DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN NARUTO, EVEN THOUGH I REALLY WANT TO.
SIDE NOTE :IF I DID OWN NARUTO I WOULD LET NARUTO AND SASUKE FIGHT TO THE DEATH!
OKEY NOW THAT THAT FANTASY IS OVER ON WITH THE FANFIC!
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CHAPTER 5:GRADUATION DAY...FINALLY!.
It was finally time...time for graduation...to become a genin!...again?.
It had been exactly one week since choji had that fateful encounter with hanabi.
Ever since then choji had been scared shitless of being alone with hanabi and was always looking out for her whenever he was at the hyuga compound.
Now you're probably wondering why choji would be frighten by a 9 year old child.
You have to understand hanabi hyuga was no normal child.
She was a monster.
FLASHBACK NO JUTSU 4 DAYS AGO
At first it seemed like he was in the clear after the first 2 day's with no sign of hanabi,but that all changed when on the third day while he and hinata were training hanabi suddenly made herself known.
"Onee-sama,father said he wants to see you in the meeting room"said hanabi while walking up the two while they were taking a water break.
Choji nearly choked on his water when hanabi suddenly glanced at him with a evil smirk.
"a'l keep onii-chan here company while you're gone okay,onee-sama"hanabi said to hinata with the cheesiest innocent little girl voice while suddenly hugging choji at his waist.
"well okay...i'l try not to be too long choji"hinata said to quickly ran off to meet with her father,worried of what he wanted her for.
The second hinata was out of her site ,hanabi punched choji in the stomach with a chakra infused palm.
"aahhh!...wh-what the fuck!.."said choji as he fell to his knees holding his hurting stomach,gasping for breath while look up at hanabi's frowning face.
"such language!.and to a child noless."hanabi said with a disapproving look,completely not caring about choji's health.
"why the hell did you do that hanabi!"choji said after finally getting his breath back.
"hanabi-sama"
"what?"choji said confused.
"i said hanabi-sama"she clarified.
"when were alone you shall call me hanabi-sama"hanabi said with a completely serious look on her face.
Choji gritted his teeth in anger. "like hell i am!. you fucking little psychopath!"
hanabi only frowned harder and then....SMACK!.
slapped choji on the left cheek.
"what the hel-.SMACK!.
choji was slapped again on the other cheek.
"..."
"as i was saying, as long as we're alone, you shall refer to me as hanabi-sama"she said as choji stared at her with pure hate as he held onto both of his burning cheeks,trying to cool them down.
"need i remind you of the power i hold over you akimichi-san"she said in her cold voice that he had come to hate .so much.
"one word to father about your trips to the library and you life is over"she said smirking.
"it would be in your greatest interest if you kept me and my sister happy"
choji wanted nothing more than to turn into a giant and squish this little monster,but he couldn't for two reasons.
One. his younger body wasn't ready yet for that jutsu.
And was the second in line hyuuga heir.
if he did anything to her...he would be butchered by the rest of the hyuuga's before he'd even make it out the compound...and she knew it..
"so what do you call me when were alone?" said hanabi.
Choji was never a prideful person but it had hurt his pride so much to say these words.
"Hanabi-sama"
"say that again,i couldn't hear you" said hanabi with her hand cupped to her ear,knowing full well what he had said.
"hanabi-sama!"choji shouted to please this demon.
"that's better"chirped hanabi feeling pleased at choji's compliance.
It was hard for choji to hate anyone much less children,but this little girl was right on his list, along with that bastard hidan.
"oh,don't look at me like that "she said with a small pout,after noticing his hate filled glare.
He then looked away from her.
She then reached out an grabed a fist full of his heir and yanked his head back to her direction.
"it's not as bad as it seems,akimichi-san."
"As I said. all you have to do is keep me and my darling sister happy and i'll be quiet about everything okay"
choji just nodded his head.
A few minutes After that conversation hinata quickly came running back from talking to her father and she was looking surprisingly happy.
"choji,hanabi,you won't believe it"said hinata more excited than naruto getting free ramen.
"what is it onii-sama"said hanabi reverting from her evil demon-mode to her sweet sister-mode.
"father has finally let me join him in the main house clan meetings,he's finally starting to think i'm ready for this!"she said without a single stutter...a new record.
"that's great onii-sama" chirped hanabi who then bumped her elbow in choji's already bruised stomach.
"ye-yeah,grea-t hinata"choji said struggling not to groan in pain.
END FLASHBACK
so yeah, you see why he despised hanabi.
On a lighter note after the last few weeks of training he had finally had a proper estimate of how powerful his younger body was now.
It was still not nearly as strong as his future self, but after all the training he's done with hinata plus the secret training he did by himself,he estimated that he was as strong as he was during sasuke's retrieval mission.
He still couldn't pull off the full-body expansion jutsu or the butterfly bomb .(well without the pills at least)but he had come far in only 3 weeks.
As sad as it may of sounded asuma-sensei was right, he did spent too much time eating when he should of spent it , eating lots of food was very,very important for a akimichi, but at the same time training was just as important.
In the old-timeline choji had been working on a way to forcibly burn his calories into chakra to use that butterfly form of his without using the deadly red had come close to achieving it,but died before he could perfect it.
Maybe this time he could get it done earlier.
We'll besides that he was still slow,as where all akimichi .but all the training he did with a hyuga for the past 3 weeks did help his reflexes increase slightly.
An on a side note, his once pitiful chakra control had skyrocketed thanks to his yin release.
Which made remastering most of his old jutsu's easier.
But still chakra and jutsu's aside, choji was still at best high genin.
Yup he had a long way to go.
as he got inside his classroom he saw the waving hand of shikamaru up at the front rows so he walked up to sit next to him.
"hey man haven't hagged out with you for a while now,so what up"said shikamaru to his friend.
"oh,you know i was just busy training"
"hey,where's your headband?" said shikamaru noticing choji's free heir.
choji had long since outgrown wearing his old blue scarf head band and had stopped wearing it for the past few days.
their conversation was cut short as Iruka walked in trow the door.
"okay class,it's finally time for your final test. When your name is called please report to the testing room.
And so it began,as the students one by one went in and out the testing room. many came out with headbands and some unlucky one's came out with nothing but sad faces,naruto being one of them.
Now that i think about it,if naruto didn't pass the exams then how the hell did he get the his head band?.
"choji akimichi"Iruka said calling his name breaking him out of his train of thought.
When choji walked into the testing room he was meet with both iruka and mizuki.
Wait didn't mizuki turn traitor after today?.
Choji like many of the academy students did not know the specifics of as to why a week after the genin exams that one of their chunin instructors was sent to prison.a slightly banged up iruka sensei at the time had only said that he had become a traitor to the hidden leaf and tried to steal something important from the village but was caught before he could get away.
"okay choji we just need you to use the 3 academy jutsus and you're done,okay"said Iruka with a gentle smile,silently rooting for choji to pass.
As you can probably guess ,passing the test was beyond easy for choji.
After quickly tying his head band around his head he walk back out of the academy and was meet by shikamaru who was also wearing his headband.
As they congratulated each other choji couldn't help but notice that mizuki was approaching a sad looking naruto,talked with him and left.
Choji was not certain if this happened in the old-time line but was still worried so he said goodbye to shikamaru and silently followed them.
What he had heard from trailing them were some very troubling things.
Firstly there not doubt mizuki was a traitor.
And secondly he was going to use naruto as a scapegoat.
It was obvious to him that mizuki was just using naruto to get his hands on the forbidden scroll.
He had to do something.
it was 4 whole hours since then and choji still didn't know if this was supposed to happen or not so he just silently followed naruto as much as he could .
He was beyond surprised that naruto was able to get the forbidden scroll so easily.
Seriously! some of the villages most sacred secrets are that easy to steal!?thought choji.
But then again i have been sneaking into the hyuga library for weeks.
As naruto sat there under the tree he was spying on, he noticed that he was practicing the multi-shadow clone jutsu.
Ohhh,so thats how he learned such a advanced jutsu so young!,though choji.
After a hour of trial and error naruto had finally got the jutsu down.
Then iruka sensei appeared.
After that naruto had told iruka what mizuki had told him about the fake make-up exam.
Then mizuka appeared with a hail of kunai aimed at iruka and naruto, but iruka pushed naruto out of the way and took a kunai to his leg.
Acting out of pure instinct instead of brains, choji choose then to rush in with a kunai thrown at mizuki.
He dodge.
"what's this, the fat ass came to your rescue,how sad"said a very amused mizuki.
"choji what are you doing here!"shouted iruka to choji.
"umm.i saw a lot of ninja's running around trying to find naruto, so when i saw him running around with that big scroll on his back so i decided to follow him"choji lied.
"well aren't you a good ninja" said mizuki sarcastically,as he then throw two kunai at choji.
choji managed to dodge them but they were connected by ninja wire and they wrapped around him,securely trapping him.
"there, all tied up like a good pig" said mizuki with a cruel grin.
"wha-what the hell is going on here!"said a shell-shocked naruto,have not seeing any of this coming at all.
Seeing as this was going too far south iruka said"Naruto!, Don't let Mizuki get the scroll!,It contains forbidden jutsu that can put this village in grave danger!, Mizuki used you to get the scroll for himself for his own power!" .
"wh-what."
"Naruto! Iruka is just trying to scare you because he doesn't want you to have the scroll." said mizuki.
"Stop lying Mizuki! Don't let him trick you Naruto!"
"Ha ha ha ha ha! Oh I'll tell you who's really lying."
"No Mizuki!"
"They've been lying to you your whole life Naruto. Since the decree twelve years ago."
"What decree?" said naruto
mizuki smirked "Everyone knows except you. Iruka's trying to hide it from you even now. He'd do anything to shut me up!"
i definatly dont know what the hell he's talking about. thought choji,struggling in vain to get out of the ninja wires.
Naruto was too frustrated and just wanted a answer. "What is this decree? Why does everyone else know about it?!"
Iruka screamed."Don't tell him it's forbidden!"
Mizuki chuckled "The decree is no one can tell you the nine-tail fox is inside you!"
Naruto's eyes open wide.
What!,thought choji.
"The fox spirit that killed Iruka's parents and destroyed our village has taken over your body! You are the nine-tails fox!"
naruto's a jinchuriki!.
"STOOOP IT!" iruka yelled.
Mizuki did not stop"They've all been sneaking around hiding things from you your whole life. Didn't you think it was strange how they treated you? Like dirt! Like they hated you for just being alive!"
"No! No no no no!" naruto shouted as his blue chakra started swirling around him.
"you know what ,i'll just do everyone a big favor and get rid of this little monster right here and now said mizuki as he sent a large shuriken hertling at naruto.
"naruto get down"
no way! thought choji as he saw iruka hunched over naruto as he took the hit from the shuriken in his back.
"hahaha,that eager to die ehh iruka"laugh mizuki.
"n-naruto"said iruka with blood in his mouth.
"take choji and the scroll and get out of here now!"
"but iruka-sensei way"said naruto who could believe iruka would go so far as to take the hit for him.
Iruka then told naruto about his childhood and how they were the story was so sad that even choji had to choke down some he finished the story naruto looked to choji who was only half way threw cutting the ropes and nodded to iruka.
He ran over to choji and cut the wires away with his kunai and they both ran off.
CHOJI'S POV
this is insane! thought choji as he and naruto ran to a random direction aways from where iruka and mizuki were fighting.
Was this all supposed to really happen or did i fuck-up some how!
Choji didn't have that much time to think as he and naruto stopped to take a rest at a tree then noticed to their horror both mizuki and iruka were right up ahead of them fighting.
Ohh,crap! Extra training or not i was just at genin level,i stand no chance against mizuki.
"i can understand you protecting the akimichi boy,but naruto hah,your a foal iruka!.why are you protecting that freak" said mizuki
"he's the one that wiped out your family"
"i don't care what you say, your not getting your hands on that scroll"said iruka difiantly.
"hah,as if you could stop 't you get it yet .naruto's just like me"said mizuki.
"hows that?"
"he wants the scroll for his own power and his own vengents"he said matter a factually.
"thats how demons are,he'll pure all his rage into the scroll and destroy everything."
"your right"said iruka which shocked both me and naruto.
"that is how demons are."he continued "but naruto's no demon." he said sternly
"naruto's one of a kind,who works hard,puts his whole heart into it,sure he messes up sometimes and everyone jumps on him for it , but his suffering only make's him stronger,so you're wrong he's no kyuubi"
"HE'S NARUTO UZUMAKI! OF THE VILLAGE HIDDEN IN THE LEAVES! KONOHA!."Iruka said with pride.
At that point naruto was drowning in his own tires,hell! Even i was moved by iruka's speech!.
"hah,you really believe in that drible?"mocked mizuki.
"i was gonna save you till the end iruka but now i'm just gonna end you now!" he said as he ran at iruka.
IRUKA'S POV
"your finished"
as mizuki was about to end me said to myself .so this was it, hah?.
But then..naruto jump in the way kneeing mizuki in his chin sending him crashing back several feet away.
"not bad,for a little punk"said mizuki as he got up from the ground.
"if you ever lay a hand on our sensei,we'll kill you!"said naruto in a serious voice.
"hah,bigs words coming fro-wait what do you mean we?"mizuki ask.
Naruto just smirked and raised his hand pointing behind mizuki.
As mizuki turned around his whole body was meet with a giant fist.
"aaaahhh"said mizuki as he was propelled several yards aways into a tree.
As mizuki struggled to get up he looked up and nearly pissed his pants.
He was surrounded by a hundred naruto's.
I was shocked. naruto and choji had mastered two very advanced jutsu's.
And then choji and the hundreds of naruto clone's proceeded to kick mizuki's ass.
CHOJI'S POV
well after we had beaten mizuki senseless, iruka-sensei gave naruto his head band which made him a full on ninja.
After a few minutes later the anbu arrived and collected mizuka to send him to prison.
But what surprised me was that the anbu wanted both me and naruto to report to the hokages offices.
On the way there i was internally panicking.
Oh kami-sama,what if he knows i'm from the future!
or what if i'm executed for knowing about naruto being a jinchuuriki.
As we walked into the room all of my thought stopped because there in the hokage's office was the old wise man himself,hiruzen. alive and weal.
This right here had cemented it into my brain that i was in the past.
"choji ,naruto" do you both know why you're here" he said to us in his grandfather like voice.
"this is about the kyuubi isn't it" said naruto with a frustrated growl.
the third hokage gave a small sigh. "naruto you need to understand we needed to keep it a secret to all the younger generation of what happened on the day of the kyuubi attack,but the true is that the fourth hokage gave his life to seal the kyuubi inside you when you were a baby in order to protect the village."
"but why me!?" naruto yelled.
"i didn't ask for this!"
"why did that bastard have to do this to me!?"
"NARUTO!"shouted hiruzen slightly leaking some of his killer intent ,scary both me and stopping naruto's tantrum.
"naruto i realise that yes, you did not ask for this burden but i will not have you disrespect the dead!."
naruto quieted down but he still had a pain filled look on his face.
Then hokage-sama turn to me. "and choji today you learned some very important secrets as well, tell me,what do you think of naruto after learning all this?"
what do i think..kami-sama i don't know what to think!. here i was thinking that i had this whole thing figured out an then boom! Life gives me a huge mind fuck!.
can i even look at naruto the same way again ?.
Naruto...
at that moment choji had an epiphany
this was naruto...the same naruto he use to hang around with when he was younger...
the same naruto he had fought along side with...
the same naruto that had helped him defeat the akatsuki members who killed Asuma...
he was no demon...he was his friend...
choji then straightened up and looked at hiruzen.
"hokage-sama ,i won't lie ,i am beyond shocked" at that naruto looked away holding back his tires.
"but this doesn't change a thing,naruto to me is still the same old naruto uzumaki" i said truthfully"
naruto's eyes were wide open in shock as he turn his head back to choji.
hiruzen smiled "well thats good to hear,now remember this is a S-rank secret so under no circumstance do you breath a word of this okay"
"yes,hokage-sama "i said bowing.
I then walked up to naruto and did something i saw several ninja's from kumo do on some of my future missions.
i held up my hand and closed my fist.
Naruto was confused at first but then he got the idea and he raised his fist as well.
And we bumped fists.
~ending theme song~Naruto ending 01-Wind~
Cultivate your hunger before you idealize.
Motivate your anger to make them all realize.
Climbing the mountain, never coming down.
Break into the contents, never falling down.
My knee is still shaking, like I was twelve,
Sneaking out of the classroom, by the back door.
A man railed at me twice though, but I didn't care.
Waiting is wasting for people like me.
Don't try to look so wise.
Don't cry 'cause you're so right.
Don't dry with fakes or fears,
'Cause you will hate yourself in the end.
You say, "Dreams are dreams."
"I ain't gonna play the fool anymore."
You say, "'Cause I still got my soul."
Take your time, baby, your blood needs slowing down.
Breach your soul to reach yourself before you gloom.
(Re)flection of fear makes shadows of nothing, shadows of nothing.
You still are blind, if you see a winding road,
'Cause there's always a straight way to the point you see.
Don't try to live so wise.
Don't cry 'cause you're so right.
Don't dry with fakes or fears,
'Cause you will hate yourself in the end.
(Repeats 3 times )
'Cause you will hate yourself in the end.
'Cause you will hate yourself in the end.
'Cause you will hate yourself in the end.
'Cause you will hate yourself in the end.
AUTHOR NOTE:
well that was entertaining!
I'm definitely gonna continue this story!
Hanabi is a cruel little monster who loves her sister and choji now know naruto's dark secret.
What will happen next!
Find out next time on CHOJI'S BUTTERFLY EFFECT.