As a Thank You for over ONE HUNDRED REVIEWS; as a result I decided to upload this chapter sooner than planned but first, some announcements...

First up, to the guest who suggested I read 'Naruto The Stat Sheet' by Fairy Tail Dragon Slayer... I already do and I respect the author for trying to 'scientifically' judge the power-level. Does this mean, I believe it's the truth or close to it... no in fact I believe there may a bit of bias in the research and I made my views clear on it and he/she is okay with it since I don't flame him/her or anyone in general unless they deserve it and he/she doesn't flame me. That doesn't stop me from enjoying his/her fics through...(Rule of Thumb: Being a jerk doesn't make you 'cool'. It makes people either hate you or they pity you before not giving another glance.)

In fact, I had requested him/her to make a fic for me and he/she did since I jumped through the hurdles like a good doggy. (If you can't make jokes on yourself then you don't deserve to crack jokes on other people.)

Now, to some people, they didn't like some of my characters chosen and for the sake of not making this AN long, I will explain my reason during each chapter which contains their flashbacks. For Nagi, some people hated him; me, I pity at the lost potential this guy had. A street fighter who rises from the ranks to challenge the head-honchos. A little cheesy and cliche but everyone enjoys them now and then but instead we get a Mary-Sue type of character while others became part of the background.

This, to me, was poor writing and I curse the author for it. So I'm going to use the outline and truly developed Nagi from the insensible asshole he was to a guy who can be more relatable to my readers. Also, any supernatural things from Tenjou Tenge will either be removed or rewritten to fit the Kenichi Universe so no pyro-kinesis for the pyro-heads out there.

Chapter 8: Interlude and Nagi's Flashback

Ryozanpaku

"Purrrrr..."

That was the sound that Naruto was giving off as he rubbed his cheek into the heavenly hands of the mega-cat-lover Miu who's obsession with cats increase whenever she's feeling lonely. The ex-ROOT was tied up in the middle of the room with so much rope all over his body that it was honestly surprising that he hadn't died from blood flow obstruction. Miu had her puppy-eyes out as she looked at the masters, with the exception of Sakaki and Apachai,with adorableness so cute that one must have diamond-plated willpower to not fall to it,"Can we keep him,please?"

Hayato laughed as he rubbed his beard,"Miu, Naruto is not an animal you can keep."

The quivering lips came out to play,"PLEASEEEEE, I'll take good care of him."

"No, you can't..."

Kensei was taking pictures off as this was happening before Shigure threw some senbon and destroyed the camera. The master of all Chinese kenpo looked at The mistress of all weapons with a shocked expression,"Shigure, why would you do that?"

"It's fun...to see...you squirm."

Akisame looked at the entire spectacle while rubbing his mustache with a bored expression,"Can we at least get to the point of why we have Naruto here?" Hayato nodded his head,"Could you remove your hand from his face, Miu?" Miu pouted as she moved her hand away from Naruto who blinked from his grogginess and looked around,"Where am I?"

Hayato gave a booming laughter,"Well, I'm glad you asked," pointing to the Akisame," This man is..." Naruto interrupted with a dead-pan gaze,"I already know so can we just skip to the part as to why I'm here."

The 'Invincible Superman' went to a corner and began to skulk while drawing circles into the mats while a small dark cloud began to rain on him that made Naruto wondered why he was getting the feeling of Déjà Vu,"Kids these days just don't appreciate good theatrics ."

Unknown Location

A man wearing a mask along with a buxom young masked woman to sneeze. This caused the woman to let go of her opponent and he took the opportunity to grab her and pile-drive into the concrete ground.

The man let go and step back with a grin on his face before a long slender leg swept and hit the man in the balls causing him to groan as he felled to the ground,"The balls, why do they always go for the balls?"

The woman stood up and gave a fist-raised as her top came off causing nosebleeds to come from the audience and the masked man to laugh. He gave a thumbs-up and with a grin stated," Now that's DIEGO-QUALITY!"

Back to Ryozanpaku

"Ignoring the Elder," Akisame said as he rubbed his forehead. Why are all his peers so erratic he will never understand,"If you allow me to ask a question first; do you remember the fight that you had in front of the school?"

"Of course I do, what's that got to with anything?"

"Everything..."

A gong sound heard causing them all to look in that direction. Shigure had a headband on with Tochimaru on her head, both of them had a gong in their hand and stick in the other along with a sign on their neck that said...

'Flashback'

Akisame had left the operating room after finally checking the organs in Fenrir's body. It was strange to say the least but Akisame loved a challenge that was being presented to him.

The boy's body contained muscles that are denser and stronger than Kenichi's along with little to no body-fat while still keeping a lithe body type. His bones are so dense it might as well be used to forge a sword. Akisame knew that he knew that he had to look into the boy's past since no child should have this kind of body during times of peace except those trained in the real marital arts world.

"Excuse me, are you the master of this house?" Akisame saw that Miu was entertaining two police officers with a tour of the house/dojo.

The Philosophical Judo Master shook his head,"The Elder had left on journey and I do not know when he shall be back."

The duo officers looked at each other before the one on the left spoke as the right showed his badge,"Unfortunately, we must take that boy in your care."

Miu looked at the officers with her eyes wide,"What- Why?" Miu's kind nature didn't see the reason why the officers would want to take someone who's in intensive care. Akisame nodded in response to Miu's question,"I must agree with Miu. Why would you need to take him?"

The officer on the right responded,"Very well then, we haven't found any evidence of the boy in Japan's system. As such, we are to take him to the station and decided his future path. At the very best, he will be designated as a Ward of the State until he is of age and at the worst be deported to another country."

Akisame kept calm but on the inside was trying to figure a way out of this mess. He couldn't let such a promising boy, from what little he seem of him fight, fall into the hands of Yami.

This would not could be the case since Yami has influence and political power in nearly every country with Japan being one of the lowest thanks to the Takayanagi Corporation, Ryozanpaku among other dojos/ marital arts group who practiced either Katsujinken or had a dislike for Yami.

As such, Akisame's mind developed an excuse to buy some time,"Unfortunately, the boy is still in intensive care and is not ready for transport."

The officer on the left stepped forward while the right stopped him by placing a hand in his path while asking Akisame,"Do you know when he will be stable, then?'

"In another two or three days; he suffered from cardiovascular organ failure due to taking a hit to the chest. Several bone on his arms were fractured and it's a miracle that he isn't dead yet."

The officer was silent before turning his back,"Very well then, we shall be back later but we will move him." Miu ran forward of the officers and had a pleasant smile on her face,"As a member of the house, it would be rude if I didn't escort guests to the door."

Two days later (After Chinatown Incident)

The same officers who were coincidently in the same positions were at the front door banging a door knob. The door opened and a foreign-looking large blonde man opened the door,"Ahh, you must be the officers that Akisame told me about. My name is Hayato Furinji, the Elder of the house."

The officer on the right responded,"I am officer Munakata and this is my partner Shinosuke. We are here to discuss something..."

Shinosuke continued,"What I want to know is why is there a file on the kid now when we couldn't find any earlier."

The old man let out sigh,"That must be the reason why then; you see, the boy is my grandson."

Officer Shinosuke laughed,"Yeah right old man and I'm the emperor of Harem-land."

"It's not often I get to meet royalty..."

Shinosuke widened his eyes at the old man's response while Officer Munakata pushed his glasses up,"What my idiot partner is trying to say why is there a file when there shouldn't be any? Believe me when I say that I searched through forty years worth of records and didn't find anything until recently."

"And there's a reason why; you see, my family lived in the outskirts of civilizations. In fact, the only reason me and my grand-daughter have files on us is because of my actions during WWII."

Both officers stood straiht and salute a war veteran but Hayato laughed and motioned for them to stop,"No need for that, now where was I?"

Shinosuke responded,"At the part where you said you were in WWII, sir."

"Thank you for reminding me; so my daughter-in-law's family got into a big argument and wiped each other out while I was gone and my own family consisted of me and my son. When I returned, I found only Miu, my grand-daughter safe from the massacre. As such, I decided it would be better to enter society with her instead of living in the outskirts."

Munakata was suspicious of the story," And what does that boy have to with this."

The Elder caressed his fine beard as he looked at Officer Munakata,"You young ones don't have patience it seems, I was just getting to that. You see, my daughter-in-law birthed twins and named them Naruto and Miu.

Unfortunately, I was only able to find Miu and not Naruto. I had feared that my grandson was kidnapped and had searched for him while doing my best to care for Miu. It was either luck or destiny that he was found so late in his years."

Shinosuke had tears in his eyes as he listened to the details while Munakata listened with a stony expression before turning around," I see, if that is the case then we shall be leaving."

Hayato waved to the officer,"Bye, have a great day," before he closed the door and looked at Akisame who had fed the lie to him from the side,"So, did Operation Lie-to-the-cops succeed?"

Akisame rubbed his chin with an outstretched index finger and thumb while the rest was curled,"We managed to close the obvious loops to the story and buy some time but that Munakata fellow seemed to still be suspicious. He'll look into this until he gets the answer I'm afraid."

"Then, we'll just have to not arouse suspicion..."

Flashback End

"And that's how you became Furinji Naruto," Akisame finished with a blackboard detailing the story with very realistic pictures, leaving Naruto to his thoughts. At first, he was boiling in anger at how he was called something different. He was okay with introducing himself as Fenrir because it was only a code name, that's it. Fenrir was a name he could wear and shed later but there was no way he would ever dropped the Uzumaki name especially after he found out that it was a clan name and his birth parents.

However, the anger soon disappeared as soon as he took deep breaths and allowed his training to take his mind. It was a legit strategy and a good one but it revealed something to him.

Ryozanpaku had allies in high positions within the government.

It was the only way that this could have pulled off and succeeded with few scratches. Ryozanpaku called in a few favors and they did the actual file thingies which he didn't know what and soon he was in their database as a Furinji. Well, there were a few good perks to doing that as in he no longer had to hide during the day for fear of being arrested and wasting his time watching anime.

There wasn't anything wrong with anime, it just that he prefer to actually move instead of being; what was it called again? A 'Couch Potato', that's it; he didn't wanted to be a couch potato but on the other hand, he had to...

"Which is why the truancy officer of Koryu High School was looking for you since this was supposed to be your first day at school." Akisame interrupted his thoughts. Miu was having a wide grin that for some reason reminded Naruto of one of his subordinates and it wasn't a good thing. She was plenty crazy already and he didn't need a 2.0 when he had the original. The girl scratched Naruto's head rather pleasurably,"Hear that, we're going to be siblings."

Being an only child, Miu was quite lonely at times and it got worse as she spent much of her childhood on the move with her grandfather so hearing that she was going to have a brother was exciting news to her. Naruto was lost in the heavenly ministries that was Miu's hands and his toes curl in pleasure, his tongue was hanging out and Kensei who was dodging Shigure's sword strikes and throwing weapons managed to take a picture of Naruto with a spare camera and ran away with Shigure chasing him.

Hayato took the initiative after recovering from his slight depression," So what do you say, will you join my family at Ryozanpaku?"

Naruto was just about to agree before he blinked and shook his head,"No way," leaving Hayato to fall once again in depression,"Look, I'm thankful for what you did and I owe you if this is true but my full name is Naruto Uzumaki and that is who I'm going to be."

Miu then started to scratch the whiskers again causing Naruto to purr while having a diabolical look on her face,"Join the family...Join the family..." Miu's tactics made Akisame wonder what was happening to this dojo.

It was Naruto's willpower that originated from his past consisting of a lonely childhood, watching his best friend trying to kill him, ROOT training and watching someone who he really cared for die in front of him. Yeah, he really didn't have the best time growing up but it was what gave him strength.

The boy then wiggled his rear cheeks causing him to topple over and rolling away from the crowd. When he reached the door, he kicked it with KI leg enhancements causing a hole big enough for him to roll through the debris while screaming,"ROLL AWAY!"

Miu saw this and as when her mind rebooted ran after Naruto,"Come back here,brother!"

"I'm not your brother!"

"You are according to Japan so get back here with your whiskers!"

Hayato watched this with a small smile,"To be young again but that is the price we pay to be masters." Shigure and Akisame nodded their heads at the wise words of the Elder.

(Scene Change)

Ishiyama Highschool

Ishiyama Highschool, considered to be one of the worst schools in the Tokyo metropolitan area. This school was famous for it's amazing one-hundred and twenty percent delinquency turnout.

The building itself was worse-for-wear and had many people wondering how can students even study in there as graffiti were painted on the wall, the paint was chipping and holes had appeared with some having facial indents in it.

The group known as Fenrir's Fangs had appeared inside of the front gates. Odin and Freya sat on chairs they brought while Thor sat on the ground. Odin stared at the group of three and gave a single order," Do what you will..."

Blake was the first to step up and walked down the concrete path. Jin was looking and gave a whistle," I didn't think the little cat was going to go first."

Karma gave a slight smirk,"Then again the faster she finished this test, the faster she gets to be at the boss's side."

"Yeah, there's that WHOA!" Both Karma and Jin ducked under Gambol Shroud as Blake swung the chain scythe form horizontal. The duo raised their hands in surrender while squatting as Blake put her weapon back on her shoulder.

Then, three student swaggered up like they owned the place,"Well, lookie here, a hot babe; why don't you come with me and hang out with my buddies." He then placed a hand on her which Blake responded with grabbing the wrist, twisting it then kicking his leg in which forced him into the ground before using two hands to clamp the side of the man's skull, rattling his brain and knocking him out.

"Hey, guys... She just knocked out Kenny," one of the trio screamed with the last shouting,"You bitch," before both threw a straight punch.

Blake got in-between them and landed two punches right into the ribcage, fracturing and having the bone pierce their lungs. Blake looked to see countless students came out from the building charging at her while screaming,"For Ishiyama!"

Jin looked at Karma and gave a smile,"I think we should go help Blake, after all, it's not a gentlemanly thing to allow a lady to fight that many people."

"I really don't care about that kind of stuff but hey, at least they even things out for them." With that said, both Karma and Jin ran forward alongside Blake before stopping. Jin looked and calculated,"Alright,Karma, you take the five hundred on the right; I'll take the five hundred on the left and Blake gets the five hundred in the center."

Karma and Blake gave a dead-pan gaze with Karma stating,"Really, Jin, really; there's only about sixty or so and you just had to do that, didn't you?"

The wooden swordsman gave a sheepish chuckle,"Well, where else am I going to get a chance to say that?"

As Blake readied herself, she quietly spoke,"Enough, the enemy approaches."

(Scene Change)

Natsume Household

Nagi Souichiro who was unconscious at this point woke up suddenly with a hand in the air,"BOB!"

A door slide opened and Aya entered in a frenzy,"Souichiro-sama, is there anything wrong?"

The blonde looked to see it was Aya,"No Aya,I'm just tired..."

The girl just gave a heart-warming smile,"Please get some re..." Aya was knocked out when a wooden boken hit her in the air causing the poor girl to fall to the floor. Maya walked in while still in her Chibi-form,"That's what you get when you leave an enemy while they are still conscious,Aya."

Nagi gave a chuckle at the sight,"Hey, Taichou, nice to see you again."

"Rude Brat, you're up already? You're must be getting stronger or you've been picking fights with weak fighters again. Now if you excuse me, I have to take Aya back to her room."

As the elder sister lifted Aya's head and dragged her, Nagi asked a question,"Taichou, do you think anything can return to the past..."

Maya stopped for a bit before responding without looking back,"I'm not the Taichou anymore; that's Masataka now. But to answer your question,no; if things could return to the past, I would have my brother back,Kagesada and Shinichiro wouldn't have run off and Bob wouldn't have left with Chiaki. All we can do now is move forward."

Nagi looked down as his hands as Maya left along with the body of Aya,"Yeah, you're right but you'll always be my Taichou..." He then remembered the events that had brought him to Fenrir's Fangs as the group was named.

Flashback

Despite the best efforts of the Juken Club, they had failed to defeat the Enforcers and Student Council at the tournament. Maya took the loss personally and decided to step down as the captain of the club and passed it down to Masataka as he was the only one who had the strength and smarts to lead.

Bob was more of a follower, Nagi was more of a front-line fighter instead of a thinker with Shinichiro being the opposite, Kagesada was a coward despite him finding the will to fight now and Aya was more of a puppy and would place the group in danger if it meant saving her 'Souichiro-sama'. These were the reasons given to justify her passing the spot down.

However, it didn't matter as one-by-one, the small amount of members started to leave. First was Kagesada who went to hide himself fearing that Mitsuomi would hunt them for daring to defy him. Second was Shinichiro, the alien-like vice-captain stated that since they failed and this was his last year, he wanted to spend his remaining time peeping on women.

Nagi,Bob and Aya stood loyally alongside Masataka until something had happened.

With the defeat of the Juken Club at the tournament, martial arts members and delinquents circled around them like vultures, challenging them to unfair matches to earn bragging rights at finishing off the Club.

The four fought together until they went to rescue Chiaki and Bob from an ambush one afternoon. As a result,Masataka's right forearm was cut off and Bob had resigned saying he couldn't keep placing his girlfriend in danger.

Originally, he wanted to break up with her but she had somehow convinced him that it would be better if he quit the Club and moved away from anyone and everyone who knew them.

Nagi had never felt so betrayed; Bob was his friend, his brother-in-arms and the first person he trusted to watch his back. So he did the only method he knew how to vent, he went and picked a fight with anyone who even looked at him wrong.

Which led to the blonde head-butting someone in an alley. All around them were the injured and unconscious members of Ragnarok. He hoped that blonde guy would come especially since he was leaving a such a loud message.

The message being,"I'm the one that did this and I want you to find me..."

"I thought I told you to stop beating up members of my group." The familiar voice said from behind Nagi. Said man turned around to see the blonde guy and was shaking.

Fenrir as he introduced himself so long ago had power roll off him likes waves. Nagi's eyes could actually see the Ki Flow that was around him. It honestly reminded him of the bastards, Mitsuomi and Bunshichi and that was what scared him.

As Fenrir squinted his eyes, a dark shadow appeared behind the Fist as Nagi ignored the instincts to flee and charged like an enraged animal. When Nagi threw a straight right punch, Fenrir parried it with his right hand to the left before grabbing the wrist and pulled him closer.

The spilt-second of surprise allowed Fenrir to follow the pull with a left knee strike into the chest. As Nagi stumbled backwards, Fenrir kept a tight grip on the wrist and pulled him forwards for another two knees strikes before letting go so Nagi can fall to the ground.

The injured boy stood up with pure will power and spat out some blood before he fell back down on his face. Nagi realized that he wasted a lot of strength fighting over a hundred members in different locations in a single day which led to his quick defeat. He laughed inwards that his mother was once again correct that his anger would lead to his humiliating or final defeat.

Fenrir stood next to Nagi's fallen body and squatted down with his elbows on his knees,"So... why do you fight?"

"Huh?" Nagi's brain was processing this as Fenrir spoke with clarification,"Why do you fight? Is it because you lost someone important, because you were born that way or is it because you lost your purpose?"

"I don't need a reason to fight."

Fenrir smirked and shook his head,"I once met someone long ago who I'm still wondering if he was a guy or a girl. Anyways, he said to me,'A person can only unleash his or her true potential if he or she has something to protect. I decided to take it one step forward and say a person can only fight with their true potential if he has a purpose or a reason to fight."

Nagi widened his eyes as he remembered back to the reason why he joined the Juken Club, he knew he wasn't strong enough and the Club was the only one directly opposing the executive council after what that Ryuuzaki bastard did. He found himself growing at least twice as fast under Maya's eyes.

Unfortunately, after the failure to defeat the council, Nagi let himself slip and his hard-earned skills had rusted to where he was back to being a street brawler with martial arts training. He gritted his teeth as he forced himself to acknowledge that he was only a shadow of his former self.

Fenrir then had one knee kneel as he offered a hand,"I'll give you that purpose which you so subconsciously desire. I need teammates to watch my back and you need a purpose to fight for, what do you say?"

Nagi couldn't believe; this man was offering him to watch his back, something that would considered them as equals. Nagi's eyes watered a bit before he grasped the hand with his own.

It was a decision that he had never once regretted...

Flashback End

Nagi gripped the bed sheets as he remembered it all,"Even now, I'm still such a loser but I swear that one day, we'll stand side-by-side as equals." Unknown to Nagi, Maya was on the side of the wall listening in with a small smile on her face; she then whispered to herself as she dragged Aya,"As martial artists, we should move on using our defeats as a lesson. I'm glad you found a way to improve yourself."

Done... I have nothing more to say except this...

Character Profile

Name: Souichiro Nagi

Family: Makiko Nagi (Mother), Sohaku Kago (Deadbeat Estranged Father; Unknown Condition)

Age:16

Likes: His mother, fighting, proving he is the best, friends...

Dislikes: His father, betrayals, being weak, the enemies of Fenrir, giving up...

KI:Dou (Gate of the Earth Dragon) Those who unlocked the Gate of the Earth Dragon are known to be stamina-freaks. They can take hits that would fatal and still stand. Note:Even those with the Gate of the Earth Dragon can succumb to being tired after long periods of fighting.

Fighting Style: Street Brawling combined with traits of Natsume Unarmed Fighting Style

Background: Ostracized at a young age of six, Souichiro started to fight in order to punish the bullies tormenting him and his mother. Later, he met up with Bob Makihara in elementary school and they started to calling themselves the Knuckle-Bombs as they fought anyone and everyone to prove they were the best. When Souichiro and Bob entered Toudou Academy not realizing it was a school of martial arts.

After what will later be known as the 'Laundry Incident' both Knuckle-Bombs members joined the Juken Club in order to proceed with training with Souichiro's main reason being he was too weak to fight the big bosses. One day, both Bob and Souichiro went out and tested their strengths against the common street thugs where they got their butts handed to them by Fenrir.

Next Time on TWOF

"Why don't we settle this with a match?"

"Why the hell are you punks on Ishiyama turf?" "I will be your opponent..."

"You are my new master and I shall service you in any way you desire..."

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