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Spoken
thoughts
Kyuubi
kyuubi thoughts
Thanks to all that reviewed, and yes I did make Jin the one from YYH.
Dragon Man 180: Other's might appear, I'm not sure, but for the Kurama question, I've establised too much of Kyuubi to do that.
NewSon: It depends on how I feel
Now on with the chapter...
Chapter 3
Naruto woke up and yawned. Getting up from the sitting position at the base of the tree he rubbed his sore neck from sleeping in that position. Naruto felt strangely cold this morning. Looking at his body he realized that his clothes had holes in them. Most likely from yesterdays chase.
He sighed to himself, he would need new clothes and the only way he could do that was to go see the Hokage, and that place was so hard for him to get into without getting kicked out or attacked.
Walking back to the outskirts of the village, he braced himself for the walk to the Hokage tower.
It was still fairly early so that would mean less people to bother him. Settling for a brisk pace, he began his trek.
Naruto took as many of the side and back alleys as he could to avoid the early risers, but he still ran in to the inhabitants a few times. He could hear their grumbling about the "demon" and its evil and blah, blah, blah. The stares burned into him as he walked by and only increased his anger.
Seeing that the tower was straight ahead, Naruto dashed for it as fast as he could. He couldn't stand the villagers anymore than he had to. Naruto paused at the in front of the entrance to catch his breath. Naruto stepped inside and instantly began cursing under his breath. The tower was full and already bustling for the new day.
Naruto couldn't believe his luck. Even though this tower was a safe haven for him because the Hokage was in it, the ninjas that were in it were the ones that were out to get him the most, believing that he was trying to kill the Hokage. Naruto would need to make a run for it because he would most likely be seen and caught, but that was practically suicide.
He waited until the first hall was nearly empty. 'Now.' He rushed as fast as he could toward the stairs. 'If I can make it to the front of his doors I'll be safe.' Upon reaching the stairs, he ran into a something and fell. Seeing that he ran into a ninja, he sprung up and continued his mad dash towards the top floor. 'Shit, now they know I'm here.'
The ninja looked around to see what he had walked into. The stack of files he was carrying had obstructed his view and now they were all fluttering to the floor. Seeing that nothing was in front of him, he turned around. He caught a glimpse of Naruto before he rounded the stairs.
"THE DEMON!! Everybody the Kyuubi is headed for the top floor!!" he shouted alerting everybody of Naruto's presence in the building.
'C'mon, almost there...' Naruto made the stairs and headed straight for the door at the end of the hallway. The problem was that the two guards stationed in front of the door were on alert and several voices not far behind him were getting closer.
A ninja had reached the top of the stairs and yelled out "STOP HIM. Don't let him get any closer!" The two guards outside the door moved instantly to intercept him and each one grabbed an arm and held him up. Naruto struggled furiously. He kicked and flailed, but couldn't brake their hold on him.
"We've got you now demon. Attempted assassination of the Hokage. You'll burn for this." one of the guard hissed menacingly to his face.
"What's going on here?" An authoritative voice sounded over the noise the ninjas that followed Naruto were making. A collective gasp arose, but the guard that had threatened Naruto hadn't noticed.
"We just caught the demon." The guard turned his head to see who he was addressing. "He was trying to..." The guard had trailed off as he saw that the Hokage was standing behind him, with an angry look etched into his features.
The guard gulped and finished his sentence. "Hokage-sama, we w-w-were ju-just bring-ing the boy t-t-to you."
"So nice for all of you fine shinobi to escort Naruto to me. I know there are many people that want to hurt him." Sarutobi's anger was evident and brought chills to the ninja when he spoke those words.
"Now if you'll release him..," The guard dropped Naruto and he instantly ran to the Hokage's side, "please return to you jobs."
Sarutobi guided Naruto into his office as the ninja hurriedly dispersed themselves. He searched his robes for his pipe and started to smoke. Moving around his desk he sat across from Naruto and observed him.
Naruto had ripped clothing, seemed dirty and seemed poorly fed. Sarutobi couldn't count the number of times he thought about taking in Naruto. Alas, that was impossible as his work kept him busy and he loved the village too much to step down.
Naruto stared attentively as the Hokage cleared his throat. "Ahem. Naruto, what was the reason that you have come today?"
"I need new clothes and food, ji-san."
Sandaime got up and moved to a corner of his office. Sarutobi has had this set-up since Naruto was found to be the demon container. Naruto was refused service in practically the whole village no matter how much money. So instead of giving Naruto money, Sarutobi bought clothes and food for Naruto. Whenever Naruto was running low on one or the other or both, he would just come to Sarutobi.
Sarutobi rummaged around in a box and tossed some clothes to Naruto. Naruto caught them and held them up to examine them. The shirt was blue and on the front had a red flame like swirl (A/N: like the one on his white shirt when he was a kid.). He had also received a pair of black pants and a pair of white boxers. After Sarutobi had given Naruto his clothes he gave him a bag of rations. Naruto couldn't be given normal food, if he put his food into his apartment, it would be destroyed, or the food would spoil before he could finish it all. The rations given to Naruto was mainly travel type food that had a long shelf life.
Putting the clothes aside, Naruto took the food and looked through it. Mostly jerky and dried foods and power bars. Sarutobi had also given him a small supply of soldier pills and warned him to only eat one per three days.
"Naruto, have you eaten breakfast yet?" Seeing that Naruto shook his head he said "How about we get some breakfast?"
"Thanks, ji-san" Putting his clothes and food into a bag together the walked out the tower. Every stare that Naruto received, he returned back. Naruto was still fuming about the trouble he was given and how he almost died if he hadn't made it to the top floor.
The two quickly and quietly made their way to Ichiraku. They were just finished setting up and started in making ramen for the people who liked it for breakfast. Upon seeing the Hokage and Naruto, he waved cheerfully and called out to them. Ichiraku was most likely the only store that would serve Naruto. Teuchi and Ayame didn't care about his status, a customer was a customer and what a person had inside them didn't turn the person into that thing.
The two waved back and walked over to sit on the stools. Placing their orders for two pork ramen, Teuchi set about to start making it. Sarutobi had turned to Naruto and asked him how it's been.
"Well, yesterday I was being chased again." Naruto growled out in a low voice, but the Hokage understood it. "I was surrounded when that voice helped me again"
After being chased multiple times and not getting hurt Sarutobi asked Naruto how he was getting away so far from the village and not getting hurt. Naruto responded that a voice asking if he wanted to escape always helped him.
Sarutobi was always in deep thought about who it was, but over time he just passed it off as the Kyuubi.
"I met the person who's been helping me yesterday." At this the Hokage grew interested. He was sure it was the Kyuubi, but if Naruto only met him yesterday, it couldn't be.
"It wasn't the Kyuubi?"
"The Kyuubi said he didn't know who was helping when I asked him before. The person that's helping me is a man named Jin. He say he's the wind or something."
Teuchi put out the ramen for both of them effectively cutting off the conversation. Naruto was glad to have warm food today. He took the chopsticks, broke them apart, said "Itadakimasu" and began to eat.
5 bowls for Naruto and 2 for Sautobi later...
Both of them had ate their fill and now Sarutobi was eager to get back to finding out about Jin.
"So Naruto, about Jin, what's he like?"
"He seems like a nice guy, he knows what I am, but doesn't hate me. In fact he even wants to train me to become a ninja. Look at the weights and gloves he gave me."
Naruto put out his arms in front of him to give Sarutobi a chance to see them. The gloves didn't seem like anything special, but there was a feeling of subtle power he got from it. The weights were basic bands that had openings where weights could be added or taken out.
The curiosity of the Hokage was peaked now. "Can I meet Jin?"
"Sure, he said I was going to start my training today."
The Hokage got up paid the bill and had Naruto start leading him. Naruto led Sautobi to the spot where Jin had taken him. Naruto told the Hokage that he was going to take a bath in a stream nearby. Receiving an affirmative, Naruto walked out of sight leaving Sarutobi waiting.
The minutes ticked by as Sandaime waited patiently. A cracking of a twig caught his attention and turned to the source of the noise. He saw that it was a man.
Getting on guard, the hokage asked "Are you Jin?"
"Why yes I am." Jin looked around in an exaggerated manner and asked "Where's Naruto?"
"I'm right here." Naruto came back in his new clothes and hair dripping water and hanging over his face.
"So kid, ready to begin your training?"
"Yes"
"Wait!" cried out Sarutobi. "I still don't know who you are and what your intentions are."
"Oh, you don't know? Well, me name's Jin and I'm the wind master. And the reason I'm training Naruto? Let's just say...I've took a liking to him and want him to be able to help himself. Don't worry, he's in good hands."
Sarutobi pondered his answer and it seemed acceptable. He didn't seem to hold any hate for Naruto.
"If Naruto comes to me saying that you hurt him, then you'll regret it." With that the Hokage turned to Naruto and said "If you get into any trouble, don't hesitate to come to me." Sarutobi then walked back in the direction of the village leaving Naruto with Jin.
Jin let out a low whistle. "That man is scary. Heh, Naruto, looks like you got yourself some powerful backup"
"Anyway back to the training. First things first, you need to be physically fit so that you can fight a max potential. Sometimes in a fight, it may come down to raw power to deliver a finishing blow. So, got your weights? Start giving me some laps."
Naruto started running, and didn't stop running. He ran until he fell from exhaustion. Jin looked on, amused and somewhat worried about Naruto. 'I knew Naruto wanted to be strong, but pushing himself to this extreme is kinda dangerous for a kid this young.'
"Oi, Naruto. Don't push yourself so hard, you'll never get anywhere if you burn yourself out too fast. It's all about the big picture over time."
Naruto lying face down on the ground tried to look at Jin, but he wasn't in his field of vision. He feebly attempted and managed to sit up.
"WHAT! I just kept running because you never thold me how many to do or when to stop!!"
"Oh, well then..." Jin trailed off in embarrassment.
"Jeez, it's not even noon and your tired from just running. I had other exercises for you to do, but seeing as how you're exhausted, how 'bout we just skip that and go to the chakra part. But first..."
Jin trailed off as he walked away from Naruto. He took some jerky from Naruto's stash off food and gave it to him.
"Gotta get your strength back up so later you can complete your exercises."
Naruto took the jerky and mumbled his thanks.
"Now pay attention. Chakra is the energy that is needed for all things to live. All living things have it. Chakra is a mixture of physical and spiritual energy. In your body, those two energies are constantly mixing to produce chakra. Physical energy is your stamina or endurance so the more your train your body the more stamina you have and the more chakra you potentially have. Spiritual energy is gained through training, experience and meditation.
It is possible to mix more chakra together in preparation for jutsus. This process is called molding chakra. Basically, all you need to know right now is that the more you train, the better off you are, okay?
So with converting chakra into a element is a different story. With wind you should imagine as two planes of chakra that are pushing against each other and grinding one another to become as sharp as possible."
Jin brought his hand up and flicked it bring a gust of wind. Leaves flew towards him. Catching one leaf in his hand, he held it up between his fingers.
"Your first exercise is to cut this leaf using wind."
The leaf that Jin held suddenly split into two.
"So, begin whenever your ready."
"I don't know how to use chakra. You just told me how to do it a little yesterday." Naruto said causing Jin to fall over.
"WHAT?!?!!?!?!" Jin quickly regained his composure and coughed a little. "Well then, you just have to learn right now."
Jin cupped his chin in his hand as if stroking a non-existent stubble. Then he slammed his fist down into his other hand as sort of the 'I've got it pose!'
"Well chakra is easy enough to mold. Beginning ninjas usually use the ram seal to mold so lets begin with that."
Jin demonstrated the seal and said, "Now you have to feel out your chakra and bring it out." At this point Jin started glowing a blue and red color. "And there you have it. Now you try"
Naruto brought his hands together and fumbled with his fingers a little until they were in the correct position. He closed his eyes and began to search himself. He found that the chakra was residing in his abdomen and began to coax it out like he had seen Jin do.
Letting out a grunt of exertion, Naruto began to glow blue and a tremendous strain over various parts of his body. Suddenly his concentration was broken as sharp stabbing pains erupted all over his body.
"AAAAHHHHHH!!" Naruto fell over and curled into a ball in an attempt to relieve some of the pain. A flash of light and his fox features were shown.
Fear passed over Jin as he hurriedly rushed to Naruto's side to see what was wrong. As far a Jin could tell Naruto was in pain for no reason. A simple chakra molding exercise shouldn't cause this level of pain or any at all for that matter. However, looking at Naruto, spikes of chakra were lancing out randomly all over his body.
He picked Naruto up and gathering wind around him levitated a few inches above the ground before shooting straight up. Jin leveled out and flew full speed towards the Hokage's office.
The Hokage was currently doing some paperwork, when his window broke with an deafening crash. Sandaime jumped up ready to defend himself and the two guards opened the door to see what was going on.
It was Jin and he was carrying Naruto, who was moaning and screaming in pain. The spikes of chakra had left marks all over Jin's torso. Sarutobi rushed over to him and took Naruto into his arms.
The two guards rushed forward and pushed Jin away from the Hokage
"Who are you and what are you doing?"
"Get out of my way!" Jin growled. "This doesn't concern you!!"
"If that damn demon is involved with the Hokage, then it is our business."
"ENOUGH!! I need to bring Naruto to the hospital. Jin, follow me."
As the two men moved out, the two guards seethed in anger that they were seen as less important than the demon. The two started whispering to each other forming a plan.
Meanwhile en route to the hospital, Jin wondered what was happening.
"What's wrong with Naruto. He was just gathering chakra when he fell over in pain."
"I'm not sure what caused it, but when I did a scan on Naruto back in my office, his chakra levels in multiple parts of his body were unstable and caused great pain."
"Is he going to be okay?" Jin was clearly worried about the boy.
"He has to get his charka levels stabilized as soon as possible."
Reaching the hospital, the two men demanded that Naruto receive immediate attention. When the Hokage demands something, no one stands idle. Med-nins and nurses ran forward, but upon seeing the fox boy, anger and hate held them back.
Jin, seeing that no one was stepping forward yelled at them. "WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE. CAN"T YOU SEE THAT HE NEEDS HELP!!!!" he gestured at the moaning Naruto who was in the Hokage's arms.
They all started muttering under their breath and turned away. No chance were they going to help a demon. Everyone turned their backs on the Hokage, leaving him filling with despair.
But a med-nin came and took Naruto. "Follow me."
The two men instantly obeyed and began to move towards a room. The med-nin laid Naruto down on a bed and began examining him. He then proceeded to have his hands glow blue with chakra, and moving them over parts of Naruto's body, avoid the strikes of chakra that came out.. He needed to put his chakra into Naruto in an attempt to use it as a stabilizer.
Eventually the pain marred face of Naruto relaxed and a slight snoring showed that he had fallen asleep. The med-nin retracted his hands and stopped the chakra flow. He moved towards a chair and sat in it.
"He'll be okay and will wake in a few hours. Just don't let him use chakra for a week or so."
The med-nin received many thanks from Jin and the Hokage before he left the room.
In Naruto's mind
'Man that hurt.' Naruto was reeling from the pain he felt before he was unconscious. He got up slowly and saw he was in his sewer-like mind. He quickly moved to see Kyuubi. Entering the large room he called out to the fox.
"Hey, Kyuubi." The fox moved forward to see the kid better. "Do you know what happened to me?"
"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING, YOU IDIOT? THAT WAS SO PAINFUL, I FELT SOME OF IT. I LOOKED AROUND YOUR BODY WHEN IT WAS HAPPENING AND YOUR CHAKRA WENT OUT OF CONTROL. IN EFFECT, YOUR OWN CHAKRA WAS HURTING YOU."
"So I can't use chakra anymore?"
"THAT'S NOT IT. REMEMBER YESTERDAY WHEN JIN GAVE YOU THAT CHAKRA PAPER? YOU WERE ABLE TO MOLD AND CHANNEL CHAKRA JUST FINE. THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TODAY AND YESTERDAY IS THAT YOU USED A HAND SEAL."
"What does that have to do with anything?"
"HAND SEALS ARE USED TO FORCIBLY MOLD AND CHANNEL CHAKRA. JUTSUS USE A SERIES OF SEAL TO FORCE AND CHANGE THE CHAKRA INTO ELEMENT AND EFFECT. WITH YOU, IT SEEMS THAT FORCING YOUR CHAKRA WON'T WORK."
"Doesn't that mean I can't use chakra anymore?"
"IT JUST MEANS THAT YOU HAVE TO DO EVERYTHING WITHOUT HANDSEALS."
"Oh. Well...that sucks."
"AT ANY RATE, YOU'LL WANT TO WAKE UP SO, BECAUSE THE HOKAGE AND JIN ARE WORRIED ABOUT YOU RIGHT NOW, AND ALSO ASK THE HOKAGE TO NOT SEAL YOUR FOX PARTS AGAIN. IT'LL ONLY MAKE YOU WEAKER. I'LL TAKE CARE OF THE DISGUISE."
"So no seal. Gotcha. Later."
Naruto's eyelids fluttered as he struggled to wake. Opening his eyes slowly, he immediately closed them to shut out the light that blinded him and cursed under his breath.
Jin heard him and moved towards Naruto bringing the attention of the Hokage back to Naruto.
"Naruto...", Jin called out tentatively, "are you awake?"
Naruto blinked a couple of times to adjust his eyes.
"Yea, I'm awake.", Naruto rasped out.
The Hokage took a pitcher of water that was on the bedside table and filled a glass for Naruto to drink. After taking a few sips, Naruto began to talk about what caused him his pain.
"I'm okay so you guys don't have to worry. The problem was that I can't use hand seals anymore."
Both men looked a combination of surprise and confusion.
"What do you mean?"
"Well, for some reason, the forcing of chakra through hand seals for me causes chakra to spike in my body and become destabilized."
"Well that sucks. I'm the one that's gonna suffer for teaching a kid that can't do hand seals." Jin whined. He hung his head and streams of tears began to fall. Suddenly his head shot up and his eyes had a shine to them.
"Wait...if I train you, and you don't suck...then I'll be the greatest teacher ever! WOO-HOO!"
Jin started to run around the room with his hands thrown up in celebration. After some victory laps he stopped at the foot of Naruto's bed.
"When you get out of this hole you call a hospital, I expect you to be ready for training." With that, Jin promptly turned and left talking about how he would be the best.
Naruto and the Hokage were left stunned. 'That was completely unexpected.' Naruto shook his head to clear it. He called out to the Hokage to get his attention.
"Ji-san, Kyuubi asked me to tell you to not put the seal on me anymore."
Turning to look at Naruto, he clearly had a puzzled expression on his face. "Why not? You know how the...people are."
Sadness and anger flashed in Naruto's eyes for a second. "Kyuubi said that he would take care of that so don't worry."
Naruto's eyelids began dropping. "Ne, Ji-san. I'm really tired right now so..." Naruto drifted of.
"I'll come see you again tomorrow Naruto. You just focus on getting better and resting up."
Sarutobi got up and left Naruto to his sleep.
A soft creak echoed around the room. Naruto stirred and woke. Looking up, he saw a blob in the darkness. Apparently it was still dark out. He could see the dark outline of a person standing over him as the person was in front of a window that had the moon in it's view.
Naruto instantly became scared and jumped out of the bed and fell onto the floor. It was just in time, as a whistling and ripping sound filled the air moments later. Scanning, the room to look for a way out, Naruto ran for the door, only to find that another person was standing in front of it. He hadn't seen him in the dark.
Naruto was grabbed by the person and raised into the air. Fear filled his being as noises behind him became louder and closer. The second person had leaned in close to Naruto's ear and whispered, "You die today, like you should have all those years ago."
Cold sweat broke out all over Naruto as he screamed out in fear and hopefully, help would come.
Soft laughter broke out from the man with the weapon as he watched Naruto struggle in his partner's arms. The man stopped his laughing and brought the kunai held in his hand forward, aiming directly for Naruto's heart.
Naruto's screams and shouts had reached a feverish pitch and he began sobbing. The plunging of the kunai hesitated for a second as a feeling that something bad was going to happen washed over the assailant. He immediately shook that off and continued the plunge.
Naruto's scream had turned into a deeper pitch and was actually a roar. Red chakra pulsed from his body knocking back both assassins and breaking every window. Naruto became engulfed in the red chakra as his swirled and wrapped around him. Letting out a roar again, Naruto ran on all fours for the attacker that held the kunai.
'What the fuck?' On the floor, the man quickly picked up the kunai that had fallen next to him and got up, preparing for whatever knocked him down. However, he wasn't expecting a raging, kyuubified Naruto.
Naruto brought his hand and made a slashing motion with his clawed-right hand. The chakra surrounding his right arm extended in the shape of a claw and made four deep slashes across the man's chest, cutting right through the clothes he wore and spilling blood. Naruto then spun around and slashed at the man that was holding him. The chakra once againg extended and made deep gashes across the man's left arm.
Naruto then wasted no time in jumping out the broken windows to search for a safer place. Unfortunately, the two assailants from the hospital were quick to recover and gave chase. Even more unfortunate was that various ranked ninjas had poured out into the streets to identify the pulse of unknown chakra.
The ninja were shocked that the Kyuubi had shown itself. Fear and anger boiled over as, they unleashed waves of shurikens and kunais. Naruto waved his tail and billowed chakra from it to dispel the projectiles, but there were to many. Some hit causing Naruto to slow.
The shinobi took advantage and quickly surrounded him. They immediately set about using hand seals to perform jutsus or readied more weapons. Naruto looked around and saw nothing but a human wall that was continually growing.
Not allowing Naruto the chance to escape, the shinobi threw there weapons. Naruto roared and pulsed chakra to deflect them, but this action had brought the other shinobi the time to release their jutsus.
Several cries of jutsus rang out into the night. Naruto reflexively put his arms up to shield his face and closed his eyes.
A tornado erupted from where Naruto was. The wind deflected all the weapons and jutsus that were aimed at Naruto. The raging winds then shot outwards, knocking all the shinobi back. Jin appeared next to Naruto, anger evident on his face.
He carefully bent over Naruto and reached out to pick him up. Naruto flinched away, afraid that it was someone that was going to finish what had been started. A depressed look came onto Jin's face as he saw Naruto shun him like that.
"Naruto, it's me Jin. It's going to be alright."
Naruto raised his head to see Jin offering his hand out to him. He quickly took it and began to cry, the Kyuubi's chakra slowly receding from him. Jin was happy briefly before groans and shouts brought his attention back to the shinobi scattered about. Picking Naruto up into his arms,
Jin headed for the village gates.
Shinobi who threw themselves at Jin were forcefully repelled back. His bright green eyes glowed with a furious light. Upon reaching the main gates, Jin took a deep breath and prepared to leave, when a figure landed in front of him.
It was the Hokage. "How's Naruto?" Sarutobi said moving forward to get a better view of Naruto.
"He'll be fine, but I can not, in good conscience, allow Naruto to stay in this village. Those things called humans act more demonic than demons."
Tears began to fall from the Hokage's eyes as he felt responsible for the grave injustices that were carried out on Naruto.
"Naruto." Naruto removed his tear-stained face from Jin's chest to look at the Hokage. "I'm sorry that all this happened. I'm sorry that I wasn't able to protect you. I can only hope that you can forgive me someday."
Naruto removed himself from Jin's arms and embraced the Hokage. "It's okay. I don't blame you for what happened."
Jin allowed them a moment. "Come on Naruto. We have to get going."
Naruto broke the hug and moved back to Jin's side. They walked past the Hokage through the main gates.
"Naruto. Please come back someday and say hello to an old man."
Naruto turned his head and replied, "I will...someday."
With that Jin and Naruto walked off into the darkness and left the Hokage silently crying at the gates wondering when Naruto would return.
For now I am unsure of what to do, so I'll let you guys decide.
Pls vote if you want me to do a chapter of two on Naruto's training or if you want me to do a time skip immediatly to when he's 12.
If you vote for time skip, pls include the teams for the genin squads and sensei if you want them to change at all.
Thx.