The training begins
Once again thank you for reviewing and subscribing. I would like to point out that this is my first fic and I am not quite sure how to format things. So I am going to try a different format. Tell me how I did. Thank you.
By the way, I decided on Raigin hooking up with Anko later in the story. Why? Because she's insane and I like insane chicks. Plus, she's hot.
Quote of the day:
"this sniper stuff is such a drag" - Shikamaru
Exactly one month has passed since our last chapter. Naruto adjusted surprisingly well to a dysfunctional family life. Every day Naruto would wake up, go downstairs, eat breakfast, and then immediately proceed to tackle Raigin when he appeared in the kitchen. I'm not kidding. This happened at the exact same time everyday.
Naruto was truly happy to live with Raigin. He was a nice man, who rarely yelled at him. The only time Raigin got mad at Naruto was when he found him playing with his rifle. (rifles are not toys children) at first Naruto was a little upset with Raigin, but hey, what eight year old likes getting yelled at? But after an explanation from Raigin about how fragile and dangerous a rifle is, Naruto forgave him.
Another benefit of living with Raigin was that Naruto's academy grades were on the rise. It turns out having someone that knows ninja techniques is a real asset when it comes to learning basic academy jutsu. Already he mastered the clone technique, and he had the transformations down-pat.
The only unchanged aspect of Naruto's life was the fact that the villagers still hated him. But this did not bother Naruto too much. He was too happy with his new father to care.
Now, we will begin the actual story.
Naruto woke up at 7:00 AM, full of energy and ready to tackle anything, which in this case was Raigin, as he came down to the kitchen at 7:30, as was normal.
"there is something wrong with this kid, he does this every day." thought Raigin. But he did not mind. He was glad that Naruto accepted him as a father figure in his life, and he was also glad that he had a son.
After a nice breakfast and a quick coffee (which he was careful to keep away from Naruto), Raigin picked up his equipment and left to go train, but not before telling Naruto that he had a surprise for him later today.
Naruto was beyond curious on what the surprise may be. He always liked surprises, but he hated the waiting bit that came with them. So he racked his mind on it on his way to the academy, and accidentally bumped into someone coming around the corner.
When Naruto jumped back, ready to apologize and run, he noticed who he bumped into. He had bumped into Hinata Hyuuga, and she did not appear to be mad at Naruto. In fact, she promptly turned beet red when she saw him.
Once Naruto saw her, he knew that he probably wouldn't get in trouble. He had noticed that whenever he was around Hinata, she would immediately blush, and sometimes faint, whenever he was there. And to this day, Naruto never understood why.
But what he did notice, is that Hinata wasn't like the other villagers. She never yelled at him, hit him or teased him. She would often come up to him and comfort him (between fainting spells) after the abuse stopped. And for this Naruto was extremely grateful, and he considered her one of his best friends, along with Shikamaru and Choji.
Little did he know however, is that Hinata's feelings for Naruto went beyond friends. Hinata secretly had a giant crush on Naruto, and she often stooped to stalker like methods to watch him. Naruto, being oblivious to this, never noticed he was being watched.
Naruto looked at Hinata, and immediately helped her up from where she fell on the ground.
"Oi, Hinata! Are you okay?" asked Naruto, holding out his hand, worry apparent in his voice. Hinata blushed deeply again, and she took Naruto's hand and allowed him to help her up.
"he's really worried about me? But I was the one who walked into him. He is so nice." thought Hinata (for my sake as well as yours, I will not write Hinata's stutter. You can either imagine it's there or go with my reasoning, that in this AU, Hinata has enough confidence to speak)
"I'm fine, Naruto-kun." said Hinata, eyeing Naruto appreciatively. She then asked, "are you alright? I didn't see you and I walked into you." she looked at the ground, afraid that he would be angry, forgetting her thoughts of five seconds ago.
Naruto smiled back at Hinata. "I'm fine Hinata. I'm sorry I knocked into you, I wasn't paying attention to where I was going." he finished with a mock bow to Hinata, a long running joke that always made her giggle.
"Well Hinata, would you like to walk to the academy with me?" asked Naruto. Hinata blushed deeper than her already beet red blush. The boy of her dreams wanted to walk with her! Needless to say, she fainted immediately, but Naruto caught her before she hit the ground. He sighed as he looked at Hinata. This happened almost every time he asked if she wanted to do anything that involves spending time with him. Naruto picked her up and carried her bridal style to the academy.
A few minutes later, Naruto arrived at the academy. Hinata had woken up during the trip and she insisted on walking the rest of the way. Naruto would have gladly carried her, but she insisted that she was fine. As they walked into the class, Naruto noticed Sakura fawning over Sasuke. Again. Like she does every day. While Naruto honestly didn't care all that much about Sakura, he was stilled a little irked about the fact that Sasuke seemed to get all the girls. Worst of all, he hated all of them! These girls would probably take bullets for Sasuke if he was ever threatened, yet he treats them like crap.
It was this reason that Naruto hated Sasuke. He had everything, a powerful family and any girl he wants in the village, other than Hinata. Though Naruto never understood why…
Naruto took his seat in the back of the class, next to Shikamaru and Hinata. Shikamaru, after greeting Naruto, promptly fell asleep. This earned him the wrath of Iruka, which was an eraser, thrown like a knife, right into his face. "WAKE UP!!!" yelled Iruka. Rather than waking up, Shikamaru propped up a couple of books in front of his face and went back to sleep. With a sigh of defeat, Iruka went on with his lesson.
Today's lesson was on genjutsu. Normally Naruto wouldn't pay too much attention to this lecture, for he seemed to have a problem with genjutsu. But today, he gave the subject his full attention. Ever since Raigin told him that he needed to know at least one genjutsu, he had tried as hard as he could to grasp what it meant. Unfortunately, he still had no idea what the hell it was about.
After the lesson, Iruka called a lunch break. Naruto and Shikamaru ate in their usual spot, the tree with the swing on it. Hinata joined them a few minutes later. After they ate lunch, they still had a few minutes left of the break, so Naruto decided to ask for help with genjutsu. This consisted of Naruto attempting to cast a genjutsu on Shikamaru, and then Hinata casting a genjutsu on Naruto. The end result was Naruto actually casting a low level genjutsu on Shikamaru. But, he still had no luck breaking the genjutsu he was put under.
As they went back into the classroom, Iruka called out several names from the class. "Hinata Hyuuga, Shikamaru Nara, Ten-Ten, and Naruto Uzumaki, please head into the next classroom."
Naruto was a little confused. Squinting at Iruka he asked "Why sensei? I wanted to learn more about genjutsu."
Iruka looked at Naruto, a small grin on his face. "Because you four are part of a special training regiment that starts today. The teacher next door will explain when you get there."
St this, several other students, Sasuke included, protested at this. "why do they get specialized training?" they whined "its not fair sensei!" cried the fan girls, "what about Sasuke, he deserves the training too!"
Iruka had had enough of this. "BE QUIET!!!" he yelled. "this training was offered to all of you last week. Yet these four were the only ones who signed up for the class! Now sit down and girls, put Sasuke down!" he yelled at the fan girls, who were trying to discretely carry Sasuke out of the room, having put him to sleep with a paralyzing drug they got from nowhere.
At this point, the chosen four already left the class room, and were on their way down the hall. After a few seconds of silence, Naruto just had to ask. "why were we picked out of the class? I don't remember signing up for anything." he said, a confused look on his face. Shikamaru looked at him, a smirk on his face.
"if your too stupid to remember, then I wont bother telling you. Too much effort." joked the lazy boy. Naruto to his credit shot right back. "you don't want to explain this to me, but you can still walk and talk to me? Damn, you suck at multitasking." said Naruto. Shikamaru just looked confused, he knew Naruto wasn't a quick thinker, but Shikamaru always tried to discern the meaning of his statements. It kept him thinking.
The small group entered the class room. They noticed that there was no one there, and Naruto was beginning to feel betrayed, thinking it was a joke pulled on him by his friends. But before he could voice his feelings, the window next to Naruto shattered, and then a loud THUNK! Was heard behind them. They turned to look only to see a practice target, with a single neat hole in the center of it. And as if they weren't shocked enough, there was a sudden explosion in the middle of the room.
When the smoke cleared, there was a man standing there, wearing a large hat similar to the Hokage's, shielding his face. Before the spectacle could go on any further, Naruto yelled at the figure.
"Raigin! Knock it off already, I still cant believe you went through all this trouble to scare us." said Naruto. Raigin face vaulted, but immediately stood up, a depressed aura hanging over him.
"H-How did you know it was me?" he asked, a little shocked and disappointed.
Naruto just laughed. "I saw you practicing this yesterday. By the way, you didn't break a window yesterday." said Naruto, a sly grin on his face.
Raigin fumed. "that was a mistake. Some kid threw a rock at me thinking I was a monster or something stupid like that." said Raigin. Naruto just laughed at him.
Once everyone had calmed down, it was time to unveil the reason the students were taken out of the regular class. "now, I'm sure that most of you have an idea on why tour here." began Raigin. He shifted his gaze to Naruto. "But I think that one of you doesn't understand at all why he's here."
Naruto glared at Raigin. "are you tryin' to say something?" asked Naruto. Raigin just smirked. He continued with the introduction. " anyway, you are here because you are all enrolled for the sniper program of Konoha. For the next four years, we will be training you in marksmanship, spotting, and stealth." he finished.
As soon as he said sniper, everyone perked up a bit. Naruto had a gleam in his eye, Hinata was blushing and thinking, Shikamaru looked a little more attentive than normal, and ten-ten was hopping up and down. Raigin smiled at this, and he continued speaking.
"in this class, you will learn the art of the sniper. You will make your own weapons and ammo, and know how to kill an enemy without anyone noticing. However, you will still do standard ninja missions. You will be assigned into a team of shinobi like everyone else." explained Raigin. "however, the teams you are on will be unique. Instead of the standard four man squad, yours will be a five man squad."
Naruto was the first one to question this. Big shocker.
"why a five man squad Raigin?" asked Naruto. He thought he knew why, he just couldn't remember it.
Raigin answered. "that is because the teams will be assigned a sniper pair, a sniper and a spotter." this time it was Shikamaru who had a question.
"what is the difference between the two?" he asked in a bored tone. Raigin looked at him. "the difference between a sniper and a spotter is that the spotter looks for a target and the sniper shoots the target. The spotter does have a rifle, but their primary duty is to locate the target and estimate the range. The sniper has to take into account what the spotter says, and adjust his shot accordingly." explain Raigin.
There were no more questions after that. Raigin had answered all their questions in one go. They felt they were ready for training. Raigin though, had one more test for them to take.
"before we begin the class, please follow me outside to the new shooting range." said Raigin. The students complied, and a minute later they were at the range. When they got there, they noticed there was a large rifle with a scope on the ground, on top of a blanket. Before anyone could ask a question, Raigin spoke up.
"I have brought you here to test your skill. As you can see, there is a rifle in front of you. When it is your turn, you will look for the target that is hidden in the woods beyond the range. When you see the target, tell me, and I will give you clearance to fire. Everyone has one shot, and you cannot fire until I tell you to. Now, who wants to go first?"
Predictably, Naruto was the first to volunteer. He laid down on the blanket and shouldered the rifle. After taking minute to get comfortable, he began searching for the target. It was hard, as the target was fairly deep in the woods. After about five minutes of searching, Naruto found it. He called out to Raigin, who chambered a round in the rifle for him. He then gave Naruto permission to fire. After about 15 seconds, Naruto fired. The bullet tore through the woods, and nailed the target dead on, and the bang of metal hitting metal was heard for miles.
"holy crap, I did it!" yelled Naruto. "I actually hit it! That was easy!" he got up and looked at the others. "See guys? This is easy. If I could do it, so can you." said Naruto, striking a nice guy pose. Shikamaru looked a little unsure, while Ten-Ten was seething. She was the weapon mistress, not Naruto! Hinata was nervous. What if she wasn't good enough? What if she couldn't find the target? She kept thinking these thoughts until Raigin noticed and put a hand on her shoulder. This calmed her down a bit. He had that effect on kids.
"well done Naruto, right in the bull's eye." said Raigin, feeling proud. "now who's next?" and the test continued. Ten-Ten went next, and she was almost the same as Naruto, only she found the target faster. Shikamaru found the target quicker than both of them, and hit the target right outside the bull's eye. Hinata, to her surprise, found the target immediately. And when she took the shot, she hit right on the edge of the bull's eye.
Raigin had seen enough. He knew from the results who his teams were. He turned towards the students.
"I am very impressed with all of you. All of you found the target, and all of you hit it. And from your performance I have decided on these pairs." said Raigin, and everyone looked in anticipation.
Raigin continued. "team one will consist of Shikamaru and Ten-Ten, and team two will be Naruto and Hinata." he finished.
Right as he called the teams, Hinata fainted.
Right. theres chapter 3. once agian, thanks for the support, and i really apreciate everone who read the story. sorry about the long update though. if anyone has ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THE STORY, PLEASE ASK. IT MAY GIVE ME IDEAS. thank you and CIAO!!!