An unfortunate event on his fifth birthday forces Naruto to meet the Kyuubi. After making a pact with the demon lord Naruto releases the seal holding the kitsune in place. But something goes wrong that forces Naruto to leave the village. Now, Naruto returns to Konoha to finish what he started, and become the Hokage.
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"Talking"
'Thinking'
"Demon/Summon Talking"
'Demon/Summon Thinking'
Jutsu Names
'Kinzoku Talking in someone else's mind'
Author's Note: Thanks to all of you that reviewed and all of you who read my story but might have been too lazy or tired to review at the time. Before we get this show on the road I would just like to say that there are a few women who are not available for the harem because I have already decided that they will be with someone else. Those women are: Yuugito, Yuugao, Tenten, Haku, Isaribi, Anko, Kurenai, Ino, and Kin. I'm sorry for those of you who wanted any of them to be in the harem. Now, the last thing I have to say is that there are only two spots left in the harem. Some people have given me great ideas for who should be in it, but I'm still open to more suggestions. Once chapter 6 comes out I will be all but closed to taking ideas for the harem. However, if you come up with something ingenious later on in the story please don't be afraid to share, as I might be willing to change it. I am open to any and all ideas about anything within my story at any time. Finally, before we start this glorious chapter, I would just like to say that I am not just adding Larxene to the story but all of Organization XIII, but they won't come up until later. Now, I know what you all came here for, so without further ado, I give you the next installment of Kitsune Legends.
Kitsune Legends: The Teacher and the Torturer
Konohagakure
Training Ground 45
Section 1 (There are 10 sections of training ground 45, all underground. Section 1 is where Naruto and Kurama sleep)
'Ughh! My head hurts like a bitch. That woman must have spiked my drink at the party last night.' Naruto thought as he sat on his bed holding his head. The blonde turned towards his bedroom door and peered across the hall into Kurama's room. The boy could tell that there was only one pair of feet under the blanket at the edge of the bed, the only part of the bed he could see. Since Naruto knew that Kurama didn't curl up when he slept, like the figure was doing, and he could tell that the feet on the bed belonged to a female, the blonde started to wonder where the tall, red-haired man was. Naruto got out of bed slowly, trying to keep the pain in his head to a minimum, and went to his mini-fridge across the room. He took out a soda and started to leave the room when he bumped into Kurama, who had been going into the room to check on the blonde.
"So your finally awake I see. How's your head feeling?" The fox demon asked with a vulpine grin.
"You know very damn well how my head is feeling you bastard! What they hell did that bitch slip me that would still be in my system after five hours of sleep?" Naruto asked in a slightly raised tone. The blonde was trying to keep the volume of their conversation as low as he could so his head wouldn't hurt as much.
Kurama's smile widened a little in amusement before he started searching through his pants pockets. He usually kept things in his haori but he wasn't wearing any top at the moment. "You're lucky that your demon blood cleans poisons, drugs, and infections out of your system extremely quickly. She slipped you the strongest 'date rape' drug in all of Konoha. It's supposed to keep you knocked out for 60 hours. The torture and interrogation unit turns it into a gas and uses it when they are searching through people's minds, but she likes to keep a couple of vials for herself. Ahh, there it is!" Suddenly, Kurama pulled out a small bottle of volatile looking liquid from his pocket. "Here's the antidote for the poison. She told me to give it to you when you woke up, but I don't think she expected you to be up this quickly."
"Thanks, but you know you could have just asked me to stay out of the house last night so you could have some alone time with her." Naruto pointed out to the significantly taller man.
"Hahaha, yeah I could have asked you to do that, but Anko-chan said that it would be easier to just knock you out. I have to admit that she would have been right about it all if you and I didn't have such fast working immune and circulatory systems." The red-haired, demon lord said.
"Wait a minute! What do you mean by 'you and I'? Did she try and slip you something too?" The blonde said before he gulped down the vile looking concoction Kurama had given him. "Oh my god! What is this, it's so sour?"
"Really, Anko-chan said it would taste like strawberries, and no she did not try to slip me something. She told me what it was and why she was giving it to me. She injected me a shot of one of her personal snakes' venoms. The toxin would turn any normal man into a sex craving, stamina monster for two hours." The tall man said with a sly smile plastered on his face.
"Let me guess, she got more than she expected and that's why she is passed out in your bed right now." Naruto said before he came by a revelation. "Wow, that shit actually works. My headache is completely gone. Arigatou Kurama-oniisan."
"Your welcome, and yes, that is why she is passed out on my bed right now. Anyway, aren't you suppose to be meeting up with your new squad this morning?" Kurama said, hinting the boy to get out of the house.
"Fine, fine I get the message. I don't have to meet with my team for another three hours so I'll go train with Kinzoku." Naruto said before he ran into his room to grab a change of clothes. A few hand signs later and Naruto had disappeared from the house.
Kurama chuckled to himself in that low, very masculine tone that men use when they're having perverted thoughts. "Now, I just need to give this little concoction to Anko-chan and…" The fox demon froze in place as he read the label on the bottle he was holding in his hand. It read 'Anbu Restorative Potion'. The red-haired man quickly ran into Naruto's room and grabbed the bottle the boy had drunken from. Looking carefully at the label he read the words aloud. "'Demon aphrodisiac, level 2/5'. Well, at least it won't start affecting him for another 8 hours, since you're not suppose to drink it. Then again, why do I think I'm forgetting something?" The demon lord shrugged his shoulders. "Oh well! I'd better get another one before I go back to Anko-chan."
Kurama tossed both bottles into the trashcan before he walked out of the room and back towards his personal cupboard in the kitchen. However, in his rush to get back to the woman in his bed, the demon lord had missed the warning label on the bottle that read, 'WARNING: This product is not to be ingested. However, in the case of ingestion, wait for the serum to be flushed out of your system before conducting in any extreme aerobic exercises as this will cause the drug to become effective twice as fast and be 3 times as potent as predicted in clinical studies. Also, the use of this product on humans is to be conducted and monitored by a professional, as it will start affecting them almost instantly. Anything above level 2 will cause the human to go insane with the sensations this product produces' (Kurama read the warning label, but the first part didn't concern what he was going to do to Anko, so he ignored it).
Konohagakure
Training ground 45
Section 7
Kinzoku sat in the middle of the large, pitch-black room with his eyes closed. If almost anyone were to walk in the room they would think that the boy was meditating. Naruto, however, knew the truth. Kinzoku had been born with what his father had originally dubbed 'the true gift of the ancients', or in Kinzoku's opinion, 'the true sin'. The blue-haired boy had been born with what everybody thought was a split personality complex. However, what they discovered was that Kinzoku had some of the most powerful spirits of his ancient ancestors inhabiting his body. He actually got along with them pretty well most of the time. The two that he got along with the best were Sigma Kodaitsumi and Zero Kodaitsumi, both of which he was probably talking to at the moment. It was actually because of Sigma that Kurama had agreed to train the boy.
Sigma Kodaitsumi was the only known fox demon within all of Kinzoku's line, which was made up of mostly dragon demons. Kinzoku's body had developed sexually at an extremely fast rate, even compared to regular demons' standards, and it was all thanks to Sigma's presence within the boy's body. The boy had even gone to the lengths of wearing a bite mask and straightjacket so he wouldn't sexually assault anyone during one of his 'episodes', but even that didn't help all that much. All of his ancestors' spirits could take control of Kinzoku at any time they wished. The boy was extremely glad to find out that all of his ancestors' spirits that were within him, including the sexual deviant Sigma, were against rape. However, that meant that his first mate had learned what an orgasm was at a very early age. While sex was not an option to either of their young minds they both found out just as much about each other's bodies and tastes by using their hands and mouths to please each other (I am sorry, I am not some sick pedophile but this needs to be explained for what's going to happen later in the story).
In an attempt to stop his son from 'disgracing' the family anymore, Kinzoku's Father tried to seal away Sigma, seeing him as the problem to his sons condition. However, in the middle of the sealing process, Zero took over Kinzoku's body and broke out of the restraints that were holding him down before he killed everyone within the room. Those of which included his father, grandfather, two cousins, and those cousins' parents. What the boy learned later was that while the sealing process had not been completed, part of his powers had been sealed away, and while Kinzoku could still partially access them he couldn't use them to their full ability.
Naruto's blue-haired friend had, had all this happen to him within a one-year span prior to about 7 months before Naruto went with Kurama to Gekkougakure. The blonde could still remember the first day he had met the blue-haired dragon demon.
(Flashback)
Naruto and Kurama had just arrived in Gekkougakure and were on their way to meet with the village leader. The red-haired fox demon looked down when Naruto, with his newly acquired tail and ears, grabbed a hold of the man's pant leg. "Are you scared kit?" The man asked the boy.
The boy looked up at Kurama with a frightened look on his face. "A little bit. Everything is really loud and I can hear people whispering about me."
Kurama smiled at the boy. "Don't worry, fox demons' ears are known for being sensitive. It will take a little while before they adjust to the sound."
"Have your ears adjusted to the sound, Kurama-oniisan?" The little boy asked.
"Tell me, can you see my ears on the top of my head?" The red-haired man asked the boy, crouching down so the boy could check.
When Naruto took a look all he could see was Kurama's red hair. "Whoa, where did your ears go?" Then, as if answering to the boy's question, the man's ears popped out from under his hair. "Ahh!"
"Hahaha, I have learned over the years to flatten my ears to my head to lessen the volume of the sound around me." Kurama said as he stood back up and continued walking, the boy falling into step with him moments later. "What I meant by telling you that your ears will 'adjust' to the sound is that your body will learn tricks to tone down the volume of what you're listening to. Now come on, we have to get to the tower so I can talk to my old friend about my return and your new status."
"You mean your going to tell him about how I released the seal holding you within me and how I became a fox demon because of your youki (demon chakra) and Dokueki's sword?" The blonde asked in a cheerful tone.
"Exactly!" Kurama lied to the young boy as they came to their destination. 'He's too young to know the truth yet. I will tell him when the time comes.' "Wow, I don't remember this place being this big the last time I was here. He must have decided to add a couple of floors while I was gone." The two demons looked up in awe of the huge tower.
"It's way bigger than the Hokage's tower back in Konoha." The blonde stated, amazed at the structures size.
"You're right Naruto, it's almost three times the size of the Hokage tower. Maybe even four, with the extra levels that nut added." The taller of the two stated before he crouched down, once again, in order to talk to the boy. "Naruto, I need you to do me a favor and stay out here while I go in and talk to my old friend about some business."
"Why can't I come inside? I won't make any noise while you two are talking, I promise." Naruto pleaded with his tail wagging behind him.
"I'm sorry Naruto, but you have to stay out here. The Gekkoukage's guard, who is also an old friend of mine, is going to get a bit temperamental about what I'm going to ask him. So it would be better if you waited out here so you don't get hurt in the aftermath." Kurama said, trying to persuade the boy.
"What does tempera… tempra…?"
"Temperamental. It means he's is going to get angry and probably try to attack me." The man explained to the boy.
"Oh, and you don't want me to go inside so I won't get hurt. Why can't I just wait outside the door?" Naruto suggested.
"Because I'll probably be flying through the door. It's just best if you wait out here Naruto." Kurama said.
"Okay." The blonde agreed. Kurama stood up and went inside while Naruto stood, waiting by the door. The boy tried to think of things he could do to pass the time when he remembered the trick Kurama had shown him earlier. For the next five minutes the blonde tried in vain to flatten his ears to his head. However, not being one to give up so easily, the boy kept trying until he succeeded. He tried flattening and un-flattening them a couple more times before he cried out, "Yatta, yatta I did it!" The blonde screamed over and over as he jumped up and down in his triumph.
"Whatever you accomplished I hope it was worth losing your head over, runt." Naruto opened his eyes, having closed them while he was leaping for joy, and saw a very tall and buff ox demon. "I was trying to make my headache go away when you just had to make it worse with your screaming." Said the obviously drunken demon.
"I-I was just…" What ever else the blonde was going to say was lost on deaf ears when the ox raised the large axe in his hand and brought it down toward the boy. Had Kurama not insisted that Naruto start his training before he got to Gekkougakure the boy wouldn't have been able to dodge the giant blade. However, dodging was all the blond could do against the ox-man and his huge axe.
Naruto continued to dodge the man's gigantic weapon until he got backed up into a wall and ran out of room to dodge. The blonde tried in vein to think of a way out of this situation. As the axe-wielding ox approached the boy, with an evil grin plastered on his face, Naruto fell down in fright and was suddenly aware of a boy about his age standing atop a building a little ways off. The blonde could tell the boy was staring directly at him, even though he couldn't see his eyes from the distance between them, but before Naruto could call to him for help the boy fell. No, that's not what he did. Jumped! No, that doesn't seem right either. Dived! That's what the boy did. He dived off the building. Naruto's first thought at seeing that was that the boy was suicidal.
Suddenly, when he was halfway through his descent to the ground, the boy spun and pushed off the building, rocketing himself straight towards the giant demon above Naruto. The ox had apparently heard the boy speeding towards them because he turned around and blocked the boy's attack, which came in the form of a right-footed kick. What the ox man, and even Naruto never suspected or saw was that the boy's other foot was also swinging to kick the ox man straight in the jaw. The kick sent the ox man flying back over 200 feet before being stopped by a wall, but only after leaving said wall with a 4 foot deep imprint of his body.
Naruto turned his head away from the hole made by the Ox and turned it back towards the one who had caused the large man's body to make the hole. The boy who stood in front of the blonde had hair of such a deep blue color that Naruto almost wanted to call it black. His hair was messy and fell over his face like a blue, velvet-like curtain. As the boy stood up he turned his head and the newly transformed fox youkai caught a glance of the blue-haired boy's eyes. Naruto could have sworn the kid's eyes were gold, but the boy turned his head away when he realized that the little fox demon could see his eyes, so he never really got a good look.
"Are you okay?" The blue-haired boy asked Naruto. He looked like he was going to offer the blonde a hand up but remembered that he was wearing a straight jacket and trashed the idea.
Naruto stood up on his own accord and dusted himself off before he spoke to the blue-haired boy. "Yeah, I'm doing just fine. You must be one hell of a ninja to have been able to do that." Naruto said as he pointed towards the man in the wall.
"Actually, I only entered the academy a week ago. What about you? Since you smell like forest I'm going to guess that you're from Konoha, and since I know it takes about two weeks to get here from Konoha I bet that you didn't even enter the academy before you left. No one else I know, save anyone of Chuunin level and above, one of my friends from the academy, and me could have dodged that guy's axe. Plus, you're not that much younger than me. So, who trained you?" Kinzoku asked the boy.
"You tell me how you were able to kick that guy like that back there and I'll tell you who trained me." The blonde said, being cautious of the other boy. 'He said he smelled the scent of Konoha on me. That means he must be a demon like me. I wonder what kind of demon he is.'
" My muscles have a layer of a very special and resistant metal wrapped around the fibers. It is almost impossible to break and even more impossible to obtain any of it. The metal is what allowed me hit him that far." The blue-haired boy explained. "As for what kind of demon I am, allow me to introduce myself properly. I am Kodaitsumi Kinzoku, ruler and last living member of the Ryuu Soto de Hane no Ichizoku (Dragon without wings clan)." Kinzoku lowered his head and brushed his hair out of the way, exposing his neck.
Naruto was stunned. Not only had this kid introduced himself as if he was a demon lord (Kurama taught him all the standard greetings for demons of different classes), but he had somehow read his mind. "How the hell did you know I wanted to know what kind of demon you are? Can you read my mind or something?" The young blonde shouted in exasperation.
Kinzoku looked at the boy quizzically. "How long have you been in Gekkougakure?"
"Thirty minutes at the most, why?" Naruto asked the boy in a significantly calmer voice than he had used mere moments ago.
"I figured you would have known about me, since you saw my eyes, but now I see that you have no idea who I am. As of right now I'm not sure if that is a good thing or a bad thing." The dragon demon stated before he held his head up and allowed the blonde to see his eyes. "Yes, I can read your thoughts, and these eyes are what allowed me to do it. They are known as the Ryuugan (dragon eye), one of the many gifts you can have bestowed upon you when you become five years of age in my clan."
Naruto stood there, stunned out of his mind. This boy had metal within his body that allowed him to hit harder than probably any other creature in the world, and a doujutsu that allowed him to read people's minds. "What the hell are you?" The blonde asked in exasperation.
'That is a very good question kittling. What could our little dragon be considered as?'
Both boys stood there with their eyes opened wide as fear racked both of their minds. Naruto because he knew this voice in his mind was not Kinzoku's or his own, and Kinzoku because he knew whom the voice belonged to and he knew how bad things were about to become. The blonde watched as the blue-haired boy's body convulsed and twitched before his upper half slumped over while his legs kept him upright.
"Kinzoku, are you alright?" Naruto asked the boy in concern. However, when the boy lifted his head Naruto couldn't help from shaking in fear. His entire eye, white part included, had bled to a deeper gold color than before and his pupil had changed to look like that of a snakes.
When the blue-haired boy spoke it was obvious that the voice was not Kinzoku's. "I am not Kinzoku, kittling. My name is Sigma Kodaitsumi, it is a pleasure to meet you."
Naruto's body was as stiff as statue. Just hearing the voice of whatever this creature was that inhabited Kinzoku's body was enough to make Naruto want to flee with fear. "What have you done to Kinzoku?" The boy demanded with all confidence he could muster.
"I have merely taken control of his mind and body while he is undergoing a change. I do not want him going on a rampage while someone as useful as you are here." Sigma said, his voice still sending nervous shivers down Naruto's back.
"What do mean 'someone as useful as me'? Who are you?" The blonde said, exasperated.
"I have already told you, my name is Sigma Kodaitsumi. I am one of the spirits of Kinzoku's ancestor's who inhabit his body. More specifically, I am one of the only kitsune youkai within our entire line. My mother was a fox demon who married into the Kodaitsumi line and birthed me, but that's not important right now. What is important is that your mentor, the Kyuubi, can help Kinzoku deal with a problem that he's been having." Sigma told the blonde.
Naruto thought about the situation for a moment. The old Naruto would have just blurted out that he would do anything to help, without thinking of the risks or consequences, but Kurama had drilled it into his brain that not everyone in the world was a nice person or acted with good intentions. After thinking about it for a moment Naruto asked Sigma, "What kind of problem could Kinzoku be having that would require Kurama-oniisan's help to fix?"
"So that's the name of the new Kyuubi. When I was still alive the Kyuubi's name was Shippo. I guess he must have died or something." Sigma stated, still possessing Kinzoku's body.
"Actually, he just retired so he could take care of his tribe in the southern mountains." Naruto and the possessed Kinzoku turned to see Kurama standing there with a significantly shorter person tailing behind him. "Who is your new friend Naruto-kun?"
"My name is Sigma Kodaitsumi, but the boy I inhabits name is Kinzoku Kodaitsumi. He is the ruler and last member of the Ryuu Soto de Hane no Ichizoku, and he is in desperate need of your help, Kyuubi-sama." The demon said, bowing to the fox lord.
"And why would a ryuu youkai need the help of a kitsune?" The man behind Kurama asked.
"Because while Kinzoku is a ryuu youkai, I am the spirit of a fox demon, and my presence within the boy has caused a great dilemma that requires someone of your talents." The fox demon said through the boy.
"Come with us and I will see what I can do for you. But first, you must give the boy you inhabit control of his body." Kurama said to the boy. Sigma/Kinzoku nodded his head before his body slumped over like it had when Sigma had taken control. When the blue-haired boy lifted his head again Kurama and the person behind him started to walk away telling the two boys to follow them.
(Flashback End)
Naruto and Kinzoku had been taken to see the Gekkoukage, who had been convinced along with Hiei to train the two boys. Over time Kinzoku had learned to keep his ancestors spirits from possessing him, and he learned to quell the burning fire that Sigma's presence created within him.
The blonde looked over at Kinzoku, who still looked like he was meditating. As Naruto was about to announce his presence Kinzoku spoke.
"Taking a trip down memory lane Naruto?" Kinzoku said, questioning the blonde.
"Yeah, so how did the meeting with the Ojii-san go? He seemed kind of tired when he arrived at the celebration party." Naruto asked the kneeling boy.
"It went fine. According to what I saw with the students' skills and how the teams were matched up with the sensei's there should be three teams, ours included, that are going to pass the secondary exam." Kinzoku said as he finally got up off the floor.
"So there really is a second exam for becoming a Genin. Do you know what it is?" The blonde asked his friend.
"Unfortunately, I don't know. Each teacher gives their own individual test to the students. It would be impossible to find out unless I found our teachers and read their minds." The blue-haired boy stated as he swept his pants clean of dust.
"Would you mind telling me who our sensei's are, by any chance?" The fox demon requested of his partner.
"Absolutely not. You will have to find out in two days time when we go back to the school to meet them." Kinzoku said as he turned to face the blonde. "Anyway, you came here to get some training in before we have to go meet with Sasuke and Hinata, right?"
"Yeah, I want to see if we can reach, or maybe even beat Hiei-sensei's record." Naruto said as he hit a button on the wall next to him. The same series of seals that came up the last time Naruto used this room to train appeared on the walls before the same four training posts came out of the floor, walls, and ceiling. Both boys reached into their shinobi pouches on their waists and pulled out a scroll. Naruto's was orange with black flames on it, while Kinzoku's was dark blue and looked like it was made of scales. The two demons placed their scrolls on the ground and opened them. Both yelled the word 'release' at the same time before two simultaneously appearing clouds of smoke enveloped them.
Konohagakure
Hyuuga Manor
2 Hours later
Hinata yawned as she got out of bed and made her way towards her personal bathroom to take a shower. She slowly closed the door once she entered the room, still not fully awake. The girl turned on the water to have it warm up before she began to strip out of her clothes. The black sleeveless top she had worn to bed came off first, then her tan shorts. Now completely naked, having not worn a bra or pair of panties to bed, the Hyuuga princess walked next to the bathtub and felt the water coming from the showerhead, testing to see if it was warm yet. Coincidentally, the water was in fact too hot and it caused the girl to pull back her hand. Finally jolted awake by the scalding liquid, Hinata turned down the hot water knob for the showerhead before she stepped into the shower and closed the sliding door behind her. The girl began to relax as she stepped under the rushing water and let it run down the length of her body. Her shower was the size of a small hot tub and the showerhead was on the ceiling in the center pointed directly down. Hinata reluctantly stepped out from under the rushing water and grabbed her body wash from a shelf on the wall of the shower. She poured a small amount of the soap onto her hands and started to scrub it onto her body. The girl's hands traveled across her slender waist, then up and down her legs, and finally across her very slim and well toned stomach before they stopped at her breasts, which were incredibly large for her age. Hinata gave the mounds a couple of curious and investigative squeezes before the girl sighed in a defeated tone.
"Great, they grew again." Hinata shook her head in annoyance as she gave her breasts another squeeze, just to be sure. The Hyuuga knew that Naruto liked her boobs, but she had a different opinion about them. Hinata didn't like the fact that they got in her way during training, but she also knew that she would eventually get use to them. It just meant that she was going to complain about them until that time came. The dark-haired girl finished scrubbing her body with soap and stepped back under the rushing water, relaxing as it ran over the length of her entire body in a torrent.
Hinata didn't know why but she had always sensed that she had some kind of subtle connection with water and wind. Recently she had been reading about elemental affinities, but she had not gotten the chance to ask her father about it yet. Hinata quickly washed her hair before she turned off the water and opened the shower door. The young girl was hit by a wave of cold air as she opened the door. She quickly grabbed her towel and dried herself off quickly before wrapping the towel around her body and stepping out into her room. She immediately went to her underwear drawer where she grabbed a black bra and a pair of matching panties. She closed that drawer and opened the one right below it, which held the brunt of her ninja attire and day clothes. Hinata picked up the kunai and shuriken holsters, and the belt pouch that lay on top of the rest of her clothes, but before the Hyuuga princess had a chance to look for what clothes she was going to wear that day there came a knock from her bedroom door. Hinata's cousin, Neji Hyuuga, could be heard from the other side of the door.
"Hinata-sama, your father has requested for your presence in his chambers. He wishes to talk to you about what happened after your graduation yesterday." The Hyuuga prodigy said from behind the locked door.
"Thank you for informing me Neji-niisan. Can you tell my father that I will be down as fast as I can?" Hinata said as she went back to picking out her outfit for the day.
"Hai, Hinata-sama." Neji said before he headed down the stairs that lead him towards the main floor of the compound.
Hinata took a fishnet shirt that was the equivalent of chain mail armor, a plain black long-sleeved shirt, and a pair of dark blue, loose fitting pants out of the drawer she was looking through. The young kunoichi walked over to her bed and placed all of the clothes on the edge. She untied the towel from around her upper body and used it to dry her still slightly wet, mid-back length hair. Hinata had decided a couple of months ago that she wanted to grow her hair out, and while it was a tradition in the Hyuuga clan to let your hair grow extremely long it was not required. It was also a known fact that all of the walls and doors that made up the Hyuuga manor were made of a special kind of material that made it impossible for them to see through it, so even though she was in a complex of people who could see through solid objects Hinata felt completely comfortable being nude in her room.
After drying her hair as best as she could the dark-haired girl went back into her bathroom and grabbed her brush to straighten out her hair. Hinata then went back into her room so she could brush her hair in front of the body-length mirror that was by her dresser. When she was done the girl grabbed the clothes off her bed and started dressing. The black panties the Hyuuga had chosen to wear slid smoothly over her hairless legs as she pulled them on. Next came her pants, which Hinata pulled up to her slightly accented hip line and tied the string in the front that was used to hold them up. She slid the straps of her bra over her arms before snapping together the clasp in the back. She took a moment to account for how tight the bra felt before she grabbed the fishnet armor and put it on. The armor was made of a type of metal called iron silk, promptly named for the fact that it was a strong, sturdy material but had the texture of silk. Lastly, Hinata put on her long-sleeved shirt and attached her kunai, shuriken, and hip pouch to their respective places on her body (she usually keeps her kunai and shuriken holsters on her right thigh and her hip pouch on the right side over her butt). She checked herself in her mirror one more time before she headed downstairs to talk with her father, grabbing one of her jackets on the way out of her room. When Hinata reached her fathers study she bowed down in front of the screen door and announced her presence.
"Otou-san, you requested my presence?" The Hyuuga heiress asked in a very formal manner.
"Hai, you may enter Hinata." Hiashi's voice announced from within the room. Hinata stood up and opened the screen door in front of her then closed it after she stepped into the room. The girl turned around and continued into the room before sitting down in front of her father, who sat at the far end of the room with a stack of paperwork on the desk in front of him.
"Otou-san, how may I be of service to you today?" Hinata asked in a formal and submissive tone as she bowed to the clan head.
"I thought you and me were passed the whole formal, in the face of tradition shit." The Hyuuga leader said in amused tone.
Hinata lifted her head from the bow, still speaking in a formal fashion. "You didn't put any cloth on the inside of the door so I assumed we were being listened to by the council's spies."
"They were starting to get suspicious about that so we will have to come up with something else to signify their presence or absence there of within the room." Hiashi said with a demeanor that was all business before he flashed a smile at his eldest daughter. "You may relax, Hinata. I made sure there would be no spies to limit our conversation during this meeting."
After hearing those words from her father's mouth the girl finally relaxed her shoulders and moved around so she could sit in a more comfortable position. "I got worried when I didn't see the purple cloth you usually attach to the door when it's safe for us to cut all the pointless formalities."
"I agree fully, but that doesn't mean you and everyone else of your generation shouldn't learn them. You know they are a necessity to perform when entertaining guests of high stature." Hiashi said, all knowingly.
"I know that, but it doesn't mean I have to hate them any less." The dark-haired girl said with a pout.
Hiashi nodded his head before he started speaking. "No, and you don't have to like them any more either. Now, while I made sure the council wasn't listening in on our conversation they are quite pissed about your little show yesterday with one Uzumaki Naruto."
"Oh really, and what is your opinion about our little show yesterday, father?" Hinata asked in a slightly aggravated tone.
The smile that spread across the Hyuuga head's face showed his enjoyment of the council's misery. "I wish I could have been there myself to see the look on those fan girls faces." Hiashi said with conviction. "You know I have already given Naruto permission to date you, and, when the time comes, you both shall have my blessing for your marriage."
"Actually father, Naruto and I need to talk to you about that. Once we have met our teachers and are starting on missions we will all have to find time to meet and discuss things that have come up recently. Is that okay with you father?" The girl asked her typically cool minded dad.
"That's fine. Just tell me when the two of you would like to talk and I will see what I can do. Now, I believe you have a meeting you said you had to go to in a half an hour, so we will continue this conversation later." The Hyuuga head went back to working on the stack of papers that lay on his desk. Hinata took this as her being dismissed so she got up to leave the room when she was hit by a brilliant idea.
"Hey Otou-san, instead of the cloth how about when there's no spies eavesdropping on our conversation you stop doing your paperwork before I enter, and if there are spies then you continue doing the work until I greet you at your desk?" The Hyuuga heiress suggested.
"That's an excellent idea, but what if I don't have any paperwork at a time when the council is spying on one of our meetings?" Hiashi asked, trying to consider every possibility.
"I guess you could start writing a letter or something." Hinata said before she took her leave. She had a new team to meet and she didn't want to be late.
Konohagakure
Uchiha Compound Manor
20 Minutes earlier
Sasuke stood in the center of the once abundant training field of the Uchiha clan. However, if you looked around the place now you would hear nothing but the echoing cries of the dead (metaphorically speaking). It was all because of the Uchiha massacre that had happened a little over four years ago, which was coincidentally committed by Sasuke's own brother, Uchiha Itachi. That night still plagued some of the raven-haired boy's most frightening dreams, causing him to wake in the middle of the night in a fright. Most nights that, that old memory appeared in Sasuke's dreams the boy simply came out to the place he stood in at that moment and trained. However, today it was not his dreams that lead him to this place, but merely the memories of the good times when the rest of his clan still existed within the plain of the living. More specifically, Sasuke was remembering the time that Itachi had agreed to train him and had actually upheld the promise. Over the past couple of weeks the lone Uchiha had begun to truly wonder about his brother's betrayal. The raven-haired boy could not remember a single time when his brother was mean to him. Now that he thought about it Sasuke realized that the only person Itachi had actually expressed any kind of hatred for was their father, but Sasuke also remembered his fathers words the day he had shown him he could do the Goukakyuu no jutsu.
"'Do not follow after your brother.' That is what you told me that day father, but why?" Sasuke said, thinking to himself out loud. "You couldn't have known Itachi was going to destroy the clan, so what did you suspect him of that would make you say that. Itachi was and probably still is the most powerful Uchiha in existence."
Even though Sasuke was aiming to defeat his older brother he would have no illusions about his inferiority at the moment in comparison to Itachi. He knew that while he was the best graduate of his class, or so the records said, there was still a long way for him to go before he even caught up to his brother in terms of power. Suddenly, Sasuke remembered something his brother had said to his father during the incident that had started the tension between the two.
"'In order to reach the height of my capacity I've lost all hope for this pathetic clan.' That is what Itachi said when he and Otou-san were arguing about the clan meeting and Shisui's death." The raven-haired boy recalled. "Itachi, what happened while you were in Anbu to make you go from believing in our clan to calling it pathetic, and what did you mean when you told father he was forgetting what was most important because he 'clung to something small like our clan'?"
The Uchiha thought long and hard about the meaning of the words of his brother and his father. Then, Sasuke came upon a revelation. When he truly took a moment to think about it, it became so obvious to him. If Itachi was comparing the Uchiha clan to something else and calling that something bigger than their clan he could only be talking about one thing, Konoha! But that brought up another set of questions to be answered. Like, what was their father doing that would put the clan before Konoha, and, more importantly, why did this something lead the whole clan to be destroyed instead of just their father. Sasuke shook his head as he turned around and left his house, which he had stayed in since the accident. The Hokage and him had worked out a deal that as long as the raven-haired boy got to keep his family's house Sarutobi could make the other buildings into whatever he wanted. Sasuke exited the house and looked at the wall where Itachi had thrown his kunai the day he had first seen his brother's Mangekyou Sharingan. The boy walked over to the wall and traced where the kunai had pierced the crest, cracking it all the way across. As Sasuke's finger went over the deepest part of the crevice he felt something that stood out to his mind as strange. The Uchiha reran his finger over the same spot a couple more times before he came to his conclusion about the oddity.
'There's a network of gears within this part of the wall.' The boy thought as he tried to feel around the hole with his finger. 'I wonder if Itachi knew this was here?' Sasuke, realizing it would take some time to fix the gears that were broken by Itachi's kunai, decided to ignore it for now and continue to where he was originally headed. 'As long as the other member of our squad isn't one of my fan girls, especially Ino or Sakura, I think I'll be okay with whoever it is. The real thing I'm wondering is who our sensei is. I hope it's not some porn reading, lazy ass.'
Across town, Hatake Kakashi sneezed as he entered the Hokage's chamber with his little orange book in hand.
Konohagakure
Training Ground 45
Section 7
Naruto and Kinzoku stood silently, back to back in the room with the four posts in it. Both of them held a sword in their right hands, pointing them towards the floor at a diagonal angle to their sides. Naruto's katana was jet black with orange and blue flames dancing across the blades surface in seemingly random places. The handle was florescent blue with a black cloth wrapping and an orange tassel hanging from the bottom, while the hilt was an orange circle with the Uzumaki spiral on it. The sheath of the sword, which rested on his waist, was black with the kanji for fox on the sides in red. Kinzoku's sword was black like Naruto's but held vertical purple lines that seemed to shift as he moved his sword so that the lines always stayed vertical. The tang (sword handle), cloth and all, was a dark, earthy brown color and held a tiny, purple orb at its bottom that was held loosely in what looked like a tiny five fingered dragon's claw. It had no hilt to speak of, and his sheath, which was attached across the bottom of his back, horizontally, was dark blue and looked - and probably felt - like it was made out of scales.
Simultaneously, the two boys took off from their starting positions in a blur. Then, less than a second later, they both appeared in the spot that the other stood in a moment ago with their swords out to the sides, as if they had just cut each other in half with a single horizontal swing. Just as had happened before, when Naruto had performed this technique alone, the training posts split apart from their attacks and the pieces then burst into flames. However, the flame that covered the shreds this time was not the same cool orange color that had engulfed the wood last time. This time the flame that enshrouded the pieces of the broken posts was an eerie bluish-black color. The flames seemed to not only engulf the shreds of broken posts but the light, and even the very energy that surrounded it. It was as if the obviously dangerous blue-tinted-black flame sucked the very essence of life out of the air. Then, just as had happened last time, the piece stopped burning and returned to the posts before they reattached themselves. Once again, the two boys moved in a symmetrical fashion, as they fell backwards until they were sitting up while leaning against the others back.
"We did it! We beat Hiei's record by 5 milliseconds." Kinzoku said, exhausted, with nothing but a miniscule trace of happiness in his voice. But even if it was only barely there, it was still present, and that meant that their accomplishment was immensely uplifting to him.
"Yeah, now we just need to ask Kurama-oniisan how Hiei-sensei was able to heal so fast from using the first level." Naruto said, exasperated.
"I thought you said you were going to ask him yesterday?" The blue-haired Genin asked his friend.
"I was, until that stupid bitch convinced Kurama-oniisan to drug me so I would pass out and they could have some 'fun time'." Naruto said in remembrance of waking up that morning.
"Fine, we'll go ask him after we meet with our new team." Kinzoku said as he got up causing Naruto to fall back, since he was leaning on him.
"Hey, you could have given me a warning first." The blonde said as he pushed himself to his feet.
Kinzoku completely ignored the fox demon's complaint and started walking out the door. 'We better get this meeting over with quickly because I don't think I'll be able to keep Naruto under control for very long once the aphrodisiac hits his entire system. It's a good thing I reminded him of what happened this morning, otherwise I wouldn't have known what the stuff Kurama gave him tasted like. I guess having an uncle who makes that stuff is useful after all.' The two boys walked out the doors of the underground quarters and headed for the academy, where they were to meet with the other two members of their new squad.
Konohagakure
Ninja Academy
Training Field
Sasuke stood in the middle of the training ground with his eyes closed. There were targets set-up around the field in a fashion similar to how his older brother had shown him years ago. The raven-haired boy jumped into the air and spun so he was upside down. He immediately reached into his shuriken pouch and started throwing them at the targets. As the last four were heading for their targets Sasuke reached into his kunai pouch and threw two of them at two of the shuriken. The force from throwing the kunai made Sasuke turn so he landed on his feet. The Uchiha got up from his crouched position and took a look at the targets. Each one had a shuriken stuck in the exact center of the target, except for the last four. Two of the targets had kunai stuck in the middle instead of shuriken, and the last two had two shuriken stuck in them in a cross design, so that one of the shuriken had split the other in half in order to reach the center. A small smile crossed Sasuke's lips before it disappeared when he heard someone clapping behind him. The raven-haired boy turned around to find none other than Hinata Hyuuga, clapping as she leaned against a tree.
"Very impressive Sasuke. I guess you really do beat Naruto in terms of weapon accuracy." The young kunoichi said to the boy.
"So you're the other member of our squad. Well, since you're not one of my fan girls I think we will get along just fine." Sasuke said as he circled the training field and picked up all of his weapons.
"As long as you don't try and make a move on me, I think we'll be able to work together." Hinata said in a stern voice.
"Fair enough, I know you're with Naruto anyway. Oh, and by the way, nice job on your little show yesterday with the blonde dobe." The Uchiha said as he picked up the last of his weapons.
"Good to see you two are working together so nicely." A voice said from behind the two. They turned around to see Naruto walking towards them.
"Where's Kinzoku?" Asked the curious Uchiha.
"He went to go get something. It won't take him very long." The blonde said as he walked over to Hinata and the two greeted each other with a kiss. "How are you Hime?"
"I'm okay. I told my Father you wanted to talk to him about the whole marriage thing." Hinata said to her boyfriend.
"Good, we'll go talk to him after we start doing missions. I just hope he agrees." Naruto said portraying his thoughts out loud.
"He already said he was okay with you and what happened with you and the Kyuubi … I mean Kurama-san." Hinata corrected herself too late to avoid not peaking Sasuke's curiosity.
"Hold on a moment. What the hell are you talking about 'between Naruto and the Kyuubi'? The Kyuubi was killed over twelve years ago. What's going on here?" The confused Uchiha said with a slightly raised tone.
"I guess that is one of the things we must clear up today." Kinzoku said from a branch above them. When they looked up they saw he was holding an assortment of weapons under his arms. The blue-haired boy jumped down from the branch he stood on and landed in the center of them, dropping the weapons almost immediately after he touched ground. "A team works best when there are no secrets between the people. So today we are going to clear up and reveal everything that would prevent us from performing our best in the field. I guess since the topic was brought up we can talk about the truth behind the Kyuubi and how it relates to Naruto." Sasuke nodded his head.
"So if the Kyuubi didn't die, what happened to it, and how is Naruto involved in it? He's just an orphan, isn't he?" The Uchiha asked, eager to learn the truth.
"Tell me Sasuke, have you ever noticed the way the villagers treat Naruto?" Surprisingly, it was Hinata who asked the question. Naruto was holding her around the waist in front of him as he rested his head on her shoulder. He was looking down at the ground, avoiding everybody's eyes. Whatever he was feeling right now was so painful that he couldn't control his emotions, and that said how bad it was.
"Yes, I have noticed the way those ignorant swine's treat him, but I did not think it was any of my business. I have swayed a few people to let Naruto into their stores by threatening to stop buying from them, but unfortunately that is all I could accomplish." The Uchiha answered, looking at the Hyuuga with stern eyes. "Now that I have answered your question, will you answer mine?"
Naruto sighed before he picked up his head off of his girlfriend's shoulder and looked at the raven-haired boy. "The Yondaime Hokage was my father and he sealed the Kyuubi within me twelve years ago to prevent the destruction of this village." The blonde spoke in a monotone voice, as if he were stating the most obvious thing in the world. "It was decreed that if anybody spoke of the fact that I held the Kyuubi within me they were to be charged with the crime of treason and sentenced to death. That's why they teach us in the academy that the Yondaime killed the Kyuubi."
Sasuke stood awe struck for a moment before he regained his composure. "Then let me guess, the villagers treat you the way they do because they see you as the Kyuubi incarnate and not as it's holder?" Naruto nodded his head in affirmation. "But that still doesn't explain why Hinata called Kurama-san the Kyuubi, or what she was talking about happened between you two."
"I called Kurama-san the Kyuubi because he is the Kyuubi. The red haired man you're use to seeing is what he looks like in his human form." The young Hyuuga stated calmly. "As for what happened between him and Naruto, let's just say that there were events that happened around Naruto's birthday that made it necessary to release the Kyuubi from his confines. Will you leave it at that, Sasuke?"
"I am fine with that answer, but how did you know that the Kyuubi, I mean Kurama-san, would not grow to his full size and try to destroy Konoha again?" The raven-haired boy asked the blonde.
"Because when he attacked Konoha twelve years ago he was being controlled by someone who was forcing him do it." The blonde stated as he detached himself from his girlfriend and walked towards the Uchiha.
Sasuke didn't like how Naruto had said that, it sounded as if he was blaming him. "Okay, so do you know who was controlling him?"
"Uchiha Madara." The two boys turned their heads towards Kinzoku, who had answered the question. Sasuke had a look of bewilderment on his face as he turned his entire body towards the blue-haired boy.
"Who is that?" The Uchiha asked. "I don't think I've ever met him, and besides all of the Uchiha's except for my brother and I are dead, so it wouldn't matter anyway."
"Tell me, did your brother ever tell you how many people in your clan have ever acquired the Mangekyou Sharingan?" Kinzoku asked the boy.
"Yeah, he told me that if I acquired it that I would be the third person to be able to handle the Mangekyou Sharingan." Sasuke stated to the slightly taller blue-haired Genin.
"Then he did not tell you the whole truth. The first two people to acquire the Mangekyou Sharingan were in fact the brothers that founded the Uchiha clan in Konoha. Uchiha Madara and Uchiha Izuna, now do you recognize the names?" The gold-eyed Genin asked.
Finally, the names registered in Sasuke's mind. "Yeah, but wait a minute. Uchiha Madara battled the first Hokage at the valley of the end and lost, he died. Besides, you said that Uchiha Madara was the one who sent the Kyuubi after Konoha, and the Uchiha clan was founded in Konoha a little less than 80 years ago. So, even if he had somehow survived the battle with the Shodaime he would have died of old age by now, and yet you talk about him as if he is still alive."
"That's because he is still alive." Kinzoku stated bluntly. "I know you have read about the Mangekyou Sharingan, but what you do not know is that the use of the doujutsu eventually leads to blindness. Madara was the first of the two brothers to fall to this tragic fate through the use of his eyes. In an attempt to regain his sight Madara stole his younger brothers eyes and implanted them in himself. While Madara succeeded at getting his sight back he also obtained what is known as the 'eternal' Mangekyou. Not only did it give him unlimited use of the Mangekyou, but it also gave him what he considers immortality."
"So if it's not true immortality then what is it?" The raven-haired Uchiha questioned.
"He gained the lifespan of a hanyou (half demon)." Sasuke turned his head to the blonde, questioning his response.
"And what's the lifespan of a half demon? I know demons only age one year for every 100 that they are alive, so does a half demon age every 50 years?" Sasuke said still confused about the higher workings of his kekkei genkai.
"Actually, that's not how it works at all. While a hanyou is half demon, they are also half human too, most of the time, so it works on a system of exponential equivalence. A half demon actually ages about once every 10 years, and while you are correct about a regular demon's aging being about a 100/1 ratio it is a little different for the ten demon lords." Kinzoku explained to the black-eyed boy, having heard the question on his mind. "They age about once every thousand years. That is of course after they've all gone through puberty and have stopped growing."
"What are you talking about? Are you saying that youkai and hanyous age differently while they're growing up?" Sasuke said, taken aback by that information.
"That's almost exactly what I'm saying. From the time a youkai or hanyou is born until they're somewhere in there late teens to early 20's, they age like a normal human." Kinzoku said as he leaned against the tree behind him.
"It's the reason I'm able to stay in Konoha without any more trouble than I already have." Naruto said, staring up at the sky.
"What are you talking about Naruto? How does a demon's aging process help you stay out of more trouble in Konoha?" Sasuke asked, clueless to the reality of Naruto's life.
"We've been talking about it this entire time and you still haven't gotten it yet, Sasuke?" Naruto asked the Uchiha, dumbfounded at his inability to ascertain the truth. "Kinzoku and I are youkai, Sasuke. I am a kitsune youkai and Kinzoku is a ryuu youkai. That's how we know every type of demon's aging process."
The Uchiha stood there in shock. He was like a marble statue, standing there with his mouth open, frozen in shock. This couldn't be happening; there was no way that this was real. The ever-enigmatic blonde known as Naruto had just revealed himself to be a demon. "Wait a minute, you said that on your fifth birthday you released the Kyuubi from his seal. Since I know that the Yondaime and his wife weren't demons, does that mean that you releasing the Kyuubi is what made you a demon, right Naruto?"
"That's right. I wasn't born a full-blooded demon but I am now, so I age like one. Kinzoku was born a demon and, when the time comes, I will mark Hinata as my mate and make her a full-blooded demon as well." Naruto said as he walked over to Hinata and kissed her. When they broke apart Hinata had a wide smile on her face.
"I already agreed to the marking. Naruto and I have to go talk to my father about what we have to do for the ritual to be done properly, but I'm prepared to do it even if he disagrees." Hinata finished explaining for Naruto.
"It's going to take me a while to get use to this, but I think I'll be able to manage." Sasuke said, smirking at the couple playing suck-face. "I have one last question for you guys. Was my brother the one who told you about Madara and the Mangekyou Sharingan?"
"Yeah, he was the one who told us, and now that we've gotten that out of the way we need to move on to what I brought these for." The blue-haired ninja went over to his horde of weapons and kicked them. "Hinata, I need you and Sasuke to pick out any weapon that catches your eye." The Uchiha and the Hyuuga exchanged a look before they walked over to Kinzoku and the weapons. "I want you search through the weapons of that pile that interest you and pick one that you think you could use."
"Can't we just pick a weapon that we know we can use?" Sasuke said as he picked up a long ninjato (straight sword with an edge on one side and no guard, often depicted as being carried by actual ninja's in feudal Japan).
"No, I brought these weapons so I could see what you two are the most natural at using. Then, when we start training with our sensei's we'll go get you guys your own personal weapons, cause these actually aren't that good." Kinzoku explained as he kneeled down and spread out the weapons with his hands. Hinata walked past him, searching through the weapons, when she noticed a pair of bladed tonfa that she was immediately drawn to. As she approached them the tonfa began to vibrate and hum as if in resonance with the girls presence. The moment Hinata touched the weapons she felt her chakra being pulled out of her body and into the blades. Try as she might the girl could not let go of the tonfa as she watched the blades reshaped themselves in her grasp. Finally, the blades stopped morphing and Hinata looked in awe at the weapons she held. The handles of the tonfa had molded themselves to fit to the size of her hands perfectly. Hinata then turned her hand so she could get a full view of the blades. The longer half of the blade swiveled up and down like the waves of the ocean, while the shorter half looked like the top of a ninjato. At the bottom of the handle another blade curved out towards the front like a hook. Everyone else in the clearing had felt the chakra surge when the tonfa had started transforming and were now looking at the Hyuuga as she admired the blades in her hands. However, the only one who seemed shocked at what the blades had done was Sasuke.
"That is why I wanted you to pick three weapons you thought you could use. Everybody has a weapon that his or her body can naturally use without any need of training from a master." Kinzoku explained to the awe-struck Uchiha. "These weapons hold the ability to react to someone's natural affinity to them and change their form to fit that person's zanpakutou."
"Soul-cutting sword?" Hinata asked, bewildered. "What's that?"
"It's a weapon created from putting a piece of your soul into a sword that's created from molding metal with your chakra. If I can get a local weapons maker to agree to let us use their shop, and my teammate sends me some of my stocks of chakra-metal ore, then we can make you guys your zanpakutous." The blue-haired Genin stated.
"Why don't you look surprised by this Naruto?" Sasuke asked the blonde.
Naruto reached into his supply pouch behind his back and pulled out the same scroll he had pulled out earlier to train with Kinzoku. "Cause while Kinzoku and I were in Kirigakure we were taught how to make our own zanpakutous' and then forced to do so. This scroll holds mine and Kinzoku has a scroll in his pouch that holds his."
The blue-haired boy pulled out the scroll he had used earlier and showed it to the Uchiha. Kinzoku and Naruto both put their scrolls away and walked over to two different weapons in the assortment. Naruto picked up a long handled spear while Kinzoku picked up a double-sided zanbatou (horse cleaver, like Zabuza's weapon). Both weapons reformed in their hands and the result shocked and awed the other two ninja's. The spear that Naruto had picked up hadn't changed that drastically. The blade had lengthened and split into two blades that wove around each other like a tornado while the staff shrunk a little so it fit perfectly in Naruto's grip. However, the Zanbatou that Kinzoku grabbed had changed a lot. It was no longer bladed on both sides and it had curved into a more traditional katana-like arch. The blade itself had serrations along its edge so it looked like it was made of scales. Meanwhile, the handle was shaped like the bones of a spinal cord and actually ran all the way up the spine of the sword.
"Sugoi (awesome)!" Sasuke and Hinata said at the same time, in awe of their friends' weapons. The Uchiha immediately started looking through the pile for his resonance weapon while the Hyuuga started trying to learn how to use hers'. In the midst of searching for his perfect weapon the black-haired boy grabbed a hold of a set of sai's and felt his chakra being pulled out of him. Sasuke didn't like the feeling and immediately tried to release his grip on the weapons, but all his efforts were in vain. When the process was complete the raven-haired teen held two very unusual sai's. The middle point had lengthened to about a foot and a half while the trident-like hooks had turned into blades before multiplying and moving up the middle into alternating intervals. Over all, the boy's final weapon looked something akin to a lightning rod.
"Now that you both have found your weapons I want you to practice with them for a little bit while I talk to Naruto for a moment." The blue haired boy told the others as he walked passed the blonde, signaling him to follow.
"Fine but afterwards you will answer my questions, alright?" The Uchiha half demanded and half requested.
The blue haired teen gave the boy a thumbs-up over his shoulder as he disappeared with Naruto. When Kinzoku thought they were far enough away he jumped into the trees with the blonde following close behind. When they had reached the top of a very large tree the whiskered boy questioned his friend.
"What do you need to talk to me about Kinzoku?" The blonde quarried.
"That potion that Kurama-sensei gave you this morning wasn't the Anbu's restorative potion. It was an aphrodisiac that my uncle makes, and according to which one you took I may not be able to keep your mind stable." The gold-eyed teen said, getting straight to the point. That's one of the things Naruto liked about Kinzoku. He didn't dawdle around with useless banter. He said what needed to be said whether you liked the information or not.
"Since your uncle makes the stuff I'll trust your judgment on the situation. Did you hear how it tasted as an afterthought when I was thinking about what that woman did to me?" Naruto said, getting straight to the point as well.
Kinzoku nodded his head before continuing. "You need to tell your mate what is happening. If she is okay with you marking her today then that gets one more problem out of our hair before the meeting with the other lords. If not, then I have already arranged some things with Kurama-sensei to make sure you don't go doing anything that would make you even more of a target for the villagers."
Naruto nodded that he understood, but he was still slightly confused. "If that's the case then why didn't you just tell me back there? Why didn't you just talk to me mind to mind?"
The blue-haired boy shrugged his shoulders. "It's an old habit from training around my team with Hiei-sensei. Let's just say that I saw a horrible experience that one of my teammates went through involving his clan's destruction, and I haven't delved into his mind since."
"So you don't even activate the first level of your Ryuugan around them anymore, right?" The blue-eyed kitsune asked his friend.
Kinzoku nodded his head affirmatively. "Actually it's because of that, that I've gotten much better at using the Ryuugan." The boy closed his eyes for a second before reopening them to reveal the same eyes that Naruto had seen the first time he had met Kinzoku when Sigma had taken control of his body. This was the second level of the Ryuugan, the Hebi Ryuugan (Serpents dragon eye). "I can now hold the second form for three days straight without any pressure on my mind."
The blonde smiled at his friend's accomplishment. "Good, we both seem to be getting the strength were going to need in the future."
"That reminds me, how many tails do you have now?" Kinzoku asked the kitsune, as he returned his Ryuugan to its first level.
"I have six now, only one more than you remember me having when we last saw each other, but it won't take me very long to get the last three." The blonde told his friend.
"How do you figure that? Do you know what, never mind. We'll have to talk about this later when we get the issue of this morning's accident out of the way." The blue haired teen turned towards where the rest of their team was and launched himself off the tree towards them, with Naruto following close behind. They both landed in the clearing with only a slight sound and two pairs of dirt clouds marking their arrival. The blonde went over to his chosen mate while Kinzoku walked towards the Uchiha.
"Are you going to answer my questions now?" Sasuke asked as he looked over to see Naruto whisper something into Hinata's ear that made her go wide eyed, before she whispered something back.
"Yeah, I'll answer your questions." The blue-haired Genin turned towards the two lovers before asking. "Did you have anything you wanted to ask me Hinata?"
"No, I think Naruto's told me pretty much everything. Anyway, we've got some business to take care of, so we'll see you two later." The white-eyed girl said before she grabbed Naruto by the arm and they both walked away.
"What was that about?" The raven-haired boy said, confused.
"Let's just say that they are taking care of an issue that is none of your business." Kinzoku said very plainly as he turned back to the fellow Genin in front of him.
"Does this have anything to do with Naruto marking Hinata?"
Kinzoku's eyebrow raised a tick. "You are quite the observant one. Yes, it is about Naruto turning Hinata into a demon. Now, leave it at that." Sasuke shrugged his shoulders in defeat.
"Fine, then on to my questions." The Uchiha said.
The blue haired shinobi sat down before signaling Sasuke to do the same. "Okay, shoot."
"How are you and Naruto able to move as fast as you do?" Sasuke said, asking the first question that came to his mind.
"You have heard Naruto and I talk about one of our sensei's from home named Hiei, correct?" The golden-eyed shinobi waited for Sasuke to answer him with a nod before continuing. "Well, the training he gave us came in stages. First he made us do a bunch of exercises to increase our speed to the equivalence of an Anbu captain, then a bunch of strength exercises, then he made us increase our chakra control and so on and so forth. Anyway, the point is that we learned to be this fast through his training, and if we all become a team I would be glad to train you to that level."
The raven-haired boy, for once since his clan's destruction, showed a true smile. "I would greatly appreciate that Kinzoku. Thank you."
"Don't mention it. Now, before we go on, I promised you the answer to why I cannot fully read your mind." Sasuke nodded his head, urging the shinobi to continue. "Over the years of training with my Ryuugan I noticed that most of the higher ranking shinobi had barricades in their minds, some of which I could not break. I learned later that certain Jutsu's allow people to put mental blocks on others' minds and even pick out specific memories to block. When I tried reading your mind yesterday I found a barrier surrounding one of the memories from the time you were eight. It was an Anbu level block and I believe your brother put it there."
The raven-haired boy was shocked beyond belief. What could his brother have wanted hidden from him? Was it about the night his brother massacred his clan? Whatever it was, the boy wanted to find out. "Is there any way for you to destroy the block on my mind?"
"I am not efficient enough yet to break an Anbu's barrier, but I might be able to open it up enough for you to see the memory that he closed off." Kinzoku told the Uchiha bluntly.
"Perfect, what do I have to do?" Sasuke asked the blue-haired teen. 'Meditate. I need you to relax your mind and do as I tell you.' The Uchiha did as he was told and began to meditate. After a period of about 20 minutes, with the two Genin communicating by thought alone, something happened. Sasuke screamed. His voice echoed throughout the forest and made the nearby wildlife run or fly away out of fright. Little did the Uchiha know, but his scream had actually masked another that took origin a little over a hundred yards away. When he lowered his head from yelling his lungs out the boy's eyes shot open and there, in place of the all black orbs that used to be his eyes, were the red circles that made his clan famous. The Sharingan. And he had two tomoe's in both.
Konohagakure
Ninja Academy Room 201
Two Days Later
The next two days after Naruto and his team's meeting were rather uneventful. Kinzoku and Naruto had been MIA that evening, but the next morning they had all met in the same place as the previous day to plan out what they were going to do about the test they were to receive from their Jounin sensei. They ran through various scenarios and helped Sasuke with a little bit of training, mostly in speed and chakra control. Then, the day finally arrived when they would meet their sensei. The group of four was currently sitting in Iruka's classroom, listening to him drawl on about how they were adults now and needed to come to terms with how the world of shinobi's worked. Finally, his speech ended and he began to announce the team placements. Three of the four basically ignored him, since they already knew they were going to be on the same squad, but waited to hear their names so they could find out whom their sensei was. The fourth already knew so he completely ignored the Chuunin teacher.
"Team 7 will consist of Uchiha Sasuke, Uzumaki Naruto, Hyuuga Hinata, and Kodaitsumi Kinzoku. Your sensei will be Hatake Kakashi, and will be assisted by the Tokubetsu Jounin, Mitarashi Anko."
'Anko, Anko, where do I recall that name from?' Naruto thought as the other teams were announced. Ino, Shikamaru, and Chouji were on one team with Sarutobi Asuma as their sensei, and Sakura, Kiba, and Shino made up another team with Yuuhi Kurenai acting as sensei.
Iruka looked up from his clipboard with the team assignments and addressed the class. "I have some business I have to take care of with the Hokage, so everyone wait in the classroom, your Jounin senseis will be here to pick you up shortly."
Suddenly, two voices could be heard traveling down the hall towards their classroom. "Get your slow ass into that classroom right now before I pin you up and use you as a practice dummy for weapons!" Everyone in the classroom sweat-dropped when they heard that.
'Why do I recognize that voice?' Despite his best efforts Naruto could not recall where he had heard that one person's name or this woman's voice before.
"Come on Anko-chan, there's no reason to get so up…" The man never got to finish that statement as he was interrupted by something hitting him and making him fly through the door to their classroom. The man crashed into the far side of the wall and slumped down before a purple-haired, scantily clad woman ran into the room after him.
"If you ever call me chan again I will reach my hand into your mouth, pull out your entrails, and hang you by them, upside down by your nuts!" The woman cried out, making all but five of the males in the classroom try to cover their family jewels for protection (I'll give anyone who can guess who those 5 are, and the reason why they're not reacting, a preview of anything past the wave arc).
"Now, now Anko-san. Is that any way to be behaving in front of the kids?" Called out a voice from behind the woman. Anko turned around to see the man she had just sent flying standing in the doorway.
"How the hell did you…" She didn't need to finish her statement as she turned back to the Kakashi against the wall, only to see it puff back into a now unconscious Iruka. She was about to turn back and start cussing out the Jounin, but she got distracted when one of the students called out.
"You're kidding me! She's the Tokubetsu Jounin you chose for our team?" Naruto yelled at his friend.
"Yeah, she's the one. Is there a problem with that Naruto?" Kinzoku asked, confusion evident in his eyes.
Anko turned towards the two just in time for Naruto to yell out. "She's the one who drugged me and got kinky with my brother!" This earned a lot of gasps around the room and a confused look from Kakashi to Anko, and then Anko to Naruto. It was only then that Anko remembered why she knew Naruto Uzumaki other than him being the Kyuubi vessel.
"Shit! I told you I knew him from somewhere Kakashi." The purple haired woman called out to her senpai (upperclassman or someone of a higher rank then you). The class was even more stunned that this woman wasn't even trying to deny that she drugged Naruto. It was as if she didn't even care.
"Wow, and I thought you were just imagining things. Anyway, Team 7, follow us to the roof." The silver-haired Jounin called out before him and Anko puffed into smoke. Naruto and the others got out of their chairs and walked out the classroom door, heading towards the roof. The entire class stood in shock until a woman with red eyes and black hair walked into the classroom, and studied the mayhem before calling out.
"Team 8?"
Konohagakure
Ninja Academy Rooftop
"Now, before we get started with introductions, is there any way you two can get along?" Kakashi asked Anko and Naruto, who were both grinning mischievously and playing with a kunai in their hands. Naruto was the first to stop grinning madly as he put on an impassive face and returned his kunai to its proper home in his back pouch. The boy held out his hand to the purple haired woman.
"Truce?" The blonde asked the older ninja. "As long as you don't drug me anymore I think we could get along. I like the way you think, with what you said you were going to do to Kakashi-sensei, so I think we'll be fine."
Anko put her kunai away before she took the boy's hand with a smile on her face. "I think I can agree on that," The woman leaned in so she could whisper in his ear. "As long as you leave the house when me and Youko want to, what was the fraise you used, get kinky."
"Agreed." Naruto whispered back to the woman.
"There, see that wasn't so hard right Anko-san, Naruto-kun?" The one eyed Jounin said. "Anyway, on to the introductions."
"Hey sensei, what do you want us to say?" Asked the Hyuuga who had comfortably situated herself in between her mate's legs, with her head against his chest.
"How about the usual. State your name and then say your likes, dislikes, hobbies, and dreams." The purple haired woman suggested. "You first Uchiha."
"Fine, my name is Sasuke Uchiha. I like a few things. I dislike many more things than I like. My hobbies are training and reading, and my dreams are to find out the truth about the Uchiha massacre and rebuild my clan." The boy's dreams shocked the two, seasoned shinobi.
"What do you mean 'find out the truth of the Uchiha massacre'?" The silver-haired Jounin asked.
"Let's just say that I stumbled upon some information recently that leads me to believe that it wasn't completely Itachi's fault." The Uchiha stated in a tone that said, 'and that's all I'm telling you'.
"Very well, moving on. Naruto, how about you go next?" Anko asked the blonde.
"Alright, everybody already knows my name. My likes are Hina-chan, training, my friends, and ramen. I dislike anybody who threatens my precious people or me. As for hobbies, you don't need to know them, and I my dreams are none of your business." The blonde stated as fast as he could so they could get to the real Genin test.
Hinata, also being impatient, spoke up before either of the older shinobi got the chance to tell her to. "My name is Hinata Hyuuga. I like spending my time with Naru-kun, cinnamon buns, my friends and certain family members, and training. I dislike those who judge people before they get to know them, and the traditions of the Hyuuga clan. My hobbies include reading and dancing, and my dream is to spend the rest of my life with Naruto-kun."
"Alright, Kinzoku-san, your turn." Kakashi said plainly.
"Fine, but after I go you two have to introduce yourselves." The Moonlight Genin told the two senior ninja. "I'm Kinzoku Kodaitsumi. My likes include my friends, my mates, training, and shougi."
"Hold on a minute. Did you just say mate's'? As in your dating more than one girl?" The purple haired kunoichi almost yelled.
"No, as in I'm engaged to more than one girl right now. Four to be exact, but anyway, where was I? Oh yes, I dislike a lot of things, none of which I'm going to tell you. My hobbies are mostly reading Icha Icha Paradise and writing my stories. As for dreams, I hope to one day be able to rebuild my clan and make it better than it was before." The blue-haired shinobi finished up. "Now, it's your turn Kakashi-sensei, Anko-sensei."
"Whatever, I'll go first." Anko said as she got off the railing she was sitting on. "My name is Anko Mitarashi. I like dango, sharp, pointy objects, blood, and I'm beginning to like you guys. I dislike anyone who blames a person for something they had no control over, and a certain pale faced snake freak."
"Orochimaru." Blurted out the young shinobi.
"Yeah, that's the one. Where did you guys learn about him from?" Anko said inquisitively. She knew that the only thing the academy taught about Orochimaru was that he is one of the three legendary Sannin, and that he was a traitor. They didn't even show the kids any pictures of the man, if he could even be called that.
"Naruto and Kinzoku." Stated the Uchiha and the Hyuuga.
"And where did you learn about him from?" Kakashi asked the blue and gold-eyed teens.
"We met this perverted old man who writes the Icha Icha series on are way to Sunagakure. I believe his name was Jiraiya. Anyway, we traveled with him a bit and he taught us some great jutsu." Kinzoku stated in a monotone voice.
"You met Jiraiya of the Sannin?" Inquired their porn reading sensei.
"Yeah, we saved him from being attacked by a bunch of women, whom I'm guessing he was spying on over at the town's hot spring." The blonde haired shinobi explained. "Anyway, continue with what you were saying Anko-sensei."
The purple-haired woman nodded her head. "Now, where was I? Oh yeah, my hobbies include taking care of my snakes and training. You guy's don't need to know the rest of my hobbies, and my dream is to kill Orochimaru and live out the rest of my life without ever needing to hear his name again."
"My turn now?" The silver haired Jounin asked, getting nods from the rest of the squad. "Alright, my name is Hatake Kakashi. I have no desire to tell you my likes or dislikes. Dreams for the future… hmm, and I have a lot of hobbies." His answer immediately earned him a smack across the back of his head from his fellow teacher.
"What the hell was that Kakashi? Don't feel like sharing anything about your perverted life style and lack of dates." Anko yelled at the man.
"No, I just don't like involving the kids in anything in my life." The one eyed man said as he rubbed the back of his head with his eye closed. However, when he opened his eye his students were gone and there was a note in their place. Kakashi turned back to the other teacher and asked her, "Where did the kids go?"
Anko stood wide-eyed, staring at the spot where their students sat mere moments before. "I have no idea. They just disappeared all of a sudden." The purple-haired kunoichi said as she walked over and picked up the note. "Hey, you should see this."
Kakashi walked over to the woman and read the note in her hands out loud. "Dear Kakashi and Anko-sensei, we did not want to sit around and listen to your speech about the survival training we'll be doing tomorrow. We know that it will be a test in which only 1/3 of our graduating class will pass. We left to train for tomorrow, so we will meet you at training ground 7 at 10:00. P.S. We already talked to the Hokage and if Kakashi-sensei is late, or is dragged there by Anko-sensei, we'll automatically become Genin without needing to take your test." Kakashi put his hands on his hips and began to shake his head. "I think I'm starting to like these kids."
Konohagakure
Training Ground 7
Next Morning at 9:58
"Only two more minutes until we become Genin with almost no effort at all." Sasuke said as he rested under the shade of one of the trees in the clearing they stood in with his eyes closed.
"I don't think so Sasuke-kun." The raven-haired Uchiha opened one of his eyes to see their male teacher walking towards them with a clock in one hand and his orange book in another. The sliver-haired Jounin walked over to a tree stump in the middle of the clearing and put the clock down on it, setting the timer. "Now we just have to wait for Anko-san."
"Actually, no we don't sensei." A voice called out to Kakashi's right. The man turned to see Kinzoku leaning up against a tree. "She's been sitting about 40 feet up in the tree I'm against for the past half an hour."
Both their Jounin and Tokubetsu Jounin-sensei went wide eyed before Anko jumped down from exactly where the blue-haired boy said she was, and landed next to Kakashi. "I think you were right Kakashi. This just may be the first Genin team you ever pass." The purple-haired woman said to her partner.
"I hope so Anko-san, cause I'm starting to get use to the idea of teaching these kids." Kakashi said with one of his famous eye-smiles. The Jounin pulled two bells out of his pocket and attached one of them to his belt, and gave the other to Anko, who proceeded to do the same. The wind in the clearing picked up for a moment before it died down and Kakashi began to speak again. "You have until noon to get one of these bells from me. The one who doesn't get a bell will be tied to one of these stumps and forced to watch his or her teammates eat lunch in front of them."
"Wait a minute Kakashi. There are four kids, not three, so how is there going to be one left over who doesn't get a bell when there are four kids and only two bells." Anko asked her senpai.
"Because I'm not going to be trying to get a bell Anko-sensei." Kinzoku said from his spot below the tree Anko once inhabited. "I may join in the fight later if it seems like my team needs help but otherwise this is their Genin test, not mine."
"Kinzoku told me this morning when I bumped into him at the market." The silver-haired man said to his partner. "Now, are the rest of you ready to get this started?" The teal, black, and white-eyed teens nodded their heads almost in unison. "Alright then, ready…" The Genin crouched down into ready positions. " START!" With that the three teens that once stood in the middle of the clearing disappeared. Kakashi and Anko stood lazily; ready to face anything their students could throw at them. Well, almost anything.
Kinzoku sighed as he removed himself from the shade of his tree and called out to his male sensei. "Hey, Kakashi-sensei, catch." The boy proceeded to throw a little gold book at the man. The silver-haired Jounin caught the book before looking quizzically towards the boy, who had already disappeared. Kakashi took another look at the gold book in his hand before he opened it up to the first page and began reading. Once he got further into the book the Jounin's eyes began to widen more and more as he read on until, finally, he closed his eyes in concentration and slammed the book shut.
"Are you okay Kakashi-san?" Anko asked the man in confusion.
Kakashi slowly put the book away in his back pouch before turning to the woman and giving her his patent eye-smile. "I'm great Anko-san, but thanks for the concern." The kunoichi gave him a quizzical look but shrugged it off as the man just being weird. However, Kakashi was not fine as he tried to keep himself from having a nosebleed. 'Great Kami-sama, did he write that?' The man questioned himself as he regained his focus and awareness of his surroundings. 'Now I really hope I can have these guy's as my first Genin team.'
A shadowed figure, hidden in the treetops, was laughing his ass off in his mind as he stared at the man and woman standing in the clearing below him. The figure disappeared from the branch it once stood on with one last thought. 'And so it begins.'
Post: Hey, guys and girls. I hope you aren't too angry with me for taking so long to update. I meant to finish this a long time ago but first my Internet failed, then my Microsoft word failed, and then my computer crashed so I had to write 3 pages of this thing over from scratch. Anyway, I'm back now and I in no way intend to abandon this fic. Now, I'm still taking suggestions for the harem so keep those reviews coming.
Naruto's Harem (so far):
Hinata
Larxene
Tayuya
Temari
Yoruichi
I need at least two more ideas for women in the harem because I may kill some of them off.
Poll:
Who should be in Naruto's Harem? Remember that people from other anime's, manga's, and video game's are allowed if you give me 1 reason why they should be in the harem. Please you guys I need reviews for this poll.
Should I write more excerpts from the Icha Icha series and Kinzoku's books (They have similar content)? Trust me when I say that it gets a lot better.
Preview –
Naruto: I'm inbound on the target. Aka, are you in position to intercept?
Sasuke: I'm ready Ao, let's just do it already. Shiro?
Hinata: I've got the target in my sight now. Kin?
Next Time on Kitsune Legends – Succeed or Fail, There is no Try!
Kinzoku: All is going according to plan. Ready and Now!
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