Chapter Four: Konoha's most Unpredictable Ninja.
In the new world it was already noon.
Shiro and Stephanie landed pretty softly and were now looking a bit around in this whole new place.
Shiro, with Stephanie still sitting on his shoulder, walked around through a peaceful bit of nature.
Eventually he reached a big gate.
The sign above the gate said: “Hidden Leaf”.
‘’Let’s enter the village.’’ Stephanie suggested.
Shiro nodded and walked through the gate.
When they entered the village they arrived in a old-Japanese-style village.
People were chatting and laughing with each other and people were shopping and getting there shops ready to close, people were eating and drinking together, everything was as peaceful as could be.
Then they walked by a ramen shop. (ramen is a Japanese soup-like dish with eggs, pork, vegetables and narutos, little twirl-shaped thingies made of paste.)
‘’What a delicious smell.’’ Stephanie said.
Shiro breathed in deeply through his nose in an attempt to catch the smell.
‘’You’re right, that smells really delicious.’’ He said.
“Ichiruka Ramen” Shiro read on the sign.
Then a hungry sound came from Shiro’s stomach.
‘’Care for a bite?’’ He asked.
‘’You bet.’’ Stephanie answered.
‘’I’m starving.’’
‘’Okay, let’s go then.’’ Shiro said before they went inside.
‘’Come in.’’ The man behind the bar said.
‘’Hi’’ Shiro said while he sat down on one of the stools standing in front of the bar.
Behind the bar the man who talked to him was standing along with a girl, who seemed to be his sidekick.
The girl was smiling at him.
‘’What’ll it be?’’ she asked.
‘’One big boil of Ichiruka’s best ramen.’’ Shiro ordered.
‘’Coming right up.’’ The man said and while he prepared the ramen Shiro looked around a bit.
Besides Shiro and Stephanie a cheerful boy with yellow hair and orange clothes was sitting in the shop.
He was very busy eating his ramen.
‘’This is great, as always Old Man!’’ The boy said.
‘’I’m glad you think so Naruto.’’ The man replied.
‘’How are things going at the academy?’’ He asked.
‘’Hmmm…Not so good to tell you the truth.’’ The boy said sadly.
‘’I always mess up when it comes to clones.’’
‘’Ah! Come on Naruto! I’m sure you can do it, just practice a bit more, and then I’m sure you can do it.’’
‘’You really think so?’’
‘’I don’t think so, I know.’’
‘’Okay, I’ll try to do my best. Thanks Ichiruka!’’
And then the boy stood up and ran away.
‘’Naruto! Wait! You forgot to…Damn! He always does that.’’ Ichiruka said.
‘’Who was that boy?’’ Shiro asked.
‘’That was Uzumaki Naruto, the Demon Boy. If you plan to stay here for a while I’m sure you’ll come to know him.’’ Ichiruka answered.
‘’Here. You’re ramen.’’
‘’Mmmm! That smell great.’’
‘’I’m glad you like it.’’
And then Shiro and Stephanie started to eat up their ramen, and when they finished Shiro paid with money, which he had gotten from Ed as a gift.
Then they said goodbye to Ichiruka and the girl and they left the shop and walked further into town.
‘’What a nice and peaceful town.’’ Stephanie said.
‘’Yeah, it really is.’’ Shiro replied.
Then they heard some boys laugh and a pretty familiar voice yell.
‘’SHUT UP!’’
‘’What’s all that about?’’ Shiro asked.
‘’I don’t know.’’ Stephanie said.
‘’Let’s check it out.’’
They saw a group of boys laughing loudly.
‘’What’s wrong?’’ one of them asked.
‘’Lost your tongue?’’
The others started to laugh again.
Then Shiro and Stephanie heard the familiar voice yell again.
‘’SHUT UP!’’
‘’What?’’ The leader of the group asked.
‘’I TOLD YOU TO SHUT UP!’’
When Shiro looked around to see where the voice came from he saw Naruto standing in front of the group of boys half-crying.
‘’You want to pick a fight?’’ The boy asked while his friends made violent gestures.
‘’BRING IT ON!’’ Naruto yelled.
Then they started to fight, Naruto versus a group of four boys of the same age as Naruto.
‘’Shiro, do something.’’ Stephanie said a bit frightened.
‘’HEY!’’ Shiro yelled.
‘’STOP THAT!’’
The boys stopped to attack Naruto, who was laying on the ground wounded and turned around to see who yelled at them.
As the boys saw Shiro, who was definitely older than them, they turned towards Naruto again and sighed.
‘’You’re lucky Naruto.’’ The leader said.
‘’But next time you won’t get away with it so easily.’’
And then they ran off.
‘’Are you alright?’’ Shiro asked.
‘’I’m fine.’’ Naruto said while he took his grounds.
‘’Who were they?’’ Shiro asked
‘’That were the boys from my class.’’ Naruto answered.
‘’What did you do?’’
‘’Nothing.’’
‘’What? Do you mean they did that to you without a reason?’’
‘’Sort of, but only being here is enough for them to beat me up.’’
Then Naruto stood up.
‘’Thanks for the help’’, he said.
‘’No problem’’, Shiro replied.
‘’I’m Shiro and this is Stephanie.’’
‘’The name’s Uzumaki Naruto’’, he said with a big smile.
‘’Follow me’’ Naruto said while he started running towards an alley.
When Shiro and Stephanie entered the alley they saw Naruto waiting for them at a door.
‘’This is where I live’’, he said, while he opened the door.
‘’Pretty nice’’, Shiro said.
‘’Do you live alone?’’
‘’Yeah’’, Naruto said sadly.
‘’I’ve never known my parents.’’
‘’I’ve always been alone’’, he said.
‘’Why is that?’’ Shiro asked.
‘’I don’t know.’’
‘’All I know is that people hate me because of that stupid Kyuubi.’’
‘’Kyuubi?’’ Shiro asked.
‘’A nine-taled demon fox is sealed within me. Because of that people hate me. The Fourth Hokage had sealed it within my body after a major big fight. It was terrorizing Konoha, the land of fire, the land in which Hidden Leaf lies, and as the Hokage he fought to protect the land. He managed to save Konoha, but he lost his life. That’s why I want to be a Hokage too.’’
‘’I want to fight for my people and make them recognize my existence.’’ Naruto said.
‘’Then people will like me, and then I can make some friends. I want to fight for them, I want to protect them. That’s my dream.’’ Naruto said determined.
‘’But…’’ He went on sadly.
‘’If it keeps on going like it goes now that will never happen.’’
‘’What… what do you mean?’’ Shiro asked.
‘’You know… You heard us at Ichiruka’s, didn’t you?’’
‘’Yeah, I did.’’
‘’I keep on failing for my ninja exams. Everything at the academy sucks. I can’t even create a regular Bunshin.’’ Naruto said. (Bunshin means clone)
‘’Come on!’’ Shiro said.
‘’Stop that! I know you can do it!’’
‘’But…’’ Naruto said.
‘’No buts… Come on! Let’s go practice!’’
‘’I can’t do any Ninjutsu, but I can help you with learning how to do them better.’’
‘’Okay!’’ Naruto finally said.
‘’Let’s do this! Follow me!’’ he said as he ran out of the door.
‘’Come on!’’
Shiro and Stephanie followed Naruto to something what seemed to be a library.
‘’Before we can do anything we should find out something about how to do them.’’ Naruto said when Shiro and Stephanie arrived at where Naruto was standing.
‘’Good idea.’’ Stephanie said.
Shiro took a glimpse of the library’s inside and saw many hallways with high-reaching shelves full of books, manuscripts, scrolls and more of that kind off stuff.
‘’Uuuhhmmm…..’’ Shiro said.
‘’What is it?’’ Naruto asked.
‘’Have you ever actually been inside here?’’ Shiro asked.
‘’Well…’’ Naruto replied while he laughed a bit stupidly.
‘’Not quite… I’m not really the book type, u know. But you never know what you might find.’’ He said.
‘’I guess you’re right.’’ Shiro answered, and afterwards they walked inside.
‘’WOW!!!’’ Naruto said amazed while gazing at the many hallways.
‘’Let’s all go a different way.’’ Stephanie proposed.
‘’Good idea Steph.’’ Shiro said.
‘’I’ll go this way then.’’ Naruto said as he ran towards one of the hallways.
‘’Then I’ll go this way.’’ Shiro said while running towards a different hallway.
‘’And I’ll head this way.’’ Stephanie said as she flew off towards yet another hallway.
‘’Just yell when you find something!’’ Shiro yelled.
‘’See ya!’’ Naruto yelled and they all disappeared into a different hallway.
Naruto ran past high-towering shelves full of books, manuscripts, ninjutsu-scrolls and old papers, but he couldn’t find anything useful.
He kept on walking past shelves, past other hallways, past some drawings, past pictures but still nothing useful.
Then, when Naruto turned left at the end of the hallway he saw something interesting in the distance.
When he closed up on the object Naruto saw it was a very big and ancient looking scroll.
The scroll was standing on some kind off pedestal which made it look important and sacred.
While Naruto closed up a bit more on the scroll something his teacher had sad popped into his head.
*There are sacred scrolls secretly hidden within the hidden villages which contain ancient and often forbidden techniques. If one could master them all he would surely become the greatest ninja in history. Even greater than the Fourth Hokage Yondaime.*(A Hokage is the head of the village. He/She is the strongest person in the village and must do everything he/she can to protect the village when in need. The Fourth Hokage, Naruto’s father, was the greatest Hokage ever.)
This is one of those scrolls. Naruto thought.
Iruka-sensei would surely let me pass if I could master one of those ancient techniques.
At first Naruto hesitated, but eventually he had desided what he was going to do and Naruto tried to secretky take the scroll, but when Naruto almost touched the scroll he heard Shiro yell.
‘’I’VE GOT IT!!!’’
‘’NARUTO!!! STEPHANIE!!! COME HERE!!! QUICKLY!!! I FOUND SOMETHING!!!’’
Naruto looked to where Shiro’s yell came from and back to the scroll.
He hesitated again but this time he quickly decided what he was going to do, and so he quickly took the scroll, hid it in his clothes and then ran off towards Shiro.
‘’I’ve got it.’’ Shiro said again when Naruto and Stephanie arrived.
‘’I’ve found a way for you to learn how to control your chakra better.’’ Shiro started.
‘’If you can master these exercises then I’m sure you’ll be able to perform perfect bunshins.
‘’Hmm..’’ Naruto said.
‘’What’s the matter?’’ Stephanie asked.
‘’Where did your enthusiasm go? You were so hyped up just now.’’
‘’Huh?!’’ Naruto said surprised.
‘’Nothing’s wrong. Come on!’’ He said, and he ran off again.
‘’Hey! Wait up!’’ Shiro yelled after him.
‘’What?’’ Naruto asked.
‘’Do you even know what we’re gonna do?’’
‘’Uhhmm...’’ He said while scratching his nose.
‘’Not really...’’ Naruto eventually said while smiling.
‘’Okay... Then take it easy and sit down.’’
They walked over to a table, sat down and while the sun was shining on their faces Shiro started to explain.
‘’I found this scroll.’’ He started as he unfolded a scroll and spread it on the table.
‘’It says that in order to perform better bunshins one should learn how to control his/hers chakra better. In this scroll a few training methods are mentioned, like walking on water, or walking up trees, or standing upsidedown on seelings.’’
Naruto nodded.
‘’Do you think you can do this?’’ Shiro asked.
‘’I’ll try.’’ Naruto said smiling.
‘’It’ll require a lot of patience.’’ Shiro went on.
‘’Stop thinking bad.’’ Naruto said.
‘’Let’s just go and do this.’’
‘’Okay.’’ Shiro said determined while he made a fist.
‘’Then it’s settled.’’ Naruto said as he jumped up.
‘’Let’s do this.’’ He said determined.
‘’Then Let’s GO!!!’’ Stephanie said as she jumped up into the air, made a loop and flew away followed by a running Naruto.
As he watched them run away Shiro thought: I wonder where Inoe is right now.
Through a window Shiro looked at the sun.
I hope she’s okay. I’m just sitting here. In this village everything is so peaceful, like there’s nothing going on at all. And... She could be in great danger.
A tear went down his cheeck.
‘’HEY!!! What’s taking you so long?! Come on!’’ Naruto yelled.
‘’Wait up! I’m on my way.’’
As he stood up he quickly wiped his face, put up a smile and ran towards the door.
At the time Shiro arrived outside he saw Naruto standing in front of the group of boys again.
Stephanie quickly flew towards Shiro.
‘’It’s them again. Come quick.’’
Shiro made a fist.
‘’HEY!!!’’ he yelled.
When the leader noticed Shiro walking towards them he quickly changed his sentence: ‘’Well… See ya tomorrow at school then, Naruto.’’
Then they quickly ran away after looking at Shiro angrily.
‘’Cowards…’’ Naruto said to Shiro.
‘’Once they know they can’t win they run away.’’
‘’What did they want this time?’’
‘’Nothing. They just stopped by to spoil my day again.’’
‘’Hmm…’’ Shiro said while he looked angrily in the direction in which the boys ran off.
‘’Let’s try the walking-on-water thing first.’’ Naruto proposed.
‘’Sure.’’ Shiro replied.
‘’This way then. Follow me.’’ Naruto said as he ran off again.
‘’Wait up!’’ Shiro yelled after him as he followed Naruto.
‘’Hey! Don’t leave me behind!’’ Stephanie yelled as she quickly followed them.
It was a bit of a long walk to the other side of Konoha, but eventually they arrived at a small river which came from the forest and lept into Konoha’s Hot Springs.
‘’This would be a good spot, I think.’’ Naruto said.
‘’What do we do now?’’
‘’I’ll check the scroll again.’’ Shiro said and he revealed and unfolded the scroll again.
‘’Now to look for some kind of explanation.’’
‘’Here!’’ Naruto said excited while pointing.
Then he read out loud: ‘’To walk on water one should concentrate his/her chakra on the lower part of their feet. Then one  should let the chakra flow into the water slowly.  If one keeps doing this he/she should be able to walk on water. To do this a lot of patience, practice and a good chakra control are required.’’
When he ended Naruto folded the scroll again, gave it back to Shiro for safekeeping, put his jacket, in which the ancient scroll was hidden, off and walked over to the river.
Naruto stood stil and looked at Shiro.
‘’Ready?’’ Shiro asked.
Naruto raised his shoulders, looked at the water and finally jumped.
For one second it seemed like Naruto was standing on the surface, but then he fell through.
‘’WHAT THE…AAAAH!!!’’ Naruto screamed as he quickly jumped out of the water.
‘’D…Damn that water’s hot.’’ He said while gasping fiercely.
‘’What did you think?’’ Stephanie said.
‘’It aren’t called “HOT SPRINGS” for nothing.’’
‘’I know that.’’ Naruto said while looking at Stephanie angrily.
Stephanie put out her tongue towards Naruto.
‘’Why you little…’’ Naruto said angrily while Stephanie flew up high and turned her bottom towards Naruto.
‘’Catch me if you can!’’ Stephanie said while she tapped her butt.
While Naruto was jumping up and down trying to catch Stephanie, Shiro walked over to the river while looking at the scroll, which he had unfolded once again.
This doesn’t look too hard. Shiro thought.
If Naruto and everyone else here can use chakra, then why wouldn’t I be able to do so.
Shiro took a steady stance, then put his hands in a way he had several children seen doing and then he concentrated.
He imagined an energy flowing from somewhere a little below his umbilical point towards the lower part of his feet.
Then he jumped.
Shiro expected to feel hot water, instead he felt a satisfying warm feeling in his feet.
When he opened his eyes Shiro was standing on the surface, but the surface felt weak, so Shiro quickly imagined the energy flowing into the water and the better he concentrated the harder the surface felt.
Shiro stepped forward and as his feet touched the surface Shiro started to get excited.
If I can walk on water, would I be able to run on water also?
Shiro readied himself and then he began…Step by step Shiro ran on the river surface.
Then Shiro dove, imagined his chakra flow correctly, landed on his hands, pushed and landed on his feet again.
Naruto, who hadn’t noticed Shiro doing all this until now, stopped trying to catch Stephanie, who was still teasing him, and looked amazed at Shiro.
‘’How…’’ He started.
‘’How did you… do that?’’
‘’I just closed my eyes, concentrated, imagined some kind of energy flow through my feet into the water, then I jumped and…it worked, somehow.’’ Shiro said.
‘’What? It was that easy? Alright, let’s do this one more time.’’
Naruto ran over to the river again and exactly did what Shiro told him he had done.
Then he jumped, and Naruto was also standing on the surface.
‘’Yeah!’’ Naruto yelled.
‘’I did it! Woohoo!’’
But then, suddenly, Naruto fell through.
‘’Goddamn.’’ Naruto said once he had crawled onto the shore again.
‘’I think all I need is a bit more practice at this.’’ Naruto said while panting exhaustedly, and after he had rested a bit he ran over to the river and jumped onto the surface again.
He stood there a few seconds and fell through again.
Naruto kept on jumping and jumping, but as soon as he lost his concentration he fell through again.
Naruto jumped, fell thorugh, crawled back on shore, jumped again and kept on jumping until the sun went down and so did Shiro.
At the end of the day Naruto and Shiro sat down on a big rock exhausted.
‘’You can sleep at my place tonight.’’ Naruto said.
‘’Thanks.’’ Shiro replied.
‘’Can I stay too?’’ Stephanie asked.
‘’Yea, sure.’’ Naruto said while thinking about what happened earlier.
That night Shiro and Stephanie could finally sleep through the night without being disturbed by anyone or anything, but Naruto couldn’t.
That night Naruto sneaked out to secretly practice the secret scroll’s jutsu.
He waited until Shiro and Stephanie fell asleep and then he sneaked out.
He went to a rooftop and there he sat down to think.
After a few minutes he took out the scroll and read.
*Kage-Bunshin no jutsu:
By making the amount of chakra used to create a bunshin ten times greater as when creating a regular bunshin one can create a kage-bunshin.(Means shadow-clone) A regular bunshin does exactly the same as its creator and cannot land hits on its creator’s opponent. A kage-bunshin can. A kage-bunshin is an exact copy of its creator, but then with it’s own mind. A kage-bunshin can only be created when its creator has a great amount of chakra and is very skilled at chakra control.*
This is amazing. Naruto thought after he had read it several times.
This is even better than a regular bunshin. If I can master this technique, then Iruka-sensei will surely acknowledge me.
Naruto stood up.
‘’I’m definitely gonna do this, definitely.’’ Naruto said to himself before he jumped down.
He softly landed, ran towards a wall, jumped and as he could now do with his new chakra control abilities Naruto landed on the side of the wall.
Then as a real ninja he ran on the side of the wall, jumped to another wall and like that he ran through Hidden Leaf towards the forest.
There Naruto practiced walking on trees, he practiced walking on water and he practiced to perform the kage-bunshin no jutsu.
Naruto practiced as hard and as good as he could, all night long, until he eventually collapsed.
The next morning Naruto woke up while laying on the soft grass on the forest floor.
The sun was shining on his face, birds were whistling.
Then Naruto slowly opened his eyes, sat up and looked around.
Everything looked peaceful.
A butterfly flew past Naruto and several birds were fighting over a small pool of water.
Naruto smiled as he watched them.
Then he thought of Shiro.
Damn. I think I should get back. Shiro’ll probably think I woke up early and went for a walk.
Naruto slowly walked back, still enjoying the peaceful atmosphere.
On his way back Naruto remembered the last night.
Last night I trained like I’ve never trained before. I’m sure I can control my chakra properly now.
When Naruto arrived at the alley he saw Shiro and Stephanie come out of the door to Naruto’s place.
‘’Hey!’’ Naruto yelled happily.
‘’Good Morning!’’
‘’Good morning.’’ ‘’Morning’’ Shiro and Stephanie said at the same time.
‘’I was up early.’’ Naruto said.
‘’Went for a walk.’’
Naruto and Shiro walked into Konoha’s main street while Stephanie flew above them.
‘’Want some breakfast?’’ Naruto asked.
‘’Yea, I’m starving.’’ Shiro said.
‘’I’d like something as well.’’ Stephanie said.
‘’Let’s go to Ichiruka’s.’’
‘’Good idea.’’ Shiro answered.
‘’Let’s go.’’ He said and he ran off.
‘’Good morning.’’ Ichiruka said when they arrived.
‘’What’ll it be?’’
‘’The usual.’’ Naruto said.
‘’But make it two this time.’’
‘’Coming right up.’’
Naruto and Shiro sat down and Stephanie landed on Shiro’s head.
‘’Where’s your sidekick?’’ Naruto asked Ichiruka.
‘’Ah, I gave her a day off.’’ Ichiruka answered.
‘’You’re too nice Ichiruka.’’
‘’Ah well…I try.’’
‘’Have you tried performing a bunshin yet?’’ Shiro asked.
‘’Nope.’’ Naruto answered.
‘’Not yet.’’
‘’Oh! About that.’’ Ichiruka suddenly said.
‘’Iruka came by. He asked me to tell you he’d give you another chance. Meet him at the academy today.’’
‘’Really?’’ Naruto asked amazed.
Ichiruka nodded with a smile.
‘’Cool! Today I’m gonna show Iruka-sensei the results of my training.’’
‘’Do your best.’’ Ichiruka said.
‘’I will. Next time when I come here I’ll be an official ninja.’’
‘’That’s great to hear. Here’s your ramen.’’ Ichiruka said while he put down two boils filled with delicious hot ramen.
One in front of Shiro, the other in front of Naruto.
Stephanie glided down and started slurping from Shiro’s ramen.
‘’Mmm!’’ She said.
Then Naruto and Shiro started to eat too.
‘’As delicious as ever Ichiruka.’’ Naruto said.
‘’I’m going to miss this.’’ Shiro said.
‘’What do you mean?’’ Naruto asked.
‘’Didn’t I tell you?’’
‘’What did you tell me?’’
Shiro sighed.
‘’It all started at my home, on an island out in the Pacific Ocean.’’ Shiro started.
He told Naruto the whole story, and Naruto listened interested.
Sometimes he said things like: ‘’Wow!’’ or ‘’What?!’’ or ‘’Ah!’’
Ichiruka was cleaning a glass in the back of the shop while he too listened interested.
‘’So…I’ve got to go look for my sister you understand?’’
‘’It seems you’ve got a lot to deal with.’’ Ichiruka said when Shiro finally stopped talking.
‘’Good luck my boy.’’
‘’Thanks.’’ Shiro said.
‘’I’ll need it.’’
‘’Yeah, good luck Shiro. I hope you’ll find her sometime soon.’’
‘’I’ll be going from world to world and learn lots of cool stuff. I can see certain spirits now and walk on water. I bet I’ll learn lots of more cool stuff on my journey through all the different dimensions.’’
‘’Well…’’ Naruto said.
‘’Promise me you’ll visit.’’
‘’I will.’’ Shiro said.
Then they both finished their ramen en stood up.
Naruto took out his wallet to pay but Ichiruka tapped him on the shoulder and said: ‘’It’s okay. You boys’ve got enough on your minds at the moment. This one’s on the house.’’
Ichiruka smiled at Naruto’s amazed face.
‘’Thanks Ichiruka. That’s really very nice of you. Really.’’
‘’I’ll be off to the academy then. You comin with me Shiro?’’
‘’Of course I will.’’
‘’Don’t forget me.’’ Stephanie said as she landed on Naruto’s head, who looked up and smiled at a beautiful face with two even more beautiful eyes.
‘’Let’s go.’’ He said and as he spoke Stephanie jumped in the air and the three of them started to run/fly in the direction of the academy.
When they arrived at the academy there was a cute girl with black hair and two a bit dazing eyes standing at the gate.
She was leaning with her back against one of the pillars on the sides of the gate.
When she noticed Naruto she quickly jumped up and ran over to him.
‘’N…Naruto-kun’’ The girl said nervously. (when –kun is put behind a name it means you care for the person)
‘’Hinata?’’ Naruto said.
‘’I heard you got another chance from Iruka-sensei.’’ She said.
‘’Yeah, that’s true.’’ He answered.
‘’I…I…I wanted to…to…wish you good luck.’’ She said with a red face.
‘’Thanks Hinata. I’ll definitely do my best.’’ Naruto said.
‘’Oh! I’ve got to go.’’ She suddenly said.
‘’Bye.’’ She said and she ran off.
‘’Who was that?’’ Shiro asked.
‘’That was Hyuuga Hinata.’’ Naruto said.
‘’A strange girl I know from class.’’ He explained.
‘’For some reason I think she likes him.’’ Stephanie whispered in Shiro’s ear.
‘’Yea, me too.’’ Shiro answered.
‘’Do you think he even knows?’’
‘’Actually…No, I don’t.’’
Then they walked inside and met up with Iruka.
‘’Hey!’’ Iruka said.
He was a young-looking man with brown hair held up together on the back of his head.
He smiled when he saw Naruto and Shiro.
‘’I’ve been waiting for you.’’ He said.
Shiro looked around.
He had thought the academy was bigger.
It was a small building with tables set up in rows all facing one table in the front.
That’s probably where the teacher should be sitting.
Except them no one was there.
‘’Ichiruka said I could redo the exam.’’ Naruto started.
‘’Yes.’’ Iruka went on.
‘’That’s why I wanted to see you. Your exam was good enough except for the bunshins.’’ Iruka explained.
‘’So I wanted to give you another try at them.’’
‘’I would really like to do that.’’ Naruto said enthusiastically.
‘’Well then.’’
‘’Follow me.’’ Iruka said while he walked over to the middle of the classroom.
‘’Who’s this by the way?’’
‘’This is Shiro.’’ Naruto said.
‘’He’s the first one who ever actually stood up for me. I owe him.’’ Naruto said while smiling at Shiro, whose face turned red.
‘’So you’ve finally made a friend.’’
‘’Yeah, It’s really cool.’’ Naruto said happily.
‘’Well tehn…’’ Iruka went on.
‘’If you wou…’’ but he couldn’t finish his sentence.
Suddenly a loud scream sounded followed by a bell.
‘’What’s going on?’’ Iruka asked.
‘’Sorry Naruto, but I have to go check it out. We’ll continue this later today okay? Iruka said quickly.
He looked at Naruto with a guilty face and then he ran out of the door.
‘’Should we go check it out too?’’ Naruto asked.
Shiro thought of what happened with Yoh and Ed.
‘’That would be a good idea I think.’’ He said and they too ran off.
When they arrived at Hidden Leaf’s main gate they saw several Konoha-ninja laying on the ground unconsciously and Iruka standing in front of a group of three person, all wearing a black cloak.
‘’There’s still one left.’’ The one on the left said.
He had short gray-green messy hair, a young and good-looking face abd two very evil-looking eyes.
They all had, but their hair differed.
‘’How troublesome.’’ The one on the right said.
The middle one had long, nicely brushed hair, and the one on the right had a bit messy hair, which reached to his shoulders.
‘’Don’t cry Chitaru.’’ The one on the left said.
‘’Shut up Ekazu. I’m not crying.’’
‘’’Hey Kuyin.’’ Ekazu, the one on the left said.
‘’You handle this one. I’m fed up with dealing with all these weaklings.’’
‘’Don’t cry Ekazu.’’ Chitaru, the one on the right, said.
The middle one, Kuyin, sighed.
‘’Fine…I’ll handle this one. You two can relax and watch the show.’’ He said and then he stepped forward.
‘’Sensei!’’(Japanese for teacher) Naruto yelled while he and Shiro ran towards Iruka.
Stephanie flew up high.
I better not be involved in this. I’ll watch everything from up here. She thought.
‘’These three are very dangerous.’’ Iruka said with a serious face.
‘’You two should stay back.’’
‘’No way!’’ Naruto said.
‘’I won’t leave you alone. Even if you manage to beat one of ‘em there’s still the other two. You’ll never make it.’’ Naruto said dramatically.
‘’But…You’re not even an official ninja yet.’’
‘’I’ve been training.’’ Naruto quickly said.
Iruka sighed.
‘’Very well then…But you should get back Shiro.’’ Iruka finally said.
‘’I might not look like much, but I can fight too. I can’t do any ninjutsu, but I can fight in my own way.’’
‘’Okay…BUT we’ve got to work as a team.’’ Iruka said.
‘’Naruto, I think I’ve got an idea of what you can do, but you Shiro…Could you show me a bit of your skills? Let’s fight him for a short while, so I can see what you can do.’’
Shiro nodded.
‘’Just try to evade all of his attacks and let Shiro do as he pleases.’’ Naruto also nodded.
Then they walked forward and took a battlestance.
Shiro raised his hand and the shadow slayer appeared.
‘’Whoa?!’’ Naruto said amazed.
What kind off blade is that? Iruka thought.
It’s him. Kuyin thought.
I’ve got to be careful.
Naruto reached for his back pocket and revealed a kunai.(A kunai is a ninja knife)
Then Iruka ran forward while performing hand seals.
‘’Bunshin no justu!’’ He yelled as two exact copies of Iruka appeared next to him, one on each side.
‘’Hm…’’ Kuyin said.
Then the three Irukas also reached for their back pockets and each revealed a few shirukens.(A shiruken is a ninja star, a throwing projectile.)
Then the three Irukas jumped in the air and all threw the shirukens at kuyin, who easily deflected them back with a simple wave of his katana, hitting the three Irukas.
The two bunshins exploded as the third turned into a lump of wood.
From the smoke of the exploded bunshins Naruto came bursting forward in an attempt to slice Kuyin with his kunai.
Kuyin kicked Naruto away and laughed.
Naruto screamed, and then suddenly out of nowhere Shiro appeared behind Kuyin,
He sliced upwards sending Kuyin into the air.
Shiro quickly jumped up and sliced downwards blowing Kuyin to the ground.
Still in the air Shiro yelled: ‘’SHADOW BARRAGE!’’ and as Shiro waved his blade a small energy flew into Kuyin, who let out a scream of pain.
Smoke covered the place where Kuyin was hit by the wave.
Shiro got back to the ground and ran towards Iruka and Naruto.
‘’That went pretty well.’’ He said.
‘’Yea, but I don’t think this’ll be enough to beat him.’’ Iruka said.
‘’By the way, how the hell did you get this power?’’ Iruka asked.
‘’What kind off special ninjustu is this power of yours?’’
‘’This is no ninjutsu.’’ Shiro said.
‘’It’s a long story, but I’ll tell you once we’ve beaten the crap out of these guys.’’
Iruka looked Shiro in the eyes and nodded.
In the smoke a human form was to be seen.
‘’You caught me off guard for a sec just now.’’ Kuyin said angrily once the smoke was gone.
‘’It won’t happen again, I promise you that.’’ He said while looking really pissed off.
‘’Come at me again, if you dare.’’ He said while smiling really evilly.
‘’Hm…Kuyin got asskicked.’’ Ekazu said.
‘’Heh…yea…But now they’ve made him angry.’’ Chitaru said.
‘’This could become really interesting.’’ He said.
‘’What’s wrong? Kuyin asked.
‘’Afraid?’’ He asked before he laughed loudly.
‘’Why you!’’ Iruka said while he ran forward while readying himself for another attack against Kuyin.
‘’Heh…I’ll show you.’’ Kuyin said to himself as he started to run forward while performing hand seals just like Iruka did before.
‘’Bunshin no jutsu.’’ He said softly.
What?! Iruka thought while his eyes widened because of what he saw.
A fake Kuyin appeared on each side of the real Kuyin.
But that’s my… Iruka thought confused as he stopped running.
‘’Don’t underestimate me!’’ Kuyin yelled as the three Kuyins, who all had the same evil laugh, jumped into the air.
The two fakes next to each other and the real Kuyin above them.
‘’Take this!’’ Kuyin yelled as the three Kuyins slashed their katanas sending a triangle shaped energy blast towards Iruka, who though: Oh my god!
But before Iruka got hit Shiro suddenly appeared next to him, quickly grabbed his arm and together they warped to where Naruto was standing, paralyzed by the sight of Kuyin’s immense strength.
‘’You okay?’’ Shiro asked.
‘’Thanks to you, yea.’’ Iruka answered.
‘’If you wouldn’t have been there I would’ve been blown to pieces.’’
‘’It’s nothing.’’ Shiro said.
‘’This guy’s really dangerous.’’ Iruka said.
‘’We’ve got to finish this quickly.’’
Kuyin, who had stopped moving, screamed angrily.
‘’You little brat!’’ He screamed.
‘’We should really watch out.’’ Naruto said.
‘’Look at him, he’s insane.’’ Naruto continued.
‘’I’ve got a plan.’’ Iruka said.
‘’But if this doesn’t finish him off I’m out of tricks. You two just watch.’’
He stepped forward, reached for his back and picked a huge sized shiruken.
‘’HIYAA!!!’’ He yelled as he threw the shiruken towards Kuyin.
‘’Don’t underestimate me!’’ Kuyin screamed maniacally as he jumped up high in order to dodge the shiruken.
Then suddenly, up in the sky, Iruka appeared behind Kuyin.
He kicked Kuyin towards the ground and again reached for his back.
This time Iruka took four of those massive-sized shirukens and quickly threw them hard towards Kuyin, each to an arm or a leg.
Kuyin, who was laying on the ground looked Iruka in the eyes and smiled evilly.
Then he warped, just like Shiro had done, and appeared in the air behind Iruka.
Not again Iruka thought.
Kuyin whispered in Iruka’s ear: ‘’Yet again you underestimate me.’’ And then he slashed him to the ground leaving a deep cut in Iruka’s back.
Iruka screamed as he rammed into the ground between his own giant shirukens.
I’ve got to do something. Naruto thought.
I can’t let this happen to Iruka-sensei. That guy will  pay.  Naruto thought while he started to get angry.
I’m gonna make him pay for everthing he did to everyone. He thought while the pupils in his eyes narrowed.
‘’Shiro!’’ He said loudly.
‘’I’ll keep him steady, you attack him with all your strength.’’ He said while his teeth became pointy and his hands shaped bit like claws.
Shiro looked in Naruto’s eyes and his eyes widened because of what he saw.
Shiro nodded.
‘’Go get him.’’ He said.
‘’HEY YOU!’’ Naruto yelled.
Kuyin looked to Naruto as he landed on the ground.
‘’HA!!!’’ Naruto yelled as he threw his kunai towards Kuyin.
Kuyin laughed hard again.
Before the kunai landed in Kuyin’s chest Kuyin caught it with a single hand.
‘’What now?!’’ He yelled before laughing loudly once again.
‘’Look at him go.’’ Chitaru said.
Then suddenly Kuyin heard a burning noise come from the kunai.
He looked at it and as he saw a burning little paper rapped around the kunai he screamed and quickly dropped it.
A great explosion followed.
From the smoke came Kuyin, jumping in the air, totally surprised by what just happened.
Then the partially transformed Naruto appeared behind him.
‘’TAKE THIS!!!’’ Naruto screamed and rammed Kuyin once again into the ground.
‘’KAGE-BUNSHIN NO JUTSU!!!’’ Naruto screamed and out of nowhere hundreds of Narutos appeared.
All landed on the temporarily paralyzed Kuyin to make sure he stayed where he was.
‘’Shiro! NOW!’’ Naruto yelled, and an amazed Shiro came running towards the hundreds of Narutos and after he jumped into the air he screamed before sending a massive energy wave into the crowd down below.
Naruto, who had calmed down ran over to Iruka followed by an exhausted Shiro.
‘’You two did well.’’ Iruka said.
‘’I’m very proud of you two. Especially of you Naruto. You’ve always lacked the ability to create proper clones, but just now you created hundreds at once. The technique you just performed is a technique so hard to master it’s even rare under the hokages, and the exploding kunai, what a combination.’’
‘’I won’t ask who you’ve learned that technique, but still… Naruto… You truly are Konoha’s most unpredictable ninja.’’ Iruka said and then he put off his forehead protector and put it around Naruto’s forehead.
‘’Th…Thanks… Iruka-sensei.’’ Naruto said with tears in his eyes.
‘’Uhhmm… I don’t want to spoil the moment, but…’’ Shiro suddenly said.
From the smoke came Ekazu and Chitaru.
Ekazu was holding a knocked out Kuyin over his shoulder.
‘’You guys got lucky.’’ Chitaru said.
‘’If our brother wouldn’t have lost himself his copying skills would’ve slaughtered you guys. For now we’ll let you live.’’ He said, ‘’But you won’t get away so easily next time.’’
‘’Hey! Where’s my sister?!’’ Shiro yelled.
‘’Hm…’’ Ekazu said, and a dimensional portal opened next to him.
‘’See ya, kid.’’ He said as he, Chitaru and the unconscious Kuyin where sucked into the portal.
‘’Come Shiro!’’ Stephanie, who had watched everthing from up high, yelled.
‘’Let’s chase them.’’ She said as she flew towards the gate.
Shiro looked at Naruto.
‘’Thanks buddy.’’ Shiro said.
‘’You too.’’ Naruto answered, and then Shiro ran after Stephanie.
After she flew into the interdimensional darkness Shiro dove through and after a few seconds they both landed on top of a soft bed in, what seemed to be, a peaceful hotelroom.

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