Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto. Masashi Kishimoto does, so thank him for Naruto.
A/N: Here's the new chapter, I think now that I'm here, there will be a little more comedy. I think that some might enjoy the first few paragraphs.
Dragon Man 180-I read your sorry before and I'll admit that I forgot you did that. In all honesty it all came from various ideas that popped in my head. The the words was just a random idea, but the words next to the Fourth's head came from a rational view point. 1. They did it at night, so there was no proof that it was them; 2. I was going to put 'The Uzumaki's were here', but that seemed to plain and a bit of a cliche; 3. I remembered the fact that Naruto always talk about being the next Hokage and the next Hokage's face would go up there one day, so he reserved his spot as a way to say who did it and state his dream; 4. Having it a couple spaces over tells that he's smart enough to know that there will most likely be a Fifth Hokage before him since the Third is old, so he plans on having the sixth position, so future instead of next.
DreadCraft-I agree with you on several points. With your first point I thought of something similar with the three, the reason for my comment about their clothes in the last chapter, "I want them to wear the same style but in different colors to show that they are the same, yet individuals," but that probably strengthened the idea that they are alike. Your second point about the word processor, sometimes there are things that it miss and I try to correct that myself (Sometimes reading over every word three time), but things still slip. Hopefully the meaning is understood. The power thing, yeah I agree, that is one of my biggest problems. I estimate them at high chunin/low jonin, but several of the other genin will be stronger as well as meeting other strong opponents sooner.
Other reviewers, thanks for the compliments, I will try my best to make this story as good as I can.
"Speaking"
Thinking
"Inner self/ Demon talking"
Demon thinking
The Burden of Three
9.Graduation and Trouble
With the words washed off the monument, the three children decided it was time to go to class. Already knowing what was going to be said to them, so they took their time and had a nice conversation.
"Naruto, Hariken, when are you two going to ask Hinata and Hikari out? They are my best friends and I can think of no one better for them other than you two, but if you take forever someone else might get them." Tatsuma said to her brothers as the walked down a nearly deserted street.
Naruto sighed, "Neither of us are sure. I like Hinata and he likes Hikari, but all being with them now would do is make them targets for the villagers hate." He looked to his younger brother for support. It may have been odd for either of them to talk about feelings so freely since they spent a lot of time denying it, but they stopped that about a month prior since they hated keeping some secrets from each other.
"Not to mention that those same villagers would probably say something like 'Those demon brats managed not only to gain control of the heiress of our strongest clan, but also get the one of the last Uchiha too.' That's one headache we all can do without for now," Hariken sadly said.
Their sister nodded her head knowingly, "Then you add the fact that their cousins really don't like you two. I still don't see how you got Neji to dislike you so much Naruto, we only seen him a couple of times where you even talked to him and yet he's as cold to you as Sasuke is to Hariken." Naruto was about to answer her when their younger brother interrupted him.
"It's a gift, the ability to get on the bad side of anyone without trying hard," the youngest blond said while rubbing his knuckles against his jacket with a grin on his face. "Seriously, Neji I think is still upset about that comment Naruto said when we first met him. He insulted their clan head and that could be taken as an offense against the entire clan, also I think he has some feelings for Tenten and he heard Naruto call her Ten-chan that time we ran into them when we saw them walking from a team meeting. We also know you just called her that to mess with Neji." The last part was said with a grin.
The other two laughed at the thought. They all knew that Tenten had a crush on Neji, but they decided not to mess with her about it. That of course didn't stop them from joking about it behind her back. It wasn't anything really bad said about her, instead they talked about how cold Neji seemed and ignorant of the brown haired girl's feelings or his own.
"Well that's possible, but what about you, little brother? As I recall you have to get through an almost unemotional and overprotective cousin whenever you do try to become the boyfriend a certain young female Uchiha." Tatsuma pointed out.
The younger brother just shrugged, "Well it's a challenge and you know that I find challenges fun. She would be worth the trouble if she likes me back though. Speaking of which, does she like me sis?"
Tatsuma just pretended that she didn't hear her and they continued to the academy with Hariken angry that his question was ignored. When they opened the door they were greeted by the frown of Iruka and the passive face of Mizuki seated at the teachers' desk.
"Hey Iruka-sensai, you look upset. I hope none of the others students been too much trouble for you without us here to distract them from your boring lectures." Naruto said with the now trademark Uzumaki grin(can't be a fox grin since they all don't have fox demons). If anything Iruka seemed to get angrier. The three counted down mentally in unison, ...four, three, two, one...
"Naruto, Tatsuma, Hariken you are all over an hour late for class! I would like an explanation now!" The irritated man almost yelled out.
The three blonds all stood in a thinking position with a hand to their chin and their eyes closed. "Hmm...helped an elderly lady with her groceries?" Naruto asked his siblings.
"No, we helped Asuka-obaa-chan with her groceries yesterday. What about delivering kunai to Anko-nee-chan?" Hariken asked.
"Nope, we gave her two weeks worth of kunai and shuriken three days ago. Practice our taijutsu?" Tatsuma asked the others.
"No we had to put that on hold today when the ANBU, jonin, and chunin came looking for us for our adjustments to the Hokages' faces. I mean it's just plain rude of them to spend the last three hours chasing us and not only making us miss out on valuable practice time, but making us late for class." Hariken answered his brother as well as giving the angry Iruka their reason, who was getting angrier by their roundabout way of answering him.
Iruka gritted his teeth as he started to talk. "Okay, since you missed part of the lesson we will have a little quiz on the Henge no Jutsu. Class get in line alphabetically." The brown-haired man finished with a grin as the class groaned.
The Uzumaki's were at the end of the line and two of the three were having a private conversation that the third wasn't in on. So you remember the plan bro? Naruto thought to his brother.
Hariken mentally sighed before replying. You know that if she doesn't kill us that the other might. Even worse they might think that we're perverts. Are you sure that you won't use another form? I really don't feel like getting a beating today.
You worry too much, she won't hurt us...that badly. Sure she'll be angry, but when we explain the reason we thought of it she'll forgive us and so will the others. Naruto tried to comfort his brother.
"I have to agree with the other kit on this one, your sister will be angry for this and so will Rokubi. I'm glad that we can't feel pain in here." Kyuubi decided to add his opinion.
"I agree, it's a good thing the both of you cubs are trained and have our healing ability. If you didn't I'm sure you both would be dead after this stunt, or at least unable to walk for a few months" Shichibi added.
Ye of little faith. Do you really think I'd do something without thinking about the consequences? Naruto mental asked the three.
Do you really want us to answer that?/"Do you really want us to answer that?" Three voices asked Naruto at the same time. Naruto just smiled nervously as Hariken let their sister go ahead of them.
When Hariken went up for his turn he made a silent prayer before he transformed. He then did a perfect henge of Iruka, except he had a couple pieced of tissue in his nostrils.
"Not bad Hariken, almost perfect but I don't have any tissue in my nose." Iruka said as the blond changed back and moved to the wall opposite of the other students. It might have been his imagination, but Iruka though he hear Hariken whisper 'Not yet' as he passed the man.
Naruto was grinning as he walked up to his teacher and Iruka had a bad feeling. Naruto the shouted "Transform" and was engulfed in a big puff of smoke. Instead of a copy of Iruka standing in Naruto's place when some of the smoke cleared was a young blond woman with pigtails that could pass as either the triplets' older sister or an older version of Tatsuma. The only problem was that she was completely naked with just some of the remaining smoke covering her modesty. "Please don't stare Iruka-sensai, I embarrass easily." The girl said in a cute hushed voice followed by a blush. Iruka's face went completely red as blood shot out his nose, Naruto chose that moment to change back and grinned mischievously. "You like that Iruka-sensai? I call that my Oiroke no Jutsu." He began to laugh and was expecting Iruka to yell at him, but Iruka didn't get the chance as he used a tissue to clean the blood. It should be noted that Iruka heard a faint 'Like I said, not yet...' from Hariken's direction.
Naruto didn't have any warning as he was suddenly punched in the side of the jaw and was sent with enough force to fly into Hariken. Everyone else in the room were surprised by the perverted technique, but were a little more surprised by the fact that Naruto seemed to suddenly be thrown into his brother.
"Ow, what the hell hit me." Naruto asked as he held his hand to his aching face and rubbed it to try to reduce the pain.
"I'll give you some hints. She's blond, standing behind you, and about to become an only child." Hariken replied while rubbing his head and feeling the killer intent rolling off his sister.
Naruto paled as he felt the killing intent and slowly turned his head to greet his angry sister. "Hey sis, umm..something wrong?" He nervously asked.
Tatsuma just grabbed both boys by the collars of their jackets and stood them up as she slammed them against the wall, causing a few crack in it as well. "I would like to know which one of you came up with that technique, why you made that technique, and why did you use what looked like an older version of me?" She asked with a deadly tone and the entire classroom was silent.
"Umm..well in all honesty sis, it wasn't really you it was just a female version of me. Didn't you see the whisker marks? There were three on each cheek, Hariken even told me I kept my three when I made the jutsu. So you se..." He didn't finish that sentence as both he and his little brother were picked off their feet by their sister who was holding them by the collar of their jacket, with their full weights still on.
As the class watch these thoughts were going through their minds. -Damn, how strong is she?- -She must really be angry.- -I wouldn't want to be in their sandals.- -They deserve whatever they get for creating such a perverted technique.- -I hope she doesn't hurt them too badly.
What was going through the blond brothers' minds was -We are so screwed.- and a couple of "I told you so."'s were said, as well as -How can she lift us and our weights? Is Rokubi helping her?-
"Naruto, you forget that I am you sister, one of a set of triplets. I am the female version of you two! I suppose that the pigtails on that jutsu was just a random idea, right?" The question from the female Uzumaki appeared to have a threatening edge to it.
"Umm...well buns like Tenten and Anko-nee-chan style didn't look right. Your hairstyle is cute and works we..." Naruto was interrupted again as he was suddenly thrown out of the window on the other side of the room...and they were on the third floor. Most of the students were stunned at what Tatsuma did. The then heard a loud thud and, "Oww... you could have threw me through the door you know, that really hurt." Everyone weren't sure if they should laugh or be concerned when they heard Naruto's response to hitting the ground the way that he did.
Tatsuma then turned her head away from the window and back to her other brother. "Now as for you, for your part in th..." She stopped because instead of her brother she was holding his jacket with a practice dummy wearing it. She dropped the dummy and ran to the window only to see Naruto running away. "Naruto, Hariken, you can't hide from me forever. I'm the best tracker of the three of us and I will find you!" With that last statement she jumped out of the window and started looking for her brothers.
The class just sweat dropped at the whole incident. "Wow, she's angrier than I thought. I guess we better lay low for a while, you alright bro?" The class turned around to see Naruto reaching his hand down to the dummy, but it sudden was surrounded by a puff of smoke and revealed Hariken. "We're lucky she was to angry to think straight, or she would have seen past your henge and my bunshin easily."
The two then looked around at the stunned class, the other students would have thought that the two would have been halfway to out out of the country by now. Iruka had dismissed the rest of the class for lunch and Mizuki went to eat as well, though Hikari and Hinata decided to stay and here what the others were talking about(They are a couple of curious girls). Iruka then asked, "How did you do that and get away from her?"
Hariken answered for them, "Naruto could still move when he was thrown out the window, he just made a bunshin(really a Kage Bunshin, but they won't tell the others that) look like it was running away while I just henged into a dummy to make her think I used Kawarimi(Replacement) no Jutsu. She can usually see through those techniques easy, but when she's that mad she loses a little focus, not to mention she can usually sense where we are." When he saw the blank look he continued, "It's a triplet thing, twins too. It means we have a bond so close that we can pretty much feel each others' presence."
"Well that's interesting Hariken, but would you please explain why you developed such a technique like that?" Iruka said as he now looked a like Hariken's earlier henge.
"You want the short answer or the smart answer?" Naruto asked and Iruka indicated both, thought the first one made him almost fall over. "Simple answer, guys are perverts. We actually looked ups some information while we were bored, one thing said that each ninja village on average for every kunoichi there are at least seven male ninja. Also, males in general have some pervertedness in them after puberty, though personally my brother and I wish that wasn't true. We created that jutsu for two purposes, one is the nude version to distract others, I doubt there's a straight male that wouldn't be distracted by that for at least a few seconds and most females would be distracted because of embarrassment or anger at the sight of that jutsu. That would be all the distraction someone could need. The second purpose is the dressed version, it's for infiltration. After all most look at a book by it's cover and would assume a pretty slender girl that our jutsu produced wouldn't be any harm."
Naruto's explanation impressed the four others in the room(Hariken not included). It was still a perverted jutsu, but it was created to exploit the the reactions in others and the stereotypes some developed about women.
Naruto and Hariken was somewhat supprised by the sound of clapping. "Nice explanation brother, so I changed my mind. I'll just hurt you two instead of killing you." The two turned around to see the slightly less angry Tatsuma standing behind them. "I came back around the 'she looses a little focus' part and decided to let you two say why you made that jutsu. From now on, I don't want you to use that nude version unless there is a very good reason and you better not use either form to get me in trouble. If you don't follow that rule your next beating will be ten times worse, is that clear?" She just got a nod to her brothers and she grabbed them to take them for 'training', Iruka just had enough time to remind them about the graduation exam the next day before they left. Iruka learned a long time ago that it was not wise to contradict an angry young lady and kept his mouth shut about them leaving in the middle of class.
Well this could be a lot worse. Naruto thought to Hariken.
Oh, how could it get worse? He asked, though he felt that he should have kept that thought to himself.
She could either tell the others or find out about the Harem no Jutsu. Naruto replied, but in a few seconds he would wish that he didn't.
Harem no Jutsu? Was the simple question that was asked over the mental link in a feminine voice and caused Naruto to pale again as he would have to tell her about it.
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The next day the three blonds showed up on time for class, though Hariken and Naruto seemed a little sluggish and Tatsuma had a smile on her face. "Well at least she let us off easy, she could have done a lot worse." Hariken said to his brother.
"Oh, and how could it get worse than that twelve hour torture she called training?" Naruto asked, a little frustrated that it took the two of them all night to heal and they were still a little sore.
"I left you alive, didn't involve any of the others, and you both will still be able to have children when you grow up." Their sister said in a singsong tone of voice while counting each reason with her fingers.
They all took their normal seats, Hariken and Naruto sitting on either side of Shino while Tatsuma was with Hinata and Hikari. Iruka soon came in the class room followed by Mizuki and a three other chunin that didn't teach that particular class.
"Well students we now going to begin the graduation examination to determine genin. After a lot of discussion we have created a new way to test students. Those that are in the top twenty percent of the class (9 of the 45 students, I forgot to say the class size before)will have to preform a the Hinge no Jutsu, Kawarimi no Jutsu, and the Bunshin no Jutsu to show that you can accurately do the basics ninja jutsu since you have proven in class that you understand everything we taught you already. The middle sixty percent(27 of the 45) will have to do the same as the first group as well as show your kunai and shuriken throwing ability and show all twelve proper handseals. The last twenty percent will just have an all-out spar with the chunin that Mizuki has selected to prove their skills as genin. I was a little against the final part but Mizuke has convinced me that it would be an accurate test of skills. Also for those nine that have to spar, you can spar with the chunin one-on-one or you can talk to the other students that have to spar as well and form a team of two or three at most against all three." Iruka explained to the class.
The three Uzumaki's all frowned. We know that Mizuki doesn't like us and I recognize those men as some that really hate us, so that means that this was planned to make us fail. Naruto said to his sibling through their link.
Hariken continued from there. Yeah, we are the bottom three thanks to those other teachers and if we didn't have other training there would be noway we could even handle another genin, so of course the chunin would prove to be too strong for us and we would fail.
Tatsuma finished. These three were probably brought here since they could now attack and hurt us without repercussions. Do you guys think we should give them a clue that they are not dealing with pathetic ninja pretenders? When that last thought was shared the three all grinned and began to make a plan.
All the students had to take the test in the next room, it allowed them to have no embarrassment of failing in front ofthe class. Of the forty-two students that took the exam, only twenty-seven were able to pass. That left the blond triplets as the last students to take the exam, a three on three sparing match. The three men that were going to fight the blonds were all grinning as they could now inflict some pain on the 'demons' without fear of the Hokage or the four kunoichi punishing them.
"Umm...Iruka-sensai, would you guys leave? I don't want you two to pass-out from blood loss if I have to use the Oiroke no Jutsu on them." Naruto said to the two men. Iruka readily complied since he didn't want a repeat of the previous day and Mizuki reluctantly left, he had wanted to see the three get hurt and fail. There was an odd thing the two didn't notice, Tatsuma was completely unaffected by what Naruto said when she should have been angry with him.
When the door closed Hariken spoke, "Now that they're gone I guess it should be fair to give you three a chance to surrender before you get hurt." The three men just laughed at the tough guy act that the boy was putting on.
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A few minutes later on the other side of the door, Iruka was staring at the door worried about the blonds. He heard muffled words said and some laughing, but he couldn't hear exactly what was said or determine who said it. He then heard fighting that lasted a few minutes followed by silence. Soon the door opened to reveal the three chunin looking fine, but they were holding three badly beaten unconscious blonds over their shoulders. The three men unceremoniously dropped the blonds into a pile in the center of the floor and looked at a very angry Iruka, a few stunned students that stayed when the others left, and a smirking Mizuki.
"What did you do to them! You were suppose to test their skills, not beat them like this!" Iruka yelled at the three men.
The one closest to Iruka shrugged. "We warned them to surrender, but they refused. They foolishly thought that they could beat us, so we had to prove them wrong. Besides we saw their skills and I'll admit that they are good."
Iruka was still angry. "That's not the point, they are children trying to become genin, you can't fight them as if they are at your level!" He yelled again.
"You really need to calm down. Besides those three aren't children and you should know that better than anyone." One of the other men said and Iruka was now worried that these men might reveal the secret about the three being demon containers to the students in the class.
The last man finished for the other. "Yeah, they're not children." The man was then surrounded by smoke and Naruto appeared in his place. "They are shinobi that were beaten by children." He said with a grin.
Iruka was confused and soon notice that the first man turned into Tatsuma while the second became Hariken. He then looked at the three blond in the center of the floor, only for them to be engulfed in smoke and become the three chunin from before. The brown haired man then placed his hand on his forehead and sighed. Not only did those three manage to beat the chunin, but they also pulled a prank on the remaining class and me at the same time. I should have expected thi... Wait they henged themselves and placed a hinge on the chunin? "Ok, seeing that you three are fine, I guess that mean that you beat them. Care to explain how?"
"It's really simple, these three are easily distracted and we managed to knock them out when Hariken and Tatsuma distracted them." Naruto happily said while leaving out a lot of detail. "Though I will say that these three weren't really impressive, the Hokage sent tougher chunin than them to find us after some of minor pranks. Well either they are weaker than they appear or we got lucky." As he said that he and his siblings thought about what happened.
---Flashback-----
When the door closed Hariken spoke, "Now that they're gone I guess it should be fair to give you three a chance to surrender before you get hurt." The three men just laughed at the tough guy act that the boy was putting on. Hariken just shrugged and looked at his siblings. "Well I gave them a chance, we can't be held responsible now."
The youngest blond then seemed to disappear and suddenly appeared right in front of the man in the middle, he then drove his fist into the taller man's stomach. The chunin bent over in pain as all the air was knocked out of his body and Hariken took that opportunity to do a back flip, which resulted in the man being kicked in the face and fly three yard(3m) backward from the force. Before the man could land on the ground, he felt a foot connect with his face to cause two forms of pain. One was from the impact of the kick on his face and the other came from when the force from the kick drove the back of his head into ground.
The others watch as the blond girl appeared in the air above the falling man and kicked his head into the ground, them follow up with a back flip off the unconscious man's unmoving body. "Damn, these brats are stronger than they appear, we better take care of them before they get us too." One of the men said.
The two men then began to make handseals now that their partner was down, but they were both kicked in the back of the head by the blond boys behind them before they could make their third seal. These kicks sent flying toward Tatsuma, who then did a front flip and had her feet connect with both of the men's heads. As they slammed them face first into the ground, Tatsuma completed her flip by landing on the back of their heads and jumped off just as quickly as she landed. Just as the two were about to get up the were suddenly kicked in their back by the full weight of the Usumaki males. The two men let out a silent scream of pain and had a single thought as they joined their friend in blissful pain-free unconsciousness. Maybe this wasn't such a good idea...
"Well that was easy, that barely took us five minutes and we kept the weights on. They are too easily distracted. We better tell the old man that he needs to get the chunin to train more, either that or those that don't like us are really weak. Oh well, you two up for another prank?" Naruto asked the other blonds. The two in question knew what he was thinking without needing to read his mind.
---End Flashback-----
While the three was going thinking about what happened inside the room Iruka handed them their new hitai-ites, which they the each tied to their right arm. As they walked outside they heard the whispers from the crowd talking about them. Naruto found Choji and told him they should celebrate with a ramen eating contest, to which Hariken and Tatsuma declined. Tatsuma found Hikari and the two left off to talk. That left Hariken alone when noticed some dark purple hair hiding behind a fence, he figured he might as well do something nice for his big brother as he walked over to the fence.
"Hey Hinata, what are you doing over here all alone?" He asked the quiet girl, who let out a small squeak in reply. Hariken laughed a little since the girl's shy nature was well known. "Well you remember me right, Naruto and Tatsuma's little brother. I believe you and I spoke on some occasions."
"Umm...yes, we spoke to one another once or twice." The lavender eyed girl quietly said with a faint blush on her cheeks. She was a shy girl and really blushed when something embarrassing or concerning her crush Naruto was mentioned, but being friends with his sister and Hikari help her a little. One of the main things the two other girls helped her with was getting rid of her stutter, though she still retained her shy quiet nature. Her problem was that she was having a hard time not blushing since Naruto and Hariken looked so much alike, though she could tell the difference between the two easily.
"Well it seems that my brother decided to go celebrate our graduation over some ramen with Choji, what do you say you and I go get some cinnamon rolls and catch up with each other? I know a good place that make some of the best I ever tasted and I remember sis saying that you really liked them too." Hariken asked, he had a feeling that the girl's face might invent a new shade of red since it sounded like a date, but that wasn't what he had in mind.
As if he was a mind-reader, the blond was right about the girl's thoughts. ...is Naruto-kun's brother...is he asking me out? It would be rude not to accept his offer Her face got even redder as she quietly answered, "Umm..I think that would be fine."
The blond smiled and grabbed Hinata by her wrist, which caused the girl to face to almost glow from the redness. "Great, follow me. Don't worry though, this isn't a date or anything. It's more of old friends getting together to talk and celebrate." He reassured the girl, which helped a little.
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Tatsuma was sitting in Hikari's home, eating dango and sipping tea with the girl at the kitchen table. The two had went straight to her home to avoid everyone else celebrating. Makoto was away on a mission and Sasuke was training as usual. Both girls had a lot in common, one of the biggest things they shared was a small tomboy personality. They were still very feminine, liked things that other girls liked, and occasionally treated themselves to things like special lotions or scented shampoo(things that most ninja would probably disagree with, like Kin). Their tomboyish personality came out when training and would also be apparent when on missions, they would rather be treated as equals than some fragile dolls. Tatsuma would always laugh at that thought. Though her brothers felt the need to protect her, she had proved to them that she was just as tough as them. Hikari on the other hand had the overprotective cousin that she loved like a brother, but made her want to strangle him because of his cold attitude outsied of their home and that overprotective nature of his.
"So Hikari, any idea on who will be on our teams? I'm hoping for my brothers to be with me, but if they can't I hope you and Hinata are with me." The blond said to her friend.
The dark haired girl nodded, "I agree, but you know things might not workout how we want them to. Though I wouldn't be surprised if I end up with Sasuke or you being with your brothers, I think that Iruka-sensai and the Hokage might think that family works well together. That would mean that the last of the Uchiha children might be in the same team while the three Uzumaki children form a team."
Tatsuma nodded, she hoped that would be the decision so she wouldn't have to hide her training from her teammates or be hindered with training she probably mastered. "So, any luck with your sharingan? I don't think I ever asked you about yours or Sasuke's," She said. Tatsuma and her siblings knew all about it and they were all worried, especially Naruto, that Hikari or Sasuke would use it to copy one of their family jutsu or one of the jutsu Naruto made.
Hikari placed a finger over her mouth for a second before answering, "Yeah, I wanted to warn you about that. Sasuke activated his about a year ago and has two tomoe in each eye, I just activated mine a couple of weeks ago and just have one in each eye. Sasuke is determined to improve and gain a full sharingan, but I don't think that he's against using it on allies to get stronger jutsu."
Tatsuma frowned a little and thought about what she heard. "No offense, but that was something that I was afraid of. You see we learned our parents' jutsu and Naruto likes to make some, I think you remember that modified henge," the last part was said in a whisper with a little anger mixed in. "We wouldn't mind sharing some with you, but Sasuke doesn't exactly get along with my brothers and I think that Naruto would be a little mad if Sasuke knew any of his jutsu."
"I know what you mean, Mikoto-oba-chan told us that she and several Uchiha once had a moral code that they wouldn't copy any allies jutsu without their permission. She said that it was like stealing from friends since some jutsu are personal." Hikari the took a sip of her tea while looking at the other girl.
"Well I'll Since you decided to share a secret about you and your cousin, do you want to know a secret about my brothers?" Tatsuma asked with a grin, to which she received a nod from the Uchiha girl. "Would you believe that Naruto like Hinata back or that Hariken likes you despite how Sasuke acts toward him? Sadly it might be a few months until they ask you two out, they agreed that they wouldn't until either they change most of the villagers opinions about the three of us or when we go to our first chunin exam."
Hikari was a little stunned when she heard that. Hinata's feelings for Naruto were no secret to them, but Naruto actually returning them was a secret to her. Then she heard that Hariken liked her, she had to admit that he was cute and she had some feelings for the boy, but she never really thought about a relationship with him. As for the villagers odd feeling to them, she never knew what it was, but her aunt did say the the villagers were foolish and unfair in the way they treated the Uzumaki triplets. She thought on that for a few minutes and smirked, if he planned on asking her out near the chunin exams they participate in then so be it, he would just have to pass a test or two in order to do that.
"That's very interesting, I think that he is one of the nicer boys around that don't care about the Uchiha name. I think that he will have to do a couple of things before he can try, " Hikari paused for a second to think. "One could be that he has to beat Sasuke in a fight of some kind since he would be against anyone weak being with me and the other would probably be to get far in the chunin exams whenever he takes them. For all we know we could all be on different teams and might have to take the exam at different times and since he's your brother you could tell him that for me when he takes the exam, if you don't mind?"
The two girls continued to talk until it was dark outside, which was when Tatsuma left. She would soon find some trouble that she wasn't looking for...
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Naruto and Hinata arrived at a small outdoor shop not long after they left the academy(so the same time as Hikari and Tatsuma's talk). It was one of the few places that didn't care about the demons that the three blonds carried and treated them nicely. Though they all liked ramen, they each had their own favorite food. Naruto had a taste for fresh fruit, so he was glad that he had some grew fruits and vegetables in one of his gardens. Tatsuma had developed Anko's taste for dango. Hariken had a simple item he favored, cinnamon rolls. When Hariken and Tatsuma found the place, they would spend as much time there as they all spent at Ichiraku since it served their other favorite foods. Even Naruto would join them when the owner added fruit salads to the menu.
The two were seated as soon as they got there and were given a couple plates of cinnamon rolls with some fresh tea since the owner knew Hariken's usual order and the boy motioned for a second of his usual. As they ate Hariken decided to get straight to the point. "Well Hinata, I said that this isn't a date, but there is a reason that I asked you to join me other than to celebrate. Now I want you to listen to everything I say and try not to react too much, Tatsuma told me that sometimes your reactions are a little...extreme." He laughed a little and received a timid nod from the girl, he continued, "Well to tell you the truth, I know that you have feelings for my brother and so does he." Hinata eyes widened when he said that fought to contain her blush. "He really does like you and want to try dating you, but there are many that don't like us and I think that includes your father. Naruto doesn't want those that don't like us to bother you or cause your relationship with your father to get worse. The three of us are trying to get more people to in the village to like us before he tries to ask you out, though I have a feeling that it's getting harder for him to do that."
Hinata had several different thoughts going though her head when Hariken finished. Naruto-kun knows that I like him and he likes me too. He really does care for me and want to be with me but can't yet. That was what she kept thinking until she saw Hariken's brother staring at her, which increased the blush she was wearing since he told her that his brother likes her. "Umm...thank you for telling me Huriken-kun, I think that I can wait for Naruto-kun to make his decision." the girl almost whispered.
Hariken smiled and the two decided to talk some more, he suggest that if she can talk to him easier then she might be have an easier time talking to Naruto in the future. When the two finally finished talking it was already dark out, so Hariken paid for their food and offered to walk Hinata home. As they walked through the almost deserted street Hariken suddenly grabbed Hinata and jumped back as several kunai and shuriken suddenly embedded themselves in the ground where the two were just standing. Not long after, several of Konoha's ninja appeared in front of them.
"Hmm...you can't be assassins since it's not their style to attack any of us in plain view with witnesses around, so would you care to tell me the reason there are four chunin and two jonin trying to kill me?" Hariken said in an almost bored and angry tone, like having his life in danger was more of an announce instead of something new.
One of the chunin decided to answer him. "Quit playing you stupid fox-brat, we know that you stole the forbidden scroll from the Hokage's office twenty minutes ago. Tell us where you hid it and we will let Hokage-sama punish you instead of doing it ourselves."
"Oh no, someone help me. These chunin and jonin are trying to kill me, an unarmed resent academy graduate." Hariken said with no form of enthusiasm behind his words. "Now that I got that out of the way, there are four things wrong with what you said. One, you said twenty minutes ago, but I have at least six people that can tell you where I was. Two, you said fox-brat which means you have me mixed up with Naruto since that's what I hear most adults call him, I'm Huriken the younger brother and you have no idea how annoying it is so be mixed up for him so often. Three, you said playing stupid when I honestly had no idea why you are after me, now I do. Four, Naruto would never steal the forbidden scroll, he has no reason to do that and even if he did I would know about it." He finished while positioning Hinata behind him and whispered to her. "Hinata, go home as fast as you can, I'll find out what this is about and Tatsume can explain it to you later."
Hinata wanted to stay to help and find out about everything that was said, but she decided to listen to the blond. The strange way he talked made it seem as if he had everything in control or been in a similar situation. Once she was gone the ninja began to close in on him since they didn't have to worry about harming the Hyuga heiress. Hariken was beginning to wish that he still had his weapon, but he had assumed he wouldn't need them for a couple days. He suddenly felt something in the back of his mind and smirked. There was a sudden explosion behind the group of ninja that attracted their attention and when they turned back to the blond he was gone.
Hariken was running across the roof with his siblings right after they caused a distraction for his escape. "Let me guess, you were with the others and several ninja appeared to accuse you of stealing the forbidden scroll?" He asked them and received a nod as the continued to move from roof to roof toward the forests of the village. "What sense does that make? The old man knows that we have a copy in our library and of all people it would have been Tatsuma, she's our infiltration and reconnaissance expert. Even if it was you, you have more than enough skill to get in and out without being seen Naruto."
"Simple bro, I was setup and you two are going down with me. Someone must have henged into me, stole the scroll, and made sure to be seen so that the 'demons' take the blame. Sis, you have the best nose and the person would most likely hid in the forests then try to escape, do you think you can detect any new scents?" Naruto asked.
She nodded as they entered the forest. They spent all spent a lot of time in the forests and knew each and every smell in it thanks to their senses. They could also tell if there was a new scent in the forests if they were downwind, but Tatsuma's senses were so sharp that she could detect scents twice as fast as her brothers. Not long after that she picked up a few scents.
"I smell something like old paper, must the scroll. Also I smell Mizuki-sensai, Iruka-sensai, and two other scents that I don't recognize with Mizuki-sensai and Iruka-sensai. I don't know about those two other people, but I have a bad feeling about th...I smell blood now, you two should be able to detect it in a second."
The three hurried trough the forest and soon found a shed with Iruka leaning against it, kunai stuck in various places on his body. Standing in front of Iruka were...themselves with the forbidden scroll sitting behind them as they laughed at Iruka, a cruel laugh that didn't fit an Uzumaki.
Iruka looked at the 'triplets' in disbelief. "But why..why did you do it? You three just became genin..." Iruka weakly asked.
The three just laughed more. "You ask why Iruka-sensai. It's simple, we are monsters that crave power. Power to destroy this village and achieve our dream. You of all people know how cruel we were back before we were sealed in these weak bodies," 'Naruto' said.
Iruka tried to fight back the pain of the thought that the children he knew was nothing but demons in disguise. "No that's not true! The Naruto I know cares about this village just like his sibling, they all care about those that care for them, and their dream isn't to gain power to destroy. The Uzumaki's that I know want to work hard together to gain power to protect everyone that they care about, Naruto wants to achieve his dream of becoming Hokage to gain acknowledgment and protect those that live in his village with the help of Hariken and Tatsuma. The Uzumaki's that I know is not monsters! They are Konohagakure no Sato shinobi! They are Uzumaki Naruto, Tatsuma, and Hariken, my former students and our future leaders. Most importantly, you are not them!" Iruka finished. His speech had tears coming to the triplets' eyes, but the doubles in front of him just laughed some more.
"Think whatever you want Iruka-sensai, you will be dead s..." 'Naruto' never finished his sentence as he was suddenly punched by the real Naruto and thrown into the other two. The three rolled on the ground for a few seconds and stood up once they stopped, but the henge they were wearing disappeared. In the place of the fake triplets stood Mizuki and two men that appeared to be chunin of Leaf too.
"You know Mizuki, it's not nice to mess with the reputations of others by pretending to be them. You have any idea how much of a headache it is to get away from strong ninja when I didn't have an escape plan or my siblings help?" Naruto said to his former sensai as his siblings moved to his side.
"Yeah, thanks to you Hinata and I were almost stabbed by shuriken and kunai." Hariken added.
"Yeah he and Hin...wait, what were you doing with Hinata?" Naruto asked his brother with a bit of anger in his voice and his chakra raising a little.
Hariken put his hand up in defense, "Calm down bro, we just talked over tea and cinnamon rolls. I figured that I should get to know her better since she is one of our sister's best friends." You know you have nothing to worry about, I have my eye on someone else. He finished mentally to Naruto, who calmed down a little as the two noticed everyone staring at them. "Umm..anyway that was a nice speech Iruka-sensai, it really brought tears to our eyes. Now let's deal with these guys."
"Wait, how about we share a secret with you? Tell you the reason why you three are so hated by the village?" Mizuki offered them while grinning.
Iruka was about to try to stop him, but Tatsuma beat him to it. "If you're talking about the demons, save you're breath. We learned about them when we were five and they are pretty okay when they're in a good mood." The adults were shocked by that revelation. "We also know that we are not them, though we wish we were as strong as they are."
Mizuki suddenly yelled, "I really don't care. I'll kill the three of you before I kill Iruka, then I'm leaving this village with the scroll." Mizuki yelled as he took the two fuuma shuriken off his back(he only threw one when trying to hit Naruto, so he still has both) and prepared to throw them and the two men at his side both pulled out some normal shuriken.
The three men released their projectiles and they went right at the three blonds, but the three didn't stand still. Tatsuma went through a couple handseals in the blink of an eye and the wind started to shift faster. Soon a small tornado appeared around the three and the shuriken were captured in the wind. When the wind died down, all the weapons were at Hariken's feet.
"Do you like it? Naruto created it, the name is Futon: Senpuu no Tate(Wind Release: Whirlwind Shield). It creates a whirlwind around the the user that can block almost anything thrown at it. It's very effective with projectile weapons, fire based jutsu, and other wind based jutsu. One of the useful jutsu that Naruto made." Tatsuma explained. The fact that Naruto created something that could be a C-level or even a B-level jutsu surprised the adults further, but the blond boys were about to really shock them.
"Well bro, I'll aim if you multiply them." Hariken said to Naruto, who nodded. Hariken then made the seal for one of their favorite jutsu and said "Kage Bunshin no Jutsu", which caused two solid copies of him to be created. Each one of the copies picked up the discarded shuriken while the original picked up the two fuuma shuriken. They then threw them with the accuracy and speed of a jonin.
As the three men prepared to dodge the weapons, they failed to notice Naruto making the same seal as his brother did, but they did hear what he said and they were worried. "Shuriken Kage Bunshin no Jutsu" Then all the shuriken multiplied and struck the men.
The two fuuma shuriken became six and effectively pinned the men arms to the threes behind them, the shuriken trapped them so well that if the men flinched they would either slit their wrists or cut off their hands. The sixteen shuriken the clones threw (the men used four per hand and the three didn't have their own) were now sixty-four, sixty-three pinned the sleeves of the men's jackets and pants legs to the tree with the last one slashing the side of the cloth for Mizuki's hitai-ite, then embedded itself next to his head as his headband fell to the ground.
"You don't deserve to wear the symbol of Leaf Mizuki and be glad we're not monsters like you claimed we are, because if we were you three would be dead." Hariken said as he and his older siblings ran up to the three and knocked them out with a single punch, then grabbed the hitai-ites the three ex-Leaf shinobi.
Iruka was stunned into silence by what he witnessed. Tatsuma then picked up the forbidden scroll and placed it on her back as her brothers placed themselves on either side of Iruka and placed one of his arms over their shoulders to form a pair of human crutches for him. What they didn't know was that they were all being watched by the Hokage through his crystal ball.
These three are said to be the bottom of the class and yet they were able to beat a total of six chunin level ninja in a day. Also Naruto created another jutsu other than that Oiroke no Jutsu.. He paused and blushed a little under his hat as he remembered seeing the jutsu when he decided to check on the three the previous day. ...they know Kage Bunshin and Shuriken Kage Bunshin. I will have to make sure that they are on the same team since they obviously work best together, but the problem is who will I have instruct them? This will take a lot of thinking.
That's the end of this chapter.
A/N: Well I hope you enjoyed this chapter, the part with Hariken and Naruto's love life was just to officially say it in the story, as well as show a small rivalry. Naruto and Neji don't get along, despite they only see each other on a couple of occasions. Hariken and Sasuke don't get along, though his problem with Naruto is mainly due to being Hariken's brother. I thought it would be funny that the Uzumaki brothers would have feeling for a couple of girls, but have a bit of a rivalry of some kind with their cousins. Also I decided to have Naruto knowing about Hinata's crush, but wanting to wait so she doesn't get involved with the village opinion of him and having it directed at her as well. Hariken feels the same, but unlike Naruto he doesn't know she likes him back and Tatsuma isn't telling him.
I know the fights were short, but possible with surprise and short bursts of speed(it was just speed and strength used to preform the attacks in the first fight scene). I altered the theft of the forbidden scroll so that it was just Mizuki using a henge to incriminate Naruto. The two men were just some guys that he got to help him escape, but had them henge into the other two Uzumaki's to taunt Iruka.
The part with Hariken and Hinata was a random thought. I was going to have them go look for Kurenai and the others to celebrate, but I decided not to have them involved and to separate the three. I wanted to have Tatsuma talk to one of the girls instead of both, while having one of her brothers talk to the other. So if she talked to Hinata then it would be Naruto talking to Hikari. The short part about Naruto's question about Hariken and Hinata was impossible for me not to include.
The scene after the Oiroke no Jutsu I thought would be a funny response to it. It is really a older female form, considering that the henge is about the height of an adult and far more developed than someone in their early teens/preteens. It could be assumed that Tatsuma will look like that when she's around 16, also the reason that she was so angry about the jutsu. I also wanted to point out that it is foolish to anger an Uzumaki, even for family.
The forbidden scroll copy, I made it so that it would seem that the Yondaime would make a back up in a secure place if something happened to the one in the tower. Also, I said they mastered all of their parent's jutsu, not the scroll so there could be any number of jutsu in there they either don't know or haven't mastered yet.
Decided to change the exam and split it into parts to show some of the triplets skills while having the others not have to display much of theirs. If you haven't figured it out, the Rookie 9 are now the Rookie Dozen and I gave away the team setup in this chapter while I'll keep the other two the same. The instructors will be shown in the next chapter, though it is a little different than my original plan. Also I'm not sure how long I'll keep ending the chapters with the Hokage's thoughts or if other chapters will be this long.
As for my other story, it will be at least another week before I update.
