Fake façade| Naruto Fanfic - Chapter 4 (2024)

Takumi's POV:

"Would you train me?"

'...what? That's all? All that awkward silence and serious face just to ask me to train' I thought as my eyebrow started twitching. What the heck is with his mood swing?!!! I then sighed.

"Why? We barely know each other." I asked as I stared suspiciously.

"..."

"..." I watched as he cleared his throat and looked at the sky.

"It was fate's desire, the holy god that watches upon us, that guided you towards me. It is fate, destiny! May we act upon it! It shall be blasphemy to say otherwise" he chanted. He was still looking at the sky with his hands towards it

"..."

"..." I was speechless. I openly stared at him for 5 minutes until he started looking at the ground, kicking rocks to finally curl himself into a ball and start swinging. I then strained my ears to hear what he said.

"It's not like I can tell him that I'm lost..." He muttered. 'He's what?' I thought 'I think I'm going senile' and I started walking away from that strange yellow existence.
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Naruto's POV:

I panicked as I saw him retreat. 'What do I do? Come on stupid brain. I can't let him go I need someone who can actually train and explain to me!' My brain was unable to function properly as he walked away so I did the only thing that came to mind: run after him and that's exactly what I did.

"TAKUMIIIIIII-SAAAAAN!!!!!!!" I saw him shudder and increase his pace. Of course I followed him and the game begins! I started stalking him for 5 days straight from his house to the groceries to... Well you get the idea.

"What the heck is wrong with you?!" He screamed.

"I only need you to train me!"

"Argh! Fine, but at least change your clothes and take a shower!!!"

"I don't have any other clothes!" I yelled and he stopped in his track at that information.

"You-you actually escaped your village and forgot to bring other sets of clothes?" I looked at him shocked and instantly calmed down. I looked sadly at the ground and explained.

"As you know, I'm pretty much disliked in my past village, they are scared of me, in a way. They didn't allow me to buy decent food and that includes clothes. The one I have right now is the only one and has always been."

"You mean you never changed since you were a baby?"

"I had rags if that's what you're asking."
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Takumi's POV:

"I had rags if that's what you're asking." For some reason, I was incapable of wrapping my thoughts around that sentence. Rags?! I was utterly shocked. I grabbed his arm and forcefully brought him to my house and pushed him in the shower. I don't especially remember the details that happened, but I showed him to the guest room and grabbed a random shirt to give him. When he fell asleep, I secretly burned the eyesore-called-jumpsuit.
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No one's POV:

The next morning, Naruto Uzumaki, now called Ryuhei Uzuki, woke up at 7 o'clock which is pretty late considering his standard. Takumi Kohima then took it upon himself to drag him shopping for clothes.
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Takumi's POV:

I was sitting on a bench waiting for that new student of mine to finish choosing his clothes. My eyes were wandering across the shop to finally settle on his neck. What I saw startled me. 'A seal?!'

"Oi! Ryuhei! What's that seal doing on your neck?"

"A what?" I raised an eyebrow at his answer.

"You mean... You don't know?"

"Know what?"

"You have an appearance modifier seal on the back of your neck!"

"What does it do?"

"The thing is that it only changes your appearance and nothing more. Are you like from an incredibly important clan or something?" I asked suspiciously. He narrowed his eyes and seemed to think for a while.

"I... don't think so. Is the seal dangerous?"

"No. It merely changes your appearance to the image the maker of the seal want you to look like. It will accommodate the appearance depending of your age."

"Wait! Are you saying that the reason why I never had muscle mass was because the seal maker thought I should look scrawny? And it's also the reason why I'm so small?" I face-planted at his reaction.

"THAT IS NOT THE POINT!!" I yelled.

"Fine fine, whatever. Can you take it out?"

"Huh? Sure. Come here." I said as I made some handseal.

"Fuiin: Release!" I then looked shocked at the transformation. He grew a total of four inches and developed some muscle. His face lost some baby fat and his whisker mark disappeared. The change that I didn't expect was him growing red hair. At the root of his hair and behind all his blond hair, bright straight long red hair was poking out. My entire left part of the face was twitching rather violently as I chocked on air. 'Or was it my spit?'

"YOU'RE AN UZUMAKI?!" I blurted/screamed, whatever. He turned at me shocked.

"How did you know?"

"It's the only clan I know that has such bright red hair!"

"The Uzumaki were a clan?"

"Yeah. They even had an entire village of their own: Uzushiokagure. They were renowned for their fuuinjutsu and longevity. Well, if you're from that clan, I could understand why you have an appearance modifier seal..." I muttered the last part.

"Wait! If I'm from such a great clan, why didn't anyone tell me or just mention it?"

"First, it was destroyed and second, since you have blond hair, people probably thought that it was a random given name... I would've scoffed at you if you first told me your name was Uzumaki." I said as he sweatdropped.

"I didn't know hair was so important... Whatever, I think I need to pick new clothes again."

"Why the heck are you so nonchalant about everything!!!" I was starting to become pissed at his I-don't-especially-care lazy attitude!!!

"Since I can't change anything, why not just go with it?" He shrugged. I sighed. At this answer, I just have up and followed him to pay for the clothes.

'................................wait........... I have a feeling I'm missing something..............' That's when it clicked.

"I thought you said you were an orphan that lived on the streets!"

"I do."

"Then why do you look so healthy and tall?! I thought you were malnourished!!!"

"... I was... In the early years that is. However, when I started academy, I started breaking in stores to stea-I mean borrow the missing food I needed. The problem was that my appearance never changed even after the upgraded meal and didn't think to mention it........." I was so infuriated that I beat him up. What does he mean by he didn't think to mention it!!??

'This is a good start for a teacher-student relationship.' I thought satisfied.

When I turned my head to see him crumpled on the floor looking like a lump of dirty clothes, I started laughing incredibly hard.

'I think I'm going to have fun.' I thought happily as I continued laughing.

Fake façade| Naruto Fanfic - Chapter 4 (2024)

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