Naruto: Alone...
Yo, what's up!? Anyway, as for the accusation of the last chapter, and this chapter being filler... well you're sort of right, but at least mine are better then Kishi's eh?. Anyway, the last chapter was a hit, with most of you, and I hope that this chapter will also be nice. And... now the question posed at the end of the last chapter is revealed... WHO IS COMING WITH NEJI!?
But before we go on with the story let's get on with the reviews;
Egghead- Who you calling evil genius...
Austln- Wow, good guess.
MissNaye- Nah, it sounds funny, but I am not quite sure I would want to make that happen, it would lean so far into Mary Sue ville it wouldn't be funny.
Intelligo- Wow, thanks.
FictionReader98- Yeah, it was an idea I got from the snowstorm in my town, I just thought of how MY Naruto would work out in the snowy weather. The Grinch style opening, well I honestly couldn't resist, and as for Naruto's rants, hell I'd be pissed off if I were him too. And on Kyuubi, I just figured whatever Naruto goes through, surely the Kyuubi would feel the effects as well. I'm going to, MOST LIKELY, keep the teams the same, but that idea is still under the microscope. Yeah, Sarutobi the old geezer can manage to crank out a good deed every now and then. And as for Neji is bringing... read and see.
Angel of Choas- Oh I see.
Raikiri1991- Yeah I get that a lot.
VFSnake- Is it even possible for Naruto to become crippled?
DragonMan180- Mean, maybe, but did Naruto think it was mean, no, so Sarutobi's in the clear. And good job finding that out.
Artemis Ignitan- Oh yeah!!! (Whistles as a truck loaf of smowballs pulls up) MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
Andrain John- Not quite yet... but it may, or may not, start this chapter.
nwfairy- LONG LIVE STREET FOX!
shikamaru the nerd- Its not a filler, just wait and see. And NO! I SAID NO MARY-SUE-NESS, OR CLICHE-NESS!!!
allicat- Just go to scenic Konoha.
wingsofeagle- Actually he did that long before he met Gai.
Silver Warrior- Eh... its true.
WiseOne- You don't have to worry about a thing sir, I'm just in a rut as of now, so don't worry. And also, that's why I make my story lines original, so that they do raise the bar.
Program X.A.N.A.- Well... I am rather funny.
ZoneshifterD- Thanks, came up with it myself. But, you're forgetting one thing. Though they CAN help him, if they do their standing within the village will drop, and their clans will be looked down upon. Just because a clan leader could help, doesn't mean they would, after all they do have to think about what's best for the clan... at least they can't do it... themselves... but they can spread... 'rumors'.
Avatarofrage- Just you wait and see man. And listen, I know its been a while since I had updated this, but man I have real life things that have to be taken care of. Please understand that this is not the only thing that's in my day.
Whew, at any rate, I suppose that since most of you thought the chapters were filler, that was the reason behind the lack of reviews. I hope I get a lot more this chapter. Anyway, lets get on with the next chapter of Naruto: Alone!!!
Chapter 7: Winter in Konoha?! Part 2
Last Time
"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.
And Now Onto The Chapter
"Hey, Neji! How come its been taking you so long to get here?" Lee shouted as the Neji figure, Naruto assumed, gave him an annoyed looked. As Neji and the other person, who was a girl, approached Neji stood straight, while the girl took some deep breathes. "Who's she Neji?" Lee asked as Neji sighed.
"This is my cousin, Hinata-sama, I couldn't come without bringing her... its my duty..." Neji said as the girl stopped taking deep breathes and looked up.
Naruto immediately recognized the girl as the Hinata from his class. She was wearing a light purple, heavy, snow jacket, with some snow pants and some mittens. He noticed that her wear was very different from this 'Neji' kid's, cause he only had on a very worn snow jacket, with most of its color gone, and torn snow pants, with old ratty mittens. Naruto looked at them both before he spoke. "Hey I know you, you're in my class aren't you?" Naruto asked as the girl simply nodded.
"Who's this kid?" Neji asked bluntly as Tenten and Lee smirked.
"That's right, you were sick the first day of the Academy weren't you Neji?" Tenten asked cheekily as Neji nodded and her's, along with Lee's, smirk grew.
"Well Neji, this is..." Lee began saying as he leaned towards Neji and began whispering in his ear. Neji nodded a few times as Lee spoke, before his eyes immediately widened and he backed up and stared at Lee.
"You mean he's!?" Neji said as Lee nodded. "But he's just!" Neji said as Tenten began nodding as well. Neji began staring at Naruto, which made Naruto a bit uncomfortable for a moment, before bowing in front of him. "Hello Street Fox-sama, my name is Neji Hyuga. It is nice to finally meet a..." Neji said as he looked up at Naruto. "Kid such as yourself." Neji said as Naruto stared a bit wide eyed before smirking and rubbing the back of his head.
"Hey... nice to meet you too... and please, call me Naruto." Naruto said as Neji nodded and Lee tensed up again.
"So, shall we begin!?" Lee shouted as Naruto raised an eyebrow.
"Start what?" Naruto asked as everyone looked at him.
"Oh yeah, well you see we planned a snowball fight earlier this morning, would you like to join us Str... Naruto-san!?" Lee shouted as everyone excitedly began asking him to join. Naruto smirked as he scratched the back of his head.
"Well... I don't know..." Naruto said cheekily as everyone began moaning, even Neji sighed a bit, and Hinata just stared a little. Naruto smiled a fox smile as he looked at them. "Alright, but only because you all asked so nicely." Naruto said as lot's of kids began cheering and they all tensed up.
"Alright then everyone..." Tenten began saying as she looked around and everyone nodded. "HIDE!!!" Tenten shouted as she, Lee, and most of the other kids ran into the forest, while Neji grabbed Hinata's hand and ran into the trees. Naruto simply stood in the middle of the clearing and watched as he cracked his knuckles and smirked.
"This is gonna be fun!" Naruto shouted as he cracked his neck, remaining in the middle of the clearing.
The Forest
Lee stared at Naruto and smirked as he watched Naruto stay his ground. "Naruto-san! You're bravery is admirable! But I'm afraid that it will be your downfall!" Lee shouted as he suddenly heard steps coming from behind him, he quickly turned around, to see Tenten, with no snowballs... "Tenten, why aren't you armed to attack me... and how did you find me?" Lee asked as Tenten sighed as she shrugged.
"Well first off Lee, I could hear your rant from about a mile away, and for why I'm not armed..." Tenten left off as Lee raised an eyebrow.
"Because I told her not too arm herself yet." Lee heard come from his right as he looked to see Neji and Hinata come towards him. "We're planning on waiting for the other to attack Street Fox together, they stand a better chance of taking him down together, rather than do it seperately." Neji said as Tenten nodded. "However, we'll wait behind so we can get our own piece of him, should they fail." Neji said as Tenten nodded again.
"Really? Cool!" Lee said as Tenten and Neji sighed. "I mean, with the stories we've been told, I think that this would be the best plan of action, eh?" Lee said as Hinata tugged on Neji's robe.
"What is it Hinata-sama?" Neji asked as Hinata kinda backed up and and tried to squeak out a few answers. After repeatedly failed attempts, Neji sighed as he continued staring at her. "What is it Hinata-sama?" Neji asked, annoyance apparent on his voice. Hinata widened her eyes before looking at Neji again.
"Wh-who is this... Street Fox?" Hinata asked as Lee and Tenten gasped loudly as they stared at Neji.
"Neji you have not told her about Street Fox!!!" Tenten shouted as Neji winced.
"Well... my cousin and I don't really ever talk... too much..." Neji said as Hinata nodded along with him.
Lee straightened up and turned his head away from Neji. "Neji, I am ashamed of you. As a member of our class, and our unofficial club, you're rights as a member depended on you telling one person about the Street Fox!" Lee said as Tenten nodded and Neji sighed.
"Well, let's tell her now then." Neji said as they nodded and all turned to Hinata, who shrank underneath their gaze. "You see Hinata-sama, that boy there is a person in the village commonly refered to, as the Street Fox." Neji said as Hinata nodded. "We all first heard of him back during a day at the Academy, one of our teachers came into class, covered in a bit of dirt, and looking a bit depressed." Neji started as Tenten nodded and jumped in front of him.
"Yeah, and when our other teacher asked him what happened, the he only said one thing." Tenten said, before she paused, building up dramatic tension. She then bent down towards Hinata and got close to her ear. "Street Fox." She whispered in a highly conspiratal tone. She then backed up and continued. "Anyway, after that we asked who this Street Fox person is." Tenten said as Lee then jumped in front of her to continue for her.
"At first no one would tell us... but then when we found people who would... what we learned..." Lee said as Tenten got beside him.
"Was very, very..." Tenten said as Neji got next to her.
"Incredible." Neji said, shocking Hinata slightly with his minor amount of enthusiasm. Lee then jumped fowards, shocking Hinata a bit.
"The Street Fox is in fact the most skilled of all theives in Konoha." Lee shouted as he backed up and placed a hand on his chin. "Now I know what you're thinking 'But aren't thieves bad', well that would be true, if we were talking about any other thief! He is an honorable thief, only stealing during the day when people can see him, and never harming an innocent person! He is also a master of the steal and the chase!" Lee shouted as Tenten pushed him out of the way.
"Rumor has it that the Street Fox has stolen from various food, clothing, and ninja supplies stores, almost every single time getting away!" Tenten said as Hinata began listening intently. "But everytime he was caught, he would always somehow survive his encounters and come back the next day! Is even said that he has gotten away from both high level Chunin, AND low level Jonin!" Tenten said as Neji then calmly walked in front of her.
"Rumor has also has it that the Street Fox has the ability to jump off the sides of buildings, disappearing in an instant, not leaving a trace of himself behind, and yet show up a few hours later without a single scratch on him." Neji said as Hinata's eyes widened as Neji continued. "Another one his nicknames is also Shadow Fox, for it has been rumored that he has the ability to slip in and out of the shadows of Konoha, without even being noticed!" Neji said as Hinata became entralled with the story. "But whatever you call him, Street Fox..." Neji said as Lee stood beside him.
"Shadow Fox." Lee said as Tenten jumped beside him.
"Or even a dirty thief." Tenten said as they all brought their fist up.
"One thing's for sure." They all said at once. "That the Street Fox is..." They all said as they began turning around. "NARUTO UZUMAKI!" They all shouted as they pointed at Naruto, who was still in the middle of the field waiting for someone to start throwing snowballs. At his point Tenten had stars in her eyes, while Lee had flames in his, and Neji was just smirking. Hinata... was star struck. She couldn't believe these stories, someone her own age with such an amazing reputation among the older kids, ESPECIALLY Neji, who wasn't all that impressed by anything at all!
But Hinata... just couldn't be convinced... "Ne-Ne-Neji-san..." Hinata said as Neji, Lee, and Tenten looked at her. "Ho-how can someone li-like him be th-this am-am-ama-ama-amazing person?" Hinata asked as all three of them looked at her with looked at her with suprised, or in Neji's case, slightly suprised looks. Then Tenten just smirked as she put her hand on her chin and gave her a 'Oh you don't know, you don't know' look.
"Well Hinata-san, if you don't believe us just watch, the first step of the plan was to send out a 'scout' to check out how good he is..." Tenten said as Neji nodded and Lee just shook his head up and down.
"That's a good idea, a good idea indeed you two!" Lee shouted as they all walked towards the edge, Hinata walking with them. Back with Naruto he was sitting there, still very impatient to get this fight started... he would've thought that it would've been more exciting with people close to his own age rather then the old man... but this was boring... very, very boring. Naruto just began yawning as he suddenly heard someone come from behind him. He looked back to see some kid rushing him, a snowball in his hand.
He threw the snowball at Naruto... and Naruto closed his eyes for a moment, and when he opened them... he say a stone hurdling at him for a moment... Naruto's eyes narrowed for a moment before the snowball came very, very close to him. Naruto the snowball in his right hand, did a quick spin around, and then chucked it back at the kid who threw it at him, hitting him in the face, and knocking him flat onto the ground. Naruto smirked, those years of dodging and catching stuff in mid-air was coming in handy.
Neji, Tenten, Lee, and Hinata stared at what just happened. First off Naruto, THE Street Fox, just GRABBED something out of mid-air, and then sent it hurdling back to the kid who threw it. The kid was currently crawling out of the area, having been hit, and effectively knocked out of their game. Then Lee just smirked at Hinata in a 'told you' kind of way. Naruto just cracked his neck as he picked up two snowballs, putting one in each hand. He smirked, and then threw both snowballs into seperate trees. A few seconds after that two kids fell out of the trees, and onto the ground.
"Come on, do you think you could hide from me? I've hunted moose that made less noise than you two did!" Naruto shouted in a boastful tone as he smiled his great big fox smile. Naruto had to say, it felt good being able to boast about something without getting his ass kicked. He liked it... he liked it a lot. "Come on, I can take all of you losers on!" Naruto shouted as he thrust his fist into the air and smiled a huge fox smile. Then... all of the kids, with the exception of Neji, Lee, Tenten, and Hinata, jumped out of their hiding spots, holding snowballs in their hands.
"Oh damn..." Naruto said out loud as he sweat dropped. The kids threw tons of snowballs at Naruto, coming from all angles at him. Naruto looked around for some hole in their defenses... and when he didn't find one... he decided to make one. Naruto quickly dived into the ground, and began tunneling under the snow. Everyone was shocked as they looked on at the spot where Naruto dived down into the snow. All of them thinking 'is the snow really that deep'. But then they began thinking 'well he was kinda short'. Then all of a sudden, one of the kids were dragged down under the snow.
Everyone panicked for a moment, and everyone decided that maybe staying on the ground wasn't exactly safe, so they all climbed up into the trees. When they all got up there, everything was silent for a moment, well that was before they heard muffled shouts and looked in the direction in which they came. They saw that the Street Fox had gotten behind one of them while they were in the trees and now he was... FALLING BACKWARDS OUT OF THE TREE!!?!?!? He and the kid he caught fell into the snow, not leaving a trace besides the entrance he created.
Meanwhile Naruto crawled out of the snow about twenty yards away, smirking as he pulled the kid out along with him. Naruto , was excited, he was really freaking these kids out with his tricks, he thought. Naruto had not had so much fun in his entire life, and this was useful. He was learning tricks that he could've never thought up of if he just stayed huddled up in his hideout, and he was scaring this kids shitless with his cunning tricks... now how to knock the rest of the kids out of the game? He already pulled two of his last minuted tricks... maybe he could come up with another one?
Naruto snickered as he thought up of his next trick, and he dug under the snow again. Meanwhile the kids were in the trees, now even more alert then ever. If the Street Fox was able to climb a tree without any of them noticing, who knew what else he could do. Then they all noticed a little tunnel trail forming, obviously Naruto digging under the ground. One kid jumped out of the tree, smirking a ton, and then shoved his hand into the snow, grabbed a handful of something, and then pulled... a Street Fox out of the snow.
Naruto was struggling to get out of this kid's grip, but the kid had a pretty solid grip on him. "Well I gotcha Street Fox!" He shouted as he leaned foward. "So how are you going to get out of this one Street Fox!" He said as Naruto began smirking at him.
"Well, I'm going to get out of this because you forgot a very simple lesson." Naruto said as he began making gagging sounds. "Ne'er." He said as the gagging sounds got louder. "T'y." He said as the guy could've swore he saw something in the back of his throat. "To ca'ch a S'reet 'ox!" Naruto gagged/shouted as he spewed slush all over the other kid's face, causing him to drop Naruto. As soon as Naruto touched the ground he quickly made a snowball and then threw it into the kids face, adding insult to injury.
The kid got up, muttered something about sneaky foxes, and then left the clearing, to join the other losers. Naruto smirked... as suddenly all the kids jumped out again, all of them armed with individual snowballs. Naruto sweatdropped, but kept that familiar smirk on his face. They all began throwing their snowballs, one at a time... and Naruto began working that Street Fox magic of his. Naruto grabbed each snowball as it came to him, and chucked it at a different victim each time. He kept on doing this until all of the kids that were throwing the snowballs were knocked on their backs.
Naruto looked on at his moaning victims as they squirmed on the ground. He smiled a large smile as he counted each one... until he discovered a small problem. Four were missing, Neji, Lee, Tenten and that Hinata girl... this fight was not over yet... he had four more victims. Meanwhile Neji, Tenten, Lee and Hinata looked on in wonder at Naruto, mystified by his ability. It was more amazing then any rumor they had heard before. Lee just steadied his breath as he picked up a snowball.
"Lee what are you doing!?" Tenten said as Lee just looked at her.
"If anyone's going to do this... its going to be me..." Lee said as he began running into the clearing, screaming a battle cry. Naruto looked at him with a smirk as he charged at him. "TAKE THIS STREET FOX!" Lee shouted as he launched a snowball towards Naruto. Naruto leapt back before the snowball hit him, and then bent down.
"RRRRRRRAAAAAAWWWWWWRRRRR!!!!!!" Naruto shouted out as he began hurling multiple snowballs at Lee. Lee got hit with snowball after snowball at Lee, till the shower of snowballs became a hurricane of snowballs. Eventually the hurricane of snowballs died down, and we see Lee covered in snow, with only his two large eyebrows sticking out of the snow. Naruto smirked as he picked up another snowball, and started throwing it up and down in the air. "One down, three to go." Naruto breathed out as continued tossing the snowball up and down.
Now Tenten, Neji, and Hinata remained, all of them staring at Naruto. Tenten then picked up a large amount of snowballs, and loaded them up into her arms, with the help of Neji of course. "Alright I'm going in." Tenten said as Neji nodded as Tenten began heading towards the, what they assumed to be, northern edge of the clearing. As she reached it, she took a deep breath and then ran out into the clearing. "Street Fox!" Tenten shouted as Naruto looked at her, and then sweat dropped at the large amount of snowballs she had on her.
"You're mine!" She shouted as she jumped high into the air, though in reality it would've only been about ten, maybe fifteen, feet into the air. As she reached the height of her jump she began throwing all of the snowballs, at a very high rate of fire. They all came towards Naruto, so many of them coming so very fast, and in so many different directions. Naruto at first considered diving back into the snow in front of him, but Tenten had sent a lot of snowballs that way, he wouldn't be able to escape that way. So, if you cannot go foward... fall back.
Naruto dropped the snowball he was carrying, and then crossed his arms, and fell back into the snow. As the snowballs hit the Street Fox-less snow Tenten came back down to Earth and then created another snowball and ran over to the hole Naruto created, but found he wasn't there. As she landed she raised an eyebrow. "Wow, he sure can move fast." Tenten said as she heard something behind her. She turned quickly to see Naruto jumping out of the snow. She threw her snowball at him, and he threw his new one at her... but she noticed something...
His snowball is a lot bigger than hers... hers was about the size of a boulder, about six inches in diameter... his was about twice as big. As their snowballs collided his ran hers over, literally, and then rushed into her face, knocking her back on the ground. Tenten laid there for a second before she began giggling. Naruto looked at her weird, before she spoke to him. "I was just hit by a snowball made by the Street Fox!" She shouted as Naruto face vaulted into the ground.
"Yes I know!" Naruto heard from behind him as he saw Lee coming out of the snow that covered him. "Who would've thought it, right Tenten?" Lee asked as Tenten nodded and Naruto sweat dropped. "Well good luck with Neji Street Fox!" Lee shouted as he and Tenten rushed towards the losers part of the clearing. Naruto was truly confused at this point... he hated getting nailed in the head with one of the old man's snowballs... older kids, strange.
Neji sighed as he straightened up and looked at Hinata. "Hinata-sama, I want you to stay here, okay?" Neji said as Hinata nodded, she herself staring intently at Naruto, awed by his abilities. Neji nodded as well before moving to the, supposently, southern side of the clearing. He stood there, standing against the tree, keeping Naruto, or Hinata, from seeing him. Neji then flashed through a few seals, ones that he shouldn't know... he then took a deep breathe and then opened his eyes, strange veins appearing on the sides of his eyes. "Byakugan!" He said silently as he began looking around.
He saw through the trees and looked at Naruto, he got out the exact distance, angle, and direction Naruto was in. He was facing the opposite direction of him, he was about ten yards away, and he was about fifteen degrees to the right of the tree Neji was behind, he could measure this because of his... blind spot. Neji bent down, got his snowball ready, keeping his Byakugan on Naruto, before standing back up. He kept his Byakugan on as he jumped from behind the tree, only deactivating it as he touched the ground.
"Street Fox!" Neji shouted as Naruto turned, only to see a snowball coming right at him. Naruto knew a few things, he couldn't dodge it, it was coming too fast at him. He couldn't block it, he would get knocked out of the game. So... there was only one thing to do. Naruto picked a kunai out of his jacket pocket, after all, when you're Street Fox, never leave home without it, and he chucked it into the snowball, cutting it, not clean, in half. Neji's eyes widened as he saw the kunai land in the snow in front of him, and watched as Naruto plucked the two halves of the snowball in the air, and chucked them back at Neji.
Neji was not struck by one snowball, but two halves of a snowball. Naruto smirked as he watched Neji fall back into the tree, and just as he was getting the snow off of his face... he noticed the tree branch limbs were shaking... and then he remembered the snow on the limbs. Neji was burried under at least two feet of tree snow, pine cones in it and all. Naruto stare for a moment before Neji's head popped out of the snow, with snow and pine cones in his mouth. Naruto stared for a moment before breaking out laughing, holding his ribs as he stood.
Naruto continued laughing, till he saw Neji's eyes widen as he tried to say something, but all that came out was 'Mhmhmhm' which of course caused Naruto to burst laughing again. Finally Neji spat out all of the snow he had in his mouth and looked at Naruto with a suprised look on his face and screamed, "NARUTO LOOK OUT!". Naruto just got to turning around before getting nailed in the face by a snowball. Everyone, including Neji, gasped when they saw what had just happened. They all looked at the culprit... and it was Hinata.
Hinata shrunk under everyone's gaze, and she shrunk even more when Naruto rubbed the snow off of his face and stared at her with narrowed eyes. But as Naruto began laughing out loud everyone looked at him with an estranged look on their face as he just gave out a deep, belly laugh. Naruto finally stopped laughing and smiled at Hinata with a fox smile. "Wow you're pretty good, I didn't even notice you while I was laughing! I'd better keep my eye on you if we ever get into another snowball fight!" Naruto shouted as he began laughing again as Hinata blushed lightly.
Naruto smiled as he looked at all of the others, causing them to smile a bit too, after all, his smiles seemed to be infectous. "Well come on, isn't there anything else to do in this weather? Come on!" Naruto shouted as the other kids got up and ran over to the clearing and began playing a bunch of other winter games. Winter games like building snow forts, making snow angels, and building snowmen (which Naruto was at first excited about, at first thinking they would be making a MAN out of snow, only to be disappointed when he was wrong).
But eventually, the sun began lowering under the hills. All the kids began going home, and Naruto went back to his hideout. Naruto got into his tent, after re-kindling the fire, and taking off a few of the jackets he sat down in the tent. He looked around... and saw the snow melting. Before Naruto would've loved the fact the snow was melting... but. "Awww man, the snow's melting..." Naruto moaned as he laid down. "Oh well, I'll just have to wait for the next one!" Naruto shouted as he laughed before going to sleep.
OMAKE
As the kids were building their snowman, Tenten reached into her pocket and pulled out a old, rusty ninja headband. "Hey guys let's put this on him!" She shouted as all of the kids agreed. They put Hinata on Neji's shoulders, and had her tie it on. And as she finished... the snowman began shaking, his round bottom turned into legs, his coal eyes and mouth turned into regular eyes and mouth, and his button nose turned into a nose. The kids stared at him for a moment as he blunked before smiling.
"Happy Bir..." Was all he got out before a loud BOOM resounded through the area and the snowman's head blew into pieces. The kids jumped back before looking in the direction of a man, holding a long metal object that had a hole in the end that was smoking. He was wearing some ninja clothes, a ninja mask, and an unmarked headband on. The only thing that could identify him was a large, golden 'A' on his chest.
"Good, that copyright infringement is gone." The man with the 'A' said as he noticed the kids staring at him. "Well enjoy the rest of the story I wrote out for you kids." The man with the 'A' said as he suddenly disappeared.
Well everyone, ENJOY! AND REMEMBER TO REVIEW!!!