Finally I have posted, so kill me later, or I will have to send the nin-dogs on you. Damn you school damn you life shakes fist
Anyway I've changed the whole story because before I had no real plot, now I do, so yeah. It isn't that much change just maybe a few sentences here and some editing there, so woot.
/Naruto signing/
/ Jiraiya signing/
/ Heki signing/
' Thoughts'
" Normal speech"
Chapter 3
The clouds were brewing, threatening to open up and let their contents fall to the earth. A blonde boy was running quickly behind his teacher.
Jiraiya looked at his student.
/we're not going to make it/ said a tired Naruto
"Not at the slow pace that your going" Jiraiya replied
/well you could help me/ Naruto returned, knowing that that would never happen.
"Bah, I'm going up ahead, if you get caught in the rain it's your own fault" Jiraiya said as he jumped away.
Naruto signed as he sped up, he was following and cleaning up the painfully obvious trail that his sensei left behind. Ever since the incident in the last town, Jiraiya had rushed them into getting to their destination.
It wasn't until half an hour later that Naruto found himself in front of two worn down gates. He heard the familiar laughter of the Sannin on the other side. He was ready to scale the walls, when a voice stopped him.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you" it was a deep voice that had a touch of mystery behind it.
Naruto paused and waited for something to happen. Slowly the gates opened revealing a tall black haired man. He was clad in a black coat, shirt and cargo pants, he seemed to also be wearing boots.
"Welcome, Naruto" he greeted.
Naruto bowed and looked at Jiraiya who was approaching from behind this man. /I'm confused how am I going to communicate with him/ He directed at his teacher.
"Ask him yourself kid"
Now completely confused, Naruto looked at the man, he was smiling strangely. / Do you understand what I'm saying/
/I would hope so, considering I taught Jiraiya/
Naruto's jaw dropped /you're the one that taught him? But I thought you couldn't talk/
"I couldn't, but Jiraiya's teammate was nice enough to heal me" he replied
Naruto's hope soared /so does that mean that this person could help me/
"No" he said " she was able to help me because I had vocal cords at one point, you on the other hand was born without them so nothing can be done about them, I'm sorry"
/oh/ Naruto looked at the ground before looking at the man again /I'm sorry but I never asked your name/
"My name is Fushigi Heki" he replied. "And don't worry about it at all"
/ Ok, arigato/ Naruto bowed
"No need for the formalities, but it's a wonder that you've pick up any manners traveling with him" Heki pointed to Jiraiya.
Naruto silently laughed, while Jiraiya became slightly annoyed, before he cut in "Heki don't we have some things to discus?"
"Yes I believe we do, but I would think that you two would be quite famished after your journey"
Naruto nodded enthusiastically, and followed the retreating form of Heki, Jiraiya soon following behind.
After dinner was finished Jiraiya stood up and looked at Naruto.
"Hey kid, go to your room and finish your charka exercises, then go to bed"
/I told you to stop calling me that and by the way I don't know where my room is/ he shot at his teacher.
Heki chuckled lightly before speaking "gomen, I forgot to show you where you'll be staying for the next little while"
/ No worries/ Naruto smiled.
After he was shown his quarter, Naruto was left alone to ponder what the adults were going to talk about.
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"So Jiraiya, in respect of his training I'd be glad to help, but there's one question I've been meaning to ask. "He breathed "does he know about 'it'? "
"Actually I don't know" Jiraiya replied.
"Oh?"
"Yeah, but I haven't told him myself"
"Why not?"
"Because of resent event, I don't think he will be able to handle it at the moment"
"Jiraiya, you have to stop stalling, I know what your like. You leave things like this until it's too late"
"I know I know" Jiraiya almost whispered.
"Then why don't you tell him?"
"I can't, not now," he almost pleaded
"You need to before 'it' wakes up and starts talking to the boy, do you know how bad it will be when he figured out that this has been kept from him his entire life?"
"I know but…"
"But what?"
"I can't stand to see the kid in pain"
"So in other words, you see your self in the kid and don't what him to make the same mistakes that you did"
"NO, that not what I mean"
"Yes it is, so stop denying it and give him some room to grow"
Jiraiya signed "Your right"
"So when are you going to tell him?"
"I don't know"
"You're stalling again" Heki signed, "if you want I can tell him"
"I don't know would he trust you?"
"He seems to so far, but for you I'll give it a few days" Heki looked out the window before he continued, "I think that after a few days training he should be too tired to care"
Jiraiya smirked "Damn I forgot about you hellish training"
Heki just smiled.
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The morning sun broke through the clouds, as the re-energized waking up. It was the beginning of a new day and the air was fresh and everything was renewed. The dew stuck to the grass as the forest just began to wake up. All was quiet and peaceful until a shout rang out from a secluded house.
"NARUTO!" birds shot out of the trees away from the racket.
A blonde boy burst through the front door with a look of pure glee, soon after a very wet Sannin followed. A tall black haired man leaned against the door frame, a smile plastered on his face.
"Damnit Naruto, why'd you have to end such a wonderful dream" two Identical streams of tears flowed down his face, before he looked fondly at the sky and the familiar trickle of blood from his nose appeared.
/Pervert/ an annoyed look replaced his hidden laughter.
Heki snickered at the comment.
Jiraiya stayed oblivious to all this "you know, if you keep this up your going to get caught in a lot more then just pranks" Heki stated.
Jiraiya snapped out of it "huh, what'd you say?"
Shaking his head, Heki said "this is exactly what I'm talking about" Naruto was amused at Jiraiya's apparent stupidity.
"Whatever, I need t go to town, I must continue my research" he stated the perverted expression returning.
/Not again, didn't you do enough of that in the last four towns/
"No, I'll never have enough research, but I must continue if not for me then my fans" Naruto sweat dropped at this comment.
Heki decided to enter the conversation once more "Don't tell me that you actually published that book of yours?"
"But of course" Jiraiya puffed out his chest.
"I don't know if I should kick you out, or ask you for a copy"
Naruto's jaw dropped to the ground /you can't be serious/
Jiraiya laughed" I didn't know you had it in you"
"Well some times a man can get curious about some things" he blushed slightly.
"Ho, ho the things I can tell you" he spaced out, drool seeping out of his open mouth.
/I'm leaving/ said a very irritated Naruto.
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Later that morning two figures could be seen behind the house, facing one another.
"So Naruto do you know any jutsu's?"
/ No ero-sannin worked on charka control and increasing my stamina/ Naruto now used "ero-sannin" instead of perverted sensei as he deemed Jiraiya unfit to be a teacher.
"I see, so how is your chakra control? What exercises have you done so far?"
/ I've done tree climbing, water walking and I'm working on what ero-sannin called the Rasengan/
"Really? How far are you one it?"
/Well really I've mastered it, I'm just modifying it so I can change its shape/
"Mm, ok, so tell me how long did it take you to master, the Rasengan?"
/ About 3 weeks why/
Heki just stared at him in disbelief. "h how"
/ how'd I master it/ Naruto asked, Heki just nodded / it was easy, you simply tell the chakra where to go/ Naruto stated like it was the most obvious thing in the world.
Heki just continued staring at the Kyuubi container, before regaining his composure" thank you Naruto, anyway I have a jutsu I want to teach you."
/ok/ Naruto said while trying to contain himself, it wasn't everyday that he got to learn his first jutsu.
"Good, now the jutsu is called Katamuki Genzouno no Jutsu(warped vision technique), and what it does is distorted the sight of whoever is caught in it. So that everything is flipped upside down as well as being unfocused, but beware, it's hard to aim it at the right person and it only lasts for so long."
/Cool/ Naruto said enthusiasm in his eyes.
"Ok the seals are bird, horse, snake, dog, bird, and once you've mastered this jutsu of some extent, then the seals are reduced to just bird"
Naruto started practicing the seals until he got the order perfect
/ok the seals are memorized, but Heki sensei I have one question, how am I going to practice the actual jutsu/
"Glad you asked" he said as he left the training field for a second, when he returned he had in his hands a cage "I have a rabbit here you to practice on"
/ But how can you tell if the jutsu worked or not/
"Another good question, its simple, black spots appear in the eyes, the more efficient the jutsu the smaller the spots are and them more there are"
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The evening sun was slowly disappearing behind the mountains. A perverted giggle came from a tree, the bath house below slowly filled up with the evening crowd.
"Yes that's it, now just turn around a bit" Jiraiya sat there looking thought his spyglass, unaware.
He removed his eye fro the lens and wiped the trail of blood form his nose. Just as he was about to return to his previous position, he found that his vision was disoriented. Ass he tried to clear his head, he lost his balance and fell out of the tree, alerting the female population of his presence.
Just before he was caught by the advancing army of women, his vision cleared. He quickly took off thinking 'I'm going to get you for this Naruto' wit an evil glint in his eyes,
"So did it work?" Heki questioned.
/Mission success/ Naruto beamed
"You know that wasn't very nice"
/Who said I was nice/
"No one I guess" he chuckled
/Kuso I'm out of here/ Naruto rushed as he fled.
"DAMN YOU KID WHEN I GET MY HANDS ON YOU I'M GOING TO…"
"Going to what" Heki interrupted.
Jiraiya huffed, his eyes scanning the area for any signs of the insufferable blonde.
"I haven't seen you this red since that time with the chicken and" The Sannin's eyes widened before he quickly shut Heki up.
Naruto silently laughed at Jiraiya's embarrassment, he was currently perched on a branch. 'Oy what have I gotten myself into?' he signed 'I should have never listened to Heki sensei' Naruto got himself ready to spend the night outside as he knew Jiraiya wouldn't cool down for a while. Normally the old man would brush off his stupid pranks, but when it had anything to do with his "research". He shuddered at the memory.
As he laid out on the branch, he gazed a up at the stars visible thought the canopy. 'I wonder if I'll ever return to Konoha.' He had always loved watching the stars, they were filled with such fascination and mystery, they almost whispered things of magic and made him feel safe under their light, and it almost felt like a comforting embrace that a mother would give to her child.
With those thoughts still lingering in his mind, he slowly drifted off to sleep, hoping for a brighter tomorrow.
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The next few days flew by in a fury of training, pranks and laughter. At this point Naruto had been taught a few more jutsu's most of them based on the eye, as well as continue on with his chakra control training.
/Heki sensei/ Naruto said, trying to get his teacher's attention.
The said person was currently lying on his back with his nose buried in a book.
Naruto getting annoyed quickly shot a fireball at the book, Heki surprised, stood up; he looked sadly at the remains of his book.
"Why'd you do that?" Said a teary eyed Heki.
/ That what you get for ignoring your student/ Naruto stuck out his tongue.
"But I was at a really good part" he whined childishly.
/ Sometimes I wonder who's the teacher and who's the student here/ he said shaking his head.
"Anyway, where did you learn that, I don't recall ever teaching you a fire jutsu"
Heki quickly going into teacher mode.
/that is for me to know and you to find out/ Naruto said before flashing a foxy grin.
Heki smiled but was worried' I hope he didn't learn it from who I think he did' he looked at the blonde as he was being lectured for reading 'inappropriate material' in front of children, not really paying attention to what he was saying. 'He needs to be told soon I just hope Jiraiya won't be too difficult.
Deciding that Naruto has talked long enough "whoa whoa slow down there Naruto, didn't you say you wanted more training?" he interrupted with a malicious glint in his eye.
/ Yosh, more training/ Naruto replied as he regained his normal energy.
"Ok then I think its time to move onto something else, follow me" he said as he started moving down a forest path. Naruto quickly trailed him, while bouncing around with the prospect of learning something new.
Then soon arrived at a clearing, the afternoon sun filtering through the trees, in the middle of the said clearing were three training stumps, each six feet tall and a two-foot diameter. Heki swiftly walked to the middle one and motioned for Naruto to follow him.
"Now I want you to punch this stump" he said simply.
/ok/ He answered with a questioning look on his face, before doing as he was instructed.
Heki was quick to point out what he did wrong, after trying a few more times the moved onto different taijutsu moves. They did this until it was mid afternoon, where Heki seemingly out of the blue asked, "How much extra weight are you wearing?"
/About 112, why/
Ignoring his question Heki simply replied, "good, but I want you do double that about" while he pulled some weights apparently out of thin air.
Naruto stared at his sensei like he had grown another head, before bringing his hands together in a sign that meant / Nani/
"You want to be stronger right?"
/Yeah/
"So then what's the problem?" grinning a 100 watt smile.
Naruto look away from the shear brightness of the grin. Before glaring at his teacher.
Heki waited patiently for Naruto to get the hint and put the weights on. It didn't take very long and when the fox-boy finally stood up, staggering a little, Heki began to speak. "Now that you have your weights on I want you to give me 100 laps around the compound, and that includes the forest as well."
Naruto's thoughts mostly consist of how evil his teacher was and possible ways to get him back before figuring that he better getting started on those laps if he wanted a chance to finish before dinner. The compound was not to me taken lightly, it was massive, it alone could fill up a good chunk of Konoha, but with the forest added, it totaled to about half the size of the hidden village. The house itself was small, only the size of an average home in most towns, the architecture was of an old Japanese styling, yet the building was designed in such a way that a hurricane would do very little damage to it. A small garden grew on one side of the house; this was just one of the many weird hobbies of Heki. Shaking his head free of distractions, Naruto continued on with his running hopping that he would still feel his legs after this.
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It turned out that Jiraiya would be difficult, so difficult that Heki argued with him for a good three hours, before he finally resorted to threatening the Sannin.
"You're so evil Heki, threatening to burn my beautiful book, just when I finished writing it"
"Always know your opponents weaknesses before a fight" Heki replied mysteriously.
"So how's Naruto's training going?" Jiraiya said, quickly changing subjects, as he didn't want to face as he puts it Heki's other side.
"He's progressed well; he seems to have an ability to just suck up Justus, but be has a weakness in the genjutsu area" Heki paused as he remembered something, "also Jiraiya did you ever teach him a fire jutsu?"
"No, why?"
"Well he demonstrated that he knew one, this morning and I am curious to how he learned it"
"You don't think that!"
"That is certainly a possibility, but I suggest we find out tonight" a mischievous twinkling in his eyes, "how about we start dinner, I suspect that Naruto should return in about a hour"
Jiraiya plastered a rather plastic smile on his face before trying to sneak out behind Heki's back. "You know, Tsunade's in town and I'd think she be delighted to catch up with you, especially about your new book"
Jiraiya turning in horror" you don't say" before reluctantly following his host into the kitchen.
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It was getting dark out and right now Naruto felt like he had concrete for legs, and all he wanted to do was sleep. His stomach growled in response. Ok fist he would get something to eat then go to bed.
As he entered the light that escaped the kitchen window, Naruto quicken his pace, there was a tainting smell in the air, one that he knew all too well. 'RAMEN" he opened the back door quickly, to be met by both of his senseis. Surprised by the serious look on both their faces, Naruto stopped dead in the doorway.
/What's going on/ He said with a puzzled expression.
Heki responded first "ah good you here, come sit down" there was a certain weariness in his tone, but Naruto discarded it as nothing.
Naruto obeyed quietly, still slight confused with what was happening.
"Ok Naruto we're going to tell you a few things that you need to know but from this point on we're going to use sign language ok?" this time it was Jiraiya speaking.
/Ok/
/Good, now would you like to start Jiraiya or shall I/
/ I'll do it/ Jiraiya responded, before quickly checking the surrounding area for possible spies. / All clear, now shall we begin/
/Hai please do/
/ Ok now Naruto, you've heard of the Kyuubi right/ Jiraiya said getting right down to business.
/ Yeah, the Kyuubi attacked Konoha 7 years ago right? And the Yondaime killed it/ Naruto said playing innocent.
/ Partly true, yes the Kyuubi attack Konoha 7 years ago but no, the Yondaime did not kill it. / Heki said, causing feigned confusion on the young Shinobi's face.
/Nani! Then what happened to it/
/ Before we get into that, when is your birthday/
/October 10th why/Naruto asked pretending to not understand what his birthday had to do with the Kyuubi.
/ Do you know the exact date that the Kyuubi was defeated/
/No/ Now Naruto was desperate to find out how they knew, hoping that it wasn't what her thought it was.
/It was October 10th as well/ Heki paused before continuing/ the Kyuubi couldn't be killed so the fourth had to seal it, but only someone with out their chakra pathways developed would be able to hold the creature within/
Naruto started to panic; they knew their going to hate him, if they didn't already. That's it they knew probably pretending not to hate him. Before his train of thought continued Jiraiya began making hand signs. / Naruto you have to understand, there was no other choice, if the fourth tried to seal it in an adult, they would be killed instantly due to the chakra overload and the Kyuubi would just be free once again and the fourth's sacrifice would be in vain/
/ The fourth wanted you to be seen as a hero, but the villagers were struck with grief of the loved ones they have lost, and so they simply took their grief out on you, we're sorry Naruto but even the Fourth couldn't foresee everything/
/ Why are you trying to symphonize with me? I already knew, I was just waiting to get out if that place, maybe find somewhere that I'm accepted/ As he said the last part tears started rolling down his cheeks.
As he finished his statement, Jiraiya and Heki looked at him in horror /How long have you known/
/ I've always known, maybe not conscious but I've always known /
Both men were silent, before Hike snapped out of it/Wait, what do you mean you wanted to leave/
/Oh come on, why would I want to stay there? Heh but just my luck, even if no one knew of the Kyuubi they'd hate me anyways because I'm a mute /
/Why / Said Jiraiya in shock/ why would they still hate you/
Slowly Naruto calmed down, regaining his composure before informing him/they believe that people with no voices steal your soul /
Jiraiya's breath was hitched in his throat / what? That's preposterous! How can you believe that/
Naruto looked down at his feet before looking up and stating / I don't its everyone else that does/
Jiraiya fell back into his chair not realizing that he stood up, before whispering "oh Kami-sama" Before he was able to say something more, large amount of chakra flared up outside.
A/N: anyway now I have my motivation back, but I lost my original writing journal, but thankfully I already had everything written up on the com.
Anyway this is my longest chapter yet with 3,731 words and 12 pages, I quite proud of myself. (Insert super grin). So I will apologize for the wait and the most probable event to happen in the future, me losing my motivation again.
Genzouno no Jutsu (warped vision technique)
TBC…