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Five Years Later
"Hi, Hiashi-tou-san!" Naruto cried. Hiashi winced at the volume, something far above what most toddlers could achieve. Of course, Naruto was definitely not average. "What're we doing today, Hiashi-tou-san?" As Naruto stared at him expectantly, the normally cold Hyuuga head couldn't help but chuckle.
He had started doing that a lot since he met Naruto. As a baby, the boy was always grabbing everything he could, which led to embarrassing situations with the current maid at the Hyuuga compound. He also had been extremely convenient, as he and his constant wailing had gotten Hiashi out of countless meetings with branch house members, the council, and occasionally the Hokage.
Hiashi would have liked nothing better then to raise Naruto himself, but unfortunately, the other heads wouldn't allow it. Naruto was part of their clans as well, and any one clan that raised him would be being unfair to the others. Not that any of them wouldn't have done it if they could have gotten away with it.
So with all of the clans dickering over who would raise him, the Hokage had been forced to step in and appoint a neutral guardian to look over Naruto. 'Picked a pretty good one as well.' Hiashi thought, as he looked up from Naruto to the scarred visage of Naruto's caretaker, Morino Ibiki.
The Morino had once been a great clan too, being Konoha's premier interrogators and psychology analysts. But they had all been involved in an inter-clan war between the Morino and the Gekkou. Both clans had killed each other off until only one member was left on each side, and they were only alive because they had been best friends. Those two were Ibiki and Gekkou Hyate.
"Naruto-kun, please go play with Hinata while we talk for a moment." Hiashi said. Naruto nodded, waved goodbye to 'Ibiki-nee-san', and went off to great his foster sister. Hiashi turned to Ibiki. "How has he been?"
"It's been relatively uneventful, except for another two assassination attempts. Thanks again for the bodyguard. Hizashi is most helpful." Ibiki said. Hiashi nodded his acknowledgment, and motioned for Ibiki to continue. "Naruto has also begun to," Ibiki looked from side to side, to make sure no one was within hearing range. "manifest."
Hiashi started in shock. When a child began to manifest, they were starting to show bloodline traits. "Which ones?" He asked urgently.
"Well, he was talking with a centipede the other day, which scared the crap out of me for a minute." Ibiki said, shivering. It was a little known fact in Konoha that their premier interrogator was terrified of bugs. "He started yelling in pain once, and veins were throbbing around his eyes. Oh, and sometimes he starts talking with someone that isn't their."
Shock was concealed behind Hiashi's cold face. 'He's manifesting the Byakugan, the Aburame Bug Contract, and the Haruno Inner Persona, all at the same time! Naruto has a lot of raw talent. I wasn't able to access the Byakugan until I was eight, and he's doing it at five!' "Ibiki-san, you will be seeing less of Naruto in the next little while. He needs immediate training with us, the Haruno, and the Aburame." Ibiki nodded in understanding. "Right now, Hokage-san will want to be informed of this, so I'll take Naruto and his contingent to the tower straight away." Ibiki nodded once again, then spun around and headed off in the direction of the prison.
Hiashi looked at the small knot of people that Ibiki left behind. There was one from every clan Naruto was a member of, including his own brother Hizashi. They were Naruto's bodyguard. Ever since the day the villagers had discovered he held the kyuubi with in him, Naruto's life had been put in constant danger. First, a maid had tried to kill the boy when he went to recover from the adoption ceremony. Then, a week later, a gennin decided that it would kill the demon. The attempts continuously escalated, until the villagers had started pooling their money to hire foreign ninja to assassinate him.
After the first Jounin from Suna had tried to kill him, and would have succeeded if Ibiki hadn't intervened, it had become necessary to appoint an actual bodyguard. They contained the best and brightest from the thirteen clans, all sworn not to let petty clan issues interfere with the protection of their charge. There were the old, like Chouza's father, Akamichi Chodo, to the extremely young, like eight year old Uchiha Itachi. And together, the thirteen of them looked after Naruto like a bunch of doting old uncles (or cousins or brothers) that would kill anyone who raised a hand to him. Hiashi made a hand signal, and the group formed a loose perimeter on the rooftops around the park.
Hiashi walked over to the sandbox, where Naruto and his foster sister Hinata were making a sand castle. He got there just in time to hear Naruto say, "This is the biggest one we've ever made, Hinata-chan! Now we should add some windows!" Hiashi couldn't help but let out a small chuckle at Naruto's exuberance. Naruto spun around and beamed at his (one of many) foster father. "Hi again, Hiashi-tou-san! What're we doing today?"
Quickly, Hiashi slapped back on his cold façade. "Today, Naruto-kun, we're going to the Hokage's. Then, we're going to be beginning you ninja training."
"COOL!" Naruto yelled. Hiashi winced. Sometimes, if he hadn't been there, he would have doubted that this was a member of the Hyuuga clan. Hyuuga were usually cold, tactful, and above all, quiet. Naruto was as warm as a sunny day, blunt as a club, and loud enough to break eardrums. Shaking his head, Hiashi motioned for Naruto and Hinata to follow him, and they began to walk to the Hokage tower.
Once they got there, Hiashi quickly explained the situation. The Hokage grinned. "Well, Naruto-kun, you show great potential to be shinobi. We'll be starting your training soon. But before we do that, are you sure you want to be a shinobi? It's a hard and dangerous life, with little reward."
Naruto thought about it for a minute, a look of serious concentration looking very strange on his five year old face. "I don't want to a ninja." The Hokage looked down in disappointment. "I want to be the best ninja ever! I'm gonna kick everyone's butts, so no one tries to hurt me anymore!"
Hiashi and Naruto looked stunned by the declaration, while Hinata only gave out a small smile. She might not know much of what the people were talking about, but she did know her brother. Any challenge that he was given was quickly laughed at, then beaten.
"I thought you might say that." The Hokage said, then reached into a drawer in his desk and withdrew a scroll. "This is your new training schedule. Understandably, every single one of your families took it upon themselves to help you out." He handed the scroll over, and Naruto hastily broke the seal and thanked Kami that Ibiki had taught him how to read. He scanned the contents, and felt his jaw dropping.
The Schedule Read:
5:00 AM- 6:00 AM: Taijutsu with Sarutobi Clan
6:00 AM- 7:00 AM: Stealth and Tracking with Hatake Clan
7:00 AM- 8:00 AM: Chakra Control with Hyuuga Clan
8:00 AM- 9:00 AM: Psychology with Yamanaka Clan
9:00 AM- 10:00 AM: Animal Training with Inuzaka Clan
10:00 AM- 11:00 AM: Nature Studies with Aburame Clan
11:00 AM- 12:00 PM: Genjutsu with Yuuhi Clan
12:00 PM- 1:00 PM: Lunch with Akamichi Clan
1:00 PM- 2:00 PM: Tutoring with Haruno Clan
2:00 PM- 3:00 PM: Strategy with Nara Clan
3:00 PM- 4:00 PM: Weapons with Shinkotama Clan
4:00 PM- 5:00 PM: Ninjutsu with Uchiha Clan
5:00 PM- 6:00 PM: Anatomy with the Mitarashi Clan
As Naruto read through his schedule, he began to feel tired just looking at the amount of work he would have to do. "Oji-san, when am I going to get to sleep? Or make friends, or have fun?" He asked.
"Naruto-kun, this training will make you by far the best Ninja ever. You'll get to sleep after you're done with it. Besides, you'll be making friends while you train. Any clans that have children will be teaching them when they teach you. I understand that most of them have kids, except for the Sarutobi and the Hatake. And my son's wife is expecting, so there will be a child there too, soon." The Hokage answered. "As for having fun, I'd be surprised if you didn't enjoy your training very much." At this, Naruto's smile returned full force.
"Naruto-kun, I suggest you go home now and rest up. You'll be working very hard tomorrow. Take Hinata with you, and drop her off at the Hyuuga compound please." Hiashi said. Naruto nodded, then ran out the door. Hiashi and Sarutobi waited for a minute until they heard his footsteps die down.
"Now, Hiashi-san, what is the thing you have to tell me that you don't want Naruto and Hinata to hear?" the Hokage asked.
Hiashi let out a sigh. "There were two more assassination attempts on Naruto within the last twenty-four hours. I managed to get the specifics from Hizashi and Itachi on our way here. Yesterday, at lunch, someone attempted to slip a high-grade poison into Naruto's ramen. It was unsuccessful for one reason: the Akamichi. They can tell whenever something has been done to food, and Choda managed to stop Naruto from eating in time." The Hokage let out a sigh of relief.
"And the second one?"
"That one was more... direct. Late last night, a team of six Jounin from grass attacked Naruto's house. Three were killed by the traps Ibiki set up, while the bodyguard took care of the other half."
"I... see. How many attempts does this make?"
"According to last count, Seventy-Three."
The Hokage let out a long sigh of his own. "I will draft a letter to the minor villages that we can intimidate stating that any attack on Naruto constitutes a declaration of War on Konoha. That will stop the minor villages, but if I send it to the major ones, they will just try to do it on their own and frame someone else."
Hiashi nodded. "Thank you, Hokage-san. For right now, we of the thirteen clans will make sure that Naruto can defend himself." After that serious statement, the Hyuuga head remembered something that he had been told to ask the Hokage, and his face turned bright red. "Um, Hokage-san, there is one other matter."
The Hokage raised an eyebrow at the current coloring of Hiashi. "And what would that be?"
"You, knowing all of the jutsus in Konoha and being a master of them all, would know the answer to this question. The adoption and attunement jutsu, how closely does it relate the subject to the caster?" He asked. The Hokage just looked at him for a moment. "I mean, say, Naruto. I look after him like I would my son, but how closely related to me is he?"
"Why do you ask that? I've heard that any not closely related to the clan head get relegated to the branch house. Is that why you-"
"No, nothing like that! It's just that... well, my wife wants to marry Naruto to one of my daughters. She said something along the lines of 'good breeding stock', and I'm worried that if he is related as closely to me as a son, that that would be... incestuous." Hiashi stammered out.
The Hokage suppressed a chuckle. "Ok, Hiashi, I will put you worries to rest. What the adoption and attunement jutsu does is augments the subjects blood, chakra, and body to somewhat mimic that of the caster while still retaining his original traits. So, it just took Naruto's Uzumaki blood and morphed it to be more like yours." Seeing that Hiashi wasn't comprehending, the Hokage decided to explain it mathematically, the one way all Hyuugas understood. "You do know fractions, right?" Hiashi nodded. "So let's imagine Naruto in fractions. Let's say he has, maybe one hundred parts, all originally Uzumaki." Hiashi nodded again.
"What the adoption and attunement ritual does is change one, at most two, of those parts. So when you performed the ritual on Naruto, he became 98 percent Uzumaki and 2 percent Hyuuga. The same happened with the other rituals. So, Naruto is at least, 74 percent Uzumaki. He is as directly related to you, as maybe, your wife's cousin's mother's aunt's grandchild is. If he marries Hinata, or more likely Hanabi as he sees Hinata like a best friend, there would be nothing incestuous about it." Sarutobi explained.
Hiashi let out another sigh, this one of relief. "Thank you, Hokage-san. You've been most helpful." At that, he turned and exited the room.
The Hokage grinned at Hiashi's back. 'Good luck Hiashi, because you are the seventh clan head to ask me that.'
The next morning, Ibiki woke Naruto up at 4:30 in the morning. "Good morning, Naruto-kun. You have enough time to eat and get a shower before you head off to the Sarutobi compound." Naruto nodded groggily, then crawled out of his little bed to get dressed.
At exactly Five O'clock, Naruto arrived at the Sarutobi compound. A big, muscular man in a training outfit met him at the door. "On time! Good!" he said.
"Goki-nee-san! So you're training me today?"
"For the next hour. Oh, and before we start, I'm going to have to ask you to call me Goki-sensei. After we're done, you can go back nee-san. Ok?" Goki asked. After Naruto nodded, Goki said "Then follow me to the dojo."
After a few minutes of walking, they arrived at the Sarutobi dojo. "Naruto, what's Taijutsu?" Goki asked.
"When you fight with your fists and feet!" Naruto exclaimed.
"So just punching someone in a street fight is Taijutsu?" he asked. When Naruto nodded, Goki shook his head. "Wrong." When Naruto looked at him in confusion, he said "That, Naruto, we call brawling. Taijutsu is about fighting to win. Every move should be something that is out to disable if not kill your opponent. If it's not aimed to at least disable, it should be there to build up for another move that should. Every punch, kick, or even headbutt, should be used to aim to win. Do you understand?" Naruto thought for a moment, then nodded.
"Ok, Naruto. There are countless styles of Taijutsu, and eventually you will be learning quite a few. But for now, we should just work on your overall fighting. Here, punch that bag." He gestured to a punching bag hanging from the ceiling of the dojo. Naruto walked up to it, and got in a fighting stance. He punched the bag, then paused, then punched it again.
"Stop!" Goki commanded. "You leave too much of an opening between punches. Anyone with half a brain could find that hole!" So for the next hour, Goki tried to correct some of the major flaws with Naruto's hand-to-hand fighting skills. Some were obvious, like his punching speed. But others were more subtle, like the fact that when he punched with his left hand, he usually hooked it.
At two minutes before six, Goki stopped him. "Naruto, next up, head to the Hatake compound. Kakashi himself will be teaching you stealth." Naruto nodded.
"Hai, sensei!" he shouted, and took off as fast as his five-year old legs could carry him. Soon enough, he was undergoing stealth and tracking training. That pretty much entailed a giant game of hide and go seek, only when Naruto was found, he was given pointers on what he did wrong. After the hour-long session, Naruto was able to hide from Kakashi for almost three minutes before being caught.
Then it was off to the Hyuuga compound, where Hiashi briefed Naruto on what chakra was, and how to control it involving handseals. "Now, Naruto-kun, try to muster up your chakra."
"Which seal should I use?" Naruto asked.
Hiashi thought about it for a moment. "For you, I'd recommend ram."
Naruto nodded, then placed his hands in the Ram Seal and tried to call up his chakra. The result almost blew Hiashi away, as a bright blue aura manifested itself around Naruto and a wind blew out from him. It was one of the strongest manifestations he had ever seen! "Naruto! Stop!" he yelled over the wind. Naruto instantly let the seal go, then looked up at Hiashi.
"How did I do, Hiashi-sensei?" he asked. He had been told to call everyone sensei in training, no matter what their relation to him was outside of training.
"W-Well, Naruto-kun, it is clear that you have a lot of chakra." Hiashi stammered out. Then he put his normal look back on and said, "So now, we focus on control. Try to focus all of your chakra onto your left hand." Naruto complied, and the bright blue aura was confined to the space around his hand.
"Now force it out through your palm." Hiashi commanded, and there was a stream of chakra flowing out of Naruto's palm.
"Time for the control exercise. Take this leaf, and try to use chakra to make it hove two inches from your hand." He put a leaf on Naruto's hand, and Naruto began to expel chakra. The leaf rocketed up, finally stopping a good two feet in the air. Naruto frowned, and lessened his chakra output. The leaf lowered slightly. Naruto fiddled with it again, and it blasted up higher then before.
Hiashi went over to explain the exercise to Hinata, who was taking the lesson with them. She got it instantly, so Hiashi went back to watch Naruto struggle. At the end of the hour, Naruto had managed to get his output down to one foot worth of chakra. 'This is going to take a while.'
After Chakra Control, Naruto was off to Psychology with Yamanaka Inoichi. As he got to the Yamanaka house, he was greeted at the door by his friend Ino. "Hi, Ino-nee- I mean Ino-chan!" He wasn't sure why, but last month, a lot of his mothers had told him to think of their daughters as his friends, not his sisters. So he did, except for Hinata, whom he just couldn't get the sister image out of his head with.
"Hi, Naruto-kun!" Ino shouted, waving enthusiastically. "Come on, daddy's in the living room!" She pulled him by the hand to where Inoichi was waiting. They spent the next hour learning all about the human brain. Afterwards, with his own head spinning, Naruto went off to his next lesson with the Inuzakas.
There, he met his friend Kiba. He and Kiba always liked to play tag in the park, and playing pranks on some random villagers. He also saw Hana, Kiba's older sister. She was three years older then Naruto was, but still hung around with him a lot. Hana was also training to be a veterinarian. "Hi, Kiba-nee-san, Hana-chan! Hey, Hana-chan, where is he? Is he okay?"
Hana smiled at Naruto's impatience, not that any of the Inuzaka's were anything else when it came to dealing with their dogs. "He's fine, Naruto-kun. He just ate a little too much too fast, so he threw up. He should be out any minute." As soon as she finished speaking, a small grey dog ran up to Naruto and began licking his face.
"Kouken! I missed you, buddy!" He yelled as he gave his dog a hug. His dog, Kouken, barked back at you. "What do you mean it's my fault?!" Naruto shouted. "You're the one who ate too fast!" After a short argument between boy and dog, Hana broke it up.
"Come on! We've go to go train!" she said. Instantly, Naruto and his dog stopped yelling at each other, and went inside the Inuzaka complex, where they were soon being lectured on Animal Training.
'This sounds exactly like Inoichi-tou-san's lesson, only with dogs!' Naruto thought while he struggled to stay awake.
Afterwards, he and Kouken went to the Aburame's home, where Shibi talked about bugs a lot, and how they worked with nature. Every bug had a place in the great cycle of life, from the termites who chewed through trees, to the mosquitoes who bit people and made them itch. Naruto shared this lesson with his friend Shino, who was just like a smaller version of his father.
Next, it was time for Genjutsu Training with the Yuuhi Clan. Naruto entered the area owned by the red-eyed people, and suddenly his vision disappeared. Naruto spent a couple minutes panicking, then just decided to sit down and do nothing, so he wouldn't run into anything. As soon as he sat, his vision returned and he saw a red-eyed man with a young red-eyed girl standing in front of him.
"Hi Iriai-sensei, Kurenai-chan! Why couldn't I see a minute ago?"
The man answered, "Because, Naruto-kun, you were just affected by a genjutsu. Genjutsu attack the senses, and make you believe in illusions."
Naruto thought about that for a minute. "That wasn't fun!"
"But it was the best way to demonstrate a genjutsu." Iriai said. "Correct me if I'm wrong, but you've already had chakra control training today, right?" Naruto nodded. "Then it should be easy to work on dispelling genjutsu."
For the next hour, Iriai told Naruto and Kurenai how to dispel genjutsu. There were two ways: temporarily cutting off your chakra flow, or emitting so much chakra that the genjutsu was forced off. At the end of the lesson, Kurenai was able to pull off the first method with no trouble, and Naruto could do the second quite easily.
Then it was time for the lesson Naruto had been looking forward to most of all. Lunch with the Akamichis. But while he was aloud to gorge himself, he also learned while he was eating. Chouza talked about how to determine what was in your food by how it tasted, and how the tongue remembered something if it tasted it just once. Also, Naruto finally got to ask a question he had been wanting to know the answer to for some time.
"Chouza-sensei, why aren't I fa-, I mean big boned, like the rest of you? I eat just as much, but I don't get any fatt- more big boned."
"Well, Naruto-kun, on an Akamichi, the food gets converted to whatever it is you need. On most of us, it gets converted to fat so we can turn it into energy easily. But on you- I'd better show you. Naruto, punch this table." Chouza commanded.
"Hai!" Naruto yelled, then punched the sturdy oak table they had been eating at. Surprisingly, it splintered.
"On you, Naruto-kun, the food gets changed into muscle, making you much stronger then you should be. Once you start weight training and learning how to use chakra to enhance your punches, I wouldn't be surprised if you could level buildings with three fingers."
"COOL!"
Then it was time for the lesson Naruto was dreading most: tutoring with the Harunos. As soon as Naruto greeted his friend Sakura, and they sat down to be lectured by her father, Naruto put his head down and was sound asleep.
He was awoken ten minutes later by an eraser hitting him on the head. "Naruto! What were we just discussing?" Kosumo asked in a tone of voice that said that he knew Naruto hadn't been paying attention.
Naruto was about to take a wild guess when he heard a voice in his head. Konoha before the Shodaime! It whispered. Naruto shrugged, and repeated what the voice had just said. Kosumo looked at him in shock.
"How did you know that?! I know you were sound asleep!" Kosumo asked incredulously.
"I'm not really sure. Someone told me to say it, so I did. It seemed like a good idea." At this, Kosumo shook his head.
'I can't believe he's manifesting at this age!' He thought. Then his inner voice chimed in, 'But it sounds kick ass! He's manifesting the Haruno power before most of the others! Take that, Uchiha!' Kosumo started to explain the Haruno bloodline to Naruto.
"Well, Naruto-kun, that voice you heard was, well, lets call him your 'Inner Naruto'. Every Haruno clan member develops an Inner Persona, which often yells things in your head that you don't want to say out loud. It's pretty annoying, but it's actually pretty helpful. You see, your inner persona never sleeps, so it's always watching your surroundings. It can hold information, so even if your outer persona forgets it, the inner one will remind it. That's why practically all Harunos are excellent scholars. We never forget stuff. The Inner Persona also allows you to focus on two totally different things at the same time, allowing you to effectively multitask. So, did you understand that?" Naruto shook his head, and Kosumo slapped his own forehead.
At this point, Naruto's inner persona decided to speak up. 'He's pretty much saying that I'm here, I know stuff you don't, and I'm damn useful! Got it?' Naruto shook his head. "I understand, Kosumo-sensei."
Then it was time for the strategy session with Nara Shikaku and his son, Nara Shikamaru. Shikaku was a genius, and Shikamaru was gaining on him quickly despite only being the same age as Naruto. The strategy lessons were pretty much Naruto sitting there, playing games of Shogi and Go against Shikamaru while Shikaku corrected them both when they did something stupid.
Then it was time for the weapons training with the Shinkotamas. At first, Naruto and Ten-Ten, youngest of the Shinkotamas, learned what the weapons were. Afterwards, Naruto could safely assume that there were a lot of weapons, and they all hurt really badly when you were hit with them.
Then Naruto and Ten-Ten practiced with shuriken. Ten-Ten was already pretty good at throwing them, but Naruto simply wasn't getting it. He missed the target entirely over half the time. After a while of missing, he went up to Ten-Ten. "Ten-chan, what am I doing wrong?"
Ten-Ten watched Naruto throw another few shuriken, then corrected him. It turned out that something had been wrong with the placement of his fingers. Naruto thanked her, then went back to throwing.
Watching them from off to the side, Tenoshi was cackling inside his head. 'HAH! My daughter's closer to him then the others! Take that Yuuhi, Haruno, Yamanka, Inuzaka and Hyuuga! Oh, and Mitarashi! TAKE THAT, I'M WINNING!'
After Weapons Training, Naruto ran off to the Uchiha compound for training in the last of the three major jutsu branches: ninjutsu. He was met at the door by a lower-ranking Uchiha. "Come, Naruto-sama." The servile man said. "Your trainer is this way." He walked off, and Naruto followed him.
Soon, they made it to Naruto's new ninjutsu sensei. "Itachi-nee-san! You're my sensei here?"
Itachi cracked a slight grin. "Yes, Naruto-kun. I'm teaching you and Sasuke ninjutsu." Naruto looked over at the other person in the room, a young Uchiha the same age as Naruto. Naruto's face crinkled up in dislike. He and Sasuke had never really gotten along, with Naruto being somewhat closer to Itachi then Sasuke was.
The ninjutsu lesson was pretty interesting. Itachi explained about how chakra and hand seals were used in ninjutsu, then showed them a sample one, called Katon: Goukakyuu no Jutsu (Fire Style: Powerful Flame Technique). He then tried to get Naruto and Sasuke to perform it.
Both were having problems, until Naruto remembered Hiashi's lessons on chakra control, and focusing chakra to one part of your body. Naruto managed to focus all of his chakra to his throat, and blow out a huge fireball. Sasuke looked angry that Naruto got it before he did, but Itachi praised his efforts lavishly.
It was time for the final lesson of the day: Anatomy with the Mitarashi. Naruto made it to the compound quickly, and was placed in a classroom-like setting, with a slightly scary woman standing up at the front of the room. "Ryusha-kaa-san! What good is anatomy?"
Ryusha, matriarch of the Mitarashi, sighed. "First, call me Ryusha-sensei during the lesson. Second, before I explain anything, we need to wait for Anko-chan to get here." They waited for five minutes until a young girl staggered in, panting from running.
"Sorry, Kaa-san. Kurenai and I were playing, and I didn't realize what time it was."
"It's fine, Anko-chan. Just take your seat, and we'll start the lesson." Anko was seated. "Well, Naruto, in answer to your question, I understand you've learned how throw weapons today?" Naruto nodded. "Anatomy teaches you where to throw those weapons. So you can disable instead of kill, kill instead of injure, or humiliate instead. Make sense?" Naruto nodded.
Soon enough, the lesson came to an end. "Ok, Naruto-kun, you can do whatever you want now." Ryusha said.
"Okay! Bye, Ryusha-sensei! See ya later, Anko-chan!" Naruto called as he ran out of the room. As he ran through the village, he tried to decide where to do. 'Home.' He decided. 'I need sleep!' He passed through a group of villagers. "Excuse me!" he yelled as he made his way through.
Once he was through, he added more speed and ran off to his home. The villagers watched him go with a look of disgust on their faces. One turned to another. "The demon is getting bolder. We have to try again."
"But none of the villages we approach will take the mission any more!" the second one said.
The first one grinned a sadistic smile. "So we contact different villages. I understand the Mist specialize in assassinations."
"Hi, Hiashi-tou-san!" Naruto cried. Hiashi winced at the volume, something far above what most toddlers could achieve. Of course, Naruto was definitely not average. "What're we doing today, Hiashi-tou-san?" As Naruto stared at him expectantly, the normally cold Hyuuga head couldn't help but chuckle.
He had started doing that a lot since he met Naruto. As a baby, the boy was always grabbing everything he could, which led to embarrassing situations with the current maid at the Hyuuga compound. He also had been extremely convenient, as he and his constant wailing had gotten Hiashi out of countless meetings with branch house members, the council, and occasionally the Hokage.
Hiashi would have liked nothing better then to raise Naruto himself, but unfortunately, the other heads wouldn't allow it. Naruto was part of their clans as well, and any one clan that raised him would be being unfair to the others. Not that any of them wouldn't have done it if they could have gotten away with it.
So with all of the clans dickering over who would raise him, the Hokage had been forced to step in and appoint a neutral guardian to look over Naruto. 'Picked a pretty good one as well.' Hiashi thought, as he looked up from Naruto to the scarred visage of Naruto's caretaker, Morino Ibiki.
The Morino had once been a great clan too, being Konoha's premier interrogators and psychology analysts. But they had all been involved in an inter-clan war between the Morino and the Gekkou. Both clans had killed each other off until only one member was left on each side, and they were only alive because they had been best friends. Those two were Ibiki and Gekkou Hyate.
"Naruto-kun, please go play with Hinata while we talk for a moment." Hiashi said. Naruto nodded, waved goodbye to 'Ibiki-nee-san', and went off to great his foster sister. Hiashi turned to Ibiki. "How has he been?"
"It's been relatively uneventful, except for another two assassination attempts. Thanks again for the bodyguard. Hizashi is most helpful." Ibiki said. Hiashi nodded his acknowledgment, and motioned for Ibiki to continue. "Naruto has also begun to," Ibiki looked from side to side, to make sure no one was within hearing range. "manifest."
Hiashi started in shock. When a child began to manifest, they were starting to show bloodline traits. "Which ones?" He asked urgently.
"Well, he was talking with a centipede the other day, which scared the crap out of me for a minute." Ibiki said, shivering. It was a little known fact in Konoha that their premier interrogator was terrified of bugs. "He started yelling in pain once, and veins were throbbing around his eyes. Oh, and sometimes he starts talking with someone that isn't their."
Shock was concealed behind Hiashi's cold face. 'He's manifesting the Byakugan, the Aburame Bug Contract, and the Haruno Inner Persona, all at the same time! Naruto has a lot of raw talent. I wasn't able to access the Byakugan until I was eight, and he's doing it at five!' "Ibiki-san, you will be seeing less of Naruto in the next little while. He needs immediate training with us, the Haruno, and the Aburame." Ibiki nodded in understanding. "Right now, Hokage-san will want to be informed of this, so I'll take Naruto and his contingent to the tower straight away." Ibiki nodded once again, then spun around and headed off in the direction of the prison.
Hiashi looked at the small knot of people that Ibiki left behind. There was one from every clan Naruto was a member of, including his own brother Hizashi. They were Naruto's bodyguard. Ever since the day the villagers had discovered he held the kyuubi with in him, Naruto's life had been put in constant danger. First, a maid had tried to kill the boy when he went to recover from the adoption ceremony. Then, a week later, a gennin decided that it would kill the demon. The attempts continuously escalated, until the villagers had started pooling their money to hire foreign ninja to assassinate him.
After the first Jounin from Suna had tried to kill him, and would have succeeded if Ibiki hadn't intervened, it had become necessary to appoint an actual bodyguard. They contained the best and brightest from the thirteen clans, all sworn not to let petty clan issues interfere with the protection of their charge. There were the old, like Chouza's father, Akamichi Chodo, to the extremely young, like eight year old Uchiha Itachi. And together, the thirteen of them looked after Naruto like a bunch of doting old uncles (or cousins or brothers) that would kill anyone who raised a hand to him. Hiashi made a hand signal, and the group formed a loose perimeter on the rooftops around the park.
Hiashi walked over to the sandbox, where Naruto and his foster sister Hinata were making a sand castle. He got there just in time to hear Naruto say, "This is the biggest one we've ever made, Hinata-chan! Now we should add some windows!" Hiashi couldn't help but let out a small chuckle at Naruto's exuberance. Naruto spun around and beamed at his (one of many) foster father. "Hi again, Hiashi-tou-san! What're we doing today?"
Quickly, Hiashi slapped back on his cold façade. "Today, Naruto-kun, we're going to the Hokage's. Then, we're going to be beginning you ninja training."
"COOL!" Naruto yelled. Hiashi winced. Sometimes, if he hadn't been there, he would have doubted that this was a member of the Hyuuga clan. Hyuuga were usually cold, tactful, and above all, quiet. Naruto was as warm as a sunny day, blunt as a club, and loud enough to break eardrums. Shaking his head, Hiashi motioned for Naruto and Hinata to follow him, and they began to walk to the Hokage tower.
Once they got there, Hiashi quickly explained the situation. The Hokage grinned. "Well, Naruto-kun, you show great potential to be shinobi. We'll be starting your training soon. But before we do that, are you sure you want to be a shinobi? It's a hard and dangerous life, with little reward."
Naruto thought about it for a minute, a look of serious concentration looking very strange on his five year old face. "I don't want to a ninja." The Hokage looked down in disappointment. "I want to be the best ninja ever! I'm gonna kick everyone's butts, so no one tries to hurt me anymore!"
Hiashi and Naruto looked stunned by the declaration, while Hinata only gave out a small smile. She might not know much of what the people were talking about, but she did know her brother. Any challenge that he was given was quickly laughed at, then beaten.
"I thought you might say that." The Hokage said, then reached into a drawer in his desk and withdrew a scroll. "This is your new training schedule. Understandably, every single one of your families took it upon themselves to help you out." He handed the scroll over, and Naruto hastily broke the seal and thanked Kami that Ibiki had taught him how to read. He scanned the contents, and felt his jaw dropping.
The Schedule Read:
5:00 AM- 6:00 AM: Taijutsu with Sarutobi Clan
6:00 AM- 7:00 AM: Stealth and Tracking with Hatake Clan
7:00 AM- 8:00 AM: Chakra Control with Hyuuga Clan
8:00 AM- 9:00 AM: Psychology with Yamanaka Clan
9:00 AM- 10:00 AM: Animal Training with Inuzaka Clan
10:00 AM- 11:00 AM: Nature Studies with Aburame Clan
11:00 AM- 12:00 PM: Genjutsu with Yuuhi Clan
12:00 PM- 1:00 PM: Lunch with Akamichi Clan
1:00 PM- 2:00 PM: Tutoring with Haruno Clan
2:00 PM- 3:00 PM: Strategy with Nara Clan
3:00 PM- 4:00 PM: Weapons with Shinkotama Clan
4:00 PM- 5:00 PM: Ninjutsu with Uchiha Clan
5:00 PM- 6:00 PM: Anatomy with the Mitarashi Clan
As Naruto read through his schedule, he began to feel tired just looking at the amount of work he would have to do. "Oji-san, when am I going to get to sleep? Or make friends, or have fun?" He asked.
"Naruto-kun, this training will make you by far the best Ninja ever. You'll get to sleep after you're done with it. Besides, you'll be making friends while you train. Any clans that have children will be teaching them when they teach you. I understand that most of them have kids, except for the Sarutobi and the Hatake. And my son's wife is expecting, so there will be a child there too, soon." The Hokage answered. "As for having fun, I'd be surprised if you didn't enjoy your training very much." At this, Naruto's smile returned full force.
"Naruto-kun, I suggest you go home now and rest up. You'll be working very hard tomorrow. Take Hinata with you, and drop her off at the Hyuuga compound please." Hiashi said. Naruto nodded, then ran out the door. Hiashi and Sarutobi waited for a minute until they heard his footsteps die down.
"Now, Hiashi-san, what is the thing you have to tell me that you don't want Naruto and Hinata to hear?" the Hokage asked.
Hiashi let out a sigh. "There were two more assassination attempts on Naruto within the last twenty-four hours. I managed to get the specifics from Hizashi and Itachi on our way here. Yesterday, at lunch, someone attempted to slip a high-grade poison into Naruto's ramen. It was unsuccessful for one reason: the Akamichi. They can tell whenever something has been done to food, and Choda managed to stop Naruto from eating in time." The Hokage let out a sigh of relief.
"And the second one?"
"That one was more... direct. Late last night, a team of six Jounin from grass attacked Naruto's house. Three were killed by the traps Ibiki set up, while the bodyguard took care of the other half."
"I... see. How many attempts does this make?"
"According to last count, Seventy-Three."
The Hokage let out a long sigh of his own. "I will draft a letter to the minor villages that we can intimidate stating that any attack on Naruto constitutes a declaration of War on Konoha. That will stop the minor villages, but if I send it to the major ones, they will just try to do it on their own and frame someone else."
Hiashi nodded. "Thank you, Hokage-san. For right now, we of the thirteen clans will make sure that Naruto can defend himself." After that serious statement, the Hyuuga head remembered something that he had been told to ask the Hokage, and his face turned bright red. "Um, Hokage-san, there is one other matter."
The Hokage raised an eyebrow at the current coloring of Hiashi. "And what would that be?"
"You, knowing all of the jutsus in Konoha and being a master of them all, would know the answer to this question. The adoption and attunement jutsu, how closely does it relate the subject to the caster?" He asked. The Hokage just looked at him for a moment. "I mean, say, Naruto. I look after him like I would my son, but how closely related to me is he?"
"Why do you ask that? I've heard that any not closely related to the clan head get relegated to the branch house. Is that why you-"
"No, nothing like that! It's just that... well, my wife wants to marry Naruto to one of my daughters. She said something along the lines of 'good breeding stock', and I'm worried that if he is related as closely to me as a son, that that would be... incestuous." Hiashi stammered out.
The Hokage suppressed a chuckle. "Ok, Hiashi, I will put you worries to rest. What the adoption and attunement jutsu does is augments the subjects blood, chakra, and body to somewhat mimic that of the caster while still retaining his original traits. So, it just took Naruto's Uzumaki blood and morphed it to be more like yours." Seeing that Hiashi wasn't comprehending, the Hokage decided to explain it mathematically, the one way all Hyuugas understood. "You do know fractions, right?" Hiashi nodded. "So let's imagine Naruto in fractions. Let's say he has, maybe one hundred parts, all originally Uzumaki." Hiashi nodded again.
"What the adoption and attunement ritual does is change one, at most two, of those parts. So when you performed the ritual on Naruto, he became 98 percent Uzumaki and 2 percent Hyuuga. The same happened with the other rituals. So, Naruto is at least, 74 percent Uzumaki. He is as directly related to you, as maybe, your wife's cousin's mother's aunt's grandchild is. If he marries Hinata, or more likely Hanabi as he sees Hinata like a best friend, there would be nothing incestuous about it." Sarutobi explained.
Hiashi let out another sigh, this one of relief. "Thank you, Hokage-san. You've been most helpful." At that, he turned and exited the room.
The Hokage grinned at Hiashi's back. 'Good luck Hiashi, because you are the seventh clan head to ask me that.'
The next morning, Ibiki woke Naruto up at 4:30 in the morning. "Good morning, Naruto-kun. You have enough time to eat and get a shower before you head off to the Sarutobi compound." Naruto nodded groggily, then crawled out of his little bed to get dressed.
At exactly Five O'clock, Naruto arrived at the Sarutobi compound. A big, muscular man in a training outfit met him at the door. "On time! Good!" he said.
"Goki-nee-san! So you're training me today?"
"For the next hour. Oh, and before we start, I'm going to have to ask you to call me Goki-sensei. After we're done, you can go back nee-san. Ok?" Goki asked. After Naruto nodded, Goki said "Then follow me to the dojo."
After a few minutes of walking, they arrived at the Sarutobi dojo. "Naruto, what's Taijutsu?" Goki asked.
"When you fight with your fists and feet!" Naruto exclaimed.
"So just punching someone in a street fight is Taijutsu?" he asked. When Naruto nodded, Goki shook his head. "Wrong." When Naruto looked at him in confusion, he said "That, Naruto, we call brawling. Taijutsu is about fighting to win. Every move should be something that is out to disable if not kill your opponent. If it's not aimed to at least disable, it should be there to build up for another move that should. Every punch, kick, or even headbutt, should be used to aim to win. Do you understand?" Naruto thought for a moment, then nodded.
"Ok, Naruto. There are countless styles of Taijutsu, and eventually you will be learning quite a few. But for now, we should just work on your overall fighting. Here, punch that bag." He gestured to a punching bag hanging from the ceiling of the dojo. Naruto walked up to it, and got in a fighting stance. He punched the bag, then paused, then punched it again.
"Stop!" Goki commanded. "You leave too much of an opening between punches. Anyone with half a brain could find that hole!" So for the next hour, Goki tried to correct some of the major flaws with Naruto's hand-to-hand fighting skills. Some were obvious, like his punching speed. But others were more subtle, like the fact that when he punched with his left hand, he usually hooked it.
At two minutes before six, Goki stopped him. "Naruto, next up, head to the Hatake compound. Kakashi himself will be teaching you stealth." Naruto nodded.
"Hai, sensei!" he shouted, and took off as fast as his five-year old legs could carry him. Soon enough, he was undergoing stealth and tracking training. That pretty much entailed a giant game of hide and go seek, only when Naruto was found, he was given pointers on what he did wrong. After the hour-long session, Naruto was able to hide from Kakashi for almost three minutes before being caught.
Then it was off to the Hyuuga compound, where Hiashi briefed Naruto on what chakra was, and how to control it involving handseals. "Now, Naruto-kun, try to muster up your chakra."
"Which seal should I use?" Naruto asked.
Hiashi thought about it for a moment. "For you, I'd recommend ram."
Naruto nodded, then placed his hands in the Ram Seal and tried to call up his chakra. The result almost blew Hiashi away, as a bright blue aura manifested itself around Naruto and a wind blew out from him. It was one of the strongest manifestations he had ever seen! "Naruto! Stop!" he yelled over the wind. Naruto instantly let the seal go, then looked up at Hiashi.
"How did I do, Hiashi-sensei?" he asked. He had been told to call everyone sensei in training, no matter what their relation to him was outside of training.
"W-Well, Naruto-kun, it is clear that you have a lot of chakra." Hiashi stammered out. Then he put his normal look back on and said, "So now, we focus on control. Try to focus all of your chakra onto your left hand." Naruto complied, and the bright blue aura was confined to the space around his hand.
"Now force it out through your palm." Hiashi commanded, and there was a stream of chakra flowing out of Naruto's palm.
"Time for the control exercise. Take this leaf, and try to use chakra to make it hove two inches from your hand." He put a leaf on Naruto's hand, and Naruto began to expel chakra. The leaf rocketed up, finally stopping a good two feet in the air. Naruto frowned, and lessened his chakra output. The leaf lowered slightly. Naruto fiddled with it again, and it blasted up higher then before.
Hiashi went over to explain the exercise to Hinata, who was taking the lesson with them. She got it instantly, so Hiashi went back to watch Naruto struggle. At the end of the hour, Naruto had managed to get his output down to one foot worth of chakra. 'This is going to take a while.'
After Chakra Control, Naruto was off to Psychology with Yamanaka Inoichi. As he got to the Yamanaka house, he was greeted at the door by his friend Ino. "Hi, Ino-nee- I mean Ino-chan!" He wasn't sure why, but last month, a lot of his mothers had told him to think of their daughters as his friends, not his sisters. So he did, except for Hinata, whom he just couldn't get the sister image out of his head with.
"Hi, Naruto-kun!" Ino shouted, waving enthusiastically. "Come on, daddy's in the living room!" She pulled him by the hand to where Inoichi was waiting. They spent the next hour learning all about the human brain. Afterwards, with his own head spinning, Naruto went off to his next lesson with the Inuzakas.
There, he met his friend Kiba. He and Kiba always liked to play tag in the park, and playing pranks on some random villagers. He also saw Hana, Kiba's older sister. She was three years older then Naruto was, but still hung around with him a lot. Hana was also training to be a veterinarian. "Hi, Kiba-nee-san, Hana-chan! Hey, Hana-chan, where is he? Is he okay?"
Hana smiled at Naruto's impatience, not that any of the Inuzaka's were anything else when it came to dealing with their dogs. "He's fine, Naruto-kun. He just ate a little too much too fast, so he threw up. He should be out any minute." As soon as she finished speaking, a small grey dog ran up to Naruto and began licking his face.
"Kouken! I missed you, buddy!" He yelled as he gave his dog a hug. His dog, Kouken, barked back at you. "What do you mean it's my fault?!" Naruto shouted. "You're the one who ate too fast!" After a short argument between boy and dog, Hana broke it up.
"Come on! We've go to go train!" she said. Instantly, Naruto and his dog stopped yelling at each other, and went inside the Inuzaka complex, where they were soon being lectured on Animal Training.
'This sounds exactly like Inoichi-tou-san's lesson, only with dogs!' Naruto thought while he struggled to stay awake.
Afterwards, he and Kouken went to the Aburame's home, where Shibi talked about bugs a lot, and how they worked with nature. Every bug had a place in the great cycle of life, from the termites who chewed through trees, to the mosquitoes who bit people and made them itch. Naruto shared this lesson with his friend Shino, who was just like a smaller version of his father.
Next, it was time for Genjutsu Training with the Yuuhi Clan. Naruto entered the area owned by the red-eyed people, and suddenly his vision disappeared. Naruto spent a couple minutes panicking, then just decided to sit down and do nothing, so he wouldn't run into anything. As soon as he sat, his vision returned and he saw a red-eyed man with a young red-eyed girl standing in front of him.
"Hi Iriai-sensei, Kurenai-chan! Why couldn't I see a minute ago?"
The man answered, "Because, Naruto-kun, you were just affected by a genjutsu. Genjutsu attack the senses, and make you believe in illusions."
Naruto thought about that for a minute. "That wasn't fun!"
"But it was the best way to demonstrate a genjutsu." Iriai said. "Correct me if I'm wrong, but you've already had chakra control training today, right?" Naruto nodded. "Then it should be easy to work on dispelling genjutsu."
For the next hour, Iriai told Naruto and Kurenai how to dispel genjutsu. There were two ways: temporarily cutting off your chakra flow, or emitting so much chakra that the genjutsu was forced off. At the end of the lesson, Kurenai was able to pull off the first method with no trouble, and Naruto could do the second quite easily.
Then it was time for the lesson Naruto had been looking forward to most of all. Lunch with the Akamichis. But while he was aloud to gorge himself, he also learned while he was eating. Chouza talked about how to determine what was in your food by how it tasted, and how the tongue remembered something if it tasted it just once. Also, Naruto finally got to ask a question he had been wanting to know the answer to for some time.
"Chouza-sensei, why aren't I fa-, I mean big boned, like the rest of you? I eat just as much, but I don't get any fatt- more big boned."
"Well, Naruto-kun, on an Akamichi, the food gets converted to whatever it is you need. On most of us, it gets converted to fat so we can turn it into energy easily. But on you- I'd better show you. Naruto, punch this table." Chouza commanded.
"Hai!" Naruto yelled, then punched the sturdy oak table they had been eating at. Surprisingly, it splintered.
"On you, Naruto-kun, the food gets changed into muscle, making you much stronger then you should be. Once you start weight training and learning how to use chakra to enhance your punches, I wouldn't be surprised if you could level buildings with three fingers."
"COOL!"
Then it was time for the lesson Naruto was dreading most: tutoring with the Harunos. As soon as Naruto greeted his friend Sakura, and they sat down to be lectured by her father, Naruto put his head down and was sound asleep.
He was awoken ten minutes later by an eraser hitting him on the head. "Naruto! What were we just discussing?" Kosumo asked in a tone of voice that said that he knew Naruto hadn't been paying attention.
Naruto was about to take a wild guess when he heard a voice in his head. Konoha before the Shodaime! It whispered. Naruto shrugged, and repeated what the voice had just said. Kosumo looked at him in shock.
"How did you know that?! I know you were sound asleep!" Kosumo asked incredulously.
"I'm not really sure. Someone told me to say it, so I did. It seemed like a good idea." At this, Kosumo shook his head.
'I can't believe he's manifesting at this age!' He thought. Then his inner voice chimed in, 'But it sounds kick ass! He's manifesting the Haruno power before most of the others! Take that, Uchiha!' Kosumo started to explain the Haruno bloodline to Naruto.
"Well, Naruto-kun, that voice you heard was, well, lets call him your 'Inner Naruto'. Every Haruno clan member develops an Inner Persona, which often yells things in your head that you don't want to say out loud. It's pretty annoying, but it's actually pretty helpful. You see, your inner persona never sleeps, so it's always watching your surroundings. It can hold information, so even if your outer persona forgets it, the inner one will remind it. That's why practically all Harunos are excellent scholars. We never forget stuff. The Inner Persona also allows you to focus on two totally different things at the same time, allowing you to effectively multitask. So, did you understand that?" Naruto shook his head, and Kosumo slapped his own forehead.
At this point, Naruto's inner persona decided to speak up. 'He's pretty much saying that I'm here, I know stuff you don't, and I'm damn useful! Got it?' Naruto shook his head. "I understand, Kosumo-sensei."
Then it was time for the strategy session with Nara Shikaku and his son, Nara Shikamaru. Shikaku was a genius, and Shikamaru was gaining on him quickly despite only being the same age as Naruto. The strategy lessons were pretty much Naruto sitting there, playing games of Shogi and Go against Shikamaru while Shikaku corrected them both when they did something stupid.
Then it was time for the weapons training with the Shinkotamas. At first, Naruto and Ten-Ten, youngest of the Shinkotamas, learned what the weapons were. Afterwards, Naruto could safely assume that there were a lot of weapons, and they all hurt really badly when you were hit with them.
Then Naruto and Ten-Ten practiced with shuriken. Ten-Ten was already pretty good at throwing them, but Naruto simply wasn't getting it. He missed the target entirely over half the time. After a while of missing, he went up to Ten-Ten. "Ten-chan, what am I doing wrong?"
Ten-Ten watched Naruto throw another few shuriken, then corrected him. It turned out that something had been wrong with the placement of his fingers. Naruto thanked her, then went back to throwing.
Watching them from off to the side, Tenoshi was cackling inside his head. 'HAH! My daughter's closer to him then the others! Take that Yuuhi, Haruno, Yamanka, Inuzaka and Hyuuga! Oh, and Mitarashi! TAKE THAT, I'M WINNING!'
After Weapons Training, Naruto ran off to the Uchiha compound for training in the last of the three major jutsu branches: ninjutsu. He was met at the door by a lower-ranking Uchiha. "Come, Naruto-sama." The servile man said. "Your trainer is this way." He walked off, and Naruto followed him.
Soon, they made it to Naruto's new ninjutsu sensei. "Itachi-nee-san! You're my sensei here?"
Itachi cracked a slight grin. "Yes, Naruto-kun. I'm teaching you and Sasuke ninjutsu." Naruto looked over at the other person in the room, a young Uchiha the same age as Naruto. Naruto's face crinkled up in dislike. He and Sasuke had never really gotten along, with Naruto being somewhat closer to Itachi then Sasuke was.
The ninjutsu lesson was pretty interesting. Itachi explained about how chakra and hand seals were used in ninjutsu, then showed them a sample one, called Katon: Goukakyuu no Jutsu (Fire Style: Powerful Flame Technique). He then tried to get Naruto and Sasuke to perform it.
Both were having problems, until Naruto remembered Hiashi's lessons on chakra control, and focusing chakra to one part of your body. Naruto managed to focus all of his chakra to his throat, and blow out a huge fireball. Sasuke looked angry that Naruto got it before he did, but Itachi praised his efforts lavishly.
It was time for the final lesson of the day: Anatomy with the Mitarashi. Naruto made it to the compound quickly, and was placed in a classroom-like setting, with a slightly scary woman standing up at the front of the room. "Ryusha-kaa-san! What good is anatomy?"
Ryusha, matriarch of the Mitarashi, sighed. "First, call me Ryusha-sensei during the lesson. Second, before I explain anything, we need to wait for Anko-chan to get here." They waited for five minutes until a young girl staggered in, panting from running.
"Sorry, Kaa-san. Kurenai and I were playing, and I didn't realize what time it was."
"It's fine, Anko-chan. Just take your seat, and we'll start the lesson." Anko was seated. "Well, Naruto, in answer to your question, I understand you've learned how throw weapons today?" Naruto nodded. "Anatomy teaches you where to throw those weapons. So you can disable instead of kill, kill instead of injure, or humiliate instead. Make sense?" Naruto nodded.
Soon enough, the lesson came to an end. "Ok, Naruto-kun, you can do whatever you want now." Ryusha said.
"Okay! Bye, Ryusha-sensei! See ya later, Anko-chan!" Naruto called as he ran out of the room. As he ran through the village, he tried to decide where to do. 'Home.' He decided. 'I need sleep!' He passed through a group of villagers. "Excuse me!" he yelled as he made his way through.
Once he was through, he added more speed and ran off to his home. The villagers watched him go with a look of disgust on their faces. One turned to another. "The demon is getting bolder. We have to try again."
"But none of the villages we approach will take the mission any more!" the second one said.
The first one grinned a sadistic smile. "So we contact different villages. I understand the Mist specialize in assassinations."
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