Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ The Tests of the Ninja ❯ Paladin Kanji ( Chapter 2 )

The Tests of the Ninja

 

Chapter 2

 

Paladin Kanji

 

By: The 6th Hokage

 

“Blah” -dialogue in Japanese (regular speech)

 

“Blah” Demon speech in Japanese (regular speech) or jutsu name.

 

`Blah'- Thoughts.

 

`Blah'- demon thoughts.

 

“(Blah)”- Dialogue in English (non-regular speech)

 

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Mizuki gasped in pain as three razor-sharp shuriken dug deep into his chest. Mizuki knew he could have dodged them but he was caught off guard, he didn't think that the little fox would betray him like this. This kid would not catch him off guard again.

 

“YOU LITTLE BITCH!” he screamed in frustration.

 

Naruto spat at him. “Maybe Iruka does hate me but I'm still not going to kill him.” Naruto wasn't going to admit it but whatever force had given him that short burst of power was gone. Naruto was now struggling to keep his knees from falling out from under him.

 

“Naruto take the scroll and run. You can't allow mizuki to get it I'll take care of him.” Iruka pleaded

 

Naruto now cursed his were he hid the scroll. Making it to his bed would be hard enough but mizuki was standing between him and where his room was. He only had one more idea. `The bending light jutsu!' He almost screamed in his mind.

 

Mizuki wasn't going to wait for him to finish. Grabbing two of the ungodly sized shuriken on his back. He spun them on his hands and prepared to attack.

 

“Time for Naruto Uzumaki's killer attack.” Naruto quickly started forming seals hoping to all gods that it would work. “Kusstesu tomoshibi no jutsu (bending light)”

 

A huge amount of smoke was released. Not waiting to see if it had worked or not he made a mad dash for his room and running right by mizuki with out him as much as looking at him.

 

“Amateur.” Mizuki was fooled by Naruto's bluff. He hadn't expected a large cloud of smoke more like a ball of fire or something. Naruto was invisible but the fox had forgotten one thing. That his made sound when he moved. Now all he had to do was let naruto take him right to the scroll and…

 

Iruka foot connected with Mizuki's face sending the traitor flying into the wall. He didn't wait for him to get up and ran after naruto.

 

Naruto was struggling to stay conscious. After successfully turning invisible he couldn't dispel the jutsu. The spell was eating at the last bits of his chakra. Making his vision blurry and his head pound. In his dizzy state naruto missed the door to his room. Flushing (even if you couldn't see it) from embarrassment at his mistake he turned around and ran into his room. Naruto practically dove under his bed in his hurried attempted to get the scroll.

 

Mizuki managed to get the shuriken that Naruto had thrown at him earlier out in a matter of seconds. The fox lacks the power to even throw shuriken right he thought. He wasted no time in finding Naruto's room.

 

“There you are fox.” Mizuki was almost disappointed at how easy this was turning out to be. Naruto was lying unconscious on the floor. His small arms making a death hold on the scroll and his goggles covering his eyes. `The poor boy must have passed out from chakra depletion.' He thought. Mizuki picked up the scroll and the boy and pried his arms off of it. The scroll was lighter than he thought it would. Realization hit mizuki. Naruto wasn't wearing his goggles before, which meant that…

 

“Fooled you.” `Naruto' said before turning into Iruka in a small puff of smoke. Anger and frustration now clouded Mizuki's mind. He had to deal with Iruka before going to find the fox. Mizuki knew he was a lot faster than Iruka now was the chance to prove it. He threw the fake scroll at Iruka, when hit the chuunin it dispersed into a cloud of smoke. He took that time to prepare his next attack. “Kihonteki hidama no jutsu (basic fireball)”mizuki cried forming the one seal needed and shooting the fireball out of his palm.

 

Iruka didn't have enough time to dodge. Instead he took an involuntary fireball to the chest. Iruka was sent sprawling into the wall. Shuriken started to rain down him. “Those are lased with poison. Not that that will matter I'm going to kill you right now. Kihonteki hidama no jutsu. (Basic fireball)” The ball of fire flew at Iruka just to hit something and sizzle out. “Back away from my master Iruka or I'll kill you.” Naruto cried.

 

“Just try it punk Ill kill you in one blow.” Mizuki challenged.

 

“Not if you cant see me.” Naruto taunted. Mizuki sent three more fireballs at Naruto just for them to be knocked aside by the invisible fox.

 

“I figured out that you can't move if you dodge my fireballs they will hit your precious teacher.”

 

Iruka was in a lot of pain. The poison in the shuriken had worked fast and now he could feel himself slipping away. He didn't notice that Naruto had come to his rescue. He didn't see the boy taking fireball after fireball just to keep him from getting hurt. All he could feel was the pain that was causing his muscles to burn. The poison caused so much pain even the scar on his nose had opened up and was bleeding freely only helping on circulating the poison even more.

 

Naruto was doing worse than Iruka. He was suffering from severe chakra depletion and worse he was stuck taking fireball after fireball. Now he was on the break if his mental and physical limits but that wouldn't stop him. `Ok let's plan this out. I've got no chakra and I don't get this jutsu dispelled then I'm going to die. Now I got fireballs thrown at me and I can't move or else he'll kill Iruka. I got plenty of shuriken but I don't have the strength to even throw them. Oh crap.'

Naruto watched in horror as a huge fireball formed in Mizuki's hand. “This has gone on long enough fox. I will end this right now. Katon: goukakyuu no jutsu (powerful fireball)”

 

Now a huge fireball was spinning towards Naruto. Great he thought as he braced himself for the impact of the giant fireball that was about to hit him. Before the fireball could hit him it was deflected by a new shinobi. `How original being saved right before I died' Naruto couldn't help but think to him.

 

The mysterious shinobi formed two hand seals before slamming his palm into Naruto. Naruto gasped in pain but was relived when the jutsu was dispelled. “What...How did you...” Naruto couldn't finish his sentence before collapsing his world falling into darkness.

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Naruto was awoken by two voices locked in a heated argument. He tried to move but found that he was completely immobile. Covered from head to toe in bandages. Giving up he just kept his eyes closed and tried to ignore the voices and go back to sleep.

 

“He's even lucky to be alive. If the Kyuubi didn't refill his chakra so fast he would have died.” A man's voice, the voice wasn't that deep but it was calm having no emotion in the words at all.

 

“That and you gave him three solider pills. A child can't take three of those!” this voice was female and was more stressed. “Just go away right now. The boy was suffering from extreme burns and chakra depletion he needs his sleep.”

 

The calm voice just snorted. “He was using the forbidden light bending technique. I want to talk to him since the boy has been awake and listening to us for a while now.”

 

Naruto felt his blood turn cold. He hadn't--couldn't move. He hadn't even opened his eyes. How did he know that he was awake? Maybe he can teach me how to do that. Naruto thought.

 

“Fine. Just be quick” The feminine voice said storming off while muttering something inappropriate under her breath.

 

“The scroll you stole has been returned. I didn't tell them about the part you tore

out of it. I thought you wanted to keep it,” the calm voice stated. Naruto was getting tired of this guy fast. What was he a mind reader or something?

 

Naruto struggled against his bandages trying to at least move in a more comfortable position. He gave up after a minute and just opened his eyes and allowed them to adjust to the bright light. The man was standing out of his vision of sight. He could only see his arm. Something wasn't right. Naruto's vision was hair free. Even with his goggles on his forehead some hair always managed to stab him in the eyes at the worst time.

 

“Where am I?” he asked. His voice was raspy and dry; maybe due to the fact that he was bound so tight he couldn't even move his head.

 

“Your in the hospital. Sorry about the bandages. They said that if I bandaged you any less tight you would break free. Oh I almost forgot.” The calm voiced man soon stepped into his line of sight.

 

He looked about four or five years older than Naruto with long black hair than went down to his back. His legs and arms were all bandaged probably for fist fighting. He wore all white clothes. From his weird robes to his pure white boots. At his side was strapped an extremely long sword a least 7 feet in length. The forehead protector he wore had symbols from all five of the hidden shinobi clans. `His eyes freak me out' Naruto thought to himself.

 

The whites of his eyes were a weird grayish color and his pupils were shaped like crosses with three black dots in it “You took quite a beating a couple days ago. You are most lucky to be alive Naruto.”

 

“How do you know my name?” Naruto didn't like him. The voice in his head told him to get as far away from him as possible. This man was dangerous. Naruto ignored the voice, his curiosity over taking everything else in his mind.

 

The ninja just gazed at Naruto with a bored expression before answering. “It has your name on the door.” He deadpanned jabbing his thumb behind him. Sure enough on the door was a sign labeled `Uzumaki Naruto'

 

“Oh… so how did you know I was awake huh?” Naruto asked.

 

“Your chakra signature changed.” The man stated

 

“Ok, so what's your name?” Naruto asked. Millions of questions started to swirl around in his head. Much to his disappointment the man wasn't going to play a game of a million questions. “Do you always ask so many questions? Don't answer that. My name is kanji. Now if you promise to stay calm I'll show you something.”

 

“Sure.” Naruto promised. Kanji picked up a mirror and held it up to Naruto's face. Naruto's eyes doubled in size and a goofy grin appeared on his face. “The headband! Why do I have one? Does that mean I graduated? How do I get a headband like yours?” Naruto started on a roll of questions.

 

Kanji's expression remained unchanged “Iruka gave it to you. He said that you are now a full-fledged shinobi. You passed kid. Lastly no you cannot have a headband like the one I am wearing. Its special so nyah!” Naruto didn't expect the grown man to stick out his tongue like a little kid not that he really cared. He graduated!!! Naruto would have jumped up and down in joy if he could move.

 

“Let me up its almost time for the pictures.” Naruto cried. Kanji shrugged. “Whatever kid. Just don't tell them that it was me that set you free.”

 

In about 10 minutes he had been freed of his bandage prison and walking down the road to his place. Naruto was going to have to clean his whole place with all of the blood and dirt and other things. When he got into his room he was shocked to find out that it was perfectly clean. It looked like it had been before Mizuki attacked. Naruto had no time to celebrate as he rushed to get dressed.

 

Naruto felt like a walking pincushion. He hurt everywhere. Every step he took resulted in a wave of sharp pain that spread through his body like wildfire but that didn't stop him. He had spent the next three hours painting his face to get the exact the effect he wanted for the school photo.

 

Naruto walked along merrily with his hands behind his head. He ignored all of the comments of disgust and mean glares he got when he passed him. `Screw them if they hate the kyuubi if it wasn't for this thing I would still be in the hospital bed.' Naruto loved the idea. The kyuubi had healed all of the cuts and burns and reduced them to just sore spots on his body. A cool picture and a faster healing time, nope naruto wasn't complaining.

 

Naruto was so happy he didn't even notice there was someone in front of him until he ran into a wall of platinum blonde hair. When he jumped back he noticed the red marks his paint had left the hair.

 

Yamanaka Ino was expecting to have a wonderful day. She was going to have her picture taken and then tomorrow she would finally get Sasuke's attention. She had not expected a hyperactive ninja to run into her and leave paint in her beautiful hair! “What is wrong with you?”

 

Naruto didn't stop walking. He was too excited about the picture to care. “Sorry about your hair I'll see you around bye!”

 

Ino glared at the boy's retreating form. “Oh, you'll be sorry.” She muttered.

 

“Are you sure you want to take a picture like that?” the photographer asked. Naruto nodded his head violently “yup, it took me forever to get the image just right.

 

 

The photographer shrugged. “You'll be sorry,” he said before snapping the picture.

 

 

 

“So allow me to understand,” the Hokage said. “You are the fabled kanji who trained the famous Uzumaki Suzuki. Naruto's mom?”

 

Kanji nodded. “I am the personal trainer of the Uzumaki clan. Their bloodline limit is a most unique one. Me and Naruto are the last of the clan left. So I beg you to let me train him”

 

“Its Naruto and I” the Hokage replied. Kanji's eyes widened. “You want to train him too?” he asked. The Hokage sweat dropped. “Never mind. I will allow you to train Naruto as long as it doesn't interfere with his missions as a shinobi.

 

“Understood master Hokage.” Kanji said his expression retuning to calm in a flash.

 

`Such a weird guy he switches emotions so fast. And his eyes they're like nothing I've ever seen. Most interesting.'

 

“You can send in Uzumaki Naruto now” the Hokage said.

 

“So what do you think it took me a lot of the time to get the mood just right. I was so excited I haven't even looked at it yet. So?” Naruto's mouth entered autopilot as soon as the boy had entered the room.

 

The kind old man decided to end his hopeless banter. “Take it over.” He stated simply. Naruto's face was one of pure horror. “What?” he screamed. The Hokage smiled and took a drag from his pipe. “Ok Naruto just look at it and then tell me that you shouldn't retake the picture.”

 

Naruto took the ID from him and looked at it. The paint that he had spent three hours on had messed up! Probably from running into that blonde chick Ino he thought gloomily.

 

Three words started to echo in Naruto's head. Threat watch out. Just then a small boy burst into the room with a shuriken in his hand. Before Naruto could stop himself he had a kunai knife up to the boy's throat.

 

“Get away from the honored grandson!” a voice cried out. Naruto came back to himself and noticed what he was doing. “Whoops.” He said putting away the knife and scratching the back of his head, turning slightly red from embarrassment.

 

“That boy happens to be the grandson of revered lord the great Hokage. `More like old fart' Naruto thought. “Go ahead take your best shot I dare you.” The small boy taunted. Naruto didn't care. “Shut up stupid.” Naruto said before striking him on the head and storming out of the Hokage's office leaving everyone in the room in a stunned silence.

 

 

Naruto was walking with his hands in his pocket deep in thought. That was the second time he was dragged to do something. The first times seemed like temptation. Mizuki's offer to give him the power he wanted- no the power he needed. The power that he craved to make him the next Hokage… but it seemed bigger than that. It was the Kyuubi! It wanted him to have the power so it could be freed. `That explains why I heal so fast the Kyuubi doesn't want its host to die.' At this moment Naruto could feel the Kyuubi's presence in the back of his mind but he didn't have time to ponder it…

 

 

“Quit following me stupid I can see you right there! Naruto exclaimed. He had noticed the boy following for sometime. No not by some superhuman senses that he hoped to have, more along the lines of the fact that the boy had made so much noise funning from place to place. The boy had fallen down twice and still got up and hid like Naruto hadn't noticed.

 

“Wow! You found me. The rumors of your prowess don't lie. Train me now I'll be your disciple I wanna learn the ninja centerfold you used on my grandfather.”

 

 

 

Kanji thought this was a very interesting thing to watch. Naruto would try to explain the basics of his hentai jutsu. Then the boy would nod and yell “okay chief” before trying and doing it horribly wrong. Then Naruto would yell at him and the process would begin anew. This ended when the boy got the jutsu correct. `What a horribly degrading jutsu…' kanji thought. `I'll just ask the boy later.' Kanji thought before disappearing.

 

“By the way what's your beef with the old man?” Naruto asked.

 

“…My name is konohamaru my grandfather named me. Just like the village he thought it would bring me luck. But even thought everybody in the village knows my name no one ever calls me that.” He said. “Its always `honored grandson' no one even sees me for who I am, just who I'm related to and I hate that. But it'll be different when I become Hokage and that will be real soon!!

 

Naruto was starting to get annoyed. This kid thinks that he's going to get respect just for being his grandson. Well not its not going to be that easy. “No way who would respect a Hokage like you? Its too big a name for such a little guy!”

 

“What?” konohamaru bellowed. Naruto just snorted.

 

“You idiot it won't be that easy to win the Hokage name!” Naruto said. “You don't get it just because you want it! You'll have to wait your turn.”

 

“And then?”

 

“You'll have to take it away from me!!” Naruto challenged giving konohamaru his best evil grin.

 

 

The Hokage was admiring the mountains of former hokages. The paint that Naruto defiled them with hadn't been completely removed giving the former hokages a red tint. It didn't matter to the current Hokage. He could never admit it but Naruto's foolery amused him greatly.

 

 

“I see you have been released from the hospital,” the Hokage said. Iruka landed next to him and nodded. “Did Naruto submit his ninja registration?” Iruka asked. Iruka was worried about the boy. He was badly injured and Iruka thought that Naruto might lose his thrill to be a shinobi.

 

“Yes he did Iruka”

 

“Good, I was looking for Naruto. I wanted to have a talk with him over a bowl of ramen. He's probably on cloud nine considering that he's one step closer to becoming a full fledged shinobi and gaining the respect of everyone in town.”

 

“That dream might be difficult for him to realize.” The Hokage said grimily

 

“What?”

 

“Only we who were adults at the time of the great battle know the truth. The boy Naruto is the human form of the Kyuubi that tormented our people until the 4th Hokage defeated it twelve years ago. Discloser of that secret is most strictly forbidden under the pain of the severest penalty out law can inflict.” The Hokage said. “As a result the children of the village know nothing of the truth. Among his peers at least his secret is safe.”

 

The old shinobi sighed. “It was the fondest wish of the forth Hokage that our people come to regard as their hero and savior.”

 

“A hero?” Iruka asked.

 

The Hokage didn't stop to answer his question. “He selected a newborn, he knew that the heir of the Uzumaki clan would be the best choice. So he bound up the Kyuubi's spirit in Naruto's navel. Naruto was sacrificed for us all to be a walking imprisonment of the Kyuubi.”

 

“What do you mean heir of the Uzumaki clan? There was a whole clan of people like Naruto?” Iruka asked trying to imagine a whole village of naruto. A funny thought.

 

“Yes and no, Naruto's clan suffered the same fate as the Uchiha clan. His own clan was destroyed by an almost senin level shinobi called kemuri.” Hokage said. “Have you met a shinobi called kanji?”

 

Iruka nodded. “He saved Naruto and I when Mizuki attacked us.”

 

“I have heard that. He is kemuri's son He wants to train Naruto. He said that he and Naruto are the last of the Uzumaki bloodline.”

 

“That would make kemuri the person who killed Naruto's clan an Uzumaki also.”

 

The Hokage turned to Iruka. Worry evident on his face. “Exactly. This kanji cannot be trusted. I have allowed him to train Naruto but you must keep an eye on him at all times.”

 

“I understand ” Iruka said.

 

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