Chapter 4
Most teenagers unconsciously close doors behind them whenever they enter their room.
5/11/6 12:02 p.m.
The Hokage took a signature puff from his pipe. "Well now. It would seem we have an intruder within the walls of Konoha. Maybe even a traitor." He then paused to take another puff of his pipe. "This is a very pressing matter, as one of our own children has been attacked." He stole a glance at Tsume who was much less involved in the conference as usual. Which was understandable, seeing as how her son was the victim. "As of right now, we don't have a clue as to who the perpetrator might be, but we know he was wearing a black hooded cloak. And his attacks apparently don't do any physical damage, possibly a Genjutsu user. We have no way of knowing until Kiba wakes up. If he ever does." The Hokage muttered under his breath. "So, in order to prevent incidents like this from happening again, you are all to increase your defenses around your compounds. Also you are to send out a few members of each squad for patrol each night. We are going to put Konoha on lockdown, I want a check on everyone who enters, and for right now, no one leaves. Hiashi. Were going to need your scouts to observe every chakra signature of Konoha 24/7. Dissmissed. Oh, Tsume, please come with me. We need to talk, its about Kiba…"
1:30 p.m.
Naruto was busy training in the middle of the forest of death. The army of spiky yellow hair could be found meditating on water, using their wind affinity to form half inch deep slits in trees, chasing tigers, practicing jutsu, reading scrolls, etc. Naruto himself was strangely out of character. He was meditating under a waterfall deep within the Forest.
"What is this feeling?" he thought. "Whatever it is I don't like it. Kiba, Ill get whoever it was who did this to you. You just wait." He said as he stood up, letting the stream of water create small streams running down his toned upper body. He yawned as he walked over to his camp and plopped himself down on his log preparing his mind for the rush of information he was about to receive from his clones' training. He dried himself with use of his wind chakra and put on his raggedy black t-shirt.. As he dispelled himself he chuckled at one particular jutsu he thought of. More like a new use of a jutsu. He truly was a genius.
He shook his head as if it would help him organize his thoughts and with a sigh he stood up. He was about to go catch dinner before he spotted something out of the corner of his eye. He then began to stalk it, as it swiftly weaved from tree to tree. Naruto then recognized exactly who it was and broke out into a complete chase. His eyes slowly turning from his usual azure, to bright, almost blood red. He then pounced on the back of the hooded figure causing them both to fall as Naruto pinned him there on his back.
"So you caught me huh." The cloaked figure chuckled as his head turned around in a 180 degree angle. "Too bad." He smiled giving Naruto a good look at his face which caused Naruto fall back on his hooded figure then broke out into a hysterical laugh as he pulled out a kunai and brought it down to the middle of Naruto's Chest.
Elsewhere at the same time.
Tak yawned as he stared up at the clouds yawning to himself. He let his thoughts run through his head. "It couldn't be him… that makes things so much more complicated." He sighed as a leaf danced down from a tree it fell in that familiar unpredictable pattern that leaves always fall in. As it landed on his nose he stared at it, going slightly cross eyed." He tried to blow it off but it wouldn't go anywhere. He groaned, too lazy to move he decided to just let it stay there before a kunai sailed right by his nose slicing the leaf in half. Tak once again let another sigh escape from his mouth before he stood up and turned to face Sasuke who was standing there completely serious. Tak shrugged and turned to walk away when another kunai whizzed by his head. He mentally berated himself, he should've just stayed at home. He didn't want to have to do his families mission. He didn't care that every Borizo has had to do it at one point in their life. He hated the idea of it.
But his Borizo blood began rushing through his veins. And his uncontrollable will to fight became evident. It took all he had to calm himself down. "Look Uchiha. Whatever it is you want, get it from someone else." He turned to leave as another kunai flew by him, this time cutting his cheek. 'My one yearly day off from training, and it'll be spent pounding an Uchiha into the ground.' His hands flew through the familiar signs of his family jutsu as he turned to face the Uchiha. Again nothing seemed to happen, even Sasuke's sharingan couldn't pick up on any noticeable difference in the boys chakra.
Then Borizo launched himself at Sasuke. He threw out a low kick which Sasuke easily jumped over, but Borizo jumped off of his extended leg and attempted to knee Sasuke in the stomach only for it to be blocked by Sasuke before it could fully extended. Borizo immediately knew that this was the Intercepting Fist style that came with the Uchiha clan. He mentally sighed as he knew this fight was going to be unnecessarily drawn out.
Sasuke pushed off of Taks knee as it completely extended using the force to fly upwards as he threw a barrage of kunai and shuriken. He then started going through handseals. As Tak fended off the sharp pieces of metal he completed the Jutsu and called out " Fire Style: Grand Fire Ball!" As the giant fireball left his lips Tak just stood there with a giant sweat drop falling from his face and braced himself for the upcoming attack.
"Shit, this is gonna kill." He said crossing his arms infront of his face and taking a jump back to reduce some of the damage. As he shook off the fire that threatened to burn him, he sighed and looked at the Uchiha. "Alright that's it." He cocked his head to the side before he completely disappeared from Sasuke's vision, completely. Before he re-appeared his fist already connected with the back of Sasuke's head. He chuckled as the crow haired boy sailed across the clearing. "I'm just getting warmed up." He said letting a sinister smirk crawl across his lips.
As Sasuke came to a stop he looked up to notice that something about the young Borizo had changed. There was a slight distortion in the air around him, he didn't know what it was but he knew it was dangerous. He cursed to himself as he created two shadow clones on either side of him which quickly charged at Tak. All Tak could do was laugh as he ignored the two illusions that passed through him. That was until his head was suddenly the only part of his body visible above ground. Sasuke smirked as he appeared before the Borizo. "Heh. So was I." Sasuke then stood up and began walking away.
'Does he really think he can turn his back to me in this situation? How good of a ninja does he think he'll be if he's so smug? Tak then worked his way out using alittle bit of chakra to shunshin out of the ditch. He threw a kunai towards Sasuke as it hit him in the back of the head before he poofed and turned into a log as he appeared behind Tak and immediately kicked him in the spine which then poofed , Tak smirked predicting this and reappeared behind Sasuke aiming a kick at Sasuke's head, which he ducked on pure instinct. But once again Tak's leg shifted at an impossible angle and landed right on top of Sasuke's head knocking him out with ease. "Akkusukikku o Hyōryū."
Tak sighed as he kicked the Uchiha over on his back before he shrugged and walked away leaving the Uchiha in a puddle of his own drool, returning to his thoughts as if nothing happened. 'If it is who I think it is… "I gotta go talk to dad." He silently cursed to himself knowing that the whole mission would be in jeopardy if his thoughts were indeed correct.
1:40
Naruto couldn't believe what was happening. He couldn't fight the tears from crawling up to his eyes. "Why… Why dad?" He chocked out between sobs. He stood up after being knocked down for the umpteenth time by Minato. The blonde just laughed down at his son.
He said nothing, appearing before Naruto and sinking his foot into his gut. Naruto's eyes widened as he was launched back into a tree, he groaned in pain as he slid down landing on his butt. Minato pulled out a trident shaped kunai, a seal engraved onto the handle. "Now disappear." He said as he threw the kunai straight at Naruto's neck.
"Heh." Was all that could be heard before Naruto's clone exploded. As the dust settled the boy was nowhere to be found.
"Hm..." Minato thought with a slight smile on his face, before placing his hood on his head and dematerializing to who knows where.
Naruto was running as fast as he could to the Hokage's tower. His body was beaten and bruised but was healed by the time he jumped on the roof of the building next to the Hokage's window and let himself in.
"OLD MAN." He landed as he landed right on Hiruzen's paper work. "We've got a problem, a big one." The Third just took a puff of his cigar and waited to hear the boys story.
"My dad is back…" he said his voice darkening as he scratched his nose. Hiruzen immediately jolted and nodded his head to the young blonde as if he was trying to convey his feelings for the poor boy.
"What the hell is going on here?" The Third mumbled not having a clue what to do next.
Naruto sighed figuring the cloaked figure wouldn't come back to attack him for a while. "How about finally assigning the genin teams." He said calming down from the whole incident. "We need to train. Who knows how long it'll be till he comes back, we have to prepare."
Hiruzen stared at the boy, the boy who acted more like a man than anything. He was level headed and making good choices. He was also strong and smart, and he took his looks from his father. The boys only downfall was his indecisiveness. Lately the Hokage could tell Naruto was starting to develop feelings for his classmates. Feelings he thought the boy was so far incapable of feeling. He shook his head and snapped himself out of the trance, "Your right. Tommorrow in class your teams will be assigned. As for your teacher, I have a bit of a surprise for you." Sarutobi said as the door opened. Naruto turned around and began to shiver as he saw who it was.
"Y-YOU!" he cried. Literally.
5/12/6 2:00
Kiba opened his eyes, he was shocked when he realized when all he could see was white. " Is this heaven?" He said blinking a few more times.
"No sweety this is a hospital room," the kind nurse said before leaving the room to inform the head doctor of his awakening.
Kiba sighed as he tried to sit up, but to no avail. He tried to move his fingers and toes and felt intense amounts of pain. "NO… I'm crippled, paralyzed. No… Anything but this… please." he yelled unable to move an inch tears streaming down his face. He bit his lip, he couldn't cry. He was the man of his household. He blinked the tears away, until he thought about how his life as a ninja was over and they began to well up again.
"Relax kid, you'll be fine." Kurenai said flicking his foot and watching as he flinched in pain. "And theres your proof. You still feel pain in your appendages, the nerves are still working, it'll just take some time for you to heal." She explained.
"Who are you?" He asked, mentally breathing a sigh of relief at the realization that hed be able to walk again.
"I'm your new sensei." She said smiling at her new student. She motioned for the other two kids to come in. "And your teammates, Takashi and Sakura."
Sakura rolled her eyes and tapped her foot, "Why couldn't I be with Sasuke-san. Instead I have these two losers." She muttered under her breath.
Tak just gave a lazy wave, "Yo," he said adjusting his gaze to a bird outside the window.
Kiba stared at three of them "So this is my new team? GRAAAAH! This is the worst!" He yelled, still unable to move. Ino snapped back at him, it wasn't long before they were both exchanging yells. Tak had to cover his ears and tried to tell them they were in a hospital, but to no avail.
Kurenai just chuckled at the situation, she knew she had a lot of work to do, but she also knew that this team had some potential. Maybe.
2:00-Hokage Monument
"Sasuke, Shino, and Ino." The masked man said while staring at his orange book. He then closed it and put it in his pocket as he gave them an eye smile, "Welcome to hell. I mean Team 10. Now how bout we talk about some likes, dislikes, hopes and dreams shall we?"
Sasuke and Ino were rather cross about their current team, Shino on the other hand seemed to be rather nonchalant about the whole thing.
"Sure. I hate…" Sasuke started as the day went on.
2:00-Training Ground Three
Naruto sat there with Hinata and Chouji. He thought to himself while waiting for their dreaded sensei to arrive. 'The team could be worse, a byakugan could always be handy, as for Chouji, well, what can we do about Chouji… I'm sure we'll figure it out.' He thought looking at his two teammates.
Hinata looked like she was about to say something before a flash brown entered the clearing.
"Sup bitches. The names Uusuke. Lets get started." He said a grin apparent on his face. He was abit tanned, and his hair was a long shoulder length mess of dreadlocks. He stood at six foot and was wearing a black t-shirt with black cargo pants and black sandals. Grinning from ear to ear he analyzed the three Genin. "Huh, a chump, a shy one, and a fatso." He mocked. " Of all the-" he was cut off by Chouji's fist making an acquaintance with his chin.
Five minutes later he got up, his face resembling one big bruse, and dusted himself off seeing as how Chouji was finally tired of beating the life out of him. Naruto and Hinata chuckled slightly at their interaction. Chouji just gave a contented 'hmph' and returned to his seat.
Uusuke shook his head to get rid of the stars, "Lesson learned." Before he continued he picked up a rock and punted it into a low branch of the nearest tree causing a being to fall and land with a thud. Whatever it was didn't get back up. "OI! IM TEACHING HERE!" he said as he stuck his fingers in the earth and pulled out a chunk about 3 times his size.
The fallen object then got up dusted itself off and joined the group muttering at how troublesome this was.
"Good, now were all here. Squad 13." Uusuke stated dropping the earth he lifted into its original place, chuckling as he earned the shocked looks from Hinata and Chouji. The other two seemed unphased. 'Good, they're just as I thought.' He thought nodding to himself. "Now if only one more was a girl. Oh well." He said earning confused looks from everybody but Naruto.
"Don't worry about it guys, hes just a little special." Naruto rolled his eyes.
"Yep, that's me! Anyway, Naruto Uzumaki, Hinata Hyuuga, Chouji Akimichi, and Shikimaru Nara, prepare to die." Uusuke began his grin becoming devious as he threw an explosive tag right infront of them. With a small flare of chakra, he ignited the tag and caused it to explode. All for students were blasted from the spot.
"WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOUR DOING?" Naruto yelled at the top of his lungs. As Hinata landed a few feet behind him with Shikamaru and Chouji.
"Obviously the test, duh. Oh, I forgot the rules. Last one standing gets to decide which team member to cut, since as you can see we're packing one extra pair of legs. The one picked, will be banned from becoming a ninja for the rest of their life. Plain and simple" He grinned from ear to ear as he saw the drastic change in expression between all of his students.
"Good, now lets begin."
2:15 pm- Hokage's Tower.
"Hokage-dono!" an anbu appeared bursting through his door. "About the cloaked figure. You won't believe what we found."
"What? That he's Naruto's Father?" He said continuing to go through his paperwork.
"Well yes. That, and he's dead."
Hey readers! Sorry for the incredibly slow update, junior year in highschool, you know the deal. Anyway, im back… maybe… I need at least two more reviews before I upload the next chapter, which is basically done. AND I WANT TO THANK ALL THOSE WHO HAVE REVIEWED SO FAR. Yes. All five of you.
Now on to business, I promise everything willl make sense in the next chapter as well as a clear story line. I had to write this chapter, because it simply had to be done. I know it was choppy, and bad, and vague, but it'll all make sense soon! So just stick with it. As for any questions, feel free to ask me… in the review box. And hell while your there why don't you tell me your favorite song, im looking for new music to listen to.
Till next time.
Jutsu list:
Ha Imochi-Byō! (Chapter 1): Leaf Blast, self explainatory.
Hyōryū Kikku (Chapter 2): Drifting Kick, will be explained in later chapters
Akkusukikku o Hyōryū. (Chapter 4): Will be explained verrrry soon.
