Chapter 2
The training begins
XX Four years later XX
Naruto was a very odd baby. He only cried when he was hungry. He had learnt how to walk by the time he was three months old. Beginning to talk at nine months and speak fluently by two and half years old. It was remarkable. But what was truly remarkable was his chakra. Over the four years his chakra had grown leaps and bounds. Going from low Jounin at birth to elite Jounin at four. Although Naruto was able to speak, he was very quiet. Naruto wouldn't speak to those he thought were foolish.
He had once met with Itachi Uchiha, although being thirteen years younger he out spoke him. During the meeting with Itachi they battled out in a game of Shogi, with Itachi being the victor, though just barely. Throughout it was evenly paced. Naruto was something of legends. Today was his birthday, though he did not care. All the village minus the Senju were out celebrating Sasuke Uchiha's birthday. Just because he held the Kyuubi while being an Uchiha had somehow made him the best. Sasuke was like any kid his age. Though he had begun his shinobi training at the age of three did not make him good. He was a fool running around thinking that being a shinobi was all fun in games. At least naruto had understood what a shinobi was. It's either make a big impact on the world or die like a fool. He would never be a fool, he wouldn't allow it!
This year would be the year he asks his parents to train him. He would become a shinobi. He would become revolutionary. This world didn't respect power of one's actual strength. All they cared about was how famous their clan was. In Konoha that's all it was. Uchiha this, Uchiha that! It would of been Senju this, Senju that if Hashirama had won. But that didn't matter to Naruto. He would surpass Madara unlike his ancestor, Hashirama!
XX Senju Compound XX
"Tou-san, Kaa-san, I will begin my shinobi training" Naruto demanded emotionlessly. All Naruto wanted to do was get strong, fast. He would surpass his ancestors
"Naru-kun are you sure you want to start. It will be a long and grueling journey?" Kushina asked compassionately, know with what they would put him through.
"Kushina-chan, he is not a baby anymore, he can make his own decisions now" Minato had exclaimed happily. He had been waiting for this day. He put his son through hell just to make him strong.
"Tou-san is correct, I am old enough to make my own decisions" naruto said calmly.
The family then walked out to the backyard to begin the training
"For us to properly train you, we must see what you're capable of. I want you to begin running around the yard until you are exhausted" Minato sternly said. As Naruto begun the laps, his parents noticed that he was keeping a steady pace a person in their final year of the academy would. Though his form left room for improvement. With his form corrected he would be running at the speed a newly instated Genin would. Amazing. It took him half an hour to become exhausted. As well as a chakra monster he was a stamina machine. If one were to compare his stamina to someone else they would look toward Guy, as much of an eccentric ninja he was, nobody in the village could surpass Guy in a battle of stamina, and as the leading Taijutsu expert, he was not someone to trifled at. Naruto had waited half an hour for his stamina to replenish then returned to his parents.
"That was very good for someone with no shinobi training, next we must test your strength. I want you to do as many reps of twenty five push ups, twenty five sit ups, twenty five log punches with each and twenty five log kicks with each leg" Kushina said proudly. Already her son was a prodigy. Without any prior training, he could already beat some of the younger academy students. Naruto begun the reps with haste. After his fourth rep he begun to slow down due to physical exhaustion. He had persevered until the middle of his eighth rep which he stopped, sweat glistening his body.
"That was amazing Naru-kun!" Kushina exclaimed, already he was strong than the third year students
"That was excellent, Naruto, but once you are rested we shall begin the most important thing of being a ninja. Chakra. Have you unlocked yours yet?" Minato asked
"I believe I have" Naruto spoke. He sat down and meditated. Within a few seconds, as if the gates of hell opened, a malevolent chakra was unleashed. Human chakra was blue, and a Tailed beasts would range in colors. But Naruto's chakra was a dark purple. When in sight it looked like a deep abyss, or looking out into the star filled night sky.
"Naruto, that's enough!" Yelled out Minato. When Naruto began to absorb his chakra back, he noticed that he felt so much more powerful. What he couldn't see was his eyes were glowing an ominous purple, as if someone put a black light behind his eyes. The field then returned to being calm without the chakra disturbing the surroundings.
"You have a very strong chakra already and that's only going to keep getting larger as you grow older!" Minato said proudly "but with more chakra, the harder it is to control. Only one known person in history had both high chakra and perfect control. He was Hashirama Senju. Only because of his Wood Release could help him control his chakra"
"Is it possible that I could have Wood release?" Naruto asked. If he were to surpass his ancestors, it would help if he had Wood Release.
"Only time would tell. No other Senju has awoken it other than Hashirama. It is believed to be a mutation" Kushina said with sorrow
"Even if I don't have it, I will surpass Hashirama"
Naruto's parents only saw determination in his eyes. Nothing would stop him from his path.
"We'll begin your training tomorrow. Let's us go grab some dinner" Minato said while looking forward to tomorrow
XX Three Years Later XX
Three years of training went by in a blink of an eye. Naruto was a genius in every sense of the word. It was unreal. Naruto had weight and gravity seals placed on him after six months of physical training. Naruto had a total of one hundred and fifty pounds on each arm and two hundred on his legs. The resistance seals were at level three of ten, he was basically running through a thick mud. With all of these on he ran at average Genin speeds. For Taijutsu he used a mix of his father's Hummingbird style and Gai's Strong fist. Where he excelled the most was in chakra. Everything about it was natural to him. Chakra control was good enough to use Medical Jutsu, and enough to rival a Kage in chakra. Ninjutsu was amazing. With two elements, Water and earth, he was very versatile and defensive. While his defence was stellar, his offence was not that far behind.
His training was stopping with his parents today, as he was now old enough to join the academy. Oddly enough the class he would be joining would be full of clan heirs. Hopefully some of them aren't fools. One downside to the clan heirs being their means Sasuke would also be there. Even though they never met, Naruto hated his guts. He was an Uchiha. He was a spoiled child who didn't even deserve his love.
XX First Day Of The academy XX
Naruto was the first one to arrive other than the instructors. Naruto had decided to dress in his dark purple battle kimono, he aimed to impress and show that the Senju were the best. After about twenty minutes the other clan heirs save the Uchiha and civilian children started to pour in. Just as class was starting to begin the Uchiha walked in, swagger within his step. Sasuke was truly full of himself. When the female half of the class noticed him instantly swooning over him. Saying ridiculous confessions of love. Some even called him Sasuke-sama. Sasuke hearing this smirked.
This had infuriated Naruto. Sasuke only needed to walk and he was a god in people's eyes. Was it because of Sasuke containing the Kyuubi? Or was it because he was an Uchiha.
"EVERYONE SIT DOWN AND SHUT UP" one of the instructors commanded. Once the class had settled down he began to talk. "This is your first year of the academy. My name is Iruka, and this Mizuki" he said pointing towards the white haired man setting down behind the teacher's desk "and will be your sensei's until you graduate. Today will be the introduction and where we see what you know. First we will hold a Taijutsu tournament followed by seeing if anyone can do Ninjutsu. Once those are completed you will do a written test. That will complete this day. Tomorrow you scores will be posted on the wall. Let us head outside to begin the tournament.
With that said everyone left. Sasuke rushing to the front of the line so he could fight first. Naruto ended up at the end. The brackets were categorized into two sections. Male vs female. The male half would go first, then the female. As Sasuke was the first in line he fought first. Going against some civilian who had no prior training, was an easy fight. After a couple of civilian fights, Choji and Shikamaru were up. Neither one of them wanting to fight, both forfeited. With that out of the way Naruto finally went up. He was up against Kiba Inuzuka. With Kiba boasting about how he'd win, failed to realize that the battle had begun. The battle was over as soon as it begun with Naruto chopping the back of Kiba's neck, successfully knocking him out. Naruto and Sasuke climbed the ladders, they had finally got to the final fight.
"You should give up. No one can stand up to an Uchiha" Sasuke smugly said.
"Then why did Madara need to summon the Kyuubi, while Hashirama only used what he was born with?" Naruto snarled back
Sasuke's face was smitten with fury. With that being said began to run at Naruto, intending to show him a lesson. As Sasuke neared him, Naruto punched Sasuke hard enough in the stomach to cause blood to spurt from his mouth. Sasuke was in too much pain to get back up.
"W-with the final battle concluded for the male half, we shall begin the female half" Iruka stuttered out. The female side was completely pethetic, save for Hinata, who like Naruto, destroyed the opposition. Hinata was like any Hyuga though she wasn't over confident in her abilities or her bloodline. If he was at an age where he properly enjoyed women he would of thought she was already beautiful.
Naruto and Hinata were the victors of the tournament.
The instructors gave the students half an hour to recover before moving on towards the Ninjutsu portions. The instructors asked people who knew any jutsu. Few civilians put up their hands while all of the clan heads did. The civilians had either done the Clone Jutsu or the Transformation Jutsu. Excluding Naruto and Sasuke, the clan heirs did clan related jutsu.
"Heavenly Rotation" Hinata yelled as a dome of Chakra surrounded her, after a couple seconds she was forced to end the jutsu. She still didn't have enough chakra to use it for more than a few seconds. Everyone looked at Hinata with surprise, more so Naruto as he knew the chakra requirements just to start the jutsu. Sasuke was unimpressed as it was not an elemental jutsu. Sasuke the smugly waltzed to the platform where they were performing and slowly went through hand signed.
"Fire Style: Grand Fireball" was yelled. A medium sized fireball shot down the field before dissipating. He had such a smug smirk on his face. Naruto couldn't wait to humiliate him. Once Sasuke got back up to the bleachers, Naruto made his way. Once down there, Naruto went through fifty two hand signs. Water began to shake within the lake in the field.
Without warning Naruto yelled out "Water Style: Water Dragon" and the water that was previously shaking burst out. After a second of forming, the water took the shape of a dragon. It shot through the field faster than Sasuke's fireball. The dragon then hit two trees, uprooting the first and hitting the second with enough force to break in half.
Everyone was astonished except Sasuke, who was seething, though no one saw. Naruto smirked when he saw the face on Sasuke.
"That was excellent Naruto!" Iruka said as patted naruto on the back "Now we must get on to the written test". The test was easy. It took no effort for Naruto, he was the first one to hand it in so he was allowed to leave.
XX Senju Compound XX
"How was your first day Naru-kun" Kushina asked
"Fine, the Uchiha was pathetic" Naruto said with a chuckle in his voice "Even though the Uchiha's main element was fire, I could of produced a much hotter and bigger version"
"That's my son! Already showing your dominance in the ninja fields. You're already stronger than your mother and I at your age" Minato had proudly said. He was very happy that Naruto had hatred towards the Uchiha already, and he didn't need to influence the thoughts.
"We have one last jutsu we'd like to teach you. Come outside with us" Kushina said
As they arrived Naruto had noticed that there were no training dummies
"Today we will not be teaching you a destructive jutsu, but we will be teaching you one of the most useful jutsu's to be created. Tobirama had created this jutsu a week before his death. It's called the Shadow Clone Jutsu. While it may be a clone jutsu, this one is the best of them all. Unlike what is sounds like, it makes a physical clone that's able to only take one strong hit. But that is not what makes it good. Whatever the clone learns, you will too. The memory and chakra of the clone returns to you. Let's say you didn't know the wall walking technique and you sent a Shadow Clone to do it, once the clone 'pops', everything it had learnt would be transferred to you!" Minato then shows Naruto the handsign needed for the jutsu. When Minato had done it, he created ten clones. Naruto felt how the chakra was manipulated within his father and recreated it, but pushing most of his chakra through instead. After a couple of seconds the whole clearing had become filled with clones of Naruto. There must of been thousands of him! Not even Hashirama could of made over three hundred clones, and he was thought to have had the most chakra to exist within a human body, but he was just outclassed by a seven year old!
XX Uchiha Brothers XX
"Sasuke, just because you are a Uchiha doesn't mean you are a god" Itachi said softly.
"But Brother! The Uchiha are the greatest fighters it's in our blood!" Sasuke said loudly back.
"Yes we are Uchiha but you need skill to back up your claims of greatness" Itachi said raising his tone.
"Well with you and Shisui both teaching me i'll be one of the strongest in the Uchiha! We will be like the lord first, second, and fourth! Madara, Izuna and Tou-sama!" Sasuke said proudly to Itachi
"Well then you're gonna need more training if you wish to come close to their skill." Itachi said laughing under his breath for what Sasuke said.
"Now are you two just gonna keep talking or are we gonna start training" a voice came from the shadows.
"Shisui!" Sasuke cheered as he ran to him.
"Heh, Hey there Sasuke what's up?" Shisui asked.
"Itachi is training me to be as strong as lord First and Second! Right Brother?!" Sasuke said loudly.
"Well we will Sasuke, you still need serious work on your Fire Release and on Taijutsu for starters" Itachi said as he stretched his back.
"Haha well Sasuke let's see a Fire Dragon" Shisui said smiling
"Okay watch this!" Sasuke said trying to impress Shisui
Fire Style: Fire Dragon as a dragon formed the size of four fists and pushed forward into the mountainside causing almost no damage.
"Oh well that's not that bad" Shisui said trying to be nice.
"Really?" Sasuke said happily.
"Yes, it needs some work here watch me" Shisui said as he went to form a fireball
Fire Style: Fire Dragon as a huge dragon made of fire came flying towards the mountainside causing a hole to form in the side.
"Wow Shisui how did you do that?!" Sasuke asked in shock at Shisui's fireball.
"Here let's go over the hand signs" Shisui exclaimed
"Wow Shisui, you got Sasuke to focus on his training fully heh glad we are frie.. No family" Itachi thought to himself
"...Okay now lets see it Sasuke" Shisui finished
Fire Style: Fire Dragon As Sasuke focused he made a Dragon just a lot smaller the Shisui's previous one appear.
"I did it was that good Shisui?" Sasuke asked cheerfully.
"Sasuke that was amazing! Specially for your age"
Shisui said happily.
"Brother did you see it?" Sasuke asked cheerfully .
"Yes Sasuke that was really good" Itachi said smiling.
"Thanks Shisui your the best" Sasuke said as he hugged Shisui.
"Heh no problem" Shisui said smiling.
"Well it's getting pretty close to dinner, we should start heading back to the village" Itachi said
As Sasuke, Shisui, and, Sasuke started heading back to the village Sasuke kept talking about his training and wanting to go tomorrow and train again.
XX Second Day Of The Academy XX
Naruto had arrived early again. He saw his instructors pinning up the results from yesterday. He went over to see his standing. He was ranked first, but he was pissed. They were ranked out of a hundred. Naruto had a perfect score but Sasuke had a ninety nine! How? He had showed up Sasuke in literally everything but Sasuke almost gets a perfect score! Naruto had went into the classroom ignoring the instructors, who were shaking out of fear from the killing intent Naruto was releasing. Sitting down in the far right corner of the class with a pissed of face, fell asleep.
Naruto was awoken by hateful intent. While his Parents knew he was a very strong sensor, they didn't know he could sense negative emotions and the chakra around everything. Opening his eyes, saw Sasuke walking up the stairs towards him.
"That should be me at the top of the list, not you" Sasuke aggressively said to Naruto
"Like I care, Uchiha" Naruto said without a care in the world
"SIT DOWN AND SHUT UP" Iruka yelled.
"Today we will be learning about our first Hokage, Madara Uchiha" Iruka said.
Naruto had asked to go to the washroom, planning to switch out with a Shadow Clone. Once had swapped with the Shadow Clone he Body Flickered to training ground forty four, affectionately dubbed, The Forest of Death.
XX After The Academy XX
"Itachi, Itachi, let's go!" Sasuke shouted to his working brother
"Ugh… Sasuke stop shouting" Itachi said tiredly. He had been doing paperwork after he had breakfast
"Shisui is making dinner for us before we go. So hurry up" Sasuke said excitedly as he ran out of Itachi's room.
"Shisui? Dinner? Huh" Itachi thought as he put on his clothes.
"Good afternoon Itachi" Shisui said casually.
"Brother were gonna work on my Taijutsu today and Shisui said if I do good he will teach me how to make Shadow clones!" Sasuke said excited as he stuffed his face with food rushing to eat.
"Sasuke don't eat so fast or you will get cramps while training" Itachi said calmly.
"He is right Sasuke, since you don't have school tomorrow, we can stay out longer" Shisui added
"Oh alright" Sasuke said sulking.
(One Hour Later)
"Okay we are almost at the spot" Itachi said.
"Ugh can we stop for a minute" Sasuke cried out.
"We warned you about eating too fast" Shisui laughed.
"Alright fine we will stop up here" Itachi said.
"Thank you" Sasuke said.
Itachi and Shisui walked away from Sasuke to discuss what they'd teach him
"So Itachi what are we teaching Sasuke today?" Shisui said seriously .
"First his Taijutsu needs work. Although he has not awoken his Sharingan yet, he should be better at the style. Since he wants to learn archery, we could teach him the basics. We should also begin with elemental training" Itachi said. They walked back to Sasuke noticing that he was bouncing around like a buffoon.
"Shisui don't forget that you're still teaching me how to make shadow clones" Sasuke shouted.
"Of course Sasuke how could I forget" Shisui said smiling.
"You ready to move again Sasuke?" Itachi asked
"Yeah let's go" Sasuke said standing up.
(Later)
"Alright Sasuke what do you want to work on first?" Itachi asked.
"Ummm bow and arrow sounds good" Sasuke said excited to learn.
"Okay get your bow setup i'll go get some targets out for you" Itachi said getting variety of targets ranging in size.
As Itachi set six different targets up in different places as Sasuke got his arrows and his bow ready.
"Okay, Sasuke on three I want to see how fast you can hit each target" Itachi said
"Three, Two, One"
With that Sasuke took aim hitting three targets perfectly, skimming one and missing two.
"Damn it" Sasuke mumbled.
"That's not too bad" Shisui spoke up.
"Yeah Sasuke you did pretty good" Itachi said as he started to reset the targets.
"Try controlling your breathing and breath out slowly as you shoot" Shisui said smiling to Sasuke.
"Three, Two, One"
This time Sasuke hit five targets and skimmed the sixth.
"There ya go Sasuke" Shisui said cheerfully
"See Sasuke you are getting much better at th-" Itachi was saying before a strange sound was heard from the trees.
"Itachi? What's wro-" Sasuke was saying before Itachi covered his mouth and putting a finger over his lip indicating to be silent.
Itachi scanned the tree line trying to see what had made the sound. As the sound got closer and closer Itachi and shisui went in front of Sasuke to protect him incase it was something dangerous. Both Shisui and Itachi were looking towards the area where the sound was made.
"Brother wha-what's wrong" Sasuke whispered.
"Just stay quiet and next to us something could be coming towards us" Itachi whispered back.
Then sounds of pain and groaning could be heard then it got silent other than the wind hitting the leafs. Seconds past until the sound of trees falling over and branches breaking echoed. Then an explosion blasted the branches and leafs away from the area. Shisui indicated they should go check out what happened still remaining silent to be safe.
As the three moved slowly forward the aftermath from the explosion was everywhere, and as they got closer blood was splattered around trees and on the ground. They finally got to where the main point of the explosion was and saw no one anywhere but stains of blood and debris from the event.
"We should head back to the village and tell them what happened" Shisui said still confused at what he was seeing.
With that the three moved fast towards the village to inform the Hokage on what happened.
XX Hokage's Office XX
"Hokage-sama, there was a disturbance around a mile out, east. Shisui, Sasuke, and I were training when I felt chakra build up. We eventually heard someone groaning in pain. As we were about to check it out there was an explosion. At the site of the explosion, blood was coating nearly everywhere. It didn't look like an explosion tag went over, it was like he exploded from within" Itachi said with worry in his voice
"Was there anything left of the victim?" Hiruzen questioned
"No Hokage-sama"
"Thank you Itachi, I will have Anbu lookout for any clues. I'll have to ask you to stay away from there. If the attacker returns he could potentially kill you. I will be researching if anything like this has happened in the past. I must ask you to leave" Hiruzen said.
XX Investigation XX
(10:12 pm)
The ten Anbu went to investigate the cause of the explosion. As time went by all them could find were blood and burnt trees from the explosion. When the main leader Wolf called for everyone to regroup to talk about what they found only nine came back.
"Rat?" Wolf shouted.
"AGGHHHHH" cried from the trees.
"RAT! EVERYONE WATCH OUT!" Wolf shouted.
As the Anbu group held their ground waiting to see what happened to Rat there was complete silence. Then Rat walker out of the trees walking slowly with his head down.
"Rat? Are you okay?" Wolf asked.
"Rat?" Wolf asked again.
As Rat got even closer to the group he pulled a knife out and raised it to his neck.
"Rat what are you doing?!" Wolf shouted.
Rat proceeded to stab his neck then drop the knife.
"What… The… Fu...?" Wolf said softly.
As Rat raised his head his body was consumed by a weird substance that expanded over a short time. Then Rat Exploded taking eight of the nine Anbu.
"Aghhhh… shit" Wolf cried out holding his lower arm only to see his hand was blown off from the blast.
"Huh? What was that? Sasuke said waking up from hearing the explosion.
Sasuke looked out his window to see smoke not too far in the distance.
Then without thinking Sasuke grabbed his Uchiha robes and ran out towards the explosion.
"Aghh... damn it" Wolf coughed out.
"Anyo-one okay?" Wolf said trying to be loud.
"I got to get back to the village" he thought
As Wolf tried to get up he fell to the ground a noticed a piece from a branch was sticking out of his leg.
"Son of a bitch" He cried out barely making sound at this point.
Then Wolf saw a someone running towards him.
"Ughh… Help!" Wolf tried to call out to the person.
As Sasuke got to the aftermath of the explosion all he saw were body parts lying around, blood splattered everywhere, and one person down in a pool of blood. Sasuke eyes began to close and as they opened his eyes had red orbs within them with a small black dot in each if his eyes and the center was black indicating where his pupil was.
"H-hey you Uchiha please I-I need your help to get back to the Village I m-must report what hap-happened to the Hokag…" Wolf was saying before he blacked out.
Sasuke ran to his aid put his arm over his shoulder and with all his strength went as fast as he could to the Village to find a medical ninja.
Sasuke felt weird as if time had gotten slower but he stayed the same as before almost faster than time itself. Thoughts kept pouring into his head as he hauled the Anbu he met back to the village.
"HELP! I HAVE A INJURED ANBU! PLEASE SOMEONE!" Sasuke shouted as he entered the village with his eyes still a bright red.
"Hurry over here" a girl's voice shouted back from the medical area.
Sasuke ran over to the girl as fast as he could.
"Set him down on the bed please" The girl said.
"Tsunade wake up!" The girl yelled pushing into the woman lying on the bed.
"Naori what's wrong?" Tsunade said rubbing her eyes.
"We have a badly injured Anbu. This young Uchiha boy just brought him in" Naori said.
"Okay move give me a minute" Tsunade said Jumping out of the bed over to Wolf.
While Tsunade started to heal Wolf, Naori looked at Sasuke trying to find any Injuries.
"Ummm are you okay?" Naori asked shyly.
"...Yeah" Sasuke said back slowly.
"Umm what's your name? Naori asked trying to not sound shy.
"I'm Sasuke Uchiha, what's yours? Sasuke responded.
"Oh I i'm Naori Uchiha medical ninja in training" Naori said happily.
"Sasuke you saved this man's life if you hadn't brought him in he would have died within a hour. He will stay here the night to recover and should be conscious by tomorrow. I'll let him know that you saved him. But you should head home, since you really shouldn't be outside at this time" Tsunade said.
With that being said Sasuke walked out the door and headed home.
XX Three Months Later XX
The academy was useless to Naruto. What they were teaching, Naruto had already learn from his parents and their clan library. It was sad. His civilian classmates are pathetic. They'd swoon over Sasuke consistently and they have little to no skill in the ninja arts. While he had forced his clones to go to class, he went and trained in the forest of death. Everyday he would summon seven hundred and fifty Shadow Clones delegating them to different exercises. Three hundred were sent to work on elemental chakra, splitting themselves in half, half went to work on their Water Element by pulling out water from the environment and create balls with said water. With the other half they were tasked to move the ground below them to strengthen his Earth Element. One hundred were sent to Taijutsu and went through forms and battled each other to gain fighting experience. Another hundred were sent to improve on Fuinjutsu by either reading more about sealing or creating new seals. The last two hundred and fifty were sent to improve their chakra control. Naruto had barely noticed that it was very late so he began to run home though he was exhausted from the fatigue given from the Shadow Clones. Once he arrived he felt something was wrong. He began to gather chakra to help sense if there was something wrong. What was odd was that he only felt three chakra signatures coming from his house. He cautiously began walking to his house. The door was smashed open. He ran into his house. He ran upstairs to see if his parents were awake and knew of the break in. He slowly opened the door. He collapsed to the ground, his eyes sprung tears, and he began to shake.
All he saw was his parent's decapitated heads and a cloaked figure with a Sharingan.