Naruto: Chronicles of A Fire Ninja

"Welcome back Kaida, you are early today?" Hae said, opening the door for Kaida.

"Yes aunt, tomorrow we are going to have an important operation... of Itachi, so I want to be in perfect shape for tomorrow," Kaida said, entering the house.

"Where is Naruto?" he asked, because Naruto would usually come to greet him as soon as he came back, and since today was a holiday from the academy, he should be at home.

"He went out to 'train' with his friends, maybe he is learning too much from his brothers," Hae said with a chuckle. It was too cute to see the resolute expression of a 5-year-old boy.

"Haha, I will go and check out what type of training he is doing," Kaida said.

"At least have some water first," Hae said.

"It is already lunch time aunt, I will bring him back for lunch," Kaida said, already leaving the house.

"But he took his lunch box with him," Hae could only say to herself as Kaida was already gone. He didn't have to search for Naruto because he knew Naruto would be in the Academy grounds only.

...

A group of middle-aged men were making their way toward their house, still in their Genin vests, as they had just returned from their mission. Being civilian ninja, becoming Chunin was not easy for them, so they accepted their fate as Genin, taking small missions every week to pay for their bills while being part of Konoha Genin Corps.

Since they had just earned quite an amount escorting a wealthy merchant with their Chunin leader, they had celebrated a little and were a little... disoriented. Coincidentally, they had to pass through the academy.

"Come on, I can still run 10 more rounds and you guys are already tired!"

A voice came from the ground next to the academy.

"Hey, isn't that the voice of that Kyubi brat?"

"Genta, don't do anything funny. I heard that he now lives with some Uchiha family."

"Heh, why would those arrogant asses care about him? I will just go and say hi to him, after all, it has been so long," Genta, a burly-looking Genin with a scar on his face, said. Because of that scar, he had an inferiority complex and always took it out on people who were weaker than him, and in a ninja village, it mostly came down to orphan children, Naruto being his prime target.

His other teammates could only shake their heads at that. Even though they didn't care much about it, now that the Uchiha clan was behind the boy, they didn't want to involve themselves with this, so they maintained their distance while Genta made his way toward the ground.

...

"Hey brat!" Genta said as he entered the ground.

Naruto froze in his tracks, looking toward him.

"Hey, where are your manners? Didn't I tell you to greet your elders with respect every time you meet them? Looks like I have to teach you all of that again."

"I..."

slap

"Did I ask you to speak? Never interrupt your elders!"

"Hey, leave him!" Shikamaru said, coming toward them, followed by Choji.

"Keep your bratty nose out of this, brats!" Genta said, but then he saw their eyes going toward his side. Before he could turn to see, he felt someone grabbing his hand.

crunch

The hand he was using to grab Naruto's collar broke, after which his brain couldn't focus on anything other than the pain coming from his hand.

"AAAHHHHH!" A shout reverberated through the whole academy ground.

"Big brother!" Naruto looked up, directly into the eyes of Kaida.

"Why were you scared? Didn't I tell you when we met, we are family from now on, and family protects each other? So don't fear anyone from now on, you have two brothers to protect you," he said, ruffling Naruto's hair with his other hand, which was not making bones of a person's hand into powder.

Naruto nodded his head, hugging Kaida's legs tightly, which for some reason increased the sound of shouts coming from Genta's mouth.

Genta's teammates who were outside rushed there to see what happened. Even though they didn't want to take part in the bullying, they still couldn't leave their friend behind.

"Come close, and you guys will not be able to walk ever again," Kaida turned toward them, his eyes glowing red with three tomoe rotating in them. Seeing the scene on the ground, Genta's teammates froze in their place, but they were not the only ones. Shikamaru and Choji were also standing in their place, looking toward Kaida in shock.

Naruto, after a second, tugged Kaida's pants.

"Brother, please let him go."

"As you wish. Your friends are a little shocked there, go and talk to them. I will take him to the hospital," Kaida said.

Naruto nodded and went to Shikamaru and Choji.

After he left, Kaida picked Genta up, looked directly in his eyes, and at that moment, Genta fell into multiple genjutsu, each one ending with his death, every one more painful and brutal than before.

By the time it ended, he was barely hanging onto his mentality. Kaida had specially made sure that he didn't become mental.

"Listen, you piece of shit, if I ever see you near my brother ever again, I will directly kill you, without a second thought. Now take this and go to the hospital. Don't make a single sound on the whole path, okay?" There was a constant smile maintained on Kaida's face, which seemed peaceful to anyone else but Genta, who thought the devil himself was looking into his eyes. He could only nod his head meekly and run away from there.

His friends waited at the entrance the whole time, not even putting a foot inside, then taking him to the hospital from the outside.

"Thank you for helping my brother," Kaida said, going toward the trio.

"We didn't do anything though," Choji said.

"Nope, you tried to help him even though he was stronger than you. You guys could have easily run away, but you stayed and even tried to help him. I am happy that my brother has such good friends," Kaida said. Knowing from anime and seeing it in real life were two different things.

Getting the compliment, two of them became shy while Naruto nodded his head, affirming that he really had good friends.

"So have you guys eaten anything?" Kaida asked.

"No, we brought our lunch. We were going to have a picnic. Will you join us, brother?" Naruto asked.

"I would love to, but I should also bring something, right? Wait a minute," Kaida said and made a shadow clone, which went to a nearby restaurant to buy all of the special snacks available, while he remained in the ground.

"You can also join us if you want... Sasuke," Kaida said. When Genta came to the ground and slapped Naruto, there were three people who ran to save him: two of his friends, Shikamaru and Choji, and the third person was none other than Sasuke, who for some reason was also training in the academy ground while looking toward the three of them from time to time.

"I was just going home," he said, coming out.

"You were also practicing, Sasuke?" Naruto asked, shocked to see him there.

"Great! You can also bring lunch," Choji added with a smile.

"I don't want to have a picnic with you. I will have one with my brother," Sasuke said, and he ran back to the Uchiha compound.

"What's his deal?" Choji said.

"Who knows?" Shikamaru said, shrugging his shoulders, while Kaida just smiled.

...

When Genta and team reached the hospital, they had to report what happened to them, as the village normally took note of every skirmish between ninja which resulted in hospitalization as it could lead to big problems during war.

After Genta's teammates told the nurse about what Genta did, and what Kaida did to him, the nurse nodded, and after some time, some doctors entered the room.

For some reason, the shrieks of Genta were louder than when Kaida had broken his arm.

'They are healing him... right?' a thought which went through his teammates' minds.

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(A.N: Double release tomorrow as well...)