The Dragon in the Maelstrom
Chapter 13: Team Seven.
Written by Jlargent
Me: Sorry for the delay. I had the sudden urge to write a Kyrie/Trish yuri fic, it may have taken me three days to so it but it was worth it. Anyway welcome back to the fic that proves that even despite what everyone thinks Sauske is an duck haired emo who need the stick surgically removed from his anus. Okay now that I've had insulted Sauske, typical disclaimers apply I do not own ATLA or Naruto in any shape or form. Now on with the show.
Naruto's POV (A/N: Finally! I get to do this chapter from a semi mature Naruto's POV. I admit having the six year old version was too simple. And it gets rather repetitive doing the fic from Azula's Pov. Anyway, back to the fic. )
The alarm clock's excessive ringing is quickly silenced with a well aimed kunai, I walk over to the clock and disable the alarm since the repair seals would kick in and fix the abomination and start ringing again. I walk into the shower and adjust the water to the right temperature. As I start to scrub the soap off my body I think back to when my mom first adopted me, at first I was hesitant seeing as she could be acting like one of the ignorant villagers but she proved that she truly wanted to me my mother by telling me the truth about the infernal fur ball from hell.
She drove in the fact that she was my mother in all but blood by protecting me from my uncle Zuko's forces and getting stabbed in the back in the process. It was then that I tapped into the power of the Kyuubi for the first time, after my rage at my mother being stabbed reached its peak I unleashed the vile power that the Kyuubi was known for but it was all a blur to me.
When I woke up at the hospital my mom told me what I did when I was in semi control of the Kyuubi's power, at first I was scared that I would become a monster and that mom would be afraid of me.
Flashback: 8 years ago.
I curl myself into a ball and awaited for the verbal assault from my soon to be ex-mommy, I shut my eyes and lowered my head so I could try to imagine what she would say.
But all of a sudden I felt a pair of arms wrap around me in a tight hug, I open my eyes to see my mom with tears in her eyes and giving a sad smile.
"Naruto remember what I said earlier? I said 'Don't think for one moment I don't see you as a demon, I see you as my son and I love you very much like one.' she said as I return the hug burying my head into her shoulder crying at the fact that mommy truly doesn't care weather or not I have the Kyuubi or not.
End flashback.
Since then my mom has given me the support that I needed, I realized that I am lucky to have her as my mother. I quickly dress in my normal attire and head down to the kitchen where my mother was cooking eggs and bacon, its funny before Anko moved in Azula tried her hand at cooking only for it to be classified to be dangerous for human consumption (A/N: It is a proven fact, even though she's a princess she does not know how to cook.) it was when Anko moved in she practically was forced to learn how to cook and now she can make a decent meal but other than that Anko rules the kitchen with an iron fist and refuses any help with the exception of Hinata her unofficial apprentice.
The village has greatly prospered due to the now permanent gate between worlds that Jiraiya helped create by use of seals similar to that of summoning seals. As such it has been declared a SS-Rank, secret not even the council knows the location of the portal to curb any and all attempts to use the portal for potential warfare.
As for Hinata she's taken to learning the water bending style she learned from Katara like it was a natural part of her skills and coupled with the taijutsu training from Anko and her Byakugan she's a formidable force if the elder council were alive today they would be pissing in their pants at how powerful she is. I should explain for a moment, you see when Hinata's mother died the Hyuuga elder council decided to take advantage of this by declaring Hinata unfit to be heir and moved to have her then newborn sister Hanabi be groomed by them to lead the clan when she becomes of age. This was done while Hiashi was away from Konoha with the Hokage with a conference at the Fire Daimyo's palace along with the Raikage to talk about a new treaty.
Hinata was placed as head of the house by her father in her absence to get a feel of the position of power until it was time for her to lead. The council was furious at the gall that a now seven year old was now head of the prestigious clan until Hiashi's return and called for a vote of no contest and for her to be branded with the accursed seal, Hinata in a rare show of rage challenged the ruling with a trial by combat.
Now for those of you that don't know a trial by combat is a tradition amongst the Uchiha, Inuzaka and the Hyuuga clans whereas the Nara, Yamanaka and the Aburame clans settle their disputes more diplomatically, simply put a trail by combat would allow a member of the clan to challenge the ruling of the head of the family or the elders by fighting. In this case Hinata challenged the elders for attempting a coup et at, Hinata asked Azula to assist her in the political aspects while Hiashi was gone and volunteered to fight in Hinata's place seeing as she was only seven, the council sent out their strongest branch house member to fight Azula.
The fight was rather one sided from the get go since Azula used her fire bending to attack his feet preventing him from attacking and forcing him to move around constantly and in a surprising move Azula combined a water jutsu with her fire bending to create a jet of scalding hot steam hitting the mans skin making him howl in agony before delivering a knee to the mans face with enough force to send him two feet into the air then followed up with a strong kick to the mans 'vital' areas raising his voice to higher than a soprano and sending him into the air another foot and finally punches him in the midsection with enough force to send him into the wall and leave a impression.
After the fight Azula 'advised' that the elders should forever ban the cage bird seal and be publicly executed when Hiashi arrives from his conference so he can decide to enforce that proclamation, until then the elders were placed under house arrest with their charka sealed away. When Hiashi returned he was livid at the elders attempts at a power play and decided not only execute all the elders involved but also strike their names from the family records. As a token of gratitude for fighting in Hinata's stead he said that Hinata can visit any time as for long as she wants. The first few months that Hinata stayed was awkward but eventually she grew more confident until she lost her stutter and can talk normally without fainting.
I was brought out of my musings by the smell of breakfast and the sound of Hinata coming down the stairs, her clothes changed dramatically since learning from Katara since her style was similar to water tribe bending her clothes reflect that but also reflect a ninja's clothing, she's wearing a lavender version of Katara's clothes with the sleeves reaching to her wrists, underneath she's wearing a mesh shirt and bracers that have the kanji for ten on each indicating that the gravity seal was at ten times normal gravity a recent training tool from Anko to help increase her striking speed and power as well as her reaction time. She's wearing lilac pants with lavender rose vines wrapped around mid calf standard ninja sandals but on the back was the kanji for five indicating that the gravity seals on her legs were at five times normal gravity.
"Good morning Naruto, Good morning Azula." Hinata chirped as she brushes a strand of her long hair from her face as she grabs a plate and silverware for herself, last night Hinata visited and we went over what we learned from our respective teachers. For me I was at novice level when it came to sealing, while I can't make a seal to replicate my father's signature jutsu I can make my own storage and explosive tag, ninjutsu wise I was at least low Chuunin level since the majority of my training was to fix my charka control or lack thereof I can pull of several E-C rank jutsus as well as being able to perform at least three B-Rank jutsus, my taijutsu is far better than a Jounin level due to the intense training sessions I had with my mom and Anko and sparring with Aang whenever he visits, Suki and Ty Lee also provided tips to Hinata as well, finally my skill in genjutsu is still my weakest area but my control is good enough to perform adequately.
Azula turn her head from the stove to look at Hinata "Good morning Hinata. I trust you slept well." she replied as she turns her head back to scrape the finished scrambled eggs onto a large plate and place it on the table.
"Where's Anko this morning?" I ask as the shuffling of feet tells me that I did not need to ask I turn my head to see Anko shuffling her feet as she makes her way towards the coffee her hair is bed ragged and she's wearing pink pajamas with white bunnies and matching slippers.
"Coffeeeee." she moans as she grabs a mug and proceeds to pour herself a cup.
"Good morning coffee zombie." I said brightly earning a low level death glare.
"There should be a law against being too perky in the morning." Anko growled as she started to drink the coffee.
"If there was there should be a law for wearing pink bunny pajamas." I countered, it was a closely guarded secret that Anko loves rabbits and actually killed one of Orochimaru's summons for eating her pet rabbit when she was still a Genin. The last person who made fun of that is still in psychiatric care due to numerous snake bites and large amounts of venom, pacifically ones that can mess with someone's mind.
After we had eaten we say good bye to Anko and mom and the academy to find out which teams we are on, when we arrive we talked to the rest of the class ignoring Sauske and Sakura who are in my opinion the biggest mistakes ever to exist in the ninja world. Finally Iruka enters and asks the class to take their seats, I move to sit next to Hinata and I slide my hand and grab hers in support.
"Team seven will consist of Naruto Uzumaki, Shino Aburame, and Hinata Hyuuga, your sensei will be Azula Uzumaki and Anko Mitarashi. Team eight will consist of Sasuke Uchiha, Ino Yamanaka, and Sakura Haruno, your Sensei will be Kakashi Hatake. Team nine is still in circulation, team ten will consist of Shikamaru Nara, Choji Akimichi and Kiba Inuzaka, your sensei will be Kurenai Yuhi and Asuma Sarutobi. Your sensei will be here after lunch so I suggest taking this time to get to know your teammates, I wish all of you the best of luck and may god have mercy on your souls." with that he leaves the classroom.
Hinata and I walk over to where Shino was sitting and I extend my hand to him, Shino looks for a moment and accepts "It is a pleasure to be on the same team as you two." Shino said as my danger senses were warning me of a potential threat heading our way and to my displeasure it was the newly formed team eight.
"Well look here it's team loser." Sasuke taunted while Sakura and Ino laughed at Sauske's attempt at a joke, I decided to shut them up right then and there.
"Look Sasuke it's obvious you have some sort of genetic superiority complex, not to mention textbook narcissistic tendencies and a love of men so who is the bigger loser?" I said as I quickly whip out a camera and take a photo of Sasuke's reaction it was a disturbing mix of shame, rage, and shock all wrapped up in one little package, and I do mean little I once accidentally seen the size of the so called 'last Uchiha' and at best it was two inches. I quickly run out of the room with Hinata giggling and Shino following stoically.
Once we're outside I could not help but laugh at Sasuke's reaction as the three of us head to my favorite eatery Ichiraku, Ayame sees the three of us and smiled ever since Hinata and I hang out together so much she automatically knows what to get her.
"Hello Naruto, Hinata. Here you go one chicken and one fish ramen, who's your friend?" Ayame asks as she hands out two bowls of ambrosia on earth, I take a deep breath inhaling the smell of ramen. I grab the chopsticks and eat the heavenly food in a slow pace having manners drilled into me by my mother. Hinata follows suit and answers for me.
This is Shino Aburame he's on the same team as us. We learned that the three of us are on the same team so we're spending the lunch hour getting to know Shino." Hinata explained as I finished eating a bite.
"Not to mention hiding from 'Lord Sasuke's Wrath'." I said as I told her about the photo I took.
"I want a copy so I can hang it in the shop." Ayame said as an evil glint in her eyes shone. Shino clears his throat gaining our attention.
"Excuse me but do you serve dango?" and immediately I slapped my forehead.
"Now you've done it." I said Shino turns his head to look at me curiously, I leap out of my stool as Anko leaps in with her mouth drooling.
"Must. Have. DANGO!" Anko said as Ayame brings out a small plate of dango to her and in a few seconds was gone, she thanked Ayame and left. Shino looked at the scene with a wary stance.
"Anko is a dango addict, we tried to cut her off." Hinata and I shuddered at the memory of Anko going through withdrawal "Let's just say she's scarier than me going through a ramen withdrawal." I said as Ayame brings out another plate of dango and Shino proceeds to eat them.
When we returned I could see my mom and Anko standing in the classroom with a whip of fire in her hands with killing intent in the air and team eight on the floor in the perfect pose of the infamous 'I am not worthy' position. I walked up to Anko who was smirking and munching on a dango stick.
"Let me guess, Sasuke pissed mom off?" I said as though it was the most obvious thing in the world. Mom takes notice of the three of us and the killing intent lessened enough to allow them to run away like the Kyuubi was after them. The three of us make our way to the roof and sit on the edge while my mom and Anko stand near the door.
"As of today you three are Genin level ninjas which means that you are rookie ninjas. My son and Hinata know who I am but for formalities sake I want to reintroduce ourselves. My name is Azula Uzumaki former special Jounin level ninja I recently accepted this so I'm a new Genin sensei. My likes are my son, Konoha, and light reading. My dislikes are the Uchiha clan the civilian council and Kakashi Hatake. My hobbies include perfecting my ninjutsu and taijutsu. And my dream is to make this team one rival the Sannin in terms of power and teamwork."
Anko bounced on her heels before calming down "My name is Anko Mitirashi former apprentice to the traitor Orochimaru and assistant I'm taking time off from working in the torture and interrogation department. My likes are dango and red bean soup, Azula, Naruto and Hinata, and tea ceremonies. My dislikes are Orochimaru and traitors to the leaf village. My hobbies include the trashy romance novel and making prisoners scream for mercy. My dream is to finally kill Orochimaru and be free from the stigmata that I am associated with him." she finished as Shino cleared his throat and standing up.
"My name is Shino Aburame." he said before sitting down. The four of us sweat drop at the lack of an introduction.
I stand up "My name is Naruto Uzumaki recent graduate of the academy. My likes are my mom, Hinata and my precious people. My dislikes include having to wait three minutes for ramen to cook and Sasuke Uchiha. My hobbies include training, pulling pranks, and gardening. My dream is to become Hokage and protect my precious people." I finish and sit down as Hinata stands up to round out the introductions.
"My name is Hinata Hyuuga and I am heir to the Hyuuga clan. My likes are Naruto, my father and my sister. My dislikes are people that are discriminate and hurtful to others. My hobbies are cooking, making medical ointment, and flower pressing. My dream is to become a great clan head like my father." she finishes as she sits down, my mom clears her throat gaining out attention.
"Okay normally there would be a test to determine if the three of you are capable of being a team but I believe that the three of you are going to be a great team. So congratulations for passing the exam. I want the three of you to report at the Hokage tower tomorrow at seven for mission assignments." my mom saiid as we departed.
Later that night Anko and I stake out Kakashi's house and wait for him to leave so we can follow him as soon as Kakashi steps out of the house Anko leaves to distract him while I execute the next part of the plan.
I notice that Kakashi was heading towards the Broken Kunai I quickly finish the genjutsu seal and wait for the chaos that ensures.
Sasuke's POV
I groan as my head was pounding, I remember drinking a few jell-o shots after that it was a blur and my ass was on fire. I turn my head over to try to see who I had sex with last night I turn my head to see that he had his back to me and then he turns over. And to my horror my lover is Kakashi naked minus his mask.
We both scream as Kakashi and I leap out of the bed and instantly I gave him a glare worthy of my brother "We shall NEVER speak of this." Kakashi nodded and ran like hell
Naruto's POV
Anko and I laughs hard as the screaming from Sasuke's home tells me that the prank was effective, I turn my head to Anko who was on her knees with tears streaming down her face from the excessive laughing.
"Are you going to get the camera?" I ask her as she finally calms down enough to respond.
"After he leaves. Ah, nothing like perfect blackmail material to make ones day." she said as she teleported away to collect the evidence of the previous night.
(Omake: Naruto's alternate waking method.)
I lay deep in sleep when suddenly a shudder of fear runs through me.
"GOOOOD MOOORNING NARUTO!" Anko yells as she tries to ambush me only to miss completely and flies out of the open window and land in the trash below.
Anko groans on the ground "I have nothing more to teach you my pupil." she groans again as I shake my head in wonder Am I the only sane one in this family aside from mom? I thought as I head to the shower.
(End Omake.)
Me: I thought of this last night and I could not help but add some parts of Bleach in this omake. Next time: Missions and headaches. Please keep the reviews coming.
As always Hoody Hoo!