Hi guys, new chapter out, and I'm decently proud of this one, It's my longest thus far. Also proud to say, we've exceeded 5200 views, so YAY. Anywho, as those of you who have been reading for the past at least a month has probably been able to tell I changed the main pairing from Naruhina to Not Sure yet. Also, I realized this is not K rated so I changed it to T, so yeah that's about it. Also don't own Naruto yet (unfortunately), now ON WITH THE BOOK!
Chapter 8- Dumbfounding the Council :P
"Is that what I think it is?" asked Iruka, rubbing his eyes.
"Yup, multi shadow clones, cool huh?" said Naruto… "And now the real party starts."
"Real party?" asked Iruka, mind-boggled, "At 16 points, you've displayed enough Ninjutsu to tie with tenth place, and now you say you're gonna be serious?"
"Yeah, did I stutter?" asked Naruto genuinely.
"No, but if you are serious, you may begin," said Iruka, tempted to see what will happen.
Naruto simply nodded at this before he ran through eight hand signs in under three seconds, ending with the dog seal, before slamming both his hands on the ground.
"Doton: Twin Mud Dragons Jutsu!" Naruto said. Directly after, two serpentine style mud dragons (with red eyes somehow) rose from the ground, looking at the forest. He then ran through hand signs: Ram, Horse, Dragon, Ox and Tiger before saying, "Katon: Dragon Flame Bomb!"
Soon enough, the dragons' mouths opened and built up fire, only to launch in a series of powerful fireballs. While the Fireballs were still in the air, two clones came up from behind Naruto and stood next to him, forming five hand signs in rapid succession before saying "Fuuton: Great Breakthrough!"
It didn't even take a second before massive gusts of wind came out of both of the clones' mouths and headed straight towards the continuously launching fireballs, making the fireballs larger and faster moving. This went on for at least thirty seconds, massive fireballs launching against dozens of trees, lighting them on fire.
Iruka was starting to panic, seeing as to how Naruto was doing nothing about the burning section of the forest.
"Naruto, do I need to call the Fire Corps?" asked Iruka.
"Nah, I'll take care of that now," said Naruto. As he said that, four more Naruto's stood in the row. Now we see seven Naruto's standing side-by-side of each other with approximately three feet of space between one another, standing still, channeling chakra throughout his body, and then he began. All of the Narutos made identical hand signs, at the exact same time, at a rate of about one every .8 seconds. And after ten seconds, he didn't stop, concerning everyone. The fire was spreading slightly every second, so the longer it took, the less likely Naruto was to be able to put it out. Twenty seconds passed… still nothing, Naruto was still making hand signs, and the students were starting to panic. It wasn't even seven seconds later when the Narutos made their last hand sign, and slammed their right palms into the ground.
"Suiton: Tidal Lock!" Naruto said. Then, with no other warning, water started pouring out of the ground towards the trees, and not a little bit either. Tens of thousands of gallons came rushing at the fire like a rapid, diluting the fire, but not without a lot of steam. But this is what Naruto planned.
When the steam was at its climax, Naruto made four hand signs before saying, "Raiton: Electromagnetic murder." Soon, a stream of electricity moved towards the steam, and due to the fact that steam is made of water, it was conducted through the steam, causing a large pulse of pure electricity to show.
Everyone looked at what just occurred in silence (except the fangirls who were knocked out), not believing their eyes.
"O-OK, N-Naruto," said Iruka waveringly, trying his best to seem professional about this, "You have forty four points, do you have any more to show us."
"I mean, I could show you guys forty more, but I'll leave it at two," said Naruto, much to everyone's further amazement.
Naruto then took out a scroll and opened it, revealing it was completely blank, and set it on the ground in front of him. He then took out a brush and some ink, and set that on the ground in front of him. He then infused chakra in the brush, dipped it in ink, and got to work. At speeds that seem blurry to the untrained eye, Naruto wrote down an elaborate seal on the scroll and quickly closed it. Naruto made two hand signs, and then in a poof of smoke, it suddenly shrunk to be two inches tall and not nearly as wide. He then got a kunai, and opened off the bottom to reveal that the hilt was hollow, and placed the mini scroll within it. He then put the bottom back on and got ready to throw it at a tree.
Everyone looked in anticipation, wanting to see what that elaborate seal was. Naruto then through the kunai, and it hit a large tree. The moment it hit, the tree quickly lit in blue flames, and it was gone. Not in ash either, just gone, without trace. You wouldn't even think a tree was there if not for the holes where the roots once were.
And for the last jutsu, all fourteen clones circle around Iruka and jumped at him. He then made the hand sign for the transformation jutsu in midair, and the moment Iruka knew what was going on it was too late.
"HENGE!" all of the Narutos said in unison, and in a puff of smoke, they transformed.
When the smoke let out, everyone (especially Iruka) could see fourteen adult, naked, female Narutos giving Iruka A LOT of attention. Hugging his arms, rubbing up against him, and talking about Iruka in a seductive manner, addressing him as "Iruka-sama". Eventually, it proved too much, and Iruka blasted back, like a rocket of noseblood.
"Heh, knocked out two senseis in one day, I'm on a role," Naruto said while releasing the naked girl transformation. Ignoring the threatening glare Ino was giving him for using that move… AGAIN.
After he was done telling himself how good of a job he did, he reached into his back pocket and retrieved a scroll. He opened the scroll, revealing a sealing array. He infused his chakra, making the contents release, revealing 50 scrolls. These scrolls had names of jutsus on them like, "Katon: Massive Fireball Jutsu" and "Suiton: Raging Water Wall". He kept sorting through the scrolls until he found the one on the information to his original seal, so Iruka could properly grade it.
While this was happening, the class noticed some scrolls with familiar jutsu names, and realized what this was.
"Naruto, are those all the jutsus you know?" asked Kiba.
"Yeah," said Naruto, "pretty cool huh?"
Kiba just nodded in response.
After that, Iruka got up, Naruto gave him the scroll, Iruka gave out the Hitai ites to everyone and Naruto, Hinata, Chouji, Ino and Shikamaru talked amongst each other while everyone was recovering from what just happened.
(Time Skip 1 hour)
"OK, bye guys, see ya tomorrow," Naruto said to everyone in the class as he walked home with Ino, Shikamaru and Chouji.
"So… How do you guys think you did?" Ino said, trying to start conversation.
"What kind of question is that, he told us if we passed or not," said Naruto. "I don't think I passed though," Naruto said, kidding, but not showing it.
"Naruto…" said Chouji, "You got first place for shuriken jutsu, left Mizuki in a crater, and left the Third Hokage in the dust, you cannot say you failed."
"Yeah yeah, I know," said Naruto, waving it off.
"Anywho, you guys excited for ninja training?!" said Naruto.
"Mmmm… " said Ino nerovusly.
"Of course," said Chouji.
"It's a bit too much of a drag, I'd prefer to do cloud watching with you guys," said Shikamaru.
"Well, I'd prefer to go pick flowers with Naru-kun again, but we don't all get what we want," said Ino with a sigh.
"Besides Chouji…" said Shikamaru.
"Hmm?" asked Ino as she tilted her head sideways in questioning.
"YOU DON'T KNOW!" screamed Chouji like it was the end of the world. Which in response, Naruto just held the ridge of his nose in anticipacion and mild annoyance.
"No, not really," said Ino.
"TODAY IS THE DAY OF OUR TWENTIETH QUARTERLY EAT-OFF!" screamed Chouji with fire in his eyes.
"Hopefully I catch up," said Naruto, "I'm losing to this guy twelve to seven."
"You will never catch up, you don't have the stomach," said Chouji.
"Do to!" screamed Naruto.
"No way, you can't stand up to this gluttony," said Chouji with a huff of his chest.
"Oh, how do I approach your level 'Oh Gluttonous one'" said Naruto sarcastically.
"The trick is in the new seafood diet," said Chouji like he was about to make a massive revelation.
"Huh?" said Naruto in confusion.
"Yeah, the rules are simple: You 'sea' food and you eat it," said Chouji. To which The three others could barely hold back a sigh.
"It's a good pun and you know it," said Chouji.
"Chouji," said Shikamaru, "the day you make a decent food pun is the day I run a marathon voluntarily."
"Hmph," grunted Chouji in annoyance, muttering something along the lines of 'I'll show you'.
"Anyways, let's hope that he doesn't drink the Sake," said Shikamaru, "We don't want it turning out like that Extra (Chapter three's)."
"What are you talking about?" said Naruto, "What's an Extra?"
"Ignore that," said Shikamaru.
(A few minutes later, in the Hyuuga Compound)
Hinata just got home from the academy, content with her scores, and a smile of pure, unadulterated, joy on her face from her conversations with her beloved Naruto-kun. This was the only thing that kept her mood up as, on request, she had to go to her dad's office within the clan compound.
So she walked over there, taking a few turns in the hallways before she got to the door of her dad's office. She quietly knocked on the door and waited a few seconds before she heard, "Come in."
Hinata opened the door to her dad's office and sat down on the floor, waiting for her dad to raise his head from the paperwork he is buried in. Hinata's dad, Hiashi, was an old man with a overly serious, stuck-up demeanor to him. He had tan skin, long, dark brown hair, and the classic, light-lavender colored eyes of the Hyuga clan. He wore military green clan robes over a white gi, and while you couldn't see it then, also wore shinobi sandals.
Slowly, Hiashi looked up from his mound of paperwork and addressed his daughter, "Yes Hinata, I'm glad you came."
Hinata nodded at this and got prepared to speak on the topic.
"So, on to business," said Hiashi, "How did you do on the graduation exam?"
"Pretty good, I guess," said Hinata.
"More specific," stated Hiashi.
"Well, for the shuriken jutsu test I got 22.7 points, managing to just barely get myself in third place for that test," said Hinata.
"OK, expected I guess," said Hiashi with an emotionless mask on his face, "How about the jutsu test?"
"I got third place on that too, being one of the three in the class to exceed six points on that one."
"Hmmmm, this class isn't too special I guess," thought Hiashi, not knowing just how wrong he was.
"And the Taijutsu?" asked Hiashi.
Hinata looked down in slight embarrassment at her placing for the Taijutsu, expecting a not-so-pleasant reaction. "I got third place on that too…"
At this, Hiashi's face turned into a frown, not wanting to get too upset without getting the full picture. "Who were the ones who scored higher than you?"
"It was the same two people each test who beat me," said Hinata.
"Two prodigies, it appears something has slipped my observation," though Hiashi. "And who would they be?"
"Well the one who got second at everything was Sasuke," said Hinata quietly, bracing for her dad's reaction at the first place.
"Someone better than Sasuke?" thought Hiashi, "Is this some kind of new arrival?"
"And the first?" asked Hiashi.
"N-Naruto-kun got first," said Hinata timidly. At this Hiashi's first reaction was to go wide eyed, then his eyes narrowed, believing that Hinata has lied to him, giving him false information… the nerve.
"Hinata, are you lying to me?" said Hiashi, suppressing an explosion of anger.
"What, NO, I would never do that Tou-san," said Hinata back.
"YOU EXPECT ME TO BELIEVE THAT THAT DEADLAST PRANKSTER BEAT YOU AND SASUKE?!" Hiashi screamed at his daughter and stood up, towering over his daughter. He would not tolerate a lying daughter and POTENTIAL HEIR for that matter.
"No Tou-san I'm serious," said Hinata adamantly, "I wouldn't lie to you."
"Yeah you are, you're just protecting you stupid crush," said Hiashi.
"I'm not," said Hinata, starting to get quite annoyed with her father's childish stubbornness.
"She's right," said a mysterious anbu from right behind him. This anbu in particular wasn't wearing a cloak, making it fairly obvious it was a she. Her hair was purple and long, going down just about her lower back. She wore the normal anbu breastplate and sleeveless flak jacket. She also wore an anbu mask with the appearance of a cat (Yes, I have done the research, that mask is supposed to be a cat), and had a sword on her back. "Hokage-sama is requesting a meeting on that topic, and is expecting your presence immediately, sayonara."
After saying that, she shunshined away, leaving a relatively dumbfounded Hiashi and a relieved Hinata.
"Well it appears that you weren't lying to me," said Hiashi in his normal monotone voice, "Good job… I guess. See you later." Hiashi then shunshined away, leaving Hinata alone in the clan compound.
(In the meeting place at the base of Hokage Tower)
Hiashi just got at the meeting place and saw that he was currently in a council-like circular room that he was all to familiar with. Looking at the desk, he saw that he was the last one to arrive, but not by a large margin because he saw an overweight member of the civilian council and Shikaku himself still walking to their spots. So he decided to take his seat as well.
Soon enough he sat down in between the Nara and Aburame clan heads, and awaited the arrival of the Hokage. This didn't take too long however as the hokage entered the room not even two minutes later and took his seat at the head, the meeting has begun.
"Hello all who have joined us for this meeting today," said the Hokage in a commanding voice, "I propose a motion on the discussion of Naruto's reveal, those for, raise you're placards."
Everyone who agreed on this motion raised their placards while the rest kept it down. The Hokage did a quick count and and then said the results.
"OK, seventeen for, five against, the discussion shall be set into action," said the aged Hokage.
"Why did so many of you agree to discuss this?" asked one of the civilian councilmen who disagreed, "He's just a weak, snot-nosed demon that has been nothing but trouble to this village!"
"First of all, he's not a demon. Second of all I'm sure that for the most part, when the anbu picked you guys up, they told you guys that this was about what Naruto has chosen to reveal today," said Hiruzen.
"Hmph, and that would be?" said the same councilman.
"His real strength," said the Hokage.
"Even if we were to believe you, that just means he's not dead-last, still isn't worth talking about," said a councilwoman this time, also not agreeing to this conversation.
"Well he's not dead-last that's for sure," said Hiruzen as he took out a file. He then threw this file to Danzo and told him to read it.
"Hmmm," Danzo said as he opened the file, "This is the results of the graduation exams, anyone besides Naruto you want me to read?"
"Yeah, read Sasuke's as well, give him something to compare to," said the Hokage.
Danzo nodded at this and turned the pages until he got to Uchiha Sasuke in the file.
"Ok, Sasuke. He actually did pretty good on the graduation, getting tenth place in the history of the academy graduation for shuriken jutsu, and the top two percent in both the jutsu and and Taijutsu test," said Danzo.
"That's right, that's our Sasuke," said a not so calm councilman, showing off to basically no one. To which the hokage not-so-quietly cleared his throat in order to get back on topic.
"OK, now, read Naruto," the Hokage said, a growing smirk present on his face.
Danzo simply nodded and turned to the next page, and instantly, his eyes (or eye) widened to the size of dinner plates.
"Hmm, what is it Danzo?" asked Hiashi.
"This kid… this supposed dead last… got first place in the history of the exam, on EVERY section," said Danzo, absolutely dumbfounded.
"WHAT, no way, what specifically did he get," said Tsume, head of the Inuzuka clan.
"He got 48.8 points on the shuriken jutsu test, beating the now second placer, Shisui Uchiha's score by 1.3 points," said Danzo.
"He used a jutsu didn't he," said Isaho, head of the Hatake clan (Yes, that is a thing).
"Yes, the shuriken shadow clone jutsu to be exact," said Danzo.
"But that's a B-Rank," responded Isaho.
"Yes it is," responded the Hokage.
"OK, now onto the Taijutsu test," said Danzo, not wanting to stray off topic, "He did astoundingly well on that too, scoring a perfect score, showing perfect form and impressive strength… for the 1.8 seconds that they even saw it."
"HOW IN THE HELL IS THAT POSSIBLE!" screamed Takahawa, head of the Sarutobi clan.
"How he did it, a combination of weight training, resistance seals and senjutsu manipulation," said Shikaku.
"How would you know?" asked the overweight loudmouth of the civilian council.
"Maybe because I knew of this, considering he has lived with me for a large portion of his life," said Shikaku.
"So did I," said Choza.
"And I," said Inoichi.
"And I," said the Hokage.
"Then why did you keep this from us?" asked Hiashi.
"Because he asked us to," said Hiruzen.
"Why would he do that?" said a random councilman.
"He intended to keep the facade up so he gets partnered up with the top shinobi and kunoichi in the class, but I guess he had enough of it on the last day," said the Hokage.
"But how did he hide his chakra?" said Hiashi, "I'm sure my clan's eyes would have picked something up."
"That is thanks to a permanent Transformation seal of his own design," said Inoichi.
"That doesn't change anything, when you do a transformation, your chakra reserves don't change," said Hiashi.
"You misunderstand me, it's not a ninjutsu, it's a fuinjutsu, and one of his two A-Rank ones at that," said Inoichi.
"A transformation fuinjutsu?" asked Hiashi.
"Yeah, it's his original design," said Inoichi, "With this seal, it requires a small portion of the user's blood within the seal's ink, and when constructed correctly, can transform the user, physically, into anything they choose, only able to be undone or spotted by placing the user's blood on said seal."
"So… a seal that bypasses the byakugan," said Hiashi mostly to himself, his pride hurt because his eyes, the ones held in such high regards by all of konoha is surpassed by a seal made by a twelve year old kid.
"Yes," said Inoichi.
"Now, back to Taijutsu," said the Hokage, "Naruto has some level of mastery in four different taijutsu types: Academy style, Gray Wolf style, Ken Monk style and Kumite style."
"Wait… but isn't Kumite style the one only mastered by Jiraiya, and the first and fourth Hokage?" asked Isaho.
"Indeed," said the Hokage, "It requires for the accumulation of senjutsu on any given part of a person's body, and while Naruto can't intake the natural energy, he has an uncanny ability to control it to an extent, allowing it's formation on the palm of his hand in order to increase the strength of his blows."
"That's quite the powerful taijutsu," said Danzo.
"Indeed," said the Hokage, "and before we get off topic again read out his scores for the jutsu test."
"Yeah, that's easily the most impressive section," said Danzo.
"Even more impressive than his ability to manipulate natural energy?" asked Tsume.
"Slightly," said Danzo, "Sasuke's score: 9, Itachi's score: 17, Shisui's score: 19, Orochimaru's score: 20, My score: 22, Our Hokage's score: 29. And with this in mind, Naruto's score is 53."
At this, everyone had different reactions, the civilian council was seething, most of the shinobi council had their jaws firmly attached with the floor, the Ino-Shika-Cho gave out cocky smirks, Danzo somehow kept up his emotionless facade and the Hokage let out a chuckle.
Everyone looked at the hokage as he gave out the chuckle, and grew furtherly confused as it transformed into a full blown laugh.
"Hokage-sama?" asked Hiashi, not knowing what could possibly be so funny.
"No no it's nothing really," said the Hokage.
"It clearly isn't nothing Hokage-sama," said one of the civilian council members.
"It's just that he was severely holding back in that is all," said the Hokage.
"What," said Hiashi.
"Yeah, I hold quarterly tests for Naruto to see where he stands, the most recent of which is where he beats Asuma," said the Hokage, "Anywho, I require him to display every one of his jutsu every test, and he holds 50 in his possession, of which include 25 Ninjutsu, 8 Genjutsu and the rest Fuinjutsu."
"Wait, but with 53 points, and you saying he severely held back, that means he has some highly ranked techniques," said Toroha, head of the Kurama clan.
"You can say that," said Hiruzen.
"Well then, how many of his 25 Ninjutsu are above D-Rank?" asked Toroha.
"Well… that would be 21," said Hiruzen, dumbfounding everyone. And that is when Toroha decided to take it one step further.
"Above C-Rank?" asked Toroha.
"Thirteen," said Hiruzen.
"BUT HE'S NOT EVEN AN OFFICIAL GENIN!" screamed Tsume.
"But he has been training non-stop for the past eight years," said Hiruzen.
"HE'S STILL NOT EVEN THIRTEEN!" replied Tsume, still mind-blown beyond all belief.
"What does age have to do with it?" said the Hiruzen wisely.
"Maybe his chakra reserves," responded Tsume, with a tone that refers to it as obvious.
"That, my friend, is no issue," responded Hiruzen, "Naruto's chakra pool is larger than any two jonin of this village put together."
"But how," said Isaho, "He may be an Uzumaki and stores that demon of his, but his chakra network shouldn't be able to handle so much chakra."
"Yes it can," said Choza, "Don't underestimate his training, he's put blood sweat and tears into his training since he was four, and the results are clearly shown. On top of that he's an Uzumaki with a tenant that fixes any and all damage to his chakra network."
This didn't get a response from anyone as they didn't have anything to say. In the silence, the Third Hokage realized he had other matters to discuss, so he ended the meeting then and there.
"OK everyone, we have the matter of the genin teams to discuss, so I will release a true full file of Naruto into the archives for anyone with more questions," said Hiruzen. "I now present the motion to adjourn this meeting, any oppositions?"
No one raised their hands so the Hokage ended the meeting, ready to start what this meeting was supposed to be about.
(20 minutes later)
"Does everyone agree on the members of team six?" asked Hiruzen to the twenty two others in the circular room.
There were no objections to the response, so Hiruzen put team 6 down as: Torio Akido, Umino Hatake, and Sophie Akare.
"OK, now for team seven, I will be having Kakashi Hatake as the Jounin Sensei," Hiruzen said, leaving mutters in its wake, "And the squad members are Haruno Sakura, Uchiha Sasuke… and Uzumaki Naruto."
"NANI?!" said all of the people in the room.
"Any issues?" asked Hiruzen.
"Yeah," Tsume said boldly, "If we are to believe what you said earlier, that means that you are putting both of the class prodigies together in one team, not to mention Sakura, she's no dead-last herself the teams are completely off balance."
"Yes that may be true, but balance isn't always what's important in a team, I put them together so they can get stronger as a whole, so they can grow to be like a family to one another," said Hiruzen.
Everyone looked at Hiruzen in question, knowing full well that that is not the whole reason.
"May you please elaborate," said a member of the civilian council.
"*Sighs* OK, about the first part, this is the perfect team so that everyone will want to improve on themselves," said Hiruzen, "Sakura is a fangirl of Sasuke, so she will want to get stronger to impress Sasuke, and maybe Naruto and Kakashi can do something about the Fangirl attitude before it gets her killed. Sasuke will want to get stronger to achieve his goal as an avenger and catch up to Naruto. Naruto will be taught by someone who knows over 1000 jutsus. And Kakashi will want to get stronger so that one of his genin students don't surpass him."
"But why would you need Kakashi to get stronger?" asked Isaho.
"Isn't it obvious?" asked Hiruzen, "I'm getting old, and need to start thinking of a next hokage, and what other real options do we have. Itachi: dead, Shisui: Dead, Orochimaru: Might as well be, Asuma: Beat by a twelve year old, Jiraiya: would never take the position, and Tsunade: I'd rather not go looking for her unless I need to."
"So what you're thinking is…" started Danzo.
"Yes, I need Kakashi to step up his training, get back to his prime and even stronger than that, I need a strong capable leader, one who I can safely say will lead this village into prosperity, and who better than him?" said Hiruzen.
"I guess that makes sense," said Toroha, "But relying on a twelve year old won't cut it if you want to make him that strong."
"I'm not, it's just extra incentive," said Hiruzen, "so, back on topic, are you guys satisfied with the answer?"
Everyone looked around with a slightly disagreeing look on their face, giving the so-so sign. And this is when Hiruzen knew he would have to pull out the big guns, something he would have prefered to keep secret, but better reveal than have them disagree.
"OK, well there is one more reason," said Hiruzen.
"Then spit it," said Tsume impatiently.
"But first I ask you this, why did you want Sasuke on Kakashi's squad?" said Hiruzen.
"Isn't it obvious," said one of the civilian council members, "when he awakens the Sharingan, Kakashi will be there to teach him how to use it."
"Well, what if I told you that Naruto has the Sharingan already awakened?" said Hiruzen.
"But he doesn't… right?" asked that same civilian council member.
"All three tomoes," said Hiruzen.
"But… how?" asked Isaho, "he's no Uchiha, he's a demon, no way he should have the Sharingan."
"You're half right," said Hiruzen, trying to hold back his rage at Naruto being called a demon, "he is no Uchiha."
"Then how?" asked Shibi in his normal monotone voice.
"By genetics he is no Uchiha," said Hiruzen, "But for some weird, undiscovered reason, his chakra screams: Uchiha, Senju, Uzumaki, slight amounts of Hyuga and trace amounts of some clan that is not found in our databooks. I believe that is what the senjutsu manipulation could be attributed to."
"This is so PERFECT!," said one of the civilian council members, one who is widely known to hate Naruto the most.
"Why's that?" asked Hiruzen.
"We should put him in the clan rebirth program, it's a way to gain power beyond anything we've ever imagined, and nobody will give a crap because he's just a demon," said that same member. This earned him a lifetime's supply of killing intent from our beloved: Hiruzen Sarutobi, Choza Akimichi, Shikaku Nara and Inoichi Yamanaka. Little did he know that overdose side effects included constant sweating, shivering, blurry vision, throwing up and a combination of bathroom numbers 1 & 2 that some experts politely refer to as the double sided blastoise. Only cures, immediate apologize or a fainting session of a few days… the council member chose the second option.
"Now everyone listen here, Naruto Uzumaki is NO DEMON, I repeat, he is NOT A DEMON!" said the Hokage.
"How can you support him so much, he destroyed half of the village," said Tsume.
"NO, the Kyuubi did," said Hiruzen, "Naruto was just who it was SEALED INTO, SINCE WHEN DID THE COUNCIL GET SO FORSAKEN THAT YOU CAN'T DISTINGUISH A KUNAI FROM A SCROLL!"
To this, the council put down their heads in guilt… but Hiruzen was not done.
"DO YOU KNOW HOW STUPID YOUR IDEAS FOR MOBS, TORTURE AND HATING HIM ARE?" screamed Hiruzen, "ABOVE EVEN THE SEAL, HIS WILLPOWER TO PROTECT THIS VILLAGE IS WHAT PREVENTS THE KYUUBI FROM ESCAPING, AND YOU'RE GIVING HIM EVERY REASON IN THE WORLD TO EITHER LEAVE, OR RELEASE THE KYUUBI A SECOND TIME… IS THAT WHAT YOU WANT?!"
The room fell into a deep silence as they comprehended what happened. Most looked back as to how stupid they were for treating him so badly. They thought that it was for the betterment of the village as of that time, that it was rightful revenge, but they now see that this is what the Kyuubi wants, a jinchuriki that would let it free, one that it could control. Others were just as focused on the fact that the legendary God of Shinobi has returned, no longer that overly kind, old man.
"When the fourth sealed the Kyuubi inside Naruto as a baby, he did it with the intention of Naruto being hailed as a hero, not to be treated as a demon," said Hiruzen in a far more calm voice, "By treating him badly you have spat on and insulted the Fourth's sacrifice, you should all feel ashamed of yourselves."
After another minute or two of silence for most of the council, and relief for the four with a brain, Hiruzen decided it's about damn time to continue the meeting.
"We've pondered this enough, we need to get back to business so we can call in the Jounin senseis before nightfall," said Hiruzen.
"Agreed," said Tsume.
As of that the meeting went on, Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura was under team seven, taught by Hatake Kakashi. Hinata, Kiba and Shino was under team 8 run by Yuhi Kurenai. And the Ino-Shika-Cho kids was under the strongest Sarutobi on active duty, as tradition goes, Asuma Sarutobi.
Then they were dismissed, everyone thinking about the Hokage's outburst, and the current Ino-Shika-Cho were thinking of something else… THE GRADUATION PARTY!
(Ten minutes later, at the Yamanaka Compound)
*Knock, Knock, Knock*
"Coming!" Naruto said, getting up from the game of chess that he was playing with Ino for a change.
Naruto walked up to the door and opened it, to see his dad standing right there.
"Hey, Tou-san, how was the meeting?" asked Naruto.
"Hey Naruto, actually quite well," said Inoichi, bringing his "son" into a hug.
Soon enough, Ino ran to them and joined in the hug.
"Hello to you too Ino," said Inoichi jokingly, "How was the graduation exams?"
"I passed," said Ino, "Naruto's sparring with me helped, I did well on the Taijutsu test."
"Nice," said Inoichi, "And you Naruto, I heard you showed them today huh?"
"Y-Yeah, I did," said Naruto embarrassed.
"However much I disagreed with the plan, I gotta say, it was pure genius," said Inoichi, "After only needing to hold it for one more day, what caused you to show them now?"
"Cool story," said Naruto, "Ino, Shikamaru, Chouji, Iruka, and even Hinata were protecting me after the class started making fun of me, and I don't think it's fair to have their reputation ruined just because you are protecting me. And now my plan is ruined, I'm going to be assigned to a crap team."
"Fair enough," said Inoichi, "Also, no you're not, you'll be assigned with Sasuke and Sakura and your sensei will be… and now is when I realized that I'm not supposed to tell you this."
"Heh, thanks Tou-san," said Naruto with a grin.
"Yeah whatever," said Inoichi with a slightly annoyed face, "Now onto more important matters."
"More important than our graduation, do tell," said Naruto, making an exact copy of Ino's curious look as of right then and there.
"Of course," said Inoichi, "tonight is gonna be one of the biggest parties of your life!"
"Wait, the graduation party, I forgot about that," said Ino.
"What graduation party?" asked Naruto.
"You're kidding me right?" asked Inoichi, "neither Choza, Shikaku or myself told you about this."
"Not that I remember," said Naruto flatly.
"Well… to sum it up," said Inoichi, "When a member of the Sarutobi, Yamanaka, Nara or Akimichi clans graduate from the academy, the four clans hold a HUGE party in commemoration. AND WE HAVE THREE GRADUATES! Soooo tonight's gonna be fun."
"Huh, sounds neat," said Naruto.
"Oh yeah, Ino, who are you taking as your guest?" asked Inoichi.
"Guest? What are you talking about?" asked Naruto.
"Since only members of the four clans get invitations, the graduates can invite a friend if they want," said Inoichi, "Chouji chose you for the eat-off and Ino hasn't decided."
"And Shikamaru?" asked Naruto.
"Too troublesome," said Inoichi.
"Should've known," said Naruto.
"So who are you inviting?" asked Inoichi a second time.
"Hmmmm… as I said, I forgot about it, so I don't have someone in mind," said Ino, lightly pinching her chin with ner thumb and pointer fingers as she did so, like she was thinking.
"I know someone," said Naruto.
"Who?" asked Ino.
"Sakura," said Naruto.
"You know I don't like her anymore," said Ino.
"This is for me," said Naruto.
"But I thought your crush on her was fake," said Ino.
"It was," said Naruto, "And before you ask why, here is the reason. As you would have probably been able to tell, Sakura has been avoiding me since the day we entered the academy because I was acting like that jumpsuit-clad idiot. And now that I'm no longer under the transformation, I want to be her friend again… just like old times you-know. Also, we are on the same team now, as Tou-san oh-so legally put it."
"Naruto, shut up about that before I perform mind-destruction on you," said Inoichi.
"That's useless on me and you know it," said Naruto.
"… The troubles of raising a prodigy," Inoichi said mock dismay.
"Love you too Tou-san," said Naruto with a foxy grin.
"Yeah, I know what you mean, Prince Charming," said Ino mockingly. This resulted in a tick mark on Naruto's forehead and a chuckle from Inoichi.
"Ino, I wanted to train with Tou-san, and you too were non-stop about wanting to play," said Naruto, trying to justify his actions, "so I just treated this as a infiltration and retrieval mission."
"I know, but it was just so CUTE," Ino was borderline squealing.
-(Flashback: 5 years ago)-
Here we see Naruto, Ino, Sakura and Inoichi all hanging out at the park, the same park that Naruto and Chouji was in before the Hinata rescue. Naruto was sparring with Inoichi on the grassy area of the park while the two girls were building a sand castle. But that sand castle gave Ino a thought.
"Hey, Sakura, wouldn't it be cool if we were princesses, trapped in a castle, before getting saved by our prince," said Ino in her high pitched seven year old voice with googly eyes present on her face.
"Yeah, he would beat the dragon, save me and we'd kiss while the sun sets," said Sakura, "It would be sooo romantic."
"Yup," said Ino with a smile on her face as she continued to imagine how the situation would play out in her head.
They continued building the sand castle in a comfortable silence until Sakura decided to ask, "With us four, who would be what?"
"Well… Naruto-kun would be the prince because he is the same age as us, Tou-san would be the dragon because he's big and ugly…" said Ino, resulting in a sneezing Inoichi, giving Naruto the chance for a sucker-punch to the cheek, "And I'd be the princess."
"No I would!" said Sakura.
"No I would!" said Ino slightly angrier.
"NO I WOULD, you would just be a witch that the prince has to get passed," said Sakura. This started an argument in which Ino and Sakura kept trying to outdo each other with second grade insults… that is, until Ino came up with a master plan.
"Hey, Sakura," Ino said in a calm, excited voice, like the argument never happened.
"Yeah," Sakura said, clearly dismissing the argument as well.
"What if we make it a game," said Ino, "I'll be the princess, Naruto will be the prince, Tou-san will be the dragon, and you help Tou-san."
"And the jungle gym will be the castle," said Sakura excitedly.
"YEAH!" screamed Ino excitedly. Instantly, they both ran to Inoichi and Naruto to beg… I mean ask for them to play.
When they got there, they kept constantly asking to play the "Princess Rescue Game" with them. In the beginning few minutes, Naruto or Inoichi gave them a quick "no" while they spared, but after a few minutes, it got annoying.
Naruto then paused the match and said, "Fine, I'll consider it, but I need to know the rules first."
This is when Sakura and Ino listed out the rules to the "prince" and "dragon" of the game, Naruto's face remaining neutral the whole time. And when they finished, Naruto was about to give a response, but Inoichi decided to break the ice first.
"We'll play, this will be fun, maybe even a way for Naruto to get some training with infiltration missions," said Inoichi.
"Fine, but at least let's spar for a bit longer as they figure something out," said Naruto.
"What do you mean?" asked Ino.
"Which of you will become princess first," Naruto said with a grin, content with his own genius.
As the two walked off Ino thought she was smart and said, "Obviously me."
"No me," Sakura said… You know where this is going.
(Fifteen minutes later)
Everyone is in positions for the start of the game, ready to begin at any moment. Sakura was standing at the top of the jungle gym, or "castle" as they call it. Naruto was standing at the bottom, while the two Yamanaka's stood at different points within the "castle" to prevent Naruto from getting to the top.
"Ready…" Sakura said, as the game was approaching it's beginning, "GO!"
Soon enough, Naruto ran towards the other side of the jungle gym, where Ino was. Inoichi caught this and figured Naruto would try to enter through the point with the weakest security, so he made a shadow clone next to Ino, and intercepted Naruto as he was about to enter.
Then, Naruto made the same hand sign and in three puffs of smoke, now there were four Narutos, two on the original Inoichi's side, and two on the shadow clone and Ino's side.
Soon a fight broke out, each Inoichi taking on two Narutos. This was a fight where Inoichi was going easy, but Naruto was doing REALLY well for someone his age.
A minute into the game, after a total of three yells from Sakura for Naruto to save her, the shadow clone of Inoichi realized Ino wasn't fighting alongside him, so he looked back to see Ino, fixing her hair, and checking her nails.
"Ino, you're supposed to help me remember?" said Inoichi.
"Why would I do that?" said Ino, "I need to look at my best for when Naruto-kun saves me too."
"Troublesome girls," Inoichi thought.
Not far after said thought, one of the Narutos backed away and started making hand seals.
"Suiton: Water trumpet jutsu," said Naruto. Soon after, a stream of water comparable to that of a garden hose got spewed from his mouth, wetting the floor that the Inoichi shadow clone stood on. This caused the shadow clone to trip, and hit his head on the floor… making the shadow clone poof out of existence.
After that, the original Naruto went for Sakura, while the shadow clone went for Inoichi. With three shadow clones to battle at once, Inoichi couldn't make the hand sign for the shadow clone jutsu fast enough to stop Naruto from reaching the top.
Once Naruto went the long and arduous journey of the rickety bridge and stairwell of a thousand steps (you know what I'm saying), Naruto got to the top. In order to get down as fast as possible, Naruto decided to carry Sakura bridle style and run down the slide to the safe point (the grass). Once there, Naruto stopped and earned himself a kiss on the cheek and hands wrapped around his neck from Sakura, while she was still in his arms.
"My hero," Sakura said in the best dreamy princess impersonation she could make. All of this promptly earned her a blush from Naruto, a chuckle from Inoichi, and an unrelenting squeal from Ino.
Then, they kept playing this game, switching turns between Ino and Sakura as princess, and Naruto trying new infiltration strategies until the day ended and they had to go home.
-(Flashback end)-
"Yup, good times," said Ino.
"Hmph," is all Naruto gave in response.
"I think we teased him enough with that flashback," said Inoichi.
"What, come on," said Ino, "But there are so many more."
"Why me?" thought Naruto to himself.
-(Many Flashbacks Later)-
"This is torture," thought Naruto as he was forced to endure four additional flashbacks.
"Oh, and remember when…" started Ino.
"Ino, at this rate we will be late for the party will you invite Sakura or not," said Naruto annoyed.
"Alright fine," said Ino.
"OK good, now to get ready," said Naruto in relief, walking off to take a shower.
"Those were some good times," said Inoichi.
"Yeah, and if it weren't for today, I would totally ship Naruto and Sakura," said Ino.
"Not anymore?" asked Inoichi.
"Yeah, Sakura has fallen too low," said Ino, "There's someone else now."
"WAIT, WHAT!" screamed Inoichi, "WHO!"
"That's not for me to tell," said Ino.
-(1 hour later)-
Everyone was ready. Naruto was walking to the Akimichi Clan Estate so he could go to the party with Choji as Choji's guest, Inoichi was already at the Sarutobi Compound setting up the party with everyone else, and Ino was going to pick up Sakura.
Soon enough, Sakura's house came into view, and Ino couldn't stop the embarrassment in inviting her rival to the party. But it was probably karma for having Naruto endure five teasing flashbacks back-to-back.
"This is for Naruto," Ino had to constantly remind herself.
It didn't take long for Ino to get to Sakura's door, and after a deep breath, she knocked.
She didn't get an immediate response, so she knocked again, and immediately after, the door opened, revealing Sakura in red kimono with cherry blossom designs on it. Her hair was up in an elaborate bun-like way and held by two chopsticks. She also wore red medium-high heels and had her makeup done. A huge contrast to Ino who had her normal clothes on.
"Sakura, this isn't a formal party," said Ino.
"Oh, it isn't," said Sakura in embarrassment, "I'll be right back."
-(Fifteen minutes later)-
Ino and Sakura just started walking over to the Sarutobi compound, and Sakura just changed into her normal clothes.
"Was it not on the invitation," said Ino.
"Maybe, I just saw I was invited and got ready, I didn't read the rest," said Sakura.
"Baka," said Ino.
"Anyways," said Sakura, "Why did you invite me? Wouldn't you have invited Sasuke?"
"That was my first choice, but then I realized he wouldn't want to come," said Ino, "And Naruto was the one who wanted to invite you."
"Wait… is this some sort of date?" asked Sakura annoyed, "If it is then I'm turning back."
"Sakura… Naruto faked his crush on you," said Ino.
"That's what I tho… wait… what?" said Sakura.
"He faked it," said Ino, "just like his weakness and lack of a fashion sense."
"Wait… so why did he want to invite me?" asked Sakura.
"That's not for me to tell," said Ino.
-(Finish)-
-(Extras)-
This is part of the council meeting that sort of got skipped over.
Danzo was reading through the list of jutsus that Naruto showed, and he saw one that he knew the hokage was all to familiar with.
"Hokage-sama, you may want to see this," said Danzo as he threw the file back to the Hokage, "Read through the jutsus Naruto displayed in the exam."
The Hokage read through the jutsus and once he got to the last one, his eyes widened significantly, and I mild blush on his face.
"I see, so he used that jutsu," said Naruto.
"Hmmm… What jutsu," said Hiashi, intrigued.
"Is it some ultra-powerful, complex jutsu?" asked Isaho.
"*Sighs* No it isn't," said the Hokage, "It takes virtually no chakra, and requires D-rank chakra control, but it's outcome may result in bleeding out to death for any male who lays eyes on it. I'm considering making it a Kinjutsu."
"It's that powerful, well we need to teach it to all of our ninja, it will give us an immense advantage in battle," said one of the civilian council members.
"UNDER NO CONDITION!" screamed Hiruzen harshly, the blush increasingly present on his face.
"Why?" asked Tsume.
"It's too risky," said Hiruzen, "the training required to achieve this jutsu has sent many to the hospital, and some to the grave. It requires hitting an all time low, and no ninja besides Naruto has the willpower to use it."
"Fine, may we at least know it's name?" asked Shibi.
"I believe it's most commonly used name is the Oiroke-no-Jutsu," said Hiruzen.
-(Aaaaaaand… Scene)-
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