Long no so see huh guys? Well it has FINALLY happened! Atomaton here with a new chapter! I'll explain more later on with an ending note at the (well, end) of this chapter!
Now to my great pleasure, I shall announce:
STORY START: Chapter 4~
"Urgh…" Naruto said as he finally started to shift into consciousness. Feeling a throbbing coming from his forehead, his right hand immediately was placed on the injured spot to massage it to hurt less.
"My does my head feel like a fucking train hit me face on?"
"… Do other 4 year olds nowadays usually have a mouth like yours?"
Screaming in the most unmanly way possible, (not that kids at his age are considered very manly) Naruto started to quickly panic until he finally saw the source of the voice he heard – a slightly older girl. With his vision finally starting to come back to him, he noticed two different things about her face. The first was that she had red triangle marks on both of her cheeks symbolizing that she belonged to the Inuzuka family – a fact that he noted actually did come quite conveniently for him. The second was focused on her actual current facial structure being an odd mixture of confusion, disgust and… worry?
But as her words finally caught up for him – those thoughts were casted aside for the moment.
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN 4?! I'M ALREADY FUCKING 6 YEARS OLD YOU… you… you… YOU BITCH!" Naruto fired back at her in anger.
Of course during which he used the forbidden world that should NEVER be used toward the females of the Inuzuka clan.
Only three seconds after that did Hana give a so called 'love tap' to the young blond – not using a full out punch considering she was the reason that he was in pain in the first place. However being that an angry Inuzuka love tap was a giant bitch slap to the face, the blond clutched his forehead and face now as well trying to stop the pain he was currently feeling. Hana, at his actions huffed and rolled her eyes before continuing to speak, "First off, you NEVER call me that again. UNDERSTAND?!" She screamed at the kid while towering over him. Shrinking back in size with widened eyes, he quickly nodded in agreement. "Besides, you just proved my point. Being 6 years old and not being able to finish a full sentence without cursing honestly gives me some worry for the generation my brother is currently in. Now lay back down and hold still…" she stated as she started to finish applying ointment and a bandage to the boy's injured forehead. "You are not really making this job any better for me at the moment."
His eyes widening in recognition of her actions, Naruto was very confused about what this strange girl's motives were. No one in the village really sought out to actually HELP him unless they were forced by the order of his Jiji. Now giving her a hard look as he started to suspect her, he started to figure out what was going on, he asked her, "And just WHY are YOU helping me with my injury?"
Hana winced slightly as she recalled what just happened in the last few minutes.
'Oh no oh no, oh no, oh no, OH NO!" Hana panicked as she realized the 'intruder' she just threw across the room was no more than the little kid that she brought into the house in order to cover up any 'foul play' so to speak. 'Mom is going to literally maim me and turn me a scratch post for the cats at the pet store down the street with the way this day is going!'
After a few seconds to take a deep breath and calm down, she started to finally think more rationally as she stared at the knocked out child. Gawking for a bit at how much his head was bleeding, she sighed and started to pick him up in order to dress his wound and possibly not let anyone find out about this embarrassing (for her at least) incident. "Well… I did want to have something exciting to happen today."
Before she even had a chance to explain her entire situation, the kid's eye lit up in realization. And as his mouth is faster than all of his other actions he started to yell out, "HEY! YOU ARE THE CRAZY LADY WHO THREW ME ACROS-Mphmphmffmpfmpfmf!" before Hana was able to actually get her whole hand over his large mouth.
"Will you please shut up for a second?" Hana exclaimed quietly in slight anger as she continued to do her best to stop this random blond kid from alerting the whole neighborhood of the events that just happened. "GOD you are JUST as bad as my own brother sometimes." Hana grumbled as the kid started to actually calm down and stop flailing all over the place. After letting go of him, she held her head in her hand for a slight moment before letting him know of the earlier events. "I was doing my mundane chore of watching over my family's practice alone," 'because Kiba was able to sneak out of doing it for the day,' she mentally added in her head as she continued to speak," I was quite bored because it just so happened that we had slow business today, but then all of a sudden I heard a giant bang from outside and saw that you ran into the side of the building. I took you inside to clean up your injury," 'or dispose of the corpse' she once again continued in her head, "however, you woke up – much earlier than I expected, might I add - while my back was turned on you. My reflexes from my ninja training got the better of me before I realized that you weren't an attacker, but instead the boy I took inside. So I went back in order to treat your injury."
Naruto stared back at this stranger and immediately started to giggle. "PFFFFFF - you mistook ME to be an intruder?! You thought I was 4! I didn't know that you Inuzukas were terrified of CHILDREN of all things! Glad to know I'm such a great and powerful threat!" He finished as he was now full blown out laughing at her.
In her now very embarrassed state, Hana decided to make a jab right back at the strange kid. "And just what was the reason you decided to grace my family's pet clinic wall with your forehead anyhow, oh so GREAT and POWERFUL threat?!"
It was now Naruto's turn to be completely embarrassed as someone, after all of these years, was finally was able to get HIM of all people to shut up… the old man should hound her for some pointers. Using this newfound silence in order to remember what he was doing in the first place for the day, Naruto decided to speak up. "Actually I had to make an errand here for Jiji… er I mean the Third." He said, trying to quickly correct his mistake.
Hana in her amusement and disbelief folded her arms over her chest and said, "And why would Hokage-Sama of all people trust such an important errand to a kid like you, whose parents are not even able to teach their child proper manners and speech?" in a condescending tone of voice.
She then realized the child become much quieter and in a remorseful tone said, "Jiji is technically my only caretaker since the orphanage kicked me out." He then awkwardly looked down and started to fiddle with his thumbs.
Guilt now taking her over she said, 'Wow… maybe I really am a bitch.' She decided to change the topic. "So what was this important errand of yours that requires the services of the Inuzuka family?"
The kid stopped his previous actions and slipped into a more energetic voice. "OH YEAH! First off, can you tell me where my coat is! I need to get the thing from inside there!"
Hana blinked while registering the words he just said. Going back to where she previously discarded the evide – child's coat – in order to check for other possible injuries, she started to think to herself, 'Weird… what does a child's coat have anything to do with pet care?'
To her shock she got an answer to her question upon giving the kid his coat back, where he took out a small red and black sphere that quickly grew in size that he proceeded to throw onto the ground. In its place was now a small blue, black and yellow creature that looked somewhat like a lion cub. In combination with her sudden surprise and all the stress earlier, Hana started to stumble back before falling ass first to the floor. "Wha-what?! What is that thing?!" She exclaimed loudly in surprise and possible terror.
The kid then made a face at her most recent actions. "He is NOT a THING! His NAME is JOLT thank you very much! Also, Jiji told me to give this to the first person I saw at the clinic." He said as he took out a small folded letter from his other pocket, handing it to her. Upon opening it up she indeed did recognize the Hokage's seal of approval and started to read the letter.
"To whom may have the pleasure (or displeasure) of reading this letter right now, I apologize for the strange situation I can envision you are in currently. This BOY who was told to give you the letter is Uzumaki Naruto. The strange creature you see along with him is named Jolt – a name that the young BOY has given what is now his new pet. Currently it is only I, this BOY and you as the reader that know of the existence of such a creature. And the only thing that I can currently tell you is that this creature holds great power in the form of electric based attacks. He seems quite attached to young Naruto, thus I will not give this creature to the Inuzuka or any scientists in order to conduct any possibly harmful testing. However, as I am assuming that the person reading this letter right now is a high ranking member of the Inuzukas for being in charge of the famed clinic – I am making it a requirement for you to train young Naruto here in the basics of bonding with an animal partner. I also make the request of some basic training in the arts of the Shinobi for him as well. I am not able to explain if it was fate or pure luck that led these two together. But I can tell that there is already a strong bond between the two thus far.
I will make the note that the only other person who is allowed to know of Naruto's training by you is Inuzuka Tsume – if this is not Tsume herself. Any unauthorized leaking of ANY of Naruto's abilities or any hindering of his current situation will be SERVERLY punished by my official authority. This is an official A ranked mission.
Thank you for taking the time to read this letter."
Sarutobi 'The Professor' Hiruzen; The Third Hokage'
Despite sweating and gulping in fear of possibly making an accident of any kind to invoke such a punishment (after all, it's not every day that a GENIN gets an official A rank mission coming from the Hokage himself), Hana was also curious in some of the emphasis she saw in the letter. These were mostly caught around the word 'boy.' Shrugging slightly, she looked up to see the newly named kid, Naruto, chasing the animal named Jolt around the supply room that they were currently in – narrowly avoiding all of the sharp objects somehow. While dropping in to see the hyperactive child, she could see the bond between the two that the Hokage pointed out in his letter, she called out to Naruto in order to get his attention. Thankfully he and Jolt stopped short and stood front and center, or in Jolt's case was now in Naruto's arms with no intention of running around the supply room again as of this moment.
"I just finished reading over the letter that Hokage-Sama gave you, Naruto." the boy nodding realizing that now she recognized just who he was, "It appears that I was told in order to do some examination of your… lion cub here. I was also told that you need training as well in order to work along with this "Jolt". So I will be instructing you in bonding with your partner as well as basic skills of the Shinobi HOWEVER," She raised the volume in her tone upon seeing that he was about to jump for joy, "I will be demanding total respect. I expect you to be calling me either Inuzuka-Sensei or at least Hana-Sensei during the time I am instructing you."
Naruto balked in surprise. "Wait – you mean to tell me that YOU are Hana?!"
With a vein popping out of the side of the head, Hana angrily yelled, "AND WHAT THE HELL DO YOU MEAN BY THAT?!"
After screaming in the unmanly manner from earlier and flailing slightly in surprise, Naruto quickly caught himself and explained quickly. "That means the brother that you mentioned is that motherfucking asshole Kiba, who picks on me every chance he gets at school!" He remarked angrily, as Jolt started to growl and started to release small electric shocks.
Hana was confused once more. Kiba never mentioned having a kid named 'Uzumaki Naruto' in his class at the academy before – and boy did Kiba like to yap his mouth. She never took him for the bullying type either. However, Naruto seemed to be quite sincere and angry in this revelation. She added on in her head, 'I will have to talk to Kiba later about this. Something about this situation seems incredibly off for character he is – or at least who I thought he was.' But deciding to address the matter at hand, Hana remorsefully explained to Naruto, "I apologize to hear about that struggle. I was not aware of a situation happening like this in my little brother's class before. Everything I hear about his class in the academy comes solely from his mouth. I never thought of my brother as a bully before…" she added.
Finally calming down, Naruto decided to apologize as well. "Ah… I did not think of it like that. I'm sorry too…" he finished with, feeling slightly depressed at the feeling that he possibly ruined the bond of a family. Jolt calmed down as soon as the malicious intent from his master was gone. Confused at why he looked so sad, Jolt decided to lick his master's cheek in order to help cheer him up slightly, as an anime rain cloud then appeared over Naruto's head.
Hana started sweating at scene she was viewing. 'If this kid wasn't strange enough already, it seems that he changes his emotions more quickly than an Akimichi finishes eating his first 3 breakfast meals.' "It's okay Naruto. I have to add that I need to do the examination of Jolt sooner rather than later. Do you mind me working on the testing with him as soon as possible?"
Little 6 year old Naruto did something that no one close to him in his life time ever thought he would do at this point – he started to use careful thought. "I guess that would be okay. I need to look for a job anyway! I'll just leave Jolt here in the meantime! THANK YOU HANA-SENSEI!" He said, the last part in major joy at the idea that he was finally going to achieve his dream of going to become a ninja.
He then ran out of the room seemingly faster than light leaving Jolt's pokeball in her hands before Hana was able to add on, "WAIT! I need you here in order to make sure that Jolt doesn't… feel unsafe around me…" She adding on the last part in a low defeated whisper seeing that the blond was probably long gone. She then turned to where Jolt was left on the floor, him looking at her in confusion. "Um… good kitt-ARGH!" She screamed as Jolt bit her – much to her lack of knowledge that apparently lions – or creatures that look like lions – apparently share the old feline trait that all dogs are considered to be evil. Then the little, now considerably evil, lion cub pumped approximately 10,000 bolts of electricity through her before running off, giving Hana the new hair style of a burnt hairdo which apparently looks down right HORRIBLE on her, as well as small electric aftershocks.
Sighing knowing the consequences of rejecting the Hokage's 'A ranked' mission, she moped in her head, 'I just had to wish that my life wouldn't be so boring…' she said as she stumbled before gripping the edge of the counter – and then quickly ran after the cub traveling at seemingly the speed of light. And with that Ms. Inuzuka Hana met the to be famous duo of Uzumaki Naruto and the Shinx Jolt.
Once again, sorry for the lack of updates for SOOOOO long. I honestly meant to update this story weekly, but a bunch of factors hit me all at the same time. Including finals at my college, computer problems and then even a little trouble with writers block when it came to putting it all on… digital paper?
Anyway, I have some ideas of where I want Naruto to work. Also I have some quite odd and unique ways of introducing Kyuubi/Kurama into the story that ALSO strangely enough has to do with where Naruto will get his side job. Don't expect big ol' foxy to come into the story for at least some chapters in the future though. This will however also be a large part of the story and will help Naruto develop his own style of fighting with Jolt besides just future ReBURST powers.
Also, I would like to add that I am now looking for permanent beta reader(s)! I have made a public chat on the kik messager problem called #BetaReaders where anyone may join to look for other fanfiction writers. Please also pm me for more information.
On a side note, I say thank you to my friend Kevin for being this chapter's beta! Pleeeeease apply to help me for more betaing in the future though. xD
Till next time!
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