Hooray! New chapter! I'm so glad to be returning to this story after over a month. I've been polishing out the details of the outline for this one as well as developing the plot for my newest story, Summoners of the Shattered Nexus. As for people who are readers of my other story Child of Mandalore, I'm sorry, but I stared at a blank Word page for like three days straight and couldn't come up with anything. So unfortunately that one's on hiatus for the time being.
However this story is not on hiatus! So rejoice and enjoy a new chapter!
DISCLAIMER: I do not own Naruto... like at all. If you were under the impression that I did, then I have two questions. What are you smoking and can I have some?
Monday morning couldn't have come sooner for Naruto as he let loose a sigh of relief entering the classroom of the Ninja Academy for the last time. Many of the students were discussing and guessing who would be placed on what team, the majority of girls wondering if they would be placed on a team with their beloved Sasuke-kun. Thought Naruto didn't join in with any conversation. He was busy having a similar conversation.
"So Naruto-kun, have you figured out the team placements yet?" The demonic vixen inquired of her host. Naruto mentally scoffed.
'Please don't patronize me, Kyuu-chan. You know I'm not the idiot I've led these fools to believe I am. I figured out the team placements a year after I enrolled in the academy.' A seductive giggle ran through the blonde's mind, sending a shiver down his spine.
" Oh really now? Do tell. Who are the teams that will be leaving here be?" Kyuubi always loved teasing Naruto. He had always found it annoying in the past, however given the revelation of the great demoness' gender and her change of tone, the young jinchuuriki had come to enjoy the great vixen's playfulness.
'Most of them will fail. The true genin test has a 66% failing rate. Thus only three teams will pass. Asuma-san will want to have the second generation of the Ino-Shika-Cho trio.' Kyuubi raised her brow coyly.
'Oh? And what makes you think that the Hokage will allow that?' Naruto let out a short chuckle, a few of the genin sent him quizzical glances before returning to their conversations.
'It's quite simple. Ever since Asuma left to become one of the Daimyo's personal bodyguards their relationship has been strained. The Hokage will do anything to fix their relationship. Including giving his son a team who will become a carbon copy of their fathers, leading to their inevitable defeat in battle due to many learning how to counter said team's maneuvers.' The bijuu gave a nod of approval before motioning her host to continue.
'The next to pass will be Shino, Kiba-san, and Hinata. A simple well balanced team composition. Given the right Jounin, they could become an elite tracker team. Which would leave me on a team with the PTSD victim and…'
"GET OUT OF MY SEAT INO-PIG! SASUKE-KUN'S MINE!" The pink haired banshee known as Haruno Sakura screeched. A blonde girl stood up and butted heads with her.
"As if Forehead! Like someone like Sasuke-kun would ever fall for anyone as apish as you when he can be with someone as beautiful as me."
"PIG!"
"Forehead!" The pair went back and forth with their insults, causing Naruto to have a headache.
"For the love of Kami, shut the fuck up bitch." Sakura turned and glared at the blonde, rage burning in her eyes as her face turned red. She marched over to Naruto, whose expression remained neutral.
"WHAT DID YOU SAY TO ME BAKA?!" The pink haired girl reared her fist back and sent it flying toward the blonde's head. However many were amazed when not only did Naruto catch the girl's wrist, but he quickly maneuvered her arm behind her back and pinned her to the desk.
"My apologies Haruno, you must not have heard me clearly. Allow me to say it again at a decibel that you're accustomed to." He leaned in to her ear as he held her immobile. She struggled to move but the blonde's grip was incredibly strong.
"SHUT THE FUCK UP, YOU MEWLING QUIM! No one cares about your petty rivalry or your futile attempts to woo someone with the emotional range of a dead fish!" Naruto then threw the pink haired harpy down the stairs as she tumbled toward the front of the class. She stopped halfway down and stood up shakily only to find the jinchuuriki right in her face.
"Since this will probably be the last time that we ever encounter each other, I have no qualms about telling you the truth. You are a disgrace to the very title of kunoichi. You are not fit in any way to enter the field of battle, and I promise you, Haruno Sakura. One day, either you or one of your team mates will be killed, and it will be all… your… fault." He walked back to his seat as deathly silence filled the entire classroom. The silence was finally broken as Iruka cleared his throat. He proceeded to congratulate the class on graduating. After a long boring speech that few seemed to actually pay attention to, Iruka finally began to read of the selections for the genin teams.
"Team Seven will be comprised of Haruno Sakura, Uchiha Sasuke and -"
"SHANNARO! TRUE LOVE CONQUERS ALL!" Sakura exclaimed before the entire room was flooded with KI for a split second, causing her to sit down quietly. Iruka turned back to his clipboard.
"As I was saying, Team Seven will be comprised of Haruno Sakura, Uchiha Sasuke, and Uzumaki Naruto. Your Jounin sensei will be Hatake Kakashi." Sakura felt slightly nervous when Iruka said that she'd be on Naruto's team.
'It doesn't matter what that baka says! Sasuke-kun will protect me! True love conquers all! Shannaro!' Iruka finally finished the team assignments after a few more minutes. After everyone's sensei's came to gather their teams, the only ones left in the empty classroom were Team Seven. Naruto decided to get out of there as fast as he could as he walked over to the door.
"I'm going for a walk." Sakura was about to yell at the blonde but he was already gone.
Naruto made his way up the staircase and made his way up to the roof. Sitting on one of the vents was none other than his older brother/Jounin sensei reading the latest edition of his beloved and infamous little orange book.
"How long are you going to make them wait, Aniki?" Kakashi looked up from his book at his brother and eye smiled.
"Oh, I was thinking of making them wait for a few hours." Naruto chuckled as he walked over and grabbed the book from his big brother's hand, placing a navy blue bookmark in the spot where the book was opened to before flipping the pages back and removing an orange bookmark several chapters back.
"You really do love milking your reputation don't you, Nii-san?" The blonde chuckled as he read a rather steamy scene between the Lady of the Rain and the Ice Craftsman. His elder brother read over his shoulder. Once the scene had reached its climax, (AN: In more ways than one. *smack* Ow!) Kakashi took the book from the young man's hands and made his way toward the edge of the roof, signaling for his brother to follow.
Naruto followed his brother across the rooftops and deep through the forests of Konaha. The lush forests become thicker and wilder as the pair make their way farther from the village until finally they reached their destination. The brothers stood before a large gate that was almost completely covered in ivy. The gate itself stood a good 25 feet in the air and was incredibly simple in design yet held an elegance that was unmatched by any of the clan estates within Konaha. At the bottom of the gate was a seal. Naruto knew where he was immediately.
"So this is my parent's home." He mused to himself. Kakashi patted him on the shoulder before stepping up to the gate and pointing to the seal.
"This is a blood seal. Only someone with Minato-sensei's or Kushina-san's blood can unlock in and enter the Namikaze-Uzumaki estate. Luckily I happen to know someone with both of their blood." Kakashi smirked as the blonde rolled his eyes. Walking forward toward the gate, Naruto bit his thumb, drawing blood from the appendage. Wiping a few drops on the seal, the brothers stood back as kanji began to glow and spread from a central point covering the entire gate and the ivy began to wither and die as chakra past over the plants. The two leapt back as the gates swung open with a tremendous force, shaking off the dead ivy and leaving the gates in pristine condition.
"So Kakashi-nii… Not that I'm glad to finally step foot in this place. Do you mind telling me why you brought me here?" Kakashi eye smiled as he grabbed a large scroll from underneath a nearby tree. It was about the length on the jounin's arm and just as thick. He handed it to the blonde and motioned him inside the gates.
"I think it's about time we collect your inheritance." Naruto smirked as he followed his brother through the grounds. The grounds were over grown with lush and beautiful flowers. As they made their way toward the main house, the jinchuuriki couldn't help but imagine what it would have been like to grow up in such a beautiful place.
'I'm sure it would have been wonderful Naru-kun. Your parents loved you very much.' The pair stood at the front entrance of the main building. It was a large two story mansion that even in all of its extravagance was still a very humble dwelling. Naruto couldn't help but chuckle at his father's odd nature. Only he could make a gigantic building seem like a cozy little place to raise a family. Kakashi led him through the halls before ending at a large pair of double doors.
"I think we should start with the library first." The cycloptic jounin opened the doors to reveal a room with large bookcases filled with scrolls and books on all subjects of jutsu, from chakra exercises and basic jutsu to fuuinjutsu and several other advanced techniques. Kakashi unraveled the scroll and began to place books in stacks across the piece of parchment. The pair proceeded to seal the entire library into this scroll. After a good hour of sealing books away, the pair sat on the floor of the now empty library.
"There's about half of the scroll left. What else are we going to put in here?" The silver haired man stood up and made his way toward the door. Naruto followed suit. His brother had never led him astray in the past, why question him now? Naruto stopped midway down the hall and took a picture off the wall. He held it in his hands and just stared at it.
The picture was of his parents. He knew what his father looked like from all of the history books in class. Naruto's gaze however, was fixated on the woman he held in his arms. He knew immediately by the look on his father's face exactly who she was. He had to admit, his brother was right. His mother truly was one of the most beautiful women he'd ever laid eyes on. She smiled with the same foxy grin that he had. She seemed like she was the happiest woman in the world. Naruto smiled sadly at the photo.
'Don't worry Kaa-san. I promise that I'll make you proud. I'll leave this place and become strong. Even if I have to do it alone.'
'You are very strong, Naru-kun. Soon you can live up to your promise and start your journey. And I will be by your side. You will never be alone.'
'Thank you, Kyuu-chan.' Naruto let out a single tear. The young blonde heard his brother call his name as he followed him through the rest of the halls.
Eventually they stood in front of a vault door. However where the combination dials should be, there was in its place, a red spiral. The Uzumaki spiral. Naruto reopened the wound on his thumb and spread it across the spiral.
"Kushina-san was never really one to trust banks so she convinced sensei to keep all of their money in this vault. I thought you might need some walking around money when you finally decide to fulfill your promise Otouto." The door began to creak as it unlocked itself and swung inwards. The pair entered the cavernous stone room. Kakashi lit a torch with a simple fire jutsu and watched as his little brother's eyes opened wide. In the room were stacks upon stacks of money.
"How does half a billion sound?" Naruto walked over to the piles and picked up one of the stacks, holding it in his hands and flipping through the stack of 100 ryu bills. He turned to his older brother with a determined smirk, passion burning in his eyes.
"Like a fresh start. Now let's hurry up and get this into the scroll before my teammates get suspicious."
Ninja Academy, An hour and a half later…
Sakura paced back and forth up and down the stairs of the class room.
"SHANNARO! IT 'S BEEN THREE DAMNED HOURS AND THERE IS NO SIGN OF OUR SENSEI! THAT BAKA NARUTO HAS GONE MISSING AS WELL!" The pink haired banshee shrieked out in frustration. Sasuke on the other hand, had moved from his usual seat by the window and had taken up sitting in Iruka's swiveling desk chair. He had actually succumb to his own boredom and begun trying to stick pencils and various other pointy objects into the ceiling.
This was the scene that the Kakashi came upon when he finally opened the door to the classroom. Sakura turned her attention to him and screamed.
"YOU'RE LATE!" The silver haired jounin simply stared at the two with a bored expression.
"My first impression of you… Is not promising. Now meet me and your team mate on the roof in 30 seconds or you're all dropped from the program." The cycloptic man stated before dispersing in a plume of smoke. Sasuke and Sakura immediately shot out of the room as fast as they could as they made their way toward the roof of the academy.
Hooray! Another chapter out of the bag. I know a lot of you were expecting the Bell Test this chapter, but there was some things that I had to take care of before I could do that. However, since all the set up is out of the way, next chapter will begin the excitement.
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