Hi this is Benji Himura. I am now starting a new fanfic. Is a Naruto story. I don't own any of the characters. Some anime or manga characters might show up in the story I also don't own then. I own Benji Himura and others characters that will show up in the story. It might be violence and sex in the story so if you are underage of seventeen are warned the content might be too improper to your age. Read by your own will and risk. In anyway enjoy the story.
Signed: Benji Himura.
"Text" Talked sentences.
'Text' Thoughts.
-Text- Sounds effects.
(Text) Talked sentences in a foreign language. As English when everyone else speaks Japanese.
: Text: Messages show in an electronic screen or written.
Text: something being recalled, flashbacks, scenes being replayed.
Text: a detail found in a location, scene, person, recording and images that originally wasn't there.
Chapter four: Benji's training
Anko is waiting on the Hokage monument, she isn't content with the idea of training a spirit that she doesn't know, specially since earlier she was send to see how skillful he was and he managed to knock her out because she underestimated him. Later the Third ordered her to train the spirit, she doesn't know why exactly but she will obey. She notices something flying at her direction, she focus her eyes a bit and sees that is Benji, he lands a couple meters away from her.
"I didn't know that you could do that." she commented. "I am a spirit, flying isn't uncommon for us." Benji replied. "I said earlier that I had a handful of tricks." Anko nods agreeing he for sure had things hid on his sleeves. "So what we do now?" Benji asks to the kunoichi. "I guess that we can begin introducing ourselves and try to begin things right this time." She answered.
"Sounds good for me, I go first or you want to go?" Benji replied. "You can go first." She answered. "Well my name is Himura Benji. When I was sealed I had twenty two years and since that day thirteen years passed and until yesterday I didn't had this freedom to move that I have now." Benji tells to the kunoichi.
"I am Mitarashi Anko, a Jonin from Konoha, I won't tell you my age and as you know I was part of the second phase of the Chunin exam." Anko tells to Benji. "Okay now we go to our training round." Benji nods and they walk away. "I thought that you moved around flying." She commented seeing him walking. "I prefer walking. I fly when I feel like covering large distances in a shorter time. Besides if someone is able to see me they see me walking and they will confuse me for a normal person." Benji replied. "Smart idea." She commented.
Benji follows Anko to a training ground at the south of the Konoha village. "We will begin with a light sparring so I can see what you can do." Anko tells to Benji. "I know that we fought earlier today but I was going easy on you and I had no idea that you could be solid." "I don't get solid." Benji replied. "I just found a way to interact with the living world. I just use more energy to be able to touch things with out passing through the spiritual surface tension."
"Passing through what?" Anko asks confused, stopping stretching. "Spiritual surface tension you want me to explain what I have discovered and theorized about being a spirit?" Benji answered. "It wouldn't be bad, after all I will have to interact with you." she replied. "Borrow me an empty scroll and a pen." Benji asked to the kunoichi, Anko gives to Benji what he asks; Benji sits on the ground and uses a tree stump. Anko looks curious at the spirit while he writes and draws something on the blank scroll, seeing that might take a while Anko decides to prepare the training ground for when he is done explaining to her.
It takes to Anko ten minutes to finish everything and Benji is still working on the scroll, now she notices that he was writing using her pen and scroll, moving both with his ethereal hands. Anko observes for half an hour, she sees Benji rolling the scroll and she knows that he is done; he hands the pen to her and holds the scroll partially open.
"Okay I will begin explaining the spiritual surface tension." Benji tells to Anko handing the scroll to her, on it there is a drawing of what seems to be a water pail. "You know that the water has a very thin pellicle over its surface don't you?" Anko nods saying. "I know that, it is called surface tension, when we stand on the water using our chakra we walk over it."
"Think that for a spirit a solid object is similar to water. It has a surface tension that can be broken; well the term isn't broken but passed. In normal circumstances a spirit doesn't have to make any effort to pass through objects, he just passes by the solid matter and the spiritual surface tension as if wasn't there. But if a spirit focuses his energy he begins to feel the surface tension." Benji explains to the kunoichi. "All that a spirit has to do to normally not pass an object is to will to not pass it, so willing to sit on a chair he can sit on a chair, he is using the surface tension to sit there, but isn't interacting yet."
Anko nods understanding, the whole idea is very complex and she wonders how Benji can handle it. "To interact with the living objects we have to focus, but even not focusing a spirit can touch a human or an object, the person will feel the touch, and not as a real touch but it might tell that something is touching him or feels a chill." Benji continues. "To fully interact as I punched you earlier I had to focus my energy, on that time anger. I burned it and let it explode being able to get tangible enough to hit you hard." "It is emotional based?" Anko asked.
"Not really. It is energy based; I just used my anger as anger energy and was able to burn it with out consequences since I can easily refuel my anger. If I focus my energy I can get tangible to do things as write, move or carry things around, use your imagination to fill that gap." Benji answered, Anko nods understanding. "I can use a certain amount of energy and keep it stable for long periods of time to give myself the tangibility needed for certain things. Well not so long since so far I only kept it for half an hour, but long considering that before that I wasn't able to do that, or at least I haven't thought about it."
Anko looks at few drawings and illustrations that Benji made illustrating his point. Anko looks at him and pokes his chest; she isn't surprised in seeing her finger passing through his chest. "It feels odd." Anko commented moving her finger in a slow pace making small circles. "Try to imagine to who is with a finger inside his chest." Benji replied poking Anko's chest; she shivers at the touch feeling him doing the same motions that she is doing. Anko pulls her finger back and Benji does the same.
"Okay I could feel that something was there but if I didn't knew that was you I would think that was a patch of cold air or something like that." Anko commented rubbing her chest. "So what else you can do?" "I can fly, walk through walls and few more things. But before you ask I never tried using any techniques like this. I don't want to risk things by using my energy." Benji answered. "I don't know much and pretty much everything that I know about spirits and related stuff are theories that I made, it might be wrong or incomplete."
Anko can't blain Benji for not trying to use jutsus as a bodiless spirit, or knowing everything about his situation, she was impressed that he theorized the much that he did with his experiences. "Well then now we will begin with the basic get tangible and let's spar." She tells him. Benji nods and focus, Anko can see the faint outline around him becoming less faint as he focuses.
"Done." Benji tells her opening his eyes. Anko pokes him again and actually feels her finger touching his chest and not passing through it. "Now it is better. Let's see for how long you can hold that while we spar." She commented backing few meters, Benji nods and backs some too.
Meanwhile on Ino's bedroom, Sakura stirs and wakes, for the first moments woke she wonders where she is until she recalls what happened few hours earlier and blushes deeply. "You woke at last." Ino says entering on the bedroom with a tray of food. "I was beginning to worry that I relaxed you to a coma." Sakura blushes even more. "Ino you don't need to flaunt it." she commented.
Ino chuckled setting the tray on the bed next to Sakura. "I am just teasing you. You needed to relax and rest." Ino said with a small smile. "Well you should eat; I know that after what we did you must be hungry." Sakura's stomach answered for the pink haired girl growling loudly, making its owner blush even more. Ino laughs and offers to Sakura a rice ball. "Here, you need it."
Sakura nods and takes it. "Thank you." Sakura said before eating. "You are welcome." Ino replied. "You are feeling better now?" Sakura nods confirming. "I never felt this relaxed before." Sakura answered. "And I still can feel some aftertaste of what we did." "I know how it is. Even when I woke after Benji and I did it I could still feel that, and I slept the entire night." Ino commented.
"That good?" Sakura asks blushing. "Yes, that good." Ino replied. "It must be incredible then." Sakura commented. "If you did that to me so well I wonder how he have done to you." Ino smiles knowing that it was Benji who did that Sakura, but she keeps that as a secret. They chat over more idle things while Sakura finishes her lunch. After eating Sakura freshens up is ready to leave. "Ino I am still unsure of why you did this to me but I thank you." Sakura says to Ino, still inside her bedroom.
Ino smiles at Sakura. "I did it because you are my friends and needed my help." Ino says to Sakura. "The fight in the survival exam, our fight on the pre-eliminatory matches, Sasuke-kun leaving the hospital and everything else was taking a toll on you. As your friend I felt that I should help you." "Thank you." Sakura whispers in a low voice. "You are welcome." Ino replied. "Now you should go." Sakura nods agreeing, Ino gives a quick peck on Sakura's cheek. "Don't mention it." Ino replied. Sakura nodded and leaves. 'Not like I would tell to anyone that my friend and former rival for Sasuke's love and I had sex by most of the morning.' Sakura replied on her mind. 'Great sex I admit, maybe we can repeat is sometime, I wouldn't mind that.'
Days and more days pass by and the Chunin exam third phase day is getting closer, Naruto is training with Jiraya, Sasuke is training with Kakashi, Ino and Sakura are training together after the blonde kunoichi spoke with Sakura about their need to get stronger, and Benji is training with Anko, the spirit doesn't stop to surprise the experienced kunoichi with techniques that he pulls out of the thin air. In the end of the day of training Benji flies away and Anko moves to a hot spring spa with massage, training with a spirit able to pull spirit attacks out of the thin air make her gain bruises and leaves Anko really sore, not that the spirit is in a better shape.
"You look like hell Anko." Kurenai who is bathing with Hinata says to the fellow Jonin. Anko lets out a sigh of pleasure when sinking on the hot water of the outdoors spring. "How you got bruises like that?" Kurenai asked. "My student gave me them." Anko replied after making herself comfortable on the spring. "A student?" Kurenai commented. "That must the first time that I heard of you getting a student, from your bruises I take that he is good."
"Honestly speaking quite good. Very rough and lacked of a proper teacher but he has talent to make up for that." Anko replied. "You have no idea of how he fights, he pulls some amazing jutsus out of the thin air and most of the times they hit me dead on." Kurenai cringes in sympathetic pain. "But you should be able to see the hand seals and get ready for them." the red eyed woman commented.
"If the jutsus that he uses had hand seals I would. He just shouts the name of it and fires it at me." Anko explained. "And those aren't jutsus like we know or from other village he creates them while we fight." Kurenai let out an impressed whistle. "No wonder he scored hits on you and you was selected as his teacher them. He must be a genius to create jutsus like that in a flick of a hat." She commented.
"I guess that he is. Not to mention is situation." Anko said sipping some sake that a female worker brought to her. "His situation?" Kurenai asks to Anko curious. "Well I can't tell you much about it because the Sandaime ordered me to keep it a secret. But he is in a different plane that we are." Anko answered, Kurenai doesn't ask further. "And what is that student name?" Kurenai asked.
"Himura Benji. At least he said that his name is that." Anko replied, Hinata hides her surprise. Unknown for the older women and the mentioned spirit is that Hinata on her many times watching Naruto from afar she more than once saw Naruto talking to the spirit and with her Byakugan allowed her to see the spirit that watched Naruto. "Excuse me…" Hinata says in a whisper.
Anko and Kurenai stop chatting and look at the young girl. "How he looks like?" Hinata asks. "Well that I can tell. He is taller than me, much taller. He has a light tanned skin, black hair and some ethnic features that are similar with some people of the sand but also different, he also has brown eyes, and he is quite handsome." Anko answered.
Kurenai stays in silence about the interest of Hinata on Anko's student but decides to stay in silence it is good that Hinata show interest in other people. Hinata nods thankful at Anko, she is sure that Anko's student is the mysterious spirit that always was around Naruto and from what she heard from Kurenai Benji had made Naruto pass on his second pre-eliminatory match and she decides to follow Anko and find for sure if Benji is the same that she had seen Naruto speak with or is just coincidence.
Meanwhile Benji is on Ino's room, the blonde kunoichi is glad that the spirit decided to stay with her. Two days after Benji began training he moved to Ino's house and she had made Benji rest inside her body, Ino was surprised knowing that he could stay with her like that and recover his spend energy, but she was glad since it gives her more time with the older spirit.
Benji is lying on the bed recovering from his own bruises. 'I wonder why I get hurt, I mean a spirit, I don't have a body, but still sometimes I really feel like I have a body. Maybe this is similar to that ghost member thing that I have heard about.' Benji idly thinks in Ino's bed. Ino is dinning with her parents chatting with them about training with Sakura, Ino already knows that Benji sneaked in the house since he does that when he ends the training and she is usually with her parents or on the store, in the first times it surprised her but now is part of her routine find the spirit on her room, either on the bed or on the chair resting.
After taking a bath Ino moves to her room using a light purple bathrobe. "Trained hard?" She asks to the spirit while drying her hair. "Yes, I am still recovering from today's beating." Benji answered with a small smile. "And you?" "Trained hard too, Sakura and I are in the same level so we can train well together trying to surpass the other." Ino replied sitting on the bed besides him.
Ino looks at Benji and sees the weight of the spirit lightly pressing the mattress and the pillow of the bed, she knows that if he was in his body he would weight at least two times more than her and the mattress would show more of his outline when he was lying there. "You could teach me a jutsu." Ino says placing the towel that she was using to dry her hair on her lap. "Maybe that one that you used against that cloud kunoichi."
"I will think in what I can teach you and when I have more time I teach you." Benji replied. Ino smiles at him and leans to him and kisses him lightly. "I would really like that." She commented before straightening up and moving to her dresser. "I don't have any good jutsus. My Shintenshin no Jutsu is good only to spy and if I am careless I can get killed." Ino says combing her now shoulder long hair. "I really need an attack jutsu."
Benji smiled looking at the kunoichi. "And I would like having my first attack jutsu coming from you." she added looking at him from her dresser mirror. "I will think in a jutsu that you can use." Benji tells her. Ino smiles at him and they stay in silence for a while. Ino enjoys those pleasant moments of silence between them and the moments where something that they do recalls her of a married couple.
Ino changes her clothes to her night clothes and moves to the bed, she lies next to Benji and for few minutes she enjoys the feeling of his arms around her, with his training they are as solid as bed under them. After a while Ino let Benji enter on her body and they rest for the rest of the night.
Two days later
Benji and Anko are on their training field, both of them are resting since is near noon and they trained non-stop since seven in the morning. A young man with short green hair wearing a mask covering the lower part of his face and with the standard ninja attire appears near them. "Anko-dono the Third has requested your presence on his office as well the presence of your student." He says looking at the duo.
"You can see him?" Anko asks pointing at Benji. "Yes Anko-dono, I can see him very well." The ninja replied. "Well that is interesting isn't it Benji?" Anko asks to the spirit. "For sure is." Benji replied. "Well I guess that we have to go see old man." Anko nods and the ninja vanished. "You keep yourself solid and let's walk to the Hokage's office. I want to see if normal people can really see you." she tells to the spirit while they get up. Benji nods, he is also curious to find that.
The duo moves to the village, Benji is quite pleased that people actually avoid him, meaning that they can see him. Anko wonders why there were summoned by the Hokage. None of them noticed Hinata following them at a safe distance. Hinata is already sure that Benji is the same spirit or entity that was always near Naruto on his childhood.
Benji and Anko enter on the prefecture and move to the Hokage's office. A lower rank ninja tells to Anko that the Hokage is waiting them near of the ANBU headquarters. Anko sighs at the prospect of delaying even more her lunch and post lunch nap, she lose tons of calories training with Benji since the spirit can keep fighting longer than any human that she fought, one of the advantages of not having a body that can get tired.
In the ANBU headquarters Benji waits in a hall while Anko enters in an office to speak with the Hokage, since the elder ninja wanted to speak with her first. In the office Anko greets respectfully the Hokage. "Why you summoned me Hokage-sama?" Anko asks to the elder ninja. "I want to hear from you a performance report about Benji." The third replied.
"A performance report?" Anko commented. "If you asked me earlier I would get it ready." "I don't want anything written. I want to hear what you think of him after training for two and a half weeks." The Hokage replied. "In which rank of ninja you would place him and why."
"Where I would place him as a ninja now?" Anko asked, the Third nods confirming. Outside Benji is leaning on a wall waiting to be called into the office. A woman shouts Benji looks at the direction of the voice, he sees two hidden Rock ninjas is running with a kunai on their cuffed hands, behind him is a wounded kunoichi and three ninjas chasing him.
On the office Anko smiles before saying. "I was surprised but after training so long with him I would say that right now Benji is on the Jonin level." On the hall Benji says. "Hissatsu. Desoul." Benji grabs one of the Rock ninjas and his hand passes through the ninja neck and leaves taking the ninja soul that vanishes after being ripped from the body. "Now you want to have the same end as that one had?" Benji asks to the Rock kunoichi that is now staring at her dead partner, she drops the kunai and back away scared while Benji moves closer of her.
"Thank you for your assistance." A masked ANBU member says to Benji in a polite tone. "No problem. If they reached the outside they could harm someone." Benji replied. "Sorry that I took such extreme measures I wasn't sure if I could take both of them down if they were both Jonins." "No need to worry about it, you saved us time since you terrified that Jonin from the rock killing her team member like that. She will tell us everything that we need to know in fear that we let you do the same with her." The ANBU member tells to Benji. "And that was an impressive Jutsu where you learned it?" "I created it." Benji answered. "Impressive, now if you excuse me I have to make sure that the prisoner will be safely locked." The ANBU said, they bow to the other politely and the ANBU member leaves taking the corpse of the fallen rock ninja away.
"That was too easy…I wasn't even sure that would work." Benji whispers to himself leaning on the wall again. In the office the Hokage looks at Anko. "What you mean that he is in the level of a Jonin? He learned with Naruto and that placed him as a Genin and he learning from you has only two weeks, he can't be in a Jonin level so soon." The Hokage says not believing on Anko.
"For you and everyone else we have trained only for two and a half weeks, but for us we trained for twenty years." Anko tells to the Hokage, leaning on the chair that she is sited on. "It is hard to believe but he also told me that he lived more than one hundred years while he waited for Naruto to grow old enough to need him." "How is that possible?" The Hokage asks surprised and shocked with the kunoichi words.
End of the chapter four:
Author explanation corner:
This chapter was written a long time ago, but wasn't posted by few reasons, first if I needed to change something in the plot I would be able to do it here, without confusing the readers by removing the chapter and placing a new version of it on the place, second I was going to add sex scenes on it to post it in the mediaminer, I decided to add them later.
With this said I want to point out that this chapter has almost two years old, so some changes in my writing style as well improvements in my English might not be present here and in the following chapters that I kept stored, I tried to correct as many as I could but I am sure that some slipped by unnoticed.
Now some explanation about Benji and his spirit powers; Benji as a spirit is limited only by his imagination and ability to do and create things, as well as much 'energy' his spirit can produce to make it happen, so his abilities will be quite unnatural because his unique nature.
The theories about his spirit self, interactions with environment and people are rather faulty and confusing, purposely made because in his condition things are confusing and complex, let's not forget that Benji doesn't have anyone to explain to him what is going on with him and why he can do what he can do, as far as he know he just can, then he tries to make sense of them with some theories and explanations, the truth might be different than what he imagined.
As noticed the story focus on Benji's interactions with the world and the characters, most of the events on the story happens as described in the anime, Naruto is training with Jiraya, Sasuke with Kakashi, changes in the events will be described in the story, as in Benji's point of view he isn't on the 'focus' of the show, meaning that what he is doing could happen in the anime without anyone noticing since isn't directly relate to the events on the anime, it is the same with the daily events of Sakura's life or what exactly Sasuke is training with Kakashi, blanks that can be filled with anything that we want to fill.