Konoha's Sleeping Wolf
Chapter 2: Academy and Training
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or Bleach or any characters.
Summary: A response to the Infamous Man's challenge. Naruto finds Stark's zanpakuto in the forest after feeling abandoned by his family and godparents who favor his sister for housing the Kyuubi.
Naruto sighed lazily as he was forced to go to the academy Ellie seemed happy to be going but she had tons of friends. He didn't really mind that he didn't have many friends. Besides he figured he could just sleep in class like he had seen that pineapple haired kid in his class do. He thought his name was Shikamaru or something similar. But he would be sleeping so that he could have an undisturbed conversation with Stark after all his parents had thought it would be weird if a 13 year old girl went to the academy with them. So they decided to make her a ninja with an apprentice ship for the moment and Minato's student Kakashi agreed to train her in the ninja arts.
Once they walked into the academy Naruto saw Ellie's friends run up to her. He silently walked towards the back ignoring the few curious stares he got from his classmates knowing that they were more interested in his change of appearance and clothes choice as well as the sword then him. He sat down to Shikamaru who for the moment was awake and decided to introduce himself. "Hi I'm Naruto Namikaze what's your name?" he said lazily and holding his hand out.
Shikamaru looked at him for a moment before shaking his hand lazily. "Shikamru Nara nice to meet you." He said then promptly laid his head on his desk to take a nap.
Naruto followed his new friends example though it was for a little bit of a different reason. True he enjoyed taking naps and being lazy in general. But this time he was doing it so he could talk with Stark.
(Naruto's Mindscape)
Naruto opened his eyes and found himself in the familiar replica of Hueco Mundo that was his mindscape. He saw Stark waiting for him a little bit away. He walked over to the older man who looked at him.
"Do you need to talk about something Naruto-kun?" He asks while looking at his wielder.
"Stark you told me how you and Lilynette existed before the Biju but there's some stuff you haven't told me. For instance wouldn't Kami have been angry with the Shinigami and Arrancar for their war?" Naruto asked most of the laziness gone form his voice.
Stark sighed he had hoped that Lilynette would be the one to explain this. But he guessed it was his responsibility to tell him. "Your right Naruto Kami was angry at us. That's actually the reason for the Biju being created. They were created to destroy the Shinigami as well as us Arrancar. Since Lilynette and I were able to withdraw I imagine another Arrancar or some of the Shinigami could have done the same thing." He said looking at Naruto.
Naruto nodded then thought of something else. "You said able to withdraw so that means you were fighting some of the Biju. Also something doesn't seem right the sword isn't your true power is it?" He asked
Stark smiled at this. "I'll answer your last question first. No the sword isn't where my true form or power lies. You see Lilynette and I were once the same being so my true power is with in her. Or to be more accurate half of my true power is. The sword is basically just for show but for now you need to know how to fight with it and fight with it fairly well. Now for the first question yes I was fighting some of the Biju and I was fighting them with my true power. Lilynette and I were fighting the Nine and Eight tails. At first we were doing well but then the Eight tails managed to do quite a bit of damage and if we hadn't left and sealed ourselves into my sword the Nine and Eight tails would have killed us." Stark said finishing his story. Naruto nodded before being drawn out of his mindscape.
(Real World)
Naruto glared at Iruka who had thrown an eraser at his head to wake him up. He looked to his left and saw that the same thing had happened to Shikamaru. He then decided to pay attention to what was going on.
"Today we are going to have a small Taijutsu tournament to test everyone's skill in taijutsu. Anyone who wishes to test their kenjutsu skills in this tournament may as well so long as it is agreed to by both contenders." Iruka said.
Naruto smirked lazily as everyone got up to move to the training ground in the back of the school. The reason he was smirking was because as both Stark and Lilynette had told him he should show his skills with swordsmanship since after all a "Wolf always bears its fang to its enemy."
"Alright the first match will be Naruto vs. Shino. Both of you can decide now if you want to use Kenjutsu or not." Iruka said to all of his students.
Shino looked at Naruto and noticed the sword on his belt. "Since you carry that I take it you are skilled with it. I wouldn't feel right fighting you if it's not for real." Shino said getting a lazy smirk from Naruto
"This should be fun I was hoping for another opponent to fight with my sword." Naruto said as the two walked into the middle of the training field and stood opposite of each other as Iruka stood in between both of them.
"Ready?" Iruka asked both of them getting a nod from the two. At that he moved his hand between the two then jumped back quickly. When Iruka jumped back Naruto and Shino both pulled out their weapons. Naruto drew his sword while Shino pulled out a small short staff.
Shino examined Naruto closely and noticed that Naruto was standing in a way that showed someone that was waiting for the first move to be made. Even though it wasn't his style Shino knew that he would have to make the first move if they wanted this tournament to proceed. Shino ran at Naruto and swung his staff in a way where it would chop his opponent's neck and immobilize him.
Shino was surprised with the way Naruto blocked and deflected the blow. It was then as if he was watching in slow motion as Naruto cut his jacket and moved behind him placing his sword against Shino's neck. "You've lost. When fighting a more skilled opponent moving first or second doesn't matter." Naruto said sheathing his sword then walking over to where his sister and Shikamaru were.
Shino was shocked since his family members were taught bojutsu or kenjutsu to help them make up for their bloodline making them primary long-range fighters. He was shocked because someone that seemed to have no proper stance was able to beat him without much effort. 'After this humiliating defeat I wont underestimate my opponents anymore.' Shino thought to himself. Everyone seemed as shocked as Shino was at how quick the fight went.
Most of the other fights weren't as exciting. One that everyone wanted to see though which was the last one was Sasuke vs. Naruto. Some of the Sasuke fan girls had actually split off and become started to form a Naruto fan group though the lazy swordsmen didn't notice.
"Tch with how lazy and pathetic you are I think you'll need your sword to stand a chance against me." Sasuke said arrogantly as they walked to the center of the training grounds.
Naruto sighed drawing his sword slowly. "Uchiha your arrogance will be your downfall but if you wish I'll fight you the way you want." This had the desired effect in pissing Sasuke off. Sasuke threw kunai at Naruto who simply knocked them away with his sword.
Sasuke started running through hand signs and launched his jutsu faster then the teachers could stop. "Katon: Gokakyu no Jutsu. (Fire style: Grand fireball no jutsu)" Sasuke shouted while blowing out a large fireball that hit Naruto on.
Ellie looked like she was going to break down right then when that happened. Shino and Shikamaru actually showed anger at that. But before anyone could do anything there was an explosion of Chakra that caused the flames to be blown out and there in the middle was Naruto with a pillar of dark blue chakra surrounding him. The only damage visible was a few singe marks on his outfit.
"Now Uchiha you've crossed a line. For that I'm not going to just humiliate I'm going to utterly destroy you." Naruto said in his lazy tone but leaking enough KI to rival the Kyuubi. Naruto channeled chakra into his legs and disappeared with the sound of static and appeared behind Sasuke with his sword off to the side.
Everyone was shocked as quite a bit of blood shot out of a wound on Sasuke's chest that started from his shoulder and went almost all the way to his hip. Sasuke then hit the ground as Naruto sheathed his blade and walked off. Mizuki quickly picked Sasuke up to take him to the hospital. Everyone knew that even if Naruto wasn't the Hokage's child no one would dare punish him since Sasuke had tried to kill him first. Ellie was just happy Naruto was ok and quickly ran up to him to hug him.
(Training ground on Namikaze estate)
Naruto could not believe his crappy luck. Not only did he have to suffer the tournament at the academy but shortly after he got home Lilynette had dragged Naruto to one of the clan's private training grounds to do some more training. "Ah Lilynette come on I'm tired." Naruto whined only to have to dodge a kick to the head.
"I don't care if your tired after what happened it proves you need more training. Because there is no way you needed that much chakra to protect yourself from that level of attack or to use such a short range Sonido." Lilynette said noticing Naruto blanch. "Yea you forgot I can use Pesquisa didn't you? That's another thing we need to work on that to. Oh and an offensive ability. Since Cero is to advanced I think I'll show you Bala." Lilynette said smirking causing Naruto to panic. He knew he was in for hell. He could also hear Stark laughing in the back of his mind.
Naruto's eyes widened as he only had a few seconds to block Lilynette's attack as she instantly showed up in front of him with the sound of static and went to make a blow to his abdomen. He deflected Lilynette's sword then channeled a small amount of chakra into his legs and disappeared with the sound of static and showed up in a tree a few feet away.
Lilynette smirked pulling her fist back and channeling chakra into it causing blue electric like chakra to surround it. "Bala." She said punching forward and launching the attack so fast that Naruto barely dodged it as it hit the tree reducing it to splinters.
"What the hell Lilynette are you trying to kill me?" Naruto said the laziness gone from his voice.
"Pfft you and I both know that wouldn't have killed you. But since you've pretty much figured Sonido out on your own this is what I'm going to teach you. Bala is weaker then Cero but your not ready for Cero yet." She said smiling. Lilynette wasn't surprised that Naruto picked up Bala quickly. After all Stark and Lilynette were both experts of energy based attacks.
A/N: Ok I think this should make up for the first chapter and prologue being so short and being gone for so long. Oh also next chapter will be a time skip that jumps all the way to graduation. There will be a few flashbacks explaining what happened in the three years up to graduation.