The story is set in a similar universe as the "Main Naruto" universe. Some events in the main Naruto history my be altered to suit the story. If you haven't read the last chapter, do so to understand the story.
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Chapter 3 "New Comrades"
Kitahachi went to the hokage's mansion to find Sumio, but reaching the entrance to the building he was met by Sumio leaving.
"Kitahachi, I was just about to go get you. I talked with the hokage and he kindly offered me a house in the village. Of coarse I will need to become an active ninja again, doing missions and such to pay for it and our other living costs. So what do you think?"
"Well we don't have any other options. Take the offer. Become a ninja again. Its what Hikaru would have wanted."
They both headed off to their new home inside the hidden leaf village. It was small like there old home. Even know no-one was living in it, it was well kept. When they entered it was dark. Sumio pointed into the darkness.
"Kitahachi light the fire"
Kitahachi made various hand signs.
"Fire style fireball jutsu."
And with that the fire was lit. The room was lit up and their was heat filling the room. Not much furniture but enough to do them for awhile.
"First thing tomorrow we are to go to the hokage. He wishes to speak with you. Its been a long day. Get some rest." said Sumio.
Kitahachi was starting to feel very hungry now. He only had eaten once today and he didn't even eat it all. He explored the house a puck a bedroom. It was strange sleeping somewhere else.
Mourning came and the 2 of them went out for breakfast. With so much that happened, it was easy to forget what started it all. Hikaru`s death. When they where done with breakfast, they headed to the Hokage. He looked to be file-ling paper work when they entered.
"Ah Kitahachi, Sumio. So nice to see you again. How do you like your new home."
"Its going to take some while getting used to." said Sumio
"And you Kitahachi?"
"Yes fine. You wanted to speak with me?" said Kitahachi, already bored with the small talk and wanting to get to the point.
"Yes. As you probably already know, Sumio is to become an active ninja once again. When he is away doing missions outside the village, you will be left alone. Now Sumio tells me, you are trained in the art of the shinobi?"
"Yes sir" said Kitahachi wondering where this conversation was going.
"Well there is a squad of new Genin, fresh out of the academy who are missing a third member. Would you like to join this group and become a shinobi of the leaf?"
He looked at Sumio. He thought for awhile until he came to a dissension.
"I accept. On one condition. We find the men who killed Hikaru."
The hokage and Sumio weir surprised by this. The looked to each other and gave a nod.
"Of coarse. She will be avenged. I promise you."
"So do I get a headband" he said with a smile on his face.
"To be honest I had a feeling you would say yes. So I called for you new sensei."
The door opened. A man with short black spiky hair entered with a grin on his face. He was sort of awkward and unprofessional looking, like he was just new at his job.
"Um, hello. My name is Takasugi Matsuyo. And ill be your new sensei."
Sumio give a glance to Kaneko. A glance that said "who the hell is this guy".
"Takasugi has been a jonin for awhile now but this will be the first team he has lead." said the hokage explaining why he was so unprofessional.
"OK Takasugi. Get it together, your a leader now. My pupils will look up to me." he thought into himself.
Then he looked at Kitahachi. Kitahachi`s face was so serious and emotionless. Takasugi found him intimidating which made him go even more red and embarrassed.
"Takasugi don't you have something you want to say to your new pupil Kitahachi." said the hokage pushing him along to get to the point.
"Yes. I must test your skills as a ninja, so follow me and we will go to the training grounds."
He made his way out the door. Kitahachi gave Sumio a glance then followed Takasugi. As he closed the door behind him he heard Sumio say to the hokage "really?" Referring to Takasugi.
They made their way to the training grounds.
"The final stage of the chunin exams take place here. When the chunin exams are in the hidden leaf that is. I believe the next one takes place in the hidden sand village." said Takasugi squinting his eyes to think if what he was saying was correct.
They entered the training grounds. But it was more of a stadium than a training ground. There was large walls surrounding the stadium. Up high, there was rows of seats for spectators. But at this minute there was only the two of them in the hole stadium.
"OK. First a warm up. Some tai-jutsu?" he said with question in his voice.
Kitahachi still looked at him with the same serious, unimpressed look. Takasugi grinned. But not they same clueless way as before. Now this grin made Kitahachi think there was more to this guy than a clueless fool. No, this man was a ninja. Suddenly out of nowhere Takasugi's foot was an inch from Kitahachi`s face. But Kitahachi was quick to react. He blocked it with one arm, and jump away giving a good distance between the two. Now Kitahachi prepared for battle.
Takasugi ran at him, and swung a punch. Kitahachi dodged it, and the few other punches and kicks after that.
"You can keep up all right, but can you match me?" Takasugi said.
Kitahachi started to fight back. One hit after the other, each being dodged. Takasugi was starting to read his fighting pattern. Three punches, a knee, and finally a kick then starting all over again. He was just about to knee when Takasugi was about to strike. Takasugi drove his fist forward, but Kitahachi had disappeared. Takasugi stopped and raised an eyebrow. Kitahachi was now behind him with a kunai at Takasugi's throat.
"How? When? How did he get behind me? And when did he take my kunai from its holster?" he thought into himself.
Now Kitahachi was wearing the grin.
"Is he really that fast?" thought Takasugi.
"Nice skills. Your obviously not new to tai-jutsu. Now for nin-jutsu."
Kitahachi quickly took the kunai from his throat and jumped back again. Now with a wider distance between them.
Takasugi made a few hand signs, not taking his eyes of Kitahachi.
"Ice style, frost breath" he said while taking in a deep breath that widened his chest.
He then slowly started to breath out. His breath could be seen. It looked more like smoke, and not hot smoke from something burning, no it looked like the sky during a snow storm. It almost reached Kitahachi but he soon dodged it. Takasugi moved his head to aim his attack. Kitahachi kept dodging and dodging until Takasugi ran at him still using his frost breath. Kitahachi dodged while running backwards until he hit the wall behind him. Now he had no where to go, but up. Kitahachi applied chakra to his feet and ran up the wall. He could see behind him the frost still following him. The frost made a layer of ice over the stone wall. Kitahachi thought how if it caught him he would be frozen too. Kitahachi was tired of running, now it was his turn. He made some hand signs.
"Fire style, fireball jutsu" he said filling his lungs with air.
He breathed out heavy, but not all at once. His fire and Takasugi's frost met. Kitahachi was near the top of the wall while Takasugi was below it. There two attacks, now playing tug of war with each other, matching each others strength. Takasugi was now starting to run out of breath. Kitahachi saw this as an opening. He increased the force of his breath giving him the advantage. Now at the point where the attacks met, was water pouring down. The fire was melting the ice particles in the frost breath. This was it, Kitahachi`s fire breath was near to Takasugi, pushing back his attack. Until between them was a large doom, repelling both their attacks.
"What? Is this some sort of jutsu? No wait. There is something spinning in the middle." Kitahachi thought to himself.
Kitahachi and Takasugi stopped their attacks, and the spinning dome began to stop. There now stood a young girl around the same age as Kitahachi. She had long black hair, but there was something off about her. Her eyes where completely white with no pupil. She turned to Takasugi, ignoring Kitahachi.
"Sensei, why haven't we done a single mission yet." she said with anger in her voice.
"You know why, to do a mission you need a squad of 4 ninja. Our squad is missing one more ninja." he replied.
"Then why are you battling with this guy, shouldn't you be finding a new team-mate."
"Well you see, "this guy" is your new team-mate. I was testing his skills and he's good"
Kitahachi jumped down from the wall. She took a long hard look at him.
"What's your name" she said demandingly.
"Kitahachi, Kitahachi Genda" he said a little nervously.
"What's your skills?"
"Umm" he mumbled with a blank expression.
"What's you skills? Are you good at gen-jutsu, tai-jutsu or nin-jutsu? What type of jutsu do you use? Wind style, fire style, water style, lighting style, earth style?" she said with even more anger than before.
"I'm a lighting style, but I use fire style. I don't know any lighting jutsu. My biggest skill is my speed and tie-jutsu" he said confidently.
"So, your fast eh?" said a voice from behind him.
Kitahachi turned around to see a boy around his age. He couldn't see much of his face because he wore a hood. Kitahachi wondered how he got behind him without him knowing.
"Kitahachi these are you new team-mates. Hori Hyuga and Eizo Kurohiko. Now that your all here I name this squad, squad 9."
Thank you for reading, and I hoped you enjoyed it!
The next chapter will be online the Monday after this chapter goes up. Keep reading to see what happens to Kitahachi.