Traitors and revelations
Shirou was busy training in a field late at night when he heard the footsteps of someone running and two people shouting. He reinforced his ears and eyes and looked the direction it came from: the forest near the village gate. He then spotted Iruka and Mizuki, the latter wearing a large scroll on his back while the former seems to be in pursuit.
"Mizuki, why did you steal the forbidden scroll?" asked Iruka.
"HAHAHA! Why? Why you ask? Because I will give it as a gift to someone who will give me great power!" laughed Mizuki.
"And who might that be?" They turned around to see Shirou, leaning against a tree with his arms crossed.
"Well, if it isn't the demon, what luck, I get to kill two birds with one stone." sneered Mizuki.
"Well, let's see if can kill even one bird shall we?" asked Shirou, who looked as though he pulled two kunai from his back while actually tracing them.
"You, a mere genin, try to fight me? Foolish!" Mizuki roared as he hurled a giant shuriken at Shirou.
"Naruto!" Iruka yelled in fear for his student. Shirou simply rushed towards Mizuki and ducked the shuriken while holding the kunai in both hands as he would hold Kanshou and Bakuya.
'Amateur, you're wide open!' Mizuki thought as he pulled a kunai and plunged it straight for Shirou's heart as he neared him. He was shocked when Shirou simply parried his thrust and spun to deliver him a slash to the chest.
"Argh! That hurt demon!" Mizuki hissed.
"Just a question. Why do you always call me demon? It's annoying when you do that." asked Shirou. "It's simple, you are…" Mizuki started.
"No! It's forbidden!" Iruka yelled to no avail.
"…Kyuubi the nine tailed fox!" Mizuki laughed, thinking it stopped the boy long enough for him to finish it.
"Is that so? That's strange, I know I had a fox inside of me for a while now, but I think he kicked the bucket when I was eight." Shirou grinned at Mizuki's dumbfounded expression. "Let me explain, I think it's because of the seal at my belly. It's been continually siphoning chakra from the beast till it disappeared and its chakra became mine to use."
Like his explanation about the Touei bunshin, this was a half-truth.
The effects of the seal on the kyuubi were true, but they will only finish its job after 20 years. Not wanting to deal with a form of malice that may affect his actions, he paid a visit to the fox after being reborn and finished him off with the original anti-monster type noble phantasm Kanshou and Bakuya, capable of destroying monsters such as the hydra and medusa's monster form in one blow.
It worked flawlessly on the bijuu. And after destroying it, he converted half of its chakra into prana to activate the kid's magic circuits to enable him to use magic even without his presence after his mission was over, it was the least of the things he could give the poor kid in return.
"No! You lie demon! Prepare to die!" Mizuki rushed at Shirou furiously slashing at him with a sword in hidden in his back.
Iruka watched amazed at Shirou's strangely suicidal fighting style which was oddly full of openings. As Mizuki attacked at every open spot in Shirou's defense, he would suddenly be slashed by Shirou's kunai. 'A-amazing, he purposely leaves himself open for attacks, and when his enemy targets an open spot, he turns it into a trap!'
"Time to finish this!" Shirou threw a few shuriken at Mizuki, who blocked them.
"That all you can do!" He was shocked when Shirou was suddenly in front him and delivered a series of slashes with two kunai, making him stagger back.
"It's over." Shirou rushed in at high speed at Mizuki who was still dazed, and gave him a deep cross slash at the chest.
"W-what the…" Mizuki said as he passed out from the pain.
"Sensei, you alright?" Shirou asked as he helped Iruka up.
"Yeah, thanks Naruto." He answered.
"Nice show eh, Sensei?" Shirou and Iruka turned around to see Sasuke and Sakura sitting on the branch of a tree, clapping. Shirou chuckled,
"Well, if it isn't my wayward friends, you do know what happens if I find out you skipped training just to see me beat the hell out of Mizuki right?"
The two of them gulped and answered. "Well, I just finished my fire jutsu training when I heard some guys shouting in the forest and well… I got curious." Sasuke said.
"Alright, what about you Sakura?"
Sakura replied, "I was on my way home when I saw Sasuke heading towards the forest at high speed, so I followed to find out what was going on.
'Sigh' "Fine, you're off the hook for now, but I want to see how you're getting with your skills alright?" Shirou asks.
"Sure." "No prob."
Iruka chose the time to as speak. "Sasuke, Sakura, how long have you been here?"
"Um, long enough to hear Mizuki-sensei, or is it just Mizuki now, rant about the Kyuubi?"
"You do know that sort of information is classified right?" Iruka said.
"Please, the guy may be upright strict on training, but for us to condemn him just for holding off a demon from destroying a whole village? That's just low." Sakura answered.
"What Sakura said sensei. We're ninjas, we use jutsus which would be considered dark magic by ignorant civilians, why would a demon sealed in a boy's gut be different? Except that explains the fuckin high amount of chakra you have." Sasuke continued. Only to have Sakura bash him in the head.
"Oww! What was that for!"
"No cursing in front of me!"
"Alright then, I'll just do it when your back is turned!"
"What!"
"You heard me, or are you deaf Pinky?"
"I can hear you just fine duck-head!"
"Ya wanna fight!"
"Bring it on!"
The two were too busy arguing that they forgot Shirou's presence, who then traced Torashinai.
'Whapack!' Whapack!'
"If you have enough time to bicker, I suggest you use that time to start resting your bodies. Sleep, remember-"
"-Tiredness is the enemy. We know." Sakura and Sasuke finished, clutching their heads.
Shirou grinned "Good, run along now kids."
(Damn, we hate that practice sword. If I didn't know better, I'd have thought it belonged to one of the Seven swordsmen of the mist or something.) Sasuke and Sakura thought.
Hey guys! Sorry i haven't updated for a while, school is killin me softly. Anyways, I'm here to tell you that i have been thinking on who should be my antagonists in the story, and since the object of conquest is a corrupted grail who can turn servants to do its bidding, who better than the dark versions of the servants themselves? Yes, you guessed right, all seven of them, from Saber to Berserker class. Epic fights await Shirou in his mission. Stay tuned next chap for Kakashi's entrance and the wave mission. I'll put one of the dark servants there. Can you guess who it will be? Free Ichiraku Ramen coupon for the one who guesses right.
Post on the reviews on who you think will appear as the first Dark servant.