the DragonBard: his bloodline trait has two parts. first and foremost is the ability to manipulate paper. this part is inate. the seconed part is the part that makes it a dojutsu. the orange ring that apears allows for easier learning and use of sealing techniques, thus giving him an even greater mastery of paper. think of it as the ultimate bloodeline for a seal master.
scione: who the heck is anita?
grumpywinter: the dojutsu is a mostly literal translation of paper manipulation eye. personaly I see nothing wrong with it.
the 1 u dont c: To be honest, I do give it an extremely quick once over when I'm done with the chapter. Though I'm only human. As for a beta, I'm not the most trusting when it comes to sharing my creative works with others, especialy when their purpose is to alter it.
Pairings: it boils down to these two options...and remember, only signed reviews count!
Naruto x Ino : 2 Naruto x TenTen : 2
One last thing before I continue this story: The chunin exam will be quite different than the original, but thats later.
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Naruto woke up in a cold sweat, as usual. He hated it when he'd dream about the beatings he recieved when he was younger. Shaking the feeling off, Naruto headed for the bathroom to take a long hot shower before his team meeting in an hour. 15 minutes later he stepped out and put on his other pair of black shinobi pants with an orange stripe down the side and numberous utility pockets, black longsleve mesh shirt and a crimson & black t-shirt. He then put on his black sandals and took off for the Dango stand.
When he arived he noticed every one was there before he was, including Shikamaru's lazy self. Instantly he knew he was screwd, if not for being late, then simply because of his senseis smile. A smile so phychotic, it'd give Ibiki a run for his money in an interigation room. "Uh, mornin Anko-sensei" he said meekly.
"Ok brats, now that blondies here we can get started. First off I want to congradulate you again for passing my lil test. See, I knind of forgot to mention that it was realy a B-rank mission, to judge you on how you deal with situation changes. You brats have some potential, but don't let it get to your heads." At this point the three teens' jaws hit the ground before they fell over due to a loss of balance caused by extreme shock. "And no, you won't be paid for it."
"U-um, wh-what do y-you mm-mean sen-sensei?" Hinata asked.
"You brats did a high chunin level mission, or at least a simulation of one. Thats what I mean by that." Anko then looked at her charges/guinea pigs before continueing. "Anyway brats I made a little Training schedule for you, effective tomarrow. Here." she then handed each one a schedule before starting to walk off. "Oh, and by the way, you have 5 minutes to get to the training grounds." she then disapeared in a puff of smoke.
'Crap!' was their colective thaught as they took off running. as soon as they arived, Anko threw somthing at them and they barely caught them. weights, 20 kilos a limb to start with. "Time for some training kids, put your weights, that I oh so graciously took my time to get, on and then run 50 laps around konoha. You have 4 hours, now get going."
Surprisingly, the first person to speak up was Hinata. "Um, A-anko-sen-sensei, I th-thaught t-t-training did-didn't start un-untill tom-tommarow?"
Anko just pointed a weak glare at her. "Blondie was late, this is punishment. Oh, and times still ticking!" she finished with a sickeningly sweet voice. she could have swore she heard curses and a muttered troublesome blonde.
-5 hours, 23 minutes and 53 seconds later-
Team 8 returned to their training field after their grueling death run and fell to the ground exausted. after about ten minutes or so they looked up to see their sensei grinning at them, though at the moment it looked completely out of place. That moment, they knew with out a doubt, that they were screwd. Anko took the time that they were sitting there silent to inform them of thier failure. "Well, since you three decided to take your time, I have a special present for you. But thats later. Now, since you couldn't finish your laps in the given time I'm just going to have to have you run another 50 laps. Maybe this time around youll be faster. You have one hour to eat lunch and adjust to your weights for small movements and everyday things."
Lunch was either a complete disaster or an award winning home comody, depending how you look at it. From Anko's perspective it was priceless. most of the food wound up on them, not in. After Ankos little bit of fun she removed some of the weight from their arms, half in fact. Though she didnt stop there, she added the missing weight to the leg weights. "There. That should do it." she said to her self when she finished. "Ok, breaks over brats. Get moving!"
Several hours later, team 8 walked back to in front of their forest, and dropped like flys. "Alright brats, thats good for today, now go home, I'm tired of baby sitting ya." Anko said in an obnoxious and yet threatning tone before leaving in a cloud of smoke. Although they wanted to follow orders, they were just too wore out.
Eventualy all three genins got up and headed off in different directions, though their destination was all the same one. Home to bed.
-the next morning-
Naruto could barely get out of bed, his entire body felt like it was slowly riped apart and then put back together several times. Slowly, he made it to the shower whare he just leaned against the wall and let the hot water soak into his skin, releaving the stiffness from his muscles. A couple minutes later he walked out of his bathroom and got dressed before heading out the door for his first official day of training under Anko-sensei.
As per instructed, Naruto showed up at at the dango stand percicely 6 AM, along with Hinata and Shikamaru less then two seconds later. The blonde greeted his team mates as they arived.
In a burst of smoke Anko arived, giving them the same 5 minute time limit as the day before to get to training area 44. As soon as they arived, a few minutes late, she told them to get started on their 50 laps. Groaning and complaining the set off to complete the laps.
-5 hours, 22 minutes and 58 seconds later-
Anko gave them a smile that was usualy reserved only for perverts at the bath house that peeped on her. They could feel the blood lust coming from their sensei, causing them to gulp nervously. "Ok brats, you did better today. For the next hour we're going to be working on chakra control and by we I mean you. Heres your task. Your to make this kunai float above your index finger on your dominant hand. One peice of advice, lean it quickly unless you like being a pin cushion." She then watched as each person took out one of their all purpose knives and tried to perform said task. The only one that came even close to being able to do it was Hinata, but Anko saw this as being a given due to her clans techniques.
After the hour was up she thaught she should give them their 'special present' that she mention the day before. "Ok brats, we're getting a mission, come one!" she yelled with mock enthusiasm, causing Shikamaru to frown and Hinata to become nervous. Naruto on the other hand went nuts.
"Awesome, we're getting a mission! what are we going to do? Hunt down some bandits? Or protect a person thats seemingly a nobody but is realy the thorn in the side of someone rich and powerfull who wants them dead?" Asked Naruto, casusing Anko to smack her hand up against her forehead before getting a twisted smile that made him gulp nervously.
"Oh, I'm sure it'll be something dangerous and well worth this teams skills." She said before breaking out into a fit of laughter. She then motioned for them to follow her. Moments later they arived at the dango stand. "It's lunch time, I need my dango fix." she said, answering thier unasked question.
Everybody ordered at least three helpings of dango and took their precious time eating it, or in Ankos case, savoring every bite. Shikamaru took this time to ask something that hed been wondering about the last couple days. "Hey, Naruto, How'd you do that with the paper?"
"That's my blood line limit, the peepaatesabakigan, or paper manipulation eye. Unlike other Dojutsu's, I dont have to say or think the name of it to activate it. All I have to do is put some chakra into the paper and will it to do what I want, almost like it's an extension of my body. Watch." At this he pulled out a deck of playing cards, and they shot out from the center forming a sword-like shape. The cards then went back into the pack before he lifted his arm out and released a torrent of paper that formed itself into a wolf sized fox. At this he had Shikamarus' full attention, not even a hint of lazyness in his eyes. Anko was just looking at him wide eyed with shock. Hinata was a differnt story, she was looking at him like one of Sasukes fan girls looks at said Uchiha. When everybody was done with lunch they headed to the tower to get thier mission.
Once they arived at the administrative building they went in and were lead to the mission room. When they entered the room the three genins looked around the office and noticed thier old teacher along with the Hokage. "Hokage-sama, Genin squad 8 reporting for mission assignment." Anko said with a twitch of the corner of her mouth, indicating she was supressing a sadistic smirk.
"Ah, yes, I have the perfect mission for you and your team Anko-chan." The Sandaime said with a smile as he handed her a folder with the 'mission' details. Smiling back, she bowed as they were dismissed. As soon as they got outside the building she started to give them the mission specs. They were supposed to find a cat that ran off earlier today. though this was more than just some random persons lost pet, it was none other than the Diamyo of fire countries wife's cat. Said cat had a record of running away at least 4 times a week.
Groaning, team guinea pig went about the humiliating task of finding the lost pet. 2 hours later theycame into the mission room with the offending cat looking like they just got back from an A-rank mission. After watching the cat get practicly crushed by the woman, the team was feeling slightly better, even Hinata to her own surprise. They then went and received their payment for completing thier 'mission' before heading back to thier training grounds. As soon as they got there, thier sensei had to let them know they weren't done training for the day. She then had Shikamaru and Naruto spar with Hinata in a triple threat match. The winner was to receive a jutsu from her and she would only teach it to the winner of this match. It ended up as a three way tie. "Well, since it was a three way tie I guess i could teach all three of you the jutsu, but than again nobody actualy won..." she just trailed off there, leaving the sentence hanging.
Unnoticed to anybody but Anko, the three genin were already adapting quickly to their weights. That's when an idea struck her. "Ok brats, I decided to teach you three a jutsu." She said with an evil grin. "All you have to do is make these four hand signs" as she said that she showed them to her charges "and call out 'Ninja art: weight increase technique'." As soon as they did the seals and called the name of the jutsu thier weights increased by 20 pounds, causing them to lose ballance and fall over. All the while Anko was laughing at the mysery she just had them inflict on them selves. "To realease the weight, all you half to do is form the ram seal and say release. only under extreme circumstances are you allowed to release the weight. Think of it as a trump card. Alright, you brats can go do what ever you want, though I sugest team exercises." She then disapeared in a cloud of purple smoke.