A/N: Six reviews on the first chapter? I must seriously be doing something wrong here. Anyway, since this is pretty much a high-school story, the characters will be around Shippuden-age…although some students will have altered ages. Anyway, since I've got demand on this story nonetheless, I will give the pilot episode a second shot. But I beg of you; do read and review, would you kindly? Also, to those of you that follow "Naruto: The Dark Knight REMIXED", I would like to remind you that the poll is on for which monster you want Naruto to fight in Training Ground 44…so please, do not forget to vote!
[Konoha Private School, Basketball Court…]
Basketball was not in practice today, but the court was still being used. The entire court was made so as to accommodate two small games of basketball, or one tournament with a full lineup. Today, the bleachers were retracted, and the smaller courts were occupied by the iaido and naginata clubs. One student in particular was in the middle of sparring with her fellow classmate as she blocked a strike aimed at her head before countering with a swipe to the leg, earning the girl a point.
"Ippon!" cried out the coach. She was, herself a pinnacle of beauty; violet hair and eyes, with a killer body and very modest bust for a woman of her age. Normally, Oichi-sensei would be wearing a pink kimono as befitting of her traditional upbringing; but today, she wore the more practical white dogi and navy-blue hakama that only seemed to make her look just as attractive. It would seem that having three daughters with tokusatsu actor, Azai Nagamasa, had caused her beauty to mature and become even more so. Word had it, that she was related to the infamous Oda Nobunaga himself.
The loser of the match had taken off the men, revealing a boy with chestnut hair being held up with a red headband, and looking with piercing brown eyes. "Looks like my soul wasn't burning hot enough today," he said, feeling very good-natured about the loss, "maybe I'm not used to the naginata, after studying in sojutsu for so long. In either case, it was a good match! Let's fight again sometime, Tenten!"
The student had taken off her men, revealing dark brown hair that was tied up in a pair of buns in her hair as went to sit with the other students in seiza. She had the build of a girl her age that practiced daily in martial arts, and the way she carried herself spoke levels of her confidence. Her full name was Zhào Tiān Tián, but she also answered to the name "Tenten". She was an international student from Foshan, China that ranged in the High-C to Mid-B range for her GPA. "And I'll be the one to beat you down again, Sanada!"
The sound of a metal door opening into the basketball court had turned everyone's attention to the door, and the sound of a wooden stick tapping around on the floor had made the identity of the intruder more than clear. And unfortunately, Tenten knew exactly who it was that was that dared to be late...especially since Danzo-sensei was in session today. With an exasperated sigh, she walked towards the blind Kazan boy that had entered the court, and started guiding him towards the iaido club's area. "Honestly Naruto-kun, you shouldn't have come here today if you were going to be late!" she whispered to the boy harshly, "You know how Danzo-sensei is like whenever people are late!"
"I couldn't help it!" he whispered back, "I didn't think I'd be getting fanclubs coming after me at all!"
Tenten paused for a moment to allow that notion to sink in. "Hold on, you've got fan clubs coming after you?"
"I know! I…"
"If you're done fraternizing with the poor girl, then please hurry on over, Naruto!" shouted the voice of Danzo, as he glared at the two of them with his good eye. "I'd hate to have to punish my star pupil even worse than I have to!"
It just so happened that the two of them were near the Iaido club's area when Danzo had snapped at them. Knowing that she needed to get back to her club activities,Tenten moved on in close to Naruto's ear. "See me later, and we can talk about it!" she whispered, before running off to her club.
As he walked towards the iaido club's area on his own, Naruto immediately settled down in seiza position. Tenten's family had moved on in to the Uzumaki Tribe's community from Foshan about a year after he was born. Because they were next-door neighbors, they saw each other quite often…even going to school together. The reason her family was accepted into the community in the first place was because they (like the Uzumaki Remnants they lived with) were not racist, and so it was no surprise that they got along fine.
Lately however, their friendship seemed to have changed. Whatever it was, Naruto had a feeling that she'd somehow crossed a line. "Here's your punishment, Naruto," began Shimura-sensei, placing something made of wood in his hands, "you are to take this tanren bō, and practice kata with it. You will swing it around until you've given me six sets of seventy."
Eh, it can wait…after all, she went on the same bus as him and Anko. He'd have plenty of opportunities to ask her about it until then, especially since she could always see him on the balcony. But first, he had to do the punishment for being late. Judging by how heavy the tanren bō was, Naruto estimated that it was at least twenty pounds, not including the leverage he had to swing around.
Still, it was a rather good exercise to work up his arms.
[Bus stop━an hour later…]
A young girl sat around near the bus stop with sunglasses on her eyes, and a pair of DJ-style headphones around her neck. It was hooked up to an iPad Mini that was in her hands, and pop music was blaring, but she seemed to be doing a variety of tasks on it rather quickly. Her height and general appearance had suggested that she was around the age of a junior high student.
She seemed to be waiting on the bus stop, as she was taking time to get off her iPad periodically to take a look down the road to see if the bus had arrived.
The girl turned to see that approaching the bus stop were three people, all of whom were carrying bogu, showing they were martial arts practitioners. The three of them wore uniforms that had a dark, greenish-blue tinge, and the emblem of a leaf with a spiral embroidered on their collars, marking them all as students of Konoha Private School.
One of the people approaching was a girl with buns tied up in her brown hair. Her appearance seemed to scream 'Chinese' in quite a few different languages, especially with the subtle lilt in her accent. Overall, she looked like she could cosplay convincingly, and win first prize, as a gender-bent Chinese hero fairly easily with the way she was built. The long bogu, that the little assumed carried a long training weapon, only seemed to reinforce that image.
The other girl had violet hair, done up in a pineapple-style ponytail. The little girl knew who she was, she knew that she was also a high school senior. The limiters she wore on her right arm came not from being born into a Kazan Tribe, or even a lone wolf Kazan Syndrome victim; she'd heard that it came from being the subject of a sick experiment, performed by a very bad man. She had a very confident stride in her step, and apparently was not shy about her body given how high her skirt was.
However, the one that caught her attention was the blind boy with the whisker-marked cheeks that the two girls were flanking. He carried a wooden cane, and was talking animatedly with them about something. Like most Kazan Tribe high school boys, his uniform had only one sleeve due to the fact that the limiters he wore were too bulky, and so he had to wear a special cape on his left shoulder during cold days.
"Seriously?" asked the bun-haired girl, "You were being fought over by the Uchiha Twin and the Hyūga Girl fanclubs?"
"I'm not kidding, Tenten!" said the blond, "Anko-nee was there!"
Anko snorted. "He would've been in the middle of a tug-of-war had I not pulled him out. That's why him and I are going to see Sayuri on Saturday!"
"Hey, why does Naruto-kun have to go with you?" snapped back Tenten.
"You wanna play it that way? Okay, fine then, here's why: one, I'm older than you; two, we already live together; and three, because I said so!"
"Girls, can we please not fight?" asked Naruto, "Look, it's not like I'm going to disappear or some…"
The words were cut short when Naruto found himself swept off his feet by the shoulders, causing him to clatter onto the sidewalk. The girl saw that the boy's kidnappers were a purple-haired girl with a bob cut, and a ginger-haired girl; both of whom were also Konoha Private School students, given the color and design of their sailor fuku.
"Naruto-kun!" It was at this point that both Tenten and Anko gave chase.
When everyone had left the area, the girl simply grinned and reached into her pocket. In her hand was an iPhone 6. She unlocked the phone, pressed the key code, and dialed a number. "Hello?"
"Phase one is complete," said the girl, into the phone as she walked into the bus, "get ready for phase two."
"But what if those Uchiha bitches get in the way again?"
"Then initiate Plan B. That boy has to get to the designated location in time for the surprise."
"And if they persist?"
"Don't give up," said the girl, almost gnashing her teeth, "whatever you do, don't give up. Just make sure he gets to my place!"
"Right away."
After hanging up the phone, the girl simply waited. She had plenty to do, one of which being the homework she'd no doubt accumulated. The other…well that was a surprise now wasn't it?
[Hyūga District━fifteen minutes later…]
The bus had driven a good fifteen minutes towards the Hyūga District before it stopped a few blocks away from a particular manor. The little girl had walked off onto the sidewalk to see a mob of girls with terrified looks on their faces meeting her at the bus stop. They didn't need to say a word; she knew exactly what the result was. There was of course, one question she had on her mind: "What the hell happened?"
A girl with violet hair stepped up, and cow-towed before the young girl, causing the other girls in the gang to follow. "We initiated Phase Two, like you said, but the Uchiha gang came in and fought us! We even tried to initiate Plan B, but they fought even harder! By the time everything cleared up, Naruto was taken away quietly by those two hussies."
The little girl simply snarled, her skin taking on a reddish tinge from anger. However, just as her rage had reached a boiling point, she let out a calming breath while taking off her sunglasses. No need to get mad at the gang for incompetence…it was a bit of a miscalculation on her part for not taking into consideration the Uchiha gang's persistence.
"Looks like I have to do this myself," she finally said, looking upon the gang with a pair of white eyes. They all looked up in surprise. "You can all go home now. I've got some plotting to do."
"H-Hai, Hanabi-sama."
With that said and done, Hanabi watched as her gang started leaving. It was a good thing she always met her gang this far away from her home, and in disguise. No need to tell daddy that his precious little princess had a dark side after all; because she was Hyūga Hanabi, prodigy and heiress to the Hyūga clan, and one of the smartest kids in school. She was the youngest person to attend Konoha Private School at around eleven when almost everyone around her was a high schooler. She was also among the top-tier players in the Shogi club (being able to play against transfer students Zhuge Liang and Sima Yi, and local boy Nara Shikamaru to a stalemate), and just so happened to be an avid Baguazhang practitioner like the rest of her family.
As she walked on home, Hanabi could only think of how many plots she was going to come up with to snatch up that Uzumaki boy…
A/N: And now the first chapter is done. I apologize on the shortness, but this is pretty much a pilot episode I wanted to get off my chest good and proper.
Vocabulary/References
Naginata━a Japanese polearm that is essentially a small katana blade mounted on a staff; like a katana, it has a shinai and bokken form for sparring and practice. Rules and gear for the martial art of Naginata are similar to kendo, with the major difference being that in Naginata, you need to wear shin guards, as leg-strikes are legal there.
Men━this is the helmet that kendo and naginata practitioners wear.
Tenten's name━the characters that are used would be 趙天田.
tanren bō━a type of training weapon, looks like a baseball bat with a really thick head. Rather heavy.
Cameos/Mentions
Sengoku Basara
Oichi
Azai Nagamasa
Sanada Yukimura
Romance of the Three Kingdoms/Dynasty Warriors
Zhuge Liang
Sima Yi