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During my silence I have been reading other fan fictions, trying to keep my grades up and studying even more.
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Presenting… the next chapter of 'Out of the Blue'!
CHAPTER SIX
"Let me at 'er! Let me at 'er!" Naruto yelled madly as he tried to pull away from the surprisingly strong grasp of the Hyuuga,
Meow!
"Look! She called me fat! I'm not fat, Aizen-sensei, tell her I'm not fat!"
Wanting to humour the child, the experienced hunter ninja turned jounin-sensei turned to the cat and said, "Naruto said I should tell you he's not fat, Tora,"
Me-ow!
"Why you little-" the shark boy tried to pull away again but the silver haired Hyuuga rolled his eyes and pulled him back by the collar of his shirt, "she called me ugly! Why aren't you guys doing anything to defend my honour?"
The Aburame allowed a ghost of a smirk to cross her face as she watched her boyfriend squirm in Jo's very strong hold, "maybe because you can't speak cat," it was she that had been assigned to hold the cat back; Jo was in charge of Naruto and Aizen hated cats. The feline tried swiping his claws at her but she moved her hands away.
Naruto's declaration of war against Tora started on the first day he and his team had been assigned to catch the fire daimyo's wife's cat. It was meant to be fast and less troublesome with all members of the team being able to track the cats smell and only the Aburame had a way to catch it; her hive. In Tora's defence Naruto smelled too much like a fish.
The cat kept taking bites at the boy and running to hide when Naruto turned around. But what broke the boy and had him swear revenge at the cat was when Tora had bitten him…down there.
The destruction that day was catastrophic. The Yondaime's 'bad influence of a' son tore after the cat, with the flexible creature dodged every jutsu the boy threw and every clone he summoned.
Thus a rivalry almost compared to the Sandaime's and Shimura Danzo's was born.
Aizen rolled his eyes and slapped the boy behind the head, "calm down idiot, it's just a cat,"
Meow me-ow me-meow!
Naruto froze and gasped, "how dare you, you have gone too far," behind him, Hyuuga Jo could not get any more amused, this was more drama than when his mother was pregnant for his little brother. Meanwhile, Minisaki stifled her laughter by tightly closing her lips, the side of her eyes were well hidden behind her glasses so no one notice the way they crinkled. Naruto began struggling anew, "she called me ugly, fat and stupid! How dare you!"
"That's enough Naruto," the teams sensei said between chuckles, he tried to put a stern face on and faced the cat, "apologise to him cat,"
The sassy cat relaxed on her haunches and looked away, meeeoww
"Good,"
"She didn't apologise!"
The man slapped the boy behind his head again and proceeded to lead his team to the Kage's tower to drop of the troublesome feline, "I don't care, now lets go and get rid of that creature so I can dismiss you lot," he ignored Tora's outraged meow and kept walking, his team diligently following after him. What startled the citizens of Konoha that they passed by on their way to their village leaders office was that the Yondaime's 'good for nothing' son was arguing with a too cool cat that ignored his yells of 'say it to my face, nip for brains!' just when they had thought they were used to the blue haired boys outburst and quirky behaviour he would come around again and twist their brains.
It was just best to ignore him as best as you can. But it was hard to ignore a 12 year old boy losing an argument with a prissy cat.
When they had finally gotten to the tower and handed the cat to the overly loving daimyo's wife all bore witness to the 'rivals' customary goodbye of:
"I know where you live," and Tora pointing two claws at her eyes and pointing those claws at Naruto.
"Big bro?" the shark boy was still looking at the closed door until he felt his pants leg being pulled, the person asking for attention, he looked down and beamed at his little brother and sister looking up at him with wide eyes possibly unblinking eyes,
"What'cha doing here squirts?" he looked at his father, who was behind his desk observing the interaction, from the side of his eyes, "you should be in the academy,"
"Iruka-sensei dismissed us early," the little boy, Himoji Namikaze had short red hair that spiked up. He was a healthy academy age boy with a temper only his mother could be proud of. His twin sister, Hitomi Namikaze, had smooth blonde hair that fell over her shoulders neatly. She was the more lax of the duo, with the way her eyes almost always looked half lidded and how she slinked in her walk. What she made up in her general relaxed look she made up in intelligence. Her IQ was said to rival the resident Nara child in her class. Right now though, she was staring up at him, with her foul tempered twin, wide eyed and raptly.
There was also this other quirk the duo had, "he said we have a-"
"Test on the basic Henge-" Himoji continued,
"Tomorrow," Hitomi finished.
They finished each other's sentences. Of course when they were together and speaking to the same person or group of people.
It was something Naruto was still trying to get used to.
Naruto blinked and tried to process what they were asking him to do, "you want me to help you two practice?" both precarious twins nodded in sync, "I'll help when I get home,"
Both twins smiled happily and began bouncing on the balls of their feet, "are you going to-"
"Show us any-"
"Cool jutsu?" this time it was Himoji that finished the sentence, Naruto scratched his cheek and shrugged,
"Sure, why not?" the two barrelled into him for a hug and scampered out of the large office, the shark boy dusted his hands and grinned at his team mates, who were looking at him curiously, "what?"
Minisaki rolled her eyes and nudged past him, "we're already dismissed, Naruto-kun," Aizen waved to his genin team and shunshin'd out of the office while Jo simply smiled and left the room.
"Where are you going then?" she hurried after her and both walked side by side down the street, Naruto's tall figure almost intimidating to the children that scampered around them playing 'ninja', the bandaged bundle at his back adding to his mysteriously strong persona. Minisaki reached for his hand and held it between them,
"I won't be able to see you for a while, my grandfather is teaching me advanced formations and he says my concentration is very important if I don't want my hive rebelling," she said all this in her quiet breathy voice as the walked down the almost noisy market district to the secluded Aburame clan compound that was situated near the forest, but Naruto caught all she said, very much used to tuning his ears to hear her voice.
"How long are we talking about?" he frowned and she smiled serenely, squeezing his hand lightly.
"3 months or so…"
The shark boy caught the barely noticeable waver in her voice, "its fine," he pulled her into a side hug as they stopped before the Aburame clan compound, "does sensei know," she shifted in his arm and hugged him fully, with him being a full head taller than her she fitted her head under his chin, she nodded, "you'll do great Saki-chan,"
"You think so?"
"I know so," he pulled back and kissed her forehead, "now I think you better head on inside or your grandfather's gonna flay me alive,"
The girl giggled softly and zipped down her nose high coat, she stood up on her tip toes and planted a full lipped kiss on him, almost literally making fireworks go off inside Naruto's head, "don't flirt with anyone, ya hear?" she spied her cool grandfather at the gate, somehow already knowing she was close, maybe it was because of one of his kakaichu that she had on her.
"C'mon Saki-chan, I'm 12, what's the worst that could happen?" he grinned widely, exposing his serrated shark teeth to the world. She rolled her eyes and kissed him again, this time a shorter one.
"I miss you already," she was about to kiss him again but stopped halfway when she heard a curt cough beside them. The Aburame pulled away and fully zipped up her coat before she waved slightly and entered the compound, leaving the sweating Yondaime's son and the overly cool Aburame grandfather.
It was silent for a full five minutes before the much older man hummed quietly, "if you hurt her, I hurt you. Do you understand child?" he said those words so coolly, so calmly, so quietly Naruto could have passed it off as a compliment on his physique… if he didn't know who exactly was talking.
He snapped into a sharp salute, eliciting low buzzing like chuckles from the gate keepers, "crystal Megi-san," the man, not in the least bit amused, nodded and walked briskly into the clan compound.
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Naruto quietly slipped into the Kage's mansion that afternoon, making sure not to bang the door shut. He took a deep breath and tip toed towards the stairs leading to his room, which meant he had to pass the living room first…
"Naruto?" the blue skinned boy refrained from groaning before he swivelled around and bowed politely to his mother.
"Kaa-san," the woman was whiling away the time by reading a magazine. She hastily stood up and dusted her casual dress idly,
"How was training? Are you hungry? There's some ramen in the kitchen. I can go and get you a bowl if you want," the boy responded negatively, "oh, what about I help you out with your taijutsu, you always did say it was giving you problems,"
"That was a long time ago, my taijutsu is ok now," when the woman's eyes dropped and her shoulders sagged realization came upon the boy what she was trying to do. She was trying to re-connect with him…
Kushina slowly sat back down, "oh…" Naruto tried not to glare at her when they saw a small yellow flash at the door and she reverted back to her plain faced self. The boy clenched his fists and stomped to the backyard; he smoothly raised his right hand over his shoulder and clenched the legendary sentient sword, ready to decimate the seal augmented training dummies in the Kage mansion training ground/backyard. Before he could will the sword to frill out, shredding the bandage covers, and bring it down on the nearest dummy he heard someone speak,
"Big brother?" he froze in his tracks and clenched his teeth in frustration, his sword wasn't really a secret anymore to the ninja populace, and the only hitch had been when the Yondaime had tried to take it from him. Let's just say, Samehada was less than please. He stayed in that position for a full minute, seemingly frozen in time and mute rage before he felt both his pants legs being lightly tugged, the person, or persons, asking for his full attention,
"Big bro," this time it was Himoji that spoke, being the sibling that he was, that is impatient and snarky, he tugged Naruto's leg again, "I know you're not a statue big bro,"
The shaving sword bearer snorted and let go of his sword, mentally willing it to calm down, he looked down and was again met with wide purple eyes that looked up at him possibly, again, unblinkingly. He stiffly rolled shoulders and ruffled their hairs, eliciting groans of frustration from his little siblings, "let's see what you've got,"
The Yondaime's children spent the rest of the day practicing their transformations, of Naruto helping his younger siblings with their Henge.
The next day, after dropping Hitomi and Himoji in the academy, and untangling himself from the students that insisted on showing them neat jutsu, going against their parents orders for them to stay away, we find Naruto walking leisurely to training ground 4, his teams official training ground. He got to the training ground and sat down beside a tree, closing his eyes and inhaling deeply a few times. Five minutes later his male team mate, Jo Hyuuga, the current 'begrudging' Hyuuga protégé, sat down beside him.
Both genin were quiet before they tensed, hearing a thundering bark from above them.
"Damn it sensei!" even though both genin couldn't sense the man or his ninken, they didn't make any move to defend themselves.
The hunter ninja and his canine partner jumped down in front of the two overly relaxed boys, "good morning young ones," Naruto opened an eye and looked at his sensei; the man seemed unusually peppy. Which was saying something since the man was rarely ever seen in a negative mood since he was unusually seen with a neutral expression or a small grin on his face. The shark boy sniffed deeply and furrowed his eyebrows in thought,
"You finally got laid?" Jo snickered into his hands, his pale eyes watering.
"Nope!" he said it so happily both boys would have thought that the man was genuinely happy he was still a virgin, an 18 year old virgin male ninja, a rarity in the shinobi world that both boys and girl picked up when they caught their sensei blushing (lightly) after being shoulder checked by a (hot) civilian woman. In Naruto's humble opinion her rear end was fairly look able… until Minisaki slapped the back of his head.
The Hyuuga protégé rubbed his eyes with his bandaged writs, rubbing out the tears, "then what sensei?"
"You two are going to fight," this was a month after the team had been formed and both boys had yet to spar against each other. They had been doing team exercises and tracking gauntlets, not spars.
"Fight? Don't you mean spar?" Jo asked, fully attentive.
"Nope! I want an all-out battle between you two,"
"Are you sure? I've got Samehada…"
The man hummed to himself, "well then, don't use it, just keep it on you as a weight or something,"
"Ok," Naruto stood up, so did Jo, and both boys stretched.
"Any day boys!"
It was Jo that first walked to the centre of the training ground and Naruto followed not far behind. They stood about eight feet apart, blankly looking at each other. Then the Yondaime's oldest child's face stretched into a terrifying grin and Jo smirked faintly, his byakugan flared to life seal-lessly. As one both took their stances, Jo taking the advanced stance for the jyuuken and Naruto taking the advanced stance for the Mist sword-less taijutsu style.
Naruto's face smoothed over till it was almost neutral, save the almost perceived upward twitch of his lips. Aizen coolly walked between them and looked at each boy slowly, "you know the rules, all goes except your sword Naruto," they nodded, the 18 year old sensei raised his right hand, "Naruto Namikaze vs. Jo Hyuuga…" he brought it down in a sharp chop, "begin!"
Surprising enough it was Jo that rocketed to his opponent with raised hands, Naruto's eyes widened as he leaned back completely and watched in horror as the Hyuugas chakra became faintly visible as it wafted above his face, 'I shouldn't let him touch me,' he thought quickly as he righted himself and raised a leg, dodging a jyuuken strike narrowly. He snap kicked Jo on the shoulder and leaned away from a powered strike to the shoulders.
He got the first tag in.
The blue haired Namikaze hissed in pain when the faint blue chakra of the Hyuuga wafted past his left shoulder, under his clothes there was a small trail of blisters that smoothed over a minute later. He ducked an aggressive strike to the neck and rammed both his fists into the silver haired Hyuugas unprotected belly. The victim's mouth puffed out with air, restraining himself from yelling. Jo used the momentum of Naruto's strike to bring his left leg up in a particularly ungraceful kick to the chest.
Naruto let out an "oomph" and flipped away, giving the boy space and at the same time Jo didn't channel any chakra to the strike. He ran to the silver haired boy and leaped into the air, his right fist raised and brought it down on the Hyuugas crossed arms. Jo then kneed the Namikaze in the stomach and attempted another strike, this time to the chest but had to jump back from a vicious snap kick.
Jo kept flipping back when water drill smashed around him, he stepped on a tree and coolly flipped over a drill. His byakugan blazed around when he didn't see Naruto before him, he cursed though when three water clones dropped around him. The strikes that ensued happened blazingly fast and the counter strikes and blocks just as fast. Jo side stepped an axe kick and struck the leg but the clones body part was moved away just in time, the Hyuuga, without turning around, threw an elbow at a clone, creating a massive welt on 'his' head.
The Hyuuga glared mutely after that, mechanically blocking and countering every strike, Naruto had to have pumped in a lot of chakra into the clones so he wouldn't easily see where he really was. Clever. He jumped over a clone, jabbing 'his' neck as it flew under him and dispelling it, he then spun in the air and savagely kicked another under 'his' chin, dispelling it as well, leaving the original.
"You are very strong Naruto-san," both boys weren't unscathed, Jo's arm bandages had been shredded up and his shirt had nasty slash marks through them, and Naruto's shirt was also almost in tatters. The Namikaze's arm fins were fully out and humming with dangerous water chakra.
"You too," Naruto raised both his arms up and thrust them to Jo in a slashing motion. Barely visible blue chakra sliced out of the fins,
To counter this Jo went through the same motion but he yelled out a jutsu, "Wind release: Leaf Blower!" the jutsu, made up of sharp white air, smashed against Naruto's attack, throwing both boys away harshly. Both genin crashed into the ground and skidded on their backs, stopping not too long after.
The training ground was silent, until Naruto staggered out of his crater and stumbled forward to the Hyuuga, visibility low with all the dust in the air. Jo met the Namikaze and, aided by his byakugan, struck the blue haired boys shoulder. In response Naruto savagely sent an upper cut to the Hyuugas chin, lifting him off the ground slightly. Not giving up, Jo brought his elbow down on Naruto's head, dazing the victim but not stopping him from smashing his fist on Jo's belly, more blindingly followed. Blood spurted out of the Hyuuga protégés mouth as his back met a tree.
Naruto glared silently and held a razor sharp and dangerously humming fin up to Jo's neck, "forfeit, Jo" when the Hyuuga glared back he pressed his arm a little bit more into his neck, a small trail of blood flowing out, "I'm not going to repeat myself,"
"That's enough! Winner, Naruto Namikaze!" Aizen yelled from behind them. Slowly Naruto allowed his fins to slide back in and he stepped away from Jo. The Hyuuga boy rubbed his slowly bleeding neck with his left hand and blankly looked at his male team mate.
Jo tentatively lifted his right hand for a hand shake and Naruto clasped the hand, "nice fight,"
"Yes, nice fight."
"I'm sure Jo needs to go and get his wounds checked, you too Naruto, so training is off until next week. Dismissed!" and he and his dog exploded into a cloud of smoke,
"Let me help you to the hospital Jo," and both genin slowly limped out of the training ground to the villages hospital.
Authors note
Jutsu list
Leaf blower: a B rank jutsu taught to Hyuuga Jo by his father, Hyuuga Kaiza. The jutsu throws out two blades of air at the users target from the users forearms. The jutsu works best with Hyuuga since they know the exact locations of tenketsu to use and channel their air chakra through. It is said to be the first stage of the 'Wind release: Air palm'.
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