Chapter 9
Hey guys, it appears that someone needs an eye test because this story is not called "Trial By Shadow Fire" it is called "Trial By Fire Shadow". It is called this because there is the phrase "Trial By Fire" and "Fire Shadow" is the literal translation of the word "Hokage" so it can be interpreted at "Trial By Fire" or "Trial By Hokage" etc etc etc
DO YOU UNDERSTAND IT NOW!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
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Naruto slowly opened his eyes to find himself laying face down with his nose buried in a pot of bar nuts. He looked around and saw that the bar had had a lock in. He also noticed his drinking partner from the night before humming 'Best Friend' by Toybox in his sleep.
"Man, how much did I drink last night?" questioned Naruto to nobody
"3 gallons of Sake, A barrel of Absinthe, you drained our supply of Fosters…." Said the bartender, popping up from behind the bar. He then proceeded to list enough alcohol to fill a swimming pool. "And you owe me a total of 3,000 ryou" (That's one SON OF A BITCHING bar tab)
Naruto stopped his throwing up slightly and got the money out of his wallet.
"Thank you, come again" said the bartender robotically as he put the money into the till.
"See you…. Hey, has that Sei guy come down yet?"
"Yeah, he said he had to find a 'lousy asshole who couldn't wait if his life depended on it'"
"Where did he go?"
"I think he went to the Hokage tower to talk to Tsunade," said the Bartender
"So he's gone to see Granny hey, I'll catch up with him there" said Naruto as he ran out of the door
"Damn blonde bimbo, forgot to pay me for the info" muttered the bartender
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Naruto ran down the street as fast as he could towards the tower and was there within a few minutes. He ran into the doors, ignoring a desperate Shizune, and ran straight up the stairs, stopping just outside the door of the Hokage office.
"Hey Granny let me in!" yelled Naruto through the door
"Fine get your ass in here" came a reply with the same volume
Naruto walked in and was greeted by the Hokage as usual and the two 'partners in crime'.
"What do you want Naruto?" asked Tsunade "We are talking about very important business"
"I want to know the deal is with these people!" said Naruto
"Can I tell him?" asked Tsunade to the two men
"Go ahead, we're doing nothing illegal" said Sei
"Well, I don't know how much you know about their back story but I'll give you a good idea. They are not civilian or ninja, one has powers similar to a ninja while the other has skills the same as a ninja. They work as bounty hunters and all around mercenaries but are more versatile than regular ninja for various reasons. Is that good enough?"
"Not really, I really want you to answer two more questions. Are you one of those Mist Swordsmen? And what's the deal with those circles you draw?"
"Well, I'm not a Mist Swordsman. I'm just good friends with an excellent blacksmith" said Sei, his huge sword now on his back
"And those circles are only effective if drawn by me. They take energy from the environment around me and use it to my own advantage" said Kushin "We only came to give Tsunade our information on the people who attacked us and to give her the money for our stay in hospital"
As he said this, he pulled out a sizeable bag of money and gave it to Tsunade.
"This is 10,000,000 ryou, it should pay for all inconveniences we made and some money for the people who chased us while we escaped hospital. The rest can be used as you see fit." Said Sei looking at the bag his partner drew out
Naruto just gawked at the money that these guys were handing over. This would take a normal ninja about 10 S-Rank missions to get.
"And you made this in, how long?" asked Naruto
"This is my average wage per week alone" said Kushin "Sei earns about 7,000,000 and he gets a few days off unlike me"
"So what are you planning to do now?" asked Naruto
"Leave, do some more work, exist I suppose" said Sei
"So you're not going to help us with these guys," said Tsunade "We could do with people like you to help us"
"Its not profitable, there's better things to do other than help ninja" said Sei "Unless it's made worth our while, we don't stay"
"Well, we can't afford your rates so I'm afraid we can't hire you" said Tsunade "Sorry you can't stay but if you ever need employment on a cheaper scale, we have a standard fee of 1,000,000 ryou per S-Rank mission."
"We'll keep you in mind, we will take our leave now, goodbye" said Sei as he and Kushin walked out, headed downstairs and started walking towards the gates leaving Tsunade and Naruto alone.
"Now you can explain about the guys in the black coats," demanded Naruto
"Fine, seeing as you're a sannin you should know. They are Akatsuki, they are an organisation consisting of 9 S-Class Missing-Nin members and they are on a mission to collect all Biju. They will stop at nothing to get the Biju and we only have a small amount of information on 7 of them. There is one who can hypnotise their opponents, another is a shinobi swordsman, another is a puppet master, one can animate clay, one is fused with a variety of plant, another belongs to a religion called 'Jashin' and the final one we have info on is very good with money."
"So what do we do about this?" asked Naruto
"We are sending a few of our best on the case for some recon. You have just come back from a mission so you are going to be given a break. You will be given a Genin squad like the others were given a while ago and will test them, train them and take them on missions." Said Tsunade "SEND IN THE GENIN!"
Her Chuunin assistants opened the door as a group of three preteens walked in. Two boys and one girl. They looked at Naruto like he was scum and then look at Tsunade.
"Who is this loser? We haven't seen him before!" yelled one of the boys
"Oh that's very nice," said Naruto as he put a pair of fingerless gloves on to hide his hand.
"Keep it zipped Atamagaokashii, you don't want to get on the wrong side of this guy. Come to think of it, I wouldn't want to either," said Tsunade
"IT'S ATAMA!"
"So who is he" said the girl
"Aijou, just wait until he tests you and you'll see"
"Hn" said the second boy
"What was that Kunou?" asked Tsunade
"He doesn't look very tough," said Kunou
"Well lets go find out" said Naruto "We meet in the town centre, I want the whole town to know what my students are capable of."
"LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!" yelled Atama
"Hey Crazy Boy, get back here. Save your energy 'cause you're going to need it" called Naruto as he and the other two walked out placidly.
The three walked down the street and headed towards Naruto's estate where he kept a spare of everything he's ever worn. He left the sane pair in the lounge to watch TV for a few minutes while he changed. He came back about 10 minutes later, in his usual battle gear (what he wore on his last mission) and his flame coat, to find that they had made popcorn and were watching a movie on his TV.
"Come on people, I want to get this over and done with during the lunch hour." Said Naruto
"We're watching a movie," said Aijou from her position curled up with Kunou on the sofa. Well, it should be described as, she was trying to curl up and he kept pushing her away.
"I said move," warned Naruto
"Not until the movie is over" said Aijou
"Fine," said Naruto biting his thumb "SUMMONING JUTSU!"
Naruto summoned his one tailed Kohai, Ichiban, who walked over and used his tail to start dragging them off the sofa.
"Come on, I'll let you touch my SOFT BOUNCY PADS if you come outside" said Ichiban
The girl was helpless to the cuteness of the fox and followed him outside.
"Want to meet my big brother?" asked Ichiban
"Yeah" said Aijou
"HEY KYUUDONI, COME HERE!" yelled the fox
As he said that, the huge tank of a fox turned around the corner of the house and walked over to her. He towered over the girl and she screamed in terror which brought Kunou out of the house.
"Oh man!" yelled Kunou as he saw Kyuudoni
"Don't worry, he wont hurt you if you get on his back with me" said Naruto from on top of the fox.
The two reluctantly climbed up and sat together on the back.
"Lets go Kyuudoni, Town Centre please," said Naruto
"If I get there in less than a minute you owe me a snack," said the fox
"Fine lets just go"
The fox accelerated so fast that it almost knocked the trio off. They soon reached their destination after narrowly avoiding several old ladies and some teenagers that looked suspiciously like Hazou and Daichi making out.
"Where the hell were you!" yelled Atama from the middle of the square that made the town centre.
"Shut up, now help me clear the area a bit" said Naruto as he started using a Doton Jutsu to move the people away from the centre of the square. The trio of preteens got busy with a spray can making a square in the middle of the square.
"Now we can begin, NO CIVILIANS OR NINJA ARE TO ENTER THE SQUARE!" yelled Naruto to the crowd that was forming to see what the commotion was and why a 9-tailed fox was standing in the middle of Konoha but not attacking.
"So what are we doing?" asked Atama
"You guys are going to show me your most powerful Jutsu's. If you can grab my forehead protector from my arm, you pass." Said Naruto pointing to his forehead protector on his left arm.
"OH YES! LETS GET THIS STARTED!" yelled Aijou "I am so going to kick your ass for that fox ride!"
Naruto poofed away Kyuudoni and walked to the centre of the square. It was about 40 metres each side and had spectators lined up on all sides.
(Start 'All My Best Friends Are Metal Heads' by Less Than Jake)
"Alright then, let me have it!" yelled Naruto as he jumped into the air and the students started forming hand seals
"Lets see you handle this, AIR BOOM JUTSU!" yelled Atama as the air that surrounded Naruto condensed into a sphere around him and then exploded.
"Very nice" came yell from behind them
They looked around and saw Naruto was standing behind them.
Kunou didn't say a thing but simply charged in for a Taijutsu spar with Naruto. The two exchanged blows for a few minutes until Naruto caught Kunou with a kick to the midriff.
"How is he this fast?" muttered Aijou as she threw several shuriken
Naruto just picked them out of the air, which made the crowd cheer and then he made his scariest move. He opened his left hand and made the process painstakingly slow so the preteens could see what he was capable of. He gathered his chakra in his hand and slowly made it into a ball with the velocity of a hurricane.
"That's…. NO WAY YOU'RE HIM!" yelled Atama
"Oh yes, it's the Rasengan" said Naruto as he thrust it into the ground and made a large crater below his feet.
"Who the hell are you?!" yelled Aijou
"I'm the guy who saved this village twice over and all I have to show for it is a busted arm" said Naruto
"But your arms are working fine, you just sparred with me better than anyone ever has before." Said Kunou
"Oh yeah?" Said Naruto as he took off his coat to reveal the armor on his right arm. The gauntlets and armor slowly dropped to the ground revealing a glistening arm of metal. The three Genin all looked at arm in awe until they saw what else happened to him. His eyes had changed to the Shukungan form and were looking straight at them.
"Prepare yourselves" said Naruto as he used his metal hand and did the same motions he just made to form a Rasengan. He then made it into the Piercing Rasengan and added his Wind Chakra to it.
"Oh come on old man, we are 30 metres away and the Rasengan is a close range attack, you can't hit us" said Atama
"Oh yeah?" asked Naruto as he drew his kunai out.
Naruto threw the kunai and formed the hand seal.
"HIRAISHIN JUTSU!" yelled Naruto as he appeared on top of the kunai and was now riding it.
"HOW THE HELL!" screamed Aijou as she saw the flying kunai head towards her
"Don't worry just dodge!" yelled Atama as he saw Naruto jump off, grab the kunai and force the Rasengan into the ground just in front of Aijou's feet.
"Now show me your best move" said Naruto
"Umm…." Said Aijou as she started forming seals "DOTON: EARTH DRAGON JUTSU!"
Lumps of earth gathered rapidly in the air and formed a dragon. The dragon looked at Naruto and flew straight at him. Naruto saw this coming and dodged with a roll to the side but the dragon nearly took his hair off.
"KAGE BUNSHIN JUTSU!" yelled Naruto as he made several hundred clones of himself "Come on, I haven't even used a weapon yet"
"Well allow me to then" said Kunou as he drew several different weapons such as kunai, shuriken and tri-blades. He then threw them through the crowd of Naruto's, making them poof into oblivion.
The weapons approached Naruto and just at the last minute, they saw a blinding light as the weapons were melted in midair and dripped onto the ground.
"What are you…" muttered Kunou
"One minute and you'll find out" said Naruto "SHUKUNGAN: COPY RELEASE: CHIDORI!"
Naruto's eyes glowed and he automatically entered the Chidori stance, He brought his human arm between his legs and the Chidori started forming around his arm.
"Oh man…. What stuff can this guy do?" asked Atama to himself
"CHIDORI!" yelled Naruto as he ran at the 3 genin.
"Enigma-Dono!" came a yell as a small blond haired girl ran into the middle of the arena.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa!!!" yelled Naruto as he tripped over his own feet to avoid the girl
The entire crowd let out a huge laugh as Naruto lifted his head with little bits of pavement on his face.
"HEY SHUT UP YOU UNGRATEFUL BASTARDS!" yelled the girl
"Calm down Kina, its only some pavement" said Naruto standing up and brushing himself down
"But…"
"No buts, what's so important that you interrupted my students test." Asked Naruto
The girl let out a large amount of killing intent, which stopped the crowd laughing, and then she turned to Naruto
"There's a problem with the samurai, they're getting restless that you haven't trained them in weeks" said Kina "We need you to come and shut them up."
"Fine…Atama, Kunou, Aijou, come here. The test is to be postponed. You will come with me and meet my other students" said Naruto
"One question Enigma-Dono, what happened to your arm?" asked Kina pointing at his mouth masher
"Oh…Don't worry. I just had an accident about a month ago and lost it. Know I'm twice as deadly" said Naruto "Lets go"
Naruto then flickered slightly and disappeared.
"Come on you three, he knows where to go" said Kina signalling for the three genin to follow her
"Coming" replied the group as they ran with the girl towards an encampment on the other side of town.
"HEY! COME AND FIX THIS FUCKING SQUARE!" yelled a mob of civilians in the centre of the wreckage that was called the Town Centre.
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A/N: Hey people, hope you enjoyed this chapter. Sorry it took a while but I've been VERY busy. Be glad that I'm keeping up the rate of 1 chapter minimum a week.
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