Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Naruto of the Uchiha Clan ❯ Anyone for Soccer? ( Chapter 3 )

A/N: Hello everyone! Welcome to a new chapter in the life of Naruto! I admit, there will be a bit of a lot of descriptions in this chapter but that is to introduce a new character (gasp!) who could it be? Read and find out. (fight scene as well)

And please for the love of Kami review! I need your positive advice to fuel chapter 4

 

 

Anyone for Soccer?

 

It has been three weeks since Naruto was adopted by the Uchihas and things were finally looking good. Fugaku had bought Naruto some new clothes, since he only wore his white shirt and black pants. Now, Naruto mostly wore black cargo jeans with a blue shirt and what looked like a chuunin jacket.

Eventually, Mikoto was getting used to having Naruto around the house. He was always doing one chore or another that no one told him to do. If she needed anything done, Naruto would be the first to volunteer. Once she had seen him attempt to make dinner (egg rolls with curry rice) but failed miserably. She decided to help him and the outcome was the best egg rolls that the Uchihas have ever eaten.

Mikoto wasn't the only one who grew to like the boy. Around the Uchiha part of town, Naruto was seen picking up garbage or cleaning people's windows. Some were shocked to see him one day in the Laundromat offering change to anyone who needed more laundry loads done. The small Uchiha section opened up more to Naruto now.

Uchiha shops wouldn't even dare to overcharge him for food or other things. In fact, some would even slip a free apple or dango stick into his shopping bags. If Naruto could change the minds of the Uchiha clan about him, then changing an entire village would be easy. The best part of living with the Uchihas was…

All the ramen he could eat!

 

As Naruto would walk down the streets, cooks would come out to him with ramen bowls and say things like “Hey, Naruto! Come here and try my new recipe.” Or “I know it's missing something, could you help me out?”

Under the guidance of Mikoto and other Uchiha chefs, Naruto became quite skilled in the art of ramen.

 

Then there was the matter of Sasuke. He had become best friends with Naruto ever since he “saved” him from the bullies. Sasuke still carried on with his saving people routine. He single handedly took out three shoplifters with a metal pole and helped a total of ten old ladies across the street (even though they don't have cars). Now, more than ever, he struck the nice-guy pose to most adults and donned the name “The Awesome Blue Beast of Konoha!” His so called `naming ceremony' consisted of forcing Itachi to carry him on his shoulders while wearing a blue towel around his neck and running up and down the streets.

 

Needless to say, Naruto and Sasuke spent most of their time together when they weren't flashing poses and eating ramen.

 

Lately, there has been news spreading around that the Kazekage would visit Konoha. Naruto had no idea what a Kazekage was so he asked Fugaku.

 

“Well, simply put, the Kazekage is like our Hokage, he oversees the Hidden Village of Sand.”

 

“Why would someone want to live in a village of sand?”

 

“It is home to them as Konoha is our home.”

 

Instantly, Sasuke came into the room “Otou-san! He's here! The Kazekage is here. Okaa-san and Itachi are waiting for us to join them at the north gate.”

 

Fugaku them held Sasuke and Naruto close to him and said “Hold on tight.” As he performed the transportation jutsu (I like to call the “POOF”). They were standing behind Itachi and Mikoto.

 

“Otuo-san! Lookie! Lookie! The Kazekage has arrived!” said Itachi, jumping up and down, obviously in happy mode.

 

Naruto looked in awe as many of Konoha's villagers gathered to see what was happening. The large north gate was open and a train of attendants were walking through. Then a large bronze scorpion appeared. Naruto was instinctively going to attack it in defense but then realized that the scorpion was in fact the Kazekage's “carriage”. A small tent was placed on the scorpion's back to hide the Kage. Six people (three on each side) were carrying the scorpion on their shoulders. They were wearing armour that matched the colour of the scorpion. The contrast made it look like the people's legs were those of the giant scorpion.

 

Drummers beat their drums in a military fashion as flag bearers waved their banners while performing a small dance while they walked. Female attendants displayed dazzling orange and yellow kimonos that were decorated with rare moonbeam flowers. Once all the representatives of Sand were in, the large gates closed behind them. The drumming increased to a speed that would be impossible for a normal band, finally, they beat in one huge crescendo and the train of attendants stopped.

 

The persons carrying the large scorpion slowly lowered themselves onto one knee. The front of the tent slowly opened to reveal the Kazekage. He was a tall man who wore a veil over the lower part of his face, covering his mouth and nose. Naruto noticed that he had the same robes as the Hokage, except that his were blue. The Kazekage slowly stepped down from the scorpion and made his way to the Hokage tower. He then stopped and looked to his right. Obviously something was wrong as he walked back to the scorpion and put his hand into the tent.

 

The crowd gasped as he pulled out a boy about a head smaller than Naruto with red hair. The boy paled when he looked at the crowd and hid behind the Kazekage. The Kazekage then knelt down and whispered something to the boy. The boy nodded and then went to the Kazekage's side as they walked to the hokage tower together. The people in the crowd looked at the boy and some muttered “Kawaii!” but when the boy looked at them they would recoil with disgust.

 

Naruto and Sasuke couldn't see what the people were making a big deal out of because the boy and the Kazekage had already passed them. Once the Kazekage reached the tower, the doors opened and he, the boy and his attendants entered the tower. People then began to leave the crowd and carried on with what they were doing.

 

“Otou-san, why is the Kazekage here anyway?” Sasuke asked as the family was walking back to their house.

 

“It's a bit of a fragile matter, but, before Itachi was born, the Leaf and Sand were at war. It lasted for quite a while but finally ended when Itachi was three. Since then, there was an uneasy truce between us. But, both villages grew worrisome even when such things as passing a class of Genin happened in each country. They thought we were preparing an uprising and we thought the same about them. Today, the Kazekage and Hokage are meeting to discuss a certain amount of ninja that the villages can have and trying to clear up some rumors of attacks made on each other.”

 

“Who was that boy that was with the Kazekage?” Naruto asked.

 

“I think that was his son, Kankuro. I expected him to be older but I guess I got my information wrong.”

 

Once they got to their house, Mikoto walked into the kitchen. “I'll get lunch ready for us, you can go play boys.”

 

“Alright!” Naruto and Sasuke shouted.

 

“Sasuke, get the new soccer ball.” Naruto shouted.

 

“'Kay, Itachi are you gonna play?”

 

Itachi then placed his signature sunglasses over his eyes “A game where I can show up my brothers?! How can I refuse?” Itachi then sped off in the direction of the soccer field.

Sasuke and Naruto sweat dropped and walked to the field.

 

Itachi was doing his warm ups when Naruto and Sasuke arrived.

 

“Let's do this!” Itachi yelled.

 

The boys agreed to two on one (Itachi against Naruto and Sasuke). The game was on…and over in fifteen minutes.

 

“Yatta! 99 to zero! You guys suck!” Itachi screamed after his latest goal.

 

“Okay Itachi, next goal wins.” Sasuke said as he drop kicked the ball.

 

Itachi bounced the ball off his head and ran head on to the net. Naruto was goalie and tried to track Itachi's movements. Sasuke tried to charge at his brother but Itachi evaded him easily. Sasuke quickly recovered and attempted to slide tackle Itachi. Itachi managed to bounce the ball up high and jump over Sasuke at the same time. Needless to say, Itachi had skill. As the ball came down, Itachi readied himself for a bicycle kick when Naruto left the goal to intercept the ball. He jumped clear over Itachi and managed to tap the ball over to Sasuke. Quickly, Sasuke ran up the field to try and score on Itachi's empty net.

 

“(huff huff) I'm gonna make it! Just a little more and-“

 

Itachi then appeared behind Sasuke and stole the ball before Sasuke knew what happened.

 

“Kuso…” Sasuke muttered as he saw Itachi run back up the field towards Naruto.

“Naruto! Protect the net with your life!”

 

Naruto concentrated as Itachi came closer. Itachi then rolled the ball onto his foot and launched it into the air. With a spinning back kick, Itachi kicked the ball at tremendous speeds towards the left side of the net.

 

“This is gonna hurt… but I must protect the net!”

 

Naruto jumped in an attempt to grab the ball. His hands were within reach of the ball now, he closed his hands together… then the ball moved to the right and up over Naruto, scoring the winning goal!

 

Naruto landed painfully on his side and turned over to look for the ball. He picked it up hoping to find some sort of device that would make it change directions. Instantly, the ball floated out of his hands towards Itachi. Naruto then noticed there were blue strings leading from his fingertips to the ball.

 

“Chakra strings, gotta love `em.” Itachi said with a big smile on his face.

 

Sasuke ran up behind Itachi and whacked him on the head “Cheater!”

 

Naruto then ran up to Itachi and did the same “We want a rematch!”

 

“MOMMY!” tears ran down Itachi's face anime style as he dropped the ball and started to run.

 

“Come back here!” Naruto and Sasuke started to chase after Itachi while throwing stuff at him.

 

Little, did they know, that someone was watching them the whole time. This person then walked up to the boy's soccer ball and cast a menacing shadow over it.

 

 

Mikoto was bandaging Itachi's head as more tears flowed from his eyes.

 

“You shouldn't have hit him boys that was very unmanly of you.”

 

“But Okaa-san, he cheated in our soccer game!”

 

Mikoto looked at Itachi angrily, with Sharingan activated and paper fan in hand, “Did you really cheat Itachi?”

 

“(sigh) Yes…” WHACK!

 

Normally a paper fan wouldn't hurt at all, but in the hands of an angry woman, it was three times more powerful than Sasuke and Naruto's punches combined.

 

“Owie…” Itachi whispered before he fell over unconscious.

 

Naruto and Sasuke stared in shock as Mikoto looked at them then smiled “Lunch is ready boys; it's in the dining room.”

 

The two boys then scrambled away from their insane mother and quickly found their food.

 

After fifteen minutes of eating contests, a small food fight and admiring the absolute beauty of the contents of a ramen bowl, Naruto finally thought of something.

 

“Hey, Sasuke, did we come back with the soccer ball?”

 

“…”

 

“…”

 

(Both in perfect unison) “KUSO!”

 

Just as both boys reached the front door to put their sandals on, a menacing shadow was cast against the paper door.

 

Knock! Knock!

 

Both boys froze and looked at the door.

 

“You answer it.” Sasuke said.

 

“No, you do it, it's your house.”

 

“It's your house to, baka.”

 

“Damn…”

 

Naruto slowly stood up and reached a hand out to open the door. The shadow was almost twice as tall as Naruto and twice as wide as well. He gulped as he slid the door open and looked up.

 

“Huh?” no one was there.

 

“Ahem, down here.” A small voice said.

 

Naruto looked down and saw the boy who was with the Kazekage. He also was momentarily blinded when he realized that the sun was directly behind the boy, which caused the big shadow.

 

Naruto breathed a sigh of relief. Sasuke then looked over Naruto's shoulder and saw the boy.

 

“You were the boy with the Kazekage weren't you?” he asked.

 

“Y-yes, he's m-my f-father.”

 

“Wow, the son of the Kazekage at my house, this is a glorious day for the Awesome Blue Beast of Konoha!” Sasuke said striking the good guy pose.

 

The red-haired boy sweat dropped.

 

“Umm… anyway, I came to return this.” He said as he revealed the soccer ball.

 

“Our ball!” Sasuke then took the ball and started stroking it. “It's okay, you're safe now.”

 

“How did you find the house?” Naruto asked.

 

“The address w-was written on the ball.” Sure enough, Mikoto had taken the responsibility to write their address and `Uchiha' on the ball with permanent ink.

 

“Hey, Sasuke, since we got the ball back let's play another game.”

 

“Sure.”

 

The boy then spoke up “Can I play too?”

 

“Of course! You saved our ball from the evil grip of thieves; the least we could do is let you play with us.” Sasuke said.

As the boys walked Naruto kept up a conversation.

 

“Your name's Kankuro, isn't it?”

 

“No, K-Kankuro's my older brother. I'm Gaara, the next Kazekage.”

 

“But, if you're the younger brother, why do you get to be the Kage?”

 

“I-I'm not supposed to tell about that but it's because I was selected to be.”

 

“The Kazekage is supposed to be the strongest of their village, you don't look very strong to me.” Sasuke said.

 

“Otuo-san said that looks can be deceiving.”

 

Naruto looked at the boy in confusion and then noticed something

 

“Gaara, what are those rings around your eyes?”

 

Gaara seemed to think up an answer and finally said “They are the result of constant day and night training.” He said unconvincingly.

 

The boys finally reached to soccer field relieved that no one else was there. Sasuke agreed to play goalie while Naruto and Gaara played one-on-one. For a kid smaller than Naruto, Gaara was pretty good at soccer. He was able to easily mess with Naruto's head, giving him the advantage. His foot work needed work though, Naruto could almost instantly steal the ball from Gaara.

 

“Okay, 19 to 21, I'm winning, but I can't keep up with his speed.” Naruto thought, exhausted.

 

“Getting tired already? That's a shame, Naruto.” Gaara said, only slightly tired.

 

“Dream on (huff) I… can… win.” Naruto began to run towards Gaara when another soccer ball smacked him in the face.

 

“Hey! You got in the way of my perfect shot!”

 

Three boys emerged from the other side of the field. Naruto recognized the boys immediately, they were the boys who nearly killed him with the ropes when he was tied up.

 

“(gasp) Nii-san! It's the demon child.” Said the youngest pointing towards Naruto.

 

“And his friend, the Uchiha.” Said the middle aged boy.

 

Sasuke then ran to help Naruto “What do you want here?”

 

“We just want to play soccer but the demon is blocking our way.”

 

Gaara then twitched. “You'd better watch your mouth.”

 

“Why? Everyone else calls him a demon, why shouldn't we?”

 

Gaara again twitched in confusion “Him?” he thought looking at Naruto, and then he noticed the whisker marks, “It can't be…”

 

“Now if you don't mind, get off our field so that we can play.”

 

“Hey, we were here first and were only taking up half the field; you go take the other half.” Sasuke said.

 

“Are you trying to start a fight with us, Uchiha boy?” asked the older boy.

 

“That wouldn't be very wise-”

 

“Because we just graduated from the academy.”

 

(all three together) “We are now full fledged Genin!”

 

The boys then pointed to their Konoha forehead protectors. Sure enough, the graduation of the new Genin took place four days ago.

 

Gaara laughed “I'm only eight and I'm already training to be the next Kazekage. Don't go thinking that you can take me on.”

 

“Is that a challenge?” asked the older boy.

 

“Gaara don't fight them they're weak enough against us.” Naruto said.

 

“Yeah all three of us can take `em.” Sasuke said.

 

“Very well.” Gaara said as Naruto and Sasuke stood on the left and right side of Gaara.

 

The three boys then took their positions “Bring it.”

 

Gaara, who still had the ball, simply kicked the ball towards the oldest boy. He simply side stepped to dodge it.

 

“Ha! Missed m- ugh!”

 

Gaara, using a large burst of speed, ran up to the boy and punched him hard in the stomach, which caused him to fall over in pain.

 

“Nii-san!” the younger glared at Gaara, “You'll pay you bastard.”

 

He pulled out a kunai and threw it at Gaara. Gaara placed his hand on the ground and a wall of sand appeared, blocking the kunai.

 

“My turn!” Sasuke yelled.

 

He jumped onto Gaara's shoulder and leaped over the sand wall. He did the hand seal for his attack and yelled “Katon Goukakyuu no Jutsu!”

 

A large fireball sped towards the three boys. The middle aged one stepped up and yelled “Suiton Suijinheki!” a wall of water erupted from the ground and blocked the fireball.

 

“Is that all you got?” The middle aged asked.

 

“You haven't seen my move yet” Naruto said, as he ran up to the boys.

 

Sasuke grabbed Naruto's wrist and began spinning, the momentum kept Naruto airborne. After a few seconds, Sasuke let go of Naruto and he began flying towards the boys. He began the hand seals for the fireball technique but instead yelled “kaenhoushaki mogi no jutsu!” (1) Naruto gave out a strangled cough as a spread fire of orange fireballs sped towards the three boys.

 

“Heh, such idiots.” Muttered the middle aged boy.

 

Both he and the youngest then yelled out “Suiton Suijinheki!” this time, two walls of water appeared. The boys smirked as they heard the hiss of the flames extinguishing. They were then shocked when they saw that the fire balls broke through their shield and bounced along the ground towards them.

 

“What the he-”

 

The tree boys could not react as the orange balls hit them.

 

“AAAAAAGHHHHH! It burns!” The three boys began running in all directions trying to get the fire off. They even tried water jutsus on each other of just managed to injure each other.

 

Gaara then called forth a wall of sand and caused it to crash down of the boys. Sasuke then did the grand fireball technique again and evenly spread it over the sand. The heat then caused the sand to turn to glass, trapping the boys in it, only their head were visible above the sand level.

 

The boys were still screaming their heads off when Naruto appeared and began to breathe his charka back in.

 

“You're lucky that my friend's charka was protecting you or else you would have been burned to death and then encased in sand.” Sasuke said, standing triumphantly over the heads of the boys.

 

“Naruto, what was that jutsu that you did?” Gaara asked.

 

“Oh that? It was my flamethrower imitation technique. Me and Sasuke discovered it after I set him on fire with it.”

 

Suddenly, a POOF appeared and Itachi, in full Jounin uniform, appeared.

He looked around and saw Naruto, Sasuke and Gaara standing on a mound of glass with three heads in it.

 

“Okay… you boys are going to have to explain this to me.”

 

Gaara stepped forward, “These genin started some trouble and we merely stopped it.”

 

“That's not true! He kicked a soccer ball at me!” the older boy yelled.

 

Itachi sweatdropped “That's hardly a reason to start a fight.”

 

“And in all truth, you kicked it at me first.” Naruto said.

 

“Are you saying that you three just took out three genin? By yourself?”

 

(all three) “Yep.”

 

“It was a battle worthy of the Awesome Blue Beast!” Sasuke said giving the good guy pose.

 

Itachi then pulled out a notepad, “Anyways I've got to make a report about this to the Hokage. Oh and before I forget… onpa no jutsu.(2)”

 

Itachi opened his mouth in a silent scream and the mountain of glass completely shattered. There were no large bits, all the glass just seemed to turn back into the size of sand grains.

Itachi then looked at the three brothers. “I don't want to have to make another report about you boys causing trouble, got it?”

 

The three genin nodded and ran away, Itachi then POOFED away.

 

“Well, that was entertaining.” A voice said out of nowhere.

 

Naruto, Sasuke and Gaara spun around to see the Kazekage and Hokage.

 

“Kage-sama!” Naruto and Sasuke bowed.

 

“Otou-san!” Gaara said then bowed.

 

“Stand up boys, we're all equals here.” said the Hokage, as the boys stood up.

 

“What you boys did was very impressive indeed. Especially your teamwork.” The Kazekage mentioned.

 

“Arigatou, Kage-sama.” The three boys said.

 

“Now, Gaara is it?” Gaara nodded “I know that you are currently training to be the next Kazekage, but you boys…” he stared at Sasuke and Naruto. “Are you planning to sign up for the ninja academy this year?”

 

“Hai! We sent in our requests two weeks ago, Hokage-sama.” Sasuke answered.

 

“Good, I'm sure that Konoha will need two talented ninja like you to protect us, or, to assist our allies.”

 

“I agree,” the Kazekage said “The Sand would be grateful to have your help in the near future.”

 

“We won't hesitate to accept any missions from Sand.” said Naruto.

 

The Hokage chuckled and looked at the Kazekage, “Well, I believe that your village will be awaiting your return.”

 

Naruto then asked the question that almost everyone was thinking. “Kage-sama, will there be a war?”

 

Silence followed for a few seconds the…

 

“If you had been listening to our conversation you would have heard that Sarutobi-sama referred to the Sand as `allies'.”

 

Naruto then bowed his head “Gomen, Kage-sama.”

 

“Perfectly alright. Well, Gaara, it's time that we went back to Sand.”

 

“Already? Can't we stay longer?”

 

“Sorry, Gaara, but there are important matters back home that we must look into.”

 

“That's too bad, I was going to ask Gaara over to our house for ramen.” Sasuke said.

“What's ramen?”

 

Naruto and Sasuke face-planted “You don't know what ramen is?!”

 

“Is it a vegetable?”

 

“Oh my god! Kazekage-sama, if you're going to leave, would you please wait at the gate for us? We want to give Gaara a going away gift.”

 

“Um… sure-” before he could finish, Naruto and Sasuke ran as fast as they could to their house.

 

Fifteen minutes later…

 

A large crowd had gathered to see off the Kazekage and his son. Some villagers still gave Gaara some awkward glances as he stepped up to the scorpion tent. The drummers, banner holders and attendants assumed their positions as the group was preparing to leave.

 

“Son, we can't wait much longer, we'll have to go.”

 

“Just two more minutes, please.”

 

“Stop!” a loud voice cried out.

 

The crowd gasped as they turned and saw `the demon child' and an Uchiha running towards to large scorpion with two metal thermoses. They were blocked by guards but the Kazekage dismissed them.

 

Naruto and Sasuke each held up a thermos and a pair of chopsticks to the Kazekage. People were confused that the village demon and an Uchiha were presenting `gifts' to the Kage. Some were thinking things like “That demon has a lot of nerve to talk to a Kage!”

 

“Sorry, we're late, Kage-sama, we ran out of noodles so we had to make them from scratch.” Naruto said.

 

Gaara then spoke “It's okay guys we weren't going to leave without you.”

 

“Oh, and another thing…” Sasuke then reached into his pockets and pulled out a pair of red sunglasses. “Nii-san said that they would look better on you than him.”

 

Gaara smiled as he took the gifts, “Thank you guys, oh, and you forgot this again.” Gaara then pulled out the boys' soccer ball.

 

“Thank you again for finding it!” Sasuke said then began stroking it again.

 

“I hope that you will come to visit sometime soon.”

“We'll try.” Both boys said at the same time.

 

“Thank you, boys, for spending time with my son. I am grateful that you fought alongside him as well. I will remember this whenever you need a favour from the Sand.”

 

“Arigatou, Kage-sama.”

 

The guards in bronze armour then lifted up the scorpion and began their march out of Konoha. The drummers began their beat and the banner holders spun their flags in marveling circles.

 

“Bye! Come back soon Gaara!”

 

As the train of attendants disappeared behind the hills, the villagers could very faintly hear two voices that shouted “This is the best food EVER!”

 

Jiendo = The end

 

 

That just about does it for chapter three. Hope you enjoyed it (I had lots and lots of writers block for this one)

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Next chapter will begin the Saga of the Ninja Academy! (yes, I will think of a better name but that's all I got at the moment)

 

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Jutsus:

1. kaenhoushaki mogi no jutsu: flamethrower imitation technique, Naruto's fake fire that caused the target to believe that he/she is set on fire.

2. onpa no jutsu: sound wave technique, a blast of sound that could shatter the inside of a person's head if strong enough (gross!)