Shinigami of Konoha

Chapter 3

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Konoha also known as the village hidden in the leaves has not been the same since that fateful day; the day when Sasuke Uchiha defected the village and in the process of trying to bring him back Konoha had lost six of there strongest and most promising Genin. Neji: the prodigy of the branch family of the Hyuga clan, Lee: the wacky workaholic ninja, Choji: the tender hearted human tank, Shikamaru: the lazy genius, Kiba: the future head of the Inuzuka clan and last but most certainly not least Naruto Uzumaki: the hyper active knuckle head ninja of Konoha.

The deaths of the Sasuke retrieval squad had affected every one who had known them; Ino, Tenten and Sakura had all became closer friends since all three of them had lost two people that had meant a lot to them but Hinata had taken it the worst, she lost her cousin who she was just starting to befriend and heal the wounds between them, she had lost one of her best friend's and team mate and she had lost the love of her life, the person she had admired the most in the world. The Sand siblings felt guilty for not being there to help them but the messenger bird that was sent to Suna from Konoha for assistance had been intercepted by a team of Oto shinobi so they didn't know what was going on until it was too late. Tsunade had became more lax in her duty's as Hokage preferring to drink and gamble and snooze, Jiraiya had not been seen for a while but was still sending information back to the village on Orochimaru and Akatsuki's movements, Kakashi could rarely been seen these days but when he was summoned for something like a mission or an important matter he was there usually an hour early every time, Guy's 'youthful' activities had become more dangerous which lead him in to having more visit's to the hospital and his training with Tenten ,much to her dismay, had been tripled!

The village had a funeral for the deceased squad but thanks to the council Naruto's friends had to hold a funeral for him outside of the village because the council wouldn't give the 'demon' a place in any of the cemetery's so they went to Wave country for the funeral, what remained of the Rookie nine and there sensei's came as did team Guy, Tsunade, Shizune, Jiraiya, several Konoha shinobi that held no grudge against Naruto; such as Ibiki Morino and Anko, the entire Wave country population, the Sand siblings and many others who Naruto had made an impression on such as Idate Morino from the land of Tea and Princess Koyuki from the village of Snow. Like at the Sandaime's funeral every one walked up to the picture of Naruto with his goofy grin and would place a white rose on the grave, wishing that his after life would be a nice peaceful one but little did they know that Naruto had no intention on haveing a peaceful eternity….

"Out of the way Abarai I'm telling Rukia first!" Naruto shouted as he and Renji ran down a hall at the Shinigami academy at breakneck speed nearly running down students on many an occasion.

"No way Uzumaki I am!" Renji shouted back, what they were wanting too tell Rukia is that they both just passed there second exam and were that mush closer to becoming shinigami. Naruto had become quite the heartthrob thanks to his training at the academy, with well developed muscles and abs most guys would kill for. His skill in zanjutsu was very good and his skill in combat kido were just as good. Naruto had been training under Heisei most of the time but last week he had told Naruto something he was supposed to keep a secret.

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Naruto and Heisei were standing by a pond in a forest near the academy taking a well deserved break.

"Wow Naruto you're getting very good." Heisei said as he ruffled Naruto's bright blonde hair.

"You know it!" Naruto shouted.

"Naruto you have so much potential it would be wasted here at the academy if you don't train right, so at the end of the month I'll have an old friend of mine stop by and take you to the human world for a week long training trip and don't worry, he's really something, he mastered Bankai in three days and he's the only one who's been able to do that."

"Wow really! Thanks so much Heisei-sensei!! Your so much better then my old sensei, all he ever taught me was how to climb a tree using chakra!! " Naruto shouted as he jumped on to Heisei hugging him around the neck but at the same time catching Heisei off balance and making both of them fall in to the pond. Soaking wet both of them stared at each other and began to laugh like maniacs until there sides hurt. After gathering back his composure and cleared his throat Heisei spoke.

"Now Naruto you must keep this a secret, my friend is not very welcome in Soul Society anymore and if you told some one the information I just told you they might try and kill him when he comes."

"What's his name?" Naruto asked eager to know the name of the man that would be training him and that was hated by the Soul Society.

"Kisuke Urahara."

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Both Renji and Naruto reached the end of the hall there running down and pushed open the door and shouted at the same time.

"Rukia we passed the exam and…… huh?" They both looked ahead; they saw Rukia but also two shinigami and two noble looking people, then the older noble man spoke.

"It seems our meeting has been interrupted, oh well, we expect your answer with in the week Miss Rukia." They then began to leave, the younger of the nobles had an enormous spiritual pressure that made both Renji and Naruto avert there eyes.

"This spirit pressure is so strong I can't even look at him straight. Who is he?" Renji thought."Hey Rukia, those were some pretty important looking visitors you had there, sorry for the intrusion…"

"That was the Kuchiki family… they want to adopt me as there daughter and I'll graduate immediately … I don't know what to do." Rukia said.

"I'll tell you what to do… you say yes Rukia!" Renji exclaimed as he grabbed her shoulders." Ah man you are so lucky hehehe I wonder what kind of food nobles eat…"

"I don't know…" Both Rukia and Renji turned to Naruto "I guess if you want too go then I can't stop you but… "Naruto paused and looked Rukia straight in the eye with a look of seriousness she had never seen in Naruto since the two years she had known him "Don't you dare turn in to some spoiled little brat who expects every thing to be thrown at her feet… please."

"Naruto…" Rukia whispered.

"Oh shut it Uzumaki you have no idea what your talking about, you have no idea what we had to go through when we younger, it was just me, Rukia and three other guys and we had to work every day just to get by! This is a blessing for Rukia so leave her alone!" Renji shouted.

"Hmm… wow you guys were a lot luckier then I was…" This comment made Rukia's eyes widen and Renjis narrow.

"Tell me, were you killed by your best friend… by the person you considered your brother?" Memories began to flood in to his mind of Sasuke; When team 7 had became Genin, the bell test, the mission to Wave country, the fight on the bridge with Haku, the Chunin exams, the fight against Gaara in the forest, the land of Snow mission, the time they tried to get Kakashi's mask off his face, the land of Tea mission, the fight between Sasuke and Naruto on the hospital roof and the time he died trying to save his friend, his brother, from total darkness… "Did you grow up with every one around you hating you for something that was out of your control and no matter what you did they still hated you, even if you did good?" Memories of all the times he had been beaten, mocked, reticule and glared at by the villager's also began to find there way in to his mind… "And then find out the person you that you looked up to above every one else was the one who did that to you?" A picture of the Forth Hokages face appeared in his mind. Naruto's voice was so… empty it had no emotion to it at all, just… nothing. At that moment Rukia had a few tears running down her face and Renji felt like he could punch his own lights out. Naruto's gazed had drifted to the ground during his speech; he looked up to see Rukia crying and freaked out, waving his arms around in an anime style.

"AHHHHHHHH I'm sorry, I didn't mean to make you cry Rukia I'm really, really, really sorry. I'm also sorry about sounding kind of emo back there that was not intentional, it's just… I…" Naruto pause again "I care about you a lot your one of my precious people and I just worry, but… if you want to go with the Kuchiki's then that's fine with me." Naruto said smiling his trademark foxy grin.

"Thank you…. both of you." Rukia said as she hugged both of the boys and held them close "Now let's go see what's for lunch."

"On the way, let's go to the dojo and see if Lee's done with training." Naruto said as they walked down the hall.

"Knowing that crazy dork he won't be done until well after midnight." Renji muttered.

Despite his crazy antics Lee had become quite popular around the academy… and feared; because of his constant working habit he had become very strong and well built, in only his second year his skill in zanjutsu was on par with a 15th seat but alas his skill in kido was a little shaky, but he didn't mind he preferred close up combat anyway. During his first year Lee had tried to get Heisei to order him a green spandex uniform but Heisei said no, so after hours of Lee pestering him, Heisei sent him to the 11th squad barracks for a 'private' training session with Kenpachi Zaraki, after which Lee spent three solid weeks in the squad four barracks under the care of captain Retsu Unohanha and Lee hasn't bothered Heisei about it since.

As Renji, Rukia and Naruto neared the dojo they heard a loud crash, running down the hall and turning the corner to the entrance of the dojo they found a large hole in the wall along with an unconscious Kiba, lying amongst the rubble of said wall.

A loud "YOSH!!!!" could be heard from inside the dojo.

"It would seem Lee has over done it again…" Rukia said with a sweat drop.

"AHAHAHAHAHAH, 'dog breath' got his ass handed to him AHAHAHA!!!" Naruto bellowed, wiping tears of mirth from his eyes.

Miraculously Kiba awoke from his unconscious state shouting.

"I'd love to see you try and beat him, you blonde haired, ramen addicted, hyper active idiot…"

Kiba, during his two years at the academy he had become very good with zanjutsu and combat kido and even though they died Naruto's and Kiba's love for pranks hadn't, much to the teacher's and some of the more stuck up student's dismay, even though no one knew it, Kiba was the one who had 'supplied'the paint for Naruto when he graffited the Hokage monuments.

"That was a bit much Kiba." A certain Hyuga prodigy said as he entered the hall way with Momo right beside him.

"Hmmm… you two are getting pretty chummy aren't ya'? Renji joked. Momo lowered her head to hide her blush and Neji just kept his usual stoic face but if you looked hard enough you could see a small blush. Neji had become quite good with kido during his first two years at the academy thanks to help from Momo who seemed to have a natural knack for it. Neji preferred to use restraint kido over combat kido and his zanjutsu skills were very good as well.

"Say what you want Abarai." Neji waved him off as he examined the large hole in the wall.

"How did Lee beat you Kiba?" Neji asked.

Kiba looked away with kind of an embarrassed look on his face and muttered some thing incoherent.

"What was that!?!?" Naruto shouted.

"He beat me with one swing…" Kiba said a little louder and there Naruto was off again laughing his ass off.

"Hey (munch, munch) what's going on." Every one turned around to see Choji and Shikamaru behind them. Choji had lost all of the weight he had back in the land of the living and had replaced it with muscles and six pack abs thanks to the intense training of the Shinigami academy, but he still could not get over his love of potato chips. His skills with a sword were pretty good and he had even learned a kido that increase his size much like his old family's jutsu the 'Baika no Jutsu'. Shikamaru had both aggravated his teachers and astounded them; what had aggravated them was his lazyness and his unwillingness to do anything unless threatened. (The Kenpachi private training threat was commonly used but it was just as effective) But what astounded them was his ability to learn things so quickly and remember it, his ability to figure things out almost automatically and his strategy making skills were amazing.

"Lee do that?" Shikamaru asked, lazily gesturing towards the large hole in the wall that Lee himself was now climbing out of.

"Yosh! All of my youthful friends are here! Sorry Kiba I did not mean to hurt you, you are alright, right?!" Lee asked/shouted.

"Troublesome."

"Yeah I'm fine Lee, you only hurt my pride." Kiba muttered.

"Then he'll be fine." Naruto whispered to Rukia.

"I heard that!" Kiba shouted.

"Umm… how about we all head to lunch before anyone else starts fighting?" Momo spoke for the first time.

"Yeah I'm starving!" Choji shouted.

"But you just ate five bags of chips." Shikamaru said. The group started walking and talking on there way to the cafeteria but Naruto's mind was else were, it had been exactly one week since his talk with Heisei.

"I hope I'm ready for this…" Naruto muttered as he continued to walk with the rest of the gang.

Well, hope that was good enough of an update. Next chapter Naruto's training with Kisuke and Naruto's meets Yoruichi!

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