Technology Troubles
Chapter 2: The Truth Revealed
Disclaimer: I own nothing!
"blah": speaking
'blah': thinking.
It's been 2 years since Bill arrived in the Leaf Village and Hinata moved in next to Naruto and Bill. Bill and Naruto were still pulling pranks and had become the Leaf's top pranksters. Hinata had grown more confident around Naruto and took Bill's advice and kicked the stuttering habit.
Everyone also made some wardrobe changes; Naruto started wearing a blue and orange coat with pants that have the same colors and goggles on his forehead. Bill was still wearing plaid pants and had begun wearing a red t-shirt and electric blue and steel grey tennis shoes and started spiking the back middle part of his hair in a thin 1/4' long rooster tail. Hinata still wore the same baggy pants from 2 years ago but is now wearing a beige hoodie with white fluff on the bottom and her clan symbol on the left sleeve.
"Man I can't believe detention was 3 hours this time!" Naruto complained.
"Yeah but it was worth it. Did you see the look on Iruka-Sensei's face when he thought we blew up?" Bill said.
"Yeah! That was priceless! I thought he was gonna crap himself!" They both laughed their way out of the academy and saw Hinata sitting on the bench waiting for them.
"Hey Hinata!" Naruto called.
"Oh, hi Naruto, Bill" She greeted
"Hey." Bill said casually.
"I brought you guys some ramen." She held out two bowls of ramen for them.
"Yay ramen!" Yelled Naruto. "Thanks Hinata you're the best!" Hinata blushed when she heard the complement.
"So, how long ya been here?" Bill asked with a mouthful of ramen.
"Um, about half an hour." She said.
"You know yomphspmmspshhdfu…" Naruto's words were nothing but gibberish with the ramen in his mouth.
"Huh?"
"Dude, swallow your food." Bill said rolling his eyes.
Naruto gulped down his mouthful of ramen. "I said you didn't have to do this."
"Oh, It's ok, I wanted to. Besides you guys are my friends."
"True that and we will be for a long time, right Naruto?"
Sluuuurp! "Huh? Oh! Right! We'll always be your friends." "Thanks." "Well we better go home, it's getting late."
Later that night everyone was sleeping peacefully in their apartments. Everyone except Bill who was lying awake in his bed, thinking.
'All right this is it. I can't put this off any longer. I have been planning it for two weeks I have to do it now. I'll sneak out head back grab some stuff and sneak back in unnoticed.'
Bill slowly got out of bed, grabbed his backpack and, having never undressed, jumped out the window and across the rooftops. A few minutes later he reached the gate and hid in the brush.
'All right I can't just walk right out, can't go over the wall neither. Looks like I'm going through.' Utilizing what little access Bill has to his powers he turned himself intangible and simply walked through the wall.
'All right I'm through. Whoo that took more out of me than I thought. Well better get goin'.'
A few hours later Bill arrived at his destination and what stood before him was both a familiar and sad. In front of him was the wreckage of the Hyperion. The once great starship, and one of the most powerful Bill's ever constructed and the first one he built. Half its hull jutting out of the ground at a small angle and a gaping hole in its side and its forward half with the hammerhead shaped front, housing the enormous Tri-Yamato Cannon, resting partially buried in the ground. Bill walked toward the big gaping hole in its side and walked down the dark corridors to the back of the ship. Later he came to a door with a dust covered plaque next to it. He wiped the dust off the plaque with his sleeve and ran his fingers over the raised letters that read "Fleet Admiral's Quarters." Bill waved his hand in front of the rectangular sensor bar that's supposed to open the door but nothing happened. He tried again.
"Damn power's out, guess I gotta do this the hard way."
Using all his strength Bill slid the door open and it made a terrible screeching sound as he did. Inside was a medium sized room with a toppled over bookshelf with books lying everywhere and an overturned desk with paper lying everywhere and a name plate. Bill picked up the plate and, like the plague, was covered with dust. He wiped the dust off that and read the gold printed letters, "Flt. Adm. Bill Dark."
"I don't deserve to be called this." He seethed angrily. "I was responsible for the lives of everyone in the fleet. And what do I do! I get cocky and get it all shot down!" Bill took a moment to calm himself.
"Ok I'll just get what I came for and go." He looked around the desk and under the papers and eventually found it, it was a tablet PC. He slipped it into his pack as well as its charger, then went over to the scattered books and picked out half a dozen and continued to an adjacent room that served as a bedroom. Grabbed an energy pistol that bore a resemblance to an elongated revolver from near the overturned bed, some extra cartridges for it and a leather holster. Bill having gotten what he came for made his way out to the hole when he stopped himself.
"Oh! I almost forgot!"
He doubled back to the rear of the ship and instead of going to his old room, went to a room marked "Supply Storage." Again he pried open the door and looked around the room, it was filled with things of all shapes and sizes. Amazingly everything was in its place thanks to the strong restraints holding everything. He went to the middle part with some strange looking devices and blocks of grey material.
"Ok let's see, one Naquadah generator and a brick of weapons grade Naquadah." He muttered to himself.
He put the two items in his backpack and left the room. He went even further back into the ship and came to a door marked "Reactor Chamber." Again pried that open and came into a room with eight, large, roundish machines that looked like they'd seen better days. He went to the right and pried open another door marked "ZPM Power Room." Inside was a smaller machine shaped like a figure eight.
"I'm amazed this is still intact. Well better get to work."
After gutting the machine thoroughly he pulled out two rough cylinders made of crystal and colored mostly yellow with small parts of it red and green and some black lines running through them.
"All right now I can go." Bill said with a satisfied look. Again he went to the hole and dashed away into the night.
The next day Naruto and Hinata were just waking up and met each other outside their apartments.
"Morning Hinata!" said Naruto cheerfully.
"Oh, morning Naruto." She greeted back.
"I guess Bill is sleeping in again." Then Naruto got a mischievous grin on his face. "Hey wanna go scare him?"
Hinata's eyes grew wide. "B-but remember the last time you tried that?"
(Flashback)
"Heh heh heh. Oh this is gonna be so funny!" I figure in an orange jacket crept around the walls of a building.
"A-are you sure Naruto? Bill doesn't like to be woken up early on weekends and he gets really mad when he does." She said trying to talk him out of it.
"That's what'll make it funny!" He said snickering
"But what if-" She started.
"Hinata I'll be fine it's just a joke." He said cutting her off.
"Alright." She said giving in.
Naruto snuck around the wall to the window of Bill's apartment. "Oh boy!" He quietly opened the window and crept into the apartment while Hinata watched from outside. He took a deep breath and shouted, "HEY BILL!" "WHAA!" Wang! Crash! In Bill's surprise he took his hammer and whacked Naruto across his face and sent him flying to the other side of the room.
"What the-? Naruto!" Bill said in surpise.
"N-Naruto!" Hinata jumped through the window and rushed to his side. "A-are you all right?" Naruto looked up wearily to her.
"Yeah I'm fine."
"Let me see…" Hinata gently touched his cheek.
"YEOOOW!"
"I-I'm sorry!" She quickly apologized.
"It's all right."
(End Flashback)
"Y-you got a broken jaw because of it." (Cue hilarious background noise) Naruto shivered at the memory of Bill's enormous hammer connecting with his face.
"I know but after that he said he'd, 'look first swing later'"
"But what if he doesn't, you could be hit again and-" She started
"Hinata I'll be fine and this will be better than last time." He did his signature grin to try and reassure her. Hinata just looked down and Naruto frowned at her reaction.
"Hinata, I'll be fine." He sneaked off towards the window.
"I just don't want you to get hurt." Hinata whispered, unknown to her though, Naruto had heard her and looked back a little surprised.
'She cares about me that much?'
Naruto carefully opened the window freezing when it made a squeaking sound and eased it open with as little noise as possible and stopped halfway. He took a deep breath and, "WAKE UP!"
He quickly ducked and waited for something to happen, but nothing did. Naruto carefully peeked over the windowsill and saw Bill still sleeping.
"Huh?" He said in confusion. He shouted again and again and again, but he remained asleep. Hinata looked around to see what was going on.
"I don't get it. That should have had him screaming." Naruto said scratching his head.
"Naruto what's going on?" She asked.
"I've tried everything but he just won't wake up." He explained.
"That's odd." All of a sudden Bill appeared behind them.
"HEY GUYS!" Bill yelled.
"WHAAAAAA!" Both of them screamed and Hinata leapt into Naruto's arms Scooby Doo style.
"Ha ha ha! You should have seen the look on your faces!" Bill was cracking up.
"Wha? But! You! There!" They both stammered.
"Say again?"
Hinata was able to get herself to speak clearly. "B-but you're in ther-" She looked over and saw the Bill in the bed was gone. "Wha-?"
"I heard Naruto telling you about scaring me and so I decided to scare you instead and Naruto." He said.
"Yeah?"
"You can put her down now."
"What do you mean-" Naruto realized he was carrying Hinata bridal style with her arms wrapped around him, Hinata realized it as well, both of them started blushing madly and Bill was laughing like a madman. He gently put her down the whole time avoiding her eyes and vice versa.
After about 5 minutes of silence Hinata finally spoke up. "S-so Bill where were you?" She asked.
"Oh, I ran back to my old place to grab a few things." Bill explained.
Naruto then regained his composure. "You went back?" "Yeah I've got the stuff in my pack ya wanna see?"
"Sure!"
"Ok."
Minutes later in Bill's apartment he was taking out the stuff he'd brought back and Naruto noticed the ZPM's he'd gotten.
"Hey Bill what are these?" Hinata looked over Naruto's shoulder to see.
"That's some decorations my mom had." He said thinking up a quick lie.
"They're really pretty." Hinata commented.
"Thanks, they're also fragile." Naruto quickly gave them to Hinata for fear he might break them. Hinata set them down on the table and started looking through and found the block of Naquadah.
"Bill what's this?" She asked.
"Oh that's a weird rock I found one day. It doesn't look like much but it's really dense." He explained.
They continued unpacking Bill grabbing the Naquadah generator before they could see it. But then they found the gun.
"B-Bill," Hinata said with a shaky voice, "what's this?"
Naruto looked over to the weapon. "Is that a, gun?"
"Sorta, it's a stun gun, perfectly harmless. My Dad kept it in the house in case robbers broke in. Now I keep it." They moved on going through the pack and Bill showed them the extra ammo cartridges for the gun, the holster for it, the tablet and how it works, then they saw the half a dozen books he brought back. Most were about programming, there were a couple on physics and engineering too. Needless to say they were both stunned to hear the books were his and he could understand them.
They'd finished unpacking everything Bill brought back. The 'decorations' placed tastefully in the center of the table, the books set on the floor till he could buy a bookshelf, the Naquadah generator hidden under his bed, the gun stowed away in the nightstand drawer with the ammo cartridges, the tablet PC plugged into the wall to charge and the 'weird rock' on the nightstand.
"Well that's everything." Bill said with a satisfied look.
"You brought back a lot of stuff." Naruto remarked and Hinata nodded in agreement.
"Ok, maybe I did. You guys ready for the graduation exam tomorrow?" Hinata nodded but Naruto was looking nervous. "Something bothering you?"
"Well..." Naruto began, "I'm nervous about it."
"Why?"
"I haven't passed it the last few times." He said quietly.
"Oh. Well I've got an idea!"
"What?"
"Let's all go to the training field and me and Hinata will help you with it." "Really?" "Yeah! I'm not lettin ya fail this year!" "I won't either." Naruto smiled at both of them. "Thanks guys." "Well come on!" Bill hoisted Naruto up over his shoulder like he was a sack of potatoes. "Whoa!" Hinata couldn't help but giggle at the sight. "Let's go train!" And with that they sped off towards the field and spent the rest of the day training stopping only for food which cost Bill's wallet dearly.
It was sunset and all of them were exhausted except for Bill even though they had all been training on the techniques for the exam, spending a lot of time on the Clone Jutsu. So far Naruto had been able to make two clones. They were jokes to say the least but they figured he might scrape through.
"I… don't… get it." Naruto huffed. "How come… you… aren't tired?"
"Well between us I have massive chakra reserves, larger than most Chunin but smaller than some Jounin." Bill explained.
"Wow." Hinata puffed.
"Yeah and I can also convert the fat in my body into chakra."
"Is that why you eat a lot?" Naruto asked.
"That's half of it." Bill answered.
"What's the other half?" Naruto asked.
"My stomach is bigger than Choji!" He declared.
"Why am I not surprised?" Naruto said shaking his head.
They all laughed for a few minutes before they decided to it was getting late so they went home, with Bill having to carry Naruto most of the way due to the fact he collapsed. After him and Hinata took his coat off and goggles and put him to bed, they said goodnight and went to their separate apartments.
The next morning they were on their way to the academy when they were stopped by Sasuke's fan girls and they looked pissed.
"Hello girls." Bill said casually. "Why so angry?"
"You know damn well why!" One shouted.
"No I don't why don't you te-" He started but was cut off.
"It's what you told us yesterday you idiot!"
"What did I tell you yesterday?" Bill said smirking.
"You told us Sasuke goes to the hot springs at 6:30 every Friday!" The fangirl yelled.
"Ah! Yes now I remember, and did you find him there?" Naruto had started snickering but was quickly silenced by a death glare from one of the fan girls.
"No we didn't find him there!"
"Oh, I wonder why?" Bill said feigning confusion.
"You know damn well why!" The enraged girl screamed.
"Why don't you tell me anyways?" He said smirking.
"Fine I will! It was the senior swim! We all thought we were gonna go blind!" The fangirl yelled.
"Well it's sad you didn't" The fan girls started growling at them and that made Bill, Naruto and Hinata a little nervous. "Ok I swear there is a perfectly logical and good explanation for this." Bill assured.
There was silence for a moment and Bill just stood there smiling. "Well?" The fan girls demanded.
Bill opened his mouth and pointed his finger up like he was about to say something.
"We're waiting." She said tapping her foot impatiently.
Then suddenly he pointed behind the fan girls and yelled "Look… a distraction!" They all turned to where he was pointing. Then they turned back.
"There's nothing the-" They found Bill, Naruto and Hinata, gone. "What the! Where'd they go?"
They all started searching for them spreading out up and down the street and in the ally's.
Fortunately they had gotten far away. Behind one of the chimneys on the houses Bill, Naruto and Hinata hid from the fan girls. Things were silent until Bill spoke up.
"Well it looks like its safe to go." They emerged from their hiding place.
"Bill what was that you said back there?" Naruto asked.
"Oh I said 'Look a distraction!'." He explained.
"And that worked?" Naruto said amazed.
"Unfortunately yes."
"Unfortunately?" Hinata questioned.
"Yeah, it proves just how dumb they are." Bill took one last look around before deciding it was safe to come out. They jumped off the rooftop and landed quietly on the ground.
"Looks like we're in the clear." Bill stated.
Then all of a sudden the fan girls appeared, even angrier than before.
"Annnnd, now we're not." Bill said.
"What should we do?" Naruto questioned.
"I have an obvious idea, WE RUN!" And with those words Bill sped off at an incredible speed.
"Hey!" Naruto angrily shouted.
"Umm, Naruto…"
"What?" Hinata pointed at the verrrrrrry angry fangirls. They looked at the fangirls, looked at each other and then Naruto shouted, "Look its Sasuke!"
The fan girls turned in the direction he was pointing with hearts in their eyes. "Hey Sasuke isn't th-" Naruto and Hinata were gone. "Damn it not again!"
At the Academy they had arrived safely avoiding any more fan girls but unfortunately most of the fan girls were students and a huge fight had broken out between the Sasuke fan girls and the Bill fan girls. Currently Bill and Naruto are watching the fight.
"Man, I can't believe you're actually letting them fight." Naruto said surprised.
"Well I am not getting in there to stop it… 10 Ryo says the brunet beats the pink banshee." Bill challenged.
"You're on." Naruto agreed shaking hands.
Later after Iruka-Sensei broke up the fight and Bill paid Naruto the 10 Ryo, the final exam began.
Later in the day everyone else had taken the exam, Sasuke of course passed with flying colors, Bill aced the test easily pissing off Sasuke in the process. Hinata passed as well and then it came to Naruto.
"Naruto Uzumaki!" Iruka called.
Naruto proceeded nervously to the next room and Bill and Hinata silently wished him luck. No more than a second after he was gone Kiba started spouting insults.
"He's going to fail again." The dog boy stated.
"No he's not!" Bill retorted.
"Yes he will! He's failed it the last two times! This year will be the same!" Kiba countered.
"No it won't be! We spent the whole day yesterday practicing for this!" Bill said.
"And did he do well?" Kiba challenged.
"Well um…" Bill trailed off.
"Ah ha! I knew it!" Kiba shouted.
"H-he almost did it!" Bill retorted.
"Almost isn't good enough. Face it he's too much of an idiot to be a ninja!" That sent Bill off the deep end and switched to his monster voice.
"That's it!" With astonishing speed he appeared in front of Kiba and stared him down. "Do you remember what happened two years ago or do you need a reminder?" As he said the last part of that sentence his face broke into an evil looking grin.
"N-n-n-n-no." He stammered fearfully.
"Didn't think so."
Naruto was channeling his chakra and it was swirling all around him. Then with a puff of smoke two clones appeared. Unfortunately they were complete jokes. Iruka looked at the clones with disgust and sighed.
"Well did I pass did I?" Naruto asked eagerly.
"No Naruto you didn't. You've failed again." Iruka said.
"I don't know Iruka," said the man next to him. "maybe we should pass him this time. The last time he couldn't create even one clone. These two maybe jokes but it's still an improvement."
"No Mizuki! Everyone else created 5 clones. If we let him off with two he will be at a disadvantage! I'm sorry Naruto but yo- where'd he go?" Iruka realized Naruto had vanished.
"I don't know." They noticed an open window and it became apparent that he left while they were talking.
Iruka walked back into the classroom and everyone fell silent.
"All right the exam is over you're all free to go!" Iruka called to the class.
Everyone in the room cheered at the news and they all rushed outside. Later outside Hinata found Bill looking around the Academy.
"Bill!" He looked up to see Hinata rushing over to him. "Did you find Naruto?" He just shook his head. "I'm starting to worry about him."
"I am too but I just can't find him." He stood up and paced in a circle as he always did when he was deep in thought. Then he stopped and turned to her.
"Could you use your Byakugan to find him in the streets?" He asked.
"Umm, maybe, it would use a lot of chakra." She replied.
"Well it's the best chance we have. Let's go look at Ichiraku's first." She nodded and they ran towards the ramen bar to look for their missing friend.
While Bill and Hinata were searching the ramen bar and the other places he goes to Naruto was sitting on a wall sulking over failing the test.
"Sigh… I'm never gonna pass that test. I'll be stuck in the Academy forever!"
"Maybe not." Naruto looked behind him and found Mizuki perched on the roof above him.
"Mizuki-Sensei?" Naruto stood up. "What do you mean?" "There's another way to become a ninja." "Really! What is it, I'll do anything!" Mizuki smirked at his response.
It was around midnight and Bill and Hinata still hadn't found Naruto. "Man! We looked everywhere and Naruto's nowhere to be found!" Bill complained angrily.
Hinata simply nodded, her worry for the blonde boy growing inside her, wondering if he's okay. But her thoughts were interrupted by Bill.
"Any ideas?"
"Um… we could ask the Hokage." She suggested.
"Oh! Didn't think of that. Let's go!"
They arrived at the Hokage's office and were just about to enter when they heard voices on the other side. "First's scroll… Naruto…" The last bit got their attention and they silently cracked the door to hear the voices better. Inside they could see many ninja, Jounin and Chunin, gathered around the Hokage.
"Naruto stole the First Hokage's Scroll of Sealing?" Spoke one ninja.
"Yes that is correct." Replied the old man.
"This isn't just some harmless prank, it's a real crime!" Replied Iruka.
"Yes I understand that Iruka." The Third replied calmly. "I want all of you to spread out and search for him."
All the ninja nodded and left the building. Bill and Hinata looked at each other both thinking the same thing. 'We have to find Naruto.' They left the Hokage building and once again began their search for their missing friend.
Naruto was in the forest sitting against a tree with a scroll at least half his size, open in front of him.
"Hmm… Let's see. The Multi Shadow Clone Jutsu. Aw man! My worst one again!"
Some bushes rustled nearby and Bill and Hinata stepped into the clearing. "Finally we found you!" Bill exclaimed.
"Huh? What are you guys doing here?" Naruto asked.
"I just said we were looking for you! You didn't come back to class after your test!" Bill said.
"Oh that. Well that's not important; I've got some great news!"
Naruto told them about his test afterwards Bill told him to carry on and talked to Hinata.
"Do you buy any of this?" She shook her head. "Well, might as well let him try the Jutsu but we'd better stay on our toes." Hinata nodded.
3 hours passed and Naruto had gotten the Jutsu down. Bill was looking through the scroll and Hinata was sitting against a tree.
"I don't get it. We spend the whole day yesterday with the Clone Jutsu and you get the advanced version down in 3 hours! How the hell does that work?" Bill exclaimed.
Naruto and Hinata just shrugged then they heard a sound and looked up to see Iruka-Sensei.
"Hah… I finally found you." He panted. Then he noticed the others. 'They only said Naruto stole the scroll what are they doing here?'
"Hey Iruka-Sensei!" Naruto called.
"Hn?"
"I'm about to do an amazing skill so if I do it… let me graduate!" Naruto said smiling wide.
'He was practicing here?' That brought Iruka to his main question. "Naruto, where did you get that scroll on your back?"
"Mizuki-Sensei told me about it. He also said if I showed you the skill I'd graduate!"
"Mizuki?" Then out of nowhere a kunai strikes Iruka and pins him to the nearby shed. Everyone turned to where the kunai was thrown and saw Mizuki standing on a branch.
"Nice job in finding him." Mizuki said to Iruka "I see… so that's what's going on." Mizuki looked around and scowled. 'Damn there's more here than I thought. Hearing Naruto's secret should stun them.' "Naruto, give me the scroll."
"Don't give it up Naruto!" Iruka shouted.
"I can't believe I'm saying this but listen to the man!" Bill shouted as well.
Mizuki chuckled. "Naruto, there's no point in you having it so I'll tell you the truth." Iruka and Bill looked up in shock at Mizuki. "You know of the incident with the Nine Tailed Fox from twelve years ago don't you?" Naruto nodded.
"Oh no you don't!" Bill jumped at Mizuki but because of his lack of sleep he was swatted away easily.
"After the incident a new rule was created by the Third. But it was never meant to be told to you."
"Stop Mizuki it's forbidden!" Iruka shouted.
"HAAAA!" Bill charged at him again only to be pinned to the tree. 'Damn it all!'
"How come I wasn't supposed to know?" Naruto was getting more into this rule.
Mizuki threw Bill back down to the group. "Because the monster that attacked the village is sealed in you! You are the Nine Tailed Fox!"
"W-what?" Hinata and Naruto said wide eyed.
"Stop it!" Iruka yelled.
"You were sealed by the Hokage you admire!" Mizuki shouted. "That's the reason everyone's against you, you've been lied to your whole life!"
'No. No it can't be! Not Naruto!' Hinata thought franticly.
"Everyone hates you even Iruka hates you!" He threw Bill back to the group. "No one will ever accept you not even your friends here!" Mizuki began spinning the shuriken in his hand. "It's time for you to die Demon Fox!" He threw the shuriken at Naruto.
"Naruto!" Hinata and Iruka shouted. Naruto broke from his shock and put his arms up in an attempt to defend himself, and waited for the hit to come.
"Arg!" Everyone looked to see Bill with a faint black outline surrounding him and the shuriken piercing his stomach.
"Why?" Naruto questioned.
"I've known that since I met you Naruto and I wasn't gonna think of you the same way I thought of myself for part of my life."
"W-what do you mean?"
"The truth is…" Bill turned to look at him with red eyes with vertical slits and his hair turned to a mix of red and orange. "I'm not completely human." Naruto stared at Bill for a second then bolted into the forest.
"Naruto!" Hinata and Iruka called after him. But he kept on running.
Mizuki dropped to the ground near them. "Heh sorry. But Naruto's not the type to have a change of heart. He plans on using the scroll to get revenge on the village." He noticed Hinata charging to his side with fury in her eyes. Mizuki delivered a swift kick to her stomach that sent her into a tree.
"Hinata!" Bill and Iruka cried out.
"I'll be back to kill you later." Mizuki ran off in Naruto's direction.
Bill ripped the shuriken out of his gut and collapsed on the ground. He saw Hinata walking over to him and she crouched to examine the wound. The shuriken had pierced deep dicing his bowls too and some other organs. He increased his power to speed up his regeneration and Hinata watched amazed as the wounds healed leaving no trace of ever being there.
"Wow." Was all she could say.
"You're not scared?" Bill asked.
"Why would I be?" Hinata responded.
"Well you just heard I'm not human."
"Not completely human." She corrected him. "That doesn't change how I look at you or Naruto." Hinata looked up. "Where's Iruka-Sensei?"
Bill looked around as well and attempted to get up but ended up using Hinata for support. "We'd better get moving." Hinata nodded and they ran after Mizuki and Naruto.
Naruto sat behind a bush panting. 'Why did I run?' He asked himself. After finding out he's the container for the Kyuubi he also finds out one of his friends isn't completely human. 'Arg! This is too much!'
"What? Why… Naruto?" Naruto heard from the other side of the bush. It sounded like Mizuki.
"How did you know I wasn't Iruka?" Naruto relaxed, it wasn't him it was another Naruto.
'Wait… another me?'
"What are you up to? You're tactics aren't making sense." Mizuki said.
"Because I really am Iruka!" Iruka said.
"I see… you'd even transform into what killed your parents to protect him?" Mizuki questioned.
"Don't you get it? Naruto and I are the same!" Iruka said.
"The same?" Both of them looked to see Bill with Hinata supporting him. "How so?"
"You're delusional. You and Naruto aren't the same. With the scroll he has he can bring the village to its knees, something the Demon Fox couldn't resist. You, however, wouldn't." Mizuki said.
"You're right." Iruka agreed. Naruto turned downcast. "But he's different." Naruto looked up. "Naruto may not be the best student." Iruka said.
"And a trouble maker." Bill said.
"But he really tries to do well in what he learns." Hinata added.
"Naruto was never the Demon Fox, nor will he be." Iruka said.
"He's our best friend so we'll always look after him, no matter what!" Bill said.
"Well how touching." Mizuki got into a fighting stance and Bill stumbled forward.
"Hinata watch Iruka-Sensei. I'll deal with this guy." Hinata nodded and went over to Iruka.
"I said I'd take care of you three later but I've changed my mind." Mizuki said.
"Well then, I'll just have to stop you." A black ring formed at his feet and spiraled up until he was surrounded in what appeared to be black chakra and came off him like fire. His muscles began bulking up, his eyes turned red with vertical slits and his hair turned to that red, orange mix again.
Mizuki smirked. "You're just full of surprises aren't you Dark? Black chakra?"
"Oh this isn't chakra…" Mizuki raised an eyebrow and everyone else looked on with a questioning look. "It's Dark Energy and I've some more surprises for ya." The Dark Energy suddenly intensified and his right arm bulked up even more and turned scaly and a dark tan color from his shoulder to his hand which had been replaced with four big claws. Then a scaly 5ft long tale with the same color tone burst out of his pants and as if that wasn't surprising enough 6 rugged 6in diameter crystal spikes arranged in dual parallel lines 2ft out of his back. He let out a low inhuman growl that turned into a roar that sounded like the one he used to blow away Kiba 2 years ago. "I hope you're ready for a beating!" He spoke in the deep monstrous voice he used to scare Kiba when he insulted Naruto.
Mizuki was taken aback by the sudden change and tried to hide his fear. "You may be stronger now but the extra bulk will slow you down!"
Suddenly Bill appeared behind him. "Think again!" With a high speed punch from his right arm and sent Mizuki across the clearing but recovered just before he hit a tree.
"How…" Hinata questioned. "I said I wasn't completely human." Mizuki threw his last shuriken and Bill easily dodged it. "Missed." Mizuki simply smirked and Bill lowered his now bushy, red/orange eyebrows in thought. 'What are you up to?' He heard a whirling sound from behind him and turned to see the shuriken coming back at him. "Crap!" Before he could move completely out of the path of the shuriken it struck his left arm and literally ripped it apart leaving nothing but a mutilated stump at the elbow. Everyone gasped at the severity of the wound.
"Let's see you survive that wound Dark!" Mizuki yelled.
To everyone's amazement Bill started chuckling. "Heheheheheh, do you really think this'll beat me? I've been through injuries a thousand times worse! I've been blown half to hell more times than I can remember!"
"You lie!"
"Then I'll prove it to you." Bill screwed up his face in concentration and to everyone's amazement his arm, slowly but surely, began to grow back.
"How- how did you do that?" Mizuki asked astounded.
"It's called regeneration."
"You may be able to back up what you say, I'll give you that. But I will still kill you, the Demon Fox and the rest of you too!"
"Then I should probably tell you some rules about me. Rule #1: Never underestimate my abilities." Mizuki charged at him but he easily evaded and two of his crystals started glowing. "Rule #2: Never fight me alone." Mizuki once again charged and Bill once again dodged him and two more crystals began to glow. "And Rule #3: Never, ever, EVER…" The last two crystals started to glow and the glowing of all 6 intensified. "…HURT MY COMRADES!" He took a deep breath and shouted, "NOVA FIRE!" A jet of whit hot fire shot out of his mouth and straight at Mizuki. Everyone stared in awe while the flames engulfed him and Bill simply watched, then Mizuki was replaced with a burnt log. "What!" Suddenly a foot impacted the side of his face and he was thrown to the ground. "Ugh!" He looked up to see Mizuki unharmed. "Substitution?"
"You didn't think I could be beaten that easily did you?" Mizuki smirked.
"Actually yes." Bill stated.
"Well your foolishness will be your dea- ugh!" Mizuki was suddenly thrown back by an orange blur.
"You shouldn't have done that." They looked up to see Naruto on the branch with the scroll by his side.
"You! A punk like you I'll beat in one shot!" Mizuki declared.
"Try it trash I'll return the pain 1000 times over!" Naruto shouted.
"Show me what you've got Nine Tailed Fox!" Naruto crossed his fingers a seal. Then in an instant there were at least 100 Naruto's in the clearing and in the trees. Everyone looked around in amazement and Iruka looked at him in pride
'He's mastered an extremely advanced jutsu in such a short time.' He smiled proudly.
Mizuki looked around at all the Naruto's stunned at the sheer amount of clones. "Wha- what's going on!"
"You're going to pay for hurting my friends!" All the Naruto's said at once. "HAAA!" They all leapt at Mizuki.
A bloody and beaten Mizuki was lying on the ground, Naruto was sitting by Iruka, and Bill had turned back to normal… for the most part, his tail was still there.
"Heh… I guess I went a little overboard." Naruto said scratching the back of his head.
"Yeah you could have killed him." Bill remarked.
"You could've too with that flame!" Naruto shot back.
Bill went silent.
"Hey Naruto."
"Yeah Iruka-Sensei?"
"Close your eyes I have a surprise for you." Iruka smiled.
"Ok!" Naruto closed his eyes eagerly awaiting the surprise Iruka had for him. "Can I open my eyes yet Sensei?"
"Wait a little more… Okay now you can." Naruto opened his eyes and he immediately noticed two things, one: Iruka didn't have his headband on and two: he was holding his goggles. Naruto reached up and felt cold metal and traced the leaf symbol in the middle and realized what it was.
"Wha? You mean…" Iruka just nodded.
"Yaaay!" Naruto yelled with joy as he pulled Iruka into a tight hug. "I'm finally a ninja! Thank you Iruka-Sensei! Thank you! Thank you!"
"Alright Naruto you're welcome." Iruka said as Naruto released him from the hug.
"Well I guess all's well that ends well" Bill stated while bouncing up and down on his tail.
"Aren't you going to get rid of that?" Hinata said.
"Are you kidding? I forgot how much fun this thing was! Wheeee!" Bill bounced high in the air, did a back flip and landed on his tail again. Everyone sweat dropped.
"How bout we go out for ramen, my treat." Iruka offered.
"Yay ramen!" Naruto cheered.
"That sounds good." Hinata said.
"I'm in too!" Bill said as his tail seemingly disappeared into his skin and his cloths mended themselves in a flash of blue.
"Let's go then" Iruka said and with that they were off.
Another chapter redone… well more just better spacing between times and character views.
Anyhow please review!