Newt ran alongside Naruto through the fields of Missouri, the sky now a bright blue and filled with clouds. A breeze swept through the field, pushing every blade of grass down one by one, as if an invisible arm ran its hand over the field. Summer leaves floated down through the air along with pollen and dandelion seeds. They ran with their hands behind their back, the correct way, each trying to outpace the other.
"There are seven forms of chakra, each related to one of the chaos emeralds you are familiar with. The first one I will be teaching you is the root chakra. This chakra is red in color and represents the idea of being grounded or supported. This represents the sixth emerald, as it controls gravity. To begin, place your feet down on the ground firmly, and feel as if you are connected with the ground. I will then try to knock you down, and you'll need to stay on that spot. Ready?"
Newt nodded and stood still on one spot. He placed his feet around half a meter across from each other, and closed his eyes, concentrating. He concentrated on his feet and the ground, feeling a connection between the two. It was as if he was a negatively charged magnet and the ground was a positively charged one. They connected and would not let go. That is, until an outside force acted upon them.
"Wind style, gust jutsu!" Naruto held his hands in front of him in a formation, causing a large gust of wind to go right toward Newt. Newt concentrated and braced himself, but was knocked down by the wind. Naruto shook his head.
Newt stood back up, now covered in dust, and returned to the spot from before. He once again grounded himself and concentrated on his feet and the ground. He could feel the connection again, and he willed it to be stronger. He concentrated harder and harder.
"Wind style, gust jutsu!" Naruto once again knocked Newt down with his strong wind.
Newt got up and went back to the spot he was at before. He had landed on a rock when he fell and had injured his arm. He stretched the arm and stood once again on the spot. This time he took a deep breath and concentrated, but also meditated like he had before when he discovered Nixon's spirit guiding him. He entered a meditative concentrated state when he could only feel the power of the ground and his feet. Nothing else existed to him at that moment.
"Wind style, gust jutsu!" Naruto let out a gust of wind straight toward Newt. Newt didn't hear him shout, in fact he didn't feel anything. The wind went straight through him and he didn't even feel it. Not even his hair blew with the gust.
"Good, you are beginning to learn the power of the root chakra. Let's move on. The secral chakra. This is the chakra that represents your identity. It is seen as the second chaos emerald, as this allows one to change their identity. I can sense you struggle with this one the most, so we'll skip it for now.
"We will move on to the third chakra, this is the solar plexus, or in your underdeveloped mind it would be called your 'gut feeling.' It is who you are: your wisdom and your confidence. This represents the fifth emerald, as it can change your age and with age comes wisdom."
Naruto jumped back and made 10 shadow clones, "can you find the real one?"
The rest of the clones began to taunt him. Newt concentrated. He needed to find which one of these clones was the real one. He looked inside himself and saw his chakra, then compared that to the chakra of them, but he couldn't see the chakra well, being a starter ninja. He ran toward one he thought might be the real one and threw a punch at him. The clone disintegrated into kunai knives, which stabbed Newt, causing him immense pain. His arms began to bleed from the cuts.
"Come on, kid, you have to use your wisdom and confidence. If you aren't confident that the clone is me, then you'll get stabbed," they all said in unison.
Newt stared at the ten remaining clones. Each one seemed to be exactly the same and moved at the exact same pace. He couldn't even ask them questions, as they all shared the mind of the real Naruto. Newt stared at them, trying to see which one had the strongest chakra. Of course, Newt wasn't good enough to see chakra well yet, so he could only see blurred images that gave him no clues as to who was the real one.
Newt decided to concentrate on them individually. One by one he concentrated on them, looking for something- anything that would help him reveal the real one. As he concentrated on one of them, he felt something. Something down within his gut. He knew this one was the real one. Newt ran toward the Naruto had had concentrated on and punched at him. He closed his eyes, confident that this one was the real one.
The one he had punched jumped back as the other clones faded away into dust, "good, you used your 'gut feeling' to find which shadow clone wasn't really a shadow clone, well done. Next we go to the fourth chakra: Heart. This is associated with the seventh emerald, which is able to cure all wounds among other things. You are covered in wounds. Heal them."
Newt looked down on his arms and saw the blood running down, stinging in the warm breeze. He closed his eyes and imagined the blood forming a clot to block the blood flow. He reached out and place a hand on his arm. Nothing happened.
Suddenly, a kunai knife flung out of nowhere, cutting his arm once more, "each failure must have a punishment. With each try that goes unhealed, you will get another cut. Look inside your heart and feel it's healing powers."
Newt closed his eyes and looked into his chakra. He could sense his heart within it, beating with healing power. He reached out to it spiritually and could feel the power resonate within his hand. He reached out with this power toward his arm, and the cuts instantly healed themselves.
"Good job, next we will examine the fifth chakra: throat. This represents your ability to speak as well as your ability to seek out truth. This resonates with the fourth emerald, which is able to null any power the other emeralds have, but a little known fact about it is that it makes anyone who holds it always tell the truth. This may be your most difficult task, you must tell me your greatest secret."
Newt's eyes went wide as he stared at Naruto. His mind raced as he thought of what to tell him. His greatest secret? Which one was the worst of all?
"U-um I collect sonic comics?"
A shuriken flew at Newt and lodged itself within his shoulder. He cried out in pain from the sharp, cold metal within his skin. Newt began to sweat, this man could kill him at any time. He would need to be careful.
"I watch hentai!" Another shuriken hit him, this time in the hip.
"I don't have a belly button!" One hit him in the leg.
"I was in love with blaze!" One hit him in the collarbone. He could tell the next one would hit a vital organ.
"I dug up blazes body from her grave and now keep it behind the white house!" Silence fell over the field. No shurikens were thrown.
"Wow that's pretty weird. Well anyway, next up is the sixth chakra the third eye. This is represented by the seventh emerald, which allows you to achieve a heightened vision on the world. I will throw countless kunai knives at you, and I want you to dodge every single one of them while your eyes are closed and you cannot hear."
A loud ringing sound ran through Newt's ears and he couldn't hear anything, then his vision went black and he couldn't see anything. He felt like Helen Keller. He decided he would need to concentrate in order to see what he couldn't see. He would have to search for impossibly small changes in the air around him. When a kunai knife flies through the air, the space around it warps to fit its shape and allow a passage through. It is not cutting through the air, the air is willingly moving to accommodate its form. He would need to search for this accommodation and then use simple equations to find out where it would land based on its trajectory.
Of course, though, Newt is an idiot who doesn't understand any of this.
A knife flew from his right and sliced open his knee. Newt fell to the ground, gasping for air as he cried in pain. Another one hit him in the back, creating a cut that oozed blood which stained his clothes. He screamed out in pain, but couldn't even hear himself. He tried to concentrate, but the pain was too much. Another knife hit him right in the arm, slicing it open and causing blood to drip down to his hand. The knives stopped then, and Newt stayed on the ground whining and crying.
He knew that is he was going to survive this, he would need to stand up and look out with his third eye. He would just need to feel the slight push of air. For example, if a car was to hit water, the water would fling forward before going overtop of the car. This could be applied to the air and the knife, though the feeling would be nearly undetectable to normal humans. Newt stood up, limping from his injuries. He looked out with his third eye and tried to see where the knives were coming from.
A knife flew from his right and hit him in the foot. Newt screamed out as he once again fell to the ground. Another knife hit him square in the stomach. As Newt laid in pain on the ground, covered in his own blood, he sensed something small heading toward him. He quickly moved his arm as a kunai knife flew straight toward it, missing his arm by centimeters. Newt knew he had dodged the knife. His celebration was cut short, though, as he was hit with another knife in the arm.
Bleeding and weak, Newt laid there, ready to die. The knives had stopped for now, but he knew more would come soon. He reached into his chakra and tried to pull out willpower from it in order to achieve his goal. He would need to use all of his abilities so far in order to pass this test.
First, he reached into his heart chakra in order to heal his wounds. He felt instantly better and was able to stand up, though worse injuries, such as the one to his knee, would not be fixed and he limped. This would be difficult with that limp. He then used his first chakra, ground, in order to steady himself and keep himself stable. Next, he used the third eye to see where a change in air was. He could see that there were a few places that the knife could be coming from, and used his gut feeling to see which one would be the real one, then checked it to see if it was true in his mind. He then moved slightly and avoided the knife, which hit the ground nearby.
He felt another one coming from another place and moved accordingly to dodge it. Soon after, two knives flew toward him, one to his left and one to the place he would move to dodge the first one. He moved into another place to dodge both of them. He searched out for another one, but didn't see one, but many. Knives seemed to be flying from every direction toward him, and he felt them closing in. New concentrated and felt himself move spatially into another area. No knives hit him. His hearing and sight soon after returned to him.
Naruto approached him, pointing to the place where the knives had hit, "there was no possible way to dodge all of those knives, so you used the seventh chakra, which represents your connection to everything and the first emerald, in order to teleport to another place where you would be safe. You mastered a chakra skill that I didn't even mention, and used it to enter a seppuku form. You are nearly finished with your training in chakra, but you first need to tell me, who are you?
"You see, the final test is your most vigorous one. This is one you struggle with daily. Are you a man, or are you a hedgehog from another dimension? This question haunts you, as you have been both. So let me ask you again, who are you?"
Newt thought about his life.
Born as a hedgehog within another dimension, he trained with blaze for many years before an ancient evil awoke and threatened his world. He then teamed up with sonic and shadow to defeat the evil and save both timelines. But something had happened. Someone had seen his immense power and wanted it for himself.
Doctor Robotnik, or eggman, ruthlessly hunted him down for many years. Each time he came closer and closer to capturing him as silver. This caused him to enter a paranoid state and made his powers worse and worse. He would need to escape this, but he couldn't let eggman capture him, as that would mean he would have all powerful psychic abilities. He would need to use one of his powers to hide his spirit.
He condensed his thoughts into a small area of consciousness, then created Newt, a human who lived within the white house. Silver then tricked a senator to think he had a son named Newt. Newt lived for many years in this state, not remembering his past life and creating his own life for himself, no matter how stupid it may have been. Newt met Cory, who taught him many things like sonic and anime. This is when he began to change.
Newt figured he was something different, but never knew why. When he entered the temple in the wasteland of Japan, Newt realised that something was that he was a silver psychic hedgehog. When Newt entered his silver form again, he felt immense power. Power he couldn't begin to comprehend. He began to feel he had a worth in this world.
After losing the power of silver, he felt worthless once again, which brought him into a deep depression. He left all of his family and friends behind and bought an apartment to live alone, trying desperately to turn into silver again. He was never able to. His money quickly ran out and he was forced to work a job. The only person who would hire him was the owner of a retail store. He hated this job. He felt less than worthless when he worked it. Luckily, Cory and his gang were able to capture him and take him with them.
Throughout their journey to find the chaos emeralds, Newt learned more about his past as silver and eventually was able to reclaim the powers of silver. He once again felt he had power. All of that changed one fateful day when silver was eliminated from existence by the Nazis. He was now back to worthless Newt, but he knew that now he could never turn back to silver again. Silver was dead.
That was it. Silver was dead. He didn't have to think about his past accomplishments because that person was dead. He had survived longer than the powerful person he had been before, and now could make a new name for himself.
He looked at Naruto with confidence, "I am Newt."