Summary: During his stay on a hidden continent to the rest of the world as a part of his preparation to take the throne, the All-Father-in-training falls for a red-headed beauty with a feisty temper. A few months later, she is preparing to give birth when Loki sends a beast with nine-tails after them. Thor, utilizing his disguise as a random shinobi named, Namikaze Minato, sacrifices his own son and his physical form in this realm (again) to seal the demon within his son. Twelve years pass, and the son of the God of Thunder and King of Asgard, does something to unleash his hidden potential, and now he will have to prove why he is...

SON OF THOR

9: Passing Grade

"YOSH! My youthful arch rival!" Lee exclaimed to the blonde that was rubbing his head, "Who do you wish to face in this youthful tournament! I wish to face you in youthful combat just as my youthful teammate, the genius Neji, faces his youthful cousin!"

Naruto groaned and smacked his head against the railing. Kakashi patted the young demi-god on the back in understanding. Knocked out from her fight, lying against the wall was the pink haired Haruno and in a hospital room under the surveillance of two ANBU agents, Uchiha Sasuke rested comfortably after a seal was placed over his curse mark. The blue eyed teen tuned his new 'arch-rival' out and looked down at the match.

"Surrender, Hinata-sama," Neji practically spat in distaste as he used the honorific, making Naruto's eyes narrow, "Or else you shall fail...again."

Hinata swallowed and briefly glimpsed behind her to see Naruto scowling at her cousin. Feeling worse, the young clan heiress prepared to forfeit the match when her crush suddenly spoke, "Proctor, I'm initiating Code Seventy-two-dash-four-semicolon-Jay!"

The sensei and proctor of the preliminaries gaped at the blonde with shock and awe in their features. Kurenai looked ready to hug the boy out of sheer gratefulness (the large browed obscenity looked to do the same much to Naruto's fear), Asuma and the Hokage looked amazed that the blond knew of that code, and finally Kakashi seemed to just stare with a wide eye at his student.

"Naruto...You do know what that code is, right?" Kakashi asked quietly, though the entire room could hear him.

Naruto nodded, "Of course, Kakashi-sensei. Code 72-4;J is to be activated in the event that a clan heir could possibly lose their life in a spar due to their opponent's emotional opposition to them. The one that initiated the code must then face the attempt-murderer in a match that lasts until one dead or unconscious...Normally this code is reserved for village tournaments, and is usually nulled in an inter-village tournament, but seeing as this match is between two Konoha genin, I can interfere."

"It's legally allowed," the Sandaime confirmed from his place with a nod next to the awed previous examiners before looking down at Hayate, "The Code of Shinobi Conduct 72-4;J is approved. The match now is Uzumaki Naruto V. Hyuuga Neji."

Hinata quickly, although trying to seem like she wasn't moving quickly, vacated the area, blushing when Naruto gave her a thumbs up. Naruto then grabbed his hammer and tossed it at the ground, causing a large cloud of smoke to shoot up and making the entire room shield their eyes as the smoke filled the room. Neji activated his Byakugan only to be blinded when a sudden surge of immense chakra flowed through the arena. The teen grabbed at his eyes and yowled in pain, before deactivating his Byakugan and jumping back as the ground collapsed. What he and the rest of the room saw made their eyes nearly pop out of their sockets.

"Troublesome..." Shikamaru eventually sighed out, summing up what every contestant thought with a simple word as they saw Naruto standing in the middle of a ten by ten meter crater that was easily five meters deep, his hammer smack-dab in the center of the impact zone. With no strain on his part, Naruto picked his weapon up by its leather strap with two fingers, a hard glare locked on his opponent.

"You hold so much anger at your cousin...anger that is not rightly placed," Naruto softly said as he twirled his hammer. His eyes narrowed as he slowly fell into a stance, "My father and mother have told me much about your clan's seal. You realize if Hinata-chan wanted to, she could have used the appropriate seal..."

Neji narrowed his eyes before replying, "A fate put upon us by oppressive clan heads that found us 'impure' blood–"

"Save the fate talk for someone who cares," Naruto growled back as his eyes hardened, causing the witnesses to recoil and his opponent's teammates to wince in pity. Naruto ignored the glare he received from the Hyuuga, and continued, "Boo-hoo, my daddy died. Boo-hoo, I've got a seal on my head that could kill me. Boo-hoo, boo-hoo, boo-hoo...I ain't cryin' for you, Neji. I feel bad that you have all these problems, yes, but I will never show you pity. No, seeing how you act, contempt for a kind girl who happens to be your uncle's daughter, now all I see is a coward."

"You dare!" Neji snarled as he clenched his fists, "You, who has no family. You, who has no responsibilities! You dare call me a coward!"

"Not only do I dare it," Naruto said as he stopped spinning his hammer and holstered it at his side, "I'll prove it by beating you with one move."

"...You...You think you can beat me?" Neji chuckled out before sneering at the blonde, "You haven't the talent. You're a failure. Failed the academy exam three times, yes?"

"Twice, actually," Naruto said with a smirk, "Passed the third test with flying colors."

At the stands, the Hokage chuckled at Naruto's bravado. The blonde was doing well so far. But this fight wouldn't end easily for him if he decided to keep with his claim. The Hokage's smile fell as he thought about what Naruto continued to say.

He's claimed that Minato and Kushina trained him, and yet he shows no anger when told he has no family...What happened on those few days of absence, Naruto? The elderly Kage thought with a frown, Who changed you into this person?

Hiruzen was torn from his thoughts when Neji barked out a laugh, "HA! You are definitely a Dobe. My team is very similar to yours, in fact, one could say we're your predecessors. You remind me of my teammate, Rock Lee."

Naruto's eye twitched at the name and he closed his eyes before talking again, "Stop talking. Now. Proctor...Start the match. I have a feeling that we're going to lose control of ourselves if we don't fight now."

"*cough* Hajime!" Hayate said, lowering his hand before leaping up to the Hokage's side. He looked over at the Kumo shinobi, the redheaded and the blonde girls were now watching intently while the white-haired dark-skinned boy and his sensei were making bets with one another. Hayate looked back down at Naruto and smiled in reminiscence as he thought, Kushina-sensei...he's definitely your son. Befriending the enemy...Only your son would be capable of doing that.

"Your fate is to lose here," Neji confidently proclaimed. Hayate winced as he saw the same look he had seen on his sensei's face go over her son's. That Hyuuga was in for the beating of a lifetime.

"No, actually Neji," Naruto said before he quickly tossed Hi-no-Ishi at Neji. The Hyuuga smirked and he dodged the weapon with ease and braced himself for the following explosion. He frowned when he didn't hear it and activated his Byakugan. He saw that everyone was slack jawed, even the opposing village's shinobi were wide eyed, aside from Gaara (who looked rather insane with the grin on his face), and when he focused his attention behind him, he discovered why.

"...You lose," Naruto said smugly as he stood behind his opponent and cocked his right fist back, his hammer in the left hand as the arm was extended behind him. The blonde's fist flew faster than Neji could react and made contact right at his opponent's hetai-ite. Neji's head snapped back and people gasped as blood flew from his mouth and eyes before he flew backwards, skidding along the ground.

Neji twitched in pain before looking at his opponent's nearing body, the blonde twirling his hammer with a small frown on his face. Naruto stopped twirling the Asgardian weapon and caught it by the handle, before walking to Neji's head and speaking in a whisper to the pain-stricken Hyuuga.

"By the way...I do have parents, Neji. Ask your team what they saw before I hit you. You'll understand when I say that the village has good reason to keep quiet..." he said before looking at the Hokage and loudly asking, "Can we get some Medics down here, Hokage-sama?"

"Y-Yes...Naruto, come with me." The Hokage said as he walked towards the exit. With a shrug, Naruto lazily floated up with the power of the wind backing him to land next to his village's leader, holstering his hammer as he walked with his hands behind his head.

"K-Kakashi," Kurenai stuttered out as she watched the medics take Neji away, "T-That...That was..."

"Yes." Kakashi confirmed with a prideful smile, "That was my sensei's signature technique. Naruto is his son and heir to his name...Not to mention he's a natural when it comes to elemental manipulation. I taught him Raikiri and he mastered it effortlessly in a week. Hell, he reinvented the Chidori so I don't need to use my 'Eye'."

"...But...That was Wind manipulation," Asuma muttered before glaring at the masked shinobi, "You shouldn't have put him through wind mastery, Kakashi. It's the hardest-"

"I didn't teach him that," Kakashi said with despair as he dipped his head, "All I've taught him are Raikiri, he remade the Chidori, and what it means to be a teammate. Unfortunately, his team hasn't learned that lesson."

"What do you mean, my rival?" Asked a genuinely concerned Gai. Kakashi frowned as he looked at a hiding Sakura. The pinkette was deathly ashamed of her actions, but seeing her sensei's anger intensified her guilt.

"...It's none of your concern, Gai," Kakashi said with restrained anger as he focused back at the conversing Kumo squad, "But, I need to talk to them..."

"Hirashin...He knows the fucking Hirashin?" Karui whisper-yelled, her eyes wide before glaring at her snickering sensei, "Something you wanna add, sensei?"

"Looks like Minato and Kushina 'ave been busy in the bed," Kirabi started with a grin before a blush crossed his face and he giggled, "And knowin' he's definitely their brat lets me know he's got a lot of ideas in his head!"

"What if he we have to fight him?" Omoi worriedly offered, making Karui groan, "I mean, we wouldn't last a minute! And if we did manage to beat him, how do we know he'll stop? He's got Mjolnir! For all we know he's Kaminari-ou!"

Yugito smacked a hand over Omoi's mouth before she glanced around at the rest of the people in the room, all in their own worlds or conversing amongst themselves. Softly, the container of the Nibi no Nekomata whispered, "We'll question him with the Raikage. For now, his village isn't aware that the Hokage has agreed to let Naruto-kun 'escort' us home."

"Since when have you been calling Naruto-sama, Naruto-kun? OW!" Omoi cried out when a blushing Yugito along with an annoyed Karui slammed their fists into his head. The young teen collapsed to the ground and cradled his head, his guffawing sensei laughing at him. Yugito huffed and turned away while Karui muttered darkly to herself about "Idiot blonde boys getting respect they don't deserve..."

"So what did you want to talk about, Hokage-sama?" Naruto asked as he crossed his arms and leaned against the desk in the room the Hokage had led him to. The blonde blinked in confusion when the Hokage narrowed his eyes at him.

"Who taught you those techniques, Naruto?" Sarutobi asked with a frown. The demi-god pinched his brow and muttered to himself before looking up at the man with a slight look of annoyance on his face.

"The Warriors Three taught me," Naruto replied with a frown, "I explained this to you in my report."

"Your report was unprofessional and a fabrication equivalent to a genjutsu," the Hokage said with a scowl, "Your parents are dead, both died defending you from the demon fox-"

A surge of killing intent escaped Naruto, making the older man take a hesitant step back, quickly raising his hand to keep his personal ANBU at bay. The blonde teen glared at the Sandaime and electricity arced over his arms.

"Keep talking about things you know nothing about, Hokage-sama, and I'll ask Odin-jiji to smite you personally," the demigod growled before grabbing his head and falling to a knee. Naruto released a cry of pain before falling unconscious. The Hokage and his ANBU moved to help him when a bright light shined in the room and a boom of thunder caused the five to cover their ears.

"SARUTOBI!" a voice echoed in the room. The Hokage and his ANBU stood defensively before their eyes popped out of their sockets when the glowing visage of a familiar blonde man stood before them with a very familiar redheaded woman. The woman then smacked the blonde over the head before kneeling next to the unconscious blonde.

"Tch, look at what you did to my baby, Thor!" Kushina said, cradling the exhausted boy's head in her lap, "You knew the Hirashin exhausts him! Why not give him a warning?"

Thor groaned as he rubbed his head, "That, my love, would be called Devine Interference...By Odin's Beard, did you have to strike me so hard?"

"K-Kushina? W-What? Who is that?" Sarutobi asked as he and his ANBU guards stared at the two projections of the lords of Asgard. Thor scowled and snapped his fingers, briefly becoming Namikaze Minato once again. The ANBU fell to their knees out of habit and Sarutobi's pipe dropped from his mouth.

"What's wrong, Monkey-boy?" Minato asked before returning to his true form, "Thine mind and faith have withered away, but has your eyesight gone as well?"

"Minato? But you...Dear Kami!" Sarutobi exclaimed, grabbing his head as his eyes bulged from their sockets as it connected in his mind, "NARUTO WAS TELLING THE TRUTH?"

"Stupid Ojisan!" Kushina scolded, glaring daggers at the man, "Of course my sochi was telling the truth!"

"Kushina-sempai?" a purple haired ANBU questioned as she slowly looked up and removed her mask, "I-Is it really you?"

Kushina blinked before grinning in a manner like her son, "Yuugao-chan? Is that you? Look at you! All grown up and so beautiful, wouldn't you say so, Koi?"

Thor chuckled before looking at another ANBU removing his mask, grinning widely, "Tenzo? The years have been kind to you, my young friend."

The Mokuton user chuckled and nodded, "As they have you, Yondaime-sama."

Thor waved his hand, "Bah! Such a trivial title. I prefer my name, Thor Odinson."

Sarutobi was speechless as he watched the two deceased warriors reconnect with apprentices and friends. It all became too much for the old Kage, and he fell backwards into unconsciousness. Thor and Kushina glanced at the man, smirking before looking at each other.

As expected, they thought simultaneously.

AN: short, yes, but it's an update at least. And next chapter Sarutobi gets some answers, the Kumo group escorts Naruto, and I finally reveal what the rash on Lee is...Oh, might have crossed the line...

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