Evaluations
Had to redo this chapter due to it somehow becoming a wall of garbled mess. please message or leave a review if this happens again, as when I posted this last night I couldn't see the errors in place.
Again I don't own anything but my OC
Feral had moved himself from the building and now stood in front of the line of children, who after the initial shock had managed to calm down and return to their lineup. Running his gaze over the group he could easily recognize the clan heirs as most of them were almost carbon copies of their parents, with the most difference in a couple being their gender. Then there were the two who he'd be taking along with him today after the little show he'd have to do to make it appear like this wasn't blatant favoritism, which it was. The blonde was grinning ear to ear and Feral knew it was only luck the hyperactive blonde had not shouted out his greeting and blowing the cover wide open. The bluenette was far calmer in comparison but Feral chalked that up to having to be naturally stoic via the Hyuuga clan dogma, and while not the best, she could keep from speaking up suddenly.
Feral sighed turning his attention onto the rest of the children and immediately wrote all of them off as future dropouts or cannon fodder. By the kami that one child had long bright pink hair! Mentally shaking his head he was glad he'd made his point to Sarutobi clear about why he was going to do what he'd be doing today.
Snapping an arm out he pointed at Mizuki who flinched at the sudden action and finger an inch from his face. "You, worthless third tier side character, go get the lesson plans for this class from now until graduation."
Mizuki caught off guard with the insult could only stutter in reply. "Th-third tier…?"
Annoyed the teacher didn't immediately follow his orders he turned and bellowed in the man's face, the force of the shout knocking off the bandana. "NOW!"
Face paled and covered in spittle the man bolted into the building leaving a dust trail.
Snorting in amusement Feral turned back to face the children, seeing most having covered their ears at the loudness of his shout, with a few - he'd later recognize as an Aburame, Nara, and the Uchiha - seeming to recognize his voice. Moving his other arm up in front of Iruka he held his hand up ready to grab something. "Class roster."
Iruka mentally noted to thank the Hokage for forewarning him about Feral's tendencies to issue orders or demand things at random, and handed the roster to Feral who immediately looked through the names listed. A beat of silence passed before Feral turned his head to address him.
"This is incomplete. Where is the Kurama?"
Blinking at the unexpected question Iruka took a few seconds to gather his thoughts before answering. "She never was enrolled Feral-sama. From what I'd been informed and gathered, she is currently being tutored by an up and coming Chunin who specializes in…"
Feral cut him off with a hand wave. "If she's being taught properly then it's not my concern." Returning to the list he looked over it again before looking up.
"Alright midgets, I'm splitting you in two distinct groups. Aburame, Hyuuga, Inuzuka, Nara, Uchiha, Yamanaka, Akimichi, go line up there." He jerked a thumb to a tree ten feet from the building.
The seven heirs shared an unsure glance before moving where they were told.
Satisfied for the moment Feral tossed the roster back to Iruka. "Now. Your teacher here informed you about me being here, and a little background as well. But I believe I cut him off before he could tell you why. To put it simply, I'm going to train two of you."
That started some excited whispers in each group before getting silenced by Feral clapping his hands.
"Quiet down brats. My training is nothing to take lightly. Every person I trained have become legends in their own rights, most notably the 3rd and 4th Hokage, along with some clan heads. Now I'm here to find the next generation to train. Unfortunately I'm forced to chose one child from a clan, as well as a civilian instead of me just grabbing whichever one of you brats I wanted and going from there."
Moving to the clan line he looked them over and snickered at his pre-prepared comments. "Now to get this over with I'll begin with you brats. You shouldn't be disheartened if I don't pick you because your parent should be able to pass on the partial training I gave them."
That lessened the tension a few had, though the Uchiha noticeably scowled at the causal reminder he had no one. Feral saw though the dismissal of it as the famed Arrogance of the Uchiha clan had pushed out any doubt that Feral wouldn't choose him. Well let's go ahead and burst that bubble with a rusty kunai.
Stepping in front of the Aburame, he cast his gaze up and down before huffing. "Carbon copy of your father, coat and all. Go get the training I gave him, and get a different coat or you'll be compared to him constantly.
Ignoring the sudden buzzing coming from the boy he moved to the Inuzuka. "You got most of your mothers looks but got enough from your father to not look like a fruit. Likely got your mothers temperament as well, not worth my time breaking you of that."
Again ignoring the growl from the boy he moved to the Akimichi. "Hmm, potential but you're to kind. Kindness is rare and I won't be the one to destroy it yet."
Moving to the Nara he huffed. "Unmotivated, too smart for your own good, and will make me put too much effort just to get you to get out of bed. But that's your clans nature. Maybe if you were female I'd consider it, the women of your clan are always more active."
At the Yamanaka he growled low. "Worthless, of all the heirs here you are the least powerful and that's because you obviously diet, hardly exercise or train. You probably fawn over some girly looking boy as well."
Ignoring the indignant squawk from the girl he moved to the Uchiha, giving one sweep of his eyes he ground out in sarcastic monotone. "Oh looky, the supposed 'last Uchiha', well hasn't my day been made. Probably have the same arrogance as your father though your face is more like your mothers. Your father's the only clan head I didn't train, but then again, he did try to sneak to my training ground and watch when I trained your mother. Kami Itachi just had to leave one worthless runt of his clan left to remind everyone of their shame."
The other heirs held their breath as the civilian group let out several gasps. Even Iruka sucked a breath in, no one had ever been so disrespectful of the boy since the clans tragedy, and most of the class knew the boy practically had the council attending to his needs. Most of the teachers had long been informed to give the Uchiha extra lessons if the boy asked - read; demanded - for them, and to streamline the boys time to ensure him to the top of the class.
Sasuke himself was confused and not a little angry at the blatant disrespect for not only himself, but for his clan, which only grew to rage when Feral gave a dismissive huff. Snarling the self styled avenger whirled at Feral. "What gives you the right to talk down the greatest clan this village has!"
Feral glanced at the boy giving an amused snort. "First, I have more right than most due to the fact I'm older than said most, secondly I didn't 'talk down' this villages greatest clan."
Sneering the ravenette ground out. "Then what do you call your comments?!"
Feral gave an eye smile. "Facts."
Before Sasuke could yell out his fury, Feral's gloved finger rose up and flicked him between the eyes, knocking him onto his back. Dazed Sasuke wasn't able to see the boot that suddenly knocked the air from his lungs as Feral stood over him, pinning him down.
With a tone dripping in condescension Feral growled out. "Let's inform everyone of more facts shall we? Fact one, the Uchiha clan has never been 'the greatest clan'. They were never the best in the past, and it'll never be the best in the future. Even when Madara Uchiha was alive, and arguably the second strongest person in the world, the clan was third strongest. Behind the clan of the strongest person alive the Senju, and behind the cousin clan of the Senju. Since then the closest the Uchiha clan has ever gotten, is 'second best', and that's only in this village. Even then there are clans outside the walls of this village that are stronger, even more so now your clan is made of a traitor and a runt."
Sasuke raged in silence, unable to speak due to the boot that would force out his breath every time he'd open his mouth to scream, rant, or deny the so called 'facts' this abomination spewed from his mouth. The boy could only stew in his impotent rage at his inability to even defend himself verbally.
Feral continued unabated. "Fact two, the Uchiha clan is the only clan on record, whose population dropped from triple digits to a single digit number OVERNIGHT! Your clan is one of several who have gone from thriving to near extinct, but your clan is the only one to do so in not only such a short amount of time, but during a time of peace! No wars, no invasions, no end all be all battle. Your clan died in their sleep, at the hands of one of their own! It'd be funny if it wasn't so outright pathetic!"
During the rant Mizuki had returned, staring in silent horror at what was happening. The council would be at his neck having let this happen, and while he could shift the blame onto Iruka, he didn't need any extra scrutiny if any of his plans were to come to fruition for his master. Steeling himself he handed the documents he retrieved to Iruka before walking up to Feral, a sentence almost ready to exit his lips before it was silenced as Feral stomped hard enough to knock the boy out before in one fluid motion lifted the now unconscious boy and tossed him at Mizuki, who barely caught him in his surprise.
Before Mizuki could even attempt to berate the man his voice was cut through by Feral's growl. "Fourth tier side character, take that useless shit sack to the hospital. He's got a damaged ego."
Seeing the damaged Uchiha in hand Mizuki shifted priorities to take care of the child and immediately turned and ran off, muttering to himself about how he went from a third to fourth tier.
Feral held his snort hearing that. He'd deal with the fool if he overstepped himself later. Holding a hand out it was filled with the lesson plans as he tossed Iruka the roster. Looking through it he moved slowly to the civilian group and his godson. Rifling through the papers he narrowed his eyes seeing how much the curriculum had changed since he'd last took a glance when the brat Minato had asked for his opinion. History, sure was needed, but not past the first year! The classes were barely doing exercises, and only had a weekly spar! Minato had written for three a week!
His scowl deepened shuffling through each year of plans before tossing the papers up and setting it aflame. "Absolute garbage! This would leave these brats so weak they'd never even be able to even attempt to be Genin! Literally the only ones who'd make it would be the clan children who are constantly training and maybe one or two civilian children with a half decent mindset! Classroom teaching four days a week with the fifth the only day you do any half assed outside activity? Hyuuga!"
Hinata jolted at the sudden shift of attention to her by a clearly annoyed Feral. "H-hai?"
Feral pointed towards the clan sector. "Inform your father as of now you will be withdrawn from the academy for four days of the week! You don't need more than that with this worthless curriculum being used. Hop to it!"
Giving a shaky nod she scampered away getting a few jealous looks at her being dismissed.
"The clan brats can go as well. Go inform your parents I said to give you 'my training'. That should cover you brats."
The rest began to move away before he caught Ino by her ponytail. "Not you. Tell daddy dearest that I will be by to have a 'heart to heart'. Be sure to use those exact words."
His glare silenced any protest she may have had and she gave a shaky nod before bolting after he let her hair go.
Rounding on the clanless children and Naruto he walked along their line twice. Turning away he made a show of rubbing his face in unconcealed disappointment. Turning back to them he ran his gaze over them again before letting out a long resigned sigh.
He pointed to Naruto and then a civilian boy on the other end. "You two have the most chakra of this bunch, step forward for evaluation. You, ashy, what's your name?"
'Ashy' stepped forward, and presented himself. Though average in looks and build, he had a lean musculature that showed he took the training somewhat seriously. His defining feature was the ash grey hair reminiscent of Kakashi.
A possible extended family member? Feral mused.
Clearing his throat the boy spoke up. "I am Akira Hotora, Feral-sama."
Hotora… Ah yes he remembered now, a minor clan but had decent fire users and were adequate with small weapons like Kunai or daggers. Obviously he wouldn't be taking the boy to train as he had to pretend he might for this facade, but that didn't mean he couldn't help a future ally gain strength through proper guidance.
Humming Feral nodded. "Knew a few of your family back in the day. Fairly strong and skilled. I don't think you're a good match for my teaching style, but that doesn't mean I'll leave your latent talents untouched. Within a week I'll have a jounin I think could help you come along and pull you out of the academy for the day, I won't make promises, but they'll likely test you for an apprenticeship. You're excused."
Akira beamed at the mention of a possible apprenticeship and took off for home to alert his relatives.
Feral then rounded on Naruto. Making a small spectacle of it he circled the boy who could barely restrain his excitement.
Mentally Naruto had thought it all a big prank, since he knew Feral was coming to get him so hadn't really worried about not being picked. Instead he had decided to ham it up a bit and restrain his usual bombastic nature to aid the prank along.
Coming back in front of Naruto, Feral crossed his arms and hummed with closed eyes for a moment before nodding.
"You have more chakra than everyone here combined, myself excluded. You'll do, at the very least you'll survive past week one."
Naruto grinned wide at this, ready to yell out his joy when it was cut off by a shriek.
"Why That dobe?! Sasuke is far superior than that dead last!"
Apparently his intimidation couldn't quite contain the unnatural mind of a fangirl. Casting his yellow eyes he took in the young girl who had spoken up. Blinking his eye twitched seeing her, with pink hair that shined with what he could smell were plenty of hair products, and unblemished hands free of signs of any proper hand to hand combat, he got all the information he needed.
Sneering he let a minor amount of killing intent out, freezing the girl and choking the breath from her briefly before he let it go, letting her gasp for breath.
"Be silent. You are by far one of the most worthless students here. A mere glance at you showed me you have a naive world view, which isn't unnatural for most girls your age, but you aren't most girls! You are a shinobi in training! Your worthless fantasies about being rescued like some princess are just that! Fantasy! Out of a hundred times where you might be in any situation even remotely similar to that situation, your kidnapper would likely kill you long before ANYONE could even get close to finding you 50% of that! 45% would be where you get killed in front of your so called 'rescuer' or get caught in crossfire from weapons or jutsu!"
Taking a breath he calmed himself. Turning away he beckoned Naruto to follow who had lost his excitement during Feral's rant and gulped as he followed after. The two turned a corner leaving a near crying Sakura and a startled group of students and teacher.
One purple haired girl who hadn't been hit enough by the KI to stifle her managed to ask. "What about the last 5%?"
Iruka shook himself before looking to his student. "The last five percent is broken in two. 1% is where you get rescued unscathed… the remaining 4% is something not for younger ears. All of you are dismissed."
Turning away Iruka walked into the building, wondering how he'd explain the years curriculum problem to the Hokage.
Walking towards their shared home Naruto stewed in thought. He didn't want to admit it to his uncle, but he had thought that life as a shinobi involved rescuing damsels in distress and fighting bad guys. Seriously that's all he ever seemed to hear from the civilians about it when he managed to eavesdrop on their conversations.
Feral disrupted those thoughts when he rapped his knuckles on Naruto's head, getting a yelp of pain from the blonde and making him hold his head.
"Pay attention boy, I called your name twice. Now I want you to head to the house, I need to stop by the Yamanaka's house and pay the girls father a...what do you call it?"
Naruto offered, "A visit?"
Seemingly ignoring his companions offer he snapped his fingers. "Beating! That's it. Now run along and if you get hungry have some food from the fridge, it's healthy for you. And if you don't eat it then I'll ban ramen for a month."
Ignoring the boys sudden whine he turned heading to the nearby flower shop.
I had a long thing on my previous attempt giving a few minor spoilers and explaining a few more things. currently I'm too tired for this now and will be doing so next chapter. Please leave nice reviews and no flames
