Ok, so I couldn't wait to put out a new fic but I have decided to put one out there because I have had this one in my head for just as long as the first. I don't own Naruto or any of the characters only what I make and my OC. So allow me to get on with the show…..err…. I mean story…yeah story… and off we GO!
The Blind Wolf
"Normal Speech"
"Thinking"
"Demonic/Angry/Omnipotent"
Chapter 1: The Betrayal and The Decision
"SASUKE!" screams an enraged blonde child no older than thirteen.
"NARUTO!" shouts an equally angered obsidian haired youth of the same age.
And then an explosion rips through the air that would put a hundred exploding notes to shame.
BOOOOOM!
We now find a torn, beaten, bloodied, and nearly dead body of the hero of our story slowly drifting down stream luckily face up. "Why?" questions the blonde. "Why is it no matter how hard I train I can never seem to beat him without the foxes chakra? Is it because I am too weak, is it because haven't trained enough, or is it because I just couldn't stop holding back?" Yes, yes, he was holding back even with the fox fighting for control he would not yield. But the "reward" he had received was nothing but a fist covered in lightning chakra slamming into his chest. He was lucky, another inch and he would have pierced his heart, another centimeter and he would have been paralyzed from the chest down.
But that is were the "miracle" in this tale happens. You see due to the close exposure of lightning to his spinal column it was, in a way, able to "rewrite" certain aspects of our temporarily blonde friend. The first noticeable change is the rapidly change in his hair color now instead of a sun kissed blonde it is starting to grow paler and paler till it looks like drifting snow. The next is that his eyes have gone paler as well but stopping at a brilliant sky blue. Lastly his hearing and smelling have been enhanced to the point that it would seem he could hear as far as the Byakugan can see and smell ten times as far as any Inuzuka.
On the banks of the stream we see a shadowed figure cast a life preserver towards the white haired child and managing to get it around his torso, with that done he starts to pull him in.
"Huh where the heck am I?" wonders Naruto. "I thought I was dead that time for sure. So what happened?" thinks the confounded kid. "Ah, I see your awake." Says a voice he doesn't recognize. It was at that point his sense came back to him, which resulted in him feeling like a mountain was dropped on him. He tried getting up but was gently pushed down by the stranger while saying "Easy there you just healed from that wound that was in you chest."
"Alright, alright, just tell me who you are mister…" he says trailing off the end for the mystery man to introduce himself.
"Ah, how rude of me, allow me to introduce myself, my name is Shisai" reveals the now named Shisai.
"Alright Shisai, thanks for helping me out there, now if you could just point me in the nearest direction of Konoha I'll be on my way." he says but then he noticed something off, he still couldn't see the man despite turning in his direction.
In fact he couldn't even see anything "What the hell is going on!? Why can't I see anything!?" thinks a panicking Naruto.
As if he had heard his very thought Shisai begins by saying "Hmm, don't worry young one, you seem to have lost your sight, but don't worry you seem to be able to detect were I was without it, hmm, very interesting indeed." states the calm Shisai. But Naruto couldn't help but panic as he heard that he lost his sight. "WHAT!?" exclaims the hyper child. "What do you mean I lost my sight!?" he shouts at a lower level.
"What I mean baka, is that you lost your sight plain and simple, although you seem to have gained some benefits with from the loss as well." says Shisai as he ponders what they could be.
"Tell me, what do you hear young one, at this moment in time?" he wonders.
"Huh?" was Narutos smart reply.
"*Sigh* I get the feeling this child will be the death of me." thinks Shisai. "Just try and listen as much as you can, okay?" he says getting a slow nod from the boy.
With that Naruto focuses on only hearing and blocked out all other senses. Suddenly he starts to hear the wind moving first then the leaves fluttering and so on and so forth until he hears a sound that is familiar but he can't quite place it.
Th-thump, th-thump
He keeps listening to the strange yet familiar drum like beat.
Th-thump, th-thump
And just like that realization slowly creeps up on him.
Th-thump, th-thump
"I-I heard your heart beat!" exclaims a surprised Naruto. And clearly as surprised the man himself only lets out an interested "hmm".
"Alright then, what can you smell?" he asks getting another confused look.
"*Sigh* Baka, just use your nose like you did with your ears." Clarified Shisai.
"Oh~!" says a sheepish Naruto.
And like before he blocked everything out until only his sense of smell. This time though he started to smell different things such as an elk fifty feet behind him and little to the left. "Huh? How did I know that?" asked a once again confused blonde.
"How did you know what?"
"Like, how did I know there was an elk fifty feet behind me and a little to the left?" And for what is starting to become common to Naruto he made another "hmm" sound as he thought this over.
"Well it not only seems that your hearing and smelling is enhanced but your sense of location and direction too." answers Shisai.
"You know, you never introduced yourself yet young one, and I don't think you would prefer if I keep calling you that now will you?" questioningly states the man.
"Huh? Oh yeah I guess I kind of forgot about that didn't I? Well my name is Naruto, Naruto Uzumaki!" exclaims the blonde.
"Haha! I'm sure with that enthusiasm you would be a great ninja would you not?" asks Shisai. But in reply all he got was some mumbling from the white haired youth.
"Huh? What was that Naruto?"
"I said it's not like anyone cares if I'm a ninja or not, people will still rather ignore me than notice me." says a somber Naruto earning another "hmm" from the man in front of him.
"Well Naruto, how about I give you a proposition, eh?" questions Shisai.
"What are you talking about old man?" questions Naruto.
"What I am talking about is if you would like to be my student." states the man to a very surprised Naruto.
"N-nani?"
"Did I stutter? Last I checked I didn't do that."
"But why me?" asks Naruto who gets a sympathetic look I response.
"Why? The more important question would be why not? So far you have displayed skills that would take more than a couple decades to acquire. Not to mention your enthusiasm and energy, it's practically limitless." says Shisai who calmly lists off all of Narutos traits and skills shown. "Also you and your tenant would be harder for this Akatsuki to find if your you were to come training with me." he says further shocking Naruto, but not by the fact he knows of the kyuubi, but the fact that he is being hunted by some sort of organization.
"NANI!? What do you mean I'm being hunted!?" questioningly exclaims the jinchuriki.
"*Sigh* You should really learn to curb that energy of yours before it get's yourself killed one day. Anyways, what I mean is exactly that, you are being hunted for the very thing that is sealed in you." came the calm reply. "Regardless, do you accept my offer or no? And don't worry if you say no I'll simply return you to your village."
After he says this Naruto thought over the deal that was presented to him. "If I accept I could learn what this man has to offer. But then again there is the possibility he doesn't know much. AAAAHH! Why is this so hard? I mean I got people back at ho-I mean Konoha, right? I mean does anyone actually care for me back there, yeah, but how much?" Then as if like a boulder he realized something. Where were his teammates? Shouldn't they have found him by now? Then like before he remembers something before he drifted down the river, something that would easily help him in deciding whether to go or stay in Konoha.
Flashback no Jutsu!
A broken Naruto is just staring to drift down the river when he sees his sensei coming to "help".
"You know, looking at you now only brings me one regret." says his sensei, Kakashi Hatake.
"Nani? What is he doing? Shouldn't he be trying to bring me back to Konoha?" thinks the blonde.
"And that one regret is that I didn't get to do this myself." Kakashi replies in his usual lazy drawl.
At that Narutos eyes would have shot wide open if he didn't feel so tired.
"Now you will be just a corpse in this river." continues the lazy shinobi.
As he turns to walk away he almost thought he saw the body move with a slight twitch but put it off as a trick of the light. But in the world of ninjas you should never just assume things are a trick of the light, for it could be your biggest, if not most fatal, mistake.
Flashback no Jutsu-Kai!
With that Naruto slowly gets into a kneeling position and with all the formal training he has, which is surprisingly a lot, bows and gives his answer to Shisai.
"I, Naruto Uzumaki, would like to humbly accept your offer of being your student." he says earning a visible display of shock, not that Naruto could tell at this moment of time, at the how calm this b-no man has just become in a matter of seconds.
But after getting over his shock smiles before saying. "Well Naruto, I, Shisai, The Wolf Monk, Wielder of the legendary blade Urufufangu, declare you as my student." responds the revealed swordsman.
"N-Nani? Your the Wolf Monk!? But I remember reading somewhere you died in the third great shinobi world war!" Yes, surprisingly, Naruto reads! But as the blind teenager hears a soft chuckle he quickly grew confused. Why was this supposedly dead man, laughing?
"Yes, I suppose I am dead to the world of ninjas but I am not dead to the world itself as nature seems to accept my existence. But no, in reality I am not dead, merely just not involved in the current affairs of society." answers the swordsman.
After getting over the feeling that this might be a ghost he begins to understand that with this person he would surely become one of the most powerful shinobi in existence, if not THE most powerful. And so with that a grin that seems to be made of a hundred suns spread across his face showing the world that despite all that he has been through that his will and soul cannot nor will not be destroyed. Soon they had departed the forests of Konoha to begin a journey that would eventual not just shake the world, but the very heavens themselves.
…And scene!
Authors Notes: Well here is my second story "The Blind Wolf". Now as for the reason of why I had Kakashi act that way. One it is mainly there so that way there will be conflict between Naruto and him in the future and no there won't be any heavy bashing on his character before the conflict to no bashing after. And two I wanted to know if I would be any good at bashing, but please note it will not be a regular thing, so please give me your opinion. Lastly I would like it if you would please leave a review if you can because I would like to read your opinion and suggestions as to how to improve this story. Until next chapter, Bye!