A/N Hello everyone! I'm back at it again and before we start the very last chapter in the first arc, the Arc 1 Omakes, I want to say something real quick (yes it's sentimental time, so if you don't wanna read it, just go on ahead and have fun reading the omakes!)
When I first started writing this fanfic story, I had all plans to kinda just leave it as a one shot, just to sell the idea to others. I didn't really feel like my somewhat minimalist writing style worked for it since I was, kinda still am, tragic at describing scenes and characters. I only really had a basic idea of where the story would go, and so much of it left unclear. And now look, we're finally finished with the first arc of it, 7 chapters in and already more than every other story of mine combined when it comes to reviews, views, whatever! I have to thank each and every one of you for sticking by this story and the like, and I just hope that my writing inspires one of you amazing lot to write up your own stories one day. Stories are meant to inspire and if I can manage to just inspire even one of you, that would mean the world to me.
From the bottom of my heart, thank you all, so, so much.
P.S. I'm still going to edit the earlier chapters later on. However, besides some minor stuff, most likely I would be leaving it untouched until I'm done with the story. On multiple stories of mine, I lost track of the story by getting too caught up with editing, so hopefully you can understand why I'm waiting till the story is over.
With all that out of the way, with one last huge THANK YOU ALL! to you, let's get started with the omakes. They'll be in order of length for the most part (meaning Sasuke's is the very last one for this since it's the most developed and by extension, lengthy...probably. As well as some of these being somewhat goofy and half-cooked ideas in a sense. Too short to appear in story, but still help build the world...I hope.) and are mostly just small snippets and the like.
Enjoy!
Edit: Oh my god I am so sorry that this is taking so long! I really am! I got distracted with life and well, the weeks ran away on me!
IMPORTANT NOTE BEFORE WE BEGIN!
These are purely Omakes! Meaning that they might not be completely developed or lack most of the omake proper. Please be aware of that going into this "chapter" as it is NOT a chapter. These omakes are meant to provide some backstory to the story, and only those that have no way to be placed in the story proper (Being Omakes 4 (It's not long, but it is the full scene proper) and 5 ironically enough) are actually full scenes. Other than that, it's just snippets of the scenes that might or might not be placed in the story proper. If that is the case, I will go through these again and give them proper length. At the moment, these are more Proof Of Concepts rather than full scenes. Please be aware of this before leaving reviews about this.
With all that said, welcome to the Omakes of Arc 1!
Omake Chapter
Section: Arc 1, Pre-Academy
Omake 1: Naruto, please stop wearing that jumpsuit.
Characters: Kakashi, Naruto.
Takes place: Chapter 1
Reason for not including: Too short, not really developed and didn't really add all that much to the story other than some nice moments with Honoke pre-death. Since I had him die in the first chapter due to it being a pilot, there really wasn't any room to put it, unless I was to put it later on as a flashback, which I don't really intend to do.
It had only been about a month since Honoke had entered Naruto's life, a month full of training, eating, and having fun with who was quickly becoming Naruto's father figure. There was just one tiny issue...
"Naruto, please stop wearing that jumpsuit of yours..." Kakashi sighed for what felt like the thousandth time since Naruto entered his own life. It was an eventful ride, but there was a few constants to it. Naruto's optimism, Kurama's over-protectiveness..
And that damn bright orange jumpsuit that Naruto had taken to wearing. Naruto looked flat out insulted at the insinuation, even though he heard it from almost everyone over the last few days. No matter the complaints, Naruto refused to part with it, and so...the war against it began. It all started with Kakashi's lackluster comment, but while rolling his eyes Naruto made his move.
"What's wrong with it!?" Naruto demanded with childish anger at the thought of parting with his favorite jacket. Kakashi sighed.
"You want to be a ninja-" Kakashi started as Naruto nodded.
"Yeah! I'll be the number one ninja!" Naruto exclaimed, getting a groan from a once sleeping Kurama, "And then I'll have everyone be friends with everyone!" Naruto continued with a grin.
"What about being the Hokage?" Kakashi changed the topic, confused on what happened to that dream of his. Naruto's grin seemed to grow.
"Well duh, the Hokage is the number one ninja! And even if he's not, I can always go for higher heights! Kurama was telling me of all his friends and how they're so much stronger than the Old Man is, so I'm gonna beat them all and befriend them and be the bestest ninja in the whole wide world!" Naruto loudly shouted at the now shocked Kakashi, though he hid it behind a minute eye widen and a cough before the shock faded into a neutral face.
"D-Do I even want to ask?" Kakashi struggled to hide his stutter from a giggling Naruto.
"Heh-heh! Me and Kurama are gonna be the number one ninjas, believe it! To do that, I need to get strong fast so Kurama can help train me, so that's why I'm here!" Naruto explained while rubbing his finger below his nose, still with the same grin of earlier. Kakashi rolled his eyes at the motion before having an idea pop up.
"Well, ninjas don't loudly shout their goals to the world, instead they stealthily sneak around and do their best to keep their friends alive while helping out their cause. You can't really do that with an orange jumpsuit on, now can you?" Kakashi explained to the now pouting Naruto. Kakashi tried holding back a snicker over how fast Naruto's expressions could change and managed to maintain his straight face. (A smirk still showed underneath that mask, but how could Naruto or Kurama know that?)
"Oh yeah!? I'll show you!" Naruto pointed his finger aggressively towards Kakashi, who merely shrugged.
"And how will you do that?" Kakashi asked, eye lazily looking at Naruto unimpressively.
"By making it impossible for you to take my jumpsuit off of me!" Naruto said, a mischievous grin of light crimson blue lining his eyes. Kakashi merely rose his eyebrow.
Choji didn't know how to feel when he saw Naruto hiding one of his many...many jumpsuits (Choji still didn't know how he managed to get what looked to be about 60 copies of that one jumpsuit, nor why.) underneath his bed. Raising an eyebrow in confusion, Choji knocked lightly on the door. Naruto yelped as he smacked his head on the bed frame above him.
"You okay there Naruto?" Choji asked, heading to his side as Naruto rubbed his head, turning towards him after getting from underneath the bed frame.
"Yeah, what is it Choji?" Naruto asked. Choji pointed towards the jumpsuit sticking slightly out from under the bed. Naruto nervously laughed in response. "Yeah, it's a game I'm doing, want to help out?" Naruto asked, his standard mischievous grin on his face. With a face full of slight fear, though he would never admit it, Choji nodded his head hesitatingly. "Okay, here's the plan..." Naruto began explaining.
Choji grinned by the end.
Omake 2: Honoke
Characters: Honoke
Takes Place: Before Chapter 1
Reason for not including: It's backstory for Honoke, who died in the first chapter. The reason it's light is because I haven't fully fleshed his backstory out, so I want to keep it open for later on when, and if, I decide to use Honoke again without breaking my own continuity. That and trying to write out Honoke's story is kinda worthy of it's own sub-story that I rather leave for that.
Honoke grinned as he looked towards the Academy, it was finally the day of his Genin exam! It had been a long boring year, but it was finally time for Honoke to take his exam before heading off to get a sensei of his own. Not wanting to waste any time, he ran into the building without a second thought in his brain and eyes burning bright with a flame that will never run out.
A/N quick Author's note here. This is probably just the start of what could be a fun side chapter here, or fleshed out story outside of this when this story is done. I haven't really decided yet, but feel free to leave your suggestions below if you wouldn't mind seeing a story about Honoke. It would be almost completely original so I would have a good amount of freedom writing it, and it would end on the day when Honoke met Naruto since that would segway into this story.
Omake 3: Honoke meets Iruka
Characters: Honoke, Iruka
Takes Place: Before Chapter 1, before Omake 2
Reason for not including: Same as Omake 2, it's backstory and I was planing on putting it in in full somewhere else in the story.
"Team 6, Honoke, Iruka, Isashi." The instructor, a more bulky man with weird markings upon his face smiled to the three, "Jonin-sensei will be Choza Akimichi, be sure to be back tomorrow to meet up with him." He said with a nod towards the three, who just stared at each other.
Honoke had heard of the two, sure, but never had he really talked to him. A blush overtook his face as he looked towards Isashi Miukai, one of a foreign clan that moved in after the war between Konoha and Iwa that was once native to Iwa. He never once had the courage to even look her way, embarrassed on what might happen if it happened. The other one...he couldn't help but hold a grimace at the thought of working with him of all people. Iruka Umino was a loud mouth prankster, nothing else could be said about it
A/N stopping it here so I can have stuff to put in a full chapter. This will be probably in the 2nd arc, the Kakashi Training Arc, as a bit of backstory between Iruka and Honoke, so look forward to that :P
Omake 4: Hiruzen talks to Kakashi
Characters: Hiruzen/Third Hokage, Kakashi
Takes Place: Right after Naruto shows weird signs of being able to see Hashirama's battle with Madara
Reason for not including: Kinda the same as Omake 1 and 2. I had chapter 1 as a full proof of concept, and there was already so much stuff I packed into the chapter. So this kinda fell to the way side to not create a block of text that never ended. At this point, this can't be placed anywhere in the story as it wouldn't really make sense, and it's not really important in the main scheme of things.
"Come in" Hiruzen looked up carefully, masking his eyes with his Hokage hat. It was just a bright normal day in Konoha, which drove at any reasonable ninja's nerves. Normal days, while nice, always were a prelude to something terrible happening somewhere. The door opened to reveal an one-eyed ninja that Hiruzen knew well. The way Kakashi held himself too stiffly, too controlled, caused Hiruzen to sigh in annoyance. Great, something must have happened if it's gotten one of his top ninja, Hatake Kakashi of the Sharigan, nervous and or terrified. "Yes?" Hiruzen asked calmly, for while he was glad for a change of pace, he had a lot of paperwork left to do since Naruto's...prankster nature was coming out. A grimace withheld at that thought, Hiruzen turned towards Kakashi, who sighed in what appeared to be tense hesitation.
"I need to borrow Te-Yamato for a few minutes." Kakashi's words caught upon themselves as he almost said the Anbu's original name. Hiruzen merely raised an eyebrow, motioning for an explanation. For once, the only time thus far, Kakashi merely waved Hiruzen off with what amounted to the most nervous expression Hiruzen had ever seen from Kakashi yet. "If I said that I wanted to test signs for one of the most sought out Mokuton jutsus on a whim, would you believe me?" Kakashi asked, eye firmly pointed at Hiruzen.
A puff of smoke emitted from Hiruzen's pipe as he thought about the question, not once breaking eye contact with him. "Hmm..." He sounded out carefully, noting the lack of change in tension upon Kakashi's body, a sigh came out after, "If you say it's something to do with Naruto, then I wouldn't be that surprised, but I would want an explanation." Hiruzen relented with the man.
Kakashi merely nodded, and a groan came from Hiruzen in response. Hiruzen nodded towards Kakashi, before Kakashi promptly disappeared to grab his kouhai from his makeshift home.
Omake 5: Sasuke meets Sakura
Characters: Sasuke, Sakura, Naruto technically but not really
Reason for not including: No space to, would have distracted from the main plot and was all within the pilot chapter (aka first chapter) that was already one of the longest chapters, if not the longest, that I ever wrote.
A/N oh yes, this scene/omake. I been meaning to write this mess, but I wasn't entirely sure how to write it out. Sasuke is one of those characters that have such a mindset that is so central to his character that it's hard to truly write out. Props to the creator, cause re-watching the anime (and playing the Ultimate Ninja Storm games to avoid the massive filler...) really showed how consistent the characters were, and how each one led into the story proper. I doubt this story will ever reach that level of story telling, but I'm willing to try my best. I thought of how to get Sasuke to be slightly more friendly to them, and how to fully expand on that without losing what Sasuke was in essence. I figured, since he and Sakura officially pick up in the end, let's give them some good moments together, to truly build upon them without Sasuke and Sakura looking like a really abusive couple in the end. (Which if you think about it, it's really fucked up in canon. There's a reason I'm not a fan of Sasuke and Sakura in canon, it's basically Sasuke abusing and leaving Sakura behind with his kid while Sakura gushes over Sasuke. It's not a healthy relationship if looked from the outside in like this.)
In the end, I kinda figured this Sasuke doesn't really understand his feelings for Naruto and Sakura. He's haunted by visions of Madara's and Hashirama's battle in order to create doubt in himself over the idea of friendship and ideals, and doesn't really understand Naruto and where he comes from. Sakura on the other hand, reminds him of his mother, who had died during the Great Uchiha Massacre by his brother at the hands of Danzo during chapter 6. In this story, Itachi didn't hide that fact from him, as Sasuke had proven himself stronger due to the training from Honoke, Naruto, and in some regards, Kurama. With all that in play, I figured making someone that's unsure of his strengths, of his goals, unsure of life and love and friendship and still suffering from grief over the loss of his loved ones would be the best way to write the character. It's hard to tell since the story revolves around Naruto and thus I really can't focus on Sasuke often until Team Seven forms and the like, but he's always doubting himself. I view Sasuke as Naruto's foil in a sense, while Naruto goes for Justice, Sasuke goes for Power, Naruto goes for Love and Friendship, Sasuke goes for Hate and Isolation. It's actually pretty clever in a way, but in this, I'm adding a third category. Instead of Ego being what Sasuke has over Naruto's Humbleness. I'm thinking instead to go for confidence.
Naruto is a bright cheerful lad, one that tries to see the good in everyone and drag everyone to befriend everyone for peace. Sasuke, on the other hand, is a closed off, grief-stricken boy, with no way to avenge his loss, he doubts himself and everyone else and sees what amounts to be the worst in everyone. I figure with this addition, it would truly show that while the two come from opposite sides, they can learn to accept one another, being the sun to the other's moon and vice versa. They both hold grief and suffering in their heart, but they handle it in two different ways. Naruto found peace from the help of Kurama and Honoke, but Sasuke envies him because he never had that chance. Everyone praised him for being the last Uchiha and the like(Even if they were under a Genjutsu oddly like Shisui's Mandingo Sharingan's power) and never saw to the broken boy he was. Naruto and Sakura did.
This omake is to show Sasuke's feelings towards Naruto being mostly fear of losing him, since he reminds him a lot of Shisui, and his feelings for Sakura are just being to bloom. This also sets up a shift in his attitude to become a bit more open, a bit more whole even. I apologize for the massive Author's note, but I really wanted to write this, to explain my thought process on Sasuke, Naruto, Kurama, and Sakura's relationship as Team Seven.
This takes place immediately after Sasuke runs from Naruto in Chapter 1, and as such, the last of that will be posted below in Italics for context before beginning this proper!
The day ended soon after that for the most part, as Sasuke tried to split from the group, to which Naruto ran on over to his new friend, "How about I walk you home? No one should be out by themselves!" Naruto said with a grin, to which Sasuke ignored him. He tried again before Sasuke slapped his hand away, "Hey, what's the big idea!? I'm just trying to be nice!" Naruto yelled.
"BE NICE TO SOMEONE ELSE! I DON'T WANT TO SEE YOU, DON'T YOU GET IT!?" Sasuke screamed back, he turned and ran away, unaware that Naruto had tears coming out of his eyes.
Sasuke walked off down the road with thoughts rushing through his mind. Stupid idiot! You slapped away what could have been your only chance of getting a friend! What's wrong with you! was but one of the many that ran through. In his inattention, he accidentally ran into a girl, around his same age.
"Oh! Sorry!" She said as Sasuke started walking away again, "Hey! Aren't you supposed to say sorry back?" The, now annoying, girl continued following.
Sasuke rolled his eyes before turning to the girl. "What?" He sharply exhaled at her, hoping to be alone.
"Oh, Sasuke! I-I d-I.." The girl, who Sasuke numbly remembered being a girl named...uhh...which one of the annoying fangirls was it again? Sakura? Yeah, Sakura. Sasuke barely even gave her pause before walking away, not in the mood for the fangirl's annoying actions. She wasn't as bad as the others, but the silent intelligence in her fangirling irked Sasuke, who couldn't help but always want her to stop it and stop wasting her own potential. Holding back an eye roll and glare, Sasuke continued walking by as she continued putting her fingers together like a certain Hyuuga he had seen around the kid he trained with. "W-Wait! Sasuke!" She cried out, probably just now noticing him walking away. Sasuke groaned out of sheer annoyance before turning back to the fangirl.
"What." He said with not a single shred of his voice devoid of anger. He was not in the mood to deal with her, as it always involved the other of the girls, and she was a million times worse and actively tried forcing Sakura into becoming yet another fangirl of his.
"I-I was wondering what you were thinking about...it's pretty late out and it could be dangerous." Sakura asked timidly as Sasuke rolled his eyes.
"It's fine. People know better than to go after clan heirs, what about you, why are you out this late?" Sasuke looked back at her, a raised eyebrow in a slightly angry twitch.
Sakura stiffened slightly, she didn't want to admit what she had saw, but figured it was something important. Gulping back nothing but air, she looked Sasuke in the eyes. "I came because I was worried about you. You're always so distant with everyone, and everyone deserves a friend, so...I had hoped to become a friend of yours." Sakura admitted with a blush beginning to line her lamp shaded face. Half of herself was desperately telling her to stop talking and run away, but there was a part that slowly encouraged her to continue, and she began to do so, "I figured that you had friends with...Naruto I think his name was? I had saw you training earlier, and you constantly had a smirk or smile upon your face, you were enjoying yourself...but then I saw what happened just now where you told him off...I don't know why, but part of me wonders why you push everyone away from you, when it's obvious you just want a friend...It makes me worry for you Sasuke..." Sakura lost her grip on her eyes midway, instead pointing them down from embarrassment, and completely missing the shock upon Sasuke's face.
Someone other than Aniki and Mother? Sasuke thought to himself in shock. His mind jumped back to Shisui's mischievious smirk, mirroring Naruto's quite well, jumped to the small twitch in his father's frown whenever he or Itachi did well, but not once had they been by his age. Fellow classmates were either fan girls, fawning over him like he was the best thing come curry, it made him sick. Pink Hair-Sakura, her name is Sakura don't forget it, wasn't like that from what he saw. Sure she fawned over him, but mostly because of her friend with blonde hair girl.
Sakura must have noticed the debating confusion swimming through Sasuke's eyes, for she walked carefully on over and gave him a hug, not hesitating as Sasuke stiffened completely from the odd sensation. "Don't worry Sasuke. We all have friends, with friends, there's nothing we can't do! Friends give us the power to move on where we would have failed alone! So I'll be your friend, and Naruto will too!" Sakura giggled with a smile on her face.
"Don't worry Naruto, he'll come around, he's just not used to the idea of friends yet." Honoke tried to reassure him, knowing how painful that was. Naruto numbly nodded, wiping his tears before following along.
A/N Aghhhhh Time is flying away from meeeee, sorry for how dreadfully late this is, I know it's not much but what's important is this is the COMPLETE END OF ARC ONEEEEE *fireworks* so yeah, we have finally closed the first arc of this story, so some refreshers!
1. Honoke, Naruto's landlord, became close friends with Naruto (To the point of a father figure) before being murdered by Mizuki with the help of the villagers.
2. Naruto became friends with Kurama
3. Kurama became super bored and thus started watching Naruto's life, starts appreciating Iruka, Hinata, and Kakashi's presence in Naruto's life, teases Naruto about Hinata mercilessly for entertainment.
4. Naruto and Sasuke begin having weird dreams related to Hashirama and Madara's battle for some reason.
5. Naruto indirectly teaches Tenzo the Wood Dragon Jutsu instead of Danzo.
6. Sasuke, because of Honoke's training, is told by Itachi that Danzo is what caused the Uchiha Massacre, instead of painting himself as a villain in response.
7. Sakura hugs some sense into our little emo boy, but doubtfully fixed Sasuke's emo personalty all the way.
8. The Rookie 9 graduated!
9. Kiba is the new deadlast, but in respects to Honoke, and as a favor to Kakashi, Team 7 is all together like usual!
10. Mizuki nearly gets killed by Naruto and Kurama
11. Naruto still learns the Shadow Clone Jutsu, and also learns of his father and mother.
Next Time on Two and the Same!
Team 7 is finally assembled! But, their challenge is not done yet, for they must prove themselves worthy of Kakashi and pass the Bell Test, will Naruto and Sakura be able to stop Sasuke's plan of revenge against Danzo? Will Kakashi be able to convince the Third about Danzo's ill intentions? Find out on the next Chapter of Two and the Same!
Until next time!
-Char
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