I'm back again and this time with fighting! Yay! We're returning to canon for a short stop, so please make any transfers quickly.
He, he. Train joke. But anyway, let's go!
Super hero time!
Ex-aid: Let's game! Metccha game! Muucha game! What's your name? You're a Pirate ninja!
Naruto: Come on Mega- I mean Ex-aid! There's a game to be beaten!
Ex-aid: I guess you could call this test a game too!
Naruto: Then it must be stuck on hard mode!
E-a + N: Game start! Showtime!
"You fail!"
"What!? So I can't make a clone; that doesn't mean that I'm bad at stealth or espionage! How many bloody times do you even see someone using stealth? No, wait, that's wrong – Using sneaky tactics?"
It was the most obvious form of dislike they could show with what little power they had over the village. They had managed to whittle down the defences surrounding the academy system, meaning they were able to 'suitable adjust the curriculum to allow the greatest potential to be seen' – a statement which pretty much meant 'we choose who graduates and who fails and you can do nothing about it.' So when it came to the tests of Naruto's year, it was a simple feat to change the requirements in order to be against him. That mean that there was a higher emphasise on the clone requirement, which he was incapable of doing due to his unnaturally high chakra level.
"You were told of the requirements and you were unable to fulfil them. That is a solid fact and you cannot change that." Iruka said, albeit with a little reluctance. During his time with the child, he had somewhat warmed up to him, even if he had remained distant, so seeing Naruto fail was a little saddening, but no more that it would be for any other child failing.
"Welp, that sucks. I guess I've got to go then." He said as he threw up his arms. He knew there was no real way of winning when arguing, but there was always the chance that he could just go to Jiji and get him to promote him, but that would also lead to scorn from people who thought he only got the chance because he was friends with the hokage.
"Oh Naruto, I'm so sorry that you didn't become a ninja!" Hinata said as she walked up to his place. The red pirate was a little surprised to find that he had managed to make his way towards the swing that he would always end up at when he was left a little down after a particularly rough day.
"Eh, you know it'll be fine." He reassured the heiress, though her face lost none of its concern. "Now, are we still up for the trip to the galleon tonight? Perhaps we could see what else there is in the storage room." Within the GokaiGalleon, they had been able to find a multitude of different machines in the bowels, such as a four wheeled cart, a ship of sorts and what appeared to be a vehicle designed for flight from its design, though they clearly couldn't test the functionality.
"Oh, okay then… I'll be waiting." The girl gave one final glance to Naruto before slowly and reluctantly walking away to the retainer that was left waiting impatiently for her. They had previously talked about the very high chance that he would fail, but she was still upset at the thought.
"Look at him, sitting there all alone. It's where he deserves to be."
"I hear he managed to act like the fourth. The nerve of him – desecrated such an honoured ninja's name!"
"He's a troublemaker and a scoundrel, just what you'd expect from a de-"
"Shush! We aren't meant to talk about that in public!" the harsh and mocking whispers surrounded him on all sides, but he had made it this far; it would only bring down the public opinion if he were to snap now. He was so enraptured in listening to the parents and children talk about him that he was completely oblivious to Mizuki, who had snuck up behind him.
"Hey, you're looking a little dejected there. Is everything alright?"
'A: you wouldn't say that to anyone who has just been told they can't continue on in the line of work they had been pursuing for four years. B: I'm pretty sure you're one of the ones that had it set up so I would fail.' Naruto thought to himself as he planned out what he was going to do. After all, there had to be a reason as to why he would decide to talk to him now considering that he had made no real effort to even get to know him as a student.
"Um, well, I could be better I guess."
"Well don't worry, you know that Iruka can be a bit too harsh on people." The teaching assistant comforted, yet the plastic condolence really didn't have much of an effect. "For people like you, who just fail in a single area, we have something special for you to do and it's quite simple. All I need is…" Several rapid instructions were whispered to him, of which all were leading to an increasingly stupid plan.
'Dear lord, does he really expect me to follow that?' Naruto mentally asked himself with a stoic face. Seeing the smug grin on Mizuki's though showed that the guy truly believed him to be that idiotic.
"I'll… see what I can do."
"I trust you can you do it." The man left with a pat on his shoulder, a little too hard to be for good luck. Naruto dashed off towards the main tower; there was something important he had to tell Jiji now.
"What!? He believes you to be that stupid!?" the wizened old man bellowed towards his younger charge.
"Yep-yep. I don't know why he would choose the most protected scroll if he desired it for himself as I wouldn't even be able to get close to it under normal circumstances." Naruto agreed from his place leaning on the wall. Hiruzen just slumped down against his own and took a large drag from his pipe, the searing smoke soothing him. The men and women of the academy were a bit on the less informed side, but surely they understood that the forbidden scroll was incredibly tightly locked up and even the son of the Hokage was unable to view it unless he became one too.
"We will have to dispatch a group of ANBU under henge, for he shouldn't be expecting someone like you to have access to the higher levels." The hokage sighed with a hand to his forehead, though he was a bit confused when Naruto suddenly yelled,
"Wait! I've got an idea! What about I meet him and beat him myself? I could use my special abilities which he won't be able to prepare for?"
"So why on earth did you come to me if you could simply deal with him yourself? I could have learnt about it afterward and it would've been more convincing if you didn't immediately come to me?" Hiruzen questioned straight away, but the boy had his answer already prepared.
"If I did it this way, then he will be even more cautious, yes, but as soon as he realises that there is no one nearby and I am not under an illusion, then he'll be further lead into the trap by believing that any help I could've got is not coming or that I wasn't able to get any help!" He reasoned and with each passing second, Sarutobi knew that there would be no denying him the chance to execute a plan of his own.
"Fine." He eventually relented after a couple more questions. "Will you take Hinata along at least as backup? I know you can communicate with her over large distances and it would be better to have an easily notified second." Naruto agreed to the suggestion easily. It would have to replace their little adventure, but it was a potentially profitable venture that they couldn't afford to miss. Wonderful. I trust that you are able to succeed without the need for such gifts, but allow me to grant you this." Reaching into the ruffles of his robes, he pulled out a single scroll that he passed on to the young pirate, who eagerly opened it up.
"Cool, Kage Bunshin? I can totally rock this!" Naruto cheered as he looked over the instructions that were really non-existent. All he had to was provide the chakra while he held a single had sign; not too hard on any level.
"Well, it would better compliment you higher chakra and is actually a technique found within the scroll in order to add to the illusion." Sarutobi explained and Naruto threw him a salute as he dashed out of the door. "That boy will either go far, or he will bring the world down around him with what I do for him."
"Hey Hinata, We're going to have to change that meeting we were going to have!" Naruto cheerfully declared down the phone to Hinata, who was more than upset at the thought. Had she done something wrong in order to make him not want to meet up?
"But why Naruto? I was so looking forward to it…" Quickly realising his mistake, he backpedalled.
"Oh no, no, no! That's not what I meant! We can still meet up, but I've got this super cool mission to do and I could use your help that way instead! "
"Oh, that's okay then. Should I call Lee too? I'm sure he would be happy to help."
"Nah, We'll be fine. I'm pretty sure he has stuff to do with his team at this point anyway, so it would be best not to bother him." He was also on a training period with Might Guy, a unique fighter who excelled in the martial arts and was known across the elemental nation for his highly demanding training system and what it could cause.
"Right then. I'll be waiting at my compound room and can signal my family if you need any help; my room is close enough to the area you should be in." Hinata confirmed with Naruto, who nodded despite the fact that there were none to see him, much less Hinata.
"That's great! I'll see you tomorrow with the good news – hopefully!" He signed off, closing the phone. Taking a small walk to the wooden floorboard he had hidden his greatest treasure under, he pried the loose piece of wood off and began to rummage through the different keys to see which would be most appropriate.
"Well, there's Ninja-black; bring back the black for a little scare fest, but beating him as a ninja just seems like it would be too boring… Magiranger? I could use them and say it was part of the forbidden scroll's repertoire… But then there's Gingaman, the original Gorangers, Mamorugers, Battle fever; I just don't know which ones to pick!" He fell back onto the hard floor, letting the stray keys simply scatter around him, but when his eyes lay upon a certain set of keys, he immediately scuffled over and took them into his hands.
"Yes! This'll be perfect!"
At the dead of night, Naruto snuck through the dense forestry, something he mused was becoming a real past time for him. According to the instructions he had been given by Mizuki, there was a large clearing that had possibly been made by someone training in several different elemental ninjutsu types; he hadn't been wrong, it was just that it was Naruto training with his different sentai keys.
"Right, log disguised as Scroll? Check. Right key collection? Check. This is going to be amazing! I wonder if Jiji managed to play his part right?" With the last question, a loud siren rang out across the village, a signal that there had been a high scale robbery. Luckily for him, it had been sent to the ANBU forces that it was simply a test and there was no need to worry, but by not telling the general populace, they would be able to simulate it and reduce the chance of any stray ANBU popping up. "Huh, I really shouldn't doubt that man. He's still got it in him I guess!" It was at that moment when a body came bursting out of the bushes towards him.
"Naruto, what on earth are you doing with the forbidden scroll!?" Iruka, only a slight bit work out, asked his student, who stood there with a smile.
"Oh, didn't expect you to already be here! I only had the chance to master a single jutsu, but that's enough for the test right?" Naruto returned with a slight chuckle to Iruka's disappointment.
"A test? You really believe that someone would put out a test that would require stealing an important treasure!?" The teacher questioned, but Naruto merely waved it off.
"It wasn't that hard and I'm pretty sure that the stuff in here is easier than it should be, so it's all fine Iruka-sensei!" Iruka was about to respond, either with further chiding or the large head jutsu, when an eerily calm voice and slow clap came from the same direction as Iruka had originally come from.
"So you did manage to succeed? I'm fairly surprised. I wouldn't think a drop-out such as you would be able to do such a dangerous thing." The comment was filled with malice that would be hard not to pick up on.
"Wait, Mizuki? You set him up to do this and called it a test?" Iruka said, mightily confused. He had seen the man throughout the entirety of the school year and he had shown no signs of potentially stealing one of the most important pieces of Konoha history.
"But of course! There was no way that I would be able to do it normally, but with the demon failing and being close to the Hokage, he would be the ultimate guinea pig!" The assistant taunted before he disappeared in a burst of light and reappeared next to the pirate, taking the scroll he had beside him. "Perfect, with this, Orochimaru will be invincible and he'll reward me with ultimate power! Who knew that it would be this easy to break through Konoha's defences!?" His cheerful declarations slowly descended further and further into lunacy, Iruka watching as any remnants of the jovial classroom aid that loved to pass on knowledge was kicked away with minimal concern.
"Ah yes, about that…" With a click of Naruto's fingers, the scroll in Mizuki's hands became a log as it originally was, causing both teachers to take a second look.
'He was able to disguise it without leaving a visible chakra print at a genin stage?' Iruka thought in amazement as he looked at the log before it was splintered in Mizuki's grip.
"Damn you! Where is the real thing!?" The man angrily growled towards he who was once his student, but in response, Naruto merely held his fingers in a cross sign before intoning,
"Kage Bunshin!"
In a poof of smoke, several copies of the young boy had appeared in the clearing, each holding a differently coloured key.
"I'm so sorry Mizuki, but your scroll is in another castle!" The original heckled before each Naruto followed the exact same movements, holding the phone to themselves and holding the key straight out.
"Gokai change!" Neither of the two teachers were prepared for when the boy(s) inserted their keys and turned, resulting in a series of Kanji coming out and enveloping them, turning into suits that had different versions of those kanji upon their helmets in dark black.
SHIIINKENGER!
"Shinken-red!"
"Onajiki Blue!"
"Onajiki green!"
"Onajiki pink!"
"Onajiki Yellow!"
"Ha, are those colourful monstrosities meant to scare me? What are they even meant to do?" Mizuki got out between stifled laughter.
"You should not underestimate the force of a samurai sentai!" Naruto as Shinken-red intoned, though the declaration was met with even more deranged laughter.
"Samurai!? Out of all the things you could've chosen, you picked a samurai to fight a ninja!? They're barely even close!" With the final claim, the assistant rushed forward to take a kunai through Naruto's body, but was met by a much larger blade.
"Really Mizuki? You mock the samurai and then decided to go into close quarters combat with one?" Naruto mocked as he parried the attack, making Mizuki stumble back a bit. "I think you aren't making a good example for the ninja!" He and his team made several slashes, the vast majority of which managed to hit. Iruka was at a loss of words, unable to comprehend that Naruto, thought only good in illusions and even that was only bloody once, was able to fight Mizuki to a standstill, all while claiming himself as a samurai.
"Were you ever told about why you are hated so much Naruto?" Mizuki seeming asked randomly, even allowing himself to be hit in order to get off the question.
"What? Why would that matter at this point?" Naruto asked, unaware of the growing despair arising in Iruka.
"You mustn't tell him Mizuki! It is against the law to do so!" HE cried, but his pleas went unheard.
"It is because you contain the Kyuubi! You are the demon who has slaughtered millions! You are the reason that your own parents are either dead or abandoned you!" The statement left silence in its path for a minute, the Samurais all taking in the news. Mizuki looked on victoriously until he felt a wet bolt strike at his back. "Wha?"
"Your words do not harm me." Shinken-blue said, lowering his bow as a gust of wind blew the aid into the nearby trees.
"I have come to terms with the way people treat me and if that is how they view me, then I shall change their ideas." Pink stated with conviction and fan in hand. Mizuki attempted to retort, an attempt that was stopped by a large rock impacting his back.
"I am not the Kyuubi and the actions I take show that." Yellow reminded him while the branches of the trees shot out razor sharp leaves that bit into Mizuki's skin.
"You know that sort of thing won't bring me down right?" Green patronisingly asked, while Red spun the Shinkenmaru upon his sword, causing the blade to be sheathed in fire.
"And I shall never let it do so while I draw breath!" The flames sent Mizuki to unconsciousness and Iruka was left gaping at the spectacle in front of him.
"Iruka-sensei? I might need help with this body."
Naruto's super sentai 'Saiko!' pedia!
Samurai Sentai Shinkenger - 侍戦隊シンケンジャー
A team of samurai, one lord and his retainers, who fought off the Gedoushu, strange malevolent beings that entered our world through gaps of any size. they planned to flood the Sanzu river, which would allow them to rise above humanity while they drowned in the tainted waters that would flood both the realms of living and dead. They utilised the power of Mojikara and were the first of the samurai teams, followed by the Bushido sentai Samuraigers.
Yep, made up a team there. What I had originally planned to do was have Naruto act as all six members through Kage bunshin until he got so overwhelmed and into solo work hat he was forced to get a crew and would slowly bond. This was replaced when people immediately asked who they wanted and I thought it would be easier this way.