Okite
(掟; law/code)
"Kuoan? What is that? Man, all this Kanji! It looks important. This has to be the scroll!" Naruto nodded to himself and grinned, rolling the scroll to a close. He cackled to himself. He felt ascertained that he passed a kinesthetic lesson of patience, well proving that he was ready to be a ninja. The scroll was large, needing two hands to carry it. In most cases, relics of that size carried not just a wall of text, but even an account of another life; the last words of a legendary figure, death poems, reflections of a war that lasted for days.
Naruto didn't take the importance of the size deeper. He lifted from his sitting position, and swiftly turned his head towards the trees. He heard the sound of a snapped twig. A tall shadow stepped from behind a tree trunk.
"Oh hi, Iruka-sensei!" Naruto winked an eye, grinning from ear to ear as he embraced the scroll. "It looks like I found it. Here ya go!"
Iruka Umino was exposed within a stream of sunlight that fell through the forest canopy, veiling his dour looking face.
"Playing games?" He said.
The smiling Naruto shook his head. "Hey, I did what you asked, sensei."
"So now, you're a criminal?"
As quickly as he could breathe air, Naruto dropped his smile. The words stung so sharply that it addled his brain; was holding a scroll really that terrible, Naruto wondered. The sensei's words were beyond a familiar scold from the academy.
"Haven't you done enough?" Iruka Umino, that friendly figure who would encourage Konoha's Loudest Fool as easily as he could angrily yell at him for his foolishness, gave off a leer that burned with killing intent. The scroll dropped to the ground. Naruto lost grip in his arms from being frozen stiff, completely shocked by Iruka.
"You do realize," the chunin continued, "that fellows with a rebellious temperament can be a deadly instrument?"
"Huh?" Naruto took a step back.
"Rebellion usually means an omen for the destruction of something. Therefore, such offenders must be removed one way or another. That is our custom."
"Is this…a joke?" Naruto felt his stomach tighten. Hearing those words while seeing those eyes, he was completely frozen with surprise. Was this the power of a chunin? Iruka, such a kind teacher, was able to display this sense of coldblooded emotion.
"And, to disregard law means harsh consequences."
"Oh…Oh, I get it!" Naruto said, and restored his grin. "It's a joke!" Iruka thinned his eyes as a quiet response. Naruto laughed, directing an open palm toward the chunin.
"That's hell-of-stupid! You're just trying to scare me as a final part of the test, Iruka-sensei, to prepare me for the real ninja world. I get you. Besides, there's no way I'd take a—"
Before another word, Naruto lost his senses. He did not notice the moment when Iruka took a step and suddenly covered the distance between them. Konoha's Number One Loudmouth ninja looked down, and saw a kunai buried straight into his stomach.
"It's more than just a scare." Iruka said. The last thing Naruto saw was his sensei's mouth crooking into a smile.
At the Hokage Tower, which is situated below the Monument and adjacent to the Academy castle, a meeting was held underground.
"I suppose it to be expected from those who doesn't understand filial piety."