Hey guys! Atomaton here with the third chapter of A (sort of) Naruto Story: Lionhearted. Apologizes for being late on updating. College tends to get me side tracked. Regardless I am back here with chapter 3! Please rate and review!
STORY START: Chapter 3~
So we come to our little Uzumaki legend walking around the village, with now a seemingly permanent scowl on his face. Combined with his random twitching, the villagers seemed to gossip about him more than usual. This time combined with the usual insults and jabs that he usually received also came about a wave of rumors surrounding him and the two drunk shinobis as well as apparent powers over electricity. Although the majority of the population could only gossip about their local pariah growing more in power and anger; Naruto could say to the least that he did not give a shit at all. Rather, he was more angry and concerned about the conversation that he held with his Saru-Jiji one day prior…
Naruto balked at his grandfather with disbelief painted all over his face. He then shifted into a nervous and then full blown out laughter. "Nice one old man!" He stated trying to catch his breath. "You really had me there for a second! I know that you are just trying to get me back for filling your laundry detergent with pink food coloring!" Naruto exclaimed while now basically rolling on the floor of his home.
Sarutobi twitched slightly before switching back to his more urgent and serious demeanor. "Naruto I am one-hundred percent serious," He started to state calmly. "This letter is written in a language that I have never been able to recognize before.
Naruto now got the picture that his Jiji was not in the mood for jokes of any kind. "Wh-BUT THEN HOW THE HELL DID I UNDERSTAND IT! JIJI I THOUGHT THEY CALLED YOU THE MAN THAT KNEW EVERYTHING! HOW THE FUCK ARE YOU STUMPED AND DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT THE HELL IT MEANS?!" Naruto exclaimed, scaring his blue and black feline that shifted into a comfortable position and now quickly ran underneath the table near the front of his apartment.
Sarutobi brought his fist down on Naruto's head lightly for the third time that day while closing his eyes and using his other hand to rub his temples. As Naruto started to comically cry out again Sarutobi continued, "First of, I said no cursing young man! It is unbecoming of a ninja-to-be, especially of a young boy dreaming to take my chair from myself!" At this point Naruto switched back into a more serious pose and face. "Second… Naruto I do not have any idea of how you were able to recognize anything off this letter. However with the existence of Jolt and seeing that the instructions you were told did work, there is no logical choice but to believe everything you have told me is at least ninety percent true. The other ten percent being if I started having a fevered dream at my desk again trying to do the damn paperwork always given to me." He gave Naruto a strong glare to make the snickering coming from the little boy stop. "However, being that the shock from earlier really did seem to hurt, I doubt this could all be in my head.
Naruto nodded slightly before then asking Sarutobi, "But then Jiji? What should I do now?"
Sarutobi sighed slightly before replying, "It is apparent Naruto, as much as I know you hate this term that I am about to say to you, that you were indeed fated in order to find this… Jolt." He said while staring at the little cub that was still hiding underneath the table from before. "If not for just me being biased in order to make sure you achieve your dream of being stronger, we should do more research and make you start training into figuring out the reason that you found the box in the first place… Naruto, would you be willing to start your shinobi training early for the sake of discovering the meaning behind this note and Jolt?"
It was at this point the blond bundle of joy decided to jump up and nearly cheer as he responded, "Training to be a shinobi?! F-uh I mean, YEAH! Thank you thank you THANK YOU!" He said, running into his Jiji's arms to give him a giant hug. "I'll do it! I'm so excited! It's a dream come true Jiji."
The older hokage smiled, before then smirking in a manner some would say sort of evil. "And as a new shinobi apprentice, how would you like to receive your first mission as well as your first penalty.
Naruto could only look up and stare at the hokage in wonder and slight fear wondering what his grandfather figure had in store for him.
To his displeasure, his grandfather had two main things in mind for him. The mission in question was to take Jolt to the Inuzuka clan compound. Although the clan was known more for the dogs that it raised as ninken for the village, their veterinarians were overall trained in order to understand multiple types of animals in general in order to have a side business for the civilians along with being ninjas. Much like the flower and psychiatrists of the Yamanaka clan, the Akimichi restaurants and the seemingly shady Uchiha police force; as well as other clan owned shops and businesses opened around the village. And on the topic of businesses; as punishment for stealing as well as to give the little Uzumaki manners and a better light in the eye in the village, Sarutobi gave instructions to Naruto in order to find a job around the village of sorts. As well as penalty that for the first month he was not allowed to receive any payment for his labor.
And only to add even more frustration, Sarutobi also canceled the ramen date for yesterday. And for at this time told Naruto to keep from anyone else around the village to know about Jolt except for the Inuzuka clan.
But to be honest it was the fact that Naruto would have to go to the Inuzuka compound that put him into his current horrible mood. 'Why the fuck do I have to visit Kiba's damned home!' Naruto thought angrily while grinding his teeth together. 'I hate that damn guy so much! Seeing his fucking face just sets me off!'
Out of all the kids in Naruto's class that he met at the academy this year, none annoyed him more than his at the moment arch nemesis, Inuzuka Kiba. While most of the civilian born kids avoided him and most of the clan kids indifference, Kiba for whatever the reason was obviously out to get him for some reason. From making fun of him in class to tripping him and to even pouring water on his head randomly, Kiba in Naruto's head was an annoying little shit that seemed to target our hero in order to make himself feel better for his own shortcomings. After all, Kiba was barely beating Naruto in terms of grade. Keeping all of this in his head, Naruto was even more stoked to start his shinobi training in order to finally beat Kiba.
This along with his plan of pranking Kiba back allowed him to smirk, before frowning once more.
'Tch. Not that they'd help out anyway.' He thought while scowling once more. Turning to the opposite direction he was supposed to go in he decided to reason with himself a bit. 'Not like Saru-jiji gave me a time that I did have to go there in a first place. Might as well put it off as much as I can. The real question is how I should get Kiba's locker number…' Naruto started to ponder.
However, he did not realize he was walking by the produce shop he stole from yesterday, therefore bumping into the elderly cranky lady. Naruto could only think of, 'Oh no,' before the woman starting screaming.
"THERE YOU ARE YOU DAMNED BRAT! LET ME AT A FEW SWINGS TO YOUR FACE!" She said screaming, while the little 6 year old blond boy could only dodge.
"I'M SORRY I'M SORRY PLEASE DON'T HURT ME!" He cried out while dodging a few more possible blows.
At seeing that people started to look his very way, Naruto got very scared. Considering he was still out of the materials for his home made smoke pellets and that he didn't have enough money to get materials for them (or a choice to steal them anymore with the promise that he made to Saru-Jiji), Naruto only had two options left. They were to either get Jolt out of the strange ball in order to use the flash move again. Or to run away like a little bitch. And as seeing that he was currently banned from using Jolt inside of the village, running away like a bitch became his only option.
Speaking of little bitches, Naruto wasn't the only kid around the village that apparently ponders too much and spends too much time in his – or rather her head.
Despite being part of the impulsive, short tempered and well, feral Inuzuka family; little Inuzuka Hana at only the age of 12 and being a genin was already well known through the village for being more considerably patient, calm and reasonable to work with.
Taking most of her personality from their now estranged father, Hana was raised as the heir to the Inuzuka clan instead of her brother Kiba. This was despite being the fact that usually the closest male heir in a clan was the one to be raised as clan head – a rule changed when their mother Inuzuka Tsume took control. Despite this responsibility, both siblings never had a problem with this and typically worked together to run their family's pet clinic together – which usually did well with Hana's calmness and willfulness to help out her family.
However with all of these facts in mind, being 12 years old and still being an Inuzuka did not help the Inuzuka heir from being incredibly frustrated in her current situation.
'Grrr… why does he have to be so annoying sometimes?' She thought, thinking back to earlier that day. Being the youngest as well as not clan heir and having a way with words apparently, Kiba was somehow able to talk his mother into not watching over the clinic that day, leaving Hana into watching over the office by herself.
To make it even worse, the clinic she was in her was empty, as it has been for the entire day.
"RAAAAAH!" She started to whine in frustration and pulling her hair. "I wish something exciting could happen already!"
But be careful what you wish for, because sometimes they might just come true in the strangest of ways.
Before she could even comprehend it, she heard a very loud bang right outside her window.
"WHAT THE?!" She screamed before looking outside to see the problem. She was surprised to see that a little blond her boy around the age of her little brother was right outside her wonder. And to make it even worse he looked scared, had blood on his head and was not moving.
"Oh no oh no OH NO" She screamed out with fear sketched all over her face. Running the clinic alone for the day means that she was twice as responsible for everything that happens during the day. 'Not to mention if mom finds out…'
At that last thought Inuzuka Hana's face started to drain of all the blood resulting in her looking very pale. She reasoned that she had no choice but to clean up this mess by either treating the boy if he was alive. Or worse, hiding the body in the case that he wasn't.
Gulping loudly, she steeled her resolve and started to work with cleaning up the scene of the crime…
Our hero started to stir back into consciousness slowly. '… Where am I? Last thing I remember was being outside…' Realizing that his jacket with Jolt was now missing, he was slightly worried that the villagers from earlier in the day caught him. Or even worse, somehow despite the old man's warning that somehow found out that Jolt existed and was therefore very valuable. And that they wanted to torture him in order to get information out of him.
Not that the detective show he watched with Jiji last time left an impression on him.
He started to look around the room to see if he could find a way out. He started to panic when he saw a dark figure in the same room with his. Holding rope and was whispering something about garbage bags. Another look around the room made him see things that strangely enough looked like… bones.
Heart pounding, he recalled some important shinobi advice from his Jiji in times like this. And that was to sneak up to your target and to take the kill when they least expected it. Using all the stealth he has learned over the years, Naruto got off the counter that he was laid upon and started to sneak up to the tall and dark figure.
Only to then step on one of the bone things, which made a very loud and surprising squeaky sound.
Before he could even realize what was going on, he was grabbed and then thrown into the wall. As he hit the wall he also ended up flicking on a light switch. This revealed the dark figure to be a girl with red triangle marks on her cheeks only a few years older than him. Ask he started falling into darkness once more, her eyes started to become wide with fear and she whispered only one word.
"Oops…"
STORY END: Chapter 3~
And there you have it folks! Somehow it seems like our hero to be and the people around him get stuck in the craziest situations… gee I wonder why. (_)
Anyway, I actually do have a few other stories in mind to make when this story starts becoming more popular and more chapters are obviously written for it. Also I am always looking for beta readers. Beta readers are very nice indeed.
Speaking of which, shout out to my friend Cooper who helped me beta this chapter!
Till next time!
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