Naruto: A Scientist's Way of World Domination!

Chapter 11: Chapter 11: Guard of the Uzumaki!?



Kagaku woke up in his anbu dormitory as usual. However, as soon as he woke up, he realized there was nothing usual about it. Today was the day of his inauguration, today, he would finally become an official member of the anbu.

In the midst of thinking about the impending hurdles, Kagaku had forgotten for a moment how absurd of a thing he was about to do. He was going to break several records today. Becoming an anbu that too of the Hogo squad at his age wasn't something that had even been imagined by anyone.

Hogo was a squad which specialized in protecting important people of the village and internal security. Although the Hokage had his personal anbu for his needs and protection, Hogo still followed him around, mainly while he ventured outside.

Clan leaders, geniuses, jinchuriki, etc. The Hogo squad protected everything and everyone important from the shadows. Hence, they didn't just take anyone in.

To be selected into the Hogo squad, you needed the approval of the Hokage and ANBU Commander, Dragon personally as well as the approval of the Captain of the squad, Lion.

That wasn't all either, to even be considered for the chance to be viewed by these powerful people, you had to have the recommendation of 5 lower ranked shinobi (influential anbu member or jounin) or one highly ranked shinobi (an anbu Captain or elite jounin).

So, despite not showing it, Kagaku was quite shocked at this turn of events. He could understand that Eagle, Axolotl, Rabbit and the others probably vouched for him which is why he was even considered him despite his age but.... Hiruzen, Dragon and Lion all agreed to it as well!

It was simply a ludicrous situation! The only plausible explanation Kagaku could think of was that they wanted him to remain safe as well. While Hogo was a very demanding and prestigious squad, its rookie members were considered to be the safest ninjas in the village.

The rookies of Hogo learnt from extremely strong people and were tasked to protect extremely strong people as well, and hence, in the shinobi work force, there was virtually no safer place.

That being said, what Kagaku was most curious about was his client. Who would he be assigned to guard? He certainly had someone in mind but he wasn't quite sure if his plan to be assigned to them would even work out.

While wondering that exact question, Kagaku got ready for his inauguration. he wore his favourite color of course, black. Kagaku was decked out in a black shirt and black cargo pants. He had a couple straps for his swords and some kunai pouches stuck to his thighs for quick drawing.

[A/N: Imagine young anbu kakashi's fit but with the modifications mentioned. I'll put up the image in the paragraph comments if I find something that fits. Also, for the face, just see the cover of the book, its the closest to what I imagine that I could also come up with so, we'll have to be with it for now.]

He was currently carrying the chakra conducting Katana and Chokuto as well as some normal kunai, smoke bombs, etc given to him on his birthday yesterday.

Kagaku had managed to develop his sensing technique to the point that he could keep it active 24/7 as long as he was conscious. He could now detect in a radius of 7 km (≈ 154 km^2 area) which was about the average distance a good sensory specialist could do.

In fact it wasn't quite hard to do, he just had to train it hard and long enough that it became a subconscious thing for his brain to keep up. If he had to guess, his brain probably considered it an involuntary function like breathing or blinking and handed it off to the Medulla Oblongata.

Anyways, right now, Kagaku sensed a familiar chakra rushing towards his location.

He spoke out loud, "And....3...2...1..." Just as he finished saying '1', Axolotl burst into the apartment.

Axolotl shouted, "Hey! What are you doing kid!? You got 2 minutes before you're going to be late to your inauguration! Do you want to ruin your reputation even before you join?! Forget your reputation, you'll ruin mine too!"

Kagaku looked over to the clock and said in a nonchalant tone, "Oh relax would you? I got 2 whole minutes!"

Axolotl gritted his teeth and said, "You idiot! Do you not understand the significance of this?!"

Kagaku groaned and finally stood up from his bed and said, "Fine! You buzzkill, I'm going! Its not like it'll take me much time anyway."

"What the hell do you mean? There's only a single minute left! The base is like 150 km away! You can't run that fast without-"

"Exactly! Without deactivating the seals. But now.... I'm no longer a trainee so, I don't have to keep them on. After all, missions can be dangerous, we can't have me not going full strength from the start can we?"

"But I told you tha-"

"Lock up the place for me would you?" Before Axolotl could finish his sentence, Kagaku had already disappeared in a shunshin.

Axolotl continued exasperatedly, "-that you can't deactivate them before the inauguration... Man... I remember the days when the kid used to listen to every word I said." He let out a tired sigh and said, "hah..... those were the good old days.... just me tortu- I mean training the kid..."

After sulking a little bit, Axolotl quickly locked up the apartment and shunshined to the base, going as fast as he could.

~At the ANBU Headquarters~ (The real one this time. Also, in an undisclosed section of the village.)

Kagaku arrived just a couple seconds before his name was called. Considering the ongoing war, he wasn't the only graduate at this time. Though he certainly was the only one going to the Hogo squad.

Although, this could turn out to be a bit annoying considering he had just confirmed from a nearby anbu that the participants were given a short introduction by the announcer....

The announcer, an anbu captain by the looks of it, said into a microphone, "Aaaall riiight everybody! Next, we have the upcoming star, the only one exception that has ever been made in the history of the anbu..... Kagaku Heishi!!! The kid is just 4 years old!!!"

Kagaku stepped onto the stage and a round of applause was heard, much bigger than the previous contestants, although that was to be expected.

The announcer continued, "Now, don't go on underestimating him, after all, it takes some serious skill to get the Hokage to make an exception to the age rule especially since an exception to it hasn't ever been made. Not to mention, he's nowhere close to being 13!

If you didn't already get the memo, the kid's no slouch. As the cherry on top, he even got into the Hogo squad! The kid's broken several records when even clan 'geniuses' his age are still playing with wooden kunai!"

Kagaku smiled and bowed down while saying, "Thank you all, I'm really not all that special though, you don't have to praise me so much."

A few shouts were heard from the audience,

"Don't be so modest kid!"

"Yeah, you deserve it!"

"You go kid!"

The cheers only got louder and Kagaku stood up straight and asked while scratching his head awkwardly, "Uh... so... where do I go now?"

A brief moment of silence took place before the audience burst out with laughter while saying things like,

"My god! The kid doesn't even know!"

"That's a sense of humor right there!"

"I... I can't.... its just too funny!"

The announcer just chuckled and said, "Don't mind them alright? They're not laughing at you, its just that staying in the anbu has.... lowered their sense of humor a bit and nothing really interesting happens usually-"

A few anbu seemed to take offence at that,

"Hey! I'll let you know I have a perfectly good sense of humor alright?!"

"Hey! What's that supposed to mean?"

*sniff* *sniff* "You're so mean to us, captain."

Kagaku sweat dropped at the antics of the most elite assassination group members antics and said, "I.... understand... so....?"

The announcer remembered the question and responded, "Oh, right! I forgot for a second there. You just go straight down that hall and enter the room in the center, you will find the Hokage sama, Dragon sama and Lion sama all waiting for you in there."

"Okay, thank you for having me." Saying this, Kagaku left with a short bow.

Kagaku walked down the hall as he was told and saw another hallway perpendicular to the one he came from with doors intermittently placed along it. He ignored them for the time being though, and entered the door in the center.

He knocked in a specific pattern for signaling, his rank 'anbu trainee'.

A slightly muffled voice was heard from the door, "Come in, Kagaku Heishi."

Kagaku entered the door and looked around. The room was quite spacious and looked a bit reminiscent of the room that was shown in the anime for the genin graduation exam, with darker colours instead of the light colours that were used in the anime.

Kagaku was taken out of his musings by an unfamiliar deep voice, "So, you're Kagaku Heishi, the so called 'never before seen genius', huh? You don't look like much to me."

Kagaku looked over at Lion who had spoken and said in an emotionless voice, "I assure you sir, I'm more than capable enough to join your squad."

An immense pressure could be felt in the room. The pressure evidently came off of Lion who seemed to be angered by those words, his eyes were glowing a menacingly bright shade of yellow, as if he would rip Kagaku to shreds where he stood. The table and floor seemed to crack a little at the power he was exuding.

Although, Kagaku knew it was just an act, a test.

But of course, the 'aura' of an anbu captain wasn't something to scoff at, even the anbu vice captains standing behind the three started to kneel from the pressure.

However, Kagaku didn't show any signs of being weighed down, it was as if nothing had happened. He thought, 'Oh? Impressive, they even have auras, I mean, its not like it was a foreign concept to ninjas to begin with, but since they relied on pure instincts and sheer power, you had to be pretty strong and experienced to be able to use it.

Though, its not much more than a party trick the way they use it. Its massively inefficient and isn't concentrated either, as seen by the poor furniture having to bear the consequences. Its nothing much really.

They simply exude chakra out of their bodies. Yep, its that simple. After gaining the ability to use chakra, humans and animals, over the 2000 years they possessed it evolved a new condition to the flight or fight response. Now, instead of just sight, smell, etc, the human brain also innately considered massive amounts of chakra as a threat.

This was also why tailed beasts were so feared and relentlessly attacked by humans, they had adapted to fear massive amounts of chakra and humans don't take kindly to what they don't understand and fear.

Anyways, its pretty simple to deter this primitive technique of theirs, you just need to form a coating of chakra around yourself. This makes the subconscious neglect the outside chakra as its more focused on the chakra 'armor' that we produce which effectively removes the stimuli that triggered fear.

In no way does me being able to resist Lion's aura mean I'm stronger than him or even those vice captains kneeling on the floor, this is just one of the many things I've figured out how to do over my 2 year stay in this world.'

By the time Kagaku was finished with his internal monologue, the three high ranking members of Konoha had come to the realization of what was happening.

Both Hiruzen and Dragon's eyes were wide, they couldn't fathom the absurd notion that Kagaku, a 4 year old could resist the pressure of Lion, who was one of the strongest people in the village.

Naturally, the most shocked out of the three was Lion himself.

The thoughts running through their heads were about the same, 'I-impossible this... this can't be! If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn't believe it. No.... even now that I'm seeing it for myself, I... still can't believe this is happening.'

Kagaku's hair covered his face for a moment before he looked up with eyes glowing a bright blue hue and a blue outline over his body and said, "Did you not believe me when I said that I was capable, Captain Lion?"

[A/N: Sorry for the interruption but, explanation of how glowing eyes work will be in the comments of this para.]

A smirk played on his face as Kagaku spread his arms out wide and said, "As you can see, I can already even resist your aura. I believe that at least qualifies me for your squad, doesn't it, captain?"

Hiruzen was the first to recover due to his large experience and asked, "H-how is possible? I mean no offence my child but.... you shouldn't be able to resist Lion's pressure, in fact, I was just about to stop him forcefully as what he did should've knocked you unconscious."

By this point in time, Lion had already released his aura due to the shock he felt. 

However, as soon as he did so, they were dumbfounded once again. They asked in unison, "W-what? Why is the floor around him not cracking? And why don't we feel any burden?"

Its to be noted that an aura that could resist Lion's was on nearly if not at Kage level. Such an aura should have similar consequences as when Lion released his aura, and yet.... there were no signs of such a thing.

Kagaku just smiled and said, "I see you've realized that my aura isn't damaging the surroundings or putting a burden on you. Allow me to explain, what I do isn't simply wasting chakra by haphazardly releasing it into the air, but I form a protective coat, or if you prefer, armor around myself with chakra.

Let me assure you, I'm not anywhere close to as strong as Captain Lion is, but, with this technique, I can resist even his formidable aura as its quite an inefficient way to use an aura, no offence."

They were flabbergasted, and Kagaku knew it too, which made it all the merrier. Although, eventually they were able to compose themselves.

*ahem* "I see that you're quite the catch, Kagaku Heishi. Seeing your performance, I'm willing to grant you a request as long as its reasonable and within my power." Lion proclaimed. The other two seemed a bit surprised at this but didn't object.

Kagaku replied, "You don't have to be so formal, captain, you are, after all, my captain. And as you're being so generous, I can't deny your graciousness."

After a slight pause to create suspense, he continued, "... I would like to be...stationed to protect the Uzumaki."

"W-what did you just say?"

"I said, I want you to appoint me to be a Guard of the Uzumaki."

The only three other conscious people looked at each other with stunned expressions and Dragon finally spoke out, "Well.... its not to outlandish of a request, is it, Lion?"

Lion replied. "It... isn't but..." he looked towards Hiruzen and continued, "Is this really okay, Hokage sama?"

"I suppose its not completely out of the realm of possibilities, but, may I ask why you want to do that, Kagaku?"

After mulling over it for a second, Kagaku decided to be blunt about the reason and replied, "I want to learn seals from them.... and I think they're pretty cool."

The three of them sweat dropped and thought, 'H-He's definitely blunt...'

"I... see, is that all?"

"Yep."

"Okay, I approve of this stationing. In fact, you all will be surprised to know this but..... I had planned for you to go there from the start."

"Huh?!" came the simultaneous response of everybody except Hiruzen.

Hiruzen simply chuckled and said, "Haha.... its nice to see you shocked for the first time, Kagaku.

Hearing this, Kagaku quickly schooled his expression, although a faint red blush of embarrassment could be seen on his face which just served to amuse the currently young Hokage even more.

"Indeed, seeing as Minato Namikaze, your senpai and competitor is learning fuinjutsu from Kushina Uzumaki, I thought it only fair that you should as well. I also have a feeling... you'll take to fuinjutsu like a fish to water."

Kagaku spoke, "I see, than you for the praise, Hokage sama. I will try my best to cope up with your expectations of me. Although.... may I ask when I'm going to start?"

"Well... no better time then the present right? Here, take your anbu uniform, a senior anbu will show you the way once you get dressed."

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[A/N: Did you guys enjoy the Kagaku this chapter? He's become pretty cool after the timeskip eh? Anyways, the future fight scenes are hopefully going to be even better so, you can look forward to those.]

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