Naruto: A New Beginning
Chapter 12
(Date: June 30, 2552. Location: Epsilon Eridani System, Planet Reach)
(Reach Surface Location: Montez Military Training Academy, Military Reservation 01478-B)
-Authors note: Don't forget to review by the end of this chapter, when you do take solace in the fact that I am being motivated by your continued responses to what I recount for your entertainment and education, it also makes me feel very happy.—
As we re-materialize within this plane of existence in our spectral forms, we notice the sound of a small engine coming from within the forest located around the Montez Military Academy.
We follow this sound all the way to a very militaristic scene that has played out through decades in our reality. We take into account the men and woman jogging on a dirt path with the Drill Sergeant trailing behind them slowly in a M274 ULATV-Mongoose while yelling a made up military chant.
"Repeat after me boys and girls!" Drill Sergeant Condor said out loud as he cocked the bolt on his fully-automatic airsoft machine gun.
It was early in the morning when the Drill Sergeant decided to wake up the trainees to start putting them through a small portion of his hell.
"I don't know but I've been told!" The Drill Sergeant yelled moderately.
"I DON'T KNOW BUT I'VE BEEN TOLD!" The group of trainees yelled in unison, with Chaser barking happily as he ran alongside Camilla and Naruto.
"That I just sold my goddamn soul!" Drill Sergeant Condor said as he continued to steer the Mongoose with one hand while he adjusted the airsoft gun's pistol grip in his other hand.
"THAT I JUST SOLD MY GODDAMN SOUL!" They responded again, wearing neutral faces throughout the jog.
"But if I happen to succeed!" He changed the tone of his improvised poetry to that of a hopeful one.
"BUT IF I HAPPEN TO SUCCEED!" The trainees repeated.
"Then I will be part of a whole new breed!" He said projecting the confidence they should feel from that line.
"THEN I WILL BE PART OF A WHOLE NEW BREED!" Some of their faces hardened with determination.
"But for now I will continue to move my boot!" The Drill Sergeant said with an evil smile.
"BUT FOR NOW I WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE MY BOOT!" They were none the wiser as to what was about to happen, he was trailing behind them after all.
"OR DRILL SERGEANT CONDOR IS GONNA START TO SHOOT, PICK UP THE PACE YOU PANSIES!" Regardless of what he said he decided to go Rambo on the trainees.
He mounted the large 21st century modeled M60 airsoft gun in between the Mongoose's steering handlebars, and spared no one with his rain of plastic projectiles moving at 600 hundred feet per second.
"OW FUCK!"
"Shit that stings!"
"OW FUCK A DUCK I'M OUTTA HERE!"
These were just a few of the responses he got from his trainees, but the intended purpose was to make them run.
"Hah Hah Hah Haaaaah, run as fast as you can chickadees but don't stray from the path or you're gonna get it, hah hah!" He revved the engine of the Mongoose and picked up some speed to catch up with the trainees, who were now in a disorganized mess instead of an organized jogging formation.
This was going on for a good couple of minutes until some trainees started slowing down.
That was when the sound of the electric mechanism within the airsoft gun would find it's intended purpose and started projecting more .20g white plastic pellets to motivate the slowing trainees.
It worked magically as they picked up speed and accelerated towards the front of the group where Camilla, Naruto and Chaser were located.
Camilla decided to start some small talk while they were seemingly sprinting away from the promise of painful bodily welts.
"This guy is crazy." She said while huffing in her sprint.
"Yeah, tell me about it, his method seems to work though." Naruto responded not in the least bit winded as he is used to traveling at much greater speeds for longer distances.
He matched his form of sprinting to that of everyone else's, running with hands straight and flat while moving his arms in excessive near 180 degree motion.
"Sadly it only gets worse with time." Camilla responded quickly as she immediately had to inhale another breath of oxygen during her sprint.
This sequence of slowing down and getting shot repeated for a few more minutes until some trainees couldn't handle the test of endurance anymore and started tripping from exhaustion and literally falling on their faces scraping them in the process.
The Drill Sergeant simply passed them as he continued to follow the dwindling group of trainees.
"That's what I want to see! Keep running till you fall from exhaustion!" He said this as he shot the backsides of trainees that were about to slow down again, they made an effort to speed up but the exhaustion was too great and they succumbed to their tired limbs.
The only ones left standing now were Naruto, Camilla, the dude with mutton chops that underestimated them when they entered the UNSC recruiting center, and Chaser.
Camilla was only now feeling the burn as she had high endurance stamina for things like running but lower physical strength stats.
Naruto is simply Naruto.
Mr. Muttonchops was still moving from sheer determination not to lose to these punks again. Soon though he slowed down as well and was shot multiple times but fell regardless due to wasting his energy trying to keep up with Camilla and Naruto the entire time.
"I guess I shouldn't be surprised that you two are the only ones left!" Drill Sergeant Condor said as he increased his speed to ride alongside the two remaining trainees. "You two had the highest endurance scores but I'm still surprised you managed to sprint for a consecutive 5 and a half minutes and counting!" He yelled over the mediocre roar of the Mongoose engines. "Even after the ten minute surprise jog, it's an impressive feat and I'm going to allow you two to stop now and rest while I collect the rest of the piles of shit with the proverbial doggy bag!"
And with that both Camilla and Naruto stopped sprinting, Camilla less gracefully though as she had stumbled on her weary legs and almost fell flat on her face if Naruto wasn't there to help support her.
"Thanks (huff huff) my legs (huff huff) were starting (huff huff) to go numb." Camilla said in between gulps of air while her hands were on her knees and her face was red from increased blood flow.
"No problem." Naruto said with a smile. He saw Camilla sit down on the ground cross legged to regain her energy faster and he followed suit. Chaser walked up to Camilla and Naruto and sat in front of them while panting excitedly. "He may be a hard ass but Drill Sergeant Condor seems to be fair." Naruto commented.
"Yeah, it was nice of him to give us that break instead of making us run back with him to pick up the rest of the trainees." Camilla said now that her breath had evened out.
As they continued to chat a little more for a few minutes they finally saw the Drill Sergeant leading the rest of the trainees in a sedate jog while he was still on his Mongoose. He eventually reached Naruto and Camilla's position and stopped in front of them.
"Get in front of the line you two, today's training exercises ain't over." The Drill Sergeant said in his normal deep/gruff voice.
Naruto and Camilla obeyed and the Drill Sergeant started moving again. They continued jogging on the same forested dirt path until they finally arrived at an opening from the forest that led into a large grassed clearing.
Someone in the back of the line groaned softly when they saw the obstacle that was on the grassy field.
"IF I HERE ANYONE WHINE EVER AGAIN!" The Drill Sergeant started. "I WILL WAKE YOU UP WITH MANY VOLTS OF ELECTRICITY COURSING THROUGH YOUR BODY PAINFULLY!" The Drill Sergeant said in a booming angry voice that instilled the fear in the trainees. "Now . . . I don't give a rat's ass if you're tired right now, each and every one of you is going to complete this obstacle course as fast as you possibly can. I want you to give it One-Hundred and ten percent effort because so help me god if I see you slacking I WILL START SHOOTING LIVE ROUNDS AT YOU!" Now everyone was truly worried and motivated with fear.
The obstacle course seemed more like a death trap only without the danger of dying as it started with a long pit of mud that had barbed wiring half a foot off the ground, and at the end of that there was a slightly slanted wooden wall with five ropes aligning its surface. Once you climbed that wall you had to grab hold of a zip-line that was positioned on top of a large puddle of muddy water. Afterwards, if you succeeded crossing without falling you had to climb down the segmented wall you landed on and run as fast as you can through a medium length rubber tire run. Immediately after that there were automated bags of sand swinging back and forth for 30 ft. As the final obstacle you simply had to run another 300 ft. towards the finish line where individual bottles of mineral infused water were waiting for them.
"Now that you sacks of stinky ass hairs have had time to analyze the field, I would greatly appreciate it, IF YOU QUIT STANDING AROUND LIKE BRAINLESS ZOMBIES!" That got everyone moving.
"Chaser Sit." Camilla ordered.
"Arf!" Chaser happily obeyed and sat down next to the Drill Sergeant sitting on his Mongoose. He then started wagging his tail when Drill Sergeant Condor petted his head a little as he watched the trainees struggle to complete the obstacle course.
"This is just a beginner obstacle course boys and girls! Once you have been properly conditioned I'll let you try out the much harder ones!" The Drill Sergeant yelled over the sound of struggling.
He watched with mild amusement as one or two trainees fell off the zip-line and into the muddy pond and then forcing themselves to keep moving forward. He also paid close attention to Camilla and Naruto as they seemed to be working in unison to quickly pass all the courses, Camilla seemed to have a certain way of doing everything and passed her knowledge onto Naruto, who in turn helped her when she was physically struggling in certain key areas such as the wall rope climbing.
Eventually they made it to the end where they met up with other physically fit trainees who seemed to have known what they were doing. The Sergeant let them work it out as a team because he never said or implied that as against the rules, in fact he was an encourager of team work because it makes the dream work as he would say.
"CHASER!" Camilla called from the finish line.
"Arf!" Chaser immediately ran towards his owners sitting form. Drill Sergeant Condor followed after the golden retriever in his Mongoose to meet up with all the trainees that finally made it.
"Well, well, well." He started once he was in front of the trainees. "I'm pretty excited right now, I got a group who seemed determined enough to keep pushing forward. Even though this course isn't that hard to a veteran trainee or soldier, I still give you an A for effort. Although in the coming day's I'm going to expect this very same grit from all of you if you're gonna make it pass my training." The Drill Sergeant said with a frown.
"Regardless, you have 2 minutes to rest up and drink that water. It has been infused with vitamins and minerals essential for food processing and bodily energy creation, you may be thinking why am, I Drill Sergeant Condor, Educating you on such trivial things as human biology. Well it's because every time you go through some kind of aspect of my training you will then march towards the cafeteria to eat some nasty tasting nutrient packed foods that will help your body repair your muscles faster than with normal food." He educated. "This scientifically proven nutrient packed meal will help your body make denser muscles and will quicken your training progress. This stuff is only in the ODST training program because of how expensive it is to make, so you shit-stains better appreciate the funding we get because it's going to turn you into the Elite soldiers of the UNSC." He finally finished. "You have one minute now, finish your water and prepare for the march back to the main building. Once you are done with your food which should take you no less than ten minutes, I want you waiting for me in your barrack where I would debrief you on the rest of you schedule." He informed.
'Man, this guy is nothing like Kakashi-sensei in terms of being on point.' Naruto thought idly.
Soon their time was up and without a word the Drill Sergeant started leaving slowly on his Mongoose. Everyone got the message and stood up to follow him.
After a good half-hour give or take a few minutes they exited the forest and were re-introduced to the red-paved running track located in front of the Montez Military Academy. Drill Sergeant Condor left them with the last few words of continue on to the cafeteria, and that is exactly what they did.
When they entered the cafeteria and got their food they were mildly surprised at how good it looked. Some got cheeseburgers with fries, others got steaks and mashed potatoes. Naruto and Camilla both chose grilled chicken and white rice with salad on the side and Camilla gave Naruto her tray and told him to pick a seat for them while she went to Chasers locker. She had already electronically transferred funds to a delivery company and an animal food store that immediately sent Chaser's food to the delivery company who received Camilla's request for one day delivery. His food arrived very early in the morning and an unknown staff member had put it in one of the lockers located behind the food line where the ODST's in training received their food in the cafeteria.
Naruto patiently waited for her and eventually she came back with Chaser on her heels and wagging his tail side to side in very swift motions.
She opened the bag of Beneful dog Chow and took out the plastic red bowl that came with the large bag, and poured Chaser a full bowl since he hadn't eaten a decent meal yesterday or today.
Eventually Camilla sat down and smiled at Naruto; she picked up her spoon and scooped some rice up to her mouth with Naruto doing the same.
The results were instantaneous, both of them spit out a mouthful of rice at the same time.
"Ugh! What is this stuff." Naruto said disgustedly as he looked down on his tray of food.
"I don't know but DS. Condor did warn us about its taste." She looked around the room and noticed everyone having the same reaction more or less. "Well, I'm going to hold my breath and eat it regardless because this is all we got during our time here and we need the energy." Camilla said sounding resigned to her fate.
"Awww man, I wish I had a steaming bowl of miso ramen right about now." Naruto said with real tears of sadness flowing down his faced.
"Hurry up and eat it you big baby, we only have seven minutes left before we have to meet DS. Condor in the barrack." Camilla was munching on her food as quickly as possible because she knew the longer you held back on eating the worse it became for your taste buds until you simply did not want to eat anymore.
Naruto followed her example with tears still streaming down his face. It was quite comical yet sad at the same time, the really must not taste that good.
Soon though they finished within the required time and got up to go rest on their stiff bunk beds while everyone else finished.
Before Camilla left she put Chaser's food back in the locker along with his bowl.
As they waited for everyone else Camilla decided to initiate some more small talk with Naruto from the top of her bunk bed.
"Hey Naruto?" Camilla called in a questioning tone of voice.
"Yeah what's up . . . Cammy girl, heh heh." Camilla chucked good naturedly at his bad joke.
"Well I was curious, what else did you learn back in your village?" Camilla asked with curiosity completely overtaking her voice due to her interest in Naruto's skill.
Naruto was only mildly surprised at the question but then answered it regardless.
"Well, I learned a lot of things. Most notably is hand to hand combat and swordsmanship." Naruto said honestly as he scratched the back of his head.
"Oh wow, you know how to use a sword?" Camilla asked pretty surprised, soon other trainees were coming in and were overhearing what they were both talking about.
"Yep, a Zanbato to be exact, and if you don't know what that is picture a huge six foot long blade that has a width of half a foot." Naruto said with hand motions for reference even though Camilla couldn't see him.
Camilla actually did a good job in picturing the blade but laughed when she saw put Naruto holding the blade in her mental picture.
"That sounds crazy Naruto." She said with a playful smile.
"It's true, I swear it. I also learned how to throw knives and shurikens accurately and how to disable people without killing them." Naruto added to his current resume of awesomeness.
"Hey, kid." Naruto turned around with a peeved look on his face at being called a kid, that's what they call young goats for pete's sake.
"My names Naruto and what do you want." Naruto said with peeved look and tone still in effect.
"I couldn't help but overhear that you know how to throw knives." The guy that was talking had a small Italian accent present while talking. It's also important to know that he was bald and had sharp eagle like green eyes, along with a black goatee and black and grey digital camo pants and muscle shirt with the word 'Hoorah!' printed on the front on his chest, and also olive drab boots. "My name is Erney Letterman, although I prefer if you called me Earl, I also happen to be an expert in throwing weapons sonny, say why don't we have ourselves a small competition if you think you're so good hotshot."
Naruto grinned viciously with his eyes being shadowed in the process.
"I accept you're challenge Earl, but what's our target?" Naruto asked with his grin subsided and his piercing blue eyes meeting the challenges own dark green ones.
"I have a target board in my bag along with my knives, I hope you have your own Naruto cuz mine are specially accustomed and balanced to fit my own personal criteria." He left with a smirk to get his bag which was a couple of bunk beds down.
Naruto himself got up from his sitting position on the bunk bed and stood in the middle of the barrack. He saw Earl walking back with a wooden circular target board and also strapped to his right leg was a three pocket knife holster with flat silver handles visibly sticking out.
"Imma go set this up on the other side sonny." Earl continued to walk past Naruto all the way to the other side of the barrack where there were lockers situated there.
Earl placed the target board on a coat hanging hook that was bolted on the locker and walked back to Naruto with a confident smirk in place.
"You choose who gets to go first sonny." Earl said confidently.
"I wanna see you go first, I'm interested in you're throwing technique." Naruto said while folding his arms with a smirk also on his face.
Everyone in the barrack was interested at what was taking place and their attention was directed at the two trainees squaring off in a battle of skills.
Because of this redirection of attention, no one noticed Drill Sergeant Condor stepping inside the barrack for his debriefing.
He surveyed the situation and took a wait and see approach to see what these two trainees were planning.
"Alright have it your way Naruto." Earl took out one of his throwing knives from his holster and Naruto looked at the blade in his hand and gave a silent nod of appreciation at its design. The entire blade was flat with only a thin coating of gripping rubber where the handle is. The sharpened blade also had serrated edges and small slanted holes going through the middle. It is also notable that the blade is sharpened on both side, a double edged throwing knife like his own kunai. "These throwing knives of mine are made of super heat treated Damascus steel that was dipped in oil for cooling to make it extra hard, now watch carefully sonny while you watch an expert throw." Earl said with the utmost confidence.
Earl placed his left hand in a distance from his face as a makeshift sight and reared his right hand back behind his head carefully. He held the thin handle if his weapon with his thumb and index finger and threw with stunning accuracy.
The blade rotated quickly and gracefully as it reached its mark in the center of the bull's eye and landed blade first with a resounding wooden thud.
Some people whistled appreciatively while others like Camilla and Drill Sergeant Condor decided to stay quiet and see what Naruto had up his sleeve.
"That was a pretty impressive throw although I'm still surprised you hit the mark so accurately with all that spinning your blade was doing." Naruto said while picking his ear with his pinky.
"Oh yeah, well what technique could you possibly have besides throwing it the same way I did. That's how everyone throws." Earl said in a slightly irritated but more puzzled tone of voice.
All Naruto said was . . .
"Watch."
And watch they did as they saw him reach into a pouch that they hadn't noticed before due to it blending in with his cargo khaki's.
Every one including the Sergeant and Earl and excluding Camilla were bewildered when Naruto took out four kunai. Each kunai ring was in every finger except his thumb, and when he took them out and held it in front of his face, it kind of reminded you of the wolverine.
"What the hell kinda throwing knives are those and what are they made of?" Earl asked with wide eyes as he had never seen anything like it. Each one was hand wrapped with red taped and looked very deadly.
"I guess you can call them multi-purpose knives, they are balanced enough to throw, long enough to use in a knife fight, and these rings can help you utilize them like claws or super deadly brass knuckles. The rings also serve the purpose of tying a rope on them and throwing the knife too, let's say the other side of a cliff to help you get across." Naruto said with a large toothy smirk. "And what they're made of you ask, regular steel. They are simply painted with black lacquer paint to make them non-reflective and undetectable in the night." Naruto explained with his smirking visage still in place.
He then took two knives from his right hand pinky and ring finger and placed them through his left middle finger and index finger. So now with perfect symmetry Naruto took his stance.
"And this is how I can throw four of them back to back." Naruto swung horizontally with his right hand first and let go of the first kunai on his index finger, then he immediately swung his left arm horizontally and let go of the kunai on that index finger as well. He swung so fast though that the first kunai was still in the air when he let go of the second one. When he swung with his left he also let the momentum carry his entire body into a three-hundred and sixty degree spin, during mid-spin he lowered into a semi crouch and when the spin was complete he swung his right arm straight and let the kunai glide off his right handed middle finger, and immediately after that throw he did a under-handed throw with the remaining kunai in his right hand.
All of this was done in the time span of two seconds.
And all of his kunai hit the target the way he intended to. On a side note he wasn't putting his all on the throws but there was still enough force for the kunai to punch through the wood and dent the dense aluminum lockers.
Not a single sound was made for about a minute as everyone stared at the target in bewilderment. What Naruto had done was create an equilateral triangle around the bull's eye where Earl's knife was located, and the last kunai he had thrown landed perfectly side by side in the bull's eye with Earls.
Suddenly everyone heard heavy clapping coming from behind them and they all directed their attention to Drill Sergeant Condor walking up to Naruto and Earl.
"That has got to be one of the most impressive things I have ever seen a trainee do." Drill Sergeant Condor said honestly. "Where did you two learn how to throw knives like that?"
Earl answered first.
"Sir! I'm self-taught sir." Earl explained briefly.
"Sir! My godfather taught me ninja skills sir." Naruto answered with a serious expression.
"HAH! Self-taught I can understand. But you better not be playing games with me Naruto." Drill Sergeant Condor said with a smirk.
"I wouldn't lie about that sir, it's one of my most treasured memories." Naruto was still speaking seriously and with respect to his superior, it's what Camilla told him to do so he would listen otherwise he would be penalized for insubordination and disrespect to his superiors.
"Well what else do you have in that ninja pouch of yours sunshine." The drill Sergeant said sarcastically.
"I have ninja throwing stars and ummmm." Naruto hesitated.
"Out with it Uzumaki, I don't have all day you know." The Sergeant said, peeved by his hesitation to say what else was in that pouch holster.
"Well, ya see. I also have very special exploding tags that can't be utilized by anyone else besides me." Naruto said with a nervous expression while also scratching the back of his head nervously.
"GIVE ME ONE GOOD REASON WHY I SHOUDN'T SHOOT YOU IN THE FACE WITH MY TAZER GUN UZUMAKI?!" Drill Sergeant Condor's loud voice reverberated around the room.
"Shit! I'll give you a demonstration if you calm down!" Naruto said with his hands waving franticly in front of him.
"Everyone outside now! I want all of you o witness what I do to jokers once this little shit finishes his quote on quote Demonstration" The Drill Sergeant walked away from Naruto and Earl and everyone followed. Camilla walked up to Naruto and Earl walked ahead after looking at Naruto and shaking his head. Earl must've thought 'If this kid is trying to be a joker while in the ODST's I don't wanna be part of a team with him and get killed. He may be very skilled with knives but that don't truly mean anything over here.' Earl thought to himself as he finally exited the flap.
Soon Naruto started walking towards the exit as well with Camilla and Chaser following him.
"Are you truly serious Naruto, you better not be joking . . . yet at the same time I feel like if it's true then you are defying the laws of physics and you're might be questioned on it." Camilla said in a worried tone. Yet at the same time she was very excited, hoping that Naruto is being serious.
"I am being serious Camilla." Naruto said as he and Camilla exited the barrack and saw everyone there waiting for them.
"Let's go to the range Ninja boy." Drill Sergeant Condor said with a sneer.
"I haven't said a single lie to you Drill Sergeant Condor and I wouldn't start now." Naruto said in his serious voice.
"We'll see about that Naruto." The Drill Sergeant said as they made way for the exterior shooting and explosive range located on the right side of the academy that was directed by a dirt path that opened into another clearing with all the equipment a shooting range usually has.
A small metal shed housed the training weapons and explosives.
The Sergeant walked up to a long white table that was situated in between the single person, segmented double opened cubicles that were lined up for a long stretch of fit for thirty people.
"Go on Naruto Uzumaki; show us one of your special exploding tags." The Drill Sergeant said this slightly sarcastically.
"Get ready to be amazed everyone, but first I would like to say that only my godfather can make these so don't ask me to recreate them because I don't know how." Naruto lied.
He reached into his leg pouch/holster and pulled out a single piece of paper with black ink symbols with a small reddish tint to them.
"Let me take a look at that Uzumaki." The Drill Sergeant said.
Naruto held the exploding tag in front of him for the Sergeant to visually analyze.
"It's a fucking piece of paper with squiggly lines, you expect me to believe this shit is going to explode?" He asked rhetorically.
"Don't believe." Naruto started. "Just observe." He ended simply.
He reached into his pouch again and took out a black throwing star. Then he crumpled the exploding tag into a ball of paper and placed it in the small hole of the throwing star.
Afterwards he turned around slowly while scanning everyone that was watching him, and then fully faced the extent of the large clearing where targets will be placed and fragmentation grenades will be used to teach how to throw them.
Naruto held the throwing star waist level then threw the way you would throw a stone to make it skip in the water. The shuriken traveled a remarkable 100 ft. before hitting a small dirt hill at the end of the clearing.
Naruto turned around and faced everyone while crossing his arms and having a small frown on his face.
"WELL!?" Drill Sergeant Condor asked in his loud deep/gruff voice.
Naruto made the mental command to his seal.
'Seal: Release!' Naruto mentally said loudly.
The result was instantaneous as the exact spot where the shuriken landed disappeared in a flash of light that was followed by an immense explosion, twice as powerful and twice the times more effective than the UNSC's M9 HE/DP-Frag Grenade. The resulting shockwave traveled even further as well, since it blew every ones hair excluding Earl, and it even took off Drill Sergeant Condor's hat off.
"BULLSHIT!" Was the Drill Sergeants first reaction. "FUCKING BULLSHIT!"
Everyone looked pass Naruto to see the resulting damage and the hill that was there before was more like a crevice with two cliff edges. Everyone then redirected there wide eyed expression towards Naruto's now smirking visage.
"I told you I don't lie, my godfather told me he uses special and ancient ingredients that have been passed down from his clan for many generations." Naruto once again lied.
"Naruto…" Camilla said breathlessly in shock and awe couples with that wide eyed stare at Naruto's face.
"UZUMAKI! . . . " The Drill Sergeant didn't even know what to say. "WHAT . . . THE FUCK!" The Drill Sergeant unknowingly went through the motions Goku goes through when he is powering up to super saiyan levels.
"I'm only going to say this once Drill Sergeant. Do. Not. Underestimate me." Naruto finished with a serious glare.
"Fuck . . . I'm not going to fucking ask, keep that shit to yourself and don't show it to anyone else, you hear me!" He looked at the rest of the group. "THIS GOES FOR ALL OF YOU! I don't need ONI spooks coming to my academy and interfering with my trainees, I see that you're a special individual Naruto so I'm gonna go extra hard on you so you can be our trump card when the shit hit's the fan. You're lucky I'm not someone else OR YOU WOULD HAVE BEEN REPORTED IMMEDIATELY!" Naruto truly felt lucky, it seems Kami can smile upon him sometimes. This also goes back to his later comment of the Drill Sergeant being fair.
"SIR YES SIR!" Naruto yelled respectively while saluting the way he saw everyone else salute during Drill Sergeant Condor's introduction.
"GOOD! Now I'm going to debrief all of you on the everyday schedule you should be expecting." The Drill Sergeant switched gears immediately completely ignoring the physics defying feat that happened moments ago. "You will wake up whenever I choose to wake you up, you will do what I tell you to do during training, you will then eat breakfast in the cafeteria, afterwards you will be expected to go to class within the main building for strategic education and the most recent knowledge on the Covenant that we have along with pre-educational simulations of how to operate their weaponry, some of their vehicles and how to operate the Single-Occupant-Exo_atmospheric-Insertion-Vehicle, after that I will train you some more!, and then you will eat the second meal of the day and rest for the remaining hours of the day hopefully doing something productive." With that break down he scanned the dozen amount of trainees and noted their determined expressions. "UNDERSTOOD MY SQUISHY TURDS!" He said in an angry voice that still sounded comical because of what he said.
"SIR YES SIR!" They all yelled in unison regardless of his degrading comment.
"GOOD, TRAINING OFFICIALLY STARTS TOMMOROW!, Today was just a warm up boys and girls." The evil smile he gave sent a few shivers down some people's backs.
Camilla looked at Naruto and Naruto felt her stare and turned to look at her.
"You've got some explaining to do buster." Camilla said with glare coupled with an adorable pout.
Naruto simply nodded.
"YOU ARE DISMISSED FOR TODAY!" Drill Sergeant Condor yelled at his trainees. He then started to walk away to do Kami knows what.
Everyone headed back into their barrack for some more rest on their sore muscles, the entire way back most of the trainees were staring at Naruto's back as he Camilla and Chaser led the group. Naruto prepared himself for some interrogations and that's exactly what he got when Camilla pointed at his bunk bed to tell him to sit down while she stayed standing with her arms crossed under her breasts.
Soon she was unexpectedly joined by Earl, and even mutton chops dude.
Naruto could only mentally prepare himself.
"You brought this upon yourself because of your loud mouth and your inability to think certain situations through." Kurama commented randomly within Naruto's mind. "(Sigh) When will you learn?"
Naruto dug himself in this hole of his own volition; luckily the Drill Sergeant will not appeal to ONI because he has had past dealings with them that have left a sour taste in his mouth. Coupled with the fact that ONI is notorious for keeping secrets Drill Sergeant Condor felt satisfied that he had a secret of his own now since ONI knew EVERYTHING about him and his family. They had even threatened his family once for denying his orders, because he wanted to keep his family safe he would forever live with the burden that he had killed civilians instead of saving them just to one up the Covenant, this event involved explosive, a Covenant base, and a stockade of their weaponry. When this war is hopefully over the Drill Sergeant hopes ONI will crumble with all of the bad publicity they will get from whistleblowers telling tales of ONI's transgressions during the war. Even though he is a heavily decorated Marine and ODST veteran, Drill Sergeant Condor hates the Office of Naval Intelligence with a passion along with an inexplicable number of people.
Regardless of all that, the Sergeant hopes to make this batch of trainees the best damn ODST's to ever leave this planet, so they can serve and protect humanity with fierce determination and devotion and so that they can also survive the worst of any situation that comes about. That is Drill Sergeant Condor's hope for this dozen group of people and dog. If a single SPARTAN can bring about some change, his ODST's will bring about THE change that he hopes they can achieve. So far it seems they have the will and determination, but that will not be enough, they will have to dig deeper within themselves and find their true purpose for being here. When, and they will, find this true purpose, would be the moment that they surpass the SPARTANS without the use of biological augmentations.
Authors note: It's just starting to get interesting folks. Change of subject: I have good news and bad news. I'll start with the bad news that is actually good news for me, I will be returning to the Poconos to celebrate the Fourth of July where me, a bunch of friends and family will be doing all kinds of awesome shit. The bad news that accompanies this is that there will be a two maybe three day delay to the next chapter. BUT FEAR NOT!The good news is if you the reader gives me a review I will be so happy. When I come back to and see a lot of reviews I will, I WILL! Make an extra long chapter. So please take a couple of seconds to write a review with questions, comments, concerns, ideas, or whatever. Just do it, Nike slogan. Peace out family, until next time.