Legacy of the second Hokage: Raiden
Hey guys! Amaterasu_Blazing here with the next chapter of Legacy.
I apologise for not posting for so long, for one I've just been really busy but that's not really a fair excuse. Secondly, I've just become a little disheartened with how few people actually are interested enough to read this far, with only two or three people bothering to read past chapter 10 a month. Seriously, is my story so boring that no one wants to read all of it. Even more so that so few of you guys actually give me back any criticism or comment. Seriously! A story I started posting over two to three months after this has nearly double the followers. Either way, I made myself a promise when I started. No matter what, I will not stop writing a story until I have finished it, so for the few who read this, don't worry about me stopping due to lack of interest.
So normal disclaimer. I own NOTHING! Enjoy the chapter.
Talking: "Hello."
Thinking: 'I wonder…'
Flashback: "Hello"
Jutsu/techniques: Transformation Jutsu/8 centred whirlpool
Bijuu: "Stupid human."
multiple personality (e.g. Inner Sakura): "Eliminate him."
Point of view/ location switch: Naruto point of view
Reading: (Zabuza Momochi)
Chapter 14: The Exams commence
Raiden sighed as he stood outside of the academy, a small smile on his face as his mind wondered. 'I never expected to return here so soon. It's just been a couple months since we graduated, so I truly wonder if we… If I am ready for this' Thought the white- and red-haired swordsman.
The young Senju snapped back to reality as he heard a group of people moving in his direction. He smiled seeing that his team mates had finally arrived, the smile on his face widening into a grin as he saw Sariah racing up to meet him, Aizen following her at a more sedate pace, the large bundle from the previous day attached to his back.
Once the trio were all together they began moving up the stairs, passing the first landing as Aizen began to speak. "Well, we're back where it all began. Never thought I'd have to return so soon. You know…" Aizen suddenly trailed off a confused look on his face, cutting off his comment, which, if Raiden knew his friend, was a satirical one.
Raiden too paused for a moment, a haze clouding his mind for a moment before he was pulled back to reality by Sariah beginning to speak. "This might be a dumb question, but how many flights of stairs have we gone up?" Questioned the bluenet, her single yellow eye narrowed and mouth pulled down in a frown.
Raiden was surprised but looked back over the past few minutes and was surprised. His memory seemed unable to decide, shifting between having just passed the first landing to having just passed the second and back again. His eyes widened in surprise as he realised what was going on.
"It must be some sort of illusion. A preliminary test to stop those who have no real chance to get passed. After all, the memory effects wouldn't be this unstable if it wasn't just a test." Explained Raiden as he continued onwards, getting nods of agreement from his teammates as they had reached similar conclusions.
"It must take someone hopeless to fall for that one, after all, who wouldn't notice that their memory suddenly couldn't decide how high up they'd come." Chuckled Aizen, causing Raiden to halt mid step. 'His genjutsu scores were always terrible, but he has Sasuke and Sakura on his team! They would have stopped him. Right?' Questioned the storm release user.
As they reached the second landing Raiden turned to the door instead of the next set of stairs and going through. Sariah and Aizen looked at each other, then at the door, confused at their friend's actions. This was obviously the wrong floor, so why was he going through the door? Deciding to follow their team mate they stepped through in time to hear the violet eyed genin groan.
Raiden rubbed the bridge of his nose as he stared at the scene in front of him. Said scene was a large group of genin standing outside a door, the sign above it displays 3-A, the test room. In this group of chunin hopefuls stood 7 people of note.
A boy with long black hair, two long bangs framing his leaf headband wearing black shorts and a beige coat, his hands bandaged. This was probably Neji Hyuuga, or at least looked how Aizen described his cousin.
Next to him stood a girl wearing a pink, sleeveless Chinese style shirt and long black pants, a weapon pouch strapped to the back of her hips. Her brown hair was done up in a set of two buns. Tenten, one of Nejis' team mates' and member of team Gai or team nine.
On the ground was a strange boy with sleek black hair in a bowl cut, wearing a green tracksuit and orange leg warmers. Rock Lee, the final member of team 9 and the personal protégé of Might Gai, according to Fenrir.
Neat the group stood a blond rock genin, her hair falling to cover one eye and the rest done up in a spiky ponytail reaching the bottom of her shoulder blades. She wore a high-necked maroon shirt with two black straps down the front, the buckles lying on her left whilst her headband was tied to her arm. She also wore a pair of loose maroon pants coming down to a set of black ninja sandals.
The final set of people who stood out were, of course, team 7. Aizen and Sariah sighed, realizing exactly why their teammate had come to this floor, Naruto. The Senju marched forward, garnering attention from the crowd and stopping Sasuke from talking as he grabbed the Uchia and Uzumaki's collars and wrenching them back.
"Don't say a word we have enough competition as it is, we don't need people who were confused by that stupid illusion to come up as well." Whispered the Senju, glaring at the Uchia. Sasuke pushed Raidens arms off grunting at the other clan heir but complying with the order, grudgingly seeing the wisdom behind it.
As they were about to leave Rock Lee came in front of them staring at Sasuke. "My name is Rock Lee, you are Sasuke Uchia, the top genin of your year group. I challenge you…" Rock Lee started but stopped when he began to feel something crawling over his body. When he turned to see a duo of white centipedes crawling over the ground.
"So, these are the Leaf rookies! I wonder how fun it would be to blow you all up!" Exclaimed the rock genin as she walked over, her tone cheerful and a smile splitting her face. The crawling centipedes were suddenly stuck in place by two arrow shaped kunai, a cold smile on Raidens face, his arm outstretched.
"It's a little forward to threaten us without giving your name, isn't it Rock-san?" Questioned the Senju a cold tone in his voice as he spoke, noticing team 7 and Rock Lee moving to the door. He glanced to his team mates and indicated to wait for him on the third floor.
"Oh, you're right, I totally forgot to introduce myself! My names Bakukessho!" Exclaimed the girl, her blue eyes shining as he spoke the excitement in her voice seemingly a permeant fixture.
Nice to meet you then, I'm Raiden Senju. So where are your team mates Bakukessho-san?" Questioned the swordsman, glancing around trying to see if there were any other rock genin in the area.
"Oh! Ryushi sensei said I was fine to compete alone!" Exclaimed the girl a wide smile on her face as she spoke, obviously proud that her sensei believed in her enough to put her forward alone.
"Well that's great to hear Bakukessho! But can I give you a bit of advice?" Questioned the young Senju as he moved towards the door, stopping as he stood next to the girl, his 5'6" form towering over her 4'9" stature. "You shouldn't threaten others, especially in another village where tensions are high."
Raiden smiled, his grin hollow and cold, leaking killing intent as he spoke. Outside of Raidens view the rock nin began to shake, her cheerful expression meting away as she looked up at the other genin, an image of another blond flickering in hi place for a second. Her face had a brief flash of terror as she spoke. "T-t-thanks for the advice, R-r-raiden-san." Stuttered the girl.
Continuing to walk past the girl, noticing the odd sound of terror in her voice and filing her reaction to the killing intent away for later. Raiden quickly sprinted up the stairs and joining his teammates on the top floor. The quickly entered the exam room to be confronted to an exasperating scene.
Their stood the other rookie genin in a group next to each other, speaking animatedly and extremely loudly, drawing the eyes of the other occupants of the room, unknowingly signalling themselves out as inexperienced and supposedly easy targets. Before long the others noticed team 6 entering the room, Kiba moving over to greet them.
"So, the rookies are officially back together!" Exclaimed the Inuzuka, quickly drawing a target on the backs of the three, instantly annoying Raiden as he had just made everything more difficult. Clueless of the Senjus' growing annoyance, Kiba moved over to Sariah whilst adopting a 'Sexy' smirk on his face.
"Sariah-chan, still hanging around these two in your free time? Why do you never come spend your time with an alpha like me?" Questioned the dog nin, annoying the swordsman of the group even more, causing his hand to begin to twitch whilst moving towards the hilt of his blade.
Sariah smiled back at Kiba, a devil may care smile on her face as she spoke. "And why would I do that? After all, a dogs' bark is worse than his bite, right? So why would I spend my time with a talker when I am a doer?" Questioned the bluenet, a sadistic hint creeping into her cheerful voice as Kiba reddened at the innuendo she had left hanging.
"Now, now. You should all quiet down, your drawing an awful lot of attention to yourselves." Instructed a new voice, its' silver haired owner slowly walking over to the group, the angle of his head caused his glasses to shine, hiding his eyes from the group.
Aizen smiled at the new figure, waving at him as he spoke just loud enough for the group of rookies and the new addition to hear. "Hey, you hear as well Kabuto! What is this, your sixth time?" Questioned the Hyuuga, a smirk on his face as he spoke.
The now named Kabuto raised his head, a nervous smile on his face as he spoke. "Seventh actually. But I thought I could help out you newbies!" Exclaimed the older genin, his mouth morphing into a smirk as he pulled a deck of cards from his belt. The rookies gathered around him as he began to explain what the cards where.
Sariah turned to Aizen, a confused look on her face as she whispered. "Hey, how do you know him?" questioned the bluenet, a gleam in her eyes.
Aizen smiled, turning to his teammate as he spoke. "I met at the hospital helping out when Rin-san took me to get some practical experience. Don't underestimate him though, just because he has failed a lot doesn't mean he's a negligible threat, it just speaks for how difficult these exams truly are." Explained the Hyuuga, his voice serious and lacking his usual dose of sarcasm.
As this conversation was occurring Raiden was listening intently to the silveret as he went through exam statistics. 'So, there are 156 teams in the exams and he has specific information on some, I wonder if he knows anything about that project' pondered the Senju, a worried look on his face.
Shaking his head and putting the thought to one side he spoke alongside Sasuke "Koraru Karatachi and Gure Jigoku of the mist, and Kinken and Ginken of the cloud" requested the swordsman, his eyes glancing to the respective nin as he spoke. Kabuto fingered through his deck, grabbing the six cards asked for.
Starting with the two genin that Sasuke requested he began to speak. "Gaara of the Sand, son of the current Kazekage Rasa. His teammates are his siblings, Kankuro and Temari of the Sand, and his sensei is Baki. He specialises in his unique brand of the magnet release that allows him to control the sand around him. He has completed every mission he has ever been assigned, including A ranks, without a scratch!" Exclaimed Kabuto, shock creeping into his voice as he continued to speak.
Raiden zoned out as Kabuto went through Rock Lee's stats, his mind going to the red haired genin he had seen the day before. 'He is definitely a high-level threat, and he also has the magnet release, so his skills could be similar to Sariahs', or maybe even more advanced. And his killing intent… Either he has been personally trained by his father or there is something I'm missing.'
Raiden was snapped back to reality as he instinctively unsheathed his sword and stopped a punch in its' tracks as Kabuto, the attackers' intended target, dodged out of the way. Raiden spun the blade so that it was parallel to his arm as he struck forward with the hilt at the offending nin.
The genin barely dodged, allowing the Senju to get his first good look at him, noting a musical note as the symbol on his headband. The attacker had a long-sleeved jacket, the sleeve of his right arm slowly falling back into place, allowing for the aspiring seals master to get a good look at the strange device on his arm.
Glancing behind him he saw Kabuto being helped to his feet by his little brother, the lenses of his glasses shattered and his ears bleeding. The white haired genin narrowed his eyes, mouth twitching downwards into a frown. He glanced at his katana, rage growing as he noted the cracks on the blade were longer and wider.
Furiously sheathing the sword, he stepped towards the attacker, ripping him off his face and pressing a kunai to his throat as he spoke. "Tell me why you attacked Kabuto-san and I may just decide not to blow your head off!" Growled the Senju, his eyes beginning to glow and pupils sharpening.
The genin seemed unconcerned as he spoke. "Your friend decided to diss the Sound, so I decided to teach him a little lesson." Explained the genin. Before Raiden could do anything else he heard a voice shouting from the front of the room.
"Okay, break it up! The exam is starting so save it or I will deal with you personally!" Shouted the instructor, his face forming a grim visage as his mouth was formed into a scowl, his visage marred by the three long scars that slashed across his face. Dropping the genin Raiden headed to his assigned seat, holding out three fingers towards Sariah as he did.
Sariah point of View
Sariah frowned at the scene as she headed to her seat, thoughts racing through her mind. 'What was that about? Raiden almost never snaps that quickly?' pondered the Jishaku. Shaking her head, she noted the three fingers that Raiden was showing. 'So, it's' formula three? Okay'
Sariah had always had trouble with tests and so Raiden and she had developed a method of exchanging information without anyone noticing so she could at least do passably in the written tests at the academy. The specific formula just depended on how the information should be reassembled after dismantling it.
As she sat down she carefully flared her chakra, allowing a small portion of silver to spill from her gauntlets. Carefully directing the silver towards her Senju teammate via the gaps in the floorboards. She knew that Aizen would be utilising his own byakugan to watch Raidens' paper.
After all, it was just simple fact. Raiden was just the smartest of their trio, Aizen the strongest, at least physically, and her the most devious and creative.
Raiden point of View
Raiden sighed as he read through the questions, managing, if barely, to answer the easily jonin level questions on the exam. Not for the first time, nor the last, Raiden thanked the gods for his extra studying that he did to help improve his Fuinjutsu ability. Catching a glint of silver out of the corner of his eye he nodded, thank full that Sariah had understood his message.
Glancing over he noticed writing form on the silver sheet. (Why did you over react to the sound genin?) Sighing he carefully moved his hand to his back, as if to scratch the nape of his neck. Slightly unsheathing his sword, just enough to show the spiderweb of cracks along the blade, knowing that the Jishaku would understand the message.
Quickly scribbling his answers onto the sheet, he placed a finger on the silver pulsing his chakra into the metal, causing it to fall to pieces. Seeing the silver quickly slithering away he cautiously pulled four cards from his coat.
After the attack on Kabuto the silveret had dropped the cards for the four nin Raiden had requested. 'Alright, let's see what you've got on these guys.' Thought Raiden, a smirk on his face as he pushed chakra into the first, causing text to slowly spread across the cards surface.
Fenrir point of View
Fenrir sighed as he walked into the jonin break room, seeing his fellow jonin, as well as those of the other villages sitting around. Moving towards the other jonin senseis' of the rookie teams, plus Gai, he sat down with a sigh.
Kurenai was the first to speak to the new arrival. "So, your team passed Irukas' test as well?" Questioned the red eyed jonin, a surprised look creeping onto her face at the confused look he shot her way. "Wait, you don't mean to tell me you don't know!" Questioned the genjutsu user.
Gai responded for his rival, "Kurenai, not even Iruka would defy a decision made by Fenrir! My eternal rival is well known to never make a bad decision!" Exclaimed the large eye-browed man. "Fenrir, I must ask, in the Hokage tower you called your team an all-round utility and explained a little, could you tell us a bit more?" Questioned the flamboyant Taijutsu user.
Sighing Fenrir sat up, his voice tired as he spoke, "Well as I said, my team consists of Sariah Jishaku, Aizen Hyuuga and Raiden Senju. Sariah possesses the magnet release and specialises in utilising silver with it, alongside her lightning release and genjutsu abilities. She mainly works at mid to long range in a fight and uses her silver as a conductor for lightning release and chakra when using genjutsu. Furthermore, her training with Anko allows her to easily torture enemies for information. So, she functions as support, ranged combat and information gathering." Explained the dark style user.
Steamrolling ahead he continued, "Aizen is much like his mother, Renna Hyuuga, in that he utilises jutsu alongside the gentle fist, but he also has access to other fighting styles and all five basic natures." Ignoring the others looks of surprise he continued. "Furthermore, he now has his own version of his mother signature weapon and is the team's medic. So, he functions as healer, close combatant and lookout."
Reaching the final genin he sighed, "Finally, there is Raiden Senju. The kid is ridiculously skilled in seals, easily surpassing myself and Kakashi. Whilst he has very little taijutsu knowledge he makes up for it with his skill in kenjutsu. Finally, he uses water and wind release and is beginning to gain proficiency in his bloodlines, making his ninjutsu the most powerful in general. His sensory abilities aren't anything to scoff at either and his ability to use the Uzumaki chakra chains make him a support, combatant and capture type nin."
Finally finished Fenrir glanced at the faces of his fellow jonin, smirking at the looks of surprise he saw from the most of them. Shaking his head, he looked to the side, noticing a Mist jonin moving towards them. The man smiled, showing shark like teeth as he spoke, "So your team was the one that helped me out yesterday!" grinned the obvious swordsman.
Fenrir smiled thinly at the man, glancing at the hilt of the legendary needle sword on his back before responding. "So, it seems, Fenrir Tenpura, jonin of team 6 for the leaf village. You must be Kuramu Yakuwari if that sword is anything to go by. So, why are you over here?" Questioned the Tenpura
Kuramu smiled widely at the jonin as he again began to speak. "Do I need a reason to talk to my fellow jonin?" Questioned the man. Seeing the deadpan look, he received from the group of jonin, sans Gai, who just continued to smile, although it did thin a little, and Kakashi, who continued to read his book.
"Apparently, I do, well I heard that you and Hatake-san encountered Zabuza on your last mission. I just wanted to know what happened." Questioned the swordsman, his tone uncaring, although Fenrir caught an undertone of worry in his voice.
Kakashi answered the nin this time, never looking up from his book as he spoke. "Well we fought him and his apprentice, sadly he died getting revenge on his employer when he tried to kill him." Explained the lazy jonin glancing up to catch a flash of sadness and disappointment before it was covered up by a wide, jovial smile.
The shark toothed mist swordsman spoke, an undertone of anger in his voice as he spoke. "Well, all I can say is that I couldn't get to that traitor first. I bet the Mizukage will reward you heavily for ridding him of that nuisance." Exclaimed Kuramu. Fenrir noticed the lack of venom in his voice as he spoke of Zabuza, his eyes narrowing at what it could mean.
"Oh, look at the time! It seems the first exam is about to end!" Exclaimed the jonin his tone jovial as always. "I hope your teams managed to pass, I would hate to lose the chance at seeing our students go head to head.
Raiden point of View
Raiden sighed as he glanced at the clock, noticing that it was about time for the last question. "Okay, pens down! It's time for the tenth question!" Shouted the instructor, Ibiki was his name. Raiden sighed, finally it was time to get this thing over with. "Now! Before I give out the question there are some rules around this question! If you don't want to answer it, you can leave now, but it will instantly fail your whole team! If you choose to take this question and get it wrong, you will never be allowed to participate in the chunin exams ever again!" Shouted Ibiki, his tone serious ad he explained the rules.
Raiden smirked a single line of thought going through his head. 'So that is their goal, glad I spent enough time around the crazy Anko lady when she was training Sariah. Their trying to stress out the examinees, making it seem as if he can actually carry out that threat.' I wonder how this will go.
Raiden watched on smiling at Narutos' outburst as his knuckleheaded cousin shouted at the instructor. And just as his little brother was sitting down, his suspicions were confirmed. "Well, if that is your decision, then you all pass!" This got all of the genin in the room to shout in surprise.
Raiden smiled at the explanation but what came next surprised him. "And those of you who did cheat, you may want to refine your technique! A bunch wires connected to mirror system leading to a single genin, a puppet replacing one of the examiners, an eye made of sand looking down at all the papers? Sloppy! Just not as much as the ones who got thrown out, now…"
Before the man could continue the sound of glass smashing echoed throughout the room as a banner with the ends tied to kunai shot through the room, spearing into the walls so it unfurled directly in front of Ibiki. (The sexy and single Anko Mitirashi!) could easily be read on the sign. As the special jonin appeared Sariah began clapping.
Noticing that his teammate had formed a ten out of silver he chuckled and followed along, holding up a card with an eight on it. "Sorry Anko-san, but bad timing and the needless destruction knock off two points!" Explained the Senju
The seductive jonin pouted slightly, but instantly switched back to her normal crazy grin. "Okay teams! Head to training ground 44! You have one hour or I'm going to throw you out of these exams myself!" Shouted the snake mistress as she disappeared, causing a rush of genin heading to the door.
"This will be interesting." Muttered Raiden, walking straight towards the window Anko came through, leaping through it and racing towards the forest.
Half an hour later
Raiden stood in the font of the large group of genin standing at the gate to training ground 44. His eyes closed as he carefully pulsed his chakra out, updating his mental map of the forest since he was last here. Grunting as his head began to pound from the back lash of his technique.
He listened closely to the instructions of the task, smirking at the design of the scrolls, gears beginning to turn in his head, forming a plan for the exam. Raidens' smirk turned into a frown as he noticed Anko preparing to toss a kunai at Naruto. Discreetly flashing over, Raiden spun his blade, knocking the kunai off course.
Turning to the jonin he growled, his eyes shining for a brief moment. "Can you please refrain from attacking my cousin Mitirashi-san?" Questioned the Senju, his voice a cocktail of barely contained rage. Anko just continued to smirk before disappearing, retrieving her kunai from a strange grass nin.
Sighing the Senju looked at Naruto, a small smile spreading across his face as he spoke. "Be careful in their Naruto, don't take any unnecessary risks and if you run into a problem, throw this and I will be there." Instructed Raiden, passing one of his arrowhead kunai to the younger Uzumaki.
Naruto spoke, a large grin on his face as he did. "Thanks Raiden-nee! But you don't need to work about me at all! I'll be able to beat anything we come across! After all, I am the future Hokage!" Exclaimed the blond genin, running over to his team.
Raiden smiled and turned away, looking towards the towering forest as he moved towards his teammates. 'As much as I'm confident about this, I can't shake the feeling that something is going to go very wrong.'
And that's where I'm ending it! Thanks to those who have already read my story so far, I'm amazed at how many of you there are! Again, I apologise for the long wait for this chapter, whilst I hope it won't happen again, I have to say my update speed will only once a week from now on. Like last time 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 Void.