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. Non-constructive critics, flames with harsh words and just saying that the story suck won't be accepted or replied. You might voice your discontentment in seeing your favorite character suffering on the story as long you keep civil and understand that his is only a story and the suffering is a main part of the story plotline.
It won't be changed by requests of readers; I won't spare one of the characters because the readers are telling me to. I write this story. If you don't like it please don't read it. Some characters might be out of character and acting in ways that they wouldn't act, that is because what happen on the story.
If you dislike seeing OOC stop reading because it will appear a lot. There will be original characters and self inserted characters on the story if you dislike them stop reading here and go look for another writer because I ALWAYS write SELF-INSERTED fics. If you do read the story being against something that I wrote above I just tell you this:
"You have been warned."
For those who have read everything that I said before and want to continue to read this story I hope that you enjoy the story.
Signed: Benji Himura.
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Chapter eight: Pain means life
Benji now sees his surroundings and jumps to his feet. (ESTOU VIIIVOOOOOOO!!) Benji shouts, Ino and Haruka hug each other happy that he is indeed alive and moving. "I don't know what you said but die." Orochimaru says to Benji driving his Kusanagi sword through Benji's chest. Ino and Haruka gasp with horror seeing the severe wound, Orochimaru smiles evilly licking some blood that splattered on his face. "Delicious. A very good crop." He hisses. "Ahhh…pain I find hard to believe that I even missed that feeling." Benji says with a hint of pleasure on his voice.
Benji grabs the sword edge and slams his head against Orochimaru's face and forehead. Surprised with Benji's sudden attack Orochimaru doesn't react when Benji pulls hard the sword removing it from his grip and ripping it through his chest. Benji holds the blood covered sword and turns quickly and slashes Orochimaru vertically. The evil sannin cries with pain with a cut running over the left side of his body from the forehead to the knee.
Benji feels a strong pull on the sword and let it go as Orochimaru controls it. Benji gets distance and sees the Hokages fighting. Benji dashes to the Third and tackles the Second away. "Need help old man?" Benji asks with a smirk on his lips. "I would appreciate that brat." Sarutobi replied. 'Thank you Gods for sending me this help' he added on his mind.
"You need weapons?" Sarutobi asks to the former spirit. "This roof has metal on it?" Benji asks back. "It does, why?" Sarutobi answered. Benji smiles and claps his hands together as if he was going to pray.
"Shinzui hana! Lightning metal forge!" Benji shouts hitting the roof bellow him with his palms. Benji pulls his hands back up and from the roof a long combat knife rips the tiles and planks. Benji grabs it on the air. It is just like the one that he used against Miki. The fight begins again this time with Benji aiding the Third to fight the First and the Second as well Orochimaru.
"Hissatsu! Desoul!" Benji shouts driving his hand through the First's chest while Enma held the First's arms. Benji has trouble to remove the soul but when he does the First whispered. "Thank you…" the body turns into dust and corpse of one of the sound Genins falls on the roof. Benji charges another Desoul to deal with the second, but Orochimaru binds Benji on his current one knee on the ground position using an earth snake technique.
Benji struggles to break free while Sarutobi used the Kage Bunshin knowing that he needs to deal with Orochimaru. Benji tries to break from his stone bonds using the knife while Sarutobi is talking with Orochimaru and performing the Shiki Fujin. Soon they are in a standoff, Benji is bind with stones, the second was sealed away, Sarutobi and Orochimaru facing the other with the demon from the jutsu holding them.
Minutes earlier
Ino watched Benji leaving to help the Hokage leaving her with Haruka. Haruka is trying to heal the most serious wounds of the ninja that Ino was aiding. Ino sees a Jonin approaching them and does as Benji told her, she levels the gun at the Jonin side and fired. The Jonin never saw the bullet coming. Haruka sees the Jonin holding his fresh wound and finishes him.
"Good job." Haruka tells to Ino. The blonde doesn't answer she is still feeling the recoil on her bones and the feeling that she took someone's life, even being a enemy the first kill his hard to the girl. Ino pulls herself together knowing that she can't fall apart now. Haruka finishes giving an emergency treatment to the Jonin and they move to check others, it was the little that they could do.
They hold back their sadness seeing that most of the fallen Konoha ninjas were dead or fatally wounded beyond Haruka's healing skills. Seeing that they are now unable to aid on the audience Haruka and Ino move to the roof in hope of helping Benji, the sight that greets them shocks them. Benji was facing someone that looked exactly like he does and they aren't landing an effective hit on the other, all the hits were canceled by the other hits.
Present time
Benji sees that he can't break the rock and tosses his knife at Orichimaru's back. The wound makes a bit easier to the Third pull more of Orochimaru's arms with the sealing jutsu. Benji tries to break the stone by blasting it at pointblank range with energy balls, to his happiness it begins to break. When free Benji tackles Orochimaru and pushes him. Sarutobi smiles at Benji's actions that will help even more. Orochimaru wraps Benji with his tongue changed as a snake trying to crush and bite Benji's neck. Benji bites the snake neck preventing it from biting him.
Orochimaru let out a small cry of pain while Benji bites harder, burring his knife deeper on Orochimaru's body. Sarutobi and Enma smile seeing that now the arms are out to the shoulder length. They stay on a standoff again, Sarutobi knows that he is growing weaker and he has to do something. Sarutobi finishes the seal and steals Orochimaru's arms. In his despair the sannin releases Benji giving to the former spirit a perfect chance to do more damage.
Benji divides the knife in two smaller ones and stabs Orochimaru on the kidneys. The sannin roars in pain feeling the edges tearing and destroying his kidneys. Benji leaps away knowing that he isn't a match to the sannin and all that he did so far it was because the chances that the Third had given to him. Enma vanishes with the Kusanagi sword, unable to fight Orochimaru orders to the sound five to take him away.
Benji falls sited on the roof. "Dammit I over used my body after a long time not moving." He curses feeling his body weak. "Thank you brat…" Sarutobi says from where he is lying. "You aren't from Konoha yet you fought with the Spirit of Fire inside you. I am glad that I could meet you and trying to repay the debt that we have to you…" "You don't have a debt with me old man." Benji replied putting pressure on his stab wound. "We do, if you wasn't around to keep company to Naruto I don't know how he would have turned… thank you for all that you did for this village…all that I gave you are yours to keep…" Sarutobi whispers with a smile on his lips. "Rest old man…you earned the right to rest in peace…" Benji replied seeing Sarutobi closing his eyes. "Oyasumi jiji…"
Ino runs and hugs Benji, crying because all that happened. Haruka kneels besides him, looking really sad. "You can cry." Benji whispers to Haruka, moving Ino a bit to the side. Haruka begins to cry and takes Benji's other shoulder to cry on. The third is surrounded by Konoha ninjas, Benji stands up with the help of Ino and Haruka, and they move closer to pay their respects to the fallen leader.
Two days later
Benji is standing with the others Konoha shinobis, he is also using the black funeral clothes that everyone else is using, and he is using his Konoha forehead protector on his head on the most basic way. He hears Iruka's words for Naruto while they all pay respect for the fallen Hokage. After the rites are over everyone begins to leave, Haruka is near Benji while they move away.
"What we will do now?" Haruka asks to him. "I don't know about you but I will go drink." Benji answered. "You enjoy drinking?" she asked. "I don't really like it, but the old man wanted to have a drink with me before the battle but I couldn't take his offer, now I will drink a little offering him what he wanted." Benji replied. "Want some company?" Haruka asks with a small smile. "Sure, more merrier." Benji answered replying her smile. "Besides the old man would like that people send him off with a smile instead of tears."
"Good idea!" Jiraya exclaims holding Benji's neck. "I will join you on his name!" "Hands off Ero-sennin!" Benji shouts escaping from the elder's grip. Jiraya manages to get a nice group of shinobis to go drink in homage to the third, Anko included. Few hours later Benji leaves the party carrying Haruka, the red head kunoichi drank beyond her limits thanks to Anko and few others kunoichis. Benji also had drank a lot but he was still on his limits, he wonders if the Third enjoyed the party wherever he was and if he liked the sake that the kunoichis drank for him, Benji imagined that would taste much better than the sake drank by the males.
Haruka once and a while let out a sob or a giggle while Benji carries her on his back. Benji arrives on his apartment and places Haruka on his bed after taking out her shoes and headband; he covers her and picks a fresh set of clothes to change. After few minutes he is on his living room wearing a pair of black trousers and a white t-shirt. There is a soft knock on the door. Benji opens and sees Ino there, she doesn't say anything just hug him, sobbing strongly.
Benji gently comforts her; he knows that the day of the battle was very stressing for her, and the funeral was too much for her. After half an hour Ino have cried herself to sleep, Benji gently picks her up and takes her to his bed and lies her near of Haruka and cover Ino too, the bed is warm and he knows that the other presence will sooth both of them. Benji moves to the kitchen and fixes some hot chocolate for them.
There is another knock on the door, Benji sighs with the prospect of another girl on his bed. He still haven't managed to get his needs satisfied since he returned to his body, not that he got much as a spirit, the escapades with Ino helped a lot but it was as placing cold water in a pan of boiling water it only stalls the boiling. On the door Benji sees an unknown woman there wearing the black clothes of the funeral and the Konoha headband. "Your presence is required by the elders' council." She tells to Benji. "Please follow me."
Benji nods and picks his keys after turning off the stove. They walk on the rain to the prefecture. In there he is taken to a large meeting room, inside there is indeed the Konoha elders as well the heads of the strongest and oldest Konoha clans, Benji knew that if they tried to kill him he wouldn't have much success to escape of them, specially the Hyuga.
"Where is your headband?" An elder woman asks to Benji. "Here." Benji replied pulling it from his trousers pocket. "So it was indeed red." One of the council members commented. Benji is confused, he knows that his headband is red instead of the usual black or maroon color but he have no idea of the why the color. "Do you know why your forehead protector is red?" the same elder woman that asked for his headband asks to Benji.
"No, I don't know why it is red." Benji answered. "It means that you have been selected personally to become a Konoha ninja by the Hokage, even thought you are not from the Leaf village. The red forehead protector means that you have the trust of the Hokage and have earned the right to be a Leaf ninja even being a foreigner." She answered in a serious tone. "But we aren't here to discuss your position as a Konoha Jonin; you have showed to the village that you are worth of the title, not to mention that the Third had told us about your former condition."
Benji stays in silence not sure of what to say. "We also know that it was trusted to you the most lethal weapons that Konoha held sealed and you used them wisely to defend Konoha from our enemies. But this also isn't the reason that we have summoned you." She continued. "The Third had left us a will in case that he passed during the battle and on it there was the location of a letter that told us what to do with you."
The room stays in silence while the elder produces the mentioned letter. "In this letter the Third orders to this council to give you a large annual founding and instruct you to create a special group of ninjas, training and selecting them as you see fit and to give you total freedom of action to train, select and gather the members of the mentioned group." She tells to Benji in a serious tone. "In other words the Third has given to you the mission to increase Konoha's strength by your own methods."
Benji swallows hard with her words. "Anything to say?" she asked him. (That sneaky old man!) Benji curses in Portuguese. Benji takes a deep breath. "In other words I am free to do whatever I see fit in order to create that group that the Third told to?" Benji asks to them. "Yes, as long you respect the secret of the village and don't break the laws of the village." She answered. "There is a limit of how many members the group must have?" Benji asked. "No. You are free to create a group of the size that you desire. Konoha will also create quarters and training areas to lodge your group." She answered.
"I see." Benji replied. "I need time to think about how to do it. But I already know that I need a free pass to all the other countries." "And why you need that?" The Hyuga elder asks. "I was asked to create a group of strong ninjas for Konoha, but I think that won't be wise only have jutsus from Konoha. I think that learning jutsus from other villages would increase the power of the group." Benji answered.
"We will arrange that." the elder woman replied. "Anything else?" Benji asks to them. "This year founding has been placed in an account with your name that we created for this purpose, use it wisely." She replied, Benji nodded and the woman that picked him hands to him a bank book. "You inform us when you have finished planning." She added, Benji nods and he is dismissed.
Later on his apartment he is sited on his couch thinking about what happened. 'Create a group of ninjas that I selected, train them as I see fit and make them loyal to Konoha. What you had in your head old man, placing an evil spirit like me in a position like that?' He sighs and lies on the couch.
"Jeez that old man had to pile that on my head…I just wanted to enjoy being alive while I can…" Benji whispered closing his eyes, then something heavy lands on his chest. Benji opens his eyes and sees Ino now lying on top of him. Benji enjoys the feeling, while she snuggles against his chest. "Don't surprise me like that." Benji whispers to her. "I wanted to." She replied. "Now that you have a body you can touch me and love me as we did when you were just a spirit…"
"Ino we shouldn't do this now." Benji whispers to her trying to keep his self control, her warmth was too temptating. "Haruka is on my room, remember?" Ino pouts, but doesn't let go of him. "Why you keep denying me after you returned to your body?" she asks in a sad tone. "I am no longer needed?" Benji softly kisses Ino's lips. "You are needed and desired, but I think that now is too soon to repeat what we did as spirits with your body." He whispered to her. "It might hurt you."
Ino let out a small sigh and rest her head on his chest savoring the sound of his heartbeat something that before he didn't had. "I miss those feelings…" she whispered softly. "I long for them…" "So do I." Benji replied, gently caressing her hair. "Just wait okay? When the time is right we will do it…" she nods softly at his words and let his heartbeat, caress and warmth lull her to sleep.
Much later on that evening Haruka recovers and moves to the living room, she finds Benji reading a scroll in a chair with Ino sleeping in the couch. "I am sorry sir…" Haruka says bowing to Benji. "Don't worry about it Haruka, you had a bit too much thanks to the others besides I think that the old man liked all the sake that you drank for him." Benji replied with a smile looking at his underling. Haruka blushes at his words. "There is some hot chocolate on the kitchen and some aspirins help yourself." Haruka nods and moves to the kitchen, she takes four aspirins and a mug of hot chocolate.
"When I am done I will be leaving sir." She tells him. "I don't want to burden you any longer." "You aren't burdening me. Besides the rain is stronger now, you can stay here until it stops or until the morning. Not to mention that I prefer having company." Benji replied. Haruka nods shyly before sipping the chocolate with a blush, she sits in a chair facing Benji. "I don't know if I am still assigned to be your underling sir." Haruka said looking at her mug.
"You had fun didn't you?" Benji asks with a smile tracing his lips, he knew that he forced her to enjoy herself more while she was under his command and that after she opened herself a little she began to enjoy. "I did sir." She replied. "Then don't feel bad about it. If is over is over, we had a good time but we have to move on in different paths but that doesn't mean that we can't be friends. Or you think that I let anyone sleep on my bed?" he says with a teasingly smile.
Haruka blushes even more being recalled that she had been carried to bed and slept in the bed of her direct superior officer. "Anyway I am not letting you out of my wing yet." Benji added. "Sir?" she asks confused but still feeling warm and fuzzy inside, all her commanding officers before never told her that they wanted her. "While you were sleeping with Ino…" Benji explained, Haruka blushes being recalled that she had slept with a girl much younger than her. "I was called by the Konoha's elders; they told me that the old man left a letter, well actually a scroll for me and the elders. In there he tells to them and to me that I have the authority and powers to raise a group of shinobis and train them as I see fit."
Haruka thinks a bit. "You are telling me that I am the first of that group?" she asks to Benji. "Actually the third." Benji replied. "I am the first, Ino is the second." "Why her?" Haruka asked confused. "I was training her before so I plan to keep training her." Benji answered. "That is not the entire truth is it?" She asked. "No it isn't but is more than enough." Benji replied and she nodded agreeing.
"I will leave the village sometime soon to learn more in other villages and gather shinobis for the group." Benji continued. "I want you to train Ino to use medical jutsus; we will need every medical Nin that we can produce." Haruka nods understanding. "Why you want to gather shinobis from other villages?" she asked. "Power comes from knowledge and variety." Benji answered. "If we just have fire jutsu users we will be weak against water users." "I understand and how you will gather the shinobis needed to that?" She asked before sipping her chocolate. "In exchange of teaching my own techniques to a selected group of shinobis in another village I will want at least one shinobi of that village." Benji answered. "Trading jutsus for shinobis."
Haruka nearly chokes with her chocolate. "You are serious?" she asked him. "Yes. Most of my techniques are powerful but they also have weaknesses. I am sure that you watched a tape from the match that I fought against the cloud kunoichi." "I did watch that. The finishing move was extremely powerful." Haruka replied. "It is, but to be powerful I need the fighting energy of my enemy, it must be burning hot battle rage. Because of that hot energy I can use that technique, but it might fail if I use it against someone that watched it being used might not work and if I fight against a Sharingan or Byakugan user I am sure that they won't fall for it." Benji explained to her. "Knowing the technique might render it useless. Still not knowing that other villages will want to have it and they will make the trade."
Haruka nods understanding, his logic was right, but what worries her is the techniques like the ones that he used on his fight against his copy, she didn't saw any flaws or ways to predict those attacks coming, they were fast and with a large destructive power. "When you plan on leaving?" Haruka asked to him. "In three months from now." Benji replied. "I need time to get readjusted with my body and train myself and you two. I still haven't finished with both of you." Benji answered.
End of the chapter eight:
Benji in the Hokage battle: In the end Benji didn't altered the outcome of the fight at all, he just made things slightly easier to the Third, the First struggled with Orochimaru's control and helped Benji to remove the soul from the body, breaking the jutsu. As mentioned in the chapter Benji only did what he did with Orochimaru and the First because the Third was there keeping them busy, making them ignore the minor threat that Benji is when compared to them.
Sarutobi's last words to Benji: The Third believes that he as well the village has a debt towards Benji because he was caught on Kyubi's seal and trapped inside Naruto, as well for being there as father/brother/friend for Naruto while he was growing. Benji and the Third throw at the other playful barbs, more or less as the Third does with Naruto, Benji does respect the Third, and the Third respect Benji for all that he did and suffered, as well his support to the village.
Drinking party: Based in what is show about the Hokage, as well his death, I felt that Sarutobi would like the people to see him off with a smile, since he lived a long and happy life and was a successful man, even having a handful of regrets on his life, he lived enough to not only marry, but have children, grandchildren, see his grandchildren, as well get retired even thought he resumed the job after the Fourth's death.
So a farewell party in his homage, held by the people that he loved and looked over with love and care would (or should, I think that both) make him happy, since seeing his people sad would make him feel bad. Well this is my view of how he would feel and what he would like to have as the funeral, not only the formal and serious funeral as the third Hokage, but a funeral/party for the man behind the Hokage.
Benji's bandana: Red is the color of fire; Konoha is from the fire country, so a red forehead protector/bandana would have a more particular meaning. So after thinking for a while I thought that the Third would make Benji a citizen of Konoha, the red bandana is like a green card or a citizenship given to a foreigner as show of his new condition as citizen of the Hidden Leaf Village of the Fire country, of course that given to a ninja, for a normal citizen (non-ninja refugee or immigrant) the citizenship would be something else.
Third's final assignment for Benji: Now I am getting to the main part of the story, at least on Benji's side, the development of a ninja group to protect Konoha and as well if possible to create true ties and bonds between the countries and ninja villages, if not at least a elite squad that knows the enemies' strengths, weaknesses and techniques.
With freedom to act as he wants as well with a sizable found Benji can travel and 'purchase' ninjas from other villages, trading them for money or techniques, let's not forget that Benji has a large arsenal of 'jutsus' that no one knows about, a ninja village would trade some 'common' or 'know' jutsus for those new ones, even if means giving away few chunins or genins, most likely the rubbish and troublesome ones.
This also allows to Benji to gather information about the other villages, countries, clans, ninjas and other important information regarding the country being visited.