounding the Forest of Death. As much as he and Tenten had asked, Anko-sensei refused to take them in there yet, saying that most Chunin didn't like it, so why should one Genin and one student like it?
That just made them want to go in more, of course.
Anyway, Naruto put his goggles on, and stuffed some of his bandage material up his nose. It was rather disorienting. He was about to wrap his ears up when he remembered that it wouldn't do any good, since his ears moved when he transformed. So, he left his ears uncovered, and began to focus his chakra.
It went a lot easier this time, and wasn't near as painful. There was a slight smoke cloud when the transformation finished, but it quickly dissipated. It revealed Naruto rolling around on the ground with his hands covering his ears, trying to block out all the noise.
A few hours later, and his ears were relatively used to the noise of a quiet clearing. He couldn't handle normal speaking noise yet, but he figured it was good enough for the moment. Next he closed his eyes, and slowly removed his tinted goggles. He immediately had to squeeze his eyes shut to block out the sun.
Once his eyes were used to the light enough for him to open them, he was surprised at the level of detail he could see. He could see ants on the trees across the clearing as if he was right next to them.
"Woah…."
Having by then realized that it was better to go slow, Naruto gently tugged the bandage plugs out of his nose a little bit. The scents he recognized as forest-y, but there were new ones there too. Instead of just a general forest smell, he could smell the different kinds of trees, the dirt he was standing on, and even himself.
As he pulled the wads out farther, he began to pick up on fainter smells, like some really bad smelling stuff from the other side of the fence around the Forest of Death. He even thought he was getting some smells from the village itself, although he was far too inexperienced at telling them apart to tell.
As he waited, he also began to pick up on animal smells. "Hmmm, let's see, that ones a bird, I think…oh, squirrel? Hm. Oh, ew! There's even dog pee. This place must be closer to the park than I thought…let's see, mouse…uhh, I can't tell that one…weapon oil…wait, weapon oil? What kind of animal smells like weapon oil? Wait…now its dango and snakes? That's Anko-sensei, so the weapon oil must be Ten-Chan. Better go wait for them before they come looking for me."
Naruto then cancelled his jutsu and walked out of the woods to where Tenten and Anko were waiting.
Anko looked over as Naruto walked out of the woods, "What'cha doing in there, brat?"
"Training," he replied.
"In the woods," Tenten asked.
"Yeah, it's a new jutsu, but it isn't done yet."
"Oooh, what's it do?"
"I'm not telling yet, it's not done. Well, it's done, but I'm not very good with it yet."
"Alright brats, how'd your test go?" Needless to say, Anko was fairly shocked when Naruto and Tenten looked at each other and fell over laughing.
When they had managed to slightly control themselves, Naruto told Anko about what they did to team seven.
"So what you two brats did was to trick Ero-Kakashi with a big stack of porn, knock him out, and then parade him in front of his Genin?"
"Yup"!
Anko stared at them for a second, and then fell over laughing. "I wish I coulda seen that perv's face!" she wheezed out as she laughed. "He was tricked with porn by a pair of Genin!"
"Neh, you shoulda seen Sasuke-Teme's face when he saw inside Kakashi's book!"
"What?"
"Yeah, Sakura-Chan wanted to know what kinda books we tricked him with, so while he was still waking up I gave Ero-Kakashi's book to her. She started looking through it and her face got really red. Sasuke-Teme and Sai-buru-bo-i (homosexual, basically Naruto is calling Sai gay) looked at it too, and Sasuke-Teme turned red too. Sai didn't do anything, so Ten-Chan and I think he's gay."
"What?"
"The book was talking about two people doing…..uh…adult things together and he had no reaction at all! I mean, all he did was look at it and say something like, 'it describes two adults having consential sex' or something."
This prompted another round of laughing from Anko. When she finished, she got their attention again. "Well, since you two passed the test, we get to go on missions now."
"Yay," Naruto shouted out, "real ninja missions!"
"Don't get too excited, brat. New Genin get D-rank missions, which I think shouldn't even count as 'missions.' You get to do stuff like fix fences, weed gardens, and go shopping for old people."
"What? Those aren't missions!"
"I know, brat. You think I'm gonna enjoy watching you two do a bunch of shitty chores? I'm used to going on solo assassinations, not watching two brats pull weeds. Now come on, if we get to the tower early enough, we can pick the least shitty ones."
Anko then led the two grumbling Genin to the tower, where they were able to pick their mission for the day. They were told to go pick up some garbage in the park, and then to go fix a fence.
Once they got to the park, their jaws almost hit the floor. There was garbage everywhere. "Sensei, how are we supposed to clean this up with just the three of us?"
"The three of us aren't. The two of you are. What, you thought I was actually going to help you do this stuff?"
The two Genin just gaped at their sensei. They had just been abandoned to clean a twelve acre park by themselves.
"When you get done, put the full bags here, they'll be picked up tomorrow," Anko told them, tossing a box of garbage bags to Tenten, "I'll be back in a couple hours to check on you," Then she shunshined away.
"What the hell? We're gonna be here all day!" Tenten screamed out, before getting a sudden idea and turning to Naruto, "If your new jutsu is some kind of garbage sucker, you'd better use it, finished or not, or else I'm gonna turn you into a porcupine!"
"No, it's not a garbage sucker jutsu. You saying that gave me an idea though. Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!" he yelled out, creating about forty clones. "Alright, each of you go grab a bag, and get to work! The faster we get done here, the sooner we can get to do something fun!"
"Hai!" the clones responded, each quickly grabbing a bag and starting to stuff it with garbage. When Naruto realized that they would still be there forever, he made another forty clones, and set them loose as well. With the eighty clones and the two of them, it didn't take near as long for Tenten and Naruto to clear out the park.
Anko was rather shocked when she returned to the park four hours later. She was expecting to see the two brats slogging their way through the park still. This was obviously not what she found. No, what she found was Naruto and Tenten sitting on top of a small mountain of garbage bags chatting about whatever came to mind, namely Naruto telling her about some of his pranks.
"How the hell did you do that so fast?" she asked.
"Oh, hi sensei, and as to how we did that so fast, stick around next time and you can find out for yourself!" Naruto shouted down to her, before the Genin pair jumped off the garbage mountain.
"What's next?" Tenten asked.
"Uhh, we gotta go fix a fence."
She then led them to a small house across the village. It had a garden attached, and a tree had fallen on the surrounding fence, damaging about ten feet of it. The tree had been removed already, but the fence still had the gaping hole in it.
They quickly set about fixing it, starting with planting new posts. When they finished it about an hour later, it was good as new.
They spent the afternoon doing group training, with Anko sparring against both Naruto and Tenten at the same time, trying to improve their teamwork.
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The next day they were a little late in arriving to the tower, so they didn't get their choice of missions. Instead they were assigned to buy some old man's groceries, and to clean the park again.
"What? We just did that yesterday!" Naruto cried out.
"Well, it seems that some wild animals got into the bags and tore them open."
Naruto just stomped out of the mission office, muttering something about "animals" and "killing."
Anko followed them to the park, which looked about the same as it did the day before, with garbage scattered across the twelve acre park.
"So, how'd you two do this yesterday without using jutsu?"
"Huh?"
"Yeah, you're not supposed to use jutsu on D-rank missions inside the village."
"Hmpf, to hell with that, I'm doing this MY way."
"And that is….?" Anko asked.
"Like this, Taijuu Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!" Naruto shouted out, and the whole park erupted in smoke. When it cleared, there were almost five hundred Naruto's in the park, and they were all staring at the original, who shouted out, "Alright! Every one of you pick up as much as you can carry! The bags will be over here! When you're full, dump it in a bag, and go get more!"
"HAI!" they all screamed in response, and soon, Naruto and Tenten were overwhelmed by the number of Naruto's bringing them garbage, and Naruto had to make more clones to hold open bags just to keep up.
Anko just stared at the field of Naruto's, still in awe over how many the boy could make.
Eventually, she just fell into a sitting position, not able to comprehend just how he could do that without dying from chakra exhaustion.
It took the Naruto army about fifteen minutes to clear out the park this time, and they all dispelled in a huge smoke cloud. Naruto just blinked a few times, as all the unused chakra flowed back into his body.
"We're done, sensei."
"Uhh, yeah, ok."
"You ok, sensei," Tenten asked.
"Uhh, brat, exactly how many clones can you make," Anko asked.
"Hmm, oh, I don't know, a lot?"
"We've established that, brat. Tomorrow, then, we're gonna figure out just how many of those damn things you can make."
"Ok, sensei. What's the next stupid mission?"
"Uhh, we gotta go buy groceries for some old geezer."
"What? Why can't he go buy his own stuff?"
"Cuz he's an old geezer, that's why. Now let's go find him and get this shit over with."
"Hai," the two Genin replied, as they began following Anko to where the old geezer lived. They made it about a hundred yards from the garbage pile before Naruto popped a couple more clones out, and they took off back to the garbage pile.
"What was that for, Naruto?" Tenten asked.
"Their gonna watch the garbage pile and keep them stupid animals out of it, since I'm not picking all that garbage up again."
"That's actually a good idea, brat."
They talked about whatever came to mind on the way to find the old guy, and when they got there, Anko about had to blow the door off its hinges to get him to answer.
"You asked for a Genin team to pick up some items for you?" she asked the old man, trying to be somewhat respectful.
The old man looked at Anko, and then at Tenten. When his gaze hit Naruto, the seemingly kind old man started glaring at him. Anko noticed the glare, and right as the old man was about to let loose some curse at Naruto, she spoke, "Is there a problem?"
"Yeah, there's a problem. There's a demon on my porch."
Tenten looked around confused, while Naruto and Anko jut glared at the old man. Anko was about to reply, but Naruto beat her to it.
"Listen, geezer, I'm not a damn demon. My name is Uzumaki Naruto."
"You are a demon!"
"He's my student, asshole, now shut up before I kill you," Anko spat out, "You got a problem with him, you got a problem with me."
"Hmf, the demon has bewitched you. You're nothing but a snake whore, along with your other demon whore student."
"What did you just say?" Naruto asked quietly, the intensity of his glare surprising even Anko.
"You heard me, demon, them two are demon who-"
He was cut off from speaking more when he found Naruto's fist lodged firmly in the middle of his face. "Listen, ya stupid dumbass, you can insult me all you want, but you do NOT insult my team!" Naruto then crawled off the collapsed geezer, and kicked him in the crotch for good measure. He was about to kick him again when Anko grabbed him, and after grabbing Tenten, they took off.
"Naruto-" Anko began.
"What?" he yelled back.
"You can't just go around assaulting civilians like that."
"What? How can you be defending that bastard? You heard what he said!"
"As I said, you can't just go around punching people who insult you."
"Aww, I don't care what he says about me. I punched him because of what he called Ten-Chan."
"I kinda figured, and while it most certainly isn't nice to call a woman a whore, you went about fixing it the wrong way."
"Well what was I supposed to do?"
"You let me deal with it. While I will admit drilling him in the face like that and then following it up with that kick to his crotch is an effective way to cause pain and humiliation, I know far better ways to make people miserable. Next time, let me handle it, ok?"
"…..Fine," he replied, crossing his arms.
"Naruto," Tenten asked, speaking for the first time since she heard Naruto be called a demon.
"Yeah, Ten-Chan," he replied.
"Why did he call you a demon?"
AN: Oops, the bold part wasnt supposed to be that way for those of you who have read it. it was caused by some error when i uploaded it. it was pointed out in a review, and has now been corrected.