Rise of Artifice
Chapter 1: Fallen Son, Risen Steel.
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or Magic the gathering
Hello everyone and welcome to my new story, I had been kicking this idea around for a while and finally started to write it.
Summary: On the night of the Kyuubi attack, the fox's power is sealed in Naruto's sisters while its mind and soul were sealed in him. But the kyuubi is not what it seems. while his parents teach his sisters, an ancient entity teaches the boy an art long since past. Neglected!Naruto Smart!Naruto Uzumakicest NarutoXMTG crossover
An twelve year old boy sat in his room, quietly working away on a item on his table. The boy had spiky blond hair with red highlight, three whisker birthmarks lined his cheeks. The table had tools on it that one would expect to see in a workshop of some sort, the item being worked was a small metal bug. It had four pointed legs, a tiny torso, its arms looked like scorpion claws with tiny blades in place of the place of the pincers and its head looked incredibly like a crickets.
"You're all finished buddy." Naruto said reverently as he welded the last antenna to the tiny bug. The metal insect sprung to life before skittering around the table checking out its surroundings.
"I'm going to call you Tim, what do you think of that." The blonde asked his metal compatriot. Tim stop moving and tilted his head to the side before nodding rapidly.
"Tim, the signal pest. I like the sound of that." Naruto said smiling.
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"Mom, dad, look what I made!" Naruto exclaimed as he ran down the hall to where his parents were, Tim clung to the blonde's hand for dear life as its creator ran. Minato and Kushina looked up from the book they were reading to Naruto's sister Natsumi.
"Hey, that's mine! You stole it from me!" Natsumi shouted while pointing at Naruto, shocking the blond. Natsumi looked like a carbon copy of her mother when she was younger.
"Naruto, what have I told you about stealing from your sister." His mother scolded causing tear to well up in his eyes.
"I didn't steal it, I made it." The boy said, trying to prove his innocence.
"Naruto, stop lying and give it back to your sister," Minato said firmly putting an end to the argument, "then go get dressed for your sisters' birthday party tonight."
Naruto stared wide eyed at his parents' backs as they walked out of the room to find their other daughter. The blonde was pulled from his stupor as Natsumi grabbed Tim from his and tossed the small metal creature to the ground. Raising her leg she quickly stomped down, breaking Tim into several pieces. It gave out a tiny scream of pain as she walked away.
"Why?" Naruto cried while gathering Tim's pieces into his hands.
"Because you tried to get me in trouble last week." Natsumi replied with a smirk.
"You were the one who flooded the kitchen, and I got in trouble for it anyways." Naruto said in his defense.
"Doesn't matter, you tried to get me in trouble and for that you must suffer," the red haired girl explained while nodding sagely, "now go get ready for mine and Kasumi's birthday tonight."
"It's supposed to be my birthday too." The blonde mutters as he runs out of the room and back to his.
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Naruto stood solemnly in the corner of the room, a repaired Tim sat on his shoulder. He watched silently as his 'family' celebrated with their friends.
"Onii-san?" Naruto turned towards the voice and saw his sister Kasumi approach. Kasumi had red hair like her mother's that went down to her shoulder blades but her eyes were blue like her father's.
"Are you enjoying your birthday, Kasumi-chan?" Naruto asked with a soft smile, out of all of the blond's family only Kasumi really seemed to care for the boy.
"Yeah, but I wish you would join us in the fun." Kasumi admitted to her brother, a light blush dusted her cheeks.
"Don't worry nee-chan, despite not being apart of the party I'm still having fun," the blond assured her with a smile, "go ahead and enjoy your birthday, but don't party too hard, we still have academy in the morning."
"But... it's supposed to be your birthday too." Kasumi whispered sullenly before slowly walking away. A few minutes passed and naruto was broken from his thoughts again as someone coughed to get his attention to his right.
"I'm surprised to see you over here instead of partying or training." Itachi said to the blond as he joined Naruto in leaning against the wall.
"If I hadn't at least shown up Kasumi would be sad, and if I started to enjoy the party then Natsumi would try to make my night a living hell." Naruto admitted to the raven haired Uchiha.
"So in other words, damned if you do and damned if you don't," The Uchiha summarized getting a nod out of the blond, "how has your training been coming?"
"My taijutsu is okay, my ninjutsu is great, genjutsu is subpar, and my crafting skills are increasing exponentially." Naruto replied while gesturing to Tim who held out one of its claws for a handshake. Itachi stared at the small creature before gently reciprocating the handshake, careful not to hurt the tiny creature.
"Hmm, I got you a present," the older boy pulled a small box from his kunai case and handed it to the blond, "it isn't fancy, but I figured that you would like it."
Naruto opened the box and was almost floored by what he saw, the box contained a small metal ring with a softly glowing light hovering at the center.
"A Sol Ring... where did you find this?" Naruto asked, he only knew of the item's name through flashes of memories he'd occasionally receive. All memories of this items were tied to it powering large, hulking machines and entities capable of doing terrible or wonderful things.
"The last mission I was on ended up taking me and my squad to some kind of ancient ruin, the walls were marked with things i had never seen before," as Itachi regaled the past mission he gained a far off look in his eye, "I got separated from my squad and ended up in a chamber with this floating in the center and remember you describing an item extremely similar to this to me."
"Thank you Itachi, this has to be one of the best presents I Have ever received." The boy said almost ready to bounce off the walls with excitement. Their conversation was interrupted as Minato moved to the center of the room and lightly tapped on his glass to grab the attention of the people in the room.
"Welcome everyone to my daughters' birthday tonight, I'm happy to see you all here and am hoping that you are having a wonderful time." As Minata addressed the crowd Naruto couldn't help but frown as his birthday was once again forgotten by his parents.
"Since they both have been in the academy for a year now, and are now twelve years old I Have something very special for them," the man's smile seem to brighten tenfold with every word, "I am making them the new clan heirs, Kasumi for the Uzumaki and Natsumi for the Namikaze."
The room had various reactions to the news laid out for them by their Hokage, most of the room seemed to be happy with the change. Natsumi looked absolutely ecstatic at being able to take yet another thing from her brother while Kasumi looked absolutely horrified at the prospect of the idea.
"No, I refuse!" Kasumi shouted shocking several people in the room.
"Kasumi." Hearing the voice of her brother caused the red haired girl to turn only to freeze in shock at what she saw, several of the children and clan heads joining her. Naruto was giving her a gentle smile that made want to relax but his eyes looked dead and soulless.
"Take it, you'll need it more than I will." The blonde's voice matched the way his eyes looked causing Minato's and Kushina's eye to widen by a considerable margin as they suddenly seemed to remember their third child.
"B-but nii-san..." The red haired jinjuriki was interrupted by her brother placing a finger on her lips causing her to blush slightly.
"It's obvious that you and Natsumi are loved more than I, take it and know that no matter what happens I will always be proud of you." Naruto finished before turning to his 'parents' and bowing.
"Excuse me Hokage-Sama, Kushina-sama I believe I have overstayed my welcome." The boy said causing the two to flinch from his apathetic tone before he turned away and headed to his room.
Entering the room, he grabbed several storage scrolls and sealed away everything that wasn't bolted down, leaving the room as bare as the day it was built. Before leaving the room he left two small presents on the only remaining piece of furniture and put the storage scrolls in a backpack. As he walked back downstairs he saw that some of the guests had gone back to talking amongst themselves while the Third Hokage, Jiraiya, Tsunade, and a few other people all tore into the Hokage and his wife in the kitchen.
Seeing that no one was paying attention to the door, he made his way over and left, only taking a moment to look back and see his sister Kasumi in tears. Despite the fact he wanted to go over and console her, he knew it may end up causing even more problems than good. So without a second thought, he left.
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"What the fuck did you do that for, do you know how hard that boy has been working to impress you two only for you to pull this shit!" Jiraiya shouted, gone was the fun loving pervert in his place was the war hardened warrior that made people shake in fear of his name alone.
"B-but the prophecy, y-you said..." Minato tried to defend only for his sensei to angrily interrupt him.
"I said that one of your children MIGHT be the child of the prophecy that could bring destruction or salvation to the ninja way as we know it. I also said to not read too deeply into it because it might not even happen!" The white haired war veteran was losing his patients quickly and the stupidity his student was spouting was not helping.
"How could you do such a thing to your own son, especially with how hard he's been training to keep up with his sisters. Training that should have been provided by you two." The former Hokage spoke with disdain in his voice.
"Train? But I was told he was always goofing off and pull pranks, not to mention the facts he kept stealing." Kushina said gaining confused looks from the people around her minus her husband who was nodding.
"Unfocused, Goofing off, and Stealing? That doesn't sound like the Naruto I've been training," Jiraiya stated while stroking his chin, "who told you this stuff."
"Natsumi." Both parents said as if it was the most obvious thing in the world. Jiraiya, Tsunade, and Hiruzen all frowned from hearing that.
"Natsumi!" Tsunade yelled calling the girl over.
"What's up Tsunade-baachan?" The red headed girl asked confused about what was going on.
"I'm going to ask you this once and only once," Jiraiya said in a serious tone that caused the girl to gulp nervously, "when has Naruto goofed off and when have you seen him steal?"
Natsumi's eyes widened and she to a step back trying to escape only to back into the Third Hokage's legs.
"Answer the question." The elderly warrior said in the same tone as Jiraiya. The girl looked shocked for a moment before scrunching her face up in anger.
"If he wasn't a god damned goody-two-shoes all the time then I wouldn't have to make up those lie to get him in trouble." Natsumi shouted at the top of her lungs gaining the attention of the other party members.
"So you spread lies about your brother being a thief and a goof ball because he didn't want to act like a spoiled brat like you." Jiraiya summarized, his temper teetering on the boiling point.
"Yes! He would see me do something wrong and went to try and get me in trouble, so I told everyone he was a liar, a thief, and a idiot so no one would believe him. And I would do it all over again to see him in his place beneath me!" Natsumi yelled with a smirk on her face as she finished her rant. Her parents looked horrified at what they were hearing their little 'princess' say, the other people at the party looked disgusted at the girl's actions. Natsumi kept smirking until she saw her twin sister walk over to her, the girl's hair covering her face.
"What do you want weakling?" Natsumi asked snidely, Kasumi look up a showed the pure hatred that was burning in her eyes.
"You bitch!" Kasumi screamed before punching her sister across the face with enough force to send the girl out the kitchen window. She would have followed after if it weren't for the firm hand placed on her shoulder by Tsunade.
"She's not worth it kid." Tsunade said, Kasumi took a deep breath before nodding and sighing, tears once again trying to work their way down her cheeks
"We can still fix this, Naruto is up in his room. We can go up there and talk to him to get this all straightened out." Minato hurriedly said trying to salvage the situation. Kushina disappeared for a moment and reappeared with a dazed Natsumi in her arms before she and Minato made their way towards their son's room, Kasumi followed behind shortly after.
"Jiraiya." Tsunade said getting a bad feeling in the pit of her stomach. Having felt the blond boy's chakra signature leave the residence, the toad hermit sighed heavily before nodding, feeling the effects of his age catching up with him.
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"Naruto, open up," when Kushina didn't receive an answer she motioned for Minato to ope. The door, "Naruto, honey we're coming in."
As the door opened the four family members were shocked at how bare the room was, without a single hide nor hair of the blond boy.
"W-where's Naruto?" Kushina asked as she glanced around the barren room.
"He left while we were yelling at you two in the kitchen." Jiraiya stated giving the two a withering stare.
"What are these?" Kasumi asked seeing the two presents on the nightstand.
"They look like presents, one for each of you." Natsumi instantly grabbed the one with her name on while Kasumi gently held hers in her hands. Kasumi opened her present and gasped at the contents of the small box, her present consisted of a necklace with with a dragon wrapped around a red and blue gemstone.
"It's beautiful." she whispered before noticing a note in the box.
"What does it say?" Minato asked while staring at the necklace with a no small amount of interest.
"Dear Kasumi, I know that by the time you read this I will no longer be in the house. So to make up for making you cry on your birthday I made you this. The jewel is called an aquatic ruby it's a hybridization of a sapphire and a ruby that i managed to create, the only one of its kind. Whenever you need help and are low on chakra just squeeze it, it will give you a decent sized boost. It will also let you know that I'm okay, the closer I am to you the brighter it will glow. It will only stop glowing when I am no longer among the living or something like that. Love, your brother." Kasumi finished before collapsing in a heap as her tears flowed freely. Seeing her sister in tears, Natsumi slowly opened her gift and had the same reaction as her sister. The box contained a small orb made of crystal with an emerald core, a calming feeling set over her as she held the orb.
"Dear Natsumi," Kushina read for her daughter, "despite the way you treat me I still made you a gift. The orb is called Calypsious, when held it will negative thoughts and actions that would not usually be your own. I made it after I had realized that your destructive and selfish attitude may have been caused by the Kyuubi's yin chakra leaking into your system after Hokage-Sama and Kushina-sama started to train you and Kasumi to harness its chakra. I can still remember when you were my nice little sister instead of the cruel child you have become, I hope to one day see that girl again. Love, your brother."
Tears poured freely from Natsumi as she stared wide eyed at the orb in her hand and reflected on how she had treated her brother. An arm of red chakra lashed out of her shoulder, trying to destroy Calypsious only to dissipate as it touched the surface of the orb. Kyuubi's cloak for tried to form only to be dissipated as well.
"Looks like Naruto was right about Kyuubi's chakra doing damage," Jiraiya stated as he took a small seal out of his kunai pouch and stuck it to the girl's forehead, "keep that on until we tighten your seal."
"Jiraiya-sensei, do you know where Naruto went?" Minato asked while trying to console his daughters.
"I may have trained him for the past three years but let me tell you, when that boy wants to disappear you won't find him unless he lets you." Jiraiya stated before leaving the room.
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Naruto silently made his way down to a hidden cave entrance at the bottom of the Hokage monument. Tim's antennas lit up to act as a torch as he walked deeper into the cave before coming to a dead end, he waved his arm causing the wall to ripple before disappearing to reveal a metal door with a mechanical lift just pass them.
Stepping of the lift Naruto smiled at the huge workshop that surrounded him, metal creatures that looked like goblins and metalworkers moved back and forth between vats of heated metal and their designated area.
"Ah, Naruto I didn't expect you back so soon." A man said as he approached the blond. He had short black hair and a goatee, and wore dark colored robes to somewhat match his hair.
"There were some complications Mishra-Sensei." Naruto explained causing the brunette to nod.
"Well, you're here now, might as well get to work," Mishra ushered the boy to follow him further into the workshop, "I believe you have a project you were working on."
Cliffhanger
I hope you guys like this chapter, I had a lot of fun writing this and hope everyone enjoyed reading it. Like always if you enjoyed please leave a review.