Just a quick note before the chapter starts, normally I wouldn't answer a review this way, I would PM, but the person is a guest, and so, to the guest who reviewed saying 'Are you insane or something... Gohan having trouble with Feeble weight of 264 pounds... Are shitting me?-_- I would understand if Base Gohan had Trouble wearing 264 Tons... But this bullshit.. It like you ignorant of db series', I would like to say that there is a reason for that, think back to the beginning of DBZ, hell since my Gohan is based off the Cell games Gohan, before he trained with Goku, do you think that he would be able to easily carry 264 lbs, rally, and the way that I interpret it, the Z-Fighters use Ki to strengthen their muscles, so Gohan not being trained intensely like he was, and having very limited knowledge of Ki does not make carrying 264 lbs easy, maybe he would be able to move, but imagine if Lee had to carry 264 lbs as a genin, I doubt he would be able to do it, and right now Gohan's physical strength is about Lee's, if only a bit higher. Thank you and I apologize for the rant.
Chapter 21: Naruto and Sasuke, new special moves!
Itachi exited the small passage, pushing the rock back , and used Shunshin to appear near Jiraiya and threw the monkey head at Jiraiya, who looked back and caught the small token in one fluid motion.
"Itachi Uchiha!" Jiraiya bellowed, grabbing the man in a hug, "It's been a while."
"Lord Jiraiya, not that I do not appreciate your, uhm, enthusiasm, but I am a missing-nin, and one of the village you are aligned with and residing in none the less." Itachi said, causing Jiraiya to put him down.
"I apologize." Jiraiya said, then his face turned more serious, "So why are you here?"
"Why did ero-sennin call you Itachi Uchiha? Are you really the one who killed all of Sasuke's family?" Naruto said, getting himself worked up in the process of questioning the tall, raven haired man.
"I am the same Itachi Uchiha, and there is a reason that the massacre happened and I plan on explaining it to Sasuke later, but right now I am here for you two." Itachi said, "More importantly you, Naruto, the legac…" Itachi was cut off by a kick to the ribs, sending him flying.
"Naruto doesn't know about that, and he doesn't need to yet, not until he makes Chunin!" Jiraiya yelled at the man he had just sent flying.
"I apologize lord Jiraiya, I was under the impression that Naruto knew that information." Itachi apologized and walked over to Naruto, "I am here to worn you, in a few years, the organization that I am part of will come looking for you and the beast inside you. I need you to promise me that you will protect yourself."
"I don't promise you anything!" Naruto yelled in Itachi's face, "You killed your whole family! Why would I trust someone who ruined my best friend's life!"
"It's your choice, but I warned you." Itachi said, and turned away, he was going to see Sasuke. "I'll see you another time, Lord Jiraiya, Naruto Nami… Uzumaki." Itachi disappeared after finishing his farewells and grabbing the emblem from Jiraiya, he would need it if Sasuke was being trained.
"He pisses me off." Naruto said to Jiraiya, "Can I learn a new awesome jutsu to kick his ass?" Naruto asked, next time he saw Itachi, there would be nothing left of the bastard.
"Sorry Naruto, but he's a valuable ally and one of my friends, so I won't help you or Sasuke kill him, but I will teach you a badass Jutsu." Jiraiya smiled and held out one hand, a small blue ball of chakra forming in it, "Rasengan, the Fourth's strongest technique"
"Alright!" Naruto yelled, totally distracted from the encounter with Itachi just moments before "Let's get learning!"
*With Sasuke*
"So Sasuke, we have two weeks until the finals, and you've about mastered the Shadowless Flight Jutsu, so we'll start on Chidori today." Kakashi said, "After a quick spar." The silver haired Jonin revealed his Sharingan as his raven haired apprentice activated his. Sasuke's Sharingan had evolved to have a full set of three tomoe each.
"Bring it on Kakashi." Sasuke smirked and ran at Kakashi, using some of the moves that he had learned from Rock Lee as well as some of the moves that he had picked up from Kakashi during their training Sasuke was close to hitting the Jonin almost every time he attacked, even landing the occasional blow.
Kakashi was on the defensive while Sasuke attacked, looking for openings he could exploit, "Come on Sasuke," Kakashi chided, jabbing his student in the side during one of the boy's punches, "You can do better than that." Kakashi then changed to the offensive, kicking the boy away and then using shunshin to get behind him, kneeing him in the back and sending him upwards.
While in the air, Sasuke made a few hand signs, holding the last one until he landed safely on the ground, "Jinton: Shadowless Flight!" Sasuke disappeared, moving so fast that even Kakashi's Sharingan could barely keep up. Kakashi was struck with a hard strike to the side, sending the Jonin flying, and was sent back with another attack, pushing him in the opposite direction.
'Alright I'll have to stop this now.' Kakashi thought and made a few hand signs, "Katon: Grand Fireball!" Kakashi shot a fireball at the ground under him, where Sasuke was waiting. The disruptance caused Sasuke to lose concentration on his Jutsu and the Uchiha was forced to jump out of the way, Kakashi moving faster than the boy and appearing behind him, kunai at the boy's throat, "Good job Sasuke, time to start on the Chidori."
*With Naruto*
"Bursting Balloons?" Naruto asked, Jiraiya had dumped a bunch of water balloons by him and told him to pop them with just his chakra. "With just my Chakra!" Naruto ran over to Jiraiya, who was peeping at the hot springs, "Can I really pop a balloon with just my chakra?"
"Throw me the balloon in your hand." Jiraiya said, not even looking at his student, he caught the balloon and held it in his open palm, a few seconds later, the balloon popped. "Like that. Turn the water in the balloon with your chakra until it spins violently."
"Alright!" Naruto ran over to his spot and sat down with the balloon in his hand, focussing all his chakra into one hand. "DAMMIT!" Naruto yelled after five minutes of sitting still, he then went back to his concentrating, for two minutes until another yell of "DAMMIT" erupted from him and caused him to throw the balloon on the ground. "Ero-sennin, I can't do this! it's too hard!" The blond complained, his teacher just shrugged his shoulders and looked back towards the hot springs. The young jinchuuriki walked back over to his spot.
After a few minutes of Naruto trying to turn the water in the balloon, Jiraiya spoke up, "You're trying to spin it too roughly from the get go, try just making waves at first."
"Alright Ero-sennin!" Naruto went back to his training, and after a few hours, finally got a balloon to pop. "I did it!"
"Now look at what you have to still pop." Jiraiya pointed to the bucket full of balloons, causing Naruto to groan.
*With Sasuke, thirteen days later*
"Time to start heading back Sasuke." Kakashi breathed out heavily, they had just finished their final spar, and Sasuke was growing exponentially. "You did great, I'm sure that you'll make it to the finals."
"Yes, from what I've seen I believe this as well." A man wearing a black cloak with red clouds and a large straw hat on his head, he threw a small emblem at Kakashi, who caught it and just nodded.
"I'll leave you two alone, but I'll be watching. Just in case" Kakashi used his shunshin technique and disappeared.
"Who are you?" Sasuke asked, he was not happy that his training was interrupted.
The man took off his hat, revealing himself to be Itachi Uchiha. "It's been a while Sasuke, I have to explain some things to you." Itachi said, sidestepping the kunai that Sasuke threw at him. "Please, listen to me Sasuke, I need you to know this."
"I don't care!" Sasuke yelled, his fatigue from the spar replaced with anger, "I'll kill you!" Sasuke ran at his brother, a kunai in either hand. The young Uchiha attacked his brother, slicing at the spot Itachi moved from, pushing the older ninja back.
"Sasuke, don't let the rage blind you." Itachi warned, "It doesn't do anyone any good."
"SHUT UP!" Sasuke screamed, tears running down his face, "I'LL KILL YOU!" Sasuke threw the kunai, one actually managed to graze Itachi's hand, blood trickling down. "SHARINGAN!" Sasuke activated his kekkei genkai, his eye turning red, three tomoe swirling within it.
"Sharingan." Itachi activated his own Sharingan, three tomoe swirling.
Sasuke crouched down and went through hand signs at a blurring speed, putting his left hand near the ground, while the right hand held his left wrist, "CHIDORI!" Sasuke's hand was enveloped in lightning, and he ran at Itachi, "YOU DIE NOW!" He screamed as he was about to plunge his hand into Itachi's chest, until a hand caught his wrist, shutting off the chakra circulation.
"Sasuke, calm down. Itachi is here as per the Hokage's wishes, that's what this emblem means." Kakashi said, then turned to Itachi, handing him the monkey, "Explain to the two of us, so I can keep him in check."
"Alright, Kakashi, I accept your terms." Itachi said, and sat down, Kakashi followed suit, pulling Sasuke down too. "I wish to explain to you the reasoning for the massacre, Sasuke. I know you probably won't forgive me yet, but I've wanted to do this for a while, and this may be my last chance." Itachi waited for a response from Sasuke, but when he received none he decided to continue. "There is two reasons for the massacre, the first is simple, I was ordered to. Danzo, one of the elders of the village, knew of the planned coup that the Uchiha's were scheming, and, along with his fellow elders, pressured the Hokage into giving an order for the massacre, at first it wasn't for the massacre but just to play as a double agent, but when I brought too much negative information, I was ordered to kill them all." Itachi said, tears forming around his eyes, "And the second reason, is because I was told something about you by a certain someone, something that could affect your life, but only if I went through with the massacre." Itachi finished.
"What about my life?" Sasuke asked, there were tears forming in his eyes as well, his brother killed his entire clan mainly for some information on his future, Sasuke was tempted to actually speak with Itachi, as a leaf peer of course, more like one of the other genin in his year, pushing them away if he could.
"You are the reincarnation of Indra, the Sage of Six Path's eldest son, and as such, you are cursed by the path of hatred." Itachi said.
"What does that mean?" Sasuke was curious now, him, the reincarnation of the first Uchiha? It was insane.
"I wish I knew." Itachi took the monkey head and gave it to Kakashi, "I'll be leaving now, please give that to lord Sarutobi for me." Kakashi nodded and watched as Itachi walked away, his hat on his head.
"We should get back, no word of this to anyone." Kakashi told Sasuke, who just huffed. "Good talk." Kakashi muttered, grabbing Sasuke and using Shunshin to go to the Hokage's office.
*With Naruto*
"Ero-Sennin, I've finally done it!" Naruto yelled, tomorrow was the last day of training and he had just performed his first Rasengan.
"Great, now we'll spar and see if you can do it in combat." Jiraiya smirked and made a clone of himself, "This will be your opponent." Jiraiya pointed to his clone, he had purposely filled it with only 5% of his chakra, so that Naruto might stand a chance against it.
"Alright, bring it on!" Naruto yelled, charging the clone, making a dozen clones wordlessly as he attacked the sannin with his clones, the real Naruto and one clone staying back. The clone with Naruto spun his hands around Naruto's outstretched hand, forming a blue ball about the size of a baseball "Rasengan!" Naruto ran with the blue ball, his clones making a small path for him as he smashed the ball into the distracted Jiraiya clone's chest, causing it to erupt into a plume of smoke. "I won!" Naruto jumped up and down, fist pumping.
"Think again!" The Jiraiya clone yelled, falling from the sky onto Naruto, knocking the young genin out. "I won!" The clone then cancelled himself out, the remaining chakra returning to Jiraiya.
Jiraiya picked up Naruto and slapped his face lightly until he woke up, "Nice trick Naruto, I think you're ready, go rest up and don't train tomorrow, I want you making it to the finals." Jiraiya ordered.
"Yes Ero-Sennin, I understand." Naruto ran home after that, waving thanks to Jiraiya as he ran.
"So much like his mother." Jiraiya sighed.
*With Gohan*
Gohan, Goten, Trunks, and Vegeta were in the Hokage's office.
"Lord Hokage, these are the people I told you about, the ones from my world." Gohan said, pointing to Trunks and Vegeta.
"Trunks is my best friend." Goten said, his personality had changed more to his real personality after being exposed to Trunks for too long, Naruto would love those two.
"I see, and I take it they agreed to come back to the village to join us?" Sarutobi asked, truthfully he had no qualms about it if they were at least as good as Goten and Videl.
"Yes, Trunks is tied with Goten, and Vegeta is probably close to your level sir." Gohan stated.
"Close to my level?" The Hokage was shocked, this was a bold proclamation.
"Or above it sir, Vegeta has enough power to destroy a nation with a flick of his wrist." Gohan said, not even exaggerating a little.
"Alright, I will have to have them both go through an exam to enter though."
"If I may." Vegeta cut in, "I would prefer to do my own thing, If you just take Trunks in, and make sure he is well looked after that would be enough, I have no problem helping out if you need it, but I do not wish to join this village officially." Vegeta no longer had reason to join, Gohan had shown him some basic Katon hand seals and given him a beginner level Katon book, he would be fine learning his fire breath on his own, but Trunks looked so much happier with Goten, and he wouldn't deprive his son of happiness, not after the boy lost his mother and everyone else he cared about.
"I respect that, but where will he go?"
"I'll take him in, he can room with Goten." Gohan answered the Hokage immediately.
"Would you like to become a shinobi like your friends Trunks?" The Hokage had turned his attention to the purple headed boy.
"I would love to, but only if I was on Goten's team." Trunks said.
"Well, I'm sure Gohan will make Chunin, so that will leave a spot open on team Yamato, if you can learn to control chakra and a few basic jutsu, I can pull some strings and put you on the team." Hiruzen smiled at the boy, who, along with Goten, beamed back at the old man.
"Please." The two boys begged, making the old man laugh.
"Yes, and Gohan will join you for certain missions." The Hokage laughed and turned to Gohan, "I expect you to make it to the finals, and put up a little bit of a struggle, so I can say that you are the strongest in the exam only by a little, and not on Jonin level."
"You knew?"
"I can sense chakra levels, but you have something more than Chakra, just like that attack against the Oto-nin in the last part of the exams."
"It's Ki, almost the same thing as chakra, just a bit more destructive."
"How much more?"
"It's how Vegeta can obliterate a village in the flick of a wrist, and he can do it with an amount of ki equal to the amount of chakra that an A-rank jutsu takes." Gohan explained.
The Hokage was shocked, even if Gohan was over exaggerating about the exact amount, the power to either do an A-rank jutsu or destroy a village was insane. "Alright, you are dismissed, take Trunks home and get him settled, and Vegeta," The Hokage threw a small monkey head emblem at Vegeta, "That will allow you access to nearly anywhere in the village, I hope you come visit, and possibly change your mind about becoming a shinobi."
Vegeta huffed and walked out of the office, stopping briefly to pat Trunks' head and say, "I'll see you soon, be good."
"Bye dad." Trunks said, his father had never been that affectionate in public.
'What's wrong with Vegeta?' Gohan wondered as he watched his mentor leave. "Thank you Lord Hokage, I'll bring Trunks home and get him settled, I have his stuff there right now anyways, so it should be simple." Gohan began directing Trunks and Goten to the door when the Hokage interrupted.
"Gohan, I almost forgot, your book came in." Hiruzen threw a book at Gohan, it was a green book with an orange orb on the front, the orb had four sarker orange spots in it, and the book was titled, 'The Time Before the Sage'
"Lord Hokage, I can't thank you enough, I hope I can repay you somehow." Gohan said, this book, he believed, held the secrets of his world and this one, and how they were connected.
"How about a solo S-Rank mission with the pay going directly to me." The Hokage joked and ushered the three out of his office.
And that's that. I hope you all liked it, and I apologize to anyone who hoped for Vegeta to join the leaf, but if that happened the plot wouldn't. So next chapter will be the first two fights of the exam. If you have any questions, comments, concerns, or anything really just leave a review or PM me and I'll be happy to reply. Thanks for reading.