Hello Hello Hello; I only have to say that there's not much action in this chapter. The reason for that is I really can't think of anything that would be interesting and yet would still keep within the storyline.
Chapter 5: The author just setting things up...
Naruto returned to his house and entered his room when the sun was about to be rise. As he entered his room, he looked to see that Rachel had snuck into his room again and slept in his bed while snuggling on a bed pillow that had his image on it.
Naruto then sighed, he appreciate Reachel's attempts at trying to win him over but he didn't want to try to date again when one girl left you for a job and the other was a homicidal bitch that played with his heart and got his brother killed. It's tough to trust someone with your heart after that.
Did that mean he was going homosexual? No and not because homosexuality is wrong. Naruto knew a few homosexual females and males and he is still great friends with them; he just didn't dare bend over in front of those guys.
As Naruto picked up his school clothes from his closet, he exited his room to find Ethan standing in the hallway. Naruto gave a small wave, "Heya, Ethan; I did..."
"I know, I was in the next room mediating..." Ethan's statement was rewarded with a sigh of relief from Naruto. Naruto walked closer to Ethan and patted the man's shoulder, "I'm going to take the shower downstairs."
When Naruto took the first step down the stairs, Ethan suddenly said, "Naruto... You should cleaned out your chakras. I can call my master here..."
"Enough, Ethan..." Naruto interrupted as he looked straight into Ethan's eyes, "This is my problem and I will deal with it myself. You of all people should know to respect that."
As Naruto walked down the stairs, he didn't hear Ethan whispered, "This is not a problem that one can handle themselves."
"The jury finds the defendant guilty of all charges." An old man pushed his glasses up his nose as he stated those words.
"Furinji Naruto-ssi, do you have any last words before you are taken to your new home." The judge asked, through Naruto knew he really didn't care.
"Yeah, unlike you assholes, I know who actually killed my brother. When I get out and I will, I will hunt them and make them regret what they've done."
"So this is a Sport's Festival?" Rachel waved as the exchange students save for Han Shinwoo stood straight. She looked around and saw her rival for the spotlight, Miu Furinji. Rachel rushed over and asked, "Which team are you in?"
Miu reached behind and threw Niijima, who hid behind Miu when he saw a Yomi member coming close. She replied while Niijima was in the air, "Group White..."
Rachel then placed a fist behind her and pointed at Miu, "Me and my Red Group won't lose to yours."
Miu, who was born and bred with martial arts, accepted the challenge with glee. She replied with a grin on her face, "I accept your challenge..."
Both girls turned around and headed back to their area while Niijima laid down on the ground with his alien antennas out. He wondered why they weren't reacting since his antennas react to hostile and murderous intent.
He stood up and headed back to Group White's area to confer with his troops when he stopped and shivered. In front of him was the last exchange student, Han Shinwoo who was in the front of Group White shouting orders and insults like a Drill Sargent.
"Ukita, my pet fox can run faster than that and he's a lazy ass! Move those legs!" Shinwoo shouted through a megaphone in which no one knew where he got it from.
Kenichi was the only one brave enough to walk towards the current Shinwoo and that's only from the side and slowly, "Shinwoo-san, are you alright? You look like get much sleep." There were black dots around Shinwoo's eyes which indicated he didn't get a lot of sleep last night.
Shinwoo lowered the megaphone and answered, "Truth be told, I'm tired as hell..." He then snarled and the eyes turned fiery pits, "But we Koreans take our Sport Festivals very seriously."
Kenichi didn't really want to know but curiosity got the better of him, "Just how serious?"
"We have a National Sports Festival in which over twenty thousand athletes compete from sixteen cities and provinces. The Festival lasted for an entire week of October and contains over forty separate sports." Shinwoo explained to the amazement of the Group White members and teachers who overheard, "This is more akin to Sports Day which every public school has. Sports Day is considered the most important day that is not academically-related and trust me when I say Korea treats education like God."
Shinwoo suddenly placed the megaphone back near his mouth, "Don't think I don't see you slowing down, Taiga. I'm always watching!"
Meanwhile, a Group White member bumped into Niijima. He turned and bowed while saying, "Sorry, Com-Niijima..." before leaving. Niijima looked at the retreating white member before looking at the chip in his hand.
Looking around to see if anyone was watching him directly, he activated Niijima Special Technique Number 12; the Niijima Camouflage. This Technique was created while Niijima was just a child allowing him to move undetected by normal humans. He also assumed that no one save martial artists of the highest caliber like Kenichi who was working to impress Miu, Miu and Shinwoo who were involved deeply in the Festival and the Yomi members who are in the other team.
As Niijima slipped away, he kept a mental clock for the Kibasen battle that was going to happen in a few hours. He then slipped the chip into his PDA and searched through the data that had been collected by his subordinates who had faked sickness in order to continue searching the Internet...
All they had been able to find that were of some importance were images of Naruto along with Han Shinwoo, two girls and that was it. Nothing had been found that could be used as blackmail or bargaining chips and that frustrated him to no end.
Until his genius evil mind came up with something, if he couldn't find anything noteworthy by searching up Naruto then he'll just have to take the detour. He punched in orders on his PDA for his Internet Squad to search up on Han Shinwoo and the two girls...
The four must played a huge part in Naruto's past if some many images of him contained them...
Han Shinwoo (Naruto)
In Shinwoo's hands was a bow that was aimed at target sixty yards away. As he drew the bow, he aimed and fired. The arrow flew straight and true, hitting the bulls-eye as Group White members cheered as the White Group took the lead once more.
Miu walked up to Shinwoo and said, "That was a nice shot..."
"Nothing impressive..." Shinwoo stated, "I had to do more while I was in Moorim." Miu tilted her head as she wondered out loud, "What's Moorim?"
"Something you should never know about and be thankful for."
Naruto never thought he would be arrested, nor would he be found guilty. Yet he here was; tied down by handcuffs, leg cuffs, a neck collar with connecting poles while he was sitting in a cage surrounded by assault rifles.
The first thought in his mind when this happened was overkill much?
The ship hit a turbulence and caused his cage to rattle a little and the jittery guards tightened their awareness on him. Naruto didn't really care to talk to his guards and they don't seem to want to talk to him either.
This continued for some time since Naruto lost track of time until the large cargo doors opened to reveal a runway with seven-foot story walls. The leader of his 'guards' stated with a mocking tone, "Welcome to Moorim, where all you martial artists freaks are sent. I've been told it's paradise for your kind."
Naruto rolled his eyes, "Yeah, yeah..." He didn't even grunt when he recieved a punch to the face. Naruto's hair was pulled as another hand grabbed his cheeks and forced him to look, "Your kind has been running amok in my country for centuries now and you want to know the worst thing about it... Foreigners like you can coming and ruin it even more."
Naruto was silent for a moment before he asked, "What's your name?"
The guard was confused but he answered, "Park Jin-ho..."
"Got any family, Jin?"
"Why?" At this point, Jin-ho didn't like that smile on the freak's face, "So, I know where to send my condolences of a man driven to ruin..."
Jin-hi gritted his teeth, "Get him out of here..." He then heard one more sentence from Naruto...
"I will remember your face and name, Jin. It's only a matter of time..."
"It's now time for the Kibasen." A teacher yelled through the megaphone that was confiscated from Shinwoo. Said teenager was glaring as he was forced to finally let go of his item if he wanted to join.
He looked at the three men that were to be his group. Each of them were in a club and he knew them from observing each club for potential threats. It was unlikely but it was still possible.
He pointed to the Judo Club member, Yo Chitose, "You are taking one of the sides of the group." Shinwoo received a nod as he pointed at the the Basketball Club members, Kagami Taiga and Kuroko Tetsuya, "Kagami, you take the other side while I take the middle. Kuroko will be the general since he looks he can barely lift his backpack much less us."
Kuroko looks down at himself, "I think Han-san is right about the choices for our formation."
Kagami responded, "Well, if the exchange student is the leader then what's the plan?"
"The plan's simple, You two are going to use one hand and hook Kuroko-san's leg. This is too lower him so that it will be difficult for the Red Group to get the headband. Kuroko-san will then grab onto my hair. Afterwards, we charged into the center while shouting 'Leeroy Jenkins!' understand?"
Kagami looked at the Shinwoo with a deadpan gaze, "Really? You actually want to use that as a battle cry?" Kagami grew up in the streets of San Francisco before moving to Japan with his family back in the Spring 2007 so he could enter First Year of Highschool. Before he left, he had heard about that joke and how it came to be...
That's actually how popular it was despite Kagami being a sports player and it being an gaming and Internet thing. It also kick-started the gaming industry in Anerica along with technology related to gaming.
Shinwoo waved Kagami's concern, "Come on, Kagami-san; you know you want to..." Kagami hissed in and winced. He actually did wanted to shout it since it sound like a something fun to shout.
"Find you got me sold on it; let's hurry up through. The Kibasen is about to start." Kagami stated as Yo and Kagami stood side-by-side while lifting Kuroko up. The duo then placed hook their limb around Kuroko's leg while Kuroko held onto Shinwoo by the hair. Shinwoo then grabbed onto Kuroko's arm in order to make sure that he doesn't fall off.
"Yo, are you going to be alright? I mean, Kuroko may be puny but he's got a mean grip." Chitose asked.
"I'm telling you, this is going to work. Now, the other horses are going to watch to watch the sides and you're going to defend yourself with the other free hand. Kuroko doesn't have to do anything but make sure they don't grab the headband. Got it?" Shinwoo asked and was rewarded with 'Hai' from all three.
"The Kibasen begins in THREE TWO ONE, BATTLE!" The teacher shouted as all the guys roared. However, there was one roar that was louder than the others...
"LEEROY JENKINS!" The voices from Group White:Kuroko's Team had momentarily stunned everyone as they charged in. Shinwoo and Kagami shouted from the top of their lungs followed by Yo and Kuroko who had no idea but did their best at saying the foreign words.
When the group reached the front waves of the Red Group, Shinwoo sparta-kicked ones of the Red's groups in front of him causing them to break formation and fall. At this point, everyone had processed what happened and the battle commenced.
Three of the Reds decided to gang up on Shinwoo as they charged at. The man performed a sidekick to the middle-horse of one of the groups causing another Red Group to fall. Shinwoo used the force of the rebound to hit another in the side of the face with the sole of his feet.
Shinwoo then flip while one hand letting go of Kuroko and immediately grabbing back as the other hand let go. This was done in in order to avoid twisting Kuroko while at the same time gaining enough momentum for an overhead ax kick to the third group.
"Let's win this!" Shinwoo shouted as team charged once more.
Girls
"This is so unfair." Kisara stated as she watched the exchange students dominating the game. The White Group was quite lucky to at least gotten of one of Yomi on their team.
"Go White Group!" Miu shouted, this was the first time she actually had friends and a reason to cheer. When she was in middle school, she was always alone because she was beautiful, smart and talented.
She was always surrounded by people but she still felt alone.
So, naturally when the Kibasen ended and White Group had two calvaries left (One of the rules states that you must be hanging on to all horses to still be in the game so Natsu was out) while Red only had one; Miu was among the loudest to cheer.
An Hour later
Shinwoo shook the hands of some of the guys as every single one of them headed for the locker room. When he arrived at his locker, Shinwoo removed his shirt to reveal a undershirt underneath.
His arms had scars and on the edge of the shirt were burn marks. A student asked, "Hey, Han-san, what's with the burns?" The question asked had nearby students looking to see that it was true.
"It's something from a time that I don't want to remember. Please leave it alone..." Shinwoo stated. He had always changed into his gym clothes away from anyone since he really didn't want to explain it.
Why is everyone so nosy about him today?
Kenichi looked over to Takeda and Ukita and whispered, "What do you guys think about it?"
"If the man doesn't want to reveal it then he doesn't have to. We all got our skeletons in the closet." Ukita responded as he pushed his sun glasses up his nose. Takeda nodded even through he wanted to know badly.
With the change in clothing complete, Shinwoo walked out of the school area without talking to anyone else. He wanted to be alone for awhile so he did the only thing that he usually does when he was by himself, go for a walk.
It's simply amazing what happens when you walked by yourself with no destination in mind...
"Ahhhhhhh!" Naruto screamed as he was naked from the waist up. The reason for the scream was that on his back was a branding tool that was currently heating up and performing it's job on the boy's back.
When the tool was lifting off, the image of a serpentine snake was branded on the back. Naruto shivered as he rapidly breathed in and out as he nearly blacked out from the experience.
He looked to the side where he knew the one who ordered the brand was sitting. The man greedily licked his lips as women draped themselves over him. One sentence was spoken before Naruto blacked out...
"You are mine from now on."
As always, whenever Naruto takes a random walk, a sticky situation always pops up. Naruto was just outside Tokyo city in one of the parks and has actually ran into a fellow disciple and one of the Ichikage Kyuuken, Kushinada Chikage and Mikumo. Kushinada Chikage was a petite girl that look like a grade-school child with a blank gaze as she wore a simple kimono.
Her master on the other hand was a curvaceous and well-endowed woman who's appearance could be mistaken for mid-twenties. She wore a similar kimono to her disciple but had it opened slightly.
Naruto kneeled as was custom when meeting one of the leaders, "Disciple Furinji Naruto greets his Elder. What brings you so close to Tokyo?"
Mikumo stares at the brat, "Chikage shall be attending the normal civilian school after some time. She will need to know everything there is into 'fitting in'. You are the only one among the current infiltrating disciples to have experience in this."
"I understand..." Naruto kept his head down as Mikumo silently disappeared. After he was sure that Mikumo was gone, he looked at Chikage who had softened her emotionless appearance. She then walked towards him and climbed onto his shoulders while pointing to the city, "Show me where the sweets are..."
Naruto chuckled, "Of course." He channelled Ki into his legs and sprinted to the nearest sweets shop that he knew of.
It had been several days since Naruto's imprisonment. His father had finally made his case public knowledge to everyone within South Korea. With the case being known, the government was forced to acknowledge the misdeeds and removed him from Moorim.
Naruto was then treated as if he was royalty. He was sitting in a massage chair on a plane back to the mainland while a person massaged his shoulders and another his feet. Naruto really enjoyed it since it was FREE and no one can resist the call.
"How is the massage, Furinji-nim?" One of them asked.
"Less talking, more massage..." Naruto stated, it was funny to watch the South Korean government try to convince him to talk to his father to brush the incident underneath the carpet so to speak. Especially, since the front company had ten percent of the entire South Korean economy.
As he relaxed, his mind was busy thinking of different ways of making his enemies all pay even more. Oh, he also couldn't wait to show off his new trophy to his father. That trophy being the head of the man who ordered the brand.
It wasn't that he was stronger than Naruto was, rather he was a pathetic leech that gather hirelings and took him down after three days of continuous fighting. Even martial artists had limits and needed to rest before fighting again.
The only time anyone can continuously fight without resting is in fiction.
Chapter End
Omake: The worst punishment ever
"I've decided on your punishment for the murder of Han Shinwoo." The judge stated as Naruto looked him in the eye, "Guards, take him away to be deported. Make sure that he ends up in Detroit..."
With that said, he slammed his gravel down signaling that court has adjourned.
Naruto screamed as he was dragged away, "NO, NOT DETROIT! PLEASE, ANYTHING BUT THAT! THIS IS A CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT! DON'T SEND ME TO DETROIT!"