Disclaimer: I do not own naruto or any other anime or video game I made reference or use of its characters and places in the mentioned games or animes for the use in this fan fiction.
"Normal speech"
"Toughs and flashbacks"
"Kyuubi"
"InnerSakura"
"Kyuubi's thoughts"
(AN): authors note.
AN: for those skeptical ones that doubted on how can an Uzumaki born in suna here are some ways of how it will happen
- The classic one: Temari and Naruto got married and raise their children in konoha.
- The split: Naruto impregnates Temari, the fight and subsequently divorces making the female take her unborn child to suna.
- The betrayal: Temari gets impregnated and with the help of suna she sneaks away from Naruto and back into her home country.
-The cliché: Naruto goes to live with Temari to suna
Of course an Uzumaki born like this is would be weaker as he/she won't have access to the clan's scrolls or the blood falcon contract but hey at least they're back in suna (ha!! Take that!!) And finally I'll see if I can include some Kakashi/Anko stuff in the story, as you guys seem to like the idea. Finally there are two things that must be said:
1) I will change Naruto's physique from Gohan-like to athletic (think like Rock Lee just a bit skinnier)
2) I'm glad to know that I was one of the many that was right about Naruto's heritage, unfortunately this piece of information cannot be used now for this story or 9 other I have without having to destroy it permanently you can ask why.
3)i seriously need a Beta-reader
Haku hit the floor with a thud skidding back a couple of meters at the same time the katana she was using escaped her hands and landed to her right imbedded on the floor.
"Your following my instructions too by the book Haku, use them as a guideline, let your instinct guide you, you're a natural at this, and if you don't take this seriously you'll never hit me" said her jounin sensei Hagane Mai.
The girl took a moment to gaze at her sensei, she was dressed in standard jounin uniform, black pants, bandaged shins, black sandals, navy-blue flak-jacket, and a black long-sleeved shirt that have the sleeves rolled back showing a pair of black fingerless gauntlets (AN: like the ones Link uses in ocarina of time) her face had a regular sized nose, a pair of deep-green emerald eyes, nice looking lips, her hair was of a light-red shade that reached passing her shoulder blades and was kept in low ponytail leaving only pair of neck-length bangs to frame her face, but the most notable characteristic of her was the number of weapons strapped on her.
On her right thigh was the ever-present kunai-holster, on her back with the handle pointing out her right shoulder was a Chinese wide sword (AN: like the one Zuko from avatar uses) that could split in two to be handled ambidextrous (AN: one on each hand), on her lower back she has a ninja-to with the handle also pointing out on her right side, on her left hip the classic weapon pouch, on her left thigh what it looked like a wider, and bigger version of a kunai holster that only had one lid where a tree sectioned staff was kept in, on her back was a katana making a crisscross position with the Chinese sword and in the center of her back completely parallel to her vertebral column was a kodachi.
"But sensei how am I supposed to defeat you? For starters you're a jounin and there is the fact that you're member of the shinobigatana nanain shu (seven swordsmen of the mist)" normally Haku was not a quitter but they've been at this for several hours now and the sequence was the same, she attacks, Mai swats her attack away easily, she punches, hits or kicks then she hits the floor and then Mai tells what she did wrong.
Hearing this the female jounin narrowed her eyes, Haku was by far the most gifted student she ever had, and she was by far better than the two other jokes under her command, a whiny little princess and a no-good pervert that can't get his head out of the gutter five minutes to stop seeing her or the other two females as pieces of meat. And there was no chance in hell she was going to let her best student go to waste, how the other two passed the teamwork test was beyond her.
"Are you sure you're a Momochi?"
The air suddenly turned cold "and exactly what is that supposed to mean"
"A Momochi is stubborn and fearless by nature as well as being among the best swordsmen in kiri if not all the nations, you however are quitting only after a couple of hits, you got the talent aright but not the attitude, simply put you lack resolve"
The last words rang on Haku's ears like a sledgehammer hitting a piece of crystal and made her remember something that happened before she had to leave the mist.
FLASHBACK STARTS (I don't own bleach):
"AAAHHH!" a young man white hair yelled hitting the ground to avoid an horizontal slash courtesy of Zabuza, the young man looked up to se kubikiri a couple of inches of his face making the poor kid tremble.
Zabuza shook his head slightly before speaking in a mixture of anger and disappointment.
"Get up Suigetsu, were not done yet"
"Look you psychos what the hell are you trying to do, kill me? There is no way I'll ever defeat you"
The demon of the mist narrowed his eyes in anger before answering the question.
"You won't as long as you keep hanging to your fear"
"What the hell are you talking about, I'm not afraid"
"Yes you are!!!" roared the demon of the mist making the kid tremble, never seeing Zabuza this angry before.
"Did you know Suigetsu that a blade just like the eyes reflects what the user it's feeling and the only thing I see in yours its fear"
"Huh?" the member of the seven swordsmen of mist said nothing more and charged.
Suigetsu moved out of the way of a vertical slash that could have killed him "all I see is fear, when I dodge "I'm afraid of being hit" if I'm protecting someone "I'm afraid they'll die" and when I attack "I'm afraid to cut them" those are your thoughts and it reflects on your blade" Zabuza said finishing the string of slashes before signaling a very infuriated Suigetsu to attack.
"What you don't see kid is that there is no place for fear here"
"If I dodge" he said moving backwards to avoid the right to left slash that the teen launched "I won't let you hit me".
Suigetsu then moved his target towards a young Haku and her mother Kikko that were watching from the sidelines when the slash was about to connect was stopped by the flat of Zabuza's blade "if I'm protecting someone I won't let them die" said Zabuza as he pushed the white haired teen back "and finally if I attack I'm going to cut you" he said launched a diagonal slash from over his left shoulder to his right leg slamming Suigetsu into a nearby tree.
"This is the resolve I'm talking about. Remember this Suigetsu, you too Haku"
Flashback ends.
Haku stood up and took her stance, her eyes showing a determination that was almost extinct moments ago. Seeing this Mai smiled while taking the katana strapped on her back and sliding into a kenjutsu stance.
"Come Haku"
The Momochi girl did just that, with a burst of chakra the brown-haired girl swiped her sword horizontally fast enough to catch Mai unexpected for an instant before the jounin parried it before launching a vertical slash on her own, making Haku lean towards the left to dodge the strike and a moment after she spun on her own heel to deliver a slash to the jounin's back only to be blocked by Mai who spun as well.
Several minutes of trading slashes passed with neither of them gaining the upper hand until Mai saw an opening and moved in for the kill, Haku saw this and cursed mentally and weighting her options decided to take a gamble.
Both swordswomen moved towards the other and for an instant everything froze then out of nowhere Mai smiled.
"It seems that your little gamble paid off, isn't it Haku?"
The girl smiled and answered back "it seems that way" while Mai was holding her blade near Haku's neck the girl had hers ready to stab her abdomen.
"Okay Haku lets go and see how the rest of the team is fairing" and with that they left in the direction where some horrible, banshee-like screeches where heard.
In the road to konoha:
"Are you sure this is right, I mean they could be worse than Orochimaru" said an orange haired girl with a worried tone.
The old man next to her smiled and said "don't worry Sasame the sandaime it's an honorable man and the village it's a peaceful one, everything will be aright"
The girl just nodded thought she wasn't so sure about that, the last time the Fuuma trusted someone half of her clan disappeared without a trace whatsoever, including her cousin Arashi, then there were the rumors of what Orochimaru did to her clansmen, that was one of the reasons why they were moving to konoha in hopes of a better life.
"Yeah Sasame you should calm down everything will be fine" said a black haired man behind her that carried a zanbato on his back.
"I hope so Hanzaki-san"
Then from the front of the group a shout was heard "LOOK THE GATES ARE IN SIGTH!" and as it was told the gates to konoha appeared on her view, looking as magnificent as they always been, the gates were a reddish brown with the leaf symbol on top the gate, Sasame was marveled at the size they had, she returned her gaze forward just to see a group of people waiting for them, the first one was an old man clad in red and white robes, he had a red hat that sported the kanji for fire on the front, the man himself held an air of wisdom and if you knew where to look, power. Next to him a pair of elder stand near to the hokage dressed in robes to her they looked like a pair of shinobi that grew accustomed to a civilian life.
When they approached the old man it became obvious that he was the hokage he welcomed them to the village where they were going to live, as they walked Sasame tuned out the conversation as if really didn't matter to her where the compound was going to be she is twelve after all and took that time to gaze to her new home, konoha she was marveled by the size of the buildings and houses, their colors, the streets, their people in and out of them, their friendliness to one another, and some how she knew everything will be okay.
"Sasame are you listening?" said the amused voice of the elder man in front of her startling the orange haired girl.
"Ah-oh gomenasai" said the girl blushing slightly from embarrassment.
The hokage suppressed a slight snicker "don't worry I know that sightseeing is more interesting than this political stuff" earning him a smile from the girl and a grunt from Homura and Koharu, who thought the issue of where the clan will be was important and in the end it was going to be a place where the clans lived.
When they arrived to the place the first thing that the Fuuma clan noticed it was that the compound was abandoned and yet at the same time it was habitable it looked like it was given only minimum care to it, all in all the place needed a serious dusting and some repairs.
"We're sorry but in such short notice this is all we could find" said the Sandaime clearly embarrassed by the state of the place but for the Fuuma it was a whole different thing.
For starters the place was not only tree times larger than the old little village the use to live in, the houses are made of other things than wood (AN: for visual of where they lived is the village they appear when the Fuuma arc finishes (I think)) so a little dusting and some repairs was not that bad.
"Don't worry hokage-sama this is fine, just needs a little dusting" said the Fuuma elder.
"Now about your neighbors, please notice that this is the part where the clans have their homes, there is the Hyuuga" pointing towards the Hyuuga compound "the Uchiha" pointing towards the deserted compound "and the Kazama" he said pointing towards Naruto's house.
"The Kazama?" inquired another Fuuma elder.
"The clan of the man that first offered you to join this village" said the sandaime calmly making Koharu and Homura interested. There were rumors that someone blonde was living the house
The hokage turned towards his former teammates and spoke in a tone that left no room for argument "Koharu, Homura I need to talk to the clan elders alone" making emphasis in the last word.
The elders frowned but complied when they were out of earshot and almost all of the clan went inside the new compound to further inspect what was needed to do Sarutobi spoke.
"Now there are some things that you should be aware of regarding that…" the old man trailed off before eying Sasame who was still sightseeing without moving from her original spot.
With a loud "ahem" the elder brought out Sasame of her stupor making the girl blush again.
"Miss Fuuma what I'm about to discuss it's a secret and I would like to keep it private so why don't you go and explore konoha" the girl thought about it for a moment and saw that the idea wasn't bad, this was after all her new home and it will be better to get acquainted with it now rather than getting lost in an emergency.
"Or better yet why not let someone show you" the old man said looking at a black and yellow blur that was approaching fast.
Naruto was not having a good day, he overslept, got scolded on the unyouthfulness of being late got chased by another mob of fan girls making him arrive late to the team meeting, earning him another lecture, when the team meeting ended he was chased by Ten-ten who was determined to impose what she calls a 'fair punishment' on him because the armory stunt he pulled last time making him distance from his beloved ramen stand in order to lose her and now in order to gain time he is cutting trough the clan's area of the village.
Jut when the blond haired kid was about to pass them Sarutobi raised his hand in a halting motion making him stop perfectly in front of him.
"What's wrong oji-san? I'm already late"
"I want you Naruto to show Sasame here" he said pointing to the orange haired girl was looking at him a little weary "around the village"
The boy thought about it for a second before nodding "come on Sasame-chan, lets go!!" aid the ever enthusiastic genin making the girl blush slightly at the familiar form of address.
When the two teens were out of hearing range the elder turned wide eyed towards the hokage "it's that" he trailed off receiving a positive nod as an answer "that is why it's important that this never left this chat"
"With all due respect hokage-same are you crazy, this is a great news! Could you imagine what this would cause in the shinobi world?"
"That's exactly the point" interrupted the oldest Fuuma "the yondaime has enemies that would not hesitate in ending his bloodline"
TWO MONTHS LATER:
"Why the hell you were allowed to participate it's beyond, women should stay out of the shinobi' forces and into the houses" said the mist genin Namonaihito Daki (AN: the name means nameless (insignificant) despicable).
"Shut up you bastard what the hell it's wrong with you, but why do we have to do this, I'm sure my daddy wouldn't want me to get hurt" said the ever loud and pompous voice of ougonjidai Himei (golden age shriek) the daughter of one of the richest men in the land of water, making both Haku and Mai rub their temples in a futile attempt to dull the migraine. At least konoha was near now.
"If you don't shut up now I'll make sure you get back to kiri in a stretcher understand" said the female jounin making the other two instantly shut up.
Not a second after they crossed the gates they went to register for the exam, so each could go their merry way and in both Haku's and Mai's case get some peace.
While this was happening in another place in konoha.
"Let me go!!" shouted Sarutobi Konohamaru from his position, being holstered in the air by a suna Nin.
"Kankuro stop this, we don't want any trouble! What if he sees us?" the girl next to him said, obviously her teammate.
"Please let go off him" pleaded Sakura trying to reason with the guy in the cat suit.
"Let him go it was an accident" said Naruto going against every fiber of his being in order to avoid an even bigger conflict
"I'm just teaching this boy a lesson Temari, relax; these weak Konoha ninja can't do a thing to us." Kankuro said as he raised his fist to hit the boy.
In that instant two things happened the first was that a pebble hit the hand that was holding the body the other was that a black snatched him before he hit the ground. Blurring again Naruto returned to his position with konohamaru shielding himself behind his legs.
"You know attacking the grandson of the hokage could be considered an act of war" said the blond "isn't that right teme?" he said looking at the tree were the Uchiha was perched.
"Who the hell are you?" The cat man asked as he rubbed his hand and stared daggers at Sasuke.
"Sasuke-kun!" Sakura squealed in delight.
"The dobe it's right besides what kind of shinobi goes around beating little kids"
"Why you…" With that he went to grab his wrapping on his back but his female companion stopped him.
"Kankuro, your not going to use 'that' are you." She asked startled.
Sasuke got ready to draw a kunai when the boy with red hair spoke up, spooking everyone with his sudden appearance.
"Kankuro stop." He spoke evenly with a monotone in his voice.
Kankuro stopped in his tracks and started to shake slightly and looked up into the trees. "G-Gaara."
"He was able to sneak up right beside me without me knowing" Sasuke thought while looking at him.
"You're an embarrassment to our village." He said in a cold voice this time.
"G-aara they-ve started it I w-was just" his ramblings were cut short when a huge killer intent was released towards him.
"I don't, continue to act stupid and I will kill you" the tone on the red head's voice showed that he wasn't playing.
Sasuke now in the floor stared at the red head "what are you doing in the village?"
The female Temari answered, "you don't know anything do you or are you just stupid, we're here for the chunnin exams"
"Temari, Kankuro let's go" as the were turning when the blonde's voice stopped them
"Wait what's your name"
"Me?" Temari blushed slightly after all in her eyes both the blond and the black haired kid were hot.
"Yes along with his" he said pointing towards the boy with the gourd.
"I'm Temari and this is Gaara, what's your?"
"I'm Uzumaki Naruto and these is Uchiha Sasuke"
"I look forward at seeing both of you at the exams" Gaara said.
Later that day Kakashi handed them their respective entry forms and informed them that it was an individual decision in the first place after a moment Naruto left with a confusing message.
"Oh yeah almost forgot congratulations Kakashi-sensei"
As the exam draws near so the chance to prove his worth, little does he know how much he is valued in the shinobi world.
AN: done! I know I'm supposed to write burden of the sharingan but the inspiration hit me and here we are, now in the next chapter, the confrontation of lee vs. Sasuke, Ten ten vs. Naruto (0-0) and Haku vs. ten-ten, and the answer to Naruto's cryptic message. As for Naruto's heritage canon. Wise I have ignore it or destroy permanently this fic, and finally sorry if Sasame looks a little like Hinata but you have to take on notice that she just lost her cousin, moved of her home and she is surrounded by a bunch of strangers (but that will change I assure you, besides canon-wise she was always a bit shy). As for the invasion it will happen just suna won't be part of it for obvious reasons and the kazekage is good (I've only seen one story where he is good and I wanted to try it). And finally two more things:
1. -This is the first part of a tree part story the sequel will be called chronicles of the storm
2. -If I feel that for some reason I can't pull of the harem I'll reduce its size or leave Naruto with just Haku (thought it's unlikely that this will happen
Polls, the first winner its none other than Haku (duh), and remember that I will choose the fourth member of the harem:
HINATA: 3+28
SASAME: 3+10
OC: 2+1
TEMARI: 7+25
HAKU: 51+37
INO: 6 +6
TEN-TEN: 5 +27
HAREM:149
Kin: 0 +6
Sakura: 0+1
Tayuya: 1+4
One more chapter to close the poll
JA NE