Chapter 7: biting my time.
Nashi woke up and looked outside, the sun was high and by the looks of it, it was high noon and I reminded myself that its already been weeks since shisui has disappeared, I couldn't find him or any trace of him, but well seeing my skills it was no surprise but I tried my best, and on this down time I had prepared and gathered materials for my survival attempt since I need to survive my encounter with them, and surprisingly it was being sold in children size.
[2 weeks ago]
In the ninja general store I first entered I literally asked for light armor and things that could help me survive, the cashier didn't even bat an eye as he told me the different types of armor, from the different types of mesh armor that looks like clothing, stuff like light, and heavy, and depending on what type I took they would hinder my movement but I could also get the chakra version of it, problem is that it needs my chakra to create the armor but ones created it only last about 1 minute and with enough force it could easily be broken, and since I was a child it was a no for me, aside from that they had kevlar on the small size enough for children, and unknowingly the price was fucking high, children size kevlar vest is worth 50k and that was my monthly allowance, so I was kind of fucked, there is a mesh shirt that cost 30k and that's the light version, it could apparently survive cuts that I doubted since it looks like one of those average thing that everyone wears, seeing as I could remember seeing naruto, anko and nearly any ninja I see in the anime something similar to this see through mesh clothing.
So I went out with a deep sigh and the owner just grinning and said to come back when I could, and it pissed me off knowing I couldn't buy those for now, so I brainstormed how I could earn money since i'm still a child and all, and then it clicked to me, child labor, after that I went to find a dark corner and transformed, as the visage of a purple haired boy began to fade from existence, my hair suddenly became brown, the shoulder length hair became shorter and the bangs I placed behind my ears rose up and spiked behind me, my brown iris stayed brown, my deep purple pupil became black, my short stature became taller, my children clothes became larger my brown shirt expanded, my blue short shorts lengthened below my knees, and a brown haired adult came to existence, after finishing my transformation I walked out, my view still being the same but the people around me looked at where my eyes would be then looked away, it wasn't some sort of shy thing but like a quick glance thing that most people would do, this would usually be obvious because of my small stature, but now that I look like an adult to the outside world it kind of looks weird that there looking at me and not at the same time.
Walking around I went searching for the, generic help wanted sign that people tend to throw out, I say generic since I see them everywhere and its not only around the red light district but everywhere, specially construction because apparently they are still repairing some damage received from the 9 tails attack, I kind of get it seeing as they got attacked by a 100 foot monster that is so strong that swinging its tail could cause hurricanes, a simple step could call upon the most terrifying earth quake to the land, and its tailed beast bomb could turn a village to vapor, so some simple collateral is something to be expected.
Walking around a bit I found myself in the outskirts of the village, I had practically found myself next to the wall of the village, and by the looks of it it was an apartment building or a house for some rich people, the place wasn't much since it was next to the wall but the surroundings were ok, it was next to a river and in front of it was where the water had flown through and in the middle of it held a small island with some green and little bushes, and beside it was a scenic red bridge but aside from that the area had multiple building frames made, I walked in and asked around for the manager and after being passed to person to person I found the man.
"Um, hello sir, I saw the poster outside and I thought that if I could possibly join?" I asked the big burly man with a hard hat, he had a tool belt with a variety of tools, he looked at me up and down and scoffed.
"Fine, come with me," he said, his voice was deep and rugged, we walked towards an area where logs were being peeled, shaped into squares and oiled.
"Lift this and you get the job," he said a little smug thinking this scrawny puke couldn't be that strong.
But to his surprise and my joy I lifted it with ease and is eyes nearly popped out of his sockets as I did so, "so do I get the job now?" I said with easily hidden joy.
"Uhh, yeah, take it to the second floor and stack it with the others," he said stammering a little.
And that was how the story of how I got my first job of the day, a construction worker named tom, but it wasn't all sunshine and rainbow since nothing ever goes well with me using a modified version of transformation which I like to call mirage, seeing as the form I have has no mass and my physical hight is just 4 foot 2 literally on the waist side of the look I have, it happened when the job was over and we were being paid and only minutes after I received my payment.
"Good job new guy, if you keep doing this you might actually get a promotion," a random guy said and tried to slap my shoulder but seeing as it was a mirage his hand passed through it and it soon dissolve, the others begin to freakout but as soon as it reached the waist a panicking child could be seen, and before anyone could speak he suddenly vanished from existence and left behind him was a piece of log.
-FUCK!!!!!!!- I thought out in pain after loosing my only path to get paid.
-God, dam you, I should have asked for God tier luck so this shit wouldn't happen,- *sigh* -I wonder how i'll get paid now, seriously if I found out that it would be that expensive I would have saved all my money, also fuck the moon is rising, i'll have to get to my position,- after speaking in my mind, I silently dashed using my currently learning body flicker until I get about a couple meters from the uchiha compound, I stoped and used my bloodline limit and jumped over the little fence and hide myself in the bush, focusing on my ears and listening for things like slashing or screams.
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An hour passed.
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And another.
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And another.
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Sigh* and another.
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I looked up and saw that the moon was already above me, I sighed and decided to leave early this time because it seems like nothing had changed, walking towards the wall I jumped up and passed the boarder and walked towards my house also have I mentioned that the village is actually separated in four quadrants well at least for the gangsters, in the middle it is perfectly cut in a square and there is the north, south, east, and west.
and the north is generally where the supplies are handled such as food, materials, furniture and general things for life and buildings, so generally speaking it is the most guarded both by ninja and mobsters.
The south is the development branch both for ninja's and gangsters, the area is also the suppliers for the general drugs that they use, such as cocaine, opium, hallucinogens, marijuana and what not.
The east for the entertainment district, where we live and is one of the more populated area, also where most or nearly all of the drugs that were made, women, men, children, or anyone in need of a quick fix for depression or guilt, its specially popular for ninja's be it young or old almost all of them come here to relief there guilt from either killing another or leaving someone they know for dead, drugs and sex help with that, also alcohol, its not anything like your usual bar where its cheap alcohol where you can easily get drunk, and also has shit food, its one of those fancy bars where you are greeted by scantily clad woman or in raunchy costumes, fancy drinks, delicious and luxurious food but crap in size, the surroundings are clean, shiny, and fancy, but the price is abysmal so enter at your own risk, if you want to know how I know, I entered because I wanted to see and possibly steal a bottle with diamonds inside of them, but couldn't find one, and the closest thing I could get was shining diamonds, a drink that didn't have any diamonds on it, and by the looks if it, it is super expensive.
And the west is, a questionable area since its where the uchiha compound is held, and they are strong and doesn't have much patients for shit like gangs, so the area isn't sectioned off because it holds a gang but because no gang could be formed inside it, the uchiha prided themselves being the main pillar of the konoha military police force and seeing as tobirama gave most of the authority to the uchiha, so yeah, even though they are at the corner and most isolated area of konoha they still do there job.
And those are the things that separate the village, well for the gangsters, but the ninja's see things differently, also if your wondering why the other ninja's haven't taken them out, or why hiruzen hasn't done anything with it, and the only answer to that is the fact that hiruzen sees nothing wrong with this, his village prospers, his traumatized ninja gets a way to relieve there stress, the gangsters also bring a variety of things from there culture and along with that they bring there supply chain, so aside from the rare occasion where they fight one another of enemy gangsters being assassinated its all good, and the over all pros are better than the cons.
Granted its not all good since there are still some gang violence that pop out here and there, like the guy screaming running towards me, yeah I see the two guys that are chasing him, life is really strange when you live in a militaristic village that was literally built with two of the strongest hired guns and just got stronger as time went on, so yeah… … wait a dam minute.
As nashi was having a daily mid life crisis for an 8 year old it suddenly dawned on him that a bleeding mobster is running towards him with desperation in his eyes and having two men in black suits with sun glasses behind him following after him And right after nashi just got his shit together the mobster instantly grabbed me by the neck with a knife haphazardly pointed at my face.
"D.D.Dont move a. A muscle, or, or the kid gets it," the man said clearly stuttering in fear.
"Dam it, what do we do, the dam lotus scum has a hostage," the man with the black suit said to his partner.
"I don't know jim, the boss said to capture him alive, since they've been pulling some shady shit in our turf the boss said we would use them as an example," the man said to his partner.
"Y,y,y you s,shadow crane scum, if, if it wasn't for you n, n, none of this would have happened," he said as he got the knife closer to me, and all I could think of is the fact that this feels like a scooby doo skit from the shit I could hear.
"Let go of the kid you lotus creep," jim said.
"I don't think that would work jim," the other man said.
"Then what the fuck do we do tom," jim said.
"L L Lets make a d d d deal," the stuttering man said.
"L l let me, l leave with the, document and I set the kid free," the man said and both tom and jim stood there in silence since the document seems important to them.
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They just stood there for a minute straight in silence, it was so silent in fact that all I could hear was the night life of the red light district, and there was one thing that cut the silence, a deep sigh that for them sounded like a gun shot from them flinching.
And then the sound of flesh being hit could be heard, and the man that was holding me folded to the ground, seeing as I just elbowed him and the fact that i'm only waist hight I got him in the balls, the blow made him whistle like a dam kettle.
"Look here, lets make a deal, I get this douchebags wallet, you get what you want and I get money," I said as I crouched down and began to rummage around his pocket's, and while I was doing that he struggled to look at me and with anger in his eyes he slashed at me, but before it could hit I stopped it by putting my hand on his arm and grabbing his arm mid swing.
They were shocked but even more shocked when I gripped on his arm so hard that it snapped, and then a loud scream could be heard from the man, and like the bitch he is, he tried to crawl away, but I stopped him by kicking his chest to turn him over, and then I found it, his wallet it was on his right inner breast pocket, and so I took it and beside it looked like a document of some sort, thinking that was what they wanted I took it and gave it to them, And so without a word I left them as I then began to merge myself into the crowd.
Both the thugs just stood there in silence since they had never seen anything like that before, well granted they could have expected the child to have hit the man in the nuts because of his hight, but they could have never expected to see an average looking child do so much damage in so little effort and time, they knew that they were in a ninja village and that they expected something like a 12 year old to be capable of such violence since you know ninja, but they did not expect some one that looks like a 8 to 10 year old to be that strong at such a young age.
And so nashi effortlessly enters and integrate himself with the crowd, walking inside I decided to activate my bloodline since I saw that an anbu was following me, following that I walked opposite of the crowd since one would expect me to follow the crowd, also it was challenging since I need to be quick and constantly on watch of the foot, my radar thing helps and i've lessen the chakra it emits which both lessens the chakra cost and the chance of being detected, since you know ninja, also there might be a slight hint of fear after what I did, so yeah i'm super paranoid.
After taking my path I arrived home, the crowd was less around my house since in front of our house there is buildings for what they generally look for, it wasn't far enough to disturb our sleep but it was far enough that when you look outside of the night you can see the people clearly.
Entering my house I did the usual, took my sandals off, wore my inside shoes, and opened my fridge, took an apple and began to munch on it, pushed the drawer that hides the hole, crawled in and took a note book, crawled back out, and opened it on the table.
[page 1]
Well today I have learned the three academy jutsu.
[Substitution.]
[Transformation.]
[Clones.]
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[Page 38]
Day 38.
Today I got bored and decided to experiment on the jutsu's since I don't know what to do now because the library is getting boring.
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Day 40.
Well I got to say, experimenting on them went well enough, well through out my experimentation of the jutsu I come to realize that substitution is just a quick replacement of what you focus on, but over all its like a slingshot version of body flicker.
The transformation is a mirage, it uses yin chakra, it's a simple coating around you and the shape you want to take, it makes no noise, it gets no shadow, and its only built upon your imagination, so all the folds of clothing, shadow, freckle or line on there face is made by your imagination, also the smoke screen helps in masking the user when being the user get coated.
Also clone holds the same principles as transformation, but you only need to slightly think of how it should look like, since you know you already know what you look like, but its slightly harder since unlike the transformation you need to push it outwards, also you need to focus in order to move the clone, and as you know it has no mass, sent or any sort of generic life so yeah.
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Day 50
After fucking around with one of the more simple jutsu, aka transformation, I managed to stop the habit of making a smoke screen with it, though the smoke screen is more simple so over all I separated them, also combining the aspect of moving the clone I am able to move the transformation just like a clone, this helps a lot or will help, I don't know much but its effective.
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Day 55
I had a eureka moment.
I have reverse engineered substitution and now I have a sudo body flicker, it sucks since I need to create something like a circle below my shoes since if I just release it, I would presume that it would rip a whole through my sandals but seeing as I could stick to trees with it I just didn't want to take the risk.
Day 59
Hello update,
it sucks,
I have a hard time to see where the fuck i'm going, but also I can manage by using it to give me small boosts forward and just continue with a run to inspect my surroundings, and then continue with another boost, which then also gives a different problem, the distance, I cant control the distance I travel, well for now but its probably chakra control problem which means I can work with it.
Day 90
Ok,
Today nothing happened again, I left early and managed to meat upon some gangsters, one tried to use me as a shield so I took exception to that, I gave him the nashi special [ball buster] and took his wallet to which I haven't checked yet.
And so nashi checked the wallet, looking around he found an ID, business card, and a stripper card, multiple stripper cards, vip bar cards, and then a side for money, after counting it I managed to get a total of 50k enough to buy me the light vest, or the medium best that cost 50k aka the standard normal vest, well I need to sleep now since I will be training tomorrow.
[somewhere]
"So this is the lotus basterd huh," a man said. "Bring me the people who brought him in," he said to a man beside the door.
[minutes later]
"You called for us boss man," tom said, as jim stood next to him.
"So?" He said.
"What sir?" Jim asked hesitantly.
The boss sighed, "Don't take me for a fool you two, i'm asking who was the one to take him down," he said but they both stayed silent. "If you want to play this game, i'll play, firstly his wrist was broken in a way that could only mean that there was someone strong enough to crush it, two of his ribs was broken, his clothing was ruffled and most importantly he didn't have his wallet with him, so you either took it or someone else did," he said clearly tired of this game.
One of them sighed but ultimately compromised, "well sir, you are correct, but we don't want to talk about it," tom said.
"It was a child sir, he appeared out of nowhere and this asshole tried to use him as a hostage, but that back fired when the kid elbowed him in the balls, and basically stole his wallet, after that he just gave us what we were looking for and merged with the crowd, so we don't know where he is," jim said after seeing as tom didn't want to talk about it.
"Come on jim, why would you say that," tom said then the boss laughed his ass off.
"So, so your telling me, haha, that a kid, haha did this," the boss said as he laughed along the way.
"But its true boss," tom said.
"Oh, I don't think your lying, hahaha, since you know we are stationed in a military based village, but hahaha, to think a child would be enough to take out an adult," the boss man said as he stifled his laughter.
"If so, why did you call us in?" Jim asked.
"Oh, well you see I wanted to know if you two knew who this child is, because if he stole Olson's wallet that means he is in need of money," the boss said.
"Ok, before we answer your question, may we ask one of our own," jim asked.
"Sure go ahead," the boss said.
"Why would we need the kid," jim asked.
"Well you see, we need him to take someone for us," the boss said as he slided a picture of a man on his table.
"Who is this," tom asked, as he saw a scruffy looking man.
"That is Oswald toshi, he has been selling bad drugs on our neighborhood, if he sells enough he might bring our business to the dirt, so the faster we take him down the better," the boss man said.
"If so, why don't we just bring more people to patrol the surroundings," jim asked.
"Ah, well you see we have already done that, but for some reason we cant find him, and most of the ninja in debt to us aren't that deep in, so aside from gathering informations, helping with special delivery, we cant force them," the boss said.
"Ok, but sadly we don't know who the boy was boss, because as we said before he just popped out of nowhere and he was used as a scape goat but he got beaten up," tom said and recounted there meeting.
[nashi's house]
Nashi did the usual, wake up, shower, cook, eat, wash, and lock picked naruto's door, opening it enough to enter I dodged most of the traps and crawled inside his bedroom and was instantly greeted with a loud snore, nashi just ignored this and dragged his ass out of his room, but naruto was so deep in sleep that he didn't wake up, nashi placed him in the middle of his living room, and turned on his water to fill his tub, after that I went out of his bathroom and rummaged around inside his refrigerator, I found eggs, onion, garlic, and pork, I grinded up the pork with the knife, and chopped up the onion an garlic, placing oil in the pan, I just made corned beaf with egg, a good morning breakfast if you don't have much, After I finished cooking I continued to drag naruto's ass in the bathroom and continued to throw him in the cold bath.
"WHAIEBAKKEBEO," naruto screamed out coherently as he jumped out and shivered, but before he could comprehend what was in front of him, he got pushed back inside the tub but before he could jump out again he got stopped, a strong push later he stood on the water shivering.
"WHO THE FUCK IS TRYING TO KILL ME!!!!," naruto screamed out but only saw nashi with a shampoo and soap on hand.
"Wait, nashi, please no, I can bathe myself, ahhhhhhh," naruto then screamed like a bitch as he tried to escape from nashi trying to wash him, and it looked like a cat being forceable washed.
[minutes later]
"Why are you in my house?" Naruto asked.
"If you forgot we will be training today, and since we have summer break we can afford to do this in the morning," nashi said as he chewed on an apple.
"Ok, but why," naruto said as he took a spoon full of food.
"Meh, I just want to change time," I said as I flipped a different book.
"Ok," naruto said as he ate and nashi waited for him.
[minutes later]
"Hold the fuck up, its literally early, the sun isn't even fully out," naruto said in anger after seeing the outside.
"Yeah, we are going to strike sasuke next, and after that another one," nashi said as he walked down from the second floor.
"Wait, who is the poor soul you gather this time," naruto said but he didn't get an answer, so he just groaned and continued to follow.
When we got to the uchiha compound most people just looked at us weirdly, some greeted us and some just ignored us, until.
"Is that you nashi? naruto?" A female voice said behind him, and looking back we found a familiar face and saw izumi uchiha.
"Hello big sis izumi," naruto said, with a wave.
"Hello," I said.
"Why are you two over here?" She asked.
"Were here to do the usual, kidnap sasuke, and train, what about you?" Nashi said.
"Well you know….," she said as a blush suddenly shaded her cheeks.
"Well, I got to say, itachi will be yours one way or another, but seriously just assault him with your body, that would probably make him realize after getting ra…." I was cut via punch to the face.
"Ahh, why," I said as I rubbed my cheek, though it didn't do much damage it still hurt.
"Shut up," she said with a full blush on.
"Why,"
"Just shut up," she said as she ran off.
"What did I do?" I asked.
Naruto sighed. "don't know either, but you did something bad if she did that," naruto said as he to was clueless.
And so we continued on our adventure.
When we got there we just jumped over the wall and entered via the back, when we entered naruto went to the bathroom and turned on the water, I went to the kitchen and took and apple and cooked some rice, I made the same thing I made at Naruto's, but with eggs and thin slices of meat, so I made bacon and eggs, and corned beaf, also I made sure to bring my own things since they lived in a traditional Japanese house and as I suspected less meat and more food, After naruto finished filling up the tub, he then began to clean the floor, after that I then entered sasuke's room as silent as I could and when I picked him up, he groggily opened his eyes, and I instantly dashed towards the bathroom.
"NARUTO, OPEN THE BATHROOM NOW!!!" I screamed out and it woke up the whole house, sasuke struggled and tried to elbow me.
"PUT ME DOWN!!" Sasuke screamed as he elbowed my back.
"HAHAHAHA," nashi laughed as he got to the bathroom and dunked sasuke in the tub, sasuke tried to jump because of the cold, but he was stopped by nashi as he kept him from fully escaping the bath, enough for his head to escape but not his whole body.
"NARUTO, BRING ME SOME SOAP AND SHAMPOO," nashi screamed out as Naruto entered with some guess, all of the uchiha family looked in and saw something similar to someone trying to bathe an aggressive cat.
"SOAP HIM UP, I got his head," I said.
"Ahh, don't scratch me," Naruto said.
"Let go of me you butt faces," sasuke said as he kicked Naruto in the face.
After a quick fight in the bath sasuke was squeaky clean and angry.
"What time is it," sasuke asked as he sat down on the table.
"Eh, probably around 5 or 6 in the morning," Nashi said as he brought rice and Naruto brought the food.
"Well I didn't know you could cook Nashi," mikoto said as she saw the food Nashi prepared.
"Well it isn't much, since its high in calories, it's a heavy breakfast but good enough to last until the afternoon with heavy training," Nashi said as he went back to the kitchen and brought the bacon.
"Well it would be expected from a ninja," fugaku said as he took a bacon.
And after that I cleaned the tools I used and waited for sasuke to finish with drawing and eating an apple, and when they finished I dragged sasuke out, after so we walked towards an area where sasuke and Naruto did not know, and as you know this would be shirou, and after arriving there we did the usual, and climbed over the wall.
"Wait, what are you two doing?" Sasuke asked seeing as we only did it to his house, and he never expected anything like this.
"Were entering the house duh," Naruto said as he dropped down.
Sasuke Sigh deeply, "these two are gonna be the end of me," sasuke said as he begrudgingly followed.
And so we entered the house, and like all old Japanese type house we entered through the back, since they don't have any locks and if they do have one, its simple enough to break the paper wall.
But as soon as we opened it we were greeted with a shirou standing on his stand with an apron cooking, and another man, he had black hair, scruffy beard, and deep sunken tired eyes, he wore a black haori.
"Hello shirou, I came back as promised," Nashi said as Naruto and sasuke just bowed.
"Who is this shirou," the man who was sitting and is now standing asked.
"Oh, uh it's the guy we saved, he said he would visit every week or so," shirou said as he lowered the heat and rubbed his hands dry in the pockets of his apron.
"What else," he said as he crossed his hands and looked incredulously at shirou.
"I wanted to train, and become strong like you," shirou replied.
He sighed, "Fine, you can do what you want, but please just tell me next time," he said as he sat back down and watched the tv.
"So wanna go now?" I asked.
"Sorry," he said while shaking his head, "but i'll be done quickly since I need to make some breakfast and so that my dad doesn't burn our house down," he said as he got back to his kitchen.
"Ok, but can I get an apple," I asked and shirou tossed one at me. "Thanks,"
And so we waited around in his house as shirou prepared breakfast for himself and his dad.
"Do you guys want any?" Shirou asked.
"Thanks but no, we just finished eating," we all answered in unison.
"Alright," he replied.
As we waited Naruto began to clean up the dojo next to there house since he cant keep still for a while, sasuke just sat on the back and watched the small pond which had birds and buts fly in and eat, while I was doing the paint me like one of your French girl pose, eating and apple and watching the tv.
"So, you know about my interaction with shirou before hand right," I said as I took a bite out of my apple.
"I don't know what your talking about," he said.
"I'm guessing you got the info from taiga, she seems like a goof but she was listening to every word we spoke," I said.
"You seem to be quite perceptive," he said.
"Well it comes with the job," I said.
Hmm, "your correct, she did give me the information, and I had already accepted," he said.
"Well if you knew what shirou was after, why didn't you just train him as a ninja, from what I heard your strong," I said.
"Its not my place to do so, plus i'm not always here, but I have taught him something," he said.
"Does he know how to control chakra?" I asked.
"He does," he answered.
"Does he have some basic taijutsu training," I asked.
"Only a little bit," he answered.
"Does he know any ninjutsu?" I asked.
"Transformation, clone, and substitution," he answered.
"If he already knows how to used ninjutsu, why didn't you enroll him as a ninja," I asked.
"I wanted him to not follow in my path, and seeing how you act, i'm pretty sure you already know how knowledge is a burden," he asked seeing that I act older than my age.
"I am, and I get it, seeing as how he sees you and how he sees the ninja life, its clearly not for him, a pure hearted person like him will crumble down by the weight of the blood he will spill, or he will splinter himself, shattered into pieces and leave pieces of himself just to move forward to his goal," I said knowing what he was alluding to.
"Heh, you have a point, but sadly that has already happened, because you see, when I found shirou he had already broken pieces of himself to both ignore and keep himself alive," he said as he reminiscing of what he saw on that faithful night.
It was dark, the full moon was open, it was a peaceful night you could even call it perfect, but the roar of a giant beast and the screams of people shattered that moment, the shinobi focused on distracting the giant beast, though they had helped evacuate the people the only problem was that they didn't get any closer to the nine tails both in fear and inability, because of the constant thrashing, jutsu's being thrown around so over all no recovery team could come in and rescue them.
But under neath all that, there were people either trapped or hurt, and all you could hear was screams of help and sometimes you could even hear the squashing noice from every step of the beast, you could even hear screams from people being burnt, crushed, sliced, electrocuted, from all the jutsu that has been thrown around, He tried his best to help who he could, but his equipment and abilities were all useless with something like the tailed beast, because his equipment was meant for people and smaller chakra sources.
The battle took a surprisingly short amount of time it all stopped as soon as the fourth hokage arrived, he even stopped the tailed beast bomb and used it to send back the tailed beast away from the village, but the tailed beast easily pushed it up towards the sky to which it exploded harmlessly, but the explosion was strong enough to uproot some trees and made rocks flew, fast enough to go threw buildings like a hot knife through butter.
Though the battle was short, the search and rescue was not, most of the people found was either crushed, burn, sliced or was ripped apart, everyone searched, some gave up with tears and heart break, and all they could do was make empty graves for those that could not be found, and closed caskets due to only being able to find fingers, pieces of there face, burnt, or even worse, so over all they all were in tears.
Everyone gave up, with tears and sadness, but he didn't give up, he kept searching endlessly, he felt bad about what had occurred, and not being able to help really ate up on his consciousness, so hours upon hours he spent needlessly searching for one soul, even only at the very least one, he was helpless and tired, until he found a boy, a red haired boy, though he was a little damaged he was still alive, and that was enough, he cried with tears of joy, and ran all the way to the hospital, the boy was injured and just survived a tailed beast attack, so he took this chance to save him.
The boy was saved, he had no memories and from the looks of it the boy was dead, his eyes were dead, and he hardly moved unless someone was there to inspect or chat with them, so over all he looked like a living corpse, and with the guilt of feeling that this was all his fault he wanted to help and rehabilitate him, was what the original plan was, but after spending time with the kid, he realized something, and that was a problems with his lungs, it was due to him spending most of his time on the tailed beasts attack, and the fact that the 9 tails had used his chakra and came with it was chakra that oozed out in smoke, though quick interaction with it doesn't do much harm, he spent enough time around it that it had permeated his lungs, though his chakra slowed it down it still eroded his insides, finding this out he began to lose hope of his dream, but he continued it through shirou who he had adopted and had spent his time next to him, shirou wasn't there for him but he was there with him, and he was the only ray of light that he could hold on to.
"So I only hope he could live a normal life," he said when he finished recollecting.
"Well, you might have missed your chance, shirou with his knowledge and current abilities, he will find himself and with out any proper guidance he would quickly fall," I said, to which he nodded.
"Food is done," shirou said and they had breakfast, as they ate, me, Naruto, and Sasuke were just doing our things, Sasuke watched the water, Naruto trained, and I hanged upside down beside Sasuke.
And when they finished there food we took shirou and walked all the way towards our training ground.
"GRIT YOUR TEETH SHIROU, AND PULL!!!" I screamed at him as we began to pull rocks that was tied to us and bigger than us and in shirou's case just slightly smaller than him.
"IF YOU WANT YOU CAN USE YOUR CHAKRA!!!!" I screamed as veins appeared from my body as I tried to pull the rock on an incline.
"DOES THAT MEAN WE CAN!!!," Naruto screamed out as he was slightly in front of us.
"FUCK NO, PULL AND CRY RIVERS OF BLOOD!!!" I said towards Naruto and Sasuke behind me could only grunt.
"UWAHHH!!!," shirou screamed out as from his body a light blue shine began to swell from his body.
"DON'T YOU FUCKING GIVE UP, PUSH, PUSH," I screamed as they followed my screaming.
"I DON'T KNOW WHAT I'VE BEEN TOLD," I scream as they followed up my scream.
And then we sang the ninja version of that song, as we pulled as hard as we could, and after finishing our little pulling we then changed to doing something different.
"DODGE!!!, DON'T LET THE LOGS HIT YOU, THEY WILL HOSPITALIZE YOU IF IT DOES," I screamed at shirou as he was in a circle dodging logs that I prepared for dodging training.
"Don't you think this is a bit much? You know since he is still new?" Sasuke asked as he was doing a plank on my left.
"Meh, its all good, there is only 20 logs unlike the 50 we usually use," I said as I sat on a little ledge where I can look over the small group.
"Plus he was already ninja trained, at least what I could see," Naruto said as he was doing a handstand on my right.
"You are correct Naruto," I said. "BEHIND YOU SHIROU!!!!" I screamed out as shirou turned around, but when he did so he couldn't dodge it and just blocked it, the log launched him 15 feet away from the circle.
"Well he isn't dead," I said as shirou just groaned in pain on the floor.
"Well his alive, and by the looks of it his bones aren't broken," Sasuke said as he squat down.
"He'll need some rest," Naruto said as he took him like a sack of potato to place him under a shade.
"Alright your up next Naruto," I said, and Naruto managed to dodge and duck to from the logs, and after 5 minutes he got hit and got launched, but thanks to his stronger body he managed to get out of it with little damage, next Sasuke and it was generally the same, and me I lasted around 4 minutes but I survived by dropping to the floor and crawling out, so I was damage less but tired.
"GOOD JOB SHIROU!!!, NOW KEEP THAT BITCH SWIRLING!! , NARUTO KEEP YOUR FEET ON TOP OF THE WATER, I BETTER NOT SEE THOSE FEET SINKING SASUKE!!!," I screamed out as Naruto tried his best to keep his chakra under control, Sasuke and I both have a log on our shoulder as we try to balance ourselves on the turbulent water that Naruto's lack of control is making.
"ALL RIGHT, KEEP YOUR TOES ON THE WATER CAUSE IT BIGINS NOW!" I screamed as I ran towards Naruto and Sasuke and started to kick them, and if there feet got to the bottom of the shallow river weight would be added to them, case and point Sasuke, I just do this to make it harder, since weight is a huge factor on the water walking exercise because you need to push out enough chakra to hit the bottom of the river, not so much that it disturbs the water but enough to make a foot hold.
Explanation to the side I started attacking them, Sasuke had the most problem with this exercise due to the fact that he has extra weight on him and Naruto continuously shaking the water due to his small control over it, He blocked my kick by using the log on his back and did a backflipped to try to kick me, he landed but almost landed to the bottom but stopped himself, and on the small shift of focus I jumped on him and pushed him down to jump at Naruto, one drop kick made him buckle down and threw a punch at me mid air, but I shifted my position using my foot that landed on him to hit the flat side of the wood, to which in turn gave me enough momentum to get behind Sasuke, he noticed this and instantly threw a high kick aimed to my temple, but a small shift from my side made him hit the log to which it sent shivers down his spine and I kicked him up.
Sasuke was launched upwards about 5 feet or so, but he took it like a champ and backflipped mid air to balance himself and land next to Naruto, they nodded and Naruto did a full 360 waist kick, to which Sasuke jumped and landed his foot on Naruto, which launched him at Nashi, Nashi seeing this dodged to the left, but when Sasuke passed bye Naruto was already behind him in the air prepared to kick Nashi, Nashi with his radar managed to dodge but when Naruto landed his kick it made the water wobbly which was enough time to keep Nashi still that Naruto did a reverse roundhouse to pin me down with his leg on my neck.
I neo'd that shit and watch it pass my face only inches away, I then sprung up from my bent position to headbutt Naruto, and Naruto just grinned as he returned the favor, but did you really think I was stupid enough to ignore my own advice, so I dodged the hit to to which he landed on my knee, Naruto spit out some saliva from my knee landing perfectly on his chest, but I had forgotten something, or someone more specifically as Sasuke came in and landed a drop kick to my chest, it sent me rolling on top of the water, I managed to get on my foot but I had to purely focus on that so I didn't land on bottom of the water, and they didn't let my moment of weakness slip as Naruto instantly threw a punch at me to Which I survived only inches since I moved my head, but the loud cracking of wood really solidified my decision to dodging that one, and like rain Sasuke followed up seamlessly and use Naruto like a ramp as he did an elbow drop but used the side of the log instead of his elbow.
Seeing this I used Naruto as a foot hold and spun, upon Sasuke getting close my log hit his and made him spin, and Naruto doubled as a ramp, when I landed Naruto was at my face with a hand cocked behind him, I panicked and spun, I basically used the log as a giant fucking club and it was enough to hurt him, and make him land to the side.
"I, I, I give, I I want to, s, s, stop, ugh, fuck," I said as I panted from exhaustion.
"Hell no, i'm, going, to beat, your face in," I Naruto said as he stood up and spat blood to the side.
"You, got, that right," Sasuke said as he groaned and stood on the side.
"Well you, win," I said as I stopped the flow of chakra to my feet and I landed towards the bottom of the river.
"I like to keep my life, unpounded please," I said as I stood shakily and walked to the side of the river.
"He is an asshole," Sasuke said as he also walked towards the side.
"Yeah he is, well anyways i'm going to keep trying to keep myself up," Naruto said as Sasuke just walked to the side.
"You two need some water," shirou said as he stretched out a hand that held two bottles of water.
"Ugh, where did you get this?" I asked surprised since we didn't bring anything with us.
"Well, you see, I kept it on my back pocket, my father said that I should be ready for anything so he prepared me some rations and water, so I always have some on my back pocket," shirou said as we took the water from him.
"Well that's good to hear," I said as I opened the cap and drink while watching Naruto rock the water with his chakra.
"He seems very strong," shirou said as he rested next to me.
"He sure is, strong enough to push himself to the breaking point just to become normal," I said.
"What do you mean?" Shirou asked.
"What I mean by that is the fact that Naruto has abysmal chakra control," I said while I pointed at the water. "Compared to me and Sasuke, it almost feels like he just freshly had access to chakra, I bet you didn't have any problems with your chakra," I said and shirou just nodded.
"Yeah, that's because you have the civilian amount of chakra, it small and it means you have more control over it, completely opposite to Naruto, compared to yours Naruto is an ocean, it has some of its uses but trying to move the ocean with a cup is useless," I said as the breeze from Naruto's chakra began to cool us. "And it's a very good way for cooling off," I said as Sasuke smirked beside me.
"Huh," shirou intelligently said as he took a sip of water on the side.
"Also next we will be doing some weapon training," I said, to which shirou was about to ask something. "Don't worry you'll be training with me, Naruto and Sasuke will be fighting with each other because they are practically opposites so they'll benefit from it," I said.
"Your really trying to get me killed now aren't you," Sasuke said as he sighed in pain.
"Come on, don't be like that, like seriously it will help you because fighting a stronger opponent will force you to improvise," I said.
"What about me," Naruto said as he was still focusing on lessening the chakra that he exerts.
"Same as Sasuke, but your taking it more naturally like fish to water, like seriously you take advantage of every mistake Sasuke takes, and capitalize on it, your only problem is the follow up, someone slower it would be effective but someone like Sasuke or faster could easily escape, so what you need to work on is a follow up on top of the follow up," I said as I stood up and patted my pants, After what I said Naruto just grunted, I then walked towards a tree and placed some weapons under the shade of a tree.
"Come shirou, i'll be teaching you how we use the weapons," I said as shirou nodded and left a bottle for Naruto.
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"Alright shirou, first what weapon would you like," I said as I dropped a variety of weapons in front of him, there was the standard, sword, katana, tanto, kunai, spear, halberd, daggers, and last but not least twin blades, and a claymore.
Shirou inspected the items and looked from right to left but ultimately chose the standard sword, I raised an eye brow on this because you know, I thought he would pick up the twin blades.
"Why the sword?" I asked.
"Well it's the most similar thing I could find," he said nervously, and I just remebered that taiga did train shirou, and if not I bet she tried to teach him how to fight with swords.
"Ok, but before we do that, I want you to Channel your chakra through them," I said as I took a spear and sling it over both my arms.
"Like how?," he asked.
"Well, I guess it would be like coating it, like this," I said as I drew a line on the ground and surrounded that line. "Imagine something like that, also its not meant to increase its cutting power or anything like that, its just meant to increase its durability since were using wooden weapons its best to do so, so we don't break our weapon, also if we do break it, I got back ups, but to not make it a habit there is a punishment attached to it so yeah," I said as I stabbed the spear on the ground.
"So after that, what's next?" Shirou asked.
"We see how much your sword of choice can take, so I suggest to practice on that wooden log over there," I said as I pointed at one of the logs that was propped up in the ground.
"How will this help?" Shirou asked.
"Well the log doesn't help, but it shows us how much force you can put in the blade, and to make sure you don't accidentally sharpen the wooden sword, since you know this is training," I said.
"And for example," I said as I took my spear and coated it, I took a stance in front of the wood and stabbed it 3 times at speeds faster than what a normal person could ever do.
"Now I want you to inspect the log," I said and shirou did.
"All three of them are different," he said.
"How so?" I asked.
"Well the top one is sharp, the second one is slightly blunted seeing as it has some areas that looked like a slightly blunted weapon was forcibly jammed in it, while the third one looks like someone just punched it," he said, while he inspected from top to bottom.
"Correct, the first two is what I want you to avoid and the third one is what were looking for, Naruto and Sasuke has already done this so they can go all out without killing each other, also with this you could literally change a sharp weapon to a blunt one without changing weapons, and vice versa, so over all it's a useful trick," I said.
"Ok I get it, because chakra itself is a sharp tool, learning to blunt it would mean that this doubles as chakra control exercise," he said.
"Smart boy, I generally thought about only doing this for Naruto, but when Sasuke entered the group I thought this could be a useful way to gain weapon proficiency without killing each other and not spending our time uselessly swinging at a unmoving object that doesn't fight back or defend itself," I said as I sat to the side. "Also don't worry I'll be watching from the side so I can monitor your progress until you are ready," I said to which shirou nodded and focused his chakra on his blade, and started swinging, he had good form and practiced movements, but his sword swings are sharp, not in a bad way but in a deadly way seeing as how his sword cuts in the wood.
"Blunt it more shirou, those cuts would be deadly if it hits," I said seeing as how shirou's chakra hugs the shape firmly to the point that it copies its edge.
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"Take a break shirou, your exhausting your chakra to much, you need to stream line it, your hugging the edge of the sword to much, I want you to think of a circle," I said.
"But why?" He asked genuinely confused at my words.
"Come here, i'll show you," I said as I started drawing on the floor.
"You see the edge of the sword is like a triangle, it gets sharper at the end, and a sword is like a long triangle," I said as I drew a triangle. "Your chakra naturally flows the shape of your weapon, but what were trying to do is blunt it, and what you were trying to do was create a square over the blade which helps but you still leave edges on it," I said as I drew a square in front of the triangle.
"What you need to do is create something that gives it no edge, like a circle," I said as I drew a circle over the tip of the triangle. "Because if you inspect blunted objects it feels soft and circular, add more chakra to that you get a blunt weapon that could easily be used to knock people and even surprise them with in situations," I said.
"Oh, I get it," shirou excitedly said.
"Good, we will continue in about a minute so rest up," I said as I walked over to were Sasuke and Naruto are training.
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Our training session went well, Naruto like usual got his ass handed to him by Sasuke, and Sasuke got a few sprains here and there from Naruto doing some counters, and comparing them Sasuke got the short end of the stick seeing as he gets more bruises fighting Naruto, while Naruto only gets small scrapes and bruises which heals in a day anyway, and like usual Sasuke goes home to not worry his parents and Naruto stays behind to work on his chakra control.
But I cant say much about my new tes.. ahem I mean our new friend, since I don't know his skills that much, but over all he is doing great, aside from him using his chakra to much he has done nothing bad, though not bad isn't good enough as shirou has to go home bruised and tired today, but i'll escort him home, so don't worry.
"Hey Naruto, i'm going to take shirou home and probably do some things," I said as I put shirou's arm over my shoulder.
"Ok, i'll be here for a little bit longer, so you can do what you want," Naruto said as he walks over to the water.
"Ok, now come on shirou, lets get your bruised ass home," I said as I began to sling him over my shoulder and jumped onto a tree branch.
"Ugh, you know you could be gentler," shirou said as he got a good view of what we were leaving behind.
"Whats the fun in that, plus this is way easier," I said as I walked on top of the rooftops.
"Hmm, does he always stay behind to train," shirou asked after seeing that Naruto stayed to train.
"He does that every time, not just when we train, but when ever he could," I said to which shocked shirou.
"Listen shirou, were ninja's and we only do group training one's every week, that doesn't mean we don't train in between that time, Naruto spends his time working on his body and chakra nearly everyday but mostly chakra because of his lack of control, it might or might not be as intense as what we do but he keeps pushing himself, Sasuke does the same thing, plus he is from a ninja family training is probably part of there daily life, but me and Naruto are orphans so we have to push ourselves so that we don't get left behind," I said as shirou started to think about his situation.
"Don't compare us to you, were not complaining why no one ever chose us or anything, were just trying to get a better life so someday we could help those in similar situation to ourselves, we don't have a clan to train us, nor do we have a secret art that can only be taught to us, but we have ourselves and training, and that's all we have, plus if we compared ourselves to others what would we gain, they got jutsu and family styles, so instead of comparing ourselves to them its best to compare ourselves from what we were, that way we can be better, granted healthy competition isn't bad but don't over do it, so keep your head up, it will only get better from here on," I said as then we traveled with simple chats, stuff like likes, dislikes, favorites, and stuff.
"Were home shirou," I said as I let him stand with one hand over my shoulder.
"Thanks, can you help me in," he said.
"Alright," I answered as I just jumped over his house border.
"You know we could have just opened up the front gate right," shirou said while he looked at me with a deadpan face.
"Don't look at me like that, plus this is easier," I said as I dragged his butt inside his house.
"Could you please not get a habit of doing this," he said as I placed him on the living room table.
"Sadly your to late," I said as I entered his kitchen.
"Please don't make a mess in there," he said.
"Don't worry I'm just gonna get some water and snacks before I leave you alone," I said as I found a small basket full of old Japanese snacks.
"Ok," he said as I placed a pitcher of water and a cup full of cold water next to him.
"Welp, i'm off shirou," I said as I left his house the same way I entered.
After leaving I instantly went back home grabbed my money and went to the old man, I bought the things that I needed, I bought the vest and mesh long sleeves shirt, I then went to the public area, transformed obviously, and bought myself a mask, went to the weapon shop and bought myself some extra kunai and shuriken, and when I arrived home I instantly went to the corner to get my long tanto, special smoke bombs and for my mask placed a fine mesh over the eyes, and foam around the face so I could still breath.
After doing so I put on the mesh shirt and I got to say it feels like I was wearing nothing but it also felt like I was wearing a normal shirt, and over that I wore the vest, it was moderately heavier than the mesh shirt but still manageable since it doesn't disrupt any of my movements, over that I placed a normal shirt, I then wore short shorts just enough to go over my knees.
Following that I equipped the standard ninja belt pouch where I placed my extra shuriken and kunai, along with that I placed the anbu mask over my face, being fully equipped I placed a transformation aka mirage over myself and activate my blood line then proceed to go on with my day.
Chapter end.
Hello folks thank you for making it this far, also merry Christmas I had to type fast to get this out.
Thanks to those who are new and who has come back to read my shit, also tell me if I had some type os. I need some criticism from you guys, is the story to slow? Am I not doing something right? Are you doing ok? You can tell me, I won't cry I promise.
Question of the day: who in your opinion is the best teacher in anime?
For me that would be master Roshi, I mean the man trained a normal human so much that the weakest one of his students are planet busters, and yes I mean Yamcha, the guys is stupid and weak but he is still stronger than saiyan saga great ape vegeta, and possibly first time ssj, but that is high balling it, so yeah.
Anyways good bye guys and hope you had a good new years.