Primarch of the Shinobi

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Konohagakure no sato was a very prosperous ninja village, easily the most powerful, with it’s famous leader, the Yondaime Hokage. The Yondaime was regarded as one of the most powerful ninja of all time. Konoha was a great place to live, with little poverty, and few outside threats.

Of course, someone in Konoha’s Council had to jinx it, by thinking that Konoha will never be defeated. In this councilman’s arrogance, he did not think for a second that Kami was watching.

Oh well. Life is more interesting this way anyway.

Four weeks later, a ANBU patrol reported that a nearby village was gone.

Not destroyed. Gone.

The village had been utterly destroyed, to the point the all the was left was a few crushed buildings.

Not one body was found.

The next week, a heavily injured ANBU entered the Yondaime’s office.

The ANBU was the sole survivor of a squad that was doing a routine patrol. The patrol ranged from the south-east to the north-east, twenty miles from Konoha.

Approximately in the middle of the patrol, directly east of Konoha, something happened.

To quote a more bad-mouthed Chuunin retelling the story later, that was were, “ The shit hit the fan.”

…Quite.

The Kyuubi no Kitsune, a demon fox with the power to create tidal waves, and crush mountains with a mere swing of one of it’s nine tails, was en route to Konoha.

Oh, did I forget to mention, the Kyuubi is roughly three hundred feet tall?

I suppose that might make a small difference in the story.

Reacting stupidly, Konoha’s Council sent a massive force of over three hundred ANBU, Elite Jounin, and Jounin to beat off the Kyuubi.

Completely ignoring the fact that this was the Legendary Kyuubi no Kitsune, the greatest of the Biju, as well as the King of Hell.

Oh well. I wasn’t there when the Kyuubi killed almost all of the strike force, leaving only a battle-scarred rookie Jounin alive.

The Yondaime spent all this time trying to devise a way to kill or defeat the Kyuubi, with the pressure added to even more by the fact that his wife was pregnant.

Later, one day after the strike force was crushed, the same battle-scarred rookie Jounin, one Hatake Kakashi, discovered a child in the forest surrounding Konoha. The baby was found in a clearing, made by some strange fire. The baby was unharmed.

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The baby, a girl, was very strange. She had dark blond hair, and silver eyes that seemed to hold more than was humanly possible.

The girl was brought back to the Hokage, who decided to adopt her, whether he survived the Kyuubi’s wrath or not.

The Kyuubi was fast approaching, when the Yondaime came upon the idea of the Shiki Fujin.

Being a chivalrous man, he did not think even for a second to ask another to sacrifice their child to be the host of the Kyuubi no Kitsune.

When the Kyuubi arrived at Konoha, all shinobi available defended their home, holding to give the Yondaime to prepare.

However, it was at this moment that Kami intervened.

Kami literally threw a wrench into the inner workings of fate.

(Sigh), thus making me a player in this game of Russian Roulette.

The child of the Yondaime and Kushina Uzumaki died, due to birth complications, and Kushina followed an hour later.

The child, upon which everything had depended.

Heart-broken, the Yondaime decided to seal the Kyuubi into the girl that had been found in the forest.

He prepared the seals, and informed the retired Sandaime Hokage of his decision, and named the girl Naru Uzumaki, to prevent Iwa from taking it’s revenge on the adopted daughter of their greatest enemy.

The rest, as they say, is history.

Xxxx

Take it from me, a battleground is a very scary place. Despite the primitive technology, this was no exception.

Bodies were scattered around the ground, burned and crushed. These people were the unlucky.

They had died painfully, burned or crushed to death.

The lucky were the ones who had died instantly, incinerated.

In this hellish nightmare, the Sandaime Hokage of Konohagakure no sato stared at his greatest problem.

A blond, female baby lay in his arms, writings in black ink all over here stomach.

The girl, oddly enough, was not crying. Instead, she was silent, staring deep into the Sandaime’s eyes, scanning his soul.

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The Sandaime decided to help the girl, honoring the Yondaime’s wish for the girl to be treated as a hero.

Two months after the Kyuubi attack, that fateful night of October Tenth, the Hokage announced to a stunned village that the Kyuubi was not dead.

Instead, it had been sealed inside of this baby girl.

The Hokage announced to the dumb-struck village that the Yondaime had wished for the girl to be seen as a hero, a savior from the Kyuubi.

Of course, humans believe what the want, and will wrap their minds around whatever twisted vision they had, so long as they had a scapegoat.

Fools.

Xxxx

The Sandaime was tired, as he studied this strange girl before him.

Naru Uzumaki was silent, never screaming.

Many had only seen Naru as the demon, even going as far as to attack the girl.

The Sandaime had beaten off many assassins.

Two weeks before, shortly before announcing the girl to the village, he had placed a extremely complicated Genjutsu-Ninjutsu hybrid on the girl, turning her, for all intents and purposes, into a boy.

The Sandaime was troubled, wondering what to do with this girl.

Fortunately for him, a Dark Angel was about to help him out.

A Fallen Dark Angel.

Repent! For tomorrow you die!

Xxxx

The Sandaime sighed, leaning back in his chair.

“ Hokage-sama?” his secretary asked.

“ Yes?” the Sandaime asked, sighing again.

“ There is a man here, he wishes to talk to you.” the secretary said, containing her sneer at the baby in the cradle.

“ Let him in.” said the Hokage, wondering what could possibly be wrong now.

The man marched into the room, every step even, calm.

The man was tall, a massive six foot six, and had a sheathed sword across his back. Two, three foot long short swords were sticking out of his boots. The man was wearing white robes, and the dark shading on them indicated that the man was wearing something black underneath his robes. The man had a white hood on his head, with strange patterns along the hood.

“ Greetings, Sarutobi, Sandaime Hokage of Konohagakure no sato.” said the man, standing perfectly still.

“ Greetings, my good sir.” said the Hokage, curious in the appearance and manner of this man. He walked with a determined gait that marked him as a veteran of many wars.

“ Lord Hokage, I am here on a matter of the utmost importance. It concerns the girl in the cradle.” the man said, his eyes and face shielded by the hood.

The Hokage was instantly more alert.

“ If you intend to harm her, you with have to go through me!” the Hokage said fiercely.

“ I do not wish her harm, though it please me to see not all of your village is blind.” the man said, a smile graced his face, unnoticed.

“ I am Zahariel Cypher, and I am tasked with protecting that girl there. I have been searching for her for over ten thousand years, searching far and wide, and getting in more than my fair share of wars.” the man said, unconcerned that he had just dropped a bombshell on the old man in front of him.

“ You have been searching for ten thousand years! the Hokage yelped, suddenly scared of the man in front of him.

“ J-just how old are you?” the Hokage asked, after taking a minute to calm his nerves.

“ I am over ten thousand, one hundred and twenty years old.” said Cypher, secretly enjoying the look of incredulity that appeared on the Hokage’s face.

“ I have been tasked by both my Primarch and another to protect this girl. I shall not fail. She is the last Primarch, and must be protected at all costs, even if I must give up my life, I will protect her.” Cypher said, never hesitating throughout his explanation.

“ And, what is a ‘Primarch?’ ” asked the Hokage, even more confused.

“ A Primarch is a genetically enhanced super warrior, who usually stand at a height of around ten feet tall, and all have risen to position’s of power or infamy by the time the Emperor discovered them. It was originally thought that there was only twenty Primarchs, but we have evidence to the contrary in front of us. Each other Primarch has been male, so this was a surprise when I learned of her.” slowly explained Cypher, gesturing to the sleeping baby before them.

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“ I have a few questions.” said the Hokage. He stood up, then started staring out the window in his office, gazing at the Hokage Monument.

“ Then you may wish to sit back down. This will take a while.” said Cypher, remembering how he got into this mess.

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(Flashback)

Zahariel ran from the basement where he had been stationed, guarding the Great Library of the Dark Angels.

A hellish scene greeted him.

Fire fell from the heavens, as two men slashed and hacked at each other with their swords.

Zahariel’s heart shuddered, for he recognized each of the men.

One could barely be called a man. He was ten feet tall, dark, and handsome.

The other was also dark, his face twisted in anger.

They were both dressed in black armor, the former’s more ornate than the latter’s.

Lion El’ Jonson and Luther.

Lion sliced through Luther’s armor, slicing off a chunk off Luther’s thigh.

Luther collapsed, his leg rendered unusable, and finally the look of anger slid off of his face. Instead, Luther looked at Lion, and said something quietly.

Zahariel could not hear, for he was too far away, but Lion answered, laying down his sword.

Suddenly, a Dark Angel, his armor twisted and desecrated, leapt from the shadows, a twisted sword in his hand.

The Chaos Marine sliced through Lion’s armor, kicking away his sword.

Zahariel too leapt from the shadows, pulling out the fang of the Calibanite Lion that had served as his sword for so long, and loped off the traitors head. Zahariel turned, scanning for any more enemies. When he saw there was none, he turned to Lion, and gasped.

The demonic blade had sliced right through Lion’s armor, creating a cut from Lion’s left shoulder all the way to his right hip.

Blood was gushing out off the cut, more blood than Zahariel thought Lion had.

“ Z-z-Zahariel…” Lion gasped, groaning from the pain the demonic blade had caused.

“ Z-Zahariel… remember our bond? The… sword I gave you…AAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The sword… there was another… sword made… but I thought to give it to Luther… but… I could
not… decide… to give it to Luther or you… Zahariel… There is a twenty first Primarch… you must find her… protect her… raise her… Zahariel… there is a realm… AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!! In the warp… were men go when they have died… You can enter this realm… when you are sleeping… Perturabo… Horus… those possessed by demons… they go there as well… you need to… AAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Meet me… in this realm… after you escape…-” Lion explained, screaming in pain.

“ Escape, sire?” Zahariel asked confused. Why would he run?

“ Zahariel… the Dark Angels… AAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!! Will not believe you… AHH!!!!!!! And Chaos must not AAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!!!!! Know… the last thing we need… is another… Horus. Here, Zahariel… this is the other sword.” Lion reached into a compartment of his armor, and withdrew a three foot long short sword, exactly the same as the one in Zahariel’s hand.

“ Go… my son… make me proud…” a choked scream came from the Lion’s throat, and his heavy breathing ceased.

(End Flashback)

Xxxx

“ So,” said the Hokage, shaking Cypher from his memories.

“ You will hang around of two years, and then take Naru to be trained by yourself. Am I correct?” asked the Hokage to confirm what he had just heard.

“ Yes.” said Cypher.

“ I believe you can stay in the Yondaime’s house, with Naru. The Yondaime adopted Naru, shortly before his death, so I believe it is only fitting she lives there.” the Hokage slowly said, fishing a set of keys from his desk. The Hokage handed Cypher the keys, and gave him the address.

“ I will tell the council that you are a retired ANBU Black Ops who wished to be Naru’s guardian. It may not work, but it’s our best hope.” the Hokage said, putting his formal hat back on.

“ If Naru need’s anything, please don’t be afraid to ask.” the Hokage said, a small smile gracing his features at the sight of Cypher cradling Naru like she was the most important thing in his world. Then again, she was.

“ If my Primarch can survive in the forests of Caliban with nothing but his hands, I believe I can suffice.” Cypher said, opening the door to leave. On his way out, the secretary glared at Naru. Cypher responded by unsheathing one of his swords and hold it at the secretary’s neck. He said nothing, but the threat was clear.

As Cypher walked to the house, he slew two drunks who had decided to ‘kill the demon.’

With his bare hands, by throwing them over the walls of Konoha.

Fin

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This is a story I have posted on FF.net as well.

Well, what do you guys think?

[Myrdraxxis]

sweet! I cant blelieve I never noticed this one -.-

You must update!

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I live to serve jk.

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Hey, I;m back, with the second installment of Primarch of the Shinobi

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Twelve years later, three robed figures walked up to the gates of Konoha.

One was tall, six foot six, and wore a white robe, with a patterned hood over his head, the cowl concealing his face in shadow.

The second was six foot four, and wore a red robe similar to the first’s robe, with the cowl concealing his face as well.

The third was five foot tall, and wore a silver robe similar to the other two, again, with the cowl.

“ Halt!” called one the Chunin Guards.

The robed figures halted, and made no other move, standing as still as statues.

“ What is your business in Konoha?” asked the guard, looking at the robed figures.

“ We are here to talk with the Hokage. Tell him that the Primarch has returned, with her mentor and another.” said the white robe, his tone emotionless.

“ Very well. I will inform him.” with that, one of the two Chunin guards Shushined away, while the other watched the travelers more carefully.

Only a minute later, the Chunin returned, looking curious and wary now.

“ The Hokage says that he would like to talk to you, and that you can stay in the house you stayed at before.” the Chunin said nothing else, and manned his post again.

The robed figures walked through Konoha, taking their time looking at the way the village had changed.

The buildings were repaired from the Kyuubi attack, but the usual Uchiha policeman were no longer patrolling the streets, instead, non-Uchiha’s patrolled, looking at the newcomer’s with suspicion.

The robed figures walked into the Hokage Tower, up through the floors, eventually reaching the Sandaime’s office.

The secretary was different, noticed the white robed one.

The figures walked into the office, ignoring the secretary’s efforts to shove them out.

The Sandaime looked up from his constant paperwork, and smiled when he saw the robed figures waiting. The Sandaime closed the door, and sat back down, smiling broadly.

“ Please, take off you cloaks. We know who each other is, and I see no reason for us to hide our identities.” said the Hokage pleasantly.

The figures slowly took off their cloaks, revealing the people hiding beneath them.

The white robed figure had dark hair and blue eyes, and had his two swords sticking out his boots again. Cypher smiled back at the Hokage, though a little less broadly. Cypher wore simple travelers clothes, in black.

The silver robed figure was a girl, with dark blond hair and deep, all-knowing eyes. Naru smiled warmly at the old man who had protected her before Cypher had taken her to be trained. Naru wore jungle camo cargo pants, all greens and browns. She wore a sleeveless shirt and a vest over it, and had a four foot long katana sticking out over her right shoulder. Her open vest and shirt were also jungle camo, with the same vibrant greens and dull browns. She was wearing combat boots, with a steel toe cap. She also wore a red bandana over her head, in the style of one Ibiki Morino, and her blond hair peaked out of the sides of it. Her baby fat was already gone, and although she was smiling at the Hokage, her silver eyes were hard, and gave the suggestion that it was deeply unwise to mess with this girl.

The red robed figured was a man, with light red hair, red eyes, and a roguish look about his face. He wore dark red shinobi pants, and a dark red sleeveless vest. He had long throwing knives crisscrossing his torso on bandoliers.

The Hokage stared at the red wearing man, curious about this traveler.

Seeing the Hokage’s stare, the red traveler bowed, and said, “ Lord Hokage, I am a friend of Cypher and Naru, and you do not need to worry about little old me. My name is Kyuubi.”

The Hokage pulled out a kunai and had nearly launched it when Cypher stepped in.

“ Lord, Kyuubi is not a threat to Konoha. While I was training Naru, I had a friend of mine perform an exorcism on him. Oddly enough, Kyuubi was forced from the seal, resulting in him being a normal human like the rest of us.” Cypher put in quickly, to prevent the Hokage from doing anything rash.

The Hokage relaxed slightly, but still appeared high-strung.

“ By the way old man,” said Naru, grinning happily at the Hokage’s discomfort with the title. “ We won’t be staying in the house. We’re going to stay in the forest, to prevent civilians questioning what we are doing in my dad’s house.”

The Hokage looked surprised, but nodded. He glanced anxiously at Kyuubi once again, oblivious to Kyuubi’s huge anime-style sweatdrop.

“ Relax old man.” put in Naru, seeing the Hokage’s unease. “ Kyuubi isn’t a threat. The only time he would be is if someone attacked me.” she explained.

“ If someone attacked you? What about Cypher?” the Hokage asked, confused.

“ Cypher is over ten thousand years old, he can handle himself.” Kyuubi put in, his roguish grin widening slightly. Kyuubi’s voice was rough yet smooth, and quiet, but easily reached everyone’s ears.

“ Besides,” said Naru, stepping closer to Kyuubi and throwing her arm around him. “Kyuubi isn’t in love with Cypher.”

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The Hokage froze.

Naru looked a bit worried when Sarutobi didn’t move for more than a minute.

“ Hellooo? Old man? Anyone in there?” Naru called, waving a hand in front of the Sandaime’s face.

With a loud “WHUMP,” the Hokage crumbled to the ground.

Naru turned to her companions, a sheepish grin on her face.

“ I think we better evacuate before someone jumps to conclusions again.” Naru said, looking directly at Cypher.

“What?” Cypher said. “ It isn’t my fault that I have incredibly bad luck! That governor had a heart attack!” he protested.

The trio walked out of the office, Cypher and Naru arguing fiercely, as Kyuubi started laughing at them. Naru stopped yelling at Cypher and turned to Kyuubi, a look of rage on her face.

Kyuubi stopped laughing. “ N-naru, I-I didn’t m-mean t-to-” he tried to say, his face losing it’s roguish grin, and instead showing his fear.

WHAM!

Kyuubi flew down the street, a large bruise already forming on his head.

Cypher watched Kyuubi shoot down the street, mentally reminding himself never to piss of Naru.

Xxxx

Cypher slashed through his katas, slashing and shredding imaginary foes to pieces.

Naru watched from the sidelines as Kyuubi sat down next to her, a scroll in one hand, a forehead protector in the other.

“ Naru-chan, apparently you are now a Genin, and you need to report to the Academy tomorrow. They put you on the roster as a Genin because the Hokage doesn’t know what you can do. He says, ‘try not to kill anyone.’ ” Kyuubi said, laughing.

Naru hopped out onto the grass as Cypher stepped off. She whipped out her sword, and started slashing through katas.

Her sword was strange, long and slender. It was gently curved, and had a organic look about it. The hilt was silver steel, and did not look organic like the rest of the blade. The blade had a few kanji on it, in blood.

As Naru finished her kata, she sat down next to Kyuubi, who was writing a scroll. Naru peeked over his shoulder, and saw that he was writing explanations to the Hokage.

“ It’s getting late, maybe you should get some rest for tomorrow Naru.” Cypher said, seemingly
materializing out of nothing.

“ I am going to scout out Konoha, o see if there are any threats.” Cypher continued, his face serious.

“ You just want to run to the local ‘bookstore’ you pervert!” Naru yelled, punching Cypher hard in the jaw.

“ So? I’m a man. A superman, but still a man!” Cypher retorted, rubbing his bruised jaw.

Wrong answer.

Naru screamed in exasperation, and started chasing Cypher around the house, waving her sword over her head like a primitive Amazon warrior, screaming all the while.

Kyuubi chuckled at Cypher’s misfortune, then turned back to writing the scroll.

Xxxx

Naru walked into the classroom, ignoring the noise around her. She still wore her jungle vest, with her organic sword sticking over her right shoulder.

Naru looked around, then sat in an unoccupied seat by a brooding dark haired kid. The kid wore a blue shirt and white shorts, and looked like he had a chicken’s ass for a haircut.

Naru also noticed a Hyuuga girl, who looked very shy.

Naru then saw a lazy looking boy, sleeping in the back row. His hair looked like a pineapple, shooting out behind his head.

Naru saw many others, but none interested her as much as the sleeping boy.

She lapsed into a sort of trance, appearing to those near her to be sleeping.

Her mind traveled through the warp, using what little psychic power she had to travel to the Realm of the Dead.

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She opened her eyes, seeing a vast white plain instead of the classroom she was in before. She was wearing her silver robes again, with the hood down, and had a design on the back of her cloak. Two swords similar to her sword were crossed beneath a grinning skull, with a red bandanna covering it’s forehead and the top of it’s head.

Naru walked forward, ignoring the vast emptiness before her. She appeared before a huge, bigger-than-life-size chess set. Only, this chess set had terrain, starships, vehicles and more. One army was painted bright yellow, the other stone gray. Two men sat in huge chairs, elevated so that they could see the pieces.

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There was also a set of huge raisers, in which sat around twenty other people.

Naru climbed the raisers, sitting down beside a man, who wore several pelts over his grey and gold robes.

“ Have they moved yet?” Naru asked the man, who gave her a glance.

“ No,” said Horus, Primarch of the Luna Wolves.

“ They just sit there and bomb each other with artillery.” called a one-eyed man wearing red robes, trimmed in gold.

“ You think they will ever give up?” Naru called back.

“ No,” said Magnus, Primarch of the Thousand Sons. “ I think they are both to stubborn.”

“ You think everyone is too stubborn!” called a grinning man who had suddenly appeared, and was wearing blue-gray robes, with wolf pelts hanging from his shoulders. The man had enlarged canines, easily three inches long.

“ Leman!” called Naru, smiling. “ What’s happening?” she asked, as Leman was still alive and thus could only appear in the Realm of periods of time.

“ I was hunting a Khornate Warband. Your boys, Angron.” Leman called over the raisers to the man in white robes with the shoulders painted blue.

Angron grunted, then went back to performing the blade dance of his rapier. After he was possessed, Angron was technically ‘dead’, and was sent to the Realm. As he was dead, his implants were gone, and he committed himself to perfecting every melee weapon in the galaxy.

“ Anyway Naru,” said Leman, ignoring Angron. “ They are in the vicinity of your world, maybe fifty percent chance of discovering it. If I were you, I’d start training quick.” he explained, unconsciously flexing his right hand, as if grasping a spear.

Naru was about to respond, but felt queasy, and before she could warn her brothers, she was blinded by a flash of light.

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“That’s my seat!”

Naru opened her eyes, and saw a girl with a ridiculously big forehead and hot pink hair screaming at her.

Naru glared at the girl, restraining her urge to slice off the girls head.

“ Buzz off!” she said fiercely. Being forced back into the real world was a very unpleasant sensation, and it had caught her unawares, making her incredibly cranky.

The pink haired girl opened her mouth to scream again, when a scarred Chunin walked into the room. Pausing to look around, he yelled, “ SHUT UP!”, instantly getting everyone’s attention.

The pink haired girl threw a glare at Naru, along with some very weak killer intent, and then sat down, not looking at Naru.

The Chunin looked briefly at Naru, then proceeded to explain the life of a shinobi to the Genins.

Naru ignored the Chunin, and waited for him to call out the teams.

Eventually, the Chunin started calling out the teams, after telling the Genin ‘how proud he was.’

“… Team 7! Sakura Haruno, Sasuke Uchiha, and Naru Uzumaki!”

Naru looked around. Apparently her teammates were the moody bastard next to her, and the pink haired banshee.

Just fucking great.

Xxxx

Naru Uzumaki waited ten minutes for her teacher, then gave up.

She once again leaned back to go to the Realm, but thought better of it.

Without a word to her teammates, she started climbing the walls of the classroom. With only her feet.

When she was on the ceiling, she laid down and looked at her teammates, one of which was screaming at her yet again. The other, the moody bastard, was looking at her with… What exactly? Hate? Resentment?

“ Naru you baka what are you doing!” screamed the banshee, so loud that Naru was amazed she wasn’t breaking the window of the classroom.

“ I am practicing a chakra control exercise. My chakra control is not as good as it should be, and I want to make it better.” Naru replied, glaring at the pink haired banshee. She was so similar to the Sound Marines of the Emperor’s Children, only much louder.

So Naru waited, on the ceiling, for over three hours, three hours in which she could have been training, or spending with Kyu-kun…

Xxxx

Kakashi Hatake stuck his head into the classroom, smiling underneath his mask. He had finally been assigned to train the Last Uchiha!

As he opened his mouth to speak, a strangely organic looking katana dropped from the ceiling, nearly slicing off his head.

Up on the ceiling, Naru swore vividly, with words that would make Cypher proud.

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Kakashi looked up to the ceiling, still smiling.

“ Well,” Kakashi said, his tone light. “ Now that we have gotten our anger management out the way, meet me up on the roof.”

With the poof of a Shushin, he disappeared in a plume of smoke.

Naru walked out the window, and walked up the wall to the roof, much to the annoyance and resentment of her two teammates.

Xxxx

After Sasuke and Sakura had walked all the way up the stairs, Kakashi closed his orange book and smiled at them.

“ First thing, let’s share our names, likes, dislikes, hobbies and dreams, so that we know each other better.”

“ Why don’t you go first Kakashi-sensei?” asked Sakura, pointing a finger at Kakashi

“ Ok. My name is Kakashi Hatake, I have several likes and dislikes, a few hobbies, and my dream… I never really thought about it.”

Sakura not-so-quietly whispered to Sasuke, “ All we heard is his name!”

“ Why don’t you go, pinkie?” said Kakashi, oblivious to Sakura’s annoyance.

“ My name is Sakura Haruno, and my likes are…” she trailed off, looked at Sasuke, and giggled. “ I dislike Ino-pig and Naru. My hobbies are…” she trailed off again, and giggled slightly louder. “ My dream is…” she trailed off again and gave a very loud fan girlish squeal.

“ Ok, Uchiha-san.” said Kakashi, having opened his book again.

“ Hn. My name is Sasuke Uchiha. I have little likes or dislikes. I have no hobbies. I don’t have a dream… that is too weak a word to use. I have a ambition… to kill a certain man.” Sasuke said, his face slightly twisting in anger.

“ Ok. Uh, jungle camo.” said Kakashi, not taking his eyes off the book.

“ My name is Naru Uzumaki. I like my friend Cypher, meditating, training, and Kyu-kun. I dislike people who disturb my meditating.” Naru said, glaring at Sakura.

“ My hobbies are performing my katas, and other things. My dream is to reclaim my inheritance, and to start a family with Kyu-kun.” said Naru, blushing slightly when she mentioned starting a family.

Kakashi finally looked at Naru, and noticed the blush on her face.

“ You know,” he said, catching everyone’s attention. “ You are suppose to be eighteen to buy these books,” waving Icha Icha Paradise. “ But I think I can hook you up.” Kakashi finished, eye-smiling again.

“ Pervert!” screamed Sakura, throwing a sloppy punch at Kakashi. Kakashi caught the punch easily, and said, “ Well?” to Naru.

Naru smiled, and said, “ No thanks, but I’m good. I don’t need smut to learn how to make love better.”

Kakashi narrowed his eye slightly at the crack, but eye-smiled again and started laughing, diffusing the tension, ignoring Sakura’s confused look.

“ So, tomorrow we are going to have a test. It is survival training, so meet me at-” Kakashi started, only to be interrupted by Sakura.

“ What! Kakashi-sensei, we already had survival training at the Academy. Well, all of except Naru.” said Sakura, throwing Naru a glare.

Naru grinned, and said, “ Kakashi, you don’t have to worry about me. Where I was brought up, living one more day was an accomplishment. Daily life was harder than the Chunin Exams.” Naru finished, giving a very vulpine grin.

Sasuke scoffed, and Sakura imitated him.

Kakashi seemed interested by this information, but just continued explaining the test.

“ Meet me at five o’clock at training ground seven.” he said, and then disappeared with the signature poof of a Shushin.

Naru shrugged, then hopped over the edge of the roof.

Sasuke and Sakura peered over the edge, both hoping to see their strange teammates blood splatter over the ground. Instead, they saw Naru slam into the ground, creating a crater ten feet in diameter. Naru then walked out of the dust cloud, without the usual broken legs from a fall of that height. She walked off, not looking behind her once. Sakura, of course, turned to ask Sasuke for a date, and was surprised when he had disappeared.

Sasuke had slipped off when Naru hit the ground, thinking that at least he was rid of one annoying teammate.

Sakura sighed at her missed chance, then slowly walked home, moping.

Xxxx

“ So, how was it?” asked Cypher when Naru got back to the camp, Kyuubi merely sweeping Naru off her feet.

“ Boring.” said Naru, yawning. “ Apparently we’re taking some sort of survival training test tomorrow.”

All three started laughing, as Kyuubi pulled a knife from one of his bandoliers and hurled it into the eyes of a giant spider that appeared two feet behind him, not even looking at it.

[Major Xeno]

Whoever guesses where Naru was raised gets a cookie!

[Major Xeno]

“ Does he realize,” Cypher said between bursts of laughter. “ That you were raised in a place were survival training was just plain living?” he asked, as Kyuubi and Naru howled with laughter.

“ Well,” put in Naru, “ I don’t think he ever heard of Catachan. Poor him!” Naru roared loudly, the laughter dieing down.

As Naru, Cypher, and Kyuubi made a camp in the deep forest, many giant animals tried to attack and eat them, but they all went the way of the Dodo.

Xxxx

Mitarashi Anko could swear she heard strange sounds coming from the Forest of Death, but who would be crazy enough to go in there after dark?

Well, Naru never said what forest, did she?

Fin

[Major Xeno]

So Naru was raised on big, bad Catachan. I wonder how that's going to effect her at all?

By the way, I have never played 40k the board game, only Dawn of War. So don't expect me to get everything right.

Oh, and those of you who read the Horus Heresy books will recognize her sword. It's from Spiderland, and acts as a power weapon.

[Myrdraxxis]

nice. I like the sword idea, those bugs are brutal. Yeah I haven't played the board game either

[Major Xeno]

Man, I just LOVE the idea of Catachan. I mean honestly, what's scarier than an army of Rambos?

The whole 'Realm of the Dead' thing is based of the Infinity Circuit, and is (in the story) pretty easy to get into, even if you have little pyschic power. In fact, that makes it easier.

Think of it as two rooms, separated by a thin membrane, unbreakable, with one tiny hole. The more psychic power you have, the harder it is to get in.

The only reason other psykers haven't found it is because all the psykers are trying to kill each other. The only people that have a remote chance of finding it are the Thousand Sons, because they are trying to learn everything.

[Major Xeno]

Here is the third installment of the “ Primarch of Shinobi.”

Xxxx

Sakura stumbled her way to training ground seven, exhausted.

When she arrived at five o‘clock, Sasuke was already there, ‘of course!’, and Naru was sitting in a meditative pose, on a tree branch.

Upside down.

Sasuke glared at Naru, resenting her for mastering the chakra control exercise and at the same time wondering how she had survived that fall yesterday.

Naru however, didn’t notice all this. She was currently in the Realm, deep in discussion with her siblings.

Xxxx

“ … And then he told us that it was a survival training test!” Naru said, chuckling merrily. Leman, Horus, Magnus and the rest of her siblings joined her, except for Rogal Dorn and Perturabo, who were still playing their war-game.

“ So, little sister, what are you going to do now?” asked Fulgrim, his royal purple robes tinkling and glittering with it’s ornaments.

“ Well, right now I am practicing a chakra control exercise by sitting on a tree branch upside down, to get my body used to naturally doing this. As well, I am probably freaking out my teammates by appearing to be asleep.” said Naru, a slight grin stretching across her face.

“ WILL YOU PEOPLE PLEASE BE QUIET?!?!?!” roared Perturabo, glaring at his chattering siblings, his normally rock-hard demeanor shattered by the ‘disruption’ of his game.

Everyone stopped what they were doing, even Angron stopped his training with his long claymore to stare at Perturabo’s outburst. If this was some sort of Japanese Anime/Manga show, you would have heard a old-fashioned record player skip with a loud screech.

The tension hung in the air so thick you could cut it with a knife, and no one moved for several minutes.

Then Angron shrugged, and resumed slashing through his sparring partner, a very large Ork. The Ork caught on, but had his head cleaved from his shoulders. The Ork’s head flew back to his body, connected by a ghastly thread of white material, and knitted itself back into his neck. Naru shrugged, then continued chatting with her siblings.

Naru was explaining to Leman a very crude joke she had heard, when she started getting nauseous again.

She braced herself, and the usual warp-sickness disappeared quickly.

Xxxx

Naru opened her eyes, seeing Sakura throwing small rocks at her.

Naru growled softly, glaring at the noisy banshee.

With a loud ‘poof’’, Kakashi appeared in a large cloud of smoke, eye-smiling as he called out, “ Yo!”

Sakura glared at Kakashi, then screamed “ YOUR LATE!” as if it wasn’t obvious.

Naru hopped down off the tree, her right hand unconsciously flexing.

Sasuke glared at Naru again, as if the sight of her filled him with pain.

“ I already have a boyfriend Sasuke, go grab a fangirl.” said Naru, as Sasuke’s eye began to twitch.

Kakashi pulled out two bells, oblivious to his team.

“ Alright, the object of this test is to get one of these bells from me. You have until twelve o’clock.” he said, eye-smiling.

“ BUT Kakashi-sensei,” said Sakura loudly, “ There are only two bells!?!”

Kakashi eye-smiled again. “ The person that doesn’t get a bell will be tied up to a post, and forced to watch us eat. Then, that person will have to go back to the Academy for another year of training.” he said, eye-smiling at the dumbstruck Sakura.

“ To get a bell from me, you will have to come at me with the intent to kill, or you will fail.” Kakashi said, as Sasuke’s face tightened in determination.

“ Now, GO!” Kakashi suddenly yelled, as Sasuke and Sakura disappeared into the trees.

Naru slowly drew her sword, as Kakashi pulled out his Icha Icha book.

Naru didn’t say anything, but Kakashi went ahead by giggling perversely.

[Major Xeno]

“ You know,” said Naru, slowly tracing a circle in the ground with her katana, “ I hate perverts. I hate them with a passion. All I need to do, in cut one little thing, and the perverts will only be able to read about that sort of thing.” she said, pointing her katana at his groin.

“ Luckily for you, my mentor told me not to kill you.” said Naru scowling unhappily. “ Luckily for me, I have another katana.”

Naru pulled out a scroll, with the kanji’s that Kakashi couldn’t see on it. She pulled out another scroll, with the more kanji’s on it, and sealed her katana into it. She then unsealed what was in the second scroll.

It was a sword, roughly shaped like a katana, but made a strange swishing sound, as if there was liquid in it. The blade was four feet long, and was stained slightly greenish, as if it had been dyed green before.

Naru grinned when she grasped it, as if reliving good memories.

“ You’re lucky Kakashi,” said Naru, still grinning. “ You should be honored that I’m am using this sword against you. This is a symbol of me, of my pride and my honor, of my battles, and of my home.” said Naru, relish in her voice.

“ Most people call Catachan a hellhole, but it is the most beautiful place I can imagine. You can appreciate its sheer lethality, and yet appreciate its beauty.” Naru rambled, not paying attention in the slightest to Kakashi, who was unsealing a standard-ANBU-issue katana.

Kakashi got into a slightly rough stance, cursing his lack of practice.

Naru stopped rambling suddenly, quickly lunging forward, slashing diagonally. Kakashi disappeared with a quick Kawarimi, replacing himself with a log. Naru whirled around instantly, slashing horizontally.

Kakashi disappeared with another poof, and Naru turned again, slashing at Kakashi again, who had reappeared behind her again.

“ How did you know where I was going to be?” asked Kakashi, sounding genuinely interested. This illusion was broken by his appearance. His katana was pointing towards the ground, and he held his Icha Icha book in his left hand.

“ Long experience.” answered Naru, not even panting.

Sasuke, who was watching from the shadows, scowled again as he saw a woman pass him in strength again.

How could a mere woman surpass him!?! He was an Uchiha damn it!

“ Doton: Shinju Zanshu no Jutsu!” called Kakashi, as he disappeared, siding into the ground.

Naru saw Kakashi slide into the ground, and quickly ran off into the forest, to plan.

Sasuke hopped down into the clearing, pleased that the troublesome woman had run off.

Sasuke looked around for Kakashi, and was surprised when he was suddenly dragged down into the ground, shouting as the earth enveloped him, leaving only his head sticking out of the ground.

Kakashi appeared with a loud ‘poof’, and casually flipped a page in his book as he watched Sasuke squirm in the trap.

Naru, who was watching from a safe distance, sniggered as she saw Sasuke squirm and get more pissed off.

Sakura, on the other hand, heard Sasuke’s shout, and thought that Sasuke had probably beat up Kakashi-sensei. She went to congratulate him, thinking that it was no surprise.

Suddenly, she heard a weak voice say, “ S-sakura…”

She turned, expecting to see Naru crawling towards her, begging for help.

Instead, she saw Sasuke, injured and bleeding from his right arm and numerous other places, slowly limp towards her, leaning on a tree.

“ SASUKE-KUN!” screamed Sakura, terrified of what had happened to her Sasuke-kun.

“ H-help… me…” moaned Sasuke, suddenly collapsing on the ground, bleeding profusely.

Sakura stood stock still, frozen at seeing her crush wounded so badly. Her brain ran the impossibility of Sasuke losing through her head, and she fainted, slamming into the ground, as ‘Sasuke’ slowly vanished.

Kakashi, from his vantage point in the trees above Sakura, shook his head in disappointment, surprised that Sakura had fallen for such a weak Genjutsu.

Now, he thought, all he had to do was find Naru.

Xxxx

RRRRRRRRRRIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!

Kakashi looked at the two Genins in front of him. Naru had failed to show up, so she must have fallen for one of her teammates traps.

Kakashi opened his mouth to talk to Sasuke and Sakura, when he felt a blade prick his throat.

“ Sasuke, Sakura, here, CATCH!” called the person behind Kakashi, and Kakashi was surprised when he recognized Naru’s voice. Her stealth was Jonin level, he thought, very surprised.

Naru ripped the two bells from Kakashi’s belt, and before they could protest, tossed them to Sasuke and Sakura, ignoring their looks of shock. Sakura and Sasuke caught then stiffly, not expecting Naru to give away her chance to passing.

[Major Xeno]

“ You know,” said Kakashi casually, as if he wasn’t being held at sword point. “ How do you know if those are the right bells?” he asked, not moving his body for fear of slicing his own throat.

“ Easy. If you tried to pull a switch, I would kill you, then take the bells from your body. At least,” Naru said, adding the ‘at least’, when Sakura and Sasuke looked at her like she was crazy.

“ At least,” continued Naru, “ That’s the way things work in Catachan. If a high rank is killed by a lower rank during training, it is assumed that the higher rank is not worth his rank. The lower rank is whipped, then forgiven.” Naru explained, raising an eyebrow at Sasuke’s and Sakura’s shocked looks.

“ W-where a-are y-you from, s-some kind of jungle where you a-are attacked e-everyday?” asked Sakura, her fear spilling into her sentence.

“ More like every ten minutes, but you got it pretty good.” said Naru, smiling slightly and getting a nostalgic look on her face.

“ Well,” said Kakashi, snatching everyone’s attention back to him. “ That is all nice and well, but this is not the real me.” he said, disappearing in a puff of smoke, still eye-smiling.

Kakashi then appeared from the trees, a good twenty feet from Naru.

“ Unfortunately, you still fail.” said Kakashi, eye-smiling, as he appeared behind Sakura, lighting fast, and tied her to the tree faster than she could blink.

Naru slowly pulled out the devil claw’s scroll and sealed it, noticing Sasuke’s look of resentment.

“ Don’t worry,” said Kakashi, seemingly radiating hope, but Naru wasn’t fooled. “ You won’t go back to the Academy.” he said.

“ We won’t?!” screamed Sakura, overjoyed. Naru narrowed her eyes, suspicious.

“ No.” said Kakashi. “ Instead, YOU SHOULD QUIT BEING NINJA!” he yelled, the fires of hell appearing behind him.

Sakura and Sasuke froze, and Naru raised an eyebrow.

“ Sasuke, you refused to work with your teammates, even when you were incapacitated. Sakura, you refused to work AT ALL!” Kakashi yelled.

“ Instead, you chased Sasuke around. Naru had the most promise, and might have gotten the TRUE meaning of the test if she had a bit more time.” At this, Naru tilted her head, curious.

“ The TRUE, meaning of this test is-” Kakashi said, only to be cut off.

“ Teamwork, right?” put in Naru, quietly.

Kakashi turned to Naru, visibly surprised.

“ At Catachan, we had a test like this. Nine of us were to hunt an animal, a larger cousin of a lion. We were each supposed to have a lion’s pelt to pass. In the end, I grouped up with the other eight and we ambushed the lion. When they asked were the rest of the pelts were, I replied that this pelt was for the squad, not any one person. I didn’t think that this test was similar until it was obvious that you weren’t holding back enough for a Genin to get a bell. But it was too late.” Naru murmured, looking down.

“ Well, since Naru grasped the concept, I will give you another chance. I will give you ten minute to eat, but you are not to feed Sakura.” instructed Kakashi, his tone severe.

Kakashi disappeared with the ‘poof’ of a Shushin, leaving Naru and Sasuke with two bentos of food.

Naru immediately turned to Sakura, pulling out his devil claw again. Sakura gulped, thinking Naru was going to kill her for messing up the test.

Naru chopped through the ropes, and handed her bento to Sakura.

“ We can’t have you cramped and hungry now can we?” Naru said, smiling slightly.

“ Besides,” she continued. “ My family is different. We don’t have to eat every day, and other things. I can survive until I get home.” Naru said, deliberately avoiding telling her teammates that ‘home’ was a forest full of death.

Sasuke caught Naru’s look, and handed his bento to Sakura as well, overriding her protests with a blunt, “ We need you in top shape.”

Sakura reluctantly started eating, as Naru looked over the clearing, waiting for Kakashi to-

“ YOU!!!!” Kakashi roared, appearing out of nowhere, the fires of hell behind him again.

“ YOU,” he continued, as Sakura and Sasuke froze. “ Pass.” he finished, much calmer and quieter.

Sakura screamed “ WHAT!” very loudly, making Naru’s ears pop with force.

Kakashi eye-smiled. “ You make it sound like you don’t want to pass.” he said quietly.

Sakura shut up, and slapped her hands on her mouth. Naru started chuckled under her breath.

“ All the teams I have had up until you have followed my orders to the letter. They never even got the hint after lunch. Well, I am proud to say that starting tomorrow, we will do missions together as Team Seven.” explained Kakashi, eye-smiling and very proud.

Kakashi disappeared with a ‘poof’, and Naru headed back to her forest. Sakura turned to ask Sasuke for a date, but he had already disappeared again. Sakura ran after him, intent on getting that date.

Xxxx

Naru hopped into the campsite, her megarachnid sword back in it’s sheath on her back. Cypher looked up from his book.

[Major Xeno]

“ Where’s Kyu-kun?” Naru asked, as usually he would be waiting for her.

“ He went to the Hokage’s office. He suggested that you change into your adult form and join him.” said Cypher, flipping the page.

“ Oh. Ok.” Naru replied as she focused her little psyker energy into changing her body.

A bright purple light slowly grew around Naru, blocking out any vision in the clearing. When it subsided, Naru was a good six foot four now, and was wearing her silver robes again.

Naru hopped across roofs as she headed toward the Hokage Tower. She hopped through the window in the Hokage’s office, where the Hokage, Kyuubi, Kakashi and nine other Jonin’s were talking quietly.

Naru nodded to the Jonin’s and the Hokage, and then walked over to Kyuubi to give him a very passionate kiss.

When the Hokage cleared his throat loudly, Naru and Kyuubi jumped apart, looking slightly embarrassed.

“ Ah,” said the Hokage, in a nostalgic way. “ To be young again.” he continued, much to Kyuubi and Naru’s embarrassment.

The Hokage chuckled, and said loudly “ Alright now. Jonin, if you passed your team, step forward..”

A woman Jonin with red eyes and raven hair stepped forward and said, “ Team 8, passed.”

A tall Jonin who was smoking stepped forward and said, “ Team 10, pass.”

Kakashi stepped forward and said, “ Team 7, pass.” much to the Hokage’s and the surrounding Jonin’s amazement.

“ You didn’t just pass them because the Uchiha was on the team, did you Kakashi?” asked Naru, her voice different, so that Kakashi could not recognize her.

“ No, miss…” said Kakashi.

“ Izdah.” said Naru.

Kyuubi quietly whispered to Naru, “ Death in Old Terran?”

Naru was about to respond when Kakashi intruded.

“ So what is your name?” Kakashi asked Kyuubi, barging into the conversation before Naru could protest.

Before Kyuubi could say anything, Naru stepped forward and said, “ His name is Devet.”

“ Oh. That’s a nice name.” said Kakashi, eye-smiling.

“ So, where are you from?” asked Kakashi, as Naru and Kyuubi narrowed their eyes slightly at his overly curious attitude.

“ Nine in Old Terran?!?” whispered Kyuubi angrily.

“ What?” murmured Naru. “ I was under pressure.” she said, pouting cutely as she protested.

“ Oh never mind.” said Kyuubi, who could never stay angry at Naru for long.

“ If we stay here, Kakashi may get curious. I don’t think he will, but he might figure it out. Lets go.” whispered Kyuubi, giving Naru the crooked grin he knew she couldn’t resist.

“ If you will excuse us, Lord Hokage, we are tired, and must rest for tomorrow.” said Naru loudly.

“ Certainly Izdah.” replied the Hokage, warmly smiling.

Kyuubi and Naru hopped out the window, and headed towards the forest, as Kakashi questioned the Hokage about them.

Xxxx

“ Hokage-sama, where are those people from?” Kakashi asked after he thought that Naru and Kyuubi were out of earshot.

Naru and Kyuubi meanwhile, could still here them, and started chuckling.

“ They are good friends of mine. I have known the woman since she was a baby. I trust them both with my life, and so should you, Kakashi. You do not need to worry about them. They will not betray Konoha.” said the Hokage, his face serious.

“ Besides,” the Hokage added, “ If they did, we would not be able to prevent it.”

“ Hai, Hokage-sama.” said Kakashi, wondering madly about the odd couple. The woman had seemed so familiar.

Fin