So, after reading the One Piece chapter 833, the timeline of this story that I originally planned for this actually works out pretty well. If you can guess what I'm planning with today's information in the chapter, I'll deliver a personal shout-out by PM you if you guess it correctly.
As you can tell in this chapter, I don't know if the story will be at the limit I want it to be. Either it'll reach ten chapters and end or at least be less than fifteen. I'm estimating it right now, and by the way I'm working everything it shouldn't be a thirty chapter story nor (hopefully) a twenty chapter story.
Also, this was supposed to be released early (just like the last chapter, XD) but I got held back because of the release to the beginning to a deleted story, Endure. This fic is a regular Naruto story without the knight pieces (I wanted to incorporate that but I just couldn't, sorry folks) but it would deliver the whole "Endure" prequel very well if I did take the "knight" pieces out of the whole fic. I also was held up because of a "scene" that I just couldn't write down... if you find the scene I poorly written, I apologize for it completely. I was living off of tired energy to finish this chapter up for you guys.
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Enjoy, readers~!
"So Sasuke~! How's training my kid?" The blonde, dressed up discretely in his normal everyday outfit, settled himself in one of the many trees in the training ground. He had left a shadow clone with the work since it was an hour break, hopefully Shikamaru wouldn't get on him for that. He also got to have lunch at home with Himawari and Hinata, seeing Boruto missing lunch in favor of training with his Uncle/Master. So, he volunteered to bring the little Genin a bento so he would have enough energy to continue training.
His sharp gaze landed on the Uchiha sitting in the tree next to him. On the ground, Boruto was staring down at his hands like they had murdered an entire village, "Your kid has better chakra control than you, but has less chakra to work with. He's trying to invent his own jutsu right about now." Sasuke mumbled, quirking an eyebrow at the bag in the blonde's bandaged hand. "Other than his attitude being like yours, everything is well."
"I thought he wanted to learn kenjutsu?" Naruto then showed off the bento, "We had assumed you ate with Sakura and Sarada before you started the whole training for the day. But Boruto didn't show up for lunch, so I brought this for him."
Sasuke allowed a small smile to grace his usual stoic face, "Well, he's a fast learner with the ways of the sword." Sasuke pointed down below, "He wants to create a shield of elements. I think he would need a break after failing multiple times."
Naruto leaned against the tree, dragging himself into a lotus position and closing his eyes, "Anything else, oh great Uchiha of Konoha?" The jab was for fun, since Sasuke was sort of "royalty" to Konoha because the Uchiha clan was so... extinct, to put it simply. The civilian council would always try to press the last male Uchiha to have more kids, but always Sasuke would ignore them and Sakura would glare them down for which the topic would be dropped. Naruto didn't understand whether it was Sakura's decision to wait or Sasuke's, as long as the two were happy then Naruto was happy. Though, the blonde adored to tease the Uchiha about the whole "royalty" aspect of his life and neither of his teammates would murder him for it.
Sasuke's onyx eye twitched, "I was thinking of letting him go find his own personal summon." He deadpanned.
Cerulean eyes opened a bit, "Damn... I was hoping to let Boruto sign the Toad Summoning Contract for his sixteenth birthday. Fukasaku and Shima said that it was the best age to even begin to learn Senjutsu. I wanted him to try to become a Sage."
"There is a way, remember Garuda?"
"Of course," Naruto threw up a peace sign, abandoning all composure of peace, "He's one of your many birds. The one that can't fly anymore because of Kaguya... but it's kids are so cute! You summoned them to show off to the academy that one day! Himawari wouldn't stop talking about Subala!"
Sasuke rolled his eye, "We're not bound to two contracts, dobe. There are our personal ones and there are other ones like the snakes, toads and slugs. You can only have one of each, two together. I reverse summoned myself to the Tree of Kincho. You could do that to find your own personal summon, you know."
Naruto stuck his tongue out, "When I get the time, maybe. I've been working for so long now that I haven't gotten much training in. It sucks, and I think if I get enough peace... I'll work out and surpass you again."
"Enough of that," Sasuke scolded, "Your stronger than me."
"Before, maybe. Now? Hell no." Naruto chuckled, "I've been working behind the desk for so long. That's what happened with Hokage-Jiji before. When I get the time, I'll train my ass off with Kurama. Don't tell the furball that, he'll be pissed if I spring on a bunch of training on his butt. But... it'll happen." He shrugged, "Anyway, are you going to let Boruto reverse summon himself and let me get the Toads to sign him up later?! Awesome!"
"Usuratonkachi!" Sasuke spat, "Just go give him his lunch! He'll tell you all about the other summon of his later!"
The blonde laughed, "Alright Sasuke... thanks for caring!" He jumped down, ignoring the fuming man up above, "Hey Bolt!"
Bolt paused his glowering look towards his hands, his gaze landing on his father, "Oh, hey dad." He greeted. "Thought you were still in the office for the rest of the day."
"It's my weekly one hour break. Forget that, you missed lunch," Naruto tutted, "Remember, you need a break to regenerate you chakra. Losing too much would be the end of you and I want you to grow up to fight me for the strongest title!" He shoved the bento into the younger blonde's hands, "Now eat up. Sasuke has something up his sleeve for later."
Bolt grinned lightly, "Alright Dad... see you tonight for dinner, right?"
"Of course Bolt! See you tonight!"
"Boss! Boss!"
Naruto paused, dragging his fingers through his hair, "Kirzu? Your shifts finally over?" He was beginning to dress up for the event coming up in the next hour. The moon was rising, the banquet had began and he had heard the meats had to be restocked over and over because of a teen who loves meat. If Kurama was right, the guy must be Monkey D. Luffy. Captain of Boruto... I wonder if he's had a good time here away from the Elemental Nations. I'm glad he found friends... and his own adventure. I don't care if he's evil or not... he's my son at heart.
Kirzu waddled closer, beaming as he shoved a clipboard into the blonde's available hand, "Sorry to bother you while your getting the act ready for the next hour. But hey, we got a Hyuuga offering to participate in the fireworks show! One of the pirate's had a Konoha shinobi on board!"
"Is his name Sanji?"
The penguin-shinobi paused, "Well... I only got his last name. He's blonde though. He also has fucked up eyebrows." He snickered, "I think he's one of those Appearance shinobi."
Naruto chuckled, "Be nice to him Kirzu... I think he's my son."
"Son?!" The penguin all but shrieked, "You have a son?!"
"I don't really talk about it that much," Naruto drawled, "But I have a family back in Konoha. I think he went to find me and got sucked up too. Don't tell the Elder of my suspicions about other Shifts, please."
Kirzu saluted, "You can count on me, Boss!"
Naruto laughed softly, "Anything else, Kirzu?"
"Nothing else to report, Boss! Tolls have been paid properly, the stalls are going well, the banquet is well replenished and all the people that arrived have having a good time!" The Kiri shinobi paused, "But... what would you like me to do with your son? Flaunt him off in front of everyone or something?"
The jinchuuriki pursed his lips, "Don't tell any of the shinobi about him. Allow him to choose how he wants to look in front of them when we start shooting off fireworks. But... invite his crew to eat dinner with us. I want to see the crew that got my son to join them." He smiled weakly, "I want to see what he's become..."
"You got it Boss! I'll let Kyoko and Juro know to let him choose his outfit! Good luck with the show tonight, Boss!"
Naruto grinned, "Thanks, Kirzu! Good luck to you too!" The penguin-shinobi waved his flipper, walking out of the small room again. The blonde relaxed, giving a soft sigh, "So... Sanji... I wonder what you'll do if we meet again..."
It looked like time had flown by fast, because here I am going all out to find my father. I'm... going to tell my crew about my other life... The day had gone by in a complete blur after the "Idiot Trio" had traded all the toy soldiers in for an even bigger cupcake after the stall owner finally began to pity their attempts. It was hilarious when Sanji actually had seen the man use a wind jutsu to block final shots from being made (it was the whole reason why even Usopp couldn't hit the damn target). They went off, played at other stalls and won some other prizes before Robin had found them and told them the banquet and fireworks show would start.
Once the banquet was open and the Straw Hats grouped up again, Luffy had disappeared to the giant stacks of meat. Sanji pitied the chefs who had to continuously replenish the stall of meats. Sanji took some wine, a small platter of food and had sat down while the others went off to pick at different sections of food.
It had been a few minutes before a bird had landed on his head. He ignored it, drinking his wine until it chirped, "So... are you the Hyuuga?"
Sanji spluttered, "P-Pardon?!"
"Don't worry." The bird bowed its wing, hopping off and landed on the top of the bottle of wine, "I am Kyoko. Don't mind my size, I just like to change it up a bit. I'm actually way bigger... but, I like to fly around so I switched it up. I'm surprised Kirzu doesn't do that..." She muttered under her breath, "But anyway, the Boss is allowing you to dress up for tonight!"
"D... Dress up?" He mumbled.
"Yes, if you like you can Henge into someone else. Say, if you like to abandon that form you can... or you could change your outfit by borrowing one of our costumes." She let out a happy chirp, "Juro and I are the performance crew, we set up the performances for each day and night just right to get the perfect show! So, are you going to dress up?"
It was the perfect out of telling his crew... simply perfect. He could try to Henge into his actual self, he could even meet the crew as his other self. But... he'd need to leave a clone of Sanji to make sure they didn't ever catch onto him as one of the same. It was cheap... but inside him, he could feel the anxiety of telling them... how he'd simply abandon the peaceful life of Sanji and jump right into becoming Boruto again... Shit, what's going on in my head right now? "I'll do it. I would like to dress up, if you'll have me Kyoko-chan." He couldn't help it, he added the suffix to please the bird-shinobi in front of him.
"What a gentleman." Kyoko chortled softly, "Follow me." She raised her wings with grace, flapping up above and taking off. Sanji clambered up to his feet and followed along wordlessly, What's wrong with me? I wanted to tell the crew... but... I don't...?
The lights flashed on and the crowd began to quiet as steam traveled around the large clearing that was emptied of tables and people. "Ladies and gentleman... people of around the world...!" Naruto's voice boomed around, a finger-less gloved hand resting over his mouth to hide his smile, "I'd like to welcome you to the island of Haruku! Thank you all for coming out to this weeks specially planned events!" He walked out to the middle of the grassy clearing, bowing a bit, "I am the "Boss" of the island, Uzumaki Naruto! If you know a bit about me, that's great! If you don't, you don't need to!"
He waved his hand and the lights around the clearing focused on him completely. He was dressed up with thick, sturdy goggles resting in his grown out blonde hair. A cloak colored in light grey and bright orange with painted gears covered the black shirt underneath. His white gloves stuck out like sore thumbs, the dark grey pants matching with the black ninja sandals of his. "Tonight, we're going to be creating fireworks with our jutsu! Give a warm welcome to the shinobi that have volunteered to use their chakra for the show!" His cerulean eyes twinkled as his grin grew a little wider, "Anyway, I hope you enjoy the show tonight! Have a great time and enjoy your stay on the Island of Spring Time!"
Naruto let out a boisterous laugh, jumping back at the exact moment earth had risen and launched into the sky. Following after, a small stream of blue fire and wind came from the sidelines and exploded the earth. The reaction was a simple explosion, the blue fire coating the rocks that were chopped up by the wind. Lightning had shot down, completely eradicating the rock. It wasn't perfect, to show that the shinobi were inexperienced at first with the idea of "jutsu created fireworks". With the blonde's ideas though...
The second time earth had rise, it had been in organized parts. The wind had launched again, cutting it into different pieces as green fire shot up and covered the remaining bits. The lightning went after it again right as the fire collided, with it, creating beautiful sparks. He heard the crowd's gasp of amazement, forcing a smile to coat his lips. He enjoyed creating different ideas out of simple jutsu.
Other jutsu clashed against one another, creating explosions and formations of different pictures. Naruto himself watched the jutsu fireworks, smiling lightly at the fact that the people were enjoying it. The shinobi were enjoying it... everyone was enjoying it. Suddenly, the next bits of earth launched around... and a small little orb had slapped into the earth. Immediately, the earth split apart with a shatter... and little specks floated around. Kind of like stars... Boruto... Naruto let out a soft laugh, Only you would throw a Vanishing Rasengan into one of the rocks.
Boruto... had really done it. He sent off a clone looking exactly like Sanji, and here he was Henged into his original self. Only a little bit older though, he still looked exactly the same as he did before he left the Elemental Nations because of a whirlpool. He was standing with the Wind shinobi, as the groups were organized by different elemental styles, and was wondering what he could do.
The Wind shinobi... weren't filled with animals. Some people were standing by, staring down the rocks that were being shot up from the ground and shooting wind right as fire was shot from the other side of the clearings. The "directors" of the whole performance had them far away enough that they wouldn't have to stare right in the face of the people, but they were close enough to see the rocks flying into the air.
He... really hadn't learned much Wind jutsu before leaving his home. The only thing he was focusing on while training with his Uncle/Master was to create a barrier of lightning and wind. Those two elements didn't go together, leaving his hands a scratched up mess back then. But that was different... now he has to send something to show he participated instead of just being around. "What to do..." He muttered under his breath, glancing at his hands. An idea popped into his head and a grin blossomed on his lips, "Vanishing Rasengan!" He placed a left hand over his right, allowing the chakra to gather into a small orb once again.
The people around him glanced at him in with wide eyes and gaping mouths which Boruto flashed a smile as he threw it right out. The orb slipped away from reality for only just a moment, reappearing once in the clearing and slamming into the rocks before the fire could launch. He chuckled a bit at the sight of white specks that glittered in the night; disappearing once their time was done.
The Vanishing Rasengan was his most favorited jutsu, even when he was facing an opponent. He enjoyed the fact that it surprised the opponents, or in this case surprised the people watching. "That was beautiful!" One of the Wind style users cooed, "How did you learn one of the Boss's sacred jutsu?!"
"Uh..." Boruto rubbed the back of his head sheepishly, "I studied under him before. I'm Bolt." He wasn't going to use his full name, hell no. That would give away his relation completely to his dad... wherever he may be, Boruto wanted to see him himself.
"I am Akaku, nice to meet you." One of the human Wind users chimed in, "Do it again! That was pretty neat!"
"Okay..." The whiskered blonde hummed, "Vanishing Rasengan!" He tossed the small light blue orb once again, letting out a fit of laughter once the flames collided with it. The orb had spread apart, consuming one of the pieces of rock and broke it apart without the need of lightning. Once again, the sparkles were back and they glittered down, hiding behind the trees as they disappeared.
Another Wind user stepped up next, whipping their hands down. Wind slashed out of the air, launching itself at the next piles of rock and fire. "You can't do this, kid?"
"Haven't learned much about the Wind style like I hoped." He admitted. It wasn't exactly a lie, but he couldn't really blame Uncle Sasuke. The man specialized with lightning and fire, not wind and water. Two of Boruto's elements had to be taught by his sensei, Konohamaru, and his father.
Akaku beamed, "We'll show you when we get free time, how about that kid?"
Boruto spluttered a bit, "Ah, well-"
"Hey you guys!" Kyoko had fluttered in, "Aren't you paying attention?! This is the last round got it?" She gave a pointed look at the blonde with a scar on his right eye, "Keep on doing what your doing, kid. The crowd loves that it looks like stars over there!" She let out a chirp, "Now finish up and we'll get back to our humble home and have dinner with some guests!"
"Guests?"
At this, the small bird shrugged, "The Boss is inviting people over to eat. He won't get a good reason why though." She flapped one of her wings, "Get going!" The Wind style group saluted, and Boruto awkwardly followed along.
"Yes ma'am!"
He had scurried off right as the Wind style group had began to dissipate, running into his clone and dispersing both it and his Henge. "That was great," Nami had chimed in, looking pleased.
"Their jutsu is so cool~!" Luffy added, tearing into the last piece of meat the chefs had brought out.
"I wonder how they did the star thing..." Usopp muttered, putting a hand underneath his chin.
Sanji decided to jump in, "If you think about it, their jutsu can differ completely. They may specialize with the same style, but different jutsu can be created from it."
"...and how would you know?"
He quickly shrugged, "Well, what can I say? If you looked the orb thing was the only different jutsu that launched out of that area."
"That is true." Robin added quietly. "So, shall we retire for the night?"
"Back to the Sunny!" Luffy chirped, throwing his fist into the air.
A cough caught the group's attention, and there was... Kirzu. The penguin stared at them, a glint in his eyes that Sanji did not like. "So, are you enjoying your stay here?" He shook his head, "I think I could tell by how excited you guys were... the Boss extends an invitation to see you all for dinner with the shinobi tonight. He hopes you can come."
"The Boss...?" Nami muttered under her breath. "That Uzumaki Naruto guy, right?"
Sanji's heart skipped a beat as Kirzu replied, "Of course! He'd like to meet the crew that got his son to join them!"
"...a shinobi is on my crew already!?" Stars were practically glowing in Luffy's eyes, and Sanji was cursing everything up above for the bad luck that had graced him. "Who?!"
"You didn't know?" Kirzu asked, "...I thought you went to perform tonight, kid."
Sanji decided fuck it, because nothing was going to save him now, "I did." He ignored the looks of shock from his nakama, replying, "And you fucked me over, jackass bird."
"...oops?"