The Divine Wind
Chapter 2
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"I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.' "
-Muhammad Ali.
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'Time to get to work, Starting with you fuzzy.' I thought and sat in a meditative state. I started meditating, after 20 minutes I opened my eyes to see 2 doors. The left door had Chakra written on it and the right had fox written on it. This completely confused me was naruto's mind this organised or is it because of my soul and memories melding with his. I went to open the fox door and as soon as I opened it, a feeling of dread and complete hopelessness filled me, a shiver tingled my spine and my face was covered in sweat. I couldn't help but see my own death again and again. I was pushed out before I could understand anything let alone say. As I stared at the closed door, I couldn't help but feel scared. I left my mindscape.
It took me a good hour to get my shit together, after which I decided to train as I was on the clock.
'Counting today I have six days*sigh*' I picked up the scroll that the old monkey gave me and pushed some chakra in the array.
4 scrolls popped out, 1 had the kanji for war , the second had the kanji for blood, the third had the kanji for love and the fourth had the kanji for life.
I opened them one by one, the one with war (戰) on it had the scrolls for the rasengan and the hiraishin( understanding of the hiraishin), the second with blood(血) on it had a chest filled with money and gold coins and gold bars, it also had a sword with a note on it, I decided to read it later with all the other letters in the scroll, the third with love(愛) on it had 2 letters in it and the last one with life(生 ) on it, had all of the knowledge on shinobi skills they had acquired in their life meaning taijutsu, kenjutsu, genjutsu, chakra control, justu theories, ninjutsu and etc.
I for one did not expect this, I mean why didn't naruto get any of this. I started to fell kinda bad but pushed those thoughts away. Maybe this was an AU.
I took the scrolls in chakra control there where six of them, I made six shadow clones and told them to go in the living room and read this, once they left I made 14 more and told them to pick a scroll and join those six outside and read them.
Once I was alone I picked up the sword and picked out the letter, I opened it and it read,
To my dear son,
Hey naruto-kun, if you're reading this than that means I am not there to give you this sword myself, if what I am afraid of has happened, I am truly, truly sorry. Anyways I'll leave all the sappy stuff for the actual letter. This sword has been passed down for generations in the main branch of our clan, the Uzumaki clan. I hope you make good use of it my son. I'll give you a hint, the sword is what you are. I want to tell you more but I can't or the sword simply won't accept you but I believe in you completely.
With all the love I have.
Your mother,
Uzumaki Kushina, The Red Death of Konoha.
(Sword Image)
I felt so loved, I needed that, I know Kushina did not give birth to "me" but Naruto's soul merged with my own, so she is my mother. Then again it also means I just lost 2 mother's in a days. Fuck everything is depressing.
I looked at the two letters, picked them up and walked towards the small safe I had and locked them and the scrolls for FTG and rasengan in them. Made 5 clones, told them to transform into 5 pebbles and then proceeded to keep the stones near the safe as to protect it. That was not all, the scrolls itself had seals on it, making it so that one needed my blood or my ancestors blood to open it, also for the FTG there were two steps, a drop of blood and chakra from my bloodline. Not even kushina can open the FTG as her does not posses the same traits as minatos.
Just then my clones started dispelling, I went over and sat on my bed absorbing all the information.
20 minutes later I got up, checked it was 12:30 pm, I'll train starting today.
10 minutes later I was standing in a clearing in the eastern side of the forest surrounding konoha near a lake, I made 1000 clones.
"Okay split yourselves up in groups of 100,
1st group- Tree walking
2nd group- Wind Style: Gale palm
3rd group- Taijutsu (Muscle memory)
4th group- Kenjutsu with bokken (Muscle memory)
5th group- Learn the shunshin no jutsu.
6th group- cut a leaf
7th group- burn a leaf
8th group- dampen a leaf
9th group- crinkle a leaf
10th group- crumble a leaf"
The first group will keep moving to more difficult exercises, meaning after mastering tree walking you'll practice water walking and so on.
As soon as I gave orders, everyone got to work, I went over and sat under a tree meditating, 'Hey Kyuubi you there.' I yelled in my mind. I tried a few more time, getting no response I sighed and got up.
'I guess I still have to make sure my body is physically okay.' I thought before I started doing push-ups.
Something I noticed was Naruto may be short but under that big jumpsuit he did have a strong lean-muscular body, well as muscular a 12 year old can get, my abs were staring to show.
When I got home after my first day, I took a shower and changed into a casual fit. A white t-shirt with black shorts.
It was time to read my parents letters, yes I had accepted them as my parents. The sooner the better.
First up was dad.
To my son,
Hey naruto, my son, still feels weird to say that I am gonna be a father to someone. Oh well if you are reading this than I am dead and so is kushina-chan or you are a nosy little brat who is going through my stuff and if you really are than stop right now and find- who am I kidding you ain't listening to me. Anyways lets assume it's the prior. I am sorry my son, for not only leaving you alone but putting such a burden on you. It's okay if you hate me but please do not hate the village, I do not wish for my only son to go down a dark path.
I'll leave the emotional stuff and advices about life to your chatty mom, my words to you would probably be the same as hers. As I am a Hokage, even if without a clan, I immediately get a seat on the council that can be inherited and it is yours.
Naruto remember that no matter how strong you are you need friends and comrades, also remember that no matter what I will always love and care for you, there is a storage seal at the bottom of this letter it contains a haori I had custom ordered for you, so you can match with your old man.
Your father,
Namikaze Minato, Kiiroi Senko and Yondaime Hokage of Konoha.
I was sniffing and laughing at the same time, then as I wanted to only cry once, I opened my mom's letter as well.
To my dear son,
Hello naruto, I am Uzumaki Kushina, The Red Death of Konoha, also your powerful and kickass mom, firstly if any of the villagers have picked on you do not worry I'll haunt them for it. Secondly naru remember to always be strong, it's okay to cry but you also need to move on.
We are from the Uzumaki clan baby, we have natural long lifespan(even though I died at just 24, don't follow after me or minato in that department.), Fuinjutsu and Kenjutsu comes to us naturally. We also have a seat on the council, so you will inherit mine and minato-kun's seats. At the end of this letter is a storage seal with my wedding ring in it for your special someone.(PS. make sure the person is similar to me.)
Naruto don't be picky, eat lots and grow strong, make sure you bath everyday and stay warm. Don't stay up late you need lots of sleep and make friends. You don't need lots of friends just the one's you can really trust. I wasn't very good at at it but keep up with your studies and practice your jutsu hard. Remember that everyone has their own strengths and weakness, So don't get depressed if you cant do something well. Don't get hooked up with bad girls, find someone just like me, and speaking of three ninja prohibitions beware of Jiraya sensei. Naruto, from now own you are going to face loads of pain and hardship, Be true to yourself. Have a dream and confidence to make it true. Oh and there is so much more I want to pass on to you, I wish I could stay with you, I love you my son.
Remember above all I love you, more than anything or anyone my little maelstorm. Make sure you achieve all of your dreams and live for a 100 years before even thinking of joining me.
Your mother,
Uzumaki Kushina.
It was enough to make a grown man cry. Fuck, I finally understand luffy's words. "Being alone hurts much more than getting hurt."
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It was the second day for me as Naruto Uzumaki. I realised that chakra control and nature training was pretty linear and simple but I didn't know how to pick a taijutsu style but thankfully I knew just who could help me. So I woke up at 5 Am and set out for a run. It took me 30 minutes of running to find them, there they were cladded in all green jumpsuits, the green beasts of Konoha. I walked up to them.
"Hey are you Maito Gai-san?" I asked.
"AH WHAT DO WE HAVE HERE A FELLOW TRAINING ENTHUSIAST! WELL WHAT CAN I DO FOR YOU MY FELLOW YOUTHFUL COMRADE!?" Asked gai loudly. Thankfully we were near the training grounds so there were no residential buildings here.
"Well Gai-san, a very good morning to you and your training partner. My name is Uzumaki Naruto. I wanted to ask you if you could evaluate my skills in taijutsu and help me pick a style. So I could protect Konoha and all our people." Said naruto bowing respectfully.
"Pick your head up." Gai said in a low voice!? 'Okay as far as I know gai does not harbour hatred towards naruto, so why is he being... normal !?' I thought.
"I- I CANNOT BELIEVE HOW YOUTHFUL YOUR REQUEST IS NARUTO, OFCOURSE I WILL HELP YOU AFTER WHICH, YOU AND LEE CAN HELP EACH OTHER FAN YOUR FLAMES OF YOUTH. LET US GO TO OUR TRAINING GROUND, KEEP UP NARUTO, LEE." Finished the exuberant ninja.
"LET US GO NARUTO-SAN!." Said lee brimming with youthful enthusiasm.
"Hmm, did you say something lee?" I asked in a lazy careless voice.
"Gai-sensei we have already lost him, he has already embraced the deep pits of the unyouthful." Lee said with a horrified expression
"He reminds me of my hip and unyouthful rival, lee I have never given up on my rival and neither should you. We will bring them to the light and have them embrace their YOUTHHHH." Gai began somberly and ended by posing "youthfully".
'What have I gotten myself into.' I thought. As much as I could complaint, I couldn't help but be a bit excited to train with the green beast of Konoha. I mean what's the worst that could happen if anything I feel like this will be one of the best-
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'WORST FUCKING DECESION OF BOTH MY LIVES! I DON'T WANT POWER LIKE THIS' I thought as I fell on my bed. I had just dragged myself home after training with them for 8 hours. I saw gates of heaven again! but I gotta say, I'm definitely gonna be strong after this week of training and like the Ali said,
"I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.' "
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SIX DAYS LATER
"Ahhhhh, that hit the spot!" I thought, I had just devoured enough food to feed a family of 5. Well with the amount I'm training, which by the way is 10-12 hours a day, I'm bound to be in shape no matter how much I eat. Although that doesn't mean I only eat junk, I make sure to have all kinds of food. Thankfully with the money my parents left me buying all my current needs wasn't a big issue.
Now let's talk about training, I had started to learn the basics of the speed fist which is a complete 180 when compared to the strong fist.
The key difference in simple terms, In the strong fist you hit someone untill they are taken down, kinda like a sophisticated version of the brawler style, it's difficult to master and you need to maintain a strong body so your muscles can handle the pressure of your hits while in the speed fist you need to maintain your body so your muscles can keep up with your hits as the speed fist is based on your reflexes and the speed of your counters. Both are difficult to master but by gai-sensei's analysis, my body is made for speed not strength.
Then ninjutsu I learnt the body flicker technique and the gale palm technique. The shadow clones were giving me headaches that weren't worth the progress so I lowered the amount to 450 and only focused on wind nature. I had already cut 2/3rd of the leaf in one go.
For chakra control, I had mastered the tree and water walking.
Other than that I had only practiced vertical and horizontal slashes for kenjutsu.
The change that shocked me the most was my physique. I was 6 feet 2 inches in my first life and as my soul merged with naruto's, I believe it gave this body some of my past life's physique giving me a growth spurt. I also am an Uzumaki and the nine tails jinchuriki, including the fact that I ate well and trained a lot but it's still surprising that I went from 4 feet 9 inches to 5 feet 2 inches in a week. I just hope my hair colour doesn't turn black or my eyes don't turn hazel green, It would be awkward meeting Minato and Kushina's chakra prints.
Today was the day of team placements. "Finally." I thought as I was excited to meet the main cast. I took a small shower and than dried myself off.
Then I put on my clothes, a chainmail undershirt for basic protection, a full sleeves black jacket, it had the uzumaki symbol on the back and the uzumaki symbol on the upper sleeves. A black anbu style pants, with ankle wrapped in white shinobi tape. I wore black shinobi pants and switched the blue cloth under my headband to black. As to not change too much I kept the jacket open and wore an orange T-shirt. I had two shinobi pouches on my waist the left one had kunai, shuriken and paper bombs. The right one had medical supplies and ninja wire. My left leg had a scroll attached to it which had a sleeping bag and a set of clothes. My right leg had a kunai holster with of course a kunai it.
To be honest I never had the money to cosplay before and now I have all the money but I still can't cosplay as I am the character now. "Why must my life be filled with sadness?" I thought before I started laughing. All my friends form my past life can suck on my big fucking coc- *ding* *ding* *ding*. I was cut off by my alarm.
"ugh, I gotta get going." I said to no one in particular and jumped out my window and dashed off but not before shutting it off.
(Image of best MC here!)
As I jumped from roof to roof I thought about gai-sensei, I'm pretty sure he already has informed hiruzen of my training, which means kakashi probably knows too. Also, this reminds me I gotta go talk to the old monkey, he still hasn't give me my house or the bank accounts neither has he announced my lineage. Although I have been hearing whispers here and there about me being royalty, well no me particularly but my henged clones that get me what I need, I wonder who told them.
It also explains the cleaning and repainting of the hallway towards my apartment. I had been avoiding the masses as I'd only like to adress them once.
Hiruzen isn't making this easy and it's pissing me off, originally I was going to sympathize with him but I'm running out of patience. So I gotta talk to him today so we could reach a conclusion.
Standing in front of the academy I knew I had a lot to do, I had been thinking for a week and set up a few goals.
1- Become the strongest.
2- Let-'ahem' I mean sacrifice the old man during the invasion for the greater good ofcourse.
3- Try to save sasuke early with Talk no Jutsu. Same goes for neji and gaara. (Gotta catch 'em all.)
4- Troll the fuck out of kakashi, sakura and sasuke.
5- Become a master of the art of seals.
With those thought I walked in the classroom. Everyone looked at me. I didn't even look back, why, well I had my face buried in the 4th volume of Make out tactics: The golden paradise. I just walked up and sat in a seat in the upper middle row. I sat there purposely as everyone could see me. I could feel their gazes on me.
"Umm can I do something for you." I said not even lifting my head.
"NARUTO, just because you changed some clothes and got taller and look kinda good. Don't think you can read that smut." yelled ino.
"Yeah, while I agree with the smut part and the kinda good looking part, your still not as good as sasuke-kun." Said sakura, making all the fan-girls agree with her loudly.
"Huh, sorry did you say something." I said with a bored look as I finally looked up.
That is when all hell broke loose.
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In a conference room
There were jonin's present in the room with the third hokage as they watched the class through sarutobi's crystal ball.
Everyone sweat-dropped and looked at kakashi only to see him reading a similar book. The kunoichi's on the other hand were releasing their killing intent while glaring at the one eyed jonin.
"Hey, Hey can I do something for you." Kakashi said indifferently as he looked up and checked out the crystal ball, then he said a bit too enthusiastically "Hey, whose that cool genin. Oh it happens to be naruto! I think we'll get along great Hokage-sama." For once people could see enthusiasm in him. All the kunoichi's thought was 'Stupid pervert, only porn gets to him.' even the hidden Anbu kunoichi couldn't control their killing intent.
"Well naruto-kun as you all know has been hiding his personality, I guess he was completely different from what he showed us. He is a genius as well, I gave him some training tips and have been keeping watch on him and lets just say, If he was paid attention to in the academy or if people did not hold grudges against him. He would be standing in this room as a jonin too" Their leader's words caused them to go into a state of surprise, yes the third was kind hearted but even he did not openly compliment rookies like this. Did they really lose a prodigy over stupid grudges.
"Yes you did." Thought hiruzen, he was shocked at naruto's talent, he had kept a focused eye on him through his telescope technique. Also Gai had come to hiruzen to inform him of naruto's training and at first hiruzen was scared that naruto might get an orange spandex suit, he was expecting changes but he wasn't expecting this. Naruto was calm and acting unsociable, "What happened to you since that night naruto?" Sarutobi thought of the night when naruto stole the forbidden scroll. He could've help but worry. He did have his set of suspicions but at the end of the day thinking of the fact that a kid had to hide himself and put up a mask just to survive filled him with guilt.
Hiruzen sighed mentally, now was not the time.
"Now now don't worry give him 2 years and he'll definitely be a jonin." The old monkey said outloud.
"Hmm, I think it'll be less than a year." Though a masked shinobi from the shadows.
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Iruka walked in and quieted them down with his big head jutsu, which in person was pretty scary.
"Well now that you have quiet down, I am proud of each and every one of you..." Naruto just tuned out his speech.
"Team 7: Haruno Sakura, Uchiha Sasuke, Uzumaki Naruto, your sensei will be Hatake Kakashi" Said iruka.
"Team 8: Inuzuka Kiba, Hyuga Hinata, Aburame Shino, your sensei will be Yuhi Kurenai" Said iruka.
"Team 9 is still in circulation. Team 10: Yamanaka Ino, Nara Shikamaru, Akimichi Chouji, your sensei will Sarutobi Asuma. "
"I will be leaving now, I hope you all do well out there. Be safe and train well. Goodbye" Iruka concluded and left. I waved to him.
The classroom door opened and two jonin entered(Not gonna talk about the fodder, teams 1-6).
The first one had the traditional jonin clothes. He was a tall man with black spiky hair, brown eyes and beard. He also donned the Twelve Guardian Ninja sash with the kanji for 'Fire'. This person was Sarutobi Asuma and was the son of the Sandaime Hokage, Sarutobi Hiruzen.
The other jonin was a very beautiful woman. She had shoulder length black hair, mesmerizing ruby red eyes. Her outfit consists of a red mesh armor blouse with only the right sleeve visible, over this is very broad material which resembles bandages. Her hands and upper thighs are also wrapped in bandages. She is Yuhi Kurenai, Konoha's Genjutsu Mistress.
The genjutsu mistress walked over to naruto's bench as the other girls mentally cheered sans hinata, she was a bit disappointed but still didn't mind it. While the guys pitied him, kurenai yuhi was a menacing woman against perverts, almost like a devil.
"Boy, hand that book to me and make sure to never read one out in public or at all for that matter." Said kurenai lacing her voice with killing intent.
Now Kakashi did not want to ruin the mystery around him and he definitely wanted his genin to suffer for hours but the boy was his little brother or was atleast supposed to be. He also had the same taste as him, he was the only tolerable genin he had seen. Kakashi had zero suspicions if anything to him naruto looked normal now. That's why he would save the boy and the book.
'sigh why am I so generous.' the copy-nin thought, mentally snickering.
"Hmm, why do you want the book, yuhi-sensei. Wanna spice up your genjutsu's?" I asked with not a single shred of fear on my face.
Now I wasn't an idiot, I knew she was going to beat me up for it even before I said it but it was worth it. It was a decesion made in all consciousness.
"What was that brat?" She asked in a low menacing voice.
Asuma and the rest of the class were stunned at first but than that shock was replaced by pity, even sasuke and his fangirls pitied naruto. He was going to die after all and just when he was about to take the first step towards his dream.
"The balls on this kid.." Thought asuma, he was respected jonin and even he wouldn't say that to a kunoichi. A genjutsu user at that.
Everyone thought I wouldn't respond, even the laughing kakashi who almost fell out of his hidden spot. Well my mama didn't raise a coward as I spoke up surprising everyone.
"Well if your gonna use the book to make genjutsu, which by the way I respect you for mastering, as I was saying if your gonna create "special" genjutsu from the scenes of this book, I'll lend it to you." I said. While wiggling both my eyebrows as I said special.
Just as kurenai was about to put me in the worst possible genjutsu a lazy indifferent voice came in, out of nowhere.
"Maa, maa kurenai don't kill my stupid yet cool genin on his first day." His voice everyone noticed was lazy like the new naruto's but had a certain edge to it. He was crouching on the window sill, with a book in his hands. The same fucking porno.
'ohh my god they are the same!' Everyone thought except for me and the jonin.
"We finally meet kakashi-sensei."I said without looking up, I was barely stoping my inner fanboy from walking over and asking him for a hug or a autograph.
"Are they related!?" One of the extras questioned
"No, me and naruto aren't related, he's reading the 4th volume I'm re-reading the 2nd." said the copy-nin.
"As if that matters! " Thought most of the newly minted Genin.
"Aww, sensei I believe all of us are related, even if not by blood we are connected through chakra and our deep sense of love towards konoha and her people. Don't you think so? Well anyways, I think we should get outta here and introduce ourselves over some ramen, race you to Ichiraku's sensei, sakura and sas-uke." I said putting emphasis on uke.
The jonin and everyone watched the blonde jump out of the window and hop from roof to roof, his words were so wise, yet his actions so poor. Well untill now what he had shown them, he is a pervy brat with potential.
"Kakashi, I'll forgive him this once but you better teach that brat manners." Said kurenai sternly.
"Yes kurenai, now you two unless you wanna lose get running." Kakashi said looking towards sasuke and sakura. The prior still grumbling about the -uke taunt.
As he saw his 3 genin run, he couldn't help but feel like a storm was coming. Pushing those thoughts aside he shunshined out of there.
"There goes my perfect plan of making them wait. Eh, I'll just make them wait extra tomorrow." The jonin said to himself with an eyesmile.
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What is up, what is up! How's everything, I hope it's all good. If not don't worry it'll be soon, hang in there.
What'd ya think of the chapter?
Do you want a harem, me personally I don't. I even having a pairing in my mind it's pretty unorthodox compared to other fics. Give me your suggestions for pairings.
By the way my humans, my writing POV is usually a mix between narrator and MC.
Next: Team 7, Bell test and some chores
annyeong chingu!