This is the start of a new tale, filled with odd moments, overpowered main characters, bad puns and finally…two brothers. Brothers not by blood but by spirit, brothers through thick and thin, in health and in sickness…wait but one of them doesn't ever get sick, hmm…well…anyway, these two boys formed a bond like brothers and they swore vengeance on those who had wronged them.
Bond of Brothers
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto, nor do I own the St. Crispin's day speech.
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"We few, we happy few, we band of brothers!"
"Stop quoting long dead playwrights Minato and give the order!" yelled a certain white haired old man.
"This coming from the man that has an introduction dance?"
"He is right, we know what's going to happen, let's get to fighting." Came a response from a man with spiky silver hair, and one eye covered by his hitai-ate.
"Very well then, TO BATTLE!"
With a roar the assembled ninja jumped over the roof tops and into the forest to battle the deadly beast, which threatened their homes and families.
- seven years latter
"We have a new student joining our class today; he was dropped here from the class ahead of you by his teacher because he fell a little bit behind. However I don't want you to judge him by this, I want you to all make him feel at home." The man with the strange horizontal scar on his face told his class of ninja students.
"Hello, I am Rock Lee, I, uh, I'll be joining your class from now on." He said somewhat awkwardly.
"hn, another dobe." A boy with black hair and eyes said quietly in the back of the room.
Lee walked up the first isle looking for a place to sit, finally finding a spot beside a boy with messy blond hair, "may I sit here?"
"Sure, and don't let the teme bug you, he doesn't like anyone."
"NARUTO-BAKA don't you dare insult Sasuke-kun!" screamed a pair of banshees and began to fight over the dark haired brooder.
"So I take it that he is his class's rookie of the year."
"Yup,"
"Oh, are those girls going to be alright?"
"They do this every day," he shot a glance at them discretely and whispered quietly to lee, "also nether is a good enough ninja to actually hurt anyone."
"WHAT WAS THAT NARUTO!!?"
Lee looked around; this was such a strange group.
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Naruto was walking home, class was done and everyone left.
Thump
He paused, where did that sound come from
Thump, thump, thump.
There it was again, he turned around, where was it coming from?
Thump, thump
There! That way, he ran towards the sound.
As he arrived at the location he stood and watched. I was that new boy from his class.
187 thump,
188 thump,
189 thump,
190 thump,
"What are you doing, Lee?"
Lee froze in mid-kick, he turned, "training, I can't use ninjutsu or genjutsu because of a birth defect so I have to master taijutsu if I want to be a ninja."
"Oh," Naruto thought this over, "can I join you?"
"Sure, I still have 310 more kicks to go, and then I'm going to run five laps around the village and climb the hokage monument without climbing tools, or charka."
"I don't think I could do all that."
"Don't worry, after some hard training you will be able to do this with your eyes closed." Lee assured his new friend.
"Sure…whatever you say."
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"It's hard to believe isn't it, that it's been only one year, hey have changed so much."
"Hai, Hokage-sama, I was a little doubtful about having lee join my class but he has really been a good influence on Naruto."
"yes, and he has benefited too, they have both grown stronger both in body and in mind, its good to see, though I wish lee hadn't started helping Naruto with his pranks."
"The monument hasn't been pained in over three months though."
"I'm not concerned about the monument, but they apparently found a way to put glue in my hat."
"They what!"
"Don't worry; I didn't get to be the hokage by falling for such easy traps. However I'm surprised that an eight-year old and his nine-year old friend could do that, their academy marks don't show it."
"True but their taijutsu is the best in the class, I've never seen such stamina and skill amongst such young children, they might be better than me when I was a genin."
The old man chuckled, "that is good, they will make strong ninja, and we need more of those."
He smiled as he thought about the two orphan boys; they had changed over the last couple years. He had been shocked to find Naruto wearing something other than that old orange jumpsuit, his current outfit closely resembled Lee's own white gi, probably just some clothes that Lee had grown out of. Lee had also changed a little, his speech wile still formal had developed a clearely more relaxed maner to it and his seamed more like the child he realy was.
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1968
"Hey, Lee I'm hungry, let's go get some ramen."
"I'd prefer curry, 1969, it's better for you."
"Ok, but lets get take out; the shop owners don't like me much."
"That's ridiculous, what's not to like about you, you're kind, generous and very friendly."
Naruto grinned, "You know you're the only person who could say that with a straight face, oniisan."
"I'll do another thirty pushups and then come bring some to your apartment." He hated to admit it but he had seen the looks his adopted little brother got from the locals.
Naruto turned and walked back into the village from the secluded training area. As he walked towards his apartment Naruto shivered, it wasn't a cold day yet there was a strange feeling on the back of his neck, something was wrong.
And then they came.
Screaming foul curses and terrible threats they came, violent, drunk, ninja. It didn't take long, one small group of chunin, drunk after a big party to celebrate the end of a mission, had drawn others who had held back until then, soon the poor boy was swarmed by close to a hundred various civilians and low-ranking ninja.
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Lee was walking towards the curry shop when he heard some commotion, there were people yelling curses and others were running towards the crowd, this could not be good.
Forgetting about the curry he turned and ran towards the crowd, praying under his breath that he was wrong a bout what was happening.
His prayers went unheard.
There in the center of a group of civilians and a couple drunken ninja was Naruto, covered in scratches and bruises, cowering in fear as the crowd yelled and jeered, edging his attackers on.
Without even slowing down he dived into the ring of attackers, blocking a thrown kunai with a swing of his hand. In moments those closest to his little brother were on the ground, knocked back by his furious kicks and punches.
"he's helping the demon, kill him!" came a cry from the crowd
"lee?"
"come on, Naruto get up, I cant do this alone."
"Get out of here they'll leave you alone."
"no way, you're like the little brother I never had, I'm not going to abandon you."
"Lee…"
"come on, lets get them." He said giving the downed boy a thumbs up.
"right."
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"Hurry Hokage-sama, there are a large number of villagers attacking Naruto."
As the group of anbu and the elderly village leader arrived they were greeted with a shocking sight, a massive circle of villagers, civilian and ninja alike…all lying on the ground uncontious or clutching broken bones. And in the center of the battlefield stood two boys their movements swift and precise and their teamwork unflawed they mercilessly disassembled the last three chunin attacking them.
Then before their enemies could recover and before the old man could step foreword, one of them spun around and ran, even from the roof top the old man could tell that he was crying.
The other followed after a moment, running as fast as the wind to try and catch up to the quick blond.
"Hokage-sama, should we go stop them?"
"No let them sort things out, I doubt Naruto will listen to anyone other than his friend right now. They will return when they are ready."
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"How could I have been so stupid," the old man berated himself once more The two boys had vanished completely, Konoha's trackers had said that they had run straight across the fire country border, and without someone requesting the mission there was no way that he could explain sending a tracker team after them.
That's that, i recently had a poll in my other fanfiction whether or not I should post this idea, the result was that I should.
This is a trial chapter, to decide whether to continue or not, please review and tell me whether you like the idea, they most likely won't be returning to the village.
The idea is that they will be a pair of taijutsu specialists.