True Jinchuriki
To the Wave
I truly am sorry that I haven't posted in a couple days longer than usual, but you can't expect me to post daily, this doesn't mean I can't try.
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto, and the shameful lack of Sasugay-groin-kicking is proof.
Polls:
Pairings, still accepting votes:
Naruto Hinata: 11
Naruto Sakura: 2
Naruto Ino: 4
Naruto Temari: 3
Naruto Yugito: 6
Naruto harem: 13
Sasuke Sakura: 2
Sasuke Ino: 0
Sasuke dies alone: 14
Lee Sakura: 2
Lee alone: 0
K, so Naruto is very pimpish, Hinata is the top one so far and looks like that's how things will stay. Yugito is right after her, and I don't know about my readers but I thing that setting up Naruto as strongly with both Hinata and someone from the village that tried to kidnap her might be kinda interesting.
Until further notice Sakura will be planed as going with lee, I don't know why but I kinda like this pairing.
Sasuke will die alone.
Haku is a guy, a very feminine guy but a guy. Not with Zabuza.
The Hokage dies or not?
Yes 6
No 5
Who saves him?
Jiraya 3
Naruto 3
Konohamaru 0
I still think it would be cool if konohamaru helped save the third.
Narrator's names
Crimson flame (shinkukaen no Naruto) 6
Inferno (iferuno no Naruto) 2
Of the forest (hayashi no Naruto) 3
Crimson forest (shinkushinrin no Naruto) 0
Of the storm (boufuu no Naruto) 3
The claw (Naruto no tsume) 1
"Shinkukaen no Naruto" it is (don't know why but it is)
Sasuke gets the seal
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Naruto sat in the Hokage's office, he had been sitting there for several hours, and it was boring. Naruto twitched.
"Oi, Hokage-oyaji, Clone team 3 has finished pulling weeds. They dispelled."
"Oh, good work Naruto. How are the others?"
"The paint-job at the Nara household is done, we weren't spotted."
"Hmm, Shikaku-san will be pleased to hear that. He hates housework."
"Oh and my team are just outside."
"Oh good, they finished." Stated the elderly Hokage.
"Team 7 reporting back from today's D rank mission." Said Kakashi as he walked through the door, accompanied by a very dirty pair of genin.
"What happened to you two?" asked Iruka, he was currently helping the hokage to assign missions.
"Sakura was so fixated on Sasugay, that she tripped and fell into the mud while planting seeds." Said Naruto with audible disapproval.
"Hey!"
"And Sasuke got kicked by a cow."
"How did he manage that?" was the startled response from Iruka.
"He isn't very good with animals, or people, or anything that is alive for that matter."
"Shut up dobe. At least I did the work."
"And I spent the day practicing ninjutsu while getting the work done many times more effectively and not getting my hands dirty. I'd call that a successful mission."
"Yes, results don't lie." Pointed out Iruka, while the Hokage looked amused.
"Speaking of results, Clone team four is on the way back with the daimio's cat, and team one has finished walking the dogs."
"Good work Naruto."
"Thanks, saru-ji"
The other shinobi in the room just stared at Naruto as if he had just grown two more heads and a tail. He had just called the greatest ninja in the village 'old monkey'.
"How is team five doing?" said the old man unfazed.
"They have the package and they're on the way."
"Good"
"Damn it this is completely unfair! Why does he not have to do any work?" screamed a pink haired kunoichi.
"Actually, Naruto has been getting more missions done in one day than any other genin. His shadow clones can think on their own and transfer any of their experiences to him when they vanish. It's quite a clever idea for getting a large number of missions done quickly and still getting the benefits of training." Explained the Hokage.
Kakashi sighed. "While it is true that he didn't personally accompany us, he did do the mission with us, whether you like to admit it or not."
Sasuke sighed, "I have no problem with that. These missions are annoying as well as pointless."
Sakura just stared at him in surprise.
The silence was broken by Naruto. "Hokage-sama, do you know a small boy with spiky brown hair and a scarf? He claims to be your grandson."
"Konohamaru?"
"That's the one. He just attacked my clones."
"Oh, is that going to get in the way of your mission?"
"Not really, I already finished cleaning everything, my clones were just checking for missed spots."
"That's good. Now team 7, I have your next D rank mission." The hokage started.
"NO, I refuse to do more of these stupid D rank missions!" Sakura yelled.
"She is right." Naruto put in, "they are quite boring."
Iruka went into a loud and very long-winded discussion about mission ranks and why the new genin weren't ready for them.
"I am." Naruto quietly said wile looking into space.
"No you aren't, you have been a genin for barely…" he was cut off.
"I do have something that I could give you. It's a C rank mission, you are to guard a bridge builder named Tazuna to his home in wave and guard him until the bridge is complete," Said the elderly ninja.
"Hokage-sama!"
"Quiet Iruka-san. They deserve a chance, and besides Kakashi-san are with them."
"Don't worry I'll protect them."
"Very good, Tazuna-san please come in."
In came a lightly overweight man with grey hair, he held a bottle of sake in his hand. "These brats are the ones that are going to protect me? They look pathetic, especially the short one, he looks really stupid…" the old man was cut-off by a kunai held to his thought by an angry looking Naruto.
"It is unwise to insult those who are risking their lives to protect you, Tazuna-san." He said in a quiet, venomous voice.
"Hey, you know you can't hurt me, you are being paid to protect me."
"I haven't agreed to the mission yet."
The way that Naruto said this seamed to unnerve the old bridge builder. Kakashi couldn't blame him, that kid could be really scary.
"You talk big kid but, can you back it up."
"Why don't you ask Kakashi-sensei." Was the cold reply as Naruto put away his knife and walked back towards his team.
The bridge builder looked at the team's sensei. He was shooting just barely perceptible glances towards his student. Tazuna could tell that the kid wasn't just playing around; he was dangerous as an opponent, and desirable as an ally.
"Well then, we will meet at the main gate at eight in the morning."
Just then another six Naruto walked into the office to nearly everyone's surprise. They were holding a fluffy cat carefully. As the onlookers watched the cat sank its claws into the clone carrying it, which popped into smoke, while another clone caught it.
"We have the daimio's cat." Stated one of the clones.
A large woman walked into the room, "oh, my shnukums, mummy missed you!" she cried as she grabbed the cat and started squeezing the life out of it. The clones all puffed out.
"There we go, that's the last of today's missions." Stated Naruto.
"Here is your pay." Sarutobi passed the envelopes to Naruto.
"Arigato."
Naruto walked out of the room. "I'll see you at ten, Kakashi-sensei." He called back.
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Sakura arrived at eight, Sasuke arrived at eight thirty, and the client arrived at nine.
At ten Kakashi arrived. "Where is Naruto-kun?"
"You're late." Stated Naruto calmly, walking out from the forest outside the gate.
"Well I was on my way here when a black cat crossed my path, so I had to go around."
"LIER!" cried Sakura.
"No, a black cat did cross his path." Naruto stated. "It was a warning of things to come."
Having said that, Naruto vanished and reappeared behind Kakashi-sensei. "Baka sumashuu no jutsu! (Idiot smash technique)" Naruto was suddenly holding a large tree branch. Next moment the branch was broken in two, and Kakashi was lying on the ground. With a lump on his head.
"Naruto-san, will you please teach me that technique?" Sakura asked with a thoughtful expression.
"Maybe later."
"…well…cough…I guess we should…wheeze…get going." Said Kakashi as he climbed out of the pit, coughing up some sand to the horror of Tazuna.
"Which one of you is the jonin again?"
"He is. But I'm a Jinchuriki, so that makes me much stronger that a normal Genin."
"You're a human sacrifice? How does that make you stronger?"
(A/N: please note that Jinchuriki can be literally translated as "power of human sacrifice")
"No but my abilities are the source of a double sacrifice. One is me and the other was another person."
"Huh?"
"It's complicated, and an S-class secret."
"so how do you know it dobe."
"The secret is about me; of course I know a secret concerning me."
One thought went through the minds of two Genin at the same time, 'is that why all the adults hate him?'
"Naruto, this is not the right time to be talking about village secrets, even if you are exempt from the rule." Kakashi said while simultaneously walking down the path and reading his orange book.
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Some time later the team passed by a puddle of water, Kakashi quickly looked at it as he passed. 'Hm, it hasn't rained in days."
Naruto just jumped in the puddle acting like a little kid, he was happy to hear a slight grunt of pain.
Just as the group passed, the water turned into two ninja in masks wielding clawed gauntlets and a chain in between them.
They jumped at Kakashi and apparently ripped him to shreds. Then turned their attention to the genin and Tazuna.
"I'll get you for jumping on me you stupid brat!" one of them yelled as he charged at Naruto.
The other ran straight at Tazuna.
Sasuke launched a kunai into the chain causing it to get stuck but the two ninja simply disconnected it and continued their attack.
Naruto vanished. Suddenly there was a sickening sound of metal scraping on bone. The ninja that had attacked Naruto fell to the ground with a kunai sticking upto the handle into the base of his skull.
Naruto stood on his body and started searching it. He quickly grabbed a kunai from the ninja to replace the one he had used and proceeded to scrape the poison off of his claw and gather it in a small container.
Seeing his brother fall the other ninja charged at his target as fast as possible, at least the mission would be finished.
However Sasuke got in the way causing him to slow down for a moment to defend himself from the attack. His defense fell for a second, but that was enough, Kakashi burst from the bushes and knocked him out.
"You didn't have to kill him Naruto; he could have given us information."
"Yes, but this way I can get the bounty on his head."
The others just stared at how easily the innocent looking blond had killed the man. What made the situation even more shocking was that he wasn't even disturbed by what he had done. Naruto continued to search for belongings; he soon pulled out some more poison and a scroll.
"Oi, sensei who ever said that dead men tell no tales." He said with a grin.
The other ninja who had just woken up, stared for a moment and then bit down on a hidden capsule in his mouth, he was dead in seconds.
"Who were they?" Sakura asked.
"The demon brothers, they were chunin from the mist who were known for never slowing down in a fight even when badly injured and always killing their target." Kakashi explained as Naruto created a pair of clones and sending them back to with the bodies.
"Tazuna-san, you have some explaining to do." Kakashi said turning to the bridge builder while Naruto started examining the different items he had taken from the two chunin.
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That's this one for you.
It's a little longer than the others, but I wanted to get things going.
Now Naruto is showing his scariness factor slightly. He killed a guy with no doubts and just started looting the corpse before it had grown cold.
The polls are still going regarding the pairings but they will be getting started soon so this is mostly to see how things will progress later.
Sasuke will get the seal
Haku is a girly-boy and the Hokage is most likely going to survive, but barely.
How is still up for grabs so please vote.
Naruto is going to be "Shinkukaen no Naruto" (Naruto the scarlet flame)
This does not mean he will be using a lot of fire moves. However when he uses his powers he is surrounded by a kind of shield of red fire so it works.