Naruto: Alone...
Wow... at this rate this story will be even more popular than ANY of my other stories. This will probably be the story I will go down in fan fiction history with...
Anyway, off that subject and onto a more... pressing one...
(Stabs self in eyes with knives while bathing in bathtub filled with ice-cold holy water) Well that last chapter of the Naruto Manga was a Fan Girl's/Gay's chapter wasn't it? But, Kishimoto's going to have to do a lot more to cease the process of this manga "jumping the shark" (Colorful metaphor used whenever a tv show's or story's quality begins dropping greatly).
Anyway, onto the responding to reviewers!;
shikamaru the nerd- No, I refuse to do that. I do that and this story follows the fan fiction cliche of 'Naruto leaves Konoha, then comes back and pwns everyone'.
pryo-chan the dragon king- And you most likely will, and you most likely will.
VFSnake- ...Think of the Hokage as the President of the U.S. His powers are restricted, except when dealing with military dealings (so he 'could' have demoted Itachi with no good reasons), anything else requires the consent of the Senate (or in this case, the council of Konoha).
Angel of Chaos- ...What?
Jimmy Bonez- Yeah, its called irony.
faern- Yeah, I like doing stuff like that.
uzukun7- Well... I'm going to try to make as much backstory as possible.
keebler-elmo- Yeah, depressing chapters are less popular than happy ones.
badboy0011- Well, if you think of the reasons Iruka gave as an explanation for Naruto's limp, it could also easily explain any blood.
Alex- Well Alex... its called not showing all the cards up your sleeves.
TopQuark- Well in the Anime, Naruto was given money for food, home, and other things. Now Naruto will be more driven in order to succeed so he can have a better life, because those things aren't just given to him anymore.
Dumbledork- Once again, cliche.
ZoneshifterD- Well man, I'm sorry, and I think I mostly fixed that. Anyway, I agree with you man, I agree with you... and you're right, ladies do love the tails... grrrr.
kingdom219- Well he'll be street smart, but not book smart... for the most part.
DragonMan180- Well, he's getting lessons from Iruka so that'll do.
dragon-cloud16- Well.. maybe and maybe not...
FictionReader98- Yeah, we'll burn that bridge when we come to it.
Amanthoros- If they were big enough...
Akitesyu- Well thank you, but I will not reveal too much about the future.
Alright then, now let's get onto the next chapter of Naruto: Alone, trust me, it won't be as depressing, and I think you guys will like the Omake at the end! Also, the inspiration for most of this chapter came from an unexpected snow storm we had a while back, please enjoy.
Chapter 6: Winter in Konoha?!
Five Months Since Last Chapter
It was a cool, January night in Konoha, and the citizens were out on the streets doing there normal routines. Suddenly, white, crystal objects began falling from the sky. It was snowing, a very rare occurence in Konoha. You see, there's a reason why Konoha is in 'The Land of Fire' and that's because, normally, it hardly ever snows. Now I could get into this big discussion about Konoha being the farthest south of all the nations, and it having very few large bodies of water which would allow it to snow often like in Kiri, but hey that would bore you to death now wouldn't it?
Anyway, it snowed throughout the entire night, and by morning all of Konoha was covered in not a sheet, not a pillow, but a blanket of snow. People were out on the streets, shoveling snow off of the roads, or trying to save any produce they were selling from the cold stuff. Academy children, who normally would have classes at the Academy, were out playing in the white stuff. Since snow was such a rare thing in Konoha, Academy children would normally be excused from classes to play. Playing games of ninja with snowballs instead of wooden kunai and wooden shuriken.
Now children weren't the only ones who enjoyed a winter wonderland. Shinobi of Konoha also enjoyed spending time in the crystalized clouds of fluff. Some Shinobi would use snowballs instead of kunai to practice their accuracy, while others, specifically ones in green spandex, would make snowmen in the shape of a certain silver-haired, cycloptic ninja, and proceed to practice Taijutsu on them, practically melting them before he touched them with his 'GLORIOUS, WINTER-TIME, FLAMES OF YOUTH'.
Other Shinobi saw the snow as a good method for practicing water style jutsu. But once again, these two groups aren't the only ones who enjoy the winter wonderland that was brought to them every few years. Citizens also loved the snowy weather. Many families would make time to take their children out and teach them winter games, like sleding, snowball fighting, and snowman building. While other civilians would turn the weather into a money making buisness by selling 'snowcones', and other would sell sleds they had made for such occasions.
Also, suprisingly, the snow made for a very... romantic background for people. While people from other countries thought that spring and flowers were more romantic, people from Konoha, who were around the stuff so often that they would barely even notice it, thought winter and snow was beautiful. Many older couples enjoying the winter wonderland in each others arms, while younger ones would go out into the woods and... well let's say that what they did was so hot that it melted the snow around them in an instant, and almost caused the grass underneath the snow to burst into flames.
Even the Hokage, an old man, who by all means should hate the snow because of arthritis pains, loved the white weather, and would take the day off from his office job to enjoy the rare occurence.
Yes everyone in Konoha liked the snow a lot... but Naruto Uzumaki, who lived in his hide out in Konoha, did not. Now why does he hate the snow, well to be honest nobody does know. It could be that his ninja sandals were too big, or that his hair would freeze over, like a wig. But I think the most likely reason of all, was that his hypothalmus gland was three sizes too small. But whatever the reason, his gland or his frozen 'wig', he sat in his hide out with a blanket around him, shivering as if he only wore the leaf of a fig.
"HEY WOULD YOU STOP ALL THAT RHYMING!" Naruto suddenly shouted at the narrator.
"Oh I'm sorry." The narrator said as he cleared his throat. "Now on with the chapter." The narrator said as his voice slowly faded out of existence.
The now six-year old Naruto sat in the middle of his hide out, though he had a blanket around his shoulder and was beside a campfire, he was shivering widly. He sat there, shivering and every so often he would sneeze. How he hated the snow, and how he hated the cold. The snow took away every advantage he had in the clear, non-snowy days. He could not sneak around, cause nothing he had was white, he stuck out like a sore thumb anywhere. Also, all of the animals WERE hidden in the snow, so hunting was hard. His easy source of water, for drinking and bathing, was frozen over, or too cold to even get into.
"G-G-G-G-God... da-da-da-da-dammit. Its s-s-s-s-s-so... co-co-co-co-co-cold." Naruto stuttered out from the cold as he sneezed, and rubbed his nose, which was turning red. "I ha-ha-ha-hate the co-co-cold..." Naruto said as he sneezed again. "And I h-h-ha-ha-hate snow..." Sneezing again, Naruto continued his rant. "I ca-ca-can't go an-an-an-anywhere cause I'd b-b-b-be exposed..." Naruto said as he sneezed once more. "ITS COLD!" Naruto shouted as he sneezed three times.
"I-I-I can ba-barely hu-hu-hunt.. and when I-I-I-I do ca-ca-catch something... I CAN'T COOK IT!!!" Naruto shouted as we see that he's roasting a piece of rabbit meat... well roasted would be the word that would be used... had the meat not been completely frozen. So I guess you could say that he was thawing a piece of rabbit meat... over a few embers... everytime he made a fire, the surrounding snow would melt, and the water would put the fire out. "And... ITS COLD!!!" Naruto shouted again as he sneezed five times.
"I c-c-c-ca-ca-can't bathe... CAUSE THE FREAKIN RIVER CAN'T STAY A RIVER!!! AND ITS COLD!!!" Naruto shouted as went on a sneezing spree. Naruto sat there for a second, his little rant warmed him up a little bit, but only for a little while. Naruto snorted a little bit, the mucus in his nose building up again. He sneezed again, and rubbed his nose as he tried to take a bite out of the frozen rabbit meat. "O-O-O-O-OWW..." Naruto said as he put the rabbit meat back over the fire.
Naruto remembered this morning, he had woken up and found the snow covering the entire ground. He hated snow, and today was looking FOWARD to going to the Academy. For the past five months Naruto had been reading, and reading, and reading. He hated it, hated it, hated it. And he also had those lessons from Iruka for the first three months. However at the end of the third month, he learned, mostly... MOSTLY... It was so freaking boring, but he put up with it, because he knew that the only way to get the hell out of the hell whole called his hide out. But, so far, nothing had been as Sarutobi said it would be.
Sarutobi said that he would meet kids his age... no one would talk to him. Either they thought he was weird, or their parents told them not to come near him... or maybe even a combination of the two. Though he didn't really know the kids, he knew mostly about them. There was that one weird kid with the mutt that bit him that he shaved that sat right next to him, they were Kiba Inuzuka and Akamaru. There was a kind of chemistry between them... that caused them to absolutely hate each others guts. Naruto also thought that mutt Akamaru was freakin' annoying too!
I mean it was a little dog, and you know how annoying little dogs are when they barks... its not 'ruff ruff' kinda bark, its a 'ipe ipe ipe' kinda bark... the annoying kind. They absolutely hated each other, but when Naruto would study, Kiba would try to distract him, but it was also vice-cersa. Then there was the kid on the other side of him, the lazy one with the spikey pony-tail, Shikamaru Nara. Naruto never really talked to him, and he never even talked to Naruto. So Naruto, never really had any problems with him, and he didn't know a thing about him.
Then there was this kid with spikey black hair who always wore glasses and this trench coat, Shino Aburame. They never really talked either, but he knew that he didn't like him. He didn't know how he could tell... but for some reason... whenever he got near him he heard this buzzing sound, and when he would get really close, it would get louder, and louder, and louder. Something about that just told him 'stay away'! Then there was the plump one... with all of that food he always had... no, stop drooling! Anyway, his name was Chouji Akimichi, and he has these weirdo swirls on his cheeks.
And... he eats... that's all Naruto knew. Then there are these two girls, one's blonde and the other has pink hair that she covers her forehead with... why she covers it I don't know. Anyway that Ino girl is really popular, and the other one... well I don't know too much about her, but she crys a lot... maybe someone died. Anyway, Naruto didn't talk to either one at all, Ino because he couldn't even get close to her without being pushed around by her friends, and Sakura, well he didn't know her.
Then there's Hinata Hyuga... like a few others Naruto didn't know a thing about her... except that she has those eyes. Their kinda cool... but weird too. Anyway that brings me to the final one he knows, Sasuke Uchiha. Naruto figured out that his brother is the one that chased me that one day. He smiles quite a bit, but he avoids Naruto (remember this is a while before the massacre). Anyway, he hasn't really talked to anyone, AND THERE'S NO SUPER COOL NINJA TRAINING! But, Iruka said that they would get a suprise today, and Naruto was a little anxious... but it snowed... and now he had to wait.
And what's worse is that he walked ALL THE WAY to the Academy, in the snow, and then he had to walk ALL THE WAY back to his hide out, in the snow, after he figured out that it was closed for the day... which only took him about an HOUR OF STANDING OUT IN THE SNOW TO FIGURE OUT!!! Naruto sneezed some more, and continued trying to warm up the meat. Naruto took another bite, and when Naruto could finally bite through it he began devouring the meat.
The Seal
Inside the complex sewers that was Naruto's mindscape... well it was blue, and the water was frozen. We hear sneezes coming from somewhere in the sewer, the sneezes being loud and deep. As we travel through we arrive at the seal, which has icicles hanging off of it. We check inside to see Kyuubi, THE GREAT NINE-TAILED FOX, shaking like a leaf in the wind, and with icicles handing out of his nose. "ACHOOOOO!" The great Kyuubi sneezed as he used one of his tails to slick the icicles hanging out of his nose away.
"Gods be damned.,... THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE THE LAND OF FIRE! NOT THE LAND OF ING SNOWY WINTERS!!!! AAACHOOOOOOOO!!!" Kyuubi shouted as he continued sneezing and shivering. "I hate the cold... it freezes my fur..." Kyuubi said as we saw that, indeed, his fur was frozen in place. "I am supposed to be a biju of fire... I HATE THE COLD!!! AAAAAAAAACHOOOOOOOOO!!!" Kyuubi sneezed again as he sat there, continuing to shake like there was no tomorrow.
Naruto's Hide Out
Naruto sat in his hide out a good five minutes after finishing the, partially cooked, rabbit meat. Naruto sat there, just shivering... untilhe just got sick of sitting around and being cold. "Da-da-dammit, I do enough sitting at the Academy... I-I-I'm going to ex-ex-excersize... at least it will warm me up..." Naruto said as he ran to his stack of clothes and put on another jacket (he already had two on, might as well put on a third one). "There we go, now to go running." Naruto said out loud to himself as he began going at a jogging pace.
Konoha Park
Sarutobi was enjoying this wonderous day. There was white snow covering the normally green trees, and the bare roads of Konoha. Though the flowers were no longer in bloom, most of them not even being alive anymore, the snow made for a wonderful background in the normally green Konoha. He took a deep breathe of the cool air, and expelled it, feeling the slight tingle from the cold air. Sarutobi took out his pipe and lit it up, and began walking again before he heard the sound of snow crunching behind him.
He turned to look behind him, and smiled to see Naruto running towards him. Sarutobi waved while smiling, and when Naruto saw him he did the same, only he kept on running, and he slipped on some ice that was on the Park's path, and since he didn't exactly have his arms to balance him out so... "OW!" Naruto shouted as he landed flat on his ass. Sarutobi chuckled a bit as Naruto slowly stood up, rubbing his sore, cold rear-end. Sarutobi walked over to him, and they both smiled at each other.
"Well hello there Naruto, decided to take a walk on this fine, snowy day?" Sarutobi said as Naruto raised an eyebrow at him.
"Fine? What's so good about this white crap?!" Naruto said as Sarutobi raised a eyebrow back at Naruto.
"You couldn't possibly mean that Naruto, I mean this snow doesn't come very often, many people enjoy it." Sarutobi said as Naruto looked a bit shocked.
"People actually enjoy this stuff?" Naruto said as Sarutobi chuckled.
"Naruto, you can't honestly tell me that you've never played in the snow before." Sarutobi said as Naruto kind of stared at him. "You have played in the snow before right?" Sarutobi said as Naruto just kept on staring at him with a 'I don't have a clue what you're talking about' look. "You're beng serious aren't you?" Sarutobi said as Naruto nodded and Sarutobi kind of chuckled. "Well come on then, its my day off, I might as well teach you." Sarutobi said as Naruto raised an eyebrow.
"Teach me what?" Naruto said as Sarutobi ruffled his hair.
"To enjoy this kind of weather." Sarutobi said as Naruto almost began laughing at such a crazy idea. Him, enjoy the snow? Hell would probably freeze over before he began enjoying the snow. But Naruto decided to humor the old man and followed him. Naruto and Sarutobi walked out into the middle of the woods, and Sarutobi turned around to face Naruto, a smile upon his old, wrinkled face. Then suddenly, he pointed behind Naruto with widened eyes. "Hey look! Its a deer with a broken leg caught in the bushes!" Sarutobi shouted as Naruto spun around, pulling out a kunai while drooling like crazy.
"WHERE!" Naruto shouted as he looked around for the prey. Then suddenly, something unexpected happened... he got nailed in the back of his head with some slushy ball of crap, getting hit so hard that he fell to the ground. When Naruto stood back up, he felt the back of his head, brought some of the slushy crap into his hand, and looked at it. "Snow?" Naruto said as he turned around to see the aged Hokage giving him a wide grin, while tossing a ball of snow up and down in his hand.
"And yet another falls to the alure of a meal." Sarutobi said jokingly as Naruto got back up and rubbed the back of his head.
"What the hell was that old man!?" Naruto shouted as Sarutobi threw another ball of snow, only this time it hit him in his face.
"What did I tell you about language Naruto?" Sarutobi said as Naruto wipped the snow off of his face. "And as for what I threw at you, it is called a snowball. You see you make a snowball by bending down." Sarutobi said as he bent over. "Getting some snow." Sarutobi said as he picked up a large pile of snow. "Packing it together." Sarutobi said as he packed the snow and Naruto watched, completely entranced by this 'snowball'. "And then you..." Sarutobi said as he through yet another snowball at Naruto, and began laughing at his own antics.
"You think you're so smart old man!?" Naruto shouted as he scooped up some snow, made it into a ball, and threw it at Sarutobi, who just leaned to the side to dodge it.
"Sorry Naruto, but you'll have to..." Sarutobi began before he got nailed in the face by a snowball thrown by Naruto. Sarutobi blinked and saw that Naruto was cracking his neck and hands before...
"RRRRRRRAAAAAAAAWWWWWWRRRRRR!" Naruto shouted as he began throwing snowball, after snowball, after snowball at Sarutobi. And Sarutobi was struck time and time again, but eventually the 'flurry' of snowballs became an entire freaking avalanche. Several snowballs were thrown at Sarutobi, so much so that he was eventually covered in snow, all except for his Hokage hat and pipe. Sarutobi looked on in shock at Naruto and his skills with snow, also Naruto had used so much snow, that the area around him was completely bare. "Now what have ya got to say to that old man!?" Naruto shouted as Sarutobi smirked underneath all of the snow. Sarutobi perked up his amazing ninja hearing, and heard the sound of kids in the nearby section of the woods, and not just any kids...
"What do I have to say to that Naruto?" Sarutobi said as he shook off the snow and walked towards Naruto who was smirking his little heart out. "Well all I have to say is..." He said as he suddenly picked Naruto up by the jacket with both hands. "HAVE FUN!" Sarutobi said as he spun around three times, and threw Naruto towards the area he had heard the, as he called it, 'Naruto Uzumaki 'Street Fox' Fan Club'. "Well that's my good deed for the day." Sarutobi said as he took a deep drag of his pipe and then began walking again.
"DAAAAAAAAAAMN YOOOOUUU OOOOLD MAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNN!" Could be heard as Naruto flew through the sky. Meanwhile, in another clearing, children of the upper-class were playing around in the snow. We see a younger Rock Lee, running up to a younger Tenten, and was about to say something before... "AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!" A blur screamed before...
CRASH
The blur landed head first into the snow, going so deep into it that only his legs stuck out of the snow. The children sweat dropped at this, and began to slowly walk towards the pair of legs that were sticking out of the ground. Lee and Tenten ended up being the ones 'chosen' to pull whatever the hell it was out of the ground, and see what it was. They each got a leg, and began pulling on each leg, and eventually they pulled Naruto out of the ground. Naruto shook around a few times to get the snow out of his hair, before meeting the yes of the kids who were looking at him with widened eyes and slacked jaws. "Ummm... hi." Naruto said as suddenly he found himself surrounded by every second year in the clearing.
"Oh my God its you! The Street Fox!" One kid shouted as Naruto kind of backed up. "Are you here to play with us?!" Another shouted before someone tapped his shoulder. Naruto turned around to see Tenten.
"Hey Naruto, remember me?" Tenten asked as Naruto tapped his chin for a second.
"Oh yeah, you're the girl that I gave that signed kunai to." Naruto said as she shook her head up and down several times. "By the way what did you do with it?" Naruto asked as Tenten got a thoughtful look on her face.
'I put it in a case so I could preserve it.' Tenten thought as she smiled.
"Oh you know, just keeping it around, its going to be worth a lot one day!" Tenten said as Naruto smiled before he felt another person tap him on the shoulder. Naruto turned around this time and saw the big eyebrowed, bug-eyed kid that had those flames in his eyes a few months ago.
"Hello Street Fox, my name is Rock Lee!" Lee almost shouted as Naruto stared at this kids eyebrows.
'They look like caterpillars...' Naruto thought as suddenly a snow flake fell onto one of Lee's eyebrows, causing it to move around a bit as Naruto kept on staring with even wider eyes. 'Maybe they are caterpillars...' Naruto thought as Lee continued speaking.
"And I would like to ask you something!" Lee said as Naruto raised his eyebrow.
"Okay... shoot." Naruto said as Lee nodded.
"A year ago, during a practice session, I, as well as everyone else, discovered that I am unable to use either Ninjutsu, or Genjutsu... you know what those are correct?" Lee asked as Naruto nodded. Iruka had taught everyone a little bit about Ninjutsu and Genjutsu, they haven't taught them a thing about how to use them, but he knew what they were. "Anyway, I wondering, do you think I have the ability to become an excellent ninja with just Taijutsu!" Lee said as everyone began chuckling around him.
"Sure." Naruto said as everyone stopped chuckling and looked at Naruto. "I mean I know no Ninjutsu or Genjutsu, and look at me. If you get fast enough and strong enough, you may be able to become a ninja, I'm sure." Naruto said as everyone's eyes went wide and they all stared at Naruto. "What?" Naruto asked as Lee suddenly started crying.
"Thank you for your words of encouragement Street Fox! I promise that I will become an excellent ninja!" Lee shouted as he began doing kicks in to the air. "I will train my hardest, first I will start by running five laps around the Academy without stopping, and if I cannot do that I will do one-hundred push-ups, and if I cannot do that..." Lee ranted on as everyone just stared at him with a growing sweat drop on the back of their heads.
'Hope he doesn't make a habit out of this...' They all thought as Lee suddenly stopped his rants and turned to Tenten.
"Oh Tenten, before I forget, where's Neji, I thought you said as invited him to come and play in the snow with us already?" Lee said as Tenten shrugged.
"Beats me, after I told him he just said that he had to bring someone along with him." Tenten said as suddenly they heard a barely audible shout from behind them. They all turned around, to see two figures, one taller then the other, running towards them at a more civilian speed.
CLIFFHANGER!!!!!
OMAKE 1
"Sure." Naruto said as everyone stopped chuckling and looked at Naruto. "I mean I know no Ninjutsu or Genjutsu, and look at me. If you get fast enough and strong enough, you may be able to become a ninja, I'm sure." Naruto said as everyone's eyes went wide and they all stared at Naruto. "THUS IS THE DECREE OF STREET FOX!!!" Naruto shouted as everyone dropped onto their knees.
"Yes Street Fox, we will obey!" They all said as Naruto quickly made a pile of snow and stood upon it.
"Good my children! Now go, go and reek havoc in Konoha!" Naruto shouted as all of the upper class nodded and ran into Konoha, an hour later, the sounds of chaos could be heard. Naruto stood upon his pile of snow in the clearing and laughed like a mad man. And that day was forever remembered as the beginning of the STC (Street Fox Cult).
Well everyone, sorry for the cliffhanger, but I got to be getting to school now, see ya.