Disclaimer: if I owned Naruto, I wouldn't be here. I'd be making more volumes to appease the cult. HAIL KISHIMOTO-SAMA!
SORRY! GOMEN GOMEN GOMEN GOMEN! Sorry for such a late update! I've been really lazy. And I was sick this weekend.
Chibi Strawberry: hmm, I'm not sure which is ram. I'll use Tora though.
Akiri07: glad you like the gore! If you like it now, just wait 'till the Wave arc! It will have some DRASTIC changes.
Ozoroni: Naruto will not stay in Konoha for long, you'll see.
SS-Zergling: sure thing Chief! Again, sorry for the late update.
AppleCoreCandyBox: Thanks! I will be making more frequent and longer updates.
PAIRINGS! (so far)
NarutoxIno 1
NarutoxSakura 1
NarutoxHarem 1
Narutox nobody 1
Just tell me what you wish the pairing to be and I'll count it as a vote. I am fine with basically any pairing. I will say in the update if I do not like a certain pairing and will not include it.
Kabayashi Ichita fell to one knee, stabbing his Great Sword into the ground. He panted heavily and wiped the traces of blood from his sweaty hair. With a sharp intake of breath, he lurched forward and through the window before him into the dark night of the island of Swaying Birches. His eyes gazed around wildly, taking everything he saw into account. Even with all his decades of experience, Ichita still could not find the black-clad stalker that besieged him. Ichita froze at the sound of a figure landing behind him.
"Looking for me?" rasped a feral voice. Ichita broke from his momentary shock and quickly spun on his heel, swinging his blade in a horizontal arc to encounter… nothing. A dry, raspy chuckle seemed to echo from all around him, followed by that infernal voice.
"Hehehehe. Is that really all you can do, Kabayashi-san? You, one of the legendary Seven Mist Swordsman, can't even hit me! You disappoint me. You lack the skill to even see me. Well, then, I'll just have to make myself seen!" The shadows in front of Ichita's vision seemed to dance, before materializing into a tall figure bathed in darkness, with only the white of his mask shining eerily in the night. The figure's clawed gauntlet calmly punctured Ichita's chest and closed around his heart.
"W-who are y-you!" stuttered Ichita, blood dribbling from his mouth.
"Your executioner." Replied the monotone voice of the mysterious assailant, before he squeezed his hand.
A groggy Naruto woke from his fragmented sleep, exhausted after his late night training session, which involved running laps around Konoha with 300 pounds of weight on his arms and legs, and 500 on his chest. He pushed himself out of his bed and stepped into the shower, rubbing the sleep out of his eyes. He then started to make some coffee, and went to his closet. He opted for green camouflage pants and a black long sleeved shirt, tying his hitai-ait to his forehead.
Naruto then calmly sipped his coffee, as he gathered together his kunai, shuriken, explosive tags and his jade nunchaku. He had created it himself from the jade he had gathered as payment from some of his… under the table jobs outside of the village. He sometimes ventured out and used his skills to make some cash, mostly with helping in petty gang fights. After he was done with the coffee and had strapped on all of his gear, along with a dark green cloak, he grabbed a bread roll and some salami and cheese, gulping it down as he walked to the Academy.
Naruto walked through the door and plopped himself into his chair in the far corner, away from anyone else, briefly amused at how Iruka still couldn't recall what had happened last night. He ignored the looks his new outfit gained, along with his silence, and he propped his boots up on the table. Haruno Sakura chose this time to make her way towards him.
"What's the deal with the new cloths? You trying to act cool like Sasuke-kun?" questioned Sakura, hands on her hips.
"Can it, Strawberry, I don't care, so just go back to licking Uchiha's boot." Came the rough reply of Naruto, his eyes closed, hands behind his head. Sakura huffed before scurrying back to the Princess of Self Pity, Sasuke.
"All right, I'll announce the Genin teams along with your Johnin sensei." Called out Iruka as the last students filtered in, lecture-mode in full swing. Naruto tuned him out, waiting until he heard his name.
"Team Seven includes: Uzumaki Naruto, Uchiha Sasuke, and Haruno Sakura. Your Johnin Sensei is Hatake Kakashi. Team Eight is blah blah blah." Naruto didn't care about the other teams, and instead started a conversation with his only friend.
"So, Copy Cat Kakashi, eh?"
"Be careful, otoutou, he has never passed a team before."
"I'm always careful!"
Two hours later sees Sakura, Sasuke, and Naruto as the only people still inside the room, still waiting for their sensei. Exactly thirty minutes later, a man in a Johnin outfit with a mask covering the bottom half of his face, hitai'ait covering his left eye, and floppy silver hair entered the room, only visible eye curved in what could be guessed as a smile. Sakura started yelling incoherent expletives, Sasuke 'hn'ed, and Naruto grumpily stood, his hands hidden by his wide sleeves.
"Wow. I surely got a happy crowd! Meet me on the roof." Ordered the sensei, Hatake Kakashi, eye still curved. Kakashi disappeared in a poof of smoke, and the three Genins trudged up the stairs to the roof.
Kakashi leaned against a pillar, Sasuke and Sakura sat on the steps, and Naruto balanced on the railing.
"Okay then, now I want to get to know you all, so you tell me your name, likes, dislikes, hobbies, and dreams for the future." Kakashi commanded
"Why don't you go first?" replied a sly(not really) Sakura.
"Fine, fine. My name is Hatake Kakashi. I like some things, and dislike other things. My hobbies are none of your business and my dreams? Hmm… You next Pinky."
"All we got was his name…"thought the trio of twelve-year-olds.
"All right then! My name is the beautiful (queue scoff from Naruto) Haruno Sakura! I like, well, I like a certain boy named… blush, look at Sasuke, harder blush I dislike INO-PIG and anyone trying to be better than Sasuke-kun and my hobbies are followi-I mean, ARRANGING FLOWERS! HAHAHAHA! crazed look Any who, my dream for the future is to meet with Sasuke-kun and… blush so hard that she falls unconscious"
With a sweat drop, Kakashi slapped Sakura awake before pointing to Sasuke.
"Mr. I-hate-the-world, next."
"My name is Uchiha Sasuke. I like very little and dislike much, so there is no point in explaining."
"He makes no sense"
"My hobbies are training and my dream, no my ambition, is… to kill a certain man."
"Dun-dun-DUUUUUN! I'm so scared! Help me!"
"Mr. Green-cloak, you're next."
'Uzumaki Naruto. I like fighting and coffee and I dislike dealing with thick-headed morons. My hobbies are… playing guitar. My dream? I don't have one. I move through life without reason, as we all do."
Awkward stare and silence
"…What?"
"…So… Tomorrow, meet me at training ground seven at six o'clock, where we will have survival training. And, yes Sakura, I know that we did this in school, but this is to determine who actually becomes Genin. And don't eat, unless you enjoy emptying your stomach on the grass." said Kakashi, before once again poofing away. Sasuke walked away in one direction, with Sakura following him, and Naruto walked to the forest.
It is 1:13am the next day. Naruto stands in his secret area in the forest, launching a flurry of punches at the kage bunshins that assault him. Soon enough, all the bunshins are down. Out of breath, Naruto's eyes steel as he launches through a collection of seals, ending with the Dragon, or Ryu, seal.
"Raiton: Chain Lightning Jutsu!" called out the blonde, lightning launching fom his now extended fingertips, flowing through the air like mystical ribbons of energy, bouncing through straw dummies and lighting them on fire. Naruto greedily sucked in air, fingers twitching from excess power. It took a lot out of him, but it was worth it. This new technique, found in the Scroll of Sealing, could render metal weapons useless or easily take out a group of enemies. An idea popped into his head, and he focused on one tree ahead of him and once again drew upon his Raiton chakra.
At six thirty, an annoyed Sakura and an indifferent Sasuke wait at training ground Seven.
"Where is Kakashi-sensei! And Naruto! God, why are they late!"
Meanwhile, at a certain memorial stone, Kakashi stands solemnly, all playfulness gone from his eye"
Meanwhile, at a certain memorial stone, Kakashi stands solemnly, all playfulness gone from his eye. He simply stares at one name, and the cloth side of his hitai'ait grows moist. He was so wrapped uo in his thoughts that he failed to notice a certain green-garbed blonde land beside him, and in his arms, an electric guitar. So, naturally, Kakashi was startled at the sudden plucking of random chords. He turned his head to observe Naruto, hunched over the light brown guitar, the edges of it growing from red to black.
"…You come here every day, don't you? That's why you're always late." Stated Naruto, his face still hidden.
"Wha- How did you know?" questioned a bewildered Kakashi.
"Same reason I get so little sleep every night. I head here and play."
"Play? For who?"
"…For my one and only friend…" replied Naruto ominously, before putting the guitar back into a case and sealing it into one of the scrolls on his belt. With a blank face, he turns his back on Kakashi and walks towards the training field.
"Come, Hatake-sensei, we don't want to keep Haruno and Uchiha waiting." Without a word, Naruto simply walked away, with Kakashi soon following.
All this time, Sakura was still ranting about their audacity to make them wait, so she was startled when she felt Kakashi tap her on the shoulder. She quickly spun, hitting Kakashi in the face with her long hair, and started yelling about how he and Naruto were making her precious Sasuke-kun grow bored.
"And where is Naruto anyway?" She finished.
"Right here, Haruno." Naruto replied, dropping down from the tree he was perched in. (Scaring the crap out of Sakura in the process.)
"All right, then, if we can all just settle down. Your test to become real Genin is this: You must steal these two bells from me. Whoever doesn't get a bell will be tied to that stump and will not get lunch, in addition they will fail and be sent back to the academy."
"So at best, two people pass?" asked Sakura.
"CHA! Just me and my Sasuke-kun!"
"Or, none of us could pass." argued Naruto.
"…Pessimist." blamed Sakura.
"You have until twelve o'clock… now GO!" All three Genin hopefuls jumped to the surrounding forest. Then, Sasuke leaped from his hiding spot to confront his silver haired sensei. Kakashi raised an eyebrow at his student's blatant bravery.
All of a sudden, Sasuke rushed the Johnin, launching a barrage of punches, all easily blocked by Kakashi. Sasuke grinned and launched his left fist and both feet at the same time, which were intercepted by Kakashi's arms, with Kakashi cringing slightly. Sasuke's right hand lurched and touched one of the bells, before Kakashi jumped back.
"This guy's pretty good." Admired Kakashi, before his eyes widened at the show of Sasuke's hands launching into seals, ending with Tiger.
"He shouldn't have enough chakra!"
"Katon: Gokakyuu no Jutsu!" screamed Sasuke before launching a fireball from his mouth. He smirked victoriously, before gasping as he was pulled underground by a certain chronically late shinobi.
"Doton: Inner Decapitation. Works every time." explained a bored Kakashi. With a sigh, he walked away to seek out a pink-haired girl.
Said girl was currently hiding behind a bush, when a croaky voice startled her.
"Sa-kura… He-elp me!" exclaimed Sasuke, his limbs now bloody stumps and his torso filed with shuriken and kunai. Sakura simply screamed and fainted, completely missing Kakashi chuckling as he dispelled the genjutsu.
"Now just the guitar-man. Kakashi muttered to himself, standing in the middle of a clearing. The sound of metal rushing through the air alerted Kakashi of the coming kunai. He nimbly dodged to the side, landing in the middle of the circle created by the kunai as they landed into the ground.
"What did that accomplish?" asked Kakashi upon seeing Naruto creep out of the trees with a single kunai.
"Everything." replied the blonde ninja as he launched the kunai. As it traveled, Naruto flew through a set of seals, ending on Ryu, as he shouted the name of this new jutsu."
"Raiton: Condensed Thunder Jutsu!" a single bolt of concentrated electricity soared before striking the kunai that Naruto had just thrown, filling it with energy. The kunai clashed with another kunai that was part of the circle, transferring the energy into the circle as blue arcs of electric discharge traveled around the circle. Then, all the electricity flew at Kakashi, making his eye go wide. He narrowly avoided it by jumping into the air, astonished as the kunai that were plunged into the ground suddenly rose and flew after him. He preformed a kawamari, but the kunai just changed directions and flew at his new hiding spot.
Several kawamaris later, Kakashi is franticly trying to think of a way to get these kunai off of him, and then it hit him. During the fight with Sasuke, he had cringed because of a small bolt of lightning sent by Naruto, supercharging his metal and making it magnetizing! In a rush, he quickly discarded his kunai, shuriken, and his gloves. To his dismay, the kunai were still after him.
"The bells! I could discard them too… yes, better to stay alive." So with no further thought, he severed the cords holding the bells. But the kunai were still after him!
"Your hitai'ait, Hatake-sensei!" chuckled Naruto, before finally dispelling the jutsu. He then gathered the kunai and the bells.
"You should feel good, Hatake-sensei, I spent all night adjusting my jutsu for that trick." Said Naruto as the alarm went off. Kakashi shook his head in awe and went off to dig up Sasuke and revive Sakura.
Five minutes later, they all were gathered at the cluster of stumps were they met.
"So, who are you sending back to the academy Naruto?" asked Kakashi.
"Me. I hate Uchiha and Haruno and would rather be on a different team." answered Naruto as he tossed the bells to said people.
"You pass!" exclaimed Kakashi with his eye-smile, before spinning in his heel and walking away.
"Thought so. Oh joy, I get to put up with a moping sensei, a delusional duck-hairdo, and a popsicle. Whopedy-fucking-doo."
"Cheer up, otoutou, at least you don't have to do any missions like, say, catching a cat." Needless to say, you can guess what the next missions were.
Done. So, too long? Too short? Too wordy? Please tell. And I still need a translation engine to translate into Japanese text! Review!
Next chapter is Wave Arc! All in one chapter! It will be VERY different.