Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto. I do however own Akashiogakure no sato, the village hidden in the red tide.
Beaten, burned, stabbed and left for dead, Uzumaki Naruto laid in the woods along the path between the land of wave and Konohagakure no sato in an ever increasing puddle of blood. As his life slowly passed before his eyes, he noticed something. Only 4, maybe 5 people would miss him in the entire village.
'Fuck Konoha. If I live through this, I'm never going back to that hell hole ever again.' As soon as that thaught finished running through his mind, his eyes closed.
-Konohagakure, admistrative complex-
Team seven stood in front of the hokage, bruised and apearing quite tired. Right as the silver haired jounin was going to begin giving thier report, the old man behind the desk held up his hand to stop him before he began.
"Kakashi, whare's Naruto?"
"Dead sir. As I was about to explain in my report, after we ran into the Onikyoudai, we continued on with the mission. After we procured transportation, we crossed the channel, ariving a short distance from our clients residence. Along the road to said residence, we ran into Momochi Zabuza. I then proceded to engage in combat with him, the genins gaurding the cliant.
After fighting him to a stand still, I was low on chakra and he was rescued by an acomplice, disguised as a hunter-nin, before I could strike a killing blow. After they left I passed out from chakra exaustion and was carried to the cliants home, whare we were provided food and shelter for the duration of our mission. I then proceded to train them in the tree climbing exercise, while also having them take shifts gaurding the cliant as he and his men worked on constructing the bridge.
Three days into this rutine I informed them that I believed Zabuza to be alive, being as the hunter-nin did not dispose of the body on sight. I was later proven to e correct in this assumption as both him and his accomplice attacked us about a week and a half after our original confrentation. During this seconed battle, Sasuke here activated his sharingan while fighting his accomplice, as I faught Zabuza once again. Sakura stood gaurd over the bridge guilder while Naruto gaurded his family. After repelling an attack on Tazuna's family, he joined us on the bridge and attempted to help Sasuke who was surounded by mirrors of ice. As Zabuza's acomplice was about to strike a killing blow, Naruto jumped in front of him, taking the blow himself, protecting Sasuke. Seconds afterwards, the false hunter-nin abandoned his fight in order to intercept the chidori I was about to plunge in his partners chest, killing him instead.
Within moments of plunging my lightning covered fist through his chest, the person responsible for hiring Zabuza and his accomplices' arived with a small army of mercenaries comprised mostly of bandits and thugs. This mans name was Gatou, of Gatou shipping inc. He then orded them to kill Zabuza, voiding the previous contract between the two. I then loaned a kunai to zabuza, who then rushed into the mass of men and began to kill them one by one. I proceded to have sakura and sasuke aim kunai into the mass and toss them, while personaly doing the same.
We then proceded to help Tazuna complete the bridge in order to get back sooner and inform you of Uzumaki Narutos death." Kakashi reported while presenting the Sandaime Hokage with the headband of the fallen ninja.
Takinging the headband, he then placed it on his desk, reverntly. "Thank you Kakashi. I would like the detailed writen report on my desk in the morning. Team 7 is now on leave for the next month, due to the circumstances of the mission. I am also upgrading the mission from low C to mid A-rank. You can pick up your pay tomarrow. Dismissed."
"By your leave lord Hokage." The three of them bowed and then left the office, each going to their respective residences. As soon as the door closed, Sarutobi Hiruzen broke down and cried for the first time since the death of the Yondaime Hokage. Wiping the tears from his face, he then gazed out upon his village and scowled. 'I bet they're going to throw parties once they hear of his death. Sometimes I wonder why you didn't just let the Kyuubi destroy this gods forsaken village.'
-unknown location-
A large man was walking twords Konoha from Nami no kuni and was rapidly becoming bored. He was on his way there to procure some metal for his small shop, intent on arming the villagers so another Gatou incident could never occur again. As he was walking, he noticed a flash of orange in the ditch. Curious, the man walked over and gasped. There, in the ditch, was Uzumaki Naruto, hero of the wave burned, beaten, bloody and left for dead. With a shaking hand the man rached down and felt for his pulse and found a weak, but definately there, pulse. Carefully he picked him up and headed back in the direction he had come from, hoping he could save the young mans life.
-Narutos mind-
'Whare the hell am I? Last I knew I was in a ditch off the side of the road, now I'm in a sewer? Fucking great.' Sitting up he noticed that even though he was in a puddle of water, he was still completely dry. He then noticed the glowing pipes that were gently lighting the place up. Standing up, he then started to walk in the direction of this ominous red glow, a forboding sense creeping up his spine with every step.
After what seemed like hours, he arived in a room with a giant cage, a paper seal holding the massive doors shut. Shrugging he then decided he'd get the attention of who ever was here. After all, he could here something or someone breathing.
"Hey, Anybody home?" the orange clad blonde yelled. As soon as the he finished the sentence a massive pair of eyes opened, startaling the blonde, which caused the massive eyes to shine with glee.
"Welcome, I have been expecting you."
Naruto jumped, eliciting a chuckle from the caged being. "Who are you? More importantly, whare are we?"
"Come child, are you telling me you have no idea who I am? And as for whare we are, well, you could say were in your head, but that wouldn't be quite accurate, though it would be the simplist way to put it." The being then apeared, making the blonde back up against the wall across the room from the cage. "Ahh, you do know who I am! Then this will be easier than I assumed."
"W-what do you want, fox?" The boy stuttered out, as he walked closer to the caged being.
"Why, nothing but to help my container of course." Patronized the 12 story Kitsune before laughing at his own joke. The blonde scowled at this, realizing he was being poked fun of. "I wish to offer you a deal of sorts. I do not wish to have a weak container and I doubt my container wishes to be weak. I would be willing to offer you training, for a price of course."
Naruto sat down in a thinking position, his mind racing. Training, he was being offered training. What kind he didn't know, but coming from a demon several melinia old, it could be an offer too good to pass up. But there was a price, he was even told there was. He then craned his head upwards to look the being in the eye. "Whats the price? Freedom is out of the question, just so you know."
The giant fox smiled, the kid caught on to things quickly. "I wouldn't ask for freedom. I quite enjoy being locked inside of you, being as if I were freed, both of us would cease to exist and I plan on existing as long as I can. Even if trapped in a mortal shell. The price of me training you is quite small compared to what I offer. All I ask Is the complete and total destruction of Konohagakure no sato."
Naruto began to think again. The destruction of the village that, since his birth, has done nothing but try to kill him off in one way or another. Realy it was an easy decision, but he wanted to know more, the specifics to be precise. "What kind of training do you offer in exchange, if I were to agree to your price? What would keep you from giving me the shaft after teaching me a single thing? After all, that would cover the agreement." he asked, staring into the foxes eyes.
Slowly the being began to chuckle, which slowly turned to full blown laughter. "Kit, you are more observant than even I gave you credit for. You are correct, that would satisfy the terms of the agreement." The fox chuckled once again for a couple seconds. "Fine, I would teach you all I know of the ninja arts. By this I mean ninjutsu, chakra manipulation exercises, genjutsu, kenjutsu and taijutsu. I will even teach you how to discern the secrets of your fallen enemies, after all, you can learn lots of things from a shinobis corpse. Does this satisfy you, human?"
Naruto nodded. "It does, but I have one more question, how would you teach me such things, being as you are trapped behind that seal?"
"One does not need a physical body in order to instruct another." Naruto stood up from his sitting position and nodded to the demon, a look of serious determination pasted on his face.
"I agree to you terms, Kyuubi-sensei." He then bowed to the giant fox, eliciting a massive smile from the fox demon.
"So be it. As soon as you are fully healed and awake, we will begin your training, my aprentice."
The world of the seal then began to fade to darkness.
-Tazunas residence, Nami no kuni-
'Uhh, my head. I feel like been ran over and put through a blender.' The blonde opened an eye and saw a beige ceiling, similar to the one he stared at when he stayed in wave. Groaning as he tried to sit up, he noticed that someone had bandaged his wounds.
"Ah, so you did survive. Your a tough 'lil brat, you know that?" he heard a familiar voice say. Turning his head he saw Tazuna in the door way with his ever present bottle of sake and a bowl of cool water with a cloth, presumably to put on the blondes forehead. "You're lucky to be alive, if Bruno wouldn't have been trying to catch up to you ninjas, I doubt you'd have survived. As is youll need to be in bed for at least another few days before you even attempt to get out of that bed. I'll see if I can't find Tsunami and have her make you some soup or something." The bridge builder then left the room to find his daughter.
Naruto simply nodded and tried to sit up again, finaly succeding on his third attempt. Just as he got situated, Tsunami came into the room carying a tray with a bowl of soup on it. Specifcly, seafood ramen. as the smell wafted in his direction he bagan to drool and his stomach growled loudly, causing her to softly giggle.
"So, how long have I been out?" the blonde asked as the ebony haired woman placed the tray on his lap.
"About 3 days. Honestly I'm surprised your even up. Here, you eat this while I send a mesenger to Konohagakure to let them know your alive." as she turned to go, Naruto grabbed her wrist, stopping her.
"Please, don't do that. It was my team mates and sensei that left me in the ditch to die. I can't go back, next time I doubt I'll survive. As soon as I'm well enough to leave, I'll go."
"You can stay as long as you like, after all, you did help save our country. It's the least we could do. Now eat your soup and get some rest." She then smiled at him before leaving the room.
-downstairs-
"Father, did you know it was his sensei and team mates that put him in that condition in the first place?" she said outraged at their behavior.
"What! How could they do that to him? I'm going to send a letter to the hokage and tell him about this incident! this is out ragious!"
"No, father, don't. He asked us not to send word of this." Tsunami begged, her hands clasped together at her chest. finaly after several tense moments, Tazuna sighed and nodded his head in acceptace. "Thank you father!" she exclaimed and hugged the man.
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Several days later Tsunami finaly told Naruto that it was safe for him to get out of bed, but that he was to take it easy. Nodding his head in acceptance, he then went outside to do some light exercises consosting of 60 push-ups and sit-ups, 120 jumping jacks and 15 laps around the property. after completing that he decided it was time for a small break.
'Tell her your going for a walk and that youll be back after bit. I'm going to teach you something.'
'Hai, sensei.' Naruto walked into the doorway of the house and saw the person he was looking for. "Tsunami-san, I'm going to go for a short walk, I'll be back after bit." The woman nodded at him, letting him know she heard him and aproved. He then turned around and walked off in a random direction into the woods.
After walking for about 20 minutes he came across a stream and was about to jump across when he was told to stop.
'Good. This site will work just as well as any. What I want you to do is make these hand signs while chaneling your chakra into the ground. The seals are ram, tiger, snake, ram, hare, then stomp your foot. This technique is called 'Doton: Ishibashi no jutsu'. Now do it.'
Nodding to himself, Naruto did exactly as he was told. The blonde then called out 'Doton: Ishibashi no jutsu' and stomped, creating a bridge of stone across that arched across the small stream, allowing him to cross with out getting wet.
'We need to work on your chakra controll kit. create 10 kage bunshin and have them climb trees as you were previously shown.' Again, he did as he was told and created 10 kage bunshin and set them on there task. 'I want you to procure a sword. I don't care whare or how, just do it. We'll talk more after that, no hurries though.'
'Hai Kyuubi-sensei.' The blonde then sat down on the rail of the bridge he made and watched as his clones climbed several trees. After half an hour of watching his clones he called half of them over to him and ordered them to walk up the trees instead of running. The clones nodded and proceded to follow their new orders.
Eventualy, after getting bored of watching his clones do chakra controll exercises, he went back to the home of the bridge builders family.
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"Tazuna-san, Tsunami-san, Inari-san I'm back from my walk!" he called out as he walked in the door. within seconds he was bowled over by Inari, who clutched tightly to his waist, tears of joy falling down his cheeks. "Could I get up please?" the blonde asked, causing the bucket hat wearing boy to flush with embarassment and get up. Laughing, Naruto got up and headed into the living room, sat down on the couch and proceded to think about what he was going to do untill he could uphold his end of the bargin.
'I wonder if they'd allow me to make a ninja village here. I know it'd be a lot of hard work, not to mention expensive. I suppose I could always ask.' "Tazuna-san, do you know who is the ruller of the wave now that Gatou has been disposed of?" the blonde asked when the old man sat down on the opposite end of the couch.
"Hmm, I'm not quite sure boy, why do 'ya ask?" the old man respoded.
"Well, I was thinking that since I no longer belong to a hidden village and nami no kuni doesnt have one, I might be able to start one. You know, train ninja to protect wave, from wave." the blonde said, making the old bridge builder smile softly.
"You know, thats not a bad idea. I think I'll bring that up in tommarows council meeting. I'll let you know how it goes. By the way, who would you have in charge of this 'hidden' village?"
"I was thinking you, being as if it were not for you, the bridge would not have been completed and nami no kuni would still be under Gatous rule, Tazuna-san." the blonde said with a sincere smile. Tazuna just laughed and waved him off as he got up to help tsunami in the kitchen.
Right as the blonde was going to get up and help with the lunch, one of his bunshin dispelled itself, causing him to momentarily loose balance and plop back down. suddenly he realized that he now rembered doing the tree climbing exercise for the past couple hours, reaching the top of the tree several dozen times. Once again as he was about to get up, one of the bunshin dispelled its self, soon followed by the rest. Moments later he got up and informed them that he'd be right back. He then stepped out the back door and proceded to walk up the side of the house. After reaching the top he took off running and jumped into the water at the back of the house. 'I wonder if I can stand on the watter now?'
Channeling some chakra to his hands, Naruto tried to pull himself up onto the surface of the water as if he was getting out of a pool and half way succeded. About half way out his controll faltered and he ended up plunging right back in. Spitting the watter out of his mouth once he surfaced, he then began to laugh and swam to shore. Once he was on shore, the blonde teen began to stretch out his muscles as he made his way back indoors, wringing his shirt out as he went.
Notifying them that he was back again, he proceded up the stairs to the room he's been occupying. Once in there, he closed the door and changed his clothes. His clothes consisted of a pair of forest green pants with brown stripes going down the sides, a brown sleeveless t-shirt over a black mesh shirt that came to the elbows, finished off by his standard dark blue sandles. He then strapped his standard dark blue kunai holster to his right thaigh. Realizing that he would more than likely need more kunai, the blonde began to search through his backpack for his wallet and found it to be missing. 'Damn it. I'll have to find whare Zabuza was staying before he was killed. That should prove interesting.'
Having left a note on the night stand, he hopped out the window and made 25 kage bunshin as soon as he landed on the ground. He then ordered the bunshin to search for a place that would be out of the way and near both locations that were previously targeted. Naruto then went to check the area around whare those two mercenaries were disposed of when they attempted to abduct Tsunami.
-Konohagakure no sato-
For the last three days there has been a non-stop party, due to some one leaking a certain containers demise to the public, causing any law about said child to be repealed, much to the Sandaime's displeasure. The old Kage looked out his office window and sighed. 'Don't these idiots realize theyre celebrating the death of minato's son? surely they're not so blind not to have noticed the similarity in looks. Well, maybe I should be a party pooper and call a council meeting and inform them as such.' A devious smile formed on the old mans face at those thaughts. 'Yes, I think I should do that.'
places:
Konohagakure no sato - village hidden in the leaves Nami no kuni - land of waves akashiogakure no sato - village hidden in the red tide
techniques:
doton: ishibashi no jutsu (earth release: stone bridge technique; D-rank, suplementry. allows the user to create a temporary bridge of stone over a short gap, stream, chasm, etc. has a 12 hour time limit)
Kage bunshin no jutsu (Shadow clone technique)
