The Lazy Maelstrom

By The Obsidian Blade

Chapter three-genin teams and Konohamaru

Naruto strolled into the class room wearing completely new attire. He now wore a black jean jacket with inside pockets. The jacket stopped a few centimeters above the hip and the left sleeve was torn off, revealing a bandaged arm and a strip of black leather with five six-centimeter cylinders, each containing a seven centimeter spike. Under his jacket he wore a mesh shirtsleeve shirt. Under the torso he wore black pants with a lot of pockets and black orange pin-striped boots with spiked toes. His kunai holster was tied around his right thigh and his weapons pouch was on the back of his hip. He had covered his hands with black fingerless gloves with a metal plate on the back of each hand. The Konoha head band was no longer a headband, but a part of his jacket. He had taken off the blue fabric and tied it to his jacket as it would be harder to steal, but could be easily disguised with the little genjutsu he learned. He cut his hair a lot shorter than it used to be. It was now a lot like the late Yondaime's mop of golden hair. Even the two bangs framing his face were like the Yondaime's. Of course his hair was more unruly due to the lack of a headband. Of course he still wore his sunglasses!

Today was the day he would get his picture taken as an official Konoha Nin. He smiled at the thought. He would now able to protect his friends and family and grow stronger without the hassle of having to ask people for help with his training. He looked at the camera man and adopted a lazy pose.

FLASH.

Naruto rubbed his eyes from the sudden flash, and he looked at the Hokage as the ID developed. Man, this was so boring. What did they need ID-cards for this anyway? So they could identify a person if they went haywire? It would make enemy-Nin recognize a village's weapon a lot easier than it should have. All they needed to do was infiltrate a village and voila- you have access to a record of every one of their soldiers. He decided to cut off the train of thought as it was not necessary to think about it. It was not his job to think about such things, it was his job to be the soldier, the shield and the sword of Konohagakure no Sato.

Suddenly, the door swung open to reveal a kid around eight years old. He wore a yellow shirt with a rough imprint of a red leaf design on the front. His grey pants reached to just above his sandals. On his head was a grey helmet with a small tuff of hair coming out of the top. The blue scarf around his neck reached all the way to the floor, and it was long enough to trip him in a fight.

Naruto shook his head. The kid did seem like he wanted to be a ninja but he was going about it all wrong. The kid needed some serious help.

All the old man could do was to shake his head. 'Why does this have to happen every day?' he asked himself silently. This was seriously getting annoying.

"I got you now old man!" the young boy exclaimed as he lunged for Sarutobi. About half his way there he fell on his ass because his feet got entangled with his scarf. The kid quickly got up and started to look for an excuse, or better yet, someone to blame. He spotted Naruto and quickly pointed an accusing finger at the blonde demon container.

"You! You tripped me!"

"Sorry to break it to you kid, but you tripped over your own scarf. If you're trying to become a ninja you might want to ditch the scarf until your legs grows longer. It could cause too many accidents like the one earlier, and you don't want that happening in a fight." The kid seemed to be irked by what the blonde said as well as the lazy tone he said it in. Why the hell should he listen to the blonde anyway? After all, the blonde was just a genin.

The little kid started to rant and rave before a jounin came in. He wore a standard jounin outfit with the all the standard gear. His headband was tied around his head like a bandana, and dark sunglasses made sure that no one could see his eyes. He walked in right when Naruto was raising his hand to flick Konohamaru on the forehead.

"What do you think you are doing to the honorable grandson?!" Naruto turned his head to the man with a questioning stare while the young child looked at the blonde with a smug look.

'Yah, what are you going to do now?' the boy thought. Then he felt a flick on his forehead, sending him backwards a few feet crashing into a wall that was right in his path. Though he was sliding towards the wall when he hit it, the flick was still powerful. He looked at the blonde as he picked up his ID and casually started to walk out the door. The boy was convinced that the blonde would be his sensei, at the very least for one day.

"Come on honorable grandson, we got to get you to become Hokage faster, and I'm the only one who could pave the path for you." The child sighed. Why did he always have to find a fucking way around the closet pervert?

Naruto was on his way to the compound. His body movements were lazy as usual. He had to be there for tomorrow's team placements. He shook his head at the way they placed people on teams. If he had it his way he would base a team off of relations. Unfortunately, karma hated everybody's guts… especially his. Then the blonde Jinchuriki felt something weird. A chakra source that seemed to be a little bit too weak compared to other genin his age. His stalker couldn't be more than an academy student with power like that. The lazy teen turned around to see what looked like it could be the worst attempt at a disguise ever- a cloth that was made to look like several pieces of wood making up a fence, only it was held the wrong way. The blonde sighed. "You might want to turn the cloth the right way before you put it up. It probably helps your stealth a lot."

The cloth was thrown away and there stood a smirking boy, the very same boy that he flicked into a wall earlier.

"So you are good enough to see right through my clever disguise." The kid said, adopting what seemed to be a smug smirk. Naruto shook his head. Didn't the kid pay any attention to what the fuck that was said? That could cause a serious problem to him later on in the future, but for now he decided he wasn't going to call the kid on it. "So it's settled. You will be my newest sensei!"

Naruto looked at him quizzically before shaking his head. "That so, eh?" he said in a lazy voice.

"Hey, don' say it like that. You make it sound like it's a bad thing." The blonde shook his head before looking the boy over.

"So what's your name?" the boy seemed to beam at the question.

"My name is Konohamaru, boss." Naruto smiled slightly.

"Well Konohamaru, let's go. I have time to kill and you need some new clothes if you want to be trained by me." Konohamaru smiled brightly before following in the lazy teen's footsteps.

It was thirty minutes later when they arrived at a small store called 'The Wolf Claw.' "Um, boss. Why are we here? I thought we were going to get some new clothes."

Naruto smirked.

"Well gaki. You see that is what we came here for." The kid looked at Naruto with a questioning look. "This is ninja shop. By the looks of your clothes I would say you got them at a civilian shop. This is where you are going to get all of your supplies from now on." The blonde led the brunette inside the shop.

Konohamaru was amazed by the shop. It wasn't that it was all that big, no, far from it. It was because it had everything a ninja could ever need, from clothes to kunai and everything in between. He looked at the isles and then looked at Naruto. He saw him stare back at him with a lazy expression. "Go nuts, but remember you are only going to pick out one outfit. I will get duplicates and some other things you're going to need."

With a yell of "THANK YOU BOSS", Konohamaru ran for the clothes section. It was as if he was a kid picking out a new puppy. Naruto walked towards the isles where he grabbed three packs of kunai, five packs of shuriken, some weights and clothes that could fit, a lead apron and some other objects that he deemed necessary. He also grabbed a duffle bag to hold the stuff. When he got to the front he saw Konohamaru waiting patiently.

"Wow Gaki, you were quick." He then looked at the clothes in Konohamaru's hands and then at the young kid. He was now wearing a black sleeveless turtle neck, white shorts, black sandals, a metal gauntlet with spikes on the knuckles, and a black leather fingerless glove on his right hand. What made Naruto raise an eyebrow was the long sword he grabbed from the rack. Most of the thing was gold in colour. The hand guard had what looked like wings extending from the skull holding cross. Up part of the blade were three crosses that connected and held skull in the center. At the bottom of the hilt was a golden half of a sun. The hilt was wrapped up in red leather cord. Along the middle of the blade was an orange streak.

He also noticed that he ditched the helmet and the scarf for safety reasons.

"You know I won't teach you how to use her right?" the blonde asked as he pointed at the sword. He saw Konohamaru nod a bit. "So what's her name?"

Konohamaru smirked before talking. "Ember of Hell." Naruto smirked. A rightful name for a sword like the one Konohamaru had.

"Whatever. Let's go pay for the stuff and then we can get some other stuff done." Konohamaru nodded before following Naruto to pay for the stuff.

They were now at the top of the Hokage monument. Naruto quickly explained that he would only be teaching the youth for one day, as he had his own training to worry about and he was nowhere near as strong as he wanted to be. Konohamaru seemed to take it well, before Naruto decided to ask the boy a question. "Why do you want to become Hokage Konohamaru?"

"To get out of my grandfather's shadow," Konohamaru replied. The reply seemed to make Naruto look at him for a second before chuckling a little, which seemed to irk the brunette a bit. How dare he make fun of a dream?

"Sorry to break it to you kid, but there are no shortcuts in life. If someone offers that to you, they are probably either trying to kiss up to you or kill you." Konohamaru froze at the tone of his voice. It sounded serious, something that he was not expecting from the blonde. "And besides, you are not the only one aiming to be Hokage. You got a few other competitors for it, namely me." Naruto got to his feet before looking at Konohamaru. "I have to go before Kaa-san starts to worry about where I am. That could be unpleasant." he started off but was stopped by Konohamaru.

"From now on we are rivals!" Naruto eyes the kid before smiling.

"Wouldn't have had it any differently, Gaki." He then used a Shunshin to get home quickly. When he got there… well let's just say Yoshino had started to worry and was really pissed about it. He really got a scolding.

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Naruto walked into the classroom exactly on time as usual. He looked for an empty seat and found one next to the Uchiha, or rather right in front of the brooding scion of the Uchiha. He was really starting to dislike the teen more and more. He ignored everyone that did not have any use to him at all. Naruto could tell that to Sasuke, the women were just breeding material.

The blonde looked at Iruka as he explained what it meant to be a ninja of the leaf, and the importance of what goes on. He really did not like lectures that he received more than once, so he fell asleep only to be smacked in the back of the head by Ino. He looked at Iruka again and noticed that the teams were being called.

Naruto zoned out the people he deemed not important... When it came to team seven he decided to listen.

"Team seven will be Nara Naruto, Uchiha Sasuke, and Haruno Sakura." When he finished he heard the protests of Ino saying that no one but her should be on a team with her precious Sasuke-kun, while Sakura was boasting about being on that very team with her 'destined one'.

"Quiet down or I will make you!" everybody froze at that. What teacher would do that to his students? They all began to wonder what would happen if he followed through with the threat.

"Good now, team eight will be Hyuuga Hinata, Inuzuka Kiba, and Aburame Shino. Team nine is still in circulation from last year. Team ten will be Nara Shikamaru, Akamichi Chouji, and Yamanaka Ino. Your senseis will be here in a few minutes." He then left the class as the senseis rolled in and claimed their students to do Kami-knows-what.

Naruto then felt a familiar chakra presence along with another he could not recognize. He looked at the door, knowing it to be the black haired lady's chakra that he felt.

Kurenai walked into the classroom to pick up her team. She was a bit miffed that she could not get Naruto placed on her team as Kakashi had called dibs on him from the start. And she really wanted someone who had a steady mind on her team and didn't focus on only one area of combat. Sure she had the Aburame kid, but he focused too much on his bugs for combat. She guessed that's why she got a team of genin from a clan with a special trait. Each one complemented the other, but it would be easy to find a way around it if people knew the full extent of it. That is why she wanted Naruto on her team. That and she really wanted to claim him as hers. Hey, all girls want a man who is not perverted at all or at least know when it is appropriate, and she was sure that she could claim the blonde.

The man next to her was Sarutobi Asuma, one of her best friends who is almost like a brother to her. He was about six foot wearing the standard jounin gear. Of course he had the little white flag around his waist to signify that he had been a fire guard at one point in his life. He had a cigarette in his mouth, something that she wished he would quit. Sure he said that he figured out away to light it without it dealing any harm to him or to any other people, but the damned smoke could suffocate people in a closed off area if the smoke didn't have anywhere to go. That and the smoke smelled like shit.

She walked into the classroom and looked at all the students who didn't get picked up. They all seemed to be of interest as they did not show anything special about them, and did not try to use their looks to intimidate. It was the people who looked as if they could not harm anyone that could be most dangerous. It was those people that she kept an eye on at all times. She then looked at her blonde love interest in the middle row, who just so happened to be staring at her. She blushed heavily before calling her team and going out of the class room, leaving a smirking Asuma. Man, did he have good blackmail material.

After they left he looked around the classroom and realized that he and his other two 'teammates' were the only ones left in the room. He looked at the clock before resting his head on his arms and fell asleep. It was thirty minutes later that he was woken up by another familiar chakra presence. He could not place is finger on it, but he knew who it was. All he remembered was that the person was a male.

He kept his eyes on the door, zoning out Sakura's ranting on punctuality and how she would kill her sensei for being late and wasting her- and her precious Sasuke's time. The door opened slowly to reveal the tardy jounin sensei. He had silver gravity-defying hair that surprisingly enough seemed to be all natural, a standard jounin outfit. A Konoha headband hung sloppily over his face, covering one of his eyes, and a mask starting from the neck went all the way up to the bridge of his nose.

Kakashi lazily scanned the genin he was supposed to teach. Each one showed the potential to be great, but it would be their personality and the willingness they had to work themselves to the bone that would get them far. "My first impression of you three is that I hate you all. Now meet me on the roof in five minutes." The silver haired jounin disappeared in a puff of smoke, leaving three genin to soak up what he just said.

A/N Well there you go. The third chapter is finally here. My Beta said that I should tweak Naruto a bit so I did. He should have a greater impact then he would normally. I may have forgotten to explain a few things last chapter.

Furoamasutaa-no-Jutsu means either floor master jutsu or wall master jutsu. I got this idea of Legend of Zelda. In a lot of ways it is like floor master. The user can control where the hands go just by thinking it. The only problem is that the user is literally making his own shadows by focusing their chakra. If I get any shit about that idea, well, let's just say it involves four horses and four lengths of rope. When the hands grab a person it will be a lot like what would happen in Zelda except the starting point is anywhere the user is touching a solid object. Like a lot of shadows it can not jump form solid object to solid object unless there is a way to get across there in its shadow form. In hand form it could touch the object but it will not be able to go any further. There are also a few surprises for this jutsu as well.

Kage Bunshin-no-jutsu is a better version of Bunshin-no-jutsu. Unlike the Bunshin-no-jutsu this one is solid. When the clone dispels the user gains the information the clone has gained. The primary use for the jutsu is for infiltration or distraction as they are easy to dispel. The way that Naruto uses it is to either overwhelm the opponent or to even the playing field. The two problems with the jutsu are that it can exhaust the user's chakra and could give a major migraine if the information is gained improperly.

I am going to try to make it easier to find the jutsus in the story or any of my stories for that matter and try to explain what they do in the future.