Oni Hogosha
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Naruto is a product of Masashi Kishimoto, so I don't own him.
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Chapter 5: The trial
It had been five months since Uzumaki Naruto became chuunin. His usual C rank missions were great as he got to explore many new cities and villages; he even did some tough spying missions. But today he was feeling grumpy because of Tsunade. The Hokage had set him up with Shikamaru for the latest escort mission. She had a good reason, it was a huge caravan composing of five merchant families, but still why did it had to be Shikamaru. For the last five months he had successfully evaded this former colleagues even during his missions that were all solo apart two A rank missions with Jiraiya.
He avoided them thanks to his jikuu shunshin that he developed from the famous hiraishin used by his father. He had placed one of his special daggers in Tsunade's office this way he could present himself in front of her whenever a mission presented without having to travel across Konoha. He had placed a few more in his mansion and at the waterfalls. First time Tsunade spotted him using that jutsu he got scolded for using an S rank jutsu for simple transport. But he explained that it was an alternate jutsu that he created from it, which left her wondering she still considered him a chuunin.
Naruto didn't really hate Shikamaru after all if he wanted to be teamed up with someone amongst his old comrades he would have been his first choice. But the fact remained that having him at his side meant possible exposure.
On the other hand the Nara clan heir didn't even recognized the young teen at first. He was even more surprised to hear that Naruto was already chuunin and the leader of the mission, after all his former classmates were kept in the dark about Naruto's current evolution. He already knew the mission would be troublesome as the last time he was teamed up with Uzumaki Naruto it was a very troublesome. He had been working hard on his leadership with Ino and Chouji. However he seriously felt weak when he heard that the escorting C ranked missions he used to do with his team, were solo missions for the blond shinobi. He couldn't complain much, after all he felt lucky when he became chuunin considering how strong Naruto and the others really were and it was a matter of months before Neji, Lee and Shino join them by special requests that were currently being studied by the council.
The mission went pretty well till they were stopped by 20 bandits. The caravan had attracted their attraction after noticing that there were escorted by only two shinobis among which only one was chuunin since Naruto didn't wear the ugly flat jackets. It was an opportunity they could not miss. They figured this would be an easy hold-up till Naruto stepped in.
"Tell you what, I'll give you 10 seconds to back away. If you don't I'll beat the living hell out of all of you with this simple shuriken", he said as he took out and showed them a genuine shuriken.
The bandits hearing his comments laughed hysterically, after all what can a shuriken do against 20 bandits armed to the teeth. Shikamaru being a genius, pretty much knew what was coming, a massive amount of Naruto clones, but instead Naruto used shuriken kage bunshin. Soon after a few loud groans were heard as the bandits were assaulted with a few hundred shurikens.
The move had caught Shikamaru off guard, he didn't expect Naruto to pull an A rank ninjutsu, considering those were jounin level techniques. Guess the rumors about his intensive training her true, after all this proved that Naruto was way above him. The thieves were heavily bruised and disabled. The lazy chuunin gave his partner a strange look.
"Go on lead the caravan I'll follow from behind. Don't worry, they won't attack, unless they wish to face the kunai version of it, right guys?" said the blond shinobi with an evil smirk.
The thieves understood what he meant by kunai as their face turned pale white. The rest of the trip went peacefully. Naruto even had the time to read a good portion of his book that he brought along. Yes Naruto had copied that habit from his former sensei Kakashi, but they were not perverted books, but adventure books telling the great stories of fictional shinobis, which he loved reading.
The return was slower then usual since with Shikamaru around Naruto could not use his Uzumaki bloodline skills. Shikamaru was for once was encouraged enough to change his outfit by noticing how good Naruto looked compared to his usual flap jacket and white shirts, so he promised himself to ask Ino for fashion advice when they reached the village. After all it seems that Tsunade was about to employ him more with Naruto the way she had explained the last mission.
The problem arose when they arrived at the village. Ino was also walking back in the village from her D rank mission when she spotted Shikamaru in the crowd so she went to greet him. On her way towards the lazy chuunin, she bumped against the blond shinobi who was too busy reading. She excused herself to him and he accepted it without looking. Ino had not recognized Naruto till the lazy chuunin indicated that she had bumped into him. The name caught the blond shinobi's attention as he turned around only to face a loud exclamation by Ino with his name, which followed by heart shaped eyes. "Kuso, I knew this mission would be a nightmare", thought Naruto, as he disappeared into thin air.
He landed in front Tsunade, as he was using jikuu shunshin and unleashed a verbal assault on her. The insults rocked the room as two guards in front of the door gathered around wondering what had happened. Tsunade calmed him down after a few minutes, she told him it was going to happen sooner or later and he should be glad it happened already.
"You seem to forget a little detail, THAT was INO. She is the leader of SASUKE FAN GIRL CLUB! It means I'll have those annoying fan girls of that gay on my ass. What did I do to deserve this?" he shouted.
Pretty soon the news spread out about the new hot guy in town and Naruto's life became a living hell as the fan girls club followed his clones to his house. By that time Naruto had finished remodeling the Uzumaki mansion, where he added extra security measure that he called: "annoying fan girl detection system". It was indeed a very effective system, as no fan girl dared approach near the mansion. Thanks to Shikamaru he had gained another passion stargazing.
Five more months passed as Naruto had to update his schedule due to his new duties. His visits to the Onimakai had declined. He was fortunate that he's training was almost complete, by now he had acquired all jutsus from Zabuza and Haku. He was currently training with Sandaime who was teaching him some of his specialties. In return Naruto was secretly training Konohamaru. He had also completed the variations of his katsu eizou and had mastered all the Uzumaki bloodline moves along with all of Jiraiya's ninjutsus. Only things that remained were now his fuinjutsus, which Naruto did not wish to bother with. He had also mastered fox related jutsus and was creating many others with Kyuubi's help. He had also actively taken over his responsibility as the guardian of the foxes, who were rejoiced by his presence, even if he did not have much time to spend with them.
Yuki also began to actively visit him in the village. As luck would have it, everyone apart Sakura seemed to be free the first time they were caught together at the ramen shop. Yuki explained to the spectators that Naruto had saved her on the way home from one of his missions and considering that she was a wealthy fashion stylist she decided to repay him by becoming his personal fashion designer. Thus Konoha learned how the blond haired shinobi was receiving his custom made cloths. She was instantly flooded with demands, which she rejected for the moment saying she was busy moving in the neighborhood in a few months. This is where many learned that the Uzumaki heir had sold one of the district mansions to the person. Tsunade was pissed at first for not knowing about the sale but was happy as it meant she would receive more tax money in the future from a said "ghost district".
Yuki and Takeo had decided to make Konoha their home in earth realm, as it would help them watch over their favorite nephew. The reason for their move taking over several months was explained by house renovation, which were done by experts that the couple brought from their former location, also known as hares disguised as humans. Of course one thing remained unclear; the reason why Yuki refers Naruto by "Asura". The fashion designer explained that she called him Asura because it sounded cooler then his ramen name and since she considered him as her fashion inspiration, it was required to make good publicity. The spectators gave her a weird glace, but then accepted her reason, after all if Naruto didn't mind who were they to comment on the subject.
Naruto was currently having his own little problems. He was also having constant nightmares of his mother calling him. Although Naruto wanted to meet her, he feared he would disappoint her, thus the dillema. It was finally agreed that he would face her when he felt ready. Meanwhile, his relationship amongst the Shinku clan was great. They all loved him very much and wished he stayed near them. It seemed that life was boring without the fox of the family. He even had a house made for him there at his grand mother's request. The lady was always worrying about his well-being. It was the main reason she asked Yuki and Takeo to move near him.
On the other hand, Naruto's relation with Konoha was still bitter. He was still absent from the social activities and still avoided Sakura. He had given a simple reason to Tsunade about the matter. He did not wish to become a replacement for Uchiha Sasuke. He gave the same reason for avoiding all the other girls, whom he despised even more.
He was happy to learn that most of them had moved away of him as they were now somewhat coupled with the other males. Such as, Shikamaru and Temari's secret love affair unveiled by Ino who caught a letter between the two lovebirds. Tenten and Neji were also amongst the new set of couples. While Hinata had finally settled with Shino, as also Hiashi preferred the bug boy's stature. It was still a weird coupling according to Ino, well she put it as "creepy", since everyone thought Hinata had a thing for Naruto, which wasn't the case. She simply considered his as an inspiration and nothing more. That left Chouji, Kiba and Lee who were still looking for stable relationships. Most girls would avoid them due their behaviors. Well, that was the case for Kiba and Lee; one was loud and obnoxious while the other was too weird. Chouji's case was somewhat different; they liked him but not his 24/7 food munching. Meanwhile, Ino was hunting for Naruto, an unattainable goal as he was clearly not interested her. There was a buzz that Sakura also had a thing for him, after all she was the one who was seeking him the most.
Sakura couldn't understand why he was avoiding her and figured it was probably because she was weak. So she was training hard to impress Tsunade and Shizune with her new abilities. But it seems, as much as she tried, he was always ahead by ten steps. She still remembered the day she caught Tsunade and Jiraiya discussing about his improvements. That night, she felt hopeless and extremely weak, it was clear that she would never catch him. She expected this from Sasuke, but never Naruto. Shizune did comfort her by claiming that the Sannin tend to exaggerate about their pupils, after all if Uzumaki Naruto was so great why wasn't he a jounin.
Even though everything looked peaceful in the village of Konoha, it was not the case and all could be told by the look of Tsunade's face. She was still lacking shinobis for high ranked missions and was badly in need of new ANBUs. The current ones lacked serious leadership and skills; Orochimaru's henchmen were hurting the force badly. The jounin could only do as much and even they were getting exhausted. She knew what she needed was afraid to ask, as Jiraiya had rejected the idea a year earlier. But now that Naruto was 15, she asked him again to allow him to join the ANBU. To her great concern Jiraiya immediately agreed in fact he was wondering why she was even asking him the question. When she gave her reason the Toad sennin shook his head.
"Tsunade, you are a Hokage, act like one. Since when did you need my permission for anything? What I said was a suggestion. It is up to you to decide that is why you are Godaime. As for his test, you can crank him up to jounin for all I care, that leech already ate all of my ninjutsus and has tricks up his sleeve that even I don't know off", yelled the old geezer.
Tsunade blushed in front of him for the first time in many years; she was ashamed of being lectured by her old teammate. The talk had boosted her confidence up and the bonus was worth it. However, she was still hesitant on how to test him, she figured Shizune would be a good opponent, as he considered her as his sister. So he would have the dillema of holding his power back and Shizune could exploit it to test his strategic skill and intellectual skills. According to Shikamaru, they were pretty high. She quickly sent word for the blond chuunin to meet her tomorrow morning for a special mission.
The next day, Naruto walked towards the Hokage office. He was in another of his stylish outfits, custom made by Yuki. This time he was wearing black chain mail t-shirt, with a black protection jacket and a white trench coat, all of which were cap sleeved, to show his muscles. He had his custom "sorrow" kanji at back of his trench coat. He also wore for arms protectors and fighting gloves. His height had reached 6 feet and face had matured. He was reading a book as he walked in. It was his new way of ignoring the glares, ever since Tsunade forced him to walk to the administration building by removing his special kunai and threatening that he would become her personal postman if he used jikuu shunshin, to teleport himself inside the building. The only problem was that he was sometimes too distracted to notice people walking straight at him.
As his luck would have it, Sakura happened to cross his path as she was presenting herself for her first mission with Chouji and Ino. Tsunade her paired her up with them for the upcoming chuunin exam still three months away so that they could gain some experience by doing some C ranked missions, as she was confident in Sakura's ability. He was of course to busy reading the latest edition of his great shinobi novel to notice her and she was too distracted talking with Ino when they accidentally collided. Naruto apologies for the action and helps her get up. He was too deep into his novel to realize who she was till their hands touched. Suddenly he realized it was a familiar hand, so he looks up, their eyes meet first time in nearly two years. "Kuso, its Sakura, damn fox why didn't you warn me",he says as he stares at her like an idiot. Kyuubi replied he was also to busy reading the latest chapter.
Sakura's instinct catches up to her, when notices a book in Naruto's hand thinking it was one of those infamous books that Kakashi reads. As she was about the hit with a punch yelling pervert, she stumbles as he in no longer in front of her. Ino and Chouji remained dumb folded on his whereabouts till all three hear the door of the Hokage's office close behind them. It takes a few seconds to register, before Ino yells out how fast Naruto has become, to Sakura's displeasure as she was looking forward on punching the living hell out of Naruto for ignoring the last two years. The team finally heads out to their assigned mission, escorting a merchant to a city south of Konoha.
Inside, Naruto glares at Tsunade who instantly understood the reason for his glare, as a moment ago Sakura's team had walked out of her room. He calms him down by revealing that he was here to be tested for joining the ANBU, which brought a smile in his face. Shizune was also in the room, Tsunade then guided Naruto to follow her to the stadium for his test. When they reached the location, Tsunade went to take a seat in a nearby banquet. Meanwhile Shizune received Uzumaki Naruto's special annoying pose.
"Why, are you my opponent?" asked the teen.
"What's the matter you afraid of losing to a girl?" smirked Shizune.
"No, I was expecting to face ANBU not a kangohei kunochi, besides I don't want to hurt you", said the silent shinobi.
"You should keep your guards up Naruto-kun, I won't go easy on you", smiled Shizune.
Tsunade gave the signal and the battle started. Shizune began her attack, while Naruto waited for her assault. She first used ninpou doku hari by unleashing five poison needles from her right forearm. To her surprise Naruto simply dodges the needles and disappears from her targeting zone at a blistering speed. Suddenly, she feels a presence from her left side, but before she could move she is hurled on the wall by a kick.
"I thought you said you were not holding back. Your needle attacks wont work against me try something better next time. Here is a hint, forget using taijutsu against me, use anything less then A rank ninjutsu and they would be useless also. As for genjutsu its no my field but I am pretty confident I can take some tough mental attack", said the boy.
"A shinobi should never reveal his weakness Naruto-kun …" replied Shizune, as she got up.
"I am not telling you about my weakness, I just helped you sort yours. You do want to continue this fight don't you?" he interrupted.
She was pissed at the teen's arrogance she began one of her strategic attack by throwing a smoke bomb at him. While the smoke was clearing she created two shadow clones with kage bunshin and sent them underground. She then formed a set of seal and unleashed a fire elemental attack by using katon hidamaryuu.
Tsunade was enjoying the fight; it was time to see how much her favorite chuunin's tactical skills had improved. Both she and Shizune knew that taijutsu against him was out of question, Uzumaki clan was known for their speed freaks and she had already warned Shizune of hiraishin that got her a bit freaked out. It was pretty clear that he was jounin level in skills what they were testing here is his tactical skills as that would prove that he was worth the jounin title not to mention the ANBU responsibilities she wished to put on his shoulders.
As the smoked had cleared Naruto was still at his old position, it looked like he had avoided getting burned without moving then again it could be simply be one of own clones. Shizune performed another fire attack, which the teen evaded again, when suddenly one of Shizune's clone came from underneath and attempted to ground him with doton shinjuu zanshu, while a third clone tried to hit him with chikara no mesu. It looked like Naruto was going to get caught. Tsunade almost felt disappointed when suddenly two silhouettes jumped out of the black holes, which were under Naruto. They both blocked Shizune's clones then proceeded by beating them up with powerful hirameki taijutsu kicks and punches. The clones taking hits more then what they could withstand vanished soon after. Both Tsunade and Shizune were baffled but what just happened.
"Nice try oneesan. I got to admit, it was some good planning. But you should have known better to attack me with shadow clones. They are nothing compared to my katsu eizou silhouettes. You really didn't expect me to take a smoke bomb and expect a one-way attack now did you? Lesson number 1, sneak attacks against Uzumaki Naruto is impossible. Now for lesson number 2, beware of that black hole under you", he said with a grin.
Shizune only had a simply had a second to see the strange hole, when a silhouette popped out and gave her a hard uppercut. Sending her flying in the air. She was about fall back on the ground hard, but the same silhouette, simply caught her fall, then return back towards its master.
"Oops sorry, reaction time to slow. You know you are lucky. I am simply toying you with them. In reality if you were caught in the real kyokujitsu eizou, you would have been sliced in two. You should really keep your guard up against me ", he laughed.
"I understand now what Jiraiya meant when he said that you always had shadows on your back the other day. These must be those infamous eizou attacks that he was talking about. Shizune move on to another plan. Trapping and hit techniques wont work against him and watch out for those black holes around him", replied Tsunade from the chair.
Shizune knew now that her only way to defeat Naruto would be by using some powerful genjutsu. She created another clone this time without hiding it. It was evident that Naruto was going to attack her but counter attack her so no need to hide them. She used her first clone to run straight at him and performed magen narakumi, which as she expected he easily countered. The clone then followed up with a fukumi hari attack, which was also counted and the clone destroyed. But while he countered it she had completed the required seals for her real genjutsu attack kokuangyou, which succeeded. Naruto's world became dark as abyss, but instead of worrying about he began to laugh hysterically.
She only had enough chikara left for this final tactical attack. She summoned another clone and both began to form different set of seals. She then used her speed to move behind Naruto. Then both yelled out their attack, the clone performed ninpou doku kiri while she used katon yadamaryuu.
Tsunade fearing that Naruto was seriously caught in the genjutsu leaped from her seat to stop the match, when suddenly the ground began to shake. Both Tsunade and Shizune watched the next event unfold as they were both froze on seeing water rise from the ground when the teen shouted "suiton suiryuudan". The water transformed into two massive dragons that nullified both attack at the same time, leaving both kunochi stunned.
"What's with the long face? Never seen a water attack in your life or what? I am really disappointed in you Shizune oneesan. I know that genjutsu like the back of my hand it's the only powerful genjutsu the old geezer had. I already canceled its effect with you were setting you final attack but could you waste you last bits chikara using katon yadamaryuu? I told you to only use A rank spells against me, you didn't even let me show off for god sake", he yelled as he walked near her.
"Naruto… since when did you know that water jutsus, it looked pretty strong and unique? As far as I knew Jiraiya didn't have that sort attack in his arsenal. That looked like a jutsu from Mist", asked Tsunade.
"Oh that, I copied it of Momochi Zabuza, during our mission at Wave country, with my retarded sharingan, well that's what Ero-sennin called it, it comes from my mother's bloodline I guess. Didn't he tell you? I thought he would have spilled the bean to you by now. As for it being strong, I got more horrible ones in my sleeves", said the boy showing his eyes after activated his Shinku bloodline.
Tsunade took a close eye examination of the boy, it was definitely not the sharingan, she figured it has something to do with Kyuubi as their eyes looked alike, but after Naruto's explication of its abilities she pretty much agreed with Jiraiya, it was a retarded sharingan.
Naruto had proven his worth, it was obvious that he possessed the tactical skills and most of the time he didn't even need them. With his variety of jutsus he could simply overpower his opponents, like he did with Shizune. Tsunade announced that he should meet her tomorrow afternoon for his first ANBU mission briefing. He also gave him the address of the store where he was to purchase the required equipments. Since Shizune had wasted all her energy, she gave her two days off from her duties to recover and the disappeared into thin air.
Naruto offered to carry her back to her home, which she gladly accepted, after all he was the reason she was depleted in the first place. So the little brother carried his sister on his back to her home, after which he headed home.
End of Chapter 5
Please review! If there are any words you do not understand, check the glossary or check previous chapters for explications. Thanks for all the reviews. This chapter has been edited. Hope you enjoy it, rewrote the story adding some more adventures as well as changing the battle.
Glossary
Hijutsu: Secret bloodline jutsu.
Oneesan: Sister.
Kangohei: Medic, short for medical specialist.
Kuso: A bad word…
Retarded sharingan: Expression created by Jiraiya to explain the Shinku bloodline's red eyes, as Naruto presented it as an incomplete sharingan. It was a lie Naruto used to explain his current jutsu learning speed while keeping the truth hidden.
Techniques
Chikara no mesu/chikara scalpel: An A ranked medical ninjutsu, where the user forms chikara in his hand that becomes scalpel. The user can hit his targets inner organs without ripping trough the flesh. User: Kabuto, Tsunade, Sakura, Shizune.
Doton shinjuu zanshu/Earth element inner decapitation: A D ranked earth elemental ninjutsu, where the user travels underground and pulled the target underground till his neck, living his immobilized. User: All genin.
Fukumi hari/Hidden needle: An D rank, ninjutsu where the user creates an almost invisible needle from his spit and shoots at the target. User: Shizune.
Hiraishin/Flying thunder god: An S ranked hijutsu that was created by Arashi. It a space-time jutsu that uses a special seal that allows the user to teleport himself to the location of the seal no matter the distance or the location. User: Arashi, Naruto.
Hirameki/Flash: Uzumaki bloodline taijutsu style. It allows the clan member to fight at flashing speed. This is one of the reasons that made the Uzumaki one of the most feared clans in the old times, the opponent would never see the oncoming attack and if they did by luck they would never be able to dodge the assault. Of course this depended of the user. User: Arashi, Naruto, Jiraiya.
Jikuu shunshin / Space-time body flicker: An A ranked space-time Uzumaki hijutsu created by Naruto, as an alternate source of travel. It is a lower version of the hiraishin, which allows the user to travel within specific location where a special kunai with the required seal is located. User: Naruto.
Kage bunshin / Shadow clone: An B rank ninjutsu that allows the user to create a clone of himself. User: All Konoha jounin.
Kokuangyou/Black cloak of darkness: An A rank genjutsu, that covers its target into a world of darkness, leaving him blind of an oncoming attack. User: Hokages, Sannin, Naruto, Sakura, Kakashi, Shizune, Kabuto.
Katon hidamaryuu/Fire element dragon fireball: A C ranked fire ninjutsu, where the user unleashes a large dragon faced fireball that hits like a spear. User: All Konoha chuunin.
Katon yadamaryuu/Fire element dragon missiles: A fast B rank fire ninjutsu. It targets likes a missile, as it can bend and is very strong. User: All Konoha jounins.
Katsu eizou / Split-image silhouette: An A rank ninjutsu created by Naruto. Developed from the kage bunshin creates shadow silhouettes of the user that can attack and defend the user when required. The silhouettes hide inside black holes in the grounds thus they conserve energy as they do not require to keep the constant form of the user. It is a jutsu specifically attributed to Naruto one that gave him his legendary name as Kokuei Issen no Konoha. User: Naruto.
Kyokujitsu eizou/Rising sun silhouette: An A ranked hijutsu where a silhouette jumps upward from beneath the target and slices him in two. To be able to perform it successfully the user must have the hirameki taijutsu style. User: Naruto.
Magen narakumi/Demonic illusions vision of hell: A D rank genjutsu that gives the target an illusion of his worst nightmare. User: Most genins.
Ninpou doku hari / Poison needles: A C ranked ninjutsu, the trademark of Shizune where 5 poison needle shot from a special set of slingshot weapons strapped on her forearms. User: Shizune.
Ninpou doku kiri / Poison mist: A B ranked poison jutsu where the user exhales a large quantity of smog filled with poison. User: Shizune.
Shuriken kage bunshin/Shadow shuriken clones: An A ranked ninjutsu, which is the shuriken version of the shadow clone. User: Sandaime, Naruto, Sannin, Kakashi, Asuma.
Suiton suiryuudan /Water element water dragon blast: It is a B ranked water elemental ninjutsu created by Momochi Zabuza. It transforms the water around the user into two dragons that can pierce trough human flesh. The jutsu requires vast quantity of water unless the shinobi is strong enough to summon water out of the moist air. User: Momochi Zabuza, Haku, Naruto.
