Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ All for One ❯ Academic, my dear Naruto ( Chapter 8 )

All for One

 

“Morning, Naruto!” Hinata called. Naruto waved back at her in response, and jogged over to the seat she had saved for him. Behind her, a couple of his fan girls glared at the Hyuuga. They knew that she was a sister to him, but still thought that any girl who spent any time with `their Naruto-kun' could be tempted into seducing him. Oblivious to the response of his fan club, Naruto sat down with a sigh.

 

“Thanks, Hinata-chan!” he said. “Last time I sat down somewhere, a huge fight broke out. I don't know why, but it was really weird.” Hearing this, some of his fangirls turned bright red. They had been trying to sit next to the object of their affection, but had been caught by the `enforcer'. Remembering her, some of them blanched in fright. As if in answer to their thoughts, she walked in the door.

 

“Hi, Naruto-kun!” Ino yelled. She was by far the most fervent of Naruto's fangirls, and the self-proclaimed president of Naruto's fan club. But she was also the only one that Naruto talked to, perhaps because he had known her since she was a small child. Out of all of the fan girls, Ino was the only one who actually bothered to get to know Naruto. Most of them just enjoyed the thrill of the hunt, but Ino was actually focused on the prize. Naruto talked to her as if she was anyone else, which was more then any other fangirl could claim, and had deemed herself `Naruto-kun's protector', and beat his fan club back. Looking around, Ino grabbed the seat right behind Naruto, as it was all the better to stare at him.

 

Some might wonder why the seat on the other side of Naruto was unoccupied. But the reason was barreling through the door at that very moment. Sasuke ran through the door, and immediately barreled into the seat next to Naruto. Shortly after the start of the academy, Sasuke had found out that the head of his fan club was nowhere near as effective at `fan girl control' as Ino. So by sitting next to Naruto, he was within the sphere of Ino's protection, and Ino beat his own fan club.

 

Well, with one glaring exception. Sakura ran into the room, looked around, and then spotted Sasuke. “SASUKE-KUN!” She screamed, and tried to latch onto him. Somehow, the Uchiha ducked in his seat, and Sakura flew right over him. She landed with a crash, and was on her feet in a flash, brushing the dirt of her immaculately clean outfit. Then, just as quickly, she was seated next to Ino, behind Sasuke so she could ogle him.

 

Sakura and Ino were best friends. Sakura had once thought that Ino liked Sasuke just as much as she did. In her words, `How can you not? I mean he's cute, cool, and strong! I heard that his entire clan went evil, and they tried to get Sasuke-kun to go along with it, but he turned them down and turned them in to the Hokage!' Ino had managed to make Sakura realize that she like Naruto, not Sasuke, and if she could, she was welcome to the Ice Prince. Their friendship had revived moments later, and Ino now removed any girl that was between Sakura and Sasuke.

 

As the rest of the class filed in, Iruka began to take role once again. He went down the list, and came to the H's. He took a deep breath, preparing to attempt Naruto's name, then just gave up. “Naruto?”

 

“Here.”

 

Iruka sighed with relief. Everyday for the past two years, he had been forced to try to say Naruto's clan names in one breath. Then finally, Naruto had come up to him after class and told him not to bother. After all, “If I can't say my own name without stopping to breathe, why should you be able to?”

 

After taking role, Iruka launched into yet another history lesson. `You think he'd learn eventually that we never pay attention to this kind of stuff.' Naruto thought. In the back of his head, Inner Naruto said `Of course he knows that, dumbass. He's just required to go through it by the council, pompous old windbags. Go to sleep. I'll wake you up if anything interesting happens.' Nodding, Naruto lay his head down for sleep.

 

He was awoken a couple of minutes later by an eraser flying at his head. Without raising his head, he put a hand up and caught the flying object. He tossed it back at Iruka, and Inner Naruto told him what they had been talking about. “The Nidaime and the Shodaime were brothers. One was a master of wood, and the other was really good at water.” The calm answer to the question that he had been about to ask left Iruka gaping at Naruto as he put his hand down.

 

`Sheesh. You think that after three years of the same thing happening everyday, he'd get used to it.' Naruto thought. He dozed off again quickly. The next time he was awoken was due to the lunch bell ringing, so he immediately jumped up and sprinted out of the classroom.

 

When the rest of the gennin got outside to the lunch area, Naruto was already setting up for his meal. He took an empty bowl out of his backpack, then pulled out a small piece of paper. Wiping his spit on the seal on the paper, he held it over the bowl. Then he proceeded to wring it out, like he would with a soaked rag. To the surprise of most people, fresh ramen came pouring out of the paper, landing in the bowl. The scent of it soon permeated the air, and steam came wafting out of the already cooked meal. Quickly, Naruto proceeded to dive in.

 

His friends gathered around him, each taking out their own meal. Over the noise of crunching, slurping and overall munching, Sasuke asked Naruto a question. “Hey, Naruto, you want to spar after class?”

 

Naruto shook his head, causing a small amount of ramen broth to land on either side of him. As he dug another ramen-seal out of his bag, he said “Sorry. I've got family things.”

 

“What kind of family things?” Ino asked, her curiosity genuinely peaked. The rest of Naruto's fan club listened eagerly, hoping it was something outdoors so they could watch their precious Naruto-kun.

 

“Just… things.” He said, unconsciously rubbing his left bicep. What his friends didn't know was that today was an unsealing day. It had been eight years since the seals on his bloodlines had been performed. Every couple of years, his body became strong enough to handle another one. He had regained his Akamichi super strength, and the bond with Kouken through the Inuzuka bloodline. Today, he was judged strong enough to handle the Aburame bugs.

 

Sasuke noticed the gesture. He knew about Naruto's bloodline seals, because once they had unsealed one inside the Uchiha manor. This would have been fine, and no one would have noticed, except for the fact that they picked the room right next to the kitchen and Sasuke had been walking by at that moment to go get some cookies. When he had seen Naruto screaming in pain, he had tried to stop whatever was going on. After he had woken up, Naruto had informed him of the details. Now, Sasuke just wanted to be present whenever Naruto unsealed another one.

 

After the academy was out for the day, Naruto and Sasuke ran back to the Uchiha compound. In the designated room for unsealing, Itachi, Ryusha, Sandaime, Ibiki and Hiashi were waiting. Without pause, Naruto jumped onto the table in the middle of the dark room.

 

“Are you sure that you're up to this?” Ryusha asked in a worried tone.

 

Naruto nodded, and, in a moment that would have made any Naruto fan girl drool, pulled off his shirt. Then he started going through some handseals. After a string of many, his right hand was glowing with a purple light. His hand hovered over his left bicep, where most of the seals still remained. He paused over the Uchiha seal, a string of commas. Then he moved up to the plain dark band that was the Nara seal. Naruto easily passed by the ring of swords that signified the Shinkotama seal, came to rest over the centipede that signified the Aburame seal. He pressed down on it, and yelled “KAI!”

 

The dark centipede glowed pure white, emanating a pure light that illuminated the entire room. Naruto began to scream in pain, as the seal began to dissolve. Segment by segment, the centipede began to disappear. Soon, only the head was left. With a blinding flash, the final segment disappeared, and Naruto was left sitting on the table, panting.

 

Itachi was the first to break the silence. “Are you ok?” he asked.

 

“Yeah.” Naruto said, breathing heavily. “I better test it to make sure I can use them.” He stood up, and focused his chakra. First, he focused it on his eyes. Veins began bulging out, and his purple eyes blanked out and became pure white. “Byakugan seems to work fine.”

 

Then he placed his hands in the ram seal. “Naiteki Bunshin! (Inner Clone)” he yelled, and another Naruto appeared next to him. Only this one was… different. It began to yell. “ABOUT FUCKING TIME YOU LET ME OUT OF THERE! DO THIS JUTSU MORE OFTEN, YOU-” Naruto dissolved the jutsu, and the clone popped out of existence. “The Inner Persona is fine.”

 

Performing some more seals, the gigantic dragon wings appeared on his back. He gave them a couple of experimental flaps, then decided that they were in good working order. With another seal, the wings dissolved into his back. “The Dragon's Gifts are working.”

 

Next, Naruto went into a meditation pose. “Hey, Kouken! You there?” he asked in his mind.

 

“Yeah, yeah.” The dog thought back. “What do you need?”

 

Naruto thought about it for a second. To do a true test of the Man-Beast Link, he had to request that the beast do something. He had always had the telepathic link with his dog, but giving him a command was an entirely different thing. Then he got an idea.

 

Three minutes later, Mizuki was running after a dog who had bitten out the seat of his pants, revealing boxers with little suns with sunglasses on them.

 

Naruto chuckled. “The Man-Beast link is working fine.” For the next test, Naruto simply hit the table he had been sitting on. His massive Akamichi strength made the legs break off from the simple tap. “Still got my Akamichi powers.”

 

Now it was time for the final test: The Aburame insects. Like he did when he was communicating with Kouken, Naruto focused deep inside himself. In a small corner of his mind, hundreds of clacking voices were curled. He sent them a one word mental command: `Manifest!'

 

The results were instantaneous. As Naruto opened his eyes, he saw a small hole open up in both of his palms. As soon as the holes were completed, centipedes began crawling out. Seeing this, Sasuke turned rather green, but everyone else watched in open fascination. Then something very, very odd began to happen.

 

One centipede crawled up onto Naruto's shoulder, then began to… spit silk. Soon, it was wrapped in a cocoon. Naruto looked at the others in confusion. “Do centipedes usually spin cocoons?” he asked. Mutely, the others shook their heads in tandem. Naruto surveyed the centipedes on the floor, and realized that they had all spun cocoons for themselves.

 

The one on Naruto's shoulder began to crack. Everyone stared at it with baited breath, eager to see what would come out of the silk ball. A pair of huge bulbous eyes, a long abdomen, and four almost see-through wings were revealed. Naruto's centipede had turned into an extremely large dragonfly. Everyone was gaping at it, their mouths hanging open. It swiveled around, as if it weren't comfortable with all of the attention. Then quickly, it flew back into his body through the hole in his hand.

 

As soon as it was gone, the same thing began to happen to all of the other cocoons. Soon, a swarm of dragonflies were entering the holes in Naruto's hands. After the last one was through, the holes began to seal up, as if nothing had ever happened. Naruto stared at his hands, gaping. “Well, I think it's safe to say that that one works.” Itachi said in a monotone.

 

Naruto stared at Itachi for a moment. “Gee, you think?” he asked sarcastically. Becoming serious once again, he said “I've never heard of the insects mutating before. I'll ask Shibi-tou-san about it later.” The others nodded, and congratulated Naruto on his new bloodline. As they left, they all went different places. Right before she left, Ryusha stopped Ibiki.

 

“Ibiki-san, I had some interrogation work yesterday, and it got a little messy. Could you lend me one of your scrolls?”

 

Ibiki nodded. “I have just the scroll for you. `Removing interrogation liquids in six easy steps'.” Ryusha nodded, and thanked Ibiki.

 

At the Aburame `hive', Shibi listened in silence to Naruto's description of what happened. The silent Aburame clan head asked, in monotone, “Could you manifest a dragonfly?” No sooner then he asked did a hole open once again in Naruto's hand, and a large dragonfly flew out.

 

Shibi took his time inspecting the insect, who was standing rigidly at attention. “Is it possible to still manifest centipedes?”

 

Naruto concentrated, and out of the hole crawled another centipede. “Yeah, it is.”

 

Shibi looked at the boy calmly through his glasses. “Well, I cannot think of anything that could cause the insects to change in this way. I am sorry, Naruto-kun.” Naruto bowed low in respect, then backed out of the room.

 

The clan head stared after Naruto in bewilderment. An entirely different insect species manifesting? To be fair, Naruto was also the first Aburame to ever manifest centipedes in the first place. Most Aburame used Kikai, and a couple used spiders, but none had ever used centipedes before.

 

At the Academy the next day, Naruto was still wondering what happened with his centipedes. Eventually, Inner Naruto provided the voice of wisdom. `Does it really matter why your bugs have wings now? It makes you better, that's all.' Cocking his head to one side, Naruto agreed that that did make a lot of sense. He was stronger, and as long as the source didn't hurt anyone he cared about, did it mater why?

 

Iruka rang a bell, informing the students that it was time for class. Once again, Iruka was standing at the front of the room alone. “I'm sorry class, but Mizuki-sensei won't be here today. He said something about visiting the tailor. So today, instead of me lecturing you, we have a project.” At that, everyone sat up straighter. Iruka grinned at their reaction. “Every single one of you has many unique and powerful abilities. But they can be even better when used in tandem. You each must find a way to combine two of your abilities, then demonstrate it to the class. You can begin.”

 

Everyone took out a piece of paper and began to write down a list of their abilities. Naruto looked over Hinata's shoulder. She had written down, `Basic Jyuken abilities, Byakugan Bloodline, Bunshin no Jutsu, Kawarimi no Jutsu, Henge no Jutsu.'

 

Next, Naruto peeked over Sasuke's shoulder. His was much the same. It had `Bunshin no Jutsu, Kawarimi no Jutsu, Henge no Jutsu, Goykakyu no Jutsu, Hinotama no Jutsu, Ryuuka no Jutsu, Housenka no Jutsu.'

 

Naruto stared at his own blank sheet of paper. He knew too many jutus to just write them down. So he just went into generalities. '25-Gennin Class Jutsus, 10 Chuunin Class Jutsus, 5 Jounin Class Jutsus, Multisize Abilities, Byakugan Bloodline, Inner Persona, Man-Beast Bond, Living Hive, Dragon-Based Powers.' Staring at the sheet, Naruto had an idea. One that would be really cool!

 

As soon as Naruto was done working out the kinks in his plan, Iruka let them know that time was up. The first person who Naruto knew that presented was Hinata. She had decided to totally ignore her Byakugan based powers, and combine two of the basic academy jutsus: Bunshin and Kawarimi. By creating five clones, then substituting the clones for herself, she could easily confuse an attacker into thinking that none of them were real.

 

The next one of Naruto's friends to present was Kiba. Kiba had an extremely clever ploy, at least for Kiba. He took out a pair of kunai, attached small bell to them, and threw them at the enemy. Then, using his super human hearing, he could locate the target even with his eyes closed.

 

Shino was next. What he did was very similar to Hinata's moves. Only he created a Kikai Bunshin, then used Kawarimi with it at the last moment