MINI RANT SO READERS CAN UNDERSTAND THE STORY:
I don't understand why Kakashi allowed for Sakura to keep hitting and demeaning Naruto. Isn't that physical abuse or something? And Sakura and Sasuke to demean Naruto through what I see as practically verbal abuse? I thought Kakashi would have stopped them because IT LITERALLY SAYS IN THE NARUTO WIKI: "An abuse of one's teammates is the only thing that can makes Kakashi cast aside his normally stoic demeanor, causing him to attack without mercy or his usual sense of sportsmanship." Which means he should have totally kicked their asses for that because they were somewhat of a team. I would have. I claim that as abuse and here is where it takes me.
This is AU, some OOC and I do not own Naruto.
Please review.
The package Aoi had asked him to deliver made it successfully without trouble. Naruto was back in his worn down apartment with the money he'd received for delivery. It wasn't a lot, but it was enough to make rent without drawing on the rest of the C rank money he'd gotten.
After an icy shower (damned landlord wouldn't turn on the water heater), he pulled on a worn dark shirt and pants and kept two weapon holsters on him. He ate quickly with a simple meal of salmon and rice with some fruit. A knock on his window made him draw a kunai and narrow his eyes before he recognized the silver spiky hair and slanted hai-ate. 'What does Kakashi-sensei want? To talk about Aoi?' He wondered as he opened the window and his sensei came in.
"You can't go through the door?" He muttered under his breath as a blast of cool air made his shiver before he hurriedly shut it with a snap. The jounin sat down at his kitchen table and looked at him.
"I didn't tell you where we meet." The man said. "Tomorrow, we'll meet on training ground nine. Bring a day's worth of equipment." Naruto nodded and tilted his head.
"You didn't come to just tell me that, did you?" He asked quickly as he grabbed a couple of cups and the pot that he filled with water. "Do you want tea?"
"Possibly to the first. No tea, thanks." Kakashi answered as he glanced around Naruto's apartment. Naruto set the second chipped cup back in the cupboard and got the tea packet, dropping it into the pot with a slight splash. There was once again silence for a little bit while the tea boiled. Then; "You trust that man, Aoi?"
Naruto sighed. "Yes, I trust him. He was the first person besides jiji that took care of me. He gave me enough food that I wasn't hungry for two whole days, twice a day and in return I ran some things for him in the less...clean areas of Konoha. I was six. He showed me how to deal and gamble, trade and steal, smuggle and spy. I gained my first route connections through him and now I know quite a few people here and outside Konoha that don't loathe me for what I can't help being." He barely caught Kakashi's wince at his last words. "Why do you ask?"
"I wanted to know because that man has a pair. He threatened to bring down crime syndicates and people from other lands over here to try and kill me if you died. I wanted to know if you trust him because he might've helped you and it was a debt or if because you know he really cares." At Naruto's surprised look, he continued. "He really does care for you. I talked to him after the rest of the jounin had left."
That made Naruto smile faintly and nod. Aoi truly cared.
Taking the pot from the stove, he poured himself a cup of tea and put the rest to stay warm on the eye. Going to the table, he sat down and took a sip before setting the cup down. Kakashi stared out of the window while he sipped the tea. The quiet wasn't awkward but it wasn't family quiet either; it was more of an easy going quiet that was just there.
"Can you tell me what you'll be teaching me tomorrow?" Naruto asked with a yawn, stifling it with a hand. The jounin turned to look at him.
"Nope." Kakashi gave a funny eye smile and the blond's eye twitched.
"Then, if you could, tell me why you're still here?" He nearly growled at his sensei. He was tired and he wanted some sleep, kami damn it!
"You don't want me here?"
"If it's all the same to you, I would like to get some rest." Naruto informed him sharply before stifling another yawn. Kakashi blinked and then hmmed, standing up. "And if you're thinking about being late, forget it. I'm not opening the package from my friend tonight, I'll do it tomorrow morning and I might show you if it's not too personal and if you're not late." Kakashi raised an eyebrow, even if Naruto couldn't see it.
"Blackmail, Naruto?" He shrugged at his sensei.
"Whatever it takes, sensei. We're shinobi, not samurai." At that, Naruto caught a glimpse of raised eyebrow again before Kakashi nodded and gave a short wave before vanishing in a faint swirl of leaves. The leaves landed in a pile on his floor and the blond scowled after yawning at the mess he had to clean now.
Waking up and slamming a hand on his ringing alarm clock, he glanced at it and rubbed his eyes at seeing it was 7 am. 'Two hours until I meet with Kakashi-sensei. Ugh. I still have to eat and make sure I have enough supplies for today.' Naruto yawned and tossed away his covers and quickly made his bed. He tried to be neat and clean, meaning every weekend he scrubbed down the apartment and every day made his bed.
After getting dressed in his new clothes and tying his hai-ate around his forehead, Naruto went into the kitchen and ate cereal and fruit with half a glass of orange juice. Washing his dishes and leaving them to dry, he took out his supplies and set them on his kitchen table to see how much he would need to take with him.
There were two thick rolls of ninwire, five dozen shuriken and kunai, and a tanto. Besides that, his armor consisted of bracers and greaves. Setting aside three dozen shuriken and kunai, he placed the rest in a spare storage scroll that he strapped in one of the deep pockets of his vest.
Placing the shuriken and kunai in their proper holsters and coiling ninwire around his wrists and hiding the rest of the roll in a pocket, Naruto decided to wait on putting his armor on. While he wanted it on, it would just waste energy to carry it around while he still had about an hour left to wait. However, he hadn't forgotten what he'd told his sensei the night before.
Moving from the kitchen, the blond grabbed the storage scroll that held the package from Mika and went back into the eating area.
Mika was the leader of a smuggling and trade organization that traded and did its work with all five hidden villages and illegal organizations and crime groups. She currently held house in the Land of Earth. The woman was smart and had a deep pride and loyalty to those she trusted, which thankfully included himself and Aoi. She also traded in jutsu and shinobi weapons, a very, very highly dangerous trade even among her fellow criminals.
Opening the plain brown paper, Naruto read the note Mika had written.
/Maelstrom, how have you been? My group has been well and I have a few jobs for you if you have time. For your information from the last mission, I have gifted you with the latest Bingo Books, several weapons, and movements about an S-ranked syndicate I've heard about that's been forming and collecting members. Keep your eyes and ears open because I've heard the organization is highly dangerous.
Much Love, Mika/
Eyes wide, Naruto tore open the rest of the package, thoughts racing. 'Fuck! An S-rank syndicate forming...this is bad. Aoi will need to be warned and jiji probably will need to know if he doesn't already...fuck!' He snarled under his breath. S-rank groups had to be hunted down in masses of ANBU. They were kage level opponents and treated cautiously exclusively for such reason.
Inside the package, there were several slim books, each from the different lands and a few storage scrolls. The storage scrolls held the weapons but he ignored them completely and focused on the scroll that read /S-rank Syndicate/. Another note fluttered onto his counter.
/Naruto, for the love of Kami, DO NOT go hunting these guys by yourself! If you do, I will personally come kick your ass! Tell your kage but keep my name out of it! - Mika/ The extra note made him snort but force the scroll open.
/Name: Akatsuki
Leader: Unknown
Objective: Unknown
Appearance: All members of Akatsuki supposedly wear long, black cloaks with red clouds, a red interior, and a chin-high collar; The robes are very distinctive, and will allow you to recognize the members of Akatsuki even from a distance. Another trend is for members to cross out the symbol on their forehead protectors to symbolize the severed ties with their former villages, When traveling, members sometimes wear conical straw hats with small ornamental torques and tassels hanging down over their faces, possibly to go unnoticed by the general population as most are S-class criminals.
- Itachi Uchiha has been seen wearing a hat.
Members: (S-ranked Missing-nin) With a range of 10-15 members, the only known members are Kisame Hoshigaki, Itachi Uchiha and formerly Orochimaru.
Kisame Hoshigaki: feared as the Monster of the Hidden Mist, was an S-rank missing-nin from Kirigakure's Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist. He carries the sword Samehada, which absorbs chakra. His appearance is most notable - he is pale green blue with gills under his eyes, pointed teeth and he is very tall.
Itachi Uchiha: Notably known for the Uchiha massacre and was a former ANBU. He has onyx eyes under which have long, pronounced tear-troughs. He has jet-black hair that was pulled back in a low ponytail and his face is framed with centre-parted bangs that extended to his chin. He is noted as S-rank from Konoha with the Sharingan.
Orochimaru: Former Akatsuki. Noted as S-rank and one of the Sannin. He defected from Konoha for illegal and unethical experiments on fellow shinobi and civilians. He was teammates with Jiraiya, also a Sannin and Tsunade, the third Sannin and the greatest known medic-nin in existence. He is highly known to have the snake contract and snake like tendencies. Orochimaru is a tall man with extremely translucent-looking pale skin and straight waist-length black hair with the front strands falling to his shoulders. He has a long face with pronounced cheekbones, golden eyes with slits in his pupils, purple markings around his eyes and fang-like teeth — a reference to his snake-like nature.
The organization seems to operate out of Kiri, but I could be mistaken as it is only rumor to where their hideouts are./
Naruto cursed darkly and immediately burned all the letters that had Mika's name on it. It was the least he could do for her. Setting the letter with the information onto the table, he opened the weapon scrolls.
Out of the first was another very thick scroll that was lighter than it looked. Another letter came out with it.
/Maelstrom, you better be thankful. I managed to comb through some old artifacts in a raid on a smuggling ring which had no idea what they had. This is a summoning contract. I don't know with what, though./
The rest of that first scroll was several stacks of explosive tags and instructions on how to make them, along with the materials.
The second storage scroll had books on fuinjutsu, genjutsu, medical ninjutsu and other techniques, several ninjutsu techniques and the specifics of yin and yang chakra. The third scroll held more simple weapons, regular shinobi weapons and tools. Except, there were enough to stock several stores at least three dozen times over and still have more. The stuff covered his floor and counters and he couldn't see the floor. Sighing at the amount, Naruto took count of the type of weapons.
Kunai, shuriken, ninwire, armor, swords, tanto, soldier pills, rations, bandages and salves, blankets, explosive tags...the list went on. 'Kami damn it! What the hell does she expect me to do with all this?!' He grumbled heavily. Sighing, he grabbed two blankets, soldier pills, an extra set of armor, some bandages and salves and some rations. The rest he resealed and set it inside the heaviest protected pocket of his clothes.
After reevaluating his stored weapons for the day, Naruto felt himself ready for the day and took a glance at his clock. "SHIT!" It was 8:45. Grabbing the Akatsuki info letter, the blond frowned as he leaped onto the roofs and shot toward the training grounds.
Panting as he scrambled into the clearing, he skidded to a halt as he heard the faintest noise to his left.
Naruto slid a kunai into his hand and barely leapt backwards fast enough to avoid a shuriken to the throat. Instantly on guard, he flicked a quick series of kunai at the spot where the shuriken had come. Disguising the motion of creating a kage bushin, he used kawarimi to switch with his thrown kunai a second before a kunai rammed into the clone's stomach and dispelled it in a flicker of smoke.
Kakashi stood next to the smoke as it faded away and narrowed his eyes. Creating ten kage bushin, Naruto told them to spread out and attack, intent to maim. The kage bushin scattered and then tossed out shuriken and kunai before they leapt out of the trees to begin a knife fight. The bushin and his sensei clashed, sparks flying as the kunai scraped against each other.
There was a flurry of hand seals and half his kage bushin were enveloped in flames and destroyed. Naruto studied his bushin memories and saw that his sensei had created a huge ball of fire and spat it at them. That was definitely a jutsu to avoid getting hit with in any shape or form.
Creating more kage bushin, he sent them out and moved from the spot that he was sitting; no good being a sitting duck for anyone.
Carefully watching his sensei, Naruto held a kunai in his grip tightly and set chakra in his ears. The finest hint of breathing caused him to shoot from the tree and dodge shuriken that broke the branch with a snap. 'How did he...' He wondered for a second, staring at the place where he'd heard the breathing before understanding what Kakashi had done.
The one who was among his clones was also a kage bushin, the blond realized with a narrowed glance. Suddenly, a large explosion made him whip around. 'Did his kage bushin just blow up?!' Naruto heard the whoosh of flames behind him and shot forward, his leg getting burned on the side. The scent of his own burning flesh was kind of sickening but he forced it away.
A large fireball had hit the place where he'd stood, the ground cracked where the fire had exploded. His sensei flickered around him and he barely blocked the foot that went to pound into his ribs. Grunting at the force that hit his forearms, Naruto latched onto the leg with an arm and had three kage bushin swarm his sensei. With the kunai, he stabbed it into Kakashi's calf...only for his sensei to vanish and a log to replace him.
He noted the faintest scent of blood on the blade before it stabbed deeply into the log. Leaving the kunai, he switched out with one of his clones just before it burst into smoke. The other two clones rushed forward only to go the same way. With crossed arms, Kakashi-sensei did not look pleased, even if the only thing he could see was the jounin's eye and straight posture compared to the slouching his sensei had a day ago.
'Yeah...me being late might do that...what a hypocrite...' Naruto thought with a grimace as he slowly stopped panting. "Hey! I'm sorry for being late!" He grumbled. "I got a message from my friend about something really important!" Naruto defended himself as Kakashi only glared, a kunai in his hands. "I'm serious, Kakashi-sensei! It's about a missing-nin organization!" That gave the jounin pause and the kunai were stored back in their holsters.
The silver haired man was instantly at his side with a breeze and Naruto pulled out the letter. He handed it to Kakashi who carefully took it and what skin was showing went a bit pale. The letter was instantly tightly protected in one of the jounin's pockets.
"Do you trust this...informant?" Naruto didn't even blink at the question.
"With my life." And he knew saying that wasn't something insignificant in the shinobi world. Kakashi grasped his upper arm tightly and Naruto grimaced as he scraped the lightly burned area of his leg as he was jostled closer to the man.
"Hold on. I'll be using shunshin - another thing I'll be teaching you." With a tensing of his muscles, they were blurring from the training ground and then over the brightly colored roofs of Konoha. The blond just wondered how he kept getting into these situations as they got closer to the Hokage tower - again! It wasn't even a complete day! It was only 9:45 in the kami-forsaken morning!
Naruto shut his eyes as there was a sickening twist in his sight. When he opened them, jiji was staring at them with a faint bit of shock and curiosity, his pipe smoking faintly in his jaws. The Hokage looked at Kakashi-sensei with a sigh but grew serious as he saw there was no mirth in the jounin's eyes. Naruto kept his breakfast in his stomach and stood straight, waiting.
"What's wrong, Kakashi?" His sensei brought out the letter with precise movements and jiji removed the pipe from his mouth.
"I have information that will need to be ranked S-class, Hokage-sama." Jiji paused and then with a flick of his fingers, Naruto felt a stirring of chakra around the room. Jiji watched them carefully and Kakashi-sensei took it as a sign to go on with what he'd been saying. "Naruto knows a few people outside of the village and he was send some information about an S-rank missing-nin group called Akatsuki." Then he handed jiji the letter.
The Hokage's face grew darker and tighter as he finished, clearly unhappy. He set the paper on his desk and looked at Naruto. The blond knew he was probably in for a tongue lashing lecture and there wasn't going to be training today.
"Naruto. Who sent you this?" He grimaced faintly as Kakashi glanced at him out of the side of his eye. He licked his lips for a second. He wasn't going to lie to jiji - he couldn't. But Mika asked for herself not to be mentioned. So he told the truth.
"I can't tell you who they are. They asked me not to. But I'll tell you that I've known them for a while and that I trust them with my life." At that, jiji raised an eyebrow and glanced back at the letter. Sighing, the Hokage took a blow of his pipe and released a circle of white smoke that dissipated at the ceiling.
"Very well. This is an S-rank secret." More circles of white smoke floated into the air. "Tell no one and if anymore information gets passed along, Naruto, give it to me." Naruto wondered what the old man was doing, half grateful, half confused at the fact of no lecture or interrogation. But from the way jiji was acting, he was thinking hard. He hoped that jiji would do something useful with the info.
"Hai, Hokage-sama." Both of them replied calmly. The chakra around the room flickered and then was gone. Suddenly, Kakashi grabbed his arm and Naruto immediately snapped his eyes closed, remembering what had happened a little while ago. They were rushed out in a blur. This time Naruto tried to relax and thought it was kind of nice to feel the wind on his face. He found himself dropping and he instantly opened his eyes, smelling the earth of the training ground.
Growling under his breath as he rolled and landed on his feet, Kakashi jumped from the tree branch and landed on his feet silently. Naruto huffed at the man for a second before Kakashi glanced at him roughly and he stopped. "Alright. I'm going to teach you how to climb a tree with chakra. It is a form of chakra control called the tree walking exercise."
Tilting his head, the blond wondered how that was going to work, not too surprised that they were still training. Kakashi stepped up to the tree and placed a foot on it before walking up casually. He blinked and then sighed as the silver haired jounin walked back down and began to tell him how to do the exercise, before telling him to make a few kage bushin to help him. This was one hell of a day.
He worked on the chakra control exercise with twenty kage bushin for four and a half days due to the sheer amount of chakra he held. It was tiring and a pain in the ass. He'd cracked the tree in the first few hours and he'd gotten a few splinters in the face and Kakashi-sensei had thrown kunai and shuriken at him every time he slipped or lost his balance. But after those four and a half days were up, he could walk and run confidently up the tallest tree and hang upside down by the tips of his feet.
However, tree walking wasn't the only thing that he did. Kakashi-sensei had forced him to run five laps around Konoha in an hour. And that was just the beginning. After the laps, they practiced accuracy, taijutsu, dispelling genjutsu and killing intent tolerance and sometimes all at once. Thankfully, he was allowed to use kage bushin. And it was like that every day.
Naruto was sore nearly every day and thanked kami that he had the fox. It's healing abilities were something he was forever grateful for otherwise he'd be one big bundle of pain. Now, two weeks later, his skills in accuracy, taijutsu and chakra control had gone to mid-genin. He was also getting the hang of another chakra control exercise called the water walking exercise. Naruto could dispel D-rank and basic C-rank genjutsu and throw off chunin level killing intent from Kakashi.
Kakashi had also promised him sometime during the week that he would teach him shunshin, the shuriken kage bushin and how to project killing intent. Naruto was very excited about the shunshin and projection of killing intent and mildly so about the shuriken kage bushin. He saw the usefulness of the jutsu, but it just didn't seem the same as the other two things.
Pulling on a dark blue shinobi shirt and pants with a kunai holster on his hip and a shuriken holster on his thigh, he decided to take a trip to Raman Ichiraku. Since he had a free day on every Sunday, he decided it was a good idea. He made sure he had his hitai-ate on before leaving. Slowly spending money and carefully saving as well as being a shinobi helped him a lot.
Going through the village with a henge was easy. He'd thought of it while training once and then cursed himself when he wondered why he hadn't thought of it before. Brown hair, hazel eyes, it was as easy as breathing and no one glared at him. Slipping among the residents of Konoha, Naruto got to the ramen stand and made sure to enter the place completely before releasing the henge.
"Naruto!" Ayame smiled as she waved to him over the counter, right in his face. Naruto twitched and relax his hands. If he was twitching for a kunai in his hands after just a week...he needed to control himself. Kakashi-sensei wasn't going to get him and waving a hand in someone's face didn't mean they were attacking. Looking up at a slightly frowning Ayame, he smiled back.
"What's up?" He said, taking a seat at his normal place at the counter. Ayame raised a dark brown eyebrow and then sighed. Frowning, Naruto hoped she wasn't mad about his reaction.
"You got caught up in the shinobi stuff." At his confused glance, she followed up. "I saw that - you were wanting a weapon. Is your sensei that's doing that?" Sighing, he rubbed an eye with a hand and nodded. Ayame gave a sad smile as she started to go into the back. "You're growing up and becoming mature, Naruto. Just make sure you don't forget to protect yourself among the bloodshed and fighting. You're like a little brother to me and I'd hate to see something happen to you."
After a few minutes, she brought out a few miso ramen which he thanked her for and slowly enjoyed as he thought. Teuchi came out when he was halfway through the second large bowl.
"Hey, Naruto. How's my favorite customer?" The ramen cook asked, a smile on his face. Naruto snorted and gave his own grin.
"Pretty cool! Kakashi-sensei is going to teach me two new jutsu and how to project killing intent. It's gonna be awesome!" He grinned as the older man laughed at his enthusiasm before he neatly gobbled down another bowl and a half.
"So you're enjoying training? Your sensei's not making you work too hard now, is he?" Teuchi had been worried about Naruto, especially when the blond hadn't dropped by in three weeks.
"Nope. I'm running laps around Konoha, trying to dispel genjutsu and practicing my accuracy with kunai and shuriken after I practice my chakra control. I'm learning to walk on water! It's pretty cool. I can stand on the water for seventeen minutes now and I can walk about halfway around the pond!" The man raised an eyebrow faintly and nodded.
"Sounds like hard work, Naruto. Just try and stop by more often. Ayame and I got worried something had happened to you when you didn't show up for three weeks." Pausing as he went to take a bite, Naruto nearly dropped his chopsticks in surprise.
"You got really worried about me?" At Teuchi's stern look, he stammered. "I mean - I know you guys might be worried, but really worried?"
Ayame came out of the back to glare hard at him, practically brandishing a wet towel. "You see here!" She grumbled at him. Naruto blinked at the unusually stern voice she showed him. "We think of you as family, Naruto. Don't forget that!" Teuchi nodded.
"We do, Naruto. Just because others are ignorant to how nice and kind you are, doesn't mean we are. We'll accept you - shinobi-to-be Hokage, ramen eater and all." He finished with a chuckle. Naruto felt his eyes water and he quickly blinked away faint tears.
"Thank you guys - and girls." Naruto added as Ayame gave him a look that made Teuchi chuckle again. Ayame giggled as she went into the back and brought out more ramen which he quickly ate. Finally, after another twenty minutes of chatter and fifteen bowls, the blond decided it was time to go. He finished up his last bowl and thanked Ayame and Teuchi quickly.
Checking the sun as he waved goodbye and set up the henge again, he noticed it was around eleven-thirty and decided to look at the medical ninjutsu and such. Going back to his apartment building and grabbing his scrolls, he entered one of the unused apartments as a precaution of any whiplash from the jutsu.
After flipping through the pages, Naruto decided on looking at the chakra scalpels, threads and chakra transfer technique. They were useful if he needed some aces up his sleeve. And the chakra transfer technique was undoubtedly useful, especially if they got caught in a major fight and he had to help his comrades. It also helped him in chakra control. Creating forty-five kage bushin, he said,
"You know the drill. Fifteen of you get started on chakra scalpels, fifteen on chakra threads and the rest on chakra transfer." The blue wearing clones separated into groups and immediately began working. Naruto himself began reading everything on his three chosen jutsu that he hadn't the first time, which wasn't very much.
Slowly, his kage bushin worked on the techniques and after a couple of hours, six of the fifteen kage bushin working on chakra threads managed to create thin, two foot strings while the bushin on chakra scalpels managed tiny needle-like blades.
The success drove the clones to push harder. Naruto smiled at the success while grabbing one of the Bingo Books and flipping through it, trying to memorize the page, name, rank and village of origin. Some of the missing-nin were interesting to learn about. Most were chunin rank, with some being jonin.
There were a few ex-ANBU from other lands and villages as well, a sort of frightening and exciting prospect. With a thought about earlier, Naruto was flicking through the pages for Kisame Hoshigaki, Itachi Uchiha and Orochimaru the Sannin.
/NAME: Kisame Hoshigaki
RANK: S-rank
FORMER AFFILIATION: Kirigakure [Cypher Division; Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist]
KEKKEI GENKAI: None
WHEREABOUTS: Currently unknown
NATURE TYPE: Water, Fire, Wind, Earth
Feared as the Monster of the Hidden Mist, is an S-rank missing-nin from Kirigakure's Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist. He carries the sword Samehada, which absorbs or "eats" chakra. His appearance is most notable - he is pale green blue with gills under his eyes, pointed teeth and he is very tall and muscular. He specializes in water jutsu and may combine with his sword to allow him to breathe underwater./
Frowning, Naruto was certain if he met with the guy, he was not going to get near the water. He'd (obviously) need to avoid getting touched or hit with the sword. Moving on to Itachi Uchiha, he realized - 'Damn, how did I not recognize the guy's name?! He's probably the teme's brother - the one he wants to kill!' Grimacing, Naruto found the Uchiha.
/NAME: Itachi Uchiha
RANK: S-rank
FORMER AFFILIATION: Konohagakure [Uchiha Clan]
KEKKEI GENKAI: Sharingan
WHEREABOUTS: Unknown
NATURE TYPE: Fire, Wind, Water, Yin, Yang
Known best in Konoha as the one who did the Uchiha Massacre, is an S-rank missing-nin elite genius from Konoha. Famed for his Sharingan, his ability to use it is at best flawless. His appearance is the same as any other Uchiha - pale skin, black hair in a low ponytail and onyx eyes under which have long, pronounced tear-troughs./
If he'd avoid the water with the guy above, there was no way in hell he was opening his eyes around the Uchiha. That meant fighting blind. Damn. Well, just another thing to ask Kakashi-sensei to help him with...unless he had a jutsu to help him. With a quick hand seal, a kage bushin was going through the jutsu scrolls Mika had sent.
Naruto was unhappy with the pitiful amount of information in the Bingo Book. But it was better than nothing. But if he met either one of these guys, he was toast. No chance. Flicking through the rest of the Bingo Book, Naruto found Orochimaru the Sannin and grimaced darkly.
/NAME: Orochimaru the Sannin
RANK: S-rank
FORMER AFFILIATION: Konohagakure
KEKKEI GENKAI: None
WHEREABOUTS: Unknown
NATURE TYPE: Wind, Lightning, Earth, Water, Fire, Yin, Yang
Best known as the Snake Sannin, former student of the Third Hokage. he has very pale skin, golden eyes with slitted pupils, purple markings around his eyes and fang-like teeth. He also has pronounced cheekbones and straight waist-length black hair with some locks covering and framing his face or to his shoulders. He defected from Konoha for illegal and unethical experiments on fellow shinobi and civilians. He was teammates with Jiraiya, also a Sannin and Tsunade, the third Sannin and the greatest known medic-nin in existence. He is highly known for having the snake contract and snake like tendencies./
The only thing the blond could think was that he was glad the creepy snake Sannin was not in Akatsuki anymore. He was running away - far away - if he ever caught sight of the sannin. He wasn't stupid. Naruto would prefer to live, thank you very much.
'If they're coming after me, I need to step up my training.' He sighed and then dispelled the kage bushin that was looking through the jutsu when it announced it found one. Information flooded his mind but he focused on the water jutsu. The Kirigakure no jutsu stood out, as it created a mist who's thickness was controlled by the amount of chakra put into it. It would be perfect for blind fighting and it was a D-rank which made it especially easier to learn.
Slowly dispelling the clones working on the chakra scalpels and chakra threads, Naruto gained an understanding on how to create the basics of both techniques. It was just a matter of refining them now. The kage bushin working on chakra transfer were having a slow going, but after he dispelled them, Naruto found the reason why.
The bushin were transferring their own chakra and after a while of practice, it would deplete them until they could barely keep themselves from dispelling. Thankfully, there was some progress and he could successfully transfer a small amount of chakra.
Stretching to relieve his stiff muscles from sitting, the blond twelve year old went into his apartment and got a cup of water. Using water jutsu would be easy with water. After relieving his parched throat a few times and filling up the cup again, Naruto brought it into the other room and started practicing the hand seals.
Ox - Snake - Ram. Seemed easy enough. Once he'd gotten the hand seals down, he tried it with chakra. The first time, it didn't do anything. The third time, however, the water flickered from his cup and due to the amount of chakra in it, he ended up creating a mist thick enough that he couldn't see past his nose. Sighing at the fact that he couldn't see through the wet fog, Naruto created some kage bushin and had them spread out around the room.
Naruto closed his eyes and waited. To fight, he'd only use his chakra scalpels and chakra threads - refining them in such a manner would be useful.
A second later, a fist nearly smashed him in the face. Dodging quickly, he send out a chakra string and yanked the clone at him with a pull of his hand before the thread vanished at contact. Flicking through the hand seals of a chakra scalpel, Naruto tripped the kage bushin and sliced the tiny blade through its shoulder instead of its throat - the kage bushin managed to recover and dodge at the last second.
A kick knocked him out of his thoughts and the blond struggled to get to his feet when several fists pounded into his back. Hitting the floor again chest first, Naruto ended up releasing the kirigakure no jutsu. The mist vanished instantly and he growled at the kage bushin who all dispelled but one.
"What did I do wrong?" He grumbled at the bushin.
"You made the mist way too thick, for one. It took a hell of a lot for us to coordinate and attack you - much less find you. But you couldn't find us either. Practice with using your other senses, I think. And you need practice keeping the chakra threads and chakra scalpels stable. If they vanish every time you try to use them, you won't get much use out of them." The kage bushin added. Naruto rubbed his spine in annoyance and nodded.
Sighing, the blond had the bushin dispel before he sat down and wiped faint water droplets from his hair. Spotting the overturned water cup a little ways away, Naruto decided on working on his chakra threads.
He concentrated on sending chakra through his finger to create the thread. It came to him quickly and a thin blue thread streaked out from his finger. Carefully concentrating more chakra, Naruto made the thread grow about half an inch. He made it twist and press it against the floor. The thread flickered and he stabilized it by setting more chakra in it.
He grinned faintly as the thread held, even after getting up and pushing it onto the walls and ceiling. Now all he had to do was extend the thread. With careful motions, Naruto pushed the thread outwards, adding more chakra until it was nearly as long as the room and didn't dispel when it touched anything.
For the next few hours, he practiced creating and moving objects with the chakra strings, learning to move the strings like a whip before going on to the chakra scalpels and successfully creating complete blades.
Flicking a chakra thread at the cup, Naruto brought the cup toward him and caught it. Pleased at his success, the blond went through the hand seals for the kirigakure no jutsu to ensure he remembered it before blowing out a thin stream of mist that was way too thin to be of any use. Naruto kept at it until he found what he felt was the proper amount of used chakra and mist and summoned some more kage bushin.
He was going to master fighting blind - even if it took him a few weeks.