Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, or any of its characters. Anyone who does should meet my little friend Gary Coleman.
Gary Coleman: For those who say that Arganaut owns Naruto... whatcha talkin 'bout?
Thanks Gary, can't wait for another one of your grills.
Anyway, sorry for those of you who read the first version of the last chapter, I rewrote it after a review from ZoneShifterD again. If any of you want me to change it back I will, I got a back up file on my computer. I swear it killed me to change I with we every freakin TIME!
Also, I would like to announce to anyone who is a skilled artist or knows a skilled artist, I am willing to allow you to draw my story in manga form your own site, or any site of your choosing. But, there are ground rules. First you must mention me and my fan fiction before drawing every chapter. You must inform me by review or e-mail (my e-mail is where you are putting it, when you update it, and how people like it. Any skilled manga drawers are welcome to do this.
Anyway enough ranting, time to respond to reviewers;
VFSNAKE- You will figure that out in this chapter.
skelethin- Hinata has been put down by her family for years. Called weak, not worthy, and barely shown any recognition for her accomplishments. Yet you have the guts to say that if she had enough balls... that is pretty, even if it is just a story, heartless to say about someone. Yeah, Auron was just such a idea for me, I couldnt' let him go. And don't worry, I don't quite like the "he figures out she likes him, so he likes her back" thing either, I will make it more realistic than that. Or at least try to.
KatanaKage- Thanks.
Anime-Boy07- Glad you like it.
Shadowkeeper113- Hey don't forget that Naruto reads a personally made non-perverted version of the book.
DragonMan180- I thought it was a bit of a rip off how Naruto completely lost the first time so I decided to change it around a bit. And you used it in your story too? Whats its name I may like it.
Omegagaurdian- No Omega, I will give credit where credit is due, that is a good idea, I will be sure to credit you on it if I decide that is the best route. And that sounds like a good place to start, and I won't do it too early don't worry. Anyway, yeah that Seymour line just seemed to fit in so well, thats why I used it. And your right it is almost impossible to get Yuna over into Naruto's neck of the woods.
Moe- Hey Moe, spell this! (I bite my thumb at him) For those who don't know what that gesture means I'll explain next chapter.
korigo starless- Well, that really was because I figure Auron would want him to reserve himself, like a wise reviewer once said, "only a jackass would carelessly flaunt his strength".
S-Wanderer999- Well, tell me what you think of the rewritten one, if you hate it I will change it back.
lover143- Glad to see that there is another person out there like me who is a raving NaruxHina fan.
Kai Dragon- Ryoko from Tenchi Muyo? Hmmmmm. I guess her ability to shoot energy out of her could help Hinata with her Juken... her personality could also boost Hinata's confidence... well everyone what do you think?
ZoneShifterD- You'd better hope enough people like the change or else I'm putting it right back to how it was. And I'm neutral I don't care. Yeah I liked those lines too. And yes Kakashi is a failure as a Jounin teacher, in fact I believe the only reason for him training Naruto in the recent Manga chapters is to cover up his failures.
Silver Warrior- You may want to look him up on Wikipedia then.
Aengus- I will note that, if enough people think like that, then I will change it back.
kirallie- Look him up on Wikipedia, and yes he is dead.
DualX- Ummmm. Fresh blood?
Dang that is a lot of reviewing, but keep it up! We are almost at the two hundred mark! WOOHOO!
Now without further waiting, here is the next chapter of Naruto: An Alternative Story!
Chapter 10: The Land of Waves Part 1
It had been about two weeks since Kakashi's bell test. Naruto and Auron were just now getting up and ready to meet Kakashi at their team's meeting point. As they got ready both of them were already getting a feeling of dread for the day. Over the past two weeks, Naruto's team has been going through the "exciting" world of ninja missions. Or more or less Auron watched with Kakashi as Naruto was bored to death by D-rank missions. Their schedule was pretty plain for them. They would get up at 6:00 in the morning to eat, get ready, and head over to the bridge, well that was for the first week, the second week they got up at 8:00 in the morning ate, and got ready to head to the bridge. They learned that whatever time Kakashi told you to meet him, to get there two hours later. From then until about 4:00 in the afternoon they would do D-rank missions. Afterwards they would split up, then Naruto and Auron would practice with their swords for about two hours. Then after tht Naruto would train his ninja skills, and try to come up with and master new jutsu. Auron was actually impressed with Naruto's progress, he had reached up to 180 pounds with his weights on his body, and about 50 pounds with his practice weapon, he had mastered the Dragon Fang, and even came up with a variation of it the Dragon Claw. This move creates a Dragon Fang-like effect out of the ground, only it moves horizontally towards a target instead of vertically from under them. Aruon managed to get it after a few days, which made Naruto furious because it took him a week to get it. Naruto had fully mastered the Wind Sickle Jutsu and now was trying to come up with a larger jutsu, that could cause massive amounts of damage to its target.
They left the house to head towards the bridge, where the other two members of their team were waiting for them and Kakashi. And right on time two hours later Kakashi arrived.
"YOUR LATE, ALL THREE OF YOU!" Sakura said in her voice that on more than one occasion had made all three of them temporarily deaf.
Kakashi winced for a second. "Sakura not so loud. Anyway sorry I'm late, there was a tree stuck up in a cat. Oh wait that isn't right. Oh, I got lost on the..."
"Save it sensei, no need to explain what someone can't possibly comprehend." Naruto said aiming his insult towards Sakura, who gave him a solid punch to his head.
"Shut it Naruto!" Sakura shouted.
"Anyway we have a mission." Kakashi said pulling out five headphones.
Forest inside of Konoha
"This is Sasuke at point C." Sasuke said.
"Sakura at point B" Sakura said.
After about thirty seconds snoring could be heard over the frequency.
"Naruto wake up!" Kakashi shouted into his headphone.
"Huh... what? Oh sorry, this mission bored me to sleep, Naruto at point A." Naruto said
"(Hiccup) This is Drunken Guardian with (Hiccup) Scarecrow." Auron said taking another drink of his Sake.
"Dammit Auron! I told you we weren't using codenames!" Naruto shouted over the frequency.
"Oh (Hiccup) you did?" Auron said taking another drink.
"(Sigh) Son of a bitch, he's already plastered, lets just get the target and get the hell out of here." Naruto said sighing while moving towards the target. "I'm within twenty feet of it."
"Good, wait for my signal... GO!" Kakashi said as Naruto grabbed the target, which was... a cat? And this cat began clawing Naruto's face. "Is there a red ribbon on the cat's head?" Kakashi asked trying to confirm the identity of the target.
"Affirmative." Sasuke said.
"Good, mission "Retrieve lost pet: Tora" a success." Kakashi said as the Genin began to return with Tora.
When they reached Kakashi and the very drunk Auron, Auron noticed a scar on the cat's front left paw...
"THAT'S THE DAMN CAT THAT TRIED TO SCRATCH MY EYES OUT A FEW WEEKS AGO!" He said drawing his sword. Tora jumped out of Naruto's arms and began running from the sword wielding cat killer.
"No Auron! Bad Auron! Don't kill the kitty!" Naruto said chasing Auron.
Sasuke, Sakura and Kakashi could only watch and think. 'What the hell just happened?'
Mission Office
"Oh Taro! I'm so glad you came back!" The owner of the cat said as she squeezed it.
Everyone in the room had a look of sympathy for the cat... well, almost everyone.
Naruto and a now sober Auron, both had claw marks on their face, were looking at the cat's torture with such an evil look, enjoying every second of its suffering.
'Serves it right for scratching me.' Naruto thought with his evil smirk growing as the hug became harder and harder.
'Thats right, tighter, tighter. Crush that damn cat.' Auron thought with a smirk so crazy, even a missing nin wouldn't want to mess with him.
After the cat and its owner left, Sarutobi turned his attention back to Naruto's group.
"Anyway, for your next mission we have shopping, gardening, baby-sitting, and..." Sarutobi said when all of a sudden the sounds of objects breaking and a "No Tora don't go!" could be heard.
"(Sigh) And retrieving Tora, again." Sarutobi finished
Team 7 was about ready to kill that damn cat, they just didn't voive it... well, almost none of them.
"OLD MAN I WANT A BETTER MISSION!" Naruto shouted as he despised the thought of chasing that cat again.
"Naruto, you know how the mission system works." Iruka said ready to give another explanation.
"Yes we do, but still come on! You could pay the kid down the street to do what these D-rank missions have us do! I mean we're ninja we should have missions that test our skill, not our dignity." Naruto said the last part in a whisper, rubbing the claw marks on the side of his face.
As Iruka was about to start an arguement with Naruto, Sarutobi started chuckling. "Alright Naruto, we will give you a higher rank mission." Sarutobi said pulling out a document from his desk while the others just gave a sigh of relief. "This is a C-rank mission, you will be guarding a bridge builder to the Land of Waves with... oh wait a second! Send them in." Sarutobi said as the members of team 8 came in, minus Kurenai. "With the members of team 8, I sent Kurenai on a mission earlier, so they can accompany you on this mission."
"Lord Hokage, you don't expect me to be able to watch over all six of them do you?" Kakashi asked.
"No Kakashi I plan on both of you watching over them." Sarutobi said while pointing over to Auron.
"Wait, Lord Hokage, that guy isn't allowed to participate in ninja missions! He isn't a ninja!" Kiba said while Shino settled for raising one of his eyebrows while Hinata couldn't get over the idea of goin on a mission with Naruto.
"True, but he is a special case, he won't be paid but he will accompany you." Sarutobi said while Auron gave him a nod.
Kiba crossed his arms over his chest while he said. "Yeah, well he doesn't look all that great." Then Kiba noticed Auron's massive blade at his throat, suprised he didn't even hear it move.
"Want to rethink what you just said?" Auron said to Kiba in a more demanding than questioning tone. Kiba nodded his head and sighed while Auron pulled his sword back.
"Anyway you will be escorting him." Sarutobi said as the bridge builder walked into the room.
"What! You actually expect these shrimps to watch over me? Especially the short one?" He said while taking a drink of Sake. Naruto then immediately threw one of his kunai at the bottle shattering it. The bridge builder, Tazuna, was shocked.
"Oh now Naruto. Thats a waste of perfectly good Sake." Auron said while Kiba covered his nose in order to prevent the overpowering odor from entering his nostrils.
"Alright then everyone, meet at the North gate in an hour." Kakashi said while disappearing.
'Which actually means meet at the gate in three hours.' Naruto and Auron thought at the same time as they walked back to the apartment.
When Naruto and Auron reached the apartment, they set their alarms for two hours later and decided to rest for the mission. Two hours later when they got up, Auron sharpened his sword and refilled his Sake bottle, while Naruto sharpened all of his kunai and shuriken, checked all of his scrolls, and put a few cups of ramen in his backpack. He then looked at the scroll with its seal being shaped like Auron's left shoulder plate.
"Auron when am I finally going to be able to use this?" Naruto said while holding the scroll up.
"When I believe your ready Naruto." Auron said which made Naruto's mood sink.
"Alright... man." Naruto said while pocketing the scroll.
They arrived at the gate at the same time as Kakashi, just in time for another...
"YOUR LATE, ALL THREE OF YOU!" Sakura screemed making Tazuna's, Shino's, and Auron's glasses break. Tazuna replaced his without anything interesting happening, meanwhile while Auron and Shino were changing theirs they looked at each other, then at each other's glasses.
"Nice glasses." Shino said quickly putting his back on.
"Same to you. You have very good taste." Auron said putting his back on.
"Oooookay. Well anyway we best be heading out." Kakashi said as they walked out of the gate.
After a while Naruto decided to speak. "(Sigh) Reminds me." Naruto said looking up at the sky.
"Reminds you of what idiot?" Sasuke said.
"Reminds me of my years outside of Konoha." Naruto said as everyone except for Sasuke's, Shino's, Tazuna's, and Auron's mood fell.
"What?" Naruto asked wandering what was up.
"Th-those must have be-been lonely times Na-Naruto." Hinata stuttered out.
"Hmmmm. Well, I guess, when you were me you never really noticed." Naruto said lieing about what had actually happened.
"What do you mean?" Kiba asked with curiosity.
"Well I was alone basically all the time back then Kiba, so I got used to it." Naruto said now everyone except Sasuke was feeling sorry for him.
"But hey, that was then, this is now. I have you guys Iruka-sensei, and the old man, I'm fine now." Naruto said while flashing his trademark grin. After that everyone's mood lifted again and decided to ask him a few things.
"So Naruto did you ever go to Wave Country?" Shino asked suprising everyone. "What, can't I ask a few questions."
"Its not that Shino, its just you barely ever talk." Naruto said while Shino just shrugged.
"Anyway Shino, yeah I did spend time in Wave Country," Naruto said while trying to remember his time there with Jiraiya "I was there about three years ago when I was about nine. It was a nice place for a little while, but then a guy named Gato came." Tazuna winced at the mention of his name. "When he came some pretty bad stuff started happening, so I decided to get out before anything that might stop me from getting out."
"What kind of stuff?" This time Kiba asked.
"Well, the economy started falling rapidly, theft was becoming pretty common, and I even heard about a public execution." This time when Tazuna winced it was seen by everyone.
"Well, thats all I know, but I figure when we arrive we will find out much more." Naruto said.
While they were walking Naruto, Auron, and Kakashi noticed a puddle.
'A puddle, but it hasn't rained in weeks, and the sun is out. A pretty poorly placd Genjutsu if you ask me.' Naruto thought while he looked back at Auron and Kakashi as he kept on moving. After they passed the puddle everything was silent for a while, then two figures burst from the puddle and ran towards Auron and Kakashi, they entangled them in there spiked chains and with a pull split them into pieces!
"Two down." One of the men said as they began charging towards Tazuna.
"Three down." The other said as they started getting close to Tazuna when all of a sudden a kunai was thrown into the two's chain and forced it into a tree, then Sasuke kicked them apart breaking their chain. They quickly recovered. Then one went for Hinata, while the other went for Tazuna who had Sakura, Kiba and Shino guarding him. The one that went for Hinata was closing in fast, she closed her eyes and braced for impact, when it never came she opened her eyes and saw that Naruto was blocking the other guy's claw with one of his hands. He brought the free hand up and started flashing through seals with it.
"You can do one-handed seals punk!" The apparent mist ninja said with shock.
Naruto finished his seals and said. "Got that right, Wind Realease: Great Storm Winds Jutsu!" He put so much chackra into the technique that he blew the guy so hard into a tree, it fell over, needless to say the guy blacked out. Meanwhile over with Tazuna, Shino was holding the other mist ninja down with his bug clones while Kiba started spinning violently in the air.
"Take this! Tatsuga!" (A/N If thats not it tell me) He said as he drilled into the mist ninja's gut knocking him out as well.
"Good job everyone, I have to say I didn't think you would be able to do it without my help." Kakashi said while reappearing from the trees, while the Kakashi remains turned into a log. "Sorry Naruto, I couldn't get there to help out."
"Its okay Kakashi, I think I'll be fine." Naruto said while scratching the back of his head.
"Not if the poison those guys had on their claws kicks in you won't." Kakashi said while pointing to a liquid the was dropping off the claws.
Naruto quickly pulled out a kunai and cut the wound open, and forced pressure on it in order to make it bleed out the poison. Hinata paniced and got out some bandages and some medicinal cream (A/N I don't know what its actually called sorry) and started trying to take care of Naruto's wound. Kakashi noticed that after she applied the cream the wound just started to heal alll on its own, visible to the naked eye.
'Must be the nine tails chackra.' He thought to himself as he turned to Tazuna to ask him a few questions.
After she was done bandaging Naruto's hand, Hinata took a few steps back. "Wow Hinata, your pretty good." He said while looking over how well bandaged the wound was, even though he knew it wasn't there. He felt how it wasn't to tight, but not to loose.
Hinata blushed at the compliment. "Th-thank you Na-Na-Naruto." She said while still blushing.
"No problem, hey isn't there someone missing... oh shit! Everyone face that way!" He said pointing in the opposite direction of Auron's remains and turned.
"Why?" They all asked as the turned. Their question was answered in the most horrible sight a human could ever see. What they saw was Auron's body parts being surrounded by glowing objects while they slowly pulled themselves back together, just imagine watching an eyeball roll up someone intestines to reach its socket, or watching the entire digestion system being pieced back together piece by piece. Needless to say Hinata fainted, Shino's hair turned white, Sasuke, Kiba, and Kakashi had disturbed looks on their faces, while Sakura went into the woods and threw up, Tazuna followed her shortly after. After Auron was done reconstructing himself, thats when the questions started.
"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU!" Came from Kiba.
"Well, to answer your question I am dead." Auron said in a monotone voice.
"How are you here then?" Kakashi asked this time.
"These." Auron said revealing his pyreflys.
"How." Sasuke asked hoping to find a way to beat his brother.
"That part of my story isn't open for you to know." Auron said refusing to tell.
"Oooookay." Kakashi said for the second time in one day. "We need to have a talk with Tazuna as soon as he gets back.
As they waited Sasuke turned to Hinata. "Hey."
"Y-yes." Hinata said.
"Your not hurt are ya... scaredy cat." Sasuke said with a grin.
Hinata dropped her head. She knew he was right, if she hadn't been so frightened and actually moved to defend herself, Naruto wouldn't have gotten hurt. She was a failure.
"Hey Sasuke shut your damn mouth." Naruto shouted as Hinata brought her head up.
"Na-Naruto its alright." Hinata said trying to prevent a fight.
"No Hinata, its not right because he's wrong." Naruto said looking at Hinata. Her heart skipped a beat.
'He's defending me? He cares? He thinks Sasuke is wrong?' Hinata said as she began blushing furiously.
"He's wrong to say that, every person their first fight sometimes loses their nerve, it doesn't make them a coward! And Sasuke is a bastard for saying that! Besides Hinata, your a kind person you shouldn't have to put up with someone degrading you like that!" Hinata's heart skipped a few more beats. He had just not only defended her, not only said she wasn't a coward, but he thought she was a kind person.
Hinata blushed a neon red color. Shino grinned at Naruto.
'Thats the way to be Naruto.' Kiba said smiling at the kindness he just showed his teamate.
'So the idiot is sticking up for the coward, how pathetic.' Sasuke said as he gave a glare at Naruto.
'Nice one Naruto.' Kakashi thought grinning at the Genin.
Auron smiled as well, warmed his heart to see this.
'Hinata didn't deserve for Sasuke to say that about her. I mean, that is just wrong. Why am I so angry about this?' Naruto thought as he turned back to Hinata, who he saw blushing neon red. 'That really isn't her color, her regular color makes her look pretty... wait did I just say she was pretty?' Naruto thought turning his head away in order to hide a blush.
When Tazuna and Sakura returned from blowing chunks Kakashi started questioning him.
Naruto just had the feeling... that today was going to be a long day.
Okay next chapter done! Hope you like it REVIEW!
