Chapter 393 - My SI Stash #93 - Defiant by Twubs (Naruto) (1/2)

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Synopsis: This world is not how he knows it. In fact, it is much scarier. SI/Naruto AU!

Rated: M

Words: 9.2K

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Chapter 1

”Sakura Haruno and Naruto Uzumaki. You will be a part of Team Ten under Jonin, Might Guy.”

I had never been the most in touch with my chakra. I knew that I had above average reserves, if my troubles with even the most basic chakra control exercises were any indication.

But I noticed the shift in my chakra immediately. What came next, I would have never in a million years expected.

Twenty-five years of another life bombarded my skull in the span of a second. There was a brief flare of pain in my mind and chakra coils but it didn't even last long enough for me to cry out. In fact, it barely registered. Growing up in an orphanage made one tough before they could even understand the meaning of the word. Not to mention that shinobi developed high pain tolerance very early on in the academy.

I was too busy seeing another life, in another universe. A universe without chakra.

I watched myself? grow up, in all its glory. Pain, love and everything in between was shown before my twelve year old eyes as if I was living it over again.

When it ended, I was no longer just Naruto Uzumaki. No no, I could never go back to being just Naruto Uzumaki.

”Naruto?”

My eyes focused on the world in front of me. A young girl, with bright pink hair stood in front of me with a confused look on her face.

Sakura. I realized as I looked at her features like I hadn't grown up with her. She did not look like an animation. No, she looked like a normal human being with really eccentric hair.

I had my first reality check in this world within the first five seconds of being in it. It was not an anime. This was real life.

”Sensei called our names, let's go.” Sakura said as she grabbed my hand and lifted me out of the seat. I stood up obediently but couldn't help but notice how strong she was.

Chakra, idiot. I told myself as I followed her out of the classroom.

I didn't look back, but if I had, then I would have seen Iruka, and the rest of the class, watching me warily.

I shook my head as I walked out in the hallway and forced myself to focus on the present and not what was happening in my mind. An asian man with black hair, and a bowl haircut stood in the hallway waiting on us.

He had on the hideous green attire he was famous for in my previous life, and the same shit-eating grin. Next to him, stood a smaller clone of the man, although the facial structure was all off.

Might Guy and Rock Lee. I told myself as I analyzed them.

”Hello!” Guy said boisterously and way too loud for a ninja. ”I am Might Guy! And this is my student Rock Lee!”

”It is nice to meet you!” Lee said just as excitedly as Guy. Although I noticed his eyes were not on me, but instead on Sakura. His face was getting progressively more red the longer we stood there.

”Meet us at Training Ground Ten!” Guy told us.

There was a flex of both Guy's and Lee's chakra and they f_u_c_k_i_n_g disappeared.

My eyes widened as I felt their chakra race out of my sensing range with pure physical speed. I hadn't even seen their muscles flex in preparation.

I couldn't help but think to the future and how powerful I would need to become to survive it.

I'm not a jinchuuriki.

My legs bent slightly every time they impacted the rooftops.

I moved on autopilot. Earlier on in the year, they had beat into us how to properly travel like a ninja. Mold chakra before landing. Crouch slightly. Jump. Eventually, I would develop enough physically to where this would speed up in several ways. I would be able to push off with one leg, resembling more of a bound and cover the same if not more distance and then from there you just get faster at it.

The fact that I did not have Kurama, the nine-tailed fox, sealed into me had hit me as soon as I left the academy, chasing after Sakura and the Green Duo.

At least I don't think I do. There was no secret academy graduation from Mizuki, because I have had all three academy jutsu down since the second month of this year. I thought. And whenever I mold chakra, a massive seal doesn't appear on my stomach.

And it was true. The Naruto I knew, and the Naruto my memories knew were two different people.

The biggest similarity is that I am an orphan and have been since I can remember. However, I have been living on my own for the past six months, not since I was eight. And while my relationship with the Hokage is definitely better than some average Genin, it wasn't grandfather and grandson like.

I didn't know the Shadow Clone Jutsu. But on the other hand, I didn't have to. I didn't experience any discrimitation in the academy. My taijutsu was well above-average. I had a grasp on all of the academy three jutsu. I knew how to get out of genjutsu pretty consistently, but it could be improved on.

And now, I'm not on Team Seven under Kakashi. But instead, Team Ten? I thought as I dug into my memories from both lives.

The rooftops in front of me ended, and I molded a little larger amount of chakra in my legs and core before leaping into the section of Konoha that was zoned as training grounds.

I came to a very graceful and controlled stop in front of Training Ground Ten. Guy and Lee were in the middle of running through a few kata's and turned my way when I arrived.

Sakura took that opportunity to land right beside me. I was so lost in my thoughts, I didn't even realize that I had passed her up on the way there.

”Good. You made it!”

Guy was in front of us again, and I hadn't seen him move. F_u_c_k I've got a long way to go.

Guy's face lost the bright, up-beat look on it and got serious for a moment. ”Normally, there would be a test to see if you had what it takes to become Genin. If you passed, then we would continue as a team. If you fail, then you would be sent to the Corps. I don't believe that a single test is an accurate indicator of what it takes to be a shinobi of Konohagakure.” Guy explained.

Well, it seems Guy might be more than what meets the eye. I deduced as he switched gears on us. And that seems to be spot on for his character, oddly enough.

”So we will train for a week, and then I will decide if you have what it takes.” Guy said. ”My tests will be simple. I will break you and see what lies underneath. Understood?”

”Yes sir.” Sakura and I answered immediately.

”Good. You'll want to quit, and go home. You'll want to ask me to stop. You'll want to report me to Hokage himself. But if you do, you'll fail. Persevere, and you will pass. Show me work ethic, and loyalty and I'll teach you everything I know.” Guy continued, showing me that I was right and he wasn't an exact copy of what I knew of him from the anime.

”Now, go home and think it over. We meet at five a.m. every morning on this training ground. If you show up, you accept my challenge.”

And then he turned around, and started walking at a normal pace towards Lee. I wondered why he wasn't moving at the same speeds from earlier, but quickly figured it out. He wanted us to see what him and Lee could do.

Sakura turned to leave and obey our new sensei. Instinctively, my hand reached out and grabbed her arm. She looked to me with a frown on her face, and looked down to where I was touching her like she would cut my hand off.

This Sakura is not the same either. She seems more m_a_t_u_r_e. Then again this isn't an anime, and we're trained killers. I thought as I remembered my anatomy lessons and how they were geared on how to kill someone the fastest.

I dropped my hand. ”This is a test.” I told her quickly. ”We start now.”

It was easy to see that the absolute best answer to Guy's standing answer, was to start right now. There was no room for doubt in a ninja's mind, they needed to be absolute in their devotion to the cause and there was no room for insecurities.

Sakura looked at me and a slight frown appeared on her face. She looked like she wanted to curse because I was right. In the end, she nodded towards me, indicating that she agreed.

I took a deep breath and turned around to where Guy and Lee had stopped training, and were looking at us.

”We're ready, Guy-sensei.”

Left.

Right.

Left.

My feet thumped against the stairs beneath me. In my right hand, I held groceries that would be necessary for my physical growth in this world. Mostly meat and vegetables for the high protein I will need.

I could barely hold on to the bags the food was in because of the bands on both of my wrists. A seal was written on each of them. The seal had no correlation to any of the Kanji that I knew of or had ever heard of. There were a couple of lines that I could tell were independent and connected at the same time. The lines intersected in seemingly random patterns and didn't make any shape I was capable of describing. On the outside, hollow circles were lined up in a circle around the seal. Each was a different 'level' on the seal.

The first circle was half-way full of ink, showing that I wasn't even all the way to the first level. I had a band on each wrist, and each ankle.

My muscles screamed at me to stop moving. Instead I forced myself to climb the last set of stairs and move to my door. I moved inside and put everything in the right place in my apt.

My mind wasn't capable of thought, I was so exhausted. But I forced myself to get out some chicken, onions, broccoli, and the best surprise of this world, avocado. I fired up the gas stove and grabbed a skillet.

I am Naruto… I thought, still in shock over the fact.

I threw in a healthy dose of butter without thinking about it and let my body take over. I cut up the onions, and broccoli before throwing them in. I set to work on the chicken then and when I was done, I threw them in also.

What now? I wondered. I used to have dreams of becoming an elite of the village, as the Sandaime had told us our mother was. But I knew who Kushina Uzumaki and Minato Namikaze were. Son of a jinchuriki and the Yondaime…

I threw the top on the skillet and went to peel the avocado before throwing them in a bowl. Garlic powder, salt, pepper, and a little jalapeno juice. That was all you needed for top of the line guacamole. When I was done mashing that up, the chicken and vegetables were finishing up.

I did my best to bite back the tears that threatened to spill out of my eyes and on to my cheeks. It didn't work. I was a grown man. but I was also a twelve year old orphan that just found out about his parents.

I had always wondered why the others found out about their parents when they entered the academy and I didn't. I thought as a sniffle racked through my body.

I shuffled my food in the skillet around and started to pour in the teriyaki sauce I had purchased earlier. I didn't leave it in for too long, just to stir it around and get it warm. I set the heat to low and put the lid back on. My hands took the lid off of the rice and looked at it. A tear fell off of my face, and I ignored it.