Hello welcome to another chapter of Golden Embrace, finally done with this chapter. Thanks to everyone who reviewed, followed and faved this story it means a lot, also per reviewer request I am taking Hanabi out of the filter for this story until she is introduced latter in the story. Next chapter is not coming soon because I am on exams right now so sorry. Anyways Enjoy.
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./ Konoha
It had been several days since team 9 first day as an operational team, the tree of them had completed the egg exercise a few days ago and had just finished the quick water exercise today. Right now Naruto was walking through the crowd in Konoha going to his favorite ramen restaurant when suddenly he spotted someone familiar.
"Oi Yui!" He called. The raven haired girl turned looking for whoever called for her only to see Naruto waving at her, she smiled a little.
"Hey Naruto. What are you doing here alone?"
"Ahh nothing much just having sometime for myself, but I should be asking you that. What are you doing here alone?"
"Hm? Oh I am not alone, I am with my mother right now, we are going home to have dinner." She said and as if to prove her point just as she finished talking a tall woman appeared next to Yui, she could only be describe as the mature version of Yui, long raven hair that fell onto her back, she wore a black battle kimono that was also elegant at the same time that had the Uchiha fan marked on its back. She was tall about 1.65 meters and had fair with skin. Immediately Naruto remembering his Kaa-san's etiquette lessons vowed slightly.
"Hello Uchiha-san." The woman raised an eyebrow at the person who had suddenly saluted formally her when she neared her daughter.
"Who are you?" The woman said confused.
"Kaa-sama, he is my new teammate, his name is Naruto." Yui interrupted.
"Oh is that so?" She said giving the blond a warm smile. "My daughter has talked lots about you."
"K-kaa-san! What are you saying?" Yui stuttered embarrassed at being shown off by her mother. To which the woman's smile widened ever so slightly.
"Oh I am Uchiha Shinizu by the way. Good to meet you shounen (young boy)."
"Good to meet you Shinizu-san." The blonde said slightly blushing at the woman's remark about Yui talking about him. Then his stomach growled making him blush even further.
"Oh you are hungry? Come have dinner with us, we would be happy to host Yui's teammate" Shinizu said.
At that Yui's eyes widened, 'Wha-what is my Kaa-sama saying! Naruto is coming to my house? She just meets my new teammate and she suddenly decides to invites him over to have dinner. How did this got into her head?' Unknown to her the very blond she was thinking about was having similar thoughts.
'I know I came out to look for dinner, but this is crazy! Dinner in Yui's house? And is her mother the one that is inviting me, so I can't really say no. I wonder what she thinks of this, so troublesome.' He thought making a whole compound full of Naras sneeze at the last part.
"K-kaa-san what are you sayi…" Yui started but…
"Sure, I would love to have dinner with you." Naruto said with a light smile making Yui eyes widen in shock. 'Oh, I am so going to regret this.'
'Wha-what is just that idiot thinking?'
"Nice, now that everything is settled let's go home. Just follow us Naruto-kun."
./ Uchiha Compound
As the trio crossed the gates that signaled the start of the Uchiha district of Konoha Naruto couldn't help but widen his eyes at the sheer amount of Uchihas that were there, sure he knew he would see a lot of Uchiha clan members because… well they are on Uchiha ground but even so, seeing the most part of the biggest and most important clan of Konoha in a single place had it shock, however for some reason that he couldn't quiet place together he was getting a feeling of disgust toward the crowd of people before him from his gut? He would think of that later.
"Surprised? Every non-Uchiha that ever comes here has the same reaction, well anyone other than the ANBUs." Said Shinizu catching his attention.
"Well I guess that is to be expected, this is the biggest clan of Konoha after all." The blond answered.
"Maybe. But anyway we are here." Naruto looked up to see what judging by the building he had seen a typical Uchiha house, which was a Japanese style house with cream walls, however this one seemed to be somewhat bigger than the rest.
"Why is your house bigger than the others?" Naruto bluntly asked just saying what caem into his mind without processing it making Yui give him an incredulous look. "What?" Yui made to speak but before she could her mother talked.
"Good observation, you see I am actually the cousin of Uchiha Mikoto, the Uchiha heir now married to the Uchiha head Uchiha Fugaku, so that gives us greater status than the others."
"Oh, I see."
"Yes, now come in." Shinizu opened the door and everyone entered, the first thing that Naruto noticed is that despite Shinizu saying that she had greater status, her house was very plain. It had all basic requirements needed for household and a few other frills but nothing too luxurious.
"Sit down. I'll bring the dinner over in a moment." She said as the three entered the living room.
Naruto followed the indications sitting in a tatami mat near the table, as Yui seated in front of him. Looking at her Naruto noticed that she had been silent all the way here.
"Hey." He called her.
"What?" Yui replied miffed.
"Whoa calm down, what did I do to you?"
"… Nothing, it just irks me that my mother suddenly pulled out this whole 'come over to have dinner' thing."
"Why?" She didn't answer. "Aw come on, how am I supposed to help when you are not being cooperative at all?"
"Well is just that, you know is just that…" she stopped while her cheeks tinted a little bit of red.
"Just that what?" He said completely oblivious of the mood that had just settled into the room.
'Damn why do I feel like this? Why is he getting such a reaction out of me? What is worse is that he doesn't seem to notice, god I swear men are so stupid.' "Is just that you coming here was so sudden that I didn't had time to react to what was happening." She lied.
"Oh I see, but how is that a problem?"
'God is this for real, just how dense can he be?' She was about to speak but Shinizu came into the room with food and saw a slightly blushing Yui and a confused Naruto, she just gave a knowing smile to her daughter who in return blushed a little harder.
"I see that you are getting along. Here is the food." She said while putting the food on the table.
"Thank you for the food Shinizu-san."
"Oh it's nothing really." She said while serving the food into plates when the door suddenly
opened, standing there was a man with short brown hair, he was wearing the Military Police
Uniform.
"Greetings Tou-sama."
"Hello dear." Both women saluted. The man only nodded.
"Shinizu, may I know who is this kid in the table?" At this Naruto stood up.
"Good evening sir, I am Uzuki Uzumaki Naruto, your daughter's gennin teammate." The man's
eyebrow rose slightly at the name in recognizance.
"And may I ask why you are here?"
"I invited him to have dinner; I wanted to get to know our daughter new teammate." Shinizu said
taking roll in the conversation.
"Hn, I see. I'll be back later." He said as he gave a 180 degree turn and leaved.
"I'm sorry about that, Kyosuke isn't usually like that, I don't know what got into him, please forgive
him." Shinizu said trying to cover for her husband.
"It is all right, I don't mind, I'm used to being brushed off." Yui raised an eyebrow at this.
"Well in that case let's dig."
"ITADAMIKASU!" everyone shouted and started to eat.
./
"Thank you for the dinner." Naruto said at the door, the meal had been uneventful much to Yui's glee. After that the three chit-chatted a little until Naruto excused himself saying he had to go.
"The pleasure all mine, come back whenever you feel like it."
"I'll do."
"Goodbye Yui I'll see you tomorrow morning." She just nodded.
"Goodbye Naruto-kun."
As the two watched the blond go Shinizu turned to her daughter.
"He was an interesting boy." She said while Yui's eyebrow twitched and blush a little.
"So Naruto-kun huh?
"No idea what you are talking about." Yui said as she started going away. Shinizu just smirked at her daughter.
'Oh, young love is so wonderful.'
./ Next Morning. Training Ground 15
Very good team, now that you have completed the exercises I wanted you to complete before I actually started teaching you anything we can move on." Shirakumo said.
"Now we can proceed directly to what I want to train you in, elemental chakra manipulation." "You see there are 5 chakra natures water, fire, air, lighting and earth, every shinobi is inclined to one of all these natures, of course it is possible to master other elements but is harder than with you natural affinity. To find out you nature you need a special paper known as chakra paper." He said taking out some slips of paper from his sleeve. "To find out your chakra nature you just have to direct chakra through the paper and it will have a different reaction depending on your element. I know that you Yui have a fire affinity making you versatile on Katon ninjutsu, but I want you to take the test anyway." He said as he began handing out the papers and Yui nodded.
"Ok Kowa you first."
"Hai." Kowa concentrated for a moment on the paper when suddenly it turned into dirt and crumbled.
"I see, earth affinity huh. Having an earth affinity makes you able to use doton ninjutsu more easily, doton is an all purpose element, functioning both as offensive and defensive. I know the basics of it because my gennin teammate had a doton affinity too so I can help you with it. Doton is strong against water and weak against lighting" Kowa nodded in understanding.
"Now Naruto, you are next."
"Hai." 'Hmm I wonder what I am going to get.' Naruto directed his chakra through the slip of paper when suddenly it quickly split in two perfectly in the middle of the paper.
"Uu that is good, you have a wind affinity, just like me, having a wing affinity make you able to use Fuuton ninjutsu with facility, futon is mainly an offensive affinity but it had some good defensive techniques, also futon is the most used element used in combination techniques, but that requires a lot of teamwork and practice. Fuuton is strong against lighting and weak against fire." Naruto nodded.
"Ok now finally Yui, tell me how good are you with your katon affinity?"
"I am pretty competent in it; I have a fairly good amount of mastery in it, even if I still have a lot to learn about it."
"I see, then I want you to direct your chakra to it but abstain from using your katon chakra, you see, if you do not use your main affinity, it will be possible for your second strongest affinity to show, even if I am not going to train you in it just yet, is always good to know."
"Hai sensei." Yui said as she started to concentrate, for a moment nothing happened but then the slip started to burn a little and then stopped and a small cut could be seen in the paper.
"I see, your second affinity is wind too, however the fact that the paper burnt a little at the beginning shows that your mastery is not that great and or you lack control in both elemental and chakra manipulation."
"I'm sorry."
"Now there is nothing to be sorry about, the fact that you can use your affinity at this age is quite a feat you know? So don't let yourself get down."
"Hai."
"Now let us begin." Shirakumo said and then shouted while crossing his fingers. "Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!" (Shadow Clone Technique) and instantly 2 clones identical to Shirakumo appeared.
"Wow Sensei what is that technique? Is so awesome." Said Naruto fascinated by the technique.
"It is the Kage Bunshin, it allows the user to make a perfect clone of him capable of using chakra and any technique of the user, but it cuts the chakra in equal amounts to the clones made everytime it is used and are very weak, so it is a clone mainly used for espionage or recognizance, however because of its drain it is labeled as kinjutsu and a jounin level technique. ."
"Wow that is so awesome. I wish I could make a clone like that."
"Oi didn't you heard sensei? Is a kinjutsu!" Yui said. Naruto turned to her and Yui adverted her sight a little, she was still embarrassed from last night and all the teasing from her kaa-sama didn't helped.
"No, no it is quite ok, Naruto what do you mean a clone like that?" Shirakumo asked.
"Well you see. Kaa-san told me that because I have so much chakra I cannot control it very well when it comes to small amounts so I cannot make regular bunshins at all. I was able to master the technique, but it takes too much effort from me. So I would want to make bunshins without having to try so much."
"Hmm I see, if that is the case this technique could be perfect for you because if what you say is true and you have so much chakra that it disrupts your control, then Kage Bunshins are just perfect for you." Naruto's eyes gleamed in hope. "But I'm not positive about teaching it to you at all, I will think about it, okay?"
"Hai sensei." Naruto responded somewhat downcast.
"Well, returning to the situation at hand. Each of you will go with a clone, he will teach you or help you practice your affinities, we will make this for a while and then we will spar. Go." Immediately each of the gennin trio separated and went with a clone.
./ With Naruto
"Ok Naruto, can you tell me what does the wind affinity is characterized for?" Shirakumo asked after he finished walking over to a tree with a lot of leaves.
"Hmm… no, I don't know." Answered Naruto.
"Come on, I know that you know, think." Naruto just tilted his head and frowned a little.
'Wait, now that I think about it, when we were fighting sensei did use some wind techniques. Some think about… wind... Oh.' Finishing his thoughts Naruto turned to look at his sensei that had a 'see?' smile on his face.
"The wind element characterizes itself for cutting right?"
"Yes indeed, wind chakra is known for being sharp and thin and combined with great force and accuracy it is used to deal cutting and splashing damage to the intended target." Shirakumo said as he took a leaf from the tree. "So as one can infer from what I just said." He said as he placed a hand over the leaf. "To be able to control the wind element you need to make your chakra thin and sharp." He finished while removing his hand only to reveal the leaf cut perfectly on the half with a straight line. "You are to archive this exercise to start with wind manipulation and pass to the second of three stages. As a friendly tip, imagine your chakra being sharp." Naruto just nodded still looking at the perfectly cut leaf. "Now get to it!"
Immediately Naruto got out of his stupor and reached for a leaf.
'Right, so I have to make my chakra as thin as possible to be able to cut through the leaf. Now focus on my chakra... and picture it being sharp. Like a knife cutting through a loaf of bread.' A few seconds passed and Naruto removed his hands only to see the leaf apparently intact, but if you look closer you could notice a small cut the side of the leaf, Naruto however didn't notice this and giving a small swearing to himself got back to the task, but Shirakumo being the seasoned jounin that he was did noticed it.
'Incredible. To be able to achieve even a small, even if almost unseeable cut on his first try, Naruto, just what you will be capable of in the future.'
'Come on I have to do this, I want to show some progress to kaa-chan when she returns. Come on, razor sharp chakra… razor sharp… razor sharp.' Repeating the same progress as before quite a few times Naruto did finally noticed a small clean cut on the leaf, it wasn't even two centimeters long, but it was progress compared to the nothing he had made on his first few tries.
"Yahoo I made it a small cut finally-dattebayo!" He shouted, but instantly covered his mouth with his hand. 'Dattebayo? What the hell? Where did that came from? A whatever, I finally got a cut-dattebayo. Wait not again; I hope this doesn't become a trending.'
./ 2 Hours Latter
An exhausted Naruto can be seen surrounded by an uncountable amount of leaves with partial cuts on them, he has been practicing the exercise nonstop and the chakra exhaustation was just beginning to show. He was hoping for a little break, but he wasn't so lucky, as just as he was about to lie down on the floor, Shirakumo called.
"Come on Naruto, times up, go back to the field." He said with a poof signaling that the clone was either dispelled or dispelled itself. Cursing slightly Naruto started to walk over to the designated place.
"Times up he said, come to the field he said." Naruto spoke to himself slightly angry about not being able to rest.
./ Training Ground 15, Main Field
All three students arrived at the same time, giving each other a small hello they turned to their sensei that was in a meditative pose, on top of his katana. Opening his eyes Shirakumo spoke.
"Today you have each showed a lot of progress and have shown me your efforts; I have to say, that I am impressed about how quickly you are growing, and wanted to tell you continue like that. However, playtime is over for today. You will show the results of everything we have done till now, I want you to come at me right now at fight me with all you got, tai and kenjustu only, go."
All three of them were already tense since the moment their sensei said play time is over. So just as he said the word 'go' all three of them jumped at him, Kowa was the first to arrive sending a direct punch Shirakumo's gut. However the man in question jumped and landed on Kowa's extended arm and grabbed his katana, and jumped back immediately drawing it, blocking a double strike from both Naruto and Yui and then back jumping to avoid a follow up kick from Kowa. Naruto made to slash him only for him to block the attempts.
"Naruto your swings are too open." He said.
Quickly adjusting his problem Naruto continued his barrage, but Kowa had managed to get behind him, putting his whole weight in it, Kowa made to punch Shirakumo, who blocked with his knee and overpowered Naruto sending his a few meters back. Feeling another presence creep over him he positioned his sword to his right and blocked Yui's blade strike.
"Kowa, your moves are a little too predictable, Yui your supportive attacks are well timed, but you need to seek the element of surprise." He said and then gave a violent twist pushing both gennins away and jumped away. Slightly frustrated Yui chased after her sensei and quickly made various slashes, of which all were blocked by the jounin, with skill that could only be obtained by years of practice Shirakumo twisted his katana around Yui's and moving his arm stongly to a side, disarmed her.
"Ahhhh!" He heard Kowa shout, and looked ahead to see the charging gennin. Specting a kick, by how his leg was positioned, Shirakumo braced his arms in order to block, however Kowa went down and spin on his feet trying to take his sensei down. But Shirakumo managed to jump on the last moment to avoid the kick to his feet. However when he was in the air he sensed an incoming strike from his back.
'Shit, I forgot about Naruto.' Turning around, he saw the blonde jumping at him, already moving his sword to strike, time seemed to slow down to the blonde as he widened his eyes when his sword connected with his sensei's body, but it quickly poofed into smoke and a wooden log appeared in his place.
'Good lord we are in Konoha and those useless logs are around everywhere, they sure are life savers. Well seeing how they managed to show such good results so quickly let's end this.'
Quickly running toward Yui who had just recuperated Shirakumo send a strike which Yui quickly blocked but things didn't ended there as he sent a knee kick to her stomach and then strike her sword sending it flying. He jumped to avoid a slash from Naruto and sent a kick to the blond's head making him making him give a few steps backward and then delivered a full powered kick to his abdomen after he had landed. Turning to Kowa who was confused at the abrupt change of peace, but following his sensei with his eyes Shirakumo adopted a taijustu stance and sheathed his sword and rushed yet again to his last remaining student left standing. Noticing the advancing thread Kowa too settled into a defensive stance and waited.
When Shirakumo was within his range, Kowa bended down a bit and tried to uppercut their sensei. But he flexed his upper body and turning around a little he sent a direct ounch to Kowa's head who narrowly dodged, but then sent a kick to his torso sending his skidding a few meters on the ground.
"Uuu I think I overdid it." He said as he looked at all of his students who were on the floor in pain.
./
"Sensei did you really had to be so aggressive?" A huffing Naruto asked after the trio had finally stood up and assembled in front of their waiting sensei.
"Yes sensei, I think you overdid it." Kowa proclaimed.
"Hehe, sorry guys, I guess I got a little too excited." He said causing all three to sweat drop. "Anyways, you did well. I will see you back again tomorrow. Dismissed."
'You are just avoiding the issue…' All three exclaimed in their heads but ultimately nodded and said their goodbyes.
./ Uzuki Residence
Naruto opened the door to his home and dragged his feet on the floor as he walked in.
"Uuug man I'm beat, Shirakumo –sensei overdid it at the end of the training." He said as he entered the living room. But as he was about to drop himself in the couch he felt a sinister presence creep up behind him, a presence that he knew all too well and that he knew he felt because the presence itself desired it, it desired to inflict fear on the victim, making it know that impending doom awaited you, and the more you tried to struggle against it the more you would get tortured.
"GAKI!" A voice shouted in excitement as it tackled Naruto to the ground and place him in an awkward and painful position.
"Ughh Anko-chan don't do that." Naruto grunted in pain.
"Aww you are no fun gaki." Anko said with a pout as she removed herself from on top on Naruto.
"More like you are having fun while I suffer." Naruto deadpanned.
"Yeah, yeah, whatever." She said while Naruto sweat droped. "Ara, I see you graduated. Well I guess that is to be expected; after all you trained under no one else but the mighty sexy Mitarashi Anko!" She said while adopting a heroic pose causing Naruto to sweat drop even further.
"Hai, hai." Naruto said hoping to make Anko step out of her pose.
"What was that gaki?" She asked grabbing him by the neck placing his head between her arm and bust causing him to blush.
"No-nothing, just confirming how great you are Anko-sama." He said knowing better than 'offending' Anko.
"Hmm I see." She smirking.
"Ne Anko-chan." Naruto said, getting Anko's attention. "Do you know when kaa-chan will be back from her mission?"
"No, I do not, however I do know that it is a top secret mission, apparently something big happened."
"Really what?"
"I don't know, I just told you what I overheard Ibiki say." She said nonchalantly. "Anyways, I'm hungry."
"So?" Naruto asked saying mentally goodbye to his rest knowing the answer.
"Let's go get some dango!"
"Hai." Naruto said with comical anime tears on his eyes.
./ Dango Shop
"I really don't know what you see in this." Naruto said as he feasted through his fifth dango plate. "Ramen in way better than this."
"Haa, you don't know what you are saying." Anko who was already in her seventh answered. "Dango is the best food in the world."
"What no way it is ramen!"
"Dango!"
"Ramen!"
"Dango!"
"Hey calm down, we are in a restaurant." A third voice reprimanded.
"Aww Nai-chan, you are no fun! We were just having a friendly dispute here." Anko said grabbing Naruto by the neck again. Making him yell in inconformity and struggle against her grip, forgetting that it was useless when it came to Anko. Kurenai's eyebrow just twitched in annoyment.
"Anko behave." She said dangerously. Immediately Anko freed Naruto and went to a rigid pose, she was dangerous, but Kurenai angry was even more. On the way to the dango shop, they had encountered Kurenai who was returning from a mission, being a friend of both Yuugao and Anko, they invited her to eat dango, to which she happily accepted. Right now the three of them were eating dango.
"Naruto-kun?" The three heard a voice outside the shop say lowly, but loud enough for all three of them to hear.
./ Outside
Uchiha Yui had gone home after the training having ended pretty bruised she decided to go to a shinobi shop for remedies; she was on her way when she passed in front of a dango shop but stopped on her tracks when she heard a voice that she had came to know a lot.
"Dango!"
"Ramen!"
"Dango!"
The shouts seemed to come from inside the shop, with curiosity winning she turned to the shop and saw her blond teammate eating and chatting happily with what seemed two older women.
"Naruto-kun?" She called unconsciously. When she noticed that the voiced of the three persons she was observing stopped and turned to her, her eyes widened on surprise and blushed at was she had just done.
"Yui?" Naruto called back. Deciding that now it would be useless to go she stepped into the shop.
"Hello Naruto-kun."
"Ara gaki, you had such a cute girlfriend and you didn't told me? I'm hurt." One of the women that was eating with Naruto spoke teasingly.
"Wh-whaa!" Yui shouted embarrassed.
"No, no Anko-chan you got it all worng, she is my gennin teammate." Naruto quickly responded waving his arms in denial.
"Really? You two seem too friendly and all, don't they Nai-chan."
The red eyed woman smirked. She would usually remain quite, but a chance to play one on Naruto was really rare. "Yeah they do Anko."
"What! Not you too Kurenai-chan." Naruto said in defeat.
'Who just are these women? Why are they saying me and Naruto are… are.' Yui didn't finished as she started to blush madly.
"No, no, my name is Uchiha Yui I am only Naruto's teammate." Yui said trying to clear the situation.
"Huh, really? You should have said that since the beginning." The woman who now she identified as Anko said smirking. "You can cause misunderstandings."
"So you said you are an Uchiha?" The other woman who had deep red eyes with a bandaged outfit asked.
"Hai, I am Uchiha Yui, please take care of me." Yui said bowing a little bit hoping to change the conversation topic.
"Hn, I see." The woman replied somewhat coldly. "Yuki Kurenai I'll be in your guidance."
'Now what is the problem with her? She dosen't outright says it but is ovious that she dosen't likes me.' She would ask Naruto latter.
"Well what are you doing Yui?" Naruto asked trying to save the atmosphere.
"Oh, yeah I am going to a shinobi shop. I will have to get going, sorry."
"No no, is okay, see you tomorrow." Naruto said.
"Yes, goodbye." When Yui left Naruto sighted and talked.
"You two surely are a handful." He said causing both women to giggle.
"Aww but you love us." Anko said brightly.
"Sure I do. But please do not repeat that."
"No promises." Anko said smiling.
./
./Omake
"Hahaha" Laughed Shirakumo at the sight in front of him, his three students were on the floor in pain after ending a training session.
"Hahahahaha." He continued. As there stood a man over thirty years old laughing victoriously at beating the crap out of three kids.
And cut, finally done with this chapter, this chapter was very fun to write. How do you like my character interaction scenes? Finally I am getting somewhere, what do you think Yuugao mission is kuku? Starting next chapter we are finally going out of Konoha and finally the introductory chapters are over, also we broke word record with 4875 words on this chapter making it the longest in my fics. (if not into gaming skip next paragraph)
Also, if any of my readers are gamers, like real gamers, I need help, I can't decide whether to buy a 3DS or a PS4, what ya think? I really want both of them, but PS4 is too expensive, but if I don't buy it I'll miss the new Infamous for a while and a bunch of other cool PS4 exclusive titles, but on the other hand I need Pokemon back in my life, I haven't played since Soul Silver, and other interesting game are out there for the handheld that I want.
Anyways, please review this chapter, tell me what you liked, what you didn't or you overall opinion on this fic and ideas. See ya