Chapter 5 The power to protect isn't strength, but compassion.
The village of Konoha had been a quiet village for the past 4 years. Bird were singing in the trees the sun was shining, people were walking the streets minding there business, saying hello to people they knew, and just having a good time. But it wasn't always like that some days.
There had been a couple of events over the past 4 years. Every time it was some sort of prank, ranging from harmless water-balloons, to full out paint bombs and tripwires, which often resulted in a loss of pride for the affected, and a good laugh for the rest. But every year at the 10 of oktober, the pranks were affecting everyone. Some said that it was the blond demon, which many agreed on. But there were never anyone that could point out, or even prove that it was him, as no one had seen him for the past years.
This was not totally true, as two ramenstand owners knew. They were visited one Sunday afternoon, when no one was around, by the boy. He had ordered the same amount of bowls as usual, but every time he was wearing a trench coat and hood hiding him from everyone. He had told them not to worry about anything, and as he both had turned around to ask him what he meant, he had already disappeared, with money on the counter for payment.
Most people were saying that it was the work of a 'serial prankster', much to the laughs of the Hokage. He knew it was Naruto, as he had been training him for the last 4 years. He had seen a lot of things thanks to him. He just sighed as he looked threw the pile of paperwork, muttering something about '...death of me' and 'What did I do to deserve this'.
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Standing outside the academy was a 9 year old boy standing 5'2, easily the longest of his age. His blond hair covered by a black hood. He wore the same type of black trench coat that he had gotten himself after the 'incident', but with the mark of the Namikaze clan on his back. He wore a red jonin style vest, complete with pockets for equipment, and scrolls, over the black hoody. Under was the 'combat suit' or 'Eve', as he called it now days, that he had worn since the day he put it on, well except when he showered. Over his legs were saggy Anbu style pants, black of course, hanging over the brown soldier boots that were over the suits own boots. 'deception is a shinobi's best friend' was the motto that Naruto had learned over the many spars he had with Kakashi.
On his back was the sword that his 'Brother' Kaze, had given him, strapped around his back at his waist level, making it easy for it to be drawn. Under each arm was the holsters for the .454 Casull's. On his right leg was a kunai pocket, tube holsters for two containment scrolls, one containing basic medic supplies, and the other the WA2000 (he had decided that it was to suspicions to carry a large suitcase all the time), an ammunition pocket with a large set of clips for his handguns, 3 hand grenades, 1 flash bang, and a holster for yet another gun, but for now it was empty.
On his left leg it was the same setting but instead of kunais it was shuriken, 1 tube for containment scrolls, a bag of pills, ranging from standard food pills, to soldier pills specially made by the Akamichi's. Also, around his his waist, in a large set of pockets, were many other items that Naruto had created over the years, that were mostly for the weapons that he had with him.
As he walked inside the academy area he heard whispers from the parents that were leting their children of for the first day in the academy. He heard (thanks to the suit) a lot of whispers about him, regarding him as 'the demonchild' and saw that most of the parents told them to stay away from him. He hid a small smirk. 'Well this is just great, first day in school and im already an outsider' ha thought as he passed all of the parents that were glareing at him. He did the only thing he could do, without saying a word. He just didn't take notice of it.
As he walked down the corridor, looking for where he was supposed to be, he found that someone was tailing him. As he turned around a small girl, possibly not older that he was, with dark blue hair and a grayish brown hooded jacket that reached down past here thigh's, with a fluffy edge on the bottom rand. But what caught his attention was the gray/white eyes that seemed to indicate that she was blind. But he knew better. It was the eyes of the people with the Byakugan. He sighed and just turned, letting his feet skid along the floor-tile's and continued to walk. He didn't know why she was hiding form him, and he somehow just didn't want to know.
When he came to the classroom he was supposed to find, he pulled the door open in a haste full manner, that caused the door to break of the hinges. As he held the door in his hand, he just looked around, and just asked a simple but stupid question. "What?".
As he looked around, the students that already had arrived and witnessed the scene, had there jaws lying on the benches in front of them. They just witnessed a kid at there age that recked a door without problem. One by one, they shut there mouths. After a moment, a boy with a white dog yelled at at him. "How the hell did you do that, theres no way a loser like you could do something like that." he said as he looked something like a mix of annoyed and impressed. "training, I guess". Naruto answered as he put the door against the wall. After he was done he walked up the stairs to the bench furthest away from the board.
As he walked up the stair he saw in the corner of his eyes a boy with raven hair, navy blue shirt with a fan on the back stare at him threateningly 'An Uchiha, how pathetic, it seem he can't take that people are stronger than him, shit him and the Uchiha pride' he thought without making a facial movement. As he sat down behind the bench, he noticed another guy with a trench coat that stretched up to his nose.
"Hello, the names Naruto." he said. "Aburame Shino" 'Shino' said as he continued to look forward. 'Aburame, Bug users, plus they rarely speak, prefect Naruto, now we don't have to worry about any questions, hopefully' he thought as he to looked forward. He noticed that the Hyuga was now sitting on the adjacent bench. She was casting a few looks at him, each where she quickly snaped her head into another direction. 'Strange, never heard about a shy Hyuga before' but he couldnt continue the train of thoughts as the teachers, which consisted of Iruka and a white haired chunnin decided to enter threw the now missing door. This caused Iruka to look at everyone.
"Okay, who has taken away the door, and put it against the wall" he asked loudly. Snickers were heard as a few were looking towards Naruto, just as he stood up. "I did, but it was not of intention, I had a lot of thoughts as opened the door and didn't control my strength as I opened it, and of consequence ripped the door of" he monotone.
"If you want compensation for the door, I can pay for the damages, if so is needed" he said as he stood there, on the top of the stairs waiting for an answer. A few people didn't understand why he had been willing to tell the truth, or what sounded like truth.
Iruka just rubbed his temples before "its okay, I guess the door wasn't in good shape anyway, please just sit down now, so I can call on your names". Naruto bowed as he sat down. But the dogboy just yelled. "Hey why is he getting away for that stunt. He should at least get some sort of punishment for that" he said, and was accomenied by a pinkhaired 'banshee' (As she was able to scream very high tones) and a blond ponytailed girl, both who seemed to be fighting about the Uchiha. 'Great, fangirls, and I didnt need more distractions' Naruto thought. "Well that may be, but he did acknowledge that he did it and was ready to pay for the damages" Iruka said, causing the dog boy to mutter something about 'spoiled brats'.
As the day continued they had been going threw a lot of things. Mainly names, likes, dislikes, dreams and so on. Naruto had learned that he had a bunch of interesting people as classmates, minus the Uchiha, hes just a 'Pain in the ass' he quoted.
His class consisted of a lot of clans, like the boy that had yelled at him over his strength, Kiba Inuzuka with his dog akamaru. The girls that were after Sasuke Uchiha, he learned, was Sakura haruno and Ino Inochi. Sitting next to Hinata Hyuga, the shy Hyuga, were a pineapple haired boy, Nara Shikamaru, and his best friend, he believed that was the case, Choji Akamichi. He didnt take any special notes of the rest of the classmates. He knew that only nine of them would become ninjas, or at least what he had heard from Kakashi-sensei.
As class went on, classes were steadily getting more boring by the minute, as everything they were taught he already had learned when he was about 6 years old. So he just tried to find a way to spend time without falling asleep, mostly spending time in his mindscape with Rikka, learning about advanced skills. Like the one to make it look like he was awake, while he was in the mindscape.
"So what do you think" he asked Rikka inside the mindscape, looking out the window in the sky, showing everything he saw outside. "Well I think that it could prov useful if we befriended most of the clans here, but I agree that we stay away from the Uchiha. He's just psychotic if you ask me. I don't think he would bat an eye at killing his teammates, friend or even loved ones, just to gain power.
Plus the body sent information about what was going on in the class, so that he wouldn't look like a fool if he was given a question.
At the end of the first class, everyone scattered for lunch. Naruto, being trained by an Anbu or Ex-Anbu,(i don't know when he was resigned from Anbu, sorry), had taught him that he always should at least have some food rations with him, no matter what. Well that, and a good book. Sitting in the roof, leaning against a water-container, he pulled out a pack of food, not ramen sadly, but he had been restricted to sunday's to eat ramen, a compromise he had agreed to, just so he wouldn't faint of malnutrition. He also picked up a book from one of his inner pockets. He liked reading, a thing he picked up from Kakashi. Sadly Kakashi's choice of book was the Icha Icha book's, and Naruto didn't want to be marked a pervert, or ever for that sake. He already knew what happened to perverts...
Flashback 4 years ago 2 months after the 'Incident'
Naruto was walking into the office of the Hokage, and as he did this he was meet by the sight of an old white haired man talking with the old Geezer. "... and that is why I would like to help him with his training." the white haired man said. "I know, but right now he being trained by both me and Kakashi so I cant just..." he paused as he saw the door open and in stepped Naruto "Well hello Naruto, how is it. I would like to present my old student, Jiraya, the toad Sannin." he said as 'Jiraya' turned around so he could see the boy. "Wait, is this Naruto, its just a squirt, he cant possibly be able to learn anything, much less do anything" he said as he mocked Naruto.
Just as he finished Naruto just laughed quietly, and held out his hand."Well would it be a problem if I shook your hand then" he said with a fox grin. "Sure but I don't think that you will get any..." he said and reached out his hand. Sarutobi Smiled because he knew what would come. As Jiraya touched the blonds hand. He didn't know understand what happened. One second he was holding about to touch the boys hand and in the other he was stuck in the wall upside down with his old sensei laughing.
"Jiraya-sama, you should never judge a book by its cover. I may look weak, but I could be on par with Tsunade-sama if I wanted to. I only used about 1/20 of my speed and strength that I can achieve" he said as he stood in the same spot. "Jiraya, don't be angry, but he has a lot more potential than you had back then" he said as he chuckled over his students predicament, but back to business." the Hokage said as he sat behind his desk, and Jiraya crawled out of the wall, muttering something about 'overpowered by a brat'. "Naruto, my student here, has approved with my proposal that you will receive training from him. He will teach you things that you will not learn in the academy, amongst other things" he said to a now wide eyed blond.
"Wait you want me to be taught by a pervert, yes I know your a super-pervert... " he said glaring at Jiraya before he said anything. "... forgive me old man, but I do not want to end my lessons with Kakashi-senpai or with you. If he wants to teach me, I would like him to teach me here in Konoha, and if he needs to leave, as I know you will, I would like to have all three of you as sensei's so I can evolve in my skills as a shinobi by taking the teachings from all three" he said with a plain tone as he stood in front of them both.
Jiraya was only nodding and the Hokage just smiled. "Of course Naruto, I could make such arrangements. I just hope it wont be to much for you to handle" he said concerned. "Nope, it will not be any problems with anything" Naruto said as he nodded in a bow, but before he left he said something that made one man stare annoyed and one chuckling. "besides Ero-sennin, could you stop spying on the lady's in the hotspring. I heard about someone that was pounded beyond recognition by a mob of women just outside it, oh and Kakashi wants the next book, a signed copy, but don't give him that or I will never get anything training from him"
End of flashback
Shrugging it of, he finished his meal, read as much as he could and was about to go back when he noticed that someone was watching him. As he looked at the person he saw that it was the Uchiha. "fight me, Dobe". Dobe, he hadn't even been in school for one day and already someone had made a degeneration name about him. It was not like he took it to heart, but he knew why the Uchiha, the last of them, was challenging him. "I don't have time for your ranting. If you want to spar with someone, go fight an angry mob or your fan club or beat an old tree or something." Naruto said as he walked towards the door.
Just as he was about to open the door, he heard the sound of footsteps rapidly racing towards him. He let go of the handle, crunched down just as a fist was heading for his head, and answered by putting his palm against him, and just pushing him away. "Your pathetic, you know that Sasuke, you act all high and mighty, claim that your life has been hell, but not one time has your life been in danger." he said keeping his cool. Sasuke seemed even more pissed now "You've been handed everything that a kid could ever ask for, but I guess its just blown up your ego." he now said with a slight hatred. Sasuke's eyes where burning now "I will never respect you or ever see you as a rival, nor will I fight you. You know why? Because you don't fight to protect, you just fight to kill." he finished coldly. Now Sasuke just snarled.
"Like if, after I defeated you, I will kill that bastard of a brother, I will get my revenge." he now spat out his words, and reached for a kunai, but he couldn't finish his movement as Naruto stood behind him with his arm in a deadlock, confusing the Uchiha about how he could get behind him. What he heard after that froze his blood then caused it to boil
"You will never gain any power Sasuke, because 'the power to protect isn't strength, but compassion', that means that you have to care about a person and protect that person. You don't have precious people Sasuke, but I have, and I will protect them until my death. Unlike you I gain strength to help the people around me. You're willing to kill everyone and everything just to get strong." Naruto said as he pushed the 'last Uchiha' to the ground.
"I don't pity you, and I will not be a measuring stick for your power. If you want to kill your brother and die in the process, then fine. I will not help you." Naruto said as he left. He stopped in the door frame, and turned to glare at Sasuke with antarctic eyes "If I ever find you, trying to steal my power, just to satisfy your lust for it, or hurting someone that is precious to me, I will not hesitate to kill you and end the Uchihas, because you have no pride and certainly no honor " after which he left. He did though notice three shadows that had heard him speak, and two of them, that at first were about to run out to kill the blond for what he did to their 'Sasuke-kun', stopped when he started to speak, and somehow they were brought to the facts that, he actually could be right about Sasuke. The third just watched the blond, wondering how he could be so strong, but of totally different reasons to Sasuke's why. 'Naruto-kun...' was the lone thought the pale eyed girl had.
As school ended Naruto had made friends with a few of his classmates, like Shino, Hinata, Shikamaru, Choji, and strangely Ino and Sakura. As he walked home to his estate he had a feeling that someone was following him. He figured that it either was Sasuke, or Hinata. He just picked up the pace, jumped up on the roof, and speed of, turning in different directions just to make it impossible to follow were he was heading. He then dropped down into an alley, put on the mask and goggles, and activated the cloak on the suit, and stepped into the shadows. He didn't have to wait long before a shadowy figure landed on the same spot. As he looked around, he snarled and sped of out onto the streets. "Typical, now I got a stalker after me, and worst of it its Sasuke" as he deactivated the cloak. He then just continued his walk home, with a stalker, but this time it was Hinata, hiding behind a telephone pole.
"Hinata, if you're going to follow me, could you please walk next to me so I could speak with you" he said without turning. He heard a small "Eeep", then footsteps, then... "Hi Hinata, how are you doing." he asked as he turned towards her he took of the mask and lifted the goggles showing his face. "Ehm... im doing fine" she stuttered. Naruto shrugged and gave a foxy grin "Cool, but weren't you told by your father to stay away from me" he asked seriously, almost freaking the poor girl out.
"How did you know" she asked nervously. "Well I got pretty good hearing, and add that people stare at me with hatred that shows on their eyes. Your father wasn't as strong as the rest with that, but still..." he answered and started to walk, with her tagging along. They didn't speak for a long while until Naruto spoke. "Here our roads split, literally. Your home lies that way and where I live is not to be spoken of" he said cryptically. "why not" she asked."Well I prefer to keep my home a secret, so I don't have to worry about any intruders, well see ya." he said as he ran of to who knows where. You know Naruto, I think she likes you, but is to afraid to show it. I guess she just needs some motivation and she will become a powerful, but kind Hyuga" Rikka said inside his head. This time she was looking in a photoalbum and was almost laughting her lungs out. One of the pictures showed Naruto as a 6 year old with a ramenbowl on his head and a blanket, tied like a cloth like the old romans had, well except the bowl on the head, that was a courtesy of a drunk Jiraya.
As he entered his home he slumped down in the couch, eyes closed, as he continued to ponder about the days events. First he almost falls asleep because of a completely worthless class that he has to endure for four years, then its the thing about the asshole Uchiha, that probably wont let him go until he's beaten Naruto with a flick of his wrist, that was most unlikely. He had created some clones to go to the old man, a second set to Kakashi, and gone personally to Ero-sennin. His regime of training as he called it, was nothing short of torture, but Naruto had been able to endure and thanks to that he had stamina, endurance, strength and chakra-control beyond genin level.
He had spent about 6 hour, from 4 in the afternoon to 10 in the evening, training constantly to gain an even higher level of speed, strength and stamina. He had almost collapsed as he felt the clones dissipate and was stuck with a gigantic headache, which was the drawback of the Kage Bunshin. After he had regained some strength, he started to walk home, saying goodbye to a now gone Sannin. "Pervert..." he muttered as he started to walk home.
As he continued to ponder, he just created a bunch of clones to read in the study, another set in the dojo practicing his skills and techniques, a third set in the smith and armory to study and create some more items or improve the ones he had. A fourth set when into the kitchen and started to make dinner. Not ramen but something nutritious. As time went on he ate, walked to the dojo to train(physical training can't be done by clones, they can only do and learn things). As he finished his training for the day and dispersing the clones, he went to bed, reflection on what happened that day and just hopping for an even better day tomorrow. 'Well, good night Rikka-hime' he thought. 'Oh good night Naruto-kun, but remember, ill draw you in so we can continue to train on those techniques, okay." she giggled as Naruto fell asleep with a weird smile. 'these 4 years will be 4 long ones, indeed'
Skipping to the last day in the academy 4 years later. Why, because its to Mendoukse to write about it all.
It had been 4 very... interesting years.
One of the more interesting and tragic things was the Uchiha-massacre. Itachi murdered the entire Uchiha, except Sasuke, and left the village, causing the 'last Uchiha' to brood, and become even more arrogant than before. But in Naruto's eyes he was nothing better that a child, as he was constantly given things as gifts, spoiling him. 'He will never gain true power to protect, if he starts to believe that he is the sun everything orbits around. But I see the sunspots, and this sun will turn into a black hole one day, if left unchecked' Naruto thought when he saw the treatment Sasuke was given as the 'last Uchiha'.
As classes had went on they talked about everything that concerned history, but never anything about how a shinobi was, or did. Of course the blond had experienced how it was to be a true shinobi as he had been on a trip outside the city-walls for about a month. That time he had Jiraya to protect him, but he still had made his first kill that time, and almost got killed by the dead guys friends. Just as Naruto would have died, Jiraya had saved his 'scrawny little ass' as the pervert call him. The feeling for killing... he would never get used to it.
Naruto had become the #1 rookie just ahead of the Uchiha, much to the Uchihas anger. He had also become a sort of prankster to the classmates, but not in the way that he was loud and acted like an idiot. No it was carefully planed pranks, that he always said that anyone could do if they just put effort in doing it. He was always nice towards anyone that didn't hurt him in anyway with intent. The Uchiha learned quickly that it was a bad draw to upset the blond, though he never got mad, he always played a really nasty prank on him if he ever did something 'counter-productive' against Naruto or anyone else.
Last time he had returned from the hotspring with pink hair, a purple set of his normal cloths, and smelling like a wet duck. He had tried that time to attack Naruto, saying that he was the culprit. Naruto had only hopped out of his reach, and said that he had been with the rest of the class, talking about things. In truth, Naruto had sent a clone to do everything, then to disperse when he was done.
No one knew that he could use Kage bunshin, part take from Shikamaru. The blond had concluded that he had a huge IQ and challenged him to Shougi the same day.
As they kept on playing, everyone was stunned that Naruto had defeated the Nara. "Naruto, how high is you're IQ actually" Shikamaru had asked just minutes before Sasuke had arrived. Naruto just took a sitting thinkers pose. "Well when I did an IQ test, I had to redo it about four time's" everyone was just laughing. "Oh really, was your IQ so low, that you had to do it add all of them together just to get a number" Kiba had said laughing. "Actually, I had to redo it 4 times because they said that it had to be a mistake in the test..." he said as he reset the Shougi board. "...as to why, they said that i had shown an IQ rate of, over 300" he deadpanned. This caused a silence for more than a minute, then...
"WHAAT" everyone had screamed. Luckily for Naruto he had set up a silence barrier in preparation for that. "How the hell can you have an IQ of 300. That is just impossible." Kiba had snorted enraged by what he had been told. "Well, due to an incident when I was 5, my IQ had somehow started to begin to work at its maximum capacity, and increase over time. If you don't believe me you can ask the Hokage or Kakashi-sensei, or even Jiraya-sama. They were the ones to give me my test." he had said scratching his back head sheepishly, just as the Uchiha had landed, accused him for how he looked, and attacked him, as he heard the girls squeal at the color, well, at least Sakura.
As Naruto was heading for the academy he had been given a lot more glares that day. As he entered the classroom, he was met by another fist and "fight me" from Sasuke, that he dodged and appeared on his usual seat on the top bench. He had been questioned by most of the classmates, excluding Sasuke that just glared death threats, and Sakura that still, after 4 years of trying, still was after the Uchiha, like most of the fan girls, still proclaimed that Sasuke was better than anyone.(big surprise there...)
But over the 4 years, Naruto had steadily gained his own fan-club, which he didn't appreciate, because they were only after him for his looks, strength and skill. As the years passed he had been asked by a lot of the fan-girls he had gained, but he had turned down everyone. But he always did it with a gentle touch and an advice that most of them had listened to. "If you want me to be with you, don't chase me, don't fight over me, don't loath over my strength. Work to become strong, so that you can prove that you are willing to protect the one you care about. If you do that, your feelings will in the end be returned, as that person will be willing to fight for you to the end" he always said as he left.
But today everyones questions had been unanswered from last night, but as he was about to start answering them he was called into the other classroom. Sitting in the classroom was both Iruka and Mizuki, the white hair chunnin that always glared a bit at Naruto, an always had tried to fail him in classes. Though those attempts had been spoiled as Naruto had pointed out those things, and made Iruka wary of what Mizuki had tried. After a few attempts it all had stopped, but he could still feel the glares he was receiving every time Mizuki was looking at him.
"Naruto, to pass this test you must do the Henge, Kawarimi and Bunshin." Iruka said as Naruto stood in the middle of the room, in front of the desk. "Is any Bunshin that can be done allowed" he asked plainly. "well if you have any that is, brat" Mizuki said mockingly. But as he said that three things happened. 1 was that Naruto created a Shadow, water, mud, and blood-clone, that each Hengened into different classmates and switched with different things in the room.
As he released all of the different clones he was smirking over his teachers antics, as their jaws were lying on the desk they were in front of, and tilted his head a little "What, did I pass, or did I not". He said with a fox grin. "I can also summon a vast array of clones, those were just 4 of them"
Gaping like a fish, Iruka finally spoke "Eh... yeah you... passed" Iruka, still trying to comprehend what Naruto just did. He finally gathered his composure as he handed him the hi-ate. "Thanks, Iruka-sensei" Naruto said as he left the room smiling largely, but not without noticing a small KI, and an ominent feeling coming from Mizuki. 'I guess he's one of the 'bad' villagers, but I got a feeling that hes after something, but I don't know what it is' he thought as he left the academy stealthily avoiding any people that would try to bring his mood down as he walked home.
Later that night, he had a premonition about something that would occur, and he started to go through what he had experienced that day. As he came to the glares that Mizuki was giving him, he remembered what they meant. Greed for power, and not caring who died in the process. "Rikka, do you know what he possibly could be after, that could give him power without effort" he asked as he stood inside the mindscape house looking at the kyubi in a nightgown with a bathrobe on top. "Well
that would either be some sort of seal that gives you power, or seals it in you. But such seals would be kinjuts, and sealed in your family scroll, that is in the Hokage's office" she finished.
Naruto was already halfway towards the Hokagetower, when she finished the last sentence. As he got closer he noticed that someone had snuck inside the office. As he landed outside the office window, he noticed a shadowy figure, held by the arm of what looked like... "Naruto, its a good thing your here, please come in" the old Hokage said. As Naruto entered he was meet by the sight of Sasuke, out cold, dangling from the old mans grip around his arm. "Naruto, it seems like Mizuki has betrayed Konoha. I would like you to apprehend him for me. It will be classified as a A-rank mission, with the pay of course" he said calmly. "I accept, but I want free rains, as he sent someone to steal the sealing scroll that belongs to me and my family and clan." Naruto asked, without any anger. "Okay, but I want him alive for interrogation" Sarutobi answered.
As Naruto arrived at an old wooden cottage, that seemed to have been there for ages. Its roof was clad with moss, and branches, the walls had large holes that looked like swordslashes, the window had a broken sheet in one of the squares. But as he looked around in the forest, that seemed be alive, he noticed a presence. "Hello Mizuki, how are you doing." he said as he dodge a large fuuma shuriken as it hit the ground where he stood before, then looking straight towards the weapons owner.
"It would seem like your plan has failed. Sasuke is now being interrogated by Ibiki, and I have orders to apprehend you here and now" Mizuki, standing on a tree branch in the middle of a large tree laughing as he was about to speak, but was interrupted "Before you rant about how weak you claim I am, I am on par with one of the three Sannin at 4/5 of his full power, with my own strength, so surrenderer now, or be ready for a world of hurt" at which Mizuki brought out another fuuma shuriken, but was not able to move his arm. Looking for the source, he saw 4 Naruto's standing around him holding him still.
"Chunnin Mizuki, you, on the order of the Hokage, have been stripped of your rank, and will be facing trial for treason against Konoha. You are also, on orders of me, accused for attempting to steal a family-scroll that belongs to me. By right's of the Hokage, I will become your judge, your jury... and you're Executioner." he said, downright scaring Mizuki into a heartattack as he beat him to a pulp, delivered him to Ibiki, got his payment from the Hokage, and a well deserved "Good Night" from his, as he's started to call her, Girlfriend, Rikka. (What, kyubi doesn't always have to be evil, Right?).
The next day he entered the classroom, stealthily without drawing attention, and sitting down on his usual seat. As time passed, whispers were heard in the class, "did he not make it yesterday", "how is that possible", "He maybe was failed because Mizuki was mean", "I don't want to be a Shinobi if he isn't one".
As he looked around he noticed that Hinata was looking nervous, or possibly beyond that. 'I guess that she still needs more confidence-training' he thought to himself, as he looked at Shino, that now was looking at him, then turning his head towards the door. 'Doesn't want to disturb anyone tactics, good choice, Shino' he thought as he smiled slightly and nodded a greeting. Just then Iruka came through the door. As he did that there was a small murmuring before Kiba took point.
"Eh Sensei, did you fail Naruto. I mean it's no secret he was just an idiot" he said while getting death glares from the 'Naruto fan club', a snicker from the Uchiha, a squeal from Haruno, and a "Trublesome", from the Nara.
"Actually, he passed, and he passed beyond top marks, in the written exam, the weapon exam, and the practical exam. He wrote down answers that even I hadn't been able to write, that would requirer extensive study about shinobi ways, and history, he used weapons with such precision that he immobilized the target dummy before 'killing it', and preformed 4 types of bunshin, each that transformed into 4 of you, before switching with objects throughout the exam room."
"He also fought and defeated Mizuki yesterday. We discovered that he had plans to defect from Konoha and tried to steal a specific scroll from the Hokage, but was stopped by Naruto" at this they were looking at Iruka with interest. "And to add to his marks, he walked passed all of you and has been sitting on his normal chair, and nobody here seems to have noticed, isn't it so, Naruto?"
Iruka said as he looked up the classroom, followed by everyone else that now saw that he had done just that. Naruto just sat on his chair and just held out a thumb. "B.I.N.G.O, Bingo, Iruka-sensei" he said with a fox-grin, that caused his fan club to squeal even higher than what Sakura did before.
"Okay, calm down now everybody, im going to tell you in which groups you will work as teammates. So if you would just sit down and shut your mouths for a second or two..." he said as he glared at the Konochi from Narutos fan club, that now sat down quietly but still cast longing looks at Naruto's appearance. "...as the groups are to be following." he said as he read the grouplist. As he got closer to nr 7 most of the girls had been hoping for a chance to get Naruto and possibly even Sasuke on the same team. But that hope was crashed as Iruka read through the paper.
"group seven, you will consist of Haruno Sakura, Uchiha Sasuke and Nar..." just as he was about to finish that sentence, an Anbu appeared next to Iruka, then whispered something into his ear. Most wouldn't have heard what he said, but Naruto was not like the rest as he used the suits audial enhancer to hear what they said. "...and that's why the council doesn't want the 'boy' to be in the same group. Please follow how it is on this paper instead. I hope it wont be a problem" he said as he disappeared yet again.
"Okay there has been changes in the setup. In group seven there is going to be Haruno Sakura, Uchiha Sasuke and Sai, another student from the second classroom, your sensei is Hatake Kakashi" he said. This caused some debate in the class, to the late and apparent change of mind. "Well were not here to debate that, so continuing..." as he got to group 8 "Inuzuka Kiba, Hinata Hyuga and Aburame Shino. You have Yuuhi Kurenai" and group ten, probably the loudest one, "Akamichi chouji, Nara Shikamaru, and Inoichi Ino, you are getting Sarutobi Asuma" he said.
"WHAT; WHY DO I HAVE TO BE WITH THESE TWO LAZY BONES" Ino literally blurted out. Naruto was nice enough to answer "Well, you see Ino-chan,"which gave Ino a really red blush "your family's Jutsu's work their best when working together. Chouji is the groups strength, a tank if you'd like to call it, Nara is the brains, the tank commander, and you are the long range one with ability to interrogate and control people, the gunner, or radioman, see what fits." he said calmly. This caused a lot of confusion amongst the classmates.
"What im trying to say is that you work best as a team, not as an individual. This applies to everyone. 'those who break the rules are trash' right" he got a nod from almost everyone, and a snort from someone stupid(Asshole If you ask me).
"but what if I told you that 'those who leave their friends behind is an even bigger trash'. Those were the words that my sensei taught me, so don't leave anyone outside just because someone said it, okay" he finished, and Ino and the rest of the class just sat down calm, contemplating on what he had said.
"Oh yes on the thought of leaving someone behind I haven't heard my name at all, sensei. Is it so that they don't want me to become a shinobi then." he asked Iruka that was startled over what he said. But then he smiled as he looked on the paper. He now had a large smile when he looked up and most people were interested in what he had read.
"Actually, Naruto, you have been given a personal squad, with a large set of different sensei's. I will not reveal who these people are, as I do not know, but I can tell you that Sarutobi, Hokage-sama, has requested that you become his personal apprentice."
This news was a real killer. Not for Naruto, he actually knew that it could happen, but for the rest it seemed unfair. 'why does he get such power. I have greater need for it. I need power to kill my brother. I shall take your strength, Dobe, and when I do I will kill both you and my brother' Sasuke thought as he was smirking, as he planed on how to activate his Sharingan so he could steal everyones power.
Naruto only shrugged, waved goodbye to his friends and started to walk towards the old Geezers office. 'I guess its better this way, any one else would slow my progress down, either of personal thoughts, or of lack of skill. Well I guess that I will be assigned to the three teams that survive, making me an added insurance for that team. I think thats how the old man wants it to be, I hope. Man it's just to troublesome to think about.' he thought, catching himself with his classmates favorite word. "troublesome..."
Next chapter. Waving to the wave
Author notes.
My computer crashed completely now. So I apologizes for it being late. I try to be a 3-4 day period update right now. But when school starts again it will only be possibly 1 a week. But don't worry, it wont come yet. As to the story, the suit isn't used at its fill potential as i will explaine later on, his skills are all his own. I missed the part with the viewing orb scene, but it gets so hard to make a good story without making it to big, an boring. I'll probably write a flashback of it though. So I hope you liked this one, and now...
On to the next one...
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Just kidding.