AN: I'm back with a vengeance, I hope to keep my uploads as close to last chapters size but i don't want to make any promises about that. If i feel as though a better place to end it shows up I'll end it early but that's about it.
well Rebel, you went and spoiled all my fun, yeah i was totally planning to do that later but I can't tell you when or what songs he will sing. I'm glad you like my choice of music, they are all songs that mean a lot to me personally.
Kurama speaking
'Me thinking'
"Me and others talking"
Me singing
"Others screaming"
"Me screaming"
Now on with the show
CH3: Back to School Bitches
Gwargh why, did my dumbass have to go and think this would all fall into place like anything in my life could be easy. It had been roughly a year since I started training with the third hokage and i only just recently learned how to access my chakra. The thing that pisses me off the most about it though is that I didn't do it. I couldn't, it was like I could not feel my chakra no matter how hard i tried. Kurama didn't know what the fuck was happening either, she remembers the day we met when my meager chakra held onto hers pulling the two halves into one whole, but i just couldn't get it to fucking work again. I got so angry but kurama-sensei came up with a plan for a literal second she forced her chakra through me before pulling it all back making it look like I lost control of my emotions for a second before becoming scared.
It fucking worked, but this had several unforeseen consequences. One was the third upping my training even more to insure i wouldn't lose control again, another was i discovered that unlike naruto i am a pretty good sensor both of chakra and thanks to kurama emotions, but the last was my very first meeting with danzo, i was walking through the village one day it was one of my free days where the old man wanted me to rest instead of train. Well i had just left ichiraku's tightening my jacket around my shoulders as i walk, it was large on my frame but i didn't care. I noticed as i was walking i was being followed, it wasn't really like he was trying to hide it, another downside to letting sensei do what she did was now a lot of the villagers feared me and responded by sending me hate filled glares or spitting at me as i passed. I turned left heading straight to the alley next to my new apartment, stopping and facing the entrance to the alley revealed Danzo the old war hawk, i didn't remember his last name nor did i care. I hated this bastard he was scum of the earth for sure.
"Who are you? What do you want?" I ask even though I already know, just like how I know he won't tell the whole truth.
"Hello little naruto, my name is Danzo. As for what i want it's simple really , I want to help you learn to control the kyuubi chakra, to better defend this village." damn so he told the truth and i'm not sure if that was all of it or not. He couldn't actually risk sealing me like a normal root agent or I would never be able to learn how to use kurama's chakra.
"I don't trust you, it's nothing personal but I'd rather just stick to what I've been doing, I'm already getting the hang of things. Thanks for the offer but I have to decline." I respond, I really was tempted to just use him to help me train but then i would be just like him. Using anyone just to empower myself and advance my goals.
"That's such a shame i was hoping you'd come peacefully naruto, that way you would still have been able to be seen in the public eye. But now I'll have to take extreme measures to ensure you don't become a risk to konoha." as these words leave his mouth several root ninja drop down to the ground both behind him and me.
Settling into my improvised stance which i still haven't named i look at the ones behind me with a quick glance over my shoulder, kids maybe two or three years older than me, turning i find the ones behind danzo are much the same age. A savage grin splits my face, i roll backwards before using my hands to spring straight off the ground nailing one of these root bastards with two feet straight to the face, turning immediately after that i already have to defend, these guys really don't fuck around. Stepping back several times to avoid the lethal jabs this guy is striking with waiting for just the right opportunity. Finally right as my back hits the wall i twirl around this goons right side, before spartan kicking him square in the small of his back making him french kiss the wall. After dealing with those two i look and see that neither danzo or his other men have moved. Settling back down into my stance i tilt my head to the side with a cocky grin before allowing my right arm to rise up and perform the stereotypical come get it motion, the two fall for the bait, but unlike the last two these guys operate as a team, one goes high the other goes low. Like a well oiled machine or a professional ballet dance, no wasted movements, no weak spots, perfect teamwork. Which means i know who these are Sai and Shin i can't hurt them they go through enough. Fuck i decide to play the long con, hold out until eventually someone comes around or they just can't move anymore. Every time they come in to strike me i lean out of the way and lightly jab them for the trouble. Sometimes i can't avoid their strikes so i just take them, i'm definitely going to be getting some different nicknames than what the original naruto got that's for sure. Roughly half an hour has gone by and while i can tell they can't keep going they do regardless, i sigh but when they run at me the last time i let them, i let their attacks hit, and then i mercifully crack their heads together sending them into dreamland.
"I was hoping they'd pass out from exhaustion. I'll give credit where it's due danzo they were good, well the last two not the first idiots i dealt with, they had guts but their strikes lacked feeling. They didn't hate me or even wish any ill will towards me, so they didn't hit with everything they had. Without emotions one can never reach the height of what they are capable, i mean granted they'll also never hit the lows that they can bring with them. Your group of merry men are being held back in their potential because they lack the one thing you worked so hard to rid them of, emotions. Shinobi need to have heart without one we'll only protect our home out of duty instead of love, we'll only save the people because we need to not because we want to, and we'll only help the innocent if we're told to not because we volunteered. Do you understand danzo these men aren't shinobi anymore, you took that away from them, they lack what makes all great konoha shinobi just that great, they lack the will of fire, but i'll make sure mine burns bright enough for all of them to have a little, i will ensure that i have plenty in me to give to all your men that you denied the right and ability to live like normal men. My answer is still no danzo, so please take your men and go." with that I leap onto a trash can and up to a fire escape, just like the one in my parkour alley, i hop each level until I'm at my window, climbing through i settle down and let the adrenaline wear off me, so much for an off day.
Closing my window and walking into my bedroom, throwing my body weight down on my mattress I sigh before looking up at the ceiling, I highly doubt danzo well give up. Groaning as I push myself up I grab my scroll that holds my parents diaries and head for my front door, trudging through my house I start to feel groggy, lightheaded… this isn't right, that fight was nothing compared to Kakashi or the old man so what the hell. Realization dawns on me slowly, 'i've been drugged.' Pulsing my chakra like an emergency flare, long burst followed by a short burst and finished with a continuous flow of chakra. It was what the third told me to do if I ever ran into a fight I couldn't win alone. The last thing I see as I fall face first down in my living room is a man with easily recognizable white hair, jiraiya of the sannin.
Jolting up and looking around i see the forest of my mindscape, but it looks different the trees look sick and pale compared to what it was even just this morning. If something is happening to my mindscape. "Kurama please be ok." I dash through my mindscape hoping that my friend is ok, I don't know when I began to see her as more of a friend than a teacher but I don't honestly care. Finally making it into the scarlet colored portion of my mind i find that the trees here look damn near normal, which means whatever is affecting me isn't harming kurama, I release a breath I hadn't realized I was holding. Walking slowly back towards kurama's den i begin to feel weaker than i had just seconds prior, whatever the hell this is it's gonna be one major pain in the ass to fix.
Kit thank kami you're up, i've been holding this back fearing the worst had happened. Whoever made this poison knows their stuff, it's potent and it targets your chakra network, muscles, and bone marrow. You've been down for nearly a week now, even once you get up you're gonna be out of it. Sorry kit but there isn't much I can do except slow the poisons spread to a crawl. Kurama speaks without ever looking directly at me, instead I can tell all of her focus is on my physical body.
"It'll be ok kurama just wait and see, nothing can hold us down for long. Besides if i know the old man he probably has everyone available working on us right now. We'll be fine, we'll get out of this and get right back to training like nothing was ever wrong." I say even though it's all for my benefit trying to convince myself that I wasn't going to die.
Just then a voice cuts through my mind one that is neither mine or Kurama's, it sounds just like "sasuke?"
"Get up naruto, you promised we'd go to academy together i don't want to go by myself with no one i know there. So get up, you have too get up, you have to get better… please."
Just then something somewhere inside me an energy alights and burns through me, I think I know what it is but it's way too early in our lives for that to become a factor, right? Please let me be right because otherwise it's Asura waking up because his brother Indra practically begged him to.
"Don't you mean he begged us to, eh naruto?" an older voice speaks directly behind me. My head drops with a defeated sigh escaping my lips. Great now I have to deal with this shit.
"How the actual fuck are you here Asura we are suppossed to be the same person, i'm you reborn but also me. So how? No you know what don't answer that i don't wanna know. Can you help me wake up please, i have a promise to keep." I turn and look at the figure behind me, and I can't help but like him even though I've never met him, he just has that calming aura around him. He smiles at me before stretching his fingers out and poking my forehead just like itachi would do too sasuke.
Energy ripples through me in waves like a massive storm unleashing upon my mind and all around me the trees that make up my mental world bloom once more as I feel the poison in my veins the very fatigue that plagued me seems to simply fade into non existence. I feel the falling sensation that signifies leaving my mental world begin to drag me away, i resist long enough to look at asura one last time before he begins to fade away. The man just stands there as he begins to disappear he merely waves with a smile on his face.
The last thing i hear before waking up, "do me proud i know you'll save him, unlike me you understand his pain. Your just a little like him too."
My eyes snap open and I immediately regret it, blinding light floods my vision. Blinking the pain away I look around the room to see the stunned faces of the doctor, the third hokage and jiraiya, but also the pure unbridled joy rolling off of sasuke and mikoto. Groaning as I roll over too stand i'm surprised i thought i was gonna be weaker than i was before but I feel fine.
"Hey, how long was i out? Why are you crying sasuke i'm fine see." I plaster a smile on my face looking at my friend.
"I wasn't crying idiot." he says while wiping away his tears before looking at me with a smile as well. I'm actually kind of glad i listened to the hokage after my first couple of days training with him he practically made me go to mikoto's house not only to learn about my parents but to also befriend sasuke. It was hard to separate the child in front of me from the character i saw on page growing up but in time i managed to, and I'm glad I was able to in many ways he is one of my best friends.
Neither one of us can hold it in any longer and we both start laughing, our friendship may be odd but it works, I calm my laughter down and wipe away a couple tears before gaining a serious look on my face as I look over at the hokage.
"If you don't know who it was that attacked me i can tell you, or we can have a yamanaka check. I'm just giving you these options because you're not gonna like the answer jiji." I speak with a somber tone before lowering my gaze to the ground, danzo and the old man were friends for decades hell they were rivals, i don't want to be the one to drag this out into the sun.
"Tell me who attacked you naruto, and only if i find it troubling enough will i go and get a yamanaka." he states with an ease to his tone which is offset by his rigid posture and hard face.
"He said his name was danzo and that he wanted to help me control the kyuubi's chakra, but after I declined his help he said he was disappointed and then four kids maybe a bit older than sasuke and i showed up but they had these weird anbu like masks on their faces. I took down two no problem they didn't expect me to know how to fight, but the other two… they were something else jiji. They fought so well together, whatever flaws they had were covered up by the one beside them long before i could even capitalize on them. I did what I could and held off as long as I could until they got tired, then I crashed their foreheads into one another's. Then after i climbed up my fire escape too get away, which I'm fairly certain he let me escape, I climbed into my apartment from my window I began to feel drowsy like I hadn't slept for days. That's when I fired the SOS pattern we discussed, and the last thing i remember before passing out was that guys hair." I point at jiraiya's obvious mane of stark white hair after finishing my tale. The hokage doesn't speak for quite a few minutes. He turns places his hand on jiraiya's shoulder before whispering something in his ear I can't quite catch, before looking over his shoulder at me with a sad smile.
Before I can stop him he walks out, "So how about mikoto and i take you to your first day of academy huh?" jiraiya speaks as he intercepts me at my hospital door, he easily lifts me up off the ground and tosses me like a sack of potatoes back onto the bed, just as I pick myself up to shout at him clothes smash into my face with quite a bit of force. "Shut up and get dressed unless you want to go to school in a hospital gown."
Looking down I notice that these were my clothes, a simple black t-shirt with a red uzu spiral, dark grey cargo pants, and dark grey closed toe shinobi boots. I look around for my jacket only to see it held safely in makoto's arms. Smiling i hop up shed the gown and throw on my clothes faster than sasuke could see, though the two older shinobi in the room clearly saw all of it. Now dressed in my normal clothes i turn around and face the still stunned doctor, tilting my head to the side I shrug and walk over to mikoto and hold out my hands. Without prompting, she hands me my jacket that I easily throw around my shoulders even though it is still way to big on me. I tighten it around me and throw my hood up over my golden locks.
"Alright we can go now, but i wanna know who you are first and how you got too my apartment before jiji." I say as I look jiraiya dead in the eyes.
To his credit he simply laughs before looking at me with a big grin splitting his face, "Just like little kushina huh? My name's jiraiya kid, the third hokage was my sensei. I'm also your godfather, but i couldn't take you with me on the road. I do very important missions that take me away from the village often and for extended periods of time."
Nodding my head was easy, if he was expecting me to be mad he didn't show it at all. "But you're here now, for how long? Can you spend time with me, or maybe help me train?"
Surprise settles on his face until he looks at me and see the pure and simple desire to have someone actually want to be around me. Sue me my life was always lonely, i had very few close friends that I saw on a regular basis, and some of them would only really choose to hang out with me if others were there to act as buffers.
"Sure kid, but if i show you anything you have to follow directions am I clear?" The dead seriousness in his eyes makes my smart ass reply halt, this can only mean he plans to take this seriously immediately.
"Ofcourse, otherwise learning wouldn't be possible." I respond while continuing to ponder just what is he gonna show me that would grant this level of well, level headedness.
He blinks once before nodding, "well good, come on brats it's time for school." he turns and heads down the hall of the hospital, straight out the front door. I turn and look at Mikoto, and smile before giving her and Sasuke an over exaggerated bow. They both laugh as we leave the hospital as one big family. Walking down the road i received far less glares sense the matriarch of the uchiha clan was beside me holding my hand in hers, sasuke and I were joking back and forth about what academy would be like. We caught up with jiraiya shortly once he stopped and realized we weren't right behind him, he stood there in the middle of the street scratching the back of his head embarrassed before falling in step alongside us. At which point whatever glares i had been receive vanished… like magic, god this shit was really getting to me.
Right in front of us was the academy building, i really hope this isn't going to be boring. Inside the courtyard there were children all over the place, I even noticed a couple of the older kids from the orphanage. Looking around I saw the standout kids from the manga, like neji and rock lee, the clan heirs of my class and tenten. As soon as we entered the courtyard the parents took notice of me and the whispering began, they shot me hate filled glares copied by their children. The heads of clans didn't but the civilians had them outnumbered, in the end only two children outside the orphans i grew up with didn't glare at me, Sasuke and Hinata.
Sasuke bumps my shoulder, "sing for them, no one can hate your music, not even father." and it was true, I had moved Fugaku to tears when I sang nothing else matters by metallica. I sigh and look at him, he gives me an encouraging thumbs up, Mikoto just smiles at me and Jiraiya is clearly interested in how singing can help. Get ready brats it's time for my song no jutsu.
(human by rag-n-bone man)
I'm only human. I'm only, I'm only. I'm only human, human
Maybe I'm foolish. Maybe I'm blind. Thinking I can see through thus. And see what's behind. Got no way to prove it. So maybe I'm blind.
But I'm only human after all. I'm only human after all.
Don't put your blame on me
Don't put your blame on me
Take a look in the mirror. And what do you see. Do you see it clearer. Or are you deceived. In what you believe
'Cause I'm only human after all. You're only human after all
Don't put the blame on me
Don't put your blame on me
Some people got the real problems. Some people out of luck. Some people think I can solve them. Lord heavens above
I'm only human after all. I'm only human after all. Don't put the blame on me
Don't put the blame on me
Don't ask my opinion. Don't ask me to lie. Then beg for forgiveness. For making you cry. Making you cry
'Cause I'm only human after all.I'm only human after all
Don't put your blame on me
Don't put the blame on me
Oh, some people got the real problems. Some people out of people think I can solve heavens above
I'm only human after all. I'm only human after all
Don't put the blame on me
Don't put the blame on me
I'm only human. I make mistakes. I'm only human. That's all it takes. To put the blame on me
Don't put the blame on me
I'm no prophet or Messiah. Should go looking somewhere higher
I'm only human after all. I'm only human after all
Don't put the blame on me
Don't put the blame on me
I'm only human
I do what I can
I'm just a man
I do what I can
Don't put the blame on me
Don't put your blame on me
I calm down after the song and see all eyes are still on me, they are uncertain unsure, so I reach into my bag and pull out a scroll unrolling and unsealing something Kakashi got me for my birthday after convincing him it would be useful. A guitar, nothing fancy just a beautiful whitewood guitar, slim like it's an electric it has chakra conductive wires wrapping around it like vines on a tree, the strings are made of chakra conductive materials. My chakra reserves are far too high for me to be able to do genjutsu the normal way but by using this and a little bit of chakra i can perform an AOE genjutsu based on sound. Meaning only though i am playing the guitar they can all hear the full song.
(waiting on rain by nothing more)
Broke and broken child, veiled to the eyes of humanity, she is left wanting, she is left with nothing, she is nothing, nothing
Tonight, she cries, evanescent to indifferent eyes, tonight, she screams to the sky
Waiting on rain to come (breath in, breath in)
Waiting on rain to come (breath in, breath in)
Waiting on rain to come (wash away~~)
I don't ask for a break of day
Boy that hides his tears, silent scorn and poison tongue, that stain his skin, jaded world sees black and white, jaded wicked world, that world can be color blind
Tonight, he cries, evanescent too indifferent eyes, tonight, he screams to the sky
Waiting on rain to come (breath in, breath in)
Waiting on rain to come (breath in, breath in)
Waiting on rain to come (wash away~~)
I don't ask for a break, for a break of day
I send a vicious scream on dying wings to you, sent to heaven, straight from hell
I don't ask for a break of day
Just pour the rain (breath in, breath in)
Waiting on rain to come (breath in, breath in)
Waiting on rain to come ( wash away~~)
Just pour the rain (breath in, breath in)
Waiting on rain to come (breath in, breath in)
Waiting on rain to come (wash away, wash away, wash away)
(this is the time by nothing more [ocean floor included in beginning])
When did we become these sinking stones? When did we build this broken home? Holding each other like ransom notes, dropping our hearts to grip out brother's throat.
I am on the bottom of the ocean floor, eye for eye, drowning just keep the score, blaming the world outside ourselves, surrounded by mirrors and sinking shut
When did we become these sinking stones? When did we build this broken home? Holding each other like ransom notes, Dropping our hearts to grip our brother's throat
You can't see because you don't know, You're caught below, beneath your own shadow, Stuck inside, half alive, Do you ever stop to ask yourself why? Close your mind, identify, Do you feel, do you feel? Do you call this a life?
All you waited for, Drowning just to keep score, We always start with good intentions, But lose ourselves along the way
This is the time that we let it go, These are the words that will take us home, Singing the song that's inside us all, If we don't open our eyes we're walking blind
Anchored in anger, we exile ourselves, Bitter blood builds our prison cell, Darker water now fills our lungs, The depths of our heart have blacked the sun
You can't see because you don't know, You're caught below, beneath your own shadow, Stuck inside, half alive, Do you ever stop to ask yourself why? Close your mind, identify, Do you feel, do you feel? Do you call this a life?
All you waited for, Drowning just to keep score, We always start with good intentions, But lose ourselves along the way
This is the time that we let it go, These are the words that will take us home, Singing the song that's inside us all, If we don't open our eyes we're walking blind
Naked we come, naked we leave, Fools we are, to hold tightly, We are the jail, we are the key, We are free, we are free
This is the time that we let it go, These are the words that will take us home, Singing the song that's inside us all, If we just open our eyes
This is the time that we let it go, This is the pain we are forced to know, Singing the song that's inside, Inside us all, inside us all, Walking Blind
I put away my guitar as I look around and see adults and children alike staring at me with blank nearly shocked looks on their faces. They don't know what to think, that works i guess. Just then the teachers seem to snap out of their daze and start calling out for the children to fall in line and follow them to their classes. Turning around and looking up at Jiraiya i see him smile down at me, before he reaches out and ruffles my already messy hair. He then shoos me away to the other kids, I turn and run off with sasuke after he and his mom break off their hug. As i run off with Sasuke even though i'm excited, I can't help but feel horrible because I know things won't always be like this. In this world children aren't aloud to keep their innocence and sense of wonder, in this world they are turned into weapons and soldiers.
AN: and i think i'm gonna cut it there. Sorry this took me so long to finish and post i hit a minor bit of writer's block and during that time I got distracted by reading a few stories one of which was a gamer story, and it got me thinking about how an average joe who never asked for anything, in the marvel universe, would react to gaining the abilities of the gamer. And thus my story A MARVELOUS GAME was born. It only has one chapter so far but I put a lot of time into it and I'd like to know what ya'll think. But as always, thank you for reading and feel free to let me know what you think of the story so far. DATHYPPIE IS OUT, PEACE!