IMPORTANT WARNING:
Okay, when I started this story a while back, I actually had help from a co-writer (All of my stories used to have one, but now it days only two of them do.) this co-writer wrote a few of the chapters for me while I only wrote particular parts of it. (Not anymore, as I'm now the only one working on this story as he left after Chapter 8.)
But unfortunately, I ended up discovering something. It turns out that all of the parts that he wrote were plagiarized from another story called Hope Of The Senju Clan. (Which was one of my inspirations for this story, but I only read the first few chapters back in 2016.)
I know this probably sounds like some dumb excuse but anyone who actually read my other stories know that I like my stories to be original, hell I don't read other fics nowadays in order to not get influenced by them.
Ironically, I found out that this former co-writer actually posted my story on another site as his. If you actually search (Heir of the senju clan by Darkening) on Google, you're gonna find him.
I was actually so upset by that, that I was actually thinking about rebooting this story . But honestly, I'm so behind on schedule with all my other stories that I quickly disconsidered this idea.
So, I'll just ask everyone to forgive me for this and give you all my word that this problem will never occur again.
The plagiarized parts that my former co-writer wrote end after Chapter 8. (For all new comers, I really hope that this doesn't turn you off from my story.)
Chapter 1: Rebirth:
It was late in the evening and the sun was slowly setting in the west, casting its lingering glow onto the land lucky enough to feel its retreating warmth. Two figures could be seen traveling towards the gates of the Hidden Leaf Village of Konohagakure.
One of the figures was a tall male standing about six foot four. He had extremely long and spiky white hair tied into a pony tail along with two shoulder-length bangs that framed both sides of his face. Red lines ran down from underneath his eyes to his jawline and a unique head protector with the kanji of 'oil' was emblazoned across the metallic object firmly rested upon his forehead.
This man was Jiraiya, the famed Toad Sage of the Densetsu no Sannin (Legendary Three Ninja), a former student of Sarutobi Hiruzen, the Sandaime Hokage (Third Hokage), Shinobi no Kami (God of Ninja) and the Professor. Jiraiya is also the author of the popular adult fiction book series called Icha Icha and is a self-proclaimed super-pervert.
The other figure standing right next to him was a fair-skinned boy with dark eyes and straight white hair. He was wearing simple black shinobi pants with an elaborated brown utility belt and black boots. His top on the other hand was nothing but a white T-shirt, two fingerless black gloves on his hands, a strange looking katana on his back and a necklace around his neck.
"Well brat, this is where I leave you." Jiraiya spoke to him as the two are only a mile away from the gates of the village.
"What are you talking about ? Aren't you coming with me to explain everything to the Hokage?" The boy rebuffed him.
"Sorry brat, but I have other business to attend to." Jiraiya answered. "I'll come back as soon as I'm done."
The boy's expression remained stoic. "If this business involves you peeping on girls in some hot spring around here, I swear to you that I'm gonna make sure to tell my mother that you dropped me off to go look at naked girls but also will mention that you invited me to accompany you."
As soon as he finished saying that, a great amount of fear came to the Toad Sage as he knew that his mother would not be merciful if she ever heard that something like that happened, even if it was a lie. "Hey...Hey...Hey now, you know me."
"That is precisely why I'm warning you." The boy looked calm but Jiraiya could tell that he was finding his fear to be amusing.
"Well I'm serious this time, I'm meeting a contact of mine who sent word to me yesterday that he had information for me and I have to meet somewhere. But once I have that done I will come back here….ok" said Jiraiya.
"Fine, good luck and take care." The boy turned his back to him and started to walk towards the gates. "Bye father."
"Bye Brat."
As the boy entered the Village he noticed that it was very quiet with the occasional sound of someone talking. As he passed the shopping district he noticed some people rushing to enter a store, presumably to buy something before it closed and some restaurants and food stands opening or speaking to the few people on the street. Seiryu smirked because he always liked a quiet area and based on what he'd seen so far this village was quiet, just the way he liked it. His observations would soon come to an end as he reached the Hokage tower. He quickly made his way towards his office where he first stopped at the secretary.
"Can I help you young man?" She asked.
"Yes, I'm here to see the Hokage."
"I sorry…but the Hokage is a very busy man and you have to make an appointment to see him." The Secretary told him politely.
"Yeah I'm sure he's having a bliss with the paperwork that he loves so much," The boy spoke sarcastically. "But he's actually expecting me, just tell him that Seiyru is here."
"Very well then" The Secretary said with a sigh, as she believed that she was wasting her time. Often enough, young children would come here wanting to talk to the Hokage. But when she entered the Hokage's office and told him that a young white haired boy carrying a Katana on his back named Seiyru was waiting outside of his office wanting to speak to him and saying that he was expecting him. The Secretary was instantly surprised when she saw an eager and happy look appear on the old Hokage's face, where he quickly called his ANBU that were hidden in his room rafters and told them to leave. After which he then told her to tell the ANBU that were outside his room to leave as well and told her that she was dismissed for the rest of the day and she was to tell Seiryu to come in.
She came back from the office and quickly told him that he could go in. He entered the Hokage office and the first thing that happened was the Hokage standing up and pulling the boy into a hug which Seiyru returned right away. "Seiryu my boy it is so good to finally see you… Look at you! ….. You've gotten so big! …" Sandaime removed his pipe from his mouth while smiling as he looked at him. "It seems like only yesterday that I last saw you, where you were just in diapers." Seiyru couldn't help but smile a bit at that. The Sandaime then took a good look at him. "You look so much like your mother, but the hair and eyes are definitely Jiraiya's." He spoke while looking at him up and down. "Speaking of her, how is she?"
"She's either drinking or losing all of her money in some gambling house right now." He answered the question quickly, it's not like he's exaggerating since those are his mother's favorite activities.
The Sandaime couldn't help but laugh at that, apparently Tsunade hasn't changed a bit. "I assume that your mother is still quite the drinker."
"If she wasn't we both know, I wouldn't be here right now." He quickly responded.
"So you know." The Hokage asked if he knew the circumstances of his birth.
"About the story that my father got some really expensive and strong alcohol from the Fourth Hokage and he and my mother ended up sharing it together and spending the night together as a result?" He spoke bluntly. "Yes."
Sandaime still finds this story absurd. He can still remember the day when Tsunade came to his house to kill Jiraiya when she found out that she got pregnant that night.
He touched Seiryu at the shoulder before turning around and grabbing something on his table. He handed him a key and a note. "Those are the keys and the address of the place where you will be staying." He explained to him. Seiryu, of course understood this and nodded his head in understanding, after which Sarutobi then spoke again. "Now Seiryu, the class graduation exam will begin tomorrow at nine-thirty and I have already explained to the teacher, a Chunin named Iruka, to expect you, although all he knows is that you're a new student who is going to take the exam who was trained elsewhere. He doesn't know who you really are as I didn't want any leaks that you were arriving here. But that note will tell him who you really are, OK?" explained the Sandaime to which Seiryu just nodded again. "Also you should know that tomorrow morning, I will reveal your existence and your arrival to the Council and then to the rest of Konoha later on in the evening. Since as soon as the students learn who you really are, they will then tell their parents who in turn will tell everyone else."
"I understand, even though I was planning on just telling everyone that my mother is a drunk addicted to gambling and my father is a perverted writer." The Hokage couldn't help but laugh at that really loudly, it was funny mostly because it wasn't far from the truth. "It was great to see you, I'm going to go now."
Just as Seiryu was about to leave the double door flung open and a small brown haired boy who looked to be around eight years old and wore a long scarf around him burst in holding a wooden Kunai in his hand. "Prepare to be defeated by an old man!" The boy yelled and charged forward with his wooden Kunai only to trip over his scarf and fall flat on his face, causing both Seiryu and the Sandaime to have large sweat drops on the back of their heads. Embarrassed, the boy picked himself up and then quickly pointed his finger at Seiryu accusingly. "YOU TRIPPED ME!" The boy yelled at him.
"You tripped over your scarf you idiot," Seiryu replied as the boy was starting to annoy him.
"Yes, you did!" He accused him even more. "You ruined my super cool entrance!"
"How is falling flat on your face a cool entrance?" Seiryu simply pointed out what just happened, but the boy lost his cool and charged at him with his wooden Kunai.
All that Seiryu did was move slightly to the left and trip the boy with his right foot, making him fall flat on his face for the second time. "Who is he anyway?" Seiryu asked the Hokage.
"Seiryu, allow me to introduce you to my Grandson Konohamaru," He presented him as the boy stood up from the ground holding his nose in pain.
Then out of nowhere another man wearing sunglasses enters. "My sincere apologies, Hokage." Seiryu observed the man and got a pervert vibe from him, the same he usually gets when he's around his father.
"And his private tutor Ebisu." He then turned to Konohamaru and Ebisu "Konohamaru, Ebisu allowed me to introduce you to Senju Seiryu. My former students Jiraiya and Tsunade's son and the Great Grandson of the Shodaime Hokage and the Great Grand nephew of the Nidaime Hokage as well as sole Heir to the Senju Clan." Sarutobi spoke and had to contain himself to not laugh at the faces that the completely shocked Konohamaru and completely stunned Ebisu made.
After a minute or so Ebisu regained himself and quickly bowed respectfully to Seiryu. "It is an honor to meet you Senju-sama."
"The honor is mine, and you can just call it Seiryu." He replied also bowing respectfully.
"Yes, of course, thank you very much Seiryu-sama." Ebisu replied before bowing again.
"Well, if you'll excuse me, I haven't eaten all day and I'd better get used to the place where I'll be staying." Seiryu spoke to them.
"Very well Seiryu, I see you tomorrow." The Hokage replied before turning around to talk to Konohamaru and Ebisu.
As soon as he stepped outside of the Hokage Residence, he went to take a stroll through the streets of the village. He did this to get a better feel of his new home.
He better enjoy the peace and quiet while it lasts because tomorrow morning, they'll find out that he's the son of the Toad Sage and the Slug Princess. And he was almost absolutely sure that people would treat him as royalty as a result. Not that he minded of course.
His hunger only increased as he walked, he was hoping to find somewhere to eat soon. But to his luck, soon came quickly as he ended up finding a Ramen stand. He went inside right away.
"Excuse me?" He said as he entered the stand.
"Welcome to Ichiraku Ramen." The man behind the counter welcomed him. Besides him there's a slender girl with long, dark brown hair and large black eyes, plus fair skin. She wears a white robe with the sleeves folded, a sort of dark blue apron with ribbon ties at the top and a bright white bandanna.
He takes a seat and looks at the menu. "An extra-large tonkotsu please." He ordered.
"Coming right away." The man spoke before turning his back at him to prepare the food.
"You're not from around here are you?" A girl who was cooking beside the man asked.
"No, my father dropped me off here a little while ago to spy on girls while they are bathing at some hot spring." As soon as he said that, both the girl and the man stared at him with a disgusted look. "And also because I'm taking an exam at the Ninja Academy tomorrow."
"So you came to this village to be a shinobi?" The girl asked.
"Yes, my name Seiryu by the way." He introduced himself while extending his hand.
"I'm Ayame and this is my father Teuchi." She introduced herself and her father while shaking Seiryu's hand.
"Ayame… a beautiful name for a beautiful woman, your husband is a lucky man." He said with a smile.
She giggled a bit at that. "Thanks for the compliment but I don't have a husband."
"Oh, will you marry me then?" Seiryu said with a smile which made her giggle even more. Her father started to laugh after hearing that.
"As tempting as this offer is, you're a little too young for me." Ayame said to him with a smile.
"I'm willing to wait for you, although I'll be very insecure because you're probably not short on suitors." Seiryu rebuffed on a joking matter.
"Someone as charming as you won't be low on female suitors either." She jokes in return.
Before any of the two could say anything, Teuchi finished preparing his bowl. "Here we go." He served Seiryu with a smile.
"Thank you very much."
He spent the next hour eating several bowls of ramen, the bowl that Teuchi served him was so good that he couldn't help but repeat it a few more times.
As soon as his stomach was completely full, he decided to make his way to the apartment that the Hokage prepared for him. But halfway to the apartment, he noticed that someone was following him. Whoever was doing it, Seiryu could tell that it was an amateur for sure because he or she was making way too much noise. Seiryu decided to trick him or her using the Shadow Clone Technique to create a copy of himself in order to distract his followers.
He sent his copy in the same direction that he was going and hid himself in the shadows. When the copy was far enough his follower hid himself behind a wall thinking he was still following Seiryu. He managed to take a good look at him and he quickly recognized him. Seiryu came out of his cover and slowly approached his follower from behind.
"What exactly are you doing?"
"What the?" His followers spoke in surprise. This follower was none other than Konohamaru. "YOU!" he pointed at him accusingly... again. "But...But...But how? ...I was watching you and you were over there." Konohamaru said in confusion as he looked back at the Shadow Clone that Seiryu created who had stopped and waved at him before puffing out of existence. "Huh!" said Konohamaru in even more confusion as he still did not understand what just happened.
"It was a jutsu that my great-grand uncle created called Shadow Clone Jutsu." Seiryu explained to him a bit how the jutsu worked.
"I knew you were strong and this proves it." Konohamaru spoke. Then he started to say out loud about how he was finally able to find someone strong enough to teach him to beat his grandfather and finally ride off his lame tutor Ebisu. As he started to say this to himself, a large sweat drop formed on the back of Seiryu's head since the Jutsu he used was just a clone and although the technique he used was a Jonin level one, it still wasn't a big a deal as Konohamaru made it out to be.
Seiryu however was too tired for whatever it was that the Sandaime's grandson wanted and decided to turn around and keep walking.
"Wait!" He yelled and started to follow him.
"Look, stop following me around." He spoke as the kid walked beside him. "And I don't know what exactly you mean by teaching you how to beat your grandfather, but the answer is no." He bluntly said as he kept on walking. "Besides you already have a Jonin training you, so you don't need me to train you."
"Yes I do! As you're the only one that won't treat me like a royal brat and keep calling me Honourable Grandson as well as all that other stuff." The kid rebuffed as he kept on following him.
"Look. As much as helping you put your grandfather out of his misery of doing paperwork is very tempting, I have other things to do." He told him. "So please excuse me." Unknowingly to Konohamaru, they have arrived at the place where Seiryu will be staying.
"I'm not leaving until you teach me!" The Honorable grandson yelled.
Seiryu exhales a bit in frustration before speaking. "Okay, you're asked for it." He then makes a few hand seals which Konohamaru didn't recognize. "Water Style." As soon as he said that, he expelled water from his mouth pushing Konohamaru back a bit, although it was strong enough to push him back, it wasn't strong enough to hurt him in any way.
When he finally stopped, a very wet Konohamaru, who fell into the ground because of the water, stood up. Seiryu was expecting the kid to curse him and walk away but instead. "How did you do that?" He asked with a lot of enthusiasm in his voice.
Seiryu just slapped his forehead in frustration before finally entering the building.
"Hey wait!" Konohamaru yelled as he knocked on the door that Seiryu had just entered and closed behind him. Konohamaru just kept on knocking and pretty much begged him to show him how he did that.
"What did I just get myself into." Seiryu said to himself in frustration as he walked towards his room. He unlocked the door of it with the key the Hokage gave him.
It was a small and simple room which Seiryu was ok with. As long as it had a bed, a shower and a kitchen then it worked for him. The first thing he did was put his katana and his utility belt down. Then he took off his clothes and had a warm shower before bed. As soon as he finished, he put on a pair of white pajamas that his mother brought for him before going to sleep. But to his misery, he decided to open the window for some air but the moment he did, he saw that Konohamaru was still there.
"What?! You're still down there?" Seiryu asked in frustration.
"I'm not leaving until you show me ho-ACHOO." He tried to say something but he ended up sneezing before finishing.
Seiryu put his hand on his forehead in frustration before screaming. "AHHH! CAN YOU PLEASE TAKE HIM HOME! " As soon as he screamed, Ebisu, who was Seiryu, noticed his presence as soon as he opened the window. Comes out of his hiding spot.
"I am so sorry for the trouble Senju-sama. " He apologized as he bowed to him.
"How long have you been ther-ACHOO." Konohamaru tried to speak but once again he sneezed before finishing.
"You didn't think we would allow you to stay out so late without searching, would you?" Ebisu answered.
"Whatever, he's your problem now!" Seiryu spoke in frustration as he closed the window and went straight to bed. As he laid there, he wondered what tomorrow would be like before falling asleep.