Legacy of the second Hokage: Raiden
Hey guys! Amaterasu_Blazing here with the next chapter of Legacy.
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Talking: "Hello."
Thinking: 'I wonder…'
Flashback: "Hello"
Jutsu: Transformation Jutsu
Bijuu: "Stupid human."
multiple personality (e.g. Inner Sakura): "Eliminate him."
Point of view switch: Naruto point of view
Chapter 4: The test part 2 and training
10 minuites later
Raiden's point of view
Raiden and Aizen arrived at the edge of the clearing were they had located Sariah's chakra signature. What they saw made them extremely scared for their friend's life. A white clad figure stood over the knocked out form of their team mate. Raiden turned to Aizen, completely serious. "We need a plan Aizen otherwise this will all go south." Aizen just nodded, knowing this wasn't the time for a sarcastic remark. They quickly formulated a plan of action.
5 minuites later
Raiden and Aizen slowly walked into the clearing as the white clad figure held a kunai to their unconscious friends voice. "Hello Raiden, Aizen I see you've finally come for your friend." Said the deep voice of the masked assailant.
"Shut up, give us back our team mate" growled Raiden as he glared at the white clad figure.
"How about this? Kill your friend and you'll get back your little girlfriend!" responded the assailant, obviously believing He wouldn't do it.
"Ha, as if he would do…" Aizen said but was cut off when he was grabbed from behind and stabbed through the back. The blade was pulled out of Aizen, the Hyuuga falling forward one the blade exited his body, revealing Raiden standing over the dyeing genin
"I did as you asked now hand her over!" shouted Raiden, discreetly forming a half tiger seal in his left hand. The white clad figure was to stunned to respond, unable to believe that the young Senju had carried through with the demand. Because of this he didn't notice a figure creeping towards him from behind.
The figure grabbed the man's arm that held the kunai to the kunoichi's throat and pulling it away from her before tackling Sariah out of the man's arms, revealing him to be Aizen. As the white clad man began to go after his prey, a flash of white light temporally blinded him as Raiden appeared next to him.
Raiden grinned, a bloodthirsty glint in his eyes as he spoke the last words he believed the attacker would ever hear. "It seems that I'll be executioner, so goodnight!" He whispered as he swung his blade through the assailant's neck, decapitating the man.
Raiden quickly moved towards his friend's side as Aizen attempted to resuscitate the kunoichi. As the girl came back to consciousness Raiden, and Aizen heard someone landing heavily on the forest floor. As the two whipped around they let out mutual sighs of relief as they saw their sensei standing behind them, a genuine smile on his face for the first time since they met them.
"Well done you three you're the first group to pass this test" Said Fenrir as he looked at the shocked and angry genin.
"That was a test! What were you thinking! Must have been something along the lines of 'Oh, here's a great idea! Why don't I send shinobi to attempt to kill or maim my students and forcing them to commit murder!'" shouted Aizen as he turned towards his sensei, a furious expression on his face as he looked towards his sensei.
"As real as it seemed you were never in any real danger. Well, except for you Raiden, but you were the one who decided to blow up a f***ing tree. Seriously, why do you even have explosive kunai? Or carry that scroll on that point?" Said Fenrir, throwing a questioning glance at the genin as Aizen and Sariah looked on in shock from finding out their partner blew up a god damn tree! Especially one in this forest.
Raiden shrugged as he pulled a stick of pocky from the box on his leg as he gave his sensei his reason. "Just because of something my dad said before he died. 'If you have enough equipment for a mission, then you're severally unprepared. Once you're carrying an armoury, then your half way to being prepared.' It was a rule that he, and know I, live by." Elaborated the young Senju. Fenrir nodded, seeing the wisdom in that rule.
"But what do you mean about never being in danger? We could have been killed!" Exclaimed Sariah, remembering the power behind the strikes of her attacker.
"Those were shadow clones, or at least an advanced version of it, which are far more durable than the standard type, this is why they didn't just disperse after a single hit. Also to answer your question Sariah, the clones were instructed to just try and knock you out, not kill you." Explained Fenrir.
"I'm not even going to ask how you think that someone wielding a blade whip wouldn't kill someone, but what was the point of all of this Tenpura-sensei?" Grumbled Raiden as he looked expectantly at his commanding officer.
"Just call me Fenrir, guys, you've earned that much for passing this exam. The point was to test four things, first was to test your existing skills in combat and the basics of your fighting styles. For example, Raiden, you focus on kenjutsu for close quarters combat and specialised kunai for ranged combat, you also have and extremely high chakra capacity that you keep the majority of it sealed and suppressed so as to control it." Raiden's eyes widened in surprise at the fact his sensei new about his father's personal seal to supress his chakra network. He quickly rationalised the fact with the thought that old man Hiruzen must have told him.
Fenrir continued his line of lecturing "Aizen, you are predominantly a close combat fighter with only slight use of off senborn for long range fighting styles. Sariah, you predominantly use long range magnet release jutsu with not much close combat ability because of your lack on natural strength." Both Aizen and Sariah nodded in agreement to the statements.
"The second examination was a test on how you would react to unforeseen dangers on a mission. Whether you would flee or carry on. The third part was what was going to be your first priority after that danger has spiked and your separated, will you go straight back to the mission or do you look for your team?" The three genin nodded their heads in understanding, seeing the importance of testing these things.
"The final test is how you react in a difficult situation? An example of this is the choice I gave you, kill your team mate to save the life another of a loved one. Now let me tell you this, I've seen a lot in my life but I seriously never expected a pair of genin to pull a stunt like that! Seriously, how did you come up with that." Questioned Fenrir, a tone of genuine surprise in his voice.
The two boys glanced at each other before launching into an explanation of what happened.
Flashback
"Ok, I'm going to make a clone and have in it transform into you while you sneak behind him. I'll give you a sign to tell you when it's time and you get Sariah away from him. When you do, place this tag on him, I'll take care of the rest." Explained Raiden.
"Okay, just two problems. You didn't tell me the sign and the fact that a regular clone can't perform nin jutsu." Aizen sniped back at the older boy.
"Ah, but that's the thing. I'm not going to use the academy clone." Said Raiden as he formed a unique hand sign, with his hands clasped together, both his middle and pinkie fingers pointing upwards with his thumbs inside the clasped hands.
"Blood clone no jutsu" Whispered Raiden as he began to breath out a thick red mist from his mouth. The mist quickly covered Raidens body from view. As the mist imploded inward quickly revealing an exact copy of Raiden absorbing the blood coloured mist.
The two Raiden's nodded to each other as the clone transformed into a copy of Aizen. As they separated Raiden and the Aizen clone dropped softy to the forest floor before moving towards the clearing while the real Aizen moved around the clearing via the branches to be located behind the white clad figure standing in the clearing.
End Flashback
Fenrir nodded his head at the explanation, "Yes that was a good idea, your actions definitely surprised me as I never expected you to do something as drastic as to stab Aizen in the back, an effective shock strategy. Your free for the rest of the day but come to training ground 32 at 6 am, hell starts tomorrow. Have fun!" He disappeared in a Leaf Body Flicker, leaving a resounding echo of his mad cackle.
Each of the genin felt a shiver go down their spines at the noise. The glanced between themselves and Aizen was first to share his thoughts with his team mates. "What the hell did we just sign up for?" questioned the bluenet as he continued to stare at the spot their sensei had just been occupying.
"Hell on earth if our sensei is to be believed… this is not going end well for us." Muttered Raiden in response to Aizen's question.
"Let's just hope that we don't have to crawl home tomorrow, I don't feel like being beaten into the dirt from day one." Sariah said before turning and beginning to run back towards the edges training ground 44, Raiden soon following and passing her on the way out of the forest and Aizen last to start leaving the forest, racing to catch up to his team mates.
The jonin meeting that night
Nine jonin stood in the Hokage's office as Hiruzen sat in his chair. "So, how are this year's genin teams doing?" A single jounin stepped forward and began to speak.
"Hokage-sama…as much as it pains me to say this I think for teams 1 through 5 we have the same thing to say. Our genin have shown almost no redeeming qualities whatsoever, but we'll make our final judgments on the genin after the test tomorrow." 4 of the gathered jounin nodded at what the man said, causing the old man to sigh and look towards his son, hoping for some good news."
Asuma Sarutobi stepped forward to give his review. "Team 10 should work out well; I just have to deal with Ino's bossy personality and Shikamaru's lazy nature. I believe they'll do well in the genin test" Stated Asuma as he stepped back in line, leaving a smile on the Hokage's face.
Kurenai stepped forward next to give her report. "Team 8 should well as a tracker team with combination of the byakugan, Inuzuka senses and Aburame bugs. I believe they'll pass the genin exam quite easily." Explained Kurenai before going back into line
Kakashi stepped forward to give his description and kept it short and sweet, never looking up from his little orange book. "They contradict each heavily, a fangirl, an avenger, and an idiot. I don't expect much" was all he said before stepping back in line.
Finally, was the person that no one wanted to hear from, while Kakashi hadn't passed a single team so far at least he hadn't sent multiple genin hopefuls to the hospital because of his testing methods. Fenrir Tenpura stepped forward, a dark smile on his face as he begins to give his report.
"Team 6 started out well in the introductions," This surprised many of the people in the room, Fenrir had never before indicated that a team had at all impressed him in the introductions. "I decided to run their test today instead of tomorrow as to save time, in the test… they far exceeded my expectations. To simplify… team 6 passed" everyone had a stunned expression on their faces as they looked at him. Shocked that this man, who had sent genin to the hospital because of his extreme test, had passed a team.
"Why? Actually a better question, how did they pass?! You force your students into the forest of f***ing death, split them up and attack them with your shadow clones! You may argue that you send in clones at low genin level but how many academy students do you think could actually beat a low level genin." Shouted Asuma as he glared at his old team mate.
"Most of the clan raised shinobi or children raised by a shinobi!" responder Fenrir in a growl. Obviously trying to outline his anger at the fact that in previous years he had been given civilian raised genin.
"Drop the subject you two! His training methods have produced result's in the past. If they didn't I would not allow him to keep preforming the same test every year. Now, with the exception on Fenrir, I would like you all to report to me tomorrow evening to give me the results of the genin exam." Commanded the Hokage as the rest of the room nodded in confirmation.
As Fenrir moved to leave the room he felt a hand grab his soldier. Turning to glance of his shoulder, seeing Asuma standing behind him a pleading look on his face "You know I don't normally get involved in other's business, but I know you and I know your training methods. Please, I ask you this as a friend, don't break them, at least not on the first day." Begged the young Sarutobi as held Fenrir's stare.
Fenrir rolled his shoulder's to shake off Asuma's hand as he continued to walk out the Hokage's office. As he left he responded to the Sarutobi's plea. "That's not up to me, It's their choice in the end that dictates whether they break or not." Responded Fenrir as he left the room.
Raiden's point of view
'Is that what it's like to be a shinobi? To fight for your life against attackers while were just trying to complete a mission. Why did I just feel nothing when I killed that second shadow clone? Hell it would have been better if I did just feel nothing. But I didn't feel it when I took down the first shadow clone, heck I went into a miniature straight of shock afterwards.' Thought Raiden as he stood atop the hokage monument, staring into the night sky.
'Is it because I was protecting Sariah or is it because of something else' Raiden continued to question his mental state and he continued to stare into the night sky never noticing that his Sensei had joined him star gazing.
Sariah's point of view
The silver clad kunoichi sat on the roof of her house as she stared into the night sky. She sighed as she thought of the glaring weakness in her combat style, her lack of a taijutsu style. Whilst her silver was effective for long range combat but was not very helpful in close range combat as her reaction time, nor her area sensing capabilities were good enough to move silver to block any close range attacks.
'The problem is that I'm just not suited for either the academy style, because it was two rigid for her, and my dad's tiger style, as I had the required flexibility but not the strength. Maybe I should ask Fenrir-sensei for any suggestions, maybe I can also ask that Anko lady. From what I've seen from her snake style, it should be perfect!' wondered Sariah as she stared up into the night sky.
"Sariah! Sariah! Come down from their young lady, it's almost time for dinner." Shouted Sariah's mother, Cestella.
"Coming mom!" shouted Sariah in response as she left the roof, wondering what the day ahead would bring.
Aizen's point of view
Aizen continually practiced a set of attacks on a group of wooden training stands, continuously attacking with a flowing barrage of palms as he moved around to hit the polls behind him and on his sides. As he slowed down and shifted stance he called out to talk to the figure hidden in the shadows.
"Hinata-sama, to what do I owe the pleasure?" Sarcastically questioned Aizen as he began to hit the polls with chakra infused fists and kicks to leave small dents in the wooden polls.
"H-h-hello Aizen. I-I-I just came to congratulate you on passing your genin test" Replied the Hyuuga heir, flinching as she saw Aizen's fist break through the wooden poll.
"You need to stop that Hinata." Said Aizen as he stopped attacking the polls, turning toward the shy Hyuuga.
"What do you mean Aizen?" Questioned the confused girl as the taller boy moved towards her, stopping directly in front of the smaller Hyuuga. Looking upwards, Hinata met Aizen's covered eyes, his 5'3" form looming over her.
"Flinching at combat, I can understand that you don't like hurting people, but you chose to be a shinobi. Unless you want to be an off field medical ninja you are going to need to fight. You don't need to enjoy hurting others, but you need to be able to follow through with your attacks, don't pull your punches." Advised Aizen as he stepped around his cousin and walked into the Hyuuga compound.
Hinata spun around and watched Aizen walked into the building, before smiling and whispering to herself. "Thank you Aizen, I'll try to do as you said" said Hinata as she followed him into the compound.
The next morning, Training ground 32
Raiden's point of view
Raiden yawned, stretching his arms above his head as he walked into the clearing that made up training ground, a small river running around the west side of the clearing before ending in a small lake that took up a large part of south-west area of the massive clearing.
Raiden turned towards the sound of a tired yawn as Sariah entered the clearing, rubbing her eyes. "Morning Sariah, have a good sleep?" Questioned Raiden as he looked to the kunoichi.
"Fine, and you?" responded the yawning girl as she opened her eyes, revealing her obvious lie with the weary look in her eye. Raiden chuckled to himself as he could obviously see that it was too early for the bluenet.
"So he tells us to come here at 6 am and he's not even hear yet." Raiden and Sariah spun as they head a familiar voice coming from the trees. They saw that the speaker had been a resting Aizen as he sat on a tree branch. The Hyuuga pushed himself of the branch and rolled as he landed, limiting the force of the fall.
"Do you ever take those off?" Asked Sariah, referencing the ever present sunglasses and the fact that it was still dark out.
"No" responded the Hyuuga immediately, causing his team mates to sweat drop at this.
"Who ever said I wasn't hear?" Questioned Fenrir as he emerged from the shadows of the forest, a smirk adorning his features at the shocked faces of his students at the fact he had been in the shadows the entire time. He quickly turned serious as he called his students to listen.
"Okay guys, we'll start this morning with a physical warmup before starting chakra control exercises. Begin with 3 laps around the clearing before doing 100 push ups, and sit ups. Oh, and if you stop, you'll have to start from the top." Instructed a smirking Fenrir as the genin's eyes widened at the final part of the command.
The three genin quickly started the warm up as they ran around the clearing, Raiden quickly pulling ahead because of his speed. Raiden ran around the 3km circumference of the clearing, taking 20 minutes to complete. He quickly caught his breath before dropping to the ground and starting to perform the push ups.
Aizen and Sariah caught up to the Senju as he was nearly finished the push ups, his arms shaking as he finished. Raiden rolled to his back before beginning the sit ups. Ten minuites later found the three genin lying on the ground panting. As the three started to get to their feet Fenrir walked up to them and continued with his instructions.
"Well done guys, that was pretty fast for genin. So now we'll be starting chakra control exercises. Speaking of which, do any of you now any exercises?" Questioned Fenrir as he glanced between the three as they shook their heads in the negative. "Ok then I'll teach you how to do a basic one."
Fenrir walked towards the edge of the clearing, motioning for the three to follow him. Their sensei stopped as he stood in front of the tree line. "Okay guys, this exercise is called the tree climbing technique." Noticing the questioning looks from his students he decided to just demonstrate.
As he walked up the side of the tree, chuckling at the astounded look on Sariah's face and the wide eyed expression on Raiden and Aizen. "The technique is the process of releasing chakra from one's feet in a constant stream, too much and you'll be blown straight of the tree, too little and you won't stick. The best advice I can give you is to try and get your hand to stick to the tree before you try walk up it." Advised the jounin as he pushed of from the tree he was on and landing behind the genin.
The three stepped forward and placed a single hand each on their respective tree's before pushing chakra into their hands, Aizen also activating his byakugan to assist him in his attempt, with varying levels of success. Raiden easily overshot the mark as he caused a small hand shaped impact mark on the tree. On the other hand, Sariah slightly undershot the mark, causing nothing to happen.
Aizen's attempt though, was far more accurate with his attempt, because of his extensive tanning by his family with chakra infusion, causing his hand to stick on his third attempt. The Hyuuga placed a foot on the tree and attempted to pulse Chakra to his feet as he watched the build-up in the limb.
As he reached the right level of chakra he slowly placed his other foot on the tree. After another few careful steps up the trunk of the tree he began to speed up, as he sped up he lost control and let his chakra to slip, causing his foot to slip and forcing him to lose his grip and slip from the tree, landing flat on his back. Aizen flipped to his feet before trying again, keeping a far greater level of concentration.
While this happened, Sariah had gotten a hang on sticking her hand to the tree and was taking the first careful steps up the trunk. She to lost control as she pushed too much into her next step, pushing her back of the tree. Raiden was the furthest behind of the three as he constantly left hand print marks on the tree, getting increasingly smaller. Raiden growled as an idea came to mind.
Raiden took a step back and formed a familiar hand seal before breathing out a red cloud. The cloud was quickly pulled inward as it formed the blood clone. The two stepped forward as they continued the exercise, quickly picking up the final steps to stick his hand to the tree. They two Raidens placed a foot each on a separate tree trunk, managing to get their first step to stick to the tree.
As the two started to take their next steps up the trunk the struggle to control their chakra was apparent as the clone blew a crater into the tree on an uncontrolled third step, sending him flying until his back hit another tree. Fenrir began to chuckle darkly, knowing this would continue for some time.
Time passed quickly as the trio attempted to perfect the technique. Aizen was the first to complete the training as he managed to keep his chakra levels regular as he walked up and down the trunk. Fenrir had pulled him aside and showed him to the nearby river, explaining the next water walking technique.
"This has nothing similar to the tree walking, while the tree is a solid surface and so need a constant stream of chakra to stick to it. Water, on the other hand, is fluid and needs an alternating stream of chakra. The same warning as the tree walking, too little and you'll sink, too much and you'll be rocketed straight of the surface. Same advice as before, try it with your hand first, the water will feel solid once you've got it right." Instructed Fenrir as he began to alternate between the two still attempting the tree walking and the Hyuuga.
Sariah soon joined Aizen as she began water walking, finally finishing the tree walking. Raiden and his clone struggled onwards as he constantly lost control part way up and shot himself of and into other trees. Eventually he was able to finish, joining his team mates as they attempted water walking.
Aizen was already soaked through as he attempted to walk over the surface, obviously having lost control and fell in on a previous attempt. Sariah was not much better, and had thankfully taken off her heavy gauntlets before she had started practicing the technique. Her wet clothes clung to her body as he attempted to walk over the river.
The Raidens knelt down and placed their hands on the surface of the flowing water as they began to try and build up and fluctuate their hands. The chakra burst outwards as they lost control, drenching their upper bodies. The duo growled in frustration, Raiden's usual calm and collected persona nowhere to be found as they repeatedly tried to perfect the technique, constantly being drenched in a veritable explosion of water.
Only once Aizen and Sariah were able to confidently walk on the water's surface was Raiden able to start taking the first few steps atop the river. The Senju and his clone were able to take three steps on the water before falling into the water, again drenching they're already soaked bodies.
After about another hour of attempts a pair of drenched and frustrated Raiden's finally completed the technique. As a chuckling Fenrir was about to come over and join the Genin trio the original Raiden bit his thumb on his right hand and paced it on the chest of his clone as he formed a half tiger seal with his left.
"Blood Clone: Absorb" growled an angry Raiden as the clone devolved into the same cloud of red mist as it had been created from. The mist was absorbed back into Raiden via his hand. He groaned as the veins on his body turned black and his skin seemed to shift for a couple seconds.
Seeing the confused faces of the other genin, Fenrir decided to explain what just happened. "That was the special ability of the blood clone, the reabsorption technique. It allows the user to reabsorb the clone into their bodies, gaining their memories and physical experience." Explained Fenrir as he saw looks of comprehension cross their faces.
Raiden continued from where his sensei had left off as he continued the explanation. "The technique does have its drawbacks though. To absorb the physical experience, the jutsu breaks down and rebuild your muscles from scratch. This means that if you absorb more than two or three of the clones at once without a large amount of rest in between, a highly skilled medic nearby or a healing bloodline it will permanently damage your body."
The genin's eyes widened at the serious implications it could have. Fenrir continued to what he was going to start saying previously. "Okay, from what I saw I have an idea of your level of chakra control. Aizen, you have the greatest level of control of your team, as expected of you being a Hyuuga because of your family fighting style. Sariah, you're not far behind Aizen in control. Raiden, to be blunt, your control understandably sucks, especially with the amount of pressure on your body from those seals."
Aizen and Sariah preened under the praise while Raiden subconsciously rubbed the back of his hands where one could see an almost unnoticeable black diamond on them. "Aizen, you expressed an interest in learning different fighting styles than just the gentle fist. I know you already have learnt the basics of the iron fist so I'll teach you more on that. I believe that you should also study medical jutsu because of your chakra control." Suggested Fenrir as he thought over the team dynamic.
He next called out Sariah. "Sariah, you mostly rely on your silver as a long range weapon to protect yourself. You might want to look into genjutsu so as to confuse your enemies and keep them out of striking distance." Advised their sensei as he tried to think of a way to counteract the kunoichi's lack of muscle mass.
He quickly moved on to Raiden as he continued breaking down their abilities and ways to fix their weaknesses. "Raiden, I don't even know if theirs's anything connected to chakra control I can advise you to do. You seem to be effective enough with your sword and seals, any questions?" Asked Fenrir as glanced between the genin.
Sariah went first as she questioned her sensei. "Why did you suggest I look into genjutsu? Also I thought of way to counteract my lack of strength, what about the taijutsu style that Anko lady uses." Fenrir nodded at the suggestion before responding.
"I thought it would be useful to learn genjutsu so as to trick your opponents into thinking that more attacks are happening, or that you're in a different place then in reality. On your point about the snake style, that slipped my mind entirely. I will ask Anko if she'll be willing to teach you next time I see her." Answered Fenrir as he motioned for the next question.
"Why medical jutsu?" questioned Aizen as he looked at his sensei.
"Team 6 is going to be a rounded combat team. We already have both a long range specialist and a nin jutsu powerhouse" Explained Fenrir as he referenced Sariah and Raiden's place in the team. "
Because of our place as a combat team we need a field medic. And with your chakra control and interest in taijutsu, as well as your fairly large chakra reserves for your age make you a perfect choice for a battle medic." Explained Fenrir as he his students nodded in understanding.
"Now the next thing I want to do is find your chakra natures. Just pump chakra into these." Explained Fenrir as he gave a piece of chakra paper to each of them. As the trio pushed chakra through them the resulting effects shocked Fenrir.
Jutsu list
Blood Clones: The user forms a unique hand seal as they release a red cloud from their mouths that forms into a clone. The clone is just as durable as the original but takes ten times the chakra of a normal shadow clone.
Blood Clone: Absorb: The user opens a wound on their hand and forms a half tiger seal on the other to absorb the clone as it deforms. Once absorbed the clone's memories are transferred and the body breaks down and rebuilds the muscles to assimilate the physical training.
And that's where I'm ending it! Thanks to those who have already read my store so far, I'm amazed at how many of you there are! Like last I'm asking how was it? Better, worse? Did you like it? hate it? Please comment and note flames will be ignored and fed to the Songbird.