Hurray! 100 reviews! (Gives out yummy cookies) Love you all! I want to once again try introducing soundtracks to the story. Tell me if they work!
Turned Down For What - DJ Snake
As soon as his alarm clock rung, Naruto was up. When you have participated in a war sound sleep is lost to you forever, even if it was another life. Naruto was already at full attention and so there was no way of going back to sleep, so he groggily scratched his eyes.
His sleeping cap was on his head, the safety and warmth from old man third who had given him the cap, could be felt radiating from the very article. That was one of the reasons Naruto never stopped wearing it even though everyone insisted it was childish.
While stretching himself in an effort to wake up completely, Naruto gazed at the very machinery which had woken him up. It was just four in the morning. His clones had pranked him!
"Just 'cos I was really late last time, you people didn't have to put it up so early this time. Wait. I am berating myself right? Wait! I am talking to myself. I am definitely going nuts!"
A quick shower and a breakfast later, (this time he had made sure that the damned MILK WAS NOT EXPIRED) Naruto was off. He mentally prepared himself for the "youthful" nightmare he was about to face.
Soon he was at the outskirts of Konoha and at the place they had already agreed on. There seemed to be no one. "Huh! That's a surprise! Gai and Lee are late to training!"
However his happiness had to be put to a pause soon. He could spy two huge clouds of dust moving at scarily fast rates towards him.
Naruto was not at all happy "Did they start without me! Ahhhh…. That's it I am also gonna go without 'em" Naruto turned and started running.
Gai and lee had arrived early, both too excited since a new person was joining them in their morning "JOGS" around konoha. Obviously they saw no one around at that time and unable to hold in their "YOUTH" they had decided to get in a lap before Naruto arrived and were almost there when they spotted Naruto already "JOGGING".
Gai turned to lee "My dearest pupil Lee, it seems Naruto-san is also overflowing in his youth and has started "Jogging". We must catch up and show him that our youth is also of the highest degree."
"Hai Gai-sensei, let us all overflow in our youth"
In minutes Lee and Gai were with Naruto. Naruto was impressed, he had a pretty good advantage on them, granted he was only warming up by slowly jogging, they had still caught up. There was no way he was gonna lose to them.
Before he could say anything Gai was already shouting "FOR THE GLOARY OF OUR YOUTH! AT FULL SPEEDS!" and he set of at speed which Naruto was sure would give him slight, mind you very slight, trouble if he was in his original form.
Gai was already far ahead of them in a matter of seconds while Lee and Naruto had one opportunity to meet each other's eyes. The glint of challenge was visible in both of them. Both looked straight ahead and set off at the top of their speeds.
(PLAY 'Turned Down For What' by DJ Snake)
Neither Lee nor Naruto wanted to loose. They both set of at the maximum of their speeds. The surroundings blended into a blur. They passed through huts, roads, roofs and every obstacle in the way. In a matter of minutes it was obvious that in terms of pure physical power, Lee was far ahead of Naruto, but there was no way that the blond Shinobi was going to lose. He immediately started using Chakra to supplement his speed.
This soon set them at an equal standing. They lured through the street, each feet an effort to beat his rival, and when the road curved the jumped straight onto the balcony of the closest house using to as leverage to get to the roof stop.
Their wills burning even stronger on seeing their competitor at the same level as them, both multiplied amount of energy that they expended. Naruto looked away from Lee to see he was about to crash into Teuchi who was carrying what seemed like a delivery of Ramen. Unable to stop and unwilling to lose, he ended up crashing into his favourite chef and splattering his ramen, most of which fell on him. He heard a faint "DAMN YOU NARUTO" in the background.
When he glanced at his current rival, Naruto saw him narrowly dodging a can of milk which he had splattered from the hands of the local milkman. Naruto chuckled as he flew. At some point of the race they had come back to the originally planned track that was in the outskirts. In an effort to outrun his opponent, Naruto ran horizontally through the wall only to find Lee doing the same as him.
The Kyuubi was the only reason Naruto could catch up to lee. If not for the tailed beast, Naruto's muscle would have already given out from the sheer pressure he was exerting to maintain his speed. Naruto and Lee were head to head as they scrambled for the second place in the line.
Naruto knew he had to finish this soon. Even with all his resilience, his muscles were starting to give out, he had started to slow down and apparently Lee too. So putting on a last burst of speed, Naruto darted for the finish line. As if copying his thoughts, lee had also done the same. Gai was waiting for them near the main gate of the village.
Naruto and lee were within 10m of touching the gate. Each step counted.
Both raised their hand…..
And touched the gate.
In their last spurt of speed both forgot that dashing at their top speeds into a wall was not a pretty good idea.
CRASH!
Naruto and Lee were taught the lesson for their mistakes by the laws of physics.
Gai was laughing good-naturedly. "My students, that was indeed the most youthful of races indeed. It reminds me of me and my Eternal rival Kakashi in one of our most youthful challenges. Ah! Youth indeed!"
Both Gai's eyes and his teeth had this weird shine which Naruto thought was definitely horrifying. "No wonder Kakashi-sensei had turned into a slouch. If my 'eternal rival' was such an over pumped person even I would act like I was about to sleep on my spot and read perverted books in public"
He turned to his side during his panting to see Lee in an equally tired state. But his eyes seemed to have caught the same shine that Gai's had and he turned to Naruto saying "I would like for you to be my Eternal Rival. To compete in such youthful challenges to measure and test ourselves is indeed the spring of youth. Isn't it my eternal rival?
Naruto was already considering the benefits of a mask and Icha Icha.
Naruto was till early when he reached the academy. It was not open.
"Who knew running with an 'eternal rival' made ten laps around Konoha so fast?" Naruto shivered at the very thought.
It was then that he noticed that Hokage's office had its lights switched on. "Damn, I completely forgot this part of the plan! Might as well as get to it." Naruto went straight to the Hokage's office. The secretary let him in since the Hokage was doing nothing but paperwork at that time.
"Hello old man" Naruto greeted his grandfather. He still wanted to be able to see him as much a possible.
"Hello indeed Naruto-kun. Have you been by the Yamanaka's yet? I have made the arrangements with them for your sensor training."
"Not yet old man, Ebisu-sensei, Gai-sensei and Kurenai-sensei all kept me busy"
That was certainly true. Ebisu had called Gai, an irate Kurenai for a meeting and informed them that he would send some clones of Naruto to both Kurenai and himself while Gai took the real deal to train. Since all three did not have any mission or other engagement in those three days, they had taken it upon themselves to train the blond into the ground.
Ebisu was a true perfectionist. He had Naruto learn the real Bunshin jutsu even though the smallest number he could still make was fifty. He had Naruto learn the Kawirami and Henge without handseals and within a moment's notice, all without the unnecessary smoke and noise.
Kurenai and Naruto had made it to their second Genjutsu he could perform in the proper way, the False Surroundings Genjutsu, not the B-ranked one, but a much stronger A-ranked version. They had progressed only this far because of the huge amount of experimentation in his new branch of genjutsu.
Gai and Naruto were still working on trying to find a Taijitsu style for the blond jinchuriki and they had so far found noting. The sheer number of Taijitsu style that the…..ahem ahem nuts ahem ahem…..Jounin knew surprised Naruto.
"So did you end up fixing your Taijitsu?" The monkey summoner asked. He had already got a mission report from Ebisu and had paid for the mission himself even though Naruto had not been able to make any further progress. He had been really surprised when Ebisu asked for permission to further train the Jinchuriki in his other free time. He still recalled the elite teacher's words
(Flashback No Jutsu)
"Hokage-sama he is the most interesting student I have had. I've never trained anyone who comes up with the so many ideas given only the most basic of concepts" He seemed to pause for some time "Of course…your…..grandson is also pretty good sir." He said as if afraid to hurt the Hokage's feelings.
(Flashback No Jutsu Kai)
Naruto's face seemed to adopt a serious look, dead serious. The Sandaime wondered what would have gotten the jolly child so serious. He was answered when Naruto went to the photo of the Yondaime in his room, looked at it, turned to the Hokage and asked "Do you have something to tell me Jiji?"
The older Sarutobi's pipe fell from his mouth. Naruto….the densest child he had known in years, understood it. Was the village blind?
"I see the cat is out of the bag Naruto-kun. Yes you are his relative, his son in fact" The old man paused. He wanted to know how Naruto would react. The child didn't seem particularly upset or surprised.
"Naruto, I am sorry I didn't tell you" The professor was really ashamed, "You are the son of one of the greatest heroes of the village and they still treated you like this. Even though I knew the truth I couldn't do anything. I really am sorry Naruto"
"That is fine Jiji. If I had found out any earlier I am sure I would have ran around the village proclaiming it. I understand you did this to protect me. But can you tell me about my mother? Do you have any pictures of them? Letters? Anything?"
"Your mother's name is Kushina Uzumaki. I gave you her maiden name. She was the second Jinchuriiki of Kyuubi."
Naruto already knew that but he had to make this look convincing. So he screamed "WHHAAT?"
So the Sandaime told him the truth. The entire thing. At the end of it he still looked ashamed.
"You know Naruto, my job, the job you want is a very strange one. I have all the power but I still don't have any power. My job requires me to sacrifice everything, my family, my students even my morals for the sake of the village. I am getting old. Even if I joke that I am going to remain the Hokage for another ten years, I doubt I can hold it for another ten years. I can't even do paperwork the way I used to. I don't have time even for a walk these days. I am tired." The leader of the hidden village, the strongest among the Shinobi looked really tired and old.
"Don't worry old man; I will get the hat from you soon, so just hang on to it for now. Okay? And as for the paperwork, why don't you use Kage Bunshin?" One of Naruto's biggest regrets in life would be that he didn't have a camera with him at that moment. The wizened Hokage spouted an expression that was so comic Naruto fell to the ground laughing.
After peace was restored in the office, the Hokage wore an evil grin. Putting his hands into the cross hand seal he said "Kage Bunshin Jutsu" Ten shadow clones popped up, each had the same evil grin as the Hokage. They approached the stacks of paperwork like a hunter would get close to his prey. Each swiped a large piece for themselves in the most dramatic manner.
Naruto sighed. His grandpa was so dramatic. "Jiji! Stop acting like you are gonna kill the paperwork."
The Sandaime retorted "Young Naruto, please be quiet, paperwork is an SSSS class enemy to any Kage. You have given to us this way stopping the beast. You are indeed a prophet of god!"
"That's it. The old man has lost it. Old man! Come back to our world or I will spread pamphlets that you have little orange books under your desk." The threat seemed to have immediate effect, Hiruzen snapped out of whatever dream world his happiness had taken him to.
"And there is one last thing I want you to let me do" Naruto started seriously. Needless to say, the Hokage was all ears for his savior.
The two chatted on for some more time after all the serious discussions were finished. Now that the Hokage seemed to have ample of free time, he told Naruto that he was going to have a nice walk around the village and then he was going sparring against a few ANBU squads together. Go figure.
By the time Naruto had reached his class, almost everyone had arrived; He made his way to the backmost bench where Hinata normally sat. He sat next to her and said in a teasing way "Hello my dear sunflower"
Needless to say Hinata fainted.
The whole class was staring at Naruto. A few were rubbing their eyes. Kiba who was about to mock Naruto started pinching himself. The golden question came from Ino "You, the densest idiot in our class noticed?"
"Hey! Was it that obvious?" Naruto asked
"YES" The whole class answered.
Naruto pouted "Spoilsports"
Hinata was waking up. Naruto asked "How did you sleep Hinata-chan?"
"Wonderfully" She replied "I even dreamt that my boyfriend called me 'dear sunflower'" She said without a stutter. It was only after the sentence that Hinata realized she was in the class with the above mentioned person sitting beside her. She went back to her hobby of making new shades of red.
"You were not dreaming Hinata-chan. What say we go on a date today after all this?
The rest of the class was forced to drop their jaws. HINATA HYUUGA had said a sentence without stuttering. What was more she had called Naruto her boyfriend! They were talking like they had already been on a date or two!
The awkward silence was broken when some random boy started clutching his head and crying that the world was about to end. All the members of OSFC (Official Sasuke Fan Club) sighed dreamily. Why couldn't they have such a romantic moment with their prince charming.
The class was interrupted by Iruka arriving. A similar gawking and surprise which made Naruto wonder whether if he was and idiot in his past life, Iruka put his books on the table. He gave the standard 'You are about to be Ninja' speech and was about to start the list when he heard someone bang his desk. Iruka was naturally irritated and was about to tell the person off when he heard the lines. They made him shocked. They were:
"What is about to be revealed is an S rank secret of Konohagakure No Sato under the punishment of death to all but the reigning Hokage and Genin Uzumaki Naruto."
Sorry I had to run unedited again. 10 reviews to the next chappy! More the review bigger the chappy!
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