Disclaimer: don't own Naruto, but i do own W.Q.I
It had been one month. One hellacious month from the formation of the new generation of team 7, to where we find ourselves now. In the last 4 weeks, quite a bit had happened, and only a fraction of it good for our favorite blonde. But in the mind of one Naruto Uzumaki, the good far outweighed the bad.
During training, Naruto had constantly shown up Sasuke, leaving an ever more pissed off Uchiha and an ever more bitchy (if that's even possible) Sakura. On several occasion,' Sasuke had challenged Naruto to a fight outside of their usual spars, which Naruto would always decline, then Sasuke would try to force him to fight, only to be humiliated just before becoming even more of a broody brat that usual.
During missions, if you could call them that, Naruto had picked up most of the workload, though he was fine with this. Naruto knows that skill is earned through blood, sweat and hard work. So every time a mission called for something physical, he jumped at the chance to work one of his nine metaphorical tails off. And even he had to admit, the constant work of the hated D-Rank along with his borderline psychotic training program that Kakashi, the Hokage and Jiraiya had planned out for him was slowly turning his already impressive physical stats to new and very noteworthy levels. He could now stop a full powered kick from any jonin by catching it in his hand, and even stop a kick from Gai, something not many chunin or even jonin for that matter could do.
Though Sasuke and Sakura were spiteful to Naruto, he didn't care much at all about either of them, which only served to piss the Uchiha of more. Sasuke would demand to watch him train so that he could learn how he was continuing to leave the Uchiha in the dust, but whenever Naruto trained outside of the team it was at a private training ground reserved for former and current ANBU. About 3 weeks after the team formed, Sasuke had demanded to be trained by ANBU the way Naruto had, which made Kakashi, Naruto and even the Hokage laugh at the young Uchiha. Not just for the fact that the Uchiha thought he would get what he demanded, but just thinking about him attempting Naruto's hellacious training program. After his attempt to get the same training as as his blonde "teammate" had failed, he went to his legal guardians, aka, the elder advisers. That is where we find ourselves now.
-Council chambers-
"Sarutobi, you must give Uchiha-sama the training he requests! We need to give our strongest genin every chance to become more powerful! He is too great an asset to let fall by the wayside." stated Homura, one of the elder advisers
"Absolutely not! Even if Sasuke Uchiha was the strongest genin, he could not be trained the way he requests! There are only a handful of ninja in this village that have the stamina and reserves to even think about that training!" stated Sarutobi forcefully
"And why is that? He is the last Uchiha! Nothing is out of reach for him! If anyone can do it it is him! The sharingan is too important!" stated Homura
"Lord Hokage, you said "Even if he was the strongest genin". Are you saying there is someone stronger than the Uchiha in our ranks as a genin?" asked Inoichi, rather confused that the Uchiha wasn't considered the strongest.
"Yes, several in fact. Off the top of my head I would say, Neji Hyuga, Rock lee, Kabuto Yakushi, and the one said training was designed and developed for, Naruto Uzumaki-" Sarutobi was cut off
"The demon container cannot be stronger than the Uchiha! There is no way it could be possible! He is an orphan! He has no clan! How can he be more powerful?" yelled a nameless civilian. With everyone else in the room that didn't know of Naruto's personal training in ANBU and by both Sarutobi and Kakashi agreeing with the councilmen.
"There is nothing I can say without the proper people here, Tora!" commanded the Hokage, seconds later an ANBU appeared from behind the door "Bring Fox and Dog hear at once!"
"Are you sure sir? Last time..." Trailed off Tora
"Yes!" Shouted Hiruzen, not wishing to remember the last time he had called either one to a meeting.
"Hai!" stated Tora as he disappeared to find them
"What are you playing at? There is no Fox operative, he was released from duty almost a month ago." stated Danzo, his face showing no emotion, though he was rather curious, he knew exactly whom Fox was, the only person allowed to wear the fox mask was the container of the Kyuubi, and sense kushina had died years ago...
"Yes, you are correct, but please Danzo, would you inform the council on Fox and his exploits? I'm sure it will help clear things up when the time comes" asked Sarutobi, his tone far too calm for the warhawks liking.
Danzo nodded and started "Fox was a covert ANBU operative that appeared in our ranks little over three years ago, during his time in ANBU he made huge strides in the areas of stealth, speed, tactics and to top it all off, he was a juggernaut. Set two records on one mission for wiping out a bandit camp in the fastest time ever and killing over 350 enemies in just under 7 minutes Fox is also said to be the only person ever to steal dango from Anko Mitarashi and come away without even a scratch, why is this important?" asked a truly curious Danzo
"This is why, Dog, Fox, you may show yourselves now." the moment he was done talking, two people dropped down behind him, one tall, wearing a dog mask, the other short, wearing a fox mask, both standing at attention awaiting their orders. Everyone in the room was stunned. Not one, but two people were able to infiltrate a meeting without anyone but the Hokage noticing them. "Remove your masks and take a seat, there is much we need to discuss" he said pointing to the set of chairs at the opposite end of the table.
"Hai, Hokage-Sama" the ANBU said in unison as they removed their masks and took up spots at the end of the table.
Everyone on the council was shocked silent. Not only that one of the operatives was Kakashi Hatake, but the other operative, Fox, the one that they had all heard about minutes ago, was none other than Naruto Uzumaki, the demon container.
After a moment of blaring silence, the first person decide to speak up. Unfortunately for everyone, it was councilwoman Haruno. "Hokage-sama! The demon brat is impersonating an ANBU! Arrest him!" she screeched
"I can assure you that he is not impersonating anything. Naruto Uzumaki is fox, just as his mother Kushina Uzumaki was fox." assured Sarutobi, fully aware that he basically just handed them Naruto's heritage on a silver platter.
There was several murmurs until one man finally spoke up "I was unaware that Lady Kushina had a child, though that would explain his personality" started Shikaku Nara "But if he is a true Uzumaki shouldn't he have red hair, not blon... Oh my god!"
"What's wrong Shikaku? You feel sick?" asked his longtime friend Chouza Akimichi
"In a sense, yes. Who was Kushina always seen around?" asked Shikaku, his face pale.
There was a moment of thought before someone answered "The Yondaime, why is this important?" asked a civilian
"What color was his hair and eyes?" asked Shikaku. Naruto smirked, someone had finally figured it out, unfortunately, this was sure to start an uproar in the village when it got out.
"Blonde hair, Blue ey-" Inoichi and everyone else left out of the loop froze at the sudden realization. The demon child couldn't possibly be HIS son, could he?
"You people really run Konoha? I figured out who my parents were and that i contain the Kyuubi by myself, when I was six! How could you not figure it out until the smartest man in the village pointed it out?" asked a smirking Naruto while pointing at the Nara clan head.
There was silence until Sarutobi spoke "Everything just reviled is an S-rank secret, if anyone of you but myself or Naruto tell anyone about this, you will be killed on sight, am I understood? Your title as a councilor will not save you, nor will your being a clan head or an elder"
"Sarutobi, surely that boy is not Minato's son!" pleaded Homura, though he already knew it was true, the only blondes in Konoha were the Yamanaka, Namikaze or the Senju.
"Yes, his true name is Naruto Uzumaki-Namikaze, current clan head of both the Uzumaki and Namikaze clan." stated Sarutobi
"How can he be a clan head? He is far too young and there is no really proof that he is truly related to either Kushina or Minato" stated Koharu, making almost the whole council give her the "Are you fucking retarded?" look
"Well Kakashi was made a clan head when he was 7, so it's not a matter of age, and I have the DNA test to prove who his parents were, so I guess that means that Naruto is the Clan head of both the Namikaze and Uzumaki." stated Sarutobi with a hint of satisfaction in his voice.
-Next day, training grounds 7-
Naruto and Sasuke we're currently sparring in a taijutsu only match. It looked that they were evenly matched, but only Sakura would be dumb enough to believe that. The truth was that while Sasuke was going at about 90%, Naruto was going at about 25. But the fact remained that both Naruto and Sasuke were improving rapidly. In the Field of Taijutsu, Sasuke was already high genin, and outside of Naruto, he was by far the best from their graduation test. Though while Sasuke was high genin, Naruto was mid jonin and rapidly on his way to Anbu levels. The spar ended when Naruto landed a bone jarring kick to the gut of Sasuke
"Alright you two, that's enough for today. I'm very impressed, out of the three of you I'd say that Sasuke has improved the most over the last month, not to say that Naruto and Sakura haven't improved." it was a lie and everyone but Sakura and the still delusional Sasuke knew it "I believe this calls for a treat. Be at the Hokage tower by 9 o'clock tomorrow morning, I think it's time for a C-rank." stated the lazy nin
"About time" stated Naruto as he stretched out.
"For once I agree with you dobe" added Sasuke, though it lacked its usual venom, something easily picked up by both ex-ANBU
"At any rate, to reward you for your hard work, I'm teaching Sasuke and Sakura each a jutsu." stated Kakashi happily
"Why only us, does the dobe already know it?" asked Sasuke, generally curious. It always seemed like Kakashi was more willing to help Naruto instead of him
"Nope, you've both been working very hard and I think you deserve it. Naruto has been slacking so he doesn't get it" lied Kakashi as he made two shadow clones "Sasuke, you will be learning a reliable Genjutsu. It's the skill set that you have the most trouble with, so we're going to try and fix that. Sakura, you're going to be learning the shadow shuriken jutsu."
They both nodded and followed a clone to different locations.
"Now that I've gotten rid of them... Why don't we see how far along this little secret of yours is?" asked Kakashi. Naruto had asked how to activate the sharingan in hopes that it would work the same for his Doujutsu. Luckily, it turned out to work perfectly and now Naruto could activate it anytime he wanted.
-Flashback, 2 weeks ago, Kakashi's house-
It is not well known, but the Hatake family was really a clan of lightning users. They were at the peak of their power during the first great shinobi war, but died down in the second and after the third war only Kakashi was left in Konoha, a distant cousin was believed to be in Kiri, but there was no proof. Others had left during the second war and like the remaining Uzumaki, scattered to the winds. This left the rather modest compound to Kakashi. Currently, Naruto and Kakashi were sitting in the living room.
"Come again?" asked Kakashi, his book lay in his lap.
"How do you activate the Sharingan once it's unlocked? Remember the mission in grass how I reached levels with my fighting I still can't match? Kyuubi thinks I may have a near extinct Doujutsu." Explained Naruto
Kakashi knew about the mission, hell he was the commanding officer. He also knew that Naruto spoke to the Kyuubi, so neither surprised him to greatly. But hearing that Naruto might have a Doujutsu was a little much, though when you've pretty much watched the kid grow up you stopped being surprised. "From what I know you just send chakra to your eyes and think about them activating? That's how Itachi showed me to do it, though it's much too much trouble to reactivate it once I power it down."
Naruto tried it and amazingly it worked, the world around him seemed to slowed down and everything seemed clearer. "Do my eyes look any different?" asked Naruto
Kakashi studied them for a minute they responded with "There's a white diamond shape in the iris (colored part) of your eye. Like the Sharingan has Tomoe... Channel some more chakra into your eyes" Naruto did as told and watched his sensei fall into a trance-like state.
"Kakashi? You ok?" asked the blonde as he stopped the extra flow of chakra to his eyes.
It took a minute for Kakashi to respond. "Go to the bathroom and look in the mirror. You'll see what i saw" he said cryptically and sat back down in the couch he was sitting on before and rested his head in his palms.
Naruto was confused by this, but did as instructed. He got up and made his way toward the bathroom at what felt like a slow pace. He realized that while his eyes were activated, everything seemed much slower, even his own movements felt slower. But they also felt more precise, almost robotic. It felt like there was no wasted movement. When he finally made it to the bathroom and looked in the mirror, he was stunned. Though his eyes were the same color as usual, his pupil was slightly larger, and in the iris of each eye there was one elongated diamond, both on the side facing away from his nose. The diamond had no color, or rather, it was the same off white was the rest of his eye. He had to admit, they looked cool, he thought cooler than the sharingan he had seen on Itachi and Kakashi. Then he remembered that Kakashi had told him to channel more chakra to his eyes, so he did, but what he found wasn't what he had expected. The diamonds started to rotate around his pupil, they started to look like swirling water, almost a whirlpool in the middle of his eye. He noticed the more chakra he used the faster the diamonds would spin, until he could feel himself losing focus, almost like he was being drawn into them, after a minute, he looked around and saw he was no longer in Kakashi's bathroom, but instead in the sewers that held the Kyuubi. He was shocked to find himself there, because he didn't try to come here. He started looking around for the fox but couldn't find anything, he was in a completely different section of his mind. He couldn't make heads or tails of what he was seeing so he returned to the real world.
"Naruto? You alright?" asked the worried Kakashi as he helped the blonde up off the floor.
"Yea, I'm fine, what happened to you when my eyes started spinning?" asked Naruto, maybe he was just so entranced by the eyes that he ended up sending himself to his mind?
"It was like looking down into a maelstrom of water, after awhile it felt like I was being pulled into a void or something, did the same thing happen to you?" Asked Kakashi, still recovering from whatever Naruto's eyes had done.
"I was sucked into my mind, it was weird though, it was a part I have never been in before... What's a maelstrom?" asked Naruto
-End flashback-
"Alright, first we spar without it, then with it, pure taijutsu. Let's go." stated Kakashi as both he and Naruto dropped into a stance, Kakashi using the Goken, which Gai had taught him. Naruto however, used a familiar stance to Kakashi, the stance of a Taijutsu that was never named, the Taijutsu that Minato Namikaze created.
"Go!"
In a burst of speed, Naruto took of, almost faster than Kakashi could track... Almost, Kakashi blocked a kick to his chest and paired a punch to the face before taking a full body shoulder slam to his sternum. Kakashi held his ground, if just barely, from the surprise shoulder strike and retaliated with a vicious backhand that Naruto could react to in time and took the full force of it into his cheek.
"Very good, I'd say you're about low to mid jonin in taijutsu. Now let's see what you can do with the eyes"
-Next day, Training grounds 7 8:57-
Once again, Sasuke and Sakura were standing by the posts of the training field, waiting for their "Teammate" and sensei. It was a common occurrence, Kakashi was always late and Naruto was either with him or arrived five to ten minutes before the copy nin. Today was their first C-Rank mission and they really didn't want to be late, even if they thought that the other two would most likely be late anyways.
"So how long until Dobe and Sensei are here?" Sasuke asked Sakura, much to the surprise of the pink haired banshee. He wouldn't admit it, but she was the one person on the team he could stand. Even though he disliked the blonde nin, he was developing an amount of respect for him, even going as far as to see him as a rival.
"Right about now." came too lazy voices behind them. They turned to see both Naruto and Kakashi sitting on a post, looking rather bored. Kakashi reading the newest Icha Icha and Naruto reading an old, green covered novel.
"You're here on time?" questioned Sakura in shock, neither of them had been there on time all month, why did they start now?
"Yep, now let's go get that C-Rank" stated Kakashi as he hopped off the post and started to walk away, still reading this smut. He was followed closely by Naruto, who was still reading the old green novel.
-15 minutes later, mission assignment desk-
"Hey, Iruka sensei, Jiji, how you been?" asked Naruto as he approached the desk and put the book in his utility pouch.
"I'm fine Naruto, how about you?" asked Iruka, startled that Naruto would be reading anything that wasn't ninja related.
"Ready for another D-rank?" asked the ANBU in the corner of the room
"Shut it Boar! I'm done with D-Ranks! We're here for a C-Rank" stated Naruto, knowing that it wasn't that big of an upgrade.
"Wow! So instead of walking a dog you'll be an errand boy! That's amazing!" stated Boar, his words laced with sarcasm
"Hey Boar, who one last time?" asked A smirking Naruto
"Oh cram it! How the hell am I supposed to beat a thousand clones?" stated a very angry Boar, still trying to recover some pride from the beating he took from the blonde during a spar 4 months ago
"Kakashi can do it..." stated Naruto while pointing at his ex captain. This time Boar fell silent, though it was obvious he was mouthing something behind his mask, most likely swear words.
"As much as I like watching genin one up my ANBU..." stated a chuckling Sarutobi "I think its time to give you your assignment, you can come in now, Tazuna"
From the waiting area came a rather plump gray haired man, nursing a bottle of sake "These brats and the scarecrow are going to protect me? I have a hard time believing that."
"Unless you're expecting more than a couple of bandits, we will be fine." stated Naruto, shooting a glance at Kakashi, which he picked up without anyone else noticing
"Alright I guess, we leave in one hour!" stated the fat drunk as he walked out of the room, most likely to get his belongings from whatever hotel he was staying at.
"You heard him, gather enough supplies for a two week trip. Bring any weapons you think necessary." stated Kakashi as he gave the silent command for Naruto to follow him
-30 minutes later, Hatake compound-
After they left the missions office, Naruto and Kakashi went to the shinobi supply store to get a new set of kunai and a couple of training supplies. Then they headed to Kakashi's compound to discuss the mission.
"Hmm, so you think that there's more here than meets the eye? I'm proud to call you my student." Kakashi stated with an eye smile.
"Yea, if he was just afraid of bandits there wouldn't be any worry, that's why I think he's lying to us. I checked with Bookworm, Wave has been in an economic free fall ever since all the shipping companies were bought up by some company 2 years ago. I'm willing to bet that whoever is behind the company doesn't want this bridge built." deducted Naruto
"Hmm, anyone with the kind of money it would take run roughshod over a whole country, could afford some heavy hitters to take out a target. Should we still take the mission?" pondered the lazy nin aloud.
"We have to, we have no proof that this mission isn't legitimate , and it would make Konoha seem week if we turn down this mission" stated Naruto
"Then we're going to need a plan in case things head south..."
-15 minutes later, at the gate-
"Everyone here? Good, let's move out" stated Kakashi. Not even waiting for a response. Sakura and Sasuke followed immediately, not noticing that the blonde was not part of the group. Though this didn't get by Tazuna.
"Where's the blonde kid? He not coming?" asked the bridge builder
"No, he'll catch up, he said something about "Needing to fuel up" then headed off to his favorite ramen stand. He should catch up in about 2 hours." stated Kakashi nonchalantly. Tazuna had his doubts until he saw the look on the other genin faces. It was the look of complete understanding with a healthy dose of Happiness.
-An hour and a half later-
The group of 4 had set a good pace so far, and had covered a good chunk of the journey. Though the loud blonde still had not caught up, which even the pink haired banshee had picked up by now, and being a W.Q.I (Woman of Questionable Intelligence) she had to blurt out the fact that she had finally caught up to the situation.
"Hey Kakashi sensei? Where's Naruto? He should have been here by now?" she asked loudly, much to the annoyance of the males in the group.
"He will be here when he is needed. He did this on the A-rank in Grass country, and you both know how that turned out" stated the board Kakashi
"What happened?" asked Tazuna, to hear that the blond had been on a A-rank was very reassuring, if only he was here with them.
"He was suppose to meet up with us after another mission but got caught up with a missing nin. By the time he got to the camp we were staking out one of our operatives had been captured. The man captured was one of the few people in Naruto's life that has always looked after him. He felt it was his fault because he didn't make it on time. He snuck in and got the operative out. Unfortunately, they had tortured him to give the information. When Naruto saw the what had been done to him in order to gain information, he flipped and went back in to kill everyone in the camp, 325 bandits, and 26 missing ninja, well that's all we could count, but from the math we did it was more than that." he said with a hint of fear in his voice, his mind flashing to the horror that befell the bandits.
"What do you mean "That all we could count" and "the math we did was more than that"?" asked Sasuke
"We could only find about 300 full bodies, but it was reported that there were over 600 people in the camp... And we were positive that no one escaped" stated a now depressed Kakashi, shocking everyone
"Full bodies? W-What's does that mean?" asked the shocked Sakura
"That's how many bodies still had their heads" Kakashi said with a very uncharacteristic crack in his voice "I was a jonin during the 3rd great war and watched Minato-sensei devastate Iwa's army, but I've never seen anything as gruesome as what Naruto does to anyone who hurts the people close to him, and it's not the only time he's done it. Now if you don't mind I'd like to stop talking about it" stated Kakashi. No one wanted to continue to talk about that subject, thought one of them was deep in thought.
'How could Naruto do something like that? All because those people hurt someone close to him? But he seems so tame... Then again so did Itachi... Wait is that what happened to Itachi?' wondered Sasuke, remembering one of Itachi's friends going missing, and a weak later Itachi killing off the clan.
-Half an hour later-
The group was still in a lull from what they had heard about their young blonde acquaintance. They had just walked passed a puddle but only Kakashi had noticed it. Just after they had made it passed the puddle, two figures seemingly grew out of the small pool of water and shot towards the traveling group.
-End of chapter-
(I have a name for the Doujutsu, it should make its way into the story in about 2 chapters)
(Naruto and Kakashi are like brothers, though Kakashi helped raise Naruto)
(everyone knows the drill, review and tell me what i did wrong)
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