The sound of people chattering and vendors calling out their wares is what awakens me. My body shifts to a more comfortable position as I sit up. What?
I looked over to see that there is sunlight streaming in through my window. Wait. My window is on the left side of my bed, not the right. Tanned flesh moves as I stand and walk over to the window. A dirt path is being trod on by a mass of people as vendors line the street. The walls of the buildings around my apartment are bright and stone. This doesn't seem right. My eyes widen as I spot the mountain carved with faces. Wait. hashirama, tobirama, sarutobi, minato. Oh shit! Those are the hokages from naruto! Wait, the faces are painted. Holy shit! I'm in the first episode of naruto! Wait.
I look around my room. Kunai on the floor, ninja clothing my size, i'm in training? Wait. Where's my wallet? I spot the folded piece of leather and open it. My ID, my name tora? Doesn't that mean cat or something? I'm seventeen and I'm a ninja in training. Alright. I've read enough fanfics to know where to go to find the academy. Wait. directions? Is today my first day?
Alright. I pull on a pair of cargo jeans and put some kunai on my right leg and some shuriken on my left. I pull on a short sleeved shirt and slip my feet into the sandals. Never got why they wore sandals, wouldn't it be easier to kick ass if your toes were protected? I shrug before I put my wallet in a back pocket and grab my keys. I exit the apartment and check my apartment number, 216, the building is on the main street and painted bright green. Got it.
I head down to the academy, a large building with a domed roof and a mass of children milling in front of them. I tower over the kids at six foot eight. Alright. Front desk. Where do I go? I reach into my pocket and pull out a slip of paper room 307. Oh? Same class as naruto? Sweet.
I start walking down the halls and looking for the room as I also try to feel for my chakra. Come on dammit. I'm in the Naruto world, that means I get ninja magic powers. Wait! There it is! A warmth in my stomach. I smirk and pull on that warmth as I reach the rooms that start with 290. My hand tingles and I raise it to see that my fingers are glowing blue. Wait. That's easy? Wow. fanfic makes this seem a lot harder. I release my chakra and find room 307. Alright. Let's do this.
The chatter dies down as I enter and walk over to a tanned man with a nasty scar across his nose. He looks up at me and I hand him my paper.
"Tora, no last name. You are joining the class today. Signed by lord hokage." the man reads out.
"Wait! Why does he get to join us late! He should go through the classes like we did!" a pink haired girl screeches. Damm. fanfic doesn't prepare you for the ringing ears.
"Lord hokage signed the note so he is joining us sakura. If you have a problem with his joining then you can talk to lord hokage himself. After class." the man snaps. I am directed to an open seat next to a pale skinned boy that has hair styled like a duck's ass. Sasuke.
The man, wait, that's iruka, starts speaking about how we are now becoming ninja after this test. He is interrupted by a short blonde boy that runs into the room, his teeth are sparkling with his smile and his cheeks have three marks each. Naruto. Iruka yells at him and tells the kid to sit next to me. Iruka resumes his lecture and I tune it out as I look at the other kids.
Lets see, shikamaru, choji, ino, kiba, hinata, shino, and the civilian kids. Aight. Let's do this.
Iruka hands out a test. I breeze through it and resume messing with my chakra. How do I make a clone? Oh yeah, just make a shell of chakra and then cut the flow of chakra. Replacement is just using your chakra to swap places with something. Transformation is making a shell of chakra around myself and then making myself look different. Iruka takes back the tests and we all head outside. Target practice. Shit.
I go first and manage to at least hit the target. Eh. good enough. Everyone else takes their turns and I cover my ears when Sasuke walks up. The muffled sound of girls screeching passes through my flesh. Damm. chicks are gonna make me go deaf. After the target practice is over, to which i unsurprisingly got last, iruka says it's time to spar.
I'm called first, again, I shrug at this and walk into the ring with a silver haired pale man. Wait. This is mizuki, the jackass that steals the forbidden scroll. Not on my watch! I raise my hands into a boxing stance and start bouncing back and forth on the balls of my feet. My opponent raises a brow before he falls into his stance. Knees bent and fists raised slightly.
Iruka shouts for us to begin and I spring forward. Mizuki raises a fist to block my fist hit. I drop to my knees and send a vicious right hook into the side of Mizuki's knee. It snaps to the side with a sickening crunch. Mizuki falls to his good knee with a howl as I spring to my feet and grab his lowest rib before yanking sideways. Another crunch and howl from mizuki before i punch him in the throat once, twice, three times. He coughs blood and I raise a leg before dropping it in an ax kick that connects with his shoulder and dislocates it with a pop. mizuki passes out with blood leaking from his mouth. I smirk as iruka clicks his stopwatch. Ten seconds.
The rest of the tests are easy and I'm soon standing in a line with the others. I am given a strip of cloth with metal on it. I pass the cloth through my belt loop and tie it off so it hangs from my jeans like a sheathed blade. I smirk at iruka as he glares at me. Mizuki is in the hospital for his wounds. Won't get out till next week. Naruto passed by the skin of his teeth. His opponent in the spar was stunned by my brutality and naruto capitalized on this to pummel him.
I'm jarred from my thoughts by the sight of an old man appearing before us with a puff of smoke. His face is lined with the wrinkles brought by age and stress. His darkly tanned skin is dotted with liver spots and I can see that his hair is gray but approaching white. A pipe hangs from his jaws and I can see a triangular hat that is blood red adorning his head. He is draped in long white robes and he seems to exude both power, and a compassion that wraps around you like a warm blanket.
He mutters something with iruka before I feel a hand on my shoulder and a disorienting rush of motion. I am suddenly in an office with pictures on the wall and a large desk that is in front of a massive window. The old man reappears in front of me and he puffs on a pipe before he sits down and gestures for me to do the same. I swallow back my bile, shunshin huh? Not a fan. I sit in front of the man and his gaze goes from kind old man, to hardened warrior in a blink.
"Why did you cripple mizuki?" he demands. Oh? Trying to intimidate me? Nice try.
"Didn't like him. He smells like snakes." I replied with a shrug. I'm not wrong though. For some reason, my nose is frickin sensitive.
"Smells like snakes? What do you mean?" The question is flooded with confusion.
"Normally I don't mind the smells of snakes, smell of scales and old skin and earth. He didn't smell like that. He smelled like scales and old skin and hospitals. Like a pet raised in a lab. The smell set me off and I reacted as you saw.`` I'm pretty sure he's getting pissed at my lack of fear of this "god of shinobi" act he's trying to pull.
The old man presses a button on his intercom and calls for a woman named Anko to come in. While he does this, I swipe his pipe and take a few puffs. Nice stuff. Very smooth and has a good strength to it. The old man, hold up, sarutobi looks back at me and sees me smoking from his pipe. He raises a brow and holds out his hand. I take a last puff before handing it to him.
"That's some good shit. Remind me to come to you for a leaf when I buy my pipe.`` I said to him,
"Oh? Are you saying my leaves are better than the ones at the shop?" he says with a smirk.
"I'm saying ya got good leaves and i don't know where the shop is. I'm new to this place dude.`` I replied.
"How are you a genin if you're new here? Shouldn't you be a civilian?" Now the confusion is back. Dammit.
"Dunno. Woke up here and found a note in my pocket saying where to go. Iruka says it's got your signature." no harm in being honest to a foe you know how to beat.
Sarutobi goes silent and puffs his pipe as he processes my words. I examine the office before I'm pulled out of my thoughts by the clack of a pipe in front of me. I am handed a pipe and some leaves that I pack in before I light it with a flaming finger. So I just need to focus on making my chakra hot to get fired? Cool. my finger trick gets a raised brow but sarutobi shrugs before he resumes puffing his pipe. I puff my pipe as well and we just relax.
The door opens to reveal a woman in a tan trench coat with a mesh onesie that hides nothing but her nipples. She has an orange skirt and purple hair. She looks over at me and I glance at the old guy. He motions to her and I shrug. I walk over to the woman before clenching my pipe between my teeth. I smell her. She smells like snakes, wild snakes and the forest. Not the lab snakes like that mizuki guy. I report this to the old guy and he nods.
"Anko, tora here reacted with violence against chunin mizuki because he apparently smelled like snakes. He smelled like snakes from a lab according to tora. You smell like wild snakes, like the forest. I wish to compare something. Do you still have that old shirt? The special one?" sarutobi asks her.
She looks at me sharply before pulling out a scroll and slapping a hand to it. A puff of smoke later and a white silk shirt is on the scroll. Anko takes my pipe before I kneel down and smell the shirt. Same smell. Just a lot stronger. With a hint of lavender? I tell the old guy what I smelled, again, and he looks grave. He calls out. A man in a mask and draped in a cloak appears in front of us. Damm. freaking ninja! Wait. I'm in naruto. Of course there are ninjas!
I reclaim my pipe from the woman and take a few puffs as the old guy talks to the cloaked person, wait. That's an ANBU. sorta ninja marines. If I'm not wrong. The anbu vanishes and sarutobi waves me over.
"Tora. That shirt you smelled belongs to a bad man named orochimaru. Anko here is his student. Former student. The fact that mizuki smells like him can only mean that they have been in contact with each other. Thank you for routing out a traitor to my village. May I ask though. Why doesn't anko's smell upset you?" sarutobi says this in a stern tone first, before switching to a caring and warm tone.
"Honestly. Mizuki smells like a hospital and i fucking hate the hospital. Anko smells like a forest and i've always felt at home in the trees.'' I replied.
Anko smirks and sarutobi smiles before dismissing us. I am told to report to the academy tomorrow at eight for team assignments.
Alright. Now let's see. I'm in a training ground and have nothing else to do. While I should probably figure out why I'm here and how I went to a different world. I'm gonna figure out how to do ninja magic. Don't know if I can get back so I'm not gonna worry about it. Now. One thing that's common is to walk on trees. The anime and the fanfics say that this is done by essentially turning your chakra to glue and sticking to the tree. Sounds easy enough.
I walk over to the tree and place a foot on it. I channel chakra through my foot and pull it off the trunk. Nope. not enough chakra. I will try again. And again. And again. And, ya know what? I'm gonna skip to the part where I made it.
Two hours later and I'm standing about halfway up the tree. My feet are sticking to the tree like glue. Alright. Now I'm supposed to try and run up and down? Good exercise. I turn to walk upwards when a smell distracts me. Blood. Lots of it. I drop down and land with a crouch before I smell the air again. Left! I dash to the left and weave between the trees. Wait. what?
Iruka is on the ground with a massive shuriken in his back, what happened? Iruka is leaking so much blood that it looks like a red waterfall. I run over and rip off my shirt before using it to staunch the flow. A sound reaches my ear. Something spinning? Shit! I lunge forward and roll to stand up as I look back. A second giant shuriken is on the ground where I was. I look up. Mizuki stands in the trees with a large scroll on his back. How did he get that? He's in the hospital. Unless. No. Kabuto isn't supposed to be here for at least three months.
Mizuki laughs and I notice he smells like the hospital and painkillers. A Lot of painkillers. Wait. is he still injured but using painkillers to ignore the wounds? Smart. Gotta do what ya gotta do i guess. Mizuki is talking as I look around. I'm tired from my training and I'm not gonna get lucky like I did last time. There's a giant shuriken in the ground and it looks like it collapses to form a large knife with a ring on the bottom. Okay. grab the big shuriken and throw it at mizuki before i do anything else. My range is shit right now and he's in the trees. I need to get rid of his advantage.
I lunge forward and grab the giant shuriken from the ground. I spin and hurl it at mizuki. He dodges and lands on the ground. Now! I rush forward and push chakra to my hands. Heat up! My hands steam in the twilight air and I punch mizuki in the chest. He dodges back and sneers before opening his mouth again. Stop talking and fight! I rush him again and kick out his good leg. He collapses and I grab his neck with my now flaming hands. He screams and I can smell burned flesh. He stops struggling after a moment and I let go before spotting the scroll. Huh.
I pull the scroll off mizuki, after kicking him to make sure he's alive, and open it. Forbidden scroll huh? What's in here? I read through a few of the jutsu in the scroll. Rasengan, edo tensei, hirashin. Wait. What's this?
Elemental armor, flow chakra through your skin and change it to an element to gain an advantage. Lighting will grant increased speed, wind grants a speed boost and an agility boost, earth makes you super strong and durable, fire is banned due to the high lethality of a close up fighter with it. Cool. So I ignite my chakra and put in my skin to be a badass brawler? Useful. Wait.
Shadow clones. Make a regular clone but flood the shell with chakra to make a shadow clone. Shadow clones take a large amount of chakra so this is a kinjutsu. Shadow clones can use other jutsu and take a hit before dispelling, they will transmit any memories to you when they are popped making this an excellent scouting jutsu.
I smirk and roll up the scroll before I look over and see iruka on the ground. Still pale from blood loss. Shit! I ran over and set the scroll down before kneeling next to him. Crap, how do I fix this? I don't know how to fix someone up and I don't know where the hospital is. Nobody can hear us since mizuki was screaming bloody murder and nobody came to investigate. Wait! I stand and gather chakra in my lungs.
I force the chakra out through my mouth and a ball of flame shoots into the sky, a really freaking big ball of fire, too much chakra. I groan and fall to my knees. Crap. I'm outta juice. Come on! Someone had to have seen that! Darkness encroaches on my vision and I fall to my side. A thud reaches my ears and I hear a voice, muffled. I passed out.