A Set of Broken Blades
By
Ragnorokrising
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Chapter Two: Genin
Naruto stared at the paper in front of him, triple checking the answers. Walking up the Mizuki and Iruka, he handed in the paper and went back to his seat as Shino and Shikamaru handed in their papers. As the last person, Kiba, handed in the test, Iruka stood up. "We will now move onto the Taijutsu/Ninjutsu tests." as one, the group stood up and left the academy, going to the practice field. "All you have to do is last ten minutes in a battle, using Taijutsu and Ninjutsu." Naruto walked onto the field and the rest of the class shied away from him.
Sasuke Uchiha, being from such an arrogant upraising, walked onto the field, making the girls swoon. "If you outlast the battle time, you tie, if one of you wins the battle before that, they win instant graduation." Sasuke started the match. Throwing several kunai knives, he started a chain of seals, finishing on tiger and bringing a perfect O made from his fingers up to his lips. Naruto didn't move, feeling the familiar pulse of youki as his wall of hardened ash only a ANBU captain could break with a high speed power move rose to his chest, stopping the metal weapons.
Naruto raised his hand as a boulder of fire shot towards him. He flicked his wrist upward, sending the fire ball shooting into the air. Sasuke bombarded his shield of ash with metal weapons for a whole minute until his pouch was empty. Naruto crossed his arms as a fist of ash punched Sasuke. Then a medium sized wave cocooned him as Naruto let a blood crazed smile adorn his face. Spreading his fingers wide, he called out "Ninja Art: Ash Coffin!"
"Naruto! Stop it right now!" screamed a new voice. Naruto closed his hand and hardened the ash with Youki as quick as possible. Unfortunately, a white and yellow blur dashed passed Naruto and sliced the ash into pieces while a second one grabbed Naruto's hand and pulled open the hand. An older version of Naruto in a Jounin outfit in a flaming edged cloak hauled Sasuke to Iruka and disappeared quickly in a small puff of smoke.
"Father, why have you stopped me?"
"You were going to kill the last Uchiha in the village!" turning his head towards Iruka, he caught a bottle of pills flying through the air and gave two to Naruto.
"Thank you Father." he gulped down the pills and the ash disappeared into four small cylinders on his belt.
"Iruka, what does he need to do for the test to be graduated?"
"He needs to…to show us his abilities with weapons." Naruto pulled out a long strand of ninja wire with twenty kunai knives and tossed it at the training log, making it swirl around and cut into the wood. Iruka nodded to Minato and the Kage disappeared with his son in a swirl of leaves.
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Appearing in the Kage office, Minato sighed deeply and dropped into the chair behind the desk. "Naruto, why do you keep doing this stuff?" Naruto shrugged and pulled out a block of wood, shooting a swirl of Youki into the center that turned the brown rectangle into floating ash. Using a slight mental command, he made the ash go into an empty cylinder.
"I just wanted to get the top spot in the class."
"You're already top spot!"
"Not by an eight point margin." Minato sweat dropped but all the same, he spun around and opened a draw in the desk. He pulled out a wooden case and handed it to Naruto.
"Even if you nearly killed a classmate, I promised your mother I would give you this when you became a Genin." Naruto took the box and opened it, glancing at the material inside, letting his eyes wander over two seals in the roof. He picked up the headband inside the box first.
"Why does it say 'ash'?" he settled his gaze on the kanji for 'ash' at the center of the metal then to the ash gray material. Two village symbols, one of Konoha and one of Whirlpool, adorned it as well and he noticed a summoning seal inside the material, right behind the plate. "And what's with the summoning seal?"
"Well, it says 'ash' because from this point on you are Naruto of the Ash and the summoning seal is incase you ever get caught in a battle you can't handle. You but a small amount of chakra into it and a…special effect my sensei and I rigged up appears." raising an eyebrow, Naruto tied on the head band on his head. Then he opened the first seal. A folded up dark gray trench coat appeared on the floor and he could just make out the words on the side.
Naruto of the Ash
He picked it up and placed it around his usual black muscle shirt. It came down to the right height and fit perfectly. He felt a small slot inside the sleeve for a hidden knife or vial of poison. He bowed to his father. "Thank you for the gift." Minato just smiled and gestured to unseal the next seal. With a pulse of chakra, he stared at the small belt, which had a shrunken version of a storage seal s its buckle.
"The seal actually works to. You could store entire houses in there to burn for you attack." a devious smirk appeared on Naruto's face as he took off his current belt and replaced it with this one, exchanging the containers as well. Bowing once more, he disappeared in a swirl of ash and smoke.
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Naruto appeared a few seconds before Iruka left the academy. "Iruka-sensei, I have a request."
"Of course Naruto, how may I help you?" looking at the roster in Iruka's hands, he let the slightest upturn of the lips show.
"I want to choose my teammates." Iruka looked apprehensively at the clip board.
"Well, I had you paired with Hinata and Kiba, but-"
"No, I want Shikamaru Nara and Sasuke Uchiha." he turned to leave as Iruka stuttered, confused and disoriented.
"I'm afraid Sasuke wouldn't agree with that." Naruto turned his head and chuckled! And not an insane chuckle, a real, genuine chuckle.
"I'm not giving him an option. Put Hinata and Kiba with Shino, and Choji with Ino and Sakura."
"What about you sensei?" a line of ash swallowed the board and pulled it over to Naruto. Scanning it quickly, he circled his possible teammates and a fourth name, giving Iruka back the clipboard. He walked away, a head of a fox made from ash winking at him. Iruka glanced at the name, perplexed.
"Why would he want Asuma Sarutobi?"