"Talking"
"SHOUTING/SCREAMING/YELLING"
'Thoughts'
"Jutsu"
"Tailed Beast Talking"
'Tailed Beast Thinking'
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A/N: Special thanks to those who followed and reviewed. I do not own Naruto but I own my OC and everything related to him.
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Chapter 3: Finally a C-rank mission
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Next day
|Training Grounds 7|
The members of Team 7 arrived at their designated training ground and surprisingly or not surprisingly Kakashi wasn't there yet, after an hour or two the gravity-defying silver-haired Jonin finally appeared in a whirl of leaves with the excuse that he was helping an old lady with her groceries which of course nobody bought. Kakashi started them off with some team building exercises saying that they needed to work on their teamwork before taking up missions.
The exercise was an easy one as Kakashi had one of them blindfold the other and then the non-blindfolded person would guide the blindfolded person around, directing them away from danger, at first everything had started alright until Naruto was tasked with guiding a blindfolded Sasuke around an obstacle course in less than 15 minutes. Sure the blonde might have steered Sasuke into a few trees or off a log once or twice on accident, but that didn't warrant what he received when he and Sasuke swapped places. It only took about 5 minutes before Sasuke guided Naruto into the river, soaking him. From there, everything went downhill and the two boys ended up in a little bit of a fight with Sasuke coming out on top.
Atsushi and Hinata didn't have such problems, whenever the Kishida tripped on a pebble or stick which Hinata missed, the Hyuga instantly apologized and vice versa. After about two or three more team building exercises Kakashi concluded the day's activities, Sasuke left immediately brooding about how useless the exercise was, Hinata was escorted back to the Hyuga compound by her care-taker Ko Hyuga and the remaining boys raced off towards Training Ground 11.
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|Training Ground 11|
The two arrived and found Areku patiently sitting under a tree reading a scroll, on hearing the sound of their footsteps the Kishida Jonin stopped his reading before placing the scroll back into a gray colored bag he brought along and faced his students.
"Judging by the look on Naruto's face I will say that Kakashi made you guys do some team building exercises?" He asked and received a positive nod, "Every Genin team performs team building exercises for an entire week before they can take some D-rank missions." Areku explained as he slowly stood up.
"These D-ranks are they interesting?" Atsushi asked.
"Well…"
"Do involve fighting bandits or delivering some important documents?" Naruto added.
"Those are C-ranked missions Naruto, D-ranks are more like chores."
Both boys blinked, "Chores?"
"Yep, like painting fences, weeding a farmland or catching a certain cat."
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|Elsewhere|
Hidden under a food stand a certain cat suddenly sneezed.
"I found her." A voice called.
'Oh shit.' The cat thought before it took off.
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"Anyway for today we will begin with some physical exercises so your guys will need some of these." Areku said before placing a hand into his right pocket, both boys watched as the Jonin Kishida pulled out what looked like four black sweatbands.
"Sweatbands?" Naruto asked with a sweat drop.
"Nope." Areku shook his head, "These are chakra weights, and they have a special seal on them that allows you to alter their weight. Theoretically, you could make them as heavy as a mountain though you would not be able to move or as light as a feather."
"So you just had some lying in your pocket?" Atsushi asked with a smile.
"Well they are actually your presents for achieving the rank of Genin so here you go." He replied handing them over to his nephew. "I also have some for you too Naruto."
The blond immediately pecked up, he had thought that he was being forgotten. The green-haired Jonin dipped his hand in his left pocket and pulled out four more chakra weights, "Thanks Areku-sensei." The blonde said as he received the weights, "But why four?"
"If you want to improve your body equally then you have to have one for each limb." He pointed out, "This way, you can train both your arms and legs."
"There by increasing our strength and speed." The Kishida Genin concluded.
"For normal weights yes but these also help to increase your chakra capacity and control, now I hope those weights are already on the respective limbs." Both boys immediately wore the weights, "Now send a bit of your chakra into it to activate level 1 which will apply a weight of 10 pounds on each limb." The boys did as required and suddenly struggled to stand as they felt their weight increase by 40 pounds.
"Once comfortable with your current level you just need a bit of your chakra to progress to the next level, if you want to deactivate the weights just say Kai! (Release!)"
The boys were about to deactivate the weights but were stopped by the elder Kishida.
"It will take some time to get use to those weights so how about 30 laps around that clearing?" The boys followed Areku's gaze and immediately groaned: the clearing was as large as a soccer field.
"Time's are wasting so you better get moving." The boys left out another groan but obeyed, Areku also joined in on the exercise as a way of encouraging them to continue. The boys were able to keep up until the twentieth lap where they collapsed and were offered some bottled water by Areku before he continued the exercise, after a few minutes of rest Naruto resumed the exercise gaining a lap before Atsushi joined in.
"Areku-san?"
"Yes Atsushi."
"How much weight are you carrying?"
"Well I'm currently at the max level which around 200 pounds."
Naruto and Atsushi's jaws dropped, "That means…"
"50 pounds on each limb," Areku responded as the boys reattached their jaws. "If you think that's impressive, then you haven't met Maito Gai."
"What do you mean?" Naruto asked.
Areku chuckled a bit, "He wears about 400 pounds which is 100 pounds on each limb."
The Genins' jaws dropped once again.
Twenty – thirty minutes later they completed the exercise and took a ten minute break before Atsushi announced the next exercise, "Ok since we are done running for today, we try some pushups then sit-ups and the rest of the week we work on refining Naruto's taijutsu."
The two boys nodded and began the next exercise.
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The following weeks went on like that, after completing their training sessions and D-rank missions with Team 7 the boys would rush over to training ground 11 for some extra training with Areku.
The first week like said was spent mainly on improving their physical condition and taijustu, Naruto soon found himself in sparring sessions either against Atsushi or Areku or sometimes both, well to put it straight the Uzumaki got his ass handed to him so many times that he lost count but at the end of each day he noticed an improvement in his form.
The second week was spent working on improving their chakra control, it turns out that Naruto could not perform the leaf balancing exercise due to the high density of his chakra so Areku introduced him to the tree climbing exercise. Atsushi then introduced the exercise to the rest of his teammates and with some competition from the Uchiha, Naruto was able to complete the exercise within two days; Hinata displayed the best chakra control by completing the exercise within 5 minutes. Since the tree exercise was conquered in less than two days, the boys spent the remaining days learning about their affinities; their weaknesses and strengths, etc.
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Third week (Elemental Manipulation)
|Training Ground 11|
After creating some shadow clones and assigning them to either work on his taijutsu or mastering tree climbing, Naruto patiently waited for Areku to arrive, after spending the past week studying about his wind affinity and finally being able to split a leaf then a rock in half with his chakra the Kishida deemed him worthy to commence elemental manipulation and the Blonde couldn't wait to be able to fire jutsus left, right and center.
The Uzumaki was so occupied with his thoughts that he didn't realize that the Jonin had arrived and he almost missed what he was about to say.
"Ok Naruto while Atsushi and my shadow clone work on improving the effectiveness of his Rakurai (Thunderbolt), Raiken (Lightning Fist) and some other jutsus, I will be teaching some Wind related jutsu." Areku said.
"Finally I can't wait to rub it in teme's face."
"Yeah yeah, we will start with an easy Wind Jutsu now don't get mad if you fail the technique on your first try." Naruto nodded and the Kishida continued.
"Now I will demonstrate a wind jutsu." Areku turned around and faced some training targets, weaving a few hand seals the Jonin took a deep breath and spat out three transparent spheres of wind which collided with the targets and completely drilled right through them.
"That was the Wind Style: Drilling Air Bullets or Air Bullets for short." Areku explained and turned back to Naruto who had stars in his eyes. "Now it's your turn and these are the seals." Areku said, slowly demonstrating the seals which Naruto started making.
"Wind Style: Drilling Air Bullets!" Naruto's mouth hung open but not a single puff of air came out.
'Okay. That was a little weird. This Jutsu is a least a C-rank when fully powered but he shouldn't be having any problems with it.' Areku thought. "One more time." Naruto nodded and performed the seals but nothing.
Seeing the same results gave Areku an impression of what was wrong but he needed to confirm it, Naruto became confused when the Jonin sat down, crossed his legs (lotus position) then closed his eyes and began to meditate.
"Umm… Areku-san?"
"Shh… I'm trying to meditate here." Naruto promptly kept quiet, some minutes later Areku finally spoke up. "Try again."
"Huh?"
"The jutsu, try to do the jutsu again." He repeated and Naruto nodded, formed the seals while gathering the chakra required.
"Wait. Hold the chakra, but try to mold it more into a tight sphere shape before you release it." Areku directed Naruto, who did as told and spat out a small ball of wind which didn't really do much but was a start. Noticing the improvement Areku exited his meditative state and offered some corrections on the jutsu.
The next three weeks were spent learning jutsu, Areku handed Naruto and Atsushi scrolls based on their elemental affinities for them to learn and offered corrections whenever they messed up with the jutsu. Though the use of the Shadow Clone Jutsu, the both Genin were able to learn about 65% of the scrolls given to them and in a record time of about 16 days which surprised Areku in no small way.
Seeking to increase his knowledge and IQ level, Naruto made 10 shadow clones which he sent off to the Library, this became a daily task for the Uzumaki and as long as the clones were under a henge the Librarian wouldn't notice. He learnt about the origins of the various clans in Konoha and thanks to some history lessons from his green-haired friend Naruto learnt a lot about the Kishida clan, he learnt about how their village Arashigakure was formed, the five divisions which make up the Kishida clan and most importantly their unique bloodline, The Nisankugan. (A/N: This will be discussed at the end of this chapter.)
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A month later (2 months after graduating)
May 7
|Somewhere in the forests of Konoha|
"Is everyone in position?" Kakashi called out through the wireless radios his team was wearing.
"I'm ready" Atsushi called out.
"I'm in position" Sasuke said.
"I'm here" Naruto replied.
"Alright, where's the target?" Kakashi asked.
"Target is five meters. We are ready to go" Hinata said after locating the cat with her Byakugan.
"Alright, on my mark go" Kakashi ordered.
With that, the three boys dove forward on their target. Their target just so happened to be a pretty angry cat, known around the village as Tora, the Fire Daimyo's Wife's pet and the Demon Cat of the Leaf. Team 7 reported that they had caught the intended cat, indicating that it had a pink ribbon in its ear. They quickly made their way back to the Konoha mission hall to get rid of the nuisance.
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|Konoha Mission Hall|
"Ah, my precious Tora-chan! I missed you so much!" the wife of the Fire Daimyo, Madam Shijimi, yelled out as she hugged her cat tightly in the Missions Office, despite the cat looking like it was choking to death. "You had me so worried, my little baby!"
"Serves it right…" Naruto muttered, the Uzumaki had three scratches across the bridge of his nose, and many more on his hands. Sasuke had three on his left cheek, three on his neck, and about as many on his hands as Naruto.
"Hn..." The Uchiha agreed.
"Kind of makes you pity it..." Hinata mumbled softly, having no scratches on her.
"Let's hope that it never escapes again." Atsushi said, glancing at the scratches on his arms, 'Thank Kami I left my jacket at home this morning.'
"Now... Team 7," the Third said as he was looking over the documents in front of him, "your next duty is... hmm... babysitting an elder's grandson, shopping in the neighboring village, and help with the potato digging... You can also-"
"Tora-chan! Come back!"
"Or you can catch Tora again." The Third added as Tora sped off towards the exit.
"NO WAY AM I GOING AFTER THAT DAMNED CAT JIJI! I WANT DO A REAL MISSION! NOT THIS BORING KID STUFF, CHOOSE SOMETHING ELSE!" Naruto suddenly yelled at the Third, everyone save for Atsushi stared at him in utter shock for daring to interrupt the Hokage.
'I hate to admit it, but the dobe's got a point.' Sasuke inwardly agreed with Naruto.
'Naruto-kun.' Hinata had completely wished that she wasn't in the room at that moment. Naruto's yelling was making a scene, and all the attention of the people in the room was on Team 7, which included her.
Atsushi sighed at the scene Naruto was creating, he knew that the blonde wanted to get higher ranked missions, he had been complaining about it for days nonstop.
"You idiot!" Iruka stood up from his chair as he slammed the table. "You're still a newly appointed Genin! Everyone needs to start with easy missions to gain experience!"
"Are you kidding me?! What does getting raked in the face by a FREAKING cat while trying to catch said cat have to do with gaining experience! All of these missions are just baby- WHAA!" Naruto yelped as Kakashi gave him a bonk on the head, making him fall face first into the wooden floor.
"Cut it out." Kakashi scolded the blonde.
"Naruto! It looks like I need to explain to you what these missions are." The Third Hokage said as Naruto sat up, gripping the back of his head as he cried out of pain, freezing when he heard the Third. "Listen, a lot of clients come to this village every day. The requests for missions go from babysitting to assassinations."
Hinata flinched at the last part while Atsushi flinched at the first.
"The requests are and analyzed and they are separated into ranks-"
Atsushi tuned out of the Third's explanation, as he already knew how the missions worked as his uncle was a Jonin. 'Speaking Areku-san I wonder how he is able-
"So I had tonkotsu ramen yesterday, so I'm thinking miso ramen today…" Naruto said loudly.
"Silence!" The Third snapped at the blonde.
Kakashi scratched the back of his head, "Umm… sorry."
Naruto turned around to face the Third Hokage. "You always lecture me like a little kid, Jiji!" The Uzumaki exclaimed out of annoyance. "But I'm not the kid who used to pull pranks anymore! I'm a ninja now and I want a mission worthy of one!" Naruto turned around, crossed his arms and pouted.
'Naruto has some guts to be talking to the Hokage like that, hope this doesn't cause us any problems in the future.' Atsushi thought.
'Does he always talk to Lord Hokage like this?' Hinata wondered as she took note of how Naruto called Hiruzen 'Jiji'. It was slightly amusing seeing the interaction between the two, she had to admit.
Kakashi began to scratch his head again. 'I'm so going to hear about this later'
'What a dobe.' Sasuke thought.
Both Iruka and Hiruzen chuckled to themselves at Naruto's attitude as their lips widened into a smirk.
'Naruto has changed.' Hiruzen noted, happy that Naruto was starting to take life as a Shinobi more seriously. He also knew about the extra training the boys were receiving from Areku thanks to his crystal ball.
"Okay, I understand." Hiruzen spoke, earning interested looks from all of a Team 7, except Kakashi who bore the same bored expression on his eye as usual. "Since you are so eager, I will allow you to take on a C-ranked mission. You will be required to escort a certain person."
Naruto's ears perked up, "Really?!" He turned his body around to face the Third, revealing a grin on his face. "Who? Is it the feudal lord? Or a princess?"
"Don't get so impatient. I'll bring him in now. Send in our visitor." Hiruzen commanded, and not long after, the door to the room slid open.
Naruto, Sasuke, Atsushi and Hinata along with the others could immediately smell sake reeking off of the man who entered. Heck, if that wasn't enough, he was holding a bottle of it in his hand.
Naruto stood up straight like the rest of his team as the man leaned on the doorway, with an irritated look on his face.
Atsushi took in the man's appearance. A bit of his drink was rolling down his mouth as if he was drooling. The man wore a dark green sleeveless V-neck shirt with an obit, pants, and of course a pair of sandals for his feet to wear. Finally, the man wore glasses.
"What's this? A bunch of little snot nose brats!" The man retorted, before staring directly at Naruto. "And the little one with the idiotic look on his face, you really expect me to believe that he'sa ninja."
"Alright you bastard! First of all, Hinata's a girl! Second of all, she is not the one with the idiotic look on their face!" Naruto yelled, defending Hinata, thinking that the man was getting Hinata's gender mixed up and Sasuke was the one with an idiotic look.
Hinata blushed at Naruto's sudden rush to her defense. Although...
"I know she's a girl you brat! I was referring to you!" Tazuna shot back.
Naruto quickly shot his head at Atsushi and Sasuke, and to his horror, both boys were taller than him, even Hinata was taller than him with a few centimeters.
"I'm gonna kill you!" Naruto proclaimed as he attempted to bolt at the man kunai in hand, only to be held and restrained in the air by Kakashi, who was holding him with one hand by the jacket.
"You're not supposed to hurt the client. It doesn't work that way, idiot." Kakashi berated Naruto for his rashness and rudeness.
The client took a sip of his drink and cleared his throat after swallowing.
"I am Tazuna, a super bridge building master and I must return to my country. There, I will have all of you to protect my life with yours while I complete the bridge. We will leave shortly."
"This mission will take a couple of days to complete." The Third Hokage stepped in and informed the Genin team.
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|Konoha Gates|
The group was currently leaving Konoha. For all of them except Kakashi and Tazuna, this was the first time that they had to leave the village.
Naruto busted out of the gates, turned around, raised his arms and let out a cry of joy due to leaving the village for the first time and excitement for the mission. And then there was also the aspect of going to a place he has never been to before.
"Hey, will a kid like him be capable of this mission?" Tazuna asked Kakashi as he pointed at Naruto, who froze in his place with white eyes of annoyance at being underestimated. Naruto crossed his arms.
"Don't worry I'm a Jonin, I wouldn't allow any harm to befall anyone." Kakashi assured the bridge builder unfortunately Naruto heard what Tazuna had said.
"Don't underestimate me you geezer! I'm a great ninja! And one day, I will receive the title of Hokage! The name is Naruto Uzumaki! Remember it!" The boy exclaimed with a fox-like grin on his face.
Hinata gushed over Naruto's declaration and thought about how cool he was, Atsushi face palmed while Sasuke snorted.
"Face it kid you can't become Hokage, only a serious minded and powerful ninja will become Hokage and believe me, you are lacking in those areas." Tazuna said flatly.
"Grr! I'm gonna kill you." Naruto leaped forward only to be restrained this time by Atsushi.
"Naruto give it a rest already, trying to kill the client won't help you in becoming Hokage." He said.
Naruto glared at his green-haired friend but later calmed down as he admitted that it was true.
"Now that's a ninja fit to become Hokage." Tazuna smiled complimenting Atsushi. On hearing that Naruto lost finally his cool (did he even have one?) and pounced. This time the entire team had to restrain him. "Lemme at him! Lemme at him! I just need one taste! Just one taste!"
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|Somewhere between Konoha and Wave|
A day had passed since the little scene at the gates, Team 7 were now on their way to the Wave country passing by some puddles along the way which seemed strange since it hasn't rained for weeks, Kakashi shrugged it off and carried on. Suddenly, metal chains wrapped around Kakashi's body, restraining him. The immediate sound of the clattering chains alerted the Genin as they saw Kakashi stuck in place along with the two ninja who had him restrained.
"What?" Kakashi gasped out of shock.
"First one!" One of the two Shinobi yelled as Kakashi died getting ripped to shreds but his body disappeared in a band of smoke.
"What?"
The Demon brothers glanced at the others but only saw bands of smoke in their place. "Huh?"
"Wind Style: Gale Palm!" A voice called as a gust of wind blasted one of brothers into a tree knocking him out, the other turned around immediately and received a flying kick to his skull which sent him tumbling backwards, Atsushi followed up Sasuke's kick with sliding tackle sending the shinobi into the ground, everything went dark for him once Hinata struck his chest with a palm strike.
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A minute later
"Amazing how did you manage to detect them?" Tazuna asked the Hyuga heiress as Kakashi and Sasuke tied up the attackers.
"My Byakugan could see their chakra from fifty meters away." Hinata replied. "Not to mention that it hasn't rained in weeks so there shouldn't be any puddles."
"That was pretty awesome, Hinata!" Naruto praised.
She went red.
"May I have a word with you, Tazuna!" The Cyclops said glaring at the bridge builder.
"Of course." Tazuna sweat dropped, he had a bad feeling of what the Jonin wanted to say.
As the adults were 'discussing' about the mission, Hinata nervously walked up to Naruto.
"Um N-naruto-kun." She called with a slight stutter.
"Yes? Is there something you want Hinata?" Naruto replied with a smile which calmed her down a bit. Naruto had discovered that the Hyuga seemed a lot more comfortable whenever he smiled at her, so he had been doing just that whenever she called him.
"What you said about me being awesome, did you mean it?" She asked shyly.
"Every word plus you are one of the most awesome people I know and I'm glad you are on the same team as I."
The blue-haired Hyuga blushed beet red at the praise before the two adults returned, Kakashi wearing his usually bored expression while Tazuna looked depressed. "Ok everyone, we heading back." The former said.
"What? Why?" Naruto voiced what was on all the Genin's minds.
"Apparently someone lied about the rank of the mission." The Jonin explained glaring at the builder. "This mission is either B or A-ranked."
"I already told you, I could only afford a C-ranked mission. The Wave is currently going through some dark times now that is why I need to build the bridge to jumpstart the economy but I need protection." Tazuna defended before staring at the dry earth. "If I had said the truth from the start, you guys wouldn't have helped."
"We will do it."
"What?" Tazuna looked up with hope.
"We will do it." Naruto repeated staring at Kakashi.
Kakashi knew what his student was trying to do, "Naruto, I know you want to help but this mission is beyond you, all of you." He pointed at the rest, "You will only get yourselves killed."
"We are ninjas, it's an occupational hazard." Everyone stared at the Kishida who spoke up, "We knew what we were getting ourselves into the day we became Genin, the day we became Team 7."
Kakashi stared at each member of his team, he saw the determination in their eyes and knew they really wanted this, they wanted to complete the mission. He signed, who was he to stop them? "Fine, we will help." And the members of Team 7 erupted into shouts of cheers and Hns. "But on one condition." Kakashi turned to Tazuna who was crying anime tears, "Once the Wave has enough money, you will return to Konoha and pay for an A-ranked mission agreed?"
"Agreed and thank you, I will never underestimate any of you especially you Saruto-"
"It's Naruto the future Hokage of Konoha!" The blond corrected.
"Yes, Naruto the future Hokage!" Tazuna sobbed happily.
As the scene played on, Kakashi focused on the unconscious and tied up demon brothers he couldn't just leave them along like this. The Cyclops bit his thumb, summoned three of his dog summons and shared out duties.
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Sometime later
|Hokage Tower, Konoha|
Hiruzen was currently battling his worst enemy 'Paperwork' when the office doors burst open and a small brown pug ran in with a small scroll on its back. The four hidden ANBU jumped into action and surrounded the pug with their tantos pointed at it.
"It's me Hokage-sama," the dog spoke.
"If you're really Pakkun, then you know what volume of Icha Icha Paradise Kakashi loves more than the rest," Hiruzen stated as he observed the dog.
Pakkun huffed then deadpanned, "Kakashi loves Icha Icha Paradise 3 which features his favorite characters Tsunabe and Diraiya."
"It's Pakkun, only a select few people know about that little fact," Hiruzen confirmed. The ANBU withdrew their swords and retreated back into the shadows. Once the ANBU were gone Pakkun handled a scroll over to the Third and puffed away. Hiruzen opened up the scroll and began to read its contents, after reading the entire report he developed a troubled look on his face.
"This isn't good." Hiruzen muttered to himself.
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A/N: Well I hoped you enjoyed it, Next chapter we meet the demon of the mist 'Zabuza' and his lovely apprentice 'Haku' as well as some flashbacks to Naruto's training with Areku-san.
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««Land Of Elements (Element Country or Yoso no Kuni)»»
The Land of Elements is a roughly triangular shaped country located southwest of the Land of Fire and northeast of the Tea country. The vegetation is a mixture of forests and grasslands as one travels across the country. It is called the Land of Elements since the shinobi of its Hidden Village are known to have all five basic affinities, unfortunately several other Hidden Villages (Particularly the Larger ones) refuse to recognize this and stick with its previous name: the Land of Storms. A rumor has it that the south-western region was originally part of the ocean floor but was later uplifted after a great battle between the 1st Yosokage and an S-Rank nuke nin. Its governmental leader is the Elemental Daimyo (Or Storm Daimyo in the case of the other villages).
««Arashigakure (Arashigakure no Sato or Hidden Storm Village)»»
Arashigakure is the Hidden Village of the Land of Elements. This village has a reputation for accepting abused, banished or rejected clans and shinobi who want to restart their lives. The village is often nicknamed the Missing nin Village or the Refugee Village as it is popularly known for accepting most of the Shinobi and bloodline refugees escaping Kirigakure (Their population being about 900 – 1500 persons).
Arashigakure like Konohagakure is surrounded by forest but the village has its own distinguishing features like having three points of entry instead of four, Kage tower being located at the heart of the village and having two walls due to security reasons; between the walls are hectares of farmlands where farmers can grow their crops during long periods of war or siege.
The leader of the village is called the Yosokage.
««List of Yosokages»»
Ataxin Kishida [1st] Inazuma
Shion Kishida [2nd] Jari
Yu Kishida [3rd] Kaen
Atoniji Kishida [Current 4th] Akua
««Kishida Clan»»
The largest and founding clan of the village, its members make up 7% of the village's population.
Clan symbol – Two silver colored overlapping equilateral triangles, one is larger than the other, to form a six point star, three of the vertexes are bigger than the other three.
People –The clan is classified into five branches/divisions – Inazuma (Thunder), Jari (Stone), Kaen (Flame), Akua (Aqua) and Kuki (Air). The Inazuma are known by their Green hair and specialty in Lightning Jutsu (Areku and Atsushi belong to this division), the Jari are known by their Brown hair and specialty in Earth Jutsu, Kaen: Reddish-brown and Fire Jutsu, Akua: Cyan and Water Jutsu, Kuki: Blond with White stripes and Wind Jutsu. Hair color and affinity aren't always genetic; meaning that a couple from the Jari division can give birth to a child which could be a member of Kaen, Inazuma, Akua or Kuki divisions.
Appearance –The clan members though from different divisions have a common trait, Green pupil-less eyes and a Hexagram seal which is located at the back of their neck just between the shoulder blades. Apart from that each division is known by their different hair color.
History – The Kishida clan were among the various clans roaming the world during the warring clans' period. During that time many other clans didn't get along with the Kishida clan due to their odd hair color and highly complicated bloodline limit, so various members of the clan left the elemental nations and settled down in the Land of Storms which was later renamed the Land of Elements. Sometime after the First Shinobi War the clan founded the Hidden Storm Village, being completely responsible for running the village and helping it grow to a point that it flourished like all other Hidden villages.
The Yosokage position is rotated among the Kishida clan within its five divisions since the beginning of the village. Generally each division holds the seat for a number of years before passing it onto the next division.
««Kekkai Genkai»»
The Nisankugan (Hexagram Eye) – This is the relatively unknown, dominant and very aggressive bloodline of the Kishida clan. At birth every Kishida is branded with a seal called the Hexagram seal, this seal was originally created on request by the Uzumaki clan to help stabilize the bloodline limit by preventing the second stage from completely draining the user's chakra hence resulting in the user's death. The Nisankugan is divided into two phases…
First phase (Sankugan) – This grants the user 2 more nature transformations (3 if the user's primary transformation is included) and resistance to all forms of Genjutsu. This Stage unlocked/awakened at the age of seven and has only one setback: the user can't perform Genjutsu on his/her opponents. One has to achieve the rank of Genin before being permitted to use this phase.
Once activated the eye morphs into a green triangle.
Second phase (Nisankugan) – This grants the user another 2 more transformations (now 5 in total) plus a 75% increase in chakra in form of a faint white chakra cloak. This is automatically unlocked at the age of twelve and also offers resistance to Genjutsu. It has two setbacks: the first is the same with the first phase and the second is that it has a time limit (Thanks to the Hexagram seal) ranging from 1 – 4 hours (depending on the user's chakra reserves) before reverting back to the first phase and a cool down period of an entire day before it can be activated again. One has to achieve the rank of a Chunin before being allowed to use this phase.
Once activated the eye morphs into its advanced form; a green Hexagram.
««Warning»»
Transferring the eye to a non-Kishida has been discovered to result in death as the recipient's body won't meet up with the physical and chakra requirements needed.
Also trying to breed the Nisankugan with another dominant bloodline limit has shown to be dangerous as the former will cancel out both itself and the one it should have been combined with. This was discovered when some bloodline refugees married some Kishidans, their children didn't have a single bloodline!
««Relationship with Other Villages»»
Arashigakure was initially unknown to the other Shinobi villages save for Konohagakure who were in a secret alliance with them after the First War. It was during the Second Shinobi War when the Sand (Sunagakure) after their failed invasion of the Land Of Fire, invaded the Land Of Elements in their quest for fertile lands and water resources that word went out about a new village that brutally defeated its invaders and even annexed some parts of Wind country only to return it at the conclusion of the war after some monetary compensation. Apart from that incident its relationship with the other villages has been neutral.
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