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3. Are we changed?
After that day, the day of meeting his sensei and team mates, he was bound to change. There was no mask anymore to uphold, no more intelligence to hide. No more being hyper and too moving. Now it was time to be peaceful and observant. More than anything.
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Naruto woke up before his alarm clock, as usual. It was already 5 o'clock in the morning. He would not have enough time to do everything he wanted. He slowly rose from the bed and made it, before changing clothes. The servants had came and took out his today's clothes.
He was wearing white today. White fishnet, with white shirt, white shinobi pants and black sandals and his usual jacket and katana and all. He had black bandages on his legs so that he would appear more fashionable and at the same time it was for a safety reasons. The clothes could stuck places. It wasn't unheard of.
After showering and changing he ate the breakfast which his servants had made for him and then went to the yard to practice his new Taijutsu. There were several things he needed to learn, one was the Hebi style. It used the user's whole body to do the assault, it demanded calmness and precise attacks. The style was made based on how snakes moved. He had Orochimaru's scrolls to tell him all about it. He was kind of happy because of that. He also had few other Taijutsu moves to learn.
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After the practice, it was nearly his time to go. He had his weapons, he had everything he would need. He took of at top speed to the training ground seven.
After getting there he saw Sasuke who was already there. He noticed his skin being paler than before and he also had circles under his eyes. He had not slept and not eaten anything, that made things troublesome.
After waiting ten minutes in silence Sakura got to the graining ground and immediately started clinging Sasuke like a life line. It was very frustrating to Sasuke, I noticed. It was nothing to be scorned from, but it was hard to be a good team, when Sasuke obviously had some rivarly thing going on with me, Sakura was hating me and Hatake was either late or ignoring me, favoring the young Uchiha prodigy more. Sakura again was left alone in her little world. We all knew that she cared about Sasuke and Sasuke only, He had her full support.
After waiting three hours Kakashi finally made an appearance.
"YOU ARE LATE!!" Sakura screamed like a banshee that she was.
"Well. I got lost in the road of life. heh he he" Kakashi said, still giving his strange eye smile to us. I was silent. I observed.
"Naruto, have you stated to everyone that you are the Namikaze clan head? Have you informed everybody about this fact?" Kakashi asked from me.
"Not yet. I want to keep it a secret a little longer. I will tell everybody about it when the first council meeting comes in few days. I am bound to be there in the evening so if we have any missions then, I have to favor the meeting over them." I said. Kakashi nodded.
At the roof we had already given the information about this Survival test as Kakashi wanted to call it. I wasn't too moved. It was all about teamwork, I knew it then and I know it now. There was just a little problem here. How do I make the team work? There needed to be something I could do.
As I thought about my options Sasuke and Kakashi were watching me intently. Always if someone was plotting something or thinking, there was something that indicated to that. Like in Shikamaru's case that hand thing that many misunderstood to be a handseal.
When I was deep in thought, I had no such trait. I just looked passive. Kakashi wanted to test this I knew. And as I was thinking and more time went by, suddenly a kunai was thrown towards me.
I sidestepped it and took hold of it by the ring that was in the end of it and launched it back. This kunai just had an explosive tag along with it. I knew that Kakashi would catch it and go boom. It was nothing more. I was bored, and I had finally gotten the answer that I needed.
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"Okay let's start this shall we?" Kakashi said. We all nodded.
"This clock here tells you the time limit. Under that time limit you must got the hand of these bells." Kakashi said shoving us the bells that were in his belt.
"You have to come to me with KI, if you want to survive." Kakashi said. Nobody moved.
"But we could hurt you.. Is that really wise?" Sakura asked. The smartest girl in our class could surely be stupid when she wanted to.
"No you can´t Sakura. He is a Jounin after all. A mere Genin could´n possibly harm him." I said quietly with a smirk on my face.
"Okay let's start!" Kakashi shouted. Sakura and Sasuke immediately went hiding. I stayed. I knew I didn't need anything. I unleashed my KI to Kakashi, and to Kakashi only. He ghasped, and fell to his knees.
"Remember me saying that I would call you sensei when I would recognize you being one? When I would honor you and all? That time is never coming. There is only few people that I honor and no one that I would call Sensei without my real one pointing me one besides himself." I said as I took the bells from him and called.
"Sasuke, Sakura come here." I said. They came. My KI was still with Kakashi and not with them.
"What did you do, dope?" Sasuke asked.
"Unleashed my KI of course, What else?" I said smiling slightly.
"Now Kakashi, get over it and get a grip or something. Isn't it somehow devastating that a merely genin could beat you, without using any weapons? No no no. No Sakura, Sasuke. This test was about teamwork, that because of Kakashi will never bloom in this team. Kakashi will only teach Sasuke, I don't know about Sakura, but she will go to Kurenai for Genjutsu or to Tsunade for being a medic nin. As for my self, I already have two teachers. And soon three. If my plans go as they should, well anyhow, the team will never bloom, because of Kakashi and because he can't teach, but I will make the council do something to it, don't worry about it." I said and gave the bells to them.
They just watched me with Kakashi, Kakashi was just staring at my unprotected back and I knew that the minute of I released my KI, he would want my blood. That was certain as everything.
"Now Sakura, Sasuke, please back a little bit alright?" I said. They wisely backed of from my place and I took my KI back and hold it especially well. In that tiny moment Kakashi was on his feet, rushing to meet me.
I just stood there on my black and white clothing. He had kunai on his hand and he was aiming on my neck to kill me, swiftly. I just sidestepped the attack and used a roundhouse kick to kick him to a nearest tree. He slumped down, put his book out of the way and lifted his hitai-ate to reveal Sharingan. I heard Sasuke gasp and explaining Sharingan to Sakura. I paid no mind to it. It wasn't anything uncommon, Sharingan that is. It was development from byagukan and that was all. And if the two were mixed. you got Rinnegan. Which was the most powerful eyetechnique at the moment.
I almost laughed at this, little show of power, Almost. The sharingan wasn't a pushover, but I knew that after using it Kakashi was unable to do mostly anything, and that would be a hindrance to my plans.
He came at me again. I swiftly kicked him to his chin and he went flying again to the nearest tree. Just in time too. The clock rang to signal that the test was over. Kakashi had placed his hitai-ate again over his eye and was standing now.
"I can't say that you passed. Sakura, Sasuke you just left everything to Naruto to take care of. Well it was a good strategy from Narutos part. As he did know that you were never going to believe him that this test was about teamwork. Which is nothing new behavior from your behalf. Sakura, you are weak and will excel in Genjutsu or in medical and Sasuke you are average, maybe slightly over average. But about Naruto I have no slightest idea. The academy teachers never actually taught him anything and because the lack of training I can't say what he knows and what he doesn't." Hatake said to us.
"Hn." Uchiha said.
"Well, I am not that weak. There has to be something other than I can do, sensei. Will you teach me in genjutsu or medical?" Sakura said.
"Sorry Sakura, But while I am good at Genjutsu, it is because of the Sharingan I have, not because I have talent and because of that I can't teach you about that. You might want to ask Kurenai about it. She might agree to teach you about genjutsu. Then again medical will work for you as well, although we have no such good medics here in Konohagakure. The only way for you to get teaching about that would be to travel and find Tsunade, the slug princess, on of the three Sannin." Kakashi said.
"What about me and Naruto?" Sasuke asked. I knew the answer to that already. As I had explained this already. It seemed that Kakashi had forgotten my words, and I am not content to repeat my words.
"Well I will train you all three to some extent. There is nothing wrong with that, but above that I would like to train only you Sasuke. Is that okay?" Kakashi said.
"I asked about us both sensei." Sasuke said.
"Don't worry Sasuke, I will not be without teaching so I really don't care what Kakashi has or has not to teach to you or anyone else. I am mere Genin, and still I beat him fair and square. He even used his Sharingan, but I defeated him still. So there is only two options to that. Either he is very weak for a genin to defeat him, or the said genin is not in genin level." I said. The thought had gone throw all of our heads, I just confirmed this lovely little fact.
"Well who in that case is going to be your teacher?" Sasuke asked along with Kakashi.
"Well, I have few very interesting candidates. One Sannin wants to train me, One of the sannin I want to be an apprentice of and then there is a one nice man. In rain none of the less. Well I will have to see about everything ." I said. It was perfectly sure that I would get every single one of them to train me. It was nothing else.
"Oh. Which of the three Sannin are you talking about?" Kakashi asked.
"Figure out yourself." I said. It was again the basic ninja trick. Look underneath of the underneath. It was that easy.
"There are no two sannin, only one. You mean Jiraiya?" Kakashi suddenly blurred out.
"Oh yeah. I mean Jiraiya. There is no one else to teach me certain things which I wish not to teach to my self. That is all. Now, as we matter of fact passed the test, can we continue on our lives? I have things to do." I said.
"Oh. Well dismissed. See you tomorrow at nine o'clock at the Hokage tower." Kakashi said and Shun-shin'd away from the training grounds, I at his heels.
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After that next morning they did various D-rank missions. Until Kakashi decided that it was their time to do C-rank mission. Kakashi wondered with Sarutobi and Iruka about Naruto's behavior and how it had changed at the moment he had placed that Konoha headband on his arm. That was something that worried them greatly. After a brief discussion they called Jiraiya to come Konoha and look about the boy.
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They were at the Hokage tower, Jiraiya, Naruto, Sarutobi, Iruka and Kakashi that is. Naruto looked around the place as usual. There was nothing wrong anywhere and there was no new missions after that last one that had been protect some cargo.
"Why am I here?" I asked silently. I didn't want to be here.
"Because I am going to look throw your seals." Jiraiya said. So there was more than one seal on me. How interesting.
"What do I have to do?" I asked.
"Take off your shirt for me and mold some chakra." Jiraiya said. I did as he asked. The headband also came off. I didn't notice anything different thought. I molded silently some chakra after a moment I heard the whole room gasp. I didn't understand why this was, until I actually looked at my upper body. Normally there should only be the shiki fuuin seal that yondaime had placed on me. But there wasn't as Jiraiy had dissembled the seal to various parts so that he could see if any part lacked.
I understood more about seals that I actually told anyone. Now after weaving myself from the whole body mirror I gasped as well, and after that I was furious. There were the seals that my sensei had placed on me, they were nothing harmful, as I had been explained, only that there were few in those that were restricting my eyes, which I didn't understand the purpose of. Then my fathers seal had contained also few others. Like loyalty to Konoha, never to hurt any of the villagers, loyalty to team, friendliness, honor and understandable and forgiving Nature. What the fuck I cursed in my mind. This was bad.
Jiraiya just shook his head. I took action before he could. I went throw easily over hundred hand seals, with both hands and screamed suddenly:
"Fuuin KAI!" And latched my glowing fingers as many of the harmful seals as I could. I had ten fingers so ten seals less. The pain was terrible and I felt complete change of heart and nature. There was no more the forced loyalty or anything of that kind. There was never ever going to be a day that I couldn't protect myself. Now I would be the one in control of myself and my body.
As I slumped to the ground the seal took new appearance. The shiki fuuin seal was as it has always been, because the harmful nature changing seals were not connected to it anyhow. They were masked inside of the seal, but they didn't interact with it. Then I turned slightly to look about the other seals that my sensei had placed on me. I didn't alter them that time. I silently just looked at them. There was the restriction seal to my eyes, which was probably because of some bloodline that I had no idea of. I was wondering should I do something to it.
Then there were some seal that was knowledge seal. If I broke it some knowledge would come to me. Then basic gravity seals, some other seals that made me understand different situation. Rational thinking seal for instance. Then I turned my gaze back to yondaime's seals.
There were still left some seals, like a very knowledge full knowledge seal. I inspected it a moment. I suddenly understood something. There was a reason why I couldn't learn something's and why I was little slow. I needed to think three times as much if I wanted to understand something because the knowledge seal was made wrongly. It sealed part of my rationality and nature smartness inside of it. I was now very angry. I decided to take the knowledge seals away, as well as the eye restricting seal.
Others were looking at me like I was crazy or something. Probably because of the swift rid of the seals.
"Why did you broke the Yondaime's seals?" Sandaime asked from me.
"Ask from Jiraiya. He knows very well what those seals did. Also this knowledge seal is made wrongly. It actually restricts my nature learning and understanding. If someone else would have not placed the cunning, rational thinking and learning seals into me, I would be as stupid as Kiba or even more so. I need to do three times more thinking than everybody else if I want to understand something. This is just plain wrong." I said.
"The Yondaime's seals were forcing loyalty, friendliness, protection of Konoha, Protection of the villagers, and no harming the villagers or any other Konoha nin. That is why Naruto feels betrayed." Jiraiya said.
"Oh dear. Now I understand, I had no idea." The sandaime Hokage said. Again before they could react I quickly went throw the hundreds of handseals and shouted once again: Fuuin KAI!" and slammed my fingers to the seals I wanted to get rid of.
The sensation was horrible. The two knowledge seals were pumping me full of information. There was memories, techniques, many things about my family, History, Maths and other school subjects, special seals, information about people and places, information about their plans, information about akatsuki and how to beat them, information about the bijuu, information about my heritage. Information about everything I could even imagine and far beyond. Then all the smartness and my natural talents were flooding over me. My senses were very much over normal, same thing with everything. Suddenly hundreds of plans about how to get away from this situation if I wanted came to my mind. I didn't even had to think about it.
Then I felt my eyesight change but only to few seconds. I truly had kekkei genkai. And if possible I needed to hide it better than anything. I was at the ground panting and I had a horrible headache. I whimpered a little bit because of the pain was so great.
"Could I please have few aspirin?" I said quietly. My nature had changed completely. No more was I a happy go lucky kid. The show I had played couple of days was just it, a show, all that rationality and thinking over mu capacity, all the plotting and sarcasm wasn't me either. Nothing more nothing less. Now I was quiet and reserved. The honor that had kept my natural honor and manners at bay was gone and now I had changed because of that. I had gotten my father's plans and I planned to execute them as fast as I possibly could.
"Here you go Naruto." Iruka said.
"Thank you Iruka-nii-sama" I said and got the pills down with a glass of water.
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There was a minutes of silence after I had taken the medicine. Then I started to inspect the memories and information that I had gained. About my heritage. That was the most important part of all of them. I kind of read the information that I gained. Suddenly I gasped.
"What is it Naruto?" Kakashi asked from me.
"I am not. This can't be. a double? That can't be." I said and almost started to hyperventilate. Kakashi came before me, took a hold of my shoulders, and started to encourage me to breathe.
"Breathe Naruto!" Kakashi said. I started to breathe a little more steadier after a moment.
"Could someone cancel the hinge that I have over me?" I asked.
"What do you mean Naruto? There should be no hinge upon you. I thought that you broke the henge that you had on you." Jiraiya said.
"I have been lied once again. By my own sensei. I am not some lab rat after all. My sensei told me about the first hinge and that I was a crazy mixture of Orochimaru and Yondaime Hokage. Although I have been born to Minato Namikaze (yondaime) and Kushina Uzumaki I wasn't their child. I was some twisted lab experiment. But that wasn't true after all. I have some Orochimaru's genes but they are because of the alteration that I have been throw in my early years because of him. I wasn't made up in the lab after all. I am the child of Minato Namikaze and Kushina Uzumaki and Orochimaru wanted me to believe that I was his relative which I am clearly not." I said.
"How do you know this?" Iruka asked.
"It's because of the knowledge seals that I had in me. They literally gave me the information. That was also why I needed the aspirin." I said.
"Now could someone please dispel the hinge?" I asked. Jiraiya came before me, placed his hands as a ram seal and shouted:
"KAI" The hinge dissipated and what was left? Well my hair had again changed. My skin tanned than before but not as much as originally. My hair had gained much more length. It was now to my midsection, it was golden blond and reflected red. My eyes lost their feral look and became that once so nice sky blue. My face gained Minato's appearance and the whisker marks in my cheeks disappeared completely.
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A/N: Here you have the chapter three. :) Remember to review, it makes my day :)
