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Summary: Itachi was always loyal to the Leaf above almost everything else, so what if during the night of the massacre a new idea came to mind? A way to ensure that the village would be safe? A way to ensure the Yondaime's legacy was safe from 'Madara's' influence? That night a new and more powerful Naruto is born, a Naruto with one of the Sharingan eye's of Shisui Uchiha! Naruto/Fu pairing.
Chapter 0 - Prologue - Begin!
"They will hunt you, Uzumaki Naruto."
"Wha-what?" The short blond asked his uninvited house guest. The boy had experienced some frightening moments in his life, not the least of which had been what he had determined to be an assassination attempt when he was four. This one was beginning to move up the list.
Those red eyes were both awesome and terrifying, their burning intensity belying the churning emotions behind the emotionless mask his guest wore.
"They will hunt you, Uzumaki Naruto," Uchiha Itachi repeated. His voice was nearly a monotone, lacking both emotion and inflection that was commonly used. "They will hunt you. They will find you. And they will kill you."
Just behind the terror he was feeling, only compounded by the blood spattered ANBU armor the teenager wore, he realized that the shinobi was giving him a message. "W-why? Why are you telling me this?" Naruto asked, his voice quavering.
"To serve as a warning. Those who would hunt you are both numerous and powerful, some far more powerful than even myself." Naruto's once silent protector told him. "There will come a time when the Sandaime's protection will not be enough, a time when this village can no longer protect you. I warn you now so that you may be ready for that day."
Naruto, in his entranced state of heightened fear, could not even nod in acceptance of the teenager's point. "Who?" He squeaked. Inwardly, he mentally berated himself of showing such weakness in front of the teenager, though he really couldn't help it. An entire village full of people whose animosity was only barely concealed couldn't break him, so how could this lone teenager inspire such fear in him.
Itachi paused, seeming to weigh whether or not he should tell Naruto, before, "Akatsuki, and a man named Uchiha Madara."
Naruto had no idea why, but just hearing the name of the man who would be coming for him, instilled in him a deep seated terror.
Itachi was silent for another moment before he continued, "But I shall leave you with a gift, a tool that may give you the edge as the container of the Kyuubi No Yoko to stand against the coming darkness."
The last thing Naruto saw before Morpheus claimed him was the hypnotizing tomoe spinning in Uchiha Itachi's Sharingan eyes.
Abruptly, 12 year old Uzumaki Naruto jerked awake, two eyes - one a deep sapphire blue and the other a crimson red with three lazily spinning tomoe - frantically searching the room he was in before calming down when he couldn't find any presence beside his own in the sparse bedroom.
Naruto shifted to a sitting position on the bed and took a deep breath to calm himself, "That dream again." He muttered to himself as he wiped the sweat from his brow.
He could remember that night with almost picture perfect clarity, the night he learned why he was hated for being the Jinchuuriki of the Kyuubi and was gifted with what could possibly be one of the greatest tool's a shinobi could ask for.
A fully matured Sharingan eye.
A fully matured Sharingan eye that he could not turn off and was constantly draining his chakra. Thankfully, it was active so much it increased his already massive chakra reserves. That, and being gifted with how quickly his Chakra already regenerated thanks to being the host of the Kyuubi meant he could keep it uncovered and active for as long as he wanted, hardly feeling the strain unless he began to tire himself out practising the jutsu he had learned and copied over the last three years, since his late night meeting with Itachi.
Thankfully, not many people knew of his Sharingan as he tended to keep his eyes covered with orange tinted sunglasses, so unless someone was to focus really hard on his eyes while being close to him, they wouldn't be able to notice.
Looking at the clock on his dresser beside the bed, Naruto noted he had to be at the academy within the next half hour for the graduation exam.
Sighing in annoyance, Naruto stood up and began walking towards his wardrobe to get his clothes for the day. "This exam is a waste of time, I don't see why the old man just didn't let me graduate the first one, just because Itachi went psycho and butchered his clan doesn't mean I will. Not like it'd be possible anyway, considering I don't have one." He muttered to himself.
Twenty minutes later, Naruto was on his way to the academy, a book on intermediate seals in hand as he made his way through the throngs of glaring villagers, completely ignoring them as he went. His outfit consisted of white cargo pants taped off with black bandages at the ankle, black ninja Anbu commissioned sandals and a tight black wife beater that showed off his muscled physique. On his wrists he had a pair of white bracers that were layered with a multitude of seals, two equipment pouches attached to the back of his pants and to top it off he had a pair of glinting orange tinted sunglasses covering his eyes.
Looking up, Naruto snorted as he noted an older boy looking at him. The teen had graduated when Naruto himself had taken his first test to become a Genin and, despite passing, the Sandaime felt it was in his best interest to wait on those of his age to graduate with him, before looking down and going back to reading on resistance seals that were used for speed training.
The older teen, around 16 years old with brown hair and non-descriptive features was walking straight towards him a glare on his face and his thin lips pulled back into a sneer.
Naruto idly shook his head, knowing where this was going, but refused to back down from someone who was already around 16 years of age and still not a Chunin.
As soon as they reached each other, the older teen tensed his shoulders and attempted to shoulder barge him aside, no doubt attempting to knock him to the ground and humiliate him.
Naruto didn't even look up as he weaved a few inches to the side and walked straight into the older teen's shoulder barge, hitting the older teen with his own shoulder at the joint under his armpit and sent him sprawling to the dirt.
Naruto again didn't even look up and continued reading and walking, only stopping when he heard the teen behind him shouting angrily. "You little brat! You better get on your knee's and apologise or I'm gonna kick your teeth in!" He shouted, Naruto turned just in time to see him stamping his feet like a rampaging bull.
Naruto snorted and quirked an eyebrow as he looked up from his book. "Really? I seem to remember being in the same class as you two years ago and beat you every time I had to spar against you, Jimmy." Naruto replied in an amused ton.
The older teen's eyebrow twitched violently, "My name is Issei! Get it right!" He snarled back, almost frothing at the mouth.
Naruto waved his hand dismissively, "Sure sure whatever Kevin." He returned as he went back to reading his book on sealing.
Issie growled as he finally lost his temper and with a yell charged at Naruto, his fist cocked back to deliver his hardest punch.
Naruto didn't even look up as he spun around the older teen before kicking him on his rear end and sending him face first into the dirt.
Sighing, Naruto placed his foot on the older teen's back and pressed down, locking him to the ground before he leaned down to speak into Issie's ear. "Look Butch, I may only be ranked near the middle of the pack in the class rankings at the academy but we both know that's only because I don't even turn up to class unless it's important, and two years ago I could have graduated as the rookie of the year easily if the Sandaime had allowed me to. So I'm already strong enough that my Chunin promotion is only going to take until the first Chunin Exams I can enter, while you are just one of those kids that'll be lucky to reach Chunin by the time he's twenty, so in other words; you're cannon fodder." Here Naruto paused to grimace slightly. "It makes me sick to my stomach saying this because it makes me sound like that arrogant bastard Sasuke, but where you are cannon fodder, I'm one of the elite." He continued.
Naruto waited a moment for Issea's reply, "My name is Issie!" He screamed through the dirt lodged in his mouth.
The whiskered blonde sighed and shook his head, "What a waste of a few minutes, now I can't enjoy my morning walk to the academy." He said to himself disappointedly, just as a whirlwind of leaves picked up around him and he disappeared in a standard Konoha Shunshin (Body Flicker).
Naruto opened the door to the same classroom that he had been in for the past three years, the classroom for those in their final year of shinobi training before they went on to become Genin of the Leaf Village.
With the aid of the Sharingan in his right eye socket, Naruto had quickly mastered both the Henge (Transformation) and the Kawarimi (Body Replacement Technique) Techniques.
The Bunshin no Jutsu (Clone Technique) he had found almost impossible to do until he came across a Genin team practicing Chakra control, it was there he found out how to do the Tree Walking and Water Walking exercises when he watched them channel their chakra to their feet.
Of course it took him a good three weeks to get those exercises down because of his massive chakra reserves, even with the Sharingan.
Despite his all his teachers bar Iruka - who was an alright guy - hating his guts, they still wanted him out of their classes so had no problem allowing him to advance to the final stage when he finally got the Bunshin No Jutsu (Clone Technique) down, albeit by creating over thirty of the illusionary clones, but he still got it down pat.
So by the time he was 10 years old, Naruto aced the Genin exam, scoring top marks in everything bar the written test thanks to Sharingan.
Sadly, the Sandaime didn't think he was quite ready yet to deal with missions so he had repealed his graduation from the academy and no matter how much he argued with the old man, he just wouldn't relent.
So Naruto relented, of course he stated in a no-nonsense term he wasn't going to let it go until the old man showed him a good jutsu for him to copy to appease him.
Sarutobi thought it was a fair deal and showed him the Shunshin (Body Flicker).
So Naruto let the matter drop and spent his time training on his own, after all he had already aced the graduation exam's so he had no need for the academy until he was ready to take the test again.
He had copied a few decent C and D rank jutsu by wandering around the training grounds before challenging a Chunin to a fight when he saw the man training alone a few months after his graduation exam, he had been getting rather arrogant at that point.
Imagine his surprise when the Chunin beat him into the ground easily when they fought with Taijutsu only. Despite his Sharingan being able to easily track the man, he just couldn't react and defend to the man's better speed, strength and superior Taijutsu style.
After that, with his big head now deflated he went to the library for scrolls on Taijutsu scouring for any styles that he thought suited him.
Only one in the Library suited him, the Muay Thai style, a style that relied on stand up striking along with various clincher techniques. The taijutsu was also known as the 'Art of Eight Limbs' because it relied on punches, kicks, knee strikes and elbow strikes rather than just fist and feet.
Sadly while he had the forms down perfectly, he had nobody bar the few spars he had in class to test the style against, so while he knew he was good with the style, he also knew he was never going to master it without gaining experience with it in real life battles.
All to soon he was 11 years old and had participated in the Genin exam again, once again acing the exam easily, this time even scoring high on the written test thanks to several bouts of information he'd memorized while studying his techniques from various books.
Once again imagine his surprise and anger when the Sandaime once again repealed his graduation, citing that it would be better for him to graduate with the kids his own age.
Naruto had raged and ranted for almost an hour at the old man, but finally relented once the old man offered to teach him a B-rank Jutsu, higher ranked than any Jutsu he had in his repertoire, besides the one other B-rank he had copied but had yet to perfect.
That was how he learned one of his favourite techniques, the Kage Bunshin No Jutsu (Shadow Clone Technique), it helped immensely with his training. He used the clones for chakra control mostly, creating between fifty and one hundred of them each time and having them practice various chakra control techniques and then combining them, like the leaf floating and the water walking exercise. He had his clones work and work until they could float five leaves on each hand and one on their forehead, all the while doing the water walking exercise and fighting each other with their legs only.
And for the last year while he had been in this class, he had kept them at it while he himself focused on Genjutsu and Fuinjutsu.
It took him months of work, but he was never able to produce any significant Genjutsu without his Sharingan and even then it was quite hard, but finally he had found that if he made eye contact with an enemy and had enough time he could trap them in a Sharingan hypnosis based Genjutsu that, in his own biased opinion, were better than the normal genjutsu anyway.
So that left him to focus on Fuinjutsu, one of the hardest and most complicated aspects of Shinobi techniques.
Thankfully, it seemed Naruto had a knack for Fuinjutsu, because while he had not been able to find many, if not any, high level sealing techniques or diagrams, he understood everything he read about Fuinjutsu rather easily in his own opinion and within a month he'd went from making Novice level seals like Exploding tags and sealing items into scrolls, to more complicated and diverse intermediate seals, such as the seals he'd personally painted onto his wrist bracers.
Looking over the class, Naruto sighed as he noted the only free seat was beside Sasuke Uchiha, the emo king.
He honestly didn't understand the kid, sure his family was all killed by his older brother, but he had life already made for him. He was rich as hell and had everything handed to him on a silver platter, hell the civilian council had already proposed they force some of their strongest ninja to mentor the boy and allow him to graduate early, but the spoiled brat just ignored them all and claimed he could get stronger on his own.
Naruto honestly thought the kid was a few kunai short of a full pouch, it was easy enough to tell Sasuke was out for revenge on Itachi, but if the arrogant fool actually thought he stood a chance against Itachi as he was now, he was in for a very big wake up call, or an early grave, one or the other.
Naruto himself knew he was superior to Sasuke, he had more Jutsu, outclassed him in genjutsu, while both their taijutsu forms were perfect, Naruto had a fully matured Sharingan where as Sasuke had yet to even activate his, and from what he'd seen, he was already faster and quite a bit physically stronger than Sasuke was. Yet Naruto knew Itachi Uchiha would ***** slap him around in a fight without even having to activate his Sharingan or use any Jutsu at all for that matter.
If their was one thing Naruto knew, it was that Itachi ****ing Uchiha was one badass mother****er. Yet the thing that he refused to admit chilled him to the bone, was that Itachi had implied on that night three years ago that there were people in Akatsuki even stronger than he. Especially Madara Uchiha whom he'd found out about in the history of Konoha, a man so powerful he could tame the mighty Kyuubi No Yoko just by looking the demon in the eye.
And he'd had near enough a century since then to get even stronger, who knew how powerful that monster of a man was now, he could be powerful enough to defeat all five of the kage at once on his own.
A scary thought indeed, but plausible for a man who could tame the mightiest of the tailed beasts by just looking in it's eye, a beast so powerful it near enough bordered on a deity level of power.
Sighing, Naruto took his seat next Sasuke, "Uchiha runt." He said by way of greeting.
Sasuke's eye twitched violently, but the only response he gave was his standard, "Hn."
He'd been calling Sasuke the runt of the Uchiha clan for the past few months, he'd been researching the Sharingan to see if there was any abilities he missed with it, when he'd come across a rather interesting tidbit of information.
The aspiring young shinobi of the Uchiha clan usually awakened their Kekkai Genkai by the time they approached their tenth birthdays, yet here was the 'last' Uchiha, not to mention the heir to the clan, already twelve years old yet he hadn't activated his Sharingan.
It amused Naruto to no end, that people were proclaiming Sasuke a 'prodigy' and the second coming of the Yondaime Hokage, if Sasuke was the second coming of the Minato Namikaze, what did that make him? The second coming of The Rikudo Sennin?
Naruto snorted in amusement and ignored Sasuke's questioning gaze as he turned to go back to his book. Sadly it was not to be as Sakura Haruno barged into the room just then and made a beeline for Sasuke.
Sakura was a girl with bubble gum pink hair, and wore a red Chinese style dress with a white circle in the middle, black mid thigh length skin tight shorts and blue shinobi sandals. Like the other girls in his class, she was a complete and total die hard Sasuke fan girl.
She glared at him as she reached where he and Sasuke were sitting and raised her fist threateningly, "Naruto-baka! Move so I can sit next to Sasuke!" She screeched at him as she threw her fist at his head intent on smashing it into his face.
Naruto didn't even bother looking up, instead he just leaned his head to the side a few inches, causing Sakura to over extend her punch, a punch that she put all her weight behind and sent her tumbling to the classroom floor in a heap, their classmates snickering and laughing at her expense.
Sakura growled, red in the face with rage as she stood up, "Na-ru-to!" She growled as she 'menacingly' raised her fist again and lumbered towards him.
But just then, the classroom door opened and Iruka, the Chunin academy instructor for the academy, came in with Mizuki, his assistant, following close behind him.
"Sakura, sit down." He ordered sternly.
Sakura, the little teacher's pet that she was nodded meekly before taking the seat on the opposite side of Sasuke, something that confused Naruto to no end, was she really that stupid as to try and move him out of his eat to sit next to Sasuke when there was one on the opposite side of him that she could sit in?
"Alright class, it's time for the test to see who among you are ready to receive their head band and become ninja of Konoha." Iruka said.
Naruto snorted, 'I've been ready for years.' He thought vehemently.
"Now when I call your name I want you to come into the next room and perform the Bunshin No Jutsu." Iruka continued, looking down at his roster as he began to call the names of the Genin hopefuls.
Naruto snorted once again as he went back to reading his book on sealing, this test was a waste of his time, the old man should have just passed him, although he was rather curios to know if his request had been accepted.
After a short while, Iruka finally called on him, "Uzumaki Naruto." He called.
Naruto once again didn't even bother looking up from reading his book as he got up from his seat and made his way through to the other room, Iruka following him in and taking a seat next to Mizuki.
"Alright Naruto, show us what you can do." Iruka said. Inwardly though, Iruka's thoughts raged in every direction as he looked upon the whiskered blonde, he'd become rather fond of the boy three years back, his attitude when he was acting out and pranking people reminding Iruka of his own youth, only for Naruto to come back into the academy a few days after the Uchiha Massacre, with a toned down attitude, his face buried in any tai, gen, or ninjutsu book he could get his hands on and advancing far beyond his peers at the same age. Iruka always wondered what happened to the boy, but he could not deny the results, despite how annoying it was when his face was always buried in a book like Kakashi and the fact that he rarely if ever turned up to class, preferring to do further his training on his own.
Sighing, Naruto folded the corner of the page he was on in his book before closing it and placing it into one of the pouches on his hip. He ran though the required hand seals - almost too quickly for Iruka or Mizuki could follow - before there was a large poof of smoke and when it cleared, the side of the classroom Naruto was on was filled with roughly thirty illusionary clones, "Bunshin no Jutsu." Naruto muttered, more for appearances sake than anything; he didn't need to say anything for the Academy Three anymore.
Iruka smiled at him, "Well done Naruto, you pass! Now come get your head-band." The chunin instructor said.
Naruto gave a small smile as he walked towards the desk, 'Finally!' He thought, this time the old man couldn't repeal his graduation and he could finally start on getting experience fighting other shinobi, especially if the old man allowed his request.
When he reached the desk, Iruka handed him a leaf headband with blue cloth before speaking, "Naruto, Hokage-sama told me to tell you to report to him straight away after you passed because he needs to speak to you." Iruka told him as Naruto fastened the headband around his forehead.
Naruto nodded, "Gotcha Iruka-sensei." He responded as a whirlwind of leaves kicked up around him, "Later Iruka-sensei, Mizuki-sensei." He continued before he disappeared in a Shunshin.
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Naruto stepped out of his Shunshin, into the dark office of the Sandaime Hokage, Sarutobi Hiruzen.
Looking over the desk in front of him, Naruto locked eyes with the smiling old man, "You're not gonna repeal this one as well, are you?" He asked in a deadpan voice.
Sarutobi chuckled good naturedly, "Not this time, I assure you Naruto-kun." He replied, his wise voice tinged with amusement.
Naruto nodded, "My request?" He asked.
Sarutobi gave him a small smile, "It was approved by the council, they at first attempted to deny your request, but when I stated that if they did not accept I was planning on putting you on the same team as Uchiha Sasuke and suddenly they were all too happy to approve of the request." Here he paused before his smile widened a degree. "Congratulation's Genin Uzumaki Naruto on your induction to the Hunter-nin corps."
Naruto grinned, "So no D-ranks for me then?" He asked.
Sarutobi chortled, "D-rank criminals maybe, but no as far as missions go yours will all be labelled as C-ranked or above because of the dangers of facing other shinobi, although you are only a hunter-nin part time as I may send you out for backup to other Genin squads."
Naruto narrowed his eyes at the old man after a moment, "So that's it? I'm official a hunter-nin? Why does that sound too easy to me old man?" He asked suspiciously.
Sarutobi gave a tight-lipped smile, "Very good of you to notice it, because in fact you are officially a Hunter-nin, but may not be for much longer as I have a mission for you that your career as a Hunter-nin rides on." The much more experienced shinobi answered.
Naruto nodded, "A test then?" He asked.
Sarutobi nodded back, "We have a traitor in our midst and it is your mission to deal with him before he escapes with the decoy of his target we set up, we have found out everything we need by spying on him for the past few months, now it is your job to kill him and prove you have what it takes to do your job as a Hunter-nin." The Hokage told him seriously.
Naruto nodded his confirmation and beckoned for the older man to continue, "Very well Naruto-kun your target is..."
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Night had fallen over Konohagakure no Sato, and for one Chunin Mizuki, excitement was high as he bounded through the tree tops, the Scroll of Seals strapped to his back over two large shuriken.
He could barely contain his excitement, it had taken him months, but finally he had manage to steal the scroll, and he could gain so much power from all the powerful Kinjutsu (Forbidden Techniques) inside.
Not to mention, Orochimaru-sama would reward him greatly for turning to scroll over to him when he was done with it, maybe even give him his very own cursed seal!
"Hehehehehe." Mizuki chortled, he couldn't believe how easy it was to steal the scroll!
He was so absorbed in his excitement, he never saw the shadow descending rapidly from a tree above him, and was therefore taken by surprise when two feet impacted with his back and sent him careening from the branch he was just jumping from, causing him to crash face first into the ground in a rather painful looking collision.
"Your target is Chunin Mizuki. Anbu have been discreetly following him for the past few months and learned everything they could about why he has turned traitorous. It seems that he gained quite a bit of hatred for this village and was then approached by my old student Orochimaru. Tonight he plans on stealing the Scroll of Sealing, a scroll filled to the brim with Kinjutsu passed down from Hokage to Hokage, your job is to kill him before he reaches the rendezvous point where he will turn over the fake scroll to whoever Orochimaru sent, kill Mizuki, cut off the head and burn the body." Sarutobi ordered sternly before a small smile overcame his face, "And Naruto-kun, the scroll may be fake, but I put in the details for a real jutsu that you will enjoy immensely as a graduation present if you manage to get the job done."
Naruto silently bounded through the tree tops above Mizuki a grin overcoming his face.
Reaching up, Naruto took the orange-tinted sunglasses from his face - revealing his deep sapphire blue eye and crimson red, with three tomoe Sharingan - and slid them into one of his equipment pouches, "Now that I'm a Shinobi I have no need to hide my eye." He said to himself, "The council can't do jackshit to me now that I'm a Shinobi under the old man's jurisdiction
"Show time." Naruto muttered to himself, grin still in place as he launched himself off the tree spinning in flips rapidly towards Mizuki and implanting his feet in the back of the traitorous academy teacher as soon as he was in range, sending the older shinobi flying into the ground below the trees face first.
Naruto jumped down and landed behind him silently as he waited for the white hared man to get up.
After a few moments, Mizuki gingerly pulled himself from the small crater his body made on impacting the ground and staggered to his feet.
Wincing in slight pain, Mizuki turned to confront his ambusher only for his eyes to go wide when he caught sight of Naruto and then even wider when he caught side of the Sharingan rotating slowly in his right eye socket.
"You... what are you doing here and why the hell do you have a Sharingan?" He hissed out.
Naruto ignored him for the most part, "Chunin Mizuki, for your crimes and betraying the village of Konohagakure no Sako, your life is forfeit." Naruto told him in monotone as he slipped into the beginning stance of his taijutsu style.
Mizuki growled angrily, "Don't **** with me you little brat! I'm a Chunin and you're just a little Genin, what hope do you have to beat me?" He sneered out through gritted teeth. Mizuki slid into his own stance, the standard academy taijutsu style, before charging Naruto straight on.
Naruto's face remained impassive, his Sharingan eye tracking Mizuki easily.
When Mizuki reached him, the older shinobi threw a textbook standard hook at Naruto's face.
Naruto tilted his head to the side and used his left palm to deflect the blow to the side, spinning Naruto brought his elbow up and jammed it powerfully into the neck of Mizuki, causing the older man to gag.
Retreating, Mizuki jumped back from Naruto as the pain faded from his throat and he began running through hand-seals, "Eat this demon-brat!" He roared angrily. "Doton: Dosekiryu! (Earth Release: Earth and Stone Dragon!)" Mizuki stopped his hands on the final seal – the snake seal – and locking eyes with Naruto he was about to gloat when he caught sight of Naruto's hands, also held in the snake seal and his eye's widened, 'No, I forgot! He has the Sharingan!' He raged to himself in his thoughts.
Not a split second later, did a large serpentine dragon erupt from the earth behind Mizuki at the same time one did the same behind Naruto, before both earth dragon's roared in challenge and rushed each other head on, both smashing into each other head on.
Both dragons gave one final roar each before breaking against each other in a large collision, covering the clearing in debris and smoke.
When the smoke cleared, Mizuki saw that Naruto had disappeared and he felt a cold sweat run down the back of his neck, 'Where is he? Behind? To the side? Above?' Mizuk's thoughts blazed as he whirled his head around looking for his assiliant.
It was as he turned to face the front again though that he was answered, "Doton: Dochu Senko (Earth Release: Subterranean Voyage) I was below." Naruto's voice whispered in his ear before his vision went black and he knew no more.
Naruto looked down at the headless body of Mizuki in front of him, the head laying just a foot's distance away, having been caught off by a wind-enhanced Kunai from Naruto.
Naruto sighed as he pulled a sealing scroll from his equipment pouch and sealed the head of the traitor away in a puff of smoke, he could feel the bile in his throat rising but squashed it down; he'd deal with the ramifications of his first kill later in his apartment.
Naruto then reached down and tugged the fake scroll from the body before opening it and just like the old man said, there written across the large scroll was the instructions for the Bunshin Daibakuha (Clone Great Explosion) – an A-rank technique that was used in conjunction with the Kage-Bunshin no Jutsu. Naruto allowed his Sharingan to browse over the Kanji in the scroll, memorizing everything he needed to know about the Jutsu before closing the scroll over and tossing it back onto the body of Mizuki and beginning to run through hand-seals.
When he was done Naruto held one of his fingers in a ring position around his mouth, before breathing deeply and exhaling, "Katon: Gōkakyū no Jutsu (Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique)." Naruto breathed out and from his mouth came a large fireball that consumed Mizuki's body and burned it to ashes.
Sighing, Naruto looked up – because he knew for a fact that the Sandaime was watching him through his crystal ball – and spoke, "Mission complete, old man I'll come pick up my payment for my first 'B'-rank mission tomorrow morning."
And with that, Naruto stepped into a Shunshin and disappeared from the clearing, all that was left to show of his presence in the clearing being fragments of broken earth and a slowly dwindling fire.
..........Prologue - End!
So, that was the prologue of a story of mine. How did you like it? I've actually got the next chapter all ready to go, so I'll be posting it below.
Chapter 0 - Prologue - Begin!
"They will hunt you, Uzumaki Naruto."
"Wha-what?" The short blond asked his uninvited house guest. The boy had experienced some frightening moments in his life, not the least of which had been what he had determined to be an assassination attempt when he was four. This one was beginning to move up the list.
Those red eyes were both awesome and terrifying, their burning intensity belying the churning emotions behind the emotionless mask his guest wore.
"They will hunt you, Uzumaki Naruto," Uchiha Itachi repeated. His voice was nearly a monotone, lacking both emotion and inflection that was commonly used. "They will hunt you. They will find you. And they will kill you."
Just behind the terror he was feeling, only compounded by the blood spattered ANBU armor the teenager wore, he realized that the shinobi was giving him a message. "W-why? Why are you telling me this?" Naruto asked, his voice quavering.
"To serve as a warning. Those who would hunt you are both numerous and powerful, some far more powerful than even myself." Naruto's once silent protector told him. "There will come a time when the Sandaime's protection will not be enough, a time when this village can no longer protect you. I warn you now so that you may be ready for that day."
Naruto, in his entranced state of heightened fear, could not even nod in acceptance of the teenager's point. "Who?" He squeaked. Inwardly, he mentally berated himself of showing such weakness in front of the teenager, though he really couldn't help it. An entire village full of people whose animosity was only barely concealed couldn't break him, so how could this lone teenager inspire such fear in him.
Itachi paused, seeming to weigh whether or not he should tell Naruto, before, "Akatsuki, and a man named Uchiha Madara."
Naruto had no idea why, but just hearing the name of the man who would be coming for him, instilled in him a deep seated terror.
Itachi was silent for another moment before he continued, "But I shall leave you with a gift, a tool that may give you the edge as the container of the Kyuubi No Yoko to stand against the coming darkness."
The last thing Naruto saw before Morpheus claimed him was the hypnotizing tomoe spinning in Uchiha Itachi's Sharingan eyes.
Abruptly, 12 year old Uzumaki Naruto jerked awake, two eyes - one a deep sapphire blue and the other a crimson red with three lazily spinning tomoe - frantically searching the room he was in before calming down when he couldn't find any presence beside his own in the sparse bedroom.
Naruto shifted to a sitting position on the bed and took a deep breath to calm himself, "That dream again." He muttered to himself as he wiped the sweat from his brow.
He could remember that night with almost picture perfect clarity, the night he learned why he was hated for being the Jinchuuriki of the Kyuubi and was gifted with what could possibly be one of the greatest tool's a shinobi could ask for.
A fully matured Sharingan eye.
A fully matured Sharingan eye that he could not turn off and was constantly draining his chakra. Thankfully, it was active so much it increased his already massive chakra reserves. That, and being gifted with how quickly his Chakra already regenerated thanks to being the host of the Kyuubi meant he could keep it uncovered and active for as long as he wanted, hardly feeling the strain unless he began to tire himself out practising the jutsu he had learned and copied over the last three years, since his late night meeting with Itachi.
Thankfully, not many people knew of his Sharingan as he tended to keep his eyes covered with orange tinted sunglasses, so unless someone was to focus really hard on his eyes while being close to him, they wouldn't be able to notice.
Looking at the clock on his dresser beside the bed, Naruto noted he had to be at the academy within the next half hour for the graduation exam.
Sighing in annoyance, Naruto stood up and began walking towards his wardrobe to get his clothes for the day. "This exam is a waste of time, I don't see why the old man just didn't let me graduate the first one, just because Itachi went psycho and butchered his clan doesn't mean I will. Not like it'd be possible anyway, considering I don't have one." He muttered to himself.
Twenty minutes later, Naruto was on his way to the academy, a book on intermediate seals in hand as he made his way through the throngs of glaring villagers, completely ignoring them as he went. His outfit consisted of white cargo pants taped off with black bandages at the ankle, black ninja Anbu commissioned sandals and a tight black wife beater that showed off his muscled physique. On his wrists he had a pair of white bracers that were layered with a multitude of seals, two equipment pouches attached to the back of his pants and to top it off he had a pair of glinting orange tinted sunglasses covering his eyes.
Looking up, Naruto snorted as he noted an older boy looking at him. The teen had graduated when Naruto himself had taken his first test to become a Genin and, despite passing, the Sandaime felt it was in his best interest to wait on those of his age to graduate with him, before looking down and going back to reading on resistance seals that were used for speed training.
The older teen, around 16 years old with brown hair and non-descriptive features was walking straight towards him a glare on his face and his thin lips pulled back into a sneer.
Naruto idly shook his head, knowing where this was going, but refused to back down from someone who was already around 16 years of age and still not a Chunin.
As soon as they reached each other, the older teen tensed his shoulders and attempted to shoulder barge him aside, no doubt attempting to knock him to the ground and humiliate him.
Naruto didn't even look up as he weaved a few inches to the side and walked straight into the older teen's shoulder barge, hitting the older teen with his own shoulder at the joint under his armpit and sent him sprawling to the dirt.
Naruto again didn't even look up and continued reading and walking, only stopping when he heard the teen behind him shouting angrily. "You little brat! You better get on your knee's and apologise or I'm gonna kick your teeth in!" He shouted, Naruto turned just in time to see him stamping his feet like a rampaging bull.
Naruto snorted and quirked an eyebrow as he looked up from his book. "Really? I seem to remember being in the same class as you two years ago and beat you every time I had to spar against you, Jimmy." Naruto replied in an amused ton.
The older teen's eyebrow twitched violently, "My name is Issei! Get it right!" He snarled back, almost frothing at the mouth.
Naruto waved his hand dismissively, "Sure sure whatever Kevin." He returned as he went back to reading his book on sealing.
Issie growled as he finally lost his temper and with a yell charged at Naruto, his fist cocked back to deliver his hardest punch.
Naruto didn't even look up as he spun around the older teen before kicking him on his rear end and sending him face first into the dirt.
Sighing, Naruto placed his foot on the older teen's back and pressed down, locking him to the ground before he leaned down to speak into Issie's ear. "Look Butch, I may only be ranked near the middle of the pack in the class rankings at the academy but we both know that's only because I don't even turn up to class unless it's important, and two years ago I could have graduated as the rookie of the year easily if the Sandaime had allowed me to. So I'm already strong enough that my Chunin promotion is only going to take until the first Chunin Exams I can enter, while you are just one of those kids that'll be lucky to reach Chunin by the time he's twenty, so in other words; you're cannon fodder." Here Naruto paused to grimace slightly. "It makes me sick to my stomach saying this because it makes me sound like that arrogant bastard Sasuke, but where you are cannon fodder, I'm one of the elite." He continued.
Naruto waited a moment for Issea's reply, "My name is Issie!" He screamed through the dirt lodged in his mouth.
The whiskered blonde sighed and shook his head, "What a waste of a few minutes, now I can't enjoy my morning walk to the academy." He said to himself disappointedly, just as a whirlwind of leaves picked up around him and he disappeared in a standard Konoha Shunshin (Body Flicker).
Naruto opened the door to the same classroom that he had been in for the past three years, the classroom for those in their final year of shinobi training before they went on to become Genin of the Leaf Village.
With the aid of the Sharingan in his right eye socket, Naruto had quickly mastered both the Henge (Transformation) and the Kawarimi (Body Replacement Technique) Techniques.
The Bunshin no Jutsu (Clone Technique) he had found almost impossible to do until he came across a Genin team practicing Chakra control, it was there he found out how to do the Tree Walking and Water Walking exercises when he watched them channel their chakra to their feet.
Of course it took him a good three weeks to get those exercises down because of his massive chakra reserves, even with the Sharingan.
Despite his all his teachers bar Iruka - who was an alright guy - hating his guts, they still wanted him out of their classes so had no problem allowing him to advance to the final stage when he finally got the Bunshin No Jutsu (Clone Technique) down, albeit by creating over thirty of the illusionary clones, but he still got it down pat.
So by the time he was 10 years old, Naruto aced the Genin exam, scoring top marks in everything bar the written test thanks to Sharingan.
Sadly, the Sandaime didn't think he was quite ready yet to deal with missions so he had repealed his graduation from the academy and no matter how much he argued with the old man, he just wouldn't relent.
So Naruto relented, of course he stated in a no-nonsense term he wasn't going to let it go until the old man showed him a good jutsu for him to copy to appease him.
Sarutobi thought it was a fair deal and showed him the Shunshin (Body Flicker).
So Naruto let the matter drop and spent his time training on his own, after all he had already aced the graduation exam's so he had no need for the academy until he was ready to take the test again.
He had copied a few decent C and D rank jutsu by wandering around the training grounds before challenging a Chunin to a fight when he saw the man training alone a few months after his graduation exam, he had been getting rather arrogant at that point.
Imagine his surprise when the Chunin beat him into the ground easily when they fought with Taijutsu only. Despite his Sharingan being able to easily track the man, he just couldn't react and defend to the man's better speed, strength and superior Taijutsu style.
After that, with his big head now deflated he went to the library for scrolls on Taijutsu scouring for any styles that he thought suited him.
Only one in the Library suited him, the Muay Thai style, a style that relied on stand up striking along with various clincher techniques. The taijutsu was also known as the 'Art of Eight Limbs' because it relied on punches, kicks, knee strikes and elbow strikes rather than just fist and feet.
Sadly while he had the forms down perfectly, he had nobody bar the few spars he had in class to test the style against, so while he knew he was good with the style, he also knew he was never going to master it without gaining experience with it in real life battles.
All to soon he was 11 years old and had participated in the Genin exam again, once again acing the exam easily, this time even scoring high on the written test thanks to several bouts of information he'd memorized while studying his techniques from various books.
Once again imagine his surprise and anger when the Sandaime once again repealed his graduation, citing that it would be better for him to graduate with the kids his own age.
Naruto had raged and ranted for almost an hour at the old man, but finally relented once the old man offered to teach him a B-rank Jutsu, higher ranked than any Jutsu he had in his repertoire, besides the one other B-rank he had copied but had yet to perfect.
That was how he learned one of his favourite techniques, the Kage Bunshin No Jutsu (Shadow Clone Technique), it helped immensely with his training. He used the clones for chakra control mostly, creating between fifty and one hundred of them each time and having them practice various chakra control techniques and then combining them, like the leaf floating and the water walking exercise. He had his clones work and work until they could float five leaves on each hand and one on their forehead, all the while doing the water walking exercise and fighting each other with their legs only.
And for the last year while he had been in this class, he had kept them at it while he himself focused on Genjutsu and Fuinjutsu.
It took him months of work, but he was never able to produce any significant Genjutsu without his Sharingan and even then it was quite hard, but finally he had found that if he made eye contact with an enemy and had enough time he could trap them in a Sharingan hypnosis based Genjutsu that, in his own biased opinion, were better than the normal genjutsu anyway.
So that left him to focus on Fuinjutsu, one of the hardest and most complicated aspects of Shinobi techniques.
Thankfully, it seemed Naruto had a knack for Fuinjutsu, because while he had not been able to find many, if not any, high level sealing techniques or diagrams, he understood everything he read about Fuinjutsu rather easily in his own opinion and within a month he'd went from making Novice level seals like Exploding tags and sealing items into scrolls, to more complicated and diverse intermediate seals, such as the seals he'd personally painted onto his wrist bracers.
Looking over the class, Naruto sighed as he noted the only free seat was beside Sasuke Uchiha, the emo king.
He honestly didn't understand the kid, sure his family was all killed by his older brother, but he had life already made for him. He was rich as hell and had everything handed to him on a silver platter, hell the civilian council had already proposed they force some of their strongest ninja to mentor the boy and allow him to graduate early, but the spoiled brat just ignored them all and claimed he could get stronger on his own.
Naruto honestly thought the kid was a few kunai short of a full pouch, it was easy enough to tell Sasuke was out for revenge on Itachi, but if the arrogant fool actually thought he stood a chance against Itachi as he was now, he was in for a very big wake up call, or an early grave, one or the other.
Naruto himself knew he was superior to Sasuke, he had more Jutsu, outclassed him in genjutsu, while both their taijutsu forms were perfect, Naruto had a fully matured Sharingan where as Sasuke had yet to even activate his, and from what he'd seen, he was already faster and quite a bit physically stronger than Sasuke was. Yet Naruto knew Itachi Uchiha would ***** slap him around in a fight without even having to activate his Sharingan or use any Jutsu at all for that matter.
If their was one thing Naruto knew, it was that Itachi ****ing Uchiha was one badass mother****er. Yet the thing that he refused to admit chilled him to the bone, was that Itachi had implied on that night three years ago that there were people in Akatsuki even stronger than he. Especially Madara Uchiha whom he'd found out about in the history of Konoha, a man so powerful he could tame the mighty Kyuubi No Yoko just by looking the demon in the eye.
And he'd had near enough a century since then to get even stronger, who knew how powerful that monster of a man was now, he could be powerful enough to defeat all five of the kage at once on his own.
A scary thought indeed, but plausible for a man who could tame the mightiest of the tailed beasts by just looking in it's eye, a beast so powerful it near enough bordered on a deity level of power.
Sighing, Naruto took his seat next Sasuke, "Uchiha runt." He said by way of greeting.
Sasuke's eye twitched violently, but the only response he gave was his standard, "Hn."
He'd been calling Sasuke the runt of the Uchiha clan for the past few months, he'd been researching the Sharingan to see if there was any abilities he missed with it, when he'd come across a rather interesting tidbit of information.
The aspiring young shinobi of the Uchiha clan usually awakened their Kekkai Genkai by the time they approached their tenth birthdays, yet here was the 'last' Uchiha, not to mention the heir to the clan, already twelve years old yet he hadn't activated his Sharingan.
It amused Naruto to no end, that people were proclaiming Sasuke a 'prodigy' and the second coming of the Yondaime Hokage, if Sasuke was the second coming of the Minato Namikaze, what did that make him? The second coming of The Rikudo Sennin?
Naruto snorted in amusement and ignored Sasuke's questioning gaze as he turned to go back to his book. Sadly it was not to be as Sakura Haruno barged into the room just then and made a beeline for Sasuke.
Sakura was a girl with bubble gum pink hair, and wore a red Chinese style dress with a white circle in the middle, black mid thigh length skin tight shorts and blue shinobi sandals. Like the other girls in his class, she was a complete and total die hard Sasuke fan girl.
She glared at him as she reached where he and Sasuke were sitting and raised her fist threateningly, "Naruto-baka! Move so I can sit next to Sasuke!" She screeched at him as she threw her fist at his head intent on smashing it into his face.
Naruto didn't even bother looking up, instead he just leaned his head to the side a few inches, causing Sakura to over extend her punch, a punch that she put all her weight behind and sent her tumbling to the classroom floor in a heap, their classmates snickering and laughing at her expense.
Sakura growled, red in the face with rage as she stood up, "Na-ru-to!" She growled as she 'menacingly' raised her fist again and lumbered towards him.
But just then, the classroom door opened and Iruka, the Chunin academy instructor for the academy, came in with Mizuki, his assistant, following close behind him.
"Sakura, sit down." He ordered sternly.
Sakura, the little teacher's pet that she was nodded meekly before taking the seat on the opposite side of Sasuke, something that confused Naruto to no end, was she really that stupid as to try and move him out of his eat to sit next to Sasuke when there was one on the opposite side of him that she could sit in?
"Alright class, it's time for the test to see who among you are ready to receive their head band and become ninja of Konoha." Iruka said.
Naruto snorted, 'I've been ready for years.' He thought vehemently.
"Now when I call your name I want you to come into the next room and perform the Bunshin No Jutsu." Iruka continued, looking down at his roster as he began to call the names of the Genin hopefuls.
Naruto snorted once again as he went back to reading his book on sealing, this test was a waste of his time, the old man should have just passed him, although he was rather curios to know if his request had been accepted.
After a short while, Iruka finally called on him, "Uzumaki Naruto." He called.
Naruto once again didn't even bother looking up from reading his book as he got up from his seat and made his way through to the other room, Iruka following him in and taking a seat next to Mizuki.
"Alright Naruto, show us what you can do." Iruka said. Inwardly though, Iruka's thoughts raged in every direction as he looked upon the whiskered blonde, he'd become rather fond of the boy three years back, his attitude when he was acting out and pranking people reminding Iruka of his own youth, only for Naruto to come back into the academy a few days after the Uchiha Massacre, with a toned down attitude, his face buried in any tai, gen, or ninjutsu book he could get his hands on and advancing far beyond his peers at the same age. Iruka always wondered what happened to the boy, but he could not deny the results, despite how annoying it was when his face was always buried in a book like Kakashi and the fact that he rarely if ever turned up to class, preferring to do further his training on his own.
Sighing, Naruto folded the corner of the page he was on in his book before closing it and placing it into one of the pouches on his hip. He ran though the required hand seals - almost too quickly for Iruka or Mizuki could follow - before there was a large poof of smoke and when it cleared, the side of the classroom Naruto was on was filled with roughly thirty illusionary clones, "Bunshin no Jutsu." Naruto muttered, more for appearances sake than anything; he didn't need to say anything for the Academy Three anymore.
Iruka smiled at him, "Well done Naruto, you pass! Now come get your head-band." The chunin instructor said.
Naruto gave a small smile as he walked towards the desk, 'Finally!' He thought, this time the old man couldn't repeal his graduation and he could finally start on getting experience fighting other shinobi, especially if the old man allowed his request.
When he reached the desk, Iruka handed him a leaf headband with blue cloth before speaking, "Naruto, Hokage-sama told me to tell you to report to him straight away after you passed because he needs to speak to you." Iruka told him as Naruto fastened the headband around his forehead.
Naruto nodded, "Gotcha Iruka-sensei." He responded as a whirlwind of leaves kicked up around him, "Later Iruka-sensei, Mizuki-sensei." He continued before he disappeared in a Shunshin.
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Naruto stepped out of his Shunshin, into the dark office of the Sandaime Hokage, Sarutobi Hiruzen.
Looking over the desk in front of him, Naruto locked eyes with the smiling old man, "You're not gonna repeal this one as well, are you?" He asked in a deadpan voice.
Sarutobi chuckled good naturedly, "Not this time, I assure you Naruto-kun." He replied, his wise voice tinged with amusement.
Naruto nodded, "My request?" He asked.
Sarutobi gave him a small smile, "It was approved by the council, they at first attempted to deny your request, but when I stated that if they did not accept I was planning on putting you on the same team as Uchiha Sasuke and suddenly they were all too happy to approve of the request." Here he paused before his smile widened a degree. "Congratulation's Genin Uzumaki Naruto on your induction to the Hunter-nin corps."
Naruto grinned, "So no D-ranks for me then?" He asked.
Sarutobi chortled, "D-rank criminals maybe, but no as far as missions go yours will all be labelled as C-ranked or above because of the dangers of facing other shinobi, although you are only a hunter-nin part time as I may send you out for backup to other Genin squads."
Naruto narrowed his eyes at the old man after a moment, "So that's it? I'm official a hunter-nin? Why does that sound too easy to me old man?" He asked suspiciously.
Sarutobi gave a tight-lipped smile, "Very good of you to notice it, because in fact you are officially a Hunter-nin, but may not be for much longer as I have a mission for you that your career as a Hunter-nin rides on." The much more experienced shinobi answered.
Naruto nodded, "A test then?" He asked.
Sarutobi nodded back, "We have a traitor in our midst and it is your mission to deal with him before he escapes with the decoy of his target we set up, we have found out everything we need by spying on him for the past few months, now it is your job to kill him and prove you have what it takes to do your job as a Hunter-nin." The Hokage told him seriously.
Naruto nodded his confirmation and beckoned for the older man to continue, "Very well Naruto-kun your target is..."
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Night had fallen over Konohagakure no Sato, and for one Chunin Mizuki, excitement was high as he bounded through the tree tops, the Scroll of Seals strapped to his back over two large shuriken.
He could barely contain his excitement, it had taken him months, but finally he had manage to steal the scroll, and he could gain so much power from all the powerful Kinjutsu (Forbidden Techniques) inside.
Not to mention, Orochimaru-sama would reward him greatly for turning to scroll over to him when he was done with it, maybe even give him his very own cursed seal!
"Hehehehehe." Mizuki chortled, he couldn't believe how easy it was to steal the scroll!
He was so absorbed in his excitement, he never saw the shadow descending rapidly from a tree above him, and was therefore taken by surprise when two feet impacted with his back and sent him careening from the branch he was just jumping from, causing him to crash face first into the ground in a rather painful looking collision.
"Your target is Chunin Mizuki. Anbu have been discreetly following him for the past few months and learned everything they could about why he has turned traitorous. It seems that he gained quite a bit of hatred for this village and was then approached by my old student Orochimaru. Tonight he plans on stealing the Scroll of Sealing, a scroll filled to the brim with Kinjutsu passed down from Hokage to Hokage, your job is to kill him before he reaches the rendezvous point where he will turn over the fake scroll to whoever Orochimaru sent, kill Mizuki, cut off the head and burn the body." Sarutobi ordered sternly before a small smile overcame his face, "And Naruto-kun, the scroll may be fake, but I put in the details for a real jutsu that you will enjoy immensely as a graduation present if you manage to get the job done."
Naruto silently bounded through the tree tops above Mizuki a grin overcoming his face.
Reaching up, Naruto took the orange-tinted sunglasses from his face - revealing his deep sapphire blue eye and crimson red, with three tomoe Sharingan - and slid them into one of his equipment pouches, "Now that I'm a Shinobi I have no need to hide my eye." He said to himself, "The council can't do jackshit to me now that I'm a Shinobi under the old man's jurisdiction
"Show time." Naruto muttered to himself, grin still in place as he launched himself off the tree spinning in flips rapidly towards Mizuki and implanting his feet in the back of the traitorous academy teacher as soon as he was in range, sending the older shinobi flying into the ground below the trees face first.
Naruto jumped down and landed behind him silently as he waited for the white hared man to get up.
After a few moments, Mizuki gingerly pulled himself from the small crater his body made on impacting the ground and staggered to his feet.
Wincing in slight pain, Mizuki turned to confront his ambusher only for his eyes to go wide when he caught sight of Naruto and then even wider when he caught side of the Sharingan rotating slowly in his right eye socket.
"You... what are you doing here and why the hell do you have a Sharingan?" He hissed out.
Naruto ignored him for the most part, "Chunin Mizuki, for your crimes and betraying the village of Konohagakure no Sako, your life is forfeit." Naruto told him in monotone as he slipped into the beginning stance of his taijutsu style.
Mizuki growled angrily, "Don't **** with me you little brat! I'm a Chunin and you're just a little Genin, what hope do you have to beat me?" He sneered out through gritted teeth. Mizuki slid into his own stance, the standard academy taijutsu style, before charging Naruto straight on.
Naruto's face remained impassive, his Sharingan eye tracking Mizuki easily.
When Mizuki reached him, the older shinobi threw a textbook standard hook at Naruto's face.
Naruto tilted his head to the side and used his left palm to deflect the blow to the side, spinning Naruto brought his elbow up and jammed it powerfully into the neck of Mizuki, causing the older man to gag.
Retreating, Mizuki jumped back from Naruto as the pain faded from his throat and he began running through hand-seals, "Eat this demon-brat!" He roared angrily. "Doton: Dosekiryu! (Earth Release: Earth and Stone Dragon!)" Mizuki stopped his hands on the final seal – the snake seal – and locking eyes with Naruto he was about to gloat when he caught sight of Naruto's hands, also held in the snake seal and his eye's widened, 'No, I forgot! He has the Sharingan!' He raged to himself in his thoughts.
Not a split second later, did a large serpentine dragon erupt from the earth behind Mizuki at the same time one did the same behind Naruto, before both earth dragon's roared in challenge and rushed each other head on, both smashing into each other head on.
Both dragons gave one final roar each before breaking against each other in a large collision, covering the clearing in debris and smoke.
When the smoke cleared, Mizuki saw that Naruto had disappeared and he felt a cold sweat run down the back of his neck, 'Where is he? Behind? To the side? Above?' Mizuk's thoughts blazed as he whirled his head around looking for his assiliant.
It was as he turned to face the front again though that he was answered, "Doton: Dochu Senko (Earth Release: Subterranean Voyage) I was below." Naruto's voice whispered in his ear before his vision went black and he knew no more.
Naruto looked down at the headless body of Mizuki in front of him, the head laying just a foot's distance away, having been caught off by a wind-enhanced Kunai from Naruto.
Naruto sighed as he pulled a sealing scroll from his equipment pouch and sealed the head of the traitor away in a puff of smoke, he could feel the bile in his throat rising but squashed it down; he'd deal with the ramifications of his first kill later in his apartment.
Naruto then reached down and tugged the fake scroll from the body before opening it and just like the old man said, there written across the large scroll was the instructions for the Bunshin Daibakuha (Clone Great Explosion) – an A-rank technique that was used in conjunction with the Kage-Bunshin no Jutsu. Naruto allowed his Sharingan to browse over the Kanji in the scroll, memorizing everything he needed to know about the Jutsu before closing the scroll over and tossing it back onto the body of Mizuki and beginning to run through hand-seals.
When he was done Naruto held one of his fingers in a ring position around his mouth, before breathing deeply and exhaling, "Katon: Gōkakyū no Jutsu (Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique)." Naruto breathed out and from his mouth came a large fireball that consumed Mizuki's body and burned it to ashes.
Sighing, Naruto looked up – because he knew for a fact that the Sandaime was watching him through his crystal ball – and spoke, "Mission complete, old man I'll come pick up my payment for my first 'B'-rank mission tomorrow morning."
And with that, Naruto stepped into a Shunshin and disappeared from the clearing, all that was left to show of his presence in the clearing being fragments of broken earth and a slowly dwindling fire.
..........Prologue - End!
So, that was the prologue of a story of mine. How did you like it? I've actually got the next chapter all ready to go, so I'll be posting it below.
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