Naruto of the Dead Bone Pulse
Disclaimer: I don't own anything and won't say it again.
Chapter I: ANBU-sensei!
A scared Uzumaki Naruto rounded a corner, running at his top speeds. It was October tenth, his birthday, and two of the villagers decided it would be fun to mess with him again. Usually, the villagers would only rough him up a little before the ANBU would step in and stop things, but the ANBU hadn't arrived yet, and these villagers had knives.
"Get back here you little brat!" one of the villagers hollered out. They sounded like they were gaining on him.
Tears came unbidden to the child's eyes. He had never understood why this happened to him. He had never understood the names, the cold glares, or the beatings. In his short six years of life, the ANBU had had to save him twenty times with seven of them being life threatening.
"Gotcha!" the villager yelled as a large hand clamped down on Naruto's shoulder, spinning him around and making him fall in the dirt.
Naruto's eyes darted every which way, trying in vain to find an escape route. His heart deflated as he realized that there was no way for him to escape. He locked eyes with the approaching villagers and started edging his way backwards.
"Heh heh. Now you'll pay for what you did,... Demon." one of the villagers said, darkly. He flipped out the blade on his switch blade.
"Yeah. We'll finish what the Yondaime started." the other said, mirroring his partners movements.
'The Yondaime? Why would they kill me to finish what the Yondaime started?" Naruto asked in his head, but quickly forgot about it as the two were quickly approaching him. 'ANBU-san isn't coming. I guess this is how I end.' he thought forlornly.
"Now die Demon!" With that yell, the two jumped upon the retreating six year old. There was some scuffling with Naruto getting quite a few cuts, but he couldn't feel anything. He was in a mass state of denial. Then a foreign emotion filled Naruto. Fury. Hot, burning fury coursed through his veins and something within him responded.
The sound of tearing cloth was all that warned the two villagers before they were impaled by long, sharp... bones? Five foot rib bones had somehow exited the jinchuuriki's body and impaled his attackers who quickly bled to death. Naruto could only stare at the two dead bodies that were suspended by his bones above him. The psychologically scarring image, plus the odd feeling of his bones protruding from his skin finally made him pass out. The last conscious thing he rememberred was the soft sound of feet landing and the familiar animal mask of the ANBU looking down at him.
'Figures. Once I don't need them, they show up.' Naruto thought as darkness overcame him.
The ANBU could only stare dumbly at the scene before him. He scratched his spiky gray hair, while trying to connect the dots. 'That looks like the Dead Bone Pulse, but it was supposedly wiped out when the Kaguya clan attacked Kirigakure.' He watched as the bones withdrew back into Naruto's body and allowed the two dead civilians to fall to the ground. 'Hokage-sama will know what to do.' He then picked up Naruto and disappeared in a swirl of leaves, leaving the two villagers for someone else to clean up.
"He has what?" Hiruzen, the Sandaime Hokage, asked loudly. "How is that possible?"
"I'm not sure Hokage-sama. The bloodline was supposedly wiped out, and I wasn't aware that Kushina had any relations to the Kaguya clan." Kakashi responded.
Hiruzen took a long look at the blond on the couch of his office before turning back to Kakashi and lighting his pipe. Taking a long draw and exhaling the smoke, he was instantly calmer. "This makes things much more interesting."
"What can we do, Hokage-sama?" Kakashi asked, gazing at his sensei's son. He felt so helpless when it came to the boy sometimes. He alone had saved the boy over fifty times, despite Naruto thinking it only twenty. That was not to mention the other ANBU members, though Kakashi did the majority of the work. He tried to make sure that he was the ANBU on guard everytime he could manage it.
"There is not much we can do, Kakashi-kun. Sadly, there is no one I can think of that could even attempt to help the boy with his new power, and we have no documentation of how the techniques work to help him. He'll largely have to figure everything out on his own." Hiruzen said softly. "We'll teach him some advanced chakra control to keep him from losing control of it, but thats about all we can do."
"If that is best, then let me teach him." Kakashi said, urgently.
Hiruzen sighed again and took another draw on his pipe. "I cannot do that Kakashi, and you know that. You are too valuable to the village. I will give you two weeks to work with Naruto on chakra control, but that is all I can give you before we'll need you for missions."
"I understand, Hokage-sama." Kakashi said in a defeated voice. He just wished that he could do more for his sensei's son.
"Go home, Kakashi. I'll need to talk to Naruto about whats happening." Hiruzen said to the tired man.
"Hai." Kakashi said, snapping a salute to his commanding officer and shunshining out of there.
"This is going to be an interesting conversation." Hiruzen muttered to himself before turning to the pictures of the Hokage on the wall, silently asking two of them for guidance and one for forgiveness.
Naruto slowly opened his eyes. It took him a moment to focus, but he couldn't help but remember what had happened the night before. It was hard to forget the feeling of your bones protruding from your chest, without it hurting, and the sight of said bones impaling the villagers that had been physically abusing you.
"I see your awake, Naruto-kun." a deep gravely voice said from his right.
"Hokage-jiji?" Naruto asked, focusing in on the one person who had ever cared for him.
"Yes. Its me." the old Fire Shadow said, puffing on his pipe. It was almost morning. Six hours had passed since Kakashi had brought the village's jinchuuriki in. "Please come sit with me. We have some things to discuss."
Naruto slowly got up from the couch and staggered over to the Hokage's desk. He still felt pretty weak, but the cuts he had obtained from the night before seemed to have already healed.
"Naruto-kun. Do you remember what happened to you last night?" Hiruzen asked him.
"A little. Those guys were chasing me. They had knives. Then one of them spun me around and they started calling me names, and one of them mentioned finishing what the Yondaime started, but I don't exactly know what that means. Then they jumped on me and started cutting me up, but I got super duper mad, and then my bones came out of my body and stabbed them, and then ANBU-san showed up, and then I passed out." Naruto explained quickly with a child like innocence, though his face scrunched up when he mentioned his anger.
"That is what I surmised, but I needed to hear it from your mouth." Hiruzen said gravely. "Naruto, I'm sure you want to know how your bones did what they did last night." He paused to let Naruto quit nodding his head so exaggeratedly that Hiruzen was afraid he would cause himself whiplash. Hiruzen smiled at the child like action before continuing.
"There was a clan in Kirigakure a number of years ago that were said to be able to use their bones in jutsus, but the ability was so rare that only one or two had the ability to do it in a generation. Their bloodline limit was called the Dead Bone Pulse."
"So I have family in Kirigakure. Then why am I here?" Naruto asked, confused.
"The clan I told you of were very violent and declared war on the Mizukage himself. They were completely wiped out, and it was believed that there were no survivors. You must be a distant relation of this clan." Hiruzen explained to the blond.
"Oh."
"Naruto, having a bloodline like this could be dangerous. So I'm having an ANBU assigned to teach you chakra control. There are no known practitioners of the Dead Bone Pulse in the world, so you will have to discover your bloodline's abilities on your own. I just ask that you be very careful."
Naruto smirked cockily at Hiruzen before exclaiming, "Don't worry old man! Kami-sama has given me a gift in this new power, so that I may take your job that much quicker. Believe it, jiji. I'll master my Dead Bone Pulse, and then I will come and take that hat!" He pointed at Hiruzen's hat for emphasis causing Hiruzen to smile.
"With an attitude like that, you just might do it, Naruto-kun. The ANBU will be around sometime this afternoon to begin your training. Take it seriously. The only road to my seat is through hard work." Hiruzen said quietly to the quiet boy who was paying attention to the Hokage.
"Okay Hokage-jiji. Catch ya later. I have to go prepare for my training." Naruto shouted as he ran out of the office.
'Maybe he'll be alright after all.' Hiruzen thought gazing back at his fellow Hokage. 'Maybe you don't need to worry anymore Minato.'
Naruto rushed into his apartment and started stripping. The shirt he had ruined the night before quickly found its way into the trash. He opened his closet and pulled out some new pants and threw them on, but when he reached for a shirt he stopped. He didn't have any other shirts. All of his other ones had been ruined as well, and he didn't have the money to run out and buy himself a new one.
A sharp knock at the door took him away from his current dillemma, and he rushed to the door. He paused to look through the peep hole, and upon confirming that it was the ANBU, threw the door open.
"Naruto-san? Why aren't you wearing a shirt?" Kakashi asked behind his dog mask.
"I don't have anymore. I ruined my last one last night." Naruto said, scratching the back of his head.
"Oh. Okay. I will get you more clothes tomorrow. For now, let us get to the training ground." Kakashi said, reaching out and grabbing the boy's shoulder. In a swirl of leaves, they were gone and the door swung shut on the empty apartment.
Naruto collapsed to the ground after his first experience with the Shunshin. It made him really dizzee.
"Easy, Naruto-san. Don't throw up." Kakashi said, humorously.
"Sorry ANBU-sensei. I was just surprised." Naruto said, taking deep breaths to calm the nauseating feeling.
'Sensei?' Kakashi thought. Images of a tall blonde man smiling down at him, a dark haired boy with goggles, and a brown headed girl with red marks on her face slipped into his mind. 'Obito would never stop laughing at that. The always aloof Kakashi being called sensei.'
"Naruto, you have to pay close attention. I only have two weeks to train you in chakra control." Kakashi said, seriously. Kakashi had Naruto's complete attention. "You have already accessed your chakra before."
"My what?" Naruto interrupted.
"I might want to start from the beginning." Kakashi muttered. "Chakra is a type of energy within your body. Everyone has it, though only a certain few can use it. You used your chakra last night when you activated your bloodline."
Naruto silently thought about the night before and the feeling he felt right before his bones had impaled his attackers. He remembered the anger, but there was another feeling. It was a type of energy that had built up in his chest and then sprung. If he really concentrated, he could feel that same energy swirling around in his body. Without thinking about it, he willed his katra, or whatever ANBU-sensei had called it, to build up in his chest and released it like he had last night.
Kakashi's eye widened behind his mask at seeing four large, ivory bones rip out of his sensei's son's chest. Naruto only looked curiously at them. He reached out a hand and touched the tip, only to gasp as the tip sliced his finger open. The momentary pain distracted him long enough to drop the chakra filtering through the bones, and they sunk back into his skin.
"Well I see that you have figured out chakra." Kakashi said, smiling(though nobody could really tell). "Now you need to learn how to control your chakra."
"But I can control it." Naruto said, once again willing chakra into his chest and releasing it to make his bones come out. "See."
"No that is using your chakra. It took you five seconds and a lot of concentration to get it to do that. You should be able to do it instantly." Kakashi made the tiger handsign and blew a small fireball off to the side as an example.
Naruto stared wide eyed at the now singed log. Then he turned back to his sensei. "My bone thing is cooler than your fire thing, but how do I get it like that."
Kakashi raised an unseen eyebrow at the cool comment. 'He's definitely not going to be a ninjutsu type.' "We have to do chakra control exercises. Chakra is like a muscle, the more you work it, the better it gets."
"Well show me the exercises, ANBU-sensei." Naruto said, impatiently.
"Fine." Kakashi said, snatching a leaf out of the air. "The first exercise is the leaf sticking exercise."
T.B.C.
I know its kind of a boring start, but I needed to get all of this out of the way. Chapters will get better after this. Anyways tell me what you like and don't like. I've had this bouncing in my head for a while, and I don't think I've ever seen anyone give Naruto the Dead Bone Pulse. Hope you enjoy it.
Deck of 53