Naruto new game new challenge: chapter 4
"Shut up you lazy ass I'm not letting you go back to the academy and mooch around for another year." Naruto was mad madder than he had been in a long time, how dare Kakashi try to break up his team, they'd just proven they could work extremely well together, and who ever heard of a two man team, no-one everyone was in a three man team. Then it hit him like a ton of bricks. "Oh you son of a bitch INU! This is just another part of your test isn't it?"
Kakashi face-palmed at Naruto's slip of the tongue but let it go. "Yes, yes well done Naruto, and calm down Hinata you don't have to choose. I get the feeling you already knew Shikamaru." Looking confused Hinata turned from left to right seeing her teammates smiling at her then to her sensei. "Congratulations team 10 pass."
PING
'NOT NOW!' The alert window opened up directly in front of the young genin as per usual, this time blotting out the view of everyone around him.
Quest completed: Trash Talk
Rewards: 500 ExP
'Yaaaay… I can't wait to deal with this for the rest of my life. Close' thanking the gods he'd figured out how to close the alerts without making himself look like a raving lunatic with a major physical twitch Naruto refocused his attention on his team and sensei, Kakashi seemed to be saying something but Naruto hadn't been paying attention and as such he had no idea what was being said.
PING
Level up: level 4 obtained
+10 stat points to allocate.
Naruto had to physically restrain himself from exploding at the alert window for interrupting him yet again. To the other three in the clearing it merely looked like Naruto was pissed off at something. "Do you have a problem with that Naruto?" apparently Kakashi had just finished explaining something when the alert had appeared.
"Huh, oh sorry Kakashi-sensei, no I don't have any problem… could you repeat that again though just in case?" Naruto had never been more embarrassed yeah sure this situation happened a lot at the academy but no-one cared there and neither did he, he was more than happy to take being yelled at by Iruka or whoever else as long as he could go back to doodling or people-watching, pretty much anything other than pay attention.
Kakashi just sighed. "Okay, okay Naruto you seem to be pretty tired to not have heard what I said but here it is again. From tomorrow onward you are all genin in the shinobi corps of Konohagakure and therefore are expected to take missions regularly." Now while Naruto knew that he would be going on missions as a ninja it was always more of an aspiration and a dream, with the prospect of going out into the world on missions in front of him he couldn't he couldn't help but smile and bounce excitedly like a child the night before Christmas. "Now we will be taking missions in three days' time, in that period I will be drilling you all on teamwork and helping to improve your individual skills." Shikamaru was bored now having already heard this once before and had taken to a small nap against a tree. "It should take about four hours per mission and that should allow us to finish everyday around three." Hinata remained where she was but wasn't really paying attention either. "Then from four until nine we will be training as a team." Shikamaru had grumbled and moaned when this was first announced but Naruto was positively beaming, five hours of training a day, this is going to be great.
"Wait how can we do our ninja missions in such a short period of time, even travelling would take much, much longer than that." Kakashi just flashed Naruto an eye-smile and turned to leave.
"Never mind that Naruto just leave that to me. Anyway you're all free for the rest of the day so go ahead and do what you want." Naruto was still confused and honestly hoped to receive a decent amount of training from Kakashi today but it seemed like the rest of the team was tired seeing Hinata still seemed out of breath from the test and Shikamaru was asleep by now though that didn't really mean much from the nara.
"So are you guys going home then?" Naruto didn't want his team to leave but decided to let them leave as no-one really had as much energy as him.
"H-Hai Naruto-kun I need to go let my father know that I passed the secondary test." With that Hinata turned to leave. "Goodbye nara-san, Naruto-kun." And with that the young heiress walked away. Or was she skipping Naruto couldn't really tell.
"Get your lazy ass up I know you aren't asleep over there." Seeing as Shikamaru made no effort to get up Naruto decided to 'motivate' his friend. Picking up a small rock, not too small that it wouldn't hurt but not too large that it would injure. "I said get up you lazy ass." Shikamaru still didn't move so Naruto decided enough was enough and launched the rock at his 'sleeping' friends head.
Just before the rock made contact Shikamaru rolled to the side in a way that made it seem like he was still asleep. 'That lazy mother… alright dodge this you god damn sloth.' Naruto plucked a single shuriken from his holster and threw it into the tree above Shikamaru.
"If you wanted to wake me surely you could have tried a bit harder with the aiming Naruto." Shikamaru could hear Naruto running away from where he was before the throw and had a horrible feeling all of a sudden. "What the hell is that buzzing noise… oh Naruto you piece of shit." Looking up Shikamaru saw the shuriken Naruto had thrown embedded into a large beehive.
Naruto sat against a tree and couldn't hold in his laughter at watching his new teammate bolt upright and run around in circles before disappearing into the distance. "That'll teach the lazy-ass to ignore me next time." Standing up and seeing he was the only one still left in the clearing Naruto decided to re-open the his status screen and look at increasing his stats once again since his level increase.
'Status screen' the familiar alert popped up in front of him and he began to study his stats more closely. 'Okay so I've got pretty balanced stats now, minus my defence and endurance. I guess I could increase these, but I don't really see the need to increase these just yet. I mean what's the point in being able to take a hit when I could just avoid it altogether.' He sat there for a while just pondering which skills to increase.
'My chakra is still really far away from the rest though the (+255) is kind of weird it does mean I don't have to worry about increasing that anytime soon. I could increase my control some more but its good enough at the moment for what I can actually use it in.' looking through the bottom few stats he was still confused. 'Why on earth is charisma a stat? I mean I get it in games but I don't see how I'm going to be able to use it now.' He began to think back over the test with Kakashi and realised the most useful ability he had was his taijutsu still. 'I guess I could increase my speed some more that's always useful.' He decided to add five points to speed bringing it up to an even 20.
The familiar light pulsed before flying into him. He felt his muscles tighten for a second before relaxing. 'That still feels weird I doubt I will ever get used to that. I suppose I could just increase my intelligence and strength for now.' With that he added two points to strength and three to intelligence. Two more lights flew at him and he felt a brief headache and his muscles expand slightly.
Deciding to test out his new speed he began dashing back and forth around the training ground before hopping into the trees and bouncing around like some sort of rubber monkey hopped up on coke. "Hahaha this is great I've never felt this light before. I wonder if I can go faster?" pumping chakra into his legs he began to rocket around now easily moving faster than Kakashi had been during the test though he knew Kakashi would have been holding back a lot to test mere genin. But seeing something in the corner of his eye caused Naruto to lose concentration and go barrelling face first into the side of a tree.
Obito sat atop the training posts watching Naruto fly around the training ground before hopping into the trees. 'Well I gotta admit the kid has speed, more so than some chunin, though he doesn't look used to moving that fast.' Almost as soon as he had thought that Naruto went splat. "Ouch, you okay kid?" obito yelled across the clearing.
Naruto just grumbled and tried to pry himself off of the floor though the grass and bark in his mouth was stopping him from responding. Spitting it all out and wiping his tongue Naruto turned to easily recognisable uchiha. "Oh it's the stalker sensei, how can I help?"
"Oh you do wound me Naruto, how can you treat one of your lifelong protectors that way?" This genuinely puzzled Naruto before he thought back to how Kakashi was one of the ANBU who used to watch over him as a kid, this man couldn't be another could he.
'Well it's certainly not Neko as he doesn't really have the chest for it…' the proverbial light-bulb immediately went off above the blonde's head. "Hōō-san is that you?"
"Well I'm hardly going to say yes to that am I, but I won't say no either." Hopped off of the training post obito stretched his legs and flexed his arms. Sitting in that position too long made him feel for older than he cared for. "Anyway Naruto what are you up out here, are you stalking me or something? I get the feeling Sasuke gets enough of that for the two of us."
Naruto would have punched the man if he didn't realise how much stronger the older man was from himself. "Right… anyway how can I help you Hōō-san?"
Obito just released a small chuckle. "It's nothing really Naruto I was just wondering how the test with Kakashi went, neither of us has ever passed a team, though I just never wanted one, he always used some convoluted test to try and trick his teams."
"Well we passed the test and I don't know what convoluted means but we managed to see 'underneath the underneath' I think Kakashi sensei might have gone easy on us though if what you said is true."
"Don't worry about that Naruto, well anyway congratulations on passing. Don't train to hard today though you don't wanna hurt yourself do you?"
Obito just reached down and ruffled his hair bringing a small scowl to Naruto's face. 'God-dammit I wish people would stop doing that, I'm not a dog!' "Hey Hōō-san how did the test for your squad go then?"
This caused obito to roll his one visible eye and sigh heavily. "Well it went pretty abysmally and honestly I wouldn't have passed them if I had a choice, but hey gotta follow whatever the council says." Naruto seemed confused he knew Kiba and Sasuke would be at the very least competent for genin and while Ino could be a pain she still had her clan-techniques to rely on.
"I don't understand, what happened Hōō-san?" Obito originally thought it best not to explain his team's flaws so openly but then thought against it it's not like Naruto would do anything with the info.
"Well Naruto let's just say the teamwork didn't exactly flow today."
Flashback:
Sasuke arrived at training ground seven hands in pockets, shoulders hunched over and bottom lip looking swollen and heavy, basically he was living up to any name Naruto could have ever thought up about him. But hey he was happy-'ish' this way. Though said 'happiness' was quickly dashed as he had to sidestep to avoid an Ino glomping him from behind.
"Aww Sasuke-kun don't you wanna hug from little old me?" a quick no and storm off from the raven haired uchiha seemed to curb the platinum blondes efforts.
"Yo Teme, blondie any idea how long it will take sensei to get here?" Kiba was the first to arrive though had ignored the arrival of his teammates at first, seeing as he knew exactly what was going to happen anyway.
"He's normally late to everything so we might be here for a while. He probably won't get here until nine at least." Sasuke seemed a bit more talkative than he did in the academy already, though Kiba suspected that probably had more to do with fan girls squealing after he spoke a single word. Speaking of which Sasuke was forced to dodge another hug from Ino just as Obito arrived.
"Ah I see you are already practising some taijutsu. That's good, though you may want to improve your speed and power a little bit blondie, Sasuke isn't all that fast and you barely touched him.
Ino just pouted and thought about yelling at the man but decided against, Sasuke just grunted as per usual not appreciating his uncle's attempt at humour.
"Anyway brats it's time for your genin test, today you are all going to fight me." Kiba shivered a little bit the adrenaline already pumping through his veins. Sasuke seemed to have a smirk on his face. Finally there was Ino who looked like she was about to have a heart attack.
"How the hell are we meant to fight a jounin? I mean sure Sasuke is super strong but dog-boy here won't be able to do much and I've got no delusions about my own strength." Obito had to stop himself for catching the girl about her other delusions but thought against it.
"Calm down blondie I'll be giving myself a handicap, I won't use any ninjutsu also." He threw a small pool of ninja-wire at Kiba. "You're going to my right hand behind my back." Kiba quickly tied his hand up trying to make it extra tight to try and give them as much of an advantage as possible. "Alright Kiba that should do, now your aim in this fight is going to be knock me on my back." All three seemed to ease up at this but that's not what Obito wanted so he threw out some killing intent which immediately got the tension going again.
All three genin gulped but immediately dashed away into the trees. 'The council can make me take the team all they want, but I'll be damned if I don't get some fun out of this first.' "ALRIGHT BRATS YOU BETTER RUN AND HIDE BECAUSE I'M GONNA MAKE YOU WISH YOU WERE NEVER BORN!" with that he stormed into the treeline releasing a constant stream of killing intent.
Flashback off:
"Well needless to say it didn't exactly go well from there, the brats refused to work together what with Sasuke trying the usual uchiha machismo crap, Kiba charging in like a bull with akamaru and Ino fangirling it up for the most part. Kiba and Ino worked together after a screwed with them some and Sasuke tried to take advantage of their 'distracting' me. Anyway I passed them now I have to deal with them til they're all chunin."
Naruto had no-idea what to say he was struggling to understand why he was sat here listening to what appeared to be the whiniest ninja he had ever met. "I gotta say you aren't like most ninja I've met you seem a lot more carefree, and I don't just mean lazy like Inu-san."
Obito just laughed and waved Naruto's concerns off. "I can be serious when I need to trust me, but I don't see the need to act like a drone all the time. My advice Naruto enjoy the time away from missions as much as you can, you'll either go insane or get yourself killed." He turned and looked directly into Naruto's eyes. "You remind me of myself Naruto, you really do. Trust your teammates and gain the strength to protect those closest to you or you'll live to regret it." With that the sharingan user leaped into the trees and back towards the village.
'What a weird guy, seems nice enough though. Anyway I still gotta get used to this speed so back to training.' With that he launched himself into the trees once again focussing chakra to his feet and legs increasing his speed even more. 'This really is gonna take some getting used to.'
Four ANBU leaped through the woods of Hi no Kuni they had been travelling for the past day or so on their way to one of the seedier cities that lie around the borders of the country.
"I swear this bitch better be in the town, we finally had time off and now we have to look for some runaway Sannin." A large muscled man with a bull mask on yelled to no-one in particular.
"Don't disrespect tsunade-sama that way she was allowed to leave the village after years of service. And if you ever call any woman a bitch again I'll make you my bitch faster than you can say woof." The purple haired woman with the cat mask snapped at the younger ANBU member making him pale slightly under the mask, he had seen his senpai do terrible things to male opponents who had pissed her off.
"Will you two shut-up and stop flirting I'm not happy about this mission no-one is but the faster we get home and can have a goodnight sleep." Boar was one of the more senior ANBU members and was well liked throughout the corps. But being well liked doesn't mean people can't be shit-scared of you. At least that was his motto anyway.
The final member of the group just rolled her eyes and fazed them all out and resumed her day-dreams.
Naruto had just stepped out Ichiraku's ramen having eaten/inhaled ten bowls of the noodles and was currently wondering on what to do he had trained for a few more hours after Obito had left and even managed to level up one of his skills. 'Free-running' had increased to level three and the stat bonus had increased from 5 to 6 percent. It wasn't really noticeable in terms of speed but he had to admit he suddenly found he could see paths through the trees much clearer with some of the branches almost appearing to glow slightly.
'Hmm what to do, what to do? I suppose I could head home for the day and read up on those scrolls Jiji gave me. Or I could do a bit more training seeing as it's not too late I could probably sneak in another hour or two.' Deciding on the later Naruto patted his belly once3 more and then leaped off onto the closest rooftop and hopped towards the village gates hoping to practice some of his more unconventional skills.
Half an hour later Naruto had landed in a small clearing outside the village the moon shone through the trees bathing the ground in a pale glow leaving the grass shining a pale green and blue. 'This place really is beautiful at night.'
Looking around he couldn't sense anyone near so he took out this chakra blades and focussed a small amount of chakra into them. 'Chakra Formation' the blades erupted into a small bluish flame before it settled down into a more structured blade like shape.
He studied the blades a bit more the length of the metal was just shorter than his forearm while the chakra extended the blade another six inches or so, deciding to check the sharpness of the chakra he took a slash at a nearby tree. The blade cut through the bark leaving a clear gouge. 'Okay so my chakra is sharper than the blade but still gives some resistance when I try to cut things.' Honestly he expected the chakra to cut through the tree like butter like he had the t-Rexaur but he guessed that was more to do with the amount of chakra he had pumped in to the blade seeing as he almost passed out immediately afterwards.
Feeling a bit experimental he pumped more and more chakra into the blade and watched it grow and grow, though as he did he could feel his energy leaving him, once he got to the same length as he used against the t-Rexaur he could barely stand. 'Okay I guess I'll just stick with between six inches and a foot from now on.' He decided to rest against a tree and go over the scrolls the hokage had given him.
As the moonlight shone over the Konoha streets a lone shadow could be seen jumping from rooftop to rooftop, the village was in a lull at the time, with patrols being a bit slow and no civilians around. The shadow seemed to know all of the patrol patterns and could avoid them all easily.
Seeing a gap in the patrols the shadow leaped out from where it was hiding quickly running up and over the village walls and leaping into the woods that lay beyond. As the shadow reached the apex of its jump the moonlight revealed a man with shoulder length white hair hidden by a bandanna and a pair of dull green eyes. His clothes consisted of a flak jacket and plain black outfit.
"Okay good I'm out of the village and it doesn't like the ANBU are following me." The shadow revealed to be Mizuki headed towards a clearing he had prepared beforehand to rest and regain some energy before heading off to join his master.
Naruto had just finished reading a scroll given to him by the hokage, the scroll listed different ways in which to apply chakra to his muscles in order to strengthen them. The idea seemed pretty easy to him though there was a small warning about overloading the chakra before the muscles are strong enough. So Naruto decided against it until his body was stronger and his control was more defined.
Standing upright and stretching out Naruto started to go through a few kata's for the kazekami no nagare. He went through each motion as slowly as possible while coiling his muscles as much as possible. The scroll said this would increase the precision of his movements and allow him to memorise the movements more fluidly.
After training for half an hour Naruto heard someone approaching the clearing, whoever it was wasn't exactly being quiet, not wanting to disturb whoever this was Naruto jumped into the tree he was under and hid in the shadows of the branches.
Mizuki landed in the clearing and looked around quickly making sure no one was nearby. "Huh, could've sworn I heard something from over hear." Shrugging it off the white haired traitor walked over to the tree Naruto had been training against and was currently hiding in. he channelled some chakra into his hand before placing it against the trunk of the tree, the bark promptly swung open revealing a two small travelling scrolls and a backpack. 'Okay with this I can take a quick rest before making my way to rice country.'
'What the hell is Mizuki doing here, and why does he have that huge scroll Jiji keeps in his office?' in all his confusion Naruto lost the focus he had been using to keep himself stuck to the bottom of the branch he was hiding underneath. Reapplying a small amount of chakra he quickly re-stuck himself.
Unfortunately he had made a little too much noise and Mizuki in his paranoid and twitchy state had already launched a huge shuriken in Naruto's direction. The young genin barely had time to dive away from the tree before the shuriken ripped through the branches.
Naruto landed in the clearing having already dropped into his taijutsu stance. "What the hell Mizuki-sensei, why'd you throw that huge fucking thing at me?" Mizuki merely laughed he'd thought the ANBU had discovered him but it was just the kyuubi-brat.
"Naruto why the hell are you out here and hiding in the trees no-less?" Mizuki was already fingering a kunai into his hand and didn't give Naruto the chance to respond before he launched it at the young blonde. Naruto just dived to the side and drew the trench knives from their holders.
"Stop throwing things at me you stupid asshole!" Mizuki again just laughed and dashed towards Naruto. Naruto remembering the spar he had with Mizuki the other day knew a lot about the man's taijutsu style though it was obviously in a stronger and faster form today. Naruto just focussed on evading the thrusts and kicks for a while before he lost his footing and took a side kick to the ribs from Mizuki causing Naruto to bounce away like a Ping-Pong ball. 'God-dammit that hurt, how the hell am I meant to beat a chunin.'
"Hey demon is that really all you got; you'd think the kyuubi would have a bit more I don't know bite to him than this." Naruto really didn't understand what was going on at this point, judging by his sensei's getup he was leaving the village and with the hokage's scroll no less. Not to mention the fact he was trying his best to riddle him with more holes than Swiss cheese. Deciding to fight first and ask questions later Naruto started circulating his chakra through his system unknowingly but slowly healing his damaged ribs. Naruto reached down to his thigh grabbing a handful of shuriken and launching them at the traitor. Mizuki not afraid of the approaching weapons in the least merely pulled the second giant shuriken from his back and span it incredible fast in front of him as all the smaller shurikens clattered to the ground. "Really Naruto did you honestly think that would work." Mizuki goaded the boy only to find him missing, hearing something behind him Mizuki turned and let loose a mule kick to Naruto. The blonde merely spun around the kick slicing at the back of Mizuki's thigh at the same time before rolling under a left hook and jumping to relative safety.
"Hehe, for a chunin you aren't that great are you Mizuki sensei?" Naruto waved his bloodied blade in front of his face nodding to himself in satisfaction. Mizuki at this point was furious he'd allowed the demon brat to injure him; while not a grave injury his movement would be affected and escaping the ANBU would be even more difficult now. "Anyway Mizuki-teme mind telling me why you have Jiji's scroll?" Naruto knew the hokage would never give that scroll to anyone without a damn good reason.
Mizuki didn't care for the demon-brat and he certainly didn't understand the hokage's affection for the boy but he wouldn't let this affect his escape he merely needed to kill the boy and be on his way. "Because I stole it, why else would I have it. I admit I initially planned to get you to steal it after you failed the exam, but then you had to go and pass." Naruto just scowled at the man's smug look but didn't say anything. "Anyway I must be on my way, Orochimaru-sama is waiting. And I'm afraid you won't be returning to your precious village." Mizuki began to spin his giant shuriken around his hand this time looking much more threatening than before.
'Shit, so this guy is leaving the village and stole the scroll I gotta stop him or he's gonna kill me as well." Naruto again settled into his stance preparing to attack Mizuki before he could throw any other pointy things at him.
PING
A quest has been created: Bad Teacher
Defeat Mizuki and return forbidden scroll
Reward: 600 ExP
Do you accept: Yes or No
'Yes, just fuck off and let me deal with this.' The screen vanished just in time for Naruto to see Mizuki's shuriken a few feet from separating him into two. Without having enough time to dodge Naruto wrapped his chakra around a log of wood nearby and swapped positions with it instantly. Said log was torn to shreds by the giant shuriken leaving Naruto hidden in the underbrush watching Mizuki in silence. 'I really need to find a way to sort these alerts out.'
"Come out come out wherever you are demon scum I wanna play with you." Mizuki was growing impatient with this and wanted to leave. Naruto seeing the chunin favouring his left hand side after he'd slashed his other leg circled around to Mizuki's left before dashing out the brush and focussing chakra to his blades increasing their length by around a foot and the sharpness increased as well. Mizuki turned towards Naruto's charge wincing as he did so before blocking Naruto's blades with a pair of kunai, Mizuki was forced to jump backwards though as Naruto's blades had cut straight through one kunai and half way through the other. "I gotta say I'm impressed demon you're more skilled than you let on in the academy but I'm afraid it's time to take of the kids gloves." Mizuki began running through hand seals before resting on the bird seal. "Doton: Doryūsō (Earth release: Earth style spears) Mizuki yelled Naruto panicked not knowing was about to happen before he noticed the earth shifting a few feet in front of him and a large spike of earth shot towards him. Quickly rolling to the side Naruto managed to dodge before looking at Mizuki who still had his hands held in the bird seal. Hearing the earth churning again Naruto focussed chakra to his legs before dashing away in a serpentine manner as spikes seemed to be growing all around him trying to skewer the blonde.
"What the hell is going on? You aren't meant to be able to spam jutsu like this." Though as he finished complaining he turned to see Mizuki begin to sweat the jutsu was clearly taking its toll on him. 'I gotta finish this now while he's tired and focussed on the jutsu. Pumping even more chakra to his legs Naruto burst forward towards Mizuki with both arms overlapped across his chest and pumping chakra into his blades extending them to the same length as a normal katana.
Mizuki seeing his jutsu being dodged by Naruto was cursing the genins new found speed before he turned towards him even faster than he had before. 'Shit what the hell are those blades he has.' Feeling the pressure coming from those blades he brought two more kunai up to defend him before trying to jump away only to be stopped by his injured leg. "DAMMIT I WON'T BE KILLED BY THE DAMN KYUU….." he was cut off as Naruto had now appeared right in front of him and had slashed straight through both his kunai.
Naruto was so focussed on Mizuki he didn't even notice how little resistance his kunai gave as his chakra cut straight through them. It was then that everything seemed to slow down. Naruto knew exactly what was about to happen and even though he knew it needed to be done he still didn't want to kill someone, then he remembered the oath he had taken to the hokage and his will hardened before time seemed to speed back up again.
He was stood behind Mizuki looking at his hands the where covered in blood; he dropped his trench knives to the ground as they clattered and he turned to look at Mizuki, or at least what was Mizuki. The man's left arm lay on the ground separated from his body while his chest on the right hand side looked like an axe had chopped straight through his ribs. It was safe to say the man was dead. Naruto just slumped to his knees and tried to rub the blood on his hands in to the grass to get it off of his skin.
"Naruto…" Naruto span around quickly picking up his blades in the process only to come face to face with Iruka.
Minutes earlier with Iruka:
Iruka was jumping through the woods of Konoha in search of his long-time friend turned traitor Mizuki; he still couldn't believe he had stolen the scroll of seals. The hokage had split most chunin into squads of four and the jounin into pairs while the ANBU acted separately but Iruka had dashed away before team assignments so he could find Mizuki and talk some sense into him.
The scarred chunin instructor was heading towards a clearing he and Mizuki used to meet up in and train in their genin days. 'God-dammit Mizuki what the hell has gotten into you these past few months.' The truth was Mizuki had come to Iruka a few weeks ago talking about leaving the village having become tired of life as a chunin instructor with no signs of promotion. Iruka had quickly shot the idea down and thought he had convinced his white-haired friend to stay loyal to the village. He knew he should have informed the hokage but he just played the whole thing off as his life-long friend being temporarily frustrated, how he was meant to know he would steal the scroll of seals for kami's sake.
Hearing the sounds of battle Iruka turned to his left slightly and increased his speed, whatever was happening in that direction couldn't be good? "Echolocation no jutsu" releasing his chakra outwards around him Iruka quickly found the battleground and those who were there. "Kami no, Naruto what the hell are you doing out here." Iruka's chakra bounced back towards him giving him a detailed image of Naruto trying his best to avoid what looked like spikes made of rock firing out at him. "I gotta hurry before Mizuki kills him."
Jumping through the trees as fast he could Iruka landed in the clearing just in time to see Naruto drop his blades to the ground, his best friend stood behind Naruto before slumping to his knees already dead with an arm and a portion of his chest already on the ground.
"Naruto…" seeing the blonde turn around in such a paranoid state put the Chunin's grief to rest as he knew he needed to be there for Naruto right now. "Naruto calm down I'm not here to hurt you."
Naruto seemed to relax but still kept his weapons in hand. "Why did Mizuki-sensei steal the scroll from Jiji, why did he attack me, why did he make me kill him?" Naruto had tears in his eyes but never took his eyes off Iruka nor did he lower his weapons. "Why are you here Iruka?"
"Naruto I came here to stop Mizuki and bring him back to the village." Iruka walked towards Naruto his hands held in a placating gesture before he knelt down to be at eye-level with the blonde. When he got there he noticed the state of him, the boy was covered in dirt and blood, and his clothes had dozens of small and large cuts over them likely from the doton jutsu Mizuki had used against him. "Naruto calm down you know I'd never hurt you." Naruto lowered his weapons but still didn't drop them. "Why don't you tell me what happened here? You can take your time to regain some composure if you like." Naruto just nodded before diving into iruka's arms before sobbing into the older man's flak jacket.
"I didn't wanna kill him, I really didn't but… but I didn't have a choice." Naruto's voice could barely be heard but Iruka just nodded and rubbed the blondes back and hugged him back.
"It's okay Naruto take your time." Iruka looked over to Mizuki's body as a sad frown spread over his face. 'How could he do this to his village?' turning back to Naruto the frown disappeared to a look of concern. 'This is gonna be a long night.'
Sarutobi sat at his desk looking through the crystal ball and watched as Iruka consoled Naruto, he had been following Iruka towards the battle so had only seen the closing moments of the battle and had to say he was impressed by Naruto's speed and the way he manipulated his chakra blades to finish the fight.
"ANBU." Four masked figures dropped from the ceiling to kneel in front of the hokage. "Mizuki has been killed and the scroll is currently with Umino Iruka and Uzumaki Naruto in sector 21." The hokage trusted these ANBU above all others and was glad none of them reacted to Naruto's name.
"Sir, I understand Iruka-san being there but I'm confused as to the involvement of the Uzumaki boy?" the rest of the ANBU nodded along.
"Naruto was the one responsible for defeating Mizuki, now I want two of you to go find the two of them and bring them back here. Be minded though not to rush them though, Naruto appears to be quite torn up about his first kill and I wish to have him report to me while in a suitable emotional state." The ANBU who spoke nodded to the two ANBU to his left and the two disappeared in a leaf shunshin.
The hokage just sighed before turning to view the village. 'I hope he didn't mention the kyuubi to Naruto. When should I tell him about the fox?" He turned to look at a framed picture of the fourth hokage on the wall of his office. 'You really did leave one hell of a mess for me to clean up minato.' The hokage smiled though in spite of his thoughts as he watched Iruka comfort the young genin. 'I should probably call Kakashi to talk to Naruto as well, as his sensei he should be here to guide the boy.'
Naruto had regained his composure about five minutes ago when the two ANBU arrived; at this point Naruto was sat under a tree holding the scroll of seals against his chest and between his legs. Iruka was stood to the side looking over the body of Mizuki. "Umino-san, Uzumaki-san the hokage has asked us to escort you to his office." Iruka turned to look at the ANBU and nodded before kneeling down and sealing Mizuki's body away in a scroll. The ANBU's had to admit they were impressed with the damage Naruto had inflicted to win the fight and were curious what kind of technique clan less genin could have used.
Iruka walked over to Naruto and helped him to his feet. He noticed Naruto seemed to have a vice grip on the scroll not trusting anyone else to hold onto it. The other ANBU who hadn't spoken walked in front of Naruto before leaning forward to get to eye level. "Naruto-san could you please hand over the scroll of seals so I can take it to the Hokage?"
"No." Iruka knew Naruto would be protective after everything but didn't think he would refuse the ANBU. "After tonight I'm not sure who to trust at the moment, I hope you don't mind keeping it til we see Jiji?" Nobody could see it but the ANBU had an eyebrow raised behind his mask.
'Huh smart brat, paranoid but smart.' The ANBU leaned back before looking straight at Naruto. "Fine whatever just don't drop it." Naruto seemed to calm down at this and merely rolled at his eyes at the ANBU's tone. "Anyway we best be off, I assume you can keep up Naruto?"
"I'll do my best." And so the four jumped into the trees heading towards the hokage's tower leaving behind a battered clearing with earth spikes and slash marks covering the ground.
After everyone had left two figures entered the clearing. "I gotta say the kid's got a lot of potential; I know Mizuki was rusty after teaching for so long. Not to mention how lucky he got injuring his leg, but still to beat a chunin after only just graduating is pretty impressive." the figure revealing to be Obito turned to the second, revealed to be Kakashi.
"Yeah the kid will go far, with the right training at least." Kakashi took a look around the clearing once more before he noticed a small snake slithering into the bushes not far away from them. He went to kill the snake but was beaten to the punch as Obito had already grabbed the creature by the tail and holding it in front of his face.
"Looks like one of Orochi-temes. Best get rid of it then." The snake snapped forward at the jounin's throat but before it could make contact it erupted into flames before falling to the ground as a small pile of ash.
"You really do have to make everything as flashy as possible don't you." Obito just flashed a huge gran and thumbs up at Kakashi. "Don't do that you like Gai." Obito just hung his head in shame at that while crying anime tears. "Anyway let's head back, I get the feeling the hokage is gonna want me there to talk to Naruto."
"Whatever let's just go." Obito grumbled still mad at being compared to Gai before disappearing in his trademark flame shunshin.
Naruto and Iruka were stood outside the hokage's office with the two ANBU before Iruka knocked on the door, hearing the hokage yelling enter the two walked inside. Naruto stopped and looked to his left and right. 'Damn didn't even notice them leave.' He turned back to see the hokage sat behind his desk leaning forward onto his elbows and his hands propping up his head.
"Hello you two I see you managed to retrieve the scroll of seals for me." Iruka nodded hesitantly before looking down at Naruto before elbowing him in the shoulder.
"Hai Jiji, though I was really just defending myself against Mizuki." Naruto said rather sadly still struggling with having killed the man. Sarutobi nodded grimly traitor or no it was always said when one of the leaf died and to have his would be grandson be the one to do it just made the feeling worse. Looking up at Naruto the hokage could see him holding the scroll of seals tightly between his teenage hands.
"Naruto I know you don't want to hear this right now and I'm not saying this because of what you were forced to do but rather your reaction to it." Naruto looked up into the aged eyes of his Hokage. "Naruto I'm proud of you, I can see the grief you hold for what happened to Mizuki but I want you to know that you did the right thing, he may have once been a shinobi of the leaf but he abandoned his comrades and his village the moment he stole that scroll and tried to escape."
Naruto had to admit the old man always had a way to make him feel better. "Thanks Jiji, I know I had to do it but… I can still hear it, I can hear the sound my blades made when they cut through him, and I can feel the resistance against them… I… I can still see the blood on my hands." At this point Naruto was shivering with his eyes closed and the scroll held tightly against his chest. He felt a pair of wiry but strong arms wrap around him and pull him into their chest. He knew it was the Hokage no one else had the same air of warmth about them.
"Naruto, you have done nothing wrong, I'm proud you grieve for your enemy it shows to me you are a true shinobi of the leaf. But please stop this, you cannot blame yourself and dwell in the past for too long, doing so will only hold you back and get you killed." Hiruzen stepped away from the young genin and took the scroll of seals with him before quickly sealing it away in a smaller scroll.
Iruka had been silent the whole time but knew not to interrupt the two before this point. "Naruto I'll let you and the hokage talk." Iruka turned to the hokage after seeing Naruto nod. "Unless there is anything you need from hokage-sama I will be on my way."
"No thank you Umino-san, thank you for efforts today though." Iruka merely nodded and turned to leave but not before patting Naruto on the shoulder and giving the boy a warm smile.
"Naruto I'm waiting for Kakashi to arrive and then I hoped you could go through what happened between you and Mizuki, is that okay?"
Naruto just nodded at his Hokage. "Uhuh, sure Jiji but isn't he always late to everything." Just as Naruto finished speaking Kakashi shunshinned into the room. "Never mind Jiji." The hokage just chuckled.
"Yo, anything I miss?" Naruto just stared at the man with his best 'WTF do you think face' while the hokage just rolled his eyes having seen Kakashi and Obito hiding in the brush towards the end of the fight.
"Kakashi-sensei I was just about to report to Jiji about my fight with Mizuki." Kakashi just nodded and the hokage signalled for Naruto to begin his report.
Ryu Hyabusa stood in the forge of his weapons store staring at the bracers in front of him, he had worked all day on them it had been years since he had such quality material to work with, the bracers already had the basic shape designed and it would take another day to fix the functionality and design of them. He had already finished the shin guards he had promised Naruto them being much more basic and easily crafted. He had wondered about increasing the length of them if he had enough material left over from the bracers but quickly dismissed that idea knowing armguards would be much more important than those on his shin. So he had revised his design ideas for the bracers after thinking what he could do with the bones. The bracers currently had overlapping plates that would repel most weapons and some jutsu, he'd also realised the bones where chakra conductive and so had improved their design. He was still working out the kinks in the design but when finished he knew Naruto would be over the moon with them.
Looking at the clock he realised it had just gone midnight and whistled to himself. "I best close up and head home." Taking one last look at the Dino-bones Naruto had given to him he could barely repressed a squeal in excitement. It had truly been far too long since something had entertained him this much. "Hmm I wonder if Naruto will ever bring me anymore materials… oh well food for thought I suppose." With that he shut off the heat to the forge and closed up the chop before heading to Hyabusa compound. "Better sneak in don't wanna wake ten-ten." Ryu while at one point a feared shinobi and master black-smith was still terrified of the women in his family and their obsession with really pointy things and the different ways of making holes with them.
"I still don't understand why Mizuki would take the scroll though Jiji, surely his life in the village wasn't that bad?" Naruto had just finished recounting what happened that night to the Hokage and Kakashi and the two had to say they were impressed with the detail he went into and the level his abilities could be taken to be at.
"Naruto people have a multitude of reasons for doing things, people call me the professor and I've been Hokage a long time and even I don't know how the human mind works its mystery." Kakashi just nodded normal people were hard enough to wrap your head around and shinobi tended to always be on the crazier side of the spectrum regardless. "Now I don't know why Mizuki left the village but I can only assume he had a contact on the outside he was going to meet up with, he didn't mention anything along those lines to you did he Naruto?"
Naruto paused to think over what Mizuki had said to him over the course of their fight and was struggling to come up with anything when he remembered Mizuki mentioning Orochimaru. "Uuuhm well I'm not sure if this is what you're looking for but he did mention something about an 'Orochimaru-sama'." Sarutobi immediately paled at the mention of a man he once would have gladly called his son.
"Are you sure that was the name he said Naruto?" Naruto had never seen the hokage react this way before if he didn't know any better he would have said the aged hokage was scarred.
"Y…yeah he said he didn't have time to waste on the likes of me and that an Orochimaru-sama was waiting for him." Again sarutobi looked pale before Kakashi spoke up for the first time in a while.
"I was going to wait for Naruto to leave before I mentioned this but seeing as he already know some of the information I see no reason not to mention it hokage-sama." Sarutobi saw no reason to hide whatever it was Kakashi had to say from Naruto and waved Kakashi to continue. "When I and Obito inspected the battle-site after Naruto and Iruka left with the ANBU we found a small white snake that was clearly one of Orochimaru's summonses. Don't worry though Obito incinerated it before it could return to its master." Sarutobi at this point just turned his chair around and looked over the village and let loose an elongated sigh.
"That will be all for this evening you two, Naruto please come back tomorrow morning and we can discuss a reward for defeating Mizuki. If that is all Kakashi… good Naruto if you have any questions regarding which Orochimaru is you can ask Kakashi, I'm afraid I don't have the energy to answer any questions at the moment." Kakashi just bade farewell to the hokage before placing a hand on Naruto's shoulder before guiding him out of the room.
"See ya tomorrow Jiji I hope you feel better soon." That brought a chuckle to sarutobi, having the newest generation worrying over him a Kage for over thirty years in total. With that the student and sensei left the Hokage's office and Kakashi immediately shunshinned them to the roof of the tower.
"Okay then I know you aren't the type to just let this go so fire away." Naruto just smiled at his sensei for knowing him so well although he supposed he would do after guarding him along with Obito for who knows how long.
"Well the major one is who is Orochimaru and why did it feel like Jiji was scared of him?" if Kakashi was stricter or even just more energetic he might have scolded Naruto for implying their leader could be scarred of anyone but at the end of the day he knew the boy was just worried about his 'grandfather'.
"Orochimaru was at one point the Sandaime's star pupil and one of the Densetsu no Sannin and some believe to be the strongest of the three. Kakashi expected Naruto to be trembling in his boots at this point but the boy just looked slightly confused though was trying to look like he understood. "You have no idea who they are do you?" Seeing Naruto shake his head in the negative Kakashi just sighed "I wish you had paid more attention in the academy I know for a fact that this is covered. The Sannin where at one point the three strongest ninja in our village bar the Hokage himself and all three are said to be Kage-level shinobi." Naruto understood that perfectly well if the jaw hanging loosely from his face was any description.
"Wait if they are such strong and important ninja then were the hell have they been for the past thirteen years surely they'd be practically worshipped in the village for awesome they are right?"
"The Sannin have all left the village each for different reasons for example Jiraiya-sama The Toad Sage doesn't work from the village though is still in our shinobi ranks as he operates a vast spy network that requires him to move around the elemental nations nearly all the time and rarely comes back to the village." Naruto nodded he had paid attention in the academy when information gathering came up as he saw it to be one of the more important aspects of being a shinobi. "Next we have Senju Tsunade last member of the Senju clan and said to be the strongest Kunoichi and greatest medic of all time. But she left the village at the end of the second shinobi-war due to her grief over the loss of the people she held most important in her life." Again Naruto nodded understanding why she was no longer in the village, even if the idea of leaving the village didn't make much sense to him.
"And then we have the third and final member of the Sannin Orochimaru, while the other two were allowed to leave the village of their own will after years of service to Konoha Orochimaru is labelled a missing-nin and is quite possibly the most dangerous criminal from Konoha alive today."
Naruto was stunned he had fought and killed the underling of one of the most powerful shinobi known. "So how come he is a missing-nin and not just dead, what happened?"
"Straight to the point aren't you? Orochimaru is a detestable human being if you could even call him that anymore. The man was labelled a criminal by Hokage-sama after he was caught performing experiments on countless shinobi and civilians." Naruto frowned at this sure he hated the most of the civilians in the village but he wouldn't experiment on them. "And we aren't talking blood tests and seeing how fast people can run Naruto. One of his many atrocities was to experiment on unborn children trying to give them bloodlines, the Sandaime and his ANBU at the time found dozens of corpses in his labs but when the hokage went to capture him he escaped and has been a missing-nin ever since with barely any word ever being heard of him until today." Naruto looked shocked at this he didn't think humans were capable of things like that never mind someone practically raised by the old man. Kakashi seeing the look on Naruto's face just shrugged at the young blonde.
"Well I'm not gonna sleep tonight see you soon Kakashi-sensei." With that Kakashi disappeared in a shunshin. 'I seriously gotta learn that'
Ping
Quest completed: Bad Education
Rewards: 600 ExP
"Ah I was waiting for you to show up. Huh looks like I didn't level up oh well maybe next time." 'Close' with the window closed Naruto went to jump home.
PING
"God-dammit what now" Naruto yelled as he stopped himself from falling over the edge of the tower.
Mizuki defeated 600 ExP gained
Loot remaining: 3x Fuuma Shuriken, 3x Accuracy+ 2500 ryo
The window closed revealing three grey lights and another three red with the now familiar gold light hanging between them. Naruto just shrugged and reached out to touch them. The gold light flew straight into Gama-chan as per usual with the red ones flying straight in between Naruto's eyes, he honestly felt like someone had just poked him in the eye with a stick but when he opened them everything seemed to be a little sharper but not by much. Finally the grey lights just hovered there before Naruto reached out once again this time before the lights flashed and three Fuuma shuriken appeared with his arm in the hole of all three. "Whooo, sweeeet free weapons." He folded them up and placed them into a pouch he kept on his lower back underneath his hoodie. 'Wait for it….'
Level up: level 5 obtained
+10 stat points to allocate.
Skill trees unlocked
Please select primary and secondary Skill Trees.
'There it is … wait what the hell, skill trees?' with that the status window opened up followed by another window that seemed to have three glowing kanji to the furthest left, middle and furthest right, the three being Taijutsu, Ninjutsu and Genjutsu respectively.
"Nope fuck this I can deal with this tomorrow. This is too much for one day" with that Naruto jumped off the tower onto the closest building and made his way home.
Rice country
A tall figure walked through the corridors of what seemed to be a maze like building, the figure was holding a small clipboard covered in numbers and formulae. "Kukuku it appears experiment 3C was successful I believe it's time to start moving onto human trials." The man looked up from the clipboard before opening a door that seemed to blend into the wall.
"Orochimaru-sama how has experiment 3C gone then?" A bespectacled man asked from behind a small desk. As the figure stepped into the light he revealed himself to have paler than pale skin, long ink black hair and yellow eyes shaped like those of a snake.
"It went well the enzymes are fully integrated into the seal and no longer act alone. They are under full control of my chakra." Orochimaru went and looked over some more information on his desk. "Kabuto, I want you to gather test subjects for me, I will need at least twenty don't expect many to survive the process." Kabuto nodded before standing up and leaving the room leaving Orochimaru to his thoughts.
It had been a few hours and Orochimaru had merely sat at his desk occasionally making notes on the clip board when a small black snake popped into existence on the desk. "Shirogara is dead master… burnt to ashes if it matters." Orochimaru's widened momentarily before narrowing.
"Fine you may go." With that the snake disappeared. 'I knew that fool Mizuki was taking too long, but for him to get one of my snakes killed is too much, I f he is even still alive I will make him wish he had never existed… actually I could always help Kabuto with an extra subject.' "Kukukukukukuku." The pale skinned monster returned to his note making a sadistic grin on his face that all knew to fear.
Naruto landed on the roof of his apartment feeling tired, depressed and just wanted to sleep. Climbing through his apartment window he landed straight on his bed he was tempted to fall asleep there and then but decided to get some food first.
Standing in the kitchen making a sandwich he thought over everything that happened that day, the test with Kakashi, training by himself, talking to Obito and finally the whole Mizuki disaster. It was then that he remembered what his self-scan had told himself. "Why does the kyuubi keep coming up, the things dead everyone knows that." He was still worried though, he had no idea what a jinchuuriki was but he needed to know. Normally he would have let it go but he couldn't stop thinking about the way Mizuki kept calling him a demon and at the end he could have sworn he called him the kyuubi. Remembering to ask the Hokage about it tomorrow he ate his sandwich and went to bed.
Author's note:
Sorry for the late update my computer decided to melt about a month ago, and having to re-write 10,000 words was pretty sucky once I got a new laptop. Anyway there are a few things to mention. To those who have read it it's obvious I'm taking some inspiration for Naruto's new powers from the manwha The Gamer but it's really just the way game interface is put out that I'm using, there won't be anything else to do with it. Not that it isn't awesome which it is, anyway I digress.
Another point I wanted to note was that I will be introducing new characters into the Naruto universe, these characters will mostly be from other games with a particular series in mind, I'm not saying there will be a ridiculous number but there will be a few and they will be tied into the Naruto verse not just dumped in. As this is my first fic, I'm asking you readers for ideas/suggestions on who/what characters you think would be a good crossovers into the Naruto verse.
I'm not one to ask for reviews but I'd like some feedback on the story so far positive or negative either way is good with me.
Jutsu list:
Doton: Doryūsō: Earth release: (Earth style spears) lets the user condense mud or stone from the ground and shape it into spikes that protrude from the ground in order to skewer the target. The spikes cannot penetrate targets of greater density.
Echolocation no jutsu: The user releases a pulse of chakra from all his tenketsu at once, the chakra spreads in a way similar to a sound wave, if it hits an object or person with a chakra signature it is returned to the user acting like a sonar.
Naruto Uzumaki: level 5
Age: 13
Strength: 15
Speed: 20
Defence: 6
Stamina: 12
Chakra: 24 (+255)
Chakra control: 10
Endurance: 7
Intelligence: 13
Charisma: 9
Vitality: 10
Stealth: 10
Bijuu control: 0%
Skill list:
Scan: lv 3
Free running: lv 3
God wind flow: lv 2
Chakra formation: lv 1
+10 stat points to be allocated
Until next time Smogged Troll