Chapter 4: The incident
Roku met a strange sight. A white-haired kid, just as old as him, may be younger, was holding one of his newly-passed Genin classmates, by the throat. There was another kid, a young girl with the same pure white hair, was standing next to him, and there were three other kids her age, lying on the ground, clutching themselves in pain.
The genin was Haru, who had been the class bully, but still, as Roku ran towards the strange kid, he was a fellow Leaf shinobi, he had to protect him. Roku threw two Shuriken towards the kid, which he could not avoid, not without at least letting go of Haru. The Shuriken whizzed towards the kid, and then...just fell to the ground. What? Roku thought, what happened? He threw a Kunai, and it too, dropped just inches away from the kid. How was this kid making the weapons drop dead?
"Your weapons, they are useless... rust-head-boy."
What! Did he have eyes on the back of his head? Was he a Hyuuga? But no... For one, he didn't know any Hyuuga with white hair, secondly, Hyuuga didn't stop weapons in the manner he did. They did have a move, but it involved spinning. He knew that first hand...from experience. So who was he?
"Who are you? and why are you holding Haru like that?"
"What would you do, rust-head, if somebody hurt you sister?"
Damn Haru! I though he had better things to do then to bully five-year olds! But at least, now Roku knew what was happening.
"Okay, let go of Haru, I will...uh...report him to the principal. Who are you anyways?"
But instead of answering him, the kid took his sister's hand, and just...vanished. Shuishin? at this age? Wow! this kid is good! But I didn't even get to see his face! As for Haru...he had fainted. Served him right! Let him freeze here, his parent will find him anyways.
"Wow! That kid is something!"
"Finally you catch up, Chiyo, you lazy bum!"
"Shut up, Rust-head!" She taunted.
"Hey, not you too!"
"I wonder why I never thought of that before..."
"Never mind! Did you see how he some how managed to stop my shuriken?"
"Hmm," Chiyo paused to think, "Well I am not exactly sure how he did it, but he somehow let little sparks of lightening from his back, which deflected your shuriken."
"Are you sure?"
"Well, there were these tiny flashes of light just before each weapon fell."
"But how did a kid manage to get to perfect the elemental recomposition, not to mention the sheer chakra control needed, to perform something so precise?"
"Hey, don't ask me! I am not a genius."
Roku raised an eyebrow.
"What? What did I say?"
Sigh...
"Never mind, Chiyo. Lets go back, our parents must be waiting."
"Kakashi-sensei! I mean, Rokudaime-sama!"
"Hello Hinata! so...where is Iruka?"
"You met Iruka-sensei! cool!"
"Um, he has gone to check on Naru-chan."
Kakashi looked curiously at Hinata "Naru-chan?"
"Um, Yes, that's my son, Naruhito! Naruto-kun and I have two children, Naru-chan and Aiko-chan."
"You should see Naruhito, sensei! He is a genius just like you! and he has white hair just like you! and he has the Raiton element just like you! and he has..."
"I get it Naruto! So he is a mini-me, why didn't you just name him Nidaime-Kakashi!"
"Well, I didn't think of it earlier...maybe we should change his name..."
"NO!", Kakashi smacked his forehead,"That was a joke Naruto..."
Kakashi sighed. Naruto may be strong and fearsome, but he still lacked common sense. He heard the sound of frantic running, some body was dashing towards them.
"Iruka-sensei!"
"DO YOU KNOW WHAT JUST HAPPENED!"
Kakashi noticed the look of concern on Iruka's face.
"What happened?"
"Ri is dead, that's what!"
Hinata gasped, Kakashi felt his jaw drop, Naruto however...
"Who is this Ri guy?"
"He is the guy I assigned to examine your son! And your son is no where to be found!"
They all looked at Naruto, as if for an explanation, however all he did was remove a strange looking kunai from his holster, and chucked it at the ground. Kakashi thought it looked familiar...It can't be! That kunai was...But no, he had better things to think about, like the person who had just appeared out of no where at the exact spot where the kunai had landed at the ground.
"You called, father?"
"Iruka-sensei tells me that you killed your examiner, is that true?"
Naruto was asking rather calmly, Kakashi thought, like as if they were talking about school grades.
"Oh no father, he is merely comatose"
"I checked his pulse, there was none." Iruka interjected. He was forcing himself to be calm, Kakashi noted. He must be weltering with confusion and anger at this strange occurrence.
"Well I hit a nerve cluster at the neck, it merely fools a person in to thinking there is no pulse, just like in the story of the ice-ninja you told me."
Ice-ninja? that Haku kid?
"And can you tell me why you hit him in the nerve cluster?"
"Well he was testing me for my Taijutsu skills, so he asked me to come at him with all I had got..."
"And of course, you couldn't let an opportunity like that go..." said Naruto sarcastically.
"Oh Naru-chan! You shouldn't attack your elders!"
"Mother, he asked me to attack with full force, or I wouldn't pass, you would rather that I fail? Besides, he was a Special Jounin, how was I supposed to know he was bad at Taijutsu?"
Kakshi looked at the kid who, according to Naruto, was a copy of him, and came to the conclusion: Naruto couldn't compare people to save his life. This kid is nothing like me! His hair may be white, (and what are these strange black eyes?) but he had the same cute face like Naruto, even had three fine whisker lines on each cheek. He also had his grandfather's attitude (bless his soul!) and Hinata's hairstyle, among other things
But he was different kid was whole new block, and Kakashi was curious to check him out.
He caught Iruka's "do-something-you-are-the-hokage" look, and cleared his throat meaningfully.
Naruhito looked at him and said, "You must be the Rokudaime Hokage! Now I know why the mountain face is incomplete. But why do you cover your handsome face? That scar on your left eye isn't horrible, infact, I have seen ninja much more scarring..."
Kakashi was amazed. How could he see through his covered face? Did this kid have the Byakugan? but why then, were his eyeballs jet black?
"Uh, thank you, but we are here to discuss you. You do realise that you will have to be punished for attacking and nearly killing senior ninja..."
Hinata gasped, but Naruto put a hand on her shoulder. Naruhito, however, was unperturbed.
"I don't see why I should be punished. I did as instructed, it was the examiner's fault to consider the consequences of his orders. Besides, my father tells me he had to attack the Sandaime Hokage and his chunnin sensei when he became Genin, I don't see how I should be treated differently."
Hinata's jaw dropped, and Naruto was smirking broadly now. Kakashi looked at Iruka, who was shaking his head in a oh-man-we-are-so-doomed way. However, the kid was right. If his examiner asked him to, then he couldn't be blamed. He gestured to Iruka.
Iruka sighed, then rummaged through his pocket, and withdrew a headband."Here, since you defeated your examiner, I guess you have passed. Here is your headband, report tomorrow at eight o' clock so that you can be your team and Jounin sensei. I will go and check after Ri." With that he left, shaking his head.
There was a moment of silence, before...
"YES! you are Genin now! Let's go to Ichiraku to celebrate! And where is Aiko-chan?"
Naruhito just pointed up. Kakashi looked up to see a little girl sitting on the branch. How did she get there? Then she vanished and appeared next to Naruhito, at the exact same space as the the Kunai. What are these kids? Doing the Hiraishin, defeating senseis, climbing trees, and these dark, black eyes...Kakashi had a lot of questions to ask of Naruto. And he the perfect moment to do so.
"Okey people, no Ichiraku. You are coming with me to Lee's house, His wife is arranging a get together, and they will be happy to see you. Infact we are getting late."
"YAY! Fuzzy brows! Oh man, I want to see the whole lot! they will be so surprised!"
You have no idea, kakshi thought, you have no idea....
Mrs. Lee was having a hectic day. There so many people here! Sure she had invited them all, and happy to see them come, but still, she was getting tired of managing the welcomes and the lunch and all. She longed to sit down and eat and gossip with her friends.
"Roku! Stop playing drumming with your chopsticks and take this sushi to the table."
She checked the guests, almost all were here, excpect for her habitually late sensei. He better come soon1 or I will rip his stash of Icha-Icha, and set it on fire, and...
"DING-DONG!"
This better be him1 She opened the door.
"WHY ARE YOU LATE! DO YOU SEE THE TIME!"
"I am sorry, you see, I met my old students on the way..."
"THAT"S THE LAMEST EXCUSE I HAVE EVER HEARD!"
"No really, look!" and he moved aside, and her jaw dropped at the sight of the people behind him..
"Sakura-chan! Long time, no see!"
1-Sorry I am late, hit a bit of writer's block, and took a month to flog this dead horse to life.
2-I realise this chapter is sub-par, I apologise.
3-For once, Kakashi Had a genuine excuse!
4-Yes, Roku is the son of Lee and Sakura! I hope you don't mind this pairing
5-1500+ words! Can't...type...must...rest...