Chapter 2: Uzumaki Naruto, the Unpredictable Ninja of Konoha (1)

Arrival

"Someone please help us!"

ZAAAPP!

Everyone present blinked, and turned to the spot where the light had flashed from.

There. In the middle of the wooden boat in the middle of East Sea was a yellowed haired man.

Sleeping.

And while he slept and the rest of the crew looked on, a storm brewed with a rage unknown to any living human. It crashed and rocked the boat with a fever that rivaled the depths of hell.

And the man slept like a baby.

"OI, WAKE UP!" the captain, a middle age man, shouted as he grabbed the blonde haired man by the collar and shook him.

The man blurted out a bit before his eyes opened up half way, his head turning side to side as he tried to look at what had happened to him this time.

A wave washed over the entirety of the ship, but the ship remained strong and proud, crashing through seemingly larger wave with a vigor as it raced down a path only known to it and its captain.

"...What the fuck?" Uzumaki Naruto, the Nanadaime Hokage (recently deceased), the Hero of the Fourth Shinobi War, and the father of two, said as he coughed out the sea water.

"It's a storm, what did you expect?!"

"Heave ho~!" Naruto shouted as he pulled on the rope from the main mast. Behind him were his clones. There were several other clones also dashing around on the deck, tying ropes and pulling them down on the orders of the captain.

When the crew first saw the Shadow Clones Technique, they were slack-jawed, but as soon as the storm made its presence once more with a thunderclap, they zipped back to work and got Naruto and his clones' help in surviving the storm.

The ship was now on the edge of the storm, and quickly making its way out of there. The captain stood by the steer, which was very different from the one Naruto was used to seeing; it looked more like a row than a wheel.

"So how 'e hell did ya end up on this ship, boy?" the captain asked him as they finally reached calm waters, heading towards land to their south.

Naruto, the original one, scratched the back of his head. "I ... don't really know. I mean, I was in my bed last time-"

"So you're not a god or anything like that? You appeared in a flash of light in the middle of a storm. Only gods do flashy things like that."

Naruto only shrugged.

The captain was a middle aged man, as described before, but now that the storm was out of the way with its brand of shady darkness, Naruto could see more of his features. He had a small nose, wide at the nostrils and small at the nose bridge, with equally small lips. He stood only by Naruto's shoulder, but made up for it with muscles that accompanied many sailors. He wore a fundoshi like many of the other sailors and had his hair in a messy shag... just like the other sailors.

Hell, everyone looked like wet and miserable rats from the trouble they just went through.

Damn, it was hard to differentiate like this.

"Umm... you're name?"

"'e name's Yudoshi, and you 're?"

"Uzumaki Naruto, Yudoshi-san."

Suddenly, the eyes of every sailor grew wide.

"Yer a noble, boy?!"

Naruto blinked.

Well, that's not what he expected to come out of the sailor's mouth.

"What's a noble like ye doing here? Did ye ship meet its end, and ye used yer powers to survive the storm?"

Naruto waved his hands. "No, no, no! I'm not a noble. I'm a ninja-!"

The sailors suddenly looked at him as if he was a sea monster there to claim their lives.

... This was going to take a while.

"Okay, look. I know that us ninjas have a bad hype, but I'm not a bloodthirsty ninja," Naruto began to explain. "I don't even have weapons on me right now, so calm down-"

"Look, boy, ninjas do have a bad stereotype for lying, cheating, stealing, and killing. Once you declare yourself a ninja, it's hard to start believing you," the captain said from ten meters away. "That and I have a lot of unfriendly rival captains in the region, many of who are cutthroat enough to send assassin after me should it be profitable."

Naruto grumbled. How was he supposed to convince them that he was not dangerous? He wasn't here to kill them. Hell, he wasn't supposed to be here, period! He should be back home with his big family.

Wait... family?

Yes, he had married Hyuuga Hinata, and fathered two children, but that's not a big famil- oooohhhh...

He died. That's what happened. The last memory he had before arriving on this boat was falling asleep surrounded by his children and grandchildren. But why was he here? Why was he young again? It made no sense. He should have gone to the Pure World, where he was supposed to meet his Hinata. Why was he alive and kicking on a merchant boat?

"Ninja-san, are you alright?"

Naruto mutely nodded. "Yeah... I... I'll just leave," he said as he went to the edge of the boat. He looked over his shoulder at the captain. "Thanks for the ride ... I guess."

Then he dropped over.

The crew shouted "MAN OVERBOARD" and rushed to the side.

Only to see a man running on the surface of the water.

They stared after him with slack jaws and wide eyes as he made his way to the land in the distance.

While the crew of the boat watched him go with stunned awe, Naruto himself was distressed. Not only did he not know where he was, he was in a place where ninjas were feared. He found such outlook of the ninjas to be bad, especially since it was an indication of instability at at least one niche of society. Naruto was willing to bet that instability was with the middle to high class. The low class, the peasants and farmers, had no real reason to be on the hit list of any ninja, and the captain back at the ship had talked about how assassination was not too far from the imaginations of rivaling parties.

The train of thought came to a temporary halt as he made landfall.

Then he let in a deep breath, and let it back out.

The land smelled of violence and salt.

His face crunched up into a scowl.

There was work to be done, it seemed, but where should he start?

For that day, Naruto had decided to let his body rest, even if he didn't feel any kind of strain. He wanted both of his body and mind to sort themselves out. To jump into a unknown territory with stressed body or mind was not the mark of a good ninja.

The next day, he made about a hundred clones, and had them transform into different animals and people before sending them out to find a town, preferably one that could provide him a lot of information. Specifically, he wanted his clones to find maps and literature about the he was on and any ninjas who might be living here.

He himself went to explore as well, heading east along the coast in hope of finding a big port.

Short chapter :P

I will introduce maybe two more characters from various fictions before I start going back.

So we now have Jax and Naruto... Here are their stat's.

Jax, the Grandmaster at Arms

Strength: B (C+ if no weapon)
While Jax is a great fighter, he is not someone who can throw boulder after boulder at enemies. Hell, he probably can't even lift one to throw. His strength lies in the strikes of his weapons and his hand-to-hand combat.

Speed: B-
He is a champion fighter who has long run back and forth on the Summoner's Rift, Howling Abyss, and the Twisted Treeline. He can run a marathon if he wants.

Attack Speed: B+ (A- w/ staff-class, B w/ blade-class)
As a weapon master, he knows the flow, strength, and weakness of all manner of weapons, whether the weapons are mundane or magical.

Defense: D (C+ w/ life-stealing weapon)
He may be a fighter, but by no means is he a tank. However, with a life-stealing weapon like Vampric Scepter, coupled with his fast attack speed, he can sustain himself where no others can.

Luck: D
Average Luck. Nothing more, nothing less.

Constitution: C+ (B- w/ life-stealing weapon)
Once again, he is no tank, but he is a fighter. He knows how to take a hit and stand his ground.

Specialty: Weaponmaster
Any weapon in his hand will become an extension of himself. (Do not give him a lamppost whenever possible, for it not only kills but ruins pride)

Magic(Runes): B-
He can imbue magic into his weapon, allowing him to deal harsher strike to those he strikes. Depending on how he focuses himself, this Empowering can range anywhere from a irritant to a fatal blow.

Note:
He is a mystery. Back in Runeterra where the League of Legends took in champions to settle disputes for factions, he was vouched by the League's missing former leader and passed the test without as so much as lifting a finger -literally. Regardless of this, he showed prowess on the battlefield that none matched. To this day, he is the only champion who has been given a restriction.

Weapon(s):
Bronze Lamppost
A regular old lamppost he ripped off from a sidewalk in the League of Legends as a counter-restriction to League's restriction on him. He likes his trusty lamppost, and takes good care of it like he would with any other weapon.

Uzumaki Naruto, the Unpredictable Ninja of Konoha

Strength: C+ (B w/ Jinchuuriki Form #1 and A- w/ Jinchuuriki Form #2)
Naruto is a ninja, not a sumo wrestler or a boxer. His physical strength can be boosted by Kyuubi, his chakra beast friend residing within his belly, but by himself, he is just strong.

Speed: A-
He may be a ninja, but before he was a ninja, he was a extraordinaire prankster escapeeists, running away as a child from adult ninjas and succeeding without a sweat shed. He has built this speed of his up to notch to compare them to his other abilites.

Attack Speed: SS++
Thanks to his Shadow Clone Technique, he can literally have neigh infinite attack speed, as each clone can attack on their own without his explicit order.

Defense: B-
Due to his rather one-sided training, he excels only in offensive manuevers, and his only method of defense is overwhelming firepower dumped on attackers.

Luck: A+
Casionoes' kick him out because he ruin their profit. He can rake in money like no other from gambling.

Constitution: A+
Thanks to his jinchuuriki status, him containing a chakra beast of enormous power, he can heal from almost all wounds, except getting his head chopped off, and has a stamina that makes a marathon runner jealous.

Specialty: Ninja
Naurto is a open-field combat ninja. Enough said.

Magic(Chakra, Passive Uzumaki trait): A
He uses the natural energy within him to perform variety of effects from fireball to a explosive tag.

Note:
Uzumaki Naruto was the former Seventh Hokage of Konohagakure. During the Fourth Shinobi World War, he lead the war against Uchiha Madara in the latter's scheme to control the world through illusion. Naruto has ridiculous stamina, chakra reserve, and firepower. However, he lacks a little in the brain department.

Weapon(s):
None at the moment