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Leaving the roof tops and hitting the alleys the fox vessels checks his surroundings before disappearing behind a hidden door, invisible to even the byakugan thanks to several layers of seals. Once he was completely inside the building the door snapped shut and glowed a blue signifying the seals had reactivated. The secret door lead to the underground safe house of one Yufukuna, the most successful pimp in Kohona. Yufukuna was a old man a few months older than the third hokage to be exact. He had spent time as a ninja and went on missions with the kage when both were younger but it was not his true calling even if he was powerful enough to have been the second choice after Hiruzen for the mission that ended the 2nd Hokage's life.
"What's up old man?" Jay asked as he walked into the living area of the safe house.
"I told you to stop calling me that" a voice that was deep but somehow velvety smooth echoed thru the room
"Love you too Yufu" Jay said as he could now see the man.
Yufu or Yufukuna as he was know to the girls that worked for him, was a man with average height and a slim build. Those with a trained eye could tell that while the older man was rather light the muscle he had retained in his elder years showed the shape that he was in. The most noticeable things about him was the long straight grey hair, powerful blue ring brown eyes and fu Manchu mustache and soul patch combo. If his physical appearance didn't catch one's eye his choice of clothes most certainly did. The man's sense of fashion wasn't flashy with colors he instead stood out with how well his clothes were made and the material they were made from, in order to weed out the people who didn't know high quality. A look thru his closet would make one think the man had a fetish for black and white clothes. It was not uncommon for him to be seen in the finest black Night Silk that came from Linen Country during the day then at night be adorned with white foam silk from Mist Country. To balance out his color dichotomy Yufu would wear brightly colored nagagi. Even tho his clothing was considered old school because of his constant wearing of Kimonos. The years had been good to him as he aged he seemed to get more attractive to the females of the village as his clothes never went out of style even instead adding an air of elegance and nobility to the man.
"You here for your money?" The pimp asked as he gave his nails a clear coat
"Yea I blew thru my whole stash" Jay said as he sat down on one of the expensive thunder country ox skin couches in the room.
"Damn how did you manage to do that? My girls didn't alert me to you getting in any trouble or buying anything big" Yufukuna ponders as he finishes his last coat
"Gonna have to start calling you ancient man instead of old, you really didn't notice this headband Covering the side of my face." Jay retorted
"I had been informed you made it to be a ninja, I thought it was just a fashion statement." The man said with a cocky smirk
Flipping the head band up the ninja scans the seller of flesh.
"Hmm, your chakra flows and has an blue color with a brown ring. So I'm guessing your chakra type is water secondary earth, your parents were water and earth country people." Jay asked/stated
"Didn't think I'd see that orb again til that other brat started having brats" Yufukuna said as he blew his nails
"If only my kids could have them, start a whole new clan for this dump." Jay said with a light chuckle
"You still want to be hokage?" Yufukuna asked
"I've been thinking about that. Fuck this place I couldn't give a rats ass about this place" Jay as he took out a kohona kush cigar from his ninja pouch
"Man it seems like just yesterday when you wanted to be in Hiruzen's shoes" Yufu said mind wondering
8 years ago
"Tanoshi what the fuck is this who's kid is this" a man with light blonde hair with streaks of grey asked
"Hi I'm jay" the small child said as he stuck his hand out for a hand shake. "I'm going to be hokage some day"
Yufukuna glared at the child scanning him. He was maybe 3 feet tall barefoot and wearing clothes that he could tell had been worn for far to long as they were more rags than clothes. His hair was short locks that seem to be growing out at every angle and as dark as the blackest fabrics he had seen. All in all the kid look to have seen much better days. Being a ninja then later a pimp had hardened his heart, children especially ones in need still could manage to mine their way into it
"Hello I'm Yufukuna" the man said as he shook the boys hand "Tanoshi I'm going to ask you one more time why is this kid here?"
"He just looked so sad and he was hungry. Just look how cute he is" the blonde said as she kneeled down to his height
"We'll take him to that Ramen stand that isn't too far from here then get him some new clothes. And bitch you best believe you will be scrubbing any foot prints he left on my white marble with your own damn tooth brush." Yufukuna ordered as he walked away
"To think you would come this far in 8 years. I had my money on you becoming just a con man or card shark." Yufu mused
"Well you aren't totally wrong I can still con some money out of most people and I'm still taking people's money regularly when they make the mistake of playing cards with me. Though I haven't had to cheat to do it it feels weird having the skill to get the deck in my favor but never having to use it" Jay said as he took a drag of his cigar
"That luck of yours." Yufukuna said as he started to ponder what he could do with that "Did you like the graduation gift I sent you?"
"I did this blade is beautiful" Jay said as he unsealed the blade from the scroll is was sealed in. "Can't wait till I can actually use it against someone. This thing even got me the attention of a kunochi"
"It was well worth the price then" Yufukuna said with a smile "Since you don't want to become kage what do you want to do?"
"I think I want to become the greatest ninja ever. I want my name to be on the same level as the sage of Six Paths and rebuilt my clan at the same time. But I also want to look out for the people of the slums and ghettos." Jay said remembering his home had always been in what most what consider the less than good parts of the village
"Well you are going to have to pass Hiruzen first. Out of the 4 I think the he's is the weakest raw power wise, whole jack of all true master thing, but strategically tho he's the best" Yufukuna thought aloud
"With this eye I aim to double the number of jutsu I'll know compared to him." Jay replied a cocky smirk plastered on his face. "The strategy part is going to be a bitch tho. I heard he routinely beats Nara at chess or shogi"
"Wait rebuild your clan I thought you were an orphan?" Yufu said as that part had finally registered in his mind
"Orphans have families you know just no parents" Jay flatly stated as he Asher his cigar
"True so who are your parent?" Yufu asked intrigued
"I don't know. I just know of my clan" Jay stated
"Don't think I've ever heard of the Black clan" Yufu said mentally scanning his clan directory
"If you did you would have been just a boy but then again I learned it from a really old source so it could have been from during your grandfather's generation for all I know. I just know I'm going to bring them back. And that the raikage's line might be a cousin" Jay informed the older man
"Have you started the genin's bane yet?" Yufu asked with a sickening grin on his face
"No I'v literally only been a genin for like 6 hours... so what exactly is that" Jay asked the undeniable sound of caution in his voice
"Oh you'll find out tell Tora I said hello when you see her" the man said with a deep chuckle
"Fox" Jay rang as he returned to the roof tops
"What do you want now?" The massive beast responded
"If my clan head was so powerful how did he die? And if we have a diluted body of the sage and live so long how is he not alive today or his kids not?" Jay asked as he made his way home
"The attack happened around about 100 years after our battle. From what I've seen Mito Uzumaki read in Hokage reports the main branch of the clan was small very small and the outer branches had spent years taking mates that did not share your bloodline so their abilities were diluted to where most lost the three components: the pure chakra, physical abilities, or healing/lifespan or in some cases all three. From what the report said the head branch was mainly the one fighting with the human bjuu leading the way backed up by combat leaning members. The casualties I told you about were suspected to be branch members. They described a gigantic man coming out of a house with greying hair but still combat ready. The rest after that was from the survivors fleeing. So my best guess was he over exerted himself doing all those climate changing jutsu. He was approaching 300 by then i think I had fought him when he was in his 200's"the fox explains while also reminiscing
"So am I a child of one of those kidnap?" Jay asked pondering this info
"I doubt it you seem to have all the abilities the one from the main branch had, even your chakra seems to not fight mine like that of someone with water affinity or get enhanced like some one with fire or wind. If you had fire affinity the two chakra would cohabit spinning together but not mixing. Maybe you were the product of two branch members. But for your mother to die so recently means your clan may be out there somewhere or you are the last of the main branch." The fox stated
"I'll keep that in mind then. What about the sage how come he isn't still alive?" Jay asked
"He basically sacrificed himself to create we bijuu. Originally there were not 9 of us there was only one, a ten tailed beast but it was too violent so the sage sealed it into himself then split the power into 9 parts each larger than the last. Or at least that's the story I got from Ashura, his son. " the fox retold
"If he could seal it how did splitting it kill him?" Jay asked aloud
"If I am extracted from you, you will die more then likely, but given you're heritage you may well survive as long as you are given some time to heal. The Uzumaki I was jailed in before was able to survive but it weakened her enough to where not fully recovering then trying to fight me caused her to be sloppy and I killed her" the fox said the last part with a toothy grin
"Wait how did you get out?" Jay shouted asked
"I was being taken out as a precaution to her pregnancy then that bastard Uchiha attacked and took control of me then, you were born I'm guessing a few hours or days earlier and they realized they could seal me in you. They got lucky tho if you hadn't been a descendant of the sage I would have easily escaped. This is off topic tho. Extracting the chakra did not kill the sage it weakened him to where he was at human level for the first time and by this time he was already approaching regular human life span so instead of holding on to life he meditated and let it go." The fox said and Jay could clearly see the anger the fox started with be back by what he could have sworn was the smallest hint of sadness in the foxes tone.
"I have to start actually training if I'm serious about becoming as strong as the sage." Jay said as he made a mental note to ask Yufu for some training ideas the next time he saw him
"And you have to stop puttin it in the wrong hole if you want to bring your clan back" The fox replied with a demented chuckle
"Whatever" Jay mentally shouted as he cut the link. A few moments later Jays nose picked up a familiar sweet scent before being nearly overwhelmed by the scent of flowers. From the roof tops Jay looked down to see that he was approaching the Yamanaka Flower Shop. Deciding to go browse the small section the flower shop held for vegetables Jay exited the roofs landing to the side of the entrance. The scent was now stronger and more refined.
"Hey Ino" Jay said with a fox like grin
Ino who had just walked behind the counter blushed once the voice registered in her head.
"Hi Jay?" Ino half asked half stated as she wasn't sure if this was her classmate or someone pretending to be him. This person looked and sounded like Jay. They head band over the eye was something she hadn't seen from him wear consistently before but knew it was something some ninja did if they lost an eye. It took a few more moments for her to realize she had seen him with his headband over his eye the day of graduation. Ino tried to contain her growing blush as she thought of how the headband style reminded her of a silver hair ninja that was very popular among the women of the village ninja and non.
Scrolling to the back corner of the store Jay browsed the small section of vegetable garden plants they had. Deciding on adding a sweet basil plant to his garden jay grabbed a few of the seed packets and made his was to the register.
"Besides for the academy I never see you outside of there. What do you do with you're free time?" Ino pondered having seen basically everyone else of her graduating class over the last two days.
"Care to spend a day with me and find out?" Jay said a fox smirk adorning his features. Jay could see the gears turning in the blondes head along with the blush from earlier returning at 120% this time.
"If our schedules match" Ino replied cautiously
"Ok great It's a date then. I'll send a clone here tomorrow to figure out when we are both off to link up." Jay said his grin only intensifying as he left more the enough to cover the plant and exited the flower shop.
Hokage tower
"So how did your test go? Any thing you would like like to change about your students files?" Hiruzen Sarutobi asked as he hung the white robe he that made the majority of his kage outfit to reveal his black combat suit.
The 10 Jonin instructors that filled the conference room all seemed to be pondering on this question before the one with most of his life spent as a Jonin broke the silence.
"Let me see Jay's file" Kakashi asked.
Hiruzen's eyebrow arched before searching thru a stack of files and skidding the folder down the table to the Jonin. Kakashi flipped thru the Manila folder before coming to the skills Assessment portion. Kakashi scanned the file once then lifted his head band up to see if this paper was the real deal. "Excuse my language lord 3rd but this file is or at least the skills assessment is complete bull shit." The silver haired Jonin said causing everyone in the room below kage level to do their best imitation of a strangled fish.
"Why do you say that Kakashi?" The old man asked as he packed his pipe.
"Because that kid more or less managed to pass the facade bell test single handedly. Using skills his file has not mentioned or even hinted at." Kakashi replied before beginning to retell the story of how his team had passed "The kid hits like a young Guy, his chakra level right now is virtually the same as mine, and he thinks thru things at a level I haven't seen since a certain teen Anbu."
"Kakashi can I see that file I wish to compare it with my own notes on Jay" The sole chunin Iruka Imino asked after listening to the story. Without word Kakashi slide the file to the instructor. Iruka spent roughly 2 minutes prowling the file brow becoming ever more furrowed before he shut it. "This is like the person who wrote this was someone who knew Jay thru like 6 or 7 people. Here these are my notes." Iruka said as he took a folder from his files
"Why exactly are you in here Iruka?" Kurenai asked as he was the lowest ranking ninja in the room.
"If I may, we have the head Chunnin instructor here when we review teams to help refine the scouting and reporting of the future genin classes. It is because of Iruka's excellent reporting and eye for talent and skill that I am given the best info for team composition. That being said I'm not getting any younger, I should have been training someone to build balanced or special assignment teams" the third says as he blow the smoke from his lungs.
Kakashi could actually agree with the pages that were in this report. Iruka had noted that Jay was rough around virtually every edge but the the areas he was refined in he was was really refined. The file noted his ability to blend in to a crowd and his intellect rivaling the Nara's, but the academy didn't actually cover stealth and gave what would be generously called an overview of battle tactics. Kakashi even noticed some of the notes Iruka had hand written in the file's margins. Most were speculating about were the boys abilities would be if he actually cared to put the time to try into his craft. Kakashi didn't see anything about his physical abilities.
"This seems to be more in line with what he showed in the field." Kakashi stated
"Thank you I try to be a precise as I can" Iruka stated
"I'd just add that he hits like a high Chunin low Jonin and has info gathering skills that are solidly Jonin" Kakashi replied as he finally put his foreign eye away. "Can't forget his sharingan"
"His what?" Iruka said as he dug in his ear, he clearly needed to go by the hospital and get a good ear rinse since he heard what he thought he heard.
"Did I forget to mention that part? I'm guessing I did. He has a sharingan, it's only one tomoe and like me it's only one eye." Kakashi informed the room
Iruka wasn't the only one thinking they misheard the masked Jonin as over half the Jonin had looks of either shock or confusion if not both.
"I don't know how he got it as as far as I can see Sasuke has both his eyes and I have mine. All the Uchiha's were destroyed by Itachi during the massacre so I have no clue." Kakashi said with a audible sigh
"Is it possible he has Uchiha heritage?" Asuma asked the room
"I don't believe so, his record only holds info on his mother and calling it info is a stretch." Kakashi replied
"I will see what I can dig up on this. Though I seem to remember a woman who looked similar to jay but that was from when I was in my early 20's" the oldest person in the room said as he pondered his youth
"Even without the sharingan I had still suspected he always held back but still hit hard when he beat Sasuke with just brawling moves. He was never really there for test days. He showed up when we had them and did just enough to not fail the class. Granted now that I have the hindsight this makes perfect sense if you have real ninja potential. The basics will only get you to low Chunnin if we're being honest. As for the info gathering he always did seem to know what was happening around the village I didn't think anything of it. I assumed since he lived in the red light district he just heard some of what was said there." Iruka thought aloud
"That's probably true but he was able to find out details about my past that only people close to me would know." Kakashi stated
"That boy always did seem to amaze me every chance he got" Sarutobi said with a chuckle.
The rest of the meeting went without issue as the other instructors found the academy reports to be accurate.
Well I'm back. The main reason this takes so long to update is my writing style. I write the major parts first then have to figure out how to make them connect into the story and figure out what type of foreshadowing I would like to add in. Like right now i have written parts of the kohona crush arc, the 4th shinobi war, and the pein invasion. The good thing about this is that once I get to those parts thing generally go a lot faster. I've also been thinking about rewriting this story to be friendlier to the auto read the app uses. One thing I can't stand is when I'm listening to one of the stories being read on YouTube by the computer and the way they pronounce this is off so bad.