Last chapter was a hoot to write. I'm writing this during school so I have friends to give me ideas and other such help. Okay so chapters will be updated every week or so and will probably take some time to write. Luckily the school computer had spell check so the first half of this story will have good spelling. The grammar I'm not so sure on.
I might be a bit repetitive during this chapter just so you know so bare with me.
This chapter is exciting and we get to see Naruto deal with the news of a couple of D-Rank missions. I wonder if he would break under the anger at what menial tasks I could set for him. Oh poor Naru-chan.
So what does everyone think of Arashi? Do you like him? Hate him? Adore him? Love him? Tell me in the reviews that seem to have hit a brick wall.
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Arashi smirked as Naruto glided across the water. After tree climbing reached its abrupt end they had started on the walking of water. Naruto needed to learn how to mould his chakra to suit the situation. It required constant motion and balance. It was then that Arashi realized that Naruto's personality was just like his chakra. Constantly moving. It was why he had learned water walking so quickly. Now a whole week of chakra control exercise had resulted in Naruto developing the Water Glide, were a person more or less used the surface of water as one would use the surface of ice.
To skate.
To Arashi's horror, the brat could do something he was unable to do. Keeping a constant flow of chakra deviating from one foot to the other, utilising it on water. For the jounin it was hard enough to do it on land let alone a liquid. Air was the easiest to try it on but then again walking on air was the hardest one to master in the first place. As Arashi stood in the middle of the lake, a joyous Naruto skated rings around the poor redhead.
"Ha" Naruto laughed at the eye-twitching sensei. "HEY, Arashi-sensei. Am I doing good?" Poor Naruto had no idea that every word he said and every ring he skated brought an evident punch ever closer towards his face from the fuming jounin.
The last week had been long and strenuous. Naruto had taken three days to learn tree climbing and was still shaky when it came to it, but water-walking was like he was built for it, or it was built for him. With constantly flowing chakra it was dangerous for someone to keep using it for over an hour unless you were fighting or continuously leaping around, but they brought their own dangers. It was lucky that both Naruto and Arashi had high reserves of chakra, as a jounin and jinchurikki would have (P.S. NARUTO STILL DOESN'T KNOW!).
"Alright" Arashi said his voice laced with venom. "Naruto, let's get off the water. It's time I think I taught you a jutsu" Naruto abruptly stopped, yet still managed to stay atop the water, not faltering even for a second. 'Damn this brat. Even when he's not thinking about it he's a master'
Naruto's eyes brightened up and he bounced all the way over to his sensei. "Really?" he asked coming close to the jounin. Arashi stepped away slightly, slightly afraid that the blond was going to maul him if he didn't teach him a new jutsu soon. Arashi nodded and indicated for the blond to follow him off the water and on to dry land.
The pair moved a decent distance away from the water when Naruto turned to Arashi. "So what are you gonna teach me sensei? Spiting fire? Blowing things up? Do you know any tets...uh, kinton jutsu?" the blond asked in rapid succession. Arashi tried his best to keep up with the blond via lip movement, finding it hard to actually do so.
"Uh" the red head said. "First we need to talk Naruto" Arashi said to him sitting down cross legged, ushering Naruto to follow his lead. "It's about our kekkei genkai" Hearing this Naruto followed suit and joined his sensei in sitting Indian-style.
"What about it Sensei?"
"I think its about time you learned what it actually is Naruto"
"I know what it does. It combines whatever elements our chakra align with and creates sub-elements"
"That's only part of it" Naruto's facial reaction prompted Arashi to continue with his explanation. "Our Kekkei Genkai is called Nanatennou. The bloodline is not just any typical bloodline Naruto...not even by elemental standards. You see, there are kekkei genkais out there that allow the users to combine the elements, use the normal elements without hand seals and manipulate it as an extension of themselves. There are also bloodlines that deal with the sub-elements. Now there are twelve elements"
"Yeah. The scroll told me that" Naruto interrupted. "Earth, Water, Fire, Wind, Lightning, Wood, Ice, Lava, Sand, Metal, Sound and Crystal"
"Very good" Arashi praised. "Doton, Suiton, Katon, Futon, Raiton, Mokuton, Hyoton, Saton, Kinton, Yoton, Neton and Shoton are the styles used in modern jutsu. However the last seven elements are unusable to anyone not born with the kekkei genkai that allows it. Now our Kekkei Genkai is different. Instead of just one of these seven we are able to change our chakra natures to suit all of them. With Neton and Shoton you need nothing but your own will to do the technique. However as we hold this kekkei genkai that fuses elements were are void of ever being able to produce any of the five basic elements. Our chakra changes affinities and cannot become separate entities. They are fused as the seven elements not used by normal means. You may use them to create the other elements, but we will never be able to use average elements. That is why our powers are called the Seven Heavenly Kings"
"So we can only use the secondary elements? How does that work?"
"Oh boy. Listen. Our chakra fuses the elements. I is not naturally aligned to one specific element. For all intense and purposes we are elementally blank. When we use our jutsu, we are separating our chakra. Our kekkei genkai didn't start off as elemental based. It began with a genetic mutation that formed our chakra then instantly separated it. Once brought together it made something completely different. A different sort of chakra. Because it was learned that we could have access to all five elements and combine them our ability was classed as a Kekkei Genkai, like all bloodlines, we began as a genetic mutation"
"So once our ancestors learned about the elements and aligning our chakras to a specific element they could create the sub elements?"
"Hai. We essentially have two chakra's within us. However it is virtually impossible for us to align an element to both chakras. Within our bodies lie somewhat of pools. In every human there are pools that are linked to the elements. The largest pool is our essential element and the governing element in our chakra. However our pools are even and can only be joined to one of our chakras at a time. However there are or were records that in the past there were those who were able to create a third chakra and create a tri-element. One such example is Storm Release. Another would be...well to be honest storm release is the only one I can remember (suggestions needed here)"
"Then what elements are we able to use Arashi-sensei?" Naruto asked.
"Well the elemental fusions take two elements and combine this. This much you know and the elements we make require the natural elements for their existance. Fire mixed with Earth creates Lava. Lightning mixed with Earth creates Metal. Earth and Wind equals Sand. Wind and Water creates Ice and Water and Earth generate Wood. Out of them all the Earth element has the most influence in the fusions"
"Then what about Shoton and Neton?" Naruto inquired. "What about them? Don't they use the five elements to exist"
"You think they would. Naturally Neton is actually a combination of two elements no matter which. It can also be made by any of the elements combining, depending on which sound you want. Like smashing lighting against the ground for a shockwave or using water and wind for a illusion inducing sound. We as the holders of the Nanatennou do not require the use of instruments for Neton nor do those with the natural Kekkei genkai for it"
"And shoton?"
"Well Shoton is exactly the same. It's like that because it can crystallise anything, earth, water, fire, air, lightning and virtually every substance in creation. Shoton requires a massive amount of concentration because you are not using an element, your crystallizing it and manipulating whatever is made from. Our chakra uses the elements and crystalizes something so we can manipulate it using the crystals as a medium. This is the basic sense. Despite what I said earlier, we can crystallise the basic elements, however we do not control them. Our chakra control actually does the controlling there"
"Sensei I think you repeated yourself a bit" Naruto joked
Arashi smiled at the grinning genin before him. He stood up abruptly and stretched. "Well then" he said. "No time like the present. Let's start learning that jutsu"
"Wait a second sensei" Naruto said suddenly.
"Hm?"
"I know I like metal more but what element do you use the most? Do you only use one or two elemental combinations?" asked the genin. Arashi grinned at this before starting off with handseals.
"Shoton: Suisho To!"
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Iruka groaned as he put his hand to his forehead. "I might as well be Hokage. I do most of the paperwork for him anyway" he stated as he signed off another mission report. Walking in to the room and hearing what Iruka said, the Sandaime chuckled.
"If only you were a high class jounin I might have selected you to be one of my successors as Godaime"
Iruka groaned. "Why did I ever fall in love with teaching?"
"Look on the bright side" the sandaime chuckled. "Naruto would probably never made it passed his first year in the academy had you not been there and you probably wouldn't have the same relationship you have now"
"That's the only upside? Got anything else?"
Hiruzen smiled and shook his head. "I still can't believe you saw that cat-fight last week. I was reeling in shock after I heard about it"
"Reeling in shock or from blood loss?" Iruka asked dryly. Sarutobi snickered at his words, not trusting himself to say the wrong thing. He sometimes wondered if Iruka's greatest power was his kindness or his ability to bore his enemies to tears or death with his rants and his lectures. One thing was for certain, he did not want to die listening to Iruka's lecture.
"So how is Naruto? Have you seen him recently?" The hokage asked.
Iruka nodded. "Yeah. He seems to be having fun. Arashi-kun came to me the other day to request my help teaching him Hyoton at a later date. Apparently Arashi never learned how to do it so he'll be sitting in on the lessons to learn a thing or two"
"Iruka, you amaze me. Here you are, still a chunin and you're going to be teaching one of the most powerful ninja in the village and treating him as if he were academy student" the old man told him. "I might look in on these lessons myself for a kick. Poor Arashi-kun, having a chunin teaching him to do a jutsu"
"Hokage-sama" Iruka said, "Arashi-kun is perfectly capable to taking care of him self and he didn't seem too concerned about his pride then"
"So you're not concerned for your kohai?"
"Not in the slightest" Iruka retorted. The chunin returned to doing the Hokage's paper work when the door opened. Iruka and Sandaime looked up to the grinning visage of Mitarashi Anko, Snake Mistress of Konohagakure. "A-a-a-Anko?" Iruka stuttered at her appearance, wary of the large sword she carried across her shoulders.
"Mission accomplished. And I took out a Legendary Swordsman of the Mist while I was at it" Anko exclaimed, strutting in as if she owned the place before stabbing the large sword in to the ground. "Shiba Kaien was defeated by yours truly, I even have the head to prove it" she said bringing up a small sack where droplets of red fell to the ground. "Wanna see?"
"Maybe later" Iruka responded. "Anko, your mission was to act as a bodyguard for a political liaison to Kirigakure. Don't tell me you caused trouble for us…again?" he added. Anko grinned in a mix of bashfulness and mischievousness.
"Well…ya see, he was sort of the liaison under a henge"
"What?" Sandaime asked in horror. That man was extremely close to Hi no Kuni's daimyo.
"He switched before we met the guy. He tried to rape me so I castrated him first before I dealt with him"
"DON'T SAY THAT WITH A GRIN OR IN THAT MANNER" Iruka roared. "Anko what the hell possessed you to kill him. He's wanted by Kirigakure ALIVE. He's the last of his clan of sword masters. How exactly are we going to explain this to Kirigakure?"
"Good thing I put his balls on ice then isn't it?"
"Anko"
"What Ru-Ru?" she asked, using the old childhood nickname she had given him during the second part of their chunin exams. Iruka had gotten revenge for her ambush by beating her rather horridly during the final rounds where she ended up bruised, hurt and in the nude in front of the entire stadium.
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"Alright then" Iruka announced a couple of days later when he, Arashi and Naruto sat in a circle a scroll in front of each of them. "Now Ice jutsus are easy enough to follow. I hope Arashi-kun has taught you plenty on elemental chakra Naruto"
"Hai, Iruka-sensei" the blonde replied.
"Excellent. Well anyway, Ice jutsu depend on water and wind elemental affinities. Arashi has already explained to me the cliff-notes version of your kekkei genaki-"
"He repeated himself didn't he?" Naruto asked with a sly grin. Arashi shot his head to face Naruto and scowled.
"Alright then, tonight, ten laps around the training field"
"Nani?"
"Well" Iruka interrupted. "Hyoton is easy enough to understand. You use the wind chakra to draw the heat from the water and you use the water chakra to move and manipulate the ice. The second part is how Yukigakure ninja were able to learn their own bastardised version of hyoton. They used suiton, they just named it differently. However, with Hyoton, it is important to focus on shape manipulation. Wood generally doesn't require it, fire only needs it for the initial execution and lightning is a no brainer, but the other elements such as Earth, Wind and Water require adept skill at shape manipulation which you need chakra control for"
"Arashi-sensei's teaching me how to walk on air next, Iruka-sensei! It's just like water walking but you have to make your chakra denser and you have to focus on the chakra in the air" Naruto blurted out. Iruka turned to a red-faced Arashi
"Arashi-kun?"
"Iruka-sempai, please don't ask. The brat's rubbed it in enough how good he is at water walking"
"Is that so?" the chunin asked. "Well then that is great. Certain chakra control exercises linked to certain elements help us with our balance with our elemental chakra. Water walking and this Airwalk technique of Arashi's will really help you"
"Really?" a glistening eyed Naruto asked his sensei, adoration set in his features. "You mean it sensei? Aw, sensei your so sly"
'Actually' Arashi thought 'I never actually knew that. Huh, I wonder what the fire chakra control exercise is then?'
"Alright, Naruto-kun, Arashi-kun. I'm going to show you an Ice release jutsu and how to use it. I want you to try and practise it and master it within the hour we've been given. That sound alright to you Arashi?"
"Sure, i'ts fine"
"Okay then. This jutsu is called Hyoton: Tsubame Fubuki" Iruka went through the process of showing the two the handseals necissary for the jutsu. Arashi got to work right away, practicing the handmovements without any chakra being channeled. "Then I want you guys to focus on your chakra in to water and wind and allow them to combine in to ice. That's it Naruto". Naruto's chakra was already in the process of combining the chakra.
"Okay then. Now all you have to do is manipulate the chakra and shape it in to needles. From all those needles you need to make a bird's shape. The lake" he said indicating to the body of water they stood against ""has the water and I want you to push your chakra in to there. As soon as it touches it'll freeze"
The two did as Iruka said.
Arashi pushed his chakra in first and all that was able to come out was a trio of swallows, each as long as a fox. Focusing more, the red haired nin continued until he only had five swallows in the air. Seeing his sensei's achievement Naruto got to work doing what Iruka had taught him to do.
All he got was one deformed swallow and several boulders made of slush.
"NANI!?"
Arashi chuckled at his student's plight. Naruto turned his head to meet his sensei's. The red head saw this and grinned. "Looks like your chakra control still needs a bit of work lil' Naru-chan"
"Arashi-sensei no baka" Naruto exclaimed rushing towards him.
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"What the hell are D-rank missions?" Naruto asked as he stood in the middle of the assignment room. The sandaime, Iruka and several other officials who handed out missions sat in a horseshow formation behind desks around the room. "I don't like the sound of it" Naruto admited.
"Too right you shouldn't" Arashi agreed turning to the old man. "Oi! Ji-san! Why the hell are we doing D-Rank chores. Apprentices go straight in to C-ranks!" His outburst caught the attention of the other officials who all turned to him.
The sandaime rubbed his head getting ready for the pain he was about to go through.
"It was decided that Naruto is not yet ready to enter straight in to any C-Rank missions. In fact there is a request that Naruto be placed on a time just like every one else. Be thankful that you're still in an apprenticeship Naruto otherwise you and Arashi would be seperated. Take your pick, C-Rank or seperation?"
"What the fu- Ji-chan, is that old man and Homura sticking their noses in where they don't belong?" Arashi asked. Iruka and Sarutobi had to fight to stiffle their laughter at Koharu being called an old man. Once the hokage calmed down he solemnly nodded. "Ah shit" Arashi exclaimed as he folded his arms and kicked the floor. "What do those two think they're playing at?"
"The belive that Naruto is not quite ready for a C-Rank mission"
"Since when do they think for anything but themselves?" Naruto said, his face fowl and his eye twitching. "I heard Sasuke-teme went on his first C-Rank mission the other day and he hasn't trained as much as me"
"Whilst that may be true-"
"Maybe? Maybe? Are you out of your flipping mind? Kakashi can't wait to spring that kid in to all kinds of missions. Next thing you know he'll have a field promotion to chunin and then jounin. Don't you think the guy needs to get his prorities straight? And anyway they have no say what missions an apprentice and thier sensei take. If I want to put Naruto up for a C-rank, heck even and S-rank, there is no force alive in this village other than the Hokage who could stop me from doing such!"
"It's D-Rank missions or-"
"Or I just go over there and introduce Koharu to a spectacular scarring and give Homura the biggest chill he's ever goten" Arashi said in a daring and challanging tone. The sandaime's eyes widened at this.
"Arashi don't you dare"
"Come on Ji-chan" Arashi whined. "A little here an little there, we all say something nice at the funerals, everyone cries, we all go to the wake, bing, bang, boom, no ones to wiser to two old people kicking the bucket at their age"
Despite himself, Iruka found himself chuckling darkly. The sandaime, however, was less than impressed. "Arashi those are treasonous words"
"But what they do is treasonout acts. They bully the hokage, throw their weight around, expect everyone to fall and kiss the ground they shit on and follow their little cult of Uchiha ass-kissing!"
Naruto by this time had had enough and had run over to the C-Rank mission pile, grabbing the one closest to the top. "Yoink" he announced running back to Arashi. "Oi, Arashi-sensei, get a load of this. Rank: C. Mission: Escort person of importance to Houou city, isn't that the capital? Anyway, we'll go do that ji-chan"
"NO" sandaime roared. "Absolutely not. Naruto give that back or I'll-"
"Now!!!" Arashi cried as he and Naruto rapidly formed handseals. Together they finally cried "Oiroke no Jutsu"
Two puffs of smoke later and the room was shocked to find a beautiful and buxom blonde hugging a redhead with larger breasts tightly. Both were naked and there was nothing covering their private parts other than eachother.
"Please" the both whined, rubbing against eachother with the redhead licking the face of the blonde. The sandaime shot backwards with a torrent of blood and Iruka hid his eyes behind his hand.
"Fine" the old man roared. "But you owe me one when I have my advisors coming down on me like a brick wall. Here, a simple C-Rank that even you two could accomplish. Travel to the capital city of Hi no Kuni to bring back an important political figure for peace negotiations. Does that satisfy you?"
Before Naruto could open his mouth to complain at the lack of danger in the mission, Arashi pulled his hand over the blondes mouth and exclaimed "Yes! It's perfect. Thanks Jii-chan!" he said to the old man
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Okay that wasn't a really good chapter.
I am so sorry about the delay and it might take a week for the next chapter to be up, but please stay tuned and please just review. I don't think I can go on without reviews. Reviews, Reviews, Reviews, I'm obsessed with reviews. I want people to tell me what they think, not stay silent and drive me up the wall!
Anyway, Arashi is now known to have super chakra control, Crystal Release jutsu and a little bit of Ice Release Jutsu. We might even get to see if he has anything else up his sleeve. Who knows?
TTFN.