I don't own Naruto or any of its characters, I'm just a fan I enjoyed the anime but I love the fanfics, even more, they made me fall for the whole franchise. Whether I will have Oc's in the fic or not depends entirely on how the story goes.
Chapter 31
"Naruto-kun, I cannot just hand over an artifact of Konoha to a genin practically fresh out of the academy." Hiruzen told Naruto who had half his hair braided with the other half spiky and stood in front of his desk with a prominent frown on his face, next to him was the young Yamanaka heiress.
"What do you mean 'hand it over to me?' didn't you read the report, do I have to go back downstairs and ask for a refund on Aoi Rokushō's body so you see his corps?" Naruto didn't like this stupid old man, The man knew exactly who he was, he knew who his parents were and still left him in an orphanage like some kid with no lineage and then trolls him by playing the fool.
The fact he was trolling him with that smile of his at the moment had him wanting to punch his teeth in.
"Listen Naruto-Kun, I understand it sounds unfair but that is a relic of Konoha that belongs to the village." Hiruzen tried to explain to his hotheaded genin with a vendetta against authorities.
"So what? after everything I did for the mission I'm supposed to be happy with your 'thank you Naruto-Kun.' And a pat on the back?" Naruto grounded out with a glare at the man and Ino placed a hand on his calming him down a little.
"You did an excellent job Naruto-Kun a very remarkable job, you showed ingenuity, foresight, and espionage capabilities above your rank." Hiruzen smiled and Naruto almost jumped him and by the widening of the eyes of the third, he saw it too.
"You think I want to hear your 'praise' old man? I never needed them before when I was homeless and had to make due on my own. What makes you think I need it now? I did a job and I earned myself a spoil of war." Naruto said calmly his hand now in Ino's while she pleaded with him with her eyes to not do anything rash.
"It's not my fault you guys lost it in the first place to some prick." Naruto grounded out and Hiruzen noticed something he never noticed before in the boy. He held no love for him in fact Hiruzen would recon he hated him.
"Why are you so hostile Naruto-Kun? If you want the sword you can put in a request and when it is accepted we can check your aptitude with the weapon and get you proper training once you are older." Hiruzen tried to reason with the son of his predecessor he didn't mind giving Naruto the sword but he was young and needed to concentrate on his Jinchuriki training when Jiraiya arrived in a month. A sword like that would just be a distraction. Naruto could have the sword when Hiruzen told him about his lineage.
"I'm not handing it over." Naruto said with no room for arguments and the third Hokage sighed. If he didn't find a peaceful solution Naruto might see the whole village as his enemy and that wouldn't be a good thing coming from a Jinchuriki.
"What do you suggest we do then?" Ino was shocked that her boyfriend was getting away with disrespecting the aged Kage like that, it was unheard of. It just had her wondering more about the mystery that is Uzumaki Naruto.
"I suggest you let me enjoy my spoils of war!" Naruto got angry again and frustrated, now the old fool was asking him to find them both a solution they would like, Naruto in this argument was only in it for number 1 and that was himself.
"Look old man I'm alone, everything I've earned is through hard work and dedication. I don't have a clan to spread my name far and wide or a legacy to lean on, no parents to pass on jutsu's to me, or any siblings to share my pain." Naruto grumbled and Ino looked at her boyfriend with sad eyes at his words. The Hokage showed guilt that Ino caught with her keen eye for emotions.
"So if I damn well earn something I'm keeping it." Naruto finished in a calmer and more resolved voice. Like the argument was already finished.
"I'm sorry Naruto-Kun but I still cannot allow it, bear please take the sword of the thunder spirit from young Naruto here." At Hiruzen's words, a muscular Anbu draped in a black cloak and a porcelain mask in the shape of a bear with the brown hair of a sarutobi appeared in front of Naruto, and the boy grits his teeth looking up at him.
"So much for the will of fire and comradery if you take this blade then I'm quitting the genin corps and leaving Konoha. Maybe Rokushō was right about this place." Hiruzen's eyes widened at that and even the Anbu stopped in his track knowing the fallout such a decision would cause. Bear looked back to his superior on whether he should continue.
"Dismissed." Hiruzen simply said but everybody knew he was agitated now bear bowed and disappeared back in hiding. "Naruto-Kun I am your Hokage and this is your home, my word is law, and if I tell you something you do it." Hiruzen wasn't smiling his warm smile anymore he was the Hokage now.
"Then I quit." Naruto simply said and went to remove his forehead protector causing Hiruzen who thought Naruto would miraculously share his father's will of fire and love for the village at birth widened his eyes at the prospect that Naruto might not care.
"Goldie-Kun?" Ino looked at him as she took her hand placing it on his cheek and communicated something with her eyes that Naruto seemed to understand as he replied the same way. After a minute he sighed handing Ino the item he removed from his head.
Ino went over behind him and tied the accessory around his forehead once more but Naruto glared at Hiruzen the whole time. If Naruto hated Minato for who he was and what he did to him and his mother. He hated Hiruzen for feeding Minato his beliefs of sacrificing everything for the village including his own family.
But he hated him more for leaving him to fend for himself thinking the little things he would do in the shadows like pay for the bare necessities and whatnot, would endear him to Naruto. It made Naruto feel like the punchline of some sick joke, the man in front of him knew everything about him, and yet he wouldn't tell him a thing.
"Naruto-Kun." Naruto blinked at Ino's voice and he felt her hug him from behind. "You're scaring me." Ino admitted and Naruto didn't know what she meant but Hiruzen knew. The blonde was leaking the Kyuubi's killing intent and they were concentrated on him with peak precision he was breaking into cold sweats already.
"I'm sorry." Naruto apologized to the girl behind him before he took a deep breath to calm himself then he looked over at the third.
"Can we leave? If you really want the sword, take my example and take it from my dead corps." Naruto didn't wait for a reply, he simply turned around and took Ino's hand in his own before walking out of the room leaving Hiruzen alone as he thought about where Naruto's loyalties lay.
'Kushina, Minato did I fail young Naruto? Am I looking at the making of another potential threat to Konoha? Another Orochimaru.' Hiruzen felt guilt overtake him, he never thought Naruto held so much hostility against him but Hiruzen couldn't seem to know where it was coming from.
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"Are you okay Goldie-Kun?" Ino asked her Golden boy who still had not stopped frowning since they left the Hokage's building 15 minutes ago.
"Mmh? ugh yes, I'm fine." Naruto replied distracted and Ino rolled her eyes pouting she sped up a little and got in front of him blocking his path with her body and Naruto stopped blinking at his girlfriend.
"What happened back there." Ino asked/demanded what she experienced in that office was like a war zone, and somehow her Blonde menace got out the victor.
"What do you mean?" Naruto asked confused and Ino wanted to pull her hair due to the fact he was confused.
"Come let's go somewhere private." Ino told her man/boy as she took his hand intertwining their fingers and dragging him along. She was going to take her mother's advice.
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Hinata sat in front of her father Hiashi Hyuga and two other elders flanking him on both sides, as a clan head and former jonin of Konoha he was privy to certain information and that meant he had gotten the unfiltered report of the C-rank mission turned A-rank including all its details.
"You made the Hyuga clan proud today Hinata of the Hyuga clan." Hinata almost scoffed when she heard that last part, now she was 'Hinata of the Hyūga clan' it was just fantastic.
The man who spoke stood on Hiashi's right. He was of short stature with long, grey hair that reached down to his back, and like all members of his clan, he possesses featureless white eyes with a lavender tint. He wore traditional robes which consist of a loose-fitting kimono that is held closed with a simple sash under a brown, waist-length haori. It was her grandfather the biggest hypocrite of them all.
"Truly, it has never been heard of before, a blind Byakugan user and a sword woman at that." The female elder on Hiashi's left picked up where the first left off, it was like a practiced play but with any lack of its emotions but Hinata knew her grandfather was confused but mostly angered because her capabilities proved him wrong.
"You are very correct, and to achieve the Byakugan with a range of 800 meters on its first awakening is unheard of." Hinata listened as her grandfather continued before he looked past Hinata at the three branch Members behind her.
"Neji Hyuga, what is your range." Her grandfather asked his other grandchild like he was talking to a strangers kid. Hinata sighed in defeat when she felt Neji's anger be directed at her kneeling position.
Neji had fair skin and long dark brown hair. He has featureless white eyes with a slight lavender tint. Neji wore a beige-colored shirt, a dull blue shirt beneath that, and mesh armor beneath that. He wore dark brown shorts, and blue shinobi sandals, and wrapped bandages around his right arm, chest, and right leg.
He tied his hair back in a loose ponytail tied a few inches above the end. He wore a black forehead protector, under which was a smaller headband with two straps that frame the sides of his face, both of which hide his Hyūga main family's juinjutsu.
"50 meters, Hyūga-Sama." Neji replied with a composed voice and the grandfather nodded looking at Neji like he won their little bet. Maybe to say the head family would always be the most powerful or at least that's what Hinata caught from the emotions he tried so hard not to show.
"Kō Hyūga what is your range?" The Hyuga elder continued to question, moving on to Kō Hyūga.
Kō is a Chunin of Konoha, he has brown hair, which is short, with backward spikes. He has featureless white eyes and his nose is broad and well-defined. He wears the standard Konoha uniform inclusive of a flak jacket and forehead protector that he wears like a bandanna.
"600 meters, Hyūga-Sama." Kō told the man his face was impassive but Hinata felt his happiness for her and a bit of sadness or was it guilt?
"Right now Hinata, you're Byakugan is on par with only two other Hyugas, my own and Tokuma Hyūga a jonin of Konoha." Hiashi finished with a smile Hinata felt how it hurt him to pull it, because of all the guilt he felt, but even that he wouldn't show her. Hinata would not give him a chance until he learned to show himself as Naruto does. She smiled at the thought of him.
And every Hyūga privy to her visage at that moment caught the smile thinking they had succeeded now they just had to get her one on one to further their agenda, Hinata with her skillsets and tremendous strength they had no hand in became valuable.
'I hope they change.' Hinata thought about the Greed she felt from her grandfather which is apparently for the 'betterment of the Hyūga clan.'
Her father's guilt that he felt he had to punish himself for like Hinata would want that. He never tried to understand her.
She felt Neji's determination and fury deep down. She felt his contradicting thoughts he was lost but mostly hurting. The only family he has left would rather treat him like an outcast than call him family.
'I miss Naruto-Kun' Hinata thought as one the most boring interactions of human society to ever occur, occurred.
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"Oh my kukukuku, Sunagakure sure is attracting some interesting specimens." Gatō looked up and saw what he could only describe as a babe.
Draped in fine linen clothing with a slim figure that looked so flexible you could ball it up into a ball. With a smile so wide you would think a snake was about to eat its egg and one of the most deadly eyes a normal civilian would fear. She had yellow eyes and slit-like pupils her skin as pale as snow and hair as black as night.
"Rasen, position 5!" Gatō instructed and Rasen smiled Gatō took his advice seriously he explained to him that formations would make them more organized and came up with some positions
With his 'Boss's.' Permission of course.
"Mango your up!" Rasen instructed and Mango gaped Rasen wasn't smiling his eyes said one thing 'don't embarrass me.' The guy wasn't even strong but dammit the money was good.
The 'lady' watched on in interest as the one named Mango got close, and Gatō jumped Mango hurriedly went under him and got into a push-up position with Gatō landing on his back, Mango then struggled to raise himself but managed.
"Yes beautiful lady, I'm Gatō of Gatō enterprises what is a lovely lady like you doing in such unconditional weather for such fair skin." Gatō now in the same height department as the 'woman' flirted. It was a bit wordy but it got a laugh from the 'lady'.
"Kukukukukuku." Gatō swore he saw a snake tongue slither out there but he didn't care about that. It was that laugh that got his attention, before he didn't pay attention because he fell in love at first sight.
Now he recognized it, his new employer liked doing that same thing like a joke you're not privy to.
'That joke is messed up as fuck.' Gatō's mind provided shedding a little tear at his lost fortune and the cruel reminder. Gatō tried to remove his hand from the not so hot in his mind any more woman but failed.
"Very nice to meet you Gatō-Kun perhaps I could introduce you to a village that will make you more money in the future." The 'lady' said in a voice that sounded like a snake in a tree trying to convince you to do something that would end up bad for yours truly.
"Gatō-Sama would love to my lady!" Rasen answered for his 'boss' who he believed had gotten shy and needed a wingman since he froze up not knowing the man was trying to inconspicuously yank his hand from the fairly strong 'woman.'
"Kukuk a pleasure." Gatō's hand was released and the 'fair-skinned, fairly strong women' left swaying none existent hips. Gatō looked at his hand wondering if he had caught a case of bad luck from hiring Zabuza Momochi.
'I made a deal with a devil and now I'm reaping the consequences.' Gatō made up his mind that was what was going on somehow he died and instantly his Hell picked up at that point.
"A tissue Gatō-Sama!' Rasen started shouting everything he said around 3 in the afternoon during the drills of the positions. He said hard work needed to be loud and outgoing to motivate the crew.
Gatō took a tissue and wiped his right eye, the tears that would have fallen got caught and Gatō was thankful for his most trusted man even forgiving him for the little stunt with the 'fair-skinned, fairly strong lady'.
"Next." A deep voice called out behind the door and Gatō made up his mind. He would work hard so that when that little blonde demon took over the world he would have a cozy life.
"Introducing Gatō-Sama of Gatō Enterprises!" Rasen proclaimed loudly and proudly as he opened the door for Gatō but was stopped from entering.
'One day you will tell them to let me in Gatō-Sama I will work relentlessly for it!' Rasen thought with determination burning in his soul, he would prove himself to his 'boss'.
'Ninja's feed on your weakness, Ninja's feed on your weakness.' Gatō chanted what Naruto told him would 'Take all the fears away' it was working and the door closed behind him
AN
Short chapter but hn... Hn... Hn
