Hillan

Naruto: Years of Winter - an Alternate Universe

Hmm... Team Generation seems to have stalled a little (sense of time is broken, maybe due to Christmas, so I'm not sure if four days is actually long at all in this context)

@McFazzer

Waiting on our fourth member to post, Queentze's assured me they're on it, though, so shouldn't be too much longer. :)

Naruto: Years of Winter - an Alternate Universe

Curious. Who are the 4th Hokage candidates by any chance, I say Kaido.

@Hillan f you... D:

@Masaki Haruna

Hey, don't fuck me. That's @Buddha's moms job.

Also, like Jacob said. It'd go back to the second kage if Mawari died. However, if they both died, it is highly likely it'd be Kaido who'd become 4th, since he only barely lost to Mawari two years ago.

Naruto: Years of Winter - an Alternate Universe

@Buddha Right. Not in the mood to defend my boy unless it's too much~
P.S I can relate to his character, it's no wonder I like him. Minus my family is not slaughtered. This one reason is enough to peg him as my numero uno. I can give more reasons but nah... as said before, I'm no Sasuke wanker So... yeah at least I don't go shitting Naruto's church. I'll exclude Sakura but that's my lol bias for the fun. jk

Sasuke I like dat.

Complex I dig dat

Wanderer Sasuke I love dat.

His current characterization is better than his "emo" days. That's my own opinion, I respect yours and the rest.

Damn only Kal and I are the only Lord Sasuke fans. Sasuchief still hasn't liberated the rest~

@j8cob I miss Shin Maru. We need some hentai magic.

@Masaki Haruna

In all fairness, I think Sasuke's one, if not the best written character Kishimoto made, and I think his motivations are always spot-on. He's the only one who fucks with the system and messes with the establishment.

He's really the Naruto Trump.

Naruto: Years of Winter - an Alternate Universe

Sounds like we should rewrite canon characters in an AU RP... haha.

@Gowi

I mean.
Yeah. A complete rewrite of the Naruto canon -except not terrible- would be cool.
Except we'd all come to the conclusion that maybe we're giving Kishimoto a little too much flack for it.

Naruto: Years of Winter - an Alternate Universe

@Hillan Well, no, because in the anime it's also said that it requires a lot of chakra manipulation skill to create these clones. Theoretically a chunin can't make four clones or three, or even two in most cases, because they lack the skill to manipulate their chakra all at the same times.

So a genin really shouldn't be making more than one clone.

@Buddha

<Snipped quote by Buddha>

>Naruto said to have markedly bad chakra control early on
>Naruto can form multiple shadow clones before learning how to run up trees.

Buddha pls.

@Asura

Yeah, pretty much. I think the reason Kakashi, or Itachi don't use more clones is because they don't think it's a worthy trade off to split their chakra reserves so heavily. (That being said, Kakashi has on ocassion made 5 clones.)

Naruto: Years of Winter - an Alternate Universe

@BladeSS4 I just want to warn you that most chunin aren't capable of spawning 4 clones. Most jonin aren't even capable of that.

The reason is that the total chakra of a person is spread among the clones. So, Tenshi, as well as his clones, now ended up with 1/5th of his total chakra.

Do you know what happens when you reach 0/5 chakra, aka you run out completely? You die. Keep that in mind.

@Buddha

I mean, don't do any other jutsu while you're using Shadow clones, and you're fine. :^)

Naruto: Years of Winter - an Alternate Universe

Sarutobi Ira

He had listened to the Hokage's words of wisdom, she hadn't really quite appreciated his - nor the others view on things. Not that it bothered him, while he respected the Hokage, he wasn't gonna live or die on her words. He didn't need to adhere to what she thought was right, for despite all of her greatness as Lady Hokage, he knew that he would become better. It was his destiny to become better. He listened to the mission being explained to him - the eight Tails, one of the tailed beasts? On hostile territory? This was a mission far above his pay grade as a Genin - finally, they were recognizing his power.
"What mission?" he said in response to her asking them to promise to never talk about the mission. Dio would be set to take the front on the mission - Ira cleared his throat.

"Actually, with all due respect, Lady Hokage. But Dio's Talents would be better served from the back, so he could cover our rear most efficiently. It's a lot harder for us to watch behind us than it is for him, and if you take the front, nothing would be able to ambush us from that angle, as I trust the Third's more than powerful enough to handle any foe stupid enough to try a frontal assault." He interjected, more than willing to speak up, and even disagree with the Hokage, despite his low rank. His father always did say that rank wasn't the most important thing in the world.

Uchiha Kaido

Kaido emerged on a branch outside of the main gate, watching as the girl fought his Assassin. She fought well, a little careless, yet she fought efficiently, making sure to minimize the collateral damage her otherwise devastating brand of techniques would cause. She got hurt four times by his clone, before eventually getting serious, demolishing the clone in one swift move. Kaid leapt down from the branch, landing behind her completely silently. He broke his stealth with a short applause, clapping his hands four times.

"At east, Nō." He said, a smirk on his face. "Well done, you've passed my litte test. I will see you at the Hero Monument in twenty minutes." He said, he would meet them at the monument meant next to training field 1. The monument was for all the Leaf soldiers that had fallen during the winter war, in the first war between all shinobi nations, it seemed fitting given the little exercise he had put his students through.

He waved her off, and then vanished, to go find the other two, before his clones struck them.

He would watch Sakana deal with the clone after a brief struggle, likewise for Shirayuri. He was quite impressed with how neither of them had lost their cool during their situation. He arrived on the side of them, this time not silently, in order to get their attention. "He sure did tease you a little. A test, if you will. I expect to see you both of you at the Hero Monument in ten minutes. You have a mission waiting for you."

Once his squad had all gathered before him, he folded his arms behind his back. "Sit down." He told them, nodding at the rocks in front of the monument.
"You were all told in the academy what this monument is for. You probably know someone who's name is written into this rock. A relative, a sibling, maybe even a parent. You all think you're pretty much immortal, that nothing's particularly serious. That's why The Third Hokage, Mawari-Sama has appointed me, Uchiha Kaido, to be your captain, in an effort to make soldiers out of you. And that all begins now." He spoke, getting four dossiers out of his backpack he carried on his shoulder, throwing one to each of them, keeping one for himself.

Team Kaido mission 1.

Team Trouble
@Buddha@Asura@Queentze
Mission location:

Konohagakure-Kirigakure

Mission type:

Retrieval

Mission directions:

Primary objective:

A set of scrolls containing Konohagakure mission numbers and details has been stolen after they were mistaken for kinjutsu scrolls. After the criminal found out that the scrolls were less interesting than initially thought, they have opted to sell them to Kirigakure to harm our shinobi services. Although we do not wish to enter in political war with Kirigakure, obtaining the scrolls is of the utmost importance. We have reached out to Kirigakure to ask them for assistance in tracking the criminal, and they have not responded except for a letter stating that they will not harm the criminal if they enter Kirigakure territory, but they will send a team of four shinobi to overlook the apprehension of the criminal to ensure that nobody dies.

Secondary objective:

Avoid entering Kirigakure territory to minimize political fallout.

Success/failure conditions:

Success will be achieved if the scrolls are retrieved. Failure to do so might lead to a decrease in work in the future - or otherwise, possible war with Kirigakure.

Mission payment:

Five thousand (5000) Ryo each.
Gratitude of Konohagakure.

"Read through the file carefully. This is the most important mission you kids have done in your entire lives. It's an A-rank mission where the future of the nation lies in your hands. It's highly likely that we will end up in combat situations, either with the criminal, or with Kirigakure Shinobi, as I personally highly doubt they have any kind of intentions of helping us out. It's of utmost necessity that we succeed, or countless of your fellow shinobi will fall at the hands of the murderous Mist shinobi, adding even more names to this monument behind me." Kaido's words came out rather harshly, but he had no time to play nice with these kids - it wasn't what they needed, nor what Lady Hokage wanted him to do. He was not to be their friend, only their commander.

"You have half an hour to gather supplies - tend to your wounds my clones gave you, and then we will meet in front of the main gate fore departure. If you're even a second late, it won't be clones coming for you."

"Move out, Team." He moved his gloved hand with two fingers outstretched, his gray shinobi vest with the Uchiha and Hyuuga symbols on each arm reflected some of the sunlight hitting the shiny badges as he did.

One Piece: A Golden Age, A Dark Age - The Boozehound Chronicles

The room was dimly lit, only a few oil lamps in the meeting locale as the three figures sat on the round table, one empty chair. One of them was wearing a beret, he was looking to the side, whispering something to his second-in-command. "This face works, right?" He asked, gruffly, making a rather stern expression. [Boss "Iron" Cerulean, leader of the Azure Company; 30,000,000 Bounty.]

The man in the top-knot ponytail and kimono nodded. "It does indeed, sir. Very grim. The others will know how you feel." [Marv "The Ninja"; Azura Company Second in Command; 9,000,000 Bounty.]

"Good, at ease." the large man sitting down said, as the ninja leaned back against the wall, crossing his arms in meditation.

Straight across from Cerulean, leaning back in his chair, a man in a straight laced red suit, black and white scarf hanging on his shoulders, brushed some of his bushy black hair away. Snorting, his even bushier black beard rustled as he looked behind him, a shirtless man, bandages over burn scars, laid on the ground like a lump. "Look at 'em, over there lookin' posh. This is why they got Stagio and we got stuck with Meesei. Like every fuckin' year." ["Assembly" Leader Vermillion, leader of the Crimson Company; 27,000,000 Beli Bounty]

The object of his scorn grumbled, "I'm telling you we should take care of...whoever they are...bro!" ["Dread" Chadwick Burgundy, Crimson Company Second in Command; 7,000,000 Bounty]

In the third chair was the green haired woman, younger than either of them men by far. Behind her was her sister-in-arms. She spoke softly. "You two both seem too tense. Just relax, I'm sure old man Goldenrod's gonna show up any minute now, kuhuhu." She smiled. "Heads says he'll show up in five minutes." She wagered, flipping the coin she had been toying with between her fingers up into the air. ["Lucky" Chief Viridian, leader of the Verdant Company; 24,000,000 Bounty] He green hair swept to the side by the motion.

As the coin was flipping through the air, it was caught my the brown-leather clad hand of Kobicha, the second in command. "I don't think it's wise to take bets with the two gentlemen right now." She advised. ["Tactician" Kobicha, Verdant Company Second In Command; 7,000,000 Bounty]

"Yeah, guess you should listen to her: she was smart enough to run from the big bad...Cheese?" Vermillion said.

"Chester!" came a growl from the door as it came open. Stepping in backwards, a teen in a vellow vest over a white dress shirt, a sword at his hip, his short orange hair jabbing out under his black banded fedora. Turning around, he moved the wheelchair to face the table, pushing it forwards as the older man sitting within, neck caught in a brace, left arm, shoulder, and knee kept in casts. "Move that extra chair!" he snarled. [Head "Tycoon" Goldenrod, leader of the Quartz Company; 29,000,000 Bounty]

The boy was already moving. "Yeah pops." ["Lad" Saffron, Quartz Company Second in Command; 10,000,000 Bounty]. Moving the chair, he slipped the wheelchair to the table, filling it's four corners with the four pillars that managed the North Blue.

"Is that not the name of the shithead who messed with our operation on Melonberry?" Cerulean asked Marv, whom nodded. "Yes, sir. You sent me to challenge the captain of the.. Grog Warrior Pirate Crew to a duel in your name. But him and his mates.. Ambushed me." Marv explained, hanging his head in shame. Cerulean nodded in acknowledgement, a scowl on his face.

"Kuhuhu, so it would seem this Chester guy is quite the problem, then? Disrupted Melonberry and your sugar monopoly, and I think it's safe to assume he put you in that chair, then, old man?" Viridian cooed.

"And if not dealt with, his crew could threaten our entire operation!" Goldenrod proclaimed, bringing the room into a contemplative halt.

Vermillion clicked his tongue. "Just cause you got the shit kicked outta ya doesn't mean-"

"They've charged into two of our headquarters and made mockery of all too many of our strongest men. Issac the Rounin, Jeko the Quack, and Deadeye Kuhn...all three were on my payroll, but none of them were able to stop those...Grog Warriors, from tearing apart my headquarters. And from what I've heard, no one else has been able to give them pause either." Finishing his statement, Goldenrod glanced between Chad, Kobicha, and Marv, while Saff stood behind him, not even hiding the smugness on his face.

"You had all those two idiots on your payroll? Who's that Kuhn kid, never heard of 'em." Cerulean exclaimed, frowning as he did. Viridian chimed in. "I know him, Dustcity Deadeye. Kuhuhuh, he thinks he's the best marksman in the entire North Blue. Can't have someone spreading such rumors. Reflects poorly on myself." She cooed.

"How are we to handle these Grog Warriors, then?" Viridian asked. "We'll have to deal with them." Cerulean responded. "I'll propose that I take out their captain, and that would be the end of it all. That Chester guy's been a torn in my side for far too long. And in return for me killing him, you guys will all forgo taxing Azure company when they tread on your territory for the next year." He propsed, and the other leaders groaned.

"Not on your life!" Goldrenrod cried, before devolving into a coughing fit.

Letting out a sigh, Vermillion grumbled, "Let's see you take care of him first. Then we'll go over the terms."

Groaning, Chad sat up, saying, "Those other guys though..." Pointing across the room at Marv, he said, "Seriously, they messed you up too, didn't they brah?" Massaging his head, he muttered, "I keep forgetting..."

"W-What?! Me, the mighty Marv losing to some nobody pirates?! Of course not Chadwick!" Marv deflected, shocked. Cerulean grinded his teeth. "You think I'm a fool, Vermillion? You will agree to my terms before I go and take this guy's head."

Vermillion chortled, "You said yerself he's your problem. Shall we call a vote?" Vermillion raised his hand. "The Grog Whatevers are Boss Cerulean's problem: yeah or nah?"

Viridian raised her hand, prompting a snarl from Cerulean, whom looked sharply at Goldenrod, who he assumed would be willing to trade some money for taking out the Grog Warriors, but his hand was already up. "I don't have the manpower to fight them myself."

Vermillion chortled, "Majority rules."

Cerulean frowned. "Fine. I'll kill the captain and that will be the end of it."

"Excellent." Viridian said.

"Marv, we'll devise a plan to get him alone. I think a duel is in place here." Cerulean mused, his face breaking into a smile.

"Is that everythin' Grog Warrior related then?" Vermillion posed.

"Actually..." Goldenrod interjected. "Don Mono got back to me on theo ther half of that incident..."

---

Sometime later, on board the Hinnon Breeze, the Boozehounds were relaxing from repairing their ship. Chester was laying in the lookout basket on top of the boat, his legs hanging off of the edge, a bottle in his teeth, as usual, dozing in between conciousness and sleep. Kuhn was working on a new bullet in his quarters, while the others were busy doing other things. Kuhn did however have sight out of his quarters to the sea near the coast line of Stagio Island, where he saw a small ship with blue sails on it approach the Hinnon Breeze, not paying much attention to it, Kuhn continued his work. In a couple of minutes, he looked back out of the window, and saw that the boat was still coming towards them, at full speed.

He grabbed his pistol, and headed up towardas the deck. "Oi, Cap'n!" He shouted "Lina, Macario.. Ghostboy!" He called, Chester grumbling from above on the mast.

"I think we're about to get company.. From Azure Company... Let's give dem comp- I'll stop right there." Kuhn said, realizing how silly his sentence was turning into.

The boat pulled up next to them, garning the attention of Chester, whom was now crawling down from the top of the mast on the netted rope, his head first, using his one hand and his legs, bottle in his other. He fell the last two meters, landing on his face, making sure not to break the bottle. He regained his composure as the blue clad ninja with the topknot leapt out of the Azure Boat, and landed in front of them, Kuhn looking at him with sharp eyes.

"Oi, ain't dis dat dude who jumped us' a couple days ago?"

"Oh yeah, punched the snot out of him, didn't we?" Chester said, worming his way on the ground, eventually standing up. "What do you want? round two?"

The ninja remained quiet, as he looked at Chester, pointed his finger at him, and then vanished, drawing his katana on his back as he vanished, appearing behind Chester, his blade in a slashing motion.

"The hell are you do-" Chester asked, only to realize the ninja had cut his bottle in half, now there was grog on the floor. "WHAT THE FUCK, MAN?!" Chester shouted, as the ninja looked back at him. "Boss Cerulean wants to meet you, Grog Warrior Chester. Showdown for Melonbery. Just you and him, mano y mano. One on one, on Stagio Island, in the plaza. A duel to the death. Just you, none of your friends. Got that?" He said, as the flustered Chester walked towards him, about to give him a piece of his mind.

"You got that?" Marv asked Chester, as Chester walked towards him, Marv walked to the side of him, Chester's side was now facing Marv's ship, as Chester's had shot out at speeds faster than Marv could've reacted to, with a loud bang, Marv was sent flying back into his ship, landing flat against their mast, making the entire ship wobble heavily, before balancing itself again. Marv was knocked out cold, blood pooring out of his nose, missing a couple of teeth. His crewmates all shocked, as they set sail.

"Yeah, I got it, I'll be there." Chester said coldly, his face darkened with anger about the spilled booze from before.

"Oh yeah, Lina, I guess I can fulfill my promise now!" He said, turning to Lina, with a smile, once the anger over the spilled grog had settled, he had found another bottle to sate his thirst.

"... What pomise is he talkin' about?"

"You do realize it's a trap, don't you, cap'n?" Kuhn asked Chester, whom shrugged. "Who cares."

"I 'spose so, ye." Kuhn added, before everyone went back to their duties.

"Hey, did he mention when the duel was supposed to take place?" Chester asked, and everyone else shrugged, only for a knife to be thrown at them from the ship sailing away, a note attached to the knife.

"At noon." The note read.

"Ninjas, man." He exclaimed with a huff.

Naruto: Years of Winter - an Alternate Universe

Eiichiro Kishimoto

He had made his way to the training field, the crowds had kept him quite busy, a couple of villagers had stopped to talk to him while he had picked up supplies for their meeting. He carried a bag over his shoulder as he arrived on the training field, his students were nowhere to be seen, except for the bluehaired girl standing in the middle of the field. Kishimoto ignored her for now, walking over to the opposite end of the field, he set up the kettle of tea he had prepared, as well as his bags of tea flavor. Once he had prepared the tea to begin boiling, he headed over the to young girl, who was waiting for the rest of the team to gather.

Kishimoto tapped the girl on the shoulder with his finger to get her attention, his crutch hanging on his wrist in it's leather strap, trying not to startle her. "Hey, Chikage?" He asked firmly.

The young kunoichi was fully distracted by the explosives she was juggling when she felt something foreign touch her shoulder. Having already gotten into her imaginative mindset from earlier about a potential invasion she was very quick to react again. Before the words even left the former Hokage's mouth, Chikage used some chakra to activate the bomb she just caught in her left hand. She rolled forward in a somersault, letting the other two bombs fall harmlessly to the ground where she was sitting right at Kishimoto's feet, before giving the primed bomb a quick toss while she was midway through her second roll. "Take this!" she shouted, timed with practice so that her would-be assassin would hear her words just before the bombs would explode at his feet. The primed one would set off the other two for a somewhat larger overall explosion, which Chikage would have her back to as she reached a safe distance. She wouldn't realize her mistake in letting her boredom and imagination get the better of her until it was far too late.

Kishimoto was rather surprised by all this, and as the bombs were falling to the ground, his crutch flew through the air, knocking the two bombs to the side, into the pond on the side of the field, a few meters to the side of them, then the crutch cut through the air again, and the third bomb exploded in between the two, yet far away to avoid Kishi taking any damage, only dirtying his poncho. "Oi. You should be careful with those things!" Kishi said strictly at her, revealing his lack of an arm and leg to her.

Once he had cleared up the reaction of the young girl, he grinned. The other two were now arriving, and he whistled at them to get their attention. "Over here, gather round." He said, as he began huddling towards where he had put down the tea kettle, some 25 meters away from Chikage, it taking him a moment or two to make his way over there in his condition.

"Hello. I'm Eiichiro Kishimoto, but you might've heard of me as the second Hokage, I lead the village during the long Winter, and during the war. My father was the first Hokage, so one could say I had quite some shoes to fill." Kishimoto introduced himself, chuckling. "But, don't worry about that. Now, I'm a Jonin again, and it's my duty, honor and pleasure to train and mold you young shinobi, to make you a better generation of ninja than mine ever was." His tone was rather cheerful.

He was sure the question would come up. "And yeah, it's real. I am missing both my arm and a leg, I lost them during the war, but I'm doing just fine without them. It was quite disarming at first, though." He joked, motioning for the three younglings to sit down. "I insist you all grab a cup of tea, and introduce yourselves. Say something about yourselves, like I did. Anything you want the others to know about you. And once we're done with that, we actually have a mission to begin today." He finished, taking the boiling kettle to the four cups, filling them up, putting the kettle down and grabbing a cup.

Naruto: Years of Winter - an Alternate Universe

Sarutobi Ira

"You fucking coward!" Ira cried as Dio put him on his knees on the ground with a swift kick to his stomach. "Attacking me like that's something I'd expect from such a low-class shinobi like you, Dio." Ira said, getting back on his feet, holding back from using his metal jutsu and tearing the Hyuuga's face off. "You're lucky I was busy listening to Lady Hokage, or I would've torn you a new one. Don't test me, asshole." Ira warned him, before turning back to his sensei, bowing once again. "Thank you, Lady Hokage. It's gonna be a real treat to be trained by someone of your renown. But, I have to ask, Mu Sarutobi makes sense that he's on this team - he's the second best prodigy of our clan's current generation. But what is this Branch Scum doing in our elite team?" Ira questioned, before thinking on her words, he got his hair out of his face, before he spoke up.

"The Weak are meat, and the strong will eat's an old saying, isn't it? From a time before the winter, hell, even before this - or any village existed, right? That the weakest warriors had no right to ask for food, and food was only given to the strong, those that had proven themselves in the heat of battle. That cowards - Like Dio, are worthless, and only real warriors will prosper." The Sarutobi said, venomously at his Hyuuga classmate, completely disregarding the fact that both Dio and Mu were higher rank than him, despite all of them going to the Academy together.