AN: This is the start to the second part of this bad boy! Depending on what I think makes the most sense it'll follow different characters around maybe, we'll all find out together!
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"They should be here soon" Iruka took up his position for the surprise party.
It'd taken a bit of work to arrange, but with Mizuki's help he could sneak off before the academy graduation entirely wrapped up. The final exams had run late this year so it was already getting dark out. It only got darker as they all continued to wait.
"How long does it take to graduate school" Rōzu was the first to get impatient.
"It is a right of passage for all ninja!"
"Itachi how long was your graduation?"
"Five minutes or so."
"He was a special case!"
"Kakashi?"
"Yeah five minutes sounds about right."
"I'm sorry not all the kids get the special 'You're ninja geniuses and graduated at the age of five' ceremony."
"Everyone shut up" Mikoto shushed them, they could hear footsteps coming to the door.
Everyone braced for the surprise. Iruka's hands were itching to fire off the party poppers he held. As the door swung open they all leapt out.
"The scrol-" Mizuki had barreled into the dark room looking for them all for help.
"CONGRATS!" the lights flicked on and they all showered him in surprise party confections.
There was a few moments of silence that followed that. Mizuki was too dazed from being popped in the face to say anything else, and they all were surveying the party poppers they'd just wasted.
"The scroll?" Iruka had heard him mention that before the surprise.
"Yeah the scroll!" Mizuki recovered enough to speak. "As in the scroll of seals! It's been stolen!"
"What? By who!"
"Naruto and Sasuke!"
"WHAT" the two mothers of the boys were now on Mizuki. "WHY!"
"No one knows!" he yelled this while they violently shook him. "Need help finding them!"
"You two drop him" Kakashi headed for the door. "I'll head to the seals chamber and go from there you all fan out and look for them."
They all split off, Iruka headed to the academy first. There were no signs of them there so he continued looking. He was pretty sure they would still be within the village, so he tried to think of secluded places they could be hidden at. Coming up with a few he set off to check them all. Reaching the last place he let out a sigh of relief seeing them both. How they knew about him and Mizuki's old hideout escaped him.
"Aw crap" Naruto noticed him first. "But we only got to learn one technique."
"What?" Iruka looked at the scroll and then back at them. "You two, stole it to learn a jutsu in it?"
"Yeah Mizuki said it was tradition!" Sasuke put the scroll on Naruto's back. "The rookie of the year tries to learn as many jutsu off this as possible before getting caught."
"What."
"Tradition!"
"Mizuki told you that?"
"Yep!" the two said this in unison.
"And since we were tied for it, whoever could learn more was gonna be the official one!" Naruto grinned at him. "But uh, the only jutsu we could learn needs us both, so we're still tied!"
"You two" he pointed from them both and then to the scroll. "Learned a jutsu, from the forbidden scroll of seals."
"Yep!"
Iruka was floored by that news. They couldn't have had the scroll for more than a few hours, but managed to learn one technique off it. Ignoring how illegal this was, it was also impressive. Hearing movement in the trees he looked over.
"Damn, you are fast" Mizuki gave him an annoyed look. The kunai meant for Naruto and Sasuke had been deflected. "But come on you two, let me at that scroll pretty please."
"Both of you, take the scroll and leave" Iruka tightened his grip on a kunai.
"This seems like it's getting uh" Naruto started slowly moving to the edge of the field. "Kind of out of hand."
"Yeah" Sasuke was moving with him. "I think we should all just head home."
"What nah, where's the fun in that?" Mizuki tossed some shuriken to cut them off. "We've got loads of scrolls to give to me, fun gossip to talk about, pointy things to fling at each other."
Not wanting most of those things to happen, Iruka kicked into gear. Leaping up at Mizuki and slashing with a kunai. His slash was blocked by another kunai, the other man smirked at him.
"You sure have gotten strong, just ask anybody" with a surge of force Mizuki shoved him back to the ground. "Course, you aren't the only one who can get stronger. Some of us just prefer to keep it on the down low."
"Oh shut the hell up" Iruka watched the explosive he'd set go off. Knowing it probably hadn't taken Mizuki out he pushed the two boys out of the clearing. "Get back to the village, find Kakashi or either of your moms."
"But" Naruto tried to protest.
"Go!" Iruka gave them both a harder shove and turned to block an attack.
With the kids on their way out Iruka focused on keeping Mizuki held back. They were more evenly matched than he liked. All the times they'd sparred or worked together he'd been holding back, how long had he been planning this? They clashed over and over, knocking each other back. Even if he couldn't just win with raw power, Iruka felt confident Mizuki couldn't take him down. That smirk of his didn't put his mind at ease though.
"Oh come on" Mizuki gave him a bored look. "At least try and enjoy fighting me."
"Why would I! We're friends! We've been friends for years! Why the hell are you doing this!"
"Simple, I want to. This village sucks, so I'm going to take the scroll and go do whatever I want forever. Starting with beating your ass, because newsflash, I hate you."
Iruka was actually very hurt by that. Sure Mizuki had been annoying every now and again, but they were friends. He even considered him to be his best friend, given his other best friends were also dating him. Pushing down those feelings, he leapt at him once again. As he landed where Mizuki was moments ago he was too distracted to see the trap before it was too late. The explosive tags he'd stuck to the tree while talking all went off blasting Iruka back and through another tree.
"Thanks for that idea by the way" Mizuki came down to gloat at him. "Next time instead of talking about being my friend or whatever, maybe check for explosives."
"Fuck off" Iruka managed to say that through the pain.
"GET THE HELL AWAY FROM HIM!" Naruto and Sasuke had come back at the sound of the explosion.
"Man being the bad guy is the easiest" he grinned up at them, his leg swung back ready to kick Iruka. "Or else what?"
Mizuki easily avoided the kunai thrown at his head by leaning to the side. His grin grew wider as the two held hands.
"Aw that's so sweet" he kicked Iruka and knocked him back. "I'll be sure to tell everyone how cute this lo-"
He was cut off by the two of them vanishing. Before he could turn around Sasuke swung Naruto into him, knocking him away from the force of the hit. From his position Iruka could see what happened, in a flash of yellow and black the two had appeared right behind him.
"I have to admit" Mizuki wiped some blood from his chin. "You two sure are fast. Guess I should expect this from the latest Uchiha prodigy and a demon like you."
"Demon?" Naruto hesitated hearing that.
"Aw you didn't know? The Kyuubi that attacked the village when you were born?"
"Mizuki" Iruka really didn't want this to be the way Naruto found out. "Shut the hell up."
"The one that killed your parents, killed Iruka's parents, that demon. The Fourth Hokage, as great as he was, couldn't kill it, so he trapped it, trapped you. You're a demon Naruto."
There was silence in the clearing. Iruka clenched his fists and tried to get to his feet, his body was still in too much pain for him to get up.
"Is that different from the nine-tails?" Naruto spoke up finally, asking a strange question.
"Uh, well, no it's just another name for it."
"Oh, I already knew that."
"What?"
"Yeah my mom told me."
"Well uh, what about Sasuke, did you know that?"
"Yeah Naruto told me."
"Well hm, I really felt like this would have a lot more shock value."
"Also I'm not actually the nine-tails it's just sealed in me, like my other mom!"
"Ok again, didn't really expect you to know about any of this" Mizuki pulled out a notecard. "So I'm gonna just be ditching this whole plan and attack you if that's cool."
"Yeah fine with me" Sasuke picked the kunai up from the ground.
"Yep!"
"Cool cool" Mizuki pulled out a kunai of his own.
Iruka watched in a stunned silence. They'd mentioned learning a technique from the scroll, but seeing Naruto and Sasuke teleport was not something he expected to ever see. Sasuke would throw the kunai and then grab as they teleported, Naruto would either throw out an attack or be swung at Mizuki. To his credit, even against this technique Mizuki was holding his own. He began throwing attacks at both where they were and towards the kunai while he dodged away. Naruto got hit by one of these, getting a cut across his side.
"Just give me the scroll already" Mizuki had the upper hand and knew it. "And then we can all go on our merry ways."
"No wa-"
"Fine" Sasuke grabbed the scroll, Naruto grabbed onto it as well.
"No way! He's a jerk!"
"We gotta get Iruka to a doctor! Come on just let me throw it to him."
"No!"
"Yes!"
After some struggling Sasuke got the scroll loose of Naruto's hands. Hand tossed it at Mizuki.
"Thank you ve-" his gloating was cut off by them teleporting to the scroll, the two slammed their palms into his gut before teleporting back to the kunai.
"As if idiot" Sasuke stuck his tongue out at him.
"Well, now I'm really fucking mad" Mizuki pulled out a larger shurkien.
Before he could hurl it the two teleported by him again, and again, and again. Iruka had no idea what was happening now, but they were just freely teleporting all around him. Each time delivering hits before he could react. By the time they stopped he looked worse than Iruka.
"Well, it wasn't a tradition before" he was still not sure how to process what they'd done today. "And it won't ever become one in the future, but you two did something really incredible today."
"Well of course!" Naruto threw him a thumbs up.
"Yeah, who do you think we are!" Sasuke threw one as well.
"Hopefully two kids who can help get me to a hospital."
One rather painful trip to a hospital later and Iruka was feeling a little better. A few ANBU had shown up to take the scroll back and scold the two kids. Given what they'd done he was glad they let them off easy. As the news spread of what had happened the other members of the surprise party members trickled into the hospital.
"WHY WOULD YOU" Rōzu was shaking Naruto. "EVER THINK THAT WAS GOOD IDEA?"
"MIZUKI TOLD ME TO DO IT!"
"AND YOU DIDN'T THINK IT WAS SUSPICIOUS HE ASKED YOU TO ROB THE HOKAGE?"
"I MEAN A LITTLE!"
"I think you can let up on him" Iruka felt a little bad seeing this. "The two of them did save my life."
"And who's fault was it you got blown up by Mizuki?"
"Now, I know the point you're trying to make, but it is Mizuki's fault."
"Fine, Naruto, break as many laws as you want."
"No!"
"Mom said it so no backsies!"
Sasuke was staring at the door, Itachi and Mikoto hadn't shown up yet. Given what Naruto had just gotten, he was sure Sasuke would be in for something similar. As the doorknob turned Iruka saw him visibly tense up.
"Yo" the tension faded as Kakashi stood in the doorway.
"SASUKE" it then returned all at once as Mikoto barreled past him into the room.
The various scoldings all eventually ended, something everyone was thankful for. With that out of the way everyone remembered why they'd been gathered in a dark room hours beforehand.
"So how does it feel to join the ranks of child soldiers" Rōzu ruffled Naruto's hair.
"Please don't call it that" Iruka felt very bad every time he heard that.
"It's awesome! Me and Sasuke learned a new move and beat up a teacher!"
"See he loves being a child soldier! What new move did you learn?"
"We can show you!" Sasuke pulled out a kunai and went over to Naruto.
Everyone watched as the both held it for a moment and then threw it across the room.
"Aw their holding hands" Rōzu tried to take a picture of this, only for them to teleport exactly as they clicked the camera button.
"Well, that's not something you see everyday" Kakashi seemed the least surprised by this.
"What else would you expect from us!" Naruto said this while trying to strike a cool pose.
"Yeah, we're the rookies of the year!" Sasuke struck a similar pose.
After a while the hospital staff ended the party. He'd be kept there overnight but would probably just be released the next day, which was good since he now had to handle the last day of class alone.
