Naruto: An Alternative Story
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, or any of its characters, or Auron. Kishimoto owns Naruto, and Square Enix owns Auron. If only they would turn over ownership to me... oh how awesome would that be.
ARTIST STILL WANTED
Well guys I am in the process of making an incredibly difficult decision. I am deciding on whether or not to add the Aeons from Final Fantasy 10 into my fic as regular summons. Now I have not decided completely yet but I am thinking about it. So far, if I should add them, the one that are DEFINETLY being added are;
Yojimbo
Valefor
Shiva
Bahamut or Anima, not sure yet.
Now then I am willing to accept 1 more Aeon, but I cannot decide which Aeon will be put in. So to help me decide there will be a poll;
Vote for which ONE of the other Aeons you want to be put in!
Any of the Aeons will be allowed to be put in so do vote also I will be holding one other poll;
Which of these two Aeons should be put in?
Anima or Bahamut
Reason for this one is because I simply can't decide between both, I mean come on, they are both so uber powerful!
So do vote, if you vote I will definetly put the Aeons in. But how will I get the Aeons in, lets just say it involves a super huge fight!!!
Well now, since that is out of the way, TIME TO RESPOND TO THE REVIEWS!
VFSNAKE- Well I only give blackmail to characters I don't like or I think would be rather hilarious.
Nin of Man- Glad to see you found out why, the rest of the reason will be revealed in this chapter.
Alex- Yes Auron is already dead, but I didn't say he died in the forest, you will see what happened soon.
Dragon Man 180- Yes he did. And don't worry Auron will be fine, and lets say the prelims will go... a little differently than normal... unless I can't think of anything... or have I thought of something already... read and find out later.
ZoneshifterD- I will start changing the story line soon, but I will be keeping in line with the cannon, I have said I would for a while, bit there will be a few differences in my version. Also the Axel I was referring to was Kingdom Hearts Axel.
shika-kun49- The pairing for the story are NaruxHina, HakuxAyame, AuroxAnko for part 1, since there is no romance anyway, in part 2 there will more romance (like Kishimoto said he wanted to add but hasn't delivered yet) pairings like ShikaxTem, InoxCho, and well all the ones mentioned for part 1. The rest of the pairing will be manga, unless they mess with the pairing I have mentioned.
prismdragon- Kudos for finding that out, and he does it cause he's Naruto.
Lord Drac0- Hey no need to call me a stupid bastard. I just ended it there cause I thought that would be a good cliffhanger.
Well thats it for the reviews, lets get on this band wagon for the next chapter of Naruto: An Alternative Story!
Chapter 20: Days at the tower Part 1
Inside of the Office
"Lord Hokage what are going to do about Orochimaru?" One of the Jonin assembled in the room asked Sarutobi.
Sarutobi took a drag off his pipe, breathed out the smoke and took on a more serious expression. He was about to speak when Iruka bust open the door and brought Auron in.
"Lord Hokage, we have a big problem here." Iruka said while closing the door behind him.
Sarutobi watched as Iruka cleared the table in the room, and placed Auron on top of it. "According to Naruto and his squad he was stabbed in a vital organ, most likely his liver, and then... well." Iruka said pointing to Auron.
Sarutobi rushed over to Auron side, as well as several of the other ninja in the room. "Anko!" Sarutobi said getting her attention. She was standing on the opposite side of the table, holding her shoulder in pain due to the curse mark. "Take of his jacket, and anything under it, we have see the wound." Sarutobi said while Anko nodded.
Anko began forcing Auron's clothes off so they could see his bare body. If Anko had not been a seasoned ninja she would've most likely thrown up at the sight of blood pouring out of Auron's wound.
'I don't understand, the... pyreflys should have healed Auron by know, why aren't they.' Sarutobi thought as he looked over the wound.
"Lord Hokage!" One of the medic-nin shouted bringing Sarutobi out of his thoughts. "This wound is too serious we can't close it up!" One of them said as they tried to close it using a medical ninjutsu.
All of a sudden Auron started convulsing, shouting in pain while doing so. Almost everyone jumped on top of him, trying to keep him from moving... unfortunetly this resulted in a lot of people being thrown across the room. When Auron's convulsions stopped Sarutobi noticed the lumps traveling across his skin.
'Could it be?' Sarutobi thought as he formed half the ram seal and put the tip of his fingers on Auron's body.
"Lord Hokage, what are you..." Anko started saying before being cut off by Sarutobi.
"Be quiet Anko, this is very important." Sarutobi said as his fingers got to Auron stomach region.
When they touhed the region, all of a sudden the five-pronged seal appeared on Auron's body.
"Lord Hokage, but thats... that would mean!" One of the ninja said beginning to panic.
"Yes, since Auron was with Naruto and his group, this means that Orochimaru must've gotten the seal onto Sasuke Uchiha." Sarutobi said studying the seal.
"How are you so sure?" Another ninja asked looking at Sarutobi.
"Think about it, someone who can handle ten ANBU, don't you think that if Orochimaru beat him that means that he would have no problem getting to Sasuke." Sarutobi said going through some seals.
"So what are we going to do." Kakashi asked Sarutobi.
"Well first off, we're going to get rid of this seal, then Kakashi I want you to use the Curse Sealing on Sasuke, so that things don't end up getting out of hand." Sarutobi said finishing the seal and then realing his hnad back.
All of a sudden five blue fireballs with kanji's in them appeared on Sarutobi's five fingertips. He then slammed his hand into Auron's gut, causing him to scream in agony.
"Five-Pronged Seal Release!" Sarutobi shouted as he kept pushing his fingers into Auron's seal.
Auron began thrashing around, knocking out, and knocking away many ninja who were desperately trying to keep him down. After about one minute Sarutobi pulled his hand away, and everyone watched as the seal on Auron's stomach began to disappear. Then Auron seemed to untense, and then passed out once again. They all sat there staring at Auron, wondering how someone could go from screaming in pain, to passed out. Then all of a sudden, glowing objects flew out of Auron's body, Auron fading from view slightly, then the pyreflys seemed to just stop, and then flow into the wound that had been inflicted upon Auron. Everyone was stunned to see the wound not only close up, but leave absolutely no trace of injury on him.
"Ummmm... Lord Hokage, what just happened?" A ninja said as a medic-nin began checking on Auron's vitals.
"Lord Hokage, his vitals are... normal. How is that possible?" A medic-nin asked clearly in a stupor from this finding.
"(Sigh) Looks like I may have to explain a few things." Sarutobi said taking another drag of his pipe.
"A few? Lord Hokage, with all do respect, you gotta a lot of things... to... ex..." Anko started saying before she felt where here hand was.
Anko looked down and saw that her hand was on Auron's abdominal muscles. She started blushing lightly when she noticed the rest of Auron's bare torso. The guy had the body of a Greek God! There were very few scars on him, but the ones that were on him didn't look like ugly scars, if anything they made him look even more, Anko couldn't believe she was thinking this, appealing! His muscles, while they weren't huge, were very lean, and did still bulge out a bit, making Anko practically start drooling.
She absent mindedly started... groping Auron's abs, causing her to blush a little bit, and also causing a little bit of blood to drip from her nose. She heard a thud and looked to see a sight she thought was almost impossible. She saw all the ANBU women, passed out on the ground, with blood pouring out of their mask's nostril holes. Meanwhile the ANBU men had their arms crossed and were looking very green with envy.
'Dear God! This guy's body, it's perfection!' Anko thought to herself as she began imagining some things that would fit in perfectly in Jiraiya's Make Out Paradise books.
"Is something wrong Anko?" Sarutobi asked, though he knew why she had blanked out he still felt like teasing her a bit.
"What... oh sorry Lord Hokage, I guess I got kinda outta hand." Anko said while sheepishly scratching the back of her head, all the while her blush rivaling Hinata's and Ayame's.
"Good, now then, I guess I should start off by telling you something about Auron that is never to leave this room." Sarutobi said taking another drag on his pipe. "Auron, by technical means, is dead." Sarutobi said getting a wave of gasps from the ninjas in the room, except for Kakashi who already knew.
"But, but then how is he here if he's dead?" A ninja asked clearly confused.
"Do you remember those glowing objects that flew around Auron and then entered through his wound, closing it on their way back in after the seal disappeared?" Sarutobi said in a sage-like voice.
"Yeah, what do they have to do with anything?" A ANBU asked, still clearly jealous that this guy had done something he had only read about in Make Out Paradise.
"Well you see, those, in a matter of speaking keep Auron 'alive'." Sarutobi said using air-quotes to emphasize the word alive. "They make up his entire being, his memory, his spirit, even his body." Sarutobi said causing a wave of whispers to course through the room.
"Wait if that's so then how did the seal work, that seal is only meant to be a supplementary seal that further seperates the chakra of the sealed and the one it is sealed into." A ANBU said clearly starting to become annoyed at this strange paradox.
"Well if you had let me continue then I would have told you how. You see, while the pyreflys, as Auron calls them, keeps him alive, he is still a seperate being from them. There are in essence two sources of power in Auron. There is his own power and being that makes him up, and then there are the pyreflys which allows the former to not only exist, but also to thrive." Sarutobi said gaining nods of apporval from some, and confused looks from others.
"Wait then how didn't the seal... make him disappear if it seperated them?" Anko asked becoming as confused as some of the ANBU.
"Very good question Anko. You see what the ANBU said before was right, the Five-Pronged Seal is a supplementary seal that works to further seperate the two sources of energy. Since there was no other seal present to help further, its effect was not quite so potent as to completely seperate them." Sarutobi said taking a drag of his pipe once again.
"Then how did they come out, that should've made him disappear if they left his body right?" Anko asked becoming slightly more and more interested in the individual known as Auron.
"Another good question Anko. You see the pyreflys heal Auron's wounds much like a medical ninjutsu does. It firsts leaves the body, then reenters the body through the wound, healing the wound in the process by refreshing and adding upon the amount of chakra in the area. And it doesn't make him fade for, like a medical ninjutsu, it doesn't put everything into it, just enough to heal him, but at the same time keep him from fading."Sarutobi said taking another drag. "Any other questions?" Sarutobi asked everyone in the audience, who remained silent.
"Good. Now then since everything is taken care of here, Kakashi get Sasuke and perform the sealing. Anko, take Auron to the medical wing, his vitals may be fine but he needs to rest a lot." Sarutobi said before a medic-nin raised his hand. "Yes?" Sarutobi said aknowledging the medic.
"Lord Hokage I would like to suggest, if I may, that we extend the time for the Third Stage of the Exam, for at least a day or two. With everything that has been going on I believe it may be more beneficial for... Auron was it, to have a few more days of rest, and with the Third Stage we would have to leave him, I do not believe it would be wise for someone who has gone through what he just has." The medic-nin said to Sarutobi.
"Anko, do you think Orochimaru would be provoked by this action?" Sarutobi said looking at Anko.
"Well Lord Hokage... I'm not sure, but I think that if Auron would recover he may be able to help us keep Orochimaru at bay." Anko said sternly.
"Very well then. I, the Third Hokage of Konoha do decree that, while the deadline for the end of the Second Exam will remain the same, the time for the Third Stage will be extended by one or more days, depending on how fast Auron recovers." Sarutobi said while walking back to the desk in the room. "Is there anyone opposed to this?" Sarutobi asked, when noone spoke up Sarutobi turned to the medic-nin. "Then take Auron the the recovery wing of the tower." Sarutobi said, after which the medic-nin began moving Auron to a stretcher.
After the got him on they signaled them to stop momentarily to turn to Anko. "Anko, I would like you to tell Naruto Uzumaki, Sasuke Uchiha, Sakura Haruno, and Haku of Auron's current state, then watch over him until he awakens." Sarutobi said making Anko blush.
'I'll be watching this guy, this Greek God?!' Anko said shaking herself back to the real world. "Yes sir, I will do as you command." Anko said running out of the office with the medic-nin.
"Kakashi get moving." Sarutobi said making the one-eyed Jonin start moving.
"AAHH YES! AURON'S SPRINGTIME POWER OF YOUTH WILL BE RESTORED! BUT SUCH AN AMAZING PHYSIQUE! I WILL TRAIN UNTIL MINE EQUALS HIS! FIRST I WILL DO 750 LAPS AROUND THE TOWERS ON MY HANDS, IF I CANNOT DO THAT THEN I WILL DO 3000 JUMPING JACKS, AND IF I CANNOT DO THAT..." Gai started screaming making everyone in the room have one thought.
'And he's off ladies and gentlemen.' They all thought as they ignored him.
Outside of the Office
Naruto and the others were waiting patiently outside of the office. Earlier they had heard hushed conversation, a lot of screams, and then after that even more hushed conversations. They were worried, they thought that maybe Auron had...
'No, Auron can't fade, he just can't...' Naruto thought gloomily as his head sunk.
They all looked up when they heard the door open with medic-nins pouring out with Auron on a stretcher. Then the woman they all knew as Anko walked out after them. She looked around for a second and then saw the group and then started walking towards them. As she reached them, she looked over them, as if trying to remember something.
"You all, you were the group with him right?" Anko said to the group.
"No lady we're here just cause we're bored, OF COURSE WE'RE HERE BECAUSE OF AURON!" Naruto said almost screaming at the top of his lungs before Haku got up and put a hand on his shoulder as if trying to calm him down.
"I'm sorry for Naruto's behavior, you see he's a bit worried, we all are. So if you could please tell us if he's okay." Haku said sounding very worried.
"Ah don't worry, that guy's gonna be fine, a few days of rest will put him right back on his feet." Anko said reassuring all of them.
They all gave a sigh of relief before Anko continued. "Anyway, the Third Stage will be delayed for another day so let's see today is Day 3 so you all have three days to rest and get prepared of the Third Stage." Anko told the group.
This time though it wasn't just a sigh of relief, it was a silent celebration, they all needed all the time to rest they could get. Then all of a sudden Kakashi walked out of the room. He turned to the group and hs visible eye went into a 'U' shape.
"Hello everyone, good to see you all passed the Second Stage good for you." Kakashi said very calmly. "Sasuke I would like to see you for a few minutes if you would..." Kakashi said bending down to Sasuke's level. "After all we do gotta get that curse mark under control." Kakashi whispered shocking Sasuke.
After Sasuke got over his shock, he got up and began walking with Kakashi, Sakura, who had nothing better to do, followed them as well. Naruto and Haku were about to leave before Anko put a hand on Naruto's shoulder to stop him.
"Hey you I gotta ask you some questions." Anko said with a small blush on her face.
Haku stopped and turned around too, that is until Anko gave him a glare. "Hey, what are you waiting for you can go." She said in a voice laced with a small amount of killing intent.
Before Haku could even say anything he ran off faster than the speed of sound. Anko turned her attention back to Naruto who was starting to break out in a nervous sweat. "Don't worry, i won't do anything to you... yet. Just follow me." Anko said walking down the hall.
Naruto followed her at her heals, it wasn't that Naruto had any respect for her, it was just that he feared her, so he followed her just so that he wouldn't be killed.They walked for sometime before they reached a door with a hospital mark on it. They both walked in and saw the Auron was laying down upon a bed close to the door.
"Auron!" Naruto said running to the side of the bed Auron was on.
He quickly looked Auron over thinking that something terrible had happened, but he found that Auron looked, well normal. "Don't worry kid he's going to be just fine, he will need a few days of rest, in fact one of the reason we had the Third Exam start day extended was so he could rest up before then." Anko said smiling, but only it wasn't exactly an evil smile, this one was actually genuine.
Naruto smiled slightly too and then turned his attention back to Auron, noticing he had lost his glasses somewhere in the forest.
"So what questions do you have for me." Naruto said remembering the entire point of following Anko in here.
Anko started blushing a bit, scratching the back of her head sheepishly and staring at the ground. "Well... you see... ummm... what is he like?" Anko asked shocking Naruto slightly.
"Who... Auron?" Naruto asked sounding a bit dazed.
When Anko nodded her head slightly Naruto nearly vaulted to the ground, never in all of his days did he think that anyone would ever... 'dig' Auron. But then again I guess that all that good karma finally began paying off.
"Well, let's see here... he's... well..." Naruto tried to think of some good qualities of Auron. "Well... he can really relate to almost anyone." Naruto said just picking something at random. When he say Anko's confused look he explained. "Well, you can tell him your problem, and he can relate to you, it's like he seen and been through so much he can just understand." Naruto said, noticing Anko's more understanding look. "And... he's a loyal guy, once he says he'll do something he'll do it, like he told me he'd teach me to use his sword style, and he did. He also became my guardian and had protected me from all dorts of stuff."
Naruto said noticing Anko's confusion.
"You mean he adopted you?" Anko said trying to bend her mind around this.
"Yes and no. In Auron's world a guardian is someone who will protect you no matter the circumstances, but a guardian here does the same, in a way so yes and no." Naruto said.
"Wow, he sounds like a nice guy." Anko said hoping to find out more about this guy who could stand up to her... former sensei.
"He is, he can joke around with you, tell you stories about his previous home that will help you. But he can be very serious too, but also he can be a pain. Like whenever he has blackmail on you, BE CAREFUL! He will make you do anything." Naruto said making Anko sweat slightly.
"So, does he have any goals?" Anko asked looking over Auron's body.
"Well non that he really told me of." Naruto said watching Anko blush slighty. He followed her blush to Auron's body and then he began smirking evily. He sprang from the side of the bed, and then pulled a camera from his pouch and took a picture. When Anko never saw the flash, she was looking over Auron's body... again.
"So why would you want to know about him?" Naruto said making Anko flinch.
"Well uh... uh... uhh." Anko said blushing a deep red color.
"Nevermind, so see ya later then." Naruto said walking out of the room.
As Naruto left Anko proceeded to pull a chair up to the side of the bed, and proceeded to do what Sarutobi told her to do. She wouldn't admit it, but watching someone with the body of a very, very, very well trained Greek athelete, was very... enjoyable. She then began to wonder... what now? She had already had someone betray her before, she didn't want it to happen again. So she decided to enjoy the sight while she could.
Team 7's Room
Naruto trudged into his room, exhausted from the days events, and saw that everyone else, minus Sasuke, was in their. By the looks of it they had all fallen asleep by the time their heads hit the pillow. He walked over to an empty bed, set all of his stuff down beside it, walked into the restroom built adjacent to the room, quickly changed into his night clothes, and walked out. He took a look at the clock it was really only noon, but for Naruto, and he was sure the rest of his team, it felt like it had been days since they last slept. He fell into his bed, crawled under the covers and after he layed his head down onto the covers he fell fast asleep.
Day 4
Naruto woke up, he looked around and saw that almost all of his team was still asleep. Sasuke still wasn't there for some reason, but Naruto took it that Kakashi, and others, must've done something with the curse seal. He relaxed with that thought and went into the bathroom to do his morning routine. He walked up to the mirror, dressed in his everday Auron-like attire he had been accustomed to wearing for a while now. He looked at himself in the mirror and saw his hair, it had been a little while since he's had it trimmed, last time was during the Wave Country mission. But, despite that, he decided to keep it like this, hell maybe even grow it longer, afterall, Jiraiya promised him that when his hair grew long enough he would teach him another of his jutsu, and why would Naruto complain with a deal like that.
Jiraiya... he hadn't seen a sign of him, or for that matter one of his toads since the Genin Exams. Naruto was both a bit worried and at the same time annoyed. But, he knew Jiraiya would have a reason, always did. So after he did his routine he walked back into the room where his teamates slept and looked at the clock.
'9:12 eh?' Naruto thought as he looked outside, he saw the sun up so it was morning, good cause Naruto didn't really feel like being awake at night, it was too quite for his tastes really. He walked out the room and downstairs, he saw a kitchen and quickly ran down to see if the cooks were there. Unfortunetly for him they were there... as well as the kids from sand. As soon as he got withing 12 feet of them they turned to face him, the Gaara kid seemed to be pleased by his arrival.
"So... you've made it." Gaara said bluntly.
"Yeah what's it to you?" Naruto said with a confident voice.
Kankuro and Temari seemed startled by Naruto's words, they glanced at Gaara with what seemed like fear in their eyes, but Gaara only gave a dark smirk. "You amuse me... Uzumaki was it? You seem to be perhaps the only person who, not only mocks me, but doesn't fear me. You must be extremely powerful, or extremely stupid." Gaara said sounding slightly amused.
"Or maybe a combination of both eh?" Naruto said sounding equally amused.
Gaara's face turned into a slight scowl before returning to its indifferent state. "Well then, I hope I get the chance to destroy you in the next stage of the exam then." Gaara said as he teleported out of the room using his sand. Temari and Kankuro walked up to Naruto and looked at him for a moment.
"Listen, brat, if you learn anything from these exams learn this, it would be best not to mock Gaara. Those who get him mad, usually end up dead." Kankuro said as he walked off with Temari.
'Dead? They can't be serious can they?' Naruto thought for a moment before shaking it from his mind. 'No way... but he was on such a high level mission... maybe...' Naruto quickly shook himself again. Even if it was true he shouldn't worry too much, afterall he was trained by the Frog Hermit, Jiraiya, no way he would go down easily!
He walked up to the chefs, and to his suprise it was...
"Teuchi? Ayame? What are you two doing here?!" Naruto shouted sounding very confused.
"Well you see, Lord Hokage was asking for chefs to volunteer here to cook for the participants. When we heard your group had entered I figured I should feed my favorite customer, plus Ayame wanted to see Haku, she missed him these past few days even if she wouldn't admit it." Teuchi said making Ayame blush deeply.
(As for the people who will say 'Hey that didn't happen in the manga' remember Naruto and the others didn't have the chance to stop and rest so as far as we know it could've happened.)
"Hahaha. Well just wait Ayame Haku should be showing up later, he's still asleep, we had a rough time in the forest." He said laughing a bit at Ayame's embarrassment. "Anyway three beef ramens, and 7 miso please!" Naruto said overjoyed he could eat ramen.
"Coming right up!" Teuchi said as he and Ayame began cooking Naruto's ramen, or as he called it, food of the gods themselves! As Teuchi was fixing Naruto's ramen, Naruto sat there drooling, he didn't realize how hungry he was until he smelt the sweet smell of ramen. He just sat there drooling as Ayame brought him his order. As Naruto was eating Teuchi came to the counter Naruto looked up to see the old man, his mouth filled with ramen noodles.
"Hey Naruto, you ever hear of a wish sadnwhich?" Teuchi said while leaning on the counter, when Naruto shook his head no he continued. "A wish sandwhich is the kind of a sandwhich where you have two slices of and you..." Teuchi started saying before he started laughing slightly. "Wish you had some meat!" He said as he started laughing crazily.
(If you guess where I got this I'll give you cookie).
Naruto just stared at Teuchi like he was a mad man. "Teuchi... that wasn't funny." Naruto said as he slurped up some more noodles.
Teuchi just glared at him and then swiped the rest of his ramen away from him. "Fine then no ramen for you!" Teuchi shouted as he started walking away.
"WAIT WAIT WAIT! I mean... HAHAHAHA, OH MY GOD THAT WAS HILARIOUS TEUCHI YOU ARE SUICH A RIOT!" Naruto said while faking a laugh.
Teuchi just smiled before setting Naruto's ramen back on the counter. "Glad you see it my way Naruto." He said as he walked back into the kitchen.
Naruto sighed as he continued eating his ramen. After he finished he got up from the chair and quickly thanks Teuchi for the meal. He ran around the tower to see if there was anything to do around this boring place. He came across a door than interested him. When he opened the door he found a dojo, the mats and the floor of the dojo were red with green in the cent in a circle, obviously representing the Land of Fire and Konoha. He saw many dents and broken boards in the floors, walls and even on the ceiling. He looked up at the walls to see several weapons, ranging from something as simple as a kunai to a Zanbato. Hung up on racks were gis of many different sizes. But one thing that Naruto thought was odd was that the room was covered in dust.
"So Naruto, I see you came across the dojo." An old sounding voice said, shocking Naruto. When Naruto turned around he saw that the voice belonged to Sarutobi.
"Hey old man, you shouldn't sneak up on people like that you know." Naruto said untensing a bit.
"I will remember that." Sarutobi said smiling. "Anyway, I bet your wondering about this room eh? Or has Jiraiya already taught you about this room?" Sarutobi said walking over to a bench to sit.
"No, he never mentioned a room like this inside the tower." Naruto said marveling at the room.
"Well you see, during the last Great Ninja War, I had this room built for some private training. You see being the Hokage, I barely got, or even now a days get a chance to be by myself, and back then with the threat of war coming around I needed a private spot to sharpen my skills. So I had this room built here, in this tower, in this forest for two reasons. First being that since we are in the Forest of Death, not many people would bother taking the long trek to get here unless it was an emergency, and the second reason, should there be an attack, this place owuld most likely house many people, due to the natural defense of the forest. But also this room could help train shinobi for a suprise attack." Sarutobi said in his usual voice.
"Wow, so this place was real important right?" Naruto said enjoying this little lesson, after all if he was going to be Hokage he would need to know all of this.
"Yes it was, until the war ended, then it was locked up." Sarutobi said taking a drag of his pipe.
"What, but why?" Naruto said a bit confused.
"Well it was more the council's decision and not mine or the Fourth's. You see they thought that such a room was not necassary, especially with all the training grounds available and the fact that the war was over added to this thought. So they locked it up, saying that the cost of upkeeping something like this room was just a drain on our profits, a stupid reason if you asked me or the Fourth, hence the dust that has been built up in here." Sarutobi finished looking up slightly.
"But then why is it unlocked?" Naruto said sounding even more confused.
"Well, you know that Orochimaru has returned to Konoha correct?" Sarutobi said making Naruto's face shift to a more serious look as he nodded. "I was able to convince the council that this room would be needed so that some of out better shinobi could train in here, where there is very small chance of a spy being able to watch them, instead of out in the open where some of the secrets of our techniques can be easily discovered." Sarutobi said in a sage-like tone.
Naruto nodded, then he thought something. "Hey old man, do you mind if I use this room." Naruto said shocking Sarutobi a bit, but then Sarutobi started laughing a bit before he answered.
"I'm sorry Naruto, but the council would never allow a Genin to train in this room." Sarutobi said making Naruto's head sink a bit. "But, if I were to watch you and say that you had supervision I guess they wouldn't be able to stop you then." Sarutobi said winking at Naruto.
"Thanks old man! Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you!" Naruto said hugging Sarutobi.
"Alright now then, start changing into a gi your size in the room back there..." Sarutobi said pointing back to a sliding door. "And then you may begin training in here." Sarutobi said as he felt a gust of wind rush past him, towards the rack and into the room. He looked over and saw that there was a coat hanger swinging on the gi rack.
'Hahahaha. He is so much like you... you would've been proud Arashi.' Sarutobi thought as he took another drag of his pipe.
Naruto began slidin off his jacket, leaving only the black mesh shirt he wore underneath, the reason he wore a mesh shirt is that the undershirt Auron wears isn't around here, so a mesh shirt had to do. He also took of his pants and sandels. He started puting the top of the gi on first over his mesh shirt, and then the bottom half went on, getting the weights through the leg hole was a bit of a problem. It was a good fit and very sleak. He walked out of the room and into the main dojo room where Sarutobi still was sitting and waiting. When Sarutobi turned he was shocked as he though he had seen Arashi rise from the grave right in front of him.
'Wow, he even looks like you... I'm suprised he doesn't have a fan club like you did.' Sarutobi thought to himself as he closed his mouth which a gapping wide open.
"Hey old man, how do I look?" Naruto said showing off the parts of the gi.
"You look very good Naruto. I have to admit I wasn't expecting the weights, but then again they are a very effective training method to use." Sarutobi said smiling again.
"Yeah, there's only 240 lbs right now, I think Auron will probably be raising them soon." Naruto said as he started stretching his shoulder.
"Only 240? Hahaha." Sarutobi said as he chuckled lightly. "You should work out with Gai, he would probably start crying because of your..." Sarutobi said as he started coughing a bit. "'AMAZING SPRINGTIME YOUTH EXPLODE WITH BRILLIANCE!'" Sarutobi said doing his best Gai impression.
"GAI-SENSEI THAT WAS SO COOL!" Naruto said in a Rock Lee impression.
"YES I KNOW LEE!" Sarutobi said still being Gai.
"GAI-SENSEI!" Naruto said as tears welled up in his eyes.
"LEE!" Sarutobi said as he also began crying.
"GAI-SENSEI!" Naruto said crying even more.
"LEE!" Sarutobi said crying just as much.
"LORD HOKAGE!" Gai said as he busted in.
"GAI?!" Naruto shouted as Gai busted in.
"NARUTO?" Gai said staring at Naruto.
"GAI-SENSEI!" Lee said as he ran by.
"LEE!?" Sarutobi shouted upon seeing Lee.
"LORD HOKAGE?!" Lee shouted as he saw the Hokage.
"GAI?!" Sarutobi said trying to shout over Lee.
"NARUTO!?" Lee shouted over Sarutobi after seeing Naruto.
"LEE!?" Gai said after hearing Lee.
"GAI-SENSEI!" Lee said as he heard Gai.
"LEE!" Gai said as tears came into his eyes.
"GAI-SENSEI!" Lee shouted with tears welling up in his eyes as well.
"LEE!" Gai said as he hugged Lee.
"GAI-SENSEI!!!" Lee shouted as a background of a wave crashing against a cliff appeared as the two hugged.
Naruto and Sarutobi just sat there, sweatdrops forming on the back of their heads. Sarutobi cleared his throat to get the two's attention.
"Anyway... Gai what is it that you need?" Sarutobi said while wiping the sweat of his head.
"I just came to tell you that my team has finally made it." Gai said with a salute.
"YES! MY TEAM HAS SHONE THAT TOGETHER OUR POWER OF YOUTH WAS STRONG ENOUGH TO OVERCOME ANY OBSTACLE!" Lee shouted with the nice guy pose.
"LEE!" Gai started shouting with tears in his eyes.
"GAI-SEN..." Lee started saying before Sarutobi shut the sliding door on them.
"I'm getting way too old for this." Sarutobi said making Naruto chuckle a bit.
"Anyway, should I get started?" Naruto said jumping up and down a bit.
Sarutobi chuckled lightly, before motioning for Naruto to begin. So Naruto jumped out to the center of the dojo, formed the cross seal, created 15 Shadow Clones, and got into a fighting stance, waiting for his warm up to begin.
Oh yes I am a sick and demented bastard aren't I, cutting off the story at this point, leaving you all to suffer HAHAHAHAHA!
Anyway reasn I'm cutting off the story at this point is because of two reasons, one I'm outta ideas for now, and two its getting late and I have homework to do.
Also, while I'm coming up with more ideas for this fic, I will start experimenting with another fic idea, so keep an eye out for a new one by me in the NaruxHina section. Also if you want me to update this story... there must be TWENTY REVIEWS, so chip chop, start reviewing people.