Eh heh sorry it took awhile to do this chapter but this week I had a few little problems, like the water from my air conditioning in my bedroom dripping down onto my bed which means that I have to sleep on the floor till it gets fix which will be 'who knows when'.
I started this chapter late Tuesday night instead of Monday like I should have but well it was a public holiday because of Australia Day and I spent that time over at my dads on the internet. Then I tried to install The Sims Life Stories on the lap top I use to write my fan fictions on and well I figured out why it doesn't work like it should.
So now here I am Wednesday morning sitting up at 4:27am because of a dripping noise in my room, thanks to the air conditioner and a bucket. Still I hope to get this chapter done by tomorrow night so that I can try and do a chapter to one of my older stories next week that's if I can think of anything who knows I might have to put them on hiatus or get rid of them if I continue to have trouble thinking of things to do for them. Hopefully I wont have to do the later one.
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto if I did I would make him a girl.
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Naruto: A New Beginning
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Description: Unexplained things keep happening in the elemental countries and it seems as though it is the cause of one man, Sousuke. Though no one has any ideas as to what the former Shinigami has planned. It seems as though Soul Society has detected some hollow activity in the one place where they never appear. What does Sousuke have planned?.
No parings as of yet (if you can think of any paring you would like to see then please tell me and I will make a poll)
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-Previously-
-Konohagakure-
Naruto notices that the man had stepped closer to him, plastering a fake smile on his face he makes sure that the man doesn't pay attention to either of his hands "So what is someone like you doing here, it's obvious you don't come from anywhere around Konoha or any other village here for that matter" he starts trying to start up a conversation with him to try and distract him, in a matter of seconds his finger nails had grown and sharpened to a point and looking more like the claws of an animal, with his left hand hidden from view he uses his sharpened nails to cut the rope. "Oh so your one of those emo's like the Uchiha's huh, you sure look more like an emo then what they do" he says to him as he finishes cutting the last thread of the rope, just as the rope was falling to the ground he quickly pulls a kunai out of a small pouch on the left side of his waist, his nails quickly turning back to normal.
"Well I don't know about you but I have to go somewhere that doesn't have you there...Ja" he says to the green eyes Arrancar as he places the kunai in his kunai and shuriken pouch before he leaps up into the tree's and sprints off towards te Hokage tower. Though unknown to the blonde haired gennin Ulquiorra was following not far behind him 'I don't think that he knows that I noticed his nails grow to look like claws, this boy keeps getting more and more interesting' the green eyes Arrancar thinks to himself as he follows the fox boy close enough so that the blonde doesn't spot or sense him.
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-Konohagakure-
Naruto had made it to the Hokage's tower not realising that he was being followed by the strange man that was watching him not that long ago, walking through the front door he then climbs up the stairs to the Hokage's office. Stopping at the secretary's desk he informs her that he needed to speak with the Hokage.
"I'm sorry at the moment Hokage-sama is in a meeting, take a seat and I will inform you when you can see him" she says to him as she then stands up from her desk and organises a stack of papers.
Within the Hokage's office several junin were standing before the Hokage giving him their reports on the new gennin, though it seemed as though not all the junin's were there to give their reports, it seems as though a silver haired ninja junin was missing.
Looking up from his paper work he looks up at the three junin present, though he was still wondering why Might Gai was in his office. Shaking his head to get rid of those thoughts he looks at his son Sarutobi Asuma and Yuhi Kurenai, waiting for their reports of the three students that had been picked out for each of them. "Alright what are your reports on the teams, do they pass or fail?" the old Hokage asks them as he takes a puff of his pipe.
Relighting the cigarette in his mouth, Asuma looks towards his father "Team 10 passes" he says in a lazy tone as he breathes out a puff of smoke, somehow managing to ignore Gai and his weird nonsense.
Kurenai watches Asuma from the corner of her eye, which was twitching slightly, her hands held behind her back "Team 9 passes" she says to the Hokage as she try's not to give into the urge to place Gai under a genjutsu as he sprouts nonsense about the flames of youth in the background.
Just as Kurenai had finished her report Kakashi turned up, the traces of smoke slowly dissipating. Not even looking up at the Hokage he turns a page to the orange book in his hand and giggles perversely. "Sorry I'm late a black cat almost crossed my path and so I had to take the long way"
"Kakashi my rival, your tardiness is UNYOUTHFUL!" Gai shouts as he stands up behind the silver haired junin. Not even looking up from the book in his hands he "You say something Gai?" he asks causing sweat drop to form at the back of everyone's heads this only caused the green spandex wearing junin to begin a rant about 'how his rival bested him' with his 'hip attitudes' which no one really seemed to pay attention to.
"I'm guessing that you failed another team" Asuma says as he looks up at the cycloptic junin from his seat, this only made Gai go on another rant about his 'rival being unyouthful and failing gennin' though no one seemed to pay attention to this neither which the green spandex wearing junin didn't even notice. "Actually no... I passed them" Kakashi replies as he giggles perversely again. Watching the silver haired junin reading the orange covered pornographic novel the genjutsu specialist's eye began to twitch. Though at hearing that Kakashi had actually passes a gennin team this time everyone within the room was shocked, though the Hokage wasn't as shocked as the other three junin were since he had a feeling that this time the silver haired junin would pass the team that was picked for him to teach.
Asuma's cigarette fell out of his mouth and onto his junin vest, though he quickly picked up and put it back in his mouth before it had a chance to burn a hole through it. Kurenai choked slightly as she tried to say something though it seemed that neither Asuma or Kurenai could get any coherent words to come from their mouths. Hell even Gai was shocked that is eternal rival had passed a team of gennin for the first time, the only good thing about it was that he wasn't sprouting nonsense about the flames of youth and what not.
"Is there anything else that any of you would like to report?" the old Hokage asks as he takes the pipe out of his mouth and blows out a puff of smoke.
Asuma looks over at his father as he crosses his arms over his chest "Well I did an IQ test on Shikamaru while I was testing all three of them on their team work, it seems that he has an IQ of 200 though he doesn't show it. He is more lazy than his father." he says to everyone which seemed to have shocked them slightly, after all who would expect a student who would only complete 50 of a test during the academy which is enough to pass.
Kurenai looks up at the Hokage after having gotten over her shock "Nothing new to report about my team" she says to him as all four people within the room then look over towards the silver haired junin waiting for his reply.
Looking up Kakashi gazes a lazy eye over every one realising that they were all looking at him "Huh... Oh, Naruto has shown that he is able to perform a forbidden jutsu without their being any draw backs. The jutsu in particular is the Kage Bunshin, I believe that he is able to create more then maybe one hundred solid clones, which is unusual for someone his age even though he does have a much larger chakra capacity then the gennin his age. Sasuke is able to use a C rank fire jutsu, he also of course shows a bit more skill then the other two within my team." at this almost everyone's jaws dropped, except for the Hokage's since he had seen through his crystal ball the amount of solid clones that the blonde haired gennin could create.
Placing his book in the pouch around his waist the cycloptic junin gives his full attention to the Hokage "Also during the test I had given I sensed that there was someone watching us though I couldn't see who it was. It seemed as though Naruto was the only one who could see him, I'm not sure if it has any thing to do with what sensei had done or if its because of him but Naruto did try not to give out any important information." The room grows quiet at this.
The Hokage's face becomes more serious at this piece of news I think that it would have something to do with what your sensei had done, only those who were involved in it would see things that no one else could see. Why don't you let Naruto in so that he can give us some more details" he says as he places the pipe back in his mouth and takes a few puffs of it.
With that said Kurenai walks over to the door and opens it before walking over to te blonde haired gennin that was sitting near the secretary's desk "Naruto-kun the Hokage would like to see you now" the red eyed junin says to the blonde as he stands up and follows her into the Hokage's office. As soon as the blonde stepped into the office the door was closed "Hokage-sama would you like for us to leave?" Kurenai asks as she stays close to the door "No that's fine Kurenai you can all stay I know none of you will say anything about what will be said here" Sarutobi says as he raises a hand and waves slightly.
Standing outside the open window to the Hokage's office was none other then Ulquiorra, he knew that if the blonde child could see him then they wouldn't speak of anything that might become useful information for him.
"All right Naruto tell us about this man that you could see?" the old Hokage asks as he watches the blonde boy in front of his desk.
"Well when I first saw him I told Kakashi and I thought it strange that only I could see him..." the fox boy says as he scratches the back of her neck "Anyway in a way he reminded me of Sasuke... you know because he is emo, well this guy seemed to be even more emo then the teme. I tried talking to him when Kakashi-sensei left me tied to the training post..." he squints his eyes a little "I'd get more fun out of talking to Sasuke-teme. His appearance... well he wasn't dressed like a ninja, in fact he kinda seemed more like a samurai. He had on a white pants and a shirt that looked kind of like a jacket, both with black trimming as well as a strange white helmet thing that only covered half of his head. His eyes were also green" he says to them as he scratches his scarred cheek making sure that it was every thing he could remember about the strange man.
Taking the pipe out his mouth Sarutobi rubs his chin slightly and thinks over the information that Naruto had just told them "Is there anything else that we should know about, that you might have forgotten?" he asks as he places the pipe back in his mouth and takes a few puffs of it.
'Kit don't forget about what you said about the guys power' Kyuubi says as he stirs slightly within his cage.
'Oh yeah... heh' scratching the back of his head he looks at everyone sheepishly "I was just reminded about what I said to Kakashi-sensei about his power. His power is more then that of someone at Kage level but less then a demon, I can't specifically say what demon since I have no idea what their power levels are like. But I can honestly say that its less then his" at the last part he points to the hidden seal on his stomach.
At hearing this everyone's eyes grow wide except for Kakashi's "You have actually spoken to him?" Sarutobi says as his pipe falls out of his mouth, though he quickly catches it.
"Hm... I first spoke to him after the Mizuki incident after Iruka-sensei gave me my hitai-ate..." he says as he adjust said item on his forehead "I met him the next night after we had the team placements, thought he was a real teme too even said it to his face. He also said that he had a valid reason for what he did but he wouldn't tell me, he also said that he doesn't regret it and that whatever caused it had been dealt with." he says the them as he then rubs his nose slightly, his blue eyes looking at everyone within the room as he becomes silent to let them digest this new information.
Slowly all four junin and the Hokage digest the new information that they had just recently been told about the fox demon. Some of them knew that any of the great nine tailed demons would never attack a village unless they had a good reason to in the first place, but they also knew that humans had a tendency to jump to conclusions pretty quickly without asking questions later.
"If that is all you may go Naruto" the Hokage says as he picks up a pencil and starts writing all the information down that Naruto had just told him.
"Right, see ya old man" the blonde waved and exited the room.
Once Naruto was out of the room the Hokage looks over at the silver haired junin "I think you might be right Kakashi, it does seem as though it has something to do with the seal, though we can't see this person that Naruto can see it might pose as a threat especially if it as that kind of power level. Only a shinigami could have that type of power but the description isn't that of a shinigami at all, to tell you the truth no one here has seen one before, apart from Yondame and Naruto but he wouldn't remember. We might be facing something new altogether." he says to all of them as he puts the pencil down and takes a few puff's of his pipe.
"If that is true Hokage-sama then there is nothing that we can do about it. After all how can we stop something that we can't see" Kurenai says as she steps closer to the Hokage's desk.
Sarutobi takes the pipe out of his mouth "If that is the case then we just have to hope that the shinigami find out about our visitor soon and do something about it. They were the ones to help hide the elemental countries since the outside world isn't ready for us to reveal ourselves especially with the fact that demons do exist." he says to her as he places his pipe down on the table.
Looking into the Hokage's office Ulquiorra looks at the four junin's and the Hokage 'I wonder who they mean by 'him', is this person is as powerful as they say he is then maybe Aizen-sama would be more interested in him then the strange blonde haired child' he thinks to himself as he looks around for said blonde boy hoping that he might lead him to this person that they started to refer to.
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Standing at the window Ulquiorra looks in on the Hokage and the three junins, not seeing the blonde boy there he looks down at the entrance to the Hokage tower only to see him exit the building and heading down the street. Jumping from the window of the Hokage's office the green eyes Arrancar lands on the roof of the closest building and starts following the fox boy again.
Looking around Naruto Ignores the glares in his direction and the whispers that he could hear from some of the villagers, instead he was happy after all the only thing he had on his mind at the moment was ramen. A growl could be heard from his stomach, scratching the back of his head sheepishly he continues his walk to Ichiraku's.
Looking down at the blonde haired gennin Ulquiorra notices the glares and whispers directed towards the child, jumping down from the roof of a building he stands next to two women who were whispering. "Look there he is, I can't believe that Hokage-sama allowed the demon to become a shinobi." he hears one woman say as he stands beside her, his attention then gets directed towards the other woman standing beside him "It must be using some kind of jutsu to trick him. He should have killed the demon-brat when it was young, who knows what it would try to do now" the other woman says to her as they both glare at the blonde haired gennin.
Walking away from the two women Ulquiorra follows the blonde child once more thinking over what the two women had said about him 'Why is it that they think the child is a demon, even I can tell that he is human. These people really are strange, I might be able to find out the reason why they call him such things if I keep close to him. Maybe it has something to do with the person that they had mentioned back in the Hokage's office' not bothering to think any more of it the green eyed Arrancar continues following the fox boy.
Reaching Ichiraku's Naruto lifts up on of the flaps hanging from the ceiling and walks over to one of the stools and sits down. "Hey old man, the usual please" the blonde says as he leans against the table and over the counter slightly as Ayame walks out to help her father "Ah Naruto-kun, how did the test go. You passed right?" at this the blonde looks up at Ayame and smiles "Yeah, I passed though I'm on the same team as the teme. Tomorrow we start our missions though."
Leaning over a ruffling the blonde's hair Ayame smiles "That's good to hear, though you will try to see us as much as you can and tell us all about how your missions go wont you?" she asks as she walks over to her father and picks up the bowl of miso ramen that was ready for the blonde and places it in front of him. "Of course I will" he says to he as he picks up a pair of chopsticks and breaks the apart "Itadakimasu!" (I think that's how it's spelt) he says as he begins eating his first bowel of ramen.
Only four minutes had passed since the blonde got his first bowl and already he was on his fifth bowl, anyone who was looking would wonder how the blonde was even able to eat that many bowl's and not even get an ounce of fat from eating it, while other's would find it absolutely disgusting that someone would eat like that. From where Ulquiorra was standing he could see the amount of bowls that were stacked up and even he was looking at it in awe and disgust thinking of how someone could possibly eat that much without getting sick.
Once he had finished his fifth bowl he placed that upon the stack of bowl's beside him and took out his frog wallet, taking out the right about of money he places it down on the counter and gets off of the stool "Thanks for the food old man, I'll see you tomorrow after my first mission and I promise to tell you all about it Ayame" he says to them as he wave's at them before leaving the ramen stand and heading back to his apartment.
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(I'm skipping a few things and going strait to when they begin their missions, there will be a few mission jumping until they get up to where they return Tora)
-The Next Day-
After all the members of team seven meet up at the bridge they headed towards the missions room in the Hokage tower. As soon as they were outside the mission room they see team ten exiting the room after getting their mission, though both teams never had a chance to say anything to one another team seven entered the mission room. Much to Sasuke's happiness of not having to hear Ino or have her latch onto his arm.
Upon entering the room they see that Iruka was sitting beside the Hokage along with a few other people that they didn't recognise, all of them sitting at a long table with the mission scrolls in front of them. "Ah team seven just in time for your first mission" the Hokage says as he looks through the D-rank mission scroll for a mission that they could do "Here we are, your first mission is to weed Miss Akane's garden" he says as Kakashi walks over and collects the mission scroll from the Hokage before walking back over to the three gennin.
Walking into Miss Akane's garden all throughout the flower beds one could tell that the weeds were taking over the garden, a person could barely see the flowers and herbs. All three gennin sigh though some more visible then others they all walk to different area's of the garden and get to work pulling out the weeds. Kakashi on the other hand was happily sitting under the shade of a tree reading the orange pornographic book in his hands while giggling perversly every now and then. After a several hours of doing this Naruto finally snaps and starts pulling out various plant's, though he had pulled out all the weeds he had also pulled out a few herbs and flowers. This only caused their client to yell at him as he re-planted the herbs and flowers he had pulled out.
Things like this seemed to happen to the gennin for several week's ranging from dog walking where the large dog that Naruto had chosen to walk dragged him through a mine field. While the dog walked out unharmed it seemed as though it was the blonde who had triggered the mines, the fox boy's body looking like he had been in a fight, his clothes were covered in dirt stains and torn in several places while various small cuts and dirt smudges were over his exposed skin.
The recent mission that they had done was the retrieval of the Fire Lords wife's cat Tora, who seemed to escape the plump woman's clutches whenever it can. Upon finding the right cat, though it was not that hard to tell who owned it since there was a rather large red bow on the cats tail. Hiding in the shadows of various places the three gennin get into position to capture the cat. Once all three of them were in the right positions they each press a small button the headphones and tell Kakashi as well as each other that they are in position. Though the only one to lunge for the cat was Naruto who also scared it, once the cat was in his grasp it started clawing at him trying to get free which only caused the blonde haired gennin to wrestle with it slightly.
Walking into the missions room everyone's looks up only to see Kakashi and team seven enter the room, both Iruka and Hokage though were both looking at Naruto seeing that the notorious cat Tora was attached to the front of his orange jacket, just hanging there with its claws dug into the boys jacket while the blue eyed boy himself had scratch marks all over his face and arms still, tear's in his jacket and well as his hitai-ate sitting lopsided on his head. As soon as they entered the room though the Fire Lords wife quickly rushed to the blonde and pulled the black and white cat off of him and smothering it into her bosom as she nuzzles her cheek against the cats.
"Ok the next missions you could do are; babysitting, painting a fence…" before the Hokage could finish though Naruto had butted in "No!…. No more of those chores you call missions old man! Give us a real mission" the blonde shouts as her crosses his arms in front of himself. "Naruto! Don't disrespect the Hokage" Raising his hand the Hokage silences Iruka "Naruto your team is still not ready for a higher ranked mission" he old man says to him though a sweat drop forms at the back of his head as he notices that none of team seven is paying attention to him not even Kakashi instead they were talking about random nonsense.
Coughing slightly he draw's their attention back to himself as he looks the blonde over noticing the stubborn look on the fox boys face sighing softly he gives in "Do you think that they are ready for a C-ranked mission Kakashi?" upon hearing his name the silver haired junin looks up from the pages of his book and eye smiles at the Hokage "Yes, I think they have enough skill to pull of a simple C-ranked mission" the cycloptic junin says as he then lowers his head back down and continues reading his book.
With that said the Hokage sorts through the mission scrolls looking for a C-ranked mission that they would be able to complete without failure, finding the right scroll he rolls it up and hands it to the silver haired junin "You are to escort the bridge builder Tazuna back to him home so that he can complete a bridge" he informs Kakashi "Please let Tazuna in" he says as a chunin standing at the door opens it and beckons Tazuna into the missions room.
Stepping into the room was an old man, a bottle of sake in his hand as well as the thick stench of it on his breath. "These Brats are going to escort me… They don't even look like they could fend of bandits, especially the short one….. He looks stupid" he practically slurs his words as he speaks them.
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Sorry that it took me awhile to finish this chapter but I brought a Mah-Jongg game for my lap top and well I started playing it. I can't help it I like playing it. Plus the one I got is neat I get to create my own tiles which I did, I made a few tile sets; one for bleach, one for Naruto and one for various anime images that I have.
Also sorry for making this chapter short, the next chapter will continue on after they return Tora and getting a new mission to escort the bridge builder Tazuna.
Ja Ne.