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Kumo, Raikage's office
"Is this report accurate?" asked A, the current Raikage of the Hidden Cloud village to the Cloud Chunin in front of him.
Just a few minutes ago this same ninja who he had sent on a scouting mission in wave to check the status of the Civil War in Kiri had returned with an unexpected addition to his report. Apparently while passing through Wave country he came across a rather surprising scene.
"Yes Raikage-sama. On my way back from my mission in Mist I came across a large bandit camp in Wave country. I was about to move on when a young Leaf ninja wielding a giant sword appeared before the bandits. While I didn't think much of him at first he suddenly unleashed a wave of killing intent so large that I nearly collapsed under the pressure. He then donned this weird and demonic looking armor that appeared out of nowhere. He then attacked the bandits and I have to say it was a massacre. I had never seen such brutality like it as the boy became a literal demon and ended up butchering the entire camp single handedly. And that camp had enough missing nin, ronin and bandits to give even our jonin some trouble." said the Cloud ninja seriously while involuntarily shivering at the memory of the killing intent that had washed over him when the kid donned that armor.
A meanwhile was wondering what was up with this kid and what that armor meant. Was it some type of bloodline? Or was it some type of artifact from the early clan wars? Either way he couldn't take a chance in letting this kid slip away due to having a supposedly powerful bloodline. Though the Byakugan was preferable in his eyes he could settle for a bloodline that allowed a gaki to annihilate an entire bandit camp single-handedly.
Still if his bid failed then it could cause even more tension with Konoha than he already had thanks to his predecessors actions with the ambassador. He would have to be cautious with this.
"Hmm alright you can go and you'll get an extra C-rank payment for bringing this new information to my attention. Dismissed!" declared A getting a quick bow from the Chhunin before he left via shunshin.
Turning on the intercom the muscle bound Raikage spoke to his secretary Mabui, "Mabui! Get me a three man team of Chunin for a retrieval mission now!"
After getting an agreement from his assistant the Raikage returned to his most hated task given to him by his position.
"Damn this paperwork straight to hell!" he yelled before smashing his desk along with the paperwork while Mabui heard this and sighed while bringing out the extra copies. She really needed a drink after this.
Wave Country, Tsunami's house
It had taken slightly longer than Yugao would have liked to arrive where Kakashi and the rest of Team 7 were staying but it couldn't be helped what with Shiro having to carried a still wounded Alex which the boy was less than pleased about. Things also didn't get any better once they arrived between the screaming pink banshee and emo Uchiha Yugao was already at her wit's end.
"Oh will someone shut her the hell up!?" shouted Shiro having reached the end of his patience with the fan-girl.
Azusa was having a much easier time ignoring them as she was focused on healing Alex to the best of her ability. However in order to properly heal him she needed more power than she currently possessed. Thinking quickly she turned to Shiro.
"Shiro can you give me a hand here?" she asked and Shiro was all to eager to go to her so as to get the hell away from the two banes of his existence at the moment.
"What'cha need Sleeping Beauty?"
"Can you use your Boosted Gear to increase my chakra? I figure with the increased power I may be able to heal Alex instantly...that or he explodes due to the power." finished Azusa lamely but with her same happy expression.
Shiro didn't even need to think about it and instantly summoned the signature red gauntlet. After five or so 'Boost's!' he placed the gauntlet on Azusa's shoulder.
'Transfer!' Ddraig said from the gauntlet before Azusa felt a rush of power enter her while her form began to glow.
She quickly focused all of her newly acquired power into her healing of Alex and almost instantly before everyone's eye's all of Alex's visible wounds just ceased to be. Azusa was the only one to also know that all of his internal injuries had also disappeared.
After a few seconds the glow that surrounded Azusa died out and she was now panting lightly at the exertion. What no one expected though was for Alex to leap to his feet from the floor and into a fighting stance as his eyes widly scanned the immediate area for threats. Upon not seeing any he calmed down some and looked at everyone else who were now just staring at him.
"...soooo what happened when I blacked out?" asked Alex finally.
"Oh you know, you just used the Berserker armor to slaughter a whole bandit camp and passed out afterwards you know the usual shit." said Shiro casually.
Before Alex could reply he felt a hand on his shoulder, turning to the owner Alex gulped at seeing the hardened gaze of his sensei. It didn't take a genius to figure out what she wanted.
"You have some explaining to do Alex." she said with a slight squeeze of her hand to emphasize her words.
Knowing he wasn't getting out of this he turned towards Shiro and Azusa saying, "alright I guess I owe you that much... but so do these two as we basically all have something to tell you but before that can I please have my sword back." said Alex as he felt naked not having his prized weapon with him.
"Aw feeling a bit lacking without your weapon are you?" taunted Shiro as he tossed him the scroll containing his sword.
"Your about to be lacking a head and the ability to have kids in a minute if you don't shut up ass-wipe." replied Alex as he unsealed his sword and placed it on his back. Yet as he, Shiro and Azusa made to move somewhere more private to talk Sasuke stepped in their way glaring at Alex and Shiro with his ever loyal banshee right behind him.
"You want something gaylord?" asked Shiro with a raised brow.
"You two losers have power. I want you to give it to me since commoners like you don't deserve it!" demanded the Uchiha.
"YEAH GIVE SASUKE-KUN WHAT HE WANTS YOU BAKA'S!" screamed Sakura making everyone wince at the volume.
Shiro and Alex merely glanced at each-other before Shiro asked his teammate, "emo or pinkie."
After a moment of mock contemplation Alex points at Sakura and Shiro nods in agreement and before anyone could figure out what was about to happen Shiro and Alex simultaneously lash out punching Sakura and Sasuke in the face respectively and sending both emo and fan-girl flying out of the house through the conveniently open door.
"Well that was a longtime in coming." said Alex feeling very pleased with what he had just done.
"Yeah no kidding." said Shiro as the two continued to walk to a secluded room so they could talk with Yugao with Azusa following close behind leaving everyone else gaping at what had just happened.
"Is that normal?" Tazuna asked a stunned Kakashi.
"No it is not and they will most certainly be punished for such actions when we return to Konoha." said kakashi angrily as he glared at the two's backs.
Naruto meanwhile was surprised to see the two just smack around Sasuke and Sakura like they were nothing and walk off. This just made him more eager to talk to them but for some reason he was hesitant to do so. It was almost as if something was telling him to let them come to him and not the other way around.
When Team 14 had finally found an empty room Yugao quickly had Azusa put up some silencing seals since this seemed to bea very confidential matter with these three.
"Alright so whose going to tell me what the hell is going on with you three?" demanded Yugao with her hands on her hips looking at the three genin in front of her.
Said genin were looking at each-other having a silent conversation on who would be the one to speak first. Honestly Yugao found it amusing when both Azusa and Shiro focused their gazes on Alex. Said genin tried to deny it and pass it off to one of his teammates but it was a losing battle. So eventually he gave a reluctant sigh as both Shiro and Azusa gave triumphant grins at seeing they had won their little mental bout.
*sigh*"Alright looks like I've been nominated. So where do I start?" said Alex while looking at his sensei while mentally cursing his own teammates for putting him on the spot. Rest assured there would be hell to pay.
"How about you start at the beginning." suggested Yugao getting a shrug from Alex as he did just that. This was going to be a long conversation.
3 hours later
It had taken far longer than the genin had liked to tell Yugao everything due to her constantly interrupting to ask questions. Still it was nice to finally tell Yugao everything though Alex, Shiro and Azusa were pretty vague on their abilities and knowledge of the timeline of the world.
They weren't stupid enough to reveal everything right off the bat. Yet after the big reveal it had in fact brought the group closer together. Now though the genin of team 14 had a certain Uzumaki to talk to and after asking Yugao she quickly left just to bring back the short blonde jinchuriki who was quite confused on what the three wanted from him as their sensei left to talk with Kakashi on their next move for the mission ahead of them.
It was silent for a good few minutes as Naruto stared uncomfortably at his peers wondering what they had to talk to him about. Surprisingly enough it was Azusa who spoke up first.
"Well I think introductions are in order. I am Azusa Naruto and its nice to meet you." said Azusa with a polite bow and had to force herself to stay awake for a little longer so they could talk to the one who would have the biggest impact on the world.
"Well alright then since we're introducing ourselves the names Shiro blondie." said Shiro as he couldn't wait to get to helping Naruto be a more powerful ninja than in the original series.
"Names Alex Naruto and like my teammates it is nice to meet you." said Alex simply as he and the others waited for Naruto to respond.
"Oh nice to meet you all! Names Naruto!" said Naruto with his usual enthusiasm as he was feeling a lot more comfortable around his fellow ninja. He just met them and he already found them a lot better company than his own team which is pretty pathetic if he thought about it.
"Okay now that introductions are out of the way time to get down to business! More specifically the business of you Naruto." said Shiro pointing at a now stunned and wary blonde.
"W-w-what about business with me dattebayo!?" declared Naruto with his verbal tick coming out.
Shiro got a smack to his head from Alex since he now scared the kid. Thankfully Azusa was there to play damage control.
"It's nothing bad Naruto in fact it is actually something you might appreciate. You see we want to help train you." said Azusa getting nods of agreement from both Alex and Shiro but a confused one from the Kyubi Jinchuriki.
"Huh? But Kakashi-sensei is supposed to be teaching me? And your just genin like me so what could you teach me?" asked Naruto confused as to why and how they wanted to help him.
"Alright kid I'm gonna lay it out for you... your sensei isn't gonna teach you jack shit just like those teachers in the academy. The only thing you'll ever learn from him is tree-walking and then you'll be on your own while he trains the emo king. Plus those two shitheads you call teammates are more of a hindrance to you then anything else." said Alex plainly. He wasn't gonna beat around the bush with this as he always wanted to say this to Naruto. His 'teacher's' taught him jack shit and he basically had to adapt and survive on his own.
"B-b-but their my friends and teammates! They would never abandon me!" denied Naruto actually making the three wince at the desperation in which he said it. They knew the village fucked him up with their neglect but damn!
"Listen Naruto but they aren't your friends. Kakashi is a hypocritical pervert who will never take you seriously and will spend all of his time training the duck butt known as Sasuke. Sasuke is for all intents and purposes... a gay emo who doesn't give a damn about anyone but himself and treats you like dirt even now. And Sakura is a rabid banshee fangirl who would gut you without a second thought as soon as Sasuke gave the word. Basically your entire team is shit and don't give a damn about your well being." said Shiro bluntly.
At this point Naruto looked as though someone told him he couldn't eat ramen anymore. At first he wanted to tell them they were wrong about his team but as he thought about it he realized they had a point. He had seen Kakashi giving Sasuke pointers during training while leaving him and Sakura high and dry. Then there were the times he talked with Sasuke and Sakura, the emo always treated him as dirt just like the rets of the village and Sakura was always supporting him. Plus the pink haired girl was always hitting him every time he even looked at her! So despite not wanting to believe it h couldn't find a fault in Shiro's words no matter how harsh they were.
"...maybe you are right. Maybe they don't care abut me like I hoped but what can you do about that?" asked Naruto with a frown.
"Well for one we're gonna help with your training from here on out! Me and Shiro are gonna teach you about swordsmanship, some elemental jutsu, taijutsu and a few other things you should have learned by now. But we're gonna have to get you a sword before we can start training you in Kenjutsu so that will have to be put on hold for now. Other than that though Azusa is gonna teach you about seals and some basic knowledge you were denied in the academy." said Alex with Shiro and Azusa agreeing with him as they had talked about the subject previously and felt the best way to help Naruto was to help him get stronger earlier on in life and make sure he didn't give his loyalty to those who didn't deserve it like pinkie and the duck butt.
Naruto thought over their offer for a few moments as while he wasn't smart book wise he was street smart and knew nothing gained came without a price tag attatched to it. Now he just wondered what was the price for these three to train him as he knew they were stronger than him immensely. So depending on the price the offer was almost too good to be true since they seemed sincere int heir statements and actually seemed to give a damn about him which people like that were hard to come by.
"While the offer sounds nice and all what do you want for helping me? No one would just do this out without getting something in return." said Naruto while crossing his arms in front of him waiting for an answer.
Alex was about to tell him they didn't want anything until Shiro grabbed him by the shoulder to get his attention. Looking at his teammate curiously Shiro then whispered something into Alex's ear that made him go a bit wide eyed in surprise until he grinned as well. Shiro then passed on his idea to Azusa who after thinking about it a moment agreed. Turning back to Naruto Alex smiled before giving his answer.
"Well now that you mention it if you could just do us a teeny tiny favor we would really appreciate it." said Alex as Naruto raised a brow at this.
"And what favor is that?"
"TEACH US THE SHADOW CLONE JUTSU!" yelled both Shiro and Alex in unison as out of every jutsu in this world that one had to be the absolute best. And if they had the chance to learn it they were sure as hell gonna take it!
Naruto jumped back a bit as he was startled by the sudden outburst but after a moment just slowly nodded in agreement not really sure why they wanted to learn his now trademark jutsu. But as long as he got some wicked training out of it then it wasn't such big a loss. Plus he felt kind of glad someone appreciated his skill with the technique as he had heard it was extremely difficult to use.
"Great! So lets go get some sleep cause tomorrow we start training!" announced Alex happily as they all left the room while deactivating the silencing seals. This next week was gonna be tough for Naruto as he will finally be learning something other than 'teamwork' from Kakashi and maybe actually have some real friends his own age and not just a pair of annoying teammates.
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