Rockman Naruto – Reloaded
Chapter Two: Powering Up
Naruto couldn't believe his eyes, it wasn't just possible! There were two Irukas!
Helping what he thought was the true Iruka up from the ground, both he and Iruka stood to face against the newcomer Iruka while trying to distance himself from the both of them in case this was a trap.
Normally, he wouldn't do that to Iruka-Sensei of all people, but with all this freaky crap going on tonight...well he ain't taking any chances, thats for sure!
"Ah, good job at passing the test Naruto! You will definitely make the team selections!" Newcomer Iruka said to Naruto with a bright smile, something that made it creepy given the situation.
"I-I do?" Naruto asked carefully. The slight stutter made Newcomer Iruka's smile beam brighter than before.
"Oh yes, my student, you made the roster all right...the roster of which team gets to execute you!" Newcomer Iruka laughed insanely now, giving both Naruto and Iruka the creeps.
"I wonder who it will be? Anbu? Or will it finally wake up our Hokage enough to let the whole village annihilate you with one shot?" Newcomer Iruka said with glee. Iruka's eyes narrowed, our Hokage?
Must be a leaf ninja copying him then!
"Who are you imposter?! I know you're not me!" Iruka shouted, looking for any clues as to the imposter's identity. Somehow, the newcomer didn't leave much clues about his true identity.
Newcomer Iruka frowned, but he knew Iruka inside out, having been close to him for so long. He knew what he was trying to do, but it wouldn't get him!
"What are you talking about, you are obviously the fake here!" He shouted back at Iruka, who was startled. Unfortunately, Naruto saw this and his perception was shaken badly, who was the real one?!
"Wh-what are you talking about? I know I'm me!" Iruka glared at the fake harshly. He was Umino Iruka, dammit! Has been from day one!
"Oh? I don't think so, you false identity! I know way more than you do about me than you do about Naruto here!" Newcomer Iruka laughed suddenly, as if getting an idea.
"I know! Lets have Naruto decide who is real? The one with the most knowledge about our wayward student is obviously the real Iruka and shall put to death the fake! Lets begin!" Newcomer Iruka said brightly while turning to face a stunned Naruto.
"Naruto, I've always helped you correct your clumsy use of handseals! Only I was there whenever someone tried to sabotage you like last year!" N. Iruka said confidently.
"That...yeah I remember that happened! It was during the summer term..." Naruto said shakily, maybe this was the real Iruka?
Seeing the doubt and the beginnings of false recognition, Iruka jumped into the fray.
"Naruto! I've always caught you whenever you did your prankathons! You always went one on one for days against Kiba, or someone who challenged you at being the better prankster!"
"That is the best you have, imposter? Anyone could do that! Naruto, I've always gave you gentle corrections whenever you got your history wrong. Remember when you got lost during the lesson of the third Shinobi war?" N. Iruka said with a gentle smile.
"Maybe..." Naruto trailed off with a questioning look...
Iruka panicked!
"Naruto, remember when I always treated you to ramen, even when you didn't have the cash? I saw you starving that rainy day when I started!"
"W-what? That was years ago! Only Iruka would know that!" Naruto shouted in remembrance, back when his and Iruka's relationship outside of Student and Teacher started!
N. Iruka growled, he didn't know that! He was absent that day from teaching, from what his official reports said.
"Also, remember what I taught you at the end of class the other day! It was about genjutsu, and you were tied by ropes!"
"Yeah! You told me how to do it! It was-" Naruto was surprisingly cut off by N. Iruka.
"Wait a minute, everyone knows that! It was the Kai, or "release" technique! I'm sure I gave it to you as you were tied up by hands and feet!" he shouted out.
Naruto was startled, everyone knew about that? Man, he really should've gone to school more often...
"Not everyone, imposter! Or else, Naruto would have done something with it in his pranks, maybe to get away from a sticky situation?" Iruka grinned at the prank Naruto did so long ago. It was certainly sticky for anyone to forget.
N. Iruka was desperate, he needed something to keep up the facade or else the plan would go bad.
"Ah, I know something that not even this imposter would know!" Iruka was shocked, something even he wouldn't know!? Naruto was curious as well at this hidden info, it could show him who was the real Iruka after all.
"I remember in the fall quarter, I caught you trying to deface the Hokage monument! You were halfway drawing swirlies on the Sandaime's face when I caught you from below! Only the real Iruka would know that!" N. Iruka said with all the conviction he could muster.
A thick silence filled the air as N. Iruka's proclamation was fading from the minds of the listeners.
"..."
"..."
"...what?" N. Iruka said confusedly, as Iruka smirked.
"I got you now, you fake!" Iruka started to smile a lot as Naruto was now smiling at Iruka.
"That couldn't be possible, as Naruto was defacing the Nindaime's face with swirlies and I caught him from above!"
"Wha-whaaat!?" N. Iruka said with a shocked expression on his face. It was priceless to see on his own face, even if it was fake.
"I know now for sure that you are not real, you fake. Remove that facade you call my face and show yourself!"
"N-no! I know I was telling the truth! I made the report myself!" N. Iruka blurted out, before clamping his mouth shut, he said too much!
"Reports? You mean those reports I give to the administration office for anyoneto see? Those reports?" Iruka question before facing Naruto, he was sure of his student's judgment now.
"Naruto, who is the fake Iruka?"
Grinning, Naruto pointed at N. Iruka, who was bemoaning the fact that he chose him.
A sinister chuckle filled the air as everything was pulled out into the open...
Naruto and Iruka was staring at the fake Iruka who was laughing madly. It was disturbing to see at least.
"Hahahahahaha! I knew this was a shaky plan, only for it to almost succeed! I clearly overestimated Naruto's stupidity on clouding his judgment, as it almost worked too well..." N. Iruka continued, his madness gleaming into the night.
"I tried to imitate Iruka into letting your guard down, Naruto, so that I might take that priceless artifact from your dead hands once I sliced your head off! Then as I made my escape, Anbu surveillance would see Iruka and maybe give him congrats on a job well done...or at least have him executed for crimes against the state!"
"I really thought I would get away tonight Scot-free, but it seems I need to burn away some evidence first!"
The scenes that played before them was horrifying. It seemed that the fake Iruka seemed to have his skin redden and redden until what seemed to be the skin catching on fire did he shout out in glee.
"NOW! I WILL SHOW YOU MY TRUE FORM! ARISE, FLAMEMAN!" N. Iruka shouted as he roared with massive power bursts coming from him transformed him into a totally different shape altogether.
He was now over six feet tall with flames for hair and his body seemed to be encased in flameproof armor, where bursts of flame flared up with each breath out of the area where hands were supposed to be.
The area where his hands were now replaced with machinery of some kind with tiny holes all around it, it seemed to be an outlet of some sort for flames were shooting out of it sometimes and the barrel that was at the front of this machinery spouted out white hot flames. Seeing their awed expressions, the newly dubbed Flameman started laughing.
"I see you are awed by my true form, my audience. Be honored, for this the last time you ever see this magnificent form! HRAAA!" Flameman shouted out as the flames by his machine arms grew bigger and the barrel started to glow white, never a good sign.
Naruto was picked up by a scrambling Iruka as the fire engulfed the area they were standing in was ignited by flames. The flames were so hot that a passing chipmunk was turned to ash instantly to Iruka's horror.
"HAHAHAHA! YOU CAN'T ESCAPE ME!" Flameman alternated by soft and crazed shouting as he took to the air after the fleeing party, igniting the nearby trees.
It took three hours and several close calls with Flameman, before Iruka saw the main gates of Konoha and was glad to see some on guard Chunin and a couple of Jounin on standby, perhaps they were curious of the sudden wildfires. He started to run to them and was in eyesight of the now curious Jounin before a massive wall of flame cut him off from reinforcements.
"I'm sorry Iruka, but don't you know that too much heat causes mirages? I'm sure you understand desert effects, no?" Flameman seemed to have shifted into N. Iruka again as the wall of flames spread out and made a spacious arena of sorts to do their final duel.
"You psycho path, you still wear my face for all this?! What are you!?" Iruka growled out as the flames were starting to get to him, not to mention his exhaustion was creeping up on him.
"Why Iruka? Don't you know? You felt flames, much hotter flames than I could ever hope to produce after all, and you get tired already? I thought those fleeting moments in which you lost your dear parents in face of that monstrosity sitting next to you would have raised your fire resistance to much higher than what I see now...pathetic!" N. Iruka glared at Iruka.
"Wh-what?! How did you know that?" Iruka said, shocked at the revelation, as very few people knew what happened that fateful night.
"What's going on?" Naruto said, making the two people look in his direction as if confirming his existence in the conversation. Suddenly, N. Iruka smirked.
"Oh how could I forget! This thing is still here, the thing that Iruka ironically protecting with his life, the life that was shattered by your doing!" N. Iruka started laughing. Something that irked Naruto to no end.
"Stop laughing, you freak! What is going on, why do you treat me like I'm not -" Naruto was cut off by N. Iruka.
"Like you are not human? Thats because I know the truth, you thing! I know you are not human at all...no I know what you are!" N. Iruka growled out.
Naruto was scared, was he not what he seemed?
"Wh...what am I then?" Naruto asked, to the shock of Iruka.
"Wait! DON'T!" Iruka shouted to no avail. N. Iruka laughed as he revealed it to Naruto.
"You are nothing more than a demon, a demon that was defeated twelve years ago by our great leader, the Yondaime Hokage..."
"What?! But the demon that was defeated by the Yondaime was...wait...no, it can't be?!" Naruto's eyes were as wide as saucers as the information was processed by his brain, it wasn't possible!
"Oh but it is, demon scum. You are nothing more than the shell that was the Kyuubi no Kitsune!" N. Iruka said with such hatred that it made Naruto stumble and fall at the pressure the man's words and revelations that were revealed to him.
"I...I am a demon?" Naruto was still trying to convince himself otherwise, and was failing badly.
N. Iruka smiled brightly, it was his chance at ending the hell that was causing the plights his village, or should it be his former village was suffering at the hands of this demon just by finishing him off with a flaming shuriken, an attack that just engulfs an ordinary giant shuriken with flames would more than enough and be very ironic to this shell, as the demon's full form was nothing but flames.
He made another transformation.
"IT IS TIME TO END THIS! FLAMING SHURIKEN! HAAA!" Flameman shouted out as he launched a large shuriken toward a stunned Naruto. He laughed as it got closer, closer to the demon's shell.
Then...
SPLAT!
A sound of the shuriken hitting a person's body.
A shocked expression...
Naruto could only stare as Iruka took the large shuriken meant for him using his body as a shield. Using his back to take the hit, he could only grimace before collapsing next to Naruto.
He was surprisingly still conscious though.
"N-Naruto..." Iruka grunted out in pain as Naruto's mind took what happened in stride.
"Sensei!" Naruto shouted out in shock, as if what he did to him was extraordinary. Even Flameman was interested in this new development.
"You aren't a demon...you are human, just like me...you are Naruto...a new genin of Konoha, you can't be anything else than that...you were always saying that you wanted to be Hokage...I believed that Hokages are great beings, human or not. I know that you are human in my eyes..." Iruka trailed off, as he lost consciousness.
Naruto started to tear up as he was acknowledged by his only friend but was rudely interrupted by Flameman's laughter.
"OH, HOW SWEET...SUCH A CLASSIC MOMENT! I WISHED I HAD A CAMERA..." Flameman laughed again as the machine arms ignited even more with white hot flames.
"NOW DEMON SPAWN...YOUR EXISTENCE SHALL BE ERASED BY THE HOLY FLAMES WITHIN ME....HAHAHAHA, TIME TO DIE DEMON!" Flameman started to run at Naruto who only had time to do a set of handseals before engulfed in flames...
As soon as the firestorm stopped, Flameman stopped to see his handiwork and started to laugh at the absence of both Iruka and Naruto's bodies when he stopped at his sudden observation...
No Iruka? He didn't aim at him at all...Damn it!
Come on...come on!
Naruto was trying his best with his solid clones to carry an injured Iruka to the gates of Konoha that were so close right now as far as his eyesight was concerned.
He was almost there, almost there...
"What the?! Kid, what the hell happened!?" The Jounin guard was demanding on Naruto, who was panting heavily.
"Something...something attacked us, its heading right this way!" Naruto was trying to catch his breath as he sensed a large burst of energy slowly coming this way.
"Oh crap..."
"What? Whats happening!?" One of the Chunin guards was asking. He was starting to feel that mass of energy coming from down the road.
"Its coming! Get Iruka-sensei to a hospital and close the gates! I'll try and stop him!" Naruto told the guards and ran toward the source of energy.
"Hey, wait!" The Jounin shouted after Naruto but after sensing the energy from down the road, he did what he was told.
"Alright, get this person to a hospital and close the gates! Inform the Hokage of this!" The Jounin ordered while his chunin subordinates did what they were told, also sensing this energy.
Flameman was walking with full confidence toward Konoha, seeing that there was no choice available for him now.
Escape into the shadows was no longer a possibility for him now, seeing that the demon must've informed the village of him after all.
The only option for him was to destroy the village and rebuild a new one, one that will respect his glorious self and worship his very being.
"Hey! You freak!" A voice cut into his thoughts.
"Ah...the demon spawn, here to offer your demonic shell into the holy flames?" Flameman chuckled and ignited his weapons. Naruto only growled and put his hands to make a series of seals in slow motion.
"Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!" Naruto shouted as hundreds of clones appeared around Flameman, who was now staring seriously at the situation.
"Kage Bunshin? This must be one of the secret techniques in the forbidden scroll..." Flameman smirked.
"But this is no match for me!" Flameman slammed his arms into the ground as Naruto and his clones charged at the being with full intent on killing the thing when Flameman shouted.
"TAKE THIS! MARAGI PILLAR!" Flameman's weapons grew white with heat before discharging it toward the ground around him. Naruto didn't notice until the ground rumbled and cracked with pressure before pillars of flame and dust engulfed the entire area.
Not even smoke remained of the destroyed clones as the fire engulfed them all at once, suddenly only one Naruto stood in the area, crouching in pain as he tried to stay consciousness.
"So...so powerful!" He started to breathe heavily from trying not to pass out from the burns all over his body from the attack.
"YES...YES! YOU CAN SEE WHAT I CAN DO!" A chuckle insued.
"YOU ARE NOT ENOUGH TO DEFEAT ME, DEMON OR NOT!" Flameman laughed as he ran and grabbed Naruto by the throat, as the clothes were mostly charred and torn from the attack.
"Urgh..." Naruto struggled but he only got burned hands from trying to grip the burning weapons...
"How? You have no hands!" Naruto tried to point out. He was corrected as the flames started to form into a facsimile of a hand, which was around his throat, it felt normal, to his shock.
Flameman reverted back to his level of voice...Naruto figured he used it to speak softly...not that he had the time to think that anyways...
"Oh, but I do, its just not needed to be seen, as you can see...the flames are my hands, my mind, and my heart...and soon, they well be known as demon slayers..."
He swung Naruto once and and threw him far into the sky while charging up his weapons and aiming at the airborne Naruto.
"TIME FOR YOU TO BE PURIFIED! HOLY FLAMES! HAAAAA!" Flameman launched brilliant white flames at Naruto, who couldn't do anything about it, he only closed his eyes and waited until the flames obliterated him.
Flameman started laughing as the impact created a large explosion in the sky, alerting everyone of their doom as he started his walk toward domination of the doomed village...
The Hokage and Kakashi were looking shocked at the container's fate and were trying to find any sign before focusing their gaze at the thing that destroyed Naruto.
"Kakashi, get ready for battle." The Hokage ordered. Kakashi said a quick "hai!" and disappeared to prepare for an attack that could rival the Kyuubi attack.
Naruto's Mindscape, Time Frozen
Naruto woke up as he tried to gather his bearings before looking around and waking up to a ….white space?
"Where am I?" Naruto said to himself. He stood up and tried walking around but felt like he wasn't moving at all.
"CONTAINER...."
"Wh..what?!" Naruto was startled.
"CONTAINER...AWAKEN..."
"Container? Is that what I am?" Naruto tried to ask the voice, but was met with silence.
"CONTAINER...IT IS TIME TO SHED YOUR IDENTITY...EMBRACE YOUR TRUE FORM..."
"My...true form?" Naruto asked, that fake Iruka said something about a true form as well...could he have such a form? Would he burst into flames like that freak would?
"CONTAINER...WILL YOU EMBRACE YOUR TRUE FORM? THE FORM OF HEROES' PAST?"
"Heroes? Heroes had these forms too?" Naruto was getting excited now, his excitement overiding his fear.
If people like the Yondaime had this form, it made him even cooler! This might even get him to be Hokage too?
"CONTAINER...STEP FORWARD, AND EMBRACE YOUR TRUE FORM..."
Naruto jogged forward, or what he thought was forward and stopped when a glowing seal erupted around him.
"Woah!" Naruto said as the seal started to shrink and expand around him as finally the seal was wrapping itself around Naruto's body, causing a sudden sparkly tingle around Naruto's body.
"what...what is happening to me? What are these thoughts? Arrrgh!" Naruto screamed as his eyes shot wide open with pain. Sudden as it happened, it stopped but Naruto stood still as he gathered...his new thoughts.
'What...I don't remember being here...what is going on?'Naruto thought as he kept remembering that one thought, he could even call it a memory but that was preposterous!
-Flashback-
Konoha, 1988?
Disclosed Area
"We must use this to even stop the beast, sensei!" A smooth voice said to his sensei as rumbling sounds were occasionally interrupting the conversation, making the sensei's responses muffled.
It seemed to please the smooth man's voice as he started to grab something that had a humanoid shape. Naruto felt like he was being dragged as well before blacking out...
-flashback-
"CONTAINER...IT IS DONE...YOU HAVE EMBRACED YOUR TRUE FORM, NOW GO AND SHOW THE WORLD WHO YOU REALLY ARE...ROCKMAN!"
"Rockman? That's my real na-" Naruto didn't even finish as he was whisked away from the area in a flash of light.
"......"
Konoha, 2000
Village gates
Flameman was laughing as he shot flame burst after flame burst at the pathetic display of a gate defense as more and more Konoha shinobi were either burned alive or were running away to avoid being caught by his holy flames.
As his mother always said, those that burn by the holy flames deserve nothing less than purified .
"Ugh, what is that thing?!" A Chunin combatant said to his Jounin superior.
"I don't know, but this is bad...its heading toward the Hokage Tower!" The Jounin shouted in distress as the being shot more flames toward attacking shinobi before walking once more to the Hokage tower, leaving agonizing soldiers to their deaths...
After causing bodily destruction, Flameman came upon the Ramen stand that both Iruka and that demon spawn ate at regularly and came up with an idea.
Aiming with both his machine arms, he quickly ignited the ramen stand and laughed as it burned to the ground before walking at a brisk pace toward his destination.
Konoha, 2000
Hokage Tower Entrance
Flameman came upon a large Garrison of shinobi of all ranks from Chunin to Jounin to Anbu speckled there and here trying to mount a last stand against this hellish creature.
"Whatever you are, stand down! We'll be forced to fire if you do not desist!" The Jounin commander shouted toward Flameman.
"Oh? Why would I surrender? All I want to do is talk to your Hokage!" Flameman boomed back. This however, got a Chunin angry.
"Like hell we'll let you near our leader!" The Chunin screamed before rushing the being, only to be grabbed by Flameman and being shown how hot his gun is to his face. The Remaining ninja were stunned at the speed that Flameman presented in disabling the Chunin.
"Tsk tsk, I only wanted a friendly chat, now it has to be a hostage situation...if you want this scum to live, you'll bring out your Hokage!" Flameman demanded of the group of shinobi.
"What is it that you want...being?" an aged voice said a few minutes later. Flameman mentally chuckled, this was all to easy!
"No, lord Hokage!" The Jounin commander said in shock. The other ninja did their own calls in trying to bring him back to safety to no avail.
"Ahahaha! Welcome to the fray, lord Hokage! I trust you know the procedure?" Flameman asked of the Sandaime.
"Of course, now release the Chunin, being, his release for my presence correct?" The Hokage said to the unholy creature.
"Of course, I'll release him...Huagh!" Flameman grunted as he threw the Chunin into a nearby building and immediately set it on fire. The action stunned the Garrison and the Hokage as Flameman quickly constructed a smaller arena of impregnable fire that most ninja had to scramble out of the way to avoid being burned alive.
"Now Hokage...its just you and me. Whoever wins, gets to rule the village, no? Let the games begin!" Flameman shouted out as he threw out a pillar of flame toward the Hokage and was shocked when a log was burning in place of a corpse.
"Kage Shuriken no juts!" The Hokage's voice rang out as hundreds of shurikens rained down upon Flameman, who used a wall of fire to deflect the incoming shuriken. It provided the necessary distraction as the Hokage powered up another move.
"Suiton: Water Dragon!" The Hokage spewed out a large amount of water before forming it into a dragon and set it to attack Flameman.
A huge burst of steam encircled the area as the nearby fires put out the burning building and allowed a couple of ninja to rescue their trapped comrade from the once burning building.
It looked like the battle was over until the Garrison and the Hokage heard a sinister chuckle.
"Hehehehe...very good, Hokage! You are certainly living up to your name as leader of the Leaf Village! But now...the games have ended and decided me the victor!"
"Your village has been deemed unholy by my judgment and has been ordered to be purified by my holy flames! I'll start with the unholiest of all, the Hokage..." Flameman's visible eyes narrowed at the Hokage, who seemed to be tired from the heat and his chakra consuming moveset.
"I will end this now! FLAMING SHURIKEN!" Flameman screamed out as he threw three giant shuriken at the Hokage, who was now accepting his defeat at the hands of this creature.
Flameman was outright laughing as the shuriken was nearing the target and cheered in victory as he heard them connect to a body and implode afterwards as a result of an extra deposit of chakra in the shuriken's throw.
It wasn't until the smoke cleared that he was shocked at the scene, so was the Hokage and the Garrisoned ninja for that mattter.
A Blue being was guarding the Hokage with his body facing the Hokage as the Shuriken fell uselessly to the ground as their job was interrupted by the newcomer.
The Hokage was shocked when he saw the being's eyes though, he thought they died a few hours ago.
"N-Naruto?"
The being shook his head.
"I am not Naruto, at least not in this form, old man." The Hokage was sure that this was Naruto, only he called him old man after all. But what was this not being Naruto in this form?
"I am not Naruto in this form, but I am a different person, a different name." Naruto continued.
"Oh? Then who are you?" The Hokage asked.
"This is my true form, Hokage, I am known as..." Naruto turned around and faced a shocked Flameman. The ninja were awed by this move as they couldn't even get a reaction out of this thing and yet this blue guy was doing it easily.
"Who the hell are you?!" Flameman screamed out in shock, as his finishing move was interrupted, he was so close!
"...I am Rockman, and this is as far as you go!" Naruto, now Rockman shouted out as he dashed toward Flameman at an incredible speed and to the stunned audience as he threw a punch and launched Flameman a clear twenty feet and continued dashing as he threw punch, after punch into Flameman's armor, denting it more and more with each hit.
"Augh! How are you doing this!?" Flameman growled out as a piece of armor was shredded by one of Rockman's attacks.
"I am more powerful than you, you freak!" Rockman shouted out as he threw another punch, sending Flameman into a nearby building. For a moment, Rockman thought that he won, until The building that Flameman was punched into combusted into rubble.
Rockman narrowed his eyes, this was a different Flameman than he encountered, for one thing, his armor was completely shed away, leaving a flaming being with two flaming hands for weapons, the only thing remotely showing his identity was his flaming hair.
"YOU HAVE ANNOYED ME ENOUGH, YOU PEST! PREPARE TO DIE!" A crazed Flameman charged at the blue being like a hell storm as nearby barrels and lampposts were incinerated by his charge.
Rockman held his ground though, and brought out his next move, or rather next weapon.
"Rockbuster!" his right hand clamped over his left hand as his left hand morphed into a barreled weapon that started to charge with a green light.
"DIEEEE!" Flameman screamed out as he neared his target and tried to dogpile him.
"Rockman no Jutsu: Rockbuster Charge Attack!" Rockman shouted out as the pulsating green buster weapon released a large ball of energy directly into Flameman's body, making Flameman scream out in pain as he was thrown back into a surprisingly untouched building and was starting to glow red for some reason to Rockman. He found out that he was trying to explode and take him with it!
"Y-YOU...WILL NOT MAKE IT OUT ALIVE! THIS CRYSTAL WILL NOT LET YOU!" Flameman tugged out a hanging crystal, which was pulsating a violent red hue and had cracks all over it.
"PREPARE TO DIE, YOU ABOMINATION! THE HOLY FLAMES WILL PURGE THIS HELLHOLE INTO MY DREAM! RAAAAaagh?" Flameman was shocked when the crystal suddenly grew dim and fell from midair to the soft dirt below.
When he looked up, the Hokage had his arm stretched out and a Kunai knife was embedded into Flameman's side.
"N-no...my power is...fading!" Flameman's form was shrinking and expanding back into his human form and it was shocking as to who was the culprit behind all this.
"It's Iruka!" A chunin shouted.
"It can't be! We took him to the hospital!" another Chunin shouted. A large murmuring ensued.
"He's gotta be a fake! Remove his Henge!"
They didn't need too as the Henge technique dissolved on its own to reveal the true culprit...
It was Mizuki, Iruka's assistant at the Ninja Academy...
"Take him into Interrogation and find out why he committed treason while trying to impersonate another person." the Hokage ordered as the Anbu gathered up the weakened Mizuki and darted off to the Anbu headquarters and the T&I department for their criminal's eventual confessions.
Konoha, 2000
Hokage Tower
The Hokage sighed as he surveyed the damage from the top floor of the minimally damaged Hokage tower and thought into how to pay enough people for their repairs...ah well, its not like they were poor anyways, what with the input of mission requests flowing lately.
He turned to see the sleeping form of Naruto as he tried to decide the boy's fate. He somehow found out that he wasn't the normal boy he tried to be all these years and somehow isn't resenting him for it. He was certain however, that he doesn't know what he truly is...
It was good enough for now though, he really shouldn't ever find out his origins of birth...or creation. He is happier as a human, than as to he was before so long ago...
"ah...Old man..." Naruto mumbled in his sleep as the Hokage listened intently, perhaps he had an answer in his dreams?
"...ramen!" The Hokage smiled, always ramen in his brain...he decided the boy's fate.
He has done a great service to Konoha and for that he shall be rewarded in which he deserves most.
He took down a painting and opened up a sealed safe to retrieve a slightly old headband out of it.
"Kakashi." He called out softly. A minute later, a faint chakra signature appeared behind him.
"Hai." He said quietly and his visible eye widened slightly at the old headband.
"Thats!" The Hokage silenced him with a finger to his mouth.
"He will do great things Kakashi, the only thing I can do to show support is to give him a great headband...take this to his apartment and replace it instead of the regular headband with this note from me." The Hokage scribbled a note and gave it to Kakashi, who nodded.
A few moments later, the standard blue headband was replaced by a Dark Blue headband with a note of good luck to Naruto from the Hokage. An hour later, a sleeping Naruto was put back into his room with a soft 'good night' from the Hokage and Kakashi as they left to go back to their regular lives.
So that ends chapter two...
Its been a while, a long while too you know, but I just didn't have the drive to write another chapter until yesterday, when I was waiting for the Red Alert 3 Uprising download and decided to go to Newgrounds Audio Portal and listen to Megaman song and came up with a megaman 9 song titled
"We are the Robots" by Masterjace.
It gave me the drive again and produced this chapter for you all.
I gave the spell check a run for its money as I used it constantly for it to read-worthy for you.
I'll try and write more often as more and more MM songs are popping up in Newgrounds and as long as they are cranking it out, I'll keep writing!
Terra Ace
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