Chapter 6: One week later
Tenzen got up at his usual time to meet his sensei at the training grounds. Jumping out of bed he went the kitchen to make himself some breakfast, then he brushed his teeth and headed out the door. Jogging lightly threw the streets of Konoha had already become routine for the boy. He the same shop owners opening up there stores every morning, including Teuchi-san who always told him to come by later.
As he approached the training grounds he saw that his sensei had already arrived. This was strange because he usually started of by ambushing Tenzen upon arriving. I guess it wasn't really an ambush, because for one: he obviously knew it was coming, and B: it was more about Tenzen finding Minato before the Yellow Flash "ambushed" him. But, it was weird that he was just standing there, maybe they were going to move on from hiding and finding and moving on to something new and more fun. But, he also had to think that maybe this was part of his clever sensei's trap. He had to be on his toes. He quickly scanned the area to see if maybe he was hiding somewhere else. But that's not…
"Good morning Tenzen hope you slept well." The clever trickster said with a big grin on his face. It was hard to tell if it was trap or not, Minato always had that goofy smile on his face.
"Just fine sensei. I'm surprised you're not of hiding somewhere." The Seishin said returning his smile with an even bigger grin. His sensei's smile only got bigger at the sight of his student's big smile.
"Well I have some news to tell you. I have to go off on a mission for a couple of days, so I won't be here to see to your training." The sneaky man said his big grin coming down to a manageable smirk. But, the way he put that, HE wont be here to see to my training. That means that…
"No worries sensei I'll work on my taijustu while your away." Tenzen said his grin still present. Minato's face became serious at what Tenzen said. Why wasn't he complaining about not getting training? Unless….
"Very well. But try to have some fun while I'm gone because we're going to train till you drop when I return, to make up for the loss time." The older man said with a smile back on his face. "But don't worry I'm not leaving you alone to train…"
"I'll be training you." A hiss came from behind Tenzen. Then he felt the familiar touch of metal against his skin. "Oh, and you failed the first test."
"Did I?" Tenzen said, but not the Tenzen in front of Minato, the other one. "It's nice to see you again Orochimau-sama."
The snake man gave a devilish grin while looking behind him to see the real Tenzen. The young white haired man returned his grin while pressing the kunai lightly against the legendary sannin's neck.
The snake sage remembered the first time he had seen the boy and how impressed he was, but this little test proved his suspicious.
Flashback
Tenzen and Minato were walking through the village after a prosperous day of training. They were making idle chatter about the exercises they had done during said training, when Tenzen walked around a corner and ran into someone.
"Hey watch were… whoa." The Seishin said in amazement. He just seemed to be a magnet for Konoha's most powerful ninja. First Jiraiya-sama and Minato-sensei, now this. Man his luck.
"Hey aren't you Orochimaru-sama?" the boy said using a little more control than when he met Jiraiya-sama.
"Yes, and it is not I who should watch were he is going." the snake sage said trying to play it off as the boys fault. But to be honest, he couldn't understand why he did not sense the boy coming and move out of the way. He was better than this why was the boy an enigma?
"I'm sorry about that Orochimaru-sama I guess I just got so caught up talking to Minato-sensei that I wasn't paying attention." The boy said rubbing the back of his head in embarrassment. Orochimaru simply ignored the boy and turned his attention to the blonde ninja behind the boy.
"Minato, you're training this whelp?" the snake like man said even though he knew the answer, the boy had just said so. He simply said it to put the boy in his place by calling him a whelp.
"Hey! I'm no whelp. One day I'm going to be a ninja just like you." Tenzen said, angered from being talked down to. Orochimaru ignored the boy once more and kept his attention on Minato.
"Yeah sorry Orochimaru-sama. He can be a bit clumsy." Minato said rubbing the back of his head a little embarrassed by how his sensei's supposed best friend was glaring at him.
"Very well." The snake said as he walked past the two on his way towards the Hokage tower. But, he still was a bit baffled as to why he couldn't sense the boy coming. It wasn't because he had low chakra reserves. In fact the opposite, once he had gotten closer to the boy he could feel it was quite strong for his age. Perhaps his sensei could tell him more.
End flashback
He is able to completely cover his chakra, and at such a young age. The is very impressive, there was no doubt. The Sannin saw the boy putting his kunai away and look up to Orochimaru and Minato.
"So why do you want to help me train? Last time I saw you, you called me a whelp." The Seishin said trying to get a grasp on the situation. It was strange that he wanted to help train the boy after only meeting him once, and from what Tenzen had heard about Orochimaru, he never took students.
"It is still true that you are a whelp. But, you have potential." The snake said with a devilish grin and a flap of his tongue. Man that was gross. Why does he have to do that? Jiraiya doesn't stick out his tongue and catch flies with it. Does he?
"Be appreciative Tenzen. Orochimaru-sama his quite possibly the strongest ninja in Konoha, and he wants to spend his off days helping you train." Minato said plainly to the boy. But, the Tenzen was right why did he want to train him?
"I'm not saying I don't appreciate his help. Just weird that he calls me a whelp one day, and then the next wants to train me." Tenzen said speaking his mind, as he always seemed to do.
"Good now are you ready to begin? I'll warn you, I'm not as soft as Minato. Don't expect me to be easy on you." Orochimaru said walking towards the center of the clearing. Tenzen quickly followed behind him, but his sensei caught his shoulder before he past him.
"Take in everything you can. Orochimaru-sama is a genius. Don't take what he says lightly." Minato said giving his student a little smile and a wave before he flashed out of sight. Tenzen looked over to his replacement sensei for a while and a smile creased his face, this will be interesting.
5 Minutes later, Kushina's Apartment:
In a Yellow Flash Minato was inside the apartment. He looked around, but found no one in the living room section of his girlfriends home. Walking to the bedroom he heard water running, Kushina must have been in the shower. Making himself at home, Minato plopped down on to the bed and stared up at the ceiling. He laid there and thought about the events of the last week. How he had every intention on leaving with his sensei, but chose to stay so that he could train Tenzen. Looking back it was obvious that Jiraiya-sensei and Hokage-sama set him up to train Tenzen, but why? He wasn't a true teacher like Jiraiya and the Hokage, he hasn't even had a genin squad yet. But, they still wished him to train the last Seishin. Three days ago he asked the Hokage this very question: Why did they want Tenzen to be his student so badly?
Flashback
The Hokage sat at his desk doing his daily grind of paper work when there was a knock at the door.
"Come in." the Sarutobi said not even taking a pause from his paperwork to see who was at the door. He already knew. The door swung opened and his young chunin secretary peaked her head through the doorway.
"Hokage-sama, Namikaze Minato is here to see you." The Chunin said. The aging Hokage had expected him to come. He was just wondering how long it would take him to realize Tenzen is no ordinary child.
"Yes, please send him in." Hiruzen said with a wave of his hand. The secretary swung the door wide and stepped back to give Minato room to enter the room. Then, with a slight nod, she closed the door behind the blond haired man.
"You wished to see me Minato?" the Sandaime said still not lifting his head from his paperwork.
"Yes Hokage-sama, I had some questions regarding Tenzen." the Yellow Flash said, his face saying he was all business. Finally, the Hokage paused and set his pen down on his desk to give the young man his full attention.
"Oh? And what would you like to know about little Tenzen?" the Hokage said, tempting the boy.
"The Seishin kekkei genkai, does he have it?" Minato said, still all business. The Hokage knew the Jiraiya's student was smart, but he was still a little shocked he knew about the Seishin clans kekkei genkai.
"And more." Sarutobi said giving the younger shinobi a small grin. Minato simply look at him confused.
"What do you mean?" he asked, not sure what the Hokage was getting at.
"Tenzen's file is usually an S-ranked secret, but as I did push you to train the boy… you may view it." The Hokage said. He then opened one of the drawers in his desk and pulled out a manila folder with the name "Seishin Tenzen" on it, with a small photo of the boy.
"I promise you won't be disappointed in what you find." The Sandaime said his smirk growing even larger than before. Minato reached slowly for the documents. Lifting them up and opening them to view the contents, his eye's widened in realization.
"You mean that he is…" the Jonin paused having a hard time grasping the information. "Both Seishin and Chi?"
"Yes, and he has both kekkei genkai. But, they have to manifested separately." The one known as The Professor said.
"What do you mean?" Minato said, not being able to grasp the concept of his little student being from both powerful clans.
"I think to understand it completely you need to know what happened the day of the Seishin massacre."
End Chapter 6
Yay, a cliffhanger, makes you want to read come back right? So what the hell is Sarutobi talking about? Who are the Chi, and what are theirs and the Seishin's kekkei genkai? Also, why the hell is Orochimaru playing nice with Tenzen? Find out next time on True Spirit. BUMBUMBUM. I'd like to thank all of you who have been reading this story, but hey let me know what you think.
Let me propose a challenge: What do you think the two kekkei genkai are?