Chapter Twelve
After getting home and getting permission from Hiashi, both Wasure and Hinata went to the park wearing the clothes they had on earlier.
"Is Naruto going to be there?" Asked Hinata.
"We can only hope." Replied Wasure.
Wasure knew Naruto was depressed, if he came maybe this could help him with getting over this. When they arrived to the park, Sasuke with Sakura and Emi were waiting. Wasure was surprised but happy to see Sasuke here, dude needed this to be honest.
"Wasure, you brought Hinata." Emi was one of Hinata's few friends.
"Hey Emi." Said Hinata.
"Wasure, are the twins coming?" Asked Sasuke.
"I hope so, honestly I'm surprised to see you came."
"Well, figured I may not get teamed with Sakura. May as well be with her one night where we are still just kids." Said Sasuke as Sakura hugged him.
"Aww, thanks Sasuke." Said Sakura.
"You know I have a question Wasure." Said Sasuke.
"What?"
"You said you hoped for the twins to show up, is that your friends with both or you wanna just see Inko."
"Uhhhh" Wasure was looking for ways out of this, he noticed Emi looked kinda mad. Wasure needed to answer this right or else…
"Well Wasure?" Asked Sasuke.
"Well what?" Asked Inko as she and Eizo walked up to the group.
"Nothing!" Yelled Wasure, making Sasuke smirk and Sakura, Hinata, and Emi laugh.
"Okay… Well anyone else coming?" Asked Inko.
"Ino, Shik, and Choji won't same with Kiba. Their families wanted to spend their night with them." Said Sakura.
"Ok then what about Naruto?" Asked Eizo.
"I don't know I hope the exam didn't get to him…" Said Wasure
"Me too." Said Emi as well as Hinata.
"So, what is the plan for tonight?" Asked Inko.
"Well, there is a festival full of food and games." Said Emi
"For what?" Asked Sasuke.
"Genin graduation." Replied Emi.
"Okay then, lets head that way I guess." Said Sasuke.
The group began to walk towards to the festival, there they saw food stands and game booths. Wasure smelled all the food thanks to enhanced nose. He wanted it all to be honest, but he only had so much money.
They decided to hit the game booths then the food, with the guys buying of course. They looked at each booth and decided to try a kunai one, where the point was pop three balloons catch was the kunai were dulled and the balloons were moving. Fun…
"So, boys who's first?" Asked Inko
"Why us? Especially you Inko, your one of the best when it comes with kunai." Asked Wasure.
"Aren't boys the ones to do these games to try and impress the girl?" Replied Inko. That made Sakura and Emi laugh, Eizo of course being the supposed ladies man went first. And then proceeded to miss all three, Sasuke went next.
"What prize would like Sakura?" Asked Sasuke.
"The necklace." Replied Sasuke, pointing to the pink coral necklace.
"Ok then." Sasuke threw his three and popped three getting the prize.
"Thanks, Sasuke!" Said Sakura as she put it on.
"Well Wasure anyone you wanna impress?" Taunted Inko.
"Fenrir…"
"Yeah…"
"Did she?"
"Most likely."
"Ah, crap…" Wasure looked at the game booth and noticed Emi looking at a red version of the necklace that Sakura had. Wasure walked up and placed the game fee down and grabbed three kunai.
"Good luck kid." Said the owner.
Wasure watched the balloons carefully looking for any pattern in movement. He had to hurry do to the game clock, Wasure closed his eyes and took a deep breath. He opened them and threw the kunai and pierced the balloons with ease, he smiled and walked up to the prize side of the booth.
"What prize would you like?" Asked the owner.
Wasure looked at Emi and smiled, he turned back and pointed to the red coral necklace. "The red necklace."
The owner grabbed it and handed to him, Wasure walked over to Emi.
"Saw you staring at it, thought I might as well get it to shut up Inko." Said Wasure smiling.
"Thanks, Wasure…" Emi was surprised to see Wasure noticed her staring the necklace. Emi went to put it on but couldn't get it to hook on.
"Do you need help with everything?" Asked Wasure taunting her.
"Oh, shut it and help me please." Replied Emi.
"Fine." Wasure fixed the necklace just for the others to smile and snicker. "What?" Asked the confused Wasure.
"So, it was Emi huh what is with you Uchiha and Kankuro girls?" Asked Inko.
"You fall for this crap way too easy." Fenrir was laughing as well.
"Inko you're not jealous, are you?" Asked Emi.
Inko froze, was she really Wasure asked himself.
"Well do you guys wanna eat now?" Asked Sasuke.
"Sure." Replied Wasure.
They went off to the food half of the festival grounds, where they split off into find their favorite foods. And believe it or not Ichirakus had a stand. Wasure was with Emi when he saw it.
"Hey you want some ramen?" Asked Wasure.
"Sure, why not." Replied Emi.
"Okay then." Wasure and Emi walked to the stand where Ichiraku was talking to a customer. After the customer walked away he turned to see Wasure walking up with Emi with him.
"Hey Wasure." As he saw Wasure get closer, he saw a headband in his pocket. "Congratulations with graduation!"
"Thank you Mr. Ichiraku." Replied Wasure.
"So, I guess this an important night for more than one reason." Ichiraku saw Emi and figured the rest out.
Wasure realized what he meant by that a was somewhat embarrassed but was able to hide it. "Anyway… beef like last time and what would you like Emi?"
"I'll try the beef." Said Emi.
"All right then, two beefs coming up." Ichiraku went to making the orders. "Here or to go?"
"To go." Replied Wasure, the group decided to meet up at a dinning area back at the park.
"All right then, they'll be ready in a few minutes."
Wasure looked back to see Emi smiling.
"What's the smile for?" Asked Wasure.
"This could be considered our first…" Before she finished Wasure realized what she was saying.
"Way to go kid, perhaps this is the one."
"Thanks Fen but…"
"But what?"
"I am worried for her, were shinobi. Our enemies will look for weaknesses and those closest to us."
"I see what you mean, but listen I know you. You protect your friends so this will feel second nature."
"I guess your right."
"Wasure?" Emi saw him staring off again, why does he do this?
"Oh, sorry zoned out." Replied Wasure.
"You do that a lot."
"Orders up!" Ichiraku came back with the bag with their food.
"Thank Mr. Ichiraku." Wasure with the bag walked back to the park with Emi. There the others were waiting with their food in to go plates or boxes as well.
"Took you two long enough." Said Sasuke.
"Sorry, ramen takes a while." Replied Wasure.
They sat down at the table with the others, the others opened their boxes to reveal barbeque, fried, and sweets in their boxes. After a few minutes, all the food was gone. Wasure had eaten the equivalent of two bowls while Emi had one. As they began to clean up, the sun began to set. It was a fun night, they began to walk back to their homes when Iruka showed up.
"Wasure where is Naruto!" Asked Iruka.
"I don't know why?" Replied Wasure.
"He stole the Scroll of Seals!" Replied Iruka.
"What!" Replied the group.
Wasure began to think, why would Naruto… Mizuki! Wasure's eyes changed to the Sharingan with two tomo and turned feral.
"Give me a sec." Wasure pulled out a whistle and blew making no sound except for Argos. Who showed up ten seconds later. "Argos track Naruto, we need to find him now."
Argos sniffed the air and barked twice, he had a scent. "Lead us to him boy." Wasure looked back to others. "Sasuke, Eizo take the girls home. This is a personal matter." The others saw Wasure's eyes and remembered the last time they saw those eyes, the night Wasure was "possessed" according to the official report. Only Sasuke knew the truth about what happened, for the others its what they saw when Wasure went ballistic against two rouge shinobi that were slaughtered0 by Wasure.
"Wasure…" Said Emi.
Wasure with Iruka followed Argos as he went through the village and to the forests, there they began to jump from tree to tree. There Argos lead them to a small cabin in a clearing where they saw Naruto sitting against the giant scroll panting.
"Naruto!" Yelled Wasure as he landed next to him.
"Hey Wasure, you wanna check the scroll out too?" Asked Naruto.
"Why did you take it!?" Yelled Iruka.
"I know why." Said Wasure, as he picked up the scent of a coward.
"Hello Iruka."
They turned to see Mizuki standing on a branch with three Shuriken on his back held by a strap as a sword or an ax would be.
"Mizuki, should have know you would pull something like this with Naruto." Said Wasure.
"You were the smart student of the brunch of brats, should have killed you when I first saw you." Replied Mizuki.
"Mizuki what is the meaning of this!" Yelled Iruka.
"To help Naruto pass the exam to become a genin." Replied Mizuki keeping his act of helping Naruto.
"Naruto, he's lying to you. Get the scroll and run, I'll deal with him." Said Iruka.
"Lying? Don't make me laugh, you want to talk about lying ok then. Let's tell Naruto the truth about him being Fox, shall we?" Said Mizuki.
"Mizuki don't you dare!" Yelled Wasure.
"Or what? Naruto, they both are here to stop you. They hate you, everyone does. Want to know why? It's because inside you is the Nine Tailed Fox, the same demon that nearly destroyed the village. The same fox that killed Iruka and Wasure's family, they don't care for you they never did and never will!"
Naruto began to tear up, he started to ask. Is that why everyone hates him is that why he was so alone in the world until Wasure showed up… but if he doesn't care for him does that mean the others don't as well?
"Naruto…" Iruka saw him about to cry.
"Now, now Naruto let me put you out of your misery!" Mizuki three ten kunai, that hit Iruka instead, Naruto looked up to see Iruka in pain.
"Naruto, I know how it feels to be alone. To be the class clown to try and get attention, but you have something I did not. You have friends, you have Wasure. He came here because he cared for you, please don't give Mizuki the scroll.
"I… I don't know who to trust anymore!" Naruto took the scroll and ran away deeper into the forest.
"He's all mine now Iruka." Said Mizuki, who threw on one the Shuriken from his back. The giant blade almost hit its mark just to be got by Wasure and by got the blade hit his hand.
"Fool, what do you plan to accomplish? I am a sensei and you are a lowly genin." Said Mizuki.
Wasure smiled, he pulled the giant blade out. When it came out the hand healed as if it never happened.
"What!" Yelled Mizuki.
"You know I'm kinda glad Naruto isn't here, so he doesn't see my own secret." Wasure looked back up at Mizuki who was shocked at the sight.
"How was that possible?" Mizuki threw ten more kunai, they hit Wasure. But were pushed out by the healing. "What are you…" Mizuki was scared now.
"You thought the fox was the only demon here?" Wasure laughed, as he did his nails sharpened even more. His fangs grew more, his eyes began to change. While they looked more feral, it was a different change this time. Mizuki looked to see a new tomo appear in Wasure's eye, his Sharingan had fully matured.
Mizuki threw a smoke bomb and ran toward the way Naruto went as fast as he could, he looked back to see Wasure on his tail. He reached for another shuriken just to see Wasure become faster and get right in front of him.
"Lightning Style Electric Eight Trigram palm rotation!" Wasure began to spin making a tornado with lightning surrounding his hands, landing the attack, Mizuki was sent flying down to just turn into a cloud of smoke."
"A shadow clone!" Wasure looked around to see figures in the distance running along the trees. He got closer to see Argos jump up to him, Wasure had the dog stay back just in case Mizuki had a partner in this. As they got closer he heard Iruka and Mizuki talking.
"You took ten kunai, a shuriken and bloodless just for a brat. Why Iruka, must you really must be this stupid." Said Mizuki. Wasure was watching from a branch and saw Naruto holding his hand over his mouth.
"I did this because I know how he feels, how." Mizuki cut him off.
"This again really? You're a broken record." Replied Mizuki.
"You make fun of this, but know this. Naruto may have a demon inside him, but he is not. He is what makes the village great, full of determination and heart. A kid that helps those who shun and hate him. He is nothing like the fox he is my student, He is Naruto Uzumaki!"
"You know I was going to save you for last, but hearing all the he's my student sappy bs has change my mind!" Mizuki grabbed his last shuriken, just for Naruto to jump out in front of Iruka.
"If you touch my Sensei again I'll kill you!" Said Naruto.
"Like you can stop me, I could kill you in one move." Said Mizuki.
"You wanna test that?" Asked Naruto.
"Bring it brat." Mizuki began to spin the shuriken.
"Multi Shadow Clone Jutsu!" Naruto preformed the hand signs for hundreds of clones surrounding him and Mizuki. Mizuki, Iruka, and Wasure were shocked he mastered the jutsu.
"How Is this possible!?" Yelled Mizuki.
"Never underestimate Jinchuuriki." Said Wasure as he dropped down with Argos.
"Wait doesn't that mean, oh no…" Mizuki realized the nightmare that stood around and in front of him.
"Naruto, deal with this fool." Said Wasure.
"No problem." Naruto cracked his knuckles. "Let's go guys!"
On his command, all the clones jumped down on Mizuki beating him to a bloody pulp. Wasure walked up to the dog pile, the clones saw him and made a path for him. Wasure saw the beaten and bloody Mizuki barley able to stay awake.
"You were saying sensei?" Wasure pulled out a kunai, and stared Mizuki down. "I don't know if you can still hear and I don't care, I could kill you right here right now. I could gut you like a fish until every organ and bone was out or broken, I could mutilate and make you unrecognizable, I could do all these things." Wasure readied to throw the kunai. "But I am not like you, and I never will be." Wasure threw the kunai in front of Mizuki. "I give you a choice, come with us or take you life like the coward and weakling you are. I don't care which one you choose, either way justice is served for betraying the village." Wasure began to walk away, the clones and the Naruto along with Iruka were shocked to see this side of Wasure. As he got close to Naruto he heard the sound of blood gushing out, he looked back to see Mizuki going limp as he had the kunai in his heart.
"Coward." Said Wasure.
"Wasure…." Said Naruto.
"Serves him right for taking advantage of your situation." Replied Wasure.
Iruka got up and held his left hand over his main wound keeping pressure on it to slow blood loss. "Wasure, I don't know what to say. But Naruto, you just passed to be a genin."
"I did!" Yelled Naruto.
"Yeah, now close your eyes." Iruka took his headband off and took Naruto's googles and gave him the headband. "Open you eyes Naruto."
Naruto opened his eyes and saw his googles in Iruka's hand meaning what was on his head was….
"It's my gift for you graduating." Said Iruka smiling.
"Thank you, Iruka-sensei!" Naruto was crying now.
"No problem, now let's head back to the village. I have to find a way to explain Mizuki…" Iruka looked at the body to see a puddle of blood under the body.
As they walked off with Iruka using Argos as a walking crutch, Obito was thinking should he dispose of the body. He saw it all, what Wasure did though. That is something Kakashi would have done, especially since he was fine with killing Rin.
"Wasure, your power grows every day soon you will be the most powerful in Konoha. And when that day comes, you will come for us. And we will be waiting for that day as well." Obito kamuied away back to the safehouse, the plan needed to change again.