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Teaching Naruto
Teaching Naruto
#1
Gah. After reading all the activity on the 'plot-bunny' / Team Explosive Youth thread, I went and came up with an idea for training Naruto. And then I had to get up and write a thousand words on it. And I never even got as far as the training, which I'd envisaged as teaching Naruto to use a mental shorthand for Kabuto's ninja-flahscards, profiling all the ninja who entered the final round of the Chunin exam. Know your foe and all that.
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Shikanenai looked sideways at the blond genin beside him. The boy seemed uncharacteristically nervous as they approached the Archives. "You're quiet," he said flatly.
Naruto scratched the back of his head. "Eh... do we have to go to the archives?"
"Well..." Shikanenai drawled, stretching out the word sarcastically, "It's be like going into the chunin Exam with one hand in an unbreakable cast, preventing you from forming seals. But no, I don't suppose that we *have* to go to the Archives, no. Why?"
"Hey!" came a call from one of the Chunin guarding the Archive's doors. "Get out of here, brat - you know you're not allowed here!"
Shikanenai rolled his eyes. "That why?"
Naruto nodded his head, slowing to a halt. "Yeah, that stiff-necked prick in charge said I couldn't go in. Ever." He slowed, then blinked as he realised Shikanenai hadn't slowed.
"Didn't I go to the Academy with you?" the Nara clansman called to the chunin at the door waving casually.
The man frowned and then squinted at Shikanenai. "Nara Shikanenai!" he said in surprise. "I haven't seen you in years - where've you been?"
"Ah, you know, out and about," the lanky chunin replied and casually crossed his fist against the surprised man's chin, catapulting him backwards into the doors with a loud boom.
"What the- ?" the chunin said in surprise, more surprised than hurt. Then he broke off, realising that he couldn't move and that Shikanenai was holding his hands in the final seal of the Nara's tradmark jutsu. "Shikanenai?" he asked uncertainly. "What are you doing?"
"Stomp him," Shikanenai told Naruto.
"What?" the genin said incredulously, eyes wide.
"You're a genin, I'm a chunin," Shikanenai said flatly. "This is an order. Knock him out. Now."
"Hey wai-" the pinned man managed to say before Naruto kicked him in the side of the head, silencing him.
"Good lad," Shikanenai said and pushed on the door, swinging it slowly open. Inside, it was dark and full of shadows, a far cry from the bright and sunny streets of Konohagakure. "Man," he muttered, "This place hasn't changed one bit."
Two shapes darted through the high stacks of scrolls, kunai gleaming in their hands. Shikanenai's shadow, clearly visible in the long rectangle of light that streamed through the door behind him, flicked to one side and there were simultaneous crashes as the two guards responding to the door opening suddenly found that their limbs weren't moving.
"Them too," Shikanenai ordered flatly.
Naruto hesitated. "No," he said. "Not unless you tell me why you want me to attack Konoha-nin."
A thin smile crossed Shikanenai's face. "Good," he said softly, and released the jutsu that was pinning the pair. "Following orders is required of a ninja, but not blindly. Of course, questioning orders in mid-battle is unwise, but the circumstances merited it. Well done."
The guards were on their feet now and had been joined by half-a-dozen ninja, half of them archive staff, the other half obviously simply ninja who had been in the archives and responded to the intrusion. An older ninja, with the characteristic white eyes of the Hyuuga shouldered his way through the loose ring that had formed around the pair.
"What is the meaning of this!" he demanded. "Who are you and why do you bring that menace here!"
Shikanenai smirked. "This is just a test of your security," he said casually. "This was not a real attack. If this was a real attack then you would be explaining to Hokage-sama why A CHUNIN AND AND A GENIN JUST WALTZED STRAIGHT THROUGH YOUR SECURITY!" he bellowed suddenly. "You!" he ordered one of the genin who'd come out of the stacks. "Fetch that idiot Haruno Shima from outside. And you!" he continued, glancing at the other guards - "Get the rest of the archive staff up here."
"Stop!" shouted the Hyuuga. "You are in no position to give orders here - take him into custody," he ordered. "Both of them in fact."
The Nara cracked his knuckles as Naruto looked around with a worried expression on his face. "You are not brushing this under the carpet," Shikanenai said silkily. "Your security here is paper thin. Until you satisfy the Hokage that you can be entrusted with the Archives again it is you who are in no position to give orders, Aramaki."
Responding more to the certainty of Shikanenai's words than to their content, the ninja scattered through the library, leaving Hyuuga Aramaki to glare at Shikanenai in frustration. "Nara..." he hissed. "You're that useless cousin of Shikaku's."
Shikanenai simply grinned and wheeled on the groggy Chunin who staggered into the Archives through the door he'd been supposedly guarding. "Shima, you were an idiot at the Academy and you're an idiot now! How you passed the Chunin Exam I will never know! Have you never heard of the henge jutsu!? A ninja you've not seen in years just turns up and you let him pin you for a genin to beat up on! What were you thinking!? Were you thinking at all!? And besides that you hold a kunai like a pansy! Are you limp-wristed or something?"
Leaving the chunin gaping, Shikanenai returned his attention to Aramaki. "And where is the reaction force!? Why aren't ANBU swooping down to aid the defense of the Archives? I've been here five minutes and not a peep! You didn't send for them, did you? Did you? No, of course you didn't! Are you sure that no one's made off with half the archives while you weren't looking? As far as I can tell you might as well have been asleep for the last two years - a team from one of the other villages could have romped through here and grabbed all our confidential files and you'd probably not even have noticed!"

"Are you really doing a security check?" Naruto asked once the two of them were ensouced in one of the private reading rooms on the upper floor of the Archives.
"Why of course I am, Naruto," Shikanenai assured him with a wink. He scribbled a note on a scrap of paper from his pocket and held it up for Naruto to see.
'I wasn't until I saw how paper-thin the protection was' the note read.
"But won't -" Naruto said and then broke off as the Nara clansman grabbed his mouth and pushed it shut.
"From now on," he said, "I will only allow you to communicate me in two ways: writing," he passed Naruto a notepad and pen, "and hand signals."
"But I don't know hand signals," Naruto protested.
Shikanenai put his little fingers into his ears. "I can't hear you," he said brightly.
Naruto scribbled on the note pad.
'DON'T KNOW HAND SIGNS!!'
"Well I guess this is your chance to learn," Shikanenai replied after reading the note.
D for Drakensis

You're only young once, but immaturity is forever.
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#2
This is an interesting take, but I'm slightly confused on why Naruto would be with a Nara relative for training - or is it just that he's your avatar for it? (It's pretty clear this isn't meant to be TXY or TGNH, since Neshan's in charge of the Archives for them, and doesn't have a problem with Naruto) ... and does this mean you're going to be sputtering out bits and bobs of Narutoverse fic too? Becasue all I have is cheers for another source of goodness in the fandom...
- CDThat which does not kill us... has made its last mistake.
SERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
Next morning, Harry found himself butt-naked in the other side of town, mouth tasting of lima beans. - from Uzumaki Harry by Shadow Crystal Mage
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows
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It started out as the concept of my avatar (as developed for TXY and then spawning his own mutant crack plot bunnies), who is indeed a Nara relative (Shikamaru's dad's first cousin) taking Naruto out and training him, which, if it was any good, I might have put forward to happen in the TXY universe.
Then of course, the concept that konoha's loudest ninja wouldn't be very popular in a library and the idea of a pissy librarian having banned Naruto cropped up and it all went on from there. Pissy librarian, fighting their way into the archives (Shikanenai is SUCH a liar about it being an offical surprise inspection, in case you hadn't guessed)
Basically, Shikanenai thought he'd just teach Naruto the basics of tactical analysis and observation, and found himself branching into all sorts of stuff that he assumed Naruto would know and then realises... he doesn't.
If I do ever take get the guy's story going in it's own right (and I really need to get new chapters finished for Footsteps of the Boy-Who-Lived and Here's Your Accordion) then this will probably be part of it. Or it might morph into some other facility. I don't know. [Image: glasses.gif]
D for Drakensis

You're only young once, but immaturity is forever.
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#4
Ah, well, maybe something can be worked out with Nathan, a subordinate in charge of day-to-day affairs and overstepped his bounds, or something. Part of the lead-up to the chuunin exam is a change in Gai's team training to emphasise tactical and stealth/espionage skills, so it would fit.
- CDThat which does not kill us... has made its last mistake.
SERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
Next morning, Harry found himself butt-naked in the other side of town, mouth tasting of lima beans. - from Uzumaki Harry by Shadow Crystal Mage
--
"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows
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Ah, well, maybe something can be worked out with Nathan, a subordinate in charge of day-to-day affairs and overstepped his bounds, or something.
That would be quite possible - one of my bigger weaknesses is my poor situational awareness, and, while N.'s training compensates for most of that, his ability to pick up sneakers is still... sub-par.
So having one of the other Specials or a vacationing Elite cover security would make sense, especially since it frees him up to take care of more of the administration work and/or wrestling with politics. (of which more in the other thread anon)
...now that I think about it, the actual Archive building and access there-to wouldn't be his job anyway. The division as a whole would have to have at least three major internal branches to cover its full mandate - the Academy, the Archives proper, and an Analysis group. (the other divisions would process things within their own purviews in-house, but also pass the raw data on to the full-time data-handlers in Analysis)
So, while Neshan wouldn't have the day-to-day contact with the entrance desk to determine exactly who gets access, he could and likely would set the rules that govern those decisions - and under which, Naruto would have exactly the same access rights as any other Genin, no more, no less.
OTOH, in TXY, Neshan is just a relatively young Jounin who's gotten as far as he has on the basis of wits and sheer drive - he has no particular reason to notice Naruto, for better or worse.
Regarding the building's security... N. is probably career second-line, but might well have come up through the Analysis branch rather than the Archives - either way, he's only held his current position for less than a year and has had a lot on his plate, especially since his main priority has been trying to improve the quality of the Academy... So, most of the procedures in place are going to be inherited from his predecessor.
Anyway, the building also has an intrinsic security system with extremely heavy, and dangerous wards that'll ground out some serious pain to anyone who tries to cross them - which you have to, to get at the scrolls - who isn't wearing an authorization token... which are watched and protected very closely. The building's external wards are even heavier, since they're designed not so much to be impossible to slip through as impossible to smash - Kyuubi tried and failed, to give you an idea - and they're set up to fry anyone who tries to slip a token out of the building.
There are probably ways to defeat the system, but all the ones I can think of would take a detailed knowledge of its workings, enough expertise in sealing to alter the wards without triggering them, and time to work on the problem - or a cooperative Jinchuuriki or Jounin or twelve and an environment safe enough for them to recover in after they burn through their entire chakra reserve brute-forcing their way in.
(The wards don't have a self-destruct function - there'd be a chance of its being triggered when it shouldn't, and a false positive would cost Konoha pretty much its entire institutional memory.)
None of which means that the guards on the ground wouldn't be as sloppy as that, or that they'd have any excuse for being that way - just that getting inside the outer wards the way Shikanenai just did is only the first of a series of very difficult steps.
Ja, -n
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"Yes, and it was glorious."
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So, it looks like that works then. There should be plenty of space for it to happen, espescially with the whole rainy season thing when everyone in Fire sticks close to home.
- CD
I remember your guy now, he's the Paper User that was on Gai's first genin team, was goig to teach Lee ways to deal with genjutsu when he can do the usual countergenjutsu dispel. Righto, carry on! Shima would be a cousin of Sakura's, not immediate family, and as a chuunin TXY Haruno he should be able to do ninjutsu or genjutsu motionless (though with some difficulty) thanks to his inner self - so it's a good thing he got knocked out before he had the chance, eh? Unless he slacked as much in his training as in his readiness on duty.That which does not kill us... has made its last mistake.
SERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
Next morning, Harry found himself butt-naked in the other side of town, mouth tasting of lima beans. - from Uzumaki Harry by Shadow Crystal Mage
--
"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows
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Yep, that's the guy.
What I was thinking of for the Archives was as follows:
Unsecured information is kept in a seperate library building with much lighter security that's more to do with preventing accidental destruction than anyone breaking in.
The way I thought of the actual Archives (not the capitalisation) was that they are, as you said, heavily protected. The door S. & N. go through is the ONLY door to the outside and has chuunin guards to keep anyone not a Konoha-nin out. Naruto is technically allowed in here, since he graduated, but he got kicked out a couple of times before then and no one's actually told him that he can go in (Gai would have but it never came up) and Aramaki's given unoffical instructions to discourage him (a bit of kingdom building Neshan would be a bit pissed at presumably).
Inside, the ground level has the information that genin are authorised for. The defenses are mostly guards and light wards, with a couple of more protected areas that archivists open only on request. Heavier wards, the thinking is, would be set off every couple of days by genin screwing up or the like. The levels below hold the chuunin-level information (much more heavily guarded), jounin-level information (deeper and again, much better protected) and hokage-level information (not so much better protected as better hidden, the existence of that level is itself restricted to jounin).
Haruno Shima is in fact a reasonably competent Chuunin, with good taijutsu and genjutsu, a mite weak with ninjutsu. He's also a trifle smug and never really got the hang of 'looking underneath the underneath', which is why he doesn't go on important field ops. Shikanenai on the other hand, specialisies in spying on other Ninja Villages (hostile, or worse, friendly), so this is really his strong point.
Any thoughts on how Neshan would feel about a written report on the incident being on his desk that night?
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The way I thought of the actual Archives (note the capitalisation) was that they are, as you said, heavily protected. The door S. & N. go through is the ONLY door to the outside and has chuunin guards to keep anyone not a Konoha-nin out. Naruto is technically allowed in here, since he graduated, but he got kicked out a couple of times before then and no one's actually told him that he can go in (Gai would have but it never came up) and Aramaki's given unoffical instructions to discourage him (a bit of kingdom building Neshan would be a bit pissed at presumably).
*snip* I'd been thinking of the building as one huge surface level structure, but you're quite right - the layered approach would work better.
(Hmm. 'What on earth makes you think you can get away with treating a Genin that way? Our job is to support people, remember?' 'I saw and see no possible justification for allowing a demon access to our village's knowledge - which it is my job to defend!' 'The way you did today? *sweet smile* ...Let's drop the pretense. The question of archive access does not fall under your authority. You will provide all visitors with the full access and support to which their ranks or authorization papers entitle them. If there is a conflict, then I am specifically ordering you to bring it to my attention. Clear?' 'A demon can't have rank!' 'No, but Uzumaki's hardly a demon, is he?' 'But!' 'Oi - which of us is the sealing specialist here, anyway? It's solid, it's secure - the monster can't touch him... and we owe him better.' '*surly* ...yes, sir.')
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Any thoughts on how Neshan would feel about a written report on the incident being on his desk that night?
The way Aramaki will be smarting from this, he probably won't have to actually do anything w/regards to security - except maybe save the rest of the poor guards from their supervisor. ^_^
Ja, -n
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"Yes, and it was glorious."
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