Naruto: Curse Or Blessing?

by DescendantOfTheGods

Naruto isn't the cheerful kid we all know after an especially traumatizing attack by the villagers. Instead he's a cold emotionless boy with no light at the end of his tunnel. Hinata watches his tormented life from a distance and decides to do something about it. But Naruto has a secret not even the third knew about. hopefully I'm better at stories than summaries. being rewritten

4. Chapter 4: Tora the cat and Wave

Chapter 4:

Teams, the cat Tora and The mysteriou wave country

Hi guys! I'd like to apologize to everyone for not updating, but i had some pretty serious writers block and school midterm coming up and bla bla bla bla...

Anyway! Sorry for dragging you into my boring life!

I got a review from an anonymous telling me not to stop, so reinvigorated(is that a word?) I ride the horse of writing. Anyway sorry for being a sentimental fool like always and here is your chapter! Also stop flaming me, BP, cause if you don't like my story read something else. I'm not gonna change POV's in this one, it's 3rd person all the way through. By the way I hate SasuHina.

Kurenai's classroom, day after graduation

The classroom suddenly became quiet when the door opened. But it wasn't the teacher, it was Naruto walking in. But the crowd was silent because they were all staring at his change of clothes. Instead of the orange jumpsuit, he was wearing a black shinobi shirt and a slightly improvised flak vest, but it was hard to tell except for the design being a nine tails spreading out over his back and two red slitted eyes on his chest. He wore dark red shinobi pants with black stripes on the side. Of course there was one thing. His headband was colored an extreme shade of orange and his weapon holster was orange too.

Suddenly a graduate spoke up "Hey Fishcake(Naruto means fishcake), get out of here, my dad told me about you, you demon!" then he laughed so loud, he didn't notice the one tear running down Naruto's cheek. However, Kiba, another graduate and somewhat a friend to Naruto did. And to say he got mad would be an understatement. He jumped off his seat and tackled the guy making fun of Naruto. A few seconds later a teacher came into the room to an interesting sight. On the floor was Kiba, holding down the guy, while pressing a kunai to his neck, saying "don't badmouth a fellow leaf nin or i'll make you remember why we become strong, it's not through hate, it's through friendship. Remember it!" as he got off the student, he gave Naruto a smile and sat back down. Stunned by his actions Naruto sported a very faint trace of a blush, but quickly suppressed it before anyone could see it.

Quickly thanking Kiba, he sat down while the teacher spoke up "My name is Iruka and I will be taking over as teacher, now that Kurenai has decided to lead a genin team instead. I will now start going through the teams. " he explained.

Team 1: Didn't pass

Team 2:Heri, Koda and Poriki

Team 3: Didn't pass

Team 4:Didn't pass

Team 5: Haru, Liru and Muren

Team 6:Didn't pass

Team 7: Sasuke Uchiha, Naruto Uzumaki and Hinata Hyuuga

Team 8:Kiba Inuzuka, Shino Aburame and Hanabi Hyuuga

Team 9: Neji Hyuuga, Ten Ten, Rock Lee and Sakura Haruno

Team 10: Ino Yamanaka, Choji Akimichi and Shikamaru Nara

As he finished Naruto looked at his team, smiling at Hinata and smirking at Sasuke. Sasuke just smirked back at him as the Sandaime entered with a bunch of Jounin and a man with long,white and spiky hair in wooden sandals(don't know what they're called). He was wearing a sage robe and there was a large red scroll strapped to his back. Then the Sandaime spoke up " Hello Graduates! I am here to give you your jounin sensei. Now let's begin! " After a few names and a couple of teams leaving with their sensei they arrived at Team 7,8,9 and 10. The White haired man suddenly said in a very bored voice " So which rascals are mine? I wanna go soon! "

The Third Hokage only said " we're getting there Jiraya! Anyway, Team 7's sensei will actually be Jiraya here, One of the Sannin! "

At this the man now known as Jiraya sighed "Well I'm Jiraya you Baki's and if you're not on training ground 15 in four minutes you'll be sent back to the academy! So Hurry Up! "

Team 7's eyes widened before they all jumped to the door and started sprinting across town, jumping from building to building, finally landing on training ground 15 with 3 seconds left on the clock. Huffing and puffing Naruto yelled " What kind of introduction is that?!" Hinata blushed and Sasuke gave a "hn".

Jiraya laughed and said " Because you didn't make it within 3 minutes you have to take my special test!"

"WHAAAAAAAT!" Team 7 shouted in unison. Jiraya chuckled and explained the test " I have One bell and you have to take it from me to win! But if you guys can't hold on to the bell for 3 minutes after taking it, you all go back to the academy!" Team 7 stared dumdstruck at the Sannin in silence, until Naruto shouted "Let's Go!"

And with that the game was on.

They quickly split up, with Naruto and Hinata jumping silently through the trees while Sasuke launched at Jiraya with the words " I'm an Uchiha, I am unrivaled in Power!" Only to be knocked to the ground by a flick of Jiraya's wrist and the words "Try again when you get some brains, ok?"

Sasuke glared at Jiraya jumped back while doing hand seals and finally shouting "Fire Style: Fireball Jutsu!" As Sasuke blew the medium-sized fireball at the toad sage, the latter finished his own hand seals at amazing speed and yelled "Fire Style: Dragonflame Jutsu!" and blew the giant fireball against Sasuke's own, quickly owerpowering it, sending Sasuke flying with slightly charred clothes, out cold.

Naruto and Hinata smiled at their teammates stupidity, but still decided to take the chance to attack and get the bell while Jiraya was lecturing Sasuke about stealth. Silently telling Hinata to take the left, Naruto went to the right of the clearing Jiraya was standing in. Sending a clone with Hinata, she threw a kunai at Jiraya and jumped after it, hening into another kunai while doing so. The clone got the message to Hinata and jumped into the clearing, attacking Jiraya with a punch that Jiraya caught with his right hand, while dodging the two kunai. Transforming back, Naruto attacked Jiraya from behind, engaging in a Taijutsu battle with him as his clone disspelled. Jiraya's eyes widened when he realized he was fighting a shadow clone, after hitting it in the gut, only for it to turn into a cloud of smoke. He laughed and said " So you know Shadow clones, do you? Well lets see how you fare against mine!" and he created 4 clones to help him.

Naruto laughed, created 15 shadow clones that all said "I'm only getting started!"

As the clones started pushing Jiraya between them, Hinata saw her opportunity when Jiraya jumped over the clones in her direction and launched at him with her gentle fist, getting a hit on his left arm over the bell, while snatching the bell with her other hand. Jiraya's eyes widened in shock and pain, quickly realizing they were used to working together.

Jiraya shouted "3 MINUTES FROM NOW!" while Hinata jumped back into a tree. Jiraya jumped after her and chased her through the trees. When he caught up he knocked her to the ground catching the bell mid-air and landing next to Hinata, only to see her smirk and poof into smoke while the bell turned into a smirking Naruto clone "Gotcha, Slownin!" and hit him over the head before turning into a poof of smoke.

Back at the clearing

Hinata and Naruto high-fived, before turning to Sasuke while shaking their heads and picking him up. Sasuke winced in pain but managed to stand on his legs and henging into a small rock next to a tree(Naruto) and a bush(Hinata). Jiraya entered the clearing with 1 1/2 minute left on the clock. Taking a look around he noticed some plants that looked a bit different from before and threw 2 shuriken at the tree and bush. Naruto and Hinata quickly dropped the henge and blocked the shuriken with kunai before scattering, with Naruto making about 60 clones who all held bells and they said " Try finding the real bell now!" and they scattered through the forest with 6 Jiraya clones chasing after them.

As Jiraya was killing clone after clone he realized that with Naruto's chakra reserves, he could go on forever, and discovering that Naruto was adept at substitution after he changed places with a tree he understood he wasn't going to win this challenge. He ran back to the clearing and yelled " You win this one, well played! " seeing the rock next to where Naruto and Hinata hid before turn into Sasuke, and Naruto and Hinata entering the clearing, he quickly snatched the bell and was about to lecture them about caution, when the bell turn into an activated paper bomb about to blow up in his face. Changing places with a rock, he looked up to see Naruto and Hinata becoming smoke clouds and heard Naruto shout "Time's up, we win!" while landing in the clearing with Hinata nervously nodding and Sasuke showing he had been given the bell before when they were trees and rocks.

Jiraya smiled and shook his, before turning his eyes to the sky "Minato, he's just like you, but it can't be, can it? Your kid was a girl..."

"Sensei, Sensei i-is there something wrong-g?" Hinata asked worriedly. Making a quick note that this one could probably be a medic nin, Jiraya answered "Nothing, I just really didn't think you'd beat that one...Guess I'm stuck with you after all, huh?"

Naruto chuckled "Yeah, but that was one hell of a challenge, Sagey!"

Jiraya's eye twitched at the nickname, but he ignored it and said "That's it for today then, I'm treating you all to Ichiraku's Ramen for passing the test and we'll start our first mission tomorrow at the eastern gate."

Naruto had started jumping with joy at the mention of Ichiraku Ramen and was doing a dance shouting "Sagey's the best! Yeah! Ramen!" while Hinata and Sasuke were sighing and apologizing for his behavior.

Ichiraku Ramen, 09:13 PM

Jiraya was still staring in shock as Naruto scoffed down his 17th bowl of miso ramen before finally letting out a content sigh, all the while grinning at his team. Whispering Jiraya asked the others "Where does it all go?"

Whispering back, Hinata said "A-after eating here with him before, I've come up with t-the theory that it all goes into an alternate dimension inside him."

Jiraya sighed "Even if I am a Sannin, it doesn't mean I have infinite money, so I hope he finishes soon." and as if on cue Naruto stood up, thanked Jiraya for the meal, said goodbye to the others and went home to rest for their first mission.

Konoha, East Gate, 08:00 AM

"Today we're doing every Genin's nightmare, the cat Tora's escape mission." Jiraya said while handing out transmission headsets and doing a sound check. Confused, Hinata asked "Why is it called every Genin's nightmare?"

Jiraya smirked and said "You'll find out soon enough."

As they entered the forest, Naruto caught a glimpse of a tail to the left, and informed the others before dispatching some shadow clones around the area. The others closed in on the target, and launched in an attempt to catch it and were both scratched in the face and bitten, before the cat jumped out of their reach and into Naruto's arms and started purring and cuddling while Naruto scratched it's belly.

Jiraya heard them over the transmission and arrived to the greatest shock of his life. In front of him sat Naruto, playing with every Genin's nightmare, the cat of the fire Daymio's wife, Tora the escape cat. Naruto was currently rubbing it's belly receiving purrs and small smacks of it's paws. Shaking his head in mirth, he told them to return to mission control with him.

On the way back they received many stares of disbelief at the nightmare acting like a kitten. When they arrived at the mission control, The Sandaime's eyes widened and he mumbled under his breath "I'm getting too old for this shit...and paperwork for that matter..."

3 weeks later...

Jiraya sighed, while his team all shouted in unison "WE WANT A REAL MISSION, DAMNIT!" even Hinata joined in. Sandaime sighed and gave in "Fine, you can take this one then. You are going to escort a bridge builder to Wave Country so he can finish his bridge. It's ranked C. Mr. Tazuna, please enter." An Old man with a straw hat and an empty sake bottle in his hand walked in and said in slight disbelief "You're sending three kids and an Old man to protect me?!"

"What's the problem? It's only ranked C, the worst you can meet is a couple of bandits." the Sandaime replied calmly. "Besides, one of them is a Sannin, so you should be fine." he added. Having calmed down, the man said "meet me at the west gate in 2 hours, I have to leave then"

"If only he wasn't a client..." Naruto mumbled under his breath, before team 7 left the room.

2 hours later, west gate

"Mr. Tazuna, it's time to go is everything packed and ready?" Jiraya asked the drunkard, who miraculously found 3-4 bottles of sake in his belt before nodding. And with that team 7 was off for their first mission outside Konoha.

However they had only gotten one and a half mile when two Kiri ninja jumped them, swinging their nodachi at the spot team 7 used to be. Jiraya quickly attacked the two ninja and finished some handsigns "Earth Style:Mud Bullet" The mud bullet was blocked, but broke their swords making them switch to kunai and shuriken. In a stroke of luck they managed to throw Jiraya back, and turned to the Genin. They engaged them in Taijutsu and found an opening, kicking them back. Naruto stood paralyzed from the pain in his stomach, and as the two ninja threw their weapons Hinata screamed "NARUUUUUUUTOOOOOOO!". The weapons impaled Naruto's chest at two points, knocking him back, while Sasuke flew through handsigns yelling "FIRE STYLE: GRAND FIREBALL JUSTU!" the two ninja barely dodged the attack with a couple of burnmarks, but Jiraya's clones finished them off with their kunai, ending the battle.

Jiraya hurried over to Naruto while giving the others orders on what to do or get. As he removed the Black shirt and the kunai, he was surprised the wounds were so shallow. Doing a quick check he said "Naruto is alright, he was wearing a flak vest and it seems to have stopped the kunai from destroying any vital organs." Hinata sighed in relief while Naruto stood to his feet with the crazy idea of no time to recuperate from the attack.

After 15 minutes of rest, they moved on through the forest arriving at a lake about 3/4 of the journey having passed. Naruto saw a glimpse of white in the bushes and yelled "GET DOWN!" No sooner a huge sword struck the air where their heads used to be. The sword stuck to a tree and a ninja appeared on top of it. Naruto yelled out "I know you! You're Zabuza Momochi, you're in the Bingo book!" Hinata and Sasuke both replied "YOU HAVE A BINGO BOOK?!" staring in shock at their teammate. Naruto smiled nervously and said "I borrowed it from the Hokage?"

Jiraya however, chuckled. "And by ¨borrowed¨, you probably mean stole, right?"Naruto nodded "It's alright, I did that too once." Hinata and Sasuke's eyes widened at this while Naruto just grinned. As they all dodged a kunai, an angry voice yelled "You're under attack and you just stand there talking?!" four voices said behind him "Yeah, you got a problem with it?" before attacking Zabuza. Naruto and Hinata split left and right, while Sasuke and Jiraya went head on. Jiraya and Sasuke Fired fireballs at Zabuza, to find a water clone with a paper bomb. Dodging the blast, Hinata and Naruto engaged Zabuza in a taijutsu battle, but were forced back when Hinata was struck in her left arm. Zabuza was going through handsigns , but was interrupted when Jiraya kicked him in his right arm, effectively breaking the bone. Suddenly about 30 senbon impaled Zabuza and a hunter nin appeared, gave a quick thanks and was about to take off with the body when Jiraya said "It's customary to dispose off the body at the site for Hunter nin, am I right?" The Hunter Nin took off and dodged Naruto's shuriken while Jiraya held out his arm in a stop signal "we have to take care of Hinata's wound."

Arriving at Tazuna's house they were given rooms and were tending to Hinata's arm. When they went to bed that night Naruto thought "I hate having two seals on my body, it's so limiting..." before drifting off to sleep.

End Of Chapter 4

So sorry it took so long! I just wanted to make it extra long for you guys. I spent an hour with writers block before I came up with the idea of breaking Zabuza's arm! Wonder how that will affect their battle? Anyway I will try my 1-2 times a week update schedule, okay?

No guarantee though, with midterms next week...

Enjoy an omake as this chapter's end ok?

DOTG:Naaaruto-kun?

Naruto:What the hell?!You placed another seal on me?!

DOTG:It's the only solution to this being NaruHina, ok?

Naruto:How come?

DOTG:I'm not telling you!You'll have to wait too, like everyone else!

Naruto&Hinata:BUT WE WANNA KISS!YOU'RE SO UNFAIR!

DOTG:Hinata, how do you like the idea of being a boy?

Hinata:Oh NO, DON'T YOU DARE!

DOTG:You still get to be with Naruto and it won't be yaoi. Oops might have revealed too much there, anyway Naruto's seal breaks next chapter, question is:Which one?

SEE YOU NEXT TIME! REMEMBER TO REVIEW!