Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ A Tail of Two Bijus ❯ Naruto-Sensei ( Chapter 29 )

A/N: Yo! Sorry I'm late, I had to go and pick up my dry cleaning before the shop closed...

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Votes:

PLEASE READ BEFORE CONTINUING:

I cannot accept any new ideas, and the armour pieces for Naruto, Sora and Hotaru have been chosen. The only person left to vote for is Yukiko. I'm NOT going to let you vote for anything other than Plasma Defensive Sleaves or the Genjutsu Eyepiece. I've reset Yukiko's votes to zero and you guys can have one more vote each, again, first to five.

Ok, First poll is the options for D. As I said, I'll post the first three options made and those will be your options for D. Here's what's been suggested.

(D):

(I): sleeves like sasukes, but black and made out of chain mail delicately attached together by chakra. Can absorb chakra and create a sort of force field with it. - White Alchemist Taya.

Taya, I have to tell you right now that this is the most plausible option. In the second Naruto movie, one of Temujin's friends had some sort of ability called the plasma ball which either activated when anything approached at close range, forming an electromagnetic shield around her, or it was active at all times, and only became visible when something hit it.

(II): A headpiece that guards against and amplifies Genjutsus. - Ki master.

I think that this could be a decent idea. Although you suggested a helmet or headpiece, I'm going to go with a headpiece like Deidra's from the manga when he helps Sasori capture Gaara, as a helmet would be too bulky. It's basically a mix between a monocle and half a pair of binoculars. Also, I decided that I'd have to modify it a little bit to do both your possibilities, both lessening opponents genjutsu and amplifying their own.

(III): A piece for Gaara only. A special metal sand that is lighter, thus faster, and finer so he can mold sharpened blades with it (yeah I'm inspired by sunagakure's sandaime kazekage) - Dragon Noir

You know, I think this is the only piece that Gaara could even use. A decent idea to.

Now, for the real poll, what each person gets. BTW, If you think that one of the custom pieces is actually suited better for a character and you picked one of the options I gave you before I introduced the three of your options, then I will allow you to repick, however, in your review, please state in the very first line that you are repicking. I will allow ONLY the people who picked before I put up your options to repick, everyone else only has one choice for each character. First option to five for each character wins:

Naruto: RESULTS: Gauntlet.

Yukiko:

(D):

(I): Plasma Defense Sleeves: 0

(II): Genjutsu Eyepiece: 0

Gaara: RESULTS: Iron Sand.

Sora: RESULTS: Shoes.

Hotaru: RESULTS: Greaves.

Remember, if you picked before the custom options were added, you may pick again if you wish, but ONLY if you picked before the custom options. If you do, I will take all of your previous choices, take them off your first choices and add them to your new choice.

Rokudaime quote for the chapter: KAKASHI: “I'm swearing off Come Come Paradise. From now on, I will only read lemon Naruto fanfics”

Um, I've heard rumours that people are ripping off my story. I'm too busy to go searching for them, so could you be my eyes and ears for me? Thanks guys. Now for the Reviews and Comments:

foxsoldier: I'm sorry to hear that. I hate losing fans, but if you don't like my story, I can't make you read it. Thanks for the comments on the story up to now.

White Alchemist Taya: Seriously? Wow thanks. Um... I don't know what to say. /wub perhaps? Iono...

NekoGuyFan: Hehehehe. Well, the reason why they were so easily defeated was that Westerners had never encountered the east's style of fighting, meaning they were litterally like O.O with a side of WTF thrown in. However, now that they have an idea of how they fight, things are going to get far more messy for Naruto and the gang. As for the real world westerners having chakra, I'd have to say it's more likely than not that we do have some form of chakra system, although it could be nothing like it is in Naruto. For example, remember how the Hyugas fight by sealing the Tenketsu, which are located around the body? Well, after studying the human body for several years on and off during biology, I decided to do a little investigation myself for a major project. Long story short, the major Tenketsu in Naruto are almost exactly the same as some of the main pressure points in real human bodies. I also remembered that Chinese Acupuncture rely on sticking needles into the major pressure points to reduce stress. Man, I should get that done... Anyways, it was a few years ago since I did the research but remember how in Hinata's and Neji's match, Neji sealed the Tenketsu in her arm? ¾ of them are real pressure points that if you get really lucky and hit will cause different reactions. For example, if you hit one of the Tenketsu near the wrist, you can force your opponents legs to give way. Chances of it happening when using a Juken style strike? Nill. The pressure point is so tiny that no amount of jabbing will let you hit it right. I don't know how they do it, but martial aritists can twist someone's arm to trigger the pressure point as if you hit it, not sure how though. Seems the creaters of Naruto did their research well.

Skuld's Sentaro 6: /bow. Thanks :P

mrasdfghj: Were you by chance on drugs when you created your pen name? It's... Unique... I'll give you that... Anywho, Naruto too powerful? As said in one of the comments above, the Westerners had never seen eastern fighting, however, now they know what to expect. Naruto's going to have it tough from here. As for the failure thing? No. The second he fails, he stops being Naruto. He will be majorly OOC. If you really think he needs to fail, then I suggest you go watch the entire anime series and read all the manga issues and tell me when he's failed. His fight with Orochimaru in the forest of death and the academy failures don't count. Why? Because Naruto is correcting his mistakes. He beat everyone who ever did the bunshin test in Konoha by a long shot, and he owns Orochimaru with only four tails out. As for the Naruto Sasuke fight at the valley of the end? Nope, he won that too. How? They made a bet that Naruto couldn't scratch Sasuke's forehead. What did he do? Scratch his forehead protector. He won that fight, if only morally.

Dragon Noir: Hidden meaning? Nah. Think about it. Gamakichi and Gamatatsu both refer to Gamabunta as 'pops', so I'm assuming that all of the other lesser summons refer to ther summon boss as 'pops' or 'dad' or something. As for not liking the shoes... Well, it's your opinion and you're entitled to it. However, most people don't seem to mind them. So I go with the majority. I personally think the majority thing sucks, because I was always the one guy who voted the exact opposite that everyone else did. Not out of spite, but because I believed it was the better option. As for the new Kyubi's name, before you expect an answer, think over it for a moment. Did the real Kyubi ever have another name apart from, Kyubi no Kitsune, Kyubi, Demon Lord, Damn Fox, or anything like that? That should answer your question :P

saiyan prince 1: TY. Something else hidden? I wonder... :P

Katana Haibane: Better... I guess so. Longer? Nope. Despite me saying that last chapter was 41 pages, it was still about 1k words less than my longest chapter. Thanks for the compliments. Read the final note for what will be explained in this chapter. It will contain a lot of medical terms and some scientific ones. Lack of power? Um, I must have failed to describe something properly yet again. The Odama Rasengan took out the entire corridor, which was 100 or so meters long. The only reason why the hostages were ok was that they were all in the room with the door sealed. I didn't tell you, but the reason that the command centre went in for repairs was because of what Naruto did.

Final note: This chapter will contain light to moderatly complicated medical terminology. I did not look any of this up, as my mum's a nurse, so I hear this stuff all the time. Also, it's suprising how much medical knowledge is in video games too. Also in this chapter, I will reveal the Westerners source of power, so if you haven't seen the second Naruto movie, I'd suggest skipping over the next few chapters until they leave the west, as most of it will refer to the power source. I'm sorry to those of you who fall into this category, but I've tried my hardest to keep it out of my fic until I couldn't do it any longer. It seems two chapters is my limit. Sorry people. If you're wondering why I'm going to be likening it to Phazon from Metroid Prime, it's because they're too simmilar for my liking. WAY too simmilar. Infact, I'd almost be willing to say that Naruto ripped it off Nintendo. Therefore, I will be showing you the simmilarites between the two by substituting Gelel for Phazon, based off the pirate logs in both Metroid Primes. I have a damn big fascination in both Gelel and Phazon, so it's a very interesting subject for me.

As always, I hope my creativity gives you some semblance of pleasure to read.

 

Legend:

 

'...Thoughts...'

 

“...Japanese...”

 

“...English...”

 

“...TWO PEOPLE CASTING THE SAME JUTSU...”

 

'...Biju Thoughts...'

 

“...Biju Talking...”

 

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A Tail of Two Bijus:

 

Chapter 24:

 

Settling in to Their New Home:

 

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Several Weeks After Arriving in Antioch:

 

Naruto and the others had settled in rather quickly. Yukiko and Hotaru had quickly became very well know after they had both used their medical jutsus to heal a person each from near death. Now Yukiko and Hotaru were pretty famous in the city hospital too. Naruto had made a bunch of friends with the younger boys, who he loved to help devise brand new pranks with. Gaara actually developed a fan club of girls who all wanted to date him. No one knew why, but the girls thought he was irrisistable. Gaara quickly developed a whole new level of respect for one Uchiha Sasuke. It wasn't hard to avoid them, but he admitted they were very persistant. Naruto and Jiraiya had actually decided to keep a score board for how many girls they had seen chasing after Gaara. The small clip board very quickly became too small. They decided once the number of indivdual fan girls reached 100, there was no point in continueing. The last strike to the tally was added after three weeks of arriving in Antioch. Everyone except Gaara was in the library. Naruto and Jiraiya both announced their verdict.

 

“Lucky guy.”

 

However Hotaru happened to overhear this while she was reading through a book on western civil war, before she looked up and stated her opinion.

 

“Is he really? If I was him, I'd consider it a curse.”

 

Naruto saw what she was getting at. He sat back in his comfy armchair and stretched.

 

“Well, I guess you could consider it like that. I guess he's going through what Sasuke did when we were younger.”

 

Yukiko who was reading a thick leather bound tome on western medical discovereies looked up and smirked.

 

“Yeah. Although he's got an advantage over them.”

 

At that point, the library door burst open and then shut again. They could hear deep breaths and sensed fear. They felt for the chakra signature and identified it as Gaara.

 

“Speak of the devil, look who the cat just dragged in.”

 

Gaara ran up to Naruto.

 

“Naruto, this is probably the only request I will ever make. Can you make a Kage Bunshin and use Henge to take my place? These girls may not be ninjas, but they almost put Chunins to shame considering they're girls that are supposed to be trained in areas other than physical fitness.”

 

Yukiko sighed and smiled.

 

“Never get between a woman and her chosen man. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.”

 

Gaara nodded.

 

“I believe that. Will you do it, Naruto?”

 

Naruto smiled.

 

“Fine, but you owe me.”

 

Gaara nodded. Naruto formed the cross with his fingers and lazily mutterd 'Kage Bunshin no Jutsu...' After the smoke had cleared, the Naruto clone muttered 'Henge'. Just then Jiraiya noticed one fatal flaw in the plan.

 

“Gaara, have you used any sand techniques to get away from them before?”

 

Gaara thought about it, then shook his head.

 

“There was no need.”

 

Jiraiya nodded.

 

“Ok. If you had, there's no way Naruto's clone could immitate that.”

 

“That's what I remembered once the fan club started. I didn't use the sand incase something like this happened.”

 

Just then, a knock on the door was heard. Before muffled english could be heard from outside.

 

“Gaara? You have a visitor. She claims to be your girlfriend.”

 

Everyone rolled their eyes. Gaara melted into the carpet while the Gaara lookalike opened the door.

 

“Girlfriend? I don't remember having a-”

 

Before he could finished, a girl in white robes flung herself at Gaara. The Gaara clone was knocked onto the floor and knocked his head, causing the clone to dispell, leaving the girl to tumble to the floor. She looked around madly.

 

“Gaara? Where'd you go?”

 

Everyone in the room was snickering, and the girl pouted at them.

 

“What did you do to Gaara?”

 

Naruto couldn't hold it in any longer and laughed out loud. He smiled at her.

 

“A favour.”

 

The girl pouted and looked at him.

 

“Favour?”

 

“I bought him enough time to get out of here. He may be in the streets again with your friends hugging him.”

 

This got the desired effect. The girl goggled at them and ran out of the door screaming.

 

“Wait for me Gaara! I want to be the first one to hug you!”

 

She was silenced by the librarian as she ran out of the libray and into the streets. Gaara raised himself from his melded state with the floor, nodding to Naruto.

 

“Thank you.”

 

“No problem.”

 

At that moment, Renke came into their little room and smiled.

 

“Afternoon everyone.”

 

They all said their hellos and then Renke smiled.

 

“I'm sure you've noticed by now that a number of our warriors have stylized pieces of armour. Haido has authorised that we try and make some special prototype armour pieces based on your fighting style and we're going to try and incorperate chakra into it. Would you guys like to come and see what we have to offer?”

 

They stared in shock at Renke. Naruto was typically the first out of his stupor.

 

“Armour? Sure! I'll come!”

 

Yukiko nodded.

 

“I'd like to try some too.”

 

The all nodded and turned to Jiraiya for his response.

 

“Thanks for the offer, but I'll have to pass. I don't like fighting with armour.”

 

Renke nodded.

 

“Well, let's go to the testing labs.”

 

They nodded and followed Renke into what they had come to know as the millitary sector of Antioch. Renke led them along the narrow streets and eventually ended up in the highest security area. She approached a building that was very unusual for the glimmering style and glamour of Antioch. At the front, she stopped. There seemed to be a little machine on the wall. Renke took off her glove and placed a finger on a little piece of glass. The glass flashed red three times before it flashed green. Renke then bent down and put her eyes level with two oddly eye shapped holes. They managed to see a bright white light seeping out through spaces in the soft black plastic that she rested her head on. Finally they heard a beep and the front door clicked. Renke put her glove back on and pulled the thick metal bulkhead door open. She motioned them to go inside, and once they had gone inside, she closed the door with a resounding CLANK. She led them through the dimly lit hallway with the soft clanging of her metal boots coming into contact with the metal floor. She reached the end of the hall and called the elevator car. The door opened and they got in, before she pushed the 3rd last button from the bottom. The doors closed and the life began moving. Once they reached the floor, the doors opened and they saw... Well.. They saw lots of things they didn't think they would ever see. There was scaffholing everywhere, holding up strange objects while people soldered other pieces onto the things. There were people sitting at desks with lots of tools and all of them working on something different. Despite the amount of work going on, there was suprisingly little noise. Sure, they head the sounds normally associated with a workshop, however they did not hear much talking. Renke walked right past everything to the back of the huge room, and opened a door to what was apparently a very spartan office. There was an old white haired old man behind the desk who looked up at the intrusion and smiled.

 

“Renke, it's good to see you again.”

 

“It's good to see you too, professor.”

 

They engauged in a bit more rimenescing of old times before he turned to the others.

 

“So these are the easterners I've heard so much about. It's a pleasure to meet you. I'm known around here as the professor.”

 

Hotaru arched an eyebrow.

 

“Professor?”

 

The man nodded.

 

“Due to the level of technology in this building, everyone from the 4th floor down is given code names to address each other by, to protect our secrecy. Also, everyone from the fourth bottom level downwards practically never leave this building.”

 

Naruto stared at him.

 

“Never leave this building? How long has it been since you left?”

 

The man stroked his chin for a while. Obviously it had been a VERY long time since he left.

 

“Can't remember to tell you the truth.”

 

Naruto sighed.

 

“What could keep you down here for so long? Don't you have a wife and kids? Friends? Relatives?”

 

The man smiled sadly.

 

“Nope. Not a single relation. Unfortunately, my family were murdered by the Militia while I was away on a confrence. I decided to dedicate my life purely to research before I was old enough to marry.”

 

Naruto shook his head.

 

“I'm... I'm sorry... Considering how we've lived, I should know better...”

 

The man shook his head.

 

“No problem. Now, I understand you're here for custom made armour parts. I would have deligated this to 15 levels above me, until I heard what your source of power was. I'm sure you know about the Gelel stones?”

 

The nodded, but Sora stated how much they knew.

 

“We know of them, but apart from that, we know practically nothing.”

 

The professor smiled.

 

“Not suprising. Only those on the 6 bottom levels of this facility know the true power of Gelel stones, and how to use them.”

 

Gaara suddenly got very concerned.

 

“If these Gelel stones are your source of all power for your army, then do the Militia have the stones too?”

 

The professor smiled widly at them.

 

“Thank god no. When they split off from us, we had only just discovered the existance of a minor Gelel vein about 3 days walk northeast of here. We had absolutely no idea what the stuff was, only that it was both powerful and fatal to organisms who came into contact with it. The real reason the Militia split off from us is that they believed that the Gelel vein was like the forbidden fruit from the bible. I assume you know about the fruit I'm talking about?”

 

The all nodded.

 

“Basically, the people who left us were the most fanatical Christians of the city. However, when we brought a sample of the Gelel vein in for analysis, they formed a riot and tried to destroy the sample. We just managed to beat them off, and the survivors took their belongings and left the city. We have no idea where their main base is, but it's well hidden. Anyway, back to the Gelel. Once we did an extensive analysis, we found out that Gelel was a radioactive biological mutagen.” (OH I LOVE OBSCURE GAME REFERENCES)

 

Yukiko narrowed her eyes.

 

“So Gelel is actually a living thing?”

 

The professor nodded.

 

“From what we can tell, it has the same intelligence as a tree, however, it's mutanagenic properties are startling.”

 

Yukiko, the medical expert of the group was getting concerned.

 

“What could it do?”

 

“Originally, we tested a minute smaple on lab rats. Even a moderatly sized piece three times a day in their food produced results, namely, a rapidly increased metabolism, and a drastically reduced life span.”

 

Yukiko and Hotaru understood the implications of this. Hotaru spoke.

 

“In other words, the rate at which their cells reached apoptosis was sped up, meaning that their cells rapidly multiplied beyond what the body can stand.”

 

Yukiko nodded and finished the rest of it.

 

“Which would imply either a complete break out in tumours and cancers or total physical mutation.”

 

The professor looked surprised that these two had been able to grasp the full implications of what he said.

 

“You two wouldn't happen to be medical professionals, would you?”

 

They both nodded and the professor sighed.

 

“Well, we slowly realised that if the rats were fed it from the moment they were born, their resiliance to it was increased. As the rats multiplied, we found them becoming more and more resistant to the Gelel. We increased it, but the results this time were drastically different. Just a few days after we fed the concerntraited batch to the latest generation, they went mad, attacking anything and everything that came near them, however, within a week, even the strongest one died. When we performed autopsies on them, we found that each and every single one of their brains had shrunk in size by a considerable amount. We also found that the body's defenses had began mass producing white blood cells to attack the brain, which would indicate that the brain became a foreign part of the body. When we inspected the chemical composition of the brains, we were startled to find that their DNA had been so badly mutated, that they suffered from a disease which we termed “Gelel madness”, making them rabid while they were alive. We then understood that Gelel was a poison to the body, and we immediately scrapped all research to infuse rats with Gelel. We never even got to stage two of the research, which was to infuze it into monkeys.”

 

They nodded. The professor went back into his tale.

 

“So then we wondered what we could do with this stuff. It had practically unlimited potential, yet we didn't know how to tap it. Some of the scientists began thinking that the people who became known as the Militia were right, that this was the forbidden fruit. However, a young scientist who was a close personal friend came up with a revolutionary idea. Gelel in it's pure form is like an aquious solution, but he suggested we try either freezing it or burning it, to see what reaction it had on it. Burning it did nothing except destroy it, so we treid feezing it, and to our suprise, it automatically froze within minutes. When we pulled it out of the freezer, we noticed that it began melting, but very slowly. It took almost three days for it to completely melt. So we them decided to freeze it and then burn it. We were like little kids with a new toy. Eventually we found out that certain exteme temperatures had a profound effect on the Gelel. We found out that absolute zero and 1025.6 degrees Celcius had the most profound effect. Eventually, we managed to create a process of freezing and burning which created a permanently soilidified Gelel Stone. It still had all the potency of it's liquid state, but it seemed that it's outter shell had lost it's potency and contained the still semi-liquid Gelel with it's full potency in the center. At the time, we had no idea of the implicatons of the object, however, one scientist accidentally dropped one and it hit the ground. It made a massive explosion that took out three floors, despite the protection in between each floor. When we finally went inside, we found that the area was heavily irradiated. We had just created the world's most powerful weapon. We code named it the Harbinger. However, we managed to recover the scientist's log book which he had left at the front desk by accident, and found out that the one he had dropped was not from the same Gelel vein as the one we had been using, because we had just found another vein a few weeks prior. The Gelel stones from that vein were immediately seized and locked in a very secure place on the bottom level of this facility, and they declared that vein a level alpha secret, meaning that no one except the people of the bottom floor had access to it. Unknown to everyone from the second last floor up, the government was secretly working on some sort of mechanism that could fire these stones very long distances on the bottom floor. However, they realised that the stones would not survive such gravitational strain and would explode upon activating the launcher. Eventually, they settled for sealing them inside a crate of sorts with a display screen and buttons on the top. When the correct code was entered, the display would begin counting down. Once it reached zero, the Harbingers inside them would detonate, casuing an explosion big enough to level half of Antioch.”

 

So the rumor about the box that could level an entire village was actually true. Naruto was still inquisitive as to how this became their main power source.

 

“So how exactly did you come to use Gelel in everyday life?”

 

The man smiled.

 

“Although Gelel is common, we don't dare use it as a fuel source. We have no idea of what could happen if a freak accident was to occur. So with the new Gelel vein sealed, we kept working with what we had. We just couldn't find a use for the stones no matter what we did. However, a team of archiologists uncovered a third Gelel vein. Thinking this could be our big chance, we immediately began research on it. We found to our suprise that the thrid Gelel vein was the exact opposite of the second. It was extremely stable, and it did not produce the mutations in the lab rats to anywhere near the extent that the first or second one did. However, it still mutated them, and so we went to solidifying it. Once again, we were surprised that this vein's Gelel actually seemed to completely solidify, and we tried many things with it. On the bottom level, they were trying things madly as well. However, they skipped the first two testing stages and went straight onto humans. However, their method of getting the body to take it in was rather... Primitive. They transplanted a whole Gelel Stone into a human. What surprised us to no end was that the human suffered no negative side effects. On the contrary, he seemed to gain powers the likes of which no one had ever seen before. When they gave him a sword to practice with, he made the sword unleash a small amount of energy. The bottom floor quickly tried to develop weapons that the man could use. They came up with a prototype for the sword that you saw Commander Temujin wearing. The experiment was a complete success. The man could unleash waves of energy with the swing of the sword. By now, the government had began inserting Gelel Stones into a select group of warriors. All of them got some form of power, whether it was a shield or increased senses. The other most obvious physical change was that their pupils became red.”

 

Something clicked for the teenagers. They reviewed just how many red eyed people they had seen since they came here. Naruto narrowed his eyes.

 

“That would mean that every single officer has a Gelel stone implanted...”

 

The professor smiled.

 

“Exactly. However, one day, the first test subject reported feeling naucious. They took this very seriously and strapped him down to a table and began testing him like mad. He found this very invasive and tried to break free, but the metal clamps kept him down. Evenutally he snapped and started howling. What the scinetists saw made more than one of them wet their pants. The man began physically mutating into a humanoid lion. He snapped the restriants and began killing the scientists in a frenzy. He was eventually subdued and restrained. When he fell unconcious, his body transformed back into his human body. Eventually, one at a time, each in different circumstances, the other subjects began transforming to and from their animal like forms.”

 

They stared at him. They were actual transformations, not a simple genjutsu to change their appearance? Naruto turned to Renke.

 

“Then that means...”

 

Renke smiled.

 

“Yup. I can do it too. I transform into a bat.”

 

Naruto looked at her with renewed interest.

 

“Can you show us?”

 

Renke sighed and smiled.

 

“Just like little children. Ok just once.”

 

Renke shuddered as the sleaves on her skin tight undershirt ripped and leathery wings began to grow out at a rapid rate. Renke's face began to darken in colour, before fur grew out of her face. Her cainines lengthened and her fingernails turned into claws that made the group envious. When she opened her eyes, they were completely red. Not just the irises, but the entire eye. She smiled at them and hopped into the air and fluttered a bit to prove she could fly. They just gawked at her. She smiled a very toothy smile before she changed back to normal.

 

“It doesn't hurt, it just feels very very strange. You never get used to the feeling. Great, now I have to get a new shirt...”

 

The professor smiled and turned back to the teens.

 

“Well, you've heard all about Gelel now. Remember, what is said in this room does not leave it, ok?”

 

Naruto nodded.

 

“As ninja in the east, we're expected to be able to keep secrets.”

 

The professor nodded.

 

“Now, I would love to hear about this... Chakra that you use in the east.”

 

They looked at each other and they began recounting all they knew about chakra, which between them was extensive. The professor nodded. At the end of the history, he nodded.

 

“Facinating. Absolutely facinating. Would you be able to show me some of this chakra?”

 

Naruto nodded and formed a seal of the ram, and a blue aura of chakra began to surround him. The professor looked like he's just found something that could make him the world's most famous man. He nodded and asked for another demonstraition.

 

“Could you show me this demonic transformation? Preferably release the first gate if possible please.”

 

Naruto sighed and warned them.

 

“Unleashing the first gate is extremely painful. I think you should warn your people out there to ignore the scream.”

 

The man looked at Naruto like he had just asked him to jump off a cliff. Yukiko sighed.

 

“The first gate produces an armour of demonic chakra that at first glance actually looks like it's protecting him, but the exact opposite is true. The armour is burning him constantly. With each gate he opens, the demonic regerneration struggles more and more to keep up. By the time he opens the fourth gate, the damage done to him surpases what the regeneration can handle, and rips blood from his body through his pores. Any more than that is almost garanteed suicide.”

 

The man nodded slowly and stepped out from brhind his desk.

 

“Well then, why don't we go into blast chamber number 3?”

 

Renke saw the blank look on their faces and filled them in.

 

“Blast chambers are made to withstand a harbinger explosion. We'll be fine in there.”

 

Naruto nodded and followed the professor out. As he walked past the desks, one person stopped him.

 

“Professor, I've got the results you asked for.”

 

The professor smiled.

 

“Let me see them.”

 

The man at the desk passed a clipboard with a bunch of paper attached to it. The professor flipped through several of the pages which seemed to contain graphs and tables. He nodded slowly.

 

“Check the effect of Gelel stones on the alloy again. I don't like the results, they're too unpredictable.”

 

The man nodded.

 

“That's what I thought. I've been testing them for three weeks, but I was required to hand the report to you today.”

 

The professor nodded.

 

“Will another three weeks be sufficient?”

 

The man looked thoughtful for a moment.

 

“I really can't say. I'll definitely have more defined results, but I highly doubt that the exact cause of the metal's habit of bonding with the Gelel stones will be completely understood, even with half a year's worth of examination.”

 

The professor thought about this carefully.

 

“I'll have two others help you tomorrow for the three weeks. If anything like the third test result happens again, tell me immedaitely.”

 

The man nodded.

 

“Sure thing.”

 

The man turned back to his work while the professor smiled and continued walking. Eventually, he reached a very thick red metal door. He punched in a code into the key pad before it beeped and the door began swinging open. When the door was side on, they noticed that the door was at least 30 foot of solid metal. The inside of the room was huge. It was made of blank grey metal bulkheads. The professor led them into the room and shut the door. Once they were inside, he nodded to a table in the center of the room.

 

“Please lay on there. We have very powerful sensors linked to that table which should be able to help us understand what this chakra is.”

 

Naruto nodded and laid on the table and began releasing a steady amount of Normal chakra. The professor flicked a switch at the computer terminal next to the table. He felt really weird. It was like no feeling he had ever felt before.

 

“I've basically attempted to magnatise your body. Nothing unusual.”

 

The professor flicked swithces, failing to come up with anything until he flicked a certain switch.

 

“I'm going to try and touch you with a piece of innert Gelel.”

 

Naruto nodded, but as he felt the Gelel nearing him, he felt a very evil vibe coming off it. When the Gelel touched his chakra, the chakra surged into it and caused it to shatter. Naruto looked at it in shock, as did everyone else. The professor narrowed his eyes.

 

“Did you do that conciously?”

 

Naruto shook his head.

 

“The closer it got to me, the more I felt like it was almost giving off killer intent. Once it touched my chakra, my chakra moved on it's own accord.”

 

The professor nodded slowly, trying to make sense of it.

 

“That was interesting to say the least. It seems as though Chakra and Gelel are the equivalent of matter and anti-matter.”

 

The professor went deep into thought, before he looked up.

 

“There's something I need to try. Can you please release your demon chakra, and I will attempt to try and put a Gelel piece near you.”

 

Naruto nodded and slowly released his blood red chakra. Another piece of Gelel in a mechanical arm slowly lowered itself to him. However, Naruto felt no killer intent or anything weird. The piece of Gelel touched his chakra and kept going. It touched Naruto's skin, leaving a slightly cool feeling on his skin where it touched. The professor was baffled.

 

“I have no idea what this means. For once, I'm at a complete loss...”

 

Yukiko however, had a faint idea of what this could mean.

 

“It may seem that the Militia were right after all...”

 

The professor looked at her.

 

“What do you mean?”

 

Hotaru had a very concerned look on her face.

 

“Normal chakra reacts violently to Gelel, while demonic chakra doesn't. I find that too coincidental.”

 

The professor nodded slowly.

 

“I will have to investigate this further. Is there any way I can possibly obtain some of both of your types of chakra and store them?”

 

Naruto shook his head.

 

“Chakra has no physical substance, so no physical object can contain it.”

 

The professor sighed.

 

“Pity.”

 

He sighed and shook his head.

 

“For the armour parts I had origially intended to make, I wanted to infuse Gelel into them, however, doing such a thing would be very dangerous.”

 

Like the old Naruto used to do, he bounced back and smiled happily.

 

“But the upside is I get to study a whole new energy souce!”

 

Gaara shook his head.

 

“We are not your guinnea pigs.”

 

The professor shook his head rapidly.

 

“I never meant anything of the sort. I meant that if I got to do a few similar tests to what I did just now with Naruto over several days, I believe I may be able to get enough knowledge on chakra to get a fundamental grip on it's workings.”

 

Renke sighed.

 

“Professor, that is using them as guinea pigs.”

 

The professor slumped his shoudlers in defeat.

 

“Well, it was worth a try...”

 

Naruto chuckled.

 

“I'll tell you what. I'll come down here once a month for half a day and you can do as many non invasive tests as you want.”

 

The professors eyes lit up.

 

“REALLY?”

 

Naruto nodded. Everyone shook their heads in disbeilef. The professor was more of a child than a scientist when it came to new things. The professor grinned widely.

 

“Even if you came half as often as that, I'm sure I could make some amazing discoveries!”

 

Naruto grinned with a hint of mischif in his eyes.

 

“Would you like me to come half as often?”

 

The professor shook his head rapidly.

 

“No, no! It's ok!”

 

Everyone chuckled. The professor turned to everyone.

 

“I was requested to make a piece of custom armour for each of you, however, I seem to be getting the impression that every person's chakra is slightly different, correct?”

 

Yukiko nodded.

 

“Chakra is very simmilar to blood. When a couple have a child, like blood, the child's chakra signature is a mix between it's parent's chakra signatures.”

 

The professor nodded enthusiastically.

 

“Amazing. Well, it seems that I have a lot of work to do. I should be able to get a decent enough understanding of Naruto's chakra to create him a piece of armour. However, if I want to create each of you a piece of armour, I am almost positive that I will need to run at least one test on you at some point, as I might create a piece of armour for you that would only respond to Naruto's signature, and so it would be useless to you. At least, I would like to know your styles of fighting so as to create a suitable piece of armour for each of you.”

 

Renke noticed that they wanted a bit more of an explination on what the professor wanted to hear and spoke up.

 

“I think the professor means with your techniques, do you use point blank range attacks, ranged attacks, do you lack speed, if it is important to you, that kind of thing.”

 

The professor nodded.

 

“That is exactly what I meant.”

 

Naruto nodded and thought for a moment.

 

“I mainly use my hands in point blank range ninjutsu and taijutsu and I'd kind of like a bit of defense as well as offense.”

 

The professor nodded. Everyone began thinking. Finally Hotaru spoke up.

 

“I use a mixture of ninjutsu and taijutsu, however, my speed is fine. I mainly use my feet, shins and fists. I've met people before who I kicked and they just shook it off like I poked them. So a bit of extra power in my feet and shins would be good.”

 

The professor nodded. Sora spoke next.

 

“I rely too much on lightning and remaining still. This is fine for most people, however, people who specialise in speed have an easy time with me. I'd probably like a big boost in speed.”

 

The professor looked at Gaara.

 

“I do not move unless I am hit, which is rarely. I do not use taijutsu. I have what is called an absolute defense. There really is no need for armour.”

 

The professor looked at him quizzicly.

 

“You don't move?”

 

Naruto nodded.

 

“Show him what you mean, Gaara.”

 

Gaara nodded and the cork on top of his gourd popped off before sand began funneling out. He made it form a wall around him. The professor and Renke looked startled. Hotaru nodded.

 

“From what I've been able to figure out, the sand will protect him without him doing anything. However, if the shiled of sand is bypassed by chance, he has a second layer of defense, the armour of sand. The armour of sand is attached directly to the skin, and will replace itself on his command.”

 

On queue, Gaara's face turned to the colour of sand and the sand began to crack and fall off his face in lumps. The professor far too interested for his own good. He smiled.

 

“Well, Gaara, it seems that as you said, a piece of armour is unnecessary for you. However, that sand has weaknesses, does it not?”

 

Gaara nodded.

 

“A few people have been able to penetrate the sand with sheer brute force. If possible, I wouldn't mind it being strengthened, for example, my father used to use what was deemed 'iron sand'. I never found out the composition of it, but I would guess it was either ground up iron, or possibly iron coated sand. I'm not sure though, but that's the best I can come up with.”

 

The professor nodded.

 

“I'll see what I can do.”

 

He turned to Yukiko, who was the last one.

 

“I use mainly ranged ninjutsu. I use a mixture of wood, death and healing techniques to help me in combat. If I want to play around, I will use taijutsu, however, if I use taijutsu, it usually means I'm not taking the enemy seriously because they're weak. My speed is fine as is, as is my strength. The only problem I have is genjutsu, but people who use genjutsu that is high enough to seriously affect me in the east are almost one in a million.”

 

The professor absently scratched his chin indicating he was deep in thought. He smiled at Yukiko.

 

“It seems that you have no need for any of the pieces I had planned to modify. The only piece I could think of is a prototype pair of sleaves that form what's called a plasma ball. It's basically a defense that gives you a shield that you do not need to control, as it will deflect all incoming attacks. The only other piece I could think of is an illusionary eyepiece that lessens oponents illusions, but increases your own. However, you said that illusionists are rare in the east, correct?”

 

Yukiko nodded. The professor mumbled to himself befroe he looked up.

 

“Well, I'll see what I can do. OH! I still haven't seen this demonic gate you've told me about. Could I see it?”

 

Naruto nodded and hopped off the bench, stood in front of the professor and closed his eyes.

 

“The first demonic gate. The Armour Gate. KAI!”

 

Everyone expected the chakra armour to come out of Naruto's stomach, however, Naruto shivered. He felt like his skin was crawling. Everyone in Naruto's group began looking at him strangely. Yukiko was getting concerned.

 

“Naruto? What's happening?”

 

Naruto shook his head violently.

 

“I... I don't know...”

 

Yukiko then noticed how the chakra armour was going to manifest itself. She saw that the pores of his skin were slowly starting to secrete the red goo like armour. After a while, everyone noticed this too. Naruto started gritting his teeth from the pain. Eventually, he screamed out loud as the amount of chakra exiting his pours almost quintupled (multiplied by 5) and the armour began to take shape. Naruto slowly lowered onto all fours. When his hands hit the ground, they could hear a slight hissing noise and saw smoke coming out from under his feet and hands. Naruto snarled as his chakra armour became opaque and made a very odd noise that was easily heard. None of them had ever heard anything like it. It sounded almost like a resonating sound. Eventually the armour returned back to the normal colour of blood red. However, Naruto's friends were awear this was very different from any of the previous times he'd released the first gate. Yukiko noticed that Naruto was straining his body. Eventually, Naruto spoke up.

 

“Such... Power... I must have at least twice the power of when I released the first gate before... It's also twice as hard to control...”

 

Yukiko knew exactly what the reason was and sighed.

 

“It's probably because we absorbed our demons. Before, we were unable to tap most of their power because in essense, Nibi and Kyubi were transfering chakra from themselves to us, meaning that about 50 percent of it was lost in the transfer. It was a very crude method, but due to their near unlimited chakra reserves, it still had a very noticable effect. It seems that since we merged, we're now able to gain pretty much all of it.”

 

Naruto closed the first gate and the armour seeped off him and dispered into the atmosphere. The professor was staring at Naruto with fish eyes and a slightly open mouth. He smiled and spoke his mind.

 

“If that was the power of the first gate, then if you opened all of them-”

 

Naruto cut him off.

 

“I would die.”

 

This shut him up immediately. Renke sighed and shook her head.

 

“It seems you still have no tact, professor. Being down here for 40 years has had it's effect.”

 

The professor sighed and slumped his head and shoulders.

 

“I'm... I'm sorry...”

 

Naruto shook it off.

 

“It's fine. If you still want to know how much power I would have. I'd guess that I could unleash attacks with power rivaling or possibly beating your harbinger crates.”

 

The professor nodded.

 

“Would I be correct in assuming that each gate not only unleashes more power, but damages you more?”

 

Naruto nodded. The man nodded solemnly.

 

“I see. So the source of the power comes at a heavy price. How many people in the east can open the gates?”

 

Yukiko thought for a moment.

 

“Very few people below Chunin can even open the first gate. Some Jounins can open two or three. The most I have ever heard of being opened was 5. One is Naruto, and the other is a ninja who used nothing but hand to hand combat moves. His name was Lee. He told me once when he was learning to open them, he opened all five of them, and shortly after he began testing the powers, his muscles ripped from the sheer stress that was placed on them from his speed. He apparently spent several months in hospital in intensive care while his muscles recovered.”

 

The professor looked stared at the wall, deep in thought.

 

“That answers all my questions. I'll get to work on them immedaitely. However, Naruto, it would be a hassle for Commander Renke to escort you here and let you in every time you come here, so I'll get you registered as a temporary staff member so you can let yourself in.”

 

Naruto nodded and the professor smiled.

 

“Thank you all for coming here. I will get to work with the data I have. Commander Renke will lead you out. Naruto come with me please so I can get you registered.”

 

Naruto nodded and Renke turned and lead the others back to the lift. The professor followed them but turned off at the door before the lift. Inside were a lot of big machines. The professor led him up to a machine. The main part of it seemed to be an ovaloid piece of glass. The professor gestured to it.

 

“Please put your right thumb onto that piece of glass and keep it there. This is a fingerprint scanning device, and we'll have to take several scans to make sure we can identify you when you place your thumb on the scanner at the front door.”

 

Naruto nodded and put his finger on the piece of glass. The professor pushed a red button which turned green when he pressed it. The machine started to hum as the glass turned red, flashing three times before flashing green a fourth time. The button depressed itself and turned red. The professor nodded.

 

“That was the first scan. We need three more.”

 

So Naruto went through three more scans before the professor moved onto the second machine. The main apparent focus of this machine was a pair of rounded holes covered in black plastic. Naruto remembered Renke had put her eyes up to something very similar to let her into this building. Naruto put his eyes up to it and waited for the thing to start.

 

“This will be rather bright, but please try to keep your eyes open as long as possible.”

 

Naruto nodded and he heard the maching began to hum. Suddenly, a blinding yellow light shone directly into his eyes and he closed his eyes on instinct. He slowly opened them, letting his eyes adjust to the light. After about 30 seconds, the light blinked off and the machine stopped humming. The professor tapped Naruto on the back.

 

“Unlike the fingerprint scanner, we only need one cornea scan. You can step back now.”

 

Naruto did that and noticed that he was unable to see anything. He looked around madly and rubbed his eyes. The professor smiled, unknown to Naruto.

 

“Unfortunately, that happens to all of us. You'll get your full sight back in several minutes.”

 

Naruto nodded and mumbled a question.

 

“Any more tests?”

 

“Nope, that's it. The rest of the process is red tape as we call it. Just sorting out the offical documents and things. I suggest you sit down until your vision recoveres.”

 

The professor led Naruto to a chair. Naruto sat down and waited for his vision to clear. Two minutes passed and nothing changed. 5 minutes passed and still nothing. The professor was getting worried.

 

“Still no vision?”

 

Naruto shook his head.

 

“Even those with the most sensitive vision would have recovered it by now. What could possibly be wrong?”

 

Naruto groaned as he realised what was wrong.

 

“Demon senses suck sometimes...”

 

The professor raised an eyebrow at Naruto before he realised what Naruto was talking about.

 

“Since you absorbed your demon, you gained demon senses... I would agree that would be troubling at times.”

 

After 10 minutes, Naruto's vision began to clear. 15 minutes later, his vision was pretty much back to normal. Naruto got up and smiled at the professor.

 

“I can pretty much see as well as I normally could now.”

 

The professor smiled.

 

“Well, it was lovely meeting you, Naruto. Please don't forget to come back once a month.”

 

Naruto chuckled.

 

“I won't.”

 

The professor led Naruto to the lift and waved at Naruto as the lift door closed. Once Naruto reached to top, he walked down the corrdor until he got close to the door. He pretty soon realised that there was no handle on the door and no visable means of openeing it. He walked closer and inspected it, and the door opened for him. He looked at the door quizically before he saw a little green light above a piece of glass set above the door. He walked out, reminding himself to ask Renke how the door had opened as he walked back into the streets and into the bright afternoon sunlight, which made him squint. He felt the breeze ruffling his coat and he began walking off towards the palace, where he presumed everyone was.

 

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30 Minutes Later at the Front of the Palace:

 

Naruto walked up the steps leading into the palace and greeted the guards on duty who smiled at him as he went past. This was how he always wanted things to be. People actually RESPECTED him, despite knowing what he was. He walked up to the reception desk and smiled at the secretary who smiled back at him. She was in her twenties with long brown hair and blue eyes. She wore a tight fitting dress that looked very professional, which Naruto had found out not too long ago was a business dress for women in Antioch.

 

“Good afternoon, Naruto. Are you looking for your friends?”

 

Naruto nodded.

 

“They wouldn't happen to be here, would they?”

 

The woman nodded.

 

“They arrived back not to long ago with Commander Renke. They asked me to tell you that Jiraiya had asked to speak to all of you in the general mess hall.”

 

Naruto nodded and smiled one of his foxy grins at her.

 

“Thanks. Have a good afternoon.”

 

She smiled back at him.

 

“You too, Naruto.”

 

Naruto walked through the corridors, waving at people who he vaugly remembered. He finally got to the genral mess hall. Despite the name, the mess hall was anything but messy. It was kept immaculately clean, just like every other room in this palace. He saw several groups of soldiers, staff and even a few officers enjoying their afternoon tea. They all either smiled or waved at Naruto, which Naruto did right back to them. He eventually spotted his group sitting with Temujin deep in conversation. Yukiko turned around when Naruto got half way through the mess hall, as she detected his chakra signature that she had long ago burnt into her memory for all time. She smiled and waved at him, causing him to do the same thing back.

 

“Naruto! You have to come and hear this!”

 

Naruto nodded and Sora shifted over so Naruto could sit next to his girlfriend. Naruto put an arm around her waist under the table, trying to be descreet as possible. Temujin smiled at him.

 

“It's been a few weeks since we last met. How have you been, Naruto?”

 

Naruto smiled a pure smile, not one of those fake ones, which made Naruto's group releived.

 

“Great. I love this city. I'm almost tempted to stay here.”

 

Temujin chuckled and smiled.

 

“That's good to hear. I was asked to come here with a personal request that has been pushed through parliament. Supreme Commander Haido wants to know if you would be willing to teach several classes a week at the city's university.”

 

Naruto boggled.

 

“Us? Teach?”

 

Temujin nodded.

 

“It seems that many members of the society want to get to know more about your culture. One of the lessons that is compulsory for every university student is called cultural history. It's basically a subject that teaches the students about other cutlures, so as to allow them to understand and apprecaite the differences between our culture and others.”

 

Jiraiya narrowed his eyes.

 

“There are other cultures besides the west and east?”

 

Temujin shook his head, sending his blonde hair flying.

 

“Not exactly. Like in the east, we have different countries, except we call them states. Although from what I've heard of the east, the different countires are always on the verge of war, in the west, the states are more in harmony with one another. Long ago, the city of Antioch was almost as large as it was now, however, the population was almost double what it is now. The government at the time soon realised that if we continued to just expand our city's borders, we would have a problem which was deemed 'urban sprawl'.”

 

Gaara looked at Temujin with a look of vague understanding.

 

“Urban sprawl? Isn't that when a city begins to lose the ability to support it's population and they make a quick fix by building a lot of substandard houses and cheap apartment blocks, making the city's size grow out of proportion?”

 

Temujin nodded.

 

“That's the initial stage of it. The later stages usually include severe poverty in the areas furthest from the centre, inadequate utilities and other problems like the spread of disease. So the government came up with the idea of giving families large amounts of money to go and settle new areas. Many people took this chance as an opportunity to start a new life. Whole districts of people put their posessions into carts and left Antioch to start a new life. We stated that each family must keep in constant contact with Antioch to let us know how they were fairing. After about a century, most of the families had congrgated into groups and formed new towns, which grew in size to evetually become cities. After several centuries, we offered the new cities the chance to become semi independent states, which they all agreed to. Over time, each city developed it's own unique culture, and eventually we agreed that it would be best for each city to make a mandetory course in their university to learn about the cultures of the other cities.”

 

Naruto nodded and sighed.

 

“If only the east could have been like that...”

 

Temujin smiled sadly.

 

“It seems that not all people can agree with another's views of life. Not even the west is immune to that. So will you do it?”

 

Naruto looked at each of his friends, who nodded one by one as he looked to them for his answer. Naruto turned back to Temujin.

 

“We'd love to.”

 

Temujin smiled happily.

 

“That's great! When would you like to start?”

 

Naruto shurgged.

 

“A week sound good to everyone?”

 

They all nodded and Temujin smiled a bright smile.

 

“That's excellent. I'll go and tell Supreme Commander Haido of your acceptance.”

 

Temujin started getting up when Naruto remembered something. They hadn't been told why the west wanted them to come in the first place. He decided now was a good a time as any to ask.

 

“Temujin?”

 

Temujin smiled at him.

 

“Yes Naruto?”

 

“What exactly was the reason you wanted to see diplomats from the east?”

 

Temujin's eyes widened in shock before they narrowed.

 

“You haven't been told yet?”

 

They all nodded, even Jiraiya, which surprised them. Temujin smiled.

 

“Basically, we called you over here for a few reasons. One was to set up a trading route between the east and west. Another was to see if it was possible for us to set up a base camp of sorts in the east, and slowly start trying to intergrate with the east. The final reason was to warn the east that it would not be an intelligent idea to come over here often due to the ever escalating war.”

 

They all nodded, satisfied with the answer. Temujin shook his head in disbelief, sending his long golden hair swishing around his head.

 

“I cannot beleive that Supreme Commander Haido had neglected mentioning it to you. It should have been one of the first things he mentioned to you on the trip here. This is most puzzling indeed...”

 

At that point, said man came walking into the room. Everyone stopped what they were doing and stood to salute their leader. He smiled and walked over to Naruto and his group. He smiled and waved at them, however, he noticed their odd looks. He raised an eyebrow slightly.

 

“Is something wrong?”

 

Temujin nodded.

 

“Sir, Naruto has just told me that none of them have been informed about the reasons they were brought to the west. May I inquire why?”

 

Haido sighed and nodded.

 

“There is no ulterior motive. The reason I had not told them yet was that the only easterner that came here was rather... Violent. I regret having kept it secret from you for so long, but I was asked to confirm that you were not like the last one. I appologise if I have lost your trust, but the council would not allow me to tell you the reasons until your intentions were verified. I may be the leader of the armies, and I can order anything short of a Harbinger strike unopposed, however, matters of diplomacy and all other non military related matters I cannot decide upon without the approval of the council. The council had just given me the authorisation to fill you in on the details, and so I came to get both your answer to the request Commander Temujin had proposed to you and to fill you in on the reason you were brought here. Again, my appologies for witholding information.”

 

Haido handed a very official slip of paper to Jiraiya, who skim read it before handing it to everyone else. Once they had all read it, including Temujin, they nodded and smiled. Temujin had confirmed that it was indeed an unforged document by the watermark found on all council offical documents. They smiled and Naruto turned to Haido.

 

“We didn't doubt you for a second. It just got us curious, that's all.”

 

Haido smiled widely at Naruto, causing wrinkles showing his age to appear on his face.

 

“I'm amazed that you can be so forgiving. Some people never cease to amaze me.”

 

Naruto smiled his trademark foxy grin at him, and Haido smiled back before he turned to Temujin.

 

“I assume they accepted the request?”

 

Temujin smiled and nodded.

 

“They were a bit surprised that they had been asked to give lessons at the University, however, they accepted. They agreed to start in a week.”

 

Haido nodded.

 

“In a few days time, I will have the days and times that the cultural history classes are held on. I will let you sort out which clases each of you decide to teach.”

 

Naruto nodded and smiled.

 

“Leave it to us!”

 

Everyone who was around Naruto smiled. He had an almost boundless amount of happiness that was highly infectious. Jiraiya shook his head and thought to himself.

 

'If only you could see him now, Arashi...”

 

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A Week Later, at the front of the University:

 

As Haido had said, the timetables of the cultural history classes had arrived on the second morning after the conversation in the mess hall. They had quickly found out that the university worked on a two week roster. The classes they were supposed to teach were spaced evenly through out the two weeks, and they saw that since there was a class every third day, they decided to teach one class each, and then work on a rotation of teaching the last class once every five weeks. When it came to who was going to teach when, they decided that the only way to decide it fairly would be to pull numbers out of a box that Jiraiya had brought our from somewhere. Naruto of couse, picked number one. Gaara had picked two, Hotaru three, Yukiko four and Sora five. They then decided that the rotation for the last class would also go in that order. Naruto had been waiting impatiently for the day he was supposed to teach. Accroding to the roster, his class was the first class of the day on monday morning, however, despite his anticipation, he had overslept by an hour. He quickly rushed through his morning ritual and ran out the door. He ran down the streets to where he had been told the university was. People smiled and waved at him, which he did right back. Being the prankster that he was, an idea struck him. He had overheard young people talking about a new lecturer at the university for the cultural history class, but no one had any idea who it was going to be. He saw the university over the top of a supermarket he walked by and decided to slip down the alley way. He saw that it was a short cut that led straight to the gates of the university. He walked into the alley way and snickered. He thought carefully for a moment before he put his hands together in a ram seal and muttered the word to himself.

 

“Henge.”

 

When the smoke cleared, Naruto had become a very famous tardy Jounin of Konoha. He had his book, Icha Icha Paradise in hand and he lesurely walked out of the alley way and into the university gates. Everyone who was still outside stared at him. Naruto walked into the glass front door of the university and was stopped by the receptionist.

 

“Can I help you sir?”

 

The Kakashi look alike looked up and closed his eye in what those that knew him would recognise as a smile.

 

“I'm looking for the cultural history class.”

 

The woman raised her eyebrow and stared at him, trying to decide what to make of the man.

 

“Are you a new student?”

 

Kakashi smiled again.

 

“Yup.”

 

The lady nodded and pointed down the hall with her pen.

 

“Go to the end of the hallway and take the lift to the third floor. It's room 321.”

 

Kakashi smiled.

 

“Thank you.”

 

With that, he lesurely walked up the hallway, gaining inquisitive looks from everyone he past. He ignored them and focused on his book. He got to the elevator and got in, taking it to the third floor. He got out and noticed the signs above the doors. He walked along the hall way until he reached room 321 and opened the door. He walked inside, suddenly noticing that everyone was staring at him. He got to the front of the lecture hall and held up his free hand and smiled at them.

 

“Yo! Sorry I'm late. I got lost on the road known as life today.”

 

Everyone was shocked into silence. One girl finally pointed to the book.

 

“What is that book?”

 

Kakashi made a 'hmm' noise and looked at the book before he smiled.

 

“Ecchi.”

 

They stared at him in incomprehension. He smiled widely and translated it.

 

“Porn.”

 

Most of them had a very visable reaction. Some of them choked and started coughing while others blushed furiously. Naruto decided he'd teased them enough and released the Henge, returning to his ture self. He was howling with laughter. Eventually he calmed himself and turned back to them.

 

“Sorry everyone. My second teacher had the world record for being tardy. His record for being late was three and a half hours. Out of the time I've known him, he's only been on time once. Also, he always carries around that book you saw and reads it in public.”

 

They were now completely wrapped with Naruto. He smiled at them and decided to begin with some basics.

 

“We've been asked to teach you about the east, so I'm going to start with a general introduction. Also, if you have any questions, please stop me. I'd rather you all understand what I'm talking about than a bunch of you walking out of here wondering what I was on about. First things first, if you want ask me a question, refer to me as Naruto-Sensei. In the east, the suffix Sensei is attached to the first name of your teacher. It's generally a sign of good manners that if you meet them in public, you use that title as well.”

 

They all nodded. Naruto taught them for the duration of the lesson, and they had asked questions when they did not understand what he had meant about something. They didn't ask questions at first, and Naruto realised that they must not be allowed to question their lecturers. He sighed and looked at them.

 

“You know, I generally think I've failed if I get no questions. Surely one of you has at least one question as to what I've said so far?”

 

Slowly a young man raised his hand. Naruto smiled and pointed to him.

 

“Ok, seems I haven't failed. What did you want to know?”

 

The boy softly spoke his question, so softly that even with Naruto's demon senses, he'd only picked up fragments of it. Naruto sighed.

 

“Look you guys. I don't know if you're allowed to question your other lecturers or not, but do not be afraid to question me about something you didn't understand. I'm not going to think you're weird if you do, on the contrary, I'll think you're a better person if you do. Now, speak up.”

 

The man said it in a much clearer voice this time.

 

“Um, when you said that the Kage's were only in the top five villages, which villages were you talking about?”

 

Naruto smiled.

 

“Very good question. The top five villages are the leaf, the mist, the stone, the sand and the cloud.”

 

After that, people stopped hesitating to follow Naruto's advice and question him if there was something they didn't understand. By the time Naruto realised he had been teaching for almost two hours, he came to a conclusion. He liked teaching. He sighed.

 

“It seems the class is almost over. There's no point in continuing, as I wouldn't get the chance to get half way through the next part. So I guess I'll just let you guys ask me any questions about what I've talked about today.”

 

At least six hands shot into the air. Naruto took all their questions and answered them. By the time he'd finished with them, he realised he'd gone over time.

 

“Well, it looks like I went over time. Sorry about that everyone. Next lesson, you'll have my friend Gaara teach you. I assume he's going to tell you about the job of being a kage and how villages are run. For those of you who don't know, Gaara is the current Kazekage.”

 

They nodded and filed out of class. Naruto walked out after them and headed back home.

 

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A/N: Yay! Another chapter down for the count. I'd really like your comments on how you think I introduced Gelel and the history I half guessed and half made up for it. Until next time, my avid readers!

 

Ja ne,

 

Specula.