Author's Note – The powerset used is taken from the Chicago Sentinels series by Marion G Harmon.
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The Speedster
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Naruto looked round at the class he was stood with. He had managed to be enrolled into the Academy two years early after pleading with the Old Man, who had acquiesced for reasons that he still didn't understand.
"Morino Idate and Uzumaki Naruto!"
Naruto stepped into the sparring ring and turned to face his adversary. Idate was one of the few who didn't look down on the six-year-old Naruto, although he wasn't friendly either. He simply preferred to ignore the younger boy.
The two of them bowed to each other, then Idate dropped into one of his clan's primary stances. From what Naruto had heard, the Morino clan used three different styles, one speed-based, one strength-based and one based on deception. Idate had learned the first and Naruto got into his own stance, causing the assembled class to laugh.
Naruto growled, his eyes narrowed in concentration. He needed to get faster. He needed to get faster.
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The seal that held the Kyuubi was a masterpiece of improvisation and adaptation. The seal allowed small portions of Youki through, blending it into Naruto's own chakra in a way that boosted Naruto's own chakra reserves to Kage level even at the age of seven.
However, there was a tiny imperfection in the seal. A single line was a hairsbreadth to the left of where it should have been.
Normally this would not have mattered, but the line was at a critical juncture and the slight error allowed some of the Youki through where it should not have been.
However, the slight flaw altered the flow of the Youki as it passed through, changing it into something else.
Something that no-one had seen before.
Something that no-one even knew existed.
Something… that changed everything.
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Naruto hit the ground and rolled to his feet. Although his ribs hurt from the kick, he was still within the circle (if only barely) and so he could still fight. Clenching his fists, Naruto scowled at Idate. His opponant was fast and he needed to be faster.
Idate launched another attack, but even as he did so, he seemed to slow down. Naruto dived to the right and sprang to his feet, only to gape at the sight of Idate hanging motionless in the air.
"What…?"
Looking round, Naruto realised that he was the only one moving, although he could feel something, a kind of pressure that wasn't actually a pressure as if something was trying to move but he'd stopped it.
Closing his eyes, Naruto examined the new sensation, then he slightly released his grip on whatever it was, letting it flow slowly. Opening his eyes again, he saw Idate drifting forwards. Reaching out, he grabbed Idate's ankle and pulled, turning to throw Idate out of the ring before letting the flow snap back to normal.
"Uzumaki!" The teacher screamed as Idate impacted on the ground outside the ring. "Ten laps of the field for cheating!"
Naruto glared at the chunin, but didn't bother to reply. The teacher was one of the ones who hated him for a reason that he'd never been told. With a sigh, he turned and started running, part of his mind busy thinking about what he had done.
Whatever it was, it had been awesome and he really needed to learn to control it.
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Naruto grinned as he moved through the frozen timelessness, ducking past several shinobi as he moved into the Shinobi Library. Walking up and down between the shelves, his eyes lit on a book titled "Chakra-Control Exercises". Looking round, he groaned at the sight of a librarian-nin at the end of the aisle, one who happened to be looking almost at him.
He had experimented over the previous year and found that when in the frozen moment, the only things he could move were whatever he had been touching while entering the no-time state, and even those would suddenly become immobile if he released them.
On the plus side, he had used it to build a ladder of sticks once, using them to gain access to the Uchiha compound for one of his pranks. Of course, as soon as he had dropped out of no-time, the rungs 'ladder' had dropped with a loud clatter that had attracted quite a bit of attention.
Naruto looked round again. The Library-nin was one of the ones who disliked him, revealing himself by dropping back into real-time would get him in trouble…
…unless…
Naruto placed his hands in the ram seal and focused his chakra.
"Henge!"
The chakra smoke engulfed him for an instant and then he was wearing the shape of a ninja that he had seen around town, a masked grey-haired ninja with one eye. Nodding, he positioned his hand ready and slipped back into realtime just long enough to take the book before jumping back into no-time and releasing the Henge.
Looking round, he suddenly cursed. The ninja he had copied had stepped round the end of the shelves during the brief second that he had been moving and his eye was wide open. Pocketing the book, Naruto quickly ran out of the library and back to his apartment, using Henge once again to turn into a snake to slither through a small hole that he had made just for that reason. Once inside and safe from any observers, Naruto slowly re-synced with real-time and hid the book on the small shelf he had attached underneath the table. He'd return it once he'd copied it, he wasn't a thief, after all.
"Okay." He smiled. "Mission success, Ramen time!"
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"Heya Jiji!"
"Naruto!" Hiruzen smiled as his favourite orphan bounced through the door, ignoring the squawking of his secretary. "Did you want something?"
"Yeah." Naruto admitted. "I got my hands on a piece of chakra paper and I have a wind affinity. I also have a crapton of chakra, too much for Bunshins, I keep overloading them somewhat fierce. Is there such a thing as an air Bunshin? I heard that elemental Bunshin use more chakra and…"
Naruto tailed off with a shrug and Hiruzen looked at the just-turned-eight boy.
"Well, there may be something that you can use." He finally said. "If you wait, I'll teach it to you after I've finished."
"Thanks, Jiji!" Naruto laughed, hugging the Hokage, then he looked round. "Um, do you mind if I practice my chakra control?"
"Go ahead." Hiruzen shrugged as he sat back down and reached for the next sheet of paper, then he froze as Naruto ran up the wall and onto the ceiling. "Naruto… how?"
"I push Chakra through my feet." Naruto shrugged, misunderstanding the question and Hiruzen sighed.
"Can you do water-walking yet?"
"Still working on it." Naruto admitted and Hiruzen waved to the window.
"There's a pond outside. Practise water-walking there until I join you."
"Sure, Jiji!" Naruto shouted as he ran along the ceiling to the window, swinging himself out so that he could run down the outside of the tower.
"Well." Hiruzen finally managed. "That was… unexpected."
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Hiruzen stared at the sea of orange-clad blondes in amazement. It had taken Naruto under an hour to create his first Kage Bunshin under Hiruzen's careful tutelage, then Naruto had decided to see how many he could make.
"Well done, Naruto." Hiruzen smiled, then he turned stern. "However, you must not dispel them too quickly or their memories will overwhelm you. At best, you will be disoriented, at worst, the influx of memories could kill you."
"What do you mean, Jiji? What memories?" One of the Naruto's asked and Hiruzen sighed.
"I need one of the clones to come with me, please."
One Naruto stepped forwards and Hiruzen led him to one side. His hands flashed through a quick sequence of hand-seals before he whispered something to the clone, then he struck it, turning it into a brief cloud of chakra smoke.
The assembled Naruto's blinked as what Hiruzen had told the clone suddenly appeared in their memories, then they laughed.
"Yeah, we'll have that hat soon!" They all chorused. "Believe it!"
"Ah, but do you understand what this means?" Hiruzen smiled. "If you all practice your water-walking, once you all dispel, the original you will gain all that experience."
Only Hiruzen's combat-trained reflexes allowed him to dodge the sudden stampede towards the pond.
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Naruto growled under his breath as he sprinted along the Konohagakure Wall against the darkening sky. Although the Kage Bunshin was a great technique, the clones couldn't speed like he could. They were stuck at normal speed, which meant that he had to train to become faster without using his special skill.
Naruto stumbled as he heard a cry of pain coming from the Uchiha district. Reflexively speeding into no-time, he ran to the nearest ladder and climbed down. Upon reaching the base of the ladder (which had led into one of the Uchiha parks), Naruto strolled through the frozen time, pausing at the sight of a masked figure thrusting a sword at one of the less-than-pleasant military police. Walking up to the frozen cloaked man, Naruto carefully clambered up him and peered through the mask's eyehole.
"That is a weird eye." He finally muttered to himself, dropping back down to the ground.
Continuing his walk, he stepped through the open door of the Clan-Head's house and his eyes widened at the sight before him. A crying Itachi stood behind his mother, his sword paused as he started to swing it towards her neck. To one side, Uchiha Fugaku lay, his head seperated from his body.
"Holy fuck!" He whispered, then he quickly moved to grab Mikoto's kimono before closing his eyes. Focusing inwards, he quickly dropped slightly into real-time, then back into no-time as fast as he could, pulling Mikoto with him. Opening his eyes, he breathed a sigh of releif at seeing Itachi's sword was still a finger-width away from Mikoto's neck.
"What the…?"
"What's going on?" Naruto asked quickly. "There's a masked man with a three-point eye out there, did he do something to Itachi-san?"
Mikoto stared at him, then turned to stare at her son. "What… how…?"
Naruto sighed. "It's my special power, I can go fast and stop time. As long as I'm touching you, you're here in no-time with me. Come on, let's see if you know the cloaked man."
Mokiti slowly rose to her feet while Naruto transferred his grip from her kimono to her hand. Leading her out of the room, he walked to where the masked man was pulling his sword out of the dying Uchiha.
Mikoto looked at him, then with Naruto in tow, walked around him before peering into the mask's eye-hole.
"That… that's a Mangekyo Sharingan!" She gasped. "But… I don't recognise the shape… He's an Uchiha, but not one from Konoha…"
"What do we do?" Naruto asked and Mikoto frowned in thought.
"If another village has an offshoot of the Uchiha… We need to save the clan… the children first. We need to hide them… but where?"
"I'm the only one in the apartment block I live at." Naruto offered. "But… I don't know if I can save everyone…"
"Children and their parents first." Mikoto decided.
"Okay." Naruto said, his face setting with determination. "Come on, I'll drop you outside my apartment with a key, then I'll start bringing the others."
"Find my son as well." Mikoto begged. "He was training, I don't know where he is…"
"I'll look out for him." Naruto promised. "Now come on!"
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Itachi swung his sword in a perfect arc… and his mother vanished just before the blade could strike. Caught by surprise, Itachi staggered forwards and looked round, then thought through what had happened. His mother had been kneeling, ready to die, then there's been a blur… orange? that had lasted less than a hearbeat and vanished, along with Mikoto.
"What…" He whispered, then blinked as a high-speed staccato series of bangs echoed through the compound, bangs that sounded like doors being thrown open with great force. Running out, he looked round, quickly spotting Madara standing still, his body language showing his confusion.
"Madara!" He called out. "What happened?"
Madara looked round and his gaze settled on a scared child standing in a doorway, a child that suddenly vanished with a flicker of orange.
"I… don't know." He finally admitted. "Most of the traitors are dead but the rest of the clan are… gone."
"Uchiha Madara." A new voice stated and both men stared at the Hokage who had somehow appeared in front of them. Even as he spoke, a dozen ANBU popped into existence.
"That's new." Madara stated, then vanished in a swirling vortex. Itachi stared at the space that Madara had been, then turned towards the Hokage.
"I failed the mission, Lord Hokage." He said calmly. "I will accept any punishment you deem fit."
Hiruzen frowned. "What mission?"
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Danzo blinked as the door slammed inwards, propelled by a kick from the ANBU Inu, Hatake Kakashi. His astonishment grew as Hiruzen and four other ANBU appeared out of thin air in quick succession, Hiruzen before him and the ANBU in positions that let them clamp restraints on him before he could even twitch.
"You have a great deal to answer for, Danzo." Hiruzen ground out. "You will join my former comrades in prison and what happens then depends entirely on what I find here and what you can tell me."
Danzo let himself be led off, frowning thoughtfully. He hadn't detected a single flicker of chakra as the ANBU had appeared, which meant that it wasn't a normal movement jutsu like Shunshin, but what was it?
And could he learn it?
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"And team eleven shall be Morino Idate, Yagura and Uzumaki Naruto. Your instructor will be Rokusho Aoi."
Naruto glanced round. Idate was easy to spot, but who was Yagura…?
Naruto felt a pair of eyes on him and looked round, his cerulean eyes meeting the pale blue eyes of the boy sat behind him. The boy needed and Naruto turned his attention to the Jonin who had entered. One of them was eyecatching with his odd bluish-green hair and Naruto grinned as the man spoke.
"Team eleven, on me."
Naruto rose from his seat and moved to the front of the class. The Jonin smiled at them.
"Follow me, please."
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"I've read your files, so I know about you, but do you know about each other?" Aoi said as he leaned against a tree, a senbon weaving its way between his fingers. "Let me give an example, My name is Rokushu Aoi, I like sushi, I dislike spicy foods and I hope to train you to become a team equal to the Sannin. Yagura?"
"I am Yagura, an orphan." Yagura stated. "I like training, dislike those who are lazy and my dream is to become a Jonin."
"Idate?"
"My name is Morino Idate. I liketraining, especially alongside my older brother. I dislike those who try to hold back others and I hope to become my brother's equal someday."
Aoi nodded, then looked at Naruto.
"My name is Uzumaki Naruto!" The Blond exclaimed. "I like Ramen, I hate the three minutes it takes to make instant Ramen and I want to become the next Hokage! Believe it!"
"Well, let's see what you can do." Aoi smiled. "I'll spar with each of you, then all of you at once."
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"Team eleven passes." Aoi said as he limped into the office. All the other Jonin stared at him and Aoi winced as a rib protested. "Idate and Yagura are both more than adequate, but Naruto… did you know that he knows Kage Bunshin? He also has a weird teleportation trick that lets him pull his team-mates out of the way, although his clones can't do it."
"I was aware of that Kekkei Genkei of his." Hiruzen confirmed. "He calls it no-time, a very descriptive term. The downside is that he can't actually attack anyone or move anything he hasn't taken with him into no-time."
"He is very well trained in Taijutsu." Aoi noted and Hiruzen nodded.
"Uchiha Mikoto personally trained him in the Intercepting Fist, from which he developed his own style." Hiruzen explained."It was part of repaying the debt that the Uchiha clan owes him. How they owe him a debt is still an S-class secret. You'll need to speak to Uchiha Itachi if you want details."
A sussuration of murmurs swept the room, then Hiruzen tapped his desk to get their attention.
"Any other business at this time? No? Excellent."
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Author's Afternote – Yeah, this is another take on Bloodline!/Super!Naruto. His power is very similar to that of A-class Speedsters in that he can speed to 10x normal by accelerating his personal time. Any faster and he enters Hypertime in which he is the only thing moving, effectively letting him seem to teleport.
Since Naruto is training himself to move faster so that his clones can move quickly (since they can't speed), he is as fast (or faster than) an un-weighted Rock Lee when he goes all out.