A/N: Thank you soooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much to all of you! If it weren't for your support I might not be able to post this chapter this early! Thank you thank you thank you! I was so surprised; my eyes almost bulged out of its socket when I found out that I received 80 reviews for this story! -Beamed at the reviews received- I never thought my story would be well liked! Thank you again! Anyway...there's still some bad news: 1. My BIG BIG BIG exam is still there, waiting for me 4 months away... 2. My brother will restrict me from playing computer starting from 21st of June -my birthday!- and sadly I can't serve the internet...not until I finish my BIG BIG BIG exam...man...what a pain... Anyway, go on with the 'answer for reviews', then the story. Enjoy!
Oh, and before I forget, I have to apologize once more. I was supposed to post this chapter last week, but since my 'modem' burst, (it was raining at the time) I could no longer surf the net. My brothers and sister won't buy a new modem until my BIG BIG BIG exam is finish! Oh My GOD! -cries- that's 4 months away... anyway I'm sorry... oh, and I posted new story a day before I post this chapter. Hope you guys will read it!
AnSwEr FoR ThE ReViEwS:
daniel: Um...I'm not sure... 15 or more maybe...
Crescent Moon: Twin? Hmm...Good idea... but nah...not in this story...
Lord Rance: NarutoHarem huh? Good thinking...
hopefullight: nope...nuh-uh...how can you be so sure that Naruto's back?
Dragon Noir: OH MY GOD! Jiraiya - grandpa? Man...No way!
inu nataro katsumi: just some deal between them... apparently Kenshu will have to teach Akaru a jutsu...
greatkid4869: yeah I understand...but don't cha think that every country have their own big tests?
A/N: sorry for the other reviews that I'm not answering...from now on, I will only answer reviews that have questions. And please take note that I'm not going to answer the reviews that might give away the plot.
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Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto except for the OC characters and a certain technique... Sorry for the late update!
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Chapter 5: B-rank Mission!
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"Demon!"
"GO AWAY!"
"DIE!"
"YOU HORRIBLE CREATURE!"
Curses could be heard throughout the streets as a young boy ran through them, acting as if nothing had happened, though the pained expressions could be seen in his deep blue eyes.
'What have I ever done to them? To get all this curses thrown at me?'
The young blonde boy cried his heart out once he sat on a swing at the Academy, accompanied by nothing but silence.
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"Ugh..." Kenshu moaned as he woke up from his slumber. He blinked his eyes a few times to adjust his eyes with the light. He got up and stretched his legs and arms as he yawned loudly.
"Sheesh, close your mouth when you yawn," he heard a familiar voice he recognized as Akaru's from behind him. Kenshu ignored her and continued on stretching his limbs before he asked Akaru the current time.
"Well...it's 10.30," she said as she looked at her watch.
Silence...
"WHAT?" Birds could be seen flying away from the hotel they rented yesterday.
- 20 Minutes Later -
"Come on, we're late!" Kenshu said as he ran through the streets towards the Hokage tower at a very high speed. As he ran, he felt as if the villagers were looking at him in a weird way. He shrugged and brushed that feeling off. Behind him was Akaru, who was running at the same speed with bread in her hand. Both of them were wearing their usual attire.
"Late? Late for what?" Aka said as she munched her bread.
"We're supposed to meet the Hokage this morning remember?" he said before he muttered to himself, 'I can't believe I fell asleep again after I woke up early... -pause- and had a really weird dream...'
"Well...did you make an appointment to meet the Hokage yet?" she said, just to crash into Kenshu who suddenly stopped running.
"Good point," he said.
Akaru and the villagers around them sweat dropped at Kenshu's antics. She sighed; sometimes Kenshu could be dense.
- 30 Minutes Later -
They entered the entrance to the Hokage tower just to be greeted by the Hokage's assistant, Shizune.
"Yes, how may I help you?" Shizune asked without looking at them. Apparently she's busy doing her works, which half of them were supposed to be done by the lazy -cough cough- Hokage, Tsunade.
"Hmm ... can we meet the Hokage?" Kenshu requested as he rubbed the back of his head; his bad habit that has been there since before he could remember.
"Hmm?" Shizune looked up and gaped. 'This...this can't be real! Is this Naruto? No-no way! Oh my god! What if he is?'
"Excuse me, er...miss?" his worried expressions dawned on her. 'Ok...so this IS not Naruto. He called me miss, when Naruto calls me Shizune-neechan. Yep. This is not Naruto. Definitely not!'
"Huh? Oh ok...well she's in right now so you could meet her,"
"She?" Akaru and Kenshu raised their eyebrows.
"The Godaime is a female. Don't you know that?" another voice spoke from behind the duo. They turned around just to meet the Copycat Ninja Kakashi, eye to eye. Kakashi's visible eye went wide as a plate as he looked at both the blonde and red-haired girl.
Silence filled the room for a few minutes.
"Well...we don't! Anyway thanks! Is this the way to the Hokage's office?" Aka asked, pointing to the stairs breaking the tension that was built the minute the Cyclops ninja came into the room. (A/N: Cyclops means 'one-eyed', and since Kakashi only have one visible eye, I decided to call him that)
The two of them went up the stairs before neither Kakashi or Shizune had the time to answer Akaru's question. A few minutes after they left, Kakashi turned and faced Shizune, "Who is he? He can't be Naruto...can he?"
Shizune shook her head, "I don't know..."
- With Kenshu and Akaru -
"Wow...this place is big!" Aka said in awe as she looked at the entrance to the Hokage's chamber.
"Yep, it sure is..." Kenshu said as he knocked the wooden door a few times. She quickly ran by Kenshu's side and waited for the Hokage's response.
- With Tsunade -
Tsunade was sound asleep in her rightful chair when she heard the door knocked. 'Who dare to disturb my slumber?' she thought as she groaned, stretching her arms. She motioned for the person to come in and got ready to throw something at them for disturbing her sleeps when-
- With Kenshu and Akaru -
"Come in," a voice could be heard from inside the room. Akaru and Kenshu nodded to each other before they opened the door and walked into the room, just to found a woman with blonde hair holding a duster in her right hand in a weird position.
The three of them blinked, Tsunade because the boy who resembles Naruto had surprised her, Kenshu and Akaru because of the weird woman who was holding a duster. Silence filled the room for a few minutes before Kenshu found the strength to ask the blonde Godaime.
"Ugh... what are you doing? Why are you holding a duster?"
Tsunade quickly hid the duster and laughed in a fake way, "Hohohoho, what are you talking about? There's no duster here,"
Both Kenshu and Akaru sweat dropped at her antics and thought, 'She's weird...'
After a minute Tsunade stopped laughing and stared at Kenshu. Akaru, noticing this quickly caught Tsunade's attention, for she doesn't want another chaos to arise, remembering what the old man Teuchi had said last night, "Hmm...Are you... the Hokage?"
Tsunade turned and looked at the red-haired girl carefully before she answers her question, "Well yes, I am Tsunade, the fifth Hokage of Konohagakure. That reminds me, what brings you two here?"
"We're here to request some help to eliminate a group of bandits," Aka said as she and Kenshu made themselves comfortable in the chairs that were placed opposite of Tsunade's.
Tsunade arched her eyebrow before she nodded, "Explain,"
Kenshu looked at Akaru and nods at her before he started the explanation.
"I'm Kenshu, and she's Akaru. Both of us originated fromChizuru village, a small non-shinobi village located in Wave country. You probably never heard of it before, since it's a pretty small and isolated village. It's a peaceful village too. However it all changed when a group of bandits of 25 came and destroyed our farm; our source of food and income. They're so strong that even we; the best fighter of the village can't defeat them. Fortunately they only stay at our village for a week before they leave the village for 2 months, but they will come back later and steal everything from us again. That's why our grandfather, also the elder of the village decided to send us and ask for help to kill the bandits, because we can't keep on living like this. It's been a month since the bandits left our village, they'll come back most likely a month from now," (A/N: In this story I divided the Wave country into several non-shinobi villages. One of the examples is Tazuna's village. The only difference is; there are several other villages like that in the Wave country).
"I see...then this will be a B-rank mission..." Tsunade said as she wrote the details of this mission on a piece of paper.
Akaru stood and put a pouch of money on the table, "We're willing to pay everything we have!"
Tsunade sighed and looked at Kenshu, 'He looks like him...Naruto...' She took the pouch and counted the money. Then she divided the money into two and put half of it back into the pouch and hand it back to Akaru while she kept the other half.
Kenshu and Akaru were dumbfounded by the Godaime's actions. Tsunade noticed their looks and said, "Since I'm being generous today, I'll only take half of the payment," Seeing Akaru and Kenshu's happy face, she continued, "However, I can only conform and give you the team of shinobi tomorrow, I hope that's okay with the two of you,"
Kenshu and Akaru smiled at Tsunade and expressed their gratitude, "Arigato, Hokage-sama," before they walked out of the room. Tsunade slumped on her chair and thought, 'That Kenshu boy looks a lot like Naruto, but the way he behaves told me that he's not Naruto...then again, my heart's feelings told me that he is Naruto...man...it's so complicated! -sigh- I really miss my little brother...' a tear started to caressed Tsunade's cheek.
- With Kenshu and Akaru -
"She's not that bad, you know? At first I thought she's useless, unreliable and everything, but she's the other way round, except for the unreliable part. She really looks like the person who loves to gamble and drink," Aka said as she exited the Hokage Tower.
"Yep, I agree," Kenshu simply said.
- With Tsunade -
"ACHOO! Someone must be talking bad about me," Tsunade said as she rubbed her nose.
- With Kenshu and Akaru -
They were walking to the 'Hokage Mountains', since Kenshu did promised Akaru that they could visit the place after they meet the Hokage. Akaru was humming happily besides Kenshu while Kenshu...ugh...walked? Suddenly Akaru jumped. Kenshu noticed this and asked, "What's wrong?"
"You...you... YOU FORGOT TO TEACH ME A NEW JUTSU!" Aka shouted in a happy tone.
"Oh shit," Kenshu cursed himself. How could he forget? Well, the problem is, why must she remember?
"Come on, teach me now! Forget the Hokage Mountains, just teach me something!" she said as she pulled Kenshu's sleeves towards the training ground near a certain bridge, which currently were occupied by (A/N: heheheh...-evil laugh-) Team 7.
"Can't you just forget that little incident?" Kenshu sighed as he followed Akaru to the training ground. 'Knowing her, she won't let me off that easily...she'll do anything she can to get me teach her some jutsus,'
"Um, hello? You almost killed me! If that's what you meant by saying 'little incident', you must be out of your mind. That was no where near 'little'!" she said as she looked at Kenshu in 'are-you-mad?' kind of way.
"All right, all right! I get it...come on then..." Kenshu said as he ruffled his own hair.
They walked towards the training ground and found two figures sparring at the ground. One with black hair and a blue shirt with a pair of white shorts, while the other one wore a white tank top and a black skirt, with cherry pink hair.
- With Sasuke and Sakura -
"Oi Sakura, wanna spar?" Sasuke asked as he went into a taijutsu stance. Sakura smirked, "Bring it on, Sasuke," she said before her hands formed a few seals, "Biransei No Jutsu!" a stream of purple gas was shot out from Sakura's mouth. Sasuke prepared himself for the attack but found out that the gas was weird. He dodged at the last minute, but still got caught up in the purple gas. He quickly covered his mouth and jumped out of the cloud of gas, 'Damn it! It's a poisonous gas!'
Sasuke felt a little dizzy as he crouched down on a knee, and was kicked at the stomach by Sakura. A few seconds after the blow, 'Sasuke' burst into smoke. Sakura, alerted with the sudden burst of smoke quickly jumped away and landed on a branch with a few kunais in her hand, 'Tch, a clone?'
"Not bad Sakura," she received a blow on her right shoulder and burst into smoke, revealing a log, 'Kawarimi?' Sasuke thought when he heard, "Katon: Housenka no Jutsu!" he smirked, 'Trying to beat me with fire jutsus? In your dreams,' he countered back with the same jutsu, "Katon: Housenka no Jutsu!"
Fireballs were blown into the center of the battlefield from both sides, creating large explosions. Sakura threw a few kunais at him and controlled the kunais using Chakra thread. She could still pinpoint the exact location of Sasuke even though he was still covered in smoke.
Sasuke sensed the kunais and created a few shadow clones then leapt to different directions. Each of Sakura's kunai followed a Sasuke clone. After a few minutes of Sakura chasing Sasuke's clones using kunais, she finally dismissed her chakra thread and formed another set of seals, "Suiton: Suiryuudan no Jutsu!"
A large water dragon was formed using the existing water from the river near the training ground. The water dragon charged at Sasuke and his clones, which were visible by now. "Damn!" Sasuke cursed as he released his training weights resulting an incredible speed that helped him escaped the water dragon's assault and got him standing right behind Sakura. "Checkmate," he said as he placed a kunai at Sakura's throat.
Sakura slumped on the ground, "Man...How come I can't beat you?" Sasuke placed his kunai in his shuriken holster and sat beside her, "You're good, you actually forced me to release my weights, and that's something," Sakura took out a small bottle containing a few drops of orange liquid and handed it to Sasuke.
"Here, drink this up so that the poisonous gas earlier won't seriously affects you," Sasuke smiled at her as he opened the bottle, "Thanks Sakura,"
- With Kenshu and Akaru -
"They're good," Aka said as she munched some Pockys that who knows where she got it from. "But not THAT good, the two of us together could beat them," Kenshu said as he turned around and walked off to another training ground (A/N: Too bad they're not meeting the Team 7 right now... evil, evil me...). Akaru, noticing his action followed closely behind; she knew that Kenshu hates it when someone spied on their training. Which means Kenshu only shows his techniques and skills to no one but Akaru, their grandfather AND his opponents. Even though they're not ninja, that doesn't mean they can't train some jutsus, in fact, they trained a lot to protect their village. Too bad the two of them can't beat the bandits because they were outnumbered.
- Scene Break -
"This place would do," Kenshu said as he took of his cloak and placed it on a branch of a tree. He cracked his knuckles and did a quick warm up. Akaru did the same thing before she went into a Taijutsu stance, "Ninjutsu, genjutsu, and taijutsu, three in one, you okay with that?"
"You're on,"
- After the Spar - (A/N: Muahahaha... I'm evil I know, but I still don't wanna give away their techniques and taijutsu style! Maybe in the next few chapters?)
"Damn it! Argh! My clothes are all wet!" Aka shouted angrily as she struggled to stand. Her hair and clothes were drenched. Not far from her was Kenshu, who were leaning against a tree. His clothes were partly torn, but that's pretty much. He chuckled before he walked to the soaked girl, "And that's the jutsu I'm going to teach you,"
Akaru sighed deeply before she took off her purple tank top, revealing her well-curved body, even though she wore bandages around her body. (A/N: she wore it underneath the purple tank top, like Ino... now don't you think about something dirty). Kenshu blushed and turned his attention away from her. Sure, they lived together under the same roof, but that doesn't mean that he were used to seeing her like this.
'Meanie,' she thought before she talked to him, "Do you really really have to do the jutsu on me? I mean I know that the fastest way to learn something is by experiencing it, but... Kenshu, are you listening to me?" she rolled her eyes when she found Kenshu's back on her. Even though she could barely see his face, she could still see the red tint of blush on his cheeks. She smiled and thought, 'Well, at least he's not a pervert,'
A few minutes later they were standing in the center of the training ground, facing each other. Akaru had her purple tank top on, even if it's still wet. Her red hair was let down and had framed her face perfectly. Kenshu on the other hand was still cloak-less. He smiled at Akaru, "Tell me, what do you understand of that jutsu?"
Akaru placed her hand at her chin and wondered loudly, "Well, it seems to me that you used an amount of chakra to control and manipulate a certain amount of water before you compress it into a sphere and strike it to me," Kenshu nodded at her analysis, "True, that was what I did. But the jutsu could do more than that," he took a deep breath before he continued.
"There are three steps in this jutsu. First you need to control and manipulate the water using your chakra, just like you said. Second, you compress the water into a form, but sphere is not the only form you could compress it into, you could make a katana (sword), kunai, shuriken, spear, senbon (needle) or any other weapons you could think of out of it. The third step is the most interesting part, after you form the water into a weapon, you could use your chakra to solidify it or make the water stay intact for as long as you can, depends on the size of your chakra reserve. Otherwise, you could just compress and form the water into anything you want and strike your opponent, just like what I did to you," he smirked at the sight of Akaru's face which was in awe.
"That jutsu is pretty useful, especially for those who uses weapons. Even if they don't, it could still be use as an attacking jutsu. The power it released was quiet powerful," Akaru smiled at the thought of her learning this jutsu.
"There are some drawbacks though. This jutsu requires a very good chakra control otherwise the user can't manipulate the water let alone form something out of it. You also need water or else it won't work. This goes to everyone except for the high-level ninjas since they could condense the water molecules in the air to make some water. And before I forget, the jutsu is called 'Suiton: Buki Soujuu No Jutsu' (Water technique: Weapon Manipulation),"
"Weird, I've never heard of it before..." Kenshu chuckled at this, "That's because I was the one who created this jutsu,"
Silence...
"YOU'VE GOTTA BE KIDDING ME! I'VE NEVER SEEN YOU PRACTICE IT BEFORE!" Aka shouted in disbelief, 'Kenshu created this jutsu? No way in hell!' she thought.
"Well, it's one of my personal and favorite jutsu. And surely you know that I prefer to keep my personal jutsus to myself, rather than spreading a word about it, " his words made Akaru wondered, 'Why would he teach me one of his personal jutsus then?' she can't find the answer within her mind, so she asked him, her source of answers.
"Well, I'm not sure myself...maybe because we've known each other for years?" his words made Akaru blushed and thought, 'He didn't mean anything special, did he?'
After a while Kenshu told her to start by forming the water into a sphere instead of weapons for it was much easier. Akaru agreed and followed his instructions on mastering the jutsu. Just like he explained earlier, she must first manipulate the water. It was pretty easy, really. All she had to do was release some of her chakra after she did the hand seals that Kenshu showed her before and she can manipulate an amount of water that was equivalent to the amount of her used chakra.
However the next part was harder than she thought. She can't seem to grasp the concept of maintaining the water into the shape of a sphere. 'Damn! It's harder than I thought. Does this mean that my chakra control isn't good enough?' After a while Akaru started to feel tired. Most of her chakra had been used up good for this training. She almost fell due to her tired legs when Kenshu caught her around her waist, just like the night when they arrived to Konoha.
"I think that's enough for today. Come on, let's go back to the hotel," he said as he carried Akaru in bridal style. Akaru managed an 'eep!' at first before she blushed, realizing that Kenshu was CARRYING her in BRIDAL STYLE. It was like a dream come true for her, and she sure as hell like it! Her daydreams however were interrupted when a Chuunin suddenly appeared before them.
"Kenshu and Akaru, I assume?" the Chuunin asked.
They nodded, unsure of what to say. The Chuunin smiled and said, "Hokage-sama asked me to tell you that she already had a team of shinobi that you requested. Please meet them at the main gate tomorrow morning at 7.30 a.m."
Kenshu muttered a quick thanks to the Chuunin before he disappeared leaving them alone. Kenshu continued their way to the hotel while Akaru who were in his arms sighed deeply, 'we're leaving Konoha already? It's way too soon!'
The rest of the day went uneventful.
- The Next Morning -
"Come on Aka, we're going to be late!" Kenshu said as he ran out of the hotel with Aka right behind him. Each of them was carrying a backpack, and of course they were wearing their usual attire. They ran to the main gate at a high speed and reach there in 5 minutes when it normally takes 20 minutes. They found a group of shinobi consisted of 6 people waiting for them.
By the looks of them Kenshu guessed that the two tall guys were jounins. One of them was wearing a black mask that covered the bottom part of his face with his forehead protector covering his eye. Akaru recognized him as the Cyclops Ninja. The other jounin however were wearing a very tight green spandex and had a bowl haircut.
'The four others must be Chuunins,' Kenshu thought. One of them had a pineapple hair and a very lazy look on his face. He was wearing something a Chuunin would wear. The other guy however had a long black hair that was tied loosely. He had a pair of white silver eyes. Kenshu was rather nervous at the sight of his pupil-less eyes. Both Kenshu and Akaru however recognized the other two ninjas. They were the sparring ninjas that he and Akaru saw the day before; the guy with black hair and a blue shirt with a pair of white shorts, and the girl that wore a white tank top and a black skirt, with cherry pink hair.
"Sorry-- we're---late," Kenshu said in between his breaths. The Konoha shinobis' eyes widen at the sight of Kenshu and Akaru, except for Kakashi that is. After a few minutes of silence, the pink-haired girl spoke,
"N-Naruto...?"
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Thanks to all of you, I finally finished this chapter. -Phew- I swear I will kill you if you still don't know who are the 6 shinobis. -Just Kidding- Anyway... I have this one new story I posted together (as an APOLOGY for the late update) with this chapter. This is the summary.
Naruto: An Avenger - Full Summary What if Naruto's mother had survived when she gave birth to Naruto? What if she too had survived the Kyuubi Massacre, only to be chased out from Konoha by the villagers? And what if, she brought Naruto to the Hidden Village of Sun, the place where she came from, and decided to raise Naruto as an avenger, to avenge Arashi's death by destroying Konoha?
I will also give the readers an unusual choice (or so I thought) for this story... This are the following choices: -
a) Follow through as Naruto grows up in the Sun village and learns under the tutelage of his mother and his clan, or
b) Fast-forward the story to the time when Naruto returns to Konoha, ready to avenge his father.
He he…interested? I hope all of you will read and tell me, which of above would you like?
-By the way, 'Chizuru' is just some random name.
-'Suiton: Buki Soujuu No Jutsu' is an original technique that I created. I own this technique.
Anyway…like I always say...
Review, that's your job... (For both 'The Way It Ends' and 'Naruto: An Avenger')
Thanks for your support!
