Welcome to the next chapter of Golden Embrace, sorry for the delay, but I have been very busy lately and I was on a trip, also this week I'm starting exams, so the next chapter will probably be delayed too, well not next-next chapter but the 6th chapter, because when I started doing next(this) chapter I wrote over 1000 words, when I decided that I liked that chapter for the 5th chapter so I had to start anew, so because, I have so much done already I'll probably do a double release, I don't know. Also thank a lot for everyone that faved and reviewed this story it means a lot, I will keep working hard for you. Enjoy.
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto
./ Uziki Residence
"Kaa-chan I'm home!" Naruto shouted opening the door. "Kaa-chan?" He called again upon not having a response. Naruto walked to the kitchen and noticed a scroll furled up in the table, picking it up the blonde unfurled it and read it.
'Hello Naruto-kun. I had to leave because of an emergency mission from the Hokage, I cannot tell you about it as it is confidential. I'm sorry that I couldn't be there with you on your first day as a shinobi. You graduated right? If not Anko is probably going to hang you. Anyways am not sure when I will be back, but probably in about two weeks; oh there is some food in the fridge, until then.
Love you, Yuugao'
"Well, that sucks. I guess I'll just go to sleep now, have to give my full at training tomorrow."
./ Next Day. Training Ground 15
Naruto arrived at the training ground and observed that both his other two male teammate and jounin sensei were already there waiting.
"Good morning everyone." He said catching their attention, although Shirakumo had already noticed him but hadn't comment on it.
"Hey there Naruto." Shirakumo replied calmly, somehow he was always calmed and had a serene expression on his face, leave it to powerful persons to seek ways to be rare.
"Hello Naruto, what's up?" Kowa said.
"Nah, nothing much, just that my kaa-san isn't home, she went out on a mission and won't come back for a couple week." This picked their sensei attention.
"Is Yuugao-san not home?"
"Yeah, you know my mother?"
"Yes, I was teamed often with her in my chuunin days for missions."
"Oh, I see." Shirakumo nodded dismissing the issue.
"Sensei. What are we going to learn today? Asked Kowa
Well I don't want to ruin the surprise, so I am going to wait until Yui arrives." He said while inwardly smirking evilly. 'Oh you are going to learn the pains of being a gennin my young students.' Kowa nodded.
The three remained silent and just talked a little bit until after some 10 mintes Yui arrived.
"Sorry I'm late. Did I make you wait?"
"Nah don't worry we have just about 15 minutes here." Kowa said. Yui nodded.
"Alright team, I'm going to tell what we are doing today. First off we are going to decide your long term training, then we are going to practice some teamwork, even if you have already displayed it you still need it, as you must work, act and think as if you all were a single person. Then we are going to do some missions." This catched their attention.
"For real? Missions in the first day?" Yui asked in disbelief. Shirakumo just settled for a cruel smile that served to put the green gennin unease.
"Yes but we are going to do missions, but D-Rank mission." He said still with his cruel smile. Not understanding the three decided to concern about that later.
"Now for your training. I'm a specialist in kenjutsu and ninjutsu, while my taijutsu is not really that great, is pretty efficient. What I am planning to do is train you all in ninjutsu, seeing that you already have a proficient chakra control, we are going to perfect it and then we are moving onto elemental chakra manipulation." This catch Naruto's attention, when Yuugao had stated training him and explained the basics of chakra, he was immediately interested in elemtal manipulation, he had asked his mother to teach him but she always refused saying it was too advanced and not her place to teach.
"While I can help you practice and improve either kenjutsu." He said eyes Yui and Naruto and a questioning glance to Kowa who shook his head. "Or taijutsu." He said eyeing the trio this time. "Ok?" everyone nodded.
"Now let's start with some teamwork exersices." He said pulling out of seemingly nowhere one egg. "This exercise consist of quickly throwing this egg between you three and not breaking it, this has three stages, the other two being working with 2 and three eggs simultaneously, this exercise helps improve your coordination, as you need to feel how your teammate is going to operate and your sense of timing as if you do not catch the egg, most probably you will get a stain hard to get rid of in your clothes."
Everyone nodded thinking this exercise was easy, however they did not took into consideration the fact that the egg had to be thrown quickly, so after 2 hours of practice the three had more than a few dozen egg hits on their bodies. They managed to complete level one of the training, but when they started level two the eggsacre continued.
./ Two hours later
Shirakumo normally is a calm person with a serene smile on his face; this was his way to cope with the various things he had seen in his shinobi life. But right now he was having problems with not to burst laughing at the sight before him. The three of his students were standing in front of him almost completely covered with egg hits on their bodies, and had an irritated look at their sensei from trying to laugh at them.
"Sensei please stop." Said an annoyed Yui.
"Yes-yes, is just that you just look as if you had come from a bloodbath, but with eggs." At this he finally gave and started laughing like crazy making the eyebrows of all three twitch. After his laughter finally stopped, he took a deep breath and resumed his calm attitude with a light smile.
"Alright, now we are going to do chakra control exercises, tell me, do you know water walking yet?" Everyone nodded.
"Well, I guess from you three that is to be expected, but whatever. Now what you are going to do it refine your control, the goal of this exercise is to be able to stand on quick moving water for 2 hour. This will improve to improve your control, because, in water the surface is ever changing, meaning you need to constantly be adjusting your control and chakra release to be able to accommodate to the ever changing water surface." The three nodded already knowing this. "But on quick moving water the surface changes even more rapidly, so better control is needed and as you exhaust yourself your chakra reserves will start increasing." The three nodded again not finding the fault at their sensei's logic. "So for that training you are going to use the river that is on the eastern side of Konoha, now let's go.
./ River
"Ok give it a try, we will make this exercise until you complete it, then we will advance on more advanced things that I want to teach you."
"Yosh, let's do this, just watch me, I am going to ace this exercise!" Naruto loudly said making his teammates sweat drop.
"Huh, don't get to sure Naruto I'm pretty sure I am going to beat you, after all my clan taijutsu relies a good deal on chakra control." Kowa replied in a slightly non-hostile superior manner.
"You guys are too sure of yourselves, when it comes to this team, I am the superior one." Yui said in the same manner. After this all three of them launched on the river, aiming to complete the exercise and move onward with their training? No, aiming to show superiority by completing the exercise first.
'Ah, young rivalries and healthy competition is surely the best, they all will grow for sure into fine shinobies, they have bright paths ahead…, wait, did I just acted like Guy?' he shuddered.
./ 2 hours later
"Alright guys, times up, get out of the water now." Shirakumo commanded.
"Hai." Everone shouted, at the beginning of the training all three of them had problems with the exercise, but after half an hour they began to start making progress and managed to stay on top of the quick moving water, he was going to let them continue the exercise, but about forty-five minute earlier they fell into the water having to start the time count again. Still.
'To make such amount progress so quickly. These kids may very well be geniuses, and if instructed correctly, they may become some of the finest crops this village has ever produced, I will make sure that happens.'
"Now, we are to report to the mission center in the Hokage building to get a mission." He said.
"Yes, mission time." Naruto shouted in joy with similar comments from his teammates, however their joy didn't lasted long.
./ Somewhere in Konoha
"Aw hell, how did we get into this again?" Naruto exclaimed through the intercom in his ear.
"It is the mission Naruto, deal with it." Yui replied also annoyed with the situation at hand.
"I told you that you were not going to like D-Ranks." Shirakumo said calmly.
"No you only smirked evilly." Kowa deadpanned.
"Oh, is that so? Sorry hehe." The tree sighted. At first they had to make to gardening work for the civilians as D-Ranks missions consisted on that, chores. Then they had to do some painting and now they were stuck with chasing a cat that belonged to the Daimyo´s wife called Tora. They were about to catch it one time, but when Yui finally had it on her hands, the devilish cat scratched her face with its claws leaving long red marks. Kowa and Naruto commented that they gave her a fierce look, which only served to enrage her even more than what she was after the incident. Shirakumo wisely had remained quiet and did not act directly with the cat; this mission has been around ever since his gennin days and had suffered his own catish hell.
"Ok, shh, I have visual confirmation with the target at sector B, how should I proceed? Over." Kowa said.
"Stand by, continue to monitor the target and maintain visual confirmation on it while we get into positions. Over." Shirakumo replied.
"Yellow into position." Naruto called.
"Black into position." Yui said.
"Leader into position, brown proceed to intercept the target, be careful, over.
"Copy that, proceeding with extraction. Over and Out." Everyone tensed and hold their breaths, for a few moments nothing happened, then suddenly out of nowhere Kowa launched himself over to the unsuspecting cat, but just as he was about to grab it, it squirmed its way out. Yui proceeded to jump at it, and attempted to grab it, but it jumped onto the air using her shoulder as support, once in the air Naruto jumped toward it and catched it. He restrained it by grabbing its paws, it tried to break free, but to no avail. When he landed Shirakumo came out.
"Good job everyone, mission accomplished, that's 3 today, now let's go to the Hokage to give the mission report."
./ Hokage Building, Mission Roster Center.
"Sir, Team 9 reporting in." Shirakumo spoke clearly to his superior.
"Hmm, I see, good job, that's third mission today right?" The aged warrior replied.
"Hai sir."
"Very well, you may rest for the rest of the day." Everyone started to move out but stayed put after noticing that Naruto hadn't moved.
"Yes Naruto-kun what's the problem?" Sarutobi asked.
"Umm yes jiji, I was wondering. When will kaa-chan get back from her mission?" He asked causing Yui's eyebrow to twitch ever so slightly at the 'jiji' part. Both she and their sensei had reprimanded the blond when he first called that the Hokage in their presence earlier that day, but the Hokage had said that it was alright, that they have that type of relationship, so Yui forcibly remained quite on the topic, oh it was going to get hard to get used to that.
"Hmm? Neko-chan? I don't know." He said dismissingly, Naruto nodded. He knew what that meant, whenever the Hokage or any other ANBU he ever talked with referred to his mother as Neko that meant that what he wanted to know was either confidential or ANBU duties, probably both if you considered that it had been two years now since Yuugao had passed from being a Chuunin ANBU to Jounin ANBU. The difference being in which shinobi rank you entered the ANBU and if you were to enter while being a chuunin you had to pass the special ANBU Jounin Exam, which was considerably more difficult than the regular jounin exam.
"I see." He said his face showing a little sadness at not being able to know when his mother would return. "Well, see you later jiji!" he said quickly regaining a happy attitude.
./ Outside
"Hey Naruto, what did the Hokage meant with 'Neko-chan' when he talked about your kaa-san eariler?" Kowa asked with curiosity. This picked Yui's curiosity as well.
"Yeah, now that I remember he did call her that." She complemented. Naruto gave a small sight knowing he should not tell an ANBU identity to anyone without the clearing to do so, but they were his teammates so they had to know and if he didn't tell them, they would get to know in the future.
"That's because my mother serves in the ANBU, cat is the animal that she wears on her mask." Both kids had an O shaped mouth after the hearing the revelation.
"For real? That is awsome." Kowa said.
"Yes, yes." Yui said too.
"No doubt you are so skilled, with your kaa-san being an ANBU you must had gotten a real nice training."
"Well, not really, my kaa-san did trained me, but nothing to spectacular, just some Kenjutsu and chakra control, a friend of my mother taught me Taijutsu." Naruto replied sheepishly.
"Let me guess, Anko-san taught you?" said Shirakumo interrupting the conversation.
"Yes, do you know her?" Naruto said narrowing his eyes. A year after meeting Anko he had gotten to know how infamous Anko was because her sensei, Orochimaru of the Dandetsu no Sannin had defected Konoha giving her the nicknames of 'Snake Whore' or 'Snake Bitch' or names like that. Naruto knowing what being prejudge was like and hated for no reason or in her case because of something she couldn't control was like had quickly tried to get close to the Tokubetsu Jounin and both had grown into a good friendship. Shirakumo noticed the change of behavior of Naruto and immediately knew why.
"Yes, I was friends with her before, you know, that occurred, but ever since 'that' she had closen off to almost everyone, except a selected few, me not included."
"Oh." Naruto's eyes widened.
"Wait, what is that?" Yui asked confused.
"That is something you are not to know, and neither me, nor Naruo are in position to tell."
"Oh, ok then." She said, being part of a somewhat secretive clan she knew when to to pry into other people's business. Shirakumo nodded in thanks for her understanding.
"Well team I'll see you tomorrow at the same hour." With that he shunshined away.
"So Naruto, do you know any other powerful ANBU?" Yui enquired.
"Not really, well I met someone from your clan, Uchiha Itachi I think, but I don't't talk with him much, just when I see him off-duty sometimes or when he comes home saying that kaa-chan's presence is required." Yui's eyes widended yet again.
"What! You know Itachi-sama?"
"Itachi-sama?"
"Yes, he is the elder son of the clan head, he is well known in the clan for his various shinobi accomplishments."
"Oh, I get it, I did not knew that." Yui nodded.
"Well, I'll see you tomorrow, I must go home." Kowa said interrupting the conversation not really taking a lot of interest in the Uchiha heir conversation.
"Yeah me too, what about yo Naruto? Yui asked, both turned to see at their blond teammate.
"Mmm, well there is no one home, so I guess I'll go get some ramen and then go home." Kowa nodded.
"Well goodbye." All three said, and turned to whatever path they were taking.
And cut, here we are with the end of the fourth chapter; I rushed with the ending because I am sick tired of this chapter, I have like 3 days writing it because of time issues and just wanted to complete it. But I hope it wasn't that bad. Anyway, I can already feel my hype building for what I have planned for the future of this fic. Anyways please review this chapter, tell me what you liked, what you didn't or your overall thoughts about the fic, until next time.