disclaimer: Naruto, G-Gundam, and CLANNAD are not mine.
Naruto: Moeagare Toushi
Chapter 6: Overprotective
After 2 weeks of nonstop D-Rank missions, it was time for one Uzumaki Naruto to begin telling his jonin-sensei just how potentially dangerous he was - not only for Konoha, but for anyone and everyone who had the personal misfortune of going against his personal code of honor.
It was through retelling of moments in battle that Mitarashi Anko realized just how powerful, bloodthirsty and destructive her student was.
Truly a child after her own heart.
According to Naruto, what took him over the edge was his strange form of chivalry and the Will of Fire (although he didn't know it yet).
That white-suited man who had his eyes on Naruto's senpai during his last "vacation tour" with his Shishou didn't die. By the time Naruto had finished with him, he wished he never had those thoughts enter his head in the first place.
Overprotective younger brothers (or kouhai) can be frightening.
There are 206 bones and 108 pressure points in the human body - and a practitioner of the School of the Undefeated of the East knew both "hard" and "soft" styles to do maximum damage to both bones AND pressure points, often simultaneously. This meant more theoretical work, more intelligent sparring, and the honing of the mind's flexibility that was required to switch styles seamlessly on the fly.
And it was to his senpai's horror that Uzumaki Naruto went in and saved the day, revealing to a certain Sakagami Tomoyo the power he had been warned to use only when lives were at stake.
The four underlings the criminal brought along were simply vaporized when Naruto flared the red chakra from him... there were several others, but that was what the School was for, and all the criminals save two were lying in puddles of their own blood and crap after seeing a monster in the flesh.
He turned his red eyes onto the one with the strange black object his Shishou had called a "gun". He had a basic inkling as to what it could do - but it wouldn't harm him.
Naruto sidestepped slowly, making sure that Tomoyo-senpai was clear of the line of fire.
And then... he made his move.
"This hand of mine burns with a fearsome power," he growled out. "Its flaming grip tells me to end your wretched existence."
He rushed forward, right hand wreathed with a reddish glow as he aimed to grip the black-suited grunt.
"Spiral Crusher."
After he grabbed onto the enemy... Naruto clenched his right hand, and everything became red.
By the time Touhou Fuhai had arrived on the scene, Naruto was already done with his dastardly work. What was worse, was that he locked in the gangster. All senses - gone. Limbs, crippled. Other bodily functions, disabled. Tomoyo, meanwhile, was still looking in the distance and covering her ears.
Somehow, even after all that, Touhou Fuhai didn't think Naruto was being merciful by sparing the man his life, and went to get their fellow schoolmate to safety.
The day after that, most organized crime syndicates in the immediate area and beyond had undergone a massive internal reorganization, getting all the sex fiends and the perverts executed posthaste.
Nobody in the Yakuza wanted to be in the target sights of those two.
When Anko heard that story, she was gleeful at the potential for mayhem her "genin" possessed, and her thoughts were filled with ways on how to maximize Naruto's abilities for the good of the village...
Right now though, Naruto was in the middle of dragging Team 10 through another "training session" that would most likely end up with the three rookie genin in the hospital.
"Whoever told you 'he who hits hardest wins the match' was lying," Naruto said as he easily caught the Nikudan Sensha with a hand, and casually deflected its course. Before Chouji could try the technique again, Naruto was on him, raining punches that weren't really at full power.
One down.
He took to the branches, moving far too quickly for the black shape to follow him.
"The biggest room in the house is room for improvement," he added as the shadow-user collapsed, his target's mobility far too much for now.
Two down.
Naruto grinned as he saw the deer-in-the-headlights look of the last member of Team 10, clutching a kunai in fear and looking like she didn't want to be there.
Tough luck.
He moved in quickly and tapped her cheek with the metal ring of his own kunai.
"And that's three," he said. "Congratulations, you guys have just died in the service of the Village Hidden in the Leaves! You will be remembered by a halfway-decent memorial service, a small donation to your next of kin, and a spot at the Memorial Stone! How about that?"
Team 10's jonin-sensei had to laugh at the little pep talk before coming down from the branch to discuss the results of that little training session.
What Naruto didn't end up telling his jonin-sensei was that the incident where he turned Tomoyo-senpai's would-be rapist into a gibbering, locked-down mass of worthlessness was that when he did it, he could feel in total harmony with the power of the Nine-Tailed Fox sealed within him.
He'd asked the fox why she felt that way, and she answered it in her usual cryptic manner...
"You should not see bonds severed in such a manner at your young age, Naruto..." the fox whispered in his ear. "Also... it is an insult to me to see you betrayed like that... and rendered powerless..."
"...powerless?"
"Despite my power and yours... we could never really override someone else's free will. Even if we could... it would make us lower than the suited trash you disposed of, wouldn't it?"
He nodded, and shrugged. Who would have thought that the old fox would have a soft spot for things like this?
Upon telling his Shishou all that had happened, he immediately understood.
"You are taking on the aspects of that sealed within you," he simply said. "Kitsune are famous for having the power of infinite vision," he added, and thus began taking steps to instruct the entity in the philosophies of the School of the Undefeated of the East.
The Nine-Tailed Fox was initially skeptical that this would work, but upon seeing that even the meditation teachings were helping both her and the boy along sold her to the idea.
She couldn't help it, seeing the boy work so hard even without her help rubbed off on her...
"...so what you're saying is that you consider yourself 'on loan' to Konoha?" Anko-sensei asked.
"In certain ways," Naruto answered. "For instance, if I had to choose between my School and Konoha, I would make a decision that would be more beneficial to the School than Konoha."
"Why are you still here, then? You could have moved on to other villages, trained more apprentices..."
"I'm here for a reason, and when I find what I'm looking for, well, let's see where we go from there, eh, sensei?"
Naruto gave his jonin-sensei a genuinely happy smile.
"You waste a significant percentage of momentum going into your ball technique, whereas you could integrate it into your combat style to seamlessly change shape in the middle of the fight," Naruto began, pointing to one Akimichi Chouji. "And you, you should honestly look into a more stealth-based combat style, since you use shadows mostly. I'm thinking CQC. Lastly... you need a 'soft' style."
"Why, because I'm a kunoichi?" Yamanaka Ino asked.
"No, because psychic-type attacks work best with strikes at 'soft' points. Increases your techniques' effectivity," Naruto replied. "The boys can afford to fight cleanly, you can't. Get me?"
She nodded, remembering the series of seminars by one Mitarashi Anko on just how dangerous being a kunoichi could be. "Yeah... I get you. Anyway, why are you the only genin around here with one instructor?"
Naruto grinned. "With what you just saw, you drop the bomb that early? You also need to work on your interrogation skills; you don't pop a question like that too soon... anyway, we'll be having a lot more sparring and some more talk tomorrow. Same time, same place."
By the time Team 10 was long gone, a somber Mitarashi Anko appeared near him in a swirl of leaves.
"Naruto-kun, the Hokage requires our presence ASAP. Something important came up."
"So what you're saying is, Team 7 got hired for what would have been a routine escort mission to the Land of Waves, but it ended up with the team running into someone like Momochi Zabuza?"
"Basically, that's it."
"And our B-rank mission is to go back them up?"
"As the mission briefing says."
"To double check, lethal force is automatically authorized when applicable for all B-rank and above missions, is it not, Hokage-sama?" Naruto asked, and the Hokage had to suppress a wince at the boy's dancing eyes.
"Yes, it is."
"Cool."
The desk secretary, Anko-sensei and the Hokage had to resist the urge to facefault at that. "Just that?"
"Yeah, don't worry, Hokage-sama. Anko-sensei and I will do just fine."
"Mitarashi-san, a word with you before you go."
"Yes, Hokage-sama. Naruto, get packing; we'll meet in fifteen at the front gate."
"Got it, Anko-sensei. By your leave, Hokage-sama, Iruka-sensei."
By the time the door was closed, Anko was puzzled.
"Take this with you," the Hokage began, handing a scroll over to the Special Jonin.
"Kage Bunshin no Jutsu?" Anko asked upon reading the contents, and then grinning evilly at what that implied. "You want Konoha's other taijutsu-spec genin to learn Kage Bunshin, Hokage-sama?"
"He would have found a way to learn it, I'm just giving you the go-ahead," the Hokage answered. "Try to fit it into his training schedule, if you can. Now get moving, time is of the essence."
The purple-haired kunoichi saluted smartly before exiting the office in a swirl of leaves.
On the dot, both Anko and her student met at Konoha's gates, packed for a rapid journey to the Land of Waves - their timetable was tight, but they would make it.
Against a jonin missing-nin, several possible chunin and genin backup, and a boatload of bandits, even Team 7 wouldn't last that long.
It was this thought that teacher and student shared as they made a blistering pace towards their mission objective.
chapter 6 - END
afterword: Readers of a certain kind of prurient material will easily find out where I got the whole "Naruto manhandles gangsters" skit from, and what kind of prurient material I totally abhor even more than guro.