Naruto Fanfic
Chapter 2
A New Character Arrives! Cloud Nine Battle! Part 2
A/N: As with just about anything else, no, I do not own Naruto. If I did, I would not have thrown in 30+ episodes of fillers when it could have been done before. . But it is still damn good imo. Still watch it like an obsessed freak.
Enjoy!
As the three people were walking down the fairly busy street, many of the locals were staring at Narshe with a somewhat fearful, and some, scornful expressions. Sighing inwardly, he kept his comments to himself. 'It seems that the Village really is in disarray. This Orochimaru character must have been one tough ninja to be able to inflict fear into such a grandiose village such as this one. Or that was what Sorotobi-sensei said about this place. I'm starting to have second guesses about it, though.' Looking around, he was quite disappointed by what he was seeing. Even in such a dire time, he would have expected the people to react in a better way then they were at this time. Shrugging it off like a leaf on his shoulder, he looks over at the kid with the blonde hair that was following the man with the white hair and special forehead protector.
Naruto was complaining to Jiraiya the whole time they were walking, saying that he never taught any new techniques, and whenever he said he was, something would come up and he would evade teaching him something new. It was basically the same thing that had been said over and over again for the past half hour. Quite frankly, Narshe was getting quite tired of the kid's voice and finally spoke up.
"Listen, shrimp; shut the hell up or I will do it for you. Your complaining belittles the true image of a ninja, putting shame on that forehead protector you are wearing and all of the people that have to listen to your inapt rambling."
Naruto and Jiraiya both looked at the kid and both noticed that he was quite serious, grabbing onto the hilt of his assassin blade with his left hand and rearing back to strike at the source of the annoyance, like a flyswatter to a trapped fly. The blonde-haired kid was about to say something, but the older man knocked him upside the head and told him to quit it.
"Don't you see that he is quite serious? The level of him and you are far too great for it to even be called a fair match. Just keep your mouth quiet until we get to the Hokage's place or I really won't teach you any new jutsu after this is over with."
"EH? Na…Damnit…Fine! Geez…"
Naruto didn't like it one bit, but he really wanted to learn that new jutsu that Ero-Sennin kept going on about.
Meanwhile, Narshe looked at the two of them ahead of him and smiled softly. It was good to finally think in peace. He needed to figure out a way of explaining to the Hokage about his situation without giving away too much information. Plus he just remembered that he will need money to be able to hire on more people. It wasn't much of a problem, since he had his secret stash that he and Sorotobi-sensei saved up from all of their missions over the years. He just didn't have the money on hand at the moment.
There was a little bit more of a murmur in the crowd as the three ninja walked on the main road. None of it could really be heard or understood, but there was the occasional shout from some obscene person trying to look for an 'easy' fight. Most of them were not even worth looking at, really.
Whenever they arrived at the Hokage's place, they all entered the building and walked up to the room where the strongest ninja in the village presided. Jiraiya tried to knock on the door, but Naruto pushed it open before he could reach it.
Tsunade was talking with Shizune and Anko about what they encountered last night when a sudden burst at the door brought their attention to it. Naruto then screamed his normal saying to the 'old hag' and Shizune nii-chan, then realized that Anko was there also and just smiled to them all.
Narshe looked over at Jiraiya and pointed to the kid.
"Are you sure he is a real ninja? I haven't seen one attribute about a ninja within him yet."
A sigh was heard coming from both sides of the room; one from Tsunade and the other from Jiraiya.
"Yes he is, sadly."
It was said in unison.
Anko was the first to really realize that the kid that they were talking about was right in front of them.
"Uhh…Fifth Hokage…that was the person we were talking about." She pointed her finger to the handsome young, yet strangely strong boy that was beside Ero-Sennin.
For a second, Tsunade was examining Narshe very closely. It actually made him very uncomfortable. For some reason, he felt strange vibes from the room; almost like tension of some sort. The Hokage raised her eyebrow and looked over to Jiraiya.
"Do you have any idea what bringing a person like him into the village will do to the stress of every living shinobi that sees him here? I'm already guessing you know where he came from, though, from what he is wearing on his feet and how the floor is bowing."
Anko, Shizune, and Naruto didn't notice it until they really looked at the floor. All of their eyes widened in uncouth surprise. He was a good inch lower because of the floor bowing. An "ahem!" was heard in the room as the man started to speak.
"Yes I do, to all of them accounts. People were already starting to panic as we walked through the village. And it has been a very long time since we last heard from Sorotobi-sensei. This is the kid that he had taken under his wing."
Everyone else there was confused that the two of them actually knew the kid. But the most surprised one was Narshe. He didn't realize that sensei was known by the legendary Sennins of Konoha Village.
"How…how do you know about him?" His voice kind of wavered as he spoke, startling himself and flushing slightly for sounding like such a little kid.
Anko and Shizune were about to ask the same thing before the new kid spoke up. Shizune didn't know anything about Tsunade knowing about a shinobi from another village.
"May I please see under your cloak and determine if you are, in fact, the heir to accepting Sorotobi-sensei's future, and in turn, becoming a ninja for the Hidden Village of Konoha?"
Evading eye contact from everyone and staring at the ground, he honestly didn't know what to say about the request. Normally he didn't reveal what was hidden underneath, but it seemed that the two Sennins knew about his sensei. That and the fact that he gets nervous whenever put on the spot like that in front of so many people.
"M….mmm."
He nodded his head and carefully removed his cloak, setting it on the ground beside him. Tsunade and Jiraiya's eyes widened at the site. The kid was wearing the vest of a jounin from the Village of Cloud, plus he had the forehead protector of the same village strapped to his left armlet. What caught their eyes the most was the actual face of the kid. There was a lone scar going across his neck, near his jugular vein, and another one across his right cheek going downward towards his mouth. His eyes were a very beautiful blue color, but there was something odd about his left one.
Naruto looked at the kid, then looked down at the cloak and suddenly pointed to it.
"EHHH? Nani?"
Everyone looked down at the cloak that Naruto was pointing at. Anko's mouth dropped and Shizune's eyes and face turned a blue color. Jiraiya and Tsunade were correct in their assumption. The cloak was lying down on the floor, bowing it from where it was. It wasn't as bad, though, considering that Narshe was still wearing most of the weight were he was.
"Mate…..How much…do you weigh…kid?"
Anko was barely able to spurt out the words that were forming in her mind. Like how the hell a kid of that stature and age being able to carry around that much weight. And how she didn't realize that the footsteps he had been leaving behind was from so much weight.
Narshe looked up at her, cocking his head to the side in a cute manner, bringing his finger to his mouth in a thoughtful look.
"Let's see…I weight 140 pounds, around 145 with my clothes on, and 10,205 pounds with everything strapped onto me."
"NANI?"
That one word was screamed in unison by every person in the room, causing a ruckus down below, bringing Kotetsu and Izumo to run into the room to see what was the problem. They saw Narshe, then what everyone was looking at.
"What is the problem? It just looks like a regularly worn cloak."
Tsunade raised her left eyebrow and pointed at it.
"Try to pick it up. If you can..."
Puzzled, Kotetsu walked to the cloak and grabbed at it with his right hand and tried to pull up. Eyes widening, he grabs it with his other hand and tried the same thing again. He was barely picking it up. Izumo looked at him with a puzzled expression.
"What is the problem? Can you not even pick up a simple cloak?"
Kotetsu looked at him. "Simple? Far from it. I'm trying the damndest I can to pick this up. Come help me here!"
Shrugging, Izumo got on the other side of Kotetsu and grabbed at the neck of the cloak, eyes nearly bulging out of his skull from the sheer weight of the piece of cloth, or what he thought was a piece of cloth.
"What is the meaning of this? How can a cloak weight this much?"
After getting the item up about 2 inches, they both dropped it, exhausted.
"I'm guessing that is about a fifth of the weight that you carry, am I correct?" Jiraiya said.
Nodding once, Narshe picked up the cloak with one hand and tossed it into the air, catching it again, then folding it up and setting it off to the side. Everyone strained a gasp at such raw strength whenever two Jounin level ninjas couldn't even pick it up. Shizune's face turned more blue and Anko nearly passed out at the thought of being able to become sexually active with such a person. Her face was so flushed that Tsunade looked at the special Jounin and questioned her.
"Ah! Eh…I guess I'm just not feeling well is all. Don't worry about me, though."
The Hokage couldn't blame Anko for thinking such things. She was just a little surprised that Shizune hasn't said anything about it yet.
"Well, now that we have confirmed that you are, in fact, Narshe Delvar, the only student of Sorotobi-sensei, and have confirmed that you have been taught in the ways that he had always implemented. I'm guessing that you probably are fairly weak in the knowledge of ninjutsu and genjutsu?"
Thinking for a minute, Narshe thought about the meaning of genjutsu and ninjutsu and closed his eyes to think for a minute. Whenever he opened them up again, his left eye was the color of the deepest shade of red Anko had ever seen. Just like the color of blood; a crimson red shade.
"Actually, no, I'm quite skilled in them areas, but my specialty is Taijutsu. He noticed that I was an adept at genjutsu and ninjutsu and sent me to a few people to help me train them skills. And that was where I found out about the Eye of Illusion." Narshe looked at everyone in the room and stopping at the Hokage.
That got an eyebrow raise from Tsunade. "Eye of Illusion?"
Narshe nodded his head, going into an explanation about how he discovered that he was able to use it and that all forms of genjutsu were ineffective against him. In fact, if an illusionary technique was used against him, it would automatically be canceled out and countered with a stronger illusionary tech. Jiraiya came to the conclusion that he had a Bloodline Limit and called it the Eye of Illusion, since it was an absolute defense against genjutsu.
"I see. He must have been very glad to see that he had such a skilled pupil. Now I'm starting to see why he left everything to you whenever you two got captured." Tsunade smiled softly at the kid, getting a small flush and an evaded glance from Narshe.
It still surprised him, though, that the Hokage knew as much as she did about him and Sensei. At least it made things much easier for him, yet it was more information he was planning on giving to her. 'Ah well…it isn't like I can erase their minds of what they already know.' He then remembered why he was there and stepped up to her.
"Then you might already know why I am here. I have come to the Village of Konoha to request a mission. I will pay you once the mission is complete. In the name of Sorotobi-sensei, I will not back out of paying you.
"As you should already know, then, the Hidden Village of Cloud had recently become a superpower, though they are still unknown in their exact geographical position in the world. The way they were able to go from a no-name village to that of a superpower nearly overnight was the help of one man by the name of Bartou, Shikushi Bartou."
Tsunade, Jiraiya, and Shizune all winced at that name, automatically knowing who he was.
"Yeah…I don't like him either. Anyway, he seems to have some major influences to some of the bigger countries, yet went for the Village of Cloud to 'help them become the best shinobi village in the world.' To do this, he had to convince the people that his intentions were pure. The only people that actually knew of his plans were the main government people, and Sorotobi-sensei. He had overheard them one time talking about paying the government some major money and brought in some hired hands that he was acquainted with so that they could, someday, conquer all of the world and bring them under the rule of dictatorship by some man whose name my master could not hear.
"They had realized that he overheard them and soon sent out ANBU members from the village of Cloud to take care of him and me, since I was his only apprentice. Needless to say, we held them back and hid ourselves for many years in the forests in the Country of Fire.
"Finally, two years ago, we were able to get back to the village and do a pre-emptive strike against Bartou, but we encountered some heavy resistance from Jounins from Cloud and people I had never seen before." Narshe let out a small sigh, leading up to what was coming up.
"Sadly, we were severely overpowered, even with our uncanny taijutsu abilities and were captured. You should know the rest, though, from what you said earlier.
"I've come here to request three of the best shinobi in the village, apart from the Hokage yourself, and help me to take out Bartou and his men, releasing the Village of Cloud from the unknown binds that it is now under. In terms of ranking for this mission, this would most likely be considered a Super S-class mission with a mission success rate of less than 3. And 0 is assured if we are caught."
Naruto heard the mission request and suddenly became excited by the rank of the mission that Narshe had given it. But then he slowly started to think again about that whenever he heard that he would surely be killed if the team was caught. Tsunade saw that and giggled to herself. Ero-Sennin did the same thing himself.
"It seems that you are very familiar with the mission set-up of the shinobi. That is good to hear. It will make it that much easier for you to become a Konoha ninja. For now, I will think on the request. But I have one favor I have to ask of you in return if I do accept it."
Narshe was puzzled by the request that Lady Tsunade was giving him in half-terms of accepting the mission request.
"One; Become a Konoha ninja by taking a certain test and wearing the forehead protector of the village. Two; you will have to show your loyalty to us by completing one mission that I will personally give you. And three; if you don't accept the terms, or betray the village in some way, shape, form, or fashion, not only will I have you down as a missing-nin, I will give your information description to every country, hidden village, and towns about you so that you can't move much. I will also personally track you down as a betrayer to the feelings of Sorotobi-sensei and his will. Do you accept?"
Laughter built up within Narshe, exploding with it when he couldn't hold it in anymore.
"Of course I will accept the terms! Sensei spoke highly of the Hokage's from here, and of the strength of the ninja, and I can see that I will surely enjoy having a new home here since both of mine are now gone. I almost feel like I've been apart of this village already. Other than the annoying kid there, everyone seems to be very strong here, also."
Naruto heard that and automatically blew up, spurting out random and empty threats to Narshe about not being weak and him showing the small punk was true strength was. This made the older kid's eyebrow rise. He brushed a bang from his forehead as he grabbed at the tip of his very long ponytail, acting like a nervous person.
"Oh? For such a small fry, you sure can talk big. Can you prove it, though? I would like to see the extent of your so-called 'power.'" He then let out a little laugh. 'That should get him riled up. I want to see why I feel an awkwardly powerful presence around him.'
"NANI? I'll show…!"
"That is quite enough, Naruto. You know you don't stand a chance against him. Just leave it alone."
The appearance of another character was seen in the risen dust that suddenly appeared, holding the arms of the blonde-haired kid. His masked face and covered left eye glanced over at Narshe and, from what it looked like, smiled at him, closing his right eye.
"Sorry about that. It seems that my pupil doesn't know when to quit when it comes to fights that he has no chance in. Come Naruto!"
The strange man suddenly threw Naruto out of the window and nodded to the Hokage. "I'm guessing I'll be briefed on the situation here afterwards?"
"Yes, you, all the members of the ANBU squads, all special Jounins, and the Hyuga family will be given knowledge of what is going on and what to do about the arrival of a strong ninja by the name of Narshe Delvar, only pupil to the Taijutsu master Sorotobi-sensei." Tsunade's eyes lit up at what she said. The masked man's eye widened a little bit, and then he nodded and left the room immediately.
"Now that I have him out of the way, we can finally get down to business. Relax Narshe. You might as well since you will be here for a while." Tsunade moved her hand to tell Kotetsu to close the door.
"M…mmm." Narshe nodded, removing all of his armor pieces and placing them side-by-side beside the cloak. All the girls in the room were looking at him with wonder and a bit of lust in their eyes.
'Mmm! I bet he would be SO good in bed.'
'Holy..! I wonder what kind of surprises he hides in his pants…'
'Talk about a nice piece of ass there!'
Narshe got the feeling that he was being watched and suddenly turned around, noticing that all three women were looking in strange directions with slightly flushed faces. Jiraiya was the only one who knew what was going on in the room.
'Hmmm! This might be a good idea for my next book!' He then pulls out a notepad and starts to scribble down some rough ideas.
Once everything was set up and ready, Narshe was briefed on the situation that the village was in, given a Konoha forehead protector, which he put around his neck immediately, and was introduced to everyone in the room, since none of them were formally introduced; they all just kind of appeared.
"I see. So this person called Orochimaru was the one who did this and killed the 3rd Hokage. And you were appointed to 5th after a few details were thrown together. Then this Orochimaru character took possession of the last line of the Uchiha clan to use as a new body whenever his time comes again for him to transfer. Three years is quite a bit of time, you know. And now that I have come about as a jounin ninja for Konoha, you will need me to help rebuild the village and help with missions?"
"That is it exactly. You got all of the major details that we can spare for the time being. You will learn the finer points as you go about the village and actually interact with the people. But for now, we will have to send you to the House of Hyuga until tomorrow. I think you will understand why we are doing this once you get there. Everyone dismissed!" Everyone, except Jiraiya and Shizune, left the room, leaving the five of them all alone.
"I will need to obtain some information on the Village of Cloud, so I'll most likely be gone for about a week. That should be more than enough time for Narshe to become accustomed here." The older man said, leaving the room soon afterwards.
"Shizune! I want you to guide Narshe to the house of Hyuga and give him to Hiashi-san directly."
"Yes, ma'am! Come now. We will leave." Shizune looked over to Narshe, already seeing him putting all of his equipment on and getting ready.
"Yosh! Let's get going now! It is so cool to be able to see how everything is done here. And it seems that I will be looked over by a strong family, from what it sounds like." Narshe said excited by all of the new things he will be learning.
"Basically. The Hyuga family is the strongest family in the Konoha village. But you will be treated more like a guest than a prisoner, since you have the symbol of a Konoha ninja now." She tapped on the protector that was around his neck.
Flushing slightly, Narshe looked to the side and untied the protector, looking at it now, comparing it to the one on his left armlet. Same size; just a different symbol on it.
"You know…Lady Tsunade made it really easy for you to become a Konoha ninja. Normally you would have had to go through a whole process. But we skipped that for time and convenience on the both of you. You must have really impressed her by being a pupil to that man…Sorotobi-sensei wasn't it?" Shizune was trying to get a little bit more information about Narshe, trying to learn his disposition, since she will probably be one of the people selected to go with him on his mission request.
"Mmm, yeah, that is it. I know how the process usually is. Sensei told me all about it whenever he was still a ninja for the Village of Cloud."
Narshe's eyes suddenly became distant, remembering the cold weather from up there. Shizune noticed the kid's lapse into a reminiscent memory and didn't disturb him anymore. Plus he looked that much cuter when he was thinking like that.
Within a few minutes, the two of them were at the gates of the Hyuga house. It was almost nightfall now, with the sun just setting on the Western horizon. "Alright. This is where we depart for now. Have a nice rest, and be careful in there." Shizune gave him a sly wink, brining a furious flush from Narshe, running quickly into the courtyard of the Hyuga house.
'Hehehe…he IS a very cute one. A keeper in my book, if I can get my hands on him. I'll have him whenever the mission starts. I'll make sure of that. Tee hee!' She giggled like a little girl walking off to go home and get some rest.
Narshe looked about the courtyard and was thoroughly impressed by what he saw. The buildings were very different from everything else in the village, and even more so from the village of Cloud.
So engrossed in the buildings, Narshe didn't even realize the three people that had opened up one of the sliding doors and walked outside to meet the new person on their doorstep.
Hyuga Neji, Hinata, and Hiashi saw the boy just standing there like he had never seen these types of buildings before, which he hasn't. Murmuring to each other, Neji started towards the new character, stopping when he noticed that he wasn't being noticed. Grabbing a kunai, he threw one straight at the head of the kid.
With movement that was highly skilled, Narshe moved back and caught the kunai with his finger, spinning it around his index, looking over at the person who threw it. "You know…that wasn't nice to do. I'm admiring the site and you attack me? Jeez…and I thought you were here to watch over me…" He gave the person who threw the kunai a strange look, making Neji shiver.
"Wha…what are you talking about? Who are you?" Before he even gave Narshe a chance to reply, he was already running to attack the intruder.
"Oh? A low-level ninja attacking me head-on? You must really want to be hurt."
Hiashi-san caught that statement from the new person and noticed that this kid was not just some person who carried big weapons. He was strong; far stronger than all three of them. But he said nothing to Neji as he went to attack.
Just as he was about to strike, Narshe stepped back to let Neji pass him by. Then with the swiftness of a gale, he roundhouse kicked the genin in the back, sending him flying through the wall that was behind him. Hinata and Hiashi-san saw that movement and could not believe the strength that they witnessed. That was when they unleashed the byakugan and watched as Neji got back up.
"What the hell..?"
He was confused by the movement. He didn't even see the older kid move to dodge his attack, and suddenly he felt a force on his back and was sent through the wall. Shaking himself off, he grabbed another kunai and charged again, throwing some shuriken in the process.
Looking at Neji and the little injury that he incurred, Narshe knew that he was stronger than he first assumed, which was a bad thing for him to do. 'Hmmm…I underestimated. Quite strange for me. I guess the genin here are a little bit stronger than I first assumed from that one noisy one that I encountered with Jiraiya. Alright…' Preparing himself, Narshe stood his ground and actually used his arm to block the throwing stars, taking a step back and pulling out his giant assassin blade with his left hand and blocked the thrust with the kunai without effort.
"If this was a real battle, you would have been dead long before this fight started." He let out a small giggle and swung his assassin blade, with Neji barely being able to block it.
"Oh…it looks like you didn't have time to block it. I guess I'm overestimating you now."
Neji looked down at his abdomen and saw that his shirt was torn to shreds. Eyes suddenly wide, he didn't even see the attack, even with his byakugan. He started to shake, feeling the sudden pressure of overwhelming power overcome him. Soon afterwards, he fell to the ground, knowing that he was defeated.
Putting his weapon away, Narshe walked up to Neji and held out his hand. "Now you know. Don't do that again, if you know what is good for you. I was sent here by Lady Tsunade to be watched over by a man named Hyuga Hiashi-san. I'm guessing it is that man standing by the cute girl?"
Neji nodded his head shakily while taking the hand and being helped up. Very confused by all of this, he didn't understand why such a powerful person was sent here by the Hokage.
"It seems that you truly are not a normal person. I thought so, with the footprints you leave behind you. Sorry for the disturbance, but I just got wind of your presence a minute ago. Come. Let us hear your story and prepare a room for you."
Looking about, Narshe nodded his head, walking up to Hiashi and bowing to him. "Sorry I had to retaliate like that, but I had to prove a point. But misunderstandings and misinformation always happens." He smiled softly to the three of them and everything was forgiven.
Whenever he was let into the house, he marveled at how everything was. 'So beautiful…so elegant…' Then the next few hours were spent getting everyone in the Hyuga house up to speed on the situation with Narshe and what was going on with the Village of Cloud.
Afterwards, everyone was sent to their rooms and retired for the night. Narshe looked around his room and saw the futon that he was to sleep in. "Sukei…I actually get to sleep in a futon. I've always wondered how they felt…" After removing all of his equipment and vest, he laid down on the futon and stared up into the ceiling. "Well Sorotobi-sensei…it looks like you were right in that I would find a new home, even after you were gone. I seemed to have also found a village that can help me. Soon…soon Bartou will pay for his transgressions…"
And with that, Narshe almost immediately fell asleep. He had spent too much strength keeping himself going in that short fight with that kid.
Hiashi slowly closed the sliding door and nodded his head. "So it is true…he is the true successor to Sorotobi-sensei. Such a kid really exists to succeed a man of such great valor. He will become a fine man, and a great help to the village of Konoha." Walking off to his room, he looked at the door one last time before crossing the threshold of his own room, closing the door behind him.
