Thanks for the reviews, as few as they were, and yes 'thor94' he wouldn't be in a canon team so expect OC names in a chapter's time or so. Or maybe in this chapter, read to find out. And don't think I have forgotten about you 'anarion87', thank you for your opinion and I hope you keep reading to find out the shit I'll put Naruto into.
I don't want to bore you with my talking so start reading!
CHAPTER 2
The next day Naruto awoke with a childish grunt from Samehada's hiss. He begrudgingly opened his eyes and went about his normal morning rituals: bathing, brushing, dressing and pocketing a random Namikaze library scroll. He hefted Samehada onto his shoulders and stalked out of the room into the semi-dark hallway; he shuffled past his parent's room and his younger siblings to the kitchen downstairs. He wore his usual black ripped off sleeved shirt, black shorts and blue ninja sandals.
He came down and met his family already eating their breakfast. He greeted them but was met with the usual side eyed nod from his father and whispered answer from his mother. He ignored that and tickled the twins under their chins, and walked past them into the kitchen, the sword still on his shoulders, to grab some tea and if possible some grilled salmon. The mere thought of his second favourite delicacy made his mouth water and he quickened his steps. He leaned his sword by the fridge and opened it, he hummed to himself when he didn't see the grilled salmon but grilled pork: his third favourite meal.
He took it out and hefted it to the stove, standing on his stool, where he kept it on the fire to warm up while he went in search of his special tea. He smiled when he got his hands on his soothing caramel tea. The boy scampered over to the kettle and also put it on the stove as he also took out a cup and shovelled two spoons of the granules into it. (in this story, their granules. Deal with it). He put the caramel tin back into the cupboard and went back to his pork, which looked to be about hot enough so he removed it and served it into a flat plate with the hot water in the kettle being poured into his cup. He didn't like sugar too much so he just mixed it and took a small sip, resulting in a happy sigh to escape his lips.
He hopped onto the counter and ate his meal; Samehada chose to be quiet for now. When he finished his breakfast, as heavy as it was, he leaped down and washed his plates with him standing on a stool to reach the sink. He walked out of the kitchen and ignored his parents as he walked to the door,
"What's that on your shoulder, Naruto?" his father said idly as he took another spoon of cereal.
The boy didn't even look at his father when he answered, "something,"
"Don't get smart with me, kid."
He just ignored the offended man and walked out of the door, gently closing it too to show that he didn't think much of what the man had just said. He fully expected for his father to send some of his ninjas to follow him, maybe even befriend him. He didn't care; the last time he did care was before he heard his father mumble to his mother that he was a freak. He didn't hate them, he just didn't care anymore.
He walked to the edge of the forest of death and paused when his massive sword shivered. He growled and bared his teeth at the person standing at the entrance of the forest. His arm fins shot out and the lean muscles on his arms pulsed angrily as the edge of the arm fins buzzed a faint white, the coherent part of his mind thanked kami that he had enough control in him for the fins at his back to not shoot out or he would have been forced to go back home and endure the drama there.
The girl raised her hands none threateningly and motioned for him to calm down. The child looked like he would throw all caution to the wind and lunge at her but before he could even bend his knees the bandages sword shivered, and he cooled down. The girl allowed a faint smile to show on her face as Naruto steadily walked to her but frowned again when the child walked past her into the forest. She wore a tan trench coat with a full body mesh suit under it, an orange mini skirt over the mesh suit and black shirt with the leafs symbol on the chest.
Before he could disappear into the forest she said, "I just want you to know that I didn't know Orochimaru would do this to you." He ignored her and kept walking, she jogged up to him and stood in front of him to stop his progress, "listen kid, he betrayed me too." He looked at her sharply and the arm fins slowly sunk back into his body, she pulled down the collar of her coat and showed him the seal matrix and the containment seal on it, "he gave me this hickey and it hurts like a kunai being shoved up my ass." She didn't get the laugh she was expecting, not even a blush. Anko coughed into her hands and continued, "No hard feelings ok?"
He looked up at her, then at the hand she extended. He settled the sword at his side and shook the hand, "whatever. Just stay out of my way…" and he picked up his package again and trudged into the forest.
Anko would have been offended if it was an older person saying it but the boisterous girl couldn't bring herself to beat the disfigured boy into the ground for his blatant show of disrespect. "Ok! I'll-I'll see you later!?" the words came out before she could take them back and the 14 year old girl found her heart give a sudden thud when he waved at her over his shoulders. "U-Uhm, cool! See you!" and Anko ran in another direction in the forest. Naruto ignored his swords giggling sounds as her reached his leaving point. The shark boy stretched his body, the sword on the ground, before he took off his shirt and passed it over to Samehada to swallow it. He huffed under the weight of the sword as he ran full tilt to the water, taking a majestic leap and the diving in smoothly. His fins came out and if one were to see it from the land it would look like a very large fish was tearing through the water at break neck speed down with the water current.
Time skip: Four years later
A tall blue blur swept past the unsuspecting citizens of Konoha. it swerved and rolled away from a food cart while at the same time not slowing down enough for anyone besides the ANBU and some jounin that were passing by to get any solid picture of him. The blur swore quietly as he ducked through a clothing shop and flew out of the window, the shop keeper none the wiser, it bounced of the wall outside the window and used the canopy of the food cart to lightly bounce to the roof where it continued its frenzied sprint.
The academy came into view and it sped up even more-if that's even possible-and slid into the large front doors and powered up the stairs, deftly dodging chunin and students that scampered around him to their classes. It went to the highest floor and barrelled through the door near the end of the floor.
"-kaze Naruto," the classes sensei said from behind his clipboard before he looked at the panting pile on the ground with an amusedly raised eyebrow.
"I-I'm-I'm here sensei," the person said as he slowly got up and dusted himself off. He grinned and waved to his teacher before he scanned the class for any open seat, and found on at the back of the class near the ever quiet Minisaki Aburame, he also noted the wide berth the other students were giving her and rolled his eyes.
"Cutting it a bit too close there, Naruto," the sensei, Tonbo Gizo. The man was exceptionally tall for his age and even rank but despite this he somehow only wanted to be a teacher. Most of the students and some members of staff even said that he was Might Gai's training partner, which was true. "A few more minutes later and you would have spoiled your record. Go and take a seat, kid."
The boy bowed to the man and walked up the stairs in the class purposefully, he snapped his teeth when he caught a boy's foot trying to trip him and smiled when he hastily pulled it back. The class started murmuring to themselves as the teacher went outside to meet another teacher who was having a small problem in his own class (AKA substitute teacher). They noticed the Yondaime's 'wayward' son walking past the 'naturally' appointed line to separate the rest of the class from the 'creepy bug girl'. The 10 year old stopped beside the Aburames desk and relished in the fact that she had broken her stoic look to gape up at him. He smirked at her and pointed to the seat directly beside her and asked, "Is this seat taken?" he could hear her hive buzzing quietly in secret anticipation as she nodded her head slowly. He took the bandaged bundle off his back and leaned it by his chair as he took the seat. He smiled at her and extended his hand, "my name's-"
"Namikaze Naruto, the Yondaime's son. I know," she reverted back to her 'Aburame patented stoic face' as she looked at him intently; he still caught the faint blush of embarrassment, "I'm sorry, I'm not used to people talking besides my clan mates to me. My name is Aburame Minisaki, Namikaze-sama." Her voice was light and airy, like a breeze on a warm summer's day.
"You don't have to call me that, Minisaki-san; just call me Naruto or 'that cool dude' if you want,"
She cracked an almost invisible smirk from under her nose long collared coat, "I am not calling you 'that cool dude', Naruto-san"
"I tried," the tall for a 10 year old boy wore a grey and black (neatly made) sleeveless shirt that had a hood hanging down, with black pants that were taped at the ankles. He also had his usual blue sandals. He chose to wear white bandages around his arms and neck to hide the scratch marks from when his sword slipped from his hands and shaved a bit of his skin off during the leaf exercise last year. The ones on his neck were to conceal his gills. Make no mistake he wasn't ashamed of who he was anymore, he just didn't think it looked all that attractive if it randomly breathed for him if he somehow forgot to. The shaved arms had healed slightly but he still kept the bandages on because he thought it made him look badass. He riffled through his side bag and pulled out a book and a pencil (I don't remember if the students then used books but in mine they do) and placed it on the table. The girl beside him observed him quietly, not even having the decency to do it secretly. The blue haired boy nudged her with a smirk, "I know I'm good looking but you don't have to stare."
Minisaki's smirk widened slightly and she answered coolly, "If I were to be honest I would say you were the most awkward boy I have ever had the 'pleasure' of speaking to but I didn't want to be rude." The insulted boy didn't even break composure,
"You didn't call me ugly, Minisaki-san," Naruto sang as he waggled his eyebrows.
She stomped on his foot and faced the front of the class though her smirk did widen again. She dressed like a generic academy going Aburame child but with small difference. While the females in the clan opted not to wear too much make up or none at all, Minisaki wore predominantly black make up. Black eye shadow on her upper eye lid, black lip stick on her rarely seen lips with streaks of blue in her black hair. She even had black nail polish and a small white skull hair pin in her hair.
Naruto winced in pain from the foot as he looked at his notebook with his pencil being lightly gnawed between his teeth in frustration, "say, Minisaki-san, did you get that note on calculating kunai trajectory?" His response was a black note book being shoved under his nose, he took it carefully out of her pale hands, almost as pale as his own, and flipped through it, idly listening to Tonbo going over the same topic.
After the usual theoretic aspect of being a ninja was done for the day, Tonbo ushered his students out of is class to the kunai range for the practical aspect. They could either use their own kunai or academy grade kunai.
The shark boy grunted in displeasure as he once again missed the target, cursing quietly when he missed another one, then cursing loudly when he missed again. The Aburame girl, who had followed him out of the class, watched this with a raised eyebrow from behind her glasses. She tapped his shoulder and said, "Your posture is wrong and your using too much force in your throws," she collected his kunai and idly chucked them at the targets, all three of them hitting just outside the middle circle.
"It's not like I'm going to ever use a kunai,"
"It's still basic knowledge if you want to pass the graduation exams,"
"Well I think that's horse shit,"
"Go tell that to Hokage-sama,"
"I can and I will," he said lowly as he poked her shoulders. Naruto grunted again as he took a kunai and threw it at the target, missing it completely and nailing an unsuspecting bird on the head, "at least I hit something,"
When he made to throw another kunai at the bird Minisaki forcefully grabbed his arm, him not being too much taller than her, lightly kicked the back of his right knee and then gently kneed his stomach, "try now." He glared at her and coughed, she frowned slightly and was about to scold him until she saw his eyes flicker to her hand, still holding onto his arm. She pulled it off like it was on fire and rubbed it on her coat. He looked at the target and let his arm fly, the weapon nailed the bull's eye a bit to the edge.
He looked at her and smirked confidently, "see? I told you I could do it." the girl rolled her eyes and went back to her own kunai work. Not a minute later and she heard a quiet curse, and she let loose a quiet, breathy laugh. They kept up with their target practice until their sensei instructed them to pair up for their taijutsu spar. It was unlike their normal spars where Tonbo would call two random names and have them spar against each other because he felt it would be a nice and rare change to pair a boy against a girl. The man even called them up to the sparring mat and had them fight their partners, which were of the opposite sex due to him choosing so. He didn't have to choose the Yondaime's partner because she was already female.
When most of the fights were done it was Naruto and Minisaki's turn to spar. The usually smiling boy was now as stone faced as his female opponent, calmly ignoring the yells from his classmates. The two simultaneously took up their different taijutsu stances; Minisaki took the basic Aburame taijutsu stance while Naruto took the basic Mist sword-less style taijutsu stance. The teacher looked at them with raised eyebrows before he shrugged and called for quiet: "Namikaze Naruto vs. Aburame Minisaki. Begin!" he stepped back and watched curiously as the two students circled themselves before the girl ran to the boy, cool as ice.
She threw a punch and he slapped it away and punched her but she blocked it and kicked his side. He caught the leg and ducked under the follow up leg easily with the limb still in his hand which meant he pulled her onto the ground, her back upwards. He still had to flip back from the donkey kick. This time he ran forward and feinted to the left, punching her side when she followed the feint. She caught the limb with a pained wince and pulled him in, promptly kneeing his stomach, driving all air out of him and allowing her to punch his chest twice. Naruto used the force of the blow to fall back and flip forward again with a drop kick. She ducked under the kick and rolled away from the donkey kick. The students stood back up again and circled each other with the class quietly watching the very much interesting match.
The Aburame ran at the Yondaime's son and punched his face just as the boy cleared her feet from under her. They fell on the ground and again simultaneously rolled away from each other and flipped onto their feet. They darted to each other and exchanged identical blow after identical blow that met between them. He punched and she punched, she kicked and he kicked. It was dizzying seeing how much in sync they were until the boy slipped a kick past her outstretched leg and hit her stomach. He punched the side of her face and elbowed her chest as she wheezed for air.
He slapped her palm strike away and kicked her side. He stepped back and waited for her to get her breath back before he ran at her, punched her face, kicked her feet from under her and held her down by her shoulders. The two 10 year olds locked gazes as their sensei called the match in the boys favour. He helped her up and dusted her shoulder nervously.
They bowed to each other and the boy stepped forward with an outstretched hand, "that was a good spar, Minisaki-san."
"Yes it was and if you don't mind I would like for use to have a re-match later, if you want." She shook his hand firmly and took the ice pack her sensei gave her, carefully pressing it to her cheek.
"I don't mind. If you want to lose again so badly I'll be happy to grant you your wish."
She smiled a bit at his confident words, the only sign of her doing so being the small crinkles by her nose, "I went easy on you, Naruto-kun."
They walked back their seats a bit far away from the rest of the class, unaware of the fact that they were still holding hands or that the girl had just called his name with the affectionate masculine honorific '-kun'. He smiled widely and nudged her side as they sat down, "me too." They watched the rest of the spars as they quietly discussed animatedly about anything that came to their minds, the girl even laughed her breathy laugh again at one of his training accidents. She had opened up and told him that she stayed with her grandfather who was an elder in the Aburame council. Her parents died on a mis-ranked mission.
This was the sight the citizens of Konoha were subjected to. The Yondaime's 'delinquent' son unknowingly flirting with the Aburame girl who also unknowingly responded in kind. Naruto dropped her off with her grandfather in the clan compound; the man wore a neutral expression at seeing them together, and went off to train in his private place.
Authors note
Since Naruto is 3 years older than canon and since I can't just write a story without pairing him in some way with someone I created Minisaki Aburame. A Goth if you want to picture her. Hope you like this chapter; next one should have him fighting with Samehada and an extension of his shark-like abilities.
Things just got real good.
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B.j.