Next chapter up yay!
I am aware that this isn't the 8,000 words that was asked of me, but I decided that seeing as ho I haven't released this chapter when I said I would ages ago, I would just hand this out here, but expect every other chapter to be the correct length according to the challenge.
I'd just like to thank all readers of this fic. It seems to be more popular than my other stories, which I will be going back to at some point. Also, thanks for all the reviews so far.
I would also just like to take this to say that this will not be a harem. Harems fics are good only if they are written correctly. Yes, there will most likely be lemons in later chapters but it will only be with 1 person for Naruto. However, I see harems as degrading and wrong in general, yes if written extremely well then it can be good, but fucking for the sake of fucking is a big no.
Besides that, enjoy the fic.
'You can have all the power in the world, but it's what you do with it that makes you either a hero, or a monster'
16 Year old Naruto Uzumaki stood gob smacked in front of the Raikage, with A's assistant Mabui, and his best friend and ex-sensei Kirabi off to the side trying unsuccessfully to hold in the laughter coming from their mouths.
"So let me get this straight sensei. You want me to look after a bunch of genin? Did you smash your head when you rampaged through the office wall the other day? Because it sure as hell seems like it ya know!"
A sighed before saying to his ex-student, "Listen, Naruto, you are one of the best candidates for Jounin Sensei. Just look at your record." He pulls out a folder with Naruto's name on it. "Genin at 8, Chuunin at 9, Jounin at 11, and then you blew all my expectations out of the water when you joined our ANBU forces at 12, eventually becoming a Captain as you are now. But now I'm asking you, as a friend, you can't keep throwing yourself into high rank missions. I know you feel as if what happened was your fault but it couldn't be helped. Also, I'm sure that it would please Yugito a lot if you were at home more, as well as not being in life and death situations every single day! And on a lighter note, just think of all the D rank missions you could torture them with."
Naruto knew that A was just looking out for him, and Naruto knew that he kept pushing himself in ANBU, but what struck the hardest was the comment on him and Yugito. The woman meant everything to him. They had gotten together 4 years previous, when Naruto had first joined ANBU, and he could honestly say that he loved her with all his heart, but they hadn't seen each other for a while and they were growing a bit distant. Maybe taking the job would be beneficial for him if he actually went through with it "Fine sensei" were the only words he spoke to him before grabbing the piece of paper that held the time and date of when he was supposed to be at the academy, as well as his team number.
At Naruto's home
Naruto walked into his apartment with a light feeling in his body, knowing that his girlfriend would be very happy to know that she would be seeing more of him around.
"Naruto-kun" came a voice from the side of him. The woman he was looking at was, in his mind, a goddess in human form. The 19 year old woman was wearing a form fitting long sleeved black shirt, as well as knee length black shorts (looks pretty much the same as in canon, but imagine 10 years younger).
"I've got good news Yugi-chan" said Naruto with a smile. "I'm quitting ANBU" was all he could get out before being slammed to the ground by a yellow and black blur, before being kissed all over his face repeatedly while hearing something that sounded like 'thank you thank you thank you' over and over again.
As of this point Yugito Nii hadn't been happier than she had now since she started dating Naruto. He had finally given up his death wish of a job, and now he was telling her that it was because of herself that he quit.
"I just didn't want you to be hurting because of me Yugi-chan. I just thought that if I quit then everything would be better for us, and I could be with you more."
"Naruto you baka, I'm just happy that you will be around more." Thinking of this Yugito gets a predatory smirk on her face. "And it's been getting awfully lonely at night with out you Na-ru-to-kun."
Naruto raised an eyebrow before smirking and saying, "Well then Yugi-chan, let's rectify that shall we." (Nope, not doing a lemon. There will be one at some point, just not yet.)
2 hours later
Yugito sighed contentedly as Naruto held her in his arms. "So I'm gonna have my nice pillow a lot more am I then Naru-kun?" asked Yugito sweetly.
Naruto laughed, making Yugito shake a little, "Yeah, I guess you will Yugi-chan."
Yugito laughed at her boyfriend. She was always so happy when Naruto was with her. Being the Jinchuuriki of the Nibi no Nekomata wasn't always great for her. In the past she had suffered a lot, always being demanded to sleep with anyone and everyone, with people thinking that it would be amazing to sleep with, 'the demon whore'. But in the end she started to gain respect as one of Kumo's guardians, just like Kirabi had before her. She was only a young girl when Naruto turned up, and she was always jealous of him. He had more potential, a much stronger demon inside of him, and he always had the ear of both the Raikage and Kirabi. Then later on their lives, she was always hounded for being a 'demon slut' while he got all the praise.
Naruto however huts wanted to be her friend. But she always turned down his offer for friendship. Until the day she caught him training.
Flashback
"Why? Why do you keep trying? Why do you keep training when you could be resting? Why are you better than me?"
Naruto looked at her for a few minutes as tears poured down her face. "I keep doing this so that I'll always be strong, no matter what." Yugito looked up to met Naruto's pained look. "It wasn't always like this you know. I was never happy at Konoha. I was always alone, hated, weak. The people would hurt me when I had done nothing wrong, no one would take the time of day to even speak to me except the old man. That's why I keep doing this, that's why I keep going. Kirabi-sensei and A-sensei have given me a reason to be strong, a reason to live. And that is to protect my home no matter what."
They stared at each other in silence, with Yugito contemplating what she just heard. He was a weapon, just like her. He may always appear to be happy and free, but they both share the same pain. His demon was stronger, therefore he was further needed as a weapon, adding to the fact that if found, Konoha would want him back, forgetting about the Chuunin jacket he was wearing.
She licked her lips slightly, and had a hesitant look on her face. "I-Is the offer for friendship still available?" And as Naruto let out a sad smile, and a nod of his head, their future had just begun.
End flashback
Since that day they had met up nearly every day, went on missions with each other, until they just started dating. There was no drama or anything, they just woke up one morning, they ended up kissing each other and that was it.
Kumo Academy – 4 days later
"Samui, Omoi and Karui, you will be Team 9 (yes for that reason) and your Jounin sensei will be Naruto Uzumaki."
For the entirety of the graduation speech every academy graduate had been listening barely for their teams and instructors. Omoi had been contemplating whether or not he would destroy Kumo at some point after a long winded over exaggeration of mission theories. Karui was yelling at Omoi for this and proceeding to whack him over the head, while Samui had her chilled persona on and wondering if her team and sensei would be 'cool'. However, when hearing that their sensei was to be none other that Kumo's 'Yellow Kitsune', the prodigy Jinchuuriki and student of both 'Kumo's Guardian' and the Raikage himself threw everybody's mind into shut down. Even the usually stoic Samui had an expression of complete surprise on her face. They were being trained by a legend of a shinobi. Whose strength was said to be nearly as powerful as the Raikage himself. And he was going to train them. All three had the same train of thought going on in their heads at this, 'Holy Shit we're awesome'.
"Hey, is this the room for team placements?"
Everybody in the room looked towards the man who had just come into the room.
"Yes Naruto-sama it is."
"Please just Naruto, I don't really like all the formalities. Anyway, Team 9, I want you to meet me on the roof." And with that, the Naruto left.
The graduates were floored; their legend had just waltzed into the room, declared himself to Team 9, then left, all the while with an incredibly lazy look on his face. The team he wanted just hurried out of their seats in order to rush towards his position.
On the roof the three new genin stopped in front of Naruto before sitting on a bench opposite them. Here they got a good look at him.
He was wearing a standard Kumo grey Jounin vest, with a white and grey shirt underneath, as well as long grey trousers and grey shinobi sandals. His headband was set onto his forehead and it was white with the Kumo symbol placed in the middle. He also had a shuriken holster on his left leg and a pouch on his left thigh, as well as a holster on his back containing seven short swords. But what really defined him was the lazy grin on his face, along with the whisker marks adorning his cheeks and his golden spiked hair.
"Right, you three" he pointed at them "are to be my genin students until whenever. So that means I'll be training you whenever I can, as well as supervising you on your missions for as long as I can. There's usually some kind of test that you have to do so that you can be fully recognised as genin but in both couldn't think of one, and couldn't give a damn in doing it in the first place." Naruto said in a lazy tone. "I also have two rules I want you to follow. One, you are to follow my orders well, if you have a problem with it then take it up with me and I'll see what I can do. And two, as a team we are family. We are to look after each other and care for each other as if we are, that is my one true rule."
The three genin just looked at their sensei with shock, something they had been doing a lot that morning. "Sure thing sensei" said Karui.
"Good, now, how about a quick mission before we start on our training?"
"That sounds pretty good sensei" replied Omoi.
At the Raikage's office
"Hey, A sensei, I'm here with my team to let you know that I passed them" exclaimed Naruto with a grin.
"You just got lazy and decided to pass them regardless didn't you?" At the sheepish look on his ex-student's face he just sighed and said "fine Naruto, now I'm guessing that you want a mission for them don't you." As soon as he finished he noticed a glint in Naruto's eye that promised hell for his genin.
"Oh yes sensei. In fact, I think that they are so amazing that they should have the hardest D rank mission you have." Behind him his genin team were bug eyed. A hard mission, they were sweating like pigs. Mabui, behind the Raikage was stifling her laughter at this.
"Oh, if you're sure they're ready for this then go ahead and do it."
Naruto turned round to face his team. "OK my little genin friends. We're are going to embark onto the hardest D rank that Kumo has to offer." He had to withhold his grin when he saw their scared faces. "We" holding in his laughter, "are going to be…" he paused for effect; the tension in the room was starting to make the genin panic, "helping Kirabi-sensei with his rhymes." At this the Karui and Omoi face faulted while Samui's eye started to twitch violently.
"Oi, sensei" screamed Karui "what the hell kind of a mission is this. You build up all that hype about hard missions then give us this lame one. What the hell!"
"Now, now Karui I had to do this mission every other day because Kirabi was my sensei, and I'm telling you. Just doing this once is enough to scar someone for life. I had to do this for 3 years straight. So don't complain. And anyway you guys are newly minted genin, you cant just rush straight into exterminating bandits and the like. We will be doing that eventually when I feel that you can handle C ranks, but for now we work on the odd jobs that C and D ranks have to offer."
Outside
"So sensei" said Samui, this is a D rank correct?" Naruto nodded his head. "What are the stipulations for missions then?"
"Well I guess I could tell you" Naruto said. "Well as new genin, you will only be doing D ranks, which is mostly odd jobs around the village. They are the bane of all shinobi, especially this job, every single shinobi who participates in sensei's little rap help job never want to do it again, so don't worry, this is just a way for me to have some fun at your expense."
"But what if I give him the wrong idea? He might hold it against me for the rest of his life, then if I get him angry he may tell the Raikage to make me stop being a ninja, then…"
"Um, is he always like this?" Naruto asked the sane(ish) people.
Karui sighed, "Unfortunately yes."
"I see" he sweatdropped, "well anyway, after D ranks we hit the C ranks which are mostly small bandit removal or simple escort missions. You know, something to build up experience within genin. When you become Chuunin you are able to go on B rank missions. They are pretty much the same as C ranks but harder, something set to your skill levels. A ranks are for when you hit Jounin. These are hard missions, usually involving missing-nins and such, or even, as what happened to me once, Daimyo protection for a few weeks, anything can happen. Now S ranks are the hardest and usually pertain to either the village's overall security or the security of the nation itself, but these are left to the ANBU so no need to worry. Answered all your questions?"
"Yes sensei" came three voices simultaneously.
"Good, now we're nearly there so come on."
4 hours later – at team 9's training ground
"Well" stated Samui. "That was, not cool."
"Yeah sensei what was that!" screamed Karui.
"That, my dear little genin, is one of strongest shinobi in the elemental nations and the man who used to be my sensei when I was starting out as a shinobi."
"He's a wackjob" muttered Karui.
Naruto laughed lightly, "you'll find that the longer you are a shinobi, the more, hmm, interesting traits start to shine through I guess."
"What about you sensei" asked Omoi.
"What about me?"
"Urgh, never mind sensei."
"Annnnyyyyyyway, I think maybe I should start to train you. Now I need to have a taste of your skill set to see how far I need to push you and to train in what areas you should be most worthy in." He looked at the apprehensive genin with a smirk as his personality changed from the laidback person he was, to someone with that glint in their eye that promised pain. "I won't go too hard on you now. So, let's start!"
One beatdown later
"Hahaha, you guys lasted longer than I thought you would, but you failed to remember that even though I'm only a little older than you, I am still a Jounin for a reason ya know."
Three sets of eyes glared at him. "Now come on up, I got you some water and food over here." At this his team followed him to some boulders, where Naruto took out a storage scroll and unsealed what he promised.
"Oh man Naruto-sensei, what were you trying to do, kill us?" asked Omoi.
"Maybe, I might have got a little carried away after a couple of minutes" said Naruto as he looked at his only male student as he counted his missing teeth. "But still, I saw your skills as you were fighting my shadow clone" 'That was a shadow clone!' "And I can say that I'm honestly impressed. The fact that you guys suck so much ass right now doesn't matter." Queue angry glares. "However I can see that you guys will be great someday so here is how its going to work from here on out. I really want you to get real world experience but before you do that you need to be thoroughly trained. Not only do you need the skills to survive, but you also need to have a certain amount of D ranks successfully completed before you can even think of going onto a C rank."
As his team were eating they began contemplating their sensei. Outside of a battle he was an easy going, fun loving and incredibly lazy person. Yet, even though they had only been doing sparring, his persona changed completely. It was almost as it someone had hit some kind of a switch that turned him into a ruthless aggressive killing machine.
Naruto spoke up when they were finished. "Now, I can honestly say that I am incredibly impressed with you all. You all show incredible promise as shinobi and in particular with the blade, which is lucky, because I happen to be an expert user in kenjutsu, and I'm sure that you've heard of the sword-style used by both myself and my sensei." His student looked on with expressions of slight pride at his words, causing Naruto to chuckle slightly. "I know that you all have some Lightning Jutsu as per the set requirement of graduation, and if I concentrate on your chakra you expelled during the spar, as well as how much you have now, I'd say that you possess the generic amount set for high level Chuunin, except you Samui, yours is actually on par with a low level Jounin. Now it's apparently for these purposes, your chakra levels, stamina's, proficiency with blades and your overall academy scores that I was set to be your sensei."
"So are you going to start training us sensei?" asked Karui.
Naruto let out a soft laugh, "Why yes Karui-chan, I am."
3 months later
The past 3 months had gone by extremely quick for Naruto and his team. The week previous they had finally finished the tenth D rank mission to allow them to qualify for C ranks, and they had just gotten back from a 3 hour trip to destroy one of the few bandit camps in the country, so few because of their fear of Kumo shinobi. In this mission, Naruto had made sure that they had gotten their first kills early on in their C ranks. After they had done their kill, Naruto had made sure to just wipe them out quickly, so as to let them time to contemplate on what they had done so easily. And to say the genin were awed would be an understatement, they got to see his 7 Swords sword style and it looked like a pure whirring dance of death, and all three of them asked to learn it, to which he replied that it was to only be taught to Jinchuuriki's due to the chakra maintenance in order to not get dizzy from the spinning, as well as the stamina cost. They were a bit annoyed at this, but after promising them to teach them how to emulate his elemental taijutsu style they relented.
Starting off their training from when he got his team had been easy for Naruto, as he had three incredibly talented students who, even if they didn't show it, adored him. He was like a big brother to them rather than a strict sensei. He drilled teamwork into them from the first day, claiming that he would rather have a unified group with astounding teamwork and less power behind them, rather than weak teamwork and amazing individual skills. Then he went on to improve their individual skills as they began their C ranks. And it was further proven how good a sensei Naruto actually was.
Really good news was given towards Naruto and Yugito however, when two months after getting his genin team; it was found that Yugito was pregnant. At first neither of them moved when the doctor told them. And then Yugito decided to chase Naruto around all of Kumo screaming at him while throwing kunai, before she herself calmed down and began to feel happy about it. Sure, she and Naruto had thought about a child, seeing as how both were orphans, and had next to no love growing up, they both wanted it. However she was beginning to drive Naruto insane, but he didn't care in the end.
But here they were in the Raikage's office, waiting to get another C rank mission. A just looked at the three shinobi and genin and sighed, he knew that Naruto wanted his team to have a lot of experience. he had faith in his student, and expected him to produce fine results, but from what he told him before they went on their last mission shocked him, as he had been told of their skill, which were apparently already at high Chuunin levels.
He also had a perfect mission for Naruto, seeing as how, during with both of their continued communication with the Sandaime Hokage, a single Kumo team had been invited to the Chuunin exams within Konoha that year. And as such, it was expected that it would be team 9 that would venture into the village and partake in the exam. Not only that, but it was to be the beginning of negotiations to a fully fledged alliance between the villages to show cooperation between them. Not only that, but for approximately 6 months Team 9 and Yugito would need to stay within Konoha, in order to have the seal monitored for Yugito during her eventual childbirth. And only Jiraiya of the Sannin could be considered that expert in seals, and trusted in the end, to do so.
But first, a mission had gone south in a country bordering Fire Country, but on the way to Konoha via Kumo. Although ranked A, due to the nature of the mission, the team has experienced, strong genin involved, as well as Naruto. Not to mention the Konoha team that had requested back up who will be there to help out.
"Team 9!" grunted A, "I have another mission here for you to take before you set off for whatever the hell you were doing before Naruto."
"Um, great?" asked a confused Naruto.
A sighed, "You have an A rank mission to Wave Country to back up a Konoha Genin team, who's mission went wrong."
The room was silent as Naruto was heard gritting his teeth, everyone knew why, as Naruto was not one to hold back in his verbal bashing and general hatred of all things Leaf related, barring a couple of things of course.
"That's not all, in fact, we have been given an invite for a single Kumo team to enter the Chuunin exams based at Konoha this year, and I'm nominating your team for this Naruto." He paused to gain his reaction as his ex-student took the scroll from him.
Naruto read the scroll before looking up and sighing. "Zabuza Momochi, Demon Hidden in the Mist eh? How about I show him what a real demon is like eh sensei." He had a thoughtful look on his face for a second before smirking at his Raikage, who, like many others, had come to not want to be within a hundred mile radius of the one who had that expression on his face. "Maybe this wont be as bad as I originally thought." He turned around to face his genin team who were standing lazily around behind him. "Okay, team 9, we are going to meet at the gates in 3 hours, say your goodbyes and pack for a long time because we are going to be out of Kumo for a bit."
"What do you mean sensei?" asked Samui.
"We are going on an A rank mission for now," his genin hissed, "Don't worry, you three wont be doing anything. Zabuza Momochi, Im sure you've heard of him, will be taken down by me. After that we head with the Konoha team to their village, where you lot will become Chuunin at their exams because you three are fucking awesome and because Im your teacher." His passion was starting to grow a bit, and his team, as well as A and Mabui were getting incredibly large sweatdrops on their heads. Sometimes it was hard to remember that underneath all those layers of laziness is someone who can be quite hot headed. "Then, during one of the final weeks of the exams, Yugito-chan will come over with A-sensei here, due to her problem, and the five of us will stay in the Leaf in order to help build up for an alliance, while A-sensei her will be gallivanting back here. While I have to deal with an incredibly cranky, hormonal, not to mention batshit crazy girlfriend. And I swear, if any of you here tell her that then I will personally kill you slowly, and painfully. And I'm screwed aren't I? Because she's just outside the room and can hear everything that I just said." 5 nods followed. "Ah."
The door opened slowly to reveal a smiling Yugito. It would have been perfect for anyone to see, except for the fact that Naruto recognised it and the impending beat down that he would most likely suffer.
Hurriedly he turned to his genin and rushed out, "See you at the gates by!" Then he jumped out of the window head first, followed by an angry girlfriend, screaming curses at him. Left behind in the office, everyone just sighed and said their goodbyes before they left.
"I swear that that boy will be the death of me," groaned A, who then groaned even more when Mabui shoved a load of paperwork onto his desk. "Sometimes I wonder why I even bothered to take this job" he muttered, before looking at his paperwork distastefully, wishing it would just disappear.
Later on, team 9 could be found by the gates of Kumo, ready and waiting to set out on their newest C/A rank mission. Before they left, the Raikage stood before the four of his shinobi, where he kept thinking back to something his advisory council had brought up, and any line of succession. In all there were four candidates, but each one would, in his opinion, be disastrous. He was just thankful, a bit, that he still had a lot left in him yet.
He was the strongest in the village, there was no doubt about that, and next strongest would be his brother, Kirabi. The less said about any way shape or form he would become Kage after him was immediately shot down. Yugito was powerful, but she didn't have any aspirations besides just being a shinobi of Kumo, and now, having her and Naruto's child. Naruto himself just did whatever came to him, and while A thought that he would be a good Raikage, Naruto expressly told him that he didn't care what happened as long as he didn't have to do much paperwork, therefore, he remember being told, that Kageship was a big no go. Darui would probably be the next one, he was strong, very strong, and had a good head on him A mused, very lazy though, even more so than Naruto during his laziness.
The genin of the team were standing around talking to each other while waiting to leave, and Naruto was busy saying goodbye to Yugito. A sighed at his shinobi, "Alright Team 9, don't fuck this up, and remember, make Kumo proud."
Naruto and his team nodded, before Naruto kissed Yugito deeply, then turned around and called out, "Come on then Team, we got a long way to travel before we get to Wave Country, so let's get going." And with that, they jumped away to begin the start of their great journey.
Yes I skipped straight to Naruto claiming his genin team. It seems soooooooo boring when I have to read all about training in fanfics so I decided to skip straight ahead to Jounin sensei. Yay fun times. And yes, Yugito is pregnant really early on, and yes, they are at Wave. At first I thought about having this set later on in the fic, but I changed my mind, because I have had an excellent idea for later. And for wave, well that's just something that I wanted to do in the first place.
And I guess it seems rushed, mainly because everything's happening so quickly, but I just want to get everything out of the way quick so that I can move on to my own original arcs within Kumo etc. I'm still undecided as to whether or not I should have some things involved later, but I still hope you enjoy reading this.
Til next time.