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"Speaking"
'Thinking'
"Kyuubi speaking"
"Ajax speaking"
"Jutsu"
*sound*
Author's note: If there are any holes in my plot that you can spot, that is if there is any, then don't worry because I'll go into detail on that later. Well there's not much to tell you other than that, so enjoy this chapter and I'll see you soon (I guess... I don't know, maybe, who knows).
*Beep*
*Beep*
*BEEP*
*BEEEEEPPPPPP*
Naruto wake up as he heard that damn annoying sound, he turned to the clock and turned off the alarm before he got off the bed and walked downstairs to make some food for himself. He then sat down in the dining room and processed to eat the toast he made for himself, after he was done, he left for his training place.
*Yawn* Naruto yawned a bit and rubbed the corner of his eyes as he stayed to wake the rest of his brain that was sleeping, he got into the ruins of the temple and took the training dummies that he planned on using to improve his taijutsu but was interrupted by a voice inside his head.
"Naruto I want you to spend this day focusing on your chakra control." ordered Ajax and despite how much Naruto didn't want to do it, Naruto obeyed Ajax's order and focused on improving his chakra control by doing chakra control exercises.
Naruto decided to do the tree walking exercise. Naruto had seen his sister practicing this when she was being taught by Minato and Kushina, he had spent a long time observing Mito to know the concept behind the exercise. Naruto focused chakra on his feet and tried to walk up the tree but as soon as he got 3 feet off the ground, the bark exploded and sent Naruto back a bit.
Naruto rotated his body to land on his feet, Naruto focusing chakra on his feet again as he tried to walk up the tree but only after being 3 feet off of the ground, the bark exploded again and caused Naruto to jump back and land on his feet.
Naruto kept trying and kept failing, but only after trying 12 times in a row did he finally got 1 foot higher up the surface of the tree, Naruto was pissed out that after trying for a while he only got a foot higher than before.
Naruto was about to go ballistic but stopped when he heard the Ajax's voice, Naruto decided to listen to Ajax and calm him as he took a deep breath and exhaled, Naruto kept taking deep breaths and exhaling until all the rage that he felt was gone and he was feeling relaxed and calm.
Once Naruto felt calm and relaxed, he decided to continue his chakra control exercise and did it. Naruto spent about the whole practicing the tree walking exercise, when he looked up at the sky he saw that it was dark, so he decided to go home and have some dinner because he was exhausted from all that training and wanted to eat some ramen.
Naruto took out a towel and got rid of his sweat before he left for his home, the walk to his home wasn't pleasant as most of people that he saw on his way were glaring at him but Naruto ignored it as he headed home. Naruto was so happy because he had learned three jutsus and had a new friend in just the span of to days, so there was nothing that could bring him down.
Naruto whistled a joyful tune for the rest of the walk to his home as he was happier than he had been for the last 6 years, Naruto got to the his house and opened the door to see a surprising view: Minato and Kushina were standing there in front of him as if they had been waiting there for him.
"Did something happen?" Naruto asked, he couldn't stop but wonder as to why Minato and Kushina had been waiting for him. Naruto didn't know why they had been waiting for him but he knew it had to be something that he wouldn't like.
"We need to talk Naruto." said Minato as he put his hand on Naruto's shoulder and pointed to the living room, Naruto decided to go to the living room with Minato and Kushina, and see what they wanted to talk about
"Naruto, I know this might be hard for you to handle but the thing is..." Kushina didn't get to finish the sentence as Minato finished it for her.
"The thing is that we feel that it would best if you gave up on being a shinobi and chose to be something else. Since Mito is going to be the clanhead, she has to be a ninja but you don't have to." said Minato.
Naruto couldn't believe his ears, what Minato and Kushina said had pissed off Naruto beyond his limit, Naruto didn't respond as he turned around and left his hom- no, it wasn't his home anymore, it was Minato and Kushina's house.
Naruto ran away and left for his training place, once he got to the training place he stayed in ruins of a temple and sat in the darkness of the ruins as he looked up at the stars and saw how pretty they were.
Naruto knew that he couldn't hide in there forever, so he asked Ajax if he could do anything and Ajax said that Naruto could do something to change his appearance, which Naruto had asked if Ajax would tell him. Ajax declined to but after much begging, Ajax finally changed his mind and decided to tell Naruto what to do.
Ajax told Naruto what to do; Naruto first made a series of handsigns in a particular order before "Half-beast mode." called out Naruto as he used a brand new jutsu that he had never used.
Once Naruto used the jutsu, he felt a stinging sensation on his finger and hair as his nails sharpened and lengthened by a few centimetres and his hair become longer and wilder than before as he felt his chakra reserves double: Naruto's chakra reserves were now equivalent to that of a Kage. Naruto saw a puddle of water and walked towards it, he looked at the reflection on the puddle and saw that his hair had become brown with no trace of blond hair and he also noticed that his eye colour were red now.
Naruto brought his head up as he sniffed the air and smelled a wonderful scent, he rushed towards the scent as Naruto was entranced to find the source of the scent. Naruto ran for a couple of minutes before he bumped into a person.
Naruto looked up and saw that the person was a man: his brown hair was tied up nicely into a ponytail, he had dark eyes and he had a scar that ran across the bridge of his nose. He wore the wore the standard Konoha shinobi outfit with a flak jacket, a forehead protector and sandals.
From what Naruto could gather about this man, he knew he was a shinobi, a chunin or jounin, and he probably had a lot of experience as a shinobi if the scar running across his the bridge of his nose was anything to go on.
"Are you alright?" asked the man who is in Naruto's opinion was , he offered a hand to Naruto, which Naruto gladly took as he helped Naruto get on his feet.
Naruto heard his voice and from the way she spoke Naruto knew that she was worried about him, Naruto listen to her voice as she had spoken so softly, "... I-I'm f-fine." said Naruto nervously as he had never met the person before: Naruto was a bit happy because he had never had someone worry about him, well except Ajax but this was different as he was the first person to be worried about him.
Naruto was surprised by the fact that someone was worried about him that he didn't notice that his nail was back to how they used to be before Naruto used the jutsu and Naruto's eyes had turned brown, however Naruto's hair remained the same as it was after he used that, as his hair was still brown and wild as it was after he used that jutsu.
"Are you all alone?" asked the man in a caring tone as he looked a bit worried for Naruto since Naruto was a kid and wondering around after dark was a bad idea.
Naruto didn't say anything, which the man took for a yes. The man grabbed his hand and dragged him to her place, Naruto couldn't help but be surprised by the man's strength as he was dragging him so easily, like he was carrying a little teddy bear with her.
He got to his apartment and closed the door before he dragged Naruto to the living room in her apartment, he and Naruto sat down on the floor before he asked Naruto "Do you have a family?", Naruto just nodded.
"Do you know where they are?" asked the man as he looked directly at Naruto's eyes to see if he was telling the truth, Naruto responded by nodding his head.
The man was wondering why he wasn't with his family or making his way to them if he knew where they were, so he had no choice but to ask "Why don't you go back to them?" Naruto quickly responded with a "I need some time away from them." and continued on to state that he would go back soon once he felt like it.
The man asked "Why?" to which Naruto responded by saying that "Because they can be a handful.", Naruto shook his head at the image of hs family in his head.
The man stood there thinking what to do and realised that he didn't even introduced himself, "I'm Iruka and you would be..." he waited for Naruto to give his name.
Naruto was thinking of a fake name, "Ajax." said Naruto as he borrowed Ajax's name for himself since he knew he couldn't say that he was Naruto Namikaze otherwise Iruka would know that he was related to Minato Namikaze.
"Well then Ajax, what are you going to do now." asked Iruka as he was interested in what Ajax was planning on doing since he didn't want to go back to his home for awhile.
"Can't I stay with you just for today?" asked Naruto as he used the big puppy eyes no jutsu to get Iruka to let him stay with him in his apartment.
Iruka tried to say no but one look at Naruto's big puppy eyes and he said yes, though he couldn't help but be disappointed at himself for falling for such a trick like that, he sighed.
Naruto woke up to see a surprising view as he was sleeping on a couch as he was going up at a ceiling. Naruto got off the couch and was glad to see that he wasn't in Minato and Kushina's house, Iruka was great and very kind but Naruto barely even knew him and didn't want to burden Iruka with his presence . Naruto looked at the alarm clock that was next to the couch and saw that it was 5:20
Naruto was about to walk out of the apartment when he remembered that his appearance had changed, Naruto stood there at the living room about to walk out of the apartment as he was thinking of a way to hide his face.
'I could wear sunglasses and a bandana that would cover my hair.' Naruto thought about it and realised that wearing sunglasses would be able to cover his eyes and a bandana would be able to cover his hair.
Naruto looked around the living room and found a bandana, he quickly wrapped it around the top of his head as he made sure that the bandana would cover his hair, however he couldn't find some sunglasses, so he ran out of the apartment as he ran to Minato and Kushina's home.
Naruto remembered that he had sunglasses that he 'borrowed' from a long time ago, when he was six but he never really wore it as he saw no point to wear it except now that is, Naruto got inside the house and went into his house as he got to the drawer next to his bed, Naruto opened the drawers and ran his hand through them until he found the sunglasses and put them on.
Naruto decided that he wanted to talk to Ajax in person but couldn't as he realised that he didn't know how to enter his mindscape, 'Ajax, could you tell how do I enter my mindscape?' thought Naruto as he asked Ajax in his mind.
'Just sit down and meditate while thinking of this mindscape.'
'Okay.' thought Naruto before he sat down with his legs crossed as he closed his eyes and meditated, Naruto meditated for what seemed like a couple of seconds before he suddenly found himself inside his mindscape as he was at what looked like his training place.
"Ajax where are you?" asked Naruto as he looked around for Ajax but he didn't find any signs of Ajax.
"Right here." said Ajax, Naruto heard Ajax's voice and tried to find the source of his voice; Naruto looked down and saw Ajax, then he realised that he was standing on top of Ajax.
"I wanted to ask you about that jutsu you taught me." stated Naruto as he was curious about the jutsu and wanted to know more about it.
"Maybe in the future but not now, right now you need to master that jutsu that I taught you because last time I checked, you went crazy and chased after a scent, and that shows me that you need to master your jutsu before you can ask about it." stated Ajax as he reminded Naruto about what happened when he used it and how he chased after a scent, like a wild beast, one with no self-control.
"You need to be able to control yourself when you use that jutsu, when you have learned self-control, then we talk about it." said Ajax to which Naruto tried to argue but he knew that Ajax was right as he too understood that mastering the jutsu took priority over talking about it.
Naruto jumped off of Ajax and headed towards the training dummies that were nearby, he made the handsigns before he used the jutsu, once Naruto used the jutsu, he started to have a craving for blood as he started to tear the training dummies into pieces, though it would prove to be fruitless as the training dummies didn't have blood, Naruto tried to control himself but the bloodlust was too much for Naruto as it started to overwhelm him.
Naruto cancelled that jutsu as he decided to take a breather since the tearing the training dummies into pieces weren't that easy for him to do with fracturing his hand and wrist, Naruto decided to wait for his hand and wrist to start healing. Naruto knew that he had a high regenerative healing factor, Naruto had thought that some of it was his Uzumaki blood while most of it came from the kyuubi.
"Half-beast transformation." Naruto used the jutsu again as he tried to master it but it proved to be a task as he could control his bloodlust, Naruto cancelled the jutsu when he felt that he was losing complete control over him, however Naruto did notice that it was a bit easier to control himself than last time.
Naruto had continued to use the jutsu in hopes that he would be strong enough to control himself, however it always ended up with Naruto eventually losing control but on the other hand Naruto was started to get a better control of the jutsu as over time the jutsu became easier and easier to control.
Naruto swiped the sweat of his forehead as he tried to use he jutsu again but was stopped when he felt someone touching his shoulder and before Naruto knew it, the whole of his mindscape was shaking as if a massive earthquake was just taking place but Naruto knew that wasn't it.
Naruto suddenly got pulled out of his mindscape and into the real world where he saw his parents were shaking him, "Would you stop that?" requested Naruto as he didn't like them shaking him or touching him for that matter, Minato and Kushina obeyed Naruto's request as they stopped shaking him and took their hands off his shoulder.
Minato looked straight into Naruto's eyes with a serious face, "We have agreed to let you go to the academy and become a shinobi if you graduate." stated Minato with Kushina before him.
"But only if you behave in the academy. You should get ready because you'll be attending the academy from this day to the day you graduate. Get ready because the academy will start at 8:30am." stated Kushina with Minato nodding in agreement, once they had said what they wanted, they left Naruto to himself in his room.
Naruto stood there indifferently but as soon as Minato and Kushina left his bedroom, he was jumping up and down in his bedroom as he was excited to go to the academy and become a shinobi.
Naruto looked at his alarm clock and saw that it was 7:50am, so Naruto quickly went to the toilet to brush his teeth and wash his face before he went downstairs to the kitchen and made himself some toast, he quickly ate the toast and washed it down with some water before he ran out of the house to the academy.
Naruto had got to the academy with 10 minutes to spare as he headed towards his classroom, Naruto looked around inside the classrooms on his way to his classroom but stopped walking when he found his classroom, he entered the room to see that it was empty and decided to take a seat at the back close to the window as he waited for the others to arrive.
Naruto looked at the front of the classroom as he waited for the others to arrive, he turned to the door when he heard it open and was unnerved by the sight of the teacher, he was Iruka, Naruto was sweating a little when he looked at him but sighed in relief when Iruka showed that he didn't recognise him as he sat on his desk.
Naruto didn't want to look at Iruka as he was a bit unnerved from looking at him, so he looked away from Iruka as he stared out the window at the sight of people walking into the academy.
After a couple of minutes, a lot of people started showing up in either alone or in groups as they were talking to each other and sitting next to each other, in a few minutes almost everyone had arrived and the lesson was about begin as everyone had sat down on theirown seperate seat.
Iruka called out everyone's name as he registered everyone who was present in class, then he began teaching the class about the creation of the village and the era of the clan wars as well as the significance that Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha had during the the era of the clan wars.
Naruto paid attention to Iruka as he was giving the class a lecture, Naruto yawned in boredom as he listened to Iruka talk about the creation of the hidden leaf village, Naruto waited in boredom until the bell rang. When the bell rang, Naruto headed to secluded place and eat in silence before he started talking to Ajax.
'Ajax I was wondering if I should focus on my chakra exercises or my taijutsu?'
'You should focus on chakra control exercises as it will be beneficial to learning and using any jutsus, and make them easier to use.'
'Thanks, I knew I could count on you to help me.'
'Pay attention, someone's approaching near our place.'
Naruto disconnected his mental link with Ajax as he got up from the ground and looked around for the stranger, Naruto turned around to see. His name was Kiba, yeah that was it, his name was Kiba and the dog on top of his head was...
"Hey there I'm Kiba." said Kiba as he introduced himself, "And the dog on top of my head is Akamaru." he gestured to Akamaru as he introduced Akamaru to Naruto.
"My name is Naruto and I want to know why you followed me here?" questioned Naruto as he squinted his eyes and released a little bit of his killer intent to let Kiba and Akamaru know that he wanted them to tell him the truth.
Kiba sensed Naruto's killer intent as he was having a bit of a problem breathing, "I-I-I just wanted to kn-know if y-you were an Inuzuka." replied Kiba as he shuttered in fear of Naruto's killer intent while Akamaru just retreated back inside of Kiba's jacket as he tried to hide from Naruto.
*Sigh* Naruto stopped releasing his killer intent, "Why did you thought that I might be Inuzuka?" asked Naruto as he thought Kiba would know him as the son of Minato and Kushina. Naruto was curious as to why Kiba thought he might be an Inuzuka.
Kiba was able to breath properly and Akamaru got back on top of Kiba's head as their fears of Naruto killing them faded, "It's just that all of the people in my clan have this certain scent that seperates them from people outside the clan, and the thing is that you have a scent that's similar to people in my clan." stated Kiba as he noticed a similarity between Naruto and the Inuzuka.
"I see." said Naruto, he wondered if Ajax knew anything about the Inuzuka and maybe after school, Naruto might just go to the library and check out the Inuzuka clan.
"So I was wondering if I could be friends with you?" asked Kiba as he looked at Naruto innocently with a voice that sounded desperate.
"You and me become friends? Why do you want to be friends with me?" asked Naruto as he never had a friend before, there was Ajax but he was more like Naruto's sensei/brother than his friend.
"Well, it's just that I don't have any friends, and all the kids in the academy make fun of me and call me a loser. I just thought since you seemed like you had no friends and I thought that I would ask you, I'd be your friend." said Kiba as he was looked at the ground and readied himself for rejection.
Naruto just thought about it as he was contemplating about whether or not, he would accept the friend request, "Sure, I'll be your friend." Replied Naruto as he had looked at Kiba and smiled.
Kiba had the biggest smile on his face as he was jumping up and down while shoutting "Yahoo." in joy as he had found himself a friend, which meant that he didn't have to be lonely and that he wasn't a 'loser' like everyone says he is.
Naruto saw Kiba's reaction and couldn't help but laugh at his reaction, Naruto laughed for a while but stopped laughing as he throat was getting drier, naruto decided to get Kiba to calm down as he spent the rest of break eating his lunch with Kiba eating his own lunch right next to Naruto.
Once Naruto and Kiba had finished eating, they headed back to the classroom and saw that they had a minute before the next lesson, so they got to the seats at the back of the room and right next to the window, they talked about pranking someone.
*Brrrring*
Suddenly the school bells went off and students started heading back to their classroom as they knew that break was over and their next lesson was about to begin, slowly everyone started to arrive in the classroom and sit down in their seat. One of people who returned to the classroom moved next to Kiba and Naruto, "Hey get out of my seat, loser." said the person.
Kiba got up and was about to leave but was stopped by Naruto as he pulled Kiba back and made him sit down on the seat, the person seemed pissed out and was about to punch Naruto, when Naruto got up and gave the person a glare that promised a lot of pain with a hint of Killer intent, "Get lost." said Naruto as the person quickly walked away from Naruto and sat in a vacant seat away from Naruto as the person was scared by what Naruto would do to him.
Naruto sat back down on his seat as he ignored the stares of everyone in the room, "That was so cool, could teach me how to do that?" said Kiba as he looked at Naruto with awe at how Natuto handled that person with just a glare.
"Maybe someday." said Naruto as he scratched the back of his head as he was a bit overwhelmed by the awed Kiba talking to him like he was the Hokage.
Suddenly smoke poofed into existence, it appeared in the middle of the room as the smoke started to disappear and once it did, everyone saw Iruka where the smoke used to be, "Okay let's start the lesson, should we?" said Iruka.
*Brrring*
The academy bell rang, signalling the end of academy, Naruto and Kiba walked out of the academy, Naruto and Kiba exchanged their farewells and went their serperate way as Kiba headed home while Naruto headed to the library.
Naruto walked towards the library and entered, he looked around for the section of the library that was full of knowledge on the clans in Konoha, specifically Inuzuka clan as he wanted to know how the Inuzuka came to be. Naruto talked to the librarian and found where the books on the Inuzuka clan was.
Naruto picked a couple of books, he read through the books as he tried to figure out the origins of the Inuzuka clan, but much to his ire, he made no progress on the origins of the Inuzuka clan: all of the books were on the Inuzuka clan as they were all full of facts on the Inuzuka clan after they joined Konoha. Naruto found nothing that was relevant to what he was looking for, so he left and headed home.
Naruto walked towards Minato and Kushina's house, he entered the house and saw that there was no-one in the house, Naruto went into Minato and Kushina's study and put back the two scrolls that he broughted and took another two scrolls before he headed out of the study and into his room. Naruto locked the door and and placed the scrolls in his closet, in a hole right under a box of old, worn out toys.
Naruto closed his closet and sat on top of his bed in a meditating position as he focused on entering the second layer of his mindscape where Ajax was resting. Naruto appeared inside the second layer of his mindscape and fell on top of Ajax's back, Naruto jumped off of Ajax and started practicing his ninjutsu.
Naruto used the half-beast transformation as he tried to control the bloodlust that was flooding him, he was able to control the bloodlust but over time his control over it slipped as it overwhelmed him. Naruto rushed near the training dummies and having fun with them as he tore them into pieces.
"Try to develop your own strength before you try to master that jutsu again." stated Ajax as he told Naruto how to improve his control.
Naruto decided to listen to Ajax as he tried to improve his chakra control, he kept training and focused on improving his chakra control.
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