Enchanting Naruto
AN, Minor edit of the fight with Gai
Chapter 2: The Test.
Izumo and Kotetsu were standing guard at a gate to Konoha as usual, when they saw an odd group approaching, a stacked horned woman, a short girl with pink hair and green uniform, a winged figure in white armor, and a fifteen year old boy wearing several pouches on his body held on with straps, and a white lab coat, underneath the pouch straps.
"Your business in Konoha?" Kotetsu asked as the group approached.
"I have an appointment with the Hokage today," Naruto replied.
"Name?" Izumo asked.
"Naruto Uzumaki."
"Lets see," Kotetsu said as he looked through a binder with the log of expected visitors. "Yup, there you are, the Hokage should be in the tower."
"Thanks guys, let's go," the lab coated boy said.
"So that's Naruto, I remember when he was a prankster," Izumo said.
"yeah," the other guard responded as he smiled at the memory.
A few minutes later of traveling accompanied by stares, and a shy girl following and peaking around corners, Naruto and his golems were inside the Hokage's office.
"So who are they?" Sarutobi asked at seeing the trio Naruto brought with him.
"My first friend and instructor Daria, as well as two golems friends I literally made, Gale and Rosy."
"Made?" the Hokage asked.
"Yes, made, it's part of the art I've been learning these past eight years," Naruto explained. "Although, while they are my best friends they were created from..." Naruto paused as he considered how to phrase it before continuing, "I guess you could say, materials that was left in my new home."
"Interesting, something Like the puppet jitsu of Suna perhaps..." the Hokage mused aloud to himself.
"Doubtful, as we are golems." Rosy commented in a musical voice.
Sarutobi's head whipped to look at what he thought was just a puppet created by Naruto to give him imaginary friends. "You can talk?" he exclaimed
"Of course we can," Daria said calmly. "We are fairly intelligent and self-willed, and loyal to our owner," Daria grimaced before continuing, "well some are a bit too violent to be easily controlled."
"I found Daria already made, and became her owner, ad she became my first friend, while Gale and Rosy were made only two years ago," Naruto explained. "I do have a single original golem though."
"You do?" Sarutobi said.
"Yes, but we decided it might be better to keep it as a surprise during the assessment," Gale said, her voice having a slight echoing effect coming from her armor.
The Hokage stood up and walked to the window and pointed to a spot a decent distance away that had three wooden posts stuck into the ground. "Meet me there in an hour while I find some neutral judges and testers."
A hour later saw a patient Naruto waiting for the Hokage to arrive, and Just on time, he had arrived with a group of five others, all the whole he had the uncomfortable feeling that he was being watched by someone close by.
Nearby a fifteen year old girl with black hair, onyx eyes, and dressed in a practical dark blue and black outfit was watching the young boy as he paced impatiently.
"Naruto, I would like to introduce you to Ibiki Morino and Anko Mitarashi of the interrogation department, who will be two of your judges one to evaluate your mental state, and the other to assess your abilities in their department from what you show in the spars," the Hokage said causing a large scarred man to nod, and the woman in a trench coat to say, "Hey kiddo, long time no see."
"Next is Maito Gai, whom everyone calls Gai, he will test your close combat ability, as well as your ranged since one of the examiners decided to be late," the Hokage said as a man in a green jumpsuit showed his illegally shiny teeth and gave a thumbs up. "to test your resistance to genjitsu Kurenai Yƫhi." A red eyed woman nodded. "Lastly is my son Asuma, whom will be watching as an experienced jonin. A man with a goatee and a cigarette nodded as Kurenai took a step away from the smoker.
"Good to meet you all," Naruto replied as he remembered the lessons in manners drilled into him by Daria.
" Now, for the first tests I want you to leave your golems out of the fight, and after we get an idea of your skills, I would like to test your sole original golem," the Hokage said, and after getting Naruto's nod, continued with, "now Gai spar with Naruto."
"Yoish! I would love to see his flames of youth!" the overly exuberant man yelled.
Naruto held out his hands palm up, and Gale, as well as Rosy, turned into palm fist sized spheres and whisked into Naruto's hands, where he placed them into empty pouches labeled with their names. He then walked out to the center of the field and took his staff off of his back. "Lets do this Gai-san"
The fight lasted longer than the observers expected, even with Naruto showing surprising stamina and Gai holding back. To and fro they battled, staff being used to both deflect blows and attack. The green beast's face was in a permanent grin at the work out, until half foot blades sprung from both ends of the staff and gave him a shallow cut across the chest.
The cut caused Gai to jump back, to gain some distance. Taking a breather he looked at the boy across from him with respect, but was disappointed the boy seemed to have nothing spec...
That thought was interrupted as he heard Naruto yell out, "Air slash! Dark slash!" and caused his eyes to widen as Naruto slashed one blade of his staff then the other causing a crescent shaped distortion in the air, followed by a crescent of inky darkness sped at him making a X shape when seen from the front.
"Shit! " the green jump-suited man said as he jumped over the crescents, but was caught off guard as, Naruto screamed, "Dark wave!" while slamming one end of staff into the ground, which caused a pitch black wave ten feet tall and half that wide, to travel along the ground and intercept Gai's landing spot. The watcher was curious how such strong attacks were possible from a boy her age and without hand-signs.
The crescents continued on and cut down some trees until they reached a distance away from Naruto of seventy feet. The wave however caused a minor black explosion on impact.
"That. Was. Surprising," a slightly shaken Gai said as he stepped out of the attack covered in minor scrapes and scorch marks. "Such a youthful combination, let's see how bright your fires burn!"
"Enough, I think we can say we have a grasp of his combat capabilities, now Kurenai, see how he can handle a simple genjitsu," the elder Sarutobi commanded.
"Yes sir," the red eyed woman responded. "Demonic Illusion: Hell Viewing Technique!"
the Hokage's eyes widened because, while a D-rank jitsu, it's affect on Naruto could be severe.
For Naruto it was if he was suddenly encased in a swirl of leaves, that suddenly had something like a burst of static ran through the leaves turning them plaid. The leaves suddenly dispersed leaving Naruto looking at the manifestation, and in the next second he had a response. "BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA," Naruto bellowed out in laughter leaving everybody confused. "a nine tailed fox in a pink Gothic Lolita dress," Naruto managed to gasp out in between fits of laughter.
Dead silence (aside from Naruto's laughter) echoed around the clearing as everyone looked at the genjitsu mistress, and in the trees the girl was shaking in silent laughter at the thought of the most feared creature in history in such a dress.
"I have absolutely no idea why that happened, you saw which genjitsu I used," the red eyed woman said.
"I don't know anything about genjitsu, but could it be his own skills in enchanting corrupting the technique?" Daria asked.
"Perhaps, but he couldn't break it," Hiruzen Sarutobi said.
"Can't, or is laughing too hard to?" Daria asked with a smirk.
As the Hokage was about to respond Naruto muttered, "Clear dance," in between his gales of laughter, causing the genjitsu to break. Still chuckling, the demon container stood up. "That was amusing, but not what I'd call viewing hell."
"I'm going to kill her," a rumbling voice only Naruto could hear said.
"Now, now, no killing allies, Kyu-chan," Naruto silently replied
"Grumble."
"Naruto, are you there?" the old man asked, and at seeing he had Naruto's attention he continued, "Let's see the golem you made and have it spar against Gai."
"Fine," Naruto replied as he reached into a pouch labeled 9T and pulled out a sphere. The sphere started glowing a malevolent red, and after shooting several feet away from Naruto, formed into the shape of a pretty nineteen year old. A pretty nineteen year old five feet six inches tall with red hair, red eyes, modest figure, blood red fox ears poking our from the hair, small cute fangs, and nine white tipped blood red fox tails. She was wearing a kimono-like top which was blue with red foxes sewn in, a pair of shorts, and on her feet were a pair of ninja sandals. The girl in the tree was curious on where she could acquire the same outfit.
"What the hell!" the golem yelled.
"That's..." Asuma started.
"Naruto, get away from it!" the third Hokage yelled.
"Geeze, pipe down, she's my most loyal golem, with the sole exception of Daria of course," Naruto explained
"But how can..." Anko started.
" Trust her? I made her," he pauses and mumbles inaudibly, "Or at least this body," before raising his voice again, "and I can say she's perfectly safe to be around unless you attack me or her, or if I order her to fight, now are we going to do this or not?"
" We will talk about this later,"the voice said.
"Fine, Gai?"
"Yoish! I'll show this nine tailed fox the power of youth!"
And thus the mighty clash between the green beast and the nine tailed golem began. It'll be a magnificent fight filled with... high pitched girlish screams? What did we miss? As we look back to where the battle should be going on the scene shows Gai on the ground clutching his privets with every other male guarding theirs, and the onyx eyed cute girl in the tree was taking notes an how a jonin was taken down so easily.
"Don't you dare touch me there again asshole," the foxy golem said as she walked away to return to Naruto's side.
After a short run for an icepack later, the judges were discussing the results in his office with Naruto, Daria, and the fox girl golem waiting in the lobby talking.
"I open the floor for discussion on Naruto's talents," the elder Sarutobi said seriously.
"His weapon skills are impressive, as are his jitsus, but I'm not sure about his Taijutsu as I was unable to disarm him during the match at the level I was fighting at. He was also able to catch me off guard by using a youthful combination of attacks that made it difficult to dodge the final jitsu," Gai said while holding a ice pack to his nuts. "His golem also hits hard."
"He has a marked resistance to genjitsus, to the point that they become distorted beyond recognition, and he can dispel them easily enough," Kurenai pitched in.
"I like his golem, that was a brutal take-down, but her form will cause problems, and I know from the way he treats her he will want her around," Anko said.
"He seems pretty well adjusted considering his lack of human contact, but seems to lack trust in humans, but trusts his golems implicitly," Ibiki said, before continuing with, "There is something unusual about his golem as well, she seemed surprised when she was brought out."
"She's going to give me nightmares, both because of how she hit Gai, and because of the attack fifteen years ago, but I believe he will be a powerful asset, as well as another wind user in the village," Asuma added.
"I agree with all of you, he can be a potentially powerful asset. I intend to make him a genin of the leaf using a special exception like I did for Rock Lee, Any objections?" the Hokage asked. Seeing no objections being raised he passes, but I think I should put some limitations on him..."
Meanwhile, in the lobby a foxy golem was grilling her 'creator.'
"Now why did you give me this form?" she asked.
Naruto looked at her while Daria was trying to give them some privacy. "Kyu-chan, I wanted to avoid out right panic at the sight of you. I wanted a friend whom could be out more than a large fox that would get us attacked all the time, but have enough in common with what she really was to make her feel somewhat comfortable. Besides I think you look pretty," Naruto responded warmly
"*sigh* Fine but do you think this is much better for not attracting attention?" 'Kyu-chan' asked.
"Just hide your tails, that's merely a battle form. Just will them away, and they will vanish until you need to fight again," Naruto answered smugly.
The golem was speechless as she caused the tails to vanish, leaving her with only the ears, to indicate her foxness. "I see you did think it out," she said after she recovered. "Now what will you do with all of the golems you brought along?"
"I plan to have only you two out constantly, the others are for back up, and guarding any sort of home we get here," he replied.
Shortly after he said that the door to the Hokage's office opened. And the people whom were in the meeting filed out, with Asuma being the last one. "Naruto," the chain smoker began, "the Hokage's ready for you." he then left the building.
As Naruto walked into the office he was waved into a seat. As soon as he was seated the old man began to speak. " Well, Naruto you pass on your, unique skills, but I will expect you to attend the last month of the academy, so that you can meet, and get to know your potential teammates. I would also like you to limit the amount of golems you have out to one or two at a time while in the village, to prevent a large commotion," The old man explained. "You should also move back into the village until graduation as well so that you may reconnect with Konoha."
"Does the one or two golems include my apartment? I need security there," the budding enchanter asked.
Sarutobi thought for a second before responding, "No it doesn't. You may, if you desire, place two more as guards for your apartment. I will, by the end of the day, acquire an apartment large enough for your current group. Now what happened to your golems tails?"
"She can hide them when not in combat. I'm not an idiot I know having a nine-tailed fox-girl walking around Konoha is a bad idea," Naruto commented offhandedly.
The third Hokage nodded his head at the point and sent the boy out to explore his home through older eyed while he started looking through apartments, not looking forward to the council meeting where he has to tell them about Naruto's abilities... oh joy.
The next day, Naruto, Daria, and Kyu-chan walked to school, while Gale and Rosy, whom were set as guards, stayed behind. It was fortunate for Naruto's temper, and the civilians, that nobody really recognized him after so long an absence. Especially since he wasn't wearing his old orange jump suit. Naruto wasn't wearing a white lab coat anymore either, instead he had purchased some midnight blue dye and dyed it a darker color.
Looking back at the apartment building Naruto smirked as he thought about the orders he gave to the two. Kill anyone who enters whom is not him or one of his golems. Soon enough the trio arrived at the school and Naruto leaned over while gently pulling Kyu-chan's head down. "Kyu-chan, lets mess with there heads a bit."
"Oh?" she asked curiously.
"Lets name the body your in Kit Suna," Naruto said with a smirk.
"I like the way you think," Kit purred as she nipped his left ear lightly.
Soon the three were outside a classroom waiting for a teacher with a scar across his nose to tell them to come in. soon enough it happened and the three walked in together.
The three walked to the front of the classroom. Naruto turned to look at the class, and said, "Hello, my name is Naruto Uzumaki and these are my golems and friends, Daria and Kit Suna."
The class looked confused at the golem comment, and a wave of muttering accompanied the introduction, but there were two people whom were looking at Kit with something other than curiosity. One was a boy with a dog whom was panting at the cute girl. And the other was a boy with onyx eyes. The second boy was jealous that a cute girl, whom wasn't a fan girl was with the cute boy in front of him, and from the way she moved he could tell she was more powerful than any other girl in the class.
Realizing where his thoughts were starting to drift Sasuke blushed the color of a ripe tomato, and started pounding his head on the table and saying, "Baka," every-time his forehead impacted the table.
"QUITE!" the teacher yelled causing his head to expand to five or six times its normal size. His head deflated as he turned to Naruto, and said, "Find a seat, the Hokage already told me about your friends."
Kit meanwhile was looking for seats when she saw an empty one by a girl with cobalt eyes sitting in the back row, and two in front of her. With an foxy smile the golem said, "Why don't you sit back there and well take the seats in front of her?"
"That's not a problem," Naruto said. As he sat down he asked, "And you are?"
"Eeep! H-h-Hinata Hyuga," She stuttered.
"Nice to meet you, now our sensei is starting the lesson," Naruto said.
This made Hinata blush and look toward the front.
The month passed quickly, with Naruto being except from spars with his classmates since he was technically a genin already it was deemed unfair for him to participate.
He did make some friends in the chubby boy Choji and the lazy one Shikimaru though. Mainly because all three had a lack of interest in the school work, although they never really progressed far in there friendship since Naruto really had less interest in food, or shogi.
His relationship with Hinata was weird to him. She always seemed to want to be around him, but rarely in the open, although she was more than she was comfortable with since Kit kept dragging her out every time she tried to stalk the young enchanter. This actually did wonders for her self confidence, since he seemed to enjoy her company.
Sasuke was a pain for Naruto and the golems. First he tried stealing Daria's gun after it was showcased during kuni practice, which was foiled by Daria herself making him dance by shooting the ground at his feet, and he knew that not even the council could force her to fork over the weapon as she said it was a clan weapon. Second he tried hitting on Kit, which was foiled by her delivering several light, for her, kicks to the shin which bruised the bones, the curious thing about the flirting is that it seemed... less than sincere. Third he tried demanding Naruto teach him his tricks, which Naruto refused.
Naruto's, and his golems, 'mistreatment' of the last Uchiha, caused a headache in the form of the fan-girls in the class screeching for Naruto, and Daria to do what Sasuke wanted, and for Kit, and Naruto to stay away from their man, so he wouldn't be lost to either of them.
This led the trio to avoid most of the females of the class, and with Kiba also hitting on Kit, it started to irritate the group that the majority of the class seemed to be unable to hold an intelligent conversation.
Shino was not much better for the group, with his less than visible emotions, but he was preferred over the rest of the class. Most of the rest of the class was rather unremarkable.
The most surprising thing during the month was a girl whom was not in his class. She was cute with onyx eyes, whom one day sat next to Naruto while he was eating ramen at Ichiraku's during lunch on one of the schools days off. They seemed to hit it off, but she couldn't spend much time with him since she was expected back home, but they met almost every day off for up to an hour each time making small talk, where she reveled that she wasn't a Uchiha fan girl.
After a month it was time for the testing, but everyone was surprised to find out that Naruto wasn't there because he passes on a special exception due to his unique skills, skills that were tested before a group of neutral jonins. Though he was ranked dead last because of this.
Finally it was time to declare teams, and with one of the chunin instructors in prison for attempting to steal the forbidden scroll, it fell to Iruka, the scarred instructor to deliver the news. After intimidating the room into silence, the man began to read from the sheet in front of him, " Ninja work in teams and for the next half year or more these will be the teams..."
EN: I'm just cliff-noting the month, anything relevant I'll do flashbacks for.
EN2: Cliff hanger, ain't I evil?
